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Special Edition release of the nineteenth full-length album by the legendary British Heavy Metal band.
The album was released on 10 June in Europe and 11 June in North America, via Vertigo Records and Republic Records in the US, and via Vertigo Records worldwide. It is the first studio album released by Black Sabbath since “Forbidden” (1995), and their first studio recording with original singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler since the live album “Reunion” (1998), which contained two new studio tracks. It is also the first studio album with Osbourne since “Never Say Die!” (1978), and with Butler since “Cross Purposes” (1994).
The original lineup of Black Sabbath first began work on a new studio album in 2001 with producer Rick Rubin. The album's development was delayed because Osbourne was in the middle of finishing his eighth solo album “Down to Earth”, and the rest of the band members eventually went on to pursue other projects, including GZR and Heaven & Hell. When Black Sabbath announced their reunion on 11 November 2011, the band announced that they would restart work on a new album with Rubin. In addition to original members Osbourne, Butler and guitarist Tony Iommi, they were joined at the recording sessions by drummer Brad Wilk, of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, following original drummer Bill Ward's decision to not participate in the reunion, due to a "contractual dispute".
For the cover artwork for was created an 8-foot-tall "13" from wicker, which was then set on fire in the Buckinghamshire countryside. The flames were visible for miles. The image was shot for album's cover.
Album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart after its first week of sales. It is the band's first album to top the UK chart since “Paranoid” (1970). Osbourne was said to be "in shock" at the album's success, remarking that the band has "never had a record climb the charts so fast" before. The album also reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 charts, selling over 155,000 copies in the first week. Osbourne said, "There have been so many amazing highlights in our long career. To finally have our first #1 album in the U.S. is another incredible milestone for Black Sabbath." In its second week of release, the album fell to No. 5 in the US, selling 46,000, totaling 201,000 copies, and in its third week, 13 sold over 26,000 bringing its total sales to 227,000 copies in the US. The album also debuted at No. 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart with 25,000 units sold.
Limited Special Edition Digipack contains 3D/hologram lenticular cover and second CD with three bonus tracks!
BS Productions Limited/Vertigo, 2013 (602537349586). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. End Of The Beginning     8:06 
2. God Is Dead?     8:52 
3. Loner     4:59 
4. Zeitgeist     4:37 
5. Age Of Reason     7:01 
6. Live Forever     4:46 
7. Damaged Soul     7:51 
8. Dear Father     7:20

CD 2:
1. Methademic     5:58 
2. Peace Of Mind     3:41    
3. Pariah     5:35

Total playing time: 68:46 min.

50th Anniversary re-release of the debut full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
Black Sabbath's debut album is the birth of Heavy Metal as we now know it. Compatriots like Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple were already setting new standards for volume and heaviness in the realms of Psychedelia, Blues Rock, and Prog Rock. Yet of these Metal pioneers, Sabbath were the only whose sound today remains instantly recognizable as Heavy Metal, even after decades of evolution in the genre.
The album is widely regarded as the first Heavy Metal album. Additionally, the opening track, "Black Sabbath", has been referred to as the first Doom Metal song. According to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi, the album was recorded in a single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969. Aside from the bells, thunder and rain sound effects added to the beginning of the opening track and the double-tracked guitar solos on "N.I.B." and "Sleeping Village", there were virtually no overdubs added to the album. The key to the band's new sound on the album was Iommi's distinctive playing style that he developed after an accident at a sheet metal factory where he was working at the age of 17 in which the tips of the middle fingers of his fretting hand were severed. Iommi created a pair of false fingertips using plastic from a dish detergent bottle and detuned the strings on his guitar to make it easier for him to bend the strings, creating a massive, heavy sound.
"Black Sabbath" is a revolutionary debut whose distinctive ideas merely await a bit more focus and development. Henceforth, Black Sabbath would forge ahead with a vision that was wholly theirs.
Upon release, the album reached number eight on the UK Albums Charts and number 23 on the US Billboard 200. In 1989, Kerrang! Magazine ranked "Black Sabbath" number 31 on their "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". In 1994, it was ranked number 12 in Colin Larkin's Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums. In 2000, Q Magazine included "Black Sabbath" in their list of the "Best Metal Albums of All Time". In 2003, it was ranked number 241 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, 243 in a 2012 revised list, and 355 in a 2020 revised list. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked "Black Sabbath" number 44 in their list of the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time, describing the title track as the song that "would define the sound of a thousand bands". Additionally, in 2017, the magazine ranked it 5th on their list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". The album was also included in Robert Dimery's 2005 musical reference book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
Remastered re-release on 180g Heavyweight Black Vinyl.
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1970/2015 (BMGRM053LP). Made in Germany. 


