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Tour de Garde new releases: Chätiment CD, Purity Renaissance 12"LP, Forgotten Kingdoms 12" and more.
PURITY RENAISSANCE "Purity Renaissance" 12"LP Utterly dark and cruel black metal hymns inspired by victorious times. Purity Renaissance’s debut promo cassette offers 6 hymns (plus intro and outro) of desolate, yet triumphant black metal infused with pure European glory. Rarely has a North American act managed to sound so close to European bands like Odal or Cultus. This recording, previously released as a highly limited promotional cassette, has been remixed by the band and remastered by Baron Yrch Malachi of Blood Tyrant. Hand numbered black vinyl with insert strictly limited to 300 copies. Stream (unmastered rip from the original cassette): http://youtu.be/HZQPQeeaGXcOrder: http://t-d-g.net/products/purity-renaissance-purity-renaissance-12lpFORGOTTEN KINGDOMS...
Tour de Garde preorders: Purity Renaissance 12"LP, Forgotten Kingdoms 12", Pagan Hellfire CD, Chätiment CD and more
PURITY RENAISSANCE "Purity Renaissance" 12"LP PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A PREORDER AND WILL NOT SHIP FOR 3-4 WEEKS Utterly dark and cruel black metal hymns inspired by victorious times. Purity Renaissance’s debut promo cassette offers 6 hymns (plus intro and outro) of desolate, yet triumphant black metal infused with pure European glory. Rarely has a North American act managed to sound so close to European bands like Odal or Cultus. This recording, previously released as a highly limited promotional cassette, has been remixed by the band and remastered by Baron Yrch Malachi of Blood Tyrant. Hand numbered black vinyl with...
New Tour de Garde releases: Sanctuaire / Sale Feux, Neverlur, Archaism and more.
SANCTUAIRE / SALE FREUX "Traverser les tempêtes / Freux-fuyant" 10"MLP A gathering of French black metal from Québec and France. A split in the vein of those released at a time when true black metal underground was at its peak. Sanctuaire's side features one long track of ethereal, atmospheric heathen black metal. Sanctuaire is the creation of one of the most important figures of the Métal Noir Québecois: Monarque Helserkr. "Traverser les tempêtes" is a genuinely crafted Métal Noir Québecois anthem which features hypnotizing synth and epic guitar riffing. On the other side, Sale Freux unleashes two songs of furious...
New Tour de Garde releases: Old Tower, Drowning the Light, N.K.R.T., Hylster and more
VARIOUS ARTISTS "Korpsånd" Digipak CD Originally released as a double cassette compilation on the US label Fallow Field and quickly sold out. "Korpsånd" is now available under the Tour de Garde coat of arms as a digipak compact disc version. Essential compilation containing 24 tracks (over 65 minutes) of Denmark's new black metal underground. Featuring Ærekær, Jordslået, Afkald, Blot & Bod, Fanebærer, Seiðr, Gabestok, Grifla da la Secta, Lesion, Hollow Hand and Vaabnet.Sample (from the original double cassette): http://youtu.be/Q55-6sscQUo Order: http://t-d-g.net/products/various-artists-korpsand-digipak-cd DROWNING THE LIGHT "Varcolaci Rising" MC Drowning the Light return from the shadows with "Varcolaci Rising"! Originally meant to be to a...
Tour de Garde preorders: Old Tower 12"LP, Chätiment 12"LP, Carved Cross / Malphas split 7"EP and Curved Blade / Pâlemort split 7"EP
OLD TOWER "Stellary Wisdom" 12"LP PREORDER PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A PREORDER AND WILL NOT SHIP FOR 3-4 WEEKSOld Tower is the creation of a mysterious entity from The Netherlands known as The Specter who, through the vessel of Old Tower, creates alluring yet meditative otherworldly lo-fi synth music that transports the listener to a long forgotten age of memory’s past. Old Tower started in the summer of 2015 with the first recordings being rather minimalistic and primitive. It was through the split with Orodruin when the concept of Old Tower and The Shadow Kingdom came into existence and since...