Dark Quarterer, by DARK QUARTERER

Dark Quarterer

by DARK QUARTERER

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Erik Gordier Dark, brooding and heavy as hell. The unsung heroes of epic heavy metal. So hyped to add this classic to my collection! Favorite track: Gates of Hell.

PKMetal OF COURSE I already have this, but it warrants buying over and over. You should have it too if the word 'epic' comes anywhere near your taste. Metal doesn't get much better than the riff starting at 4:40 in Colossus of Argil. This. Is. How. You. Do. Epic.

A quick note to Shadow Kingdom: Stop already with the promo images instead of covers. There's a good reason no one else on BC does it: It's ugly & makes us edit tags.

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Limited to 500 w/ Gatefold & Poster. The layout for this LP is incredible.

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Red Hot Cassette - Limited to 200

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1.	Red Hot Gloves 06:03	buy track
2.	Colossus of Argil 10:07	buy track
3.	Gates of Hell 06:35	buy track
4.	The Ambush 05:56	buy track
5.	The Entity 07:31	buy track
6.	Dark Quarterer 07:40	buy track
7.	Lady Scolopendra 06:22	buy track

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*** PRE-ORDERS are UP and this will ship out when the product arrives in October/November 2023***

SHADOW KINGDOM RECORDS is proud to reissue DARK QUARTERER’s cult-classic debut album, Dark Quarterer, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

The saga of Italy’s DARK QUARTERER is one of the most unique around. Truly a CULT band among “cult bands,” DARK QUARTERER originally formed in 1974 under a different moniker, then mostly playing covers of progressive rock, hard rock, and early heavy metal before changing monikers in 1980 and writing their own songs. It would not be until 1985 when the band would record a demo, which comprised songs that would become their long-overdue debut album. Finally, that album, self-titled Dark Quarterer, would see release in 1987, and it proved that DARK QUARTERER were indeed a band out of time: very little sounded anything close to it back then, and its authentically rustic aura was undeniably “behind the times.”

However, it is for those reasons – and myriad more – which has made DARK QUARTERER’s debut album such a special gem. Finding a unique wavelength where ‘70s prog structures found new flight through rumbling, roiling proto-metal, the Italians here created absolute EPICS that dazzled and defied in equal measure, ranging a vast array of dynamics and moods that made each of the original album’s six songs a special world unto itself. To say that the power-trio could “play” would be an understatement; to say that they took those chops and explored new vistas of the imagination whilst remaining tangibly raw and human would be even more accurate. For truly did DARK QUARTERER evince a rough-hewn edge that made their style of epic metal (before “epic metal” was even really a thing, unbeknownst to them) impossibly otherworldly and, in a word, MAGICKAL. Credit is equally due to vocalist/bassist Gianni Nepi, whose theatrical pipes sounded like the work of a warlock sequestered atop a mist-choked mountain. High adventure definitely awaited those brave enough to check out Dark Quarterer.

Alas, the album was sorely “unfashionable” in a metal/rock landscape where big hair and bigger hooks were taking over radio and speed wars began in earnest in its underground. Undeterred, DARK QUARTERER continued on and further explored their rarefied muse, releasing six further full-lengths over the next 20 years and slowly-yet-surely finding their audience. But it is the band’s debut album, above all, where DARK QUARTERER’s legendry lay, and one that SHADOW KINDGOM saw fit to reissue (with gripping bonus track “Lady Scolopendra”) in 2013. Now the label will reissue the seven-song version of the album on all formats, including cassette for the first time ever and vinyl for the first time in nearly 20 years. Those who worship at the altar of Cirith Ungol, Manilla Road, and Brocas Helm, this is the record YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT, from the original Italian sorcerers - DARK QUARTERER!

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released October 27, 2023

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Shadow Kingdom has released a massive amount of quality music, showcasing a wide variety of Metal music, from both new and legendary bands from the glorious past. Today we focus on strong Traditional Heavy Metal Bands with a Rock & Roll influence as well as maintaining a vast US based mail order distribution that has thousands of interesting Heavy Metal and Rock from today as well as the past. ... more

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