NEWS 18.6.2025
Three
years after their crushing debut Defiled in Oblivion, CASTRATOR
returns with CORONATION OF THE GROTESQUE, an album that not
only exceeds all expectations but leaves them shattered in its wake, firmly
cementing the band among the North American death metal elite.
“We see it as a leap forward,” exclaims co-founder Carolina Perez (drums). “It’s by far the strongest work we’ve done to date. Writing Coronation of the Grotesque was an incredibly enjoyable experience, and everything seemed to come together much more naturally this time. While the album still retains elements of who we were as a band, it’s much more refined, cohesive, and brutal.”
The creative collaboration is primarily driven by founders Carolina Perez and bassist Robin Mazen, with ferocious vocalist Clarissa Badini and newly recruited guitar virtuoso Sara Loerlein completing the lineup.
“Sara has been fantastic. She’s incredibly professional, brings a ton of new ideas, and her experience really shines through. She’s added a fresh dynamic to the band, and her guitar leads are absolutely killer! We’re really excited to have her as part of the band.”
Lyrically, Coronation of the Grotesque explores a range of historical and societal themes that reflect on injustice, victimization, and human suffering. Among the topics confronted are the tragic killing of Mahsa Amini, the ancient Sumerian practice of eunuchization, and seething condemnation of predator Naasón Joaquín García. Badini’s exceptional vocals elevate the lyrics, delivering a powerful and precise expression of the album's themes.
The band is offering a taste of things to come with the official music video for album track "Covenant of Deciept." The video was filmed by Immolation's Bob Vigna. Watch now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfih-aAsgVs
Dark Descent Records will release Coronation of the Grotesque August 15 on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats.
Pre-orders are now live at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.ddmsuo.eu
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
Coronation of the Grotesque was recorded across multiple studios with key figures in the US death metal scene. Bass recording was engineered by John Tardy (Obituary) at Redneck Studios, guitars and vocals by Jordan Milner at Obsidian Audio, additional guitars by Taylor Nordberg (Deicide) at Smoke and Mirrors Productions, and drums by Noah Buchanan (Nunslaughter) at Mercinary Studios, where Buchanan also handled mixing and mastering. Cover art by John Zig.
Touring with the likes of Immolation, Exhumed, and Cattle Decapitation has cemented CASTRATOR’s reputation as a commanding live force, and concert announcements in support of Coronation of the Grotesque are imminent.
Watch this space… and brace yourself for a relentless death metal onslaught!
Track listing:
1. Fragments of Defiance
2. I Am Eunuch
3. Covenant of Deceit
4. Mortem Opeterie
5. Remnants of Chaos
6. Deviant Miscreant
7. Psalm of Beguiled
8. Blood Bind's Curse
9. Discordant Rumination
10. Metal Command
CASTRATOR is:
Robin Mazen - Bass
Carolina Perez - Drums
Clarissa Badini - Vocals
Sara Loerlein - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/CastratorBand
VERTEBRA were born into the
Brazilian underground music scene in the mid 1990s, where they captured hearts
with some powerful live performances, their unquestionable integrity and
remarkable music - a progressively minded blend of death and thrash metal with
an inherent sense of melody. A single track demo, Humanity, was released
in 1995 and a further demo recorded but not released before the band imploded,
driven apart by the often overwhelming pressures of daily life. However, those
recordings were not made in vain. During the turbulent period of the pandemic,
Vertebra’s founder, guitarist and vocalist Arildo Leal, was driven to
create once again – and four of those old demo tracks would be the starting
point for rebuilding the foundations of Vertebra. Now Vertebra are back with
their so long awaited full length debut album, the fulfilment of all that early
promise, THE SAME.
The Same opens with the explosive ‘Oblivion’, a hard-edged thrasher with a sharp, authentic sound that wastes no time in unveiling the fantastic technical ability that the whole of Vertebra have at their disposal. The instinctive, free-flowing interplay between bass and drums, the meticulous precision of the riffs, the dazzling solos are all there, dancing around the snarled vocals, delivered with a palpable passion and intent. Even more impressive though is Vertebra’s masterful songcraft, the manner in which they use their abilities to sculpt exciting, addictive, sleekly structured songs. Be it the powerful, free-willed and exploratory first single, ‘Behavior In The Eyes’, the outstanding melodies and solos of ’95 Eyes’ or the bustling riffs that open out into spacious vistas of ‘Fanatic And Picturesque’, there is so much to explore throughout this incredible album. Rarely is music so heavy yet so elegant, so intricate but so memorable and immersive. This is extreme metal at its most engaging, complex and accomplished.
Vertebra are a band driven by conviction and absolute belief in their music. This return is not based on nostalgia for the halcyon days of youth, but on a need to express their creativity and their individuality – and to take a stand for individuality in a wider sense, in a world becoming ever more apathetic and homogenised. This band still have a lot to say and a lot to offer. When Xtreem Music release The Same on July 29th, on CD (with bonus track) and digital formats they will blaze a path through the metal underground that will be impossible to ignore.
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vertebrametal
The 7" vinyl, cassette, and CD versions will ship in the coming weeks!
DEATHBLOW are back and ferocious as ever with the release of another ripping EP! Open Season will be released June 16 on Sewer Mouth Records. The EP will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats!
The four-track Open Season EP is a scathing commentary aimed at the heart of the belligerent American Empire and its war machinery. Combining their classic thrash metal sound with an unrelenting crossover punk-infused gut punch, the EP is guaranteed to get the blood boiling!
Track
Listing:
1. Open Season
2. Deny, Defend, Dispose
3. Tormentor
4. Never Again
Credits:
Recorded at Archive Recordings with Wes Johnson.
Artwork by Emil Rousse.
Line-up:
Holton Grossl - Guitars/Vocals
Adam Kelly - Guitars
Paul LaChica - Bass
Rob Larson - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/deathblowofficial
Thrash
metal force DIVNI SAN continue their ascent with the
release of the cinematic lyric video for “WHEN THE BELLS RING THE
KNELL”, taken from their album “DREAMLIKE TALES”, out now
via Wormholedeath.
Haunting, atmospheric, and deeply emotional—When the Bells Ring the Knell takes you on a journey through sorrow, reflection, and the search for closure. As the bells toll, unanswered questions linger, and the weight of the past looms large. Will there be redemption, or is it too late? Let the soaring melodies and melancholic atmosphere pull you into a world of regret and revelation.
Stream "Dreamlike Tales": https://orcd.co/dreamliketales
www.youtube.com/@divnisan
www.facebook.com/DIVNISAN
UNALIGNED – “A FORM BEYOND “
Genre - Blackened
technical/progressive death metal
For fans of - Demon King, Withered Throne, Inferi, Enfold Darkness, Warforged, Vale of Pnath
After astounding tech death releases from Fleshbore and Eschaton on the label this year, there's the eagerly anticipated debut full length from Unaligned to look forward to. Once again boasting of a celebrated lineup featuring members of Withered Throne, Demon King, Fleshbore and others, Unaligned offer a blackened and comparatively more atmospheric take on the technical death metal style. Meticulously written and impeccably executed, their music has an epic flair which goes hand-in-hand with their undulating pattern showcasing the brilliant contrast between the faster, scathing parts and the smoother, melodic breaks. The alternating vocal delivery here too is fitting without being overpowering in any way. The songs are able to traverse multiple realms and subjects while remaining focused and impactful. There's a compelling, pulsating rhythm throughout, keeping things brisk and intense while also retaining a sense of groove. Sharp, taut and yet catchy, Unaligned have come up with an exemplary blackened tech death album in "A Form Beyond", and it only gets better with more listens.
Line up
Taylor Tidwell (Withered Throne) - Guitars
Shane Dreher (Nightspake) - Guitars
Cole Daniels (Demon King, Fleshbore) - Bass
Andrew Guia (Withered Throne) - Vocals
Jack Blackburn (Killitorous, ex-Inferi) - Drums
Mike Low - Mixing/Mastering
Erik Johnson - Editing/Mixing
Video by Arnua Gates
Artwork by Adam Burke
Track listing
1. Entities of Ash
2. Unbecoming of I
3. Ruins of Lunacy
4. A Form Beyond
5. Essence Erased
6. Spirit Dysmorphia
7. Death Entwines Us All
8. Dreaming in Decay
Release date - September 12th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/UnalignedOfficial
Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
"Veins of the Phoenix" is also available on Bandcamp. The single will be available on all other digital platforms soon.
This highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2024 debut, Lightning Spawn, promises a darker and more mature sound, showcasing the band's evolving artistry and the addition of a second guitar player to
their lineup.
Comprised of seasoned musicians from notable acts such as Adarrak, Killing Darlings, Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion, and Primal Charge, their unique blend of heavy, stoner, and doom metal has resonated with fans worldwide, setting the stage for Spiritual Chains to be a significant release.
Spiritual Chains was recorded across various studios in North America and Europe, a testament to Thorndale's commitment to sonic excellence. Jeff Henson (Duel) lends his talent to the album, featuring a guest solo on the track "Exiles and Masters”. The album was mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars).
“If you hear a touch of the familiar here and there, that’s exactly what it is. Hints, reminders that there were Giants of Metal long ago, and that the fire of those forebears continues to burn bright in talented musicians today from the scene." - Billy Goate (Doomed & Stoned)
Pre-order:
https://thorndale.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-chains
Track Listing:
1 - Veins of the Phoenix
2 - Battles Fought in Vain
3 - Gods of Pain
4 - Twenty Thousand Souls
5 - Spiritual Chains
6 - Exiles and Masters
Album Credits:
Cover Art - Costin Chioreanu.
Jeff Henson - guest guitar on "Exiles and Masters".
All music by Thorndale.
All lyrics by Gustavo Valderrama and Zigor Munoz.
Produced by Thorndale.
Recorded locally in Austin, Texas; Scarborough, Ontario and Haarlem and Den Haag, Netherlands across 2024 and 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden.
Line-Up:
Gustavo Valderrama - Vocals
Peter Shannon - Guitars
Maarten Jungschläger - Guitars
Zigor Munoz - Bass
Guest musician: Rob Stone - Drums
Bio:
Thorndale is a stoner/doom metal band from The Netherlands, formed by experienced musicians from the European and North American metal scenes. Known for their powerful sound, Thorndale has quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the heavy music landscape. Members include Gustavo Valderrama (Killing Darlings, Headcrusher, Adarrak), Peter Shannon (Primal Charge), Maarten Jungschläger (Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion), and Zigor Munoz (Adarrak, Ferkaad).
https://www.facebook.com/thorndaleofficial
For fans of : Warloghe, Sapthuran, Emperor, Darkthrone and Clandestine Blaze
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcomes Embers Of Ouroboros to the roster with the new album The Autumnal Decline And Hermetic Maturation! Hailing from the catacombs of Northern Maryland, Embers Of Ouroboros was founded in 2023 and performs grim, atmospheric, melancholic Black Metal. The Autumnal Decline And Hermetic Maturation is an effort to hold a mirror to the twisted faces of fallacy, cognitive dissonance and pathological nihilism, blending first-wave and second-wave Black Metal.
Listen to the single "Our Crypts Of Blackened Ice And Hermetic Spirits" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHiWEZDNCqA
Tracklisting:
1. Innate And Gnarled
2. A Comforting Darkness
3. The Autumnal Decline
4. Systemic Metamorphosis
5. As Silence Casts Out Its Eternal Divide
6. Our Crypts Of Blackened Ice And Hermetic Spirits
7. Horrific Descent Into The Endless Trenches Beyond Light
8. Dying Too Slow
9. The Incarnation Of Hypocrisy
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Glitch Kill crashes into the alt-metal scene with Tempest — a visceral, unrelenting dive into emotional collapse, internal war, and clawing one’s way out of the wreckage. From its opening lines to its final, defiant scream, the track is a sonic pressure cooker that rages through themes of shame, loss, and personal apocalypse.
With razor-sharp riffs, guttural urgency, and a poetic yet ferocious lyrical style, Tempest isn’t just a song — it’s a reckoning. The band weaves a storm of crushing breakdowns, haunting melodies, and relentless pacing, capturing the feeling of being pulled under by forces both internal and external.
Lines like "You can't move, you can't scream, you can't dream" hit like a gut punch — raw, real, and unfiltered. But through the chaos, a truth emerges: you can break the cycle. You can scream. And you can survive.
For
fans of heavy music that goes deeper than distortion and dives into the core of
human struggle, Tempest is the fire you've been waiting for.
Biography
Brutal beats, crushing riffs, thunderous bass, and unorthodox vocal hooks—this is what sets Glitch Kill apart in California’s Central Valley metal scene. With nearly a century of combined experience and an unrelenting passion for heavy music, this band isn’t just making waves—they’re making fans need a chiropractor.
Rising from the ashes of Etched in Stone, bassist David "Crusher" Yanez, guitarist Travis Miller, and drummer Aaron Jones formed Glitch Kill with one goal: to create uncompromising, bone-crushing metal. The lineup was solidified with the addition of vocalist Shane Leon, whose raw intensity gave the band its signature sound.
Forming just before the world shut down in 2020, Glitch Kill took advantage of the downtime to craft their debut EP, Hindsight, which dropped on January 1st, 2021. Now, with their follow-up EP Post Hominid in the works and the latest addition of Robert Cole throwing down as a second guitarist, the band is back in full force, delivering relentless live performances across the Central Valley, the Bay Area, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Fresno, Santa Cruz, and beyond—wherever there’s a demand for heavy metal.
The beast has been unleashed. Are you ready?
https://www.sodeh.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/Glitchkill
The band name has been taken from Morbid Angel “Where the Slime Lives” lyric by extracting a sentence and then slightly modified it.
Originally composed by six musicians with different previous experiences in other rock and metal acts, The Dogma blends since the beginning introspective existential lyrics fulfilled by nihilism and bittersweet pessimism with a restless musical journey coasting various sonor shores, but always incentre into keys and guitars gloomy atmospheric lines and powerful rhythm section chased by great harsh vocals hosting also clean refrain.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+burning+dogma
https://www.facebook.com/theburningdogma
“OVER&OVER
ONE AFTER THE OTHER" is the sublimation of the path taken over 15 years of
The Burning Dogma's existence to become what they are today. A
painful and pitfall-strewn path, just as painful and moving as the songs on
this new album. The initial vision, mixing death metal and elements of dark
goth culture, finds here a balanced and coherent outcome. The lyrics, faithful
to tradition, reject the typical clichés of extreme metal to focus on the
elaboration of personal experiences: 'with Over&Over, we wanted to open a
window on psychological alienations based on real facts and events.'
The album title is token from a sentence contained in The Cure ‘Hundred Years’ cover, last song of the album tracklist. It well describes the suffocating sense of nihilism and tragic desperation permeating the entire album mood.
Recorded at FearStudio, Dysfunction Studios and FalloutStudios by Giuseppe Bassi, Filippo Rambelli (Drown in Sulphur) and Fausto DeBellis (Vitriol, Revenience) and mixed/mastered by Rambelli, ‘OOOAO’ has been premiered by first single ‘Forecast’ with the related videoclip in March 2025.
You can find 2 singles on youtube:
https://youtu.be/MMZtF6Rg2nU?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/2PkplNcZ3Bw?feature=shared
https://theburningdogma.wixsite.com/thedogmaofficial/epk
IDIA Management https://www.facebook.com/idiamanagement https://www.facebook.com/mayididmanagement
DO OR DIE – “RESURRECTION”
Format: Digital
EP-CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Hatebreed, Merauder, Throwdown, Kublai Khan TX, Knocked Loose, Sepultura, Terror and so on…..
Tracklist:
01. Lust & Power
02. Alka
03. Resurrected
04. No Mercy
05. Trail of Tears
06. Mental Strength
DO OR DIE is a pioneer of the Belgian hardcore scene that was founded in 1999. Their main influences are the NYHC old-school scene, Hatebreed, Merauder, Sworn Enemy, Throwdown, mixed with more modern, metal-style parts.
The band released their first EP in 2000. This release was followed by non-stop touring in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. They established their agressive and modern sound signature in the next two full-length albums, ‘Heart Full of Pain’ (2001) and ‘The Meaning of Honor’ (2002), both released through I Scream Records label. These albums were massively defended on stage, with highlights such as Pressure Fest, Graspop Metal Meeting and Fury Fest.
The third full-length ‘Tradition’ was released in 2005 through Alveran Records. This album opened the doors of Germany, and DO OR DIE promoted it across Europe, on stages such as Dour Festival, With Full Force Festival, Pressure Fest. Three other studio albums were released from 2008 up to 2015, with supporting tours in European venues and festivals.
The band took a break but came back in early 2021 with a fresh load of musicians and former members centered around Chris, the remaining founding member, with the goal of making a new generation discover DO OR DIE. They toured Europe again in 2022 and 2023, playing their anthems on the stages of Hellfest, Dour Festival, Alcatraz.
With more than 20 years of shows around the globe and 6 studio albums, DO OR DIE has proven that Belgium can make great hardcore music. After being freshened with a whole new lineup, DO OR DIE has played around Europe and rocked some of the greatest metal festivals like Hellfest, Dour Festival or Alcatraz in 2023.
Now they come back with a blend of tradition and new influences, catchy, straight-to-the-point, brand new hardcore tracks. They plan to tour Europe again in 2025, playing again in main festivals and supporting international bands.
NEWS 15.6.2025
NEWS 8.6.2025
Hi
everybody,Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. Last
month PAŘÁT PRODUCTIONS released 3 new titles.
In all cases these are ‘my’ heart recordings of my favourite Czech bands. First time on CD, first time on vinyl, re-release on digipak after 20 years. I believe you will find these releases interesting. Thank you for your time and support!!!
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (melodic metal)
Triotus, Tricephalus And Tribadism /20th Anniversary Edition – digipak/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOl96Apuqc&t=2225s
BLOODY OBSESSION (old school death metal)
Husaria /black vinyl/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1SzhDVWF8&t=15s
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY (doom/death)
Zlodejska svetelka /standard jewel box/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKrFppXUrk
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/
More pieces, wholesale, trade? Reply to this message for full tradelist Pařát Productions!
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SLOWLY WE ROT #25 is now available for pre-order!
(Underground attitude and contents, English written, A4 format, black/white, glossy)
all orders come with free compilation CDs, stickers, flyers and download codes!
Featuring interviews with:
A.Deception
Brodequin
Commoner
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult
Dead Born Vision
Demoniac
Exorcism
Frostmorner
Grave Altar
Gravered
Grima
Helpless Agony
High Inquisition Woe
Horoh
I Sorg
Iotunn
Necrowretch
Nocturnus AD
Seth
Telluric Necro-Parasites
Thrasherwolf
To Violently Vomit
Waldruine
+ articles:
"In Their Own Words" - bands introducing their own tracks featured on the compilation CD included with the magazine.
"Topic Of The Issue" - this time it's all about liberty: what, why, how
"Demonstrating Hell" - recommendations of recently released demos, it doesn't get more underground than this!
+ reviews
+ free compilation CD
Get in touch if interested in our mutually advantageous distribution deals or to discuss features in the next issue (Autumn 2025)!
Slowly We Rot #26 already in works and scheduled for a Autumn 2025 release!
Info & Order here: https://slowlywerot.limitedrun.com/
Trades welcome especially with other zines!
swrzine@yahoo.com
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Metalcore stalwarts, AGE OF RUIN, have released "THE GHOSTS WE CARRY," the second single from forthcoming album, NOTHINGMAN, on all digital platforms and as an official music video! The track embodies classic Age of Ruin metalcore riffing with a brutally heavy breakdown chorus sing-along. A b-side, non-album track, "Reflections," accompanies the release of the new single.
FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, and Gojira.
The music video for "The Ghosts We Carry," produced by Pablo Van Winkle, is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZnI3p-w8Ek
Stream the b-side track, "Reflections," on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Nothingman, Age of Ruin’s forthcoming album, is a collection of 10 songs that cuts a path to the heart with harmony and angst that others would be naïve not to mimic. The band sacrificed blood and sweat for two years to expel Nothingman. Age of Ruin began the recording process in October of 2023, and after nine months of tracking on location in Richmond, VA, at the Bakery Studio, in Washington, DC, at Ivakota Studio, and at the Riff Dojo in Takoma Park, MD, (the record was produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour), Nothingman was complete. This is the biggest, most richly woven tapestry from the band yet, and the time to unleash it is near.
In 2023 and 2024, Age of Ruin did some precursory promotion of Nothingman’s material, traveling up and down the east coast, dousing nonbelievers with their fire, with such acts as Black Flag, Madball, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, and Anvil. Yes, that Anvil.
Ripping guitars, unforgivably brutal drums, bass sounds that have shaken the underworld, and screeching vocals are just the beginning of this incarnation of a true headbanger's incantation. What we saw unearthed back in 1998 has now grown. The road worn warriors of the AoRmy have forced enough breakdowns to overwhelm any AAA mechanic, with miles on the highway ahead.
Their punk and metal roots hold firm, and their thrash tendencies are on full display as this towering presence of a band branches out over new tonal terrain and soundscape; reminding all who fall under its shadow, that the light shining through is a new dawn in the Age of Ruin. Nothingman will be celebrated in all formats and on all streaming platforms on October 17.
Track
Listing:
1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry
8. Promise Me
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong
Credits:
"The Ghosts We Carry" artwork by Chris Smith of Grey Aria Design.
Produced by Mike Schleibaum / The Riff Dojo.
Mixed and mastered by Will Beasley / The Bakery.
Original artwork, Oil on Canvas titled "Forest Mother" by Zack Dunn.
Line-up:
Benjamin Swan - vocals
Christopher Fleming - bass
Daniel Fleming - guitar
Hendrik Osinga - drums
Casey Flanagan - guitar
Bio:
The exact location of the dawn of man has been a constant subject of debate. Some say it was Prometheus delivering fire, some say it was Franklin discovering electricity, most people say it’s when Lars met James…but everyone agrees: those were simply precursors. Throughout the age of enlightenment, the renaissance, the reformation era and beyond, mortals have tried to make sense of mankind's meaning on earth.
Most archaeologists believe that in the late 90's, a surge of lightning fast riffs, guttural screams, devastatingly bass tones, and the relentless pulverizing rhythm of drums unearthed a crucial piece of this puzzle...this ushered in what would be known as The Age of Ruin. Those who heard it, really dug it. But those who dug it found there is much more than the surface layers. Music filled with textures, themes, and tunings that go deeper than a James Cameron film unbound by budgets.
For over 20 years, Age of Ruin has been firing off a relentless string of releases. Even the busiest trash compactors could not keep up with the amount of crushing that Age of Ruin crams into a single album, and this is so…with Nothingman. They have consistently delivered a brutal barrage of the heaviest hits metal has heard. Why stop At the Gates, when you can break down the whole house with your music? Why get Entombed when you can breathe new life into the scene? Why let the years waste away when the Age of Ruin can answer all of these questions?
Age of Ruin has definitely paid their dues, earning every ounce of the heaviest crown one band could carry. Naturally, the tonal tenure of the AoRmy servicemen is not something that can be held onto forever...the constant axe-wielding and riff hurling has required numerous changing of the guard over the years; however, the core horsemen of the Age of Ruin (Benjamin Swan, and Daniel and Christopher Fleming) remain, along with Casey Flanagan and Hendrik Osinga, forging an amalgamation of devastation which would conjure a collection of songs that few, if any, houses could harness. Fortunately, under the tutelage and production of Sound-Sensei Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour), Age of Ruin would hone their tone in Mike's Riff Dojo, creating an undeniable masterpiece of metal.
Sensational "jazzgrind" band Byonoisegenerator have released only one new song since preorders went up for their much awaited release. They don't want to reveal too much and would prefer that their fans listen to their album in its entirety - and now there's not a lot of time left for that! No Clean Singing did its premiere which can be found at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/04/28/an-ncs-premiere-byonoisegenerator-uvb-76/
Excerpt - "whips listeners back and forth between an alien warzone and a smoky jazz lounge"
BYONOISEGENERATOR – „SUBNORMAL DIVES“
Byonoisegenerator are
set to make a splash again after seven long years with a new album of what
they'd like to call “jazzgrind” that sounds just as shocking and exhilarating
as you would imagine. It's the kind of album that compels us to see things from
a different perspective. While jazz influences and usage of a saxophone in
extreme music has been witnessed before, it’s hardly ever done with a style of
music this extreme and cathartic. The dedicated sax player infuses the violent
music with jazzy parts that not only serve as a break from the cacophony but
they also punctuate the music, enhance it, and elevate it from your regular
grind or death metal band. The music is highly intricate, even technical, and
despite the short length of the songs, it might require multiple listens for it
to be fully deciphered and for the unsuspecting listeners to get its odd
appeal. They've used the free-style spirit to concoct music that's outstanding
and in the process have also ensured that it's more than something having
temporary novelty value. At this point in their career, they've been able to
masterfully meld the seemingly contradictory influences and have created songs
that are more than just ideas, with each having their own identity and charm.
It is clear that Byonoisegenerator are onto something special and
they have the chops and attitude to pull off something as outrageous and
irresistible as this.
Byonoisegenerator are set to make a splash again after seven long years with a new album of what they'd like to call “jazzgrind” that sounds just as shocking and exhilarating as you would imagine. It's the kind of album that compels us to see things from a different perspective. While jazz influences and usage of a saxophone in extreme music has been witnessed before, it’s hardly ever done with a style of music this extreme and cathartic. The dedicated sax player infuses the violent music with jazzy parts that not only serve as a break from the cacophony but they also punctuate the music, enhance it, and elevate it from your regular grind or death metal band. The music is highly intricate, even technical, and despite the short length of the songs, it might require multiple listens for it to be fully deciphered and for the unsuspecting listeners to get its odd appeal. They've used the free-style spirit to concoct music that's outstanding and in the process have also ensured that it's more than something having temporary novelty value. At this point in their career, they've been able to masterfully meld the seemingly contradictory influences and have created songs that are more than just ideas, with each having their own identity and charm. It is clear that Byonoisegenerator are onto something special and they have the chops and attitude to pull off something as outrageous and irresistible as this.
Line up
Tim - Vox
Hal° - Guitar
M1t - Bass
Sh3la - Saxophone
NOx - Drums
Artwork by Dmitry Rogatnev
Track listing
1. Eb(D#)
2. IQ69Exaltations
3. NULL.state = PERMANENT; return VOID;
4. NoSuccessToday!
5. UVB-76
6. LoveChargedDiveBombs
7. I'mNot20Anymore (21Ne)
8. 4-HO-DMTNzambiKult
9. deBroglieNeverExisted
10. 5mgInspiredVibes
Release date - June 13th, 2025
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Austrian death/thrashers CYROX promote their sophomore record with „HAUNTING SHADOWS“ live performance video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcw8lbaabFw
CYROX – “ NO REDEEMER LEFT“
Genre: Thrash/Death Metal
Influences: Exodus, Lamb Of God, Machine Head, Metallica, Gojira, Pantera, Havok, Slayer, Kataklysm, Heathen and many more…
City: Leoben
Country: Austria
Label: Kvlt und Kaos Productions
The band was founded under the name Black Void in February 2016 in Leoben, Austria, by the drummer Markus Antoniol from St. Stefan ob Leoben and guitarist Gernot Weber from Eisenerz, who have been friends since early youth and played together in various bands.
They soon found the second guitarist Christian Gallmayer, who is a colleague of Markus. For about a month we were looking for a bass player, when Gernot heard about a guitarist named Andreas Fahrleitner who was doing a solo cover show in his home town of Radmer. Gernot watched some clips of his show and contacted him if he was interested in joining the band, which he did, so Gernot switched from guitar to bass.
The next problem, however, was that Andreas and Christian had to do their military service in the Austrian army for six months, so they didn't really have time to make music. So the band took a break until November 2016.
Finally, Manuel Kirchleitner from Trofaiach joined the band as a singer, who is also a colleague of Markus and Christian. They changed the name from Black Void to Cyrox and started jamming again and soon the first songs were born.
The first gig was in December 2017 in Eisenerz, Austria. From that on they played live on a regular basis up till the first lockdown in Austria in March 2020.
Cyrox also selfreleased the debut album called „Beyond Control“ in March 2020, which is available on CD and every streaming platform.
In May 2020 Christian Gallmayer left the band, because of private circumstances which didn’t allow him to put any more time in the band. He was replaced in June 2020 by Leo Buchegger.
In April 2021 Markus Antoniol had to leave the band, he was replaced in May 2021 by Andreas Tobias.
In August 2021 Cyrox signed a worldwide deal with Wormholedeath Records for „Beyond Control“, that got a worldwide release in December 2021.
In January 2025 they signed a worldwide contract with Kvlt Und Kaos Productions and released their second album “No Redeemer Left” in April 2025.
The music of Cyroxcan roughly can be described as a mixture between Death and Thrash Metal, whereby they try to fit into no genre specifically. The influences range from Rock to Black Metal.
Line Up:
Vocals - Manuel “Kirchi” Kirchleitner
Guitar & Vocals - Andreas “Foali” Fahrleitner
Guitar – Leo “Stüberl” Buchegger
Bass – Gernot “Gerni” Weber
Drums- Andreas Hans Ingolf “Ahit” Tobias
December 2021 – Beyond Control (Wormholedeath Records)
April 2025 – No Redeemer Left (Kvlt Und Kaos Productions)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR1YRRt6josdtfu3iSDvRMw
https://www.facebook.com/CyroxBand
The band will release a music video for the single on June 20!
Like a love letter to old school heavy metal, The Pale Hand’s debut single, “Reign in Hell,” serves up fuzz-drenched riffs, a high energy groove, and lyrics inspired by Lucifer’s fall from heaven. It’s a sinister, psychedelic, and thunderous descent into madness showcasing the group’s unique take on doom—including a breakdown heavy enough to shake Grandma’s grave.
Lyrically,
the song is a lapsed theologian’s wet dream. Christian doctrine asserts that
free will is humankind’s unique gift, something not even angels possess.
Therefore, the logical conclusion follows that in his so-called rebellion,
Lucifer only played the role his creator intended for him, and was doomed to be
cast into hell before he was ever made. “Better to reign in hell than serve in
heaven,” a freshly exiled Satan proclaims in John Milton’s Paradise Lost while
considering this injustice.
Milton famously humanized Satan in his epic work, arguably even placing him as the hero of the story, and The Pale Hand has gladly carried his torch into the 21st century, complete with vicious guitars, powerhouse vocals, and booming bass. In the end, it’s a match made in hell—after all,
heaven’s overrated.
With members hailing from around the globe, The Pale Hand is a cross-cultural heavy metal phenomenon taking New York City’s underground by storm, sharing stages with Castle Rat and Alex Skolnick of Testament. To witness The Pale Hand live is to be baptized in the church of the undead; a vampire pastor gives blood offering before the first song is played and expects to be repaid before the night is over. With a wide range of influences beyond metal, including gospel and middle eastern music, their show is theatrical, interactive, even spiritual, and they use their music to explore the question “what really is evil?” In The Pale Hand’s world, the sinner is the saint, and corruption is the true enemy.
Line-up:
Kelsea Beck (they/them) - Vocals
Pamir Aysan (he/him) - Guitar
Diego Silva (he/him) - Guitar
Finnegan Hu (he/him) - Bass
Brian Del Guercio (he/him) - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/thepalehand
Thirty six years after their debut album, and with two other albums released in 1990 and 2013, UK thrashers Toranaga have returned!
The Classic line up of Toranaga (1988) comprised of the bassist Andy Burton, the drummer Steve Todd, the guitarist Andy Mitchell, and the vocalist Mark Duffy. With their debut album 'Bastard Ballads' released by Peaceville Records, the band made a great impression and strong responses led to extensive gigging across the UK to a growing audience hungry for more of that unique fusion of NWOBHM, lashings of old school Overkill-style Thrash, plenty of Maiden and a dark, doom-like heaviness smacking of Sabbath. Bastard Ballads enjoyed frequent radio play leading to a session on Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show (BBC Radio 1) and an invitation to open for Manowar on their UK tour.
Snapped up by Chrysalis Records 24 hours after the managing director watched their Manchester show, the band released second album 'God’s Gift' in the spring of 1990 to even greater acclaim. Tours and shows with the likes of Manowar, Sabbat, Venom, Saxon, Metal Church, Uriah Heep, Onslaught, Slammer,Xentrix, Love/Hate and Annihilator ensued as the stature of the band rose.
Caught up in the EMI buy-out of Chrysalis, Toranaga lost their A&R team and their opportunities to release their new EP and tour with Motörhead. Disheartened, the band took a long hiatus.
Andy Mitchell left for Australia in 2006, and in 2010 the trio of Burton, Todd and Duffy began writing new songs together as 'The Bastard Son of Toranaga'. That resulted in the “Cynical Eyes” EP.
Soon they returned to the original name. With a line-up completed by the guitarists Shane Haigh and John Rodgers, the band recorded 'Righteous Retribution' in 2013 to critical acclaim - their heaviest work since Bastard Ballads. However, after several high profile shows, the band went their separate ways.
Now, in 2024, Toranaga has returned with a strong new line-up and steered again by iconic vocalist Mark Duffy. He was joined by the drummer Toby Wallace, the guitarists Liam Mulpetre and Josh Goldie and the bassist Mike Todd, to reign as the Shoguns of UK Metal.
Since their return, they have played in UK with Onslaught, Riot City, Xentrix and Acid Reign, with more shows and festivals to come. In 2025 they played Helicon Metal Festival in Poland, their first visit to the Eastern Europe.
May 2025 sees Toranaga UK releasing “A NEW ORDER” EP, officially opening the new chapter in band’s history. The Shoguns are back for good! Soon they are going to Germany for Headbangers Open Air.
https://www.youtube.com/@ToranagaUKBand
https://linktr.ee/toranagauk
The
unrelenting, blackened death metal project HESSIAN has
signed a licensing deal with Wormholedeath for the release of their highly
anticipated self-titled EP, due out on 20 June 2025. Known for their
raw, primal energy and no-frills approach to blackened death metal, Hessian has
already captured the attention of the underground scene, and this collaboration
is set to amplify their ferocity on the global stage.
Laremy (Founder, Guitarist) shares his excitement:
“We’re truly honored to join the Wormholedeath family—a label and publisher with deep roots and an incredible legacy. From Carlo’s early days in Necromass to his ongoing work with Warner Chappell Holland and global distribution through Sony Orchard, the reach is immense. To be part of a catalog spanning over 400 releases is a privilege we take seriously—and we’re committed to representing it with pride in all our future releases.”
The Hessian EP is a raw homage to the early days of black metal, stripped to its most primal and savage core. Laremy explains, “There’s no bass—just rhythm guitar, vocals, and drums. It channels a hypnotic, bestial energy that immerses listeners in a dark, repetitive guitar style designed to invoke and celebrate the unspeakable.”
https://hessian666.bandcamp.com/
Nordic
dark metal band MONOLICHT unveils its new single "FROZEN
CHILD", marking the band’s darkest and deepest musical expression
to date. The track fuses the bleakest tones of melodic dark metal and black
metal, creating a cold, almost paralyzing atmosphere.
"Frozen Child" is based on true events from a small town in Northern Finland during the 1990s. The narrative unfolds like the polar night – gradually deepening, stark, and emotionally raw. The song culminates in a hypnotic finale where time itself seems to stop.
A visually striking music video has been produced for the track and is available here: https://youtu.be/YoOoBkbFrXk
"Frozen Child" is now available on all major streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/monolicht-frozenchild
Follow the band on social media: https://linktr.ee/monolichtband
Label: Xtreem Music
Release date: June 10th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Dismember | Entombed | Vomitory | Chaos Breed
Beneath a skull-faced moon on a night when old and young alike shake and sweat beneath their sheets as the reaper travels through their dreams, when the mausoleum gates fall broken to the ground and the ways to Tartarus stand open…then the dead arise to hunt. From beneath the flames and through the graveyard dirt their mouldering corpses rise, tattered sinew and fragmenting bones infused with strength and spirit for one night of vengeful freedom. One night of spite and violence, one night of lust and hunger; one night to tear down the living and drag them into realms below!
Four years on from their Regurgitated Into Existence debut, Finnish death metal fiends Deathgoat have returned for your bodies and your souls! Dragged Into Realms Below is their new nine track album of funeral rites and undead rebirth, absolute death metal in every twitching limb and empty eye socket. Beginning with the haunting notes of intro ‘Alkulima’, part lament, part invocation and all evil, Dragged Into Realms Below is a rampaging beast spawned from the rotten womb of early Scandinavian death. Savage tracks like ‘Congregation Of Disease’ are rife with riffs infused with horror and arcane ritual, devilish and dark. From the absolute inferno of ‘Dying To Be Dead’ to the malignant majesty of the album’s concluding, title track, via the glorious atmospheric lead work of ‘Compulsive Cannibalism’, Dragged Into Realms Below is everything a death metal album should be. Complete with a feral, snarling guitar tone, drums like hammers on coffin lids and a voice that speaks from the abyssal pits of the underworld, no death metal addict will be able to resist the lure of this gut wrenching poison.
Adorned in the masterful artwork of Bram Bruyneel (Officium Triste, Hideous Divinity etc) Dragged Into Realms Below will be unleashed upon the world on June 10th by Xtreem Music, who are fast becoming a byword for brilliance when it comes to supreme old school death metal! When this out of control hearse comes careering out of the night this summer, be prepared for total annihilation!
Line-up:
Chope666 - Drums
Vicar Miggoat - Guitars
Nihilist - Guitars/Backing Vocals
Putrid Worm - Vocals
L.F. Molestor – Bass
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/deathgoatdeathmetal
FFO
: Coldworker,
Gadget, Nasum & Rotten Sound.
The second single 'DEATH PAYS IT ALL' is released today and the lyric video is available here: https://youtu.be/DlpcScU6zSg
The band comments:
" ”Death Pays It All", the second single from the new I, Cursed EP to be released later this autumn. "Death Pays It All" continues what the first single from the upcoming EP, "Disfigurement", offered in the form of furious death metal and grindcore. "Death Pays It All" is a dynamic and, to some extent, distorted melodic depiction of how the seductive call of death drives the mind down into the depths and darkness. "Death Pays It All" is complemented by a darkly soothing lyric video produced by Soft Neon Audiovisual."
Listen to the 'Death Pays It All' single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/i-cursed-death
Watch music video of first single 'Disfigurement': https://youtu.be/NlR4xJvdzlg
Biography:
Combining angry and furious death metal and grindcore, I, Cursed, from the Pori / Ulvila area, is a brutal dredging of Ville-Veikko Laaksonen and Eero Haula, known from Atlases, Marto and Oceanwake, among others, which is fed to the Finnish metal scene in an atonal coldness. I, Cursed's music is a mix of something old and familiar, the HM-2 sound of Swedish grind, and somewhat more modern and crushing production. The line-up of the band in July 2024 is completed by guitarist Nico Brander from Marto and drummer Arttu Leppänen from Atlases and Marto.
Listen to previous EP Death Holograms: https://push.fm/fl/icursed-death
Line-up:
Eero Haula - Vocals (Oceanwake)
Ville-Veikko Laaksonen - Bass & guitar (Atlases, Marto)
Nico Brander - Guitar (Blood Service, Marto)
Arttu Leppänen - Drums (Atlases, Marto)
Discography:
I, Cursed / Blood Service S/T Split EP 2023 (Meara Music)
Bloodsoaked / Storm Parade Double Single 2023 (Meara Music)
Blades Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Sorrower Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Holograms Single & EP 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Disfigurement Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Pays It All Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
https://www.facebook.com/I.Cursed.Grind
ECASTOR - "THIS WAR"
CD Limited to 300 copies
Release date June, 27th 2025
Tracklist:
01 - Enter The Spaceship [01:39]
02 - Space Marines [02:52]
03 - Silence [03:49]
04 - Docmicide [03:14]
05 - Land Of Fire [04:07]
06 - Slepnir [04:28]
07 - DDT [02:08]
08 - This War [03:56]
09 - Outro [00:31]
Mix and master by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
Cover art dwawed by Benedetto Palmaro.
Cover made by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
The songs were composed by all members.
Layout made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Lyric video and promotion by Danihell Slaughter.
MURDER RECORDS ( www.murder-records.eu ) is pleased to announce the release of the debut album by Italian band Ecastor, titled "This War", on June 27, 2025 and that will be distributed in the the European Devision by Hellstore Europe and in the North American Devision by Southern Soundclash Records and Guts And Blood Records.
Ecastor is a new band that presents a promising sound where we can find a nefarious savagery of Thrash Death Metal riffs tormented by decadence that reveals a disturbed society, transporting us to human self-destruction where the reality of political hypocrisy with the lies of religion are the infernal fuel for an inhuman devastation on this planet ready to explode.
The debut album that Ecastor is preparing to release with the horrendous support of Murder Records is decomposed into seven purulent hymns, complemented with an Intro and a Outro, which will decimating us with their impure sonority soaked in the lacerating atrocities of inhuman ideologies and where tears of rotten blood will be shed.
The sound presented by Ecastor is played with fast rhythms and dark atmospheres where the main in?uences become from bands like Mortuary Drape, Sodom, Necrodeath ready to devastate your soul and ripping your body apart.
INHUMAN ATROCITIES OF THRASH DEATH METAL...
Line-Up
Dante: Vocals,Guitar
Leonardo: Guitar
Yuri: Bass
Askios(Enea): Drums
https://linktr.ee/Ecastor.band
Italian Brutal Death Metal squad, PUTRIDITY, in partnership with Toilet ov Hell, is pleased to present the premiere of "IN DISGUST THEY SHINE," the second single from forthcoming album, MORBID ATARAXIA! Stream it below!
"In Disgust They Shine" will be out June 6 on all digital platforms.
Morbid Ataraxia, the band's fourth full-length album, releases June 27 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats via Willowtip Records!
In summing up the album's theme, the band notes that Morbid Ataraxia addresses "the oxymoronic nature of humanity." As one might expect, given the trail of corpses left from previous assaults, said theme is undergirded by PUTRIDITY's take-no-prisoners approach to brutal death metal.
No nonsense. No compromise.
Track
Listing:
1. Prenatal Obituary
2. Mors Mater Nostra
3. In Disgust They Shine
4. Adipocere Retribution
5. Molten Mirrors Of The Subjugated
6. Morbid Ataraxia
7. Overflowing Mortal Smell
8. Immersed In The Spell Of Death
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/morbidataraxia-willowtip
https://bit.ly/morbidataraxia-bandcamp
Album Credits:
Morbid Ataraxia was recorded in 2024.
Guitars and bass reamped by Andy Testori at Street Rec Studio.
Mixed by Luca Minieri at Dissonant Studio.
Mastered at Hertz Studio.
Additional vocals on Rotted Divinity(Enmity cover) by Mikko Friberg from Torsofuck.
Cover artwork by Paolo Girardi. Inlay artwork by Caleb Diederich.
Layout by Paola Carraro.
All music by Putridity.
Line-up:
Andrea Piro - Vocals
Andrea PutridCiccio - Guitar/backing vocals
Manuel Lucchini - Guitar
Giancarlo Mendo - Bass
Cedric Malebolgia - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/PUTRIDITY.OFFICIAL
BRINICLE`S – “PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY” is an auditory exploration of consciousness, blending Groove and Technical Death Metal with world music and each member’s distinctive artistic vision. Built through a fully collaborative process, the album delivers a raw yet melodic balance, seamlessly shifting between pummeling intensity and expressive harmonies. Thematically, Perceptions of Reality is an invitation to reflect on the fleeting nature of existence, a concept woven through philosophical musings, personal experiences, and intricate storytelling. Each track serves as a mirror, challenging the listener to question, explore, and embrace their reality. With this release, Brinicle not only marks a new chapter in their artistic evolution but also cements their place as an innovative force in modern metal, pushing genre boundaries while staying true to their underground roots.
The digital album's release date is 20 June 2025.
Track
list
1. Pandemic
2. Deep Trip
3. Almost Gods
4. Brinicle
5. Concept Of Destruction
6. Human Predation
7. Burning Slowly
8. Blink
Hailing from Bogotá, Colombia, Brinicle merges the raw power of Groove and Death Metal with world music
influences, creating a dynamic and thought-provoking sonic experience. Their lyrics, deeply inspired by literature and philosophy, elevate their music beyond mere aggression—offering listeners a journey through introspection and existential reflection.
Brinicle’s rhythmic foundation is built on groove-driven intensity and crushing death metal ferocity, while their melodies and harmonies—woven through guitars, vocals, and intricate instrumentation—flow seamlessly, shaped by the diverse musical backgrounds of each member. This fusion results in a sound that is more than just the sum of its parts—a visceral and cerebral experience that challenges the listener to think, feel, and awaken.
www.youtube.com/@BrinicleMetalBand
www.facebook.com/BrinicleMetal
Swedish horrorpunks LEFT HAND BLACK have unveiled the first single off their upcoming new album "LEFT HAND BLACK 3: DEATH CAN'T KEEP US APART" WHICH will be released via The Circle Music on 22 September in Transparent Blue Vinyl, Digi CD, and Digital formats.
Watch the video to the track “Murder on My Mind Again” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyspIybHdQs
Listen to the single via digital platforms: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/MurderOnMyMindAgain
The album is now available for pre-order via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=left-hand-black
Digital pre-save: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/DeathCantKeepUsApart
"Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" was recorded at Welfare Sounds studios in March 2024 by Per Stålberg and Kalle Lilja, who also produced the album alongside the band. The mixing was done by Per Stålberg, Kalle Lilja, and Mario Dahmen, and mastered by Mario Dahmen at Liquid Aether Audio. The album boasts guest appearances from Nim Vind, who lends his vocals and lead guitar prowess to the title track, "Death Can't Keep Us Apart" and Per Stålberg, who contributes guest vocals on "Why Do I Kill Everything I Love". Adding an eerie touch is Mario Dahmen on the organ for "Doomed Romance On A Summer Night".
The striking visual elements of the album are brought to life with layout design by Bernd Gunwald, the cover art by Frank Walls, and atmospheric band photos captured by Ola Åkerborn with assistance from Kyra Fiedler Wretmarks Foto.
The band said:
“We’re very proud of this album. We think we’ve succeeded in creating something new with the songs while still maintaining the same red thread as in our previous records. All the guys in the band make outstanding contributions, each leaving their unique mark on the songs. Hans sings better than ever. Anton's rhythmic drumming makes even the dead want to dance, Johan holds the foundation like the pillars of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Jonathan flutters on his guitar like a never-before-seen bird species from the depths of the Amazon.”
Tracklist:
1. Murder on my mind again
2. I walk the city
3. Death can´t keep us apart
4. Damned love
5. Wolf's eye
6. Breeding ground for the lost souls
7. Doomed romance on a summer night
8. In the center of my heart
9. All these monsters
10. Six feet under ground
11. Each dawn I die
12. Divided by the pain
13. Why do I kill everything I love
14. Octopussy From Outer Space (Bonus Track)
Formed in the spring of 2019 on an island just outside Gothenburg, Left Hand Black brings together the formidable talents of Hans Hagström and Jonathan Jansson (formerly of The Dead Next Door) with Johan Hansson and Anton Zachrisson (from Overdrive Solution). Their sound is a potent brew of old-school melodic horror punk and rock, drawing inspiration from iconic bands such as Misfits, Ramones and Bad Religion.
Left Hand Black have carved a reputation with their previous releases: their self-titled debut in 2020 via Wolverine Records and their 2022 follow-up, "Lower Than Satan" through Sunny Bastard Records/Sick Taste Records. Now, with "Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" they aim to solidify their position as purveyors of infectious horror-infused punk anthems. As the band have declared: "We prove that we can write hits and are an insanely good live band that takes no prisoners and celebrates a hellish party with you in the graveyard."
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
https://linktr.ee/Lefthandblack
https://www.facebook.com/Lefthandblackhorrorpunk/
Italian Heavy Metal stalwarts METAL DETEKTOR finally reveal all about their next full "VIOLENCE AND PRIDE": the album, already anticipated by the single "Shadowrunner" ( https://www.notnoise.co/link/metal-detektor-shadowrunner), is scheduled to be released on June 20 in a limited CD edition on Rude Awakening Records.
FFO: Jag Panzer, Judas Priest, Accept...
“Violence and Pride” comes five years after the last full-length "The Battle of Daytona" and four years after the EP "Maximum Overdrive," continuing to explore the roots of pure Heavy Metal, while at the same time evolving the band's sound with more reflective writing and a narrative that becomes more intimate and personal. The whole album has been produced at renowned KK Recording Studio (Italy).
In the meantime, the new single 'Grendel Returns' has been released, revealing the more combative soul of the band and the album cover, created by the artist Mirko Cozza.
Tracklist:
1.Sister Gone Mad
2. Grendel Returns
3. Shadowrunner
4. Violence and Pride
5. Kok Ború
6. Strongest Heart
7. Wild Frontier
8. Living for the Thrill
Pre-orders for “Violence and Pride” already active at rudeawakening.records@yahoo.com and the album will also be available on all major streaming platforms. A record set to bring back the glory of Heavy Metal!
https://linktr.ee/rudeawakeningrecords
https://www.facebook.com/DETECTINGMETAL
WRITTEN IN BLOOD – “ BLACK WIDOW WALPURGA”
Dutch death metal band WRITTEN IN BLOOD have unleashed their crushing new single “Black Widow Walpurga”, now available on all major streaming platforms.
Fans of Hypocrisy, Bolt Thrower, Unleashed, and God Dethroned will feel right at home with WRITTEN IN BLOOD’s intense and narrative-driven death metal.
The song is the first chapter of a brutal two-part concept based on the terrifying true story of Walpurga Hausmännin, a 16th-century midwife accused of witchcraft, demonic pacts, and the murder of over 40 children.
“With ‘Black Widow Walpurga,’ we wanted to bring this forgotten nightmare to
life through sound,” comments Beef, vocalist and bass player of WRITTEN
IN BLOOD. “The story is horrifying. It fits perfectly with the dark atmosphere
and heaviness we strive for in our music.”
Driven by punishing riffs, guttural vocals, and tight, thunderous production, “Black Widow Walpurga” is a relentless blend of old-school death metal and chilling storytelling. The track was mixed and mastered by Henri Sattler (God Dethroned), giving the band’s sound a sharp and crushing edge.
“We put a lot of effort into the production to make sure every hit lands with full impact,” says Beef. “This is one of our most intense tracks to date.”
The song closes with a slow, haunting section, deliberately setting the stage for part two of the story. The second part will be featured on the band’s upcoming full-length album.
“This is just chapter one,” the band adds. “The second part will take Walpurga’s tale to its bitter, gruesome end.”
Formed in 2019 by former members of God Dethroned and Mandator, WRITTEN IN BLOOD was later joined by ex-members of Morte Aeterna and Procreation. The band draws from the spirit of classic 90s death metal, blending it with themes from myth, folklore, and ancient history to create an atmospheric yet crushing sound.
Their debut album “Written in Blood” (2022) received strong praise from the European metal press. Rock Hard (DE) described it as “rough, dark, abysmal,” while Rock Tribune (BE) called it “excellent song material that sounds overwhelming and heavy.”
WRITTEN IN BLOOD are:
Bert "Beef" Hoving – Bass & Vocals
Marcel Heutink – Rhythm Guitar
Jeffrey Zwart – Lead Guitar
Jos Eggens – Drums
https://writteninblood.nl/
https://www.facebook.com/bloodwritten/
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: August 8th 2025
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Deeds Of Flesh |In Asymmetry | Incinerate
In his ravenous pursuit of the essence of wickedness he has incinerated even the cold ashes of his empathy and become a scientist, an artist, in his dedication to the instigation of absolute despair in others. With his soulless yet remarkably creative invention he has invoked revelatory levels of agony and raging flames of torment beyond imagining. He has meticulously aroused states of being in his subjects wherein the memory of mere pain becomes a dream, an unattainable nirvana. And with each bloody step along his path he calls out to the powers he reveres – notice me, elevate me, transform me – but as yet, they remain silent.
Darren Cesca, drummer with Goratory, Eschaton and previously Deeds Of Flesh, has returned with the second album from his unconscionably brutal solo project, Cytolysis. Surge Of Cruelty is constructed from eleven sonic acts of torture, where twisted technicality and methodical precision collide with frenzied explosions of fury and unnerving alien atmospheres. From the psychotic dissection of opening gambit, ‘Your Slow Demise’, the listener is led ever deeper into an inescapable labyrinth of terror. An arcane aura bleeds through the cracks between the devilish riffs of the title track, ‘Surge Of Cruelty’, while ‘A Blood Soaked Offering’, featuring a shockingly inhuman guest vocal performance from Brian Forgue (Syphilic etc), is relentless, merciless in its stabbing assault. Forgue is not the only guest vocalist, with throat ripping contributions also being made by Adam Mason of Goratory, Mac Smith of Apogean and Eschaton and Flo Butcher of Tortured and Vile infamy. Perhaps the most intense and scarring track though is delivered by Cesca alone; saved til last ‘Hung From The Rafters’ ensures that an indelible mark is left on the consciousness, a wound that will never heal, suppurating in the mind through every passing day.
Surge Of Cruelty was also mixed and mastered by Darren Cesca – a role he has fulfilled for the likes of In Asymmetry, Pillory and Goratory – and the overwhelming force, intricate riffs and deep, destructive bass tones have been captured perfectly. Adorned in the hypnotically horrifying artwork of Vladimir Cebakov (Six Feet Under, 1914, DeadHead etc), that taps directly into the vein of vicious indifference that pulses beneath the cold skin of Surge Of Cruelty, this second barbaric testament from Cytolysis will be unleashed by Comatose Music on August 8th. Prepare to be flattened by this shuddering juggernaut of torment!
Line-up:
Darren Cesca – all music and vocals
guest vocals on:-
Devout Sacrifice by Mac Smith
A Blood-Soaked Offering by Brian Forgue
Tortured Flesh by Adam Mason
Mark of the Demons by Flo Butcher
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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Label: Pitch Black Records
Release date: June 20th 2025
Genre: Epic Heavy Metal
For fans of: Iron Maiden | Manowar | Doomsword | Omen
Line-up:
Kostas Tokas - Vocals
Stathis Pavlantis - Guitars
John Litinakis - Bass
Giorgos Pavlantis - Drums
*additional orchestration by Kostas Rekleitis
Track-list:
01 - Only The Swords Survive
02 - The Battles I Have Won
03 - Lord Of The Wind
04 - Sirens’ Song
05 - Once Again (Crime In The Valley Of Death)
06 - Celestial War
07 - March Of The Argonauts
08 - Lady In The Water
09 - City Walls Of Malta – The Great Siege
It has been eight years since Reflection released their last album, Bleed Babylon Bleed, but now the Greek champions of epic heavy metal have returned! The silence is shattered by the sound of thunder as The Battles I Have Won comes galloping out of the darkness. True legends of the Greek heavy metal scene, Reflection have been active for more than three decades and unveiled their debut album, The Fire Still Burns back in 1999. The band still feature founding member, guitarist Stathis Pavlantis and his brother George Pavlantis who hammered the drums of doom on The Fire Still Burns and has been the rhythm master for Reflection ever since. With their comrades in blood and battle, long standing bassist John Litinakis and magnificent new vocalist Kostas Tokas (who made a guest appearance on the track ‘Stormbringer’ from Bleed Babylon Bleed), the Pavlantis brothers have delivered what will surely come to be regarded as Reflection’s finest album to date.
A first track from The Battles I Have Won was revealed at the beginning of March and ‘Lord Of The Wind’ was met with a rapturous response from fans who watched the unveiling of its accompanying lyric video. Full of drama and emotion, with breathtaking guitar work and an irresistible chorus, ‘Lord Of The Wind’ is the epitome of heroic heavy metal – and yet it is just a glimpse of all that The Battles I Have Won has to offer. From the searing energy of exhilarating opener, ‘Only The Swords Survive’ through to the Homeric majesty and narrative mastery of the concluding ‘City Walls Of Malta – The Great Siege’, The Battles I Have Won scales so many towering peaks. The pride and passion of the album’s stunning title track, the dark, beguiling melodies of ‘Sirens’ Song’, the inspiring, heart-lifting adventure of ‘March Of The Argonauts’…every song is a highlight in its own right and The Battles I Have Won is a paradise for those whose hearts still burn with the flame of heavy metal.
Every aspect of The Battles I Have Won has been carefully curated to form part of the band’s overall vision for this, their magnum opus. The orchestration work by Kostas Rekleitis has brought additional depth and atmosphere to each tale as it unfolds, the spectacular cover artwork created by Alexandros Vasilopoulos (Battleroar etc) draws the listener into Reflection’s world of myth, legend and history, while the sound captured by the band’s own Stathis Pavlantis at Dark Water Audio (Marauder, Achelous, Power Crue, Darklon etc) is warm and richly textured, vibrant, vital and alive! Selected members of the Greek media were treated to a pre-release listen to the album on April 13th and soon the world will know why they were so excited by what they heard!
On June 20th Reflection will return to the field of conflict with The Battles I Have Won. Pitch Black Records will release the album on CD and digital formats, while Vinylstore.gr will present a vinyl edition – with special vinyl mastering, under exclusive license from Pitch Black Records.
https://www.pitchblackrecords.com/
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BRUTAL RECORDS proudly welcomes SODOMIC BAPTISM, the unstoppable force of Belarusian Death Metal, to our roster! Their latest sonic assault, "CONTRA CHRISTUM," unleashes nine relentless tracks of crushing brutality, technical precision, and pure death metal devastation.
Release Date: June 20, 2025 Available Worldwide – Digital via The Orchard & Physical Formats
Prepare for obliteration as Sodomic Baptism delivers their most ferocious and uncompromising release yet! Stay tuned for exclusive previews, merch drops, and brutal updates!
One of Belarus’ most relentless and uncompromising forces in death metal, SODOMIC BAPTISM, returns with their full-length offering, Contra Christum. Steeped in the essence of true Satanic brutal metal, this album is a furious assault of technical precision, unyielding brutality, and apocalyptic atmosphere.
With Contra Christum, the band refuses to abandon their old-school roots, yet they push their sound into darker, more unrelenting extremes. Balancing savage, high-speed offensives with calculated, crushing sections, the album delivers both pure aggression and sophisticated composition. Tracks like Posthumous Rebirth and Adepts of Chaos accelerate into blistering chaos, while doomy passages inject a brooding, sinister weight. This isn’t just extremity for extremity’s sake—it’s calculated devastation, executed with precision.
Fans of relentless, technical, and oppressive death metal will find Contra Christum to be an essential listen. This is a record that reveals its darkest nuances with every play—fearsome, powerful, and utterly consuming.
Watch now: The official music video for "Adepts of Chaos", a crushing track from SODOMIC BAPTISM’s upcoming album Contra Christum, exclusively on Brutal Records' YouTube channel!
About SODOMIC BAPTISM
Formed in 2014 by Alexis and Alex Tetin, the band was built on themes of Metaphysical Evil, Hell, Darkness, and Chaos. For SODOMIC BAPTISM, Satan is not just a symbol of rebellion but the embodiment of freedom, justice, and infinite knowledge. Their music is an exploration of the abyss—a confrontation with the self beyond servitude and blind faith.
Discography:
Black Fire Pandemonium (2014) – EP
Womb Ov Sheol (2017) – Split
Black Fire Pandemonium (2017) – Full-length
Contra Christum (2025) – Full-length
Tracklist
1. Antipsalm: Purification Inthrough Antichrist
2. Posthumous Rebirth
3. Bloody Redemption
4. LCF
5. The Witches Laughter
6. Adepts of Chaos
7. Belial: The Path to Knowledge of the Abyss
8. Resurrection Outhrough Renunciation of Grace
9. The Transcendence of Existence
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://www.youtube.com/@sodomic_baptism
https://www.facebook.com/SodomicBaptism/
NEWS 31.5.2025
"Suppressed Horror“ – roh, unheilig und ungezähmt! Das
Biest erwacht! Mit "SUPPRESSED HORROR“ veröffentlicht DARK
INDICATION am 27. Juni 2025 ihr Debütalbum – kompromisslos, düster und
unheilig. Acht Tracks, die tief in die Abgründe des Menschseins blicken und ein
klangliches Inferno entfesseln, das irgendwo zwischen Verzweiflung und Wut
oszilliert. Dieses Album ist mehr als Musik – es ist ein Horror-Theaterstück
für die Ohren.
Nach intensiven Monaten der Isolation und harter Studioarbeit manifestiert sich das Ergebnis in einem Sound, der klassischen Death Metal konsequent weiterdenkt: old-school Brutalität trifft auf moderne Einflüsse, durchsetzt mit einer diabolischen Prise Groove. Das Ergebnis: unverkennbar DARK INDICATION!
Produziert wurde das Album gemeinsam mit den Flatliners in Ingolstadt, das finale Sound-Finishing übernahm Tobias Schill Media. Für das Artwork zeichnet Jason De Nisi vom Handwerk Tattoo Studio Ingolstadt verantwortlich – düster, verstörend und perfekt zum Klangbild passend.
"Das Album spiegelt wider, was in vielen von uns brodelt – das Unausgesprochene, das Unverarbeitete. Wir haben das in Sound gegossen.“ – Michael Slavitski (Rhythmusgitarre)
Der Titeltrack "Suppressed Horror“ entstand in einer Zeit innerer Zerrissenheit, persönlicher Kämpfe und gesellschaftlicher Abgründe. Isolation, psychische Belastung und der Drang, all das kreativ zu verarbeiten, prägen das gesamte Werk. Die Texte sind gespickt mit Symbolik, beeinflusst von H. P. Lovecraft und durchdrungen von nihilistischer Lyrik.
"Es ist Musik gegen die Ohnmacht.“ – Jonas Liebl (Vocals)
Die Release-Show findet am 26. Juli 2025 im Basement (Großmehring bei Ingolstadt) statt – gemeinsam mit GUTFUCK, DEATH IN FICTION und FEACES CHRIST. Ein Abend voller Energie, Härte und Atmosphäre, an dem die ungezügelte Wucht von "Suppressed Horror“ der Menschheit unauslöschlich ins Gedächtnis gebrannt wird!
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Hungarian Death Metal juggernaut SIN OF GOD has unleashed their ferocious new album “BLOOD BOUND”, now available on CD and digital via Pest Records and Metal Ör Die Records.
Grab your copy here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sin-of-god-blood-bound
A sonic onslaught of apocalyptic proportions, "Blood Bound" is a seven-track conceptual descent into the most harrowing corners of the human psyche. With unrelenting riffs, guttural precision, and lyrics steeped in vengeance, spiritual collapse, and existential dread, this album reaffirms Sin Of God's place among the fiercest forces in Eastern European Death Metal.
Tracks like "The Unbelief", "Cerebral Malfunction", and "Black Waves" confront listeners with both musical devastation and philosophical weight, while the title track "Blood Bound" stands as a manifesto of rage and resistance.
Mastermind Tamás Schupkégel delivers an intense lyrical journey through personal, spiritual, and societal ruin, elevating the album beyond brutality into an experience of transformation and catharsis.
Album Details
Release Date: May 19, 2025
Format: CD / Digital
Labels: Pest Records / Metal Ör Die Rex
Music: Sin Of God
Lyrics: Tamás Schupkégel
Recording Studio: Denevér Hangstúdió, Hungary
Tracklist:
1. Blood Bound
2. Black Waves
3. No Return
4. The Unbelief
5. Diabolical Agitation
6. Obolus
7. Cerebral Malfunction
Prepare for a descent into darkness, Sin Of God have returned, and they are Blood Bound.
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https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://sinofgod.bandcamp.com/
French Chaotic Hardcore Powerhouse BTK Unleashes New Video “FÉTIDE” from 'SAUVAGERIE' album .
FFO : All Pigs Must Die, Converge, Napalm Death, Sect, Trap Them...
Out
now on CD, LP, K7 & Digital via Breathe Plastic, Dahlia Noir Records & The Hills Are Dead..
With nine tracks of relentless aggression and bleak, visceral narratives, Sauvagerie cements BTK’s place as a dominant force in the underground hardcore scene.
The album is available now on CD, with LP, tape, and digital releases coming this fall via Breathe Plastic Records, Dahlia Noir Records, and The Hills Are Dead Records. It is also available for full and heavy streaming on Bandcamp.
...For the record...
BTK (Bind Torture Kill) is a chaotic hardcore trio from Lyon, France, formed in 2010. Consisting of a drummer, guitarist, and screamer, the band originally started with a bassist but transitioned into a trio in 2015 after several lineup changes. Known for their love of heavy, chaotic sound, BTK delivers intense performances with French lyrics often narrating the grim tales of serial killers and violent crimes.
In 2013, they self-released their debut EP, and in 2015, they followed up with their first album, Condamné. By 2018, their second album, Viscères, was released through WOOAAARGH! (Germany), Troffea (France/Switzerland), and Hell-J Industries (France). With Viscères, the band's sound took on a heavier edge, using a guitar setup routed through three amps—two guitar amps and a bass amp enhanced with an octaver pedal to create a more massive, dense sound.
Over time, their style shifted from a blend of death and mathcore to a darker, chaotic hardcore infused with punk, crust, grind, and black metal influences.
In 2023, BTK recorded their third album, Sauvagerie, at Warmaudio in Décines, with mastering handled by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East, Boston. Maintaining the same guitar setup, but adding the HM2 pedal, the album marks a significant evolution in their sound. Sauvagerie is darker and more brutal, featuring a dirtier tone, faster tempos, and a relentless mix of aggressive breaks and crushing riffs, highlighting the band's raw, savage energy.
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The Gothic Doom Metal band HYLDR from Belgium just released a premiere video on Youtube for Tattered Lanterns. A unique acoustic performance in a very special place, the Natural History Museum of Tournai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bTVaTQeDh0
Formed in 2021 whose music focuses on an ethereal approach to morbid themes.
The name HYLDR is a reference to a valkyrie that one character wishes she could
become in a book written by singer Lady IX. That book is used as a template for song concepts and is about a Japanese woman who ends up in the middle of a viking turmoil. In that story there are elements of the supernatural combined with doses of Greek tragedy.
Visually, the band intrigues. Dressed in a black kimono, masked, Lady IX comments :
“The mask has been a transitional process. The half mask is practical for singing, while also being a gateway to the story of Kyoko and the Norsemen; reality and fantasy all in one.”
The first album ‘ORDER OF THE MIST’ was released on Malpemesita Records.
Hyldr unveils a unique acoustic performance, filmed inside the Natural History Museum of Tournai.
LadyIX welcomes the band, sings with them… then poisons them.Their final form?
Preserved and displayed—forever part of the collection.This session features ‘Tattered Lanterns’, the acoustic reimagining of our song ‘Like Dying Ferns’.
A dark and intimate version of the Hyldr's music, recorded in a place where time stands still. With the kind support ofChristophe & Lucy – Natural History Museum and Vivarium of Tournai.
Additional footage by CaroPictures of band members by Metallic TV and Tastoux.
The Hyldr’s debut album Order of the Mist is still available on all streaming platforms and available Malpermesita’s shop: https://malpermesita.shop/product/hyldr-order-of-the-mist
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oviDQkkvOtA
The band explained that "The Grim Reaper's Tears" delves into the intricate emotions and internal conflict of Death personified as the Grim Reaper. The lyrics explore a character often feared and misunderstood, portraying him as empathetic despite being the harbinger of death. The song depicts him feeling the sorrow and anguish of those whose lives he claims, silently observing the devastation of war with deep sadness as he guides fallen souls to the afterlife.
The new album from When Nothing Remains is set to explore the complexities of contemporary life through a series of interconnected stories, with each song offering a unique narrative.
When Nothing Remains is a Swedish doom/death metal band with members from bands
such as Nox Aurea, The Cold Existence, Rimfrost, Draconian, Doom: VS.
The When Nothing Remains idea was born in late 2010 when Peter Laustsen and Jan Sallander wanted to create something very dark and emotional. In 2011, Jonas Toxen jumped in for the drums and Johan Ericson "Draconian, Doom VS, Shadowgarden" for the clean vocals, mixing and mastering.
Their first album “As All Torn Asunder” was released in 2012 on the Russian label Solitude Productions, followed by “Thy Dark Serenity” (2013) and In “Memoriam” (2016).
In 2024 the band signed with The Circle Music for the release of their new album "Echoes of Eternal Night". This album has a darker approach than previous albums, but can still be recognised as a When Nothing Remains album.
When Nothing Remains line-up
Peter Laustsen: Guitar, Lead guitar, Bass, Recording, Mixing and Mastering
Jan Sallander: All Vocals, Rhythm guitar, Orchestral and Lyrics
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
https://www.facebook.com/whennothingremainsofficial/
Technical death metal band Eschaton's highly awaited new album is out now and streaming on all platforms. It's one of those rare cases where the glorified lineup does justice to the quality of music - it's actually damn good. The album is has been extremely well received in the press as well as by the fans all over, with many deeming it one of the albums of the year. The full album stream can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en2iAZVkYz4
ESCHATON– “TECHTALITARIAN”
Technical
death metal band Eschaton return after a gap of six years with a
reinvigorated, star-studded line-up that undoubtedly elevates their sound to
hitherto unexplored heights. They have none other than Christian Münzner
formerly of Obscura and Necrophagist accompanying the band
founder Josh Berry on guitars. For the vocals, they have enlisted the services
of Mac Smith of Apogean and Abyssalis and for the bass,
they have brought on Scott Bradly from Inanimate Existence while
Darren Cesca of Pillory and formerly in Deeds of Flesh and Arsis continues
to hold down the fort on drums. Most importantly, this line-up sounds just as
devastating on this album as it does on paper. They have contributed to
creating a tech death album that can stand on its own and does not have to be
necessarily pitted against any of the aforementioned bands' past efforts. The
members excel in their own specialized ways and they manage to make it work.
It is meticulously and passionately put together which is all too apparent in the music that can be dizzyingly fast and mind-bogglingly technical but also groovy and memorable while being on the whole diverse yet dynamic and pulsating with energy. It is not just music meant for the tech death fans; it is music that will invariably get them excited. As such, this should be regarded as an landmark album in the style, with the presence of the illustrious members in the lineup not taking away from the irrefutable fact that this is indeed great tech death music.
Line up
Mac Smith - Vocals (Apogean, Abyssalis, Hammer of Dawn)
Christian Muenzner - Lead Guitar (Retromorphosis, Eternity's End, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Obscura, ex-Alkaloid)
Josh Berry - Guitar (Eschaton founder)
Darren Cesca - Drums (Goratory, Serpents of Gnosis, Pillory, Ex-Deeds of Flesh, Ex-Arsis)
Scott Bradley - Bass (Inanimate Existence)
Artwork by Dave Melvin
Track listing
1. Inferior Superior
2. Devour the Contrarian
3. Blood of the People
4. Hellfire's Woe
5. The Bellicose Duality
6. Econocracy
7. Antimatter
8. Techtalitarian
9. The Sufferer's Dichotomy
10. Castle Strnad
Release date - May 30th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/eschatonmetal
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: August 29th 2025
Genre: Metalcore
For fans of: Killswitch Engage | Times Of Grace | Bleeding Through | Refiner
We surround ourselves with vast empty vessels; stone edifices without meaning, structures of steel and glass that strive to pierce the azure blue perfection of the firmament. Challenging, defying, honouring nothing but our own self perceived greatness and worth, our destructive dominion over the Earth. Like enraged children driven by raw emotion we scream out our demands and expectations, building our towers, our weapons, our resource sapping follies…our monuments to nothing.
Featuring the combined talents of American musician Corey Stiles and Dutch vocalist and musician Arnaud Zijp, Exoneration is a metalcore project that spans oceans and continents. They were signed by Rottweiler Records at the beginning of December 2024, contributing a track to the label’s customary selection of festive singles and are now ready to unveil their colossal debut full length album, Monuments to Nothing. Opening with the squirming, snarling riffs and supremely aggressive vocal attack of ‘The Abyss We Crown’, a song that grows as it progresses, adding layers and dimensions, threads of melody, Exoneration set their stall out straight away; Monuments To Nothing is going to offer a multitude of different elements and emotions, but when it’s heavy it’s going to hurt! Following the choral vocals of ‘Psalm 115’ first single ‘Basilisk’, featuring a guest appearance from fellow metalcore performer Candlebearer, seems to hit twice as hard. It’s immediate, effective, intense and furious with some slower sections that absolutely crush. Another of the album’s finest tracks though is ‘Soul Of A Great Warrior’ – which utilises a very different sonic palette. A fascinating instrumental, ‘Soul Of A Great Warrior’ brings together huge bass tones, exhilarating solos, sublime sections of tranquil melody and passages of absolutely pulverizing power. These contrasts of sound, this willingness to spread their wings and soar over different landscapes is what gives Exoneration their particular identity and individual sound. From the muscular force of ‘Thorn’ with its incredibly visceral screams to the rich, melody infused riffs of ‘Martyr’, with its huge chorus, there are many faces to this monument to nothing.
Rottweiler Records will release Monuments To Nothing on August 29th, housed in the portentous artwork of Barnaby Oakley (Reaper, Underking etc) and the international alliance of Exoneration is sure to make waves throughout the global metalcore scene. Exoneration’s stated goal is to deliver “a sound that’s as diverse as it is uncompromising” and they have achieved that in no uncertain terms. Be ready to open your mind to a metalcore listening experience that’s prepared to step outside the lines and offer something different.
Line-up:
Corey Stiles – Guitar, programming, vocals
Arnaud Zijp – Vocals, programming
guest vocals on ‘Basilisk’ by Candlebearer
guest vocals on ‘Where Else Should We Go’ by Hillyn
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
http://www.exoneration.band/
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Genre : Melodic Doom Metal
FFO: Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Wolfheart, Gaerea.
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music | May 30th 2025
Melodic doomsters LA CERVA unveil their first self-titled effort. The EP consists in three tunes.
The line-up features Daniele Porfido - of Dismal fame - and shows the qualities of a songwriting dark and pensive, but always focused on melody. Through the somber atmospheres the listener can also recognize some touches of contemporary black metal and classic melodeath. La Cerva is already currently working on a full album to be released during 2026 and setting up their live campaign for selected events.
Sale points:
A solid backbone of 90's Melodic/Gothic Doom in the vein of "The Peaceville Three";
Melodic finishing touches coming from finnish melodic death metal and modern black metal;
With Daniele Porfido from Dismal (Aural Music);
Tracklist:
1. Cosmic Down
2. New Eclipse
3. Stardust
Artwork and Logo by Aram Kalaydijan
La Cerva is:
Dani P. - guitars
Steve Pan - vocals
Stefano D.L. – bass
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MURDER RECORDS is honored to present VULTÜR, a young band freshly exhumed at the unholy cemeteries from Milan in Italy.
VULTÜR present a voracious butcher's symphony, where we can be devoured by a unleashing raw power with a relentless energy, fusing the elements of Thrash Death Metal embraced with the fury of Hardcore, duly forged in a sonic storm that will leave you breathless and that intends to dismember us with the sharped blades swings without mercy.
The atrocious tombs are already open, where the bleeding flesh starting releasing the nauseating odors to announces VULTÜR's debut EP entitled "Necrophagy", which will feature with five decompositions, duly moldy in the fetid underworld and where our cadaver can slowly rot inside the coffin in this necrophilic ritual that Murder Records is preparing and that will be served on the funeral altar to feed the cadaveric worms with our filthy rotten remains.
Deadly Perversion On... Wish You Well Off...
VULTÜR - "NECROPHAGY"
MCD Limited to 300 copies
Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Labyrinyh Of The Lost Souls [1:33]
02 - Necrophagy [3:34]
03 - Prison Of Flesh [4:55]
04 - Vein Cutters [3:14]
05 - The Butcher's Simphony [3:54]
Lyrics writen by Fabio Valsecchi.
Mixing and mastering by Riccardo Massa.
Logo made by Riccardo Massa.
Cover artwork by Fabio Fontana.
Recordings and work supervision by Morgan Segatore.
Space provider at CSA Baraonda by Francesco Giorgi.
VULTÜR photographs by Marco Pasqua.
Lyric video made by Danihell Slaughter.
Layout for CD and Cassette made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional flyers made by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter.
VULTÜR Line-Up
Buck Motorlungs (Vocals)
Rick Massa (Lead Guitar)
Will Fimbulvinter (Rhythmic Guitar)
Rick Cadaverous (Drums)
Andrea Bini (Bass)
wearevultur@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/wearevultur
Official distribution in Europe Devision by Hellstore Europe
MCD = €9.00
CASSETTE = €8.00
T-SHIRT = €15.00
CASSETTE + T-SHIRT = €22.00
MCD + T-SHIRT = €23.00
MCD + CASSETTE = €15.00
MCD + CASSETTE + T-SHIRT = €30.00
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The song is about the devastating train crash in Greece on February 2023, showing the chaos, loss, and heartbreak that followed. It’s a harsh reminder of how greed, apathy, and incompetence can lead to tragedies. The lyrics capture the feeling of trying to hold on to hope while everything around you falls apart. It paints a vivid picture of the human cost of neglect and those in power who don’t care, asking for help when everything feels like it’s too late.
Born in 2023, Dreadmask arose from a collective passion for crafting heavy music with a purpose. Based in Eindhoven and composed of members from Greece, Hungary, and the Netherlands, the band channels personal and societal struggles into their music. Their name, Dreadmask, symbolizes the battle against fear and the facades we construct to navigate a tumultuous world.
Dreadmask’s EP, Thy Prime Dread, explores existential dread and human resilience, delivering a blend of crushing riffs, haunting melodies, and poignant lyricism. With influences ranging from Swedish death metal and blackened melancholy to progressive elements, Dreadmask is carving a unique space in the metal scene.
Meet Dreadmask:
Zoltan Herczog (Rhythm Guitar, Backing vocals)
John Kourentas (Lead Guitar, Keys)
Antonios Mougiakakos (Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar)
Elger Van Delft (Drums)
Stream Thy Prime Dread EP: https://orcd.co/thyprimedread
www.youtube.com/@Dreadmask
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DEFYING
DANGER
news : Metal-Mania at the Headquarters! Hello folks, DEHUMAN REIGN'S new
album ‘DAWN OF A MALEFIC DOMINION’, which will be
released on July 25, 2025 is now available for Pre-order in our shop!
We have the RED VINYL version (limited to 100 copies, incl. patch!) and the TAPE version (limited to 200 copies) for you!
https://defyingdanger.de/
DAMAGE DEVICE are
back with a new single, and this latest track is titled "BIQUEIRA
D'AÇO".
This pure and hard single by Damage Device, served with a blast of Thrash Metal with Punk claw, brings back lyrics in Portuguese.
The lyrics are the fictional account of the father of a child victim of pedophilia who, knowing that the law will release the predator in a few years to attack again, this father kidnaps the predator and gives him a strong lesson in pain for an indefinite period of time.
This "Biqueira d'Aço" is the second track in a trilogy of singles, which began with 'Hammer Justice' in 2024, and the lyrics are inspired by the Argentine film "The Secret in Their Eyes".
The third and final track in this trilogy around the same theme will be released soon.
This brawl will feature the participation and debut of Damage Device in an official song by drummer Luís Moreira, who is also the drummer for the bands Warout and Nihility.
The recording, editing, mixing and mastering were carried out by producer Tiago Alves at his Waveyard Studio, located on Terceira Island, Azores.
www.youtube.com/@damagedevice
Guitarist Jaakko Hautamäki comments:
"Niko kindly suggested to Joni that we should have a "pumping song" so it wouldn't get cold on stage. I looked at my phone to see what the hell this was about. Joni had written the song and Niko immediately wrote the lyrics. Pepe was allowed to record the drums exactly as he wanted, as long as they matched Joni's demo tracks made by mouse. I tried to participate in the project by adding massive synth sections to the song. In the end there was only one left, but I had to do something. Töle had been complaining for years that the songs could be a bit more challenging. Joni relented and immediately added two bass solos to the song. Niko also surprised everyone with his kindness by giving Töle a record amount of backing vocals, some of which were even solo parts. So there you have it, and the main thing is that the bassist now has something fun to do at gigs."
Listen to Decimation single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/progeny-of-sun-decimation
Biography:
In the beginning, Progeny of Sun was a two-man band formed by Jaakko Hautamäki and Niko Aromaa. Jaakko was responsible for the instrumentals, mixing, and mastering, while Niko handled the vocals, lyrics, visuals, etc.
The songs Jaakko introduced were very versatile. Some had speed, some were slow, some painted a picture with their atmosphere, and some were more straightforward bangers. Despite the diversity in style, everything worked exceptionally well in tandem, and from this premise, the band started to develop and pave its own way forward. To start with, Progeny of Sun created a 6-song self-titled EP and discovered that their music was met with great reception. The duo behind the band did all the mixing, mastering, videos, and artwork themselves. The project as a whole was very fun and rewarding to work on.
After the EP release, Jaakko and Niko began to think that something more was still needed. They still had a burning desire to spread their music around the world, but with just two people, it would have been impossible.
Subsequently, Jaakko found two local musicians from the Seinäjoki area: Joni Kiviniemi (guitar) and Juha Peura (drums). Joni and Juha were initially brought on board just to offer their vision and play their assigned instruments for new material. Soon, however, it began to feel like they were part of the family, and so it was decided that they would become full-fledged members of the squad and a part of the band's story. Not long after, Tuomo Tolkki (bass) was also welcomed to join, and in a matter of a few months, the full lineup was formed.
The first release with the full lineup, a 3-track EP 'Dark Wanderer', was released in 2021. Next in line were the single releases ‘Worthless’ and ‘Anguish’, which were released in 2022. Thanks to the aforementioned experimental phase, Progeny of Sun has gained self-confidence and started to understand its own identity. The band worked hard on the debut album ‘Throne of Desolation’, which was released at the end of 2023. Progeny of Sun's second album 'Prophets of the Void' will be released in September 2025. Following their debut album, the band has identified their strengths, which are utilized and showcased even more prominently on the second album.
Watch music video of the first single Penance: https://youtu.be/RYQIPCZ1Q-8
Progeny of Sun - Prophets of the Void (Album 2025)
Track list:
1. Swarmspawn
2. Penance
3. Worldstone
4. Decimation
5. Colonus
6. Lifeless Light
7. Sun and Moon
8. Circle of Keres
9. Diary Ender
10. Deface
11. Rain for Discouraged
12. Forsaken Brigade
Mixed by Jaakko Hautamäki
Mastered by Jonathan Mazzeo
Album cover by Joni Kiviniemi & Niko Aromaa
Line-up:
Niko Aromaa - Vocals
Jaakko Hautamäki - Guitar
Joni Kiviniemi - Guitar
Tuomo Tolkki - Bass
Juha Peura – Drums
https://progenyofsun.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Progenyofsun
For fans of : Abigor, Belphegor, Dark Funeral, Dead Congregation, Deicide, Emperor, Hate, Infestdead, Krisiun, Marduk, Morbid Angel, Necrophobic, Vital Remains and Watain.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcomes KING to the roster with the new album K! Originally formed in 2005, created in Medellín, Colombia, KING performs unrelenting and crushing Death/Black Metal. After four years on anticipation, K continues the band's legacy of total devastation and sonic aggression, but also showcases a musical maturity that reflects both their evolution and the spiritual depth of its members. KING unleashes 11 tracks on K, perfectly blending darkness and power, with a musical approach that explores new sonic dimensions without losing the brutality they are known for... inviting the listener on a deep journey through the chaos and reflection that define its creators.
Tracklisting:
1. The Gathering
2. I-I
3. K-II
4. The Black Mass Or The Lahar
5. Death's Cold Wind
6. Dying Heart
7. Nine Angels Blazes
8. Only Ashes Remain (Dead Congregation cover)
9. Una Tormenta
10. K-I
11. I-II
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Tracklist
1 · 1984 (Crumbs for the Poors)
2 · Sociofobia
3 - Julgamento
4 · Entropia
5 · Vengeance
6 · Nada
7 · Simpatia
8 · Veneno
9 · O Cego e o Orgulho
10 · Distopia
11 · Black Bodies Bleeds
12 · O Ovo da Serpente
13 · Porcos da Mentira
NADA: Uncompromising, Unrelenting, Unfiltered
Formed in 2020 in the interior of São Paulo, NADA emerged as a response to the growing social and political turmoil in Brazil. With the pandemic forcing them into isolation, the band used their time to craft a sound that is as raw and urgent as the reality they face.
Driven by the rise of the extreme right and the spread of fascism and denialism in Brazil, NADA channels their rage into fast, direct, and unapologetic music. Their hard-hitting riffs and no-nonsense lyrics aim at the injustices plaguing their country, blending social critique with deeply personal reflections.
After making their mark with a blistering self-titled debut EP in 2022, featuring five uncompromising tracks, the band is now set to unleash their most powerful statement yet: Entropia.
www.youtube.com/@nadacrossover
https://nadathrashcrossover.bandcamp.com/album/entropia
Formed in 2018, Italy’s TEMPTRESS was founded by members of BUNKER 66, Children of Technology, Gargoyle, and Boia with the intent of giving free rein to their passion for the dreamiest and most melancholic heavy metal bands of the ‘80s – cult names such as Proud and Randy as well as the eternal Heavy Load and Gotham City, among others – without forgetting the darkness of such masters as Mercyful Fate, all seasoned with a genuine obsession for catchy and melodic choruses. Their journey into dreams began with the two-song The Orb 7” for DYING VICTIMS in 2019, which was later compiled onto the label’s Dying Victims vol. 2: Heavy Metal Attack CD collection in 2023.
Now, the sleepers have awoken, and arrive from dreamland bearing their debut album: Catch the Endless Dawn. Truly titled, Catch the Endless Dawn sees
TEMPTRESS moving measuredly, daresay silkily, across soft-haze heavy metal high on moody melody, brisk but never busy in their gait. The band’s muse is most definitely OLD metal, but there’s subtlety and an almost-hushed sense of class to their songwriting and execution that elevates the record beyond the skinny-headband & flares hordes: the former always seems pensive even when the mid-tempo pulse picks up into a relatively reined-in gallop, and the latter similarly utilizes restraint in its favor whilst conveying the requisite amount of energy. Likewise, while the realm of dreams runs parallel to the realm of fantasy, TEMPTRESS possess a palatably more delicate side compared to the D&D side of traditional metal, (dream)weaving something both emotional and hypnotic – truly, the “Dream Metal” of which they so sing here. Thus, the aforementioned influences are apt, but so are the likes of early ‘80s Rainbow, April Wine, or even Blue Öyster Cult’s unsung dream-classic Club Ninja. Wake up and Catch the Endless Dawn!
Line-up:
D. Reemer - Bass
F. Blade - Guitars
M. Dee - Vocals, Drums
From Sicily, Italy
Artwork:
Samuele_Scalise
Release date:
25th July 2025
Tracklist
1 Beneath the Waves of Fantasia / Breathe the Dust of Time
2 Dream Metal
3 Woman of the Dark
4 Catch the Endless Dawn
5 Awake the Enchanter
6 Fears like Towers
7 Nightflight over Dreamland
8 She's Cold
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on ultra clear vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Belgian death metal force WOUND COLLECTOR has
inked a worldwide deal with Wormholedeath Records for the release of their sophomore
album. More info coming soon!
Renowned for their audacious fusion of brutal death metal and avant-garde saxophone, the band carves a unique niche alongside acts like Nile and Imperial Triumphant, delivering relentless aggression with an unorthodox twist.
Formed in 2015 by saxophonist/composer Peter Verdonck (Thelema Trio, Ambrassband), WOUND COLLECTOR merges technical death metal with haunting saxophone melodies, defying genre conventions. The current lineup—Guy Van Campenhout (7-string guitar), Stijn Deldaele (bass), and Nico Veroeven (drums)—continues to push boundaries, building on a legacy that includes 2020’s Depravity (featuring Aeon’s Tommy Dahlströhm) and 2023’s self-released EP Begging For Chicxulub.
The debut album, Eternal Bloodcult, was released in 2018 via Profane Records, cementing the band’s reputation for unrelenting intensity and innovation.
Having shared stages with Brujeria, Cattle Decapitation, and The Monolith Deathcult, the band continues to electrify audiences with their visceral live performances
www.woundcollector.com
www.facebook.com/woundcollector
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present IRON SPELL’S highly anticipated second album, FROM THE GRAVE, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Santiago, Chile’s IRON SPELL was founded in mid-2013 by drummer and composer Felipe Carvajal (Steelhammer), initially with the idea of making a classic heavy metal album with friends, mixing the mysticism and darkness of King Diamond and Black Sabbath with hard & heavy rock from the ‘70s and ‘80s like KISS, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, and WA.S.P. The lack of commitment and involvement of some musicians considerably delayed the process, and what was going to be a full-length ended up being a four-song EP, Heavy Metal Witchcraft. Shortly after, the band uploaded Heavy Metal Witchcraft to social media, and the word spread fast: in a few weeks, it was released in Europe on 7″ vinyl, cassette, and CD by three different labels, with DYING VICTIMS being the first ones to believe in IRON SPELL and release this recording on cassette.
IRON SPELL made their live debut in March 2014 and continued to remain active despite a few lineup changes, always faithful to their style and sound. Both fully blossomed on their debut album, 2016’s Electric Conjuring, which even featured Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner on one track. In 2021, IRON SPELL released both the EP Live Magic after Midnight and, later, the Argentinean compilation Witching Hour – The Best of Iron Spell.
The best was yet to come for IRON SPELL, though, and it’s arrived at last in From the Grave. A more thorough-yet-effortless trip through the heavy metal ‘80s one will not find than what the Chileans present here on their second album. No stone is left unturned – or, rather, gravestone! – as IRON SPELL display the dazzling breadth of their metallic songcraft, all illustrating their thematic commitment to classic horror. From backstreet strutters to fleet-fingered speed-runs, cocksure hard rock to moody explorations of the supernatural, anthemic headbangers to equally anthemic speed metal, and even an eerie & evocative instrumental, From the Grave reads like the hypothetical soundtrack to an ‘80s horror flick, and the quintet positively ooze charisma at every darkly gleaming turn. And atop it all are the dramatic, wide-register vocals of frontman Merciless, who in turn serves as much as narrator as metal god. After 41 fully satisfying minutes and concluding with the chilling epic “Children of the Night,” you’ll fall under their IRON SPELL and rise From the Grave!
Line-up:
Ivlock - Bass
Terry - Guitars
Raiden - Guitars
Merciless - Vocals
Steelhammer - Drums
From Santiago, Chile
Artwork:
Claudio Bergamin
Release date:
25th July 2025
Tracklist
1 Curse of the Ushers
2 Sorceress
3 Release from Darkness
4 While Witches Dance
5 Whispers of Sorrow
6 Devil King
7 Deep in the Night
8 Black, Hot & Heavy
9 From the Grave
10 Children of the Night
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
KING’S HAMMER – “TO SPEAK IN TONGUES” (EP)
Label: Rottweiler Records/Broken Curfew Records
Release date: June 13th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Mortification | Dyscarnate | Pantera | Grave
Line-up: Chuck Weatherman – All music and vocals
I have sought for answers, begged for illumination from the thrones and powers that lie beyond the limits of our vision…and my prayers have been answered. A wisdom beyond comprehension, knowledge beyond bearing has been delivered unto me and my mind is in flames. The absolute essence of truth consumes me and my sense of self teeters upon the brink of annihilation. I open my mouth and the words spill forth in the language of eternity, never meant for human lips to form or mortal intellect to contain. My world splinters beneath the gaze of heaven. I am undone. I am become a conduit and while my consciousness is lost and my heart trembles, my soul begins to speak in tongues…
To Speak in Tongues is the debut EP from King’s Hammer, the savage death metal solo project from Chuck Weatherman, the guitarist and vocalist of Richmond, Virginia thrashers Shovelhead A.D. – an outpouring of the accomplished front man’s hardest and heaviest musical inclinations. Opening with the measured power of ‘The War In Heaven’, To Speak In Tongues delivers riff upon riff upon riff; focussed hammer blows that land with force and conviction. With the addition of an imposing vocal presence and a deliciously grim sound palette To Speak In Tongues makes for remorseless, relentless, yet atmospheric listening. From the old school death metal attack of first single ‘Vehement Zeal’, through the brutal grooves of ‘Wrath Descends’ and the epic ‘Crusade IX’ to the shuddering juggernaut of darkness that is concluding track, ‘Witches Bvrn’, King’s Hammer takes no prisoners.
With the final master being applied by Seth Metoyer of Mangled Carpenter and Pulpit Vomit, you know that To Speak In Tongues has all the grit and raw venom that death metal needs to deliver the maximum impact. With the muscle of Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew behind this release, when the hammer falls on June 13th prepare to be crushed!
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/brokencurfewrecords
https://kingshammerbcr.bandcamp.com
Following their 2024 debut Devil in the Dust, Deadman is the sound of a band hitting its stride—fusing thrash, groove, death, and power metal into an explosive signature style. Massive riffs, pounding rhythms, and anthemic choruses you can shout ‘til your lungs give out—this is DISTORTA.
The EP was entirely recorded, mixed, and mastered by the band themselves, and shows a marked evolution in sound and precision.
Band Line-up for Deadman:
Dmitry Keremetskiy – Lead Vocals
James Boger – Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals
Dom Davey – Guitar / Backing Vocals
Dave Prodanovic – Bass
Chris Hanrahan – Drums
Tracklist
When the War Is Over
2. The Reaper
3. Deadman
4. Longway
5. Deafening Sins
www.youtube.com/channel/UCizUhr_GuMvgDGGNFthVqpg
www.facebook.com/distorta
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TÈLMA’S highly anticipated debut album, ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΒ?ΡΟΣ, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Greece’s vital doom scene, Τ?λμα (TÈLMA) was formed in 2017 by Marios, Kostis, and Vangelis. All three men were brought together by their love for traditional doom metal, which led them to blend their influences of Russia’s Scald, Chile’s Procession, Reverend Bizarre, and the UK’s Warning into songs of slow, ceremonial, and melancholic atmosphere, also incorporating elements of epic metal whilst staying true to the traditional doom metal spirit. In 2021, the band released the single “Ξ?φη Στραμμ?να Στο Φο?νικα,” which appeared on the compilation Art Against Censorship. The addition of Chris on drums in early 2024 made possible the completion of their first full-length, Ανθρωποβ?ρος (English: “Man-Eater”).
Originally released only digitally but now finding physical release courtesy of DYING VICTIMS, TÈLMA’s debut album displays the blanching power of slo-mo emotion and forlorn majesty. Very much firmly within the wider doom pantheon but very much also fully conveying the band’s particular personality, Ανθρωποβ?ρος nevertheless emits a unique atmosphere due to TÈLMA’s usage of their native tongue: a conscious choice, and a challenge mastered. Fittingly for such literally weighty metal, the album’s lyrics deal with the subjects of inner struggle, emancipation, the man-made misery of this world, and coming to terms with the inevitable end. That TÈLMA are able to weave distinctive melody and transfer those emotions beyond the meaning of the lyrics – no need to say “It’s all Greek to me” here – adds a mysterious, multidimensional element to their epic doom, and suggests further mastery to come. Fans of the aforementioned as well as Solitude Aeternus, DoomSword, and Crypt Sermon are wholeheartedly encouraged to get devoured by Ανθρωποβ?ρος!
Line-up:
Marios - Guitars
Kostis - Guitars, Bass, Synthesizers
Vangelis - Vocals
Chris - Drums
From Athens, Greece
Artwork:
Jim Pallis
Release date:
25th July 2025
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Hi
everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. 3 new titles
released by PAŘÁT PRODUCTIONS this
week on Monday 19.5.
In all cases these are ‘my’ heart recordings of my favourite Czech bands. First time on CD, first time on vinyl, re-release on digipak after 20 years. I believe you will find these releases interesting. Thank you for your time and support!!!
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (melodic metal)
Triotus, Tricephalus And Tribadism /20th Anniversary Edition – digipak/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOl96Apuqc&t=2225s
BLOODY OBSESSION (old school death metal)
Husaria /black vinyl/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1SzhDVWF8&t=15s
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY (doom/death)
Zlodejska svetelka /standard jewel box/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKrFppXUrk
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/
Mythology, and actual historical atrocities, this album is not just music—it’s an invocation of the past and a battle cry for the future.
Line
up
Diego Santiago (Bass)
Jaime Veron (Lead Vocals)
Jhorge "Dog" Duarte (Drums)
Fred Barros (Guitar)
Ophiolatry formed in 1998 in Brazil’s underground by Jhorge "Dog" Duarte (drums), Antonio Costa (guitars), Fabio Zperandio (bass), and Tiago Nunes (vocals). Their raw debut demo Opposite Monarchy (1999) led to a split with Ancestral Malediction and caught international attention when featured on Brazilian Assault (Relapse Records, 2000).
Signing with Evil Vengeance Records, the band released their acclaimed debut album Anti-Evangelistic Process (2002), mastered by Erik Rutan. This was followed by the Misanchristianthropy EP (2003) via Deathgasm Records and a grueling 50-date European tour, solidifying their reputation as a vicious live act.
By 2006, after a series of split releases, Ophiolatry joined Forces of Satan Records (founded by Infernus of Gorgoroth), playing Brutal Assault Festival and contributing to its compilation. In 2008, they dropped their second full-length Transmutation via Regain Records, refining their technical brutality.
After a 13-year hiatus, Ophiolatry returned in 2021 with a revamped lineup featuring Jaime Veron (vocals), Diego Santiago (bass), and Fred Barros (guitars), releasing the crushing single Somehow. In 2022, they joined Extreme Management Group Inc. (Suffocation, Cryptopsy), expanding their global reach.
Their upcoming album, Serpent’s Verdict — recorded by Diego Santiago and mastered by Dan Swanö — marks a ferocious new chapter. Out in 2025 via Wormhole Death Records, the 13-track onslaught reaffirms Ophiolatry’s place among death metal’s most relentless forces.
www.youtube.com/@ophiolatryofficial2679
www.facebook.com/ophiolatry
Enter
the void and confront salvation itself—LIKE SORROW return with THE
HARROWING, a blistering dive into theological horror and sonic
damnation. Told from the perspective of Christ descending into Hell, this track
turns sacred scripture inside out, using the apocalyptic vision of the
Harrowing of Hell to ask uncomfortable, urgent questions about justice,
privilege, and salvation.
With punishing drums by Nick Manka and a soul-ripping guitar solo by Trevor O’Connor, "The Harrowing" is both majestic and terrifying—an infernal hymn that stirs ancient flames and modern fury alike. It's the sound of cosmic reckoning, wrapped in melodic black metal’s icy, glorious embrace.
He descended. He questioned. And now he sings for the damned.
Biography
Emerging from the depths of Austin, Texas, Like Sorrow is the latest chapter in Melodic Black Metal, forged by the visionary Marc Williams. What began as a side project in 2023 has grown into something far greater—an exploration of pure Black Metal, infused with Marc’s signature melodic touch. The result echoes the haunting atmospheres of early Throes of Dawn, Agathodaimon, and hints of Naglfar, weaving together spectral tales, infernal realms, and deep-seated melancholy.
Like Sorrow made its debut in 2023 with the Realm of Despair EP, released digitally and on cassette via Rotting Sun Records. This was followed by four singles throughout late 2023 and 2024, culminating in A Collection of Despair (2023-2024), released on January 22, 2025.
While the project's early tracks strip away the prominent keyboards found in Marc’s other works, this is set to evolve. Future releases will expand upon Like Sorrow’s intense, sorrowful essence, blending bleak, soul-staining darkness with the evocative melodies that define its sound. A harrowing yet captivating journey awaits—one that lingers in the shadows, calling to those who embrace the void.
https://www.facebook.com/likesorrow
https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords
NATAS (NOT US) – “NUCLEAR WASTE 1985 – 1993 “
Formed in Chicago, IL in 1984 the band Natas changed its name to Not Us after several demos in the 80’s. NATAS / Not Us performs a wide range of extreme music style: Crossover Thrash, Hardcore Punk, Thrash and early death Metal. Imagine a mixture of Master, Crumbsuckers, Dark Angel, Excel and D.R.I. A roughly differentiated can be made between Thrash/Death Metal in their early days and Hardcore/Thrash Metal (in the later phase of the band). Natas / Not Us featured Scott Oppenhagen (vocals, guitar) ex-Master, Dave Soderdahl (bass) and Bruce Pierce (drums). Discography 1985 – 1990 contains: "Think What You Want" LP (1989. Track 1 – 9), ‘No One Gets Out Alive" Demo, 1989 track 10- 22), . "Outcast of Society" Demo, 1985 (track 23 – 29), "Wild Rags Limited Edition" Split, 1990 track 30 – 33). Extensive liner notes by Mark from Impetigo plus many old photos, flyers and posters.
HORROR OF HORRORS – “SOUNDS OF EERIE”
Horror Of Horrors (formed 1994), was a US death metal band, from Silver Spring, Maryland. The band released 2 official albums, their 3rd album was only released digital and never in any other format, even no artwork was made. In 1994 they released the Judecca / Horror Of Horrors – The Evil Is Born / Old Burnt Church Road split ep. Horror of Horror’s debut ‘Sounds of Eerie’ is a gem hailing from the heydays of 90’s death metal. The tempo remains mostly upbeat with riffs constantly bombarding the listeners from every corner. Produced by Mark Smoot engineer, producer and owner of Smoot Sound in Ashton, Maryland. who also produced the legendary Exmortis demo and recently worked with doom slougde legends Sourvein. Besides H.M. Lopez (guitars) and Buddy Buell (vocals / bass), Aantar Lee Coates (ex Exmortis) plays drums on the first two albums before he formed Unholy Ghost and Diabolic. Michael ‘Chewka’ Marchewka plays guitars on the first two albums (also ex Exmortis). Extensive liner notes by Steven Willems ( Celtic Frost, Deicide, Destruction / voices from the Darkside).
OBSCENE GESTURE- “RE-LIVING IN PROFANITY”
OBSCENE GESTURE was formed in 2000 in Los Angeles, California and played intense Thrash Metal/Crossover. The all-star band featured members of Agent Steel, Evil Dead, Steel Prophet, Abattoir and Body Count. Obscene Gesture was: Guy Green (R.I.P. 2016): Vocals, Vince Dennis: Guitars (Body Count / Steel Prophet), George Robb Bass (L.S.N. / Agent Steel), Chuck Profus Drums (ex-Agent Steel) while Juan Garcia from Body Count, Evil Dead, ex Abattoir / Agent Steel was a member during 2007-2009 as well. The album is completely remixed recently by Rob Hill (Agent Steel, Evil Dead), and has the ‘Straight Outta the Gutter’ demo 2006 as bonus. Plus new cover artwork and complete new booklet design. Gesture split up in May 2016 after Guy Green's passing
https://www.vicrecords.com/
For fans of: Ghoul, Witchery, The Haunted, Gwar, Converge, The Crown, Midnight
The video, which features clips from a collection of occult horror classics, perfectly encapsulates the song's sonic intensity. The band comments, "A blackened thrash tale of betrayal, dark rites, and tomb-born horror, inspired by Amando de Ossorio's 'Tombs of the Blind Dead.' The Outlander marks a doomed journal entry written moments before annihilation."
The exclusive premiere for "Return of the Dead Without Eyes" comes courtesy of extreme music outlet Invisible Oranges. Watch now at: https://www.invisibleoranges.com/rotgut-return-of-the-dead-without-eyes/
The
song will be streaming on all platforms on May 25.
ROTGUT come up from the gutter to deliver 24 oz CANTRIP. The band’s debut EP boasts five tracks of booze-soaked thrash fury infused with the unholy union of punk attitude and blackened aggression.
ROTGUT will release 24 oz CANTRIP on streaming platforms on June 20.
Tracklist:
1) Bonemelter
2) The Hunger
3) I: Return of the Dead Without Eyes
4) II: Under the Scarlet Cross
5) III: Blood and Cooper
Keep reading for the story of the soon-to-be infamous 24 oz CANTRIP.
Born fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo out of the dumpster behind DaVinci's pizza on Merrick Road, a horned figure scrambled blindly through piles of empty paint cans, ceramic vases, and angry cats in order to move undetected. He found refuge in a musty old cellar. After pulling his foot loose from the bucket he had stepped in, he closed the heavy steel doors
behind him.
Wiping the thick blanket of dust off a 30-rack of Genesee Specialty Cream Ale, he schemed. He was cursed with the knowledge of an incantation: a spell that would bring Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, into this world. He wrestled with the thought while crushing and tossing another empty can. The ritual required great rigor and perfect focus, but he was exacting.
He chanted. He chanted and chanted. The ceiling groaned and cracked. Polyvinyl dust plumed and swirled before vanishing into imperceptible motes. He drew sorcerous glyphs in the air with two fingers outstretched. The walls trembled with a sickening low rumble. Bracing his hands firm against his ersatz altar — a Playskool Mighty My Size Table and Chair Set — he ignored the throbbing in his head and steadied himself.
A spiraling portal ripped into reality. Out spilled two bumbling homunculi, fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo. This wasn't right! The pair stumbled and scratched their way through the cellar, bleating, squawking, and tearing through nearby cases of Natty Daddy like vultures to carrion. He pondered for what seemed like hours over the pyramid of discarded beer cans and the now-empty bottle of Old Grand Dad he had chanced upon halfway through. What could have gone wrong?
The cellar burst open. Darkening the door was a group of hulking, hazmat-suited figures. At once, the three slickened homunculi grappled one another in a long and futile struggle to get on their feet. They shouted in a panic if they were "being detained" until they were eventually tased into unconsciousness.
This was ROTGUT's ill-fated 24 oz CANTRIP.
Bio:
Assembled against their will by a faceless shadow organization in the Winter of 2024, the three designated FD, C19, and AX spent weeks in a lightless concrete hell. When the chance to escape emerged, they seized it — for they were bound by a great purpose: to form an extreme metal band, inspired by crust punk, rock ’n’ roll, and classic schlock to shred wanton across the greater US and parts beyond. That band is ROTGUT.
https://rotgutofficial.bandcamp.com/
The Circle Music have signed the electrifying Swedish horrorpunk band LEFT HAND BLACK. Hailing from Gothenburg, this quartet, consisting of veterans of the local music scene, will release their third full-length album, "LEFT HAND BLACK 3: DEATH CAN'T KEEP US APART", in September.
Formed in the spring of 2019 on an island just outside Gothenburg, Left Hand Black brings together the formidable talents of Hans Hagström and Jonathan Jansson (formerly of The Dead Next Door) with Johan Hansson and Anton Zachrisson (from Overdrive Solution). Their sound is a potent brew of old-school melodic horror punk and rock, drawing inspiration from iconic bands such as Misfits, Ramones and Bad Religion.
Johan Hansson of Left Hand Black said: “I have followed Maria and The Circle Music since the first release, and with her passion for the music and what she does for the bands, this is a dream come true. We are super excited to be part of the TCM family.”
Left Hand Black have carved a reputation with their previous releases: their self-titled debut in 2020 via Wolverine Records and their 2022 follow-up, "Lower Than Satan" through Sunny Bastard Records/Sick Taste Records. Now, with "Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" they aim to solidify their position as purveyors of infectious horror-infused punk anthems. As the band have declared: "We prove that we can write hits and are an insanely good live band that takes no prisoners and celebrates a hellish party with you in the graveyard."
https://www.facebook.com/Lefthandblackhorrorpunk/
NEWS 23.5.2025
MANDRAGORA TITANIA – “IN FABULIS”
Release date : 19. June 2025
Nach ihrem überragenden „Rex Silvarum“ Album im Jahr 2022 haben die deutschen Folk Metaller Mandragora Thuringia, nachdem im Frühjahr 2025 eine kosmetische Umbenennung in MANDRAGORA TITANIA erfolgte, mit „In Fabulis“ endlich ein neues Album im Gepäck. Wie schon beim Vorgänger war man hierfür bei Dom R. Crey (Equilibrium/Nothgard) im Studio um 13 neue Tracks aufzunehmen. Stilistisch erwartet den Hörer erneut eine mitreißende Mischung aus brachialem Metal und überzeugenden Folk Einflüssen, wobei man den Metal und Epic Fokus im Vergleich zum Vorgänger noch etwas mehr hervorgehoben hat!
Mit „In Fabulis“ schicken sich Mandragora Titania an, die Lücke zu Größen des Genres merklich schmelzen zu lassen, beziehungsweise mit ihrem individuellen Charme ihren eigenen Platz am Lagerfeuer der Folk-Metal Szene zu besetzen, wie sie ein ums andere mal bei ihren Festival und Clubshows unter Beweis stellen. Greift euch einen Humpen Met und lasst die Köpfe kreisen, wenn Mandragora Titania zum Tanze bitten!
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IRON MAIDEN beginnen
ihre RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR am 27. Mai in
Budapest, gefolgt von 31 weiteren Stadion-, Festival- und
Arena-Shows in ganz Europa. Da bereits mehr als eine Million Tickets
verkauft wurden und die meisten Shows ausverkauft sind, werden Fans darauf
hingewiesen, dass produktionsbedingt oder durch die Venues noch zusätzliche
Ticketkontingente kurz vor den jeweiligen Shows und an den Showtagen selbst
verfügbar sein werden.
Die RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR markiert 50 Jahre seit der Gründung der Band durch Steve Harris Ende 1975. Um das zu feiern, wird den Maiden-Fans eine ganz besondere Setlist versprochen, die die neun Studioalben von “Iron Maiden” bis “Fear Of The Dark” umfasst, mit der spektakulärsten und aufwändigsten Show aller Zeiten!
Passend zu dieser Zeitperiode möchten IRON MAIDEN, dass alle im Publikum diese spektakuläre Show so erleben, wie sie es damals in den 80er-Jahren getan hätten, als viele dieser Songs zum ersten Mal live gespielt wurden. Und wie viele andere Künstler bittet die Band ihre Fans nun, die Konzerte nicht übermäßig mit ihren Handys oder Tablets zu filmen.
Manager Rod Smallwood erklärt: “Wir möchten wirklich, dass die Fans die Konzerte hautnah genießen, anstatt sie nur auf ihren kleinen Bildschirmen zu sehen. Das Ausmaß der Handynutzung heutzutage mindert den Spaß, insbesondere für die Band, die von der Bühne aus auf Reihen voller Handys blickt, aber auch für andere Konzertbesucher. Wir sind überzeugt, dass die Leidenschaft und das Engagement unserer Fans die Konzerte zu etwas ganz Besonderem machen, aber die Handybesessenheit ist mittlerweile so außer Kontrolle geraten, dass sie unnötig ablenkt – insbesondere auch die Band. Ich hoffe, die Fans haben dafür Verständnis und werden die Nutzung ihrer Handykameras aus Respekt vor der Band und ihren Mitfans deutlich einschränken.
Wir wünschen uns sehr, dass ihr stattdessen 'im Moment' lebt und voll und aktiv dabei seid, um jeden einzelnen dieser klassischen Songs in der Stimmung und Art und Weise zu genießen, wie sie ursprünglich gespielt wurden.
Bei dieser Show geht es nicht nur darum, unsere Musik zu feiern; es geht, wie ihr sehen werdet, auch um unsere jahrelange Kunst, um Eddie und um die vielen, vielen Maiden-Welten, die wir für euch geschaffen haben.
Also bitte respektiert die Band, respektiert die anderen Fans und habt die Zeit eures Lebens, wenn ihr euch eurer Maiden-Familie anschließt, um aus vollem Herzen zu singen, anstatt euer Handy zu zücken!! Das ist doch wirklich nicht zu viel verlangt, oder?“
Die RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR ist ein Teil der Feierlichkeiten zum 50. Jubiläum von IRON MAIDEN und bietet zahlreiche Events mit Fan-Treffen in den Städten, in denen die Band auftritt. Wie bereits auf der letzten Tour in Australien erfolgreich eingeführt, wird es Eddie's Official Pop-up Dive Bar geben, die in 20 Städten während der Tour für Treffen vor und nach den Konzerten geöffnet sein wird. Dort gibt es Trooper-Bier und Darkest Red Wein, Essen, exklusives Merch und weiteres Entertainment. Details gibt es auf ironmaiden.com. Bitte beachten: Die Band wird bei diesen Events nicht anwesend sein!
Darüber hinaus wird über die Universal Pictures Content Group noch in diesem Jahr ein Dokumentarfilm in Spielfilmlänge weltweit in die Kinos kommen und Thames & Hudson werden ein offizielles gebundenes Buch zur großartigen visuellen Feier von 50 Jahren IRON MAIDEN veröffentlichen. Weitere Einzelheiten zu diesen beiden spannenden Veröffentlichungen werden in Kürze bekannt gegeben.
MAI 2025
Di, 27. – Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Ungarn *
Mi, 28. – Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Ungarn *
Sa, 31. – Letnany Airport, Prag, Tschechische Republik *
JUNI 2025
So, 1. – TIPOS Arena, Bratislava, Slowakei *
Do, 5. – Trondheim Rocks, Trondheim, Norwegen (Festival)
Sa, 7. – SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norwegen *
Mo, 9. – Royal Arena, Kopenhagen, Dänemark *
Do, 12. – 3Arena, Stockholm, Schweden *
Fr, 13. – 3Arena, Stockholm, Schweden *
Mo, 16. – Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finnland *
Do, 19. – Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgien (Festival)
Sa, 21. – Utilita Arena, Birmingham, England ^
So, 22. – Co-op Live, Manchester, England ^
Mi, 25. – Malahide Castle, Dublin, Irland *^
Sa, 28. – London Stadium, London, England *^
Mo, 30. – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Schottland ^
JULI 2025
Do, 3. – Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, Frankreich (Festival)
Sa, 5. – Riyadh Air Metropolitano, Madrid, Spanien **
So, 6. – MEO Arena, Lissabon, Portugal **
Mi, 9. – Hallenstadion, Zürich, Schweiz **
Fr, 11. – Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Deutschland **
So, 13. – Stadio Euganeo, Padova, Italien **
Di, 15. – Bürgerweide, Bremen, Deutschland **
Do, 17. – Ernst Happel Stadium, Wien, Österreich **
Sa, 19. – Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, Frankreich **
So, 20. – Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, Frankreich **
Mi, 23. – GelreDome, Arnhem, Niederlande **
Fr, 25. – Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Deutschland **
Sa, 26. – Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Deutschland **
Di, 29. – Waldbühne, Berlin, Deutschland **
Mi, 30. – Waldbühne, Berlin, Deutschland **
AUGUST 2025
Sa, 2. – PGE Narodowy, Warschau, Polen **
Support-Acts
*Halestorm
^The Raven Age
** Avatar
Die letzten Restkarten gibt es unter www.ironmaiden.com
THE OSSUARY präsentieren Vintage-Video zu „ALTAR IN BLACK“!
Mit „Altar in Black“ beschwören THE OSSUARY ein rituelles Manifest des Doom herauf – getragen von schwer atmenden Riffs, eindringlicher Stimme und dem Nachhall guten alten Heavy Metals.
Für Fans von: Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Mercyful Fate, Witchfinder General
Dieser Song ist kein gewöhnliches Stück Musik. Er ist ein Schwur, in Stein gemeißelt und mit Blut besiegelt.
Hier geht´s zum Vintage-Video zu „Altar in Black“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLAMnVQJvEw
„Altar in Black“ stammt vom kommenden Album „REQUIEM FOR THE SUN“ und verkörpert den Geist des Okkult-Rock und Doom-Metal der 70er Jahre in seiner reinsten Form - roh, schwer und hypnotisch.
Aus den Gewölben des Doom erhebt sich dieser Track als feierliche Prozession: Gitarren wie Altarkerzen, Stimmen wie beschworene Geister, Bilder aus einer anderen Zeit. Wer hört, erkennt: Dies ist nicht nur Musik. Dies ist eine Zeremonie.
https://linktr.ee/theossuary
https://supremechaos.de/
PESTNEBEL – “VERFALL”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 28.05.2025
PESTNEBEL sind zurück in Feuer und Blut! Mit »Verfall«, ihrem nunmehr siebten Album, beweist die deutsche Black-Metal-Institution einmal mehr, dass sie zu den authentischsten Verfechtern des kompromisslosen Second-Wave-Black-Metals zählt.
Oder, wie Bandkopf Pestmeister es formuliert: »Raw Old School Black Metal – wie seit unseren Anfängen. Keine Kompromisse! Pure hate! PESTNEBEL steht für den Verfall und Niedergang der Menschheit.«
Dabei sind Kompositionen wie »Night of the final damnation«, in denen sich rohe, bösartige Underground-Energie, Eiseskälte und majestätische Erhabenheit vortrefflich vereinen, eine Klasse für sich. Noch fokussierter und aggressiver als zuvor zertrümmert »Verfall« die Mauern des menschlichen Stumpfsinns.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063927991814
DEVOURING DARKNESS marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, the album is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
Devouring Darkness is out now on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on Willowtip Records.
UNMERCIFUL
has announced the first of many live assaults in support of Devouring
Darkness. The band will host an album release show on June 20 at Warehouse
on Broadway in Kansas City, MO, alongside Torn The Fuck Apart, Garoted,
and Hossferatu.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is seeking a bassist for live performances and/or a permanent position. Serious inquiries only. Contact the band for details.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
Band's statement
We are truly honoured to join a label to have spewed as much magnificent rot and pus upon this world as Transcending Obscurity. With the label's track-record reeking of all forms of death and decay, we are confident that our cross-over brew of brutal death metal has matured to mouthwatering putridity that will satisfy the label's followers' rancid appetite. Our team-up with TO festers with filth we can barely wait to spit on you all... And huge respect for the cat sanctuary! Providing a shelter for animals is downright the nicest thing you can do while fouling the rest of the world with death metal.
Line up
Atte Ojanne - Guitar & vocals
Tuomas Iivanainen - Guitar & vocals
Juhana Korkka Heinonen - Bass & vocals
Lasse Sannikka - Drums
Artwork by Daemorph Art
Statement on Abyssal Hellscapes music video:
Mother Earth awakes.
Abyssal Hellscapes is a tale of the ultimate, unstoppable forces of nature.
Rock and bone are ground to dust as the creations of mankind crumble and cease to exist.
Thousands of souls vanish into emptiness from the ruins conquered by silence.
Once again, Mother Earth falls into slumber...
For now
Statement on the album:
An ode to the emotionless brutality of nature, Extinguish All Existence explores themes from devastating natural disasters to the most insidious parasitic reproduction mechanisms of the animal realm. Taking Enragement's genre-crossing approach to brutal death metal further than ever before, the new album surpasses its predecessors in all manners of extremity.
Track
listing
1. Vorarephilia
2. Abyssal Hellscapes
3. Pathogenesis
4. Parasitic Ingress
5. Harbingers of Degradation
6. Vesuvius
7. Hypercarnivorous
8. Insectiferous Abomination
9. Natural Mass Asphyxiation
10. Extinguish All Existence
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords/
Fans of Hypocrisy, Bolt Thrower, Unleashed, and God Dethroned will feel right at home with WRITTEN IN BLOOD’s intense and narrative-driven death metal.
The song is the first chapter of a brutal two-part concept based on the terrifying true story of Walpurga Hausmännin, a 16th-century midwife accused of witchcraft, demonic pacts, and the murder of over 40 children.
“With ‘Black Widow Walpurga,’ we wanted to bring this forgotten nightmare to
life through sound,” comments Beef, vocalist and bass player of WRITTEN
IN BLOOD. “The story is horrifying. It fits perfectly with the dark atmosphere
and heaviness we strive for in our music.”
Driven by punishing riffs, guttural vocals, and tight, thunderous production, “Black Widow Walpurga” is a relentless blend of old-school death metal and chilling storytelling. The track was mixed and mastered by Henri Sattler (God Dethroned), giving the band’s sound a sharp and crushing edge.
“We put a lot of effort into the production to make sure every hit lands with full impact,” says Beef. “This is one of our most intense tracks to date.”
The song closes with a slow, haunting section, deliberately setting the stage for part two of the story. The second part will be featured on the band’s upcoming full-length album.
“This is just chapter one,” the band adds. “The second part will take Walpurga’s tale to its bitter, gruesome end.”
Formed in 2019 by former members of God Dethroned and Mandator, WRITTEN IN BLOOD was later joined by ex-members of Morte Aeterna and Procreation. The band draws from the spirit of classic 90s death metal, blending it with themes from myth, folklore, and ancient history to create an atmospheric yet crushing sound.
Their debut album “Written in Blood” (2022) received strong praise from the European metal press. Rock Hard (DE) described it as “rough, dark, abysmal,” while Rock Tribune (BE) called it “excellent song material that sounds overwhelming and heavy.”
Written In Blood are:
Bert "Beef" Hoving – Bass & Vocals
Marcel Heutink – Rhythm Guitar
Jeffrey Zwart – Lead Guitar
Jos Eggens – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@WritteninBlood666
https://writteninblood.nl/
https://www.facebook.com/bloodwritten/
THE BLEAK PICTURE – “SHADES OF LIFE”
Label: Ardua Music
Release date: June 27th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Paradise Lost | Moonspell | Katatonia | Fields Of The Nephilim
“There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.” - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Since 2021 the creative partnership of vocalist Tero Ruohonen (Autumnfall, Temple Of Kliffoth) and multi-instrumentalist Jussi Hänninen (Autumnfall, ex-Fall Of The Leafe) have been working together under the banner of The Bleak Picture, invoking immense doom/death arias of stunning beauty and overwhelming anguish. With their 2021 debut EP, Songs Of Longing and last year’s momentous full length debut album, Meaningless, The Bleak Picture have begun to carve out a place for themselves in the souls of those destined to walk the hardest, darkest paths. Now they present their second album, a collection of songs that encompasses all they have been before and more. It is time to fall deeper into the illuminating dark…it is time to experience all the Shades Of Life.
This journey into the grey lands begins with ‘Plagued By Sorrow’ and a heavy mantle of sadness settles across as your shoulders as soon as the richly textured sounds begin. Yet as well as placing a sombre weight upon your soul, the song also embraces you in ringing guitar melodies and the crisp, powerful drums carry you forward upon a dark, irresistible tide…after all, there is far to go before you sleep. A dreamlike ambience enfolds you as the exquisite melancholy of ‘Absolution’ slips like smoke into the dark and haunting ‘Code Of Ethics’, where the real and unreal become unrecognisable from each other and you realise you are lost in this world of sound and emotion. The magic of The Bleak Picture lies in their ability to draw you completely into their music, to cocoon you in heartbreak and enshroud you in chill mists of desolation, holding all else at bay. This power is most keenly felt when entwined in the transformative visions of ‘Silent Exit’, an epic piece of quiet grandeur. There is a sense of space within the music of this piece and as you move through it the thoughts that come will be yours alone. And as much as you might wish to pause at this point, to look back even, you must carry your reflections on to the ‘City Of Ghosts’. This haunted place, this sonic cathedral of drifting souls is the perfect conclusion to Shades Of Life; bringing all the memories, imaginings and contemplations of the journey together. It ensures that the listening experience will never be forgotten and whispers enticements to return.
Shades Of Life is built upon the foundations of classic doom/death metal, with deep, expressive vocals, emotive, melodic guitar lines and vast, austere riffs. However it is also dusted in the magic of gothic illusion that engenders a uniquely captivating atmosphere and meticulous attention has been paid to every intricate musical detail – subtle guitar work and outstanding drumming – with each nuance being given space to shine by the meticulous mastering of Javier Fernandez (TodoMal). And all of this combines to form an incredibly complete album, perfect within itself. Look for its coming on June 27th as it is ushered into the world by Ardua Music, on CD and digital formats.
Line-up:
Jussi Hänninen - Music
Tero Ruohonen - Vocals
All music written by Jussi Hänninen
All lyrics written by Tero Ruohonen
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thebleakpicture
THE FINAL WITNESS – “BENEATH THE ALTAR”
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: August 15th 2025
Genre: Progressive Thrash/Death Metal
For fans of: Sadus | White Stones | Coroner | Moonloop
Solo projects are not the rare entity that they once were in the multitude of metal genres. Sometimes the fact that an entire album of songs has been written and performed by a single individual can simply pass us by as just another barely noted scrap of information. But then an album will come along that reminds us of just what a remarkable feat has been accomplished in its creation…the realisation that one person was responsible for every element of what we have just been enveloped by…when the songs are so individual, complex and emotionally charged…it can still take your breath away. Beneath The Altar, the debut full length album from The Final Witness is one of those special albums. Behind the banner of The Final Witness is multi-instrumentalist Josh Henderson, who signed with Rottweiler Records at the end of 2024 – in time to contribute to the label’s customary selection of Christmas singles with a ripping interpretation of the 17th Century carol, ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ – and now it is time for Beneath The Altar to be unleashed!
Beneath The Altar offers no gradual immersion into its turbulent waters, no gradual revealing of its unpredictable nature. Opening track ‘Principalities’ immediately shakes the ground beneath your feet, shifting between tempos, styles and ambiance, wrong footing you at every turn. It’s eclectic and effervescent right to its final note. As the pleasing complexity of ‘Coronation’ follows it is already obvious that Beneath The Altar is a demonstration of a unique creative vision at work. As the album progresses you are confronted with intense aggression, incredible guitar solos, passages of amazing, atmospheric, melodious reflection and a staggering array of riffs. In ‘Negative World’ an imposing opening explodes into fierce, gritty thrash before sparkling solos like stardust and ice shards tumble through the darkness. A magical pool of tranquillity appears at the heart of the song, but after mere moments it is violently shattered by furious blast beats. And all of this is executed with sublime control, each segment masterfully interwoven with the next. ‘The Blood’ provides the album’s towering conclusion and it is only really when you reach its final peaks that you can look back on the vast landscape of the album you have just traversed and appreciate the threads of mood and atmosphere that draw it together. The conclusion of ‘The Blood’ and consequently Beneath The Altar possesses such uplifting power and majesty. The vocals, solos, riffs and rhythms entwine in a manner that lifts the whole listening experience of the album to another level.
The production and engineering of Becoming The Archetype’s Jason Wisdom have afforded Josh Henderson’s incredible work all the space it needs to breathe and all the power required for it to hit home with maximum emotional impact. Rottweiler Records will unveil Beneath The Altar, this magnificent testament to the adventurous spirit of extreme metal, on August 15th and we can only hope that it will be just the first of many albums to come from Josh Henderson, The Final Witness.
Line-up:
Josh Henderson – all music and vocals
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069928882065
Finnish progressive death metal band SARGASSUS is set to release their debut album 'VITRUVIAN RAYS', out in June 13th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The third and last single 'Pahat Veräjät' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/sargassus-pahat
The Band Comments:
"''Pahat Veräjät' is the third and final single before the release of the 'Vitruvian Rays' album. The song is both a departure from the band's usual modus operandi, as it is sung in Finnish, as well as a return to the roots, featuring long atmospheric passages with progressive chord structures. As the song kicks off with ultra-fast blast beats, there is a definite nod towards extreme metal as well. 'Pahat Veräjät' ('The Bad Gates' in english)
references the gates of Tuonela, the cold underworld of Finnish mythology. It tells the story of a journey through the wilderness between the living and the dead, asking the listener if a life's worth can (or should) be measured in wealth, as all material possession will eventually be left behind"
Watch official music video of the first single Spirit of Gravity: https://youtu.be/IZ4S5DrNBgs
Track list:
01. Spirit of Gravity
02. Carving the Veins of God
03. The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade
04. Judgement of the Four
05. Pahat veräjät
06. On the Shoulders of Atlas
07. Vitruvian Rays
08. Zealot
Vocal Production by Raging Cannon
Mix & Master by Joona Muistola @ HAW Studios
Cover art by Matias Stenman
Line-up:
Matias Rokio - Drums
Teemu Leskinen - Guitar
Matias Stenman - Vocals
Mertta Halonen - Bass
https://sargassus.com
https://www.facebook.com/sargassusband
https://hexrot-label.bandcamp.com/album/formless-ruin-of-oblivion
HEXROT - “FORMLESS RUIN OF OBLIVION”
Genre: avantgarde
death/black/thrash metal
For fans of: Felgrave, Construct of Lethe, Deathspell Omega, Blut aus Nord, Death, Ulcerate, Veilburner
"Formless Ruin of Oblivion is the second release from Massachusetts duo Hexrot, combining a dense stylistic mélange of death, black, and thrash metal with inventive electronic experimentation and a keen sense of structure. The 35-minute piece flows continuously across 7 tracks, maintaining a constant tension between the harmony and dissonance of its ever-shifting web of musical ideas. Seamlessly interwoven, a bed of modular synthesizer and other digital flourishes run the gamut from clangorous and industrial to warm and ethereal. The immediacy of a live studio recording gives its performances authenticity and power, but careful production ensures you’ll still be discovering new things multiple listens in. To our most fully realized expression to date, we bid you welcome."
Line up
Arkain - Guitars, bass, vocals
Melmoth - Drums, vocals, electronics
Mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, the Thousand Caves
Logo by Nat Lacuna @newjunkaesthetic
Album art from “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymous Bosch
Track listing
1. What Lies Veiled
2. Heavenward
3. Consecrating Luminous Conflagration
4. Ghostly Retrograde I
5. Clandestine Haunt
6. Ghostly Retrograde II
7. Formless Ruin of Oblivion
Release date - August 29nd, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/hexrot
Their distinctive blend of lyricism about war, combined with their relentless, neck-breaking Thrash Metal assault, pays homage to the genre's golden age Gods such as Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus and Testament as well as some of the melodies and progressive tendencies of Metal Church and Death Angel.
Fans of Thrash Metal can rejoice in yet another band flying their Metal flag proudly.
Now all you have to do is experience the raw power of the fury of XENOS A.D.
Details & pre-order: https://t.ly/B3Vrj
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/xenosa.d.thrash
Finnish Turku-based melodic death metal band FROSTBITE TERROR is set to release new EP later in 2025. The second single 'GEHENNA' is out today and music is available here: https://youtu.be/d_zydWMVtGI
"Massive sounds support furious blasting that won’t leave you cold. The
greatest things in Finland, metal and sauna, are combined like never seen
before. Listen to this tale of a sauna stove opening up a portal to hell and a
face-off with the devil himself!
Gehenna is a kind of survival story from an afterparty where all food and drink is gone. This melodic piece with wall-of-sound guitars is then a good tune to warm up the sauna and enjoy the rest of the night, maybe even mosh listening to the riffs. While dreaming of a delivery of drinks the stove heats up to glowing hot and temperature rises above comfortable, representing hellfire. At that point what else can you do than take a thorough steam bath and relax."
Olli Kuure / Composer
"Sometimes bathing in a sauna escalates to a hellish experience, so why not make a song out of that. Based on a true story (maybe with small embellishments). The song steamrolls forward like many Finnish heavy classics. That makes it a perfect backdrop for telling tall tales about how much heat we can take in the sauna."
Otso Turunen / Lyricist
Listen to Gehenna on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/frostbite-terror-gehenna
Biography:
Frostbite Terror is a melodic death metal newcomer from Turku, Finland. Since 2022 Frostbite Terror has combined melodeath, thrashy riffing and symphonic arrangements. The songs subject both serious and comedic topics to dark humor. When playing live, Frostbite Terror conquers stages with their tight playing and spicy, yet melancholy riffs. Never turning down the chance to drin-, I mean gig, the band has toured backyard BBQ parties, Metallihelvetti summer party, Tampere community center and everything in between.
Line-up:
Olli Kuure / lead guitar
Otso Turunen / bass, vocals
Jerry Airikka / guitar, backing vocals
Kristo Rautavuori / drums
Sebastian Kavón / synths
Composed by Olli Kuure
Lyrics by Otso Turunen
Single cover by Mordiggian Art
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092156688089
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CHANTS dungeon .
REPULSIVE FEAST SCANDINAVIA TOUR 2025
REPULSIVE FEAST brings death, grind and gore to Scandinavia in May 2025.
2025.05.28, SWE/Malmö @ Family Pub
2025.05.29, NOR/Oslo @ Last Train
2025.05.30, SWE/Trollhättan @ Backstage
2025.05.31, SWE/Borgholm @ Öland Rots Festival
2025.06.01, DEN/Øster Skerninge @ Strafbar
NEW MERCH AND RECORDS WILL BE AVAILABLE!
New merch items from CRYPTIC BROOD and REPULSIVE FEAST added to our band stores.
Plus more items that arrived and are available from our distro.
SICK FEAST 2025
Let’s celebrate extreme underground musick at Sick Feast 2025. Lycanthropic Chants will present an ugly composition of madness that reeks of death’s breath in Wolfsburg (Germany) at s.v Jugendhaus Ost on 18th October 2025. And everyone who can’t get enough gore spilled is invited to join the warm-up show in Wolfsburg at Sauna-Klub the day before, 17th October 2025.
Band announcements will disgust you over the next weeks. Tickets are available from this location. There are two ticket options:
2-day ticket (main fest at s.v. Jugendhaus Ost on Saturday, 18th October 2025 plus warm-up show at Sauna-Klub on Friday, 17th October 2025)
main fest only ticket
Bands confirmed so far:
FEACES CHRIST (GER)
IMPUGNER (NOR)
PREHISTORIC WAR CULT (GER)
RETORSION (HUN)
RUUN (NOR)
SOVEREIGN (NOR)
TROLLCAVE (ESP)
+ more tba
Upcoming local shows in Wolfsburg (Germany) presented by Lycanthropic Chants
There will be more info coming but for now:
2025.07.30 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: DIVINE DEFILEMENT (ISL) + BOWEL EVACUATION (GER)
2025.09.05 Sauna-Klub: MISCREANCE (ITA)
2025.09.18 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: JADE (ESP) + HALLUCINATE (GER)
2025.10.17 Sauna-Klub: Sick Feast 2025 warm-up
2025.10.18 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: Sick Feast 2025
2025.11.04 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: tba
2025.11.28 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: EARTHBONG (GER) + GAYA'S DEMISE (GER)
2026.02.20 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: tba
https://lycanthropic.de/
Watch the music video to “Saturnine Child” created by Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Amon Amarth etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAOGKk3GRpk
Listen to the single via all streaming services: https://bfan.link/myr-saturninechild
"Helvegen" is the creation of Svartan and TZommer, two seasoned figures from the metal community. MYR delivers a sound that is both raw and melodic, drawing deeply from the wellspring of Scandinavian legends and the traditions of Northern black metal.
Based in Norway, MYR is more than just a band; it's an immersive experience into the dark and untamed spirit of Northern black metal. "Helvegen" is a haunting exploration of mysticism and darkness, invoking the brutal intensity of the Nordic wilderness. Fans of Satyricon, Bathory, and Dissection will find a kinship in MYR's sound. The album captures the unyielding force and mysticism of classic black metal, blended with a contemporary melodic sensibility.
"Helvegen" was mixed and mastered by the renowned Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio in Sweden, known for his work with Watain, Mayhem, and Tribulation.
Track list:
1. December Coma
2. In Perpetum
3. Brennt
4. Røkkr
5. Saturnine Child
6. Naraka
7. Proch
8. Tungsten
9. Kaldr
MYR are:
Svartan - Guitars, Vocals
TZommer – Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/myrnorge
Finnish thrashers INDEMON are set to release their debut album RECLAIMING CHAOS on June 27th 2025 via Inverse Records. The second single Necessary Evil is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/indemon-necessary
The band comments:
"The album's slowest, but perhaps heaviest song, deals with a very specific and dangerous addiction. It’s that certain ever-growing feeling that you can’t shake off, which becomes a necessary evil to achieve satisfaction. "Necessary Evil" interprets the classic saying "the chase is better than the catch" with a heavy hand."
Biography:
INDEMON is a four-piece metal band formed in 2020 in Kerava, Finland. Drawing influences from various subgenres of metal, they blend them uniquely to create a powerful and atmospheric sound. INDEMON's debut EP Fear of Living was released in 2022, showcasing the band's ability to create intense and multifaceted metal. The band’s lyrical themes explore fear, self-doubt, and inner struggles, immersing the listener into the music's emotional world. INDEMON is known for their energetic live performances and distinctive music.
Listen to the first single Reclaiming Chaos: https://push.fm/fl/indemon-reclaiming
Track
list:
1. Bring Down The Light
2. Internal Defeat
3. Passenger
4. Abuse
5. Necessary Evil
6. Shoot & Forget
7. Ruoja
8. Reclaim Chaos
Album cover by Sakari Vinko
Line-up:
Joose Riihelä - vocals
Santeri Liesmala - guitar
Ville Kangasharju - bass
Patrik Kuitunen – drums
https://www.facebook.com/indemonband
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD / Vinyl
Label: Independent Release
Distributor: Sonic Rendezvous
Tracklist:
01 Heaven Shall Burn
02 I Am Chaos
03 The New Dominion
04 M.A.D.(Mutual Assured Destruction)
05 Ripped Apart
06 Death from Above
07 Marching off to War
08 …and Hell Followed
09 American Gods
10 The Wolfpack
Chaos Unleashed was formed by Marc and Rob just before 2020. Because of the experience being in former bands like Sad Iron, Jackal, Dominion and Angus we were quick to know what we being in former bands like Sad Iron, Jackal, Dominion and Angus we were quick to know what we wanted and our play together as musicians. Influenced by German thrash bands like Kreator, Destruction and Sodom the music exists of hard and aggressive riffs that combined with catchy riffs and sometimes a chorus where the audience can sing along. Chaos Unleashed therefore delivers an aggressive and yet catchy style of thrash metal you don’t hear very often and is therefore quite unique in the current landscape of thrash metal bands.
The Covid Pandemic made it difficult to find a drummer and to hold auditions. This period fortunately did make it possible to keep writing songs and make demo’s out of them so we could have a flying start when we’ve found our drummer. At the end of the pandemic there where 5 songs completely finished and ready to play.
The search for a drummer ended when we found Sander Spoor. Sander also plays guitar besides drums and therefore understands the riffs and the intention behind the riffs better than any other drummer. Sander has a diverse background in terms of metal styles being in bands like Yaotzin, Fill Bloom and Claustrophobia which makes him a perfect addition to the band.
In November 2022 we played our debut gig and had many more successful gigs after that. Every time we play the crowd is going insane and has a blazing enthusiasm which means we are doing the right thing!
We choose not to record an EP for our first production, but to go straight to making a full length album and to do that at an esteemed recording studio. January 2024 we entered the Toneshed studio of Erwin Hermsen where he recorded the latest Legion of the Damned and Deadhead albums.
The album I AM CHAOS was released on the 23rd of august 2024 and has gotten great reviews. The album is approx. 45 min long and contains 10 ferocious tracks! You can listen to the album on Spotify and Apple Music amongst other streaming services.
The promotion of the album got a minor setback when Marcus was rushed to the hospital when he got unwell on stage during a gig on November 9th 2024. Fortunately everything is okay now and Marcus is healthier than ever! We are back on the road harder and heavier than before!!
https://www.facebook.com/chaosunleashedband
Colombian
metal warriors BRINICLE unleash a searing dose of
philosophical destruction with the release of the official lyric video for
“PANDEMIC”, a track from their upcoming full-length album PERCEPTIONS
OF REALITY, set to drop on June 20, 2025, via Wormholedeath.
Carving a brutal path through the intersections of technical death metal precision and groove metal weight, Brinicle delivers a message as heavy as their riffs. "Pandemic" is not just a track—it's an existential reckoning. The lyrics explore humanity’s role as both creator and destroyer, calling out greed, ignorance, and systematic corruption as the true diseases threatening the planet’s survival.
Anchored in Colombia’s thriving extreme metal scene, Brinicle has built their sonic identity on raw aggression, complex rhythmic structures, and unflinching lyrical depth. “Pandemic” serves as a furious preview of what Perceptions of Reality promises: a boundary-pushing, soul-crushing experience that refuses to pull punches.
www.youtube.com/@BrinicleMetalBand
www.facebook.com/BrinicleMetal
Rome (IT) - Blackened Death Metal horde, PATRISTIC, have partnered with Metal Injection for the premiere of "A VINCULIS SOLUTA I," the second single from forthcoming debut full-length album, CATECHESIS!
"Nearly eight minutes of aural devastation" awaits below:
"A Vinculis Soluta I" will be available May 23 on all digital platforms.
FFO: Aosoth, Barshakesh, Drastus, Sulphur Aeon, Akhlys.
Born of the ashes of Roman Empire, pagan lust for life and philosophical opulence, then demeaned and mortified by the fathers of the one true god. Centuries lasting like the last dream before awakening. PATRISTIC is the soundtrack of the age of quiet chaos between the classic world, paganism and the impending shadow of the cross.
Catechesis follows 2022 debut EP, Apologetica, and is the band's first release for Willowtip.
Track
Listing:
1. A Vinculis Soluta I
2. A Vinculis Soluta II
3. Catechesis I
4. Catechesis II
5. Catechesis III
6. Catechesis IV
Catechesis will be released June 20 on vinyl, CD, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/catechesis-willowtip
https://patristic.bandcamp.com/album/catechesis
Credits:
All music and lyrics written and recorded by E.S. and Sathrath.
Drums recorded by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studios in October MMXXIII.
Vocals recorded by Davide Gorrini at BeastCave Studio in December MMXXIII.
Mixed and mastered by Michael Zech at The Source Studios between January and May MMXXIV.
Artwork by Manuel Scapinello.
Artwork layout by Dema Novakova.
Logo by Bram Bruyneel.
Line-Up
E.S. - Guitars, bass, samples, arrangements
Sathrath - Drums
L.S. - Vocals
T.V. - Bass
The band's name and concept comes from Patristics which is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The period is generally considered to run from the end of New Testament times or end of the Apostolic Age (c. AD 100) to either AD 451 (the date of the Council of Chalcedon) or to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/Patristicblackmetal
Blending
black metal, death metal, and progressive metal, PROPHETS TOMB crafts
a sonic experience unlike any other, merging blistering aggression with
intricate melodies and atmospheric depth. Their evolution continues from their
previous works, the third wave and magni mori, diving deeper into the abyss
with THROUGH PAIN .
The digital album's release date is 13 June 2025.
Tracklist
1. Play Me...
2. Bear Trap
3. Pit of Needles
4. Gift of Life
5. Last Man Standing
6. Shattered Glass Coffin
7. Pound of Flesh / Death Sentence
Prophets Tomb’s lineup is a triad of multi-instrumental savagery:
Regnibus – Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Organ, Synth
Lord Adramalech – Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals, Synth
Drekavak – Bass, Backup Vocals, Drums, Synth
www.youtube.com/@prophetstombband
www.facebook.com/ProphetsTombBand
PRIMITIVE BLASPHEMOUS RAW BLACK METAL... MURDER RECORDS in co-operation with SOUTHERN SOUNDCLASH RECORDS and GUTS & BLOOD RECORDS has the honor to announce the next funeral ritual where the chaos reveals the sinister rotteness of HESSIAN, that echoes in the deepest abysses of the nefarious underworld and where the true spirit of Primitive Black Metal is forged in a raw way in the filthy gutters of hell.
HESSIAN are an unholy legion originating from Atlanta, Georgia that emerged in
2002 where they called themselves Madame Durant and were renamed in 2003 with
the name Utuk Xul Commands Worship and in 2016 baptized again with rotten blood
under the name HESSIAN that prevails to this day.
"DECADES OF DESOLATION IN THE UNDERWORLD OF DARKNESS" is the title of the compilation that reveals HESSIAN's discography, which will include 18 profane hymns, keeping the original productions intact so as not to corrupt with clean or modern masterings the true essence of the infernal chaos that will be exposed in this CD release and where you can only find an extreme musical filth faithful to its origins, duly moldy with the odors of rotten sulfur that announce an abrupt death.
In this infernal pact where the blasphemous creatutas intend to reap with the blade of the bloodshed scythe all the celestial deities, transporting their mortal remains to be duly desecrated and deposited in the nasty coffins from the horrendous underworld, where all the demonic beasts will feed on the impure chaos, death, hate, desespair and aguish in this hellish noise feast.
We want to inform all those who are looking for well-produced music or who think they will find something beautiful and pleasant here, do not fool yourselves because this release is not for you, here you will only find sonic dirt duly desecrated with chaos and infernal noise where for an hour you will be duly tortured and tormented without mercy, where only the true rats of the musical sewer will survive to this sordid noise apocalypse.
Posers stay away far away...
Release date : July, 18th 2025
CD Limited to 300 copies
Tracklist:
Infernal Racket Series (2002-2025)
01 - 2002 - "Part 3: Utuk Xul Commands Worship..." [04:00]
02 - 2016 - "Maxxout Demo Session #1..." [01:47]
03 - 2018 - "Sons Of Southern Darkness..." [01:02]
04 - 2024 - "Veil Of Night (Live Instrumental)..." [03:53]
05 - 2024 - "Black Magic Hunger... (Live Instrumental)..." [02:52]
06 - 2025 - "Sorcerer Of Pain..." (Live Rehearsal) [03:50]
07 - 2025 - "High Chant: Part 1..." [02:45]
08 - 2025 - "High Chant: Part 2" [03:41]
09 - 2025 - "Low Chant: Part 3" [02:47]
10 - 2025 - "Low Chant: Part 4" [03:38]
11 - 2025 - "Part 1" [04:01]
12 - 2025 - "Part 2" [04:08]
Sinister Singles E.P.
13 - 2024 - "Veil Of Night..." [03:56]
14 - 2025 - "Eternally Possessed By Utuk Xul (Full Intro / Outro Version)" [03:30]
15 - 2025 - "Blazing Sigils..." [02:45]
16 - 2025 - "Sorcerer Of Pain..." [06:20]
17 - 2025 - "Oblivion Beneath The Infernal" [02:42]
18 - 2025 - "Goetic Altars Of Obsidian" [02:07]
Credits:
All songs recorded in the catacombs of hell by Hessian.
Art for the cover drawed by Marcio Blasphemator.
Layouts made by Leo Mora.
HESSIAN Line-Up:
Adam Dickerson (Drums: 01)
Hector The Bone Collector (Drums: 02)
Viken (Drums: 03)
Imperius Noctum (Drums: 04, 05, 13, 14, 18)
Eric Porter (Drums: 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12)
Laremy Wade (Guitars: All Tracks / Drum Arrangements: 04, 05, 13, 14, 18)
Nathan Gombert (Guitars: 01)
Brandon Floyd (Vocals: 06, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 / SFX: 14 / Lead Guitar: 14 / Drums: 15, 16)
ardklt@alumni.emory.edu
https://hessian666.bandcamp.com/
Pre order here at Hellstore Europe : https://www.murder-records.eu/
The first single 'Kissed by This Life' is released today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/dominant-chain-kissed
The band comments the single:
"Kissed By This Life" is the first single release from Dominant Chain's Wasteland Requiem EP. The track represents thematically and musically the core message of the EP, showcasing the band's musical style at its best: Crushing riffs, progressive changes, and fast solos that culminate in catchy melodies and massive, symphonic choruses. The song’s lyrics explore the main character’s experiences with harsh interrogations in a dystopian dictatorship, where she wakes up tortured, unable to remember past events or who she is."
Biography:
Dominant Chain, hailing from Northern Finland, plays progressive symphonic metal. Their music is not only about complex time signatures and technical skills, but massive, catchy choruses too, along with influences from various other music styles.
The band was originally formed in 2006 in Sonkajärvi, Northern Savo. The musicians have seasoned backgrounds in the professional musicianship. Their first official release, the EP Wasteland Requiem, consisting of five tracks, will be released in the summer of 2025. The first single, "Kissed By This Life," is released digitally on May 20, 2025.
Track list:
01. Wasteland Requiem
02. The Moment
03. Tears of the Tyrant
04. Dirt
05. Kissed by This Life
Vocal recordings & engineering: Esa Uusimaa
Vocal production & Backing Growls in ”Kissed by This Life”: Mika Kankainen
Mixing: Toni Balk
Mastering: Janne Tolsa
Cover art: Antti Raatikainen
Logo: Juha Tretjakov
Kissed by This Life & The Moment vocals recorded in White Leaf Studio, Oulu.
Tears Of The Tyrant & Dirt lead vocals and all backing vocals recorded in Lemmenhotelli, Helsinki.
Line-up:
Bass: Tuomas Korkatti
Drums: Toni Balk
Guitars: Jarno Keränen
Keyboards & orchestrations: Juho Keränen
Lead & backing vocals: Marja Kettunen
https://www.facebook.com/dominantchainband
Label : Darkwoods
Format: CD
Release date: 17/07/2025
Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal from Sweden
There are nights when the world holds its breath, and in that stillness, something stirs, wordless and distant, like a voice echoing from a place you’ve never seen... a shape in the fog, a pull beneath the ribs… and suddenly, it’s there, nameless, veiled, yet somehow known... an enigmatic project that doesn’t announce itself, but envelopes you with a solemn grace...
That project is Dös, a vision whispered into being in the shadowed wilds of Sweden, a lone spirit reaching through time, tracing the ghost-lines of ancient myths, forgotten gods and the aching silence of the North. What emerges is a deeply personal rite, carved in sound and solitude, atmospheric black metal vast as the sky, intimate as breath, drifting like mist through the bones of forsaken forests.
At the heart of his debut full-length album lie two poems, “Det eviga” and “Den döde”, penned in the early 19th-century by Esaias Tegnér, verses now reborn as five sweeping songs... through them, the artist behind Dös channels a black metal that both whispers and roars, immense yet intimate, as fierce as it is fragile... sculpted from silence and shadow, from longing and the half-remembered echo of ancestral grief, an offering destined for those who walk the same hidden trails as Drudkh, Agalloch, Wodensthrone, Kroda, Wolves in the Throne Room or Skogen...
Released as a unique limited edition, Det eviga och den döde is presented in a luxurious, oversized 4-panel digifile, handcrafted and printed on exclusive heavyweight matte-laminated paper, complete with a printed cardboard sleeve to protect the CD and a free digital download card...
www.youtube.com/withinthedarkwoods
www.facebook.com/darkwoods.eu
CREEPING FEAR - "REALM OF THE IMPALED"
Genre
: Death
Metal
For fans of: Hate Eternal, Immolation, Cannibal Corpse
Origin: France
Label: Dolorem Records
Network distributor: Season of Mist
Release date : June 27 2025
After two acclaimed EPs (Unleashed in 2013, World Execution in 2014), CREEPING FEAR reached a new level with their debut album, Onward to Apocalypse (2017), praised for its intensity and polished production. Their second album, Hategod Triumph (2021), mixed by Frédéric Gervais and mastered by Dan Swanö, confirmed their place among the rising stars of French death metal.
Creeping Fear's music is a surge of heavy riffs, relentless rhythms, and deep growls, in an abysmal atmosphere. Through somber lyrics, they explore war, the fall of civilizations, and the darkness of the human soul.
On stage, Creeping Fear delivers ferocious and immersive performances, leaving a lasting impression on French and European audiences. Now composed of Clément Ducouret, Gabriel Hammel, Matthias Biechler (bass), and Hector Hellgz (drums), the band continues its ascent and is ready to unleash their brand offering calls “Realm of the Impaled”.
Creeping Fear is the burning breath of the apocalypse in death metal: brutal, technical, and uncompromising. Devastating riffs, abysmal growls, and suffocating atmospheres - something between Immolation and Hate Eternal, prepare to dive into a masterful sonic chaos.
Tracklist:
01. A Path to Obscurity
02. Dismembered And Thrown Into Black Flames
03. Demonic Ascent
04. Realm Of The Impaled
05. Torture Wheel
06. Et ils se Couvrirent de Gloire
07. Feast of Violence
08. Obscene Sacrifice
09. Cursed Endeavor
https://www.facebook.com/@creepingfear/
THE MEDEA PROJECT – “KHARON”
Label: Independent Release
Release date: June 20th 2025
Genre: Dark Primal Gothic Doom
For fans of: Celtic Frost | Tiamat | A Pale Horse Named Death | Darkthrone
“…Kharon, demoniac form,with eyes of burning coal, collects them all…from The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto 3 by Dante Alighieri
On the stygian shores of the lightless river, where spirits gather on the sloping beach of obsidian and hematite, awaiting passage across the waters of forgetting to the distant bank, lost in shadows and shifting mist...where the boatman with hungry eyes crosses from one world to another, one to the other, in a never ending journey. Here in this desolate place is where The Medea Project’s new collection of hymns, stories and incantations was born. Drawing on doom metal, death metal and black metal, on dark folk and darker dreams and something primal that burns within the tangled strands of memory and myth…this is Kharon.It begins…melancholic, otherworldly majesty hangs in cold swathes of faded finery from the ringing chords and sinister, stumbling riffs of ‘Absence, In Loss’ and the certainties of reality start to slip through your fingers like ancient dust. The haunting, echoing notes that usher in ‘The Cave Song’, subtly shift your perceptions, drawing you through a diaphanous veil into a disorientating domain of flickering flame and encroaching gloom, of claustrophobic tunnels beneath the earth that open into breathtaking, cathedral like caverns…. From the simple melodies of ‘Purgatory Trapped’ that speak in elemental tones to the troubled heart, to the raw, feral black metal of ‘Upon Your Bones’; the languid, undead waltz of ‘Dance Of The Void’ to the cataclysmic defiance of ‘The End’ and the final binding of ‘Reborn’ – a whispered spell of possession, that ends as you step from the boatman’s ferry onto the sands from which there is no return. By entwining the atmospheric power of seminal death metal with the bleak, sundering weight of emotionally raw doom and the savage chill of the early black metal forces, then casting the ashes and powdered bone of Gothic dreaming upon it all, before igniting the nameless creature upon a funeral pyre of imagination and passion, The Medea Project have created an enthralling, soul consuming album, a new mythology for our dark and broken times.
Adorned in the haunting artwork of world renowned artist Daniele Serra (Stephen King, Clive Barker, Shining etc) and mastered to dreamlike perfection by Markus Stock (Ahab, Winterfylleth, Secrets Of The Moon etc), Kharon will offer passage across Acheron on June 20th. Its release will be celebrated with a special show at London’s Dingwalls 2 venue alongside My Silent Wake and The River.
“Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain…
All hope abandon all ye who enter here.”from The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto 3 by Dante Alighieri
Line-up:
Brett Minnie - Guitars/Vocals
Pauline Silver - Drums & Percussion
https://www.facebook.com/themedeaprojectband
REJECT THE SICKNESS – “SIGNS OF THE END”
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD
Label: Eigen Beheer
Distribution: Sonic Rendezvous
For fans of : Heaven Shall Burn, Gojira, Eye Of The Enemy, Morbid Angel, Neaera, Deserted Fear and the like…..
Tracklist:
01 The Messenger
02 Acta Non Verba
03 Dark Times
04 We Enslave Angels
05 Fall From Grace
06 When I Become You
07 Chaos vs. Chaos
08 Signs Of The End
Reject The Sickness: 15 years of unbridled aggression.
Since 2010, Belgian metal band Reject The Sickness has been storming the scene with a furious mix of rhythmic death metal, ruthless melodic aggression and atmospheric black, supplemented with a touch of metalcore.
Their music is more than just sound—it’s a journey through the dark realities of marginalized youth. They explore themes of abuse, neglect, and self-harm, bringing these raw emotions to life in their lyrics .Although their lyrics are fictional, they carry the weight of real experiences.
Singer Guy, a social worker in addition to being a frontman, weaves his observations and insights into the lyrics, giving them an extra layer of intensity and authenticity.
2025 will be a milestone year: Reject The Sickness celebrates 15 years of pure power and unfiltered expression.
And to mark this milestone, they will release their latest album ‘Signs of the End’ worldwide on May 30th.
An album in which they push their boundaries, further sharpen their style and delve deeper into the human psyche.
Their lyrics cast a shadow over the mental struggles of neglected youth—their fear, hatred, and the gnawing desire for revenge.
But adult revenge proves to be an illusion, leaving them trapped in their own thoughts, locked in a battle with no way out.
Musically, the band continues to evolve: even more rhythmic, even more atmospheric, even more catchy.
Harder, rawer, and uncompromisingly melodic. Even the mysterious realm of atmospheric black metal is explored in a few songs .
Reject The Sickness is unstoppable. In 2025, they take a bold step towards complete label independence—a conscious decision, because they believe they can do it better themselves now.
Line-up:
Zoran Van Bellegem: guitar
Jannick Govaert: drums
Guy Vercruysse: vocals
Jonas Messiaen: bassguitar
Ruben Van der Beken: guitar
https://www.reject-the-sickness.com/
https://www.facebook.com/rejectthesickness
NEAR
DEATH EXPERIENCE
sound is a masterful alchemy of gothic doom metal, characterized by Anne
Soazig Couëdel's ethereal, lyrical vocals that float above a landscape of
crushing riffs and introspective melodies—drawing inspiration from legends like
Paradise Lost, The Gathering, Draconian, Katatonia, and Moonspell, the band
crafts a sonic experience that is both visceral and vulnerable.
Their debut album, "BRIEF IS THE LIGHT", is a ten-track exploration of near-death experiences and the raw, often unspoken realities of domestic violence. Each song provides a window into profound emotional territories, challenging listeners to confront the darkness within and without.
Since their first live performance in June 2023, NDE has completed ten shows, building a reputation for emotionally intense and musically precise performances.
Tracklist
01 And Then There Was Silence
02 No Tomorrow
03 Brief Is The Light
04 As Life Fades
05 Stolen Seasons
06 Her Wounded Soul
07 A Voice In The Dark
08 The Neverending Journey
09 Dreaming Of Oblivion
10 And I Return To Nothingness
Born from the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Near Death Experience emerged as a testament to artistic resilience. What began as Mathieu Bonfardin's solo instrumental project has blossomed into a powerful five-piece ensemble that defies musical boundaries, weaving a tapestry of sound that is at once brutal and breathtakingly beautiful.
www.youtube.com/@ndemusic
www.facebook.com/neardeathexperiencemusic
NOMAD
SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS
proudly presents:
HELHEIM – “BLOD & ILD”
For the first time ever, the third full-length album by the Norwegian pagan ensemble Helheim is now finally available on vinyl!
Neither band nor album need further introductions, of course...
Nine tracks spread over nearly 40 minutes of music, printed as an exclusive 200 copy limited edition (50 black and 150 marble gold/black vinyl)!
To keep everything in its proper zeitgeist, we decided to keep it all as close to the ’00 original release as possible, so expect no alternative layout or a fancy digital re-mastering enhancements!
We are thus presenting “Blod og Ild” in its natural form, and this time on the most noble of formats!
UNBEGOTTEN / VELO MISERE – „SILENCIO Y DEMENCIA“
From Spain, two misanthropic hordes have returned to torment humanity with their prayers of Death: Unbegotten, a vicious and mystifying entity formed in 2016, responsible for one demo and two full-length albums, and Velo Misere, a 5-piece horde, striking again after having previously released A demo, an EP and a full-length album.
With each band presenting 3 brand new tracks of nihilistic necromancing Black Metal, Nomad Snakepit Productions and Altare Productions joined forces to unleash this split LP unto the slumbering scene, in a limited edition of 250 copies.
This is the soundtrack for the all-consuming void...
All you need to do is dive...
SVARTSYN – „VORTEX OF THE DESTROYER”
With its tenth full-length album, Svartsyn delivers a work rooted in both its present vision and primordial past. “Vortex of the Destroyer” unfolds in two intertwined chapters: four new compositions alongside six resurrected relics from Chalice, the entity that would become Svartsyn in 1994.
The first half of “Vortex of the Destroyer” embodies a refined yet relentless approach, shaped by instinct and hindsight alike. From the ruin of Atlantis to the flames of Surtr and Fenrir, these songs channel Svartsyn’s pursuit of apocalyptic grandeur – a descent into the abyss.
The latter half harks back to the autumn of 1992, breathing new life into six compositions first forged under the Chalice banner. Conceived at the dawn of the second wave of Black Metal, these tracks honour the band’s origins. Re-recorded with present clarity, their essence remains untouched: wild, sinister, and unmistakably Ornias.
By uniting its earliest fire with its latest incarnation, Svartsyn asserts an unbroken path of black devotion. “Vortex of the Destroyer” is both a return and an advance, where destruction and renewal converge.
With both CD & LP coming out by the hands of Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Nomad Snakepit Productions was given the honour of casting this new masterpiece on cassette tape, in a limited edition of 100 copies!Svartsyn cassette reissues:
“The True Legend” ltd. tape
“Wrath Upon the Earth” ltd. tape
“Black Testament” ltd. tape
“In Death” ltd. tape
As a cherry on the cake, all Svartsyn albums previously released on CD/ LP by Agonia Records have now been released for the first time on cassette tape!
Featuring the original layout, each tape-release is limited to only 50 copies, so you better act fast if you want some!
https://nomadsnakepit.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NomadSnakepit/
NEWS 17.5.2025
Brazilian
death metal force OPHIOLATRY is unveiling their new
music video for “JESUS COMPLEX”, the second single from
their upcoming album “SERPENT'S VERDICT,” set for
release on June 6, 2025, through WormHoleDeath Records. The video
represents the band's next visual offering to follow "Death Tour,"
revealed this past April. The new video introduces viewers to the ritualistic
atmosphere that defines their long-awaited return.
The band shares the story behind the single:
“This story is totally terrifying: you wake up, go out, and discover that everyone is wearing a Jesus mask. His gaze pierces you deeply, transmiƫng a strange and oppressive feeling. It becomes even more suffocating when you look in the mirror and see that you are also wearing the mask. In a world where identity disintegrates under the weight of imposed doctrine, the fear of conformity is a struggle between imposed faith and one’s own identity.”
“Jesus Complex” explores themes of religious manipulation and spiritual corruption. The track combines Ophiolatry's signature technical brutality with a newfound emphasis on tribal rhythms and atmospheric elements that showcase the band's evolution since their acclaimed 2008 release “Transmutation”.
The creation of both the song and video emerged from a deeply personal creative process for the band. The release of “Jesus Complex” marks the next chapter in what the band describes as ‘a communion between sound and image’, with each element of “Serpent's Verdict” designed to function as part of a larger ritualistic experience. Fans of Death, Deicide, and Cryptopsy are encouraged to immerse themselves in this initial offering while anticipating the full album's release in June.
Tracklist
1 – Jesus Complex – 3:48
2 – Revenge – 4:21
3 – Generation Curse – 3:09
4 – Death Tour – 3:35
5 – Serpent’s Spits – 4:31
6 – Atheris – 1:32
7 – Apophis – 5:01
8 – Midia Bible – 3:34
9 – Manipulations Guilt – 4:03
10 – Heaven Jails – 3:26
11 – Narcissistic Victim Syndrome – 4:06
12 – Human Factory – 3:18
13 – Ecdysis – 2:34
Album Length: 47:03
Stream “Jesus Complex”: https://orcd.co/jesuscomplex
Album pre-save : https://orcd.co/serpentsverdict
First Single - “Death Tour”
https://youtu.be/9Fr3TqFyF5Q
https://orcd.co/deathtour
Album Recording Credits:
All songs performed and composed by Ophiolatry.
Mastering: Dan Swanö – http://www.unisound.se
Artwork: LouLou – http://www.louloufineart.com
Pre-Production: Steve Rumpli & Ophiolatry
Production, Recording & Mixing: Diego Santiago
Studio: Satori Estudio
Photography: Kevin Eisenlord, Anderson Hildebrando
Graphic Layout: Beto Mustafa
Mask Sculpting by: Herman Silesky
Album Band Line Up:
Jaime Veron – Lead Vocals
Diego Santiago – Bass
George “Dog” Duarte – Drums
Fred Barros – Guitars
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www.facebook.com/AsherMediaRelations
https://www.youtube.com/@ophiolatryofficial2679
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063556233508
https://ophiolatry.com.br/
Anyone interested in give the true supporting the bands or labels involved in this release should get in touch to be able to purchase their copy and give their support. For all the weaklings of the modern Underground and the digital age, you can listen on Youtube or Bandcamp and fuck yourself with your kind of empty support and modern meaningless Underground.
SICKRECY (Swe) / DISTASTE (Aus) -"MAN'S THE LEECH / OPPRESSOR:
SALVATIO"
Format : Split 7'EP Red Vinyl
Genre : Grindcore
Sickrecy Side:
01 - Man's The Leech [02:29]
02 - Last In Line [03:27]
Distaste Side:
03 - Vater [01:31]
04 - Diarrhetorik [01:37]
SICKRECY
Sickrecy are a Swedish band formed in 2021 that presents us with a violent and very well executed Grindcore, where we can be crushed alive without mercy with the sonic brutality presented.
Line Up:
Martin Eriksson: Drums
Marcus Dahl: Guitar
Adde Mitroulis: Vocals
Isac Nordgren Jonasson: Bass
Tobbe Ander: Guitar
sickrecyband@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/Sickrecy
DISTASTE
Distaste are from Austria, formed in 2000 and impressing us with their extreme sounds, where Grindcore intertwines with Death Metal to provoke intense auditory spasms in all those who dare and endure the sonic demolition that is torn apart here.
Line Up:
Yannick: Drums
Lukas: Lead Guitar & Growls
Armin: Guitar & Screams
Murz: Bass
distastegrind@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/distastegrind
Co-release with Murder Records, Flyktsoda Records, Global Help Records, Necro Records, Throne Of Lies Records, 7 Degrees Records, Helldog Records, and Sickrec(y)
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
MALHKEBRE announces their return to the stage, after 5 years of silence, with HEXEKRATION RITES. During these black masses you will discover new tracks announcing the release of a 2-track EP for the summer, before the album at the end of the year!
MALHKEBRE is announced for Prague Death Mass V in Czech Republic and in Belgium at the Black Khaos Assault Festival.
A
new reality is emerging in the Italian Doom scene.These are the Romans AGANOOR who
present a new track taken from "DOOMERISM", their
debut album out on June 6th. The track we reveal to you today
is "Emerald Lake". The official video realized by Chiara Fornalè
(like the previous "Icarus") can be admired on https://youtu.be/ukeZFjLS260
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/aganoorband
Ecastor is a new band that presents a promising sound where we can find a nefarious savagery of Thrash Death Metal riffs tormented by decadence that reveals a disturbed society, transporting us to human self-destruction where the reality of political hypocrisy with the lies of religion are the infernal fuel for an inhuman devastation on this planet ready to explode.
The debut album that Ecastor is preparing to release with the horrendous support of Murder Records is decomposed into seven purulent hymns, complemented with an Intro and a Outro, which will decimating us with their impure sonority soaked in the lacerating atrocities of inhuman ideologies and where tears of rotten blood will be shed.
The sound presented by Ecastor is played with fast rhythms and dark atmospheres where the main in?uences become from bands like Mortuary Drape, Sodom, Necrodeath ready to devastate your soul and ripping your body apart.
INHUMAN ATROCITIES OF THRASH DEATH METAL...
ECASTOR Line-Up
Dante: Vocals,Guitar
Leonardo: Guitar
Yuri: Bass
Askios(Enea): Drums
Release date June, 27th 2025
CD Limited to 300 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Enter The Spaceship [01:39]
02 - Space Marines [02:52]
03 - Silence [03:49]
04 - Docmicide [03:14]
05 - Land Of Fire [04:07]
06 - Slepnir [04:28]
07 - DDT [02:08]
08 - This War [03:56]
09 - Outro [00:31]
Mix and master by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
Cover art dwawed by Benedetto Palmaro.
Cover made by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
The songs were composed by all members.
Layout made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Lyric video and promotion by Danihell Slaughter.
ecastor.band@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Ecastor/61565314684647
www.murder-records.eu
Athens-based metal outfit BENT BY SORROW storms the scene with their debut album, SAKURA, delivering an unrelenting sonic assault that shreds through the airwaves with unmatched intensity. A chaotic force of groove metal, Sakura is a relentless battering ram of sound, decimating everything in its path. From start to finish, this album is a merciless onslaught, leaving destruction in its wake. Get ready for a brutal auditory experience—Sakura is here to redefine the boundaries of metal.
Sakura is a war cry of annihilation—a eleven-track barrage of groove-drenched devastation, forged in chaos and unleashed with unrelenting fury!
The wait is over. Athens-based metal juggernaut Bent by Sorrow is set to detonate the global metal scene with their long-anticipated debut full-length album, Sakura. Dropping May 23, 2025, under Brutal Records, this release is a masterclass in dark and groove metal, packing an unrelenting sonic punch that will leave listeners breathless.
A Sound That Demands Attention
Blending the raw intensity of Deftones, Soilwork, and Disturbed, Bent by Sorrow has crafted a sound that’s both crushing and deeply emotive. Recorded and produced by the renowned Fotis Benardo at Devasoundz Studios, Sakura is a testament to their evolution—a eleven-track onslaught of groove-infused fury that pushes the boundaries of modern metal.
Tracklist:
The Machine
Never Fail
Need for Faith
A Life Without an F
Through the Blacklight
Trapped
Rain
Demoncracy
Order Chaos
Interlude - La Reina Muerte
For the Victory of Light (Instrumental)
Riding the Wave of Momentum
Bent by Sorrow is on a meteoric rise, with recent singles amassing an 8600% surge in listeners. The blistering Never Fail, featuring two-time world boxing champion Medusa, and the crushing The Machine have already turned heads, proving the band’s ability to seamlessly merge pulverizing riffs with thought-provoking lyricism.
Dominating the Stage Renowned for their ferocious live performances, Bent by Sorrow has conquered stages alongside Harakiri for the Sky, Nile, and Crowbar, as well as headlining major shows across Greece. Their intense energy, bone-rattling sound, and commanding presence solidify them as one of the most electrifying acts in the modern metal landscape.
Discography:
Highlights:Dementia (2020) – A six-track EP featuring the fan-favorite Truth Behind the Lies and
Disease Without a Cure.
Never Fail – A relentless anthem of perseverance featuring Medusa.
The Machine – A dystopian, riff-driven masterpiece with a gripping lyric video.
Through the Blacklight – A punishing single that showcases the band’s raw intensity.
Band Lineup
Pantelis Saroglou-Vocals
Giannakis Dimi-Guitar
Yiannis Lenis- Guitar
Vaios Faltakas-Drum
The Future is Now!With Sakura primed to shake the foundations of the metal world, Bent by Sorrow is ready to claim their throne. If you crave heavy, emotive, and groove-laden metal, this is the album that will define 2025.
Mark your calendars – May 23, 2025. Sakura is coming. The revolution begins now.
https://orcd.co/brut89669
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://www.facebook.com/BentBySorrow/
Prog Death Metal discovery PROPHETS TOMB have unleashed
their blistering new single, "LAST MAN STANDING." The
track is taken from their highly anticipated upcoming album THROUGH
PAIN, which is set for release on June 13, 2025, via Wormholedeath.
Stream here: https://orcd.co/lastmanstanding
"Last Man Standing" is a powerful death metal track that explores guilt, corruption, and the aftermath of abuse. With raw, intense imagery and a relentless message, it challenges the listener to confront moral decay and personal reckoning. A brutal and visceral journey through a broken world, this track demands accountability and reflection on the choices that destroy lives.
Following the critical underground success of The Third Wave and Magni Mori, Prophets Tomb take their sound to even darker, more expansive places with Through Pain — an album that promises to be a landmark in modern extreme metal.
www.youtube.com/@prophetstombband
www.facebook.com/ProphetsTombBand
Death/black metal band Skaphos scratch that itch where the combination of the two genres sounds devastating and the influences complement one another. Their rawness and aggression pierce any semblance of pretension that this style might have and the dissonant edge doesn't hurt one bit either. The album is meaty and written well enough to warrant multiple listens. Please check it out if you haven't yet! The full album stream can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Q61YY3Q9M
SKAPHOS - “CULT OF UZURA”
For
fans of: Mgla, Crypts
of Despair, Obscureviolence, Behemoth, Dead
Congregation, Saevus Finis, Shrine of Denial, Belphegor
"Cult of Uzura" sees the dedicated French death/black metal band Skaphos fleshing out their sound on their third album - first on a label - to become more expressive and impactful than ever before. At this point, their proficiency is undeniable and their sound is a beautiful rendering of the two extreme styles, spiked with mean dissonance and steeped in an aura of mysticism. The execution remains ruthless and forceful despite showing subtlety in the emotive passages and deftness in the tempo changes. The gnarly death and black metal rawness is palpable even after having their disparate elements congealed on this album and the sound is more powerful than can be conceived for an album having this level of expression. In addition, the alternating contrast of chunky riffing with acerbic parts creates a lasting impression on the listener. This is a remarkable album in the death/black metal style that has actual substance along with the right aesthetics and sound.
Line up
Stephan Petitjean - Guitar & vocals
Jeremy Tronyo - Guitar & backing vocals
Theo Langlois - Bass & backing vocals
Nathan Faure - Drums
Artwork by Paolo Girardi
Track listing
1. Cult of Uzura
2. One Eyed Terror
3. Mad Man and the Sea
4. Hypoxia
5. Abyssal Tower
6. Echoes of the Drowned
7. Of Shores and Dripping Souls
8. Skaphism
9. The Servant
10. The Alchemist
11. The Offering
12. Diluvian Sentence
13. All Shall Be Now Itself the Sea
Release date - May 9th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/skaphosofficiel
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
FFO: Kreator, Children of Bodom
In the four years since the release of their debut EP, Executionist has sharpened the blades of its attack, both in terms of songwriting and performance!
Sacrament of the Sick is a monumental step forward from Executionist’s previous material. Improved production, performances, and writing have made the Executionist sound nearly unrecognizable compared to the band's debut EP, Destined for Destruction. Each track was meticulously crafted and poured over in Executionist’s home studio, and the final product shows that it was worth every ounce of attention. With a clear focus on melody and tighter songwriting, Sacrament of the Sick is a sonic journey sure to leave a lasting impact on the listener.
Track
Listing:
1. Ultionum
2. Edge of Annihilation
3. Wheels of War
4. Serrated Shadows
5. Divided We Stand... United We Fall
6. Thy Kingdom Come
7. Strange Aeons
8. Palace of Kings
9. Sacrament of the Sick
10. Coup de Grâce
Credits:
Music written by Brett & Tristan Ash
Lyrics written by Brett Ash
Vocals, guitar, bass - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Produced by Brett & Tristan Ash
Engineered & Mixed by Tristan Ash
Mastered by Colin Davis of Imperial Mastering
Album Artwork by Mitchell Nolte
Logo by ModBlackMoon & HermanTwo
Line-up:
Vocals/Guitar - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Bass - Austin Rose
Guitar - Mike Kinder
Bio:
Executionist was officially formed in 2021 by brothers Brett and Tristan Ash, who were 17 and 13 years old, respectively at the time. Their debut EP, Destined for Destruction, was released on January 27, 2021. Two years later, Executionist released "GENESIS 666" (March 2023).
After playing many shows together as a mere two-piece, Executionist finally added a bass player in 2024, in the form of Austin Rose. The three played more shows together before finally rounding out the lineup by adding Mike Kinder on guitar in March of 2025. Around the same time, Executionist announced the forthcoming release of their debut full-length album, Sacrament of the Sick. The lead single "Serrated Shadows," has already been released, with another single set to release on April 18. With the release of their album on the horizon, Executionist aims to play live as much as possible while writing
new music for their next project.
https://www.facebook.com/ExecutionistMetal/
Sentient
Ruin and Lower Your Head are to proud announce HELL’S
colossal fifth official full length album, “SUBMERSUS”, to
be released on July 11 2025 on LP, CD and MC formats via Sentient
Ruin and digitally via Lower Your Head, all pre-orderable now along with an
exclusive limited edition screen printed long sleeve shirt from both labels.
The album’s monstrous opening track “Hevy” can also be streamed now
via both label channels.
In yet another feat of unrivaled auditory heaviness which will further cement his status of visionary, MSW takes the listener once again deep into the darkest abysses of inner turmoil and personal struggle, reaffirming the Oregon musician’s inscrutable and unique ability to transform emotional torment into a masterclass of crushing sonic burden. Across its five abysmal movements "Submersus" recaptures the unfair and woeful essence of life which has driven the project from its inception almost twenty years ago, embodying the affliction that shapes human existence as it’s perpetually torn between ephemeral and fragile moments of respite, and their inexorable dissolution, as joy and hope are cyclically eclipsed and devoured back into the eternal storming vastness of circumstance and inevitability. Pessimism and resignation act as the inescapable tidal forces to this immense emotional abyss which implacably pulls all toward it, drawing life deep into the maelstrom where it's drowned under its own weight and implodes into the lightless crush-depth of unending sorrow and despondency.
“Submersus” is to be released on July 11 2025 on LP, CD and MC formats via Sentient Ruin and digitally via Lower Your Head, all pre-orderable now via both labels' channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin & Lower Your Head
https://sentientruin.com/releases/hell-submersus
https://sentientruin.com/bands/#/hell
Romanian
Black Metal act FUNERAL BAPTISM is proud to announce
that their long-awaited second full-length album, "IN
SOLITUDINE", will be officially released on May 30th, 2025,
through Loud Rage Music.
Pre-orders are now available at: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-baptism-in-solitudine
Coinciding with this announcement, the band unveils a second single, "Lex Talionis", a ferocious, unrelenting track that pushes deeper into the raw, philosophical intensity introduced by the title track, "In Solitudine". Witness its cold atmospheres, dissonant riffing, and piercing screams here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7hpdVpYpjI
Dark, introspective, and steeped in philosophical undertones, "In Solitudine" showcases a matured sound and lyrical vision, signaling a bold new chapter in the band's evolution.
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/FuneralBaptismBM
ETERNAL
RETURNS,
the relentless metal force from Thane (Mumbai), returns with “EMASCULATOR”
, their brand-new single and official music video premiering on YouTube.
Forged in 2010, Eternal Returns is more than a band it’s a sonic embodiment of the ancient Indian concept of the eternal cycle: birth, life, death, and rebirth. This spiritual backbone shapes their identity, music, and message, making them a unique voice in the global metal scene.
"Emasculator" channels the band’s signature blend of melodic death metal, groove, thrash, and metalcore, delivering a track that’s as punishing as it is profound. With bone-crushing riffs, guttural intensity, and atmospheric depth, the single explores themes of inner destruction, rebirth, and spiritual reckoning.
Their sound is not just an assault it’s a journey. Eternal Returns weaves mythology, existential dread, and the human fight for freedom into every note, offering a cathartic escape through heavy music. For fans of Gojira, Lamb of God, and Behemoth, this is a band not to miss.
Catch the premiere of “Emasculator” now on YouTube and join Eternal Returns as they redefine the sound of Indian metal on the world stage.
https://orcd.co/brut89672
After Thorn, we've got another fun and meaty death metal release - the debut album of the US death metal band Retching. It's gnarly, pummeling, and catchy and has some terrific riffs strewn about in the songs which are a bit more intricately written than it might seem. We've just unveiled a brand new track to go along with the preorder which just went up. You can find it all on Bandcamp at https://retching-label.bandcamp.com/album/charming-the-decomposed
RETCHING - “CHARMING THE DECOMPOSED”
Genre : old
school/brutal death metal
For fans of: Broken Hope, Cannibal Corpse, Fulci, Undeath, Mortician, Devourment
On only their debut release, Retching have found a way to present the gore-soaked, rotten, old school-inclined death metal sound that we all love with quality songwriting that elevates it beyond the nostalgic, aspiring bands of this ilk. It is what keeps the appeal from being diminished upon multiple listens and keeps the listener coming back for more as there's more than just simplified caveman-mosh death metal savagery on offer here. The songs, while accessible and laden with compelling hooks, are intricate and structured, and do a lot more before offering the much-desired dose of primal brutality. The influences too are assimilated very well from various death metal bands - this is no direct Cannibal Corpse or Suffocation clone; it bears elements as most such death metal bands do, but they've attempted to go about creating something delectable and effective in their own way, and to that extent this works well. There's no beating about the bush here - if you're into death metal that's heavy, catchy, and fun but also not completely senseless, Retching will make your day.
Line up
Latex - Oil drums and low end garrote
Mondo - Six string razor wire and erotic moans
Art by Slimeweaver
Track listing
1. Moonlight Perversions/Gorging on Ecstasy
2. Premature Decapitation
3. Shower Curtain Silhouette
4. Foaming
5. Vulgar Celluloid Trophy
6. Septic Entombment
7. Fetid Abattoir
8. Mortuary of Desire
Release date - August 22nd, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://retching-label.bandcamp.com/album/charming-the-decomposed
"Reign
in Hell" is set for a June 5 release on all digital platforms.
Lyrically, the song is a lapsed theologian’s wet dream. Christian doctrine asserts that free will is humankind’s unique gift, something not even angels possess. Therefore, the logical conclusion follows that in his so-called rebellion, Lucifer only played the role his creator intended for him, and was doomed to be cast into hell before he was ever made. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven,” a freshly exiled Satan proclaims in John Milton’s Paradise Lost while considering this injustice.
Milton famously humanized Satan in his epic work, arguably even placing him as the hero of the story, and The Pale Hand has gladly carried his torch into the 21st century, complete with vicious guitars, powerhouse vocals, and booming bass. In the end, it’s a match made in hell—after all,
heaven’s overrated.
In other news, The Pale Hand will hit the stage on May 16 at INFERNO, A Celebration of Hexennacht, presented by The Satanic Temple of NYC. Also appearing will be Tower and Holy Wisdom LLC.
With members hailing from around the globe, The Pale Hand is a cross-cultural heavy metal phenomenon taking New York City’s underground by storm, sharing stages with Castle Rat and Alex Skolnick of Testament. To witness The Pale Hand live is to be baptized in the church of the undead; a vampire pastor gives blood offering before the first song is played and expects to be repaid before the night is over. With a wide range of influences beyond metal, including gospel and middle eastern music, their show is theatrical, interactive, even spiritual, and they use their music to explore the question “what really is evil?” In The Pale Hand’s world, the sinner is the saint, and corruption is the true enemy.
Single Art Credits: Photo by Gannon Padgett, logo by J.E. Larson.
Line-up:
Kelsea Beck (they/them) - Vocals
Pamir Aysan (he/him) - Guitar
Diego Silva (he/him) - Guitar
Finnegan Hu (he/him) - Bass
Brian Del Guercio (he/him) - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/thepalehand
For fans of : Autopsy, Bolt Thrower, Coffins, Cianide, Disma, Hooded Menace, Undergang and Winter
BOCC make their Horror Pain Gore Death Productions debut with the compilation Obrint El Taüt! Formed in 2019, Bocc hail straight from the sewers of Barcelona, Spain and perform Death/Doom Metal in the ways of the old. Obrint El Taut, which translates to Opening The Coffin, presents the band's three EPs: Al La Forca, Santa Eulàlia, and La Forja Dels Cranis... twelve tracks totaling 75+ minutes of bone-crushing brutality!
Tracklisting:
1. La Nit Mes Negra
2. Ala De Corb
3. A La Forca
4. Dansa De La Mort
5. La Culla
6. Santa Eulalia
7. L'Altar
8. Pels Camins De La Vesania
9. La Forja Dels Cranis
10. Camp Dels Cremats
11. Icones Del Fracas
12. Black Vision (Purtenance cover)
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
PYTHIA – “V PT 1: UNHALLOWED”
Label: GOLDEN AXE
Release date: may 23rd 2025
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Nightwish | Delain | Evergrey
The time has come to return to the realms of fantasy, to walk the road through forests of thorn, below towering mountain peaks and down forgotten tunnels deep within the earth. It’s time to stand beneath a different sky and see in vibrant colour, feel with grand intensity and experience the sense of wonder that has faded from our grey and mundane world; to face dangers untold, to stare into the unblinking gaze of death and live as never before. Pythia have broken their silence and torn the shadows asunder, opening wide the gates to dream, adventure and magic once more, so summon your courage, reach for your sword and follow them now, into the Unhallowed lands…
Six long years have passed since the UK’s finest exponents of meticulously crafted symphonic metal, Pythia, unveiled their last uplifting musical invocation – The Solace Of The Earth – but now they have returned! Comprising five incredible songs, V Pt. 1: Unhallowed is a stunning new EP in its own right and also the first part of Pythia’s fifth great tale. Within moments of its title track beginning in a flurry of fierce guitars, electric energy and searing solos the passage of time is forgotten. The heroic melodies lift you up on wings of imagination, the curtain is raised and the drama begins to unfold. Every song that follows possesses a rich, individual character and yet the music flows perfectly from track to track, carrying the listener forward through each magnificent chapter on an exhilarating journey. First single, ‘Path Of Decay’ shows Pythia at their most measured, melodic and transportative with an irresistible chorus and breathtaking guitar work, while ‘Muses Of The Night’ unleashes thunderous riffs and rhythms as the wonderful vocals of Sophie Dorman soar effortlessly above through a storm-tossed sky – both are perfect examples of why …Unhallowed will surely be recognised as Pythia’s finest artistic statement to date.
Mixed by Ollie Roberts at Kettle Brew Studios and mastered by the world renowned Jacob Hansen (Epica, Evergrey, Destruction etc) V Pt 1: Unhallowed sounds simply perfect – every cascading solo, every angelic vocal line vivid and electrifying. With artwork created by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, Napalm Death etc) that captures the spirit of this special release, every element of V Pt. 1: Unhallowed has been carefully curated to deliver a unique symphonic metal experience – as only Pythia can.
Line-up:
Sophie Dorman - Vocals
Ross White - Guitars
Marc Dyos - Drums
Ash Porter - Bass
Jamie Hunt - Guitars
Marcus Matusiak - Keys
https://www.facebook.com/PythiaBand/
The second single 'TEAR-BLIND' featuring Sheila Bernal on guest vocals and Vilma Peltokangas on Cello is released today and lyric video is available here: https://youtu.be/ypr8Mivciyc
The band comments single:
"Tear-blind is the story of a man reaching the end of his life, wishing that his last days would not be filled with the sorrow and pain of his loved ones. His last wish is to try to enjoy the moments we share while he is still here."
Listen to Tear-Blind single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/shadecrown-tear-blind
Biography:
The Finnish Shadecrown is a versatile melodic death metal band founded in Viitasaari in 2012, whose melancholic melodies and lyrics tell stories about the dark side of life. The band has released three full-length albums so far: Agonia 2016, Riven 2019, Solitarian 2021. The fourth album 0 will be released in 2025.
Watch music video of first single 'The Art of Grieving' https://youtu.be/pPIwGDcOgRQ
Track
list:
01. The Art of Grieving
02. In a State of Agony
03. Fragile Chapters
04. Gone
05. Zero
06. Under the Waves
07. Inadequate
08. Tear-blind
09. Repentance
Cover art by Saku Tammelin
Line-up:
Jari Hokka - Vocals
Joonas Vesamäki - Guitar
Tomi Tikka - Guitar
Saku Tammelin - Keyboards
Janne Salmelin - Bass & clean vocals
Kalle Varonen - Drums
Guest female vocals: Sheila Bernal
Guest Cello: Vilma Peltokangas
https://www.facebook.com/shadecrownband
ETERNAL DISSONANCE – “THROUGH THE ENDLESS”
Label : Darkwoods
Format : CD / Digital
Release Date: 17/06/2025
Genre : Atmospheric Black from Spain
They were, without question, last year’s greatest revelation, a sudden flare of brilliance in the dim skies of atmospheric black metal, an instant classic that bewitched all who crossed its path. Since then, many have sought them out, compelled by a growing fascination with a project described as special, different or mesmerizing, a rare anomaly in a scene drowning in lifeless echoes and hollow imitations.
To all of you who have been waiting, the time has come, Eternal Dissonance has returned, and they do so in absolute triumph, Dargos (Wounded Soul, Neglected, Xenoautopsy) now stands fully unbound, channeling a force beyond the veil... in a state of pure artistic rapture, he ascends to towering new heights, transcendent, mystical, deeply spiritual, crafting music that calls to something primal within, something ancient and vast that stirs beneath the surface of the soul.
And truly, no title could speak more clearly of what awaits, Through the Endless is a monument carved from sound and silence alike, immense and unforgettable, etched into the listener’s core like a rite... four sprawling, hypnotic instrumental compositions, because how could it be any other way?, in which Dargos seizes the flame lit by Enlightened Passage and carries it beyond the veil, into a realm rarely glimpsed... this is black metal stripped of artifice, pulsing and untamed, luminous in its raw dissonance, this is Eternal Dissonance in its truest, most elemental form, just essential for disciples of Winterfylleth, Wodensthrone, Wolves in the Throne Room, Saor or Fen... yet unlike anything you’ve ever known.
Released as a unique limited edition, Through the Endless is presented in a luxurious oversized 4-panel digifile crafted from heavyweight paper with an exclusive soft-touch matte laminate. But for the chosen few, there is more... ten of these copies shall be entombed within an elegant, fully customized wooden box, a reliquary of shadow and sound, forming an exclusive collector’s edition unlike any other...
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Milwaukee (WI) - U.S. Death Metal veterans, VIOGRESSION, have completed the recording process for upcoming fourth album, THAUMATURGIC VEIL, which is currently being mastered by Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, CO. The album is set for a July 11 release. The band is now pleased to present the stunning artwork for this ambitious effort!
The album cover for Thaumaturgic Veil, created by artist Deigo Gedoz de Souza, is a haunting visual tapestry that intertwines the album’s conceptual framework. The cover’s dominant palette of muted greens, grays, and blues evokes a liminal space, a psychoacoustic membrane that mirrors the Thaumaturgic Veil itself—a barrier between the manifest universe and unquantifiable magic.
Deigo
Gedoz de Souza, a Brazilian artist renowned in the metal community, brings his
signature dark and fantastical style to Thaumaturgic Veil. Known for his
meticulous detail and mastery of gothic and horror aesthetics, De Souza crafts
atmospheres that feel ancient and otherworldly, making him an ideal
collaborator for Viogression’s ambitious vision. His blend of
surrealism with grim realism, as seen in this cover, evoke decay and
transformation—key themes in the album’s alchemical narrative creating a cover
that serves as a visual gateway into the album’s sonic journey.
Stay tuned for track listing, album details, and the first single!
Line-up:
Brian DeNeffe - Vocals
Lief Larson - Guitar
Johnathon Ibarra - Guitar
Jason Hellman - Bass
Erik Schultek - Drums
Bio:
Formed in 1988, Viogression swiftly forged a formidable presence in the metal underground with three searing demos, paving the way for their critically lauded debut, Expound & Exhort (1990). This landmark release launched them onto a world tour, igniting stages alongside Death and Pestilence. Their second album, Passage (1994), released incomplete, led to a nine-year hiatus. Reborn in 2003, Viogression unleashed fresh material, culminating in the 2014 EP, A Pure Formality, which sparked the band’s comeback with electrifying festival performances. Defying 2020’s global turmoil, they delivered 3rd Stage of Decay, released worldwide in 2022 through Satanath Records and Moribund Records. Now, Viogression stands on the brink of their fourth album, Thaumaturgic Veil, set for Summer 2025, poised to unleash a cataclysmic new chapter in their storied legacy.
Hessian
Firm is proud to announce the forthcoming reissue of LORD OF
NIGHTMARE from Japanese Black Metal enigma, ENDLESS
DISMAL MOAN! Originally released in 2006, this masterwork of torment by
sole member Chaos 9, who passed away in 2008, will be reissued by the
label as a limited edition CD with 4-page booklet on July 25.
