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BELFEGOR
"The Kingdom of Glacial Palaces"
EMP 001 CD/MC
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Info: The debut album from the hope of the Polish black metal scene. The extreme presentation of primeval fury, speed and brutality. BELFEGOR are the prime example of untainted tradition of best black manifests. For early IMMORTAL, MARDUK and DARK FUNERAL fans only!
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SCEPTIC
"Pathetic Being"
EMP 002 CD/MC
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Info: The sophomore effort from one of the best young bands of recent years. "Pathetic Being" has made the band popular not only in Poland, but thanks to licensing deals with Last Episode and Crash Music also in Europe and both Americas. Modern technical death metal with superb soloing. A must for fans of DEATH, ATHEIST and other death metal virtuosos.
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SACRIVERSUM
"Beckettia"
EMP 003 CD/MC
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Info: "Beckettia" is another offering by these masters of gothic metal. This album is like a cold, autumnal evening in which all melodies are dimmed with the fog of despair and burdened with the mark of hopelessness. The album's atmosphere is extended by the conceptual lyrics happening in the world of Samuel Beckett's characters.
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NEPHASTH
"Immortal Unholy Triumph"
EMP 004 CD/MC
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Info: The hope of the Brazilian death scene. The most serious competitors of KRISIUN and REBAELLIUN, the band has been featured on Relapse Records' prestigious "Brazilian Assault" sampler. Their music is a masterful combination of technique, speed and brutality - all the true Brazilian way!
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HORRORSCOPE
"Pictures of Pain"
EMP 005 CD/MC
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Info: Modern thrash metal for all fans of heavy and rhythm-driven music. "Pictures of Pain" features 50 minutes of excellent and energetic metal, which has already become the band's trademark. Firm and melodious vocals, spectacular guitars passages and ultra-fast solos make HORRORSCOPE the first true thrash metal bands from Central Europe. Fans of OVERKILL, TESTAMENT and ANNIHILATOR will not regret the purchase.
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ESQARIAL
"Discoveries"
EMP 006 CD/MC
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Info: The second sensational album unveiling the new unique angle of death metal. Brutality and aggression combine here with beautiful guitar passages enacting the unholy marriage of the canonical death and the virtuosity of the Vai and Satriani school. Very technical, very melodious, very impressive. The album also features a multimedia presentation. For fans of MORBID ANGEL and... STEVE VAI!
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BELFEGOR
"The Work of Destruction"
EMP 007 CD/MC
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Info: Another hellish offering from these BELFEGOR guys! "The Work of Destruction" is intended only for the most orthodox black metal maniacs. Lightning-fast pace, fury, merciless vocals and the unyielding wall of guitars. The album contains a video-clip. For fans of old IMMORTAL and DARK FUNERAL.
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PARRICIDE
"Ill-treat"
EMP 008 CD
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Info: The veterans of the Polish scene are alive and kicking. "Ill-treat" is a piece of ultra-brutal and intense death metal, which clearly proves that PARRICIDE have mastered the art of congealing butchering rhythms in the best American vein. Contains CANNIBAL CORPSE's cover of "Hammer Smashed Face." The Empire edition comes with the entirely new mastering and cover. Not available for domestic sales in Poland.
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CONTEMPT
"The Secret Around Us"
EMP 009 CD
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Info: The hope of the Slovakian death metal scene. The debut album puts CONTEMPT on a par with their country-mates DEMENTOR and SANATORIUM. "The Secret Around Us" features 12 extreme cuts - all very technical, very fast and very brutal. Excellent selective and tons of energy. Very real alternative to fans of not only Slovakian death metal. Especially recommended to NILE, VADER and MALEVOLENT CREATION lovers.
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EXCOMMUNION
"Superion"
EMP 010 CD
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Info: EXCOMMUNION from the Colorado, may become one of the sensations of 2002 for a number of reasons. Their brutal and blasphemous death metal in the vein of IMMOLATION, INCANTATION and MORBID ANGEL promises much more than another heavy slab of noise. "Superion" will feature 6 extended tracks ("Rendering The Demon Gate," "Serpent Of Deep," "Until Oblivion," "The Rites Of The Excommunion," "Suffering Unto The Damned" and "Superion"), which will clock in just under 40 minutes. Get ready for the ultimate blasphemy.
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DISSENTER
"Apocalypse of the Damned"
EMP 011 CD
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Info: DISSENTER are one of the oldest death metal outfits in the Polish scene, previously known as BLOODLUST. "Apocalypse of the Damned" is the band's sophomore effort comprising 10 tracks in the technical, heavy and dynamic MORBID ANGEL vein. Supreme musicianship with some truly outstanding guitar solos, many slow-downs and monumental passages combined with blast beats and tempo changes make this album an obligatory purchase for every death-head out there. Certainly one of the more interesting albums of th year. Internationally available through the Dutch Cold Blood Industries.
