ALTSPHERE PRODUCTION : label / shop

DIY label/mailorder since 2003

http://www.altsphere.com


11 Octobre 2010.

7 ans après la création du label, ALTSPHERE PRODUCTION passe un nouveau cap en se professionnalisant. Cela ne signifie en aucun cas perdre l’éthique Do It Yourself du label, mais plutôt essayer de sortir plus de productions et de meilleures qualités et d’investir plus de temps et d’argent dans ce projet.

1. LABEL
Découvrez les 5 prochaines sorties du label.

BRIGANTIA CD [Traditional doom metal from Ireland]
Comment n’ai-je pas découvert ce groupe actif depuis 3 ans plus tôt ?! C’est suite à la lecture d’une chronique que j’ai écouté et ce fut le coup de cœur : un traditionnel doom metal tout droit venu d’Irlande qui tape dans le Black Sabbath sans être un pâle clone. Ce n’est pas pour rien qu’ils partagèrent la scène avec Pagan Altar et Hour of 13 en septembre dernier au Dublin Doom Day.

WOODEN STAKE / DRUID LORD split-7? [US doom metal split]
Après un premier EP sorti chez Hexamorphosis, WOODEN STAKE remet le couvert pour un sublime morceau d’horror occult doom metal. Et bien qu’il fasse sombre, impossible de rester de marbre en écoutant la voix douce mais incantatoire de Vanessa.
DRUID LORD sort à peine son premier album, mais, débordant d’énergie, voilà déjà un nouveau morceau de doom death prêt à faire vrombir les chaumières !

ASKMOOD « The weather » Digital [Rock with grunge & shoegaze touches]
Première album pour ce récent one-man band qui mélange à merveille des parties shoegaze et grunge à travers un rock direct qui semble avoir été taillé pour la radio avec des morceaux de moins de 4 minutes. Ces montées entêtantes raviront tout aussi les fans de Pearl Jam que ceux de Black Sabbath tant l’approche semble être inspiré par un psychédélisme certain. A cela s’ajoute une écriture fine et personnelle qui titube entre mélancolie et colère.

DWDY « Destroy me » 3" Cd-r [progressive & psychedelic crossover metal]
Première démo pour ce projet de métal progressif et psychédélique. Crossover entre une multitude de genres, du doom au thrash en passant par le HxC ou le rock, ce morceau de près de 20 minutes ne laisse jamais place à l’ennui et ravira n’importe quel metalhead. Que tu sois fan de Cathedral, Dream theater, Madball, Hawkwind ou Slayer, tu trouveras forcément quelque chose pour toi. Limité à 50 copies en mini-boîtier et numérotées main.

JeFF « Torment » Digipack-CD [Psychedelic indus ambient]
Boulimique et terroriste, Jeff est un personnage à part sur la scène musicale messine. A la fois autiste violent et esthète d'un univers qu'il s'est créé de toutes pièces névrotiques. (Flo /Don’t mess with Metz)
Après une discographie introspective sortie en janvier 2010, voici le premier album d’un JeFF « nouvelle ère ». Exit le metal-indus, les expérimentations noise-rock ou l’electro minimaliste, cette galette est simplement une fresque d’indus ambient psychédélique qui vous emmènera pour un long voyage dans les tréfonds de votre esprit.


2. SHOP
Entrez dans la Sphère !

Altsphere Production relance aussi sa distribution et propose toujours plus de groupes, d’albums et de démos.

Dans La Sphère vous pourrez trouver un tas de groupes de doom et sludge, des renommés comme CATHEDRAL, CANDLEMASS, BONGZILLA, PENTAGRAM, .... comme des plus confidentiels tels que DOPEFIGHT, PLANET GEMINI, DREAMING,...

La Sphère propose aussi une fine sélection de groupes underground de thrash metal, black metal, punk/HxC indus, ou noise et expérimentale, que vous pourrez découvrir à travers des démos K7 et Cd-r très peu chères.

Essayant toujours de vous donnez une bonne raison d'écouter de nouveaux groupes ou genres, La Sphère vous propose une rubrique Second Hand. Occasion signifie occasion : les disques peuvent être rayés ou les pochettes pliées mais vous pouvez toujours les écouter correctement. L'idée est de vous donner l'opportunité d'essayer quelque chose que vous n'auriez pas écouter sinon.

Les 50 premières commandes recevront en cadeau un badge Altsphere Production façon « Black Sabbath : vol. 4 » ou « The Sphère » grâce au meilleur dealer de badges en France, le monsieur Hardcore de Nantes de Badges25mm.com




A bientôt!

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Chaque semaine retrouvez la sélection de notre shop tous genres confondus.
semaine 42


COUNT RAVEN "Mammons war" - Traditional Doom - Lp - 2010 - Buy It now
Super retour du trio suèdois après 13 ans d'absence! Après la version CD sortie en 2009 chez I hate, c'est la version double vinyle et son poster A3 qui sortent enfin en juillet 2010. Des morceaux imparables de doom traditionnel agrémentés d'un chant façon Ozzy Osbourne en plein forme. A ne pas manquer! www.myspace.com/countraventheband



SUICIDAL VORTEX "My Existence: A Series Of Thoughts Amidst Infinitive Darkness" - Suicidal Black Metal - CD - 2008 - Buy It now
Formé en 2003 ce duo allemand a pondu un split puis cet album en 2008. Suicidal black metal des grandes heures avec des passages à la SATYRICON même. Les jeux de voix sont nickels, elles se chevauchent, s’entremêlent, se dévorent puis se séparent, ce qui a retenu toute mon attention d’ailleurs…et là je me suis dit que ce BM sortait du lot… www.myspace.com/suicidalvortex



PLAN E "Best kept secret" - Psyche Dark rock/wave - CD - 2004 - Buy it now
Petite label italien qui fait dans les Cds de formations obscurs. PLAN E sort ici un dark rock aux influences psyché et prog. Niveau son c’est bien joué, ça sonne moderne et bien produit tout en ayant ces sonorités carrément 70’s. Oue ce synthé digne des mes favoris groupes de prog de la botte. Ces nappes de synthés, accentuées par cette voix monocorde, touchent à la new-wave. Souvent j’ai pensé à du JOY ou DEPECHE MODE…un bon mélange comme je les aime ! En plus y'a un ex-IMPLAED NAZARENE dans le lot. www.myspace.com/bassonova



JAKOB "Solace" - Post-Hardcore/Rock - Tape - 2009 - Buy it now
Magique, mystique, mélodique, ambiant, prenant,...je suis sous le charme de cet album. Si tu aimes SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA, TIDES, CULT OF LUNA,... ne passes surtout pas à côté de cette oeuvre...Oui, une oeuvre, vraiment! www.myspace.com/jakobmusic



NATHAN WATSON "I" - folk/ambient - Cd-r - 2008 - Buy it now
Superbe fresque musicale oscillant entre guitares acoustiques et atmosphères planantes. Première démo d'un projet à suivre sans retenu. www.myspace.com/nathanwatsonmusic

Chaque semaine retrouvez la sélection de notre shop tous genres confondus.
Semaine 43


PENTAGRAM "Review your choices"- Traditional Doom - Lp - 2009 - Buy It now
Donc voici un superbe album de heavy doom comme les anciens savaient le faire, fait par des anciens qui savent le faire.
(...)Ce disque devrait ravir les fans de St Vitus, de Serpent, des premiers Black Sabbath, de Wytchfinder General et de Cathedral. Tous les ingrédients sont présents. Les riffs lourds, les solos aériens, les rythmes méga-lents, les tempos plus rapides, l’agressivité, la sensibilité. Le tout servi sur fond de satanisme bon enfant qui n’effraie même plus ma mère. Nous sommes donc en présence du quatrième album de Pentagram (seulement !) après cinq années de silence. (Desert-rock.com)
Ré-édition en vinyle brun transparent limité à 100 copies (les 400 autres sont noir).


