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TOMORROW’S RAIN Announces New Album, Ovdan, Feat. Guests From Mayhem, Dark Funeral, Mercyful Fate & More

Israeli gothic doom metal band TOMORROW’S RAIN announces their 2nd album, Ovdan, will be released on April 19th with AOP Records. The highly anticipated record the region’s rising band features guest collaborators from Mayhem, Sol Invictus, Dark Funeral, Mercyful Fate and Sisters of Mercy to name a few. Commenting on the impending record, the band states: “We are excited to announce our upcoming second full length album, Ovdan, to be released via A.O.P Records in April. …the album was written and recorded during a dark period in our lives and the creative process was in fact our cure to get […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Harakiri For The Sky – Maere

Austrian duo HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY’s been at it for a decade as of 2021, and it shows. Over this time, Messrs. M.S. (Instruments) and J.J. (Vocals) crafted a space for themselves with their first three albums, moving – I feel – truly into something of their own with 2018’s Arson, a true benchmark, which could’ve seen the band take any one of a few divergent paths, and do so credibly, turning HFTS into something “other” than it was at its birthing. From the opening tones of ‘I, Pallbearer’, one can feel something of the cinematic, the first minute or […]

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HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY’S NEW ALBUM, MÆRE, IS OUT TODAY

The malicious Mӕre has come to haunt you in your sleep and might be the reason why you haven’t been able to breathe at night for quite a few months now. With their latest album being finally released today, Austria’s blackgaze pioneers HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY perfectly capture the beauty of paralysis and despair and release this fifth studio album right in time for their 10th band anniversary. While Legacy magazine (GER) proclaimed the album to be a “must have release for 2021 “and Scream (NO) praising it to be “so captivating that one doesn’t even notice its massive length […]

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THE SPIRIT SIGN TO AOP RECORDS; NEW ALBUM COMING EARLY 2020

Los Angeles, CA – AOP Records is happy to announce the signing of new aeon black/death metal masters THE SPIRIT. Two and a half years after the self-release of their internationally lauded debut album Sounds From The Vortex (re-released on Nuclear Blast in August 2018) and an extensive European tour with Hypocrisy and Kataklysm, the German combo from Saarbrücken has completed the recording of their sophomore studio effort. Due to be released in early 2020 via AOP Records, this new full-length album will see the band following their path between (melodic) black and death metal. Prepare to get lost in […]