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When talking about Teutonic (German) Thrash Legend Pioneers it's essential to speak of ACCUER with the same hushed reverence as SODOM, KREATOR, and DESTRUCTION. ACCUER is a thrash metal band from Kreuztal, Germany that formed in the early 80's flying the crunchy speed & thrash metal flag with all the fervor of the most intense mosh pit imaginable. Despite not landing a contract with a major label for their early albums, the band continued to release a string of successful underground releases before disbanding for eight years. After Frank and René decided to get Accuser back together, the saga continued with the band releasing one album with Century Media and their three most recent albums with Metal Blade Records. The guitars are energetic and thick as a brick with aggressive melodic vocals. ACCUER is the perfect band for those who worship at the altar of technical thrash and speed metal in the vein of classic Metallica, Slayer, Believer, Death Angel, Dark Angel and Deliverance. With such strong lyrical content and musical brilliance, fans can now have access to these previously high-priced collectibles. These are essential head-bangers! Now available on heavy weight, limited run vinyl!
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Agathe, a multi-disciplinary artist from Normandy and graduated from the Arts School of Caen, not only writes her texts and composes her songs but also produces her videos, her covers and performs on stage in solo or duo. After a first EP produced in a DIY way, she will release in May 2023 her first album "Beautiful Damages" with the December Square label. His minimalist and dark universe, with folk, blues and pop-indie roots, is reminiscent of influences such as Cat Power, Michelle Gurevich and Soko. Agathe has already shared the stage with Herman Dune and she make part of the regional selection of the springboards for the Inouïs du Printemps de Bourges 2023.
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The quintessence of Alcest "Les voyages de l'Ame" ("The Journeys of the Soul") is Alcest's third album and contains the quintessence of the group's creative work to date. While "Le secret," the debut EP from 2005, was the key to the world of Alcest, "Les voyages..." unites everything that characterises Alcest in terms of concept and music. While an epic composition such as "Là Où naissent les couleurs nouvelles" would have found it's place also on "Écailles de lune," "Beings of Light" with it's blazing character reminds of the ground-breaking "Le secret." On the other hand, "Autre temps", the album's first single to which there is also an impressive and visually stunning video clip, is a prime example for the melodic and catchy side of Alcest that initially came to the fore on the band's debut album "Souvenirs d'un autre monde." Something that is common to all of the songs, however, is the predominant feeling of euphoria and bliss, always subtly overshadowed by melancholia and yearning. Picture LP in green protection sleeve, printed with gold text.
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Limited vinyl LP pressing. 2009 album from the Towson, Maryland-based punk rock band. The follow-up to their highly acclaimed debut So Wrong, It's Right (180K albums sold; 1.2 million tracks sold). Catchy songs, witty lyrics, and the band's irresistible tongue in cheek personality are all present here. The band went out of their way to stretch their songwriting muscle, working with a variety of superstar producers including Butch Walker, David Bendeth, Matt Squire, and others. Includes 'Break Your Little Heart', 'Lost In Stereo', 'Weightless', 'Sick Little Games' and many more. RIYL: Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, New Found Glory, All American Rejects, Paramore.
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Born in march 2000, Angelus Apatrida became in few years one of the most important Spanish thrash metal bands. Many demos and band members passed through the history of Angelus Apatrida but it was in January 2003 that the band decided to write pounding thrash metal, mostly influenced by like Pantera, Megadeth, Overkill, Anthrax or Annihilator. Angelus Apatrida released their 7th, self-titled album in 2021 and conquered the top of the official album charts in Spain (#1) and it also marked the band's first ever chart entries in Germany (#49) and Switzerland (#41). The band 's classic album' Clockwork', 'The Call' and ' Hidden Revolution' have been much sought after in vinyl format and reached ridiculously high prices online. Listenable is now happy to reissue those albums in limited edition coloured vinyls with brand new vinyl mastering and meet the huge demand !. First come First served !, for fans of Testament, Exodus, Megadeth, Annihilator
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Deluxe vinyl LP pressing. Blink Twice is the eighth studio album by Canadian pop rock band Arkells, originally released in 2022. It is a companion album to their 2021 record Blink Once and sports a similar cover design.
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A spectacular collection of live tracks by Texas swing traditionalists Asleep at the Wheel, presented on gorgeous vinyl! Includes boot-stomping performances of the classics "Choo Choo Ch' Boogie," "The Letter That Johnny Walker Read" (#10 Country Singles chart), "Hot Rod Lincoln" and much, much more!