GAMA BOMB "Tales from the grave of space" - thrash metal - Lp - 2009 - Buy It now
Avec ce second opus, les irlandais de Gama Bomb partent la fleur au fusil et poursuivent leur conquête des vastes étendues du thrash metal. Il faut dire que les jeunots ont retenus la leçon des anciens et savent très bien comment on peut concocter des riffs et des morceaux qui font mouche à tous les coups. (Metal inc)


DOPEGITH "self-titled" - Doom sludge - CD-R - 2009 - Buy It now
The band main inspiration is the mighty THC so the comparison to "Bongzilla, Sleep and other Stoner/Doom bud worshipers will come as obvious but in amongst those grooves there is a good dose of "Iron Monkey" and "Grief" sounding tortured Doom. (Doommantia)


KRAFT "Where lost hope dies" - Black Metal - CD-R - 2006 - Buy It now
If someone knows Xasthur and is a hard enthusiast of Malefic’s releases, the chances are pretty good that this person might also enjoy Kraft from Portugal. The extraordinary degree of distortion of the vocals adds a metallic sound to the songs, (One you don't know)

H418OV21.C "Rituale" - Ritualistic dark indus ambient - Tape - 2008 - Buy It now
It features all kinds of instruments combined with electronic effects, recorded acoustic noises and sounds. There are no limits I set myself, what sounds strange, evil and inhuman I will put into some kind of musical form or straight noise. Being mainly a metal influenced musician I don´t have any industrial/noise/ambient
acts I do follow in some way. And I don´t try to sound like anything else, knowing that there isn´t anything new to be made in this day and age. (H418OV21.C)

1er Novembre 2010

1. LABEL
Alors que les prochaines sorties se profilent à l'horizon pour la fin d'année 2010 et le tout début 2011 (ASKMOOD digitale, JeFF "Torment" digipack, DWDY 3" Cd-r, WOODEN STAKE/DRUID LORD split-7"), ALTSPHERE PRODUCTION annonce dès a présent que le label bénéficera à partir de février 2011 d'une distribution exclusive à l'internationale. En effet, CODE 7 (PLASTIC HEAD) sera le distributeur exclusif pour le Royaume-Uni et l'Irlande alors que TWILIGHT VERTRIEB s'occupera en exclusivité du reste du monde . ALTSPHERE assurera seulement une autodistribution en France.

Aux sorties déjà prévues s'ajoute, en mai 2011, le premier album de SURTR[b] (traditional doom metal - Fra) qui s'intitulera [b]"World of doom". La pochette de l'album sera réalisée par Christoph "Stripe" Schinzel (COUNT RAVEN, SODOM, ANVIL,...). Plus d'infos dans les prochains mois.


2. SHOP
* "Spiral shadow", le nouveau KYLESA
Le nouveau KYLESA, "Spiral shadow", ne va pas tarder à rentrer en stock en édition spéciale limitée CD + bonus DVD en digipack avec pochette en holographe.La version vinyle sera là en milieu de mois. Vous pouvez les pré-commander à prix réduit dès à présent :
- KYLESA "Spiral shadow" CD + DVD avec pochette en holographe
- KYLESA "Spiral shadow" LP


* Pré-commande
LA SPHERE compte toujours plus de vinyles et vous propose de pré-commander à prix réduit et dès à présent, les disques d'un arrivage prévu à la fin du mois:
- ELECTRIC WIZARD "Black masses" 2XLP - new album
- ELECTRIC WIZARD "Dopethrone" 2xLP - 2010 reedition
- WITCHFINDER GENERAL "Death penality" - Gatefold-LP 2010 reedition of this cult album from 1982
- WITCHFINDER GENERAL "Friends of hell"- Gatefold-LP 2010 reedition of the second album from 1983


* DERNIERS ARRIVAGES
Pour finir, LA SPHERE vous rappelle qu'elle a récemment rentré en stock :
CDs
- DARK CASTLE "Spirited migration" Digipack - Great Doom duo. Ultra fave!
- DEADBIRD "Twilight ritual" CD - Doom sludge
- EYEHATEGOD "preaching the end-time message" CD - sludge masters
- GROAN "The sleeping wizard" CD - Debut album of this excellent UK Traditional Doom band
- MHÖNOS "Miserere nostri" CD - French Doom/Drone/Ambient with black metal touches
- MISTY MORNING "Martian Pope" CD - Italian Sabbath-inspired Doom
- RWAKE "If you walk before you crawl, you crawl before you die" CD - Sludge
- SOFA KING KILLER "Lust, crime and holiness" CD - Sludge Doom
- V/A "Planet doom. Vol. 1" CD - UK doom metal compilation
- V/A "For the stick : a tribute to EYEHATEGOD" 2xCDs - Tribute to the sludge masters

VINYLES
- ACCEPT "Breaker" Gatefold LP - classic heavy metal re-release
- ACCEPT "Restless & Wild Gatefold LP- classic heavy metal re-release
- ANNIHILATOR "King of the kill" 2xLP - classic cult thrash metal re-release
- ANNIHILATOR "Metal" 2xLP - thrash metal
- ATAVIST / NADJA "12012291920 / 1414101" LP - Sludge doom vs Drone doom
- BLACK ANVIL "Times insults the mind - US black thrash metal incl. a CELTIC FROST cover
- BLACK BREATH "heavy breathing" - Blackened thrash-punk-metal. Fave!
- BLACK COBRA "Bestial" LP - Sludge Doom
- BLACK COBRA "Feather and stone" LP - Sludge Doom
- BLACK LABEL SOCIETY "Order of the black" 2xLP - Brand new album!
- BLACK SABBATH "Paranoid" LP - re-release on heavy 180g vinyl.
- BRANT BJORK "Gods & goddesses LP - new album of this great sonter with ex-KYUSS
- CHURCH OF MISERY "The early works : 1997 - 2000" 3xLP - sludge/stoner
- DEICIDE "S/t" Lp - re-release of this cult debut album by death metal masters
- DOG EAT DOG "All boro king" Lp - Cult fusion. Who's the king ?!
- DOWN "Over the under" 2xLp - Southern metal with who you know
- EARTHRIDE "Tamming the demons" Lp - Debut album. Great US doom
- EMPEROR "IX Equilibrium" Gatefold-Lp - Cult Black metal re-released on vinyl!
- EYE HATE GOD "Southern discomfort" LP - compilation everybody needs!
- FEAR FACTORY "Digimortal" LP - Cult album of indus metal.
- GOD STOMPER/DAYBREAK "scared for life / Nautical hyperblast" LP - Nihilist grind insanity meets emo-grind brutality!
- GODFLESH "S/t" LP - Cult Indus re-release
- GODFLESH "Streetcleaner" Lp - Cult Indus re-released
- ICED EARTH "Framing armaggedon" 2xLP - power/heavy metal
- ICED EARTH "The glorious burden" 2xLP - power/heavy metal
- JIMMY PAGE AND THE BLACK CROWES "Live at the Greek" 3xLP - Led Zeppelin will never die!
- KAMELOT "Ghost Opera" 2xLP - symphonic heavy metal
- LE SINGE BLANC "Babylon" LP - noise rock with Primus influences. Celebrating 10 years of existence
- MINSK "Out of center which is never dead nor alive" 2xLP - Stoner Doom
- MÖTÖRHEAD "Kiss of death" LP - Lemmy returns!
- OGHR "DIMD - Devil in my details" LP - Dark electro/indus with SKINNY PUPPY's singer
- PENTAGRAM "Review your choices" Gatefold-LP & coloured vinyl Ltd to 100 copies - Cult Doom
- PENTAGRAM "Sub-basement" Gatefold-Lp & coloured vinyl Ltd to 100 copies - Cult Doom
- RATT "Infestation" LP - brand new album. Excellent Hard rock
- RHAPSODY OF FIRE "Triumph of agony" 2xLP - Symphonic/Orchestral heavy metal
- SHRINEBUILDER "s/t" 2xLp - Stoner Metal with WINO from ST. VITUS
- SODOM "S/t" 2xLP - Cult German Thrash Metal. Fave!
- STICKING LIZAVETA "sacrifice & Bliss" Lp - instru.math-stoner-rock incorporating doom, sludge, post- jazz,metal,…
- SUNN O))) "Oracle" LP - Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrone
- SYMPHONY X "Paradise Lost" 2xLP - Progressive heavy metal
- THORR's HAMMER "Dommedagsnatt" LP - SUNN O)) & friends playing Doom Death. Never released since the 1996 Tape
- V/A "BY : A tribute to LE SINGE BLANC" LP - Rock noise coversongs celebrating 10 years of existence with DEATH TO
PIGS, OVO, THEE VERDUNS,…

3. SELECTION HEBDOMADAIRE
Chaque semaine, retrouvez une sélection de 5 CDs, vinyles ou K7s issus de La Sphère et découvrez de nouveaux groupes. Il ne s'agit pas de promouvoir des overstocks ou quoi que ce soit, mais simplement de partager avec vous de bons disques et K7s que vous ne connaissez peut-être pas.

