Back on Black

The colossal fourth album from the US DSBM god available again! Xasthur 's colossal fourth album, "To Violate The Oblivious", originally released in 2005, available again for the first time since 2019! A major influence on the USBM and international DSBM

For anyone familiar with underground metal, Malefic aka Xasthur is a name everyone knows produces highly influential, depressive, funeral black metal of the darkest order. In addition to his incarnation as Xasthur, Malefic has also performed with Twilight

"Thulean Mysteries was made passively, in the sense that I never intended to make a new album; I just made music every now and then and at one point realized that I actually had enough to release it all on an album. When asked to do so I figured: why not?

Transitional 1987 effort Calm Before the Storm saw guitarist Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn replaced by the double attack of Jimi Clare and Mike Hickey. This was a period when the whole thrash movement was at its height, and the genre was starting to fragment. Som