SUPERNAL MUSIC
NEWSLETTER - 01/11/05
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In this issue:
* Welcome
* News
* Our latest releases
* Our next releases
* Our earlier releases
* Distribution
* Requests for promotional material
* Requests for advertising
* Contact details
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Welcome
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Through this newsletter we intend to bring you news and information about what
plots and operations are brewing within Supernal Music's trenches. This
newsletter is sent to magazines, fanzines, webzines, and distributors, as well
as to our mail order customers.
If you have never heard from us before (where have you been?), we are a small,
underground record label based in England. Our current roster includes bands
like CAPRICORNUS, HATE FOREST, DRUDKH, SUNWHEEL, KATAXU, and THE MEADS OF
ASPHODEL. We also have an excellent mail order service and online store, with
thousands of products at cheap prices, available worldwide.
If you find these electronic newsletters an invasion of your privacy and an
insult to your mailbox, unsubscribe instructions appear at the end. However, if
you unsubscribe we will refer you to our disco mass-mailer.
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News
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ASHES
The debut album 'Hymn to a Grey Sky' was released in September. Raw but
atmospheric Black Metal from Devon, with Pagan / sylvian sensibilities and
ranging from necrotic distortion inferno to almost ambient-like tranquillity.
ASHES is to appear in the forthcoming anti-Geldof compilation with a 10-minute
track.
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ASTROFAES
The band has been more or less on hold for a while.
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BENIGHTED LEAMS
BENIGHTED LEAMS will be contributing to the forthcoming anti-Geldof compilation
with a track full of necrotic dissonance.
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BEWITCHED
After the release of their fifth studio album back in August, BEWITCHED is to
appear in the forthcoming anti-Geldof compilation.
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CAPRICORNUS
’At Any Cost’ remains uncompleted. The new material will continue with the
fusion of neo-Romanic orchestration and Black Metal, but will be more symphonic
and cosmological, with very unusual influences.
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CONTRA IGNEM
FATUUM (ex-CIRCUMSCRIBER)
'Detritus', a monumental MCD with Nietzschean Black Metal full of cold
cynicism was released on 15 October. The band will appear next in the
forthcoming anti-Geldof compilation with another of their magisterial, epic
tracks.
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DARK AGES
A track has been submitted for the forthcoming anti-Geldof compilation.
It is called '1349'.
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DRUDKH
The master for the fourth album has been delivered. Amazing technical
brilliance and blazing guitar leads appear in combination with their folkish /
BURZUMic sound.
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ETHEREAL WOODS
'In the Forest of Arden' has been completed and should become available within
the next three weeks. The new album has a heavier, meatier sound, but retains
the dreamy synths and the sylvian inspiration of the predecessor.
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FLEURETY
The second edition of 2000's "Department of Apocalyptic Affairs",
which will have completely new artwork, will be released later.
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HATE FOREST
HATE FOREST is now dead, but that does not mean there isn’t a musical canon to
preserve. 'Nietzscheism', a collection of all of the band's rare and extremly
limited EPs, was released on 15 October. Next year we will re-issue 'To
Twilight Thickets'.
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KATAXU
Following the amazing success of their debut album. A new album will be
recorded next year. We expect it to bring us another cosmological symphony of
truly evil Black Metal.
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SUNWHEEL
Their debut full-album is currently being recorded.
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THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL
Their third album, 'Damascus Steel', is now available. This will be the
final MEADS album we release.
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THOR’S HAMMER
The re-issue of their classic debut, ‘Fidelity Shall Triumph’, was hit
by production problems. We will provide an update when able.
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Anti-Geldof
Compilation
Our anti-Geldof compilation is set for release on Winter Solstice. This
is our's revenge for the pathetic spectacle of fashionable compassion hysteria
put up this last Summer by that repellent gang of balding, middle-aged, fake,
perverted, self-righteous, self-indulgent, drug-crazed, artificial,
surgically-enhanced, washed-up, ignorant, wholly superfluous and always
infuriating has-beens, freaks, twits, and hypocrites that pullulate the
mainstream and celebrity ecosystem. Contributing artists are as follows: ASHES,
ASTROFAES, BENIGHTED LEAMS, BEWITCHED, CAPRICORNUS, CONTRA IGNEM FATUUM, DARK
AGES, DARKTHULE, DEFIANCE, (HAKENKREUZZUG side project), DER STURMER,
FOREFATHER, HAMMER, KANAZ, :STALAGGH:, TANNGRISNIR, THE WIZZARD, THESYRE, THOR’S
HAMMER, ULFHETHNAR, WHITE HUNTER, and WOODS OF INFINITY.
