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| New Pre-Order Available Originally released in 2003, raison d’être’s Requiem for Abandoned Souls returns as a double-LP reissue, marking the album’s first appearance on vinyl. We also updated the website with some warehouse finds, very limited and last copies of these gems, full list below.  rRaison d’être “Requiem for Abandoned Souls“ 2LP (205th Cycle) Originally released in 2003, Requiem for Abandoned Souls returns as a double-LP reissue, marking the album’s first appearance on vinyl.Across 9 interlinked tracks, Peter Andersson’s raison d’être shapes an existential passage through desolation, faith and the possibility of inner renewal. Church bells, reverberating drones, metallic textures, discordant chimes, haunting chorals and sub-orchestral movements gather into a dark, immersive sound world.Sacral and arcane religious undertones run throughout the album. Its track titles can be read individually or together as a poem, tracing a bleak landscape populated by souls abandoned of hope. Yet within the atmosphere of decay and loss, Requiem for Abandoned Souls reveals a striking beauty, a meditation on finding stillness and meaning amid chaos. This expanded edition pairs the original album with 4 bonus tracks. Artwork Photography by Henk van Rensbergen.Standard edition of 200 copies in matt laminated Gatefold Sleeve, on black vinyl. 9 tracks. Running time 74:09 Special edition of 100 copies in matt laminated Gatefold Sleeve, on cloudy (crystal clear/silver) vinyl. 9 tracks. Running time 74:09 EAN: 3770033798720 VIEW / LISTEN  ÜNGTT “Castle Burner” CD / DL (305th Cycle) Castle Burner, the second full length from Berlin’s mysterious Üngtt project, creates a suffocating world of deteriorating sound textures that are both beautiful and brutal in their unfolding. Friends of Cyclic Law will know the name B.S.s. as the spirit behind such projects as Common Eider King Eider, Curse All Kings and long time collaborator of Sutekh Hexen and Six Organs of Admittance. With Castle Burner, the shadows lengthen, the soil cools, and the smell of decomposition fills the air. VIEW / LISTEN PRE-ORDERS  ANCESTROS “Blasfemia Austral” CD / LP / DL (CS009) Ancestros is a new extreme-metal entity featuring members of Orthodox, Voidescent, PYLAR, and more. Drawing on the primal force of the genre’s earliest innovators, when its possibilities were still undiscovered, the collective reaches into metal’s deep past to recover and transform its vital essence.Through speculative, experimental techniques, hyper-riffs, rhizomatic structures, deterritorialization, and hyper-texture, Ancestros radically reconfigures contemporary extreme metal. Their sound is a volatile convergence of ideas, resonating with the boundary pushing legacies of Teitanblood, Deathspell Omega, Oranssi Pazuzu, and Reverorum ib Malacht. VIEW / LISTEN  PLAGUE CATHEDRAL “…To Dust You Shall Return” CD / DL (CS010) Canadian duo Plague Cathedral, featuring members of Undirheimar / Sublimatio Mortis & NordicWinter, summon a new black plague with their debut album, …to dust you shall return, an ominous meditation on the collapse of modern, decadent society. Beneath Death’s cold, grey veil, a world in decay approaches its inevitable end.Forged from industrial experimentation and crushing doom metal, the album builds an oppressive, apocalyptic soundscape into a force of its own. Drawing on medieval tragedy and the foreboding shadow of pestilence, Plague Cathedral give voice to a dark, brooding vision: a soundtrack for the end times. VIEW / LISTEN |