Corvus Corax - Era Metallum - VINYL LP

Authentic yet often ineffable greatness that would define Silkworm's next 11 years of activity, the reissue of In The West is a grand corrective gesture with no expiration date.- Andrew Earles InchRevelatory,Inch VitalInch & InchFascinatingInch - Pitchfork (8.1)This definitive pressing of Silkworm's second album In the West marks it's first appearance on vinyl. It has been remixed from the original 2Inch tape at Electrical Audio in Chicago with Steve Albini, who also engineered the original recording in 1993. Limited to 1,500 copies worldwide.In addition to the album, supplemental material for this includes new liner notes by Silkworm's Tim Midyett, single-only tracks InchIncanduce CaliforniaInch & InchIn The Bleak MidwinterInch plus a live version of The Dream Syndicate's InchHalloweenInch recorded at Chicago's Lounge Ax in 1994.InchLike the brightened cover tweaks suggests, Silkworm's relevance was always there; it just took 25 years for some of us to notice.Inch - Northwest Music Scene1. Garden City Blues2. Dust My Broom3. Into The Woods4. Punch Drunk Five 5. Raised By Tigers 6. Incanduce 7. Enough Is Enough 8. Parsons 9. Dremate 10. Pilot 11. In The Bleak Midwinter 12. Incanduce California 13. Halloween (Live at Lounge Ax)

Corax B.M. - Pagana [VINYL LP] date 03/08/2024

After years of silence, line-up shifts, and a slow reshaping of their sonic identity, Ater Era return with Sinistria, their fourth full-length work. The title itself - a convergence of InchsinisterInch and Istria - resists direct translation, instead pointing toward a process the mutation of a land, an origin, and a condition. Now based between Slovenia and Trieste, the band draws from Istria not as a fixed geography, but as a fractured substance - a territory marked by overlapping cultures, unstable identities and bastard lineages. Within Sinistria, the red soil of the region is no longer a symbol of belonging, but a material subjected to decay, erosion and eventual blackening. What emerges is not a place, but a transformation Istria undone, reshaped into something darker, something unresolved. While the core of Ater Era remains rooted in a primal and downtuned black metal approach, their sound continues to expand into slower, more oppressive territories, absorbing elements of doom, sludge and death metal. The compositions unfold in massive, open-ended structures, where weight and repetition become tools of disorientation. Riffs do not resolve but linger and corrode; the sonic mass shifts between tension and collapse. The vocal delivery moves between invocation and expulsion, less narrative than utterance, reinforcing a sense of internal fracture rather than clarity. From it's origins as a solitary project in 2006 to it's evolution into a live-performing entity, Ater Era has consistently pursued an organic and uncompromising sound. Earlier works laid the foundation for a language that rejects precision in favor of density and abrasion - a trajectory that finds it's most complete form in Sinistria. Much like the land that inspired it, Sinistria exists in a state of tension between multiplicity and negation, origin and dissolution. It does not seek to reconcile these