Various Artists "Gods Of Darkness (Germany, Nuclear Blast, NB 285-2)"

Gods Of Darkness is a Black Metal compilation, released in 1997 by Nuclear Blast.

Tracklist:

1. Dimmu Borgir  –  Moonchild Domain   5:21
2. Emperor  –  The Loss And Curse Of Reverence  6:07
3. Cradle Of Filth  –  Malice Through The Looking Glass   5:30
4. Agathodaimon  –  Banner Of Blasphemy  5:38
5. Satyricon  –  Mother North  6:24
6. Mayhem  –  Freezing Moon   6:22
7. Covenant  –   Planetarium   4:02
8. Immortal  –  Frostdemonstorm   2:53
9. Dissection  –  Where Dead Angels Lie   5:52
10. Gehenna  –  Manifestation   4:45
11. Bal-Sagoth  –  Summoning The Guardians Of The Astral Gate  6:05
12. Enslaved  –  Hordalendingen  5:19
13. Dismal Euphony  –  Carven  4:44
14. Naglfar  –  The Eclipse Of The Infernal Storms  4:15
15. The Abyss  –  The Arrival  3:42

Subtitle: ...and from life ashes will arise...

Booklet (corrected sequence):

1. taken from 'Godless Savage Garden' courtesy of Nuclear Blast

2. taken from the album 'Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk' courtesy of Candlelight

3. taken from the album 'Dusk And Her Embrace' / courtesy of Music For Nations

4. taken from the album 'Darkness' / courtesy of Nuclear Blast

5. taken from the album 'Nemesis Divina' / courtesy of Moonfog

6. taken from the album 'De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas' / courtesy of Voices Of Wonder

7. taken from the album 'Nexus Polaris' courtesy of Nuclear Blast

8. taken from the album 'Blizzard Beast' / courtesy of Osmose

9. taken from the album 'Storm Of The Light's Bane' / courtesy of Nuclear Blast

10. taken from the album 'Malice' / courtesy of Cacophonous

11. taken from the album 'Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule' / courtesy of Cacophonous

12. taken from the album 'Eld' / courtesy of Osmose

13. taken from the album 'Autumn Leaves (The Retribution of Tides' / courtesy of Napalm Records

14. taken from the album 'Vittra' / courtesy of Wrong Again Records

15. taken from the album 'Summon The Beast' / courtesy of Nuclear Blast

℗&© 1997

"Highlights Of Black Metal incl. Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Emperor and many more. 15 Bands - over 75 minutes."

Tracklisting (back cover and inlay) and durations (inlay) are incorrect. This is how they appear on the release:

1. Dimmu Borgir - Moonchild Domain 5:25

2. Emperor - The Loss And Curse Of Reverence 6:09

3. Satyricon - Mother North 4:17

4. Cradle Of Filth - Malice Through The Looking Glass 5:30

5. Agathodaimon - Banner Of Blasphemy 5:37

6. Mayhem - Freezing Moon 6:22

7. Covenant - Planetarium 4:02

8. Immortal - Frostdemonstorm 2:35

9. Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie 5:41

10. Gehenna - Manifestation 4:46

11. Enslaved - Hordalendingen 5:19

12. Bal-Sagoth - Summoning The Guardians Of The Astral Gate 6:07

13. Dismal Euphony - Carven 4:43

14. Naglfar - The Eclipse Of The Infernal Storms 4:18

15. The Abyss - The Arrival 3:41

Various Artists "Blackend: The Black Metal Compilation Volume 3 (UK, Blackend, BLACK007DCD)"

Blackend: The Black Metal Compilation Volume 3 is a Black Metal compilation, released in 1997.

Tracklist:

CD 1

1. Emperor   –  Thus Spake The Nightspirit 4:29
2. Hecate Enthroned  –  Danse Macabre 4:00
3. Enthroned  –  The Ultimate Horde Fights 4:42
4. In The Woods...  – I Am Your Flesh 7:05
5. Amsvartner  –  Behind The 100 Years Gate 6:50
6. Mayhem  –  Cursed In Eternity 5:09
7. Fatal Embrace  –  Drowned In The Crossway Water 3:03
8. Cultus Sanguine  –  Shadows Blood 4:31
9. Enslaved  –  The Man From Hordaland 5:19
10. Rotting Christ  –  Out Of Spirits 4:07
11. Borknagar  –  The Winterway 7:51
12. Usurper  –  Slavehammer 2:50

