These are high quality LPs that are imported from the best plants in Europe. There are three unique colour variants, with each one of them being strictly limited and hand-numbered to 100 nos. each. The thick gatefold sleeves have a beautiful metallic effect all over and there’s even raised UV lamination done on parts of the layout. The artwork by Nate Burns is beautiful here. Each LP comes with a download code and transparent logo sticker.

Only 50 copies of LP variant #2 is allowed for purchase while the rest of them are restricted to the vinyl subscription club – bit.ly/3CfncCE

Please bear in mind that these colours are for representational purpose only and the actual products may differ. Also the shipping date is tentative because of the huge mess at the vinyl plants around the world and it’s possible that the LPs will be shipped out a later, depending on the backlog at the pressing plants.

From the country that gave us some of the earliest and best known doom metal bands such as Thergothon, Skepticism and Shape of Despair, we have the unheralded gem of a band in Arche who are giving their own masterful touches to that sound. Their music is an immaculate expression of ethereal, moving, atmospheric doom metal that has everything in the right proportions. It’s impeccably balanced too, with just the right amount of emotive appeal when too many bands overindulge in oppressive melodrama, and the heavier influences remain seamlessly integrated into the sound instead of coming across as forced and sticking out abruptly. As if having a mind and heart of its own, the music flows uninterruptedly and finds its own path and remains content with it, keeping up the slow yet constant pace through the ups and downs of life. The most endearing quality about this record however is just how sincere it sounds, and when it comes to sentimental music of this sort, there is nothing more important. It reeks of pure understated class.

For fans of – Mournful Congregation, Evoken, Skepticism, Doom:VS, Officium Triste

Official release date – December 16th, 2022