Sélection des semaines précédentes:
- Semaine 42 : COUNT RAVEN "Mammon's war" 2xLp - SUICIDAL VORTEX "My Existence : A serie of thoughts..." CD - PLAN E "Bast kept secret" CD - JAKOB "Solace" Tape - NATHAN WATSON "I" Cd-r.

- Semaine 43 : PENTAGRAM "Review your choices" Lp - GAMA BOMB "Tales from the grave of space" Lp - DOPEFIGHT "s/t" Cd-r - KRAFT "Where lost hope dies" Cd-r - H418ov21.C "Rituale" Tape

- Semaine 44 : LIMBONIC ART "The ultimate deathworship" Second hand CD - IRON MONKEY "Iron Maonkey / Our Problem" 2xCD - DEICIDE "s/t" Lp - DIABOLICAL DEMON DIRECTOR "The Death Sentence" Tape - TINNER "Faster, harder, tinner" Cd-r


A bientôt!
www.altsphere.com

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Week45


ELECTRIC WIZARD "Black Masses" - Doom - 2xLP - 2010 - Buy It now
In a way it takes all the elements from all their albums, melts them down and turns them into something different again. It's a nasty, angry beast of a recording that oozes sleaze and reeks of satanic nightmares and drug induced apocalyptic visions. I am very excited to say that Electric Wizard are still leaders in their field of Stoner, Psychedelic Doom and mark my words this will be THE album of 2010 for a lot of fans and critics alike. (Doomantia)


DEATH ANGEL "The art of dying" - Thrash Metal – Digipack- 2004 - Buy It now
Face it, this band reinvents itself with every album. No two are alike, and The Art of Dying is no exception. Both bright and dark, heavy & light. Pulsing with vibrant anthems, startling social truths, progressive and confident musicianship. This is the total package--a little something for everyone. Strong song writing, metal guitar work, outstanding drum bombardment and a bass guitar that you can hear.(Knac)


LEMMING PROJECT "Extinction" – Death Metal - Second Hand LP – 1991 - Buy It Now
It’s an unforgiving journey into the reality of death and pain and the rebuke of the schizophrenic, unheroic modern approach to these, as we so incredulously deem them, “atrocities.” The Lemming Project strike deep into the solar plexus of humanity, unfurling tendrils at will, entangling the intruders of Natural Law within shards of feral, spiralling and downright callous tremolo outbursts. (Metal-archives)


NANOWAR "True Metal of the world" - Power heavy Metal - Cd-r - 2003 - Buy it now
Nanowar are not only a paradoy band, they're a great Power metal band that doesn't take seriously the whole "rules" of Power Metal, they're a band that decided to be different from the rest, and they're achieving it. Get this album not only for the parody thingie, but also for the music in it, you will find it quite pleasant.(Metal storm)


IN RUINS "in the breath of wind" – Depressive USBM - Tape - 2007 - Buy it now
Face it, this band reinvents itself with every album. No two are alike, and The Art of Dying is no exception. Both bright and dark, heavy & light. Pulsing with vibrant anthems, startling social truths, progressive and confident musicianship. This is the total package--a little something for everyone. Strong song writing, metal guitar work, outstanding drum bombardment and a bass guitar that you can hear.Raw, chilling underground USBM with a very sorrowful edge. Second demo by In Ruins, a project that includes members of Firth Of Damnation and Chaos Moon.(thorn laceration)

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Week46


JUCIFER "If thine enemy hunger" - Sludge/Stoner - LP - 2006 - Buy It now
"If Thine Enemy Hunger" is simply great. What we get is a mix of slow, dirgy jams and up-beat blasting numbers courtesy of vocalist/guitarist Amber Valentine and drummer Edgar "If Thine Enemy Hunger" is simply great. What we get is a mix of slow, dirgy jams and up-beat blasting numbers courtesy of vocalist/guitarist Amber Valentine and drummer Edgar Livengood. The Stoner vibe is strong here, but it's the MELVINS influence that really caught my attention.(The metal observer)


BLACK TUSK "Taste the sin" - Sludge Metal – CD - 2010 - Buy It now
The intensity of Taste the Sin is obvious from the get-go, as album opener “Embrace the Madness” serves as a precursor to the wrecking brutality that is branded from start to finish. “Snake Charmer” incorporates a somewhat bluesy feel, exemplifying the band’s fervent flair for maintaining a hard-hitting groove, something often omitted in modern metal. (LA music)


OPUS DEAD "Perros de presa" – Thrash/Fast/punk - Second Hand CD – 2002 - Buy It Now
2nd full lenght CD of this political thrashcore band from Madrid, Spain... 2nd repress!! Includes a Motorhead cover!


TZII / FLUTWACHT "Dead flesh and living scar" - Indus ambient - Cd-r - 2006 - Buy it now
here we live in an incomplete nihilism, extreme positions are succeeded by moderate ones, nature is moral, where it should be immoral, values appear - landscapes and camping sites again, and lure the listener away from the most paralyzing idea, but though we need to think this thought in its most terrible form, here is only the age of decay, declining vitality and a superabundance of bungled experiments. (Electrohm)


GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT "A moment of stillness" – Atmospheric/Post Metal-rock - Tape - 2008 - Buy it now
the ambient, atmospheric feel that God Is An Astronaut provides is wonderfully executed, with sweeping keyboards, searing synthesizers, and steady guitarwork, (Sputnik)

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Week 47


16 "Bridges to burn" CD - 2009 - Buy It now
Enduring, seminal and nihilistic to the core – California’s 16 have reformed and bounced back with the most intense, bleak and powerful album of their lengthy career. There’s no optimism here, throughout this awesome sludge-packed dirty affair Cris Jerue and co fist-fuck their way through 12 vignettes of how shit life can be. The soundtrack to a life of living in the gutter? You bet! (rocksound.tv)


TESTAMENT "The Gathering" 2xLP - Thrash Metal – 2010 - Buy It now
There is no old school thrash shredding on this album. They are too busy knocking your head off with the catchiest riffs and songs ever to be recorded on an album this heavy. (...)In 1999 when other thrash bands released albums accompanied by orchestras (Metallica), miserable attempts at commercial acceptance (Megadeth) and greatest hits albums (Anthrax) Testament put this monster of an album out. (Metal Storm)


SLAYER "Reign in Blood" Second Hand CD - Thrash Metal - 1986 - Buy It now
With a running time of 28 minutes, listening to Reign In Blood is like a quick kick in the nuts and is guaranteed to knock the wind out of you. While it may not be the greatest metal record of all time, it is without a doubt the greatest Thrash record. Reign In Blood's content and brutality shocked the world in 1986 and is the basis for what would become Death Metal. ALL bands in extreme music today owe something to Slayer and this album. (Metal Storm)


OPPRESSION "Violence will dominate" - Thrash Metal - Cd-r - 2003 - Buy it now
Oppression has chosen their album title just right. Their music is a violent mix of metal with an aggressive shouter, fast tempo and crushing guitars with some leads (may become more!). Not willing to sacrifice themselves they rage through the 4 tracks without mercy. (Brutalism)


GOTHIC SKY "Open your mind for insanity" - 2000 - Buy it now
2nd album of this great Russian Blackened gothic doom metal. For fans of My dying bride.

