Nothing easy about listening to bands on the Arctic Music Group label. The record label specializes in extreme heavy metal and hardcore music. Through its three separate imprints -- Arctic Music, Frozen North, and Punktuation -- the company releases records by acts such as Malevolent Creation, Kult ov Azazel, Hateplow, Down the Drain, Rhino and Struggle Within. Arctic Music Group was formed by company president Scott Hecker with Malevolent Creation guitarist Phil Fasciana in 2000.
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UPCOMING RELEASES:
These 17 songs represent the MALEVOLENT CREATION's favorite songs to play. This CD is, for lack of a better word, A Greatest Hits Record. The time frame covered by these songs represent the Pavement Records, Crash Music and Arctic Music Group releases. It is an incredible example as to why these guys do it best!
Street date: 02/24/09
This is the first major label release for RHINO, a powerhouse of a band from Bilboa, Spain. For the last year they have been cutting a brutal path across Europe. Opening for major acts at all festivals and shows.This is the first new recording in a year and contains 10 of the most head banging songs ever recorded, the time on the road did them well and they are the top of their game. Street date: 03/03/09
KULT OV AZAZEL are back with yet another scathing attack on monotheistic religions. Their style of heretical black metal and talent has seen them named one of the most important black metal bands in North America by Metal Hammer Magazine and has gained top reviews worldwide with all previous releases. Destroying The Sacred is the bands follow up to the 2005 release The World, The Flesh & The Devil. The new album consists of nine tracks showing more of the bands thrashier side without losing the brutality/harshness the band is known for on past releases.
Street date: 06/02/09
NEW RELEASES:
This is the most obscure of MALEVOLENT CREATION's 12 releases. The band only finished the recording of 3 new songs and a Slayer cover, when the personal problems began. The CD sat unfinished for a year. Phil Fasciana entered the studio alone to finished the album. He remixed "No Salvation," "To Kill" and "Tasteful Agony," and included rare demo versions of "Genetic Affliction," "Remenants of Whithered Decay" and "Impaled Exisitence," to round out this odd record. It is offered here as a special release ...1000 only pressed.
The first "official bootleg" DVD from MALEVOLENT CREATION. It consists of 2 concert performances. First up the 2007 Party-San Open Air Festival. On this performance the band is fronted by original singer Bret Hoffman. The second concert is from 2004, filmed in Paris France at a club called Locomotion. The band is fronted by singer Kyle Simmons. The DVD also has bonus still shots of the band from the their personal collections. With this live DVD you see the band with its two very different singers and lineup. Both concerts were shot with a stationary camera mounted at the sound board. There is also some hand held footage. All audio is directly from the mixing board and later mastered.
Back in 1999 MALEVOLENT CREATION hit the stage at Los Angeles’ infamous Whisky A Go Go. The gig was being shot for a DVD that as to be released at a later time. During the editing process the film was inadvertently destroyed. Luckily, the sound board recording has been uncovered and the 1999 show at The Whisky A Go Go featuring the classic line-up proves to be one of the most bands most intense concerts that has been captured on tape.
Sprouts of Death, Doom and Groove rise from the fertile soil of VIOLET HALO. Prepare for an experience that spreads its leprous roots to touch your insides with influences from the new wave of British Heavy Metal. Guitar driven rock and roll with a metal twist. For fans of Pentagram, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden.
STRUGGLE WITHIN unleash a unique style of metal by blending together their Progressive Metalcore with some Southern Metal vibes. The music has a very thick grooving style to it. They go from a more melodic grooved based sound into a fast speed metal shredding style. For fans of Pantera, Disturbed & Godsmack.
OTHER RELEASES:
DOWN THE DRAIN, hailing from Buffalo, New York combine elements of thrash, old school death metal and hardcore. Dyinginside is the debut from these native Buffalonians whom are fronted vocally by Brett Hoffmann (Malevolent Creation). Eleven songs consisting of blistering lyrics, strong vocals, precise rhythms, endless grooves and massive guitar riffs.
Moshpit Murder is the fist offical live album by HATEPLOW. Recorded in Detroit, Michigan on the 2000 The Only Law is Survival US Tour. CD also includes the much sought after 1996 HATEPLOW demo in its entirity featuring the original lineup of Phil Fasciana (Malevolent Creation) and Rob Barrett (Cannibal Corpse) on guitars, bassist Tim Scott (Revenant), vocal assaults by Kyle Symons (Sickness, ex-Malevolent Creation) and "Crazy" Larry Hawke on drums.
At the height of the the death metal boom there was not much that could top the selling power and fan loyalty of Cannibal Corpse and Malevolent Creation. From these two comes HATEPLOW formed in 1994 by Phil Fasciana of Malevolent Creation and Rob Barrett of Cannibal Corpse. The debut Everybody Dies was released in 1998 to high acclaim. The Only Law is Survival is a fitting follow up with Dave Culross (Suffocation) taking over drum duties.
NEW RELEASE - KULT OV AZAZEL and VROLOK join forces to release Feast of Sacrilegious Impurity. Formed in 1999, KULT OV AZAZEL has cultivated a loyal and growing fanbase. Via a series of demos up to the 2005 release The World, The Flesh & The Devil, this Florida four piece has earned a position on black metals worldwide hierarchy. VROLOK was formed in 2001 for the purpose of personal exploration and used as an outlet for anguish and trauma. This split has exclusive and never before released recordings by both bands and a CD-ROM with performances from Kult ov Azazel.
With The World, The Flesh & The Devil KULT OV AZAZEL come back armed with a new production as, or more, amazing, extreme and raw as their previous release Oculus Infernum. With this release KULT OV AZAZEL come back with a marked improvement in song writing, a more focused attack and a delivery that is earth shaking. The World, The Flesh & The Devil includes nine tracks of heretical black metal with no compromises. Recorded at Mana Studio/Razzor Media and mastered by Eric Rutan (Hate Eternal/Morbid Angel).
Formed in 1999 KULT OV AZAZEL has cultivated a loyal and steadily growing fanbase. Via a series of demos and splits followed by the release of their debut Triumph of Fire this Florida trio has earned a position on black metals worldwide hierarchy and one they continue to build on. Out of print nearly for 3 years this reissue of Triumph of Fire follows the late 2005 release of KULT OV AZAZEL's 3rd album The World, The Flesh & The Devil.
Vetern death metal band Malevolent Creation return with their eighth full length album The Will to Kill. Eleven tracks of pure terror that brings new life to the patented Florida death metal sound. Crushing vocals by singer Kyle Symons and mixed by Jean Francois Dagenals (Kataklysm).
The last MALEVOLENT CREATION album for AMG with original vocalist Brett Hoffmann which includes 3 previously unreleased songs. Including a rare cover of the Dark Angel song Perished in Flames originally to be used on a Dark Angel Tribute CD.
Conquering South America is the first official live album from the Florida-based quintet MALEVOLENT CREATION. This hour plus recording was professionally recorded on the 'The Will To Kill' 2003 tour in Rio de Janerio, Brazil and spans 12 years of their existence. Engineered by Julian Hollowell (Kult ov Azazel/Hateplow) and mastered by Jean-Francois Dagenals (Kataklysm), Conquering South America is the live album that fans have long requested and now it has been delivered.
With numerous highly professional demos to their credit, Finland sextet TOTAL DEVASTATION unleash the metallic juggernaut Road Map of Pain. Recorded at Sundi Coop Studios and produced by Tuumo Valtonen, the album features a guest appearance from Tapio Wilska (Finntroll) amongst other local musicians.
