I need that Archaic Torse reissue! Thanks for the headsup - had no idea it was getting a reissue. I think I'll get the Sacrilege BC records too.

The second full length Sortilège album, Larmes de héros, will be reissued in December.

Out now on The Devil's Elixirs:
Grey Waters - Below The Ever Setting Sun LP (black and orange vinyl)
Midvinter - At The Sight Of The Apocalypse Dragon digibook CD
Wish - Monochrome digibook CD
Black Funeral - Empire Of Blood digibook CD
Black Funeral - Vampyr - Throne Of the Beast CD

https://www.van-records.com/?fbclid=IwA ... 4MSluGvx3U

Out in January, pre-orders taken:
Deicide - Once Upon The Cross/Serpents Of The Light 2CD
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/dei ... light-2cd/

Out now!
Invocator - Excursion Demise and Weave the Apocalypse LPs
https://hammerheartstore.com/collection ... wftTNN14wQ

Out 16th December on Vic:

Asphyx - On the Wings of Inferno, Embrace the Death, S/T and God Cries CDs

Out now!
Phlebotomized - “Devoted to God” 30th anniversary reissue. Legendary 1992 demo available on CD, LP, MC and digital.
https://phlebotomized.lnk.to/devotedtog ... ZlaevTds-I

HEIR APPARENT - Graceful Inheritance CD/LP available again
ARTCH - Another Return CD/LP pre-orders taken now
https://hammerheartstore.com/search?q=h ... 5zvpHdtWnE

Out 17th Feb, pre-orders taken:
Deicide - Bible Bashers 3CD Digipak (incl. ‘Insineratehymn’, ‘In Torment In Hell’ and ‘When Satan Lives’).
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/dei ... e-digipak/

I ordered the Archaic Torse reissue recently.

You're going to enjoy it. I ordered it a couple weeks ago and it arrived last week. It gave me Assorted Heap vibes (the first album, at least). Very solid record, though I have to admit that Sacrilege B.C,'s debut was even better in the package of CDs I got.

Out on Vic Records:
Ceremony - Retribution CD
Dead End - Forever is Not Eternal CD (compilation)
Exoto - Beyond The Depths of Hate digipack CD
Mangled - Through Ancient Times DCD (compilation)
Memory Garden - Carnage Carnival CD + DVD
Procreation - Ghostwood digipack CD

29.12:
Setherial - Lords Of The Nightrealm CD/LP/MC
https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com/ ... nightrealm

Out now!
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Arcturus - Constellation/My Angel
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
https://en.prophecy.de/index.php?lang=1 ... m=arcturus

The two albums from Vulture (Netherlands) were recently reissued on Metal Warrior records. Never heard them before, but deciding if I should spend the crazy amount of money it will take to get them to Canada

Edit: Ended up ordering them

Out now!
Airdash - Thank God it's Monday CD
https://www.recordshopx.com/search/?q=airdash

Out 13.1 on Massacre Records:
Prestige - Attack Against Gnomes CD/LP
https://lnk.to/attackagainstgnomesreiss ... anA79_AMRA

Relapse Records' is re-releasing G.I.S.M.'s second album Military Affairs Neurotic on vinyl, cassette and CD, I think this is the first time it's getting a wide-release.

https://store.relapse.com/b/gism

Releasing on January 27th, 2023.

This is intriguing! Never heard this album but that art is classic.

I've ordered them, too. I haven't received them in the mail yet, but I did receive a shipping notification not long ago, so they should be here soon.

Why does shipping to Canada have to be so expensive? It makes me not want to buy a lot of stuff I otherwise possibly would.

It is what it is. Like it wasn’t enough already, our very own Canada Post is one of the laziest and incompetent post services in the world. I have stated this numerous times here before.

In February:
Funeral - Tragedies, To Mourn is a Virtue and In Fields of Pestilent Grief CDs
https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/funeral-reissues

Hello, anyone else has the back covers of these reissues not perfectly flat like they were not inserted correctly in the cases?

