HYPNOTIC DIRGE RELEASES • 2020

Liminal Shroud - Through the False Narrows
Release: November 20, 2020
Style: Melodic Black Metal
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Liminal Shroud is a black metal band based in Victoria, BC taking inspiration from the surging oceans and mist-strewn coast as they explore themes of futility, passage, and individual and metaphysical transformation. As a three-piece, Liminal Shroud’s sound is stripped-back yet immersive, with expansive guitars underpinned by a driving and dynamic rhythm section; kindling a form of black metal surging with atmosphere anguish, melancholy and rage.

Marche Funèbre - Einderlicht
Release: September 25, 2020
Style: Death-Doom Metal
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2020 sees the release of Marche Funèbre‘s 4th full length album. The Belgian quintet has built a steady reputation of making a unique blend of eclectic doom death metal, and their new album proves to be the pinnacle of their growth. Entitled ‘Einderlicht’, which translates as the light at/of the end, the new album brings all the elements known from Marche Funèbre: death, black, and doom metal in a unique mix, with strong melodies and a wide vocal approach.

Wills Dissolve - Echoes
Release: August 28, 2020
Style: Progressive Metal
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Following on the comet tail of their debut album "The Heavens Are Not On Fire...", Wills Dissolve direct their gaze upon the cosmos once again in “Echoes”, their sophomore album presented as a 32 minute exploration of the loneliness and sacrifice of astro-technological advancement. Allow yourself to be transported through the empty vacuum of space exploring the cosmos as the last vestiges of humanity search for another planet to inhabit.

Ov Shadows - I Djävulens Avbild
Release: August 14, 2020
Style: Black Metal
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Ov Shadows returns with their second full-length and first release on Hypnotic Dirge Records. Entitled "I Djävulens Avbild", the new record presents Ov Shadows at an unprecedented ferocity and forward-momentum. The combination of infectious riffs, recurring hooks, blastbeats, and tortured vocals create an enveloping claustrophobic and dark dissonance, as if a shroud has covered your face and defined forms have turned to shadows. 

NONE - Life has gone on long enough [12" vinyl]
Release: July 3, 2020
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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Following the vinyl release of NONE’s debut album, Hypnotic Dirge and Viridian Flame are thrilled to release NONE’s second chapter “Life has gone on long enough" on wax.  Originally released on CD and Digital formats on April 11, 2018, this momentous album is now available on vinyl format. The record comes with a panoramic 90cm x 30cm fold out double-sided poster of never-before released photography from the album photoshoot.

Feral Light - Life Vapor
Release: May 22, 2020
Style: Black Metal / Blackened Crust
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Firmly anchored in Blackened Post-Metal, Life Vapor - Feral Light's third album -, not only builds up on the foundations of its predecessor, but it also cranks it up on all fronts. It instantly pulls you in with its killer mix of melodic and dissonant riffing, combining and incorporating various styles including elements of post-metal, black n roll, doom, and second-wave black metal. 

Forlesen - Hierophant Violent
Release: April 18, 2020
Style: Avantgarde Ambient Doom
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Comprising of two tracks nearing twenty minutes a piece, “Hierophant Violent” is a delicate and hypnotic sensory experience incorporating a myriad of styles and influences to craft a work of art which is cathartic and illuminating. Each track is a journey unfolding different aspects of the band’s sound, drawing inspiration from artists as diverse as Low, Leviathan, Skepticism and Dead Can Dance. 

NONE - selftitled + bonus track [12" vinyl]
Release: February 21, 2020
Style: Depressive Black Metal
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In conjunction with Viridian Flame Records, Hypnotic Dirge is proud to release NONE’s seminal self-titled debut album pressed on wax for the very first time! Originally released in April 2017, this album was the first chapter for this enigmatic depressive black metal legacy. The vinyl edition of the self-titled album also includes NONE’s stand-alone single “Where Life Should Be” - previously unavailable in any physical medium - as a bonus track.

Frigoris - ...in Stille
Release: January 24, 2020
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
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...In Stille, the fourth album by atmospheric black metal group Frigoris, builds on the foundation laid by Nur Ein Moment… beautifully –  with aggression, emotion, and a sense of urgency that leaves the listener enraptured in a state of existential triumph. Frigoris alternates between reverberating cleans and pulsing distortion –  to move their listeners through the crushing journey of the album’s protagonist as he faces his own mortality.

Kassad - London Orbital
Release: January 10, 2020
Style: Urban Black Metal / Post-Black Metal
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Combining abrasive and gritty black metal with hallucinatory ambience and spiralling postrock intricacy, Kassad’s name is synonymous with misery, futility, and madness of modern urban life. "London Orbital", the new album, centers around modern urban living and looks to a near future of megacities where the city itself is a personified, malevolent being where human empathy and culture have been replaced by artificial intelligence.




Official Releases - Digital Only
2020

Moonworshipper - 13 Fullmoon Nights of Loneliness
Release: June 13, 2020
Style: Avantgarde Black Metal / Doom / Melancholic Pop
Format: Digital Only
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Moonworshipper blends together lo-fi black metal, with trip-hop, soundtrack music, doom, post-rock, and jazz. The debut EP of Moonworshippers, entitled "13 Fullmoon Nights of Loneliness" is the start of a planned conceptual trilogy which will be resolved over the coming months. Fans and listeners of netra, Ulver, White Ward and Manes will likely find a lot of value in "13 Fullmoon Nights of Loneliness" and eagerly await the next chapter of this tale..

Omination - The Pale Horseman
Release: May 1, 2020
Style: Funeral Doom Metal
Format: Digital Only
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A stand-alone track from the Apocalyptic Funeral Doom project "Omination". This track, entitled "The Pale Horseman" and spanning nearly 30 minutes is a commentary and interpretation of the COVID-19 pandemic.