CD2

1. Dimmu Borgir  –  Spellbound (By The Devil) 4:09
2. Enthroned  –  Dusk Of The Forgotten Darkness 5:13
3. Lord Belial  –  Enter The Moonlight Gate 5:13
4. Diabolical Masquerade  –  Astray Within The Coffinwood Mill 4:08
5. Amduscias  –  Sacrifices Within Me 3:37
6. Hecate Enthroned  –  The Spell Of The Winter Forest 6:51
7. Prophanity  –  Walking Through Fire 4:28
8. Ragnarok  –  En Verden Av Stein 3:59
9. Limbonic Art  –  Through Gleams Of Death 8:00
10. Thy Serpent  –  Of Darkness And Light 4:53
11. Tartaros  –  Images Of The Mystic Sphere 4:35
12. Old Man's Child  –  What Malice Embrace 5:13

Issued under license from Plastichead.

Album title:

- "Blackend The Black Metal Compilation Vol.3" (spines);

- "Blackend The Black Metal Compilation Volume 3" (CDs);

- "Blackend III" (front cover).

Some artist names have been printed as following:

- "Bork Nagar" (booklet, CD);

- "In The Woods";

- "ragnarok" (back cover);

- "Old Mans Child" (back cover), "Old Mans' Child" (booklet).

Track 2-08 title printed as following: "En Verden Au Stein".

Mayhem "Daemon (Limited Edition)"

Daemon is the sixth full-length studio album by Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. Their major label debut, it was released by Century Media Records on 25 October 2019 in digital formats while a manufacturing problem delayed the physical release until 8 November 2019.

The band went into the studio not long after the De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive anniversary tour in which the band played the iconic debut album in its entirety for various dates around the world. Many critics suggested the tour was highly influential to the sound of Daemon with many comparing it to that album. The album was also released on the back of the Lords of Chaos semi-biopic movie, giving the band a boost in popularity and interest.

During promotional interviews for the album, Necrobutcher claimed he was "On [his] way to kill Euronymous but Varg beat [him] to it", and also claimed that the Norwegian Police were aware of Vikernes' plot to kill Euronymous, stating: "But little did I know that the Norwegian police already knew that Count Grishnackh [Varg] was going down also to kill him. Because they bugged his phone, and he actually talked about this killing before he went to Bergen so the cops already knew that he was coming, so they probably were thinking to themselves, ‘We didn’t nail this guy for the church burnings, so let’s nail him for murder, and get rid of this f–king guy in Oslo the same time.’ So that’s basically what happened." He provided no evidence for this accusation against the Norwegian Police.

The bonus disc for the album features a cover of "Disgusting Semla" from former vocalist Dead's pre-Mayhem band Morbid.

Track listing

1. "The Dying False King" Teloch Teloch 3:45
2. "Agenda Ignis" Teloch Teloch 4:34
3. "Bad Blood" Necrobutcher Ghul 4:58
4. "Malum" Hellhammer Ghul 5:05
5. "Falsified and Hated" Teloch Teloch 5:48
6. "Aeon Daemonium" Teloch Teloch 6:03
7. "Worthless Abominations Destroyed" Teloch Teloch 3:48
8. "Daemon Spawn" Teloch Teloch 6:02
9. "Of Worms and Ruins" Ghul Ghul 3:48
10. "Invoke the Oath" Attila Csihar Teloch 5:33

Total length: 47:21

Limited Edition CD bonus tracks

1. "Everlasting Dying Flame" 5:53
2. "Black Glass Communion" 4:25

Recording information:

Drums and vocals recorded at NBS Audio Studio (a.k.a. Necromorbus Studio), Söderfors, Sweden.

Ghul's guitars recorded in the Netherlands.

Teloch's guitars recorded at SleikBallaMi Studio, Oslo, Norway.

Bass recorded at Lupercal Studio, Oslo, Norway.

Mastered at The Panic Room.

Mayhem "Grand Declaration Of War (2018 Reissue, Remastered, Digipack)"

Grand Declaration of War is the second full-length studio album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, released by Season of Mist and Necropolis Records on 6 June 2000. A re-release of the album came out in December 2018, with Jaime Gomez Arellano overseeing the production.

The album's title and some of the lyrics are taken from the writings of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, particularly his books Twilight of the Idols—Nietzsche called Twilight of the Idols "a grand declaration of war" („eine grosse Kriegserklärung“).