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Black Sabbath 6:21
2. The Wizard 4:25
3. Behind The Wall Of Sleep 4:19
4. N.I.B. 5:25

Side Two
1. Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me) (Crow cover) 3:25
2. Sleeping Village 3:46
3. Warning (Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation cover) 10:32

Total playing time: 38:13 min.

The eleventh full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
The first and only album the band recorded with lead vocalist Ian Gillan, best known for his work with Deep Purple. It was also the last Black Sabbath album for nine years to feature original bassist Geezer Butler and the last to feature original drummer Bill Ward, though Ward did record a studio track with the band fifteen years later on their 1998 live album "Reunion".
Following the departure of vocalist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice in 1982, Sabbath's future was in doubt. The band switched management to Don Arden (Sharon Osbourne's father) and he suggested Ian Gillan as the new vocalist. The band had considered vocalists such as Robert Plant and David Coverdale before settling on Gillan. They even received an audition tape from a then-unknown Michael Bolton. Iommi told Hit Parader Magazine in late 1983 that Gillan was the best candidate, saying: "His shriek is legendary." "Born Again" featured the return of founding member Bill Ward on drums, who was newly sober after leaving the band in 1980 to deal with his alcoholism. Ward began drinking again near the end of the sessions and returned to Los Angeles for treatment once the album was completed, and has remained sober ever since. Ward has said that he enjoyed making the album, which remains his final studio album with the band.
When the band heard the final product, they were horrified at the muffled mix. In his autobiography, Iommi explains that Gillan inadvertently blew a couple of tweeters in the studio speakers by playing the backing tracks too loud and nobody noticed. "We just thought it was a bit of a funny sound, but it went very wrong somewhere between the mix and the mastering and the pressing of that album... the sound was really dull and muffly. I didn't know about it, because we were already out on tour in Europe. By the time we heard the album, it was out and in the charts, but the sound was awful". For all his misgivings, Gillan remembers the period fondly, stating in the Black Sabbath: 1978–1992 documentary, "But by God, we had a good year...And the songs, I think, were quite good".
Following the tour supporting "Born Again", this version of Black Sabbath fell apart, with Gillan and touring drummer Bev Bevan departing. The tour was also a breaking point for Butler, who admits in the Black Sabbath: 1978–1992 documentary, "I just got totally disillusioned with the whole thing and I left some time in 1984 after the Born Again tour. I just had enough of it."
It was the first Black Sabbath album to not have any RIAA certification in the US. Despite this, it was the highest charting Black Sabbath album in the United Kingdom since "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (1973), reaching No. 4 in the charts, and became Top 40 hit in the United States.
Gimcastle Ltd./Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1993/2004 (SMRCD075). Made in EU.


Tracklist:
1. Trashed 4:17
2. Stonehenge 1:58
3. Disturbing The Priest 5:49
4. The Dark 0:45
5. Zero The Hero 7:35
6. Digital Bitch 3:39
7. Born Again 6:34
8. Hot Line 4:53
9. Keep It Warm 5:36
Total playing time: 41:06 min.

The sixteenth full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy/Doom Metal band.
One of Sabbath's heaviest albums and the first studio album in over a decade to feature vocalist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice, and their first in nine years to feature original bassist Geezer Butler. Although the Sabbath lineup was the same as on 1981's "Mob Rules", the musical direction is very different, and a marked change from their previous material, particularly the preceding "Tyr". Much of the album anticipates the directions taken by Dio in his eponymous solo band's next two records, "Strange Highways" (1993) and "Angry Machines" (1996).
Black Sabbath and Dio created a monster of an album. Ronnie James Dio delivers his strongest performance since the early '80s, and hearing Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi play together after nine years is inspiring. Commercially, the album marked a resurgence for Black Sabbath. It reached the Top 40 in the UK, and peaked at number 44 on the Billboard 200 chart.
I.R.S. Records/ EMI Records Ltd., 1992 (0777 713155 2 7). Made in EU.


