Baise Ma Hache - 06 - Mépris de la Vie, Consolation contre la Mort (Jean-Baptiste Chassignet)

...- Ascending to the Night Sky

Infernal Curse - Waters Of Phlegethon

Five years on from their Osmose-released debut, Hanc Aciem Sola Retundit Virtus (The Algolagnia Divine), FIDES INVERSA strike with their second album, Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans. In those five years, the Italian band have been honing their onstage assault all across the stages of Europe, their rituals becoming real celebrations of zealotry. That experience surely shows across the bold, finessed canvas of Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans, where "black metal" is rendered not as a definition but as an alternately life-giving/life-destroying force. Classicist yet paying no lip service to tradition, FIDES INVERSA invested their very souls in the creation of this second opus: exhaustive spiritual research and a total immersion inside the darkest manifestations of what the German theologist Rudolf Otto called "the numinous." The divine, in its most terrifying forms, takes life from chaotic sounds and revealed words whose intent is to represent the mystic terror and the undefeatable fascination of Death, the human nullification, in favor of a complete prostration to the One whose light is spread out of the darkest vacuum. Ascend and descend with FIDES INVERSA's Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans...


Hot on the heels of their critically acclaimed Leviaxxis demo, released earlier this year by W.T.C. PRODUCTIONS, fast-rising German black metal cult DYSANGELIUM unleash their highly anticipated debut album, Thánatos Áskēsis . As prefaced by Leviaxxis, the sound of Thánatos Áskēsis  can rightfully be described as tyrannical: swift and strategic, roiling and rumbling, surging and striking, DYSANGELIUM exude a startling confidence and authority beyond their young years as a band. The nine songs here righteously uphold the banner of orthodox black metal, but the Teutonic quintet work in a dazzling array of dynamics and nuance, especially in the unique, authoritative throat of vocalist Sektarist 0: it's literally the mouth of HELL, and his bandmates follow suit with incendiary performances and muscular execution. Even the song titles - among them, "Gateways to Necromancy," "I Am the Witness, I Am the Servant," and "Words Like Flames" - back up these claims. Soon enough, DYSANGELIUM's Thánatos Áskēsis  will be spoken of as a momentous record in the pantheon of pure-and-proud black metal.

Gateways To Necromancy

Chaomega

Always the vanguard of purist-yet-boundless black metal, W.T.C. PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the debut album of SHRINE OF INSANABILIS, Disciples of the Void. Although literally emerging from nothingness earlier this year, SHRINE OF INSANABILIS are no mere acolytes, instead evincing a master's knowledge across their debut album. Never more aptly titled, Disciples of the Void comprises six testimonies to the fiery aspiration for enlightenment through inconceivable nothingness. These testimonies are also manifested into this world by their corresponding sigils. SHRINE OF INSANABILIS vividly portray these visions through a heaving mass of obsidian black metal, forever rising and falling, surging and merging, offering glimpses of glory and valleys of despair in equal measure. Like most W.T.C. PRODUCTIONS, Disciples of the Void is impeccably recorded - bold, full-bodied, even Technicolor - with mixing & mastering done by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony, and finished off with David Glomba (Teitanarts) cover art truly deserving of its malefic contents. Blinding darkness, unbearable silence, and incureable madness, all displayed for everyone to experience: this is a raging beginning on a path through the Void.

Format: CD, LP (at a later point in 2015, in co-operation with Fallen Empire), Digital
Genre: black metal
Catalogue Nr.: W.T.C.136

Tracklist
1.End All
2.Ruina
3.Acausal Paths
4.(...........)
5.Invocation
6.Still Of This Earth
7.Cycles And Circles
8.Acerbus
9.Omega

Credits
All songs summoned from the void by Shrine of Insanabilis.
All artwork by David Glomba. Mixed and Mastered by Patrick W. Engel
at Temple of Disharmony in February 2015.

Shrine of Insanabilis - Acerbus

With timeless devotion to the Satanic arts, W.T.C. PRODUCTIONS raises a new chalice from which many will soon find sustenance: KVLTIST's debut album, Catechesis. Hailing from Germany, which has a deep-seated history of black metal, KVLTIST create coruscating hymns of obsidian strength and boundless occult energy. Across Catechesis, the duo weave 'n' wend the listener down myriad corridors, be they spiritual, mental, physical, or otherwise; their potency is writ large across the surging, heavy mass of gnarled (and gnarling) frequencies. Orthodox black metal Catechesis may be, but KVLTIST are sonic alchemists, tempering their enrapturing potions with startling dynamics, high drama, and haunting melody like true adepts despite their novice years as a band. The song titles themselves - from "The Devil's Catechumen" and "Darkest Light From Glaring Shadows" to "Eucharisty of Death Divine" and "Oblation" - evince the same timeless devotion to the Satanic arts on which W.T.C. has made its formidable name, and with Catechesis as the latest acrid sacrament to offer a starving congregation, KVLTIST are set to lead the flock to liberation and illumination.

Format: CD, LP (at a later point), Digital
Genre: black metal
Catalogue Nr.: W.T.C.138

Tracklist
1. The Devil's Catechumen
2. Devotion
3. Darkest Light From Glaring Shadows
4. Eucharisty Of Death Divine
5. Oblation
6. Doxologia Eosphoros
7. Ite Ad Ignis

Lineup
MZI: Instruments, backing vocals
Amon Xul: Main vocals

Biography
KVLTIST was formed in early 2013 as the manifestation of a vision carried along by MZI since almost a decade before: to create black metal which is rooted deep in its devil-worshipping traditions yet contemporary in its feverish, multi-layered expression. The writing and immediate recording for the first opus began in December 2013. Shortly after, Amon Xul joined KVLTIST as permanent main vocalist. In September 2015, the work finally was complete and the utterly adversarial sonic incarnation called Catechesis was fully materialized: a swathing, ecstatic, and filthy Black Metal Liturgy of utter Luciferian devotion and worship was dragged from the Abyss, accompanied by guest vocalists such as Hellchrist Xul of Funeral Winds and Necrosodom of Azarath / Deus Mortem and organically mastered by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony.

Credits
Recorded by MZI from December 2013 to June 2015
Mixed by Alexander Schiborr in July 2015
Mastered by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony in September 2015
Frontcover-Art by Ceethava.

Guest vocals in "Devotion" & "Darkest Light From Glaring Shadows" by Hellchrist Xul;
Guest vocals in "Eucharisty Of Death Divine" by S. Deathcurse;
Guest vocals in "Oblation" by Necrosodom & S. Deathcurse;
Guest vocals in "Ite Ad Ignis" by Hekte Zaren.

Kvltist - Darkest Light From Glaring Shadows

taken from the "Beautiful and Damned" mini-album.

Slaegt - Alshinecheri

To Twilight Thickets

The Elders

As some of you may have already gathered, we began recording our long overdue debut full length a while back. As a prelude, we are unleashing a 12" maxi single featuring an extended version of "FIREBIRDS" , the centerpiece of the album, as well as "PROWESS" - an altogether exclusive track not to be featured on the album. It will be released on regular black vinyl and limited silver vinyl through Terratur Possessions on August 24th, coinciding with the mighty Beyond the Gates festival in Bergen, Norway.

"Firebirds b/w Prowess" was recorded in Nordstern, Trondheim, 2017. Engineered, mixed and mastered by Pål S. Gaupseth. Produced by P. S. G. and One Tail, One Head. Music and lyrics by Jan Even, arrangements by One Tail, One Head. Cover illustration by Izzy.

The Elders

Hate Forest