Comes in a 6-panel digipack w/ a 6-page booklet. "Stella Pandora", the impassioned and anthemic 8th album from ARKONA, finds the formidable Polish Black Metal pioneers supremely focused, superbly intense and aflame with melodic vigour. Since their 1993 formation ARKONA have progressively fine-tuned and elevated their sound, and this follow-up to 2019's acclaimed "Age of Capricorn" advances the band further still, as they imbue each phrase with a sense of existential yearning - a wistful awareness of the past dying inside the present.
Draugaskógur (Serbia) surprises everyone with their excellent debut album. Raw Atmospheric Black Metal for fans of BURZUM, EVILFEAST, PAYSAGE D'HIVER... Lengthy songs with large doses of synthesizer that create a dark, melancholic, and evocative atmosphere. The vinyl version includes an exclusive 8-minute bonus track, resulting in a 32-minute release that feels somewhat short due to the quality of all the compositions.
ASCENSION's highly anticipated second album, The Dead of the World, is a grandiose work of bold creativity and boundless imagination, of brilliant illumination and obsidian depth, all under the banner of orthodox black metal.
Arguably their most immediate and organic recording to date, Die Falle reaffirms BERGRIZEN as masters of autumnal black metal melancholy: magick, mysticism, splendor, and strife are all write large across the album.