Hessian Firm released the following statement about the reissue:
"Endless Dismal Moan is the brainchild of Japanese musician Chaos 9 (R.I.P). Embracing the digital production and aesthetics of his era as well as incorporating the suffocating sensation of Japanese horror. Endless Dismal Moan provides a completely twisted take on the very idea of raw black metal that remains unsurpassed to this very day. We have been given permission by a live band member and close associate of Chaos 9 (R.I.P) to reissue this full length album.
Lord of Nightmare is not only aesthetically accomplished, but also innovative and significant within the history of underground music. With Lord of Nightmare, sole member Chaos 9 abandons the melancholic romanticism of early black metal in order to create a masterpiece of contemporary urban horror. The music on this album immerses the listener in a chaotic vortex of visceral despair, evoking the nightmarish visions often found in the Japanese cyberpunk movement. Lord of Nightmare stands as Chaos 9's greatest accomplishment, a culmination of his artistic vision and a terrifying statement within a genre that was slowly repeating itself. It is an essential release for anyone interested in the later developments of black metal, or in truly extreme metal in general."
Pre-order / Stream:
https://endlessdismalmoan.bandcamp.com/album/lord-of-nightmare
https://hessianfirm.bigcartel.com/product/endless-dismal-moan-lord-of-nightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbriEwmdJao
Track Listing:
1. Thirst for Pleasure
2. I.S.L.N.W.D
3. Griefs
4. Thirst
5. Lord of Nightmare
6. ENDLESS DISMAL MOAN [9 to Death]
Chaos 9 - Vocals, all instruments.
Reissue layout, design by Fe26.
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Dead Chasm might have just come up with one of the best EPs of the year. Their robust death/doom metal music is meticulously put together while retaining the organic touch, and it's all flawlessly executed too. The trio manages to keep things extremely tight, be it during the slower, doomy parts or the faster, explosive death metal moments. They seem very comfortable with it all. It's now streaming in full on the official channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIOTMIkShxY
DEAD CHASM – “SPECTRAL TYRANNY”
For
fans of: Dead
Congregation, Grave Miasma, Incantation, Cruciamentum
Italian death/doom metal band Dead Chasm bring forth their latest material that promises to be their most potent output yet. There's not a second wasted on these three songs which are dense with stomach-churning riffs and doom passages that are all but enveloping, while the execution remains tighter than ever before. They make everything work like clockwork as a three-piece unit and there's not a single area where they leave something to be desired. The songs are more elaborately structured than usual in this death/doom style and it's particularly noteworthy how they take the time to flesh out the riffs and go about it all in a natural way rather than forcing it or coming across as ostentatious at any given point of time. Be it during the slower sections building up the thick, ominous atmosphere or the faster, pummelling parts, it's all done in a sincere manner and that too with the right organic sound that retains some of the rawness. Dead Chasm have come up with a bunch of songs that are virtually faultless but more importantly are of the kind that would resonate with any true fan of death/doom metal.
Line up
L. - Guitars and Vocals
G. - Bass guitar
D. - Drums
Illustration by Manuel Scapinello
Track listing
1. Beneath Decadent Shadows
2. Spectral Tyranny
3. Spawn in Absurdity
Release date - May 16th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/deadchasm
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
German dark folk trio EPHEMERAL have unveiled their new single and accompanying music video, "SKYLARKS". The track is featured on the band's upcoming two-song split EP, "OF PINE AND OAK", a collaboration with Northern Irish atmospheric project DOMHAIN, set for release on 16th May via These Hands Melt.
Watch the "Skylarks" video here: https://thoughtswordsaction.com/2025/05/15/premiere-ephemeral-shares-video-for-new-single-skylarks/
"Skylarks" offers listeners a deep dive into Ephemeral's signature blend of melancholic folk and progressive elements, weaving together acoustic instrumentation and evocative vocals. The band shared their thoughts on the inspiration behind the song and video:
“Skylarks” is about being inspired, both by the nature that surrounds us and that we're a part of, and by past cultures. It’s about the various forms of inspiration we can tap into by returning to our roots, and about any form of artistic creation - music, poetry, visual art, dance - enabling us to "fly", or to flee from the “busy hive” of our day-to-day thoughts and lives... For the video, contemporary dancer Rosa Faerber interpreted the song and its lyrical themes, adding a stunning visual dimension to the song.”
The "Of Pine and Oak" split EP sees both Domhain and Ephemeral contributing one brand new track each, exploring vividly naturalistic, acoustic soundscapes that evoke an extraordinary sense of quiet and ethereal melancholy. "Skylarks" follows Domhain's recent single "Footsteps" and continues the collaborative spirit between the two These Hands Melt label mates.
The EP will be available digitally and as a limited edition (200 copies) 12” single-sided colour vinyl.
Pre-order the "Of Pine and Oak" EP via the record label’s webstore: https://lnk.to/EPDMN
About Ephemeral:
Ephemeral is a dark folk trio from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2019 by Ella Zlotos, Nikolaus Jira, and Patrick Maiwald. Their music creates a unique blend of melancholic folk with progressive elements, incorporating flutes, whistles, guitars, keyboard instruments, percussion, and strings, all topped with sung and spoken-word vocals. Their lyrics draw inspiration from English literature, exploring themes of longing, growth, transience, and new beginnings.
About Domhain:
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Domhain is a new project formed by four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene. Their sound is an emotional blend of post-black, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal. Their debut mini-album "Nimue", released in October 2023 by These Hands Melt, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial). Each of the three tracks on "Nimue" was accompanied by a conceptual music video created by the band’s drummer and visual director, Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan.
https://www.facebook.com/ephemeralneofolk
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
Fort Wayne (IN) - U.S. Progressive/Power Metal band, ECHOSOUL, have released their much anticipated sophomore album, TIME OF THE DRAGON, through No Dust Records. EchoSoul songs take the listener on a ride through solid chugging and fast and alternate picking, mixed with plenty of scale runs, harmonies and complex type riffing that draw you in. Lots of solos to leave you complete. Every song at its core has a melodic or catchy chorus and some memorable take aways leaving you singing it later in the day.
Whether you’re a Power Metal fan or into Thrash, there is something for everyone. A perfect fusion of Power and Prog Metal! On Time of the Dragon, look for some of what you came to love on the first album, along with Rob back on Vox and Guy’s guitars, in filling in, Randy Walton and Tyler Witte. Some guests include Andy LaRoque (Kings Diamond) and Joseph Michael (Sanctuary, Witherfall)
Guitarist/founder, Guy Hinton, offers his thoughts on the upcoming album:
"On our sophomore album, we dug into the writing process a little deeper. We have goneheavier and yet even more melodic. There was some more collaboration, and we had one of the best guitarists in metal on 'Hollowed Ground,' Andy LaRocque (King Diamond). Some of the album lyrically is a story and concept about the end of days, the rise and fall of the dragon, and its sway on the world. A variety of topics about real tragedy, the battle of suicide, some about political intrigue, conspiracy, and anthems that hit hard. There was a little pressure with following up the debut album The End Of Darkness, which manged to make the Top 10 in Germany and got a ton of good press internationally. Originally scheduled to come out a year ago, the war in Ukraine made it difficult for final production to be done by our friend who lives in the center of the conflict."
Track
Listing:
1. Prologue
2. Time Of The Dragon
3. Path Of The Righteous
4. Sister Suicide
5. Instruments Of Chaos
6. Hollowed Ground
7. Invisible Empire
8. Split (Instrumental)
9. Die Demon Die
10. A New Conspiracy
Credits:
Artists:
Guy Hinton- Guitarist, backing vocals, scream vocals, lyricist and songwriter,
Rob Lundgren- Lead vocals
Randy Walton- Bass
Tyler Witte- Drums
Fabio Alessandrini- Drums
Guest Musicians:
Andy La Rocque- Guitar Solo on “Hollowed Ground”
Giampiero Presilli- Guitar Solo on “Sister Suicide”
Brady Gladieux- 2nd Guitar Solo on “Die Demons Die”
Artem Iefimov - Additional Guitars
Artem Iefimov (Red Ghost Studios- Mixing and Mastering Engineer
Cover Art: Mathew Hiron/Scott La Rock
Logo Art: Lauren Ballenger
Bio:
EchoSoul is a Progressive Metal Band from Indiana, formed in 2019, made of a collaboration of known and newer artists founded by guitarist and songwriter Guy Hinton, accompanied by veteran vocalist Rob Lundgren and supporting studio musicians Tyler Witte and Randy Walton.
https://linktr.ee/EchoSoul
Minsk (BY) -Belarusian Sludge/Doom/Death heavies, MATRAQUE, have released the official video for "VOLYA," a track from crushing debut album, NATURE MORTE!
Click for the face-melt at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwF2yelaqDE
Nature Morte is out
now on Lithuania's Ashen Tree Records and streaming in its entirety! The
album is available on cassette and digital formats via Bandcamp (the
limited edition digipack CD will be available on or around May 25).
Sonically, Matraque sits somewhere between Grief, Meth Drinker, and Primitive Man. All lyrics are sung in Belarusian. All music is scarring.
Just as over time, anger and aggression transition into despair, disappointment, and depression, the band, without losing loudness and intensity, chooses corresponding forms and nuances of sound to convey their perception of reality.
In search of their style, where low and sluggish masses of sound are interspersed with mid-tempo bursts, Matraque drew inspiration from such acts as Body Void, Primitive Man, The Body, Indian, Bismuth, etc. In terms of genre, one could mention sludge, doom, and primitive death metal.
The band began its journey in Minsk in the spring of 2023. The members brought their experience from previous projects such as Rowan, Televoid, krvvla, Схизма, kusto., Coat, and Łaska.
Track Listing:
1. Kola
2. Pustazelle
3. Malimon
4. Volya
5. Pry`py`nak
Credits:
Drums recorded at Chili records, Minsk by Roman P.
Guitars, bass, vox recording at Zeleniy Lug "Children of Tsnyanka rec.", Minsk, by Alexander G.
Mixed and mastered by Alexander G. at Gasprodmusic.
Art by Marta Shcherbich.
Logo by Olga Kisielewicz.
Line-up:
Vlad B. – Guitar
Anton M. – Drums
Evgeniy S. – Bass
Alexander G. – Vocals, Synths
https://www.facebook.com/ashentreerecords
https://www.facebook.com/matraquedoom
Genres: Heavy Metal, Epic Metal
For fans of: Iron Maiden | Manowar | Doomsword | Omen
The silence is shattered by the sound of thunder as The Battles I Have Won comes galloping out of the darkness. True legends of the Greek heavy metal scene, Reflection have been active for more than three decades and unveiled their debut album, The Fire Still Burns back in 1999. The band still feature founding member, guitarist Stathis Pavlantis and his brother George Pavlantis who hammered the drums of doom on The Fire Still Burns and has been the rhythm master for Reflection ever since. With their comrades in blood and battle, long standing bassist John Litinakis and magnificent new vocalist Kostas Tokas (who made a guest appearance on the track ‘Stormbringer’ from Bleed Babylon Bleed), the Pavlantis brothers have delivered what will surely come to be regarded as Reflection’s finest album to date.
A first track from The Battles I Have Won was revealed at the beginning of March and ‘Lord Of The Wind’ was met with a rapturous response from fans who watched the unveiling of its accompanying lyric video. Full of drama and emotion, with breathtaking guitar work and an irresistible chorus, ‘Lord Of The Wind’ is the epitome of heroic heavy metal – and yet it is just a glimpse of all that The Battles I Have Won has to offer. From the searing energy of exhilarating opener, ‘Only The Swords Survive’ through to the Homeric majesty and narrative mastery of the concluding ‘City Walls Of Malta – The Great Siege’, The Battles I Have Won scales so many towering peaks. The pride and passion of the album’s stunning title track, the dark, beguiling melodies of ‘Sirens’ Song’, the inspiring, heart-lifting adventure of ‘March Of The Argonauts’…every song is a highlight in its own right and The Battles I Have Won is a paradise for those whose hearts still burn with the flame of heavy metal.
Every aspect of The Battles I Have Won has been carefully curated to form part of the band’s overall vision for this, their magnum opus. The orchestration work by Kostas Rekleitis has brought additional depth and atmosphere to each tale as it unfolds, the spectacular cover artwork created by Alexandros Vasilopoulos (Battleroar etc) draws the listener into Reflection’s world of myth, legend and history, while the sound captured by the band’s own Stathis Pavlantis at Dark Water Audio (Marauder, Achelous, Power Crue, Darklon etc) is warm and richly textured, vibrant, vital and alive! Selected members of the Greek media were treated to a pre-release listen to the album on April 13th and soon the world will know why they were so excited by what they heard!
On June 20th Reflection will return to the field of conflict with The Battles I Have Won. Pitch Black Records will release the album on CD and digital formats, while Vinylstore.gr will present a vinyl edition – with special vinyl mastering, under exclusive license from Pitch Black Records.
Line-up:
Kostas Tokas - Vocals
Stathis Pavlantis - Guitars
John Litinakis - Bass
Giorgos Pavlantis - Drums
*additional orchestration by Kostas Rekleitis
Track-list:
01 - Only the Swords Survive
02 - The Battles I Have Won
03 - Lord of the Wind
04 - Sirens’ Song
05 - Once Again (Crime in the Valley of Death)
06 - Celestial War
07 - March of the Argonauts
08 - Lady in the Water
09 - City Walls of Malta – The Great Siege
https://www.pitchblackrecords.com/
NEWS 11.5.2025
Mit "SUPERMATCH", der neuen
Single (VÖ: 02.05.2025) von SICK OF SOCIETY zeigt sich die Band
von einer völlig unerwarteten Seite.
Die Band, die sonst für kompromisslose Kampfansagen und politische Inhalte steht, konzentriert sich in diesem Song auf das Innere der menschlichen Psyche und thematisiert das in der heutigen Zeit gängige Phänomen "Bindungsängste“. Oft sind es persönliche Negativerlebnisse und unsere eigenen Dämonen, die wir in zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen mit hineinziehen und sie dadurch intoxikieren!
Als Szenario hierfür wurde ein zunächst banal wirkendes Tindermatch gewählt, welches schlussendlich in einem bösen Erwachen gipfelt.
Zwei Menschen, die sich näherkommen, jedoch nichts als schlechte Erfahrungen und Traumata als gemeinsame Basis haben - ein toxisches Match!
Musikalisch zeigt sich die Band in "Supermatch“ bissig wie gewohnt. Der treibende Beat, die finsteren Harmoniebögen und der geifernde Gesang wirken modern und untermalen das ohnehin düstere Thema. Verstärkt wird dieser Effekt durch weibliche Vocals im Refrain (Elena von BYRA*) und einem melancholisch klingenden Streichersatz, der die Gitarren im Outro unterstützt.
SICK OF SOCIETY kehren ihr Inneres nach außen und befassen sich mit einer Thematik, die uns allen auf irgendeine Art und Weise bekannt vorkommen dürfte.
"Supermatch“ – the perfect match für alle, die modernen Punkrock lieben, ohne dabei auf Tiefgang und Härte verzichten zu müssen!
"Supermatch" Video auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/QsExOGJebI8
https://www.instagram.com/sickofsociety_punkrock/
The full press release in English can be read on the Pařátshop website
https://paratshop.cz/2025/04/27/the-song-zlodejska-svetelka-by-dissolving-of-prodigy-will-be-released-for-the-first-time-on-a-separated-cd/
There
you will also find high-quality graphic previews.
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY- “ZLODĚJSKÁ SVĚTÉLKA “
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Doom/death
Release date: 19.5. 2025
Type: Jewel box + 16 page booklet
Catalogue number: PP131, limited 500 copies
Listen to the recording on YouTube channel Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKrFppXUrk
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Hailing from Bogotá, Colombia, Brinicle merges the raw power of Groove and Death Metal with world music influences, creating a dynamic and thought-provoking sonic experience. Their lyrics, deeply inspired by literature and philosophy, elevate their music beyond mere aggression—offering listeners a journey through introspection and existential reflection.
A Sound That Transcends Boundaries
Brinicle’s rhythmic foundation is built on groove-driven intensity and crushing death metal ferocity, while their melodies and harmonies—woven through guitars, vocals, and intricate instrumentation—flow seamlessly, shaped by the diverse musical backgrounds of each member. This fusion results in a sound that is more than just the sum of its parts—a visceral and cerebral experience that challenges the listener to think, feel, and awaken.
Perceptions of Reality: A Deep Dive into the Human Condition
Perceptions of Reality is an auditory exploration of consciousness, blending Groove and Technical Death Metal with world music and each member’s distinctive artistic vision. Built through a fully collaborative process, the album delivers a raw yet melodic balance, seamlessly shifting between pummeling intensity and expressive harmonies.
Thematically, Perceptions of Reality is an invitation to reflect on the fleeting nature of existence, a concept woven through philosophical musings, personal experiences, and intricate storytelling. Each track serves as a mirror, challenging the listener to question, explore, and embrace their reality.
With this release, Brinicle not only marks a new chapter in their artistic evolution but also cements their place as an innovative force in modern metal, pushing genre boundaries while staying true to their underground roots.
Tracklist
1. Pandemic
2. Deep Trip
3. Almost Gods
4. Brinicle
5. Concept Of Destruction
6. Human Predation
7. Burning Slowly
8. Blink
www.youtube.com/@BrinicleMetalBand
www.facebook.com/BrinicleMetal
After offering various kinds of death metal on the label this year - blackened death, dissodeath, tech death, prog death, post-punk death - we're happy to offer a more brutish form of death metal and Thorn doesn't disappoint in that regard. Their corpulent grooves are sure to satiate your primal cravings. Check out two of their songs from their latest album at https://thorndm.bandcamp.com/album/nebulous-womb-of-eternity
THORN – “NEBULOUS WOMB OF ETERNITY”
For
fans of
- Mortician, Fumes, Wharflurch, Fluids, Intestine Baalism, Retching
Thorn has a knack of churning out punchy, rotten death metal hymns rife with some nasty, lurching grooves. The album will have the listener rocking back and forth in its asphyxiating grasp like a pin-pricked voodoo ragdoll. The stench of sickness is thick and pervades the entire recording. Brennen has come up with meatier, denser, chuggier songs on this record while retaining the band's primal essence and there is more death metal than doom found on this recording. There are still moments where gleaming leads come in and brighten up the proceedings but it remains a dark, fetid and glutinous affair through and through. The corpulent grooves stand out the most and form the bulk of this recording. If you like the idea of death metal sounding massive, ponderous, and packed with heaving, earth-rumbling parts, this album is most certainly meant for you.
Track listing
1. Ooze Maelstrom
2. Entombed in Chrysalis
3. Quartersawn Remains
4. Zombifying Mold
5. Haunting Gale
6. Gloaming Corporeal Form
7. Nebulous Womb of Eternity
Release date - August 8th, 2025
Cover illustration by Arifullah Ali (KanvasKarat)
Mixing/Mastering by Daniel Bonofiglio (Fumes, Gutvoid, Intestinal Hex, Grotesque Mass, Internal Infestation)
All music and lyrics written by Thorn*
*Guest solo written and performed by Daniel Bonofilgio on track 4
*Guest vocals performed by Ryan Fairfield on track 7
Thorn is Brennen Westermeyer
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://thorndm.bandcamp.com/album/nebulous-womb-of-eternity
BLASFEMATOR / SEPULCRAL - "BESTIAL RITES OF MORBID LUST"
Release date : June, 6th 2025
Split Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
SIDE A
BLASFEMATOR
01 - Diabolik Incarnation [03:05]
02 - Morbid Lust [3:39]
SIDE B
SEPULCRAL
03 - Bestial Rape [5:00]
04 - WarGoat Ritval [3:01]
05 - Conquerors Of The Black Oath [3:11]
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Murder Records ( www.murder-records.eu ) is honored to announce the upcoming funeral ceremony where BLASFEMATOR will join with SEPULCRAL to carry the coffins of desecration in the funeral march where this filthy split will be presented and which is entitled "Bestial Rites Of Morbid Lust".
BLASFEMATOR are an infernal legion from Greece formed in 2022 that presents us with an overwhelming raw Black Thrash Metal that is complemented by morbid melodies allowing us to penetrate the perverse underworld of darkness where cadaveric filth will devour us incessantly.
SEPULCRAL come from the putrid bowels of Colombia formed in 2023 and present us with a nefarious and impure Black Death Metal moldy with the blasphemous odors of sulfur that evoke the profane rot of death.
The prophets of death have already begun to sound their unholy trumpets to announce the malevolent ritual of lust where the bestial legions of hell will be able to hear the call for this sonic feast that Murder Records is preparing to present. This release is not recommended for sensitive creatures who are offended by raw perversity and where blasphemy is presented exposed without censorship. For all those who feel offended, a big fuck you, this is a release only for the true infamous demons of the extreme Underground. Only Death Is Real...
SATANIK THRASH BLACK DEATH RAW METAL...
BLASFEMATOR Biography:
Blasfemator was formed back in 2018 by Necrobaphometh (vocals, bass) under the name Goatslaught in Ioannina, Greece.
After releasing one demo tape and a split the band went on hiatus until 2022.
With the addition of Infernal Sadomator (guitars) and Hemophiliak Cadaverik Warmaster (drums).
They reformed the band as Blasfemator and began working on new material.
As years went by all the members relocated in Athens and in 2024 2 tracks were recorded.
During a rehersal for a split with Sepulcral.
Line-Up:
Necrobaphometh (Vocals & Bass)
Infernal Sadomator (Guitars)
Hemophiliak Cadaverik Warmaster (Drums)
https://www.facebook.com/people/Blasfemator/100064083732922/
SEPULCRAL Biography:
Sepulcral was formed in 2023 by Dante (Goatsodomy) on guitar and vocals along with Felipe (Goatextermination) on drums.
In 2024, BestialBlackgoat-Militant on bass and SadogoAngelgoat on vocals joined them, recording their first full EP (4444).
Impure sound that evokes death extracting three tracks for the split with Blasfemator.
Line-Up:
Dante Goatsodomy (Guitar & Vocals)
Felipe Goatextermination (Drums)
BestialBlackgoat-Militant (Bass)
SadogoAngelgoat (Vocals)
torodante503@gmail.com
DISSONANT SEEPAGE – “DYSTOPIAN PUTRESCENCE”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: June 6th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Devourment | Skinless | Vulvectomy
“All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”- John Dryden
They cower in the presence of a different kind of divinity; a malformed mutation, a bastard construct of infinite decay stitched together with threads of malfeasance and malevolence. Old, empty eyes survey a gathered cankerous congregation of supplicants and the irresistible power of putrescence radiates from a towering frame of mouldering musculature and impossible madness. This is the deity of all our futures, the cancerous king of decomposition, the tainted lord of corruption and the sour embrace at the end of our path.
New York’s Dissonant Seepage have been roused from their slumber in a morass of low frequencies and dark dreams and emerged with a second full length album sculpted from coagulating blood and rotten teeth. Following in the footsteps of 2023s The Darkness Will Swallow You Whole, it is time to welcome the sensory distress of Dystopian Putrescence! Opening track and first single ‘Ancient Pestilence Reborn’ casts ceremony to the flames and immediately immerses you in a festering, screaming slough of utter brutality, an invocation of unspeakable horrors. There is no relief from the seething, suffocating darkness as punishing drum work is unleashed beneath wretched sounds from the deep places of the Earth. The riffs of ‘Immortal Until Decay’ tear through your intestines like an invasive worm, while ‘Rotting Monument’ twists your perceptions like being trapped in a fever dream. Each new cascade of horror strengthens the curated atmosphere, building a world of chaos held together by rotting sinew – a nightmare vision! The final trilogy of tracks seem to gradually build in intensity and ferocity, with the concluding title track, ‘Dystopian Putrescence’ being a monstrous inferno of blasting, squirming, writhing, raging sickness. It’s a finale that makes sure the wounds inflicted will scar and the resulting infection runs deep.
Now an established part of Comatose Music’s abhorrent armies, Dissonant Seepage will unleash Dystopian Putrescence through the world’s premiere purveyors of pestilence on June 6th. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Atrium Audio (August Burns Red, Rivers Of Nihil, Black Crown Initiate etc) to capture the sound of dissolving worlds and putrefaction on an unimaginable scale and bedecked in the unhallowed artwork of Pär Olofsson (Exodus, Immolation, Unleashed etc), Dystopian Putrescence is a mind warping, panic inducing and utterly unforgettable experience.
Line-up:
Cody McConnell - Vocals/Bass
Daniel Fili - Guitar
Anthony Ferro - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/dissonantseepage
New
DE PANKRAKER RECORDS press release: DEAD DOG’S HOWL – “BLACK
CIRCLE TRANSCENDENCY 12”
Releasedate: May 16th of 2025
The Morbid Void Metal beckons hither with the debut album from Dead Dog's Howl! Haunted duo Dreyer and Rasputin manifest the early Necromantia legacy under the eclipse of a new aeon! Incantations are provided from the sages Jim Mutilator, The Magus, and Traumatic. Eternal souls are forfeit within the rites of “Black Circle Transcendency”!
Black Circle Transcendency is dedicated to the memory of 8-string genius Baron Blood from the mighty Necromantia.
"His soul now roams free to other worlds and dimensions. His spirit will live forever in our hearts and his music will remind us what a great artist he was." - Magus Wampyr Daoloth (Necromantia)
The full album was initially released in 2021 by Fallen Temple on CD and by Signal Rex on cassette. Now, it has finally received a long-awaited vinyl release — a much-needed addition.
Thanks in advance. Cheers Peter / De Pankraker Records
https://deaddogshowl.bandcamp.com/
https://depankraker.be/
Minsk (BY) -NATURE MORTE, the crushing debut album from Belarusian Sludge/Doom/Death quartet, MATRAQUE, is out now on Lithuania's Ashen Tree Records and streaming in its entirety! The album is available on cassette and digital formats via Bandcamp (the limited edition digipack CD will be available on or around May 25). Click to purchase/stream below!
Sonically, Matraque sits somewhere between Grief, Meth Drinker, and Primitive Man. All lyrics are sung in Belarusian. All music is scarring.
Just as over time, anger and aggression transition into despair, disappointment, and depression, the band, without losing loudness and intensity, chooses corresponding forms and nuances of sound to convey their perception of reality.
In search of their style, where low and sluggish masses of sound are interspersed with mid-tempo bursts, Matraque drew inspiration from such acts as Body Void, Primitive Man, The Body, Indian, Bismuth, etc. In terms of genre, one could mention sludge, doom, and primitive death metal.
The band began its journey in Minsk in the spring of 2023. The members brought their experience from previous projects such as Rowan, Televoid, krvvla, Схизма, kusto., Coat, and Łaska.
Track
listing:
1. Kola
2. Pustazelle
3. Malimon
4. Volya
5. Pry`py`nak
Credits:
Drums recorded at Chili records, Minsk by Roman P.
Guitars, bass, vox recording at Zeleniy Lug "Children of Tsnyanka rec.", Minsk, by Alexander G.
Mixed and mastered by Alexander G. at Gasprodmusic.
Art by Marta Shcherbich.
Logo by Olga Kisielewicz.
Line-up:
Vlad B. – Guitar
Anton M. – Drums
Evgeniy S. – Bass
Alexander G. – Vocals, Synths
https://www.facebook.com/ashentreerecords
https://www.facebook.com/matraquedoom
The Finnish melodic death/groove metal band FALLING FROM GRAVE released their second studio album 'AT THE EDGE' via Inverse Records on May 2nd 2025.
Listen to 'At The Edge' album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/ffg-edge
The theme of the album revolves around the title, as it explores the mindset of a person who has been pushed to the edge mentally, with no way out. The lyrics, as usual, touch on the darker side of life, but also address the current state of the world. The compositions on the album are somewhat darker than those on the previous release, "Shattered." There is also a song on the album, titled "The Creator," which is a bit different from the band's usual style. Falling From Grace's characteristic energy and aggression are also present on this release.
At The Edge combines various genres of metal, with a focus on groove metal and melodic death metal. The songwriting is once again handled by the band's guitarist Timi Tonteri.
Nils Courbaron (Sirenia, Bloodorn, T.A.N.K.) is featuring on the album's last track The Creator.
"With At The Edge, we’ve taken a step forward from the last album and incorporated elements we haven’t used before. The timing of the album release is perfect, with Tuska Festival just around the corner, where we will also perform."
Track
list:
1. At The Edge
2. Final Hour
3. Downfall
4. Egoistic
5. Poseur
6. Crawling Back To The Dark
7. The Abyss
8. Shadow
9. Revolt Unleashed
10. The Creator
Album cover by Sami Leppäaho
Line-up:
Timi Tonteri - Guitar
Atte Väisänen - Guitar
Niki Tonteri - Vocals
Toni Jokelainen - Bass
Valtteri Honko - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/FallingFromGraceFIN
DYING VICTIMS is proud to present LUCILLE’S highly anticipated debut album, DAWN OF DESTRUCTION, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2017, LUCILLE offer fresh blood to Poland’s ever-expanding thrash metal scene. Inspired by classics of the genre such as Slayer as early Megadeth as well as the German school of old Kreator, Destruction, and Living Death, they began spreading their evil through numerous gigs and shows in their native land. On this recording, LUCILLE paid sonic tribute to the golden days of thrash – years when this music was authentically strong and raw, and before the aforementioned bands set the limits of musical extremes. Soon after those recordings, the Covid madness began, and LUCILLE’s lineup changed rapidly. After a while, Jugen took over as a drummer, and the next year, they found the missing pieces: bassist M. Höllenhund and lead guitarist K. Dragunov. From then on, LUCILLE became a solid quartet. Powered by the atomic energy of a drum attack, quick-ripping riffs, wild solo duels, raw-throated vocals, and bone-crushing bass, they played countless shows and prepared to record their long-awaited debut album.
And, finally, it’s here! Titled Dawn of Destruction, LUCILLE make good on that titular promise with a total thrash explosion that takes the foundation of the first EP and then upratchets everything to an extreme – and authentic – degree. Influences from the elder American and Teutonic gods thankfully still in place, the quartet spit out eight screeds of THRASH METAL solely situated in the years 1985-1988 within a taut-yet-interesting 38 minutes. Just the guitar tone alone underlines that authenticity, but submit to their straightforward-but-never-simplistic songwriting and you’ll find four men fully immersed in what made those golden years of thrash work their mightiest magick. Just as thankfully here, you won't find any fillers, stylistic experiments, cloying ballads, or modern twists; LUCILLE are nothing if not obsessed with said years, and they thus sow destruction, break spines, and kill poseurs across Dawn of Destruction.
Don’t be fooled by their moniker: LUCILLE are 666% raw thrash attack with lyrics about doom, diseases, Satanic killers, and death in a post-apocalyptic world. This is their Dawn of Destruction!
Line-up:
Ramone – guitars, vocals
Jugen – drums
M. Hollenhund – bass
K. Dragunov – guitars
From Bialystok, Poland
Artwork:
Subhuman Illustrations
Release date:
20th June 2025
Tracklist
1 Desolate Winds
2 Brand New World
3 Genetic Curse
4 Prophets of Disease
5 Nightstalker
6 Dawn of Destruction
7 On Your Knees
8 Thrash Resurrection
9 Machine of Death
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on yellow vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Genre
: Melodic
Doom Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : May 30th 2025
FFO: Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Wolfheart, Gaerea.
Melodic doomsters LA CERVA unveil their first self-titled effort. The EP consists in three tunes.
The line-up features Daniele Porfido - of Dismal fame - and shows the qualities of a songwriting dark and pensive, but always focused on melody. Through the somber atmospheres the listener can also recognize some touches of contemporary black metal and classic melodeath. La Cerva is already currently working on a full album to be released during 2026 and setting up their live campaign for selected events.
Sale points:
A solid backbone of 90's Melodic/Gothic Doom in the vein of "The Peaceville Three";
Melodic finishing touches coming from finnish melodic death metal and modern black metal;
With Daniele Porfido from Dismal (Aural Music);
Tracklist:
1. Cosmic Down
2. New Eclipse
3. Stardust
Artwork and Logo by Aram Kalaydijan
La Cerva is:
Dani P. - guitars
Steve Pan - vocals
Stefano D.L. – bass
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575252459709
Label: Independent Release
Release date: May 15th 2025
Genre: Ethnic Metal
For fans of: Tengger Cavalry | Sepultura | Moonsorrow | Eluveitie
I stand upon the shores of my inner sea and prepare to set sail through the secrets of my heart. Above me the tempestuous skies of my emotions roil and thunder, sending spears of revelatory lightning down into the bottomless waters below. I will pass between the rocks of delusion and denial and cross the labyrinthine landscape constructed from experience and knowledge, misconceptions and dreams. I will embrace the savage, the primal, the spiritual and enlightened. I will search this limitless world of heritage and memories for the sleeping gods who lie at the centre of it all, waiting for me to discover myself and awake them from their slumbers.
The well of creativity and inspiration never seems to run dry for Concrete Age! The masters of ethnic metal relocated from the North Caucasus region to London in 2014 and are now about to release their tenth album, the incredible Awaken The Gods. That Concrete Age have continued to scale new heights with their unique craft is immediately apparent, as opening track ‘Prey For Me’ reveals an overwhelming array of musical treasures; distinctive eastern melodies, intricate guitar work and rhythms, wonderful solos, huge choruses and a characteristic vocal roar. With so many ideas so expertly blended the dynamic range of the track is astounding – a real shock and awe opener! And this is only the start of an amazing musical journey, where ambitious, imaginative song writing is brought to dazzling life through fantastic musicianship. With the dark and intense ‘Forbidden Ministry’, the adrenaline infused ‘Cursed Reincarnation’ and the fierce ‘Warrior’s Anthem’ Awaken The Gods is perhaps Concrete Age’s heaviest ever album – but it’s also their most textured, rich and deep. An array of ethnic instruments add exotic tones and an air of myth and mystery to songs like the impressive title track and they have been perfectly integrated within the framework of Concrete Age, as necessary and natural as a heartbeat. Absolutely electrifying from beginning to end, Awaken The Gods is a breathtaking exploration of the inner self and a stunning addition to the remarkable Concrete Age canon.
As well as eight expansive original compositions, Awaken The Gods comes with two bonus tracks – cover versions of ‘Boro Boro’ by Iranian/Swedish singer Arash and ‘Şimarik’ by Turkish musician Tarkan. Both have been infused with Concrete Age’s customary intensity and offer an intriguing insight into the diversity of the band’s inspirations and influences. Recorded and mixed by Concrete Age front man, Ilia Morozov, with invaluable assistance from guitarist Boris Zahariev and bassist Giovanni M Ruiu, Awaken The Gods will be released on May 15th and will be available on all major digital platforms. A voyage of discovery awaits!
Line-up:
Ilia Morozov – Guitar/Vocals/Ethnic Instruments
Boris Zahariev - Guitar
Giovanni M Ruiu - Bass
https://www.concreteage.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/concreteage/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MORBYDA’S highly anticipated debut album, UNDER THE SPELL, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Leipzig, Germany’s MORBYDA was founded 2022 by vocalist / guitarist Chris (Indian Nightmare) and drummer Joris (BOUNDLESS CHAOS, Lemongrab) with the intention to shred some skull-crushing blackened speed metal. Early on, their influences were drawn from the more traditional but equally fast bands of the New Wave of Heavy Metal movement like Skull Fist, Evil Invaders, and Stallion. Thus armed, the duo wrote their first songs, which tended to have a darker and more evil approach than said bands.
After the joining of second guitarist Julez (Sintage) and bassist Antonio (Pursuit), MORBYDA completed and recorded their first Demo(n) Tape in 2023 during some more-than-drunken nights in the valleys of Leipzig. Armed with that demo, MORBYDA sharpened their knives and started to play many gigs: Over the Edge 3, Antifascist Black Metal Gathering, touring with BOUNDLESS CHAOS and Necromancer, and many more. In August 2024, they recorded their debut full-length.
A grand debut statement, MORBYDA’s Under the Spell is a fresh breath of old air. Wild yet locked-in, exhibiting both the fury of youth and the ageless wisdom of the ancients, the band’s debut album remains a HEAVY METAL album above all. The atmosphere may be blackened, the pace swift but never overly speedy, the shifts in dynamics and textures equally restless and thoughtful, but MORBYDA display a maturity beyond their young years here; even calling Under the Spell “blackened speed metal” betrays the depth of their compositions. The dual-lead work alone enflames the senses, sulfurous and yet very nearly NWOBHM, and the quartet’s energy – again, no matter the tempo – is simply off the charts here. On sheer charisma alone, MORBYDA could convince the most skeptical of listeners.
Old-days references could include Japan’s Sabbat, millennial Nifelheim, the late / great Eidomantum, early Tribulation, or Hungary’s Tormentor, but all that’s to underline just how advanced MORBYDA are at this early stage. It’s almost guaranteed you’ll fall Under the Spell!
Line-up:
Joris - Drums
Julez - Guitars
Chris - Vocals, Guitars
Antonio - Bass
From Leipzig, Germany
Artwork:
Bronze and Bones
Release date:
20th June 2025
Tracklist
1 Evil
2 Mother of Decay
3 Open the Gates of Fire
4 Turning the Wheel of Steel
5 The Curse
6 Sacrifice
7 Under her Spell
8 Morbid Ways of Dying
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on bone colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
"MIRACLE IN FIRE" is live now at Heavy Blog is Heavy. Check out the exclusive premiere for the song at https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/04/30/exclusive-premiere-unmercifuls-cleansing-fire/
DEVOURING DARKNESS marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, the album is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
"Miracle in Fire" will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all other streaming services on Friday, May 2. Additional selections from Devouring Darkness are now streaming on all major platforms.
Devouring Darkness is set for release on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on May 23 on Willowtip Records.
Pre-order the album at:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/unmerciful.aspx
https://unmerciful.bandcamp.com/album/devouring-darkness
Tracklist:
1. Miracle in Fire
2. Unnatural Ferocity
3. Malice Unbound
4. Devouring Darkness
5. Relentless Malevolence
6. Vomit you out (Origin cover)*
7. Infernal Conquering
8. The Reaping
9. Voracious Lunacy
10. Vengeance Transcending
UNMERCIFUL has announced the first of many live assaults in support of Devouring Darkness. The band will host an album release show on June 20 at Warehouse on Broadway in Kansas City, MO, alongside Torn The Fuck Apart, Garoted, and Hossferatu.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is seeking a bassist for live performances and/or a permanent position. Serious inquiries only. Contact the band for details.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip/
www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
Release
date :
may, 30th 2025
MCD Limited to 300 copies
Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Labyrinyh Of The Lost Souls [1:33]
02 - Necrophagy [3:34]
03 - Prison Of Flesh [4:55]
04 - Vein Cutters [3:14]
05 - The Butcher's Simphony [3:54]
Lyrics writen by Fabio Valsecchi.
Mixing and mastering by Riccardo Massa.
Logo made by Riccardo Massa.
Cover artwork by Fabio Fontana.
Recordings and work supervision by Morgan Segatore.
Space provider at CSA Baraonda by Francesco Giorgi.
VULTÜR photographs by Marco Pasqua.
Lyric video made by Danihell Slaughter.
Layout for CD and Cassette made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional flyers made by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter.
THE EPITOME OF CRUELTY WITH SCREAMS OF PURE AGONY...
Murder Records is honored to present VULTÜR, a young band freshly exhumed at the unholy cemeteries from Milan in Italy.
VULTÜR present a voracious butcher's symphony, where we can be devoured by a unleashing raw power with a relentless energy, fusing the elements of Thrash Death Metal embraced with the fury of Hardcore, duly forged in a sonic storm that will leave you breathless and that intends to dismember us with the sharped blades swings without mercy.
The atrocious tombs are already open, where the bleeding flesh starting releasing the nauseating odors to announces VULTÜR's debut EP entitled "Necrophagy", which will feature with five decompositions, duly moldy in the fetid underworld and where our cadaver can slowly rot inside the coffin in this necrophilic ritual that Murder Records is preparing and that will be served on the funeral altar to feed the cadaveric worms with our filthy rotten remains.
Deadly Perversion On... Wish You Well Off...
VULTÜR Line-Up
Buck Motorlungs (Vocals)
Rick Massa (Lead Guitar)
Will Fimbulvinter (Rhythmic Guitar)
Rick Cadaverous (Drums)
Andrea Bini (Bass)
wearevultur@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/wearevultur
MURDER RECORDS NORTH AMERICAN DEVISION
southernsoundclashrecords@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/southernsoundclash
ardklt@alumni.emory.edu
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Murder Records & Filthy Dogs Of Metal are honored to present the new lyric video from VULTÜR entitled "Necrophagy" which will be presented exclusively with the interview that brother Nekrofilth Steve prepared to reveal a little more about the release of the debut EP of the maniacs VULTÜR. For the malevolent creatures of the underworld also interested in listening to the EP in full, stay tuned because on May 30th the premiere will be published through the Death Madness channel, so I would like to inform you that the catacombs of Murder Records are open to receive your coffins, where the vultures of hell will feed with your rotting remains.
Two Death Thrash Metal nights will bring the pure sonic carnage at Headbangers Pub on May 23th and at UFO on May 24th where VULTÜR will present in advance the release of the new EP entitled "Necrophagy" that will be out official at May 30th.
For all the maniacs interested in support the Underground scene you can come over to give your support the entrance on both shows are free, for that reason no excuses to stay home just move your carcass and come heabanging your skull.
The new EP from VULTÜR "Necrophagy" will be available in CD + Cassette and you can buy it in advance exclusively in the show only, if you miss it you have to wait until the release will be official out by Murder Records at Hellstore Europe.
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Helsinki,
Finland - Finnish thrash metal titans BLOODRIDE are
thrilled to announce their signing with Wormholedeath Records for the
release of their highly anticipated fifth studio album, DEAFENING.
The album is set to unleash its sonic fury on July 25, 2025.
Formed in 2000, BLOODRIDE has been a relentless force in the global thrash metal scene. Known for their signature blend of old-school thrash infused with darker death metal elements and hardcore intensity, the band has carved out a reputation for delivering raw, neck-breaking energy both in the studio and on stage. Their previous album, Idiocracy (2021), received widespread acclaim from critics and fans alike, solidifying their position as one of Finland's most formidable metal acts.
With Deafening, BLOODRIDE promises to push the boundaries of thrash metal even further. The album is a testament to their unyielding dedication to the genre and features a ferocious lineup of tracks guaranteed to leave no neck unthrashed.
Mark your calendars for July 25, 2025 – Deafening will be unleashed worldwide through Wormholedeath Records. Prepare your ears and brace your necks – BLOODRIDE is coming!
Tracklist
1 Sardonic Grin (Intro)
2 Kill Without Hate
3 Come in Peace
4 Hindsight Einstein
5 Ashes Remain
6 Holy Simplicity
7 King of Pain
8 The Dark Triad
9 Simply Complicated
10 Death Sentinel
11 Erase and Replace
12 Fear Cage
www.facebook.com/bloodride
Following the unfortunate loss of their debut during the pandemic chaos of 2020, HATRED INHERIT now returns stronger and more ferocious than ever with their second full-length, "VOID". Featuring 8 devastating tracks and clocking in at just under 31 minutes, "Void" showcases a sharpened, technical, and uncompromising assault, crafted by ex-members of Phobiatic, Hounds of Damnation and Seventh Seal Broken.
Recorded at guitarist Stipe Šimleša's 3rd Floor Sounds studio, and featuring the dark, gripping artwork by Kai Ski (The Serpent Sun Tattoo), "Void" is a testament to HATRED INHERIT's pure, unrelenting Death Metal vision. No compromises, no mercy!
Pre-order "Void": https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hatred-inherit-void
Prepare for "Void" to rip through your senses starting June 13th, 2025 — brought to you by Pest Records and Satanath Records!
Line-up on "Void":
Kai – drums
Stipe – guitars
Neander – guitars
Nils Stadtmann – bass
Frederico – vocals (session)
Current band line-up:
Kai – drums
Stipe – guitars
Neander – guitars
Robin – bass
Tracklist:
01. Shrine
02. Feeding The Abyss
03. Violated
04. Deathmarch
05. New Gods
06. Fading From Within
07. Hatred (Instrumental)
08. Weak
Total length: 30:53 minutes
https://www.satanath.com/
https://www.facebook.com/hatredinheritband
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SKRÄCKEN’S highly anticipated debut album, ECHOES FROM THE VOID, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2022, Sweden’s SKRÄCKEN are a band with roots in the forests around a small village in northern Dalarna. The idea for SKRÄCKEN was born through sleep paralysis, where an old lady in an 18th-century dress came to visit: the title of their debut EP, The Presence, was thus apt. The quintet may be new in name but include in their ranks vocalist Sofie-Lee Johansson, formerly of the late / great Night Viper.
If the 19-minute The Presence was but a foretaste of their potential, SKRÄCKEN are set to blow open the doors with their first full-length, Echoes From the Void. Totaling nine songs in 41 minutes, SKRÄCKEN’s debut album is a tour de force of moody, melancholic hard rock that seemingly sits in its own category. With some sort of strange magick, the Swedes evoke ancient visions of obscure ‘70s and ‘80s hard rock without sounding exactly like anyone; it’s more down to feeling, of being lost in time but not quite knowing how you got there. Across Echoes From the Void lingers a thick fog of the occult – the sulfur and brimstone swirl just at the corners of perception, as do visions of misty moors – and the brisk-but-never-busy gait of SKRÄCKEN’s songwriting helps cement the sensation of hypnosis or, indeed, sleep paralysis. But through it all, the band remain hard-rocking to the very end, melancholic their muse may be. Of course, Johansson’s powerful & distinctive pipes vividly illustrate these visions drawn from paintings by Zdzislaw Beksinski and the dark sides of society. Open your ears and hear SKRÄCKEN’s Echoes From the Void!
Line-up:
Filip Spetan Magnusson - Bass
Daniel Nordin - Drums
Sebastian Lindberg - Guitars
Martin Nordin - Guitars
Sofie-Lee Johansson - Vocals
From Gothenburg, Sweden
Artwork:
Anders Muammar
Release date:
20th June 2025
Tracklist
1 Demoner Utan O¨gon
2 By His Word
3 House of Greed
4 Witch
5 Her Presence
6 Sweet Silence
7 Visions of Fire
8 The Ghost of Society
9 Wasteland
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Genre: Black Metal
FFO: Lunar Aurora, Abigor, Katharsis, Ascension, Nagelfar
Location: Bavarian Forest / Lower Bavaria
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 16.05.2025
In 2013 Drudensang crawled out from the depths of Bavarian Forest, the border triangle of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. It emerged from the band Ravnsvart, which was founded in 2009 by Krámpn. Drudensang represents the devil worship in combination with the ancient
devilish myths and traditions of bavaria and austria. The focus is on the Krampus-and Perchtencult, witchcraft and the evil spirits of the twelve nights between the years (Rauhnächte). The name Drudensang is made up of the words “Drude”, a witch creature from the Bavarian Forest, a kind of night alb, and “Sang”, an old german word for curse, today used as “chant” and “death wail“.In 2013, the first demo "Rehearsal 1 –Dunkle Tradition" was released. Further releases (demos, live albums, EPs and splits) followed at regular intervals.
The first demos were still characterised by a very raw style, which over the years was refined further and further into the sound that is currently typical for Drudensang –pure furious Black Metal with an raging old school style and atmospheric fragments as the perfect soundtrack to the wild doings and wild hunts of Krampen and Perchten during the Rauhnächten. After almost 10 years in 2022, on Walpurgis Night, Drudensang unleashed their first morbid full-length opus "Tuiflsrijtt", a divine monument of macabre devilry and depraved deathworship under the banner of the extremistlabel Folter Records.
In the Beginning of 2023 Drudensang went on a european crusade, Tuiflsrijtt over Europe Tour, through Germany, Belgium, Swiss, Italy, Czech Republic and Austria together with the old underground force Total Hate, Whiskey Ritual and Amystery.
Drudensang has been performing regularly since 2015. These performances are celebrated with ritualistic intensity. Together with Bands such as Eminenz, Crimson Moon, Taake, Urn, Amystery, Strid, Ancient, Krater, Belphegor, Watain etc. each time delivering an intense orgy of blackest repulsion with blood, cadavers, spikes, fire, mould and death.
In the ninth month of the eleventh year, the band once again entered the studio to record their next morbid masterpiece, which after three years of
composing finally had grown into it ́s full abominable shape.
For the finishing touches, the band went to StudioKlangschmiede E (Also used by Secrets of the Moon, Bethlehem, Dornenreich, Dark Fortress, Eisregen, Schammasch,...) where it was mixed and mastered by Markus Stock (Empyrium, Sun of the Sleepless, The Visions Bleak).
The end result became „Geysterzvvang“ six gospels of impurest Black Metal fanaticism.
Vomited out of the great abyss of the bavarian forest, „Geysterzvvang“ (tranl. compulsion of dark spirits and demons) compels the devil spirits and demons of the underworld to rise during the Rauhnächte (twelve nights / between the years) through furious black metal.
In magic, the word "compulsion" is associated with the concept that the demons of hell can be forced to appear and obey through rituals and invocations.
Gates to the netherworld are open, trumpets are blown.
Cycle closes again and cloven hooves strikes with thunderous might. The living dead, disgorged from the dark throat of the Otherworld, rise from reeking graves and spit the lustful drops into the night sky, while devils and witches set the ether on fire.
The wild hunt that rises to devour souls, when the sickle of Luzier appears upon us and she reveals us screaming:
„A bowl full of intestines,A chalice full of blood, cut open the stomach, cut open the stomach, fill it with stones, throw them into deep waters!“-End of the beginning, beginning of the end-
At the same time as the release of the EP, Drudensang work on the next full-lenght opus, festival assaults are coming up (Party San, Ghosts of Dinmin, Death & Damnation,...) and a Tour is fixed for October throughout Europe.
Drudensang remain one of the few heralds of the dangerous sickness that still floats from the Black Metal Abyss.Be it known.
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https://www.facebook.com/Drudensang
"REQVIEM
FOR THE OPPRESSOR" is
the title of the new upcoming album that the Italian Thrash Metallers XENOS
A.D. will release on May 23rd, 2025. We unveil a new song from it
and it is "BLEEDING HANDS OF FAITH". It is
available as single on digital stores and as audio track at https://youtu.be/Bc1ijCadxBg
The horrors of war, which represent the concept of the entire work, are analyzed here through the theme of wars waged in the name of a God, by men who commit obscene crimes by invoking a faith that is only apparent.
Like it happens in the previous single "Dogma Of War", their relentless, neck-breaking Thrash Metal pays homage to the genre's golden age Gods such as Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus and Testament as well as some of the melody and progressive tendencies of Metal Church and Death Angel.
XENOS A.D. is a mandatory listening for fans of Thrash Metal who can rejoice in yet another band proudly flying their Metal flag.
Now, all you have to do, is experience the raw power of the fury of XENOS A.D.
Details & pre-order: https://t.ly/B3Vrj
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/xenosa.d.thrash
Label: Golden Axe
Release date: may 23rd 2025
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Nightwish | Delain | Evergrey
The time has come to return to the realms of fantasy, to walk the road through forests of thorn, below towering mountain peaks and down forgotten tunnels deep within the earth. It’s time to stand beneath a different sky and see in vibrant colour, feel with grand intensity and experience the sense of wonder that has faded from our grey and mundane world; to face dangers untold, to stare into the unblinking gaze of death and live as never before. Pythia have broken their silence and torn the shadows asunder, opening wide the gates to dream, adventure and magic once more, so summon your courage, reach for your sword and follow them now, into the Unhallowed lands…
Six long years have passed since the UK’s finest exponents of meticulously crafted symphonic metal, Pythia, unveiled their last uplifting musical invocation – The Solace Of The Earth – but now they have returned! Comprising five incredible songs, V Pt. 1: Unhallowed is a stunning new EP in its own right and also the first part of Pythia’s fifth great tale. Within moments of its title track beginning in a flurry of fierce guitars, electric energy and searing solos the passage of time is forgotten. The heroic melodies lift you up on wings of imagination, the curtain is raised and the drama begins to unfold. Every song that follows possesses a rich, individual character and yet the music flows perfectly from track to track, carrying the listener forward through each magnificent chapter on an exhilarating journey. First single, ‘Path Of Decay’ shows Pythia at their most measured, melodic and transportative with an irresistible chorus and breathtaking guitar work, while ‘Muses Of The Night’ unleashes thunderous riffs and rhythms as the wonderful vocals of Sophie Dorman soar effortlessly above through a storm-tossed sky – both are perfect examples of why …Unhallowed will surely be recognised as Pythia’s finest artistic statement to date.
Mixed by Ollie Roberts at Kettle Brew Studios and mastered by the world renowned Jacob Hansen (Epica, Evergrey, Destruction etc) V Pt 1: Unhallowed sounds simply perfect – every cascading solo, every angelic vocal line vivid and electrifying. With artwork created by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, Napalm Death etc) that captures the spirit of this special release, every element of V Pt. 1: Unhallowed has been carefully curated to deliver a unique symphonic metal experience – as only Pythia can.
Line-up:
Sophie Dorman - Vocals
Ross White - Guitars
Marc Dyos - Drums
Ash Porter - Bass
Jamie Hunt - Guitars
Marcus Matusiak - Keys
https://www.facebook.com/PythiaBand/
Stream the EP at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9YTSuutGds
Pillars Of Creation pays tribute to the elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula photographed by the Hubble Telescope from NASA on April 1, 1995. The EP's lyrical themes include space exploration, artificial intelligence, human consciousness and death. The sound of the EP blends the varied metal influences of members Damien and Simone. The music contains a mix of of influences from bands such as Aborted, All Shall Perish and Dying Fetus, while Simone's growling vocals are largely influenced by bands like Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation.
Purchase
the EP: https://enceladoband.bigcartel.com/product/pillars-of-creation-ep
Track Listing:
1. Dark Nebulas
2. Gravety
3. Fragments of Fear
4. Pillars of Creation
Credits:
All music and lyrics by Damien.
All arrangements by Encelado.
Recorded and Mixed at Umbra Studio (Italy).
Band logo by Damien.
Artwork layout by Damien.
Bio:
ENCELADO is a project created by two old time friends sharing a passion for extreme metal. Between the end of 2023 and 2024, Simone (vocals) and Damien (guitars, bass guitars) started to work on some demo material that resulted in debut EP Pillars Of Creation.
Line-Up:
Simone: Vocals
Damien: Guitars, Bass Guitar, Synth, Backing vocals
Max: Sesssion Drums (Tracks 1, 3, 4)
Devin: Session Drums (Track 2)
https://enceladoband.bigcartel.com/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ANGEL OF DAMNATION’S highly anticipated third album, ETHEREAL BLASPHEMY, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
ANGEL OF DAMNATION was formed in 2003 with the intention to create epic traditional doom metal influenced by the likes of Candlemass, Witchfinder General, and Saint Vitus on one side and the more ‘70s vibe of Pentagram and Black Sabbath on the other. The metal part of doom always was a major focus – in other words, putting guitar riffs over soundscapes. Lyrically, the band could maybe be mistaken for a black metal band but dealing less with Satanism and, instead in general, darker topics throughout the history of mankind. The band has a soft spot for blasphemy and simply mocking everything holy and religion in general.
Naturally, all this comes from a host of longtime scene veterans: NOCTURNAL / Front Beast mainman Avenger on guitar, the rhythm section of Cross Vault, and prolific vocalist Gerrit Mutz (Sacred Steel, Battleroar, Dawn of Winter) under the ever-apt handle Doomcult Messiah. Erstwhile NOCTURNAL / BLACKEVIL drummer Hellbastard and his replacement, Cross Vault / Halphas drummer Tempestas, have since departed, and now replaced by Neudi of Sentry, Trance, and ex-Manilla Road. ANGEL OF DAMNATION are nothing if not diehards!
And, seven years since their last full-length, they’re here to prove it again with Ethereal Blasphemy. Thankfully, little has changed in the sonic world of ANGEL OF DAMNATION, and their third album is thus a reassertion of ancient powers. Like some lost relic of the NWOBHM, on Ethereal Blasphemy do the quartet purge the witchfinder generals and celebrate the old-world splendor of medieval witchery. From opener “Eternal Life in Hell” to closer “Anal Worship of the Goatlord,” ANGEL OF DAMNATION lumber forward with the proud poise of titans, exuding heaviness even when the riffs aren’t strictly crushing; there’s an almost relaxed gait to the album that’s relatively unique for doom metal, maximizing the balance between hook and atmosphere. Credit is due to Neudi, for his looser and more-open style seems like a natural fit for the band, imparting a new dynamic to ANGEL OF DAMNATION whilst keeping their signature sound. The whole album was recorded in Avenger’s own cellar, known as the “Somewhere in Nowhere” Studio, fully produced by himself; only the mix & mastering was given to the Journey Into Eternity Studios, and it all results in Ethereal Blasphemy having a vibrant-yet-eldritch feel.
In the past 20-plus years, ANGEL OF DAMNATION have played live only a handful of times, but to celebrate the arrival of this third album, the band will play a few select shows following its release. Graced with an uncharacteristic artwork courtesy of the legendary Chris Moyen, Ethereal Blasphemy will make you kneel before the goat!
Line-up:
Avenger - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Doomcult Messiah - Vocals
Forcas - Bass
Neudi - Drums
From Germany
Artwork:
Chris Moyen
Release date:
20th June 2025
Tracklist
1 Eternal Life in Hell
2 Evangeline
3 Stigmata
4 Warning from the Sky
5 Lost in a World of Despair
6 Hungry Hordes of Hades
7 Anal Worship of the Goatlord
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on transparent green vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
This
highly anticipated album delivers a profound sonic and lyrical exploration of
mental and emotional states, showcasing Mors Silens' worldview and personal
struggles. Comprising ten powerful tracks, "Infernal Legacy" delves
into themes of social critique, emotional turmoil, and humanity's darker
aspects. The album's title reflects the legacy left for future generations—a
haunting reminder of suffering, destruction, and societal exclusion. With
faster, more intense, and intricately crafted compositions, the band pushes
their signature sound to new heights, hoping their message reaches audiences
far and wide, inspiring reflection and change.
The digital album's release date is May 9, 2025.
Tracklist:
1.End of Eternity
2. Alastor
3 . Scorn
4 .Scarlet River
5. Chronicles of Devastation
6 . The Room
7 . Nine Circles of Hell
8 . Rise of the Dark One
9. Infernal Legacy
10. Obscurity of Oblivion
The Band’s Journey: From Underground to International Stages
Founded in 2005, Mors Silens has built a formidable reputation through relentless creativity and dedication:
2006: Debut demo Promising Redemption
2008: Second demo Doomed to Suffering
2014: EP Mors Certa, Hora Incerta, including videos for Black Pharaoh and Four Horsemen
2016: First full-length album Call of the Nether Realm, featuring Son of the Burning Sky and Collapse
2018: Sophomore album World of Pain, with The Brave and the Coward and Alone with My Demons
2019-2021: Overcame pandemic challenges to release Under the Dark Sun, featuring Buried Sorrow
Through lineup changes, international tours, and high-profile festival appearances alongside Fleshgod Apocalypse, Krisiun, and Kataklysm, the band has remained a pillar of Eastern Europe’s extreme metal scene.
www.youtube.com/MorsSilens
www.facebook.com/morssilens
No Clean Singing has premiered the first single, "MORS MATER NOSTRA."
Click below to stream it now!
"Mors Mater Nostra" will be out May 2 on all digital platforms. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
In summing up the album's theme, the band notes that Morbid Ataraxia addresses "the oxymoronic nature of humanity." As one might expect, given the trail of corpses left from previous assaults, said theme is undergirded by PUTRIDITY's take-no-prisoners approach to brutal death metal.
No nonsense. No compromise.
Track
Listing:
1. Prenatal Obituary
2. Mors Mater Nostra
3. In Disgust They Shine
4. Adipocere Retribution
5. Molten Mirrors Of The Subjugated
6. Morbid Ataraxia
7. Overflowing Mortal Smell
8. Immersed In The Spell Of Death
Album Credits:
Morbid Ataraxia was recorded in 2024.
Guitars and bass reamped by Andy Testori at Street Rec Studio.
Mixed by Luca Minieri at Dissonant Studio.
Mastered at Hertz Studio.
Additional vocals on Rotted Divinity(Enmity cover) by Mikko Friberg from Torsofuck.
Cover artwork by Paolo Girardi. Inlay artwork by Caleb Diederich.
Layout by Paola Carraro.
All music by Putridity.
Line-up:
Andrea Piro - Vocals
Andrea PutridCiccio - Guitar/backing vocals
Manuel Lucchini - Guitar
Giancarlo Mendo - Bass
Cedric Malebolgia - Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/PUTRIDITY.OFFICIAL
Avantgarde death/black/doom/prog metal band Felgrave's ambitious album is out now and streaming on all platforms. It's a relief to see the album getting picked up by some very good sites who have taken the effort to write brilliant, in-depth reviews of this album, which is evidently doing a lot more than it would outwardly seem. Put on your headphones and listen to it closely if you haven't yet - you're probably missing out on something special otherwise!
FELGRAVE – “OTHERLIKE DARKNESSES”
After
dropping a well-received death/doom album five years back, Felgrave has
crafted an ingenious album melding influences of doom, black and death metal in
a way rarely done before. The one-man band has broken the mould and the music
on this album flows in an intuitive, undulating, almost whimsical manner,
touching upon several styles and effortlessly shape shifting through them all.
The songs are between 12 to 18 minutes long and each one seems to tell a tale
of its own. There is so much going on in each song that it demands repeated
listens which isn't necessarily arduous because of the smooth transitions and
the overall coherency. The sound is strangely all encompassing - there are
acoustic passages with clean vocals as well as intense and complex parts that
wouldn't be out of place on a technical death metal album. It's stuff like this
which makes this album fascinating, and what makes it come alive is the passion
with which it is meticulously crafted - it seeps through the music and elevates
it beyond the ostensible stringing together of disparate parts. 'Otherlike
Darknesses' is multi-faceted and yet has a fairly cohesive sound with
exceptional song writing; albums like these definitely don't come out too
often.
Lineup:
Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and programming by M. L. Jupe
Drums by Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse)
Mixed by M. L. Jupe
Mastered by Brendan Sloan (Convulsing)
Artwork by Adam Burke (Artificial Brain, Plasmodium)
Tracklisting:
1. Winds Batter My Keep
2. Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky
3. Otherlike Darknesses
Release date - April 25th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/felgrave.doom
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
For a band to sound this heavy and do so much with their music defies belief. And yet here we are. Haxprocess write epic death metal songs averaging 10 minutes as they take you on a labyrinthine trip exploring the intricacies of the death metal genre. It feels as though you're witnessing it all from under a microscope. Two massive songs have been unearthed which can be heard at https://haxprocess-label.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-what-eyes-can-see
HAXPROCESS – “BEYOND WHAT EYES CAN SEE “
For
fans of : Morbid
Angel, Blood Incantation, The Chasm, Immolation, Atvm, Atheist, Felgrave, Typhonian
Haxprocess are playing incredibly heavy death metal music - leaden, thick and dark, and are somehow attempting to go progressive wielding that sound. It's like Morbid Angel covering The Chasm songs under the influence of Blood Incantation. This is but a vague comparison just to get some idea of what this ambitious band is trying to do over here. It's death metal through-and-through but they're doing so much with it, it would bring a tear to any classic fan of the genre. They insist on having only epic songs averaging 10 minutes; the album has only four songs and it lasts for just as long as a normal album would. The music however is relentless in its barrage of gargantuan otherworldly riffs, what with the ever-changing patterns and combinations, albeit delivered in a comfortable pace so that everything can be registered for posterity. It's an album that can withstand endless listens, offer everything a death metal fan would want and yet do so much more than an average album would because of their constantly evolving music that manages to remain engrossing as well. This is as epic as a death metal album can possibly get without letting go of any of the heaviness that's an inherent part of the band's sound over here.
Line upF.D.A. Records
Lothar Mallea - Guitar and vocals
Shane Williamson - Guitar
Davis Leader - Bass
Adam Robinson – Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano (Ritual Fog, Typhonian)
Track listing
1. Where Even Stars Die
2. The Confines of the Flesh
3. Thy Inner Demon Seed
4. Sepulchral Void
Release date - July 25th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/HaxprocessOfficial
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
https://lenaxmetal.bandcamp.com/track/throne-of-the-forsaken
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/lenax/throne-of-the-forsaken
For fans of Watain, Immortal, and Enslaved, Lenax presents a style of melodic black metal infused with just the right amount of black n roll to land themselves in a rather unique position within the genre. "Throne of the Forsaken" tells a fantasy story of an ancient god-king who awakens back to flesh in order to return to the material world. No messiah, he returns with a heart thirsty for vengeance to bring the earth under his submission.
With lyrical themes based around esotericism, individuality, and cosmic horror, Infection paints either a picture of destruction and horror, or one of death and rebirth, depending on the stance of the listener. Does one succumb to a future of mindlessness in a hive mind apocalypse, or do they break free from the chains that bind us to the material world? Would you meet the dark man at the crossroads to sell your soul, and are you prepared to offer up payment when he comes to call? In all, this is a solid 40 minutes of modern black metal with enough DNA to show the band's roots in the early second wave, while managing to craft something unique in their delivery.
The band proudly returned to work with mix engineer Ilarion Ivanenko, who produced the previous singles in 2024. Mastering was completed by Øystein Brun at Crosound Studios in Norway. With a long history and a solid reputation in extreme music, including his band Borknagar, Øystein brought out the fine tuning needed to make this record shine.
Infection will be released June 25 all digital platforms.
The band will also be launching a Kickstarter campaign to support a future vinyl release in the fall or winter of this year.
Album pre-orders coming soon!
Track
Listing:
1 - Worship Hymn
2 - Leeches
3 - Chains
4 - Crossroad Black
5 - Hive Mind Apocalypse
6 - We Are Legion
7 - Plague Bringer
8 - Overdrive
9 - Throne of the Forsaken
Cover art by David DeFigueredo.
Lenax is:
Venomous (Vocals, Guitar)
Mordred (Guitar, Backing Vocals)
Bones (Drums)
Additional Musicians:
Hephaestus (Bass)
Maikon (Drums)
BIO:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. The project evolved from a solo act into a full-fledged band known by a growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from a wide array of black metal bands from established titans to the obscure, the "Big Four" of thrash metal, and even a dash of classic heavy acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether dubbed by Venomous as "cosmic horror fueled nightmares.” — an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realization through occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and the impending doom of the Outer Gods.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a busy year ahead, with the forthcoming release of Infection.
https://www.facebook.com/LenaxMetal
NEWS 26 .4.2025
Die Planung für die nächste Ausgabe läuft auf vollen Touren, auch wenn es momentan doch wieder mal den leichten Anschein hat, als würden diverse Vertreter der Szene kein wirkliches Interesse mehr daran zu haben, sich mal in unserer „kleinen Klolektüre“ zu präsentieren.
Natürlich haben wir auch dieses Wochenende mal wieder ein bissel was an brandneuem Material am Start, damit ihr eure heimischen vier Wände mit neuer Mucke beschallen könnt.
HARVST – „ MAHLSTROM“ HAMMER
UNDARLIH - „TORCH EATER“
INGE UND HEINZ - „ ICK HAB GRAD NICH ZUJEHÖRT - ICK HAB ZITRONEN JESCHNITTEN!“
Studioalben aus den Jahren 1994 - 1997ab 6. Juni 2025 wieder
im Handel . ANNIHILATOR gilt als die erfolgreichste
kanadische Heavy Metal/Thrash-Band aller Zeiten und zählt zu den
einflussreichsten Pionieren des Thrash-Metals weltweit. Ihr Erfolg spricht für
sich – geprägt von herausragenden Live-Shows und vor allem durch Jeff
Waters, der sich als wahres Multitalent zeigt: Als Gitarrist, Sänger,
Studio-Bassist, Songwriter, Produzent sowie Mixing- und Mastering-Engineer ist
er die treibende Kraft hinter der Band.
In den kommenden Jahren wird earMUSIC Annihilator mit einer Reihe von CD- und Vinyl-Neuauflagen ihres begehrten Backkatalogs Tribut zollen. Jedes Studioalbum erscheint in einer neu remasterten Version, auf hochwertigem schwarzen 180g Vinyl im Gatefold sowie als CD-Digipak Edition. Beide Formate bieten ein überarbeitetes Artwork und enthalten brandneue Liner-Notes von Alex Milas (u. a. Metal Hammer UK), der für diese Reissue-Reihe ein exklusives Interview mit Jeff Waters geführt hat.
Zudem werden die zahlreichen Demoaufnahmen und Bonustracks aus den jeweiligen Album-Epochen erstmals im Rahmen der Reissue-Reihe sowohl auf CD als auch in digitalen Shops als gesammelte Edition erhältlich sein. Die Neuauflage des Katalogs beginnt am 6. Juni 2025 und widmet sich einer entscheidenden Ära in der Geschichte von Annihilator. Mit der Wiederveröffentlichung von “King Of The Kill” (1994), “Refresh The Demon” (1996) und “Remains” (1997) werden Alben von der Mitte bis zum Ende der 90er-Jahre präsentiert, die Jeff Waters’ beeindruckende Entwicklung als Songwriter, Gitarrist und Produzent widerspiegeln. Die drei Alben verbinden die Intensität des Thrash-Metal mit melodischen Elementen, Experimentierfreude und Groove. Diese Reissue-Reihe präsentiert eine Band, die niemals stillstand.
“King Of The Kill” repräsentierte das volle Potenzial von Annihilator. Es war das Comeback und die Wiedergeburt einer neuen, verschlankten Annihilator-Besetzung, die gegenüber den Veränderungen in der Branche unempfindlich war, und es etablierte Jeff Waters als gitarrenschwingenden und songschreibenden Titanen in einer Zeit der großen Unsicherheit. Annihilator war endlich angekommen.
Für alle, die sich nach dem doppelläufigen Treffer von “King Of The Kill” gerade erst wieder aufgerappelt hatten, war “Refresh The Demon” genau das, was der Arzt verordnet hätte. Laut Waters war es eine Fortsetzung derselben kreativen Rolle, die “King Of The Kill” inspiriert hatte, und fühlte sich wie ein zweiter kreativer Aufschwung an.
“Remains” war das kühnste Experiment von Annihilator, ein gewagter Vorstoß in die Industrial-geprägte Härte, der sich den Erwartungen widersetzte. Jeff Waters war für fast alle Aspekte der Aufnahmen verantwortlich und verfolgte einen mechanischeren und Groove-betonteren Ansatz. Obwohl das Album eine Abkehr von den früheren Thrash-Wurzeln der Band darstellte, blieb sein charakteristisches Gitarrenspiel erhalten. "Remains" erscheint erstmals überhaupt auf Vinyl.
“More Noise Vol. 1” bietet einen Einblick in den kreativen Prozess von Annihilator während der “King Of The Kill”-, “Refresh The Demon”- und “Remains”-Ära. Diese Sammlung von Demoaufnahmen und Bonustracks fängt die rohe Energie, das Experimentieren und die unverwechselbare Gitarrenarbeit von Jeff Waters ein und zeigt die Entwicklung des Bandsounds. Zum ersten Mal werden mit “More Noise Vol. 1” die Bonus-Tracks dieser Alben auf einer CD gebündelt.
Die Wiederveröffentlichung der Alben aus den Annihilator-Jahren 1994 bis 1997 stellt lediglich den Anfang dar. Fans und Sammler dürfen sich schon bald auf weitere Neuauflagen freuen.
Weitere Informationen gibt es hier: https://www.earmusic.com/annihilator-reissues/
Teaser-Trailer ansehen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEA5ilIMCUs
"King Of The Kill" (CD Digipak, Black 180g LP Gatefold):
1. King Of The Kill (Vinyl Side A)
2. 21
3. Bliss
4. Second To None
5. Hell Is A War
6. Annihilator
7. Fiasco (Vinyl Side B)
8. The Box
9. Bad Child
10. In The Blood
11. Speed
12. Catch The Wind
CD Bonus Tracks:
13. 21 (Jeff Demo)
14. Annihilator (Jeff Demo)
15. Bad Child (Jeff Demo)
16. In The Blood (Jeff Demo)
17. King Of The Kill (Jeff Demo)
18. Second To None (Jeff Demo)
"Refresh The Demon" (CD Digipak, Black 180g 2LP Gatefold):
1. Refresh The Demon (Vinyl Side A)
2. Ultraparanoia
3. Syn. Kill 1
4. Awaken (Vinyl Side B)
5. The Pastor Of Disaster
6. City Of Ice
7. A Man Called Nothing
8. Innocent Eyes (Vinyl Side C)
9. Voices And Victims
10. Anything For Money (Vinyl Side D)
11. Hunger
"Remains" (CD Digipak, Black 180g LP Gatefold):
1. Tricks And Traps (Vinyl Side A)
2. Murder
3. Never Forget
4. Reaction
5. Human Remains
6. I Want
7. Dead Wrong (Vinyl Side B)
8. No Love
9. Sexecution
10. Wind
11. Bastiage
"More Noise Vol. 1" (CD Digipak)
1. Only Be Lonely (King Of The Kill Bonus Track)
2. Slates (King Of The Kill Interlude)
3. Annihilator (1985 Radio Ottawa Demo)
4. Fiasco ("The Slate") (King Of The Kill Interlude)
5. 21 (1994 Demo)
6. Weapon X (2004 Demo / No Guitars / Playthrough)
7. Bloodbath (1999 Criteria Demo)
8. Nothing To Me (Single Version)
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Die Band über die Veröffentlichung:
„VEINS OF FIRE ist draußen und es freut uns riesig, mit euch in voller Länge teilen zu können, was uns bewegt! Danke für euren herzlichen Support in wilden Zeiten, in denen es oft schwerfällt, nicht die Orientierung zu verlieren. Wir hoffen, dass VEINS OF FIRE euch genauso viel gibt wie uns und wünschen euch und euren Nachbarn viel Spaß mit dem neuen Album! Sehen wir uns die Tage auf Tour und stoßen gemeinsam drauf an?“
Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere.
Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens.
Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
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Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" ist als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich.
Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle sind exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich.
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Brazilian extreme metal outfit OPHIOLATRY has released a new music video, “DEATH TOUR”, the first single from their upcoming album “SERPENT'S VERDICT”, due June 6, 2025, via Wormholedeath Records. This latest visual offering is inspired by Greek mythology, depicting the journey of a fallen warrior's soul through the realm of death. As the spirit is carried across the River Styx, it approaches the gates of Hades, where the warrior's tribe awaits his arrival, welcoming him into the afterlife.
They comment further on the single and the video:
"The warrior perished, part of his body bathed in the blood of the unworthy. He doesn't beg. He doesn't hesitate. The ancestors whisper his name as his spirit ascends, enveloped in the smoke of rituals. The witches dance around the burning fire, invoking Charon's presence. The coins reflect in his lifeless eyes, an offering to the boatman. From the depths of Lake Styx. The serpent rises, its coils moving like time itself. As he breathes, the warrior's confusion dissolves into clarity. He steps onto the distant shore, where his tribe awaits him in reverent silence. There are no words; They are not necessary. They were already waiting to cross the gates of Hades together; The end is just the beginning."
“Death Tour” represents a sonic evolution for Ophiolatry, balancing their technical prowess with a more atmospheric, tribally influenced approach to extreme metal. The video clip amplifies these themes through striking imagery that merges Greek Mythology with the brutality of modern death metal aesthetics.
Each track on “Serpent's Verdict” functions as part of an immersive narrative experience. It is an invocation of the past and a battle cry for the future. With the release of “Death Tour,” Ophiolatry continues to build anticipation for the full album, which promises to be one of the most devastating extreme metal releases of 2025. It is recommended for fans of Cryptopsy, Suffocation, and Death.
Stream
"Death Tour"
https://orcd.co/deathtour
Album pre-save https://orcd.co/serpentsverdict
Tracklist
1 – Jesus Complex – 3:48
2 – Revenge – 4:21
3 – Generation Curse – 3:09
4 – Death Tour – 3:35
5 – Serpent’s Spits – 4:31
6 – Atheris – 1:32
7 – Apophis – 5:01
8 – Midia Bible – 3:34
9 – Manipulations Guilt – 4:03
10 – Heaven Jails – 3:26
11 – Narcissistic Victim Syndrome – 4:06
12 – Human Factory – 3:18
13 – Ecdysis – 2:34
Album Length: 47:03
Line up
Diego Santiago (Bass)
Jaime Veron (Lead Vocals)
Jhorge "Dog" Duarte (Drums)
Fred Barros (Guitar)
Album Recording Credits:
All songs performed and composed by Ophiolatry.
Mastering: Dan Swanö – http://www.unisound.se
Artwork: LouLou – http://www.louloufineart.com
Pre-Production: Steve Rumpli & Ophiolatry
Production, Recording & Mixing: Diego Santiago
Studio: Satori Estudio
Photography: Kevin Eisenlord, Anderson Hildebrando
Graphic Layout: Beto Mustafa
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ECHOES OF THE EXTINCT from Jyväskylä, Finland has released their debut album ERA OF DARKNESS today April 25, 2025. Four-piece modern metal band founded in 2022 combines elements of progressive metal, metalcore and melodic death metal to create a unique, powerful and atmospheric sound.
Era of Darkness is the debut album of Echoes of the Extinct, and a powerful statement on the current condition of our planet and those who inhabit it. Musically, the album is the band's interpretation of modern melodic death metal, a blend of melody, intensity, aggression and atmosphere. Lyrically, the album addresses the ecological collapse we are facing and the troubling direction humanity is heading driven by selfishness, intolerance, greed, and a refusal to acknowledge our place in the vastness of time and the universe. Era of Darkness holds up a dark mirror to our face, a reflection of the damage we've inflicted upon ourselves and the Earth we call home.
Listen
to the album on music services : https://push.fm/fl/eote-eraofdarkness
Tracklist
01. Remedy
02. Empathy
03. Era of Darkness
04. Virus
05. Conflict
06. Last Page
Echoes of the Extinct – The Story:
In the winter of 2021, Juuso Lehtonen and Jarmo Jääskeläinen, friends from Jyväskylä, started their metal project, which later evolved into Echoes of the Extinct, based on Juuso's riffs and song ideas. Juuso had been playing guitar for a long time and had a desk full of riffs, but the idea of forming a band had not really taken shape. However, by chance, retired metal drummer Jarmo got excited when he heard Juuso's material and wanted to push the material forward.
At first, the duo built the songs on an instrumental basis, while Juuso also took over the bass duties. The core of the songs became a rather classic death metal with Gothenburg metal influences, which is close to both of their hearts. Jarmo had quit playing in the past, partly because he couldn't find any musicians who were on the same wavelength. But now, with Juuso leading the compositional work towards modern metal and metalcore influences, new kinds of parts and intricate interludes began to emerge. Influences included iconic metal bands such as In Flames, August Burns Red or, for example, the Australian Be'lakor. New inspirations such as Allt, Currents and Orbit Culture also served as influence. Over time, a shared approach to composition and arrangement helped the friends' music to take shape in the form it has today. From the beginning, the project was also attracted by the variety of ways of building songs - not always going from guitar riffs to arrangements and bass and drum tracks, but sometimes also composing guitars for songs created structurally and rhythmically with drums alone. There was no rush, but in peace and quiet we made music that would be nice to listen to ourselves.
As the project progressed, we really started to miss having our own artist on bass. The solution was found at Christmas 2022, when Jarmo's former bandmate, Kalle Hautalampi from Hyvinkää, switched from guitar to bass when he joined the band. Kalle brought his own unique perspective to the mix, due to his own playing history and musical taste.
By spring 2023, there were half a dozen instrumental demos and another bunch of songwriting tracks. At this point, the search for a singer began in earnest. This didn't prove to be very easy at first, as there didn't seem to be much supply of free and skilled metal singers in the region. After some searching, the brilliant Tero Ollilainen, who was found through a mutual friend and who finalises the band's current line-up and soundscape, enthusiastically joined the project after hearing the demos.
It was at this point that the lyrical message of the band began to take shape. The band members share a common concern about the current state of humanity, nature and the Earth. Long-standing, but all the more topical themes such as human selfishness and greed, the corruption of nature, the Earth's resilience, global warming and wars became the theme of the lyrics. The band members even played with the term "eco-metal". Tero and Jarmo started to write and arrange the lyrics to the songs, after which the vocals were demoed for the instrumentals. Tero's voice and interpretation were perfect for the project. After that, the arrangements of the songs were modified to make them more suitable for the whole.
By spring 2024, the arrangement and lyrical work was fully completed, the demos were ready and it was time for the final recordings. The vocals for the album were recorded at Inka Studio in Orimattila, with Pasi Löfgren as the engineer, and later as the mixer and master of the album. During the autumn of 2024, Pasi created the sound for the band and the band's debut album Era of Darkness was ready for release. At the end of 2024, Inverse Records from Jyväskylä became a publishing partner, and the band released their first single in January 2025. The whole album was released on 25.4.2025 as a statement on the current state of humanity. The album is the band's vision of modern melodic death metal - a combination of melodicism, aggression and atmosphere. Era of Darkness is a dark mirror that shoves the consequences of our existence right in our faces!
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The title track has been released as the EP's first single. Get thrashed at: https://deathblow1.bandcamp.com/album/open-season
The four-track Open Season EP is a scathing commentary aimed at the heart of the belligerent American Empire and its war machinery. Combining their classic thrash metal sound with an unrelenting crossover punk-infused gut punch, the EP is guaranteed to get the blood boiling!
In support of Open Season, DEATHBLOW will be hitting the road in early May for the Eastward Onslaught Tour!
Track
Listing:
1. Open Season
2. Deny, Defend, Dispose
3. Tormentor
4. Never Again
Digital Pre-order: https://deathblow1.bandcamp.com/album/open-season
Cassette, vinyl, and CD pre-orders coming soon!
Credits:
Recorded at Archive Recordings with Wes Johnson.
Artwork by Emil Rousse.
Line-up:
Holton Grossl - Guitars/Vocals
Adam Kelly - Guitars
Paul LaChica - Bass
Rob Larson - Drums
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Listen to Ember Remains EP on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/northvoid-ember
The "Ember Remains" EP continues the natural progression and presents a darker and heavier landscape that Northvoid paints with their music. After the debut EP released in 2022 and the three independent single releases that followed, the band takes another step towards the musical style that it has strived for throughout its existence.
The core of the EP is formed around a foundation created by heavy guitars and bass and
drums. The whole is united by a vocals that moves more and more towards a traditional death metal style. The album's entirety is supported by a soundscape playing in the background, created with keyboards, depicting northern melancholy. Overall, the EP gives a picture of the band's development and presents the band's current style and gives guidelines for the future.
Biography:
Forged in North Karelia in January 2020, Northvoid delivers a musical assault rooted in the melodic death metal of the 90’s. With a bond forged in childhood, our members now channel the raw, untamed energy of the past & present into every note.
Our music is a fusion of melodic heaviness and groove, inspired by the harsh environment and wilderness of the north. Experience the power and versatility of our music, which broadly covers different elements of metal music, guided by the attitude of the frost-bitten north. Northvoid isn't just music – it's a journey into the heart of coldness and wilderness. Join us and feel the fury!
Watch
Entrusted music video: https://youtu.be/wmQPiw4xAcw
Track list:
1. Northern Breeze
2. Wilderness
3. Sun & Moon
4. Entrusted
5. The Ember
Mix & Master: Heikki Marttila/Guru Studio, Joensuu
EP picture by Timo Korkalainen, cover artwork Markus Heikkinen
Line-up:
Markus Heikkinen: guitars
Timo Korkalainen: drums
Kimmo Timonen: vocals
Risto Aittola: bass
https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/
https://www.facebook.com/northvoid
San Franisco (CA) - American Tech-Death Juggernaut, OMINOUS RUIN, have joined forces with No Clean Singing for the video premiere of "ETERNAL," the third single from forthcoming album, REQUIEM.
Just click the following link to check it out!
"Eternal" will be available April 25 on all digital platforms.
Known for their intricate compositions and unrelenting sonic brutality, Ominous Ruin has returned with their highly anticipated nine-track album, Requiem. Willowtip Records will release Requiem May 9 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, "Seeds of Entropy. "
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/requiem-willowtip
https://bit.ly/requiem-bandcamp
Track
Listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Seeds of Entropy
3 - Eternal
4 - Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 - Divergent Anomaly
6 - Fractal Abhorrence
7 - Architect of Undoing
8 - Staring into the Abysm
9 - Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars
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Sweden's
female-fronted symphonic metal powerhouse LAMASHTU continues
to push creative boundaries with the release of a genre-defying concept:
a music book. Titled THE STORY OF ELI, the band will unveil
the first three chapters of this immersive audio experience on April 29–30 and
May 1.
Part audiobook, part soundtrack, The Story of Eli invites fans to dive into the rich lore and haunting beauty of the Lamashtu universe. Combining narrative storytelling and original music, this innovative format transforms their 2021 Swedish-language novel Eli and its companion album Tro (Lamashtu's third release) into a compelling new form of musical expression.
“There are many ways to tell a story,” says frontwoman and writer Sandra Mattsson. “This music book is about merging art forms to deepen the emotional impact — it’s not just music, and it’s not just a book. It’s a complete experience.”
These are the first three chapters (of seven) of the original story, and the band is eager to know if fans want the rest.
Credits:
Written by Sandra Mattsson
Translated by Ian Manning
Production: Ian Manning (recording, mixing, mastering)
Narration: Elias Hartwood
Directed and engineered by Elias Hartwood, Hartwood Voiceover, LLC
Text © 2025 Sandra Mattsson & Vildhallon Publishing
Production © 2025 Sandra Mattsson, Ian Manning & Lamashtu
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Listen to the single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/sargassus-idunn
‘The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade’ is one of the earliest songs written for the upcoming album. It displays the meditative side of Sargassus' music, with droning riffs and repetitive motifs with an underlying sense of angst and unease. The song deals with themes of change, rationality and spiritual growth amidst life-changing revelations.
The song's lyrics tell a story of a priest finding a religion outside of his own faith. While confronting this new, opposing yet strangely similar worldview, he remains unmoved, but his rationality ends up poisoning his faith, leaving him spiraling. The song is a critique of those individuals who turn to wrath in the face of opposition rather than examining their own shortcomings.
The Band Comments:
'The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade' is one of those songs that underwent barely any changes since its inception. We are very pleased with the song, as it has it all: dissonance, atmosphere and aggression, all being carried by a dynamic flow throughout the song. Halfway to the song, there’s also Rokio’s brainchild for all the prog fans out there. This one’s bound to be one of Sargassus' most impactful live songs!"
The band also released an official DRUM playthrough video of their first single Spirit of Gravity. "Let us introduce to you: not gravity blast but "spirit of gravity"-blast! Real take with real audio, of course. The drum playthrough filmed, edited and mixed by Joona Muistola at HAW Studios."
Spirit of Gravity Drum Playthrough video available here: https://youtu.be/_aOGjFOo1vY
Watch official music video of the first single Spirit of Gravity: https://youtu.be/IZ4S5DrNBgs
Sargassus - Vitruvian Rays (Album 2025)
Track list:
01. Spirit of Gravity
02. Carving the Veins of God
03. The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade
04. Judgement of the Four
05. Pahat veräjät
06. On the Shoulders of Atlas
07. Vitruvian Rays
08. Zealot
Vocal Production by Raging Cannon
Mix & Master by Joona Muistola @ HAW Studios
Cover art by Matias Stenman
Line-up:
Matias Rokio - Drums
Teemu Leskinen - Guitar
Matias Stenman - Vocals
Mertta Halonen - Bass
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https://sargassus.com
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SIN OF GOD set to release their ferocious new album "BLOOD BOUND" on May 19th .
Marking a bold chapter in the band's brutal legacy, "Blood Bound" is a conceptually intense and sonically unforgiving record. The seven-track release is steeped in apocalyptic themes, existential despair, and the psychological decay of mankind, all filtered through a dense wall of relentless riffs and monstrous growls. Each track is a grim testament to Death Metal's enduring power to confront humanity's darkest instincts and failures.
Lyrically, mastermind Tamás Schupkégel takes listeners on a journey through the blood-soaked corridors of vengeance ("Blood Bound"), spiritual ruin ("The Unbelief"), psychological torment ("Cerebral Malfunction"), and societal collapse ("Black Waves"). Whether dealing with personal damnation in "No Return (From Hell)" or mythological reckoning in "Obolus", Sin Of God pulls no punches in delivering a record as furious as it is thought-provoking.
Sonically devastating and thematically complex, "Blood Bound" is not merely an album—it's an experience soaked in rage, tragedy, and transformation.
Pre-order "Blood Bound" CD here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sin-of-god-blood-bound
Sin Of God – “Blood Bound”
Release Date: May 19, 2025
Format: CD / Digital (Bandcamp)
Label: Pest Records / Metal Ör Die Rex
Music: Sin Of God (2024)
Lyrics: Tamás Schupkégel (2024)
Reacordings: Denevér Hangstúdió, Hungary
Tracklist:
1. Blood Bound
2. Black Waves
3. No Return
4. The Unbelief
5. Diabolical Agitation
6. Obolus
7. Cerebral Malfunction
Prepare for a descent into darkness, Sin Of God have returned, and they are "Blood Bound".
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Finland's
I, CURSED, who combine angry and furious death metal and
grindcore, will release a new as yet unnamed EP later this year. Both the
single and the EP will once again be released in cooperation with Finnish
record labels Inverse Records & Meara Music which is also an agency and event producer
based in Ulvila.
FFO: Coldworker, Gadget, Nasum & Rotten Sound.
The first single 'DISFIGUREMENT' is unleashed today and music video can be seen here: https://youtu.be/NlR4xJvdzlg
The band comments:
"Disfigurement" gives a hefty and harsh preview of the new I, Cursed EP set to be released later this fall. I, Cursed has updated its production to be more dynamic and organic, closer to how I, Cursed sounds live. "Disfigurement" reflects the mood of the upcoming EP, offering doses of fierce death metal and grindcore. The "Disfigurement" single is accompanied by a rather aggressive and pulsating music video, produced by Soft Neon Audiovisual."
Listen to Disfigurement single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/icursed-disfigurement
Biography:
Combining angry and furious death metal and grindcore, I, Cursed, from the Pori / Ulvila area, is a brutal dredging of Ville-Veikko Laaksonen and Eero Haula, known from Atlases, Marto and Oceanwake, among others, which is fed to the Finnish metal scene in an atonal coldness. I, Cursed's music is a mix of something old and familiar, the HM-2 sound of Swedish grind, and somewhat more modern and crushing production. The line-up of the band in July 2024 is completed by guitarist Nico Brander from Marto and drummer Arttu Leppänen from Atlases and Marto.
Listen to previous EP Death Holograms: https://push.fm/fl/icursed-death
Music & lyrics composed & written by Ville-Veikko Laaksonen
Produced & arranged by I, Cursed
Engineered by Ville-Veikko Laaksonen, Nico Brander & Jesse Simola
Recorded at Firefield Avenue & Soft Neon Audiovisual Studio Mixed & mastered by Jerkka Perälä
Single cover by Jerkka Perälä
Line-up:
Eero Haula - Vocals (Oceanwake)
Ville-Veikko Laaksonen - Bass & guitar (Atlases, Marto)
Nico Brander - Guitar (Blood Service, Marto)
Arttu Leppänen - Drums (Atlases, Marto)
Discography:
I, Cursed / Blood Service S/T Split EP 2023 (Meara Music)
Bloodsoaked / Storm Parade Double Single 2023 (Meara Music)
Blades Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Sorrower Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Holograms Single & EP 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Disfigurement Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
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https://www.facebook.com/I.Cursed.Grind
Iconic
underground blog Invisible Oranges has stepped in to set the release
in motion with an exclusive advance track reveal for the album’s opening
song “OMENSTORM MASSACRE”, elaborating that the album is
is “immersive, atmospheric assault of bizarre, martial music” and
of “hideous, ornate black metal” - you can read the feature and check
out the song here We’re extremely proud to announce an imminent release
of “Realms.....” - the second full-length hexation from Finnish
terrorizing black metal coven Hexerei - forty minutes of the band's staple
assault on the psyche vomited from beyond the shreds of sanity. Five new
abysmal, wretched curses of venom-soaked aural pestilence conceived as a
gateway to absolute bedlam.
Iconic underground blog Invisible Oranges has stepped in to set the release in motion with an exclusive advance track reveal for the album’s opening song “Omenstorm Massacre”, elaborating that the album is is “immersive, atmospheric assault of bizarre, martial music” and of “hideous, ornate black metal” - you can read the feature and check out the song https://www.invisibleoranges.com/hexerei-omenstorm-massacre/
On their new vomit of creation the deranged Finnish cult explores even more outer dimensions of terror and insanity, scouring the depths of delirium to uncover a cryptic primordial essence of complete world inversion. This second full-length disfigurement cements Hexerei’s profile as absolutists of the unutterable, and sees the Finnish scourge distance themselves even further from any concept of musicality, forcing upon the listener a berserk strain of virulent antimusic rarely observed at a such a crippled and primeval state. An intentionally destroyed audio quality and a completely regressive approach to the canonical decencies of songwriting and recording exalt a sonic delirium of complete inhumanity that redefines the concept of raw black metal entirely, reconsigning it to its ancestral and legitimate origin as vector for boundless violence and absolute evil. The ancestral path paved by Cultes Des Ghoules, Katharsis, Armagedda, Vorum and Concrete Winds thus finds new instigators to the propagation of occult and grotesque audio as terror, and “Realms.....” stands grandiose and inscrutable in its defiant goal of returning this particular strain of necrotic extreme music back to a certain dimension of absolute malignancy where it was birthed and belongs.
Realms.....” is scheduled for a May 23 2025 release on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all of which can now be pre-ordered via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/hexerei-realms
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/hexerei
Following
ten years of silence after the release of their debut album The Embers of
the Stars and the untimely death of vocalist Steven, UK-based atmospheric
black metal trio AHAMKARA returns with a new lineup and new
album THE HARROW OF THE LOST, an unflinching exploration of
the transformative nature of grief.
The Harrow of the Lost is out now on Bindrune Records. Order the album at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/ and https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-harrow-of-the-lost
Stream The Harrow of the Lost on Apple Music.
Tracklisting:
1. The Circle of Remembrance
2. Our Scars Shall Abide in the Thaw
3. Channelling Grief
4. Ordeal of Ascension
An emotionally charged and fiercely personal record, The Harrow of the Lost takes the AHAMKARA sound in a more complex and tormented direction, encompassing existential rage, nihilistic despair, and all in between. Both rawer and more organic in sound, intensified by the electrifying drum work of new member Austin Lunn (Panopticon), and scaling greater peaks of Emperial ambition than ever before, the album integrates the expansive reach of the Cascadian black metal sound with the densely detailed savagery of classic Emperor and the aching melancholy of early Anathema to produce a deeply involving journey of genre-transcending atmospheric metal.
Completed by a heartfelt and uncompromising vocal performance from founder member Michael and the nuanced, evocative synth work of Alexandra (also of labelmates Nemorous), this is a journey into the scorched earth landscapes of bereavement that no follower of the Bindrune family should miss.
AHAMKARA is:
Michael Blenkarn – Vocals. Guitars,
Austin Lunn - Drums
Alexandra Blenkarn-Durning - Synth
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Wormholedeath
is proud to welcome PROPHETS TOMB, the rising force in
progressive death metal, to its roster. The Denver-based trio is set
to unleash their latest opus, THROUGH PAIN, on June 13, 2025 —
a sonic odyssey merging blackened ferocity, death metal brutality, and
labyrinthine progressive mastery.
Blending black metal, death metal, and progressive metal, Prophets Tomb crafts a sonic experience unlike any other, merging blistering aggression with intricate melodies and atmospheric depth. Their evolution continues from their previous works, The Third Wave and Magni Mori, diving deeper into the abyss with Through Pain.
“Come with us on the journey toward a new life. Through pain, life is reborn. Ave Magni Mori! Ave per dolorum! Ave Adramalech!” Regnibus, Speaker of the Magni Mori
Stream here: https://orcd.co/pitofneedles
Prophets Tomb’s lineup is a triad of multi-instrumental savagery:
Regnibus – Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Organ, Synth
Lord Adramalech – Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals, Synth
Drekavak – Bass, Backup Vocals, Drums, Synth
Tracklist
1. Play Me...
2. Bear Trap
3. Pit of Needles
4. Gift of Life
5. Last Man Standing
6. Shattered Glass Coffin
7. Pound of Flesh / Death Sentence
Together, they forge a sound both ancient and futuristic—a “progressive death metal ritual” (Metal Hammer) that has electrified the underground.
www.youtube.com/@prophetstombband
www.facebook.com/ProphetsTombBand
New album CREEPING FEAR. Dolorem Records is proud to reveal the brand new track “TORTURE WHEEL” taken from CREEPING FEAR's third album "REALM OF THE IMPALED".
In a time of AI being used more and more, the French death metal band did as they always did, working with a real Artist : Paolo Girardi.
He delivered Evil and darkness in his painting in a way that fits perfectly their next full length Album "Realm of the Impaled".
To be released on June 27th 2025.
Pre-orders are now open, get your copy: https://bit.ly/4jqJSDH
As
we await the long-anticipated CD release of NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE’S
critically acclaimed debut album, BRIEF IS THE LIGHT, on May
30th, 2025, the French gothic doom metal ensemble reignites the shadows
with a haunting re-release of their lyric video for "A
VOICE IN THE DARK." This mesmerizing music video is a journey
through life, death, and the yearning to return.
"A Voice in the Dark" is a melancholic yet powerful exploration of the fragile line between existence and oblivion. With ethereal melodies, crushing riffs, and haunting vocals, Near Death Experience creates a captivating narrative of love, loss, and the desperate desire to escape the shadows: "The waves crash, the sand shifts beneath weary feet—will they find their way back, or remain lost in the dark forever?"
NDE’s Dark Vision: Exploring Near-Death and Survival
Originally a solo instrumental project by Mathieu Bonfardin (drums) during the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Near Death Experience (NDE) was fully formed as a band in Nantes, France, in May 2022. NDE blends gothic, melancholic doom metal with clean, lyrical female vocals. Influenced by bands like Paradise Lost, The Gathering, Draconian, Katatonia, Black Sabbath, Moonspell, and Metallica, NDE explores the dark and compelling theme of near-death experiences.
Their LP, Brief Is The Light, is a concept album telling the story of a woman, a victim of domestic violence, now in a coma and experiencing near-death visions. As she recalls her past life, she yearns to return to reality, despite the suffering and uncertainty.
Will you press 'play' and journey with her? Don’t worry—the light will shine at the end.
The album is now available for streaming on all major digital platforms: https://linktr.ee/ndemusic
www.youtube.com/@ndemusic
www.facebook.com/neardeathexperiencemusic
MAREA – “ADRIFT”
Label: Masked Dead Records
Release date: may 9th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Post-Black/Doom Metal
For fans of: An Autumn For Crippled Children | Novembre | Katatonia | Lantlos
The waters carry me where they will. I have given myself up to the ever flowing tides of life, either staring into the fathomless depths of murk and shadow, or watching the beautiful world that flowers and flourishes on the banks as I am carried past. I see faces, hear voices that stir memories as the cycle of light to dark to light turns on around me, as eternal as the river itself. Memories of love and laughter, of tears and pain…joy, grief, contentment, desperation…but none of them enough to keep me from the water. I am borne onwards, ever nearer to the endless sea without a shore, a passive observer upon the waves; rudderless and helpless, separated, isolated, adrift and alone.
A year on from the alluring desolation of debut album, The Silence Of Rust, Matteo Balzarini has returned with a second offering from his atmospheric, emotive post black/doom creation, Marea. Adrift is a quietly remarkable EP, that while continuing the legacy of The Silence Of Rust very much follows its own path. The journey begins with the deeply melodic riffs, measured drums and harsh vocals of ‘Useless’, a song imbued with a sense of movement and space, yet carrying the immense weight of powerful emotions. Vast oceans of melancholy are traversed, but there are moments of bittersweetness, like sunlight briefly catching the crest of waves – while the deeps remain dark and untouched by the light. Beautiful acoustic guitar leads us into the light of ‘Rusted’, a soft cloud of dreams that is then fractured and dismantled by a tattered, torn vocal and intense guitar, the perceived positivity held tantalisingly out of reach, a happiness unattainable. Finally ‘Marea’ descends upon us with a wonderful lightness of touch, a peace summoned through an invocation of the movement of water – of streams, rivers, seas and oceans. There’s a sense of reflection upon a moment and upon a life, a feeling of acceptance and maybe even a harsh joy in the final vocal cries. Adrift is a journey through music and emotion, infused with accrued wisdom, whose affect upon the attentive listener is profound.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Carlo Meroni (Imago Mortis, Ancient, Kaiserreich etc) Adrift has been blessed with a sound that enhances all the rawness, subtlety and complexity of the emotions that it so successfully conveys. As for the album’s artwork and design, Matteo Balzarini approached artist Francesco Gemelli (Howls Of Ebb, Midnight Odyssey, Venomous Echoes etc) with a very specific brief… “a water-themed landscape that could express desolation, melancholy, but also beauty and poetry,with a graphic style that could resemble watercolour painting”…and suffice to say Gemelli has delivered the perfect visual accompaniment to Adrift. The EP will be released through Masked Dead Records on May 9th and will weave its entrancing spell across the world.
Line-up:
Matteo Balzarini – Guitar/Bass/Vocals
*Drums on Adrift performed by Alessandro Mori (Entirety etc)
*All music and lyrics by Matteo Balzarini
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/marea.rusted
Metalcore stalwarts, AGE OF RUIN, are primed and ready to release new album, NOTHINGMAN, on October 17! But first...a new single (and b-side)! "HEAVY IS THE CROWN" is the first single from the forthcoming album.
FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, and Gojira.
Check out the video for "Heavy is the Crown" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiEiml9Qnm8
As an added bonus, the band has released a "b-side" (or non-album track) to coinicide with the new single. Have yourself a listen to "Holding on" via Spotify and Apple Music, and check out the lyric video.
Nothingman, Age of Ruin’s forthcoming album, is a collection of 10 songs that cuts a path to the heart with harmony and angst that others would be naïve not to mimic. The band sacrificed blood and sweat for two years to expel Nothingman. Age of Ruin began the recording process in October of 2023, and after nine months of tracking on location in Richmond, VA, at the Bakery Studio, in Washington, DC, at Ivakota Studio, and at the Riff Dojo in Takoma Park, MD, (the record was produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour), Nothingman was complete. This is the biggest, most richly woven tapestry from the band yet, and the time to unleash it is near.
In 2023 and 2024, Age of Ruin did some precursory promotion of Nothingman’s material, traveling up and down the east coast, dousing nonbelievers with their fire, with such acts as Black Flag, Madball, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, and Anvil. Yes, that Anvil.
Ripping guitars, unforgivably brutal drums, bass sounds that have shaken the underworld, and screeching vocals are just the beginning of this incarnation of a true headbanger's incantation. What we saw unearthed back in 1998 has now grown. The road worn warriors of the AoRmy have forced enough breakdowns to overwhelm any AAA mechanic, with miles on the highway ahead.
Their punk and metal roots hold firm, and their thrash tendencies are on full display as this towering presence of a band branches out over new tonal terrain and soundscape; reminding all who fall under its shadow, that the light shining through is a new dawn in the Age of Ruin. Nothingman will be celebrated in all formats and on all streaming platforms on October 17.
Age of Ruin released the stand-alone "Dying Days" single earlier this month. A music video for the track is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgH9I3s5_jo
The single is also available on Spotify and Apple Music. "Dying Days" was reimagined with the first recording featuring Ben Swan (vocals) since 2004's Tides of Tragedy.
Track
Listing:
1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry
8. Promise Me
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong
Credits:
Produced by Mike Schleibaum / The Riff Dojo.
Mixed and mastered by Will Beasley / The Bakery.
Original artwork, Oil on Canvas titled "Forest Mother" by Zack Dunn.
Line-up:
Benjamin Swan - vocals
Daniel Fleming - guitar
Jonathan Clay - guitar
Christopher Fleming - bass
Hendrik Osinga - drums
Bio:
The exact location of the dawn of man has been a constant subject of debate. Some say it was Prometheus delivering fire, some say it was Franklin discovering electricity, most people say it’s when Lars met James…but everyone agrees: those were simply precursors. Throughout the age of enlightenment, the renaissance, the reformation era and beyond, mortals have tried to make sense of mankind's meaning on earth.
Most archaeologists believe that in the late 90's, a surge of lightning fast riffs, guttural screams, devastatingly bass tones, and the relentless pulverizing rhythm of drums unearthed a crucial piece of this puzzle...this ushered in what would be known as The Age of Ruin. Those who heard it, really dug it. But those who dug it found there is much more than the surface layers. Music filled with textures, themes, and tunings that go deeper than a James Cameron film unbound by budgets.
For over 20 years, Age of Ruin has been firing off a relentless string of releases. Even the busiest trash compactors could not keep up with the amount of crushing that Age of Ruin crams into a single album, and this is so…with Nothingman. They have consistently delivered a brutal barrage of the heaviest hits metal has heard. Why stop At the Gates, when you can break down the whole house with your music? Why get Entombed when you can breathe new life into the scene? Why let the years waste away when the Age of Ruin can answer all of these questions?
Age of Ruin has definitely paid their dues, earning every ounce of the heaviest crown one band could carry. Naturally, the tonal tenure of the AoRmy servicemen is not something that can be held onto forever...the constant axe-wielding and riff hurling has required numerous changing of the guard over the years; however, in 2019, the core horsemen of the Age of Ruin (Benjamin Swan, and Daniel and Christopher Fleming) added Jonathan Clay, and Hendrik Osinga to the ranks, forging an amalgamation of devastation which would conjure a collection of songs that few, if any, houses could harness. Fortunately, under the tutelage and production of Sound-Sensei Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour), Age of Ruin would hone their tone in Mike's Riff Dojo, creating an undeniable masterpiece of metal.
https://www.youtube.com/@thisistheageofruin
https://www.facebook.com/thisistheageofruin
TORANAGA U.K. – “A NEW ORDER” (EP)
Label: Independent Release
Release date: may 19th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Megadeth | Metal Church | Xentrix | Meliah Rage
You climb the steps up from the darkness and behind you a cold mist curls lazily through a place of ruin and decay. A golden sword hangs from the impenetrable shadows above, suspended by a thread it turns slowly in the air, casting a sickly yellow light upon the scene below. A hooded figure stands beside a cracked and broken shrine, a hammer in his left hand, its heavy, lumpen head stained with ancient blood, fragments of white bone trapped between its claws. Ahead stands another door, emblazoned with the face of a tiger above the silver blade of a katana. God’s gifts lie behind you and a new order awaits…
In the late 1980s the UK thrash scene was exploding, with a horde of bands riding the wave of the most exciting mutation of metal since the movement began. Bands like Sabbat, Xentrix and Onslaught were at the head of the pack and right beside them, in the vanguard, were Toranaga, weaving melody through complex riffs and bursting with a fierce energy and fiery creativity. Their Bastard Ballads debut for Peaceville Records hit with a seismic impact – leading to a deal with major label Chrysalis Records, tours with the likes of Manowar and Venom and a magnificent second album – God’s Gift – released in 1990. Sadly the band fractured under the stresses and strains and bar a brief revival under the banner The Bastard Son Of Toranaga, it seemed their race was run. However in 2024, with original, ever-present vocalist Mark Duffy at the helm, Toranaga were reborn as Toranaga U.K. and now, 35 years on from the release of God’s Gift, the first statement in this new chapter is ready to be unleashed!
A New Order brings together two brand new songs and two re-recordings of Toranaga classics – reinvigorated and re-energised for a new metal age. The EP begins with the precise riffing of ‘Desecration’ and two things quickly become apparent. Firstly Toranaga U.K. have embraced the original Toranaga spirit and captured so much of what was great about the band and the UK thrash scene of the ‘80s. Secondly, the power of Mark Duffy’s distinctive vocals remains utterly undiminished by the passage of time. With a great chorus and thrilling solos – the twin guitars duelling over snarling riffs – ‘Desecration’ sets the standards high. Luckily ‘A New Order’ matches those standards with ease, with superb atmosphere, an epic feel and jagged, staggered riffing over a rock solid rhythmic base. Then it’s time for ‘The Shrine’, one of the best songs bar none to emerge from the creative furnace of UK thrash. Armed with riffs that deserve to be heard by a whole new generation of fans, ‘The Shrine’ is a genuine classic. And finally we have ‘Sword Of Damocles’ – a stunning song full of dark portent that has been superbly recreated and reanimated. The way in which Toranaga U.K. have merged the old and new is masterful and A New Order is a remarkable new beginning for this outstanding band.
Produced and mixed by acclaimed composer Steve Kilpatrick at Soundfackery studios in France and adorned in the imagery of artist Sarah Louise Rose, A New Order will be released on May 19th.
Recording Line-up:
Mark Duffy - Vocals
Liam Mulpetre - Guitars
Josh Goldie - Guitars
Mike Todd - Bass
Toby Wallace - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/ToranagaUK
RICKERT
G. delivers
a searing dose of melodic death metal with the lyric video for "SINGULARITY",
taken from the album ENDLESS THOUGHTS, out now via Wormholedeath.
A brutal odyssey through darkness, destruction, and defiance, "Singularity" is a relentless battle against oblivion. Torn apart, betrayed, and buried—yet rising stronger each time—this track channels raw intensity, catapulting listeners into the abyss where cosmic weight meets unbreakable will. Will you escape, or will you be consumed?
About ‘Endless Thoughts’
Born from the depths of trauma, Endless Thoughts is more than an album—it’s catharsis. A harrowing yet empowering narrative of descent and resilience, its eight evocative scenes paint a visceral portrait of struggle and survival.
Musically, Rickert G. fuses the crushing intensity of melodic death metal with a profound artistic vision. Fans of Hypocrisy, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity, Opeth, At the Gates, and In Flames will feel right at home in this sonic maelstrom.
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/endlessthoughtsalbum
Rickert G.
A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Rickert G. blends the raw aggression of metal with the depth of academic composition. Armed with a background in piano, audio production, and composition, his music is a visceral expression of pain, power, and perseverance.
www.youtube.com/@rickertgvt
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564838172150
Melbourne Crust
death metal band KÜNTSQUÄD has unleashed a lyric video for their
single, EAT YOUR ENTRAILS. This single was recorded in
2024-25 exclusively for the Imperative Music Compilation #18,
which has limited worldwide distribution. Other bands featured on this
compilation include God Dethroned and Deicide.
Eat Your Entrails is released as a limited-edition CD (100 copies only). The physical copy is only available at live shows; the digital copy is on Bandcamp here. An alternate version of this tune will be included on the upcoming Satans Cock album - worldwide release by Wormholedeath Records is expected for mid-2025.
Küntsquäd use the opportunity to engage with their fans Australia-wide and tour Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Adelaide this autumn and early winter. These are the dates – get yourself ready!
Küntsquäd - Eat Your Entrails (single version for Imperative Music Compilation)
Manufactured in: United States of America
Mastered by: Audio Power Studio, Brazil
Artwork by: Scatterling, and Ventasia, Germany/USA
Release Date: February 2025
Proudly presented the following bands:
01 – GALDORCRÆFT (UK): Barghest
02 – I, APOKALYPSE (Canada): Soul Scarred
03 – INHERITED (The Netherlands): Shitface
04 – DEICIDE (US): From Unknown Heights You Shall Fall
05 – PHLESH (Canada): Total Fucking Disorder
06 – GOD DETHRONED (Holland): Rat Kingdom (edited)
07 – SINNRS (Denmark): When Adam Ended Paradise
08 – LOST SANCTUARY (Germany): Eye Of The Storm (feat.. Martin Kesici)
09 – DHAMPYRES (UK): Blood Lust
10 – SHADOW OF THE TALISMAN (US): What Is Real?
11 – DUMB ASS (Canada): 5 Bricks
12 – INDULGENCE (Holland): Acheron
13 – DIAVOLA (Norway): Embers
14 – PUT ME OUT (Sweden): Obsession of the Flesh
15 – HEADSHRINKER (US): Suffocating Tomb
16 – MORGUE TERROR (US): Neanderthal (feat Chaney Crabb)
17 – SATHANAS (US): There will be Demons
18 – FULLMÅNE (UK): They're not Real
19 – KUNTSQUAD (Australia): Eat Your Entrails
20 – GOAT (Japan): Piece of Shit
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ESCHATON – “TECHTALITARIAN”
Technical
death metal band Eschaton return after a gap of six years with a
reinvigorated, star-studded line-up that undoubtedly elevates their sound to
hitherto unexplored heights. They have none other than Christian Münzner
formerly of Obscura and Necrophagist accompanying the band
founder Josh Berry on guitars. For the vocals, they have enlisted the services
of Mac Smith of Apogean and Abyssalis and for the bass,
they have brought on Scott Bradly from Inanimate Existence while
Darren Cesca of Pillory and formerly in Deeds of
Flesh and Arsis continues to hold down the fort on drums. Most
importantly, this line-up sounds just as devastating on this album as it does
on paper. They have contributed to creating a tech death album that can stand
on its own and does not have to be necessarily pitted against any of the
aforementioned bands' past efforts. The members excel in their own specialized
ways and they manage to make it work. It is meticulously and passionately put
together which is all too apparent in the music that can be dizzyingly fast and
mind-bogglingly technical but also groovy and memorable while being on the
whole diverse yet dynamic and pulsating with energy. It is not just music meant
for the tech death fans; it is music that will invariably get them excited. As
such, this should be regarded as an landmark album in the style, with the
presence of the illustrious members in the lineup not taking away from the
irrefutable fact that this is indeed great tech death music.
Line up
Mac Smith - Vocals (Apogean, Abyssalis, Hammer of Dawn)
Christian Muenzner - Lead Guitar (Retromorphosis, Eternity's End, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Obscura, ex-Alkaloid)
Josh Berry - Guitar (Eschaton founder)
Darren Cesca - Drums (Goratory, Serpents of Gnosis, Pillory, Ex-Deeds of Flesh, Ex-Arsis)
Scott Bradley - Bass (Inanimate Existence)
Artwork by Dave Melvin
Track listing
1. Inferior Superior
2. Devour the Contrarian
3. Blood of the People
4. Hellfire's Woe
5. The Bellicose Duality
6. Econocracy
7. Antimatter
8. Techtalitarian
9. The Sufferer's Dichotomy
10. Castle Strnad
Release date - May 30th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/eschatonmetal
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
D.E.A.D
- No Frills, No Compromise, Just Death Metal Fury. Swedish-Australian death
metal duo D.E.A.D is back with an electrifying showcase
of their raw talent and technical prowess! The band presents an intense
drums and guitar playthrough video for their track “RACE TO THE GRAVE,”
taken from their ferocious debut album, “OF VILE AND HATE,” available
now via Wormholedeath Records.
Stream "Of Vile and Hate" now: https://orcd.co/ofvileandhate
In “Race to the Grave,” D.E.A.D. proves why they’re one of extreme metal's most exciting new acts. With thunderous drumming and razor-sharp riffing, this video gives fans a front-row seat to their unrelenting musicianship, allowing a deep dive into the track’s brutal energy and powerful arrangements.
About D.E.A.D and Of Vile and Hate
D.E.A.D is a brutal death metal duo born from the darkness of the 2020 Pandemic. Founded by Niels (Sweden) and Adam (Australia), two like-minded musicians united in their quest for sonic metal mayhem. Hailing from South Australia, D.E.A.D unleashes unrelenting, straight-up death metal, forged in the depths of isolation and fueled by a shared passion for extreme music. No frills, no compromise – just pure, unadulterated death metal fury.
"Of Vile and Hate" is their debut album and it represents the duo’s unrelenting passion and dedication to their craft, distilling the anger, frustration, and resilience of a world in turmoil into a sonic manifesto. With "Of Vile and Hate", D.E.A.D. unleashes a fierce and unapologetic sound that reflects the intensity of their artistic vision.
This album follows the last portion of one man’s life. A demonic metamorphosis takes place as he faces his end of days. It is a culmination of a life lived in torment. From a disease-ridden body decaying, to a magnificent resurrection in crimson shade. With death pacing his trail, nothing may stand in the way.
Written and recorded in Adelaide, Australia, with artwork and design made by Will Clement in Melbourne and mixed by the renowned Olof Berggren in Sweden, "Of Vile and Hate" represents the culmination of our artistic vision and dedication to crafting unrelenting death metal.
https://linktr.ee/d.e.a.d
NEWS 20.4.2025
Die neue Single ist „AT THE END OF OUR REIGN“, hier könnt ihr das Video sehen: https://youtu.be/0vfMEmE31J0
Die Band dazu:
"At The End Of Our Reign" beschreibt eine Welt am Ende ihrer Zeit, durch das Scheitern der Zivilisation. Ein letzter Blick zurück, bevor alles untergeht und wir von unserer eigenen Geschichte erdrückt werden.
Wir alle sind Teil dieser Geschichte. Die Frage ist nur, was wollen wir hinterlassen?“
Video Credits:
Directed by Levi Stute
Produced by Witzki Visions
Written by John Gahlert
Edit by Mirko Witzki
Filmed at the Sophienheilstätte in München near Bad Berka, Thuringia
Mix & Master by Fabian Hildebrandt @ Eisensound
“Veins Of Fire” Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere.
Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens.
Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
Shop:
http://desertedfear.ffm.to/attheend
http://lnk.spkr.media/desertedfear-fire
Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" wird als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich sein.
Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle werden exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich sein.
www.desertedfear.de
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Der Track zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie die Band ihren markanten Stil weiterentwickelt – zwischen doomigem 70s-Rock, psychedelischem Flair und einer okkulten Aura, die sich tief in die Dunkelheit menschlicher Erfahrungen gräbt. „Wishing Well“ ist dabei gleichermaßen introspektiv wie kraftvoll und macht deutlich, warum THE OSSUARY zu den eindringlichsten Live-Acts Italiens zählen.
Hier geht´s zum Lyric-Video zu „Wishing Well“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFJj-ehRKMM
Requiem for the Sun ist ab sofort vorbestellbar unter: https://supremechaos.de/link/theossuary/
Das vierte Album "Requiem For The Sun" verspricht eine cineastische Klanglandschaft voller Donner-Riffs und geisterhaften Melodien – Heavy Rock in seiner mystischen Form!
Album-Preorder: https://supremechaos.de/artists/the-ossuary/
Album-Presave: https://save-it.cc/scr/ossuary-requiem-for-the-sun
Hungarian
extreme metal force MORS SILENS unleashes a furious new
lyric video for “SCORN”, a relentless descent into the rot of
modern humanity. With searing riffs and unrelenting aggression, the track
confronts a world poisoned by hatred, division, and decay, posing a haunting
question: When hope is gone and only death remains, will we finally see
what we’ve done?
Pre-save the album: https://orcd.co/infernallegacy
Formed in 2006, Mors Silens blends blistering speed with crushing heaviness. With multiple acclaimed releases—Call of the Nether Realm, World of Pain, and Under the Dark Sun—the band has toured internationally and shared stages with acts like Fleshgod Apocalypse and Kataklysm. Known for explosive live shows and impactful visuals, the band earned 2nd place at the POSADA ROCK Contest in 2021 and continues to evolve without compromise.
www.youtube.com/MorsSilens
www.facebook.com/morssilens
Gallagher (WV) - U.S. Thrash Metal quartet, EXECUTIONIST, have unleashed a visualizer video for "WHEELS OF WAR," the second single from forthcoming album, SACRAMENT OF THE SICK!
Roll with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JD3tLVv5wE
FFO: Kreator, Children of Bodom
Executionist will release debut full-length album, Sacrament of the Sick, on May 16! In the four years since the release of their debut EP, the band has sharpened the blades of its attack, both in terms of songwriting and performance!
Sacrament of the Sick is a monumental step forward from Executionist’s previous material. Improved production, performances, and writing have made the Executionist sound nearly unrecognizable compared to the band's debut EP, Destined for Destruction. Each track was meticulously crafted and poured over in Executionist’s home studio, and the final product shows that it was worth every ounce of attention. With a clear focus on melody and tighter songwriting, Sacrament of the Sick is a sonic journey sure to leave a lasting impact on the listener.
Pre-order: https://executionist.bandcamp.com/album/sacrament-of-the-sick
Track
Listing:
1. Ultionum
2. Edge of Annihilation
3. Wheels of War
4. Serrated Shadows
5. Divided We Stand... United We Fall
6. Thy Kingdom Come
7. Strange Aeons
8. Palace of Kings
9. Sacrament of the Sick
10. Coup de Grâce
Credits:
Music written by Brett & Tristan Ash
Lyrics written by Brett Ash
Vocals, guitar, bass - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Produced by Brett & Tristan Ash
Engineered & Mixed by Tristan Ash
Mastered by Colin Davis of Imperial Mastering
Album Artwork by Mitchell Nolte
Logo by ModBlackMoon & HermanTwo
Line-up:
Vocals/Guitar - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Bass - Austin Rose
Guitar - Mike Kinder
Bio:
Executionist was officially formed in 2021 by brothers Brett and Tristan Ash, who were 17 and 13 years old, respectively at the time. Their debut EP, Destined for Destruction, was released on January 27, 2021. Two years later, Executionist released "GENESIS 666" (March 2023).
After playing many shows together as a mere two-piece, Executionist finally added a bass player in 2024, in the form of Austin Rose. The three played more shows together before finally rounding out the lineup by adding Mike Kinder on guitar in March of 2025. Around the same time, Executionist announced the forthcoming release of their debut full-length album, Sacrament of the Sick. The lead single "Serrated Shadows," has already been released, with another single set to release on April 18. With the release of their album on the horizon, Executionist aims to play live as much as possible while writing new music for their next project.
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The song is featured on their debut album "PARASITE", which was released last September
via Pagan Records.
Watch “Downfall of Angels”: https://youtu.be/iV-3crLmHq8?si=E-wIz0BD-MAvIgus
The visually striking video, produced in collaboration with Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Amon Amarth, Tarja, Arch Enemy), was filmed in Wrocław in November 2024 and draws inspiration from the biblical motif of the expulsion of angels from heaven. It relates the rebellion and subsequent judgment of these celestial beings, culminating in their dramatic fall. The central figure, Lucifer, is portrayed in both male and female forms, defiantly mocking divine authority as descends from the heavens. The sheer horror of his fall is palpable amongst the observing angels, marking the beginning of his journey in the liminal space between divinity and the human world.
"Downfall of Angels" is the latest visual offering from Untervoid, following the release of the album “Parasite” last year. "Parasite" is a concept album that delves into the anxieties of our time, exploring humanity's role as a parasitic force on society and the planet.
Untervoid was formed in 2015 by Destroyer (Redemptor, ex-Hate, ex-Kriegsmaschine) and Adam Sierżęga (Armagedon, Azarath (live)), with Haldor Grunberg (Thaw, Mentor) joining in 2024. The band has built a strong reputation since their self-titled EP in 2018 for their intense live performances and their powerfully dark soundscapes.
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Melbourne’s
Death Metal Outfit MONOLIYTH unleashes the official video for the
first single, EXCISED UNBORN, off the upcoming album HE WHO
KILLS. The band is excited to announce their signing to WormholeDeath
Records. The release date for He Who Kills will be announced soon.
The upcoming album, He Who Kills, is based on the dark side of humanity, looking through the eyes of serial killers, as a perspective, and a grim insight into the depraved. The single Excised Unborn sets the tone for what’s to come – heavy, raw, and unapologetic brutal Death metal.
The video drops alongside the single. Guitarist Mick Barr states that the single "delivers everything fans have come to expect from the band, "relentless riffs, crushing vocals, and a dark visual narrative, capturing the sonic massacre that is Monoliyth.”
Formed in 1998 in Melbourne, Australia, Monolyth was founded by guitarist Mick Barr. The intensity and passion for extreme music has remained consistent throughout their catalogue and aggressive live shows. Monoliyth has evolved from classic thrash to a laser-focused brutal death metal ensemble. Injecting Old-School and tech-death elements into the compositions are an integral part of the writing process, a trend that will continue to expand into the band’s future releases.
Monoliyth:
Andrew Parkinson – Vocalist
Mick Barr – Rhythm / Lead Guitars
Zakk Barr – Rhythm / Lead Guitars
Jake Mackin – Bass
Tim Wright – Drums
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From the Greek black metal bastion of Athens emerges ELEVENTH RAY, with lamentations that have lain in wait for the best part of a decade. The occult offerings within the unhallowed sleeve of REVIVING TEHOM invoke the spirit of Celtic Frost, Sodom, the ‘90s exploits of the great Magus Wampyr Daoloth (Necromantia, Rotting Christ, Thou Art Lord), and of course, Therion's 1993 Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas album.
ELEVENTH RAY and Dark Descent Records have launched a stream for the album's opening track, "NIGHTSIDE OF DAMASCUS" Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Mzlc-7mtk
Reviving Tehom will be released on CD/LP and digital formats through Dark Descent Records on May 16.
Tracklist:
1. Nightside of Damascus
2. Staring Eyes
3. Ha Illan Ha Hizon TrianAdohi
4. Path of the Bellator
5. IGUL
6. Κόκκινη Αποκάλυψη
7. ZODAMRAN NOX
8. Pan Noctifer
9. Reviving Tehom
Stream the album's first single, "Ha Illan Ha Hizon TrianAdohi" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKsU7CpvTGQ
The seeds for ELEVENTH RAY were sown by materials once artificed for the black metal force of Serpent Noir, whose changing tonality saw guitarist Y.K. bury said materials for a later purpose. A decision that first bore rotten fruit via a devastating rehearsal demo in 2022, which piqued the interest of Dark Descent Records.
“ELEVENTH RAY is a totally new autonomous entity for which we plan to work with full force and NOT a one-off project of Serpent Noir leftovers,” exclaims Y.K. “As it happens with all my projects, ELEVENTH RAY is deeply rooted in Dark Magic and the Typhonian Alchemy.”
The practices of Magic and Alchemy are of critical importance to Y.K., and these elements at even keel with the music itself.
“Writing music for the sake of music is not enough. It is the expression of what lies hidden beyond the frames of what we call reality. The great Unknown emanated from the foremost symbol of power, the Red Dragon,” explains Y.K. “What we were aiming to achieve was the creation of a purely black Magical death/thrash/black metal album without the lyrical satanic naivety of the past. Listening carefully to the album, you will realise that into this blend there is a striking ritualistic element with an ominous vibe and a heavy occult twist. Basically, Reviving Tehom is an album I would personally love to listen to, but I could not find anywhere. “
The common thread extends to the stunning artwork by L.G.N Nekropropaganda, depicting the aforesaid Great Red Dragon “as the orgasm of existence, the utmost symbol of hidden wisdom and forbidden knowledge which is also a tangible form of ecstatic energy. Lyrics deal with personal experiences related to the awakening/ channelling of this tremendous force.”
Recorded by Haris V. at the Eleventh Tower Studio – a familiar collaborator of Y.K. - the production perfectly complements this first wave hell-noise with a crushing old school sound. With full force!
ELEVENTH RAY is:
D. Gharrassielh: Rhythm and lead guitars, chants
D. AanoNin: Vocals, chants
Peyote: Bass, additional lead guitars
Nuctemeron: Drums, percussion
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My
Kingdom Music and DVM SPIRO, great Italian Doomsters, have
signed a new deal that will lead them together to the release of "MMXXV
- GRAVE". This is the title of the successor to their successful
and acclaimed debut "MMXIX - In Frigidvm Lectvm" released a few years
ago.
The new album will be released in Autumn and has been completed in these days.
With songs that never go under 11 minutes, DVM SPIRO, formed by members of NIHILI LOCUS (Max, Roberto, Valeria), an Italian cult band from the 90s, are going to give life to an extremely gloomy, heavy album even if their dark and arcane Doom Metal often is caressed by more Atmospheric, sometimes horrific and even symphonic elements. A general feeling of dark desperation, mixed with the natural funereal atmospheres of Doom Metal, is what emerges from the second album of DVM SPIRO and you will not waste a moment to let yourself be enchanted by their music and the sabbatical pace of their compositions!
Heavy riffs, female voices and very deep growls, ancient atmospheres and even classical music enrich a unique sound that will surely be a must-listen for fans of My Dying Bride, Funeral, the first Paradise Lost, Shape Of Despair!
Roberto introduces us to it with this dark declaration of intent that has a strong sense of a harbinger of death:
There are things that as soon as they are born you already know they must die.
A sublimation, an invisible caress that blurs life, and finally becomes a cold detachment. It is an indistinct death, in which follies shine in the dark. Without peeling frames, and funereal paintings of intangible prisons.
We draw on a discontinuous salvation, through moments lost among infected wounds
of withered bodies and adorned with the filthy rags of others.
Disappointing, woven complaint of this life. So full of beauty, beyond the ravines, turbid, of useless prayers.
While the vague leads us back to the gentle torture
and infirm will. Among the asymmetries of a last daily spasm. As if it were a game of dexterity to die early.
DVM SPIRO are back and the magic of their sad Art is ready to drag you into the deepest abysses..
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Format: Digital CD-EP /
Physical CD-EP
Label: Independent Release
For fans of: Lamb of God, Slayer, Kataklysm, Baest, Carcass and so on……
Tracklist:
01. Malevolent Glare
02. Paracusia
03. Pity the Mind of the Frail and the Feeble
04. To Be Alive, To Walk This Earth, That Is My Curse
05. Rancid Taste of Horror
Black Rabbit is a concept-driven death metal band from Apeldoorn that seamlessly interweaves brute force and aggression with profound themes and a compelling visual presentation.
The band consists of five musical forces with diverse influences, who together create a dynamic, ruthless but refined sound.
With energetic live shows full of theatrical visuals and an intense light spectacle, Black Rabbit takes their audience into a narrative world of darkness and mystery.
Black Rabbit left a lasting impression with the release of their EP and single (2020), which laid the foundation for the story of Black Rabbit. This took further shape with the first chapter of its legend: the full-length album ‘Hypnosomnia’ (2023), an album that took the band to new heights with performances in renowned venues such as Patronaat, Iduna and even the Brabanthallen.
Sharing the stage with the likes of Baest, Vader, Exhorder and Pestilence, they have established themselves as a band that takes energy, craftsmanship and experience to a new level.
Now the band expands their sinister story further with ‘Chronolysis’, a sensory nightmare that takes the listener into the oppressive world of sleep paralysis, trapped under the manipulative grip of Black Rabbit
At the heart of the band lives the mythical story of Black Rabbit, a demonic entity with a tragic past. He seduces and deceives his victims, confronting them with their deepest sins and feeding on their despair. Black Rabbit manipulates dreams (Hypnosomnia) and traps his victims in the suffocating grip of sleep paralysis (Chronolysis), from which there is no escape. Black Rabbit’s music forms a ritual in which each song is a chapter in his growing legend. ‘Hypnosomnia’ explored the boundary between dream and reality, while the latest EP, ‘Chronolysis’, digs deeper into the horror of sleep paralysis.
Black Rabbit is more than a metal band – it’s a total experience. With a crushing sound, well-thought-out concepts and theatrical live shows, they immerse their audience in a world where music, visuals and stories become one. Their performances are rituals, in which the audience is not just a spectator, but becomes part of the story.
With Chronolysis, the five gentlemen are setting a new, intense chapter. Their music is dynamic and raw, their shows are hypnotic and uncomfortable. Black Rabbit leaves you with a feeling of fascination and discomfort – exactly as he intended.
BLACK RABBIT is:
Vocals: Nino Thomas
Guitar: Jelle Brekelmans
Guitar: Hidde Hofland
Drums: Koen van der Voet
Bassguitar: Thijs Mulder
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Rome (IT) - Blackened Death Metal horde, PATRISTIC, are set to release their debut full-length album! CATECHESIS will be released June 20 on vinyl, CD, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
The official video for first single, "Catechesis I," has been premiered by Toilet ov Hell and is available at the following link: https://toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-patristics-catechesis-i/
FFO: Aosoth, Barshakesh,
Drastus, Sulphur Aeon, Akhlys.
"Catechesis I" will be available April 18 on all digital platforms. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Born of the ashes of Roman Empire, pagan lust for life and philosophical opulence, then demeaned and mortified by the fathers of the one true god. Centuries lasting like the last dream before awakening. PATRISTIC is the soundtrack of the age of quiet chaos between the classic world, paganism and the impending shadow of the cross.
Catechesis follows 2022 debut EP, Apologetica, and is the band's first release for Willowtip.
Track Listing:
1. A Vinculis Soluta I
2. A Vinculis Soluta II
3. Catechesis I
4. Catechesis II
5. Catechesis III
6. Catechesis IV
Credits:
All music and lyrics written and recorded by E.S. and Sathrath.
Drums recorded by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studios in October MMXXIII.
Vocals recorded by Davide Gorrini at BeastCave Studio in December MMXXIII.
Mixed and mastered by Michael Zech at The Source Studios between January and May MMXXIV.
Artwork by Manuel Scapinello.
Artwork layout by Dema Novakova.
Logo by Bram Bruyneel.
Line-Up
E.S. - Guitars, bass, samples, arrangements
Sathrath - Drums
L.S. - Vocals
T.V. - Bass
The band's name and concept comes from Patristics which is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The period is generally considered to run from the end of New Testament times or end of the Apostolic Age (c. AD 100) to either AD 451 (the date of the Council of Chalcedon) or to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.
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The band comments:
"Reclaiming Chaos, the title track closer, is the album's fastest song. The chaotic atmosphere consists of sharp playing and aggressive vocals. The song is about taking control of a bad-turned-worse situation with mental strength and without outside interference."
Biography:
INDEMON is a four-piece metal band formed in 2020 in Kerava, Finland. Drawing influences from various subgenres of metal, they blend them uniquely to create a powerful and atmospheric sound. INDEMON's debut EP Fear of Living was released in 2022, showcasing the band's ability to create intense and multifaceted metal. The band’s lyrical themes explore fear, self-doubt, and inner struggles, immersing the listener into the music's emotional world. INDEMON is known for their energetic live performances and distinctive music.
INDEMON - RECLAIMING CHAOS (ALBUM 2025)
Track list:
1. Bring Down The Light
2. Internal Defeat
3. Passenger
4. Abuse
5. Necessary Evil
6. Shoot & Forget
7. Ruoja
8. Reclaim Chaos
Album cover by Sakari Vinko
Line-up:
Joose Riihelä - vocals
Santeri Liesmala - guitar
Ville Kangasharju - bass
Patrik Kuitunen - drums
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Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Motörhead, Peter Pan Speedrock, V8 Wankers and such….
Tracklist:
01 Never Told me her Name
02 You Know You Are Gone
03 Hammer
04 Going Crazy
05 Piece of Shit
06 Come Out and Play
07 Tiger Queen
08 We Are The (Over)Killers
09 Mister Rock
10 Kill My Soul
Fat Bastard, a high-energy rock band, was formed in 2007. The current lineup features four passionate musicians: Jorn (vocals), Kurt (drums), Geller (bass), and Jan (guitar). The band's unique sound is often described as the raw power of Peter Pan Speedrock, with a splash of Motörhead's rebellious spirit and a dash of Carl Perkins' rockabilly charm.
Fat Bastard's music is defined by its relentless energy, commanding vocals, and electrifying guitar riffs. Their sound seamlessly blends the raw power of rock 'n' roll, the rebellious spirit of punk, and the intensity of heavy metal. Drawing inspiration from old school rock legends, Fat Bastard crafts a dynamic and versatile musical style that resonates with a wide range of listeners.
Fat Bastard has received praise from various music critics and publications. Luminous Dash highlighted their impressive use of the Swamp Stage at Alcatraz 2022. Musika.be commended their high-energy performance at Frietrock 2022 and their ability to win over crowds quickly at Devils Rock for an Angel 2018. MusicZine.be appreciated their combination of humor and powerful sound at Frietrock 2018. Mindview.be recognized their high-level performance at Distortion Fest 2011, suggesting they deserved a spot on the main stage.
In 2013, the band released their first EP album, Feel the Pain, produced, mixed and mastered by Martin Furia (Bark/Destruction/Furia). This album showcased their punk/metal side, capturing the raw emotion and intensity of their live performances. Critics praised the album for its powerful sound and the band's ability to convey their balls to the wall attitude through their music.
Five years later, in 2018, Fat Bastard released EP Junk Yard Fest. This album showcased their musical evolution, to a more raw rock (yeah, Rawk n’ Roll) based sound. This album was produced by Yannick from Hexa Mera. The album received rave reviews for its raw energy and the band's signature blend of humor and powerful sound. One reviewer noted that the album brought "an array of raw delights for body and soul," highlighting the band's ability to connect with their audience on a visceral level.
Fat Bastard's perfectionist tendencies mean that they take their time to create music, but the end result is always worth the wait. Their albums are a testament to their commitment to delivering high-quality, impactful music that leaves a lasting impression on their listeners.
FAT BASTARD Is:
Jorn: vocals
Kurt: drums
Jan: guitar
Geller: bassguitar
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This visual companion to "The Gates of Daemons" plunges viewers into a ritualistic haze, capturing the EP’s raw intensity and unrelenting darkness. With a minimalistic, yet crushing songwriting approach, Incineration in the Infinite harnesses the rebellious pulse of Punk Rock, the bone-rattling depth of Stoner Metal, and the oppressive atmospheres of Doom Metal, delivering a sound that is as primal as it is punishing.
Stream the "Serpent's Tongue" EP: https://orcd.co/serpentstongue
Dare to enter the gates—where shadows reign and chaos calls.
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“DIMENSÃO HORRENDA” is a colossal return, to say the least, and all you can do is to give it a chance because it’s totally worth it. Continuing its reign of terror, Perversus elevates all Black Metal glory within its tradition with a major boost tribute to evil, wrath, and cruelty. Reminding you all that, VETUS SANGUIS buzz saw riffs are made to invoke darkness and torment, and the grim vocals, fully sung in Portuguese, strip out the flesh from your misery turning it into ice cold dust.
This eerie hypnotic landscape phantomized by draught, despair and aggression stands as a hymn to those who travel in the abyss of their soulless existence. With these ten outstanding songs, VETUS SANGUIS will conquer all listeners and make them beg for pity. We even dare to say, “Dimensão Horrenda” has all to be an instant classic and, for sure, a malicious blood pact with vile rawness will be made to accomplish this vision. Absolutely Vicious!
Satanik Ritual On... Religion Bullshit Off...
Release date :16th April 2025
Cassette Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
HELLPACK CD + Cassette Limited to 30 copies.
Official Distribution by HELLSTORE EUROPE
Available through Murder Records
Co-released with Helldprod Records
VETUS SANGUIS - "CAPÍTULO I - DIMENSÃO HORRENDA"
Cassette Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
Tracklist:
01. Campos Infernais [04:06]
02. Ódio Viciante [04:33]
03. Gritos Silenciosos [05:03]
04. Trombetas Diabólicas [04:37]
05. The Possibility of Life´s Destruction (Discharge Cover) [01:16]
06. Saturno [04:24]
07. Nada, Faz Sentido [05:10]
08. Dimensão Horrenda [03:36]
09. Jardim de Mármore [04:39]
10. Transcendência [01:30]
All songs, instruments, vocals and lyrics by Perversus.
Mixed and Mastered by Perversus.
Recorded Winter 2023 to Summer 2023 at Sanguinis Cultus Studios.
Artwork and Logo by Blaspher.
Layout by Allefer Rocha.
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Finnish melodic death metal band SUPERDEATHFLAME is
back with a new single "SHADOWHEART".
The band tells about the song:
"This is a song about a decicions we have to make There is no right or wrong, just choices we have to live with. Maybe the best way to make a choice is to follow your heart, although we may struggle many times because that is very rarely the easiest way. Thus, it might be that real choices are not made with our heart, but with our shadow heart. That lies far from the truth...
Shadowheart, our new song is brutal, but at the same time fragile and beautiful. Just as Superdeathflame's song should be."
Listen to the single on music services: https://push.fm/fl/sdf-shadowheart
From Southern Finland's gray landscapes rises SUPERDEATHFLAME, the Style-Masters-of-Metal ready to conquer the world with our mature and melodic music that catches the ear. Founded in 2007 and released two full length albums and a batch of singles and EP. Their songs are made for listener, no bullshit. The songs are hard, every piece tells a real story of life. The foundation, the Four Pillars of our Metal are Rock solid guitar riffs and punchy drumbeats colored with flowing synths and world class choruses that are infectiously catchy. Superdeathflame is building their music with an increasingly determined focus to make every song sound simple and easy to a listener. Not forgetting multidimensional interpretation in the lyrics, that gives the depth to the songs.
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Guitarist Jaakko Hautamäki comments:
"Niko kindly mentioned that the boys should start making more songs because time was running out. Following this command, Joni and I started working. At first, we did the easy parts and then gathered anger for the next ones. I started creating a song that wouldn't begin with a blast beat, wouldn't end with a new riff, and would contain three choruses. The spark for the song came from a piece of melody I improvised 20 years ago. I adapted it to a new form, changed the major keys to minor keys, and added only double bass drums. I finally got it on tape, which had been playing in my head for decades. When the song was finally assembled, I had an even better idea: to leave that section out entirely. Niko created the vocals almost instantly for the first demo with a message "What can you do when one just sends me this kind of nuclear waste?” We scratched our heads, and suddenly the song was complete. The rhythm section participated in the composition work by nodding along."
PROGENY
OF SUN – “PROPHETS OF THE VOID “ (ALBUM 2025)
Track list:
1. Swarmspawn
2. Penance
3. Worldstone
4. Decimation
5. Colonus
6. Lifeless Light
7. Sun and Moon
8. Circle of Keres
9. Diary Ender
10. Deface
11. Rain for Discouraged
12. Forsaken Brigade
Mixed by Jaakko Hautamäki
Mastered by Jonathan Mazzeo
Album cover by Joni Kiviniemi & Niko Aromaa
Listen to Penance on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pos-penance
Biography:
In the beginning, Progeny of Sun was a two-man band formed by Jaakko Hautamäki and Niko Aromaa. Jaakko was responsible for the instrumentals, mixing, and mastering, while Niko handled the vocals, lyrics, visuals, etc.
The songs Jaakko introduced were very versatile. Some had speed, some were slow, some painted a picture with their atmosphere, and some were more straightforward bangers. Despite the diversity in style, everything worked exceptionally well in tandem, and from this premise, the band started to develop and pave its own way forward.
To start with, Progeny of Sun created a 6-song self-titled EP and discovered that their music was met with great reception. The duo behind the band did all the mixing, mastering, videos, and artwork themselves. The project as a whole was very fun and rewarding to work on.
After the EP release, Jaakko and Niko began to think that something more was still needed. They still had a burning desire to spread their music around the world, but with just two people, it would have been impossible.
Subsequently, Jaakko found two local musicians from the Seinäjoki area: Joni Kiviniemi (guitar) and Juha Peura (drums). Joni and Juha were initially brought on board just to offer their vision and play their assigned instruments for new material. Soon, however, it began to feel like they were part of the family, and so it was decided that they would become full-fledged members of the squad and a part of the band's story. Not long after, Tuomo Tolkki (bass) was also welcomed to join, and in a matter of a few months, the full lineup was formed.
The first release with the full lineup, a 3-track EP 'Dark Wanderer', was released in 2021. Next in line were the single releases ‘Worthless’ and ‘Anguish’, which were released in 2022. Thanks to the aforementioned experimental phase, Progeny of Sun has gained self-confidence and started to understand its own identity. The band worked hard on the debut album ‘Throne of Desolation’, which was released at the end of 2023. Progeny of Sun's second album 'Prophets of the Void' will be released in September 2025. Following their debut album, the band has identified their strengths, which are utilized and showcased even more prominently on the second album.
Line-up:
Niko Aromaa - Vocals
Jaakko Hautamäki - Guitar
Joni Kiviniemi - Guitar
Tuomo Tolkki - Bass
Juha Peura – Drums
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The album's first single, an 11-minute traumatizer called "Kola," is available for aural laceration at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_FpbKTWowI
Sonically, Matraque sits somewhere between Grief, Meth Drinker, and Primitive Man. All lyrics are sung in Belarusian. All music is scarring.
Just as over time, anger and aggression transition into despair, disappointment, and depression, the band, without losing loudness and intensity, chooses corresponding forms and nuances of sound to convey their perception of reality.
In search of their style, where low and sluggish masses of sound are interspersed with mid-tempo bursts, Matraque drew inspiration from such acts as Body Void, Primitive Man, The Body, Indian, Bismuth, etc. In terms of genre, one could mention sludge, doom, and primitive death metal.
The band began its journey in Minsk in the spring of 2023. The members brought their experience from previous projects such as Rowan, Televoid, krvvla, Схизма, kusto., Coat, and Łaska.
Nature Morte will be available on CD, cassette, and digital formats.
Pre-order: https://ashentreerecords.bandcamp.com/album/nature-morte
Track Listing:
1. Kola
2. Pustazelle
3. Malimon
4. Volya
5. Pry`py`nak
Credits:
Drums recorded at Chili records, Minsk by Roman P.
Guitars, bass, vox recording at Zeleniy Lug "Children of Tsnyanka rec.", Minsk, by Alexander G.
Mixed and mastered by Alexander G. at Gasprodmusic.
Art by Marta Shcherbich.
Logo by Olga Kisielewicz.
Line-up:
Vlad B. – Guitar
Anton M. – Drums
Evgeniy S. – Bass
Alexander G. – Vocals, Synths
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Excerpt - “Crypts of Despair’s new album is a nasty, brutish affair. It coronates Death as King in a time of leviathanic turmoil”
CRYPTS OF DESPAIR – “WE BELONG IN THE GRAVE”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Mgla, Replicant, Skaphos, Krypts, Obscureviolence, Dead
Congregation, Saevus Finis
Lithuanian band Crypts of Despair have exemplified playing death metal in a fierce, ruthless and ball-bustingly heavy way. Just when you think they had perfected their sound bolstering it with all the right dark and vile elements on their highly acclaimed previous album, they decided to hone their sound some more on their new one. Clearly, they are not content to bask in the glory of their past efforts no matter how good they are, and have evolved and refined their sound further. The new album retains the band's intimidating demeanour but now the music is comparatively more condensed, visceral, intuitive, and even displays hints of melancholy. The execution remains forceful and the riffs are compelling enough to commit crimes, egged on by the relentless barrage of seemingly multi-tongued demonic vocals. The band functions as a unit better now than ever before with a thick, cohesive sound that drives the point home. This is sheer aural terror and they have become veritable masters of it.
"We Belong In The Grave" is a bold step ahead for Crypts of Despair, maintaining the band's high standards while updating the sound for maximum impact and utter devastation.
Line up
Jonas Kanevičius - Vocals
Dovydas Auglys - Guitars
Tautvydas Kartanas - Guitars
Simonas Jurkevičius - Bass
Henri Mäll - Drums
Artwork by Vainius "Anomaly" Česnauskas
Track listing
1. We Belong In The Grave
2. Terminal Dias
3. Obliteration Of The Impure
4. Expulsion To Purgatory
5. Undisillusioned
6. Seizures
7. Precipitous
8. Gaze Of The Adversary
9. Burial Of The World
Release date - April 18th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/cryptsofdespair
Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
The
Painful Legacy of Autaxia
The history of Autaxia is etched with suffering. We prayed to the heavens, but the skies remained silent. We served our masters, though they stripped us of hope. Centuries of torment have taught us a harsh truth: to believe in no one but yourself.
"The Absolution" is the third track from Autaxia Chronicles: Dawn of a New Age and delves into the theme of resistance driven by religious fervor. It tells the tale of a species enslaved for generations, only to rise through the creation of a new faith—a faith that unites them against their oppressors. However, this newfound zeal comes with a stark warning: while fanaticism can unify, it often becomes the first chapter of a new kind of servitude.
Divine Sovereign’s immersive compositions bring this gripping concept to life, fusing atmospheric black metal, epic doom, and blackgaze elements into a cinematic soundscape of despair, rebellion, and awakening.
About Divine Sovereign
Founded in 2023 by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Cezary Rochnowski, Divine Sovereign draws inspiration from the likes of Ethereal Shroud, Panopticon, and Atlantean Kodex. The project crafts epic, narrative-driven compositions set in the world of Autaxia, a planet where advanced beings unearth the remnants of a once-thriving civilization. Through intricate songwriting and atmospheric intensity, Divine Sovereign explores the duality of faith—its power to liberate and its potential to enslave.
www.facebook.com/DivineSovereign
Listen to Kärpästen juhlat on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-juhlat
The band comments:
"The song "Kärpästen juhlat" is probably the most famous track from Organ's Nekrofiilis LP, the first Finnish electro pop album, but was originally released on a solo single by the band's leader Mikko Saarela in 1981. Somewhere beyond the borders of reason came the idea to pay tribute to his pioneering work with our own version of this cult classic and twisted it into the CA mold - love it or hate it."
Earlier this year the band released their fifth studio album Disgust via Inverse Records and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-disgust
Watch music videos from the album:
Darken the Attic: https://youtu.be/GSXtaXtBDms
Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (Feat. Nikki666): https://youtu.be/GuPBSDV3Yvo
Viimene Fiitti (feat. ULTI MAKE): https://youtu.be/fXsUjYwPHIk
CD/Vinyl orders from Levykauppa Äx
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released five full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
CANNIBAL ACCIDENT - DISGUST (ALBUM 2025)
Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage
5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
https://www.facebook.com/cannibalaccident
Tracklist
1. Id
2. Frostglade
3. En Route
4. Forth
5. Global Necrosis
6. Pine Branches
Emerging from the shadows of the metal underground, RAWMOOR has forged a reputation for blending haunting orchestral melodies with blistering death metal savagery. Their debut album, En Route—initially self-released in September 2024—captivated fans and critics alike, earning acclaim for its seamless marriage of brutality and sophistication. Now, armed with the backing of Wormholedeath, RawMoor is poised to ascend to new heights, bringing their apocalyptic soundscapes to a global audience .
From Underground Vision to International Stage
What began in 2016 as the solo endeavor of multi-instrumentalist Moordrawn (vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, orchestration) evolved into a formidable alliance with longtime collaborator Brim (vocals). Together, they finished En Route, a concept album steeped in treachery, sovereignty, and existential rebellion themes. Guest guitarist Renton (tracks 2, 3, 6) adds searing solos, further cementing the album’s dynamic range.
“RawMoor embodies the raw intensity and artistic ambition that defines extreme metal,” says Carlo Bellotti, CEO of Wormholedeath. “En Route is not just an album—it’s a manifesto. We’re thrilled to amplify their vision and introduce their chaos to the world.”
En Route is a journey through betrayal and retribution, and with Wormholedeath, RawMoor is ready to ignite the flames wider than ever.
RawMoor Is:
Moordrawn: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Orchestration
Brim: Vocals
Renton: Guest Soloist (Tracks 2, 3, 6)
www.youtube.com/channel/UCv5TPiRLJo-OHOaxl5p3b1g
https://rawmoor.bandcamp.com/album/en-route
Yes, GROG are back once again to deliver us what they do best, one more chapter of extremeness, a lesson about how to renovate but at the same time to maintain their identity.
"SPHERE OF ATROCITIES" is their most recent deadly opus, an album that will make you bleed for speed, push you to the corner, and beat you relentlessly. Their new songs are equal to if violence wore a tuxedo, meaning that although their sound invites you to a modern and comfortable approach in fact once you enter the core of it you get smothered and crushed in a second by their vicious brutality. Almost inevitable to say that experience has a lot to do with this outcome and, as veterans in the metal scene, this ability to refine themselves brings them the possibility to explore new textures and dimensions. There's a lot of space for novelty here, and you simply have to know how to do it without repeating yourself.
With the same line-up for the past 20 years, expect nothing but great skilled master percussion, bass lines that will melt your face, a wall of exorcizing guitar riffs and a voice directly coming from down under. Overall, their musicianship is almost flawless and, with a super tight production, "Sphere of Atrocities" impact and intensity will surely be noticed within all worldwide death metal and grindcore fanatics.
Keeping their lyrical concept based on the dark side of humanity, they also add the alchemy that flows within our untold biology and mysterious existence. Concerning the final art of this album, all these concepts are amazingly represented and designed, once again, by the hands and mind of the one and only Crafter, Victor Costa.
As far as we're concerned, GROG still are one of the greatest names in the underground putting their musical effort in the top of the highest mountain and continuing to be a fearless and ruthless monster avalanche for your senses. So, above all, we dare to say that "Sphere of Atrocities" elevates GROG's legacy to a new level of severe musical brilliance.
Pulverize Yourself!
Release date 13th June 2025
Co-Released with Helldprod Records
Cassette Limited to 60 copies.
CD Limited to 300 copies.
HELLPACK CD + Cassette.
Official Distribution by HELLSTORE EUROPE
[PRE-ORDER PRICE]
*(until June 13, 2025) CD = € 8.00
*(until June 13, 2025) TAPE = € 7.00
*Price (after June 13, 2025) CD € 10.00 / TAPE €9.00
GROG - "SPHERE OF ATROCITIES"
CD Limited edition of 300 copies
Cassette Limited edition of 60 copies
Tracklist:
01 - E.xit G.lobal O.bliteration [03:01]
02 - Vegetative Techuman [03:08]
03 - Inborn Sickness [02:49]
04 - Heart Of Darkness [03:39]
05 - Cosmic Placenta [02:14]
06 - Pineal Turmoil [02:41]
07 - Reproductive Extinction [02:42]
08 - Phantom Anihilation [02:28]
09 - NecroEarth [03:09]
10 - Lucidity [03:22]
11 - Terrorithm [02:26]
"Sphere Of Atrocities" was recorded, produced and mastered at Undergrind Studios by Rolando Barros & Grog during several time lapses between 2023 & 2024.
All lyrics by Pedro Pedra.
All music by Alexandre Ribeiro, Ivo Martins.
All music & lyrical arrangements by Grog.
Cover concept by Pedro Pedra.
Illustration & final art by Victor Costa
GROG Line-up:
Alexandre Ribeiro (Bass & Backing Vocals)
Pedro Pedra (Vocals)
Rolando Barros (Drums & Backing Vocals)
Ivo Martins (Guitars & Backing Vocals)
https://www.facebook.com/grogpt
www.murder-records.eu
1. The Dark Knight Descends
2. Immortal Rites
3. Darkness Within
4. Trough These Mortal Eyes
5. Two Dividing Souls
6. Requiem Of Eternal Souls
7. The Clockwork Part2
8. Into This Maze Of Torment
9. Shattered Like The Sun
10. Prone To Revolting
11. Melancholy Of The Endless Night
Pioneers of the Italian Death/Black scene, MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL reach with this album a level of maturity and professionalism that has no equal in their history.
Their sound becomes absolutely personal, crossing different emotional states within the whole panorama of the Extreme Metal. The band goes from the fury and aggression of Death Metal to the dark and malignant essence of Black Metal, from the Symphonic and Progressive elements of their arrangements to a macabre and horrifying Gothic Metal, all built on an extremely powerful and clear production, daughter of the Lost Soul Studios led by Buzz himself.
"Songs From The Restless Oblivion" also gives us the opportunity to present the new line-up with Noxifer (drums) and the historic leader Buzz (guitar and vocals) who welcome the new elements Dysphoria (keyboards) and Taz (bass) to the band.
Those who have always loved the band will be absolutely enraptured by the new songs while for those who don't know them yet, just consider that if ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILITY and CRADLE OF FILTH are part of your favorite bands, "Songs From The Restless Oblivion" will be a mandatory listening!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/memoriesofalostsoulofficial
FLOATING – “HESITATING LIGHTS”
For
fans of: Swelling
Repulsion, Demilich, Defect Designer, Februus, Adramelech, Siouxsie
and the Banshees
Floating from Sweden are finding increasingly impressive ways to enrich death metal music with progressive and post punk influences. While their previous release turned heads, this new one is far more refined, confident and accomplished. The primary elements have their place in the music with none of it getting dislodged by the dominance of the other and that's where the beauty lies - there's a subtlety, an emotional fragility that comes through in death metal music, which usually sounds too tough and overbearing for the most part. Moreover, these unconventional influences aren't copy-pasted or arbitrarily introduced to heavy music; they're carefully gauged, treated and woven together in parts where the well-trodden death metal music would come alive. As a result, listening to this album is an absolute delight. It's fascinating to see how they've made sure that each of the songs stand out and that there's no fixed pattern that might just render their music predictable. "Hesitating Lights" is a thoughtfully composed, beautifully tempered album of bold, refreshing death metal music, which in these times, is no mean feat.
Line up
Arvid Sjödin - Guitars, vocals, synthesizers
Andreas Hörmark - Bass, synthesizers, programming
Artwork by Påhl Sundström
Track listing
1. I Reached the Mew
2. Grave Dog
3. Cough Choir
4. Exit Bag Song
5. Hesitating Lights / Harmless Fires
6. Still Dark Enough
7. The Wrong Body
8. The Waking
Release date - July 11th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/floatingdeathmetal
Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Finnish
heavy sludge force ABYSMAL RITES presents the official
music video for their blistering new track, "The Secret of Pure
Grief." This dark and immersive single is taken from the
band's highly anticipated upcoming album, RESTORING THE PRIMORDIAL ORDER,
which is set for release on May 9, 2025, via Wormholedeath.
The track—a suffocating plunge into despair and existential fury—is accompanied by a visceral visual experience crafted by RAW•ART Creations, amplifying the song’s raw essence and primal intensity.
Pre-save the album here: https://orcd.co/rtpoalbum
A Force From Finland
Formed in the Tampere area of Finland, Abysmal Rites are known for their primitive and brutal sound—a unique, heavy sludge approach created using only bass, drums, and vocals. The band’s powerful, minimalistic approach delivers an unmistakable intensity that leaves an impact long after the music stops.
www.youtube.com/@abysmalritesband8874
www.facebook.com/abysmalritesband
DESOLATE TOMB – “PIERCED ON THE HILL OF GOLGOTHA” ( Single )
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: april 18th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal/Deathcore
For fans of: Dying Fetus | Suffocation | Cognitive | Cattle Decapitation
Since 2018 Dakota Whiteside has been unleashing some of the heaviest brutal death metal/deathcore imaginable under the name Desolate Tomb. With an array of singles and two full length albums now recorded the reputation of this project for truly intimidating musical power is firmly established. 2024s Scorned By Misery album was a landmark release in terms of sheer, unrelenting force, picking up plaudits from shell shocked critics around the globe – with Musipedia Of Metal declaring it a “blasting and punishing run through of top-class brutality”. Now, for all those who have been waiting patiently from the next high impact attack from Desolate Tomb, their time has come, as earthshaking new single, ‘Pierced On The Hill Of Golgotha’ is about to detonate!
Unbelievably, ‘Pierced On The Hill Of Golgotha’ sees Desolate Tomb hitting new heights of intensity; even Scorned By Misery’s steel clad tracks will tremble in the face of this monster! From hammering blast beats to gargantuan chords that shift with the grinding power of mountains, surging tides of imperious might to jagged onslaughts, intricate riffs to a wild, deadly and dextrous solo – ‘Pierced On The Hill Of Golgotha’ has it all. With some inhuman guest vocals from long-term friend and collaborator Daniel Gates, this song is a tour de force of bone breaking brutality! Just one song…but what a song! This blasts apart everything else in Desolate Tomb’s already impressive and imposing discography.
Complete with some darkly effective and puissant artwork, created by Timon Kokott (Darkness, Furnace, Illdisposed etc) ‘Pierced On The Hill Of Golgotha’ will launch its assault on the senses on April 18th, supported by the firepower of Rottweiler Records. Be ready for an adrenaline infused experience of staggering dominance and strength.
Line up:
Dakota Whiteside –music, vocals, production, mix and mastering
Guest vocals from Daniel Gates
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/desolatetombslam
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by SAMTAR. Album artwork by Steven Yoyada.
Tracklisting:
1. Desert Creature
2. Fickle Fortune
3. All You Ever Wanted
4. Speaker
5. Distant Voices
6. Refuse
7. Destiny is a Lie
8. The Whispers
9. Vicarious Voodoo
10. The Mire
11. Broken Sparrow
12. Drowning the Goddess
SAMTAR, a music-obsessed virtuoso, plies his craft with an unrepentant vigor and passion. Navigating the forests of genre, SAMTAR follows a path to sounds unknown by combining style and influence from all sources. SAMTAR chose to eschew chasing traditional mediums of promotion and instead focused on loving his life through creating music, exploring the outdoors, and translating the ethereal into song. The music SAMTAR creates is human and close, it has a momentum of its own and entreats the listener to be a traveler along the journey to their own peace.
SAMTAR grew up on System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, The Black Dahlia Murder, Opeth, Sonata Arctica, Muse, Jimi Hendrix, Sublime, and Nirvana. Now he unites these divergent influences with driving bass lines, hook-heavy guitar melodies, powerful vocals, and a healthy dose of synthesizers. He notes some of his biggest vocal influences being from artists like Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle/Faith No More), and Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica). He also takes inspiration from sci-fi/fantasy films and literature.
www.samtarofficial.com
https://www.facebook.com/samtar2
NEWS 11.4.2025
Am 20. Dezember 2024 veröffentlichten die
niederländischen Hardcore-Matadore ANCESTRAL SIN mit "NEXT
OF SIN" eine 4-Track 10" Vinyl/CD EP, die sich mühelos von
Punk zu Hardcore und zurück grindet und dabei alles aufmischt, was ihr in den
Weg kommt!
Der Titel bezieht sich auf das anhaltende epische Versagen der Menschheit, sich als Rasse sowohl sozial als auch wirtschaftlich zu verbessern.
Song 1 "Next of sin" tritt dir mit den traumatischen Nachwirkungen des ewigen Krieges, der von einer Generation zur nächsten weitergegeben wird, unangenehm ins Gesicht. Zu dem Song wurde am 02.04.2025 ein Video veröffentlicht, in welchem die Thematik eindrucksvoll und gleichermaßen verstörend wiedergegeben wird.
Song 2 "Vulgar display of wealth" thematisiert unseren westlichen fettleibigen und arterienverhüllenden Lebensstandard - einfach widerlich.
Song 3 "Hardcore woke cop" erkundet die Woke-Bewegung und hinterfragt, inwiefern Cancelling seinen Zweck erfüllt.
Song 4 "Whistleblower" sagt dir, dass du den Mund halten sollst, wenn du (Unternehmens-)Korruption aufdeckst, oder sollst du wirklich?
"Next of sin" erschien am 20. Dezember 2024 auf CD (bei DanceHard Records) und ab dem 16. April 2025 ist die EP auf Vinyl erhältlich (bei Oblivion Records/DanceHard Records).
“Next of sin” video auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/w18Oe8QpYL0?si=Uf-5OFWRTVp5nFgi
https://www.instagram.com/ancestral_sin
http://www.oblivionrecords.bigcartel.com/
Melodic/Progressive Metal band, SEVERED ANGEL, have released the official video for "A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING," a track from new album, WHEN ETERNITY ENDS.
Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_qSZhtaA6E
FFO: Soilwork, Ice Earth, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.
When Eternity Ends was released on March 28 via No Life 'Til Metal Records! The album is packaged in a jewel case with a 12-page booklet containing lyrics, liner notes, and plenty of band photos.
Click the links that follow to purchase/stream!
Hailing from the Northeastern U.S. (NY & PA), Severed Angel has toiled in the underground for several years, self-releasing their first two albums, yet still managing to reach high levels of success. The band's sophomore album, Skyward, entered the Top 10 on on the Metal Contraband chart and the Top 25 on the NAAC Top 30 Heavy chart.
In late 2024, the band signed to No Life 'Til Metal Records, to release third album When Eternity Ends internationally. "We do not like to repeat ourselves," says lead guitarist, Lou Mavs. "Yes, we have a set idea on what Severed Angel is suppose to sound like, but we never want to sacrifice melody or a good idea. Skyward was an evolution from our self-titled debut, and When Eternity Ends is a further evolution of Skyward. We are proud to partner up with No Life 'Til Metal Records for the release of When Eternity Ends, an album I think metal fans are hungry for."
Track
Listing:
1. The Fall of Rain
2. Through the Eyes of Time
3. Cry Out to the World
4. Shed
5. Like Lightning
6. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
7. The Demon's Alive
8. In My Skin
9. One Life to Live
10. When Eternity Ends
Credits:
Produced by Alex Repetti and Severed Angel.
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Repetti.
Mastered by Joel Wanasek.
All songs written by Severed Angel.
Artwork by Aleh Zielankievi.
Gail Bourque - Vocals on “The Fall of Rain.”
Alex Repetti - Programming on "The Fall of Rain."
Line-up:
Alex Repetti - Vocals, Guitar
Lou Mavs - Guitar
George Dimitri - Bass
Marc Muchnik - Keyboards
Wayne Noon - Drums
Bio:
Severed Angel is a metal band from the Northeastern United States (NY and PA) forged to unleash a sonic assault of melodic heavy metal upon the masses.
In 2018, drummer Wayne Noon started the Rat Salad Review network to promote his favorite bands and have fun with a podcast that provides insight to the metal bands that the mainstream media are unaware of. Some of those bands included Timeless Haunt (PA), The Nightmare Stage (NY), Infinite Spectrum (NY), and Tension Rising (NY).
As the original drummer for Phoenix Reign, a NYC-based power metal band, they released an album called Destination Unknown, and toured around the tri-state area. Their final show was at the Gramercy Theater in NYC opening for international recording artists Epica.
In 2019, guitarist Lou Mavs started his podcast (Music Is Life Podcast) discussing his opinions and experience as a musician. Wayne and Lou were friends from the time Phoenix Reign was playing shows in Lou’s native Queens, NY, and Wayne asked Lou if his podcast would join Rat Salad Review as a show on the network, to which he did.
In late 2020, Wayne was preparing the release of his new band Project Resurrect. It was around that time that the music world suffered the loss of Edward Van Halen. Lou and Wayne suggested that they cover a Van Halen song as a tribute to Eddie, and enlisted the services of Timeless Haunt bassist George Dimitri and Thrash Or Die/Combat vocalist Ralph Viera. The cover was released to positive responses. 2021 saw the release of Project Resurrect’s False Reality CD and Rat Salad Review & Friends’ Cover Series, Part 1 EP.
In early 2022, Wayne suggested forming a new original band with Lou, George, The Nightmare Stage keyboardist Marc Muchnik, and Infinite Spectrum bassist/songwriter Alex Repetti (also of Tension Rising and Project SEAR), Lou provided an original demo written 12 years ago called Dogs of War, which was written as entrance music for his cousin - MMA fighter Robby Plotkin (currently a US Army Ranger). Wayne thought the song was perfect for this new project and arranged a new version of it, to which Marc and Alex wrote lyrics, and Lou re-recorded his parts. Upon completion of the song, it was official - Severed Angel was born.
Their debut CD was written, recorded, mixed and mastered within three months. In that time, Severed Angel started working on more material, many of which were released as singles: “A Fate Worse Than Death,” “Run and Hyde,” “Bump In The Night,” and “Mt. Cyanide.” Their self-titled debut CD was released on May 2, 2023.
Severed Angel's second album, Skyward, was released on May 3, 2024 through Bandcamp.
https://www.nolifetilmetal.com/
https://severedangel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SeveredAngelBand/
Emerging blackened death metal entity YHWH has unleashed the lyric video for "REALM OF DARKNESS," a relentless and haunting track from their forthcoming EP, TETRAGRAMMATON, which will be released on April 25, 2025, via Wormholedeath.
Immerse yourself in a visceral descent into chaos—"Realm of Darkness" encapsulates the tortured cries of the abyss, delivering an unrelenting barrage of blackened death metal fury.
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian-Thai blackened death metal project that fuses the raw aggression of black metal with the punishing brutality of death metal. Influenced by the genre’s forebears, the band conjures a savage and uncompromising sound, channeling the primal essence of extreme metal’s darkest traditions.
Brace yourself for the arrival of Tetragrammaton on April 25, 2025—a monumental statement of darkness and devastation. More details to be unveiled soon.
Finnish Phoboian releases their second single “The Fall”. We return to the heavy beauty of operatic metal and grim themes. The apocalyptic disease of “The Plague” is followed by depictions of ecological catastrophe. The band is preparing for their upcoming album in addition to shows.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/phoboian-thefall
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/Lxs6oJkDddU
Guitar player Otso Turunen tells about the song: "''The Fall' means the autumn of humanity. After releasing a billion years worth of carbon deposits as plastic and greenhouse gases it’s a good time to check out. Only time will tell how things actually turn out. Either way the message of the song is that future generations or evolutions will remember us at least from this monument the size of an asteroid impact."
Singer Inka Laitinen continues: "The song has a beautiful melody that allows me to use a wider vocal range, making the singing interesting. I really like the atmosphere of the song, which is melancholic and hints at destruction, but in my opinion, the melody still carries a sense of hope."
Phoboian is a melodic death metal orchestra from Turku, Finland. The band’s music incorporates classical female vocals into heavy nordic melancholy. Phoboian was established in 2017 during an after party to a metal gig, and since has gathered six musicians to its ranks: singers Inka Laitinen and Eeva Korhonen, drummer Kristo Rautavuori, bassist Jonathan Åkerman, and guitarists Olli Kuure and Otso Turunen.
https://www.facebook.com/Phoboian
We’re extremely proud to announce the sanguinary return of Edmonton-based bestial death metal sadists PROPHETIC SUFFERING. In under half hour the Canadian horde bring forth a violent and dark monstrosity forged by an abysmal convergence between Blasphemy’s war-torn black metal terror with the gruesome and gore-infested death metal of Cannibal Corpse albums like "The Bleeding" and "Tomb of the Mutilated".
Setting
the imminent release in motion is Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the
first track “GIFT OF DECAY” have remarked how the track
is an “absolutely pummeling assault” and that “when it’s done
well and has enough dynamic energy, bestial extreme metal never gets old“ -
you can check out the feature and listen to the song https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/04/08/track-premiere-prophetic-suffering-gift-of-decay/
“RIVALRY OF THYSELF” sees Prophetic Suffering metamorph out of their already catastrophic 2022 debut demo ablaze in an exponential spell of destruction in which impenetrable and shellshocking atmospheres enshroud a monolithic, screaming altar of mutilated bodies and trodden flesh. This sanguinary and chaos-wielding approach to American death metal had already been observed before within the underground’s most forbidden folds, as exemplified for example through the perversions of cult devastators like Drawn and Quartered or Angelcorpse. But what transpires from Prophetic Suffering’s new lightless death metal vision is something of even less canonical lineaments and which sets various precedents in the development of this peculiar strain of darkened and ultra-gruesome metal of death. Foremost, a pervasive and weaponized use of modern black metal and technical death-derived dissonance compounding into a torrent of gnarled and atonal fretwork destruction. A mind-expanding contrast is created where the guitar work stretches forward to embrace a mutating modernity still in becoming, while the rest of the band regresses backward into a primeval pandemonium of carpet-bombing hammer blasts, searing basslines, and soul-tearing death grunts. This contrast between the album’s transformative articulation and its visceral adherence to primitivism and barbarity is what makes “Rivalry of Thyself” such an abomination unto itself. A defiant, dark death metal monstrosity that harkens back to a familiar golden age of extreme metal just as it evokes sinister presages of a future form of evolved, lightless death metal still all in becoming.
“Rivalry of Thyself” is slated for a May 9 2025 international release on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, all of which are pre-orderable along with newly launched on-demand merch via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/prophetic-suffering-rivalry-of-thyself
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/prophetic-suffering
A new track from Topeka, KS-based brutal death metal horde UNMERCIFUL is now available for mass consumption.
The second single off their new album, DEVOURING DARKNESS, comes via an exclusive worldwide premiere courtesy of Metal Injection. Listen to "MALICE UNBOUND" now at https://metalinjection.net/new-music/unmerciful-streams-bludgeoning-new-single-malice-unbound
Devouring Darkness marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, the album is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
"Malice Unbound" will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all other streaming services on Friday, April 11. The album's first single, "Infernal Conquering," is streaming now.
Devouring Darkness is set for release on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on May 23 on Willowtip Records.
Tracklist:
1. Miracle in Fire
2. Unnatural Ferocity
3. Malice Unbound
4. Devouring Darkness
5. Relentless Malevolence
6. Vomit you out (Origin cover)*
7. Infernal Conquering
8. The Reaping
9. Voracious Lunacy
10. Vengeance Transcending
UNMERCIFUL has announced the first of many live assaults in support of Devouring Darkness. The band will host an album release show on June 20 at Warehouse on Broadway in Kansas City, MO, alongside Torn The Fuck Apart, Garoted, and Hossferatu.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is seeking a bassist for live performances and/or a permanent position. Serious inquiries only. Contact the band for details.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip/
www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
Greek
doomgaze trio CHURCH OF THE SEA have unveiled their new
album "EVA" in its entirety ahead of its release
tomorrow via These Hands Melt.
Listen to the album via The Devil's Mouth: https://thedevilsmouth.substack.com/p/album-premiere-church-of-the-sea
In support of the album's release, Church of the Sea presented two singles and videos: "The Siren's Choice" and the title track "Eva".
Formed in Athens in 2017, Church of the Sea have carved a distinct niche for themselves, balancing the crushing weight of doom with the ethereal beauty of dark electronic rock. Their signature sound blends fuzzed guitars, heavy distorted beats, and Irene's captivating, chant-like vocals, creating an atmosphere that is both heavy and dreamlike, with hints of shoegaze and noise-rock intensity.
“Eva”, the band's sophomore album, will be available on digital and CD formats, with a limited “sunburst” edition on vinyl.
The album was recorded at Suono Studios, engineered, produced, and mixed by Alex Bolpasis, and mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Mastering, continuing their established collaborative relationships from their debut EP “Anywhere but Desert” (2018) and debut album “Odalisque” (2022).
Throughout their career, Church of the Sea have graced the stages of numerous festivals and shared the bill with notable acts such as Wolvennest, Antimatter, The Murder Capital, Messa, and Dool, including two sold-out performances at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Athens.
Church of the Sea are:
Irene – Vocals
Vangelis – Guitars
Alex – Synths and samples
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/ChurchoftheSea/
CULTUS SANGUINE, as a tribute to those who have followed the band for years, publish their entire "LIVE AT MIDNIGHT CLUB", a previously unreleased testimony of their incredible shows.
Available only in digipakCD format with the "Through The Years Of Sombre (XXX Anniversary)" box released by My Kingdom Music, the live is the result of a memorable night in November 2021 at the legendary Midnight Club in Grassobio (BG) and it's available for streaming on YouTube at the link https://youtu.be/VsnOD-MMhXY
In the meantime the composition of the successor to "Dust Once Alive" is almost complete. CULTUS SANGUINE, with the new album scheduled for release in early 2026, will give life to a new chapter in their career and will do it with a work that will accentuate even more those dark and melancholic atmospheres typical of their predecessor, but with a more intense and macabre musical imprint, confirming the unmistakable sound of the band.
Latest news also from the live front: on April 25th Cultus Sanguine will be the headliner at the Unholy Dungeon Fest. vol 1 at the Slaughter Club in Paderno Mugnano. Again headliner at the Dust Once Alive Night on May 10th at the Alternative Music Club in Montenero di Bisaccia (CB).
The cult is alive and more news coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/JoeCultusSanguine
Polish
artist OLS returns with a deeply emotional and
sonically rich new single, "ŚWIATŁO III (LIGHT III)".
The track delves into themes of loss, the closure of life chapters and the
arduous search for new direction in a desolate world. This is the third
offering from Ols' upcoming album, “POŚWIATY”, set for release in
May 2025 via Pagan Records.
Watch the music video to “światło III”: https://youtu.be/mz7dPZVAiQ8?si=Yt49AMR2QDygcanZ
Also, listen to the song via all major streaming services.
"światło III" paints a poignant picture of being suddenly alone, grappling with a past that has irrevocably shut its doors. The lyrics, including the powerful lines "long lost summer / shed skin molt / but I go on / empty / to carry your flame further", explore the reliance on memories and fading ideals as the sole signposts in an unfamiliar existence. Ols describes the song as a journey through atmospheric post-black landscapes, where dark romanticism intertwines with ethereal qualities and the raw power of metal instrumentation.
Musically, "światło III" showcases a unique blend of influences. Ols incorporates her newfound appreciation for the accordion, an instrument she once considered "kitschy and vulgar", now finding its place alongside the metal elements, inspired by artists like Agalloch and legendary Polish band Lux Occulta. Departing from her typical smooth vocal harmonies, Ols opts for non-obvious intervals and subtle dissonances, creating a sense of underlying anxiety beneath the calm melody. Listeners may even detect a fleeting black metal screech lurking in the background, adding another layer of darkness to the song.
The release of "światło III" follows the previously unveiled singles "O niej" and "proch kość liść". The first single, "proch kość liść" (dust bone leaf) offered an initial glimpse into Ols' evolving sound. This was followed by "O niej" (translates to ‘About Her’ from Polish), a hypnotic track that marked a significant stylistic shift for Ols, moving away from her established neofolk sound towards a more urban and trip-hop influenced atmosphere. This evolution hints at the diverse sonic palette that will be present on the upcoming album - in contrast to previous albums such as "Pustkowia" and "Widma".
Thematically, the new album “Poświaty” will delve into the formative period between childhood and adulthood, exploring themes of personal mythology, the transformative power of love and the inevitable pain of loss.
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Olsproject
STRUCTURE – “HERITAGE”
Label: Ardua Music
Release date: april 25th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Officium Triste | Novembers Doom | October Tide | My Silent Wake
In the moments of silence, when we have slipped from rooms and the gaze and demands of others, we can wander through all that has been, hold the precious, present moment in our hands and weigh both our delights and despair with reasoned measure.
“Heritage is about family, history and all that makes us who we are. It is about loss, hope and all the emotions that fuel us on an everyday basis. It is a very personal album about what we become in life through our Heritage and experiences. The pictures on the artwork are from my personal family photo albums which I received after my grandfather died.” - Bram Bijlhout
Bram Bijlhout is Structure. Structure has provided the Dutch multi-instrumentalist, who spent seven years in the ranks of Officium Triste, with a framework for his creative energies since 2021. Bram’s former Officium Triste colleague, Pim Blankenstein, has contributed his powerful vocals to Structure since the beginning, with drummer Dirk Bruinenberg (Elegy) and additional vocalist Robert Soeterboek (Ayreon, Plan 9) also bringing their talents to bear on the incredible work that is Heritage…
Heritage begins with the stunning ‘Will I Deserve It’, the sound rising like a pale winter sun, its cold, grey light creeping slowly across a landscape wreathed in mist and rimed with frost. As the song begins to march across this chill vista it is immediately apparent that Structure are not just another doom/death metal band. There is beauty and doubt, hope and melancholy, even joy as a wonderful guitar solo takes flight. This is not a simple outpouring of despair – it is more nuanced, more complex…more real. While the crushing weight of grief is brought to bear in ‘What We Have Lost’, it is handled deftly and poignantly. The gentle touch of keys is heard behind the monolithic chords and desolate vocalisations; we experience the differing shades of sorrow, the intricacies of the emotional palette. Overblown gothic grandeur is cast aside for real feeling and dignity and the results are absolutely immense. ‘The Sadness Of Everyday Life’ captures the hours when the shadows are too deep and your back bows beneath the weight of accumulated sorrows, while the breadth and depth of ‘Heritage’ itself seems to work as a poetic consolation – acknowledging the dark times but insisting that they are but a part of something so much greater, that we are more than just the sum of our sadnesses. When all the towering riffs and heart lifting solos fall silent, when the masterful drumming and impassioned vocals have ended, as the final instrumental ‘Until The Last Gasp’ offers a summation of the journey experienced and a quiet defiance all its own, Heritage leaves you with a sense of completion, a lingering wonder and an understanding that there is beauty in the darkness as well as in the light.
Mastered by Dool bassist J.B. Van Der Wal (Celestial Sanctuary, Entrapment etc) Heritage possesses the perfect sound to highlight every emotive detail that is woven into its breathtaking songs. The weight of meaning in every note, word and beat is stunning. Adorned in photos from Bram’s personal family collection the sense of time, individual history and the entwining of internal and external life and influence speaks from the images. A truly special album, Heritage has found the most apt home with Ardua Music, whose reputation in the field of melodic, melancholic, heavyweight music is unparalleled. Ardua will unveil the splendour of Heritage on April 25th and no thoughtful heart or reflective soul will be left untouched, unmoved.
Line-up:
Bram Bijlhout - Guitars/Bass/Keyboards
Pim Blankenstein - Vocals
Dirk Bruinenberg - Drums
Robert Soeterboek - Additional Vocals
All music and lyrics written by Bram Bijlhout
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://structure-doom.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Structure.Doom
San
Franisco (CA) - American Tech-Death Juggernaut, OMINOUS RUIN,
have partnered with Metal Injection for the video premiere of "STARING
INTO THE ABYSM," the second single from forthcoming album, REQUIEM.
Just click the following link!
"Staring into the Abysm" will be available April 11 on all digital platforms.
Known for their intricate compositions and unrelenting sonic brutality, Ominous Ruin has returned with their highly anticipated nine-track album, Requiem. Willowtip Records will release Requiem May 9 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, "Seeds of Entropy. "
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/requiem-willowtip
https://bit.ly/requiem-bandcamp
Track Listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Seeds of Entropy
3 - Eternal
4 - Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 - Divergent Anomaly
6 - Fractal Abhorrence
7 - Architect of Undoing
8 - Staring into the Abysm
9 - Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/OminousRuin
Brazilian brutal death metal veterans OPHIOLATRY have officially signed with Wormholedeath Records and announced the release of their highly anticipated new album “SERPENT'S VERDICT”, set to drop on June 6, 2025. The band has also released a teaser for the album, giving fans their first glimpse into what promises to be a devastating release in extreme metal.
They
comment on the brutality:
“The album delves into themes of spiritual revenge, indigenous resistance, and the clash between ancient traditions and imposed beliefs. Inspired by real events in the Amazon, mythology, and existential suffering, the lyrics paint vivid scenes of war, punishment, and transcendence through pain. Each song tells a story, whether it be about warriors resurrected for revenge, the wrath of serpent gods, or the fall of oppressive ideologies. The words are raw, intense, and unrelenting, reflecting the chaotic brutality of the music itself.”
This signing marks a significant milestone for Ophiolatry, whose last full-length album “Transmutation” was released in 2008 through Forces of Satan Records/Regain Records. After a period of careful composition and development, the band returns with renewed purpose and vision, channeling the raw energy that established them as pioneers of South American extreme metal while evolving their distinctive sound. The album represents a departure from the relentless technicality of “Transmutation” while preserving the band's signature brutality and expanding their sonic palette.
The album functions as a sonic ritual—a brutal, immersive descent into cycles of destruction, revenge, and rebirth. Each track serves as a chapter in this narrative, combining aggressive riffs, guttural vocals, and tribal rhythms inspired by ancient warrior traditions. It is recommended for fans of Morbid Angel, Death, and Deicide.
Line up:
Diego Santiago (Bass)
Jaime Veron (Lead Vocals)
Jhorge "Dog" Duarte (Drums)
Fred Barros (Guitar)
www.youtube.com/@ophiolatryofficial2679
www.facebook.com/ophiolatry
My Kingdom Music is proud to announce the signing of VII VITIUM.Formed by talented actors of the Italian music scene [Daniele Laurenti (Kryuhm), Giampi Tomezzoli (Kryuhm, Epitaph) and Daniele Pedrollo (Kaylet)], the project aims to explore the world of sin by moving away from Christian teaching and offering a personal vision of the seven deadly sins by giving voice to their Demons.
Numerous guests have taken part in the creation of VII VITIUM, and therefore to the realization of the self-titled debut album that will be released next fall, not only as great performers but also contributing in a relevant way to the compositional aspect too.
The combination of highly personal elements has allowed the project to explore musical territories without barriers. It goes from our Dark Occult sound to the European Doom, from the Italian Progressive to the independent Rock, to end up in the Darkwave of the 80s. All of them have given their own interpretation to the fascinating theme of the project.
VII VITIUM are ready to welcome you into their sinful world.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/VIIVITIUM
"Horse Eater" will be available April 11 on all digital platforms.
Dormant Ordeal, are set to release Tooth and Nail, the band's first album for Willowtip and fourth overall, on April 18! The album will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats, and follows widely praised third album, The Grand Scheme of Things.
"We worked hard to make this fourth album happen," says guitarist Maciej Nieścioruk. "JNS Studio once again did a great job tuning in to our suggestions, while having the support of Willowtip gave us freedom to focus on creativity without being distracted. Stick around and have a listen once it's released, might be just what you're looking for."
Dormant Ordeal was formed in 2008. Their debut album It Rains, It Pours (2013), showcased the aggressive and energetic sound, while We Had It Coming (2016) refined their songwriting with thought-out structures and darker textures. Released in 2021, The Grand Scheme of Things was critically acclaimed for blending brutal precision with blackened influences and a thought-provoking lyrical approach. Over the years, known for their intense and atmospheric approach to the genre, the band has established itself as a impactful entity in the modern death metal scene.
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/dormant-ordeal.aspx
https://dormantordeal.bandcamp.com/album/tooth-and-nail
Track
Listing:
1. Wije i Mary, Pt. 1
2. Halo of Bones
3. Horse Eater
4. Orphans
5. Solvent
6. Dust Crown
7. Against the Dying of the Light
8. Everything That Isn't Silence Is Trivial
9. Wije i Mary, Pt. 2
Credits:
Music, lyrics and arrangements by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Drums arrangements by Chason Westmoreland and Maciej Nieścioruk.
All tracks except drums recorded by Paweł Grabowski at JNS Studio in Warsaw.
Drums played and recorded by Chason Westmoreland.
Guest vocals on "Solvent" by Dominic Nucciarone recorded by Samuel Dufour.
Artwork by See Machine.
Art direction by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Design by Michał “Xaay” Loranc and Maciej Nieścioruk.
Line-up:
Maciej Nieścioruk - Guitars
Maciej Proficz - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/dormant.ordeal/
EPITAPH pay homage to
their friend Mario "Vugan" Piemontese who recently passed
away with the release of the video for "SIZIGIA" from
their 2017 album "CLAWS". The video was shot in 2017 by
Mario Piemontese and, in memory of their dear friend, the band decided to
complete the project by making the video thanks to the editing by Mattia
Stancioiu.
You can view at: https://youtu.be/nyUq5jxsJhg
Also in preparation for the CHURCH OF CROW DOOM FESTIVAL III EDITION that will be held in Pinerolo on May 2nd and 3rd, EPITAPH will be joined by FELIPE PLAZA as a singer. Below is the comment of the artist of Chilean origin, frontman of Procession and Capilla Ardiente among others: ”It’s no secret i am obsessed with the italian dark sound and the doom and mysterious gloom of both Black Hole and Epitaph, who i proudly call ”my old friends”. A friendship more than sealed with blood, sweat, backpain and loud riffs on the ”Pacto de Sangre” tour we did together back in 2017.
This is why, when Mauro called some days ago and told me they didn’t have a singer for the next (and most unique) ”Church of Crow ” festival in Pinerolo next May 3rd I couldnt’t believe it…after years of hard work and they just released one of the best doom metal albums in ages, not fair!
So it was a natural decision, ”lucky” as they are I happen to be in Italy that exact same weekend! let’s gather all you nameless demons around and let’s make the spirited walls of Chiesa San Giuseppe tremble on a once-in-a-lifetime dark sound experience…
In times when history is ignored, we should be grateful that we still have Epitaph: The Ghost of the Past!”
In the meanwhile always available the last album "Path To Oblivion" on My Kingdom Music
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/epitaph.doom
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: may 9th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Vastum | Blood Incantation | Disma
Line-up:
Justin Vølus - Vocals
Ben Vanweelden – Guitar/Bass/Drums
By the invisible sea of secrets that laps silently about the foothills of Mons Ardeshir, they have heard. Far beyond the mountains of Mithrim, where the chroniclers of eternity write the many histories of Vulpecula in the blood of their broken fingers, they have heard. Doors have been opened and rifts have been traversed. The conjurers of chaos are blowing upon the horns of Ib and the malformed beasts of malfeasance who have slumbered in dreams aeons long are stirring. The stairways to the new world are open and the drums of destruction are calling; the fires of war are alight!
A new entity has crawled from the boiling swamps that lie in the deepest recesses of the death metal underworld. A force of terrifying alien power and chilling otherness that is about to bleed insidiously into our reality. Axiom Chaos have fused the devastating impact of death metal with the untameable capricious might of pandemonium and invoked the strange, compelling visions of Primacy Arrival! Beginning with the lurching monstrosity of ‘The King I Am’ that erupts into fetid, pustulent life, guitars howling over the deranged whispering of deformed divinities, Primacy Arrival proceeds to tear your reality to tattered shreds. Invoking fantastic atmospheres and radiating intimidating terror, this album transforms death metal into something unknowable and unnameable. In ‘The Gift Of Recognition’ the guitar leads seem to speak, uttering words from forbidden dimensions that make the skin crawl in fearful revulsion, while ‘Wormhold Pathways Of Conquest’ is simply inexorable. Primacy Arrival’s crowning glory however comes with its titanic conclusion – ‘Exodus Into Oblivion’. Shattering velocities entwine with spiralling guitar patterns and something majestic, almost beautiful emerges from the shadows as melodies unwind behind the monolithic sounds. Strange magic breaks through the song structure, an infiltration of madness to accompany this triumphal procession for a king from beyond, as our reality is consumed.
While the name of Axiom Chaos is a new one, those who march behind its banner are better known - Ben Vanweelden (Venomous Echoes, Ceremonic Buryment etc) and Justin Vølus (Vølus, Fall Of Gnosis, Maggot Crown etc) – and they are now united with the might of Comatose Music for the May 9th release of Primacy Arrival. Bedecked in the visionary artwork of Morket Art (Engulfed, Inverted Ascension etc) Primacy Arrival will challenge, disturb and dominate, opening new pathways for death metal as the story of Axiom Chaos begins.
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565089222317
For fans of : Chimaira, Conjurer, Deafheaven, Disembodied, Gaza, Old Man Gloom, Portrayal Of Guilt, and Zao.
Hailing from Muncie, Indiana, COCAINE CULTURE have been bringing their own brand of atmosphere, dread and energy to stages around the rust belt for a decade. Originating as an Alternative/Shoegaze band, COCAINE CULTURE slowly drifted into heavier and darker waters, blending elements of Black Metal, Death Metal and Sludge. Cocaine Culture unleashes ten tracks of crushing torment, anguish and aggression!
Listen to the single "RITUAL ABUSE" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuGUR5Gt0CM
Tracklisting:
1. Cerebral Decay
2. Ritual Abuse
3. Home Surgery
4. Lifeless Endeavor
5. Prelude
6. Flesh Vice
7. Resin Breath
8. King Of Somber
9. Death Knell
10. We Are Unwelcome Here (live)
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Speed-heavy metal powerhouse BREAKER is proud to present the lyric video for their explosive track "LIBERTY", taken from their self-titled debut EP, BREAKER, out now via Wormholedeath Records.
