Dark Essence

Bergen-based Hard Rock-outfit Vestindien is ready to reveal their sophomore LP “Verdande”. The album was written in a basement in Bergen and on a secluded island in the Barents Sea. Out in the open sea, the music gained more air and space, without losing its claustrophobic and chaotic roots from underground. Three years after the release of the critically acclaimed debut album “NULL”, the band still only answers to their own standards and expectations, delivering eight tracks of psychedelic proto-metal with a gloomy twist.

Vestindien: Null (Gold/Black) [Vinyl LP]

Alfahanne: Vår tid är nu (Swamp green) [Vinyl LP]

Alfahanne: Vår tid är nu 2024 [CD]

Et Hav av Avstand det åttonde albumet från det legendariska norska Black Metal-bandet Taake. Fyra låtar på 42 minuter, hård, vemodig. kraftfull old-school men också progressivt. Taake lyckas hålla sig relevant och i framkant av genren och Hoest, som spelar alla instrument på albumet, har sett till att albumet genomsyras av det unika Taake-soundet samtidigt som det utvecklats ytterligare. Detta är omisskännligt Taake, och som alltid ett intensivt verk som överraskar och fängslar. Vinyl LP.

From the depth of in Iceland’s Reykjavik NYRST has forged a new blackened creation by the name "Völd", an album that pays homage to the immense volcanoes of Iceland. With “Völd” which roughly translates to “Force, power or might”, NYRST conjures forth music with the unrelenting and unforgiving harshness that the forces of nature have wrought upon every living being in their land through the ages. Written and rehearsed only a few kilometres from a lava spewing active volcano, they sought inspiration in the beauty and perilousness danger of the stark and chaotic surroundings, wishing to portray their material accordingly. • For fans of Immortal, Misþyrming, Sinmara, Almyrkvi, Auðn, Svartidauði, Mgla, Bathory. • Supreme Icelandic black metal from the grottos in Reykjavík

Taake: Noregs Vaapen [CD]