HAMMERHEART RECORDS News Oktober 2024
As we are going towards the end of 2024 we will share Hammerheart Recors‘ Label News with all of you worldwide.
OCTOBER:
We’ve got some Death Metal for you as well. Australian legends ABRAMELIN will return with 4th full-length studio album “Sins of the Father” and it is an absolute thrilling album. Modern, but Old School enough at the same time, technical challenging, but still with a focus on great, memorable songs. And then the artwork…just wait and see. We will do a limited edition LP (with that artwork…), LP and CD. The roots of ABRAMELIN reach back to 1988 (as ACHERON) and they will be a contender for Death Metal album of the year for sure.
Sometimes things do not go 100% as planned. German magazine Deaf Forever published a review on the German band AIWAZ in its July/August issue, without being informed that we signed AIWAZ…But the review is 10/10 points, so who cares? “Darrrkh It Is” is the name of this incredible album and it is a top notch mix of Solitude Aeturnus, Marillion, Queensrÿche, Ghost, While Heaven Wept and My Dying Bride (really? Yes really!). More epic than epic, with a very strong production and simply beautiful. Quote from the review (done by Michael Kohsiek): “One thing is clear, in this year no album will be matching this one when it comes to emotions”.
Due to popular demand we will finally repress PHLEBOTOMIZED’s “Immense Intense Suspense” on vinyl. It has been 9 years since we did a first edition and this classic Dutch Death Metal album is in high regard and demand. Several variants will be available. And it will be a last and final repress.
NOVEMBER:
Our final release for 2024 will be the new album by Danish legends KONKHRA. Their 8th full length album since their inception in 1990 is proudly titled “Sad Plight of Lucifer” and the best word to summarize the album in one word would be “massive”. Mixed by Tue Madsen at the famous Antfarm Studio (a.o. Heaven Shall Burn, The Haunted, Meshuggah) the album is just…massive. We did expect a lot from KONKHRA, but not a bomb like this. November 28th this release will make sure our year 2024 will go out with a massive bang!
Earlier this month we will release “Black Hole District”, the new album by Parisian progressive Doom/Death masters MONOLITHE. And this album actually goes way beyond Doom/Death, it is a Tech-Noir inspired story that makes you shiver and is beautifully crafted in a soundscape-ish progressive album with high production values. It is MONOLITHE’s 10th studio album and even if they have done some classics already this album sees them peak. The so-called funeral doom throne (once again, this album goes way beyond this description) is theirs.
40 years old in 2024 is “Psalm 9” by Chicago legends TROUBLE. We could not let this birthday pass without a present: a limited edition of 500 copies on heavy quality picture-LP, in a nice sleeve, with insert and poster. These will go quickly and become collectable.
Re-issue time, the last two re-issues for 2024. OBTAINED ENSLAVEMENT’s legendary “Soulblight” album as digipack CD and on vinyl, “The Shepherd and the Hounds of Hell” only on vinyl (first-timer that is!). OBTAINED ENSLAVEMENT was right there when Norwegian Black Metal exploded Worldwide on the scene in the mid 90’s and their albums are essentials ones if you like this genre.
JANUARY:
After we awake from our hibernation we are ready to fire some killer releases at you once again in 2025.
The first album for 2025 will be by MOON WIZARD from Salt Lake City, U.S.A.. “Sirens” catch our attention in the never ending stream of great underground releases we have to face every month. We will do a Worldwide release on CD and LP and this could become a well-noticed band and release within the Heavy Metal/Rock community. Led by female vocalist Sami Wolf MOON WIZARD will appeal to fans of Windhand, Green Lung, Kyuss, Castle and The Devil’s Blood. Energetic high-quality Heavy Rock!
Something unheard of and brand-new as well this January will be album #8 by Italian one-man band HESPERIA. Imagine a big soundtrack with parts Black Metal (in the vein of early Ancient, Immortal, Satyricon), soundscapes and medieval parts (like Saltorello’s). The album is called “Fra li Monti Sibillini: Black Medieval Winter over the Sibylline Mounts”. It is like a soundtrack to an epic movie that does not exists and tells about folklore and legends of the Sibylline mountains. Comes as a deluxe digipack-CD and 2-LP.
Re-issue alert #1! SADISM’s legendary underground debut from 1992 “Tribulated Bells” on vinyl and as a deluxe 2-CD edition with bonus from that era, very limited just 300 vinyls and 500 2-CD this underground gem will go fast! Think Morbid Angel, Possessed, Death and Sepultura. Not retro, no triggers, not trying to be early 90’s Death Metal, but real 1992 Death Metal from Chile, South America!
Re-issue alert #2! DEFENDER, the Dutch one we are talking about here. We are damn proud to re-release a true piece of Dutch Heavy Metal history. Back in 1987 DEFENDER was signed to the major label CBS Records (Sony) for The Netherlands. Their 12” “City Ad Mortis” was released in September 1987 and features 20 minutes, 5 songs, of the best Dutch Speed/Power Metal released. It was limited to 3.000 copies and has become an expensive collectors-item for Metal connaisseurs Worldwide. Our version of “City Ad Mortis” will feature the 5 songs and an extra 3 tracks from the 80’s, but recorded in 2024 (trying to keep the sound close to 1987). Limited edition of 500 LP’s and 500 CD’s, once again an item that will go fast.
FEBRUARY:
Our absolute priority album for the beginning of 2025 is the new EREB ALTOR album “Hälsingemörker” (translates as “hello darkness”). What is there to be said about EREB ALTOR that has not been said these last couple of years? They deserve to be mentioned among the best Pagan Metal bands by now, be it Viking, be it Black or be it Epic Metal. 2023 and 2024 has seen these sons of Gävle, Sweden perform all over Europe. It is time to harvest what EREB ALTOR have sown and the album is perfect to do so. There will be a limited boxed-set, vinyls and CD editions. Keep an eye on our socials to be updated on time. Oh yes, the album is great, even more epic than “Vargtimman” already was.
Time to be sucked into the buzz of heavy guitars: KING ZOG’s “Second Dawn” blew us away so we need to give the band a try. They.Need.To.Be.Heard! Coming on CD and LP, originating from Perth, Ozz and heavy as a ton of bricks. Like a mixed breed of Mastodon, Black Sabbath, Kyuss and Electric Wizard, heavy as fuck.
Re-issue alert #1: “I’m just hanging around tonight, just watching films. I am on the zombie trip and brutal things I like.” “Zombie Attack” as picture-LP, TANKARD’s first album is an absolute Thrash Metal classic. Coming in a sleeve, with insert, an A2 poster and limited to 500 copies only. Nice to play and nice to put on your wall!
Re-issue alert #2: We are always on the hunt, looking into the treasury of Metal to find nice gems to re-issue. Well, we gave E.X.E. our fullest attention and re-issue “Stricken by Might” and “Sicker Than I Thought!” on CD and LP. Remastered and carefully rebuild when it comes to the artwork, as you are used from us! “Stricken by Might” has never been released on CD and is a great album between Power and Thrash Metal (a cool underground classic from 1987 we dare say), Metal to the bone. The band provided us with an unreleased bpnus track from the recording-sessions. “Sicker Than I Though!” dates from 1990 and saw the band switch to Thrash Metal (think Anthrax, Testament, Overkill) and is expensive on CD and LP (that problem is now solved also).
Quelle: Sure Shot Worx