Xaosis "Mara I - Czarne wzgórza (Poland, Eastside, ESCD 092)"

Xaosis is a Polish Depressive Black Metal band from Lublin, formed in 2012.

Mara I - Czarne wzgórza is their debut album, released February 11th, 2013.

Tracklist:

1. Wejście 01:21  
2. Maligna na dnie szklanki 05:11   Show lyrics
3. Na szaro 06:12   Show lyrics
4. Miejsca 04:40   Show lyrics
5. W oczy szron 04:31   Show lyrics
6. Sen 04:54   Show lyrics
7. Śmierć 06:18   Show lyrics
8. She Lost Control (Joy Division cover) 03:49  

Time:  36:56

Katatonia "Last Fair Day Gone Night"

Last Fair Day Gone Night is a live album, released June 17th, 2013.

Track list:

Disc 1

Side A

1. Dispossession 05:36   
2. Chrome 05:14   
3. We Must Bury You 02:50   
4. Teargas 03:23

Side B

1. I Transpire 05:56   
2. Tonight's Music 04:20  
3. Clean Today 04:23   

Time:  31:42  

Disc 2

Side A

1. The Future of Speech 05:40  
2. Passing Bird 03:38   
3. Sweet Nurse 03:57   
4. Don't Tell a Soul 05:42   

Side B

1. Brave 10:16   
2. Right into the Bliss 05:04  
3. The Promise of Deceit 04:18   

Time:    38:35  

Disc 3

Side A

1. Nephilim 04:27   
2. The Longest Year 04:39  
3. July 04:45  
4. New Night 04:28   

Side B

1. My Twin 03:44
2. I Break 04:21   
3. Wait Outside 03:38  
4. Dissolving Bonds 03:35   
5. Forsaker 04:05

Time:   37:42  

The album contains a comprehensive set of band classics - including the Last Fair Deal Gone Down album in its entirety - and b-sides.

Triple heavyweight 180gm vinyl in a deluxe box that comes with an 8 page 12" book.

The title is a mashup of "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" and "Night Is the New Day", the album they performed in its entirety, and their last one at the time, respectively.

Recording information:

Recorded at the Koko Club in Camden, London, during a series of special celebratory shows to mark the band's 20th anniversary.

Katatonia "Dead End Kings (Mexican Edition)"

Dead End Kings is Katatonia's ninth full-length album. It was released on August 27, 2012, in Europe and August 28 in the U.S. through Peaceville Records. Like all Katatonia releases, the album was writter primarily by founding members Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. The band went through a number of lineup changes, making the album the first to feature bassist Niklas Sandin, the only album to feature second guitarist Per Ericksson, and the last to feature drummer Daniel Liljekvist.

The song "The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here" is not literally about not being able to find a person, but about telling a person their preconceived notions about themselves were incorrect - that such a person does not exist. Multiple tracks, including "Buildings", allude to abandoned city scenes, which were inspired by Renkse's and Nystrom's visiting of abandoned train tunnels and hospitals in abandoned villages in Sweden. The album is not politically-themed in the conventional sense of promoting ideologies or presenting solutions, but rather contemplates and laments the poor state of the world due to modern politics in general.

Journalists have noted a similarity in sound to the work of American progressive metal band Tool, a comparison Renkse refers to as accidental but flattering.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Jonas Renkse, except "Undo You" and "The Act of Darkening" by Anders Nyström.

1. "The Parting" Renkse 4:52
2. "The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here" (feat. Silje Wergeland) Renkse 3:52
3. "Hypnone" Renkse 4:07
4. "The Racing Heart" Renkse 4:06
5. "Buildings" Nyström 3:28
6. "Leech" Renkse 4:23
7. "Ambitions" Renkse 5:07
8. "Undo You" Nyström 4:56
9. "Lethean" Per Eriksson, Renkse 4:39
10. "First Prayer" Nyström, Renkse 4:28
11. "Dead Letters" Nyström 4:49
12. "Second" (Bonus Track)

Total length: 48:47

Recording information:

Recorded at Ghost Ward & The City of Glass in February - May 2012.

Mastered at Cutting Room.