Considering there will be much news related to Hypnotic Dirge Records this year, instead of clogging up the forum with new posts for each new bit of news, I will post all HDR info in this thread to keep things organized in one location.

I won't post much from the past, although I'll start the thread off by posting a bit of news from the last couple weeks.

For those unaware, here is a bit of information about Hypnotic Dirge...

From our Manifesto:

"Hypnotic Dirge Records is an independent non-profit record label and webshop based in Saskatoon, Canada. Our intention and raison d'être is to release quality expressive and eclectic art through aural manifestations. We care not about strict definitions based on genre classifications, but many of our album releases so far could probably fall within the Black Metal and Doom Metal classification though with significant experimental deviations throughout including elements of post-rock, progressive metal, acoustic music, jazz, and trip-hop. As long as the music is genuine, visceral, and has strong musicianship (not necessarily technical proficiency) by real artists then the associated genre is irrelevant. "

More: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/manifesto.php

Presenting the latest Hypnotic Dirge Records free digital download compilation album!, "Subarctic Nocturnes: Doomed to Be [Volume 1]"

This year, we are releasing something more comprehensive than ever before, with a compilation trilogy series which will have a different genre focus on each volume and which we will release over the course of the next few months. We are extremely pleased to unveil the first album in this series now, with a focus on all things doom!

Within this volume, you will find a collection of amazing artists at the forefront of the global doom scene, both Hypnotic Dirge bands and guests from o ther bands around the world. The selections on this release were carefully chosen to show some of our favourite bands including doom veterans and newcomers alike. Melodic Death-Doom, Gothic Doom, and Sludge Doom can all be found within this compilation so it is quite diverse and hopefully shows a careful balance between all these sounds.

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1 - Altars of Grief - The Plague that Haunts the Darkness 

2 - Orphans of Dusk - Nibelheim 

3 - Norilsk - Planète heurt 

4 - Psychotic Gardening - Searing Cital

5 - Lavagoat - Ageless Nonsense 

6 - Nethermost - Weald Reams 

7 - Lycanthia - The Harbinger 

8 - Evadne - Colossus

9 - Human Collapse - Deep

10 - Enshine - Above Us 

11 - Atten Ash - The Hourglass

12 - Woccon - Wandering

Artwork by: Coby O'Brien

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Artwork editing by: Alexander Machtakov 

Thanks to all the bands and artists for participating!

The official worldwide release of the Atten Ash - The Hourglass album is upon us! 

The album is available in a gorgeous physical digipack CD, with a 12 page booket including all lyrics and liner notes for $10.00 + shipping, together with a free 11cm x 7cm Atten Ash sticker. The album is also available for free and unlimited streaming / download on the official Hypnotic Dirge Bandcamp page, so if you've been awaiting the re-release for a while, and first heard of the album through the Hypnotic Dirge re-release, you can finally hear it in its entirely!

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Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Atten-Ash-The-Hourglass/p/46063322/category=6794198

Free streaming / download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hourglass

A three-piece atmospheric/melodic death-doom band from North Carolina, Atten Ash is the creation of founding member James Greene who wrote the foundations of the songs which would later become “The Hourglass.” In 2011 James began collaborating with Barre Gambling (founding guitarist of Daylight Dies) and Archie Hunt (vocalist/guitarist of Legion of the Fallen) and the trio continued the musical work: arranging songs, establishing vocal patterns, writing lyrics and guitar solos. 

Recorded in 2012, an intricate and encapsulating death-doom portrait permeates Atten Ash’s first full-length recording. Rich in atmosphere, swaying through infectious melodies and razorsharp solos while displaying both melancholy and aggression with conviction and force, “The Hourglass” is the result of a band with considerable maturity and experience, already at the top of their craft, and with a defined vision for their sound placing them among the classic death-doom giants of the genre.

Those pining for genuine melodic/atmospheric death-doom for the dark and cold days ahead, and especially fans and listeners of bands such as Daylight Dies, Slumber, Katatonia, Woccon, Doom:vs, October Tide, and Helevorn (among others) would be wise to heed attention.

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1 - City in the Sea

2 - See You...Never

3 - Not as Others Were

4 - Song for the Dead

5 - Born

6 - First Day

7 - Waves of Siloam

8 - The Hourglass

Atten Ash Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/attenash.php

Atten Ash Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/attenashband

Apologies for the late additions to the March webshop update. We always intend to have an update at the start of each month, but it has been an exceedingly busy time for us as of late.

However, the update is now live and includes 31 new additions including many new releases from Solitude Productions / BadMoodMan Music, as well as some hidden and hard-to-find gems such as the trilogy of Funeral Doom classics from Argentinian Lovecraftian Doomsters Fungoid Dreams, Bulgarian Blackened Folk band Shambless, the fantastic Icelandic prog-black metal band Auðn, and many more.

Latest additions: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Latest-Additions/c/9287120/offset=0&sort=addedTimeDesc

-All albums listed below are in this section

BMM - 070 : Amederia - Unheard Prayer

BMM - 071 : Adfail - Is It A Game?

BMM - 072 : Shallow Rivers - The Leaden Ghost

SP - 091 : Septic Mind - Rab

SP - 092 : Torrens Conscientium - All Alone With The Thoughts

SP - 093 : Without God - Circus of Freaks

SP - 094 : Et Moriemur - Ex Nihilo In Nihilum

SP - 095 : Frowning - Funeral Impressions

SP - 096 : Oktor - Another Dimension Of Pain

SP - 097 : Woebegone Obscured - Deathscape MMXIV

HDR - D - 745 : Mournful Gust - If We Were Alive

HDR - D - 746 : Without Dreams - Rejected by Angel, Betrayed by Demon

HDR - D - 747 : Anagram to Anna - God, Me, and Monsters

HDR - D - 748 : Perihelion - selftitled

HDR - D - 749 : Slow - Unsleep

HDR - D - 750 : VIII - Drakon

HDR - D - 751 : Skady - When Sun Disappeared

HDR - D - 752 : Keeper - MMXIV

HDR - D - 753 : Auðn - selftitled

HDR - D - 754 : Infer / Sepsis - Chronicles of Bloodshed

HDR - D - 755 : Fungoid Stream - Celaenus Fragments

HDR - D - 756 : Diadema Tristis - Ways of Relief

HDR - D - 757 : Qhwertt - Cloudland

HDR - D - 758 : Fungoid Stream - Oceanus

HDR - D - 759 : Wolf & Winter - Endless Forest of Silent Sorrow...The Howl of Hate

HDR - D - 760 : Qhwertt - He Who Has Known The Gardens

HDR - D - 761 : Diadema Tristis - Alone with Nature

HDR - D - 762 : Fungoid Stream - Prehuman Shapes

HDR - D - 763 : The Meads of Asphodel - In the Name of God, Welcome to Planet Genocide

HDR - D - 764 : Shambless - Irke Ranefas

HDR - D - 765 : Funeral Tears - The World We Lost