For Immediate Release
June 1, 2004

CANDLELIGHT SPRING/SUMMER REISSUES KARMAGEDDON MEDIA & NOCTURNAL ART PRODUCTIONS

Philadelphia: Candlelight Records today confirms the reissue of numerous out-of-print and previously unavailable catalog from Norway's Nocturnal Art Productions and Holland's Karmageddon Media. Beginning with the May 4 release of Thou Shalt Suffer Into the Woods of Belial, Candlelight will see US reissue of back catalog at a special mid-line price from Norway's Aeternus, Tampa's Nocturnus, Sweden's Thyrfing and Ireland's Cruachan.

Thou Shalt Suffer's Into the Woods of Belial, released only in Europe circa 1997 features old demo and rehearsal material from Thou Shalt Suffer, the band that pre-dated the offical birth of Emperor. The US issue includes the highly touted “Open the Mysteriis of Your Creation” originally available and long out-of-print as a limited edition seven-inch. Via Candlelight it is the first time the recording is available in the US.

Norway's AETURNUS have come to represent a quality band that have found a loyal and growing worldwide fanbase. The band, featuring former members of some of black/death metal’s most respected/notorious (including Immortal, and Gorgorth), have delivered a wealth of powerful recordings. Candlelight, for the June 15 reissue series, has remastered and enhanced each of the band's three critical early recordings - Beyond the Wandering Moon, And So the Night Became, and Shadows of Old. The series comes as the band continue work on their next long-player, expected for fall release (Nocturnal Art Proctions for Europe; Candlelight for the US).

Nocturnus is deeply embedded in the archives of death metal’s early rise to glory. Created by former Morbid Angel/Incubus drummer/vocalist Mike Browning, the Tampa-based band were the first US band to incorporate keyboards into the then newly-created genre. Touring with Boltthrower, Napalm Death, Godflesh and others, the band released four highly regarded albums before disbanding in 2000. The June 29 release of The Nocturnus Demos contains a collection of rare and previously unavailable material from the band’s prolific recording history.

Following the recent release of their latest album, Pagan, the July 27 release of Cruachan’s out-of-print early recordings traces the beginnings of this unique and highly respected band. Together near ten years, Cruachan's blending of black metal and traditional celtic have made for a soundscape that no other can deliver. Tuatha na Gael and Folk-lore (produced by Shane McGowan/The Pogues) have been remastered for the series.

The six-piece known as Thyrfing have in their near decade-long career amassed a sizeable and loyal worldwide following. With a total of five albums to their credit, the band’s mixture of sounds is unlike most of their metal peers and from the start instantly set them apart as a band to watch. All Music Guide call them "top of the Viking-metal heap.” Remastered for the series, Candlelight for the first time makes available the band's self-titled debut and the Tommy Tagtgren-produced second album Valdr Galga.

Complete track listings for each of the reissues are:

Into the Woods of Belial: Into the Woods of Belial, I Seek the Path of Obscurity, Chimera Dimension, The Goat of a Thousand Young, Succumb to Vestigia Terrent, Painful void of Time, Spectral Propehcy, Into the Woods of Belial, Chimera Dimension, I Seek the Path of Obscurity (Burp Mix), Obscurity Supreme.

Beyond the Wandering Moon: Under The Blade Of The Dead, Sworn Revenge, White Realm, Sentinels Of Darkness, Embraced, Vind, Waiting For The Storms, Winter Tale, To Enter The Realm Of Legend, The Last Feast (Celtic Harp Solo), Black Dust (bonus), Victory (bonus).

And So the Night Became: There's No Wine Like The Blood's, Crimson
As I March, Warrior Of The Crescent Moon, Blodsverging, When The Crow's Shadow Falls, Ild Dans, …And So The Night Became, Fyrndeheimen, Raven And Blood (bonus), Nordlys (bonus), In The Darkest Circles Of Time (bonus).

Shadows of Old: Under the Eternal Blackened Sky, Descent to the Underworld, Dark Rage, Resurrection, The Summoning of Shadows, Death's Golden Truth Revealed, Cuchulain, Prophecy of the Elder Reign, The Sunset's Glory, Burning the Shroud (bonus), Midnatt Storm (bonus), Raven and Blood (bonus), Fire and Wind (bonus).

The Nocturnus Demos: B.C./A.D., Standing In Blood, Neolithic, Undead Journey, Nocturnus, B.C./A.D., Unholy Fury, The Entity.

Folk-lore: Bloody Sunday,Victory Reel, Death of a Gael, Rocky Road, Ossian’s Return, Spancill Hill, Children of Lir, Ride On, Susie Moran, Exiles, Horned God.

Tuatha Na Gael: I Am Tuan, The First Battle of Moytura, Maeves’ March, Fall of Gondolin, Cuchalainn, Tain Bo Cuailgne, To Invoke the Horned God, Brian Boru
To Moytura We Return, Return, Erinsong, O ro se do Bheatha Bhaile.

Thyrfing: Raven Eyes, Vargavinter, Set Sail to Plunder, Ur Askan Ett Rike, Celebration of Our Victory, A Burning Arrow, En Döende Mans Förbannelse, Hednaland, Wotan's Fire, Going Beserk.

Valdr Galga: Prelude/Storms of Asgaard, From Wilderness Came Death, Askans Rike, Valdr Galga, The Deceitful, Arising, Firever, A Moment in Valhalla, Mimer’s Well, A Great Man’s Return.

Candlelight Records, with offices in Philadelphia and headquartered in London, is distributed exclusively in the US by Caroline Distribution; in Canada by PHD Canada; throughout the rest of the world by Plastichead Music Distribution.

For more information visit the label's official website at www.candlelightrecords.co.uk and newly launched US site www.manicmusiconline.com