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Limited orange colored vinyl. Avenged Sevenfold's 8th studio album, Life Is But A Dream, is best served as a whole and consumed en masse to truly appreciate it's musical breadth and sonic depth. Written and recorded over the span of 4 years, it was produced by Joe Barresi and Avenged Sevenfold in Los Angeles and mixed by Andy Wallace in the Poconos, PA. The album is a journey through an existential crisis; a very personal exploration into the meaning, purpose and value of human existence with the anxiety of death always looming.
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Vinyl LP pressing. Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village is a 1967 live album by saxophonist Albert Ayler. It was his first album for Impulse! Records, and is generally regarded as being his best for the label.
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MCs don't come much more authentic and old school rooted than Afrika Baby Bam. An original Jungle Brother and consistent party starter, his honeyed tone and smooth flow is distinctive within two bars. The same can be said for legendary big beaters Skeewif who take care of all grooves on this exceptional album. Sleazy, sassy and ultimately timeless; this has golden age stamped all over it. Highlights include the pant-burning Ugly Duckling style singalong "Set It Off", the sunny-side skanks of "Real Talk" and the scorchio come-to-bed west coast sizzler "The Blueprint". Perfect summer sounds.
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Scare Flair Records is honored to present THE GRAND DUEL (IL GRANDE DUELLO) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by LUIS BACALOV! Directed by Giancarlo Santi, The Grand Duel is a 1972 spaghetti western that is a bloody and complex tale of revenge. This full and expanded deluxe edition features four new tracks, brand new artwork by Tony Stella, exclusive liner notes from Tough Guy Film Expert Mike Malloy, and is the first time that this soundtrack has ever been available on vinyl. Lee Van Cleef stars as Clayton, a gnarled ex-sheriff, who comes to the aid of a young Phillip Vermeer who has been framed for the killing of a powerful figure called The Patriarch. Clayton helps Vermeer fend off a gang of bounty hunters, and face three villains to find out who really killed the Patriarch. The film is filled with exciting gunfights and stunts that have helped the film to be considered one the greatest spaghetti westerns ever made. Filled with sinister music not typical of the western, The Grand Duel is a powerful score by Academy Award Winning composer Luis Bacalov (Il Postino: The Postman) that had cues handpicked and used to perfection by Quentin Tarantino in his 2004 film Kill Bill Volume 1 for the animated Origin of O-Ren Ishii scenes. It features harmonica playing from Franco de Gemini (Once Upon a Time in the West), vocals by Edda Dell'Orso (The Ecstasy of Gold in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), as well as choir work from I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni (Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy).
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'Sim Sim Sim' is the Latin Grammy award-winning debut album from Bala Desejo. A band who are at the forefront of Rio de Janeiro's artistic renaissance, they channel influences of Brazilian 60s Tropicália, 70s psychedelia and MPB to create a nostalgic, yet joyfully, avant-garde sound. The band is comprised of four distinct characters, each one an incredible talent in their own right and each with impressive credentials in the Brazilian Independent music scene. Central to the resurgent Rio de Janeiro musical community, the quartet of Dora Morelenbaum, Julia Mestre, Lucas Nunes and Zé Ibarra thrive in a group dynamic. They formed Bala Desejo to play collaboratively for a festival date in 2021, but when that show became a victim of pandemic shutdowns the idea for an album project materialised.
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'Sim Sim Sim' is the Latin Grammy award-winning debut album from Bala Desejo. A band who are at the forefront of Rio de Janeiro's artistic renaissance, they channel influences of Brazilian 60s Tropicália, 70s psychedelia and MPB to create a nostalgic, yet joyfully, avant-garde sound. The band is comprised of four distinct characters, each one an incredible talent in their own right and each with impressive credentials in the Brazilian Independent music scene. Central to the resurgent Rio de Janeiro musical community, the quartet of Dora Morelenbaum, Julia Mestre, Lucas Nunes and Zé Ibarra thrive in a group dynamic. They formed Bala Desejo to play collaboratively for a festival date in 2021, but when that show became a victim of pandemic shutdowns the idea for an album project materialised.
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Been Stellar is what you get when you leave the youth alone in a metropolis; they grow up. They make noise. Their songs are formed and lived somewhere on Broadway, on Hester, on 34th, in Union Square, on the bridge, in the gutter, and under your shoe. The trivial street scenes lipsticked by well-loved decades are fully recognized in Been Stellar's hail of guitar tones and insistent lyrical earnesty. Crackly, bright and distorted - stories of violence, love, and a new, un-glamorous, New York City.
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Vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 2000, Antichristian Phenomenon contains a series of tracks recorded during the Thelema.6 sessions, self-produced at Hendrix Studios in Poland, including new material, reworked material, and cover songs from Sarcofago and - in the face of convention - David Bowie. Additionally, the release also contained covers of the Morbid Angel classic 'Day of Suffering' and the timeless 'Carnage' by Norwegian black metal legends, Mayhem.
