Artist: Imaginaerium Title: The Rise of Medici Catalog no.: 22.0042 Format: Digipak CD CD Earbook Release date: 20.03.2023 Genre: Symphonic Rock Opera Country: UK & France BUY: Buy physical editions   Buy digital download

With this unique concept album, The Rise of Medici, Imaginaerium sets its rules in the prog-rock metal world through one of the major episodes in the life of Cosimo and Contessina De’ Medici.

An epic symphonic renaissance-inspired Rock Opera featuring Clive Nolan (Arena & Pendragon), Eric Bouillette (Nine Skies, The Room), Andy Sears (ex Twelfth Night), and Laura Piazzai (Caamora).

With the pre-release selling out and garnering excellent reviews, The Rise of Medici has already been considered one of the best albums of 2022. 

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An epic symphonic renaissance-inspired Rock Opera featuring Clive Nolan (Arena & Pendragon), Eric Bouillette (Nine Skies, The Room), Andy Sears (ex Twelfth Night), and Laura Piazzai (Caamora). 

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Artist: Omnia Moritur Title: Ex Inferis Catalog no.: 21.0037 Format: Digipak CD Digital Download Release date: 10.06.2022 Genre: Death Metal Country: Norway & Sweden BUY: Buy physical editions   Buy digital download

Death - the inevitable end of all things living. Since the dawn of time, humans have asked what lies beyond its veil, alas to no avail. It has been a fathomless source of creative inspiration within all aesthetic practices and will continue until the end.

Omnia Moritur is a Norwegian/Swedish band that delves into the most bottomless pits of darkness and death, blending traditional orchestrations with ripping death metal, polyrhythmic and somber elements of doom into something you have never experienced before. The lyrics explore the concepts of dying, madness, despair, questioning deities, and evoking the horrors and monsters of the mind.

Ex Inferis is the band's debut album. It contains seven pieces that will guide the listener on the journey through the dark, ominous, and disturbing landscapes that Omnia Moritur visualizes. This is not an album for the faint of heart, so beware.

Produced by Omnia Moritur.
Mixed and mastered by Göran Setitus at Stemcellar Studio, Sundsbruk Sweden.
All music and lyrics by Omnia Moritur.
Album layout by Thomas Angell.

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In 2014 Kjetil Ytterhus (Profane Burial, Hogstul, Khora) and André Aaslie (Vitam Aeternam, Funeral, Images At Twilight, Abyssic a.o) founded Omnia Moritur. The original idea was to create sombre funeral doom metal, and in 2016 Funeral drummer Anders Eek joined on drums. Then they started looking for a guitarist to cooperate with. This was not a process without adversities, and it was not until 2017 they finally found the right guitarist to complete the puzzle. This was the beginning of a unique collaboration between the other founder of legendary Funeral, Thomas Angell. Two guys from Funeral then...

So let's change the original idea and play heavy death metal instead!

To this odd story, it's fair to tell why Angell left Funeral in the late nineties. He was tired of playing slow-paced funeral doom and started making more up-tempo chuggy riffs highly inspired by Fredrik Thordendals' groundbreaking work in Meshuggah. Aaslie and Ytterhus decided to throw away all the original Omnia Moritur stuff and dive into this gold coffin filled with two decades of Angell-riffs. They made chord progressions around the massive riffs with piano, synth effects, Mellotrons, and huge orchestrations. Together with Angell, everything was arranged together into songs.

During this period, the quartet started to look for a vocalist. They wanted a clean vocal somewhere close to Peter Steele, death grunts like Dan Swanô and Glen Benton, and they also wanted some high pitch-black metal vocal. Does a guy like that even exist? Yes! Gøran Setitus (ex-Setherial, Svartghast) from Sundsvall in Sweden had it all. When he sent over his oral application through the song Omnipotence in April 2018, the very right frontman was hired right away. The following year Setitus composed all his vocals. And unfortunately, Anders Eek decided to leave the band. He felt the new direction of the music wasn't right for him. In came a new drummer, but that wasn't really a match. Then Kim Larsen came in as a studio session drummer. After the album was finished, the band again found a new drummer in Anders Hoel (Dystopia Nå!), who already has rehearsed with the band for upcoming live shows. He will also play drums on the next album.

In the fall of 2021, one of the original founders, Kjetil Ytterhus, decided to leave Omnia Moritur to focus on his other projects.

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Ex Inferis		Album		2022		Buy physical editions		Buy digital download
Quietus		Single		2022				Buy digital download (Single)

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Artist: Vitam Aeternam Title: Revelations of the Mother Harlot Catalogno.: 20.0026 Format: Limited CD Digipak (500) Limited Gatefold LP (500)(Will become available later) Digital Download Release date: 13.05.2022 - Digital / 01.06.2022 - CD Digipak Genre: Gothic Metal Country: Norway BUY: Buy physical editions.   Buy digital downloads.

A modern journey across the syncretic pantheon.