Tracklist:
1. Computer God 6:10
2. After All (The Dead) 5:37
3. TV Crimes 3:58
4. Letters From Earth 4:12
5. Master Of Insanity 5:54
6. Time Machine 4:10
7. Sins Of The Father 4:43
8. Too Late 6:54
9. I 5:10
10. Buried Alive 4:47
Total playing time: 51:35 min.

The third full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal/Stoner band.
It is regarded by some critics as the foundation of Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, and Sludge Metal.
The shortest album of Black Sabbath's glory years, "Master Of Reality" is also their most sonically influential work. Here Tony Iommi began to experiment with tuning his guitar down three half-steps to C#, producing a sound that was darker, deeper, and Sludgier than anything they'd yet committed to record. This trick was still being copied 25 years later by every Metal band looking to push the limits of heaviness, from trendy Nu-Metallers to Swedish Deathsters. Much more than that, "Master Of Reality" essentially created multiple Metal subgenres all by itself, laying the sonic foundations for Doom, Stoner and Sludge Metal, all in the space of just over half an hour.
The album peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and number eight on the US Billboard 200, where it achieved Gold status on advance orders alone. Negatively received by critics on release, the album is now considered one of the greatest Heavy Metal albums of all time. It was certified double Platinum after having sold over two million copies in US.
In 1994, "Master Of Reality" was ranked number 28 in Colin Larkin's Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums. In 2001, Q included it in their list of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 298 in their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, 300 in a 2012 revised list, and 234 in a 2020 revised list. The same magazine also ranked the album 34th on its "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".
180g Heavyweight Black Vinyl in Embossed Cover.
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1971/2015 (BMGRM055LP). Made in Germany. 


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Sweet Leaf 5:05
2. After Forever 5:27
3. Embryo 0:28
4. Children Of The Grave 5:18

Side Two
1. Orchid 1:31
2. Lord Of This World 5:26
3. Solitude 5:02
4. Into The Void 6:12

Total playing time: 34:29 min.

40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition remastered re-release of the tenth full-length studio album by legendary British Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band.
The second and the final album to feature lead singer Ronnie James Dio until the "Mob Rules"-era line-up reunited for 1992's "Dehumanizer", and the first with drummer Vinny Appice, who had replaced original member Bill Ward in the middle of the Heaven And Hell Tour. Neither musician would appear on a Black Sabbath studio album again until the 1992 album "Dehumanizer".
After a steady decline in both inspiration, mental stability, and commercial appeal throughout the second half of the '70s, metal icons Black Sabbath were reborn with 1980s "Heaven And Hell". The album would be their first with new vocalist Ronnie James Dio, whose passionate, controlled wail broke new ground for the band and helped drive a comeback. 1981's "Mob Rules" was a quick follow-up to "Heaven And Hell", continuing the momentum of that record's energy as well as its shift away from Dark Metal to more commercial Hard Rock. Tony Iommi's signature guitar playing takes on new forms throughout the album, with Zeppelin-esque riffing on "Slipping Away", slithering Bluesy Rock playing on "Voodoo", and a strikingly different approach to soloing, shifting from the laser-focused slow burn of early Black Sabbath albums to a more frenetic, technically showy style on some tracks.
"Mob Rules" delved more into experimentation with keyboards and synthesizers, with auxiliary player Geoff Nicholls, adding cinematic synth bedding to the epic churn of "The Sign of the Southern Cross" and spacey atmosphere to "Falling Off the Edge of the World", among other synth contributions. New drummer, Vinny Appice, pushed the sound even further from the band's original sludgy approach. These changes, along with Dio's fantasy-based lyrics and a red-lined mix by producer Martin Birch, put "Mob Rules" closer in line with the emerging New Wave Of British Heavy Metal than the druggy "Devil-worshiping" Doom Metal, Black Sabbath first built their name on.
"Mob Rules"  reached #9 in the U.K. and #28 in the U.S.A., where it was also certified Platinum.
Singer Ronnie James Dio joined Black Sabbath in 1979 which resulted in two back-to-back classic albums: "Heaven And Hell" and "Mob Rules". On those memorable albums, Dio's soaring tenor and gothic songwriting were the perfect foil for the band's bone-crushing mix of razor-sharp riffs, intense grooves, and dark imagery. Here you can find the long shadow cast by this short-lived line-up with a newly remastered version of the album expanded with rare and unreleased music!
Deluxe Edition 180g 2LP in gatefold cover-sleeve includes bonus disc with rarities & live versions.
Warner Records Inc., a Warner Music Group Company/Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company, 1981/2021 (R1 599497 / 603497850716). Made in USA. Pressed in Czech.


