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HOS 878CD
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Very few bands have survived such a duration and Outre-Tombe, whom previously rested alongside other predecessors from North America, has now decidedly outlived the majority. The elements are traditional and youthful -- but in the end their black metal is singular and theirs alone. Six concise refined tracks where the evil spirit of displaced youth returns to haunt and rattle inside the skeletons of the modern world.
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HOS 878LP
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LP version. Includes metallic print and insert. Also includes digital download. Very few bands have survived such a duration and Outre-Tombe, whom previously rested alongside other predecessors from North America, has now decidedly outlived the majority. The elements are traditional and youthful -- but in the end their black metal is singular and theirs alone. Six concise refined tracks where the evil spirit of displaced youth returns to haunt and rattle inside the skeletons of the modern world.
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HOS 662LP
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Hospital Productions present a reissue of Akitsa's Au Crépuscule de L'Espérance, originally released in 2010. A faithfully restored for vinyl edition of the band's fourth album, marking the band's 20th anniversary. The double-LP format gives the proper space for vinyl that it always deserved. Includes bonus tracks from Akitsa's debut live set recorded to tape in New York City 2009, as well as introverted and haunted solo grand piano recordings from the archives. Quebec black metal. Double-LP in wide spine jacket.
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HOS 408LP
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Hospital Productions present a reissue of Akitsa's Goetie, originally released in 2001. Repressed 20th anniversary edition with updated layout. Classic debut album that has influenced a generation since with its stunning and inimitable mix of black metal, punk, funeral doom, and industrial ascension. Juvenile black metal madness. Double-LP in wide spine jacket.
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HOS 442LP
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Hospital Productions present a reissue of Akitsa's Grands Tyrans, originally released in 2015. Repressed edition of the band's fifth album with updated layout. Marks the 20th anniversary of the band. The minimalist turning point and confluence of all the band's influences on the road to underground mastery. Possessed doom punk black metal. Includes fold-out poster.
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HOS 663LP
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Hospital Productions present a reissue of Akitsa's La Grande Infamie, originally released in 2008. A faithfully restored vinyl edition of the band's third album, marking the band's 20th anniversary. The double-LP format gives the proper space for vinyl that it always deserved. Includes bonus tracks from a brutal, full band rehearsal from the era. Natural disaster black metal. Double-LP in wide spine jacket.
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HOS 664LP
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Hospital Productions present a reissue of Akitsa's Sang Nordique, originally released in 2007. A faithfully restored vinyl edition of the band's second album, marking the band's 20th anniversary. The double-LP format gives the proper space for vinyl that it always deserved. Includes original outro as well as a very harsh, full band rehearsal recording from the era of the album as bonus tracks. Nordic black metal. Double-LP in wide spine jacket.
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HOS 665LP
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Hospital Productions present a reissue of Akitsa's Totale Servitude, originally released in 1999. A faithfully restored vinyl edition of the band's demo, released for the first time as a deluxe, standalone vinyl. Marks the band's 20th anniversary. '90s esoteric black metal. Includes color fold-out poster; Double-LP in wide spine jacket.
