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achilles - yes and yes. All pre-orders shipped on Monday, these next orders will ship out very shortly. Fox - sorry, no way. We don't do holds. We press about 30 albums a year and have to keep them moving - these will be sold out well before that.

If you have problems with the shipping prices, blame the Finnish postal service. http://www.posti.fi/english/pricesandinstructions/ Check here under MAXI LETTER - EUROPE - 2nd class - up to 1500g. Then add 24% VAT on top of that that we have to collect. Then add 4% Paypal fees we have to collect (just on shipping) on top of that price. Then add a couple EUR for high quality packing materials. So, somewhere around 30 EUR. Then subtract a bunch of money (7 EUR) and you'll find that we lose money on shipping because we didn't raise our shipping prices, even though the Finnish postal service just did.

All of the early EPs, yes. We wanted copies here as well, so we made it happen!

It's true, we did press Cloudkicker. You can see which record is which here: http://www.blood-music.com These were not pressed from mp3s. And in that link you can see the covers (in small) including the re-drawn cover for "The Discovery." Anyone who receives will see and hear these are very high quality. USA copies are now sold out. All we have left is a handful in our EU store.

PRE-ORDER: March 26th at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). Blood Music will soon be releasing ultra-limited deluxe edition vinyl and CD of the first official live offering from one of the greatest and most influential bands of the early Norwegian scene - Arcturus. The band will see their "Shipwrecked in Oslo" performance at the Sonic Solstice Festival 2005 turned into a high-quality audio release. The vinyl package includes professional editing and vinyl remastering from the original soundboard audio, heavyweight vinyl, and ultra-limited numbers in a special gatefold layout. Audio: Arcturus "Shipwrecked in Oslo" 2xLP * Ultra-limited edition of 250 Half-and-Half Aquamarine/Black vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 150 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * Professionally edited and remastered for vinyl from the original soundboard audio. * 350gsm heavyweight board gatefold jacket, featuring photos from the performance. * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves. Arcturus "Shipwrecked in Oslo" CD: * Professionally edited from the original soundboard audio and mastered specifically for CD. * Includes 8-page booklet and printed inlay in clear jewel case. * Limited to 1000 copies.

PRE-ORDER: March 26th at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). Blood Music will soon be releasing ultra-limited deluxe edition vinyl of the first and only offering from the brand new masters of progressive technical death metal - Beyond Creation. The band will see their debut record, "The Aura," hit wax for the first time. The vinyl package includes vinyl remastering from the original soundboard audio, heavyweight vinyl, and ultra-limited numbers in a gatefold layout. Beyond Creation "The Aura" 2xLP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U16hXRMqJw * Ultra-limited edition of 250 Green+White Swirl vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 150 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * Remastered for vinyl and cut at 45RPM for optimum fidelity. * 350gsm heavyweight board gatefold jacket, featuring the original high-resolution original cover art. * Bonus track - "Injustice Revealed (demo)" * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves.

PRE-ORDER: March 5th at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). AUDIO: https://soundcloud.com/bloodmusic-1/noneuclid-paranoid-alkaloid Blood Music will be releasing the long buried sophomore magnum opus from Bavarian experimental thrash/death unit - Noneuclid. The material, recorded in 2007, is finally brought to life, after being put on the shelf for seven years! The insane supergroup features the likes of key members of Obscura, Triptykon, and Dark Fortress, and is slated to be one of the most weirdly complex albums of the year. There will be ultra-limited deluxe edition vinyl available, as well as a digipack CD with 12-page booklet. * Ultra-limited edition of 150 Half-and-Half Black/Clear vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 100 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * First-time album release, mastered specifically for vinyl by the band. * 350gsm heavyweight board gatefold jacket with art by Aeron Alfrey and layouts by Travis Smith. * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves. * 4-panel digipack CD with black flood interior printing and 12-page booklet, limited to 1000 copies.

