LegionBlotan
15-01-09, 14:37
(I posted this in the trade/sells section, I think it should be here instead, apologies)
HAILS,
I know this my first post on this forum (and others too) but I think some of members here will be interested, so here goes:
Legion Blotan is a Black Metal label based half in West Yorkshire, ENGLAND UK and the other half in Carrara, ITALY.
SPECIAL OFFER: BUY 2 CD's FOR £10.00ppd UK/€14.00ppd EUROPE/$20.00ppd USA
Paypal to: George.Proctor AT Gmail DOT com
LEGION BLOTAN RELEASES THUS FAR:
http://www.mutant-ape.co.uk/acatalog/WhitemedalEP.jpg
Name: White Medal
Title: White Medal
Cat. No: BLOTEP001/GRIEFEP002
Origin: England, UK
Formed: 2005
Link/Samples: N/A
Debut release from this UK band. Stripped down Black Metal from the North of England. Co-released with Grief Foundation (http://www.grieffoundation.com).
Screen Printed Covers.
100 copies on Gold Vinyl.
400 copies on White Vinyl.
PRICE: £3.00ppd UK/€4.50ppd EUROPE/$9.00ppd USA
Paypal/Email: George.Proctor@Gmail.com
Email for wholesale prices and trades.
REVIEW FROM AQUARIUS:
"White Medal! What an awesome name for a metal band. Not to be confused with white metal, or unblack metal, this is not any sort of Christian metal, this is some twisted damaged doom-ed blackened heaviness the likes of which we've never really heard before.
This stripped down UK horde, open up proceedings with gentle clean guitar, minor key melodies, a bit of dreamy drift, until the track explodes into a hyper distorted blown out chugfest, super stripped down and raw, but SO distorted, it was a bit difficult to tell if the band was plodding along doomily or blasting furiously, just a massive blown out rrrooooaaaaar. The drums pound away beneath an epic metallic riff that churns and throbs, slathered in blistering distortion, the sound almost more like Godflesh or Pitchshifter than black metal, too hot and loud to be lo-fi but the same sort of texture and timbre. Keyboards (it sounds like keyboards) enter the fray and the track builds to some sort of total majestic metal blow out. Like Godspeed versus Bone Awl or something.
The flipside starts with some static high end guitar buzz, and just like the A side, the song erupts into a furious chaotic pound, the sound on this side much more distinctly fast and blackened, but with the same super saturated ultra distorted guitar, buried drums and shrieked vocals, there are a few tranquil moments, the guitar still distorted and buzzy, just sort of hovering dreamily before the band launches back in.
The label compares this to stuff like Bone Awl, Ildjarn, Ancestors and stuff like that, and while we do hear a bit of that, the sound is also massive and majestic, making us think of bands like Godspeed, Menace Ruine and a bit of that postrockmetaldrone we dig so much. WAY recommended.
LIMITED of course, packaged in cool hand screened sleeves."
http://www.mutant-ape.co.uk/acatalog/epidemiaweb.jpg
Name: Epidemia Mortalis
Title: When The Epidemic Arrived/Worst Afflicted Rapture
Cat. No: BLOTCD001
Origin: France
Formed: 2002
Link/Samples: http://www.myspace.com/epidemiamortaliis
The first CD release from new UK/Italy based Underground Black Metal label, Legion Blotan also sees the first CD release of the French Black Metal horde, Epidemia Mortalis. This CD collects the two first dark and incredibly well recorded demo albums on one CD. Nearly 50 minutes of mid-paced diseased Black Metal with agonizing and painful high picthed screams.
Comes in jewel case with 8 page booklet.
PRICE: £7.00ppd UK/€9.00ppd EUROPE/$16.00ppd USA
Paypal/Email: George.Proctor@Gmail.com
Email for wholesale prices and trades.
REVIEW FROM AQUARIUS:
"First proper release from this French blackmetal horde, released on a new black metal label run by the guy who runs Turgid Animal, home to Skullflower and various other noiseniks. But this is not some noise / black metal hybrid, no Epidemia Mortaliis are grim and true and raw, and as with most black buzzers, owe much to their mighty Scandinavian forbears, but the cool thing about EM is they have their own distinct and slightly skewed take on black metal, which results in a sound both buzzing and brutal, but also stumbling and weirdly lo-fi.
The newest demo, has the band slipping from frenzied blast, to loping dirge, and back again, the vocals hysterical and over the top, the drums super loud in the mix, the arrangements convoluted and complex, the guitars mournful and thick, but sort of low in the mix, which gives the songs a sort of off kilter, damaged vibe, the drum fills and the cymbals drowning out the rest of the musicians when ever they kick in, but the riffing is awesome, weirdly woozy, also adding their own seasick vibe to the proceedings, and there is some really fucked up stop start parts, that sound almost like black math rock. It's not full on fucked up enough to appeal to the folks only into damaged freaked out blackness, but it is plenty weird enough to keep it from sounding like every other BM band.
