BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT. In 1976 appeared the album of a mysterious group, the Cherry Five. They are in fact, as the insiders well know, songs recorded two years before by a group then partly merged in the Goblin. The record company decided to publish anyway the recording, putting on the cover ...read more CATALOG
Delirium came from Genova, from a previous beat band called I Sagittari, and formed in 1970, releasing their first single a year later.
First album, Dolce acqua, also from 1971 contains a good and original mix of prog, jazz and some tuneful melodies, the leading role of singer Ivano Fossati is ...read more CATALOG
The first real NORTHWINDS line-up dates back as far as 1990, when Vincent Niclas (guitars,vocals) joined R.I.P, the band Sébastien Thuriez (guitars), Remy Rateau (bass) and Sylvain Auvé (drums, vocals ) founded 3 years before. Being into TROUBLE, SAINT VITUS, CANDLEMASS as well as into 70s ...read more CATALOG
The end of mankind in 2015? Apocalyptic doom, genetic mutations, daunting nightmares, spiritual seekers, dreary addictions, morbid facinations, an entire world again at war? Come now if you dare, and enter the twisted world of Ripper, and their new album 'Third Witness'. Executed with mind numbing ...read more CATALOG
A classic powertrio! WONDERWORLD is a new classic powertrio, and consist of Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth), Ken Ingwersen (Street Legal) and Tom Fossheim (Live Fire).
The band is currently also the permanent backing band for Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep), under the name Ken Hensley & Live Fire. Being a ...read more CATALOG
Sabbatai Zevi (August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was a Sephardic Rabbi and Kappalist who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement.
This is the concept which inspired the new Witchfield album…
Doom, Mystery, Mysticism, ...read more CATALOG
Born as Storks in 1985 in Pontedera (Pisa). Their music is Psychedelic Progressive with wild rhythm & blues touches. After a demo-tape release called “Feeling Crawly†the band play many concerts and they opened for Pretty Things gig in Florence in 1988. In 1990 Michele Profeti and ...read more CATALOG
1001 years after the first original SPETTRI Album recorded in 1972, nothing has changed!
In the year 2973 Black Widow is proud to present again the original band from Florence well alive and kicking!
Stefano Melani ( Hammond, piano, mellotron and synth ), Raffaele Ponticiello ( Guitars ), ...read more CATALOG
A privately pressed and very rare album, Siegfried, il drago e altre storie was the first and only LP released by this Turin band, that was active from 1974 and that had previously recorded two tapes and some tracks posthumously released on CD in early 90's.
The band was initially a trio with no ...read more CATALOG
HIGH TIDE was a highly underrated British band that played psychedelic progressive rock when the genre was in its infancy. "Precious Cargo" is seven tracks of live-in-the- studio slices of hauntingly beautiful yet terrifying soundscapes. Their sound is one that should have been playing in the ...read more CATALOG
This is the third High Tide album, after first 2 legendary albums “Sea Shanties†and “High Tide†the band broke up in 1970. after 20 years guitarist Tony Hill and violinist Simon House got together and created “Interesting Timesâ€â€¦
this is new reissue of the ...read more CATALOG
Annot Rhül is the studio project of Sigurd Tonna. Whenever inspiration comes to him, he makes demos on his laptop, gets friend to play things he cannot (fx drums) and creates the rest from there with input from friends. The music is inspired by music from the 60s to nowadays.
Annot Rhül likes ...read more CATALOG
Secret tales of an enchanting journey that takes place over time in a kingdom disappeared from who knows how long ...
Kings, queens, princes and princesses, fairies, witches and magical and grotesque creatures rotate with their stories in a fabulous location, where the figure of the ...read more CATALOG
Saturday October 8, 2011 was the day Il Tempio delle Clessidre performed for a large Korean audience at the Sowol Art Hall in Seoul, brought to Korea through the efforts of Si-Wan Seong, Korean DJ and music producer working with his friends at Black Widow Records.
