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New signing: Laburinthos … a Romanian band that came into being at the end of 2009. In the musical inferno of transmodernity, Laburinthos aims at burning all the heresies of present day music. Thus, by transposing the concept of labyrinth into music, a new avant-garde style was created: Labyrinthine BlueWave. Besides the sonority of a […]

Promising a more detailed update for each and every mentioned Artist in the coming days, we hereby advance a few work-in-progress.. …XASTHUR ‘Nightmares at Dawn’: the CD is soon going to manufacture and we will run a small pre-order campaign for the digipack edition of the album sold in bundle with an exclusive T-Shirt. One […]

We were young and we are (getting) old: everybody should be conscious, to the extreme edge, of his own reality. We had the pleasure and related commercial success to work with bands like (***) Katatonia, Mayhem, Behemoth, Shining, Carpathian Forest, Taake and so on, and experienced the privilege to sell many records and, most importantly, […]

One year ago two different record labels proposed me to co-produce and co-release the new album of Finnish weirdos ORANSSI PAZUZU, due to the high recording costs they’d demand they needed another label to joint-venture this project. I didn’t have the balls to jump into the picture although I loved the band from their two […]

While the majority of his work is mostly unknown to public he’s worked with bands like Absu, Mayhem, Aura Noir, Zemial, Grave, Centinex, Demonical, Destroyer 666, Aura Noir, Hexvessel, Dark Budha Rising, Decripit Spectre, Vader, The Konsortium, Foscor, Valborg and many more. A few years ago Ulver started a fan contest for designing t-shirts. His design was […]

Jonas Bergqvist died 9.9.11: apparently he didn’t wake up from his (last) sleep. I got the news the morning after from a friend close to the band. ‘B’ or ‘Nattdal’ were also artistic nicknames he used over the years with Lifelover, Woundism, Dimhymn and IXXI (as a tragic coincidence IX & XI are the numbers […]

“Why did you guys decide to change Avantgarde ?” – Change ? What do you mean – “That now no more BM no more extreme stuff ?! Mostly Doom and “pop rock” releated stuff ?!” Ah ah, this could be integrated in the ‘mission‘ section…. however, I take the chance now by using this small Facebook […]

Although it was no mistery at all, and sort of whispered by including their photos on our myspace and facebook profiles, we can now officially announce the signing of TOWARDS DARKNESS, doom metal masters from Montreal, Canada.We discovered this band and their massive album “Solemn” through Youtube with a certain delay and again thanks to […]

Milan, 16022011 To all our business partners and medias, with gratitude for immediate publishing Re. Duncan Patterson’s Alternative 4 to sign with Avantgarde Music Duncan Patterson has been an integral part of the independent music scene since 1991, still today known and recognized as the original mastermind behind Anathema’s early success and in particular as […]

Quite a long while ago we did sign Lyrinx and we have decided they must be on board with us on Avantgarde Music 2.0 So, differently than with other bands from the old roster, we both survived the wish to get rid of each other. At least because we never released anything with these noir […]