Blood Axis ‎– The Gospel Of Inhumanity (1995)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. The Gospel Of Inhumanity 05:48
2. The Voyage (Canto I) 04:35
3. Eternal Soul 04:04
4. Between Birds Of Prey 08:16
5. Herr, Nun Laß In Frieden 05:02
6. Reign I Forever 06:16
7. Absinthe 07:07
8. Storm Of Steel 10:57

Blood Axis is an American Neofolk/Post-industrial band consisting of journalist and author Michael Moynihan, 
music producer Robert Ferbrache and musician and author Annabel Lee.
Moynihan formed Blood Axis in 1989 after touring Japan at the request of experimental music pioneer, Boyd Rice.
Moynihan had previously founded Coup de Grace, a multimedia project that produced live performances, 
cassettes and also released booklets of images and texts.
The first output from the new appellation were two songs, "Lord of Ages" and "Electricity".
In 1995, Moynihan released the first full length studio LP, The Gospel of Inhumanity with the help of Robert Ferbrache.
The album wedded the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Sergei Prokofiev with modern electronics.
Moynihan implemented a recording of Ezra Pound reading from his The Cantos.
He also included lyrics from Nietzsche and Longfellow as well as his own to the work.
The album begins with a sample from the decisive final sequence of the film The Wicker Man.
After the release of The Gospel of Inhumanity, Blood Axis acquired Moynihan's partner Annabel Lee, 
previously of Amber Asylum, as a permanent member contributing vocals, violin, accordion and various other instruments. This resulted in a considerably less electronic sound, a larger focus on Germanic polytheism and a more acoustic folk-based approach as well as covers of traditional recordings and continued use of historical European references.

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Velvet Acid Christ ‎– Calling Ov The Dead (1998)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Phucking Phreak 07:40

2. Malfunction 05:05
3. Bsat2 05:37
4. The Calling (Fuck Shit Mother Fucker Mix) 05:22
5. The Dead (Death Wish Mix) 05:11
6. Timeless Visions 07:58
7. Pray For Life 05:36
8. Exquisite Stench 05:55
9. The Hand (Violent Trance Mix) 06:01
10. Zix Zix Zix (666 Mix) 04:49
11. Decay 04:37

Velvet Acid Christ origins go back in an 80's high school electronics class, 

where Bryan and Chris would debate the merits of Amiga versus Atari.
Bryan and Grigory Bilham (an early member of VAC) were at the time working in a punk/funk band,

 which, by 1990, was altered to the trio of Bryan, Chris, and Grig.
The band's name was originally Cyberchrist, although this was changed within a few months to Velvet Acid Christ, 

named (so they say) in honor of a bad acid trip. Grig left the band in 1992, leaving the core of Bryan and Chris.
In 1996 Disease Factory was still selling the old VAC cds and gave some to Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly 

(a big influence on VAC in the beginning days) which lead to the press guy on the FLA tour getting his hands 

on the first Between The Eyes four-volume compilation material.
The press guy was Thorsten Stroht (former Klinik vocalist) and at that time one of the main people 

at Off Beat Records in Germany. He fell in love with VAC and demanded that it be signed to Off Beat or he would quit.
That was that, record deal happened.
The first demo of the Calling Ov The Dead CD was rejected by Off Beat, this led to band fighting. 

Money issues reared it ugly head, and the band was torn apart again. One member left permanently. 

Disease carried on with others from the Toxic Coma line up 

to re-write half of the Calling Ov The Dead demo and turn it into what it is now.
The album features many samples from movies like: Se7en, Scream, Twelve Monkeys, Sleepers, 
Hellraiser: Bloodline, Assassins, Extreme Measures, The Nutt House and also samples from the video game Harvester.  
Velvet Acid Christ is now solely Bryan Erickson.

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Nosferatu – Prince Of Darkness (1996)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Eye Of The Watcher 02:55
2. Ravage 05:21
3. Uninvited Guest 05:33
4. The Haunting (Main Mix) 04:58
5. Into The Night 05:35
6. The Passing 05:10
7. Graveyard Shift 05:48
8. Graveyard Shift (Outro) 00:33
9. The Haunting (Swamp Mix) 04:56
10. The Hunger 05:29
11. Invocation 06:18

Nosferatu is an English gothic rock band formed in March 1988 by Damien DeVille, Vlad Janicek, and Sapphire Aurora.
The band is considered one of the most successful second wave gothic rock groups.
Nosferatu have the credibility and good fortune of being one of the few UK-based gothic rock bands 
to receive chart success both in the UK and Germany.
The band has a repertoire of over 100 songs and have performed over 300 concerts in 14 countries.
The group has had numerous member changes. Damien DeVille is the only member to have been in the band all through its years history, and he has written a book about Nosferatu entitled "Vampyres Cry - The History of A Gothic Rock Band".
In 1996 "Prince Of Darkness" (named after the Hammer film "Dracula: Prince Of Darkness" was recorded 
and it was the first album featuring Dominic LaVey on vocals.

