'Hypnotic Dirge Records' Distribution Titles
Here you will find a wide selection of albums originally released by many different labels worldwide. We regularily trade with some select lables that we have come in contact with and support, and through these lables, we have obtained these fine distribution releases. We only have limited stock of these releases, anywhere from 3 - 10 copies in most cases, and a majority will not re-stocked after they sell out, so order quickly if you are interested in any of these albums. Paypal 'Buy Now' buttons have also been added to the albums below if you are interested in placing an order. If you are looking at buying more than one album than I would advise you email me (contact info below) for a revised price. This will save you on shipping costs rather than paying shipping for each individual album.
Our distribution selection is certaintly smaller than a lot of bigger underground labels who carry hundreds of titles in their distribution. We are however aiming to build up and expand our distribution selection, and carry a wider variety of albums in the future with more frequent and larger distro updates. However, we do not shy away from our reputation as a small distro - We believe we have a nice selection of albums available, and this once again fortifies our vision of quality over quantity.
NOTE: If you do not have a paypal account and wish to place an order with a different payment type. We also accept money order, cheques and well-concealed cash. Send me a message at hypnoticdirgerecords@hotmail.com if this applies to you.
Shipping Procedure: Hypnotic Dirge Records standard shipping procedure is to send packages as Air Mail for ALL orders. Your order should arrive within 1-2 weeks in North America, and within 2-3 weeks for International orders.
SPECIAL OFFER: Orders of 5 or more CD's receive free shipping! Contact me at hypnoticdirgerecords@hotmail.com to place your order.
_________________________________________________________________________
CLICK HERE TO VIEW DISTRIBUTION TEXT LIST - IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Genre: Minimalist Dark Ambient
Re-release of the stunning debut album from Ancient Tundra (originally released on Dead Moon Records). An ice cold, melancholy trip into snowy mountains and frozen forests. A beautiful dark ambient masterpiece for all fans of the genre. Includes a bonus track and updated artwork!!!
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 002 : Satanic Scums - Grim O'er Passionate Lands (Pro-CDr) (8 Copies) $6.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Experimental Horror Black Metal
HDR - D - 003 : Symbiosis - Slavine (Pro-CD) (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Minimalist Ambient
First album of cold ambient from this Italian project. For fans of Northaunt. Keyboard based with minor classical and electronic sections. Luxurious 12 page colour booklet.
HDR - D - 004 : Ancestral/Wedard Split Album (Pro-CD) (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre:Depressive/Philosophical Black Metal
HDR - D - 005 : Immundus - Torments (4 Copies) (Pro-CDr) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Haunting Dark Ambient
Inspired by the many dark aspects of life, its mystery, horror, the force and sounds of mother nature, combined with mental chaos, psychotic dreams, and musical influences from depressive, gothic and black metal "atmospheres", Immundus intends to create eerie, haunting and bizarre atmospheres, yet beautiful and melancholic with intent to make skins crawl and turn purest dreams into nightmares.
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 006 : Njigahdda - Nji. Njiijn. Njiiijn. (6 copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Phychodelic Ambient Black Metal
Brand new full-length release from the masters of psychedelic and experimental black metal art. A bizarre and captivating album, Njiqahdda specializes in mixing elements of progressive & eclectic black metal, psychedelia, ambient, folk, doom and shoegaze. As far as we are concerned this is THE best metal album of 2008. Do NOT miss out on this release!!!! Packaged in a stunning 4-panel digipack with some of the most beautiful artwork to ever grace a black metal record!!!
HDR - D - 007 : Old Forgotten Lands - From Ethereal Forests to Mystic Mountains $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Nature-inspired Ambient
The long awaited debut album for OFL (featuring musical mastermind Elan from Day of Ascension & Elan). Drifting, ethereal and celestial natural ambient. Loaded with soaring melodies and field recordings. An amazing album that demands for your attention during forest wanderings and sitting by a flowing stream. Highly recommended.
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 008 : Ancestor : Phase 1: Silence (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Dark Ambient
Thomas Watkiss has created an extraordinary album. Not only because it is so well composed, or because it is sonically diversified, unique, and methodically arranged. This is an album of high caliber, and those who do check it out and like it can also look forward to the release of Phase II: Machine, which is currently in the works. It is a noble tribute, one that brings an awareness of a legacy, but is also a reminder of a dying culture, torn to shreds by the avarice of the United States government. Oppression and racism may have been a force of doom to a tragic extent for Native Americans, but it is incredible to know that there are great people like Mr. Watkiss who can provide such an effective and strong voice for the slaughtered tribes...
HDR - D - 009 : Darkflight - Perfectly Calm $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Epic Doom Black Metal
Epic, Atmospheric and Extremely powerful Doom Metal!
