Released:
 

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Dimension Zero -

He Who Shall Not Bleed
(out now)



 


 

Memory Garden -

Carnage Carnaval
(out now)



 


 

The Gathering -
Downfall-The Early Years
(out now)



 



This Haven -
Today a Whisper, Tomorrow a Storm
(out now)



 


 

Arkona -
In the Name of the Great One
(out now)



 

Arkona - Lepta
(out now)



 

Arkona - Vozrogdenie
(out now)



 

Another Life -
Memories from Nothing
(out now)



 

Paganizer -
Caranage Junkie
(out now)



 

October Tide -
Rain Without End
(out now)



 

Arkona – Jizn’vo slavu
(Live…For the Glory) /
Nargathrond – Neizbezhnost’ (Inevetibility)

-double cd-
(out now)



 

Arkona – Jizn’vo slavu
(Live…For the Glory)
-DVD-
(out now)


 

Sear Bliss -
Glory and Perdition
(out now)



Memory Garden -
Tides
(out now)



Ribspeader -
Opus Ribcage
(out now)



Alkonost -
Put' Neprojdennij
(out now)



Alkonost -
Between the Worlds
(out now)



 


Damned Spirits' Dance -
The Growing Spirit (ep)


 


Total Terror -
Total Terror
(out now)



 


Sear Bliss -
Forsaken Symphony
(out now)



 


The Bereaved -
Daylight Deception
(out now)


 


Archaic -
Time has come to Envy the Dead
((out now on CSR\VIC)

 


Sin of Kain -
t h e E N D
((out now on CSR\VIC)


 

Bibleblack -
The Black Swan Epilogue
(out now)


 

Hearse -
Single Ticket to Paradise
(out now)


 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


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Last update: 20/06//09

 

THE PROJECT HATE

 

 

 With only but half a month until the release of the brand new masterpiece “The Lustrate Process” (street date July 6th, 2009 on thru Vic Records) we have decided to give you Haters a full song to enjoy. The tune is the second one on the album and it’s entitled “You come to me through hell” and is available on YouTube at this location.

 

 Included in this song are backing vocalists LG Petrov of the legendary Entombed, Christian Älvestam (ex-Scar Symmetry) and super hero Martin van Drunen of Hail Of Bullets and Asphyx (also responsible for the vocals and bass on one of death metal’s absolute classics “Consuming impulse” by Pestilence). 3 people we admire and respect - we can’t thank them enough for their contributions. Also, as in all the other tunes on the album there’s a fantastic guitar solo by Mike Wead (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate and so forth).

 Promos of “The Lustrate Process” are about to be sent out any given day now, so we wanted to make sure you get to hear a complete symphony directly from us before the shit is leaked. We sincerely wish that you buy this album when it’s out, so you get the complete concept with the booklet and everything coz it’s so much more to this piece than just music. As we have mentioned before you will be able to purchase the disc directly from us, and as soon as we have got them in stock you will be given all the ordering information you need.

More promo videos will be up as we go along. At least that’s the plan. We have covered some of the vocal sessions and a bit of drums… Guess we have to do something about the guitars and bass at some point, huh? Videos are lying around, it’s just a matter of having time to work with the material. Just keep on checking in here, when you least expect it there might be something new for you, you know…

Feel might free to voice your opinions about what you just heard here at our forums. We appreciate the eventual feedback.

Enjoy the tune.

 

 Last off, here’s a few words (a few?!) from Lord K. Philipson about the album since pretty much everyone else included on it have had their saying during the process of the video updates and so forth.

 

“It feels so good to finally have the result of all this insane work that led to the completion of “The Lustrate Process”. I have never been so confident about any material that I have been involved with. I consider this my life’s work, on all accounts. Just the fact to have been able to gather some of my personal heroes musicianwise is a dream come true. First, fucken Martin van Drunen… A guy I have been holding as one of the best death metal vocalists of all time. I met him back in the early 90’s when I ran my fanzine at the time. Being a kid interviewing one of my heroes was huge for me and now this fucken guy sings on my album? If someone at the time would have told me this would be the case some 15-20 years into the future… well… I guess it’s safe to say I wouldn’t have believed it. Thank you Martin, you salty old bastard.