NEWSLETTER DECEMBRE

1.LABEL

ASKMOOD "The Weather" digital - 4 février 2011
ASKMOOD "The Weather" sortira en format digital sur iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon mp3,... le 4 février! Ecouter des extraits sur myspace.com/askmood.
Ils jouent du rock inspiré par le vin et l'amour, mixant rock classic, hard rock, shoegaze et grunge. Un voyage passionné à travers les sentiments humains.
Lorsque Ask et Mood se retrouvent, ils ne se disent rien. Ils boivent du vin et s’embrassent sans arrêt. Ils restent enfermés, refermés sur eux-mêmes et sur leur seul plaisir. Mais lorsqu’ils doivent se séparer pour quelques temps, Ask se demande alors ce que peut faire Mood. Mais le temps est parfois trop long et Ask devient d’humeur mélancolique. De son côté, Mood se réfugie dans la nature pour oublier à quel point Ask lui manque. Tous deux n’attendent qu’une seule chose : se retrouver à nouveau pour boire du vin et s’embrasser avec passion.

WOODEN STAKE / DRUID LORD split-7" - 11 février 2011

Le split-7" WOODEN STAKE/DRUID LORD split-7" sortira le 11 février. Ce sont deux groupes des Etats-Unis inspirées par les vieux films d'horreur. WOODEN STAKE joue un doom metal avec un chant féminin possédé et DRUID LORD joue du oldschool doom death metal entre ASPHYX et PENTAGRAM. Ecouter des extraits en ligne.

WOODEN STAKE : WOODEN STAKE joue du doom metal avec un sombre chant féminin possédé qui serpente comme des incantations. Duo de doom heavy, catchy et angoissant du Texas et de New-York. Ils ont sorti leur première démo en Septembre 2010.
DRUID LORD : Né dans le noyau marécageux de la Floride, Druid Lord s'est formé début 2011, notamment par Pete Slate du groupe cultre de Black/Death américain Equinox, ex-Incubus, dans le seul but de créer une musique lourde entre heavy doom et oldschool death metal. Les paroles s'inspirent des films d'horreur et de divers thèmes occultes.

2.SHOP

NEW IN STOCK
- ABORYM "Psychogrotesque" 2xLP - brand new album
- ATHEIST "Jupiter" Lp - brand new album
- BEAVER "Lodge" - Stoner
- BLACK ANVIL "Triumvirate" LP - Black thrash - Gatefold - new album
- COUGH "Ritual abuse" 2xLP - Doooooom - 180g heavy vinyl Ltd edition. New album
- DOZER "Supersoul" - Stoner
- HANGNAIL "One million layers B.C." - Stoner
- KINGDOM OF SORROW "s/t" LP - Sludgecore featuring Kirk (Down, Crowbar) and Nick (Toxic holocaust) - coloured vinyl
- KINGDOM OF SORROW "Behind the blackest tears" LP - sludgecore - new album
- KYLESA "Spiral Shadow" LP - Sludge - new album
- OMEGA MASSIF "Geisterstadt gatefold-Lp - masterpiece of doom
- SAINT VITUS "Born too late" LP - doom masterpiece
- SAINT VITUS "Hallow's vitcim" LP - doom
- SAINT VITUS "Heavier than thou" 2xLP - 1991 compil of the first albums
- SAINT VITUS "Mournful cries" Lp - Doom
- SAINT VITUS "The walking dead" 12" EP - Doom
- SAINT VITUS "Thirsty and miserable" 12" EP - Cult doom playing BLACK FLAG cover
- SAINT VITUS special die-hard fan 5 discs package - Dooooooooooom. 5x12" for 58€ ! Be doomed in the cheapest way!
- TITAN "Sweet dreams" LP - Psyché/Space/prog metal-rock - Gatefold Grey vinyl - new album

BACK IN STOCK
- JUCIFER "L'autrichienne" 2xLP - Killer sludge - gatefold
- JUCIFER "If thine enemy hunger" Lp - sludge - yellow disc (also available in red)

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Week 49


BLACK ANVIL "Triumvirate" LP - Black thrash metal - 2010 - Buy It now
"A potential All-round monster metal band!" (Fenriz, Darkthrone)
"Black Anvil play a menacing, deadly form of death metal with blackened overtones, bringing to mind such bands as Celtic Frost (an obvious influence), and other dark death metal bands such as Incantation. Like those bands, Black Anvil are able to project dark tones into their form of death metal, resulting in a much greater sense of evil and foreboding than is normally heard in most straight up death metal. " (about heavy metal)


ALUNAH "Call of Avernus" CD - Doom Metal – 2010 - Buy It now
Alunah have arrived now in a big way with this album, a very well-executed recording from a band that is equally all about catchiness than it is heaviness and grooves. It is certainly one of the albums of 2010 especially from the perspective of Stoner, Psychedelic Metal but forget about "tags," this is just a damn catchy rock album. Please support Alunah and check out this album, especially if you are a fan of female-fronted rock bands as I think Alunah are now right at the top of that pile of bands now. 9.5/10 (Doommantia)


VOODOOSHOCK "s/t" Second hand CD - Traditional doom - 2002 - Buy It now
Germany's Voodoo Shock (strange name, that) rose from ashes of former Rise Above act Naevus. Even if you've never heard Naevus, though, they'll sound familar, with Ozzy-ish vox singing songs full of wonderful doom/stoner cliches like "electric mind" and "rainbow sky". Slow to mid tempo, melodic but ultra heavy, this is in the style of Terra Firma, Sheavy, Trouble, Spirit Caravan, y'know the sort of thing. The riffs are weighty, but Voodoo Shock's perculiarity might be their penchant for spacey mellow parts. Also they cover "Nights In White Satin"! (Aquarius Records)


KYLIE MINOISE vs TETSUO"s/t" Cd-r - Noise - 2006 - Buy it now
Released by At war with false noise. No need to add something. Take a deep breath and take that in your face. Noizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzze


EMPEROR "Promotheus" Tape - Technical death metal / Black metal - 2001 - Buy it now
Much of this album is actually more along the lines of technical death than black metal in terms of guitar tones and riff structure, but there is still plenty of the darkest of genres left. Symphonic instruments provide atmosphere to nearly every crevice of the album, and the vocals, both black and clean, are done to absolute perfection. Also, every now and then, the guitars slip back into black metal territory. The occasional melodies are also done perfection, and are inserted at exactly the right moments. Being any more detailed than that would be really quite hard to do, as I honestly can's think of any good comparisons, including their own previous material. This is truly an album I?ve never, ever heard before. (Metalstorm)

plus de 150 CDs & CDs d'occaz' sur : www.altsphere.com
N'offre pas de cadeaux aux autres, offre de nouvelles choses à tes oreilles!

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Week 50


BRANT BJORK "Gods & goddesses" LP - Stoner - 2010 Buy It now
"if you have never picked a album from Brant as yet, this may be the pefect album to start with.(...)I wouldn't like to call "Gods And Goddesses" his best work but it is certainly in his top three and one that will please his fans and bring some more in for the ride. Another great album from Brant Bjork. 9/10 (DoomMantia)



ATOLAH "Relics" CD - Raw Sludge Doom - 2009 - Buy It now
"Crude, sludgy and raw instrumental Doom-metal from OZ. Their riffage is very basic, extremely heavy and solid like a steel mallet. Superb bass lines to add. Slow and heavy music for those who appreciate their music to hurt to the bone." (Psychedoomelic)
With Ex-DEVILISH ERA member.