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 010 : Trist - Stiny $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
"Trist is melancholic musick about sadness, negativity, dark spheres in my mind, solitude, emptiness feeling, reveries and painfull desires"
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 011 : Black Hole Generator - Black Karma $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Experimental Industrial Black Metal
Gloomy, post-apocalyptic Black Metal that sacrifices no venom despite a polished, precise nature. Features members of Taake, Vulture Industries, Aeternus, Grimfist, and Deathcon.
HDR - D - 012: When Mine Eyes Blacken - Self-Titled (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
The debut full-length album from When Mine Eyes Blacken. Depressive, Contemplative and down-tempo black metal with acoustic passages. Truly one of the best releases in the depressive-black metal genre in a while and highly underrated. Another creation from Exiled From Light musician 'Mort'
HDR - D - 013: The Howling Void - Megaliths of the Abyss(Pro-CD) (5 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Atmospheric Funeral-Doom
HDR - D - 014: Nocturnal Depression - Opus II: Soundtrack for a suicide (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
French suicidal Black Metal. Depressive, manipulative, slow black metal, let the self-destruction blossom!CD came out in normal jewelcase.CD contains a special hidden track!
HDR - D - 015: Nocturnal Depression - Reflections of a Sad Soul (5 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Ghosts of the past never disappear...They're manipulating you...The suicide mission continues...A new dose of self destruction...The 3rd full length album! The best release of Nocturnal Depression to date, stronger than ever! The 8-pages booklet containing all lyrics! CD came out in normal jewelcase.
HDR - D - 016 : Waning - Population(Pro-CD) (3 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
"Population control" is a sumptuous mix of emotions and brutality, atmospheres and controlled chaos, modernity linked to the classic. Tons of guitar layers to create a real wall of sound, a thundering rhythmic section and impressive evil vocals. The Waning is a personal way to intend extreme music... martial and depressive, avantguardist and visionary black metal, with slight indus and post-rock vibes. Everything supported by a powerful production and a superb studio performance. A new wave of fresh and inspired black metal.
HDR - D - 017 : Austere - Withering Illusions and Desolation $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Austere’s debut album finally made available worldwide. Austere means total despair and contempt through a high-class and well-performed desolate black metal. You will find icy riffs, harsh vocals and deleterious atmosphere all along this one. Re-released with renewed artwork.
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 018 : Austere/Isolation - Bleak $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Bleak is the adjective chosen by the two entities to name their collaboration. You could not have thought of a more appropriate term to describe the audial content of this masterpiece. After a fantastic debut album (re-released by THOSE OPPOSED RECORDS), Australian AUSTERE contributes three excellent tracks to the split cd with an even stronger emphasis on the desperate side of their art. On the other hand, ISOLATION, after three convincing demotapes, contributes three tracks as well and evolves towards something more pure than ever before. The German band has now gained a complete identity of their own through what could be called intimist blackened doom metal with scarce clear voices, e-bow, and remnants of their previous recordings’ harsh vocals. A very interesting evolution for a band which denies stagnation.
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 019 : Bosse - Echoes of the Forgotten $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Experimental Acoustic Ambient
After a few private and published demo recordings, Brooklyn-based Richard BOSSE delivers his debut album. After an impressive third demo - the first one to be made public - BOSSE has now taken things to a whole superior level in terms of emotional rendition through the bleakest form of acoustic funeral folk. All you will find here is melancholy, nostalgia and voluntary isolation from all that is human. Makes you wonder if this was created by someone living on the same planet. This work of seclusion truly is the fiddler’s tune of our funeral to come.
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 020 : Lyrinx - Nihilistic Purity (1 Copy) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
HDR - D - 021 : Funeral Fornication - Murder Cult Eidolon (3 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Pagan/Thrash Black Metal
HDR - D - 022 : Paroxysmal Descent - Paradigm of Decay (1 Copy) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
The life-neglecting negativitiy... Paroxysmal Descent summon forth from the deepest vaults. A Virus of dark, suffocating black metal despair. Presenting the decaying world their. Debut full lengthers offering, to scar the wolrd once more.... Dead and gone are those before us. And doomed are those to come. For we exist in a generation of decay In a world of neither living nor dead.
HDR - D - 023 : Woods of Desolation - Towards the Depths $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Melancholic Black Metal
SOLD OUT!
HDR - D - 024 : Mistress of the Dead - Weeping Silence of the Dead (2 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Funeral-Doom Black Metal
SOLD OUT!
HDR - D - 025 : Anatolian Wisdom - Where the Iblis Dwells (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Epic Symphonic Black Metal
HDR - D - 026 : A Transylvanian Funeral - Self-Titled(Pro-CDr in DVD Case) (3 Copies) $10.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Raw Satanic Black Metal
HDR - D - 027 : Why I Remember: Worldwide Ambient/Industrial Compilation (3 Copies)$10.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: (Dark) Ambient/Industrial
"Why I Remember" is an internation music project whose genesis is really simple... As long as one lives - it's easy to bear testimony to the truth... When one dies - all that is left is memory... So , as a result of cooperation with 31 music projects from all over the world we created a compilation in memory of the Holocaust victims...And especially of those who lived died and suffered in concentration camps KL Auschwitz-Bireknau-Monowitz and in death camps Sobibor, Treblinka, and Belzec...