 LG Petrov… The fabulous Entombed vocalist… A legend in his own rights and one of the coolest fuckers I know. How he ended up on the album is a story in itself. It involves a ferry, a mobile phone and lots of booze. LG actually did some vocals on the first and only demo that we did back in 1999 and now he’s with us again for this one. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you, LG.

 Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg. The guy with the half-beard and the fantastic growl. I have known him for years and he’s always been a tremendous fucken guy. I didn’t even know he was a TPH fan so that was even cooler when I got him to join in on this recording. Amon Amarth were recording their latest album at the time and me and a friend visited them in the studio (and got shit-drunk in the process) in my hometown. Somehow we came to the conclusion that since Johan was recording Amon’s vocals he might as well do some lines for the TPH album - everything was rigged for him in the studio already anyways. Thanx fucken loads, Johan.

 Christian Älvestam. Fantastic vocalist with as great a growl as clean vocals. We don’t use clean male vocals too often but it’s obvious that Chrille really added what I wanted to this masterpiece. If he got to choose I think he would have sung on the whole fucken album together with Jörgen. The guy wouldn’t stay calm about wanting to sing on this piece and I’m fucken happy about his devotion to it. It really added some excellent shit to our stuff. Thanx a ton, Christian. Now all you need to do is change yer name coz it kinda bugs me to have some Christian on this satanic hymn. Har, har.

 Robban Eriksson. The guy that Jo’s been recording her vocals with for the last few albums… Wonderful guy in all areas and one extremely awesome dude to work with. I cant thank you enough, man.

 And the guitarists… Muthafucken Mike Wead is obviously a TPH fan as well, something I had no idea of. He sent a friend request over at MySpace some time ago and immediately when I saw that I had to have him on board for some solos. I have loved this guy’s work for fucken years and consider him on par with Malmsteen and the likes. I intentionally just thought we’d have one or 2 solos from him, but when he sent over the first sketch of the first solo I fucken went out and burned churches in joy over it. This guy is so talented it’s not even funny and he creates solos exactly the way I wish I could play them. But I don’t deal in solos so if Mike’s up for it - be fucken sure we will utilize his services for as long as we can. I can never thank you enough, Mike.

 Pär Fransson and Henry Pyykkö aren’t exactly the most famous of the bunch but they still needed to be on this piece. Both fantastic guitarists and their efforts are ace. You know that if they are on a TPH album - their standards are high as fuck… Thanks, guys.

Dan Swanö… I can’t say enough great things about this guy. I have known him for so long it’s insane. I have worked with him for just as long as well and we know each other real well when it comes to what I have in mind and whatnot for TPH. The productions he’s given us on “TLP” is out of this world and has quickly turned out to be one of my fave productions ever,. That fucken bass sound (well, I did have to bitch to him for a few days until he got it right, but when he got it right - FUCK ME IS THAT A KILLER SOUND!). Dan’s got a unique approach to dealing with stuff he enjoys when it comes to music. He surprises me all the time when he hands over something for me to approve. I love you Dan and I can never thank you enough for all the insane support I get from you with my equipment and whatnot. Thanx. So fucken much.

 The guys in the band… And brother/webmaster/designer Marko Saarelainen… You already know my feelings about your efforts. You truly are the finest people around. Thanx for being a part of this and for making “The Lustrate Process” everything I ever dreamed of creating. This is the epitome of Domination and without you it wouldn’t be half of what it is. I take a bow to you all.

Now we’ll just wait for the release and after that we’ll start writing for the next album that will (again) top everything we have done in the past, haha…

 Last off: Thanx so much to all the Haters and the guys at our forums for being fantastic and supportive with buying merch and whatnot. This one is for you.”

