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Distro Update: 33 New Titles added!

August 16, 2014
Distro Update: 33 new titles

It has been a fairly slow summer for new additions to the webshop but finally here is an update with 33 new albums added to the shop! There are a lot of really good gems in this list so look carefully! As usual, you can find music from each of these albums on their pages in the webshop. 

HDR - D - 645 : Kozeljnik - Null: The Acheron Of Mutiform Negation
HDR - D - 646 : Permanent Midnight - Under The Blood Moon 
HDR - D - 647 : Root - Kargeras 
HDR - D - 648 : Elderblood - Son Of The Morning
HDR - D - 649 : Panychida - Grief For An Idol
HDR - D - 650 : Grey Skies Fallen - The Many Sides Of Truth 
HDR - D - 651 : Astrowind - Kaidanovsky
HDR - D - 652 : Taphephobia - selftitled
HDR - D - 653 : SantAAgostino - Mokaraba Constellation
HDR - D - 654 : b°tong - Hostile environments
HDR - D - 655 : Mare di Dirac - Tupilaq
HDR - D - 656 : Phobonoid - Orbita
HDR - D - 657 : Enthroning Silence - Throned upon ashes of dusk
HDR - D - 658 : Cold Body Radiation - A clear path
HDR - D - 659 : Trübe - Zone of Alienation
HDR - D - 660 : Forest of Impaled - Rise and Conquer
HDR - D - 661 : Hortus Animae - The Blow of Furious Winds
HDR - D - 662 : Hedon Cries - Affliction's Fiction
HDR - D - 663 : Odious - Mirror of Vibrations
HDR - D - 664 : Weeping Silence - End of an Era
HDR - D - 665 : Greifenstein - Von Inneren Welten
HDR - D - 666 : Butterfly Temple - The Times of Mara
HDR - D - 667 : Theodore Ziras - Territory 4
HDR - D - 668 : Encorion - Facing History and Ourselves
HDR - D - 669 : Cold Colours - The Great Depression
HDR - D - 670 : Under Eden - The Science of Self-Defeat
HDR - D - 671 : Theodore Ziras - Monster 5
HDR - D - 672 : ShowStripSilence - Thirteen Tales of Love and Death
HDR - D - 673 : Inedia - Healing
HDR - D - 674 : Encorion - Our Pagan Hearts Rebor
HDR - D - 675 : Cold Colours - selftitled
HDR - D - 676 : Hesperia - Spiritvs Italicvs - Aeneidos Metalli Apotheosis pars III
HDR - D - 677 : Vinterbris - Solace

Highly recommended are the Vinterbris, Trübe, Panychida, Butterfly Temple. Hortus Animae, Odious, and Encorion releases.

As usual, you can see all of the new additions and find music from each of these albums in the “Latest Additions” section of the webshop.

Alternatively, you can view everything in the shop by beginning at the Main menu
 

Hypnotic Dirge Records will be at Metal Wizard Open Air 2014

July 6, 2014
Hypnotic Dirge Records will once again be present for the second annual Metal Wizard Open Air Festival on Saturday July 12, 2014. We will have a merch stand set up with a fine selection of CD's and shirts from our own releases and from the distro including a box of 50 dedicated to Black Metal, a box of 50 dedicated to Doom Metal, and 50 of our specific recommendations! 

This year, all CD's will be $5.00 and all shirts will be $10.00, a very special low price for Metal Wizard only! 

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Distro Update: 24 New Titles, 2 New Shirts

May 29, 2014
Webshop Update!

Lots of really nice additions including six Skepticism albums, a couple Frostmoon Eclipse albums, the Kamera Obskur album (side project of Lunar Aurora) an Ulver shirt, a Thy Catafalque shirt, and more!

Here is a link to all the LATEST ADDITIONS

They are also all listed here:

HDR - D - 621 : Keen of the Crow - Permonition
HDR - D - 622 : Keen of the Crow - Hyborea
HDR - D - 623 : Fall of Empyrean - A Life Spent Dying
HDR - D - 624 : Kamera Obskur - Bildfänger
HDR - D - 625 : Skeptic...

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All digital downloads on Bandcamp now set to free download!‏

May 14, 2014
All digital albums on Bandcamp are now available for free download / by-donation!! 
This means you don't need to pay $5.00 for the digital download of our releases anymore, but rather can pay whatever you want, or download the album(s) for free!!

Enjoy the music, and please spread the word about this. 
If we're going to have the downloads available for free, we want as many people as possible to gain access to this music!

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Solitude Productions Update [05/12/2014]

May 13, 2014
Just added now are five of the latest albums from Solitude Productions! All from the main label this time, not the side-labels. All good albums of course, but especially recommended is the debut album from the young Russian band "Restless Oblivion" which really impressed me!

As usual, you can browse through the new additions in the Solitude Productions section of the webstore. 
All of the albums are also available for full streaming so make sure you check them out at the very least!

SP - 082 : W...
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Distro Update: 46 New Titles!

April 24, 2014
Lo and behold, there is finally a new batch of CD's added to the webshop after a pretty sizable time has passed since the last update. A wide variety of albums from across the sonic spectrum to be sure, but this update seems to include a lot of doom, from atmospheric death-doom, to sludgy stoner metal, ambient drone-doom, black/doom metal and everything else as well! Some highlights include the latest Mourning Dawn double-album "Les sacrifiés", the new offering from ritualistic stoner drone-...
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Solitude Productions Update [03/08/2014]

March 8, 2014
It's been over six months since the last time we added new releases from Solitude Productions to our store and in meanwhile Solitude has releases a lot of fantastic albums! Finally, there's been the time to do an update and included within are new releases from The Howling Void and Ea as well as a really solid and interesting death-doom double-album from the band, 'Grieving Age' from Saudi Arabia, the new 'Revelations of Rain' album, new 'Edenian' album, new 'Mournful Gust' album, new 'Grown ...

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ALBUM RELEASE: Epitimia - "(Un)reality" double-album 6 panel digipack

February 14, 2014

Epitimia's new double-album "(Un)reality" is a culmination of over a year's hard work for the Saint-Petersburg based band which has been working on an expansive and ambitious follow-up to their last album "Faces of Insanity" released in the summer of 2012. "(Un)reality" includes lots of new innovations and interesting ideas on both the musical and conceptual sides and could easily be considered their most accomplished effort to date. Tortured black metal screams alongside a progressive and ex...

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PRE-ORDER: Epitimia - (Un)reality 2CD

February 5, 2014
Epitimia - "(Un)reality" double-album digipack available to pre-order!



Epitimia's new double-album "(Un)reality" is a culmination of over a year's hard work for the Saint-Petersburg based band which has been working on an expansive and ambitious follow-up to their last album "Faces of Insanity" released in the summer of 2012. "(Un)reality" includes lots of new innovations and interesting ideas on both the musical and conceptual sides and could easily be considered their most accomplished effor...

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ALBUM RELEASE: Windbruch - No Stars, Only Full Dark

February 1, 2014
New Windbruch album - "No Stars, Only Full Dark" available now!

After releasing a debut album entitled "Collision of the Worlds" on the last day of 2009 on Sun and Moon Records, and a digital split album with Depicting Abysm and Gmork entitled "Silentium!" through Hypnotic Dirge in April 2013, Windbruch presents their second full-length album "No Stars, Only Full Dark" on February 1, 2014 in a physical CD edition as well as a digital download. Previously self-released in early 2013, this album...

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