Winter "Into Darkness/Eternal Frost"

Winter is an American extreme metal band from New York. They take their name from the Amebix song of the same name. The band performed at the 2011 Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands.

Into Darkness is the first and only full-length album of American doom metal band Winter. The album was released in 1990 by Future Shock Records. It was later re-issued by Nuclear Blast as a digipak with an altered front cover and the Eternal Frost EP as bonus tracks. The album was re-released again, with no bonus tracks, by Southern Lord on April 12, 2011, on black and white vinyl as a gate fold LP with booklet.

July 8, 2013: The Village Voice blogger Jason Roche lists Into Darkness as #14 in the top 20 hardcore & metal albums to come out of NYC.

Decibel magazine rankt the album at #13 in ther Top 100 Doom Metal Albums of All Time Special Issue.

All music written by John Alman & Stephen Flam.

Tracks 1-7 belong to Into Darkness.
Tracks 8-12 belong to Eternal Frost.

Recording information:

Recorded April-May 1990 at S.O.S. Studios, Hempstead, NY.

Mastered at the Hit Factory, NYC.

Various Artists "Death... Is Just the Beginning II"

Death... Is Just the Beginning II is the second compilation CD in this series released by the German record label Nuclear Blast. It contains tracks from various Nuclear Blast artists, all from within the death metal genre.

Tracklist:

1. Pungent Stench– Daddy Cruel 3:30
2. Monstrosity– Ceremonial Void 3:57
3. Master – Cut Through The Filth 3:47
4. Sinister– Putrefying Remains 3:19
5. Benediction– Dark Is The Season 5:34
6. Brutality– Cryptorium 3:54
7. Afflicted– Tidings From The Blue Sphere 5:18
8. Incantation– Immortal Cessation 3:24
9. Disharmonic Orchestra– Just A Thought 6:03
10. Macabre– Exumer 1:22
11. Resurrection – Rage Within 4:09
12. Dismember– Torn Apart 4:42
13. Mortification– Scrolls Of The Megilloth 4:23
14. Defecation– Side Effects 2:11
15. Fetish 69– Stomach Tuner 2:47
16. Hypocrisy– Life Of Filth 3:54
17. Gorefest– The Glorious Dead 4:21
18. Deceased– The Thirteen Frightened Souls 3:08
19. Righteous Pigs– Open Wound 3:06
20. Amorphis– Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu 3:43
21. Winter – Oppression Freedom 2:34

Released with a 16 pages booklet containing liner notes about the release as well as photos / bios of the bands.

℗+© 1992

Additional tracks information:

Tracks 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18: Unreleased

Tracks 7 and 12: Different versions

Track 13: Previously unreleased

Track 17: Rough mix version.

Track 9 is a Post Mortem cover song. This is not mentioned on the release.