GRAVE DESECRATOR - Insult (CD) OUT NOW ON HHR: Comes with a 16 page booklet featuring artwork & lyrics for each track. HHR will also release the vinyl LP version Spring 2011.
"This is the way death metal needs and was meant to be played, just brutal in-your-face fury and power... This is one of the best death metal bands I have heard this year" - Metalcorefanzine.com
"An absolutely textbook example of blasphemous blackened death/thrash done the South American way, and an invigorating blast it is, too... Wonderfully old-school but not in any way a throwback, this is the kind of death/thrash that people with any taste should be listening to, not the plasticised nonsense that clutters the scene these days. You can feel the intent coursing through these riffs, smell the sweat beading tattooed arms as they crank out the buzzsaw aggression and pounding drum fills. What is great about Insult is that it isn't quite the one-note barrage that albums of this ilk can sometimes become - they drop in the odd eerie interlude, mix up the pace and experiment with developed song structures... Ultimately, what Grave Desecrator have shown with this album is just how satisfying and downright infectious thrash is when it's done properly. For a genre that all too often ends up becoming a self-referential, mono-dimensional borefest, these guys have shown that a bit of thought into riff-writing and song structure can elevate this style into one of the most instant, horn-raising, fist-banging fixes in town" -MetalTeamUK.net
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ACID WITCH - Stoned (CD)
OUT NOW ON HHR: Multi-panel fold-out CD booklet features lyrics & band photos. Vinyl LP also in stock!
"Blending psychedelic, doom, death, sludge and more into an evil concoction of massive slab riffs, catchy groove and BLACK SABBATH worship, Acid Witch deliver one of the more enjoyable albums I've heard so far in a very young 2011... If a band is playing some sick shit like the menacing music heard on this particular album, and playing it pretty fucking well at that, who cares if it's similar to previous material. Stoned is a catchy as hell album that doesn't really seem to care about pushing boundaries. I've got no problem with that. As long as the disc rocks - and in this instance scares - the living shit out of me, I'm going to listen to it all damned day long" -Mouthforwar.net
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BLACK WITCHERY - Inferno Of Sacred Destruction (CD/DVD)
OUT NOW ON HHR: Comes with a 20 page booklet featuring artwork for each track and a live DVD in Helsinki with multi-angle footage & soundboard audio. Limited RED Vinyl also in stock!
"Incredibly oppressive, raw guitars bludgeon over noisy, warlike drums while Impurath's hate is poured free like a conflagration of concrete... [recommended] if you appreciate black metal at its most barbaric and primitive, and seek nothing but the affectations of loathing and treachery that this band revel in, or the Osmose and Hells Headbangers imprints in general" -From the Dust Returned webzine
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INQUISITION - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm (CD)
OUT NOW ON HHR: CD comes with an accordion style booklet featuring lyrics & band photo. HHR double LP out late Feb 2011.
"Stunning... a must-buy" -VoicesfromtheDarkside.de
"The most impressive, energetic, and well-recorded Inquisition album up to this point" -Apochs.net [4/5 rating] "ODOTMM sees Inquisition strengthen their Satanic workmanship to new levels of devotion. Purveyors of the finest Satanic black metal you are likely to find, their majestic twist on the over-worn template of black metal combines faultlessly placed riffs with a stultifying sense of ritual and rhythm... This is expertly composed black metal from individuals who have been on the left hand path for the duration, know the shortcuts and do not intend to depart any time soon. There is a semblance of majestic beauty residing between the hard-hitting, raw and cacophonous sections of totalitarian attack... They do what they do well, without bullshit. An imposing obelisk of cosmic proportions for Apollyon - Inquisition continue to remain the most relevant orthodox band still flying the war flag of traditional black metal" -Lurkers Path webzine
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