OUT NOW – PROFUNDI “The Omega Rising”

Finally out, Jens Ryden’s first musical output since leaving legendary Swedish death/black metal band NAGLFAR, and his first solo venture since DEAD SILENT SLUMBER, PROFUNDI sees Ryden take everything into his own hands, and then some, to create some of the most unforgiving, vicious, and abysmal melodic black/death metal to be heard all year. With Ryden himself taking care of everything (all music and all artwork), Profundi sees this distinguished musician take his musical talents beyond everything he’s been previously involved with.

The North American version of “The Omega Rising” is presented in a limited edition (1000 units) specially designed digipack, with a mammoth 24-page booklet, and awesome artwork courtesy of Ryden himself (the packaging is simply incredible). The CD will also come with a collectible limited edition Profundi button for the first 50 customers who purchase this. The tracklisting for “The Omega Rising” goes as follows:

01.               …Of Flesh And Blood

02.               Unanimation

03.               Split-Tounged

04.               The Omega Rising

05.               Coffinborn

06.               Silent Hosts Of Decay

07.               Engulfed In Hellfire

08.               Lifeless, Cold, & Crimson

09.               Out Of The Evening Mist

An MP3 sample of ‘Split-Tounged’ can be found on the MP3 section of our site, and ‘Engulfed In Hellfire’ is the current feature Brave Tunes exclusive MP3 on www.bravewords.com. As well, you can check out various Profundi samples on the Profundi myspace page (www.myspace.com/profundi) and the official Profundi website (www.profundi.com).

Prices for this limited edition version of “The Omega Rising” go as follows and include shipping and handling.

$12 (US) for US territories
$12 (CDN) for Canada
$15.50 (US) for Rest Of World

Payment can be made manually via PayPal (profoundlorerecords@yahoo.com), Money Order (payable to Profound Lore Records), or well-hidden cash (at your own risk).

OUT NOW – ASUNDER “Works Will Come Undone”

Following the band’s recent successful touring jaunt in Japan (with fellow doom gods Corrupted), it is now unleashed, the doom metal event of 2006, ASUNDER’S “Works Will Come Undone”, a monument of crushing and moving artistic funeral-death doom unparalleled. Already considered one of the most respected acts within the genre, “Works Will Come Undone” will clearly makes its (land)mark within the spectrum of the ever coveted doom metal scene. Massive, elegant, experimental, brimming with godsend epic heaviness, and captured on pure analog via legendary producer Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Melvins, Mr. Bungle, High On Fire etc.), “Works Will Come Undone” will take the doom metal genre to a new artistic level never reached before.

To be presented in a limited edition pocket-slip digipack, adorned with exquisite artwork from David D’Andrea (www.sonofenoch.com), and encapsulating a length of nearly 73 minutes, the tracklisting for “Works Will Come Undone” goes as follows:

1. A Famine
2. Rite Of Finality

An eight minute excerpt from ‘A Famine’ can be found in the MP3 section of our website.

Prices for this milestone are as follows and include shipping & handling:

$10 (US) for US territories
$11 (CDN) for Canada
$13 (US) for Rest Of World (without end)

Ordering is simple, convenient, manually through paypal (profoundlorerecords@yahoo.com), money order (payable to Profound Lore Records), or well-hidden cash. Orders go out immediately when placed within a 24 hour period.

OUT NOW – NACHTMYSTIUM “Instinct:Decay” LP

What will undoubtedly stand as a testimony within US black metal, NACHTMYSTIUM’S “Instinct:Decay” is a mind-twisting journey through a warped and virulent, unforgiving psychedelic black metal montage. What easily stands as NACHTMYSTIUM’S musical phoenix, this work of unbridled black metal art takes the listening experience to another plateau on vinyl format.

The “Instinct:Decay” vinyl observation is limited to 1000 copies which comes with a specially designed thick glossy inner-sleeve and broken down into this colour scheme:

- 100 black/green 2-sided bleed
- 100 white vinyl with green and black splatter
- 100 green vinyl with black splatter
- 350 green vinyl
- 350 clear vinyl

Prices for the “Instinct:Decay” LP go as follows (for multiple copies, please read the specific postage rates carefully below). In your order, wherever you can write a message, please specify the specific colour(s) as well too. The first three colours limited to 100 each can only be obtained through us. Thanks…

For single LP orders:
US: $11 + $4.50 s&h (in US funds)
CAN: $12 + $5.50 s&h (in Canadian funds)
REST OF WORLD: $15 + $8.00 s&h (in US funds)

Payment can be made via Pay Pal at (profoundlorerecords@yahoo.com). If you have a Pay Pal account, simply go to www.paypal.com and proceed. Payment can also be made by money order (payable to Profound Lore Records) or well-hidden cash (at your own risk).

