Sidereal Journey

Last copies available of the first digipack edition of “Sidereal Journey”, the third full-length album by Swedish project Oxiplegatz, one of the most strange, ambitious and visionary works to emerge from the Scandinavian extreme metal underground of the late nineties, created by Alf Svensson, a key figure of the Swedish scene and former member of essential Göteborg bands such as At The Gates, Liers in Wait and Grotesque. Conceived as a science-fiction conceptual journey, the album unfolds as a continuous cosmic odyssey where black metal, death metal, space ambient textures and experimental structures intertwine, alternating passages of mechanical violence with atmospheric sections and female vocals that enhance its deeply alien character. “Sidereal Journey” stands as a dense, disorienting and profoundly immersive experience, a true cult classic and an essential item for collectors and devotees of the most avant-garde and elusive forms of extreme metal...