PRE-ORDER: March 5th at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). AUDIO: https://soundcloud.com/bloodmusic-1/ifing-the-stream Blood Music will be releasing the incredible debut by Ifing - a USBM duo playing material that authentically harkens back to the early days of Nordic, pagan black metal - such as "Bergtatt"-era Ulver, Summoning, Moonsorrow, Windir. A 36-minute ride down the river Ifing - through the breadths of ancient mythology, pitting the spirits of monsters against men. There will be ultra-limited deluxe edition vinyl available, as well as a digipack CD. * Ultra-limited edition of 200 Silver vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 100 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * First-time album release, mastered specifically for vinyl. * 350gsm heavyweight board single-pocket jacket with 5-color outer printing, featuring a metallic pantone for all text and logos. * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves. * 4-panel digipack CD, limited to 1000 copies.

Records are live for pre-order! http://www.blood-music.com/store

PRE-ORDER: February 12th at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). Blood Music will soon be releasing ultra-limited deluxe edition 2xLPs from the one of the greatest and most well-respected atmospheric black metal bands of all-time. Negură Bunget's breakthrough masterwork -- "Om" and accompanying EP "Inarborat Kosmos" -- will come to special edition vinyl. The vinyl packages will include high resolution audio remasters made with a professional engineer in the band's own studio, heavyweight vinyl, and ultra-limited numbers in special edition layouts. Negură Bunget "Om" 2xLP: * Ultra-limited edition of 200 Clear/White Splatter vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 100 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * Mastered for vinyl by Negură Bunget and their personal engineer at Negura Music in Timisoara, Romania. * 350gsm heavyweight board triple gatefold jacket, featuring a brand new special edition layout, created by Negru. * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves. Negură Bunget "Inarborat Kosmos" LP: * Ultra-limited edition of 200 Transparent Green vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 100 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl at 45RPM for higher fidelity. * Mastered for vinyl by Negură Bunget and their personal engineer at Negura Music in Timisoara, Romania. * 350gsm heavyweight board single-pocket jacket, featuring a brand new layout, created by Negru. * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves.

Sale is live! http://www.blood-music.com/store

Hey folks! Black Friday sale tomorrow! We totally sold out of the SYL set a few months ago. Waited for everyone to receive theirs and kept a few copies in case of emergency. Very few serious emergencies, so we reintroduced the saved copies. Die Hard and Splatter copies sold out within 30 seconds. White copies are gone except 1 left in USA store. We have about 5 Die Soft boxes left til pressing is sold out. Our Black Friday sale will be a 25 USD (USA / Canada only) / 25 EUR (Rest of the World) discount on the Strapping Young Lad Die Soft (black vinyl) box. That's all. 7AM Los Angeles 10AM New York 3PM UK 4PM Germany 5PM Finland Midnight Tokyo 2AM Melbourne We won't put these on sale again, and these will sell out soon. Just a heads up to anyone who missed and was kicking themselves!

Welp, up to you! The clear vinyl on both records totally sold out within a few hours, and the Finnish Flag colored vinyl is fairly low in stock. These've done quite well for themselves in only a few hours. http://www.blood-music.com/store