 

Here’s a download link to a high quality version of the song:


 

THE PROJECT HATE and RUDRA pre orders available:

Singapore’s Vedic metal masters RUDRA is one of the most original black / death metal bands around!!!
Their fifth full length album called '' Brahmavidya: Transcendental I'' , will be released in Europe by Vic Records in July 2009. RUDRA is one of the leaders in the Asian Metal scene!

Pre order avialabe via PHD.

 

The Project Hate, bombastic metal, 7 tracks, total running time over an hour.

Pre order available at PHD.

 


 

HEARSE

‘Single Ticket to Paradise’ is HEARSE’s brand new fifth full length album. Formed in 2001 shortly after Johan Liiva left ARCH ENEMY and joined forced again with his long-time buddy Max Thornell. The two used to be in the legendary act FURBOWL in the early 90’s. HEARSE are definitely one of the highlights of the death ‘n roll metal sub genre. Johan’s charismatic vocals, the never ending and ultra melodic leads by guitar player Matthias Ljung and the pounding and effective drums by Max, makes HEARSE an unique band within the wide metal borders. The album is produced by Dan Swanö (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection).
The album has a bonus DVD 'Live In Holland' containing 5 live tracks, filmed and edited by Maurice Swinkels (Legion of the Damned), a massive picture chapter and the video for the track 'Sundown', edited by Owe Lingvall (Nocturnal Rites, Wolf, Stratovarius).

BIBLEBLACK

15 years after ABSTRAKT ALEGEBRA's debut album, the guitar duo Mike Wead (King Diamond / Mercyful Fate / Memento Mori, ex Candlemass) and Simon Johansson (Memory Garden / ex Steel Attack / Fifth Reason) is back. BIBLEBLACK is the 2007 Grammy Nominee MIKE WEAD's brainchild. Furthermore BIBLEBLACK is Simon Johansson on rhythm guitars, Tobhias Ljung (The Bereaved) on drums and Nattas members Kacper Rozanski on vocals and Jonaz Bülund on bass. Clean guest vocals are done by Ronny Hemlin (Steel Attack / Tad Morose), Kristian Andrén (Memento Mori / Fifth Reason) and Matthias Ljung (Hearse). The album is mixed by Fredrik Groth (The Storyteller). Outstanding artwork was made by Hjules (Memory Garden / Gravedigger / Annihilator). The album comes in 2 different formats, a digi pack with extra artwork by Hjules, and a limited edition with a bonus DVD!

You can order the DIGI PACK or the CD plus bonus DVD at PHD.

SIN OF KAIN:



 

THIS HAVEN

 This Haven has just launched their brand new video clip for the song: 'I will Deceive'! Edited by Dino Medanhodzic from Carnal Forge / Soulbreach!

HEARSE
New Album To Include Bonus DVD

 HEARSE, the Swedish "death 'n' roll" band featuring former ARCH ENEMY singer Johan Liiva and ex-FURBOWL drummer Max Thornell, will release its fifth album, "Single Ticket To Paradise", on June 15 via Vic Records. Thornell says, "it'll be, as I see it, a good value for the money release with a bonus live DVD filmed in Holland back in 2004. Am quite eager myself to see it actually! Haven't seen a second of it yet. Just remember a review from that gig saying that we sucked 'cos I wore a SPICE GIRLS t-shirt and that is unacceptable 'cos it's so not serious bla bla bla...! Quite funny, as I said before the gig that I just gotta wear it 'cos it'll always annoy someone, he he! The show was filmed by Maurice (from the great band LEGION OF THE DAMNED) and his crew, by the way."

 HEARSE filmed a video for the new song "Sundown" (audio stream) on February 7 in Stockholm with Owe Lingvall and Oscar from Village Road Film. The group previously said, "[Owe and Oscar were] very nice dudes indeed and great to work with. [We] also really like the stuff they have done before (THE RASMUS, CARNAL FORGE etc.), so [we are] pretty sure we will end up with a nice HEARSE video too!"


 

TORCHBEARER
Vic Records signed the mighty TORCHBEARER from Sweden!!!