You could have an idea of how it looks like with this other reissue: https://www.discogs.com/fr/release/25509397-Paradox-Mystery-Demo-87-Deluxe-Edition/image/SW1hZ2U6ODc5OTIwMDg=

These came out digitally earlier in the year. The bonus material on a couple of them is beyond ridiculous and so half-assed. I really thought when Funeral signed with Season of Mist they'd finally get some comprehensive reissues filled with rarities for these old albums. But it seems like all the label wanted to do was throw on a song or two on each one and call it a day.

I'll start with the positives; In Fields of Pestilent Grief has a good bonus track: "When Ruin Beckons", which was recorded in 1999 during the same session as a bunch of songs from the album. It's never been officially released other than a super rare CDR demo and fits right in with the rest of the material, so it's the perfect bonus track for the album. I also actually like the new cover art - the original was never great to begin with.


Now to the complaints. Tragedies oddly includes a live song from 1995 (taken from the Tristesse vinyl edition from several years ago) and an unreleased song called "From Beyond the Endless Black Sea". The problem with the live track is what's the point of releasing one live song when the vinyl edition released the entire live show (and featured several unreleased songs from that time period)? Even worse is the inclusion of the song From Beyond the Endless Black Sea. At first I thought it was a rare demo from the 1994/1995 era, but was shocked to hear it features Frode on vocals - so it obviously was recorded much later in the 2000s. The song is an acoustic "unplugged" type of song and almost has a happy vibe to it that sounds nothing like anything else on Tragedies. It's a pretty lousy song and should have stayed unreleased, or at least used as a bonus for a reissue of an album Frode sang on where maybe it would have fit better. Here it is if anybody is interested in taking a listen:


There's so much bonus material that could have been on the Tragedies reissue, such as the fantastic Beyond All Sunsets demo songs and the entire 1995 live show. Anders Eek even posted a photo of a rare 1994 rehearsal tape on Facebook last year with instrumental early versions of Demise and Under Ebony Shades. He said they were digging up rarities for the upcoming deluxe edition of Tragedies, so there could have been much more they unearthed. But of course, none of this stuff was included. Will a proper deluxe edition surface later with all this stuff? Maybe, but I don't think so. At least not anytime soon.

To Mourn Is a Virtue is equally frustrating. It's already an odd compilation type release featuring 3 different vocalists singing on songs recorded in 1996, but the vocals were recorded in three sessions from 1997 to 2004 - four with Frode, four with Øystein Rustad, and one with Sarah Eick. But every fan of early Funeral has been begging and begging for a complete reissue of the 1997 demo with Sarah Eick on vocals. Instead of releasing those five songs on this, they included just one more of them as a bonus track. I supposed it's all that would fit on the CD, but after all these years of waiting it's baffling to me that the band can't seem to figure out how to give the fans what they've been asking decades for.

I guess people who don't have these albums will be happy they're available again and in print, but I'm sure any Funeral fan who has been waiting for reissues to come out for the chance at some rarities to finally be released will have to keep on waiting.

Was Trisstesse relatively recently reissued on CD? Because I'm honestly surprised it's not included in this wave of reissues, since Tragedies is in there. When I first heard about Funeral in the early 2000s, Trisstesse and Tragedies were pretty much always talked about as a pair of releases that were almost tied to each other. And the first reissue I'm aware of, that I acquired long ago, was a 2 CD with Tragedies on disc 1 and Trisstesse on disc 2.

Nope, and I have no idea why Season of Mist isn't doing a reissue of Tristesse too. I'm not sure if another group of reissues is coming later, but I have a real hard time not thinking this initial run just seems very half-assed.

Yeah, that Firebox Records 2CD reissue in 2006 with Tragedies and Tristesse was fantastic. I especially liked it because it included the 3 rare bonus tracks from the Beyond All Sunsets demo - and since 2 songs on Tragedies were taken from the Beyond Sunsets demo, you essentially get the entire 5 song demo on that reissue.