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VADER
"Angel of Death"
EMP 012 CDS-E
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Info: This 2-track CD single paving the way for the brand new album "Revelations" features "Angel of Death" (the THIN LIZZY cover with guest guitar solos from Jacek Hiro and keyboard backdrops from U. of the LUX OCCULTA fame) and "When Darkness Calls." As an extra, the fans get the multimedia studio report and a selection of the band's photos. Only 666 copies available from the stockists.
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LOST SOUL
"Ubermensch (Death Of God)"
EMP 015 CD
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Info: With this record LOST SOUL has signed a deal with Osmose Production. So, it would be a sufficient recommendation for its quality. In the compare with their previous record "Scream...", this album goes deeper into extreme and atmospheric music. Uncontrolled power and balance between death metal riffs and black metal feelings. "Ubermensch (Death Of God)" is for sure one of the most interesting releases of 2002 on European scene.
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ESQARIAL
"Inheritance"
EMP 019 CD
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Info: A long-awaited successor of very successful "Discoveries" album! "Inheritance" is still a very ambitious stuff, but in the other hand this is also a very different record than their previous one. This time ESQARIAL wrote more energetic stuff and did more powerful production. We have no doubt, "Inheritance" kilzzz!
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CRIONICS
"Human Error: Ways To Selfdestruction"
EMP 020 CD
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Info: Polish newcomers and their first, full-length record it's a simply way to selfdestruction. An excellent production of Hertz Studio, blasting beats of MORBID ANGEL, mighty riffs of DIMMU BORGIR...CRIONICS is ready to tear your flesh piece by piece with their chaotic and dangerous music.
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CONTEMPT
"When Angels Begin To Cry"
EMP 021 CD
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Info: CONTEMPT comes back with their second, full-length, killing album "When Angels Begin To Cry". As on their debut "The Secret Around Us" four Slovakian executioners present extremely violent and totally uncompromising death metal massacre.
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VESANIA
"Firefrost Arcanum"
EMP 022 CD
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Info: One of the most surprising Black Metal acts from Poland. Their long awaited debut album "Firefrost Arcanum" includes 10 songs in a vein of old EMPEROR. VESANIA is Black Metal's brutal madness, a mad vision in a mad form. Have you ever seen a frozen flame?
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HATE
"Awakening Of The Liar"
EMP CD 023
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Info: New album of Polish death metal monster. HATE has always been known for its unique and sophisticated art of killing. So, their new album promises much more than another slab of noise. No mercy, no salvation- there's only a pure hate and anger. The liar has awoken.
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MUTILATION
"Possesed By Reality"
EMP CD 024
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Info: MUTILATION has returned to their original style and now the band plays heavy, solid death metal, inspired by works of BOLT THROWER and BENEDICTION. There's no place for blasting beats and superfast solos. Only for death metal warriors! "Possessed By Reality" contains 7 songs and BOLTH THROWER's cover "Cenotaph".
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DISSENTER
"Contamination"
EMP CD 025
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Info: Masterpiece!!! DISSENTER strikes back! Their brand new album "Contamination" is another act of terror of those death metal martyrs! Amazing production (Hertz Studio), geat skills, great arrangements, intensity and strength... No doubt, "Contamination" is one of the best death metal records in 2003!!!
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SPINAL CORD
"Remedy"
EMP CD 026
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Info: SPINAL CORD's debut album "Remedy" is a very interesting combination of death and thrash metal genres, inspired mainly with bands like TESTAMENT, MESHUGGAH, NAPALM DEATH, CYNIC, SOILWORK and BLACK LABEL SOCIETY. It's simply a perfect record for every fan of really heavy music. The album contains 11 songs and intro.
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ATROPHIA RED SUN
"Twisted Logic"
EMP CD 028
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Info: New album of ATROPHIA RED SUN speaks for itself. Band's point of view on death metal music is totally fresh and open minded. Their intelligence can be heard almost in every single tone. It's conceivable that "Twisted Logic" will turn out to be one of the most sensational records of 2003.
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SCEPTIC
"Unbeliever's Script"
EMP CD 029
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Info: The third album of one of the most important Polish death metal bands ever. "Unbeliever's Script" presents more sophisticated and matured side of the band. Once again you can hear great riffs and amazing solos of Jacek Hiro, powerful rhythm section and aggressive vocal lines of Marcin Urba¶ (again!) High class of death metal!!!