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Our latest releases:
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FERLY019CD HATE FOREST (UKr): “Nietzcheism”
cd
The collected eps: “Darkness”, “Blood & Fire”, Ritual”, and
“Resistance”.
FERLY020CD THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL (GBr):
“Damascus Steel” cd
Third studio album. Apocalyptic, symphonic extreme Metal full of
eclecticism and contining the anti-religious fundamentalist diatribe began in
their mini-album 'Jihad'.
FERLY027CD ASHES (GBr): “Hymns to a Gray
Sky” cd
Raw but atmospheric Black Metal from Devon, with Pagan / sylvian
sensibilities and ranging from necrotic distortion inferno to almost
ambient-like tranquillity.
FERLY036MCD CONTRA IGNEM FATUUM (GBr):
"Detritus" mcd
A cold, monument of Nietzschean Black Metal, combining elitism with
bitterness and cynicism.
CORTES005CD BEWITCHED (Chl): "Unveiling
Zion (The Mother's Return)" cd
Fifth album. Necro Black Metal with folky / fantasy / and ambient
parts. In a similar vein to the amazing 'Selfconfidence'.
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Our next releases:
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We have a lot of projects in the works, but as a policy we only show what we
can confirm. Dates subject to change, but in most cases, once the exact date is
announced, we stick to it.
FERLY018SPD/
CRUOR001SPD
MAYHEM (Nor) "Out from the Dark" pd re-issue (2004)
Version alpha and beta of this picture
disc showed a band photograph with red and gold backgrounds respectively.
Version delta, the third one, will be a shape picture disc (limited of course),
with truly horrific artwork, designed to offend and fill you with revulsion.
FERLY025CD SUNWHEEL
(Pol): tba cd (2005)
Not yet recorded.
FERLY030CD THOR’S
HAMMER (Pol): “Fidelity Shall Triumph” cd (2005)
Re-worked and improved version of the
debut album from 1998.
FERLY031CD CAPRICORNUS
(Pol): “At Any Cost” cd (2006)
Second album. Not yet recorded.
FERLY032CD CIRCUMSCRIBER
(GBr): “Halcyon Mockery” cd (2006)
Re-recorded and improved re-issue of
their amazing third demo. Epic, monumental Black Metal with glacial keyboards
and imperial splendour.
FERLY033CD KATAXU
(Pol): new cd (2006)
Second album. Not yet recorded.
FERLY034CD ETHEREAL
WOODS (GBr): "In the Forest of Arden" cd (2005)
Second album. Not yet recorded.
FERLY004CD-beta
FLEURETY (Nor) "Department of Apocalyptic Affairs" cd (second
edition) (2006)
Our second edition of this collaborative
effort featuring the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Norwegian Black Metal
elite will have new, improved artwork, quite unlike anything seen. We continue
our tradition of doing things in a way no one has thought of before.
CORTES006CD
BEWITCHED (Chl): "Hibernum in Perpetuum" 2cd (re-issue) (2006)
Their debut album, re-mastered and with
a wealth of bonus material. Obscure and classicist, this album shows the wintry
BEWITCHED at its rawest and coldest.
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Our earlier releases:
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In case you are not familiar with what we've done before, here is a re-run of
our past crimes against humanity:
On Supernal Music (the main label)
AURA001CD
BENIGHTED LEAMS (GBr) "Caliginous Romantic Myth" cd, 1996
(sold out)
aw, cavernous Black Metal in the mid 90s vein with unusual riffing and
unexpected twists and turns and an obscure, Doomy atmosphere. The lyrics are in
an arcane hybrid of various forms of archaic English.
AURA002CD
BENIGHTED LEAMS (GBr) "Astral Tenebrion" cd, 1998 (sold out)
Second album, which abandons the Mediaeval themes of the predecessor in favour
of a deep space concept. More orchestrated and with some ambient parts, but
just as obscure. (Sold out)
AURA003CD
BENIGHTED LEAMS (GBr) "Ferly Centesms" cd, 2004
Third album. Totally raw, twisted, and depressive Black Metal obscurantism,
with cavernous sound, hissing production, and the most impenetrable lyrics ever
written.
FERLY001CD
DEINONYCHUS (Nld) "Ark of Thought" cd, 1997
The third album from the blackly depressive and constantly negative Marco
Kehren. Guaranteed to wipe the smile off your face.
FERLY002CD
M87 (GBr) "Noctilucent Threnody" cd, 1999
Deep space music, combining cosmic noise pieces with eerie symphonic sounds of
vast, mind-boggling proportions. Although it doesn't sound like it at all when
you play it, the music was created entirely with 7- and 8- string guitars and
7-string bass. Cold and monumental - one of our most mysterious and least known
releases.