Featuring HDR Artists Immundus
and Ancient Tundra, Other great artists Life's Decay, Proxenus, MOAN, Mystified,
Forgotten Ruins and many many more. Comes in a 2 disc set, 31 Tracks and over 2
hours of music. '
HDR - D - 028 : Sicilicidium - Utolsó vágta az Univerzumban (2 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Tradional Black Metal
Let's ride with the Transylvanian wolves! The long awaited first full length album! The last gallop in the Universe...six steps to Eternity! Pure Transylvanian Black Metal. Power, pride & fire with touch of melancholy. The 8-pages booklet containing all lyrics written in ancient Hungarian language! CD came out in normal jewelcase.
HDR - D - 029 : Tapetum Lucidem - Machteloos Bestaan (3 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Haunting Black/Doom Metal
Dark and haunting Black Metal from Belgium. Balanced, very-well played with lot of eerie acoustic parts and a unique ghostly feeling!Expect a fair release, where sorrow of doom metal and misanthropy of black metal unite in a distinctive and clean manner. The 12-pages booklet containing fragments from lyrics and nice artwork.CD came out in normal jewelcase.
HDR - D - 030 : Nychts/Wedard - Zwischen Leere Und Nichts (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Special split CD release between the enigmatic, warp-astral Nychts from Switzerland and the well known depressive-suicide Black Metal Wedard from Germany. New songs from both bands composed for this release exclusively!CD came out in normal jewelcase.
HDR - D - 031 : Korpblod - Hymner $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Black Metal
SOLD OUT!
HDR - D - 032 : Csejthe - La Mort du Prince Noir (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
HDR - D - 033 : Valknacht - When the might of the storm becomes mine (5 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Available now, the first Valknacht album! Pioneers in the genre here in Quebec, Valknacht as created a massive piece of pagan black metal with "When the might of the storm becomes mine". It shall please any fan of Bathory and Graveland!
HDR - D - 034 : Blackwind - Demain l'Apocalypse (3 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Black Metal
After three homemade albums, Blackwind finally get to release a professionnal CD. "Demain, l'Apocalypse", a blast of traditionnal black metal, is the first joint release of Mankind's Demise Records and Les Productions Heretiques. Blackwind doesn't claim to be original. They play black metal as it should be played: noisy, evil & imperfect. Hear the war alarm, today it's war & tommorow comes the Apocalypse. Demain, l'Apocalypse!
HDR - D - 035 : Monarkh - Rites Profanes (1 Copy) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Dark Ambient Drone
Dark, ambient drone that's more haunting than healing, Quebec's Monarkh, led by one P. Pelletier is not for the weak. "Rites Profanes"is a nine track soundscape of lush, harrowing emotions that range from dark and dismal to damn near suicidal. More akin to a cerebral horror flick than any sort of bedroom black metal dribble, Pelletier has created a theatrical wonderworld where panic, pain and cosmic possession collide into a sound that's as unsettling as it is inviting.
HDR - D - 036 : Fredrik Klingwall - Chronicles in Decay (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Film-Score/Ambient/Classical
A mixture of industrial darkwave soundscapes and neoclassical music. Eerie and beautiful.
HDR - D - 037 : Fredrik Klingwall - The Resilience (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Film-Score/Ambient/Classical
HDR - D - 038 : Fredrik Klingwall - Works of Woe (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Film-Score/Ambient/Classical
Nine poems by Edgar Allan Poe was the influencing spark to nine dark piano pieces by composer Fredrik Klingwall. A beautiful musical gestalt of the dark, decaying and frail human psyche.
HDR - D - 036/037/038 : Fredrik Klingwall 3CD Pack Chronicles in Decay/The Resilience/Works of Woe (3 Copies) $24.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Film-Score/Ambient/Classical
Pick up all three albums by acclaimed Swedish composer 'Fredrik Klingwall' for a special price! All three albums come in Pro-CD Digipack packaging. Recommended!
HDR - D - 039 : Temnozor - Folkstorm of the Azure Nights (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Folk/Black Metal
The third full-length from the legendary Russian Pagan Metal horde. From the deepest soil to the farthest shore, the sound of the heathen ancients is reborn. Elements of Black Metal and Folk are interwined to invoke the ancestral spirits and rekindle the embers of the past!
HDR - D - 040 : Falls of Rauros - Hail Wind and Hewn Oak (1 copy) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Folk/Black Metal
Amongst the woods, winds and celestial nights lay these compositions that are best described as Black Folk Metal. Utilizing Black Metal asthe monolithic basis of the album, acoustic and electric moments provide for intricately detailed song structures that unhold an organic mood throughout
HDR - D - 041 : Ur Falc't - (Self-Titled) (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Ambient Black Metal
Out of the woods comes the debut full-length from this folk influenced Black Metal band hailing from Quebec. Arcane folk-passages gust across frozen landscapes carved by raw guitars to form an uncompromising bond between archaic roots and merciless winters.
