Avantgarde Music

08/07/2025

Are we ready for new vinyl represses on the Moonlight Sorcery catalog ?
It’s about time indeed and We’ll reveal new cool versions coming soon

06/07/2025

A second taste of Nexion's new studio album, "Sundrung", was just released. "Uþarpaspa" is available on all streaming platforms, and a videoclip has been premiered via Black Metal Promotion!

Country: Iceland | Year: 2025 | Genre: Black/Death Metal Track from the upcoming album 'Sundrung', to be released by Avantgarde Music on September 12, 2025. ...

04/07/2025

It's release day! AkoúΦenom's new opus "Connections to the Erebus" is out today via our death metal division, Unorthodox Emanations!

"Connections to the Erebus" is available on all and every streaming platform worldwide, while preorders will be going out starting monday!

If you do not know this Spanish relentless band do yourself a favour and grab your copy today via Sound Cave or Bandcamp!

03/07/2025

Game recognizes game: NO CLEAN SINGING spends words of praise for Amalekim!

Still recovering from, and somewhat delayed by, recent festival experiences but still carrying on, Daniel Barkasi has brought us reviews of six strongly recommended albums released in May 2025 -- from these bands: Amalekim (Italy/Poland), Solfatare (Belgium), ESCARNIUM (Brazil), Fragments of Unbecoming (Germany), HEXEREI (Finland, via Sentient Ruin Laboratories), and Ignoble - Band (Canada/Denmark). Find Dan's vivid reviews and all the music at the location linked in the comment below.

01/07/2025

Icelandic black metal quintet Nexion will release their new studio record, Sundrung, in September, once again via Avantgarde Music. Five years after their acclaimed debut album Seven Oracles, Nexion is back to deliver their new opus, enriched by an illustration by Jose Gabriel Sabogal.

Music journalist Jonathan Selzer, who listened to the whole record in advance, introduces the record as follows.

“Sundrung, the second, firmament-storming album from Icelandic black metallers Nexion, begins with a curse – a prophetic vision found on ancient rune stones against those who defile sacred spaces. Chanted during the surging, acrid tides and wildly scything riffs of the opening song, Uþarpaspa, it’s both an incantation and a judgement passed for a world that’s gone beyond a point of no return, where mass extinction events, voracious consumption, ideological extremism and the dehumanising march of technology are ripping apart the social and cosmic fabric on which we depend. If existence is at the brink, the only way forward is to push it to the other side.

The title, Sundrung is an Old Icelandic for “discord, disharmony and the sundering of the social and cosmic fabric”. The album is an act of rebirth through the cycle of destruction. It’s vastly more dynamic and far-reaching than its predecessor. Monumental in its sheer presence and scope, expanding its blast radius into new sonic realms, Sundrung is riven with an apocalyptic fervour that’s ramped up to the most galvanising, consciousness-searing of degrees as it becomes an incendiary act of deliverance.

As well as charting humankind’s journey into perdition, Sundrung is an extension of personal paths. Unlike with Seven Oracles, vocalist Jósúa has turned to his own life, grounded in the perspectives of animism, indigenous thinking and Norse cosmology, and branching out into clean vocals for the first time. His approach is to ask, what are our responsibilities to a world that is greater than us but which we can harm, how do we relate to one another and the world around us holistically, and if we have already failed, what empowerment do we find on a fixed path toward ruin. Calling upon scenes of cosmic violence and performing ancient chants of ritual magic to summon death goddesses who weave human destiny with bloody entrails, Sundrung’s implacable, lay-waste momentum is infused with an imperious grandeur, as though Behemoth and Anaal Nathrakh were waging war in the Heavens.”

Nexion‘s Sundrung will be available on CD, LP and through all digital platforms in September, and is anticipated by the first single and videoclip “Gandr”.

The album’s first single Gandr is also a curse. It ritually breaks an ancient runic ward against destroyer spirits by inverting it to call them forth against mankind’s perpetrators of discord. Jósúa’s vocals range from slavering rasps and shrieks to guttural throat-sung incantations and clean-sung sermons as guitars writhe like an aurora borealis irradiating the atmosphere from the Earth as it reaches a desolated close.”

