With their new album “Annihilism”, UK death metal unit VACIVUS will be poised to become one of the isle’s most prominent death metal bands. Impressions were made with their “Rite Of Ascension” demo EP, their “Nuclear Chaos” 7” and ultimately their “Temple Of The Abyss” debut LP from 2017 which saw the band make their stain within the UK death metal scene. “Annihilism” though will see VACIVUS will make their impact with more punishing and unrelenting force by offering a serpentine death metal treasure that threads the fibers of dark unyielding brutality, technical proficiency and refined death metal musicality of the highest plateau. An ideal and seamless myriad of what a modern-day death metal offering should embroider, “Annihilism” takes the VACVIUS sonic paradigm to a level beyond anything they’ve previously done. With the masterful production courtesy of Greg Chandler (Esoteric) in his Priory Recording studios with final mastering via Dan Lowndes, “Annihilism” benefits from an exemplary death metal sound which holds an archetypal aesthetic on what makes “Annihilism” such a dense and complex, yet escalating and suffocating work of true death metal artistry.

Like an Ostrobothnian Föllakzoid, experimental electronic soundscapes pulverise with panache and a pop‐like sensibility. Osiris Hayden is contemporary Finno‐Ugric Krautrock, in keeping with the band’s earlier work but much more cinematic in scope than ever before. Vangelis‐inducing, distorted Blade‐Runner landscapes give way to the march of slick Terminator machines crushing human bones under foot. Psychonaut futurism from a band fusing genres ahead of their own time, and in a strange but logical evolution of the PH journey. There’s no surprise why festivals like Roadburn, Roskilde, Flow and Tuska have championed this group to represent one of the finest examples of the modern Finnish experimental rock scene. Referring to PH, Julian Cope urged people to “get this stunning quintet out of the cold weather and into the charts.” Osiris Hayden feels like the album that will now propel them out of the smoke‐filled sub‐basement venues that birthed them, on to the à la mode coffee tables and dance floors of even the most discerning and cutting edge audio savant. PH’s 20 years of psychedelic space‐travel lend them a gargantuan understanding of the roots of music, towards the core meaning and power of transcendental sound. Fine‐art museum‐level workmanship for apocalyptic illegal factory raves and lysergic comedowns. Look no further for a sound beyond the limits of modern psychedelia. These Finns are way out there.

NEMESIS is one of the pioneering acts in the Finnish electronic music scene, representing the more relaxed field of it. Their debut album Xcelsior first saw the daylight in CD form in 1994, and this band‐approved double LP marks its vinyl debut. Xcelsior already has all the elements which make the group’s music personal and recognizable. The music has layers on top of each other and side by side, where influences from various decades of electronic music play effortlessly amid modern digital technology and electronic beats. Real and digitally created vintage analog machinery resonate warmth and soundscapes that arise from the collective memory of cosmic sound explorers create familiar hum in the background. Stellar coordinates are correctly set as thick pulses of sound transport the cosmic ship towards the horizon in spiral movement, and from time time gravitation loses its grip of the vessel. Xcelsior is electronic storytelling at its best: a mixture of pulsating modern electronic sounds, ambient, psychedelia, the progressive vision of synth pioneers of the seventies, celestial geometry and nebular hum.

Jazz master saxophonist Eero Koivistoinen and piano prodigy Alexi Tuomarila joins forces with Argentinian tango wizard Miguel Alvarado for an unforgettable, original album where the freedom of jazz meets the forbidden sensuality of tango.

The Svart Mondo series is dedicated to bringing some of the most obscure, fascinating records that time forgot back into the spotlight. Curated by the Svart team of dedicated music nerds and specialists, Svart Mondo is a showcase of a musical era long gone, collected from many unusual and less traveled parts of the world. The series commences with two pieces of hard psychedelic progressive rock from the early 70s from Argentina. Formed in Buenos Aires in 1972, the quintet recorded the eponymous album in 1974 on the Promúsica label. Ave Rock is a Latin American take on classic organbased progressive rock, full of time changes and alternating tempos with a good splattering of psychedelia and symphonic rock in places. This is the first time this rarity is being reissued on vinyl. The pressing is limited to 500 copies and comes with liner notes by renowned psych historian Vernon Joynson.