Godreah Records was born from the long buried Godreah Zine 1993-1998.
This site also gave birth to the Norwegian Black Metal web zine
www.norsksvartmetall.com
Comming soon, English Pagan metal band, The Wolves of Avalon. More details to be released in due time.
The Meads of Asphodel/ Old Corpse Road split cd out now. This is a TRUE underground release and reveals two of the finest Black Pagan Metal bands in the UK. Old Corpse Road, Hailing from the North East , kick off the release with their fiery brand of pagan Black Metal. Lengthy symphonic Songs meander across traditional English Black Metal sounds-scapes and a deeply brooding pagan atmosphere.
The Meads of Asphodel need no introductions and this pre album release is a collection of cover songs and one new song. The Meads have always had a Brit Punk underbelly and this has now been driven into renditions of, Doom Hellbastard, Skeptix and Conflict, as well as a lamenting version of the Kinks You Really got Me'.
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UK sonic Black Metal eccentrics, The Meads of Asphodel, ‘Early Years' cd is out now. The cd features tracks from the bands 3 demos, plus 2 unreleased Jihad session demos, and various obscure and lost tracks from the bands 1999-2002 line up.
The Norwegian Compilation cd Norsk Svart Metall' is in support of the new scene emerging and also of the web-site of the same name.
Norwegian band, Abomino Aetas, is one of the most exiting prospects to arise from the icy north for many years, and a testament to the fresh and invigorating music being created in the modern age. The Sower of Death, album is out now.
Firestorm Records and NSM Records are part of Godreah dealing with specific releases.
All Godreah Releases can be viewed on the release page.
Crin the scribe of Godreah Zine and label creator also writes reviews for the English Metal web zine www.live4metal.com
NSBM ; Statement from Godreah Records
Godreah has always supported freedom of speech in its purest form and as such the likes of Anti Christian, NSBM, and on occasions music made by total lunatics will be found in the catalogue. Godreah does not support political views of the aforementioned nature.
To those idiots who moan about NSBM, i say this : Without such movements the past would be Inevitably forgotten and lessons from specific ages of human history lost from memory. NSBM can serve as a reminder to both sides of a very controversial coin. If you are still croaking in your self righteous...., go and save a third world nation, or resurrect the equally sensitive issues but no less critical, of the Armenian Genocide, or the destruction of the north American Indians by the white man, or even the Irish Potato famines of 1845-49, a British genocide?
Metatron form the Meads of Asphodel has this to say on the subject,
‘NSBM, has obvious grievances towards the Jews, hence its fascist Nazi imagery and stark one dimensional theology. Most NSBM owes much to cultural independence rather than blatant anti Semitism, but this very real and for most, disturbing genre is not necessarily [although by nature] aligned directly to the all consuming aura of Hitler.
Anti-Semitism at its root form is rooted to the early Roman Church, itself an extension of the Roman Empire, both subversive institutions of conversion by persuasion. The Romans levelled Jerusalem in 70BC, killing around a million Jews from a population of three million. With the Roman Empire in decline, its transformation into the Holy Roman Empire through the adopted Judaic cult of Jesus [eventually stripped of all its Judaism] was the next crucial factor in our perceptions of anti-Semitism today. The growth of early Christianity depended on its sellable nature to a Pagan Roman Audience; hence the blame for their Gods death [Jesus] could not be pointed towards a Roman [Pontius Pilate]. The blame was therefore placed firmly on the Jews, and Anti-Semitism was truly born. The Christian religion, already based on debatable foundations grew at an astonishing rate, consuming half the globe, and dragging its dark anti-Semitic guilt with it. The Jews were bundled in groups and ghettos throughout Europe, their main source of survival money lending and their drive to succeed gained wealth and business attributes worldwide. This was the bane of German Fascism, a twisted excuse to drag a nation into the bowels of war.
The whole Jewish question during Hitler's reign is one of the Holocaust, indiscriminate extermination, and calculated cruelty. The systematic destruction of a race had no name at the time, so one was invented for it, Genocide. Whether you accept History's stark truth of gas chambers and deliberate mass murder, or take the revisionist view, [that it never occurred] is neither there nor there. What is important is the freedom to discus without prejudice individual views, and NSBM is a medium for a minority to express those views. It is your choice whether to listen ,but to silence this view is to become the very beast you attempt to muzzle.