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 HAMMERHEART RECORDS proudly announces the co-operation between HAMMERHEART RECORDS and FEHLER !!!
Guido Heijnens (A&R @ HHR): "From the first moment I heard the unmixed version of "DISSONA" I knew this was a killer release, and after talking to the FEHLER guys I was convinced all involved would work hard to get the band out there.One thing is for sure, the band’s name (which is German for “mistake”) will be opposite to the feeling you get after hearing this Monster of an album !!!"
FEHLER are a four-piece Sludge Metal outfit from the south of the Netherlands, known for their dark blend of ground shaking riffs combined with heavy rhythms and dissonant atmospheres. Key influences to their sound are sludge heavy weights like Crowbar and Torche but also feature the more melodic aspects of bands like Mastodon and High on Fire. Their songs vary from short and aggressive outbursts to sound-layered epics.
"DISSONA" is up for a release on CD and Vinyl in the Spring of 2012.
!!! TEASE THIS !!!
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 HAMMERHEART RECORDS has obtained the rights to NILE’s
"Worship The Animal" (1994 – The Lost Recordings) for a VINYL-release, which contains thirty five minutes of unreleased music. It will be released worldwide (excluding North-America) in December 2011.
"Worship The Animal" features the original line-up that recorded the NILE albums,
"Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka" and "Black Seeds of Vengeance"; Karl Sanders, Guitars/ Vocals, Chief Spires, Bass/Vocals and Pete Hammoura, Drums/Vocals. It contains pre
"Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka" recorded material.
"Worship the Animal" (1994 – The Lost Recordings) will be available in an exclusive HAMMERHEART mail order colour (100 copies).
Formed in 1993 by Karl Sanders (guitar/vocals), Chief Spires (bass/vocals), and Pete Hammoura (drums), Nile wasted little time combining their interest in Egyptian history, culture and lore with the ferocity of modern death metal.
Using a symphonic approach to song writing and arrangement, Nile unleashed an uncompromising attack that fused unique, technical death metal with organic Middle Eastern tones.
Their unique lyrical approach was inspired by Sanders' interpretation of ancient Egyptian inscriptions, temple carvings, papyri, hieroglyphics and tomb paintings depicting ancient battles, rituals and religious ceremonies.
Each following year brought a new recording, which marked a large step forward in their musical evolution.
Recorded in 1994, "Worship The Animal" set the tone for what would become one of extreme metal's most popular bands.
"Nile are death metal's Iron Maiden" Metal Hammer
"Nile are certainly not your average gore-and-guts-obsessed death metallers, and they defy the genre's musical trappings as well." Guitar World
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 Hammerheart Records are to release The Rotted’s ‘Apathy In The UK' single on limited edition 7-Inch vinyl. The track is backed with ‘Drink Myself To Death’ and a cover of Motörhead’s ‘Iron Fist’, (both originally taken from the Anarchogram EP) and will be available with or without a limited edition white T-shirt featuring the cover artwork, this time created by vocalist Ben McCrow.
Says McCrow: “After seeing our rant about Metalheads not trying hard enough in this day and age, our friends at Hammerheart Records have offered to release ‘Apathy In The UK’ as a collectible 7-Inch vinyl single. A song containing the lyrics “Coloured vinyl, gatefold sleeves, limited editions not mp3s” was clearly crying out to be released in this format, so Hammerheart have offered to put their money where their mouths are and will be releasing The Rotted’s first ever slab of wax! Who knows, if it’s successful maybe we’ll be able to sort out a special gatefold, coloured vinyl version of the full album! It’s aimed at people who are as passionate about collecting rarities and special releases as we are, people who feel their music collection should be more than just a load of files on a computer. All you die-hards, collectors and vinyl nuts out there, we salute you!”
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| 27-10-2011 |
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In 2012 HAMMERHEART RECORDS will re-issue “Spawned by Evil” by NECROPHOBIC on CD and on Vinyl.
The Vinyl edition will be limited to 500 copies, the CD-version will be sold as an EP, although we have added songs, thanks to the co-operation of David “Blackmoon” Parland and Joakim Sterner.
The full track list will look like:
- Spawned by Evil*
- Die by the Sword (Slayer cover)*
- Nightmare (Venom cover)*
- Enter the Eternal Fire (Bathory cover)*
- Ridden with Disease (Autopsy cover)
- Moonchild (Iron Maiden cover)
- Black Moon Rising**
- The Call**
*-marked songs are the original EP
**-are the “Blood Freezing” demo from 1994 and were never released before !!!
All in all a must for NECROPHOBIC-fans….and Swedish Death Metal fans in general !!!
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| 25-10-2011 |
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WILLOWTIP releases
In January 2012 we will have 7 new WILLOWTIP releases available, which will be available for a very cool price in shops and mail orders, together with all the Willowtip releases we did in 2011.
- DIM MAK - The Emergence... CD (ex-Ripping Corpse people)
- VILE - Metamorphosis CD (killer US Death Metal)
- ILLOGICIST - The Unconsciousness... CD (for fans of Atheist/Death)
- ARSIS - A Celebration deluxe-CD (re-issue)
- ELECTRO QUARTERSTAFF - Aykroyd CD (crazy instrumental Metal, will freak you out !)