PLEASE NOTE, READ CAREFULLY, AND FOLLOW SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS BELOW IF YOU DECIDE TO ORDER MULTIPLE COPIES:

For those wanting to order multiple copies and/or colours, the shipping fees (that go on-top of the combined price of each single LP ordered) go as follows, and if paying via Pay Pal, must be done manually via our Pay Pal address (profoundlorerecords@yahoo.com).

USA shipping for multiple items (in US funds)
Two copies: $8
Three to Five copies: $13

CANADA shipping for multiple items (in Canadian funds)
Two to Five copies strictly within the Ontario region: $7.00
Two to Five copies within the rest of Canada (outside Ontario): $8.00

REST OF WORLD shipping for multiple items (in US funds)
Two copies: $16
Three copies: $20
Four - Five copies (please inquire about shipping costs because this is where costs tend to rise)

NACHTMYSTIUM “Instinct:Decay” limited edition Picture Disc -SOLD OUT!

In collaboration with Autopsy Kitchen Records, Profound Lore have released a very lavishly designed (extremely) limited edition picture disc of the new NACHTMYSTIUM album “Instinct:Decay”. This special collectors edition to what is undoubtedly one of 2006’s black metal triumphs will come with a designed hand-numbered insert on ultra thick stock and a specially designed 11’x17’ poster. Ultimately, this picture disc edition is strictly limited to 200 copies (so if you do the math, between us and Autopsy Kitchen – and the band for that matter - it’s not too hard to figure out the stock between all parties involved…). Easily the most triumphant and artistically powerful release within the NACHTMYSTIUM repertoire…

The official debut album from one of Canada’s most prolific and distinguished black-thrash outfits ARCTIC CIRCLE has finally been unleashed. Christened “Forcing The Astral”, bear witness as to why this cult from the remote and most desolate plains of Manitoba are considered as one of Canada’s most promising and uncompromising underground extreme metal enigmas to ever hail from the North. Already garnering exceptional press in respected publications such as Terrorizer and Metal Maniacs, and for those not in the know, ARCTIC CIRCLE’S sound surrounds a lethal mix of such acts as Aura Noir, Axis Of Advance, and early era-Voivod (it is also important to note that “Forcing The Astral” is dedicated to the great innovative guitarist Denis “Piggy” D’Amour and Voivod respectively), along with being influenced by such aesthetics that surround bands like the Swans and My Bloody Valentine. Nevertheless, ARCTIC CIRCLE, with “Forcing The Astral”, are destined to slither their way into the echelons of the elite of Canada’s extreme music scene, and will surely be recognized as one of the finer black-thrash enigma’s that the underground has to offer.

Tracklisting for “Forcing The Astral” goes as follows:

1. Man Must Know
2. Storm Of Sand
3. Pull The Knife Outta Me
4. Horrible, Impossible
5. A Little Bit Of Climate
6. Dead On Hooked From The Sky
7. Wandering Hillside Vapour
8. Arctic Fevers
9. Aurora Furnace
10. Bloodrush
11. Mirror Out The Window

Prices for “Forcing The Astral” go as follows (prices include shipping). By all means, hit us up for reasonable (i.e. cheap) wholesale rates and/or trades:

$10 US (for US customers)
$11 CDN (for Canadian customers)
$13 US (for Rest Of The World)

Payment can be made via Pay Pal at (profoundlorerecords@yahoo.com), money order (payable to Profound Lore Records), or well-hidden cash.

www.arcticcircle.memebot.com
www.myspace.com/arcticcirclemanitou

Finally unleashed, Canada’s most prominent drone/doom/experimental/ambient act NADJA’S seminal “Bodycage” album. Originally released as a limited CDR output (and pretty much sold out in immediately), Profound Lore is proud to bring even more awareness to this Canadian artistic talent. Presenting an emotionally charged dronescape sear, NADJA’S brand of ecclesiastically intense and moving music creates numbing feelings of desperation through layers of thick sound, creating massive walls of mind-altering sonic manifestations. To heighten the experience of “Bodycage” even further, said release is a concept album surrounding a rare congenital disorder called Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, a disease in which the body produces an extra skeleton that immobilizes the joints of the body. For more info on this disease, please visit www.ifopa.org.

