Ghanima available via The End
Battlegod Productions titles are now also available in North America via The End Records. Ghanima is
currently listed at $13.74 from them - check our Media page for details
Ghanima available in North America via Century Media
Battlegod Productions has signed a distribution deal for this hemisphere with Century Media. Ghanima is currently listed at $13 from them - check our Media page for details.
Ghanima is also still available worldwide at many online and physical stores via Twilight-Vertrieb.
Harkonin upload new track
St. Louis-based Harkonin have uploaded a new song entitled Chaos Anthem to their MySpace page.
The song is a demo version of new material the band is currently working on for their new as-yet untitled Battlegod Productions album expected to be released early 2009.
"The song was recorded in our home studio using an electronic drum kit, so it’s far from a final product," says drummer Clayton Gore. "We have been getting quite a few questions about our status since the February release of our album Ghanima on Battlegod. People seem to be confused that Battlegod is re-issuing our 2006 effort rather than new material initially, so we wanted to share something from our pre-production demos with everyone. We are absolutely still active! We plan to enter the studio later this year to begin recording. We already have seven songs complete. This is just to give everyone a little taste of what we’re up to."
Battlegod Productions has recently signed a North American distribution agreement with Century Media and is distributed elsewhere in the world via Twilight-Vertrieb.
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Harkonin signs with Battlegod Productions
Harkonin are pleased to announced that they have agreed to a multi-album deal with Australia's Battlegod Productions. "We are proud to share a label with such bands as Dark Order, Saxorior, Buio Omega, and of course Baltak", says drummer Clayton Gore. "We couldn't be more excited. After numerous discussions, it's clear that we share the same outlook and goals for the band. The support Battlegod has already shown us is tremendous and we look forward to an excellent relationship." The band's self-released 2006 recording Ghanima will be released by Battlegod soon and a new follow-up album by early 2009.
The band still has a very limited number of their initial pressing of Ghanima that they will continue to sell through their website until the Battlegod version goes to presses. If you are interested in this very limited run CD, please visit our Output page for ordering and pricing information.
For more information on Battlegod Productions, visit Battlegod Productions.
New merchandise available
Our new shirts to support Ghanima are available, as well as skullcaps. Order yours today.
Harkonin named Best Metal Band 2006
For the third year in a row, Harkonin has been named "Best Metal Band", editor's choice
From The Riverfront Times:
Best Metal Band
Harkonin
Harkonin earned "Best Metal Band" honors each of the past two years, but instead of resting on that skull-decorated throne, the quartet engineered a massive 2006. The group cleaned up its 2005 album Sermons of Anguish, ensuring that its bleak guitar tones ring with blatant menace and its vocals communicate malicious intent without having to slice through a mire. (Black-metal bands once took pride in their brutally awful production, but with pioneers such as Darkthrone and Satyricon remastering their back catalogues, pristine is the new muddy.) In July Harkonin released its third full-length disc, Ghanima, which will require no retroactive polish. Singer Jason Barron's Hades-spawned hiss epitomizes evil, but he enunciates clearly, ensuring that all within earshot learn the secrets of the "Mystic Gates of Sorrow." Propelled by an unrepentantly rock & roll rhythm section, Harkonin is the rare black-metal group that sounds right at home in Midwestern bars.
Ghanima lyrics and pre-orders
Greetings all -
Now that we have a release date set, we are accepting pre-orders for the new album from our
Output page. We have also posted the complete lyrics to Ghanima on our Discog page.
Also, please note that we have replaced the download of The Darkside Calls on both this site and our
MySpace site with the fully mastered version. We are extremely pleased with the mastering - check it out!
Enjoy,
C
Ghanima release date set
Greetings all -
Just wanted to take a moment to give you all an update on the happenings with our new album. I started a new thread because the chaos that was getting this done is now behind us.
I received a digital copy of the final masters Friday night, and we held a private industry-only listening party Saturday night at Utopia Studios in downtown St. Louis. The reception of the new album was better than I could have ever anticipated! It means a lot to hear such generous comments, particularly about the production, when we have spent many sleepless nights and sweat blood to reach this point.