FERLY003MCD FLEURETY (Nor) "Last-Minute
Lies" mcd, 1999 (sold out)
Norway's enfants terribles ended a
four-year hiatus with this sublime mini-album, which is Doomier and at the same
time more dissonant than their 1995 debut on Misanthropy Records. Female vocals,
saxophone, syncopated drums, and broken, unpredictable arrangements.
FERLY004CD-alpha
FLEURETY (Nor) "Department of Apocalyptic Affairs" cd, 2000
(temp. out of print)
This second full album from Norway's most awkward and unorthodox band hosts a wide
variety of contributions from la crème de la crème of the Norwegian clique,
including Garm, Maniac, Hellhammer, and others. This effort is crammed with
electronics, effects, and eclectic song writing, which nevertheless retains a
modicum of dissonant post-Black Metal guitars as a framework. Voted one of the
top 40 albums of 2000 in that years Terrorizer's readers' poll, despite its
thoroughly unconventional and uncommercial approach.
FERLY005CD
THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL (GBr) "The Excommunication of Christ"
cd, 2001
Part of the new wave of British Black Metal, alongside with AKERCOCKE and ANAAL
NATHRAKH, this is probably the weirdest one of the three, with their
Mediaevalisms, Middle Eastern flavour, and unorthodox song writing. Symphonic,
unpredictable, with rumbling guitars and catchy, unforgettable riffs. Even
though we never placed any ads in any magazine and eschewed all forms of hype,
the album received 8/10 in Metal Hammer, was proclaimed "album of the
week" by Malcolm Dome in his radio show, and the band was featured in the
December issue of Terrorizer.
FERLY006CD
HATE FOREST (Ukr): "The Most Ancient Ones" cd / mc, 2002
Darker than black, fast, unmelodic true Black Metal, inspired by Nietzschean
philosophy, the ideology of elitism, and the nocturnal atmosphere of deep
forests and swamps. This is a reworking of the material which originally
appeared in the rare "The Curse" album, previously available on
cassette only, now re-recorded at twice the speed.
FERLY007PD
MAYHEM (Nor)/THE MEADS OF
ASPHODEL (GBr): "Freezing Moon, Carnage/Jihad" 10" pd, 2002
(Sold out)
Unusual split vinyl, limited to 666 copies and now sold out. The MAYHEM side
contained two popular songs, in this version the only ones the band ever recorded
in a proper studio with the classic line up (Dead, Euronymous, Necrobutcher,
Hellhammer). THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL's side contains a four-track mini-album,
inspired by the attack of 11 September 2001. 8/10 in Terrorizer and Single of
the Week in Kerrang!
FERLY007CD
MAYHEM (Nor)/THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL (GBr): "Freezing Moon,
Carnage/Jihad" cd, 2002
Compact disc version of the sold-out picture disc, with two bonus tracks from
THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL. The MAYHEM side contained two popular songs, in this
version the only ones the band ever recorded in a proper studio with the
classic line up (Dead, Euronymous, Necrobutcher, Hellhammer). THE MEADS OF
ASPHODEL's side contains a four-track mini-album, inspired by the attack of 11
September 2001.
FERLY008CD
HATE FOREST (Ukr): "Purity" cd, 2003
Third album from this most laconic and hostile Ukrainian horde. This album
combines the deadly speed of "The Most Ancient Ones" with epos and a
reflective character, rooted in a sense of ancient history and shamanic
mysticism.
FERLY009CD
DRUDKH (Ukr) "Forgotten Legends" cd, 2003
This new outfit includes members from
HATE FOREST, albeit musically it is comparable to the more epic side of BURZUM.
DRUDKH, which means "wood" in sanskrit, focuses on the solitary
contemplation of nature. Four lengthy tracks flowing like streams in the
forest, yet raw like the dark, moist earth.
FERLY010CD
THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL (GBr): "Exhuming the Grave of Yeshua"
cd, 2003
The extraordinary follow-up to "The
Excommunication of Christ" (if we leave aside "Jihad" for a
moment, the latter being a mini-album): retrogression on the guitars, now
positively raw, combined with progression on the orchestral and arranged
elements. An album without limits, yet true to its Black Metal roots. We doubt
another English band will beat them with a better album this year. 9/10 in
Terrorizer and position 8 out of the 40 best albums of 2003 in Terrorizer's
Readers' Poll and 8/10 in Hard Rock (France) (more to follow).