Tracklist:

LP One “Mob Rules” (2021 Remaster)
Side One
1. Turn Up The Night 3:42
2. Voodoo 4:32
3. Sign Of The Southern Cross 7:50
4. E5150 2:49
5. Mob Rules 3:15
Side Two
1. Country Girl 4:03
2. Slipping Away 3:46
3. Falling Off The Edge Of The World 5:03
4. Over And Over 5:31
Running time: 40:25 min.

LP Two “Bonus Tracks”
Side Three
1. The Mob Rules (Heavy Metal Soundtrack Version) 3:14
2. Die Young (Live B-Side Of The Mob Rules)* 4:04
3. The Mob Rules (New 2021 Mix)** 3:24
4. The Sign Of The Southern Cross / Heaven And Hell - Reprise (Live In Portland, OR, U.S.A., April 22, 1982)** 7:30
Side Four
“Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, U.K., December 31, 1981 - January 2, 1982”
1. Country Girl 3:59
2. Slipping Away 3:16
3. The Mob Rules 3:22
4. Voodoo 5:46
Running time: 34:35 min.

Total playing time: 75:00 min.

* Previously unreleased in U.S.A. & Canada.
** Previously unreleased.

Remastered re-release of the eighth full-length studio album by legendary British Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band.
The last studio album with the band's original line-up and the last studio album to feature original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne until the 2013 album "13".
At the time of the recording of "Never Say Die!", the members of Black Sabbath were all heavily involved in drug and alcohol abuse. Prior to recording, vocalist Osbourne briefly quit the band and was temporarily replaced by Dave Walker, former vocalist of Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac.
The album was certified Gold in the U.S. on 7 November 1997 and as of November 2011 sold 133,000 copies in the United States since the SoundScan era.
Vertigo/Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company 1978/2015/2020 (BMGRM60LP). Made in UK. Pressed in Czech. Re-press 2020.


Tracklist:

LP
Side 1
1. Never Say Die 3:50
2. Johnny Blade 6:28
3. Junior's Eyes 6:43
4. A Hard Road 6:06
Side 2
1. Shock Wave 5:16
2. Air Dance 5:18
3. Over To You 5:25
4. Breakout 2:35
5. Swinging The Chain 4:06
Total playing time: 45:47 min.

Remastered re-release of tthe sixth full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
The album was recorded in the midst of a legal battle with the band's former manager, Patrick Meehan. The stress that resulted from the band's ongoing legal woes infiltrated the recording process, inspiring the album's title. It was co-produced by guitarist Tony Iommi and Mike Butcher.
"Sabotage" peaked at the Billboard 200 at number 28 and number 7 in the United Kingdom. The album was certified Silver (60,000 units sold) in the UK by the BPI on 1 December 1975 and Gold in the US on 16 June 1997, but was the band's first release not to achieve Platinum status in the US. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked it 32nd on their "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" list.
Due to the band's expanding use of orchestras and other new sounds in the studio, the tour in support of "Sabotage" was the first in which Black Sabbath used a full-time keyboardist onstage, Gerald "Jezz" Woodroffe. Black Sabbath toured with openers Kiss but were forced to cut the tour short in November 1975 after vocalist Osbourne was injured in a motorcycle accident.
Track “Blow On A Jug” is not mentioned anywhere, but it is definitely there to be heard.
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1975/2015/2022 (BMGRM058LP) Made in Poland.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Hole In The Sky 4:01
2. Don't Start (Too Late) 0:49
3. Symptom Of The Universe 6:30
4. Megalomania 9:43

Side 2
5. The Thrill Of It All 5:56
6. Supertzar 3:44
7. Am I Going Insane (Radio) 4:17
8. The Writ 8:43
9. Blow On A Jug 0:30

Total playing time: 43:44 min.