DEVIOUS "Domain" Second hand CD - Thrash Death - 2007 - Buy It now
"The result is one of the most balanced death metal albums in ages. It has plenty of blasting, but it's never so fast that the body stops responding. It's technical, but the riffs are memorable. It's brutal, but flashes of melody constantly shine through, 8/10" (Metal injection)


ARKTAU EOS "Scorpion Milk" Cd-r - Dark Ambient - 2006 - Buy it now
'Scorpion Milk' consists of a single album length track, which is best apprehended in a meditative state with minimum outside interference. It is truly a "Mirror Noir" to the album itself - its shadowy companion, the candle-bearer who responds to no call but silence itself. The music can be likened to a dark well, the oily surface of which not only reflects the phantasms of mind recalled through participation in the "Mirrorion" cycle, but is occasionally broken by scorpionic surges of primal Power invigorating the act of contemplation. (Esoteric sanctuary)


EINDIG "Doodschrift"Tape - Depressive Black Metal / Doom Drone - 2008 - Buy it now
"Eindig sounds like if you poked them they might actually hurt you." (Madeloud)

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Week 51


CANDLEMASS "king of the grey islands" 2xLP - Epic Doom - 2007 - Buy It now
Released as a gatefold double vinyl limited to 500 copies with three bonus tracks. First album with Robert Lowe on vocals.


EQUITANT "Konstruckteur" CD - Dark ambient - 2005 - Buy It now
Dark ambient by the first singer of ABSU.


W.A.S.P "Live...in the raw" Second hand CD - Heavy Metal/Hard rock - 1987 - Buy It now
Classic!

SLANG "Humanistic disorder" 3" Cd-r - HxC/Punk - 2006 - Buy it now
"Slang offer up raw Japanese hardcore on this 6 track mini-CD. Features a few demo versions of Slang's 4th album "The Immortal Sin" plus an exclusive track (Politics Cause Crime) and all song versions here are different recordings not on any other Slang releases." (Hardcore Holocaust)


TONI KANDELIN "Elektronic waves" Tape - Experimental noise - 2005 - Buy it now
If you like the "brrrrrrr", the "zzzz" and the "crrrrkkkkkk".

And don't forget that more than 100 CDs & 2nd Hand CDs remain with a 50% discount!



Vinyls soon in stock :
- ELECTRIC WIZARD "Come my fanatics" 2xLP
- ELECTRIC WIZARD "Witchcult today" 2xLP
- FLESHPRESS "No return" 12" EP
- FLESHPRESS " Rebuild/crumble" 12" EP
- GHOST "Opus eponymous" Lp
- MONARCH / GREY DATURA split-LP
- SUMA "Ashes" 2xLP
- UNEARTHLY TRANCE/SUMA "Collaboration" 12"EP + CD

contact me for any questions

NEW VINYLS IN STOCK
- FLESHPRESS "No return" 12" EP - Blackened sludge/doom with Miko (Clandestine blaze, Deathspell omega). Brand new material!
- FLESHPRESS "Rebuild/Crumble" 12" EP - Blackened sludge/doom with Miko (Clandestine blaze, Deathspell omega). Brand new material!
- FLESHPRESS album-pack "No return" 12" EP + "Rebuild/Crumble" 12" EP - The four long tracks comprised in these two 12" EPs should be considered Fleshpress' brand new (5th) album... or not? The band decided to split these +41 minutes in two separate vinyl releases instead.
- LUDICRA "The tenant" 2xLp - US Black Metal! Brand new album! with Ross (live member of Wolves in the throne room)
- MONARCH / GREY DATURA "Dawn Of The Catalyst" LP - French Doom Masters vs Australian doom outsiders
- SUMA "Ashes" 2xLP - 3rd album of the Swedish stoner/doom masters!
- SUMA/UNEARTHLY TRANCE "Collaboration" 12" EP + CD - 2 doom masters collaborating on this great record!

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Week 52


TROUBLE "Simple mind condition" gatefold LP - Cult Psychedelic stoner/doom - 2007 (2010 re-release) - Buy It now
"So, Trouble are back, and they delivered an absolute winner here" (alternative-zine.com)


BEN NASH "The seventh goodbye" CD - Acoustic guitar / Cosmic atmospheric music - 2008 - Buy It now
"a real beauty. Throughout there is mostly Ben's acoustic guitar picking - elegiac ragas similar to James Blackshaw. Side 2 opens with the meditative "Smoke & Flattery" - singing bowls, grizzled oms and incense-wreathed atmosphere. The rest of the side continues in cosmically dazed fashion with the next track sounding like Led Zep's more enchanted and folkier moments on the falling into the bliss of sleep. Highly recommended." - (BOA MELODY)


HANGÖVER "Under the shitfluence" Second hand CD - Blackened Thrash'n'roll, a G.G Allin tribute - 2006 - Buy It now
Alcoholic Polish Trio offering a raw oldschool thrash metal dedicated to G.G Allin.



OBJEKT 4 "World of ruin" 3" Cd-r - Indus ambient - 2004 - Buy it now
"This is the opportunity to discover 4 pieces going into dark ambient and experimental treatments." (side-line)


ISTIDRAJ "Blasphemous ritual" Tape - Raw Black Metal from Singapore - 2006 - Buy it now
"Istidraj is one of the harshest, most satisfying black metal bands I've ever heard. These Singaporean sickos take the punkish, lo-fi, abbrasive approach (...) Blasphemous Ritual is about pure, balls-out harshness. It's a bit punk and silly" (grimmack, metal-archive)

Last days to enjoy the Anti-Xmas sale : about 150 CDs & 2nd Hand CDs 50% discounted! Hurry Up!
Derniers jours pour profiter du Anti-Xmas sale : près de 150 CDs & 2ND Hand CDs à moins 50%! Dépêchez-vous!
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Week 01


ALDEBARAN / UNEARTHLY TRANCE "s/t" split-7" - Doom/sludge - 2009 - Buy It now
"a gnarled dose of their grimly familiar blackened-sludge-cum-hardcore. (...) Bedfellows Aldebaran have been knocking around for a while now and do what they do well enough: sluggish doom wallowings with the kind of hot n' heavy low-end that presses up against your lower parts like a pervert on a crowded tube platform" (collective-zine)


ARES KINGDOM "Return to dust" CD - Black thrash metal - 2006 - Buy It now
"this is a thing of beauty. A complete, remarkably balanced, brilliantly constructed record (...). This album is a triumphant hymn to the timelessness of true fucking steel (...) Necessary." (diabolical conquest)


DEMIMONDE "Mutant Star" Second Hand CD - Gothic Doom Death - 2000 - Buy It now
"If you think Solefald are boringly conventional, then this should be just great for you." (chronicle of chaos)


TERG "Bitter" Cd-r - Experimental electro noise - 2005 - Buy it now


ENTOMBED "Hollow man" Tape - Cult death'n'roll - 1993 - Buy it now
"Hollowman was a killer ep (...) Sometimes Entombed albums can be hit and miss, but when they hit, they hit the mark and hit it hard." (Hook in mouth)



HAPPY HEAVY DOOM YEAR!!! And to begin 2011 in the right way, The Sphere offers you more than 200 Tapes at 1 or 2 Euros and offers you a free tape if you buy 10! This is the right oldschool spirit!
www.altsphere.com

NEWSLETTER JANVIER 2011

1.LABEL

ASKMOOD "The Weather" digital - 4 Février
Dans moins d'un mois maintenant, Altsphere sortira le premier EP digital de ASKMOOD.
Vous pouvez précommander cet EP de 6 titres DES MAINTENANT sur iTunes. Cet EP sera disponible à partir du 4 février sur amazon mp3, spotify, deezer, fnac music,…
Et pour vous faire patienter un mois, le groupe vient de réaliser un clip psychedelique fait maison que vous pouvez regarder sur : YouTube, Vimeo ou Dailymotion.
Suivez ASKMOOD sur Facebook ou Twitter.

