Valborg - Glorification Of Pain - Now Available only via Vendlus Store, Coming Summer everywhere -

Valborg was formed in spring 2002. The band recorded several songs
each month until summer 2003, which appear on the album “Songs for a
Year”, published via Zeitgeister Music. From 2003 until 2006 Valborg
produced eight more experimental tracks, which are still unreleased.
Then in summer 2007 they started to write new songs and entered the
Stonehenge Studio, owned by Oliver Weisskopf, in december 2007. 9
tracks have been recorded on analogue equipment. The band played
everything “live”, except for the vocals, some synths and some
guitars, no overdubs were used. The main intention was to catch the
true moments of playing together as a band, to make these more unique,
and to get a more natural dirty sound and old school feeling.

Line-Up “Glorification of Pain”:
Christian Kolf: Guitars, Vocals
Jan Buckard: Bass, Vocals
Patrick Schroeder: Drums

Christian Kolf is also a member in Island and Woburn House, which
released album on Vendlus Records and Paradigms Recordings. Patrick
Schroeder is also a member in Centaurus-A and played session drums for
Klabautamann.
Jan Buckard is known for his artworks for Woburn House and Island.

Monolithic - Black Science - Now Available only via Vendlus Store, Coming Summer everywhere -

MONOLITHIC is the two-headed audial monster consisting of Stian Westerhus (Jaga Jazzist, Puma, etc) on baritone guitar and Kenneth Kapstad (Motopsycho and previous member of Dadafon and Animal Alpha) on drums. This freaky creation delivers an incredibly infernal racket with their stripped down instrumentation - a duo making this much sound really doesn’t make any sense. For those of us that’s been so lucky to experience Monolithic as an audience member know that this is like being dragged though an infamous amount of audial rollercoasters - through insane industrial metal to shattering low-key free jazz - with both members going absolutely ballistics!

Monolithic has been going at it since 2005 and recorded the album ‘Black Science’ back in 2006. Up until now they’ve only blown the brains out of a bunch of Norwegian spectators and a pop-lovin’ Pitchfork-reviewer back in 2007, but now they’re coming to America via Vendlus and a joint collaboration between our close friends Rogbiff Records in Norway.

On ‘Black Science’ their experimental free jazz-metal is allowed an Access All Areas pass and the music moves just about everywhere - an internationally unique melting pot of genres. Tie yourself up and stand prepared for the most roughest and alternative albums of 2009

Upcoming Releases 2009:

More Progressive Titles
Island - Island - June/July 2009
Woburn House - Monstrous Manoeuvres In The Mushroom Maze August - 2009

The Black Metal Shift:
Nidingr - Wolf-Father Sept 2009
Toteninsel - Tribute - Sept 2009

April 15th, 2009
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Official Release Date is set to be April 10th in North America
Album can be purchased directly NOW!

The album is already available in Europe.

Fronted by vocalist Vilde Lockert, MAGENTA was formed in Norway in the summer of 1995 by Anders Odden, whose experience includes stints with bands such as APOPTYGMA BERZERK and CADAVER, as well as recording for SATYRICON, live guitarist with CELTIC FROST and guesting with MINISTRY. Over the years, the band has released a series of albums and singles, as well as a video with MORTIIS, and the current lineup was completed by guitarist Daniel Hill in 2006. Hill’s arrival signalled the start of a new dynamism and creativity for the band, which has culminated in the release of “Art And Accidents” on the All This And Music Too label on February 9.

The band has steadfastly refused to be stereotyped and likes to work outside of the conventional genre definitions, using elements that include rock, pop, metal, trip hop, electro, techno, industrial, new wave, gothic, acoustic, psychedelic, trance and film music. Odden best summed it up his creation like this: “MAGENTA is my playground where I can be as diverse and melodic as I want. Not being tied to any particular genre definition means we don’t have to restrict ourselves too narrowly, and allows us all to make the kind of music we feel like making at any given time. We all have a lot of musical experience in many genres, and as individuals we work with amazingly diverse types of artists, both in the studio and live, and each of us brings something a bit unique to the mix.”

Described by Odden as “THE HUMAN LEAGUE meeting SISTERS OF MERCY in a neon-lit dungeon,” “Art and Accidents” includes guest appearances by GOTHMINISTER, Jonas Groth and Stu Manx from GLUECIFER, and Angel and Geir from APOPTYGMA BERZERK, and is complemented by the release of two specially commissioned videos by Sandra Jensen for the track “Darkest Dream”.

“Art And Accidents” track listing:

01. Darkest Dream
02. Untouchable
03. To Die For (featuring Gothminister)
04. Black Tomorrow
05. The One
06. Massive Enigma (featuring Jonas Groth)
07. In Your Arms
08. Fallen Angel
09. Wasted Heart
10. No One Is With Me
11. Electric Fear (Elec This Mix)
12. Darkest Dream (Elec This Mix)
13. To Die For (original version)

The entire album is currently being streamed on MAGENTA’s MySpace page.