Further information about Nexion‘s sophomore album, as well as preorder links, will be disclosed in due time.

Sundrung
01 – :ÞÞÞ:
02 – Uþarpaspa
03 – Gandr
04 – Norðr ok Niðr
05 – When Raven Steals the Sun
06 – Hymn of the Valkyrjur
07 – Rending the Black Earth
08 – Visions of the Seventh Fire

30/06/2025

Following the sold-out success of their debut EP released a year ago—and its recent reissue featuring new artwork, accompanied three weeks ago by the release of the music video for "Sola"— NEL BUIO, the Italian black metal/dark wave trio led by Clod the Ripper, officially announce they are entering the studio to begin recording their first full-length album.

Scheduled for release by the end of 2025, the new work will once again be a concept album. Once again, centered on the feminine. And once again produced by the legendary Avantgarde Music. But this time, it will be rawer, more visceral, devoid of consolation, and decidedly darker. It will speak of what people pretend not to see, with all the coldness and pain that reality can inflict—expressed through their unique sound: "Pure Italian Blackwave."

Clod the Ripper, founder, vocalist, and bassist, comments:

"We’re not telling a story—we’re showing you reality. This album is asphalt-black and rough like a concrete wall: cold, unyielding.
It’s the gash that opens between neon lights and indifference… and it’ll be hard to swallow, because it’ll break your heart."

30/06/2025

We're all doomed and worthless.

One year after the acclaimed Duality, international quartet Defacement is about to let hell loose with their fourth studio record, Doomed, once again to be r...

28/06/2025

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One year after the acclaimed Duality, international quartet Defacement is about to let hell loose with their fourth studio record, Doomed, once again to be released through Avantgarde Music death metal division Unorthodox Emanations. With members originally from Lybia, Italy and the Netherlands, and now located all across Europe, Defacement embodies the very concept of borderless.

The band provided an apt description for their new record, which follows: Doomed blends the visceral power of extreme metal with the raw intimacy of spoken word, navigating sonic territory that is both ambient and aggressively dissonant. The lyrical content reflects a tormented psyche caught in a loop of self-denial, metaphysical questioning, and rejection of superficiality. It’s music as therapy, confession, and confrontation—existing in the cracks between structure and collapse.

Enriched by a powerful cover image, Pilgrims, by Norwegian photographer Kjetil Karlsen, and mixed and mastered by dissonance overlord Brendan Sloan (Convulsing, Altars), Doomed will be available on August 22nd on CD, LP and digital. US vinyl version in collaboration with Total Dissonance Worship.

“Worthless” is the first single from Defacement new album and can be streamed exclusively via Avantgarde Music YouTube channel and Bandcamp. The official Doomed release party is set for September 20th at the Avantgarde Music Festival @ Legend Club Milano!

27/06/2025

Time to announce three new bands that will be on stage at the Avantgarde Music Festival @ Legend Club Milano, in collaboration with Occult Booking!

🇮🇹 AD NAUSEAM needs no introduction: the masters of technical and dissonant death metal will lead us through their intricate structures on their ONLY live appearance this year.

🌍Defacement has been steadily growing their following and upping their game, incorporating new elements in their complex and challenging offering, making death metal a very partial description. The international band will release their new album in August, and our festival will serve as the official release party.

🇸🇮 Voices of Kamra is an obscure Slovenian black metal entity that delivered one of the most interesting yet overlooked records of 2022, will walk the stage to present their brand new studio record, to be released in September.

Tickets are going fast, don't forget to get yours on DICE, link in the first comment!

26/06/2025

Valdrin 'Apex Violator' released with a blast!
Copies running low! Tape almost sold out!
We're already heading for a second press of vinyls!

26/06/2025

US hordes, get to Cincinnati and join Valdrin for their "Apex Violator" release show on July 12th!

23/06/2025

The GRÁ horde will be unleashed upon Mexico for the first time ever next September at Candelabrum Metal Fest!