HYPNOTIC DIRGE RELEASES • 2010

netra - Mélancolie urbaine
Release: December 16, 2010
Style: Depressive Black Metal, Trip-hop, Alternative
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet
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The street lights are colder than usual, how come I am so moved ? I feel the urge to escape, to make everything vanish for a while. Mélancolie urbaine album is one of the most original albums to be released in a long time and is truly unique. This album is an incredible journey to your innermost thoughts and nightmares and transcends the typical depressive black metal soundscapes for something more interesting.
The Foetal Mind - The Grand Contraction
Release: December 16, 2010
Style: Instrumental Post-Metal 
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet
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A largely instrumental metal album, filled with powerful, catchy and atmospheric riffs that bring about the concept of The Grand Contraction. A very guitar based album that should please all metal fans regardless of genre, The Foetal Mind's new album shows a massive change from their DSBM beginnings. The guitar work is highly melodic, catchy, and much more prolific in its approach than before.  

Uruk-Hai / Funeral Fornication [Split Album]
Release: September 19, 2010
Style: Ambient Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 4 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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As a precursor to Funeral Fornication's forthcoming full-length album 'Pandemic Transgression', comes the split album with Austria's legendary Uruk-Hai, a project that Vultyrous has cited as a strong influence throughout his many years as a musician. Uruk-Hai delivers his brand of epic, LOTR-inspired ambient black metal in the vein of Summoning, while Funeral Fornication continues to grow with each sequential release.
Our Diabolical Embrance - Immortal Night Laments [EP]
Release: September 19, 2010
Style: Symphonic Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet [CD-r release]
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Exiled From Light - There is No Beauty Left Here... [2CD]
Release: July 22, 2010
Style: Depressive Black Metal
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet
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Exiled From Light has quickly risen the ranks of Depressive Black Metal scene, and we are pleased to announce the release of the second monumental album - 'There is no beauty left here...' Another excellent example of the human mind's descent into depravity and agony, There is no beauty left here... picks up where the debut album left off and takes the musicianship and atmosphere to a whole new level.
Symbiosis / Ancient Tundra - These Engulfing Winds Never Die [Split Album] [CD+DVD]
Release: March 11, 2010
Style: Dark Ambient, Neo-Classical, Soundtrack
Format: Jewel Case / 12 Page Booklet [CD-r / DVD-r release]
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For over a year now, ambient artists Ancient Tundra and Symbiosis have worked towards creating a monumental dark ambient release that showcased both the audio and video aspects of the genre. These Engulfing Winds Never Die is the result of over a year`s work writing / recording music and filming nature in its harshest elements. From the frozen Canadian prairies to the mountains of Italy.
Funeral in Heaven - Shanthikarma [Live EP; 2010]
Release: May 11, 2010
Style: Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
Stream / Download

In the distant horizons of antiquity, Sri Lanka was an Island kissed by nature, blessed by gods, haunted be demons, gripped by mysteries and ruled by occultism. Funeral In Heaven, is nothing more than a congregation of a few concerned and ardent individuals belonging to one of the few and remaining cautiously orchestrated systems of preservation of the dark arts of Sri Lanka.