Black Widow Records is an Italian
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...
founded in
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...
in 1990 and taking its name from the British
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
band
Black Widow. It was originally a rarities shop focusing on collectable records and reissues. After a few years they began to release records, at first concentrating on reissuing rare records but then began to release new albums by contemporary bands.
Discography
*BWR001 Crystal Phoenix - ''Crystal Phoenix'' CD/LP
*BWR002 Men of Lake - ''Looking for the Sun'' Box LP
*BWR003 Malombra - ''Malombra'' CD/LP
*BWR004 Runaway Totem - ''Trimegisto'' CD/LP
*BWR005 Dunwich - ''Sul Monte è il Tuono'' CD/LP
*BWR006 Presence - ''The Sleeper Awakes'' CD
*BWR007 Standarte - ''Standarte'' CD/LP
*BWR008 The Black - ''Refugium Peccatorum'' LP
*BWR009 Malombra - ''Our Lady of the Bones'' CD/2LP
*BWR010 Beggars Farm - ''Beneath the Moon of Ilsacon'' LP
*BWR011 Abiogenesi - ''Abiogenesi'' CD/LP
*BWR012 Darxtar - ''Sju'' CD/LP
*BWR013 Runaway Totem - ''Zed'' CD/LP
*BWR014 Presence - ''Black Opera'' CD/2LP
*BWR015 Standarte - ''Curses and Invocations'' CD/LP
*BWR016 The Black - ''Apocalypsis'' CD/LP
*BWR017 Il Segno del Comando - ''Il Segno del Comando'' CD/LP
*BWR018 Abiogenesi - ''Il Giocoscuro'' CD/LP + Poster
*BWR019 Architectural Metaphor - ''Creature of the Velvet Void'' CD/LP + Insert
*BWR020 ST 37 - ''Spaceage'' CD/LP Ltd. 160 gr. + 7" picture sleeve
*BWR021 Northwinds - ''Great God Pan'' CD/LP Ltd. 160 gr. Gatefold
*BWR022 Universal Totem Orchestra - ''Rituale Alieno'' CD/LP
*BWR023 Rise and Shine - ''FlowerPowerMetal'' CD/LP
*BWR024
Black Widow - ''Black Widow IV'' LP (limited 500 copies)
*BWR025 E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore - ''Tribute to Horror & Gothic Movies'' 2CD + book/3LP + book
*BWR026
Hawkwind
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- ''The Elf & the Hawk'' CD/2LP
*BWR027 Gian Castello - ''Taliesin'' CD/LP
*BWR028 Standarte - ''Stimmung'' CD/LP
*BWR029
Black Widow - ''Return to the Sabbat'' LP
*BWR030 Shine Dion - ''Killandra'' LP
*BWR031
Pentagram
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- ''
Review Your Choices'' LP
*BWR032 Ars Nova - ''The Book of the Dead'' LP + 12"
*BWR033 Alan (The Elf) Davey - ''Chaos of Delight'' CD/LP + comic book
*BWR034 Akron - ''La Signora del Buio'' CD/LP + book
*BWR035 Various Artists ''Blue Explosion: Tribute to
Blue Cheer
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'' CD/2LP
*BWR036 The Black - ''Golgotha'' CD/LP
*BWR037 Rise and Shine - ''RoadFlower'' CD/LP
*BWR038 Various Artists ''Beyond the Realm of
Death SS
Death SS (later also intended as a contraction of In Death of Steve Sylvester) is an Italian heavy metal band.
Biography
Death SS was formed in 1977 in Pesaro by Steve Sylvester (born Stefano Silvestri), a future member of the Ordo Templi Ori ...
: Tribute to Death SS'' CD/2LP
*BWR039 Various Artists ''King of the Witches: Tribute to
Black Widow'' CD/2LP
*BWR040 Northwinds - ''Masters of Magic'' CD/2LP
*BWR041 Monument - ''The First Monument'' LP
*BWR042 Bram Stoker - ''Heavy Rock Spectacular'' LP
*BWR043 Necromandus - ''Orexis of Death'' LP
*BWR044 Cirkus - ''One'' LP
*BWR045 Presence - ''Gold'' CD/LP
*BWR046 Abiogenesi - ''Le Notti di Salem'' CD/LP
*BWR047 Simon House - ''Spiral Galaxy Revisited'' CD/LP
*BWR048 Helden Rune - ''The Wisdom Through the Fear'' CD/LP
*BWR049 Agony Bag - ''Feelmazumba'' CD/LP
*BWR050
High Tide
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Tide tables can ...