The third DVD by the legendary British Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band.
This is the first-ever live DVD from legendary Metal superstars, which includes all of Sabbath's biggest hits performed live. The "Last Supper" features all of the original members of Black Sabbath on their sold-out 1999 Reunion tour, and includes behind-the-scenes interviews and tour photos.
The original line-up get together for classic Sabbath. Each member sounds good as ever, it's amazing to think that Ozzy is so messed up from drugs, he still puts on a good show. The set list is fantastic, but stupidly, they put interviews halfway between songs, for example the solo in "Ironman" is interupted by a rediculous interview with Geezer Butler. There is a cool documentary as one of the special features. Filming throughout is very good.
This DVD is probably one of the best live ones out there today. It's from a great band with great members. The most impressive thing on this DVD is probably seeing Sabbath out there playing and rocking hard even at their old age. We salute you, Black Sabbath!!
DVD 5 | Dolby Surround 5.1 & Dolby Digital 2.0 | 0 | 4:3 | 120 min. approx.
Columbia Music Video/Sony Music Entertainment Inc., 1999 (202193 9). Russian bootleg.

Tracklist:
1. Program Start
2. War Pigs
3. N.I.B.
4. Electric Funeral
5. Fairies Wear Boots
6. Into The Void
7. Sweet Leaf
8. Snowblind
9. After Forever
10. Dirty Women 
11. Black Sabbath
12. Iron Man
13. Children Of The Grave
14. Paranoid
15. Closing Credits

The fourth full-length album by legendary British Heavy/Doom Metal band.
"Vol. 4" is the point in Black Sabbath's career where the band's legendary drug consumption really starts to make itself felt. And it isn't just in the lyrics, most of which are about the blurry line between reality and illusion. "Vol. 4" has all the messiness of a Heavy Metal Exile on Main St., and if it lacks that album's overall diversity, it does find Sabbath at their most musically varied, pushing to experiment amidst the drug-addled murk. As a result, there are some puzzling choices made here, and the album often contradicts itself. Ozzy Osbourne's wail is becoming more powerful here, taking greater independence from Tony Iommi's guitar riffs, yet his vocals are processed into a nearly textural element on much of side two.
Parts of "Vol. 4" are as ultra-heavy as "Master Of Reality", yet the band also takes its most blatant shots at accessibility to date, and then undercuts that very intent. The effectively concise "Tomorrow's Dream" has a chorus that could almost be called radio-ready, were it not for the fact that it only appears once in the entire song. "St. Vitus Dance" is surprisingly upbeat, yet the distant-sounding vocals don't really register. The notorious piano-and-Mellotron ballad "Changes" ultimately fails not because of its change-of-pace mood, but more for a raft of the most horrendously clichéd rhymes this side of "moon-June". Even the crushing "Supernaut", perhaps the heaviest single track in the Sabbath catalog, sticks a Funky, almost danceable acoustic breakdown smack in the middle. Besides "Supernaut", the core of "Vol. 4" lies in the midtempo cocaine ode "Snowblind", which was originally slated to be the album's title track until the record company got cold feet, and the multi-sectioned Prog-leaning opener, "Wheels of Confusion". The latter is one of Iommi's most complex and impressive compositions, varying not only riffs but textures throughout its eight minutes.
Many Doom and Stoner Metal aficionados prize the second side of the album, where Osbourne's vocals gradually fade further and further away into the murk, and Iommi's guitar assumes center stage. The underrated "Cornucopia" strikes a better balance of those elements, but by the time "Under the Sun" closes the album, the lyrics are mostly lost under a mountain of memorable, contrasting riffery.
Add all of this up, and "Vol. 4" is a less cohesive effort than its two immediate predecessors, but is all the more fascinating for it. Die-hard fans sick of the standards come here next, and some end up counting this as their favorite Sabbath record for its eccentricities and for its embodiment of the band's excesses!
Kerrang! Magazine listed the album at No. 48 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone ranked it 14th on their 2017 list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1972/2015 (BMGRM056LP). Made in EU. 180g vinyl.


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Wheels Of Confusion 8:14
2. Tomorrows Dream 3:12
3. Changes 4:46
4. Fx 1:43
5. Supernaut 4:46

Side Two
1. Snowblind 5:32
2. Cornucopia 3:55
3. Laguna Sunrise 2:53
4. St. Vitus Dance 2:30
5. Under The Sun 5:50

Total playing time: 43:31 min.