PRE-ORDER: November 20th at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). Blood Music will be presenting the debut works from Finnish folk metal masters Ensiferum on wax for the first time in history. The band's first and sophomore works -- "Ensiferum" and "Iron" -- featured a young Jari Mäenpää of Wintersun and the early genesis of his sound can be heard clearly here. Both records will get the deluxe, special edition treatment with ultra-limited, ultra-high-quality triple gatefold layouts and full remastering for vinyl. Alongside the releases will come our favorite Finnish melodic death metal album of all-time -- Kalmah "The Black Waltz," also hitting wax for the first time in history in a special edition triple gatefold layout. Ensiferum "Ensiferum" 2xLP * 180-gram+ Clear (ltd. 100) or Finnish Flag-Colored (ltd. 200) 2xLP, remastered specifically for vinyl. * Ultra-limited 350gsm SPECIAL EDITION heavyweight board triple gatefold jacket, with a special edition cover, featuring front and reverse cover printing in METALLIC silver. * Features two bonus tracks - "Goblins' Dance" and "Old Man (Demo 1997)" * Black inner sleeves. Ensiferum "Iron" 2xLP * 180-gram+ Clear (ltd. 100) or Finnish Flag-Colored (ltd. 200) 2xLP, remastered specifically for vinyl and placed across 3 sides for optimum fidelity. * Ultra-limited 350gsm SPECIAL EDITION heavyweight board triple gatefold jacket, with a special edition cover, featuring front and reverse cover printing in METALLIC silver. * Side D printing of the Ensiferum band logo + sword. * Features a bonus track - a cover version of Metallica's "Battery" Kalmah "The Black Waltz" 2xLP * 180-gram+ Black (ltd. 100) or Black+White Swirl (ltd. 200) 2xLP, remastered specifically for vinyl. * Cut at 45RPM for optimum fidelity. * Ultra-limited 350gsm special edition heavyweight board triple gatefold jacket. * Features one bonus track - a cover of "This Mortal Coil" by Carcass.

PRE-ORDER: October 23rd at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). Blood Music will be debuting the fifth album from Russian/Ukrainian underground post-rock/funeral doom masters, Kauan. The album, entitled "Pirut" (meaning - "Devils"), will see its first time printing on digipack CD and ultra-limited edition LP. The album is a single song -- a kind of funeral doom "opera" -- spanning 40-minutes, weaving its way in and out of shimmering beauty and disgusting ugliness. During the mixing of the project [in their hometown of Chelyabinsk, Russia] the band and their families were under attack from the Chelyabinsk meteor strike, which delayed the album for several months. The artwork was created with that experience as the backdrop. The album will be released on December 15th, 2013. The opening excerpt to "Pirut" can be heard here: http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/10/song-debut-kauan-lightfox/ Kauan "Pirut" LP * 180-gram+ Light Blue LP. * First time publication of this funeral doom / post-rock masterpiece. * Mastered for vinyl at the original engineering sessions. * 350gsm heavyweight board single-pocket rough-coated reverse-board jacket, featuring the high resolution original artwork. * Heavyweight rough-coated reverse-board printed inner sleeve with the full booklet artwork from the release, including lyrics and credits. Kauan "Pirut" CD Limited edition of 1000 copies in 4-panel, rough-coated, reverse-board digipack with 6-panel, rough-coated booklet.

These are live for order! http://www.blood-music.com/store

Thanks! Total brainfart on the members e-mail. Live to public tomorrow. In 21 hours!

Thanks for the kind words!! Here is another sample -- Odium "Towards the Forest Horizon" (remastered): These go live for pre-order tomorrow, in roughly 26 hours.

PRE-ORDER: September 25th at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). Blood Music will soon be releasing ultra-limited deluxe edition 2xLPs from the one of the greatest ritualistic black metal bands of all-time. NIGHTBRINGER's sophomore and latest masterpieces -- "Apocalypse Sun" and "Hierophany of the Open Grave" -- will come to vinyl for the first time in history. Additionally, we'll be re-releasing the entire studio recorded works of classic Norwegian symphonic black metal band, ODIUM, the first time their material has been in-print in 15 years. The vinyl packages will include high resolution audio remasters, heavyweight vinyl, and ultra-limited numbers in special edition layouts. Nightbringer "Apocalypse Sun" 2xLP: * Ultra-limited edition of 200 Frosted Clear/Black Haze vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 125 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * Mastered for vinyl by Negură Bunget and their personal engineer at Negura Music in Timisoara, Romania. * 350gsm heavyweight board gatefold jacket, featuring the high resolution original artwork, re-adapting the original images for vinyl. * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves. Nightbringer "Hierophany of the Open Grave" 2xLP: * Ultra-limited edition of 225 Frosted Clear/Red Haze vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 125 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * Mastered for vinyl by Negură Bunget and their personal engineer at Negura Music in Timisoara, Romania. * 350gsm heavyweight board gatefold jacket, featuring the high resolution original artwork, re-adapting the original images for vinyl. * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves. Odium "The Sad Realm of the Stars" LP (remastered): * Ultra-limited edition of 200 Blue/White Splatter vinyl. * Ultra-limited edition of 100 Black vinyl. * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * Features 100% of the studio-recorded material by the band by including their later-released bonus track: "Altering the State of Being" * Mastered for vinyl by the band's personal engineer - Kjetil Ottersen - using the band's notes, creating a fuller update of the original sound. * 350gsm heavyweight board ultra-gloss gatefold jacket, bringing out the insane beauty of the original artwork, utilizing and re-adapting the original images. * Inner jacket printing. * Black inner sleeves. Odium "The Sad Realm of the Stars" CD (remastered): * Limited edition of 150 copies in 4-panel digipack with 4-panel booklet and 350 copies in jewel case with 4-panel booklet. * Features 100% of the studio-recorded material by the band by including their later-released bonus track: "Altering the State of Being" * Remastered for CD by the band's personal engineer - Kjetil Ottersen - using the band's notes, creating a fuller update of the original sound. * The first time this album has been in print in 15 years.