- ''Open Season'' CD/2LP
*BWR051
Jacula
Jacula was an Italian rock music, rock band founded in 1969 in Milan as an experiment by Antonio Bartoccetti, Doris Norton, organist Charles Tiring and Mediumship, medium Franz Porthenzy.
Jacula's music was considered innovative for the time in p ...
- ''In Cauda Semper Stat Venenum'' CD/LP
*BWR052 Morgan - ''Nova Solis'' LP
*BWR053 Malombra - ''The Dissolution Age'' CD/2LP
*BWR054 Various Artists - ''The Tapestry of Delights'' CD/2LP
*BWR055
Pentagram
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-
Sub-Basement CD/LP
*BWR056 Ars Nova - ''Android Domina'' LP
*BWR057 Il Segno del Comando - ''Der Golem'' CD/LP
*BWR058 Antonius Rex - ''Anno Demoni'' CD/LP + 7"
*BWR059 Various Artists - ''Not of This Earth '' 3CD + book/4LP + book
*BWR060 Simon House/Rod Goodway - ''House of Dreams'' CD/LP
*BWR061 Ange - ''Tome 87'' LP
*BWR062 Sad Minstrel - ''The Flight of the Phoenix'' CD/LP
*BWR063 Crystal Phoenix - ''The Legend of the Two Stonedragons'' CD/LP
*BWR064 Manilla Road - ''Spiral Castle'' LP
*BWR065
Pentagram
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-
A Keg Full of Dynamite CD/LP
*BWR066 Antonius Rex - ''Neque Semper Arcum Tendit Rex'' CD/LP (Ltd 400)
*BWR067 Akron - ''Il Tempio di Ferro'' CD/LP + book (ltd 400)
*BWR068 ST 37 - ''Insect Hospital'' CD/2LP
*BWR069 Presence - ''The Sleeper Awakes + Live'' CD/2LP
*BWR070 Ripper - ''And the Dead Shall Rise'' CD/LP
*BWR071 Areknames - ''Areknames'' CD/LP
*BWR072 The Black - ''Peccatis Nostris/Capistrani Pugnator'' CD/LP
*BWR073 Zess - ''Et in Arcadia Ego'' CD/LP
*BWR074 Antonius Rex - ''Praeternatural''CD/LP
*BWR075 Various Artist - ''Daze of the Underground: A Tribute to
Hawkwind
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'' 3LP Box
*BWR076 Wicked Minds - ''From the Purple Skies'' CD/2LP
*BWR077
Minotauri
Minotauri was a doom metal band from Finland. Alongside Reverend Bizarre and Spiritus Mortis they were one of the most important bands in the Finnish true doom metal movement. The band was formed in 1995 and disbanded in 2007.
Discography Sing ...
- ''Minotauri'' CD/2LP
*BWR078
Pentagram
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- ''
Show 'Em How'' CD/LP
*BWR079
Death SS
Death SS (later also intended as a contraction of In Death of Steve Sylvester) is an Italian heavy metal band.
Biography
Death SS was formed in 1977 in Pesaro by Steve Sylvester (born Stefano Silvestri), a future member of the Ordo Templi Ori ...
- ''The Horned God of the Witches'' 2LP
*BWR080 Paul Roland - ''Strychnine...and Other Potent Poisons'' CD/LP
*BWR081 L'Impero Delle Ombre - ''L'Impero Delle Ombre'' CD/LP
*BWR082 Morticia - ''Exhumed'' CD
*BWR083 Antonius Rex - ''Magic Ritual'' DVD + CD
*BWR084
Pagan Altar
Pagan Altar is an English doom metal band formed by Terry Jones and his son Alan in 1978 in the borough of Brockley in London.
History
Alongside Witchfinder General, they are one of the few new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) bands to ...