FERLY011CD
CAPRICORNUS (Pol): "Alone Against All" cd, 2004
Full-length debut, similar to THOR'S
HAMMER (not surprisingly, since this is the same Capricornus behind the band)
but with different, more extreme vocals, catchier riffs, and cosmic
atmospheres. A very strong combination of the Lightning and the Sun.
FERLY012CD
DRUDKH (Ukr): "Autumn Aurora" cd, 2004
Second album, this time incorporating
keyboards and enhancing the dreamy, atmospheric element.
FERLY013CD HATE FOREST (Ukr):
"Battlefields" cd, 2004
Funereal, ominous, epic. Alternating
three monumental tracks with three traditional Ukrainian folk songs, and a
funeral lamentation, recorded live on a bleak, remote Eastern village.
FERLY014CD INFERNUM (Pol):
"...Taur-Nu-Fuin..." cd, 2004
At last, after many years of it being
out of print and unavailable anywhere, we will be re-issuing this Polish Black
Metal classic (featuring Capricornus and Rob Darken in the line-up) with new,
improved layout and a statement from Capricornus.
FERLY015CD
HATE FOREST (Ukr): "Scythia+1" cd, 2004
As the original Ukrainian version is
sold out, and so is the American digipak version (limited to 1000 and 444
copies respectively), this re-issue will ensure that such a great album does
not remain unavailable. Our version will come with improved layout and two
bonus tracks, showing HATE FOREST at its finest.
FERLY016MCD
SUNWHEEL (Pol): "Monuments of the Elder Faith" mcd, 2004
Debut mini-album. Much more darkly
majestic and oppressively monumental still than their “Prophecies...” demo.
This is the totalitarian version of “Into the Nightside Eclipse”!
FERLY017CD
KATAXU (Pol): “Hunger of Elements” cd, 2005
If you enjoyed their split with
THUNDERBOLT, you can expect this, their debut full-length, to intensify their
monumental, symphonic sound with more layering and a storming production. So
far we have heard only rough mixes without vocals, but the material is already stunning!
FERLY021CD ASTROFAES
(Ukr): “Those Whose Past is Immortal” cd, 2005
New album from this Ukrainian horde, and
by far their best one. Faster and with addictive riffing.
FERLY022CD DRUDKH
(Ukr): “Lebedyna Doroga” cd, 2005
Their third album. We hear it will be
superior even to the previous two.
FERLY023CD HATE
FOREST (Ukr): “Sorrow” cd, 2005
Seventh album: this one will be the
opposite of “Battlefields”: totally fast and relentless. A real storm of
hatred.
FERLY024CD
ETHEREAL WOODS (GBr): “Thickthorn” cd, (2004)
Dreamy, melancholic, mid-tempo, yet at
the same time raw and primitive Black Metal. It has a nostalgic 1990s feel,
although the guitar technique is different from the usual strumming, being a
bit more rhythmical while still dissonant.
FERLY026CD ASHES
(GBr): “Funeral Forest” cd, 2004
Re-issue of the their amazing 2nd
demo, with their first, “Blackened Wrath”, tagged on as a bonus. Raw, fast, and
melodic Black Metal, drenched in reverb, with an almost ambient-like atmosphere
in parts.
FERLY028CD DARK
AGES (Ukr): “Twilight of Europe” cd, 2005
Sinister and oppressive dark ambient
project by HATE FOREST’s composer. Inspired by the Dark Ages, the plague,
alchemy, ignorance, superstition, and the rise and fall of empires.
FERLY029CD LUNAR
AURORA (Deu): “Ars Moriendi” re-issue cd, 2005
Re-issue of the masterful 4th
album, which has been unavailable and out of print for the past two years. With
an added guitar track and new, improved layouts, this will be the definitive
version.
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On Conquistador Records (sub-division)
CORTES001CD
BEWITCHED (Chl) "Dragonflight" cd, 1999 (sold out)
After 1996's frozen Black/Doom opus, the hyperaustral demons returned with a
work heavy with old MERCYFUL FATE overtones, combining 90s and 80s Black Metal
with an epic feel and brilliant technical ability.
CORTES002CD
SATHANAS (USA) "Armies of Charon" cd, 1999 (sold out)
Dirty, raw, obscure Black/Death/Thrash in the archaic vein of the late 80s.
First officially released album by this cult band (at the time "Black
Earth", since released by blackmental.com, was yet to come out).
CORTES003CD
SARGATANAS (Mex) "The Enlightenment" cd, 1999 (sold out)
Coarse, raw, brutal Black/Death stripped down to the barest essentials and
delivered with a rumbling, heavy sound and guttural vocals. Great, hellish disc
filled with the darkness of the ancient underground.