Remastered re-release of the fourth full-length album by russian Black Metal band.
The album was originally released by S.B.M. Records in 2006. In 2015 it was completely re-mixed and released by More Hate Production.
CD presents finally developed distinctive style of the band – evil guitar-based Technical Black Metal. The voice of Lord Demogorgon was put on top in order to make clear the significant part of Black Shadow – extreme lyrics in Russian. In general, the album sounds as one piece rather than a compilation of songs – it’s a solid alloy of anger, hatred and speed. Headbanging riffs and blast-beats alternate with slow heavy inserts, guitar melodies and melodic solos.
Great sound of the album and improved the quality of the material.
Advised to all fans of Black Metal, regardless of personal preferences! This album of Black Shadow is melodic, angry, technically and interesting!!
More Hate Productions, 2006/2015 (MHP 15-160).


Tracklist:
1. Страшный суд 05:46 
2. На колени, к ногам Сатаны! 05:27 
3. Во тьме нет жизни - только смерть... 04:38 
4. Пусть вечно горит немощь Христа в пламени ада! 05:00 
5. Зло царит в каждом из нас 02:50 
6. Ада возмездие лжепророчным тварям 03:46 
7. Мир во власти Сатаны 05:11 
8. Кровавые похороны мира 04:03 
9. Приговор распятого лжепророка 05:07 
10. В логове ведьмы... 05:53
Total playing time: 47:41 min.

Remastered re-release of the first EP by russian Black Metal band.
Black Shadow is a long-running Russian Black Metal duo featuring Lord Demogorgon (on vocals, bass and guitar) and Asmodeus (on guitar).
Release includes four studio tracks recorded back in 2002 and four bonus live tracks taken from the Moscow show (November 18, 2004). It was originally released by SBM Records in limited quantity to 100 copies and became rare.
In May of 2015, all album tracks were re-mixed and the completely new artwork was made. The new sound is clearer and thicker.
Musical material presented on the album is fast and technical Melodic Black Metal in the vein of such Swedish icons like Setherial and Dark Funeral with distinctive Russian lyrics by Lord Demogorgon.
Black Shadow is at home with hyper-speed blasting stuff, not giving much mercy to the listeners while letting the band invade your speakers. All the studio stuff sounds really good, but the same cannot be said about the bonus live tracks. Those sound really raw and extremely unpolished.
If you want to find out how it would sound if Dark Funeral was cloned in Russia, the answer can be found right here.
Definitely must have for all fans of Pure Black Metal art!
More Hate Productions, 2007/2015 (MHP 15-148).


Tracklist:
1. Избранный Сатаной 05:35 
2. Пробуди в себе зверя 03:55 
3. Да прольётся же кровь отпрысков Бога 03:40 
4. Против бога - во имя тьмы! 07:16 
5. Конец света 05:10 
6. Зов смерти 03:49 
7. Возвращение князя тьмы 04:02 
8. Порождение тьмы и зла 04:03
Total playing time: 37:30 min.

The second full-length album by American Power/Progressive Metal band.
After touring activities ended for their very successful debut “Black Symphony”, main man Rick Plester built a recording studio and began assembling the next record. This would feature a new line up with vocalist Ric Plamondon, new drummer Pete Holmes (Ted Nugent, Black n Blue, MSG, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ian Gillian), and keyboardist Mattias Burstrom. This record again became a success out selling their first release and being nominated best of 2002 in Europe, finishing 3rd for all Hard Rock/Metal artists. Charting in most counties outside North America, the band had great momentum.
Unfortunate the band never toured this record too heavily as the record company debt to the band grew and an unfix able situation was occurring thus the fans were left out in the cold. After a legal battle of the band and record label, lasting 3 years, finally in 2005 it came to an end with the demise of their record label and Black Symphony were free to go elsewhere.
Influenced by bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, old Metallica and Pink Floyd, this band reminds very much Evergrey. However, they have totally digested their influences and Black Symphony can be proud to have now their own style. 
The "fist in the face" comes from the production, which is really powerful, and from all these sounds used by the band to create another dimension inside each song. This band knows how to sound really heavy and melodic at the same time.
Lyricaly, it's a concept-album about religions. Lyrics, which are excellent, highlight the wars between humans who like different Gods ... but in fact, this is the "perfect justification" for their crimes. Songs like "Tears Of Blood I" & "II", "Death", "Take Me Down" or "I Am Hate" are based on complex song-writing, but are easily accessible for the listener.
This album is sheer awesome. It's one of the most complete, consistent albums ever. Musically, this album is just pure win. Awesome shredding riffs and guitar solos are accompanied by some excellent drumming. It's a fairly Proggy album, but don't get turned off by that. The guitar work is truely a highlight!
There are absolutely no bad songs on this album, and each is just as good as the other! If you can find it, buy this album, it's just that good!!
Rising Sun Productions, 2001 (312.5002.2). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Tears Of Blood (Part I) 4:51
2. It Remains A Mystery 3:07
3. Take Me Down 3:46
4. I Am Hate 3:45
5. Death 7:02
6. Burned 4:15
7. Over And Over 3:56
8. Tears Of Blood (Part II) 3:13
9. Forgive Me 4:58
10. Left In Confusion 2:44
11. Into The Dark 6:01
12. Black Symphony (Part II) 8:03
Total playing time: 55:41 min.