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Pacific Northwestern doom metal monolith Bell Witch is releasing their new album Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate. For this new album, bassist / vocalist Dylan Desmond and drummer / vocalist Jesse Shreibman exploded Bell Witch's bounds. Like 2017's lauded Mirror Reaper, The Clandestine Gate is a single 83-minute track-a composition that pulses and breathes on a filmic timeframe. It constitutes the first chapter in a planned triptych of longform albums, collectively called Future's Shadow. While traces of organ and synthesizer hovered over Mirror Reaper and Bell Witch's 2020 collaboration with Aerial Ruin, Stygian Bough Volume 1, The Clandestine Gate drew those instruments closer to the center of it's compositions. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. On this latest, the band's twinned voices build off of the chantlike textures of previous records while steering toward more developed melodic lines, structured harmonies, and rhythmic death metal growls.The immense gravity of a work like The Clandestine Gate, which features exclusive stunning cover art by Jordi Diaz Alama, allows ideas to simmer in a way that feels profoundly and somatically intuitive-not just a philosophical exercise, but an embodied truth. By slowing down both their creative process and the tempo of the music itself, Bell Witch digs even deeper into their long standing focus: the way life spills on inside it's minuscule container, both eternal and fleeting, a chord that echoes without resolution.
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A classy compilation worthy of one of the greatest American vocalists in history, Tony Bennett - available on vinyl for the first time ever! Featuring recordings from the late '50s including the timeless classics "Anything Goes," "With Plenty Of Money And You," "Chicago," "Jeepers Creepers" and more! Guest appearance by Count Basie on piano! Available on GOLD vinyl!
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Vinyl LP pressing. "She can be a real pain in the ass," is how Big Blood's Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella describe having their daughter as a member of the band they formed in the wake of Cerberus Shoal's dissolution. A band made up of family seems like an ideal situation. You get to play with those you love, and practicing/recording is always just a matter of going into the next room. "If you don't have kids, I can imagine that is an obvious assumption," Caleb says. "However, if you do have children, I don't need to explain how much of an emotional mess this can be." Parents don't stop being parents, nor do kids stop being kids for band practice. "There are endless amounts of broader 'life' examples brought up at any given time while playing with Quinnisa, and I can't help stopping to discuss them as they come up," he says. He understands Quinnisa's position. "She's rightly annoyed at being parented in a 'judgment free' zone. Lots of practices end with her being tossed from the band."
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Limited purple colored vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. On Exorcist, Birchwood delivers the most far-reaching, musically adventurous album of his career. Exorcist was recorded in Florida and produced by Grammy Award-winner Tom Hambridge, with each of the 13 vividly detailed songs written and arranged by Birchwood. The soul-baring tracks all hit with lasting rhymes and unexpected rhythms. Each twists it's own tale, ranging from the love-gone-wrong Horns Below Her Halo to the love-gone-terrifying Exorcist to the ripped-from-the-headlines escapades of FLorida Man and Swim At Your Own Risk to the autobiographical Underdog. According to Blues Music Magazine, "Selwyn Birchwood heralds a fresh, exciting new direction in the blues. Toe-tapping, hip-shaking, joyful and inviting... expansive and focused, exploratory and time-honored, but always original."
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Vinyl LP pressing. The Black Angels are back with their 2008 release Directions to See a Ghost, the second full-length album from Austin's darkest droners. With tidal rhythms and rasping epics, Directions to See a Ghost is a driving, psychedelic masterpiece that churns through 72 minutes and 11 tracks. This highly anticipated follow-up to the band's 2006 critically acclaimed debut will leave listeners buzzing. Light in the Attic.
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High Roller Records, reissue 2023, black vinyl, ltd 250, lyric sheet, poster, specially mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel/ Temple of Disharmony, 100% original sound, no remaster!Side A: 1. Face Fate 2. Blood Lust Side B: 3. R.I.P. 4. Vampire
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High Roller Records, reissue 2023, black vinyl, ltd 600, lyric sheet, poster, bonus track, specially mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel/ Temple of Disharmony, 100% original sound, no remaster!Side A: 1. Menacing Thunder 2. Kill for Pleasure 3. Cannibal 4. Vampire 5. Blood Lust Side B: 6. Suicidal Mission 7. Venomous Death 8. The Evil 9. Darkside 10. R.I.P.