The track "Liberty" takes a powerful stance against the darker side of power and the distorted ideals used to justify violence and oppression. The song's unflinching lyrics critique the hypocrisy of using "liberation" as an excuse for tyranny, greed, and destruction. It explores themes of blind faith, corruption, and the devastating consequences of a society driven by false justifications. The new lyric video brings these intense themes to life, delivering an uncompromising message about the cost of liberty built on lies.
Stream the EP here: https://orcd.co/breakerep
Formed in 2023 by vocalist Terje Fiskvatn, guitarist Caleb Beal (Villain, Midnight Malice), and drummer Rider Johnson (former Razor), BREAKER quickly crafted their signature sound, blending high-octane metal with fierce energy. The band’s debut EP, Breaker, features tracks like Liberty and Babylon, written by Fiskvatn and expanded with the powerful contributions of Beal and Johnson.
www.youtube.com/@BreakerBandOfficial
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565187293442
Italy's DEADLY CARNAGE have signed to Willowtip Records! Over the course of two decades, the Post-Black Metal/Doom/Shoegaze quartet have continually evolved, culminately in 2023's release of the widely praised ENDLESS BLUE, an album Angry Metal Guy described as "beautiful, compelling, and unique, with a character of its own that brings its listener inside its world of contemplative melancholy and reverie." But the best is yet to come!
Deadly
Carnage continue to work on their Willowtip debut, a concept
album that promises to be their most ambitious yet! Here is what the band had
to say about it:
"After a long period of silence, the time has finally come to reveal something; for almost two years we have been working tirelessly on a new concept album whose foundations were created even before releasing Endless Blue.
This time we will go back in time to address a topic that is particularly close to our hearts; Witchcraft and Witch Hunts, which between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance fueled collective fears that led to the unjust accusation of countless innocent women and men. Our new concept album does not aim to analyze the historical or sociological facts of this phenomenon, but intends to tell an intimate story of loss and personal growth through the symbolism of Witchcraft; a story seen through the eyes of a female protagonist (rightly so) who will accompany us on her journey through the night and beyond the mists to reveal ancient practices and
lost knowledge.
Many years ago we mentioned our interest in these themes with our debut album, but now, on the threshold of twenty years of activity, it is time to close the circle; for us it's time to address this still extremely current topic. We still have a long way to go to release this new album, but every day we are giving our all to its realization. Soon we will reveal more details. We can't wait to tell this new story!"
Bio:
Deadly Carnage was born in 2005 from an idea of Adres (Bass) and Marco (Drums). After the first periods of militancy in the Italian Underground Black Metal scene, the band begins to turn its gaze towards more atmospheric, introspective and intimate sounds. Since 2008 Deadly Carnage have begun to contaminate their vision of Atmospheric Black Metal with Doom, Post-Rock and Post-Metal influences in a musical journey made of lights and shadows to create a crepuscular and evocative atmosphere.
Line-Up:
Alexios – Vocals, Guitars
Dave – Guitars
Adres – Bass
Marco – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/DeadlyCarnage
French
Melodic Death Doom one-man band WURMIAN proudly
presents the release of its highly anticipated debut album, "IMMEMORIAL
SHRINE", out now via Pest Records and available
here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wurmian-immemorial-shrine
For fans of: Katatonia, October Tide, Amorphis, Edge of Sanity, early In Flames
Crafted with painstaking care and emotional depth by multi-instrumentalist Antoine Scholtes, "Immemorial Shrine" is a brooding and immersive journey through sorrow, introspection, and existential desolation. The album's seven tracks channel the spirit of 90s Melodic Death Doom evoking the raw emotional weight of Katatonia, October Tide, and Edge of Sanity, while embracing a distinctly personal and contemporary vision.
Following the previously released singles "Aeon Afterglows" and "Where Crimson Shadows Dwell", the full album now unveils its complete sonic and lyrical narrative: a descent into forgotten memories, ancestral echoes, and the quiet majesty of grief. Melancholic melodies, cavernous growls, and crushing doom-laden riffs are interwoven with Scholtes' introspective lyricism and haunting atmospheres, making "Immemorial Shrine" a compelling listen for fans of both classic and modern Death Doom.
"Immemorial Shrine" is available now on CD via Pest Records featuring evocative artwork and packaging that complements the album's lyrical themes and sonic depth.
Enter the shrine. Let the echoes guide you.
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/wurmian.band/
SERPENT MASS RE-UNLEASHES PRIMITIVE BLACK METAL FILTH
From the darkest depths of Belgium emerges SERPENT MASS, a primitive and blasphemous black metal band worshipping analogue filth. With an uncompromising sound and relentless energy, SERPENT MASS channels pure darkness into sonic form.
Their latest release, Odious Gateways, marks a further descent into sonic barbarity, blending relentless aggression with suffocating atmospheres. Across five tracks, the band refines its uncompromising approach while remaining true to its primitive and chaotic essence. SERPENT MASS thrives in the filthiest corners of the Belgian underground.
The two demos are now available for the first time on vinyl thanks to De Pankraker, who has been a longtime supporter and was impressed by SERPENT MASS from the very beginning.
Thanks in advance. Cheers Peter / De Pankraker Records
https://serpentmass.bandcamp.com/
https://depankraker.be
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: may 2nd 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Judas Priest | Hellion | Burning Witches | Warlock
The seeds of Washington State metal band, Hangfire, were sown when guitarist Sean ‘Shredder’ Searls, noted for his work with Tyraels Ascension and hugely experienced bassist Steven Tobeck crossed paths on their local music scene. They started working together, the dream being to create a new band with a classic sound – powerful, melodic heavy metal with a thunderous rhythm section and soaring vocals, riffs that instantly connected with the metal heart and solos that gleamed with the irresistible fire of the greats. After two years they found powerhouse drummer Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Laird (The Braindead, For The Love Of Suffering etc) and a year later, the final magical piece of the puzzle – vocalist Jenea Fiore. And now it’s time to Burn!
Hangfire’s debut album, Burn, is an instant metal classic. The anticipation is there immediately as the atmospheric intro of first track, ‘Hunger’, begins…and when it explodes into life in an array of magnificent riffs then the fabulous adrenaline rush kicks in. Searl’s lead guitar work is electrifying and Jenea’s voice simply breathtaking, while Tobeck and Laird create a rock solid foundation, a stage for them to duel across. Every song is marked by incredible individual performances, but also by the accomplished writing and arrangements. The pure metal magnificence of ‘Thunder’, the epic Priest-like style and bite of ‘Warhawk’; it’s so refreshing to hear such dexterity and creativity channelled into original, melodic heavy metal and a band unafraid to stretch out into different territories confident in their vision and abilities. Jenea is simply one of the finest singers you’ll hear operating in this field. Her range and accuracy matched only by her breadth of expression and character. The aggressive swagger of ‘White Lie’ and the beautifully executed ballad, ‘Falling Awake’ really shine a spotlight on her remarkable talent. With an album of this quality every song plays an integral part, but special mention must be given to first single ‘Headspin’ which captures the true spirit of metal in its every moment, as well as the grit and groove of the Western tinged ‘Outlaw’. This is the beginning of something special.
Rottweiler Records were quick to welcome Hangfire into their pack, impressed by the band’s huge potential, great songs and enthralling live performances with the likes of Greyhawk and Witch Ripper. Together Rottweiler and Hangfire will unleash the power and passion of Burn on May 2nd so be ready, because you don’t want to miss this!
Line-up:
Jenea Fiore - Vocals
Sean ‘Shredder’ Searls - Guitar
Steven Tobeck - Bass
Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Laird - Drums
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://officialhangfireband.com/
The delay is due to unforeseen quality issues with the initial pressing. In a statement released by the labels, they explained their unwavering commitment to delivering a product that meets the high standards of dedicated record collectors.
Statement from the labels:
"Who are Rune Serpent Europa and Assur Anshar Records? Before being a label, we are criminal record collectors! This means that from the moment we founded the label, the quality of our products was paramount, above all else. For us, this is a sort of mission, not just a job! We relied on a well-known pressing plant, at least online given their advertising, but the quality of the vinyl received did not meet our standards as criminal record collectors at all! Therefore, we immediately cancelled the production of Prager Handgriff with them and turned to another company, which serves several giants of the record market.
“We have only announced this problem now because we wanted to reveal a precise date for the delivery and distribution of the record alongside the delay. We also apologise to our exclusive worldwide distributor, The Circle Music, for this initial misstep, with the promise that it will never happen again! Therefore, we can announce a confirmed distribution date, set for 25 April 2025! Finally, we apologise to all the many supporters of the band, asking them to be patient for a few weeks, with the final result of having a record in their hands worthy of Olympus! And all future productions will have the same standard! Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness for our inexperience, and merit, merit, merit for our dedication!"
Previously announced, the influential 1993 debut album “Arglistige Täuschung” from EBM pioneers Prager Handgriff was set to be released on vinyl for the very first time. This reissue will be available as a double coloured vinyl, limited to 300 copies in transparent red and 300 in transparent turquoise, and will include three bonus tracks. A limited wooden box edition, containing both vinyl formats and limited to 50 copies, is also available and is now almost sold out. Formed in 1990 in Witten, Germany by Stefan Schäfer (vocals) and Volker Rathmann (machines), Prager Handgriff are known for their dark and uncompromising approach to electronic body music. "Arglistige Täuschung", translating to "Deceptive Deception", is considered a masterpiece of the genre, blending haunting atmospheres, intricate sound design, and disturbing melodies.
Assur Anshar Records and Rune Serpent Europa assure fans that the slight delay will ensure a superior quality vinyl release worthy of Prager Handgriff's legacy. They thank fans for their patience and understanding.
The pre-order link remains active for those who wish to secure their copy: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=der-prager-handgriff
Tracklist:
“Arglistige Täuschung”
A1.Tibet 03:54
A2.Deutschland? 03:30
A3.Klaustrophobie 03:26
A4.Flucht 03:58
A5.Herbst 05:50
B1.Das Du 03:52
B2.Zivilisation 03:27
B3.Monsun 03:38
B4.Bilder Meiner Angst 04:30
B5.Großstadtliebe 04:59
C1.Baskerville 06:08
C2.Wahnsinn 02:46
C3.Schwermetall 03:58
C4.Tollwut 03:28
D1.Prag 02:57
D2.Herzschlag 03:06 (Bonus Track)
D3.Morgengrauen 05:38 (Bonus Track)
D4.Zäsur 04:09 (Bonus Track)
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Label: Masked Dead Records
Release date: may 9th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Post-Black/Doom Metal
For fans of: An Autumn For Crippled Children | Novembre | Katatonia | Lantlos
Line-up:
Matteo Balzarini – Guitar/Bass/Vocals
*Drums on Adrift performed by Alessandro Mori (Entirety etc)
*All music and lyrics by Matteo Balzarini
The waters carry me where they will. I have given myself up to the ever flowing tides of life, either staring into the fathomless depths of murk and shadow, or watching the beautiful world that flowers and flourishes on the banks as I am carried past. I see faces, hear voices that stir memories as the cycle of light to dark to light turns on around me, as eternal as the river itself. Memories of love and laughter, of tears and pain…joy, grief, contentment, desperation…but none of them enough to keep me from the water. I am borne onwards, ever nearer to the endless sea without a shore, a passive observer upon the waves; rudderless and helpless, separated, isolated, adrift and alone.
A year on from the alluring desolation of debut album, The Silence Of Rust, Matteo Balzarini has returned with a second offering from his atmospheric, emotive post black/doom creation, Marea. Adrift is a quietly remarkable EP, that while continuing the legacy of The Silence Of Rust very much follows its own path. The journey begins with the deeply melodic riffs, measured drums and harsh vocals of ‘Useless’, a song imbued with a sense of movement and space, yet carrying the immense weight of powerful emotions. Vast oceans of melancholy are traversed, but there are moments of bittersweetness, like sunlight briefly catching the crest of waves – while the deeps remain dark and untouched by the light. Beautiful acoustic guitar leads us into the light of ‘Rusted’, a soft cloud of dreams that is then fractured and dismantled by a tattered, torn vocal and intense guitar, the perceived positivity held tantalisingly out of reach, a happiness unattainable. Finally ‘Marea’ descends upon us with a wonderful lightness of touch, a peace summoned through an invocation of the movement of water – of streams, rivers, seas and oceans. There’s a sense of reflection upon a moment and upon a life, a feeling of acceptance and maybe even a harsh joy in the final vocal cries. Adrift is a journey through music and emotion, infused with accrued wisdom, whose affect upon the attentive listener is profound.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Carlo Meroni (Imago Mortis, Ancient, Kaiserreich etc) Adrift has been blessed with a sound that enhances all the rawness, subtlety and complexity of the emotions that it so successfully conveys. As for the album’s artwork and design, Matteo Balzarini approached artist Francesco Gemelli (Howls Of Ebb, Midnight Odyssey, Venomous Echoes etc) with a very specific brief… “a water-themed landscape that could express desolation, melancholy, but also beauty and poetry,with a graphic style that could resemble watercolour painting”…and suffice to say Gemelli has delivered the perfect visual accompaniment to Adrift. The EP will be released through Masked Dead Records on May 9th and will weave its entrancing spell across the world.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords
https://www.facebook.com/marea.rusted
Label: Road To Masochist
Release date: july 18th 2025
Genre: Blackened Post Metal
For fans of: Crippled Black Phoenix| Harakiri For The Sky | Inter Arma | Sgaile
Once an inferno of smoke, molten metal and flame, of poisoned waterways crawling sluggishly through slag heaps and waste, the air heavy with the stench of chemicals…every raindrop carrying soot within its heart. Its towers have toppled and its flaming maws grown cold, yet still it stands, a monument to blood and sweat and tears. A wound cut deep into the landscape and a scar upon the moor but surrounded by the windswept grasses and forests of oak. Snakes bathe on sun warmed rock amongst the heather, while the last furnaces roar in the valley below. A place of contrasts and complexities, of history and future dreams, the resilience of mankind and nature side by side. A cradle of stories…a home.
Ba’al were born in Sheffield, they grew and live amongst its inner city streets, in the shadows of its industrial past – but with the beauty of the Pennine hills just beyond its outskirts; one part of their hearts concrete and steel, one part moor and rill. This setting, this borderland between two states of being, this dichotomy of environments provides the stage for their second album, The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here. Drawing on their personal experiences the band have explored themes of grief, depression, suicide, substance abuse and existential dread; invoking the intensely human struggles that are played out against this backdrop of disparate elements and in every other place our troubled species has carved out a home.
The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here opens with ‘Mother’s Concrete Womb’ – a thing of beauty that emerges from enshrouding mist, a city slowly awakening…bursting into life. Furious black metal, shuddering riffs, peaks of intensity and emotion, melody drifting like soft rain, so many different elements and all so beautifully entwined, all vital to the gargantuan presence of this song. And that is the pattern that the album follows, with each track being an epic journey in its own right. Dreaming melodies bleed into sinuous riffs and caustic vocals shear through vast chord patterns, the tumbling rhythms of ‘Floral Cairn’, a cry for compassion and a more caring world, collapsing into the splintered visions of ‘Well Of Sorrows’ and the horns that bring such gravitas to ‘The Ocean That Fills A Wound’…there is so much! So much and all so deftly handled. The progression that Ba’al have made is breathtaking and this album is a watershed moment for them. Exhilarating, exhausting, elemental, emotionally draining and overflowing with too many moments of magic to mention, each song is immeasurably expansive - no matter the length of their individual durations, they seem to hold so much more than is possible. That this is Ba’al’s finest hour is an understatement of almost ludicrous proportions.
Recorded and mixed by Joe Clayton (Conjurer, Dawn Walker, Mountain Caller, Ithaca etc) and mastered by Brad Boatright (Kylesa, Vastum, Obituary, Night Demon etc), the same team that brought such a richly textured darkness to the last Ba’al release, the Soft Eyes EP, The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here sounds magnificent. This album deserves the perfect sound and that is exactly what it has been given. Adorned in the stunning artwork of True Spilt Milk Designs (Urne, Allfather, Ante-Inferno etc) The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here will be released on double gatefold vinyl and CD digipack on July 18th by Road To Masochist. This one is special.
Line-up:
Joe Stamps - Vocals
Richard Spencer - Bass
Nick Gosling – Guitar
Chris Mole - Guitar
Luke Rutter - Drums
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/baalbanduk
REJECT THE SICKNESS –“ SIGNS OF THE END”
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Eigen Beheer
Distribution: Sonic Rendezvous
For fans of : Heaven Shall Burn, Gojira, Eye Of The Enemy, Morbid Angel, Neaera, Deserted Fear and the like…
Tracklist:
01 The Messenger
02 Acta Non Verba
03 Dark Times
04 We Enslave Angels
05 Fall From Grace
06 When I Become You
07 Chaos vs. Chaos
08 Signs Of The End
Reject The Sickness: 15 years of unbridled aggression.
Since 2010, Belgian metal band Reject The Sickness has been storming the scene with a furious mix of rhythmic death metal, ruthless melodic aggression and atmospheric black, supplemented with a touch of metalcore.
Their music is more than just sound—it’s a journey through the dark realities of marginalized youth. They explore themes of abuse, neglect, and self-harm, bringing these raw emotions to life in their lyrics.
Although their lyrics are fictional, they carry the weight of real experiences.
Singer Guy, a social worker in addition to being a frontman, weaves his observations and insights into the lyrics, giving them an extra layer of intensity and authenticity.
2025 will be a milestone year: Reject The Sickness celebrates 15 years of pure power and unfiltered expression.
And to mark this milestone, they will release their latest album ‘Signs of the End’ worldwide on May 30th.
An album in which they push their boundaries, further sharpen their style and delve deeper into the human psyche.
Their lyrics cast a shadow over the mental struggles of neglected youth—their fear, hatred, and the gnawing desire for revenge.
But adult revenge proves to be an illusion, leaving them trapped in their own thoughts, locked in a battle with no way out.
Musically, the band continues to evolve: even more rhythmic, even more atmospheric, even more catchy.
Harder, rawer, and uncompromisingly melodic. Even the mysterious realm of atmospheric black metal is explored in a few songs
Reject The Sickness is unstoppable. In 2025, they take a bold step towards complete label independence—a conscious decision, because they believe they can do it better themselves now.
Line-Up:
Zoran Van Bellegem: guitar
Jannick Govaert: drums
Guy Vercruysse: vocals
Jonas Messiaen: bassguitar
Ruben Van der Beken: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/rejectthesickness
Hailing from the vibrant city of Liepāja, Overcast Rain is poised to make waves in the global metal scene once again with their highly anticipated third studio album, Black Death. Set for release on April 11, 2025, under the esteemed Brutal Records banner, this album promises to redefine the boundaries of dark metal with a sonic assault like no other.
A Legacy Forged in Darkness
Formed in 2014 by the visionary duo Mihails Maslovs (vocals/guitar) and Kolja Kirk (drums), Overcast Rain has emerged as a beacon of Latvia’s thriving metal scene. Over the past decade, the band has undergone remarkable evolution, marked by lineup transformations and sonic experimentation, solidifying their place as one of the genre’s most dynamic and innovative forces.
Their discography boasts two critically acclaimed albums:
Since You Die (July 11, 2020)
My God Hates Me (March 1, 2022)
These releases have earned the band significant accolades, with tracks like “All Hope Is Gone” breaking into the Destrokit Rock Chart Top 50 and securing spots on the prestigious European Metal Channel rankings. Recognized as cultural milestones, both albums are enshrined in the National Library of Latvia.
The Evolution of Overcast Rain
After a brief hiatus, Mihails Maslovs and Andris Aleksejevs reignited the band in 2018, channeling a renewed vision to craft a heavier, more aggressive sound. The addition of new members and the transition away from female vocals heralded a bold new era for Overcast Rain. This revamped lineup debuted with electrifying performances at Bunker13 Fest and clinched second place at the Fresh Blood competition, setting the stage for their meteoric rise.
Black Death: A New Chapter
Overcast Rain finished album Black Death, a collection of 13 tracks that includes both brand-new songs and remastered fan favorites. This ambitious release showcases their relentless drive to push the boundaries of dark metal and promises to be a landmark achievement in their career.
Tracklist:
Intro
Black Death
Satanic Slut
Rain
Nightmare
Shadows
Damned
Lost
Motherland
Helloween
White Snow (feat. Artyom Kuricyn - Yomi on Flute (mokshan lang)
War (remastered)
Winter Depression (remastered)
The Current Lineup
Mihails Maslovs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Marks Širokovs – Drums, Samples, Backing Vocals
Rudolf Vistiņš – Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Andris Aleksejevs – Lead Guitar
Leonidas Heidemanis – Lead Guitar
Aleksandrs Tiškevičs – Bass
A Storm Is Coming
As Overcast Rain gears up to release their heaviest single video yet, anticipation is reaching fever pitch. Under the Brutal Records banner, this dark metal powerhouse is ready to usher in a new era of dominance.
Stay tuned for updates—the storm is just beginning.
https://songwhip.com/overcastrain
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
Formed
2020 around the foundations that built the most powerful genres of extreme
metal, Empty Throne is a whirlwind of Black, Thrash and Death Metal fused into
a unique and refreshing formula. Old line-up featured Mike Smith on drums (ex
Suffocation etc) and Jack Owen on guitar (Cannibal Corpse, Deicide etc).
Now the line-up have Mike Pardi on guitar (Draconis, ex-Possessed), Gabe Seeber on drums (Kennedy Veil, Abbath etc.), Jason Ellsworth on bass (Angerot) and music/lyrics and band concept is made by vocalist CR Petit (Angerot).
In 2024 the band signs to the Swedish label Downfall Records to release debut full length album “Unholy”. The album contains six strong songs and +40 minutes of the best Darkened Death/Thrash-Metal. “Unholy” will be available on CD/LP+DIGITAL.
Line-up:
C.R. Petit (Angerot) – Vocals
Mike Pardi (ex-Possessed, Draconis) – Guitar
Jason Ellsworth (Angerot) – Bass
Gabe Seeber (Kennedy Veil, Black Crown Initiate, Abbath etc.) – Drums
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unholy
VOMITING BLASPHEMOUS AGONY... MURDER RECORDS is honored to present GOMOLD, a horde from the coldest caves of the Hungarian underworld, where their perverse melodies echoes in the eternal chaotic hatred from darkness...
GOMOLD was formed in 2024 and they presents us chaotic hymns from the occult arts of Black Metal, where we can be abruptly immersed in the abysses of infernal depths and where the Luciferian demons will make a filthy feast with our mortal flesh...
GOMOLD's debut demo is titled "DEMO-MMXXIV" where you can be swallowed by three hymns of impure agony, where perverse melodies vomited with blasphemous blood on the filthy altars of the profane ceremonies of death. GOMOLD's debut demo will be released soon on Cassette format by Murder Records with a edition limited to 50 hand-numbered copies...
Satanik Filthy On... Nasty Christianity Off...
RELEASE
DATE APRIL 4th 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
Demo Cassette
Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies
Tracklist:
01 - Örvénylő Sötétség [05:22]
02 - Zugló Démona [04:34]
03 - Fekete Mocsár [07:34]
All music composed by Crotalos and Lucius.
All lyrics written by Crotalos and Mandragoea.
Made in the Zvgloian Cave.
Recorded and mixed: Tas Balint Pataki and Attila Csihar.
Special Thanks to Daniel „Schleki” Schlekman, David Deak and Endrion.
Layout done by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
The Zvgloian Heretics:
Crotalos [Guitars]
Mandragora [Vocals]
Lucius [Drums]
Big Chris [Bass]
https://gomold.bandcamp.com/album/demo-mmxxiv-2?mc_cid=15701ec760&mc_eid=20155afc03
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
NEWS 4.4.2025
Wir denken und hoffen mal, dass die Nr.60 dann irgendwann Ende des Jahres in Sack und Tüten ist.
RIMMERSGARD
– “FLICKERING IN THE PAST”
RANZER - „LEIDKULTUR“
Die kanadische Power-Metal-Band LYCANTHRO hat ihre brandneue Single “THE GREAT MASQUERADE“ inklusive Musikvideo veröffentlicht. Auf dem Track ist Laura Guldemond, die stimmgewaltige Frontfrau der Schweizer Heavy-Metal-Titanen Burning Witches, mit ihrem unglaublichen Gesangstalent zu hören. Der elektrisierende Song ist die zweite Single aus Lycanthros mit Spannung erwartetem neuen Album “REMNANTS OF RAPTURE”, das am 23. Mai bei Psychomanteum Records erscheint.
“The Great Masquerade” ist ein episches Heavy-Metal-Duett, das das großartige dynamische Zusammenspiel zwischen Lycanthros charakteristischem Sound – einer energiegeladenen Fusion aus Power Metal, Thrash und traditionellem Heavy Metal – und Laura Guldemonds überzeugender stimmlicher Präsenz demonstriert. Der Song erzählt eine kraftvolle Geschichte und verwebt grandiose Melodien, donnernde Riffs und glühende Soli zu einer unvergesslichen Metal-Hymne.
Das dazugehörige Musikvideo fängt die Intensität und theatralische Essenz des Songs ein und erweckt die Lyrics mit einer visuell beeindruckenden Ästhetik zum Leben. Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Lycanthro und Guldemond ist ein aufregender Moment für Fans beider Bands, denn gemeinsam liefern sie einen Song, der sowohl wild als auch hymnisch ist.
Das Video zu "The Great Masquerade" gibt es hier: https://youtu.be/MjIe6sNjy20
Das neue Lycanthro-Album "Remnants of Rapture" erscheint am 23. Mai:
Trackliste
Iris
Far Beyond the Walls
Remnants of Rapture
Cry Silver
Prison Eyes
In Demon Light
The Great Masquerade
Night of the Parasite
Rain Queen
Lost Jerusalem (Instrumental)
Solaris (Memories in Time)
Über Lycanthro
Lycanthro ist eine enigmatische Power-Metal-Band aus Ottawa, Kanada. Ihre einzigartige Verschmelzung von Power, Thrash und traditionellem Metal liefert eine epische Klangwelt, die ebenso kühn wie unvergesslich ist. Inspiriert von Bands wie Savatage, W.A.S.P., Blind Guardian und anderen, jagen Lycanthro stolz in der Welt des wahren Metals. Ihre Musik ist eine Fantasie-Reise durch die Welt des klassischen Horrors, der Popkultur und der Mythologie, die uns durch Erzählungen über persönliche Kämpfe und frenetisches Siegesgeheul leitet.
Nach einer frühen Demo und einer EP präsentierten Lycanthros bereits auf ihrem von der Kritik gefeiertem Album “Mark of the Wolf” (2021) eindringlich kraftvolles Storytelling, dynamische Arrangements und sogar die Zusammenarbeit mit einem Kammerchor. Lycanthro haben schon auf Bühnen wie dem ‘Power Metal Quest Fest’ in Großbritannien oder beim ‘Legions of Metal’ in Chicago gespielt und laden nun ein weltweites Publikum ein, sich ihrem Rudel anzuschließen.
Nachdem sie sich dem US-amerikanischen Metal-Label Psychomanteum Records angeschlossen haben, werden die wolfsechten Metal-Outlander im Mai 2025 ihr sehnlichst erwartetes zweites Album “Remnants of Rapture” veröffentlichen. Darauf beweisen Lycanthro mit jeder Note, dass das Heulen niemals stirbt, die Jagd niemals endet und die Nacht niemals still ist. IN METAL WE TRUST!
http://www.psychomanteumrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Lycanthrokills/
Northern Irish atmospheric project DOMHAIN have unveiled the single “FOOTSTEPS” off their upcoming EP split with German dark folk trio EPHEMERAL. The two-song split EP "OF PINE AND OAK" will be released on 16th May via Italian label These Hands Melt.
The “Footsteps” music video was premiered via Side-Line Magazine and can be viewed here: https://www.side-line.com/domhain-and-ephemeral-to-launch-split-single-domains-video-for-footsteps-out-now/
Pre-order the EP via the record label’s webstore: https://lnk.to/EPDMN
The "Of Pine and Oak" EP sees Domhain and Ephemeral each
contribute one brand new track, both exploring vividly naturalistic, acoustic
soundscapes that evoke an extraordinary sense of quiet and ethereal melancholy.
Listeners can anticipate a unique blend of Domhain's signature emotional
intensity and Ephemeral's rich, immersive atmospheres.
Ephemeral shared their excitement, stating: “We couldn’t be happier about this collaboration with our dear label mates Domhain who share our passion for mythical, melancholic and meaningful music, lyrics and visual art. It’s been a great honour for us and an absolute pleasure to join forces for this special release!”
Domhain echoed this sentiment, commenting: “We are over the moon to share the news of our collaboration with our friends and wonderful musicians from Ephemeral. We are so proud to see these two tracks side by side on this EP, and we hope you will enjoy listening to them together as much as we do. “Of Pine and Oak” is an ode to nature, to our connection to it, and to the inspiration it may bring… which we think will resonate with many of you. A million thanks to our common label These Hands Melt for facilitating this split and for always being so encouraging and excited with our music.”
"Of Pine and Oak" will be available digitally and as a limited edition (200 copies) 12” single-sided colour vinyl.
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Domhain is a new project formed by four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene. Their sound is an emotional blend of post-black, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal. Their debut mini-album "Nimue", released in October 2023 by These Hands Melt, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial). Each of the three tracks on "Nimue" was accompanied by a conceptual music video created by the band’s drummer and visual director, Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan.
Ephemeral is a dark folk trio from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2019 by Ella Zlotos, Nikolaus Jira, and Patrick Maiwald. Their music creates a unique blend of melancholic folk with progressive elements, incorporating flutes, whistles, guitars, keyboard instruments, percussion, and strings, all topped with sung and spoken-word vocals. Their lyrics draw inspiration from English literature, exploring themes of longing, growth, transience, and new beginnings.
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
https://www.facebook.com/ephemeralneofolk
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
FIST EVANGELIST is the fourth single from the Finnish death
metal powerhouse INBORN TENDENCY'S upcoming debut album.
The fresh track offers a slightly different and groovier sound with hardcore influences. The lyrics deal with a change in conviction, from steadfastness to violence.
The band has previously announced that their debut album will be released sometime in 2025.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/inborntendency-fistevangelist
Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/-9yJDLP2pXc
Inborn Tendency:
Mika Hänninen, Guitar
Hugo Tiitinen, Drums
Ville Herranen, Vocals
Credits:
Mixing and Mastering: Juho Koskinen
Cover Art: Henri Tervapuro
http://www.inverse.fi
https://lnk.bio/Inborntendency
Finnish old school death metal band MESSIAH PARATROOPS, founded in 1989, have finally released their long-awaited debut album 'LEGIONS OF TOMORROW' on April 4th 2025 via Inverse Records. The album leaves no room for weakness. It features 9 tracks where rapid blast beats, brutal guitar riffs, and furious vocals combine to drag the listener into a raw Death Metal experience.
Listen to Legions of Tomorrow on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/messiah-paratroops-album
'Out of Reality' music video available here: https://youtu.be/L69lNB5tBp4
BIOGRAPHY:
The first shots of Messiah Paratroops were fired in 1989. Aku and Niku joined the already existing band Necrophiliac. However, we found out that there was a band with the same name in Brazil, so a name change was necessary. The official launch of Messiah Paratroops was carried out by Aku Oksala (vocals), Niku Oksala (bass), Pekka Laasanen
(drums), Janne Roima (guitar), and Mikko Vainikainen (guitar). At the time, our music was mostly thrash metal. In 1990, Mikko was replaced by Sami Jämsen on guitar, and in the same year, the first official demo Extreme Pain was released.Before this, we had recorded Rheumatoid (1989), Children of the Corn (1990), and the song Other Side in Studio Sound.
Our first official gig was at Nuorisokeskus 44 in Kuopio in 1990, and after that, more gigs started coming in. One particularly memorable gig was in Sulkava, where we played with Nuxvomica, Astenia, and Alennusmyynti. The gig was unforgettable in many ways, even so that one of our guitarists wasn’t allowed to play because of intoxication. Nevertheless, we managed to finish the show successfully.
The Extreme Pain demo sold well. With more experience gained from gigs and rehearsing in the trenches, we recorded the Lost Soul Domain demo in 1991. It sold out quickly and was well received worldwide. This led to the release of The Past EP through Seraphic Decay Records. Some copies of this rare release can still be found in various parts of the world.
Soon after, Pekka Laasanen left the band after a gig at Desperado Bar, and was replaced by Ilari Jäntti (Barathrum) on drums. In 1992, with this new lineup, we recorded The Other Gods demo. We also performed at Neulamäki Rock and the recycling center alongside Impaled Nazarene, Barathrum, and Mystification. After a few years of performing and creating new material, we recorded the Jesus Christ Cyberseed demo in 1994. This demo deviated slightly from our traditional death metal style, with lyrics focusing more on technology and sci-fi themes. After this, our war machines
went silent for nearly two decades...
In 2014, it was time to bring out the war arsenal again and start re-recording our old songs with the following lineup:
Sami Jämsen (guitar)
Janne Roima (guitar)
Tuomo Latvala (drums)
Niku Oksala (bass)
Aku Oksala (vocals)
We recorded The Breeding, Cyberseed, Lost Soul Domain, and To Be Left High and Dry, but these re-recorded versions were never released. This lineup performed two gigs: the first at Old Farts Rock in Henry’s Pub, Kuopio (2014) and the second at Finnish Death Metal Maniacs Festival in Pori (2017).
War takes its toll, and in 2017, the lineup changed once again. Sami, Janne, and Tuomo left the group, and we brought in:
Ville Vesterinen (guitar)
Antti Sinikangas (guitar)
Peachy (drums)
With Ville’s creative input, three new songs were written:
Evil Lives Among Us
Madness Incarnate
Murders of the Lake
Demo versions of these songs were recorded. This lineup managed to play a few gigs before more changes occurred. Ville left the group, and Jani Vartiainen took over on guitar. More new songs started emerging with the debut album in mind. We even managed to get to the studio to record, but the momentum began to fade...
Once again, it was time to open the tent flap and bring in new soldiers.
Pete Airaksinen joined on guitar.
Vilho Kananen joined on drums.
Jari Bäck took over as the main bassist alongside Niku Oksala.
With this lineup, new songs were written, and after years of effort, the recording of our debut album was finally completed at the end of 2023.
Our debut album "Legions of Tomorrow" will be released in April 2025.
Track
list:
1. Out of Reality
2. Rats in the Walls
3. Messiah Paratroops
4. Morbid Prayer
5. Repulsion
6. Bloodlust
7. Legions of Tomorrow
8. Murders of the Lake
9. Painful Sleep
Mixed and mastered by Jari "Tupi" Tuomainen
Cover art by Niko Anttila
Line-up:
Vocals - Aku Oksala
Guitars - Pete Airaksinen
Guitars - Jani Vartiainen
Drums - Vilho Kananen
Bass - Jari Bäck
http://www.inverse.fi
https://www.facebook.com/messiahparatroops
The official video realised by Chiara Ljós can be admired at https://youtu.be/y_sfPsUvKo0
With influences as diverse as CATHEDRAL, GOATSNAKE, TYPE O NEGATIVE, DANZIG, TIAMAT, AGANOOR moves from the Eternal City creating an oppressive Doom Metal wrapped in a gothic breeze, and blended with the retro tones of the rawest of Stoner Rock.
The song "Icarus", available as digital single too, represents the band's first output and shows from its first tunes the essence of their music that is claustrophobic and hypnotic, a Doom Metal characterized by massive, down-tuned riffs and psychedelic atmospheres.
Dan, Anth, Stephen and Alex welcome you to their heavy ritual.
Pre-order CD and LP at https://t.ly/h4Mmp
Tracklist:
1. Bury My Soul
2. Icarus
3. Nadir
4. Emerald Lake
5. Morbid Skin
6. Mind Shadowing
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/aganoorband
Wormholedeath Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Hungarian melodic black/death metal powerhouse MORS SILENS for the worldwide release of their upcoming full-length album, "INFERNAL LEGACY," set to unleash its infernal fury on May 9, 2025.
This partnership marks a pivotal moment for the band as they celebrate their 20th anniversary, continuing their legacy of delivering crushing riffs, haunting melodies, and thought-provoking themes that resonate with listeners across the globe.
"The band was founded in 2005, making this year our 20th anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, we couldn't be more excited about releasing our new album titled "Infernal Legacy"! The record will be released worldwide under the label WormHoleDeath."Stated the band.
Infernal Legacy: A Descent into Sonic Hell
This highly anticipated album delivers a profound sonic and lyrical exploration of mental and emotional states, showcasing Mors Silens' worldview and personal struggles. Comprising ten powerful tracks, "Infernal Legacy" delves into themes of social critique, emotional turmoil, and humanity's darker aspects. The album's title reflects the legacy left for future generations—a haunting reminder of suffering, destruction, and societal exclusion. With faster, more intense, and intricately crafted compositions, the band pushes their signature sound to new heights, hoping their message reaches audiences far and wide, inspiring reflection and change.
The album’s premiere track, "Nine Circles of Hell," serves as its crowning moment—a climactic conclusion that encapsulates the darkness, chaos, and resilience found throughout the record.
Tracklist
1. End of Eternity
2. Alastor
3 . Scorn
4 .Scarlet River
5. Chronicles of Devastation
6 . The Room
7 . Nine Circles of Hell
8 . Rise of the Dark One
9. Infernal Legacy
10. Obscurity of Oblivion
The Band’s Journey: From Underground to International Stages
Founded in 2005, Mors Silens has built a formidable reputation through relentless creativity and dedication:
2006: Debut demo Promising Redemption
2008: Second demo Doomed to Suffering
2014: EP Mors Certa, Hora Incerta, including videos for Black Pharaoh and Four Horsemen
2016: First full-length album Call of the Nether Realm, featuring Son of the Burning Sky and Collapse
2018: Sophomore album World of Pain, with The Brave and the Coward and Alone with My Demons
2019-2021: Overcame pandemic challenges to release Under the Dark Sun, featuring Buried Sorrow
Through lineup changes, international tours, and high-profile festival appearances alongside Fleshgod Apocalypse, Krisiun, and Kataklysm, the band has remained a pillar of Eastern Europe’s extreme metal scene.
www.youtube.com/MorsSilens
www.facebook.com/morssilens
We’re
proud to bring you the first vinyl edition for PÁSMO'S
mesmerizing debut self-titled album (originally released in spring 2024 on
cassette by the Czech label Vřesová Studánk), an unparalleled voyage
crafted through the mediums of dark post-punk and arcane heavy metal into the
remote landscapes and mystique of the fading ex-soviet Eastern Bloc.
Eight songs unraveling visions of soviet industrial ruins, abandoned factories, and dissolving concrete buildings scattered amongst the band’s native Moravian-Silesian region's wild nature, and consumed far beyond, eastward more into the relics of the old Soviet horizon reclaimed by nature and falling into dusty memory. An encompassing of Eastern European culture condensed into thirty five minutes of dark musical storytelling and spiritual reconnection to the "Zone" (or "Pásmo", in Czech). The epic crust punk of Amebix and Killing Joke's apocalyptic post-punk transposed into the crumbling atomic bunkers, abandoned mines, and industrial rusted ruins of the Eastern wilderness. The visions, sounds and legacy of Chernobyl and "Stalker" transfigured into shamanic mountain rock music. Echoes of Master's Hammer's occult heavy metal reverberating through abandoned factories, streams, valleys and waterfalls. Yugoslavian long-lost punk and metal, gipsy punk like VHK/Galloping Coroners, Belarusian dark post-punk like Molchat Doma and Russian melancholic new wave like Kino dissolving into a frenzied sonic continuum where infectious melodies celebrating a cherished birthplace are woven into a dark canvas of stark history and ominous memories from the past, embracing sinister presages from the present and future, coming once again into the Zone from beyond the Russian borders...
Pásmo's debut self-titled album will be officially released April 18 2025 on vinyl and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable and streamable in full via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases. Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/psmo-psmo
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/pasmo
Helsinki-based doom metal band DENIGRATE released their fourth full length album titled "TO THE GODDESS UNKNOWN" on November 29th 2024. In the beginning of March 2025 the founding member, guitarist and main composer of Denigrate Seppo Nummela passed away suddenly. Music video was filmed earlier and now it is finished and released to honor the memory of Seppo.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/h0MxKRh13WE
Denigrate's Singer Galzi tells about the Song and the music video:
"In The Light was one of the first compositions for the album "To The Goddess Unknown" -the last individual of the album release as a music video.
Also the song was the only one from the album that kept its' work name from the beginning until completion.
We wanted to make this a proper art-and-headbanging-video to underline the sheer joy of doing what we do. Huge thanks goes to Markus Saarela for capturing the moments.
Though the song tells about taking and giving nothing in return, there dwells a glimpse of hope for a change at the end.
This we will dedicate to the memory our key-member, the founder of Denigrate, Seppo Nummela. We'll keep carrying the torch, don't you worry brother!"
Tracklist
01. Crystal Rest
02. The Ethics of Loss
03. Under Ether
04. The Apparition of One
05. One who holds the balance
06. Sesame and Lilies
07. In the Light
08. Semidiapente
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Teemu Riekki - Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
www.facebook.com/denigrateCamp
https://www.instagram.com/denigrate_official/
French black-metal/hardcore/crust outfit DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE presents a vinyl reissue of their final album NOTES DU PARADIS / WHOOP WHOOP WHEE WHEE.
FFO
:
Catharsis ; Martyrdöd ; Converge ; pg.99 ; The Secret..
"From this magma of sound emerges a real musical personality, that of a totally schizophrenic doctor even sicker than his patients and ready to gut the listener"
17 years after its release through Overstage Imperator Productions, Notes Du Paradis / Whoop Whoop Whee Whee is the second and final album from the now-defunct French band Doctor Livingstone to be reissued in vinyl with the support of Coups de Couteau label. Known for mixing black metal, hardcore, and crust punk, Doctor Livingstone operated within a chaotic and abrasive space between genres, drawing comparisons to acts like Catharsis, Martyrdöd, Converge, pg.99, and The Secret.
Their music was intense, unpredictable, and relentlessly raw, making them a standout in the underground scene before the band eventually disbanded.
Recorded by Cédric Castel at the In The Box studio, Notes Du Paradis / Whoop Whoop Whee Whee is an experimental album that captures Doctor Livingstone's raw and unpredictable creative process, with twelve tracks—each presented in two different titles—blending abrasive textures, vulnerable moments, black metal, vocal distortion, and social commentary, all inspired by an eclectic mix of influences including Dada, the Marquis de Sade, Schopenhauer, and Cioran, and none of which were rehearsed prior to recording.
For its first ever vinyl pressing, the album has been carefully remastered by the renowned Bruno Varea, ensuring the album's sound remains as impactful and visceral as ever. The new artwork, designed by Maxime Taccardi, brings a fresh, yet faithful, interpretation to the album’s themes, offering a deeper visual dimension to match its sonic intensity which captures the essence of the music that influenced Doctor Livingstone’s early years. This is an album for those who appreciate the experimental, the unpredictable, and the boundary-pushing spirit of underground music.
Note that one of the band's distinctive features is its dark humor—the kind that makes you grit your teeth. While some bands tend to deliver a serious and straightforward message, Doctor Livingstone deliberately takes winding paths to create a sense of unease, always balancing on the edge between laughter and raw truth.
https://coupsdecouteau.bandcamp.com/merch
The band comments single:
"Sometimes when we face grief we bury it too deep for too long. The grief work remains unfinished or not done at all. We should learn to break the emotional dam before it is too late."
Listen to The Art of Grieving single: https://push.fm/fl/shadecrown-the-art
Biography:
The Finnish Shadecrown is a versatile melodic death metal band founded in Viitasaari in 2012, whose melancholic melodies and lyrics tell stories about the dark side of life. The band has released three full-length albums so far: Agonia 2016, Riven 2019, Solitarian 2021. The fourth album 0 will be released in 2025.
Track
list:
01. The Art of Grieving
02. In a State of Agony
03. Fragile Chapters
04. Gone
05. Zero
06. Under the Waves
07. Inadequate
08. Tear-blind
09. Repentance
Cover art by Saku Tammelin
Line-up:
Jari Hokka - Vocals
Joonas Vesamäki - Guitar
Tomi Tikka - Guitar
Saku Tammelin - Keyboards
Janne Salmelin - Bass & clean vocals
Kalle Varonen - Drums
Guest female vocals: Sheila Bernal
https://www.facebook.com/shadecrownband
FFO: Kreator, Children of Bodom
The official video for the album's first single, "Serrated Shadows," is available now at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9er9vxQnUk0
The single is available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Sacrament of the Sick is a monumental step forward from Executionist’s previous material. Improved production, performances, and writing have made the Executionist sound nearly unrecognizable compared to the band's debut EP, Destined for Destruction. Each track was meticulously crafted and poured over in Executionist’s home studio, and the final product shows that it was worth every ounce of attention. With a clear focus on melody and tighter songwriting, Sacrament of the Sick is a sonic journey sure to leave a lasting impact on the listener.
Pre-order:
https://executionist.bandcamp.com/album/sacrament-of-the-sick
Track Listing:
1. Ultionum
2. Edge of Annihilation
3. Wheels of War
4. Serrated Shadows
5. Divided We Stand... United We Fall
6. Thy Kingdom Come
7. Strange Aeons
8. Palace of Kings
9. Sacrament of the Sick
10. Coup de Grâce
Credits:
Music written by Brett & Tristan Ash
Lyrics written by Brett Ash
Vocals, guitar, bass - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Produced by Brett & Tristan Ash
Engineered & Mixed by Tristan Ash
Mastered by Colin Davis of Imperial Mastering
Album Artwork by Mitchell Nolte
Logo by ModBlackMoon & HermanTwo
Line-up:
Vocals/Guitar - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Bass - Austin Rose
Guitar - Mike Kinder
Bio:
Executionist was officially formed in 2021 by brothers Brett and Tristan Ash, who were 17 and 13 years old, respectively at the time. Their debut EP, Destined for Destruction, was released on January 27, 2021. Two years later, Executionist released "GENESIS 666" (March 2023).
After playing many shows together as a mere two-piece, Executionist finally added a bass player in 2024, in the form of Austin Rose. The three played more shows together before finally rounding out the lineup by adding Mike Kinder on guitar in March of 2025. Around the same time, Executionist announced the forthcoming release of their debut full-length album, Sacrament of the Sick. The lead single "Serrated Shadows," has already been released, with another single set to release on April 18. With the release of their album on the horizon, Executionist aims to play live as much as possible while writing
new music for their next project.
https://www.facebook.com/ExecutionistMetal/
Symphonic
blackened death metal duo RAWMOOR proudly unveils the lyric
video for "FORTH," a relentless descent into darkness,
taken from their forthcoming album EN ROUTE, DUE for release
on May 2, 2025, via Wormholedeath.
Prepare for total devastation. RawMoor unleashes Forth—a symphonic blackened death metal assault forged in defiance and drenched in wrath. This track drags you through a desolate wasteland of oppression, hypocrisy, and forced indoctrination, culminating in a rallying cry against the system.
Crushing riffs, ferocious vocals, and orchestral darkness collide to deliver a soul-shattering experience. Will you bow to the tyranny, or will you rise?
RawMoor: A Force in the Metal Underground
With an uncompromising vision, RawMoor merges haunting melodies, blistering riffs, and symphonic grandeur into an unrelenting storm of blackened death metal. Drawing inspiration from Dimmu Borgir, Agathodaimon, Windir, Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, and Finntroll, the duo carves out their own identity in the extreme metal underground.
Their upcoming album, En Route, cements their ability to balance brutality with elegance, setting them apart in an already savage genre. Guest soloist Renton (tracks 2, 3, 6) adds searing leads to the chaos, while Brim’s vocals deliver a dual assault of guttural brutality and spectral shrieks.
https://wormholedeath.com/
www.facebook.com/RawMoor
Features a diverse range of artists interpreting Laibach’s sound, including Prager Handgriff, Kirlian Camera .
To be released 21 May 2025 in limited edition vinyl, collector's edition CD and digital formats
Rune Serpent Europa, a label making a name for its unique blend of industrial, neofolk and medieval-inspired music, will release a reissue of the seminal tribute album, "Schlecht Und Ironisch - Laibach Tribut" on 21 May 2025.
Originally released in 1999, this updated version celebrates the enduring legacy of Laibach with a curated selection of classic tracks and exciting new contributions from a diverse range of artists. "Schlecht Und Ironisch - Laibach Tribut" showcases the band's profound influence on industrial and experimental music, inspiring a new generation of artists to explore the boundaries of sound and challenge the status quo.
It has been mastered to achieve optimal sound quality across all formats. This new reissue will be available in multiple formats, including a limited edition vinyl pressing with unique marble colours, a collector's edition CD with metal graphic elements and a digital release featuring exclusive bonus tracks.
It will be available in:
LP Marbled Black - Numbered Edition with sticker, Insert (limited to 250 copies)
LP Marbled Brown - Numbered Edition with sticker, Insert (limited to 250 copies)
CD Jewel Case + 8-page Booklet (limited to 800 copies)
CD (Special Edition), Jewell Case + Metal Artwork
LP (Test Pressing), 30 Copies + Metal Artwork
Bandcamp digital version
The album features a diverse range of artists interpreting Laibach's iconic sound, from industrial and EBM to dark ambient and neofolk, including Prager Handgriff, Kirlian Camera, Staat Und Organisation, DDR, Andrew King, Angels And Agony.
Laibach is a pioneering Slovenian industrial and experimental music group known for their provocative and often controversial approach to art and music. Their innovative sound and theatrical performances have earned them a cult following worldwide.
"Schlecht Und Ironisch - Laibach Tribut" is a testament to the enduring power of Laibach's music and a must-have for fans of industrial, experimental and avant-garde music.
Pre-orders: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=tribute-album
Rune Serpent Europa is a label that bridges the evocative worlds of industrial, neofolk and medieval-inspired music, establishing itself as a cornerstone for fans of atmospheric and avant-garde soundscapes. Complementing this artistic vision is its sub-label, Assur Anshar, which caters to the more energetic realms of electro and EBM (Electronic Body Music). Together, these entities form a hub for creative exploration, offering not just music but a total artistic experience.
Tracklist LP
A1 Regard Extrême - Vier Personen
A2 Apathetic Atrophy - We Are Forging the Future
A3 Anesthetik Pharma - F.I.A.T
A4 Knifeladder - Dogs Of War
A5 Kathodos White
B1 Andrew King - War Poem
B2 Staat Und Organisation - Cari Amici Soldati
B3 Prager Handgriff - Message From The Dark Star
B4 DDR - Der See
B5 Kirlian Camera - The Final Countdown (Laibach Suppe)
Tracklist CD
01 Regard Extrême - Vier Personen
02 Apathetic Atrophy - We Are Forging the Future
03 Anesthetik Pharma - F.I.A.T.
04 Knifeladder - Dogs Of War
05 Kathodos - White Law
06 Andrew King - War Poem
07 Staat Und Organisation - Cari Amici Soldati
08 Prager Handgriff - Message From The Dark Star
09 DDR - Der See
10 Kirlian Camera - The Final Countdown (Laibach Suppe)
11 Paolo F. Bragaglia - Mars
12 Discordance - Agnus Dei
13 Angels And Agony - God Is God
14 Northgate - Nova Akropola
15 Manipulation - Geburt Einer Nation
16 Runes Order - The Great Seal
17 Die Larm - God Is God
18 Naevus - Bloody Ground, Fertile Land
https://runeserpenteuropa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/runeserpenteuropa
Following
the recent unveiling of their latest single, "AEON AFTERGLOWS",
and the anticipation surrounding their debut album, French Melodic Death/Doom
entity WURMIAN now invites listeners to fully immerse
themselves in the depths of "IMMEMORIAL SHRINE".
Ahead of its official release on April 6th, 2024, "Immemorial Shrine" is now available for full streaming via Death Metal Promotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9deM6EcqlI
A deeply evocative journey through bleak soundscapes and mournful melodies, "Immemorial Shrine" conjures the spirit of early '90s Melodic Death/Doom while embracing a contemporary production approach. The album unfurls in seven immersive tracks, each exploring themes of existential dread, solitude, and the inexorable passage of time. Antoine Scholtes' masterful composition and multi-instrumental execution breathe life into WURMIAN’s vision, weaving icy harmonies with thunderous riffs and cavernous growls.
Taking inspiration from titans of melancholic extremity such as Katatonia, October Tide, Amorphis, and Edge of Sanity, WURMIAN forges a sound that is both reverential and forward-thinking. "Immemorial Shrine" is an album that resonates with sorrow and intensity in equal measure, offering a deeply introspective yet sonically crushing experience.
The album will see its official CD release via Pest Records on April 6th, 2024. Pre-orders are available now: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wurmian-immemorial-shrine
Let the shadows of "Immemorial Shrine" envelop you—listen now, and experience the weight of its haunting melodies and unrelenting darkness.
https://www.facebook.com/wurmian.band/
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
GRINDPAD - “VIOLENCE “ (re-release)
Format: Vinyl
Label: Iron Shield Records
For fans of : Slayer, Exodus, Madball, Anthrax, Municipal Waste and so on….
Tracklist:
01. My Name Is Violence
02. Burn the Rapist
03. Toxic Terror
04. The Knife Is Sharper than Ever
05. Justice Part 1: Crime
06. Justice Part 2: Punishment
07. Revuelta
08. Blood, Sweat and Pride
09. Mature Love
10. MK Ultra
11. To Those About to Die
12. Cephalopod Idolator(bonus track)
13. X-Mas Mosh(bonus track)
When Grindpad released their full album ‘Violence’ in 2020, it was meant to pave the way for the band.
With a strong release in hand, two big release shows planned in both Utrecht & Berlin, it was supposed to be their moment.
Sadly, Covid ruined everything; the lockdown started LITERALLY on their releasedate.
Fast forward, 2025. Violence is already 5 years old and Grindpad celebrates this with a re-release on vinyl!
Following the success of the EP ‘Sharkbite!’, Grindpad proves once again that they can not only improve but also create a full-length album packed with high energy, violence, and dare we say... fun thrash metal.
‘Violence’ is a masterpiece of up-tempo songs that make you want to fight the neighbours, but also features great mid-tempo thrashers that make you want to bang your head.
As the icing on the cake, this special vinyl release includes two exclusive bonus tracks that further highlight Grindpad's versatility and talent. Variety is, after all, the spice of thrash.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to get ‘Violence’ on vinyl and complete your collection. Prepare for a musical experience you won't soon forget!
GRINDPAD is:
JG – Guitar
Max - Drums
Axel - Guitar
Rik - Bass
Olivier – Vocals
Highlights for GRINDPAD
1 full length album released by Iron Shield Records and received very well by press & audience:
5 EP’s released by International labels and received very well by press & audience:
Dutch Metal Battle (2010, Winner)
Sharkbite (2017, independent – 2023 vinyl reissue, Iron Shield Records)
Violence (2020, Iron Shield Records – 2025 vinyl reissue, Iron Shield Records)
Finger Collector Crew (2023, Iron Shield Records)
https://www.grindpad.com/
Tracklist:
01. Spiral Through
02. Drowned
03. My Name is Your Name
04. Avichi
Now released song and music video "Drowned" is the second single from EP. The track fuses the raw intensity of black metal with the crushing melodies of melodic death metal and heavy, chugging riffs. Towards the end, hardcore and punk metal influences emerge, adding depth and dynamic contrast.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/6K5JAlMTL6c
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer): https://push.fm/fl/underwaterfather-drowned
The band tells about the song:
"What’s the song about? Well, cheerful topics like addiction, depression, and anxiety. In this story, the protagonist’s life slips out of control — like a bar of soap in a prison shower — until they ultimately decide to paint a picture… with their victim’s blood. The lyrics, penned by Samu Haatainen and Jere Harju, take the listener deep into the darkest corners of addiction, portraying its pain, destruction, and the extreme consequences that unfold when things spiral too far.
The track also features guest vocals by Jere Harju. "Drowned" is not only a stark depiction of addiction’s hopelessness but also a powerful collaboration, where Harju’s distinctive voice and lyrics bring an intense and haunting element to the song’s conclusion"
Biography:
Formed in the summer of 2024, Underwater Father was born from the vision of Samu Haatainen (guitars, vocals), who sought to create something darker and more stripped-down compared to their other band, Of Spite. Sharing most of its members with Of Spite, the lineup consists of Antti Lampinen (bass), Jan Lindberg (guitars, backing vocals), and Joonas Nieminen (drums) — a tight-knit unit with a shared passion for pushing metal’s boundaries.
Musically, Underwater Father weaves together the ferocity of black and death metal with the emotional depth of melodic metal. Drawing influences from bands like Mgła, Horna, Uada, Cradle of Filth on the extreme side and Sentenced, Bloodpit, and Somehow Jo! etc. On the melodic spectrum, the band creates music that is both crushing and atmospheric. Lyrically, their songs explore themes of birth, death, karma, and the search for meaning in life’s journey—both the light and the darkness that shape our fate.
https://www.facebook.com/underwaterfather
Genre
: Blackened
Heavy Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : April 30th 2025
FFO: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Bewitched, Morgul Blade, Nite, Black Magick SS.
Blackened Heavy Metal hex STREGA unveils its first spell: "Stryx Strega Strygae" drops three astonishing songs which seems to be summoned from a never existed old dark fantasy saga of a unique bewitching charm.
With members of Ponte Del Diavolo, Darkend and The Headless Ghost, "Stryx Strega Strygae" features a style mixing 80's Heavy Metal classics with the eerie voices of Black Metal and sinister, theatrical scenarios. Furthermore, all lyrics are in Arrakyan, the band's peculiar language.
The hex has been cast. Expose your soul the curse and get bewitched!
Sale points:
80's Heavy Metal classics + Black Metal vocals + theatrical keyboards;
Lyrics in Arrakyan, the band's peculiar language;
With members of Ponte del Diavolo (Season of Mist) and Darkend (Dark Essence);
Dark fantasy atmosphere and aesthetics;
For fans of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Bewitched, Morgul Blade, Nite, Black Magick SS.
Tracklist:
1) Stryx Strega Strygae;
2) Era Kuolemann
3) Til-Aar Hyleventïdar
Strega is:
Stryx - vocals
Ombra - guitars
Teschio - guitars
Spettro - bass
Incubo - drums
Il Diavolo Misterioso - organ & synth (guest)
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/strega.officialband
YHWH: Arcane Blackened
Death Metal unleashes "TETRAGRAMMATON" via
Wormholedeath
In a thunderous collision of Belgian and Thai extreme metal sensibilities, enigmatic blackened death metal project YHWH has inked a devastating deal with Wormholedeath, preparing to unleash their debut EP "Tetragrammaton" on April 25, 2025.
Check out the trailer of Tetragrammaton here : https://youtu.be/1zcvsJ76nO0
Forged in the shadowy depths of underground metal, YHWH emerges as a cryptic musical entity led by composer Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining their ritualistic sonic assault in June 2024. Their debut EP represents a raw, uncompromising exploration of extreme metal's most primal instincts.
Tracklist
1. Realm of Darkness
2. Majestic Hatred
3. Police Bastard
4. Burden of Flesh
"These tracks are eight years in the making," the band cryptically reveals. "No overarching concept—just a relentless progression of sonic brutality inspired by the most extreme metal pioneers."
"Tetragrammaton" promises to be an unfiltered descent into the most visceral realms of blackened death metal, drawing inspiration from the genre's most relentless predecessors.
https://www.facebook.com/WormHoleDeath
Serpent Corpse have come up with an all killer no filler release of their own which not only fortifies their thrashy death metal sound but also expands upon it, as is evident from the latter songs of the album, with the last one alone being over 9 minutes long! Listen to one of the tracks from this release at https://serpentcorpse-label.bandcamp.com/album/retaliate
SERPENT CORPSE – “RETALIATE”
Genre
: Death
Metal
After unleashing a superbly received full length album in "Blood Sabbath", Canadian death metal band Serpent Corpse have come up with a new release with strong focus on songwriting and which sees them take their steely, thrash-tinged sound ahead. The songs on "Retaliate" are fleshed out but never forced, showcasing their full expression with them being generally longer than usual. The shortest song on this EP is over five minutes while the longest song crosses the nine minute mark, which clearly indicates the band's progressive tendencies. Each of the songs are packed with riffs albeit meticulously and there are sublime progressions within them all. The raw energy is palpable and comparable to the bands from the late 80s/early 90s when death metal still intermingled with thrash metal elements and the sound kept mutating. It is exciting to see the sound evolve especially towards the end, where they attempt to break out of the mould to write music that is more experimental without losing the plot. Serpent Corpse have not only aced the test with their faultless rendering of classic sounding, thrashy death metal music but their ability to work on it to make it something more than what we've been accustomed to listening to all these years is quite frankly impressive.
Line up
Adam Breault - Guitar
Andrew Haddad - Vocals & Bass
Christian Lacroix - Guitar
Zachariah Su - Drums
Cover artwork by Lucas Korte / Shoggoth Kinetics
Track listing
1. Brazen Serpent
2. Iron Corpse
3. The Undying
4. Meteor Summon
Release date - June 27th, 2025
https://serpentcorpse.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Release
date :
02 May 2025
Genre : Progressive Symphonic Black Metal
Origin: International
Duration: 41min21
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
01. Empyreal Spindle
02. Legion Of The Moirai
03. Wrestling With The Gods
04. In The Throes Of Ascension
05. Arcane Creation
06. On A Starpath
07. The Sentinel
08. Supernal Light
09. Crowned
10. Q.E.D
Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions are delighted to announce the signing of KHÔRA!
Khôra is an international cosmic black/death metal band offering an atmospheric, sinister and orchestral journey. Initially a one-man band created in 2012 by Ole (ex-Autokrator) and author of a demo in 2016, the band took shape with the recruitment of Vasilis Kranos (Savaoth) on vocals and Lars E. Måløy (Dødheimsgard) on bass. The debut album “TIMAEUS” was released in 2020 (Soulseller Records).
Khôra returns in 2025 with a new album and a new line-up: Ole has surrounded himself with Frenchman Frédéric Gervais (Orakle, Cor Serpentii) on vocals, Swede Göran Setitus (ex-Setherial, Svartghast) on bass, and a new orchestrator in the person of Kjetil Ytterhus (Profane Burial, Haimad); he also includes other well-known guest artists from the metal scene: Rune 'Blasphemer' Eriksen (ex-Mayhem), Kristian Niemann (ex-Therion), Wolfgang Rothbauer (live Belphegor), André 'Cosmocrator' Søgnen (The Wretched End) and many more!
Mixed and mastered in France by Frédéric Gervais at Studio Henosis (In The Woods, Monolithe, Misanthrope, Pensées Nocturnes...)
https://www.facebook.com/KHORA.Official
The successor to “TIMAEUS” is called “ANANKE” and will be released on May 2025.
Pre-orders are now available: https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
It is with great pleasure that today we unveal the cover of NIHILI LOCUS album "SEMPER" out on June 20th. Created by the great Norwegian photographer Kjetil Karlsen , the pic fully represents the essence of their music made of soft lights, dark atmospheres and extreme sounds. Here is also the tracklist of "Semper" that will be released on vinyl, digipak CD and tape:
Tracklist
1. Lugubri Lai
2. Polvericellule
3. Pensieri Nebulosi
4. (Grida) La Notte Eterna
5. Incolore Aberrazione
6. Il Tuo Sangue Per I Miei Maiali
With "Semper" we will release "Nihil Morte Certium" that is the reprint for the first time on double vinyl of the band's entire discography including "Mors" never released in physical format and "Premature Exequie" the 1991 demo of the first NIHILI LOCUS' incarnation when their moniker was OMIDIDIO.
Both works have beed completely re-mastered in a spectacular way by Giuseppe "Buzz" Nicolò at Lost Soul Studio and feature covers created by the same Kjetil Karlsen
Last, but not least, a celebratory BOX titled "Ineffabilis Memoriae Regurgitatio" limited to only 75 copies, will be out on the same day. It will include all the already mentioned new and old stuff, plus exclusive merchandise. The cover of the BOX has been realized by the talented Italian photographer Rossella Nikita Berton.
NIHILI LOCUS, a name, a cult, the history of Italian Extreme Music.
Pre-order now: https://t.ly/VLgvZ
NIHILI LOCUS come from Turin area and were born from the band OMICIDIO, formed in 1989, with Massimo Currò (bs), Mauro Veronese (gt), Bruno Blasi (v) and Roberto Ripollino (dr).
After the recordings of the demo "Premature Exequie" in 1991, the band change their name in NIHILI LOCUS and in 1992 Valeria De Benedictis (gt) joined the group who released quite soon the 7"EP "Sub Hyerosolima..." distributed by Obscure Plasma Records. In 1994 they released the concept tape "...Advesperascit..." which led them to have their first official contract with Boundless Recs, for the release of the MCD "...Ad Nihilum Recidunt Omnia" in 1996 recorded with keyboardist Simone Fanciotto.
In the years to come the group's activity was very unstable, until 2009 when they found themselves in an essential formation with the original members Massimo Currò (bs), Mauro Veronese (gt), and Roberto Ripollino (dr). With this line-up, it was recorded "Mors" only available for free download online. In the following years, Terror From Hell released a collection of all the recordings up to 1996 on CD.
The last years has served the band to concentrate on the conception, creation and recordings of the new album "Semper", the release that will finally allow the band to reap the fruits of a career always characterized by a melancholic pathos embodied in a dark sonorous extremism.
"Semper", along with the reissue and celebratory box, is scheduled for June 20th 2025, all on My Kingdom Music.
Releases (June 20th, 2025):
"SEMPER" [digipakCD, LP, Tape]
"NIHIL MORTE CERTIUM" [Gatefold 2 LP]
"INEFFABILIS MEMORIAE REGURGITATIO" [BOX with "Semper" in digipakCD, LP, tape; "Nihil Morte Certium" in Gatefold 2 LP; OMICIDIO "Premature Exequie" LP + exclusive merch].
Line-up:
Bruno: vocals
Valla: guitars
Ale: guitars
Max: bass
Robi: drums, growls
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/nihililocus
NEWS 29.3.2025
MIRROR – „ HARVEST“ ( EP)
DART FROGGER – „ FUN GOTHIC“
VAYRON – “DEMO 2022” (TAPE)
FABULOUS DESASTER: veröffentlichen mit "COFFIN DWELLERS" erste Kostprobe vom kommenden Album!
Am 17. April erscheint mit "Crucify This!" das neue Album der Bonn Area Thrasher Fabulous Desaster! Bei einer Spielzeit von gut 45 Minuten erwarten euch 11 neue Tracks mit, wie schon auf den Vorgängeralben, schnellem und wütenden Speed-Thrash-Songs mit einem extrem hohen Energielevel. Auf „Crucify This!“ gibt sich die Band sogar noch etwas abwechslungsreicher als zuvor, und packt neben den typischen High-Speed Tracks auch komplexere Songs sowie eine Mid-Tempo-Dampfwalze aus. Mit "Coffin Dwellers" gibts jetzt eine erste Kostprobe auf dem MDD YouTube Kanal, der euch garantiert den Kopf abschraubt. Die finale Tracklist des Albums findet ihr anbei. Das Album wird außer als CD zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt auch als Vinyl Edition erscheinen. Check it out! Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSzzzLvl0bc
https://www.facebook.com/fabulousdesaster
https://www.facebook.com/MDDShop
Spanish/American Progressive Metal duo, DISSOCIA, featuring members of Persefone and Wormed, have release debut album, TO LIFT THE VEIL, on Willowtip Records!
The album is available on CD, vinyl LP, and digital formats.
Purchase/Stream:
https://bit.ly/veil-willowtip
https://bit.ly/veil-bandcamp
DISSOCIA enters the mind of multi-instrumentalist Daniel R. Flys (Persefone, Eternal Storm) as the sonic landscape between two realms: the conscious and the unconscious. With ferocious and convoluted riffs, dreamy synths, extreme and subtle clean vocals, we enter this in-between world backed by Gabriel Valcázar's (Wormed, Cancer) chaotic and groove drumming and Paul R. Flys' cinematic violin layers.
Mixed and mastered by the prestigious Ukrainian engineer Max Morton (Jinjer, Ignea, Shokran), To Lift The Veil is a concept album that serves as a metaphor for being a growing seed in an asphalted world. DISSOCIA makes an effort to blend extreme metal with synthwave and dreamwave elements to create a fine progressive blend that is catchy and yet unpredictable to the listener. Further developing this mood, the stunning and oneiric artwork created by Rein Van Oyen (Haken) captures the lights and shadows present on the dynamic songwriting and all the contrasts found on the duo's debut.
Track
Listing:
1. Existentialist
2. He Who Dwells
3. Samsara
4. Zenosyne
5. The Lucifer Effect
6. Evasion
7. Out of Slumber
Credits:
Daniel R. Flys - Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Synths
Gabriel Valcázar - Drums
Guest violins performed by Paul R. Flys (track 7).
Additional post-production by Max Morton and Alex Tena.
Written by Daniel R. Flys.
Produced by Daniel R. Flys.
Drums recorded by Carlos Santos at Sadman Studio.
Vocals recorded by Alex Tena.
Vocals and violins recorded by Carlos Rodríguez.
Mixed and mastered by Max Morton at Morton Studio.
Design and layout by Rein Van Oyen.
https://www.facebook.com/dissociaofficial
BODY
OF FILTH
release new video "HORSE INCINERATOR" showing off their
Arachnid Cabinets .
"Body of Filth is a Las Vegas-based beatdown/deathcore band unleashing a sonic onslaught of brutal riffs, punishing breakdowns, and unrelenting energy. Formed in 2021, the band has undergone a transformation through lineup changes, ultimately solidifying their current lineup: Joe Koos (guitar), Ryan Blas (guitar), Loren Means (bass), Michael "Fundip" Taylor (vocals), and Chuck Shumway (drums). United by a shared passion for heavy music and a desire to create a raw, unbridled sound, Body of Filth is poised to become a staple in the
metal scene. With their intense live performances and unapologetic lyrics, they're ready to leave their mark.
Follow them for updates on upcoming shows, new music, and a healthy dose of sonic chaos."
Body of Filth is:
Joe Beardcore Koos - Guitar
Ryan Blas - Guitar
Loren Means - Bass
Chuck Shumway - Drums
Fundip Taylor - Vocals
Video Credits:
Animus Den Productions
Valacis Media
Arachnid Cabinets
Best Regards, Robby Perry (Artist Management, Press) Viscera Disgust Media
https://www.linktr.ee/bodyoffilth
https://www.facebook.com/visceradisgustmedia/
Listen to Where Serenity Prevails EP: https://push.fm/fl/aitf-ep
The band comments:
"Where Serenity Prevails" is our debut EP about the destruction of humanity and the Earth after it. The EP features acoustic sections and clean vocals as well as distorted sections and harsh vocals, polyphonic vocal harmonies and shifting time signatures. Jazz influences and breakdowns that break the traditional moulds bring additional flavours. From start to finish, the EP has an immersive atmosphere that creates strong images. During the composition process, our biggest musical influences were Gojira, Alcest and especially Opeth. The story was inspired by Studio Ghibli films. We highly recommend this EP for fans of progressive death metal and post-metal as well as fans of the bands mentioned above. And for all those who like a rough and authentic production, the EP was recorded, mixed and mastered by the band."
Biography:
Ashes In The Fall is a Finnish progressive death metal/post-metal band. During the band's 6 years of existence it has gone through numerous changes in personnel, with the current roster consisting of:
Touko
Kaihola - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Samuel Routama - lead vocals, samples
Anton Valros - bass, backing vocals
Simon Valros - guitars
Jennifer Evans - keyboards, samples, backing vocals, percussion
The band takes influences from many different sources, with our biggest influences probably being Opeth, Mastodon, Insomnium, Ulver, Neurosis, Alcest and Gojira. We also take influences from music outside the metal genre, such as jazz, folk, progressive rock and hardcore punk to name a few.
After laying dormant for a long time, Ashes In The Fall have finally started to pick up their pace, with the EP “Where Serenity Prevails” being scheduled for release in this spring on Inverse Records. The EP’s lead single Dusk of Mankind will be released to the public on January 30th 2025. With the release of this new material, Ashes In The Fall will also be playing even more live shows, with an upcoming highlight in the band's career being a performance at Tuska on the KVLT stage in June 2025.
Single version 'Dusk of Mankind' available here: https://push.fm/fl/ashesinthefall-dusk
Track list:
1. Kodamas (02:14)
2. Seven Days of Fire (04:41)
3. Dusk of Mankind (11:07)
Cover art by Tella Kullenberg
Line-up:
Touko Kaihola - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Samuel Routama - lead vocals, samples
Anton Valros - bass, backing vocals
Simon Valros - guitars
Jennifer Evans - keyboards, samples, backing vocals, percussion
https://www.facebook.com/aitfband
Hello
Folks, with full anticipation we can announce that there will be a new release
from the cult Death/Grinders of DEPRESSION in
fall 2025 and we have the honor to release it!
You can expect a 35-years-jubilee Double-CD with many new songs as well as newly recorded and previously unreleased material, plus a cover song, a guest appearance and a really successful cover artwork!
More detailed information will follow. So look forward to it, we definitely will!
Your D.D.D. Team
www.defyingdanger.de/shop/
Italiens okkulte Heavy Rocker kehren mit ihrem vierten Album zurück!
Die italienischen Okkult-Hardrocker THE OSSUARY sind endlich zurück! Ihr lang erwartetes viertes Album Requiem for the Sun erscheint am 23. Mai 2025 über Supreme Chaos Records. Die Band liefert acht brandneue Tracks voller doomigem und psychedelischem Heavy Metal, tief verwurzelt in den 70er-Jahren und der dunklen Seite der NWOBHM.
Mit Requiem for the Sun erweitert die Band ihren einzigartigen Downer-Rock in spektralere und traumähnliche Gefilde und taucht tiefer in introspektive okkulte Themen ein. Dabei bleibt THE OSSUARY kompromisslos authentisch und bewahrt den rohen, ungefilterten Spirit, der sie auszeichnet. Von der unheilvollen Eröffnung "Sacrifice" bis zur finalen Klangexplosion "Eloise" entfaltet sich das Album wie eine cineastische Klanglandschaft – durchtränkt von donnernden Riffs, gespenstischen Melodien und geisterhaften Vocals.
Dreht die Lautstärke auf 11 und lasst euch in das rituelle Finale von Requiem for the Sun hineinziehen!
Bereits heute präsentiert die Band das eindrucksvolle Video zu „Far From The Tree“, das von Costin Chioreanu stammt, der bereits mit Jethro Tull, Diamond Head, Tribulation, Ghost und Carcassgearbeitet hat, ist das Video eine visuelle Reise durch psychedelische und düstere Traumwelten, die den introspektiven Charakter des Songs perfekt einfangen.
Hier geht´s zum Video: https://youtu.be/wS3H1AlTirk
Die Band bleibt ihrer musikalischen Signatur treu – inspiriert von Black Sabbath, The Doors und Mercyful Fate, verbindet "Far From The Tree" doomige Riffs, hypnotische Melodien und okkulte Atmosphäre.
Highlights:
Viertes Album der Band mit organischem Sound, teilweise live im Studio aufgenommen.
Eine der besten Live-Bands Italiens in diesem Genre!
Konzeptuelles Musikvideo zum Song "Far From The Tree" von Costin Chioreanu, der bereits für Jethro Tull, Diamond Head, Tribulation, Ghost, Mayhem, Carcass, Voivod und C.O.C. gearbeitet hat.
Einflüsse: Black Sabbath, The Beatles, The Doors, Captain Beyond, Screaming Trees, Mercyful Fate, Witchfinder General.
Das vierte Album "Requiem For The Sun" verspricht eine cineastische Klanglandschaft voller Donner-Riffs und geisterhaften Melodien – Heavy Rock in seiner mystischen Form!
Album-Preorder: https://supremechaos.de/artists/the-ossuary/
Album-Presave: https://save-it.cc/scr/ossuary-requiem-for-the-sun
Topeka, KS-based brutal death metal horde UNMERCIFUL is set to unleash their highly anticipated fourth album, DEVOURING DARKNESS. The album marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, Devouring Darkness is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
UNMERCIFUL has tapped extreme metal site Toilet Ov Hell for the exclusive premiere of the album's first single, "Infernal Conquering." A blistering ode to nuclear annihilation, "Infernal Conquering" embodies total annihilation.
Guitarist Clinton Applehanz comments on the song, “Fear consumes as the winds of mankind’s fire render all to dust. A nuclear bomb is almost as intense as this song!"
Stream
"Infernal Conquering" now at https://toiletovhell.com/premiere-unmerciful-infernal-conquering/
Devouring Darkness is set for release on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on May 23 via Willowtip Records.
Tracklist:
1. Miracle in Fire
2. Unnatural Ferocity
3. Malice Unbound
4. Devouring Darkness
5. Relentless Malevolence
6. Vomit you out*
7. Infernal Conquering
8. The Reaping
9. Voracious Lunacy
10. Vengeance Transcending
UNMERCIFUL has announced the first of many live assaults in support of Devouring Darkness. The band will host an album release show on June 20 at Warehouse on Broadway in Kansas City, MO, alongside Torn The Fuck Apart, Garoted, and Hossferatu.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is seeking a bassist for live performances and/or a permanent position. Serious inquiries only. Contact the band for details.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip/
www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
Entrusted takes the listener to the depths of the mind, driven by heavy riffs and deep-rooted vocals. It is the slowest and heaviest song in the band's output so far. The band's guitarist and composer Markus Heikkinen says the following about the song:
“Entrusted is the band's most melancholic, even oppressive song to date. Despite its anxiety, the song has become an important part of the band's story.”
“I see that the lyrics of the song have different meanings, depending on the listener. They can describe men who, without speaking to each other, watch an autumn campfire somewhere in the woods. The lyrics also have a melancholic side, which I think fits well with the heavy guitar sound of the song," continues the band's drummer and lyricist Timo Korkalainen.
Listen to Entrusted on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/northvoid-entrusted
Biography:
Forged in North Karelia in January 2020, Northvoid delivers a musical assault rooted in the melodic death metal of the 90’s. With a bond forged in childhood, our members now channel the raw, untamed energy of the past & present into every note.
Our music is a fusion of melodic heaviness and groove, inspired by the harsh environment and wilderness of the north. Experience the power and versatility of our music, which broadly covers different elements of metal music, guided by the attitude of the frost-bitten north. Northvoid isn't just music – it's a journey into the heart of coldness and wilderness.
Join us and feel the fury!
Listen
to the first single Wilderness: https://push.fm/fl/northvoid-wilderness
Track list:
1. Northern Breeze
2. Wilderness
3. Sun & Moon
4. Entrusted
5. The Ember
Mix & Master: Heikki Marttila/Guru Studio, Joensuu
EP picture by Timo Korkalainen, cover artwork Markus Heikkinen
Line-up:
Markus Heikkinen: guitars
Timo Korkalainen: drums
Kimmo Timonen: vocals
Risto Aittola: bass
https://www.facebook.com/northvoid
Excerpt - "an avant-garde extravaganza of death, black, and prog metal, a remarkably elaborate, technically jaw-dropping, and highly idiosyncratic head-spinner of a high order"
FELGRAVE – “OTHERLIKE DARKNESSES”
Genre:
Avantgarde
Death/Black/Doom Metal
After dropping a well-received death/doom album five years back, Felgrave has crafted an ingenious album melding influences of doom, black and death metal in a way rarely done before. The one-man band has broken the mould and the music on this album flows in an intuitive, undulating, almost whimsical manner, touching upon several styles and effortlessly shape shifting through them all. The songs are between 12 to 18 minutes long and each one seems to tell a tale of its own. There is so much going on in each song that it demands repeated listens which isn't necessarily arduous because of the smooth transitions and the overall coherency. The sound is strangely all encompassing - there are acoustic passages with clean vocals as well as intense and complex parts that wouldn't be out of place on a technical death metal album. It's stuff like this which makes this album fascinating, and what makes it come alive is the passion with which it is meticulously crafted - it seeps through the music and elevates it beyond the ostensible stringing together of disparate parts. 'Otherlike Darknesses' is multi-faceted and yet has a fairly cohesive sound with exceptional song writing; albums like these definitely don't come out too often.
Line up:
Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and programming by M. L. Jupe
Drums by Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse)
Mixed by M. L. Jupe
Mastered by Brendan Sloan (Convulsing)
Artwork by Adam Burke (Artificial Brain, Plasmodium)
Tracklisting:
1. Winds Batter My Keep
2. Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky
3. Otherlike Darknesses
Release date - April 25th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/felgrave.doom
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! FLESHSPOIL, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release full-length debut album, The Beginning of the End, March 28 on digital format!
Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his role in Arsis, where he played on acclaimed releases such as A Celebration of Guilt and A Diamond for Disease, and toured globally alongside heavyweights like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Cynic, Dying Fetus, Grave, Necrophagist, Napalm Death, and Six Feet Under. Dan Saltzman (bass), hailing from the Bay Area, whose impressive work has been showcased in Illucinus and The Hunt, as well as recent demonstration videos for ESP bass guitars.
Produced and mixed by Brett Portzer (Skinless, Author & Punisher, Arsis), The Beginning of the End consists of six tracks clocking in at 37 minutes. It is the creative vision of Andrews and Van Dyne, who recorded two albums and performed together alongside such notable bands as At The Gates, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sanctuary, Rivers of Nihil, Fates Warning, All That Remains, and many others with their previous band, The Final Sleep. The Beginning of the End additionally includes guest appearances by Kyle Chapman (Aethereus, Blighted Eye), John Judson (Rwake, Scott Kelly), and Petr Oplatka (Illucinus).
Pre-order The Beginning of the End:
Track
Listing:
1. Bleed Through This Life
2. Skies Turn To Graves
3. Fleshspoil
4. Walking Dead
5. A Frail Demise
6. Born Into Despair
Credits:
Guitar solo and additional chaos on “Bleed Through This Life” by Kyle Chapman of Aethereus and Blighted Eye.
Guitar solo on “Walking Dead” by Petr Oplatka of Illucinus.
Lap steel guitar on “Bleed Through This Life” and “Skies Turn To Graves” by John Judkins of Rwake.
Drum tracking engineered by Brett Portzer at White Lake Music & Post.
Guitar and vocal tracking engineered by Van Dyne/Andrews.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Brett Portzer.
Music and arrangements by Andrews/Van Dyne. Lyrics by Andrews.
Cover art: “L’Umana Fragilità” by Salvator Rosa (1656)
Line-up:
Mike Van Dyne - Drums
Jeff Andrews - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Saltzman - Bass
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
Watch a video visualizer to the “The Siren’s Choice” here https://youtu.be/FYLqj-pVDnc or
listen to the track via streaming services: https://bio.to/cots
The band commented: “‘The Siren’s Choice’ is a track we are particularly proud of. It has all the gloom-and-doom vibes that make us who we are, but also felt that we made a step forward when writing it. The playfulness of the guitar riffs with the samples was a pleasant surprise when we laid them together.”
This follows the release of a music video for the title track which premiered on The Obelisk and can be viewed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j49YCtl3j4 . The video serves as a powerful visual representation of the band's concept, contrasting the creations of man with the untamed instincts within us.
Formed in Athens in 2017, Church of the Sea have carved a distinct niche for themselves, balancing the crushing weight of doom with the ethereal beauty of dark electronic rock. Their signature sound blends fuzzed guitars, heavy distorted beats, and Irene's captivating, chant-like vocals, creating an atmosphere that is both heavy and dreamlike, with hints of shoegaze and noise-rock intensity.
“Eva,” the band's sophomore album, will be available on digital and CD formats, with a limited “sunburst” edition on vinyl.
The album was recorded at Suono Studios, engineered, produced, and mixed by Alex Bolpasis, and mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Mastering, continuing their established collaborative relationships from their debut EP “Anywhere but Desert” (2018) and debut album “Odalisque” (2022).
Throughout their career, Church of the Sea have graced the stages of numerous festivals and shared the bill with notable acts such as Antimatter, The Murder Capital, Messa, and Dool, including two sold-out performances at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Athens.
Ahead of the album’s release, Church of the Sea will perform as special guests to Wolvennest and ΛΑΜΔΑ on 22 March at AN Club in Athens, Greece.
Church of the Sea are:
Irene – Vocals
Vangelis – Guitars
Alex – Synths and samples
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Wormholedeath is thrilled to announce the signing of RICKERT G, a visionary melodic death metal artist hailing from Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Rickert G has inked a deal with Wormholedeath for the release of his debut album, ENDLESS THOUGHTS, which is slated to drop on April 11, 2025.
Rickert G’s journey is forged in the fires of creativity, defiance, and pure passion for the art of heavy music. A student of titans like Therion, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, and Pantera, Rickert carved his path through formal training in musical composition at UMICH’s Facultad Popular de Bellas Artes before diving deeper into music production and film scoring in some of Mexico’s top institutions. The result? A melodic death metal project that fuses technical prowess with raw emotional storytelling.
Rickert
G Speaks Out
“The signing with Wormholedeath has been an extraordinary surprise, marking a new chapter in my life and offering the opportunity to engage in what was once my dream: the professional world of metal music! The suddenness of it all has taken me by surprise, making me reflect on how things have been, the life I have lived, and how it can be from now on. It revitalizes me, helping me reconcile with the past and embrace the present opportunity to build a beautiful future. I am grateful to the entire WHD team for their interest in my music, their communication, and their patience. Let’s keep forging metal!”
Unveiling the Darkness of Endless Thoughts
Endless Thoughts is more than an album—it’s an intense, cathartic exploration of trauma and resilience. Born from the emotional aftermath of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by psychopathic abuse, the album delves into the harrowing depths of psychological and sexual abuse. Across eight evocative tracks, Rickert G narrates a descent into decadence, with each song representing a mental state or pivotal situation of the protagonist.
This conceptual masterpiece aims to engage listeners on a deeper level, offering not just entertainment but a visceral artistic statement of honesty and resistance. From its sonic architecture to its lyrical storytelling, Endless Thoughts draws listeners into a poignant journey of reflection and imagination.
Musically, Rickert G’s sound is a seamless fusion of melodic death metal influences, recalling the brilliance of bands like Hypocrisy, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity, Opeth, At the Gates, and In Flames. Yet, it’s uniquely his own—a testament to his multifaceted musical background and his ability to weave intricate emotions into compelling compositions.
Tracklist
01. The Journey
02. Farewell
03. The Mass of the Dead
04. Hypocrite
05. Coming Home
06. Singularity
07. Endless Thoughts
08. The End of Sanity
www.youtube.com/@rickertgvt
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Polish
black metal titans FURIA will take part in a unique
project on 5th and 6th April at Kinoteatr Rialto for the 25th anniversary of
the Silesian Film Archive in Katowice, Poland. Furia will play its songs
accompanied by unique materials from the only regional film archive in the country.
The band has chosen archival films, which show, among other things, how the Silesian region was created and developed, how the legendary Spodek in Katowice was built, how life changed in Silesian cities and towns. We will also see artistic impressions inspired by the industrial landscape of the region or local crafts; recorded on film tapes, full of nostalgia, images of ordinary life: everyday activities that our grandparents, parents or ourselves engaged in years ago.
During this anniversary concert, we will see materials from the Silesian Film Archive, which Furia will illustrate with compositions from its albums, transferring the images of old Silesia to a completely different, surprising and hypnotising dimension.
Furia is one of the most original Polish black metal bands. The band was formed in 2003 in Katowice by vocalist and guitarist Michał “Nihil” Kuźniak. The band also includes Kamil “Sars” Staszałek (bass), Grzegorz “Namtar” Kantor (drums) and Artur Rumiński (guitar, since 2013). Furia has several album releases under its belt, performances in Japan, Romania, UK, at OFF Festival and at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, among others; a nomination for the “Polityka” Passport and cooperation with Jan Klata and the Krakow Stary Theatre on the adaptation of Stanisław Wyspiański’s “Wesele”. An important source of inspiration for the Katowice band is the tradition, culture and art of Upper Silesia: its mythological universe, to which they willingly and often refer in their work (e.g. “Guido”, “W Śnialni”).
The Silesian Film Archive was established 25 years ago in Katowice and is run by the Silesia Film Institute. It is the first and only regional film archive on the cultural map of Poland. Located in the basement of the Kosmos Cinema in Katowice, the Film Archive is mysterious because the relatively little-known space is filled with traces of film history. There you will find stills, posters, scripts, press clippings and over 10,000 film copies. Above all, thousands of old film material (including 8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm tapes), especially those related to the subject of Upper Silesia. The Film Archive carries out its mission by collecting, storing, restoring, digitising and making available old film materials.
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https://silesiafilm.com/
NERVOUS - "ACQUIESCENCE"
Everything about Acquiescence has been shaped by Ciesielski’s hands, from the songwriting and production to mixing, mastering, and artwork. This album is a true reflection of his vision—an uncompromising mix of black and death metal influences, intertwined with elements of classical music and progressive rock. The result is a dense, intense sound that pulls you in and holds you captive. Acquiescence explores a journey of rebellion against one’s nature, confronting deep fears, and ultimately embracing harmony within oneself. The album is a reflection of Ciesielski’s personal experiences of growing up, entering adulthood, and accepting who he truly is.
Tracklist
1.Acquiescence
2. Heavy is the Head that Wears an Imaginary Crown
3. Vermin Within
4. The Will to Power
5. Fragile
6. It Didn't Start with You
7. Acquiescence II
8. River
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AKANTOPHIS – “ERNEUERUNG”
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: April 14, 2025
Format: Digital, LP, CD
Genre: Black Metal
FFO: Deathspell Omega, Ved Buens Ende, Bethlehem
Country: Germany
Akantophis, from Germany, present their new album, "Erneuerung", set to be released on April 14, 2025. The album features seven tracks with a total running time of 42 minutes, blending atmospheric intensity and aggression. Recorded live at Liquid Aether Audio and mastered under the direction of Mario Dahmen, the album captures an organic and dynamic feel.
The lyrics are primarily in German, adapted to the themes of each track and presented with more variety than before. Akantophis was founded in 1998 and secured their first underground success with "Galaria: Terra@Exitus" in 2001. After a break in 2004 for personal reasons, the band reunited in 2017 with a slightly revised lineup, releasing the 7-inch "Wiederkehr" as a turning point. In 2020, they followed up with "EXITUS XX" (MCD), closing the chapter on their older material and paving the way for this new release.
With "Erneuerung," Akantophis explore a broader sound while staying true to their roots, aiming to connect with a wider audience through this release.
Tracklist:
1. Spot
2. Lobotomie
3. Perforation
4. Renewal
5. Horizont aus Glas
6. # 9010
7. See Me
Line-up:
Andi – Vocals
Sebastian – Guitar
Lars – Bass
Micha – Drums
The recording, mixing and mastering took place at Liquid Aether Studio (near Cologne) in Nov- Dec 2023 under the direction of Mario Dahmen.
https://akantophis.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/akantophis/
The
wait is over. Today Cristina, with her creature OF THE MUSES,
opens the doors to her new album "UNDERHEAVENS— OF BLOOD,
GHOSTS AND SALTWATER", premiering the single "THE
IN-BETWEEN WAS A FEVER DREAM". The lyric video of the song
realized by Goffredo Passi / EstremArte Videoproduzioni is available at https://youtu.be/HMGO5GtAaVs
The song ushers us into a very vulnerable and personal universe full of pain, rage and passion, which, unlike on her debut "Senhal", is no longer conveyed through the extremism of screams, blastbeats and distortion, but rather through gripping emotional depth, both for how this is manifested in Art, music and words, and for the underlying concept (terminal illness, the loss of a loved one, life and death as a whole).
We are deeply proud of what is emerging and how this creature has been welcomed so far. "Underheavens— Of Blood, Ghosts and Saltwater" is a journey full of emotions and different nuances and will be released on April 25, 2025 by My Kingdom Music in LP, digipakCD, tape and digital format and you can pre-order it at: https://t.ly/QQNTv
For lovers of The Gathering, Mercury Rev, The 3rd and the Mortal, Garbage, Manic Street Preachers, Lush, Emma Ruth Rundle, a definitive must-have.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/ofthemuses
For fans of : Der Weg einer Freiheit, Deathspell Omega, Gaerea or Marduk
Check them out on YouTube and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRYoHOOffjg
Ten will be released on Malpermesita Records in March 28, 2025. This magnificent act of Black Metal features none other than Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted...) on drums, and it's a journey you won't want to miss.
An unconventional blend of violence, melancholy, horror, and melody that defines this deeply personal take on Black Metal.
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Pre-orders
are open now via the record label’s webstore: https://lnk.to/EPDMN
This special collaboration sees Domhain and Ephemeral each contribute one brand new track, both exploring vividly naturalistic, acoustic soundscapes that evoke an extraordinary sense of quiet and ethereal melancholy. Listeners can anticipate a unique blend of Domhain's signature emotional intensity and Ephemeral's rich, immersive atmospheres.
Ephemeral shared their excitement, stating: “We couldn’t be happier about this collaboration with our dear label mates Domhain who share our passion for mythical, melancholic and meaningful music, lyrics and visual art. It’s been a great honour for us and an absolute pleasure to join forces for this special release!”
Domhain echoed this sentiment, commenting: “We are over the moon to share the news of our collaboration with our friends and wonderful musicians from Ephemeral. We are so proud to see these two tracks side by side on this EP, and we hope you will enjoy listening to them together as much as we do. “Of Pine and Oak” is an ode to nature, to our connection to it, and to the inspiration it may bring… which we think will resonate with many of you. A million thanks to our common label These Hands Melt for facilitating this split and for always being so encouraging and excited with our music.”
"Of Pine and Oak" will be available digitally and as a limited edition (200 copies) 12” single-sided colour vinyl.
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Domhain is a new project formed by four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene. Their sound is an emotional blend of post-black, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal. Their debut mini-album "Nimue", released in October 2023 by These Hands Melt, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial). Each of the three tracks on "Nimue" was accompanied by a conceptual music video created by the band’s drummer and visual director, Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan.
Ephemeral is a dark folk trio from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2019 by Ella Zlotos, Nikolaus Jira, and Patrick Maiwald. Their music creates a unique blend of melancholic folk with progressive elements, incorporating flutes, whistles, guitars, keyboard instruments, percussion, and strings, all topped with sung and spoken-word vocals. Their lyrics draw inspiration from English literature, exploring themes of longing, growth, transience, and new beginnings.
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
https://ephemeral-band.de/
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Kraków (PL) - Polish Death Metal duo, DORMANT ORDEAL, in collaboration with No Clean Singing, have premiered "SOLVENT," the second single from forthcoming album, TOOTH AND NAIL.
Stream it the following link: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/03/18/an-ncs-premiere-dormant-ordeal-solvent/
Dormant Ordeal, are set to release Tooth and Nail, the band's first album for Willowtip and fourth overall, on April 18! The album will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats, and follows widely praised third album, The Grand Scheme of Things.
"We worked hard to make this fourth album happen," says guitarist Maciej Nieścioruk. "JNS Studio once again did a great job tuning in to our suggestions, while having the support of Willowtip gave us freedom to focus on creativity without being distracted. Stick around and have a listen once it's released, might be just what you're looking for."
Dormant Ordeal was formed in 2008. Their debut album It Rains, It Pours (2013), showcased the aggressive and energetic sound, while We Had It Coming (2016) refined their songwriting with thought-out structures and darker textures. Released in 2021, The Grand Scheme of Things was critically acclaimed for blending brutal precision with blackened influences and a thought-provoking lyrical approach. Over the years, known for their intense and atmospheric approach to the genre, the band has established itself as a impactful entity in the modern death metal scene.
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/dormant-ordeal.aspx
https://dormantordeal.bandcamp.com/album/tooth-and-nail
Line-up:
Maciej Nieścioruk - Guitars
Maciej Proficz - Vocals
Track
Listing:
1. Wije i Mary, Pt. 1
2. Halo of Bones
3. Horse Eater
4. Orphans
5. Solvent
6. Dust Crown
7. Against the Dying of the Light
8. Everything That Isn't Silence Is Trivial
9. Wije i Mary, Pt. 2
Credits:
Music, lyrics and arrangements by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Drums arrangements by Chason Westmoreland and Maciej Nieścioruk.
All tracks except drums recorded by Paweł Grabowski at JNS Studio in Warsaw.
Drums played and recorded by Chason Westmoreland.
Guest vocals on "Solvent" by Dominic Nucciarone recorded by Samuel Dufour.
Artwork by See Machine.
Art direction by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Design by Michał “Xaay” Loranc and Maciej Nieścioruk.
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Label: Rottweiler Records/Independent Release
Release Date: March 22nd 2025
Genre: Heavy And Western
For fans of: ZZ Top | Johnny Cash | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 38 Special
It’s been ten years since The Comancheros started rolling along the blacktop highways, under the star dusted skies, carrying their hard rocking anthems and heartfelt ballads from the cities to the deserts, the forests to the sea. Bringing cowboys to the bars and broken hearted ghosts to their campfire, the years have passed in moments since their journey began back in 2015. Then suddenly there was a decade in that rearview mirror, stretching out behind them in miles and stories, drinks and songs…
To celebrate the first ten years of an adventure which shows no signs of reaching an end, The Comancheros have compiled an album of tracks that demonstrate the heart-on-the-sleeve emotion of their music; as diverse as life and as dark as the longest nights, as honest as tears and proud in their own skin…defiant, unbreakable, rebellious to the last breath. A Decade In The Mirror brings together songs never released before in a physical format, limited edition EPs whose CD runs have long since sold out, rarities from split cassette editions and live tracks that have never been made available before. Every aspect of The Comancheros’ spirit in all its raw grit and glory, from the dancing riffs and ZZ Top boogie of ‘Crazy As Hell’ to the melancholy reflection in the shadow of the gallows of ‘Don’t Forget My Name’, the gentle balladry of ‘I Stare At Trains’ to the smooth melodies, hard guitars and exuberance of ‘We Own The Night’. Perhaps what permeates all The Comancheros music more than anything else, all of A Decade In The Mirror from the laidback Americana of opener ‘The Day George Jones Died’ to the final whiskey salute of ‘If I Could Pick A Way To Go’ recorded live in Spain, is the untarnished honesty of expression that runs through it all like blood. Bringing together influences from southern rock, pure country and American folk ballads that stretch their roots deep into the past, The Comancheros have found their own definition of their unique sound – Heavy and Western – and that’s what you’ll find on A Decade In The Mirror.
On March 22nd Rottweiler Records will release the digital version of A Decade In The Mirror, while The Comancheros will be taking the traditional path, launching the album in CD format with a special show at The Basement in Nashville on the same day. Whichever format is right for you, just make sure you listen to A Decade In The Mirror and discover the sound of Heavy and Western, the sound of The Comancheros!
Line-up:
Tanner Jones - Vocals/Guitar
Jon Green - Vocals/Bass
R. Michael Cook- Drums
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/comancherosband
The
Circle Music has signed the influential Swedish melodic death metal
band, GATES OF ISHTAR. Revered as one of the genre's most
underrated acts, Gates of Ishtar are poised to triumphantly return with their
first new album in nearly three decades.
Formed in Luleå, Sweden, Gates of Ishtar burst onto the scene with their seminal 1996 debut album, "A Bloodred Path", which quickly cemented their place in the pantheon of melodic death metal. Two more critically acclaimed albums followed, "The Dawn of Flames" (1997) and "At Dusk and Forever" (1998), showcasing their signature blend of razor-sharp riffs, thunderous drums, and the unmistakable growls of vocalist Mikael Sandorf. Despite their early success and promising trajectory, the band went on hiatus, leaving a void in the metal scene that their dedicated fanbase keenly felt.
After a 17-year silence, the anticipation for a reunion grew, and while a planned comeback in 2015 was sadly derailed by the passing of drummer Oscar Karlsson, Gates of Ishtar finally resurrected in November 2023 with a powerful performance at House of Metal. The overwhelming response from fans at this show ignited the spark for new music, leading to the decision to record a new album.
The Circle Music is ecstatic to welcome Gates of Ishtar to their roster. "If there was a list of the most underrated bands in metal, Gates of Ishtar would hold a prominent place,” states the record label. “It's been almost 30 years since their legendary debut 'A Bloodred Path' appeared, and still remains in the pantheon of melodic death metal. Life often plays strange games. One thing is certain: Gates of Ishtar is owed a lot and they are coming back determined to claim it all, one by one. It is our great joy to be on this journey together! Stay tuned, the Gates are open again..."
Gates of Ishtar themselves are equally enthusiastic about this new chapter. "The gates are open once more!!! We are super excited to work together with Maria and The Circle Music to bring you our new album! It will be the first new release in almost 3 decades and we have put all our hearts and souls into this beast of an album," the band comments. "The process of writing this new material has been a joyful experience and it didn't take more than a minute to realise that we still had that magic flow between us all in the band. We can't wait to hear your response to it and hopefully we meet you all out there in 2026! Hail Inanna!"
Fans who have been eagerly awaiting new material will be thrilled to hear that Gates of Ishtar’s signature sound remains potent, delivering Swedish melodic death metal at its finest.
Adding to the significance of their return, Gates of Ishtar recently performed a devastating live show in their hometown of Luleå. This performance coincided with the 30th anniversary of their very first concert in the same location, marking a powerful full-circle moment for the band.
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https://www.facebook.com/gatesofishtarofficial
Bands like Byonoisegenerator are exceedingly rare. We've been waiting a long time for their new album and now it's finally here! They're mixing jazz with a pretty extreme and violent form of music and the result, quite frankly, is exhilarating. They'd like to call their music "jazzgrind". Check it out for yourselves. There are two official videos and another track which you can find in this email and you can also listen to them all on Bandcamp at https://byonoisegenerator-label.bandcamp.com/album/subnormal-dives
BYONOISEGENERATOR – „SUBNORMAL DIVES“
Genre
: Jazzgrind/Mathgrind
Byonoisegenerator are set to make a splash again after seven long years with a new album of what they'd like to call “jazzgrind” that sounds just as shocking and exhilarating as you would imagine. It's the kind of album that compels us to see things from a different perspective. While jazz influences and usage of a saxophone in extreme music has been witnessed before, it’s hardly ever done with a style of music this extreme and cathartic. The dedicated sax player infuses the violent music with jazzy parts that not only serve as a break from the cacophony but they also punctuate the music, enhance it, and elevate it from your regular grind or death metal band. The music is highly intricate, even technical, and despite the short length of the songs, it might require multiple listens for it to be fully deciphered and for the unsuspecting listeners to get its odd appeal. They've used the free-style spirit to concoct music that's outstanding and in the process have also ensured that it's more than something having temporary novelty value. At this point in their career, they've been able to masterfully meld the seemingly contradictory influences and have created songs that are more than just ideas, with each having their own identity and charm. It is clear that Byonoisegenerator are onto something special and they have the chops and attitude to pull off something as outrageous and irresistible as this.
Line up
Tim - Vox
Hal° - Guitar
M1t - Bass
Sh3la - Saxophone
NOx - Drums
Artwork by Dmitry Rogatnev
Track listing
1. Eb(D#)
2. IQ69Exaltations
3. NULL.state = PERMANENT; return VOID;
4. NoSuccessToday!
5. UVB-76
6. LoveChargedDiveBombs
7. I'mNot20Anymore (21Ne)
8. 4-HO-DMTNzambiKult
9. deBroglieNeverExisted
10. 5mgInspiredVibes
Release date - June 13th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/byonoisegenerator
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Carsten von ENTERA hat seine alte Death
Metal Band "CAEDES IN ABSOLOM" wieder aufleben lassen
Stahlsarg Song: https://caedesinabsolom.bandcamp.com/track/stahlsarg
Stahlsarg Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbUQvFtfOVo
Kirchenfolter Song: https://caedesinabsolom.bandcamp.com/track/kirchenfolter
Kirchenfolter Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7TDQnp9xXE
https://caedesinabsolom.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/CaedesInAbsolom/
CHONTARAZ – „PHANTOM OF REALITY“
Das
norwegisch/griechische Powerhouse CHONTARAZ ist wieder aus den
Untiefen seines höllischen Ursprungs (in Hell, Norwegen) aufgetaucht und
entfacht mit seiner lang erwarteten Rückkehr große Vorfreude bei Fans von
dunkler, dynamischer Musik. Ihr kommendes drittes Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ:
9. Mai 2025) entführt Hörer einmal mehr in das unverwechselbare Universum von
CHONTARAZ und bietet eine fesselnde Reise durch ihre modernen Klanglandschaften
und atmosphärischen Geschichten.
Das Album beschäftigt sich mit der Reise, sein wahres Ich zu akzeptieren sowie der damit einhergehenden Ablehnung jeder Art der Oberflächlichkeit; eins der Hauptthemen ist dabei Authentizität. CHONTARAZ kombinieren düsteren Modern Metal mit Industrial-Elementen und vereinen intensive Energie meisterhaft mit tiefgründigen lyrischen Erzählungen, wodurch “Phantom of Reality” bei Fans sowohl auf musikalischer als auch auf emotionaler Ebene Anklang findet.
Bei der gemeinsamen Arbeit in seinem Studio in Athen stimmte die Chemie zwischen den Musikern sofort und unbestreitbar, was Fotis (alias Narwhal) dazu veranlasste, sich CHONTARAZ in Vollzeit anzuschließen. Das Ergebnis? Eine bahnbrechende Metal-Kollaboration, die eine außergewöhnliche Verschmelzung von meisterhaftem Songwriting, erstklassigen Musikern und einer Weltklasse-Produktion darstellt – ein Album, das den modernen Metal neu definieren will.
Fotis Benardos doppelte Virtuosität als Produzent sowie Schlagzeuger hat die Soundlandschaft von “Phantom of Reality” geformt und liefert eine immersive, beeindruckende Klangwelt, die jeden Track aufwertet. All das wird nahtlos mit dem brillanten Songwriting von Ahkon (Herbjørn Anglen) und Chontaraz (Frode Kvarsnes) kombiniert, die gemeinsam alle Tracks geschrieben haben und Ahkons Gitarren- und Bass-Künste mit Chontaraz' fesselndem Gesang vereinen. Das Ergebnis ist eine klangliche Explosion: ein kraftvoller Mix aus düsterem, modernen Metal und Industrial-Komponenten, die nahtlos mit Fotis' Präzision und klanglicher Vision verschmelzen. Das Album hat einen Sound, der sowohl roh als auch raffiniert, brutal und fesselnd ist.
Weitere Features auf "Phantom of Reality":
Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) als Gastsänger bei "SCREAM" (Single-VÖ: 28. Februar 2025)
George Nerantzis, verantwortlich für Keys und Industrial Add-Ons bei allen Songs
Kjetil “DeadBit” Lindløkken an zusätzlichen Keys für "Spin The Wheel", "Prayer To The Masses" und "Dressed To Kill"
Noxaerias (Kostas Mexis) am Bass für Live-Auftritte und Musikvideos
Diese Vielzahl an Kollaborationen resultiert in einer Fusion aus erstklassigen Musikern, visionärem Songwriting und einer hervorragenden Produktion, die CHONTARAZ in neue Gefilde katapultiert. Mit Ahkon und Chontaraz, die durch ihr gemeinsames Songwriting die kreative Vision vorantreiben und Fotis Benardo, der den Sound und den Rhythmus prägt, ist dies Metal auf einem absoluten Höhepunkt.
Über CHONTARAZ
CHONTARAZ stammen ursprünglich aus Hell, Norwegen, und hatten 2015 eine kühne Vision: Musik zu machen, die sie wirklich lieben, frei von stilistischen Beschränkungen, und diese mit theatralischen Liveshows, unverkennbarem Make-up sowie fesselndem lyrischen Storytelling zu vermitteln.
Ihr Debütalbum “Rondamauh” ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem legendären Produzenten Daniel Bergstrand (bekannt für seine Arbeit mit In Flames, Meshuggah, Dimmu Borgir, Devin Townsend) entstanden und erhielt viel Lob von Schwergewichten wie dem Sweden Rock Magazine, dem Metal Observer und dem Scream Magazine. Außerdem wurde es von Quebec-Metal zum drittbesten internationalen Album des Jahres 2017 gewählt und von Thomas Youngblood von Kamelot persönlich empfohlen.
2019 stellten CHONTARAZ ihr zweites Album “Speed The Bullet” während 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, vor.
Das in Zusammenarbeit mit George Nerantzis produzierte Album erhielt hervorragende Kritiken und verhalf ihnen zu Tourneen mit Kultbands wie Sepultura und Soulfly sowie zu Auftritten im Vorprogramm von Kamelot und Cyhra.
Mit ihrem dritten Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025) haben sich CHONTARAZ endgültig in ein wahres norwegisch-griechisches Kraftpaket verwandelt, das die dunkle Rohheit des norwegischen Metal mit der technologischen Präzision und industriellen Intensität ihres neuesten Mitglieds und Produzenten Fotis Benardo verbindet.
Fotis (alias Narwhal), der für sein visionäres Schlagzeugspiel und seine Produktionsfähigkeiten bekannt ist, hat die Klanglandschaft der Band neu definiert und für einen mitreißenden, vernichtenden Sound gesorgt, der jeden Track aufwertet.
CHONTARAZ liefern damit aktuell einen wahrhaft einzigartigen Sound, der die Wildheit des Heavy Metal und die Intensität des Black Metal mit dem mechanischen Puls des Industrial und der Schärfe des Modern Metal vereint. Das Ergebnis ist eine Klangexplosion, die Grenzen verschiebt und eine musikalische Umgebung schafft, in der Chaos und Ordnung ein perfektes Gleichgewicht finden. Ein norwegisch-griechischer Metal-Juggernaut, der sich durch eine Mischung aus brutaler Kraft und melodischer Tiefe auszeichnet – mit massiven Riffs, überlagert von elektronischen Texturen und postapokalyptischen Atmosphären. CHONTARZ’ Musik füllt eine Lücke im heutigen Metal-Markt und wagt sich in dunkle Gefilde vor, die andere zu betreten zögern. Für CHONTARAZ geht es nicht nur darum, Musik zu spielen – sondern darum, ein eindringliches, immersives Erlebnis zu bieten.
Mit intensiven Vocals, krassen Gitarren und hypnotischen Rhythmen laden sie die Hörer in ihr Universum ein und schaffen einen Sound, der sowohl hart als auch tief emotional ist. “Phantom of Reality” ist nicht einfach nur ein Album; es ist eine musikalische Reise, bei der Rohheit auf Technologie, Leidenschaft auf Dunkelheit und Hoffnung auf Verzweiflung trifft.
Bereitet euch auf ein unvergleichliches Metal-Erlebnis vor. Auftritt CHONTARAZ – nicht nur eine Band, sondern eine Kraft, die bereit ist, den modernen Metal neu zu gestalten.
https://www.youtube.com/@chontarazofficial
https://chontaraz.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chontaraz?locale=de_DE
SWEEPING DEATH unterschreiben bei Unholy Fire Records .
Die Band aus Bayern und das Label aus dem Sauerland haben jüngst einen Deal über das nächste Album des Fünfer festgezurrt.
"DEVOTION TO THE ABSURD NIGHT" , so der Name des Machtwerks, wird noch dieses Frühjahr auf CD und Vinyl erscheinen. Zudem gibt es eine auf 20 Stück limitierte LP Box.
Stilistisch hat sich bei der Mischung aus klassischem Metal mit progressiven und thrashigen Einflüssen eher weniger getan. Doch obwohl die Songs wesentlich straighter geworden sind, lassen sie immer noch genug Platz für Details und verspielte Arrangements.
Die Band hat ihren Stil gefunden, weiß wo ihre Stärken liegen und spielt diese gnadenlos aus!
Als Label sind wir unfassbar stolz, dass wir Sweeping Death nicht nur als Freunde, sondern auch als Partner gewinnen konnten!
Aus der Ferne hatten wir, seit sie vor sechs Jahren auf dem heimischen Metal4Meinerzhagen Festival alles in Grund und Boden spielten, immer ein Auge Richtung Augsburg geworfen.
Was also lag näher, als endlich eine Zusammenarbeit einzugehen und eine Scheibe auf den Markt zu bringen, die den Underground garantiert zum Beben bringen wird?!
Sweeping Death sind:
Elias Witzigmann – Vocals
Markus Heilmeier – Guitars
Simon Bertl – Guitars, Backing Vocals
Martin Kauschinger – Bass
Tobias Kasper – Drums, Piano
Bisherigen Releases:
Die for Metal (Single 2016)
Astoria (EP 2017)
In Lucid (Full-length 2018)
Tristesse (EP 2021)
https://www.facebook.com/Unholyfire.Records
https://www.facebook.com/SweepingDeath
PIGHEAD: veröffentlichen zweite Video Single „DRENCHED IN PURULENCE“. Am 13.3.2025 veröffentlichen Pighead ihre zweite Single!
Drenched In Purulence haut dabei in eine andere Kerbe als die erste Single und ist ein gnadenloser Brutal Death Metal Song. Während Insidious Vows Of Spiritual Imposotors geradliniger nach vorne geht, ist Drenched In Purulence ein erbarmungsloses Gehacke, das trotzdem immer wieder die Kurve
kriegt um auf das Thema des Songs zurück zu kommen.
Man kann erahnen, dass die EP RELAPSE INTO ABSURDITY nicht nur brutal, sondern auch abwechslungsreich wird!
Visuell interpretiert wurde der Song wieder vom Sänger Emanuelle Oropesa und Kameramann Ramon Kubatzki und entstand Anfang Februar in Magdeburg. Dabei verlangte die Kälte in dem verlassenen
Video 1.Single: Insidious Vows Of Spiritual Impostors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gbt_6hzQE8
Video 2.Single: Drenched In Purulence https://youtu.be/IvrTieIYI0g?si=RjaeNDyj1NlCEbDr
Tracklist:
1. Convulsed In Decomposition
2. Vicious Cacophonic Chants
3. Relapse Into Absurdity
4. Drenched In Purulence
5. Insidious Vows Of Spiritual Impostors
6. Shattering Pulse Of Revulsion
Die EP RELAPSE INTO ABSURDITY erscheint am 4.4.2025 vie Rising Nemesis Records
Discography:
Demo – 2007
Demo – 2009
Cadaver Desecrator – 2010
Rotten Body Reanimation – 2012
Until All Flesh Decays – 2016
Relapse Into Absurdity – 2025
Line Up:
Guitar – Denny Hahnke
Drums – Ruben Schwarz
Vocal – Emanunel Oropesa
Bass – Lommer
Anlässlich des 50-jährigen Jubiläums der britischen Heavy-Metal-Ikonen IRON MAIDEN werden Fans diesen Herbst zusätzlich mit einem spannenden, offiziellen (noch unbetitelten) IRON MAIDEN-DOKUMENTARFILM beschert!
Die Dokumentation ist eine emotionale Reise durch die Geschichte von Iron Maiden, erzählt aus der Perspektive der Band sowie einiger ihrer treuesten Anhänger, mit exklusiven Interviews ehemaliger und aktueller Bandmitglieder, darunter das letzte Interview mit dem ursprünglichen Sänger Paul Di'Anno, der letztes Jahr leider verstorben ist. Freu dich auf nie zuvor gesehenes Filmmaterial und das ikonische Maskottchen Eddie, das natürlich nicht fehlen darf und durch spektakuläre Animationen zum Leben erweckt wird. Das wird definitiv ein Highlight, welches sich kein Maiden-Fan entgehen lassen sollte!
Die vollständige offizielle Pressemitteilung mit allen wichtigen Infos findest du hier:
https://www.ironmaiden.com/maiden-feature-documentary-announced-for-2025/
"CARRION LORD" is a dive into the dark and brutal, a relentless morphing display of new territories for OPHIDIAN MEMORY, as well as brief moments that hearken to previous stages of its sound. Contextually, it is a record that expands in-depth on the narrative aspect of Existence, with new characters, factions, and locations to build a world primed for fantasy and metal enjoyers alike. It is a product of passion that shows the growth of Ophidian Memory over the last three years and is but another bar to reach above for the next record.
Sonically, "Carrion Lord" captures the raw aggression and intricate melodies fans expect while showcasing a fearless exploration of new dimensions. This release solidifies Ophidian Memo
Tracklist
1. The Mausoleum
2. Hunger of Your Deceased Deity
3. A Jewel in Grocinia
4. Fleshbinding Ritual
5. Carrion Lord
6. The Murder on Warforged Soil
7. Hollowed
8. Sculptors of Seraphic Tributes
9. Kept from Dust
10. Bloodborne
Ophidian Memory, born from the creative mind of Blake Lamoureux, uses a foundation of melodic death metal while seamlessly blending subgenres like black metal, thrash, progressive metal, and metalcore. Each album unfolds tales set in a sprawling fictional universe, where beings of light and dark are locked in eternal conflict—plotting to destroy humanity, each other, and Existence itself.
https://ophidianmemory.bandcamp.com/
WURMIAN releases new single "AEON
AFTERGLOWS" — a deep dive into the melancholy of "IMMEMORIAL
SHRINE"
Following the recent announcement of their signing to Pest Records, French Melodic Death/Doom act WURMIAN has unveiled the second glimpse into its upcoming debut album, "Immemorial Shrine", with the release of the new single, "Aeon Afterglows": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9q5Rc-D3N8&list=PLuG35sX_XE5Yg8XP2T8Sxi3MFYkaaMTIU
Driven by icy melodies, thunderous riffs, and a deeply melancholic atmosphere, "Aeon Afterglows" is a deeply immersive track, combining mournful melodies and crushing heaviness with a poetic, introspective lyrical approach — a somber yet intense blend of early '90s Melodic Death/Doom influences and modern production sensibility. The track is a stirring reflection on isolation and inner decay, carried by Antoine Scholtes' evocative songwriting and multi-instrumental performance. Lyrically, "Aeon Afterglows" paints a dreamlike journey through solitude, ancestral memory, and the dissolution of time
Taking inspiration from revered names like Katatonia, October Tide, Amorphis, and Edge of Sanity, Wurmian channels the genre's most revered traditions while carving a distinct path into the present. "Aeon Afterglows" is both a love letter to the pioneers of melancholic extremity and a bold declaration of Wurmian's own voice.
The full album, "Immemorial Shrine", will be released on April 6th, 2024, on CD via Pest Records. It features seven evocative tracks that explore existential dread and solitude through lush melodic layers, cavernous growls, and powerful doom-laden passages.
Pre-order "Immemorial Shrine": https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wurmian-immemorial-shrine
Let the first echoes of sorrow draw you in — and prepare for the full descent when "Immemorial Shrine" arrives this April.
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/wurmian.band/
Avant-garde
black/death metal project NERVOUS is proud to unveil the
lyric video for their powerful new track, “HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS
AN IMAGINARY CROWN.” Taken from the highly anticipated album ACQUIESCENCE,
set for release on March 28, 2025, via Wormholedeath
The track serves as a fierce allegory for the mental battles we face—particularly themes of self-doubt, loss of control, and the haunting persistence of inner conflict. Through regal and wartime imagery, “Heavy is the Head that Wears an Imaginary Crown” casts the psyche as a kingdom under siege, where the ruler (the self) is caught in a fierce struggle against both internal demons and external pressures. The metaphorical “grey ooze” represents the suffocating force of depression and societal decay, relentlessly overtaking everything in its path
Pre-save "Acquiescence" here: https://orcd.co/acquiescence
Nervous, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Aaron Ciesielski, emerged from profound personal growth and self-discovery. Born amidst an existential crisis, "Acquiescence" is a concept album that chronicles this transformative journey, capturing the essence of rebellion, fear, and ultimately, the profound acceptance of self.
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A lyric video is available at https://youtu.be/9dpYFiaEl2k
The song is taken from "PRELUDE OF LOSS" out on March 21st, 2025 and you can Pre-Order it at: https://t.ly/BBFUp
With the new album they accentuates their decadent soul, enriching it with new shades with an always gloomy tone, able to carry the listener into a musical universe made of sad atmospheres and obscure melodies.
"Prelude Of Loss" will be for sure a mandatory listening to those who have their musical background in the most melancholy dynamics of Metal and Post Rock of KATATONIA, OCTOBER TIDE, SWALLOW THE SUN and NOVEMBRE.
"Prelude Of Loss" will dig into your soul in search of the most hidden emotions!
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Montreal/Stockholm
Progressive Metal Quartet, VOIDCHASER, have releasd new
EP TRUST! Serving as an epilogue to critically
acclaimed 2024 release Solace, the new EP completes the narrative and
brings closure to the conceptual journey begun with their debut album.
FFO: Devin Townsend, Haken, Dream Theater, Between the Buried and Me, Opeth, Caligula's Horse.
A full EP visualizer video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjXaEWKiKg
Coinciding with the EP's release, the band has also released a music video for opening track, "Time," featuring Québec City's Universe Effects (Gabriel Antoine Vallée, Francis Grégoire, and Gabriel Cyr). "Time" embarks on a reflective journey through loss and the fleeting nature of life. Emotionally charged and deeply introspective, the song continues the narrative arc that concluded Solace, resonating with the raw emotion of abandonment.
Following the impact of "Trust" (featuring Jim Grey of Caligula’s Horse) and the epic "Dogma" (with a guest appearance by The Anchoret), "Time" weaves a heartfelt exploration of impermanence and memory, brought to life through poignant lyrics and evocative melodies. This final chapter not only completes the EP’s narrative journey, but also reinforces Voidchaser's reputation for merging profound emotional storytelling with dynamic musical composition.
The "Time" video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D37N6UVsPH8
Trust solidifies Voidchaser’s reputation for heavy yet emotionally resonant progressive metal. The band is also gearing up for an international tour in 2025, with more details to be announced soon.
Vocalist/rhythm guitarist Chad Bernatchez discusses Trust:
"Trust picks up directly after the events of Solace. Our protagonist is drifting across the vast emptiness of space, as the reserve oxygen tanks from the suit keep him alive and scenes from his life pass them by. The first song, Time, depicts our protagonist having to say goodbye to someone who he was very close to. The second song, Dogma, depicts our protagonist having to make an impossible decision, resulting in leaving behind someone else he was very close to. Finally, the title track depicts our protagonist unapologetically committing his entire life to someone only to have his trust broken and their sense of self be lost in the process.
We collaborated with musicians from all around the world on this EP and it’s very cool to have had the opportunity to do that. We have a lot of love for the musicians that accepted to be on it and feel incredibly honored that we made something they wanted to be a part of.
This EP is very special to us because it marks the end of a chapter for Voidchaser. We are very proud of how far we have come since the band has started, and there is nothing we would have done differently. Everything has led to where we are today and we have learned a lot from the past two years and we are very grateful for everything that happened and everyone who was with us along the way."
Track Listing:
1. Time (feat. Universe Effects)
2. Dogma (Feat. The Anchoret)
3. Trust (feat. Jim Grey)
Credits:
Guest vocals by Gabriel Antoine Vallée (Time).
Guest guitar solo by Gabriel Cyr (Time).
Guest keyboard solo by Francis Grégoire (Time).
Guest french horn by Tomás Figueiredo (Time).
Guest violin/viola/cello by Oleh Mytrofanov, Kateryna Mytrofanova, Oleksiy. Zavgorodniy, Anastasia Boyko and Jana Malentzova (Time, Dogma).
Guest saxophone solo by Laurent Barbier (Dogma).
Guest oud solo by Asil Blek (Dogma).
Guest bansuri solo by Rajat Prasanna (Dogma).
Guest vocals by Jim Grey (Trust).
Lyrics and Songwriting by Chad Bernatchez.
Production and Arrangements by Jici LG.
Mixing and Mastering by Jason Poulin.
Management by Metal Shed Productions.
Artwork by Sam Harwood.
Drums recorded by Mackay Agellon at Borkum Riff Studios.
Guest vocals recorded by Jared Adlam at Machine Lab Studios (Trust).
Special thanks to Eddy Levitsky (The Anchoret) for his implication in the track "Dogma", to Dario and Van (The Progspace), and to Niko (Prog Sphere).
Line-Up:
Chad Bernatchez - Vocals, Back Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Jici LG - Bass
Jimmy Montbriand - Lead Guitar
Colin MacAndrew - Drums
Mathieu Fiset - Keyboards
Bio:
From Montreal and Stockholm, Voidchaser is a progressive metal band. Since their inception in 2023, the band has quickly gained momentum with standout high-caliber singles that have resonated across multiple countries in North America, South America, and Europe, earning widespread acclaim from influential critics such as The Progspace, Prog-Sphere, Metal Universe, and Metal Minded, among others.
In 2024, Voidchaser unveiled their most ambitious and emotionally charged project yet: Solace, a progressive metal concept album that weaves together technical brilliance, evocative storytelling, and raw human emotion. Composed as a single conceptual piece divided into six interconnected parts, Solace showcases the band's diverse musical spectrum, from the thunderous intensity of "Solace Part II: Only Human"—a fierce anthem of resilience featuring Ashbreather—to the haunting beauty of "Solace Part IV: Alien," an acoustic ballad exploring themes of love and control. Solace is not just music—it is a theatrical exploration of survival, a celebration of human connection, and a reflection on the duality of strength and vulnerability.
This debut album amassed over 200,000 streams in its first three months and was charted among the top metal albums of the year according to Apple and iTunes in Canada, Sweden and other countries. This impact propelled Voidchaser onto both the local and global scenes, as evidenced by their participation in prestigious events like ProgPower Europe 2025 alongside acts such as The Dear Hunter, Threshold, Kingcrow, Extol, KYROS, and Nospūn, as well as upcoming festivals in Canada.
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VULVECTOMY – “ABERRANT VAGINAL GESTATION”
Label: Comatose Music
Release Date: April 11th 2025
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Kraanium | Gorevent | Amputated
Through every waking hour I travel the dark tunnels of the online world, feasting on the horrors to be uncovered, delving further into the darkness – damaging, desensitizing and warping myself beyond repair. And when my exhausted eyes finally close in sleep, a stronghold of nightmares opens its gates within the endless corridors of my mind…a thousand doors and behind each one a scenario of twisted torment; sadism, masochism, brutality without boundaries, unspeakable acts of degeneracy and deviance. Morality is meaningless in my eternal kingdom of corruption; there is only the act, the blood, the pain, the dismantling of the human form – body, mind and spirit.
After twelve long, fear free years, the monstrous beast that is Vulvectomy has crawled forth from its lair in the Italian sewers once more. The ultimate manifestation of conscienceless, emotionless, slamming brutality is back, with another rancid harvest of putridity and filth for the sickest of souls. Any thoughts that Vulvectomy may have mellowed over time or discovered a shred of humanity within their collective, rotten heart should be abandoned immediately. Once the addictive riffs and incredibly intense drums have drawn you in to this cesspit of disgust there is not a moment of relief from the barbarity and madness. Each chord is delivered with sadistic intent and formidable force, punishing blows alternating with frenzied assaults. Tracks like first single, ‘Scrotal Abscess Drainage’ are just overwhelming barrages of rot and disease, brutal slam death distilled down to its fetid, sordid essence. The song titles are a litany of perversion, the music an avalanche of depraved violence. With slithering, wormlike horrors like ‘Greedy Fetal Discharge’ Vulvectomy have painted a portrait of a world beyond redemption. This album will disturb you, infect you, scar you and vomit over the last grains of hope you may have had for mankind.
Mixed by Alessio Cattaneo (Corpsefucking Art, Hideous Divinity etc) and mastered by Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Vomit The Soul, Hour Of Penance etc) Aberrant Vaginal Gestation sounds as bludgeoning and gore-encrusted as it should, bestial beyond belief. And the cover art by Guang Yang (Beheaded, Nunslaughter, Infant Annihilator etc) is truly a repugnant and grotesque vision, spawned from night terrors and wickedness. There is not a trace of decency to found in any part of this vicious abomination of an album. When Comatose Music unleash the reborn Vulvectomy on April 11th there will be hell to pay…
Line-up:
Diego Fanelli - Vocals
Giorgio Cavaliere - Bass
Mario Di Giambattista - Guitar
Marco Coghe - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.vulvectomyofficial.com/
Prepare
for a cataclysmic fusion of symphonic grandeur and unrelenting darkness
as RawMoor, the rising titans of symphonic blackened death
metal, announce their signing with Wormholedeath Records and the global release
of their debut album, EN ROUTE, set to storm the gates on May 2,
2025.
"We are pleased to announce the signing of our pact with Wormholedeath, to now have their force backing our descent upon the world!" said the band" We brewed and smoldered in silence long under the black stone that roofs every hollow hosting aspiring combatants, battling for the honor of carrying the torch for Satan, with our flame nigh quenching in the process, until our menace could no longer be contained. We drew the admiration of our audience and they whipped us on until finally, we burst open through that stone, our release now on display for all to see.
That much can be accomplished by anyone. But Carlo and Wormholedeath soon got on our trail, offering us a backing that now elevates our possibilities to compete for a place among the greatest of names in Black Metal. They pave our way, map us our roads, and guide us to growth in darkness.
Our vow from here on out is to deliver our power in full, to burn as the brightest of flame until our fuel runs out and another takes our place. This will be our unending service. For Satan."
"En Route" delves into themes of treachery and betrayal, both on national and personal scales, alongside aspirations for sovereignty and critiques of left-wing ideology. Unapologetically political, it stands as an anti-religion, pro-freedom statement.
Musically, it embraces the essence of Symphonic Black Metal drawing inspiration from Dimmu Borgir, Agathodaimon, Windir, Cradle of Filth, and Finntroll. The result is a dark, cinematic soundscape that balances grandeur with aggression.
Lyrically, the album is born from Moordrawn’s deep frustration and disillusionment with a world spiraling into decay.
A New Era of Elegance and Ferocity
Emerging from the shadows of the metal underground, RawMoor has forged a reputation for blending haunting orchestral melodies with blistering death metal savagery. Their debut album, En Route—initially self-released in September 2024—captivated fans and critics alike, earning acclaim for its seamless marriage of brutality and sophistication. Now, armed with the backing of Wormholedeath, RawMoor is poised to ascend to new heights, bringing their apocalyptic soundscapes to a global audience.
From Underground Vision to International Stage
What began in 2016 as the solo endeavor of multi-instrumentalist Moordrawn (vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, orchestration) evolved into a formidable alliance with longtime collaborator Brim (vocals). Together, they finished En Route, a concept album steeped in treachery, sovereignty, and existential rebellion themes. Guest guitarist Renton (tracks 2, 3, 6) adds searing solos, further cementing the album’s dynamic range.
“RawMoor embodies the raw intensity and artistic ambition that defines extreme metal,” says Carlo Bellotti, CEO of Wormholedeath. “En Route is not just an album—it’s a manifesto. We’re thrilled to amplify their vision and introduce their chaos to the world.”
En Route is a journey through betrayal and retribution, and with Wormholedeath, RawMoor is ready to ignite the flames wider than ever
RawMoor Is:
Moordrawn: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Orchestration
Brim: Vocals
Renton: Guest Soloist (Tracks 2, 3, 6)
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https://rawmoor.bandcamp.com/album/en-route
Bram Bijlhout is perhaps best known for his guitar work with Officium Triste, who he served for seven years, performing on the Dutch doom/death legends split EP with Ophis - Immersed - and the album Mors Viri...however that is all about to change. In 2021 he started a new project under the name Structure, where he began to expand upon the doom/death template, broadening it's range of emotion, infusing it with honesty and integrity - creating something instantly recognisable yet also fresh and impactful. After finding his way with a self titled EP in 2022 and a single, Disordered, in 2023, Bram is now ready to reveal the full length debut from STRUCTURE, in alliance with Ardua Music - HERITAGE.
Featuring lead vocals from Pim Blankenstein (Officium Triste), drums by Dirk Bruinenberg (Elegy) and additional vocals from Robert Soeterboek (Plan 9, Ayreon), Heritage, a collection of seven emotive, momentous songs, will be released by Ardua Music on April 25th. Speaking about Heritage Bram has said...
"Heritage features a darker approach, more heavy riffs yet retaining all the melodies. These songs turned out to be the heaviest ones written for Structure, and the help of some great friends made this an album that i am very proud of."
Heritage was mastered by Dool bass player J.B. Van Der Wal and
its distinctive artwork features photographs from Bram Bijlhout's personal
family collection.
Track Listing:
1. Will I Deserve It
2. What We Have Lost
3. Long Before Me
4. The Sadness Of Everyday Life
5. Heritage
6. The Feeling Of Confusion
7. Until The Last Gasp (Instrumental)
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://structure-doom.bandcamp.com/
Murder Records is honored to present SCYTHROW, a band buried in the filthy graves hailing from the rotten fields from Lappeenranta in Finland.
Scythrow emerged in 2020 with the intention of presenting a sound more directed towards the Thrash Metal strands, but over the time, they has been shaping its sound until it reaches a more violent sonic decomposition with the insane putrefaction of heavier riffs that are complemented by a voracious brutality with rotting melodies and where the filthy chaos has completely invaded the sound that is currently presented by Scythrow.
"BLAMELESS SEVERED EXTREMITIES" is the title of Scythrow's third album, containing eight severe lacerations of brutality where the influences of Thrash Metal practiced in the band's early days remain, making this album more chaotic and interesting, but here we can hear something much heavier and more brutal, defining a more cavernous sound that makes us dive into the depths of merciless chaos and where the Chaotic Death Metal prevails imminently...
Murder Records is now preparing the release of Scythrow's latest album in Cassette format, which will include an bonus track, a cover from the veterans Mortician "Chainsaw Dismemberment", allowing the worms to devouring the human remains buried in the putrid melodies duly moldy with the cadaveric odors presented here on this Chaotic Death Metal from the cemitery...
Chaos & Death On... Normal Life Off...
Cassette limited to 100 copies
Track
list
SIDE A
01 - Reluctant Possession [03:31]
02 - Kinemortophobia [03:07]
03 - Nerve Rot [03:44]
04 - Necrotic High [04:40]
SIDE B
05 - Blameless Severed Extremities [05:51]
06 - The Remorse Declines [04:08]
07 - Bare Bones [03:39]
08 - The Fatal Point Of Closure [06:28]
09 - Chainsaw Dismemberment (Mortician Cover) [01:39]
All music arranged and performed by Scythrow.
Composed by Arttu Muukkonen, Nuutti Myllynen and Markus Erling.
Lyrics written by Markus Erling.
Bonus track written and composed by Mortician.
Record during June and July 2024 in Bomb Shelter at Lappeenranta.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Arttu Muukkonen.
Cover art work by Apostle Ink.
Band logo by Nuutti Myllynen.
Layout is made by Arttu Muukkonen and Nuutti Myllynen.
Gig Photography by Jan Suominen.
Release Date: March 14th, 2025
Scythrow are :
Markus Erling - Guitar / Vocals
Arttu Muukkonen - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Nuutti Myllynen - Bass
Benjamin Niemelä – Drums
Finland is well known for being a den of fertility when it comes to extreme sonic filth, so it's time to introduce you to Scythrow, a band that was unearthed in 2020 from the rotting tombs of Lappeenranta.
Although Scythrow are a new band, they have just released their third album, entitled "Blameless Severed Extremities", which was released in CD format by Awakening Records, soon will be released by Murder Records in Cassette format and later will be released also by Futhark Records in Vinyl format.
Although Scythrow's first two albums present a sound more directed towards Thrash Metal, this new work defines very well the type of sound that Scythrow intends to propagate and where they finally found the cadaveric formula that allows them to present a more cohesive sound within the parameters of chaotic brutality.
So let's get on with the interview that follows, where I had the pleasure of speaking with the rotten brother brothers from Scythrow and they will reveal to us a little more about Scythrow.
Interview with Scythrow read here : https://www.murder-records.eu/cadaveric-noiseletter/2305908_interview-with-scythrow
https://scythrow.bandcamp.com/album/blameless-severed-extremities
https://linktr.ee/scythrow
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tO_HKQd8yY
Sole member and founder, Alex Haddad, shared his thoughts about Keys to the Palace: "This album was ten plus years in the making. A lot of the material here actually precedes that of the two previous releases. Completing this record means giving closure to this era of Dessiderium that has spanned across my twenties, and I see it as a well suited final chapter to this period. The two previous albums, Shadow Burn and Aria, provided no happy ending. They were both about defeat in their own way. Keys to the Palace reaches for triumph. This is an album about time travel that explores the polarity between past and future, innocence and disillusion, faith and despair, and adolescence and adulthood."
Track
Listing:
1. In The Midst Of May
2. Dover Hendrix
3. Pollen For The Bees
4. A Dream That Wants Me Dead
5. Magenta
6. Keys To The Palace
Credits:
All music and words written by Alex Haddad.
Produced by Alex Haddad.
Guitars, bass, vocals, keyboard, and orchestrations/synthesizers by Alex Haddad.
Drum programming by Brody Smith.
Piano solos on "Dover Hendrix" and "Pollen For The Bees" performed by Thomas Leroy Meier.
Mixed and mastered by Mendel Bij De Leij.
Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration).
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https://www.facebook.com/p/Dessiderium-100063280476262/
When Grindpad released their full album ‘Violence’ in 2020, it was meant to pave the way for the band.
With a strong release in hand, two big release shows planned in both Utrecht & Berlin, it was supposed to be their moment.
Sadly, Covid ruined everything; the lockdown started LITERALLY on their releasedate.
Fast forward, 2025. 'Violence' is already 5 years old and Grindpad celebrates this with a re-release on vinyl!
Following the success of the EP ‘Sharkbite!’, Grindpad proves once again that they can not only improve but also create a full-length album packed with high energy, violence, and dare we say... fun thrash metal.
‘Violence’ is a masterpiece of up-tempo songs that make you want to fight the neighbours, but also features great mid-tempo thrashers that make you want to bang your head.
As the icing on the cake, this special vinyl release includes two exclusive bonus tracks that further highlight Grindpad's versatility and talent. Variety is, after all, the spice of thrash.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to get ‘Violence’ on vinyl and complete your collection. Prepare for a musical experience you won't soon forget!
Listen to Violence on All Streaming Platforms
GRINDPAD is:
JG – Guitar
Max - Drums
Axel - Guitar
Rik - Bass
Olivier – Vocals
Highlights for GRINDPAD
1 full length album released by Iron Shield Records and received very well by press & audience:
5 EP’s released by International labels and received very well by press & audience:
Dutch Metal Battle (2010, Winner)
Sharkbite (2017, independent – 2023 vinyl reissue, Iron Shield Records)
Violence (2020, Iron Shield Records – 2025 vinyl reissue, Iron Shield Records)
Finger Collector Crew (2023, Iron Shield Records)
Festivals: Pitfest, Barbeuk Metal Fest, Hedon Zwaar Nieuwjaar, Spirit of Metal Fest, Thrash Speed Burn Fest, Death Coffee Party, Herrie Metal Fest, Majales Majorales.
Support shows for Tankard, Bolt Thrower, Tygers of Pan Tang, Disharmonic Orchestra, Gamma Bomb, Rezet, Traitor, etc
https://www.grindpad.com/
Single release date: March 28
Format: Digital
Label: Black Vulture Records
Ahead of this release, the single "THE LURKING DEVIL" is now being released.
The song gives a good foretaste of the upcoming album- atmospheric heavy death doom metal.
https://www.facebook.com/ShroudedInDarkness/
Romanian
Black Metal force FUNERAL BAPTISM proudly presents
their newest single, "IN SOLITUDINE", the first glimpse
into the band's long-awaited second full-length album of the same name,
scheduled for release later this year via Loud Rage Music.
The single is now available for streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2RYZROIwkI
Dark, introspective, and steeped in philosophical undertones, "In Solitudine" showcases a matured sound and lyrical vision, signaling a bold new chapter in the band's evolution.
Band comment:
"The title track "In Solitudine" ("In Solitude") best represents the manner in which the band stylistically approached its second album. Inspired by "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", the lyrics paint the image of an alternate reality where man refused to be crushed by ontological torment, instead choosing to destroy the ego, rise from the ashes and retake control of his existence."
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/FuneralBaptismBM
Brace yourselves, because EISIGE VENEN is back with their most chilling release yet. THE MOURNING FROST, the band’s latest EP under Sodeh Records/Metal Inc., is a brutal descent into their signature icy soundscape, delivering relentless riffs, haunting melodies, and a melancholic intensity that lingers long after the final note.
Written over two years, The Mourning Frost picks up where Ghosts of Yesterday left off, plunging listeners into a frozen abyss of epic chord progressions and emotionally charged guitar work. With Stephen Hegarty’s expert production at Lacerate Studios, every track is sculpted into a towering wall of sound that blends unrelenting aggression with eerie beauty.
The powerhouse trio of Curtis Fitzpatrick, Chris Brandon, and Marc Williams return to lead the charge, reinforcing Eisige Venen’s place in the metal landscape. Adding to the sonic devastation, Richard Wilson of Mourning Scars makes a guest appearance on “Seaforged,” a track that seethes with raw intensity.
Featuring two brand-new songs alongside fan-favorite singles from 2024, The Mourning Frost is both a gift to longtime followers and a gateway for new fans to experience the band’s signature sound. Cold, crushing, and unforgettable—this is Eisige Venen at their most ferocious.
Biography
Eisige Venen (pronounced ei-se-ge ven-en) is a dark melodic metal project founded in 2020 by guitarist/keyboardist Marc Williams (Ba’alzamon, Fallen Empire, Frostcrown). Joined by vocalist Curtis Fitzpatrick (Ba’alzamon, Locust Swarm) and bassist Chris Brandon (Gokseong, Dead Deceased, Anger Overdose) in 2023, the trio brings a cold, melancholic sound infused with heavy synths, haunting melodies, and a blackened touch.
Williams, inspired by his years in Germany, released the debut single A Frigid Emptiness in 2021. With Brandon and Fitzpatrick onboard, the group launched their first album, Ghosts of Yesterday, in 2023—despite working entirely remotely across the USA and South Korea. The album earned praise from publications like Occult Metal Zine and Hellfire Magazin, who likened their atmospheric and melodic style to bands such as Amon Amarth, Insomnium, and Agathodaimon.
Eisige Venen has since collaborated with artists like Melishah (Tenebris Intus) and director Neil Gorz (Death Springs Eternal music video). They’ve signed with Metal Incorporated and Sodeh Records and are endorsed by Black Harbor Sound and Rattlesnake Cables.
Now based in the USA, Eisige Venen is gearing up for their 2025 EP The Mourning Frost, featuring the award-winning track Seaforged. Stay tuned for more heavy riffs and dark melodies wherever music is streamed.
https://www.facebook.com/eisigevenenatx
https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: April 1st 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Paganizer | Carnation | Obituary | Death
Welcome to the world we have created…hewn from the raw substance of our greed and perversion, our endless fascination with cruelty and consumption. Our morality has withered in the gluttonous glare of our lust and our conscience has bled out from the innumerable wounds we have inflicted upon it. We exist in a kingdom of death, of jagged monuments to selfish egotism and raging waters of desensitization. The sentinels of wickedness scour this wasteland for any trace of empathy, any remnants of mercy, compassion and decency…but they are all long, long dead. Truly, something is rotten within the withered shell of humanity.
Something Is Rotten In Humanity is the new album from the legendary pioneers of Spanish death metal, Unbounded Terror! Featuring nine new tracks of dark, primal power this album is a magnificent testament to Unbounded Terror’s enduring potency and unique take upon the dark arts of death. The standards are set right from the opening chords of first track, ‘Fear Of Dying’, which attacks with a nasty, snarling immediacy. All the key elements of the Unbounded Terror sound are here; the irresistible riffs, the juddering rhythms, the vocals that sound like undead invective, spewed from the mouth of a reanimated corpse and the guitar leads, full of otherworldly melody, that twist and ascend, dive and cascade in captivating fashion. If all that sounds like great, but standard fare, then think again…there is something about Unbounded Terror that sets them apart; something in their chord progressions, their note choices, their song structures and fetid atmosphere that gives them a special aura like no other. Songs like ‘Demons In Your Mind’ and first single ‘Reviving’ are propelled forward on old school death metal riffing and adorned in superb solos, but what makes them special is that indefinable ancient magic that belongs to Unbounded Terror and to them alone. Death metal fans need to hear the crushing, unstoppable war machine that is ‘Divine Virtue’ and the thunderous headbanging riffing of ‘The Disappointment’. Unbounded Terror have delivered the album of their career and surely one of the death metal albums of 2025!
Produced and recorded by the band’s own Vicente J Payá (Golgotha, Sons Of Cult etc) and mixed and mastered by Davide Billia (Avulsed, Holycide, Posthuman Abomination etc), Something Rotten In Humanity sounds absolutely devastating – exactly how grim, rotten death metal should sound – and its ghastly demeanour is completed by the artwork of Juan Castellano (Furnace, Vomitory, Ribspreader etc) which captures its grim spirit perfectly. The album will be released by Xtreem Music on CD (featuring a bonus track), 12"LP, cassette and digital formats on April 1st and the name of Unbounded Terror will once more ring through the shadow shrouded vaults of the dead.
Line-up:
Engelbert - Drums
Vicente J Payá - Guitars
Ancor Ramírez - Lead Guitars
Andrew Espinosa - Vocals/Bass
Drums on Something Is Rotten In Humanty performed by Davide Billia
Keyboards on Something Is Rotten In Humanty performed by Alejandro Lobo
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/UnboundedTerror
New Trans-Atlantic Metal Project GREY MOUNTAIN (feat. members of Monsterworks, Bull Elephant, Construct of Lethe, Black Harvest) have released their self-titled debut album via Eat Lead and Die Music!
The album is available digitally on Bandcamp (including 24-bit full dynamic range vinyl master in side A/B format) and at new platform Ampwall.
GREY MOUNTAIN is the result of a collaboration between Jon Higgs (guitar/vocals; also of Thūn, Moose Cult) and Kishor Haulenbeek (guitars, bass, vocals; also of Black Harvest, Construct of Lethe, In Human Form), rounded out by Jon's long suffering brother-in-arms and intrepid adventurer, James Garnett (drums; also of Monsterworks). The band's sound is difficult to pin down; running the gamut of traditional heavy metal, through death and doom, with post-metal and discordant influences.
Higgs says about the collaboration: "I got to know Kishor through metalforum.com and first reached out to hire him to paint a cover for Bull Elephant's third album. At some point in 2023, knowing he played bass for Heavy Meta, I tentatively asked if he would be interested in laying down bass for a bunch of tracks I had in mind to record with James as a side project. He said yes, but went further and expressed a keenness to contribute a song and maybe add a few 'melodic guitars.' Little did I know that when he tackled these guitar melodies - which contrary to his modest description are full blown guitar-hero leads in many cases - it impacted the music in a big way....and then he went ahead and added extra vocals too! I am all about collaboration, and Kishor has taken things in directions I would never have thought of. Couple that with James' relatively rocky but hard hitting approach on drums (beautifully recorded by Jamie Masters at Echo Studios close to homebase in Buckinghamshire) and I think we've come up with something pretty unique. We've got a second album planned already."
With artwork by Kishor and mixed by Jon Higgs, GREY MOUNTAIN is a real in-house effort.... although a final polish was applied by Dan Swanö at Unisound, known for his dynamic mastering.
Track
Listing:
1. Grey Mountain
2. Perpetual Imbalance
3. A Universal Evil
4. Hermitage
5. Many Shades, a Storm
6. Decline and Fall
7. Living Mythology
Line-up :
Jon Higgs - Guitar/Vocals
James Garnett - Drums
Kishor Haulenbeek - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
https://greymountain.bandcamp.com/
https://www.supermetal.net/
Finnish
metal band GOTHONY released DEMO 1995 on
streaming services via Inverse Records.
30 years ago Gothony's first demo saw the light of day. The demo was recorded and mixed by Hiili Hiilesmaa at MD Studios in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki in early 1995. An edition of 200 cassettes was made. Sales started in the summer of 1995. Now the time has come to re-release this three track demo on streaming services.
Listen to the Demo 1995 on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/gothony-demo-1995
Rare video footage also available on the full EP release on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LfWkdgQRSQ
Biography:
Gothony was founded in 1993 with the line-up :
M.Toivonen: drums & vocals
Mika Uusitalo: guitar & vocals
Miika Peräkangas: guitar
Väiski Syväoja: bass
This line-up released two demos in the 90s in 1995 (Gothony) and 1997 (Hidden thoughts). Gigs mostly in the capital region, e.g. Oranssi klubi, Semifinal and at the legendary Thunder Road House. In 1998, M.Toivonen , who handled the vocals, gave the vocal responsibilities to Sami Viitamäki.
Sami Viitamäki's time was Gothony's golden age, and many compare this to the Beatles '65 & '66, when Rubber Soul and Revolver innovated not only the band's sound but the entire pop music genre as well.The golden age was short, but rewarding and Gothony played a few gigs with Sami before the break up that happened in 1999. There was no drama in the breakup, but everyone went on different paths in life.
In 2019, it was decided to reassemble Gothony to revive the past and play old songs. Wuohi, who in the 90s did vocals in Bleed me tears and Katharsis joined Gothony.
In 2020, Gothony went to Tuska-Torstai and Emergenza to get a feel for live show’s. After the gigs, a decision was made to start working on new songs and continue Gothony's story.
The first official Gothony single Patient 2442 was completed in April 2023 and released with a music video by Kimmo Jaatinen (direction, cinematography, screenplay, editing). The second single In the Shadow of the Moon was released in July 2023.
Gothony's first official full-length album released on January 12, 2024.
Now in 2025, Gothony is working on new songs and the new material is scheduled for late 2025 release. Before releasing new material, it's time to bring Gothony’s first demo to streaming services. This will take place in March 2025
GOTHONY - DEMO 1995
Track list:
1.Unknown World of My Dreams
2.Woods of Winter
3.Wasted Life
Line-up:
M.Toivonen (Drums,vocals)
Mika Uusitalo (Guitar, vocals)
Miika Peräkangas (Guitar)
Väiski Syväoja (Bass)
https://www.gothony.com
https://www.facebook.com/gothonyband
Nashville (TN) - U.S. Melodic Black Metal horde, LENAX, have unleashed the official video for "THE VOICES," the new single and opening track from the recently released HELLSCAPE VOL. I (THE VOICES) EP.
Check out "The Voices" video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k22aI48fMXI
Hellscape Vol. I (The Voices) contains one new song ("The Voices") and three tracks given a pitch-shifted Hellscape remix: "Leeches" and "We Are Legion" from the upcoming album Infection, as well as a remastered version of "Inversion" from 2023 EP, Purity.
Lenax vocalist/guitarist, Venomous, had this to say about the new EP:
"The Hellscape project was spawned entirely by accident. Our drummer Bones sent in an audition video when we were first getting together, something that sounded very dirty and ethereal. As he was in a doom project, I assumed it was original material, until I heard the main riff from 'Leeches.' This gave me the effect of taking something very familiar to me as a songwritier and making it seem alien, as if distorted through a transmission from the underworld.
I pulled up the core tracks of some of the songs that we'd done - two songs from the upcoming album Infection, and a remaster of one of the songs form the 2023 Purity EP. Every track I did something a little different with the effects and tempo. One song is actually sped up as it was down pitched, something that may seem counterintuitive. The idea was to give this feeling as if the songs were transmitted across a void, resulting in this obscured, horror movie soundtrack kind of effect.
"New song, 'The Voices,' was purpose built with this sort of transmission in mind. It takes this idea of hearing diabolic voices from the underworld, and creates an epic story of ascension and destruction. During the demo process, I pitch shifted my voice down for this monstrous effect. What I wasn't expecting is to find a comfort zone for my voice in this very low register. What you hear on my vocals on is entirely natural, something that in turn made its way to some of the tracks on the new album. Big thanks to Silas for this, not just on coaching me into this low vocal range, but his impeccable work on the audio."
Lenax is currently putting the finishing touches on the songs that will become Infection, the band's first full-length album. It is targeted for release during the summer months this year.
In reflecting on the forthcoming full-length, Venomous notes that "Infection is an album almost two years in the making. Continuing with themes that blur the lines between fantasy and reality, Lovecraftian cosmic horror and the occult, the theme of the album is one of infernal rather than divine intervention into humanity. with an unmistakeable passion for individuality."
"This is our most punishing work yet," says Lenax guitarist Mordred. "It’s faster, harsher, and more diseased than anything we’ve ever done." The theme of the album is represented in song titles such as 'Plague Bringer,' 'Hive Mind Apocalypse,' and 'We Are Legion' - a song that tells the story of an unfortunate and overly zealous mage who calls upon greater forces than his own, only to succomb to the very denizens of hell he dared unleash."
Track
Listing:
1 - The Voices
2 - Inversion (Hellscape Remix)
3 - Leeches (Hellscape Remix)
4 - We Are Legion (Hellscape Remix)
Lenax is:
Venomous - Vocals / Guitar
Mordred - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Bones - Drums
Bio:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. The project evolved from a solo act into a full-fledged band known by a growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from a wide array of black metal bands from established titans to the obscure, the "Big Four" of thrash metal, and even a dash of classic heavy acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether dubbed by Venomous as "cosmic horror fueled nightmares.” — an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realization through occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and the impending doom of the Outer Gods.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a
https://linktr.ee/LenaxMetal
Australian-Swedish
death metal juggernaut D.E.A.D has dropped the official music
video for "DEAD", a track ripped straight from their
ferocious album OF VILE AND HATE, out now via Wormholedeath.
"Dead" is a savage death metal onslaught, dragging a tormented soul from decay into cursed rebirth. It reflects transformation through suffering, where pain breeds power and the past is left in ruin.
Brutal, raw, and merciless—D.E.A.D delivers pure death metal carnage.
The video was recorded at The Lab in Adelaide, South Australia. It was filmed and edited by Anthony James. The technical operator on the day was Isaac Ray
Listen to the full album Of Vile and Hate: https://orcd.co/ofvileandhate
Genre-bending one-man band SAMTAR is set to return with THE BOG OF COSMIC DELUSIONS. The seventh full-length album by the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter comes fresh off the heels of the acoustic-centric A Second Chapter Made of Wood.
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions stands out as SAMTAR's heaviest album to date. With loud and crushing sounds, psychedelic influences, melodic guitars, and grand soaring vocals, this album is sure to satisfy rock and metal listeners alike.
SAMTAR has released three singles from the album. Stream "The Mire," "Desert Creature" and "Refuse" on Spotify.
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions will be available on digital and limited-edition CD on April 11. Pre-order the album at www.samtarofficial.com
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by SAMTAR. Album artwork by Steven Yoyada.
Tracklisting:
1. Desert Creature
2. Fickle Fortune
3. All You Ever Wanted
4. Speaker
5. Distant Voices
6. Refuse
7. Destiny is a Lie
8. The Whispers
9. Vicarious Voodoo
10. The Mire
11. Broken Sparrow
12. Drowning the Goddess
SAMTAR, a music-obsessed virtuoso, plies his craft with an unrepentant vigor and passion. Navigating the forests of genre, SAMTAR follows a path to sounds unknown by combining style and influence from all sources. SAMTAR chose to eschew chasing traditional mediums of promotion and instead focused on loving his life through creating music, exploring the outdoors, and translating the ethereal into song. The music SAMTAR creates is human and close, it has a momentum of its own and entreats the listener to be a traveler along the journey to their own peace.
SAMTAR grew up on System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, The Black Dahlia Murder, Opeth, Sonata Arctica, Muse, Jimi Hendrix, Sublime, and Nirvana. Now he unites these divergent influences with driving bass lines, hook-heavy guitar melodies, powerful vocals, and a healthy dose of synthesizers. He notes some of his biggest vocal influences being from artists like Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle/Faith No More), and Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica). He also takes inspiration from sci-fi/fantasy films and literature.
www.samtarofficial.com
Inspiration to our music comes from a diverse collection of bands, artists and genres.
The result is a genre-defying crossover style that challenges musical conventions while remaining profoundly accessible. DUNKLE ZUKUNFT goal is to take the listener on a journey through dark, atmospheric landscapes punctuated by electrifying rhythms and haunting melodies.
As DUNKLE ZUKUNFT emerges onto the global stage, the band invites listeners to join them in exploring the unknown — an invitation to embrace the beauty and chaos of the dark future.
Tracklist:
1. Dunkle Welt
2. Flammen am Himmel
3. Apokalypse Ruft
4. Der Letzte Man
5. Das Ende
6. Die Letzten Gedanken
7. Unfelt Dunkelheit
DUNKLE ZUKUNFT is a groundbreaking music collective helmed by Zane Solaris. With a name that translates to "Dark Future," this music collective delves into the uncharted territories of modern soundscapes, crafting a unique blend that they boldly call "the music of the future."
Drawing inspiration from a kaleidoscope of genres, DUNKLE ZUKUNFT masterfully fuses elements of Industrial music, 1970s Synth bands, Electro, Pop, Metal, and even occasional nods to Punk. The result is a genre-defying crossover style that challenges musical conventions while remaining profoundly accessible. With a flair for innovation and a deep understanding of diverse musical traditions, DUNKLE ZUKUNFT takes listeners on a journey through dark, atmospheric landscapes punctuated by electrifying rhythms and haunting melodies.
DUNKLE ZUKUNFT's debut album is a testament to this visionary approach. Each track serves as a chapter in a larger narrative, offering a glimpse into a dystopian yet strangely alluring sonic future. From pulsating Industrial beats to introspective Synth-driven ballads, the album weaves a rich tapestry of sound that captures both the melancholy and the hope of our uncertain tomorrow.
As DUNKLE ZUKUNFT emerges onto the global stage, the band invites listeners to join them in exploring the unknown — an invitation to embrace the beauty and chaos of the dark future.
https://www.facebook.com/dunklezukunft
Cult black metal act Heruka returns with "Panacea", a six-track EP
fully sung in Italian poetry-style lyrics, continuing the approach of their
previous full-length Memorie. The death theme remains at the core of this
release, reinforcing the band’s dark and evocative storytelling.
A new track, "Taedium Vitae", has been released as a visualizer and is now available on all major streaming platforms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zstSpEpg-xY
Tracklist:
1. Peisithanatos
2. Accabadora
3. Taedium Vitae
4. Francis Bacon
5. Panacea
6. Danza (re-recorded 2003 version)
The cover artwork pays tribute to the death of Arria and Paetus, a dramatic episode from ancient Rome. Paetus, a prisoner after a failed revolt against Emperor Claudius, was urged by his wife Arria to take his own life rather than endure dishonor. When he hesitated, Arria demonstrated her resolve by stabbing herself, handing him the dagger with the words, "It does not hurt, Paetus." The artwork is based on François-André Vincent’s 1784 painting of the event.
Panacea will be released on March 21, 2025, in a limited edition digipack CD via Rude Awakening Records and will also be available on all major streaming platforms.
https://linktr.ee/herukaproject
https://linktr.ee/rudeawakeningrecords
Alfa Pentatonik (ex-Pentatonik) play Finnish industrial metal with a heavy hand. It started in early 2000 and they have released two albums and many smaller releases. In 2022 the band returned with a new name and two new singles. Now they release a new EP called "Gamma I" which contains five songs.
Primus motor of the band is JP Immonen (Walhalla, Aria Of Sorrow, Iron Frost) who plays all the instruments, writes the songs and does all the production. He joins forces with Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Verilehto, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat) in 2022, who does the lyrics and vocals. Also on "Gamma I" (one) there are guest appearances by Harri Hytönen (Clown Parade, Fenyx Rising, Armada North & Simulacrum), who plays solos on a few songs and was on the band's first album. And Maya Liittokivi (Loretta Problem & Deathlike Silence) on vocals, her beautiful voice was heard on "Pelkojemme Perintö" in 2023.
In "Gamma I" heavy riffs mix with dance beats and the whole thing is nailed down with dark vocals. The band is currently working on a sequel to this release and "Gamma II" (two) songs have already been recorded.
Listen to Gamma I EP on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/alfa-pentatonik-gamma
Track list:
01. Korjattu totuus
02. Miksi et verta näe?
03. Palvot
04. Portinvartija
05. Ilman mitään suuntaa
Cover art by JP Immonen
Line-up:
JP Immonen: guitars, bass, drums, synths, composition, arrangement & production.
Janne Partanen: vocals, lyrics & arrangement.
Guests:
Harri Hytönen: solo guitar on tracks 2, 3 & 4
Maya Liittokivi vocals on track 5
https://www.facebook.com/Alfa.Pentatonik.Official
TYRMFAR'S
- "SYMBIOSIS"
EP represents a further exploration of their compositional boundaries.
Dedicated to bringing out the best in each member, the band invested
significant effort into the creative process. Drawing on their collective years
of experience, they sought to authentically convey their emotions through music.
Against the backdrop of a tense ecological and social climate, the lyrics
address these issues, expressing a sense of unease and confusion about
humanity's relationship with nature.
Strongly influenced by Scandinavian black and death metal from the late 90s and early 2000s, the EP also incorporates modern elements. Given the band members' diverse musical tastes, the songwriting process involved a collaborative effort to blend their preferred styles. The band places great importance on emotional expression, believing that a strong connection with the audience is essential to their live performances.
The EP's digital release date is 28 March 2025.
Hailing from the Swiss mountains, Tyrmfar quickly rose through the ranks of extreme metal after their 2013 inception. Their 2015 debut EP, In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit, and 2017’s acclaimed Human Abomination set the stage for performances at major European festivals like Metal Days, earning them praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” Their second album, Renewal Through Purification, showcased a powerful blend of black and death metal. In 2022, they pushed boundaries further with Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, leading to a European tour with Gorgoroth. Tyrmfar is now poised to claim their place on the world stage.
Meet Tyrmfar:
Kévin Sanchez - Guitars
Florian Métrailler- Guitars
Quentin Brunner - Drums - Backing vocals
Robin Délèze - Voice
Yannick Dulon - Bass
https://linktr.ee/tyrmfar
The official video for the album's first single, "Seeds of Entropy," has been premiered by Invisible Oranges. Check it out at the following link: https://www.invisibleoranges.com/ominous-ruin-premiere/
"Seeds of Entropy" is an explosion of chaotic riffs, intense vocals and rapid fire drums at a dizzying 270 beats per minute. The song begins after the intro to the album, a piano and guitar duet that represent a continuation from Ominous Ruin’s previous full length, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Picking up from said album, "Seeds of Entropy" utilizes many of the same musical phrases and stylings, while expanding on motifs from Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone at even faster speeds. Lyrically, "Seeds of Entropy" represents the beginning of inevitable slip into darkness as entropy consumes reality, both physical and mental form. This theme is masterfully expanded on throughout the rest of the album.
"Seeds of Entropy" will be available March 7 on all digital platforms. Requiem album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, "Seeds of Entropy. "
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Track
Listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Seeds of Entropy
3 - Eternal
4 - Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 - Divergent Anomaly
6 - Fractal Abhorrence
7 - Architect of Undoing
8 - Staring into the Abysm
9 - Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars
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Format: Digital CD-EP / Physical CD-EP
Label: Independent Release
BLACK RABBIT is:
Vocals: Nino Thomas
Guitar: Jelle Brekelmans
Guitar: Hidde Hofland
Drums: Koen van der Voet
Bassguitar: Thijs Mulder
Tracklist:
01. Malevolent Glare
02. Paracusia
03. Pity the Mind of the Frail and the Feeble
04. To Be Alive, To Walk This Earth, That Is My Curse
05. Rancid Taste of Horror
Black Rabbit is a concept-driven death metal band from Apeldoorn that seamlessly interweaves brute force and aggression with profound themes and a compelling visual presentation.
The band consists of five musical forces with diverse influences, who together create a dynamic, ruthless but refined sound.
With energetic live shows full of theatrical visuals and an intense light spectacle, Black Rabbit takes their audience into a narrative world of darkness and mystery.
Black Rabbit left a lasting impression with the release of their EP and single (2020), which laid the foundation for the story of Black Rabbit. This took further shape with the first chapter of its legend: the full-length album ‘Hypnosomnia’ (2023), an album that took the band to new heights with performances in renowned venues such as Patronaat, Iduna and even the Brabanthallen.
Sharing the stage with the likes of Baest, Vader, Exhorder and Pestilence, they have established themselves as a band that takes energy, craftsmanship and experience to a new level.
Now the band expands their sinister story further with ‘Chronolysis’, a sensory nightmare that takes the listener into the oppressive world of sleep paralysis, trapped under the manipulative grip of Black Rabbit.
At the heart of the band lives the mythical story of Black Rabbit, a demonic entity with a tragic past. He seduces and deceives his victims, confronting them with their deepest sins and feeding on their despair. Black Rabbit manipulates dreams (Hypnosomnia) and traps his victims in the suffocating grip of sleep paralysis (Chronolysis), from which there is no escape. Black Rabbit’s music forms a ritual in which each song is a chapter in his growing legend. ‘Hypnosomnia’ explored the boundary between dream and reality, while the latest EP, ‘Chronolysis’, digs deeper into the horror of sleep paralysis.
Black Rabbit is more than a metal band – it’s a total experience. With a crushing sound, well-thought-out concepts and theatrical live shows, they immerse their audience in a world where music, visuals and stories become one. Their performances are rituals, in which the audience is not just a spectator, but becomes part of the story.
With Chronolysis, the five gentlemen are setting a new, intense chapter. Their music is dynamic and raw, their shows are hypnotic and uncomfortable. Black Rabbit leaves you with a feeling of fascination and discomfort – exactly as he intended.
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ESCHATON – “TECHTALITARIAN”
Technical
death metal band Eschaton return after a gap of six years with a
reinvigorated, star-studded line-up that undoubtedly elevates their sound to
hitherto unexplored heights. They have none other than Christian Münzner
formerly of Obscura and Necrophagist accompanying the band
founder Josh Berry on guitars. For the vocals, they have enlisted the services
of Mac Smith of Apogean and Abyssalis and for the bass,
they have brought on Scott Bradly from Inanimate Existence while
Darren Cesca of Pillory and formerly in Deeds of Flesh and Arsis continues
to hold down the fort on drums. Most importantly, this line-up sounds just as
devastating on this album as it does on paper. They have contributed to
creating a tech death album that can stand on its own and does not have to be
necessarily pitted against any of the aforementioned bands' past efforts. The
members excel in their own specialized ways and they manage to make it work. It
is meticulously and passionately put together which is all too apparent in the music
that can be dizzyingly fast and mind-bogglingly technical but also groovy and
memorable while being on the whole diverse yet dynamic and pulsating with
energy. It is not just music meant for the tech death fans; it is music that
will invariably get them excited. As such, this should be regarded as an
landmark album in the style, with the presence of the illustrious members in
the lineup not taking away from the irrefutable fact that this is indeed great
tech death music.
Line up
Mac Smith - Vocals (Apogean, Abyssalis, Hammer of Dawn)
Christian Muenzner - Lead Guitar (Retromorphosis, Eternity's End, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Obscura, ex-Alkaloid)
Josh Berry - Guitar (Eschaton founder)
Darren Cesca - Drums (Goratory, Serpents of Gnosis, Pillory, Ex-Deeds of Flesh, Ex-Arsis)
Scott Bradley - Bass (Inanimate Existence)
Artwork by Dave Melvin
Track listing
1. Inferior Superior
2. Devour the Contrarian
3. Blood of the People
4. Hellfire's Woe
5. The Bellicose Duality
6. Econocracy
7. Antimatter
8. Techtalitarian
9. The Sufferer's Dichotomy
10. Castle Strnad
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Kunal Choksi Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity
Canada’s
own speed/heavy metal powerhouse BREAKER is set to
shake the foundations with the release of their lyric video for "BREAKER," the
title track from their upcoming self-titled EP. Set for release on April
4, 2025, via the label Wormholedeath, the Breaker EP promises a relentless
onslaught of screaming melodies, thunderous rhythms, and vocals that rip
through the stratosphere.Prepare to be consumed by BREAKER’s furious melodies,
high-velocity riffs, and commanding vocal power. The band takes inspiration
from classic speed metal while infusing their music with a fresh, untamed
energy that sets them apart. This is more than music—it’s a call to arms for
lovers of loud, fast, and uncompromising heavy metal
Formed in 2023 by vocalist Terje Fiskvatn, guitarist Caleb Beal (Villain, Midnight Malice), and drummer Rider Johnson (former Razor), BREAKER quickly crafted their signature sound, blending high-octane metal with fierce energy. The band’s debut EP, Breaker, features tracks like Liberty and Babylon, written by Fiskvatn and expanded with the powerful contributions of Beal and Johnson.
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Hungarian thrash-death metal force ATROX TRAUMA has unleashed the official music video for "PROBLEM, REACTION, SOLUTION," the latest single from their highly anticipated second album WHERE DEATH HUNTS, set to drop on April 18, 2025, via WormHoleDeath Records.
“We
had the opportunity to perform at a venue where there may have never been a
metal concert before,” the band shares. “Since we were already
planning to shoot a live performance video for one of our new songs, this was
the perfect setting. Problem, Reaction, Solution is our fourth music video from
the upcoming album, and we captured it during a high-energy show at the I.
Stonewall Tattoo Convention in Hódmezővásárhely. The result is a raw and
electrifying visual that embodies the essence of our music.”
The video was directed and edited by András Székely, bringing the intensity of Atrox Trauma’s live presence to the screen with unrelenting ferocity.
Atrox Trauma was founded in 2008 in Hungary. Their goal, according to the music genre, was clear from the beginning: thrash metal with death metal influences. The band recorded 2 EPs during its earlier years besides performing on live gigs. The band's strength increased in 2019, and they have been spinning at an unstoppable speed since then. It gave a series of concerts in its motherland and countries in the neighborhood. The band creates a huge listener experience with its tight, intense, fast, and face-tearing music.
In 2022 they released their first LP called 'On The Line Of Nothing And Something' by the Italian label WormHoleDeath.The listener can experience everything from intense immersion to melodic thrash metal. Four music videos provide visual support for the fan-approachable experience.
By the end of 2024, they took the stage in many countries, performing in tours and festivals, and recorded their second LP ”Where Death Hunts”.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri - Drums
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Murder Records is honored to present VULTÜR, a young band freshly exhumed at the unholy cemeteries from Milan in Italy.
VULTÜR present a voracious butcher's symphony, where we can be devoured by a unleashing raw power with a relentless energy, fusing the elements of Thrash Death Metal embraced with the fury of Hardcore, duly forged in a sonic storm that will leave you breathless and that intends to dismember us with the sharped blades swings without mercy.
The atrocious tombs are already open, where the bleeding flesh starting releasing the nauseating odors to announces VULTÜR's debut EP entitled "NECROPHAGY", which will feature with five decompositions, duly moldy in the fetid underworld and where our cadaver can slowly rot inside the coffin in this necrophilic ritual that Murder Records is preparing and that will be served on the funeral altar to feed the cadaveric worms with our filthy rotten remains.
Deadly Perversion On... Wish You Well Off...
MCD
Limited to 300 copies
Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Labyrinyh Of The Lost Souls [1:33]
02 - Necrophagy [3:34]
03 - Prison Of Flesh [4:55]
04 - Vein Cutters [3:14]
05 - The Butcher's Simphony [3:54]
Lyrics writen by Fabio Valsecchi.
Mixing and mastering by Riccardo Massa.
Logo made by Riccardo Massa.
Cover artwork by Fabio Fontana.
Recordings and work supervision by Morgan Segatore.
Space provider at CSA Baraonda by Francesco Giorgi.
VULTÜR photographs by Marco Pasqua.
Lyric video made by Danihell Slaughter.
Layout for CD and Cassette made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional flyers made by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter.
VULTÜR Line-Up
Buck Motorlungs (Vocals)
Rick Massa (Lead Guitar)
Will Fimbulvinter (Rhythmic Guitar)
Rick Cadaverous (Drums)
Andrea Bini (Bass)
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Genre: Old School Death Metal/Crust Punk
Country: Indonesia
Release date: March 10th 2025
Drain Death is a duo project formed in the Yogyakarta region in early 2022, which brings a mixture of old school death metal with the addition of crust punk, which is indirectly influenced by Nihilist, Nirvana 2002, Autopsy, to Bombandfall, Anti Cimex and Bastard Priest. In mid-2022 has released the mmxxii demo with 3 tracks.
A person's destiny in life on earth has indeed become a secret and written destiny by the creator, whether bad destiny or a disastrous event or bad things is a destiny that has been outlined. What if all of that is a test for all mankind to always remember him? Or is it a nightmare to face life? And making another choice to abandon his orders and become further away from the divine, because the disaster mercilessly devours everything?
Drain Death here is trying to respond to an event or bad things that happen in the world, and thinking about the repercussions of all of this which can make living creatures despair and feel that they don't believe in their help or grace and move further away and die in vain, all summarized in Perdona's album is entitled "Merciless Of Doom" which will be released immediately by vinyl My Back Hurts Records (US) cassette Remorseless records (US), cassette Tarung Records (IND), and CD Death in Pieces Records (MX)
There are 10 tracks of song material presented in this full album, all of which summarize the concept of a bad fate given by the creator to test all living creatures in the world, which all become the essence of the thoughts that interpret the background to making this album!! Listen!
Tracklist:
1. Enter the Solitude
2. Loud Monger
3. Drain To Death
4. Devour
5. Curse Of Darkness
6. Possessed By Evil
7. Eternal Doom
8. Crawling From Hell
9. Sacrifice Master
10. In The Pestilent Master
CD limited to 300 copies
Recording credits:
Recorded at WATCHTOWER STUDIO
Enginered by BABLE SAGALA
Mixing and mastered by BABLE SAGALA
Most artwork by WRATHVOID
Photograph Capture by KEVIN
All music and lyric by DRAIN DEATH
Except instrumental “ENTER THE SOLITUDE” and “IN THE PESTILENT NIGHTMARE” by SETYAWAN CELLO
DRAIN DEATH is:
Loudness - Vocals/Drum
Voidtor - Guitar/Bass
Layout by Ernesto Montero @ Brutal Design
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https://haildraindeath.bandcamp.com/
Highly
anticipated debut album from Italian Doom Metal act AGANOOR will
be titled "DOOMERISM" and will be released on
June 6th, 2025 in partnership with BLOODROCK RECORDS. Today we unveil the
astonishing cover artwork realized by Mirkow Gastow (Pentagram,
Clouds Taste Satanic, Stöner among his works) and the tracklist that is:
1. Bury My Soul
2. Icarus
3. Nadir
4. Emerald Lake
5. Morbid Skin
6. Mind Shadowing
With influences as diverse as CATHEDRAL, GOATSNAKE, TYPE O NEGATIVE, DANZIG, TIAMAT, AGANOOR moves from the Eternal City creating an oppressive Doom Metal wrapped in a gothic breeze, and blended with the retro tones of the rawest of Stoner Rock.
Their music is claustrophobic, yet hypnotic, a Doom Metal characterized by massive, down-tuned riffs and psychedelic atmosphere.
Dan, Anth, Stephen and Alex are the protagonists behind AGANOOR, and they are about to present their music, which appears like a heavy ritual shrouded in mist on the shores of a lake.
Pre-Order CD and LP at: https://t.ly/h4Mmp
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Tracklist:
1. 1986
2. Dogma Of War
3. Tears On The Face Of God
4. Crown Of Separation
5. Welcome The Destroyer
6. Children Of The Atomic Sun
7. The Bleeding Hands Of Faith
8. Reqviem For The Oppressor
9. Dance Of The Gods
The songs introduces you to the concept of the album that is inextricably linked to war and it is expressed through the 9 tracks of the album.
Their distinctive blend of lyricism about the horrors of the war, combined with their relentless, neck-breaking Thrash Metal, pays homage to the genre's golden age Gods such as Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus and Testament as well as some of the melody and progressive tendencies of Metal Church and Death Angel.
Formed by friends Giuseppe Taormina (guitars), Ignazio Nicastro (voice & bass), Danilo Ficicchia (drums), XENOS A.D. is a mandatory listening for fans of Thrash Metal who can rejoice in yet another band proudly flying their Metal flag.
Now, all you have to do, is experience the raw power of the fury of XENOS A.D.
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Belarusian Unleash Contra Christum - A New Brutal Death Metal Nightmare Album!
Brutal Records proudly welcomes SODOMIC BAPTISM, the unstoppable force of Belarusian Death Metal, to our roster! Their latest sonic assault, "CONTRA CHRISTUM," unleashes nine relentless tracks of crushing brutality, technical precision, and pure death metal devastation.
Release Date: June 20, 2025 Available Worldwide – Digital via The Orchard & Physical Formats
Prepare for obliteration as Sodomic Baptism delivers their most ferocious and uncompromising release yet! Stay tuned for exclusive previews, merch drops, and brutal updates!
One of Belarus’ most relentless and uncompromising forces in death metal, SODOMIC BAPTISM, returns with their full-length offering, Contra Christum. Steeped in the essence of true Satanic brutal metal, this album is a furious assault of technical precision, unyielding brutality, and apocalyptic atmosphere.
With Contra Christum, the band refuses to abandon their old-school roots, yet they push their sound into darker, more unrelenting extremes. Balancing savage, high-speed offensives with calculated, crushing sections, the album delivers both pure aggression and sophisticated composition. Tracks like Posthumous Rebirth and Adepts of Chaos accelerate into blistering chaos, while doomy passages inject a brooding, sinister weight. This isn’t just extremity for extremity’s sake—it’s calculated devastation, executed with precision.
Fans of relentless, technical, and oppressive death metal will find Contra Christum to be an essential listen. This is a record that reveals its darkest nuances with every play—fearsome, powerful, and utterly consuming.
Track list
1. Antipsalm: Purification Inthrough Antichrist
2. Posthumous Rebirth
3. Bloody Redemption
4. LCF
5. The Witches Laughter
6. Adepts of Chaos
7. Belial: The Path to Knowledge of the Abyss
8. Resurrection Outhrough Renunciation of Grace
9. The Transcendence of Existence
Watch Now: The official music video for "Adepts of Chaos", a crushing track from SODOMIC BAPTISM’s upcoming album Contra Christum, exclusively on Brutal Records' YouTube channel!
About SODOMIC BAPTISM
Formed in 2014 by Alexis and Alex Tetin, the band was built on themes of Metaphysical Evil, Hell, Darkness, and Chaos. For SODOMIC BAPTISM, Satan is not just a symbol of rebellion but the embodiment of freedom, justice, and infinite knowledge. Their music is an exploration of the abyss—a confrontation with the self beyond servitude and blind faith.
Discography:
Black Fire Pandemonium (2014) – EP
Womb Ov Sheol (2017) – Split
Black Fire Pandemonium (2017) – Full-length
Contra Christum (2025) – Full-length
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No mercy. No compromise. Only total infernal domination.
The music video to the track “Płyty” (transl.: ‘records’) has been premiered today via v13.net: https://v13.net/2025/03/cbzk-plyty-music-video-premiere/
The single will be available via all major streaming platforms from 5 March.
"Płyty" is a deep dive into the realm of cerebral and sonic glitches, a take on neuroticism, self-determination and defeat”, explains the band. “The funky beat carries the mutilated bass throughout the track, while the whispers narrate the journey of self-struggle, down the memory lane. The video that accompanies the single is a monochromatic mash-up of (joy)rides around a Subcarpathian small town.”
Pre-save “Dybuctwo” on Spotify: https://bit.ly/DybuctwoPreSave
Pre-order on Bandcamp: https://cbzk.bandcamp.com/album/dybuctwo
The eerie soundscapes on “Dybuctwo” were birthed from a collaboration between Kopczak (Malconfort) and Fas (Sea Mosquito, Malconfort, Amaltheia). Formed in 2023 across the diverse landscapes of Sanok (Poland), Bristol (UK), and Crete (Greece), CBZK is a unique fusion of hip-hop, industrial and black metal. The project was created from half-forgotten techno loops, tremolo riffs and demented whispers, which resulted in an electronic expansion of the project members’ sonic realm.
“Dybuctwo” delves deep into the surreal and unsettling aspects of Subcarpathian identity in Poland, exploring themes of distant closeness, camaraderie, and the inevitability of passing. Drawing inspiration from small-town atmospheres, Kopczak and Fas crafted an industrial soundscape that weaves together hypnotic hip-hop and black metal phrases, jarring distortions and evocative field recordings.
The lyrics explore the everlasting tensions between resilience and hopelessness, passing and death, closeness and alienation. The CBZK lyrical realm, seemingly oneiric and allegorical, is a collage of past and present realities of Subcarpathia, weaving together personal stories, mores and regional folklore.
The band previously released the single and music video “W Głębi” (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and all other streaming platforms.)
Track list:
1. W Głębi
2. Płyty
3. Topiel
4. Duchota
5.
CBZK are:
Kopczak - Beats, Production, Vocals, Lyrics, Mix, Master (Malconfort)
Fas - Guitars (Sea Mosquito, Malconfort, Amaltheia)
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AXIOM CHAOS – “PRIMACY ARRIVAL”
Label: Comatose Music
Release Date: May 9th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Vastum | Blood Incantation | Disma
By the invisible sea of secrets that laps silently about the foothills of Mons Ardeshir, they have heard. Far beyond the mountains of Mithrim, where the chroniclers of eternity write the many histories of Vulpecula in the blood of their broken fingers, they have heard. Doors have been opened and rifts have been traversed. The conjurers of chaos are blowing upon the horns of Ib and the malformed beasts of malfeasance who have slumbered in dreams aeons long are stirring. The stairways to the new world are open and the drums of destruction are calling; the fires of war are alight!
A new entity has crawled from the boiling swamps that lie in the deepest recesses of the death metal underworld. A force of terrifying alien power and chilling otherness that is about to bleed insidiously into our reality. Axiom Chaos have fused the devastating impact of death metal with the untameable capricious might of pandemonium and invoked the strange, compelling visions of Primacy Arrival! Beginning with the lurching monstrosity of ‘The King I Am’ that erupts into fetid, pustulent life, guitars howling over the deranged whispering of deformed divinities, Primacy Arrival proceeds to tear your reality to tattered shreds. Invoking fantastic atmospheres and radiating intimidating terror, this album transforms death metal into something unknowable and unnameable. In ‘The Gift Of Recognition’ the guitar leads seem to speak, uttering words from forbidden dimensions that make the skin crawl in fearful revulsion, while ‘Wormhold Pathways Of Conquest’ is simply inexorable. Primacy Arrival’s crowning glory however comes with its titanic conclusion – ‘Exodus Into Oblivion’. Shattering velocities entwine with spiralling guitar patterns and something majestic, almost beautiful emerges from the shadows as melodies unwind behind the monolithic sounds. Strange magic breaks through the song structure, an infiltration of madness to accompany this triumphal procession for a king from beyond, as our reality is consumed.
While the name of Axiom Chaos is a new one, those who march behind its banner are better known - Ben Vanweelden (Venomous Echoes, Ceremonic Buryment etc) and Justin Vølus (Vølus, Fall Of Gnosis, Maggot Crown etc) – and they are now united with the might of Comatose Music for the May 9th release of Primacy Arrival. Bedecked in the visionary artwork of Morket Art (Engulfed, Inverted Ascension etc) Primacy Arrival will challenge, disturb and dominate, opening new pathways for death metal as the story of Axiom Chaos begins.
Line-up:
Justin Vølus - Vocals
Ben Vanweelden – Guitar/Bass/Drums
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Underground
Kvlt Records, a sub-label of Odium Records, proudly announces the
release of ZMIERZCH (Twilight), the highly anticipated
second album from the Polish one-man project WESELE. Set for
release on 25 March 2025.
Underground Kvlt Records, a sub-label of Odium Records, proudly announces the release of Zmierzch (Twilight), the highly anticipated second album from the Polish one-man project Wesele. Set for release on 25 March 2025, the album delivers a haunting blend of atmospheric and depressive post-black metal, captivating fans of bands such as Furia and Odraza
Wesele is a new yet striking presence in the Polish black metal scene, weaving a sonic experience that blends melancholic melodies, relentless blast beats, and an aura of old-world decadence. The album evokes the spirit of forgotten villages, echoing the haunting imagery of Jacek Malczewski’s paintings, Stanislaw Wyspianski’s works, and the wistful tales passed down through generations.
A glimpse into this darkly immersive world can be experienced with the premiere track Tan, available now: https://youtu.be/b6LRamvuo94?si=PIQLK2ueHKDKo84S
Wesele (The Wedding) is the brainchild of Rafal Chruscicki, who conceived the project as a deeply personal and artistically unrestrained venture. Drawing inspiration from the aesthetics of Mloda Polska (Young Poland), Zmierzch represents a departure from his previous work. It is an introspective and meticulously crafted journey where music, lyrics, and visual art intertwine to form a singular, haunting vision.
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Zmierzch will be released on 25 March 2025 and is available for pre-order in CD format at:
www.odiumrecords.bandcamp.com
www.odiumrec.com
Spearheaded by their drummer, Turkish blackened death metal band Shrine of Denial are weaving together some impeccable music that's rooted in the classic sound and yet showcase some contemporary influences in their music, not unlike their label/country mates Carnophage although they're playing in a different style. No Clean Singing recently premiered their stunning title track at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/02/14/an-ncs-premiere-shrine-of-denial-i-moloch/
Excerpt - "as elaborate, as magnificent, as sinister and otherworldly, and as dreadfully frightening as the visual"
SHRINE OF DENIAL - “I, MOLOCH”
For
fans of
- Serpent of Old, Dead Congregation, Emperor, Behemoth, Burial Invocation, The
Chasm
Like their label and country mates Serpent of Old, Shrine of Denial are blending styles and forging their own sound, and channelling it through narrative, superbly thought out structures that despite the twists and turns remain memorable. Perhaps it is a Turkish trait to have the songs this meticulously written, and to achieve that Shrine of Denial have used elements of both death and black metal in varying degrees, often blurring the boundaries between the two in the process. The result is exhilarating, as the band effortlessly switches from fast, blasting parts to slow melodic hooks and then quickly accelerates back to their high-speed mode, using whatever stylistic liberties available. It is an engaging, intense and stirring album that doesn’t get carried away and goes beyond what is necessary or appropriate; despite the vagaries, it remains solid, cohesive and impactful throughout. For what it does, 'I, Moloch' is one of the strongest albums not only to come out of that region in recent times but also in the blackened death metal style as a whole.
Line up:
Eray Nabi - Vocals
Onur Uslu - Guitar
Denizkaan Aracı - Guitars
Ahmet Ünveren - Bass
Berk Köktürk - Drums
Lineup:
Eray Nabi - Vocals
Onur Uslu - Guitar
Denizkaan Aracı - Guitars
Ahmet Ünveren - Bass
Berk Köktürk - Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano
Tracklisting:
1. Climbing Through Nothingness
2. A Sanctuary In The Depths Of The Realms
3. I, Moloch
4. Pillars Of Ice
5. The Mesmer
6. Oneiros
7. Headless Idol
8. Temple of the Corpse Misuser
Release date - March 7th, 2025
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Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Born from the streets of Sao Paulo-Brazil, later relocated to Ireland, and today based in Germany, Location is just a detail at this stage. BREAKDOWN blasted on to the scene in 1998 playing every kind of show imaginable.
They quickly found themselves embraced by every facet of the insanely diverse local music scene from punk to tech death.
After recording their titled Disgrace, a 3-song demo, and a live tape called Live After Thrash, the label Unsilent Records saw live and decided to release the first BreaKdowN full length. “Time To Kill”. Released in 2007, These 8 tracks have catch the attention in the global underground scene over the following years BreaKdowN appeared in compilations and Magazines in Brazil, USA, Europe and all over the planet and shared
the stage with many important bands.
"DIVIDE AND KONQUER", the new EP, once again delivers an uncompromising extreme Metal with a blend of melody, sounding broadly defined like a bastard of DEATH, SEPULTURA, KREATOR and NWBHM with the factor X that makes BreaKdowN what it is.
After years of silence the band joined forces with Andy Classen in Stage One Studio to deliver four tracks of pure energy and uncompromising metal that will please Death Metal, Thrash and Heavy Metal fans in the same vein.
The production is heavy, old school and intense, the music is uncompromising.
https://www.breakdown-bkn.com
https://www.facebook.com/BreaKdowNBKN
Belgian Death Black Metal juggernaut DODENGOD has
officially released their highly anticipated sophomore album, "HERALDS
OF A DYING AGE", out now via Pest Records and available
here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dodengod-heralds-of-a-dying-age
Following their 2018 debut "Salvation", DODENGOD returns with a vengeance, delivering ten tracks of unrelenting darkness, seamlessly fusing Death and Black Metal with haunting Doom-infused atmospheres. "Heralds of a Dying Age" marks a shift from the industrial elements of its predecessor, embracing a rawer, more traditional sonic assault, one that is both crushingly heavy and eerily hypnotic.
Fully recorded and mixed by the band itself, the album showcases the razor-sharp riffs of YvS (guitars, bass), the venomous vocal incantations of SVN, and the ferocious drumming of Barduk, who joined in 2021, adding a new dimension of intensity and organic brutality to the band's sound.
Lyrically drenched in themes of death, anti-religion, and misanthropy, "Heralds of a Dying Age" is more than just an album, it’s a descent into an unforgiving, bleak abyss. Tracks like "Scepter of Decay", "Pillars of Ash", and "Eternal Black Sun" paint a harrowing vision of a world in collapse, reinforcing DODENGOD’s place as a force to be reckoned with in extreme metal.
"Heralds of a Dying Age" is now available on CD and digital formats via Pest Records. Enter the void and embrace the darkness!
Play / Order now: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dodengod-heralds-of-a-dying-age
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/DodenGod/
Release
date : 28.02.2025,
Label : Phobia Records
Format : LP + CD
Sechs Jahre nach ihrem letzten Album "Dusk of Doom" meldet sich die deutsche Crust-Band Hellknife aus Mannheim endlich mit "Flames of Damnation" zurück. Zehn neue Songs, die ihren charakteristischen Sound feiern und den wildesten D-Beat mit zusätzlichen Blast Beats kombinieren. Aufgenommen im Happy Cadaver Studio in Deutschland. Gemischt und gemastert von Ulf Blomberg bei Hoborec in Schweden. Erwartet einen rohen, dröhnenden Sound, der dennoch alle erforderliche Klarheit behält. Das Artwork stammt erneut von Sickness 666 (Zygoatsis, Surrender of Divinity).
Diskografie:
2015 - Hellknife (7'' EP)
2017 - Decimated to Ashes (Split LP with Tacheless)
2019 - Dusk of Doom (full-length)
2025 - Flames of Damnation (full-length)
Hellknife Bandmitglieder:
Ralf - Vocals
Alex - Drums
Markus - Guitar
Peter - Guitar
Lonski – Bass
hellknife@gmx.de
https://www.facebook.com/hellknifeband
Das norwegisch/griechische Powerhouse CHONTARAZ ist wieder aus den Untiefen seines höllischen Ursprungs (in Hell, Norwegen) aufgetaucht und entfacht mit seiner lang erwarteten Rückkehr große Vorfreude bei Fans von dunkler, dynamischer Musik. Ihr kommendes drittes Album “PHANTOM OF REALITY” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025) entführt Hörer einmal mehr in das unverwechselbare Universum von CHONTARAZ und bietet eine fesselnde Reise durch ihre modernen Klanglandschaften und atmosphärischen Geschichten.
Das Album beschäftigt sich mit der Reise, sein wahres Ich zu akzeptieren sowie der damit einhergehenden Ablehnung jeder Art der Oberflächlichkeit; eins der Hauptthemen ist dabei Authentizität. CHONTARAZ kombinieren düsteren Modern Metal mit Industrial-Elementen und vereinen intensive Energie meisterhaft mit tiefgründigen lyrischen Erzählungen, wodurch “Phantom of Reality” bei Fans sowohl auf musikalischer als auch auf emotionaler Ebene Anklang findet.