WOODEN STAKE / DRUID LORD split-7" - 11 Février
Le mois prochain sortira le split-7" WOODEN STAKE / DRUID LORD. Vous pouvez le précommander maintenant sur The Sphere webshop.
Les revendeurs situés en France, Royaume-Uni ou Irelande et intéressés par des prix de gros peuvent me contacter, les revendeurs en-dehors de ses pays doivent contacter notre distributeur twilight-vertrieb.de

"DO NOT PASS THIS ONE" (Hellride music)
"captivating couple of tunes from two killer bands, 9/10" (Doommantia)
"Definitely a fantastic release and highly recommended for all doom fans." (Heavy metal time machine)

2.SHOP

NEW IN STOCK
CDs
- CHAOS MOON "Languor into echoes, beyond" - Funeral Doom with members ofd BETHLEHEM & COFFIN
- EA "EA Taesse" - funeral doom
- EGO DEPTHS "Equilibrium sickness" - Funeral doom with sludge elements
- EIBON "Entering darkness" Digipack - Doom / Sludge, a reference French band!
- EIBON "s/t" DIGIPACK MCD - Doom / sludge
- MURKRAT "s/t" - Great doom metal
- NADJA "Desire in uneasiness" DIGIPACK - Great ambient/drone/doom
- SABBAH NAVAHTHANI "s/t" - Doom/sludge with Tas (ELECTRIC WIZARD)

VINYLS
- FLESHPRESS "No return" 12" EP - Blackened sludge/doom with Miko (Clandestine blaze, Deathspell omega). Brand new material!
- FLESHPRESS "Rebuild/Crumble" 12" EP - Blackened sludge/doom with Miko (Clandestine blaze, Deathspell omega). Brand new material!
- FLESHPRESS album-pack "No return" 12" EP + "Rebuild/Crumble" 12" EP - The four long tracks comprised in these two 12" EPs should be considered Fleshpress' brand new (5th) album... or not? The band decided to split these +41 minutes in two separate vinyl releases instead.
- LUDICRA "The tenant" 2xLp - US Black Metal! Brand new album! with Ross (live member of Wolves in the throne room)
- MONARCH / GREY DATURA "Dawn Of The Catalyst" LP - French Doom Masters vs Australian doom outsiders
- SUMA "Ashes" 2xLP - 3rd album of the Swedish stoner/doom masters!
- SUMA/UNEARTHLY TRANCE "Collaboration" 12" EP + CD - 2 doom masters collaborating on this great record!
- THE KABINBOY "s/t" 10" - Instrumental Stoner / Sludge rock. Fave!
- THE HORROR "Fcuk wanker trash" - DIY fast punk / Thrashcore, coming as a splattered disc limited and hand-numbered to 100.

JANVIER EST LE MOIS DE LA K7!
HAPPY HEAVY DOOM YEAR!!! Pour commencer 2011 du bon pied, The Sphere vous offre plus de 200 K7s entre 1 et 2 Euros, et vous offre une K7 gratuite pour tout achat de 10 K7s. This is the right oldschool spirit!

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Week 02


BATHORY "Octagon" Pic-Lp - Oldschool black/thrash - 1995 (2003 re-release) - Buy It now
When Quorthon played thrash metal and sounded like early SLAYER!


KADENZZA "The second Renaissance" CD - Symphonic black metal - 2005 - Buy It now
Symphonic Black Metal from Japana. Fave!


P.MILES BRYSON "Weight of the World, A Long Day's..." Second Hand CD - Electronic & Experimental Music - Buy It now
It processes a source of field recording,various sound snippets from tango and orchestral pieces, and creates delicate electronic music beautifully.from usa ltd 500


KÖRDHA "Songs for laceration" Cd-r - noise - 2005 - Buy it now


MÖDER "Ewiger Töd" TAPE - Blackened Thrash Death - 2007 - Buy it now
Inspired by the old works of Asphyx, Sodom, Death, Morbid Angel

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Week 03


ASUNDER / GRAVE AT SEA "s/t" Lp - Cult Doom split! - 2005 - Buy It now
"Beautiful gatefold version of this mammoth split. Graves at Sea conjures up more of their brand of gutteral doom that only the desert can produce. While Asunder churns out a goliath slap of sub sonic depression. Features amazing artwork (drawings and paintings -- including lyrics!) from David D'Andrea (Asunder, High on Fire, Yeti)." (Omega Order)


CANDLEMASS "Epicus doomicus metallicus" CD - Epic Doom Metal - 1986 - Buy It now
Remastered version re-released in 2007 as 2CD. The bonus cd is called "Live In Birmingham" and was recorded in March 1988.
"I would say that this is the album that every metal maniac MUST have in his cd collection. It's almost perfect" (MetalStorm)


OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON US "Painful stories told.." Second Hand CD - Sludge / Doom - 2008 - Buy It now
"OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON US is an excellent Austrian Sludge Doom band with post core influences. Wonderful acoustic sounds, pitch-black sound samples, and the mourning and conjuring vocals of the two singers. Rage, sadness, bitterness, suffering and hate are only a part of the emotions that are processed and thus channelled with OSDOU." (PsycheDOOMelic)


DOPEFIGHT / DEAD EXISTENCE "Split" Cd-r - doom / sludge- 2009 - Buy it now
DOPEFIGHT : "The band main inspiration is the mighty THC so the comparison to "Bongzilla, Sleep and other Stoner/Doom bud worshipers will come as obvious but in amongst those grooves there is a good dose of "Iron Monkey" and "Grief" sounding tortured Doom." (Doommantia)
DEAD EXISTENCE : Harsh being a word that sums up the hungover crawl-to-the-bowl of London's misanthropic sludge sect Dead Existence perfectly. What else is there to say? Listen hard and feel your bowels churn in sympathy" (Terrorizer Magazine)


SORROWFUL GOD "M.E.P.H.I.S.T.O" TAPE - Atmospheric Doom Metal - 2000 - Buy it now



NEW IN STOCK : Head of the Taurus / Rule of Coss split-Lp - 2 greats German Stoner / Sludge / Post-rock bands which remind me SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA! Fave!

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Week 04


NACHTMYSTIUM "Eulogy IV" Lp - US Black Metal - 2006 - Buy It now
"Nachtmystium have made another giant step in a very short amount of time. I sense so much potential in this band that I'm already becoming afraid they might not be able to explore it to the fullest." (Chronicle of chaos)


MOOD "slow down" CD - Doom Metal - 2005 - Buy It now
"What's MOOD spelled backward? Classic trad doom that would have felt right in place with in the golden years' of Rise Above. The 2nd album from these cult doom legends - gem like doom in the vein of Sabbath, Obsessed and even a bit of Cathedral. Now, the long time sold album of MOOD (pre. Wall of Sleep) called “Slow Down” is available again in a limited version to the public." (PsycheDOOMelic)


SANCTUS DAEMONEON "Grey Metropolis" 2nd Hand CD - Funeral Black/Doom - 2008 - Buy It now
"Grey Metropolis" is unnervingly eerie and unhastily experimental. It possesses a distinct underground feel; it sounds sinister; and it looks great. The music produced by these Danes is unique and worthy of your attention. So please, stop waiting for Mayhem or Dodheimsgard or whoever to deliver another decent album and buy something genuinely obscure and creepy instead." (Archaic Mag)


GACKY "Mektig" Cd-r - Indus Noise - 2005 - Buy it now
On "Mektig", Gacky explores a variety of electronic soundscapes, including soft melodic compositions and symphonic industrial, as well as noisy power electronics with hard abrasive inhuman beats. (Organic Pipeline)


ASTROEPOS " s/t" TAPE - Ambient - Buy it now
"Alchemic ambience as an illustration of the author´s philosophical search. sheer bells, powerful keyboards and mysterious, gentle noise…" (black orchid)

LAST WEEK TO ENJOY THE TAPE MONTH !!!!
about 200 tapes between 1 & 2€. Buy 10 get 1 free!