- ''Judgement of the Dead'' LP + book
*BWR085 Deep Switch - ''Nine Inches of God'' LP
*BWR086 Wyxmer - ''Feudal Throne'' CD/LP
*BWR087
Bedemon
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- ''Child of Darkness'' CD/LP
*BWR088 Abiogenesi - ''Io Sono il Vampiro'' CD/LP
*BWR089 Northwinds - ''Chimeres'' CD + DVD/2LP
*BWR090 Paul Roland - ''Pavane'' 2LP
*BWR091 Orne - ''The Conjuration by the Fire'' CD/LP
*BWR092
Death SS
Death SS (later also intended as a contraction of In Death of Steve Sylvester) is an Italian heavy metal band.
Biography
Death SS was formed in 1977 in Pesaro by Steve Sylvester (born Stefano Silvestri), a future member of the Ordo Templi Ori ...
- ''The Seventh Seal'' LP
*BWR093 Wicked Minds - ''Witchflower'' CD + DVD/2LP
*BWR094 Areknames - ''Love Hate Round Trip'' CD/2LP
*BWR095 Goad - ''In the House of the Dark Shining Dreams'' CD/2LP
*BWR096 Paul Roland ''Re Animator'' CD/LP
*BWR097 Abysmal Grief - ''Abysmal Grief/Mors Eleison'' CD/LP
*BWR098 Jet Jaguar - ''Space Anthem'' CD/2LP
*BWR099 Antonius Rex - ''Switch on Dark'' CD/LP
*BWR100 Delirium - ''Vibrazioni Notturne Live'' CD/2LP
*BWR101 Il Bacio della Medusa - ''Il Bacio della Medusa'' CD/LP
*BWR102 Il Bacio della Medusa - ''Discesa agl'Inferi d'un Giovane Amante'' LP
*BWR103 Spirits Burning - ''Alien Injection'' CD/LP
*BWR104 Dr. Hasbeen - ''Signs'' 2CD
*BWR105 Presence - ''Evil Rose'' CD
*BWR106 Universal Totem Orchestra - ''The Magus'' CD/2LP
*BWR107 Pholas Dactylus - ''Concerto Delle Menti'' LP
*BWR108
Jacula
Jacula was an Italian rock music, rock band founded in 1969 in Milan as an experiment by Antonio Bartoccetti, Doris Norton, organist Charles Tiring and Mediumship, medium Franz Porthenzy.
Jacula's music was considered innovative for the time in p ...
- ''Tardo Pede in Magiam Versus'' CD/LP
*BWR109 Il Cerchio D'Oro - ''Il Viaggio Di Colombo'' CD/LP
*BWR110 G.C. Neri - ''Logos'' CD
*BWR111 Ripper - The Dead Have Rizen LP / CD
*BWR112 T.H.C. WITCHFIELD - Sleepless... LP / CD
*BWR113 DELIRIUM - Il nome del vento LP / CD
*BWR114 SOPHYA BACCINI - Aradia CD
*BWR126 ANTONIUS REX Per Viam LP / CD
*BWR129 GUDARS SKYMNING Morka Vatten LP
*BWR130 L'IMPERO DELLE OMBRE I Compagni di Baal LP / CD
*BWR131 PAOLO SIANI & FRIENDS FEAT. NUOVA IDEA Castles, Wings, Stories and Dreams LP / CD
*BWR132 THREE MONKS Neogothic Progressive Toccatas LP / CD
*BWR133 ARABS IN ASPIC Strange Frame of Mind CD
*BWR134 ORNE The Tree of Life LP / CD
*BWR135 JACULA Pre Viam LP / CD
*BWR136 WICKED MINDS Visioni, deliri, illusioni - A Tribute to Italian Prog 2LP / CD feat. special guests:
Aldo Tagliapietra
Aldo Tagliapietra (born February 20, 1945) is an Italian singer, songwriter and musician best known for his work with the progressive rock band Le Orme.
Biography
Aldo Tagliapietra was born in Murano on February 20, 1945. The son of a master ...
(Orme), Stefano Lupo Galifi (Museo Rosenbach), Lino Vairetti (
Osanna
Osanna are an Italian progressive rock band.
Origin
The group originated in the Vomero neighborhood of Naples with the union of Lino Vairetti (voice), Danilo Rustici (guitar), Massimo Guarino (drums), Lello Brandi (bass), from the first line ...
), Martin Grice (Delirium),
Antonio Bartoccetti
Antonio Bartoccetti (Macerata, 18 December 1946) is an Italian musician and composer, and leader of the musical groups, Antonius Rex, Jacula, Dietro Noi Deserto and Invisible Force.
