The Devil's Blood - Fire Burning 7"

Reprint, 500x graphite grey 12" 140g with a silkscreen on B side in a microtene innerbag, printed innersleeve full-color on 220g carton, jacket full-color printed on 350g carton, all assembled in a plastic overbag.

If there's one certainty in these uncertain times, it's that PURITY THROUGH FIRE will continue to raise the banner of nowadays German black metal: proud and pure in its expression, honoring the past whilst not being shackled to it, and evincing a professionalism that doesn't sacrifice true underground spirit. Their latest executioners are AD MORTEM, who'll be familiar to those who caught their PURITY THROUGH FIRE-released split with standard-bearers MAVORIM in that very uncertain year of 2020. While their split-mates are true titans of today's Teutonic black metal scene, AD MORTEM proved to be a poignant counterpart, evincing an undeniable physicality that remained hook-heavy and hummable.

Galaxy (milky clear/black) 12" (140g) in a microtene innerbag, printed innersleeve on 220g carton (coated paper), download card, simple jacket, black flood print inside, printed on 350g carton, coated paper (semi-gloss), all assembled in a plastic overbag.

Ten years have eclipsed since French underground black metal HELL MILITIA released their previous studio album Jacob’s Ladder.

Black Metal from Australia From the "The Patron Saint of Filth & Mold" EP released in 2013

Originally recorded in 2013 during the "Kriegserklärung" sessions and released in 2017 as a split with Kommandant.

Since their formation in 2007, MINENWERFER have pursued a proud 'n' pure vision of black metal idiosyncratically focused on World War I - idiosyncratic, in the sense that the band hail from America but mostly sing in German. What has resulted is a startlingly accomplished canon that has quietly built itself into prolific proportions, with their first album arriving in 2010, followed by albums in 2012 and 2019, and a slew of split releases and EPs in the interim.

Of those many short-length releases, Kriegserklärung can conveniently be seen as a companion to an album release – in this case, 2012's thick-yet-throttling Nihilistischen. And yet, where that album saw MINENWERFER inching closer to a palatable professionalism, the 24-minute Kriegserklärung fully bursts through those doors with a startling clarity, setting the stage for the band's grand 2019 full-length, Alpenpäesse. Which is all to say that MINENWERFER have been mining songwriting gold for many years now!

Re-issue, 400x heavyweight black 12" (180g) in a black poly-lined innersleeve, download card, gatefold, full-color printed on 350g carton, all assembled in a plastic overbag.
 

ReRelease 2023

 500x galaxy - ultra-clear/silver 12" (180g) in a black poly-lined innerbag, gatefold, full-color on 350g with gloss lamination, all assembled in a PVC overbag.

Come with a complete new layout, the original album cover & re-mastered specially for vinyl.

2022 reprint, red in white & black marble vinyl.

2023 repress on silver vinyl. Comes with a folding insert. The layout is the exact same as the first pressing.

From the past comes the storms...of icy, grandiose, paradigmatically Finnish black metal, bearing the no-bullshit title of Ymir. As can be expected, YMIR's long-brewing debut album is both a summation of their sparse but no-less-considerable past and a strident extension into both present and future. Never before have the band sounded so invigorated, so robust and roiling in their sweepingly sumptuous ruminations; the aim may be for mystical black metal of a most mid-'90s vintage, but the palpable physicality present here puts Ymir in rarefied company, whether it's past or especially present. Suitably, YMIR create epic screeds which open portals of the imagination and ancient consciousness alike, reverent to the old ways of noble black metal faith but by no means tethered to reductive expression: simply put, YMIR are a black metal band and Ymir is a black metal record, but their collective scope is boundless, brave, and breathing deeply of an essence few are able to grasp in the nowadays scene.

This is laconic and honest black metal crafted on Old Europe's eastern frontier

Das erste Vollalbum dieses Projektes aus Belgien, schwarzes Vinyl