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TRAUMA
"Imperfect Like A God"
EMP CD 031
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Info: War goes on! Long awaited, brand new album of Polish death metal killers "Imperfect Like A God" presents the highest standards of death metal precision blended with powerfull production and stunning layout. This time TRAUMA has no mercy!!!
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NEOLITHIC
"Team 666"
EMP CD 032
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Info:
Newest MCD of Polish heavy rockers, released on their 10th anniversary. "Team 666" contains a few brand new songs, videoclips and other multimedia extras. Recommended especially for diehard fans. Team 666 is here!!!
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SHADOWS LAND
"Ante Christum (Natum)"
EMP CD 033
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Info:
The debut release of Polish death black metallers set up new standards in extreme music. Aggressive, chaotic parts blended with electronics. The band has recently signed with Osmose Productions!
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NEPHASTH
"Conceived By Inhuman Blood"
EMP CD 034
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Info:
Brazilian death metal tornado NEPHASTH strikes back with the second album "Conceived By Inhuman Blood". Perfectly executed death metal directly from South America- no respect for the biggest bands on death metal scene!!!
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ESQARIAL & KUPCZYK
"Klassika"
EMP CD 035
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Info:
Technical death metal blended with classical variations ((Prelude D-moll, Requiem, El Fuego, Moonlight Sonata and many others) and melodic vocal lines of Grzegorz Kupczyk (TURBO, CETI). If you think about another, typical heavy metal record- you are totally wrong!
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NAUMACHIA
"Wrathorn"
EMP CD 036
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One of the most promising Polish newcomers! Superb mixture between death and symphonic black metal elements. If you like bands like CHILDREN OF BODOM, DIMMU BORGIR and ROTTING CHRIST, you had better check this record!
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MUTILATION
"Conflict Inside"
EMP CD 037
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Info:The second full length attack of Polish bulldozer! MUTILATION is one of very few bands which stand on opposite to the amount of bands who lost pure death metal roots on the quest of experimenting with new styles. No mercy from the very beginning of the album ’till the end, vulgar and chaotic vocals, slow tempos blended with extremely heavy guitar riffs will press you into the ground!
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ABUSED MAJESTY
"Serpenthrone"
EMP CD 038
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Info:
"Serpenthrone" is a perfect combination of typical black metal feeling with crushing death metal riffs. With that album Polish ABUSED MAJESTY takes the meaning of dark & brutal music to a new dimension. Twisted and intense, brutal and intelligent, no matter if you like death or black metal, this is an essential purchase.
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PYORRHOEA
"Desire For Torment"
EMP CD 039
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Info:
Long awaited, debut album of one of the most promising Polish bands. 14 songs of pure, death grind carnage, Napalm Death meets Terrorizer. The most brutal act from Empire records! PYORRHOEA takes no prisoners!
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VADER
"Beware The Beast"
EMP CD 040-S
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Info:The 1st single from the upcoming VADER's new album "The Beast". The release contains two new songs (Dark Transmission, Stranger In The Mirror), 30-minutes report from the studio and video for
"Dark Transmission". Beware the Beast!!!
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CRIONICS
"Armageddon's Evolution"
EMP CD 041
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Info:Long- awaited and pretty sensational album of one of the most promising extreme bands coming from Poland. Their highly aggressive and majestic Black Metal will possess your body, your soul and your mind. CRIONICS has never been so strong!
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SUPREMACY
"Through Endless Torment"
EMP CD 042
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Info:Death metal tornado from Slovenia and their debut full length opus will turn your house into a constant battlefield. The album made of intense death metal riffs, extremely powerful rhytmical section and crushing vocals, no compromise!
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ANAL STENCH
"Red Revolution"
EMP CD 043
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Info: ANAL STENCH commando consisted of members known from bands like DECAPITATED, THY DISEASE, SCEPTIC, VIRGIN SNATCH has prepared for you another portion of intelligent brutality. Their second album "Red Revolution" will fill your hearts with love to colour red and brutal metal.
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SPINAL CORD
"Stigmata Of Life"
EMP CD 044
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Info:Faster, heavier, more to the point than on "Remedy" album, that's what the second effort of Polish death- thrash sensation SPINAL CORD is all about. "Stigmata Of Life" will take you into hell and back. 12 songs of pure devastation. Band's line up features Novy from VADER on bass!
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CHAINSAW
"The Journey Into The Heart Of Darkness"
EMP 045 CD
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The second full length album of Polish sensation CHAINSAW. "The Journey Into The Heart Of Darkness" is a very versatile, powerful and melodic record, blending many different styles and incorporating many different elements. Heavy metal masterpiece!