Nadja are Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff respectively. “Bodycage” is presented in a cardboard CD jacket with a 4-panel insert, all housed in a transparent CD pocket sleeve…

To hear an excerpt from the track ‘Clinodactyl’ head to the Profound MP3 section on our website for the experience.

Tracklisting for “Bodycage” goes as follows:

1. Clinodactyl (21:43)
2. Autosomal (10:10)
3. Ossification (20:42)

Prices (including shipping and handling) for “Bodycage” go as follows. By all means, feel free to hit us up for wholesale rates and/or trades:

$10 US (for US territories)
$10 CDN (for Canadian territories)
$12 US (for rest of world)

Payment via paypal at (profoundlorerecords@yahoo.com), money order (payable to Profound Lore Records), or well hidden cash (at your own risk of course).

THRALLDOM - R.I.P.

Finally out, the new anticipated THRALLDOM album “A Shaman Steering The Vessel Of Vastness” has finally reached shore. Bare witness to the doomiest, most oppressive, experimental, and harshest sounding artistic statement that the duo of Killusion and Jaldagar have ever unearthed. Like Darkthrone’s “Transilvanian Hunger” meets the Swans’ “Great Annihilator”. Once again, experience the audial essence of America’s spiritual and inevitable downfall.  Presented in a limited-edition lush pocket-slip digipack (akin to the Portal release), and seeing the current situation that the band have found themselves in, once these are gone, there will most-likely be no re-press.  Resistance is (still) futile…

So indeed, “A Shaman Steering The Vessel Of Vastness” will be the final THRALLDOM album to seal the legacy.  Prior to this release, Killusion and Jaldagar have decided to lay THRALLDOM to rest, “A Shaman…” serving as the swansong to this creative entity.  We at Profound Lore of course wish each the best in Killusion’s and Jaldagar’s new musical endeavors, whatever they may be and consist of (although we all know of Killusion’s role in the mighty UNEARTHLY TRANCE)…

To get a glimpse into the madness, check out the MP3 for “Only The Dead Speaks The Truth” here. 

Shaman tracklisting:
1 anticipation of an obituary
2 quantum frost
3 only the dead speaks the truth (MP3)
4 the wolf will never die
5 ultra-extinction
6 narrow road
7 the mentu dynasty

Prices are as follows (include shipping & handling)
$11 (US) – For US territories
$12 (CDN) – For Canadian territory
$14 (in US funds) – For Rest Of World

Please inquire about wholesale rates and *possible* trades…

ULVER – Blood Inside LP Out Now!
SOLD OUT (from this website)!
This release can only be ordered now via The End Records.

Bloody hell, it’s finally out, one of the most intriguing sound manipulations of the year, finally released on vinyl, ULVER’S “Blood Inside” taking on a new invigorating incarnation on blessed wax (been a while since we last saw an Ulver release on vinyl). The perfect item for an early celebration of Jesus Christ’s birthday... Come taste the holy blood like never before!

The “Blood Inside” LP is presented with altered artwork, a nicely designed thick gloss inner sleeve (artwork courtesy of Kim Solve), and is presented in six different (holy) blood(y) colours! The (holy) colour scheme for the Blood Inside LP goes as follows:

- 100 on virgin white vinyl with holy blood red splatter
- 100 on red vinyl with holy black blood splatter
- 100 on transparent virgin vinyl with holy blood red splatter
- 100 on holy blood red and virgin white two-sided bleed vinyl
- 300 on virgin white vinyl
- 300 on holy blood red vinyl

Orphaned Land Vinyl Package…
OUT NOW!

We managed to score a handful of Orphaned Land “Ararat” 10”s, which we have at our disposal. So for the time being, we’ve decided to make a Mabool/Ararat package special. Prices Are As Follows:

US territories: $22 + $8.00 s&h (in US funds)
For Canadian territories: $25 + $7.00 s&h (in Canadian funds)
Rest Of World: $30 + $15 s&h (in US funds)

GREEN CARNATION – The Burden Is Mine… Alone limited edition EP
SOLD OUT (from this website)!
This release can only be ordered now via The End Records.