 

Vic proudly presents TORCHBEARER! Christian got the scoop, here it is:

 Hi all!
 We have now got the "go ahead" to announce that we've inked a new deal with the Dutch label Vic Records. We are all very excited and really looking forward to start cooperating, to say the least.

 At the moment we are in the midst of pre-producing "Dying Codex", our 3rd album-to-be, and we will then spend June, July and August recording the album for real, on various occasions and locations. When everything is recorded and done, it will be mixed and mastered by Tomas "Plec" Johansson, who is now also a member of Torchbearer, at his Panic-Room studios, for a possible late November release through Vic Records.

 As for the current line-up, we have gone through some changes since last time round, with the addition of two new live wires to the TB-family. We'd like to welcome Rolf Pilve on drums and Tomas "Plec" Johansson on bass, now completing the line-up as follows:

Pär Johansson - lead vocals
Christian Älvestam - rhythm guitar and backing vocals
Patrik Gardberg - lead guitar
Tomas "Plec" Johansson - bass
Rolf Pilve - drums

More news as it happens!

/Torchbearer


 

RUDRA
 
Vic Records signed Singapore’s Vedic metal masters RUDRA!

 

 One of the most original black / death metal bands around!!! Their fifth full length album called '' Brahmavidya: Transcendental I'' , will be released in Europe by Vic Records on the 6th of July.

 RUDRA is one of the leaders in the Asian Metal scene. The band was formed way back in 1992 in Singapore. The album '' Brahmavidya: Transcendental I'' album contains 13 songs of genre-expanding black / death with fascinating ethnic atmospheres, over 60 minutes of highly original and well produced extreme metal! Lyrical themes are the Vedic themes, Ancient Indian Philosophy and Mythology. RUDRA is named after the Ancient Vedic god of storm and a form of the God Shiva. The band refer to their music as Vedic metal, paying tribute to the culture and spirituality of their ancestors.


 

 Dear all, due to some delays, we have re-scheduled ALL releases for April / May and June.

New release dates are:

 

MAY:

New release date: 18th of May (instead of the old date of: 6th of April )

1. Total Terror - Total Terror (VIC015CD)

2. The Bereaved - Daylight Deception (VIC012CD)

3. Sear Bliss - Forsaken Symphony (VIC016CD)

4. Archaic - Time Has Come To Envy the Dead (CSR003CD)

 

JUNE:

New release date: 15th of June (instead of the old date of 4th of May):

1. Bibleblack - The Black Swan Epilogue ( VIC026CD)

2. Hearse - Single Ticket to Paradise (VIC024CD)

3. October Tide - Rain Without End LP (VIC003LP)

4. Sin of Kain - The End (CSR001CD)

 

JULY:

Release date: 6th of July

1. The Project Hate - TBA (VIC027CD)

2. Rudra - Brahmavidja: Transcedental I (VIC028CD)

 

thanks for understanding,

Roel


 

Pre-orders for the upcoming April releases
 

 Sear Bliss 5 th full lenght 'Forsaken Symphony' album, remastered by Dan Swanö (Dissection, Opeth, Katatonia) and with a bonus video clip. Pre-order

 Total Terror: crustcore / death metal by 3 original EDGE OF SANITY members (Dan Swanö on guitars / vocals, Dread on bass and Benny on drums). Pre-order

 The Bereaved: melodic Swedish death metal featuring Travis Neal from Divine Heresy on vocals and produced by Dan Swanö.

Pre-order

 Swedish death metal all star monster Torture Division featuring members from (ex) Grave / Entombed, The Project Hate, Vomitory and God Among Insects, LP only!!!. Pre-order

 Archaic: furious thrash metal sensation from Budapest. Pre-order


 

HEARSE
NEW HEARSE ALBUM!!!
 