The second half, which is the older demo, has weirdly enough a much better production, the guitars way higher in the mix, the songs too are much faster and more furious, the guitars wild and dense and layered, but the band still does all kinds of cool weird shit, slipping some Ved Buens Ende sort of mathiness into their black buzz, and the guitars again, all over the place, buzzing, sliding slippery and tangled, crunchy and crumbling, the vocals too, even more freaked out than on the newer demo, thick with distortion and reverb, a howling hellish falsetto, another layer of creepiness over an already creepy buzzscape. Definitely wild and weird enough to appeal to the black metal crowd into insane tortured vox. Much more melody on the older demo too, but woven subtly into the band's grim black assault. Nice droning haunting intros and outros on both demos, some backwards weirdness and some dense dark ambience. Definitely kicked our ass right away, but every listen has us digging this more and more..."
US folks can get these from Aquarius/Euro folks direct.
http://www.mutant-ape.co.uk/acatalog/goatreich666.jpg
Name: Goatreich 666
Title: Chaining The Last Hopes Of Humanity
Cat. No: BLOTCD002
Origin: Lombardy, Italy
Formed: 1998
Link/Samples: N/A
Well the new year is upon us and so is the reissue of the ultra-evil classic Goatreich 666 recording "Chaining The Last Hopes Of Humanity". Originally released on CD-r in 2003 and limited to a mere 66 copies, this long out of print release of fast and furious supreme Italian Black Metal finally see's the light of day on CD with brand new artwork by the band featuring all kinds of debauchery. Not for the easily offended!
Comes in jewel case with 4 page booklet and shrinkwrapped.
Limited to 300 Copies.
PRICE: £7.00ppd UK/€9.00ppd EUROPE/$16.00ppd USA
Paypal/Email: George.Proctor@Gmail.com
Email for wholesale prices and trades.
SPECIAL OFFER: BUY THIS WITH THE EPIDEMIA MORTALIS CD FOR £10.00ppd UK/€14.00ppd EUROPE/$20.00ppd USA
More soon!
BLOG HERE: http://legion-blotan.blogspot.com/
HAILS,
I know this my first post on this forum (and others too) but I think some of members here will be interested, so here goes:
Legion Blotan is a Black Metal label based half in West Yorkshire, ENGLAND UK and the other half in Carrara, ITALY.
SPECIAL OFFER: BUY 2 CD's FOR £10.00ppd UK/€14.00ppd EUROPE/$20.00ppd USA
Paypal to: George.Proctor AT Gmail DOT com
LEGION BLOTAN RELEASES THUS FAR:
http://www.mutant-ape.co.uk/acatalog/WhitemedalEP.jpg
Name: White Medal
Title: White Medal
Cat. No: BLOTEP001/GRIEFEP002
Origin: England, UK
Formed: 2005
Link/Samples: N/A
Debut release from this UK band. Stripped down Black Metal from the North of England. Co-released with Grief Foundation (http://www.grieffoundation.com).
Screen Printed Covers.
100 copies on Gold Vinyl.
400 copies on White Vinyl.
PRICE: £3.00ppd UK/€4.50ppd EUROPE/$9.00ppd USA
Paypal/Email: George.Proctor@Gmail.com
Email for wholesale prices and trades.
REVIEW FROM AQUARIUS:
"White Medal! What an awesome name for a metal band. Not to be confused with white metal, or unblack metal, this is not any sort of Christian metal, this is some twisted damaged doom-ed blackened heaviness the likes of which we've never really heard before.
This stripped down UK horde, open up proceedings with gentle clean guitar, minor key melodies, a bit of dreamy drift, until the track explodes into a hyper distorted blown out chugfest, super stripped down and raw, but SO distorted, it was a bit difficult to tell if the band was plodding along doomily or blasting furiously, just a massive blown out rrrooooaaaaar. The drums pound away beneath an epic metallic riff that churns and throbs, slathered in blistering distortion, the sound almost more like Godflesh or Pitchshifter than black metal, too hot and loud to be lo-fi but the same sort of texture and timbre. Keyboards (it sounds like keyboards) enter the fray and the track builds to some sort of total majestic metal blow out. Like Godspeed versus Bone Awl or something.