After their searing North American debut at Toronto’s Day Of The Equinox show, Norway’s GREEN CARNATION and Profound Lore Records are proud to officially unleash the very limited edition EP, The Burden Is Mine… Alone. Consisting of two tracks (the title track and ‘Sweet Leaf’) that will appear on the band’s acoustic full-length album (which will be released early 2006), and two tracks exclusive for this EP (‘Transparent Me’ and ‘Six Ribbons’ – Jon English cover), The Burden Is Mine…Alone will serve as a splendid and treasured collectors item. Picture the enchanting and traditional vibes from such artists as Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley tangoing with the vibe GREEN CARNATION conjured up on their Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness release, the tracklisting for The Burden Is Mine…Alone goes as follows: ‘Burden Is Mine... Alone', ‘Sweet Leaf', ‘Transparent Me’, and ‘Six Ribbons' (Jon English cover).

TRACKLISTING:
1. The Burden Is Mine... Alone
2. Sweet Leaf
3. Transparent Me
4. Six Ribbons (Jon English cover)

Prices go as follow (all prices include shipping & handling)
$9 (in US funds for US territories)
$9.50 (in Canadian funds for Canada)

Please note: Profound Lore Records is only selling this item for North American territories. For other territories (i.e. Rest Of World) wishing to obtain this EP, please contact www.sublifeproductions.com

Portal - Seepia
OUT NOW! -PFL-07-05

The bizarre death metal terror has finally been unleashed… once again. Profound Lore is proud to re-release the formerly out-of-print Seepia release by none other than Australia’s PORTAL. With Seepia PORTAL’S vision of utter horror is destined to invert the death metal scene as one of the most unique and most intimidating visionaries ever conceived. Deprived, artsy and morally-impaired, through a twisted mind-fuck of oppressive histrionics and with the class of classic avant-garde cinema, PORTAL re-define artistic and cinematic dementia within death metal. This special limited-edition release of Seepia comes in a special pocket-slip digipack with a specially designed CD inner-sleeve, laced with new stunning artwork, and re-mastered for more devastating and polarizing effect. The overall packaging and presentation of this work of sonic art is simply overwhelming. Ready to set a new standard once again, death metal will never be the same. Like you are being sucked into a black hole… literally… Adhere…

Seepia Tracklisting

1. Glumurphonel
2. Vessel Of Balon (MP3)
3. Tempus Fugit
4. Sunken
5. Atmosblisters
6. Transcending Amere Multiverse
7. Antuquate
8. The Endmills

The Antipodean Quintet
Aphotic
The Curator
Illogium
Mephitic
Werm

Prices go as follow (all prices include shipping & handling)

$12 US for US territories
$13 CAN for Canadian soil
$14 US Rest of World

ORPHANED LAND – Mabool double LP
OUT NOW! -PFL-011

The flood has returned! The double LP of one of metal’s most progressive, unique, exquisite, and original bands has finally been unleashed! Presented with new expanded alternate artwork, designed inner-sleeves, and in clear vinyl, this special double LP, limited in release, will showcase the band’s exotic sound in a new light. Where bands in metal who try and attempt to be this ambitious in sound and concept fail, ORPHANED LAND excel by incorporating traditional, progressive, death, and indie-rock sounds to their musical canvas, along with that cinematic picturesque vibe, and most of all, their traditional heavy Middle-Eastern influence which saturates and coats their epic sound to create a soundscape of biblical proportions. One that the band have been developing ever since their inception in the early ‘90s…

Mabool tracklisting

Prices are as follows: All orders go out first class mail...

US - $16 (plus $6.50 shipping & handling)
CANADA - $19 (in Canadian funds plus $7.00 shipping & handling)
REST OF WORLD - $25 (in US funds plus $9.50 shipping & handling)

WOLD – L.O.T.M.P.
OUT NOW! -PFL 09-05

The brotherhood known as the WOLD clan have finally unearthed their latest epic ritual from the lodge...

The follow-up to the mind-numbing experience known as Badb, L.O.T.M.P. encompasses 13 enlightening, mythical, and manipulative invocations of pure unforgiving celestial blacknoise. By combining many manipulative sounds within their canvas, the WOLD clan incorporate characteristics of harsh black metal, noise, ambient, and power electronics into making L.O.T.M.P. an unforgettable and oppressing listening experience that provokes without mercy. L.O.T.M.P. presents WOLD as one of the most unique and most provocative acts that Canada has ever unearthed.