‘Single Ticket to Paradise’ is HEARSE’s brand new fifth full length album. Formed in 2001 shortly after Johan Liiva left ARCH ENEMY and joined forced again with his long-time buddy Max Thornell. The two used to be in the legendary act FURBOWL in the early 90’s. HEARSE are definitely one of the highlights of the death ‘n roll metal sub genre.

Johan’s charismatic vocals, the never ending and ultra melodic leads by guitar player Matthias Ljung and the pounding and effective drums by Max, makes HEARSE an unique band within the wide metal borders. The album is produced by Dan Swanö (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection).
 The album has a bonus DVD 'Live In Holland' containing 5 live tracks, filmed and edited by Maurice Swinkels (Legion of the Damned), a massive picture chapter and the video for the track 'Sundown', edited by Owe Lingvall (Nocturnal Rites, Wolf, Stratovarius). For a preview, take a look at the Hearse
myspace page where the brand new song Sundown can be listened to!


 

HEARSE
Some news from the HEARSE camp for you folks, Max is speaking:

Alrighty, we have just filmed Hearse..s first video clip. Owe and Oskar from Village Road Film  popped up in Stockholm last Saturday to film it all. Very nice dudes indeed and great to work with. I also really like the stuff they have done before (The Rasmus, Carnal Forge etc.), so I am pretty sure we will end up with a nice Hearse video too! Keep your eyes and ears open! It will most likely also pop up on this site within a near future!
 Oh, by the way the song that we made the video for is called Sundown and will show up on Hearse..s 5th album that will see the light of day in May.

Max

 (The album is titles Single Ticket To Paradise, mix by Dan Swanö and cover art by Ivan "de Pivan" S. Bragin (October Tide / Paganizer / The Gathering amongst others)


 

 15 years after ABSTRAKT ALEGEBRA's debut album, the guitar duo Mike Wead (King Diamond / Mercyful Fate / Memento Mori, ex Candlemass) and Simon Johansson (Memory Garden / ex Steel Attack / Fifth Reason) is back. BIBLEBLACK is the 2007 Grammy Nominee MIKE WEAD's brainchild. Furthermore BIBLEBLACK is Simon Johansson on rhythm guitars, Tobhias Ljung (The Bereaved) on drums and Nattas members Kacper Rozanski on vocals and Jonaz Bülund on bass. Clean guest vocals are done by Ronny Hemlin (Steel Attack / Tad Morose), Kristian Andrén (Memento Mori / Fifth Reason) and Matthias Ljung (Hearse). The album is mixed by Fredrik Groth (The Storyteller). Outstanding artwork was made by Hjules (Memory Garden / Gravedigger / Annihilator). The album 'The Black Swan Epilogue' will be released in 2 different formats: limited edition digipack with additional art work and the regular jewel case with a bonus DVD.

 

The album will be released the 4th of May.

 

official site | myspace


 

ALKONOST on European tour!!!!

 Hailing from the Central Russian region of Tatarstan, ALKONOST is another pagan metal highlight from the former Soviet Union. ALKONOST will tour Europe in order to support their upcoming European releases of their last studio album PUT NEPOJDENNYJ (In English: "The Path We've Never Walked On''). Masha Scream from ARKONA does guest vocals on the album, and its produced by Arkona's Lazar!
The second ALKNOST album 'Between The Worlds' will be released by Vic Records the second of March aswell.

Here are the links to pre-order the albums:
Alkonost - Put Nepojdennyj | Alknost - Between The Worlds

European distribution will done by PLASTIC HEAD and their partners per country. Here is a link to all the European distributors if you are looking for the albums in your own country.

ALKONOST also will take part in the largest European folk/pagan/viking metal open-air festival, the well known Ragnarok festival. The festival will take place in Lichtenfels, Germany, April the 17th and 18th. ALKNOST was one of the very first pagan metal bands, they are around for over 13 years. And after ARKONA, ALKONOST is the second Russian pagan metal band that will tour Europe! So be sure you dont miss em!!

