Winter "Into Darkness/Eternal Frost"

Winter is an American extreme metal band from New York. They take their name from the Amebix song of the same name. The band performed at the 2011 Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands.

Into Darkness is the first and only full-length album of American doom metal band Winter. The album was released in 1990 by Future Shock Records. It was later re-issued by Nuclear Blast as a digipak with an altered front cover and the Eternal Frost EP as bonus tracks. The album was re-released again, with no bonus tracks, by Southern Lord on April 12, 2011, on black and white vinyl as a gate fold LP with booklet.

July 8, 2013: The Village Voice blogger Jason Roche lists Into Darkness as #14 in the top 20 hardcore & metal albums to come out of NYC.

Decibel magazine rankt the album at #13 in ther Top 100 Doom Metal Albums of All Time Special Issue.

All music written by John Alman & Stephen Flam.

Tracks 1-7 belong to Into Darkness.
Tracks 8-12 belong to Eternal Frost.

Recording information:

Recorded April-May 1990 at S.O.S. Studios, Hempstead, NY.

Mastered at the Hit Factory, NYC.

Virgin Black "Requiem - Fortissimo"

Requiem – Fortissimo is the third part of Virgin Black's Requiem album trilogy and its second installment since Requiem - Mezzo Forte. The album was released on February 19, 2008. The music on this album is in a death/doom style reminiscent of early 1990s British groups like My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost. Metal Storm voted Requiem - Fortissimo as The Best Doom Metal Album of 2008.

Vocalist-keyboardist Rowan London has stated about the album:

“ I should feel a sense of dread offering up something so atypical for us to be interrogated and scrutinized. But the fearlessness that we inhabited while writing Fortissimo and the Requiem series survives to see its unveiling. An album not so much about death as the absence of life; it's damn heavy but its countenance is far more brutal than its sound could ever be. Long live the "death choir". ”

Track listing

1. "The Fragile Breath" - 5:49
2. "In Winters Ash" - 7:23
3. "Silent" - 6:42
4. "God in Dust" - 8:39
5. "Lacrimosa (Gather Me)" - 2:21
6. "Darkness" - 11:45
7. "Forever" - 1:14

Recording information:

Mastered at Crystal Mastering.

Vintersorg "Cosmic Genesis"

Vintersorg means "Winter Sorrow", but the name was taken from the Isfolket series by Margit Sandemo, where the character Vintersorg is the son of a great pagan leader.

In Vintersorg's first three albums, Vargher (Marcus E. Norman) - from Havayoth, Naglfar, and Ancient Wisdom - was responsible for programming the drums. According to an interview, Vintersorg used to sing the drum lines to him, and Vargher transcribed them. In Cosmic Genesis, Vintersorg programmed the drums by himself.

Formed under the name Vargatron, which means Wolfthrone. The band split-up in Summer '96, and was later resurrected under the name Vintersorg as a one-man band.

Vintersorg was a solo project of Andreas Hedlund until the release of Cosmic Genesis. After Mattias Marklund joined the band as a full member, Vintersorg became a duo (referred to as The Vintersorgs).

Cosmic Genesis is their third album.

Recorded, mixed & mastered at Ballerina Audio AB, July '00. 

Drums & keyboards created in Seven Stars March / April '00.

Vintersemestre "Jääverisaatana"

Vintersemestre was a Finnish Black Metal band, Jääverisaatana was their first EP, released in 1995. Jääverisaatana means "Icebloodsatan".

Not sure if it's only the promo, but "The Wisdom of Usuluh (Veri)" appears to consist of only a few seconds of chimes tolling.

Vinterland "Welcome My Last Chapter"

Vinterland is a Swedish Black Metal band.

Vinterland disbanded after just the one full length release in 1996 but reformed 14 years later. Their first reunion gig was at Wave Gotik Treffen Fest, in June 2011.

The original title is "Wings of Sorrow" but people got confused since it has "Welcome My Last Chapter" on the cover, so they reprinted the CD with the new title. Only the first press has "Wings of Sorrow" on the CD spines.

Temple of Darkness Records, coinciding with the 15th anniversary, re-issued W.M.L.C. in 24th April 2010 in a deluxe CD edition with clam shell box, poster, sticker and certificate. The re-issue also includes new layout with old photos taken by the band between 1993 -1996 and the bonus track:

10. Freezing Moon (Mayhem cover) 5:56
The bonus track was recorded in Studio Oktav in 1995, mastered in Studio Beast in 2010.

In July 2014, Temple of Darkness Records, also released "Welcome My Last Chapter" on Double LP by first time.

Limited to 666 copies, gatefold sleeve, Ice/frost vinyl colour, insert with band photos and the same bonus track from the 2010 re-issued.

Recording information:
Recorded during the winter Anno 1995 at Unisound Studios.

Venom "The Best Of Venom: The Book Of Armageddon"

The Book Of Armageddon is a compilation album by Relativity Records released in September 15th 1992.

Released in a standard jewel case with black CD tray and a 4-page booklet with credits & notes.

1. Witching Hour 03:40
2. Countess Bathory 03:44
3. Rip Ride 03:09
4. Live like an Angel (Die like a Devil) 03:48
5. Teacher's Pet 04:46
6. Black Metal 03:45
7. Manitou 02:59
8. 1000 Days in Sodom 04:36
9. Bloodlust 02:57
10. Buried Alive / Raise the Dead 07:01

Total time: 40:25