Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band from Kolbotn, Akershus. Formed in 1986 as a death metal band named Black Death, in 1991 Darkthrone embraced a black metal style influenced by Bathory and Celtic Frost and became one of the leading bands in the Norwegian black metal scene.
Damage Done is the sixth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity. Here, the band returns to a more classic style while holding the changes made in their albums Haven and Projector, especially in the keyboards, but this is the first record since The Mind's I that does not feature clean vocals. Martin Henriksson started doing some "lead guitar riffs" on the record, so the band showed influences from The Gallery in the duality of lead guitars. Mikael Stanne said that the lyrics on this album are about the frailty of life.
Serpent's Embrace is the fourth studio album by the German symphonic black metal band Agathodaimon. It was released 21 June 2004 through Nuclear Blast records. On 25 August 2008, Polish record label Metal Mind Productions reissued the album as a remastered digipak edition. The reissue is limited to numerated 2000 copies and was digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc.
Angel Dust is a German heavy metal band from Dortmund. Initially active from 1984 to 1990 as a speed and thrash metal band, they moved towards a power/progressive metal sound upon reforming in 1998.
Dark Fortress was a German melodic black metal band from Landshut formed in 1994. They released seven studio albums, a split album and a demo album. The band broke up in 2023.
Fiction is the eighth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity. It was released by Napalm Records on 19 April 2007, and by Century Media in the UK on 23 April, and in the US on 24 April.
Paradise Now is the seventh studio album by German industrial metal band Die Krupps. It was released on 14 April 1997 through record label Our Choice. The album was released in a CD format and in a cassette format. It is the last album prior to the band's 8-year break-up. Guitars take a more dominant role here than on previous Die Krupps albums. The album was the last to feature the widespread use of metal guitars like previous albums, until the band released V – Metal Machine Music in 2015.
Higher Art of Rebellion is the second full-length studio album by the German symphonic black metal band Agathodaimon. It was released on 29 November 1999 through German record label Nuclear Blast. On 25 August 2008, Polish record label Metal Mind Productions reissued the album as a remastered digipak edition. The reissue is limited to numerated 2000 copies and was digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc. It also retains the 2 bonus tracks of the previously released limited edition version of the album.
Eidolon is the fifth studio album by German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress. The album was released on 25 February 2008 through German record label Century Media. The album has also a digipack version. The vinyl record version was released on 14 October 2016, again by Century Media.
Séance is the fourth studio album by German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress. The album was released on 30 January 2006 through German record label Century Media Records. Alex Krull mastered the album in the Mastersound Studios and the whole layout of the booklet was designed by Travis Smith. The original album version comes with a 12-page booklet.
Farbenfinsternis is the fourth studio album by the German gothic/death metal/black metal metal band Eisregen, released in 2001 through record label Last Episode. The album has also a digipack version released in 2001 and it was rereleased in 2007 through German record label Massacre Records. The 2007 rereleased version was in digipack format. In February 2004, the album was banned in Germany.
Knochenkult is the seventh studio album by the German gothic/death metal/black metal band Eisregen. It was released on 19 September 2008 through German record label Massacre Records. The 2008 release contained: a Jewelcase version, a digipak version with a Bonus-track `Blut ist Leben´ and a boxset containing a shirt and the digipak version of the album. The boxset version and the digipack version were limited to 1000 copies each.
Stab Wounds is the third studio album by German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress which was released on 11 June 2004, through German record label Black Attackk. The whole layout and cover art of the booklet has been designed by Travis Smith. A strictly limited 2-LP Vinyl version was released in December 2004 by the new German label Imperium Productions.
Tales from Eternal Dusk is the first full album of the German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress. This was the band's debut album and was released on 17 March 2001. Though the album was released in 2001, the vinyl version of this album was released four years later, in 2005.
Phoenix is the fifth studio album by the German symphonic black metal band Agathodaimon. The album was released on 20 March 2009 through German record label massacre records. The album also has a limited digipack version.
Calling the Wild is the seventh solo album by German hard rock singer Doro Pesch. It was released in 2000, in two different editions for the European market and the American one. For this release, Doro changed labels again, having signed contracts with SPV/Steamhammer for Germany and with Koch Records for the USA. Calling the Wild was the first album published in the US after the eponymous one in 1990. The US edition contains also remixed tracks taken from the previous Doro album Love Me in Black. "Love Me Forever" is a cover of Motörhead's song from the album 1916 of 1991. "White Wedding" is a cover of Billy Idol's hit single of 1982.
Rostrot is the ninth studio album by German gothic/death metal/black metal band Eisregen. It was released on 9 December 2011 through record label Massacre Records. The 2011 release included two limited editions of the album: a digipack version limited to 5,000 copies and a vinyl record version limited to 500 copies.
Skinflint is a heavy metal band from Gaborone, Botswana. They have incorporated elements from African culture into heavy metal music, attracting the attention of international media. Their releases, Iklwa, Gauna and Dipoko, pay homage to ancestral beliefs and African spirituality, while the band still plays in the vein of traditional heavy metal.
Florian Magnus Maier, known professionally as Morean, is a German classical composer, guitarist, producer, and vocalist of the bands Alkaloid, Dark Fortress, and Noneuclid. His primary occupation being a composer and guitar player within both the contemporary classical and heavy metal communities. Maier is also a vocalist and guitarist for progressive metal outfits Alkaloid and Noneuclid. Being a classical composer, Maier has also collaborated with Devin Townsend and Paradise Lost on orchestrations.
Beyond the Black is a German symphonic metal band formed in 2014 in Mannheim. Their debut album Songs of Love and Death became popular immediately after the release, and entered the German and Austrian national music charts.
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