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From late 2008 to the present, we have released roughly 85 albums on physical format and around 25 albums digitally.
Everything we have ever released is on this page. Included is all of the essential information, such as an order link is the album is still available,
genre / format info, and some brief album notes. We have also collected as many album reviews as we could find, which are linked to separate pages below.
Bandcamp players for all of the albums are also included, so you can listen to everything directly on this page!
Check our Instagram page for more photos of our releases.
Official Releases - Physical Media
2020
Liminal Shroud - Through the False Narrows
Release: November 20, 2020
Style: 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 MetalOrder Vinyl SOLD OUT | Digital
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 MetalOrder Vinyl SOLD OUT | Digital
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..
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.
Official Releases - Physical Media
2019
Maeskyyrn - Interlude
Release: October 17, 2019
Style: Atmospheric / Depressive Black Metal
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Maeskyyrn is a black metal entity born of Montreal, Quebec, in 2017. With its raw guitars and tortured screams, the full band’s aesthetic is reminiscent of the second wave of black metal. Indeed, as the album title suggests, Maeskyyrn brings forth a number of atmospheric interludes, thus pacing the album with brief uncomfortable moments of respite, before dragging you into the darkest pits with a series of long, punishing tracks.
Nachtterror - Judgement
Release: October 10, 2019
Style: Symphonic Black Metal
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Nachtterror is a Symphonic Black Metal band formed in 2006 in Regina, SK. Since their founding, Nachtterror has always been a band focused on telling a story of tragedy and empowerment - the tragedy of life and the suffering that can accompany it, as well as the empowerment of embracing your own negativity and using it to evolve and grow. A powerful and hard-hitting album firmly rooted in the tradition of symphonic / melodic black metal.
Wills Dissolve - The Heavens Are Not On Fire...
Release: July 29, 2019
Style: Progressive Blackened Death Metal
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“The Heavens Are Not On Fire...is the debut album from Wills Dissolve. Equally atmospheric and aggressive, this album weaves its concept (“a meditation on religion, violence, and cosmic chaos”) through seamless, satisfying transitions between ambient and bold passages. Led by masterfully executed drum grooves and finished with blazing, melodic leads and crushing vocals, Heavens… is progressive, but never wandering.
Kval - Laho
Release: May 23, 2019
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
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Compared to the previous album, Laho ("Rotten") has a brighter and more colorful atmosphere musically while the lyrical themes references the decay and rot of the forest floor, applied as a metaphor for the human mind. Our inability to live in the moment, the loss of innocence, and the ever-present corrosion of our optimism and descent into cynicism encompass the themes of Laho, wrapped in captivating and entrancing Atmospheric Black Metal.
Mavradoxa - Nightmarrow
Release: May 2, 2019
Style: Atmospheric / Progressive Black Metal
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Nightmarrow is a meditation on the isolation and hopelessness of our age and the consequences of technology and voracious consumption of resources. “Nightmarrow” sees Mavradoxa developing and intensifying their song-writing ability crafting simultaneously cohesive yet unpredictable songs that is still rooted in Atmospheric Black Metal. An intense onslaught of momentous energy and a visceral spirit that covers you in a shroud of atmosphere.
NONE - Damp Chill of Life
Release: April 11, 2019
Style: Atmospheric / Depressive Black Metal
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Like clockwork, NONE returns this spring to destroy your seasonal optimism with their oppressively bleak atmosphere. Weaving visionary soundscapes with depressive black metal, “Damp Chill Of Life” will gnaw at your bones like dying alone in an ice-bound wilderness. Haunting piano and retching voices flicker through harsh walls of instruments, ebbing and flowing through the lengthy tracks as NONE take their time to pick apart your psyche.
The Haunting Green - Natural Extinctions
Release: March 5, 2019
Style: Doom Metal / Post-Metal
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The Haunting Green are a doom metal duo based in Italy that builds on a doom foundation with post-metal, drone, and percussive elements to create a unique and quintessential sound. Their debut album“Natural Extinctions” explores the inability of human beings to preserve their innocence and bond with nature during their existence. Recorded Mixed, and Mastered at El Fish Recording Studio. Cover art illustrated by Jessica Rassi.
Each song on the album discusses the theme of sorrow from a different perspective and point of view. From slow pulsing Funeral Doom, galloping Black Metal, dreamy Post-rock, and melancholic acoustic sections, “Vastness” is expansive and exploratory, exploring real life stories of suicide, illness, and psychological disorders.
Official Releases - Digital Only
2019
Hypnotic Dirge Records - The Depths of the Abyss Knows No Bounds [2019 Compilation]
Release: April 8, 2019
Style: Multiple genres
Format: Digital Only
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Hypnotic Dirge presents its latest compilation album, entitled "The Depth of the Abyss Knows No Bounds". This is our first compilation album since the Subarctic Nocturnes Trilogy and includes tracks from both recent and upcoming releases. 100% of donations from this compilation will go to 350.org!! This is a small gesture to offset some of the environmental impact associated with running a record label.
Omination - The New Golgotha Repvbliq
Release: February 1, 2019
Style: Atmospheric / Funeral Doom Metal
Format: Digital Only
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Omination is an Apocalyptic Funeral Doom band from Tunisia, headed by Fedor Kovalevsky of Vielikan. In 2018, Omination released an enormous debut double-album "Followers of the Apocalypse" already showing their depth and maturity in songwriting and the ability to conjure ominous atmospheres.Omination returns with a new single entitled "The New Golgotha Repvbliq", the eponymous track from their upcoming album.
Eave - Banners to the Moonswept
Release: January 31, 2019
Style: Post-Black Metal / Blackgaze
Format: Digital Only
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Weaving black metal riffs over a phantasmagorical blackgaze shroud, "Banners to the Moonswept" serves as a perfect introduction to the sound of Eave, a post-black metal band from Portland. Maine. Sometimes aggressive, other times pensive, but always hypnotic, "Banners to the Moonswept" is chock full of monumental riffs over its short run time, well-mixed with engaging drums, audible bass, and melancholic synth lines.
Official Releases - Physical Media
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.
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.
Altars of Grief - Iris
Release: March 21, 2018
Style: Blackened Doom Metal
Format: 4 Panel Digipack with 6 Page Inlay
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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.
Official Releases - Digital Only
2018
"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.
Official Releases - Physical Media
2017
Mavradoxa / Deafest [Split]
Release: November 12, 2017
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Format: Digital Only
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Mavradoxa and Deafest present a new autumnal themed split album from two sides of North America!
Mavradoxa is an atmospheric black metal band rooted in the Laurentian region of upstate New York. The music of Mavradoxa is expansive, atmospheric, and melancholic. Deafest is a project founded by Chase Ambler in Denver, Colorado. Deafest plays an instrumental ode to the beauty and awe of nature.
Official Releases - Physical Media
2016
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2011
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2011
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2010
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.
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2010
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2009
Official Releases - Physical Media
2008