HDR - D - 042 : Ur Falc't/Heretic Blood - Sur les Chemin de la Noirceur (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Folk Black Metal
Folk influenced Black Metal meets raw epic Black Metal on this split album. Ur Falc't utalizes the essence of Black Metal while including various folk instruments to bring forth a raging storm while Heretic Blood produces aural elitism through waves of epic passages and violent tirades.
HDR - D - 043 : SIG:AR:TYR - Sailing the Seas of Fate (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Dark Ambient/Acoustic/Folk Metal
The debut full-length album from the artist that brought the brillant release 'The Stranger' years ago. Back with a combination of atmospheric acoustic moments and metal sections with cold spoken word throughout, this music brings forth memories of the pagan ancients and the spirits that once were.
HDR - D - 044 : SIG:AR:TYR - Beyond the North Winds $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Dark Ambient/Acoustic/Folk Metal
The second full-length album arrives from stone and soil with more Northerly passages of folk metal. By transmuting the essence of past Nordic metal with segments of acoustic brilliance whilst infusing ecletic influences, a unique set of creations have been forged that guide the way through the ruins of the modern world.
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 045 : Wedard - Ein Leben in der Ewigkeit (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
The debut album from the acclaimed underground depressive black metal act from Germany, released in 2006!
HDR - D - 046 : Happy Days - Happiness stops here... (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
The latest full-length album from US based one-man Depressive Black Metal project from sole-member ‘Morbid’
HDR - D - 047 : All the Cold/Fornicatus/Black Hate/Happy Days - Children of Failure (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
HDR - D - 048 : Deep-pression - Deep Cold (3 Copies) $6.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
***The Reason for the discounted price is the album is packaged in a CD Jewel Case without album art!***
HDR - D - 049 : V/A Gothic Visions DVD/CD (2 Copies) $15.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: GothRock/New-Wave/Electronica/Dark Ambient
Features over 5 Hours of Video and Audio from various different sub-genres including contributions from Verney 1826, The Mist of Avalon, The Eternal Fall, Place4Tears, and a audio and video contribution from HDR Artist ’Ancient Tundra’ Highly recommended to fans of Goth-Rock/Electronica/ Dark Ambient and well worth the price!
HDR - D - 050 : Dark Forest - Aurora Borealis (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Folk Black Metal
Bleak Art Records is proud to announce the release of Dark Forest's debut album, Aurora Borealis! Over 70 minutes of majestic and intense Vinlandic Heathen Black Metal, before only available from the band itself, now released with enhanced artwork, real drums, and the "Demo 2005" as bonus tracks. Immerse yourself in tales of battles, high seas and Dark Forests!
HDR - D - 051 : Black Lotus - Harvest of Seasons (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Folk Black Metal
Bleak Art Records is proud to announce the release of Black Lotus' sophomore masterpiece, "Harvest of Seasons". After their incredible debut album, Black Lotus returns with an even more impressive and majestic album, which has its roots deep down in the old school Nordic Black Metal style. Harvest Of Seasons brings an unique mix of fast and complex compositions, harsh and clean vocals and atmospheric keyboards.
HDR - D - 052 : Njiqahdda - Yrs Alms (6 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Psychedelic Atmospheric Black Metal
"Yrg Alms" is a masterwork from Njiqahdda. Completely lush and expansive and a very immense work as well, filling the entirety of the CD, so no Njiqahdda fanatic will be disappointed with this work. The album features everything from blazing fast black metal to psychedelic doom shoegaze memerism. "Yrg Alms" was Mastered by Drucifer, known for his work with such artists as Leviathan and Xasthur. The Yrg Alms cover artwork was created by Rebecca Clegg (famous for her work with Nachtmystium, Xasthur, Krieg, Urfaust). The "Yrg Alms" CD package will feature full-color 8-page panoramic booklet with gold ink overlays on the booklet and tray card.
HDR - D - 053 : Panopticon - Collapse (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Experimental Black Metal
Black metal that focuses on political/philosophical questions and topics, without the bigotry, cartoon satanism and big-money/big-label posing that infects the underground. No rulers, no masters!
HDR - D - 054 : Korpblod - Uråldrig Samklang (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Black Metal
HDR - D - 055 : Ancestor - Phase II : Machine (3 Copies) $10.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Drone/Dark Ambient
After a 13 month studio intervention from the release of Phase I : Silence, Thomas Watkiss has released Ancestor II : Machine. The album is available as a Special Edition double CD digipack now from www.thomaswatkiss.net and from independent outlets worlwide. ANCESTOR II : MACHINE is constructed of a delicate combination of digital synthesis, field recordings and sharp editing techniques giving the listener a rigid and cold reflection our modern world. A clinical departure from 2008's Phase I : Silence, the album showcases nine tracks of new material that create bleak, tense and vivid images as mirrored in the album layout by the artist. The Special edition includes the bonus disc, Live at Lydgalleriet. The live show was recorded from the gallery in Bergen Norway while Watkiss was on residence in the Summer and Fall of 2008. The bonus disc is only available with the limited special edition CD.