Biography
Beginning in 1968, his primary focus has been progre ...
(Jacula/Antonius Rex) and Sophya Baccini
*BWR137 HAWKLORDS The Barney Bubbles Memorial Benefit Concert 2LP poster cover
*BWR138 NORTHWINDS Winter LP / CD
*BWR139 SPETTRI Same LP / CD
*BWR140 ANDROMEDA Same LP+7"
*BWR141 SANCTA SANCTORUM Black Sun Mini LP / Mini CD
*BWR142 THE HOUNDS OF HASSELVANDER The Ninth hour LP / CD
*BWR143 SEID The Magic Handshake 2LP / CD
*BWR144 DORIS NORTON Raptus LP / CD
*BWR145 BLACK WIDOW See's the Light of the Day 2LP+10" / 2CD
*BWR146 ELECTRIC SWAN Swirl in Gravity LP / CD
*BWR147 PSYCHO PRAXIS - Echoes from the Deep LP / CD
*BWR148 CROWNED IN EARTH - A Vortex of Earthly Chimes LP / CD
*BWR149 Witche's Brew - Supersonicspeedfreaks LP / CD
*BWR155 INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE - In Hoc Signo LP / CD feat. special guests: Mattias Olsson (
Änglagård
Änglagård is a Swedish progressive rock band, with influences including King Crimson, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Trettioåriga Kriget, Schicke Führs Fröhling, and Van der Graaf Generator. The band was established in 1991 by Tord Lindman (guit ...
,
White Willow
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),
David Jackson (
Van Der Graaf Generator
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), Angelica Sauprel Scutti
*BWR156 DAEMONIA - Dawn of the Dead-Zombi CD
*BWR157 VICTOR PERAINO's KINGDOM COME with ARTHUR BROWN Journey in Time LP / CD+Dvd
*BWR158 DORIS NORTON - Parapsycho LP / CD
*BWR159 THREE MONKS - The Legend of the Holy Circle LP
*BWR160 IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE - Alienatura LP / CD
*BWR161 IL SEGNO DEL COMANDO - Il Volto Verde LP / CD
*BWR162 SOPHYA BACCINI's ARADIA - Big Red Dragon (William Blake's Visions) 2LP / CD
*BWR163 OSANNA Tempo 2DVD + Booklet
*BWR164 GLEEMEN - Oltre, Lontano, Lontano… (with Bambi Fossati, Marco Zoccheddu, Maurizio Cassinelli, Angelo Traverso) LP / CD
*BWR165 LATTE E MIELE - Passio Secundum Mattheum CD
*BWR166 NUOVA IDEA - Live Anthology DVD
*BWR167 BLUE DAWN - Cycle of Pain LP / CD
*BWR168 IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE - Live in Seoul 2DVD
*BWR169 SECRET TALES - L'Antico Regno LP / CD
*BWR170 ANNOT RHUL - Leviathan LP
*BWR171 HIGH TIDE - Interesting Times LP
*BWR172 HIGH TIDE - Precious Cargo LP
*BWR173 ERRATA CORRIGE - Sigfrid il Drago e altre Storie LP / CD+Dvd
*BWR174 SPETTRI - 2073 La Nemica dei Ricordi LP / CD
*BWR175 MERRY GO ROUND (ex-Standarte members) - Merry Go Round LP / CD
*BWR176 T.H.C. WITCHFIELD - Sabbatai Zevi LP / CD
*BWR177 WONDERWORLD (Roberto Tiranti) - Wonderworld LP
*BWR178 RIPPER - Third Witness LP / CD
*BWR179 NORTHWINDS - Eternal Winter LP / CD
*BWR180 DELIRIUM - L'Era della Menzogna LP / CD
*BWR181 CHERRY FIVE - Il Pozzo dei Giganti LP / CD
*BWR182 GOBLIN REBIRTH - Live 2LP / 2CD / Dvd / Ltd Box 2CD+Dvd
*BWR183 LA FABBRICA DELL'ASSOLUTO - L'Ultimo Uomo d'Europa LP / CD
*BWR184 GOAD - The Silent Moonchild LP / CD
*BWR185 ARABS IN ASPIC - Victim of Your Father's Agony LP / CD