Bei der gemeinsamen Arbeit in seinem Studio in Athen stimmte die Chemie zwischen den Musikern sofort und unbestreitbar, was Fotis (alias Narwhal) dazu veranlasste, sich CHONTARAZ in Vollzeit anzuschließen. Das Ergebnis? Eine bahnbrechende Metal-Kollaboration, die eine außergewöhnliche Verschmelzung von meisterhaftem Songwriting, erstklassigen Musikern und einer Weltklasse-Produktion darstellt – ein Album, das den modernen Metal neu definieren will.
Fotis Benardos doppelte Virtuosität als Produzent sowie Schlagzeuger hat die Soundlandschaft von “Phantom of Reality” geformt und liefert eine immersive, beeindruckende Klangwelt, die jeden Track aufwertet. All das wird nahtlos mit dem brillanten Songwriting von Ahkon (Herbjørn Anglen) und Chontaraz (Frode Kvarsnes) kombiniert, die gemeinsam alle Tracks geschrieben haben und Ahkons Gitarren- und Bass-Künste mit Chontaraz' fesselndem Gesang vereinen. Das Ergebnis ist eine klangliche Explosion: ein kraftvoller Mix aus düsterem, modernen Metal und Industrial-Komponenten, die nahtlos mit Fotis' Präzision und klanglicher Vision verschmelzen. Das Album hat einen Sound, der sowohl roh als auch raffiniert, brutal und fesselnd ist.
Weitere Features auf "Phantom of Reality":
Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) als Gastsänger bei "SCREAM" (Single-VÖ: 28. Februar 2025)
George Nerantzis, verantwortlich für Keys und Industrial Add-Ons bei allen Songs
Kjetil “DeadBit” Lindløkken an zusätzlichen Keys für "Spin The Wheel",
"Prayer To The Masses" und "Dressed To Kill"
Noxaerias (Kostas Mexis) am Bass für Live-Auftritte und Musikvideos
Diese Vielzahl an Kollaborationen resultiert in einer Fusion aus erstklassigen Musikern, visionärem Songwriting und einer hervorragenden Produktion, die CHONTARAZ in neue Gefilde katapultiert. Mit Ahkon und Chontaraz, die durch ihr gemeinsames Songwriting die kreative Vision vorantreiben und Fotis Benardo, der den Sound und den Rhythmus prägt, ist dies Metal auf einem absoluten Höhepunkt.
Trackliste
für "Phantom of Reality"
1. Istanbul
2. Prayer To The Masses
3. You’re The One To Blame
4. Phantom Of Reality
5. The Flick Of Time
6. Scream (feat. Sakis Tolis)
7. Face The Fake
8. Spin The Wheel
9. Nail
10. Dressed To Kill
11. Kingpin
Digitaler Album Pre-save: https://orcd.co/phantomofreality
CD & LP Presale: https://chontaraz.com/
“SCREAM”, die erste Single vom CHONTARAZ-Album “Phantom of Reality”, wurde von Fotis Benardo produziert und ist ein roher, intensiver Track mit einem Gastauftritt von Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ). Im Song geht es um brennendes Verlangen und eine unerbittliche Jagd, bei der aggressive Energie mit aufsteigenden, filmreifen Refrains vermischt wird. Mit eindringlichen Melodien und einer animalischen Intensität erweckt das düstere und viszerale Musikvideo die rohen Emotionen des Songs zum Leben. “SCREAM
Musikvideo hier ansehen: https://youtu.be/aVVfdzTg6gU?si=dr1l6wiHJD5DahYu
Digitaler Single Pre-save: https://orcd.co/chontarazscream
CHONTARAZ stammen ursprünglich aus Hell, Norwegen, und hatten 2015 eine kühne Vision: Musik zu machen, die sie wirklich lieben, frei von stilistischen Beschränkungen, und diese mit theatralischen Liveshows, unverkennbarem Make-up sowie fesselndem lyrischen Storytelling zu vermitteln.
Ihr Debütalbum “Rondamauh” ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem legendären Produzenten Daniel Bergstrand (bekannt für seine Arbeit mit In Flames, Meshuggah, Dimmu Borgir, Devin Townsend) entstanden und erhielt viel Lob von Schwergewichten wie dem Sweden Rock Magazine, dem Metal Observer und dem Scream Magazine. Außerdem wurde es von Quebec-Metal zum drittbesten internationalen Album des Jahres 2017 gewählt und von Thomas Youngblood von Kamelot persönlich empfohlen.
2019 stellten CHONTARAZ ihr zweites Album “Speed The Bullet” während 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, vor.
Zusammenarbeit mit George Nerantzis produzierte Album erhielt hervorragende Kritiken und verhalf ihnen zu Tourneen mit Kultbands wie Sepultura und Soulfly sowie zu Auftritten im Vorprogramm von Kamelot und Cyhra.
Mit ihrem dritten Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025) haben sich CHONTARAZ endgültig in ein wahres norwegisch-griechisches Kraftpaket verwandelt, das die dunkle Rohheit des norwegischen Metal mit der technologischen Präzision und industriellen Intensität ihres neuesten Mitglieds und Produzenten Fotis Benardo verbindet.
Fotis (alias Narwhal), der für sein visionäres Schlagzeugspiel und seine Produktionsfähigkeiten bekannt ist, hat die Klanglandschaft der Band neu definiert und für einen mitreißenden, vernichtenden Sound gesorgt, der jeden Track aufwertet.
CHONTARAZ liefern damit aktuell einen wahrhaft einzigartigen Sound, der die Wildheit des Heavy Metal und die Intensität des Black Metal mit dem mechanischen Puls des Industrial und der Schärfe des Modern Metal vereint. Das Ergebnis ist eine Klangexplosion, die Grenzen verschiebt und eine musikalische Umgebung schafft, in der Chaos und Ordnung ein perfektes Gleichgewicht finden. Ein norwegisch-griechischer Metal-Juggernaut, der sich durch eine Mischung aus brutaler Kraft und melodischer Tiefe auszeichnet – mit massiven Riffs, überlagert von elektronischen Texturen und postapokalyptischen Atmosphären. CHONTARZ’ Musik füllt eine Lücke im heutigen Metal-Markt und wagt sich in dunkle Gefilde vor, die andere zu betreten zögern. Für CHONTARAZ geht es nicht nur darum, Musik zu spielen – sondern darum, ein eindringliches, immersives Erlebnis zu bieten.
Mit intensiven Vocals, krassen Gitarren und hypnotischen Rhythmen laden sie die Hörer in ihr Universum ein und schaffen einen Sound, der sowohl hart als auch tief emotional ist. “Phantom of Reality” ist nicht einfach nur ein Album; es ist eine musikalische Reise, bei der Rohheit auf Technologie, Leidenschaft auf Dunkelheit und Hoffnung auf Verzweiflung trifft.
Bereitet euch auf ein unvergleichliches Metal-Erlebnis vor. Auftritt CHONTARAZ – nicht nur eine Band, sondern eine Kraft, die bereit ist, den modernen Metal neu zu gestalten.
https://www.youtube.com/@chontarazofficial
https://chontaraz.com/
Die Band dazu:
„Stellen wir uns vor, wir müssten unser eigenes Essen töten – könnten wir das? Wir wissen doch, welches Leid mit einem exzessiven Fleischkonsum einhergeht, blenden wir das einfach aus? Als Bratwurstband warf die Tierhaltung im eigenen Garten und der Nachbarschaft irgendwann mal diese Fragen bei uns auf.
Der heutige Fleischkonsum ist das Resultat eines Systems, das Profit über Tierwohl stellt und die Natur zerstört, während wir in den industrialisierten Ländern keine Berührung mit diesen Tieren haben. War das Bewusstsein bei der eigenen Tierhaltung und Weiterverarbeitung früher noch ein anderes und Fleisch etwas Besonderes, ist es heute selbstverständlich, billiges Fleisch im Discounter zu kaufen und täglich zu konsumieren.
Dass sich immer mehr Menschen für einen bewussteren Fleischkonsum entscheiden oder sogar ganz darauf verzichten, ist eine wichtige Entwicklung. Doch genau diese Menschen müssen sich oft auf Familienfeiern rechtfertigen und werden belächelt, anstatt dass man ihnen ernsthaft zuhört.
Mit unserem Video zu „Blind“ wollen wir nicht belehren, sondern zum Nachdenken anregen.“
Video Credits:
Regie: Mirko Witzki
Produziert von Witzki Visions
Make Up Arts: Laura Schlösser
Starring: Laura Glatter, Laura Schlösser
Gefilmt im Movie Park Germany & F-Haus Jena
“Veins Of Fire” Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere. Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens. Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
Shop:
https://desertedfear.ffm.to/blind
http://lnk.spkr.media/desertedfear-fire
Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" wird als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich sein. Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle werden exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich sein.
www.desertedfear.de
www.facebook.com/desertedfear
DESERTED FEAR werden Ende April zur Veröffentlichung von „Veins Of Fire“ auf
Tour gehen.
VEINS OF FIRE - TOUR 2025
Deserted Fear
Kvaen
Fall Of Serenity
Messticator
Do 24.04. Hamburg - Bahnhof Pauli
Fr 25.04. Essen - Turock
Sa 26.04. Jena - F-Haus
So 27.04. Osnabrück - Bastard Club (Matinée!)
Mo 28.04. Kassel - Goldgrube
Di 29.04. Hannover - Musikzentrum
Mi 30.04. Berlin - Cassiopeia
Do 01.05. Wiesbaden - Schlachthof
Fr 02.05. München - Backstage (Halle)
Sa 03.05. Stuttgart - Club Zentral
3.-5.7.2025 Ballenstedt - Rockharz Festival
1.-2.8.2025 Dortmund - Dortmund Deathfest
Tickets: https://www.desertedfear.de/tour
Tourtrailer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/30LjXhqENsw
The
work has been now introduced by praised hardcore rescue IDIOTEQ, who have
premiered the official music video for the song “Nada” (directed
by colacolectiva), stating that “The new track is a death
knell ringing out of Curitiba, Brazil’s festering underbelly, a taste of the
fifteen-track, twenty-five-minute slab of nekro-hardcore to come. No mercy, no
light. Just a raw howl from the slums and graveyards, where suffering’s the
only currency.” - you can check out the feature and song here https://idioteq.com/from-curitibas-rot-clan-dos-mortos-cicatriz-drops-nada/
Throughout their crepuscular auditory journey the Brazilian cult display an unrivaled craftsmanship in conjuring and condensing the greatest moments of dark punk, hardcore and crust (Black Flag, G.I.S.M., Misfits, Rudimentary Peni), death rock (Christian Death, The Damned) and black metal (Hellhammer, Ildjarn) into their own magistral ritual of transcendence through the celebration death, bending each one of their influences into a masterclass of gangrenous sonic disarray, majestic evocative power, and frenetic emotional chaos. Each one of the fifteen short spells of rage and misery that comprise this unforgettable long player is both a poem, a denunciation, an epitaph, an oath of penitence, and a declaration of war, all strewn across a death-scarred canvas of frantic and stylish guitar licks, pummeling demented rhythms, and a wailing sermon of spectral, hysterical vocals doused in morbid poetry and ominous existentialism.
"Técnicas de Morte" is scheduled for a 21 March 2025 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, MC, and digital formats, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/clan-dos-mortos-cicatriz-tecnicas-de-morte
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/clan-dos-mortos-cicatriz
The new album will follow the dark and melancholic atmospheres of its predecessor, with even more intense and macabre songs, confirming the unmistakable imprint of the band.
While waiting for further details on the album, the group announces one of the rare live appearances scheduled for 2025: on March 15th, Cultus Sanguine will plaly at the Alternative Music Club in Montenero di Bisaccia (CB), sharing the stage with Sakater and Black Faith.
An unmissable event for Dark Metal fans, a unique opportunity to attend a concert that promises evocative atmospheres full of intensity.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/JoeCultusSanguine
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release Date: May 2nd 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Judas Priest | Hellion | Burning Witches | Warlock
The seeds of Washington State metal band, Hangfire, were sown when guitarist Sean ‘Shredder’ Searls, noted for his work with Tyraels Ascension and hugely experienced bassist Steven Tolbeck crossed paths on their local music scene. They started working together, the dream being to create a new band with a classic sound – powerful, melodic heavy metal with a thunderous rhythm section and soaring vocals, riffs that instantly connected with the metal heart and solos that gleamed with the irresistible fire of the greats. After two years they found powerhouse drummer Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Laird (The Braindead, For The Love Of Suffering etc) and a year later, the final magical piece of the puzzle – vocalist Jenea Fiore. And now it’s time to Burn!
Hangfire’s debut album, Burn, is an instant metal classic. The anticipation is there immediately as the atmospheric intro of first track, ‘Hunger’, begins…and when it explodes into life in an array of magnificent riffs then the fabulous adrenaline rush kicks in. Searl’s lead guitar work is electrifying and Jenea’s voice simply breathtaking, while Tolbeck and Laird create a rock solid foundation, a stage for them to duel across. Every song is marked by incredible individual performances, but also by the accomplished writing and arrangements. The pure metal magnificence of ‘Thunder’, the epic Priest-like style and bite of ‘Warhawk’; it’s so refreshing to hear such dexterity and creativity channelled into original, melodic heavy metal and a band unafraid to stretch out into different territories confident in their vision and abilities. Jenea is simply one of the finest singers you’ll hear operating in this field. Her range and accuracy matched only by her breadth of expression and character. The aggressive swagger of ‘White Lie’ and the beautifully executed ballad, ‘Falling Awake’ really shine a spotlight on her remarkable talent. With an album of this quality every song plays an integral part, but special mention must be given to first single ‘Headspin’ which captures the true spirit of metal in its every moment, as well as the grit and groove of the Western tinged ‘Outlaw’. This is the beginning of something special.
Rottweiler Records were quick to welcome Hangfire into their pack, impressed by the band’s huge potential, great songs and enthralling live performances with the likes of Greyhawk and Witch Ripper. Together Rottweiler and Hangfire will unleash the power and passion of Burn on May 2nd so be ready, because you don’t want to miss this!
Line-up:
Jenea Fiore - Vocals
Sean ‘Shredder’ Searls - Guitar
Steven Tolbeck - Bass
Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Laird - Drums
https://officialhangfireband.com/
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
The Reckoning, Pt.2 reframes the central question posed in The Hubris of Humanity, Pt.1': Will humanity's legacy be one of destruction or redemption? The juxtaposition of destruction and renewal ties the two parts together, offering a cohesive narrative about humanity's relationship with the Earth and its responsibility to evolve before it's too late.
The Reckoning, Pt.2 features the unique signature sound of the band's blackened death metal, blending relentless aggression with a haunting atmosphere. crushing riffs and guttural roars intertwine with ominous melodies, capturing the tension between destruction and redemption.
Hailing from the Swiss mountains, Tyrmfar quickly made their mark in the extreme metal scene since their 2013 debut. Their EP In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit (2015) and the acclaimed Human Abomination (2017) led to major European festival appearances, including Metal Days, where they earned praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” With their second album, Renewal Through Purification, and their 2022 release Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, Tyrmfar solidified their sound, embarking on a European tour with Gorgoroth.
The upcoming Symbiosis EP pushes the band’s compositional boundaries further, blending their blackened death metal roots with modern influences. Against the backdrop of an uncertain ecological and social climate, the EP reflects a deep exploration of humanity's relationship with nature. Each band member’s distinct style contributes to the collaborative process, bringing raw emotion and intensity to both the music and their live performances. Hailing from the Swiss mountains, Tyrmfar quickly made their mark in the extreme metal scene since their 2013 debut. Their EP In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit (2015) and the acclaimed Human Abomination (2017) led to major European festival appearances, including Metal Days, where they earned praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” With their second album, Renewal Through Purification, and their 2022 release Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, Tyrmfar solidified their sound, embarking on a European tour with Gorgoroth.
The upcoming Symbiosis EP pushes the band’s compositional boundaries further, blending their blackened death metal roots with modern influences. Against the backdrop of an uncertain ecological and social climate, the EP reflects a deep exploration of humanity's relationship with nature. Each band member’s distinct style contributes to the collaborative process, bringing raw emotion and intensity to both the music and their live performances.
https://www.facebook.com/tyrmfar/
DEAD CHASM - “SPECTRAL TYRANNY”
For
fans of: Dead
Congregation, Grave Miasma, Incantation, Cruciamentum
Italian death/doom metal band Dead Chasm bring forth their latest material that promises to be their most potent output yet. There's not a second wasted on these three songs which are dense with stomach-churning riffs and doom passages that are all but enveloping, while the execution remains tighter than ever before. They make everything work like clockwork as a three-piece unit and there's not a single area where they leave something to be desired. The songs are more elaborately structured than usual in this death/doom style and it's particularly noteworthy how they take the time to flesh out the riffs and go about it all in a natural way rather than forcing it or coming across as ostentatious at any given point of time. Be it during the slower sections building up the thick, ominous atmosphere or the faster, pummelling parts, it's all done in a sincere manner and that too with the right organic sound that retains some of the rawness. Dead Chasm have come up with a bunch of songs that are virtually faultless but more importantly are of the kind that would resonate with any true fan of death/doom metal.
Line up
L. - Guitars and Vocals
G. - Bass guitar
D. - Drums
Illustration by Manuel Scapinello
Track listing
1. Beneath Decadent Shadows
2. Spectral Tyranny
3. Spawn in Absurdity
Release date - May 16th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/deadchasm
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
The
debut mini-album, “DUNKLE WELT”, contains of seven tracks that
shows the many sides of DUNKLE ZUKUNFT.
Inspiration to our music comes from a diverse collection of bands, artists and genres.
The result is a genre-defying crossover style that challenges musical conventions while remaining profoundly accessible. DUNKLE ZUKUNFT goal is to take the listener on a journey through dark, atmospheric landscapes punctuated by electrifying rhythms and haunting melodies.
As DUNKLE ZUKUNFT emerges onto the global stage, the band invites listeners to join them in exploring the unknown — an invitation to embrace the beauty and chaos of the dark future.
Tracklist:
1. Dunkle Welt
2. Flammen am Himmel
3. Apokalypse Ruft
4. Der Letzte Man
5. Das Ende
6. Die Letzten Gedanken
7. Unfelt Dunkelheit
DUNKLE ZUKUNFT is a groundbreaking music collective helmed by Zane Solaris. With a name that translates to "Dark Future," this music collective delves into the uncharted territories of modern soundscapes, crafting a unique blend that they boldly call "the music of the future."
Drawing inspiration from a kaleidoscope of genres, DUNKLE ZUKUNFT masterfully fuses elements of Industrial music, 1970s Synth bands, Electro, Pop, Metal, and even occasional nods to Punk. The result is a genre-defying crossover style that challenges musical conventions while remaining profoundly accessible. With a flair for innovation and a deep understanding of diverse musical traditions, DUNKLE ZUKUNFT takes listeners on a journey through dark, atmospheric landscapes punctuated by electrifying rhythms and haunting melodies.
DUNKLE ZUKUNFT's debut album is a testament to this visionary approach. Each track serves as a chapter in a larger narrative, offering a glimpse into a dystopian yet strangely alluring sonic future. From pulsating Industrial beats to introspective Synth-driven ballads, the album weaves a rich tapestry of sound that captures both the melancholy and the hope of our uncertain tomorrow.
As DUNKLE ZUKUNFT emerges onto the global stage, the band invites listeners to join them in exploring the unknown — an invitation to embrace the beauty and chaos of the dark future.
https://www.facebook.com/dunklezukunft
Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-disgust
Vocalist Kurwa Doktor was caught up being busy with sewing brand new patches onto his inner thigh skin, but had this to say about Disgust:
"After many delays and close-to-nervous-breakdowns our fifth album is out! Available on CD and vinyl, both limited editions. Again, the song lengths do not reach the magical 3 min limit, so in this time and age when everyone wants everything immediately we think that our songs serve as a perfect get-away for persons diagnosed with concentration problems. And the album is a very good soundtrack for sensual solo manoeuvres as well, if you like your act short and intensive."
Music videos from the album:
https://youtu.be/GSXtaXtBDms
https://youtu.be/GuPBSDV3Yvo
https://youtu.be/fXsUjYwPHIk
Confirmed gigs in Finland:
Pe 28.2. Turku, Nirvana
La 1.3. Pori, Annis
Pe 28.3. Riihimäki, Bar Bulldog
La 29.3. Tampere, Bar Kotelo
La 24.5. Lohja, Masterhouse
CANNIBAL ACCIDENT - DISGUST (ALBUM 2025)
Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
https://www.facebook.com/cannibalaccident
You can get this through the label writing to lifeeternalprods@gmail.com or get in touch with us.
UNHOLY IMPURITY - "OCULUS MORTIS"
Genre : Black Metal
FFO: old Mayhem and Watain, Marduk, Celestial Bloodshed;
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date: February 28th 2025
Bone maniacs UNHOLY IMPURITY style is sinister and ritualistic, reminiscent of first-era Mayhem and Watain, as well as of Marduk and Celestial Bloodshed. There is a certain authenticity, easely perceptible, which directs the conjured sensations towards the very essence of Black Metal, in its dark and ominous spirit. "Oculus Mortis" is old school, raw and straight to the point. The past is alive!
Hailing from Sardinia, the island whose ancient population dates back to the Bronze Age, UNHOLY IMPURITY are inspired by anticosmic spirituality and ancient mysteries linked to Sardinia's culture. The album features four songs with lyrics in Sardinian language (hence Sardinian Native Black Metal) and an astonishing detailed artwork by the indonesian artist Oik Wasfuk (Watain, Nothing Sacred Artwork).
The album will be officially premiered on February 27th via the popular YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion.
Sale Points:
Sardinian Black Metal;
Four songs with lyrics in Sardinian autchthonous language;
Detailed artwork by Oik Wasfuk (Watain, Nothing Sacred Artwork);
Full-album premiere on Black Metal Promotion (Feb 27th 2025).
Tracklist:
1) Into The Abyss
2) Black Magic
3) Ancient Stones Of Death
4) The Oldest One
5) The Healer
6) Treutos Corrudos
7) Sos Filos de sa Morte
8) Requiem
Recorded at SpaceCraft and RKS Studio (OSSI), August/September 2023.
Mixed and mastered by Delio Soro at Soundlikekong Studio Sassari (Sassari), February/March 2024.
Band logo and album title handmade by Erkitu.
Design and layout by SSCVLT.
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Formed in 2016, Stockholm-by-way-of-London power rockers THE RIVEN have carved a uniquely compelling place for themselves, drawing musical influence from a wide array of genres. Hard rock, old prog, early heavy metal, and even simply rock ‘n’ roll itself: no mossy stone is left unturned by THE RIVEN. And when combined with their lyrical themes – from everyday life all the way to the fantasy-inspired, with sometimes both intertwining – the quintet have forged their own path, displaying a sound fitting firmly within the late ‘70’s and early ‘80s but with an effervescence that feels palpably modern.
Where their second album, 2022’s Peace and Conflict, felt like a watershed moment – moving from the “powerful rocker” of their eponymous debut album in 2019 to an emotive, electric, but no-less-earthy sort of NWOBHM – THE RIVEN sound positively poised for another breakthrough with their forthcoming third full-length, Visions of Tomorrow. Presciently titled, Visions of Tomorrow struts and sways with that sort of star quality that can only come from total, utter self-belief…and absolutely stunning songs! The sound is more present and raw than before, ear-effortlessly exuding dynamics lost to most “hard rock” bands. THE RIVEN here offer a sumptuous feast of familiar-yet-fresh heavy rock built on massive HOOKS and HEART. Not for nothing have they become a finely honed ensemble; touring nonstop has been the band’s lifeblood for years now, and that tangible sense of magick swirls about each of these 11 anthems. New drummer Elias Jonsson pumps that blood with an almost “laidback urgency,” and the rest of THE RIVEN let rip with what they liken more “complete” songwriting: the songs may be shorter than previous ones, but they’re undeniably more action-packed and nuanced.
Interestingly, while writing for Visions of Tomorrow was done in Stockholm in late 2023, THE RIVEN was selected for an international studio residency as part of the Swedish national arts association, and the band lived for a few days at the highly prestigious studio Fascination Street in Örebro. The album was mixed and co-produced by Robert Pehrsson (The Hellacopters, Tribulation, Dead Lord among others). Lyrically, Visions of Tomorrow showcases a band that is frustrated about how the world is run, who’s in charge, and what is about to happen to the rest of us. Musically, it showcases a band that can handle their instruments and is willing to explore and go on musical journeys. THE RIVEN themselves claim that this third album is “a fine example of rock ‘n’ roll being played at its best – it's honest, it’s urgent, it’s calling you, and it will make you shake your fist and bang your head – all while thinking about where we are and where we are going.”
Wherever you want to go with Visions of Tomorrow, there’s no disputing the fact that THE RIVEN are poised to take over the biggest stages all over the world!
Line-up:
Totta Ekebergh - Vocals
Joakim Sandegård - Guitar
Arnau Díaz - Guitar
Max Ternebring - Bass
Elias Jonsson - Drums
From Stockholm, Sweden
Release date:
25th April 2025
Tracklist
1 Far Away From Home
2 Killing Machine
3 Set my Heart on Fire
4 Travelling Great Distance
5 Crystals
6 On my Mind tonight
7 Seen it all
8 Visions of Tomorrow
9.En Dag Som Aldrig Fo¨rr
10 We Love you
11 Follow You
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
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INCINERATION
IN THE INFINITE
is a Blackened Doom Metal project initiated by Ömer Doğramacı. Serving as a
sister band to his other project, Fragmentary Solid Abyss, both projects
explore similar musical and conceptual territories. However, Incineration in
the Infinite has distinctive tempo shifts and streamlined song structures.
The project embraces simplicity in its songwriting, drawing inspiration from the rebellious essence of Punk Rock while layering in the crushing weight of Stoner Metal and the dark, brooding atmospheres of Doom.
The EP's release date is 14 March 2025.
Tracklist
1. Satanic Ritual in the Fog of Night
2. Dancing Among the Stars
3. The Gates of Daemons
Step into the extraordinary realm of Incineration in the Infinite and stay connected:
www.youtube.com/@IncinerationintheInfinite
https://incinerationintheinfinite.bandcamp.com/
The
tour starts March 1 in Nashville. Dates are as follows.
3/1 - DRKMTTR - Nashville, TN
3/2 - Culture Shock - Atlanta, GA
3/3 - The Milestone - Charlotte, NC
3/4 - Chapel of Bones - Raleigh, NC
3/5 - The Metro - Baltimore, MD
3/6 - The Nail - Ardmore, PA
3/7 - The Woodshop - Brooklyn, NY
3/8 - The Middle East, Upstairs - Boston, MA
PATHOGENIC and Skepsis Recordings have teamed with Ghost Cult Magazine to give fans a chance to win a Crowned in Corpses vinyl/t-shirt bundle. The winner will receive a limited edition, red and orange variant of the album, along with a t-shirt featuring the artwork.
Crowned in Corpses is out now on Skepsis Recordings. The album marks the band's first full-length release in over half a decade, promising a bold evolution of their signature brand of progressive tech death, while retaining the intensity that has defined the band for years.
Order Crowned in Corpses on CD and vinyl at www.skepsisrecordings.com
Crowned in Corpses was produced by Raymond Marte (Moon Tooth), Anthony Lopardo (Loss Becomes), and ourselves. Raymond Marte mixed and mastered the record. Crowned in Corpses music video was shot by Nick Court of Killing It Entertainment.
Out of Boston’s depths emerges PATHOGENIC, a force unshackled from hiatus and reborn with Crowned in Corpses. Over 42 punishing minutes, this progressive death metal quintet weaves together labyrinthine riffs, relentless rhythms, and chilling visions of a decaying world.
In 2022, the band’s resurgence was ignited when original vocalist Jake Burns and new drummer Tyler Montaquila joined forces with guitarists Chris Gardino, Justin Licht, and bassist Dan Leahy. Together, they’ve forged a sound that is ferocious, intricate, and unapologetically heavy — delivering metal that demands to be heard.
PATHOGENIC has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Revocation, and The Faceless, and has annihilated crowds at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and RPM Fest. Known for their high-octane live performances, the band’s energy and command leave audiences with no choice but to headbang furiously.
Set to release on February 7, 2025, through Skepsis Recordings, Crowned in Corpses is a ferocious musical declaration: eight tracks of devastating power and haunting warnings of the darkness that lies ahead.
PATHOGENIC is:
Jake Burns - vocals
Chris Gardino - guitars
Justin Licht - guitars
Dan Leahy - bass
Tyler Montaquila - drums
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Welcome to the musical laboratory of Elisa Montaldo and Samael Von Martin, welcome to a dark and lysergic universe where experimentation and avant-garde sound reign supreme, welcome to the world of ALBUS DIABOLUS.
Here is "LITURGICA", the first song from the
album "COMPENDIO ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO".
The lyric video is available at https://youtu.be/AZaPdDYOPIA
The song is deliberately perhaps the most marked point of conjunction between MATER A CLIVIS IMPERAT, a project involving the two actors of this new creature, and ALBUS DIABOLUS who are an insane entity in the European Electro-Goth scene.
It is an ideal bridge, perhaps less representative than other songs, but which brings the listener in a more eclectic way, from the progressive and avant-garde soul of the dark project that gave birth to the masterpiece entitled "Carmina Occulta" and this "Compendio Esoterico Elettronico" which was born to destabilize our peaceful existence.
The album will be released on April 11th only on vinyl and digital as well as in a special limited edition that includes the album with shirts, posters and other merch.
Pre-Order active and available on http://bit.ly/3CejxJq
The journey into their Art has just started!
And now... let the Sabbath begin!!!
In ALBUS DIABOLUS the gothic and black aesthetic of extreme music merges with the Progressive vein of Mater A Clivis Imperat, all with a clear and decisive electronic imprint influenced by the Synth-Wave and Dark-Wave of the 80s.
Sound imaginaries created with synthesizers, drum machines and arcane atmospheres intertwine with powerful guitars by special guest Simòn Ferètro, materializing everything in an emotional and immersive journey that recalls influences of works such as "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, and bands such as EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS.
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Genre : Black Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 28th 2025
FFO: old Satyricon, Marduk, Mayhem, Immortal, Dissection, Rotting Christ, Mortuary Drape;
Sardinian Native Black Metal veterans VULTUR are finally able to reveal their new opus to the world: "Cultores de Perdas e Linna" has been recorded in 2023 but didn't see light until now, in 2025. The album, whose title means "stone and woods worshippers" (which is how christians derogatery defined the ancient Nuragic population), features eight songs with lyrics in Sardinian language except for "Nemini Parco", sung in Italian and Latin.
VULTUR style is aggressive, unmerciful and fast-paced, showcasing intriguing riffs and a certain degree of dark violence. Fans of old Satyricon, Marduk, Mayhem and Immortal will find themselves pleased, as well as for the lovers of Dissection's melodic bridges, old Rotting Christ's evocativness and Mortuary Drape's rhythmic dynamism and heavyness.
The artwork takes inspiration from the Sardinian popular mask "Su Boe", one of the most important characters of Sardinian Carnival tradition.
Founded exactly 20 years ago, VULTUR has been one of the very first Black Metal acts featuring lyrics in Sardinian Campidanese language, with themes about Sardinian occultism and folk superstitions. Sardinia, the island whose ancient population dates back to the Bronze Age, features a rich archaic history and culture, whose folklore still breaths nowdays within its fond population.
The album will be premiered on the popular YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion on February 26th 2025.
Sale Points:
Sardinian Native Black Metal;
Vultur is the oldest Black Metal band featuring lyrics in Sardinian;
The artwork takes inspiration from the popular mask "Su Boe";
Full-album premiere on Black Metal Promotion (Feb 26th 2025).
Tracklist:
1) Su Frastimu
2) Eternu Trumentu
3) Su Spegu
4) Femina Mala
5) Arestis
6) Cultores Lapides et Lignea
7) Umbras
8) Nemini Parco
Recorded at Cut Fire Mixing Studio by Alberto Bandino, Sanluri (SU), in May and June 2023.
Artwork by Maristella Spanu.
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Band's statement:
“Haxprocess is thrilled to join Transcending Obscurity's amazing roster. Kunal is one of the most hard-working and passionate individuals in the world of extreme metal, and we are extremely happy to be working with him. This partnership will allow Haxprocess to fully convey our ideas of exploratory death metal like never before, and we are so excited for what’s to come! Again, big thanks to Kunal for everything he does.”
Haxprocess is:
Lothar Mallea - Guitar and vocals
Shane Williamson - Guitar
Davis Leader - Bass
Adam Robinson - Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano (Ritual Fog, Typhonian, Shrine of Denial)
Track listing
1. Where Even Stars Die 11:27
2. The Confines of the Flesh 09:28
3. Thy Inner Demon Seed 10:42
4. Sepulchral Void 13:11
Release date - T.B.A. (tentatively mid 2025)
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Thanks! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Hailing from the highlands of Cajamarca, Peru’s HYENA have been delivering true and uncompromising heavy metal since 2018. Founded by guitarist and songwriter Alfonso Espinoza, the band emerged with a clear mission: to keep the spirit of heavy metal alive and untamed.
With a career forged in the underground, HYENA’s music is pure adrenaline – direct, explosive, and unapologetic. Their demos and raw recordings have been released around the globe, earning a cult following among diehard maniacs of authentic, no-frills heavy metal. HYENA’s extensive touring journey has taken them from spontaneous, off-the-grid gigs in remote locations to headlining underground festivals across Latin America, Asia, and Oceania, where the passion for metal reigns supreme.
Now, HYENA are unleashing About Rock and Roll, their aptly titled debut album. This ten-track attack captures the band’s energy and unwavering commitment to the roots of heavy metal – particularly the genre’s earliest days, during the pivotal late ‘70s, when rock ‘n’ roll indeed still formed the foundation. Packed with vicious, headbanging riffs that make you want to raise your fist and let all Hell break loose, About Rock and Roll delivers solos as memorable as they are fierce, a relentless rhythm section that’s pure pounding-metal, and a commanding vocal performance that pierces through and devastates everything in its path.
Influenced by NWOBHM, Japanese heavy metal, and speed metal, HYENA channel the spirit of bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Motörhead – big names, sure, but reverence is key when taking this torch. To coincide with the release of About Rock and Roll, HYENA will perform for their first time on European solo at the 25th anniversary of the legendary Keep it True Festival.
Line-up:
Alfonso Espinoza - Guitars
Leonardo Zelada - Drums
Sergio Silva - Guitars
El Sucio - Vocals
Alexander Rojas - Bass
From Cajamarca, Peru
Release date:
25th April 2025
Tracklist
1 Nightriders
2 About Rock And Roll
3 The Eternal Zero
4 Hail The Fire
5 Epitome of Evil
6 Echoes of the Underworld
7 Ready to Explode
8 Metal Machine
9 Hyena
10 Keep It True
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
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Canadian
heavy metallers BREAKER have signed a licensing deal with
Wormholedeath Records for their self-titled EP BREAKER, due for
release on 04 April 2025.
Formed in 2023 by vocalist Terje Fiskvatn, guitarist Caleb Beal (Villain, Midnight Malice), and drummer Rider Johnson (former Razor), BREAKER quickly crafted their signature sound, blending high-octane metal with fierce energy. The band’s debut EP, Breaker, features tracks like Liberty and Babylon, written by Fiskvatn and expanded with the powerful contributions of Beal and Johnson.
The EP captures the essence of classic speed and heavy metal, with blistering guitar riffs, pounding rhythms, and dynamic vocals. With their signing to Wormholedeath, BREAKER is poised to bring their high-energy, unstoppable sound to a global audience. Prepare for a furious ride from one of Canada’s newest heavy metal forces.
Tracklist
1.Breaker
2 . Babylon
3 .Liberty
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Following ten years of silence after the release of their debut album The Embers Of The Stars and the untimely death of vocalist Steven, UK-based atmospheric black metal trio AHAMKARA returns with a new lineup and new album THE HARROW OF THE LOST, an unflinching exploration of the transformative nature of grief.
The
band has shared a stream for the album track “OUR SCARS SHALL ABIDE IN
THE THAW.” The exclusive premiere for the song comes via Decibel
Magazine. Listen to “Our Scars Shall Abide in the Thaw” now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/02/25/track-premiere-ahamkara-our-scars-shall-abide-in-the-thaw/
The Harrow of the Lost is due out April 25 on Bindrune Records. Pre-order the album at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/
The Harrow of the Lost tracklisting:
1. The Circle of Remembrance
2. Our Scars Shall Abide in the Thaw
3. Channelling Grief
4. Ordeal of Ascension
An emotionally charged and fiercely personal record, The Harrow of the Lost takes the AHAMKARA sound in a more complex and tormented direction, encompassing existential rage, nihilistic despair, and all in between. Both rawer and more organic in sound, intensified by the electrifying drum work of new member Austin Lunn (Panopticon), and scaling greater peaks of Emperial ambition than ever before, the album integrates the expansive reach of the Cascadian black metal sound with the densely detailed savagery of classic Emperor and the aching melancholy of early Anathema to produce a deeply involving journey of genre-transcending atmospheric metal.
Completed by a heartfelt and uncompromising vocal performance from founder member Michael and the nuanced, evocative synth work of Alexandra (also of labelmates Nemorous), this is a journey into the scorched earth landscapes of bereavement that no follower of the Bindrune family should miss.
AHAMKARA is:
Michael Blenkarn – Vocals. Guitars,
Austin Lunn - Drums
Alexandra Blenkarn-Durning - Synth
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Finnish
death metal band WRETCHED PATH releases their second
album "SEA OF DEATH" on March 26th 2025.
First single "RELEASE OF VIOLENCE" introduced
the straight-forward and raw side of the upcoming album. Now released title
track of the album dives into the versatile depths with epic touch. The band
also releases a music video of the single.
"The lyrics were inspired by the sound of a submarine sonar heard in the original intro, which took the lyricist’s thoughts to the Baltic Sea in 1945, where several ships were sunk during the final days of the war. These events constitute the greatest loss of life ever recorded at sea. This track is the perfect conclusion to the album." tells the Singer Esa Salminen.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer etc): https://push.fm/fl/wretchedpath-sods
Formed in 2020 by seasoned musicians from renowned bands like Pestigore, Born of Thorns, Tukkanuotta, and Warmen, Wretched Path was born out of a desire to return to their Death Metal roots. Their debut album received rave reviews from various magazines and websites, and they played several gigs around Finland including the legendary Nummirock festival 2023.
https://www.wretchedpath.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wretchedpath
The video was premiered today via The Obelisk and can be viewed
here: https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025/02/25/church-of-the-sea-eva-vid-premiere/
"Eva" reimagines the biblical story of Eve, challenging the traditional narrative and celebrating her defiance. The band explains, “Eva” is a twist in the story from the Book of Genesis, where the female is not seen as the sinner for seeking knowledge, but as the rebel that embraces what others consider ‘forbidden’”
Regarding the music video, Church of the Sea added: “The video is a further juxtaposition between the forbidden and what is established as righteous and ideal. The creations of man that abuse nature, in contrast with the animalistic instincts in all of us, fighting to break free.”
The album will be released in digital and CD formats, with a limited “sunburst” edition on vinyl
Formed in 2017 in Athens, Greece, the three individuals in Church of the Sea create a distinct sound, balancing between doom and dark electronic rock. They embrace fuzzed sounds, heavy distorted beats and ethereal, chant‐like vocals. The result is a unique atmosphere where doom’s heaviness meets the dreamlike state of shoegaze and the shrieks of noise‐rock.
Their debut EP “Anywhere but Desert”, released on 2 October 2018, was recorded at
Artracks Studios and Coti K’s Suono Studios, engineered and produced by Alex Bolpasis
(Whereswilder, Noise Figures, Cyanna Mercury) and Church of the Sea, mixed and mastered by Chris Common (Chelsea Wolfe, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Emma Ruth Rundle). On 8 February 2019 “Anywhere but Desert” was released on cassette by A Man out of A Man Records and on 13 April 2019 on vinyl by Smash Records.
Their debut album “Odalisque” was released on 8 April 2022. It was recorded at Suono
Studios, engineered and produced by Alex Bolpasis and Church of the Sea, mixed by Alex
Bolpasis, and mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Mastering (Alice In Chains, Garbage, LA Witch, The Black Angels).
For the recording of “Eva” the band returned to Suono Studios, while Alex Bolpasis was responsible for the engineering, production and mixing. The album was mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Mastering.
The band has taken part in several festivals (Happening Now, Cult of the Amps, Templefest),
and was the opening act for numerous bands, including Antimatter, The Murder Capital, Messa and Dool. Their track record also includes two sold-out performances at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Athens.
Listen to the single “Eva” via all streaming services: https://bio.to/cots
The “Eva” music video was completed in collaboration with Zetel Skempris, snuffmasks and rat.sfx.
Church of the Sea are:
Irene – Vocals
Vangelis – Guitars
Alex – Synths and samples
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OF THE MUSES' sophomore album, very evocatively titled "UNDERHEAVENS— OF BLOOD, GHOSTS AND SALTWATER" , begins to take shape in its most complete and intimate essence.
Today we present to you the wonderful cover created by Tryfar and the complete
tracklist that will make you feel under your skin the emotions and the beauty
of this album:
1. Intro
2. A Summer Burial
3. Spirits Interlude
4. Pilgrimage
5. The In-Between Was A Fever Dream
6. Phantom Limb
7. The Night
8. Underheavens (Outro)
Cristina Rombi, mind and soul of the project, has recorded this second creature at Opus Magnum Studio, ran by famed producer and musician Déhà (Slow, Silver Knife, Wolvennest, former Dropdead Chaos among others). His skill impressively shaped the sound of the Italian artist's newest endeavor. If with "Senhal" Cristina Rombi ushered us into a world of poetry, anger and melancholy, for "Underheavens— Of Blood, Ghosts And Saltwater", the talented Italian multi-instrumentalist will take us into a very private and intimate universe equally full of pain, but painted with utterly vulnerable and existential tinges, no longer conveyed through the extremism of screams, blastbeats and distortions, but rather with impressive emotional depth and staggering transparency both in lyrical themes and musical delivery.
Cristina Explains: “To finally introduce an album I poured my heart and soul into, is something that makes me incredibly happy. Without a doubt, this is the kind of record I always wanted to make, and I’m glad My Kingdom Music is supporting me in its release.
At its core, this is an album about addiction, illness and losing a parent to AIDS during the health crisis of the 80s/early 90s. But in a broader sense, it's also about breaking cycles, finding closure, the devastating consequences of dehumanization and erasure, reckoning with life and death and what to do with the time we're granted here on Earth.
Crafting these songs and sharing these stories was something I felt the urgent need to do, and I hope you will find them worthy of your time and attention".
We are deeply proud of what is about to emerge and incredibly eager to share it with all of you.
"Underheavens— Of Blood, Ghosts And Saltwater" will be released on April 25th, 2025 via My Kingdom Music in LP, digipakCD, tape and digital format and you can pre-order at: https://t.ly/QQNTv
OF THE MUSES is intimate, emotional and unique Art.
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Forming in 2016, it took VENATOR a while to get going, but when they finally did – it was ON! In 2020, the Austrians released their debut EP, Paradiser, which DYING VICTIMS eventually put on a split LP with the late ANGEL BLADE. Those three songs were an incredibly auspicious first start, showing VENATOR as a band seemingly thawed out from 1983, so authentic and skyward was their songwriting. As the buzz began to build, it came to boil with the band’s debut album, Echoes From the Gutter. Released by DYING VICTIMS in early 2022, VENATOR’s debut album was everything a first full-length should be: a summation of demo legwork, but an equally concerted strive for new & greater heights. Electricity was positively bristling from every second of the record; stunningly addicting, one anthem after another was doled out in seemingly effortless fashion, showing VENATOR as young masters of melody and moodiness.
Following the release of Echoes From the Gutter, VENATOR made good on their street-level charm by hitting any new stage they could, heavily gigging first with labelmates MEGATON SWORD in 2023 and then with labelmates TOXIKULL last year. That increased charisma spills over into their second album, Psychodrome. Indeed, with a title and cover like that, Psychodrome builds an era-specific atmosphere that’s “on brand” for a vintage-savvy band like VENATOR – but such sometimes-superficial moves would all be for naught if they didn’t have the SONGS to back them up! And back ‘em up, VENATOR do here, showing ever more sides to their sonic arsenal whilst sounding characteristically themselves. Much of LP#2 punches forward to a cruising mid-tempo – fist-shaking, for sure, but never overly speedy – while some other songs dip into tempos both faster and slower. But no matter the speed, VENATOR quickly and compellingly establish mood and almighty MELODY: street-level as before, but with that heart-on-sleeve passion that puts this into a realm all its own – one that’s authentically mid ‘80s heavy metal heroism in one sense, but strangely refreshing in another. Frontman Hans Huemer once again rallies the warriors with a performance that’s rough and emotive in equal measure, while the rest of his bandmates sharpen their swords with slightly more clarity and spit-shine those godly HOOKS to deadly levels. A lateral development from their almighty debut, then, but another modern classic in the making!
Just like that debut LP, anyone pining for the 1983/’84 peak of the likes of Tokyo Blade, Grim Reaper, OZ, Witch Cross, Heavy Load, and even Judas Priest, here again do you have a band adding to that hallowed lineage rather than plagiarizing it – or perhaps moving the calendar year to 1985, fucking CLASSIC either way. VENATOR command you to enter their Psychodrome!
Line-up:
Jakob Steidl - Drums
Anton Holzner - Guitars
Leon Ehrengruber - Guitars
Hans Huemer - Vocals
Stefan Glasner - Bass
From Linz, Austria
Artwork:
Hans Huemer
Release date:
25th April 2025
Tracks
1 Into the Drome
2 Steal the Night
3 Children of the Beast
4 Ravening Angel
5 The Final Call
6 Radar
7 Race to Glory
8 Dynamite
9 Fear the Light
10 Astral Seduction
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on beige vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
Limited Box set on pink vinyl, with insert, A1 sized poster, sticker, post card, woven patch, silkscreened backpatch, metal pin, posterflag, vinyl slipmat and download code.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
MC edition with sticker, button, download code.
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Exist in Ruin is an Epic Symphonic Melodic Death Metal project founded by guitarist/songwriter, Teren.
He recruits world-class artists from around the globe to make his dark musical vision a reality.
Exist
in Ruin EP musicians include:
Teren: USA - Guitar, bass, lyrics, songwriter/composition
Jonah Weingarten: USA - Orchestra (Pyramaze, Aries descendant)
César Moreira: Portugal - Brutal Male Vocals (Enblood, Cult Burial)
Jessy Christ: France - Soprano and Brutal Female Vocals (Usquam)
João Miguel: Portugal - Guitar Solos (Enblood)
Konstantin Raydovski: Bulgaria - Guitar Solos (Session guitarist)
Sebastian Bracht: Germany - A Cappella metal choir Vocals (Sophicide)
www.youtube.com/existinruin
www.existinruin.com
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Exist in Ruin bridges continents and genres, crafting a sound that is as expansive as it is devastating.
DIATHEKE – “…AND THE WORD WAS GOD”
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release Date: March 21st 2025
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
For fans of: Ne Obliviscaris | Cynic | Black Crown Initiate | Ihsahn
Into the Void came light; out of the emptiness came endless fields of glittering stars, gleaming like gems upon black velvet beneath the impossible, towering nebulae - terrifying in their staggering grandeur and beauty. Drawn from the absolute silence, the galaxies were born and within their infinite intricacies, their splendour beyond comprehension, the first whispers of the miracle of life were heard amongst the heavens. With a word the first moments of time began to fall through the hourglass of existence…
Formed from the ashes of Citadel back in 2017, progressive death metal band Diatheke’s full length debut is a concept album that attempts to tell the biblical story of existence; from the first moments of creation to the last dark days of humanity and the redemption that lies beyond. It’s an incredibly ambitious project, but the music that the band have crafted is as staggering and monumental as their chosen subject matter. From the opening bars of ‘The Creator’, invoking the breathtaking immensity of the universe, to the exhilarating, triumphant and celebratory conclusion of ‘The Coronation’ …And The Word Is God immerses the listener in the most incredible sensory overload of complex, expansive and imaginative progressive death metal. There is so much to explore within the borders of this daunting record that you will be making new discoveries with every listen for years to come. While ‘The Deceiver’ drowns you in darkness with its jarring attack – vocal virulence and power, jagged and dangerous riffs with a discordant edge and a sense of threat rising up through the domineering drum attack, ‘The Redeemer’ (featuring a guest vocal performance from Jake Potter of Crucify The Flesh) is a self-contained symphony, resplendent in different shades, hues and colours, alive with emotion and drama. The playing throughout is remarkable and the overall listening experience is draining, bewildering, intensely challenging but richly rewarding. Relentlessly multifaceted, …And The Word Is God is a magnificent musical achievement.
Meticulously mixed and mastered by Hunter Shaw and Sam Striker of Native Darkness Productions, with carefully curated artwork and design by Daniel Hambright of Elynia Productions and Gragoth of Luciferium War Graphics, every element of …And The Word Was God is of the very highest quality. Upon its release by the renowned Rottweiler Records, on March 21st, it will set incredible standards for all extreme and progressive music that will follow in its wake. Diatheke dared to dream with this album and achieved so much more than anyone could have imagined or expected.
Line-up:
John Wesley - Bass/Vocals
Peter Watson - Vocals
Dallas McNeely - Guitars
Michael Osborn – Drums/Vocals
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/diathekemusic
PEST
RECORDS
proudly announces the signing of WURMIAN, a French one-man
Melodic Death/Doom act, for the release of its debut album, "IMMEMORIAL
SHRINE", scheduled for April 6th, 2024.
Founded in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 2024, Wurmian is a project deeply rooted in the old-school Melodic Death/Doom tradition, drawing inspiration from seminal ’90s acts such as Katatonia, October Tide, Amorphis, Horrified, and elements reminiscent of Edge of Sanity and early In Flames. Behind this new endeavor is Antoine Scholtes, known for his acclaimed solo project Inherits the Void, where he carved out a name in the Melodic/Atmospheric Black Metal scene. With Wurmian, he now channels his creativity into a different yet equally emotive sonic realm, blending melody and brutality to craft an immersive and introspective experience.
"Immemorial Shrine" presents seven haunting compositions that transport listeners into isolated, desolate landscapes, reflecting themes of solitude and existential fear. While deeply influenced by the melancholic and crushing essence of ’90s Death/Doom, the album also integrates a modern touch, offering a dynamic interplay between ethereal melodies and rhythmic intensity drawn from Death Metal. The result is a rich and layered listening experience that remains nostalgic yet forward-thinking, appealing to both long-time genre enthusiasts and newer audiences alike.
Prepare to embark on this melancholic and immersive journey when "Immemorial Shrine" is unleashed on April 6th, 2024, via Pest Records. More details, including pre-order links and track previews, will be revealed soon!
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/wurmian.band/
PAGAN ALTAR are the very definition of a CULT band. Formed in 1978, during the early days of the influential NWOBHM movement, they honed their craft onstage with an eerie, dramatic presentation. And yet, the PAGAN ALTAR sound tended more toward doom metal – which, back then, was not quite yet a subgenre with its own aesthetics – but also infused with their native English folk as well as hard rock. Still, the world outside the UK would not know about the band until years after their dissolution, with the 1998 release of Volume 1, PAGAN ALTAR’s debut album recorded in 1982. Thereafter, the cult of PAGAN ALTAR would begin to grow, and a whole new fanbase hungry for old sounds waited for any sign of uncovered gold.
In 2004, treasures aplenty began to appear. First was The Time Lord EP, which dated back to PAGAN ALTAR’s very earliest days, and later that year came the full-length Lords of Hypocrisy, whose material was originally recorded during 1982-1984 but was re-recorded in 2004: past to present, the band was indeed active again! A year later, the full-length Judgement of the Dead arrived, featuring material written between 1978 and 1981 and recorded in 1982 but remastered in 1998; a bonus track recorded in 2004 was added, again bringing past to present. Past and present truly collided on 2006’s monolithic Mythical & Magical – truly, a perfect description of PAGAN ALTAR at the height of their mesmerizing powers – which featured material spanning 1977-1983 but recorded over the course of 2005 and 2006. Thereafter, only two new songs would emerge for a while – one on a split with Jex Thoth in 2007, the other in 2011 – before, tragically, founding vocalist Terry Jones’ death from cancer in 2015. However, before his death and led by his son and co-founding guitarist Alan, the band had been working on another album, which would later be finished and released in 2017 as The Room of Shadows.
Miraculously, The Room of Shadows proved not to be the band’s epitaph, as PAGAN ALTAR defy time and return with Never Quite Dead – a “new” record in theory, but one bearing the imprint of the past, particularly with Terry Jones’ unmistakable touch. On vocals here is Brendan Radigan, who true metallers will know from Magic Circle, Sumerlands, Savage Oath, and tons more. His somber, ever-so-poignant tones pay reverence to the prevailing PAGAN ALTAR sound whilst putting a distinctive touch upon Never Quite Dead. As Alan Jones details within the album’s liner notes, nearly all the songs on the album – barring the closer “Kismet,” which came as a precursor to Alan’s band Malac’s Cross in the early ‘90s – originated while Terry was still alive, and thus does Never Quite Dead remain an authentically PAGAN ALTAR album. From the Rainbow-rocking opener “Saints and Sinners” on to trad-doom juggernauts like “Liston Church” and “The Dead’s Last March” to the emotional climax of the aforementioned “Kismet,” pretty much every aspect of PAGAN ALTAR is covered in incredibly compelling fashion…even the folk instrumental “Westbury Express,” keeping the mythical & magical alive. Never Quite Dead? You better believe it!
Line-up:
Brendan Radigan - Vocals
Alan Jones - Guitars
Diccon Harper - Bass
Andy Green - Drums
Denis Schneider - Guitars (Live)
From London/UK - Boston/USA
Release date:
25th April 2025
Tracklist
1 Saints and Sinners
2 Liston Church
3 Madame M'Rachel
4 Madame M'Rachel's Grave
5 Well of Despair
6 The Dead's Last March
7 Westbury Express
8 Kismet
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on silver vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
Limited Box set on marbled vinyl, with insert, A1 sized poster, sticker, post card, woven patch, silkscreened backpatch, metal pin, posterflag, vinyl slipmat and download code.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
MC edition with sticker, button, download code.
T-Shirt, printed on Gildan Heavy Cotton
woven patch
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
"Hunger
of Your Deceased Deity" plunges listeners into a visceral and haunting
narrative. A thousand wanderers trudge through a desolate valley under
ominous skies, skeletal remains to mark their path. Starving and desperate,
they fall prey to Yzanthu, “The Crow”, a rotting avian monstrosity feasting for
the first time in centuries. Soldiers and clerics are powerless against its
might, as chaos erupts with The Soulless joining the carnage. Amid the
slaughter, the herd fractures—some fleeing under Mattendas’ lead, while others
are driven north to Hedon, where The Stag awaits to claim their souls as part
of Yzanthu’s dark design.
"Hunger of Your Deceased Deity" plunges listeners into a visceral and haunting narrative. A thousand wanderers trudge through a desolate valley under ominous skies, skeletal remains to mark their path. Starving and desperate, they fall prey to Yzanthu, “The Crow”, a rotting avian monstrosity feasting for the first time in centuries. Soldiers and clerics are powerless against its might, as chaos erupts with The Soulless joining the carnage. Amid the slaughter, the herd fractures—some fleeing under Mattendas’ lead, while others are driven north to Hedon, where The Stag awaits to claim their souls as part of Yzanthu’s dark design.
Yzanthu had long watched from afar, targeting a gem within the human settlement. Identifying Ghale, a skilled Luminary Ritualist, as the ideal pawn to control Lurkers and humans, it corners her with an ultimatum: surrender and lead its legion to Grocinia, or face annihilation. Ghale accepts, sparing the survivors and ending The Crow’s feast.
The track’s grim tale expands the rich fantasy lore Ophidian Memory has meticulously crafted, setting the stage for Carrion Lord's broader themes of power, corruption, and survival in a brutal world.
Carrion Lord: A Monument of Growth and Darkness
Ophidian Memory’s upcoming album, Carrion Lord, represents a bold leap forward. It blends their signature melodic aggression with deep narrative immersion. Introducing new realms, characters, and factions, the album bridges the worlds of epic fantasy and melodic brutality. Fans of story-driven metal and dark, atmospheric soundscapes will find themselves captivated by this next chapter of the band’s saga.
https://ophidianmemory.bandcamp.com/
www.instagram.com/ophidianmemory
Sentient
Ruin is proud to announce that at last, SUTEKH HEXEN'S earliest
tracks from their first three legendary demos (2010's "Constellation", "Ritualistic" and "Altars”),
plus the "Order of Nine" single, get finally mastered for
the first time ever (courtesy of death industrial master Grant Richardson)
and released on vinyl and CD also for the first time ever, consolidated into a
singular assault of unrivaled raw black metal/noise mastery and consecrated
into a definitive document of unwavering sonic disembodiment. The seven
primeval spells here finally reproposed in their definitive form represent the
earliest (and for some, favorite) stylistic incarnation of the band, when their
horrific output was violently synthesized from a miasmatic vortex of feral raw
black metal and scorching harsh noise, immersed into a cryptic plasma of
suffocating ambience and wretched incantations.
When the sinister Californian black noise sect first emerged in San Francisco around 2010 with these initial soul-disintegrating hexes, their evident greatness instantly reverberated with massive waves throughout the underground, leading to the birth of a revered cult that would dominate American abstract black metal, power ambient and blackened electronics for years to come. These debut recordings not only crowned Sutekh Hexen as absolute masters of their craft, but also established a formula that has remained imitated and definitive beyond purely experimental circles for years, ordaining the infamous black noise style into a coherent new movement that is revered and thriving to this day.
Tracks 1-2 originally self-released as the "Constellation" demo tape, 2010
Tracks 3-4 originally self-released as the "Ritualistic" demo tape, 2010
Track 5 originally self-released as the "Order of Nine" single, 2010
Tracks 6-7 originally self-released as the "Altars" demo tape, 2010
The "CONSTELLATION RITUALISTIC ALTARS : DEMO(N)S" compilation officially releases March 7 2025 on CD, LP, and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases. Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/sutekh-hexen-constellation-ritualistic-altars-demons
http://sentientruin.com/bands/#/sutekh-hexen
NEWS 8.2.2025
Label: Comatose Music
Release Date: April 11th 2025
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Kraanium | Gorevent | Amputated
Through every waking hour I travel the dark tunnels of the online world, feasting on the horrors to be uncovered, delving further into the darkness – damaging, desensitizing and warping myself beyond repair. And when my exhausted eyes finally close in sleep, a stronghold of nightmares opens its gates within the endless corridors of my mind…a thousand doors and behind each one a scenario of twisted torment; sadism, masochism, brutality without boundaries, unspeakable acts of degeneracy and deviance. Morality is meaningless in my eternal kingdom of corruption; there is only the act, the blood, the pain, the dismantling of the human form – body, mind and spirit.
After twelve long, fear free years, the monstrous beast that is Vulvectomy has crawled forth from its lair in the Italian sewers once more. The ultimate manifestation of conscienceless, emotionless, slamming brutality is back, with another rancid harvest of putridity and filth for the sickest of souls. Any thoughts that Vulvectomy may have mellowed over time or discovered a shred of humanity within their collective, rotten heart should be abandoned immediately. Once the addictive riffs and incredibly intense drums have drawn you in to this cesspit of disgust there is not a moment of relief from the barbarity and madness. Each chord is delivered with sadistic intent and formidable force, punishing blows alternating with frenzied assaults. Tracks like first single, ‘Scrotal Abscess Drainage’ are just overwhelming barrages of rot and disease, brutal slam death distilled down to its fetid, sordid essence. The song titles are a litany of perversion, the music an avalanche of depraved violence. With slithering, wormlike horrors like ‘Greedy Fetal Discharge’ Vulvectomy have painted a portrait of a world beyond redemption. This album will disturb you, infect you, scar you and vomit over the last grains of hope you may have had for mankind.
Mixed by Alessio Cattaneo (Corpsefucking Art, Hideous Divinity etc) and mastered by Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Vomit The Soul, Hour Of Penance etc) Aberrant Vaginal Gestation sounds as bludgeoning and gore-encrusted as it should, bestial beyond belief. And the cover art by Guang Yang (Beheaded, Nunslaughter, Infant Annihilator etc) is truly a repugnant and grotesque vision, spawned from night terrors and wickedness. There is not a trace of decency to found in any part of this vicious abomination of an album. When Comatose Music unleash the reborn Vulvectomy on April 11th there will be hell to pay…
Line-up:
Diego Fanelli - Vocals
Giorgio Cavaliere - Bass
Mario Di Giambattista - Guitar
Marco Coghe - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.vulvectomyofficial.com/
CHAOTIC DEATH METAL MADNESS... MURDER RECORDS is honored to present SCYTHROW, a band buried in the filthy graves hailing from the rotten fields from Lappeenranta in Finland.
Scythrow emerged in 2020 with the intention of presenting a sound more directed towards the Thrash Metal strands, but over the time, they has been shaping its sound until it reaches a more violent sonic decomposition with the insane putrefaction of heavier riffs that are complemented by a voracious brutality with rotting melodies and where the filthy chaos has completely invaded the sound that is currently presented by Scythrow.
"BLAMELESS SEVERED EXTREMITIES" is the title of Scythrow's third album, containing eight severe lacerations of brutality where the influences of Thrash Metal practiced in the band's early days remain, making this album more chaotic and interesting, but here we can hear something much heavier and more brutal, defining a more cavernous sound that makes us dive into the depths of merciless chaos and where the Chaotic Death Metal prevails imminently...
Murder Records is now preparing the release of Scythrow's latest album in Cassette format, which will include an bonus track, a cover from the veterans Mortician "Chainsaw Dismemberment", allowing the worms to devouring the human remains buried in the putrid melodies duly moldy with the cadaveric odors presented here on this Chaotic Death Metal from the cemitery...
Chaos & Death On... Normal Life Off...
SCYTHROW
-"BLAMELESS SEVERED EXTREMITIES"
Cassette limited to 100 copies
SIDE A
01 - Reluctant Possession [03:31]
02 - Kinemortophobia [03:07]
03 - Nerve Rot [03:44]
04 - Necrotic High [04:40]
SIDE B
05 - Blameless Severed Extremities [05:51]
06 - The Remorse Declines [04:08]
07 - Bare Bones [03:39]
08 - The Fatal Point Of Closure [06:28]
09 - Chainsaw Dismemberment (Mortician Cover) [01:39]
All music arranged and performed by Scythrow.
Composed by Arttu Muukkonen, Nuutti Myllynen and Markus Erling.
Lyrics written by Markus Erling.
Bonus track written and composed by Mortician.
Record during June and July 2024 in Bomb Shelter at Lappeenranta.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Arttu Muukkonen.
Cover art work by Apostle Ink.
Band logo by Nuutti Myllynen.
Layout is made by Arttu Muukkonen and Nuutti Myllynen.
Gig Photography by Jan Suominen.
Release Date: March 14th, 2025
The start from Pre-Order will be announced soon and will be revealed also the Official Video Clip from Scythrow entitled "Blameless Severed Extremities".
https://scythrow.bandcamp.com/album/blameless-severed-extremities
Finland is well known for being a den of fertility when it comes to extreme sonic filth, so it's time to introduce you to Scythrow, a band that was unearthed in 2020 from the rotting tombs of Lappeenranta.
Although Scythrow are a new band, they have just released their third album, entitled "Blameless Severed Extremities", which was released in CD format by Awakening Records, soon will be released by Murder Records in Cassette format and later will be released also by Futhark Records in Vinyl format.
Although Scythrow's first two albums present a sound more directed towards Thrash Metal, this new work defines very well the type of sound that Scythrow intends to propagate and where they finally found the cadaveric formula that allows them to present a more cohesive sound within the parameters of chaotic brutality.
So let's get on with the interview that follows, where I had the pleasure of speaking with the rotten brother brothers from Scythrow and they will reveal to us a little more about Scythrow.
Interview with Scythrow read here : https://www.murder-records.eu/cadaveric-noiseletter/2305908_interview-with-scythrow
Scythrow are :
Markus Erling - Guitar / Vocals
Arttu Muukkonen - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Nuutti Myllynen - Bass
Benjamin Niemelä - Drums
scythrowband@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Scythrow/100083778333109/
Seattle
(WA) - Death/thrash/black metal futurists, XOTH, are
thrilled to announce their U.S. West Coast Tour, beginning on Friday,
April 4th in Tacoma, WA, where the band will share the stage with the
legendary 3 Inches of Blood.
Release
date :
February 21 2025
Genre : Post Black Metal
Origin: Belgium
Duration: 44min20
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
RÄUM is a Belgian band founded in 2020 in Liège, born in the turmoil of the pandemic. Their music offers a journey through the hopes, vices, fears, and decline of humanity. With a raw post black metal sound, RÄUM reveals the emptiness and self-destructive nature of the human soul, embodying a striking duality between greatness and decay. In 2023, the band released their album Cursed by The Crown on the label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Production. This opus explores dark and melancholic atmospheres, blending oppressive and chaotic sound waves that capture the inner struggle of mankind. The band aims to create a palpable tension, reflecting the despair and aggression inherent in the human experience. In 2025, the exploration continues with a new album titled Emperor of The Sun, also on Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Production. This project promises to delve deeper into the duality that resides within us, inviting listeners to plunge further into the abysses of the human condition. Through intense and evocative music, RÄUM seeks to portray the inevitable decline and fall of humanity and our civilizations.
Artwork par Sözo Tozö & Sauge Noire (Layout)
Tracklist:
01. Eclipse of The Empyreal Dawn
02. Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
03. Grounds of Desolation
04. Towards The Flames
05. Obscure
06. Emperor of The Sun
07. A Path to The Abyss
https://www.facebook.com/raum.belgium
Reek of Death is a female fronted Austrian band which brings you finest old school death!
This year they already shared stage with Gutalax, Obscura & Napalm Death!
Enjoy some deep growls & headbanging oldschool action!
https://www.youtube.com/@reekofdeath-official
https://www.facebook.com/reekofdeath
We’re
very proud and excited to rejoin forces with our kindred spirits again, as
Members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour, and Aberration come
together in RITUAL ASCENSION, a horrendous sonic desecration
decomposing death metal into a subsonic hallucinatory miasma, and deforming
into a hideous disfigurement of its former self. Devoured in dissonance and
shrouded in catacombal atmospheres, the band’s horrendous debut full-length
monstrosity "PROFANATION OF THE ADAMIC COVENANT" takes
the masterful death-doom horror of early Temple Nightside and Grave
Upheaval, and transfigures it further into the darkest abysses of surrealism.
The putrid behemoth-like debut monstrosity has been introduced by always attentive extreme metal blog Toilet ov Hell, who in premiering the colossal thirteen-minute closing track of the album, have remarked how “‘Kolob (At the Throne of Elohim)’ will wrap its pitch-black tendrils around you and slowly crush you with exactly the expertise you’d expect given the project’s pedigree” - adding that the album is “brutally heavy and suffocatingly dark” and that “the band really stick to the ‘ritual’ part of their name”. You can check out the feature and track here https://toiletovhell.com/track-premiere-ritual-ascension-kolob-at-the-throne-of-elohim/
Not dissimilar to an auditory experimental horror film or to a stripped down version of Portal playing experimental doom, the work traces the grotesque lineaments of a disfigured subterranean hellscape through a masterful use of surrealism, dissonance and compositional abstraction. Slow, crushing, atonal dirges alternate lumbering behemoth-like trudges and enigmatic tectonic upheavals that build an immense ominous aura as the album unfolds a dense, mephitic atmosphere draped in malevolent ambience. The album’s monolithic and agonizing crawl is then violently disrupted by onslaughts of wrathful disturbances, where bursts of demented blasting, tortured screams and mangled fretwork blindside the listener, casting them further down the abyss, into a bottomless sepulcher of confusion and of complete chthonic torment.
“Profanation of the Adamic Covenant” is scheduled for a February 28 2025 release via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, now all pre-orderable via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/ritual-ascension-profanation-of-the-adamic-covenant
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/ritual-ascension
NEWS 31.1.2025
Nach über einem Jahrzehnt bei Century Media Records hat das Thüringer
Melodic-Death-Flagschiff DESERTED FEAR nun seinen Anker bei TESTIMONY
RECORDS ausgeworfen.
Die Band über ihr neues Zuhause:
„Wart ihr schon mal an einem Ort, an dem ihr noch nie zuvor wart, der sich aber trotzdem sofort heimisch anfühlte? So ging es uns, als wir das erste Mal persönlichen Kontakt zu Testimony Records hatten. Die Mischung aus Professionalität und Underground-Spirit passt perfekt und wir freuen uns ein neues Zuhause gefunden zu haben!“
Thomas Strater von Testimony Records zum Signing:
„Wir freuen uns sehr, die Vertragsunterzeichnung mit Deserted Fear bekannt zu geben. Ich habe ihre Entwicklung von Anfang an verfolgt und gesehen, wie sie sich von einem aufstrebenden Underground-Act zu Deutschlands wahrscheinlich erfolgreichster Death Metal-Band der Neuzeit entwickelt haben. Was auch wichtig ist: Die Band ruht sich nie auf ihren Lorbeeren aus, sondern ist bestrebt, ihre Musik Album für Album weiterzuentwickeln, ohne ihre Wurzeln im Death Metal zu vernachlässigen.“
DESERTED FEAR werden Ende April zur Veröffentlichung des neuen Albums auf Tour gehen.
VEINS OF FIRE - TOUR 2025
Deserted Fear
Kvaen
Fall Of Serenity
Messticator
Do 24.04. Hamburg - Bahnhof Pauli
Fr 25.04. Essen - Turock
Sa 26.04. Jena - F-Haus
So 27.04. Osnabrück - Bastard Club (Matinée!)
Mo 28.04. Kassel - Goldgrube
Di 29.04. Hannover - Musikzentrum
Mi 30.04. Berlin - Cassiopeia
Do 01.05. Wiesbaden - Schlachthof
Fr 02.05. München - Backstage (Halle)
Sa 03.05. Stuttgart - Club Zentral
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/desertedfear
Tourtrailer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/30LjXhqENsw
https://www.desertedfear.de/
https://www.facebook.com/desertedfear
DESERTED FEAR veröffentlichen heute das
Video zu “THE TRUTH”, der ersten Single des lang erwarteten neuen
Albums “VEINS OF FIRE”, das am 25.04. über Testimony Records
erscheinen wird.
Brace
yourself for absolute annihilation! Brutal Records has
unleashed the apocalypse by signing Italy's masters of sonic destruction, Rise
of Tyrants. Their highly anticipated album, The Chronicles of Cardinal
Pablo Mendoza, is poised to detonate on February 28, 2025.
But the devastation doesn’t stop there! The Abnormality in Structure album will roar back with a full remaster, unleashing sheer chaos on February 7, 2025. Plus, prepare for the brutal resurgence of Trauma, hitting with a completely remastered fury on January 10, 2025, shattering all limits of brutality. This is raw, unrestrained death metal terror: merciless, bone-crushing, and utterly unstoppable. Get ready for total obliteration!
Rise Of Tyrants has returned, more ferocious and unforgiving than ever. This Bergamo-based powerhouse has dropped an eleven-track barrage of raw, self-produced brutality that makes their earlier work look like a warm-up. The energy is sharper, darker, and meaner. With Davide Cantamessa on vocals, a relentless force of raw aggression and versatility, the band has leveled up in every brutal way imaginable.
The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza comes at you like a battering ram of thrash and death metal riffs, with a rhythm section pounding forward like a war machine. The guitars are unrelenting, piling riff after punishing riff, layering death metal fury with an intensity that leaves no room to breathe. Cantamessa’s vocal attack rips through the wall of sound, moving seamlessly between guttural growls, visceral screams, and brutal tones that demand your attention.
The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Line up:
Davide Cantamessa: Vocals
Federico Visini: Guitars
Luca Mairati: Bass
Virgilio Breda: Drums
This is an album that doesn’t ask for your attention, it takes it. Brutal, unrestrained, and unapologetic, The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza is a must for anyone with an appetite for death metal played with devastating skill and relentless fury.
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. Recorded, mixed and mastered at ASDR Decibel Studio, Busto Arsizio (VA, Italy) by Carlo Meroni
Tracks:
01. Colle De La Croix De Fer
02. Parigi Napoli
03. Do Mario Pederasta
04. Sysvester Stazione
05. Holly & Beppe (Only The Brave)
06. Gerry Smashed Table
07. Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
08. Celine Di Orio
09. How Can I Fuck Capitalism
10. Mirella Silver Tongue
11. Armando The Preacher
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Rise of Tyrants - The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89666
February 28, 2025
Rise of Tyrants - Abnormality in Structure
Abnormality in Structure album delivered 8 tracks with a fierce and skillfully crafted assault. For those who crave raw, uncompromising death metal, this record is essential, unmissable live, and impossible to ignore. Ferocious blast beats and malevolent riffing that feel like a death metal avalanche.
Released March 15, 2019
Re-release date in Digital February 7. 2025
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89665
Rise of Tyrants - Trauma
Trauma album launches with a foreboding arpeggio before detonating into evil riffing and crushing, doom-infused rhythms. The 9 tracks oscillates between blistering speeds and sudden, grinding slowdowns, showcasing the band’s mastery of extreme dynamics and groove. The guitars inject moments of haunting melody amid a wall of unrelenting brutality.
Released February 3, 2014
Re-release in Digital January 10, 2025
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89664
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NEBULA NINE – “THE LAST SKY PIERCER “ (EP)
Label: Independent Release
Release Date: February 28th 2025
Genre: Progressive Rock
For fans of: Anathema | King Crimson | Voivod | Pink Floyd
In the places where we worked, with such industry and conviction, so sure of the importance of our self-imposed routines, there is stillness. In the places where we played, dancing through the adventures of our imaginations’ conjuring, there is emptiness. Where we celebrated there is silence, where we dreamed there are only ghosts. For a few brief heartbeats it will be beautiful, this quiet kingdom, this abandoned garden. But its future is ash…as ours is the cold and unknown darkness…
Humanity has finally been forced to abandon the planet that has nurtured us, cradled us since our story began. The sun is dying and engulfing the planets that have circled it for untold aeons in all consuming fire. The last hope for our species are the Sky Piercers, ships that will carry us out into the uncharted eternity of the universe. This is the tale told by Sweden’s Nebula Nine across the four tracks of their outstanding debut EP of effervescent, imaginative, progressive rock – The Last Sky Piercer. Beautifully intricate, the music shifts through an array of exquisitely realised moods, drawing on an expansive sonic colour palette to evoke tension, anxiety, loss and wonder, melancholy and awe-inspiring, endless possibilities. The songs entwine, working together to create the greater whole of the EP and its unfolding drama, yet also stand alone as powerful, complete works of individual character. The gentle melodies and tidal drift of ‘Sky Piercer’ with its gathering momentum and sense of import…the shuffling, bustling rhythms of ‘Terminal’ with its nervous energy and quite brilliant technicality and musicality, its aura of strange meetings, beginnings and endings…the propulsive movement of ‘Blood Red Eyes’, its mystery and robust riffs, its metallic edge and cascading notes like a shower of stars…and finally the gentle intimacy of ‘Maroons’, that so slowly transforms into something gloriously emotive, breathtaking and enthralling, before passing on into the night, fading into the distance. The Last Sky Piercer is an astonishing piece of work that will capture the hearts and minds of those who long for music of substance and depth, who love to be carried beyond the boundaries of the mundane world on the wings of melody and creativity.
Immaculately mastered by Hans Olsson (Horisont, Graveyard, Dorrian Sorriaux etc), every word, note and beat of The Last Sky Piercer is allowed to breathe and sing, presenting an array of layers and textures for the listener to explore. Complemented by some classic sci-fi inspired cover art, this EP really is the complete package – a phenomenal achievement. The doors are closing, there’s no more time for regrets and farewells…the future awaits. All aboard The Last Sky Piercer!
Line-up:
Hampus Pettersson – Bass/Keyboards
Linus Person - Drums
Simon Malm – Vocals/Guitar
Robin Karlsson – Lead Guitar
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Shrouded in Darkness’ third installment "11:11" collects 7 tracks of heavy doom/death metal, ¨with organs, flowing solos, deep growls and ritualistic pounding music from start to finish. As always, it’s dark and with a funeral atmosphere; A perfect soundtrack for doom.
Tracklist:
1. 11:11 Introductio
2. No Escape
3. Cruel Winds
4. Dreams
5. My Every Step
6. The Lurking Devil
7. 11:11
Recorded in C-Nil Studios and Goatman Studios, Sweden, 2024-2025
and mastered by Dan Swanö, Unisound.
Guest appearance:
Camilla Tjernberg – Vocals (“Cruel Winds”)
Cover artwork by Evelyn De Morgan
Music by Mikael Uimonen
Lyrics by Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg
Engineered by Daniel Tjernberg
Line-up:
Daniel T – Vocals and keyboards
Reese – Guitars
Mike – Bass and drums
Two videos is also in the makings ("No Escape" + "The Lurking Devil"),
to promote the album release-TBA!
shrouded.in.darkness@outlook.com
"Harbinger"
is the second single taken from SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT's upcoming album
"Exit Humanity".
The music video was directed by Marmo David, edited by Andrei Bejușca, with special effects crafted by David Madaș.
The song "Harbinger", as well as the entire "Exit Humanity" album, was mixed by Tudor Scânteie and Andrei Jumugă, with the latter also handling the mastering. Drum recordings took place at Consonance Studios in Timișoara, with Cristian Popescu and Edmond Karban, while guitars, bass, and vocals were recorded at Postanalog Studio in Oradea, under the guidance of Marcel Floruț.
Conceptually, the album "EXIT HUMANITY" continues the narrative introduced in SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT's debut full-length. The track "Harbinger" sets the tone for this new chapter, taking listeners into a merciless world ruled by primal instincts. Here, survivors hidden in the shadows of the underground clash in savage battles, driven by an insatiable thirst for survival.
"Exit Humanity" is set to be released via the label Loud Rage Music.
Watch the "Harbinger" music video here: https://youtu.be/wK347OQY5jA
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualRavishment/
It's
been 35 years since the release of the first demo of the Czech Thrash
Metal legend V.A.R.!!!
Yes, the demo "NO PLACE TO HIDE" was released in 1990 and it is a cult recording of the whole Czech hard metal history.
I've been cooperation with V.A.R. since 2014 and under the Pařát Productions logo I've released 2 full-length albums on CD & LP and 5 reissues on CD & LP. This is the first reissue on digipak.
The 16-page booklet contains the story of V.A.R. from the early nineties in both Czech and English.
Band: V.A.R.
Album: No Place To Hide (re-edition 2025)
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Thrash Metal
Release date: 27.1. 2025
Type: Digipak + 16 page booklet
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/v-a-r-no-hide-to-place-35th-anniversary-edition/
EISIGE
VENEN’S - “THE ETERNAL PARADE” will haunt your soul and leave you spellbound . Step
into the dark allure of The Eternal Parade, Eisige Venen's latest masterpiece.
This chilling track takes listeners on a mesmerizing journey through death,
despair, and the unrelenting cycles of suffering. With raw, haunting lyrics and
evocative imagery of winter shadows and the natural world, the song crafts a
poignant meditation on the delicate balance between life and death, memory and
oblivion.
The eerie yet captivating soundscape lingers long after the final note, making it a perfect addition to playlists that revel in introspection, emotional depth, and the beauty of the macabre. Prepare to be spellbound—The Eternal Parade isn’t just a song; it’s an experience.
Biography
Eisige Venen (pronounced ei-se-ge ven-en) is a dark melodic metal project founded in 2020 by guitarist/keyboardist Marc Williams (Ba’alzamon, Fallen Empire, Frostcrown). Joined by vocalist Curtis Fitzpatrick (Ba’alzamon, Locust Swarm) and bassist Chris Brandon (Gokseong, Dead Deceased, Anger Overdose) in 2023, the trio brings a cold, melancholic sound infused with heavy synths, haunting melodies, and a blackened touch.
Williams, inspired by his years in Germany, released the debut single A Frigid Emptiness in 2021. With Brandon and Fitzpatrick onboard, the group launched their first album, Ghosts of Yesterday, in 2023—despite working entirely remotely across the USA and South Korea. The album earned praise from publications like Occult Metal Zine and Hellfire Magazin, who likened their atmospheric and melodic style to bands such as Amon Amarth, Insomnium, and Agathodaimon.
Eisige Venen has since collaborated with artists like Melishah (Tenebris Intus) and director Neil Gorz (Death Springs Eternal music video). They’ve signed with Metal Incorporated and Sodeh Records and are endorsed by Black Harbor Sound and Rattlesnake Cables.
Now based in the USA, Eisige Venen is gearing up for their 2025 EP The Mourning Frost, featuring the award-winning track Seaforged. Stay tuned for more heavy riffs and dark melodies wherever music is streamed.
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NEWS 25.1.2025
MOTÖRHEAD, generationsübergreifender Soundtrack und Lebensstil für
Millionen von Menschen weltweit, feiern 2025 ihr 50-jähriges Jubiläum.
Zu Ehren dieses historischen Meilensteins werden das ganze Jahr über eine Reihe
von Veröffentlichungen und Veranstaltungen stattfinden. Mit Live-Auftritten vor
Millionen von Fans und über 25 Millionen verkauften Alben in ihrer Karriere
sind die mit einem Grammy ausgezeichneten Motörhead auch zu Beginn ihres
goldenen Jubiläums so beliebt wie eh und je. Im Oktober 2024 erreichte die Band
mit "Lawman" eine brandneue Top-10-Single-Platzierung in
Großbritannien, verzeichnete weltweit über 320 Millionen Streams, 20 Millionen
Hörer auf Spotify und über 112 Millionen Aufrufe auf YouTube. Und beginnend mit
einer ganz besonderen Veröffentlichung, die im Mai bekannt gegeben wird, wird
das Jahr 2025 ein Fest sein, das bestätigt: Motörhead is For Life und Lemmy
is Forever.
"Es ist unglaublich, zu wissen, dass unsere Musik und alles, wofür sie steht, nach wie vor bei so vielen Menschen auf Resonanz stößt", sagt Gitarrist Phil Campbell. "Natürlich sind wir enorm dankbar, dass wir immer noch so geschätzt werden und ganz ehrlich – die Musik bleibt so lebendig und wichtig wie eh und je, denn sie hat eine einzigartige Energie und Ehrlichkeit, die wir alle immer brauchen werden."
"Es ist eine bemerkenswerte Geschichte, die Verbindung, die wir mit unseren Fans haben, kann man nur als Familie bezeichnen und es ist so aufregend, zu sehen, wie diese Familie immer noch wächst", sagt Mikkey Dee. "Aber es ergibt auch Sinn, denn die Leute wissen, wer wir sind und worum es in der Musik geht. Motörhead hat immer dafür gestanden, es auf UNSERE Art zu machen; es ist zeitlos und inspiriert die Leute weiterhin, diesen Weg zu gehen."
Den Auftakt der Feierlichkeiten bilden limitierte Vinyl-Sondereditionen der Motörhead-Alben "Overkill", "Bomber" und "Ace Of Spades" zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum. Sie sind alle als Half-Speed-Master geschnitten, als spezielle Farbkonfigurationen gepresst, enthalten ein exklusives Poster und werden am 28. Februar veröffentlicht.
Hier vorbestellen: https://motorhead.lnk.to/50vinylOBAPR
Am 8. Mai, dem Internationalen Motörhead-Tag, findet dann eine ganz besondere Lemmy Forever Aschezeremonie statt – die Enthüllung einer Lemmy-Statue in seinem Geburtsort Stoke-On-Trent. Der Bildhauer der Statue ist der bekannte britische Künstler Andy Edwards (der bereits Statuen von den Beatles, Bob Marley und den Bee Gees geschaffen hat). Motörhead-Gitarrist Phil Campbell wird die Asche beisetzen sowie die Feierlichkeiten leiten. "Diese neue Statue von Lem ist etwas Besonderes. Nicht nur, weil wir denselben Geburtsort teilen oder weil er mir persönlich so viel bedeutet, sondern weil es so wichtig ist, ein dauerhaftes internationales Wahrzeichen zu haben, das ihn dort feiert, wo er geboren wurde", sagt Edwards. "Lemmy hat mir Freude, Selbstvertrauen und Energie gegeben, und er ist auch eine Verkörperung des ursprünglichen Geistes und der Kraft des Rock 'n' Roll. Ich hoffe wirklich, dass es ein Treffpunkt für Menschen aus der ganzen Welt wird, zu dem sie reisen können."
"Lemmy in seinem Geburtsort durch Andys fantastische Statue weiter verewigt zu sehen, ist eine großartige Sache", sagt Manager Todd Singerman. "Dieser Mann ist vor 10 Jahren von uns gegangen, aber er bleibt nicht nur bei uns, sondern ist sogar beliebter als je zuvor. Das liegt daran, dass Lemmy für Ehrlichkeit, Integrität, Inklusion und den besten und lautesten Rock 'n' Roll aller Zeiten stand. Seien wir ehrlich, es gibt nur einen Lemmy und die Welt feiert ihn und seine Musik weiterhin laut und stolz."
Um den Appetit auf ein Jahr Motörhead-Festivitäten noch mehr anzuregen, können sich Fans jetzt hier eine neue HD-Version des allerersten Motörhead-Fernsehauftritts vom 25. Oktober 1978 in der bekannten BBC-Sendung "Top Of The Pops" ansehen, bei dem sie 'Louie, Louie' spielen: https://motorhead.lnk.to/50yearsPR
Es wird im Laufe des Jahres noch viele weitere Feierlichkeiten geben, also haltet die Augen und Ohren offen... und denkt daran...
THE ONLY WAY TO FEEL THE NOISE IS WHEN IT’S GOOD AND LOUD! MOTÖRHEAD FOR LIFE
LEMMY FOREVER
Ihr findet alles zu Motörhead im Newsletter der Band unter dem folgenden Link: https://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1417401187
AFFLICTA
- “ORIGIN OF SORROW”
We are Afflicta, a Death Metal project of twenty-year-olds born in Imperia in 2019.
After the tragic and premature death of the first bassist, co-founder of the group, we took a break before resuming activity.
Afflicta combbines the Death Metal style with Deathcore, our music expresses extreme violence and horror.
Our first album was recorded at Stefano Morabito’s 16th Cellar Studio in Rome.
We have no problem surprising the audience thanks to the horror-flavoured costumes, and when you lower your guard we will hit you with the heaviest breakdowns.
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/origin-of-sorrow-pre-order
Check it out at the following link: https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/01/22/exclusive-premiere-dissocia-lift-the-veil-with-existentialist/
Influences: Cynic, Gojira, The Contortionist, Rivers of Nihil, Porcupine Tree, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Leprous, Whitechapel, Venetian Snares, Igorrr, John Williams, Hans Zimmer.
"Existentialist" will be out January 24 on all digital platforms. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
To Lift The Veil will be released on digital, CD, and vinyl LP formats.
DISSOCIA enters the mind of multi-instrumentalist Daniel R. Flys (Persefone, Eternal Storm) as the sonic landscape between two realms: the conscious and the unconscious. With ferocious and convoluted riffs, dreamy synths, extreme and subtle clean vocals, we enter this in-between world backed by Gabriel Valcázar's (Wormed, Cancer) chaotic and groove drumming and Paul R. Flys' cinematic violin layers.
Mixed and mastered by the prestigious Ukrainian engineer Max Morton (Jinjer, Ignea, Shokran), To Lift The Veil is a concept album that serves as a metaphor for being a growing seed in an asphalted world. DISSOCIA makes an effort to blend extreme metal with synthwave and dreamwave elements to create a fine progressive blend that is catchy and yet unpredictable to the listener. Further developing this mood, the stunning and oneiric artwork created by Rein Van Oyen (Haken) captures the lights and shadows present on the dynamic songwriting and all the contrasts found on the duo's debut.
Track
Listing:
1. Existentialist
2. He Who Dwells
3. Samsara
4. Zenosyne
5. The Lucifer Effect
6. Evasion
7. Out of Slumber
Credits:
Daniel R. Flys - Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Synths
Gabriel Valcázar - Drums
Guest violins performed by Paul R. Flys (track 7).
Additional post-production by Max Morton and Alex Tena.
Written by Daniel R. Flys.
Produced by Daniel R. Flys.
Drums recorded by Carlos Santos at Sadman Studio.
Vocals recorded by Alex Tena.
Vocals and violins recorded by Carlos Rodríguez.
Mixed and mastered by Max Morton at Morton Studio.
Design and layout by Rein Van Oyen.
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GALLOWER – the Witching Metal power-trio from Tychy, Poland – have been unleashing their blackthrash fury upon the underground for over a decade. Since their formation in 2015, the band have become a bastion of old-school metal, raw aggression, blistering energy, and a dark medieval aesthetic. Their lyrics immerse listeners in the shadowy world of GALLOWER, a 15th-century land where magic, monsters, and unholy evil reign supreme.
GALLOWER’s discography is a journey into the heart of metal’s purest traditions: demos Witch Hunt is On (2015) and Through the Gallows (2016), through their debut album Behold the Realm of Darkness (2020), to the EP Eastern Witchcraft (2022), released under the banner of DYING VICTIMS. Each release is a testament to GALLOWER’s commitment to keeping the old-school flame alive while crafting a unique and immersive soundscape. Their next recording, the full-length Vengeance & Wrath, won’t be any different and will release the bubonic plague once again!
GALLOWER’s live shows, brimming with unrelenting energy and a raw aggression, leave no man spared and no cross unturned – and that finely honed finesse reaches its apotheosis on Vengeance & Wrath. Truly titled, Vengeance & Wrath encapsulates and exaggerates the GALLOWER aesthetic to date: a perfect storm of thrashing-mad riffs, harsh-yet-articulate vocals, pitch-black intensity, and epic storytelling, all with medieval atmosphere to spare. It’s not so much a vertical improvement as it is a lateral one, for to do anything beyond the remit of truest metal would be a fate worse than death! No more but definitely no less, GALLOWER strive to reach the hallowed halls of Venom, Destruction, Bathory, Sodom, and the Japanese Sabbat – and from this vantage point, with Vengeance & Wrath do they walk that path honorably.
This is Witching Metal: an unholy call to arms for all who live and die for the old school. Arm yourself with a bulletbelt, take this torch, and prepare for battle — the witch hunt has begun, and GALLOWER lead the charge into darkness with Vengeance & Wrath!
Line-up:
Mighty Tzar - Vocals/Bass
Vic Nocturnitier - Guitars/Backing Vocals
T.C. Speedfire - Drums/Backing Vocals/Synths
From Tychy, Poland
Artwork:
Kris Verwimp
Tracklist
1 Aftermath Protector's Militia
2 The Revelation
3 Relentless Retaliation
4 Bubonic Breath
5 March Of The Carmine Cloaks
6 Prophecy Of The Seven
7 The Dead Despise The Living
8 Vengeance & Wrath
9 Demonic Ascent
Release date:
28st March2025
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Get
ready to experience something truly haunting. PATHS TO DELIVERANCE is
set to release their first album, TEN, on Malpermesita
Records in March 28, 2025. This magnificent act of Avant-Garde Black
Metal features none other than Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted...) on drums, and
it's a journey you won't want to miss. Fans of Der Weg einer Freiheit, Deathspell
Omega, Gaerea and Marduk will find themselves captivated by
the blend of violence, melancholy, horror, and melody that defines this deeply
personal take on Black Metal.
A haunting and magnificent act of Avant-Garde Black Metal featuring Kevin Paradis (ex Benighted...) on drums.
Paths to Deliverance will captivate fans of Der Weg einer Freiheit, Deathspell Omega, Harakiri for the Sky, Marduk, Gaerea...
Without imposing any musical barriers, Paths to Deliverance merges violence, melancholy, horror, and melody into a deeply personal take on Black Metal.
The debut album, TEN, is both a sonic and conceptual exploration rooted in themes of horror and mysticism. Alternating between aggression and haunting melodies, the album captures the duality of human fears and aspirations, drawing inspiration from the works of horror masters like Edgar Allan Poe, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft…, as well as Carl Jung's psychological theories and the Tibetan Bardo.
Originally conceived as a solo project by A.S.A (Azziard, Alkhemia, ex-The Negation, ex-Redsphere), Paths to Deliverance has now evolved as a full and experimented band. Thanks to talented musicians, used to work and play together from Alkhemia, Azziard, Nydvind, Cave Growl, Skaphos..., Paths to Deliverance is planned on several gigs and festivals and is preparing the next act.
https://www.malpermesita.com/
https://pathstodeliverance.bandcamp.com/album/ten
TYRMFAR returns to shake the
metal world with their powerful new single, "THE HUBRIS OF HUMANITY,
PT.1," the fourth track from their highly anticipated EP, SYMBIOSIS,
due for release on March 28th, 2025, via Wormholedeath
“The Hubris of Humanity, Pt.1” is a dark, immersive journey that explores the disastrous consequences of human pride. Tyrmfar confronts listeners with intense lyrics and a merciless soundscape that depict humanity’s drive for power and progress at the expense of the planet. With haunting imagery of poisoned rivers and deforested lands, the song warns of an impending “sixth extinction” that threatens to be humanity’s undoing—a chilling reminder that our survival hinges on heeding the lessons we’ve long ignored.
The single is now available on all major digital platforms
About the EP: Symbiosis
With Symbiosis, Tyrmfar pushes the boundaries of their sound, forging an evolution in their blackened death metal assault. The EP explores the uneasy relationship between humanity and nature, channeling the growing tension of ecological and social crises into a brutal yet thought-provoking musical experience.
Rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal influences of the late '90s and early 2000s, Symbiosis also embraces modern elements that reflect the band's diverse musical inspirations. This creative process, enriched by each member’s distinct style, weaves together a tapestry of searing intensity and emotional depth. Every note is a testament to the band's commitment to authenticity and connection, ensuring that their live performances remain as powerful and captivating as their studio work.
https://www.facebook.com/tyrmfar/
SEPULCHRAL CURSE’s third full-length album paints a vivid portrait of a band at their creative and productive peak. On their Dark Descent Records debut, the Turku quintet demonstrate unmatched ferocity and craftmanship, cementing their place at the very zenith of the global blackened death metal scene.
Stream
the album's first single "House of the Black Moon" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsrOaTTp8dc
Tracklisting:
1. Wildfires
2. House of The Black Moon
3. The Locust Scar
4. Beneath The Dismal Tides
5. Empress of The Dead
6. The Currents of Chaos
7. Crimson Passages
As with many Finnish death metal pioneers, the band incorporates a distinctive sense of weirdness, blending diverse influences in crafting a sound that’s unmistakably their own.
“The backbone is death metal,” states vocalist Kari Kankaanpää, “but we’ve never shied away from exploring new inspirations and influences, which shape the unique edge synonymous with SEPULCHRAL CURSE. Music needs to be dark, heavy and furious!”
Crimson Moon Evocations marks the band’s debut with Dark Descent Records, a partnership that feels both natural and profoundly significant: “Dark Descent Records has always held a special place in my heart. To join their renowned roster with this record is a true honour.”
This new collaboration reflects the SEPULCHRAL CURSE's unwavering momentum, arriving merely two years after their bold leap forward with Abhorrent Dimensions.
“With Abhorrent Dimensions we truly began to find our own sound and style, and Crimson Moon Evocations takes an even deeper dive into who we are and crystallises the essence of the Sepulchral Curse sound.”
To capture their vision, the band returned to Finland’s Oxroad Studios to work with producer Tomi Uusitupa, whose influence has been pivotal. “Tomi is like our sixth member. He chooses the projects he works with carefully, as he pours a tremendous amount of love and personal input to each record he does.”
Complete with stunning artwork by Mark Erskine, the album is not just a milestone but a statement: SEPULCHRAL CURSE has ascended to the pinnacle of blackened death metal!
“Stay cursed. Onward the legions!,” Kari concludes.
Crimson Moon Evocations was recorded and mixed by Tomi Uusitupa and mastered by Are Kangus.
SEPULCHRAL CURSE is:
Vocals – Kari Kankaanpää
Guitar – Jaakko Riihimäki
Guitar – Aleksi Luukka
Bass & Backing Vocals – Niilas Nissilä
Drums – Johannes Rantala
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/SepulchralCurse
THE
PIT
presents 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORWAY': We've never classified
ourselves as a Black Metal band. In the beginning, we called it brutal music or
Brutal Metal. We couldn't classify it. We wanted to create something new.
Faster, harder and heavier. More aggressive than anything we'd heard in the genre”
As new addition to its list of programs, THE PIT VOD platform presents 'Once Upon a Time in Norway' ; an explosive documentary diving into the dark origins of Norwegian black metal, uncovering the chaos, church burnings, and the shocking murder that shook a nation.
The full documentary is available https://www.the-pit.com/content/once-upon-a-time-in-norway-le-documentaire-2007-109319 with a 7-days FREE trial.
...Synopsis...
Once upon a time in Norway, Black Metal was born. From its origins in a closed, underground milieu, Norwegian Black Metal quickly became a worldwide cult phenomenon. It has developed around myths, in particular linked to the band that defined the genre: Mayhem.
Formed in 1984 by guitarist Øystein Aarseth (Euronymous), bassist Jørn Stubberud (Necrobutcher), and drummer Kjetil Manheim, Mayhem is a band synonymous with the birth of Norwegian black metal.
The group gained infamy with later members such as vocalist Per Yngve ‘Pelle’ Ohlin (Dead) and bassist Varg Vikernes (Count Grishnackh). At the heart of this underground movement was Euronymous’s Oslo-based record store, Helvete, which became a hub for the scene that evolved into a controversial and extremist cult.
This gripping documentary delves into the turbulent early 1990s, a period marked by church burnings, suicides, and murders that shocked Norway. It all leads to the climactic and infamous murder of Euronymous by Varg Vikernes, an event that captured global attention.
Bucharest
is probably not yet on the agenda of many festivalgoers. But that could change
soon!
Especially listeners of harder sounds should mark March 1st in their calendars. That's when the BUCHAREST DEATHFEST 2025 will take place at Club Quantic with international band participation. Many of the bands performing there give their live premiere on a Romanian stage. Among them are:
FLESHCRAWL – Germany (old school death metal)
ANALEPSY – Portugal (slam brutal death metal)
SQUASH BOWELS – Poland (gore grind)
GUINEAPIG – Italy (gore grind power violence)
DE PROFUNDIS – England (technical death thrash metal)
SKAPHOS – France (blackened death metal)
CADAVRUL – Romania (old school death grind)
MINCING FURY & GUTTURAL CLAMOUR OF QUEER DECAY – Czech Republic (grind brutal death metal)
SPINELESS FUCKERS – Czech Republic (party grindcore)
So, 9 perfect reasons to plan a trip to Bucharest at the beginning of March!
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Since 2009, LADY BEAST have been flying the flag for refined HEAVY METAL. The band hail from the Steel City of Pittsburgh, forming with firm influences ranging from Motörhead, Dio, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Mercyful Fate. From there, LADY BEAST have weaved their own unique style of metal with silky-yet-sharp harmonizing guitars and the soaring, rally-the-warriors vocals of frontwoman Deborah Levine. All the while, they’ve retained their blue-collar roots but have never forgotten the majesty of metal in its earliest, most classic form: fantasy, magic, epic adventure, and of course ANTHEMS!
While it’s been five long years since their last full-length – but only a year after DYING VICTIMS stepped in to reissue on vinyl their second album, 2015’s pivotal Lady Beast II – LADY BEAST suitably explode from the gates with palpitating urgency on The Inner Alchemist. Mind you, the band aren’t necessarily trying to break any speed limits here on LP#5, but rather, it’s the power, poise, and all-out swagger they exude on The Inner Alchemist which instills the sensation that LADY BEAST have only been away mere minutes. Thankfully, little has changed in their sturdy aesthetic – authentically ‘80s-entrenched HEAVY METAL that struts and gallops with equal aplomb, buttressed by instantly-hummable riffs and a palpable atmosphere of swords & sorcery – but if there’s one main distinction, it’s that the production on The Inner Alchemist highlights their heaviness, giving crunch when proceedings go locomotive and majesty when those proceedings go harmonic. As always, Levine’s passionate & powerful vocals are as engaging as ever: emotive and narrative in equal measure, still standing tall atop the keep-it-true pack.
Graced with evocative cover artwork by Adam Burke, LADY BEAST are sure stirring up something with The Inner Alchemist!
Line-up:
Adam Ramage - Drums
Chris Tritschler - Guitars
Deborah Levine - Vocals
Andy Ramage - Guitars
Amy Bianco - Bass
From Pittsburgh, USA
Artwork:
Adam Burke
Release date:
28st March2025
Tracklist
1 The Oracles Omen
2 Through The Eyes Of War
3 Inner Alchemist
4 Starborn
5 Crones Crossroads
6 Feed Your Fire
7 Witch Light
8 The Wild Hunt
9 Off With Her Head
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Active in the pagan metal scene for over 20 years, Nydvind are among
the pioneers of the genre in France. NYDVIND will release their 4th album "TETRAMENTAL
II - TELLURIA" on Malpermesita Records in March
21, 2025... It's the second chapter of a tetralogy dedicated to the 4 elements
of nature.
Get ready for a journey through elements and ages, where the raw energy of black metal meets the profound melancholy of doom and the organic vitality of folk.
For fans of: BELENOS, KAMPFAR, PRIMORDIAL
A journey through elements and ages, where the raw energy of black metal meets the profound melancholy of doom and the organic vitality of folk.
TELLURIA is the second chapter of the tetralogy “Tetramental” by one of the pioneers and most renowned band of the genre in France, with a career spanning over 20 years.
‘Tetramental’ is not just a series of albums; it’s a sonic odyssey dedicated to the primal forces of nature. Following the success of ‘Seas of Oblivion’ in 2018, ‘Telluria’ delves deep into the earthly roots of this captivating universe.
Immerse yourself in this fascinating world and let the very essence of nature sweep you away in this epic new chapter.
https://www.malpermesita.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Nydvind
1.
Time In A Candle
2. The Last Dance
3. Pale Sun Sad Moon
4. A Stranger Inside The Mirror
5. Not Anymore
6. Such A Shame (Talk Talk Cover)
7. Into The Abyss Of Night
8. Rest For A Moment
9. The Army Of Nothing
10. Upon The Moon
11. And If You Have To Leave
"Prelude Of Loss" will be released on digipak CD and digital format via My Kingdom Music on March 21st, 2025 and you can PRE-ORDER it at: https://shorturl.at/zrkWy
With their debut album "The Summer That Will Not Come", the Sicilian ETERNAL WHITE TREES gave lovers of these sonorities their ideal soundtrack. Now they return to the scene with a new album that accentuates that soul even more, enriching it with new shades with an always decadent tone, able to carry the listener into a musical universe made of sad atmospheres and obscure melodies.
Born once again from the meeting of the three souls that make up this creature (Gerassimos Evangelou - LORD AGHEROS, Antonio Billé - ANAKONDA and Andrea Tilenni - FEAR OF ETERNITY, ex SINOATH), "Prelude Of Loss" will be for sure a mandatory listening to those who have their musical background in the most melancholy dynamics of Metal and Post Rock of KATATONIA, OCTOBER TIDE, SWALLOW THE SUN and NOVEMBRE.
"Prelude Of Loss" will dig into your soul in search of the most hidden emotions!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/eternalwhitetrees
Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records will release Ashen Womb on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats on February 7.
Copenhagen’s PHRENELITH emerges from the darkness once again with their third and most unholy full-length offering, Ashen Womb. Nine sinister funeral marches, draped in a bleak and blackened atmosphere, provide a lens into the forthcoming end of times.
Tracklist:
1) Noemata
2) Astral Larvae
3) A Husk Wrung Dry
4) Lithopaedion
5) Nebulae
6) Stagnated Blood
7) Sphageion
8) Chrysopoeia
9) Ashen Womb
A droning tone fades in, opening up a slow dirge that eases us into the apocalyptic explosion of death that will follow for the next 40 minutes. Where guitars anxiously scale the fretboard & weave morose melodies while drums pound and smash with the force of the Chicxulub impactor. Interspersed between the infernal, seismic, blackened stampedes are droning psychedelia & ambient noise interludes, immersing us further into the ever-growing darkness. But there are also moments of overwhelming beauty, like on tracks "Nebulae" and the eponymous "Ashen Womb," where PHRENELITH indulge in the repetition of their sinister melodies, layering Serpentinian guitars atop each other, spinning a web of desolate harmonies around the listener.
With Ashen Womb, PHRENELITH gives us the foretold sound of the apocalypse, but whether it’s a warning or a celebration is yet undecided.
PHRENELITH is:
Simon Daniel - Vocals
David Mikkelsen - Guitars, Vocals
Jakob O - Bass
Andreas Nordgreen - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.mesacounojo.com
https://www.facebook.com/phrenelith
"We are thrilled to announce that D.E.A.D have signed a 4-year licensing agreement with the mighty WormHoleDeath Records for our album "Of Vile And Hate," the band shared. "This partnership marks a significant milestone for us, and we are eager to unleash our brand of death metal upon the global metal community. We are confident that this collaboration with WormHoleDeath Records will amplify our music's impact and reach new heights. We look forward to sharing more details about the album's physical release and where to grab your copy. Together with WormHoleDeath Records, we will bring our unique brand of death metal to fans worldwide."
About
D.E.A.D and Of Vile and Hate
D.E.A.D is a brutal death metal duo born from the darkness of the 2020 Pandemic. Founded by Niels (Sweden) and Adam (Australia), two like-minded musicians united in their quest for sonic metal mayhem. Hailing from South Australia, D.E.A.D unleashes unrelenting, straight-up death metal, forged in the depths of isolation and fueled by a shared passion for extreme music. No frills, no compromise – just pure, unadulterated death metal fury.
"Of Vile and Hate" is their debut album and it represents the duo’s unrelenting passion and dedication to their craft, distilling the anger, frustration, and resilience of a world in turmoil into a sonic manifesto. With "Of Vile and Hate", D.E.A.D. unleashes a fierce and unapologetic sound that reflects the intensity of their artistic vision.
This album follows the last portion of one man’s life. A demonic metamorphosis takes place as he faces his end of days. It is a culmination of a life lived in torment. From a disease-ridden body decaying, to a magnificent resurrection in crimson shade. With death pacing his trail, nothing may stand in the way.
Written and recorded in Adelaide, Australia, with artwork and design made by Will Clement in Melbourne and mixed by the renowned Olof Berggren in Sweden, "Of Vile and Hate" represents the culmination of our artistic vision and dedication to crafting unrelenting death metal.
Fans can already get a taste of the impending storm with the lyric video for “Dead,” now live on YouTube. This first glimpse serves as a visceral preview of what Of Vile and Hate promises to deliver!
Tracklist
Before I Die
2. Morbid
3. Death Toll
4. The Manifest
5. Race To The Grave
6. Buried
7. Dead
8. The Spread
D.E.A.D - No Frills, No Compromise, Just Death Metal Fury.
https://linktr.ee/d.e.a.d
Label: Independent Release
Release Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Lord Belial | Behemoth | Belphegor
It was five years ago that they walked out of the Arizona deserts, figures shimmering in the heat. In a moment they stood before us and cast the puzzle box of Pestilence Reborn at our feet. Then without word or discernible movement they were once again part of the mirage manipulated horizon. Thoughtless and careless, mesmerized by this unlooked for gift, we reached for the box, eager fingers caressing symbols and sigils that seemed to excrete sickness through our skin…and then the pain began, the nightmares of hook and claw and barbed wire embrace…an eternity of agony.
Now screams become silence…and they are here again, the desert sun at their backs. They offer us a glass of emerald liquid that seems to move within the clear walls that surround it. Bile Of The Gods. Without hesitation we take it. We drink, we swallow…we are undone.
In truth, Phoenix residents Deadspawn haven’t been silent since their Pestilence Reborn debut album appeared in 2020; there’s been a single, a split release with Swarm Of Serpents and a rough and raw live outing – Live At The Beast 2023. However what fans have really been waiting for is a second full length studio album…and now it is here. Bile Of The Gods is a staggering outpouring of blackened death metal, as hypnotic as it is devastating. From the triumphant announcement of their return that is opener ‘Unsleep’ to the many layered masterpiece of extremity and terror, ‘Bile Of The Gods’ itself, that concludes this stunning album, this is an utterly absorbing listening experience. Time stands still as you are swept through this array of secrets and dark wonders. Be it the arcane spellcraft and devastating power of ‘Eyes Of Savior’ or ‘Eminence Upon The Throne’, a collision of textures, melodies and wicked riffs that dance like spiders across your frozen face, Bile Of The Gods is an all encompassing kingdom of nightmares. Breathtakingly accomplished in its presentation, Bile Of The Gods is the work of musicians who are masters of their craft. There is an unearthly vitality that writhes through each individual performance and the resulting atmosphere is haunting. This is a triumph of the extreme music arts and a testament to the enduring potency and strength of Deadspawn!
The set of songs that Deadspawn crafted for Bile Of The Gods deserved to be presented in the best possible manner. With this in mind the band sought out the mixing and mastering skills of Phil Pluskota, who has worked with Dååth, Wormhole, Vulvodynia and many more, to make sure that the full impactful nature of every note, every commanding word could be appreciated. And to put the final seal of quality upon their infernal creation? There was only one artist to call upon for the cover image of Bile Of The Gods – Jon Zig (Deeds Of Flesh, Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm etc). His striking imagery perfectly complements the majestic sounds that lurk beneath it. Bile Of The Gods will be unleashed on January 24th and be assured, Deadspawn have delivered everything you could wish for in terms of epic, imaginative, decimating blackened death metal. Drink deep and dream!
Line-up:
Curt DuRocher - Guitar/Vocals
Ryan Frech - Drums
John Rueger - Bass/Backing Vocals
Ryan Roubison - Guitar/Backing Vocals
All music and lyrics by Curt DuRocher
https://www.facebook.com/DeadspawnOfficial/
Acclaimed atmospheric doom metal act CLOUDS is set to release their highly anticipated new album, "DESPRINS", on February 13th, 2025. The album will be available in an elegant 6-panel digipak CD format, to be released in collaboration with Loud Rage Music. Additionally, the band has announced plans for a future vinyl version of "Desprins", with more details to come soon.
Band Statement:
"We are happy to announce the collaboration with Loud Rage Music for "Desprins", our latest album in terms of CDs and vinyl. Adrian, the label's owner, is an old friend from decades ago. He and his label will also take care of our day-to-day shipping operations. As we are now a fully Romanian act, it only felt natural to have someone close with whom we can coordinate our business plans and help each other."
About "Desprins":
Format: 6-panel digipak CD, with a vinyl edition planned for the near future.
Themes: A deep exploration of detachment, loss, and catharsis, "Desprins" invites listeners into an emotional landscape unique to CLOUDS' signature style.
Sound: A seamless blend of atmospheric doom, melancholic undertones, and moments of transcendent heaviness.
Tracklist:
Disguise – 7:13
Life Becomes Lifeless – 7:55
Unanswered – 6:31
Forge Another Nightmare – 6:38
Chain Me – 6:13
The Fall of Hearts – 6:47
Will It Ever End – 5:55
Sorrowbound (Bonus Track) – 7:48
Chasing Ghosts (Bonus Track) – 7:21
Pre-Order Information:
Pre-orders for "Desprins" are available now through Loud Rage Music's official Bandcamp page https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/ as well as the band's Bandcamp page https://cloudsofficial.bandcamp.com/. Keep an eye on their respective social media channels for updates on the vinyl edition.
About CLOUDS:
Founded in 2013, CLOUDS has built a reputation as one of the most evocative names in atmospheric doom metal. The band’s discography is marked by their ability to channel profound emotion and deliver unforgettable live performances. Now a fully Romanian act, CLOUDS continues to innovate and inspire with their latest chapter, "Desprins".
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://linktr.ee/cloudsdoommetal
Formed in 2011, French quartet HEXECUTOR started with a foundation of raw-and-fierce evil old-school speed/thrash metal, as exemplified by their debut demo and Hangman of Roazhon EP from 2012 and 2014, respectively. Thereafter, they slowly-yet-firmly evolved in various directions when they released their Poison, Lust and Damnation debut album in 2016, which DYING VICTIMS released on vinyl a year later.
After proving themselves to be a very efficient live act, HEXECUTOR immersed themselves into Breton legends and history, intertwining their music with Breton lore for their second album, 2020’s Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge…. Along with being something of a modern classic – amazingly thorough in its conceptual background, boundlessly inventive in its execution – that album proved to be a turning point for the band: a concerted and confident elevation beyond the standard “blackthrash” tropes so prevalent in the modern underground.
As considerable as that accomplishment was, HEXECUTOR are eclipsing it with their third album, delving yet deeper into dark legends and impressive figures from Celtic-Breton lore. Titled …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint, LP#3 both sonically and elliptically continues where its momentous predecessor left off; not for nothing is the opening song the belated title track “Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge….” Ripping right out of the gates, HEXECUTOR continue their evolution unabated, adding once again to the richness of their music, and this time with songwriting from both their former and new lead guitarists. Their core is still thrash metal, but even just a cursory listen of …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint reveals that there’s few “thrash” records that will sound like this – this year, or the next, or the year after that. Seemingly effortlessly – or, at least, with some strange magick unique to them – HEXECUTOR lurk yonder into realms both black and more traditionally heavy metal, even venturing far afield into some progressives touches. And whereas Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge… carried a huge conceptual weight, the feeling across …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint is freer and almost airier, despite this still being DARK heavy metal at its core.
HEXECUTOR are HEXECUTOR, now more than ever: renewing the genre and trying to bring this opus as a new gem to the treasures of metal music …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint!
Line-up:
S. Chainsaw-Maeströr - Bass
Putrid Vön Rötten - Drums
Jey Deflagratör - Vocals, Guitars
Ricky Malevolent - Guitars
From Rennes, France
Artwork:
John Whiplash
Release date:
28st March202
Tracklist
:
1 Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge
2 Dogue Noir
3 Les Lavandières de la Nuit
4 Youdig - Perfides Frontières
5 Paol Goz
6 Kerdis Bras
7 Conomor le maudit
8 Marion Tromel
Release info:
Regular gatefold edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special gatefold edition on green vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
NOMAD
SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS
proudly presents:
GOATLORD CORP. – „TEMPLE OF SERPENT WHORES”
Despite a relatively short existence in the underground, Goatlord Corp. is no stranger to the French Black Metal scene. Formed in 1999, the band started out with a MCD and a 7”EP (in 2002 and 2006 respectively), before falling into a hibernation that would last no less than 18 (6+6+6) years! As everything happens for a reason and for everything there is a right moment, the Covid pandemic presented the ideal conditions for the main culprit Seremoth to finally gather a new malevolent crew of Black Metal veterans, 2024 marking the year that he would fulfil his ominous musical quest.
Anno 2024 the line-up consists of:
Seremoth (ex-Merrimack) – guitars/bass
Saint Vincent (Blacklodge/Seth/The Arrival of Satan) - vocals
Alsvid (Seth/ex-Enthroned) – drums
Thavsael (ex-Voracious Gangrene) - guitars
After its long hypersleep, Goatlord Corp. now returns as a completely new and almost unrecognisable entity. Combining high-end song-writing skills and musicianship that are the result of many years of perfecting, with “Temple of Serpent Whores” the band has elevated itself to a whole new level.
The tracks flow like an unstoppable whirlwind of Satanic violence. Ferocious and malevolent, the songs are intense like Hell and incendiary as fuck! The tireless drums are full of wit and welcome variation, and the guitars create this awesome wall of sound, with riffs that just never get dull.
On this album, Saint Vincent once more proves that he takes his role as vocalist seriously, showcasing his vast vocal potential and adorning the music with quite a few memorable highlights.
The sound & mix guarantees the best possible way to experience this kind of Black Metal: perfectly outbalanced without becoming clinical, thus maintaining all its brutality and sharp edges.
As a cherry on the cake, the custom-made cover artwork by the hands of David Glomba turned out spot-on, as expected.
All in all, with this impressive blast of an album, the Black Metal scene better make way for an undeniable force to be reckoned with!
“Temple of Serpent Whores” will be released on LP (50x black / 150x super marble), digipack (100x) and tape (50x).
Thou shalt kneel before the Goatlord!
EXPURGATE – „ NYNÄS DEATH „
If the name Expurgate doesn’t immediately ring a bell, that’s because this Swedish Death Metal band was just too fucking underground for you to know it!
Their music never having been widely spread back in the early 90’s, it might be helpful to start with a more contemporaneous name: Svartsyn
As some of you should know, before Svartsyn there was Chalice. But what most of you probably don’t know, is that before Chalice, there was Expurgate!
With this release, Nomad Snakepit Productions invites you to dive into a long forgotten past, to a time when these members - that later would be forming and joining bands such as Chalice, Svartsyn and Unpure - were still completely immerged into Death Metal. Unsurprisingly, such output is exactly what the term Old-school Death Metal refers to!
On this LP we have compiled the band’s two only demos (“Forbidden Ruler” and the unreleased ‘92 demo), together with some exclusive rehearsal tracks from the same era.
It is a limited and exclusive release on vinyl only: 60 copies on black vinyl and 140 on marble bloodred/lightblue vinyl. The LP includes an A2 poster with the cover artwork & exclusive pictures, plus an old-school style xeroxed insert with info about Expurgate and the tracks at hand.
Please note that all our releases are exclusively distributed in the U.S. by Nuclear War Now! Productions. We urge all our U.S. customers to contact NWN! directly to obtain our products (also regarding wholesales)!
Still available through Nomad Snakepit Productions:
MORBID ANGEL - "Live in New Jersey 1989" lim. LP
AMEN CORNER - "Jachol Ve Tehilá" lim. Double LP
AO - "kAOs" lim. Tape
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The track was premiered via Veil of Sound today: https://veilofsound.com/2025/01/19/Song_Premiere-Noctambulist-Gevoelsmens.html
"Gevoelsmens is a song about nostalgia and living in the past. It invokes the fear of being past one's prime while at the same time maintaining some hopeful optimism," explained the band.
"Gevoelsmens" will be available on all streaming services on 21
January 2025. Pre-save here https://share.amuse.io/track/noctambulist-gevoelsmens
The new album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released on 7 February 2025 in CD, vinyl and digital formats via These Hands Melt. Recorded in Tilburg between February and April 2023 at Catacomben Studios, De Droom sees Noctambulist diving deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen.
“Noctambulist II: De Droom” can be pre-ordered via These Hands Melt: https://lnk.to/noctambulist
What sets "De Droom" apart from the first record is that the writing was done with the entire band on board whereas full song ideas used to be presented by a few members. The songs this time around are just that, songs.
While "De Droom" is not a concept album most songs reflect on the beauty of a mediocre co-habitual existence while also struggling with the seemingly impossible dream of home ownership. The album cover features a bedroom of a derelict villa, reflecting the themes of hope, failure and heartbreak present on the album.
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk.
Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released through These Hands Melt in February 2025.
The band previously released the singles “Lichteter” and “Aderlater” in support of their upcoming album.
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Noctambulistband
On March 21st, avant-death metal trio IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT will release their sixth full-length, "GOLDSTAR", via Century Media Records. Their most instant and evocative work to-date, "Goldstar" reins in their musical wanderlust with a newfound focus that the band has only hinted at with past works. Their latest single - LEXINGTON DELIRIUM (featuring the ominous spoken vocals of Tomas Haake) - is just one example of this heightened songwriting acumen, clocking in under 5 minutes, while retaining their trademark musical virtuosity in this homage to classic NYC architecture.
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT comments: "Ziggurats rise, skyscrapers weep, & the future is not birthed from the organic but from a cosmic, mechanical womb. It speaks of posterity lost in the congestion of New Culture, a place where Manhattan's towering ambition conceals impending delirium. The Throne of Bolts becomes both a seat of power and a looming specter, begging for salvation from the soulless surge of progress. We climbed the deco spire of the magnificent Chrysler building in order to bring you a magnanimous visual experience."
The new album "Goldstar", which will be released March 21st, is now available for pre-order in various formats.
Watch the video–filmed at the iconic Chrysler Building (a rare opportunity not given to many artists, especially the top floors!) and directed by Brendan McGowan–here:
https://youtu.be/v9cDvwwbj6A?si=GDOXci0-QkW-8hwM
The
year 2025 could not start better for blackened thrash metal: Swedish rising
force SARCATOR are releasing their third album SWARMING
ANGELS & FLIES , via Century Media Records. After announcing
the signing to the label last year back in July, the young band released three
striking, powerful, and raw singles that kept the anticipation for this record
high. Now, SWARMING ANGELS & FLIES is available in its full
length. Across eight, grotesque and utterly venomous tracks, the band have
deftly blended the wide-eyed extremity of their debut album with the
inspirational musicality of their second work “Alkahest”, while playing everything
with more intensity than ever before. It is a record that surely raises the bar
for face-flaying extreme metal. Both deliriously melodic and mercilessly brutal
- SWARMING ANGELS & FLIES is the most dangerously potent record
the Swedens have made to date.
The band shares about “The Deep Ends”:
“‘The Deep Ends’ stands as a strong representative of the traditional rock essence of our sound that we incorporated with our previous album (Alkahest 2022). It's all about the groove and rhythm in this one, hand in hand with epic-driven arrangements. Everything with our own blackened edge to it that has been the common ground for every SARCATOR song so far. With this one we wanted to push everything forward in combining traditional rock music with extreme metal vocals and expression and of course trying to make it sound organically together.”
Listen to the album on your favourite DSP: https://sarcator.lnk.to/SAAF-AlbumNe
The album is available for purchase here: https://sarcator.lnk.to/SwarmingAngelsandFliesNe
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: April 1st 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Paganizer | Carnation | Obituary | Death
Line-up:
Engelbert - Drums
Vicente J Payá - Guitars
Ancor Ramírez - Lead Guitars
Andrew Espinosa - Vocals/Bass
Drums on Something Is Rotten In Humanty performed by Davide Billia
Keyboards on Something Is Rotten In Humanty performed by Alejandro Lobo
Welcome to the world we have created…hewn from the raw substance of our greed and perversion, our endless fascination with cruelty and consumption. Our morality has withered in the gluttonous glare of our lust and our conscience has bled out from the innumerable wounds we have inflicted upon it. We exist in a kingdom of death, of jagged monuments to selfish egotism and raging waters of desensitization. The sentinels of wickedness scour this wasteland for any trace of empathy, any remnants of mercy, compassion and decency…but they are all long, long dead. Truly, something is rotten within the withered shell of humanity.
Something Is Rotten In Humanity is the new album from the legendary pioneers of Spanish death metal, Unbounded Terror! Featuring nine new tracks of dark, primal power this album is a magnificent testament to Unbounded Terror’s enduring potency and unique take upon the dark arts of death. The standards are set right from the opening chords of first track, ‘Fear Of Dying’, which attacks with a nasty, snarling immediacy. All the key elements of the Unbounded Terror sound are here; the irresistible riffs, the juddering rhythms, the vocals that sound like undead invective, spewed from the mouth of a reanimated corpse and the guitar leads, full of otherworldly melody, that twist and ascend, dive and cascade in captivating fashion. If all that sounds like great, but standard fare, then think again…there is something about Unbounded Terror that sets them apart; something in their chord progressions, their note choices, their song structures and fetid atmosphere that gives them a special aura like no other. Songs like ‘Demons In Your Mind’ and first single ‘Reviving’ are propelled forward on old school death metal riffing and adorned in superb solos, but what makes them special is that indefinable ancient magic that belongs to Unbounded Terror and to them alone. Death metal fans need to hear the crushing, unstoppable war machine that is ‘Divine Virtue’ and the thunderous headbanging riffing of ‘The Disappointment’. Unbounded Terror have delivered the album of their career and surely one of the death metal albums of 2025!
Produced and recorded by the band’s own Vicente J Payá (Golgotha, Sons Of Cult etc) and mixed and mastered by Davide Billia (Avulsed, Holycide, Posthuman Abomination etc), Something Rotten In Humanity sounds absolutely devastating – exactly how grim, rotten death metal should sound – and its ghastly demeanour is completed by the artwork of Juan Castellano (Furnace, Vomitory, Ribspreader etc) which captures its grim spirit perfectly. The album will be released by Xtreem Music on CD (featuring a bonus track), 12"LP, cassette and digital formats on April 1st and the name of Unbounded Terror will once more ring through the shadow shrouded vaults of the dead.
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https://www.facebook.com/UnboundedTerror
CTHULUMINATI – “TENTACULA”
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Dodheimsgard, Oranssi Pazuzu, Schammasch and the like….
Tracklist:
01 Cthrl
02 Squid Pro Quo
03 Abysmal Quatrain
04 Transformation
05 The Illusion of Control
06 Mantra
Long before the name Cthuluminati cast its shadow over the Dutch metal scene, the story began with Marquis. This solo project, initiated in 2005 by ambitious musician and visionary Devi Hisgen, gave rise to a torrent of atmospheric and experimental black metal. With a relentless creative drive, Devi quickly built a loyal following, earning critical acclaim for his work. However, side projects and live collaborations with other bands led to a temporary pause for Marquis.
Still, the desire to bring his music to the stage never faded. Determined to revive his solo work in a live setting, Devi began searching for like-minded musicians who could bring his vision to life. After a period of trial and error, the lineup took shape with Rami Wohl on guitar and Stefan Strausz on bass. Together, they started playing shows and creating new material. The input from his bandmates added a fresh dynamic to the music, gradually steering it into new, uncharted territory.
When their drummer left due to personal reasons, the band faced a pivotal moment. By then, the music had evolved into an eclectic fusion of styles that transcended the roots of Marquis. Embracing this new direction, the group decided to start anew, rebranding themselves as Cthuluminati. The name signified not only a fresh beginning but also a commitment to boundless creativity, untethered by genre or expectation.
Armed with new material but lacking a permanent drummer, the band invited Rick Lieffering, drummer of black-folk metal band Fenris, to join them in the studio. Rick recorded the entirety of Reliqideus—their ambitious debut album—and also played drums for several live shows. Around the same time, Cthuluminati released their first single, "El Lizard Birth" (2016), a track written during the Marquis era. The song served as a harbinger of their transformation: a journey from atmospheric black ’n roll to the eclectic, psychedelic, and avant-garde metal that defines Cthuluminati today.
The search for a permanent drummer, however, continued. After an extensive search, the band found their perfect match in Seth van de Loo, the former drummer of Dutch death metal band Severe Torture. Seth, seeking a new creative direction, was immediately captivated by Cthuluminati’s demos. His arrival marked a turning point, as the band entered a new phase of both musical and personal synergy. By the time Reliqideus was officially released in 2019, Seth had joined the lineup, solidifying Cthuluminati as a cohesive and formidable force. The album’s blend of diverse influences created a unique and cohesive sound, earning glowing reviews from online metal outlets and enthusiastic responses from live audiences.
Complete once more, the four-headed entity of Cthuluminati was more determined than ever. They played numerous shows, including opening slots for Carach Angren and Rotting Christ, and set their sights on recording a follow-up album. Their second album, Tentacula, is set for release in March 2025 and promises to dive even deeper into their signature mix of psychedelic, avant-garde, and progressive metal. The result is a soundscape where the boundaries between black metal, sludge, and experimental elements dissolve into a hypnotic realm.
Cthuluminati’s mission remains clear: to create music without limits—a space where the absurd meets the sublime, and innovation reigns supreme.
Genre : Doom/Black/Gothic Metal
This marks their heaviest offering yet, featuring the powerful debut of their new vocalist, Liz Ziegler. Drawing inspiration from the fractured world around us, the band fuses doom, black, and gothic metal with ethereal clean vocals and intense harshness. With its diverse soundscapes, "Extinction" offers a captivating experience that every metal fan will appreciate!
The album is set
to drop on January 31, 2025.
Tracklist
1. Akerra
2. Vain
3. Gods of Old
4. False Reality
5. Extinction Featuring Melissa Ferlaak
6. Sentinels
7. Shift
8. Corporatocracy
9. Akelarre
Hailing from the vibrant metal scene of Minneapolis, MN (USA), Plague of Stars has captivated audiences and critics alike with their unparalleled blend of darkness, energy, and raw musical prowess.
Led by the haunting vocals of Liz Ziegler, this band of musical veterans, including Will Maravelas, Aaron Lanik, Frodo Caulfield, and Neal Pruett, defies categorization with their apocalyptic, female-fronted, genre-defying sound.
Since their inception in 2012, Plague of Stars has been on a relentless quest to push the boundaries of metal. From shattering riffs to ethereal melodies, they traverse uncharted territories, blending elements of doom, black, and gothic metal into a potent brew that leaves listeners spellbound.
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“I never thought DARK FORTRESS would have a live album,” says V. Santura (guitars). “The technical situation–we had multi-track recordings of two shows [Rotterdam and Bochum]–allowed for ANTHEMS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE to happen. I didn’t even listen to the recordings for months after the tour. When I finally did, I thought, ‘Holy shit!’ We sounded incredible, and I'm hardly ever happy with our shows. All of our hard work had finally fallen into place on that tour. When Century Media heard it, they said,
‘We’re gotta release it – it’s too good not to’!
If this is our end and it definitely is, then it’s a fitting end to DARK FORTRESS.”
Enjoy DARK FORTRESS’ final transmission by checking out “The Silver Gate (Live in 2023)”: https://youtu.be/VZ2-eIbYm4c
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Label: Rottweiler Records
Release Date: January 18th 2025
Rottweiler Records have proudly announced a new addition to their ever growing roster of diverse extreme metal. Southern California based modern thrash force, Death Protocol are the latest addition to the Rottweiler ranks and they are aiming to release their first album, Demonic Onslaught, this summer. However, before they set to work with producer Adam Castro of Classic Disaster on that neck-breaking enterprise, the band, formed by vocalist/lyricist David Priest and guitarist David Estrada, will be unleashing a new single - 'Times Change Truth Does Not'. Armed with massive crunching riffs, ironclad power, killer choruses, infectious hooks and some superb lead guitar work from recent recruit Nicholas Pelamati, 'Times Change Truth Does Not' is an absolute wrecking ball of thrash metal domination!
The song will be aired first, exclusively, on The Metal Priest Show on The Metal Onslaught radio show this Saturday, January 18th from 9PM PST and then go live on the Death Protocol bandcamp page.
Embrace the full force of 'Times Change Truth Does Not' and be ready for the Demonic Onslaught this summer!
Current Line up:
David Priest - Vocals
David Estrada - Guitars
Nicholas Pelamati - Lead Guitars
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeathProtocol
Long-running and critically acclaimed melodic/progressive death metal project, DESSIDERIUM, enters a new chapter with their forthcoming release for Willowtip Records, its first for the label. New album Keys to the Palace will be released on CD, double-vinyl gatefold LP, and digital formats on March 17.
The album's first single, "DOVER HENDRIX," is streaming now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaHZN1NHkU. The song is also available on all the usual digital platforms, including Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer.
Sole member and founder, Alex Haddad, shared his thoughts about Keys to the Palace: "This album was ten plus years in the making. A lot of the material here actually precedes that of the two previous releases. Completing this record means giving closure to this era of Dessiderium that has spanned across my twenties, and I see it as a well suited final chapter to this period. The two previous albums, Shadow Burn and Aria, provided no happy ending. They were both about defeat in their own way. Keys to the Palace reaches for triumph. This is an album about time travel that explores the polarity between past and future, innocence and disillusion, faith and despair, and adolescence and adulthood."
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/keys-willowtip
https://bit.ly/keys-bandcamp
Track Listing:
1. In The Midst Of May
2. Dover Hendrix
3. Pollen For The Bees
4. A Dream That Wants Me Dead
5. Magenta
6. Keys To The Palace
Credits:
All music and words written by Alex Haddad.
Produced by Alex Haddad.
Guitars, bass, vocals, keyboard, and orchestrations/synthesizers by Alex Haddad.
Drum programming by Brody Smith.
Piano solos on "Dover Hendrix" and "Pollen For The Bees" performed by Thomas Leroy Meier.
Mixed and mastered by Mendel Bij De Leij.
Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration).
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
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In "Emptiness," the band takes a brutal yet introspective dive into the emotional void, tackling themes of isolation, despair, and the deep human longing for connection. With a raw and aggressive sound that pushes the limits of thrash and death metal, the track exposes the psychological burden of searching for meaning when faced with life's stark emptiness.
The band stated: "Hollowness welcomed inside. This emptiness swallowed by. Fulfilling that emptiness. To find myself in you...This is the solution. This is the Way Out. Emptiness is the second video from our album, which will be released on April 17th. A song about emptiness, being lost, giving up, and finding a way out."
The music video for "Emptiness" was filmed and edited by András Székely, while the album Where Death Hunts was recorded, mixed, and mastered by István Simon at No Silence Studio in Hungary.
Stay tuned for more updates from ATROX TRAUMA as they continue to dominate the metal scene with their unrelenting sound.
Atrox Trauma was founded in 2008 in Hungary. Their goal, according to the music genre, was clear from the beginning: thrash metal with death metal influences. The band recorded 2 EPs during its earlier years besides performing on live gigs. The band's strength increased in 2019, and they have been spinning at an unstoppable speed since then. It gave a series of concerts in its motherland and countries in the neighborhood. The band creates a huge listener experience with its tight, intense, fast, and face-tearing music.
In 2022 they released their first LP called 'On The Line Of Nothing And Something' by the Italian label WormHoleDeath.The listener can experience everything from intense immersion to melodic thrash metal. Four music videos provide visual support for the fan-approachable experience.
By the end of 2024, they took the stage in many countries, performing in tours and festivals, and recorded their second LP ”Where Death Hunts”.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri - Drums
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Stream it now at: https://openkasket.bandcamp.com/track/internal-threat-feat-terminal-nation
A crushing slab of death metal, Trials of Failure, Open Kasket's debut full-length album, will be released February 7 on digital and cassette formats via Barbaric Brutality Records.
Pre-order: https://openkasket.bandcamp.com/album/trials-of-failure
Thematically, Trials of Failure revolves around self deprecation and full criticism of one's self. Sonically, the album is a demolition demonstration of caustic riffing and relentless pummeling. Add guest vocal spots on "Internal Threat" (Stan Liszewski of Terminal Nation), "Chain Whip" (Bryson Sherick of Backbiter), and "Chemical Death" (Jackson Edwards of Zashed), and the package is complete. Subtly is anathema. Force is paramount.
Track Listing:
1. Ersatz (Sine Die)
2. No Value
3. Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)
4. Bruised Sprainstein
5. Should
6. Putrid Existence
7. Defective
8. Chain Whip (feat. Backbiter)
9. Chemical Death (feat. Zashed)
10. Ripped Up
Credits:
Drums engineered at Wolfman Studios.
Mixed/Mastered/Reamped by Conor Haines at Corruption Studios.
Line-Up:
Fox Stillman - Vocals
Jacob Stillman - Guitar
Ethan Graham - Guitar
Jake Rasch - Bass/Vocals
Ryan Thibault - Drums
Bio:
Open Kasket is a Beatdown Death Metal band straight from Little Rock, AR. Formed in 2022, the band’s sound revolves around slamming riffs, groovy drums, and monstrous bass. These components together create the all out violent sound that the band delivers.
https://www.youtube.com/@openkasket6235
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GRAVESLAVE, a ferocious entity in
the Midwest metal scene since their formation in 2014, has built a reputation
for their relentless speed, intricate songwriting, and visually striking music
videos. Their powerful performances have captivated audiences from their early
days, with a catalog that continues to evolve. Notable for their intense live
shows, they’ve shared the stage with top-tier acts such as Origin, Rings of
Saturn, Abigail Williams, and Unearth, and embarked on successful tours across
the U.S. and Europe. Their 2018 EU tour with Origin and Rings of Saturn helped
cement their reputation in the global metal scene, and their 2021 album *No
Center* was met with critical acclaim, earning praise for its bold, complex
approach.
The band’s sound blends blackened, progressive death metal with technical precision, a fusion that’s gained recognition in outlets like *No Clean Singing*, *Decibel Magazine*, and *New Noise Magazine*. In 2024, Graveslave released the first of two companion EPs, *RELINQUISH, LIFE*, accompanied by the intense single "STRETCHED UNTIL WE BLEED," which was lauded for its chaotic energy and remarkable technical execution. With each release, Graveslave continues to refine and expand their signature sound, pushing boundaries while staying true to their aggressive roots.
Video Link to GraveSlave - Cling to Dust : https://youtu.be/xwV91Vzbq8s
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The third single is Rihanna cover 'Unfaithful' and this track also features Karisma on vocals.
Watch Unfaithful video: https://youtu.be/gdX5VsLCrVM
Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments:
”I've always loved making cover songs and especially when you do a metal cover of a pop song. I heard this song when I was younger and the melody got stuck in my head. This song is very suitable as a melodeath cover and I got the vision for it pretty quickly. We also got a very talented singer Sonja Lindberg to do a feature for this track. I met her while filming The Voice Of Finland program. She did an excellent job and I really like her unique sound a lot.”
Listen to 'Unfaithful'' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-unfaithful
Track list:
1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio)
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)
• Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
• Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio
Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack
Biography:
Defiled Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland. It was founded by the vocalist and Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021. The band’s music is for the fans of old In Flames, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity etc. Their sound relies heavily on the 90's melodeath sound, but with modern twists. The songs are filled with low growls, chunky guitars, beautiful melodies and tight rhythm sections.
They released their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 and it has reached over 25,000 streams on Spotify alone. Since then, the band has been writing new material and now it's time to unleash their long-awaited debut album!
Listen to the first single 'Your Worst Enemy' on streaming : https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-your-worst-enemy
Listen to the second single 'Exiled to Infinity'' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-exiled
Line-up:
Paavo Laapotti - Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä - Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä - Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen - Bass
Arttu Airo - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/defiledserenity
Label: Ardua Music
Release Date: February 7th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Paradise Lost | My Dying Bride | Shape Of Despair | Officium Triste
He stands upon the shore of a turbulent winter sea, snow drifting about his feet upon the dull, wet sand. A chill wind blows in across the colourless waves that reflect the colourless sky above, cutting through his thin shirt and carelessly unbuttoned coat that hangs uselessly from one shoulder. It bites at his skin with teeth like needles of ice, but he has no sense of feeling within or without. His empty eyes stare at the storm-tossed waters and he wonders if there is comfort to be found there, in the deep, dark places, hidden from the sun. A peace without end…
After years lost in the silence, far from sight though never far from memory, Inborn Suffering have returned. The kings of Parisian melodic, majestic doom death have emerged from the dust and shadows with a gargantuan new album of heart rending emotion…and while some unexpected returns bring with them only tarnished dreams and faded treasure, Pale Grey Monochrome adorns the Inborn Suffering legacy in sombre gravitas and shades of dusk and gold. As the foreboding ‘Wounding’ falls desolate into the arms of ‘From Lowering Tides’ sadness imbues every lamenting note. As an unkind world bows the shoulders beneath the weight of tragedy, this song swallows you into its darkness, sharing its bitter tears and shattered dreams. ‘Pale Grey Monochrome’ follows with a richly textured guitar riff, before the incredible heft of the first drum beat drives the air from your lungs, like a moment of terrible realisation. Exquisitely paced this wonderful title track leads you on, across vast wastes to the incomparable ‘Tales From An Empty Shell’ – searingly beautiful, this is an absolute masterclass in the melancholy arts of doom. Loss, despair, fear and hope all embrace the listener as they travel on to the sublime fragility and sweeping magnificence of album closer, ‘Drawing Circles’…and there could be no better way to end this incredible work of emotive metal. Pale Grey Monochrome is more than a triumphant return, it is an album that will take you beneath its wings, leaving you breathless and stunned.
Now with the backing of Ardua Music, home to many of the greatest doom death bands around, Inborn Suffering will unveil the sorrow filled tour de force of Pale Grey Monochrome on February 7th. Mixed and mastered with the deftest of touches by Déhà of Opus Magnum Studio (Abduction, Deadspace, Wolvennest etc) and adorned in the powerful artwork of Franck Besançon (Maveth, Solemn Lament, Silent Hill: Townfall etc), Pale Grey Monochrome has been carefully curated by Inborn Suffering and the results are remarkable. In February Ardua music will also reissue Inborn Suffering's two revered early albums, Wordless Hope and Regression To Nothingness – the year ahead looks bleak indeed…
Line-up:
Laurent Chaulet - Vocals/Guitars
Emmanuel Ribeiro - Bass
Stéphane Peudupin - Guitar
Thomas Rugolino - Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/inbornsufferingdoom/
Death-thrash
metal rising force FINAL SIEGE is thrilled to unveil the lyric
video for their ferocious single "PRIMORDIAL COMBAT". Taken
from the band's album NUCLEAR DOOM STATE (out via
Wormholedeath), this track delivers a visceral gut punch of raw power,
primal energy, and unrelenting aggression.
"Primordial Combat" is a brutal, aggressive track that channels raw and primal emotions. It captures the savage spirit of ancient survival while rebelling against modern systems of control. Prepare for an intense dive into the dark side of human instinct.
Formed in 2018, Final Siege began as a spark of creative energy when Gil Vives, Randy Reiser, and Amir Jairazbhoy shared their musical vision over beers in New York City. Following the release of their debut album March to Your Grave in 2021 and lineup evolutions, the band forged their current powerhouse roster in 2023:
Gil Anthony Vives – Lead Vocals/Guitar
Rob Maldonado – Guitar
George Garcia – Bass
Ameer "The Beheader" Aljallad – Drums
Known for their unflinching themes of rebellion, war, and the toll of modern chaos, Final Siege has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Atheist, and Warbringer, proving their place in the metal arena.
This full-length album is a sonic apocalypse, blending Death, Thrash, and Groove metal to create a relentless, headbanging experience. Primordial Combat is just one example of the rage-fueled energy fans can expect from the record.
Stream Nuclear Doom State album here: https://orcd.co/nucleardoomstate
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PATHOGENIC vocalist Jake Burns comments on the song:
“Lyrically, 'Crowned in Corpses' forces an acknowledgment of the bloodlust and brutality that drive wars of conquest. The opening command to “spill the blood of your enemies” is presented without justification, setting the tone for a song that makes no attempt to explain or rationalize the violence it depicts. This deliberate absence underscores the role of media and political narratives in making such conflicts more palatable. Wars of conquest spread unimaginable misery, and no matter the pretext, the conqueror wears a crown paid for with the blood and suffering of others."
The premiere for "Crowned in Corpses" comes via Decibel Magazine. Stream the video now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/01/16/video-premiere-pathogenic-crowned-in-corpses/
Skepsis Recordings will release Crowned in Corpses on February 7, 2025. Pre-order the album now at www.skepsisrecordings.com.
In support of the album, PATHOGENIC will hit the road with technical metal band Leylines (members of Through the Eyes of the Dead and ex-The Contortionist). The tour kicks off March 1 in Nashville. Dates are as follows.
3/1 - DRKMTTR - Nashville, TN
3/2 - Culture Shock - Atlanta, GA
3/3 - The Milestone - Charlotte, NC
3/4 - Chapel of Bones - Raleigh, NC
3/5 - The Metro - Baltimore, MD
3/6 - The Nail - Ardmore, PA
3/7 - The Woodshop - Brooklyn, NY
3/8 - The Middle East, Upstairs - Boston, MA
Crowned
in Corpses marks the band's first full-length release in over half a
decade, promising a bold evolution of their signature brand of progressive tech
death, while retaining the intensity that has defined the band for years.
The album was produced by Raymond Marte (Moon Tooth), Anthony Lopardo (Loss Becomes), and ourselves. Raymond Marte mixed and mastered the record. Crowned in Corpses music video was shot by Nick Court of Killing It Entertainment.
Out of Boston’s depths emerges PATHOGENIC, a force unshackled from hiatus and reborn with Crowned in Corpses. Over 42 punishing minutes, this progressive death metal quintet weaves together labyrinthine riffs, relentless rhythms, and chilling visions of a decaying world.
In 2022, the band’s resurgence was ignited when original vocalist Jake Burns and new drummer Tyler Montaquila joined forces with guitarists Chris Gardino, Justin Licht, and bassist Dan Leahy. Together, they’ve forged a sound that is ferocious, intricate, and unapologetically heavy — delivering metal that demands to be heard.
PATHOGENIC has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Revocation, and The Faceless, and has annihilated crowds at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and RPM Fest. Known for their high-octane live performances, the band’s energy and command leave audiences with no choice but to headbang furiously.
Set to release on February 7, 2025, through Skepsis Recordings, Crowned in Corpses is a ferocious musical declaration: eight tracks of devastating power and haunting warnings of the darkness that lies ahead.
PATHOGENIC is:
Jake Burns - vocals
Chris Gardino - guitars
Justin Licht - guitars
Dan Leahy - bass
Tyler Montaquila - drums
https://www.facebook.com/pathogenicmetal
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: February 18th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Deicide | Nile | Behemoth | Hate Eternal
They dance upon their strings, limbs convulsing as I drum my fingers upon the charred arms of my throne. My words of poisoned honey slip into their ears, caressing their hearts with promises of wealth, fame and adoration…and there is no price they will not pay, no one they will not offer up upon my altar. I have conquered them with whispers and they have laid the bones of their loved ones at my feet. They have lit the fires of their immolation and scream for acceptance and recognition even as they burn. What a race of empty vessels, vacuous fools all ripe for the harvest...
Infamous Belgian death metal force, Fractured Insanity, celebrated their 20th anniversary of musical devastation this year - and marked that milestone by completing work on their incredible fifth album, Age Of Manipulation. This act of sonic warfare is a stunning display of brutality and creativity, an accomplished collection that clearly demonstrates all the experience that Fractured Insanity have accumulated over the last two decades. Beginning with the slow burn build and then explosive attack of ‘Exaltation Of A Fallen Glory’, with its headbanging death march of a chorus, Age Of Manipulation then proceeds to transmute into ever more powerful and formidable forms. ‘Divide And Conquer’ possesses a teeth-grinding intensity that threatens to peel the skin from your face with its remorseless velocity and neck-breaking gear changes, ‘The Hangman’s Chair’ is steeped in horror and propelled by some breathtaking drumming, while the album’s title track crushes you beneath the sheer weight of the guitars, like a monstrous behemoth striding through the broken bodies of the fallen. This album is shrouded in sinister atmosphere and wickedly inventive, with bewildering moments and shocking twists, yet it remains deeply rooted in the cold soil of classic death metal. There is no weak moment, no let up in the sheer obliterating magnificence as the highlights just keep coming – from the nightmarish splendour of ‘Slumber In The Deep’ with its gargantuan vocal performance and towering riffs, to the devastating masterstroke of soul-crushing death metal that is album climax, ‘We All Die In The End’.
Mixed and mastered at the renowned Hertz Studio in Poland, to whom the likes of Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul and Vader have also entrusted their albums, Age Of Manipulation sounds sharp and vicious, with a clarity that highlights the fantastic individual performances on display and the metallic muscle to knock you back in your seat. With a new deal signed with Xtreem Music, the label that released Fractured Insanity’s classic ‘Mass Awakeless’ and ‘Manmade Hell’ albums, Age Of Manipulation will be unleashed on February 18th on CD and digital formats. Prepare to fall to your broken knees before the might of death metal supremacy!
Line-up:
Stefan Van Bael - Vocals/Bass
Jeroen Buysse - Guitar
Dieter Daems - Guitar
Ignace “Hammerman” Verstraete - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/FracturedInsanityOfficial
You probably won't see a lot of labels starting the year off with one of their most inaccessible releases, but that's how we roll. The debut album of Hierarchies, from members of Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below, will make your head spin. It's 'ultra dissonant' death metal as Angry Metal Guy writer put it in his review. And it's really good too if you're into this kind of thing. Now that it's streaming in full, it's time for you all to get a free lobotomy session.
HIERARCHIES - “SELF-TITLED”
For
fans of
- Acausal Intrusion, Dwelling Below, Pyrrhon, Evilyn, Chaos Motion, Wormed, Plague
Rider
Line up
Nicholas Turner (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) - Guitar
Anthony Wheeler (Dwelling Below, Hollowed Idols) - Bass
Jared Moran (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) - Drums and vocals
Mixed by Nick Turner at Malevolent Sound Studios
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios
Artwork by Belial NecroArts
Members of Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below conspire amongst themselves to create dissonant/technical death metal that pushes the limits of reality. With music being this intricate, strangely intuitive and visceral, it blurs the point where the magnification of their music ends and the imagination takes over. It's a dark, murky, nightmarish dive into a realm where trajectories from multiple dimensions manifest to intersect and overlap before dissipating, taking different temporal forms. Nothing is permanent in their world; the tunes change every few seconds and so does everything around them - the implications are in real-time and catastrophically mind-melting. It's a downward spiral of your consciousness where the out-of-control thoughts overwhelm and overpower, and take you on a one-way trip to incessant hallucinations and inevitable madness. Innumerable riffs are piled on top of one another first frantically, then slowly to allow for them to be properly seared into memory so that they can haunt you in turns for the rest of your life. Hierarchies have, on only their debut, created a truly frightening album not merely outwardly but one that is also psychologically scarring for the listener, and endlessly fascinating all the same.
Track listing
1. Entity
2. Consecrate Phenomenon
3. Dimension
4. Twilight Tradition
5. Abstract
6. Complexity Parallels
7. Subtraction
8. Vultures
Release date - January 17th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
US vomit grinders MEPHITIC CORPSE are set to unleash their debut full-length album, SICKNESS ATTRACTS SICKNESS. The album offers 11 tracks of violently brutal grindcore not for the weak of heart!
Sickness Attracts Sickness will be out on Saturday, February 1 on digital and physical formats. Extremely Rotten Productions will release the album to European audiences with Headsplit Records (vinyl, CD and cassette) and 625 Thrashcore (vinyl and CD) releasing the album in the US.
Track
listing:
1) Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment
2) Blistering Red Corpse Under Max Thermostat
3) Grisly Vomit on Self
4) Screwgun my Spleen
5) Intrusive Thoughts Lead to Impatient Butchering
6) Heart in Tinfoil
7) Teething on Clots
8) Painless
9) Rectal Bugs
10) Digested from Both Ends
11) Gutpuked Maggot Treatment
The band is set to hit the road next month alongside extreme death metal outfit UNDERGANG as part of the North American Regurgitation tour. Dates are as follows:
2/7 - Austin, TX @ Valhalla
2/8 - Dallas, TX @ Double Wide
2/9 - Tulsa, OK @ Whittier Bar
2/10 - St Louis, MO @ The Sinkhole
2/11 - Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
2/12 - Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
2/13 - Toronto, ON @ Garrison
2/14 - Ottawa, ON @ Dominion Tavern
2/15 - Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar
MEPHITIC CORPSE is from San Luis Obispo, California, and have played brutal grindcore since 2018. The band's demo tape Immense Thickening Vomit was released by Extremely Rotten Productions (Europe) and Headsplit Records (USA) and was spread worldwide with several pressings from both labels. A CD version was also released by Terrible Mutilation Records (Australia).
MEPHITIC CORPSE plays a fast and thick style of death metal that draws on the early roots of grind and brutal death metal bands, such as IMMORTAL FATE, GUTTED PULP and Mexican DISGORGE. They have played across the US, Canada and several shows in Europe, amongst them both editions of the Unearthed Morbidity Festival in Copenhagen and will be playing Maryland Death Fest and two US tours in early 2025 in support of Sickness Attracts Sickness. to be released by Extremely Rotten Productions, Headsplit Records and 625 Thrash in early February 2025.
Sickness Attracts Sickness was recorded and mixed by Ethan Camp at Ethan’s Work between August and September 2023 and mastered by Dan Lowndes and Sound Resonance Studio.
Guest vocals on “Heart in Tinfoil” by David Mikkelsen (UNDERGANG / SEQUESTRUM).
Album cover art by the band’s own Matt Rose.
Stream MEPHITIC CORPSE on Spotify and Apple Music.
MEPHITIC CORPSE are:
Eric - Drums
Matt – Guitar / puke
Michael – Bass
Parker – Gag reflux
www.extremelyrottenprod.com
www.625thrash.com
https://mephiticcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/immense-thickening-vomit
Rising
Italian Death Metal act DARK REFLECTION just released
their debut EP "UNDER THE SIGN OF VLAD ȚEPEȘ" through Pest
Records! The EP delves deep into the historical legacy of Vlad the
Impaler, focusing on his military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and his
fight for the independence of Wallachia."Under the Sign of Vlad
Țepeș" is available for streaming and order here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-reflection-under-the-sign-of-vlad-epe
What to expect from the EP:
Conceptual Themes: Each track narrates key moments in Vlad the Impaler’s struggles against Ottoman forces, blending historical depth with a hauntingly aggressive musical approach.
Atmospheric Composition: The EP fuses relentless old-school Death Metal riffs, haunting melodies, piercing solos, and martial elements to evoke the horrors and triumphs of medieval warfare.
Dynamic Performance: From ferocious blast beats to somber interludes, "Under the Sign of Vlad Țepeș" showcases Dark Reflection’s versatility and dedication to storytelling through metal.
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
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Label: Independent Release
Release Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Post Black Metal
For fans of: Unrequited | Sylvaine | Ghost Bath | Deafheaven
Line-up: David Lovejoy – All Music and Vocals
I have left the pain behind me. I am free and unburdened, spinning and turning, racing through the currents of memory with a lightness of being I could never have imagined when the shadows of loss encircled me, pouring like a flood of desolation into my desperate lungs. The tides of black still swell and subside beneath me, but I can see the deep fissures and fractures in its surface, rich with colours and shades of illumination that my tortured gaze could never see before; before I laid down my arms and stepped into the cold blades of insubstantial knives, until I ceased to fight and embraced the darkness, finding victory in my defeat.
Corroding Soul is the solo atmospheric black metal project of multi-instrumentalist David Lovejoy, yet that simple description does not prepare the listener for everything that Corroding Soul the album has to offer. Building on the success of EPs Hopeless and Nothing, Corroding Soul sees Lovejoy diving deeper and soaring higher as he explores the farthest shores of black metal’s kingdom, bringing a wonderful multitude of emotions, a breathtaking palette of hues and colours to its monochrome world, breaking through the ice with blinding rays of warm sunlight. Corroding Soul is made up of four movements, four intrinsically linked soundscapes that create a veritable symphony of sound and imagination; each multifaceted gem forming part of a greater whole. Opening track, ‘Shadow’ begins in beautifully tranquil fashion, before the listener is cast into a vast, evocative dream where blast beats and emotive lead guitars enfold the harsh, impassioned vocals. There is a sense of flying high above a past of trauma, looking back on life’s pain and sorrow from a new perspective as the music shifts moods and tempos as smoothly as silk. Lead single, ‘Tempest’, sends the soul soaring, its towering splendour juxtaposed with delicate intimacy. Together with ‘Bound’ it forms the heart of Corroding Soul, the two tracks enfolding you and carrying you away on cresting waves of profound intensity. And then there is ‘Sapphire’, an epic track of incredible, effervescent energy and ineffable beauty, shot through with a silver thread of bitter sweet melancholy, remembrance for a life left behind and loves lost, adorned in some cultured lead guitar work which brings to mind the flawless work of Dave Gilmour. It’s an ending in hope and healing after an exhilarating sonic adventure.
Complete with the impactful artwork of Abhijit Asad, Corroding Soul will be released on January 24th and will be available directly from the band at the Corroding Soul Bandcamp page. Accept the invitation and let David Lovejoy’s remarkable music take you on a journey you will never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/@CorrodingSoul
https://www.facebook.com/corrodingsoulofficial
Troy (NY) - A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! FLESHSPOIL, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release full-length debut album, THE BEGINNING OF THE END, March 28 on digital format!
Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his role in Arsis, where he played on acclaimed releases such as A Celebration of Guilt and A Diamond for Disease, and toured globally alongside heavyweights like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Cynic, Dying Fetus, Grave, Necrophagist, Napalm Death, and Six Feet Under. Dan Saltzman (bass), hailing from the Bay Area, whose impressive work has been showcased in Illucinus and The Hunt, as well as recent demonstration videos for ESP bass guitars.
The first single from The Beginning of the End, "A Frail Demise," was released in December and is available at https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/track/a-frail-demise-2
Produced and mixed by Brett Portzer (Skinless, Author & Punisher, Arsis), The Beginning of the End consists of six tracks clocking in at 37 minutes. It is the creative vision of Andrews and Van Dyne, who recorded two albums and performed together alongside such notable bands as At The Gates, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sanctuary, Rivers of Nihil, Fates Warning, All That Remains, and many others with their previous band, The Final Sleep. The Beginning of the End additionally includes guest appearances by Kyle Chapman (Aethereus, Blighted Eye), John Judson (Rwake, Scott Kelly), and Petr Oplatka (Illucinus).
Pre-order The
Beginning of the End:
Track Listing:
1. Bleed Through This Life
2. Skies Turn To Graves
3. Fleshspoil
4. Walking Dead
5. A Frail Demise
6. Born Into Despair
Credits:
Guitar solo and additional chaos on “Bleed Through This Life” by Kyle Chapman of Aethereus and Blighted Eye.
Guitar solo on “Walking Dead” by Petr Oplatka of Illucinus.
Lap steel guitar on “Bleed Through This Life” and “Skies Turn To Graves” by John Judkins of Rwake.
Drum tracking engineered by Brett Portzer at White Lake Music & Post.
Guitar and vocal tracking engineered by Van Dyne/Andrews.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Brett Portzer.
Music and arrangements by Andrews/Van Dyne. Lyrics by Andrews.
Cover art: “L’Umana Fragilità” by Salvator Rosa (1656)
Line-up:
Mike Van Dyne - Drums
Jeff Andrews - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Saltzman - Bass
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
Singer-guitarist Karita
Kivioja explains the background of the song:
"The song was inspired by the Finnish Civil War events on 1918. We visited the memorial of the Dragsvik prison camp in Tammisaari during our summer holiday in 2018 and I stayed to read the names of the dead prisoners, the children, in the largest mass grave in Finland. The grave was the final resting place of 3 100 prisoners who had died of starvation and epidemics, near the barracks area. One story was particularly poignant: a 17-year-old boy from Ostrobothnia, whose parents came all the way to Tammisaari to bring him food, but the guards would not let the prisoners who had lost the war feed their children, so the boy died in a concentration camp. And these names are on the memorial in plain sight. The Civil War tore this country to shreds and made ordinary Finns into victims as well as torturers and murderers.
This stopped, shocked and disgusted. The lyrics of the song were born from stories passed down through the family and the shock of prison camp hell. Also mixed into the lyrics were experiences of the hell inside the head and the hell in modern society called homes. Acts of the sick human mind against others, both because of the prevailing environment and because of mental breakdown."
The song, which had been ready for some time now, took on a whole new meaning in the spring of 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine: "As a teenager in the 90s, I never thought I would see two European countries at war with each other. Less than 1000 km away, all the horrors of war are suddenly happening all over again. Horrors that should have been consigned to history" Karita continues.
In late 2023, the band entered the SN-audio studio in Jyväskylä, Finland to record the song. The lyrics and vocal style went through quite a mill in the studio, including the appearance of Putin's face in front of Karita's face in the vocal booth. When the singer felt like the embodiment of the spirit of Rocky Balboa when she screamed, we started to get close to the final sound.
The music video was shot with Jaakko Manninen on December 22nd 2023. As is typical of this production, the video which uses only natural light, was perfect for shooting on the darkest day of the year. The video's director and cinematographer Jaakko Manninen found this to be the perfect choice, as there was simply no time to waste. The final production took almost a year, but now the song is available for everyone to listen to!
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc): https://push.fm/fl/kamala-sotasisalla
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/m2bNLe-PdBw
https://www.kamalaband.fi/
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We’re very proud to celebrate the re-emergence of Spain's black metal contortion DÉLIRANT from the depths of subconsciousness, the return of which reanimates a crawling ascent of mind and soul destruction through the medium of auditory disfigurement. Shrouded in dissonance and swathed in nightmares, the band’s long awaited new album "THOUGHTEATER" is a sonic dissection of the abyss conceived by long running black metal recluse D.B. (also of Negativa and Hässlig), which will see the light via Sentient Ruin in mid-February 2025.
In the meantime Délirant’s new auditory hallucination has been teased by respected underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the track "Thoughteater IV" have remarked how the work is "a vortex of chaos that clamors for attention and consumes it" and is a "a carefully planned route toward insanity" - you can check out the track and future https://www.invisibleoranges.com/delirant-thoughteater/
This
sophomore full-length offering is a surreal descent into the darkest
corners of
the subconscious, the hypnagogic state, lucid dreaming, and deviant
states of
perception, achieved through the unorthodox but regal medium of
twisting,
dissonant black metal. Of the same abominable and shapeshifting breed
as that
wielded and perfected by acts
like Blut Aus Nord, Akhlys, Deathspell Omega, Abigor And Mispyrming to
harness superior realms of imaginative destruction and auditory
deception, and
which has redefined metal music in this peculiar form as an
unparalleled vector
for all-devouring musical surrealism. The obsession of becoming one
with the
void is the zenith of the work, its median and most abyssic turning
point after
the initial descent.
Once the absolute depth of interior horror has been reached, the second half of the album unfolds embodied as a cathartic pilgrimage to seek the light through darkness, overcoming fear and doubt, anxiety and panic. In the grand masterplan of the album's deeply intimate and self-explorative nature, light and hope are contemplated, but absolutely crushing and abysmal realms of darkness and suffering must be endured before this re-emergence can be achieved, rendering "Thoughteater" essentially a personal expiation through the penitence of absolute torment.
"Thoughteater" is slated for a February 14 2025 release worldwide on LP, CD, MC, digital formats worldwide, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/dlirant-thoughteater
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TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY – LABEL SAMPLER
NEWS 12.1.2025
Label: Invima Records
Release Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Industrial Black/Death Metal
For fans of: Anaal Nathrakh | The Berzerker | Akercocke | Khonsu
Hailing from the grey, industrial and notoriously rainswept streets of Manchester, England, The Machinist are hell-bent on exposing the gaping, endless emptiness that lies behind the deceptive façade of human existence. Their mechanistic, blackened extreme metal is a ferocious attack on the arrogant conceit that our lives, our pale, flickering flames in the boundless universe, so fragile and ephemeral, have some kind of greater meaning. Yet they will ride their train, hurtling to the end, with a maniacal laugh and a proud freedom, screaming for more speed, spewing their disgust on the passive and the lifeless who waste their precious moments in wilful blindness and contemptible subservience. Contempt For Life is a jackhammer attack on those without the courage for truth, a defiant glare into the eye of annihilation fuelled by solos like liquid flame and riffs hewn from acerbic misanthropy.
Building upon the blackened foundations laid down by The Machinist’s excoriating debut album, I Am Void, Contempt For Life opens with the shocking impact of its title track, a bewildering, multi-faceted assault on the senses. The guitars swoop and dive like deranged raptors above the grinding overkill of programmed drums set to kill. Then, within the black cyborg heart of the song, the claustrophobic riff attack draws back to expose a majestic, malignant landscape, towering and terrifying in its alien magnificence. ‘Cathedrals Fall’ follows in the burnt and bloody wake of ‘Contempt For Life’ bringing a stunning melodic sensibility to the barrage of gargantuan weaponry. Shades of melancholy rise like the shadows of titans between the walls of steel and a nobility of spirit is glimpsed behind the rabid exhortations of venom and disgust. Our journey through this hellscape of ashes and decimation continues with the bludgeoning, bruising ‘Brace’, the disconcerting pulse of interludes ‘Gog’ and ‘Magog’, the formidable ‘Demagogue’, a frenzied swarm of spite that climbs to closing moments of transcendence and the nightmare storms of ‘Anthropic Mistake’, before we are cast up upon the broken shores of ‘Cracks’ – a place of fractured sanity and eyeless tormentors that hasten us towards the final, ultimate end of all. Creative, visionary and scarring, Contempt For Life is breathtakingly powerful yet deceptively expansive, rife with hidden passages and tunnels that lead into ever deeper darknesses. A listening experience of enthralling intensity.
Mixed and mastered for the ultimate in cold, mechanistic force by the renowned George Nerantzis (Abbath, Dark Funeral, Rotting Christ etc) and adorned in the merciless, high impact artwork of Duncan Macpherson (Extinction Of Mankind, Deus Mori), Contempt For Life will be unleashed upon the world by InViMa Records on January 24th. Join The Machinist as they tear through the veils of deception and carry the punishing, confrontational sound of Contempt For Life to the ears of the lost, the outliers and the outcasts of the world.
Line-up:
Tobias Gray – Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals
John Thompson – Vocals/Keyboards/Drum Programming
George Kal – Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals
Bass performed by Luke Chapman.
Additional vocals on ‘Contempt For Life’ and ‘Cathedrals Fall’ by Scott Walton (Reign Of Erebus)
https://www.invimarecords.com/
https://themachinistuk.wixsite.com/themachinistuk
Finnish Deathgrind band CANNIBAL ACCIDENT is set to release their fifth studio album 'DISGUST' on February 28th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The music video for Darken The Attic is released today and it's available here: https://youtu.be/GSXtaXtBDms
Vocalist Kurwa Doktor comments the lyrics:
" "Darken The Attic" tells about the horrors of delirium tremens after sacrificing your mind, body and soul to excessive amounts of alcohol for so many years you have already lost the count."
Jondom (Bass) comments music and video:
"Musically "Darken The Attic" is quite far from our comfort zone with dissonant riffs which are like made to create feelings of pure anxiety for the listener. Song is one of "weirdos" of coming "Disgust"-album and goal was to highlight how guitar and bass has own place and space in our music even these two instruments aren't necessarily always playing same kind of riff, part or even notes in a song. This "chaotic harmony" can be heard particularly in this song. Idea for the video came also partly because of the nature of the song. Quick clips of grotesque and graphic content forced to listeners eye receptors are just like made to underline the musical feeling and lyrical theme of the song."
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Listen to the first double-single 'Scorched Meat Tactics - Explicit Everything' https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-scorched
Listen to the second double-single 'Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla / Darken the Attic' https://push.fm/fl/ca-itseinho
Track
list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
https://www.facebook.com/cannibalaccident
CHORDOMA – “CHORDOMA” EP
Label: Comatose Music
Release Date: March 7th 2025
Genre: BrutalDeath Metal
For fans of: Cryptopsy | Suffocation | Unfathomable Ruination | Bludgeoned
I lean over your bed and stare down into those frantic, desperate eyes that scream silently from the red chaos of your face; all those smooth planes and protruding features transformed – as if by magic – into a shattered topography of suppurating sinkholes, shards and splinters, tattered musculature and tiny remnants of skin. An endlessly fascinating dreamscape of wounds! Meanwhile your entrails coil and glisten like enchanted serpents and white bones stand out, tall and proud, hard towers against a pleasing backdrop of sanguine softness. I give you a reassuring smile, exercising my best bedside manner before moving on to the next patient. All is going well…
A strike force formed by veterans of a thousand campaigns beyond the boundaries of morality and civilised society, members of Vituperate, Purulent Necrosis, Anal Stabwound and many more, Chordoma are here to deliver a horrifying assault of brutal death metal, a self-titled EP of merciless, scalding intensity. Beginning in a blinding blur of precision drumming and menacing, circling riffs, ‘Medically Induced Asphyxiation’ proceeds to land blow after jarring blow – shaking the brain and loosening the teeth – a no holds barred welcome to the carnage to come. ‘Innermost Intestinal Exposure’ will have worshippers of brutality in raptures as it erupts in deranged violence, delivering riffs like incisive stab wounds and touches of inventive cruelty that only the most accomplished practitioners of sonic devastation are capable. As this masterful display of the utmost extremity continues from track to track, instruments are wielded as implements of pain infliction and each element of the Chordoma sound moves with cold precision - locking, releasing, spinning, engaging, dissecting - a machine of insane design and perverse purpose…and within the claustrophobic onslaught, the surging waves of liquidised and putrefied bodies, moments of twisted genius gleam like baited hooks, drawing you back into the organised chaos of blood and agony time after time after time.
Adorned in the cruel and visceral artwork of Wong Sinting Death (Apogean, Hysterectomy, Chainsaw Disgorgement etc) and mixed and mastered to gore-soaked perfection by Travis Cook (Human Excoriation, Vituperate) at Unique Sound Design, the Chordoma EP, featuring five tracks of supreme brutal death metal, will be unleashed by Comatose Music on March 7th. This titanic collection of meticulously sculpted sadism will set the standards for all pretenders to the throne of relentless, rapacious destruction that follow in its wake. Nothing has prepared you for this…
Line-up:
Justin D. - Vocals
Blake S. – Guitars/Bass
Nikhil T. - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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RISE OF TYRANTS - “THE CHRONICLES OF CARDINAL PABLO MENDOZA “
NEWS 3.1.2025
All unseren Unterstützern, Stammlesern und Metal Maniacs rund
um den Globus erst mal noch nen richtig Gutes Neues Jahr. Leider hat man sich
in Sachen Verbrauchsmaterial mal wieder total verschätzt und auch die deutsche
Post lässt mal wieder auf sich warten, so dass der Kopierer leider schon ne
Ruhepause einlegen muss.
Gut 40 neue Heftchen hat man ja doch noch hingekriegt, welche dann auch morgen auf Reise gehen können. Für mehr hats aber leider noch nicht gereicht. Also müsst ihr euch doch noch nen Moment gedulden, bevor ihr dann mit ner „Lawine“ an Bestellungen loslegen dürft/könnt – grins.
So wie es in unserem „schönen deutschen Staate“ mittlerweile schon zur Gewohnheit geworden ist, sind ja ab dem 1.1.2025 die Portokosten mal wieder gestiegen und so bleibt es auch bei uns nicht aus, euch noch nen paar Cent mehr aufzudrücken, damit ihr in den Genuss unserer neuesten „geistigen Auswüchse“ kommen könnt. Das aktuelle FATAL UNDERGROUND Nr.59 könnt ihr dann für die „Unsumme „von 3,80€ abgreifen.
“Warning Shot” is an electrifying showcase of the band’s collective power. Chop Daddy lays down thunderous slap bass lines, driving the track’s explosive groove, while The Claw shreds through with razor-sharp, incendiary guitar riffs. Goblin commands the rhythm with machine-like precision and relentless intensity on drums, setting the stage for Brain Lord’s fierce, dynamic vocals to unleash the song’s raw energy. Together, the band delivers a high-octane anthem about a man pushed to his limits, crafting a powerful narrative of tension and resolve that hits as hard as their sound.
"Warning Shot" is available at the following links:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/hyperstrike1/warning-shot
https://hyperstrikeband.bandcamp.com/track/warning-shot
Bio:
Born in the Blade, forged in chaos—Hyperstrike is Seattle's action metal war machine. Founded in 2024 by bass-slapping juggernaut Ben "Chop Daddy" Bennett, this band doesn’t play music; they drop sonic bombs. With a shadowy past tearing through thrash titans Warbringer and Bonded by Blood, and reigning as the "Lord of the Low End" in sci-fi shredders Xoth, Bennett knew exactly what kind of beast he was building. First, he wrangled in Ilya, the shredder known as "The Claw," an assassin with riffs sharper than steel. Then came Adon, the "Brain Lord"—a maniacal force spitting venomous truths, carrying the fire from his days in Ghost Ship Octavius and the twisted depths of Spiritual Suicide. Together, they built a soundtrack for the end of the world: songs about nuclear meltdowns, cage fighters, and kings of the slain.
The final weapon in their arsenal? Josh, a drum-detonating powerhouse known as "Goblin Hammer," whose percussive assault forged their chaos into a relentless onslaught. Hyperstrike is a raw, unfiltered force with hearts of steel and a taste for mania. No apologies. No survivors. Just unrelenting aggression. Brace for impact—because once the trigger drops, nothing will ever be the same.
Credits:
Lyrics and music by Hyperstrike.
Mixed and mastered by Joe Cincotta at Full Force Studios.
Drums recorded at One Shot Studios - Engineered by Josh Richins.
Produced by Ben Bennett.
Artwork by Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov.
Logo by Dipayandas Arts.
Line-Up:
Ben (Chop Daddy) Bennett - Speed Chopper Bass
Adon (Brain Lord) Fanion - Maniacal Pyro Vocals
Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov - Elite Assassin Shred Guitar
Josh (Goblin Hammer) Hoffman - Master Drum Blaster
https://www.facebook.com/hyperstrikeband
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release Date: March 21st 2025
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
For fans of: Ne Obliviscaris | Cynic | Black Crown Initiate | Ihsahn
Into the Void came light; out of the emptiness came endless fields of glittering stars, gleaming like gems upon black velvet beneath the impossible, towering nebulae - terrifying in their staggering grandeur and beauty. Drawn from the absolute silence, the galaxies were born and within their infinite intricacies, their splendour beyond comprehension, the first whispers of the miracle of life were heard amongst the heavens. With a word the first moments of time began to fall through the hourglass of existence…
Formed from the ashes of Citadel back in 2017, progressive death metal band Diatheke’s full length debut is a concept album that attempts to tell the biblical story of existence; from the first moments of creation to the last dark days of humanity and the redemption that lies beyond. It’s an incredibly ambitious project, but the music that the band have crafted is as staggering and monumental as their chosen subject matter. From the opening bars of ‘The Creator’, invoking the breathtaking immensity of the universe, to the exhilarating, triumphant and celebratory conclusion of ‘The Coronation’ …And The Word Is God immerses the listener in the most incredible sensory overload of complex, expansive and imaginative progressive death metal. There is so much to explore within the borders of this daunting record that you will be making new discoveries with every listen for years to come. While ‘The Deceiver’ drowns you in darkness with its jarring attack – vocal virulence and power, jagged and dangerous riffs with a discordant edge and a sense of threat rising up through the domineering drum attack, ‘The Redeemer’ (featuring a guest vocal performance from Jake Potter of Crucify The Flesh) is a self-contained symphony, resplendent in different shades, hues and colours, alive with emotion and drama. The playing throughout is remarkable and the overall listening experience is draining, bewildering, intensely challenging but richly rewarding. Relentlessly multifaceted, …And The Word Is God is a magnificent musical achievement.
Meticulously mixed and mastered by Hunter Shaw and Sam Striker of Native Darkness Productions, with carefully curated artwork and design by Daniel Hambright of Elynia Productions and Gragoth of Luciferium War Graphics, every element of …And The Word Was God is of the very highest quality. Upon its release by the renowned Rottweiler Records, on March 21st, it will set incredible standards for all extreme and progressive music that will follow in its wake. Diatheke dared to dream with this album and achieved so much more than anyone could have imagined or expected.
Line-up:
John Wesley - Bass/Vocals
Peter Watson - Vocals
Dallas McNeely - Guitars
Michael Osborn – Drums/Vocals
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/diathekemusic
We are Afflicta, a Death Metal project of twenty-year-olds born in Imperia in 2019. After the tragic and premature death of the first bassist, co-founder of the group, we took a break before resuming activity. Afflicta combines the Death Metal style with Deathcore, our music expresses extreme violence and horror.Our first album was recorded at Stefano Morabito’s 16th Cellar Studio in Rome in November 2023We have no problem surprising the audience thanks to the horror-flavoured costumes, and when you lower your guard we will hit you with the heaviest breakdowns.
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Vicrecords News :
SPEEDICA- “SHADOWS OF TOMORROW”
Speedica emerged as a thrash speed metal band out of the ruins and ashes of heavy metal band "Anger" in 1986. There fast and melodic metal gave em their nickname ‘The Dutch Flotsam and Jetsam’. This compilation contains the "Shadows of Tomorrow" (1989) and "Voyage into the Fifth Dimension" (1990) demos, along with three live tracks. Speedica featured a pretty young guitarist Marcel Coenen, who later on formed Sun Caged (and now has his own Marcel Coenen progressive metal band, and Channel Zero live & Ayreon session guitars). Massive booklet Liner notes by Steven Willems (Rock Tribune and Voices From The Darkside).and old and rare pictures and posters. All the tracks on ‘Shadows of Tomorrow’ are remastered. This album will be released on Cd early December and Vinyl early 2025! The band recently reformed!
LSN (LOUD SENSELESS NOISE)- “AFTERMATH”
LSN (Loud Senseless Noise) – Aftermath compilation CD features US Speed thrash metal innovators featuring (ex) members of Agent Steel, Détente, Vermin, Reverend & Viking. Started as Vermin in 1982, some members formed LSN in 1985. Vermin went on in 1984 with Jon Cyrriis who formed Agent Steel in 1984 with Geo Robb from LSN on bass. This compilation cd contains the Vermin 1982 demo and the legendary LSN demo Fall to the Reich from 1986 plus live and rehearsal recordings. Discography 1982 – 1986. Extensive liner notes by Laurent Ramadier (Snakepit magazine).
FILTHY CHRISTIANS – “NAILED, AND MORE...”
Filthy Christians were a grindcore / hardcore / death metal band from Sweden, active from the late 80s to mid-90s. Their debut album ‘Mean’ from 1990 was one of the first releases on Earache Records. Formed in 1986 and after 3 demos they releases a split ep with G-Anx in 1988. After their debut the band progressed towards death metal and recorded their final five track demo in 1992 at Studio Sunlight (Entombed, Dismember, Grave) with Thomas Skogsberg. Cover art by Thomas Pinheiro (Malevolent Creation, Possessed, Vio Lence). As bonus comes their final live gig and rehearsal (unreleased ep) tracks, 25 in total.
BLOODCUM-“ THE CLOTHES HANGER CHRONICLES, COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY 19986-2014”
Los Angels / California cult 80’s Speed/Thrash Metal/Crossover band BLOODCUM - The clothes hanger chronicles CD Complete Recordings 1986 – 2014. Featuring Tom Araya's (Slayer) younger brother John Araya (Slayer roadie) on guitars and bass. This compilation cd features their entire discography up till their final split in 2014. The complete BLOODCUM discography (33 songs) contains: ultra rare Demotape 1986, 1987 "Death by a... clothes hanger" 12", Wild Rags 4-Way split, soundboard live 1986 and the unreleased recordings from their 2014 reunion. Plus a 16 page full-color booklet with never-before-seen photos, flyers, fanzine articles, interview with Snakepit. Remastered by Achilleas Kalantsiz (Vio Lence, Possessed, Varathron).
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NEWS 28.12.2024
Genre: Black/Death Metal
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 13.02.2025
Tauche ein in MELLOMs "The Empire Of Gloom", ein Reich mit der Anziehungskraft eines dunklen Magnetismus, das zugleich angefüllt ist mit Kälte, Angst und Schmerz.
MELLOM sind ein Duo aus Frankfurt am Main, in dessen atmosphärischen, düster-melodischen Kompositionen sich Death Metal – mal schwer groovend, mal rasant und von wuchtigen Drums vorangetrieben – mit Elementen des Black Metal, Tragik und urbaner Melancholie vereint. Über allem prangen die ausdrucksstarken Vocals von Sängerin Skadi, variierend zwischen giftigen Black-Metal-Schreien und Growls.
Der Albumtitel "The Empire Of Gloom" versinnbildlicht die Konzentration all der Düsternis auf Erden. Dave, der Initiator MELLOMs, will die allgegenwärtige Todessehnsucht im Black- und Death Metal – eine Sehnsucht, die er nicht teilt – anders kanalisieren als es sonst in besagten Genres üblich ist. In den Texten geht es vorrangig um die Ohnmacht und Verzweiflung angesichts der unausweichlichen Konfrontationen mit Verlust und Tod. So wird im Titeltrack der baldige Tod einer nahestehenden Person und die damit verbundene Verlustangst thematisiert, und auch "Rules Of The Universe" widmet sich der Konfrontation mit der Sterblichkeit und dem Akt des Sterbens.
Dave: "Der Tod droht, eine Person aus dem Leben zu reißen, während nahestehende Personen voller Angst versuchen, diese vorm Tod zu bewahren, wobei sich der bevorstehende Verlustschmerz schon abzeichnet. Dieses ›dazwischen‹ zwischen Leben und Tod wird mit dem Bandnamen aufgegriffen: ›Mellom‹ ist das norwegische Wort für ›zwischen‹. Die Idee dafür stammt von Skadi, die sehr Norwegen-affin ist und die Sprache lernt."
Neben den festen musikalischen Projekten von Dave im Death- (Discreation) und Thrash Metal (Odium) gab es immer wieder den Wunsch nach einem weiteren Betätigungsfeld. Daraus erwuchs das Projekt "13 Days Before Suicide", und es entstanden neben rein instrumentalen Rock-Songs ("13 Days Before Suicide"-Album) auch deutschsprachige Stücke, die sich im Black Metal verorten lassen – "Kurzer Moment"-EP und "Nichts bleibt"-EP –, während bei der zuletzt erschienenen "2021"-EP eher Djent zu hören war. Während hier der musikalische Output durch den Ein-Mann-Hintergrund und verschiedene Musikrichtungen geprägt wurde, wuchs in den Jahren auch immer mehr der Wunsch nach einer musikalischen Betätigung, die sich als feste Band anfühlt, sich in der Schnittmenge von Black und Death bewegt und das Atmosphärische mehr in Betracht zieht als oben genannte Bands. So war schließlich die Grundidee zu MELLOM geboren, und erste Songs wurden geschrieben.
Den Kontakt zu Skadi gab es bereits, da sie für den Gesangsposten einer Band Daves vorstellig wurde, wo letztlich aber jemand anderes den Zuschlag bekam. Dies war jedoch keineswegs auf Skadis – ganz hervorragende – Gesangskünste zurückzuführen, die Dave in bester Erinnerung geblieben waren, woraus schließlich die Zusammenarbeit für MELLOM resultierte.
Dave hatte die Stücke vorproduziert, sie lagen als Demos vor. Für die Drums kontaktierte er seinen Kumpel Matze H., der bereits mehrfach bei Daves Bands ausgeholfen hatte, zusammen spielten sie auch einige Jahre in einer Metal-Cover-Combo. Das Desert Inn Studio von Thilo Krieger wurde für die Drum-Aufnahmen gebucht; hier wurden aus den programmierten Drums reale Drum-Spuren. Die Gitarrenparts spielte Dave in seinem Projektstudio ein, für die Bassparts wurde Beli von der Band Odium verpflichtet. Der Gesang wurde bei René Ritzmann in seinen Soundseducer Studios aufgenommen, für den Mix war Simon Werner verantwortlich, während das Mastering Victor Bullok übernahm. Logo und Cover-Artwork stammen von Misanthropic-Art.
Live wird das Duo MELLOM von befreundeten Mitmusiker/innen komplettiert.
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The River Above is chock full of riff-heavy melodic death metal, similar to Character- era Dark Tranquillity and Mors Principium Est, with the atmosphere and emotion of Insomnium and Darkest Hour.
The word "Druparia" is a pseudo-synonym for the blackthorn plant that plays a part in some circles of occultism and witchcraft, and fits into the band's visual and lyrical themes of nature and mysticism. Other lyrical themes include sadness, regret, mythology, and perseverance through hardship.
FFO: Sylosis, The Absence, Light This City, Gates of Ishtar, and Skeletonwitch.
Track
Listing:
1. Voiceless Regret
2. Under the Shade of Sand
3. Bereavement
4. Kintsugi
5. In Repose, Descend
6. Sever the Roots
7. The River Above
8. Of Firmament... And the Renewal
9. Bled For Comfort
10. When Cranes Return
11. The Violet Hour [The Civil Wars]*
Credits:
All Lyrics by David Moran except "Kintsugi" by Tyler Clark.
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Dan Paddy at Blackroom Studios, Copley Ohio.
Cello and Strings by Christopher “Kakophonix” Brown.
Keyboard programming and backing vocals by Dan Paddy.
Cover Art by Mark Erskine
Druparia Logo by Alex Zarko.
Photos by Lance Littlefield
Layout and Design by Alex Yarborough (@dr_metal_design)
Copyright 2024 Druparia Music. “Voiceless Regret” is dedicated to DJ Sprague.
*All songs written by Druparia, Brendan King, Dan Paddy, and Jeff Spencer, except for “The Violet Hour,” owned by The Civil Wars and Sensibility Music.
Line-Up:
Tyler Clark: Guitars
Josh Gatka: Guitars
David Moran: Vocals
Kyle Lash-Taylor: Bass and Vocals
Noah Van Dyke: Drums and Percussion
Bio:
Druparia formed with members of past bands in the Cleveland area coming together to make new music. Ideas for The River Above have been brewing since about 2011, maybe even earlier and thanks to some gracious friends outside of the band who have contributed and allowed the ideas to live on, the songs have finally come to fruition. Tyler Clark (ex-Inoculation, Mythrias, Once Flesh) came together with old Apothean bandmate Kyle Taylor (ex-Monastery) who had found young drummer Noah Van Dyke (Sea Biscuit) in November 2018. Once Flesh vocalist David Moran had agreed to do vocals if ever a project was started and Druparia had begun. After a few rehearsals, Josh Gatka (ex-Mythrias, Eternal Legacy) was recruited as guitarist the following summer and a full lineup was formed and the band released their first demo entitled Alfhem in the spring of 2020.
Influences include but are not limited to Dark Tranquillity, Darkest Hour, Sylosis, Sacramentum, Insomnium, Fallujah, Mors Principium Est, Inferi, Children of Bodom, and whatever weirdness Noah happened to be listening to at the time.
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Label : Winter Demons (Darkwoods)
Formats : CD / Digital
Release Date: 03/03/2025
Genre : Pitch-Black War Metal from Germany
Dragged screaming from the deepest, blackest pit of the underground metal scene, Cult of Extinction isn’t just brutal, it’s the sonic embodiment of barbarity itself... in thirteen years of running this damned label, we’ve never worked with anything this savage, this relentless... submit to the annihilation, because nothing will save you from the warpath of Cult of Extinction...
At its helm stands Void, the enigmatic German architect of destruction you might know from his other impressive creation, Imperceptum, whose latest full-length album we unleashed earlier this year, but with Nightmare Ascension, he’s outdone himself.... what we have here is a true war machine built for pure obliteration, chaotic riffs tear at your sanity, bone-shattering rhythms crush your resolve and abyssal vocals echo the collapse of the cosmos... this isn’t music, it’s an apocalyptic weapon of annihilation...
For those who dare to worship unrelenting chaos, this is your altar... fans of the feral devastation of Archgoat, Krypts, Leviathan, Spectral Voice, Teitanblood, Blut Aus Nord or Bestial Warlust, prepare yourselves, Nightmare Ascension is more than an album, it’s a prophecy of ruin, a merciless descent into the abyss, sre you strong enough to endure it?
Released as a unique limited edition, Nightmare Ascension is presented in a lavish oversized 4-panel digifile with an exclusive high-gloss laminate, complete with a printed cardboard sleeve to protect the CD and a free digital download card...
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French
Chaotic Hardcore power-trio BTK unleashes their most ferocious
album yet 'SAUVAGERIE'.
FFO : All Pigs Must Die, Converge, Napalm Death, Sect, Trap Them..
The relentless French trio BIND TORTURE KILL is proud to the release of their third full-length album, 'Sauvagerie'. A nine-track onslaught of raw aggression and visceral storytelling, cementing the band’s position as a force in the world of extreme music.
This one is available right now CD, LP, tape & Digital release this fall via Breathe Plastic Records, Dahlia Noir Records & The Hills Are Dead - Records but also for full and heavy streaming over Bandcamp.
...For the record...
BTK (Bind Torture Kill) is a chaotic hardcore trio from Lyon, France, formed in 2010. Consisting of a drummer, guitarist, and screamer, the band originally started with a bassist but transitioned into a trio in 2015 after several lineup changes. Known for their love of heavy, chaotic sound, BTK delivers intense performances with French lyrics often narrating the grim tales of serial killers and violent crimes.
In 2013, they self-released their debut EP, and in 2015, they followed up with their first album, Condamné. By 2018, their second album, Viscères, was released through WOOAAARGH! (Germany), Troffea (France/Switzerland), and Hell-J Industries (France). With Viscères, the band's sound took on a heavier edge, using a guitar setup routed through three amps—two guitar amps and a bass amp enhanced with an octaver pedal to create a more massive, dense sound.
Over time, their style shifted from a blend of death and mathcore to a darker, chaotic hardcore infused with punk, crust, grind, and black metal influences.
In 2023, BTK recorded their third album, Sauvagerie, at Warmaudio in Décines, with mastering handled by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East, Boston. Maintaining the same guitar setup, but adding the HM2 pedal, the album marks a significant evolution in their sound. Sauvagerie is darker and more brutal, featuring a dirtier tone, faster tempos, and a relentless mix of aggressive breaks and crushing riffs, highlighting the band's raw, savage energy.
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LICHO- “CIUCIUBABKA” available now on limited tape
Experimental black metallers Licho have released their third full-length album “Ciuciubabka” in a special edition cassette format via Devoted Art Propaganda.
Limited
to 100 copies, it is available now: https://order.d-a-p.org/
The album was originally released in 2022 via Pagan Records in CD and digital formats.
The word “ciuciubabka” translates to the children’s game “blind man’s buff” or “tag” in which one person has a cloth tied over their eyes and tries to catch the others. The album tells the story of what can be seen when blindfolded, the game of hiding and catching what has fallen from the sky. It is also about, as always, walking towards the light. On foot, on horseback, by car, by spirit.
Musically, Licho continues in black metal style as on previous albums, while also taking inspiration from other genres and quoting the poet Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz. The “Ciuciubabka” album cover features a painting by Wilhelm Sasnal Polak.
The album was recorded at Nebula Studio, Czyściec Studio and Garderobie Czorta. Maciej Wasio (Myslovitz among others) is responsible for the mix, and Jaakko Viitalähde (Oranssi Pazuzu among others) for the mastering.
Licho was founded in 2011 in Sanok, Poland by Szturpak. The current line-up has been in operation since 2017 and consists of musicians also known from projects such as Koniec Pola, -S-, Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi and Gruzja.
Praise for “Ciuciubabka”:
“...dissonant BM-flavoured rock” - Zero Tolerance Magazine 5/5
“...fans of unconventional, experimental music should enjoy the album” - Heavy Music HQ
“...the members steer away from black metal and into a very unique and dark psychedelic post-punk aesthetic. The result is simply astounding. Guitars full of effects, hypnotic rhythms, Sprechgesang-ish vocal delivery, and droning harmonies will conspire to suck you into a dark vortex.” - Can This Even Be Called Music
https://d-a-p.org/
https://grotowskibm.bandcamp.com/
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Wormholedeath Records is thrilled to announce the signing of the French industrial metal project FRAU FLEISCHER. This bold and avant-garde duo will unleash their upcoming album, "We Are Not...", on February 21, 2025. Prepare for a journey through industrial soundscapes, raw energy, and fearless musical fusion that is uniquely Frau Fleischer.