NEW IN STOCK
- THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT "Stains of resignation" 2xLP" - Brand new album of the Goat! Between black metal, funeral doom & folk ballads.

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Week 05


CHURCH OF MISERY "The early works : 1997 - 2000" 3xLp - Sludge/Doom - Buy it now
Coming as 3xLp in a superb Gatefold! 2 hours of music!
"this is classic-sounding doom metal, slightly updated, groovy, extra-heavy and fun to listen to. If you know what’s good for you, you’d consume it without even a hint of reluctance. It’s what the doctor prescribed." (global domination)


BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS / KODIAK Lp - Doom / Drone - 2010 - Buy It now
"These are two of the most intelligent and interesting drone doom metal bands of the present. They are both from Germany and they build a modern doom metal under down-tempo lines and ambient elements. This split is totally substantial. Approximately 40 minutes of noise and post-metal slow motion melodies." (Noizine)


GRAND MAGUS "S/t" CD - Doom Metal - 2001 - Buy It now
For the ones who missed this cult debut album! Re-mastered and Re-packaged by Rise Above Records in 2006 with two bonus tracks after being out of print.
"Grand Magus’ self-titled album set the standard for things to come. Inspired by Black Sabbath’s groovier side, these dudes set down some psychedelic doom with facets of stoner rock.(...) Okay, so every track is good, making for full spins every time the CD is in your player." (Examiner.com)


THOU "Tyrant" CD - Doom / Sludge- 2007 - Buy It now
"Tyrant" is the astonishing debut album from New Orleans doom / sludge songsmiths, Thou. While retaining an incredible sense of melodic & dynamic songwriting, Thou have unleashed one of the heaviest and darkest albums to be unveiled during the recent influx of doom & sludge. Powerful lyrics delivered with scathing vocals seal the deal, Thou have proven their value in a time when slow & heavy bands are a dime a dozen. This is only the beginning.


PENTAGRAM "Relentless" CD - Doom - 1985 - Buy it now
Cult Debut album of the doom masters re-released in 2005.
"Anyways, this is an essensial for all classic doom fans out there, I reccomend you snatch this one up. I reccomend for fans of doom, rock, blues, heavy metal, and thrash. 91/100 " (be without fear)

NEWSLETTER FEVRIER

1.LABEL

DISPONIBLE CETTE SEMAINE !

Le 4 Février sortira "The weather", le premier EP digital de ASKMOOD. Il sera disponible sur iTunes, Amazon mp3, Spotify, Deezer, Fnac music,… au prix buget one (environ 4,99€/5,30$)
"Cet album froid dans son aspect donne au final la sensation d'avoir découvert une perle rare"(Contre culture info)
" Cela donne un disque agréable, d'une énergie bien canalisée et rendue" (Musiciens.biz)
"Askmood ne fait pas comme les autres. Son rock décoiffe, bouscule et reste gravé dans votre tête"(promotion-musique.fr).

Ecouter des extraits sur Altsphere.com - Regarder le clip sur YouTube


DISPONIBLE LA SEMAINE PROCHAINE !

Le 11 Février sortira le split-7" EP WOODEN STAKE / DRUID LORD. Horror doom vs doom death, tous deux des USA. Il est déjà disponible en pré-commande sur notre webshop. Dépêchez-vous les 2/5ème ont déjà été réservés!

"captivating couple of tunes from two killer bands", 9/10 (Doommantia)
"Definitely a fantastic release and highly recommended for all doom fans." (Heavy metal time machine)
"encore une bonne tuerie " (Nawakposse)
"DO NOT pass this one" (Hellride)
" réservée aux ayatollahs du doom" (Vs-webzine)
"Schleichend, langsam, schwarz und heavy" (Obliveon)
"Ein interessante sammlerstück" (Osnametal)

Ecouter des extraits sur Altsphere.com


A VENIR !

"World of doom", le premier album du groupe de doom metal traditionnel SURTR sortira le 2 mai (France, UK, Eire) & le 29 avril (rest of the world).
SURTR crée une sombre atmosphère sur leur premier album World Of Doom. Le trio français peint le morose tableau du monde, utilisant les marques de fabrique des pionniers du doom metal. Ils posent les bases d'émeutes prêtes à éclater, à travers un concept-album utilisant une analogie entre la légende du géant SURTR et les sociétés modernes.
La précédente démo éponyme sortie en Janvier 2010 a reçu de bons retours : 8/10 (DoomMantia), 16/20 (MagicFireMusic), 13/20 (Temple of Doom), 71/100 (Metal-Revolution)
"Surtr manage to deliver enough good stuff to be worth your support, and enough neck-breaking slow-paced riffs to make your head headbang nervously” (Doom-Metal.com)

Artwork & layout by Christoph “Stripe” Schinzel (ANVIL, COUNT RAVEN, SODOM)
Pour les fans de BLACK SABBATH, SAINT VITUS, REVEREND BIZARRE

Rester accordé sur www.surtr.net



2.SHOP
FEBRUARY "LET'S MOVE ON" DISCOUNT !!!!
En Février, pour toute commande d'occasions, Cd-r ou K7, d'au moins 15€, , recevez une réduction de 30% sur le total de la commande (hors frais de ports) en entrant le Voucher Code : FEB-SALES sur la page de votre panier ou du choix du mode de livraison.


NEW IN STOCK
- ABYSMAL GRIEF "Misfortune" LP (white) - Horror/Gothic Doom Metal. 9,5/10 (DoomMantia)
- ABYSMAL GRIEF "Misfortune" LP (black) - Horror/Gothic Doom Metal. 9,5/10 (DoomMantia)
- ABYSMAL GRIEF "Hearse" Picture-7" - Horror/Gothic Doom Metal
- ABYSMAL GRIEF "The Samhain feast" Gatefold-7" - Horror/Gothic Doom Metal
- BITTER CHUP CHUP WE LOSE "s/t" LP + Cd-r - Great Stoner from France! FAVE! Ltd to 150 hand-numb Silkscreened.
- BLACK OATH "Portrait of the dead" 7" - Doom Metal
- BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS "S/T" LP - 1st album of the German Doom / Drone combo!
- BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS / CROWSKIN LP - German Killer Doom / Sludge / Drone split!
- BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS "Microbarome..." 2xLP - Doom / Drone. 2nd Album.
- BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS / KODIAK LP - Killer German Doom / Drone Split!
- DOMES OF SILENCE "Hunter ST" Single-CD - 3 tracks of the best Stoner band of the UK !
- HEAD OF THE TAURUS/ RULE OF COSS split-Lp - 2 greats German Stoner / Sludge / Post-rock bands which remind me SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA!
- IMPALER "The mutants rise again" Picture-7" - Horror Speed Metal
- KRALLICE "Dimensional..." 2xLP - US Avant-Garde Black Metal
- THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT "Stains of resignation" 2xLP" - Brand new album of the Goat! Between black metal, funeral doom & folk ballads with lots of shoegaze.
- WOODEN STAKE "Invoke the ageless witch" 7" - Horror Doom Metal with female vocal.

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Week 06


ISIS "The red sea" LP - Sludge - 1999 - Buy It now
Tri-color vinyl limited edition to 370 copies.
For the ones who missed this cult debut album! Re-mastered and Re-packaged by Rise Above Records in 2006 with two bonus tracks after being out of print.
Before attaining Celestial heights, ISIS plumbed the deepest and densest of musical depths with The Red Sea. Punishing and unrelenting, The Red Sea marked a new chapter in ISIS' mosquito-driven, conceptual universe. Incorporating nods to both vintage Earth and the Melvins, it was the two new "song" offerings that marked ISIS' growth beyond that of mere comparisons and demonstrated the grandeur of what was to follow. " (Second Nature)


JEX THOTH "s/t" LP - Doom Metal / Psychedelic rock - 2009 - Buy It now
So I highly recommend this album. It's all well-done and not once do I get the feeling that the band is approaching the style ironically. This is late 60s/early70s music performed by people that (I imagine) worship that era and take its sounds very seriously. If you like Jex's singing, and proto-doom and psychedelic music in general, there should be nothing keeping you from loving this. (Metalreview.com)


CANDLEMASS "No sleep 'til Athens" 2xLP - Epic Doom - 2010 - Buy it now
Coming as 2xLP on blue and white wax! Live recorded in 2009 in Athens.