CORTES004CD
BEWITCHED (Chl) "Somewhere Beyond the Mist" cd, 2001
Third album from the talented Chilean
Black Metal veterans, this time casting away the obvious old MERCYFUL FATE
influences of "Dragonflight" in favour of a more technical approach,
combining 90s and 80s Black Metal, with brilliant leads and varied vocal work,
and Satanic / Tolkienesque / Northern European mythological themes.
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On Nazgul's Eyrie Productions
(subdivision)
NEP017CD
DAWNFALL (Deu) "Drei Räume" cd, 2002
Recorded many years ago, this is the
long-vaulted successor to the infamous "Dominance of Darkness" debut.
Weird, nightmarish, disfigured, you will most likely be repelled at first by
what these Germans recorded, walking the thin dividing line between torture and
demented genius. Yet this is a clever work, necro and avant garde at the same
time, however tortuous.
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On Cruentous Aadorns (ex-Black Metal
Records) (subdivision)
CRUOR001PD-alpha
MAYHEM (Nor) "Out from the Dark" pd, 1996 (sold out)
7-track rehearsal from 1991, with the
classic line-up (Dead, Euronymous, Necrobutcher, Hellhammer). Great sound. Band
photo with red background. Only 1000 copies were made.
CRUOR001PD-beta
MAYHEM (Nor) "Out from the Dark" pd, 1997 (sold out)
Same as above, but with a gold
background.
CRUOR002PD-alpha
MAYHEM (Nor) "Freezing Moon/Carnage" pd, 1997 (sold out)
The material we released as a 10"
split and then as a split cd with THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL in 2002, originally
came out on its own five years earlier, as a 12" picture disc ep. Only
1000 copies were made.
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Distribution
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If you wish to distribute our releases in your territory, and would like to
find out about wholesale prices and terms and conditions, or about trades,
please get in touch by sending us an email at <mailto:sales@supernalmusic.com>.
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Request for promotional material
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encouraged with charity and subsidisies. Therefore, to enter our mailing list,
we will require professionalism and consistency.
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Advertising
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Begging for advertisement is futile: we don't believe anything advertising executives
tell us as a rule. If we decide to advertise, we will get in touch. Cold
callers from ad sales personnel will have the receiver slammed down without a
word. Emails will be ignored and deleted. Faxes will be shredded without a
glance. If you want advertisement, go to church.
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Contact details
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Label:
Supernal Music
P. O. Box 171
Cranleigh
GU6 8WW
United Kingdom
Fax: +44 (0)1483 542928
Email: mail@supernalmusic.com <mailto:mail@supernalmusic.com>
Website: <http://www.supernalmusic.com/>
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Bands:
ASHES
Email: info@ashes-online.com
Website: <http://www.ashes-online.com/>
ASTROFAES:
Email: no interview
Website: no website
BENIGHTED LEAMS:
Email: benightedleams@supernalmusic.com
Website: <http://www.supernalmusic.com/labels/supernal/benighted_leams.htm>
BEWITCHED:
Email: bewitchedcontact@hotmail.com
Website: http://bewitchedrealm.cjb.net
CAPRICORNUS:
Email:admin@capricornus.info
<mailto:admin@capricornus.info>
Website: <http://www.capricornus.info>
CONTRA IGNEM FATUUM:
Email: No contact
Website: <http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=19172>
DARK AGES:
Email: no interview
Website: no website
DRUDKH:
Email: no interview
Website: no website
ETHEREAL WOODS:
Email: excarnator@hotmail.com
<mailto:excarnator@hotmail.com>
Website: no website
FLEURETY
Email: <mailto:a_nordgaren@hotmail.com;> <mailto:sehatlevik@hotmail.com>
Website: <http://folk.uio.no/sveineh/fleurety/>
HATE FOREST:
Email: no interview
Website: <http://www.supernalmusic.com/labels/supernal/hate_forest.htm>
KATAXU
Email: kataxunsbm@go2.pl
Website: no website
LUNAR AURORA:
Email: whyrhd@lunaraurora.de <mailto:whyrhd@lunaraurora.de>
Website: <http://www.lunaraurora.de/>
SUNWHEEL
Email:
kataxunsbm@go2.pl
Website: no website
THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL:
Email: <mailto:themeadsofasphodel@ntlworld.com>
Website: <http://www.themeadsofasphodel.com/>
THOR’S HAMMER:
Email:admin@capricornus.info
<mailto:admin@capricornus.info>
Website: <http://www.capricornus.info>