Following
the success of their debut album, When The Sun’s Down, which showcased their
innovative sound, Frau Fleischer has transformed into a powerhouse duo—Greg and
Franz—who are ready to make an impact on the industrial metal landscape. With
ten brand-new tracks that reflect their artistic growth, this upcoming release
promises a thrilling blend of metal, future pop, and industrial vibes, enriched
by nostalgic echoes of 80s and 90s dance music.
Frau Fleischer draws inspiration from a diverse palette of influences, including the heavy-hitting riffs of Slipknot, the atmospheric flair of Depeche Mode, and the ethereal sounds of Dead Can Dance. The raw energy of VNV Nation and the gritty edge of bands like Rammstein and Faith No More are woven throughout their music, creating a sound that is distinctly their own.
Tracklist
1 Shining Star
2 Out Of Control
3 In Your Dreams
4 Strangest Dream
5 Toxic Pathetic Love
6 From Green To Deadly Grey
7 A Fading Hum
8 I Keep On Dancing
9 Bagarre '23
10 Evolution Is Regression
About Frau Fleischer:
Formed in 2020 amidst the global pandemic, Frau Fleischer was initially a trio. However, following a lineup change, the band is now a powerful two-piece with Greg taking on guitar, vocals, drums, and bass, while Franz commands electronics and backing vocals. >From their studio to the stage, Greg and Franz have embraced complete creative control—handling everything from songwriting to mastering and delivering electrifying live performances as a duo.
Their signature sound is an alchemy of metal, future pop, and industrial vibes. Frau Fleischer’s “trashy, provocative” image and fearless spirit have earned them comparisons to Metallica, Meshuggah, Joy Division, and Faith No More, blending seamlessly with their experimental approach.
www.youtube.com/@fraufleischerband
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Stream
the EP here:
https://youtu.be/bIeSLF6xpao
https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/sinister-minister
Featuring relentless drumming from Matt "Skitz" Sanders (Diabolic Rites) and haunting guitar work from Pahl Hodgson (Beyond Mortal Dreams, Oath of Damntation) and Ross Duncan (Oath of Damnation), Sinister Minister is a feral testament to Death Metal’s enduring power rooted in the unholy spirit of '80s and '90s Death Thrash, The songs channel the energy of legends like early Vader, Possessed, Morgoth, Death and the likes. This EP is an unmissable homage to Death Metal’s past and a bold step into its future.
"It really is an exceptionally good EP that deserves a wide audience." – No Clean Singing
Tracklist:
With The Blessing Of The Dead
Corpse Flayer
The Coin And The Rune
Necrospell
Sinister Minister
Line-up:
Pahl Hodgson – Guitars, Vocals
Ross Duncan – Bass, Vocals
Matt "Skitz" Sanders – Drums
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NEWS 20.12.2024
Bevor wir nun den Kopierer heiß laufen lassen und euch dann spätestens nächstes Wochenende ne neue „Unterhaltungslektüre“ für den Klogang präsentieren werden, könnt und solltet ihr euch unbedingt losmachen, um Euch ein Exemplar von HELLA IM BLACK METAL LAND zu sichern. Mit Sicherheit ist das die absolut passende Lektüre, um Euch so richtig auf die kommenden besinnlichen friedlichen Feiertage einstimmen zu können.
HELLA IM BLACK METAL LAND (deutsch /152 Seiten / Hardcover)
We’re
proud to announce that Brazilian industrial metal cult NECROTECH
are about to emerge with the debut "NECROTECHNOLOGY" EP,
their first declaration of oppressive audial cyber terrorism. Five songs,
twenty one minutes of bludgeoning, crust-infused, industrialized megaton
death-doom inspired by legends like Godflesh, Swans, Nailbomb, Bolt
Thrower, Corrupted, and Deviated Instinct.
The crushing debut has been teased by iconic extreme metal bastion Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the song “Deadly Industries” - have remarked how the debut offering is “a five-song onslaught of mechanical death punishment” and that the track “is a crusty, Godflesh-inspired mechacrusher, with a relentless drum machine and wailing siren effects populating the the bleak DM landscape.“ - you can check out the feature and track https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/12/18/track-premiere-necrotech-deadly-industries/
"Necrotechnology" ominously embodies the specter of the “new third world”, a cyber dystopia rising where rogue technology, greed, militarism, pollution, injustice and deviant industrialism subdue and crush the individual, rendering them empty, helpless, numb, and downcast. New concepts and realities are beaten into the psyche as a new order is imposed, and Necrotech soundtrack this new world slavery with masterful musical vision and an imposing idea of sonic heaviness that not only marvelously
reflects the oppressive ruin of capitalist industrialization on our earth and reality with unseen craftsmanship and lucidity, but also reinstates hope and credibility in a legendary sub-genre of extreme music which has in recent times has gone far too forgotten and overlooked.
The debut "Necrotechnology" EP is slated for a January 17 2025 release on CD, MC and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/necrotech-necrotechnology
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new EP from Sweden’s ARMORY, Black Star, on 7” vinyl format. The EP will be a co-release with JAWBREAKER RECORDS.
Out of the deep void in the far corners of the universe, the entity known as ARMORY was born in the year 2012 C.E. With the guiding light of the fiery stars Judas Priest, Agent Steel, and Slayer, ARMORY set out on a cosmic path delivering hyper-speed metal to every planet, system, and galaxy in their path. Their two first albums, World Peace… Cosmic War (2016) and The Search (2018), were released via High Roller Records, garnering ever greater reviews.
Under the new flag of DYING VICTIMS, ARMORY’s third album, Mercurion, was unleashed during the spring of 2022 and followed by a European tour in 2023. This further cemented that ARMORY are a force to be reckoned with on the intergalactic battleground.
ARMORY’s upcoming operations are set in motion, and the next chapter starts with the deployment of the two-song EP Black Star in February 2025 C.E. Featuring two brand-new and exclusive songs – the title track on side A, and “Solar Winds“ on side B – ARMORY deliver a rapid barrage of hyper-speed metal with influences and feelings from the dark, cold void that engulfs us all. It’s immediately, recognizably ARMORY, but this EP displays with breathless brevity that the band are handily transcending their not-inconsiderable past and setting the cosmic stage for glory of a most universal nature, all of which will be revealed on their next full-length for DYING VICTIMS later in 2025!
Line-up:
G.Sundin - Guitars
A.Holmström - Drums
N.Ingelman - Guitars
P.Andersson - Vocals
J.Lundin - Bass
From Gothenburg, Sweden
Artwork:
Turborock
Release date:
21st February 2025
Release info:
black vinyl, comes with sticker
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Label: Comatose Music
Release Date: January 17th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Suffocation | Cryptopsy | Internal Bleeding | Mortal Decay
There is movement beneath the soil, the earth shifting and resettling, sinking and splitting, as if the very foundations of the world are beginning to crumble. Down in the darkness, in the unseen kingdom of worms, an eye is burning brightly; sinews shaped by strange sorcery strain against their horrid confinement and bone fingers dig towards the light. Rotting teeth gnaw at roots and rubble that dare to impede the creature’s passage through this cold and suffocating birth canal. There are things in this world that simply will not die, no matter how deeply they are buried...
We often hear of ‘lost gems’ from the underground, forgotten albums that should have been hailed as great works, but somehow slipped down the cracks of public perception. In most cases these treasures prove to be so much fool’s gold and dust, wistful thinking and nostalgia…but sometimes, on rare occasions, something truly special claws its way up from the boneyard and into the night air. Something like Cerebral Hemorrhage’s Exempting Reality. Originally released back in 2001, Exempting Reality was the only album released by New York’s Cerebral Hemorrhage, but what an album it was! A piece of death metal mastery that blended brutality with imagination, haunting atmosphere with musical adventure, crushing heaviness with a breathtaking willingness to explore and push boundaries. Now, the label that understands death metal better than any other – Comatose Music – has broken open Exempting Reality’s tomb. Remastered by Colin Davis (Aborted, Defeated Sanity, Origin etc), with new cover art, Exempting Reality is an album reborn.
The passing years have done nothing to blunt the vicious edges of the songs that make up Exempting Reality, or to dull the creative spirit that infuses them. ‘Abusive Power’ is still shockingly good with its array of stunning riffs and wonderful drumming. ‘Remnants Of The Final Solution’ remains revelatory with its fluid melodic section and jazz inflections and the surging guitar patterns and imposing vocals of ‘Deranged Perception’ are as hypnotic and deadly as a cobra. If you missed this before then don’t make that mistake again – second chances don’t come along every day and nor do albums as special as Cerebral Hemorrhage’s Exempting Reality. Coming your way on Comatose Music on January 17th 2025.
Line-up:
Matt Szablewicz - Vocals
Matt Doreson - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Tommy - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cerebralhemorrhageband/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SINNER RAGE’S highly anticipated debut album, POWERSTRIKE, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Making their public debut with a self-titled demo in early 2024, SINNER RAGE thrust themselves into the present with a sound wholly built on the past: pure and total HEAVY METAL during the genre’s ‘80s heyday. Wasting no time defending the faith, the Spaniards return a full year later with their debut album, Powerstrike.
Truly titled, Powerstrike is an pitch-perfect throwback to the days when heavy metal supremacy were ruled by the likes of Judas Priest, Saxon, Queensrÿche, and Crimson Glory. Moving at a disarmingly relaxed strut, SINNER RAGE convey charisma and simple-yet-assured POWER during every second of this short & sweet tome. The hooks are heavy and headbanging, but the quartet exhibit a keen knack for spacious, almost-atmospheric dynamics; the riffing hits even harder when coming back from those quieter moments, and frontman Aritz Martinez’s pipes likewise sound even silkier. Some would simply qualify that as a further (and seamless) extension of old-days metal values, before speed and energy overload took over, and they’d not be wrong.
Whatever way you approach it, Powerstrike will send shivers of déjà vu through every soul who’s ever bled for metal, but make no mistake: SINNER RAGE are absolutely authentic to the bone, no matter the calendar year!
Line-up:
Aritz Martinez - Lead Vocals
Aritz Yarza - Guitar
Dan Speedhammer - Bass
Jara Solis - Guitar
Javi Rinones - Drums
From Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain
Tracklist
1 Powerstrike
2 Silent Thunder
3 Highway Knights
4 Chained by Night
5 Fire's On
6 Angel of Combustion
7 Call of the Wind
Artwork:
Lena Richter
Release date:
21st February 2025
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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Romanian Metal veterans GOTHIC announce re-release of iconic debut album "TOUCH OF ETERNITY"
Legendary Romanian Metal pioneers GOTHIC are set to re-release their landmark debut album "Touch of Eternity" (1997) originally out on Bestial Records in tape format. This updated release will be available in CD format via Loud Rage Music, giving both longtime fans and new listeners the opportunity to experience one of the most influential albums in the Romanian metal scene.
The CD is now available for pre-orders here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/gothic-touch-of-eternity
"Touch of Eternity" originally marked GOTHIC's entrance into the Metal world, blending elements of Doom, Gothic, and Melodic Death Metal. The album quickly established the band as a significant force in Romanian Metal, praised for its atmospheric soundscapes, emotional depth, and masterful composition.
The re-release is a tribute to the album’s role in shaping GOTHIC’s identity and its enduring influence on Romanian Metal. "Touch of Eternity" was now remastered by Nikos Palivos at Haunting Studios in Athens, Greece to preserve the original atmosphere while offering a clearer, richer listening experience.
About GOTHIC:
Formed in Petroșani in 1992, GOTHIC has been a cornerstone of Romania's Metal scene for over three decades. Known for their dynamic evolution across genres, the band continues to captivate audiences with their powerful live performances and innovative sound.
https://www.facebook.com/Gothic.Romania
Peruvian Death Metal veterans DISINTER release DEMO
COMPILATION .
"DISINTER, proudly on the warpath since 1993, presents this tribute to our ancient hymns of darkness that reaffirm our devotion on the path of death!" says Roberto Leonardi, band's founding member and leader.
"Laments of the Unborn" is now available via Pest Records in CD and digital formats here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/disinter-laments-of-the-unborn
DISINTER’s Legacy:
Formed in Lima in the early 1990s, DISINTER quickly became a driving force in the Peruvian death metal scene, influencing countless bands with their uncompromising sound and dedication to their craft. With "Laments of the Unborn", the band celebrates their past while reaffirming their place in the annals of South American extreme metal history.
https://disinter2099.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/disinterperu
DARK REFLECTION to release debut EP this January via Pest Records .
Rising Italian Death Metal act DARK REFLECTION is set to make their debut with the "UNDER THE SIGN OF VLAD ȚEPEȘ" EP, scheduled for release this January through Pest Records. The EP delves deep into the historical legacy of Vlad the Impaler, focusing on his military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and his fight for the independence of Wallachia.
The band has already unveiled the first taste of their work with the single "The Forest of Impaled", available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z51ZKF9OwU
What to expect from the EP:
Conceptual Themes: Each track narrates key moments in Vlad the Impaler’s struggles against Ottoman forces, blending historical depth with a hauntingly aggressive musical approach.
Atmospheric Composition: The EP fuses relentless old-school Death Metal riffs, haunting melodies, piercing solos, and martial elements to evoke the horrors and triumphs of medieval warfare.
Dynamic Performance: From ferocious blast beats to somber interludes, "Under the Sign of Vlad Țepeș" showcases Dark Reflection’s versatility and dedication to storytelling through metal.
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SCUMRIPPER’S highly anticipated second album, FOR A FEW FIXES MORE, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Headsplit Records have released the CD and cassette tape editions for North America.
Finland's degraded fiends SCUMRIPPER are finally back. For almost a decade, they've witnessed the world burn through a sewer hole and felt the slime gather in their burnt-to-a-fuck throats. Now they are ready to rip out your spines with their sophomore album, For a Few Fixes More.
Following 2019’s All Veins Blazing debut, with the band’s reputation as an uncompromising live act fully established, the power-trio of vocalist/guitarist Rat Pitt, drummer Son Stalker, and bassist Cliff Hunger return with the comparably epic For a Few Fixes More. Indeed, with the runtime padded out to 28 minutes, SCUMRIPPER prove they’re still able to (quickly) kick out nasty, sewer-drenched jams, but they’re also able to get kicking in many more ways than before. Whereas most of the debut album’s tracks topped out at two minutes, most of the nine songs here on LP#2 outdistance such a short length, with the penultimate coming in “I Cum Pain,” a five-minute menace of haunting, lurking trudge. Likewise, SCUMRIPPER have come to maximize their catchiness of yore, compelling both immediate headbanging and memorability. If anything, such influences as Impetigo, Midnight, and even Negative Approach have asserted themselves more fully on For a Few Fixes More, making for metalpunk that’s more street-level – and more unique in an increasingly crowded subgenre.
Just when you thought they may have ended up in the nearest gutter, SCUMRIPPER are performing a long-awaited autopsy with integrity on the modern world. For a Few Fixes More is the crossover album no one saw coming: perfect death-thrashing punk rock for the end times.
Line-up:
Cliff Hunger - Bass
Son Stalker - Drums
Rat Pitt - Guitars, Vocals
From Joensuu/Lappeenranta, Finland
Artwork:
Ensimmäinen Kultti
Release date:
21st February 2025
Tracklist
1 I Am the Trash of Evil Men
2 Early Embittered Twilight
3 The Slime
4 For A Few Fixes More
5 Exhume the Body and Disturb the Peace
6 Crippling Void
7 I Cum Pain
8 Weather The Swarm
9 Knights of Summer
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on transparent green vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: March 4th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Demigod | Carcass | Bolt Thrower | Cannibal Corpse
At the heart of a wasteland, long miles from the intrusive blemish of artificial light, a sky of velvet darkness is dusted with a myriad of stars. In the untainted silence they gaze down in grim anticipation at a circle of stones in a place with no name. And between the stones a fine dust of cold ashes begins to stir, inviting a stain of congealed blood, which has never dried despite the endless passings of the sun, to dance. Together they start to spin, gathering pace, forming a whispering vortex in the desert night. As the maelstrom of dirt begins to rise and the distant stars seem to hold their breath, the earth splits asunder and a triumphant fountain of flame erupts. A vast and grotesque form of many teeth and many limbs breaks free from the clutches of its grave, roaring its defiance at those who presumed its death too soon…
It may have been nearly a dozen years since Spain’s death metal titans, Avulsed, last released a full length album of new material – 2013s Ritual Zombi – but only a fool would have turned their back and thought the band formed by vocalist Dave Rotten back in 1991 were out for the count. Revitalised by some key line-up changes, Avulsed have risen from their slough of despond with the utterly devastating and aptly named, Phoenix Cryptobiosis. Right from the very beginning of opening instrumental, ‘Limbs Regeneration’, you can sense that something special is about to be unleashed…and with ‘Lacerate To Dominate’ the cobwebs of the last decade are not just swept away, they are incinerated! Avulsed have always been known for their irresistible live prowess and the glorious brute force of early albums like Stabwound Orgasm and Gorespattered Suicide, but with Phoenix Cryptobiosis they have attained a new level. There’s a maturity to the song writing, a dark atmosphere of measured horror, inescapable hooks and an infusion of wicked excitement. There is no let up from start to finish, no faltering in the deadly intent – this is virulent poison to the last drop, deadly to the end. You’ll find new highlights with every listen to this genre defining album...the first time you might be caught by the cascading, carnivorous riffing of ‘Unrotted’ and its choruses that entrench themselves in your mind, or destroyed by the imperious vocal display on ‘Guts Of The Gore Gods’; the second time it might be the drum intro of ‘Devotion For Putrefaction’ that sends shocks through your neurons to your nerve endings and on the third maybe the wonderfully mangled and broken death metal supremacy of ‘Bio-Cadaver’ will dissect you and lay your spirit bare. Each track has a wealth of haunted vaults to explore and you’ll just want the bloodshed to keep on coming.
With the new line-up in exhilarating form and a final touch of gore soaked magic applied by the mastering of Davide Billia (Beheaded, Devangelic, Posthuman Abomination etc), Phoenix Cryptobiosis represents Avulsed at their very, very best. This is everything you could desire from an unwavering, undiluted death metal album in this age of fractured loyalties and pandering to the thin-blooded masses. When Xtreem Music let loose this beautiful beast, with its incredible Daemorph cover art, on March 4th, Avulsed will bestride the death metal scene of 2025 as monstrous monarchs of all they survey.
Line-up:
Dave Rotten - Vocals
Victor Dws - Guitars
Alejandro Lobo - Guitars
Alex Nihil - Bass
Santiago Arroyo "GoG" - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.avulsed.com
The new album from atmospheric black metal band CANIS DIRUS is now streaming ahead of its official release date.
BY THE GRACE OF DEATH will be unleashed December 21 on LP by Bindrune Recordings. Alte Seelen will release the CD edition (containing a bonus track) at a later date. Pre-order the vinyl edition at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/products/canis-dirus-by-the-grace-of-death-lp-pre-order
Decibel Magazine has shared the the full album stream of By the Grace of Death. Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/12/18/album-stream-canis-dirus-by-the-grace-of-death/
It has been four years since the release of Independence to the Beast (2020) and during this time, Canis Dirus have been refining their savage, yet atmospheric black metal during what has been the most prolific era of their career. 2021 found the split release, A Harmonious Union of Vibration, to surface with the project Crown of Asteria, where Canis Dirus contributed two new tracks that blended their own unique form of twisted blackness, along with an ambient influence. Was this a sign of things to come?
Armed with the fantastic drum work of CJ Yacoub (Escaping Aghartha, Neverdawn, ex-Amun), TMP (Guitars, Bass, Synth) and RH (Vocals) have been hard at work on what has become the the band's finest work, By the Grace of Death. Atmosphere still reigns in the dark sonic sphere of Canis Dirus, but on this impending new album, the band's black metal essence is at the forefront of this nocturnal hunt. TMP’s riff/playing style remains truly his own with atypical phrasing that co-exists with a more orthodox Black Metal style. The Black Metal side can make one feel isolated and attacked one moment, then calm and nurtured the next with colorful folk music that has become a vibrant element of Canis Dirus's sound. RH’s vocals contribute to the adventurous nature of By The Grace of Death with his most feral performance to date.
"Canis Dirus’ “By The Grace of Death” is an outstanding album that seeks to honor the blackened ways of olde while also pushing their sound, and genre, forward by incorporating new avenues and paths for the music, and listener, to explore." - Doomed for Metal
Track
Listing:
1. Once Cursed Path Glistens in the Sun
2. Tongues That Speak III
3. A Forlorn Hymn To Absolution
4. Vultures Whisper
5. Cast My Heart in Stone
6. The Mind Sees What The Eyes Cannot
Line-Up:
CJ Yacoub - Drums
TMP - Guitars, Bass, Synthesizer
RH - Vocals
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https://canisdirus.bandcamp.com/
Before the festive season starts, Sweden’s blackened thrash metal band SARCATOR offers an early present for its fans with their newest single WHERE THE VOID BEGINS . The third track from the band’s upcoming album delivers a haunting exploration of despair and existential reflection. With vivid imagery, the lyrics delve into themes of isolation, loss, and the allure of the unknown. Dark and poetic, the song paints a picture of surrender to the infinite unknown - terrifying but liberating. WHERE THE VOID BEGINS will be the last single before Sarcator’s third full length album, “Swarming Angels & Flies”, will be fully unleashed January 17th.
NEWS 15.12.2024
Genre: Speed / Thrash Metal
FFO: Venom, Motörhead, Bulldozer, Gehennah und Oldschool-Punkrock.
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 13.12.2024
The Return of the Assassins! Folter Records präsentiert stolz: "Burn in Metal", das neue Werk der Italiener VIOLENTOR, die hiermit ihre »20 Years in Metal« zelebrieren.
VIOLENTOR ist ein rohes Power-Trio in der Tradition von Motörhead und Venom – nur schneller und dreckiger! Ein rauer Mix der Einflüsse von Bandchef Alessio aka Dog und seinen Mitstreitern: Punk, Thrash, Speed und Wahnsinn – ein wüster, kompromissloser Sound, der eine obskure Atmosphäre erzeugt und in klaustrophobische Alpträume abdriftet. Oder, um es mit Dogs eigenen Worten zu sagen: "We are 100% Metal. No compromises, no prisoners. We are the most hated Italian band. We become wild animals live – an intense and extreme massacre for your ears. We kill posers, spit on the cross, piss on your graves!"
VIOLENTOR are:
Alessio Medici – Gitarre & Vocals
Michał Golbik – Drums
Roy Noizer Elguera – Bass
All songs written and arranged by Violentor. Recorded in hell. Mix & master by Ronnie Ripper – Naked Man Productions.
Discography:
Violentor (2011)
Rot (2012)
Maniacs (2015)
Putrid Stench (2019)
Manifesto di Odio (2022)
Burn in Metal (2024)
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ETERNAL RETURNS –„ LET THERE BE SIN “
Hailing from Thane (Mumbai), Eternal Returns is a powerhouse metal band that has been tearing through the scene since 2010. Their name draws inspiration from the ancient Indian philosophical concept of the eternal cycle—birth, life, death, and rebirth—a theme deeply rooted in Indian spirituality. This ethos resonates through their music, lyrics, and identity, forging a sound that is as profound as it is powerful.
Blending the raw aggression of modern metal with hauntingly melodic undertones, Eternal Returns crafts a soundscape that is both destructive and deeply accessible. Their lyrical themes delve into mythology, existentialism, and the human struggle for liberation—a cathartic journey through the endless cycle of existence.
The new album is here :
Prepare for darkness. Brace yourself for let there be sin.
The album artwork is more than a visual—it’s a narrative. Each symbol encapsulates a facet of humanity’s Eternal Struggle:
Crown – The weight of Pride.
Star (Baphomet) – The slumber of Sloth.
Pig Head – The feast of Gluttony.
Eye with Dollar – The hunger of Greed.
Dagger – The sting of Envy.
Heart – The fire of Lust.
Nuclear – The fury of Wrath.
At the heart of the chaos lies the diamond, encircled by the serpent—an emblem of the band itself. This intricate masterpiece, forged in chaos, symbolizes Eternal Returns’ vision: raw, precious, and ready to unleash its unrelenting might.
Will you face the sins within?
Tracklist:
1. Sloth
2. Lust
3. Envy
4. Greed
5. Gluttony
6. Wrath
7. Pride
8. Emasculator
From the crushing grooves of thrash to the soaring melodies of death metal, Eternal Returns transcends boundaries and redefines the limits of heavy music. Their sonic alchemy merges melodic death, metalcore, thrash, and groove into a singular, awe-inspiring force.
Experience the Sins Within
Artwork by the incredible @fajar_rahadian_artwork
Follow Eternal Returns on their journey and join the revolution. The cycle begins anew. Will you dare to enter?
https://brutalrecords.com/eternal-returns/
BLOOD FEAST continues to forge its own twisted thrash metal path with the release of their 4th full-length album, Infinite Evolution. Fans old and new will not be disappointed, as the ‘Unholy Trinity’ of releases from the band’s early days – Kill For Pleasure (1987), Face Fate (1988, EP) and Chopping Block Blues (1990) – and the band’s 2017 comeback album The Future State Of Wicked influence much of the new album. All the speed, brutality and twists ’n’ turns the band is known for remain intact and in your face.
BLOOD FEAST was formed by Adam Tranquilli, Gary Markowich (vocals), Kevin Kuzma (drums) and Lou Starita (bass) in 1985 as Blood Lust. They quickly wrote and recorded their classic 4-song demo, The Suicidal Missions. Shortly after, they became a 5-piece with the addition of Michael Basden on guitar. The band was then approached by New Renaissance Records to contribute songs to their Thrash Metal Attack (Menacing Thunder) and Speed Metal Hell 3 (The Suicidal Missions). This prompted the name change to BLOOD FEAST. New Renaissance then offered a record deal, which led to the recording of the classic Kill For Pleasure album and a US tour with DEATH ANGEL. The Face Fate EP quickly followed.
Shortly after writing and recording their proposed 2nd album, Adam left the band. The remaining 4 members then re-recorded these songs, which became the album Chopping Block Blues. The band broke up shortly after the album's release in early 1990. The original 5-man BLOOD FEAST reunited for an appearance at the NJ March Metal Meltdown in 1999, but further activity was not to be. A second reunion began in 2007, albeit only with original members Tranquilli and Kuzma. Bassist Tom Lorenzo and vocalist Chris Natalini came on board in 2010, just in time for the band's first appearance at Headbangers Open Air in Germany (they were invited back in 2013 and 2017). During this stretch, Adam began writing new material, with the band even playing an early version of INRI at select shows.
The incarnation of BLOOD FEAST retaking its place in the metal ranks today began to take shape in March of 2014, with the addition of guitarist CJ Scioscia. When drummer Joe Moore joined a few months later, the unit was complete and work immediately began on what would become The Future State Of Wicked album. Live performances became far more frequent, featuring appearances at True Thrash Fest 2015 in Osaka, Japan, Hells Headbash 2 in Cleveland, Ohio, Lima MetalFest II in Lima, Peru and the aforementioned return to Headbangers Open Air in 2017. The album was released on Hells Headbangers Records in the Spring of 2017, in time to coincide with an opening slot for Kreator and Obituary on that year’s Decibel Tour at the TLA in Philadelphia.
In late 2017, Moore was replaced by former M.O.D. touring drummer Adam Kieffer. Both Adams have an extensive history, most notably in the bands Headlock and Without End (of which Lorenzo was also a member). AK slotted in perfectly, and work immediately began on a new EP entitled Chopped, Sliced And Diced. This featured one new song (Concubine) along with new recordings of 4 songs from the band’s early records.
Work on LP #4, Infinite Evolution, began in late 2019. However, the sudden ’pause’ caused by the COVID-19 virus in early 2020 allowed for reflection on the situation. After much consideration it was decided that Adam Tranquilli would add lead vocal to his guitar duties – thus ending Natalini’s time with the band. Also, after having the help of bass player extraordinaire Mike LePond of SYMPHONY X for the album, new bassist Dave Kramer joined the fold in late 2023. Now, after all the unintended interruptions and diversions, the album is finally available via long time label Hells Headbangers. Written by Tranquilli and Scioscia, it is a fierce statement of intent while adding a few new wrinkles. And in a first for BLOOD FEAST, there is a promotional video for the song “Outbreak”.
With the world opened up again, 2024 is shaping up to present a bright future for BLOOD FEAST.
Adam Tranquilli • guitar/lead vocals
Dave Kramer • bass guitar/backing vocals
Adam Kieffer • drums
CJ Scioscia • guitar
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Grapeshot was born as a band formed in Madrid during Christmas 2010. With three records under their belt they are a recognizable force on Spanish scene. Their latest release, an EP titled “Oblivion” was released in November 2024.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUBwBDjBGAI
Back in 2010, Esteban (vocalist) was excited to become partners with members of Elecktra (José A. Poveda) and Terroristars (Marcos de la Calle), bands that he had heard and seen live a few years before.
A few months later, in May 2011, they gave their first concert in Madrid. With a strong Groove and Thrash base, the songs take on their own personality, with some southern and alternative metal touches. They immediately recorded a first demo in the rehearsal room with 6 cuts of which they made a short home run to sell at concerts and gain a foothold in the Madrid underground scene.
In 2012 their first studio work 'Sons of Betrayal' was released, a 4-song EP where the band is already beginning to sound more compact and with a minimally decent production. One of their songs 'Riots' has a certain pull on YouTube and shortly after the band manages to reach the final of the Wacken Metal Battle in Barcelona. After a couple of years of concerts, almost all of them in Madrid, some in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Castilla la Mancha...
In 2014 they recorded their first studio LP 'The Scene', where they achieved a starker and more extreme sound, calling for the first time the attention of some specialized media and managing to leave the outskirts of Madrid on more than one occasion to demonstrate their forcefulness live. They manage to win several band contests and sneak into festivals such as Metal Lorca and Arrastro Rock.
In 2017 they released 'All About to End' which represents a qualitative and professional leap. In the following months Grapeshot will enter their most intense period of concerts, reaching the final of Wacken Metal Battle one more time, this time being runners-up. That year we were able to see them take the Granito Rock stage, being the sensation of the night, for many even above the headliners Turisas.
Since then, the road and work on new compositions occupy most of the time for Grapeshot, who in 2020 begins to record his third studio LP, however the pandemic stops the production of the album in its tracks until July 2020. Faced with a bleak outlook in the music industry, the album's release on the market is delayed until May 2021. 'Suckcess' takes them to tour a large part of the Iberian geography, reaping notable success from critics and the public. 'Suckcess' represents the consolidation of their style, with better production and more polarized sounds, which play with extremes and with melodic and catchy parts.
In 2024 and with the new stable and consolidated lineup Grapeshot releases its new EP 'Oblivion' in November. With 5 songs that show a good example of the band's maturity, with effective songs that play with new sounds, at times softer but also more abrasive, flirting with Sludge Metal or Southern Rock if necessary. A work that marks the opening of a new era for Grapeshot.
MEMBERS
Esteban Muñoz (singer): 2010 - present
José A. Poveda (guitar): 2010 - present
Marcos de la Calle (drums): 2010 - present
Borja Cabello (guitar): 2013 - 2020 (bassist) 2021 - present (guitarist)
Miguel García-Monge (bass): 2021 - present
PAST MEMBERS
Javier Pina (guitar): 2010 - 2021
Humberto Castañeda (bass): 2010 – 2013
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"Prelude Of Loss" was born once again from the meeting of the three souls that make up this creature (Gerassimos Evangelou - LORD AGHEROS, Antonio Billé - ANAKONDA and Andrea Tilenni - FEAR OF ETERNITY, ex SINOATH) and will be released in March 2025. A mandatory listening to those who have their musical background in the most melancholy dynamics of Metal and Post Rock of KATATONIA, SWALLOW THE SUN and NOVEMBRE, this new album will dig into your soul in search of the most hidden emotions!
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For fans of : Behexen, Seed of Iblis, and Dissection
"Anti-Cosmic Rebellion" delivers a relentless and immersive sonic experience that delves deep into themes of rebellion, darkness, and transcendence through anti-religious mutiny. The lyrics of songs such as "Qasam Be Shaytan", performed in his native Farsi, express a strong and defiant nihilism towards religion, particularly Islam. Other tracks, including the intro, incorporate verses from the Quran sung in reverse - a strikingly blasphemous and provocative display of artistry by Atash.
The album is now available digitally via Bandcamp and YouTube, under the label Iblis Manifestations. Physical copies will follow in early 2025.
Tracklist:
1) Al-Fatihah
2) Wrath Of Gods
3) Shadows Of Death
4) Possessed By The Void
5) Mesmerized
6) Qasam Be Shaytan
7) To Evil Thou Shall Succumb
8) Solar Apocalypse
9) Nordnundet (Taake Cover)
10) Al-Etmam
"Anti-Cosmic Rebellion" was mixed and mastered by Manticore Productions, while the cover art was done by Viltisvm.
As previously reported, Omid is facing deportation from Norway. Due to cultural differences and the genre's association with anti-religious sentiment, Atash, the sole member of Kaaboos, fears for his life if he is forced to return to Iran.
Omid, known by his stage name "Atash," fled Iran in 2019 seeking refuge in Norway, known for its deep black metal history. He envisioned Norway as a place where he could freely express himself musically and delve deeper into the genre's spiritual and empowering aspects.
However, in response to his music and antitheocratic stance under the Kaaboos moniker, Atash faced threats from certain groups. Fearing for his safety, he sought asylum in Norway.
After four years of residing in Norway, the Norwegian Immigration offices (UDI & UNE) rejected Atash's asylum claim and issued a deportation order. The decision disregards the potential dangers Atash faces upon returning to Iran.
Heavy metal, punk, and rock are deemed blasphemous and illegal in Iran. Participation in such music can lead to severe punishment, imprisonment, or even death.
Atash has a chance to appeal the decision, but legal representation comes at a steep cost. His lawyer requires a total of €17,000, of which Atash has already exhausted €6,000. Currently unemployed due to his asylum seeker status, Atash is struggling to cover basic necessities, let alone the remaining legal fees.
Atash has launched a fundraiser to raise the necessary funds for his legal battle. He pleads with the black metal community and anyone who values artistic freedom to donate and help him fight for his right to remain in Norway.
Donate here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/urgent-fundraiser-for-metal-refugee
https://www.facebook.com/IblisManifestations/
https://kaaboos.bandcamp.com/
Detroit (MI) - Melodic/Power Thrashers, AMONG THESE ASHES, have released a drum playthrough video, featuring Kyle Wagner, for "THE ENEMY IN I," a track from new album, EMBERS OF ELYSIUM. The video was created by Akuro Productions and is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_L_E6kzP5c
Embers of Elysium was released on December 6 via Alone Records! The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song.
In discussing the new level reached on Embers of Elysium, guitarist Richard Clark states that it "is quite the leap for us in every aspect from Dominion Enthroned. Where Dominion was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on Embers of Elysium are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners."
Track
Listing:
1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
*13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)
*Bonus track, featuring vocalist Brooke Rousseau (Lady Luna and the Devil).
Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach.
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Kyle Wagner photo by Dark Dimm Photography.
Line-Up:
Richard Clark: lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals. JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar.
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Bio:
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band's central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group's sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes' debut musical offering, Dominion Enthroned, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled "The Enemy in I," which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of "Sirens" by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, "Restless Gypsy."
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
https://www.facebook.com/AmongTheseAshesMetal
After
'The Tower' and 'Asmodeus', now comes 'WALK WITH ME' the third
music video to be unleashed from VÖLVA'S grim and merciless
album, DESIRES PROFANE. A hymn of lust and temptation, a
pledge of dedication to the dark, 'Walk With Me' is another example of the raw
black metal power that rages in the veins of these Swedish witches.
The video for 'Walk With Me' was recorded live at studio Quaalude, Malmö, by Oliver Dahl and Axel Brandt - and you can watch it right here
Desires Profane was released on November 28th - on CD by Grind To Death Records and vinyl by Fiadh Productions - and the critical response has been excellent, with the likes of Distorted Sound Magazine, Metal.de, Metal Division Magazine and many, many more handing out praise and plaudits.
Follow the whispers in your heart and join the Völva coven!
https://www.grindtodeathrecords.com/
https://fiadh.bandcamp.com/
https://imperativepr.co.uk/artist-volva.html
Hailing from the vibrant city of Liepāja, Overcast Rain is
poised to make waves in the global metal scene once again with their highly
anticipated third studio album, Black Death. Set for release on April 11,
2025, under the esteemed Brutal Records banner,
this album promises to redefine the boundaries of dark metal with a sonic
assault like no other.
A Legacy Forged in Darkness
Formed in 2014 by the visionary duo Mihails Maslovs (vocals/guitar) and Kolja Kirk (drums), Overcast Rain has emerged as a beacon of Latvia’s thriving metal scene. Over the past decade, the band has undergone remarkable evolution, marked by lineup transformations and sonic experimentation, solidifying their place as one of the genre’s most dynamic and innovative forces.
Their discography boasts two critically acclaimed albums:
Since You Die (July 11, 2020)
My God Hates Me (March 1, 2022)
These releases have earned the band significant accolades, with tracks like “All Hope Is Gone” breaking into the Destrokit Rock Chart Top 50 and securing spots on the prestigious European Metal Channel rankings. Recognized as cultural milestones, both albums are enshrined in the National Library of Latvia.
The Evolution of Overcast Rain
After a brief hiatus, Mihails Maslovs and Andris Aleksejevs reignited the band in 2018, channeling a renewed vision to craft a heavier, more aggressive sound. The addition of new members and the transition away from female vocals heralded a bold new era for Overcast Rain. This revamped lineup debuted with electrifying performances at Bunker13 Fest and clinched second place at the Fresh Blood competition, setting the stage for their meteoric rise.
Their relentless energy and captivating performances have taken them across Europe and beyond, with standout appearances at premier festivals such as Dark Malta Fest, GoatHell Metal Fest, Barbar Fest, and DiFest. Sharing stages with icons like Die Krupps, Blood Red Throne, Psyclon Nine, and Ost+Front, Overcast Rain has solidified their reputation as a must-see act on the global metal circuit.
Black Death: A New Chapter
Overcast Rain finished album Black Death, a collection of 13 tracks that includes both brand-new songs and remastered fan favorites. This ambitious release showcases their relentless drive to push the boundaries of dark metal and promises to be a landmark achievement in their career.
Tracklist:
Intro
Black Death
Satanic Slut
Rain
Nightmare
Shadows
Damned
Lost
Motherland
Helloween
White Snow (feat. Artyom Kuricyn - Yomi on Flute (mokshan lang)
War (remastered)
Winter Depression (remastered)
The Current Lineup
Mihails Maslovs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Marks Širokovs – Drums, Samples, Backing Vocals
Rudolf Vistiņš – Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Andris Aleksejevs – Lead Guitar
Leonidas Heidemanis – Lead Guitar
Aleksandrs Tiškevičs – Bass
A Storm Is Coming
As Overcast Rain gears up to release their heaviest single video yet, anticipation is reaching fever pitch. Under the Brutal Records banner, this dark metal powerhouse is ready to usher in a new era of dominance.
Stay tuned for updates—the storm is just beginning.
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://songwhip.com/overcastrain/
DREAMING DEATH Reveal Title Track From Upcoming Debut EP SINSITER
MINISTER
Australian Death Metal force DREAMING DEATH, featuring members of Beyond Mortal Dreams, Oath of Damnation, has unleashed the title track from their debut EP, Sinister Minister. A feral mix of old-school Death Thrash energy and chilling modern brutality, the track is a perfect introduction to the band’s raw and unrelenting sound.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/odlArf9yBnI
Bandcamp: https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/sinister-minister
The full Sinister Minister EP will be released on December 20th, 2024, on CD and digitally via Lavadome Productions. Featuring five tracks of relentless intensity, the EP channels the unholy spirit of Death Metal’s golden age.
Line-up:
Pahl Hodgson – Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Ross Duncan – Guitars, Bass
Matt "Skitz" Sanders – Drums
www.lavadome.org
The concept behind NUCLEAR DOOM STATE was to shed light on what we are experiencing in societies worldwide. The corrupt governments, the top 1% of the wealthiest individuals in the world, religious institutions, and social media platforms all play a hand in our collective suffering. The title track of the album serves as a sort of premonition of what’s to come if we continue down the path we’re currently on. Meanwhile, W.A.R. is more of a rallying cry for the middle and poorer classes to unite and change the current state of our lives. Stylistically this album was heavily influenced by bands like Death, Exodus, Power Trip, Slayer, and Gojira. It took a little less than a year to complete the album even with a lineup change in 2022. When our newest members Rob Maldonado and Ameer “TheBeheader ” Aljallad joined the band in April of 2023 we immediately went to work on all the songs that had been written over the years that would make up this album. Together we came up with some great ideas for the songs to have them reach their full potential. Rob himself even contributed to the album with his song titled Primordial Combat which was influenced lyrically by the anime series Baki Hanma
Tracklist
1. The Day After…
2. W.A.R.
3. Nuclear Doom State
4. Psychological Maceration
5. An Insatiable Lust For Violence
6. Primordial Combat
7. Taxed To Death
On a cold February day in 2018, Gil Vives, Randy Reiser, and Amir Jairazbhoy began discussing their musical journey over some beers in a New York City bar. The trio soon started writing what would ultimately become their debut album, March To Your Grave. They completed their lineup with the addition of George Garcia in October 2018. Two months later, they played their first show together to a sold-out crowd at Gussy’s Bar & Grill in Queens, NY, under the name Final Siege. The band released their debut album, March To Your Grave, independently on August 6, 2021.
In November 2022, co-founding members Amir Jairazbhoy and Randy Reiser took a step back as the band moved into its next phase of development. By April 15, 2023, Final Siege had solidified their new lineup with Ameer "The Beheader" Aljallad on drums and Rob Maldonado on guitar. The band’s musical influences include Death, Thrash, and Groove metal, and their lyrics explore themes of rebellion, war, and the mental toll of living in a conflict-ridden world. Final Siege has performed alongside national acts such as Suffocation, Atheist, Wrath, Enforcer, DRI, and Warbringer.
www.finalsiege.net
www.facebook.com/finalsiege
www.youtube.com/@finalsiege6379
CORRODING SOUL – “CORRODING SOUL”
Label: Independent Release
Release Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Post Black Metal
For fans of: Unrequited | Sylvaine | Ghost Bath | Deafheaven
I have left the pain behind me. I am free and unburdened, spinning and turning, racing through the currents of memory with a lightness of being I could never have imagined when the shadows of loss encircled me, pouring like a flood of desolation into my desperate lungs. The tides of black still swell and subside beneath me, but I can see the deep fissures and fractures in its surface, rich with colours and shades of illumination that my tortured gaze could never see before; before I laid down my arms and stepped into the cold blades of insubstantial knives, until I ceased to fight and embraced the darkness, finding victory in my defeat.
Corroding Soul is the solo atmospheric black metal project of multi-instrumentalist David Lovejoy, yet that simple description does not prepare the listener for everything that Corroding Soul the album has to offer. Building on the success of EPs Hopeless and Nothing, Corroding Soul sees Lovejoy diving deeper and soaring higher as he explores the farthest shores of black metal’s kingdom, bringing a wonderful multitude of emotions, a breathtaking palette of hues and colours to its monochrome world, breaking through the ice with blinding rays of warm sunlight. Corroding Soul is made up of four movements, four intrinsically linked soundscapes that create a veritable symphony of sound and imagination; each multifaceted gem forming part of a greater whole. Opening track, ‘Shadow’ begins in beautifully tranquil fashion, before the listener is cast into a vast, evocative dream where blast beats and emotive lead guitars enfold the harsh, impassioned vocals. There is a sense of flying high above a past of trauma, looking back on life’s pain and sorrow from a new perspective as the music shifts moods and tempos as smoothly as silk. Lead single, ‘Tempest’, sends the soul soaring, its towering splendour juxtaposed with delicate intimacy. Together with ‘Bound’ it forms the heart of Corroding Soul, the two tracks enfolding you and carrying you away on cresting waves of profound intensity. And then there is ‘Sapphire’, an epic track of incredible, effervescent energy and ineffable beauty, shot through with a silver thread of bitter sweet melancholy, remembrance for a life left behind and loves lost, adorned in some cultured lead guitar work which brings to mind the flawless work of Dave Gilmour. It’s an ending in hope and healing after an exhilarating sonic adventure.
Complete with the impactful artwork of Abhijit Asad, Corroding Soul will be released on January 24th and will be available directly from the band at the Corroding Soul Bandcamp page. Accept the invitation and let David Lovejoy’s remarkable music take you on a journey you will never forget.
Line-up:
David Lovejoy – All Music and Vocals
https://www.youtube.com/@CorrodingSoul
https://www.facebook.com/corrodingsoulofficial
French Iconoclastic and polymorphic Black Metal duo BERLIAL present the first single from sophomore album "NOURISHING THE DISASTER TO COME". The song is "NOUVEAU MONDE" and it is available on My Kingdom Music YouTube Channel at https://youtu.be/ZhKK4f2DDWs and on all digital platforms.
It's Black Metal built like a wall of sound to be oppressive and melodic including 90's keyboards, a Blackened Death break, electronic elements and spoken words to sustain lyrics without compromises.
It brings them alongside to bands such as Dødheimsgard, Akhlys, Blut Aus Nord, Deadspace, Afraid of Destinity, Raven Throne, Decline of the I.
BERLIAL, how to feed the disaster, knowing you can't do without it.
"Nourishing The Disaster To Come" will be released on February 7th, 2025 on My Kingdom Music in digipakCD, LP (black and splatter blue vinyls) and digital.
You can Pre-Order here: https://shorturl.at/84xCN
My Kingdom Music: Cover (realized by Jeff Grimal)
Tracklist:
1.The Last Dance
2. Nouveau Monde
3. We Deserve To Fall Again
4. Ivresse De La Finitude
5. Nourishing The Disaster To Come
6. Le Néant Pour Éternité
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
http://www.facebook.com/berlial666
Canadian band Crown of Madness have created a form of death metal that's both dissonant and emotive which is refreshing in a genre that can too often sound too harsh and mechanical. The music even has a strange atmospheric quality to it which is comparable to label mates Devenial Verdict but both the bands have their own personal vision. Preorders for their debut full length are up now and two songs from it can be heard https://crownofmadnessdm.bandcamp.com/album/memories-fragmented
CROWN OF MADNESS – “MEMORIES FRAGMENTED”
For
fans of
Ulcerate, Devenial Verdict, Dysgnostic, Gorguts
Crown of Madness have put out a slew of short-form releases, improving upon their sound with each one and culminating in this full length that sees the most evolved version of their music so far. As accomplished as it is, it also happens to be unique in the style of dissonant death metal - in that, it's deeply personal and palpably emotive, and that poignant, introspective mood pervades their entire album. The music almost has a melodic albeit melancholic quality to it that is refreshing for a style of music that usually sounds harsh and detached. At the same time the music is driven; the hypnotic riffs are invariably interspersed with bursts of blasts and there is good momentum generated in this calculated, undulating pattern which becomes addictive. 'Memories Fragmented' is a beautifully tempered album underpinned by unforgettable melodies, an ambitious release but one completely devoid of pretence, which is bound to be regarded as one of the standout albums in the style in the years to come.
Line up:
Sunshine Schneider - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Connor Gordon - Drums
Artwork by Erskine Designs
Track listing
1. Visions From A Past Life
2. Sovereign Blood
3. Burdened
4. Ashes of Mine
5. When I Don't Remember You
6. Deafening
7. Sea of Fangs
8. Dreamless Nights No Longer
9. Hollow Thresher
10. The Grand Design
Release date - February 28th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/crownofmadnessmetal
Thank you very much!Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
GRAVETHORN'S new release "ATROCITAS" continues the debut release, "UNDERGROUND RITUALS OF THOSE UNSEEN". Harnessing the anger and sense of overcoming all who oppress- the battle wages on as we are slowly uniting as a people and coming together in numbers to dissolve those who feel the greed for power, whether religious, political, financial, or other. If there ever were an uprising, perhaps Atrocitas would be the soundtrack of a revolution. It was written and recorded in Krystof's studio when he had COVID-19, and some of the medication he was taking may have influenced how the music came out (perhaps it opened the doors to the spiritual world to share ideas of those no longer with us). Atrocitas also features contributions from notable collaborators, including Joshua Bednarski (from the band Atomic War Machine) and Dave Sharpe (from the bands Dead by Wednesday, End Time Illusion, The Cro-Mags, and Dave Ellefson’s [of Megadeth] side band).
Tracklist
1. Atrocitas
2. The Great Thaw
3. Epic Battle
4. Destined to Burn
5. In Vengeance We Hunt
6. Barbaric War Declared
7. Hymns of Forbidden Places (feat. Joshua Bednarski)
8. Within the Berserker
9. Victory by Sunrise (feat. Dave Sharpe)
10. Creeping Death (Metallica Cover)
Gravethorn is a Blackened Death Metal band from Las Vegas, NV, formed in 2021 by Krystof during his journey to learn extreme metal mixing in his home studio, built during the 2020 pandemic. Initially working with recordings from his previous band Achromatica, which eventually disbanded, Krystof continued creating music, resulting in the release of several songs on Spotify and YouTube. Drummer Bob Hill (from Achromatica) later joined, and in October 2023, they unleashed their debut album, Underground Rituals of Those Unseen, which received critical acclaim from outlets like Metalized, Rock Hard, and Slowly We Rot.
Gravethorn's unique sound blends influences from bands like Emperor, Deicide, Amon Amarth, and even The Doors and Led Zeppelin, creating a distinctive blend of Blackened Death Metal. Known for embracing collaboration, the band has worked with notable musicians, including Glenn Lai (Achromatica) and Brian Crapser (Putrid Decay).
While quarantined with COVID-19 in October 2023, Krystof channeled his energy into writing and recording new material, resulting in the upcoming 2024 album Atrocitas, set to be released via Wormholedeath Records. Gravethorn continues to defy rigid genre classifications, staying true to their simple goal of making metal music, unbound by specific labels.
www.youtube.com/@gravethorn
www.facebook.com/p/Gravethorn
Finnish Deathgrind band Cannibal Accident is set to release their fifth studio album 'Disgust' on February 28th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The second double single 'Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla / Darken the Attic' is unleashed today. The music video is also done for the first track and it features Nikki666 on guest vocals.
Video
is available here: https://youtu.be/GuPBSDV3Yvo
Listen to the double-single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/ca-itseinho
Kurwa Doktor comments the tracks:
Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla
- It's the third time when our friend Nikki 666 has written lyrics and arranged them onto our song, again manifesting the obnoxiously marvellous "punk rock" side of Cannibal Accident.
Darken The Attic
- Dissonant grindcore, blackmetallish anguish and claustrophobic horror are the ingredients of this song, which differs drastically from most the material the band has ever written.
Upcoming gigs:
14.12. Tallinn (Estonia)
28.02. Turku (Finland)
01.03. Pori (Finland)
Cannibal Accident - Disgust (Album 2025)
Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Listen to the first double-single 'Scorched Meat Tactics - Explicit Everything' https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-scorched
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
https://www.facebook.com/cannibalaccident
Introducing MARROWOMB. This Chicago-based blackened-death entity is set to leave an indelible mark on the world of extreme music with its debut album, PHISENOMIE.
Over five years in the making, Phisenomie is the brain spawn of multi-instrumentalist Frank Lato and features drums by renowned session drummer Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted).
MARROWOMB and Ghost Cult Magazine have teamed for the exclusive premiere of the album's lead single, "Vicarious Visage," a song that tells the story of an individual so consumed by their external persona that the façade they present to the world begins to reshape their inner self.
"This song did not come together easily," states Lato. "It started as a puzzle piece, and I didn’t know how to end it. Then, I remembered a couple of old riffs I had lying around for years. I put together the clean guitar break and the ending riffs that followed it and inserted them into the song. Once I heard this result, I knew it was finally finished. The ending to this one became one of my favorite passages on the record even though it took the longest to create."
Listen to "Vicarious Visage" at https://ghostcultmag.com/exclusive-single-premiere-marrowomb-shares-a-new-single-vicarious-visage-new-album-coming-soon/
Over eight meticulously crafted tracks, Phisenomie delivers an unrelenting experience that blurs the boundaries between extreme and experimental. Each song provides a labyrinth of ferocious riffs and punishing rhythms, showcasing Lato’s visionary approach to composition. Phisenomie immerses listeners in a soundscape that is both savage and cerebral. This debut offering is more than just an album—it is a journey through the depths of the human psyche, where chaos and catharsis converge.
Phisenomie is due out on February 21, 2025. Pre-order the album at https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
The artwork for Phisenomie was done by Penny Slinger with layout by Frank Lato. Photography by the legendary Peter Beste.
Tracklisting:
1) Phantasia Kataleptike
2) Sickness Unto Life
3) Vicarious Visage
4) Inner Ring
5) Black Gossamer
6) Veil of Cold
7) The Mirror
8) Despairloom
MARROWOMB is a blackened death metal project formed from the ashes of former Chicago-based bands Polyptych and Endmember in 2020. Spearheaded by mastermind Frank Lato, the artistry of MARROWOMB knows no bounds and takes an uncompromising approach to songwriting. The project takes its influences from various sources; however, the prominent focus is centered on internal conflict and struggle.
MARROWOMB opts for a simplistic approach to its lyrical content and concepts; however, this is not a surface-level entity. For those who choose to venture beyond the surface, there are rewards to seeking out additional truths, messages, and meanings within the music.
MARROWOMB is:
Frank Lato: guitars, bass, vocals, synths/programming
Kevin Paradis: drums
Guest appearances:
Greg Livas: solo on “The Mirror”
Curtis Vamarassi: solo on “Black Gossamer”
Shane Hill: solo on “Despairloom”
All guitar solos recorded by Greg Livas at Ohmstead Studios
https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
Pre-order now: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=der-prager-handgriff
"Arglistige Täuschung" translated as "Deceptive Deception," is a masterpiece of dark industrial EBM that blends haunting atmospheres, intricate sound design, and disturbing melodies. Formed in 1990 in Witten, Germany by Stefan Schäfer (vocals) and Volker Rathmann (machines), the German group, known for their dark and uncompromising approach, solidified their reputation with this groundbreaking album.
"Arglistige Täuschung" was originally released in 1993 after a few tape releases, which proved to be a real commercial success for their record label with its sonic innovations and its post-DAF or Nitzer Ebb power and an underlying rawness that will remain the band's trademark over the years. A record that is both thought-provoking and captivating, from the first track "Tibet", the listener is immersed in a world of dissonance and dark beauty. It is a mood setter, preparing you for the psychological journey that awaits, without ever letting up.
The use of synthesizers is particularly masterful, with cold, metallic tones underpinned by warm, organic bass lines that give the album a sense of isolation and intimacy. One of the most notable features is the vocal delivery, which oscillates between haunting chants and a low bass voice. There is a sense of controlled chaos throughout the record, where sounds often seem on the verge of disintegration, but always held together by a singular and intense vision. It is dark, thought-provoking and bold, an album that will continue to reveal more with every listen. In short, “Arglistige Täuschung” is a triumph. Prager Handgriff have created something absolutely unique: a compelling and multifaceted sonic experience that showcases their immense creativity and bold approach to music. This is a record that demands attention, patience, and a willingness to embrace the uncomfortable.
“Arglistige Täuschung” Tracklist:
A1.Tibet 03:54
A2.Deutschland? 03:30
A3.Klaustrophobie 03:26
A4.Flucht 03:58
A5.Herbst 05:50
B1.Das Du 03:52
B2.Zivilisation 03:27
B3.Monsun 03:38
B4.Bilder Meiner Angst 04:30
B5.Großstadtliebe 04:59
C1.Baskerville 06:08
C2.Wahnsinn 02:46
C3.Schwermetall 03:58
C4.Tollwut 03:28
D1.Prag 02:57
D2.Herzschlag 03:06 (Bonus Track)
D3.Morgengrauen 05:38 (Bonus Track)
D4.Zäsur 04:09 (Bonus Track)
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INSURRECTION
– “EXILED TO EARTH “
Format: Music Cassette(digitally, only the 4 'ETE' EP tracks will be available to stream in 8-BIT)
Label: Tunnelgeur Records
INSURRECTION (NL) offers the ultimate blend between brutality, melody and catchiness with their raging melodic death/thrash. Hailing from the north of the Netherlands, founded in 2008, these Dutch thrashers released their critically acclaimed 6-track debut EP 'Catatonic' on Big Bad Wolf Records in 2015. First print sold-out in no time and Insurrection subsequently did a whole shitload of shows promoting this release in the Netherlands and Germany.
Following up their successful debut EP, Insurrection released full-length album ‘Circles Of Despair’ in 2019 on Big Bad Wolf/Headbangers Records (mix & mastering by Fredrik Nordström, who previously mixed In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir etc.). Still tight and energetic, but pushing the envelope on this release by refining their death/thrash sound into a more diverse approach.
With 4-track EP ‘Exiled To Earth’, Insurrection presented their most melodic and mature release in 2023. Containing meticulously written and thought out melodeath/thrash tracks. Equally aggressive, upbeat and melodic, but with an added touch of prog and atmosphere this time. ‘Exiled To Earth’ was mixed and mastered by Mendel bij de Leij (Aborted, Severe Torture, Haliphron a.o.).
Critically acclaimed for their killer songwriting skills and their tight live performances (more than 120 shows played all over Europe with metal icons such as Destruction, Cryptopsy, King Diamond, Cradle Of Filth, Suffocation, Hypocrisy a.o.) during the past few years, Insurrections quality is no longer an underground secret. With a special edition re-release of ‘Exiled To Earth’ (including 10 (!) live & 8-BIT bonus tracks) these melodeath/thrashers are ready to rise like the tide out of the underground!
Tracklist:
Side A:
01. Hopeless World Below
02. The End Of Honesty
03. In Terram Extorres
04. Crimson Skies
05. Futile Existence(live)
06. Dawn Of Defeat(live)
07. Moribund(live)
8-BIT:
01. Hopeless World Below
02. The End Of Honesty
03. In Terram Extorres
04. Crimson Skies
05. Spiralling Down
06. On Circles Of Despair
07. Moribund
INSURRECTION is:
Douwe Talma: Drums
Marten Hutten: Guitar
Armand Venema: Guitar
Pieter Oeverling: Vocals/Bassguitar
https://www.facebook.com/Insurrectionofficial
Label: Ardua Music
Release Date: February 7th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Paradise Lost | My Dying Bride | Shape Of Despair | Officium Triste
He stands upon the shore of a turbulent winter sea, snow drifting about his feet upon the dull, wet sand. A chill wind blows in across the colourless waves that reflect the colourless sky above, cutting through his thin shirt and carelessly unbuttoned coat that hangs uselessly from one shoulder. It bites at his skin with teeth like needles of ice, but he has no sense of feeling within or without. His empty eyes stare at the storm-tossed waters and he wonders if there is comfort to be found there, in the deep, dark places, hidden from the sun. A peace without end…
After years lost in the silence, far from sight though never far from memory, Inborn Suffering have returned. The kings of Parisian melodic, majestic doom death have emerged from the dust and shadows with a gargantuan new album of heart rending emotion…and while some unexpected returns bring with them only tarnished dreams and faded treasure, Pale Grey Monochrome adorns the Inborn Suffering legacy in sombre gravitas and shades of dusk and gold. As the foreboding ‘Wounding’ falls desolate into the arms of ‘From Lowering Tides’ sadness imbues every lamenting note. As an unkind world bows the shoulders beneath the weight of tragedy, this song swallows you into its darkness, sharing its bitter tears and shattered dreams. ‘Pale Grey Monochrome’ follows with a richly textured guitar riff, before the incredible heft of the first drum beat drives the air from your lungs, like a moment of terrible realisation. Exquisitely paced this wonderful title track leads you on, across vast wastes to the incomparable ‘Tales From An Empty Shell’ – searingly beautiful, this is an absolute masterclass in the melancholy arts of doom. Loss, despair, fear and hope all embrace the listener as they travel on to the sublime fragility and sweeping magnificence of album closer, ‘Drawing Circles’…and there could be no better way to end this incredible work of emotive metal. Pale Grey Monochrome is more than a triumphant return, it is an album that will take you beneath its wings, leaving you breathless and stunned.
Now with the backing of Ardua Music, home to many of the greatest doom death bands around, Inborn Suffering will unveil the sorrow filled tour de force of Pale Grey Monochrome on February 7th. Mixed and mastered with the deftest of touches by Déhà of Opus Magnum Studio (Abduction, Deadspace, Wolvennest etc) and adorned in the powerful artwork of Franck Besançon (Maveth, Solemn Lament, Silent Hill: Townfall etc), Pale Grey Monochrome has been carefully curated by Inborn Suffering and the results are remarkable. In February Ardua music will also reissue Inborn Suffering's two revered early albums, Wordless Hope and Regression To Nothingness – the year ahead looks bleak indeed…
Line-up:
Laurent Chaulet - Vocals/Guitars
Emmanuel Ribeiro - Bass
Stéphane Peudupin - Guitar
Thomas Rugolino – Drums
https://www.arduamusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/inbornsufferingdoom/
Ömer
Doğramacı is a multidimensional artist and musician who brings a unique blend
of cultural and musical influences to his work. Born in the Bronx, New York, Doğramaci’s
upbringing was shaped by a diverse range of experiences and cultural
influences. From an early age, he was exposed to various traditional wisdom
teachings, which ignited a deep interest in spirituality and mysticism that
would come to influence his artistic and musical pursuits.
Throughout his life, Doğramacı has pursued various musical styles, drawing on the diverse cultural influences that have shaped him. He has studied and performed traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern music, as well as jazz, rock, and electronic music. His work is characterized by a fluidity that crosses boundaries and defies categorization, as he brings together elements of these diverse genres in his compositions and performances.
Tracklist
1. The King's Feast
2. Pray for Death
3. Fog of War
4. Deep Gaze into the Flames of Hell
5. Call to Prayer
6. Narcissistic Society
7. Inner Sanctum
8. Pain of Existence
www.youtube.com/@fragmentarysolidabyss7838
https://fragmentarysolidabyss.net/
The
Rising Force of Brazilian Thrash Metal
Since their formation in 2010, Válvera has emerged as one of Brazil's most promising metal bands. With three powerhouse albums under their belt—Cidade Em Caos (2015), Back To Hell (2017), and Cycle Of Disaster (2020)—the band has captivated audiences and critics alike. Their most recent release, Cycle Of Disaster, launched globally through Brutal Records (USA), earned high praise, ranking as the 8th best Brazilian metal album of 2020 by Roadie Crew, Brazil’s leading rock and metal magazine.
Thrash Metal Titans with a Global Reach
Known for their electrifying performances, Válvera has played over 300 shows and completed three international tours, leaving their mark across continents:
Back To Hell European Tour (2018): Performed in Germany, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Slovenia, Poland, and Italy.
South American Tour with Prong (2022): Stunned audiences in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia.
Unleashed Fury European Tour Part I (2023): Played to packed venues in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Poland.
With their distinct sound—a fusion of thrash metal and innovative subgenre elements—European media has coined their style as "Neo Thrash Metal."
On the Brink of Global Domination
Válvera's music is available across all major streaming platforms, and four tracks have even made their way into popular online games like Guitar Flash and GrooVR. As they finalize their upcoming album, Unleashed Fury, at Dual Noise Studios, the band is gearing up for their Reckoning Europe Tour in April 2025, with shows spanning six countries.
Sharing the Stage with Legends
Válvera has performed alongside some of metal’s greatest acts, including Sepultura, Destruction, Prong, Angra, Krisiun, Ratos de Porão, CPM 22, Gorgoroth, Korzus, Almah, and Project 46, to name a few. Their resume also boasts appearances at major festivals like Rock Na Praça, Maniacs Metal Meeting, and Semana do Rock.
Meet the Band:
Vocals & Guitar: Glauber Barreto
Guitar: Rodrigo Torres
Bass: Gabriel Prado
Drums: Leandro Peixoto
With relentless energy and a passion for conquering stages worldwide, Válvera is ready to unleash their fury and cement their place among metal’s elite. Follow them now and join their journey to the top of the global metal scene!
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
www.youtube.com/valveraoficial
www.facebook.com/bandavalvera
In
early 2023, a spark ignited the flames of DREADMASK, a melodic
death metal band based in Eindhoven, with members originating from Greece,
Hungary, and The Netherlands. Fuelled by their shared passion for meaningful
heavy music, Dreadmask wasted no time in making their mark on the scene. After
each member had taken a break from previous bands, John Kourentas, Elger van
Delft, and Antonis Mougiakakos initiated the band's first incarnation. The
group was settled when Zoltán Herczog came aboard in the summer of 2023.
Dreadmask, derived from the fusion of 'dread' and 'mask,' embodies the essence
of fear and concealment.
AEON OF AWARENESS – “THE EMBRACING LIGHT OF RAROHENGA”
MORTIFEROTH – „...TO THE ABYSS“ (TAPE/EP)
DISTRESSED TO MARROW – “THE LAST GIVEAWAY”(MCD / EP )
Hier kann “Hammergeddon 666” – Die Katakomben betritt man nicht allein“ in verschiedenen Formaten (CD, Vinyl, Tape, Digital) bestellt werden: https://supremechaos.com/artists/nocte-obducta/
Auf der ersten Seite der EP führen uns NOCTE OBDUCTA
zurück zu ihren musikalischen Wurzeln, inspiriert von dem wegweisenden Album
„Schwarzmetall (Ein primitives Zwischenspiel)“. Die neuen Titel „Hammergeddon“,
„Schorm“, „Blut, Bier, Dunkelheit“ und „Faustphisto“ reflektieren die rohe
Intensität und die ungezähmte Kraft, die die Band seit ihren Anfängen
auszeichnet. Diese Tracks verkörpern die Essenz des frühen NOCTE OBDUCTA-Sounds,
der über die Jahre hinweg gewachsen ist und durch die kreative
Weiterentwicklung der Band eine neue Dimension erreicht hat.
Auf der zweiten Seite der EP erwartet die Hörer*innen mit „Auf wortlosen Fluren“ ein eindrucksvolles Meisterwerk, das als dritter Teil der Serie „Gemälde derer, die schieden“ eine ganz eigene Erzählung fortführt. Diese überlange Komposition ist weit mehr als nur ein musikalisches Stück; sie ist eine epische Klangreise, die die Zuhörer*innen tief in eine Welt aus atmosphärischer Dichte und eindringlicher Emotionalität eintauchen lässt. Mit einer bemerkenswerten Vielschichtigkeit entfaltet sich eine Klanglandschaft, die musikalisch über die Grenzen des Black Metal hinausgeht und lyrisch mit seinem auf Deutsch verfasstem Text einmalig ist.
„Hammergeddon 666“ ist ein weiteres Zeugnis für die Fähigkeit von NOCTE OBDUCTA, sowohl die Vergangenheit zu ehren als auch die Zukunft des Black Metal mitzugestalten. Diese EP ist ein Muss für jeden, der die tiefgründige Klangkunst von NOCTE OBDUCTA schätzt.
„Hammergeddon 666“ erschien am 6. Dezember 2024 über Supreme Chaos Records.
Tracklist:
A1. Hammergeddon
A2. Schorm
A3. Blut, Bier, Dunkelheit
A4. Faustphisto
B1. Auf wortlosen Fluren (Gemälde derer, die schieden – Teil III)
Spielzeit 19:17
Good To Know:
Für Vinyl konzeptionierte EP mit Bonus-B-Seite.
Gemastert in der Tonbraurei, Aufnahme in den altbekannten Ultraton Studios.
Vorbote des 15ten Albums der Mainzer.
Musiker:
Marcel GITARREN, GESANG, KEYBOARDS, BASS
Torsten GESANG
Stefan GITARREN, GESANG
Malte SCHLAGZEUG
Heidig BASS
Diskographie:
1999 Lethe (Gottverreckte Finsternis)
2000 Taverne (In Schatten schäbiger Spelunken)
2001 Schwarzmetall (Ein primitives Zwischenspiel)
2002 Galgendämmerung (Von Nebel, Blut und Totgeburten)
2003 Stille (Das nagende Schweigen)
2004 Nektar Teil I (Zwölf Monde, eine Hand voll Träume)
2005 Nektar Teil II (Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher)
2008 Sequenzen einer Wanderung
2011 Verderbnis (Der Schnitter kratzt an jeder Tür)
2013 Umbriel (Das Schweigen zwischen den Sternen)
2016 Mogontiacum (Nachdem die Nacht herabgesunken)
2017 Totholz (Ein Raunen aus dem Klammwald)
2020 Irrlicht (Es schlägt dem Mond ein kaltes Herz)
2023 Karwoche (Die Sonne der Toten pulsiert)
2024 Hammergeddon 666 (Die Katakomben betritt man nicht allein)
https://linktr.ee/nocteobducta
EMP und Rock Hard präsentieren:
Samstag, 14. Juni 2025 – Oberhausen, Deutschland – Turbinenhalle *
Montag, 16. Juni 2025 – London, Großbritannien – Shepherds Bush Empire
Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2025 – Zürich, Schweiz – Komplex 457 *
Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2025 – München, Deutschland – Tonhalle *
Dienstag, 24. Juni 2025 – Mailand, Italien – Alcatraz
Sänger Zak Stevens erklärt:
"Wie ihr euch vorstellen könnt, gibt es bei diesen Shows so viele besondere Dinge, die mir durch den Kopf jagen. Wir können zum ersten Mal in über 20 Jahren eine Reihe an Headliner-Shows spielen, die uns direkt zurück zu all den unglaublichen Fans bringen, die uns über die letzten drei Dekaden so viele unvergessliche Erinnerungen geschenkt haben. Das hier ist unsere Chance, denen, die uns all die Jahre unterstützt haben, etwas zurückzugeben!"
Im Rahmen dieser lang erwarteten Rückkehr auf die Bühnen nach gut einem Jahrzehnt, wird das ikonische Line-up, bestehend aus John Lee Middleton, Zak Stevens, Chris Caffery, Jeff Plate und Al Pitrelli, auch auf folgenden Festivals auftreten:
Freitag, 13. Juni 2025 – Leeuwarden, Niederlande – Into The Grave Festival
Sonntag, 22. Juni 2025 – Dessel, Belgien – Graspop Metal Meeting
Donnerstag, 26. Juni, 2025 – Barcelona, Spanien – Rockfest
Samstag, 28. Juni 2025 – Thessaloniki, Griechenland – Rockwave Festival
"All diese großartigen Festival-Shows werden unglaublich gut kommen. Es ist schwer, sich das Maß an Spannung rund um diese Shows auch nur vorzustellen," führt Zak fort.
Savatage-Gründer Jon Oliva drückt seine Enttäuschung darüber aus, diesmal nicht dabei sein zu können, freut sich aber gleichzeitig auch sehr für seine Bandkollegen: "Ich bin sehr aufgeregt, dass die Jungs ein paar Shows spielen. Leider werde ich aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nicht in der Lage sein, die Jungs bei dieser Reihe von Shows zu begleiten, aber das ist hoffentlich nur vorübergehend. Ich werde im Studio weiter an neuer Musik für die Zukunft der Band arbeiten. Diese Shows werden großartig werden und ich werde mit ihnen daran arbeiten, sie für euch vorzubereiten. Ich weiß, dass ihr es lieben werdet!!! Ich und die Jungs sind sehr aufgeregt und bereit, es krachen zu lassen! Ich danke euch allen für die Unterstützung in all den Jahren und wir können es kaum erwarten, mit euch zu rocken!"
https://www.facebook.com/savatage/
New
album “NOCTAMBULIST II: DE DROOM” to be released 7 February 2025
via These Hands Melt.
Dutch blackgaze band Noctambulist have unveiled a music video to the second single off their upcoming album “Noctambulist II: De Droom”.
The video to the track “Lichteter” here was premiered via No Clean Singing today, and can be watched here: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/12/06/an-ncs-video-premiere-noctambulist-lichteter/
"Lyrically the song explores the desire for a stable albeit mediocre future only to discover the present has fallen apart in the meantime", said the band. "It is emblematic of the themes found on much of the songs throughout the album. It falls in a comfortable transition between the harsher tones found on Elegieën and the experimental nature of De Droom."
The new album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released on 7 February 2025 in CD, vinyl and digital formats via These Hands Melt. Recorded in Tilburg between February and April 2023 at Catacomben Studios, De Droom sees Noctambulist diving deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen.
“Lichteter” and previous single “Aderlater” are available to stream via all digital platforms.
“Noctambulist II: De Droom” can be pre-ordered via These Hands Melt: https://lnk.to/noctambulist
De Droom sees Noctambulist diving deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen. What sets De Droom apart from the first record is that the writing was done with the entire band on board whereas full song ideas used to be presented by a few members. The songs this time around are just that, songs.
While De Droom is not a concept album most songs reflect on the beauty of a mediocre co-habitual existence while also struggling with the seemingly impossible dream of home ownership. The album cover features a bedroom of a derelict villa, reflecting the themes of hope, failure and heartbreak present on the album.
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk.
Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released through These Hands Melt in February 2025.
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Noctambulistband
Detroit (MI) - Melodic/Power Thrashers, AMONG THESE ASHES, have released new album, EMBERS OF ELYSIUM, on Alone Records! The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song.
Stream/purchase at the following links:
https://amongtheseashes.bandcamp.com/album/embers-of-elysium
https://alone.gr/shop/product/among-these-ashes-embers-of-elysium-cd/
In discussing the new level reached on Embers of Elysium, guitarist Richard Clark states that it "is quite the leap for us in every aspect from Dominion Enthroned. Where Dominion was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on Embers of Elysium are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners."
Track
Listing:
1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
*13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)
*Bonus track, featuring vocalist Brooke Rousseau (Lady Luna and the Devil).
Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach.
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Line-Up:
Richard Clark: lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals. JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar.
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Bio:
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band's central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group's sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes' debut musical offering, Dominion Enthroned, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled "The Enemy in I," which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of "Sirens" by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, "Restless Gypsy."
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
https://www.facebook.com/AmongTheseAshesMetal
This Friday, December 6, 2024, blackened death metal masters THULCANDRA will release their first-ever live album, "Live Demise", that celebrates the first chapter and early days of the band!
"Live Demise" was recorded live in 2011 at a hometown show in Munich, Germany, and features true gems that the band hasn't performed in more than a decade, all with the original line-up consisting of Sebastian Ludwig, Tobias Ludwig, Matthias Landes (Dark Fortress, Noneuclid) and Steffen Kummerer (Obscura, Death, Cynic).
A video clip for the previously-released live version of "Fallen Angel's Dominion", today, THULCANDRA are premiering "Night Eternal (Live)"!
Band mastermind, Steffen Kummerer, comments:
"With "Night Eternal" we present you the opening track of our debut album "Fallen Angel’s Dominion" (2010), taken off our first ever live release "Live Demise". Tracked at a home town show in Munich, Germany a decade ago, we celebrate the early days of the band in a raw and energetic setting, showcasing each member on fire. See you all on our upcoming European run with Sacramentum at a venue near you!"
The video clip for "Night Eternal (Live)" is now streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhtC2L3RmM
THULCANDRA’s rise to power ignited when the four-piece unleashed their debut album, "Fallen Angel’s Dominion", upon metaldom in 2010. Followed by their 2011 masterpiece, "Under a Frozen Sun", "Live Demise" contains brutal-as-hell classics from both records, like "Black Flags Of Hate", "In Blood And Fire" and "The Spirit Of The Night", aptly capturing the spirit and high-voltage energy of both the crowd and band. Ragers such as "Night Eternal" and "Fallen Angel's Dominion" perfectly showcase the band's raw and intense performances in their early days, and prove how THULCANDRA has quickly stepped up as one of the leading bands of their genre!
Due to the pandemic, which was subsequently followed by their latest, much-acclaimed studio album "Hail The Abyss" (released in May 2023 via Napalm Records ( https://napalmrecords.com/thulcandra ), "Live Demise" could not be released alongside THULCANDRA's 20th anniversary as originally planned. Now, with mixing and mastering by Dan Swanö (Katatonia, Edge Of Sanity, Dissection) and cover artwork designed by Herbert Lochner, this very special release will become available in only strictly limited editions exclusively via Napalm Records and at THULCANDRA's upcoming live shows - including their European co-headlining run with legendary Swedish black and death metal band Sacramentum with support from Nephylim. The tour begins January 2025; find all upcoming dates listed below!
Pre-Order "Live Demise" https://lnk.to/Thulcandra-LiveDemise
"Live
Demise" track listing:
01. In The Realm Of Thousand Deaths
02. Night Eternal
03. Fallen Angel's Dominion
04. Black Flags Of Hate
05. In Blood And Fire
06. Aeon Of Darkness
07. The Spirit Of The Night
08. In Silence We Eternally Slee
"Live Demise" will be available on December 6, 2024 .
https://www.thetruethulcandra.com/
Formed in 2020, CENTURY have hastened their ascent of the true-metal underground on the strength of 2023’s The Conquest of Time debut album. While both members of the duo are veterans of the metal underground, with CENTURY do they uphold the noble, heroic sound of early Swedish heavy metal – namely, the cult icons of Heavy Load, Overdrive, Gotham City, and Axewitch. Now, with their second album, they’re set to eclipse that mini-classic.
Titled Sign of the Storm, CENTURY’s sophomore full-length builds on all the strengths of the debut and sends everything further back in time. Amazingly, Sign of the Storm sounds time-stamped strictly at 1982. From songwriting – brisk in its energy but never belabored, almost casual in its overt heroism, with riffs on the right side of hot-rockin’ and not without a twinge of melancholy – on to the production – clean and spacious but not lacking grit, “big” but in an authentically underground way, conveying both castle high and dungeon low – CENTURY here offer swords & sorcery heavy metal like few others in the modern era. To say Sign of the Storm sounds truly OLD is not a disservice to either that production nor especially the songwriting (or even guitarist’s Staffan Tengnér’s impassioned, olde-worlde vocals); it simply underlines the fact that the duo are absolute masters of their eldritch domestic idiom, and that this latest album deserves to be spoken in the same discussion as those aforementioned legends. “No Time for Tomorrow” – the medieval metal past is alive with CENTURY!
Line-up:
Leo Ekström Sollenmo Drums, Bass
Staffan Tengnér Guitars, Vocals, Bass
From Stockholm, Sweden
Release date:
24th January 2025
Release info:
LP edition, various colors (Electric Assault)
CD edition with sticker, obi (Dying Victims)
Tracklist
1 Sacrifice
2 Children Of The Past
3 Necromancer
4 The Chains Of Hell
5 Fallen Hero
6 Sign Of The Storm
7 Fly Away
8 No Time For Tomorrow
9 Possessed By The Night
10 Sorceress
Pre-order:
https://electricassaultrecords.bigcartel.com/
https://electricassaultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sign-of-the-storm
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Hi
everybody,Petr from PARAT PRODUCTIONS, Czech Republic,
here. This year's eighth studio album by Slovak death/doom legends THALARION, titled "CRYOPRESERVATION",
was released on CD by Pařát Productions on August 12th, and on
December 16th, the LP and MC versions will also be available. From my point of
view, it's an amazing record that I want to own as a collector on three types
of physical media. I will be happy if this activity, let's say a Christmas
present, will also make other fans of the band happy.
Release Date: 16.12. 2024
Limited Only:
LP black / 250 copies, MC / 100 copies
You can listen full album on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzfD3ZIwe98&t=726s
You can order in the Paratshop LP https://paratshop.cz/produkt/thalarion-cryopreservation-3/
Swiss extreme metal trailblazers TYRMFAR return with their searing new single, "HAUNTED BY THE TRUTH," the third offering from their highly anticipated EP, SYMBIOSIS, set for release on March 28, 2025.
"Haunted by the Truth" dives into the emotional struggle of confronting past mistakes and buried secrets. The song explores the weight of guilt, regret, and the haunting presence of unspoken truths. With a powerful blend of vulnerability and reflection, it tells the story of a person wrestling with their inner demons, searching for redemption, and striving to find peace amidst the shadows of their past.
“Haunted
by the Truth” is available now on all major digital platforms: https://orcd.co/hauntedbythetruth
mountains, Tyrmfar quickly made their mark in the extreme metal scene since their 2013 debut. Their EP In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit (2015) and the acclaimed Human Abomination (2017) led to major European festival appearances, including Metal Days, where they earned praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” With their second album, Renewal Through Purification, and their 2022 release Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, Tyrmfar solidified their sound, embarking on a European tour with Gorgoroth.
The upcoming Symbiosis EP pushes the band’s compositional boundaries further, blending their blackened death metal roots with modern influences. Against the backdrop of an uncertain ecological and social climate, the EP reflects a deep exploration of humanity's relationship with nature. Each band member’s distinct style contributes to the collaborative process, bringing raw emotion and intensity to both the music and their live performances.
Tyrmfar:
Kévin Sanchez - Guitars
Florian Métrailler- Guitars
Quentin Brunner - Drums - Backing vocals
Robin Délèze - Voice
Yannick Dulon - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/tyrmfar
Check it out on The Circle Pit YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbXjCs4rgzo
FFO: Sylosis, The Absence, Light This City, Gates of Ishtar, and Skeletonwitch.
Druparia will release long-awaited debut full-length album, The River Above, on December 27!
The River Above is chock full of riff-heavy melodic death metal, similar to Character- era Dark Tranquillity and Mors Principium Est, with the atmosphere and emotion of Insomnium and Darkest Hour.
The album's first single, the title track, is streaming on Bandcamp at: https://druparia.bandcamp.com/track/the-river-above
The word "Druparia" is a pseudo-synonym for the blackthorn plant that plays a part in some circles of occultism and witchcraft, and fits into the band's visual and lyrical themes of nature and mysticism. Other lyrical themes include sadness, regret, mythology, and perseverance through hardship.
Pre-order: https://druparia.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-above
Track
Listing:
1. Voiceless Regret
2. Under the Shade of Sand
3. Bereavement
4. Kintsugi
5. In Repose, Descend
6. Sever the Roots
7. The River Above
8. Of Firmament... And the Renewal
9. Bled For Comfort
10. When Cranes Return
11. The Violet Hour [The Civil Wars]*
Credits:
All Lyrics by David Moran except "Kintsugi" by Tyler Clark.
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Dan Paddy at Blackroom Studios, Copley Ohio.
Cello and Strings by Christopher “Kakophonix” Brown.
Keyboard programming and backing vocals by Dan Paddy.
Cover Art by Mark Erskine
Druparia Logo by Alex Zarko.
Photos by Lance Littlefield
Layout and Design by Alex Yarborough (@dr_metal_design)
Copyright 2024 Druparia Music. “Voiceless Regret” is dedicated to DJ Sprague.
*All songs written by Druparia, Brendan King, Dan Paddy, and Jeff Spencer, except for “The Violet Hour,” owned by The Civil Wars and Sensibility Music
Line-Up:
Tyler Clark: Guitars
Josh Gatka: Guitars
David Moran: Vocals
Kyle Lash-Taylor: Bass and Vocals
Noah Van Dyke: Drums and Percussion
Bio:
Druparia formed with members of past bands in the Cleveland area coming together to make new music. Ideas for The River Above have been brewing since about 2011, maybe even earlier and thanks to some gracious friends outside of the band who have contributed and allowed the ideas to live on, the songs have finally come to fruition. Tyler Clark (ex-Inoculation, Mythrias, Once Flesh) came together with old Apothean bandmate Kyle Taylor (ex-Monastery) who had found young drummer Noah Van Dyke (Sea Biscuit) in November 2018. Once Flesh vocalist David Moran had agreed to do vocals if ever a project was started and Druparia had begun. After a few rehearsals, Josh Gatka (ex-Mythrias, Eternal Legacy) was recruited as guitarist the following summer and a full lineup was formed and the band released their first demo entitled Alfhem in the spring of 2020.
Influences include but are not limited to Dark Tranquillity, Darkest Hour, Sylosis, Sacramentum, Insomnium,
Fallujah, Mors Principium Est, Inferi, Children of Bodom, and whatever weirdness Noah happened to be listening to at the time.
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The song is "SORROW'S SHROUD" and unveil another aspect of the incredible and amazing new release out on January 3rd for My Kingdom Music.
The official video is available at https://youtu.be/oHv1V2NUFxc
Once again Gerassimos Evangelou, only mind behind this project experiencing the atmospheric and avantgardish side of Black Metal during the last 20 years and more, presents with "Anhedonia" an album where the cinematic essence of ULVER is side by side with the Avantgardism of IHSAHN, where the strength of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM contrasts with the mediterranean touch of MOONSPELL and the dramatic elements of EMPYRIUM.
So as always expect the unexpected... this was, is, and will always be the main path of LORD AGHEROS.
Pre-Order at https://shorturl.at/UvM5u
Cover (realized by Federico De Luca)
Tracklist:
1. Lament Of The Lost
2. Harmony Of Despair
3. Eclipse Of Hope –
4. Lost Dreams Ritual
5. Sorrow's Shroud
6. Soul's Descent Into The Void
7. Tears In The Silence
8. Ancient Echoes
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Label: Independent Release
Release Date: February 25th 2025
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Nifelheim | Immortal | Dark Funeral | Behexen
Dry dust and drier bones, sealed behind stone and cross and whispered prayer. Centuries of thirst, of desperate, torturous thirst, wracked by endless dreams of a crimson tide, crashing in waves through the invisible chains that bind, infusing this brittle, skeletal form with rapacious life and clothing it once more in flesh and skin. My thoughts roam the night beyond these walls, calling to them, drawing them to me. My patience is eternal and I know that they will come. They will find me, free me, bow to me and we shall ride upon black winds of vengeance…and drink until the world itself shall die.
A tolling bell, a howling wind and chants of dire imprecation announce the return of Christ Dismembered, Australia’s chief advocates of apostasy and servants of the beast! The fabled followers of darkness have finally unleashed their second full length album of blood hungry black metal – Ov Vampiricy! As the opening invocation fades a jagged, circling riff spirals downwards before exploding into the furious blast beat inferno of ‘Fool’s Gambit’. Black metal as old as the grave, built upon a bleeding throat rasp, rampant drumming and guitars that dance like spiders across crumbling tombs, roars forth – from the taut, nerve stretching riffs of ‘Mother Of Demons’ to the devilish refrains of ‘The Numbers Oppose’. The haunting tones of ‘The Banishment’ are placed perfectly at the album’s heart, drawing you deeper into the darkness, where ‘A Ritual Most Foul’ waits to drive cold spikes of guitar into your skull with iron hammer drums. Each element of Christ Dismembered plays its part perfectly, building an edifice of unapologetic black metal, unswerving in its focus and intensity. ‘Child Devouring Servants Of Satan’ is a magnificent, blood drenched rampage through the temples of innocence and purity, it’s murderous malice matched only by its sorcerous songcraft; but even that must bend the knee to ‘Riddled With Sin’, a triumphant climax of evil, epic in scope and daunting in its fury, that brings Ov Vampiricy full circle and closes the door to the mausoleum once more.
Over the years of their crusade against the light Christ Dismembered have performed alongside the likes of Taake, Immolation, Krisiun, Angelcorpse, Belphegor, Dark Funeral and many more, sharing stages with the very best that the extreme music world has to offer. Now they are ready to ride out into the world once more, bringing with them the heretical gospel that is Ov Vampiricy. On February 25th the children of the night will be unbound and their infernal music will echo through the darkness once more. Open your ears to their cries, open your arms to their embrace – or grip your crucifix in shaking hands and weep.
Line-up:
Arch Worm – Vocals/Guitars
Doomsayer – Lead Guitar
Winter Demon – Rhythm Guitar
Plague – Drums
Skorpa – Bass
https://www.mshmusicgroup.co.uk/
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Underground Kvlt Records Announces the Release of SEPTUAGINT’S Debut Album, ACOSMIC CONFLAGRATION
Underground Kvlt Records, a sub-label of Odium Records, is thrilled to announce the release of Acosmic Conflagration, the highly anticipated debut album by Greek black metal band Septuagint. Released on 20 September 2024, the album promises to leave an indelible mark on the black metal scene with its unique blend of ferocity and atmosphere.
Septuagint has created an album that pushes boundaries, both musically and spiritually. Their sound captures the raw essence of black metal while exploring profound and mystical themes.
Mixed and mastered by Devo "Magnus" Anderson at the renowned Endarker Studio, the album delivers a sonic experience that combines raw aggression with intricate, immersive compositions.
Septuagint first emerged in 2014 with their EP Negative Void Trinity. They have since continued to evolve with critically acclaimed splits, including Sphinx: The Great Enigma of Times (with Akrotheism) and Vortex (with Ophidian Coil) in 2019. Acosmic Conflagration marks a new chapter for the band as they expand their vision and carve their path in the black metal genre.
Tracklist:
Spirituus Luna Nox
Cauterising Sulphur
Restoration of Apophis
Cainite Bloodtrails
Into the Furnace of Moloch
Septuagint is poised to captivate listeners with its atmospheric and spiritually charged black metal, making Acosmic Conflagration a must-hear release of the year.
Listen to the album on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGorySO0Xk
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6 XMAS SINGLES FROM ROTTWEILER RECORDS
Christmas
time is here again – the time of good will to all men, peace on Earth and of
course, gut-wrenchingly heavy extreme metal! Over the course of the festive
period Rottweiler Records will be unleashing six celebratory singles from six
of the heaviest, most diverse bands around – including three brand new
additions to the Rottweiler roster. So, here are the brutal and beautiful
delights you have in store this Christmas…
On November 29th MANGLED CARPENTER delivered an absolutely crushing take on traditional carol ‘I Saw Three Ships’ – the song transformed into a pummelling display of huge riffs and deadly drumming. This dual release in conjunction with Broken Curfew Records is simply devastating!
Line-up:
Seth Metoyer - Guitars/Vocals
Kristeffor Olson - Bass
MAC HINE - Drums
Another dual release with Broken Curfew Records is due to land on December 6th, as extreme death/grind outfit PULPIT VOMIT obliterate ‘Jingle, Jingle, Jingle’ with reckless abandon. It’s dangerous, damaging and a whole lot of fun!
Line-up:
Seth Metoyer - Guitars/Vocals
Tim Olson - Drums
Kristeffor Olson - Bass
In December 13th Rottweiler introduce us to the first of their new signings – EXONERATION! This international force blend deathcore, metalcore and modern metal into an explosive cocktail that you’ll be able to experience in full when their debut album lands in 2025. Before that there’s their superb Christmas double hit of ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Mary Did You Know’ to whet the appetite.
Line-up:
Cory Stiles - Guitars/Bass/Programming
Arnaud Zip - Vocals
Vincent Hagen - Drums (not on this single)
The ‘merry gentlemen’ aren’t getting much rest this Christmas as on December 20th another new Rottweiler signing, THE FINAL WITNESS, present their interpretation of the carol which dates back to the 1650s. ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Freedom From Satan) is an enthralling piece of progressive death metal - ambitious and adventurous in its approach.
Line-up:
Josh Henderson - Music and Vocals
Jason Wisdom - Producer/Engineer
On Christmas Eve we have the third new signing to Rottweiler Records as IGNITE THE GODS serve up their sumptuous take on ‘Mary Did You Know’ – epic, aggressive, symphonic and downright magnificent.
Line-up:
Dano Medina - Guitars
Eduardo Belmont - Vocals
Diego Orozco - Drums
Finally, on Christmas Day itself, long standing Mid West metal band I AM THE PENDRAGON present an emotive, progressive, heavy and melodic treat, with ‘Holy Mystery – Revised Edition’.
Line-up:
I Am The Pendragon
Jerrod Cunningham – Vocals/Guitar
Kevin "Moose" Busch – Bass
Darryl Cunningham – Guitars
*Drums by David Martin*
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REAL
Death Metal + REAL Deathmatch Wrestling ... a match made in HELL!
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions unleash the first ever underground metal and underground wrestling compilation: SVN - King Of The Deatmatches 2024! SVN (Severe Violent Nature) is the hottest new independent promotion in the world of Deathmatch Wrestling, and on December 14th 2024 twelve ruthless competitors will battle to become this year's King Of The Deathmatches:
Shlak
Otis Cogar
Masada
Aero Boy
Journey Fatu
Judge Joe Dred
Ninja Mack
Hoodfoot
Jake Crist
Big F’n Joe
Bestia 666
Orin Veidt
To celebrate with this epic Deathmatch tournament, HPGD unleashes this COMPILATION featuring 70+ minutes of vicious underground metal from 23 different artists on the roster:
Pre-save this release on Spotify at https://ffm.to/svn
Tracklisting:
1. THE CRIPPLER - I'm Just Gonna Let Myself In
2. LYCANTHROPHY - Wasteland
3. HUMAN INFECTION - Embrace Perfection
4. SULLY - DeadPan
5. COFFINS - Hellbringer
6. IMMORTAL FORCE - Mass Murder Meat Market
7. BLOOD FREAK - Convulsions
8. GHOULHOUSE - Cellar Feeder
9. CHAINED TO THE DEAD - He's Just Meat Now
10. FACHE - Sans Pitie
11. CULLED - Coercion
12. UNDERGANG - Dødskunst
13. HORRIBLE EARTH - Prayers Ring Hollow
14. BRED FOR SLAUGHTER - Rape Kill Conquer
15. GORE MACHINE - Lunker
16. CORPSEVORE - Science Without Conscience
17. DEGRAVE - Overlord
18. LORD GORE - Morgue Whore
19. SADISTIC FORCE - Speeding Black Leather Hell
20. FUPA GODDESS - Dr. Pill Wildnout
21. CRUSHUMAN - A Schizophrenics Nightmare
22. MUDSHOW - Burning Idol
23. SAVIORSKIN - Sycophant
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US sludge/doom band Pillar of Light are on the verge of putting out their ambitious debut full length which promises to be a standout album in the style. The alternating combination of deafeningly heavy music with deeply emotive melodies is terrific and then you have the tormented vocals from Aaron Whitfield which are simply outstanding. Everything Is Noise premiered one of their songs in their eloquently written feature https://everythingisnoise.net/premieres/pillar-of-light-make-you-feel-the-weight-of-leaving-everything-behind/
Excerpt - "The prevailing riff and melody throughout the song is downtrodden, yet strong, capturing the band’s almost contradictory sonic embodiment of light and dark"
PILLAR OF LIGHT - “CALDERA”
For
fans of
- Amenra, God’s Tower, Cult of Luna, Neurosis
Pillar of Light's music is weighty and drenched in melancholy and amid all the pain and sorrow, they have found a way to project light and hope when all seems lost. It is the case with almost every single song on this profound album, where the songs toil and churn and build up for a divine epiphany of sorts to take place, culminating in a blinding, freeing, all-cleansing white-light catharsis. Without this ponderous struggle, the backbreaking sludge/doom drudgery, any of the uplifting parts would lose meaning. As in life, both darkness and light have their place and one wouldn't be the same without the other. The raw emotions in the music and the underlying plaintive melodies are all too palpable, and the feeling is heightened in large part due to the burning intensity and desperation in the vocals. Pillar of Light have created an album that is poignant and more importantly relatable; it is soul-crushingly heavy, pinning down the mortal with the endless weight of struggle and torment and at the same time, invariably, ensuring that there's enough humanity in it for one to see things through.
Line up
Aaron Whitfield - Vocals, Lyrics, Synths
Alex Kennedy - Guitars, Synths
Scott Christie - Guitars
James Obenour - Bass
Eric Scobie - Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing
1. Wolf To Man
2. Leaving
3. Spared
4. Eden
5. Infernal Gaze
6. Unseeing
7. Certain End
Release date - December 6th, 2024
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Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal,
Deezer etc): https://push.fm/fl/stuka-deathcomesnuclear
ELECTRONIC BODY METAL will be released in early 2025 by Inverse Records, and will be supported by three singles: "Sunset of the Corrupted" (31 October 2024), "Death Comes Nuclear" (4 December 2024), and "ELECTRONIC BODY METAL" (9 January 2025). The songs on the album vary from Dungeon Synth to Industrial Heavy Metal.
All music is written by Blackworm and lyrics are by 01101001 01111010 01100001, except the lyrics of Sunset of the Corrupted which are from Hildegard Von Bingen, and the lyrics of Eternal Faith, which are by Luna Wolf and Blackworm. Songs were recorded at Space Hulk Studios and Sound of Terror Studios and were mixed and mastered by Blackworm at Sound of Terror Studios.
STUKA is:
Blackworm: Instrumentation and programming
01101001 01111010 01100001: Vocals
Herra V: Vocals
Yannis Tsatsiki: Vocals
Luna Wolf: Vocals
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PESTILENT SCARS is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Oulu. All the members are between 18 and 19 years old. The band's central themes focus on melodic songwriting, pure emotion, tight gigs and overall the old school way of getting around.
The band is about to release their debut album MEADOWS OF MISFORTUNE on January 17th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The third single 'Golden Maiden' is out today and it displays the band's multi-genre background, being the song with the most writing contributions from all members.
Watch Golden Maiden music video: https://youtu.be/_Up67XRlgsk
"Mostly my writing comes straight from the heart. When I write music it has to come naturally. Melodies are very important to me and that's why we have lot of melodic riffs in our songs. It tells you a story, it's not basic death metal. I feel like I can show much more about myself with melodies. It's something that I do. I don't think a lot about which bands have inspired me, but i have to say that gothenburg's melodic death metal scene from 90's has inspired me a lot. But our music still has that Finnish melancholy. Both Finnish and Swedish melodic death metal is very important to me."
Guitarist/Songwriter, Elias Vierimaa
Listen to Golden Maiden on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pestilent-scars-maiden
Biography:
Pestilent Scars was born in the winter of 2022/2023. The band has had the same line-up for almost its entire existence. Pestilent Scars released their first single "Deceitful Phoenix" in the summer of 2023. The single was a relative success. Deceitful Phoenix" was followed by "All On My Own" in the autumn of the same year.
The band played several live shows in 2023 and 2024, which were energetic and showcased the band's overall idea. At their last gig the band performed their forthcoming album "Meadows Of Misfortune". The album will be released in early 2025.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/pestilent-scars-meadows-of-misfortune-cd-pre-order
Track
list:
01. Into The Meadows
02. Internal Torment
03. Golden Maiden
04. Deceitful Phoenix
05. Unreality
06. A Reaching Hand
07. Democide
08. All On My Own
09. In Search Of Reason
10. False MessiahAlbum cover by Topi Ilmola
Line-up:
Pasi Matinolli - Vocals
Elias Vierimaa - Guitars
Artturi Kauppi - Drums
Sampo Jylhä - Bass
Topi Ilmola - Guitars
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Elisa Montaldo and Samael Von Martin are the protagonists of
this arcane and mystical musical laboratory named ALBUS DIABOLUS.
Here are revealed the souls and minds behind this name, a creature that will give life next April 2025 to the debut album with the extremely evocative title of "COMPENDIO ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO" in LP and digital format.
Great musician Elisa Montaldo (Mater A Clivis Imperat, Il Tempio Delle Clessidre and VLY among others), composer and all-round artist, is an essential part of ALBUS DIABOLUS with Samael Von Martin from whose artistic vision the creature was born. Well-known musician of the extreme Metal scene (Evol and Death Dies) as well as leader of Mater A Clivis Imperat, a creature he shares with Elena Montaldo, Samael Von Martin with this project brings to music his great passion for experimentation and avant-garde sound.
ALBUS DIABOLUS aims to be a musical laboratory in which to merge the gothic and dark aesthetics of extreme music, with the Progressive vein of Mater A Clivis Imperat, with a clear and decisive electronic imprint influenced by Synth-Wave and Dark-Wave of the 80s. Sound imaginaries created with synthesizers, drum machines and arcane atmospheres intertwine with powerful guitars played by special guest Simòn Ferètro, materializing everything in an emotional and immersive journey that recalls influences of works such as "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, and bands such as EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN , COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS.
The sound between past and future, between light and shadow of "Compendium Esoterico Elettronico" will mark a turning point for the Italian music scene.
And now... let the Sabbath begin!!!
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New York City's death thrash titans, FINAL SIEGE, are stoked to announce their signing with Wormholedeath Records for the release of their earth-shattering album, "NUCLEAR DOOM STATE," dropping December 27th, 2024.
Final Siege comments: "We are incredibly excited to have signed with WormHoleDeath Records. It is an incredible honor to be part of such a well-renowned label that has helped so many bands and artists reach their full potential in their music careers. We are looking forward to what we can accomplish together and cannot wait to unleash our vision on the world."
Nuclear Doom State: A Turbulent Reflection of Our World
The concept behind Nuclear Doom State was to shed light on what we are experiencing in societies all over the world. The corrupt governments, the top 1% of the wealthiest individuals in the world, religious institutions, and social media platforms all play a hand in our collective suffering. The title track of the album serves as a sort of premonition of what’s to come if we continue down the path we’re currently on. While W.A.R. is more of a rallying cry for the middle and poorer classes to unite as one to change the current state of our lives. Stylistically this album was heavily influenced by bands like Death, Exodus, Power Trip, Slayer, and Gojira. It took a little less than a year to complete the album even with a lineup change in 2022. When our newest members Rob Maldonado and Ameer “TheBeheader ”Aljallad joined the band in April of 2023 we immediately went to work on all the songs that had been written over the years that would make up this album. Together we managed to come up with some great ideas for the songs to have them reach their full potential. Rob himself even contributed to the album with his song titled Primordial Combat which was influenced lyrically by the anime series Baki Hanma.
Tracklist
1. The Day After…
2. W.A.R.
3. Nuclear Doom State
4. Psychological Maceration
5. An Insatiable Lust For Violence
6. Primordial Combat
7. Taxed To Death
From NYC Bars to Crushing Stages: The Final Siege Saga
On a cold February day in 2018, Gil Vives, Randy Reiser, and Amir Jairazbhoy began discussing their musical journey over some beers in a New York City bar. The trio soon started writing what would ultimately become their debut album, March To Your Grave. They completed their lineup with the addition of George Garcia in October 2018. Two months later, they played their first show together to a sold-out crowd at Gussy’s Bar & Grill in Queens, NY, under the name Final Siege. The band released their debut album, March To Your Grave, independently on August 6, 2021.
In November 2022, co-founding members Amir Jairazbhoy and Randy Reiser took a step back as the band moved into its next phase of development. By April 15, 2023, Final Siege had solidified their new lineup with Ameer "The Beheader" Aljallad on drums and Rob Maldonado on guitar. The band’s musical influences include Death, Thrash, and Groove metal, and their lyrics explore themes of rebellion, war, and the mental toll of living in a conflict-ridden world. Final Siege has performed alongside national acts such as Suffocation, Atheist, Wrath, Enforcer, DRI, and Warbringer.
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After
one of the most turbulent periods in AVULSED'S extensive
history - stretching back over thirty years - the legendary Spanish purveyors
of skull crushing death metal have announced that they will release their
eighth full length studio album on March 4th 2025! Featuring eleven
devastating tracks of blood-hungry ferocity PHOENIX CRYPTOBIOSIS represents
a rebirth for Avulsed with dramatic changes to the band's line-up. New
members Alejandro Lobo (guitar), Alex Nihil (bass)
and Victor Dws (guitar) have joined longstanding stalwarts Santiago
Arroyo (drums) and vocalist Dave Rotten, bringing a revitalised razor
sharpness to the band that fans will love.
Mastered by Davide Billia (Holycide, Posthuman Abomination, Rottenness etc) Phoenix Cryptobiosis possesses the finest sound of Avulsed's extensive career - and the artwork courtesy of Daemorph Art (Stabbing, The Black Dahlia Murder, Demonstealer etc) is stunning! The album will be released by Xtreem Music on CD, LP, cassette and digital formats and you can read further details, including insights from the band, at the Xtreem Music site: https://www.xtreemmusic.com/promo/20241204_Avulsed.html
Track Listing:
1. Limbs Regeneration
2. Lacerate To Dominate
3. Blood Monolith
4. Unrotted
5. Guts Of The Gore Gods
6. Phoenix Cryptobiosis
7. Devotion For Putrefaction
8. Neverborn Monstrosity
9. Dismembered
10. Bio-Cadaver
11. Wandering Putrid Souls
The first single will be unleashed on December 18th with the full album to follow on March 4th 2025
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The album's digital release date is on December 20th, 2024.
Tracklist
1. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
2. Hyperion
3. Ignis Fatum
4. Nell'Ora dell'Epilogo
5. Hekate
6. Apotheosis
7. Et in Arcadia Ego
8. Atlantide (Bonus Track)
Founded in Brescia in 2021, Ārdeat emerged from the collaboration of Enrico Pinelli, Julian Polonioli, Riccardo Cremaschini, and Andrea Salvagni, who reunited after years of involvement in various musical ventures. The band’s first single—a compelling cover of Franco Battiato’s “Atlantide”—led to the addition of guitarist Cristian della Noce and the creation of their debut EP, Exitivm. This EP, featuring a monumental 20-minute track split into two acts, established Ārdeat as a formidable force in the black metal scene.
Ārdeat didn't stop there. In 2022, they paid homage to the legendary Bathory by contributing a cover of "Home of Once Brave" to a tribute compilation championed by Antichrist Magazine. They then took their music to the stage, sharing bills with Italian metal royalty like Mortuary Drape, Opera IX, Darkend, and Black Oath.
Ārdeat's sound is a potent blend of atmospheric black metal, the tight riffing of early death metal, and the melodic hooks of the NWOBHM. Drawing inspiration from bands like Dissection, Mgla, and Spite Extreme Wing, they forge a sound that is both fiercely aggressive and hauntingly beautiful.
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BODY COUNT returns with MERCILESS , a new album that takes their fearless, uncompromising sound to new heights. The record reaffirms their unyielding stance on social issues while delivering the hard-hitting, raw energy fans have come to expect. With contributions from legends like David Gilmour, Max Cavalera, and Howard Jones, this record pushes BODY COUNT’s sound into powerful new territory without losing the edge that defines them.
Ice-T on the release: “We had a string of one-word albums,” says Ice-T. “We had Bloodlust, we had Carnivore and that word, MERCILESS , just bumped into my head. It’s really about that point where you can’t take any more and you’re done. Like the song says, ‘I got no more fucks to give’. When you push a person to that point, it’s too late to ask for mercy. I was watching a lot of movies like Hostel; a lot of cruel torture movies when I was writing the album, and I was like, ‘These people are cold-blooded.’ That’s what triggered that whole energy.”
Stream the new album here: https://bodycount.lnk.to/MercilessAlbumNe
Watch the music video for the title track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcm2o3Hhpc8
SARKASM – “CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES”
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: February 4th 2025
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
For fans of: Gorguts | Obliveon | Pestilence | Believer
Beneath a grieving, tortured sky, the world burns. Once grand cities wreathed in smoke, their towering edifices crumbling, collapsing into ruin. The remnants of humanity crawl through the ashes on blistering hands and knees, choking on the fumes of their own annihilation. The failed caretakers of a paradise become a boundless charnel house in flame. The dead and the soon to be dead lie in mountains of scorched flesh and heat cracked bone, a testament to the grotesque ignorance and arrogance of man…wilfully blind and consumed by greed until the very end. These are the final moments of our Eden, our miracle of life that we raped and plundered, warped and manipulated into a twisted carnival of atrocities.
Having blazed a trail in the early ‘90s with their four highly regarded demos, Canada’s death/thrash pioneers Sarkasm, burst back into life in 2019 – signing with Xtreem Music and releasing their first full length album, As Empires Decay, in 2023. Now it is time for the next chapter in the Sarkasm story to begin, as they prepare to unleash their second album, the momentous Carnival Of Atrocities. Opening with the forearm smash of ‘I Am Chaos’, Carnival Of Atrocities immediately sets out what Sarkasm are all about; massive crunching riffs, huge, domineering drums and the magnificent vocal power of Bruno Bernier – who also fronts the reborn Obliveon - all brought together in immaculately structured songs where technical complexity is tempered by finely wrought hooks. ‘Murmurs From The Void’ is an early highlight, with Bernier’s vocals rising up between the snapping drums and those thick, textured riffs while a perfectly expressed guitar solo brings the song to its conclusion, with every note considered and carefully chosen. Throughout the album, songs like ‘Cold Empty Rooms’ and ‘Echoes Of Hyperion’ demonstrate that Sarkasm stand apart from the pack; operating in a different sphere to most bands, they plot a course that heads confidently into unexplored territories. When the armour-plated ‘Deadweight’ fades into silence, after a relentless, remorseless display of bludgeoning power, you are left with a need for more…for one more play, one more ride through the maze of blood, one more journey through the Carnival Of Atrocities!
The sound on Carnival Of Atrocities, captured by producer Maxime Lacroix (Gastrorrexis etc) and the mastering of the respected Dan Swanö (Asphyx, Avulsed, Incantation etc) is perfect for Sarkasm, giving a strength and prominence to every instrument, without sacrificing the clarity required to appreciate these well defined songs. When Xtreem Music release this stunning album on February 4th, on CD, vinyl and cassette formats, it will surely see Sarkasm ascending to the heady heights that their music has always deserved. Be prepared for a masterclass in technical, addictive, impactful metal that you’ll never forget!
Line-up:
Bruno Bernier - Vocals
François Dubuc - Guitars
Yves Parent - Guitars
Dave Bouchard - Bass
Simon Thibodeau - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sarkasmqc
Dutch
Thrash Metal Act GRINDPAD Releases New Single “X-MAS MOSH”
– Out Now on Iron Shield Records!
Thrash collective Grindpad returns with a new single and lyric video.
“X-MAS MOSH” was mixed & mastered by Erwin Hermsen at Toneshed Studio (Legion of the Damned, Deadhead, Headless Hunter). The song will also be released on the upcoming vinyl re-release of Violence (Iron Shield Records) in 2025.
Guitarist JG comment: "Doesn't every band have their "What if's"? In Grindpad's case it was "What if we had a Christmas song". And not your average, standard, heavier cover of a known one, but our very own ACTUAL Christmas song. And, somewhere this year, on a hot sunny summer day, ours was born. It was literally written and recorded in shorts, with sunglasses. So, Mariah Carey, Wham! and Chris Rea, be warned! Because here comes Grindpad's very own .... X-MAS MOSH!!”
Line up :
JG – Guitar
Max - Drums
Axel - Guitar
Rik - Bass
Olivier - Vocals
https://www.grindpad.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Grindpad
Canberra (AU) - Australian-based Symphonic Death Metal band, Project: ULTIMATE SATAN, have unleashed their highly anticipated debut album, THE OPUS SATANAS on Eschatonic Records!
Project: Ultimate Satan was formed late 2019. The band features Eschatonic Records alumni from Inhuman Remnants, Black Mountain, Terravorous, Unholy Vendetta and Somnium Nox.
The Opus Satanas was forged amidst the Fires and Plagues of 2020 and 2021. As Project: Ultimate Satan sought to push the sonic possibilities of their unique blend of Blackened Death Metal, they focused on the inclusion of more symphonic elements, orchestrations and lyrical content that would honour those that called to them from across the vast depths of the cosmos.
July 2022 saw the release of their first single "Symphony Es Infernus," an auspicious ode to Lillith Liftoach. However, due to further outbreaks, lockdowns and restrictions, their accompanying live rituals would be restricted to the ACT and the South Coast regions.
February 2024 saw the release of their second single "The Infallible Void." The song is a sonic exploration and meditations on the darkness within us all.
Track
Listing:
1. Symphony Es Infernus
2. Humanity's Last Breath
3. Is This How Freedom Dies
4. The Infallible Void
5. Footprints in the Sans of Time
6. Nocturne Immortalis
Credits:
Recorded at Studio Decay.
Produced by JDecay.
Mixed and Mastered by Gibb at Gibbenez Music.
Cover Design and Borders by Hans Trasid at Dis-Art Design.
P:US Logo and Emblem by Wappenschmied.
Line-up:
Scottanic – Vocals
Ashahalasin – Bass
JDecay – Guitars, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Dazferatu – Keys, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Amorasche – Drums, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Contributing Artists:
Vocals from Jem
Guitars by Calcifur (Terravorous)
Lead Guitars by Nekros the Black (Ex-Inhuman Remnants)
https://eschatonicrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/projectultimatesatan/
Sibiu,
Romania based Atmospheric Black Metal one-man band ANTUMBRA is
set to release the new album on December 22nd 2024 in collaboration
with Loud Rage Music. Titled "DAYS OF FUTURE RAVAGED
LANDS", the new material is made of 10 tracks that weave haunting
melodies with crushing riffs and evocative lyrics, painting a vivid picture of
desolation and resilience. Drawing from a unique blend of Black Metal,
Blackened Doom, and cinematic soundscapes, ANTUMBRA creates a sonic
journey through a world in turmoil.
Here is what Marius Ignatescu (all instruments / vocals) had to say about it: "This album is about the war, the despair and destruction of humanity. From the blood-soaked battlegrounds of "Rivers of Blood" to the mournful echoes of the song "Threnody" or "Silent Earth," each track weaves a story of the human loss, pain and chaos."
Pre-orders are now open here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/antumbra-days-of-future-ravaged-lands
In anticipation of the new album ANTUMBRA also released a video for the track "Forgotten": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafqrJcaFz8
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://antumbra.ro/
Minsk (BY) - Brutal Death Metal quartet, RELICS OF HUMANITY, are set to release new album, ABSOLUTE DISMAL DOMAIN, on January 31, 2025 through Willowtip Records.
The band released the following statement about the album:
"Absolute Dismal Domain is a nine-act conceptual record. The story told across these nine tracks is about absolute ubiquitous annihilation of light, both spiritually (god) and physically (sun and stars). This is the most brutal stuff about blackness and ungodliness ever created."
Absolute Dismal Domain is Relics of Humanity's first collection of original material since 2019's Obscuration EP (Willowtip) and the band's first full-length album (and third overall) since 2014's Ominously Reigning upon the Intangible (Amputated Vein).
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/add-willowtip
https://relicsofhumanity.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dismal-domain
Track Listing:
1. Omen Apollyon
2. Summoning Of Those Who Absorbed
3. Taking The Shape Of Infinity
4. In The Name Of Ubiquitous Gloom
5. Paralyzing The Light II
6. Absolute Dismal Domain
7. Smoldering Of Seraphim
8. His Creation That No Longer Exists
9. Dominion
Credits:
Absolute Dismal Domain is fully composed (music, concept and lyrics), mixed, and mastered by guitarist Siarhei.
Artwork created with oil paints by Siarhei.
Line-up:
Siarhei - Guitars
Pavel - Bass
Flo - Vocals
Vladislav - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/relicsofhumanity/
Order Songs for the Dying and the band's entire discography at https://tfreco.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-dying
Tracklisting
1. Bound in Blood
2. Depraved Lust
3. A Hymn for the End
4. Crimson Queen
5. Eternal Slumber
6. From the Beyond
7. Father of Lies
8. Judgement of the Damned
9. Praise the Dead
10. Scorched Earth
11. The Blackest Night
AGAINST I was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Keith Croona known as vocalist and founder of Cynical Existence and ex-vocalist of Menschdefekt. Together with Mathias Back (guitars) and Anders Ström (drums), they fuse elements of metal and hints of electronic parts into a cacophony of aggression and melodies.
In 2023 the band released their debut album Carnival of Excess on Advoxya Records. 2024 saw the release of two EPs, Perfect Smile and the follow-up Destruction Lullaby, which took the band in an entirely new direction.
Line-Up:
Fredrik Keith Croona - vocals
Mathias Back - guitars
Anders Ström - drums
https://www.facebook.com/againstIband
NEWS 30.11.2024
Damit bei euch gar nicht erst dieser nervende Vorweihnachtstress
oder irgend so ne besinnliche Stimmung aufkommen kann, gibt es hier noch einmal
ein ganz fettes und saftiges update in Sachen neuer Veröffentlichungen. Wenn
euch jetzt schon dieses ganze weihnachtliche Gebimmel zum Halse raus hängt,
sollte ihr auf jeden Fall mal eines der Teile wenigstens mal antesten .
Definitiv wird euch dann dieses "stille Nacht, heilige Nacht "
Gesäusel dann in keinster Weise mehr nerven.
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NUCLEAR WINTER ZINE #4 (A5/englisch)
LEMMY KILMISTER wird zum Dauerbewohner eines seiner bevorzugten Plätze zum Entspannen und Kontakteknüpfen – des STRINGFELLOWS GENTLEMAN’S CLUB in London. Dieser Ort birgt für seine Freunde und Bekannten viele Lemmy-Erinnerungen, weil er nach seiner Eröffnung im Jahr 1980 zu einem seiner Favoriten wurde. Geführt von Peter Stringfellow, der in den 1960er-Jahren einige der größten Künstler dieser Ära wie etwa The Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd und weitere buchte, wurde das Stringfellows zum Hotspot für Promis und Rockstars.
Unter denjenigen, die Lemmy kannten, verbreitete sich die Tatsache schnell:
Wann immer er sich in London aufhielt, standen die Chancen gut, ihn im
Stringfellows anzutreffen. Lemmy und Peter Stringfellow wurden über die Zeit
gute Freunde, da jeder den Rock’n’Roll-Lifestyle des anderen genauso sehr
schätzte wie den Genuss einer großartigen Umgebung zum Entspannen. Selbst nach
seinem Umzug nach West Hollywood bestand Lemmy jährlich am Ende der
Europatourneen (meist im Dezember) auf einen Abstecher ins Stringfellows, bevor
es wieder zurück nach Hause ging.
“Stringfellows hatte immer einen besonderen Platz in Lemmys Herzen. Er liebte den Rock'n'Roll-Spirit, den Peter in den Club brachte, er liebte die entspannte Umgebung und er liebte natürlich die Aussicht. Ich weiß, dass er erleichtert ist, dass er nun wieder einen seiner Lieblingsorte auf diesem Planeten genießen kann”, erklärt Motörhead-Manager Todd Singerman.
Daher ist es nur allzu passend, dass Lemmy am diesjährigen 18. Dezember erneut, und diesmal für immer, in diesem weltbekannten Club anzutreffen sein wird – im Anschluss an die neuste einer Reihe von “Lemmy Forever”-Zeremonien, die Lemmy an seinen bevorzugten Plätzen verewigen sollen. Auch hier wird es eine kleinere Replik seiner sehr speziellen Urne geben, die mit einem Teil seiner Asche in den Club einzieht und sicherstellt, dass er an einem weiteren seiner heiß geliebten Orte dauerhaft verweilen kann. Die Feier selbst wird eine Nacht voll all jener Dinge, die Lemmy so zu schätzen wusste: Drinks, Rock’n’Roll, Hors d’oeuvres, oh… und bildschöne Frauen! Motörhead-Gitarrist Phil Campbell wird ebenfalls teilnehmen, um eine kleine Rede zu halten und die Asche seines engen Freundes und Bandkameraden dort niederzulegen.
“Wenn er in London war, hat Lemmy nie eine Nacht im Stringfellows verpasst. Lemmy war ein echter Freund des Clubs“, betont Sadat Banda, Operations Director im Stringfellows.
Für alle, die in London verweilen: Die Feierlichkeit beginnt um 19:00 Uhr und endet um 21:00 Uhr. An alle, denen es nicht möglich ist, teilzunehmen: Keine Sorge, ihr werdet Lemmy ab dem 18. Dezember jederzeit im Stringfellows besuchen können.
www.iMotorhead.com
https://www.stringfellows.com/
GRAFJAMMER – „DE TYFUS, DE TEERLING“
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 10.01.2025
Die Niederländer GRAFJAMMER melden sich mit neuer Besetzung und einem vierten Album zurück! Nach ihrem letzten Langspieler "De Zoute Kwel", der zahlreiche positive Kritiken und viel Aufmerksamkeit in der Szene nach sich zog, ist "De Tyfus, De Teerling" die neueste Attacke mit ihrem ureigenen, (es) bösartig treibenden "Primitive Dutch Necrorock". Für den versieht die seit 2012 existierende Band aus Utrecht höchst effektiv First- und Second-Wave-Black-Metal mit deftigen Prisen von Punk, D-Beat und Motörhead. Groovt im Resultat wie Sau – respektive: "swings like a floppy tit", wie Vokalist Jorre meint –, doch neben tobend rockenden Brechern und Passagen schneidigen Getrümmers, gibt es auch Momente, in denen sich alles in ein melancholisches Zwielicht verlagert.
Mit "De Tyfus, De Teerling" präsentieren GRAFJAMMER neun knallharte Tracks (plus ein Intro), die in ihrer Muttersprache von religiösem Wahnsinn, Selbsttäuschung und Zerstörung berichten. Dabei tauchen sie noch tiefer als zuvor in die dunklen Schattenseiten der Gesellschaft und der niederländischen Geschichte ein. Der Albumtitel ist eine Abwandlung von "Tyfus! Tering!", einer beliebten Fluchkombination im Niederländischen, in der GRAFJAMMER-Version bedeutet es: "Der Typhus (und), der Würfel".Anyway: Time to groove and swing!– Schnell, roh, dreckig und berauschend wie das Schnüffeln von Amphetamin.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/grafjammer
DESASTER - Vier Kultalben erscheinen als streng limitierte
Tape-Releases über Cold Knife Records (VÖ 24.01.25)!
DESASTER, eine der kompromisslosesten Bands des Undergrounds, bringen ihre vier Kultalben zurück! Angelwhore, 666 - Satan’s Soldiers Syndicate, The Arts of Destruction und The Oath of an Iron Ritual erscheinen am 24.01.2025 endlich in streng limitierten Red Tape Editions – nur 100 Exemplare pro Album, inklusive exklusiver Trading Card über Cold Knife Records.
Diese Reissues sind pure Zerstörung in musikalischer Form. "Angelwhore" entfesselt chaotische Gewalt mit chirurgischer Präzision – kein Song, kein Riff lässt Luft zum Atmen. Mit "666 Satan Soldier´s Syndicate"wird Krieg erklärt: schnörkellos, brutal und gnadenlos schnell. "The Arts of Destruction" zeigt, wie episch und zerstörerisch Metal sein kann, ohne an roher Härte zu verlieren. Und "The Oath of an Iron Ritual" ist nichts weniger als eine Abrissbirne, die hymnischen Thrash mit gnadenlosem Death Metal kombiniert. Diese Alben brennen ein Feuerwerk in die Gehörgänge und zeigen, warum Desaster im Underground den Ton angeben.
Außerdem gibt es noch die DESASTER Limited Wooden Box – eine handgefertigte Holzbox mit lasergraviertem Desaster-Logo, die alles bietet, was das Fan-Herz begehrt:
Alle vier Alben auf schwarzen Tapes
Einen exklusiven Lederpatch
Individuelle Trading Cards für jedes Album
Der Preorder läuft ab sofort über www.cold-knife.com
Mehr Infos: https://linktr.ee/coldkniferecords
Gravethorn on Signing with Wormholedeath: "I am truly excited to be working with the Wormholedeath family on this release. I've put a lot of hard work and sacrifice into putting this all together, learning new things, and experimenting with others, and I didn't want to just go through anybody to get it out there for the world to hear. Carlo Belotti and Wormholedeath are absolutely on top of their game in this profession, and the bands on Wormholedeath are all incredible talents and gifted musicians, evidenced by the discipline and hard work they put into their craft. In an era where the current crop of metal is truly growing in popularity and there are so many bands out there sounding very similar, it seems that Wormholedeath certainly can pick the best from several ends of the spectrum and bring them to their exotic landscape of creative brilliance. I'm very excited to call Wormholedeath our home."
Unveiling "Atrocitas"
Gravethorn's new release "Atrocitas" is a continuation of the debut release, "Underground Rituals of Those Unseen". Harnessing the anger and sense of overcoming all who oppress- the battle wages on as we are slowly uniting as a people and coming together in numbers to dissolve those who feel the greed for power, whether religious, political, financial, or other. If there ever was going to be an uprising, perhaps Atrocitas would be the soundtrack of a revolution. It was written and recorded in Krystof's studio when he had COVID-19, and some of the medication he was taking may have influenced how the music came out (perhaps it opened the doors to the spiritual world to share ideas of those no longer with us).
Atrocitas also features contributions from notable collaborators, including Joshua Bednarski (from the band Atomic War Machine) and Dave Sharpe (from the bands Dead by Wednesday, End Time Illusion, The Cro-Mags, and Dave Ellefson’s [of Megadeth] side band).
Tracklist
:
1. Atrocitas
2. The Great Thaw
3. Epic Battle
4. Destined to Burn
5. In Vengeance We Hunt
6. Barbaric War Declared
7. Hymns of Forbidden Places (feat. Joshua Bednarski)
8. Within the Berserker
9. Victory by Sunrise (feat. Dave Sharpe)
10. Creeping Death (Metallica Cover)
Gravethorn is a Blackened Death Metal band from Las Vegas, NV, formed in 2021 by Krystof during his journey to learn extreme metal mixing in his home studio, built during the 2020 pandemic. Initially working with recordings from his previous band Achromatica, which eventually disbanded, Krystof continued creating music, resulting in the release of several songs on Spotify and YouTube. Drummer Bob Hill (from Achromatica) later joined, and in October 2023, they unleashed their debut album, Underground Rituals of Those Unseen, which received critical acclaim from outlets like Metalized, Rock Hard, and Slowly We Rot.
Gravethorn's unique sound blends influences from bands like Emperor, Deicide, Amon Amarth, and even The Doors and Led Zeppelin, creating a distinctive blend of Blackened Death Metal. Known for embracing collaboration, the band has worked with notable musicians, including Glenn Lai (Achromatica) and Brian Crapser (Putrid Decay).
While quarantined with COVID-19 in October 2023, Krystof channeled his energy into writing and recording new material, resulting in the upcoming 2024 album Atrocitas, set to be released via Wormholedeath Records. Gravethorn continues to defy rigid genre classifications, staying true to their simple goal of making metal music, unbound by specific labels.
www.youtube.com/@gravethorn
www.facebook.com/p/Gravethorn
Listen Sankarin Matka album: https://push.fm/fl/noitasapatti-album
The band comments:
" “Sankarin matka” (A Hero's Journey) is a concept album consisting of an intro and 7 songs. Its dreamlike story slowly advances towards indescribable horrors, which waver between dream and reality, until the truth is exposed in all of its heinousness.
The album has been under making for nearly 2 years in our home studio, and it is finally ready for release despite many set packs.
Musically, the album consists of a broad range of sounds, some of which are already familiar to our music, but we're also bringing a lot of fresh soundscape to this album.
Influences and sounds of black metal, british deathdoom and progressive rock can be heard, breaking the boundaries of any particular genre.
The musical influences mixed with our vision form an original whole that sounds only of itself.
New songs are also currently in the making, and they’re taking Noitasapatti's vision even further!"
Sankarin Matka CD ORDERS from https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/noitasapatti-sankarin-matka-cd-pre-order
Biography:
NOITASAPATTI was born in spring 2017 in Pori, Finland by Erakko (vocals), Liekkiö (guitars, keyboards), Mielivalta (guitars) and Rampa (bass). Soon after that, Rienaaja joined us as a drummer and the first line-up was complete. After a couple of months of intensive rehearsing and composing, we recorded our first demo, “Vaellamme kuin Taivaankappaleet” on december 2017 and released it on CDr-format spring 2018. First live-show took place in our hometown also in the same spring. After that, Rampa left the band and Erakko began to play bass. Next year we recorded a second demo, “Aarnivalkean ajamana” and played some gigs. In 2020, we made a split-album with another Finnish band HOLLOW CORPSE. After some line-up changes, Häviö came to the band at the end of 2020 and a few months later, Kadonnut also joined the band to play keyboards. In summer 2021, we finally recorded our first full-length album “Kuolemattomille maille”. After a few successful live-shows it was time to record our second full-length album, “Sankarin matka” (A hero’s journey) in summer 2023. Album is now recorded, mixed, and mastered, and we are more satisfied with the result than ever before!
Our music can be described as 1990’s black metal with lots of melodies and even “burzumic” atmosperes. Also, you can hear influences from early British death/doom, epic viking metal and even some old school progressive music. Vocals are quite original “howling” and also heavily Burzum-influenced screams. Lyrics are written in Finnish.
Track list:
1. Tulikipuna
2. Tuhatkasvoinen
3. Sankarin matka
4. Paluu liekkeihin
5. Käskyläisen sanat
6. Henkien polulla
7. Matka halki myrskyjen
8. Tähtivaeltaja
Album cover by Mika Huumonen
Line-up:
Erakko - Vocals, Bass, Mouth Harp, Horns
Liekkiö - Guitars
Häviö - Drums
Kadonnut - Keyboards
https://www.facebook.com/noitasapattiofficial
Listen to "Monumenty" here: https://youtu.be/1MNV8gec3Wk
Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/CzortCDLP
“Monumenty” was recorded and mixed last fall at Impressive Art studio in Porąbka, Poland by Przemysław Nowak.
The sound on "Monumenty" is an evolution of the band's past work on "W czeluść" (2022 split released via Godz ov War Productions), "Apostoł" (2020 album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) and "Czarna ewangelia" (2018 debut album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions). In 2019, Czort also released a split entitled "Under the White Flame" with Mordhell, Occultum and Dagorath.
In Slavic mythology, Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face.
Monumenty tracklist
1. Paroksyzm Ludzkości
2. Zjawa
3. Kuźnia Materii
4. Oczyma Monumentu
5. Zmaganie Rdzeniem Istnienia
6. Cyborium Zgnilizny i Brudu
7. 23.58.30
8. Antynatalizm Boga
9. Ubóstwo Idei
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/czortbluznierca/
CORROSIVE ELEMENTS - "CUT THE SERPENT’S HEAD"
Release
date :
November 29th 2024
Style : Death Thrash N' Roll
Origin: France
Duration: 41:20
Label: GreyveStorm Productions & Crypt Of Dr.Gore et Chien Noir (pour la version vinyle)
Tracklist:
01. Conquering the divine
02. Ignorance is no longer bliss
03. So long sucker
04. The unseen
05. An american hero
06. Cut the serpent's head
07. Enter the final state
08. The right to remain poor
09. Among the casualties
10. Fascistalism
True defenders of the underground ethos, CORROSIVE ELEMENTS made their path with a first EP in 2008, a debut album in 2015 and a scorching live album in 2016. Having graced the stage at renowned festivals like Hellfest's Altar Stage and sharing the spotlight with metal legends such as Death Angel, Loudblast, Darkane, Sinister, and more, the quintet took a great amount of time refining the new tunes for their highly anticipated 2024 album release.
The credo stands strong: DEATH THRASH N’ROLL THE OLD SCHOOL WAY!
"Cut the serpent’s head", the second album of CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a collection of 10 powerful songs, designed for a more direct and dynamic approach, in the typical style of the band, a clever mix of Death and Thrash Metal, with tons of groove, anger and attitude.
The new album was written collectively by the band in the rehearsal room, an old fashioned method that makes the music more immediate and impactful.
With broad influences ranging from Thrash legends such as Slayer, (old) Sepultura and Exodus, Death Metal in the tradition of Entombed, Obituary, Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and an addition of primitive energy derived from Hardcore Punk, The band is now ready to place this new offering on the altar of Extreme Metal.
Conceptually, "Cut the Serpent's Head" is a cynical look at the destiny ofmankind, its race towards nonsense. A warning against the hegemony of organized religions, shady politics, decaying societies and the rise of social injustice.
Stay tuned, the next few days will see more information about the artwork, release dates, formats and everything you need to know about this new album which will be produced by Crypt Of Dr.Gore and GreyveStorm Productions.
https://linktr.ee/corrosiveelements
Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments:
”The song's lyrics are about distressing and constant fear of death inside an individual's head. He's lost in his own mind and doesn't know what is real and what is fake. He only has a strong feeling that he's being chased and he's forced to escape into the unknown.” ”This is one of the oldest songs written for this album and it has been waiting for the right moment to be released. Well, the day is finally here and I'm very glad that we got the right feel into the song that it needed.”
Listen to 'Exiled to Infinity'' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-exiled
Track
list:
1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio)
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)
Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio
Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack
Biography:
Defiled Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland. It was founded by the vocalist and Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021. The band’s music is for the fans of old In Flames, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity etc. Their sound relies heavily on the 90's melodeath sound, but with modern twists. The songs are filled with low growls, chunky guitars, beautiful melodies and tight rhythm sections.
They released their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 and it has reached over 25,000 streams on Spotify alone. Since then, the band has been writing new material and now it's time to unleash their long-awaited debut album!
LISTEN to the first single 'Your Worst Enemy' on streaming https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-your-worst-enemy
Line-up:
Paavo Laapotti - Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä - Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä - Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen - Bass
Arttu Airo - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/defiledserenity
Hailing
from Los Angeles, THE MOSAIC WINDOW is a one-man melodic
black/death metal band that explores all aspects of human existence through
tragically brutal songwriting.
For fans of: Kvaen, Gorgoroth, Hath, Dissection, Necrophobic, Thulcandra, Krigsgrav, Seth
Formed in 2021 by Andrew Steven Brown after many years of not playing music, The Mosaic Window originally was a coping mechanism following the deaths of Brown’s father and grandmother during the pandemic. After some recognition from the catatonic release of the “Hollow” EP, a resurgence of motivation to continue this type of music therapy overcame Brown, which led to the creation of the debut album, “Plight of Acceptance” in summer 2023. This debut quickly turned heads, including that of Willowtip Records, which signed the band and re-released the album later in 2023. Only just a year later, The Mosaic Window released the brutal sophomore album “HEMASANCTUM” with guests Gabe Seeber (Vale of Pnath, Abigail Williams, Obscura, Carach Angren) on drums, and Andy LaRocque (King Diamond) for two guest solos. Already, “Hemasanctum” has proven to be a massive set up from the debut, and The Mosaic Window is quickly becoming an unstoppable force in the world of black/death metal.
https://themosaicwindow.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094717845304
MALAURIU/SINOATH - "MALAURIU/SINOATH"
Style : Italian Dark Sound / Black Metal
Label : Doomentia Records
Release date : 20/01/2025
In some cases, split releases do compile together random acts who have little to do with each other. But in some (rare) cases, the end result bears a greater purpose, forging an alliance in darkness if you will. Such is the case here with cult black/doom/progressive Sicilian act SINOATH, sharing this highly collectable piece of wax with fellow countrymen MALAURIU.
Both bands don’t just share Sicilian origins. Besides, compared to SINOATH whose never-ending quest started all the way back to 1990 MALAURIU is a rather ‘new’, if quite productive with already two full-lenght and a whole lot of EP and demos under its belt, act, having being active for ‘only’ ten years. So one could also argue that stylistically speaking, the two are quite different: whereas MALAURIU is more or less acquainted with black-metal, albeit a quite experimental version of it, SINOATH sound is far more old-school oriented, if as everchanging. Yet both acts are all about pushing boundaries and following a very personal path.
Talking of SINOATH, the latter contribution ‘Symphony Of The Scythe’ sees them revisiting in a way their roots, inspired by a vision of death and its role in our everyday life. A one-of-a-kind track dedicated to the late Massimo Chiofalo, who played guitar on their 2015 EP Meanders Of Doom. On the flipside, MALAURIU’ song, ‘Scuru’, is as idiosyncratic, throwing out of the window all known so-called conventions in favour of something unique and utterly ‘out there’. The track also benefits from the presence of Regen Graves from ABYSMAL GRIEF on keyboards, adding the mystique.
Tracklist
1. Malauriu - Scuru (Feat. Regen Graves from Abysmal Grief)
2. Sinoath - Symphony of the Scythe
Line-up (Malauriu):
Schizoid - Guitars
Marbas - Drums/Bass
Regen Graves - Keyboards
Perfidus - Synth/Samples
R.M. - Vocals
Sinistro - Backing vocals
Recorded between Italy and United Kingdom
Mixed and mastered at Toxic Basement Studio
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https://malauriu.bandcamp.com/
Line-up (Sinoath):
Salvatore Fichera - Drums
Walter Garau - Bass
Gianni Cavallaro - Lead Guitar
Francesco Cucinotta - Guitars/Synth/Vocals
Recorded at Phonoputìa Studio (Letojanni - Me) in April 2024
Mastered at Toxic Basement Studio
In memory of our friend Massimo Chiofalo (1970 - 2024)
Picture on cover - "Whetting the Scythe" (1905) by Kathe Kollwitz
Piano sample freely taken from "Chanson Sicilienne" by Francesco Paolo Frontini (ed. Carisch 1906) and played by Giuseppe Senfett.
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DOOMENTIA RECORDS https://www.doomentia.com/
Originally released in August 2005 by Ironclad Recordings, this definitive vinyl edition breathes new life into the album. Featuring reimagined artwork while honoring the spirit of the original, the visual overhaul was led by the album’s original artist, Steven Weiler, in collaboration with Paul Granese of Cold Cuts LLC. Jamie King of Jamie King Audio (Between the Buried and Me) was enlisted to remix and remaster the vinyl and digital editions of the reissue.
Tracklisting:
1) Death March
2) Feel Like Hell
3) From These Eyes
4) Amen To Artillery
5) Forgotten End
6) Unsacred
7) Burn the Fallen
8) Storm of Swords
9) Sworn Alliance
10) It's Not About Breaking Hearts, It's About Breaking Faces
11) Claim Your Own
12) Take Aim
THE CLASSIC STRUGGLE is:
Brandon Collins - Guitars
Tim Zlinsky - Vocals
Chris Grant - Guitars
Nick Sloan - Bass
TJ Bailey - Drums
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The premiere of the album’s new single, “DARKWOLF,” is now live at DeadRhetoric.com. Stream the song now at https://deadrhetoric.com/randomness/song-premiere-the-cimmerian-dark-wolf/
Bassist/vocalist Nicholas Rocha comments on the song, “Borrowing its name from the eponymous hero straight out of Ralph Bakshi's 1983 visual opus "Fire & Ice", this thrash-laden track evokes not just the rush of battle but also the weight of consequence and of course, the joy of victory!”
An Age Undreamed Of... will be released on January 10, 2025 via Bandcamp with all streaming platforms to follow. Physical copies will be made available on CD by Hyborian Rage Records with colored vinyl to be released by BVR (Black Voodoo Records).
Follow THE CIMMERIAN, for it is Crom's will. If you don’t – to hell with you!
Tracklisting:
1) Shadow Kingdom
2) Neck Breaker of The Mountain
3) Silver and Gold
4) Darkwolf
5) Mournblade
6) Black Coast Tigris
7) Deathstalker
8) Monarch
The groundwork for THE CIMMERIAN was laid in 2021 by guitarist David Gein and bassist Nicholas Rocha – two-thirds of crossover thrash group Septik Onslaught. The two were writing what would become the band’s first EP when a Craigslist ad brought drummer David Morales – armed with unyielding energy and a bag of Halloween candy – to the fold.
THE CIMMERIAN delivers a wall of sound that draws inspiration from the likes of Motörhead, Black Sabbath, Venom, and Gates of Slumber. Lyrical themes informed by a deep understanding of world history, mythology, and historical literature weave throughout this chainmail tapestry.
The band released their debut EP, Thrice Majestic, in the summer of 2022. By early 2023, they returned to Robert Frank’s Minor Chord Studio to record the two-track cassette/digital release, Sword & Sorcery Vol. I.
THE CIMMERIAN is:
Bass/vocals: Nicolas Rocha
Guitars: David Gein
Drums: David Morales
https://www.facebook.com/TheCimmerianOfficial
Watch "Incipit" here: https://youtu.be/ZfefgCInTSQ?si=glfXUQr5lCximdj9
Peszek is known for his work in acclaimed Polish films such as Korczak, Ubu Król, Łabędzi Śpiew and more recent TV shows including Go Ahead, Brother (Netflix) and Warszawianka. A prize winner of multiple theatre awards, he has been a member of theatre groups in theatres across the country, including the world-famous National Theatre in Poland
The "Incipit" video was directed by Marcin Okrzesa; filmed and edited by Filmguyevsky. https://youtu.be/-lehEZVZy1Y?si=lMxoq75mnpHZjb1J
Totenmesse are:
Mold - vocals
Stawrogin - guitars, bass
Rzulty - guitars
Deimos - guitars
Krzysztof Klingbein - drums
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/Totenmesse/
DEMANDE
À LA POUSSIÈRE new
album "KINTSUGI" was welcomed by media and
fans in a great way. After some devastating shows in France, our Blackish Doom
Metallers present the official video of the song "Ichinawa" realized
by Gildas Debaussart with the precious Misty Orchid's performance as dancer.
Enjoy it at: https://youtu.be/bsi8PRzNuYY
Once again the Parisian combo paints a macabre horizon at the crossroads of Black Metal, Doom and Sludge, with a song of pure darkness, atmospheres and tormented voices following in the footsteps of bands like Neurosis, Mayhem, Cult Of Luna, Akhlys, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber.
I remind you that there are still copies of their album available in digiCD and LP format on https://shorturl.at/ejUV5
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German thrash legends DARKNESS announce early bird combo for their 40the anniversary show
2024 ALBUM INFO:
“BLOOD ON CANVAS” is the angriest album to date by the Essen thrashers DARKNESS. The songs are more aggressive and harder than anything that can be found in the DARKNESS discography so far. Although it is not a concept album, “Blood on Canvas” is not just a collection of nine songs that were created in one era, but a multifaceted sound painting, painted with the colors of anger.
Musically, DARKNESS deliver the uncompromising and fast thrash metal that they have been known for since their debut album “Death Squad” (1987). However, the compositions on this album are more complex and detailed than before, without losing any of their aggression, hardness and authenticity.
The lyrics are no longer just a description of the madness that determines the course of this world, but get straight to the point without beating around the bush and without compromise.
The nine songs were produced in the Rambado Recording Studios in collaboration with Cornelius "Corny" Rambadt, who has also worked with SODOM, DISBELIEF and BONDED, among others. The predecessors "First Class Violence" and "Over And Out" were already produced in collaboration with Corny. For "Blood on Canvas", DARKNESS and producer Corny made it their mission to create an aggressive and powerful, but also honest sound.
The cover artwork is once again by Timon Kokott, with whom DARKNESS is working for the third time.
Although recordings for the album had already begun in mid-October 2023, DARKNESS and guitarist Meik separated during production, so that "Blood on Canvas" was only recorded by four people.
The story so far
The thrash metal commando DARKNESS comes from Essen - Altenessen, next to the Bay Area the most creative nucleus of the thrash wave in the 1980s.
Founded in 1984, the band made a name for themselves with the demos “Evil Curse”, “Titanic War” and “Spawn of the Dark One”.
DARKNESS released three albums between 1987 and 1989.
The first album “Death Squad” is considered a thrash classic and established the cult status of DARKNESS, which still exists today and influences thrash musicians all over the world.
In 1991 things became quieter for the band, and in 1998 singer Olli tragically died.
Lacky and Arnd, two early members, revived Thrash Guerrilla in 2004.
In 2005 the three albums “Death Squad”, “Defenders of Justice” and “Conclusion & Revival” were released again. In addition, “Bocholt Live Squad”, an official concert recording from May 14, 1987, is coming onto the market in CD format.
The long-out-of-print triple vinyl box “The Demos” from 2008 contains a live recording from the “Keep it True” Festival 2006, all demo recordings and extensive bonus material.
At the end of 2010, the musicians, who were otherwise under the banner “Eure Erben”, released an album under the name DARKNESS for the first time.
Since demand continues, the albums “Death Squad” and “Defenders of Justice” will be released on vinyl again to mark their 25th anniversary.
As with many veterans of metal, DARKNESS also has a line-up merry-go-round.
Lacky and Arnd, the band's constants, are looking for a stable line-up for a comeback.
The guitarist Meik started his job for Darkness in 2013.
Lee was given the microphone by Arnd at the end of 2014, who from then on concentrated exclusively on the guitar and backgrounds.
In 2015, Dirk took over the bass role from Christian “Spessy” Gießler, who no longer has time to be involved in DARKNESS due to his main job at Kreator.
After “Keep it True” Festival, but especially since 2014, DARKNESS have played at well-known festivals such as the “Turock Open Air”, “Obscene Extreme”, Headbangers Open Air” and the “Ruhrpott Metal Meeting”.
The old school club is also being wielded at numerous club shows around the world and proven what the band stands for: old school thrash - brutal, fast, uncompromising and mean.
With the album “The Gasoline Solution”, a real, much-praised successor to the two classics “Death Squad” and “Defenders of Justice” was released in October 2016.
Exactly 2 years after the comeback album, Darkness presented the
The album “First Class Violence” makes it impressively clear that even more than 30 years later, angry thrash still comes from Altenessen.
At the beginning of 2019, Ben took over the bass from Dirk.
The EP “Over and Out” follows in 2020.
In 2024, Dominik took over the guitar from Maik and with the highly acclaimed release of the album “Blood on Canvas” in 2024, Darkness manifested its status as a German thrash institution.
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Chaos Wasteland is a Canadian thrash-crossover band formed in 2019.
The bands aesthetic and themes are based on a post-apocalyptic future concept inspired by Mad Max.
They debuted with an EP called “Bloodlust” in 2020. In 2024 they returned with an S/T full-length.
The band members are :
Isaï Flamand - Vocals
James Foster - drums & vocals
Leo G.Wolf - Guitar & vocals
Nic Belanger - Guitar
Saemund Ragnarson – Bass
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbIIg-4PmoxPHeuu1PQcFJw
https://www.facebook.com/chaos.wasteland
Watch Northbound Train lyric video: https://youtu.be/QdMR2otS_gI
Aggressive, old school and borderline chaotic, “Northbound Train” is a thrashy heavy metal song to bang your head and break your neck to.
“It’s an old song resurrected and running onward like an unstoppable train, much like Arched Fire”, says Kristian Herkman, the singer. “A train to the north of Finland, back to where Arched Fire started.”
“And what a train it is”, rejoices Ari Väntänen, the rhythm guitarist. “I love the cover art by Umar Setiawan, it’s like Thomas the Tank Engine from hell! We also have a beautiful lyric video by Jussi Hevander that fits the mood perfectly.”
Originally formed in the Finnish Lapland in 1989, the band hibernated for thirty years until reforming in the late 2019 and starting to work on new music. Now, a five-year phase seems to be nearing its end.
"Things are about to change," says Ari. “It may be that Northbound Train is the very last release with this Arched Fire line-up. Who knows what the future holds, but for now, it is what it is. As a song, it is a fitting conclusion to this era in the band’s story. It’s about the journey we’ve taken while making two albums in the 2020s. For us, it’s been both a strong progression in this current time we live in, and also a return to where we’ve come from. There’s something very beautiful and raw in it all."
And that’s how the song goes. “Spend a night in a northbound train… Spend your life in a northbound train”.
Listen 'Northbound Train' single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/arched-fire-train
Line-up:
Kristian Herkman (vocals)
Aslak Purojärvi (drums)
Mika Rytilahti (bass)
Janne Särkelä (lead and rhythm guitars)
Ari Väntänen (rhythm guitar)
https://archedfire.com
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Brutal Records is proud to announce the signing of OVERCAST RAIN, is a Dark Metal band from Latvia, Liepaya! The band is gearing up to release their third 2025 album via Brutal Records - stay tuned!
Hailing from the city of Liepāja, this formidable band is gearing up to unleash their third studio album in 2025 under the Brutal Records banner. Get ready for a sonic storm that will redefine the boundaries of dark metal!
Formed in 2014 by the visionary duo of Mihails Maslovs (vocals/guitar) and Kolja Kirk (drums), Overcast Rain has risen as a beacon of Latvia's metal scene. Over the years, the band has evolved through lineup transformations and sonic reinventions, solidifying their status as one of the genre's most dynamic forces.
Their discography includes two acclaimed albums:
Since You Die (July 11, 2020)
My God Hates Me (March 1, 2022)
Both albums have achieved remarkable success, with tracks like "All Hope Is Gone" breaking into the Destrokit Rock chart Top 50 and earning spots in the European Metal Channel rankings. These works are now enshrined in the National Library of Latvia as cultural treasures.
The Evolution of Overcast Rain
After a hiatus, Mihails and Andris Aleksejevs reignited the band in 2018 with a fierce determination to craft a heavier and more aggressive sound. Embracing new members and shedding female vocals, the band evolved into a raw, unrelenting force. Their revamped lineup debuted with electrifying performances at the Bunker13 Fest and earned second place at the Fresh Blood competition, setting the stage for their meteoric rise.
Overcast Rain’s relentless energy has captivated audiences across Malta, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Croatia, and Russia, gracing the stages of premier festivals like Dark Malta Fest, GoatHell Metal Fest, Barbar Fest, and DiFest. Sharing stages with legends such as Die Krupps, Blood Red Throne, Psyclon Nine, and Ost+Front, they’ve left an indelible mark on the global metal scene.
The Next Chapter
Currently in the studio, Overcast Rain is crafting a highly anticipated album featuring 13 brand-new tracks. Their relentless dedication to pushing the boundaries of dark metal ensures this release will be nothing short of groundbreaking.
Current Lineup:
Mihails Maslovs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Marks Širokovs – Drums, Samples, Backing Vocals
Rudolf Vistiņš – Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Andris Aleksejevs – Lead Guitar
Leonidas Heidemanis – Lead Guitar
Aleksandrs Tiškevičs – Bass
Stay tuned for more updates as Overcast Rain prepares to deliver their heaviest chapter yet! This is just the beginning of their reign under Brutal Records—dark metal fans, the storm is coming.
https://songwhip.com/overcastrain/
Brutal Records is proud to announce the signing of ETERNAL RETURNS, blending the sounds of melodic death metal, metalcore, thrash, and groove band from Thane, India! The band is gearing up to release their third 2025 album via Brutal Records - stay tuned!
Founded in 2010 in Thane, Maharashtra, Eternal Returns is a leading name in the Indian metal scene, renowned for its innovative blend of melodic death metal, metalcore, thrash, and groove.
With a sound that is both intense and accessible, the band has carved a unique niche, combining technical precision with emotional depth. Their music frequently addresses themes of social issues, political commentary, and personal introspection, resonating with a diverse audience.
The band members
Harsh Makwana (Guitar/Bass)
Shankul Chavan (Guitar/Production)
Viktor (Drums)
Narendra Patel (Vocals/Lyrics)
Eternal Returns has released two critically acclaimed albums:
Reprieved to Totality
Hunchback Hatred
The latter achieved significant recognition, topping India’s iTunes Metal chart in January 2024. This milestone underscores the band’s impact and appeal within the genre. Further accolades include being named "Band of the Year" in Metal Pedia’s Top 20 Releases of 2023 and a nomination for Best Metal Band at the Radio City Freedom Awards 7, affirming their growing prominence.
Artistic Vision
Eternal Returns seeks to redefine modern metal by blending aggression with accessibility. Their lyrical themes delve into the cyclical nature of life, birth, death, myths, and the quest for liberation—drawing inspiration from Indian philosophy and universal human experiences. This vision positions the band as both innovators and storytellers within the global metal community.
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The Finnish Folk / Black Metal band METSÄN ALTTARI released their self-titled debut album on November 28th 2024 via Inverse Records.
Listen the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/metsan-alttari-album
The man behind Metsän alttari, Janeski, comments:
"The debut album consists of seven songs with themes ranging from heroic to gloomy and blissful. Most of the songs are made between 2023-2024 but some of the material is much older and has been refined afterwards.
The songs have nuances of folk music spiced with the darkness of black metal and the grandeur of power metal. They also contain beautiful melodies, evil riffs, growls, epic choruses and poetic Finnish lyrics."
Joni Kantoniemi from Inverse Records comments:
"When I listened to the album for the first time, I was very impressed by the atmosphere and it was great to see that there are still new bands coming out that are honourably following in the footsteps of Finnish folk metal legends like Moonsorrow, Ensiferum and Finntroll. Highly recommended!"
Track list:
1. Intro
2. Jäätyneen järven tuolla puolen
3. Synkkä syvyys
4. Metsäiselle alttarille
5. Rautaa, tulta ja jäätä
6. Vampyyri
7. Verikuun kirous
Music and lyrics by Janeski
Album cover by Nucleart Design
Biography:
"Metsän Alttari ("Altar of the forest") is a Finnish one-man folk/black metal project driven by cold whispering winds, burning big emotions and ancient mythology."
Line-up
Janeski - Everything
https://www.facebook.com/MetsanAlttari
Release
Date: December
13th 2023
Label : Spinefarm Records
For a soundtrack to the end of the world, there is no band better than Electric Wizard.
As the COVID pandemic took hold in 2020 and lockdown restricted movement to your immediate surrounds, the legendary British doom outfit wondered if they might ever play live again. Out in the wilds of the English Westcountry where singer/guitarist Jus Oborn and guitarist Liz Buckingham live, the band descended into their crypt-like jam space to make a live album like no other. With no audience, and no actual plan to release what they came out with, they recorded themselves into a 16-track tape machine to capture their essence, their malevolence, their heaviness.
“We’d been gigging for two years at that point, around America three times, going to Japan and Australia, and we were sounding pretty good by the end of it,” says Jus. “When the pandemic happened we thought, ‘Fuck it, maybe we’ll never play again.’ So we went into the jam room and played the songs to get them on tape to capture how we were playing at the time.”
The final product, Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1, is as raw and heavy as one would expect from The Wizard.
“It's raw as fuck,” boasts Jus. “It’s like a lost ’70s black metal demo rehearsal session or something. It’s raw, nasty, screaming in your face. I always promised Electric Wizard was like rats in your face. This is verging on it.”
As anyone who’s experienced them live – headlining stages at Download Festival, or London’s iconic Roundhouse – will know, Wizard gigs are a dark celebration of heaviness and volume and bad vibes. Here, the songs sound like a violent hallucination that takes you into their world. Just as their studio works carry in them a sense of sleazy horror, drug-altered reality and middle-fingered misanthropy, the songs the band tear through here drip with the heavy, sinister vibe of having been caught in the crypt of the wizard.
“It was a more about capturing atmosphere and capturing energy,” says Jus.“I was really excited by the idea of just recording us playing purely live to tape and making it sound as raw as possible, like an old, lost recording. We used shitty mics, crappy old tape machine, put it together as fast as possible and just went for it. No one's sitting down, no one's got headphones on, we’re all fucking headbanging, just going for it.”
Opening with the enormous Dopethrone, and taking in signature apocalyptic doom staples like Witchcult Today, Satanic Rites Of Drugula and the ever-destructive Funeralopolis, the set caught on tape here shows how powerful and dominating The Wizard can be. As a band who never quite play the same thing twice, even Just notes that over the years some of these versions have grown more sharp edges and barbs than their studio counterparts.
“Some of the stuff from [2010 album] Black Masses, I was really happy to give it more of an edge,” he says. “And even stuff like …Drugula, I think it's probably a little bit laid back on the album. It's really such a creepy song about a creature coming up from the grave, and the live version sounds more spooky.”
Jus says he wanted to capture a feeling like that of Motörhead’s classic No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, or the sense from KISS’ ALIVE! that you were getting a window into something, a world the band created. It’s also, he says, an opportunity for a band as big and cult-like as The Wizard to bring something from metal’s dirty underbelly into the light, if only for the purposes of freaking out the unprepared.
“It's kind of more got an underground feel to it,” says Jus. “We've always been trying to drag in the underground into the overground, rather than pretending to be playing some big stadium, arena show.”
Indeed, what you have here is Electric Wizard red in tooth and claw. There’s no overdubs, no cheating, no putting things through the computer to neaten up afterwards, just a band conjuring up their black magic and capturing it as directly as possible, to the point where you can feel it in your speakers.
“I think that’s what's going wrong with modern music, you know. For all the benefit of copying and pasting and computer stuff, you're losing something, probably the most important thing of all, which is why people even listen to rock music, which is to listen to a band, listen to the energy between the musicians and how the instruments are locked together, and how that sounds fucking great.”
A soundtrack to the end of the world? Come this way, my fanatics. The Wizard awaits…
Tracklisting
1. Dopethrone
2. Incense For The Damned
3. Black Mass
4. Witchcult Today
5. Satanic Rites Of Drugula
6. Scorpio Curse
7. The Chosen Few
8. Funeralopolis
Line-Up:
Jus Oborn – guitar / vocals
Liz Buckingham – guitar
Simon Poole – drums
Clayton Burgess – bass
https://www.spinefarmrecords.com/
https://www.electricfuckinwizard.com/
The
horrendous release has been teased by Decibel Magazine who in
revealing the track “PENDUNCULAR HALLUCINOSIS“ via an
exclsuvie premiere, have remarked that the band “formed by members of
Hissing wears their love for Pissgrave, early Carcass and Agothacles on
their sleeve, and their self-titled EP is a celebration of gory and savage
extreme music, as dense as it is aggressive.“ - you can check out the
feature and the track https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/11/21/track-premiere-horse-butcher-penduncular-hallucinosis/
Members of praised surrealistic black/death metal deformers Hissing re-metastazie in Horse Butcher, a disfigured onslaught of gore-fucked bestial deathgrind worshipping directly at the altar of Carcass, Archgoat,
Disgorge, Impetigo and Pissgrave. Where the imperative is repulsing, Horse Butcher step up to take the concept to its most inevitable and gut wrenching conclusions, bludgeoning the mind into a horrendous aural pulp of absolute violence and depravity. The band members’ roots in avantgarde experimentalism are not set aside here, rather preserved to augment the load of horror and disbelief in belching out these six tracks and twenty minutes of neanderthalian carnage and slaughterhouse madness. Several steps backward in human decency and dignity are needed to authentically perceive and metabolize the scum-fucking level of vile barbarism and inhumanity going into these tracks, but what really transpires is the band’s paradoxically nobel mission of reminding us all of what is unfortunately normal, real and happening everywhere every day in this world. A blindness and indifference against which Horse Butcher have seemingly waged a cryptic and gruesome war, by taking the horrors of the world straight back to the listener and shoving the putrid stench, cruelty and repulsiveness of human actions right back into humanity’s face.
The debut self-tilted Horse Butcher EP (which features cover art by cult gore collage master Adam Medford, as well as a thick as concrete mastering job by Dan Lowndes of Cruciamentum) is set to be released December 20 2024 on CD/MC/digital formats worldwide, all of which are now pre-order able via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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Gutrectomy, hailing from the dark depths of the Black Forest in Germany, was forged in the crucible of brutality back in 2011. Their music is a relentless amalgamation of Slam Death Metal, Deathcore,
On November 15, 2024 their latest single “Shard Throat” delves into themes of inner torment, mental anguish, and the desperate search for release. The lyrics depict a protagonist trapped in a purgatorial state, suffocating under the weight of darkness and madness. Battling inner demons, the song captures a sense of hopelessness and despair, where death is seen as the only escape.
The intense psychological and emotional pain fuels the chaotic energy of the track, creating a relentless, cathartic experience.
https://www.youtube.com/@gutrectomy
https://www.gutrectomy.de
https://www.facebook.com/gutrectomy
"I feel incredibly lucky to be working with WormHoleDeath Records," stated Ömer. "I set out to make music that expresses my feelings and thoughts about life and death, and honestly I did not care during the making of this album whether anyone would eventually hear it or not. Once it was completed I felt as if I would be satisfied with it for as long as time exists, because I felt that it resonated with the whole of existence. I believe that if not one person listened to this music I would still feel happy with it and listen to it myself."
A
Universe of Influences Collide
Ömer Doğramacı is a multidimensional artist and musician who brings a unique blend of cultural and musical influences to his work. Born in the Bronx, New York, Doğramacı’s upbringing was shaped by a diverse range of experiences and cultural influences. From an early age, he was exposed to various traditional wisdom teachings, which ignited a deep interest in spirituality and mysticism that would come to influence his artistic and musical pursuits.
Throughout his life, Doğramacı has pursued a wide range of musical styles, drawing on the diverse cultural influences that have shaped him. He has studied and performed traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern music, as well as jazz, rock, and electronic music. His work is characterized by a fluidity that crosses boundaries and defies categorization, as he brings together elements of these diverse genres in his compositions and performances.
In addition to his musical pursuits, Doğramacı is also a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of the spiritual and the material. His art is characterized by a sense of transcendence, as he seeks to evoke the mystical experiences that lie beyond the physical realm. Drawing on a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, and installation, Doğramacı’s work is deeply personal and reflective of his spiritual journey.
Throughout his career, Doğramacı has collaborated with a wide range of artists, musicians, and spiritual teachers, sharing his unique perspective and bringing his distinctive voice to a variety of creative projects. His work is a testament to the power of cross-cultural exchange and the transformative potential of art and music. As an artist and musician, Ömer Doğramacı continues to push boundaries and explore new frontiers, inspiring others with his innovative and visionary approach to creativity.
Tracklist
1. The King's Feast
2. Pray for Death
3. Fog of War
4. Deep Gaze into the Flames of Hell
5. Call to Prayer
6. Narcissistic Society
7. Inner Sanctum
8. Pain of Existence
www.youtube.com/@fragmentarysolidabyss7838
https://fragmentarysolidabyss.net/
NEWS 24.11.2024
Die Death- und Groove-Metal-Band MAGNACULT kehrt
mit der explosiven neuen Single und dem Video WINDS OF CREATIONS zurück,
dem zweiten Vorgeschmack auf ihr mit Spannung erwartetes Album LUCIS,
das 2025 erscheinen soll. Nach dem Erfolg von Eternity’s Gate befasst
sich dieser neue Titel mit Themen wie spirituellem Erwachen,
Widerstandsfähigkeit und der spürbaren Kraft der Transformation. Die
mitreißenden Riffs, fesselnden Grooves und tiefgründigen Texte
machen Winds of Creation zu einer Hymne, die MagnaCults Status
als Metal-Pioniere weiter stärkt.
In Winds of Creation fängt MagnaCult die Essenz einer göttlichen Begegnung ein und erkundet die überwältigende Präsenz der Spiritualität und die Kraft, das Alltägliche in das Außergewöhnliche zu verwandeln. Der Text beschreibt eine Reise des Erwachens mit lebendigen Bildern der sprichwörtlichen Winds of Creation als Symbol für Erneuerung und Kraft. Die Struktur des Liedes ist eine Offenbarung, mit kraftvollen Versen, einem meditativen Refrain und einer unerbittlichen Energie, die sowohl persönliche als auch universelle Glaubenserfahrungen verkörpert. Das dazugehörige Video unterstreicht dieses Thema mit einem atemberaubenden visuellen Erlebnis und lässt den Betrachter in ein Reich aus Licht, Schatten und Selbstbeobachtung eintauchen.
Die Single wurde mit viel Liebe zum Detail aufgenommen. Joost van den Broek (Epica, Ayreon) kümmerte sich um die Aufnahme des Schlagzeugs in den Sandlane Recording Facilities. Der renommierte Produzent Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Norma Jean, Pearl Jam) ist für die Co-Produktion und den Mix verantwortlich und zeigt mit Winds of Creation, wie MagnaCult mühelos technische Präzision mit roher Emotion verbindet. Bayles' Fachwissen in der Schaffung schwerer, aber dennoch melodischer Klänge ist offensichtlich und sorgt dafür, dass der Song sowohl bei treuen Fans als auch bei neuen Zuhörern großen Anklang findet.
Mit dieser Veröffentlichung geht MagnaCult den nächsten Schritt in ihrer Mission, die europäische Metal-Szene zu dominieren. Ihre überzeugenden Live-Auftritte und die Zusammenarbeit mit großen Namen haben ihnen bereits eine treue Fangemeinde eingebracht, und mit Winds of Creation bauen sie ihren Kult weiter aus. Die Band ist bereit für eine ausgedehnte Tour im Jahr 2025 und lädt ihre Fans ein, Teil dieser epischen Reise zu werden
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VӦLVA – “DESIRES PROFANE”
Label: Grind To Death Records / Fiadh Productions
Release Date: November 28th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Darkthrone | Urgehal | Wolfbastard | Taake
An insignificant, impotent worm of belief came crawling from the desert sands. It brought its wheedling words of bile and honey to our home, its slow poison of false humility and father worship, eating at the hearts of those too easily swayed from sacred paths. Our steel began to rust and our blood run thin. Our mothers and our teachers, our conduits to the world that had cradled us through the centuries, were cast down and discarded as over eager boy-kings clambered across the bodies that had birthed them, scrambling desperately for the crown of the whispering worm. Under this new order of edicts and commandments seers became whores and queens became witches. And the disregarding turned to disrespecting…to dominating…to abusing…and to burning.
“Like the screams from a thousand vengeful souls from the witch’s bonfire.” - Vittra describes the sound of Völva.
From Malmö, Sweden comes the vengeful, satanic, feminist sound of Völva; a howling, hate-filled voice of rage, fuelled by the fire and the fists that have subjugated womankind since the old ways were undone by the insidious Christian contamination of the world. Born in the simmering underground cauldrons of punk and black metal the band built their foundations with a self-titled demo and the highly regarded Promises Unfold As Lies EP – and now the time for the unveiling of their mesmerising, intimidating full length debut album is at hand. Desires Profane begins with the acidic malice of ‘The Tower’ and immediately draws you into its world of flame and shadow. With its clarity edged with dirt and direct, unflinching approach ‘The Tower’ begins to carve out a strange soundscape of distinct character, with melody implied rather than simply stated. Familiar yet unsettlingly different…it’s an aura that permeates the whole album. ‘Walk With Me’, primal and chaotic, infused with anger and a sense of the forbidden that underlines the fact that Völva are born of different blood, a breed apart and your welcome into their circle is by no means assured. ‘Never Forgive’ stalks you like a blood encrusted valkyrie with a slow menace and a Transylvanian hunger, while ‘The Serpent’ sinks its needle fangs of nightmare into your quivering flesh, injecting the venom as cold flames lick at your nerve endings. The dark and ragged glory that unfolds as Desires Profane progresses is both addictive and magnificent. This is black metal at its assured and powerful, cruel and angular best, attacking with a merciless and fiercely focused purpose. Finishing with ‘Vagabond’ that brings a pagan lilt to its grimy onslaught, a hymn to forgotten times before the coming of the worm, Desires Profane leaves you in no doubt that Völva want to tear down everything that you know and set light to all you think you understand.
On November 28th Desires Profane will be unleashed on vinyl by Fiadh Productions and CD by Grind To Death Records – both versions housed in a sleeve that affirms Völva’s chosen role as the enemy, the adversary of the oppressor. Scathing and acerbic in their assault on all who support the pillars of our rotten society, this band are passionate advocates for its end. You will not hear another album this year as aflame with scorn, contempt and fury as Desires Profane – bewitching in its bitterness and spellbinding in its savagery.
Line-up:
Hedonosticia - Vocals/Bass
Vittra - Guitar/Vocals
Skuld – Drums/Vocals
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Australian Death Metal brutes, GUTLESS, have released debut album, HIGH IMPACT VIOLENCE! The album is available on CD and digital formats via Dark Descent Records. Me Saco Un Ojo is handling vinyl treatment. The cassette edition is available through both labels.
GUTLESS gave us one of 2018’s filthiest demos. Two years later, we saw a split release with Mortal Wound. Now, six years after that demo, we are finally getting the debut album. Strap in; this one is going to be nauseating…
Instantly they cave in your skull with maniacal riffing and unrelenting drum assaults. If you can’t withstand the might of Death Metal, turn back fast. The equally violent vocal attack will seal the deal as the insanity creeps further into the cemetery, searching for prey. GUTLESS has that perfect blend of old-school savagery while retaining their personality and sound that doesn’t feel like a diluted version of a superior band. Snap-neck rhythms and visceral grinding warfare will certainly have even the seasoned maniac tearing at their flesh in morbid ecstasy as this short but sweet opus erupts pus into their ear canal.
If you need more convincing, take a look at that cover art; reminiscent of the 90s while striking in its own right. You had better believe the album is just as damaging as that brick. Contorting and convulsing into tormenting visions of the macabre, GUTLESS contradicts their name by dragging out your entrails repeatedly across eight indomitable cuts of sadism and brutality. The underground still has plenty of bite down under and these fiends proudly showcase one of the nastiest examples you will hear this year!”
Track
Listing:
1. Bashed And Hemorrhaging
2. Beyond The Catacombs
3. Scalpel Obsession
4. Avalanche Of Viscera
5. Galvanized
6. Carved Into Existence
7. Gore God
8. Viral Infection
GUTLESS is:
Joe Steele - Bass
Ollie Ballantyne - Drums
Tom Caldwell - Guitars/Vocals
Allan Stacey - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
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This is evident in the album's first single, "MASS GRAVE MEMORY." The band has partnered with Metal Injection for the exclusive premiere of the official music video for the song. Watch now at https://metalinjection.net/video/pathogenics-new-single-mass-grave-memory-is-a-riff-powered-steamroller
PATHOGENIC vocalist Jake Burns reveals the song's lyrical themes.
“'Mass Grave Memory' asks the ultimate question: what do we gain when we destroy everything? It’s a vivid portrayal of nuclear war’s aftermath — the searing light, the choking ash, and the silence of a world undone. Above all, it stands as a stark warning of what will await us if humanity loses control.”
Skepsis Recordings will release Crowned in Corpses on February 7, 2025. Pre-order the album now at www.skepsisrecordings.com.
Tracklisting:
1) Mass Grave Memory
2) The New Rot
3) Dead But Not At Rest
4) Exiled from the Abyss
5) Fragments
6) Crowned in Corpses
7) Drag Your Crosses
8) Silicon Regime
Out of Boston’s depths emerges PATHOGENIC, a force unshackled from hiatus and reborn with Crowned in Corpses. Over 42 punishing minutes, this progressive death metal quintet weaves together labyrinthine riffs, relentless rhythms, and chilling visions of a decaying world.
In 2022, the band’s resurgence was ignited when original vocalist Jake Burns and new drummer Tyler Montaquila joined forces with guitarists Chris Gardino, Justin Licht, and bassist Dan Leahy. Together, they’ve forged a sound that is ferocious, intricate, and unapologetically heavy — delivering metal that demands to be heard.
PATHOGENIC has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Revocation, and The Faceless, and has annihilated crowds at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and RPM Fest. Known for their high-octane live performances, the band’s energy and command leave audiences with no choice but to headbang furiously.
Set to release on February 7, 2025, through Skepsis Recordings, Crowned in Corpses is a ferocious musical declaration: eight tracks of devastating power and haunting warnings of the darkness that lies ahead.
PATHOGENIC is:
Jake Burns - vocals
Chris Gardino - guitars
Justin Licht - guitars
Dan Leahy - bass
Tyler Montaquila - drums
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Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: December 3rd 2024
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Queensrÿche | Judas Priest | Vicious Rumors | Solitude Aeternus
It’s time to head back to the forge, to the place where it all began, where the smith first brought the hammer down upon the anvil, tempering the British steel that would become Forged In Black! It’s time to celebrate 15 years of real heavy metal, 15 years of indefatigable spirit and musical power! It’s time to reach back into the past and draw the earliest creations of Forged In Black from the cold ashes and thrust them back into the fire, reinvigorating the hellion screams and contagious riff attacks! It’s time for Forged In Black to be born again!
It was 2009 when the first line-up of Forged In Black was assembled, originally under the name Merciless Fail – a moniker that was soon abandoned as the sheer strength of the young band’s material became apparent. After relentless work in the rehearsal room and on the stage, by 2013 the rebranded Forged In Black were ready to record their debut, self-titled album – and it is that monumental piece of history that has now been remastered and expanded, adorned in rejuvenated artwork and unleashed again in celebration of fifteen years at the forge! Over the decade and a half of their existence Forged In Black have performed at Bloodstock Open Air and Hammerfest, graced the stage of the legendary Camden Underworld with the likes of Diemonds and metal legends Demon; they have worked with top producers like Chris Tsangarides (Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath etc) and Romesh Dodangoda (Motörhead, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine etc) and had their recorded works lavished in praise by major magazines such as Zero Tolerance and Powerplay. What better way to mark their achievements than with a powerful new version of the album that started it all? Songs like the eponymous anthem ‘Forged In Black’ itself and the epic ‘Accusations Of The Innocent’ remain important elements of the Forged live show to this day, absolute fan favourites that now sound better than ever with the muscular remastering work of Marcus Stock (Alcest, Green Carnation, Marché Funebre etc). The album’s tracklisting has also been expanded with the addition of two early EP title tracks, ‘The Tide’ and ‘The Exodus’ from 2013 and 2014 respectively; both prime slices of Forged In Black metal, these forgotten classics now have the platform they have always deserved – remastered and heavier than ever!
The original Forged In Black album artwork has been reimagined in vibrant fashion by the band’s guitarist Andy Songhurst, an acclaimed professional tattoo artist in his life away from the forge. The elements of the image will be instantly familiar to longstanding fans of the original album, but the style and approach make the cover fresh and impactful, ablaze with new life and colour - just like the songs it accompanies. Forged In Black Remastered MMXXIV will be released on December 3rd by Fighter Records, on CD and digital formats – and the hammer will land with a force unparalleled, a might like never before!
Line-up:
Chris Stoz Storozynski - Lead Vocals
Andy Songhurst - Lead And Rhythm Guitars
Kieron Rochester - Bass and Vocals
Tim Chandler - Lead And Rhythm Guitars
Oliver Gill – Drums
Featured on the original recordings:
Kev Rochester – Drums
Rob Chaplin – Guitars
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http://www.forgedinblack.com/
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The album is a synthesis of avant-garde metal and comedic audio drama. Gobischkevrot recounts the story of a beleaguered clan of goblins seeking mystical power in a desperate struggle for survival in a human-dominated world.
A concept album in the truest sense, Gobischkevrot blends intense folk-inspired metal with spoken-word narration from the Goblin RaidBoss known as Skraptif.
With over 20 releases under their belt, GOBLIN HOVEL fully embraces their metal influences with Gobischkevrot; a natural progression from 2022’s Whatever Keeps the Light On.
Track
listing:
1. Ambush
2. The Cave
3. Gobischkevrot
4. The Plan
5. Voyage of the Grogswiller
6. The Stowaway
7. Borokol pt. II
8. Don't Eat The Mushrooms
9. Dialogue with a Mountain
10. Moon's Fist
11. The Night Man Learned to Fear the Mountain
12. Crineiga
Gobischkevrot was recorded, mixed and mastered at Blackwell Sound with additional recording at Nektarkin Studios throughout 2024. The lyrics and script were written by the Nameless Goblin. Music was composed and arranged by the collective known as GOBLIN HOVEL. Cover art and Character Sheets by Alexios Ciancio @cianciographics. Back cover art and Layout by Eva Zarich. Band Photography by Fursy.
This album is a companion/expansion to March of the Goblins by Tha Goblvnz March. Listen here, and dive into the gobbish extended universe! https://thagoblvnzmarch.bandcamp.com/
GOBLIN HOVEL is a collective of musicians and artists formed in Meadville, PA in 2010 and currently based in Buffalo/Rochester, NY. Though primarily influenced by heavy metal, the band takes cues from various musical and folk traditions from around the world to create an intense avant-garde soundscape reflective of humanity’s chaotic and often contradictory nature. Lyrically, the band focuses on the universal human experience filtered through the lens of history, folklore, and esoterica.
GOBLIN HOVEL 2024 is:
The Nameless Goblin: bass, vocals, throat singing, Fx, guitar on track 11, voice of Skraptif
Damn Barbarian: Lead Vocals, voice of Ghirrul
Rawbeard: Guitars, recording, vocals, voice of Baalkryth and Borokol
Petuh: Banjos, Mandolin, vocals, voice of Nerlhein
Son G: Drums, rattles, electronics, keyboards, voice of Human Guard
Guest Appearances:
Mickey: vocals/voice of the Pixie
Squee Key Fromage: voice of Human Guard
Tom Gerwitz: recording, throat singing on track 11, mixing, mastering, samples, vocals
Alexios Ciancio: voice of Goblvnz the mountain, additional composer on track 9.
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HELLTRAIN releases debut album “ROUTE 666” on vinyl for 20 year anniversary .Swedish Helltrain was founded in 2002 by Pierre Törnkvist on vocals & bass (Everdawn, Scheitan, Devils Force), Oscar Karlsson on drums (Raised Fist, Defleshed, Gates of Ishtar) & Patrik Törnkvist on guitar (The Moaning, Everdawn, Battlelust). The trio recorded a demo with three songs and quickly gained attention for their original sound where a mix where previous musical experiences in heavier genres such as death, thrash & black metal meet arrangements and sound from rock n roll & punk. Their demo was infact only sent in to one record company, namely Nuclear Blast who chose to contract Helltrain immediately.
The debut album "Route 666" was recorded in the hometown of Luleå and
later mixed in Studio Dug Out by Daniel Bergstrand, known from productions
with In Flames, Soilwork, Meshuggah & Behemoth. The album was released
on CD in 2004 by Nuclear Blast in Europe and has since been licensed 3 times in
the USA, Poland and Russia. For the US release, Pierre in the band was
personally called up on the phone by vocalist Jimmy Pop of Bloodhound Gang, who
stumbled across Helltrain on the now retired music site MySpace. Jimmy Pop
then released the record through his label, the Jimmy Franks Recording
Company and practically this meant that Universal Music released and
distributed in the US.
The title track "Route 666" appeared on Bam Margera's (Jackass) own TV series "Viva La Bands" and also on a smaller compilation album released by MTV with only 4 bands: Helltrain, HIM, Rammstein & Bloodhound Gang.
Now to celebrate that it is 20 years since "Route 666" was released, the record is finally being released on vinyl for the first time by label Discouraged Records (Umeå, Sweden) in a very limited edition of 300 copies.
Pre-order starts today november 22 and it set for release on december 6th.
Helltrain discography
2004 “Route 666” (CD album/Nuclear Blast(EU) & Irond Records(RUS))
2006 “Route 666” (CD album/Jimmy Franks Recording Company(USA))
2008 “Rock n roll devil” (CD album/Universal Music)
2009 “Route 666” (CD album/Metal Mind(POL))
2012 “Death is coming” (CD album/TPL Records)
2018 “Wolfnight” (digital single/own release)
2018 “On your knees” (digital single/own release)
2021 “Alive” (digital ep, own release)
2023 “Mischief” (digital single, own release)
2024 "Route 666" (LP album/Discouraged Records)
Helltrain Line Up 2024:
Pierre Törnkvist: Vocals
Patrik Törnkvist: Guitar
Mikael Sandorf: Guitar (Gates of Ishtar, Duskfall, ex-Deathbound)
Markus Parkkila: Bass (Devils Force, Gates of Ishtar)
Fredrik Andersson: Drums (Gates of Ishtar, ex-Duskfall)
https://www.discouragedrecords.com
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https://www.helltrain.net
https://www.facebook.com/helltrainofficial
Just one month to "PATH TO OBLIVION" release date and EPITAPH unveil a second song from their highly ambitious new work due out on My Kingdom Music on December 20th.
The song's title is "Voices Behind The Wall" and it's inspired to "The dreams in the witch house" a tale by H.P. Lovecraft and has lyrics written by Jessica Carola Ragone.
A very suggestive lyric video, created by Tiago Silva, is available at https://youtu.be/IPinnA_raKw
"Path To Oblivion" LP/CD/tape/bundle could be pre-ordered at https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (singer of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, this is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble.
The journey towards the oblivion has begun and Doom Metal, Progressive and Esotericism are the coordinates.
DOOM ON!!!
Line-up: Mauro Tollini: drums; Nicola Murari: bass; Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars; Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
Style: Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists: Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
Cover artwork created by Luciana Nedelea and tracklist:
1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
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https://www.facebook.com/epitaph.doom
Italian
black metal outfit ARDEAT unleashes their ferocious
new single, "IGNIS FATUM," today via Wormholedeath. The
track is taken from the band's upcoming album "APOTHEOSIS",
due for release on 20 December 2024.
"Ignis Fatum" merges mythology and existential themes, depicting a journey through destruction and rebirth. References to Danae's tower and Dionysian chaos evoke the inevitability of fate and divine wrath. Both destructive and purifying, fire consumes the emptiness of existence, while commands to "Rise, Dominate, Dance, Rule" reflect a triumphant rebirth. The song channels mythic cycles of death and renewal, culminating in an ascent toward immortality as the soul transcends chaos and marches to the stars.
"Ignis Fatum" is available on all digital platforms. Listen here: https://orcd.co/ignisfatum
Ardeat is a black metal band from Brescia, Italy, formed in 2021 by Enrico Pinelli, Julian Polonioli, Riccardo Cremaschini, and Andrea Salvagni. After releasing a cover of Franco Battiato's Atlantide, guitarist Cristian della Noce joined, and they recorded their debut EP, Exitivm, featuring a 20-minute song in two acts. Ardeat has performed with notable Italian metal acts like Mortuary Drape and Opera IX, blending black metal, early death metal, and NWOBHM influences, inspired by bands such as Dissection and Mgla.
Prepare for "Apotheosis" to arrive on December 20th, 2024. In the meantime, ignite your soul with the burning fury of "Ignis Fatum."
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Ritual Fog are one of the most exciting new death metal bands from the US with their blend of death and thrash metal with some heaving, stomping slow parts thrown in. Toilet ov Hell premiered an electrifying new track at https://toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-ritual-fogs-nocturnal-suffering/
Excerpt - "To keep things fresher than wet green ooze irradiating your rotting cemetery, Ritual Fog brings together OSDM, thrash, and just a hint of whatever it is Autolith is doing, delivering a balanced, vicious, pitboss-approved record."
RITUAL FOG - “BUT MERELY FLESH”
For
fans of
: Morgoth, Asphyx, Skeletal Remains, Laceration, Malevolent Creation, Death, Leper
Colony
Ritual Fog have masterfully infused thrash influences in their old school death metal sound in a way that the music becomes far more acerbic and gritty, so much so that even when they slow down during their doomier moments, it sounds incredibly scathing and vile. Their riffs seem to have a tendency to press down against the listener and create a burning sensation first in the ears, then in the rest of the body. The hoarse vocals emanating from what can only be a serrated throat add to the grating effect and enhance the nastiness quotient manifold. They seem to have borrowed the right amount of influences to form a cohesive albeit abrasive sound that wreaks havoc no matter what path they decide to tread. As such, they are able to easily traverse blood-smeared pits in both fast paced and thrashy style as well as the ponderous, doom-riddled way, without diminishing the sizzle. This ability to retain the aggression and switch things up at the drop of the hat elevates them above their monotonous old school-sounding peers and gives them an exciting edge. Assimilating and perfecting their sound for their much awaited debut full length, Ritual Fog have created a lurching, ravaging beast and it's hungry and absolutely unstoppable.
Line up
Ian Younkin - Vocals / Guitar
Andrew Hobday - Drums
Spencer Martin - Guitar
Jon Clark - Bass
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano Rosado
Track listing
1. Misticism
2. Desolate Chasm
3. Slimeblade
4. Nocturnal Suffering
5. Demented Procession
6. Fog Sermon
7. Carnal Pain
8. Sentient Chamber
9. But Merely Flesh
Release date - November 29th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
BRUTAL RECORDS is proud to announce the signing of ETERNAL RETURNS, blending the sounds of melodic death metal, metalcore, thrash, and groove band from Thane, India! The band is gearing up to release their third 2025 album via Brutal Records - stay tuned!
Founded in 2010 in Thane, Maharashtra, Eternal Returns is a leading name in the Indian metal scene, renowned for its innovative blend of melodic death metal, metalcore, thrash, and groove.
With a sound that is both intense and accessible, the band has carved a unique
niche, combining technical precision with emotional depth. Their music
frequently addresses themes of social issues, political commentary, and personal
introspection, resonating with a diverse audience.
The band members
Harsh Makwana (Guitar/Bass)
Shankul Chavan (Guitar/Production)
Viktor (Drums)
Narendra Patel (Vocals/Lyrics)
Eternal Returns has released two critically acclaimed albums:
Reprieved to Totality
Hunchback Hatred
The latter achieved significant recognition, topping India’s iTunes Metal chart in January 2024. This milestone underscores the band’s impact and appeal within the genre. Further accolades include being named "Band of the Year" in Metal Pedia’s Top 20 Releases of 2023 and a nomination for Best Metal Band at the Radio City Freedom Awards 7, affirming their growing prominence.
Artistic Vision
Eternal Returns seeks to redefine modern metal by blending aggression with accessibility. Their lyrical themes delve into the cyclical nature of life, birth, death, myths, and the quest for liberation—drawing inspiration from Indian philosophy and universal human experiences. This vision positions the band as both innovators and storytellers within the global metal community.
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eternalreturns@live.in
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Metal innovators OWDWYR have released the instrumental edition of their debut album, RECEPTOR. Released one year ago, Receptor was widely praised by the press for setting a new standard for technical death metal.
This anniversary, instrumental edition will allow fans to delve deeper into the intricate arrangements and complex instrumentation that make Receptor such a groundbreaking work.
"While I love LOVE Max's vocals, they have so much girth that they take up quite a frequency range," says Paul Plumeri, the band's primary songwriter and guitarist. "We wanted to choose our most proggy, layered tracks, and do a special instrumental mix and master so people could hear the rich tapestry of counterpoint and varied instrumentation."
The band has shared a visualizer for the EP. This uncut sequence features a live liquid performance by Thomas Condry . Watch the visualizer on https://www.youtube.com/@owdwyr
Order the instrumental edition of Receptor at https://owdwyr.bandcamp.com/album/receptor-instrumental-edition
The EP was mixed by AJ Viana at AJ Viana Productions and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. It features performances from Kenny Grohowski, Kevin Paradis, Sydney Kjerstad, and the West European Symphony Orchestra.
Track
Listing:
1) Praefatio / The Liminal Carapace
2) Ein
3) Supplicant
4) Reverie
5) Pitchtongue Vesper
6) The Sputtering Torch
OWDWYR is a technical death metal band based in the United States. Their music is a unique blend of extreme metal, jazz, classical, and progressive influences. Their debut album, Receptor, was released to critical acclaim in 2023.
Band Members:
Paul Plumeri Jr. - Guitars, Composition, and Programming
Chris Williams - Bass
Max Lichtman - Vocals and Lyrics
https://www.facebook.com/owdwyr
In a joint statement, XENOS A.D. expressed their excitement about this partnership: "XENOS A.D. is delighted to be a part of My Kingdom Music to release our new album because we already know the great work they did for us in the early years of our career and in the past. "Requiem For The Oppressor" is the result of years of hard work towards creating music that we believe represents the very best of Thrash Metal. My Kingdom Music has been so supportive in the long journey we have gone on to create this album and we’re incredibly excited to be a part of their family and share our music with the world!".
Formed by friends Giuseppe Taormina (guitars), Ignazio Nicastro (voice & bass), Danilo Ficicchia (drums), XENOS A.D. quickly gained recognition in the European Metal scene thanks to their impressive live attitude and performances at some of the greatest festivals in Europe (Wacken Open Air, Agglutination, Into The Grave, Area 53 among others).
Their distinctive blend of lyricism about war and its horrors, combined with their relentless, neck-breaking Thrash, pays homage to the genre's golden age Gods such as Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus and Testament as well as some of the melody and progressive tendencies of Metal Church and Death Angel.
Fans of Thrash Metal can rejoice in yet another band flying their Metal flag proudly.
Now all you have to do is experience the raw power of the fury of XENOS A.D.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/xenosa.d.thrash
ANTE-INFERNO deliver a malevolent hammer strike with “DEATH’S SOLILOQUY”; harnessing the bestial might of traditional black metal and intricately weaving it with the haunting majesty of the atmospheric sound the band is known for
North Yorkshire, UK; 20 November 2024: UK black metal act Ante-Inferno have unveiled their third album "Death's Soliloquy" via Black Metal Promotion ahead of its release on 22 November 2024 via Vendetta Records.
Listen to “Death’s Soliloquy”: https://youtu.be/KksA8AXdc9c
Pre-save "Death's Soliloquy" on Spotify: https://RecordU.lnk.to/Deaths_Soliloquy
Onism Productions, Matriarch Records and Forbidden Keep Records have also prepared three special edition cassette versions of “Death’s Soliloquy”, which is available to order now and will start shipping next week.
Red tape via Onism Productions
Clear smoke tape via Matriarch Records
Forbidden Keep variant via Forbidden Keep Records
Ante-Inferno are pulling no punches this time around with their third album. Now with a fully established line-up, the four-piece have delivered a malevolent hammer strike to the face of all who thought they would continue to mellow after the success of the atmospheric and otherworldly "Antediluvian Dreamscapes".
The album’s nightmarish cover art (from the masterful mind of Khaos Diktator Design), perfectly sums up the album’s sonic approach. An ode to madness, mental illness, death obsession and unfettered suicidal despair, "Death’s Soliloquy" harnesses the bestial might of traditional black metal and intricately weaves it with the haunting majesty of the atmospheric sound the band is known for, and in doing so takes the listener on an anguished, hysterical descent into the blackened emptiness of the grave.
“The album's theme is death viewed through different lenses and experiences”, the band explains. “A soliloquy is where a character in a play speaks their thoughts aloud, but they're speaking to themselves rather than to the audience. So this is like Death speaking on behalf of those who have died, reliving the final moments of their lives and what led them to that point - because the dead can't speak, but Death was there with every one of them at the end.”
In the run-up to the album's release, the band previously released an artwork video for the opening track “The Cavernous Blackness of Night” and a “Cold. Tenebrous. Evil" music video.
Catch Ante-Inferno on the following dates:
30/11 MANCHESTER, REBELLION (UK) - - Album release show w/ Hulder and others
06/12 BERLIN, DE MORTEM ET DIABOLUM (GER)
07/12 MUNSTER, WINTERMELODEI (GER)
14/12 EINDHOVEN, METAL MEETING (NL)
**More dates to be announced soon.
https://vendetta-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ANTEINFERNO/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present AXETASY’S highly anticipated debut album, WITHERING TIDES, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Stuttgart, Germany’s AXETASY formed in 2020 with influences that belied their young age – namely, the speed metal, thrash, and black metal stalwarts of the ‘80s. Not for nothing is their furious, stubbornly obscure sound stuck there: while you’re busy checking the calendar year, AXETASY have already dragged you into the insane depths of morbid ecstasy!
Now, after a debut and a couple digital singles, AXETASY charge the gates of Hell with their full-length debut, Withering Tides. After the short, scene-setting intro, Withering Tides gallops away into heavy metal heaven with a sound that’s strikingly familiar yet somehow unique – strange magick, indeed! The four youngsters of AXETASY soon prove their mettle with a straightforward rush of just-black-enough speed metal dotted with tasty, atmospheric melodies and technically demanding passages. This is not the usual blackthrash trip; rare is it to find a modern band nailing the etched-in-time, Walls of Jericho-era Helloween sound with this much aplomb. As such, the production of Withering Tides totally befits their fun-yet-fiery, dark-but-not-completely chassis: gleaming and clean where it needs to be, and just dirty enough underneath. Nightmarish mayhem, for sure, and immediately memorable after just one listen…but you’ll surely be possessed by AXETASY to press “play” 666 times!
Swords of steel aloft, AXETASY’s Withering Tides comes heartily recommended for maniacs of labelmates HEXECUTOR and BLACKEVIL as well as former labelmates Sacrifizer, Cruel Force’s more recent work, and Brazil’s Evil Invaders – enter this “Fatal Maze” posthaste!