HDR - D - 056 : Echoes Therein Gale ft. Kenji Siratori - Virgin Clone (5 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Dark Ambient
This album is a collaboration release between 'Echoes Therein Gale' and Japanese lyricist 'Kenji Siratori' which was origially released in 2008
HDR - D - 057 : Hedon Cries - Hate Into Grief (2 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Doom/Death Metal
Hedon Cries is a very good newcoming melodic/atmospheric death band. I think they will become big if they continue in that style.. They have an EXCELLENT SOUND! ASTONISHING melodies and very good brutal vocals. Their songs will give you a feeling of inner sadness and nostalgia. They create a good atmosphere that is so simple but yet so beautiful... It's like they've even taken the atmospheric parts of Anathema's Alternative 4 and added them into a more melodic and dynamic songs..with brutal vocals ruling the atmosphere. The album also includes a FANTASTIC instrumental song that can't be described by words..
HDR - D - 058 : Hypothermia - Rakbladsvalsen (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
You cannot accuse Kim of Hypothermia for not being prolific. But don't let his recent high ammount of releases shadow the fact that the progression within Hypothermia is steadily evolving, his flood of creativity is not to be held back, it is to be supported. This, his latest masterpiece is a slow and trance-inducing journey into wide open wounds and crimson red poetry. Black Metal forged in blood and decadence. This is nothing less then music for your funeral to come.
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 059 : Make a Change...Kill Yourself - II (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
The new chapter is finally at hands. Two lengthy depressive and atmospheric tracks forms the perfect tool to puncture the aorta of your very existence. All lyrics has once more been forged by Nattetale and the music is handled entierly by Ynleborgaz, all which works in perfect symbiosis with the music potrayed here. I choose to quote Ynleborgaz at the end here -"A journey into the darkest corners of the human psyche. These secluded experiments clear the distorted vision of the world. My gift to everyone seeing it through tired eyes.".
HDR - D - 060 : Woods of Infinity - Ljuset (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Black Metal
One of this years finest outputs. Ljuset kicks off right after the album "Hejdå". As Melkor of Woods of Infinity himself stated. "Ljuset is our plunge into the unknown, a natural development for unnatural minds, severing the ties of what were and setting sail for the light at the horizon". 11 new tracks, including a new recorded version of "Summon the lord of blasphemy". Words fall short when you are opening your mouth towards this twisted masterpiece. Comes with 16 page full colour booklet. With paintings drawn by D-778 of Ritual of the cloven Hoof. Extra-ordinary (unorthodox) paintings, only body fluids have been used in order to produce his paintings. All lyrics are on Swedish (as always) except for "S.T.L.B" and "Across the fields of forever" which is an Edge of Sanity cover, and also some minor parts of some tracks are spoken/sung in English. A mad mans wet dream.
HDR - D - 061 : Trancelike Void - Unveiling the Silent Arms of Despair EP (3 Copies) $7.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Never had the name of a band been this fitting. Trancelike - That's just how it is. And the void within yourself nurtures from this downward spiral of the forward momentum that our lives lacks, and that's where Trancelike Void enters your miserable life. Black Metal on the surface, but there's a lot more going on underneath, so just calling this depressive Black Metal or whatever, is to fold it together with the faceless crowd of mediocricy. One of the few worthy bands emerging from Belgium. This mini-cd has been carefully mixed by Desolate of Austere and is strictly limited to 500 copies.
HDR - D - 062 : Forgotten Woods - Sjel Av Natten (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Black/Doom Metal
Truly one of Norways strongest Black Metal hordes and also one of those bands which has been an influence for several of bands. And for a very good reason. They have always had their own formula of making the Blackest of atmospheres come to life through their music. This album was released on a MCD in 1995 and has been sold out since a very long time. To honour this forgotten album I together with Forgotten Woods did plans for a re-issue which now is at hand. Featured on this album is the three original tracks as well as two previously unheard tracks which are taken from rehearsal tracks that has only been in the hands of the band previous to this. So no matter if you have the original copy of this or not, it's sure a worthy addition. The album comes also with totally reworked layout in a luxurious fold out booklet. Nothing more to add here really, a Black Metal classic that should not be overlooked.
HDR - D - 063 : Sombres Forets - Quintessence (6 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Sombres Forêts plays freezing, misanthropic Black Metal, with a touch of Funeral Doom, and their first album is sure to make waves with those who crave Burzum, Abyssic Hate and Forgotten Tomb. Amidst tortured vocals and haunting keyboard passages, Sombres Forêts also create very ambient and sad moments.
