Releases – May 2023

The first of two CDs that feature recordings from Cincinnati’s legendary King label in the successful ‘That’ll Flat…Git It!’ series of rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly on Bear Family Records®.* Beginning in the mid-1950s, King Records – founded in 1943 – released outstandingrockabilly along with R&B and country.* The musicians were primarily from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, including icons likeCharlie Feathers, Trini Lopez, Bruce Channel and Rusty York, teen rockers like Wes Voight and Fuller Tood, and guys like Moon Mullican and Dave ...

Second album with more great recordings from the earliest sessions (1951 and 1952) featuring Chester Burnett aka The Howlin’ Wolf.• • The recordings were made by Sam Phillips at his Memphis Recording Service.• • At the time, these recordings remained unreleased!• • These masters and alternate versions were discovered decades later.• • Howlin’ Wolf is one of the giants of the blues with his hard electric blues style and his unique voice that is just bursting with power.• • Guitarist ...

• Long overdue: A CD showcase with early, kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll and Beat music made by Ricky Shayne and his band, The Skylarks, now appears on Bear Family Records®!• • The CD album delivers all the Italian recordings from 1966/67 for RCA Italiana and its Arc sub-label, including the complete Arc LP ‘Ricky Shayne and The Skylarks’.• • In addition, there are six songs from 1968, released at the time on Miura, including La Catena, the Italian version of Ich sprenge alle ...

For this CD, Bear Family Records® delves into the 1970s, when Texas country music, blues and redneck rock collided with West Coast hippie culture.• • One of the essential protagonists: Augie Meyers from near San Antonio, Texas – musician, cult figure and label operator, who spiced the releases of his Texas Re-Cord Company (1975-‘80) additionally with Tex-Mex Dance Hall Music and Western Swing Polkas.• • More than 15 tracks for the first time on CD!• • In total, Augie Meyers released some 30 ...

Australian death metal abomination IMPETUOUS RITUAL will unleash their new album “Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis” on May 12th. “Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis” is the followup to 2017’s “Blight Upon Martyred Sentience” and presents itself as the most unnatural, abnormal, and nightmarish IMPETUOUS RITUAL offering yet.Nine tracks of uncanny metaphysical ambient death metal terror.1. Sanguinary Abstraction, 2. Lecherous Molestation, 3. Rite Of Impalement, 4. NecromanticEsurience, 5. Grail Of Enmity, 6. Intramural Axion, 7. Psychic Necrosis, 8. SacrilegiousPenance, 9. MetempsychosisGENRE: Death MetalBARCODE: 843563157350 ...

Australian death metal abomination IMPETUOUS RITUAL will unleash their new album “Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis” on May 12th. “Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis” is the followup to 2017’s “Blight Upon Martyred Sentience” and presents itself as the most unnatural, abnormal, and nightmarish IMPETUOUS RITUAL offering yet.Nine tracks of uncanny metaphysical ambient death metal terror.1. Sanguinary Abstraction, 2. Lecherous Molestation, 3. Rite Of Impalement, 4. NecromanticEsurience, 5. Grail Of Enmity, 6. Intramural Axion, 7. Psychic Necrosis, 8. SacrilegiousPenance, 9. MetempsychosisGENRE: Death MetalBARCODE: 843563157374 ...

The music of the five‐piece band Ultha, hailing from Cologne, can roughly be described as a hybrid of black metal, doom and dark wave. Their new album ‘All That Has Never Been True’ is truly an emotional and captivating journey of the highest order. Where a seething nihilism has always raged through their work, feelings of pressure, despair but also clarity and resignation rise to the surface. Lyrically the band doesn’t follow any classical metal cliches, instead ruminating about the inner darkness and sadness ...

After taking some 20 years off, Dutch gothic doom‐death act Celestial Season roared back in 2020 with a startingly ambitious comeback album called The Secret Teachings, then followed up in April of this year with Mysterium I. Now just a scant 7 months later they’re back with the second part of a planned trilogy, dropping Mysterium II in time for Christmas stocking stuffing. For those unfamiliar with Celestial Season’s sound, they’re in the same space as classic My Dying Bride and early Anathema, with slow‐moving, ...

Gnaw Their Tongues is a Dutch experimental metal band known for their extreme and boundary pushing approach to music. In their 2023 split with Deha,” the band takes on Igor Stravinsky’slandmark classical piece “The Rite of Spring,” creating a dark and intense interpretation that is unlikeanything heard before. The album combines the band’s signature black metal and noise influences with Stravinsky’s intricate and challenging compositions, resulting in a haunting and disturbing musical experience. With its relentless aggression and unrelenting sense of tension, Gnaw ...

Unto Others consisted of Gabriel Franco (vocals/guitar), Brandon Hill (bass), Sebastian Silva (guitar) and Colin Vranizan (drums). The band formed in Portland, Oregon in 2017 and quickly made waves across the Pacific Northwest under their previous band name, Idle Hands. After the “Don’t Waste Your Time” EP released in 2018, they released their debut album “Mana” (Eisenwald) in 2019, which was immediately voted the second-best album of the year by metal.de. In addition to many top lists, the album also received praise from many other places ...

Unto Others consisted of Gabriel Franco (vocals/guitar), Brandon Hill (bass), Sebastian Silva (guitar) and Colin Vranizan (drums). The band formed in Portland, Oregon in 2017 and quickly made waves across the Pacific Northwest under their previous band name, Idle Hands. After the “Don’t Waste Your Time” EP released in 2018, they released their debut album “Mana” (Eisenwald) in 2019, which was immediately voted the second-best album of the year by metal.de. In addition to many top lists, the album also received praise from many other places ...

The distant howl of coyotes echoes through the desert night. Over a windswept mesa the Serpent Moon rises. This is how Galen Baudhuin (Wolves In The Throne Room, Infera Bruo, Street Tombs and more) envisions the debut album of ARIDUS. In conspiracy with Eisenwald, he takes you on a journey to his majestic and hostile homeland in the American high desert and through the inevitable stages of human existence.ARIDUS is an outlet for multi-instrumentalist Galen Baudhuin’s more overt black metal material. GB handled all instrumentation ...

The distant howl of coyotes echoes through the desert night. Over a windswept mesa the Serpent Moon rises. This is how Galen Baudhuin (Wolves In The Throne Room, Infera Bruo, Street Tombs and more) envisions the debut album of ARIDUS. In conspiracy with Eisenwald, he takes you on a journey to his majestic and hostile homeland in the American high desert and through the inevitable stages of human existence.ARIDUS is an outlet for multi-instrumentalist Galen Baudhuin’s more overt black metal material. GB handled all instrumentation ...

Igis Osim Lara (feat. members from Death Bell and Sektarism) from Toulouse France join forces with Breath Sun Bone Blood for their second release entitled Walkersdenn Initiation. Deep swells of synthesizers mix with bells, reed instruments, and percussion invoking a trance inducing otherworldly experience. Beautiful, grounding, yet unnerving at the same time.Imagine if Tangerine Dream traveled to the future and met Halo Manash and Arktau Eos and became fast friends. They decide to take a sauna together in the chilled climes of Northern Finland, but stay ...

Limited edition Aside/Bside – sea blue/grey vinyl w/double sided insertWoven Dark Paths: an 8-song/48-minute album about delving into dark ancient rites, bloodletting for the forefathers, and true Nordic spirit as well as philosophy through ancient Nordic beliefs. With preternatural ease, Sarvekas transport the listener to ancient times: both the glorious 1990s, with their incredibly eraauthentic style, and more so the times long, long before that, visual and violent in equal measure. References to be made include the cult likes of Isvind, Norway’s Perished, ...