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Married around a shared love of machine-led funk, outsider soul, 70s-80s nautica and 21st century basement disco, Bright & Findlay (formed of multi-hyphenate James Alexander Bright and Groove Armada's Tom Findlay) are set to release their debut album 'Everything Is Slow' on 9th June via Athens Of The North.After hearing James' 2019 single 'Tigers Roar' on the radio, Tom reached out to see if they could work together on some new music for Groove Armada's last studio album 'Edge Of The Horizon'. While three tracks from these sessions made the album, the two concurrently struck up a friendship in creating a musical language of their own, leading them to form the beginnings of a new partnership tagged Bright & Findlay. The first Bright & Findlay release, 2021's 'Slow Dance' EP, was Gilles Peterson included it in his tracks of the year, they recorded a Block Party mix for Huey Morgan and it also received support from Don Letts, Tom Ravenscroft, Bill Brewster, Dam Funk (Apple Music), Bluey (STR4RA/Incognito), KCRW, Triple J and beyond.With a blueprint laid out, the pair began work on more songs, initially exchanging sketches back and forth between their respective studios before adding and subtracting, layering and finessing an album's worth of music. The pair shares production and instrumental work across the record, with James taking vocals and guitars and Tom's ear for arrangement proving second to none.
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Joanna Brouk's most ambitious recording, Sounds of the Sea is a concept album full of mystery and eroticism. A conch shell bookends this journey into the deep, going down and down and down further, never reaching bottom. Drawing inspiration from various legends of mermaids and sailors, Brouk weaves circling flutes, vocals, drones and whale songs to describe a sense of unfathomable longing more clearly than words could ever express. Sounds of the Sea is a hypnotic and profound achievement by one of new age's greatest composers.
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Vinyl LP pressing. Following their first collaboration on the first "Trillstatik", Bun B and Statik Selektah are right back at it with the 2nd instalment, once again creating an album from scratch in one session, with surprise guests popping up throughout the night. This time the location is Sweet Chick in New York City, and the line-up of guests features the likes of Big K.R.I.T., Dave East, Styles P, Smoke DZA, Boldy James and Paul Wall among several others. The two have crafted the perfect follow up to their first 2019 collaboration album.
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Five is the latest album from Khari Cabral & Jiva - a mouth-watering rare groove and acid jazz treat from the veteran bassist based out of Atlanta. The album features lead single 'Show Me The Way' released earlier in the year by UK label Splash Blue, and also two covers of the legendary James Mason from his jazz-funk classic Rhythm of Life. Khari Cabral is a member of soul group Jiva, and outside his solo pursuits he's also the touring bassist for four time grammy award-winning India Arie. P-VINE is delighted to present Five as a limited edition LP with an iconic Japanese obi strip attached.
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Towards the end of Callas's career, there were many rumours that she was planning to perform Carmen on stage. This was never to be, but Carmen became her penultimate complete recording of an opera - and her only complete recording of a French opera. With Georges Prêtre, one of her favoured conductors, and the ever-stylish Nicolai Gedda as her Don José, she captured every facet of the role. As Gramophone said when the set was first released: 'Hers is a Carmen to haunt you.'
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La Divina's voice so genuinely captures popular imagination and exerts such an intense fascination that directors have used her recordings extensively to illustrate iconic movie scenes. This collection gathers the most famous uses of Maria Callas' recordings in movies, from Philadelphia and Fargo to The Bridges of Madison County and Bohemian Rhapsody
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They are at the origin of the Sky Wave style that mixes dream pop, electro rock and cold wave. Diane, Mike and Leo compose together emotive and nihilistic ballads that seek ecstasy in a disenchanted reality. Their first Album Swimming Lessons, released in 2016, was widely received and applauded in media and tours, the eponymous track is now the soundtrack of the Versace perfume commercial. Their second album Double Dreaming, more electro, flew to Japan thanks to the Hermes brand, the single Hero was synchronized for one of their campaign in 2019 and the track Old Downtown became a staple of road trip playlists around the world. The third album promises to be just as disillusioned, but with a magnetic strength and passionate maturity.
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After a nine-year hiatus, Laura Cantrell, a familiar presence in the international Americana & Roots music scene, is back with her latest studio album. Over the years, she has won over loyal audiences both in her home country and the UK through her constant touring and numerous media appearances. Although the album was originally intended to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her debut album, the recording was delayed due to covid restrictions. This new collection was expertly crafted in studios located in both New York City and Nashville, with the help of renowned luminaries like Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, and Rosie Flores.
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Just Like A Rose: The Anniversary Sessions (TRANSPARENT GREEN VINYL) by Laura Cantrell - After a nine-year hiatus, Laura Cantrell, a familiar presence in the international Americana & Roots music scene, is back with her latest studio album. Over the years, she has won over loyal audiences both in her home country and the UK through her constant touring and numerous media appearances. Although the album was originally intended to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her debut album, the recording was delayed due to covid restrictions. This new collection was expertly crafted in studios located in both New York City and Nashville, with the help of renowned luminaries like Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, and Rosie Flores.