HDR - D - 064 : Sombres Forets - Royaume de Glace (5 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
After a successful first album, Sombres Forêts is back with a darker and colder second offering while keeping its majestic side. More powerful and with a bigger sound that on Quintessence, Royaume de Glace also sees Anatar developing the band's acoustic side. Sombres Forêts offers brooding, majestic Black Metal of the highest calibre.
HDR - D - 065 : Demorian - Back to the Glorious Past (6 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Pagan Black Metal from the cold lands of Sweden.
HDR - D - 066 : Neige et Noirceur - Philosophie des Occultes Arts (1 Copy) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Ambient Black Metal
Brand new recording from this master of dark epic black metal. Going from epic black metal to loud evil ambience always wrapped in a cold ambience. Fans of Paysage d’Hiver, Menace Ruine or maybe some Drudkh should take notes. **CD released in a CD-sleeve packaging
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 067 : Nocturnal Depression - Mankind Suffering Visions DVD (3 Copies) $12.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
The first official DVD, including a full concert recorded on the bands last European tour (Haunting Europe Tour) with pro-cameras and the official video-clips of the band! Professional edited & mastered DVD with menu points. DVD is Zone 2. Customer outside of Europe and Japan should have a multizone player for reading it. Packed in regular size DVD plastic case, contains a special inside booklet. The first DSBM live dvd/recording!
HDR - D - 068 : Windbruch - Collision of the Worlds (2 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Folk-inspired Black Metal
Windbruch (meaning wind break/fracture) is a Russian one man band that mixes elements of folk metal and black metal. Strongly folk-influenced music focuses on a strong atmosphere with a lot of emotional feeling, hypnotizing sounds, beautiful Russian landscapes with coldness of black metal, taking the listener to the forests on full moon nights. The debut full length album contains 7 own tracks and a very special cover song. CD came out in normal jewel case.
HDR - D - 069 : Grimlair - Au Commencement de l'ombre (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Here we have the latest effort from France's Grimlair. This band plays a unique style of depressive black metal. The production is rough and shoddy, yet occasionally we hear a lone melodic guitar peeking out from behind all the gloom and darkness. It really adds an interesting contrast to this particular album, giving it an almost eerie sound; very entrancing and mysterious.
HDR - D - 070 : Managarm - Poems of the Shadows Disappointment (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
HDR - D - 071 : Fornicatus - Omnium Animalis Terminus (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
HDR - D - 072 : Svartsinn - Elegies for the End (2CD Set) (1 Copy) $10.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Dark Ambient
The 4th album by Norwegian dark ambient act, Svartsinn, shows a more melodic yet rather obscure side of the artist. 2009 is the 10th year of Svartsinn's existence and it has inspired Pettersen to try a different approach and to experiment with some new ideas. This new musical journey deals with sadness and melancholy, about not knowing one's place in this vast and at times uninviting world, how it can become a daily torment to not be able to find one's reason to exist. And it's also about finding one's personal path, finding ways to endure and hopefully transcend these engulfing life challenges.The Double CD includes a unique collaboration track with Dahlia's Tear and a 10 years anniversary bonus disc containing exclusive remixes by Triarii, Kammarheit, Letum, Life Toward Twilight, Gustaf Hildebrand, Tenebrious, New Risen Throne, MGriffin, Visions and Hovmod. All acts giving very interesting perspectives on some of Svartsinn's previously released tracks, making this second disc a very special homage to the singular world of Svartsinn.
HDR - D - 073 : Obitus - The March of the Drones (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Apocalyptic Black Metal
Hate! This is the only way to describe "The march of the drones"! Brutal, destructive, abrasive black metal with razor-sharp guitars and hysterical drumming that sometimes leaves the space to some mid-paced post apocalyptic and martial passages. A release that defies all preconceived concepts of any normal album: 45 minutes of uninterrupted music all recorded as one seamless arrangement. The style can be described like a mix of WANING for the melodic side, NIDEN DIV. 187 for the non-stop assault, and some ANAAL NATHRAKH for the apocalyptic feeling! A concept album that can be summarized as a multi-pronged attack against the non thinkers (like the drones they are) of the world, a relentless attack on heard mentality of the intellectually lazy, enriched by a deluxe 28 pages booklet that includes all lyrics! Mastered by legendary Peter In De Betou (ENSLAVED, KATATONIA...).
HDR - D - 074 : Self-Inflicted Violence - A Perception of Matter and Energy $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Self-Inflicted Violence, coming from UK, performs an high calibre negative black metal with cosmic and progressive touches. After some self-produced demos, the first official release is the debut album entitled "A perception of matter and energy", an introspective journey between melancholy, emotion and consciousness. Where music and atmosphere reach a perfect sublimation. The versatility of songwriting, that is NOT limited to mere black metal spreading his dying tentacles to dark & ambient music, progressive and psychedelia, the studio performance, that show technical skills on every single instrument, and the powerful and balanced sound, permit to this bunch of songs to represent the highest expression of this music genre & life style.