Line-up:
Johnny „Amon“ Kröner – Vocals, Guitar
Nik „Fetch“ Mangold – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Chris Kröner – Drums
Ben „Jaxxy“ Kruska – Bass, Backing Vocals
From Stuttgart, Germany
Artwork:
Lauren Gornik
Release date:
17th January 2025
Tracklist
1 The Void
2 Withering Tides of Space
3 Fatal Maze
4 Slicing Dreams
5 Beyond all Order
6 Voidcrawler
7 Deadly Witch
8 Axetasy - of Murder
9 Nebulous Nightmares
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
After nearly a decade since the release of full-length debut album, Subversions of the Psyche, the Scottish brutes return with sophomore album, Edifice of Vicissitudes, their first for Willowtip!
Without compromise, stylistic detours or mellowing with age, Edifice of Vicissitudes is a blast-beaten beast of an album and a quintessential example of Brutal Death Metal in its purest form.
Guitarist Joe Fleetwood drives that point home in explaining that, “Edifice of Vicissitudes is the culmination of years of jamming and formulating our ideas into the most brutal and twisted Iniquitous Savagery songs we could make.”
Willowtip Records will release Edifice of Vicissitudes November 22 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://iniquitoussavagery.bandcamp.com/album/edifice-of-vicissitudes
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/iniquitous-savagery.aspx
Track
Listing:
1. Casualty of Diabolical Trial
2. Synaptic Cull
3. Choked Before First Breath
4. Omnipotence Negates Self-Affliction
5. Narcotic Exsanguination
6. Lifeblood
7. Drenched in Righteous Offal
8. Bio-Digital Convergence in the Fourth Industrial Age
Credits:
All music and lyrics by Iniquitous Savagery.
Recorded by D.P Johnson and Euan Harrison at Audio Lounge and Full Pelt studios.
Reamping, mixing and mastering by Colin Marston at The Thousand Caves.
Cover art by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design.
Line-up:
Liam McCall - Vocals
Joe Fleetwood - Guitar
Chris Ryan - Bass
Euan Harrison - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/iniquitoussavagery
The exclusive premiere of INCINERATION DAY comes courtesy of Mystification Zine, who states the album "leads the listener through the pathos available to an increasingly anthropo-scenic point of view, slowing to a march into fatal irreverence by the end."
Stream Incineration Day at https://mystificationzine.com/2024/11/20/an-early-stream-of-thunraz-incineration-day-lp-2024-premiere/
Incineration Day is due out on November 22. The album is a collaborative effort between Estonia-based musician Madis Jalakas and US-based drummer Sean Rehmer (Dejecter). Order the album at https://thunraz.bandcamp.com/album/incineration-day
Guitarist/vocalist Madis Jalakas spoke with Decibel Magazine about the project's background, evolution, and what the future holds for THUNRAZ. Read the interview here. https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/11/19/interview-thunrazs-madis-jalakas-brings-the-baltic-gloom-via-incineration-day/
Tracklisting:
1) Tyrant
2) Compactor
3) Fragile Automata
4) Incinerator
5) The Day After
6) Eastern Promises
7) Spiritual Self-Surgery
Vocals, guitars & production for Incineration Day were done by Madis Jalakas in Tallinn, Estonia. Drums were recorded by Sean Rehmer at Storm Crow Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
An experimental death metal project headed by Madis Jalakas, THUNRAZ (thunder in Proto-Germanic) seeks to align itself with primal forces in order to break through personal, philosophical, and musical barriers. Most of the time a solo effort, other times with the aid of different musicians, THUNRAZ has released five uncompromising records since 2018. Incineration Day is the first to feature Kansas City-based drummer Sean Rehmer.
THUNRAZ is:
Madis Jalakas - guitar/vocals
Sean Rehmer - drums
https://www.facebook.com/thunrazmetal/
With minds towards the future and souls rooted in the history of rock, TIME RIFT is the rock ‘n’ roll time machine the world needs. Formed by Justin Kaye in 2014, with various lineups through the years, the band currently counts in its roster Terrica Catwood on drums (circa 2017) and Domino Monet on vocals (circa 2023). That doomed year of 2020 saw the DYING VICTIMS release of their debut album, Eternal Rock, and after the world re-opened, a plethora of dynamite shows in the American Northwest helped them hone their craft further.
Fast forward to today, and TIME RIFT is poised to kill. Witness their second album, In Flight. Taking influence from not just the greats of Motörhead, Led Zeppelin, The MC5, and Scorpions, but also stalwart singers such as Sinéad O'Connor, Grace Slick, and Doro Pesch, TIME RIFT deftly blend the power of heavy metal with the groove of rock. In Flight sounds so old and fresh simultaneously, you’ll continually be checking your calendar for which year it is – in either direction – throughout the album’s punchy & powerful 31-minute duration. The arrival of Domino Monet as frontwoman is momentous, as her tough-yet-tender vocals give the band an entirely new dynamic: a swirling cauldron of emotive mid-‘70s hard rock and early ‘80s metal, lean and mean and minimalist but BIGGER than ever. Be warned - TIME RIFT is In Flight!
Line-up:
Domino Monet - vocals
Terrica Catwood - drums
Justin Kaye - guitars, bass
From Portland, USA
Artwork:
Hickory Mertsching
Release date:
17th January 2025
Tracklist
1 I Am - the Spear
2 Follow Tomorrow
3 Coyote Queen
4 into the Stillness
5 Thunder Calling
6 The Hunter
7 In Flight
8 Dancing with the Sun
9 Hellbound
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on creme coloredvinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The third full-length album "MONUMENTY" from Polish black metal band CZORT is available now to pre-order via Pagan Records. "Monumenty" (translates to “Monuments” from Polish) will be available from 29 November 2024 in jewelcase CD, black heavyweight vinyl and digital formats.
Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/CzortCDLP
Ahead of its release, the band unveiled a music video to the track “Oczyma Monumentu”, with the single streaming now across all digital platforms.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/MYEMzVox_RA
Stream the track via Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Z87Mwx
“Monumenty” was recorded and mixed last fall at Impressive Art studio in Porąbka, Poland by Przemysław Nowak.
The sound on "Monumenty" is an evolution of the band's past work on "W czeluść" (2022 split released via Godz ov War Productions), "Apostoł" (2020 album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) and "Czarna ewangelia" (2018 debut album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions). In 2019, Czort also released a split entitled "Under the White Flame" with Mordhell, Occultum and Dagorath.
In Slavic mythology, Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face.
Tracklist
1. Paroksyzm Ludzkości
2. Zjawa
3. Kuźnia Materii
4. Oczyma Monumentu
5. Zmaganie Rdzeniem Istnienia
6. Cyborium Zgnilizny i Brudu
7. 23.58.30
8. Antynatalizm Boga
9. Ubóstwo Idei
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/czortbluznierca/
Cult compilation of 13 Czech bands BREATH OF DOOM from 1997 for the first time on LP! In deluxe gatefold version.
This is the history of Czech doom metal!
Inside you'll find memories of members of all 13 bands in Czech and English language, as well as memories of the 2LP publisher (i.e. mine) and the original CD and MC publisher.
Release date: 11.11. 2024
LIMITED ONLY 250 COPIES!
Bands:
Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy
Bone Orchard
Mythopoeia
Endless
Promises
Countess Bathory
Vacuum
Love History
Black Heaven
Hypnotic Scenery
Agnus Dei
Certainty
Dissolving Of Prodigy
Specifications of this title
250x black 2x12" (140g) with full-color labels in 2x B/W printed inner bag on 220gsm w-w carton (coated paper); SLEEVE: gatefold, full-color (4/0 CMYK) printed on 350gsm w-w carton, coated paper with matt machine varnish, 5mm spine, all assembled in a plastic overbag (vinyl records between gatefold flaps)
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/breath-of-doom-compilation-2lp/
November 20th - Trillians - Newcastle - w/ Morrows Massacre, Ovulating Cadaver
November 21st - O'Rileys - Hull - w/ Biomech, Scaleraker, May Moon
November 22nd - Legends - Edinburgh - w/ Anomos, Alternate Future, TRILL
November 23rd - The Dev - London - w/Pravitas, Sentient, Arwassa
https://www.noworthofman.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NOWORTHOFMAN
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Finland’s VITRIOLIC, BLACK STEEL VENGEANCE, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Headsplit Records has already released the CD and cassette tape versions for North America.
Hailing from Tampere, VITRIOLIC raise high the iron fist of their homeland’s oft-overlooked blackthrash scene. From the paradigmatic likes of Urn and Flame on to the next generation of Evil Angel, Sadokist, and labelmates RAPID, the power-trio of VITRIOLIC have been fighting the metal fight for the past five years. Initially, the band self-released their first couple EPs and a live album, and then made their full-length debut in 2021 with Renegade Ascension via Headsplit. And while some songs from their second album were forecast in demo form the last few years, at last arrives Black Steel Vengeance.
No more perfectly titled, Black Steel Vengeance is VITRIOLIC are at their rowdiest and most powerful. Honed on the live front, Black Steel Vengeance is a ten-track assault of old-school, riff-driven METAL. Black, speed, thrash, separately or all at once: VITRIOLIC let loose and live lawlessly on this 41-minute firestorm. Truly, this album is a testament to the burning underground spirit – theirs, yours, everyone’s who believes in Hell’s heavy metal – remaining grounded in the dirt of the past but digging up new graves that smell rottenly unfresh. The flag of hate of the original Teutonic Big Three flies proudly here, but VITRIOLIC manage to twist the knife in different-yet-honorable ways. As such, Black Steel Vengeance is equally at home in 1985, 1999, and 2025, such is its timeless gallop ‘n’ thrust. Raise your sword!
Line-up:
Irreverentor - Bass
V Von Vitriolic - Drums
Gatekeeper Ares - Guitars, Vocals
From Tampere, Finland.
Artwork:
Aleksi Stenbacka
Release date:
17th January 2025
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on black/gold marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
GRAFJAMMER – “DE TYFUS, DE TEERLING”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 10.01.2025
The Dutch GRAFJAMMER are back with a new line-up and a fourth album! After their last long player “De Zoute Kwel”, which received numerous positive reviews and a lot of attention in the scene, “De Tyfus, De Teerling” is the latest attack with their very own, viciously driving “Primitive Dutch Necrorock”. The band from Utrecht, which has been around since 2012, effectively mixes first and second wave black metal with hefty pinches of punk, d-beat and Motörhead. The result is groovy as hell – or rather: “swings like a floppy tit”, as vocalist Jorre says – but alongside raging, rocking crushers and passages of dashing destruction, there are also moments in which everything shifts into a melancholy twilight.
With “De Tyfus, De Teerling”, GRAFJAMMER present nine hard-hitting tracks (plus an intro) that tell of religious madness, self-deception and destruction in their mother tongue. In doing so, they delve even deeper than before into the dark underbelly of society and Dutch history. The album title is a variation of “Tyfus! Tering!”, a popular curse combination in Dutch, in the GRAFJAMMER version it means: “The Typhus (and), the Cube”.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/grafjammer
"Envy The Dead" is a concept album that conjures a dark, gritty atmosphere inspired by historical horrors like Jack The Ripper and necromancy. Moving away from symphonic elements, it embraces a progressive Death/Thrash vibe with influences from Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death. Mike Wead (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) is behind the engineering, mixing, and mastering
Tracklist
1. Envy The Dead (intro)
2. Malediction And Laughter
3. Organs, For A Fair Price
4. Prosperity By Cocaïne
5. Maze Of Madness
6. River Dumplings
7. Coughing In The Coffin House
8. Fade Into The Abyss
9. A Deadly Embrace, A Sinister Grace
The album is available on all digital platforms: https://orcd.co/envythedead
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
MISANTHROPIA toured and played the last years intensively, domestically and abroad, under the banner of Eternal Rock Music Agency, and still plans to continue doing so.
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
www.youtube.com/@misanthropiaofficial4167
www.facebook.com/666misanthropia
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: February 18th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Deicide | Nile | Behemoth | Hate Eternal
They dance upon their strings, limbs convulsing as I drum my fingers upon the charred arms of my throne. My words of poisoned honey slip into their ears, caressing their hearts with promises of wealth, fame and adoration…and there is no price they will not pay, no one they will not offer up upon my altar. I have conquered them with whispers and they have laid the bones of their loved ones at my feet. They have lit the fires of their immolation and scream for acceptance and recognition even as they burn. What a race of empty vessels, vacuous fools all ripe for the harvest...
Infamous Belgian death metal force, Fractured Insanity, celebrated their 20th anniversary of musical devastation this year - and marked that milestone by completing work on their incredible fifth album, Age Of Manipulation. This act of sonic warfare is a stunning display of brutality and creativity, an accomplished collection that clearly demonstrates all the experience that Fractured Insanity have accumulated over the last two decades. Beginning with the slow burn build and then explosive attack of ‘Exaltation Of A Fallen Glory’, with its headbanging death march of a chorus, Age Of Manipulation then proceeds to transmute into ever more powerful and formidable forms. ‘Divide And Conquer’ possesses a teeth-grinding intensity that threatens to peel the skin from your face with its remorseless velocity and neck-breaking gear changes, ‘The Hangman’s Chair’ is steeped in horror and propelled by some breathtaking drumming, while the album’s title track crushes you beneath the sheer weight of the guitars, like a monstrous behemoth striding through the broken bodies of the fallen. This album is shrouded in sinister atmosphere and wickedly inventive, with bewildering moments and shocking twists, yet it remains deeply rooted in the cold soil of classic death metal. There is no weak moment, no let up in the sheer obliterating magnificence as the highlights just keep coming – from the nightmarish splendour of ‘Slumber In The Deep’ with its gargantuan vocal performance and towering riffs, to the devastating masterstroke of soul-crushing death metal that is album climax, ‘We All Die In The End’.
Mixed and mastered at the renowned Hertz Studio in Poland, to whom the likes of Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul and Vader have also entrusted their albums, Age Of Manipulation sounds sharp and vicious, with a clarity that highlights the fantastic individual performances on display and the metallic muscle to knock you back in your seat. With a new deal signed with Xtreem Music, the label that released Fractured Insanity’s classic ‘Mass Awakeless’ and ‘Manmade Hell’ albums, Age Of Manipulation will be unleashed on February 18th on CD and digital formats. Prepare to fall to your broken knees before the might of death metal supremacy!
Line-up:
Stefan Van Bael - Vocals/Bass
Jeroen Buysse - Guitar
Dieter Daems - Guitar
Ignace “Hammerman” Verstraete - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/FracturedInsanityOfficial
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT comments: "The 'Entertainer extraordinaire' leads a gullible audience through the sinister halls of the 'HOTEL SPHINX '. Behind the lights, cameras, and endless action lies a disturbing undercurrent—where power is fed by the innocence of youth. The lines between entertainment, initiation, and exploitation blur as a conspiracy of silence reigns in the 'Illuminated Valley of the Kings', where political celebrity celebrates death. Rites of passage too dark to speak, promising false salvation in a world where the show never ends."
Equally rooted in eclectic black metal, the most claustrophobic notions of free jazz, and the concept of urban cityscapes as canyons of horror, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT's signature sound has set a new standard for the possibilities of extreme music. Fans can expect "Goldstar" to continue down this sonic path next year, with media already hailing first single "Eye of Mars" as "chaotic, eerily-atmospheric" (Metal Injection). Stay tuned for more details to come soon...
Stream the new single here: https://imperialtriumphant.lnk.to/HotelSphinxNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnNHaH2kfkE
They've come up with an official video of the title song from their new album 'CULT OF UZURA' which can be witnessed here - https://youtu.be/PHm0WenekQM
Band's statement, "Cult of Uzura is the blooming of Skaphos into something more modern and violent. Recorded and mixed by Nathan Faure and mastered by Thibault Chaumont, Skaphos's third album is the embodiment of the ocean's rage and human madness.
Thanks to Kunal Choksi of Transcending Obscurity who signed us, we're more than happy to have the opportunity to spread our music worldwide.
All shall be one with the sea.
Skaphos is:
Guitar & vocals: Stephan Petitjean
Guitar & backing vocals: Jeremy Tronyo
Bass & backing vocals: Theo Langlois
Drums: Nathan Faure
Artwork by Paolo Girardi (to be revealed in due time)
Track
listing
1. Cult of Uzura
2. One Eyed Terror
3. Mad Man and the Sea
4. Hypoxia
5. Abyssal Tower
6. Echoes of the Drowned
7. Of Shores and Dripping Souls
8. Skaphism
9. The Servant
10. The Alchemist
11. The Offering
12. Diluvian Sentence
13. All Shall Be Now Itself the Sea
Release date - T.B.A. (early 2025)
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/skaphosofficiel
Thanks! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
NEWS 16.11.2024
KRACHMANIFEST #8 (A4/deutsch)
VON JEGLICHEM WORT –"HIER WIRFST DU AUS DEINER BRUST EINE NEUE ERDE IN DEN RAUM"
NEKROTHORAX – “RAISING HELL” (TAPE)
STREETCLEANER - #32 (A4 /deutsch )
„Geradliniger Metal, mal wuchtig, mal mit dem Fuß auf dem Gaspedal“ – so beschreibt eine regionale Zeitung das erste Release „6TH DIMENSION“ der Heavy Metal Band LASER SCOPE aus Gera/Umgebung. „Auf der einen Seite der inhaltliche Blick in die Sterne, in Weltraum und Science-Fiction, auf der anderen Seite der musikalische Anker in den Achtzigern.“
Am 25.05. wurde die EP „6th Dimension“ veröffentlicht. Reinhören kann man z.B. hier https://laserscope.bandcamp.com – aber auch bei allen gängigen Streamingdiensten.
kontakt@laser-scope.de
www.laser-scope.de
DEATH
DESCENDING
is the singular vision of a dedicated musician. This one-man wrecking crew
unleashes a monstrous sonic assault that blends the fury of blackened death
metal with the atmospheric expanse of post-metal and the bone-crushing
brutality of slam. Death Descending's self-titled EP promises a pulverizing
experience!
Tracklist
1.Permanence
2.Death Descending
3.Death Dealer
4.Where No Light Treads
www.facebook.com/deathdescending
We’re
excited to announce an unholy pact with Brazilian one-man bestial black/death
commando TERROR. The South American war cult will soon emerge
with its first act of ritual aural terrorism, the "HYMNI BELLI
OCCULTUM" EP, an eighteen minute EP of gruesome extreme metal
warfare weaponized from the cult of Archgoat, Holocausto, Tormentador,
Sarcofago, Bestial Warlust and Conqueror.
The crushing EP has been teased by underground music blog Veil of Sound, who in revealing the song “Bélica Sinfonia Armagedônica“ via an exclusive track premiere have stated that “the music on this five-song-EP is fast, relentless Death Metal, with tinges of OSDM chugging and growls plus a bit of Blackened Noise attack.“ - you can check out the feature and track here https://veilofsound.com/2024/11/12/Song_Premiere-Terror.html
Across these five edicts of third world barbarism the totality of our new world dystopia is glorified and instigated down to its most antihuman and savage traits, with the cult of all crime syndicates, gangs, slums, warfare, violence, militarism and corruption thrown into an abyss of occultism and esotericism to embody the true lineaments of the modern world antichrist.
The "Hymni Belli Occultum" EP will officially be released on December 6 2024 on CD, MC and digital formats, all pre-orderable now via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/terror-hymni-belli-occultum
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/terror
Today I'm proud to present a good friends band, Öldöds, and their upcoming album "Ölen ska ner". A fantastic beer-infused death metal album that's filled with catchy, heavy riffs, about the thing many of us loves the most. Drinking beer. Enjoy!
ÖLDÖDS – “ÖLEN SKA NER”
Öldöds was formed in 2007, and has since become a cult band in the Swedish underground metal scene. Straight to the point death metal with catchy, heavy riffs - and beer lyrics. 10 years after the full length debut it’s time again for some brand new brutal beer-infused songs!
Guitars, vocals, production, song writing, mix and master: David “Pos” Mauritzon
Bass: Peter Harg
Guest vocals on ”Fullast kör, dödast vinner”: LG Lantz Graffman
Song list
Öl är vårt sista hopp
Fyllans tid är nu
Fullast kör, dödast vinner
Ölen ska ner
Jag greppar en öl
Dricka öl och bli jättefull
Release date: December 6th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/oldods
A concept album in the truest sense, Gobischkevrot blends intense folk-inspired metal with spoken-word narration from the Goblin RaidBoss known as Skraptif. This newly released chapter sees the goblin horde overcome their human antagonists in a deservedly brutal manner.
"With the proper magic, the proper guts, and much sacrifice, the clan finally had the power we needed to drive the humans out of our territory. We stomped the humans so hard that their entire settlement dissolved into the ground! There is no way to describe the raw power we felt at that moment! The Moon's Fist would come down on humankind like a flood, wildfire, or earthquake! "
Stream "Moon's Fist" now at https://goblinhovel.bandcamp.com/track/moons-fist
With over 20 releases under their belt, GOBLIN HOVEL fully embraces their metal influences with Gobischkevrot; a natural progression from 2022’s Whatever Keeps the Light On.
Track
listing:
1. Ambush
2. The Cave
3. Gobischkevrot
4. The Plan
5. Voyage of the Grogswiller
6. The Stowaway
7. Borokol pt. II
8. Don't Eat The Mushrooms
9. Dialogue with a Mountain
10. Moon's Fist
11. The Night Man Learned to Fear the Mountain
12. Crineiga
Gobischkevrot was recorded, mixed and mastered at Blackwell Sound with additional recording at Nektarkin Studios throughout 2024. The lyrics and script were written by the Nameless Goblin. Music was composed and arranged by the collective known as GOBLIN HOVEL. Cover art and Character Sheets by Alexios Ciancio @cianciographics. Back cover art and Layout by Eva Zarich. Band Photography by Fursy.
This album is a companion/expansion to March of the Goblins by Tha Goblvnz March. Listen here, and dive into the gobbish extended universe! https://thagoblvnzmarch.bandcamp.com/
GOBLIN HOVEL is a collective of musicians and artists formed in Meadville, PA in 2010 and currently based in Buffalo/Rochester, NY. Though primarily influenced by heavy metal, the band takes cues from various musical and folk traditions from around the world to create an intense avant-garde soundscape reflective of humanity’s chaotic and often contradictory nature. Lyrically, the band focuses on the universal human experience filtered through the lens of history, folklore, and esoterica.
GOBLIN HOVEL 2024 is:
The Nameless Goblin: bass, vocals, throat singing, Fx, guitar on track 11, voice of Skraptif
Damn Barbarian: Lead Vocals, voice of Ghirrul
Rawbeard: Guitars, recording, vocals, voice of Baalkryth and Borokol
Petuh: Banjos, Mandolin, vocals, voice of Nerlhein
Son G: Drums, rattles, electronics, keyboards, voice of Human Guard
Guest Appearances:
Mickey: vocals/voice of the Pixie
Squee Key Fromage: voice of Human Guard
Tom Gerwitz: recording, throat singing on track 11, mixing, mastering, samples, vocals
Alexios Ciancio: voice of Goblvnz the mountain, additional composer on track 9.
www.facebook.com/GoblinHovel
The new single "Lichteter" is available to stream via all
streaming platforms: https://lnk.to/noctambulist
"Lyrically the song explores the desire for a stable albeit mediocre future only to discover the present has fallen apart in the meantime", said the band. "It is emblematic of the themes found on much of the songs throughout the album. It falls in a comfortable transition between the harsher tones found on Elegieën and the experimental nature of De Droom."
Last month the band released the single “Aderlater”.
The new album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released on 7 February 2025 in CD, vinyl and digital formats. Recorded in Tilburg between February and April 2023 at Catacomben Studios, De Droom sees Noctambulist diving deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen.
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk.
Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album will be released through These Hands Melt, with pre-order details and more information to be revealed soon.
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Noctambulistband
Finnish melodic death/folk metal band WARFARER released their long-awaited debut concept album, 'A TALE BEYOND THE PALE' on November 15th 2024 via Inverse Records.
LISTEN to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/warfarer-album
The band comments:
"The wait is over. 'A Tale Beyond the Pale' is here — a journey through Finnish myth and legend: jealousy, scheming, Viking raids, and duels under the northern lights. We’ve poured our hearts and souls (or what’s left of them) into this album, and it feels incredible to finally share it with the world.
But this is just the beginning — our TO-DO list is long and relentless. Warfarer is gearing up to hit the road, bringing our full live sound to stages across Finland and beyond. We’re also deep into the pre-production of our second album, so rest assured, more music is on the horizon.
To our fans, thank you for your unwavering support. See you in the longhalls!"
STORIES BEHIND THE TRACKS:
Heir Uncrowned:
"The beginning. Two brothers, raised as one, by blood bound. Our protagonist, the firstborn son, is destined to become the tribe's chieftain. When he commits a shameful deed, he is disgraced by his chieftain father and disavowed. After the chieftain dies and the second son takes our protagonist's place as the new chieftain, the firstborn son begins to resent his own brother."
As the Portents Foretold:
"The raid. The brothers lead a raid over the sea against a southern village. Amidst the battle, the jealous firstborn son looks for an opportunity to plant his dagger in his brother-chieftain's back, but is continuously denied the chance. Finally, as the sounds of battle fade and everyone else has fallen, he turns his blade toward his brother."
Brotherslayer:
"The duel. The firstborn son, cold-blooded, faces the bewildered brother-chieftain, who does not understand what madness has overtaken his dear brother. In the end, the firstborn son stands over his slain brother as the morning sun dawns."
Bereaver:
"The homecoming. As the raiders return, carrying their beloved chieftain on a funeral bier, the firstborn son is exhilarated. He assumes his place as the new chieftain, but among the subdued cheers, murmurs of discontent and rumors surrounding the circumstances of his brother-chieftain's death persist.”
Betrayer:
"The resentment. The firstborn son is the new chieftain, but he is not beloved like his brother. Even in death, his brother makes him jealous, and this resentment begins to turn into anger. Soon, the flames of his hate engulf the whole village."
In the Gravelight:
"The loneliness. Alone, despised, amidst the burning ruins of his sanity, the firstborn son hides in the north. The realization of his deeds finally drives him over the precipice, and he descends into grief-stricken madness."
March Through the Endless Snow:
"The march. Giving up everything, the firstborn son begins his journey further into the north. Determined to find his end on his own terms, he marches to reach the dark river of Tuonela."
The Gates to Realms Beyond:
"The end. Collapsing in the snow, he sees the gates open to the realms beyond. The firstborn son leaves this world, leaving behind his legacy — the myth of the brotherslayer."
WATCH Brotherslayer music video: https://youtu.be/My-6xbnEEmo
WATCH Heir Uncrowned video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AmN6t0Mj5Y
Biography:
Born from the frost of Northern Finland in 2013, Warfarer weaves chilling tales of small people's great struggles amidst ancient myths. Their ferocious blend of melodic death metal and symphonic elements bites like the freezing wind and grips you like the flu.
After releasing an EP in 2017 and undergoing a complete reincarnation with new singles in 2018 and 2020, the band is more alive than ever, preparing for war with brutal new songs and sharpened axes. Their upcoming concept album, 'A Tale Beyond the Pale', set for release in 2024, delves into the Finnish myth of the Brotherslayer, taking listeners on a journey through jealousy, scheming, Viking raids, duels under the northern lights, and an eventual descent into guilt and madness.
Track
list:
01. Heir Uncrowned
02. As the Portents Foretold
03. Brotherslayer
04. Bereaver
05. Betrayer
06. In the Gravelight
07. March Through the Endless Snow
08. The Gates to Realms Beyond
Cover art by Sofia Sinivuori
Line-up:
Kalle Puutio - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitars
Seppo Kolehmainen - Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals
Klaus Telenius - Bass, Backing Vocals
Tuomas Rahikainen - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Julius Lehtonen - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@warfarerband
https://www.warfarer.fi
https://linktr.ee/warfarer
https://www.facebook.com/warfarerband
Dark, grimy and subtly dissonant death/black metal . Obscureviolence have created a deadly concoction of death and black metal, taking the most effective elements of each genre and keeping the music raw and visceral enough for them to contribute uninhibitedly to the powerful sound envisioned by the band. Listen to the two songs that have been freshly unveiled https://obscureviolence.bandcamp.com/album/refuting-the-flesh
OBSCUREVIOLENCE – “REFUTING THE FLESH”
For fans of- Crypts of Despair, Mgla, Skaphos, Morbid Angel, Viande, Burial Hordes, Saevus Finis
Featuring members of the death metal band Horror God, Obscureviolence are a new entity channelling the darkest and vilest sounds of black and death metal. They've brought elements of the two styles together, the raw, acerbic edge of black metal and the fearsome heft of death metal. They go hand-in-hand with their distinct features enhancing the overall sound, which comes off as surprisingly cohesive and powerful. As intimidating and loathsome their music is, which becomes a force of nature when they go on a rampage, they do know the importance of pacing and make sure to let the darker parts come to the fore and add a mysterious, ominous aura to the proceedings and also let the subtle dissonance seep deeper into the subconscious. For a debut, their songs are remarkably well-constructed and balanced, without letting go of their capacity for wanton mayhem, while heralding the coming of a new kind of power.
Lineup:
Sergey B. (Horror God) - Bass guitar, vocals
Sergey T. (Horror God) - Guitar
Dmitry L. - Drums
Artwork - S.TkN. (Sergey T.)
Track listing
1. Exodus
2. Refuting the Flesh
3. Source of Life
4. Spiritual Agony
5. The Absurdity of Existence
6. Pulse of Subconscious Cruelty
Release date - February 14th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/obscurefcknviolence
Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
"Thanatos" is a dynamic evolution for Deus Mortem. While retaining their black metal roots, the album showcases a powerful blend of old-school rock and metal influences, with driving riffs, thunderous rhythm sections, and haunting melodies. It's a testament to the band's musical growth, showcasing a more versatile and powerful sound than ever before.
"Thanatos" is a concept album that confronts the complexities of human existence. It takes listeners on a transformative journey through illusory realities, unveiling hidden truths and stripping away the veils of deception. It's a testament to personal struggle and the power of the Black Flame.
https://www.facebook.com/deusmortemofficial/
ZERO ABSOLU – “LA SAIGNÉE”
With
members of ALCEST and REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER
Genre: Black Metal
Label: AOP Records
VÖ: 31.01.2025
ZERO ABSOLU is the band formerly known as Glaciation.
Glaciation was a project founded in 2011 by François Duguest (instruments) and Jean Valnoir Simoulin (Vocals, art direction).
The group then expanded to include Hugo Moerman (who became the 3rd permanent member of the group), the two main members of Alcest, and Lychar.
In 2012, they released the album «1994». The lyrics nostalgically and bitterly revisit Valnoir’s experience within the Black Metal scene throughout the 90s.
Valnoir temporarily left the band in 2014 and was replaced by RMS Hreidmarr.
In 2015, the album «Sur les falaises de marbre» was released by Osmose. Productions. Due to alcoholism issues (among others), Hreidmarr was later removed from the band. He then decided, without informing anyone, to assemble a new lineup and illegally registered the name «Glaciation» with the French Institute for Intellectual Property.
In 2023, the core of the original lineup (obviously without Hreidmarr), accompanied by a member of Regarde les hommes tomber and another from Alcest, recorded a new album: La saignée («The Bloodletting»). The lyrics take the form of a pamphlet confronting the enemies of the band and the Metal scene in general.
In 2024, to put an end to the drama, they decided to rename Glaciation to ZÉRO ABSOLU, and signs with AOP.
https://shop.aoprecords.de/
https://www.facebook.com/metastazisparis
Los Angeles (CA) - One-man Melodic Death/Black Metal act, THE MOSAIC WINDOW, in collaboration with Metal Injection, presents the world premiere of forthcoming album, Hemasanctum! Stream it now at the link below!
The Mosaic Window will release Hemasanctum, November 15 on Willowtip Records! The album will be available on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats.
The Mosaic Window mastermind, Andrew Steven Brown, released the following statement concerning the album:
“Hemasanctum is a concept album that explores my current thoughts on life, relationships (parent-child), and loss. While it may or may not be obvious, the album starts with a song about birth and ends with a song about death. In between are songs intentionally out of order (like the roller-coaster timeline we all experience) subtly relating to topics like self-awareness, mental health, abortion, religion, and grief.
This album is the first Mosaic Window record to feature a real drummer - Gabe Seeber of Abigail Williams, Vale of Pnath, Obscura (live), Decrepit Birth (live), Carach Angren (live), and many more. Additionally, I am still in awe that there are two guest solos from the legendary (and possibly my favorite) guitarist Andy LaRocque. Both Andy and Gabe absolutely nailed their parts, and I couldn’t be more elated for their presence on the record.
Hemasanctum was written and recorded between October 2023 - February 2024 at my home studio, and mixed by Damian Herring over the Summer of 2024. I am so proud of this album, and hope listeners can appreciate it too. Cheers!”
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/the-mosaic-window.aspx
https://themosaicwindow.bandcamp.com/album/hemasanctum
Track Listing:
1. Incantation to Summon the Unstable
2. The Pounding of Hooves
3. Black Bethlehem
4. Turibulum
5. Ash Like Anvils
6. Night Disease
7. Shrouded in Pain
8. Hymn to Silence the Light
Credits:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Producing, Engineering.
Damian Herring - Mixing and Mastering.
Additional Musicians:
Gabe Seeber - Drums
Andy LaRocque - Guitar Solos (Tracks 2 and 4)
Album Art: “Dead Mother I” by Egon Schiele (1910)
The Mosaic Window is:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Mosaic-Window-100094717845304/
Are you ready to dive into this dark abyss? Here is where abrupt death awaits for you with the coldness noises of MALÉFICO that will echo permanently in your subconscious, in a compulsive way and transforming your human existence into something miserable and insignificant...
MALÉFICO is an ecstasy of misanthropic noises that will invade you with horrible torments, and extract your most morbid nightmares into a reality where you will slowly rots and where your purulent carcass decomposes daily, without you being able to prevent or stop this metamorphosis of personal self destruction...
SUICIDAL DARK NOISE AMBIENT...
MALÉFICO
- "SUICIDE SOUL"
Cassette with limited edition of 33 copies
SIDE A
01 - Caos & Ruin [3:19]
02 - Cut Your Soul [8:21]
03 - Darkness [13:21]
SIDE B
04 - Cut Your Soul (Suicide) [21:34]
Record in 2021 & Mixed in 2024
All Dark Ambient and Vocals by Hailstorm
Layout made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter
Promotional video made by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter
MURDER RECORDS proudly announces the cover art and a preview track "Cut Your Soul" from MALÉFICO's debut album, which will be released in January in the following formats:
HELLPACK LIMITED TO 10 COPIES
This suicide HELLPACK will be presented in a wooden box that will include the following items: 1 bottle of gasoline + 1 match with sandpaper + 1 blade + 1 inverted cross with necklace + 1 MALÉFICO cassette numbered with blood... This edition is not for humanbeens or noise pussies...
NORMAL EDITION IN CASSETTE LIMITED TO 23 COPIES
PRE ORDER OPEN AT: 15 November 2024
RELEASE DATE: 17 January 2025
Listen https://murderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/suicide-soul?mc_cid=9069bf5871&mc_eid=20155afc03 the noise preview.
SUICIDE ON... LIFE OFF...
ALBUS DIABOLUS: An arcane and mystical musical
laboratory
. My Kingdom Music is proud to announce ALBUS DIABOLUS' signing. Created
and formed by talented and well-known actors of the Italian music scene (for
now we won't tell you who they are!), the project aims to be a musical
laboratory where merging the gothic and dark aesthetics of extreme music in its
most various forms, with an electronic sound deeply influenced by the
Synth-Wave and Dark-Wave style of the 80s.
The idea of ALBUS DIABOLUS was born as a project aimed at experimenting with sound imagery with synthesizers, drum machines and atmospheres that evoke lights and shadows, but without ever moving away from the atmospheric roots that characterize the Dark and Ritual scene and the musical bases of Gothic Rock and Metal.
The result is an emotional and immersive journey that evokes soundscapes that oscillate between nostalgia and mystery with a sound that recalls the influences of works such as "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS, while maintaining a distinctive identity.
And now... let the Sabbath begin!!!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
Label: Wulfhere Productions
Release Date: October 18th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Ancient | Burzum | Nefarious | Hecate Enthroned
The judgement of the stars that stare down from the night sky means nothing to me. I will outlive their flickering ghost light. I will still be walking my endless path when they have burnt out into darkness. I will be here when the legends that gave names to their constellations have been forgotten. Yet my bones become fragile, like dry twigs that crack underfoot. My once imperious strength deserts me and my lustreless skin fades, hanging from my enfeebled frame. My beauty is shed with my fracturing sanity, crumbling over freezing aeons of solitude. I will retreat into my memories of glorious, blood-drenched centuries of lust and power, when we fell from the skies like avenging angels, wolves upon the fold, drunk on the terror of the lambs…
Parusight is the solo project of Bristol black metal musician Oliver Groves; noted as the guitarist of Blasfeme, who unleashed the visceral warfare of the Black Legion album earlier this year. But the darkness speaks to Groves in many voices and with Parusight he explores a very different shade of black. The opening track of debut album Deathly Pale, ‘A Clash Of Stars’, is a summoning of atmosphere, a gateway to the shadow realms of Parusight, a place where spirit freezing cold and desolate beauty entwine, where bestial vocals howl through blinding storms of ice and keyboards weave tapestries of dark romance. From the tempestuous seas of blood and raging chaos of ‘Lost In A Shadow’ to the wounded, malicious devil that is ‘Malignant’ – a song of decay held together by bitterness and spite – Deathly Pale reveals itself to be an epic, emotive creation of rampant riffs and cascading melodies, a tale of many chapters. At the ever-bleeding heart of the album lies its greatest work, where all its poisons coalesce, ‘Love’. Here, reflections on past sins are shrouded in funereal drapes of melancholy, dying passions feed ancient agonies and words are torn from throats in violent expulsions of utter savagery. Deathly Pale is an intensely personal outpouring of emotion, yet one rooted in revered musical traditions and universal truths
Released by the bastion of British black metal that is Wulfhere Productions on October 18th, Deathly Pale is a remarkable debut album from a burgeoning talent. Oliver Groves – Parusight – has a huge amount to offer to devoted disciples of the darkest musical art and Deathly Pale is the perfect first step into his kingdom of endless night.
Line-up:
Oliver Groves - All music and vocals
https://www.facebook.com/wulfhereproductions
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070289408997
“We are thrilled to announce the release of our debut album with WormholeDeath Records." stated the band "This album embodies our creative vision, delving into the myriad facets of eternal darkness and its relentless struggle against the forces of light. We invite listeners to fully immerse themselves in this profound journey."
Their debut album delves into the human soul’s journey through the intricate paths of darkness. It portrays the loss of innocence as the soul traverses a series of symbolic gates, each revealing deeper layers of torment. Drawing on mythological, biblical, and existential themes, the album illustrates the eternal battle between light and darkness and the ultimate quest for redemption in a world engulfed in despair. It offers a visceral, immersive experience, guiding listeners through the void, confronting the agony of existence, and hinting at the possibility of transcendence through destruction.
Their musical style is marked by rapid riffs infused with symphonic textures and atmospheric vibes, promising a unique and immersive auditory experience for their audience.
Titel
list
1. Dawn of Decay
2. Burning Echoes
3. Eternal Parasite
4. Lured
5. Stepping into Oblivion
6. Unceasing Death
7. Shadow
8. Ignorance
9. The Fall of the Rebel
10. The Great Epilogue
11. Breaking the Pendulum
Line - up:
Necro - Vocals
Mynoghra - Vocals
Absence - Guitar
GraveKeeper - Guitar
Apollyon - Bass
Akhenaten - Keyboards
Y.B - Drums
https://linktr.ee/endofdawn
Aussie death/thrashers COMMON EVIL stream their self-titled EP in its entirety .
NEWS 9.11.2024
Was schon bei der Produktankündigung direkt auffiel: Der
Band ist es hier gelungen, ein wahres No-Nonsense-Package zu schnüren, wo sich
alles zu 100 Prozent auf die Musik konzentriert, auf den Spirit einer Band, die
es in diesem Line-Up nur für ein Album gab. Oder wie Gitarrist Andy Brings es
verdeutlicht: "Es war uns wichtig, dass der Fokus auf der Musik liegt
und auf dem, was die Band damals war, wie sie geklungen hat. Man hätte jetzt
natürlich, wie andere Bands das auch machen, noch’n Sodom-Kartenspiel, noch’n
Sodom-Halstuch, Aschenbecher, Zollstock, was weiß ich alles reinpacken können,
damit das Ding auch ja 170€ kostet mit so Wegwerf-Temu-Artikeln, aber das
wollten wir nicht."
Statt eines Päckchens voller Schießbuden-Tand gibt es also ein echtes Brett, das die Atmosphäre jener Zeit hochverdichtet und mit liebevoll erarbeiteter Ausstattung zu einem sehr fairen Preis anbietet. Ein Quäntchen Klangverfeinerung gibt es mit dem "2024 Remaster" des Albums, das jedoch sehr behutsam angegangen wurde, um den ursprünglichen Charakter des Werks zu erhalten. Anstatt dort an den Reglern zu weit zu gehen, was von den Fans oft nicht gern gesehen wird, wurde kurzerhand eine zweite Fassung beigelegt, in der "Tapping The Vein" einen kompletten Remix erhielt, für den Andy auch im Original nicht enthaltenes Aufnahmematerial aus der damaligen Recording-Session mit einbrachte. "Bullet in the Head" konnte bereits als Erstkontakt mit diesem "2024 Redux" die Fans überzeugen: Sodom und High-End-Audio funktionieren verblüffend gut!
Nicht minder gründlich wurden Originaltonaufnahmen der legendären 1992er Japan-Tour der Band gesichtet und zu einer ebenfalls beigelegten Livescheibe zusammengestellt.
Andy erläutert, welches Ansinnen zu dieser Kollektion geführt hat und warum das Ganze sowohl auf Vinyl als auch auf CD zu einem regulären Albumpreis erhältlich ist: "Es sollte bezahlbar bleiben – wir sind Working Class, das ganze Sodom-Universum ist Working Class und es war uns wichtig, zu zeigen: Wie war die Band damals; wie war diese recht kurzlebige Ära dieser Band. Es war nur netto ein Jahr Tom, Chris und Andy und in der Zeit ist ja eigentlich sehr viel passiert. In den drei Konzerten, die in relativ kurzen Abständen passierten und aufgenommen wurden, hört man schon, wie unterschiedlich wir so drauf waren. Mitunter sehr ruppig gespielt – ist natürlich ein Trademark gewesen –, aber so war die Band damals. Auf dem kreativen Höhepunkt, aber trotzdem kurz vor dem Auseinanderbrechen, also eine ganz seltsame Zeit. Und deswegen kann man da jetzt, über 30 Jahre später, nochmal aus ‘ner ganz anderen Perspektive draufgucken und das Ding in ein neues altes Kleid packen, ohne zu sehr einzugreifen, ohne irgendwas zu verändern, ohne mit den Erinnerungen und Gefühlen der Fans Schindluder zu treiben."
"Tapping The Vein", das in der Szene oft als "Sodoms Death-Metal-Scheibe" gehandelt wird, steht dabei wie kaum ein anderes für den frühen Thrash am Scheideweg.
Viele Bands begannen in den beginnenden Neunzigerjahren, ihre ursprünglichen Visionen zu verwerfen und sich teils komplett neu zu orientieren. Das Gegenteil bei Sodom: Man spielte, ergänzt mit der Wildheit des noch sehr jungen Gitarristen Andy, einfach nur noch schneller, härter, brutaler als vorher, blieb sich und dem Thrash aber treu. Und nicht anders war der Death Metal seinerzeit ja auch aus Superlativen des Thrash entstanden. "Tapping The Vein" ist zurück, rau und urgewaltig und auf Wunsch auch in Brutal Hifi.
Event-Informationen und kurzfristige Updates findest du auf der Google-Seite des EMP Store Dortmund: https://posts.gle/54Tgvb
https://www.sodomized.info/
Erste Single „Hammergeddon“ online ab 16:30!
Mit „Hammergeddon 666 - Die Katakomben betritt man nicht allein“ melden sich NOCTE OBDUCTA kraftvoll und fesselnd zurück. Diese neue EP zeigt einmal mehr die ungebrochene Kreativität und den experimentellen Geist der Band, die seit Jahrzehnten die deutsche Black Metal-Szene tiefgreifend prägt.
Ab heute (16:30) gibt es vorab die erste Single „Hammergeddon“ als sehenswertes Lyricvideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhaMBFZPSMA
Hier kann “Hammergeddon 666” – Die Katakomben betritt man nicht allein“ ab sofort in verschiedenen Formaten (CD, Vinyl, Tape, Digital) vorbestellt werden: https://supremechaos.com/artists/nocte-obducta/
Auf der ersten Seite der EP führen uns NOCTE OBDUCTA zurück zu ihren musikalischen Wurzeln, inspiriert von dem wegweisenden Album „Schwarzmetall (Ein primitives Zwischenspiel)“. Die neuen Titel „Hammergeddon“, „Schorm“, „Blut, Bier, Dunkelheit“ und „Faustphisto“ reflektieren die rohe Intensität und die ungezähmte Kraft, die die Band seit ihren Anfängen auszeichnet. Diese Tracks verkörpern die Essenz des frühen NOCTE OBDUCTA-Sounds, der über die Jahre hinweg gewachsen ist und durch die kreative Weiterentwicklung der Band eine neue Dimension erreicht hat.
Auf der zweiten Seite der EP erwartet die Hörer*innen mit „Auf wortlosen Fluren“ ein eindrucksvolles Meisterwerk, das als dritter Teil der Serie „Gemälde derer, die schieden“ eine ganz eigene Erzählung fortführt. Diese überlange Komposition ist weit mehr als nur ein musikalisches Stück; sie ist eine epische Klangreise, die die Zuhörer*innen tief in eine Welt aus atmosphärischer Dichte und eindringlicher Emotionalität eintauchen lässt. Mit einer bemerkenswerten Vielschichtigkeit entfaltet sich eine Klanglandschaft, die musikalisch über die Grenzen des Black Metal hinausgeht und lyrisch mit seinem auf Deutsch verfasstem Text einmalig ist.
„Hammergeddon 666“ ist ein weiteres Zeugnis für die Fähigkeit von NOCTE OBDUCTA, sowohl die Vergangenheit zu ehren als auch die Zukunft des Black Metal mitzugestalten. Diese EP ist ein Muss für jeden, der die tiefgründige Klangkunst von NOCTE OBDUCTA schätzt.
„Hammergeddon 666“ erscheint am 6. Dezember 2024 über Supreme Chaos Records.
Tracklist
A1. Hammergeddon
A2. Schorm
A3. Blut, Bier, Dunkelheit
A4. Faustphisto
B1. Auf wortlosen Fluren (Gemälde derer, die schieden – Teil III)
Spielzeit 19:17
Good To Know
Für Vinyl konzeptionierte EP mit Bonus-B-Seite.
Gemastert in der Tonbraurei, Aufnahme in den altbekannten Ultraton Studios.
Vorbote des 15ten Albums der Mainzer.
Musiker:
Marcel Gitarren, Gesang, Keyboards, Bass
Torsten Gesang
Stefan Gitarren, Gesang
Malte Schlagzeug
Heidig Bass
https://linktr.ee/nocteobducta
Finnish Deathgrind band CANNIBAL ACCIDENT is set to release their fifth studio album 'DISGUST' on February 28th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first double single 'Scorched Meat Tactics - Explicit Everything' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-scorched
Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Kurwa Doktor comments:
"Our 5th album 'Disgust' is a brutal reality check in the form of a 20-song blast of adult oriented deathgrind. We moved further away from the gore & perversion fantasy themes and discovered the wonderful world of every-day morbid human behaviour. At the same time we enriched the old school death/grind groundwork with shameless hardcore elements and dissonant madness. If this is some form a rebirth of this band, it was probably painless and bloodless even though not very obvious nor premeditated. Feel the disgust and love it like a hideous animal you are."
Upcoming gigs:
14.11. Riga (Latvia)
15.11. Kaunas (Lithuania)
16.11. Liepāja (Latvia)
14.12. Tallinn (Estonia)
28.02. Turku (Finland)
01.03. Pori (Finland)
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://cannibalaccident.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
FIASKO started working on the album immediately after their last release, the “Mizantropolia” EP which saw the light of day in February 2020. The band’s efforts were hindered by the lack of a drummer, however, that was rectified after Tomek Walczak (Chainsword, Tankograd, Weedpecker etc.) was invited in 2023 to collaborate and arrange the drum tracks as a guest/session drummer.
All instruments for “AMOK ꓘOMA” were recorded at Santa Studio under the watchful eye and ear of Mikołaj Kiciak. The vocals were recorded at Burning Tones by Adam Ziółkowski, who is also responsible for mixing the album. The recording was then mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Me and that Man, Gruzja, Thaw).
The artwork to “AMOK ꓘOMA” was created by Robert A. von Ritter (Hooded Menace, Urfaust, Malokarpatan, Outre, In Twilight's Embrace) while the album’s booklet layout and design is the work of Paweł Marzec of Kontamination Design (Dimmu Borgir, Morbus Chron, Blaze of Perdition, Manbryne).
The band released two singles in support of the new album: “Sztuczne kwiaty” and “Wniwecz”.
Tracklist:
1. Spod spodu
2. Wniwecz
3. Tarantyzm
4. VII krąg
5. Sztuczne kwiaty
6. Śmierć krzywdziciela
7. Ciało obce
8. Maligna
FIASKO is:
Mielnik – lead vocals, lyrics
Kozina – guitar
Michułka – guitar
Nawrot – bass guitar, backing vocals
Walczak – drums (session)
https://www.youtube.com/fiaskopolo
https://www.facebook.com/fiaskopl/
Pre-orders are online here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/ordinul-negru-dodekatemoria
In anticipation of the new album ORDINUL NEGRU offer a new single taken off "Dodekatemoria" titled "The Decrepitude of Centuries", now online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUw5w7f1a7o
Here's what the band had to say about "The Decrepitude of Centuries": "The aim of the video, made by Alexandru Das, is to also present our visual concept accompanying the new album, and to introduce a little bit of another dimension, after the release of our video, “Zahir”. This time it is more about chaos and isolation."
The cover artwork for "Dodekatemoria" was crafted in conspiracy with long-time band collaborator Alexandru Das, and the band photos are the work of Oana Stoian.
The new material has been in the works for the past five years and it was previously introduced by two EPs: "Nebuisa" in 2020, and "A Sojourner Wandering Through the Barren Openness" in 2021, and by a first video for the track "Zahir" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntw6Ssx3ug)
Here's what the band had to say about the album: ""Dodekatemoria" is the ninth album and represents our bond with the cosmic nature and what we experience as individuals when we are on this path searching for our truths."
The band also invited Anca Otescu (Black Water, FusionCore) and Irinel Carlan to enhance the vocal compartment with their guest performances.
Tracklist:
I. Aleph
II. Dodekatemoria
III. Judas Goat
IV. The Decrepitude of Centuries
V. Zahir
VI. Palladian Rituals
Line-up:
Fulmineos – guitars, vocals
Urmuz – guitars, vocals
Putrid – drums, bass
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/ordinulnegru
Get it on the action at: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/shadowsdecay/agent-of-chaos/
Track
Listing:
1) Dry You Out
2) Falling of Mind
3) Agent of Chaos
4) Bringer of Death
5) Only Lies
6) Psuedo Suicidal
Shadows Decay is part of the Phosphorus Studios management agency roster.
Hailing from the vibrant metal scene of Costa Rica, Shadows Decay has been a formidable presence in the thrash metal genre since their formation in 2008. Originally known as Preoptic Distortion, the band underwent a transformation both in name and sound, evolving into Shadows Decay—a name that embodies their music's raw energy and dark intensity.
Drawing inspiration from the titans of thrash such as Slayer, Testament, Metallica, Anthrax, and Death Angel, Shadows Decay has cultivated a unique sound that honors the legacy of these pioneers while forging their path. The music is a relentless onslaught of powerful riffs, thunderous drums, and aggressive vocals, delivering a high-octane experience that resonates with metal fans worldwide.
Shadows Decay is more than just a band; they are a collective of passionate musicians driven by a shared vision of musical excellence. Their live performances are known for their electrifying energy and raw intensity, leaving audiences craving more. With every show, Shadows Decay solidifies their reputation as one of the most dynamic and powerful thrash metal bands in the region. As they look to the future, Shadows Decay is poised to take their music to new heights, with plans for new releases and more explosive live
shows. Their journey is one of perseverance, passion, and an unwavering commitment to delivering the pure essence of thrash metal.
Shadows Decay stands ready to spread their sonic devastation far and wide - because in the world of metal - decay never sounded so good.
Shadows Decay is:
Nacho Escobar - vocals, guitars
Nestor Morales - lead guitar
Daniel Solano - Bass guitar
Jeyson Hodgson - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@shadowsdecay9548
https://www.facebook.com/ShadowsDecay
Purchase/stream
the album at the following links:
https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/only-the-stars-know-of-my-misfortune
https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/products/isleptonthemoon-only-the-stars-know-of-my-sorrow-lp-pre-order
Track Listing:
1. Safety
2. Dimming Light
3. Maybe I Don't Know It Yet, But Good Things Are Coming Soon
4. I Belong To The Void
5. Like Dying
6. Keep Hidden
Only The Stars Know of My Misfortune was written, recorded, and mixed by ISLEPTONTHEMOON. The album was mastered by Spenser Morris at SM Audio. Cover photo courtesy of Jesse Sewell via Unsplash.
ISLEPTONTHEMOON
Miserable Black Metal since 2016.
https://www.facebook.com/bindrunerecordings
https://isleptonthemoon.bandcamp.com/
Celebrating
the first chapter of the band with a very special live recording, blackened
death metal masters THULCANDRA are gearing up for the release of
their first-ever live album! "LIVE DEMISE" – to be
unleashed on December 6, 2024 via Napalm Records – was recorded live in 2011 at
a hometown show in Munich, Germany, and features true gems that the band hasn't
performed in more than a decade, all with the original line-up consisting of
Sebastian Ludwig, Tobias Ludwig, Matthias Landes (Dark Fortress, Noneuclid) and
Steffen Kummerer (Obscura, Death, Cynic).
THULCANDRA’s rise to power ignited when the four-piece unleashed their debut album, "Fallen Angel’s Dominion", upon metaldom in 2010. Followed by their 2011 masterpiece, "Under a Frozen Sun", "Live Demise" contains brutal-as-hell classics from both records, like "Black Flags Of Hate", "In Blood And Fire" and "The Spirit Of The Night", aptly capturing the spirit and high-voltage energy of both the crowd and band. Ragers such as "Night Eternal" and "Fallen Angel's Dominion" perfectly showcase the band's raw and intense performances in their early days, and prove how THULCANDRA has quickly stepped up as one of the leading bands of their genre!
Due to the pandemic, which was subsequently followed by their latest studio album "Hail The Abyss", "Live Demise" could not be released alongside THULCANDRA's 20th anniversary as originally planned. Now, with mixing and mastering by Dan Swanö (Katatonia, Edge Of Sanity, Dissection) and cover artwork designed by Herbert Lochner, this very special release and retrospect of the first phase of the band will become available in only strictly limited editions exclusively via Napalm Records and at THULCANDRA's upcoming live shows.
https://napalmrecords.com/
https://www.thetruethulcandra.com/
We are proud to announce our partnership with renown Sheet Happens Publishing, Toronto, Canada. As a first glimpse, we present you complete guitar & bass transcriptions of our debut album "Fallen Angel's Dominion", and second full length, "Under A Frozen Sun", as physical and digital tablature books.
All books come along with GuitarPro files and can be upgraded with official play-along tracks, featuring bass, drums and acoustic guitars only.
Dive into the complete guitar & bass transcriptions directly at Sheet Happens.
https://www.sheethappenspublishing.com/collections/thulcandra
Swiss
extreme metal titans TYRMFAR proudly unleash their blistering
second single, "SYMPHONY OF PAIN", taken from the
highly anticipated forthcoming EP, SYMBIOSIS.
"Symphony of Pain" delivers a visceral portrayal of inner torment, delving deep into a tortured soul’s battle with regret, deceit, and redemption. The track paints a powerful picture of a mind lost in turmoil, only to rise again, stronger and more resilient. With lyrics that explore the weight of personal accountability and the transformation that emerges from facing one's demons, Tyrmfar crafts a journey of anguish that ultimately offers hope—a triumphant message of rebirth from the ashes.
"Symphony of Pain" is a sonic onslaught that showcases Tyrmfar’s signature blend of ferocity and emotion. The band draws listeners into an epic struggle for redemption, proving that even in the darkest moments, there is light to be found.
The single is now available on all major digital platforms, offering a taste of what's to come in the band's upcoming release, Symbiosis
Listen to "Symphony of Pain": https://orcd.co/symphonyofpain
About the EP: Symbiosis
With Symbiosis, Tyrmfar pushes the boundaries of their sound, forging an evolution in their blackened death metal assault. The EP explores the uneasy relationship between humanity and nature, channeling the growing tension of ecological and social crises into a brutal yet thought-provoking musical experience.
Rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal influences of the late '90s and early 2000s, Symbiosis also embraces modern elements that reflect the band's diverse musical inspirations. This creative process, enriched by each member’s distinct style, weaves together a tapestry of searing intensity and emotional depth. Every note is a testament to the band's commitment to authenticity and connection, ensuring that their live performances remain as powerful and captivating as their studio work.
Prepare for an unrelenting wave of extreme metal that challenges both the mind and the senses.
https://linktr.ee/tyrmfar
https://www.facebook.com/tyrmfar
"Birth of Terror" is not just an album; it’s an auditory and visual experience. The songs dive into myriad themes, from horror to real-life reflections, each track a journey into the band’s psyche. The cover art, conceptualized with the vision of a strong female protagonist, is a striking departure from the typical metal album imagery of zombies and monsters. Finnish artist Pauli Maronen was brought on board to bring this powerful character to life, embodying the band’s desire to break the mold and deliver something unique. The path to Birth of Terror has been anything but straightforward. What began with fifteen songs had to be entirely reimagined due to lineup changes. Recording the album proved to be a test of endurance, with suboptimal conditions for drums and vocals, leaving only the guitars and bass to be recorded in a proper studio setting. Despite these hurdles, METAL RIOT has emerged stronger, with an album that captures their essence and energy. In a metal scene often criticized for its repetitiveness and the overuse of downtuned guitars, METAL RIOT stands firm in their commitment to a classic heavy metal sound. Rejecting trends that compromise the genre’s heaviness, the band draws inspiration from a wide array of sources—other music, personal emotions, nature, and the unexpected moments that life offers.
Tracklist
1. Dreams Die Young
2. Into the Fire
3. Eternal Speed Death
4. War
5. Echoes in Eternity
6. Now or Never
7. Those Who Come at Night
8. Pieces of the Past
Metal Riot, formed in Akaa, Finland, in 2015 and now based in Tampere, delivers raw and authentic heavy metal infused with traditional metal and punk influences. Founded by vocalist and former guitarist Joonas Myller and bassist Benjamin Sairamo, the band underwent several lineup changes before settling on their current members: Myller, Sairamo, guitarists Mika Takanen & Marcus Johansson, and drummer Joonas Kokko. Now with the plans to make a plethora of Songs not just speed or thrash metal in mind, the band has its pedal-to-the-metal on its way to the all-or-nothing. This lineup brought renewed focus and energy, culminating in the release of their debut album Birth of Terror in 2024, under Wormholedeath Records
www.youtube.com/@MetalRiotBand
www.facebook.com/metalriotband
Deathcore band BOREAL GRAVE released a new single “IN DEVIL’S EMBRACE”. The track is taken from the forthcoming debut EP 'I AM YOUR BANE' which is set to be released on December 13th 2024 via Inverse Records.
Listen to “In Devil’s Embrace” on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/boreal-grave-embrace
“In Devil’s Embrace” is the second single from Boreal Grave’s upcoming EP I Am Your Bane, which will be released on December 13, 2024. The song bings listeners to the edge of life and death, a place where light cannot reach and all hope is lost. The lyrics open the gates to despair, where the soul is imprisoned in darkness – relentlessly echoing the declaration “God has failed me,” like an incantation that grows stronger with every scream. This fate is like a prison, where death offers the only escape.
“In Devil’s Embrace” paints a dark picture of a soul’s struggle amidst divine betrayal and chains of darkness. It exudes pain and loss, revealing the final remnants of hope and a betrayed faith. Heavy riffs and chilling tones make the song an inevitable experience – the chorus lingers hauntingly, heavy and menacing.
The I Am Your Bane EP delves into life’s darkest aspects, such as the loss of a loved one, death, depression, bullying, despair, and betrayal. Each song plunges deep into the darkest recesses of the human mind, showing no mercy. “In Devil’s Embrace” offers a glimpse of what’s to come – deathcore that won’t let go, but instead pulls you into a dark world. I Am Your Bane will be released on December 13, so stay tuned and prepare yourself…
Watch a stunning music video "Mother Of Evil" made by Juha Nikupeteri: https://youtu.be/7-fuvTrzI6I
Line-up:
Henri Puoliväli-Oksala (Vocals)
Ville Mahlamäki (Guitar)
Matias Mattila (Guitar)
Tomi Salo (Bass)
Mikael Lamminmäki (Drums)
https://borealgrave.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/borealgraveofficial
Prepare
to plunge into a world of darkness and emotional intensity as DEATH
DESCENDING releases the lyric video for their latest track, "DEATH
DESCENDING." This powerful song is taken from the band’s
highly anticipated self-titled EP, set for release on November 22nd, 2024 via
Wormholedeath.
The track delves into despair, mortality, and the human desire to escape suffering. "Death Descending" is a haunting melody that captures the raw emotion of a soul yearning for release.
Death Descending is a unique blend of blackened, death-metal, and slam death metal.
www.facebook.com/deathdescending
New lyric video from KAIVS ("FOR SATAN YOUR FLESH FOR GOD YOUR SOUL" out from "AFTER THE FLESH" album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyK_jplSkM8
KAIVS was formed following death metal inspired by early 1990's Stockholm sound (Entombed, Nihilist, Dismember and Carnage).
With countless rehearsals, longtime songwriting and concerts, KAIVS was ready to release in 2023 "Horrend" a three tracks ep. It was forerunner of the upcoming debut album "After The Flesh" released worldwide in October 2024 for Brutal Records.
Both artworks will feature Spanish master Juanjo Castellano (Revel In Flesh, Avulsed, The Black Dahlia Murder) recorded at Kika Studios and produced by Andrea Kikazaru, in Rome
Prepare
for an onslaught of pure, unadulterated death metal fury as Brutal Records
proudly announces the signing of Rome's very own purveyors of chaos, KAIVS.
Hailing from the dark alleys of Italy, this death metal juggernaut first made
its mark with the 2023 debut EP "Horrend."
In a statement dripping with the venom of anticipation, the band declared, "We've inked a pact with Brutal Records, and it's time to unleash hell on a global scale. We're hungry to spread our darkness far and wide, and Brutal Records is the perfect conduit for our wrath. Brace yourselves, for KAIVS is here to conquer."
With the ferocity of a ravenous beast, KAIVS delivers bone-crushing riffs, guttural vocals, and an unyielding barrage of sonic assault. Their brand of death metal is a testament to raw power, devoid of mercy or compromise.
Inspired by the unholy sounds of the early 1990s Stockholm scene, KAIVS infuses their music with a relentless drive that cuts through the soul like a serrated blade.
But KAIVS is more than just a mere echo of the past. They are pioneers of darkness, forging a new path through the charred remains of the old. With their upcoming debut album, "After the Flesh," slated for global domination in October 2024 under the banner of Brutal Records, KAIVS promises to redefine the very essence of brutality.
Led by the unholy trinity of Max Foam's demonic vocals, Tiziano Mortician's razor-sharp guitar work, Jacopo Simonelli's thunderous bass lines, and Leonardo Sastro's relentless drumming, KAIVS stands as a towering
monument to the dark arts of death metal.
As the world trembles in anticipation, KAIVS emerges from the shadows, ready to conquer all who dare to stand in their way. Brace yourselves, for the age of darkness is upon us, and KAIVS leads the charge.
Death metal! No fucking bullshit!
Discography
Horrend (EP) (2023)
After The Flesh (Full Album) 2024
Line-Up
Max Foam - vocals
Tiziano Mortician - guitar
Jacopo Simonelli - bass
Leonardo Sastro - drums
https://kaivs.bandcamp.com/album/horrend
https://www.youtube.com/@kaivs
https://www.facebook.com/kaivsofficial
SHRIEKING DEMONS – “THE FESTERING DWELLERS”
For
fans of
- Autopsy, Abscess, Cianide, Druid Lord, Pungent
Stench, Death, Assumption, Dwelling Below
Shrieking Demons play death metal in the classic style with emphasis on riffs, delivery, and feeling rather than just crazed speed and technicality. Even though influenced by legends such as Autopsy, Death, Possessed and others, it's ironically refreshing to listen to music played with such fervour and devotion which adds new life to it. It takes you back to the time when you first came across death metal music, especially the filthy kind, and went through a whole range of emotions and gesticulations. Shrieking Demons evoke similar feelings which is only possible because of the passion with which they've pieced this together, taking the best elements of what made those albums unforgettable and giving it their own treatment. The fact that the members have a fair bit of experience playing this kind of music only adds credibility, with them being in bands like Assumption and also other filthy bands in the past such as Haemophagus, Morbo, Undead Creep and Gravesite. Shrieking Demons is the culmination of their experience where this kind of death metal music goes, creating the best possible expression without making any compromises anywhere, and keeping it rich and nuanced enough to elevate it above all else.
Lineup
Gabri (Cancer Spreading, Gravesite) - Vocals
Giorgio (Assumption, Bottomless) - Lead and acoustic guitar
Valentina - Rhythm guitar
Nino - Bass
David (Assumption, Bottomless) - Drums
Cover art by Roberto Toderico Art (Asphyx, Paganizer)
Track listing
1. Devour My Wicked Soul
2. Abstract Hallucinating
3. Sorrowful Dismal Bliss
4. Nefarious, Scorned Deities I Am Devoted To
5. Perennial Dirge
6. Garden of the Headless Dead
7. Longing for Total Eclipse
8. Compromised Brain
9. Awakening From Secular Slumber
10. Apostasy, Sodomy and Sacrilege
Release date - January 31st, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/shriekingdemons
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE – “EXEMPTING REALITY”
Label: Comatose Music
Release Date: January 17th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Suffocation | Cryptopsy | Internal Bleeding | Mortal Decay
There is movement beneath the soil, the earth shifting and resettling, sinking and splitting, as if the very foundations of the world are beginning to crumble. Down in the darkness, in the unseen kingdom of worms, an eye is burning brightly; sinews shaped by strange sorcery strain against their horrid confinement and bone fingers dig towards the light. Rotting teeth gnaw at roots and rubble that dare to impede the creature’s passage through this cold and suffocating birth canal. There are things in this world that simply will not die, no matter how deeply they are buried...
We often hear of ‘lost gems’ from the underground, forgotten albums that should have been hailed as great works, but somehow slipped down the cracks of public perception. In most cases these treasures prove to be so much fool’s gold and dust, wistful thinking and nostalgia…but sometimes, on rare occasions, something truly special claws its way up from the boneyard and into the night air. Something like Cerebral Hemorrhage’s Exempting Reality. Originally released back in 2001, Exempting Reality was the only album released by New York’s Cerebral Hemorrhage, but what an album it was! A piece of death metal mastery that blended brutality with imagination, haunting atmosphere with musical adventure, crushing heaviness with a breathtaking willingness to explore and push boundaries. Now, the label that understands death metal better than any other – Comatose Music – has broken open Exempting Reality’s tomb. Remastered by Colin Davis (Aborted, Defeated Sanity, Origin etc), with new cover art, Exempting Reality is an album reborn.
The passing years have done nothing to blunt the vicious edges of the songs that make up Exempting Reality, or to dull the creative spirit that infuses them. ‘Abusive Power’ is still shockingly good with its array of stunning riffs and wonderful drumming. ‘Remnants Of The Final Solution’ remains revelatory with its fluid melodic section and jazz inflections and the surging guitar patterns and imposing vocals of ‘Deranged Perception’ are as hypnotic and deadly as a cobra. If you missed this before then don’t make that mistake again – second chances don’t come along every day and nor do albums as special as Cerebral Hemorrhage’s Exempting Reality. Coming your way on Comatose Music on January 17th 2025.
Line-up:
Matt Szablewicz - Vocals
Matt Doreson - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Tommy - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cerebralhemorrhageband/
ANOMIC is a force to be
reckoned with. Founded by Dutch/Syrian guitarist and vocalist Raafat
"Raaf" Atasi, the band blends the fury of Thrash with the unrelenting
brutality of Death Metal, creating a sound that is both punishing and
addictive. After leaving the German thrash outfit War Agenda in August 2023,
Raaf wasted no time channeling his creative fire into Anomic. He channeled a
multitude of influences, resulting in the band's debut EP, "OPACITY".
This 3-track sonic assault tackles existential themes like conformity, war,
insanity, and apocalypse.
Raaf wasn't alone in this sonic crusade. He enlisted his old friend Fadi Massamiri to join the band as bassist and second vocalist, with Fadi also taking the reins on mixing and mastering "Opacity". To solidify their rhythm section, the band recruited the legendary Krzysztof Klingbein (live drummer for Vader, Belphegor, and Hate) to lay down the punishing drum tracks on the EP. Additionally, the monstrous vocals of Stefan Nordström guest star on the track "On Deaf Ears", add an extra layer of malevolent fury.
www.youtube.com/@Anomic-Official
www.facebook.com/AnomicOfficialMusic
“It is a wrought, and evil love story about two centuries old creatures trying to find companionship but due to their strong evil spirit are unable to exist with another powerful figure by their side,” summarises M.
The
band has shared the closing chapter of this story, "Andromeda."
Stream the song now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KxAxDWtWl4
Bearer of Light, Matriarch of Death tracklist:
1) Methuselah
2) Tribulation
3) Necropoles
4) Andromeda
With two full-lengths under their belts, and a tenth anniversary on the horizon, an EP somewhat disrupts the customary album cycle – signaling a deliberate shift driven by creative intent.
“Early in the writing process, the EP’s lyrical themes were, just like the music, created as one flowing and entwined story,” explains M. “This collection of songs was written at a certain time and expanded upon the more atmospheric side of the band. The songs are very much connected and the first time we see the release as a single piece if you will.”
It is this cohesive execution that gives Bearer of Light, Matriarch of Death its exceptional sense of completeness. Golgothan Remains’ distinct brand of death metal is a relentless force, masterfully balancing blistering speeds, sinister black metal undertones, and crushing doom. The result is a suffocating, trance-inducing atmosphere of unyielding intensity.
Adding to the whole is a crushing production courtesy of Esoteric’s Greg Chandler (Priory Recording Studios) and artwork by Christian Kiesling of Misanthropic Art:
“The journey through time and space which is relayed in the EP’s four tracks has been beautifully expressed in Chris’ painting. The piece amazingly captures the story’s setting, landscapes and aura. It was a great collaboration, and we are extremely pleased with the result!”
Golgothan Remains is:
Matthieu Van den Brande - Vocals
Matt Hillman - Guitars
Adam Martin - Bass
Aled Powell - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/GolgothanRemains
Experimental black metallers LICHO will release their third full-length album “CIUCIUBABKA” in a special edition cassette format via Devoted Art Propaganda on 19 December 2024. The tape will be limited to 100 copies and is available to pre-order now: https://d-a-p.org/
Listen to “Ciuciubabka”:
https://youtu.be/GHKe5JZvwFo?si=0wPuP2BhF5R9zHXJ
https://licho.bandcamp.com/album/ciuciubabka
The album was originally released in 2022 via Pagan Records in CD and digital formats.
The word “ciuciubabka” translates to the children’s game “blind man’s buff” or “tag” in which one person has a cloth tied over their eyes and tries to catch the others. The album tells the story of what can be seen when blindfolded, the game of hiding and catching what has fallen from the sky. It is also about, as always, walking towards the light. On foot, on horseback, by car, by spirit.
Musically, Licho continues in black metal style as on previous albums, while also taking inspiration from other genres and quoting the poet Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz. The “Ciuciubabka” album cover features a painting by Wilhelm Sasnal Polak.
The album was recorded at Nebula Studio, Czyściec Studio and Garderobie Czorta. Maciej Wasio (Myslovitz among others) is responsible for the mix, and Jaakko Viitalähde (Oranssi Pazuzu among others) for the mastering.
Licho was founded in 2011 in Sanok, Poland by Szturpak. The current line-up has been in operation since 2017 and consists of musicians also known from projects such as Koniec Pola, -S-, Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi and Gruzja.
https://www.facebook.com/Lichoofficial
Wormholedeath is thrilled to announce the signing of Brescia, Italy's rising black metal force, ĀRDEAT. The band's highly anticipated debut album, "APOTHEOSIS," is set to be unleashed upon the world on December 20th, 2024.
Tracklist
1. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
2. Hyperion
3. Ignis Fatum
4. Nell'Ora dell'Epilogo
5. Hekate
6. Apotheosis
7. Et in Arcadia Ego
8. Atlantide (Bonus Track)
Founded in Brescia in 2021, Ārdeat emerged from the collaboration of Enrico Pinelli, Julian Polonioli, Riccardo Cremaschini, and Andrea Salvagni, who reunited after years of involvement in various musical ventures. The band’s first single—a compelling cover of Franco Battiato’s “Atlantide”—led to the addition of guitarist Cristian della Noce and the creation of their debut EP, Exitivm. This EP, featuring a monumental 20-minute track split into two acts, established Ārdeat as a formidable force in the black metal scene.
Ārdeat didn't stop there. In 2022, they paid homage to the legendary Bathory by contributing a cover of "Home of Once Brave" to a tribute compilation championed by Antichrist Magazine. They then took their music to the stage, sharing bills with Italian metal royalty like Mortuary Drape, Opera IX, Darkend, and Black Oath.
Ārdeat's sound is a potent blend of atmospheric black metal, the tight riffing of early death metal, and the melodic hooks of the NWOBHM. Drawing inspiration from bands like Dissection, Mgla, and Spite Extreme Wing, they forge a sound that is both fiercely aggressive and hauntingly beautiful.
Apotheosis: A Descent into the Mythic
"Apotheosis" is a concept album that delves into the fleeting nature of humanity against the backdrop of powerful supernatural forces. Drawing inspiration from the myths and tragedies of the Archaic and Classical Greek eras, the album explores themes of man's struggle for power, knowledge, and ultimately, his place in the universe. Through tales of gods and war, Ārdeat paints a vivid picture of humanity's desperate attempts to transcend its limitations, a quest that often leads to devastating consequences.
www.youtube.com/@ardeatofficial
www.facebook.com/Ardeatbandofficial
Emerging
from the shadows of Los Angeles in 2018, BODYBUILDER is the
singular vision of mastermind Nicholas Capaldi. Weaving a tapestry of despair
and dread, Capaldi utilizes a potent arsenal of synthesizers, tortured vocals,
and pulverizing drum programming.
"THERE'S NO THERE, THERE" signifies a bold new chapter for Bodybuilder. This isn't your typical black metal fare. Imagine a relentless sonic storm, a relentless torrent of anguish howling its terrifying symphony. Distorted synthesizers paint a bleak yet atmospheric canvas, transporting the listener on a harrowing journey through nightmares escapes, and existential abysses.
Capaldi draws inspiration from the dark visions of literary giants like William Gibson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, and H.P. Lovecraft. The resulting soundscape mirrors their bleak narratives: a descent into a dreamscape that spirals endlessly into a terrifying void.
Tracklist
1. Separating Twins
2. Vera’s Moth
3. Charon
4. About a Hanging, Pt.2
5. Somebody, Something, Somewhere
6. Thalassa
https://bodybuilder.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-kadath
Brace
yourself for absolute annihilation! Brutal Records has unleashed the apocalypse
by signing Italy's masters of sonic destruction, RISE OF TYRANTS.
Their highly anticipated album, THE CHRONICLES OF CARDINAL PABLO MENDOZA,
is poised to detonate on February 28, 2025.
But the devastation doesn’t stop there! The Abnormality in Structure album will roar back with a full remaster, unleashing sheer chaos on February 7, 2025. Plus, prepare for the brutal resurgence of Trauma, hitting with a completely remastered fury on January 10, 2025, shattering all limits of brutality. This is raw, unrestrained death metal terror: merciless, bone-crushing, and utterly unstoppable. Get ready for total obliteration!
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
French Evocative Black Metallers BERLIAL are proud to unveil the cover artwork of the new album "NOURISHING THE DISASTER TO COME" realized by the talented artist Jeff Grimal.
The French duo explains this choice: "The artwork depicts Charon
sailing through the waste piles of the 6th continent. Sorrowful souls,
reminiscent of the migrants dying in the sea as they try to survive, are
drowning there. We also distinguish a satellite like those already invading space.
The choice of Jeff Grimal was imposed by his way of working and his technique, a raw art, a suggestive figuration which tends towards the abstract. In addition, the artist's favorite themes (Lovecraft's universe, nature and the abstract) are adapted to what the group wanted to represent."
We also present the tracklist of the album with its six chapters: 1. The Last Dance - 2. Nouveau Monde - 3. We Deserve To Fall Again - 4. Ivresse De La Finitude - 5. Nourishing The Disaster To Come - 6. Le Néant Pour Éternité
With BERLIAL's new album "Nourishing The Disaster To Come", you enter into a polymorphic and iconoclastic Black Metal with electronic, post-rock and dungeon synth elements which brings them alongside bands such as Dødheimsgard, Akhlys, Blut Aus Nord, Deadspace, Afraid of Destinity, Raven Throne, Decline of the I.
Its atmospheres, the samples, the spoken speeches, the music built like a wall of sound, make everything extreme, oppressive and delirious but at the same time with a truly unique oniric dimension.
"Nourishing The Disaster To Come" will be released on February 7th, 2025 on My Kingdom Music in digipakCD, LP (black and splatter blue vinyls) and digital.
You can PRE-ORDER here: https://shorturl.at/84xCN
BERLIAL, how to feed the disaster, knowing you can't do without it.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
http://www.facebook.com/berlial666
Among These Ashes will release Embers of Elysium December 6 on Alone Records! The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song, from the band.
In discussing the new level reached on Embers of Elysium, guitarist Richard Clark states that it "is quite the leap for us in every aspect from Dominion Enthroned. Where Dominion was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on Embers of Elysium are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners."
Track
Listing:
1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
*13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)
*Bonus track, featuring vocalist Brooke Rousseau (Lady Luna and the Devil).
Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach.
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Line-Up:
Richard Clark: lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals. JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar.
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Bio:
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band's central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group's sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes' debut musical offering, Dominion Enthroned, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled "The Enemy in I," which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of "Sirens" by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, "Restless Gypsy."
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
https://www.facebook.com/AmongTheseAshesMetal
Hevn
III’s debut album is a powerful statement of black metal's raw and unfiltered
essence. This Norwegian trio has channeled pure, unrelenting aggression into a
work that feels as if it has been pulled from the darkest recesses of the human
psyche. The album is relentless and ugly, with a sound that can only be
described as pitch-black hatred personified. Every track drips with venom,
driven by a primal fury that refuses to be tamed.
Drawing on themes of misanthropy, magick, and the dark philosophies of Blake, Nietzsche, and Crowley, Hevn III crafts a soundscape that is both chaotic and deeply unsettling. The riffs are dissonant and corrosive, the vocals a tortured howl that seems to echo from the abyss. The album doesn’t seek to please; it seeks to challenge, to provoke, to drag listeners into its world of darkness and despair.
For those who have experienced Hevn III live, this album is a natural extension of the intense, suffocating atmosphere they create on stage. Their sound is tight and sulphurous, recalling an era when black metal was not just a genre, but a statement of pure, unadulterated emotion. The production is raw, yet deliberate, capturing the essence of their live performances while adding layers of depth that reveal themselves with each listen.
This debut is not just an album; it’s a ritual. A ritual of misanthropy and hatred, where each note is a curse, and each riff is a wound. Hevn III has delivered a work that will undoubtedly leave a scar on the black metal landscape, a reminder of the genre's power to evoke the darkest emotions. This is black metal at its most primal, its most venomous, its most unforgettable.
Tracklist
1. Turin horse
2. Pindom
3. Soaring through red worlds
4. Basilisk
5. On peaks of surreptitious wolves
6. Drep deg selv
7. Ridder av hat
https://www.facebook.com/@polypusrecords
CORROSIVE ELEMENTS - "CUT THE SERPENT'S HEAD"Release date : November 29th 2024
Genre
: Death
Thrash N' Roll
Origin: France
Duration: 41:20
Label: GreyveStorm Productions & Crypt Of Dr.Gore et Chien Noir (pour la version vinyle)
Tracklist:
01. Conquering the divine
02. Ignorance is no longer bliss
03. So long sucker
04. The unseen
05. An american hero
06. Cut the serpent's head
07. Enter the final state
08. The right to remain poor
09. Among the casualties
10. Fascistalism
True defenders of the underground ethos, CORROSIVE ELEMENTS made their path with a first EP in 2008, a debut album in 2015 and a scorching live album in 2016. Having graced the stage at renowned festivals like Hellfest's Altar Stage and sharing the spotlight with metal legends such as Death Angel, Loudblast, Darkane, Sinister, and more, the quintet took a great amount of time refining the new tunes for their highly anticipated 2024 album release.
The credo stands strong: DEATH THRASH N’ROLL THE OLD SCHOOL WAY!
"Cut the serpent’s head", the second album of CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a collection of 10 powerful songs, designed for a more direct and dynamic approach, in the typical style of the band, a clever mix of Death and Thrash Metal, with tons of groove, anger and attitude.
The new album was written collectively by the band in the rehearsal room, an old fashioned method that makes the music more immediate and impactful.
With broad influences ranging from Thrash legends such as Slayer, (old) Sepultura and Exodus, Death Metal in the tradition of Entombed, Obituary, Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and an addition of primitive energy derived from Hardcore Punk, The band is now ready to place this new offering on the altar of Extreme Metal.
Conceptually, "Cut the Serpent's Head" is a cynical look at the destiny ofmankind, its race towards nonsense. A warning against the hegemony of organized religions, shady politics, decaying societies and the rise of social injustice.
Stay tuned, the next few days will see more information about the artwork, release dates, formats and everything you need to know about this new album which will be produced by Crypt Of Dr.Gore and GreyveStorm Productions.
https://linktr.ee/corrosiveelements
Woe
J. Reaper’s FURZE strikes back with a new single “BEAUTIFUL
LIVING ON THE LEFT HAND PATH OF DEATH”, ahead of the release of the new
album, "COSMIC STIMULATION OF DARK FANTASIES". This
will be the second album released this year from the renowned black psych act
and the ninth full-length addition to the FURZE discography.
"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" will take listeners on a sonic journey through the depths of darkness, the haunting beauty of the unknown, and a trip that will solidify FURZE's status as masters of the "black psych" metal sound.
The album will be out on 15 November 2024 and is available for pre-order now: http://order.d-a-p.org/ & https://furze.bandcamp.com/
In October, FURZE released a trippy music video for the track “Marrow Creed”. The video visually embodies the album's themes of cosmic exploration, existential dread, and the allure of the forbidden. This new song is a prime example of FURZE's evolution, pushing the boundaries of their sound with a trippy and unusual soundscape.
Watch the music video to “Marrow Creed”: https://youtu.be/tyyuzdzpeUk
"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" marks a significant milestone for FURZE, showcasing its evolution and pushing the boundaries of its signature sound. The album features a diverse range of tracks, from the psychedelic ballad "Marrow Creed" to the intense, Satanic groove of "Waswasah".
Woe J. Reaper said: “We invite you to journey the 9th full length of FURZE - "COSMIC STIMULATION OF DARK FANTASIES". Creating sounds where eternity is haunting mankind's will for survival and barking answers seems echoing, twisting that same will to the point of hunting Man's soul back through spectral infinity.
“The album pushes the personal edge of diverse Furzement to dark delights. Heavily brandished with oldish black doom metal spirit to breed new blood: Under the umbrella Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies you have songs like Marrow Creed, a psychedelic ballad of an inner self-motion/devotion, Waswasah - a Satanic groove with whispers from a devil so potent we wish only Kings in the beyond would, but do not hear! And another 4 raw power tunes on what is no less than the 2nd (!) brand new Furze full-length in 2024 alone. Long live Black Psych Metal!”
"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" will be available as a stunning Gatefold LP on 15 November 2024, in a collaboration between Devoted Art Propaganda and Polytriad Fingerprints. Prepare to have your orgasmic sensibilities awakened by the return of Woe J. Reaper!
Devoted Art Propaganda have also prepared an on-demand print of the “Necromanzee“ T-shirt design reinterpreted by von Ritter. This will only be available in pre-order and will be shipped on 15 November. Devoted Art Propaganda will also distribute older Furze material - stay tuned!
Furze released its eighth album “Caw Entrance” earlier this year in CD, LP, cassette and digital formats.
https://furze.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Furzebook
The second full-length studio album by Bulgarian Groove/Death Metal band GRIMAZE
- "THE HEART OF A
COLLAPSING STAR" reflects on the relationship between the micro
and macro cosmos. Powerful human emotions are being experienced by fierce
natural forces to depict the intensity through which one goes on the spiritual
path.
Guitars, bass, and vocals were recorded at Urban House Studio, Sofia, Bulgaria, while the drums were recorded by Janne Jaloma and Daniel Bergstrand at SDFX Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.
The whole album was mixed by Daniel Bergstrand.
Mastering was done by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios, Uppsala, Sweden.
Grimaze is a Bulgarian Groove/Death Metal band formed in 2013.
Since its formation, the band has toured with Decapitated, Hatesphere, Thy Disease, Pestilence, Bleeding Gods, Vader, and Hate. Grimaze has also supported Cannibal Corpse.
The new album, "The Heart Of A Collapsing Star", was released on September 1, 2024. Two singles from the album, “Gripping The Spirit” and “Cosmic Solitude”, has been released as well.
https://www.facebook.com/GRIMAZE
SADDAYAH was founded 11 years ago in Ploiesti, Romania. The band's music is based in traditional Death Metal although the members' high technical level shaped a new direction, a combination of Melodic Technical Death Metal with Progressive and Black Metal influences.
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.saddayah.com
THE FALL OF HOUSE ABBARATH, the vibrant new EP from international Deathcore/Power Metal dynamos, DRAGONCORPSE, is out now on Shattered Earth Records!
FFO: Dragonforce, 3 Inches of Blood, Nekrogoblikon, Lorna Shore, Brand of Sacrifice
The official video for EP single, "A Quest for Truth," is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPUcjbbUbI. Also available is a lyric video for "I Live...AGAIN," featuring Nick Miller (First Fragment, Unleash The Archers), which you can check out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llkwb8pYkyw
On the new EP, the band took its already innovative, energetic sound, created through the fusion of deathcore and power metal, and sharpened it to a fine point on The Fall of House Abbarath. DRAGONCORPSE took the feedback gathered from the release of debut EP, The Drakketh Saga, to heart and used it to refine their approach.
"For new fans, I believe we've added more elements of deathcore and power metal while adding more excitement into the music for an authentic listening experience like no other band," bassist Noah Nikolas Laidlaw explains. "We put a lot of emphasis on the atmosphere of the music," adds drummer Justin Gogan. "Throughout the entire EP there is a medieval theming that resonates in the music that keeps the tracks feeling refreshing and fun. With the addition of Mark on keys/orchestration, he brought with him a completely different approach to songwriting that I am sure fans are going to appreciate!"
Track
Listing:
1. An Introduction to [ HEROISM ]
2. Welcome Home
3. I Live… AGAIN!
4. A Quest For Truth
5. Whisper On The Wind
6. Fear And Hunger
EP Credits:
All songs performed by: DRAGONCORPSE
All songs written by: DRAGONCORPSE
Produced by: DRAGONCORPSE and Matt Schmidt
Mixed by: Matt Schmidt
Mastered by: Matt Schmidt
Album artwork by: Avellustration
Line-up:
Mardy Leith - Vocals
Kris Chayer - Guitars
Noah Nikolas Laidlaw - Bass
Justin Gogan - Drums
Mark Marin - Keys and Orchestration
Bio:
DRAGONCORPSE is a death metal band that fuses power metal and deathcore, creating a unique sound marked by operatic vocals and guttural screams. They stand out with their symphonic elements, adding depth and creativity to their music. The band, with members across Canada, the U.S., and Australia, maintains a cohesive, powerful sound despite the distance. Known for their humor, they embrace memes and use the term "DRAGUSSY" to playfully reference their love for dragons in power metal culture. DRAGONCORPSE offers a dynamic and distinctive experience for fans of death metal, power metal, or deathcore.
https://www.facebook.com/Shatteredearthrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Dragoncorpse
Everto Signum is a Black Metal act embodied by Nekruss and Æminus, hailing from the inner realms of Portugal. Having released the debut full-length “Enneachotomy” in 2012 and the EP “Synergy” in 2014, the band lied dormant as the creative duo focused on other music projects, namely Carma and Lacrau.
After ten years of silence, Everto Signum skulk out of chasmic caverns to unleash their brand new creation entitled “Beastiary” – a concept album inspired by destructive powers of Nature. The band stays true to their elemental background by writing an immersive story that guides the listener through a chain reaction of natural disasters. These calamities are beastialized – manifested as wild uncontrollable beasts exhibiting intrinsic animalistic shapes, traits and behaviours. The plot is comprised of seven chapters, each consisting of a contextual introduction that describes the scenery and sets the mood for the destruction to come, and an interpretation of the actual cataclysm. Written in English, the expressively poetic lyrical narrative portrays a journey from an ice-covered mountain top through a valley, down to the depths of a meromictic lake and finally into a perennial forest to witness the dreadful wrath of ancient forces.
To concretize this work, Everto Signum synergized with Diogo Mota, best known as the drummer of Gaerea, who infused the album with much energy and vigour. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nekruss himself, “Beastiary” stands as a hostile soundscape lasting over 50 minutes. Seven tracks build upon the musical ideas set by the latest EP, expanding and developing those into a more sophisticated form through the band’s signature Elemental Black Metal, this time utterly imbued with the brutality of Death Metal. Sublimely enriched with progressive structures, synthesizer-led passages, ambient sections and many other captivating elements coming from a vast range of influences such as Prog Rock, Folk, Dungeon Synth and even New-age music, “Beastiary” abounds with furiously melodic and potent guitar riffage, fierce and technical drumming, heavy pounding bass lines, and viciously varied extreme vocals. The production is aggressive, massive and multilayered, perfectly fitting the epic thematic of the album and keeping the listener on the edge throughout the entire journey.
The visual representation took form by the hand of the plastic artist RF Torres Valente who created a set of graphite and ink illustrations. These drawings were embellished with arcane calligraphy and exquisitely arranged into a grimoire-inspired layout, all scrupulously crafted by Infected Minds. Printed on rough texturized paper, the magnificent A5-sized 20-page booklet seamlessly depicts surrealistic concepts envisioned by Everto Signum.
Fully explore “Beastiary” here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS8t9UwcrJg
, courtesy of Atmospheric Black Metal Albums YouTube channel. Order infos can be found here https://evertosignum.bandcamp.com/album/beastiary at Everto Signum's Bandcamp page.
Tracklist
1. Genesis [0:49]
2. Colossus [5:05]
3. Ophidian [7:37]
4. Wyvern [9:34]
5. Dragon [8:41]
6. Deinos [13:06]
7. Weaver [6:43]
Complete album line-up:
Æminus – songwriting, guitars and bass
Nekruss – songwriting, lyrics, vocals, recording, mixing and mastering
Diogo Mota – session drums
RF Torres Valente – artwork
Infected Minds – calligraphy and layout
https://www.facebook.com/EvertoSignum
https://www.facebook.com/monumental.rex
In early 2023, a spark ignited the flames of Dreadmask, a melodic death metal band based in Eindhoven, with members originating from Greece, Hungary, and The Netherlands. Fuelled by their shared passion for meaningful heavy music, Dreadmask wasted no time in making their mark on the scene. After each member had taken a break from previous bands, John Kourentas, Elger van Delft and Antonis Mougiakakos initiated the band's first incarnation. The group was settled when Zoltán Herczog came aboard in the summer of 2023. Dreadmask, derived from the fusion of 'dread' and 'mask,' embodies the essence of fear and concealment.
While 'dread' signifies the haunting grip of anxiety, 'mask' alludes to the veils we arise to shield our vulnerabilities. On the journey of playing the game of societal norms, we encounter our 'Prime Dread'—our deepest fears.
Each member of Dreadmask brings their unique musical influences to the forefront, encompassing Swedish death metal riffs, growling vocals, soaring melodies, progressive metal nuances, and black metal-inspired melancholy.
Meet
Dreadmask:
Zoltan Herczog (Rhythm Guitar, Backing vocals)
John Kourentas (Lead Guitar, Keys)
Antonios Mougiakakos (Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar)
Elger Van Delft (Drums)
Tracklist
Reign Of Fear
2. Jester's Grin
3. The Light
4. Reflections
5. Ember
6. Resilient Shadows.
www.youtube.com/@Dreadmask
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Label: Dusktone Records
Release Date: November 29th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Shining | Naglfar | Grá | Odraza
In the long hours of night when the daylight will not come, when the ghosts of the past and the devils of the present toy with your sanity and dissect your sense of self and self respect…when the first razor cut, made with trembling hand, sends a shocking stream of crimson crawling sluggishly across the sickly pale white of your sun-starved skin…when there is no comfort to be found and you are lost in a shadowed labyrinth of torment and grief, sinking in a morass of blood and tears…on a night like this there is no salvation in the bottle or the needle. There is no god in heaven and no fallen angel in hell. There is only the emptiness that cannot be filled and the unbearable loneliness that gnaws at your soul. And the unshakeable certainty that there is no way out.
Following on from last year’s bleak and disconsolate Wounds single, Finland’s purveyors of ‘Anti-Life Black Metal Misery’, Grave With A View, have returned with their most powerful and harrowing release to date – Raw Illumination. A full length album steeped in isolation, violence, self destruction and death, Raw Illumination is not an album for the faint of heart or the fragile of spirit. Exploding into life with a sound like shattering ice, opening track and single ‘Cold Flesh Peregrination’ is an unforgiving, harsh and decidedly unwelcoming introduction to this album of breathtaking wickedness. The acid whip of ‘The Lash’ follows – flaying the skin with its relentless, sadistic blows and exposing every insecurity and fear, humiliation and shame; it’s a maelstrom of emotions and overwhelming darkness. And there is no let up, no chink of light in the darkness as we are exposed to the seething aggression of ‘To The Beat Of Broken Bones’ and the funeral procession of ‘Loathe’ which carries us to the crumbling lip of our waiting grave. Rife with driving riffs and punishing rhythms, ripped apart by tortured vocal exhortations and wreathed in an atmosphere of agony, Raw Illumination is black metal from the deepest pits of absolute despondency, right to the last glass shard notes of ‘These Meaningless Gestures’ which leaves you with the taste of ashes and loss in your mouth, the sheer disappointment of tarnished dreams and the ultimate understanding of the futility of life.
Recorded and mixed by O.H.R and mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Dopelord, Christ Agony etc), Raw Illumination is the sonic distillation of caustic chaos and grim, unmitigated despair – every malicious note cutting straight to the bone – and its aura of desperate degradation has been perfectly captured in the cover imagery; the artwork and layout by Danny The Destroyer, utilising powerful, unsettling images of model Anna Iivana Julma, captured by the band. When it crawls from the crypts of label Dusktone on November 29th, Raw Illumination will hunt down the broken and the flawed, the outcasts and the lepers and swallow them into its maw of ice and pain.
Line-up:
J.O - Guitar/Vocals
O.H.R - Guitars/Bass/Noise
Drums on Raw Illumination by M.K.
Additional vocals on Raw Illumination by A.L. and T.N.
https://www.dusktone.it/
https://www.facebook.com/gravewithaview
Shalom and good evening, it took much longer than I was hoping for but “FEED THE BEAST” ISSUE 5 is finally out since today, the first of November 2024 - yes, I missed Halloween, maybe next year. And “yes”, for the second time, there will be at least one more issue!
But for the moment back to issue 5:
Within 64 A4-pages, printed in black & white on recycled paper (still no glossy for the wicked) you could discover interviews with:
Spiritus Mortis (Epic Doom Metal)
Feaces Christ (Proto-Death-Metal-Punks)
Polterwytch (Low-Fi Blackend Punk? Orgel´n´Roll? Love it or hate it music!)
Strychnos (Death Metal)
Moonless (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Guyod (Blackend Death Metal)
You might also have heard the news that a lot of equipment (incl. guitars, all pedalboards and even merch) of Minenfeld & Prehistoric War Cult got stolen two weeks ago? Total damage for both bands is around 10.000€ And as Minenfeld was part of issue 2 and I wanted to talk with Prehistoric War Cult in issue 6, I made the decision that with every sold copy of the latest issue 1€ goes to the band.
The price for issue 5 is 5€ (4€ for the zine and 1€ for the band) plus postage (Germany: 1,60€, World: 3,70€).
Regards Ipp
frombeyondipp@gmx.de
Atmospheric black/doom collective Splendidula finally returns with a new single and lyric video.
“Behind My Semblance” was recorded by JDB at Kosmik Womb, mixed by Tim De Gieter at Much Luv Studio (Amenra, Brutus, Doodeskader) and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Sepultura, Mastodon, Motörhead, Fleetwood Mac, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse). The song is also released on an exclusive limited 8” vinyl (Saturni Records), and won’t be part of the next full album.
“In a world where everyone is forced to wear a mask, we hide the shadows of our true feelings behind a façade of false normality. When asked about our well-being, we lie, fearing the uncomfortable silence that follows. This song dives into the dark reality that we often feel pressured to hide our struggles, pretending everything is okay when it’s not. For the music video, the visual artistry of Mikhail Nilov was incorporated, carefully edited to reflect the suffocating atmosphere of the lyrics. Together, they form a testament to the inner darkness we often conceal.”
Vocalist Kristien & drummer Joachim comment: "From the depths of despair, we have relentlessly risen once more. After the sudden passing of bassist Peter in 2022, and the departure of both guitarists, we were left to face the darkness alone. With new blood and a renewed purpose, we unearthed the remains of a song born with the old lineup, and resurrected it into something darker and harrowing. This release is more than just a return—it is a reckoning, a tribute to the shadows of our past and the echoes that still haunt us. This new track forges a dark connection between our previous album and the impending new full-length, a haunting reflection of our journey through despair and rebirth.”
Highlights for Splendidula
3 full length albums released by international labels and received very well by press & audience:
Splendidula (2013, independent – 2021/2023 reissue, Argonauta Records)
Post Mortem (2018, Inverse Records - 2019 reissue, Dust & Bones Records)
Somnus (2021, Argonauta Records/Ruidoteka Records – 2022/2024 reissue, Argonauta Records)
SPLENDIDULA is:
Vocals - Kristien
Guitar & Vocals - Guy
Guitar - Stitch
Bass - Bart
Drums & Synths – Joachim
https://www.facebook.com/Splendidula
Label: Wulfhere Productions
Release Date: October 18th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Ancient | Burzum | Nefarious | Hecate Enthroned
The judgement of the stars that stare down from the night sky means nothing to me. I will outlive their flickering ghost light. I will still be walking my endless path when they have burnt out into darkness. I will be here when the legends that gave names to their constellations have been forgotten. Yet my bones become fragile, like dry twigs that crack underfoot. My once imperious strength deserts me and my lustreless skin fades, hanging from my enfeebled frame. My beauty is shed with my fracturing sanity, crumbling over freezing aeons of solitude. I will retreat into my memories of glorious, blood-drenched centuries of lust and power, when we fell from the skies like avenging angels, wolves upon the fold, drunk on the terror of the lambs…
Parusight is the solo project of Bristol black metal musician Oliver Groves; noted as the guitarist of Blasfeme, who unleashed the visceral warfare of the Black Legion album earlier this year. But the darkness speaks to Groves in many voices and with Parusight he explores a very different shade of black. The opening track of debut album Deathly Pale, ‘A Clash Of Stars’, is a summoning of atmosphere, a gateway to the shadow realms of Parusight, a place where spirit freezing cold and desolate beauty entwine, where bestial vocals howl through blinding storms of ice and keyboards weave tapestries of dark romance. From the tempestuous seas of blood and raging chaos of ‘Lost In A Shadow’ to the wounded, malicious devil that is ‘Malignant’ – a song of decay held together by bitterness and spite – Deathly Pale reveals itself to be an epic, emotive creation of rampant riffs and cascading melodies, a tale of many chapters. At the ever-bleeding heart of the album lies its greatest work, where all its poisons coalesce, ‘Love’. Here, reflections on past sins are shrouded in funereal drapes of melancholy, dying passions feed ancient agonies and words are torn from throats in violent expulsions of utter savagery. Deathly Pale is an intensely personal outpouring of emotion, yet one rooted in revered musical traditions and universal truths.
Released by the bastion of British black metal that is Wulfhere Productions on October 18th, Deathly Pale is a remarkable debut album from a burgeoning talent. Oliver Groves – Parusight – has a huge amount to offer to devoted disciples of the darkest musical art and Deathly Pale is the perfect first step into his kingdom of endless night.
Line-up:
Oliver Groves - All music and vocals
https://www.facebook.com/wulfhereproductions
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Listen to the new track here:
https://youtu.be/CbJdUDSTomc
https://spoti.fi/4fnHmME
Vocalist and guitarist Necrosodom said: “The creation of this piece was accompanied by the long and deep contemplation of the Art tarot card. It is actually a piece about art and the work of creation. It begins with an invocation, a summoning of inspiration, the element of creative fire. Through the deities of war and revenge, the expansive force of destruction in the cycle of creation is unleashed. This is where the vision of a new world and a new self is born. It is a flowering of inspiration and creative freedom.”
“The cycle of destruction and creation anew here expresses artistic rebellion, art outside the patterns, individual, changing the rules of its own game, reconstruction of style and searching for inspiration beyond just oneself. It is an inspiration that goes beyond the ego. Revealing art in all its glory and retreating to forge its next chapters in silence again. The fruits of art here mean not only artistic creation, but also life choices, which are also art.”
Scheduled for release on 15 November 2024, via Profane Spirit Productions, "Thanatos" promises a dynamic evolution for Deus Mortem. While retaining their black metal roots, the album showcases a powerful blend of old-school rock and metal influences, with driving riffs, thunderous rhythm sections, and haunting melodies. It's a testament to the band's musical growth, showcasing a more versatile and powerful sound than ever before.
"Thanatos" is a concept album that confronts the complexities of human existence. It takes listeners on a transformative journey through illusory realities, unveiling hidden truths and stripping away the veils of deception. It's a testament to personal struggle and the power of the Black Flame.
Ahead of the album’s release, Deus Mortem will embark on a Polish tour with fellow black metal acts Venefices and Devilpriest starting on 31 October 2024. Fans attending the tour will have the exclusive opportunity to purchase the "Thanatos" CD before its official release date.
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"Happy Ox is our vision of double guitar harmony in concert with
tight rhythm and solid rumbling drums and bass. Growl and edge-of-breakup
vocals act as extra spice. Composing and recording the song was a fun
experience, happening almost on its own. Happy Ox has been a work in progress
from 2020 and it’s nice to finally release it. The song, being a bit in major
key, gives a contrast to our more dark and melancholy songs." says Olli
Kuure (composer, lead guitar)
"The name “Happy Ox” comes from a suburban pub in our hometown, but soon got a life of its own much like many of our songs. The final lyrics are a mixture of anti-war and veganism — cannon and cow fodder. Frostbite Terror songs often turn both serious and comical subjects towards dark humor, in this case into blood sausage. The melodic and groovy background is perfect for howling like a bull, and I hope that joy is felt by the listener too." Continues Otso Turunen (lyrics, vocals, bass)
Biography:
Frostbite Terror is a melodic death metal newcomer from Turku, Finland. Since 2022 Frostbite Terror has combined melodeath, trashy riffing and symphonic arrangements. The songs subject both serious and comedic topics to dark humor. When playing live, Frostbite Terror conquers stages with their tight playing and spicy, yet melancholy riffs. Never turning down the chance to drin-, I mean gig, the band has toured backyard BBQ parties, Metallihelvetti summer party, Tampere community center and everything in between.
Line-up:
Olli Kuure / lead guitar
Otso Turunen / bass, vocals
Jerry Airikka / guitar, backing vocals
Kristo Rautavuori / drums
https://frostbiteterror.bandcamp.com
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Hailing from Itä-Rantakylä and founded in 2010, SÖLID WAZTE releases new material after a long break. The single called EVEN GODS FALL is a tribute to Lemmy Kilmister, who died in 2015.
Watch Even Gods Fall Music Video: https://youtu.be/r1rvBqnO690
Arg: – I wrote the song a couple of weeks after Lemmy passed away because I felt I had to pay homage to this man, whose life and deeds have had such an impact not only on our music but on a whole genre.
The song is also a hat tip to the original lineup of Motörhead. A keen ear can even find small nuances typical to ”Fast” Eddie Clarke and Phil ”Philthy Animal” Taylor.
Arg: – Originally we were going to release this song already in 2017, but then life got in the way. Now, after burnouts and other health problems, several rounds of covid and all that kind of shit, this masterpiece will finally be out. And it is only 2024!
Like the debut album, this song is mixed and mastered by Pekka Kupiainen, who is better known as the mixing engineer working with Michael Monroe.
Listen the single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/solid-wazte-gods
Biography:
Solid Waste (Sölid Wazte since 2024) was formed in 2010 when drummer Kire had waited long enough for his old friends Arg and Jukka to move to Helsinki. With similar musical backgrounds and over a several pints of white russians band soon started to work with material written earlier by Arg. With another friend Juha on bass first demos were recorded. Solid Waste's current line-up was complete when Arska joined on bass guitar. Solid Waste's musical goal was clear from day one: straightforward no-nonsense rock'n'roll with sing-a-long choruses. And this is what you get when you put Motörhead, Misfits, Ramones and Social Distortion in a blender. Solid Waste's self-titled debut album was released in May 2016. To keep the raw live-like feeling, the basic tracks were recorded live with vocals and some other krumelurer added later. In 2017 the band entered the studio hoping for a new release, and now in 2024 we will be able to enjoy the new material.
No panik no titanik.
Line-up:
Arg Kinnunen: vocals & guitar
Jukka Silvennoinen: guitar & vocals
Ari Lampinen: bass & vocals
Kire Karppanen: drums & vocals
https://www.facebook.com/solidwasteband
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to release the new full-length album from Sweden's Death Metal/Grindcore necroholics GHOULHOUSE. FRESH OUT OF FLESH is up now for pre-order and will be released December 6th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
Ghoulhouse returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the horrific new album Fresh Out Of Flesh! Sweden's own Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Revolting, etc.) and Håkan Stuvemark (Wombbath) are back with a deadly vengeance, as Ghoulhouse unleash more old school rotten, crusty Grindcore/Death Metal.
Fresh Out Of Flesh is the long-awaited follow-up to the debut album Rigor Mortis Intermezzo, spewing forth 12 anthems of ghastly terror and torment... for true necroholics only! For fans of Autopsy, Boneyard, Coffins, Dismember, Exhumed, Impetigo, Haemorrhage, Gruesome Stuff Relish, Impetigo and Repulsion
Listen to the single "Graveyard Drive Thru" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u-lPuKtxAA
Tracklisting:
1. Fresh Out Of Flesh
2. The Morgue Scourge
3. You Could Do Worse (Than Riding In My Hearse)
4. Bizarre Impalement
5. Turned Inside Out
6. A Date With The Undead
7. Chainsaw Chili
8. Rancid Meat Addiction
9. Graveyard Drive-Thru
10. It Came From The Sewer
11. Cellar Feeder
12. Severed Head With Legs
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
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Originally released as a limited-edition cassette earlier this year, Alte Seelen is now offering these seven black metal rituals on CD. Order and stream the album now at https://alteseelen.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-of-the-woods
Tracklist:
1) Emerging Glare
2) Folk of the Blossoming Sky
3) Sommar
4) The Field's Arrival
5) Washed Away Among the Stones
6) Fiendish Lore
7) Moon's Melody of Death
Upon first viewing, the band's name, cover art, and logo, might give one reason to assume this is simply a blatant Sort Vokter ripoff. On the contrary, this debut mini album is a definite nod to the former legendary ‘necro’ act, but the music within has a certain vibe that serves as a tribute of sorts while standing on its own merits. Thus, Scripture of the Woods will surely appeal to fans of such legendary acts as the aforementioned Sort Vokter, as well as Ildjarn and the early works of Gorgoroth, while maintaining a primitive sound and style all their own.
Comprised of two prolific musicians, Azeruel Woldaeg and Collier d'ombre,
KVELDSTIMER delivers seven tracks of primitive, yet majestic, old-school black metal. The atmosphere and striking execution conjure whispers of the early 90's Norwegian scene!
KVELDSTIMER is:
Azeruel Woldaeg - all instruments
Collier d'ombre - vocals
https://www.alteseelen.com/
Get
ready for a Halloween treat that bites back! WEAPON OF PRIDE is
unleashing their second single, "AXEMAN," today.
Inspired by the notorious Axeman of New Orleans, who instilled fear in the
Crescent City in the early 20th century, this track will take you deep into the
mind of a chaotic force that thrives on fear.
Don’t miss the chance to experience this 'ax-cellent' track today
Stream the single: https://orcd.co/axeman
"Axeman" is the second single from the band's upcoming album, Beneath the Surface, which is due for release on December 13th, 2024.
So, as you're carving pumpkins or getting your Halloween on, crank up "Axeman": it’s heavy, it’s haunting, and it’s here to stay.
Weapon of Pride, a power trio from Phoenix, Arizona, has captivated audiences with their heavy riffs, thrashy tempos, and old-school vibe. Their discography includes the debut EP Retribution (2021) and the full-length album Taking Over (2023). Now, they’re gearing up to release their second album with WORMHOLEDEATH Records later this year.
Inspired by Stoner and Thrash Metal giants, Weapon of Pride blends Heavy, Thrash, Progressive, and Stoner Metal. The band features brothers Ryan Arnold (bass/vocals) and Logan Arnold (guitar), with Adam Duplack on drums.
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www.youtube.com/@WeaponOfPrideVEVO
The debut album from epic metal band MYTHBEGOTTEN is now streaming and available for purchase! On their first outing, MYTHBGOTTEN promises to regale listeners with an aural tome filled with stories of legend, myth, and the macabre, collectively titled Tales from the UNSEELIE COURT.
Stream and order the album at https://mythbegotten.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-unseelie-court
Hailing from the hills and woodlands of Central New York and New England, MYTHBEGOTTEN combines a love of legends old and new with a folk-inflected fusion of metal genres to arrive at a uniquely epic and melancholic melodic concoction.
The result is an eight-track journey that reaches Tolkien-esque levels of grandeur. The band offers an in-depth look at the inspiration behind Tales from the Unseelie Court.
"The key inspiration for the individual songs includes the Dullahan (an evil fey from Irish Mythology) which inspired the song "The Heedless Horseman", Sawney Bean (a legendary Scottish Cannibal and inspiration for "The Hills Have Eyes") which inspired the song "The Terror of Lothian", H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in The Walls" which inspired the song "Beneath Exham Priory", The Welsh Legend of the Wild Hunt which inspired the song "Mallt-y-Nos", the Arthurian legend of Merlin and the Dragons which inspired the song "Omen of Embers", The melancholy book 4 of Milton's "Paradise Lost" which inspired the song "The Fall", and the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields from Tolkien's "The Return of The King" which inspired the song "Of Wrath and Ruin". This is all rounded out by an arrangement of the classic Scots ballad "Twa Corbies" which brings together the old traditions of British Isles balladry with this modern sonic storytelling which MYTHBEGOTTEN bases its songwriting upon."
Experience more MYTHBEGOTTEN at https://www.youtube.com/@Mythbegotten
Tracklisting:
1. The Heedless Horseman
2. Omen of Embers
3. Mallt-y-Nos
4. Beneath Exham Priory
5. The Fall
6. The Terror of Lothian
7. Twa Corbies
8. Of Wrath and Ruin
The Journey So Far...
A decade ago in Syracuse, New York, Connor Hoffman, Daniel Barbour, and Joe Sopchak released the Stirling demo under their Folk/Power Metal fusion project Hounds of Annwn. Shortly thereafter, they performed their only live show at the Sturmfeier folk metal festival in Hamlin, New York, but with college and work taking priority, the three soon scattered throughout the Northeast. All knew, however, that there was much left undone, songs left unsung, and stories left untold.
In 2022, after years of sporadic songwriting and fits and starts of recording, the trio re-committed to bringing their vision of folk- and symphonic-infused Power Metal to fruition under the new moniker MYTHBEGOTTEN. This name was chosen for its elegant encapsulation of the band’s ethos: to chronicle the stories from myth, fantasy, and history that have inspired them.
Tales from the Unseelie Court is the first release from this reforged musical triumvirate and is centered around the folklore of the British Isles and literary fantasy, showcasing the eerie and macabre as well as the wondrous and heroic. Listeners feel as though they are sitting amidst a gathering of the Unseelie Fey Court, hearing great and terrible stories retold to the assembled congregation.
MYTHBEGOTTEN is excited to reveal its unique blend of metallic styles in this first eldritch release and looks forward to sharing tales even stranger and more wondrous with the world
Line-Up:
Dan Barbour – Lead Vocals
Connor Hoffman – Guitars, Backing Vocals, Additional Keyboards
Joe Sopchak – Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/MythbegottenBand/
NEWS 31.10.2024
MOTÖRHEAD veröffentlichen limitierte Auflage von „YE BOOK OF
INCONSEQUENTIAL SCRIBBLES“!
Lemmy war ein stolzer Kritzler und Schreiber, der im Laufe der Jahre viele Tagebücher füllte. Er hat immer gehofft, eine Sammlung seiner einzigartigen Einblicke ins Leben veröffentlicht zu sehen, und so ist Motörhead stolz darauf, die Veröffentlichung der auf 500 handnummerierte Stücke limitierten Auflage von “Ye Book Of Inconsequential Scribbles of Lemmy Kilmister 1st Esq.” anzukündigen, ein mit Spannung erwartetes Sammlerstück, das ausschließlich online verkauft wird. “Ye Book Of Inconsequential Scribbles” zeigt einige von Lemmys besten Kritzeleien und bietet einen ungefilterten Einblick in den Geist eines Mannes, dessen Sicht auf die Welt ironisch humorvoll und zeitlos vorausschauend war.
Jede Seite ist eine Hommage an Lemmys einzigartige Fähigkeit, das Leben und die Menschen, die es leben, mit seiner unverfälschten Einstellung und seinem schelmischen Sinn für Humor zu erfassen. Mit dieser limitierten Auflage wird nicht nur ein Wunsch von Lemmy erfüllt, sondern auch das wahre Wesen einer der einflussreichsten Figuren des Rock gewürdigt.
“Ye Book Of Inconsequential Scribbles” kann ab dem 23. Oktober im offiziellen Motörhead-Webshop vorbestellt werden. Jetzt schnell handeln und ein Exemplar sichern. https://shop-eu.imotorhead.com/collections/lemmy
Was für eine wunderbare Krönung des Motörhead-Monats Oktober, der passenderweise auch am 25.10. mit dem Release der aufwendig kuratierten Box “WE TAKE NO PRISONERS” aufwartet!
"We Take No Prisoners – The Singles 1995–2006" als Sammlung von A- und B-Seiten im DELUXE 7” SET, als Doppel-CD sowie in digitaler Form. “We Take No Prisoners – The Singles 1995–2006" ist ab 25. Oktober 2024 erhältlich.
Jetzt vorbestellen: https://motorhead.lnk.to/prisoners
Technical death metal band Fleshbore have preorders up now for their exciting new full length just in time for their US tour which is currently going on (flyer below). If you're into catchy, aggressive and vibrant tech death, you can't go on with life without it. Please find info about the release on Bandcamp at https://fleshboreband.bandcamp.com/album/painted-paradise
FLESHBORE – “PAINTED PARADISE”
For
fans of
- Archspire, Allegaeon, Psycroptic, The Zenith Passage, Soreption
Fleshbore have crafted a tech death album that is unrelenting from the get go. It's packed to the brim with riffs and to make things overwhelming, they offer innumerable variations and deliver it with rare, staggering intensity. The vocals are straight up furious; the frontman delivers both hoarse growls and deep grunts in a rapid stuttering style, interspersing it all with raspy vocals to suit the constantly shifting moods of the album. The music has an inherent momentum, oscillating violently between the sped up technical parts and progressive passages providing brief respite, and spicing things up with brutal death metal bits along the way. It's not just fast tech death; it's full-bodied intricate death metal, carefully and thoughtfully composed, and flawlessly executed. 'Painted Paradise' is an album that's also remarkably catchy and even memorable despite the ever-intensifying chaos. There are parts that will stand out from the cascade of riffs in every song and will have the listener delightfully coming back for more. Fleshbore have imbibed the best parts of the style and reimagined it in their vision, and spew out the volatile concoction forcefully as a fiery, acerbic projectile that ends up being some of the most exhilarating music in recent times.
Line up:
Michael McGinley - Guitar
Michael O’Hara - Vocals
Cole Chavez - Guitar
Cole Daniels (Demon King) – Bass
Other Personnel:
Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse) - Session Drums
Jackson Ward - Mixing and Mastering
Mark Erskine - Art
Track listing
1. Setting Sun
2. The World
3. Target Fixation
4. Wandering Twilight
5. Inadequate
6. The Ancient Knowledge
7. Painted Paradise
8. Laplace's Game
Release date - January 24th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Sweden's melodic death trio AGAINST I have shared a new track off their upcoming album, Songs for the DYING.
The band goes in-depth on their new single, "A Hymn for the End":
"'A Hymn for the End' is a celebration of the end of mankind. It is a song for the dead or those soon to be. This track features remnants of the old industrial sound of early AGAINST I and serves as a bridge on the album, where some of the riffs really push it forward as a contrast rounding things up."
Stream "A Hymn for the End" now at https://tfreco.bandcamp.com/album/a-hymn-for-the-end-2
Songs for the Dying picks up where Destruction Lullaby - released in May 2024 - left off. The album offers lethal doses of aggressive and melodic death tinged with shades of industrial and atmospheric metal.
AGAINST I will release Songs for the Dying on November 29. Pre-order the album at https://tfreco.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-dying
Tracklisting
:
1. Bound in Blood
2. Depraved Lust
3. A Hymn for the End
4. Crimson Queen
5. Eternal Slumber
6. From the Beyond
7. Father of Lies
8. Judgement of the Damned
9. Praise the Dead
10. Scorched Earth
11. The Blackest Night
AGAINST I was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Keith Croona known as vocalist and founder of Cynical Existence and ex-vocalist of Menschdefekt. Together with Mathias Back (guitars) and Anders Ström (drums), they fuse elements of metal and hints of electronic parts into a cacophony of aggression and melodies.
In 2023 the band released their debut album Carnival of Excess on Advoxya Records. 2024 saw the release of two EPs, Perfect Smile and the follow-up Destruction Lullaby, which took the band in an entirely new direction.
Line-Up:
Fredrik Keith Croona - vocals
Mathias Back - guitars
Anders Ström - drums
https://www.facebook.com/againstIband
Canberra (AU) - Australian-based Symphonic Death Metal band, Project: ULTIMATE SATAN, will release their highly anticipated debut album, THE OPUS SATANAS, November 29 on Eschatonic Records!
A lyric video for "Nocturne Immortalis," the third and final single taken from The Opus Satanas, is a celebration and final observance of those who always were and have always been. Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trsYtCmZOtc
Project: Ultimate Satan was formed late 2019. The band features Eschatonic Records alumni from Inhuman Remnants, Black Mountain, Terravorous, Unholy Vendetta and Somnium Nox.
The Opus Satanas was forged amidst the Fires and Plagues of 2020 and 2021. As Project: Ultimate Satan sought to push the sonic possibilities of their unique blend of Blackened Death Metal, they focused on the inclusion of more symphonic elements, orchestrations and lyrical content that would honour those that called to them from across the vast depths of the cosmos.
July 2022 saw the release of their first single "Symphony Es Infernus," an auspicious ode to Lillith Liftoach. However, due to further outbreaks, lockdowns and restrictions, their accompanying live rituals would be restricted to the ACT and the South Coast regions.
February 2024 saw the release of their second single "The Infallible Void." The song is a sonic exploration and meditations on the darkness within us all.
Track
Listing:
1. Symphony Es Infernus
2. Humanity's Last Breath
3. Is This How Freedom Dies
4. The Infallible Void
5. Footprints in the Sans of Time
6. Nocturne Immortalis
Pre-order: https://projectultimatesatan.bandcamp.com/album/the-opus-satanas
Credits:
Recorded at Studio Decay.
Produced by JDecay.
Mixed and Mastered by Gibb at Gibbenez Music.
Cover Design and Borders by Hans Trasid at Dis-Art Design.
P:US Logo and Emblem by Wappenschmied.
Line-up:
Scottanic – Vocals
Ashahalasin – Bass
JDecay – Guitars, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Dazferatu – Keys, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Amorasche – Drums, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Contributing Artists:
Vocals from Jem
Guitars by Calcifur (Terravorous)
Lead Guitars by Nekros the Black (Ex-Inhuman Remnants)
https://linktr.ee/projectultimatesatan
https://www.facebook.com/projectultimatesatan/
PESTILENT SCARS is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Oulu. All members are between 18 and 19 years old. The band's central themes focus on melodic songwriting, pure emotion, tight gigs and overall the old school way of getting around.
The band is about to release their debut album MEADOWS OF MISFORTUNE on January 17th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'A Reaching Hand' is out today on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pestilent-hand
"Mostly my writing comes straight from the heart. When I write music it has to come naturally. Melodies are very important to me and that's why we have lot of melodic riffs in our songs. It tells you a story, it's not basic death metal. I feel like I can show much more about myself with melodies. It's something that I do. I don't think a lot about which bands have inspired me, but i have to say that gothenburg's melodic death metal scene from 90's has inspired me a lot. But our music still has that Finnish melancholy. Both Finnish and Swedish melodic death metal is very important to me."- Guitarist/Songwriter, Elias Vierimaa
Biography:
Pestilent Scars was born in the winter of 2022/2023. The band has had the same line-up for almost its entire existence. Pestilent Scars released their first single "Deceitful Phoenix" in the summer of 2023. The single was a relative success. Deceitful Phoenix" was followed by "All On My Own" in the autumn of the same year.
The band played several live shows in 2023 and 2024, which were energetic and showcased the band's overall idea. At their last gig the band performed their forthcoming album "Meadows Of Misfortune". The album will be released in early 2025.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/pestilent-scars-meadows-of-misfortune-cd-pre-order
Track list:
01. Into The Meadows
02. Internal Torment
03. Golden Maiden
04. Deceitful Phoenix
05. Unreality
06. A Reaching Hand
07. Democide
08. All On My Own
09. In Search Of Reason
10. False Messiah
Album cover by Topi Ilmola
Line-up:
Pasi Matinolli - Vocals
Elias Vierimaa - Guitars
Artturi Kauppi - Drums
Sampo Jylhä - Bass
Topi Ilmola - Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564947165481
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/anomalous-willowtip
https://bit.ly/anomalous-bandcamp
Speaking to the new album, GIGAN’s founding member, guitarist, sole-songwriter and lyricist; Eric Hersemann, had this to say: “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a perfect expression of where GIGAN is as a band and where we are headed into the future. Like all GIGAN songs, our emphasis is on creativity and limitless imagination, while still working within the realms of interwoven madness and colorful technicality combined with the oppressive elements of misanthropic dissonance and crushing brutality. Any fan of GIGAN, or any fan of genuine Metal music that is completely fearless and without pretentious delivery, is in for a mind-bending treat.”
Track
Listing:
1. Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis
2. Ultra-Violet Shimmer and Permeating Infra-sound
3. Square Wave Subversion
4. Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes
5. Katabatic Windswept Landscapes
6. Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror
7. The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids
8. Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs of Time
Credits:
All music, lyrics, vocal patterns and concepts: Eric Hersemann.
Recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, IL.
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room.
All album art and layout: Max Winter (Teratogen)
Line-up:
Eric Hersemann - All electric, acoustic and bass guitars, theremin, otomatone, synths, lyrics, concepts and madness.
Nathan Cotton - Drums, percussion and Sunny weather.
Jerry Kavouriaris - Vocals and violence.
Bio:
Since 2005, GIGAN has been an unsung vanguard of abstract and creatively dissonant extreme metal. Pushing boundaries and never compromising the artistic vision throughout the debut EP and subsequent four full-length albums has led GIGAN to be considered an unwavering force of both innovation and extremity.
It has been almost seven years since GIGAN has released new music and the time spent away has only honed and sharpened the still-deadly blades of creativity for which GIGAN has always been known; while also infusing fresh elements not yet heard within the GIGAN Universe. The results of GIGAN’s current hard work is the new beast of an album entitled Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus.
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/Giganmusic/
Bio
DUSTBORN is a Czech band, originally playing symphonic death metal, thematically influenced by post-apocalyptic and hard sci-fi stories. The band emerged from the ashes of the band Desire for Sorrow, with founding members Jon, Johny and Vlajda (ex. DfS), Dan (Arthemion), Aaron and Venca (ex. Of the Woods, Pyromann).
In 2018, DUSTBORN recorded its first EP in the SONIDOS studio in Brno, entitled MMXVIII. The EP saw initial release only as digital download in form of individual singles, but in 2019 it was also released as a physical CD under the Narcoleptica Productions label. The CD version includes an instrumental bonus track in addition to the original digital release. MMXVIII also features two music videos for the singles Mind Astray and Depths, produced by Marek Frodys Pytlik (Postcards from Arkham).
Just before the recording of the debut album Dethroned, guitarist Aaron and vocalist Venca left the band, which greatly complicated the recording process. Guitar recording was largely taken over by the talented guitarist Marek Ciml and the position behind the microphone was taken over by Johny, who has remained behind the microphone permanently ever since. The album Dethroned, released in 2019 under the czech label Metalgate, has garnered positive reactions from fans and critics alike. The album also appeared in the Ceny Britva nominations in the Album of the Year category, for example.
Shortly after the release, Tom (ex. Marked As An Enemy) came on as a guitarist. The band, oxygenated with new blood, released the third official music video for the opening single River Stained Red, directed by Mejla Basel (Mejla Prod. - Machine Head, Krabathor, Hypnos)
With new material and a new show, the band hit the road to support Dethroned. They went on to play several successful shows at clubs and festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad, followed by a lull caused by the global pandemic.
At the end of 2022, DUSTBORN reappeared with two singles, The Sun God and Hodina, recorded live at Ambit 1084 studio in Český Krumlov. Both singles suggested a certain retreat from symphonic death metal, yet retained the band's distinct personality.
In 2023, the band returns to the concert stage while preparing new material for a second full-length album, much of which was written during the pandemic. Given that our previous collaboration with the Ambit1084 studio had been fruitful, the second LP has been produced there as well. The new material moves a bit more into the black metal waters and nods in the direction of older Norwegian black metal records. Nonetheless, both the sound and the music of the album had been approached in a less orthodox manner, with frequent entries from other metal sub-genres. Album comes out on October 10th, 2024 digitally on all main streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, ...) and a month later on a physical CD as well.
https://www.youtube.com/@dustborn
https://www.facebook.com/DUSTBORNofficial
Born from the cold, concrete streets of Krakow, Poland’s PANDEMIC are an old-school thrash/speed metal band that have been a rising force in the underground scene since their formation in 2015. Despite facing a rocky start with frequent lineup changes, a founder's death, and periods of inactivity, PANDEMIC found their footing in 2018 with a solid lineup.
Their
debut EP, Deaf Nite, dropped in September 2018, serving up four blistering
tracks that showcased PANDEMIC's raw power and aggression. Staying true to
their roots, they followed up with the single Where The Devil Says
Goodnite in 2020, a two-track release. By 2023, the band had finally
released their first full-length, Crooked Mirror. PANDEMIC’s relentless
pace continued with the recording of their second album, Phantoms, in
early 2024.
Pushing the boundaries of their sound and further establishing their place in the Polish metal underground, PANDEMIC’s second album should surely spread their name across the international metal map. Neither too conveniently classified as thrash nor as speed metal, Phantoms marries thrashing riffs to a dynamic style of metal that indeed speeds from time to time but, more often than not, has the gleaming contours and drama of paradigmatic ‘80s power-thrash. The deeper one goes into Phantoms, the more he will find PANDEMIC’s mastery spread across differing styles of songcraft; while everything coalesces into a unified album experience, each song here maintains its own unique character rather than simply repeating the same formula for eight-plus tracks. Credit for that comes through each member bringing a distinct pedigree to the table, with guitarist Wiktor Lobarzewski also shredding for GALLOWER, fellow six-stringer Marcin Konieczny laying down the riffs for Roadhog, and drummer Filip Worek beating the skins for Horned Cült. Completed by bassist Gniewko Jelski’s rough and rowdy but articulate vocals, PANDEMIC are the proverbial well-oiled machine – with oil of ‘80s vintage, of course!
Primed to take that machine further, be it the underground festivals they’ve been tearing up or shows on domestic soil, PANDEMIC hereby unleash Phantoms!
Line-up:
Marcin Konieczny - Guitars
Wiktor Lobarzewski - Guitars
Gniewko Jelski - Vocals, Bass
Filip Worek - Drums
Artwork:
Grace Xiii
Release date:
20th December 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on bone colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Australian
Death Metal brutes GUTLESS gave us one of 2018’s filthiest demos.
Two years later, we saw a split release with Mortal Wound. Now, six years after
that demo, we are finally getting the debut album. Strap in; this one is going
to be nauseating…
Instantly they cave in your skull with maniacal riffing and unrelenting drum assaults. If you can’t withstand the might of Death Metal, turn back fast. The equally violent vocal attack will seal the deal as the insanity creeps further into the cemetery, searching for prey. GUTLESS has that perfect blend of old-school savagery while retaining their personality and sound that doesn’t feel like a diluted version of a superior band. Snap-neck rhythms and visceral grinding warfare will certainly have even the seasoned maniac tearing at their flesh in morbid ecstasy as this short but sweet opus erupts pus into their ear canal.
Stream the album's first single "Viral Infection" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-dB8ID31Y
Pre-order High Impact Violence at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/high-impact-violence
https://ddmsuo.eu/
If you need more convincing, take a look at that cover art; reminiscent of the 90s while striking in its own right. You had better believe the album is just as damaging as that brick. Contorting and convulsing into tormenting visions of the macabre, GUTLESS contradicts their name by dragging out your entrails repeatedly across eight indomitable cuts of sadism and brutality. The underground still has plenty of bite down under and these fiends proudly showcase one of the nastiest examples you will hear this year!”
GUTLESS is:
Joe Steele - Bass
Ollie Ballantyne - Drums
Tom Caldwell - Guitars/Vocals
Allan Stacey - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.mesacounojo.com
https://www.facebook.com/gutlessmelbourne
"While I love LOVE Max's vocals, they have so much girth that they take up quite a frequency range," says Paul Plumeri, the band's primary songwriter and guitarist. "We wanted to choose our most proggy, layered tracks, and do a special instrumental mix and master so people could hear the rich tapestry of counterpoint and varied instrumentation."
The instrumental edition of Receptor will be available on all major streaming platforms and Bandcamp on November 20.
The EP was mixed by AJ Viana at AJ Viana Productions and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. It features performances from Kenny Grohowski, Kevin Paradis, Sydney Kjerstad, and the West European Symphony Orchestra.
Track
Listing:
1) Praefatio / The Liminal Carapace
2) Ein
3) Supplicant
4) Reverie
5) Pitchtongue Vesper
6) The Sputtering Torch
OWDWYR is a technical death metal band based in the United States. Their music is a unique blend of extreme metal, jazz, classical, and progressive influences. Their debut album, 'Receptor,' was released to critical acclaim in 2023.
Band Members:
Paul Plumeri Jr. - Guitars, Composition, and Programming
Chris Williams - Bass
Max Lichtman - Vocals and Lyrics
https://www.facebook.com/owdwyr
Polish black metal band CZORT return with their third full-length album "MONUMENTY". The album will be released via Pagan Records on 29 November 2024 in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats.
The entire album was recorded and mixed last fall at Impressive Art studio in Porąbka by Przemysław Nowak.
The sound on "Monumenty" is an evolution of the band's past work on "W czeluść" (2022 split released via Godz ov War Productions), "Apostoł" (2020 album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) and "Czarna ewangelia" (2018 debut album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions). In 2019, Czort also released a split entitled "Under the White Flame" with Mordhell, Occultum and Dagorath.
In Slavic mythology, Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face.
Tracklist
1. Paroksyzm Ludzkości
2. Zjawa
3. Kuźnia Materii
4. Oczyma Monumentu
5. Zmaganie Rdzeniem Istnienia
6. Cyborium Zgnilizny i Brudu
7. 23.58.30
8. Antynatalizm Boga
9. Ubóstwo Idei
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.facebook.com/czortbluznierca
Hailing
from Greece, modern Death metal act CAELESTIA signed a deal with
Wormholedeath for the CD release of their EP "INFERNALIA".
The word “Infernalia” is the exact antonym of “Caelestia” and marks the band's foundation to a more extreme and guitar-riff-based modern death metal style (with melodic & black metal passages). The EP consists of 4 tracks, which are indicative of the band’s new musical direction, aimed at reintroducing the band to the public. In terms of lyrics, the band explores a wide array of dark subjects, spanning from grim historical events to horror/dark literature, or insidious states of the human mind. Orchestral parts are still part of the music, but now they serve more as introductions or intervals, and not as the main foundation like in the ‘regigad’ releases. Prominent guitar riffs and variating bass lines intertwine with each other, setting the frame in which extreme drumming unfolds, outlining the clear and direct new song.
A little more than 10 years after its initial formation, and spanning two full albums and a 2-track single, the Athens-based quartet decided to redirect its style from symphonic female-fronted dark metal to extreme metal, encompassing modern death metal standards with melodic black metal passages.
Having shared the stage with major metal acts like Katatonia, The Vision Bleak, ArchEnemy, Draconian, Insomnium, Tribulation, and Carach Angren at domestic shows, the band embarked on shows abroad, taking part in festivals in Belgium (MEVF) and Slovakia, but also in a European Tour (2019) with an all-Norwegian billing, consisting of Vulture Industries, Helheim, and Madder Mortem.
The band’s current lineup consists of: Vassilis Thomas (guitars), Marc Reign (drums, ex-Destruction, ex-Morgoth), Pantelis "Lordwinter" Daskalelos (vocals), and Stelios Tragos (bass).
www.youtube.com/@CaelestiaOfficial
https://linktr.ee/caelestiaband
FORGED IN BLACK – “FORGED IN BLACK MMXXIV”
Label: Fighter Records
Release Date: December 3rd 2024
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Queensrÿche | Judas Priest | Vicious Rumors | Solitude Aeternus
It’s time to head back to the forge, to the place where it all began, where the smith first brought the hammer down upon the anvil, tempering the British steel that would become Forged In Black! It’s time to celebrate 15 years of real heavy metal, 15 years of indefatigable spirit and musical power! It’s time to reach back into the past and draw the earliest creations of Forged In Black from the cold ashes and thrust them back into the fire, reinvigorating the hellion screams and contagious riff attacks! It’s time for Forged In Black to be born again!
It was 2009 when the first line-up of Forged In Black was assembled, originally under the name Merciless Fail – a moniker that was soon abandoned as the sheer strength of the young band’s material became apparent. After relentless work in the rehearsal room and on the stage, by 2013 the rebranded Forged In Black were ready to record their debut, self-titled album – and it is that monumental piece of history that has now been remastered and expanded, adorned in rejuvenated artwork and unleashed again in celebration of fifteen years at the forge! Over the decade and a half of their existence Forged In Black have performed at Bloodstock Open Air and Hammerfest, graced the stage of the legendary Camden Underworld with the likes of Diemonds and metal legends Demon; they have worked with top producers like Chris Tsangarides (Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath etc) and Romesh Dodangoda (Motörhead, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine etc) and had their recorded works lavished in praise by major magazines such as Zero Tolerance and Powerplay. What better way to mark their achievements than with a powerful new version of the album that started it all? Songs like the eponymous anthem ‘Forged In Black’ itself and the epic ‘Accusations Of The Innocent’ remain important elements of the Forged live show to this day, absolute fan favourites that now sound better than ever with the muscular remastering work of Marcus Stock (Alcest, Green Carnation, Marché Funebre etc). The album’s tracklisting has also been expanded with the addition of two early EP title tracks, ‘The Tide’ and ‘The Exodus’ from 2013 and 2014 respectively; both prime slices of Forged In Black metal, these forgotten classics now have the platform they have always deserved – remastered and heavier than ever!
The original Forged In Black album artwork has been reimagined in vibrant fashion by the band’s guitarist Andy Songhurst, an acclaimed professional tattoo artist in his life away from the forge. The elements of the image will be instantly familiar to longstanding fans of the original album, but the style and approach make the cover fresh and impactful, ablaze with new life and colour - just like the songs it accompanies. Forged In Black Remastered MMXXIV will be released on December 3rd by Fighter Records, on CD and digital formats – and the hammer will land with a force unparalleled, a might like never before!
Line-up:
Chris Stoz Storozynski - Lead Vocals
Andy Songhurst - Lead And Rhythm Guitars
Kieron Rochester - Bass and Vocals
Tim Chandler - Lead And Rhythm Guitars
Oliver Gill – Drums
Featured on the original recordings:
Kev Rochester – Drums
Rob Chaplin – Guitars
http://www.fighter-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/fighter.records
http://www.forgedinblack.com/
https://www.facebook.com/forgedinblacks
Watch the music video to the track "Cold. Tenebrous.
Evil": https://youtu.be/Woo6T6JPmU8
Pre-order "Death's Soliloquy" physical formats (Ltd Gold Vinyl, Ltd Red/Black Marble Vinyl, Black Vinyl & Deluxe Digipak CD):
https://ante-inferno.bandcamp.com/album/deaths-soliloquy
https://ante-inferno.bandcamp.com/album/deaths-soliloquy
Pre-save "Death's Soliloquy" on Spotify: https://RecordU.lnk.to/Deaths_Soliloquy
Kai, the band’s lyricist, vocalist and guitarist, said: “As a child, I was fascinated by the lurid covers of some of my dad’s books — in particular, his volumes of H.P. Lovecraft stories. My favourite was possibly the cover of Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, which depicted a horrid, little, grinning impish creature sitting atop a tower of gore-soaked, decapitated heads, their mouths hung open in a death yawn. I’ve been a morbid little fuck for as long as I can remember... Anyway, the song is less inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft than by that particular cover. A foul, inhuman thing that resides in the marshland and sadistically murders those foolish enough to enter its abode. A little more supernatural than the subjects of the other songs on the album, it is no-less macabre in the grim tale it recounts.”
Now with a fully established line-up, the four-piece have delivered a malevolent hammer strike to the face of all who thought they would continue to mellow after the success of the atmospheric and otherworldly second album "Antediluvian Dreamscapes". "Death’s Soliloquy" harnesses the bestial might of traditional black metal and intricately weaves it with the haunting majesty of the atmospheric sound the band is known for, and in doing so takes the listener on an anguished, hysterical descent into the blackened emptiness of the grave.
“Death’s Soliloquy” is an exploration of lyricist Kai’s journey through depression and hopelessness, through obsessive thoughts of the most morbid and macabre nature — thoughts of self-destruction interwoven with the most appalling nightmares, broken hopes and unacted desires. As old lives are shed and new lives struggle to take form, there is always a war raging within and without — a war that can never truly be won but may, at any moment, be lost for all eternity…
The band previously released an artwork video for the album’s opening track “The Cavernous Blackness of Night”.
https://vendetta-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vendettacult
https://www.facebook.com/ANTEINFERNO/
We’re very proud to announce the imminent release of "CONQUERING THE MOST HIGH" - debut MLP from French satanic death metal horde INFERNALIVM, a new entity of absolute sonic brutality conceived from within the French orthodox satanic movement, and featuring members of its elite underground from bands like Novae Militiae, Merrimack, Benighted, and Ritualization.
The
abominable debut offering has officially been previewed by respected
underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the song “Ashes
of the Saints” have remarked how the track “sallies out with the
band's full genre-eroding arsenal behind it, packing in plenty of death metal
absolutely steeped in their dire atmosphere“, and how the EP “within four
songs runs a gamut from brutal death metal to dismal tremolo-picked
dirges, unifying it all under a banner of abject Satanism and speaker-testing volume”-
you can check out the feature and song here https://www.invisibleoranges.com/infernalivm/
Through these four tracks of dark, sanguinary, and inescapable technical dark death metal tyranny, the specter of Immolation, Dead Congregation, Nile, Adversarial, Arkhon Infaustus and Morbid Angel is evoked with unseen mastery, while the genre’s mutated silhouette is at the same time disfigured and retraced within the novel realms of France’s most intransigent satanic inner circle, materializing nothing less than an authentic horror of creation. The result is a dissonant, bludgeoning beast seething with all the might and power of the antichrist. A dark and violent abomination with an immensely evil and antihuman atmosphere and an infernal aura casting massive, ominous shadows across the face of European death metal and sending a clear message on the magnitude of things to come.
"Conquering the Most High" is slated for a November 29 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC and digital, and all formats are now preorderable via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/infernalivm-conquering-the-most-high
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/infernalivm
Welcome
to DEADLY MAGIC, a new project by Messerschmitt vocalist / guitarist Maik
Jegszenties. While Messerschmitt reside on the classic thrash and speed metal
spectrum, there is another musical passion for Maik: old US metal, particuarly
the more progressive end of it. Think early Queensrÿche, Sanctuary, Crimson
Glory, Fates Warning, and Powerslave-era Iron Maiden…sound tempting? If
so, then you need to hear …As Nightmares Gorged the Earth ASAP!
For years, Maik was writing music that was different from Messerschmitt, but never attempted to bring it to life. As the world shut down in 2020, locations were forced to close and bands were forced to take a break; during this, Maik came up with an idea to start a little project. Some songs and many ideas lay around for several years, and finally the time had come to finish those pieces. Several circumstances delayed the whole project, and it took around a year to complete four songs and another year to record it. While Maik handled all songwriting as well as guitar and leads, joining him in DEADLY MAGIC are Thorben Schulz on lead guitar, Yannic Zwinscher on bass, Daniel Behle on drums, and the extraordinary vocals of one Alexis Roy-Petit.
Totaling 24 incredibly epic minutes, …As Nightmares Gorged the Earth is an infinitely ascending spire of dark, alluring energy – and, indeed, DEADLY MAGIC! With absurdly sharp execution, the quintet proceed to weave tales of high fantasy and grim allegory; you can nearly see the wizards and warriors across this sonic landscape. Each track is always moving, ever shifting, but with a path as crystal-clear as the production. Even when the chops reach a fever pitch of dazzling dizziness, there’s bountiful motifs and hooks to hang on to; the dynamic shading both provides breathing room and a deeper emotional center. Atop it all are the sorcerous vocals of Alexis Roy-Petit, who could be a dead ringer for both Bruce Dickinson and Geoff Tate circa 1984!
From bursting beginning to climatic conclusion, …As Nightmares Gorged the Earth remains a wholly engrossing journey, rendered with the passion & precision of classic progressive power metal. DEADLY MAGIC has been cast!
Line-up:
Maik Jegszenties – Guitars & Leads
Thorben Schulz – Lead Guitar
Yannic Zwinscher – Bass Guitar
Daniel Behle – Drums
Alexis Roy-Petit – Vocals
Artwork:
Dreamcreatures
Release date:
20th December 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on deep purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
MCD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Immortal Force with their debut album Mystic Seance Unrealities! Hailing from Western Canada, this four-piece Death Metal band worships the old analog metal sound, the filthiest horror flicks of the '80s, and anything bizarre, absurd, and menacing! On Mystic Seance Unrealities, these Canadian freaks forego false trends and instead create something timeless, as seen through an otherworldly lens, with themes such as heinous crimes committed without method; dissecting the prophesied departure from life; propagation of extraterrestrial lifeforms; life manifested and subsequently uncreated.
Mystic Seance Unrealities takes listeners through ten devilish tracks of obscure Thrashing Death Metal steeped in abstract ideas & peculiar affairs and features artwork by Paolo Girardi (Power Trip, Revocation, The Black Dahlia Murder). Immortal Force also unleashes two covers, one by the mighty Napalm Death and one by gore masters Carcass.
For congregants of all that's unknown and macabre, Immortal Force's debut is a MUST-listen for fans of Master, Nunslaughter, Pestilence, Demilich, Impetigo, Mortician, Deicide, Timeghoul and all late 80's/early 90's EVIL!!!!
Listen to the single "Mass Murder Meat Market" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8zgrq7lXg
Tracklisting:
1. Hospice Carnage
2. Midnight Bloodsplatter
3. Mass Murder Meat Market
4. Suffer The Children (Napalm Death cover)
5. Termination Imminent
6. The Visitor
7. Lycanthropic Miscreant
8. Open-Casket Gangbang
9. Ruptured In Purulence (Carcass cover)
10. Uncreate The Neverspawn
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www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Ghost Cult Magazine has provided the exclusive premiere for "Compactor." You can watch the video now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8zgrq7lXg
Incineration Day is due out on November 22. The album is a collaborative effort between Estonia-based musician Madis Jalakas and US-based drummer Sean Rehmer (Dejecter). Pre-order Incineration Day at https://thunraz.bandcamp.com/album/incineration-day
Tracklisting:
1) Tyrant
2) Compactor
3) Fragile Automata
4) Incinerator
5) The Day After
6) Eastern Promises
7) Spiritual Self-Surgery
Vocals, guitars & production for Incineration Day were done by Madis Jalakas in Tallinn, Estonia. Drums were recorded by Sean Rehmer at Storm Crow Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
An experimental death metal project headed by Madis Jalakas, THUNRAZ (thunder in Proto-Germanic) seeks to align itself with primal forces in order to break through personal, philosophical, and musical barriers. Most of the time a solo effort, other times with the aid of different musicians, THUNRAZ has released five uncompromising records since 2018. Incineration Day is the first to feature Kansas City-based drummer Sean Rehmer.
THUNRAZ is:
Madis Jalakas - guitar/vocals
Sean Rehmer - drums
https://www.facebook.com/thunrazmetal/
Swedish death metal legends Paganizer have come up with what's easily among the best albums of their illustrious career. They have the knack of infusing compulsively catchy parts in their songs and the latest song to be premiered is no different. You can find the No Clean Singing premiere at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/08/30/an-ncs-premiere-paganizer-world-scythe/
"They still bring the ferocity for sure, but emotionally affecting (and hook-laden) melodies have a central place, as do stylistic influences beyond the bounds of conventional Swedish death metal, and every song proves to be strikingly dynamic in its evolution."
PAGANIZER - “FLESH REQUIEM”
For
fans of
- Entombed, Dismember, Edge of Sanity, Desultory, Abscession, Typhonian, Vanhelgd
Swedish death metal veterans Paganizer only seem to get better with age. Where most bands mellow down or start repeating themselves in a mechanical way, Paganizer's music has increasingly become more nuanced. They are able to express themselves far more effectively, both when swinging the axe and also when conjuring up the soul-tearing melodies out of thin air. They're stepping out of their own shadow and imbuing their music with emotive tunes which work exceedingly well because of the contrast with the heavier parts. It's naturally done too, part of taking the sound ahead rather than forcibly altering it. The result is a sound that is superbly tempered; a glorious, progressive alternating between the bone-splintering music and tuneful expressions of the innermost feelings. 'Flesh Requiem' has some of the best songs written by the band, a varied mix of the kind of music you've come to expect from the band and some refreshing epic ones, and with so many of them getting seared in your memory after listening to it, it's easy to regard the album as among the finest in their extensive discography.
Line up
Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals
Dennis Blomberg - Lead Guitars
Martin Klasén - Bass
Matthias Fiebig - Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski (Devenial Verdict)
Track listing
1. Life of Decay
2. Meat Factory
3. Flesh Requiem
4. Hunger For Meat
5. Viking Supremacy
6. World Scythe
7. Fare Thee Well (Burn In Hell)
8. Necromonolithic
9. The Pyroclastic Excursions
10. Just Another Doomsday
11. Suffer Again
12. Skeletons
Release date - November 1st, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/paganizersweden
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
They just released a lyric video for the title track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IMFM8DD43o
Colorado death/thrashers started in 2015. In 2021 they debuted with “The Great Betrayal”. Three years later, enter drummer extraordinaire, Fabio Alessandrini (Annihilator, Bonfire) the sophomore record is released. Tides Of Technocracy AD 2024 is a fierce death/thrash outfit, not without some black metal elements. Instrumentally, of course. Lyrically they’re far from nonsense, as their topics include technofascism, surveillance capitalism, transhumanism.
https://www.facebook.com/TidesofTechnocracy/
Blackened death metal project BODYBUILDER blasts through the veil of reality with the mind-bending lyric video for "SEPARATING TWINS." This twisted journey is a foretaste of what's to come from the EP, "THERE'S NO THERE, THERE," set to assault your senses on November 15, 2024.
The album “There’s No There, There” is inspired by sleep paralysis, night terrors and hallucinations. The album's concept deals with the struggle of finding awareness of one’s self in a state of cosmic collapse. The lyrics are delivered as a conversation conveying mental sanity and an effort to overcome a confused state of self-dissociation.
https://bodybuilder.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-kadath
It
was but May of the cursed year of 2020 when HEXENBRETT truly came into their
own with their shockingly masterful debut album, Zweite Beschwörung: Ein
Kind zu töten, courtesy of DYING VICTIMS. While the enigmatic duo of Josto
Feratu and Scarlettina Bolétte had definitely turned heads with the Erste
Beschwörung demo in 2019, their debut album’s idiosyncratic kaleidoscope of
Varathron, Jean Rollin, Danzig, Goblin, and Van Halen emerged as completely
unique and unlike little else around.
Predictably unpredictable, HEXENBRETT returned the following year with Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi, a crazed ‘n’ crazy EP that was the result of canceled concerts and tours. As suggested by its title, the record was no "beschwörung" but, rather, an intermezzo: for the first time in the then-brief history of HEXENBRETT, this EP did not feature performances by the duo but, instead, the live line-up for 2020 – of course, under the watchful eyes and ears of the clandestine couple. A split EP with fellow Austrian eccentrics Hagzissa followed in 2022, with the duo returning to recorded format.
Josto and Scarlettina continued to refuse playing live but managed to recruit musicians to perform their music on live stages. Their recruits recently finished the IN CONCERTZIONE 2024 European club tour with labelmates DEATHSTORM. During that time, Josto and Scarlettina laid the finishing touches on what would become HEXENBRETT’s second album.
Now, at long last, comes that second full-length to eclipse all that came before. Titled Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter, HEXENBRETT’s second album is a devilish and drama-filled rollercoaster ride through cult metal and cult cinema alike. Arguably more so than their previous recordings, Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter truly encapsulates their demi-tag of "The Sound of the Bloody Iris," for a wide panoply of sounds and sensations swarm the listener, wrapping them in a wild and bewildering but above all kaleidoscopic headspace that easily avoids simple categorization.
While other bands are usually influenced by heavyweights of heavy metal music like Judas Priest or Bathory, HEXENBRETT take their main inspiration from Euro cult cinema and soundtracks; some of the most important names are Sergio Martino, Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, Bruno Nicolai, and Alessandro Alessandroni. One will readily hear that influence here in the prominent usage of vintage synths as well as chimes – the latter both beautiful and ominous – as readily as one will hear guitar leads that are alternately haunting / heroic. But the salient point is that Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter moves in a most filmic fashion – metallic, sure, but this is far, FAR from your Normal Metal Music.
As such, Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter is an amalgamation of love and hate, and represents the duality of birth and death. Its purpose is to enable listeners to escape; it strangles and stabs the status quo of normality. Normality is surrender – escape with HEXENBRETT!
Line-up:
Josto Feratu - Everything
Scarlettina Bolétt - Everything
Artwork:
Solo Macello
Release date:
20th December 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on transparent lime vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
MC version with sticker, download code and button.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Formed
back at the dawn of the ‘90s through a chance meeting at a Barren Cross concert,
Minneapolis based CRIMSON THORN went on to release
three highly regarded albums of potent, dynamic death metal – beginning with
‘94s classic debut, UNEARTHED.
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Massacre | Autopsy | Suffocation
Now signed to extreme metal powerhouse Rottweiler Records, Crimson Thorn are set to unleash Unearthed once more, remixed and remastered by Charles Powell of Battlefrost Productions (Carnifex, Marble Tomb etc) with new artwork and band logo created by Zack Plunkett (Abated Mass Of Flesh, Flayed Alive etc) - introducing a new generation of fans to their crushing brutality and masterful songcraft.
Over the last decade, with Crimson Thorn in restless slumber, bassist/vocalist Luke Renno, guitarist Miles Sunde and drummer Steve Reishus have been plying their trade with the devastating Taking The Head Of Goliath, but the clamour for the return of Crimson Thorn has never faded. Now, with Taking The Head Of Goliath reaching the end of their story, the stars have aligned for the rebirth of Crimson Thorn. On October 25th Rottweiler Records will herald this new age of death metal destruction with not only the release of the reanimated Unearthed, but also the very first digital releases of 1997s Dissection and 2002s Purification albums! All the albums will be available through the Rottweiler Records Bandcamp page.
As a first taste of the onslaught to come, Rottweiler have unveiled the title track of Unearthed in all its remixed and remastered glory – a rotten feast of inhuman vocals, surging riffs and bludgeoning drum battery…back from the grave. Listen to ‘Unearthed’ at the Rottweiler Records YouTube channel and prepare for the return of pure death metal mastery – Crimson Thorn are back!
Current Line-up:
Luke Renno - Bass/Vocals
Steve Reishus - Drums
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https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
CORROSIVE ELEMENTS - "CUT THE SERPENT’S HEAD"
Relaese
date :
November 29th 2024
Genre : Death Thrash N' Roll
Origin: France
Duration: 41:20
Label: GreyveStorm Productions & Crypt Of Dr.Gore et Chien Noir (pour la version vinyle)
Tracklist:
01. Conquering the divine
02. Ignorance is no longer bliss
03. So long sucker
04. The unseen
05. An american hero
06. Cut the serpent's head
07. Enter the final state
08. The right to remain poor
09. Among the casualties
10. Fascistalism
Hailing from the suburbs of Paris, CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a force to be reckoned with in the world of heavy music. Born in 2005 with a singular mission: to craft catchy death metal tunes, the band quickly evolved their sound, infusing it with some frenzied thrash riffing and raw intensity of hardcore punk. This unique fusion earned them a solid reputation for their uncompromising live performances and feel-good attitude.
True defenders of the underground ethos, CORROSIVE ELEMENTS made their path with a first EP in 2008, a debut album in 2015 and a scorching live album in 2016. Having graced the stage at renowned festivals like Hellfest's Altar Stage and sharing the spotlight with metal legends such as Death Angel, Loudblast, Darkane, Sinister, and more, the quintet took a great amount of time refining the new tunes for their highly anticipated 2024 album release.
Stay tuned as CORROSIVE ELEMENTS prepares to launch their next sonic assault, following in the wake of their previous mischief, "Toxic Waste Blues."
The credo stands strong: DEATH THRASH N’ROLL THE OLD SCHOOL WAY!
"Cut the serpent’s head", the second album of CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a collection of 10 powerful songs, designed for a more direct and dynamic approach, in the typical style of the band, a clever mix of Death and Thrash Metal, with tons of groove, anger and attitude.
The new album was written collectively by the band in the rehearsal room, an old fashioned method that makes the music more immediate and impactful.
With broad influences ranging from Thrash legends such as Slayer, (old) Sepultura and Exodus, Death Metal in the tradition of Entombed, Obituary, Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and an addition of primitive energy derived from Hardcore Punk, The band is now ready to place this new offering on the altar of Extreme Metal.
Conceptually, "Cut the Serpent's Head" is a cynical look at the destiny ofmankind, its race towards nonsense. A warning against the hegemony of organized religions, shady politics, decaying societies and the rise of social injustice.
Stay tuned, the next few days will see more information about the artwork, release dates, formats and everything you need to know about this new album which will be produced by Crypt Of Dr.Gore and GreyveStorm Productions.
https://linktr.ee/corrosiveelements
The
Finnish death metal band INBORN TENDENCY has been
quietly working on new material and now presents a track even tighter than
their previous singles for listening.
The latest single is titled "EXILED" and it is the band's third track produced in collaboration with Juho Koskinen, who also handled the mixing and mastering of the songs. The cover art was created by Henri Tervapuro.
The band is also officially announcing for the first time that they are working on their debut album, which is set to be released in 2025
"We are proud to announce that we've been working on other tracks over the past year, and now we can officially say that the release of our debut album is approaching! The album will be released in 2025," states the band's guitarist Mika Hänninen
Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/t-xj7Y5AX58
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/inborntendency-exiled
Inborn Tendency:
Mika Hänninen, Guitar
Hugo Tiitinen, Drums
Ville Herranen, Vocals
Credits:
Mixing and Mastering: Juho Koskinen
Cover Art: Henri Tervapuro
https://lnk.bio/Inborntendency
Known for their signature blend of melodic fury and atmospheric weight, Swedish death metal band TERRORTORY dives deep into the vast expanses of the cosmos with their latest single, “STAR CRUSHER.” This track, as brutal as it is beautiful, explores the grandeur and violence of celestial destruction. With haunting lyrics describing a massive stellar implosion that births a black hole, the song poetically captures the transformation of stars, the death that fuels life, and the chaotic balance that defines the universe. Featuring powerful guitar riffs, driving drums, and Johan Norström’s evocative growls, “Star Crusher” leads listeners through a journey where cosmic fire becomes blackened void, wrapping them in a soundscape that feels boundless yet devastatingly intense.
Building from verses that echo the awe-inspiring scale of supernovas to choruses that embody the annihilating force of a black hole, “Star Crusher” represents TERRORTORY at their most ambitious. The explosive instrumentation and lyrical depth reflect the band’s commitment to thematic storytelling in melodic death metal, with each line and riff capturing the mystique of stellar death and rebirth. Fans of epic, heavy music will find themselves captivated by the raw, interstellar power of “Star Crusher” and the unmistakable intensity that has become TERRORTORY’s trademark sound. Listen now on Spotify and prepare to be engulfed in the cosmic collapse that only TERRORTORY could conjure.
TERRORTORY to release full length “THE BLACK PRISM” on November 29th
Hailing from Skellefteå, Sweden, Terrortory has been carving their name into the melodic death metal scene with a sound that fuses raw aggression, grandiose melodies, and a complexity that challenges the listener at every turn. Known for their intense anger, strong arrangements, and intense love of chugs, Terrortory is now gearing up to release their highly anticipated second full-length album, The Black Prism.
The
band, comprising Johan Norström (vocals, Katapult), Stefan Vidmark (guitars,
ex-Nightscape), Emil Ceder (guitars), Tommy Nilsson (drums), and Olov Häggmark
(bass), has undergone an evolutionary journey since its inception. Following
the release of their previous full-length album The Seed Left Behind and
the EP City of Ghosts through Discouraged Records, they have
embraced new challenges and matured as songwriters. This evolution culminates
in The Black Prism, a self-produced, independently released opus
consisting of ten tracks that showcase the band's most complex and epic
compositions to date.
Regarding the creation of their latest album, Terrortory describes it as a project filled with unexpected paths and challenges:
“This has been a project with many phases and challenges. This, in turn, has forced us onto paths we could not have anticipated or imagined. Songs we long thought were finished have been torn down and rebuilt, and in the end, we had a much stronger product that we are all incredibly satisfied with.”
The band promises that The Black Prism will feature their fastest and most intricate music, drawing inspiration from the vastness of the universe as well as the dark depths within the human soul.
Terrortory’s dedication to their craft extends beyond music. The band produced, recorded, and mixed The Black Prism themselves, with mastering handled by Kai Stahlenberg at Kohlekeller Studios. Their hands-on approach continues with the creation of music videos to accompany the album’s release. With vocalist Johan Norström’s experience behind the camera and bassist Olov Häggmark's work in front of it, the videos are poised to deliver a blend of space anxiety and dark humor.
In keeping with their signature style, The Black Prism features a mix of longer, intricate songs and shorter, faster tracks, pushing the boundaries of melodic death metal. The album’s tracklist, including titles like "Star Crusher," "Pestiferous Haven" and the epic titular track "The Black Prism," promises an auditory journey of crushing riffs, relentless rhythms, and haunting melodies.
With their self-released The Black Prism, the album stands as a testament to their growth, skill, and dedication to the melodic death metal genre. As they prepare for this next chapter, Terrortory invites listeners to delve into the abyss and experience the full force of their musical evolution.
Discography
DeReign – Single (Discouraged Records)
The Seed Left Behind – Full-length album (Discouraged Records)
City of Ghosts – EP (Discouraged Records)
The Black Prism – Full-length album (Self-released)
Line-up
Johan Norström – Vocals
Stefan Vidmark – Guitars
Emil Ceder – Guitars
Tommy Nilsson – Drums
Olov Häggmark – Bass
https://www.youtube.com/@terrortorymetal
https://www.facebook.com/Terrortory
The label has shared a stream of album opener, "ONCE CURSED PATH GLISTENS IN THE SUN." Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvAL800gxqQ
By the Grace of Death will be unleashed December 21 on LP by Bindrune Recordings and on CD (containing a bonus track) by Alte Seelen. Pre-order the vinyl edition at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/products/canis-dirus-by-the-grace-of-death-lp-pre-order
It has been four years since the release of Independence to the Beast (2020) and during this time, Canis Dirus have been refining their savage, yet atmospheric black metal during what has been the most prolific era of their career. 2021 found the split release, A Harmonious Union of Vibration, to surface with the project Crown of Asteria, where Canis Dirus contributed two new tracks that blended their own unique form of twisted blackness, along with an ambient influence. Was this a sign of things to come?
Armed with the fantastic drum work of CJ Yacoub (Escaping Aghartha, Neverdawn, ex-Amun), TMP (Guitars, Bass, Synth) and RH (Vocals) have been hard at work on what has become the the band's finest work, By the Grace of Death. Atmosphere still reigns in the dark sonic sphere of Canis Dirus, but on this impending new album, the band's black metal essence is at the forefront of this nocturnal hunt. TMP’s riff/playing style remains truly his own with atypical phrasing that co-exists with a more orthodox Black Metal style. The Black Metal side can make one feel isolated and attacked one moment, then calm and nurtured the next with colorful folk music that has become a vibrant element of Canis Dirus's sound. RH’s vocals contribute to the adventurous nature of By The Grace of Death with his most feral performance to date.
Track
Listing:
1. Once Cursed Path Glistens in the Sun
2. Tongues That Speak III
3. A Forlorn Hymn To Absolution
4. Vultures Whisper
5. Cast My Heart in Stone
6. The Mind Sees What The Eyes Cannot
Line-Up:
CJ Yacoub - Drums
TMP - Guitars, Bass, Synthesizer
RH - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/bindrunerecordings
https://canisdirus.bandcamp.com/
VALADIER - "CARMINA BELLI APOCALYPSIS"
Genre : Medieval Black Metal
Label : Black Mass Prayers
FFO: Satyricon, Mortiis, Hades, The Black
A few yaers after their debut, supported once more by Black Mass Prayers, VALADIER return with a new album entitled "Carmina Belli Apocalypsis"
The style of VALADIER can be tracked within the old kind of Black Metal with medieval and epic influences. Reinterpreting the sound of the Norwegian fathers of old, the Italians found their inspiration in masterworks such as Satyricon's "Dark Medieval Times", Hades' "The Dawn Of The Dying Sun" and Mortiis' "The Stargate".
At the same time the national and regional roots of the musicians here involved have opened the path for a more personal take on the harshness of Raw Black Metal, accentuating the folk soundscapes that evoke the dark ages in their mersmerizin gothic beauty.
Tracklist
1. Under the Skies of Gehenna
2. Altar of the Lost Firmament
3. At the Court of the Seven Hills
4. Through the Blackwater Valley
5. As the Shadow Pass the Days
6. Eclipsed by the Palm of Hamsa
7. Requiem of the Dark Ages
8. In the Sign of Stygian Watchers
(54:50 min)
Line-up:
Unukalhai - Concept, Vocals, Lyrics
Blight - Guitars, Bass, Programming
Winterkvlt - Vocals, Wind Instruments
https://blackmassprayers.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082688384218
Style: Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists: Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
Tracklist:
1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
Cover artwork created by Luciana Nedelea
We obviously apologize to those who were waiting for the return of the Italian Doomsters, us first and foremost, but, as the philosopher said, "the wait of the pleasure is itself a pleasure", so we just have to expect this date.
In the meantime, continue to enjoy the first track from the album, "Kingdom Of Slumber", both on YouTube with the lyric video (https://youtu.be/8Kodbqpkibk) and on Spotify.
Doom on!
Pre-Order "Path To Oblivion" LP/CD/tape/bundle: https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
Line-up:
Mauro Tollini: drums
Nicola Murari: bass
Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars
Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/epitaph.doom
Costa Rican thrashers SHADOWS DECAY have shared the new single off their upcoming EP, AGENT OF CHAOS.
The sonic force of relentless thrash metal known as Shadows Decay is set to release its newest EP, Agent of Chaos. True to form, the band's latest offering doles out six tracks of anthemic, jugular-slashing thrash in the vein of the old-school masters of the craft.
For
those who have experienced Hevn III live, this album is a natural extension of
the intense, suffocating atmosphere they create on stage. Their sound is tight
and sulphurous, recalling an era when black metal was not just a genre, but a
statement of pure, unadulterated emotion. The production is raw, yet
deliberate, capturing the essence of their live performances while adding
layers of depth that reveal themselves with each listen.
This debut is not just an album; it’s a ritual. A ritual of misanthropy and hatred, where each note is a curse, and each riff is a wound. Hevn III has delivered a work that will undoubtedly leave a scar on the black metal landscape, a reminder of the genre's power to evoke the darkest emotions. This is black metal at its most primal, its most venomous, its most unforgettable.
ACCUSER – “REBIRTHLESS”
NEWS 20.10.2024
Liebe
Metalheads & Supporter, die Progressive Metaller von FACTORY
OF ART sind mit dem fulminanten Comeback-Album „BACK
TO LIFE“ wieder im Geschäft. Seit der Veröffentlichung im Juni
hat das neue Werk, dass bislang als Vinyl und CD erhältlich ist,
großartige Kritiken von Fans, Presse, Radios bekommen und das überall auf
der Welt.
Nun wird die nächste Stufe gezündet und FACTORY OF ART stellen das neue Album ab dem 20.10.2024 auf allen Plattformen zum weltweite Streaming, um die Reichweite von „ BACK TO LIFE“ evident zu erhöhen. Pre-save hier https://listen.music-hub.com/I4YrkC
Am 13.10.2024 feiern wir die Video Premiere von „Walking To The Place I Love“ unter https://youtu.be/5u_-opT8OPw
Freut euch auf zehn neue und hochinteressante Tracks, bei denen auch illustre Gäste wie amarcord und Stephanie Brill zu hören sind!
Aber wer die Band wirklich unterstützen will und was Echtes wie CD, Doppel LP, T-Shirts & vieles andere haben möchte, kann dies bestellen unter https://shop.factory-of-art.band/ oder auch als Download unter https://factoryofart.bandcamp.com
Alle Links gibt es hier: https://music-hub.bio/factoryofart
Cheers FACTORY OF ART
AMYSTERY – “CHAOS EMPIRE SATAN”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 31.10.2024
Die okkulte Formation AMYSTERY ist zurück mit ihrem vierten Album »Chaos Empire Satan«, ein gleichermaßen rohes und edles Werk zur Bewahrung und Zelebrierung des traditionellen Black Metal als eigenständige Kunstform. Dabei sind sie kein uninspiriertes Abbild einer alten Genregröße, sondern schmieden vielmehr kompromisslos ihren eigenen, authentischen Schwarzstahl, der sich vielfach im Angriffsmodus befindet, sich in Kompositionen wie »Spirits In Fire« oder »Infestation« aber auch zu erhabener, mystischer Größe aufschwingt.
Nach einer mehrjährigen Schaffenspause hatten sich die Bajuwaren AMYSTERY 2018 mit einer veränderten Besetzung wieder zusammengeschlossen, um gemeinsam weiter an neuem Material zu arbeiten. Im Sommer 2021 kam es erneut zu einem Besetzungswechsel, seitdem besteht die Band aus drei Personen: Grond (Drums), Culpa (Bass) und Nephesus (Vocals, Gitarre).
AMYSTERY ist keine Band, bei der ein neues Album daraus erwächst, dass sich Individuen gegenseitig im Alleingang aufgenommene Tondateien auf die Rechner schicken – die Ideen, Riffs etc. für die zehn Songs von »Chaos Empire Satan« wurden gemeinsam im Proberaum gesammelt und dort ausgearbeitet. Auf ihrer Tour im Februar 2023 wurden bereits drei neue Stücke präsentiert, die restlichen sechs entstanden im Zeitraum bis Dezember 2023.
Inhaltlich behandelt »Chaos Empire Satan« die Theorien und Macht der Chaosmagie nach Peter James Carroll und beschreibt die dazugehörigen Praktiken und Auswirkungen auf das Leben und die Seele. Darüber hinaus geht es um die Ambivalenz zwischen der vermeintlichen Nichtigkeit des irdischen Lebens im kosmischen und multidimensionalen Maßstab und der Größe des eigenen persönlichen (Multi-)Universums mit der daraus erwachsenden maximalen Gestaltungsfreiheit, Wirksamkeit und Einflussnahme. AMYSTERY als Band zelebriert diese Überzeugung, was bereits im Vorgängeralbum »All Hail The Cult« eine tragende Rolle spielte und nun im neuen Album noch mehr ins Zentrum gerückt wurde.
Aufgenommen wurde das Album im Januar 2024. Das Cover-Artwork wurde von Malphas (ex-AMYSTERY, ex-Lunar Aurora, Mortem Agmen) gezeichnet, die grafische Gestaltung wurde von Lense Of Sense übernommen.
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Heute erscheint das neue BONJOUR TRISTESSE Albums „The World Without Us“.
Hier geht es direkt zur Albumpremiere (ab 18:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8prVeODdy8
Das Album erscheint heute am 18. Oktober 2024 in verschiedenen Formaten (LP, CD, Tape, Digital) via SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS veröffentlicht und kann hier bestellt werden:
https://supremechaos.com/artists/bonjour-tristesse/
https://bonjourtristesse.bandcamp.com
https://supremechaos.com/link/bonjourtristesse/
BONJOUR TRISTESSE, eine von Nathanael gegründete Black-Metal-Band aus Deutschland, ist dafür bekannt Melancholie, Introspektion und Gesellschaftskritik miteinander zu verweben. Der Name der Band spiegelt eine tief empfundene existenzielle Verzweiflung wider. Ihr atmosphärischer und depressiver Black Metal schafft eine intensive, emotionale Klangwelt, die den Hörer durch ihre Tiefe und Komplexität fesselt.
Mit ihrem neuen Album „The World Without Us“ schließen BONJOUR TRISTESSE einen zwei Alben überspannenden Handlungsbogen ab, der mit dem Vorgängeralbum begann. Zentrale Themen sind die Kritik industrialisierter Zivilisationen und der Konflikt zwischen dem modernen Menschen und Natur. Als alleiniger Songwriter bearbeitet Nathanael diese Themen mit einer Mischung aus roher Gewalt, eingestreuten Melodien und manischem Gesang. Das Album kritisiert die zerstörerischen Auswirkungen entfremdeter Weltbeziehung moderner Gesellschaften und zeichnet ein düsteres Bild unserer dystopischen Realität.
„The World Without Us“ kombiniert rohe Aggression mit melodischen Elementen, die oft in Richtung Raserei ausschlagen, während der sowohl verzweifelte als auch wütende Gesang eine beklemmende Stimmung aufrechterhält. Die Verweise auf zivilisationskritische Denker und existentialistische Schriftsteller fügen der kraftvollen Botschaft poetische Komponenten hinzu, welche dem Album mehr Tiefe verleihen.
Tracklist:
Running on Emptiness
Lightbearer
The World Without Us
Against The Grain
The Great Catastrophe
Spielzeit 44:46 min
https://www.facebook.com/BonjourTristesseofficial/
International Deathcore/Power Metal dynamos, DRAGONCORPSE, will host an early listening party October 30 on Discord for forthcoming EP, THE FALL OF HOUSE ABBARATH.
Join the band's Discord channel to listen at: https://discord.gg/QKzp2rxY
FFO: Dragonforce, 3 Inches of Blood, Nekrogoblikon, Lorna Shore, Brand of Sacrifice
DRAGONCORPSE are back and armed with a vibrant new EP, The Fall of House Abbarath! Set for a November 1 release on Shattered Earth Records, the EP is nothing short of a game changer for the quintet.
"Raise your horns to one of the most unique bands of the current scene."- The Headbanging Moose
The official video for EP single, "A Quest for Truth," is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPUcjbbUbI
Also available is a lyric video for "I Live...AGAIN," featuring Nick Miller (First Fragment, Unleash The Archers), which you can check out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llkwb8pYkyw.
On the new EP, the band took its already innovative, energetic sound, created through the fusion of deathcore and power metal, and sharpened it to a fine point on The Fall of House Abbarath. DRAGONCORPSE took the feedback gathered from the release of debut EP, The Drakketh Saga, to heart and used it to refine their approach.
"For new fans, I believe we've added more elements of deathcore and power metal while adding more excitement into the music for an authentic listening experience like no other band," bassist Noah Nikolas Laidlaw explains. "We put a lot of emphasis on the atmosphere of the music," adds drummer Justin Gogan. "Throughout the entire EP there is a medieval theming that resonates in the music that keeps the tracks feeling refreshing and fun. With the addition of Mark on keys/orchestration, he brought with him a completely different approach to songwriting that I am sure fans are going to appreciate!"
Track
Listing:
1. An Introduction to [ HEROISM ]
2. Welcome Home
3. I Live… AGAIN!
4. A Quest For Truth
5. Whisper On The Wind
6. Fear And Hunger
EP Credits:
All songs performed by: DRAGONCORPSE
All songs written by: DRAGONCORPSE
Produced by: DRAGONCORPSE and Matt Schmidt
Mixed by: Matt Schmidt
Mastered by: Matt Schmidt
Album artwork by: Avellustration
Line-up:
Mardy Leith - Vocals
Kris Chayer - Guitars
Noah Nikolas Laidlaw - Bass
Justin Gogan - Drums
Mark Marin - Keys and Orchestration
Bio:
DRAGONCORPSE is a death metal band that fuses power metal and deathcore, creating a unique sound marked by operatic vocals and guttural screams. They stand out with their symphonic elements, adding depth and creativity to their music. The band, with members across Canada, the U.S., and Australia, maintains a cohesive, powerful sound despite the distance. Known for their humor, they embrace memes and use the term "DRAGUSSY" to playfully reference their love for dragons in power metal culture. DRAGONCORPSE offers a dynamic and distinctive experience for fans of death metal, power metal, or deathcore.
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Hierarchies are taking their death metal on a different plane altogether. As mentioned in our announcement statement, they play intricate, mind-warping death metal that's both technical and dissonant, and dutifully soaked in rot and slime. It's thrilling to delve into their demented world and attempt to decipher all the carefully orchestrated madness and make sense of so much that seems to be happening there and almost at the same time, as though it's taking place in different albeit overlapping dimensions. Listen to a couple of songs https://hierarchiesdm.bandcamp.com/album/hierarchies
HIERARCHIES - “SELF-TITLED”
For
fans of
- Acausal Intrusion, Dwelling Below, Pyrrhon, Evilyn, Chaos Motion, Wormed, Plague
Rider
Members of Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below conspire amongst themselves to create dissonant/technical death metal that pushes the limits of reality. With music being this intricate, strangely intuitive and visceral, it blurs the point where the magnification of their music ends and the imagination takes over. It's a dark, murky, nightmarish dive into a realm where trajectories from multiple dimensions manifest to intersect and overlap before dissipating, taking different temporal forms. Nothing is permanent in their world; the tunes change every few seconds and so does everything around them - the implications are in real-time and catastrophically mind-melting. It's a downward spiral of your consciousness where the out-of-control thoughts overwhelm and overpower, and take you on a one-way trip to incessant hallucinations and inevitable madness. Innumerable riffs are piled on top of one another first frantically, then slowly to allow for them to be properly seared into memory so that they can haunt you in turns for the rest of your life. Hierarchies have, on only their debut, created a truly frightening album not merely outwardly but one that is also psychologically scarring for the listener, and endlessly fascinating all the same.
Line up
Nicholas Turner (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) - Guitar
Anthony Wheeler (Dwelling Below, Hollowed Idols) - Bass
Jared Moran (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) - Drums and vocals
Mixed by Nick Turner at Malevolent Sound Studios
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios
Artwork by Belial NecroArts
Track listing
1. Entity
2. Consecrate Phenomenon
3. Dimension
4. Twilight Tradition
5. Abstract
6. Complexity Parallels
7. Subtraction
8. Vultures
Release date - January 17th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
Listen to “Krwawy Świt” here:
https://youtu.be/jjiuhin_IdI
https://deusmortemofficial.bandcamp.com/track/krwawy-wit
„Krwawy Świt” is a song about tearing off the curtain of illusion and liberating the soul from the clutches of deadly nostalgia. It expresses the futility of searching for fulfillment in an existence that turns out to be an empty vessel. It is a song filled with hatred for the world and bitterness, where the only salvation for the soul is a spark of black fire that barely, but constantly smoulders.
Here's what vocalist and guitarist Necrosodom has to say about the single: "Krwawy Świt” is the beginning of a story about spiritual transformation, about a thorny path from the deadness of non-existence, towards a higher form of one's own consciousness. Musically, it balances between the school of Black Metal and the old rock vibe, which in the case of Deus Mortem is quite a bold step and opening the gates to previously unknown areas."
Scheduled for release on 15 November 2024, via Profane Spirit Productions, "Thanatos" promises a dynamic evolution for Deus Mortem. While retaining their black metal roots, the album showcases a powerful blend of old-school rock and metal influences, with driving riffs, thunderous rhythm sections, and haunting melodies. It's a testament to the band's musical growth, showcasing a more versatile and powerful sound than ever before.
"Thanatos" is a concept album that confronts the complexities of human existence. It takes listeners on a transformative journey through illusory realities, unveiling hidden truths and stripping away the veils of deception. It's a testament to personal struggle and the power of the Black Flame.
Ahead of the album’s release, Deus Mortem will embark on a Polish tour with fellow black metal acts Venefices and Devilpriest starting on 31 October 2024. Fans attending the tour will have the exclusive opportunity to purchase the "Thanatos" CD before its official release date.
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Label: Independent Release
Release Date: October 31st 2024
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Dark Tranquillity | In Flames | At The Gates | Insomnium
Condemned by the words of a child; the cruel pretence of a boy whose vindictive mischief making spread like plague through the tarnished hearts of those so hungry for scandal and persecution – so excited by the prospect of the torture and death of people that, just days before, they considered neighbours, even friends. In these damned times the devil walks not in the homespun dresses of women named witches, nor dances in our night time woods in accordance with licentious and lecherous fantasies. He lives in the hearts of the profiteering Witchfinder and the self important judges, in the fear of the ignorant and the perverted piety of priests…
After the bravely experimental Shadows Without Light trilogy and the back to the roots horror and aggression of Crucifix Dreams, Tom Reynolds’ Foul Body Autopsy is back, with another fresh twist on his precision riff attack. The Discovery Of Witches is a two track EP inspired by two infamous witch trials that took place in Tom’s hometown of Leicester, a century apart. In 1616, due to the false testimony of a young boy, fifteen women were arrested. Nine were hung for crimes of wicked sorcery, another died in jail while the remaining five were released due to the intervention of King James I – to whom the boy admitted his lies. In 1717 Jane Clark and her two children were accused of witchcraft by their fellow villagers and subjected to an ordeal by water – the fact that they didn’t drown when cast into the village pond, condemning them. The 1616 hangings are explored in opening track ‘The Rough Rope And The Short Drop’, where Tom brings new elements to his customary six-string aggression. There’s a reflective feel captured by the deft interplay between guitar and bass - Linus Klausenitzer (Alkaloid, ex-Obscura etc)’s flowing notes weaving their way between Tom’s snarling guitar parts - the sections of punchy, rhythmic feel and the strong melodic awareness as the tragedy, the violence and the delusion of that awful episode are brought to life. ‘The Ordeal By Water’ is another fine example of the traditional Foul Body Autopsy sound taking on fresh hues and colours as it builds through melody and an almost progressive aura to the full force assault of fierce blast beats – masterfully delivered once again by Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, Scarve etc). Constantly evolving, constantly exploring, constantly delivering riffs like tactical weapons – Tom Reynolds and Foul Body Autopsy have delivered another sweetly structured and imaginative burst of metal.
While all three musicians worked in their home studios in England, the US and Germany respectively, Tom’s vocals were captured at Parlour Studios (The Haunted, At The Gates, Napalm Death etc) and The Discovery Of Witches was mastered by Stephen Kerrison (The Grudge, Remote Viewing etc). The results are, as always with Foul Body Autopsy, excellent – combining clarity and power, subtlety and force. The EP will be available digitally and for the first time for Foul Body Autopsy, on limited edition lathe cut vinyl. Set to be released on the most appropriate date of October 31st, The Discovery Of Witches is another essential addition to the Foul Body Autopsy canon.
Line-up:
Tom Reynolds - Guitar/Vocals
*drums on The Discovery Of Witches by Dirk Verbeuren
*bass on The Discovery Of Witches by Linus Klausenitzer
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We're proud to announce that the German underworld lurkers of humongous subsonic death - NEKUS, finally return with "DEATH APOPHENIA", a death-scarred sonic interment into absolute subterranean torment, and their most lightless and catacombal statement to date. The colossal sophomore full-length entombment expands on the putrid and crushing heaviness of its critically acclaimed predecessor “Sepulchral Divination”, taking the band's formula of droning sepulchral death doom to its most inevitable and horrendous triumph yet.
The
horrendous sonic suffocation has been teased by iconic extreme metal blog Decibel
Magazine, who in premiering the track “Accursed Murmur“ have remarked
how the song is “a pure death-doom nightmare“ that is “both
power and atmosphere in equal measure” - you can check out the track and
feature https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/10/16/track-premiere-nekus-accursed-murmur/
With its forty-plus minute running time split up in just five pachydermic movements, "Death Apophenia" casts the listener down into an aphotic sunken abyss to be torn apart by immense tidal forces and crushed by catastrophic tectonic pressure. The band’s staple use of reverb to create immense, growling subterranean hallways reaches the pinnacle of its mastership, and so does their ability to construct humongously grotesque atmospheres that make the listener feel like they are being devoured by the earth and mummified alive. Tortured screams drenched in feedback and enormous and solemn sounding drum shells create a ritual-like telluric funeral march into the underworld, while slabs of inhumanly crushing and downtuned guitars bore a massive hole into the earth like molten lava melting the crust and sinking downward into the blackest chasm, evoking the sensation of an enormous, planet-sized horrendous burial taking place. Nothing can escape the sheer tonnage and crushing force of this immense sonic beast, and while Nekus are shown to be diligently delving further into the redefinition and delineation of their own personal idea of death metal as a monolithic and cinematic sentence to complete aural entombment, the comparisons to bands like Grave Upheaval, early Temple Nightside, Moss, Anatomia and The Funeral Orchestra, due to the surreal hideousness of the atmospheres and sheer heaviness of the music, will be many and not far from truth.
"Death Apophenia" is slated for a November 15 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC and digital, and all formats are now preorderable via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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ASPYXIA – „EXIT ; REALITY „
Asphyxia was thrash metal from Verviers, Liège, Belgium formed in 1987 and released 3 demos and one full length album called ‘Exit : Reality’. Asphyxia was Christian Olde Wolbers (Vio Lence , ex Fear Factory) first band he played in. Much sought-after album, eBay prices over 250 euros. Liner notes by Steven Willems (Rock Tribune and Voices From The Darkside). Produced by Andre Gielen (Channel Zero, Enthroned, Celestial Season). Cover artwork by Eric Philippe (Stratovarius, Artillery, Rhapsody of Fire).
ETERNAL DIRGE – „KHAOS MAGICK „
German Death metal band Eternal Dirge was formed in 1986 and released four demos and 2 full length albums. They played an early American style of death metal blended with Teutonic thrash, different to any other European death metal band of the time. Their second album from 1996 "Khaos Magick", showed a similar contempt for contemporary metal trends. There were no concessions to the more popular metallic sounds of that time; groove metal, melodic death metal, black metal. Eternal Dirge were a genuine band with their own sound. They made music that reflected their interests and Lovecraftian worldview. Khaos Magic is the most dark yet atmospherically album from their catalogue. Somewhere comparable to early Septic Flesh or Rotting Christ & Necromantia with the dark keyboard sounds and repetitive riffs or even Nocturnus. And of course the heavily rooted German Death and thrash metal influences
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FURBOWL – „THOSE SHREDDED DREAMS „
Re-release of the sold out, legendary debut Those Shreddd Dreams of Sweden’s FURBOWL.
FURBOWL was formed in 1991 when Johan Liiva left Carnage and hooked up with his old buddy Max Thornell on drums (both would form HEARSE in the 90’s). After a few demos FURBOWL recorded their debut album ‘Those Shredded Dreams’ in 1991, the album was produced by Carnage / Carcass guitar player and long-time friend of the band, Michael Amott (ARCH ENEMY), Michael also played some leads on the album. (And not surprisingly Michael asked Johan to join Arch Enemy some years later). This re-issue contains the legendary FURBOWL debut ‘Those Shredded Dreams’ and as bonus eleven tracks the band recorded before and after their debut album. All in all, a true monument for the most underrated Swedish death metal band from the early 90’s! Extensive liner notes from Johan, Max and Michael! ‘Death ‘N Roll before it was invented. Furbowl sure was an unique band, and I urge you all to seek out all of their recordings’ - Daniel Ekeroth, author of ‘Swedish Death Metal’.
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“Monumenty” (translates to “Monuments” from Polish) will be released via Pagan Records on 29 November 2024 in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats.
The album was recorded and mixed last fall at Impressive Art studio in Porąbka, Poland by Przemysław Nowak.
The sound on "Monumenty" is an evolution of the band's past work on "W czeluść" (2022 split released via Godz ov War Productions), "Apostoł" (2020 album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) and "Czarna ewangelia" (2018 debut album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions). In 2019, Czort also released a split entitled "Under the White Flame" with Mordhell, Occultum and Dagorath.
In Slavic mythology, Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face.
Tracklist
1. Paroksyzm Ludzkości
2. Zjawa
3. Kuźnia Materii
4. Oczyma Monumentu
5. Zmagaznie Rdzeniem Istnienia
6. Cyborium Zgnilizny i Brudu
7. 23.48.30
8. Antynatalizm Boga
9. Ubóstwo Idei
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Austin (TX) - Texas metal titans IGNITOR have unleashed a video for "Machine Gun," originally recorded by New Wave of British Heavy Metal legends, Saxon. The cover song is taken from IGNITOR's new album, HORNS AND HAMMERS. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8noAxDpr0
The track and video features cameos from vocalist Marc Lopes of Metal Church, Let Us Prey and Ross the Boss, as well as Ross the Boss Friedman himself of Manowar and The Dictators.
IGNITOR vocalist
Jason McMaster explains. "I was in Germany playing a festival with Watchtower, where
we were direct support for Metal Church. I met up with Marc and we became
fast friends. It was an obvious idea to me to ask him to guest on a track on
the new IGNITOR record. This great Saxon cover of 'Machine
Gun' was perfect. He kicks so much ass on it, I am super proud of it."
IGNITOR guitarist, Robert Williams, weighs in on the idea to get Ross the Boss, with whom Marc also works. "Jason called Marc and so it only seemed fitting that I reach out to my friend Ross to throw a ripping guitar solo into the mix. Ross was immediately into the idea and just killed it. They both shine on this rendition of "Machine Gun." We have a ton of respect for both of
these guys."
The video concept was created by Marc Lopes himself. Marc has his own digital creative design company called SONATHERIA. It was convenient and hands on for Marc, as he created content for the "Machine Gun" video in his own studio. Basic B-roll footage was shot in Texas, and then sent to Marc by the band to incorporate into the editing.
Jason on the video...." When we finally saw the final edit, we were blown away. Excellent work by Marc at containing the energy for this video. I am stoked to share a song with him and that involvement even goes beyond contribution of his voice. He is one of my favorite singers in metal, and then, his digital video production work truly added to the power of the track".
The U.S. version of Horns and Hammers adds the ripping cover of Saxon’s classic “Machine Gun,” featuring guest vocalist Marc Lopes (Metal Church, Ross the Boss, Let Us Prey) and guest guitarist Ross“The Boss” Friedman (Manowar, The Dictators, Ross the Boss). The European version of Horns and Hammers features a live performance of IGNITOR's 2020 track, “Hell Shall Be Your Home.”
"Machine Gun" is available on all streaming outlets, available for download, and the video is a global release on YouTube.
Horns and Hammers is be available on Bandcamp via Metal on Metal Records, and in the United States on www.revoltvinylrecords.com. Revolt Vinyl Records will make it available on CD and vinyl.
U.S. residents can order the CD directly from the band at https://ignitorband.com/product/1039420
Another storm-the-gates, metal onslaught, Horns and Hammers delivers all the dramatic power and fury that landed previous albums Haunted by Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Golden Age of Black Magick in the hallowed realms of Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Raven, Dio, Accept and other legendary keepers of the metal creed.
From the title track’s speed-metal war cry and the Maiden-esque “Imperial Bloodlines” to the cowbell-driven “Shattered Crosses” and the 70s-inspired heavy metal of “Ferocious the Martyrs” (featuring guest keyboardist Gabriel Guardian of Immortal Guardian) the 11-track Horns and Hammers
is a mighty mix of classic heavy metal spiked with NWOBHM, thrash, power metal and the atmospheric textures of prog-metal and fantasy.
“We raised the bar high with our last two albums so we couldn’t settle for anything less than a full-on metal assault,” said founding guitarist Stuart “Batlord” Laurence. “We’ve always honored our influences,
but we’re also very insistent that our music – first and foremost – sounds like IGNITOR. With Horns and Hammers, we’ve covered the spectrum of metal and taken Ignitor to a whole new level.”
Fronted by the soaring vocals of Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth), IGNITOR's strength is further forged by guitarist Robert Williams, bassist Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell and drummer Pat Doyle. Whether charging and pounding like clashing titans (“Dark Horse,” “Chaos Maximus Eternal”) or luring the listener into gothic tales of doom and deceit (“Suicide Anthem,” “Taken Up With Serpents”), IGNITOR delivers with shuddering impact.