SATURNALIA TEMPLE "Ur" CD - Great doom Metal w/ members of Therion and Kaamos - 2007 - Buy it now
Ultra slow, sluggish and heavy psychedelic/spacey music, one of the top new doom bands around, Saturnalia Temple features members of Therion and Kaamos. This is the debut digipack release of the Swedish doomsters, and a must for everyone into Pentagram, Electric Wizard, Black Widow... Saturnalia Temple is not merely riding the retro-trip, as so many are today, but is a journey of BLACK MUSICAL INITIATION from the QLIPHOTIC spheres, a timeless chant channelled into the MUSIC-RITUAL. The effects of their CHANTINGS, vibrations and hellish rhythms have been cast in IRON by the underworld smithery of TUBAL KAIN. They are here to follow the ANCIENT TRADITION of shamanic TRANCE, hard rock and blues, thus making a lot of noise, spreading general HYPNOSIS and EVIL VIBRATIONS. (PsycheDOOMelic)


DEEP SLEEP "Manic Euphoria" 7" - HxC/Punk - 2007 - Buy It now
Like just about the entirety of the Grave Mistake roster, Deep Sleep play early `80s hardcore, though with more of an adolescent, scratchy vocal front and a much less abrasive coating. They're often compared to Descendents, and while I wouldn't have thought of the comparison myself, it makes sense to draw a parallel to Descendents' early work upon listening, though of course without the noticeably poppy or upbeat edge. Maybe a bit of Jerry's Kids is in here as well. (punknews.org)

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Week 07


BLACK SABBATH "into the void" 7" - Doom/Heavy - 1971 - Buy It now
Gods of Doom Metal! 2 tracks recorded live in 1971 in England. Great sound. With insert.


TITAN "Sweet dreams" LP - Psyché/Space/prog metal-rock - 2010 - Buy It now
"A psychedelic journey to the heart of the sun! For fans of HAWKWIND, The SWORD & MONSTER MAGNET"
Brooklyn’s TITAN specialize in crafting epic rock jams; smokey, sprawling stretches of sweet riffs, swirling synths, and all the right kinds of rock bombast. They have an instinctual grasp on tension and release, with each song building to several emotional crescendos before ebbing, only to repeat in the most compelling of ways. Sweet Dreams, and especially the track “Wooded Altar Beyond the Wander”, prove that TITAN is one of America’s finest rock exports.


THERGOTHON "Stream from the heavens" CD - The originators of the Funeral Doom genre! - 1994 - Buy it now
Thergothon disbanded in 1993, before the eventual 1994 release of ‘Stream From the Heavens’ though over the years the band has earned a cult status in the underground through this single album. In the mid-later part of the 90's the "Funeral Doom" genre emerged. Thergothon was deemed as one of the originators of the sound & style and an important cornerstone for the whole genre.


MY DYING BRIDE "Anti-diluvian Chronicles" 3CD - Goth Doom Death - 2005 - Buy it now
This 3 CD set contains a comprehensive collection of the band's work, spanning their whole career.


TERRORAMA "Horrid efface" TAPE - Black Death Metal - 2004 - Buy It now

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Week 08


PENTAGRAM "Turn to stone" CD - Cult Doom - 2002- Buy It now
You don't know this Cult Doom Band!?!?!? Try this compilation of the 3 first albums!


MOSE GIGANTICUS "Gift horse" CD - Progressive Stoner, Synth sludge! Killer debut album! - 2010 - Buy It now
"Progressive stoner metal? Synth Sludge? Whatever label you slap on this baby, you can’t deny it’s an interesting oddity." (Angry Metal Guy)
The brainchild of Philadelphia’s Matt Garfield, MOSE GIGANTICUS pulls from an extensive range of hard rock, metal, and punk influences to create a unique and modern record with their Relapse debut ‘Gifthorse’. “The Left Path”, “Last Resort”, “White Horse”, and “Days of Yore” brings together driving, power riffs and low-end heaviness with expansive electronics, synth elements, and spirited attitude. ‘Gift Horse’ is as infectious as it is timeless, and a massive debut from an oncoming force-to-be reckoned with. (Relapse)


MAR DE GRISES "Streams inwards" CD - Doom death - 2010 - Buy it now
No it's not a clone of the best MY DYING BRIDE's album. Just listen to this awesome stuff!


THE GATES OF SLUMBER "Hymnd of blood and thunder" 2xLP - Heavy Doom - 2009 - Buy it now
Great heavy doom metal !


GODFLESH "s/t" LP - Cult Indus - 2008 reedition - Buy It now
Re-released 20 years after it's first press, including a bonus track recorded for an EP called Tiny Tears.

NEWSLETTER MARS

1.LABEL

SURTR "World of doom" CD - sortie le 2 mai [France, Royaume-Uni, Irlande] & 29 avril [reste du monde]
Le premier extrait de l'album "World of doom" de SURTR est en ligne maintenant!!! Ecoute-le sur www.surtr.net



TOUJOURS DISPONIBLE
- WOODEN STAKE / DRUID LORD split-7" [doom /USA]
“In The Godless Moonlight” is truly a perfect track (...) Druid Lord as another killer band." (Metal-revolution.com)
Ecouter des extraits - Acheter

- ASKMOOD "The weather" digital EP [rock /France]
"Un sympathique maxi" (My head is a jukebox)
Ecouter des extraits - Regarder la video - Acheter sur iTunes


2.SHOP
Nouvel arrivage de vinyles d'occasion ajouté! Plein de CDs d'occaz' à venir! Surveillez www.altsphere.com/catalog


NOUVEAUX VINYLES EN STOCK
- ANNTHENNATH / FROSTMOON ECLIPSE "Human infanticide" 7" - Black Metal from France & Italy
- AVENGER OF BLOOD "Death brigade" LP - Nevada Thrash Assault
- BLACK SABBATH "into the void" 7" - 2 tracks recorded live in 1971 in England.
- DEICIDE "Stench of redemption" Pic-LP - Death Metal masters
- ELECTRIC WIZARD "Witchcult today" LP - Doom master
- ELECTRIC WIZARD "Black Masses" 2xLP (orange) - Brand new killer album!!
- EXORDIUM MORS "Verus Hostis-A Hymn to Fire" 7" - Black death metal from New Zeland
- FUNERAL IN HEAVEN "Daiwaye Haaskam Saha Paralowa Sapatha" 7" - Black Metal from Sri Lanka
- GHOST "Opus eponymous" LP (Clear/Blue) - Doom/Psyché revelead by Fenriz (Darkthrone)
- HATE YOUR FATE / CRUCIFIER split-7" - Pure Thrash Metal like in the old days.
- KHANATE "Clean hand go foul" Pic-Lp - sludge / drone with Stephen O' Malley (Sunn O,...). Brand new album!
- MUCKRACKERS / LE SYNDICAT "la vie est à nous" 7" + 3" Cd-r - Industrial. Brand new effort ltd to 300 copies
- NORTT "Liftgaerd" Gatefold-LP - Funeral black doom
- NORTT "Galgenfrist" Gatefold-LP - Funeral black doom
- NORTT "Graven" LP - Funeral black doom
- URIAH HEEP "Very easy...very umble" Deluxe Gatefold LP - Cult progressive rock !
- V/A "Brazilian evil legions attack : the first manifest" LP - Black Metal from Brazil