SOLD OUT!HDR - D - 075 : Enmerker - Starlit Passage (2 Copies) $8.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Evocative Black Metal
A fantastic voyage through time and space. A monolithic and atmospheric black metal opus, with intense and chaotic moments, acoustic passages and drone interferences. Multiple guitar layers and whispered distant vocals sustained with an elaborate and skilled drumming work, performed by Tentakel of brillant TODTGELICHTER. An outstanding piece of art for fans of bands like DRUDKH, WALKNUT, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM... Mastered from A.O.D. (ETERNITY, KATHARSIS...)
HDR - D - 076 : Ancient Tundra - The Natural Landscape of December/The Feeble Sickness and Depressive Rot (9 Copies) $6.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Instrumental Dark Ambient
Drawing inspiration from nature is one thing, but Ancient Tundra has dedicated his soul to creating icy landscapes through ambient black metal style synth and trance like depressive moods. Two triumphant tracks from the previously released "requiems of a world lost" area featured on chrome cassettes, with full color artwork and printed labels. Edition of 30.
HDR - D - 077 : Lifelover - Erotik (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal/Rock
The last year we were greeted by the presence of "Pulver", the debut album of Lifelover. A band that got my attention like none other. Lifelover's personal expression through their music, was like none other that I have encountered during my countless of years dealing with Black Metal (in general). So it was a breeze of fresh (putrid) air that lingered through the room when I heard their music. "Erotik" picks up where "Pulver" left us. And it's a work that takes all the great ideas from their debut and takes them onto another level. Their work has matured, the song structures and lyrics are for me sharper on this album. The music is something that proves to be hard to describe. Take hints of Joy Division and The Cure and pour it into a cauldron filled with gloom, depravity and social realistic lyrics. Clean singing mixed with agonizing vocals with an emphasis on the choke hold that this society has on all of us. Drugs, self-destruction, illness and a struggling to understand this existence. Lifelover doesn't hold the answers, but it delievers like no other band has done before. And this is truely the most stellar and perfect works that has graced me with it's presence. Comes with a 20-page full colour booklet, printed with heavy and thick paper for the best result. Full lyrics and visuals that will leave you shackled to the ground while Lifelover molests your mind.
HDR - D - 078 : Empty - The Last Breath of my Mortal Despair (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
No doubt that "The Last Breath Of My Mortal Despair" is to be considered as the higher peak of the band with his amplification of the grey and depressive shadings but still remaining into the cold and sinister Black Metal feeling of the early days. Graveyards, nothing but Graveyards... Essential for those into Shining, early Forgotten Tomb, Beatrik
HDR - D - 079 : Empty - The House of Funerary Hymns (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
This new chapter in the band’s career confirms Empty’s unique ability to craft funereal moods by shaping Black Metal into a painful perception of decay. After a 14-year music career, Empty can be deemed as the father of this “genre”, as the band inspires feelings of inner darkness in a very personal way and is firmly rooted in its own style of playing without being affected by the plasticization of contemporary Black Metal scene. The macabre old-fashioned grotesque cover by Chris Moyen puts the final nail in the putrescent coffin of emptiness.
HDR - D - 080 : Trist - Sebevrazedni andele (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Re-release of 2007's melancholic black metal masterpiece, tormented and depressing atmospheric genius.
HDR - D - 081 : Pensees Nocturnus - Grotesque (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Avant-Garde Symphonic Black Metal
Second album from this eccentric French entity, playing sophisticated, avant-garde black metal. Like a mixture of the most progressive Mayhem material, Ved Buens Ende and Celestia
HDR - D - 082 : Njiqahdda - Divisionals (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Experimental Ambient Black Metal
The brand new album from this psychedelic black metal duo. Divisionals takes over where Yrg Alms had begun to wander. Lengthy, complex, technical, melodic and hypnotic; Divisionals marks a new era in the Njiqahdda catalog. Not to be missed for fans of this prolific act.
HDR - D - 083 : Old Forgotten Lands/Ancient Tundra - Equinox EEE Recordingd Edition (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Ambient
'Ancient Tundra', and EEE Recordings artist 'Old Forgotten Lands' team up to deliver this highly anticipated split album. Old Forgotten Lands contributes nature-influenced dark ambient music with well-executed field recordings, and dreamy, nostalgic synth tones that captures the essence of the natural world, whildst Ancient Tundra caries on its evolution towards a more neo-classical dark ambient hybrid with hints of film scores and sparse vocals to produce a highly atmospheric and visual sound. One of the best ambient releases of 2009, this album shows both artists continue to move forward and evolve into their most professional sound. Professionally mastered by Andrea Marutti at Lips Vago Studio in Milan, Italy and artwork from the highly regarded Niels Geybels of 'Depraved Designs' proves this to be an essential release for all dark ambient and atmospheric music fans. The Equinox is Upon us!