*BWR186 THE HOUNDS OF HASSELVANDER - Ancient Rocks LP / CD
*BWR187 LANDSKAP II LP / CD
*BWR188 TRIP - Live 1972 LP
*BWR189 BARI WATTS - There was a Time LP
*BWR190 PAOLO SIANI feat. NUOVA IDEA - Faces with No Traces LP / CD
*BWR191 INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE - Warm Spaced Blue LP / CD feat. special guests:
Fabio Pignatelli (
Goblin (band)
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,
Cherry Five), Stefano Vicarelli (La Fonderia, La Batteria), Paolo Lucini (Ezra Winston)
*BWR192 WONDERWORLD - II
*BWR193 SEID - Wettlaufer's Enke LP
*BWR194 VANEXA - Too Heavy to Fly LP
*BWR195 MUGSHOTS - Something Weird LP / CD
*BWR196 CAP with ALVARO FELLA - Coraggio e Mistero 2LP / CD
*BWR197 VV.AA. - Bambi Fossati Guitar Fest DVD
*BWR198 UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA - Mathematical Mother LP / CD
*BWR199 4GOBLIN - Four of a Kind CD
*BWR200 VV.AA. - Marc Bolan David Bowie A Tribute to the Madmen Box 3CD
*BWR201 IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE - Il-ludere LP / CD
*BWR202 ELECTRIC SWAN - Windblown 2LP / CD
*BWR203 IL SIGILLO DI HORUS - Effimera LP
*BWR204 IL CERCHIO D'ORO - Il Fuoco Sotto la Cenere LP / CD
*BWR205 CHROMIUM HAWK MACHINE - Annunaki 2CD (Elios Chreed, Nik Turner, Jay Tausig)
*BWR206 SEMIRAMIS - Frazz Live DVD+CD
*BWR207 HOLLOWSCENE - Hollowscene CD
*BWR208 THE BLACK - Requiem MLP
*BWR209 THE BLACK - Reliquarium / Infernus, Paradisus et Purgatorium CD
*BWR210 FUNGUS FAMILY - The Key of the Garden LP / CD
*BWR211 LUCIANO ONETTI - Sonno Profondo O.S.T. LP
*BWR212 LUCIANO ONETTI - Francesca O.S.T. LP
*BWRCD211-2 LUCIANO ONETTI - Sonno Profondo / Francesca O.S.T. CD
*BWR213 VV.AA. - Terror Tales A Tribute to Death SS 4LP / Box 3CD
*BWR214 IL SEGNO DEL COMANDO - L'Incanto dello Zero LP / CD
*BWR215 PAOLO SIANI ft NUOVA IDEA - The Leprechaun's Pot of Gold LP / CD
*BWR216 MYTHOLOGY - The Castle of Crossed Destinies LP / CD
*BWR217 GOTHIC STONE - Haereticus Empyreum LP / CD
*BWR218 LUCIANO ONETTI - Abrakadabra O.S.T. LP / CD
*BWR219 SATURNALIA - Magical Love Pkd / CD
*BWR220 METAPHYSICAL ANIMATION - Metaphysical Animation 2LP / CD
*BWR221 FREDDY DELIRIO & THE PHANTOMS - The Cross LP / CD
*BWR222 LA JANARA - Tenebra CD
*BWR223 LATTEMIELE 2.0 - Paganini Experience LP / CD*BWR501 DIST FLOWER FLESH - Duck in the Box CD
*BWR224 MELTING CLOCK - Destinazioni 2LP / CD
*BWR225 RUNAWAY TOTEM - Multiversal Matter CD
*BWR227 ANNO MUNDI - Land of Legends LP / CD
*BWR228 RAMROD - Jet Black LP / CD
*BWR229 MELISSA - Midnight Trampoline LP / CD
*BWR230 IL GIRO STRANO - Il Pianeta delle Verità 2LP
*BWR231 L'IMPERO DELLE OMBRE - Racconti Macabri Vol. III LP / CD
*BWR232 LA STANZA DELLE MASCHERE - La Stanza delle Maschere LP / CD
*BWR233 KHADAVRA - Hypnagogia 2LP / CD
*BWR234 BALLETTO DI BRONZO - The Official Bootleg 2LP / CD
*BWR235 THE BLACK - Ars Metal Mentis LP / CD
*BWR236 HAWKWIND - Solstice at Stonehenge 1984 2LP / 2CD+DVD
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