In his book Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal, Jeff Wagner wrote that Grand Declaration of War features "a variety of vocal shadings to match the multi-layered music", between "A Time to Die", described by Wagner as "one minute and forty-eight seconds of black calculus", "A Bloodsword and a Colder Sun" offering "squishy electronic groove, so close to trip-hop that it instantly became the album's most controversial track" and the "mesmerizing ten-minute sprawling landscape of doom" "Completion in Science of Agony". The album's "sonic clarity" was "a complete 180-degree turn" from the band's early "scuzzy 'necro' approach". Parts of the black metal scene had hoped Mayhem would not reform after the murder of the original guitarist Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth as "that would not be right", or at least were "rather sceptical when it was known that [sic] MAYHEM should go on even without Dead or Euronymous". Many longtime Mayhem fans despised Blasphemer because "he wasn't Aarseth". Jeff Wagner calls Grand Declaration of War "Mayhem's own Into the Pandemonium, an album that had perverted and turned inside out the black metal genre as Celtic Frost's [Into the] Pandemonium had done to thrash metal". Alex Henderson of Allmusic stated that the band "has outdone itself with the epic Grand Declaration of War, which could arguably be described as black metal's equivalent of Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime".

A remastered version of the album was released in December 2018; the original 'cold', 'sterile' production was swapped out for a more raw sound with the bass and drums made more prominent in the mix.

Tracklist:

All lyrics are written by Maniac; all music is composed by Blasphemer.

1. "Untitled" (hidden in pregap before track 1 on original CD; simply the final track reversed) 2:11
2. "A Grand Declaration of War" 4:14
3. "In the Lies Where upon You Lay" 5:59
4. "A Time to Die" 1:48
5. "View from Nihil (Part I of II)" 3:04
6. "View from Nihil (Part II of II)" 1:16
7. "A Bloodsword and a Colder Sun (Part I of II)" 0:33
8. "A Bloodsword and a Colder Sun (Part II of II)" 4:27
9. "Crystallized Pain in Deconstruction" 4:09
10. "Completion in Science of Agony (Part I of II)" 9:44
11. "To Daimonion (Part I of III)" 3:25
12. "To Daimonion (Part II of III)" 4:52
13. "To Daimonion (Part III of III)" 0:07
14. "Completion in Science of Agony (Part II of II)" 2:14

Total length: 45:58

Issued in a 4-panel Digipak, with 12-booklet and clear disc tray.

Hype sticker over the shrink wrap:

'Completely remixed and remastered from the original master tapes!

One of Black Metal's most controversial albums

"Grand Declaration of War is a record that stands alone in the grand scheme of Black Metal as a scene. But it's a very cool record, which deserves some thought, attention and an open mind."

Angry Metal Guy'.

Recording information:

Originally recorded at Fagerborg Studio and Top Room Studio from Nov 1999 to Jan 2000.

Remixed and remastered at Orgone Studio in 2018.

Mayhem "Wolf's Lair Abyss"

Wolf's Lair Abyss is an EP by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem.

According to the band's website, it is the first part of Grand Declaration of War. The main riff of the last track, "Symbols of Bloodswords", is used in "A Grand Declaration of War" and "View from Nihil (Part II)".

This EP was the first Mayhem release without guitarist Euronymous, who was murdered in 1993. The new line-up's material displayed across the songs is notably far more technical than that of earlier incarnations of the band; apart from the intro, each track contains at least two separate sections and is played at high tempo with consistent blast beats.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mayhem.

1. "The Vortex Void of Inhumanity (Intro)" 2:21
2. "I Am Thy Labyrinth" 5:26
3. "Fall of Seraphs" 6:02
4. "Ancient Skin" 5:28
5. "Symbols of Bloodswords" 5:24

Released in Digipak containing a booklet that folds out into 24x36 cm paper with a picture on one side and hand-written lyrics on the other side.

"Symbols of Bloodswords" is considered as Part 1 of "Grand Declaration of War" by the band, since that album is divided into Part 2 and Part 3.

The first press (DADC Austria) is said to be limited to 1000 copies, but a repress also exists on Sony DADC.

Recording information:

Recorded at Studio Studio and Far Out Studio in 1997.

Mixed at Jester Studio.

Mastered at Strype Audio.

Produced by Krystoffer Rygg

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Mayhem