Strung together in a biblical, capricious structure, Revelations of the Mother Harlot reworks the themes of divinity, eternal renovation, and personal accountability through the optics of a decaying, technoistic society that’s fixed in its old destructive ways. It explores the mysteries embedded within Nature: our one true Mother, giver, and taker of all life.

Curated with quotes, metaphors, personal insights, and allegories, ROTMH aids its convoluted telling by recurring archetypal figures who provide landmarks across this death/rebirth narrative terrain.

In an attempt to revise the religious vestiges lurking inside my own source code, the Roman Catholic Church’s main influence was excreted throughout the whole aesthetic, themes, sonorities, and language employed. As a result, its bittersweet ambiance filled the air with visions of sickness, fear, hope, horror, ecstasy, longing, and despair, serving not only as a way to sublimate such complex states of mind but also as a call for self-examination, growth, and evolution.

The divine feminine awakens: One new race is finally born!

-Râhoola, 2021

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Music by VITAM AETERNAM
Concept & Lyrics by Râhoola

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Bor Zuljan (Devil Doll) – Guitar on "Sick & Pious" and "Promethea"
Janez Hace (Devil Doll) – Bass on "Sick & Pious," "Bardo Thodol," "Promethea"
Alasdair Dunn (Ashenspire) – Drums on "Redemption" and "Promethea"
Bjørnar Erevik Nilsen (Vulture Industries) – Back Vox on "Sick & Pious" and "Bardo Thodol"
Einar Solberg (Leprous) – Vox on "Fins Gloriae Mundi"
Hasard (Les Chants du Hasard) – Additional Orchestration on "Promethea"
Raphael Weinroth-Browne (Musk Ox, Leprous) – Cello on "Sick & Pious," "Bardo Thodol," and "Promethea"
Diego Tejeida (ex-Haken) – Additional Keyboards & Sound Design on "Bardo Thodol"
Michael Bridge – Accordion on "Sick & Pious"
Naoka Ohbayashi (Francesco Carta) – Back Vox on "Bardo Thodol"
Liselotte Hegt (DIAL) – Back Vox on "Promethea"
Tjodalv (Ex-Dimmu Borgir, ex-Old Man's Child, Susperia Abyssic) – BM Drums on "Promethea"
Anders Faret Haave (Images At Twilight, ex-Blood Red Throne) – BM Drums on "Promethea"

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Recorded between December 2019 and February 2021 in the following studios:
KVLTe Fish Studios - U.S. CIRCO DENSO - México
VLSADAH STUDIO - Norway

Pre-Mixed by Râhoola at CIRCO DENSO (Mexico)
Final Mix by Charles A. Leal & Râhoola at Psicofonía Studio (Mexico)
Mastered for CD by Charles A. Leal at Psicofonía Studio (Mexico)
Mastered for Vinyl by Kjetil Ottersen at Vektor Facilities (Norway)
Art-Concept & Lettering (Lyrics) by Râhoola
Design and Art Direction NU Studio in collaboration with Alan Ixba

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Artist: Infidus Title: Endless Greed Catalog no.: 21.0038 Format: Digipak CD Digital Download Release date: 22.04.2022 Genre: Progressive Metal, Grunge Country: Norway BUY: Buy physical editions   Buy digital download

Endless greed – the pitfall of humanity? Once, a necessity for survival and a primal trait coded into our genes. Today, it seems more like a toxic trait for humanity as a whole. Something ugly that must be curbed and hidden in the closet. A trait that feeds into the tragedy of commons.

Infidus – the Norwegian/Swedish 5-piece – captures some dark messages with their debut album Endless Greed. However, the musical landscape is diverse with heavy riff passages and catchy melody lines, and you will find a bold blend of classic rock and modern progressive metal.

The album consists of 7 songs that will wake you up through a powerful vocal backed by tight and groovy riff sections. "The animal" behind the drums manages the art of combining both groove and some intricate odd beats and polyrhythms.

Endless Greed is a delicious meat bone – hard and tasty.

Produced by Infidus.
Mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström at Studio Fredman, Gothenburg (In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, Bring me the Horizon, Dream Evil).
Album Artwork by Ella A Rogne.

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Infidus was conceived in a cold and musty basement in Oslo, Norway. The band consisted of four guys – two on guitar/vocals (Øyvind Hetland / Kenneth Andresen), a drummer (Trond Lund), and a bass player (Øyvind Østensen). A few years in, the former vocalist of Aggressive Chill joined the team – (Mikael Willy Wilhelmsson) from Strömstad in Sweden and made the band complete.

Everyone in Infidus has been playing music most of their lives, exploring different genres with different bands, before finally finding the tone together. Their inspiration comes from bands like Tool, Soundgarden, Metallica, Mastodon, Killswitch Engage, Periphery, and many more. The result is a bold blend of hard rock and metal.

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The Tragedy		Single		2022				Buy digital download (Single)

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