The End Records is offering Amalgamate, a seventeen track sampler on iTunes for only .99 cents.

Featuring an exclusive track from DIR EN GREY, plus unreleased songs from upcoming albums by CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, SIGH and EARLY MAN, Amalgamate showcases The End's heavier artists conveniently on one album. See the link and track listing below.

Kicking things off in 2010 will be Sigh with their classically infused orchestral metal on Scenes From Hell, and the video game inspired electro indie rock from SUPER 8-BIT BROTHERS on Brawl, both out January 19th.

The album from Creature With The Atom Brain, entitled Transylvania, will be released on February 2nd, which combines 60s inspired rock with dark and hypnotic psychedelic grooves.

Norway’s SHINING will also release their hard hitting hybrid of jazz and metal entitled Blackjazz on February 2nd. LAETHORA, which features Niklas Sundin of DARK TRANQUILLITY, are set to release The Light In Which We All Burn on April 27th and consists of thirteen epic tracks of violent and powerful death/grind metal performed with intense passion and ferocity.

More albums will be announced shortly.

The Amalgamate sampler is available via iTunes at this location.

Amalgamate tracklisting:

'Dead Girls Are Easy' – THE 69 EYES

'Dozing Green' (Live) – DIR EN GREY

'Transylvania' – CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN

'Liar' – EMILIE AUTUMN

'Running Out Of Roads To Ride' – CABLE

'Grinding The Knife Blade' – GOES CUBE

'Someone Else’s Nightmare' – EARLY MAN

'Rapture Of The Empty Spaces' – KARL SANDERS

'A Eulogy For The Living Lost' – NOVEMBER'S DOOM

'The Best Way' – SUICIDE CITY

'Der Weg' (Live) – DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER

'L’art de Mourir' – SIGH

'Architect' – HULL

'The Indweller' – THESE ARE THEY

'Milorg' – VREID

'Old' – SARKE

'Sin Goddammit' – FENRIZ RED PLANET & NATTEFROST