- ALARUM - Natural Causes CD (progressive Metal on the highest level)
- VALE OF PNATH - The Prodigal Empire CD, probably the best debut-CD ever on Willowtip (V.O.P. sounds like Dark Tranquility and Necrophagist mixed up !!!)
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DIM MAKThe Emergence... CD
Dim Mak's first release for Willowtip, "Knives of Ice", is technically precise and aggressively profound.
Dim Mak draw upon elements that made the band's members underground legends in their previous bands (Ripping Corpse, Skinless), yet "Knives of Ice" is entirely unique as it reshapes those elements into music that resembles fatal weaponry.
Dim Mak's newest album further expands on the dynamics and fluidity that were so prevalent on "Knives Of Ice". "The Emergence Of Reptilian Altars" is classic Dim Mak: intricate multi-speed song structures played with high-velocity aggression.
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VILEMetamorphosis CD
Vile formed in 1996 in the San Francisco Bay Area. They were inspired by bands such as Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Atheist, Monstrosity and many other Floridian and American death metal bands. They have always offered a professional and well thought out style with a certain groove that makes their music extremely catchy while still retaining progressive elements. Over the years they have become more musical and melodic with their latest offerings being a mix of American death metal and the best of European black metal. This is the fourth album is to be released in 2012.
The long awaited new album from Vile is their best album yet. “Metamorphosis” is filled with songs that are brilliantly crafted and extremely well written. Sure to be one of 2012's best releases.
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ILLOGICISTThe Unconsciousness... CD
Vile formed in 1996 in the San Francisco Bay Area. They were inspired by bands such as Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Atheist, Monstrosity and many other Floridian and American death metal bands. They have always offered a professional and well thought out style with a certain groove that makes their music extremely catchy while still retaining progressive elements. Over the years they have become more musical and melodic with their latest offerings being a mix of American death metal and the best of European black metal. This is the fourth album is to be released in 2012.
ILLOGICIST return with another album of quality progressive, technical thrash metal in the DEATH vein. The follow up album to their critically acclaimed "The Insight Eye" (2007) features artwork from Travis Smith (Opeth, Katatonia, Amon Amarth, Devin Townsend, Amorphis).
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ARSISA Celebration CD
Arsis, a musical term meaning "silence", was formed in the year 2000 by guitarist / songwriter James Malone and drummer Michael Van Dyne. Their music is the product of strong classic metal and rock influences such as Iron Maiden, Dio, Black Sabbath, and Alice Cooper, combined with the aggressive, in-your-face influences of bands such as Morbid Angel and Death.
Their debut album, "A Celebration of Guilt", was released in 2004 and was immediately showered with rave reviews from metal press worldwide.
This is the remastered reissue of Arsis' debut full-length, "A Celebration Of Guilt". With expanded artwork and the two bonus tracks previously only available on the vinyl version of the album.
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ELECTRO QUARTERSTAFFAykroyd CD
Instrumental triple-axe shred team from the northern Canadian plains fully loaded with brain cancer string manipulations and bacon sizzling concussions of percussion. While never a stranger to expansive dynamics, Electro Quarterstaff explores its own fertile garden of shimmery snakecharming melody, groaning seasick harmony, and freewheeling rhythmic explosions in hopes to entrance the most assertive of listeners into a tangled symphony of sludge and frantic fretboard disembowelment.
Absorbing influences as disparate as Zappa and Gorguts along the way, Electro Quarterstaff remains a progressively-minded entity focused on visceral songcraft and layered, polyphonic instrumentation that highlights the seamless integration of wide-eyed romantic melody within a framework of orchestral complexity and devious song structure.
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ALARUMNatural Causes CD
Alarum: “A mechanism that produces awareness”. The Melbourne 4 piece progressive metal band have been just that since forming in 1992, and have been expanding that awareness ever since. They blend all forms of metal alongside rock, jazz, latin and fusion.
It was 2004’s "Eventuality" release through Willowtip Records that really began to garner attention from an international audience. As well as this, the album saw Alarum awarded with Best Australian Band, Best Australian Album, Best Australian Bassist and Best Australian Drummer at the 2005 Kerrang Australian Heavy Metal Awards.
In 2011 Alarum's third album ‘Natural Causes’ was recorded at Rennisound Studios, Melbourne.
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VALE OF PNATHThe Prodigal Empire CD
Denver, Colorado's Vale Of Pnath are one of the up-and-coming bands to watch for in the technical death metal field. In 2009 the band released their self-titled debut EP via Tribunal Records. The album was very well received around the metal community, both critically and by fans. Now, in 2012, Vale Of Pnath are ready to release their first ever full-length, "The Prodigal Empire".
The Vale of Pnath is a vast pit in H.P. Lovecraft's underworld. The vale is filled with a mountain-sized heap of bones and Night-gaunts often carry helpless victims to the vale, where they are left to die.
One Of The Best Technical DM Albums This Year !
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Probably the most dedicated and evil Black Metal label in the universe, that is MORIBUND...die hard Underground, die hard Black, die hard Satanic !!!