WOLD Ideology

• Wold embraces the Mytho Poetic; the communication is expressed through our music, and theoretical as well as practical work done through our Woldclan brotherhood and our lodge, the L.O.T.M.P.
• Wold venerate our ancestors and cultures through myth and existence, and remain open and reflective to other effective metaphors.
• Wold promote awareness
• Wold strive for honour and dignity above materialistic lies and novelty culture.
• Wold solemnly swear to adhere to the law of the Self.
  

L.O.T.M.P. Tracklisting

1. Invocation Of Fire
2. Invocation Of Water (MP3)
3. Invocation Of Earth
4. Invocation Of Air
5. Tending Thy Grounds (MP3)
6. L.O.T.M.P.
7. Be It On Be It Within
8. The Lost Speech
9. Lug-Dunum
10. Invocation Of The Eye
11. Children Of The Proud Fields
12. Frminons
13. Weeping Goddess

Prices go as follow (all prices include shipping & handling)

$10 US for US territories
$10 CDN for Canadian soil
$12 US Rest ov World

LEVIATHAN
A Silhouette In Splinters limited edition LP
SOLD OUT -PFL 10-05

Exploring the further reaches of Wrest’s musical psyche, A Silhouette In Splinters once again explores the Leviathan enigma in a more subterranean and cerebral way. Six exclusive haunting, sad, and depressing tracks that take the magnitude and powerful aesthetic character of such an act further down the depths. Featuring artwork from Wrest himself, and presented in red coloured vinyl.

DEAD OF WINTER
At The Helm Of The Abyss CD
OUT NOW! -PFL 006-05

The debut album of Canada’s latest foray into violent hypnotising black metal, DEAD OF WINTER, come forth with their brand of raw audial violence through eight mesmerizing hymns of pillage, depravity, and war. At The Helm Of The Abyss is destined to make its mark on the North American black metal scene.

Tracklisting:

1. Total Hate, Final War
2. To Usurp The Throne Of Light
3. Across The Vast Storm Front
4. Come Thy Legions
5. In Frozen Exile
6. Furnace Of Nihil (MP3)
7. The Serpentine Transfiguration
8. Seminary Of Desolation (At The Helm Of The Abyss)
   

Prices go as follows:
USA - $10 (in US funds)
CANADA - $12 (in Canadian funds)
REST OF WORLD - $12 (in US funds)

DIABOLICAL MASQUERADE
Ravendusk In My Heart
OUT NOW! PFL 004-04 - January 2005

The DIABOLICAL MASQUERADE Ravendusk In My Heart LP’s have finally arrived and do they ever sound awesome and look gorgeous! We thank those who pre-ordered this classic album, and the pre-orders will be shipped out ASAP. What is surely to be a collectors item, this limited edition LP (strictly limited to 500 copies) is now officially available, while quantities last…

Even though Blackheim has laid DIABOLICAL MASQUERADE to rest, the cry from the grave was inevitable. Unearthed when Blackheim took a slight hiatus from Katatonia, DIABOLOCAL MASQUERADE presented a new personality of Blackheim’s alter-ego, one that would take the listener through a world of surging epic horror and darkened excitement.

Profound Lore Records is proud to announce the official vinyl release of the classic DIABOLICAL MASQUERADE debut album, Ravendusk In My Heart. Sanctioned by none other than Blackheim himself, this special limited vinyl release is presented in a blue vinyl colour, designed inner sleeve, glossy insert with lyrics and exclusive revamped artwork, and a collectable postcard.

Prices go as follows:

$13 (for U.S.) + $3.50 S&H
$15 (for Canadian residents) + $3.50 S&H
$17 U.S. (for world) + $4.50 S&H

Track Listing

Side A

1. The Castle of Blackheim
2. Blackheim's Quest to Bring Back the Stolen Autumn
3. Beyond The Spiritual Moon
4. The Sphere in Blackheim's Shrine
5. Under The banner of the Sentinel

Side B

1. Blackheim's Forest Kept The Season Forever
2. The Dark blue Sea journeys Of the Sentinel
3. Blackheim's Hunt for Nocturnal Grace
4. Ravendusk in My Heart