ANCESTORS BLOOD / HEIMDALLS WACHT – split (LP/CD)
Final release for Ancestors Blood. Essential pagan black metal bands alliance. Let the flames of our ancestors burn forever in our hearts in defiance against the modern world!

FOREFATHER – Steadfast (CD)
Classic of Anglo-Saxon metal. Third pressing on CD. Forefather created their all comprehending pinnacle of unique Anglo-Saxon metal with “Steadfast”.

Wrok – Sessie 11-2022 (MC)
Recorded live in the rehearsal room on six tracks. Ten tracks, almost of 45 minutes of total agony and misery. Good sound – not for posers. Includes tracks from both albums as well as the 1996 demo. All covers are generously splattered with pigs blood. Performed in total possession by the threepiece Asbestus – Mictian – Herjann.

Burning Winds – Black Satanic Mass Demo 2022 (MC)
Nothing but total hate and bestial barbarism. New demo. Burning Winds is NecroDan. Hail the resurgence of primitive anti-human black metal.

Cirith Gorgor – “Cirith Gorgor” LP
2007 album for the first time ever released on vinyl. Great sounding luxurious vinyl edition, which does this album justice on all levels. Comes on red/black marble heavy vinyl, with gatefold sleeve and big booklet. This self-titled album is the band’s fourth full-length and show a perfect balance of full-on aggression and melodies through wellwritten song structures. Founding member Levithmong is at the top of his game behind the drums. The aggression and riffing brilliance from the first two albums “Onwards” and “Unveiling” are easily matched, but this time also executed with superior precision, making this arguably the strongest album in Cirith Gorgor’s discography.

Kjeld – “Ôfstân” 2LP
The 2021 bestselling album is now available on vinyl again. This time on gold coloured vinyl, again pressed in Frisia – keeping this album fully written, recorded and pressed in the band’s own region. Kjeld plays fast paced black metal without forsaking melody and dynamics. This album is crafted with impressive songwriting and a monolithic sound, with total attention for pure genius melodies, fueled with the most ferocious and aggressive drumming The Netherlands has to offer. This album is pure creative mastery, with their trademark sound and riffs combined to create their own unique sound. As always, the songs are soaked in the rich and ancient Frisian history, and solely chanted in Frisian, a minority Germanic language most closely related to English.

Two new Theudho titles out now. Essential pagan black metal for everyone into Ancient Rites, Forefather, Bathory.

• “Voorbij de Nevelen des Tijds” – brand new 2022 album on CD and MC
• “Cult of Wuotan” – remix/remaster 2022 on digipack CD lim. 200

Now up in the webshop. Available in Australia at Aurora Australis; in the US at Archaic Vengeance Records.

Wrok is back to disturb you with a second album of total uncomfortable and extreme black metal. The band was founded in the early 90s and still bring to mind the traditional sound of the Dutch black metal scene of that time. Expect nothing but pure bestial and primordial possession, as their legacy of highly controversial shows confirms. For fanatics of Bestial Summoning, old Barathrum, Profanatica, Apator.

Various Artists – Conspiracy in blood and wisdom (digipack CD)
Dark Dutch dungeon synth music compendium. A unique and immense synth project, forged in fires of dedication. Fourteen prolific Dutch names have contributed to this prestigious gathering. Many moons in the making with painstaking eye for detail, we are proud to finally present this compendium of dark Dutch synth music. Compiled by and accompanied by original paintings of Nortfalke. Layout and additional art by The Specter. Audio mastering by Herjann. Comes in highly luxurious digipack with 16 page booklet, with pantone silver printing and glossy finish on digipack, booklet and disc – this may be the best looking digipack you’ve had in your hands for a while.

Profane Grace – Shredding stars with holes of black (CD)
The return of Profane Grace after 12 years of bleak silence. Active since 1990 which makes it one of the key projects in the history of not just American dark ambient, but in the genre as a whole. Founding member Ixithra (Demoncy, ex-Profanatica) is supported since a couple of years by Drathrul (Anu, Hour Of 13) and together they summoned “Shredding stars with holes of black“. 48 minutes of pure dark ritual ambient. Simply a masterpiece for diehard fanatics of the genre. No song structures, no drone, no gothic. Instead you’ll find brooding synthesizers, occult invocations pulsating like clouds, and lots of use of various types of vocals including the recognizable obscure whispers from Ixithra. The album is a true lurking beast of total despair.

Sauron / Lugubre split CD: Two historical EPs gathered on this split CD. Originally released for the 2022 edition of Veneration Of The Dead festival, these are the last copies that remained. The Sauron EP “True hate embodiment” was originally released on CD format in 2000 and obviously long sold out. Four tracks of destructive anti-human black metal in the vein of Warlust (NL), old Dark Funeral, old Marduk, old Cirith Gorgor. The Lugubre EP “Resurrection of the beast” was originally released on limited CDr disc for the mini-tour with Eternity and Corpus Christii in 2008 and remained out of print ever since. Four tracks of hyperspeed black metal that bring nothing but total war destruction and armageddon. Very limited edition.

Wrok – Ontgravenis MC: This is probably the most extreme demo ever recorded in The Netherlands. Absolutely vile and rotten primitive black metal. Life metal gothics will not like this. This is almost identical to the original 1996 demo and was previously available with the debut album. Now the last copies have been made available for seperate enjoyment.

Anu – Nighthymns and Eternal obscurity: Anu is active since the mid 90s and previously released a couple of demos and an album but remained underground. The riffs and compositions here are repetitive, cold and evil and remind me of later Judas Iscariot and early Darkthrone, but with a production that is a lot heavier and more in the vein of Demoncy. Slight use of keyboards subtly mixed to the background adds to the atmosphere, as do a couple of synth-only tracks. Now, five obscured years after the latest public release, Anu crawls out of the shadows with the official release of two titles.

Затемно – В аду: Russian hooligan folk music. Затемно / Zatemno is a Russian band from Sergiyev Posad that was founded in 2011. “В аду” / “In Hell” is a mystical anthology of four short stories written in archaic Russian key. Utterly possessed and maniacal – Optimistic, but doomed… Nonconventional instruments and black metal, for which the band should be known by now. Especially recommended to fanatics of avantgardism such as Fleurety, later Lugubrum, Blackdeath, Peste Noire.

We present part eight of the festival – the longest running black metal festival in The Netherlands. The venue is yet again the best and one of the oldest original venues in the country: Baroeg Rotterdam. As usual a lineup with only exclusive performances, and no touring packages.

Vrijdag 7 oktober
22:00 – 23:00 Sauron
20:30 – 21:30 Sammath
19:25 – 20:00 Azanul
18:30 – 19:05 Standvast
18:00 open

Zaterdag 8 oktober
22:00 – 23:00 Tulus
20:30 – 21:30 Archgoat
19:15 – 20:00 Tsatthoggua
18:05 – 18:50 Countess
17:05 – 17:45 Asgrauw
16:00 – 16:40 Bezwering
15:00 – 15:35 Coldborn
14:00 open

Further info and tickets at the link below.

New album of Russian hooligan folk music coming in September. More info coming later.