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The debut full-length album by the Chilean Experimental Progressive Death/Doom Metal band.
Blackcircle hails from Chile and plays experimental Death/Black Metal that slides from very clean harmonious melodies and dramatic sounds desperate to own a mix of Black/Doom Metal.
The band began around the year 2010 to working a genre that moves from very clean and harmonious melodies to dramatic and desperates sounds, from a mixture of Black/Doom Metal with a reminiscence of Death Metal and some melodic parts, and bordering the Drone Music.
60 minutes of unusual music. Eight complex, technical, Progressive Metal tracks. Various vocals... dark considerations... death... chaos... try it!!
Australis Records, 2011 (AUS024CD). Made in Chile. First press. Please note: though the disc is new and has never been played, there are light booklet bend that happened during transit.


Tracklist:
1. Ascension 08:19
2. Flowers 07:24
3. Echoes 08:27
4. In the Eyes of Chaos 07:13
5. The Ghost Garden 07:43
6. Timeline 09:29
7. Mirrorhouse 04:45
8. Requiem in Silence 06:30
Total playing time: 59:50 min.


http://beowolfproductions.bandcamp.com

Debut full-length album from russian Melodic Sympho Death/Black Metal band.
The band from Sahalin Island, Far East of Russia was found in 2001. They play organic mixture of Black and Death Metal. The musicians themselves call their music Extreme Metal.
Difference of sound, melodies and Russian lyrics!
Recommended for fans of: Cradle Of Filth, Children Of Bodom and Graveworm!!
Musica Production, 2012 (MP-57). First press.


Tracklist:
1.Безмолвный зверь 06:00
2.Взгляд за грань 08:23
3.Невинная кровь 06:26
4.Weaking Mind 06:41
5.Танец вслепую 04:25
6.Озеро прощения 05:44
7.Mind Creeper 05:23
8.Паранойя 04:48
Total playing time: 47:00 min.

Re-release of the debut full-length album by Brazilian Speed/Thrash Metal band.
Formed in 2009 with the intention of playing an old school Metal, band presents ferocious evil Black/Speed Metal, raging in their lyrics all hate to the false morality, Christianity and life’s torments. This first album featured a good recording. The sound of the band is highly competent. A Speed Metal furious, fast, but without ceasing to be heavy. Fabricio Ripper's vocals are quite intelligible, and the songs presented in this work are all sung in Portuguese. Finally, an album showed maturity, even though the band very young. And it is hard not to get excited about bangers like "The Ripper", "Total Destruction" or "Attack". It put the sound to roll, increase in stem and headbanging nonstop!!
Underground Records, 2010 (UR01). Made in Brazil.


Tracklist:
1. A Meia Noite Levarei Tua Alma 00:43
2. Alienação 02:28
3. O Estripador 02:42
4. Speed Metal Ataque 02:55
5. Destruição Total 03:16
6. O Ataque 04:37
7. Traga-me a Cabeça do Rei 02:46 
8. Holocausto Canibal 03:12
9. Correntes de Metal 02:53
10. Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver 03:36
Total playing time: 29:08 min.

The second EP by Spanish Thrash Metal band.
Formed in early 2011, these guys rapidly made a name for themselves in Spain and released their first 3-track EP “Devious Insane” a year later which received great reviews and acclaim. In 2014 they’re back with their brand new 4-track EP.
“World Of Lies” is just under 20 minutes in length and sounds like your typical new age of Thrash album, which is not a bad thing. Blast Off do have potential to make it big here as some of the music that comes out of this album is very good indeed, it just lacks a little in originality.
All in all, “World Of Lies” is a damn good release and tops its predecessor of 2012. Blast Off hold a lot of potential with their music!
Suspiria Records, 2014 (SPR013). Made in Spain. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Magnicide 03:52 
2. Blackout 04:51 
3. Government of Money 05:08 
4. Hunter of Evil 03:58
Total playing time: 17:49 min.