The European tour dates in April are:

10.4.09 Holland, Roermond
11.4.09 Belgium, Antwerp, PandDemonium Cancelled!
11.4.09 Germany, Annaberg-Buchholz, Gleis3
12.4.09 Poland, Warsaw, Metal Cave
13.4.09 Poland, Torun
14.4.09 Czech Republic, Ostrava, Slovanský Bál Prostor
15.4.09 Slovakia, Banska Bystrica
16.4.09 Czech Republic, Brno, Melodka
17.4.09 Czech Republic, Praha
18.4.09 Germany, Lichtenfels
19.4.09 Hungary, Budapest
20.4.09 Slovenia, Ljubljana, Orto Bar


 

Pre-orders Ribspreader and Alkonost

The brand new Ribspreader album 'Opus Ribcage' will be released the second of March. The same day the 2 Alkonost albums 'Put Nepojdennyj' and 'Between the Worlds' will be unleashed upon pagan mankind!

Here are the links to pre-order the RIBSPREADER and ALKONOST albums:

Ribspreader - Opus Ribcage
Alkonost - Put Nepojdennyj
Alknost - Between The Worlds


 

MEMORY GARDEN

...is nominated Best Doom Metal 2008 in Metal Storm!!

We are happy to announch that

Memory Garden and "Carnage Carnival" has been nominated in the "Best Doom Metal" category at
Metal Storm.

 Remember to give em your vote!

 

TORTURE DIVISION
 

Who fucken releases an LP in these days of 1’s and 0’s? Vic Fucken Records, that’s who. We are extremely happy to announce that our friends at Vic Records begged and begged and begged us to have the honour to release “With endless wrath we bring upon thee our infernal torture” on a good ol’ LP. We can’t say no to that. It’ll be a limited edition, that’s for sure. So, this means we’ll get our three first demos (and the 2008 x-mass single) out on both LP and CD (Abyss Records will release that one, as mentioned before). So, have we abandoned our agenda of giving out the world’s best death metal for free? Fuck no, we’d never do that. We just told Vic Records that they can have exclusive rights to release the material on the LP format (and throw some dough our way to finance a small portion of the next trilogy of demos) since that’s what they wanted, besides that - everything is as it always was. No one owns our music but us. That’s the beauty of it all. Releasedate is April 6th. Get in touch with Vic Records if you wanna obtain a copy of this beautiful death metal masterpiece.


 

SEAR BLISS
 

Sear Bliss new upcoming DVD trailer!!!

Sear Bliss will release their 15th year anniversary DVD on Vic Records. The recordings were done in Budapest, Hungary, November, last year. The show is an overview of Sear Bliss' 15 years of existence and their 7 studio albums. The DVD also features the members of the legendary 'Phantoms' line up, including original keyboard player Winter (Forest Silence). Among the 15 songs on the DVD their is an never released song, written during the band's early days. Besides the concert, the DVD will have some extensive interviews about Sear Bliss' history. A true monumental document for all Sear Bliss fans. Release date: May this year!!!

 

Watch the trailer!



 

MEMORY GARDEN

MEMORY GARDEN — the Sweden-based band featuring former ABSKTRAKT ALGEBRA guitarist Simon Johansson — has issued the following update:

"We are very happy to announce that our first full-length album, 'Tides' [originall released in 1996 through Heathendoom Music], will finally be available again. We have received tons of e-mails, letters and questions about why this album isn't released again and until now we have never had any good answer to that question. But now we have... On February 2, Vic Records will release a reissue of this since-long-sold-out masterpiece. The album will contain the entire 'Tides' album, remastered by Mike Wead [KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE, MEMENTO MORI, FIREGOD, ABSTRAKT ALGEBRA, CANDLEMASS], three cool bonus tracks, liner notes from the band telling some anecdotes from the recording and brand new artwork by Peter Sallai, everything inspired by the old artwork… just a little facelift for the re-issue. We do hope you all will love this one…. It's time for some real doom again, folks!!!"

MEMORY GARDEN last year parted ways with guitarist Anders Looström and replaced him with Ante Mäkelä (EVIL CONSPIRACY).


 

   


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