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HOS 604CS
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Cassette version. At the threshold of its 20-year anniversary, Akitsa presents Credo, the band's sixth full-length and their most focused, furious and hypnotic album to date. Throughout its history, the band has operated unconstrained, willing, and capable of simultaneously exploring divergent paths. The accretion of Akitsa's sprawling array of influences finds its most comprehensive expression on this album. Musically, O.T. handled the writing for the album, and there is a compositional coherence to it, despite the shifting moods of the tracks. The lyrics, however, were a shared endeavor; O.T. furnished the lyrics for two tracks as did Néant. Additionally, longtime Akitsa associate and visual artist Valnoir provided lyrics for another track. The drum programming on the title track, is supplied by Kris Lapke of cult industrial enigma Alberich, lending a barbaric strength to the title track. A critical component for the album, adding clarity to the sound without sacrificing the raw violence that has long characterized Akitsa's music, is the visceral mixing, mastering, and post-production by revered producer Arthur Rizk (Prurient, Pissed Jeans, Power Trip). Credo opens with "Siécle Pastoral", a driving, mid-paced riff before shifting into more tortured territory as O.T. delivers the lyrics, a poem by French poet, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. "Voies Cataclysmiques," is a physical attack, its belligerence standing in contrast to the atmospherics of "Siécle Pastoral", and "Le Monde Est Ma Bile", which showcases the band's unfolding of sorrowful melodies. "Espoir Vassal" is a vicious track featuring soaring, agonizing riffs with hints of Norwegian influence, before the frenzied and tense "Vestiges Fortifiés". The album closes with the title track, combining the most salient elements that define Akitsa's work to date. Across ten minutes, Néant's lyrics, bellowed out in French by O.T., are a pure manifestation of poetic nihilism. The track is thus the metric by which Akitsa will be recognized. That a band would produce its finest work so deep into an already sensational career is an undeniably rare achievement in metal, and in Akitsa's case, it is a testament to the band's tenacity and versatility. After three years of total silence from Akitsa, Credo is a culmination of the band's catalog and rise in cult status and arguably the finest representation of its pure underground devotion. Cassette in deluxe metallic print fold-out sleeve.
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HOS 442CS
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"Five years in the making, Montreal's Akitsa delivers their fifth album of spirited and inevitable black metal fatalism. A respected and passionate disciple of the black metal underground from its earliest days, Akitsa's Outre-Tombe has remained true to the spirit of the genre, while carving out a personal space within it. Akitsa was founded in an environment of isolation. A pre-Akitsa Outre-Tombe gained experience from early maneuvers out of the DIY cassette culture of the early 90's experimental mail circuit, and he eventually transmuted this abstraction and freedom back into misanthropic black metal -- and Akitsa was born. This passionate yet primitive North American black metal pioneer came into existence regardless of any local indifference to the need for it. Fusing a love for industrial noise, punk, and creepy synth soundscapes with pure raw black metal, Grands tyrans is the most challenging, powerful, and fully realized synthesis of these various strands to date. While sonically Akitsa has matured into a perfect amalgamation of extreme music (metal, punk, experimental), Outre-Tombe's voice has the rude and fearless energy of youth expanding upon the diversity of emotions that black metal festers in the complex mixture of violence and introspection. Grands tyrans masterfully strikes with urgent immediacy like the falcon springing through frost covered branches commencing the hunt."
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HOS 442CD
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"Five years in the making, Montreal's Akitsa delivers their fifth album of spirited and inevitable black metal fatalism. A respected and passionate disciple of the black metal underground from its earliest days, Akitsa's Outre-Tombe has remained true to the spirit of the genre, while carving out a personal space within it. Akitsa was founded in an environment of isolation. A pre-Akitsa Outre-Tombe gained experience from early maneuvers out of the DIY cassette culture of the early 90's experimental mail circuit, and he eventually transmuted this abstraction and freedom back into misanthropic black metal -- and Akitsa was born. This passionate yet primitive North American black metal pioneer came into existence regardless of any local indifference to the need for it. Fusing a love for industrial noise, punk, and creepy synth soundscapes with pure raw black metal, Grands tyrans is the most challenging, powerful, and fully realized synthesis of these various strands to date. While sonically Akitsa has matured into a perfect amalgamation of extreme music (metal, punk, experimental), Outre-Tombe's voice has the rude and fearless energy of youth expanding upon the diversity of emotions that black metal festers in the complex mixture of violence and introspection. Grands tyrans masterfully strikes with urgent immediacy like the falcon springing through frost covered branches commencing the hunt."
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HOS 268CD
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"Dedicated to imperfection and obsessed by minimalism, Akitsa return after 3 years with their fourth full-length album. Brash primitivism, bitter atmosphere and youthful naivety clash together, firing the rawest hate anthems in the Akitsa cannon. The most undisputedly cruel faction of raw North American black metal seen thus far."
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