On that note, I am very excited for the rest of you to hear this thing. The official CD release show is August 19th, and if all goes well everything will be done by then and we will have many CDs to sell. I will post the details about the show later this afternoon.
Also making their debut Saturday night were the new flexfit embroidered Harkonin hats, which were equally well received. Those will be made available on the website later this week.
Signing off,
C
Ghanima tracklisting and song download
With the mixing and recording process, which began on March 29th, finally complete, Harkonin are pleased to reveal the final tracklisting for our upcoming release Ghanima:
- Mystic Gates of Sorrow
- The Darkside Calls
- L.ost C.ause
- Epitaph
- Hellspawn
- Cult of Sin
- Caligula
- Nocturnal Rebirth
- Sons of War
Also, as previously announced, the entire Sermons of Anguish album, released June of 2005, has been remixed for 2006 and will be added as bonus tracks to this release. Ghanima is expected to be released by mid-to-late August. The cover realisation by Clayton Gore can be seen here. This album is being mastered by Jarrett Pritchard at the Audio Spacing Guild.
New album title & artwork revealed
The new album - Ghanima - coming Summer 2006.
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Harkonin to re-mix "Sermons of Anguish"
Greetings all -
We are currently in the process of completely re-mixing our most recent release, Sermons of Anguish, from the ground-up. Short of re-recording the album, this has been a complete work-over. We have listened to negative comments about the sound of our last album for the past year and made the conscious decision to re-visit the production. The result is nothing short of amazing to me - it sounds like a completely different album. I think everyone will be very pleased with the hard work Matt has put into this.
Our plans are not to re-release the album in some new packaging, in some lame attempt at money-grubbing. We are planning to add the re-mixed album in its entirety to our new as-yet untitled album, which is to be recorded in March, as bonus tracks. It is our intent that people who purchased the album should not have to re-buy it, and we can only assume that if they bought Sermons, they will be buying the new album, so we give them this as a gift. To that end, once the process is complete, the remixed version of the album will also see an electronic "preview" release for those who already purchased the current Sermons of Anguish album; it will be made available by request via email only and distributed electronically via download. This is intended to be a "thank you" to those of you who have supported us this last year, and as a teaser of how good our new album will sound.
We realize that making this announcement may not be the best business decision. I'd say it's fairly safe to assume that there will be at least a few people who will now not purchase the current incarnation of Sermons of Anguish due to this. However, I will say that once the new album comes out in this format, production on the current release of Sermons of Anguish will forever cease. If you are one of the "lucky" people to own the current release, it will most certainly one day be a bit of a collector's item, as its production run will have been less than one year.
Dark hails,
C
Harkonin dubbed "Best Metal Band" by the RiverFront Times
second year in a row here, folks.... editor's choice.
From The Riverfront Times:
Best Metal Band
Harkonin
A Sunday evening at 6:30 is not the coveted slot on a bill for a metal band, especially at the Duck Room. No offense to the Duck, but cheerful mallard decoys and tasteful lithographs don't provide the optimum ambiance for blasphemous war metal. Factor in that Lael Clark, guitarist and founding member of Harkonin, is no longer in the band and that the RFT Music Awards Showcase crowd skews a little too good-timey and ironic for Harkonin's style of sincere, soul-crushing hate and you have the makings of a very bad scene. Harkonin specializes in bad scenes. Vokillist Jason Baron eyed the crowd sullenly, grunted a pint of blood down the front of his shirt and strafed the room with croaking invocations of fury. Bassist Tom Quach and drummer Clayton Gore strapped on hobnail boots and crushed rib cages with triple-time thuds. Matt Coyle throttled a maelstrom out of sixsixsix strings, summoning excoriating howls that flayed faces and charred souls. Two diehards created the nucleus of a pit while half the crowd headed aboveground. The half that remained was baptized in the blackest fires of Hell, courtesy of our masters, our tormentors, our warlords. Hail Harkonin!