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Sirius – ...The Eclipse (The Summons Of The Warriors Of Armageddon) (Demo 1998)

Country: Portugal

Tracklist

1. Fiery Strife at the Cosmic Gates of Armageddon 06:21
2. Out of the Serpent Line 04:41
3. The Quest for Dreamlore Essence 02:24
4. Unveiled the Path of Algol, the Riddles Beyond the Stars 04:59

Sirius was formed in 1998 and eventually attracted the interest of Samoth (ex-Emperor), 

who signed the band to his Nocturnal Art Productions label. 

Classic symphonic black metal is the order of the day here, in the spirit of Emperor or labelmates Limbonic Art 

(members of both bands guested on Spectral Transition - Dimension Sirius album), 

showing the right amount of aggression as well as diversity in the songwriting.

At one point the band was reported to have moved to Norway and changed membership, 

but apparently the band is now disbanded.They released two full-length albums.
Daniel Cardoso (drums, keyboards, guitars) has teamed up with Norwegian Kristoffer G. Rygg (Ulver) 

to form Head Control System.

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Wind Of The Black Mountains – Sing Thou Unholy Servants (1996)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Forcefed into Blasphemy 06:12
2. An Autumn Evening (Darkness Crave) 03:10
3. Black Goat 03:29
4. Beautiful Sorrow 02:56
5. Adversary (Taste of Forsaken Desire) 10:20
6. The Rite of Darkness (Bathory cover) 03:33
7. The Shadow (Hill of the Horned Goat) 07:15
8. Thou Shall Not Mourn 02:47

Wind of the Black Mountains was formed in 1992 by Tchort of Masochist.
Due to the fact that he wanted to create sounds that he did not want to do with the other members in Masochist. 

He recorded an EP ‘Forcefed Into Blasphemy’ in 1992, which would be released on Moribund Records in 1994, 

followed by a demo in 1993. Also shot a video for ‘The Shadow’ which was never released.
WOTBM would become Tchorts full-time project. Not long after, Nybras joined as the full time drummer/song writer. 

The first album ‘Sing Thou Unholy Servants’ was recorded in 1996.

Tchort and Nybras entered Lau Productions once again to record ‘Black Sun Shall Rise’, 

which was released in March of 2002.
Shortly after the release of Black Sun…, Tchort decided he couldn’t go on with music anymore. 

Angzerhornbroals, of the long-time Illinois cult Black Torment, would join the band. 

In February of 2003 a full LP was supposed to be released on Barbarian Wrath Records 

but many problems caused the album to be delayed to this day. Sadly, in March of 2006, Tchort passed away, 

leaving Nybras continuing on with WOTBM.
Track number 3 ‘Black Goat’ is a black metal cover of Jefferson Airplane's ‘White Rabbit’ with altered lyrics.

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The Call Of The Four Gates – Host Of Chaos (Demo 1996)

Country: Austria

Tracklist

1. Intro: Desecration (Initiationsritus) 01:23
2. Host Of Chaos 00:38
3. Into The Eternal Mist 09:14
4. Hyperion (The Mighty Satanic Moon) 09:45
5. Leader Of The Nocturnal Army 06:37
06. Untitled Track 09:42
07. Untitled Track 13:56

Dark Occult Black Metal from Austria. Formed in 1992, they released just 2 demos, 

“Faturek - The Wolf” in 1995, and “Host of Chaos” in 1996. 

Their music was similar in to the Scandinavian black metal scene at the time, using mostly dark, 

slow to mid paced riffs and some subtle keyboards.

Reissued in 2005 with two untitled bonus tracks on the b-side which are included on the Memory Link.

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Helheim ‎– Jormundgand (1995)

Country: Norway

Tracklist

1. Jormundgand 07:48
2. Vigrids Vård 08:15
3. Nidr Ok Nordr Liggr Helvegr 04:28
4. Gravlagt I Eljudne 08:46
5. Svart Visdom 09:08
6. Jotnevandring 02:26
7. Nattravnens Tokt 05:10
8. Galder 03:15

Pagan-viking black metal from Helheim a band that started in 1992, 
with V’gandr (vocals-bass), H’grimnir (vocals-guitars) and Hrymr (drums-keys).
They played in several festivals in Bergen just to get live experience from the start.
In the mid of 1993 Nidhogg (ex-Einherjer) joined Helheim, and in the fall the same year 
they released their debut demo simply entitled “Helheim”. 
The demo never made its way outside the borderlines of Norway 
as the band realized that the released material simply wasn’t good enough.
Soon after they started writing new and more innovative material for their upcoming demo. 
It was at this point Nidhogg left the band. In mid 1994 “Nidr ok Nordr liggr Helvegr” saw the first ray of light, 
and it was at this point that the German label Solistitium Records got in touch with Helheim.
The band signed a two record deal contract, and released their debut CD “Jormundgand” (The Midgard Serpent) 
recorded in Grieghallen in 1995, and followed up with an European tour in 1996.
After the return from the tour Helheim immediately started working on new material for the follow up
 “Av Norrøn Ætt” (Of Norse Lineage) which turned out to be very different from the debut 
despite for the fact that both were recorded in Grieghallen.
The band since then has released 5 albums.

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