Samples: https://blastoffthrash.bandcamp.com

The second full-length studio album by Spanish Heavy/Thrash Metal band.
Formed in 2008, Blast Open is a band from Asturias (Spain). Their debut album, "They Destroy Our World", was released in 2012. Their second effort, "Beyond The Hope" EP (2016), brought them a series of nominations and awards.
The expectations generated by the new album were very high, since the three singles had been released before, including a video clip. And now, we can state emphatically that expectations have been more than met, since the nine tracks that make up “Spitting Blood” are at a very high level, maintaining the Thrash Metal essence of Blast Open and approaching more Extreme ranges with a more current sound.
Forty-two minutes without respite to release adrenaline at the fullest!
Suspiria Records, 2022 (SPR029). Made in Spain. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Riding on a Dead Horse 05:10
2. Fallen Angel 03:44
3. Pray Without Fear 04:12
4. Pool of Blood 04:32
5. Cross Hate 04:11
6. A Light Behind the Darkness 04:58
7. The Ball of the World 04:35
8. Trying to Escape 04:44
9. Immortals 06:11
Total playing time: 42:19 min.


Samples: https://blastopen.bandcamp.com

Debut full-length album by Spanish Melodic Death/Thrash/Metalcore band.
A lot of time and hard work have given band’s result in this debut album that has been recorded and produced in Mallorca (Balearyc Islands) at Psychosomatic Recording Studio. Stylistically the music hard to describe and classify. The quintet plays Melodic Metal with a lot of clean vocals , but also a lot of screams and growls some specifically used. The verses are usually hard, but can never miss melodies and choruses in contrast, often catchy and very melodic.
Melodic Metal with a touch of 80's - 90's Thrash, in conjunction with an exceptional vocal performance, define this whole masterpiece. Deep emotional lyrics have been specially written for the songs treating themes like anguish, fear, despair, rage, love... all sort of feelings that take place in human nature. “Behind The Walls Of Reality” exposes the thoughts of human mind in order to retrieve some kind of inner peace through the music. 
Rough guitar riffs with solos that would take anyone to another level of consciousness, aggressive bass lines, raw drums and powerful vocals with amazing melodic parts make this album a complex mixture of different music styles that characterize Bleed The Man's essence making this recording a “must have” for all Metal fans!
Noise Head Records, 2010 (NHR1410). Made in Austria.


Tracklist:
1. Not An Angel     4:37 
2. A New Beginning     4:56 
3. I Fought For You     4:27 
4. The Darkened Sun     4:06 
5. Blank Page     4:15 
6. Unreal     5:09 
7. Behind The Walls Of Reality     1:43    
8. Untold Tragedy     5:22 
9. U O Me     4:18 
10. Oblivion     4:03 
11. We Become One     5:26 
12. Bleed The Man     3:15
Total playing time: 51:37 min.


http://www.lastfm

The second full-length album by Portuguese Brutal Death Metal band.
After 8 years of silence Portugal’s Brutal Death Metal Monsters are back with a brand new full length album! More Brutal than 2006’s “Ways To End”, it's totally crushing album and sure to be an instant classic!!
Sharp riffs, fat and tight bass following their lead, growling vocals and relentless drumming with various embellishments. The whole thing reeks of reference bands as Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Vader and all those beasts from back in the day. Of course their influences are imprinted really well in their music and no one will get bothered by a track reminding Cannibal Corpse or another reminding of Deicide. On the contrary. They are filtered so well to make em their own, forming their own style in the genre. All gets tied up together in a great packaging.
A really nice effort and a CD that can be listened without sweat over and over again. And that is a quality itself in music!!!
Vomit Your Shirt/Sevared Records, 2014 (VYS-011 | SR-290). Made in Portugal. Pressed in Spain. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Reckoning 01:22 
2. Dark Passenger 02:57 
3. Persuasive Demons 03:20 
4. Deprivation 03:40 
5. Refinement Of Evil 03:43 
6. Blood Cult 03:03 
7. Inglorious Killing 02:48 
8. Killing Spree 03:01 
9. Remains To Be Seen 04:59
Total playing time: 28:53 min.


https://bleedingdisplay.bandcamp.com