Below are the two official videos by Sandra Jensen for the track “Darkest Dream”.

March 10th, 2009
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It’s that time a year again. Island have been hard at work putting together their yearly Christmas song.

It can be found on their Myspace Site .

The cover for their debut self titled full length has also been revealed:

Expect this Release to drop Early 2009, along with Valborg’s debut “Glorification of Pain”

December 28th, 2008
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David currently wrapping up work on the follow up to his critically acclaimed debut “The Cataclysm” has posted two new tracks “Glory” and “The Last Days of War” on his myspace site. We encourage everyone to check them out, this album is going to be very special indeed. Soon to come will be the Album title and Artwork.

“The Cataclysm” is still available here

Click to venture into David Galas Myspace Page

November 1st, 2008
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The German duo Klabautamann have released two CDs, and are currently in the studio working on their third. In the meantime, their 2003 debut Our Journey Through The Woods is being re-released on Vendlus Records. It was originally self-released, and wasn’t widely available.

Klabautamann combines black metal with folk and progressive elements. They contrast harsh and dense black metal with softer and more introspective sections. Both styles are good on their own, and combined they are even more effective.

The mood and atmospheres shift along with the music. Obviously the black metal sections are going to be dark and oppressive. But Klabautamann shifts moods during the acoustic parts as well. Some are upbeat and almost cheery, while others are more downcast and ominous.

The vocals are traditional black metal rasps, which are also used on some of the acoustic sections, making for an unusual sound. Our Journey Through The Woods is one black/folk metal fans may have missed the first time around, and it’s a great way to get into Klabautamann while we await new material.

(released September 2, 2008 on Vendlus Records)

http://heavymetal.about.com/od/cdreviews/fr/klabautamannour.htm

October 21st, 2008
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In 1883, Arnold Bocklin created the painting that has mesmerized artists from all around the globe and has been paid homage in every medium known to man. A project was put together by Raphael of Sael to pay homage by gathering up musicians within the underground metal community. 21 bands have been found and finally the tracks are starting to formulate into something we have become very excited to release.

The tentative list of artists is currently:

01 - ANGMAR (FRANCE)
02 - ART OF THE BLACK BLOOD (USA)
03 - ASMODEE (FRANCE)
04 - BLOODOLINE (SPAIN)
05 - BLUT AUS NORD (FRANCE)
06 - DAVID GALAS (USA)
07 - EXECRATION (NORWAY)
08 - FARSOT (DEUTSCHLAND)
09 - FEN (UK)
10 - FORTID (ICELAND)
11 - FOSCOR (SPAIN)
12 - FROSTMOON ECLIPSE (ITALY)
13 - ISLAND (DEUTSCHLAND)
14 - JUVENILE BAROQUE SLAUGHTERHOUSE (UK)
15 - GLORIOR BELLI (FRANCE)
16 - ODEM ARCARUM (DEUTSCHLAND)
17 - REVERENCE (FRANCE)
18 - SAEL (FRANCE)
19 - SMOHALLA (FRANCE)
20 - UMORAL (NORWAY)
21 - WAY TO END (FRANCE)

October 6th, 2008
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October 2nd, 2008
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If you haven’t had a chance to check out this gem we just released, we highly suggest you do, while you are at it pick up the new Atomine Elektrine. They pair nicely.

From Vital Weekly:

Norwegian artist Kim Sølve is the brain behind a number of visual artworks within the black metal scene, counting cover arts for important bands such as Darkthrone and Mayhem. Beside his working on visual artwork, Kim Sølve also has a foot in the sonic arts. Two new albums demonstrate the musical approach of the artist. First project is called Swarms. As the name suggests, the style is drone ambient on this latest album titled “The silver hour”. Apart from Kim Sølve, Swarms consists of Peter Berntsen, Bjeima and Qeriq. The expression is extremely dark turning associations towards classics such as Lustmord’s “The place where the black stars hang” (Soleilmoon, 1994) and Inade’s “Aldebaran” (Cold Spring, 1996). Five intersections, with titles such as “Asleep in silver residue” and “Children mimicking shadows”, floats in atmospheres of deep rumbling drones sometimes sounding like the buzzing of heavy bee swarms. With the addition of Industrial noises and strange otherworldly sounds,
especially final track “He came as swarms” pulls the listener into an hypnotic state of listening with its almost half hour runtime.

September 23rd, 2008
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We now have a new address for all clever demos and correspondence.

Vendlus Records
P.O. Box 25854
Alexandria, VA 22313 USA

Please take note and send here, we will be forwarding our old mail for a few weeks so if you sent a demo recently fret not, we will recieve it hopefully. If you are worried feel free to email us and check if we got the package.

Joseph // Vendlus

August 26th, 2008
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July 26th, 2008
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