Avant-garde music

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Avant-garde music
founder Roberto Mammarella
Website http://www.avantgardemusic.com/
Sub-label Wounded Love Records
Flowing Downward
Genre (s) Black Metal , Dark Metal , Doom Metal , Death Metal

Avantgarde Music is an Italian record label that mainly releases Black , Dark , Doom and Death Metal bands.

history

Avantgarde Music was founded by Roberto Mammarella under the name Obscure Plasma Records. The first releases include a split EP by his band Monumentum with Rotting Christ and Mayhem's Live LP Live in Leipzig in memory of their singer Dead , who died in 1991 ; Whose proceeds should go completely to Mammarella, the other way around, Monumentum's debut In Absentia Christi was originally supposed to appear on the label Deathlike Silence Productions of Mayhem guitarist Øystein “Euronymous” Aarseth ; However, he was murdered in August 1993 and could no longer realize these plans.

In 1994 the label was renamed Avantgarde Music. After a number of successful albums from Thergothon , Ophthalamia , Katatonia and Carpathian Forest , the label was expanded to include additional employees, the sub-label Wounded Love Records and the Sound Cave store in Milan .

The release of the third album Climax of Hatred by the NSBM band Ad Hominem in 2005 caused a surprise , which some distributors unwittingly added to their range because they did not know the band and did not expect the avant-garde to publish right-wing extremist bands. The band's founder, Emperor Wodhanaz, explained:

"Avant-garde doesn't interfere with band's ideas. But it seems evident that they wouldn't sign AH if they had anti-fascist views. On no account they will try to change AH, on the contrary they asked me to remain in the same raw style, because that's what they like in AH. And be sure that AH won't change, both on musical and ideological sides !!! [...] The only difference will be that my stuff will be spread against [...]. "

“Avant-garde music doesn't interfere with the band's ideas. But it seems clear that they would not have signed AH if they were anti-fascists. There is no way they are going to try to change AH, on the contrary, they asked me to keep the same rough style because that is what they like about AH. And be sure that AH won't change, both musically and ideologically !!! [...] The only difference will be that my stuff will be more widely distributed [...]. "

- Emperor Wodhanaz

With the release of It's Getting Colder by We Made God in 2011, a new phase in the history of the label began. The counting is therefore continued at AV201. Mammarella quotes a friend on the Avantgarde Music website who feared that the label would only release Doom and Pop-Rock from now on . Roberto Mamarella writes:

"Avant-garde music is not under a season's dress change, it's just & all about finding peace of mind and realize what are the nicest streets to walk in your dirty down-town.

It is with a certain (relaxed) smile on my face that I come to post this, ahem .. sounds even serious, official statement… but I will do it against my nature to avoid that this issue becomes a misunderstanding. It is a pure coincidence in fact that in 2011 we have not released yet a black metal record but only “pop-rock related stuff” and “doom metal” (which by all means is a very extreme kind of music, […] much more than most of black metal bands have proven to be on stage for example). [...] I also have to remind everybody with a short memory [...] the exact sequence of Avantgarde Music releases in 1994–1995:

Thergothon, Chorus of Ruin, Ophthalamia, Mayhem, Unholy, Carpathian Fullmoon, Abysmal, Pan.Thy.Monium, Katatonia, Novembers Doom, Carpathian Forest

I can barely count 2 black metal bands in this selection… .. so what is changing for real? "

“Avantgarde Music doesn't change its seasonal clothes, it's just about finding peace for the mind and seeing which are the most beautiful streets to stroll through in the dirty city center.

I'm writing this, ahem, sounds serious, official statement with a certain (relaxed) smile on my face ... but I'll do it against my nature to avoid any misunderstanding on this matter. In fact, it's just a pure coincidence that we haven't released a black metal record in 2011, just 'stuff with a pop-rock connection' and ' doom metal ' (which is a very extreme kind of music, [... ] much more than most black metal bands are on stage about). […] I also have to remind everyone with a short memory […] of the exact sequence of the avant-garde music publications 1994–1995:

Thergothon, Chorus of Ruin, Ophthalamia, Mayhem, Unholy , Carpathian Fullmoon, Abysmal, Pan.Thy.Monium , Katatonia, Novembers Doom , Carpathian Forest

I can hardly count two black metal bands in this selection ... .. so what is really changing? "

- Roberto Mammarella : Avant-garde Music

In February 2018, the operators of Avantgarde Music introduced Flowing Downward, another sub-label that specializes in up-and-coming or lesser-known music groups and projects.

Publications (selection)

via Obscure Plasma Records
about avant-garde music
via Wounded Love Records

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esa Lahdenpera: Mayhem . Northern Black Metal Legends. In: Kill Yourself !!! Magazines . No. 4 , 1995, p. 44 ( Mayhem ( Memento of February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed October 8, 2012]).
  2. ↑ Nordic Vision . No. 1 (English, nordicvisionmag.com [accessed April 30, 2010]).
  3. ↑ a b Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: The right edge of Black Metal . How the metal business does business with radical bands. In: Rock Hard . No. 241 , June 2007, p. 59 ( thepaganfront.com [accessed April 30, 2010]). The right edge of Black Metal ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thepaganfront.com
  4. ↑ a b FSR, MWM: Martwy Zmierzch - interviews - Ad Hominem. Archived from the original on July 16, 2006 ; accessed on April 30, 2010 (English).
  5. ↑ Roberto Mammarella: the small world of dinosaurs. Avantgarde Music, July 1, 2011, accessed November 6, 2014 .
  6. ↑ FLOWING DOWNWARD is the new Avantgarde Music sublabel. Avantgarde Music, February 6, 2018, accessed May 13, 2020 .

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