“Robert brought a ton of songs and riff ideas to the table and Billy had some great ideas that blossomed into full-blown songs,” Laurence said. “Once we started jamming with Pat’s pummeling backbeat, we knew we had something special.”
“As the arrangements started coming together, I found myself completely immersed and inspired to come up with the lyrical themes and characters to carry the songs to completion,” McMaster added. “I’m really proud of the band’s individual and collective contributions, and I think we all agree that Horns and Hammers is a triumph by any measure.”
The album’s stunning cover art – featuring a medieval warrior and his mighty steed surveying a hellish killing field – comes courtesy of renowned fantasy/sci-fi artist Claudio Bergamin whose credits include
Judas Priest (Firepower), Burning Witches (The Witch of the North), Cassius King (Field Trip) and Klassik ’78 (Phantoms), among others.
Produced and mastered by Stuart “Batlord” Laurence at Emphatic Audio in Austin, TX, Horns and Hammers was mastered for vinyl by Cris Burns. “Hell Shall Be Your Home” was recorded live in Austin TX at Kick Butt Coffee in 2019, and engineered by Ernie Basaldua with mixing by
Stuart "Batlord" Laurence.
Track Listing:
1. Horns And Hammers
2. Imperial Bloodlines
3. Dark Horse
4. Cyber Crush
5. Shattered Crosses
6. Taking Up With Serpents
7. Ferocious The Martyrs
8. Suicide Anthem
9. Chaos Maximus Eternal
10. Machine Gun (Saxon cover)*
11. Terminous
*Note: “Hell Shall Be Your Home” appears on The Metal On Metal Records version.
All songs written, recorded and performed by Ignitor, except *“Machine Gun,” originally written, recorded and performed by Saxon, Carrere Music Ltd 1980.
Cover art by Claudio Bergamin.
Line-up:
Stuart “Batlord” Laurence - Guitar
Robert Williams - Guitar
Jason McMaster - Vocals
Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell - Bass
Pat Doyle - Drums
Bio:
IGNITOR formed in Austin, Texas in 2003 with legendary Agony Column guitarist Stuart Laurence, Brendon Bigelow on bass, Beverly Barrington on guitar, Pat Doyle (Offenders) on drums, and vocalist Erika Swinnich. The band wanted to write music reflecting their passion for heavy, speed, and power metal.
IGNITOR quickly attracted a worldwide fan base after releasing their debut album Take To The Sky, featuring the hit "Demonslayer," in 2004 to rave reviews. Germany’s Rock Hard magazine named it "Demo of the Month.” Dies Irae (Brazil) said “Ignitor take the world by storm, playing a furious Heavy/Speed Metal, joining the high class of veteran musicians and the powerful voice of Erika Swinnich.”
IGNITOR performed at Mexico’s Monterrey Metal Fest in May 2005, appearing alongside Motorhead and Danzig. Then onto Germany’s Keep It True Festival in November 2005, where they stunned the crowd and were named "Best KIT Newcomer" by Mario’s Metal Mania magazine.
In 2007 IGNITOR released Road of Bones (Cruz del Sur Music) featuring cover art by legendary MOTORHEAD collaborator Joe Petagno. Beverly was temporarily replaced by Annah Moore on guitar for this album. The band’s sophomore effort is a deep dive into themes of pain, death, and rebirth, culminating with their triumphant anthem "Reinheitsgebot" and its rallying cry “Metal is the Law!” Blabbermouth described IGNITOR - “This is the energetic, lusty sound of a new and eager band who are ridiculously fired up to be alive, no matter what the decade.” IGNITOR toured heavily in support of the album, playing with Primal Fear and Leaves Eyes, and a notable appearance at the Valley Thrash Fest in McAllen, Texas.
In 2008, Texas metal veteran Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Howling Sycamore, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth, Evil United) replaced Erika’s wraith-Maiden wail with his demonic Texas drawl. The band released The Spider Queen (Cruz del Sur/Heavy Artillery) in 2009, a fairy tale of love and redemption. The band toured in support of the album, sharing stages with Fates Warning and Helstar along the way.
In 2010 IGNITOR played the Metal Up Your Tap Fest in Chicago along with Cruz del Sur label mates Bible of the Devil.
2012 saw the release of Year of the Metal Tiger (MVD Audio,) featuring fan favorite "Heavy Metal Holocaust" and the eerie polytheism of "Shadow of the Needle." “…a fiery album of traditional, hot-wired metal that’s intensely passionate and utterly authentic.” – Backstage Auctions.
IGNITOR released Mixtape '85 in 2013, a collection of beloved favorites recalling the peak years for thrash and heavy metal. The Metal Files said “…the opening solo on Into the Coven gave me chills when I first heard it.” 2013 also saw the inauguration of IGNITOR’s occasionally-annual Iron Fist Fest in their hometown of Austin, featuring Witches Mark.
The next two years produced some lineup changes. Beverly was replaced by Robert Williams (Witches Mark,) and Brendon was replaced by Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell (Agony Column) cementing IGNITOR’s current lineup.
In May 2016 IGNITOR performed at the Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago along with Tygers of Pan Tang, Jag Panzer, and Leather Leone. The Iron Fist Fest returned in 2016 too, featuring Byfist and Death of Millions alongside IGNITOR.
In 2017 IGNITOR released Years of War 2008 – 2013, an anthology of the band’s releases during those years in a limited edition box set, including rare promo discs and assorted items from the merchandise shop. The box set is only available from the band’s website .
2017 also saw the release of the IGNITOR’s sixth album Haunted By Rock & Roll (EMP Label Group.) The song "Hatchet: The Ballad of Victor Crowley" is heard during the closing credits of the horror slasher “Victor Crowley” from Ariescope Pictures. Director Adam Green produced a NSFW video of the song featuring some key gory scenes from the movie. The band produced three other companion videos featuring the songs "No Sanctuary," "Brave The War," and "Haunted by Rock & Roll." Roppongi Rocks said “IGNITOR serves us an extra large portion of terrific heavy metal on its new album.” “The New Wave of British Heavy Metal deserves a locally designated acronym thanks to IGNITOR.” - Austin Chronicle
IGNITOR returned to Chicago in July 2018 for the Alehorn of Power X festival, appearing alongside Zuul and Bible of the Devil. IGNITOR appeared again in July at the Iron Fist Fest 3 with James Rivera’s Metal Asylum and Austin’s own Duel. Iron Fist Fest 4’s ten-band lineup in 2019 featured IGNITOR, Helstar, and Angkor Wat.
In early 2020, IGNITOR finished the work on their seventh album. After contacting Metal on Metal Records and sending the new songs, they got a positive response and soon the agreement was reached. The Golden Age of Black Magick was finally released on October 2020 on CD and all major digital platforms.
In January 2020 right before the worldwide pandemic, IGNITOR recorded a live set at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin. Later in the year the band self-released that set on a CD called Live…Before the Plague and posted it for sale on its website store.
Like most of the planet, IGNITOR spent 2020-2021 hiding out from the pandemic. Luckily that provided ample opportunity to write and hone new material. The band played a few shows here and there as venues began opening back up in 2022 and 2023, but spent most of the time writing and preparing to record their next album.
Recording began in Fall 2023 and was finished in May 2024 for the ninth IGNITOR album, Horns and Hammers (Metal on Metal). Horns and Hammers features some extra special guests – Ross “the Boss” Friedman (Dictators, Manowar,) Marc Lopes (Metal Church) and Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian). IGNITOR is especially proud of this album. The cover art was painted by Claudio Bergamin and depicts a weathered warrior in a brief moment of repose after a battle. It resembles the plight of true metal warriors like IGNITOR, who strive to inject both power and passion into their craft with every performance, keeping the flames of heavy metal stoked and smoldering for the gathered masses.
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Renowned black psych metal band, FURZE, announces the release of its highly anticipated new album, "COSMIC STIMULATION OF DARK FANTASIES". The album, set for a mind-bending release on 15 November 2024 and available for pre-order now, will take listeners on a sonic journey through the depths of darkness, the haunting beauty of the unknown, and a trip that will solidify FURZE's status as masters of the "black psych" metal sound.
To coincide with the album announcement, FURZE has released a trippy music video for the track “Marrow Creed”. The video visually embodies the album's themes of cosmic exploration, existential dread, and the allure of the forbidden. This new song is a prime example of FURZE's evolution, pushing the boundaries of its sound with a trippy and unusual soundscape.
Watch the music video to “Marrow Creed”: https://youtu.be/tyyuzdzpeUk
Listen to the track on
Pre-order "Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies": https://d-a-p.org/
"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" marks a significant milestone for FURZE, showcasing its evolution and pushing the boundaries of its signature sound. The album features a diverse range of tracks, from the psychedelic ballad "Marrow Creed" to the intense, Satanic groove of "Waswasah".
Woe J. Reaper said:
“We invite you to journey the 9th full length of FURZE - "COSMIC STIMULATION OF DARK FANTASIES". Creating sounds where eternity is haunting mankind's will for survival and barking answers seems echoing, twisting that same will to the point of hunting Man's soul back through spectral infinity.
“The album pushes the personal edge of diverse Furzement to dark delights. Heavily brandished with oldish black doom metal spirit to breed new blood: Under the umbrella Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies you have songs like Marrow Creed, a psychedelic ballad of an inner self-motion/devotion, Waswasah - a Satanic groove with whispers from a devil so potent we wish only Kings in the beyond would, but do not hear! And another 4 raw power tunes on what is no less than the 2nd (!) brand new Furze full-length in 2024 alone. Long live Black Psych Metal!”
"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" will be available as a stunning Gatefold LP on 15 November 2024, in a collaboration between Devoted Art Propaganda and Polytriad Fingerprints. Prepare to have your orgasmic sensibilities awakened by the return of Woe J. Reaper!
Devoted Art Propaganda have also prepared an on-demand print of the “Necromanzee“ T-shirt design reinterpreted by von Ritter. This will only be available in pre-order and will be shipped on 15 November. Devoted Art Propaganda will also distribute older Furze material - stay tuned!
Furze released its eighth album “Caw Entrance” earlier this year in CD, LP, cassette and digital formats.
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Extreme
metal force MASS PUNISHMENT unleashes its powerful new
video, "GROUND POUNDER," a track from their album "PROVING
GROUNDS DEVASTATION," out now via Wormholedeath.
'Ground Pounder' is a song about an Infantryman Soldier brainwashed by the military establishment to keep marching on no matter what hell they’re faced with. This music video is the first upon release of the album “Proving Grounds Devastation”. This video was directed by both MavErick and Marc Petrick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpkdcgCWOw8
Mass Punishment is a 4 piece Metalcore/Extreme Metal band based out of New Jersey music designed to inform as well as hit as hard as the facts and events the songs are written about. Current events on a social, political, environmental, and economic scale. Of government corruption and depopulation with a population facing death by design.
Mass Punishment is:
Erick Laurino (Vocals)
Christopher Milos (Guitars)
Kyle Yannon (Bass)
Brian Donat (Drums)
www.masspunishment.com
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Check it out at the following link:
"Drenched In Righteous Offal" will be available October 18 on all the usual streaming platforms.
After nearly a decade since the release of full-length debut album, Subversions of the Psyche, the Scottish brutes return with sophomore album, Edifice of Vicissitudes, their first for Willowtip!
Without compromise, stylistic detours or mellowing with age, Edifice of Vicissitudes is a blast-beaten beast of an album and a quintessential example of Brutal Death Metal in its purest form.
Guitarist Joe Fleetwood drives that point home in explaining that, “Edifice of Vicissitudes is the culmination of years of jamming and formulating our ideas into the most brutal and twisted Iniquitous Savagery songs we could make.”
Willowtip Records will release Edifice of Vicissitudes November 22 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://iniquitoussavagery.bandcamp.com/album/edifice-of-vicissitudes
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Track
Listing:
1. Casualty of Diabolical Trial
2. Synaptic Cull
3. Choked Before First Breath
4. Omnipotence Negates Self-Affliction
5. Narcotic Exsanguination
6. Lifeblood
7. Drenched in Righteous Offal
8. Bio-Digital Convergence in the Fourth Industrial Age
Credits:
All music and lyrics by Iniquitous Savagery.
Recorded by D.P Johnson and Euan Harrison at Audio Lounge and Full Pelt studios.
Reamping, mixing and mastering by Colin Marston at The Thousand Caves.
Cover art by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design.
Line-up:
Liam McCall - Vocals
Joe Fleetwood - Guitar
Chris Ryan - Bass
Euan Harrison - Drums
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Label: Grind To Death Records / Fiadh Productions
Release Date: November 28th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Darkthrone | Urgehal | Wolfbastard | Taake
An insignificant, impotent worm of belief came crawling from the desert sands. It brought its wheedling words of bile and honey to our home, its slow poison of false humility and father worship, eating at the hearts of those too easily swayed from sacred paths. Our steel began to rust and our blood run thin. Our mothers and our teachers, our conduits to the world that had cradled us through the centuries, were cast down and discarded as over eager boy-kings clambered across the bodies that had birthed them, scrambling desperately for the crown of the whispering worm. Under this new order of edicts and commandments seers became whores and queens became witches. And the disregarding turned to disrespecting…to dominating…to abusing…and to burning.
“Like the screams from a thousand vengeful souls from the witch’s bonfire.”- Vittra describes the sound of Völva.
From Malmö, Sweden comes the vengeful, satanic, feminist sound of Völva; a howling, hate-filled voice of rage, fuelled by the fire and the fists that have subjugated womankind since the old ways were undone by the insidious Christian contamination of the world. Born in the simmering underground cauldrons of punk and black metal the band built their foundations with a self-titled demo and the highly regarded Promises Unfold As Lies EP – and now the time for the unveiling of their mesmerising, intimidating full length debut album is at hand. Desires Profane begins with the acidic malice of ‘The Tower’ and immediately draws you into its world of flame and shadow. With its clarity edged with dirt and direct, unflinching approach ‘The Tower’ begins to carve out a strange soundscape of distinct character, with melody implied rather than simply stated. Familiar yet unsettlingly different…it’s an aura that permeates the whole album. ‘Walk With Me’, primal and chaotic, infused with anger and a sense of the forbidden that underlines the fact that Völva are born of different blood, a breed apart and your welcome into their circle is by no means assured. ‘Never Forgive’ stalks you like a blood encrusted valkyrie with a slow menace and a Transylvanian hunger, while ‘The Serpent’ sinks its needle fangs of nightmare into your quivering flesh, injecting the venom as cold flames lick at your nerve endings. The dark and ragged glory that unfolds as Desires Profane progresses is both addictive and magnificent. This is black metal at its assured and powerful, cruel and angular best, attacking with a merciless and fiercely focused purpose. Finishing with ‘Vagabond’ that brings a pagan lilt to its grimy onslaught, a hymn to forgotten times before the coming of the worm, Desires Profane leaves you in no doubt that Völva want to tear down everything that you know and set light to all you think you understand.
On November 28th Desires Profane will be unleashed on vinyl by Fiadh Productions and CD by Grind To Death Records – both versions housed in a sleeve that affirms Völva’s chosen role as the enemy, the adversary of the oppressor. Scathing and acerbic in their assault on all who support the pillars of our rotten society, this band are passionate advocates for its end. You will not hear another album this year as aflame with scorn, contempt and fury as Desires Profane – bewitching in its bitterness and spellbinding in its savagery.
Line-up:
Hedonosticia - Vocals/Bass
Vittra - Guitar/Vocals
Skuld – Drums/Vocals
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Feral have released one of the most crushing albums in the Swedish death metal vein. And it's not like they're merely imitating others; much thought and effort has been put into writing the songs and perfecting their sound which is also influenced by the US death metal bands such as Autopsy and others. Their juggernaut of an album is streaming in full now and can be found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S41uCDpvIxA
FERAL - “TO USURP THE THRONES”
For
fans of : Dismember, Carnage, Entombed, Autopsy, Murder Squad, Fleshcrawl, Bloodbath, Grave
Swedish axe-wielding death metal marauders Feral proclaimed their rights to the throne with a potent split last year with crust-ridden death metal label mates Crawl. And as promised, they launched a massive, comprehensive onslaught the following year to eliminate all competition in the Swedish death metal realm. Those familiar with their legend know their humongous heft and power but what's also notable about them is their penchant for writing detailed and highly structured songs, more so than most bands of their ilk. This is death metal that looks, sounds and feels as if it's played by real savage Vikings but it is also wisely written, backed with nearly two decades of skull-crushing experience. Musically they not only honour the ancient Nordic gods the traditional way but also skillfully assimilate influences of the darker, filthier bands from across the ocean like Autopsy into their sound and solidify it many times over. The result is an insurmountable wall of sound that not only overwhelms and conquers but also makes room for tantalizing solos, menacing slower passages, and of course, the neck-snapping groovy parts. With 'To Usurp the Thrones', Feral have once again showed why they're the irrefutable contenders to the Swedish death metal throne and have delivered one of the most accomplished albums in the style in recent times.
Line up
David Nilsson - Vocals
Viktor Klingstedt - Bass
Markus Lindahl - Guitar
Sebastian Lejon - Guitar
Roger Markström - Drums
Artwork by Costin Chioreanu (Grave)
Track listing
1. To Drain the World of Light
2. Vile Malediction
3. Deformed Mentality
4. Bound to the Dead
5. The Devouring Storm
6. Spirits Without Rest
7. Decimated
8. Phantoms of Antiquity
9. Soaked in Blood
10. Into the Ashes of History
11. Stripped of Flesh
Release date - October 18th, 2024
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Unleash
the power of pure death/thrash metal with the debut album “Attack of the Zombie
Cans” from Cult of Orpist! Hailing from Greece, this band is a force to be
reckoned with, delivering a brutal mix of death and thrash metal that will
leave you headbanging and moshing with reckless abandon.
This release is not for the faint of heart – it’s raw, aggressive, and packed with crushing riffs, pounding drums, and ferocious vocals. This is the type of metal that will leave you feeling energized and empowered, ready to conquer the world.
Members:
Hector Sohos - Vocals/Bass
Chris Panagitsas - Rhythm Guitar
George Dimitrakakis - Lead Guitar
Sotos Dimitropoulos - Drums
Attack of the Zombie Cans(Lyrics)
Blood moon is rising and they're rising from their graves
The cans of death are searching for their preys
You are condemned and they are thirsty for your life
The scent of death is dripping from their eyes.
Run!
Revenge, attack of zombie cans
Run for your life!
Run!
You can't escape the smell of blood
Dripping from their metal veins.
Stabbing, slicing, eating
20 pounds of human flesh
You're gonna run but you are running to your death
They are ecstatic, made of metal and undead
You cannot kill them, or drink them - you are dead!
Run!
Revenge, attack of zombie cans
Run for your life!
Run!
You can't escape the smell of blood
Dripping from their metal veins.
Teratogenesis, his name is Joe
He's gonna run you down into your darkest foe
Lamentation upon your life
You're gonna feel the scent of death until you die
Teratogenesis,
Feel the pain inside your darkest bliss.
Run!
Revenge, attack of zombie cans
Run for your life!
Run!
You can't escape the smell of blood
Dripping from their metal veins.
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After the release of the single in digital format, which has reached 5K streams on Spotify, Italian Doomsters EPITAPH present the official lyric video of the song "KINGDOM OF SLUMBER" a manifesto of the dark and epic sound played by the band, and the first track taken from new album "PATH TO OBLIVION". Give it a look at https://youtu.be/8Kodbqpkibk
Created by Tiago Silva on the amazing graphics designed by Dimitri Corradini, it makes us understand that the journey towards the oblivion has begun and Doom Metal, Progressive and Esotericism are the coordinates.
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (singer of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, this is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble.
DOOM ON!!!
"Path To Oblivion" LP/CD/tape/bundle could be pre-ordered at https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
Line-up:
Mauro Tollini: drums
Nicola Murari: bass
Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars
Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
Style:
Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists:
Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
Cover artwork created by Luciana Nedelea
Tracklist:
1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
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Detroit (MI) - Melodic/Power Thrashers, AMONG THESE ASHES will release new album, EMBERS OF ELYSIUM, December 6 on Alone Records! The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song, from the band.
A lyric video for new single, "Serpents Among Rats," is available now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXeZ215GHM
"It's very hard for me to pick a favorite track of ours because I have to love the track in order for it to make it on one of our albums," explains guitarist Richard Clark. "That said, 'Serpents Among Rats' is exceptionally memorable for me because it embodies all of my favorite elements of metal. It's melodic, heavy, and aggressive; the lyrics are clever, the vocals are delivered beautifully, and the band is crushing. Lyrically, this track is about how the societal elite, particularly politicians, manipulate and fuel division among the people. The lyrics encourage seeing through that behavior and unifying to rise above it."
As for the forthcoming album, Embers of Elysium, Clark goes on to say that it "is quite the leap for us in every aspect from Dominion Enthroned. Where Dominion was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on Embers of Elysium are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners."
Track
Listing:
1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
*13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)
*Bonus track, featuring vocalist Brooke Rousseau.
Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach.
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Line-Up:
Richard Clark: lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals. JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar.
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Bio:
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band's central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group's sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes' debut musical offering, Dominion Enthroned, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled "The Enemy in I," which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of "Sirens" by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, "Restless Gypsy."
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
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Listen to “Aderlater” here: https://song.link/aderlater
“We wrote the track Aderlater with the full band after J.D. and Stef came up with some chords that went nowhere,” said the band. “We were all listening to a lot of post-punk and new wave and most of us attended concerts by The Cure around the time.”
“If I recall correctly Mitch came up with the intro drum pattern and we changed the 6/8 we had to a 4/4 beat and wrote basically the entire song on the spot. The lead in the chorus came from Tristan from another old composition we never finished. It all fell into place, so to speak.”
“Lyrically the song deals with laying bare uncomfortable and personal feelings for the sake of music. It is, in a way, an ode to insecurity.”
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk.
Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album will be released through These Hands Melt, with more information to be unveiled soon.
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
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Finnish black metal band NOITASAPATTI is set to release their new studio album 'SANKARIN MATKA' on November 29th 2024 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'HENKIEN POLULLA' is released today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/noitasapatti-henkien
The band comments:
"Musically the song represents a more straightforward side of the album “Sankarin matka” and it's probably the closest that we get to a traditional second-wave black metal sound on this album. It will also be the track for our first official music video, released later during 2024.
The lyrics continue the storyline that goes on throughout the album. In this part the narrator, after seeing signs in flames, strives to get closer to the Spirits he worships. The track has been a solid choice in our live setlist since its completion."
Sankarin Matka CD pre-order available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/noitasapatti-sankarin-matka-cd-pre-order
Listen to the first single 'Paluu liekkeihin' https://push.fm/fl/noitasapatti-paluu
Biography:
NOITASAPATTI was born in spring 2017 in Pori, Finland by Erakko (vocals), Liekkiö (guitars, keyboards), Mielivalta (guitars) and Rampa (bass). Soon after that, Rienaaja joined us as a drummer and the first line-up was complete. After a couple of months of intensive rehearsing and composing, we recorded our first demo, “Vaellamme kuin Taivaankappaleet” on december 2017 and released it on CDr-format spring 2018. First live-show took place in our hometown also in the same spring. After that, Rampa left the band and Erakko began to play bass. Next year we recorded a second demo, “Aarnivalkean ajamana” and played some gigs. In 2020, we made a split-album with another Finnish band HOLLOW CORPSE. After some line-up changes, Häviö came to the band at the end of 2020 and a few months later, Kadonnut also joined the band to play keyboards. In summer 2021, we finally recorded our first full-length album “Kuolemattomille maille”. After a few successful live-shows it was time to record our second full-length album, “Sankarin matka” (A hero’s journey) in summer 2023. Album is now recorded, mixed, and mastered, and we are more satisfied with the result than ever before!
Our music can be described as 1990’s black metal with lots of melodies and even “burzumic” atmosperes. Also, you can hear influences from early British death/doom, epic viking metal and even some old school progressive music. Vocals are quite original “howling” and also heavily Burzum-influenced screams. Lyrics are written in Finnish.
Track list:
1. Tulikipuna
2. Tuhatkasvoinen
3. Sankarin matka
4. Paluu liekkeihin
5. Käskyläisen sanat
6. Henkien polulla
7. Matka halki myrskyjen
8. Tähtivaeltaja
Album cover by Mika Huumonen
Line-up:
Erakko - Vocals, Bass, Mouth Harp, Horns
Liekkiö - Guitars
Häviö - Drums
Kadonnut - Keyboards
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Los Angeles (CA) - One-man Melodic Death/Black Metal act, THE MOSAIC WINDOW, has joined forces with Invisible Oranges for the premiere of "ASHES LIKE ANVILS," the second single from forthcoming album, HEMASANCTUM. Click to stream below! https://www.invisibleoranges.com/the-mosaic-window-ash-like-anvils/
The Mosaic Window will release Hemasanctum, November 15 on Willowtip Records! The album will be available on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats.
"Hemasanctum sprawls and ponders along its path, examining shared trials and tribulations obscured behind cryptic language and annihilating blast beats. Memorable melodic lines are a major focus, but so is shifting pacing that cycles through pure black metal aggression and cathartic slowdowns."- Invisible Oranges
The Mosaic Window mastermind, Andrew Steven Brown, released the following statement concerning the album:
“Hemasanctum is a concept album that explores my current thoughts on life, relationships (parent-child), and loss. While it may or may not be obvious, the album starts with a song about birth and ends with a song about death. In between are songs intentionally out of order (like the roller-coaster timeline we all experience) subtly relating to topics like self-awareness, mental health, abortion, religion, and grief.
This album is the first Mosaic Window record to feature a real drummer - Gabe Seeber of Abigail Williams, Vale of Pnath, Obscura (live), Decrepit Birth (live), Carach Angren (live), and many more. Additionally, I am still in awe that there are two guest solos from the legendary (and possibly my favorite) guitarist Andy LaRocque. Both Andy and Gabe absolutely nailed their parts, and I couldn’t be more elated for their presence on the record.
Hemasanctum was written and recorded between October 2023 - February 2024 at my home studio, and mixed by Damian Herring over the Summer of 2024. I am so proud of this album, and hope listeners can appreciate it too. Cheers!”
Pre-order:
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https://themosaicwindow.bandcamp.com/album/hemasanctum
Track Listing:
1. Incantation to Summon the Unstable
2. The Pounding of Hooves
3. Black Bethlehem
4. Turibulum
5. Ash Like Anvils
6. Night Disease
7. Shrouded in Pain
8. Hymn to Silence the Light
Credits:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Producing, Engineering.
Damian Herring - Mixing and Mastering.
Additional Musicians:
Gabe Seeber - Drums
Andy LaRocque - Guitar Solos (Tracks 2 and 4)
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This offering of crust-tinged Black/Death Metal comes on the tail of 2020’s dual releases of the “Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell” single and the COVID-19 Reset EP cassette, also released by Boris Records. The new album contains 12 all-new tracks mastered by Damian Herring.
An introduction to the album from the band:
"We are more than pleased to finally be releasing the album of Insect Politics. The vision that ultimately became this recording was initially conceived in early 2020 immediately after production wrapped up on the 'Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell' single. It feels almost an eternity ago that these events came to pass, with a global pandemic descending upon us and completely upheaving the state of the band, as well as the numerous life events that followed.
The one constant in this time for Chris [T. Hammer] and Jake [Benedict], as our planned tour evaporated and local gigs dried up, was the prospect of recording the songs for release in our very first full-length. The actual composition of the tracks seems almost a blur, with three of the first songs written occurring in a matter of months in the early stages of the pandemic and being recorded and mixed by mid-2021, and the remainder of the songs being composed by late 2021.
However, the production to finish recording that last set of songs proved a major challenge, as we set out to create our most ambitious and uncompromising structures yet. What resulted exceeded even our own expectations and initial vision. As we wrapped up post-production, both of us noted that this album truly represents an ending: a conclusion of what we initially set out to do in 2017, which was to marry our artistic influences — the Celtic Frosts and the Graves and the His Heroes are Gone and the Morbid Angels… and the Impetigos… — into a cohesive and novel expression which was singular, sharp, and pointed in its rebellion against the wrongs of humanity, and simultaneously broad in its footprint, sonic approach, and modes of worship. But, every ending is also a beginning, and we also realized that selections from this album contain the blueprint for the next era of the band. The assault will continue…."
Track
Listing:
1. Social Ruin
2. Insect Politics
3. Anger/Despair (Interlude)
4. A.S.S. III — The Borderland Wars
5. Bliss
6. La Canzone di Mary Woodhouse (Interlude)
7. The Gates of Hell
8. Boomer Death
9. Intentional Under Performance
10. Winner of the Franchise Wars
11. The Serpent and the Sickle
12. Eusocial Demesne
Credits:
Recorded and mixed at Hammer Studios, Smyrna GA.
Mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios.
Front cover insect art by Jeremy Snevil.
Additional front cover and vinyl label components by Warhead Art.
Album layout by Misanthropic Aggression with graphical assistance from Sam Leyja (Boris Records).
Line-up:
Jake Benedict -- Lead Vocals, Drums
Chris T. Hammer -- Guitar, Bass, Vocals
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Death metal outfit VOMIT FORTH has delivered their punishing new album, TERRIFIED OF GOD. Following up on the success of their 2022 release Seething Malevolence , the band’s latest full-length pushes the boundaries of extreme metal, offering twelve tracks of unrelenting intensity and atmospheric dread.
A willingness to explore and incorporate influences from across a wide sonic landscape has always set VOMIT FORTH apart from their metal peers, and TERRIFIED OF GOD is here to solidify the band as a mainstay act in the metal community. The band’s live show is just as punishing as the record, and with an upcoming tour supporting The Black Dahlia Murder and Dying Fetus, more audiences will witness Vomit Forth’s violent attack.
Stream the new album here: https://vomitforth.lnk.to/TerrifiedOfGodNe
Genre : Barbagia Dark Folk
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music |
Release date : October 31st 2024
If north Europe has Wardruna, Heilung and Forndom, Italy has ILIENSES. This could not be possible but from Sardinia, the island of the ancient Nuragic civilizations, whose traditions and languages still live nowdays.
Keep in mind what follows: although the style it's ritualistic and Folk-driven, such as the one developed in North Europe which often makes of the "Nordic" matrix the only possible one, ILIENSES do not make any syncretism. The language, sounds, traditional instruments, themes and inspirations sticks only to Sardinian lands, history and culture, especially the one of Barbagia - the vast mountainous region in the inner Sardinia.
ILIENSES Dark Folk music it's ritualistic, thickly atmospheric and deeply evocative of Barbagia's mysteries and spirits. The band plays with self-constructed traditional instruments, sings in Sardinian language and makes use of A Tenore chants, a Sardinian autochthon kind of throat singing. Lyrics are strictly in Sardian autochthon language, and speaks about poetry, legends, facts and stories of Sardinian popular culture, an ancient culture which is still alive nowdays thanks to the oral transmission and the islander kind of society.
A few words about Jae, from ILIENSES:
"Lost in the undefined time and space of visions that manifest themselves in their primal sacredness, we felt the importance of searching for our roots. In particular, we tried to understand how the forms that make us up also make up earth, water, fire and stars and how they reach us through an audible and silent language. We recognize their vibrations but not their location in our mind, and hence the need to find the key, the "Jae" of the mystery that opens hidden portals.
Stones, woods, tombs, Domus, wells and Nuraghe, our primordial homes, are all thousands of years old living matter and are the places where we started chasing the thread of time, attached to both life and death. At the other end of the thread, we found esoteric figures, some appealing and some ominous, who hold with the same thread the extremes of everything, the beginning and the end of every being and every form, of men and even of time itself."
Sale Points:
Barbagia Dark Folk - Sardinian ritualistic Folk music, stylistically close to Wardruna and Heilung;
Played with self-constructed traditional instruments;
Lyrics in Sardinian autochthon language;
Ritualistic, evocative and atmospheric soundtrack-alike music;
ILIENSES it's not just music, but also CULTURE.
The band often plays in sites of archaeological value, such as the "Tombe Dei Giganti" and "Nuraghi", ancient structures of Nuragic populations.
Tracklist:
1) Jae
2) Tzonca
3) Eròes
4) Hampsicora
5) Ili Lur In Nurac Sessar
6) Animas
7) Arbèschet
ILIENSES are:
Mauro Medde & Natascia Talloru
Recording, mixing and mastering by Mauro Medde (ILI Music Studios) Photography: Gianfranco Delussu
Artwork: Arturo Grieco & Natascia Talloru
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After the first single, the title-track "The Kingdoom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT4vS51KhUo
ENDLESS DARK reveal a second cut from their debut album, "Alone in Paradise": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ies4WMOUXw
Formed in March 2022 by Florin Cucerzan (guitar and vocals) and Liviu Voda (guitar), the band was later joined by Dragos Benyovszky (bass and vocals), Catalin Chereji (keyboards) and Arpi Bogar (drums) to what nowadays is a determined quintet.
ENDLESS DARK strive to provide an atmosphere reminiscing to it's name, music-wise a Gothic Doom Metal band with Death and Black Metal influences. The sound, the message of the lyrics, the harmonic chaos, the obscure melody, they all create a cell of emotions bringing all that the name ENDLESS DARK holds within!
"The Kingdoom" is the first album of the Romanian band ENDLESS DARK, a material that preaches about a metaphorical entity by his name... the "kingdoom". This "kingdoom" is rather an idea, a morbid kind of thinking into the unknown, the mythical, the mystical, the dark path of the obscure idea of what afterlife could be, and of course... the ENDLESS DARK. The lyrics are reminiscing of death, many songs evoking a macabre tone in their lyrics while also holding high a very tiny touch of hope... or lack of it, from the melodic, chaotic harmony of the sound.
"From cold and shadows...
We rise under the darkest moon, beyond the mist of time that brings up the ENDLESS DARK!
Embrace the lost words, burn down the sun!
Restless revenants roaming the darkest depths of this existence, we fight for our unlight to become the Age of the Dark!
We shall rise the darkest light in the hopes of eternal peace!
We follow the mythical path of everlasting unlight to bring the peace amongst disturbed dead...
Let us reveal the ancient wisdom lost in time!
Let us bring you... The Kingdoom!"
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ONE WITH THE RIVERBED – “SUCCUMB”
Label: Dusktone
Release Date: October 25th 2024
Genre: Atmospheric Black/Post Metal
For fans of: Gloson | Ghost Bath | Harakiri For The Sky | An Autumn For Crippled Children
Hailing from Kalamazoo, Michigan, One With The Riverbed are a band whose music draws upon the essential, elemental forces of life itself. Vibrant, pulsing, agonized and exhilarating it reaches into the very core of those who find themselves engulfed by its gargantuan onslaught, broken open by its emotional power and exposed to its harsh truths and unflinching, penetrative gaze. Corrosive black metal crashes against the monolithic shores of a vast post-metal landscape, the tumbling riffs and ethereal melodies entwine forming something staggering and too colossal to comprehend and yet shot through with intensely intimate emotion – a glorious paradox of scale that has never been more effective than on the band’s imminent second full length album, Succumb.
Beginning with current single, the grand, portentous ‘Infested’, Succumb, gathers you up in its arms and carries you into its rampaging tumult of sound. Within the irresistible torrent you are sometimes gasping for breath, riding the crest of foaming, roaring waves and sometimes absorbed into the shadows and aquamarine twilight beneath the surface, skimming across the silent stones of a secret, submerged world. It’s a thrilling, bewildering, excoriating journey through an array of internal landscapes, dreamscapes and soundscapes. Within the world of ‘Dominion’ heartbreaking beauty emerges tentatively from the raging darkness, stays long enough to bewitch and enchant, then slips away again as suddenly as it arrived, utterly consumed, leaving the listener bereft – the sense of loss tangible. When ‘Purified’ casts you into the still shallows of ‘Adaptation’ you can float upon its reflective, echoing notes gazing at a sky obscured by tears, while vocals ripped apart with desolate emotion flay the layers of experience from your broken flesh. The potency of this collection of songs lies in its sheer emotive force that speaks in a voice both god-like and child-like to the universal hopes and fears within us all; the love, grief, shame and spirit that combine and coalesce in our veins.
From their beginnings amongst the forests and wetlands of their Kalamazoo home in 2017, One With The Riverbed always knew that they wanted to push the boundaries of the post-metal genre, to expand the palette of sounds that were the staple diet of other bands. The searing emotions that raged within their creative spirit demanded dissonance, cried out for soul-scarring textures and the unbridled harshness that black metal could supply…and with Succumb they have reached the overwhelming apogee of that creative vision. Succumb will be unleashed by Dusktone on October 25th – prepare for blinding revelation, shocking transformation and total disintegration…
Line-up:
John Scott – Guitar
Bryan Neterer – Guitar
Lisa Bridenstine – Bass
Jimmy Welty – Drums
Jared Koons – Vocals
https://www.dusktone.it/
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https://onewiththeriverbed.com/
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Century
Media Records are pleased to announce the start of the upcoming SECOND
CHAPTER of the comprehensive catalogue re-issue campaign for legendary
and groundbreaking Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY, who
were fronted by Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed metal
producer Dan Swanö (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection, etc.).
Long out of print, never previously available in certain formats or in any properly re-worked re-issue version, as well as enhanced by tons of exciting extra-material, these definitive re-issues come efficiently all re-mastered by Swanö himself and partly even shine in a new light via additional remix efforts as bonus.
And in order to showcase the impressing remastering as well as bonus remix treatment given to some of the material, you can now also check out the EDGE OF SANITY digital singles “Darkday (Remaster 2024)” as well as “Darkday (Remix 2024)” , taken from the 2CD and Digital Album format from the upcoming “The Spectral Sorrows” re-issue, on all DSP’s as well as in visualizers:
"Darkday (Remaster 2024)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E79fNEmhBI
"Darkday (Remix 2024)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj87xI05nL0
NEWS 12.10.2024
HEREZA - " DECOMPOSED BEYOND RECOGNITION"
TORMENT OF SOULS – “MORTUUS EST I “
https://www.facebook.com/mario.klein.961/
Dark Descent Records heralds the first coming of ABERRATOR - a yet unknown entity devoted to the ancient arts of death metal mastery.
NEWS 5.10.2024
NEWS 29.9.2024
BONJOUR
TRISTESSE
– Neues Album „THE WORLD WITHOUT US” erscheint am 18.10.2024 über
Supreme Chaos Records / zweite Single „LIGHTBEARER” online!Three
years after their crushing debut Defiled in Oblivion, CASTRATOR
returns with CORONATION OF THE GROTESQUE, an album that not
only exceeds all expectations but leaves them shattered in its wake, firmly
cementing the band among the North American death metal elite.“We see it as a leap forward,” exclaims co-founder Carolina Perez (drums). “It’s by far the strongest work we’ve done to date. Writing Coronation of the Grotesque was an incredibly enjoyable experience, and everything seemed to come together much more naturally this time. While the album still retains elements of who we were as a band, it’s much more refined, cohesive, and brutal.”
The creative collaboration is primarily driven by founders Carolina Perez and bassist Robin Mazen, with ferocious vocalist Clarissa Badini and newly recruited guitar virtuoso Sara Loerlein completing the lineup.
“Sara has been fantastic. She’s incredibly professional, brings a ton of new ideas, and her experience really shines through. She’s added a fresh dynamic to the band, and her guitar leads are absolutely killer! We’re really excited to have her as part of the band.”
Lyrically, Coronation of the Grotesque explores a range of historical and societal themes that reflect on injustice, victimization, and human suffering. Among the topics confronted are the tragic killing of Mahsa Amini, the ancient Sumerian practice of eunuchization, and seething condemnation of predator Naasón Joaquín García. Badini’s exceptional vocals elevate the lyrics, delivering a powerful and precise expression of the album's themes.
The band is offering a taste of things to come with the official music video for album track "Covenant of Deciept." The video was filmed by Immolation's Bob Vigna. Watch now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfih-aAsgVs
Dark Descent Records will release Coronation of the Grotesque August 15 on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats.
Pre-orders are now live at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.ddmsuo.eu
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
Coronation of the Grotesque was recorded across multiple studios with key figures in the US death metal scene. Bass recording was engineered by John Tardy (Obituary) at Redneck Studios, guitars and vocals by Jordan Milner at Obsidian Audio, additional guitars by Taylor Nordberg (Deicide) at Smoke and Mirrors Productions, and drums by Noah Buchanan (Nunslaughter) at Mercinary Studios, where Buchanan also handled mixing and mastering. Cover art by John Zig.
Touring with the likes of Immolation, Exhumed, and Cattle Decapitation has cemented CASTRATOR’s reputation as a commanding live force, and concert announcements in support of Coronation of the Grotesque are imminent.
Watch this space… and brace yourself for a relentless death metal onslaught!
Track listing:
1. Fragments of Defiance
2. I Am Eunuch
3. Covenant of Deceit
4. Mortem Opeterie
5. Remnants of Chaos
6. Deviant Miscreant
7. Psalm of Beguiled
8. Blood Bind's Curse
9. Discordant Rumination
10. Metal Command
CASTRATOR is:
Robin Mazen - Bass
Carolina Perez - Drums
Clarissa Badini - Vocals
Sara Loerlein - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/CastratorBand
VERTEBRA were born into the
Brazilian underground music scene in the mid 1990s, where they captured hearts
with some powerful live performances, their unquestionable integrity and
remarkable music - a progressively minded blend of death and thrash metal with
an inherent sense of melody. A single track demo, Humanity, was released
in 1995 and a further demo recorded but not released before the band imploded,
driven apart by the often overwhelming pressures of daily life. However, those
recordings were not made in vain. During the turbulent period of the pandemic,
Vertebra’s founder, guitarist and vocalist Arildo Leal, was driven to
create once again – and four of those old demo tracks would be the starting
point for rebuilding the foundations of Vertebra. Now Vertebra are back with
their so long awaited full length debut album, the fulfilment of all that early
promise, THE SAME.The Same opens with the explosive ‘Oblivion’, a hard-edged thrasher with a sharp, authentic sound that wastes no time in unveiling the fantastic technical ability that the whole of Vertebra have at their disposal. The instinctive, free-flowing interplay between bass and drums, the meticulous precision of the riffs, the dazzling solos are all there, dancing around the snarled vocals, delivered with a palpable passion and intent. Even more impressive though is Vertebra’s masterful songcraft, the manner in which they use their abilities to sculpt exciting, addictive, sleekly structured songs. Be it the powerful, free-willed and exploratory first single, ‘Behavior In The Eyes’, the outstanding melodies and solos of ’95 Eyes’ or the bustling riffs that open out into spacious vistas of ‘Fanatic And Picturesque’, there is so much to explore throughout this incredible album. Rarely is music so heavy yet so elegant, so intricate but so memorable and immersive. This is extreme metal at its most engaging, complex and accomplished.
Vertebra are a band driven by conviction and absolute belief in their music. This return is not based on nostalgia for the halcyon days of youth, but on a need to express their creativity and their individuality – and to take a stand for individuality in a wider sense, in a world becoming ever more apathetic and homogenised. This band still have a lot to say and a lot to offer. When Xtreem Music release The Same on July 29th, on CD (with bonus track) and digital formats they will blaze a path through the metal underground that will be impossible to ignore.
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vertebrametal
The 7" vinyl, cassette, and CD versions will ship in the coming weeks!
DEATHBLOW are back and ferocious as ever with the release of another ripping EP! Open Season will be released June 16 on Sewer Mouth Records. The EP will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats!
The four-track Open Season EP is a scathing commentary aimed at the heart of the belligerent American Empire and its war machinery. Combining their classic thrash metal sound with an unrelenting crossover punk-infused gut punch, the EP is guaranteed to get the blood boiling!
Track
Listing:1. Open Season
2. Deny, Defend, Dispose
3. Tormentor
4. Never Again
Credits:
Recorded at Archive Recordings with Wes Johnson.
Artwork by Emil Rousse.
Line-up:
Holton Grossl - Guitars/Vocals
Adam Kelly - Guitars
Paul LaChica - Bass
Rob Larson - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/deathblowofficial
Thrash
metal force DIVNI SAN continue their ascent with the
release of the cinematic lyric video for “WHEN THE BELLS RING THE
KNELL”, taken from their album “DREAMLIKE TALES”, out now
via Wormholedeath.Haunting, atmospheric, and deeply emotional—When the Bells Ring the Knell takes you on a journey through sorrow, reflection, and the search for closure. As the bells toll, unanswered questions linger, and the weight of the past looms large. Will there be redemption, or is it too late? Let the soaring melodies and melancholic atmosphere pull you into a world of regret and revelation.
Stream "Dreamlike Tales": https://orcd.co/dreamliketales
www.youtube.com/@divnisan
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UNALIGNED – “A FORM BEYOND “
Genre - Blackened
technical/progressive death metalFor fans of - Demon King, Withered Throne, Inferi, Enfold Darkness, Warforged, Vale of Pnath
After astounding tech death releases from Fleshbore and Eschaton on the label this year, there's the eagerly anticipated debut full length from Unaligned to look forward to. Once again boasting of a celebrated lineup featuring members of Withered Throne, Demon King, Fleshbore and others, Unaligned offer a blackened and comparatively more atmospheric take on the technical death metal style. Meticulously written and impeccably executed, their music has an epic flair which goes hand-in-hand with their undulating pattern showcasing the brilliant contrast between the faster, scathing parts and the smoother, melodic breaks. The alternating vocal delivery here too is fitting without being overpowering in any way. The songs are able to traverse multiple realms and subjects while remaining focused and impactful. There's a compelling, pulsating rhythm throughout, keeping things brisk and intense while also retaining a sense of groove. Sharp, taut and yet catchy, Unaligned have come up with an exemplary blackened tech death album in "A Form Beyond", and it only gets better with more listens.
Line up
Taylor Tidwell (Withered Throne) - Guitars
Shane Dreher (Nightspake) - Guitars
Cole Daniels (Demon King, Fleshbore) - Bass
Andrew Guia (Withered Throne) - Vocals
Jack Blackburn (Killitorous, ex-Inferi) - Drums
Mike Low - Mixing/Mastering
Erik Johnson - Editing/Mixing
Video by Arnua Gates
Artwork by Adam Burke
Track listing
1. Entities of Ash
2. Unbecoming of I
3. Ruins of Lunacy
4. A Form Beyond
5. Essence Erased
6. Spirit Dysmorphia
7. Death Entwines Us All
8. Dreaming in Decay
Release date - September 12th, 2025
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Kunal Choksi (label owner) Transcending Obscurity
"Veins of the Phoenix" is also available on Bandcamp. The single will be available on all other digital platforms soon.
This highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2024 debut, Lightning Spawn, promises a darker and more mature sound, showcasing the band's evolving artistry and the addition of a second guitar player to
their lineup.
Comprised of seasoned musicians from notable acts such as Adarrak, Killing Darlings, Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion, and Primal Charge, their unique blend of heavy, stoner, and doom metal has resonated with fans worldwide, setting the stage for Spiritual Chains to be a significant release.
Spiritual Chains was recorded across various studios in North America and Europe, a testament to Thorndale's commitment to sonic excellence. Jeff Henson (Duel) lends his talent to the album, featuring a guest solo on the track "Exiles and Masters”. The album was mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars).
“If you hear a touch of the familiar here and there, that’s exactly what it is. Hints, reminders that there were Giants of Metal long ago, and that the fire of those forebears continues to burn bright in talented musicians today from the scene." - Billy Goate (Doomed & Stoned)
Pre-order:
https://thorndale.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-chainsTrack Listing:
1 - Veins of the Phoenix
2 - Battles Fought in Vain
3 - Gods of Pain
4 - Twenty Thousand Souls
5 - Spiritual Chains
6 - Exiles and Masters
Album Credits:
Cover Art - Costin Chioreanu.
Jeff Henson - guest guitar on "Exiles and Masters".
All music by Thorndale.
All lyrics by Gustavo Valderrama and Zigor Munoz.
Produced by Thorndale.
Recorded locally in Austin, Texas; Scarborough, Ontario and Haarlem and Den Haag, Netherlands across 2024 and 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Rickard Bengtsson and Stafan Karlsson at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden.
Line-Up:
Gustavo Valderrama - Vocals
Peter Shannon - Guitars
Maarten Jungschläger - Guitars
Zigor Munoz - Bass
Guest musician: Rob Stone - Drums
Bio:
Thorndale is a stoner/doom metal band from The Netherlands, formed by experienced musicians from the European and North American metal scenes. Known for their powerful sound, Thorndale has quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the heavy music landscape. Members include Gustavo Valderrama (Killing Darlings, Headcrusher, Adarrak), Peter Shannon (Primal Charge), Maarten Jungschläger (Embers of Oblivion, Epinikion), and Zigor Munoz (Adarrak, Ferkaad).
https://www.facebook.com/thorndaleofficial
For fans of : Warloghe, Sapthuran, Emperor, Darkthrone and Clandestine Blaze
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcomes Embers Of Ouroboros to the roster with the new album The Autumnal Decline And Hermetic Maturation! Hailing from the catacombs of Northern Maryland, Embers Of Ouroboros was founded in 2023 and performs grim, atmospheric, melancholic Black Metal. The Autumnal Decline And Hermetic Maturation is an effort to hold a mirror to the twisted faces of fallacy, cognitive dissonance and pathological nihilism, blending first-wave and second-wave Black Metal.
Listen to the single "Our Crypts Of Blackened Ice And Hermetic Spirits" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHiWEZDNCqA
Tracklisting:1. Innate And Gnarled
2. A Comforting Darkness
3. The Autumnal Decline
4. Systemic Metamorphosis
5. As Silence Casts Out Its Eternal Divide
6. Our Crypts Of Blackened Ice And Hermetic Spirits
7. Horrific Descent Into The Endless Trenches Beyond Light
8. Dying Too Slow
9. The Incarnation Of Hypocrisy
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Glitch Kill crashes into the alt-metal scene with Tempest — a visceral, unrelenting dive into emotional collapse, internal war, and clawing one’s way out of the wreckage. From its opening lines to its final, defiant scream, the track is a sonic pressure cooker that rages through themes of shame, loss, and personal apocalypse.
With razor-sharp riffs, guttural urgency, and a poetic yet ferocious lyrical style, Tempest isn’t just a song — it’s a reckoning. The band weaves a storm of crushing breakdowns, haunting melodies, and relentless pacing, capturing the feeling of being pulled under by forces both internal and external.
Lines like "You can't move, you can't scream, you can't dream" hit like a gut punch — raw, real, and unfiltered. But through the chaos, a truth emerges: you can break the cycle. You can scream. And you can survive.
For
fans of heavy music that goes deeper than distortion and dives into the core of
human struggle, Tempest is the fire you've been waiting for.Biography
Brutal beats, crushing riffs, thunderous bass, and unorthodox vocal hooks—this is what sets Glitch Kill apart in California’s Central Valley metal scene. With nearly a century of combined experience and an unrelenting passion for heavy music, this band isn’t just making waves—they’re making fans need a chiropractor.
Rising from the ashes of Etched in Stone, bassist David "Crusher" Yanez, guitarist Travis Miller, and drummer Aaron Jones formed Glitch Kill with one goal: to create uncompromising, bone-crushing metal. The lineup was solidified with the addition of vocalist Shane Leon, whose raw intensity gave the band its signature sound.
Forming just before the world shut down in 2020, Glitch Kill took advantage of the downtime to craft their debut EP, Hindsight, which dropped on January 1st, 2021. Now, with their follow-up EP Post Hominid in the works and the latest addition of Robert Cole throwing down as a second guitarist, the band is back in full force, delivering relentless live performances across the Central Valley, the Bay Area, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Fresno, Santa Cruz, and beyond—wherever there’s a demand for heavy metal.
The beast has been unleashed. Are you ready?
https://www.sodeh.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/Glitchkill
The band name has been taken from Morbid Angel “Where the Slime Lives” lyric by extracting a sentence and then slightly modified it.
Originally composed by six musicians with different previous experiences in other rock and metal acts, The Dogma blends since the beginning introspective existential lyrics fulfilled by nihilism and bittersweet pessimism with a restless musical journey coasting various sonor shores, but always incentre into keys and guitars gloomy atmospheric lines and powerful rhythm section chased by great harsh vocals hosting also clean refrain.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+burning+dogma
https://www.facebook.com/theburningdogma
“OVER&OVER
ONE AFTER THE OTHER" is the sublimation of the path taken over 15 years of
The Burning Dogma's existence to become what they are today. A
painful and pitfall-strewn path, just as painful and moving as the songs on
this new album. The initial vision, mixing death metal and elements of dark
goth culture, finds here a balanced and coherent outcome. The lyrics, faithful
to tradition, reject the typical clichés of extreme metal to focus on the
elaboration of personal experiences: 'with Over&Over, we wanted to open a
window on psychological alienations based on real facts and events.'The album title is token from a sentence contained in The Cure ‘Hundred Years’ cover, last song of the album tracklist. It well describes the suffocating sense of nihilism and tragic desperation permeating the entire album mood.
Recorded at FearStudio, Dysfunction Studios and FalloutStudios by Giuseppe Bassi, Filippo Rambelli (Drown in Sulphur) and Fausto DeBellis (Vitriol, Revenience) and mixed/mastered by Rambelli, ‘OOOAO’ has been premiered by first single ‘Forecast’ with the related videoclip in March 2025.
You can find 2 singles on youtube:
https://youtu.be/MMZtF6Rg2nU?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/2PkplNcZ3Bw?feature=shared
https://theburningdogma.wixsite.com/thedogmaofficial/epk
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DO OR DIE – “RESURRECTION”
Format: Digital
EP-CDLabel: Independent Release
For fans of : Hatebreed, Merauder, Throwdown, Kublai Khan TX, Knocked Loose, Sepultura, Terror and so on…..
Tracklist:
01. Lust & Power
02. Alka
03. Resurrected
04. No Mercy
05. Trail of Tears
06. Mental Strength
DO OR DIE is a pioneer of the Belgian hardcore scene that was founded in 1999. Their main influences are the NYHC old-school scene, Hatebreed, Merauder, Sworn Enemy, Throwdown, mixed with more modern, metal-style parts.
The band released their first EP in 2000. This release was followed by non-stop touring in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. They established their agressive and modern sound signature in the next two full-length albums, ‘Heart Full of Pain’ (2001) and ‘The Meaning of Honor’ (2002), both released through I Scream Records label. These albums were massively defended on stage, with highlights such as Pressure Fest, Graspop Metal Meeting and Fury Fest.
The third full-length ‘Tradition’ was released in 2005 through Alveran Records. This album opened the doors of Germany, and DO OR DIE promoted it across Europe, on stages such as Dour Festival, With Full Force Festival, Pressure Fest. Three other studio albums were released from 2008 up to 2015, with supporting tours in European venues and festivals.
The band took a break but came back in early 2021 with a fresh load of musicians and former members centered around Chris, the remaining founding member, with the goal of making a new generation discover DO OR DIE. They toured Europe again in 2022 and 2023, playing their anthems on the stages of Hellfest, Dour Festival, Alcatraz.
With more than 20 years of shows around the globe and 6 studio albums, DO OR DIE has proven that Belgium can make great hardcore music. After being freshened with a whole new lineup, DO OR DIE has played around Europe and rocked some of the greatest metal festivals like Hellfest, Dour Festival or Alcatraz in 2023.
Now they come back with a blend of tradition and new influences, catchy, straight-to-the-point, brand new hardcore tracks. They plan to tour Europe again in 2025, playing again in main festivals and supporting international bands.
AEON
WINDS – “AN ODE TO THE MOUNTAINS”
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
Vö: 12.06.2025
»An Ode To The Mountains« markiert eine bedeutende Wende in der Diskografie der slowakischen Black-Metal-Band AEON WINDS. Zusammen mit dem 2023 erschienen Vorgängeralbum »Night Sky Illuminations« setzt es die Trilogie der verwunschenen Berge fort. Dieses Konzeptalbum ist der Majestät der Karpaten gewidmet, verwoben mit den düsteren Aspekten der slowakischen Folklore.
Das in acht Kapitel unterteilte Opus »An Ode To The Mountains« ist allen Fans von Legenden wie Emperor, Negura Bunget und Limbonic Art gewidmet.
Gastmusiker von Bands wie Dødheimsgard, Ancient und Midnight Odyssey haben zu dem Album beigetragen. Produziert wurde es unter der Federführung von Musikern der rumänischen Band Dordeduh.
Ein atmosphärisch dichtes Meisterwerk episch-symphonischen Black Metals!
LP
Side A
1. Legends And Tales Of Old (04:34)
2. An Ode To The Mountains (06:00)
3. Devoured By Time And Long Forgotten (05:08)
4. Unyielding Citadel (07:58)
Side B
5. Lunar Ascension (08:47)
6. Molpír (09:59)
7. Woodland Labyrinths (10:00)
8. Fading Embers (02:14)
9. Opus Coronation (06:36) LP-Bonus
Total: 61:16
CD
9. Night Sky Illumination (06:08) CD-Bonus
Total: 60:48
Line-up
Svarthen – Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Keyboards
Skald – Guitars (lead) on tracks 5, 6, 9
Vorth – Drums
Odolen – Lyrics
Guest Musicians
Hupogrammos (Dordeduh, ex-Negura Bunget) – Vocals (additional) track 2
Aphazel (Ancient) – Vocals (additional) track 3
Vicotnik (Dødheimsgard, Ved Buens Ende) – Vocals (additional) track 4
Dis Pater (Midnight Odyssey) – Vocals (choirs) tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9
Igor Papán – Electric violin tracks 1, 5, 6
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https://www.facebook.com/AeonWinds
MOTÖRHEAD präsentieren neue Single Und Video Für
“LEAVIN’ HERE” von “THE MANTICORE TAPES”
Motörhead veröffentlichen “Leavin’ Here”, die zweite Single und das dazugehörige Musikvideo vom kommenden Album “The Manticore Tapes”, das am 27. Juni erscheint. Das Musikvideo zu “Leavin’ Here” ist ein explosiv-wildes Mixed-Media-Erlebnis, das einzigartige Model-Charaktere und Szenenbilder mit Archivmaterial der Band kombiniert. “The Manticore Tapes” wurde ursprünglich 1976 aufgenommen und enthält bisher unveröffentlichte Aufnahmen von Motörheads klassischer “Three Amigos”-Besetzung.
1976, ein Jahr nach Gründung der Band, stand die bahnbrechende Besetzung von Motörhead fest. In der sogenannten "Three Amigos"-Ära von Motörhead schlossen sich Lemmy (Bass/Gesang), Fast Eddie Clarke (Gitarre) und Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor (Schlagzeug) zusammen und begannen ihren außergewöhnlichen Weg an die Spitze der Hardrock-Elite.
Im August 1976 traf sich die Band im legendären Manticore Studio von Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Fulham, um zu proben und die neue Besetzung zu präsentieren. Dort nahmen sie zum allerersten Mal gemeinsam auf und jetzt, 49 Jahre später, ist dieses lange verschollene Band wieder aufgetaucht, entstaubt und in all seiner Pracht restauriert worden, um das 50-jährige Jubiläum der wegweisenden Hardrock-Band zu feiern.
“The Manticore Tapes” wird als Deluxe Expanded Bookpack mit einer Doppel-LP und einer 7”-Single, als Single-LP, auf CD sowie digital erhältlich sein.
Alle Einzelheiten zu den Veröffentlichungen der “The Manticore Tapes” gibt es weiter unten.
News und Updates unter www.iMotorhead.com
CD
Limited edition of 300 copies
Cassette limited edition of 60 copies
Tracklist:
01 - E.xit G.lobal O.bliteration [03:01]
02 - Vegetative Techuman [03:08]
03 - Inborn Sickness [02:49]
04 - Heart Of Darkness [03:39]
05 - Cosmic Placenta [02:14]
06 - Pineal Turmoil [02:41]
07 - Reproductive Extinction [02:42]
08 - Phantom Anihilation [02:28]
09 - NecroEarth [03:09]
10 - Lucidity [03:22]
11 - Terrorithm [02:26]
"Sphere Of Atrocities" was recorded, produced and mastered at Undergrind Studios by Rolando Barros & Grog during several time lapses between 2023 & 2024.
All lyrics by Pedro Pedra.
All music by Alexandre Ribeiro, Ivo Martins.
All music & lyrical arrangements by Grog.
Cover concept by Pedro Pedra.
Illustration & final art by Victor Costa
THE EDGE OF EXTREME
34 years doing what they always did, pushing their creation forward, with the precision of a scalpel, in the most raw, brutal, and sharp form they know.
Yes, GROG are back once again to deliver us what they do best, one more chapter of extremeness, a lesson about how to renovate but at the same time to maintain their identity.
"Sphere of Atrocities" is their most recent deadly opus, an album that will make you bleed for speed, push you to the corner, and beat you relentlessly. Their new songs are equal to if violence wore a tuxedo, meaning that although their sound invites you to a modern and comfortable approach in fact once you enter the core of it you get smothered and crushed in a second by their vicious brutality. Almost inevitable to say that experience has a lot to do with this outcome and, as veterans in the metal scene, this ability to refine themselves brings them the possibility to explore new textures and dimensions. There's a lot of space for novelty here, and you simply have to know how to do it without repeating yourself.
With the same line-up for the past 20 years, expect nothing but great skilled master percussion, bass lines that will melt your face, a wall of exorcizing guitar riffs and a voice directly coming from down under. Overall, their musicianship is almost flawless and, with a super tight production, "Sphere of Atrocities" impact and intensity will surely be noticed within all worldwide death metal and grindcore fanatics.
Keeping their lyrical concept based on the dark side of humanity, they also add the alchemy that flows within our untold biology and mysterious existence. Concerning the final art of this album, all these concepts are amazingly represented and designed, once again, by the hands and mind of the one and only Crafter, Victor Costa.
As far as we're concerned, GROG still are one of the greatest names in the underground putting their musical effort in the top of the highest mountain and continuing to be a fearless and ruthless monster avalanche for your senses. So, above all, we dare to say that "Sphere of Atrocities" elevates GROG's legacy to a new level of severe musical brilliance.
Pulverize Yourself!
GROG Line-up:
Alexandre Ribeiro (Bass & Backing Vocals)
Pedro Pedra (Vocals)
Rolando Barros (Drums & Backing Vocals)
Ivo Martins (Guitars & Backing Vocals)
https://grogpt.bandcamp.com/
www.murder-records.eu
Listen to 'Vitruvian Rays' album: https://push.fm/fl/sargassus-vitruvian-rays
Track list:
01. Spirit of Gravity
02. Carving the Veins of God
03. The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade
04. Judgement of the Four
05. Pahat veräjät
06. On the Shoulders of Atlas
07. Vitruvian Rays
08. Zealot
Vocal Production by Raging Cannon
Mix & Master by Joona Muistola @ HAW Studios
Cover art by Matias Stenman
Sargassus’ debut album ‘Vitruvian Rays’ is a compilation of the most aggressive and dark material the band has ever produced. The album leans considerably more towards post
black metal and blackened death metal than any of the previous releases, offering the
listener a heap of blast beats and gnarly dissonant riffs. Throughout the album there is also plenty of experimentation, resulting in bursts of chaos overlaid with groovier drum beats. Thematically the album represents a more unified front of the band. While ‘Vitruvian Rays’ isn’t a concept album per se, all of the songs are linked through similar themes and references to philosophy and religion, as well as occultism. The album delves deeper into humanity’s need to control the natural chaos that permeates all life.
The production process was more meticulous and ambitious than ever before, with a lot of thought and effort put into achieving the sound that would suit the aggression and
atmosphere of the album. The drums were recorded with Joona Muistola at HAW Studios where a considerable time was spent honing the perfect drum sounds for the album. Leskinen took it upon himself to take care of the guitar and bass production at his home studio. The vocal production took place at Raging Cannon’s studio with the help of Kimmo Jankkari. Finally, Joona Muistola also mixed and mastered the whole album at HAW Studios. In its entirety, ‘Vitruvian Rays’ presents the most unapologetic Sargassus to date and sets the course for the band’s future direction!
Watch official music video of the first single Spirit of Gravity: https://youtu.be/IZ4S5DrNBgs
Line-up:
Matias Rokio - Drums
Teemu Leskinen - Guitar
Matias Stenman - Vocals
Mertta Halonen – Bass
https://sargassus.com
https://www.facebook.com/sargassusband
The digital EP's release date is 20 June 2025.
https://hessian666.bandcamp.com/
The trio set out to create genre-free, beautiful, and melancholic music, drawing inspiration from 1980s The Cure-style gothic rock, 1990s and 2000s alternative and indie rock and pop, touches of Black Sabbath-inspired riffing, and the atmospheric indie sound of the 2020s à la Cigarettes After Sex.
The first release from this new musical chapter is the single YOU NEVER DIED – a delicate and deeply personal track dedicated to Jukka’s late aunt.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/boneyardlily-youneverdied
Watch the lyric video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLnO644-LNk
The recording and production process also brought in a group of seasoned music professionals outside the core trio, including Janne Oinas (bass), Jere Saarainen (keyboards) Leo Kunnas (drums), Matias Koskimies (mixing), Matias Kiiveri (mastering) and Janne Saksa (studio & recording) each contributing their own strong signature to the project.
https://www.facebook.com/boneyardlily
Disfigured Human Mind presents a Noise Session specially recorded for this perverse split and which aims to cause serious psychological traumas where schizophrenic delusions will transport us to a filthy underworld where insanity has no limits nor follows rules.
Cadaver Panafernalicus invited his impure brother Laremy Wade from HTKY (How To Kick Yourself), to the recordings of this Noise Session where both extracted from their retarded minds the nefarious noises that will make you say: what a fuck, this is really unpleasant and terrible, what a waste of time listening to this shit. If that is what you feel the objective was achieved. Disfigured Human Mind intends to become increasingly chaotic and despicable so do not expect pleasant things or sympathy here, the noisy discomfort will be complete and musical hate continues absolute.
Potier is an extremely weird musician, poet and composer from the French anti-artistic underworld, where his origins prevail faithfully with a total lack of commitment to fitting into any specific style, here all what you see is primitive and genuin, inspired in his inhuman subconscious cruelity.
His uncontrollable personality with radical independence are the best way to describe what you will find in the extreme Noise Session that Potier presents us in this split and where we can be excommunicated by his surrealist unconscious mind where noise is perpetually exposed in revolt with pure hate and artistic filthyness.
This Split is a form of protest that manifests itself against all those who need to fit into pathetic herds that only serve to brainwash you, whether politically or religiously. Think for yourself, that's why you were born with a brain, so use it...
FUCK OFF ALL YOUR POLITIC AND RELIGION IDEOLOGIES AND FUCK YOU TOO...
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND / POTIER - "NIHILISTIC NOISE HANGED IN AGONY WITH MISANTHROPIC MINIMALISM / HYPER CARGO"
Split
Cassette Limited to 50 copies
Improvised Anticultural Filthy and Inhuman Noise
Tracklist:
Side Abnormal
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND
01 - Nihilistic Noise Hanged In Agony With Misanthropic Minimalism
Side Brutalized
POTIER
02 - Hyper Cargo
Art used in the cover drawed by Potier.
Layouts made by Leo Mora & Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional Videos made by Danihell Slaughter.
Release date July 31th 2025
Official Distribution by Hellstore Europe
The infamous Nihilistic Noises was recorded in the Netherlands and United States in June 2025.
Psychopathic delusions and social torments were extracted from the sewers of humanity in June 2025.
Noise produced at Junkie Noise Studios in the Netherlands in June 2025.
Noise mastered at Mortifying Noise Studios in the United States in June 2025.
Laremy Wade was the special guest for this Nihilistic Noise Session.
This noise session was recorded exclusively for the split with POTIER from France.
IMPROVISED NECRO NOISE VIOLENT GRINDCORE
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND Line-Up:
Cadaver Panafernalicus (Bass & Agony Vokills)
Laremy Wade (Guitar & Delirious Vomits)
https://disfiguredhumanmind.bandcamp.com/
Hyper CARGO is a sort of chaotic Octopus with in her flesh million bribes of hard bop epileptic raw improvisations, this piece of musique crue is an hymn of a Filthy God, a Filthy God who destroy the shit merchandising culture, music IS the healing force if the universe, art is war, culture is a cunt.
Line-Up:
Michael Potier (Anti Artiste & Musique Brute Chaos)
https://www.facebook.com/southernsoundclash
https://www.facebook.com/gutsandblood
www.murder-records.eu
The album's first single, "RENUMERATION," is out now and available at the following location:
Thaumaturgic Veil is a metaphysical sonic construct, weaving intricate threads of human consciousness, vibrational frequency, and esoteric intent into a tapestry that transcends the boundaries of death metal. This work explores the interplay of awareness, magic, and the latent potential encoded within humanity’s neurocognitive framework.
Thaumaturgic Veil explores the interplay of consciousness, subconsciousness, and materiality, viewing existence as a binary system shaped by vibrational frequencies—the core medium molded by individual intent. These measurable waves connect the chaos of infinite potential to the order of the observable universe, reflecting ancient alchemy’s transformation of matter and awareness, akin to esoteric traditions and Thelema’s Great Work, uniting boundless Nuit and focused Hadit. Meditation and altered mental states enhance this, using frequencies to push perception and align with higher realities, as Crowley’s magick—change through intent—shapes the album’s structure.
The opening track ("Enûma Elish Ilū") introduces infinity as a recurring theme, its modal tones evoking Nuit’s expanse and microtonal shifts hinting at Hadit’s precision, tying into the album’s finite-eternal tension. Building on 2022’s 3rd Stage of Decay, this work intensifies with complex compositions: a primordial voice, heavy, growling guitars and bass conjure raw potential; relentless drums blast and propel it forward, while melodic leads and overtones pierce the dissonance, balancing distortion and clarity. Guttural yet ethereal, its sound design engages the auditory cortex, heightening awareness to match the album’s vision.
For enthusiasts of old-school death metal, Viogression delivers a raw, unrelenting sound steeped in the genre’s early ‘90s roots. Reviewers frequently liken their sludgy, thuggish heaviness to Obituary, noting a shared penchant for trudging, dissonant riffs, though Viogression infuses a Midwestern grit distinct from Florida’s swampy polish. Their technical ferocity and morbid atmospheres draw parallels to Death’s foundational aggression and Pestilence’s chaotic edge, as seen in comments praising their thrash-leaning debut Expound & Exhort. Fans of Morbid Saint’s cult intensity and Autopsy’s doom-drenched decay will find kinship in Viogression’s ability to meld intricate brutality with a haunting, unrefined vibe. Echoes of Possessed’s primal fury and Morbid Angel’s raw power further cement their appeal, making them a hidden gem for devotees of death metal’s formative, unpolished era.
Pre-order: https://viogressionofficial.bigcartel.com/product/thaumaturgic-veil
Track
Listing:
1. Enûma Elish Ilū
2. Jinx
3. Akhara Aakasa
4. Renumeration
5. Samsara Ananta
6. Travesty ov darkness
7. Heqet Saeculum
8. Pummeled
9. Amaranthine Kairos
10. Superposition
11. Buki’s dream*
12. Vulnus sclopetarium
13. Ouroboros Noesis
14. Eaten by flies
15. Aeternitas Aevum
16. As the light fades
17. Adrothia Akaru
18. Summon
19. Light harvester
Credits:
Produced by Viogression.
Engineered and mixed by Chris Djuricic.
Mastered by Dave Otero.
Vocals and guitar solos: Recorded at Belle City Sound by Chris Djuricic.
Drums and rhythm guitars: Recorded at Level3Studios, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin; produced by Erik Schultek.
Bass: Recorded at Cavern Entertainment by Nino Nienas.
Album cover artist: Diego Gedoz de Souza.
CD artist: Yan Sek.
Design: DGX Studios.
Guest vocals: Steve Wilson.
Guest guitar solo on "Vulnus Sclopetarium:" Chris Monroy.
Line-up:
Brian DeNeffe - Vocals
Lief Larson - Guitar
Johnathon Iberra - Guitar
Jason Hellman - Bass
Erik Schultek - Drums
Bio:
Formed in 1988, Viogression swiftly forged a formidable presence in the metal underground with three searing demos, paving the way for their critically lauded debut, Expound & Exhort (1990). This landmark release launched them onto a world tour, igniting stages alongside Death and Pestilence. Their second album, Passage (1994), released incomplete, led to a nine-year hiatus. Reborn in 2003, Viogression unleashed fresh material, culminating in the 2014 EP, A Pure Formality, which sparked the band’s comeback with electrifying festival performances. Defying 2020’s global turmoil, they delivered 3rd Stage of Decay, released worldwide in 2022 through Satanath Records and Moribund Records. Now, Viogression stands on the brink of their fourth album, Thaumaturgic Veil, set for Summer 2025, poised to unleash a cataclysmic new chapter in their storied legacy.
https://viogressionr.bandcamp.com/album/expound-and-exhort
WÉKERAS – „ DO WIRÓW, DO KRZYKÓW “
"Do wirów, do krzyków!" is the new album from the Sweden-based black metal entity Wékeras, set for release on 29 June 2025 via Pagan Records. This album delivers necromantic old-school black metal that is fast, aggressive, cold, eerie and atmospheric.
Formed in 2022 by Horreur, Vulgael, and JRMR, with Pitoperversor joining shortly after, Wékeras quickly established their presence. Following their independently released debut demo "Pochwała Cienia" in early 2023 (later re-released by Nigredo Records and Eastern Myth Records), the band has actively toured in Sweden, Germany, and France, including festival appearances and a mini-tour.
Wékeras draws inspiration from the Norwegian black metal scene, particularly early Burzum and Emperor, blended with influences from first-wave black metal and thrash acts like Bathory and Venom. Their lyrics delve into primitive magic, Slavic folklore, horror, and demonology.
"Do wirów, do krzyków!" features Horreur on guitar (also responsible for composition), Vulgael on bass, Pitoperversor on drums, and JRMR on vocals and lyrics. The album was recorded in 2024 in Årstaberg, Sweden, and mixed and mastered by Jimmy Lundberg. All artwork, logos, and layouts were created by JRMR.
Tracklist:
1. Bezdech
2. Urok
3. Niedola
4. Ohyda
5. Brzask
6. Zatracenie
7. Mogiła
Wékeras are:
JRMR: Vocals
Horreur: Guitar
Vulgael: Bass
Pitoperversor: Drums
https://wekeras.bandcamp.com/
The EP's first single, "SPIRAL DEGRADATION," is available now. Click below to stream on your platform of choice. https://linktr.ee/nefasband
FFO: Earlier works of Cephalic Carnage, Intronaut, and Gojira.
With seasoned experience across the technical, dissonant, and mathematical landscapes of metal, the band's sonic statement of malicious intent, Oblation ov Obliteration, is a unique offering composed of churning death metal inspired riffs; ever shifting grooves; monstrous howls, shrieks, and yells; and the sonic representations of the undoing of reality.
"With NEFAS, Rajan Davis and crew have crafted an eclectic array of both musical and vocal approaches, that push the boundaries of creativity and extremity further than most new bands these days; while still remaining at all times challenging, interesting and memorable. I’m super glad that Rajan finally has a proper, personal showcase of the impressive guitar/bass playing that earned him a spot playing live bass for GIGAN! Definitely listen to NEFAS as soon as ya can and enjoy!"- Eric Hersemann (GIGAN)
Track
Listing:
1. Xenomorphic
2. Spiral Degradation
3. Mindstream Transference
Pre-order: https://nefas.bandcamp.com/album/oblation-ov-obliteration
Credits:
Produced, engineered, and edited by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Mixed and mastered by Erol Ulug at Bright Lights Studio.
All album art and layout: Moonroot Art.
Line-up:
Erik Burkhead-Fernandez - Vocals
Rusty Kennedy - Bass
Rajan Davis - Guitar
Alejandro Aranda - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/nefasmusic
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: June 20th 2025
Having announced themselves to the world with the powerful and well received single, 'Times Change Truth Does Not', back in January, Southern California thrashers Death Protocol are back with the next step along the road to their eagerly awaited full length debut album. The second single to be lifted from the upcoming album is the title track, 'Demonic Onslaught' - and it's another monstrous, melodic metal attack. Built upon the relentless, crisp riffs of David Estrada, the superb vocals of David Priest and the searing lead work of Nicholas Pelamati that glitters like cut diamonds over the intense, muscular powerhouse display below, 'Demonic Onslaught' is an instantly addictive song. Bringing to mind revered thrash legends like Metal Church, with its intense delivery, menacing spoken word section and memorable chorus this raises the anticipation for the album of the same name even higher.
Immerse yourself in the accomplished metal mastery of Death Protocol's 'Demonic Onslaught'!
Current Line up:
David Priest - Vocals
David Estrada - Guitars
Nicholas Pelamati - Lead Guitar
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeathProtocol
Swiss technical speed/thrashers ATOMIZATOR release their long-awaited debut “NUCLEAR BOOZE PATROL” on Witches Brew Records
Streaming: https://witchesbrewthrashes.bandcamp.com/album/nuclear-booze-patrol
Hailing from the toxic war-torn wastelands and neon-drenched retro-futuristic ruins of 2029, where the rain is acid, the slime is green, and the leather is studded, ATOMIZATOR first awoke from their cryogenic slumber in 2015. Their mission was simple: to contaminate the musical landscape with face-melting visions of red-hot lasers, sludge-covered highways, urban desolation and atomic liquor, without firing so much as a single warning shot.
Their first full-length debut album, "Nuclear Booze Patrol", was recorded in May 2023 at a secret bunker (REC Studio) in Geneva, Switzerland. Furiously pounding their way through the defenses - and eardrums- of the unsuspecting listener, ATOMIZATOR's sonic assault combines razor-sharp riffs, a pummeling rhythm section and a venomous vocal attack that delivers grimy, no-holds-barred, balls-to-the-wall thrash/speed metal with minimal frills and maximal might that is guaranteed to provoke severe whiplash, mental meltdown and a healthy dose of thermonuclear intoxication.
After almost 2 years it was finally released on Witches Brew Records in 2025.
When asked to describe their musical philosophy, the reply of the gasmask-clad, shotgun-wielding, molotov-sipping thrash commando was short and simple: "We strike with force."
You better not be sober.
https://www.facebook.com/AtomizatorThrash
Watch the music video to “Brennt” created in collaboration with Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Amon Amarth etc): https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/06/11/an-ncs-video-premiere-myr-brennt/
"Brennt" offers a stark preview of MYR's forthcoming album, "Helvegen", showcasing the band's distinctive sound and thematic depth. "Helvegen" is the creation of Svartan and TZommer, two seasoned figures from the metal community. MYR delivers a sound that is both raw and melodic, drawing deeply from the wellspring of Scandinavian legends and the traditions of Northern black metal.
Based in Norway, MYR is more than just a band; it's an immersive experience into the dark and untamed spirit of Northern black metal. "Helvegen" is a haunting exploration of mysticism and darkness, invoking the brutal intensity of the Nordic wilderness. Fans of Satyricon, Bathory, and Dissection will find a kinship in MYR's sound. The album captures the unyielding force and mysticism of classic black metal, blended with a contemporary melodic sensibility.
"Helvegen" was mixed and mastered by the renowned Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio in Sweden, known for his work with Watain, Mayhem, and Tribulation.
Track list:
1. December Coma
2. In Perpetum
3. Brennt
4. Røkkr
5. Saturnine Child
6. Naraka
7. Proch
8. Tungsten
9. Kaldr
MYR are:
Svartan - Guitars, Vocals
TZommer - Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/myrnorge
London (UK) - Blackened Death Metallers, CULT BURIAL, will release COLLAPSE OF PATTERN, REVERENCE OF DUST, on September 5. Following two highly regarded albums, Cult Burial's forthcoming third release is unquestionably its finest work to date.
The album's first single, "COLLAPSE," will be released June 27 on all digital platforms. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust is a record about erosion — of structures, of certainty, of meaning. Across eight tracks, Cult Burial tears through the frameworks we cling to, carving out something that sits between aggression and despair, weight and absence. The music is dense and layered, yet unafraid of space; at times claustrophobic, at others stripped to bare wire and exposed edge.
Cult Burial's music is a confluence of black, death, and doom metal, characterized by dissonant guitar work, relentless drumming, and guttural vocals. Their compositions often explore themes of existentialism, decay, and the human psyche, creating a soundscape that is both oppressive and thought-provoking.
Despite being a relatively new entity, Cult Burial has garnered attention from various metal publications and blogs, earning praise for their authentic approach to extreme metal and their ability to evoke a profound emotional response through their music.
Track
Listing:
1. Vincula
2. Collapse
3. Aether
4. Mire
5, Enthrall
6. Beseech
7. Vestige
8. Seethe
Credits:
Mixed by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Artwork by Legerdemain.
Line-up:
Simon Langford - Music
César Moreira - Vocals
Bio:
Cult Burial is a blackened death metal band hailing from London, UK. Formed in 2020, the band has rapidly established itself as a formidable presence in the extreme metal scene, delivering a sound that melds the ferocity of death metal with the bleak atmospheres of doom and
black metal.
Discography:
Cult Burial (2020)
Reverie of the Malignant (2022)
https://www.facebook.com/cultburial/
First Single and video Release Date 6/13/2025 Premiers @ 6:66 am standard hell time : https://youtu.be/EN_zltAHcic
Born and raised on the streets of Long Beach, CA, Lance and Steve Harrison have been traveling and touring the world since 2006 thru 2021, totaling 16 years with the legendary thrash band HIRAX.
They have 2 EPs and 2 full length albums as well as a live album and DVD’s under their belts.
They’ve played and toured all over the world including Japan, South America, Mexico, Central America, and many other places.
Mike Vega joined HIRAX in 2014 and played with them until 2021 as well.
The HarXsoN band started after there was no more room in hell. In 2024 HarXsoN emerged back on the scene with metal and fire burning within their souls, and the riffs to Thrash Them All.
After a long search for a suitable vocalist, HARXSON members decided to share the vocal duties within their power trio. Steve became the lead singer and Lance is doing backing vocals.
Band Members:
Lance Harrison - Guitar / Back up Vocals
Mike Vega - Drums
Steve Harrison - Bass / Lead Vocals
www.Harxson.com
https://www.facebook.com/HARXSON
Italian death metal quartet SPIRITUAL DECEPTION has launched the official music video for their new single, "THE GATE UNSEEN." The song is the first new material heard from the band since last year's acclaimed full-length, SEMITAE MENTIS.
The band comments on the song, "With this track, we wanted to try something different—going for a more modern sound and letting our usual symphonic elements take a step back. Lyrically, it delves into the Great Filter theory, which is tied to the Fermi Paradox about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. We really focused on the songwriting to make it a fast, tight, and crushing song where the instruments do most of the talking."
SPIRITUAL DECEPTION teamed with Slam Worldwide to deliver the exclusive global premiere of the video for "The Gate Unseen."
Watch
now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lDzEIO1mzk
"The Gate Unseen" was produced by SPIRITUAL DECEPTION, recorded by Mirko Frontini, and mixed/mastered by Simone Pietroforte. Orchestration was done by Mirko Frontini. The video was directed by Maurizio del Piccolo at Moviedel Productions.
SPIRITUAL DECEPTION released their debut full-length album, Semitae Mentis, in February 2024 on Amputated Vein Records and Earache Records.
The album features guest contributions by Karl Sanders (Nile) and Luc Lemay (Gorguts). Order Semitae Mentis at https://spiritualdeception.bandcamp.com/album/semitae-mentis-2
SPIRITUAL DECEPTION is an atmospheric death metal band, with hints of technical and brutal death metal, active since 2016
The band has a deep connection with philosophy and owes its name to a theory from the Danish philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, which struck the composers’ minds: different human beings in the act of analyzing a particular circumstance, approach (inevitably) the situation with different points of view. Extending that fact to the ethics field hence that nothing can be defined as objective good or bad, true or false, as the judgment is deeply rooted in everyone’s own perspective. As a result, there is no objective truth, your soul is constantly deceived.
Since its birth, the band produced 3 EPs: Spiritual Deception (2018), Etemenanki (2019), and Oxymoron (2021), and the 2024 full-length, Semitae Mentis. Each release served to sharpen the band's sound towards a modern brand of death metal, with brutal guitar riffing and blasting drums, combined with melodic elements, which go from guitar harmonies to liturgical choirs and strings ensembles. The result of the combination of these elements is a sound that satisfies all kinds of listeners, from the brutal to the more sophisticated ones. This formula is enriched by the lyrics which are all about philosophy, astronomy, history, and literature. The band wants to spark an interest in all these themes together with the passion for music into the listener and, in order to achieve its goal, wants to deliver a complete product, well-finished from all the points of view: from the music and lyrics to the artwork and media contents.
Line-Up:
Mirko Frontini - Vocals & Guitar
Riccardo Maccarana - Lead Guitar
Manuel Del Giudice - Drums
Francesca Mancini - Session Bass
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualDeception/
Wormholedeath
proudly welcomes Texas-based brutal death metal powerhouse CRUNGUS
to its roster for the release of their forthcoming album HOLLOW.
Emerging from the desolate plains of the Texas Panhandle, CRUNGUS brings a feral and invigorating presence to the extreme metal world. What began in 2021 as a humble two-man acoustic experiment quickly mutated into a monstrous five-piece force, armed with devastating riffs, thunderous drums, and an unrelenting DIY ethos.
Their sound fuses the raw intensity of brutal death metal with elements of blackened and doom-infused heaviness, delivering an overwhelming sonic assault that is as cathartic as it is merciless. With a reputation for face-melting live shows and razor-sharp songwriting, CRUNGUS continues to gain momentum in the underground metal scene.
Lyrically, Hollow delves deep into themes of inner torment, societal decay, and existential dread—channeling chaos into catharsis. It’s more than just an album; it's a statement.
Tracklist
Dead Tree
2. Hollow
3. The Fear
4. Collapsing
5. Undying Ritual
6. Shapeshifter
7. Abomination
8. Lost
9. Parasites
10. Massacre
https://www.facebook.com/WormHoleDeath
www.youtube.com/@Crungus_official
https://www.facebook.com/crungus/
The band released the following statement about the album:
"Miseria aims to explore the vast uncaring nothingness and explore the dread of our futile existence. If you are looking for release or redemption you won’t find them here.
The album is unmistakably rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal but delivers it with its own signature. It is crushing and suffocating but also melodic and solemn."
Miseria will be released on August 29. Consider yourself warned.
Track
Listing:
1. As Above So Below
2. Lamia
3. Delivered From Sin
4. Nadir (No Consent)
5. Spring Sleepwalker
6. A Seance
7. Mässa XCIV
8. Cycles
9. Unnamed Sorrow
Album Credits:
Recorded by Dejan Milenkovits & Filip Gäddnäs.
Mixed and produced by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.
Mastered by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.
Session drums by Filip Gäddnäs.
Additional vocals by Mathias Lodmalm.
Guest solo on “Lamia” by Robert Ahrling.
Guest solo on “Delivered From Sin” by Andreas Hedberg.
Album Artwork: Fernando Rojas B. (Abismo Black Arts).
Line-up:
Dejan Milenkovits - Vocals & Guitars
Martin Bermheden - Guitars
Andreas Holm - Bass
Joél Cirera – Drums
Bio:
Shadows is a blackened death metal band comprising members from both Germany and Sweden. Despite being a new addition to the music scene, the band features former members from notable acts such as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous.
Shadows was established in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Dejan Milenkovits as a solo project during the pandemic lockdown. What began as a recording of a handful of songs released in early 2022 quickly grew beyond its original intent. Consequently, Finnish session drummer Filip Gäddnäs was recruited to track drums and long-time friend and collaborator Mathias Lodmalm (Cemetary, Sundown) was invited to co-produce a full album.
The album was subsequently recorded during 2024. As the album continued to take shape, it became clear that Shadows had outgrown the confines of a solo project.
In early 2025, the band was expanded to include drummer Joél Cirera and guitarist Martin Bermheden, both of whom were former band members with Dejan Milenkovits from the disbanded death metal band Enshrined. The trio was finally joined by Andreas Holm on bass, completing the permanent lineup.
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The
melodic death metal outfit RE-ARMED from Finland’s
capital region returns with a brand new single FRAGMENTS OF TIME,
now streaming on all major platforms!
Staying true to their signature sound, the band delivers a heavy-hitting track filled with soaring melodies, crushing riffs, and a hint of groove. The result is a diverse and atmospheric piece of melodic death metal.
The band comments on the release:
"A versatile song layered with strong melodies and a touch of groove. The lyrics explore the concept of time — how we sometimes get stuck in the past or dream too much about the future, while life actually happens right here and now."
Fragments of Time is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and other major streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/rearmed-fragmentsoftime
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Finnish melodic death/doom metal band SERPENT GOD is set to release their debut album 'DENIAL' on October 10th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'oblivion' is released today and it's available on most streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-oblivion
Track list:
1. denial
2. beneath
3. repent
4. revelation
5. alive
6. sermon
7. oblivion
8. keyhole
9. void
Album cover by Heidi Hyvärinen
The band comments:
”Chase eternal serpent, fly high above the stars”
Not your standard power ballad. Oblivion is a dream-like hazy, a song with a heavy contrast from violent blast beat and aggressive screams. Some parts are almost psychedelic, it’s certainly a trip on its own, mixed highs and lows. There’s a strange, almost mystic feeling throughout the song. There’s couple of very memorable guitar leads and strong bass lines. “In silence the deaf hear their scream”
Biography:
Serpent God is a band formed 2023 in Iisalmi, Finland. The birth is heavily related to Se, josta ei puhuta -band’s writing process; lots of material were created that didn’t fit in the spectrum of Se, josta ei puhuta. In general, the material was more slow-paced and more eerie. However, the mentioned material was also way too good to be deleted, so therefore another output was needed, so Serpent God was born. Different branches grow from a tree with strong roots. Serpent God has its foundation in extreme metal, but there are also heavy influences from post-rock, doom and smaller splashes of more avantgarde sounds.
Listen to the first single 'repent': https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-repent
Line-up:
Samu Männikkö - Vocals, guitars and keyboards
Juho-Pekka Lappalainen - Bass
Jimi Myöhänen - Drums
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MALHKEBRE - "TO THOSE WHO FORGED US"
Release
date :
Summer 2025
Genre : French Black Metal
Origin: Toulouse/France
Duration: 13:16
Label: Battlesk’rs Productions
Network Distributor: Ars Longa Vita Brevis
MALHKEBRE announces their return to the stage, after 5 years of silence, with HEXEKRATION RITES. During these black masses you will discover new tracks announcing the release of a 2-track EP during the summer, before the album at the end of the year!
A word that’s overused today in a Black Metal scene where some elements seem to have lost the sense of the values that once made this genre more than just a style of music.
A word that can, however, continue to be associated with a handful of honest bands, for whom Black Metal is not simply music but also a religious exaltation. Among them, MALHKEBRE is a name that needs no introduction. Active since 2002, the band is a spiritual vehicle for its singer/founder Eklezjas’Tik Berzerk, accompanied by his acolytes Shamaanik B. (drums) and S. Evangelista (guitars/bass).
After making their mark on the underground with their first two albums, « Revelation » (2014) and « Satanic Resistance » (2019), MALHKEBRE reawakened in 2023 with a tape featuring two tracks announcing a future album. As a prelude to this opus announced for the end of 2025, the EP “To Those Who Forged Us” is released, which presents a new side of MALHKEBRE: heavier, darker, more ritualistic and declamatory, “To Those Who Forged Us” is not only the announcement of a new era for the band, but a tribute to those who contributed to fueling the fire that burns in the heart and mind of MALHKEBRE. On the B-side, the judicious choice of a cover of “You Want It Darker” by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen is also a declaration of war in the face of those who had buried MALHKEBRE too soon.
Bearers of a Sacred Word made of pain, violence and resistance, MALHKEBRE is preparing to travel the European roads for the first time in a decade: “To Those Who Forged Us” sounds like the clamor of a tocsin calling the faithful to gather to listen, then to spread the Word. And thus allow the dark flame of MALHKEBRE to once again consume the souls of those who hear His call.
MALHKEBRE is announced for Prague Death Mass V in Czech Republic and also in Belgium at the Black Khaos Assault Festival .
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Format: Digitale CD
/ Fysieke CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Sepultura, Machine Head, Hatebreed, Slayer and the like…..
Tracklist:
01 No Regrets
02 Urban Guerilla
03 Spiritual Butcher
04 Hard Life
05 Purge
06 Shitface
07 GFY
08 Failed to Resist
09 Denial
INHERITED. A name that may not ring a bell, but this young band (founded in 2022) managed to win the Dutch Metal Battle competition in 2024, which earned them a spot at Wacken Open Air. After that, things went quickly for these young guys, two of whom have a well-known surname: Lucas Camonier and Marvin Wesdorp. And yes, Lucas is the son of Ronald Camonier(known from Polluted Inheritance and now Klaïton)and Marvin is a son of Erwin Wesdorp (known from Polluted Inheritance and now Klaïton).
After a few singles, here is the debut long player of this new and young band from Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (Netherlands).
Not only is Inherited a young band in terms of formation, but the members are also young talents from the Netherlands. Midas and Neill are both 16, Marvin is 17, Jamie is 18 and Lucas is 21. Despite their age, their musicality is exceptional, and they show a mastery on their instruments that is comparable to that of seasoned veterans. Their sound is a refined fusion of old-school thrash/groove metal with a contemporary edge.
The band will be seen and heard at various locations in 2025, including Dynamo Metal Fest(NL)and at a number of clubshows.
Inherited Is:
Jamie Versprille: Vocals
Neill Ray: Drums
Marvin Wesdorp: Guitar
Lucas Camonier: Bassguitar
Midas Giele: Guitar
https://www.facebook.com/InheritedOfficialNL/
IMPERIALIST - “PRIME “
Genre
:
black metal with thrash and death metal influences
For fans of : Dissection, Emperor, Valdrin, Vektor, Frozen Dawn, Abigor, Immortal
Line up
Sergio Soto - Vocals/Lead Guitar
Bryant Quinones - Lead Guitar
Rod Quinones - Drums
Joshua Alvarez - Bass
Artwork by Eliran Kantor
Mixed and mastered by Dan Swano
Recorded by Charles Elliott
Track listing
1. Starstorm
2. Beneath The Sands Of Titan
3. Depravity Beheld
4. I A.M.
5. Heavens Sunder
6. Final Hours
7. Union Of The Swarm
8. Nocturnal Eon
9. A Ghost Abandoned
Release date - September 5th, 2025
"Prime" is the long awaited follow-up album to 2021's "Zenith" and Imperialist have only spent the years honing their craft while keeping the death-touched sci-fi black metal sound intact. The songs are tighter and more intricate than ever before, reinforced further with thrash metal elements, and they showcase the darkness and menace displayed on the previous EP but also the maturity in songwriting, allowing piercing leads and shards of melodies and to shimmer through and liven up the proceedings lest they get too bereft of earthly feelings. Mixed and mastered by Dan Swano, the sound is kept clear and sharp, ensuring that no facets of their throbbing, undulating music are lost in the process. The sci-fi obsession too has been taken to the next level here, with none other than Eliran Kantor bringing their vision to life via a staggering two-panel artwork. The music oozes passion and dedication at every level, and every listen will prove to be a testament to that. This could very well be the best Imperialist album till date and given their faultless discography till date, that is saying something.
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“Erase
and Replace” rips through the illusion of modern progress with razor-sharp
riffs, venomous vocals, and dystopian fury. It’s a no-holds-barred assault on
digital mind control, conformity, and the slow erasure of humanity in the face
of soulless automation. Fusing insane speed and aggression with groove-laden
mid-tempos and razor-edged melodies, the track is both a sonic onslaught
and a warning cry from the digital void.
The video — edited by Tomi Niemelä, with footage provided by Thrashing Madness — captures Bloodride’s raw live energy, transporting the viewer straight to the heart of their onstage chaos.
With Deafening, Bloodride continues their relentless mission to deliver unapologetic, old-school-infused thrash with a cutting-edge edge, and “Erase and Replace” sets the tone with unrelenting power.
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Finnish Industrial Metal band ALFA PENTATONIK (Formed in 2002 as Pentatonik) released a new single and music video 'KONE YSKII' from their forthcoming GAMMA II EP which is set to be unleased on July 18th 2025 via Inverse Records.
Watch Kone yskii music video: https://youtu.be/F5pejWNypr8
Track list:
01. Lisäajalla
02. Tuomiopäivän tanssi
03. Kone yskii
04. Kuunnelkaa
05. Illuusio elämästä
Cover art by JP Immonen
The band comments:
"The video single 'Kone yskii' is one of the band's most 'pop' songs, and we joke that it could be an 'Eurovision' entry. In this catchy song, we follow humankind's last survivor: a cyborg who has forgotten what it means to be human."
Alfa Pentatonik (formerly Pentatonik) plays heavy Finnish industrial metal. Formed in the early 2000s, the band has released two albums and numerous other releases. The band returned in 2022 with a new name and singles. They are now releasing a sequel to their latest "Gamma I" EP. The new release is called Gamma II.
The band's mastermind is JP Immonen (Walhalla, Aria of Sorrow, Iron Frost), who plays all the instruments, writes the songs, and handles production. The second member of the band is Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Verilehto, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat), who writes the lyrics and sings. 'Gamma II' continues in the same vein as its predecessor. Hard and heavy guitars are mixed with dark vocals and almost dance beats. Sami Lindqvist joins the release to play guitar solos and backing vocals. Harri Hytönen from 'Gamma I' also plays a few guitar solos. Dystopian samples from an interview with Yrjö Kallinen (1971) are the icing on the cake for this new Finnish industrial metal/industrial thrash metal release.
Listen to Kone yskii single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/alfa-pentatonik-kone
Release date: 4th of July 2025
A new force rises from the bloody depths of the Amsterdam underground… Their moniker is BLOED, an acronym for “Belzebub Lacht Om Elke Dood”, loosely translated as “Beelzebub Laughs at Every Death.”
Their debut release is titled ‘t Regent’ and is a worship sermon of old school metal, from a time where death and black metal where still one and the same: morbid. Expect raw and intense war metal terrorism filled with deranged vocal proklamations and chaotic riffing assaults, devoid of any subtleties. This piece of blasphemous filth will appear on de Pankraker Records, and will see the light during their festival the 4th of July.
Track list
Alarmtoestand 666
SBO
Messias van Wanstaltige Deen
Sexkrieg
Alkoholisch Visioen
More info
The songs can be played in radio shows from June 23th.
The band is open for interviews immediately.
About De Pankraker Records
De Pankraker was born in the depths of the underground, a rebellious radio program that delved into a cluster of metal sub-genres known for their daring sonic and visual transgressions. By 2022, it had expanded its reach with a magazine, and in 2023, it emerged from the shadows with its own festival. In 2024, we proudly unveiled De Pankraker Records, delving even deeper into the abyss with a distro and label.
We're all about serving up dishes that are cold and old-school. No fancy stuff, no technicalities, and definitely no triggered drums. Metal for demons!!
https://depankraker.be/pages/label
DEATHBLOW are back and ferocious as ever with the release of another ripping EP! Open Season will be released June 16 on Sewer Mouth Records. The EP will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats!
The four-track Open Season EP is a scathing commentary aimed at the heart of the belligerent American Empire and its war machinery. Combining their classic thrash metal sound with an unrelenting crossover punk-infused gut punch, the EP is guaranteed to get the blood boiling!
Track
Listing:
1. Open Season
2. Deny, Defend, Dispose
3. Tormentor
4. Never Again
Digital Pre-order: https://deathblow1.bandcamp.com/album/open-season
Cassette, vinyl, and CD pre-orders coming soon!
Credits:
Recorded at Archive Recordings with Wes Johnson.
Artwork by Emil Rousse.
Line-up:
Holton Grossl - Guitars/Vocals
Adam Kelly - Guitars
Paul LaChica - Bass
Rob Larson - Drums
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This 6-track release captures the band at their most intense and refined, both musically and production-wise. The EP format was chosen with an intention to channel something savage and fast yet the atmosphere and groove were not omitted, these are still hymns indeed.
BEYOND
MORTAL DREAMS are ready to take you into the wastelands and ignite the
fires of Death Metal devastation once again.
The title of the upcoming six-song EP is no coincidence: Devastation Hymns. The band has chosen the extended play format to unleash its most savage material to date—musically and sonically. No other band explores bestial savagery and heaviness at such bulldozing and monumentally majestic levels like BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS.
Devastation Hymns surges powerfully, regardless of the pace, and devastates. The thrilling dynamics and megaton energy of each song never fade, never blur. And so, BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS deliver a thunderously dense, fierce record with some extraordinary, steel-melting grooves. The guitar work of Pahl Hodgson and Jamie Whyte is second to none. METAL.
With two albums and an EP under their belts, BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS have now reached a position where they are expanding on formulas they forged over the years—and they do it in the best possible way, as they keep pushing forward. A notable addition to their ranks, Henry Inglis – session drums, has propelled the new material into another scourging plane.
The EP, true to the band's tradition, comes with a rendition of FORBIDDEN’s track Forbidden Evil. The vocal performance by Pahl Hodgson leaves a mark—his vocal diversity is stunning.
We've said it before: BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS are Australia’s best-kept secret. Devastation Hymns is here to break another part of the chain.
Spread the Hymns. Many thanks for your time and attention. Jan - Lavadome
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For the old fans of the band this new song will not be a surprise at all. For those who don't know them but have ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILITY and CRADLE OF FILTH as part of their favorite bands, "Immortal Rites", as well as the entire album due out on June 13th, will be a must listen!
Pre-order "Songs From The Restless Oblivion": https://t.ly/7Bn5e
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Genre: Symphonic Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
Vö: 12.06.2025
»An Ode To The Mountains« markiert eine bedeutende Wende in der Diskografie der slowakischen Black-Metal-Band AEON WINDS. Zusammen mit dem 2023 erschienen Vorgängeralbum »Night Sky Illuminations« setzt es die Trilogie der verwunschenen Berge fort. Dieses Konzeptalbum ist der Majestät der Karpaten gewidmet, verwoben mit den düsteren Aspekten der slowakischen Folklore.
Das in acht Kapitel unterteilte Opus »An Ode To The Mountains« ist allen Fans von Legenden wie Emperor, Negura Bunget und Limbonic Art gewidmet.
Gastmusiker von Bands wie Dødheimsgard, Ancient und Midnight Odyssey haben zu dem Album beigetragen. Produziert wurde es unter der Federführung von Musikern der rumänischen Band Dordeduh.
Ein atmosphärisch dichtes Meisterwerk episch-symphonischen Black Metals!
LP
Side A
1. Legends And Tales Of Old (04:34)
2. An Ode To The Mountains (06:00)
3. Devoured By Time And Long Forgotten (05:08)
4. Unyielding Citadel (07:58)
Side B
5. Lunar Ascension (08:47)
6. Molpír (09:59)
7. Woodland Labyrinths (10:00)
8. Fading Embers (02:14)
9. Opus Coronation (06:36) LP-Bonus
Total: 61:16
CD
9. Night Sky Illumination (06:08) CD-Bonus
Total: 60:48
Line-up
Svarthen – Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Keyboards
Skald – Guitars (lead) on tracks 5, 6, 9
Vorth – Drums
Odolen – Lyrics
Guest Musicians
Hupogrammos (Dordeduh, ex-Negura Bunget) – Vocals (additional) track 2
Aphazel (Ancient) – Vocals (additional) track 3
Vicotnik (Dødheimsgard, Ved Buens Ende) – Vocals (additional) track 4
Dis Pater (Midnight Odyssey) – Vocals (choirs) tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9
Igor Papán – Electric violin tracks 1, 5, 6
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MOTÖRHEAD präsentieren neue Single Und Video Für
“LEAVIN’ HERE” von “THE MANTICORE TAPES”Motörhead veröffentlichen “Leavin’ Here”, die zweite Single und das dazugehörige Musikvideo vom kommenden Album “The Manticore Tapes”, das am 27. Juni erscheint. Das Musikvideo zu “Leavin’ Here” ist ein explosiv-wildes Mixed-Media-Erlebnis, das einzigartige Model-Charaktere und Szenenbilder mit Archivmaterial der Band kombiniert. “The Manticore Tapes” wurde ursprünglich 1976 aufgenommen und enthält bisher unveröffentlichte Aufnahmen von Motörheads klassischer “Three Amigos”-Besetzung.
1976, ein Jahr nach Gründung der Band, stand die bahnbrechende Besetzung von Motörhead fest. In der sogenannten "Three Amigos"-Ära von Motörhead schlossen sich Lemmy (Bass/Gesang), Fast Eddie Clarke (Gitarre) und Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor (Schlagzeug) zusammen und begannen ihren außergewöhnlichen Weg an die Spitze der Hardrock-Elite.
Im August 1976 traf sich die Band im legendären Manticore Studio von Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Fulham, um zu proben und die neue Besetzung zu präsentieren. Dort nahmen sie zum allerersten Mal gemeinsam auf und jetzt, 49 Jahre später, ist dieses lange verschollene Band wieder aufgetaucht, entstaubt und in all seiner Pracht restauriert worden, um das 50-jährige Jubiläum der wegweisenden Hardrock-Band zu feiern.
“The Manticore Tapes” wird als Deluxe Expanded Bookpack mit einer Doppel-LP und einer 7”-Single, als Single-LP, auf CD sowie digital erhältlich sein.
Alle Einzelheiten zu den Veröffentlichungen der “The Manticore Tapes” gibt es weiter unten.
News und Updates unter www.iMotorhead.com
CD
Limited edition of 300 copiesCassette limited edition of 60 copies
Tracklist:
01 - E.xit G.lobal O.bliteration [03:01]
02 - Vegetative Techuman [03:08]
03 - Inborn Sickness [02:49]
04 - Heart Of Darkness [03:39]
05 - Cosmic Placenta [02:14]
06 - Pineal Turmoil [02:41]
07 - Reproductive Extinction [02:42]
08 - Phantom Anihilation [02:28]
09 - NecroEarth [03:09]
10 - Lucidity [03:22]
11 - Terrorithm [02:26]
"Sphere Of Atrocities" was recorded, produced and mastered at Undergrind Studios by Rolando Barros & Grog during several time lapses between 2023 & 2024.
All lyrics by Pedro Pedra.
All music by Alexandre Ribeiro, Ivo Martins.
All music & lyrical arrangements by Grog.
Cover concept by Pedro Pedra.
Illustration & final art by Victor Costa
THE EDGE OF EXTREME
34 years doing what they always did, pushing their creation forward, with the precision of a scalpel, in the most raw, brutal, and sharp form they know.
Yes, GROG are back once again to deliver us what they do best, one more chapter of extremeness, a lesson about how to renovate but at the same time to maintain their identity.
"Sphere of Atrocities" is their most recent deadly opus, an album that will make you bleed for speed, push you to the corner, and beat you relentlessly. Their new songs are equal to if violence wore a tuxedo, meaning that although their sound invites you to a modern and comfortable approach in fact once you enter the core of it you get smothered and crushed in a second by their vicious brutality. Almost inevitable to say that experience has a lot to do with this outcome and, as veterans in the metal scene, this ability to refine themselves brings them the possibility to explore new textures and dimensions. There's a lot of space for novelty here, and you simply have to know how to do it without repeating yourself.
With the same line-up for the past 20 years, expect nothing but great skilled master percussion, bass lines that will melt your face, a wall of exorcizing guitar riffs and a voice directly coming from down under. Overall, their musicianship is almost flawless and, with a super tight production, "Sphere of Atrocities" impact and intensity will surely be noticed within all worldwide death metal and grindcore fanatics.
Keeping their lyrical concept based on the dark side of humanity, they also add the alchemy that flows within our untold biology and mysterious existence. Concerning the final art of this album, all these concepts are amazingly represented and designed, once again, by the hands and mind of the one and only Crafter, Victor Costa.
As far as we're concerned, GROG still are one of the greatest names in the underground putting their musical effort in the top of the highest mountain and continuing to be a fearless and ruthless monster avalanche for your senses. So, above all, we dare to say that "Sphere of Atrocities" elevates GROG's legacy to a new level of severe musical brilliance.
Pulverize Yourself!
GROG Line-up:
Alexandre Ribeiro (Bass & Backing Vocals)
Pedro Pedra (Vocals)
Rolando Barros (Drums & Backing Vocals)
Ivo Martins (Guitars & Backing Vocals)
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Listen to 'Vitruvian Rays' album: https://push.fm/fl/sargassus-vitruvian-rays
Track list:01. Spirit of Gravity
02. Carving the Veins of God
03. The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade
04. Judgement of the Four
05. Pahat veräjät
06. On the Shoulders of Atlas
07. Vitruvian Rays
08. Zealot
Vocal Production by Raging Cannon
Mix & Master by Joona Muistola @ HAW Studios
Cover art by Matias Stenman
Sargassus’ debut album ‘Vitruvian Rays’ is a compilation of the most aggressive and dark material the band has ever produced. The album leans considerably more towards post
black metal and blackened death metal than any of the previous releases, offering the
listener a heap of blast beats and gnarly dissonant riffs. Throughout the album there is also plenty of experimentation, resulting in bursts of chaos overlaid with groovier drum beats. Thematically the album represents a more unified front of the band. While ‘Vitruvian Rays’ isn’t a concept album per se, all of the songs are linked through similar themes and references to philosophy and religion, as well as occultism. The album delves deeper into humanity’s need to control the natural chaos that permeates all life.
The production process was more meticulous and ambitious than ever before, with a lot of thought and effort put into achieving the sound that would suit the aggression and
atmosphere of the album. The drums were recorded with Joona Muistola at HAW Studios where a considerable time was spent honing the perfect drum sounds for the album. Leskinen took it upon himself to take care of the guitar and bass production at his home studio. The vocal production took place at Raging Cannon’s studio with the help of Kimmo Jankkari. Finally, Joona Muistola also mixed and mastered the whole album at HAW Studios. In its entirety, ‘Vitruvian Rays’ presents the most unapologetic Sargassus to date and sets the course for the band’s future direction!
Watch official music video of the first single Spirit of Gravity: https://youtu.be/IZ4S5DrNBgs
Line-up:
Matias Rokio - Drums
Teemu Leskinen - Guitar
Matias Stenman - Vocals
Mertta Halonen – Bass
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The digital EP's release date is 20 June 2025.
https://hessian666.bandcamp.com/
The trio set out to create genre-free, beautiful, and melancholic music, drawing inspiration from 1980s The Cure-style gothic rock, 1990s and 2000s alternative and indie rock and pop, touches of Black Sabbath-inspired riffing, and the atmospheric indie sound of the 2020s à la Cigarettes After Sex.
The first release from this new musical chapter is the single YOU NEVER DIED – a delicate and deeply personal track dedicated to Jukka’s late aunt.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/boneyardlily-youneverdied
Watch the lyric video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLnO644-LNk
The recording and production process also brought in a group of seasoned music professionals outside the core trio, including Janne Oinas (bass), Jere Saarainen (keyboards) Leo Kunnas (drums), Matias Koskimies (mixing), Matias Kiiveri (mastering) and Janne Saksa (studio & recording) each contributing their own strong signature to the project.
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Disfigured Human Mind presents a Noise Session specially recorded for this perverse split and which aims to cause serious psychological traumas where schizophrenic delusions will transport us to a filthy underworld where insanity has no limits nor follows rules.
Cadaver Panafernalicus invited his impure brother Laremy Wade from HTKY (How To Kick Yourself), to the recordings of this Noise Session where both extracted from their retarded minds the nefarious noises that will make you say: what a fuck, this is really unpleasant and terrible, what a waste of time listening to this shit. If that is what you feel the objective was achieved. Disfigured Human Mind intends to become increasingly chaotic and despicable so do not expect pleasant things or sympathy here, the noisy discomfort will be complete and musical hate continues absolute.
Potier is an extremely weird musician, poet and composer from the French anti-artistic underworld, where his origins prevail faithfully with a total lack of commitment to fitting into any specific style, here all what you see is primitive and genuin, inspired in his inhuman subconscious cruelity.
His uncontrollable personality with radical independence are the best way to describe what you will find in the extreme Noise Session that Potier presents us in this split and where we can be excommunicated by his surrealist unconscious mind where noise is perpetually exposed in revolt with pure hate and artistic filthyness.
This Split is a form of protest that manifests itself against all those who need to fit into pathetic herds that only serve to brainwash you, whether politically or religiously. Think for yourself, that's why you were born with a brain, so use it...
FUCK OFF ALL YOUR POLITIC AND RELIGION IDEOLOGIES AND FUCK YOU TOO...
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND / POTIER - "NIHILISTIC NOISE HANGED IN AGONY WITH MISANTHROPIC MINIMALISM / HYPER CARGO"
Split
Cassette Limited to 50 copiesImprovised Anticultural Filthy and Inhuman Noise
Tracklist:
Side Abnormal
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND
01 - Nihilistic Noise Hanged In Agony With Misanthropic Minimalism
Side Brutalized
POTIER
02 - Hyper Cargo
Art used in the cover drawed by Potier.
Layouts made by Leo Mora & Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional Videos made by Danihell Slaughter.
Release date July 31th 2025
Official Distribution by Hellstore Europe
The infamous Nihilistic Noises was recorded in the Netherlands and United States in June 2025.
Psychopathic delusions and social torments were extracted from the sewers of humanity in June 2025.
Noise produced at Junkie Noise Studios in the Netherlands in June 2025.
Noise mastered at Mortifying Noise Studios in the United States in June 2025.
Laremy Wade was the special guest for this Nihilistic Noise Session.
This noise session was recorded exclusively for the split with POTIER from France.
IMPROVISED NECRO NOISE VIOLENT GRINDCORE
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND Line-Up:
Cadaver Panafernalicus (Bass & Agony Vokills)
Laremy Wade (Guitar & Delirious Vomits)
https://disfiguredhumanmind.bandcamp.com/
Hyper CARGO is a sort of chaotic Octopus with in her flesh million bribes of hard bop epileptic raw improvisations, this piece of musique crue is an hymn of a Filthy God, a Filthy God who destroy the shit merchandising culture, music IS the healing force if the universe, art is war, culture is a cunt.
Line-Up:
Michael Potier (Anti Artiste & Musique Brute Chaos)
https://www.facebook.com/southernsoundclash
https://www.facebook.com/gutsandblood
www.murder-records.eu
The album's first single, "RENUMERATION," is out now and available at the following location:
Thaumaturgic Veil is a metaphysical sonic construct, weaving intricate threads of human consciousness, vibrational frequency, and esoteric intent into a tapestry that transcends the boundaries of death metal. This work explores the interplay of awareness, magic, and the latent potential encoded within humanity’s neurocognitive framework.
Thaumaturgic Veil explores the interplay of consciousness, subconsciousness, and materiality, viewing existence as a binary system shaped by vibrational frequencies—the core medium molded by individual intent. These measurable waves connect the chaos of infinite potential to the order of the observable universe, reflecting ancient alchemy’s transformation of matter and awareness, akin to esoteric traditions and Thelema’s Great Work, uniting boundless Nuit and focused Hadit. Meditation and altered mental states enhance this, using frequencies to push perception and align with higher realities, as Crowley’s magick—change through intent—shapes the album’s structure.
The opening track ("Enûma Elish Ilū") introduces infinity as a recurring theme, its modal tones evoking Nuit’s expanse and microtonal shifts hinting at Hadit’s precision, tying into the album’s finite-eternal tension. Building on 2022’s 3rd Stage of Decay, this work intensifies with complex compositions: a primordial voice, heavy, growling guitars and bass conjure raw potential; relentless drums blast and propel it forward, while melodic leads and overtones pierce the dissonance, balancing distortion and clarity. Guttural yet ethereal, its sound design engages the auditory cortex, heightening awareness to match the album’s vision.
For enthusiasts of old-school death metal, Viogression delivers a raw, unrelenting sound steeped in the genre’s early ‘90s roots. Reviewers frequently liken their sludgy, thuggish heaviness to Obituary, noting a shared penchant for trudging, dissonant riffs, though Viogression infuses a Midwestern grit distinct from Florida’s swampy polish. Their technical ferocity and morbid atmospheres draw parallels to Death’s foundational aggression and Pestilence’s chaotic edge, as seen in comments praising their thrash-leaning debut Expound & Exhort. Fans of Morbid Saint’s cult intensity and Autopsy’s doom-drenched decay will find kinship in Viogression’s ability to meld intricate brutality with a haunting, unrefined vibe. Echoes of Possessed’s primal fury and Morbid Angel’s raw power further cement their appeal, making them a hidden gem for devotees of death metal’s formative, unpolished era.
Pre-order: https://viogressionofficial.bigcartel.com/product/thaumaturgic-veil
Track
Listing:1. Enûma Elish Ilū
2. Jinx
3. Akhara Aakasa
4. Renumeration
5. Samsara Ananta
6. Travesty ov darkness
7. Heqet Saeculum
8. Pummeled
9. Amaranthine Kairos
10. Superposition
11. Buki’s dream*
12. Vulnus sclopetarium
13. Ouroboros Noesis
14. Eaten by flies
15. Aeternitas Aevum
16. As the light fades
17. Adrothia Akaru
18. Summon
19. Light harvester
Credits:
Produced by Viogression.
Engineered and mixed by Chris Djuricic.
Mastered by Dave Otero.
Vocals and guitar solos: Recorded at Belle City Sound by Chris Djuricic.
Drums and rhythm guitars: Recorded at Level3Studios, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin; produced by Erik Schultek.
Bass: Recorded at Cavern Entertainment by Nino Nienas.
Album cover artist: Diego Gedoz de Souza.
CD artist: Yan Sek.
Design: DGX Studios.
Guest vocals: Steve Wilson.
Guest guitar solo on "Vulnus Sclopetarium:" Chris Monroy.
Line-up:
Brian DeNeffe - Vocals
Lief Larson - Guitar
Johnathon Iberra - Guitar
Jason Hellman - Bass
Erik Schultek - Drums
Bio:
Formed in 1988, Viogression swiftly forged a formidable presence in the metal underground with three searing demos, paving the way for their critically lauded debut, Expound & Exhort (1990). This landmark release launched them onto a world tour, igniting stages alongside Death and Pestilence. Their second album, Passage (1994), released incomplete, led to a nine-year hiatus. Reborn in 2003, Viogression unleashed fresh material, culminating in the 2014 EP, A Pure Formality, which sparked the band’s comeback with electrifying festival performances. Defying 2020’s global turmoil, they delivered 3rd Stage of Decay, released worldwide in 2022 through Satanath Records and Moribund Records. Now, Viogression stands on the brink of their fourth album, Thaumaturgic Veil, set for Summer 2025, poised to unleash a cataclysmic new chapter in their storied legacy.
https://viogressionr.bandcamp.com/album/expound-and-exhort
WÉKERAS – „ DO WIRÓW, DO KRZYKÓW “
"Do wirów, do krzyków!" is the new album from the Sweden-based black metal entity Wékeras, set for release on 29 June 2025 via Pagan Records. This album delivers necromantic old-school black metal that is fast, aggressive, cold, eerie and atmospheric.
Formed in 2022 by Horreur, Vulgael, and JRMR, with Pitoperversor joining shortly after, Wékeras quickly established their presence. Following their independently released debut demo "Pochwała Cienia" in early 2023 (later re-released by Nigredo Records and Eastern Myth Records), the band has actively toured in Sweden, Germany, and France, including festival appearances and a mini-tour.
Wékeras draws inspiration from the Norwegian black metal scene, particularly early Burzum and Emperor, blended with influences from first-wave black metal and thrash acts like Bathory and Venom. Their lyrics delve into primitive magic, Slavic folklore, horror, and demonology.
"Do wirów, do krzyków!" features Horreur on guitar (also responsible for composition), Vulgael on bass, Pitoperversor on drums, and JRMR on vocals and lyrics. The album was recorded in 2024 in Årstaberg, Sweden, and mixed and mastered by Jimmy Lundberg. All artwork, logos, and layouts were created by JRMR.
Tracklist:1. Bezdech
2. Urok
3. Niedola
4. Ohyda
5. Brzask
6. Zatracenie
7. Mogiła
Wékeras are:
JRMR: Vocals
Horreur: Guitar
Vulgael: Bass
Pitoperversor: Drums
https://wekeras.bandcamp.com/
The EP's first single, "SPIRAL DEGRADATION," is available now. Click below to stream on your platform of choice. https://linktr.ee/nefasband
FFO: Earlier works of Cephalic Carnage, Intronaut, and Gojira.
With seasoned experience across the technical, dissonant, and mathematical landscapes of metal, the band's sonic statement of malicious intent, Oblation ov Obliteration, is a unique offering composed of churning death metal inspired riffs; ever shifting grooves; monstrous howls, shrieks, and yells; and the sonic representations of the undoing of reality.
"With NEFAS, Rajan Davis and crew have crafted an eclectic array of both musical and vocal approaches, that push the boundaries of creativity and extremity further than most new bands these days; while still remaining at all times challenging, interesting and memorable. I’m super glad that Rajan finally has a proper, personal showcase of the impressive guitar/bass playing that earned him a spot playing live bass for GIGAN! Definitely listen to NEFAS as soon as ya can and enjoy!"- Eric Hersemann (GIGAN)
Track
Listing:1. Xenomorphic
2. Spiral Degradation
3. Mindstream Transference
Pre-order: https://nefas.bandcamp.com/album/oblation-ov-obliteration
Credits:
Produced, engineered, and edited by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Mixed and mastered by Erol Ulug at Bright Lights Studio.
All album art and layout: Moonroot Art.
Line-up:
Erik Burkhead-Fernandez - Vocals
Rusty Kennedy - Bass
Rajan Davis - Guitar
Alejandro Aranda - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/nefasmusic
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: June 20th 2025
Having announced themselves to the world with the powerful and well received single, 'Times Change Truth Does Not', back in January, Southern California thrashers Death Protocol are back with the next step along the road to their eagerly awaited full length debut album. The second single to be lifted from the upcoming album is the title track, 'Demonic Onslaught' - and it's another monstrous, melodic metal attack. Built upon the relentless, crisp riffs of David Estrada, the superb vocals of David Priest and the searing lead work of Nicholas Pelamati that glitters like cut diamonds over the intense, muscular powerhouse display below, 'Demonic Onslaught' is an instantly addictive song. Bringing to mind revered thrash legends like Metal Church, with its intense delivery, menacing spoken word section and memorable chorus this raises the anticipation for the album of the same name even higher.
Immerse yourself in the accomplished metal mastery of Death Protocol's 'Demonic Onslaught'!
Current Line up:
David Priest - Vocals
David Estrada - Guitars
Nicholas Pelamati - Lead Guitar
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeathProtocol
Swiss technical speed/thrashers ATOMIZATOR release their long-awaited debut “NUCLEAR BOOZE PATROL” on Witches Brew Records
Streaming: https://witchesbrewthrashes.bandcamp.com/album/nuclear-booze-patrol
Hailing from the toxic war-torn wastelands and neon-drenched retro-futuristic ruins of 2029, where the rain is acid, the slime is green, and the leather is studded, ATOMIZATOR first awoke from their cryogenic slumber in 2015. Their mission was simple: to contaminate the musical landscape with face-melting visions of red-hot lasers, sludge-covered highways, urban desolation and atomic liquor, without firing so much as a single warning shot.
Their first full-length debut album, "Nuclear Booze Patrol", was recorded in May 2023 at a secret bunker (REC Studio) in Geneva, Switzerland. Furiously pounding their way through the defenses - and eardrums- of the unsuspecting listener, ATOMIZATOR's sonic assault combines razor-sharp riffs, a pummeling rhythm section and a venomous vocal attack that delivers grimy, no-holds-barred, balls-to-the-wall thrash/speed metal with minimal frills and maximal might that is guaranteed to provoke severe whiplash, mental meltdown and a healthy dose of thermonuclear intoxication.
After almost 2 years it was finally released on Witches Brew Records in 2025.
When asked to describe their musical philosophy, the reply of the gasmask-clad, shotgun-wielding, molotov-sipping thrash commando was short and simple: "We strike with force."
You better not be sober.
https://www.facebook.com/AtomizatorThrash
Watch the music video to “Brennt” created in collaboration with Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Amon Amarth etc): https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/06/11/an-ncs-video-premiere-myr-brennt/
"Brennt" offers a stark preview of MYR's forthcoming album, "Helvegen", showcasing the band's distinctive sound and thematic depth. "Helvegen" is the creation of Svartan and TZommer, two seasoned figures from the metal community. MYR delivers a sound that is both raw and melodic, drawing deeply from the wellspring of Scandinavian legends and the traditions of Northern black metal.
Based in Norway, MYR is more than just a band; it's an immersive experience into the dark and untamed spirit of Northern black metal. "Helvegen" is a haunting exploration of mysticism and darkness, invoking the brutal intensity of the Nordic wilderness. Fans of Satyricon, Bathory, and Dissection will find a kinship in MYR's sound. The album captures the unyielding force and mysticism of classic black metal, blended with a contemporary melodic sensibility.
"Helvegen" was mixed and mastered by the renowned Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio in Sweden, known for his work with Watain, Mayhem, and Tribulation.
Track list: 1. December Coma
2. In Perpetum
3. Brennt
4. Røkkr
5. Saturnine Child
6. Naraka
7. Proch
8. Tungsten
9. Kaldr
MYR are:
Svartan - Guitars, Vocals
TZommer - Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/myrnorge
London (UK) - Blackened Death Metallers, CULT BURIAL, will release COLLAPSE OF PATTERN, REVERENCE OF DUST, on September 5. Following two highly regarded albums, Cult Burial's forthcoming third release is unquestionably its finest work to date.
The album's first single, "COLLAPSE," will be released June 27 on all digital platforms. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust is a record about erosion — of structures, of certainty, of meaning. Across eight tracks, Cult Burial tears through the frameworks we cling to, carving out something that sits between aggression and despair, weight and absence. The music is dense and layered, yet unafraid of space; at times claustrophobic, at others stripped to bare wire and exposed edge.
Cult Burial's music is a confluence of black, death, and doom metal, characterized by dissonant guitar work, relentless drumming, and guttural vocals. Their compositions often explore themes of existentialism, decay, and the human psyche, creating a soundscape that is both oppressive and thought-provoking.
Despite being a relatively new entity, Cult Burial has garnered attention from various metal publications and blogs, earning praise for their authentic approach to extreme metal and their ability to evoke a profound emotional response through their music.
Track
Listing:1. Vincula
2. Collapse
3. Aether
4. Mire
5, Enthrall
6. Beseech
7. Vestige
8. Seethe
Credits:
Mixed by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Artwork by Legerdemain.
Line-up:
Simon Langford - Music
César Moreira - Vocals
Bio:
Cult Burial is a blackened death metal band hailing from London, UK. Formed in 2020, the band has rapidly established itself as a formidable presence in the extreme metal scene, delivering a sound that melds the ferocity of death metal with the bleak atmospheres of doom and
black metal.
Discography:
Cult Burial (2020)
Reverie of the Malignant (2022)
https://www.facebook.com/cultburial/
First Single and video Release Date 6/13/2025 Premiers @ 6:66 am standard hell time : https://youtu.be/EN_zltAHcic
Born and raised on the streets of Long Beach, CA, Lance and Steve Harrison have been traveling and touring the world since 2006 thru 2021, totaling 16 years with the legendary thrash band HIRAX.
They have 2 EPs and 2 full length albums as well as a live album and DVD’s under their belts.
They’ve played and toured all over the world including Japan, South America, Mexico, Central America, and many other places.
Mike Vega joined HIRAX in 2014 and played with them until 2021 as well.
The HarXsoN band started after there was no more room in hell. In 2024 HarXsoN emerged back on the scene with metal and fire burning within their souls, and the riffs to Thrash Them All.
After a long search for a suitable vocalist, HARXSON members decided to share the vocal duties within their power trio. Steve became the lead singer and Lance is doing backing vocals.
Band Members:
Lance Harrison - Guitar / Back up Vocals
Mike Vega - Drums
Steve Harrison - Bass / Lead Vocals
www.Harxson.com
https://www.facebook.com/HARXSON
Italian death metal quartet SPIRITUAL DECEPTION has launched the official music video for their new single, "THE GATE UNSEEN." The song is the first new material heard from the band since last year's acclaimed full-length, SEMITAE MENTIS.
The band comments on the song, "With this track, we wanted to try something different—going for a more modern sound and letting our usual symphonic elements take a step back. Lyrically, it delves into the Great Filter theory, which is tied to the Fermi Paradox about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. We really focused on the songwriting to make it a fast, tight, and crushing song where the instruments do most of the talking."
SPIRITUAL DECEPTION teamed with Slam Worldwide to deliver the exclusive global premiere of the video for "The Gate Unseen."
Watch
now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lDzEIO1mzk"The Gate Unseen" was produced by SPIRITUAL DECEPTION, recorded by Mirko Frontini, and mixed/mastered by Simone Pietroforte. Orchestration was done by Mirko Frontini. The video was directed by Maurizio del Piccolo at Moviedel Productions.
SPIRITUAL DECEPTION released their debut full-length album, Semitae Mentis, in February 2024 on Amputated Vein Records and Earache Records.
The album features guest contributions by Karl Sanders (Nile) and Luc Lemay (Gorguts). Order Semitae Mentis at https://spiritualdeception.bandcamp.com/album/semitae-mentis-2
SPIRITUAL DECEPTION is an atmospheric death metal band, with hints of technical and brutal death metal, active since 2016
The band has a deep connection with philosophy and owes its name to a theory from the Danish philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, which struck the composers’ minds: different human beings in the act of analyzing a particular circumstance, approach (inevitably) the situation with different points of view. Extending that fact to the ethics field hence that nothing can be defined as objective good or bad, true or false, as the judgment is deeply rooted in everyone’s own perspective. As a result, there is no objective truth, your soul is constantly deceived.
Since its birth, the band produced 3 EPs: Spiritual Deception (2018), Etemenanki (2019), and Oxymoron (2021), and the 2024 full-length, Semitae Mentis. Each release served to sharpen the band's sound towards a modern brand of death metal, with brutal guitar riffing and blasting drums, combined with melodic elements, which go from guitar harmonies to liturgical choirs and strings ensembles. The result of the combination of these elements is a sound that satisfies all kinds of listeners, from the brutal to the more sophisticated ones. This formula is enriched by the lyrics which are all about philosophy, astronomy, history, and literature. The band wants to spark an interest in all these themes together with the passion for music into the listener and, in order to achieve its goal, wants to deliver a complete product, well-finished from all the points of view: from the music and lyrics to the artwork and media contents.
Line-Up:
Mirko Frontini - Vocals & Guitar
Riccardo Maccarana - Lead Guitar
Manuel Del Giudice - Drums
Francesca Mancini - Session Bass
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualDeception/
Wormholedeath
proudly welcomes Texas-based brutal death metal powerhouse CRUNGUS
to its roster for the release of their forthcoming album HOLLOW.Emerging from the desolate plains of the Texas Panhandle, CRUNGUS brings a feral and invigorating presence to the extreme metal world. What began in 2021 as a humble two-man acoustic experiment quickly mutated into a monstrous five-piece force, armed with devastating riffs, thunderous drums, and an unrelenting DIY ethos.
Their sound fuses the raw intensity of brutal death metal with elements of blackened and doom-infused heaviness, delivering an overwhelming sonic assault that is as cathartic as it is merciless. With a reputation for face-melting live shows and razor-sharp songwriting, CRUNGUS continues to gain momentum in the underground metal scene.
Lyrically, Hollow delves deep into themes of inner torment, societal decay, and existential dread—channeling chaos into catharsis. It’s more than just an album; it's a statement.
Tracklist
Dead Tree
2. Hollow
3. The Fear
4. Collapsing
5. Undying Ritual
6. Shapeshifter
7. Abomination
8. Lost
9. Parasites
10. Massacre
https://www.facebook.com/WormHoleDeath
www.youtube.com/@Crungus_official
https://www.facebook.com/crungus/
The band released the following statement about the album:
"Miseria aims to explore the vast uncaring nothingness and explore the dread of our futile existence. If you are looking for release or redemption you won’t find them here.
The album is unmistakably rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal but delivers it with its own signature. It is crushing and suffocating but also melodic and solemn."
Miseria will be released on August 29. Consider yourself warned.
Track
Listing:1. As Above So Below
2. Lamia
3. Delivered From Sin
4. Nadir (No Consent)
5. Spring Sleepwalker
6. A Seance
7. Mässa XCIV
8. Cycles
9. Unnamed Sorrow
Album Credits:
Recorded by Dejan Milenkovits & Filip Gäddnäs.
Mixed and produced by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.
Mastered by Dejan Milenkovits & Mathias Lodmalm.
Session drums by Filip Gäddnäs.
Additional vocals by Mathias Lodmalm.
Guest solo on “Lamia” by Robert Ahrling.
Guest solo on “Delivered From Sin” by Andreas Hedberg.
Album Artwork: Fernando Rojas B. (Abismo Black Arts).
Line-up:
Dejan Milenkovits - Vocals & Guitars
Martin Bermheden - Guitars
Andreas Holm - Bass
Joél Cirera – Drums
Bio:
Shadows is a blackened death metal band comprising members from both Germany and Sweden. Despite being a new addition to the music scene, the band features former members from notable acts such as Visceral Bleeding, The Berzerker, Enshrined and Ominous.
Shadows was established in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Dejan Milenkovits as a solo project during the pandemic lockdown. What began as a recording of a handful of songs released in early 2022 quickly grew beyond its original intent. Consequently, Finnish session drummer Filip Gäddnäs was recruited to track drums and long-time friend and collaborator Mathias Lodmalm (Cemetary, Sundown) was invited to co-produce a full album.
The album was subsequently recorded during 2024. As the album continued to take shape, it became clear that Shadows had outgrown the confines of a solo project.
In early 2025, the band was expanded to include drummer Joél Cirera and guitarist Martin Bermheden, both of whom were former band members with Dejan Milenkovits from the disbanded death metal band Enshrined. The trio was finally joined by Andreas Holm on bass, completing the permanent lineup.
https://www.facebook.com/shadows.official.cult
The
melodic death metal outfit RE-ARMED from Finland’s
capital region returns with a brand new single FRAGMENTS OF TIME,
now streaming on all major platforms!Staying true to their signature sound, the band delivers a heavy-hitting track filled with soaring melodies, crushing riffs, and a hint of groove. The result is a diverse and atmospheric piece of melodic death metal.
The band comments on the release:
"A versatile song layered with strong melodies and a touch of groove. The lyrics explore the concept of time — how we sometimes get stuck in the past or dream too much about the future, while life actually happens right here and now."
Fragments of Time is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and other major streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/rearmed-fragmentsoftime
https://www.re-armed.net
Finnish melodic death/doom metal band SERPENT GOD is set to release their debut album 'DENIAL' on October 10th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'oblivion' is released today and it's available on most streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-oblivion
Track list:1. denial
2. beneath
3. repent
4. revelation
5. alive
6. sermon
7. oblivion
8. keyhole
9. void
Album cover by Heidi Hyvärinen
The band comments:
”Chase eternal serpent, fly high above the stars”
Not your standard power ballad. Oblivion is a dream-like hazy, a song with a heavy contrast from violent blast beat and aggressive screams. Some parts are almost psychedelic, it’s certainly a trip on its own, mixed highs and lows. There’s a strange, almost mystic feeling throughout the song. There’s couple of very memorable guitar leads and strong bass lines. “In silence the deaf hear their scream”
Biography:
Serpent God is a band formed 2023 in Iisalmi, Finland. The birth is heavily related to Se, josta ei puhuta -band’s writing process; lots of material were created that didn’t fit in the spectrum of Se, josta ei puhuta. In general, the material was more slow-paced and more eerie. However, the mentioned material was also way too good to be deleted, so therefore another output was needed, so Serpent God was born. Different branches grow from a tree with strong roots. Serpent God has its foundation in extreme metal, but there are also heavy influences from post-rock, doom and smaller splashes of more avantgarde sounds.
Listen to the first single 'repent': https://push.fm/fl/serpent-god-repent
Line-up:
Samu Männikkö - Vocals, guitars and keyboards
Juho-Pekka Lappalainen - Bass
Jimi Myöhänen - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/serpentgodband
MALHKEBRE - "TO THOSE WHO FORGED US"
Release
date :
Summer 2025Genre : French Black Metal
Origin: Toulouse/France
Duration: 13:16
Label: Battlesk’rs Productions
Network Distributor: Ars Longa Vita Brevis
MALHKEBRE announces their return to the stage, after 5 years of silence, with HEXEKRATION RITES. During these black masses you will discover new tracks announcing the release of a 2-track EP during the summer, before the album at the end of the year!
A word that’s overused today in a Black Metal scene where some elements seem to have lost the sense of the values that once made this genre more than just a style of music.
A word that can, however, continue to be associated with a handful of honest bands, for whom Black Metal is not simply music but also a religious exaltation. Among them, MALHKEBRE is a name that needs no introduction. Active since 2002, the band is a spiritual vehicle for its singer/founder Eklezjas’Tik Berzerk, accompanied by his acolytes Shamaanik B. (drums) and S. Evangelista (guitars/bass).
After making their mark on the underground with their first two albums, « Revelation » (2014) and « Satanic Resistance » (2019), MALHKEBRE reawakened in 2023 with a tape featuring two tracks announcing a future album. As a prelude to this opus announced for the end of 2025, the EP “To Those Who Forged Us” is released, which presents a new side of MALHKEBRE: heavier, darker, more ritualistic and declamatory, “To Those Who Forged Us” is not only the announcement of a new era for the band, but a tribute to those who contributed to fueling the fire that burns in the heart and mind of MALHKEBRE. On the B-side, the judicious choice of a cover of “You Want It Darker” by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen is also a declaration of war in the face of those who had buried MALHKEBRE too soon.
Bearers of a Sacred Word made of pain, violence and resistance, MALHKEBRE is preparing to travel the European roads for the first time in a decade: “To Those Who Forged Us” sounds like the clamor of a tocsin calling the faithful to gather to listen, then to spread the Word. And thus allow the dark flame of MALHKEBRE to once again consume the souls of those who hear His call.
MALHKEBRE is announced for Prague Death Mass V in Czech Republic and also in Belgium at the Black Khaos Assault Festival .
https://www.facebook.com/SolsticePromotion
https://www.facebook.com/malhkebre
Format: Digitale CD
/ Fysieke CDLabel: Independent Release
For fans of : Sepultura, Machine Head, Hatebreed, Slayer and the like…..
Tracklist:
01 No Regrets
02 Urban Guerilla
03 Spiritual Butcher
04 Hard Life
05 Purge
06 Shitface
07 GFY
08 Failed to Resist
09 Denial
INHERITED. A name that may not ring a bell, but this young band (founded in 2022) managed to win the Dutch Metal Battle competition in 2024, which earned them a spot at Wacken Open Air. After that, things went quickly for these young guys, two of whom have a well-known surname: Lucas Camonier and Marvin Wesdorp. And yes, Lucas is the son of Ronald Camonier(known from Polluted Inheritance and now Klaïton)and Marvin is a son of Erwin Wesdorp (known from Polluted Inheritance and now Klaïton).
After a few singles, here is the debut long player of this new and young band from Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (Netherlands).
Not only is Inherited a young band in terms of formation, but the members are also young talents from the Netherlands. Midas and Neill are both 16, Marvin is 17, Jamie is 18 and Lucas is 21. Despite their age, their musicality is exceptional, and they show a mastery on their instruments that is comparable to that of seasoned veterans. Their sound is a refined fusion of old-school thrash/groove metal with a contemporary edge.
The band will be seen and heard at various locations in 2025, including Dynamo Metal Fest(NL)and at a number of clubshows.
Inherited Is:
Jamie Versprille: Vocals
Neill Ray: Drums
Marvin Wesdorp: Guitar
Lucas Camonier: Bassguitar
Midas Giele: Guitar
https://www.facebook.com/InheritedOfficialNL/
IMPERIALIST - “PRIME “
Genre
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black metal with thrash and death metal influencesFor fans of : Dissection, Emperor, Valdrin, Vektor, Frozen Dawn, Abigor, Immortal
Line up
Sergio Soto - Vocals/Lead Guitar
Bryant Quinones - Lead Guitar
Rod Quinones - Drums
Joshua Alvarez - Bass
Artwork by Eliran Kantor
Mixed and mastered by Dan Swano
Recorded by Charles Elliott
Track listing
1. Starstorm
2. Beneath The Sands Of Titan
3. Depravity Beheld
4. I A.M.
5. Heavens Sunder
6. Final Hours
7. Union Of The Swarm
8. Nocturnal Eon
9. A Ghost Abandoned
Release date - September 5th, 2025
"Prime" is the long awaited follow-up album to 2021's "Zenith" and Imperialist have only spent the years honing their craft while keeping the death-touched sci-fi black metal sound intact. The songs are tighter and more intricate than ever before, reinforced further with thrash metal elements, and they showcase the darkness and menace displayed on the previous EP but also the maturity in songwriting, allowing piercing leads and shards of melodies and to shimmer through and liven up the proceedings lest they get too bereft of earthly feelings. Mixed and mastered by Dan Swano, the sound is kept clear and sharp, ensuring that no facets of their throbbing, undulating music are lost in the process. The sci-fi obsession too has been taken to the next level here, with none other than Eliran Kantor bringing their vision to life via a staggering two-panel artwork. The music oozes passion and dedication at every level, and every listen will prove to be a testament to that. This could very well be the best Imperialist album till date and given their faultless discography till date, that is saying something.
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“Erase
and Replace” rips through the illusion of modern progress with razor-sharp
riffs, venomous vocals, and dystopian fury. It’s a no-holds-barred assault on
digital mind control, conformity, and the slow erasure of humanity in the face
of soulless automation. Fusing insane speed and aggression with groove-laden
mid-tempos and razor-edged melodies, the track is both a sonic onslaught
and a warning cry from the digital void.The video — edited by Tomi Niemelä, with footage provided by Thrashing Madness — captures Bloodride’s raw live energy, transporting the viewer straight to the heart of their onstage chaos.
With Deafening, Bloodride continues their relentless mission to deliver unapologetic, old-school-infused thrash with a cutting-edge edge, and “Erase and Replace” sets the tone with unrelenting power.
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Finnish Industrial Metal band ALFA PENTATONIK (Formed in 2002 as Pentatonik) released a new single and music video 'KONE YSKII' from their forthcoming GAMMA II EP which is set to be unleased on July 18th 2025 via Inverse Records.
Watch Kone yskii music video: https://youtu.be/F5pejWNypr8 Track list:
01. Lisäajalla
02. Tuomiopäivän tanssi
03. Kone yskii
04. Kuunnelkaa
05. Illuusio elämästä
Cover art by JP Immonen
The band comments:
"The video single 'Kone yskii' is one of the band's most 'pop' songs, and we joke that it could be an 'Eurovision' entry. In this catchy song, we follow humankind's last survivor: a cyborg who has forgotten what it means to be human."
Alfa Pentatonik (formerly Pentatonik) plays heavy Finnish industrial metal. Formed in the early 2000s, the band has released two albums and numerous other releases. The band returned in 2022 with a new name and singles. They are now releasing a sequel to their latest "Gamma I" EP. The new release is called Gamma II.
The band's mastermind is JP Immonen (Walhalla, Aria of Sorrow, Iron Frost), who plays all the instruments, writes the songs, and handles production. The second member of the band is Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Verilehto, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat), who writes the lyrics and sings. 'Gamma II' continues in the same vein as its predecessor. Hard and heavy guitars are mixed with dark vocals and almost dance beats. Sami Lindqvist joins the release to play guitar solos and backing vocals. Harri Hytönen from 'Gamma I' also plays a few guitar solos. Dystopian samples from an interview with Yrjö Kallinen (1971) are the icing on the cake for this new Finnish industrial metal/industrial thrash metal release.
Listen to Kone yskii single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/alfa-pentatonik-kone
Release date: 4th of July 2025
A new force rises from the bloody depths of the Amsterdam underground… Their moniker is BLOED, an acronym for “Belzebub Lacht Om Elke Dood”, loosely translated as “Beelzebub Laughs at Every Death.”
Their debut release is titled ‘t Regent’ and is a worship sermon of old school metal, from a time where death and black metal where still one and the same: morbid. Expect raw and intense war metal terrorism filled with deranged vocal proklamations and chaotic riffing assaults, devoid of any subtleties. This piece of blasphemous filth will appear on de Pankraker Records, and will see the light during their festival the 4th of July.
Track listAlarmtoestand 666
SBO
Messias van Wanstaltige Deen
Sexkrieg
Alkoholisch Visioen
More info
The songs can be played in radio shows from June 23th.
The band is open for interviews immediately.
About De Pankraker Records
De Pankraker was born in the depths of the underground, a rebellious radio program that delved into a cluster of metal sub-genres known for their daring sonic and visual transgressions. By 2022, it had expanded its reach with a magazine, and in 2023, it emerged from the shadows with its own festival. In 2024, we proudly unveiled De Pankraker Records, delving even deeper into the abyss with a distro and label.
We're all about serving up dishes that are cold and old-school. No fancy stuff, no technicalities, and definitely no triggered drums. Metal for demons!!
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DEATHBLOW are back and ferocious as ever with the release of another ripping EP! Open Season will be released June 16 on Sewer Mouth Records. The EP will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats!
The four-track Open Season EP is a scathing commentary aimed at the heart of the belligerent American Empire and its war machinery. Combining their classic thrash metal sound with an unrelenting crossover punk-infused gut punch, the EP is guaranteed to get the blood boiling!
Track
Listing:1. Open Season
2. Deny, Defend, Dispose
3. Tormentor
4. Never Again
Digital Pre-order: https://deathblow1.bandcamp.com/album/open-season
Cassette, vinyl, and CD pre-orders coming soon!
Credits:
Recorded at Archive Recordings with Wes Johnson.
Artwork by Emil Rousse.
Line-up:
Holton Grossl - Guitars/Vocals
Adam Kelly - Guitars
Paul LaChica - Bass
Rob Larson - Drums
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This 6-track release captures the band at their most intense and refined, both musically and production-wise. The EP format was chosen with an intention to channel something savage and fast yet the atmosphere and groove were not omitted, these are still hymns indeed.
BEYOND
MORTAL DREAMS are ready to take you into the wastelands and ignite the
fires of Death Metal devastation once again.The title of the upcoming six-song EP is no coincidence: Devastation Hymns. The band has chosen the extended play format to unleash its most savage material to date—musically and sonically. No other band explores bestial savagery and heaviness at such bulldozing and monumentally majestic levels like BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS.
Devastation Hymns surges powerfully, regardless of the pace, and devastates. The thrilling dynamics and megaton energy of each song never fade, never blur. And so, BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS deliver a thunderously dense, fierce record with some extraordinary, steel-melting grooves. The guitar work of Pahl Hodgson and Jamie Whyte is second to none. METAL.
With two albums and an EP under their belts, BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS have now reached a position where they are expanding on formulas they forged over the years—and they do it in the best possible way, as they keep pushing forward. A notable addition to their ranks, Henry Inglis – session drums, has propelled the new material into another scourging plane.
The EP, true to the band's tradition, comes with a rendition of FORBIDDEN’s track Forbidden Evil. The vocal performance by Pahl Hodgson leaves a mark—his vocal diversity is stunning.
We've said it before: BEYOND MORTAL DREAMS are Australia’s best-kept secret. Devastation Hymns is here to break another part of the chain.
Spread the Hymns. Many thanks for your time and attention. Jan - Lavadome
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JFor the old fans of the band this new song will not be a surprise at all. For those who don't know them but have ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILITY and CRADLE OF FILTH as part of their favorite bands, "Immortal Rites", as well as the entire album due out on June 13th, will be a must listen!
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NEWS 8.6.2025
Hi
everybody,Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. Last
month PAŘÁT PRODUCTIONS released 3 new titles. In all cases these are ‘my’ heart recordings of my favourite Czech bands. First time on CD, first time on vinyl, re-release on digipak after 20 years. I believe you will find these releases interesting. Thank you for your time and support!!!
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (melodic metal)
Triotus, Tricephalus And Tribadism /20th Anniversary Edition – digipak/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOl96Apuqc&t=2225s
BLOODY OBSESSION (old school death metal)
Husaria /black vinyl/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1SzhDVWF8&t=15s
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY (doom/death)
Zlodejska svetelka /standard jewel box/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKrFppXUrk
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SLOWLY WE ROT #25 is now available for pre-order!
(Underground attitude and contents, English written, A4 format, black/white, glossy)
all orders come with free compilation CDs, stickers, flyers and download codes!
Featuring interviews with:A.Deception
Brodequin
Commoner
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult
Dead Born Vision
Demoniac
Exorcism
Frostmorner
Grave Altar
Gravered
Grima
Helpless Agony
High Inquisition Woe
Horoh
I Sorg
Iotunn
Necrowretch
Nocturnus AD
Seth
Telluric Necro-Parasites
Thrasherwolf
To Violently Vomit
Waldruine
+ articles:
"In Their Own Words" - bands introducing their own tracks featured on the compilation CD included with the magazine.
"Topic Of The Issue" - this time it's all about liberty: what, why, how
"Demonstrating Hell" - recommendations of recently released demos, it doesn't get more underground than this!
+ reviews
+ free compilation CD
Get in touch if interested in our mutually advantageous distribution deals or to discuss features in the next issue (Autumn 2025)!
Slowly We Rot #26 already in works and scheduled for a Autumn 2025 release!
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Metalcore stalwarts, AGE OF RUIN, have released "THE GHOSTS WE CARRY," the second single from forthcoming album, NOTHINGMAN, on all digital platforms and as an official music video! The track embodies classic Age of Ruin metalcore riffing with a brutally heavy breakdown chorus sing-along. A b-side, non-album track, "Reflections," accompanies the release of the new single.
FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, and Gojira.
The music video for "The Ghosts We Carry," produced by Pablo Van Winkle, is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZnI3p-w8Ek
Stream the b-side track, "Reflections," on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Nothingman, Age of Ruin’s forthcoming album, is a collection of 10 songs that cuts a path to the heart with harmony and angst that others would be naïve not to mimic. The band sacrificed blood and sweat for two years to expel Nothingman. Age of Ruin began the recording process in October of 2023, and after nine months of tracking on location in Richmond, VA, at the Bakery Studio, in Washington, DC, at Ivakota Studio, and at the Riff Dojo in Takoma Park, MD, (the record was produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour), Nothingman was complete. This is the biggest, most richly woven tapestry from the band yet, and the time to unleash it is near.
In 2023 and 2024, Age of Ruin did some precursory promotion of Nothingman’s material, traveling up and down the east coast, dousing nonbelievers with their fire, with such acts as Black Flag, Madball, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, and Anvil. Yes, that Anvil.
Ripping guitars, unforgivably brutal drums, bass sounds that have shaken the underworld, and screeching vocals are just the beginning of this incarnation of a true headbanger's incantation. What we saw unearthed back in 1998 has now grown. The road worn warriors of the AoRmy have forced enough breakdowns to overwhelm any AAA mechanic, with miles on the highway ahead.
Their punk and metal roots hold firm, and their thrash tendencies are on full display as this towering presence of a band branches out over new tonal terrain and soundscape; reminding all who fall under its shadow, that the light shining through is a new dawn in the Age of Ruin. Nothingman will be celebrated in all formats and on all streaming platforms on October 17.
Track
Listing:1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry
8. Promise Me
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong
Credits:
"The Ghosts We Carry" artwork by Chris Smith of Grey Aria Design.
Produced by Mike Schleibaum / The Riff Dojo.
Mixed and mastered by Will Beasley / The Bakery.
Original artwork, Oil on Canvas titled "Forest Mother" by Zack Dunn.
Line-up:
Benjamin Swan - vocals
Christopher Fleming - bass
Daniel Fleming - guitar
Hendrik Osinga - drums
Casey Flanagan - guitar
Bio:
The exact location of the dawn of man has been a constant subject of debate. Some say it was Prometheus delivering fire, some say it was Franklin discovering electricity, most people say it’s when Lars met James…but everyone agrees: those were simply precursors. Throughout the age of enlightenment, the renaissance, the reformation era and beyond, mortals have tried to make sense of mankind's meaning on earth.
Most archaeologists believe that in the late 90's, a surge of lightning fast riffs, guttural screams, devastatingly bass tones, and the relentless pulverizing rhythm of drums unearthed a crucial piece of this puzzle...this ushered in what would be known as The Age of Ruin. Those who heard it, really dug it. But those who dug it found there is much more than the surface layers. Music filled with textures, themes, and tunings that go deeper than a James Cameron film unbound by budgets.
For over 20 years, Age of Ruin has been firing off a relentless string of releases. Even the busiest trash compactors could not keep up with the amount of crushing that Age of Ruin crams into a single album, and this is so…with Nothingman. They have consistently delivered a brutal barrage of the heaviest hits metal has heard. Why stop At the Gates, when you can break down the whole house with your music? Why get Entombed when you can breathe new life into the scene? Why let the years waste away when the Age of Ruin can answer all of these questions?
Age of Ruin has definitely paid their dues, earning every ounce of the heaviest crown one band could carry. Naturally, the tonal tenure of the AoRmy servicemen is not something that can be held onto forever...the constant axe-wielding and riff hurling has required numerous changing of the guard over the years; however, the core horsemen of the Age of Ruin (Benjamin Swan, and Daniel and Christopher Fleming) remain, along with Casey Flanagan and Hendrik Osinga, forging an amalgamation of devastation which would conjure a collection of songs that few, if any, houses could harness. Fortunately, under the tutelage and production of Sound-Sensei Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour), Age of Ruin would hone their tone in Mike's Riff Dojo, creating an undeniable masterpiece of metal.
Sensational "jazzgrind" band Byonoisegenerator have released only one new song since preorders went up for their much awaited release. They don't want to reveal too much and would prefer that their fans listen to their album in its entirety - and now there's not a lot of time left for that! No Clean Singing did its premiere which can be found at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/04/28/an-ncs-premiere-byonoisegenerator-uvb-76/
Excerpt - "whips listeners back and forth between an alien warzone and a smoky jazz lounge"
BYONOISEGENERATOR – „SUBNORMAL DIVES“
Byonoisegenerator are
set to make a splash again after seven long years with a new album of what
they'd like to call “jazzgrind” that sounds just as shocking and exhilarating
as you would imagine. It's the kind of album that compels us to see things from
a different perspective. While jazz influences and usage of a saxophone in
extreme music has been witnessed before, it’s hardly ever done with a style of
music this extreme and cathartic. The dedicated sax player infuses the violent
music with jazzy parts that not only serve as a break from the cacophony but
they also punctuate the music, enhance it, and elevate it from your regular
grind or death metal band. The music is highly intricate, even technical, and
despite the short length of the songs, it might require multiple listens for it
to be fully deciphered and for the unsuspecting listeners to get its odd
appeal. They've used the free-style spirit to concoct music that's outstanding
and in the process have also ensured that it's more than something having
temporary novelty value. At this point in their career, they've been able to
masterfully meld the seemingly contradictory influences and have created songs
that are more than just ideas, with each having their own identity and charm.
It is clear that Byonoisegenerator are onto something special and
they have the chops and attitude to pull off something as outrageous and
irresistible as this.Byonoisegenerator are set to make a splash again after seven long years with a new album of what they'd like to call “jazzgrind” that sounds just as shocking and exhilarating as you would imagine. It's the kind of album that compels us to see things from a different perspective. While jazz influences and usage of a saxophone in extreme music has been witnessed before, it’s hardly ever done with a style of music this extreme and cathartic. The dedicated sax player infuses the violent music with jazzy parts that not only serve as a break from the cacophony but they also punctuate the music, enhance it, and elevate it from your regular grind or death metal band. The music is highly intricate, even technical, and despite the short length of the songs, it might require multiple listens for it to be fully deciphered and for the unsuspecting listeners to get its odd appeal. They've used the free-style spirit to concoct music that's outstanding and in the process have also ensured that it's more than something having temporary novelty value. At this point in their career, they've been able to masterfully meld the seemingly contradictory influences and have created songs that are more than just ideas, with each having their own identity and charm. It is clear that Byonoisegenerator are onto something special and they have the chops and attitude to pull off something as outrageous and irresistible as this.
Line up
Tim - Vox
Hal° - Guitar
M1t - Bass
Sh3la - Saxophone
NOx - Drums
Artwork by Dmitry Rogatnev
Track listing
1. Eb(D#)
2. IQ69Exaltations
3. NULL.state = PERMANENT; return VOID;
4. NoSuccessToday!
5. UVB-76
6. LoveChargedDiveBombs
7. I'mNot20Anymore (21Ne)
8. 4-HO-DMTNzambiKult
9. deBroglieNeverExisted
10. 5mgInspiredVibes
Release date - June 13th, 2025
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Austrian death/thrashers CYROX promote their sophomore record with „HAUNTING SHADOWS“ live performance video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcw8lbaabFw
CYROX – “ NO REDEEMER LEFT“
Genre: Thrash/Death Metal
Influences: Exodus, Lamb Of God, Machine Head, Metallica, Gojira, Pantera, Havok, Slayer, Kataklysm, Heathen and many more…
City: Leoben
Country: Austria
Label: Kvlt und Kaos Productions
The band was founded under the name Black Void in February 2016 in Leoben, Austria, by the drummer Markus Antoniol from St. Stefan ob Leoben and guitarist Gernot Weber from Eisenerz, who have been friends since early youth and played together in various bands.
They soon found the second guitarist Christian Gallmayer, who is a colleague of Markus. For about a month we were looking for a bass player, when Gernot heard about a guitarist named Andreas Fahrleitner who was doing a solo cover show in his home town of Radmer. Gernot watched some clips of his show and contacted him if he was interested in joining the band, which he did, so Gernot switched from guitar to bass.
The next problem, however, was that Andreas and Christian had to do their military service in the Austrian army for six months, so they didn't really have time to make music. So the band took a break until November 2016.
Finally, Manuel Kirchleitner from Trofaiach joined the band as a singer, who is also a colleague of Markus and Christian. They changed the name from Black Void to Cyrox and started jamming again and soon the first songs were born.
The first gig was in December 2017 in Eisenerz, Austria. From that on they played live on a regular basis up till the first lockdown in Austria in March 2020.
Cyrox also selfreleased the debut album called „Beyond Control“ in March 2020, which is available on CD and every streaming platform.
In May 2020 Christian Gallmayer left the band, because of private circumstances which didn’t allow him to put any more time in the band. He was replaced in June 2020 by Leo Buchegger.
In April 2021 Markus Antoniol had to leave the band, he was replaced in May 2021 by Andreas Tobias.
In August 2021 Cyrox signed a worldwide deal with Wormholedeath Records for „Beyond Control“, that got a worldwide release in December 2021.
In January 2025 they signed a worldwide contract with Kvlt Und Kaos Productions and released their second album “No Redeemer Left” in April 2025.
The music of Cyroxcan roughly can be described as a mixture between Death and Thrash Metal, whereby they try to fit into no genre specifically. The influences range from Rock to Black Metal.
Line Up:
Vocals - Manuel “Kirchi” Kirchleitner
Guitar & Vocals - Andreas “Foali” Fahrleitner
Guitar – Leo “Stüberl” Buchegger
Bass – Gernot “Gerni” Weber
Drums- Andreas Hans Ingolf “Ahit” Tobias
December 2021 – Beyond Control (Wormholedeath Records)
April 2025 – No Redeemer Left (Kvlt Und Kaos Productions)
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The band will release a music video for the single on June 20!
Like a love letter to old school heavy metal, The Pale Hand’s debut single, “Reign in Hell,” serves up fuzz-drenched riffs, a high energy groove, and lyrics inspired by Lucifer’s fall from heaven. It’s a sinister, psychedelic, and thunderous descent into madness showcasing the group’s unique take on doom—including a breakdown heavy enough to shake Grandma’s grave.
Lyrically,
the song is a lapsed theologian’s wet dream. Christian doctrine asserts that
free will is humankind’s unique gift, something not even angels possess.
Therefore, the logical conclusion follows that in his so-called rebellion,
Lucifer only played the role his creator intended for him, and was doomed to be
cast into hell before he was ever made. “Better to reign in hell than serve in
heaven,” a freshly exiled Satan proclaims in John Milton’s Paradise Lost while
considering this injustice.Milton famously humanized Satan in his epic work, arguably even placing him as the hero of the story, and The Pale Hand has gladly carried his torch into the 21st century, complete with vicious guitars, powerhouse vocals, and booming bass. In the end, it’s a match made in hell—after all,
heaven’s overrated.
With members hailing from around the globe, The Pale Hand is a cross-cultural heavy metal phenomenon taking New York City’s underground by storm, sharing stages with Castle Rat and Alex Skolnick of Testament. To witness The Pale Hand live is to be baptized in the church of the undead; a vampire pastor gives blood offering before the first song is played and expects to be repaid before the night is over. With a wide range of influences beyond metal, including gospel and middle eastern music, their show is theatrical, interactive, even spiritual, and they use their music to explore the question “what really is evil?” In The Pale Hand’s world, the sinner is the saint, and corruption is the true enemy.
Line-up:
Kelsea Beck (they/them) - Vocals
Pamir Aysan (he/him) - Guitar
Diego Silva (he/him) - Guitar
Finnegan Hu (he/him) - Bass
Brian Del Guercio (he/him) - Drums
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Thirty six years after their debut album, and with two other albums released in 1990 and 2013, UK thrashers Toranaga have returned!
The Classic line up of Toranaga (1988) comprised of the bassist Andy Burton, the drummer Steve Todd, the guitarist Andy Mitchell, and the vocalist Mark Duffy. With their debut album 'Bastard Ballads' released by Peaceville Records, the band made a great impression and strong responses led to extensive gigging across the UK to a growing audience hungry for more of that unique fusion of NWOBHM, lashings of old school Overkill-style Thrash, plenty of Maiden and a dark, doom-like heaviness smacking of Sabbath. Bastard Ballads enjoyed frequent radio play leading to a session on Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show (BBC Radio 1) and an invitation to open for Manowar on their UK tour.
Snapped up by Chrysalis Records 24 hours after the managing director watched their Manchester show, the band released second album 'God’s Gift' in the spring of 1990 to even greater acclaim. Tours and shows with the likes of Manowar, Sabbat, Venom, Saxon, Metal Church, Uriah Heep, Onslaught, Slammer,Xentrix, Love/Hate and Annihilator ensued as the stature of the band rose.
Caught up in the EMI buy-out of Chrysalis, Toranaga lost their A&R team and their opportunities to release their new EP and tour with Motörhead. Disheartened, the band took a long hiatus.
Andy Mitchell left for Australia in 2006, and in 2010 the trio of Burton, Todd and Duffy began writing new songs together as 'The Bastard Son of Toranaga'. That resulted in the “Cynical Eyes” EP.
Soon they returned to the original name. With a line-up completed by the guitarists Shane Haigh and John Rodgers, the band recorded 'Righteous Retribution' in 2013 to critical acclaim - their heaviest work since Bastard Ballads. However, after several high profile shows, the band went their separate ways.
Now, in 2024, Toranaga has returned with a strong new line-up and steered again by iconic vocalist Mark Duffy. He was joined by the drummer Toby Wallace, the guitarists Liam Mulpetre and Josh Goldie and the bassist Mike Todd, to reign as the Shoguns of UK Metal.
Since their return, they have played in UK with Onslaught, Riot City, Xentrix and Acid Reign, with more shows and festivals to come. In 2025 they played Helicon Metal Festival in Poland, their first visit to the Eastern Europe.
May 2025 sees Toranaga UK releasing “A NEW ORDER” EP, officially opening the new chapter in band’s history. The Shoguns are back for good! Soon they are going to Germany for Headbangers Open Air.
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The
unrelenting, blackened death metal project HESSIAN has
signed a licensing deal with Wormholedeath for the release of their highly
anticipated self-titled EP, due out on 20 June 2025. Known for their
raw, primal energy and no-frills approach to blackened death metal, Hessian has
already captured the attention of the underground scene, and this collaboration
is set to amplify their ferocity on the global stage.Laremy (Founder, Guitarist) shares his excitement:
“We’re truly honored to join the Wormholedeath family—a label and publisher with deep roots and an incredible legacy. From Carlo’s early days in Necromass to his ongoing work with Warner Chappell Holland and global distribution through Sony Orchard, the reach is immense. To be part of a catalog spanning over 400 releases is a privilege we take seriously—and we’re committed to representing it with pride in all our future releases.”
The Hessian EP is a raw homage to the early days of black metal, stripped to its most primal and savage core. Laremy explains, “There’s no bass—just rhythm guitar, vocals, and drums. It channels a hypnotic, bestial energy that immerses listeners in a dark, repetitive guitar style designed to invoke and celebrate the unspeakable.”
https://hessian666.bandcamp.com/
Nordic
dark metal band MONOLICHT unveils its new single "FROZEN
CHILD", marking the band’s darkest and deepest musical expression
to date. The track fuses the bleakest tones of melodic dark metal and black
metal, creating a cold, almost paralyzing atmosphere."Frozen Child" is based on true events from a small town in Northern Finland during the 1990s. The narrative unfolds like the polar night – gradually deepening, stark, and emotionally raw. The song culminates in a hypnotic finale where time itself seems to stop.
A visually striking music video has been produced for the track and is available here: https://youtu.be/YoOoBkbFrXk
"Frozen Child" is now available on all major streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/monolicht-frozenchild
Follow the band on social media: https://linktr.ee/monolichtband
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease date: June 10th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Dismember | Entombed | Vomitory | Chaos Breed
Beneath a skull-faced moon on a night when old and young alike shake and sweat beneath their sheets as the reaper travels through their dreams, when the mausoleum gates fall broken to the ground and the ways to Tartarus stand open…then the dead arise to hunt. From beneath the flames and through the graveyard dirt their mouldering corpses rise, tattered sinew and fragmenting bones infused with strength and spirit for one night of vengeful freedom. One night of spite and violence, one night of lust and hunger; one night to tear down the living and drag them into realms below!
Four years on from their Regurgitated Into Existence debut, Finnish death metal fiends Deathgoat have returned for your bodies and your souls! Dragged Into Realms Below is their new nine track album of funeral rites and undead rebirth, absolute death metal in every twitching limb and empty eye socket. Beginning with the haunting notes of intro ‘Alkulima’, part lament, part invocation and all evil, Dragged Into Realms Below is a rampaging beast spawned from the rotten womb of early Scandinavian death. Savage tracks like ‘Congregation Of Disease’ are rife with riffs infused with horror and arcane ritual, devilish and dark. From the absolute inferno of ‘Dying To Be Dead’ to the malignant majesty of the album’s concluding, title track, via the glorious atmospheric lead work of ‘Compulsive Cannibalism’, Dragged Into Realms Below is everything a death metal album should be. Complete with a feral, snarling guitar tone, drums like hammers on coffin lids and a voice that speaks from the abyssal pits of the underworld, no death metal addict will be able to resist the lure of this gut wrenching poison.
Adorned in the masterful artwork of Bram Bruyneel (Officium Triste, Hideous Divinity etc) Dragged Into Realms Below will be unleashed upon the world on June 10th by Xtreem Music, who are fast becoming a byword for brilliance when it comes to supreme old school death metal! When this out of control hearse comes careering out of the night this summer, be prepared for total annihilation!
Line-up:
Chope666 - Drums
Vicar Miggoat - Guitars
Nihilist - Guitars/Backing Vocals
Putrid Worm - Vocals
L.F. Molestor – Bass
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/deathgoatdeathmetal
FFO
: Coldworker,
Gadget, Nasum & Rotten Sound. The second single 'DEATH PAYS IT ALL' is released today and the lyric video is available here: https://youtu.be/DlpcScU6zSg
The band comments:
" ”Death Pays It All", the second single from the new I, Cursed EP to be released later this autumn. "Death Pays It All" continues what the first single from the upcoming EP, "Disfigurement", offered in the form of furious death metal and grindcore. "Death Pays It All" is a dynamic and, to some extent, distorted melodic depiction of how the seductive call of death drives the mind down into the depths and darkness. "Death Pays It All" is complemented by a darkly soothing lyric video produced by Soft Neon Audiovisual."
Listen to the 'Death Pays It All' single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/i-cursed-death
Watch music video of first single 'Disfigurement': https://youtu.be/NlR4xJvdzlg
Biography:
Combining angry and furious death metal and grindcore, I, Cursed, from the Pori / Ulvila area, is a brutal dredging of Ville-Veikko Laaksonen and Eero Haula, known from Atlases, Marto and Oceanwake, among others, which is fed to the Finnish metal scene in an atonal coldness. I, Cursed's music is a mix of something old and familiar, the HM-2 sound of Swedish grind, and somewhat more modern and crushing production. The line-up of the band in July 2024 is completed by guitarist Nico Brander from Marto and drummer Arttu Leppänen from Atlases and Marto.
Listen to previous EP Death Holograms: https://push.fm/fl/icursed-death
Line-up:
Eero Haula - Vocals (Oceanwake)
Ville-Veikko Laaksonen - Bass & guitar (Atlases, Marto)
Nico Brander - Guitar (Blood Service, Marto)
Arttu Leppänen - Drums (Atlases, Marto)
Discography:
I, Cursed / Blood Service S/T Split EP 2023 (Meara Music)
Bloodsoaked / Storm Parade Double Single 2023 (Meara Music)
Blades Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Sorrower Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Holograms Single & EP 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Disfigurement Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Pays It All Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
https://www.facebook.com/I.Cursed.Grind
ECASTOR - "THIS WAR"CD Limited to 300 copies
Release date June, 27th 2025
Tracklist:
01 - Enter The Spaceship [01:39]
02 - Space Marines [02:52]
03 - Silence [03:49]
04 - Docmicide [03:14]
05 - Land Of Fire [04:07]
06 - Slepnir [04:28]
07 - DDT [02:08]
08 - This War [03:56]
09 - Outro [00:31]
Mix and master by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
Cover art dwawed by Benedetto Palmaro.
Cover made by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
The songs were composed by all members.
Layout made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Lyric video and promotion by Danihell Slaughter.
MURDER RECORDS ( www.murder-records.eu ) is pleased to announce the release of the debut album by Italian band Ecastor, titled "This War", on June 27, 2025 and that will be distributed in the the European Devision by Hellstore Europe and in the North American Devision by Southern Soundclash Records and Guts And Blood Records.
Ecastor is a new band that presents a promising sound where we can find a nefarious savagery of Thrash Death Metal riffs tormented by decadence that reveals a disturbed society, transporting us to human self-destruction where the reality of political hypocrisy with the lies of religion are the infernal fuel for an inhuman devastation on this planet ready to explode.
The debut album that Ecastor is preparing to release with the horrendous support of Murder Records is decomposed into seven purulent hymns, complemented with an Intro and a Outro, which will decimating us with their impure sonority soaked in the lacerating atrocities of inhuman ideologies and where tears of rotten blood will be shed.
The sound presented by Ecastor is played with fast rhythms and dark atmospheres where the main in?uences become from bands like Mortuary Drape, Sodom, Necrodeath ready to devastate your soul and ripping your body apart.
INHUMAN ATROCITIES OF THRASH DEATH METAL...
Line-Up
Dante: Vocals,Guitar
Leonardo: Guitar
Yuri: Bass
Askios(Enea): Drums
https://linktr.ee/Ecastor.band
Italian Brutal Death Metal squad, PUTRIDITY, in partnership with Toilet ov Hell, is pleased to present the premiere of "IN DISGUST THEY SHINE," the second single from forthcoming album, MORBID ATARAXIA! Stream it below!
"In Disgust They Shine" will be out June 6 on all digital platforms.
Morbid Ataraxia, the band's fourth full-length album, releases June 27 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats via Willowtip Records!
In summing up the album's theme, the band notes that Morbid Ataraxia addresses "the oxymoronic nature of humanity." As one might expect, given the trail of corpses left from previous assaults, said theme is undergirded by PUTRIDITY's take-no-prisoners approach to brutal death metal.
No nonsense. No compromise.
Track
Listing:1. Prenatal Obituary
2. Mors Mater Nostra
3. In Disgust They Shine
4. Adipocere Retribution
5. Molten Mirrors Of The Subjugated
6. Morbid Ataraxia
7. Overflowing Mortal Smell
8. Immersed In The Spell Of Death
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/morbidataraxia-willowtip
https://bit.ly/morbidataraxia-bandcamp
Album Credits:
Morbid Ataraxia was recorded in 2024.
Guitars and bass reamped by Andy Testori at Street Rec Studio.
Mixed by Luca Minieri at Dissonant Studio.
Mastered at Hertz Studio.
Additional vocals on Rotted Divinity(Enmity cover) by Mikko Friberg from Torsofuck.
Cover artwork by Paolo Girardi. Inlay artwork by Caleb Diederich.
Layout by Paola Carraro.
All music by Putridity.
Line-up:
Andrea Piro - Vocals
Andrea PutridCiccio - Guitar/backing vocals
Manuel Lucchini - Guitar
Giancarlo Mendo - Bass
Cedric Malebolgia - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/PUTRIDITY.OFFICIAL
BRINICLE`S – “PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY” is an auditory exploration of consciousness, blending Groove and Technical Death Metal with world music and each member’s distinctive artistic vision. Built through a fully collaborative process, the album delivers a raw yet melodic balance, seamlessly shifting between pummeling intensity and expressive harmonies. Thematically, Perceptions of Reality is an invitation to reflect on the fleeting nature of existence, a concept woven through philosophical musings, personal experiences, and intricate storytelling. Each track serves as a mirror, challenging the listener to question, explore, and embrace their reality. With this release, Brinicle not only marks a new chapter in their artistic evolution but also cements their place as an innovative force in modern metal, pushing genre boundaries while staying true to their underground roots.
The digital album's release date is 20 June 2025.
Track
list1. Pandemic
2. Deep Trip
3. Almost Gods
4. Brinicle
5. Concept Of Destruction
6. Human Predation
7. Burning Slowly
8. Blink
Hailing from Bogotá, Colombia, Brinicle merges the raw power of Groove and Death Metal with world music
influences, creating a dynamic and thought-provoking sonic experience. Their lyrics, deeply inspired by literature and philosophy, elevate their music beyond mere aggression—offering listeners a journey through introspection and existential reflection.
Brinicle’s rhythmic foundation is built on groove-driven intensity and crushing death metal ferocity, while their melodies and harmonies—woven through guitars, vocals, and intricate instrumentation—flow seamlessly, shaped by the diverse musical backgrounds of each member. This fusion results in a sound that is more than just the sum of its parts—a visceral and cerebral experience that challenges the listener to think, feel, and awaken.
www.youtube.com/@BrinicleMetalBand
www.facebook.com/BrinicleMetal
Swedish horrorpunks LEFT HAND BLACK have unveiled the first single off their upcoming new album "LEFT HAND BLACK 3: DEATH CAN'T KEEP US APART" WHICH will be released via The Circle Music on 22 September in Transparent Blue Vinyl, Digi CD, and Digital formats.
Watch the video to the track “Murder on My Mind Again” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyspIybHdQs
Listen to the single via digital platforms: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/MurderOnMyMindAgain
The album is now available for pre-order via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=left-hand-black
Digital pre-save: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/DeathCantKeepUsApart
"Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" was recorded at Welfare Sounds studios in March 2024 by Per Stålberg and Kalle Lilja, who also produced the album alongside the band. The mixing was done by Per Stålberg, Kalle Lilja, and Mario Dahmen, and mastered by Mario Dahmen at Liquid Aether Audio. The album boasts guest appearances from Nim Vind, who lends his vocals and lead guitar prowess to the title track, "Death Can't Keep Us Apart" and Per Stålberg, who contributes guest vocals on "Why Do I Kill Everything I Love". Adding an eerie touch is Mario Dahmen on the organ for "Doomed Romance On A Summer Night".
The striking visual elements of the album are brought to life with layout design by Bernd Gunwald, the cover art by Frank Walls, and atmospheric band photos captured by Ola Åkerborn with assistance from Kyra Fiedler Wretmarks Foto.
The band said:
“We’re very proud of this album. We think we’ve succeeded in creating something new with the songs while still maintaining the same red thread as in our previous records. All the guys in the band make outstanding contributions, each leaving their unique mark on the songs. Hans sings better than ever. Anton's rhythmic drumming makes even the dead want to dance, Johan holds the foundation like the pillars of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Jonathan flutters on his guitar like a never-before-seen bird species from the depths of the Amazon.”
Tracklist:1. Murder on my mind again
2. I walk the city
3. Death can´t keep us apart
4. Damned love
5. Wolf's eye
6. Breeding ground for the lost souls
7. Doomed romance on a summer night
8. In the center of my heart
9. All these monsters
10. Six feet under ground
11. Each dawn I die
12. Divided by the pain
13. Why do I kill everything I love
14. Octopussy From Outer Space (Bonus Track)
Formed in the spring of 2019 on an island just outside Gothenburg, Left Hand Black brings together the formidable talents of Hans Hagström and Jonathan Jansson (formerly of The Dead Next Door) with Johan Hansson and Anton Zachrisson (from Overdrive Solution). Their sound is a potent brew of old-school melodic horror punk and rock, drawing inspiration from iconic bands such as Misfits, Ramones and Bad Religion.
Left Hand Black have carved a reputation with their previous releases: their self-titled debut in 2020 via Wolverine Records and their 2022 follow-up, "Lower Than Satan" through Sunny Bastard Records/Sick Taste Records. Now, with "Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" they aim to solidify their position as purveyors of infectious horror-infused punk anthems. As the band have declared: "We prove that we can write hits and are an insanely good live band that takes no prisoners and celebrates a hellish party with you in the graveyard."
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
https://linktr.ee/Lefthandblack
https://www.facebook.com/Lefthandblackhorrorpunk/
Italian Heavy Metal stalwarts METAL DETEKTOR finally reveal all about their next full "VIOLENCE AND PRIDE": the album, already anticipated by the single "Shadowrunner" ( https://www.notnoise.co/link/metal-detektor-shadowrunner), is scheduled to be released on June 20 in a limited CD edition on Rude Awakening Records.
FFO: Jag Panzer, Judas Priest, Accept...
“Violence and Pride” comes five years after the last full-length "The Battle of Daytona" and four years after the EP "Maximum Overdrive," continuing to explore the roots of pure Heavy Metal, while at the same time evolving the band's sound with more reflective writing and a narrative that becomes more intimate and personal. The whole album has been produced at renowned KK Recording Studio (Italy).
In the meantime, the new single 'Grendel Returns' has been released, revealing the more combative soul of the band and the album cover, created by the artist Mirko Cozza.
Tracklist:1.Sister Gone Mad
2. Grendel Returns
3. Shadowrunner
4. Violence and Pride
5. Kok Ború
6. Strongest Heart
7. Wild Frontier
8. Living for the Thrill
Pre-orders for “Violence and Pride” already active at rudeawakening.records@yahoo.com and the album will also be available on all major streaming platforms. A record set to bring back the glory of Heavy Metal!
https://linktr.ee/rudeawakeningrecords
https://www.facebook.com/DETECTINGMETAL
WRITTEN IN BLOOD – “ BLACK WIDOW WALPURGA”
Dutch death metal band WRITTEN IN BLOOD have unleashed their crushing new single “Black Widow Walpurga”, now available on all major streaming platforms.
Fans of Hypocrisy, Bolt Thrower, Unleashed, and God Dethroned will feel right at home with WRITTEN IN BLOOD’s intense and narrative-driven death metal.
The song is the first chapter of a brutal two-part concept based on the terrifying true story of Walpurga Hausmännin, a 16th-century midwife accused of witchcraft, demonic pacts, and the murder of over 40 children.
“With ‘Black Widow Walpurga,’ we wanted to bring this forgotten nightmare to
life through sound,” comments Beef, vocalist and bass player of WRITTEN
IN BLOOD. “The story is horrifying. It fits perfectly with the dark atmosphere
and heaviness we strive for in our music.”Driven by punishing riffs, guttural vocals, and tight, thunderous production, “Black Widow Walpurga” is a relentless blend of old-school death metal and chilling storytelling. The track was mixed and mastered by Henri Sattler (God Dethroned), giving the band’s sound a sharp and crushing edge.
“We put a lot of effort into the production to make sure every hit lands with full impact,” says Beef. “This is one of our most intense tracks to date.”
The song closes with a slow, haunting section, deliberately setting the stage for part two of the story. The second part will be featured on the band’s upcoming full-length album.
“This is just chapter one,” the band adds. “The second part will take Walpurga’s tale to its bitter, gruesome end.”
Formed in 2019 by former members of God Dethroned and Mandator, WRITTEN IN BLOOD was later joined by ex-members of Morte Aeterna and Procreation. The band draws from the spirit of classic 90s death metal, blending it with themes from myth, folklore, and ancient history to create an atmospheric yet crushing sound.
Their debut album “Written in Blood” (2022) received strong praise from the European metal press. Rock Hard (DE) described it as “rough, dark, abysmal,” while Rock Tribune (BE) called it “excellent song material that sounds overwhelming and heavy.”
WRITTEN IN BLOOD are:
Bert "Beef" Hoving – Bass & Vocals
Marcel Heutink – Rhythm Guitar
Jeffrey Zwart – Lead Guitar
Jos Eggens – Drums
https://writteninblood.nl/
https://www.facebook.com/bloodwritten/
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: August 8th 2025
Genre: Technical Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Deeds Of Flesh |In Asymmetry | Incinerate
In his ravenous pursuit of the essence of wickedness he has incinerated even the cold ashes of his empathy and become a scientist, an artist, in his dedication to the instigation of absolute despair in others. With his soulless yet remarkably creative invention he has invoked revelatory levels of agony and raging flames of torment beyond imagining. He has meticulously aroused states of being in his subjects wherein the memory of mere pain becomes a dream, an unattainable nirvana. And with each bloody step along his path he calls out to the powers he reveres – notice me, elevate me, transform me – but as yet, they remain silent.
Darren Cesca, drummer with Goratory, Eschaton and previously Deeds Of Flesh, has returned with the second album from his unconscionably brutal solo project, Cytolysis. Surge Of Cruelty is constructed from eleven sonic acts of torture, where twisted technicality and methodical precision collide with frenzied explosions of fury and unnerving alien atmospheres. From the psychotic dissection of opening gambit, ‘Your Slow Demise’, the listener is led ever deeper into an inescapable labyrinth of terror. An arcane aura bleeds through the cracks between the devilish riffs of the title track, ‘Surge Of Cruelty’, while ‘A Blood Soaked Offering’, featuring a shockingly inhuman guest vocal performance from Brian Forgue (Syphilic etc), is relentless, merciless in its stabbing assault. Forgue is not the only guest vocalist, with throat ripping contributions also being made by Adam Mason of Goratory, Mac Smith of Apogean and Eschaton and Flo Butcher of Tortured and Vile infamy. Perhaps the most intense and scarring track though is delivered by Cesca alone; saved til last ‘Hung From The Rafters’ ensures that an indelible mark is left on the consciousness, a wound that will never heal, suppurating in the mind through every passing day.
Surge Of Cruelty was also mixed and mastered by Darren Cesca – a role he has fulfilled for the likes of In Asymmetry, Pillory and Goratory – and the overwhelming force, intricate riffs and deep, destructive bass tones have been captured perfectly. Adorned in the hypnotically horrifying artwork of Vladimir Cebakov (Six Feet Under, 1914, DeadHead etc), that taps directly into the vein of vicious indifference that pulses beneath the cold skin of Surge Of Cruelty, this second barbaric testament from Cytolysis will be unleashed by Comatose Music on August 8th. Prepare to be flattened by this shuddering juggernaut of torment!
Line-up:
Darren Cesca – all music and vocals
guest vocals on:-
Devout Sacrifice by Mac Smith
A Blood-Soaked Offering by Brian Forgue
Tortured Flesh by Adam Mason
Mark of the Demons by Flo Butcher
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/darren.cesca
Label: Pitch Black Records
Release date: June 20th 2025
Genre: Epic Heavy Metal
For fans of: Iron Maiden | Manowar | Doomsword | Omen
Line-up:
Kostas Tokas - Vocals
Stathis Pavlantis - Guitars
John Litinakis - Bass
Giorgos Pavlantis - Drums
*additional orchestration by Kostas Rekleitis
Track-list:01 - Only The Swords Survive
02 - The Battles I Have Won
03 - Lord Of The Wind
04 - Sirens’ Song
05 - Once Again (Crime In The Valley Of Death)
06 - Celestial War
07 - March Of The Argonauts
08 - Lady In The Water
09 - City Walls Of Malta – The Great Siege
It has been eight years since Reflection released their last album, Bleed Babylon Bleed, but now the Greek champions of epic heavy metal have returned! The silence is shattered by the sound of thunder as The Battles I Have Won comes galloping out of the darkness. True legends of the Greek heavy metal scene, Reflection have been active for more than three decades and unveiled their debut album, The Fire Still Burns back in 1999. The band still feature founding member, guitarist Stathis Pavlantis and his brother George Pavlantis who hammered the drums of doom on The Fire Still Burns and has been the rhythm master for Reflection ever since. With their comrades in blood and battle, long standing bassist John Litinakis and magnificent new vocalist Kostas Tokas (who made a guest appearance on the track ‘Stormbringer’ from Bleed Babylon Bleed), the Pavlantis brothers have delivered what will surely come to be regarded as Reflection’s finest album to date.
A first track from The Battles I Have Won was revealed at the beginning of March and ‘Lord Of The Wind’ was met with a rapturous response from fans who watched the unveiling of its accompanying lyric video. Full of drama and emotion, with breathtaking guitar work and an irresistible chorus, ‘Lord Of The Wind’ is the epitome of heroic heavy metal – and yet it is just a glimpse of all that The Battles I Have Won has to offer. From the searing energy of exhilarating opener, ‘Only The Swords Survive’ through to the Homeric majesty and narrative mastery of the concluding ‘City Walls Of Malta – The Great Siege’, The Battles I Have Won scales so many towering peaks. The pride and passion of the album’s stunning title track, the dark, beguiling melodies of ‘Sirens’ Song’, the inspiring, heart-lifting adventure of ‘March Of The Argonauts’…every song is a highlight in its own right and The Battles I Have Won is a paradise for those whose hearts still burn with the flame of heavy metal.
Every aspect of The Battles I Have Won has been carefully curated to form part of the band’s overall vision for this, their magnum opus. The orchestration work by Kostas Rekleitis has brought additional depth and atmosphere to each tale as it unfolds, the spectacular cover artwork created by Alexandros Vasilopoulos (Battleroar etc) draws the listener into Reflection’s world of myth, legend and history, while the sound captured by the band’s own Stathis Pavlantis at Dark Water Audio (Marauder, Achelous, Power Crue, Darklon etc) is warm and richly textured, vibrant, vital and alive! Selected members of the Greek media were treated to a pre-release listen to the album on April 13th and soon the world will know why they were so excited by what they heard!
On June 20th Reflection will return to the field of conflict with The Battles I Have Won. Pitch Black Records will release the album on CD and digital formats, while Vinylstore.gr will present a vinyl edition – with special vinyl mastering, under exclusive license from Pitch Black Records.
https://www.pitchblackrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/reflectiongr/
BRUTAL RECORDS proudly welcomes SODOMIC BAPTISM, the unstoppable force of Belarusian Death Metal, to our roster! Their latest sonic assault, "CONTRA CHRISTUM," unleashes nine relentless tracks of crushing brutality, technical precision, and pure death metal devastation.
Release Date: June 20, 2025 Available Worldwide – Digital via The Orchard & Physical Formats
Prepare for obliteration as Sodomic Baptism delivers their most ferocious and uncompromising release yet! Stay tuned for exclusive previews, merch drops, and brutal updates!
One of Belarus’ most relentless and uncompromising forces in death metal, SODOMIC BAPTISM, returns with their full-length offering, Contra Christum. Steeped in the essence of true Satanic brutal metal, this album is a furious assault of technical precision, unyielding brutality, and apocalyptic atmosphere.
With Contra Christum, the band refuses to abandon their old-school roots, yet they push their sound into darker, more unrelenting extremes. Balancing savage, high-speed offensives with calculated, crushing sections, the album delivers both pure aggression and sophisticated composition. Tracks like Posthumous Rebirth and Adepts of Chaos accelerate into blistering chaos, while doomy passages inject a brooding, sinister weight. This isn’t just extremity for extremity’s sake—it’s calculated devastation, executed with precision.
Fans of relentless, technical, and oppressive death metal will find Contra Christum to be an essential listen. This is a record that reveals its darkest nuances with every play—fearsome, powerful, and utterly consuming.
Watch now: The official music video for "Adepts of Chaos", a crushing track from SODOMIC BAPTISM’s upcoming album Contra Christum, exclusively on Brutal Records' YouTube channel!
About SODOMIC BAPTISM
Formed in 2014 by Alexis and Alex Tetin, the band was built on themes of Metaphysical Evil, Hell, Darkness, and Chaos. For SODOMIC BAPTISM, Satan is not just a symbol of rebellion but the embodiment of freedom, justice, and infinite knowledge. Their music is an exploration of the abyss—a confrontation with the self beyond servitude and blind faith.
Discography:
Black Fire Pandemonium (2014) – EP
Womb Ov Sheol (2017) – Split
Black Fire Pandemonium (2017) – Full-length
Contra Christum (2025) – Full-length
Tracklist1. Antipsalm: Purification Inthrough Antichrist
2. Posthumous Rebirth
3. Bloody Redemption
4. LCF
5. The Witches Laughter
6. Adepts of Chaos
7. Belial: The Path to Knowledge of the Abyss
8. Resurrection Outhrough Renunciation of Grace
9. The Transcendence of Existence
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://www.youtube.com/@sodomic_baptism
https://www.facebook.com/SodomicBaptism/
"Suppressed Horror“ – roh, unheilig und ungezähmt! Das
Biest erwacht! Mit "SUPPRESSED HORROR“ veröffentlicht DARK
INDICATION am 27. Juni 2025 ihr Debütalbum – kompromisslos, düster und
unheilig. Acht Tracks, die tief in die Abgründe des Menschseins blicken und ein
klangliches Inferno entfesseln, das irgendwo zwischen Verzweiflung und Wut
oszilliert. Dieses Album ist mehr als Musik – es ist ein Horror-Theaterstück
für die Ohren.Nach intensiven Monaten der Isolation und harter Studioarbeit manifestiert sich das Ergebnis in einem Sound, der klassischen Death Metal konsequent weiterdenkt: old-school Brutalität trifft auf moderne Einflüsse, durchsetzt mit einer diabolischen Prise Groove. Das Ergebnis: unverkennbar DARK INDICATION!
Produziert wurde das Album gemeinsam mit den Flatliners in Ingolstadt, das finale Sound-Finishing übernahm Tobias Schill Media. Für das Artwork zeichnet Jason De Nisi vom Handwerk Tattoo Studio Ingolstadt verantwortlich – düster, verstörend und perfekt zum Klangbild passend.
"Das Album spiegelt wider, was in vielen von uns brodelt – das Unausgesprochene, das Unverarbeitete. Wir haben das in Sound gegossen.“ – Michael Slavitski (Rhythmusgitarre)
Der Titeltrack "Suppressed Horror“ entstand in einer Zeit innerer Zerrissenheit, persönlicher Kämpfe und gesellschaftlicher Abgründe. Isolation, psychische Belastung und der Drang, all das kreativ zu verarbeiten, prägen das gesamte Werk. Die Texte sind gespickt mit Symbolik, beeinflusst von H. P. Lovecraft und durchdrungen von nihilistischer Lyrik.