These are live for pre-order! http://www.blood-music.com/store

Griseus: Arbor: PRE-ORDER: August 22nd at 5PM Finnish time (10AM NYC). Blood Music will soon be releasing ultra-limited deluxe edition LPs from the one of the best nearly undiscovered bands of the current underground. AQUILUS's debut black metal film score masterpiece -- "Griseus" -- will come to vinyl for the first time in history, alongside the first official publication of the deathlike dreamscapes encountered in the band's "Arbor." The vinyl packages will include high resolution audio masters, heavyweight vinyl, and ultra-limited numbers in special edition layouts. Aquilus "Griseus" Deluxe 2xLP * Ultra-limited edition of 100 transparent-cognac-colored vinyl only. (35 for USA/Canada, 65 for rest of the world) * Ultra-limited edition of 100 black vinyl only. (35 for USA/Canada, 65 for rest of the world) * Pressed onto 180-gram+ vinyl. * Mastered by world-renowned studio -- The Cutting Room (Sweden) -- at the time of the original mastering session, using the highest quality materials, and with idea to take a different approach to the CD mastering ... opting for a more classical-like experience, devoid of compression. * 350gsm heavyweight-board gatefold, featuring layouts based on designs created by the band's sole musician. * Black inner sleeves. Aquilus "Arbor" LP * Ultra-limited edition of 75 copies only. (25 for USA/Canada, 50 for rest of the world * Pressed onto 180-gram+ black vinyl. * Remixed by the band for this first-time-ever official publication. * Mastered by world-renowned studio -- The Cutting Room (Sweden) -- at the time of the original mastering session, using the highest quality materials. * 350gsm heavyweight-board single-pocket jacket, featuring layouts based on designs created by the band's sole musician. * Black inner sleeves. Aquilus "Arbor" CD EP * Limited edition of 100 copies in 4-panel digipack and 300 copies in jewel case. * Remixed by the band for this first-time-ever official publication. * Mastered by world-renowned studio -- The Cutting Room (Sweden). * Includes the most superb music. Aquilus "Griseus" Autographed CD * We also will have a very limited amount (30) of autographed first-press digipacks from the band's full length masterpiece "Griseus." This CD is otherwise fully out-of-print.

Hey folks, we'll know in a few weeks if we have any extras. We withheld a few copies of the box from sale in case of severe damage in shipping, which has not yet occurred once. If you are interested, send us a message at contact [at] blood-music [dot] com. There are not many but there might be a few. We won't sell them until we hear everything arrives safely to everyone.

90% of box sets now shipped. We've got quite a list of positive endorsements here, positive notes from around 100 people already. This sold out just before pre-orders ended. Thanks to all of you who helped support!

Portal of I sold out within 52 minutes! There are 3 copies left of "The Aurora Veil" in each store. That record will never ever been repressed. http://www.blood-music.com/store