I sell stuff on ebay- damn right Canadian shipping is expensive! It can be a problem.

I'm so pissed I missed out on that An Anatomy of the Beast reissue on CD, I don't know how I didn't know about it, now I can't find it anywhere!

I bought some new music over the Holidays, and I was stunned by the price of shipping to Canada.

No it wasn't and it won't be reissued by SOM at least. I asked them about it and they replied that they don't have the rights to "Tragedies/Tristesse". Confusing answer, as they were able to reissue Tragedies as a stand-alone release, but that's what they said.

Out now!

Tristitia - "Lamentations in Darkness" 5CD box set
https://napalmrecords.com/deutsch/lamen ... d-box.html
Featuring the first four albums and the demos.

Out now!
God Died On His Knees (formerly known as Incubus) - S/T CD
https://www.vicrecords.com/product/9262 ... eOIH7WRmUE

14.4.:
Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense, Skycontact, Deformation of Humanity CD-reissues
https://hammerheartstore.com/collection ... ebotomized

10.2.:
Darkthrone - 'Goatlord: Original' CD/LP
The instrumental version for the first time as a stand-alone release.
https://burningshed.com/store/peacevill ... peaceville

Century Media is reissuing the entire discography of the cult Swedish band Afflicted, including a compilation of all of their demos from 1989-1992.

https://www.cmdistro.de/collections/vendors?q=Afflicted&sort_by=created-descending

Hammerheart Records is reissuing Isole's discography leading up to the release of their new album Anesidora.

Relapse Records is reissuing Integrity's albums Humanity is the Devil, Systems Overload, and Those Who Fear Tomorrow.
https://store.relapse.com/b/integrity

The following Aosoth album are being reissued by Agonia Records:

II: Ashes of Angels
IV: Arrow in Heart
V: The Inside Scriptures

Divebomb's reissues of the following are now up for pre-order:

Fallen Angel - Faith Fails
Lethal Dose - Lethal Dose
Silence - Vision

I just ordered these, along with Apocrypha's Area 54. Required Fields, you are definitely going to want these if I know your tastes well enough

Napalm Records has reissues of Opeth's Orchid, Morningrise and My Arms Your Hearse albums.

On the subject of Opeth reissues, specifically CDs, does anyone know if the 2016 Candlelight/Spinefarm reissues, which seem to be reissues of the same Candlelight versions going back to the year 2000, have any remastering done to them? For that matter have those first three Opeth albums ever been remastered for CD reissue? If I'm reading discogs right, the only time they've been remastered was for the Japanese version of the Candlelight Years 3CD pack -- which of course is the one I bought years ago after stupidly selling or trading my originals. The 3CD thing doesn't sound great, but has no info about who did the remastering (or, frankly, if any was even done, but to be fair nothing is in English; there may have been a sticker that said they'd been remastered).

Here's the 2016 Orchid: https://www.discogs.com/release/9564477-Opeth-Orchid

And the Candlelight Years for Japan: https://www.discogs.com/release/1395540 ... ight-Years

Out now on Peaceville:
Accidental Suicide - Deceased CD/LP
Impaler - Charnel Deity CD/LP
Mysticum - In the Streams of Inferno CD/LP
Pitchshifter - Industrial CD/LP
https://burningshed.com/

Divebomb Records will be reissuing the second Gladiator album, Made of Pain, at the end of the month.

Napalm Records have some Hollenthon reissues (Domus Mundi and Magnum Opus) up on their store for those interested.

30.6:
Blood - O Agios Pethane CD
Carved in Flesh – As Seen Through Tears CD
Headhunter – Parody of Life CD
Impetigo - Horror of the Zombies CD
Mythos - Pain Amplifier CD
October Tide - Rain Without End CD (incl. the original session and the 2007 remaster)
Tyrants Blood - Into the Kingdom of Graves CD
Vio-lence: Kill on Command – the Vio-lence demos CD/LP
https://www.vicrecords.com/