HDR 2018

HYPNOTIC DIRGE RELEASES • 2018

Omgeving - Wijde wijdte
Release: December 6, 2018
Style: Blackened Metal / Space Rock
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“Omgeving” is an experimental musical project from the Netherlands where the listener is meant to interpret the sound as auditory landscapes, every texture part of a broader perception that has been created. Entitled “Wijde Wijdte”, the first Omgeving album crosses the boundaries of black metal, space rock, ambient, and doom conjuring imagery through soundscapes, tones and frequencies that transport you through inner and outer space.

NONE - Where Life Should Be
Release: November 5, 2018
Style: Depressive / Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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"Where Life Should Be" is an emotionally devastating journey, drenched in atmosphere and hopelessness from this mysterious project from the pacific northwest. This is an exclusive NONE song, a stand-alone release separate from the next full-length album scheduled for a release in spring 2019.

Norilsk - Weepers of the Land
Release: October 12, 2018
Style: Death-Doom Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack with 4 Page Booklet
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Coming off the heels of their latest full-length album, this fall the Canadian Death-Doom act Norilsk returns with a collection of new material linked in concept with its previous full-length while also showcasing Norilsk’s more collaborative and multi-faceted nature. The new mini-album, entitled “Weepers of the Land” is made up of four new compositions as well as a Mylene Farmer cover song with artwork from William Blair Bruce (1859-1906) .

NONE - selftitled [Second pressing]
Release: June 16, 2018 [Original release: April 11, 2017]
Style: Atmospheric / Depressive Black Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack
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The second pressing of the debut album from the enigmatic DSBM band NONE. Chilling and despondent music from the Pacific Northwest. Make no mistake, this music is fucking cold and would serve as a perfect soundtrack to your death. An endless blizzard in a vast tundra. An album that will certainly appeal to Atmospheric Black Metal and DSBM listeners of such groups as Shining, Coldworld, and Woods of Desolation.

Altars of Grief - This Shameful Burden [Deluxe re-release]
Release: June 16, 2018
Style: Blackened Doom Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack
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Originally self-released by the band, “This Shameful Burden” has been out of print for years, and alas it is finally time for this piece of Altars of Grief’s history to be made available once again. The 2018 edition of “This Shameful Burden” has been updated for a 6 panel digipack with an entirely different layout featuring new artwork and bonus tracks from the “Of Ash and Dying Light” split, previously only available on vinyl.

NONE - Life has gone on long enough
Release: April 11, 2018
Style: Depressive Black Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack
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NONE's new album Life Has Gone On Long Enough takes its haunting shape through eight organic tracks of foggy mountainous atmosphere and bleak music. Moving in and out like the long shadows of an ancient forest, Life Has Gone On Long Enough entertwine and die through forlorn atmospheres, devouring and nourishing a hopeless life. The album will be presented in a 6 panel digipack with gorgeous panoramic photography.

Prairies doom metal juggernaut Altars of Grief is back with its second full length album Iris. Following the acclaimed Of Ash and Dying Light split album of 2015, this new symphonic blackened doom offering is more dynamic, more layered, and is without the shadow of a doubt the more accomplished work from the Saskatchewan band to date. On Iris, melancholy reaches new depths of beauty and sorrow.

Marche Funèbre - Into the Arms of Darkness
Release: February 22, 2018
Style: Atmospheric Dark Ambient
Format: 4 Panel Digipack with 8 Page Booklet (Co-release with Moscow Funeral League / Frozen Light)
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In conjunction with the new split album with Eye of Solitude, Hypnotic Dirge Records is proud to be re-releasing Marche Funèbre's magnus opus Into the Arms of Darkness. Originally released about a year ago the album received praise among the doom scene for its mature songwriting and fine balance of traditional doom and doom-death elements, making it Marche Funèbre's best album to date, and a must-have within the genre.

Eye of Solitude | Marche Funèbre - Split Album
Release: February 22, 2018
Style: Funeral Death-Doom Metal
Format: 6 Panel Digipack (Co-release with Cimmerian Shade Recordings)
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"Collapse" and "Darkness"; two facets of sorrow, two sides of extreme doom metal, two long songs combined into one monumental split album. England's Eye of Solitude offers"Collapse," a marching funeral doom track shrouded in a thick smoky atmosphere. Belgium's Marche Funèbre presents "Darkness," an epic track that combines their signature blend of riff and growl, along with powerful melodies and clean vocal passages