The band is the brainchild of ...read more CATALOG
Cycle of pain is the long awaited follow up to the self titled Blue Dawn first album. Recorded after a successful Uk tour, sees the band expanding their sound and delivering 11 new brilliant tracks ranging from seventies hard rock, doom metal and prog rock, plus a stunning cover of Roxy ...read more CATALOG
Three hours of complete anthology of the first progressive group in Italy: enclosed in this DVD; you will find images of two of the last concerts, in Verona (01/12/2012) and in Genoa (21/10/2011) with all historical components of this important group; all original videos from RAI TV recorded in the ...read more CATALOG
Ritorno in grande stile per i Latte e Miele, il gruppo che più di ogni altro rappresenta quel ramo del progressive rock italiano definito "Rock sinfonico". E sinfoniche, quasi cinematografiche, sono le atmosfere e i nuovi arrangiamenti con i quali il quartetto ligure ha dato vita a "Passio ...read more CATALOG
We are in 1970: the progressive is not yet born, and the experience of the beat is setting. You can not expect too much yet! Should be limited for the moment to smell those few groups who proposed an evolutionary discourse compared to the late -beat tape that, in that year, was about to give way to ...read more CATALOG
“Tempoâ€, long waited new Osanna release with a 40 pages book with lots of photos and 2 DVD. Prog lovers will be captured by this work full of great music with a recent concert at Trianon Theatre in Naples with orchestra and archives material with rare 70s video footage.
The book shows ...read more CATALOG
Sophya Baccini was born as a singer, vocalist, pianist, author of lyrics in Italian, Neapolitan, French and English language. Her path in Rock music started in 1990, when together with Enrico Iglio (keyboards-percussion) and Sergio Casamassima (guitar) she founded “Presenceâ€, dark ...read more CATALOG
IL SEGNO DEL COMANDO is back 12 years later.
New line up and new album out for one of the most mysterious and charming rock bands from Genoa (Italy). The band has been inactive until 2010, when Black Widow Records and Diego Banchero finally got back together in studio and renewed the line up (with ...read more CATALOG
Almost three years since the first self-titled album IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE is pleased to announce the release of the second album.
Alienatura is a fancy word, composed by the intersection of words alien and nature: it contains multiple interpretations that see the protagonist the Nature as ...read more CATALOG
Doris Norton, founder member and keyboardist of the esoteric legends Jacula and Antonius Rex, was a pioneer in the early electronic/computer music. She began her musical carrer playing avant-garde and progressive music using synthesizers such as Roland System 700, Roland system 100M and Minimoog ...read more CATALOG
In the 70's Victor Peraino recorded on Polydor Records in England with the father of theatrical rock Arthur Brown, know for his million sell hit "Fire" Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come “Journey†was critically acclaimed as a landmark, in the music industry the first recording to feature a ...read more CATALOG
The band formed around the figure of Claudio Simonetti, composer and keyboardist of prog rock band Goblin, known for contributions to the soundtracks of the films directed by Dario Argento. Simonetti builds Daemonia project with the help of young musicians of Roman metal scene: Guitar player ...read more CATALOG
Ingranaggi della Valle is a new young band from Rome at their debut... the project was born in December 2010 with Flavio Gonnelllini on guitar, Mattia Liberati on keyboards, Edoardo Arrigo on Bass and Shanti Colucci on drums. The band began playing jazz fusion and funk / rock evolving their style ...read more CATALOG
AKASHA is a Norwegian quintet who recorded one strange and fascinating album back in 1977. They are: Kjell Evensen on drums; Arild Andreasson on bass; Jens-Ivar Andreassen on guitar, mellotron, synths, piano and organ; Tor Johnny Hansen is credited for lyrics on one particular track; and Sverre ...read more CATALOG
After the impressive "Switch on Dark" (2006) and the esoteric doom "Per Viam" (2009) based on mystic songs composed between 2007-2008 by Antonio Bartoccetti and Doris Norton, the Antonius Rex band, releases the new album "Hystero Demonopathy". This new shocking album "Hystero Demonopathy" (2012) ...read more CATALOG
Norwegian 70's inspired progrock quartet at their 5th album!
available on vinyl, limited color vinyl and compact disc! the album was recorded at Børse Studio, Trondheim, Norway and was mixed by Arabs in Aspic and mastered at Cutting Room, Sweden. Pictures in a Dream is the follow-up to the ...read more CATALOG
An overlookied US band, formed in early-70's and led by guitarist/keyboardist/sax player Robert Williams aka Roberts Owen (R.I.P.).The original line-up featured also multi-instrumentalist James Larner, keyboardist Mark Knox, drummer Jim Miller, bassist Paul Klotzbier and Jeff McMullen on lead ...read more CATALOG
Il Cerchio d'Oro, from Savona, only released three singles at the end of their career, that had begun in 1974.
Their beginnings were as one of the many symphonic oriented bands active in their area, with a strong influence by Le Orme. In fact their surviving recordings even include some early tracks ...read more CATALOG