This underground record label and mail order company was established by Alex Kurtagic in ’96 and was run by him out of Shamley Green. Supernal Music, which had two sub-labels: Conquistador Records and Black Metal Records, focused on Avant-garde/Heavy/Doom/Death/Black (raw, experimental, pagan, and symphonic) Metal, Ambient, Dark Ambient and Dungeon Synth.

UK based bands Ashes, Benighted Leams, Contra Ignem Fatuum, and Ethereal Woods all released through the label. The rest of Europe was represented on the label’s roster by Lunar Aurora (Germany); Poccolus (Lithuania); Capricorrnus, Dead Raven Choir, Infernum, Kataxu, Sunwheel, and Thor’s Hammer (Poland); Deinonychus (Netherlands); Fleurety, and Mayhem (Norway); Astofas, Blood of Kingu, Dark Ages, Drudkh, Лютомысл, and Hate Forest (Ukraine). But there were also stateside acts Eldrig, and Helvintr.

The label’s first release Caliginous Romantic Myth [AURA001] by Benighted Leams – Kurtagic’s own solo Black Metal music project that he kicked off in ’95 – was released on 31 October ’96 with a limited pressing of 2000 CDs.

Cover for 1996’s Caliginous Romantic Myth by Benighted Leams

The label would later move to Cranleigh and while it released albums by known National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM) bands, such as Hate Forest, Capricornus and Sunwheel, it claimed to not be a NSBM label. That said, following the publication in 2009 of Mister, Kurtagic’s dystopian novel, until 2013 he was an active far-right intellectual figure and speaker.

It label closed it PO Box in 2011.

[Ed – We’ll add more gradually]