HDR - D - 084 : Raventale - Long Passed Days (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Black/Doom Metal
New work from the talented Ukrainian depressive black metal band. This time Raventale demostrate us a transition to black doom side, still preserving their inimitable atmosphere and melodiousness. Combining fury and coldness of black metal with melancholic loneliness of doom metal, in addition with some elements of ambient, the band rises up on a new level of quality. The beautiful lyrics make the new album “Long Passed Days” more attractive for all lovers of the voluptuous side of black metal.
HDR - D - 085 : Raventale - Mortal Aspirations (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Black/Doom Metal
New Raventale album “Mortal Aspirations” demonstrates the final of band’s transformation from depressive black/pagan metal to black doom metal. The music became more rigid and cold. Power guitar riffs framed by atmospheric keyboards are able to veil the listener with the gloom of night and take away to the world which has never been seen before. “Mortal Aspirations” also features exclusively English lyrics which evolve from panegyric on nature to inner feelings and emotional experiences.
HDR - D - 086 : Vinteriket - Kaelte Schinee Und Eis - Best Of/Compilation (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Acousitc Ambient
The most recent work from the Swiss cult band, which shows Vinterriket from a whole new angle. A project, well known for its work in black metal and dark ambient genres, put those two together creating very unusual sounding versions of their old black metal songs. Almost from the first notes you can recognize the keys, the acoustic guitars, drums and clean vocals creating a cold, ambient atmosphere. The album includes acoustic versions of songs from the Winterschatten CD and limited “Aura” PIC-EP, “Im Ambivalenten Zwielicht Der Dunkelheit” and “Kaelte” 7inches which makes this CD even more valuable for not only the collectors but for all the people who are into this music.
HDR - D - 087 : Painful Memories - Memorial to Suffering (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Doom Metal
Russian doom-metal label Solitude Prod. presents its new, seventh release: re-release of a legendary album of a band from St.Petersburg -- Painful Memories, timed to tenth anniversary since the moment of its creation. “Memorial To Suffering” is a live document that witnessed one of the greatest appearances on the Russian metal scene in the middle of 1990’s, at that time it was released on audio-cassettes with a limited circulation and was circulated by musicians themselves. Nowadays each doom-metal lover has an opportunity to fill his collection with this unique release in form of compact-disk with remastered material, specially created design, which includes archive photos. You can also find exclusive video material on the CD -- a live record of the band that was never released before. .
HDR - D - 088 : The Morningside - The Wind, The trees, and the shadows of the past (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Melodic Doom/Black Metal
The debut conceptual album of Moscow band The Morningside unwraps before the listener the cloth which has embodied all shades of autumn, filled by light grief and a melancholy. The rich musical material has incorporated set of black metal and doom metal styles. The Morningside music will suit fans of Katatonia (“Brave Murder Day” period), Agalloch and Opeth, and everyone who like dark, sincere music.
HDR - D - 089 : The Morningside - Moving Crosscurrent of Time (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Melodic Doom/Black Metal
The second long-awaited album by Russian masters of melancholic metal, The Morningside “Moving Crosscurrent Of Time”, holds the direction chosen at the debut band album demonstrating combination of lyrical and heavy compositions touched with the mood of slight sorrow. New The Morningside work also demonstrates tendency to melodic complication while fragmental parties of atmospheric keyboards associating with Eduard Artemyev’s works (“Solaris”, “Stalker”) add depth to the album sound. The essential part of this album is inspired by Ray Bradbury’ novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. Brand new album of The Morningside will be a perfect present both for old band’s fans and for all those Katatonia and Agalloch fans longing for a breath of autumn air filled with fallen leaves smell. The album is issued on a gold-plated CD with pit-art.
HDR - D - 090 : Abstract Spirit - Tragedy and Weeds (4 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal
Album “Tragedy And Weeds” has become a new era in the bands work, denoting the transition to a new, high quality sound, more thoughtful material, and the desire to mature. The team once again became a trio, but the Abstract Spirit has ceased from a side project of famous musicians to a full band, performing live shows. “Tragedy And Weeds” is the same sludgy funeral doom, full of fleeting touches of depressive black. Melodies, filled with despair, and if is filled with schizophrenic delusions, evokes feelings of anxiety and fear, casting the listeners down into the abyss of despair. The sound of wind instruments resemble the old, sad, funeral orchestra, accompanying the low belly growl, hysterical cries and sepulchral recitative. All this gives birth to a unique atmosphere Abstract Spirit!
HDR - D - 091 : Tales of Dark - Perdition Calls (3 Copies) $9.00 USD plus s+h
Genre: Doom/Gothic Metal
The second album of this Serbian band, who gathered attention with their debut album “Fragile Monuments” in 2006. They haven’t lost their trademark sound of doom death with beautiful melodies including a great mixture of male growling vocals and clean female voice. “Perdition Calls” – another brilliant one on the field of gothic doom metal worth the attention of all lovers of MY DYING BRIDE and DRACONIAN.
 |
____________________________________________________________________________________
Photos of the HDR Stock
 |  |
_______________________________________________________________________________________