The flipside starts with some static high end guitar buzz, and just like the A side, the song erupts into a furious chaotic pound, the sound on this side much more distinctly fast and blackened, but with the same super saturated ultra distorted guitar, buried drums and shrieked vocals, there are a few tranquil moments, the guitar still distorted and buzzy, just sort of hovering dreamily before the band launches back in.
The label compares this to stuff like Bone Awl, Ildjarn, Ancestors and stuff like that, and while we do hear a bit of that, the sound is also massive and majestic, making us think of bands like Godspeed, Menace Ruine and a bit of that postrockmetaldrone we dig so much. WAY recommended.
LIMITED of course, packaged in cool hand screened sleeves."
http://www.mutant-ape.co.uk/acatalog/epidemiaweb.jpg
Name: Epidemia Mortalis
Title: When The Epidemic Arrived/Worst Afflicted Rapture
Cat. No: BLOTCD001
Origin: France
Formed: 2002
Link/Samples: http://www.myspace.com/epidemiamortaliis
The first CD release from new UK/Italy based Underground Black Metal label, Legion Blotan also sees the first CD release of the French Black Metal horde, Epidemia Mortalis. This CD collects the two first dark and incredibly well recorded demo albums on one CD. Nearly 50 minutes of mid-paced diseased Black Metal with agonizing and painful high picthed screams.
Comes in jewel case with 8 page booklet.
PRICE: £7.00ppd UK/€9.00ppd EUROPE/$16.00ppd USA
Paypal/Email: George.Proctor@Gmail.com
Email for wholesale prices and trades.
REVIEW FROM AQUARIUS:
"First proper release from this French blackmetal horde, released on a new black metal label run by the guy who runs Turgid Animal, home to Skullflower and various other noiseniks. But this is not some noise / black metal hybrid, no Epidemia Mortaliis are grim and true and raw, and as with most black buzzers, owe much to their mighty Scandinavian forbears, but the cool thing about EM is they have their own distinct and slightly skewed take on black metal, which results in a sound both buzzing and brutal, but also stumbling and weirdly lo-fi.
The newest demo, has the band slipping from frenzied blast, to loping dirge, and back again, the vocals hysterical and over the top, the drums super loud in the mix, the arrangements convoluted and complex, the guitars mournful and thick, but sort of low in the mix, which gives the songs a sort of off kilter, damaged vibe, the drum fills and the cymbals drowning out the rest of the musicians when ever they kick in, but the riffing is awesome, weirdly woozy, also adding their own seasick vibe to the proceedings, and there is some really fucked up stop start parts, that sound almost like black math rock. It's not full on fucked up enough to appeal to the folks only into damaged freaked out blackness, but it is plenty weird enough to keep it from sounding like every other BM band.
The second half, which is the older demo, has weirdly enough a much better production, the guitars way higher in the mix, the songs too are much faster and more furious, the guitars wild and dense and layered, but the band still does all kinds of cool weird shit, slipping some Ved Buens Ende sort of mathiness into their black buzz, and the guitars again, all over the place, buzzing, sliding slippery and tangled, crunchy and crumbling, the vocals too, even more freaked out than on the newer demo, thick with distortion and reverb, a howling hellish falsetto, another layer of creepiness over an already creepy buzzscape. Definitely wild and weird enough to appeal to the black metal crowd into insane tortured vox. Much more melody on the older demo too, but woven subtly into the band's grim black assault. Nice droning haunting intros and outros on both demos, some backwards weirdness and some dense dark ambience. Definitely kicked our ass right away, but every listen has us digging this more and more..."
US folks can get these from Aquarius/Euro folks direct.
http://www.mutant-ape.co.uk/acatalog/goatreich666.jpg
Name: Goatreich 666
Title: Chaining The Last Hopes Of Humanity
Cat. No: BLOTCD002
Origin: Lombardy, Italy
Formed: 1998
Link/Samples: N/A
Well the new year is upon us and so is the reissue of the ultra-evil classic Goatreich 666 recording "Chaining The Last Hopes Of Humanity". Originally released on CD-r in 2003 and limited to a mere 66 copies, this long out of print release of fast and furious supreme Italian Black Metal finally see's the light of day on CD with brand new artwork by the band featuring all kinds of debauchery. Not for the easily offended!
Comes in jewel case with 4 page booklet and shrinkwrapped.
Limited to 300 Copies.
PRICE: £7.00ppd UK/€9.00ppd EUROPE/$16.00ppd USA
Paypal/Email: George.Proctor@Gmail.com
Email for wholesale prices and trades.
SPECIAL OFFER: BUY THIS WITH THE EPIDEMIA MORTALIS CD FOR £10.00ppd UK/€14.00ppd EUROPE/$20.00ppd USA
More soon!
BLOG HERE: http://legion-blotan.blogspot.com/