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LOST SOUL
"Chaostream"
EMP 046 CD
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The third record in band's discography. With "Chaostream" LOST SOUL show that they are stronger than ever! Featuring 9 songs of intricate Death Metal savagery, ferocious technical structures and a true devotion to Death Metal's uncompromising formula. Worldwide release through Wicked World/ Earache Records
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DEMISE
"Torture Garden"
EMP 047 CD
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After a few years of silence Polish DEMISE comes back with a brand new album. "Torture Garden" is the third and most diverse album of the band. The ultimate power and heaviness of death metal blended with intelligence and great skills. Features a guest appearance of mighty James Murphy!
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VESANIA
"God The Lux"
EMP 048 CD
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The second album of VESANIA proclaimes a new quality in black metal art. Exploding wall of fire, breathes with strenght and intensity,
"God The Lux" is an album you have never heard before. After a very solid debut album the band has created a masterpiece!
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ARCHEON
"End Of The Weakness"
EMP 049 CD
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The debut album of Polish ARCHEON represents all the great values of modern heavy music. It's safe to say, "End Of The Weakness" is a grandiose mixture of melody & heaviness, guitar harmonies & evocative atmosphere, suspended somewhere between metal and classic.
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DISSENTER
"Furor Arma Ministrat"
EMP 050 CD
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Brutal death metal tornado DISSENTER comes back with a brand new album "Furor Arma Ministrat"! They have never been so strong, so inhuman, so devilish! You can expect another killing album, full of twisted riffs, sick melodies and filthy sound. Death approaches!
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TRAUMA
"DetermiNation"
EMP 051 CD
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This is how technical extreme metal should sound. This is what extreme art is all about. If you say death metal then you should keep your eyes open for TRAUMA and their new album "DetermiNation"- just the essence of the whole genre! We can assure you a blasting experience!
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TOTEM
"Day Before The End"
EMP 052 CD
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Another shitty- trendy metalcore album? Definitely not! "Day Before The End" presents a grandiose mixture of death, thrash metal influences. Imagine old SEPULTURA, SLAYER elements combined with a gently touch of ARCH ENEMY guitar-driven songs and check this out!
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CETI
"The Best From Hard Zone vol.1"
EMP 053 CD
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The best songs of leading Polish classic heavy metal act- CETI gathered on one CD. Pure essence of their unique style plus one new track taken from band's upcoming, new studio album.
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HATE
"Anaclasis: A Haunting Gospel Of Malice & Hatred"
EMP 054 CD
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New studio album, new face of HATE. Cold, breathtaking and loaded with industrial samples, wrapped up in a huge production. "Anaclasis" is one of the few death metal records that surprise!
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ELYSIUM
"Godfather"
EMP 055 CD
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Vicious mixture of death, thrash metal elements blended with exploding production, powerful drums, superheavy riffs and crushing vocals- that's what "Godfather" is all about. Bang your head for Satan!
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SAMMATH NAUR
"Self-Proclaimed Existence"
EMP 056 CD
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SAMMATH NAUR's "Self-Proclaimed Existence" holds the feeling of avantgarde black, death, doom metal but it's much more complex and diverse than a typical metal release. The band set new standards in metal music!
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HERMH
"Eden's Fire"
EMP 057 CD
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Ten years after "Angeldemon" re-united HERMH return with the most powerful, complex and bombastic album in their career. "Eden's Fire" is just the pure essence of modern, symphonic black metal.
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THY DISEASE
"Rat Age (Sworn Kinds Final Verses)"
EMP 058 CD
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"Rat Age" offers a unique, absorbing mixture of death metal heaviness and futuristic feeling of electronics. Metal soundtrack to a conceptual story about mankind's extermination and borders of humanity!
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PYORRHOEA
"The Eleventh: Thou Shalt Be My Slave"
EMP 059 CD
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Rhythmical intensity mixed with massive guitar riffing and powerful growling! The second album of Polish PYORRHOEA (featuring Cyprian from HATE) entitled "The Eleventh: Thou Shalt Be My Slave" will surely not disappoint any of extreme death grind maniacs.
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SHADOWS LAND
"Terminus Ante Quem"
EMP 060 CD
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One of the most original and perverse Polish bands in recent years returns with their second album. "Terminus Ante Quem" contains eight songs of intricate, complex and very brutal black death metal music intelligently combined with electronics.
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BLINDEAD
"Devouring Weakness"
EMP 061 CD
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BLINDEAD's debut album "Devouring Weakness" is a perfect offering for fans of sludgy styled doom in the vein of such bands as NEUROSIS, ISIS, PELICAN and others. These six ultraheavy songs require your full attention!
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Empire Records catalogue part I
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