Ever since MORIBUND started they only had one vision...the one way ticket to Hell, which is easy to achieve with releasing records by ACHERON, ARCHGOAT, ARCKANUM, AZAGHAL, CRAFT, BEHEXEN, DODSFERD, LEVIATHAN, HORNA, NAZXUL,SARGEIST, SATAN'S HOST, XASTHUR... and Satan said it was good !!!
More info; visit our labels section
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| 25-08-2011 |
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HELL'S HEADBANGERS has rapidly build up a reputation with their high profile vinyl releases (mostly available on CD too...) that are of the highest quality level...if you like Metal (black/death/thrash/doom) that is firmly rooted in the Underground and released on Vinyl then HELL'S HEADBANGERS is your label to keep an eye on for sure !!!
Bands that might sound familiar on HHR are: Zemial, Inquisition, Cianide, Vomitor, Ravencult, Nunslaughter, Havohej, Destroyer 666, Deceased, Beherit and many more !!!
More info; visit our labels section
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| 25-08-2011 |
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With pride and full of confidence we here at Hammerheart Records announce our co-operation with HOUSECORE RECORDS !!!
HOUSECORE RECORDS is run by Phil Anselmo (yes, the Pantera/Down vocalist) and releases all the music Phil himself likes, no boundaries.
Hammerheart Records will market, manufacture, distribute and represent Housecore in Europe, and bands like Warbeast, haarp and the bigger known names as Eyehategod and Crowbar are a very welcome addition to our expanding business !!!
More info; visit our labels section
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| 24-08-2011 |
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HAMMERHEART RECORDS proudly announces the cooperation with underground cult-label
IBEX MOON for the European market.
IBEX MOON is a US-based record label owned by John McEntee from INCANTATION focussing mainly on old-school releases in the realm of death-, black- and thrash-metal releasing classic albums from bands such as: INCANTATION, ASPHYX, DENIAL FIEND, NECROPHAGIA, MASTER, AVULSED, PENTACLE and more.
Additionally HAMMERHEART RECORDS will release the second DENIAL FIEND album 'Horror Holocaust' in Europe under license of Ibex Moon. DENIAL FIEND features members of OBITUARY, The ACCUSED, SIX FEET UNDER, D.R.I and DOWN BY LAW producing a classic crossover mix that will appeal to fans of Municipal Waste, The Exploited and The Accused. More information on this release will be announced shortly.
More info; visit our labels section
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Hammerheart Records is proud to announce the ultimate VINYL-editions of six Pagan/Viking Metal classics under license from Napalm Records !!!
We present you four masterpieces by KAMPFAR being “Mellom Skogkledde Aaser”, “Fra Underverdenen”, “Kvass” and “Heimgang”.
Furthermore the ultimate Pagan band from Germany: FALKENBACH, of which the following two albums are going to be pressed on wax: “Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty” and “Heralding-the Fireblade” !!!
All six will come in a beautiful Gatefold-design, each release in 100 copies on clear vinyl and 400 in an artwork fitting colour…
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Nile
Worship the Animal
LP - Eur 11.95
This album is quite different from the Nile we know today, but that does not make it any less amazing. The album only has five songs, but it is in fact longer than Niles first actual CD.
The songs are all lengthy, which gives the tracks an epic fee...
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Rotted, The
Apathy In The UK
7" - Eur 3.95
Hammerheart Records are to release The Rotteds "Apathy In The UK" single on limited edition 7-Inch vinyl. The track is backed with "Drink Myself To Death" and a cover of Motörheads "Iron Fist", (both originally taken from the Anarchogram EP) and will...
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Macabre
Gloom
CD - Eur 9.95
"...he killed young girls, cut off their buttocks, only the most succulent meat he would eat..."
While 87s "Grim Reality" rips and shreds the surface of what MACABRE can concoct, "Gloom" massacres it with twenty-one more tracks that were carved in...
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Kampfar
Kvass
LP - Eur 13.95
A Masterpiece of Norwegian Black Metal Art !!! A True classic !!!
After a long break the older Norwegian viking black metal band KAMPFAR returned in 2006.
They had updated their sound a bit, songs are on the darker, more melancholic side.
They...
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Kampfar
Heimgang
LP - Eur 13.95
A Masterpiece of Norwegian Black Metal Art !!! A True classic !!!
KAMPFAR is one of the most brilliant bands in the whole black metal genre.
They perform straightforward raging mystical black metal.
This album transports you to a densely woode...
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Vader
Reborn in Chaos
CD - Eur 9.95
re-release....
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Mercenary
Everblack
CD - Eur 9.95
It iss not really easy task to make such an enjoyable album when it is just your sophomore effort, but Denmarks MERCENARY did this in 2002 with "Everblack".
Whereas previously MERCENARY were a pretty decent death/thrash band, the band truly develo...
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Mercenary
First Breath
CD - Eur 9.95
After 3 consecutive demos released in the middle of 90s, MERCENARY finally launched their first album entitled "First Breath" in 1998.
The first breath of these guys is a very brute one, unleashing some crushing melodic death metal with thrash influ...
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