"Es ist Musik gegen die Ohnmacht.“ – Jonas Liebl (Vocals)
Die Release-Show findet am 26. Juli 2025 im Basement (Großmehring bei Ingolstadt) statt – gemeinsam mit GUTFUCK, DEATH IN FICTION und FEACES CHRIST. Ein Abend voller Energie, Härte und Atmosphäre, an dem die ungezügelte Wucht von "Suppressed Horror“ der Menschheit unauslöschlich ins Gedächtnis gebrannt wird!
https://www.facebook.com/DarkIndication
Hungarian Death Metal juggernaut SIN OF GOD has unleashed their ferocious new album “BLOOD BOUND”, now available on CD and digital via Pest Records and Metal Ör Die Records.
Grab your copy here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sin-of-god-blood-bound
A sonic onslaught of apocalyptic proportions, "Blood Bound" is a seven-track conceptual descent into the most harrowing corners of the human psyche. With unrelenting riffs, guttural precision, and lyrics steeped in vengeance, spiritual collapse, and existential dread, this album reaffirms Sin Of God's place among the fiercest forces in Eastern European Death Metal.
Tracks like "The Unbelief", "Cerebral Malfunction", and "Black Waves" confront listeners with both musical devastation and philosophical weight, while the title track "Blood Bound" stands as a manifesto of rage and resistance.
Mastermind Tamás Schupkégel delivers an intense lyrical journey through personal, spiritual, and societal ruin, elevating the album beyond brutality into an experience of transformation and catharsis.
Album Details
Release Date: May 19, 2025
Format: CD / Digital
Labels: Pest Records / Metal Ör Die Rex
Music: Sin Of God
Lyrics: Tamás Schupkégel
Recording Studio: Denevér Hangstúdió, Hungary
Tracklist:1. Blood Bound
2. Black Waves
3. No Return
4. The Unbelief
5. Diabolical Agitation
6. Obolus
7. Cerebral Malfunction
Prepare for a descent into darkness, Sin Of God have returned, and they are Blood Bound.
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French Chaotic Hardcore Powerhouse BTK Unleashes New Video “FÉTIDE” from 'SAUVAGERIE' album .
FFO : All Pigs Must Die, Converge, Napalm Death, Sect, Trap Them...
Out
now on CD, LP, K7 & Digital via Breathe Plastic, Dahlia Noir Records & The Hills Are Dead..With nine tracks of relentless aggression and bleak, visceral narratives, Sauvagerie cements BTK’s place as a dominant force in the underground hardcore scene.
The album is available now on CD, with LP, tape, and digital releases coming this fall via Breathe Plastic Records, Dahlia Noir Records, and The Hills Are Dead Records. It is also available for full and heavy streaming on Bandcamp.
...For the record...
BTK (Bind Torture Kill) is a chaotic hardcore trio from Lyon, France, formed in 2010. Consisting of a drummer, guitarist, and screamer, the band originally started with a bassist but transitioned into a trio in 2015 after several lineup changes. Known for their love of heavy, chaotic sound, BTK delivers intense performances with French lyrics often narrating the grim tales of serial killers and violent crimes.
In 2013, they self-released their debut EP, and in 2015, they followed up with their first album, Condamné. By 2018, their second album, Viscères, was released through WOOAAARGH! (Germany), Troffea (France/Switzerland), and Hell-J Industries (France). With Viscères, the band's sound took on a heavier edge, using a guitar setup routed through three amps—two guitar amps and a bass amp enhanced with an octaver pedal to create a more massive, dense sound.
Over time, their style shifted from a blend of death and mathcore to a darker, chaotic hardcore infused with punk, crust, grind, and black metal influences.
In 2023, BTK recorded their third album, Sauvagerie, at Warmaudio in Décines, with mastering handled by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East, Boston. Maintaining the same guitar setup, but adding the HM2 pedal, the album marks a significant evolution in their sound. Sauvagerie is darker and more brutal, featuring a dirtier tone, faster tempos, and a relentless mix of aggressive breaks and crushing riffs, highlighting the band's raw, savage energy.
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The Gothic Doom Metal band HYLDR from Belgium just released a premiere video on Youtube for Tattered Lanterns. A unique acoustic performance in a very special place, the Natural History Museum of Tournai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bTVaTQeDh0
Formed in 2021 whose music focuses on an ethereal approach to morbid themes.The name HYLDR is a reference to a valkyrie that one character wishes she could
become in a book written by singer Lady IX. That book is used as a template for song concepts and is about a Japanese woman who ends up in the middle of a viking turmoil. In that story there are elements of the supernatural combined with doses of Greek tragedy.
Visually, the band intrigues. Dressed in a black kimono, masked, Lady IX comments :
“The mask has been a transitional process. The half mask is practical for singing, while also being a gateway to the story of Kyoko and the Norsemen; reality and fantasy all in one.”
The first album ‘ORDER OF THE MIST’ was released on Malpemesita Records.
Hyldr unveils a unique acoustic performance, filmed inside the Natural History Museum of Tournai.
LadyIX welcomes the band, sings with them… then poisons them.Their final form?
Preserved and displayed—forever part of the collection.This session features ‘Tattered Lanterns’, the acoustic reimagining of our song ‘Like Dying Ferns’.
A dark and intimate version of the Hyldr's music, recorded in a place where time stands still. With the kind support ofChristophe & Lucy – Natural History Museum and Vivarium of Tournai.
Additional footage by CaroPictures of band members by Metallic TV and Tastoux.
The Hyldr’s debut album Order of the Mist is still available on all streaming platforms and available Malpermesita’s shop: https://malpermesita.shop/product/hyldr-order-of-the-mist
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oviDQkkvOtA
The band explained that "The Grim Reaper's Tears" delves into the intricate emotions and internal conflict of Death personified as the Grim Reaper. The lyrics explore a character often feared and misunderstood, portraying him as empathetic despite being the harbinger of death. The song depicts him feeling the sorrow and anguish of those whose lives he claims, silently observing the devastation of war with deep sadness as he guides fallen souls to the afterlife.
The new album from When Nothing Remains is set to explore the complexities of contemporary life through a series of interconnected stories, with each song offering a unique narrative.
When Nothing Remains is a Swedish doom/death metal band with members from bands
such as Nox Aurea, The Cold Existence, Rimfrost, Draconian, Doom: VS.The When Nothing Remains idea was born in late 2010 when Peter Laustsen and Jan Sallander wanted to create something very dark and emotional. In 2011, Jonas Toxen jumped in for the drums and Johan Ericson "Draconian, Doom VS, Shadowgarden" for the clean vocals, mixing and mastering.
Their first album “As All Torn Asunder” was released in 2012 on the Russian label Solitude Productions, followed by “Thy Dark Serenity” (2013) and In “Memoriam” (2016).
In 2024 the band signed with The Circle Music for the release of their new album "Echoes of Eternal Night". This album has a darker approach than previous albums, but can still be recognised as a When Nothing Remains album.
When Nothing Remains line-up
Peter Laustsen: Guitar, Lead guitar, Bass, Recording, Mixing and Mastering
Jan Sallander: All Vocals, Rhythm guitar, Orchestral and Lyrics
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Technical death metal band Eschaton's highly awaited new album is out now and streaming on all platforms. It's one of those rare cases where the glorified lineup does justice to the quality of music - it's actually damn good. The album is has been extremely well received in the press as well as by the fans all over, with many deeming it one of the albums of the year. The full album stream can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en2iAZVkYz4
ESCHATON– “TECHTALITARIAN”
Technical
death metal band Eschaton return after a gap of six years with a
reinvigorated, star-studded line-up that undoubtedly elevates their sound to
hitherto unexplored heights. They have none other than Christian Münzner
formerly of Obscura and Necrophagist accompanying the band
founder Josh Berry on guitars. For the vocals, they have enlisted the services
of Mac Smith of Apogean and Abyssalis and for the bass,
they have brought on Scott Bradly from Inanimate Existence while
Darren Cesca of Pillory and formerly in Deeds of Flesh and Arsis continues
to hold down the fort on drums. Most importantly, this line-up sounds just as
devastating on this album as it does on paper. They have contributed to
creating a tech death album that can stand on its own and does not have to be
necessarily pitted against any of the aforementioned bands' past efforts. The
members excel in their own specialized ways and they manage to make it work. It is meticulously and passionately put together which is all too apparent in the music that can be dizzyingly fast and mind-bogglingly technical but also groovy and memorable while being on the whole diverse yet dynamic and pulsating with energy. It is not just music meant for the tech death fans; it is music that will invariably get them excited. As such, this should be regarded as an landmark album in the style, with the presence of the illustrious members in the lineup not taking away from the irrefutable fact that this is indeed great tech death music.
Line up
Mac Smith - Vocals (Apogean, Abyssalis, Hammer of Dawn)
Christian Muenzner - Lead Guitar (Retromorphosis, Eternity's End, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Obscura, ex-Alkaloid)
Josh Berry - Guitar (Eschaton founder)
Darren Cesca - Drums (Goratory, Serpents of Gnosis, Pillory, Ex-Deeds of Flesh, Ex-Arsis)
Scott Bradley - Bass (Inanimate Existence)
Artwork by Dave Melvin
Track listing
1. Inferior Superior
2. Devour the Contrarian
3. Blood of the People
4. Hellfire's Woe
5. The Bellicose Duality
6. Econocracy
7. Antimatter
8. Techtalitarian
9. The Sufferer's Dichotomy
10. Castle Strnad
Release date - May 30th, 2025
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Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: August 29th 2025
Genre: Metalcore
For fans of: Killswitch Engage | Times Of Grace | Bleeding Through | Refiner
We surround ourselves with vast empty vessels; stone edifices without meaning, structures of steel and glass that strive to pierce the azure blue perfection of the firmament. Challenging, defying, honouring nothing but our own self perceived greatness and worth, our destructive dominion over the Earth. Like enraged children driven by raw emotion we scream out our demands and expectations, building our towers, our weapons, our resource sapping follies…our monuments to nothing.
Featuring the combined talents of American musician Corey Stiles and Dutch vocalist and musician Arnaud Zijp, Exoneration is a metalcore project that spans oceans and continents. They were signed by Rottweiler Records at the beginning of December 2024, contributing a track to the label’s customary selection of festive singles and are now ready to unveil their colossal debut full length album, Monuments to Nothing. Opening with the squirming, snarling riffs and supremely aggressive vocal attack of ‘The Abyss We Crown’, a song that grows as it progresses, adding layers and dimensions, threads of melody, Exoneration set their stall out straight away; Monuments To Nothing is going to offer a multitude of different elements and emotions, but when it’s heavy it’s going to hurt! Following the choral vocals of ‘Psalm 115’ first single ‘Basilisk’, featuring a guest appearance from fellow metalcore performer Candlebearer, seems to hit twice as hard. It’s immediate, effective, intense and furious with some slower sections that absolutely crush. Another of the album’s finest tracks though is ‘Soul Of A Great Warrior’ – which utilises a very different sonic palette. A fascinating instrumental, ‘Soul Of A Great Warrior’ brings together huge bass tones, exhilarating solos, sublime sections of tranquil melody and passages of absolutely pulverizing power. These contrasts of sound, this willingness to spread their wings and soar over different landscapes is what gives Exoneration their particular identity and individual sound. From the muscular force of ‘Thorn’ with its incredibly visceral screams to the rich, melody infused riffs of ‘Martyr’, with its huge chorus, there are many faces to this monument to nothing.
Rottweiler Records will release Monuments To Nothing on August 29th, housed in the portentous artwork of Barnaby Oakley (Reaper, Underking etc) and the international alliance of Exoneration is sure to make waves throughout the global metalcore scene. Exoneration’s stated goal is to deliver “a sound that’s as diverse as it is uncompromising” and they have achieved that in no uncertain terms. Be ready to open your mind to a metalcore listening experience that’s prepared to step outside the lines and offer something different.
Line-up:
Corey Stiles – Guitar, programming, vocals
Arnaud Zijp – Vocals, programming
guest vocals on ‘Basilisk’ by Candlebearer
guest vocals on ‘Where Else Should We Go’ by Hillyn
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Genre : Melodic Doom MetalFFO: Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Wolfheart, Gaerea.
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music | May 30th 2025
Melodic doomsters LA CERVA unveil their first self-titled effort. The EP consists in three tunes.
The line-up features Daniele Porfido - of Dismal fame - and shows the qualities of a songwriting dark and pensive, but always focused on melody. Through the somber atmospheres the listener can also recognize some touches of contemporary black metal and classic melodeath. La Cerva is already currently working on a full album to be released during 2026 and setting up their live campaign for selected events.
Sale points:
A solid backbone of 90's Melodic/Gothic Doom in the vein of "The Peaceville Three";
Melodic finishing touches coming from finnish melodic death metal and modern black metal;
With Daniele Porfido from Dismal (Aural Music);
Tracklist:
1. Cosmic Down
2. New Eclipse
3. Stardust
Artwork and Logo by Aram Kalaydijan
La Cerva is:
Dani P. - guitars
Steve Pan - vocals
Stefano D.L. – bass
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MURDER RECORDS is honored to present VULTÜR, a young band freshly exhumed at the unholy cemeteries from Milan in Italy.
VULTÜR present a voracious butcher's symphony, where we can be devoured by a unleashing raw power with a relentless energy, fusing the elements of Thrash Death Metal embraced with the fury of Hardcore, duly forged in a sonic storm that will leave you breathless and that intends to dismember us with the sharped blades swings without mercy.
The atrocious tombs are already open, where the bleeding flesh starting releasing the nauseating odors to announces VULTÜR's debut EP entitled "Necrophagy", which will feature with five decompositions, duly moldy in the fetid underworld and where our cadaver can slowly rot inside the coffin in this necrophilic ritual that Murder Records is preparing and that will be served on the funeral altar to feed the cadaveric worms with our filthy rotten remains.
Deadly Perversion On... Wish You Well Off...
VULTÜR - "NECROPHAGY"MCD Limited to 300 copies
Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Labyrinyh Of The Lost Souls [1:33]
02 - Necrophagy [3:34]
03 - Prison Of Flesh [4:55]
04 - Vein Cutters [3:14]
05 - The Butcher's Simphony [3:54]
Lyrics writen by Fabio Valsecchi.
Mixing and mastering by Riccardo Massa.
Logo made by Riccardo Massa.
Cover artwork by Fabio Fontana.
Recordings and work supervision by Morgan Segatore.
Space provider at CSA Baraonda by Francesco Giorgi.
VULTÜR photographs by Marco Pasqua.
Lyric video made by Danihell Slaughter.
Layout for CD and Cassette made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional flyers made by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter.
VULTÜR Line-Up
Buck Motorlungs (Vocals)
Rick Massa (Lead Guitar)
Will Fimbulvinter (Rhythmic Guitar)
Rick Cadaverous (Drums)
Andrea Bini (Bass)
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CASSETTE = €8.00
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MCD + T-SHIRT = €23.00
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The song is about the devastating train crash in Greece on February 2023, showing the chaos, loss, and heartbreak that followed. It’s a harsh reminder of how greed, apathy, and incompetence can lead to tragedies. The lyrics capture the feeling of trying to hold on to hope while everything around you falls apart. It paints a vivid picture of the human cost of neglect and those in power who don’t care, asking for help when everything feels like it’s too late.
Born in 2023, Dreadmask arose from a collective passion for crafting heavy music with a purpose. Based in Eindhoven and composed of members from Greece, Hungary, and the Netherlands, the band channels personal and societal struggles into their music. Their name, Dreadmask, symbolizes the battle against fear and the facades we construct to navigate a tumultuous world.
Dreadmask’s EP, Thy Prime Dread, explores existential dread and human resilience, delivering a blend of crushing riffs, haunting melodies, and poignant lyricism. With influences ranging from Swedish death metal and blackened melancholy to progressive elements, Dreadmask is carving a unique space in the metal scene.
Meet Dreadmask:
Zoltan Herczog (Rhythm Guitar, Backing vocals)
John Kourentas (Lead Guitar, Keys)
Antonios Mougiakakos (Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar)
Elger Van Delft (Drums)
Stream Thy Prime Dread EP: https://orcd.co/thyprimedread
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DEFYING
DANGER
news : Metal-Mania at the Headquarters! Hello folks, DEHUMAN REIGN'S new
album ‘DAWN OF A MALEFIC DOMINION’, which will be
released on July 25, 2025 is now available for Pre-order in our shop!We have the RED VINYL version (limited to 100 copies, incl. patch!) and the TAPE version (limited to 200 copies) for you!
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DAMAGE DEVICE are
back with a new single, and this latest track is titled "BIQUEIRA
D'AÇO".This pure and hard single by Damage Device, served with a blast of Thrash Metal with Punk claw, brings back lyrics in Portuguese.
The lyrics are the fictional account of the father of a child victim of pedophilia who, knowing that the law will release the predator in a few years to attack again, this father kidnaps the predator and gives him a strong lesson in pain for an indefinite period of time.
This "Biqueira d'Aço" is the second track in a trilogy of singles, which began with 'Hammer Justice' in 2024, and the lyrics are inspired by the Argentine film "The Secret in Their Eyes".
The third and final track in this trilogy around the same theme will be released soon.
This brawl will feature the participation and debut of Damage Device in an official song by drummer Luís Moreira, who is also the drummer for the bands Warout and Nihility.
The recording, editing, mixing and mastering were carried out by producer Tiago Alves at his Waveyard Studio, located on Terceira Island, Azores.
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Guitarist Jaakko Hautamäki comments:
"Niko kindly suggested to Joni that we should have a "pumping song" so it wouldn't get cold on stage. I looked at my phone to see what the hell this was about. Joni had written the song and Niko immediately wrote the lyrics. Pepe was allowed to record the drums exactly as he wanted, as long as they matched Joni's demo tracks made by mouse. I tried to participate in the project by adding massive synth sections to the song. In the end there was only one left, but I had to do something. Töle had been complaining for years that the songs could be a bit more challenging. Joni relented and immediately added two bass solos to the song. Niko also surprised everyone with his kindness by giving Töle a record amount of backing vocals, some of which were even solo parts. So there you have it, and the main thing is that the bassist now has something fun to do at gigs."
Listen to Decimation single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/progeny-of-sun-decimation
Biography:
In the beginning, Progeny of Sun was a two-man band formed by Jaakko Hautamäki and Niko Aromaa. Jaakko was responsible for the instrumentals, mixing, and mastering, while Niko handled the vocals, lyrics, visuals, etc.
The songs Jaakko introduced were very versatile. Some had speed, some were slow, some painted a picture with their atmosphere, and some were more straightforward bangers. Despite the diversity in style, everything worked exceptionally well in tandem, and from this premise, the band started to develop and pave its own way forward. To start with, Progeny of Sun created a 6-song self-titled EP and discovered that their music was met with great reception. The duo behind the band did all the mixing, mastering, videos, and artwork themselves. The project as a whole was very fun and rewarding to work on.
After the EP release, Jaakko and Niko began to think that something more was still needed. They still had a burning desire to spread their music around the world, but with just two people, it would have been impossible.
Subsequently, Jaakko found two local musicians from the Seinäjoki area: Joni Kiviniemi (guitar) and Juha Peura (drums). Joni and Juha were initially brought on board just to offer their vision and play their assigned instruments for new material. Soon, however, it began to feel like they were part of the family, and so it was decided that they would become full-fledged members of the squad and a part of the band's story. Not long after, Tuomo Tolkki (bass) was also welcomed to join, and in a matter of a few months, the full lineup was formed.
The first release with the full lineup, a 3-track EP 'Dark Wanderer', was released in 2021. Next in line were the single releases ‘Worthless’ and ‘Anguish’, which were released in 2022. Thanks to the aforementioned experimental phase, Progeny of Sun has gained self-confidence and started to understand its own identity. The band worked hard on the debut album ‘Throne of Desolation’, which was released at the end of 2023. Progeny of Sun's second album 'Prophets of the Void' will be released in September 2025. Following their debut album, the band has identified their strengths, which are utilized and showcased even more prominently on the second album.
Watch music video of the first single Penance: https://youtu.be/RYQIPCZ1Q-8
Progeny of Sun - Prophets of the Void (Album 2025)
Track list:1. Swarmspawn
2. Penance
3. Worldstone
4. Decimation
5. Colonus
6. Lifeless Light
7. Sun and Moon
8. Circle of Keres
9. Diary Ender
10. Deface
11. Rain for Discouraged
12. Forsaken Brigade
Mixed by Jaakko Hautamäki
Mastered by Jonathan Mazzeo
Album cover by Joni Kiviniemi & Niko Aromaa
Line-up:
Niko Aromaa - Vocals
Jaakko Hautamäki - Guitar
Joni Kiviniemi - Guitar
Tuomo Tolkki - Bass
Juha Peura – Drums
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For fans of : Abigor, Belphegor, Dark Funeral, Dead Congregation, Deicide, Emperor, Hate, Infestdead, Krisiun, Marduk, Morbid Angel, Necrophobic, Vital Remains and Watain.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcomes KING to the roster with the new album K! Originally formed in 2005, created in Medellín, Colombia, KING performs unrelenting and crushing Death/Black Metal. After four years on anticipation, K continues the band's legacy of total devastation and sonic aggression, but also showcases a musical maturity that reflects both their evolution and the spiritual depth of its members. KING unleashes 11 tracks on K, perfectly blending darkness and power, with a musical approach that explores new sonic dimensions without losing the brutality they are known for... inviting the listener on a deep journey through the chaos and reflection that define its creators.
Tracklisting:1. The Gathering
2. I-I
3. K-II
4. The Black Mass Or The Lahar
5. Death's Cold Wind
6. Dying Heart
7. Nine Angels Blazes
8. Only Ashes Remain (Dead Congregation cover)
9. Una Tormenta
10. K-I
11. I-II
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Tracklist
1 · 1984 (Crumbs for the Poors)
2 · Sociofobia
3 - Julgamento
4 · Entropia
5 · Vengeance
6 · Nada
7 · Simpatia
8 · Veneno
9 · O Cego e o Orgulho
10 · Distopia
11 · Black Bodies Bleeds
12 · O Ovo da Serpente
13 · Porcos da Mentira
NADA: Uncompromising, Unrelenting, Unfiltered
Formed in 2020 in the interior of São Paulo, NADA emerged as a response to the growing social and political turmoil in Brazil. With the pandemic forcing them into isolation, the band used their time to craft a sound that is as raw and urgent as the reality they face.
Driven by the rise of the extreme right and the spread of fascism and denialism in Brazil, NADA channels their rage into fast, direct, and unapologetic music. Their hard-hitting riffs and no-nonsense lyrics aim at the injustices plaguing their country, blending social critique with deeply personal reflections.
After making their mark with a blistering self-titled debut EP in 2022, featuring five uncompromising tracks, the band is now set to unleash their most powerful statement yet: Entropia.
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https://nadathrashcrossover.bandcamp.com/album/entropia
Formed in 2018, Italy’s TEMPTRESS was founded by members of BUNKER 66, Children of Technology, Gargoyle, and Boia with the intent of giving free rein to their passion for the dreamiest and most melancholic heavy metal bands of the ‘80s – cult names such as Proud and Randy as well as the eternal Heavy Load and Gotham City, among others – without forgetting the darkness of such masters as Mercyful Fate, all seasoned with a genuine obsession for catchy and melodic choruses. Their journey into dreams began with the two-song The Orb 7” for DYING VICTIMS in 2019, which was later compiled onto the label’s Dying Victims vol. 2: Heavy Metal Attack CD collection in 2023.
Now, the sleepers have awoken, and arrive from dreamland bearing their debut album: Catch the Endless Dawn. Truly titled, Catch the Endless Dawn sees
TEMPTRESS moving measuredly, daresay silkily, across soft-haze heavy metal high on moody melody, brisk but never busy in their gait. The band’s muse is most definitely OLD metal, but there’s subtlety and an almost-hushed sense of class to their songwriting and execution that elevates the record beyond the skinny-headband & flares hordes: the former always seems pensive even when the mid-tempo pulse picks up into a relatively reined-in gallop, and the latter similarly utilizes restraint in its favor whilst conveying the requisite amount of energy. Likewise, while the realm of dreams runs parallel to the realm of fantasy, TEMPTRESS possess a palatably more delicate side compared to the D&D side of traditional metal, (dream)weaving something both emotional and hypnotic – truly, the “Dream Metal” of which they so sing here. Thus, the aforementioned influences are apt, but so are the likes of early ‘80s Rainbow, April Wine, or even Blue Öyster Cult’s unsung dream-classic Club Ninja. Wake up and Catch the Endless Dawn!
Line-up:
D. Reemer - Bass
F. Blade - Guitars
M. Dee - Vocals, Drums
From Sicily, Italy
Artwork:
Samuele_Scalise
Release date:
25th July 2025
Tracklist1 Beneath the Waves of Fantasia / Breathe the Dust of Time
2 Dream Metal
3 Woman of the Dark
4 Catch the Endless Dawn
5 Awake the Enchanter
6 Fears like Towers
7 Nightflight over Dreamland
8 She's Cold
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on ultra clear vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
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Belgian death metal force WOUND COLLECTOR has
inked a worldwide deal with Wormholedeath Records for the release of their sophomore
album. More info coming soon!Renowned for their audacious fusion of brutal death metal and avant-garde saxophone, the band carves a unique niche alongside acts like Nile and Imperial Triumphant, delivering relentless aggression with an unorthodox twist.
Formed in 2015 by saxophonist/composer Peter Verdonck (Thelema Trio, Ambrassband), WOUND COLLECTOR merges technical death metal with haunting saxophone melodies, defying genre conventions. The current lineup—Guy Van Campenhout (7-string guitar), Stijn Deldaele (bass), and Nico Veroeven (drums)—continues to push boundaries, building on a legacy that includes 2020’s Depravity (featuring Aeon’s Tommy Dahlströhm) and 2023’s self-released EP Begging For Chicxulub.
The debut album, Eternal Bloodcult, was released in 2018 via Profane Records, cementing the band’s reputation for unrelenting intensity and innovation.
Having shared stages with Brujeria, Cattle Decapitation, and The Monolith Deathcult, the band continues to electrify audiences with their visceral live performances
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present IRON SPELL’S highly anticipated second album, FROM THE GRAVE, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Santiago, Chile’s IRON SPELL was founded in mid-2013 by drummer and composer Felipe Carvajal (Steelhammer), initially with the idea of making a classic heavy metal album with friends, mixing the mysticism and darkness of King Diamond and Black Sabbath with hard & heavy rock from the ‘70s and ‘80s like KISS, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, and WA.S.P. The lack of commitment and involvement of some musicians considerably delayed the process, and what was going to be a full-length ended up being a four-song EP, Heavy Metal Witchcraft. Shortly after, the band uploaded Heavy Metal Witchcraft to social media, and the word spread fast: in a few weeks, it was released in Europe on 7″ vinyl, cassette, and CD by three different labels, with DYING VICTIMS being the first ones to believe in IRON SPELL and release this recording on cassette.
IRON SPELL made their live debut in March 2014 and continued to remain active despite a few lineup changes, always faithful to their style and sound. Both fully blossomed on their debut album, 2016’s Electric Conjuring, which even featured Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner on one track. In 2021, IRON SPELL released both the EP Live Magic after Midnight and, later, the Argentinean compilation Witching Hour – The Best of Iron Spell.
The best was yet to come for IRON SPELL, though, and it’s arrived at last in From the Grave. A more thorough-yet-effortless trip through the heavy metal ‘80s one will not find than what the Chileans present here on their second album. No stone is left unturned – or, rather, gravestone! – as IRON SPELL display the dazzling breadth of their metallic songcraft, all illustrating their thematic commitment to classic horror. From backstreet strutters to fleet-fingered speed-runs, cocksure hard rock to moody explorations of the supernatural, anthemic headbangers to equally anthemic speed metal, and even an eerie & evocative instrumental, From the Grave reads like the hypothetical soundtrack to an ‘80s horror flick, and the quintet positively ooze charisma at every darkly gleaming turn. And atop it all are the dramatic, wide-register vocals of frontman Merciless, who in turn serves as much as narrator as metal god. After 41 fully satisfying minutes and concluding with the chilling epic “Children of the Night,” you’ll fall under their IRON SPELL and rise From the Grave!
Line-up:
Ivlock - Bass
Terry - Guitars
Raiden - Guitars
Merciless - Vocals
Steelhammer - Drums
From Santiago, Chile
Artwork:
Claudio Bergamin
Release date:
25th July 2025
Tracklist1 Curse of the Ushers
2 Sorceress
3 Release from Darkness
4 While Witches Dance
5 Whispers of Sorrow
6 Devil King
7 Deep in the Night
8 Black, Hot & Heavy
9 From the Grave
10 Children of the Night
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
KING’S HAMMER – “TO SPEAK IN TONGUES” (EP)
Label: Rottweiler Records/Broken Curfew RecordsRelease date: June 13th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Mortification | Dyscarnate | Pantera | Grave
Line-up: Chuck Weatherman – All music and vocals
I have sought for answers, begged for illumination from the thrones and powers that lie beyond the limits of our vision…and my prayers have been answered. A wisdom beyond comprehension, knowledge beyond bearing has been delivered unto me and my mind is in flames. The absolute essence of truth consumes me and my sense of self teeters upon the brink of annihilation. I open my mouth and the words spill forth in the language of eternity, never meant for human lips to form or mortal intellect to contain. My world splinters beneath the gaze of heaven. I am undone. I am become a conduit and while my consciousness is lost and my heart trembles, my soul begins to speak in tongues…
To Speak in Tongues is the debut EP from King’s Hammer, the savage death metal solo project from Chuck Weatherman, the guitarist and vocalist of Richmond, Virginia thrashers Shovelhead A.D. – an outpouring of the accomplished front man’s hardest and heaviest musical inclinations. Opening with the measured power of ‘The War In Heaven’, To Speak In Tongues delivers riff upon riff upon riff; focussed hammer blows that land with force and conviction. With the addition of an imposing vocal presence and a deliciously grim sound palette To Speak In Tongues makes for remorseless, relentless, yet atmospheric listening. From the old school death metal attack of first single ‘Vehement Zeal’, through the brutal grooves of ‘Wrath Descends’ and the epic ‘Crusade IX’ to the shuddering juggernaut of darkness that is concluding track, ‘Witches Bvrn’, King’s Hammer takes no prisoners.
With the final master being applied by Seth Metoyer of Mangled Carpenter and Pulpit Vomit, you know that To Speak In Tongues has all the grit and raw venom that death metal needs to deliver the maximum impact. With the muscle of Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew behind this release, when the hammer falls on June 13th prepare to be crushed!
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/brokencurfewrecords
https://kingshammerbcr.bandcamp.com
Following their 2024 debut Devil in the Dust, Deadman is the sound of a band hitting its stride—fusing thrash, groove, death, and power metal into an explosive signature style. Massive riffs, pounding rhythms, and anthemic choruses you can shout ‘til your lungs give out—this is DISTORTA.
The EP was entirely recorded, mixed, and mastered by the band themselves, and shows a marked evolution in sound and precision.
Band Line-up for Deadman:Dmitry Keremetskiy – Lead Vocals
James Boger – Lead Guitar / Backing Vocals
Dom Davey – Guitar / Backing Vocals
Dave Prodanovic – Bass
Chris Hanrahan – Drums
Tracklist
When the War Is Over
2. The Reaper
3. Deadman
4. Longway
5. Deafening Sins
www.youtube.com/channel/UCizUhr_GuMvgDGGNFthVqpg
www.facebook.com/distorta
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present TÈLMA’S highly anticipated debut album, ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΒ?ΡΟΣ, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Greece’s vital doom scene, Τ?λμα (TÈLMA) was formed in 2017 by Marios, Kostis, and Vangelis. All three men were brought together by their love for traditional doom metal, which led them to blend their influences of Russia’s Scald, Chile’s Procession, Reverend Bizarre, and the UK’s Warning into songs of slow, ceremonial, and melancholic atmosphere, also incorporating elements of epic metal whilst staying true to the traditional doom metal spirit. In 2021, the band released the single “Ξ?φη Στραμμ?να Στο Φο?νικα,” which appeared on the compilation Art Against Censorship. The addition of Chris on drums in early 2024 made possible the completion of their first full-length, Ανθρωποβ?ρος (English: “Man-Eater”).
Originally released only digitally but now finding physical release courtesy of DYING VICTIMS, TÈLMA’s debut album displays the blanching power of slo-mo emotion and forlorn majesty. Very much firmly within the wider doom pantheon but very much also fully conveying the band’s particular personality, Ανθρωποβ?ρος nevertheless emits a unique atmosphere due to TÈLMA’s usage of their native tongue: a conscious choice, and a challenge mastered. Fittingly for such literally weighty metal, the album’s lyrics deal with the subjects of inner struggle, emancipation, the man-made misery of this world, and coming to terms with the inevitable end. That TÈLMA are able to weave distinctive melody and transfer those emotions beyond the meaning of the lyrics – no need to say “It’s all Greek to me” here – adds a mysterious, multidimensional element to their epic doom, and suggests further mastery to come. Fans of the aforementioned as well as Solitude Aeternus, DoomSword, and Crypt Sermon are wholeheartedly encouraged to get devoured by Ανθρωποβ?ρος!
Line-up:Marios - Guitars
Kostis - Guitars, Bass, Synthesizers
Vangelis - Vocals
Chris - Drums
From Athens, Greece
Artwork:
Jim Pallis
Release date:
25th July 2025
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Hi
everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. 3 new titles
released by PAŘÁT PRODUCTIONS this
week on Monday 19.5. In all cases these are ‘my’ heart recordings of my favourite Czech bands. First time on CD, first time on vinyl, re-release on digipak after 20 years. I believe you will find these releases interesting. Thank you for your time and support!!!
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (melodic metal)
Triotus, Tricephalus And Tribadism /20th Anniversary Edition – digipak/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOl96Apuqc&t=2225s
BLOODY OBSESSION (old school death metal)
Husaria /black vinyl/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1SzhDVWF8&t=15s
DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY (doom/death)
Zlodejska svetelka /standard jewel box/
Music and more info on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKrFppXUrk
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/
Mythology, and actual historical atrocities, this album is not just music—it’s an invocation of the past and a battle cry for the future.
Line
upDiego Santiago (Bass)
Jaime Veron (Lead Vocals)
Jhorge "Dog" Duarte (Drums)
Fred Barros (Guitar)
Ophiolatry formed in 1998 in Brazil’s underground by Jhorge "Dog" Duarte (drums), Antonio Costa (guitars), Fabio Zperandio (bass), and Tiago Nunes (vocals). Their raw debut demo Opposite Monarchy (1999) led to a split with Ancestral Malediction and caught international attention when featured on Brazilian Assault (Relapse Records, 2000).
Signing with Evil Vengeance Records, the band released their acclaimed debut album Anti-Evangelistic Process (2002), mastered by Erik Rutan. This was followed by the Misanchristianthropy EP (2003) via Deathgasm Records and a grueling 50-date European tour, solidifying their reputation as a vicious live act.
By 2006, after a series of split releases, Ophiolatry joined Forces of Satan Records (founded by Infernus of Gorgoroth), playing Brutal Assault Festival and contributing to its compilation. In 2008, they dropped their second full-length Transmutation via Regain Records, refining their technical brutality.
After a 13-year hiatus, Ophiolatry returned in 2021 with a revamped lineup featuring Jaime Veron (vocals), Diego Santiago (bass), and Fred Barros (guitars), releasing the crushing single Somehow. In 2022, they joined Extreme Management Group Inc. (Suffocation, Cryptopsy), expanding their global reach.
Their upcoming album, Serpent’s Verdict — recorded by Diego Santiago and mastered by Dan Swanö — marks a ferocious new chapter. Out in 2025 via Wormhole Death Records, the 13-track onslaught reaffirms Ophiolatry’s place among death metal’s most relentless forces.
www.youtube.com/@ophiolatryofficial2679
www.facebook.com/ophiolatry
Enter
the void and confront salvation itself—LIKE SORROW return with THE
HARROWING, a blistering dive into theological horror and sonic
damnation. Told from the perspective of Christ descending into Hell, this track
turns sacred scripture inside out, using the apocalyptic vision of the
Harrowing of Hell to ask uncomfortable, urgent questions about justice,
privilege, and salvation.With punishing drums by Nick Manka and a soul-ripping guitar solo by Trevor O’Connor, "The Harrowing" is both majestic and terrifying—an infernal hymn that stirs ancient flames and modern fury alike. It's the sound of cosmic reckoning, wrapped in melodic black metal’s icy, glorious embrace.
He descended. He questioned. And now he sings for the damned.
Biography
Emerging from the depths of Austin, Texas, Like Sorrow is the latest chapter in Melodic Black Metal, forged by the visionary Marc Williams. What began as a side project in 2023 has grown into something far greater—an exploration of pure Black Metal, infused with Marc’s signature melodic touch. The result echoes the haunting atmospheres of early Throes of Dawn, Agathodaimon, and hints of Naglfar, weaving together spectral tales, infernal realms, and deep-seated melancholy.
Like Sorrow made its debut in 2023 with the Realm of Despair EP, released digitally and on cassette via Rotting Sun Records. This was followed by four singles throughout late 2023 and 2024, culminating in A Collection of Despair (2023-2024), released on January 22, 2025.
While the project's early tracks strip away the prominent keyboards found in Marc’s other works, this is set to evolve. Future releases will expand upon Like Sorrow’s intense, sorrowful essence, blending bleak, soul-staining darkness with the evocative melodies that define its sound. A harrowing yet captivating journey awaits—one that lingers in the shadows, calling to those who embrace the void.
https://www.facebook.com/likesorrow
https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords
NATAS (NOT US) – “NUCLEAR WASTE 1985 – 1993 “
Formed in Chicago, IL in 1984 the band Natas changed its name to Not Us after several demos in the 80’s. NATAS / Not Us performs a wide range of extreme music style: Crossover Thrash, Hardcore Punk, Thrash and early death Metal. Imagine a mixture of Master, Crumbsuckers, Dark Angel, Excel and D.R.I. A roughly differentiated can be made between Thrash/Death Metal in their early days and Hardcore/Thrash Metal (in the later phase of the band). Natas / Not Us featured Scott Oppenhagen (vocals, guitar) ex-Master, Dave Soderdahl (bass) and Bruce Pierce (drums). Discography 1985 – 1990 contains: "Think What You Want" LP (1989. Track 1 – 9), ‘No One Gets Out Alive" Demo, 1989 track 10- 22), . "Outcast of Society" Demo, 1985 (track 23 – 29), "Wild Rags Limited Edition" Split, 1990 track 30 – 33). Extensive liner notes by Mark from Impetigo plus many old photos, flyers and posters.
HORROR OF HORRORS – “SOUNDS OF EERIE”
Horror Of Horrors (formed 1994), was a US death metal band, from Silver Spring, Maryland. The band released 2 official albums, their 3rd album was only released digital and never in any other format, even no artwork was made. In 1994 they released the Judecca / Horror Of Horrors – The Evil Is Born / Old Burnt Church Road split ep. Horror of Horror’s debut ‘Sounds of Eerie’ is a gem hailing from the heydays of 90’s death metal. The tempo remains mostly upbeat with riffs constantly bombarding the listeners from every corner. Produced by Mark Smoot engineer, producer and owner of Smoot Sound in Ashton, Maryland. who also produced the legendary Exmortis demo and recently worked with doom slougde legends Sourvein. Besides H.M. Lopez (guitars) and Buddy Buell (vocals / bass), Aantar Lee Coates (ex Exmortis) plays drums on the first two albums before he formed Unholy Ghost and Diabolic. Michael ‘Chewka’ Marchewka plays guitars on the first two albums (also ex Exmortis). Extensive liner notes by Steven Willems ( Celtic Frost, Deicide, Destruction / voices from the Darkside).
OBSCENE GESTURE- “RE-LIVING IN PROFANITY”
OBSCENE GESTURE was formed in 2000 in Los Angeles, California and played intense Thrash Metal/Crossover. The all-star band featured members of Agent Steel, Evil Dead, Steel Prophet, Abattoir and Body Count. Obscene Gesture was: Guy Green (R.I.P. 2016): Vocals, Vince Dennis: Guitars (Body Count / Steel Prophet), George Robb Bass (L.S.N. / Agent Steel), Chuck Profus Drums (ex-Agent Steel) while Juan Garcia from Body Count, Evil Dead, ex Abattoir / Agent Steel was a member during 2007-2009 as well. The album is completely remixed recently by Rob Hill (Agent Steel, Evil Dead), and has the ‘Straight Outta the Gutter’ demo 2006 as bonus. Plus new cover artwork and complete new booklet design. Gesture split up in May 2016 after Guy Green's passing
https://www.vicrecords.com/
For fans of: Ghoul, Witchery, The Haunted, Gwar, Converge, The Crown, Midnight
The video, which features clips from a collection of occult horror classics, perfectly encapsulates the song's sonic intensity. The band comments, "A blackened thrash tale of betrayal, dark rites, and tomb-born horror, inspired by Amando de Ossorio's 'Tombs of the Blind Dead.' The Outlander marks a doomed journal entry written moments before annihilation."
The exclusive premiere for "Return of the Dead Without Eyes" comes courtesy of extreme music outlet Invisible Oranges. Watch now at: https://www.invisibleoranges.com/rotgut-return-of-the-dead-without-eyes/
The
song will be streaming on all platforms on May 25.ROTGUT come up from the gutter to deliver 24 oz CANTRIP. The band’s debut EP boasts five tracks of booze-soaked thrash fury infused with the unholy union of punk attitude and blackened aggression.
ROTGUT will release 24 oz CANTRIP on streaming platforms on June 20.
Tracklist:
1) Bonemelter
2) The Hunger
3) I: Return of the Dead Without Eyes
4) II: Under the Scarlet Cross
5) III: Blood and Cooper
Keep reading for the story of the soon-to-be infamous 24 oz CANTRIP.
Born fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo out of the dumpster behind DaVinci's pizza on Merrick Road, a horned figure scrambled blindly through piles of empty paint cans, ceramic vases, and angry cats in order to move undetected. He found refuge in a musty old cellar. After pulling his foot loose from the bucket he had stepped in, he closed the heavy steel doors
behind him.
Wiping the thick blanket of dust off a 30-rack of Genesee Specialty Cream Ale, he schemed. He was cursed with the knowledge of an incantation: a spell that would bring Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, into this world. He wrestled with the thought while crushing and tossing another empty can. The ritual required great rigor and perfect focus, but he was exacting.
He chanted. He chanted and chanted. The ceiling groaned and cracked. Polyvinyl dust plumed and swirled before vanishing into imperceptible motes. He drew sorcerous glyphs in the air with two fingers outstretched. The walls trembled with a sickening low rumble. Bracing his hands firm against his ersatz altar — a Playskool Mighty My Size Table and Chair Set — he ignored the throbbing in his head and steadied himself.
A spiraling portal ripped into reality. Out spilled two bumbling homunculi, fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo. This wasn't right! The pair stumbled and scratched their way through the cellar, bleating, squawking, and tearing through nearby cases of Natty Daddy like vultures to carrion. He pondered for what seemed like hours over the pyramid of discarded beer cans and the now-empty bottle of Old Grand Dad he had chanced upon halfway through. What could have gone wrong?
The cellar burst open. Darkening the door was a group of hulking, hazmat-suited figures. At once, the three slickened homunculi grappled one another in a long and futile struggle to get on their feet. They shouted in a panic if they were "being detained" until they were eventually tased into unconsciousness.
This was ROTGUT's ill-fated 24 oz CANTRIP.
Bio:
Assembled against their will by a faceless shadow organization in the Winter of 2024, the three designated FD, C19, and AX spent weeks in a lightless concrete hell. When the chance to escape emerged, they seized it — for they were bound by a great purpose: to form an extreme metal band, inspired by crust punk, rock ’n’ roll, and classic schlock to shred wanton across the greater US and parts beyond. That band is ROTGUT.
https://rotgutofficial.bandcamp.com/
The Circle Music have signed the electrifying Swedish horrorpunk band LEFT HAND BLACK. Hailing from Gothenburg, this quartet, consisting of veterans of the local music scene, will release their third full-length album, "LEFT HAND BLACK 3: DEATH CAN'T KEEP US APART", in September.
Formed in the spring of 2019 on an island just outside Gothenburg, Left Hand Black brings together the formidable talents of Hans Hagström and Jonathan Jansson (formerly of The Dead Next Door) with Johan Hansson and Anton Zachrisson (from Overdrive Solution). Their sound is a potent brew of old-school melodic horror punk and rock, drawing inspiration from iconic bands such as Misfits, Ramones and Bad Religion.
Johan Hansson of Left Hand Black said: “I have followed Maria and The Circle Music since the first release, and with her passion for the music and what she does for the bands, this is a dream come true. We are super excited to be part of the TCM family.”
Left Hand Black have carved a reputation with their previous releases: their self-titled debut in 2020 via Wolverine Records and their 2022 follow-up, "Lower Than Satan" through Sunny Bastard Records/Sick Taste Records. Now, with "Left Hand Black 3: Death Can't Keep Us Apart" they aim to solidify their position as purveyors of infectious horror-infused punk anthems. As the band have declared: "We prove that we can write hits and are an insanely good live band that takes no prisoners and celebrates a hellish party with you in the graveyard."
https://www.facebook.com/Lefthandblackhorrorpunk/
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MANDRAGORA TITANIA – “IN FABULIS”Release date : 19. June 2025
Nach ihrem überragenden „Rex Silvarum“ Album im Jahr 2022 haben die deutschen Folk Metaller Mandragora Thuringia, nachdem im Frühjahr 2025 eine kosmetische Umbenennung in MANDRAGORA TITANIA erfolgte, mit „In Fabulis“ endlich ein neues Album im Gepäck. Wie schon beim Vorgänger war man hierfür bei Dom R. Crey (Equilibrium/Nothgard) im Studio um 13 neue Tracks aufzunehmen. Stilistisch erwartet den Hörer erneut eine mitreißende Mischung aus brachialem Metal und überzeugenden Folk Einflüssen, wobei man den Metal und Epic Fokus im Vergleich zum Vorgänger noch etwas mehr hervorgehoben hat!
Mit „In Fabulis“ schicken sich Mandragora Titania an, die Lücke zu Größen des Genres merklich schmelzen zu lassen, beziehungsweise mit ihrem individuellen Charme ihren eigenen Platz am Lagerfeuer der Folk-Metal Szene zu besetzen, wie sie ein ums andere mal bei ihren Festival und Clubshows unter Beweis stellen. Greift euch einen Humpen Met und lasst die Köpfe kreisen, wenn Mandragora Titania zum Tanze bitten!
https://mdd-shop.de/
IRON MAIDEN beginnen
ihre RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR am 27. Mai in
Budapest, gefolgt von 31 weiteren Stadion-, Festival- und
Arena-Shows in ganz Europa. Da bereits mehr als eine Million Tickets
verkauft wurden und die meisten Shows ausverkauft sind, werden Fans darauf
hingewiesen, dass produktionsbedingt oder durch die Venues noch zusätzliche
Ticketkontingente kurz vor den jeweiligen Shows und an den Showtagen selbst
verfügbar sein werden.Die RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR markiert 50 Jahre seit der Gründung der Band durch Steve Harris Ende 1975. Um das zu feiern, wird den Maiden-Fans eine ganz besondere Setlist versprochen, die die neun Studioalben von “Iron Maiden” bis “Fear Of The Dark” umfasst, mit der spektakulärsten und aufwändigsten Show aller Zeiten!
Passend zu dieser Zeitperiode möchten IRON MAIDEN, dass alle im Publikum diese spektakuläre Show so erleben, wie sie es damals in den 80er-Jahren getan hätten, als viele dieser Songs zum ersten Mal live gespielt wurden. Und wie viele andere Künstler bittet die Band ihre Fans nun, die Konzerte nicht übermäßig mit ihren Handys oder Tablets zu filmen.
Manager Rod Smallwood erklärt: “Wir möchten wirklich, dass die Fans die Konzerte hautnah genießen, anstatt sie nur auf ihren kleinen Bildschirmen zu sehen. Das Ausmaß der Handynutzung heutzutage mindert den Spaß, insbesondere für die Band, die von der Bühne aus auf Reihen voller Handys blickt, aber auch für andere Konzertbesucher. Wir sind überzeugt, dass die Leidenschaft und das Engagement unserer Fans die Konzerte zu etwas ganz Besonderem machen, aber die Handybesessenheit ist mittlerweile so außer Kontrolle geraten, dass sie unnötig ablenkt – insbesondere auch die Band. Ich hoffe, die Fans haben dafür Verständnis und werden die Nutzung ihrer Handykameras aus Respekt vor der Band und ihren Mitfans deutlich einschränken.
Wir wünschen uns sehr, dass ihr stattdessen 'im Moment' lebt und voll und aktiv dabei seid, um jeden einzelnen dieser klassischen Songs in der Stimmung und Art und Weise zu genießen, wie sie ursprünglich gespielt wurden.
Bei dieser Show geht es nicht nur darum, unsere Musik zu feiern; es geht, wie ihr sehen werdet, auch um unsere jahrelange Kunst, um Eddie und um die vielen, vielen Maiden-Welten, die wir für euch geschaffen haben.
Also bitte respektiert die Band, respektiert die anderen Fans und habt die Zeit eures Lebens, wenn ihr euch eurer Maiden-Familie anschließt, um aus vollem Herzen zu singen, anstatt euer Handy zu zücken!! Das ist doch wirklich nicht zu viel verlangt, oder?“
Die RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR ist ein Teil der Feierlichkeiten zum 50. Jubiläum von IRON MAIDEN und bietet zahlreiche Events mit Fan-Treffen in den Städten, in denen die Band auftritt. Wie bereits auf der letzten Tour in Australien erfolgreich eingeführt, wird es Eddie's Official Pop-up Dive Bar geben, die in 20 Städten während der Tour für Treffen vor und nach den Konzerten geöffnet sein wird. Dort gibt es Trooper-Bier und Darkest Red Wein, Essen, exklusives Merch und weiteres Entertainment. Details gibt es auf ironmaiden.com. Bitte beachten: Die Band wird bei diesen Events nicht anwesend sein!
Darüber hinaus wird über die Universal Pictures Content Group noch in diesem Jahr ein Dokumentarfilm in Spielfilmlänge weltweit in die Kinos kommen und Thames & Hudson werden ein offizielles gebundenes Buch zur großartigen visuellen Feier von 50 Jahren IRON MAIDEN veröffentlichen. Weitere Einzelheiten zu diesen beiden spannenden Veröffentlichungen werden in Kürze bekannt gegeben.
MAI 2025
Di, 27. – Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Ungarn *
Mi, 28. – Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Ungarn *
Sa, 31. – Letnany Airport, Prag, Tschechische Republik *
JUNI 2025
So, 1. – TIPOS Arena, Bratislava, Slowakei *
Do, 5. – Trondheim Rocks, Trondheim, Norwegen (Festival)
Sa, 7. – SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norwegen *
Mo, 9. – Royal Arena, Kopenhagen, Dänemark *
Do, 12. – 3Arena, Stockholm, Schweden *
Fr, 13. – 3Arena, Stockholm, Schweden *
Mo, 16. – Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finnland *
Do, 19. – Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgien (Festival)
Sa, 21. – Utilita Arena, Birmingham, England ^
So, 22. – Co-op Live, Manchester, England ^
Mi, 25. – Malahide Castle, Dublin, Irland *^
Sa, 28. – London Stadium, London, England *^
Mo, 30. – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Schottland ^
JULI 2025
Do, 3. – Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, Frankreich (Festival)
Sa, 5. – Riyadh Air Metropolitano, Madrid, Spanien **
So, 6. – MEO Arena, Lissabon, Portugal **
Mi, 9. – Hallenstadion, Zürich, Schweiz **
Fr, 11. – Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Deutschland **
So, 13. – Stadio Euganeo, Padova, Italien **
Di, 15. – Bürgerweide, Bremen, Deutschland **
Do, 17. – Ernst Happel Stadium, Wien, Österreich **
Sa, 19. – Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, Frankreich **
So, 20. – Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, Frankreich **
Mi, 23. – GelreDome, Arnhem, Niederlande **
Fr, 25. – Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Deutschland **
Sa, 26. – Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Deutschland **
Di, 29. – Waldbühne, Berlin, Deutschland **
Mi, 30. – Waldbühne, Berlin, Deutschland **
AUGUST 2025
Sa, 2. – PGE Narodowy, Warschau, Polen **
Support-Acts
*Halestorm
^The Raven Age
** Avatar
Die letzten Restkarten gibt es unter www.ironmaiden.com
THE OSSUARY präsentieren Vintage-Video zu „ALTAR IN BLACK“!Mit „Altar in Black“ beschwören THE OSSUARY ein rituelles Manifest des Doom herauf – getragen von schwer atmenden Riffs, eindringlicher Stimme und dem Nachhall guten alten Heavy Metals.
Für Fans von: Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Mercyful Fate, Witchfinder General
Dieser Song ist kein gewöhnliches Stück Musik. Er ist ein Schwur, in Stein gemeißelt und mit Blut besiegelt.
Hier geht´s zum Vintage-Video zu „Altar in Black“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLAMnVQJvEw
„Altar in Black“ stammt vom kommenden Album „REQUIEM FOR THE SUN“ und verkörpert den Geist des Okkult-Rock und Doom-Metal der 70er Jahre in seiner reinsten Form - roh, schwer und hypnotisch.
Aus den Gewölben des Doom erhebt sich dieser Track als feierliche Prozession: Gitarren wie Altarkerzen, Stimmen wie beschworene Geister, Bilder aus einer anderen Zeit. Wer hört, erkennt: Dies ist nicht nur Musik. Dies ist eine Zeremonie.
https://linktr.ee/theossuary
https://supremechaos.de/
PESTNEBEL – “VERFALL”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 28.05.2025
PESTNEBEL sind zurück in Feuer und Blut! Mit »Verfall«, ihrem nunmehr siebten Album, beweist die deutsche Black-Metal-Institution einmal mehr, dass sie zu den authentischsten Verfechtern des kompromisslosen Second-Wave-Black-Metals zählt.
Oder, wie Bandkopf Pestmeister es formuliert: »Raw Old School Black Metal – wie seit unseren Anfängen. Keine Kompromisse! Pure hate! PESTNEBEL steht für den Verfall und Niedergang der Menschheit.«
Dabei sind Kompositionen wie »Night of the final damnation«, in denen sich rohe, bösartige Underground-Energie, Eiseskälte und majestätische Erhabenheit vortrefflich vereinen, eine Klasse für sich. Noch fokussierter und aggressiver als zuvor zertrümmert »Verfall« die Mauern des menschlichen Stumpfsinns.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063927991814
DEVOURING DARKNESS marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, the album is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
Devouring Darkness is out now on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on Willowtip Records.
UNMERCIFUL
has announced the first of many live assaults in support of Devouring
Darkness. The band will host an album release show on June 20 at Warehouse
on Broadway in Kansas City, MO, alongside Torn The Fuck Apart, Garoted,
and Hossferatu. Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is seeking a bassist for live performances and/or a permanent position. Serious inquiries only. Contact the band for details.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
Band's statement
We are truly honoured to join a label to have spewed as much magnificent rot and pus upon this world as Transcending Obscurity. With the label's track-record reeking of all forms of death and decay, we are confident that our cross-over brew of brutal death metal has matured to mouthwatering putridity that will satisfy the label's followers' rancid appetite. Our team-up with TO festers with filth we can barely wait to spit on you all... And huge respect for the cat sanctuary! Providing a shelter for animals is downright the nicest thing you can do while fouling the rest of the world with death metal.
Line up
Atte Ojanne - Guitar & vocals
Tuomas Iivanainen - Guitar & vocals
Juhana Korkka Heinonen - Bass & vocals
Lasse Sannikka - Drums
Artwork by Daemorph Art
Statement on Abyssal Hellscapes music video:
Mother Earth awakes.
Abyssal Hellscapes is a tale of the ultimate, unstoppable forces of nature.
Rock and bone are ground to dust as the creations of mankind crumble and cease to exist.
Thousands of souls vanish into emptiness from the ruins conquered by silence.
Once again, Mother Earth falls into slumber...
For now
Statement on the album:
An ode to the emotionless brutality of nature, Extinguish All Existence explores themes from devastating natural disasters to the most insidious parasitic reproduction mechanisms of the animal realm. Taking Enragement's genre-crossing approach to brutal death metal further than ever before, the new album surpasses its predecessors in all manners of extremity.
Track
listing1. Vorarephilia
2. Abyssal Hellscapes
3. Pathogenesis
4. Parasitic Ingress
5. Harbingers of Degradation
6. Vesuvius
7. Hypercarnivorous
8. Insectiferous Abomination
9. Natural Mass Asphyxiation
10. Extinguish All Existence
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords/
Fans of Hypocrisy, Bolt Thrower, Unleashed, and God Dethroned will feel right at home with WRITTEN IN BLOOD’s intense and narrative-driven death metal.
The song is the first chapter of a brutal two-part concept based on the terrifying true story of Walpurga Hausmännin, a 16th-century midwife accused of witchcraft, demonic pacts, and the murder of over 40 children.
“With ‘Black Widow Walpurga,’ we wanted to bring this forgotten nightmare to
life through sound,” comments Beef, vocalist and bass player of WRITTEN
IN BLOOD. “The story is horrifying. It fits perfectly with the dark atmosphere
and heaviness we strive for in our music.”Driven by punishing riffs, guttural vocals, and tight, thunderous production, “Black Widow Walpurga” is a relentless blend of old-school death metal and chilling storytelling. The track was mixed and mastered by Henri Sattler (God Dethroned), giving the band’s sound a sharp and crushing edge.
“We put a lot of effort into the production to make sure every hit lands with full impact,” says Beef. “This is one of our most intense tracks to date.”
The song closes with a slow, haunting section, deliberately setting the stage for part two of the story. The second part will be featured on the band’s upcoming full-length album.
“This is just chapter one,” the band adds. “The second part will take Walpurga’s tale to its bitter, gruesome end.”
Formed in 2019 by former members of God Dethroned and Mandator, WRITTEN IN BLOOD was later joined by ex-members of Morte Aeterna and Procreation. The band draws from the spirit of classic 90s death metal, blending it with themes from myth, folklore, and ancient history to create an atmospheric yet crushing sound.
Their debut album “Written in Blood” (2022) received strong praise from the European metal press. Rock Hard (DE) described it as “rough, dark, abysmal,” while Rock Tribune (BE) called it “excellent song material that sounds overwhelming and heavy.”
Written In Blood are:
Bert "Beef" Hoving – Bass & Vocals
Marcel Heutink – Rhythm Guitar
Jeffrey Zwart – Lead Guitar
Jos Eggens – Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@WritteninBlood666
https://writteninblood.nl/
https://www.facebook.com/bloodwritten/
THE BLEAK PICTURE – “SHADES OF LIFE”
Label: Ardua MusicRelease date: June 27th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Paradise Lost | Moonspell | Katatonia | Fields Of The Nephilim
“There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.” - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Since 2021 the creative partnership of vocalist Tero Ruohonen (Autumnfall, Temple Of Kliffoth) and multi-instrumentalist Jussi Hänninen (Autumnfall, ex-Fall Of The Leafe) have been working together under the banner of The Bleak Picture, invoking immense doom/death arias of stunning beauty and overwhelming anguish. With their 2021 debut EP, Songs Of Longing and last year’s momentous full length debut album, Meaningless, The Bleak Picture have begun to carve out a place for themselves in the souls of those destined to walk the hardest, darkest paths. Now they present their second album, a collection of songs that encompasses all they have been before and more. It is time to fall deeper into the illuminating dark…it is time to experience all the Shades Of Life.
This journey into the grey lands begins with ‘Plagued By Sorrow’ and a heavy mantle of sadness settles across as your shoulders as soon as the richly textured sounds begin. Yet as well as placing a sombre weight upon your soul, the song also embraces you in ringing guitar melodies and the crisp, powerful drums carry you forward upon a dark, irresistible tide…after all, there is far to go before you sleep. A dreamlike ambience enfolds you as the exquisite melancholy of ‘Absolution’ slips like smoke into the dark and haunting ‘Code Of Ethics’, where the real and unreal become unrecognisable from each other and you realise you are lost in this world of sound and emotion. The magic of The Bleak Picture lies in their ability to draw you completely into their music, to cocoon you in heartbreak and enshroud you in chill mists of desolation, holding all else at bay. This power is most keenly felt when entwined in the transformative visions of ‘Silent Exit’, an epic piece of quiet grandeur. There is a sense of space within the music of this piece and as you move through it the thoughts that come will be yours alone. And as much as you might wish to pause at this point, to look back even, you must carry your reflections on to the ‘City Of Ghosts’. This haunted place, this sonic cathedral of drifting souls is the perfect conclusion to Shades Of Life; bringing all the memories, imaginings and contemplations of the journey together. It ensures that the listening experience will never be forgotten and whispers enticements to return.
Shades Of Life is built upon the foundations of classic doom/death metal, with deep, expressive vocals, emotive, melodic guitar lines and vast, austere riffs. However it is also dusted in the magic of gothic illusion that engenders a uniquely captivating atmosphere and meticulous attention has been paid to every intricate musical detail – subtle guitar work and outstanding drumming – with each nuance being given space to shine by the meticulous mastering of Javier Fernandez (TodoMal). And all of this combines to form an incredibly complete album, perfect within itself. Look for its coming on June 27th as it is ushered into the world by Ardua Music, on CD and digital formats.
Line-up:
Jussi Hänninen - Music
Tero Ruohonen - Vocals
All music written by Jussi Hänninen
All lyrics written by Tero Ruohonen
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thebleakpicture
THE FINAL WITNESS – “BENEATH THE ALTAR”
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: August 15th 2025
Genre: Progressive Thrash/Death Metal
For fans of: Sadus | White Stones | Coroner | Moonloop
Solo projects are not the rare entity that they once were in the multitude of metal genres. Sometimes the fact that an entire album of songs has been written and performed by a single individual can simply pass us by as just another barely noted scrap of information. But then an album will come along that reminds us of just what a remarkable feat has been accomplished in its creation…the realisation that one person was responsible for every element of what we have just been enveloped by…when the songs are so individual, complex and emotionally charged…it can still take your breath away. Beneath The Altar, the debut full length album from The Final Witness is one of those special albums. Behind the banner of The Final Witness is multi-instrumentalist Josh Henderson, who signed with Rottweiler Records at the end of 2024 – in time to contribute to the label’s customary selection of Christmas singles with a ripping interpretation of the 17th Century carol, ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ – and now it is time for Beneath The Altar to be unleashed!
Beneath The Altar offers no gradual immersion into its turbulent waters, no gradual revealing of its unpredictable nature. Opening track ‘Principalities’ immediately shakes the ground beneath your feet, shifting between tempos, styles and ambiance, wrong footing you at every turn. It’s eclectic and effervescent right to its final note. As the pleasing complexity of ‘Coronation’ follows it is already obvious that Beneath The Altar is a demonstration of a unique creative vision at work. As the album progresses you are confronted with intense aggression, incredible guitar solos, passages of amazing, atmospheric, melodious reflection and a staggering array of riffs. In ‘Negative World’ an imposing opening explodes into fierce, gritty thrash before sparkling solos like stardust and ice shards tumble through the darkness. A magical pool of tranquillity appears at the heart of the song, but after mere moments it is violently shattered by furious blast beats. And all of this is executed with sublime control, each segment masterfully interwoven with the next. ‘The Blood’ provides the album’s towering conclusion and it is only really when you reach its final peaks that you can look back on the vast landscape of the album you have just traversed and appreciate the threads of mood and atmosphere that draw it together. The conclusion of ‘The Blood’ and consequently Beneath The Altar possesses such uplifting power and majesty. The vocals, solos, riffs and rhythms entwine in a manner that lifts the whole listening experience of the album to another level.
The production and engineering of Becoming The Archetype’s Jason Wisdom have afforded Josh Henderson’s incredible work all the space it needs to breathe and all the power required for it to hit home with maximum emotional impact. Rottweiler Records will unveil Beneath The Altar, this magnificent testament to the adventurous spirit of extreme metal, on August 15th and we can only hope that it will be just the first of many albums to come from Josh Henderson, The Final Witness.
Line-up:
Josh Henderson – all music and vocals
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069928882065
Finnish progressive death metal band SARGASSUS is set to release their debut album 'VITRUVIAN RAYS', out in June 13th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The third and last single 'Pahat Veräjät' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/sargassus-pahat
The Band Comments:
"''Pahat Veräjät' is the third and final single before the release of the 'Vitruvian Rays' album. The song is both a departure from the band's usual modus operandi, as it is sung in Finnish, as well as a return to the roots, featuring long atmospheric passages with progressive chord structures. As the song kicks off with ultra-fast blast beats, there is a definite nod towards extreme metal as well. 'Pahat Veräjät' ('The Bad Gates' in english)
references the gates of Tuonela, the cold underworld of Finnish mythology. It tells the story of a journey through the wilderness between the living and the dead, asking the listener if a life's worth can (or should) be measured in wealth, as all material possession will eventually be left behind"
Watch official music video of the first single Spirit of Gravity: https://youtu.be/IZ4S5DrNBgs Track list:
01. Spirit of Gravity
02. Carving the Veins of God
03. The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade
04. Judgement of the Four
05. Pahat veräjät
06. On the Shoulders of Atlas
07. Vitruvian Rays
08. Zealot
Vocal Production by Raging Cannon
Mix & Master by Joona Muistola @ HAW Studios
Cover art by Matias Stenman
Line-up:
Matias Rokio - Drums
Teemu Leskinen - Guitar
Matias Stenman - Vocals
Mertta Halonen - Bass
https://sargassus.com
https://www.facebook.com/sargassusband
https://hexrot-label.bandcamp.com/album/formless-ruin-of-oblivion
HEXROT - “FORMLESS RUIN OF OBLIVION”
Genre: avantgarde
death/black/thrash metalFor fans of: Felgrave, Construct of Lethe, Deathspell Omega, Blut aus Nord, Death, Ulcerate, Veilburner
"Formless Ruin of Oblivion is the second release from Massachusetts duo Hexrot, combining a dense stylistic mélange of death, black, and thrash metal with inventive electronic experimentation and a keen sense of structure. The 35-minute piece flows continuously across 7 tracks, maintaining a constant tension between the harmony and dissonance of its ever-shifting web of musical ideas. Seamlessly interwoven, a bed of modular synthesizer and other digital flourishes run the gamut from clangorous and industrial to warm and ethereal. The immediacy of a live studio recording gives its performances authenticity and power, but careful production ensures you’ll still be discovering new things multiple listens in. To our most fully realized expression to date, we bid you welcome."
Line up
Arkain - Guitars, bass, vocals
Melmoth - Drums, vocals, electronics
Mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, the Thousand Caves
Logo by Nat Lacuna @newjunkaesthetic
Album art from “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymous Bosch
Track listing
1. What Lies Veiled
2. Heavenward
3. Consecrating Luminous Conflagration
4. Ghostly Retrograde I
5. Clandestine Haunt
6. Ghostly Retrograde II
7. Formless Ruin of Oblivion
Release date - August 29nd, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/hexrot
Their distinctive blend of lyricism about war, combined with their relentless, neck-breaking Thrash Metal assault, pays homage to the genre's golden age Gods such as Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus and Testament as well as some of the melodies and progressive tendencies of Metal Church and Death Angel.
Fans of Thrash Metal can rejoice in yet another band flying their Metal flag proudly.
Now all you have to do is experience the raw power of the fury of XENOS A.D.
Details & pre-order: https://t.ly/B3Vrj
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/xenosa.d.thrash
Finnish Turku-based melodic death metal band FROSTBITE TERROR is set to release new EP later in 2025. The second single 'GEHENNA' is out today and music is available here: https://youtu.be/d_zydWMVtGI
"Massive sounds support furious blasting that won’t leave you cold. The
greatest things in Finland, metal and sauna, are combined like never seen
before. Listen to this tale of a sauna stove opening up a portal to hell and a
face-off with the devil himself!Gehenna is a kind of survival story from an afterparty where all food and drink is gone. This melodic piece with wall-of-sound guitars is then a good tune to warm up the sauna and enjoy the rest of the night, maybe even mosh listening to the riffs. While dreaming of a delivery of drinks the stove heats up to glowing hot and temperature rises above comfortable, representing hellfire. At that point what else can you do than take a thorough steam bath and relax."
Olli Kuure / Composer
"Sometimes bathing in a sauna escalates to a hellish experience, so why not make a song out of that. Based on a true story (maybe with small embellishments). The song steamrolls forward like many Finnish heavy classics. That makes it a perfect backdrop for telling tall tales about how much heat we can take in the sauna."
Otso Turunen / Lyricist
Listen to Gehenna on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/frostbite-terror-gehenna
Biography:
Frostbite Terror is a melodic death metal newcomer from Turku, Finland. Since 2022 Frostbite Terror has combined melodeath, thrashy riffing and symphonic arrangements. The songs subject both serious and comedic topics to dark humor. When playing live, Frostbite Terror conquers stages with their tight playing and spicy, yet melancholy riffs. Never turning down the chance to drin-, I mean gig, the band has toured backyard BBQ parties, Metallihelvetti summer party, Tampere community center and everything in between.
Line-up:
Olli Kuure / lead guitar
Otso Turunen / bass, vocals
Jerry Airikka / guitar, backing vocals
Kristo Rautavuori / drums
Sebastian Kavón / synths
Composed by Olli Kuure
Lyrics by Otso Turunen
Single cover by Mordiggian Art
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092156688089
Guten
Tag, has been some time since the last update from the LYCANTHROPIC
CHANTS dungeon .REPULSIVE FEAST SCANDINAVIA TOUR 2025
REPULSIVE FEAST brings death, grind and gore to Scandinavia in May 2025.
2025.05.28, SWE/Malmö @ Family Pub
2025.05.29, NOR/Oslo @ Last Train
2025.05.30, SWE/Trollhättan @ Backstage
2025.05.31, SWE/Borgholm @ Öland Rots Festival
2025.06.01, DEN/Øster Skerninge @ Strafbar
NEW MERCH AND RECORDS WILL BE AVAILABLE!
New merch items from CRYPTIC BROOD and REPULSIVE FEAST added to our band stores.
Plus more items that arrived and are available from our distro.
SICK FEAST 2025
Let’s celebrate extreme underground musick at Sick Feast 2025. Lycanthropic Chants will present an ugly composition of madness that reeks of death’s breath in Wolfsburg (Germany) at s.v Jugendhaus Ost on 18th October 2025. And everyone who can’t get enough gore spilled is invited to join the warm-up show in Wolfsburg at Sauna-Klub the day before, 17th October 2025.
Band announcements will disgust you over the next weeks. Tickets are available from this location. There are two ticket options:
2-day ticket (main fest at s.v. Jugendhaus Ost on Saturday, 18th October 2025 plus warm-up show at Sauna-Klub on Friday, 17th October 2025)
main fest only ticket
Bands confirmed so far:
FEACES CHRIST (GER)
IMPUGNER (NOR)
PREHISTORIC WAR CULT (GER)
RETORSION (HUN)
RUUN (NOR)
SOVEREIGN (NOR)
TROLLCAVE (ESP)
+ more tba
Upcoming local shows in Wolfsburg (Germany) presented by Lycanthropic Chants
There will be more info coming but for now:
2025.07.30 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: DIVINE DEFILEMENT (ISL) + BOWEL EVACUATION (GER)
2025.09.05 Sauna-Klub: MISCREANCE (ITA)
2025.09.18 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: JADE (ESP) + HALLUCINATE (GER)
2025.10.17 Sauna-Klub: Sick Feast 2025 warm-up
2025.10.18 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: Sick Feast 2025
2025.11.04 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: tba
2025.11.28 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: EARTHBONG (GER) + GAYA'S DEMISE (GER)
2026.02.20 s.v. Jugendhaus Ost: tba
https://lycanthropic.de/
Watch the music video to “Saturnine Child” created by Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Amon Amarth etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAOGKk3GRpk
Listen to the single via all streaming services: https://bfan.link/myr-saturninechild
"Helvegen" is the creation of Svartan and TZommer, two seasoned figures from the metal community. MYR delivers a sound that is both raw and melodic, drawing deeply from the wellspring of Scandinavian legends and the traditions of Northern black metal.
Based in Norway, MYR is more than just a band; it's an immersive experience into the dark and untamed spirit of Northern black metal. "Helvegen" is a haunting exploration of mysticism and darkness, invoking the brutal intensity of the Nordic wilderness. Fans of Satyricon, Bathory, and Dissection will find a kinship in MYR's sound. The album captures the unyielding force and mysticism of classic black metal, blended with a contemporary melodic sensibility.
"Helvegen" was mixed and mastered by the renowned Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio in Sweden, known for his work with Watain, Mayhem, and Tribulation.
Track list: 1. December Coma
2. In Perpetum
3. Brennt
4. Røkkr
5. Saturnine Child
6. Naraka
7. Proch
8. Tungsten
9. Kaldr
MYR are:
Svartan - Guitars, Vocals
TZommer – Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/myrnorge
Finnish thrashers INDEMON are set to release their debut album RECLAIMING CHAOS on June 27th 2025 via Inverse Records. The second single Necessary Evil is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/indemon-necessary
The band comments:
"The album's slowest, but perhaps heaviest song, deals with a very specific and dangerous addiction. It’s that certain ever-growing feeling that you can’t shake off, which becomes a necessary evil to achieve satisfaction. "Necessary Evil" interprets the classic saying "the chase is better than the catch" with a heavy hand."
Biography:
INDEMON is a four-piece metal band formed in 2020 in Kerava, Finland. Drawing influences from various subgenres of metal, they blend them uniquely to create a powerful and atmospheric sound. INDEMON's debut EP Fear of Living was released in 2022, showcasing the band's ability to create intense and multifaceted metal. The band’s lyrical themes explore fear, self-doubt, and inner struggles, immersing the listener into the music's emotional world. INDEMON is known for their energetic live performances and distinctive music.
Listen to the first single Reclaiming Chaos: https://push.fm/fl/indemon-reclaiming
Track
list:1. Bring Down The Light
2. Internal Defeat
3. Passenger
4. Abuse
5. Necessary Evil
6. Shoot & Forget
7. Ruoja
8. Reclaim Chaos
Album cover by Sakari Vinko
Line-up:
Joose Riihelä - vocals
Santeri Liesmala - guitar
Ville Kangasharju - bass
Patrik Kuitunen – drums
https://www.facebook.com/indemonband
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD / VinylLabel: Independent Release
Distributor: Sonic Rendezvous
Tracklist:
01 Heaven Shall Burn
02 I Am Chaos
03 The New Dominion
04 M.A.D.(Mutual Assured Destruction)
05 Ripped Apart
06 Death from Above
07 Marching off to War
08 …and Hell Followed
09 American Gods
10 The Wolfpack
Chaos Unleashed was formed by Marc and Rob just before 2020. Because of the experience being in former bands like Sad Iron, Jackal, Dominion and Angus we were quick to know what we being in former bands like Sad Iron, Jackal, Dominion and Angus we were quick to know what we wanted and our play together as musicians. Influenced by German thrash bands like Kreator, Destruction and Sodom the music exists of hard and aggressive riffs that combined with catchy riffs and sometimes a chorus where the audience can sing along. Chaos Unleashed therefore delivers an aggressive and yet catchy style of thrash metal you don’t hear very often and is therefore quite unique in the current landscape of thrash metal bands.
The Covid Pandemic made it difficult to find a drummer and to hold auditions. This period fortunately did make it possible to keep writing songs and make demo’s out of them so we could have a flying start when we’ve found our drummer. At the end of the pandemic there where 5 songs completely finished and ready to play.
The search for a drummer ended when we found Sander Spoor. Sander also plays guitar besides drums and therefore understands the riffs and the intention behind the riffs better than any other drummer. Sander has a diverse background in terms of metal styles being in bands like Yaotzin, Fill Bloom and Claustrophobia which makes him a perfect addition to the band.
In November 2022 we played our debut gig and had many more successful gigs after that. Every time we play the crowd is going insane and has a blazing enthusiasm which means we are doing the right thing!
We choose not to record an EP for our first production, but to go straight to making a full length album and to do that at an esteemed recording studio. January 2024 we entered the Toneshed studio of Erwin Hermsen where he recorded the latest Legion of the Damned and Deadhead albums.
The album I AM CHAOS was released on the 23rd of august 2024 and has gotten great reviews. The album is approx. 45 min long and contains 10 ferocious tracks! You can listen to the album on Spotify and Apple Music amongst other streaming services.
The promotion of the album got a minor setback when Marcus was rushed to the hospital when he got unwell on stage during a gig on November 9th 2024. Fortunately everything is okay now and Marcus is healthier than ever! We are back on the road harder and heavier than before!!
https://www.facebook.com/chaosunleashedband
Colombian
metal warriors BRINICLE unleash a searing dose of
philosophical destruction with the release of the official lyric video for
“PANDEMIC”, a track from their upcoming full-length album PERCEPTIONS
OF REALITY, set to drop on June 20, 2025, via Wormholedeath.Carving a brutal path through the intersections of technical death metal precision and groove metal weight, Brinicle delivers a message as heavy as their riffs. "Pandemic" is not just a track—it's an existential reckoning. The lyrics explore humanity’s role as both creator and destroyer, calling out greed, ignorance, and systematic corruption as the true diseases threatening the planet’s survival.
Anchored in Colombia’s thriving extreme metal scene, Brinicle has built their sonic identity on raw aggression, complex rhythmic structures, and unflinching lyrical depth. “Pandemic” serves as a furious preview of what Perceptions of Reality promises: a boundary-pushing, soul-crushing experience that refuses to pull punches.
www.youtube.com/@BrinicleMetalBand
www.facebook.com/BrinicleMetal
Rome (IT) - Blackened Death Metal horde, PATRISTIC, have partnered with Metal Injection for the premiere of "A VINCULIS SOLUTA I," the second single from forthcoming debut full-length album, CATECHESIS!
"Nearly eight minutes of aural devastation" awaits below:
"A Vinculis Soluta I" will be available May 23 on all digital platforms.
FFO: Aosoth, Barshakesh, Drastus, Sulphur Aeon, Akhlys.
Born of the ashes of Roman Empire, pagan lust for life and philosophical opulence, then demeaned and mortified by the fathers of the one true god. Centuries lasting like the last dream before awakening. PATRISTIC is the soundtrack of the age of quiet chaos between the classic world, paganism and the impending shadow of the cross.
Catechesis follows 2022 debut EP, Apologetica, and is the band's first release for Willowtip.
Track
Listing:1. A Vinculis Soluta I
2. A Vinculis Soluta II
3. Catechesis I
4. Catechesis II
5. Catechesis III
6. Catechesis IV
Catechesis will be released June 20 on vinyl, CD, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/catechesis-willowtip
https://patristic.bandcamp.com/album/catechesis
Credits:
All music and lyrics written and recorded by E.S. and Sathrath.
Drums recorded by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studios in October MMXXIII.
Vocals recorded by Davide Gorrini at BeastCave Studio in December MMXXIII.
Mixed and mastered by Michael Zech at The Source Studios between January and May MMXXIV.
Artwork by Manuel Scapinello.
Artwork layout by Dema Novakova.
Logo by Bram Bruyneel.
Line-Up
E.S. - Guitars, bass, samples, arrangements
Sathrath - Drums
L.S. - Vocals
T.V. - Bass
The band's name and concept comes from Patristics which is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The period is generally considered to run from the end of New Testament times or end of the Apostolic Age (c. AD 100) to either AD 451 (the date of the Council of Chalcedon) or to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.
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Blending
black metal, death metal, and progressive metal, PROPHETS TOMB crafts
a sonic experience unlike any other, merging blistering aggression with
intricate melodies and atmospheric depth. Their evolution continues from their
previous works, the third wave and magni mori, diving deeper into the abyss
with THROUGH PAIN .The digital album's release date is 13 June 2025.
Tracklist
1. Play Me...
2. Bear Trap
3. Pit of Needles
4. Gift of Life
5. Last Man Standing
6. Shattered Glass Coffin
7. Pound of Flesh / Death Sentence
Prophets Tomb’s lineup is a triad of multi-instrumental savagery:
Regnibus – Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Organ, Synth
Lord Adramalech – Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals, Synth
Drekavak – Bass, Backup Vocals, Drums, Synth
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PRIMITIVE BLASPHEMOUS RAW BLACK METAL... MURDER RECORDS in co-operation with SOUTHERN SOUNDCLASH RECORDS and GUTS & BLOOD RECORDS has the honor to announce the next funeral ritual where the chaos reveals the sinister rotteness of HESSIAN, that echoes in the deepest abysses of the nefarious underworld and where the true spirit of Primitive Black Metal is forged in a raw way in the filthy gutters of hell.
HESSIAN are an unholy legion originating from Atlanta, Georgia that emerged in
2002 where they called themselves Madame Durant and were renamed in 2003 with
the name Utuk Xul Commands Worship and in 2016 baptized again with rotten blood
under the name HESSIAN that prevails to this day."DECADES OF DESOLATION IN THE UNDERWORLD OF DARKNESS" is the title of the compilation that reveals HESSIAN's discography, which will include 18 profane hymns, keeping the original productions intact so as not to corrupt with clean or modern masterings the true essence of the infernal chaos that will be exposed in this CD release and where you can only find an extreme musical filth faithful to its origins, duly moldy with the odors of rotten sulfur that announce an abrupt death.
In this infernal pact where the blasphemous creatutas intend to reap with the blade of the bloodshed scythe all the celestial deities, transporting their mortal remains to be duly desecrated and deposited in the nasty coffins from the horrendous underworld, where all the demonic beasts will feed on the impure chaos, death, hate, desespair and aguish in this hellish noise feast.
We want to inform all those who are looking for well-produced music or who think they will find something beautiful and pleasant here, do not fool yourselves because this release is not for you, here you will only find sonic dirt duly desecrated with chaos and infernal noise where for an hour you will be duly tortured and tormented without mercy, where only the true rats of the musical sewer will survive to this sordid noise apocalypse.
Posers stay away far away...
Release date : July, 18th 2025
CD Limited to 300 copies
Tracklist:
Infernal Racket Series (2002-2025)
01 - 2002 - "Part 3: Utuk Xul Commands Worship..." [04:00]
02 - 2016 - "Maxxout Demo Session #1..." [01:47]
03 - 2018 - "Sons Of Southern Darkness..." [01:02]
04 - 2024 - "Veil Of Night (Live Instrumental)..." [03:53]
05 - 2024 - "Black Magic Hunger... (Live Instrumental)..." [02:52]
06 - 2025 - "Sorcerer Of Pain..." (Live Rehearsal) [03:50]
07 - 2025 - "High Chant: Part 1..." [02:45]
08 - 2025 - "High Chant: Part 2" [03:41]
09 - 2025 - "Low Chant: Part 3" [02:47]
10 - 2025 - "Low Chant: Part 4" [03:38]
11 - 2025 - "Part 1" [04:01]
12 - 2025 - "Part 2" [04:08]
Sinister Singles E.P.
13 - 2024 - "Veil Of Night..." [03:56]
14 - 2025 - "Eternally Possessed By Utuk Xul (Full Intro / Outro Version)" [03:30]
15 - 2025 - "Blazing Sigils..." [02:45]
16 - 2025 - "Sorcerer Of Pain..." [06:20]
17 - 2025 - "Oblivion Beneath The Infernal" [02:42]
18 - 2025 - "Goetic Altars Of Obsidian" [02:07]
Credits:
All songs recorded in the catacombs of hell by Hessian.
Art for the cover drawed by Marcio Blasphemator.
Layouts made by Leo Mora.
HESSIAN Line-Up:
Adam Dickerson (Drums: 01)
Hector The Bone Collector (Drums: 02)
Viken (Drums: 03)
Imperius Noctum (Drums: 04, 05, 13, 14, 18)
Eric Porter (Drums: 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12)
Laremy Wade (Guitars: All Tracks / Drum Arrangements: 04, 05, 13, 14, 18)
Nathan Gombert (Guitars: 01)
Brandon Floyd (Vocals: 06, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 / SFX: 14 / Lead Guitar: 14 / Drums: 15, 16)
ardklt@alumni.emory.edu
https://hessian666.bandcamp.com/
Pre order here at Hellstore Europe : https://www.murder-records.eu/
The first single 'Kissed by This Life' is released today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/dominant-chain-kissed
The band comments the single:
"Kissed By This Life" is the first single release from Dominant Chain's Wasteland Requiem EP. The track represents thematically and musically the core message of the EP, showcasing the band's musical style at its best: Crushing riffs, progressive changes, and fast solos that culminate in catchy melodies and massive, symphonic choruses. The song’s lyrics explore the main character’s experiences with harsh interrogations in a dystopian dictatorship, where she wakes up tortured, unable to remember past events or who she is."
Biography:
Dominant Chain, hailing from Northern Finland, plays progressive symphonic metal. Their music is not only about complex time signatures and technical skills, but massive, catchy choruses too, along with influences from various other music styles.
The band was originally formed in 2006 in Sonkajärvi, Northern Savo. The musicians have seasoned backgrounds in the professional musicianship. Their first official release, the EP Wasteland Requiem, consisting of five tracks, will be released in the summer of 2025. The first single, "Kissed By This Life," is released digitally on May 20, 2025.
Track list:
01. Wasteland Requiem
02. The Moment
03. Tears of the Tyrant
04. Dirt
05. Kissed by This Life
Vocal recordings & engineering: Esa Uusimaa
Vocal production & Backing Growls in ”Kissed by This Life”: Mika Kankainen
Mixing: Toni Balk
Mastering: Janne Tolsa
Cover art: Antti Raatikainen
Logo: Juha Tretjakov
Kissed by This Life & The Moment vocals recorded in White Leaf Studio, Oulu.
Tears Of The Tyrant & Dirt lead vocals and all backing vocals recorded in Lemmenhotelli, Helsinki.
Line-up:
Bass: Tuomas Korkatti
Drums: Toni Balk
Guitars: Jarno Keränen
Keyboards & orchestrations: Juho Keränen
Lead & backing vocals: Marja Kettunen
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Label : Darkwoods
Format: CD
Release date: 17/07/2025
Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal from Sweden
There are nights when the world holds its breath, and in that stillness, something stirs, wordless and distant, like a voice echoing from a place you’ve never seen... a shape in the fog, a pull beneath the ribs… and suddenly, it’s there, nameless, veiled, yet somehow known... an enigmatic project that doesn’t announce itself, but envelopes you with a solemn grace...
That project is Dös, a vision whispered into being in the shadowed wilds of Sweden, a lone spirit reaching through time, tracing the ghost-lines of ancient myths, forgotten gods and the aching silence of the North. What emerges is a deeply personal rite, carved in sound and solitude, atmospheric black metal vast as the sky, intimate as breath, drifting like mist through the bones of forsaken forests.
At the heart of his debut full-length album lie two poems, “Det eviga” and “Den döde”, penned in the early 19th-century by Esaias Tegnér, verses now reborn as five sweeping songs... through them, the artist behind Dös channels a black metal that both whispers and roars, immense yet intimate, as fierce as it is fragile... sculpted from silence and shadow, from longing and the half-remembered echo of ancestral grief, an offering destined for those who walk the same hidden trails as Drudkh, Agalloch, Wodensthrone, Kroda, Wolves in the Throne Room or Skogen...
Released as a unique limited edition, Det eviga och den döde is presented in a luxurious, oversized 4-panel digifile, handcrafted and printed on exclusive heavyweight matte-laminated paper, complete with a printed cardboard sleeve to protect the CD and a free digital download card...
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CREEPING FEAR - "REALM OF THE IMPALED"
Genre
: Death
MetalFor fans of: Hate Eternal, Immolation, Cannibal Corpse
Origin: France
Label: Dolorem Records
Network distributor: Season of Mist
Release date : June 27 2025
After two acclaimed EPs (Unleashed in 2013, World Execution in 2014), CREEPING FEAR reached a new level with their debut album, Onward to Apocalypse (2017), praised for its intensity and polished production. Their second album, Hategod Triumph (2021), mixed by Frédéric Gervais and mastered by Dan Swanö, confirmed their place among the rising stars of French death metal.
Creeping Fear's music is a surge of heavy riffs, relentless rhythms, and deep growls, in an abysmal atmosphere. Through somber lyrics, they explore war, the fall of civilizations, and the darkness of the human soul.
On stage, Creeping Fear delivers ferocious and immersive performances, leaving a lasting impression on French and European audiences. Now composed of Clément Ducouret, Gabriel Hammel, Matthias Biechler (bass), and Hector Hellgz (drums), the band continues its ascent and is ready to unleash their brand offering calls “Realm of the Impaled”.
Creeping Fear is the burning breath of the apocalypse in death metal: brutal, technical, and uncompromising. Devastating riffs, abysmal growls, and suffocating atmospheres - something between Immolation and Hate Eternal, prepare to dive into a masterful sonic chaos.
Tracklist:
01. A Path to Obscurity
02. Dismembered And Thrown Into Black Flames
03. Demonic Ascent
04. Realm Of The Impaled
05. Torture Wheel
06. Et ils se Couvrirent de Gloire
07. Feast of Violence
08. Obscene Sacrifice
09. Cursed Endeavor
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THE MEDEA PROJECT – “KHARON”
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: June 20th 2025
Genre: Dark Primal Gothic Doom
For fans of: Celtic Frost | Tiamat | A Pale Horse Named Death | Darkthrone
“…Kharon, demoniac form,with eyes of burning coal, collects them all…from The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto 3 by Dante Alighieri
On the stygian shores of the lightless river, where spirits gather on the sloping beach of obsidian and hematite, awaiting passage across the waters of forgetting to the distant bank, lost in shadows and shifting mist...where the boatman with hungry eyes crosses from one world to another, one to the other, in a never ending journey. Here in this desolate place is where The Medea Project’s new collection of hymns, stories and incantations was born. Drawing on doom metal, death metal and black metal, on dark folk and darker dreams and something primal that burns within the tangled strands of memory and myth…this is Kharon.It begins…melancholic, otherworldly majesty hangs in cold swathes of faded finery from the ringing chords and sinister, stumbling riffs of ‘Absence, In Loss’ and the certainties of reality start to slip through your fingers like ancient dust. The haunting, echoing notes that usher in ‘The Cave Song’, subtly shift your perceptions, drawing you through a diaphanous veil into a disorientating domain of flickering flame and encroaching gloom, of claustrophobic tunnels beneath the earth that open into breathtaking, cathedral like caverns…. From the simple melodies of ‘Purgatory Trapped’ that speak in elemental tones to the troubled heart, to the raw, feral black metal of ‘Upon Your Bones’; the languid, undead waltz of ‘Dance Of The Void’ to the cataclysmic defiance of ‘The End’ and the final binding of ‘Reborn’ – a whispered spell of possession, that ends as you step from the boatman’s ferry onto the sands from which there is no return. By entwining the atmospheric power of seminal death metal with the bleak, sundering weight of emotionally raw doom and the savage chill of the early black metal forces, then casting the ashes and powdered bone of Gothic dreaming upon it all, before igniting the nameless creature upon a funeral pyre of imagination and passion, The Medea Project have created an enthralling, soul consuming album, a new mythology for our dark and broken times.
Adorned in the haunting artwork of world renowned artist Daniele Serra (Stephen King, Clive Barker, Shining etc) and mastered to dreamlike perfection by Markus Stock (Ahab, Winterfylleth, Secrets Of The Moon etc), Kharon will offer passage across Acheron on June 20th. Its release will be celebrated with a special show at London’s Dingwalls 2 venue alongside My Silent Wake and The River.
“Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain…
All hope abandon all ye who enter here.”from The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto 3 by Dante Alighieri
Line-up:
Brett Minnie - Guitars/Vocals
Pauline Silver - Drums & Percussion
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REJECT THE SICKNESS – “SIGNS OF THE END”
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CDLabel: Eigen Beheer
Distribution: Sonic Rendezvous
For fans of : Heaven Shall Burn, Gojira, Eye Of The Enemy, Morbid Angel, Neaera, Deserted Fear and the like…..
Tracklist:
01 The Messenger
02 Acta Non Verba
03 Dark Times
04 We Enslave Angels
05 Fall From Grace
06 When I Become You
07 Chaos vs. Chaos
08 Signs Of The End
Reject The Sickness: 15 years of unbridled aggression.
Since 2010, Belgian metal band Reject The Sickness has been storming the scene with a furious mix of rhythmic death metal, ruthless melodic aggression and atmospheric black, supplemented with a touch of metalcore.
Their music is more than just sound—it’s a journey through the dark realities of marginalized youth. They explore themes of abuse, neglect, and self-harm, bringing these raw emotions to life in their lyrics .Although their lyrics are fictional, they carry the weight of real experiences.
Singer Guy, a social worker in addition to being a frontman, weaves his observations and insights into the lyrics, giving them an extra layer of intensity and authenticity.
2025 will be a milestone year: Reject The Sickness celebrates 15 years of pure power and unfiltered expression.
And to mark this milestone, they will release their latest album ‘Signs of the End’ worldwide on May 30th.
An album in which they push their boundaries, further sharpen their style and delve deeper into the human psyche.
Their lyrics cast a shadow over the mental struggles of neglected youth—their fear, hatred, and the gnawing desire for revenge.
But adult revenge proves to be an illusion, leaving them trapped in their own thoughts, locked in a battle with no way out.
Musically, the band continues to evolve: even more rhythmic, even more atmospheric, even more catchy.
Harder, rawer, and uncompromisingly melodic. Even the mysterious realm of atmospheric black metal is explored in a few songs .
Reject The Sickness is unstoppable. In 2025, they take a bold step towards complete label independence—a conscious decision, because they believe they can do it better themselves now.
Line-up:
Zoran Van Bellegem: guitar
Jannick Govaert: drums
Guy Vercruysse: vocals
Jonas Messiaen: bassguitar
Ruben Van der Beken: guitar
https://www.reject-the-sickness.com/
https://www.facebook.com/rejectthesickness
NEAR
DEATH EXPERIENCE
sound is a masterful alchemy of gothic doom metal, characterized by Anne
Soazig Couëdel's ethereal, lyrical vocals that float above a landscape of
crushing riffs and introspective melodies—drawing inspiration from legends like
Paradise Lost, The Gathering, Draconian, Katatonia, and Moonspell, the band
crafts a sonic experience that is both visceral and vulnerable.Their debut album, "BRIEF IS THE LIGHT", is a ten-track exploration of near-death experiences and the raw, often unspoken realities of domestic violence. Each song provides a window into profound emotional territories, challenging listeners to confront the darkness within and without.
Since their first live performance in June 2023, NDE has completed ten shows, building a reputation for emotionally intense and musically precise performances.
Tracklist
01 And Then There Was Silence
02 No Tomorrow
03 Brief Is The Light
04 As Life Fades
05 Stolen Seasons
06 Her Wounded Soul
07 A Voice In The Dark
08 The Neverending Journey
09 Dreaming Of Oblivion
10 And I Return To Nothingness
Born from the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Near Death Experience emerged as a testament to artistic resilience. What began as Mathieu Bonfardin's solo instrumental project has blossomed into a powerful five-piece ensemble that defies musical boundaries, weaving a tapestry of sound that is at once brutal and breathtakingly beautiful.
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NOMAD
SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS
proudly presents:HELHEIM – “BLOD & ILD”
For the first time ever, the third full-length album by the Norwegian pagan ensemble Helheim is now finally available on vinyl!
Neither band nor album need further introductions, of course...
Nine tracks spread over nearly 40 minutes of music, printed as an exclusive 200 copy limited edition (50 black and 150 marble gold/black vinyl)!
To keep everything in its proper zeitgeist, we decided to keep it all as close to the ’00 original release as possible, so expect no alternative layout or a fancy digital re-mastering enhancements!
We are thus presenting “Blod og Ild” in its natural form, and this time on the most noble of formats!
UNBEGOTTEN / VELO MISERE – „SILENCIO Y DEMENCIA“
From Spain, two misanthropic hordes have returned to torment humanity with their prayers of Death: Unbegotten, a vicious and mystifying entity formed in 2016, responsible for one demo and two full-length albums, and Velo Misere, a 5-piece horde, striking again after having previously released A demo, an EP and a full-length album.
With each band presenting 3 brand new tracks of nihilistic necromancing Black Metal, Nomad Snakepit Productions and Altare Productions joined forces to unleash this split LP unto the slumbering scene, in a limited edition of 250 copies.
This is the soundtrack for the all-consuming void...
All you need to do is dive...
SVARTSYN – „VORTEX OF THE DESTROYER”
With its tenth full-length album, Svartsyn delivers a work rooted in both its present vision and primordial past. “Vortex of the Destroyer” unfolds in two intertwined chapters: four new compositions alongside six resurrected relics from Chalice, the entity that would become Svartsyn in 1994.
The first half of “Vortex of the Destroyer” embodies a refined yet relentless approach, shaped by instinct and hindsight alike. From the ruin of Atlantis to the flames of Surtr and Fenrir, these songs channel Svartsyn’s pursuit of apocalyptic grandeur – a descent into the abyss.
The latter half harks back to the autumn of 1992, breathing new life into six compositions first forged under the Chalice banner. Conceived at the dawn of the second wave of Black Metal, these tracks honour the band’s origins. Re-recorded with present clarity, their essence remains untouched: wild, sinister, and unmistakably Ornias.
By uniting its earliest fire with its latest incarnation, Svartsyn asserts an unbroken path of black devotion. “Vortex of the Destroyer” is both a return and an advance, where destruction and renewal converge.
With both CD & LP coming out by the hands of Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Nomad Snakepit Productions was given the honour of casting this new masterpiece on cassette tape, in a limited edition of 100 copies!Svartsyn cassette reissues:
“The True Legend” ltd. tape
“Wrath Upon the Earth” ltd. tape
“Black Testament” ltd. tape
“In Death” ltd. tape
As a cherry on the cake, all Svartsyn albums previously released on CD/ LP by Agonia Records have now been released for the first time on cassette tape!
Featuring the original layout, each tape-release is limited to only 50 copies, so you better act fast if you want some!
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NEWS 17.5.2025
Brazilian
death metal force OPHIOLATRY is unveiling their new
music video for “JESUS COMPLEX”, the second single from
their upcoming album “SERPENT'S VERDICT,” set for
release on June 6, 2025, through WormHoleDeath Records. The video
represents the band's next visual offering to follow "Death Tour,"
revealed this past April. The new video introduces viewers to the ritualistic
atmosphere that defines their long-awaited return. The band shares the story behind the single:
“This story is totally terrifying: you wake up, go out, and discover that everyone is wearing a Jesus mask. His gaze pierces you deeply, transmiƫng a strange and oppressive feeling. It becomes even more suffocating when you look in the mirror and see that you are also wearing the mask. In a world where identity disintegrates under the weight of imposed doctrine, the fear of conformity is a struggle between imposed faith and one’s own identity.”
“Jesus Complex” explores themes of religious manipulation and spiritual corruption. The track combines Ophiolatry's signature technical brutality with a newfound emphasis on tribal rhythms and atmospheric elements that showcase the band's evolution since their acclaimed 2008 release “Transmutation”.
The creation of both the song and video emerged from a deeply personal creative process for the band. The release of “Jesus Complex” marks the next chapter in what the band describes as ‘a communion between sound and image’, with each element of “Serpent's Verdict” designed to function as part of a larger ritualistic experience. Fans of Death, Deicide, and Cryptopsy are encouraged to immerse themselves in this initial offering while anticipating the full album's release in June.
Tracklist
1 – Jesus Complex – 3:48
2 – Revenge – 4:21
3 – Generation Curse – 3:09
4 – Death Tour – 3:35
5 – Serpent’s Spits – 4:31
6 – Atheris – 1:32
7 – Apophis – 5:01
8 – Midia Bible – 3:34
9 – Manipulations Guilt – 4:03
10 – Heaven Jails – 3:26
11 – Narcissistic Victim Syndrome – 4:06
12 – Human Factory – 3:18
13 – Ecdysis – 2:34
Album Length: 47:03
Stream “Jesus Complex”: https://orcd.co/jesuscomplex
Album pre-save : https://orcd.co/serpentsverdict
First Single - “Death Tour”
https://youtu.be/9Fr3TqFyF5Q
https://orcd.co/deathtour
Album Recording Credits:
All songs performed and composed by Ophiolatry.
Mastering: Dan Swanö – http://www.unisound.se
Artwork: LouLou – http://www.louloufineart.com
Pre-Production: Steve Rumpli & Ophiolatry
Production, Recording & Mixing: Diego Santiago
Studio: Satori Estudio
Photography: Kevin Eisenlord, Anderson Hildebrando
Graphic Layout: Beto Mustafa
Mask Sculpting by: Herman Silesky
Album Band Line Up:
Jaime Veron – Lead Vocals
Diego Santiago – Bass
George “Dog” Duarte – Drums
Fred Barros – Guitars
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Anyone interested in give the true supporting the bands or labels involved in this release should get in touch to be able to purchase their copy and give their support. For all the weaklings of the modern Underground and the digital age, you can listen on Youtube or Bandcamp and fuck yourself with your kind of empty support and modern meaningless Underground.
SICKRECY (Swe) / DISTASTE (Aus) -"MAN'S THE LEECH / OPPRESSOR:
SALVATIO"Format : Split 7'EP Red Vinyl
Genre : Grindcore
Sickrecy Side:
01 - Man's The Leech [02:29]
02 - Last In Line [03:27]
Distaste Side:
03 - Vater [01:31]
04 - Diarrhetorik [01:37]
SICKRECY
Sickrecy are a Swedish band formed in 2021 that presents us with a violent and very well executed Grindcore, where we can be crushed alive without mercy with the sonic brutality presented.
Line Up:
Martin Eriksson: Drums
Marcus Dahl: Guitar
Adde Mitroulis: Vocals
Isac Nordgren Jonasson: Bass
Tobbe Ander: Guitar
sickrecyband@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/Sickrecy
DISTASTE
Distaste are from Austria, formed in 2000 and impressing us with their extreme sounds, where Grindcore intertwines with Death Metal to provoke intense auditory spasms in all those who dare and endure the sonic demolition that is torn apart here.
Line Up:
Yannick: Drums
Lukas: Lead Guitar & Growls
Armin: Guitar & Screams
Murz: Bass
distastegrind@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/distastegrind
Co-release with Murder Records, Flyktsoda Records, Global Help Records, Necro Records, Throne Of Lies Records, 7 Degrees Records, Helldog Records, and Sickrec(y)
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
MALHKEBRE announces their return to the stage, after 5 years of silence, with HEXEKRATION RITES. During these black masses you will discover new tracks announcing the release of a 2-track EP for the summer, before the album at the end of the year!
MALHKEBRE is announced for Prague Death Mass V in Czech Republic and in Belgium at the Black Khaos Assault Festival.
A
new reality is emerging in the Italian Doom scene.These are the Romans AGANOOR who
present a new track taken from "DOOMERISM", their
debut album out on June 6th. The track we reveal to you today
is "Emerald Lake". The official video realized by Chiara Fornalè
(like the previous "Icarus") can be admired on https://youtu.be/ukeZFjLS260
With influences as diverse as CATHEDRAL, GOATSNAKE, TYPE O NEGATIVE, DANZIG,
TIAMAT, AGANOOR moves from the Eternal City creating an oppressive Doom Metal
wrapped in a gothic breeze, and blended with the retro tones of the rawest of
Stoner Rock.
The song "Emerald Lake", available as digital single too, represents the band's second output and shows from the essence of their music that is claustrophobic and hypnotic, a Doom Metal characterized by massive, down-tuned riffs and psychedelic atmospheres.
Dan, Anth, Stephen and Alex drive you in their ritual.
Tracklist :
1. Bury My Soul
2. Icarus
3. Nadir
4. Emerald Lake
5. Morbid Skin
6. Mind Shadowing
The song "Emerald Lake", available as digital single too, represents the band's second output and shows from the essence of their music that is claustrophobic and hypnotic, a Doom Metal characterized by massive, down-tuned riffs and psychedelic atmospheres.
Dan, Anth, Stephen and Alex drive you in their ritual.
Tracklist :
1. Bury My Soul
2. Icarus
3. Nadir
4. Emerald Lake
5. Morbid Skin
6. Mind Shadowing
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/aganoorband
Ecastor is a new band that presents a promising sound where we can find a nefarious savagery of Thrash Death Metal riffs tormented by decadence that reveals a disturbed society, transporting us to human self-destruction where the reality of political hypocrisy with the lies of religion are the infernal fuel for an inhuman devastation on this planet ready to explode.
The debut album that Ecastor is preparing to release with the horrendous support of Murder Records is decomposed into seven purulent hymns, complemented with an Intro and a Outro, which will decimating us with their impure sonority soaked in the lacerating atrocities of inhuman ideologies and where tears of rotten blood will be shed.
The sound presented by Ecastor is played with fast rhythms and dark atmospheres where the main in?uences become from bands like Mortuary Drape, Sodom, Necrodeath ready to devastate your soul and ripping your body apart.
INHUMAN ATROCITIES OF THRASH DEATH METAL...
ECASTOR Line-Up
Dante: Vocals,Guitar
Leonardo: Guitar
Yuri: Bass
Askios(Enea): Drums
Release date June, 27th 2025
CD Limited to 300 copies
Tracklist:01 - Enter The Spaceship [01:39]
02 - Space Marines [02:52]
03 - Silence [03:49]
04 - Docmicide [03:14]
05 - Land Of Fire [04:07]
06 - Slepnir [04:28]
07 - DDT [02:08]
08 - This War [03:56]
09 - Outro [00:31]
Mix and master by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
Cover art dwawed by Benedetto Palmaro.
Cover made by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
The songs were composed by all members.
Layout made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Lyric video and promotion by Danihell Slaughter.
ecastor.band@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Ecastor/61565314684647
www.murder-records.eu
Athens-based metal outfit BENT BY SORROW storms the scene with their debut album, SAKURA, delivering an unrelenting sonic assault that shreds through the airwaves with unmatched intensity. A chaotic force of groove metal, Sakura is a relentless battering ram of sound, decimating everything in its path. From start to finish, this album is a merciless onslaught, leaving destruction in its wake. Get ready for a brutal auditory experience—Sakura is here to redefine the boundaries of metal.
Sakura is a war cry of annihilation—a eleven-track barrage of groove-drenched devastation, forged in chaos and unleashed with unrelenting fury!
The wait is over. Athens-based metal juggernaut Bent by Sorrow is set to detonate the global metal scene with their long-anticipated debut full-length album, Sakura. Dropping May 23, 2025, under Brutal Records, this release is a masterclass in dark and groove metal, packing an unrelenting sonic punch that will leave listeners breathless.
A Sound That Demands Attention
Blending the raw intensity of Deftones, Soilwork, and Disturbed, Bent by Sorrow has crafted a sound that’s both crushing and deeply emotive. Recorded and produced by the renowned Fotis Benardo at Devasoundz Studios, Sakura is a testament to their evolution—a eleven-track onslaught of groove-infused fury that pushes the boundaries of modern metal.
Tracklist:
The Machine
Never Fail
Need for Faith
A Life Without an F
Through the Blacklight
Trapped
Rain
Demoncracy
Order Chaos
Interlude - La Reina Muerte
For the Victory of Light (Instrumental)
Riding the Wave of Momentum
Bent by Sorrow is on a meteoric rise, with recent singles amassing an 8600% surge in listeners. The blistering Never Fail, featuring two-time world boxing champion Medusa, and the crushing The Machine have already turned heads, proving the band’s ability to seamlessly merge pulverizing riffs with thought-provoking lyricism.
Dominating the Stage Renowned for their ferocious live performances, Bent by Sorrow has conquered stages alongside Harakiri for the Sky, Nile, and Crowbar, as well as headlining major shows across Greece. Their intense energy, bone-rattling sound, and commanding presence solidify them as one of the most electrifying acts in the modern metal landscape.
Discography:
Highlights:Dementia (2020) – A six-track EP featuring the fan-favorite Truth Behind the Lies and
Disease Without a Cure.
Never Fail – A relentless anthem of perseverance featuring Medusa.
The Machine – A dystopian, riff-driven masterpiece with a gripping lyric video.
Through the Blacklight – A punishing single that showcases the band’s raw intensity.
Band Lineup
Pantelis Saroglou-Vocals
Giannakis Dimi-Guitar
Yiannis Lenis- Guitar
Vaios Faltakas-Drum
The Future is Now!With Sakura primed to shake the foundations of the metal world, Bent by Sorrow is ready to claim their throne. If you crave heavy, emotive, and groove-laden metal, this is the album that will define 2025.
Mark your calendars – May 23, 2025. Sakura is coming. The revolution begins now.
https://orcd.co/brut89669
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://www.facebook.com/BentBySorrow/
Prog Death Metal discovery PROPHETS TOMB have unleashed
their blistering new single, "LAST MAN STANDING." The
track is taken from their highly anticipated upcoming album THROUGH
PAIN, which is set for release on June 13, 2025, via Wormholedeath.Stream here: https://orcd.co/lastmanstanding
"Last Man Standing" is a powerful death metal track that explores guilt, corruption, and the aftermath of abuse. With raw, intense imagery and a relentless message, it challenges the listener to confront moral decay and personal reckoning. A brutal and visceral journey through a broken world, this track demands accountability and reflection on the choices that destroy lives.
Following the critical underground success of The Third Wave and Magni Mori, Prophets Tomb take their sound to even darker, more expansive places with Through Pain — an album that promises to be a landmark in modern extreme metal.
www.youtube.com/@prophetstombband
www.facebook.com/ProphetsTombBand
Death/black metal band Skaphos scratch that itch where the combination of the two genres sounds devastating and the influences complement one another. Their rawness and aggression pierce any semblance of pretension that this style might have and the dissonant edge doesn't hurt one bit either. The album is meaty and written well enough to warrant multiple listens. Please check it out if you haven't yet! The full album stream can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Q61YY3Q9M
SKAPHOS - “CULT OF UZURA”
For
fans of: Mgla, Crypts
of Despair, Obscureviolence, Behemoth, Dead
Congregation, Saevus Finis, Shrine of Denial, Belphegor"Cult of Uzura" sees the dedicated French death/black metal band Skaphos fleshing out their sound on their third album - first on a label - to become more expressive and impactful than ever before. At this point, their proficiency is undeniable and their sound is a beautiful rendering of the two extreme styles, spiked with mean dissonance and steeped in an aura of mysticism. The execution remains ruthless and forceful despite showing subtlety in the emotive passages and deftness in the tempo changes. The gnarly death and black metal rawness is palpable even after having their disparate elements congealed on this album and the sound is more powerful than can be conceived for an album having this level of expression. In addition, the alternating contrast of chunky riffing with acerbic parts creates a lasting impression on the listener. This is a remarkable album in the death/black metal style that has actual substance along with the right aesthetics and sound.
Line up
Stephan Petitjean - Guitar & vocals
Jeremy Tronyo - Guitar & backing vocals
Theo Langlois - Bass & backing vocals
Nathan Faure - Drums
Artwork by Paolo Girardi
Track listing
1. Cult of Uzura
2. One Eyed Terror
3. Mad Man and the Sea
4. Hypoxia
5. Abyssal Tower
6. Echoes of the Drowned
7. Of Shores and Dripping Souls
8. Skaphism
9. The Servant
10. The Alchemist
11. The Offering
12. Diluvian Sentence
13. All Shall Be Now Itself the Sea
Release date - May 9th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/skaphosofficiel
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
FFO: Kreator, Children of Bodom
In the four years since the release of their debut EP, Executionist has sharpened the blades of its attack, both in terms of songwriting and performance!
Sacrament of the Sick is a monumental step forward from Executionist’s previous material. Improved production, performances, and writing have made the Executionist sound nearly unrecognizable compared to the band's debut EP, Destined for Destruction. Each track was meticulously crafted and poured over in Executionist’s home studio, and the final product shows that it was worth every ounce of attention. With a clear focus on melody and tighter songwriting, Sacrament of the Sick is a sonic journey sure to leave a lasting impact on the listener.
Track
Listing:1. Ultionum
2. Edge of Annihilation
3. Wheels of War
4. Serrated Shadows
5. Divided We Stand... United We Fall
6. Thy Kingdom Come
7. Strange Aeons
8. Palace of Kings
9. Sacrament of the Sick
10. Coup de Grâce
Credits:
Music written by Brett & Tristan Ash
Lyrics written by Brett Ash
Vocals, guitar, bass - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Produced by Brett & Tristan Ash
Engineered & Mixed by Tristan Ash
Mastered by Colin Davis of Imperial Mastering
Album Artwork by Mitchell Nolte
Logo by ModBlackMoon & HermanTwo
Line-up:
Vocals/Guitar - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Bass - Austin Rose
Guitar - Mike Kinder
Bio:
Executionist was officially formed in 2021 by brothers Brett and Tristan Ash, who were 17 and 13 years old, respectively at the time. Their debut EP, Destined for Destruction, was released on January 27, 2021. Two years later, Executionist released "GENESIS 666" (March 2023).
After playing many shows together as a mere two-piece, Executionist finally added a bass player in 2024, in the form of Austin Rose. The three played more shows together before finally rounding out the lineup by adding Mike Kinder on guitar in March of 2025. Around the same time, Executionist announced the forthcoming release of their debut full-length album, Sacrament of the Sick. The lead single "Serrated Shadows," has already been released, with another single set to release on April 18. With the release of their album on the horizon, Executionist aims to play live as much as possible while writing
new music for their next project.
https://www.facebook.com/ExecutionistMetal/
Sentient
Ruin and Lower Your Head are to proud announce HELL’S
colossal fifth official full length album, “SUBMERSUS”, to
be released on July 11 2025 on LP, CD and MC formats via Sentient
Ruin and digitally via Lower Your Head, all pre-orderable now along with an
exclusive limited edition screen printed long sleeve shirt from both labels.
The album’s monstrous opening track “Hevy” can also be streamed now
via both label channels.In yet another feat of unrivaled auditory heaviness which will further cement his status of visionary, MSW takes the listener once again deep into the darkest abysses of inner turmoil and personal struggle, reaffirming the Oregon musician’s inscrutable and unique ability to transform emotional torment into a masterclass of crushing sonic burden. Across its five abysmal movements "Submersus" recaptures the unfair and woeful essence of life which has driven the project from its inception almost twenty years ago, embodying the affliction that shapes human existence as it’s perpetually torn between ephemeral and fragile moments of respite, and their inexorable dissolution, as joy and hope are cyclically eclipsed and devoured back into the eternal storming vastness of circumstance and inevitability. Pessimism and resignation act as the inescapable tidal forces to this immense emotional abyss which implacably pulls all toward it, drawing life deep into the maelstrom where it's drowned under its own weight and implodes into the lightless crush-depth of unending sorrow and despondency.
“Submersus” is to be released on July 11 2025 on LP, CD and MC formats via Sentient Ruin and digitally via Lower Your Head, all pre-orderable now via both labels' channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin & Lower Your Head
https://sentientruin.com/releases/hell-submersus
https://sentientruin.com/bands/#/hell
Romanian
Black Metal act FUNERAL BAPTISM is proud to announce
that their long-awaited second full-length album, "IN
SOLITUDINE", will be officially released on May 30th, 2025,
through Loud Rage Music.Pre-orders are now available at: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/funeral-baptism-in-solitudine
Coinciding with this announcement, the band unveils a second single, "Lex Talionis", a ferocious, unrelenting track that pushes deeper into the raw, philosophical intensity introduced by the title track, "In Solitudine". Witness its cold atmospheres, dissonant riffing, and piercing screams here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7hpdVpYpjI
Dark, introspective, and steeped in philosophical undertones, "In Solitudine" showcases a matured sound and lyrical vision, signaling a bold new chapter in the band's evolution.
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/FuneralBaptismBM
ETERNAL
RETURNS,
the relentless metal force from Thane (Mumbai), returns with “EMASCULATOR”
, their brand-new single and official music video premiering on YouTube.Forged in 2010, Eternal Returns is more than a band it’s a sonic embodiment of the ancient Indian concept of the eternal cycle: birth, life, death, and rebirth. This spiritual backbone shapes their identity, music, and message, making them a unique voice in the global metal scene.
"Emasculator" channels the band’s signature blend of melodic death metal, groove, thrash, and metalcore, delivering a track that’s as punishing as it is profound. With bone-crushing riffs, guttural intensity, and atmospheric depth, the single explores themes of inner destruction, rebirth, and spiritual reckoning.
Their sound is not just an assault it’s a journey. Eternal Returns weaves mythology, existential dread, and the human fight for freedom into every note, offering a cathartic escape through heavy music. For fans of Gojira, Lamb of God, and Behemoth, this is a band not to miss.
Catch the premiere of “Emasculator” now on YouTube and join Eternal Returns as they redefine the sound of Indian metal on the world stage.
https://orcd.co/brut89672
After Thorn, we've got another fun and meaty death metal release - the debut album of the US death metal band Retching. It's gnarly, pummeling, and catchy and has some terrific riffs strewn about in the songs which are a bit more intricately written than it might seem. We've just unveiled a brand new track to go along with the preorder which just went up. You can find it all on Bandcamp at https://retching-label.bandcamp.com/album/charming-the-decomposed
RETCHING - “CHARMING THE DECOMPOSED”
Genre : old
school/brutal death metalFor fans of: Broken Hope, Cannibal Corpse, Fulci, Undeath, Mortician, Devourment
On only their debut release, Retching have found a way to present the gore-soaked, rotten, old school-inclined death metal sound that we all love with quality songwriting that elevates it beyond the nostalgic, aspiring bands of this ilk. It is what keeps the appeal from being diminished upon multiple listens and keeps the listener coming back for more as there's more than just simplified caveman-mosh death metal savagery on offer here. The songs, while accessible and laden with compelling hooks, are intricate and structured, and do a lot more before offering the much-desired dose of primal brutality. The influences too are assimilated very well from various death metal bands - this is no direct Cannibal Corpse or Suffocation clone; it bears elements as most such death metal bands do, but they've attempted to go about creating something delectable and effective in their own way, and to that extent this works well. There's no beating about the bush here - if you're into death metal that's heavy, catchy, and fun but also not completely senseless, Retching will make your day.
Line up
Latex - Oil drums and low end garrote
Mondo - Six string razor wire and erotic moans
Art by Slimeweaver
Track listing
1. Moonlight Perversions/Gorging on Ecstasy
2. Premature Decapitation
3. Shower Curtain Silhouette
4. Foaming
5. Vulgar Celluloid Trophy
6. Septic Entombment
7. Fetid Abattoir
8. Mortuary of Desire
Release date - August 22nd, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://retching-label.bandcamp.com/album/charming-the-decomposed
"Reign
in Hell" is set for a June 5 release on all digital platforms.Lyrically, the song is a lapsed theologian’s wet dream. Christian doctrine asserts that free will is humankind’s unique gift, something not even angels possess. Therefore, the logical conclusion follows that in his so-called rebellion, Lucifer only played the role his creator intended for him, and was doomed to be cast into hell before he was ever made. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven,” a freshly exiled Satan proclaims in John Milton’s Paradise Lost while considering this injustice.
Milton famously humanized Satan in his epic work, arguably even placing him as the hero of the story, and The Pale Hand has gladly carried his torch into the 21st century, complete with vicious guitars, powerhouse vocals, and booming bass. In the end, it’s a match made in hell—after all,
heaven’s overrated.
In other news, The Pale Hand will hit the stage on May 16 at INFERNO, A Celebration of Hexennacht, presented by The Satanic Temple of NYC. Also appearing will be Tower and Holy Wisdom LLC.
With members hailing from around the globe, The Pale Hand is a cross-cultural heavy metal phenomenon taking New York City’s underground by storm, sharing stages with Castle Rat and Alex Skolnick of Testament. To witness The Pale Hand live is to be baptized in the church of the undead; a vampire pastor gives blood offering before the first song is played and expects to be repaid before the night is over. With a wide range of influences beyond metal, including gospel and middle eastern music, their show is theatrical, interactive, even spiritual, and they use their music to explore the question “what really is evil?” In The Pale Hand’s world, the sinner is the saint, and corruption is the true enemy.
Single Art Credits: Photo by Gannon Padgett, logo by J.E. Larson.
Line-up:
Kelsea Beck (they/them) - Vocals
Pamir Aysan (he/him) - Guitar
Diego Silva (he/him) - Guitar
Finnegan Hu (he/him) - Bass
Brian Del Guercio (he/him) - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/thepalehand
For fans of : Autopsy, Bolt Thrower, Coffins, Cianide, Disma, Hooded Menace, Undergang and Winter
BOCC make their Horror Pain Gore Death Productions debut with the compilation Obrint El Taüt! Formed in 2019, Bocc hail straight from the sewers of Barcelona, Spain and perform Death/Doom Metal in the ways of the old. Obrint El Taut, which translates to Opening The Coffin, presents the band's three EPs: Al La Forca, Santa Eulàlia, and La Forja Dels Cranis... twelve tracks totaling 75+ minutes of bone-crushing brutality!
Tracklisting:1. La Nit Mes Negra
2. Ala De Corb
3. A La Forca
4. Dansa De La Mort
5. La Culla
6. Santa Eulalia
7. L'Altar
8. Pels Camins De La Vesania
9. La Forja Dels Cranis
10. Camp Dels Cremats
11. Icones Del Fracas
12. Black Vision (Purtenance cover)
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
PYTHIA – “V PT 1: UNHALLOWED”
Label: GOLDEN AXERelease date: may 23rd 2025
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Nightwish | Delain | Evergrey
The time has come to return to the realms of fantasy, to walk the road through forests of thorn, below towering mountain peaks and down forgotten tunnels deep within the earth. It’s time to stand beneath a different sky and see in vibrant colour, feel with grand intensity and experience the sense of wonder that has faded from our grey and mundane world; to face dangers untold, to stare into the unblinking gaze of death and live as never before. Pythia have broken their silence and torn the shadows asunder, opening wide the gates to dream, adventure and magic once more, so summon your courage, reach for your sword and follow them now, into the Unhallowed lands…
Six long years have passed since the UK’s finest exponents of meticulously crafted symphonic metal, Pythia, unveiled their last uplifting musical invocation – The Solace Of The Earth – but now they have returned! Comprising five incredible songs, V Pt. 1: Unhallowed is a stunning new EP in its own right and also the first part of Pythia’s fifth great tale. Within moments of its title track beginning in a flurry of fierce guitars, electric energy and searing solos the passage of time is forgotten. The heroic melodies lift you up on wings of imagination, the curtain is raised and the drama begins to unfold. Every song that follows possesses a rich, individual character and yet the music flows perfectly from track to track, carrying the listener forward through each magnificent chapter on an exhilarating journey. First single, ‘Path Of Decay’ shows Pythia at their most measured, melodic and transportative with an irresistible chorus and breathtaking guitar work, while ‘Muses Of The Night’ unleashes thunderous riffs and rhythms as the wonderful vocals of Sophie Dorman soar effortlessly above through a storm-tossed sky – both are perfect examples of why …Unhallowed will surely be recognised as Pythia’s finest artistic statement to date.
Mixed by Ollie Roberts at Kettle Brew Studios and mastered by the world renowned Jacob Hansen (Epica, Evergrey, Destruction etc) V Pt 1: Unhallowed sounds simply perfect – every cascading solo, every angelic vocal line vivid and electrifying. With artwork created by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, Napalm Death etc) that captures the spirit of this special release, every element of V Pt. 1: Unhallowed has been carefully curated to deliver a unique symphonic metal experience – as only Pythia can.
Line-up:
Sophie Dorman - Vocals
Ross White - Guitars
Marc Dyos - Drums
Ash Porter - Bass
Jamie Hunt - Guitars
Marcus Matusiak - Keys
https://www.facebook.com/PythiaBand/
The second single 'TEAR-BLIND' featuring Sheila Bernal on guest vocals and Vilma Peltokangas on Cello is released today and lyric video is available here: https://youtu.be/ypr8Mivciyc
The band comments single:
"Tear-blind is the story of a man reaching the end of his life, wishing that his last days would not be filled with the sorrow and pain of his loved ones. His last wish is to try to enjoy the moments we share while he is still here."
Listen to Tear-Blind single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/shadecrown-tear-blind
Biography:
The Finnish Shadecrown is a versatile melodic death metal band founded in Viitasaari in 2012, whose melancholic melodies and lyrics tell stories about the dark side of life. The band has released three full-length albums so far: Agonia 2016, Riven 2019, Solitarian 2021. The fourth album 0 will be released in 2025.
Watch music video of first single 'The Art of Grieving' https://youtu.be/pPIwGDcOgRQ
Track
list:01. The Art of Grieving
02. In a State of Agony
03. Fragile Chapters
04. Gone
05. Zero
06. Under the Waves
07. Inadequate
08. Tear-blind
09. Repentance
Cover art by Saku Tammelin
Line-up:
Jari Hokka - Vocals
Joonas Vesamäki - Guitar
Tomi Tikka - Guitar
Saku Tammelin - Keyboards
Janne Salmelin - Bass & clean vocals
Kalle Varonen - Drums
Guest female vocals: Sheila Bernal
Guest Cello: Vilma Peltokangas
https://www.facebook.com/shadecrownband
ETERNAL DISSONANCE – “THROUGH THE ENDLESS”
Label : Darkwoods
Format : CD / Digital
Release Date: 17/06/2025
Genre : Atmospheric Black from Spain
They were, without question, last year’s greatest revelation, a sudden flare of brilliance in the dim skies of atmospheric black metal, an instant classic that bewitched all who crossed its path. Since then, many have sought them out, compelled by a growing fascination with a project described as special, different or mesmerizing, a rare anomaly in a scene drowning in lifeless echoes and hollow imitations.
To all of you who have been waiting, the time has come, Eternal Dissonance has returned, and they do so in absolute triumph, Dargos (Wounded Soul, Neglected, Xenoautopsy) now stands fully unbound, channeling a force beyond the veil... in a state of pure artistic rapture, he ascends to towering new heights, transcendent, mystical, deeply spiritual, crafting music that calls to something primal within, something ancient and vast that stirs beneath the surface of the soul.
And truly, no title could speak more clearly of what awaits, Through the Endless is a monument carved from sound and silence alike, immense and unforgettable, etched into the listener’s core like a rite... four sprawling, hypnotic instrumental compositions, because how could it be any other way?, in which Dargos seizes the flame lit by Enlightened Passage and carries it beyond the veil, into a realm rarely glimpsed... this is black metal stripped of artifice, pulsing and untamed, luminous in its raw dissonance, this is Eternal Dissonance in its truest, most elemental form, just essential for disciples of Winterfylleth, Wodensthrone, Wolves in the Throne Room, Saor or Fen... yet unlike anything you’ve ever known.
Released as a unique limited edition, Through the Endless is presented in a luxurious oversized 4-panel digifile crafted from heavyweight paper with an exclusive soft-touch matte laminate. But for the chosen few, there is more... ten of these copies shall be entombed within an elegant, fully customized wooden box, a reliquary of shadow and sound, forming an exclusive collector’s edition unlike any other...
www.instagram.com/eternal_dissonance_bm
Milwaukee (WI) - U.S. Death Metal veterans, VIOGRESSION, have completed the recording process for upcoming fourth album, THAUMATURGIC VEIL, which is currently being mastered by Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, CO. The album is set for a July 11 release. The band is now pleased to present the stunning artwork for this ambitious effort!
The album cover for Thaumaturgic Veil, created by artist Deigo Gedoz de Souza, is a haunting visual tapestry that intertwines the album’s conceptual framework. The cover’s dominant palette of muted greens, grays, and blues evokes a liminal space, a psychoacoustic membrane that mirrors the Thaumaturgic Veil itself—a barrier between the manifest universe and unquantifiable magic.
Deigo
Gedoz de Souza, a Brazilian artist renowned in the metal community, brings his
signature dark and fantastical style to Thaumaturgic Veil. Known for his
meticulous detail and mastery of gothic and horror aesthetics, De Souza crafts
atmospheres that feel ancient and otherworldly, making him an ideal
collaborator for Viogression’s ambitious vision. His blend of
surrealism with grim realism, as seen in this cover, evoke decay and
transformation—key themes in the album’s alchemical narrative creating a cover
that serves as a visual gateway into the album’s sonic journey.Stay tuned for track listing, album details, and the first single!
Line-up:
Brian DeNeffe - Vocals
Lief Larson - Guitar
Johnathon Ibarra - Guitar
Jason Hellman - Bass
Erik Schultek - Drums
Bio:
Formed in 1988, Viogression swiftly forged a formidable presence in the metal underground with three searing demos, paving the way for their critically lauded debut, Expound & Exhort (1990). This landmark release launched them onto a world tour, igniting stages alongside Death and Pestilence. Their second album, Passage (1994), released incomplete, led to a nine-year hiatus. Reborn in 2003, Viogression unleashed fresh material, culminating in the 2014 EP, A Pure Formality, which sparked the band’s comeback with electrifying festival performances. Defying 2020’s global turmoil, they delivered 3rd Stage of Decay, released worldwide in 2022 through Satanath Records and Moribund Records. Now, Viogression stands on the brink of their fourth album, Thaumaturgic Veil, set for Summer 2025, poised to unleash a cataclysmic new chapter in their storied legacy.
Hessian
Firm is proud to announce the forthcoming reissue of LORD OF
NIGHTMARE from Japanese Black Metal enigma, ENDLESS
DISMAL MOAN! Originally released in 2006, this masterwork of torment by
sole member Chaos 9, who passed away in 2008, will be reissued by the
label as a limited edition CD with 4-page booklet on July 25.Hessian Firm released the following statement about the reissue:
"Endless Dismal Moan is the brainchild of Japanese musician Chaos 9 (R.I.P). Embracing the digital production and aesthetics of his era as well as incorporating the suffocating sensation of Japanese horror. Endless Dismal Moan provides a completely twisted take on the very idea of raw black metal that remains unsurpassed to this very day. We have been given permission by a live band member and close associate of Chaos 9 (R.I.P) to reissue this full length album.
Lord of Nightmare is not only aesthetically accomplished, but also innovative and significant within the history of underground music. With Lord of Nightmare, sole member Chaos 9 abandons the melancholic romanticism of early black metal in order to create a masterpiece of contemporary urban horror. The music on this album immerses the listener in a chaotic vortex of visceral despair, evoking the nightmarish visions often found in the Japanese cyberpunk movement. Lord of Nightmare stands as Chaos 9's greatest accomplishment, a culmination of his artistic vision and a terrifying statement within a genre that was slowly repeating itself. It is an essential release for anyone interested in the later developments of black metal, or in truly extreme metal in general."
Pre-order / Stream:
https://endlessdismalmoan.bandcamp.com/album/lord-of-nightmare
https://hessianfirm.bigcartel.com/product/endless-dismal-moan-lord-of-nightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbriEwmdJao
Track Listing:
1. Thirst for Pleasure
2. I.S.L.N.W.D
3. Griefs
4. Thirst
5. Lord of Nightmare
6. ENDLESS DISMAL MOAN [9 to Death]
Chaos 9 - Vocals, all instruments.
Reissue layout, design by Fe26.
https://linktr.ee/HessianFirm
Dead Chasm might have just come up with one of the best EPs of the year. Their robust death/doom metal music is meticulously put together while retaining the organic touch, and it's all flawlessly executed too. The trio manages to keep things extremely tight, be it during the slower, doomy parts or the faster, explosive death metal moments. They seem very comfortable with it all. It's now streaming in full on the official channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIOTMIkShxY
DEAD CHASM – “SPECTRAL TYRANNY”
For
fans of: Dead
Congregation, Grave Miasma, Incantation, CruciamentumItalian death/doom metal band Dead Chasm bring forth their latest material that promises to be their most potent output yet. There's not a second wasted on these three songs which are dense with stomach-churning riffs and doom passages that are all but enveloping, while the execution remains tighter than ever before. They make everything work like clockwork as a three-piece unit and there's not a single area where they leave something to be desired. The songs are more elaborately structured than usual in this death/doom style and it's particularly noteworthy how they take the time to flesh out the riffs and go about it all in a natural way rather than forcing it or coming across as ostentatious at any given point of time. Be it during the slower sections building up the thick, ominous atmosphere or the faster, pummelling parts, it's all done in a sincere manner and that too with the right organic sound that retains some of the rawness. Dead Chasm have come up with a bunch of songs that are virtually faultless but more importantly are of the kind that would resonate with any true fan of death/doom metal.
Line up
L. - Guitars and Vocals
G. - Bass guitar
D. - Drums
Illustration by Manuel Scapinello
Track listing
1. Beneath Decadent Shadows
2. Spectral Tyranny
3. Spawn in Absurdity
Release date - May 16th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/deadchasm
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
German dark folk trio EPHEMERAL have unveiled their new single and accompanying music video, "SKYLARKS". The track is featured on the band's upcoming two-song split EP, "OF PINE AND OAK", a collaboration with Northern Irish atmospheric project DOMHAIN, set for release on 16th May via These Hands Melt.
Watch the "Skylarks" video here: https://thoughtswordsaction.com/2025/05/15/premiere-ephemeral-shares-video-for-new-single-skylarks/"Skylarks" offers listeners a deep dive into Ephemeral's signature blend of melancholic folk and progressive elements, weaving together acoustic instrumentation and evocative vocals. The band shared their thoughts on the inspiration behind the song and video:
“Skylarks” is about being inspired, both by the nature that surrounds us and that we're a part of, and by past cultures. It’s about the various forms of inspiration we can tap into by returning to our roots, and about any form of artistic creation - music, poetry, visual art, dance - enabling us to "fly", or to flee from the “busy hive” of our day-to-day thoughts and lives... For the video, contemporary dancer Rosa Faerber interpreted the song and its lyrical themes, adding a stunning visual dimension to the song.”
The "Of Pine and Oak" split EP sees both Domhain and Ephemeral contributing one brand new track each, exploring vividly naturalistic, acoustic soundscapes that evoke an extraordinary sense of quiet and ethereal melancholy. "Skylarks" follows Domhain's recent single "Footsteps" and continues the collaborative spirit between the two These Hands Melt label mates.
The EP will be available digitally and as a limited edition (200 copies) 12” single-sided colour vinyl.
Pre-order the "Of Pine and Oak" EP via the record label’s webstore: https://lnk.to/EPDMN
About Ephemeral:
Ephemeral is a dark folk trio from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2019 by Ella Zlotos, Nikolaus Jira, and Patrick Maiwald. Their music creates a unique blend of melancholic folk with progressive elements, incorporating flutes, whistles, guitars, keyboard instruments, percussion, and strings, all topped with sung and spoken-word vocals. Their lyrics draw inspiration from English literature, exploring themes of longing, growth, transience, and new beginnings.
About Domhain:
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Domhain is a new project formed by four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene. Their sound is an emotional blend of post-black, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal. Their debut mini-album "Nimue", released in October 2023 by These Hands Melt, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial). Each of the three tracks on "Nimue" was accompanied by a conceptual music video created by the band’s drummer and visual director, Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan.
https://www.facebook.com/ephemeralneofolk
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
Fort Wayne (IN) - U.S. Progressive/Power Metal band, ECHOSOUL, have released their much anticipated sophomore album, TIME OF THE DRAGON, through No Dust Records. EchoSoul songs take the listener on a ride through solid chugging and fast and alternate picking, mixed with plenty of scale runs, harmonies and complex type riffing that draw you in. Lots of solos to leave you complete. Every song at its core has a melodic or catchy chorus and some memorable take aways leaving you singing it later in the day.
Whether you’re a Power Metal fan or into Thrash, there is something for everyone. A perfect fusion of Power and Prog Metal! On Time of the Dragon, look for some of what you came to love on the first album, along with Rob back on Vox and Guy’s guitars, in filling in, Randy Walton and Tyler Witte. Some guests include Andy LaRoque (Kings Diamond) and Joseph Michael (Sanctuary, Witherfall)
Guitarist/founder, Guy Hinton, offers his thoughts on the upcoming album:
"On our sophomore album, we dug into the writing process a little deeper. We have goneheavier and yet even more melodic. There was some more collaboration, and we had one of the best guitarists in metal on 'Hollowed Ground,' Andy LaRocque (King Diamond). Some of the album lyrically is a story and concept about the end of days, the rise and fall of the dragon, and its sway on the world. A variety of topics about real tragedy, the battle of suicide, some about political intrigue, conspiracy, and anthems that hit hard. There was a little pressure with following up the debut album The End Of Darkness, which manged to make the Top 10 in Germany and got a ton of good press internationally. Originally scheduled to come out a year ago, the war in Ukraine made it difficult for final production to be done by our friend who lives in the center of the conflict."
Track
Listing:1. Prologue
2. Time Of The Dragon
3. Path Of The Righteous
4. Sister Suicide
5. Instruments Of Chaos
6. Hollowed Ground
7. Invisible Empire
8. Split (Instrumental)
9. Die Demon Die
10. A New Conspiracy
Credits:
Artists:
Guy Hinton- Guitarist, backing vocals, scream vocals, lyricist and songwriter,
Rob Lundgren- Lead vocals
Randy Walton- Bass
Tyler Witte- Drums
Fabio Alessandrini- Drums
Guest Musicians:
Andy La Rocque- Guitar Solo on “Hollowed Ground”
Giampiero Presilli- Guitar Solo on “Sister Suicide”
Brady Gladieux- 2nd Guitar Solo on “Die Demons Die”
Artem Iefimov - Additional Guitars
Artem Iefimov (Red Ghost Studios- Mixing and Mastering Engineer
Cover Art: Mathew Hiron/Scott La Rock
Logo Art: Lauren Ballenger
Bio:
EchoSoul is a Progressive Metal Band from Indiana, formed in 2019, made of a collaboration of known and newer artists founded by guitarist and songwriter Guy Hinton, accompanied by veteran vocalist Rob Lundgren and supporting studio musicians Tyler Witte and Randy Walton.
https://linktr.ee/EchoSoul
Minsk (BY) -Belarusian Sludge/Doom/Death heavies, MATRAQUE, have released the official video for "VOLYA," a track from crushing debut album, NATURE MORTE!
Click for the face-melt at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwF2yelaqDE
Nature Morte is out
now on Lithuania's Ashen Tree Records and streaming in its entirety! The
album is available on cassette and digital formats via Bandcamp (the
limited edition digipack CD will be available on or around May 25). Sonically, Matraque sits somewhere between Grief, Meth Drinker, and Primitive Man. All lyrics are sung in Belarusian. All music is scarring.
Just as over time, anger and aggression transition into despair, disappointment, and depression, the band, without losing loudness and intensity, chooses corresponding forms and nuances of sound to convey their perception of reality.
In search of their style, where low and sluggish masses of sound are interspersed with mid-tempo bursts, Matraque drew inspiration from such acts as Body Void, Primitive Man, The Body, Indian, Bismuth, etc. In terms of genre, one could mention sludge, doom, and primitive death metal.
The band began its journey in Minsk in the spring of 2023. The members brought their experience from previous projects such as Rowan, Televoid, krvvla, Схизма, kusto., Coat, and Łaska.
Track Listing:
1. Kola
2. Pustazelle
3. Malimon
4. Volya
5. Pry`py`nak
Credits:
Drums recorded at Chili records, Minsk by Roman P.
Guitars, bass, vox recording at Zeleniy Lug "Children of Tsnyanka rec.", Minsk, by Alexander G.
Mixed and mastered by Alexander G. at Gasprodmusic.
Art by Marta Shcherbich.
Logo by Olga Kisielewicz.
Line-up:
Vlad B. – Guitar
Anton M. – Drums
Evgeniy S. – Bass
Alexander G. – Vocals, Synths
https://www.facebook.com/ashentreerecords
https://www.facebook.com/matraquedoom
Genres: Heavy Metal, Epic MetalFor fans of: Iron Maiden | Manowar | Doomsword | Omen
The silence is shattered by the sound of thunder as The Battles I Have Won comes galloping out of the darkness. True legends of the Greek heavy metal scene, Reflection have been active for more than three decades and unveiled their debut album, The Fire Still Burns back in 1999. The band still feature founding member, guitarist Stathis Pavlantis and his brother George Pavlantis who hammered the drums of doom on The Fire Still Burns and has been the rhythm master for Reflection ever since. With their comrades in blood and battle, long standing bassist John Litinakis and magnificent new vocalist Kostas Tokas (who made a guest appearance on the track ‘Stormbringer’ from Bleed Babylon Bleed), the Pavlantis brothers have delivered what will surely come to be regarded as Reflection’s finest album to date.
A first track from The Battles I Have Won was revealed at the beginning of March and ‘Lord Of The Wind’ was met with a rapturous response from fans who watched the unveiling of its accompanying lyric video. Full of drama and emotion, with breathtaking guitar work and an irresistible chorus, ‘Lord Of The Wind’ is the epitome of heroic heavy metal – and yet it is just a glimpse of all that The Battles I Have Won has to offer. From the searing energy of exhilarating opener, ‘Only The Swords Survive’ through to the Homeric majesty and narrative mastery of the concluding ‘City Walls Of Malta – The Great Siege’, The Battles I Have Won scales so many towering peaks. The pride and passion of the album’s stunning title track, the dark, beguiling melodies of ‘Sirens’ Song’, the inspiring, heart-lifting adventure of ‘March Of The Argonauts’…every song is a highlight in its own right and The Battles I Have Won is a paradise for those whose hearts still burn with the flame of heavy metal.
Every aspect of The Battles I Have Won has been carefully curated to form part of the band’s overall vision for this, their magnum opus. The orchestration work by Kostas Rekleitis has brought additional depth and atmosphere to each tale as it unfolds, the spectacular cover artwork created by Alexandros Vasilopoulos (Battleroar etc) draws the listener into Reflection’s world of myth, legend and history, while the sound captured by the band’s own Stathis Pavlantis at Dark Water Audio (Marauder, Achelous, Power Crue, Darklon etc) is warm and richly textured, vibrant, vital and alive! Selected members of the Greek media were treated to a pre-release listen to the album on April 13th and soon the world will know why they were so excited by what they heard!
On June 20th Reflection will return to the field of conflict with The Battles I Have Won. Pitch Black Records will release the album on CD and digital formats, while Vinylstore.gr will present a vinyl edition – with special vinyl mastering, under exclusive license from Pitch Black Records.
Line-up:
Kostas Tokas - Vocals
Stathis Pavlantis - Guitars
John Litinakis - Bass
Giorgos Pavlantis - Drums
*additional orchestration by Kostas Rekleitis
Track-list:
01 - Only the Swords Survive
02 - The Battles I Have Won
03 - Lord of the Wind
04 - Sirens’ Song
05 - Once Again (Crime in the Valley of Death)
06 - Celestial War
07 - March of the Argonauts
08 - Lady in the Water
09 - City Walls of Malta – The Great Siege
https://www.pitchblackrecords.com/
NEWS 11.5.2025
Damit ihr auch heute am Sonntag mal wieder auf
ne musikalische Entdeckungsreise gehen könnt , um dann
eventuell eure heimischen vier Wände bald wieder mit neuer Mucke
zu beschallen , gibts auch mal wieder ein bissel was an brandneuem und echt starkem
Tonmaterial .
DEATH KOMMANDER – „NEVER TO GROW OLD “
ANDRAS –"THE ETERNAL MARCH" (EP)
NECRODEUS – “ RUAß”HAMMER
"LEMMY FOREVER"-STOKE-ON-TRENT-ZEREMONIE UND STATUEN-ENTHÜLLUNG AM 9. MAI
Am Freitag, 9. Mai, wird einer der berühmtesten Söhne Burslems – Motörhead-Gründer und Bassist/Sänger Lemmy Kilmister – im Zuge der "Lemmy Forever"-Stoke-On-Trent-Zeremonie geehrt und einmal mehr verewigt. In Anwesenheit von Motörhead-Gitarrist Phil Campbell, der Lemmys Asche in einer prächtigen Statue des lokalen Bildhauers und großen Motörhead-Fans Andy Edwards platzieren wird, wird es ein Tag voller Spaß, Freunde und vor allem auch Lautstärke werden. Die Zeremonie beginnt gegen 16 Uhr im Stadtzentrum von Burslem. Freunde sind herzlich eingeladen, schon früher zu kommen und sich einen schönen Tag zu gönnen, indem sie vor der Zeremonie einige Motörhead-Getränke in den verschiedenen angrenzenden Gaststätten genießen, darunter die Old Post Office Bar und das Ale House. Auch das Market Place Café bietet Erfrischungen, darunter einen speziellen Motörhead-Roast des Tages. Zu den zeremoniellen Festivitäten gehören ein Biker-Umzug zur Begleitung der Asche, verschiedene Redner und ein tosender 21-Rev-Salut, der in feierlicher Ehrfurcht in den Himmel geschossen wird! Die Statue selbst zeigt Lemmy in seiner ganzen Live-Pracht aus dem Jahr 1981, als Motörhead am 1. August 1981 als Headliner des Heavy Metal Holocaust gleich die Straße runter im Port Vale Stadium auftraten.
Hier sind einige weitere Einzelheiten dazu, was die Besucher erwartet und welche Services an diesem Tag angeboten werden:
Die Bare Walls Art Gallery neben der Statue zeigt in ihren Räumlichkeiten eine Installation mit selten gezeigten Fotos von Lemmy sowie weiteren Erinnerungsstücken.
Später am Abend veranstaltet Grumpy's Bar das Event “A Night of Music to Celebrate the Life of Lemmy” mit der Motörhead-Tribute-Band Motörwrecked. Außerdem findet eine Auktion mit exklusiven Artikeln statt, die von Motörheads Plattenlabel und Merchandise-Unternehmen bereitgestellt wurden. Die Auktion ist praktisch ausverkauft, aber eine sehr begrenzte Anzahl an Armbändern wurde für Fans am Tag selbst zurückgehalten. Diese sind am Tag des Events im Veranstaltungsbüro in der Old Post Office Bar erhältlich (nach dem Prinzip: Wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst) und kosten 10 £. No sleep til Grumpy's! https://www.grumpys.uk
Im Old Post Office wird es außerdem exklusives Merchandise geben.
Weiterhin veranstaltet Music Mania von 19:30 bis 22:30 Uhr ein Event im Mitchell Arts Centre in Hanley mit der Motörhead-Tribute-Band Motörheadache. Tickets kosten £18. Weitere Informationen gibt es unter https://musicmaniauk.com/event/motorheadache/
Für diejenigen, die mit dem Auto zur Veranstaltung kommen, stehen Parkplätze beim Port Vale Football Club zur Verfügung, der 7 Gehminuten entfernt liegt. Bei der Anreise mit dem Zug stehen Ace Taxis unter der Telefonnummer 01782 822228 zur Verfügung, um Fans vom Bahnhof zur Veranstaltung zu bringen.
Für alle, die eine Unterkunft benötigen, gibt es im DoubleTree by Hilton Stoke-On-Trent Sonderpreise über die Lemmy2025-Tarife.
Einfach +44 1782 609988 anrufen oder https://hil.tn/0mcah9 besuchen.
https://imotorhead.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMotorhead/
CHONTARAZ – „PHANTOM OF REALITY“
Das norwegisch/griechische
Powerhouse CHONTARAZ ist wieder aus den Untiefen seines höllischen
Ursprungs (in Hell, Norwegen) aufgetaucht und entfacht mit seiner lang
erwarteten Rückkehr große Vorfreude bei Fans von dunkler, dynamischer Musik. Ihr
kommendes drittes Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025)
entführt Hörer einmal mehr in das unverwechselbare Universum von CHONTARAZ und
bietet eine fesselnde Reise durch ihre modernen Klanglandschaften und
atmosphärischen Geschichten.
Das Album beschäftigt sich mit der Reise, sein wahres Ich zu akzeptieren sowie der damit einhergehenden Ablehnung jeder Art der Oberflächlichkeit; eins der Hauptthemen ist dabei Authentizität. CHONTARAZ kombinieren düsteren Modern Metal mit Industrial-Elementen und vereinen intensive Energie meisterhaft mit tiefgründigen lyrischen Erzählungen, wodurch “Phantom of Reality” bei Fans sowohl auf musikalischer als auch auf emotionaler Ebene Anklang findet.
Bei der gemeinsamen Arbeit in seinem Studio in Athen stimmte die Chemie zwischen den Musikern sofort und unbestreitbar, was Fotis (alias Narwhal) dazu veranlasste, sich CHONTARAZ in Vollzeit anzuschließen. Das Ergebnis? Eine bahnbrechende Metal-Kollaboration, die eine außergewöhnliche Verschmelzung von meisterhaftem Songwriting, erstklassigen Musikern und einer Weltklasse-Produktion darstellt – ein Album, das den modernen Metal neu definieren will.
Fotis Benardos doppelte Virtuosität als Produzent sowie Schlagzeuger hat die Soundlandschaft von “Phantom of Reality” geformt und liefert eine immersive, beeindruckende Klangwelt, die jeden Track aufwertet. All das wird nahtlos mit dem brillanten Songwriting von Ahkon (Herbjørn Anglen) und Chontaraz (Frode Kvarsnes) kombiniert, die gemeinsam alle Tracks geschrieben haben und Ahkons Gitarren- und Bass-Künste mit Chontaraz' fesselndem Gesang vereinen. Das Ergebnis ist eine klangliche Explosion: ein kraftvoller Mix aus düsterem, modernen Metal und Industrial-Komponenten, die nahtlos mit Fotis' Präzision und klanglicher Vision verschmelzen. Das Album hat einen Sound, der sowohl roh als auch raffiniert, brutal und fesselnd ist.
Weitere Features auf "Phantom of Reality":
Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) als Gastsänger bei "SCREAM" (Single-VÖ: 28. Februar 2025)
George Nerantzis, verantwortlich für Keys und Industrial Add-Ons bei allen Songs
Kjetil “DeadBit” Lindløkken an zusätzlichen Keys für "Spin The Wheel", "Prayer To The Masses" und "Dressed To Kill"
Noxaerias (Kostas Mexis) am Bass für Live-Auftritte und Musikvideos
Diese Vielzahl an Kollaborationen resultiert in einer Fusion aus erstklassigen Musikern, visionärem Songwriting und einer hervorragenden Produktion, die CHONTARAZ in neue Gefilde katapultiert. Mit Ahkon und Chontaraz, die durch ihr gemeinsames Songwriting die kreative Vision vorantreiben und Fotis Benardo, der den Sound und den Rhythmus prägt, ist dies Metal auf einem absoluten Höhepunkt.
Über CHONTARAZ
CHONTARAZ stammen ursprünglich aus Hell, Norwegen, und hatten 2015 eine kühne Vision: Musik zu machen, die sie wirklich lieben, frei von stilistischen Beschränkungen, und diese mit theatralischen Liveshows, unverkennbarem Make-up sowie fesselndem lyrischen Storytelling zu vermitteln.
Ihr Debütalbum “Rondamauh” ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem legendären Produzenten Daniel Bergstrand (bekannt für seine Arbeit mit In Flames, Meshuggah, Dimmu Borgir, Devin Townsend) entstanden und erhielt viel Lob von Schwergewichten wie dem Sweden Rock Magazine, dem Metal Observer und dem Scream Magazine. Außerdem wurde es von Quebec-Metal zum drittbesten internationalen Album des Jahres 2017 gewählt und von Thomas Youngblood von Kamelot persönlich empfohlen.
2019 stellten CHONTARAZ ihr zweites Album “Speed The Bullet” während 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, vor.
Das in Zusammenarbeit mit George Nerantzis produzierte Album erhielt hervorragende Kritiken und verhalf ihnen zu Tourneen mit Kultbands wie Sepultura und Soulfly sowie zu Auftritten im Vorprogramm von Kamelot und Cyhra.
Mit ihrem dritten Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025) haben sich CHONTARAZ endgültig in ein wahres norwegisch-griechisches Kraftpaket verwandelt, das die dunkle Rohheit des norwegischen Metal mit der technologischen Präzision und industriellen Intensität ihres neuesten Mitglieds und Produzenten Fotis Benardo verbindet.
Fotis (alias Narwhal), der für sein visionäres Schlagzeugspiel und seine Produktionsfähigkeiten bekannt ist, hat die Klanglandschaft der Band neu definiert und für einen mitreißenden, vernichtenden Sound gesorgt, der jeden Track aufwertet.
CHONTARAZ liefern damit aktuell einen wahrhaft einzigartigen Sound, der die Wildheit des Heavy Metal und die Intensität des Black Metal mit dem mechanischen Puls des Industrial und der Schärfe des Modern Metal vereint. Das Ergebnis ist eine Klangexplosion, die Grenzen verschiebt und eine musikalische Umgebung schafft, in der Chaos und Ordnung ein perfektes Gleichgewicht finden. Ein norwegisch-griechischer Metal-Juggernaut, der sich durch eine Mischung aus brutaler Kraft und melodischer Tiefe auszeichnet – mit massiven Riffs, überlagert von elektronischen Texturen und postapokalyptischen Atmosphären. CHONTARZ’ Musik füllt eine Lücke im heutigen Metal-Markt und wagt sich in dunkle Gefilde vor, die andere zu betreten zögern. Für CHONTARAZ geht es nicht nur darum, Musik zu spielen – sondern darum, ein eindringliches, immersives Erlebnis zu bieten.
Mit intensiven Vocals, krassen Gitarren und hypnotischen Rhythmen laden sie die Hörer in ihr Universum ein und schaffen einen Sound, der sowohl hart als auch tief emotional ist. “Phantom of Reality” ist nicht einfach nur ein Album; es ist eine musikalische Reise, bei der Rohheit auf Technologie, Leidenschaft auf Dunkelheit und Hoffnung auf Verzweiflung trifft.
Bereitet euch auf ein unvergleichliches Metal-Erlebnis vor. Auftritt CHONTARAZ – nicht nur eine Band, sondern eine Kraft, die bereit ist, den modernen Metal neu zu gestalten.
https://www.youtube.com/@chontarazofficial
https://www.facebook.com/chontaraz
SAVATAGE ist zurück: Nach ihrer triumphalen Rückkehr nach Südamerika bereitet sich die Band auf ihre „Madness Reigns“-Headliner-Tour und Festivalauftritte in Europa vor!
Nach zehnjähriger Pause haben Savatage ein triumphales Comeback auf der Bühne gefeiert und ihre lang erwartete Welttournee in Südamerika gestartet – mit ihren ersten Auftritten in der Region seit über 20 Jahren. Die Tour begann mit dem spannungsvoll erwarteten Auftritt bei der 30. Jubiläumsausgabe des Monsters of Rock Festivals in São Paulo, Brasilien, wo die Band die Bühne mit anderen Rockgrößen wie den Scorpions, Judas Priest und Europe teilte. Tausende begeisterte Fans füllten den Veranstaltungsort, waren mit Savatage-Merch eingedeckt und hielten Schilder und Plakate hoch, um die Rückkehr der Band zu feiern. Die Show war geprägt von nostalgischen Hits, allen voran “The Ocean” und “Welcome”, die zum ersten Mal seit 1998 live gespielt wurden. Einer der emotionalsten Höhepunkte des Abends war der berührende Moment, als ein vorab aufgezeichnetes Video, in dem Jon Oliva “Believe” performte, abgespielt wurde, gefolgt von einer bewegenden Diashow als Hommage an Criss Oliva. Das Publikum war sichtlich gerührt und die Show wurde für die Band zu einer der unvergesslichsten der Südamerika-Tournee.
Auf diesem Momentum aufbauend, waren Savatage Co-Headliner einer umwerfenden Show im Espaço Unimed, ebenfalls in São Paulo, zusammen mit der legendären Band Opeth. Anschließend reiste die Band nach Chile für ihren längst überfälligen Debütauftritt und erfüllte damit endlich den Traum der chilenischen Fans, die ein Leben lang darauf gewartet hatten, sie live zu sehen. Der südamerikanische Teil der Tour endete mit einem kraftvollen Auftritt beim Masters of Rock Festival am 26. April in Buenos Aires, Argentinien. Bei jedem Auftritt wurden die Fans mit einer epischen und nostalgischen Setlist voller Fan-Lieblingssongs von “Edge of Thorns” und “The Wake of Magellan” verwöhnt, persönlich ausgewählt von Jon Oliva. Die epische Rückkehr von Savatage auf die Bühnen Südamerikas beweist, dass das Erbe der Band so lebendig und kraftvoll ist wie eh und je.
Und für die europäischen Fans: Macht euch bereit! Nach ihrem großen Erfolg in Südamerika werden Savatage diesen Sommer durch Europa touren. Die Tour umfasst mehrere Headliner-Shows, von denen einige innerhalb weniger Stunden ausverkauft waren, sowie große Festivalauftritte. Und das ist noch nicht alles – die Fans können sich auf ein paar besondere Überraschungen freuen.
"Madness Reigns" European Headline Tour and Festival Run 2025
14. Juni, 2025 – Oberhausen, Deutschland – Turbinenhalle * AUSVERKAUFT
16. Juni, 2025 – London, UK – Shepherds Bush Empire
18. Juni, 2025 – Zürich, Schweiz – Komplex 457 *
19. Juni, 2025 – München, Deutschland – Tonhalle * HOCHVERLEGT
24. Juni, 2025 – Milan, Italien – Alcatraz
Festivals:
13. Juni, 2025 – Leeuwarden, Niederlande – Into The Grave Festival
21. Juni, 2025 – Clysson, Frankreich – Hellfest
22. Juni, 2025 – Dessel, Belgien – Graspop Metal Meeting
26. Juni, 2025 – Barcelona, Spanien – Rockfest
28. Juni, 2025 – Thessaloniki, Griechenland – Rockwave Festival
Bleibt auf dem Laufenden für Updates und Ankündigungen unter:
https://www.facebook.com/savatage
DOMHAIN / EPHEMERAL – „OF PINE AND OAK”
Northern
Irish atmospheric project Domhain and German dark folk trio Ephemeral
will release a two-song split EP "Of Pine and Oak" on 16th May via
Italian label These Hands Melt.
This special collaboration sees Domhain and Ephemeral each contribute one brand new track, both exploring vividly naturalistic, acoustic soundscapes that evoke an extraordinary sense of quiet and ethereal melancholy. Listeners can anticipate a unique blend of Domhain's signature emotional intensity and Ephemeral's rich, immersive atmospheres.
Ephemeral shared their excitement, stating: “We couldn’t be happier about this collaboration with our dear label mates Domhain who share our passion for mythical, melancholic and meaningful music, lyrics and visual art. It’s been a great honour for us and an absolute pleasure to join forces for this special release!”
Domhain echoed this sentiment, commenting: “We are over the moon to share the news of our collaboration with our friends and wonderful musicians from Ephemeral. We are so proud to see these two tracks side by side on this EP, and we hope you will enjoy listening to them together as much as we do. “Of Pine and Oak” is an ode to nature, to our connection to it, and to the inspiration it may bring… which we think will resonate with many of you. A million thanks to our common label These Hands Melt for facilitating this split and for always being so encouraging and excited with our music.”
"Of Pine and Oak" will be available digitally and as a limited edition (200 copies) 12” single-sided colour vinyl.
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Domhain is a new project formed by four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene. Their sound is an emotional blend of post-black, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal. Their debut mini-album "Nimue", released in October 2023 by These Hands Melt, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial). Each of the three tracks on "Nimue" was accompanied by a conceptual music video created by the band’s drummer and visual director, Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan.
Ephemeral is a dark folk trio from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2019 by Ella Zlotos, Nikolaus Jira, and Patrick Maiwald. Their music creates a unique blend of melancholic folk with progressive elements, incorporating flutes, whistles, guitars, keyboard instruments, percussion, and strings, all topped with sung and spoken-word vocals. Their lyrics draw inspiration from English literature, exploring themes of longing, growth, transience, and new beginnings.
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
https://www.facebook.com/ephemeralneofolk
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
PRESSURE POINTS' debut album, REMORSES TO REMEMBER, quickly established the band as a notable force in the field of melodic and progressive metal. Released in 2010 to critical acclaim, the album gathered widespread attention, earning a spot on the Finnish album charts at #44 and making appearances on Finnish national radio. Pressure Points was ranked second as a newcomer of the year category in the Finnish Metal Awards in 2011.
With its dynamic compositions and varying soundscapes, the album remains a defining creation in the band's journey.
The album originally released by legendary Finnish Firebox Records is now re-released by another Finnish label Inverse Records. The release includes two bonus tracks: Shapeless (Herranen remix) and Pain Dimension.
Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pressure-points-remorses
Pressure Points, currently signed with a Spanish label Art Gates Records, was founded in Heinola in the summer of 2004. Their music has been described as exceptional in the field of melodic and progressive metal. It blends various styles including strong melodies and innovative structures.
In succession to their debut release in 2011, the band has released two albums, False Lights (2015) and The Island (2023). In late 2024, they released two new singles, The Chase and Shapeless. In 2025, the band focuses on writing their fourth album while continuing to perform live. Pressure Points has shared the stage with international acts such as Katatonia, Nile, Omnium Gatherum, Insomnium, and Fleshgod Apocalypse.
Upcoming shows:
16.5.2025 Maanalainen, Tampere (with Warfarer, Vansidian)
17.5.2025 Masis & NWOFHM, Monttu New Level, Pori (with Gothony, Shereign)
10.7.2025 – 13.7.2025 Masters of Rock, Czech
Previous tours:
Fleshgod Apocalypse + Omnium Gatherum tour, Baltic leg, in 2022,
Winter's Gate Finnish tour with Insomnium and Swallow the Sun in 2016,
Those Whom The Gods Detest with Nile in North Europe in 2011
Keep of Kalessin Finnish tour in 2010.
Band members as of 2025:
Juha Tretjakov - vocals
Veli-Matti Kyllönen - keyboards, backing vocals
Kari Olli - guitar
Janne Parikka - bass
Vili Auvinen - drums
Members and instruments during RtR:
Veli-Matti Kyllönen - keyboards, backing vocals
Kari Olli - guitars and vocals
Juho Suortti - guitars
Janne Parikka – bass
Vili Auvinen – drums
Lars Eikind - vocals on Edge of Endurance
Track list:
1. Atonement
2. Temptation For Hate
3. Edge Of Endurance
4. Calm
5. The Past Within
6. Out Of Sync
7. Grand Illusion
8. Shapeless (Herranen remix) (bonus track)
9. Pain Dimension (bonus track)
Remorses to Remember album artwork by Olli-Pekka Lappalainen
Mixed by Juho Räihä SoundSpiral Audio
Mastered by Svante Försback
https://linktr.ee/pressurepointsofficial
https://www.facebook.com/PressurePointsBand
Let the Sabbath begin... and let it be Electric!!! Elisa Montaldo and Samael Von Martin, minds and souls of ALBUS DIABOLUS, present the new single from "COMPENDIO ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO" the debut of the band. It is "ELETTRO SABBA"
maybe the anthem of the project for intents and sounds that sees
alongside their incredible compositions and performances, the
participation of Simòn Fèrètro with an impressive
guitar solo. The dark and lysergic universe of the project, where
experimentation and avant-garde sound reign supreme, finds its final
completeness in the creation of the official video by Noxifer (aka
Gianfranco Logiudice) who captures the essence of the song and the
entire project.
The video is available on Youtube at the link https://youtu.be/AtquFM0YBZ8
The band's intent to destabilize normality and the expected to become a loose cannon in the European Electro-Goth scene is becoming more and more reality especially for those who love bands like EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS.
The journey into their Art has just started!
http://bit.ly/3CejxJq
Finnish pagan metal band KAAMOS WARRIORS is set to release their yet untitled fifth studio album later in 2025 via Inverse Records.
The first single 'SEITA' is released today and music video of the track is available here: https://youtu.be/rzjPK5KH9R4
The guitarist Jani Moilanen comments:
"We have a great respect and admiration towards the nature and wilderness and it has guided us deeper into to world of ancient (Finnish) paganism. We live in the area where we are blessed to be surrounded by beautiful nature. All this reflects more and more in our music and can be heard and seen in our new ”Seita” single and music video."
Listen to Seita single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/kaamos-warriors-seita
Biography:
The Finnish Pagan metal band Kaamos Warriors was formed in 2018 by Jani Moilanen (guitars) and Mikko Ojala (vocals, guitars). Their inspiration for the musical athmosphere is derived from the the beauty and the harshness of the Northern nature. The roots of the band rely heavily on the wilderness of the North. Current line-up includes also Inka Ojala (shamandrum) and Marjo Moilanen (bass guitar). Their presence in the band has further expanded the whole audiovisual atmosphere of the Finnish paganism. Jani, Mikko and Inka have also being playing together in the melodic metal band Dark The Suns. The former bass player for the Kaamos Wariors (played bass in the previous two albums) Jyri Moilanen is currently having a break from playing in the band. All the musical releases of the band have been released via Inverse Records.
Composed & lyrics by Mikko Ojala & Jani Moilanen
Line-up:
Mikko Ojala: vocals, guitars & drums
Jani Moilanen: guitars
Inka Ojala: shamandrum & percussions
Marjo Moilanen: bass
Synths & Soundscapes: Mikko Ojala, Inka Ojala
Poetry recitation: Riia Moilanen, Hilla Moilanen, Pihla Moilanen
https://www.facebook.com/KaamosWarriorsOfficial
Label: Independent Release
Release date: May 19th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Megadeth | Metal Church | Xentrix | Meliah Rage
You climb the steps up from the darkness and behind you a cold mist curls lazily through a place of ruin and decay. A golden sword hangs from the impenetrable shadows above, suspended by a thread it turns slowly in the air, casting a sickly yellow light upon the scene below. A hooded figure stands beside a cracked and broken shrine, a hammer in his left hand, its heavy, lumpen head stained with ancient blood, fragments of white bone trapped between its claws. Ahead stands another door, emblazoned with the face of a tiger above the silver blade of a katana. God’s gifts lie behind you and a new order awaits…
In the late 1980s the UK thrash scene was exploding, with a horde of bands riding the wave of the most exciting mutation of metal since the movement began. Bands like Sabbat, Xentrix and Onslaught were at the head of the pack and right beside them, in the vanguard, were Toranaga, weaving melody through complex riffs and bursting with a fierce energy and fiery creativity. Their Bastard Ballads debut for Peaceville Records hit with a seismic impact – leading to a deal with major label Chrysalis Records, tours with the likes of Manowar and Venom and a magnificent second album – God’s Gift – released in 1990. Sadly the band fractured under the stresses and strains and bar a brief revival under the banner The Bastard Son Of Toranaga, it seemed their race was run. However in 2024, with original, ever-present vocalist Mark Duffy at the helm, Toranaga were reborn as Toranaga U.K. and now, 35 years on from the release of God’s Gift, the first statement in this new chapter is ready to be unleashed!
A New Order brings together two brand new songs and two re-recordings of Toranaga classics – reinvigorated and re-energised for a new metal age. The EP begins with the precise riffing of ‘Desecration’ and two things quickly become apparent. Firstly Toranaga U.K. have embraced the original Toranaga spirit and captured so much of what was great about the band and the UK thrash scene of the ‘80s. Secondly, the power of Mark Duffy’s distinctive vocals remains utterly undiminished by the passage of time. With a great chorus and thrilling solos – the twin guitars duelling over snarling riffs – ‘Desecration’ sets the standards high. Luckily ‘A New Order’ matches those standards with ease, with superb atmosphere, an epic feel and jagged, staggered riffing over a rock solid rhythmic base. Then it’s time for ‘The Shrine’, one of the best songs bar none to emerge from the creative furnace of UK thrash. Armed with riffs that deserve to be heard by a whole new generation of fans, ‘The Shrine’ is a genuine classic. And finally we have ‘Sword Of Damocles’ – a stunning song full of dark portent that has been superbly recreated and reanimated. The way in which Toranaga U.K. have merged the old and new is masterful and A New Order is a remarkable new beginning for this outstanding band.
Produced and mixed by acclaimed composer Steve Kilpatrick at Soundfackery studios in France and adorned in the imagery of artist Sarah Louise Rose, A New Order will be released on May 19th.
Recording Line-up:
Mark Duffy - Vocals
Liam Mulpetre - Guitars
Josh Goldie - Guitars
Mike Todd - Bass
Toby Wallace – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/ToranagaUK
A relentless dive into despair and destruction: with raw, nihilistic black metal fury, Burden of Flesh tears through the veil of suffering with scathing riffs, unholy intensity, and lyrics drenched in torment. Brace yourself for an unfiltered journey into the abyss where brutality and darkness reign supreme.
'Tetragrammaton' is now available on all major digital platforms.
Stream/Download: https://orcd.co/tetragrammaton
Milwaukee (WI) - PATHWAYS, the sophomore EP from one-man progressive doom/avant-garde metal project, LIMINAL SPIRIT, is out now on all digital platforms! Pathways follows last year's self-titled debut album and is available to purchase/stream at the following locations:
https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/pathways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGkn2dRAqQM
FFO: Jesu, Cynic, Confessor, Swans, Skepticism
Genre descriptors get one only so far with Pathways though. Multi-instrumentalist/composer, Jerry Hauppa (Northless, Ara, Deorbit), explains that the solo project is "focused on making 'seance music' or, in other words, a backdrop suitable for channeling the passage of spirits."
Pathways consists of the single 14-minute title track, depicting five individuals trapped within a maze. It is fully through-composed, meaning there are no repeating parts of any kind until the epilogue. It is composed in a way that brings to mind a stage play, where there are intermissions and the aforementioned epilogue, and the lines of each of the five characters comprise the lyrics. The music will shift in tone throughout the piece to reflect the mood of each speaker.
Track
Listing:
1. Pathways
Credits:
All music written, recorded and mixed by Jerry Hauppa.
Mastered by Jeff Wojtysiak at Spiral Sound Studios.
Artwork: James Becker
Liminal Spirt is:
Jerry Hauppa - Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming, Synthesizer, Vocoder
Bio:
Liminal Spirit is Jerry Hauppa's solo project. Prior to this, Hauppa was involved in sludge metal band Northless, death metal band Ara, and instrumental space-focused band, Deorbit.
San Franisco (CA) - American Tech-Death Juggernaut, OMINOUS RUIN, have released new album, REQUIEM, ON WILLOWTIP! The album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Click to purchase/stream below!
https://ominousruin.bandcamp.com/album/requiem
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/ominous-ruin.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70umHNI8we0
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, "Seeds of Entropy. "
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Track
Listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Seeds of Entropy
3 - Eternal
4 - Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 - Divergent Anomaly
6 - Fractal Abhorrence
7 - Architect of Undoing
8 - Staring into the Abysm
9 - Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/OminousRuin
Hi
everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. On May 19,
the second album of one of the most original Czech hard metal bands - SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION - which has
been around since 1996 and has recorded 8 studio albums since then, will be
released again after 20 years. The digipak reissue has a revised frontcover, a
new booklet and 3 audio bonuses.
The full press release in English can be read on the Pařátshop website https://paratshop.cz/2025/04/28/the-second-album-six-degrees-of-separation-is-released-after-twenty-years-in-a-digipak-re-edition-with-bonuses/
There you will also find high-quality graphic previews.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION – “ TRIOTUS, TRICEPHALUS AND TRIBADISM” (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
Style: Tri metal
Release date: 19.5. 2025
Type: Digipak + 12 page booklet
limited 500 copies
Listen to the recording on YouTube channel Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOl96Apuqc&t=6s
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/six-degrees-of-separation-triotus-tricephalus-and-tribadism-2/
“This is Where Death Hunts — the title track from our second album. We summoned our brothers, and they answered the call. Eternal respect to the killer drummers of the Hungarian underground for bringing the thunder!”
Paying homage to the raw force of their scene, the band delivers a tribute to underground extremity — featuring an all-star cast of Hungarian drumming powerhouses whose sheer velocity and ferocity fuel this sonic onslaught.
Drummers featured:
Árpád Szenti (Thy Catafalqe, Athame, Evil Tears, Sentio Ergo Sum, Damnation, Ahriman, Voidshrine)
Balázs Cseresnyés (Malediction, Ragály)
Balázs Pőcz (Paediatrician, Clitgore)
Farkas Hajdú 'Fado' (Deprived of Salvation, Mezmerized, NoaRock)
Directed and edited by the visionary András Szekely.
The album Where Death Hunts is available now on all major digital platforms: https://orcd.co/wheredeathhunts
KING’S HAMMER – “TO SPEAK IN TONGUES” (EP)
Label: Rottweiler Records/Broken Curfew Records
Release date: June 13th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Mortification | Dyscarnate | Pantera | Grave
I have sought for answers, begged for illumination from the thrones and powers that lie beyond the limits of our vision…and my prayers have been answered. A wisdom beyond comprehension, knowledge beyond bearing has been delivered unto me and my mind is in flames. The absolute essence of truth consumes me and my sense of self teeters upon the brink of annihilation. I open my mouth and the words spill forth in the language of eternity, never meant for human lips to form or mortal intellect to contain. My world splinters beneath the gaze of heaven. I am undone. I am become a conduit and while my consciousness is lost and my heart trembles, my soul begins to speak in tongues…
To Speak in Tongues is the debut EP from King’s Hammer, the savage death metal solo project from Chuck Weatherman, the guitarist and vocalist of Richmond, Virginia thrashers Shovelhead A.D. – an outpouring of the accomplished front man’s hardest and heaviest musical inclinations. Opening with the measured power of ‘The War In Heaven’, To Speak In Tongues delivers riff upon riff upon riff; focussed hammer blows that land with force and conviction. With the addition of an imposing vocal presence and a deliciously grim sound palette To Speak In Tongues makes for remorseless, relentless, yet atmospheric listening. From the old school death metal attack of first single ‘Vehement Zeal’, through the brutal grooves of ‘Wrath Descends’ and the epic ‘Crusade IX’ to the shuddering juggernaut of darkness that is concluding track, ‘Witches Bvrn’, King’s Hammer takes no prisoners.
With the final master being applied by Seth Metoyer of Mangled Carpenter and Pulpit Vomit, you know that To Speak In Tongues has all the grit and raw venom that death metal needs to deliver the maximum impact. With the muscle of Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew behind this release, when the hammer falls on June 13th prepare to be crushed!
Line-up:
Chuck Weatherman – All music and vocals
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/brokencurfewrecords
https://kingshammerbcr.bandcamp.com
Sargas return with HISTORIA, a gripping three-track EP forged during one of the most turbulent chapters in Iran’s recent history—the 2023 protests ignited by the murder of Mahsa ‘Jina’ Amini. With a runtime of just over 21 minutes, this release is more than just music—it’s a tribute. A haunting dedication to the women of third-world countries whose lives are too often defined by restriction, silence, and suffering.
Each track on HISTORIA unravels a chapter of a woman’s journey through a life born into oppression. Opening with Birth, Sargas paint the stark image of growing up in a society steeped in outdated traditions, where dreams suffocate under the weight of control and expectation. It’s not a celebration of life—it’s the beginning of an inevitable decay.
In Home, the protagonist finds peace not in life, but in death. Through a ghostly dialogue with her parents, she confronts the love and the pain they’ve passed down. Sargas masterfully explore the paradox of being alive while spiritually dead, and how home becomes not a place, but a grave.
Finally, Hell ventures deeper into the psyche of someone who sees suicide not as an end, but as a possible transcendence. To her, death is divine—not in a religious sense, but as a doorway to peace. The song collapses the wall between hell and heaven, suggesting that the afterlife’s torment might be kinder than Earth’s cruelty.
Brutal, poetic, and deeply human, HISTORIA doesn’t ask for sympathy—it demands reckoning. Sargas have crafted a record that turns pain into protest, and death into defiance. It’s not just an
EP; it’s a cry that echoes across borders.
Biography
Crushing Death Metal grooves and ominous roars—Iranian Death Metal quintet Sargas shatters genre norms with their distinct brand of Nihilistic Metal. Formed in 2018 by guitarist Salar Alizadeh and former drummer Hamed Sadraei, the Tehran-based Blackened Death Metal outfit underwent several lineup changes during the three-year songwriting process for their upcoming debut album. The band's evolution took a defining turn with the arrival of Saleh Rezayi on vocals, whose ferocious growls and screams became a driving force in their sound. With the addition of Arsalan Soltani on lead guitar and Pooya Shitrah as drummer and band manager, Sargas solidified their lineup and sharpened their vision. Drawing inspiration from Black and Doom Metal, they fearlessly defy extreme metal conventions—including the genre’s longstanding aversion to clean vocals. Marked by triumphs and tragedies, and shaped by the loss of those closest to them, Sargas crafts music that emerges from darkness and embraces death itself.
SARGAS are:
Saleh Rezaei - Vocals
Arsalan Soltani - Lead Guitars
Salar Alizadeh - Rhythm Guitars:
Hamid Tehrani - Bass
Pooya Shitrah - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords
Format: CD
Genre: Slamming Brutal Death Metal
Artwork: Lordigan Pedro Sena - Lordigan
Recorded at: Flat Studio
Mix & Master: Heartwork Recording Studio
We're beyond excited to announce Phrymerial’s upcoming album, "Earth Wonderland", set for release on May 6th via @vomityourshirt and @miasmarecords!
The successor to "Xenomorphic Creation" delivers a grotesque and satirical take on human nature, suffering, and the illusion of control under the dominion of higher beings.
Tracklist:
1. Welcome (Instrumental)
2. Earth Wonderland
3. Sadness Factory (feat. Lukas from Stillbirth and Xavleg)
4. Dickdra
5. The Human Cleansing Pt. 3
6. Enki’s Arena
7. Failure on Brain’s Inhibitors
8. Atrocities (feat. Phlegeton from Wormed)
9. Anthropomorphic Toxin
Advance first single + pre-orders drop March 18!
https://www.facebook.com/VomitYourShirt
www.vomityourshirt.com
On
May 19, the album of the Czech band BLOODY OBSESSION called "HUSARIA",
which was released by Parat Productions on CD in 2017, will be
released for the first time on LP.
Get ready for great old school death metal in the style of BOLT THROWER, VOMITORY, BENEDICTION...
The full press release in English can be read on the Pařátshop website
https://paratshop.cz/2025/04/27/old-school-death-metal-from-czech-republic-bloody-obsession-first-time-on-lp-format/
There you will also find high-quality graphic previews.
BLOODY OBSESSION – “HUSARIA “
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Old school death metal
Release date: 19.5. 2025
Type: 12´black vinyl
limited 250 copies
Listen to the recording on YouTube channel Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1SzhDVWF8&t=990s
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/bloody-obsession-husaria-2/
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: July 25th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Guttural Secrete | Internal Bleeding | Disgorge
Beneath the underground, below the sewers and the graves, deeper in darkness than catacombs unseen by human eye lies the offal choked lair of the sculptors of the most brutal, repugnant and inhuman of sounds. In subterranean passageways knee-deep in effluence, where the fetid stench of the ordurous air stings your lungs and the essence of sin oozes in thick, pustulent trails down the shit smeared walls…where screams of agony and despair arouse no pity, only inflame obscene lust…here, in the filth, amidst the bodies of the broken and abused, lurks the heaviest and most horrifying of them all…Kill Everything!
It’s been seven years since Kill Everything unleashed their Scorched Earth debut album upon us and now, just as humanity has begun to heal, they have returned with the immoral massacre of Headless Cum Dumpster! With opening track ‘Fermented Drippings’ the Texan purveyors of perversion fling themselves from the precipice where music becomes the expression of blind, raging sadism…and from there they rampage from one monumental act of malevolence to the next. The sickening, sinuous riffs of ‘Human Tripa Tacos’ are staggering; the real power and menace of Kill Everything radiating from this tour de force of the furthest reaches of musical extremity. ‘No Lives Matter’ delivers methodical hammer blows of indiscriminate hatred – there are no exceptions and no survivors in the face of this tirade of slaughter. ‘Violator’ pulses with extreme aggression and the foul, infected grooves of the album’s title track are an act of audial desecration beyond measure. So many unforgettable expressions of the most sordid, twisted art! And the band save the most heinous act til last… ‘Infatuated With Homicide’ begins with the words of mob executioner Richard Kuklinski, the infamous ‘iceman’ – “Assassin? Sounds so exotic…I was just a murderer” – before unleashing an inferno of blasts, swirling weaponized riffs and deranged expulsions of vocal venom; a devastating conclusion to an album of impossible violence.
The insane chaos of Kill Everything’s sound was produced, mixed and mastered by Johnny Abila Jr., the band’s vocalist since 2020 and his efforts have resulted in an album that sounds like bodies being torn apart – utter carnage. This sonic palette of absolute barbarity is reflected in the album artwork, which was created by Indian artist Ryan Omega (Cervicectomy etc). Headless Cum Dumpster will be poured into the water supply like a virulent poison on July 25th by Comatose Music. Who else?
Line-up:
Brian Wynn - Guitars
Johnny Abila Jr. - Vocals
Shane Newbrough - Drums
Brett Wilson - Guitars
Mike Leach - Bass
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/killeverythingtx/
Wormholedeath is proud to welcome Brazilian hardcore thrash metal powerhouse NADA to its roster! The relentless trio has signed a deal for the release of their full-length album, ENTROPIA, a ferocious and politically charged record that embodies the chaos and defiance of modern Brazil.
NADA: Uncompromising, Unrelenting, Unfiltered
Formed in 2020 in the interior of São Paulo, NADA emerged as a response to the growing social and political turmoil in Brazil. With the pandemic forcing them into isolation, the band used their time to craft a sound that is as raw and urgent as the reality they face.
Driven by the rise of the extreme right and the spread of fascism and denialism in Brazil, NADA channels their rage into fast, direct, and unapologetic music. Their hard-hitting riffs and no-nonsense lyrics aim at the injustices plaguing their country, blending social critique with deeply personal reflections.
After making their mark with a blistering self-titled debut EP in 2022, featuring five uncompromising tracks, the band is now set to unleash their most powerful statement yet: Entropia.
Entropia: A Soundtrack to a Fractured Society
A sonic gut-punch that refuses to be ignored, Entropia captures the intensity of life in Brazil over the past decade. The album reimagines five tracks from NADA’s debut EP while introducing eight brand-new songs, resulting in a relentless fusion of thrash, hardcore, punk, and death metal, infused with Brazilian and South American influences.
The album’s cover art, designed by @kaparootz, depicts the destruction of Indigenous values upon first contact with colonial forces—an allegory for the modern world’s descent into deception and manipulation. NADA draws a parallel between this historical loss and today’s society, where truth is often drowned in a sea of lies.
More than just an album, Entropia is a battle cry. It’s the sound of a band refusing to stay silent, using music as a weapon to confront oppression and demand change.
NADA’s Entropia—where hardcore/thrash metal becomes a survival tactic.
Tracklist
1 · 1984 (Crumbs for the Poors)
2 · Sociofobia
3 - Julgamento
4 · Entropia
5 · Vengeance
6 · Nada
7 · Simpatia
8 · Veneno
9 · O Cego e o Orgulho
10 · Distopia
11 · Black Bodies Bleeds
12 · O Ovo da Serpente
13 · Porcos da Mentira
www.youtube.com/@nadacrossover
www.instagram.com/nada.metal
Label:
Rottweiler Records
Release date: May 16th 2025
When Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer and lyricist Christopher Adam joined Rottweiler Records and released the first EP from his Refiner solo project, Return To Dust, back in February, a second EP was promised to be following in its wake…and now that second EP has arrived! Mistake offers up two new tracks that continue the Refiner path established on Return To Dust, blending metalcore, electronics and ambience, but with a different emphasis on the comingled elements – creating again, fresh and unexpected sounds…
Opening track ‘upside uʍop’ conjures images of a neon lit night as riffs, melodies, bass, drums, powerful vocals and dark, brooding electronics shift and swirl around each other like oil and water. The bewitching alchemy of sounds leads you down dark alleyways into unsuspected musical territories – enthralling and unsettling in equal measure. Meanwhile title track ‘Mistake’ is different again…lush and rich, its ringing melodies draw you into its embrace where you confront huge, collapsing riffs adorned in electronic finery and swathes of synth driven atmospherics. Adam’s voice is used vibrantly and dynamically, an instrument in its own right adding to the multifaceted nature of the song. This is seriously heavy, but it’s also so very different, intriguing and unusual. This is music invoked by a creative approach and an individual vision.
As with the Return To Dust, there are bonus instrumental versions of the Mistake EP tracks being made available and you’ll be able to seek these out exclusively on Bandcamp. The potent elixir of the Mistake EP will be available from Rottweiler Records on May 16th, so be ready to explore…
Line up:
Christopher Adam – all music, vocals and production/engineering
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/refinermetal
MY PLACE WAS TAKEN – “ALTAR DE MOLOC” (SINGLE)
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: May 9th 2025
Hailing from the Mexican border town of Matamoros, My Place Was Taken was formed by vocalist Jesus Salas and guitarist Abraham Barberi – a reaction to the culture of drugs and violence that had insidiously infiltrated their local metal community. They wanted to create a musical force of supreme heaviness and power that would also offer an alternative positive message, bringing the metal scene together, uniting them with music. My Place Was Taken came to the attention of Rottweiler Records after releasing two crushing EPs – My Place Was Taken and Imparables – and playing an incendiary Mexican show with Grave Robber. Now the first fruits of this new alliance are about to be unleashed in the form of Altar De Moloc, a monumental single, delivered with fierce focus and single minded intent…
Altar De Moloc opens with an onslaught of deep, thunderous riffs, driven by a soul shaking sense of menace. The guitars seem to delve into the deep places of the earth while the vocals pronounce their message with a combination of imperious guttural might and incisive invective. The combination of elements is a full frontal assault that is as exhilarating as it is impactful. Altar De Moloc is a massive hit of maximum deathcore devastation and a statement of intent for all that is to come from My Place Was Taken and Rottweiler Records!
With artwork depicting the unholy horror of Moloc, the ancient Canaanite deity who demanded the sacrifice of children in his worship, Altar De Moloc will be unleashed on May 9th!
Current Line up:
Jesus Salas - Vocals
Abraham Barberi - Guitars
Helix Nebula – Bass
Daniel Castaneda - Drums
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://rottweilerrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MyPlaceWasTaken
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Eigen Beheer
Distribution: Sonic Rendezvous
Tracklist:
01 The Messenger
02 Acta Non Verba
03 Dark Times
04 We Enslave Angels
05 Fall From Grace
06 When I Become You
07 Chaos vs. Chaos
08 Signs Of The End
Reject The Sickness: 15 years of unbridled aggression
Since 2010, Belgian metal band Reject The Sickness has been storming the scene with a furious mix of rhythmic death metal, ruthless melodic aggression and atmospheric black, supplemented with a touch of metalcore.
Their music is more than just sound—it’s a journey through the dark realities of marginalized youth. They explore themes of abuse, neglect, and self-harm, bringing these raw emotions to life in their lyrics.
Although their lyrics are fictional, they carry the weight of real experiences.
Singer Guy, a social worker in addition to being a frontman, weaves his observations and insights into the lyrics, giving them an extra layer of intensity and authenticity.
2025 will be a milestone year: Reject The Sickness celebrates 15 years of pure power and unfiltered expression.
And to mark this milestone, they will release their latest album ‘Signs of the End’ worldwide on May 30th.
An album in which they push their boundaries, further sharpen their style and delve deeper into the human psyche.
Their lyrics cast a shadow over the mental struggles of neglected youth—their fear, hatred, and the gnawing desire for revenge.
But adult revenge proves to be an illusion, leaving them trapped in their own thoughts, locked in a battle with no way out.
Musically, the band continues to evolve: even more rhythmic, even more atmospheric, even more catchy.
Harder, rawer, and uncompromisingly melodic. Even the mysterious realm of atmospheric black metal is explored in a few songs.
Reject The Sickness is unstoppable. In 2025, they take a bold step towards complete label independence—a conscious decision, because they believe they can do it better themselves now.
Line-Up:
Zoran Van Bellegem: guitar
Jannick Govaert: drums
Guy Vercruysse: vocals
Jonas Messiaen: bassguitar
Ruben Van der Beken: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/rejectthesickness
For fans of: Metallica’s melody, Megadeth’s thrash, and Opeth’s atmosphere—with a modern Belgian twist.
Roaring with high-voltage riffs, punishing rhythms, and an unstoppable energy, “The Power of Your Soul” is a full-throttle declaration of inner strength and spiritual resistance. With razor-sharp precision and anthemic intensity, Divni San deliver a modern thrash classic built for both the pit and the stage.
Pre-save the album “Dreamlike Tales” now: https://orcd.co/dreamliketales
www.youtube.com/@divnisan
www.facebook.com/DIVNISAN
It's
time to unveil the first song from the new MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL album "SONGS
FROM THE RESTLESS OBLIVION". The song is "PRONE TO
REVOLTING" and Noxifer (aka Gianfranco Logiudice), drummer of
the band, has realized a great videoclip that you can see at https://youtu.be/9Lsm1cNSxN8
Pioneers of the Italian Death/Black scene, and with a new very powerful line-up (Dysphoria at keys and Taz at bass joined Buzz and Noxifer), MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL succeed to create a very personal sound, crossing different emotional states within the whole panorama of the Extreme Metal paying homage to the fury of Death Metal, to the malignant essence of Black Metal and to the morbid atmospheres of Gothic Metal, all built on an extremely powerful and clear production, daughter of the Lost Soul Studios led by Buzz himself.
For the old fans of the band this new song will not be a surprise at all. For those who don't know them but have ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILITY and CRADLE OF FILTH as part of their favorite bands, "Prone To Revolting", as well as the entire album due out on June 13th, will be a must listen!
Pre-Order "Songs From The Restless Oblivion": https://t.ly/7Bn5e
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/memoriesofalostsoulofficial
Their
previous releases include the heavy-hitting single "Lucifer’s
Wings" (2021) and the energetic and well-received EP "Spread
Your Wings and Die" (2024).
Petrolbreath recently recorded new material in a fully analog format at Astia Studio, with producer Anssi Kippo at the helm. With these recordings the trio has made a leap towards the raw and authentic sound format that has shaped the soundscape of their own heroes from the eighties as well.
The first track to be released from these sessions is the single “ROADKILL”, which paints a picture of a desert highway with its ominous guitar intro. The tempo subtly increases until the song erupts into a fast and thunderous sonic assault; a true Petrolbreath trademark.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/petrolbreath-roadkill
Like the aftermath of a car crash after a wild night with an unsatiable woman, the trip is far from over.
“Recording fully analog took us back to the soundscape of our youth – to the rawness and honesty that made us pick up instruments in the first place! Roadkill was the perfect burst of rage to launch us down this path, where we were able to capture that same energy band has playing live!” – Petrolbreath
https://www.facebook.com/Petrolbreathband
DARKENHÖLD emerged in 2008 as a
trio composed of Aldébaran, Cervantes and Aboth, with the ambition of creating
a melodic, epic, atmospheric Black Metal imbued with the spirit of the 90s from
which the band has always drawn most of its influences.
The band’s universe was established from the beginning around a dreamlike medieval imagination, roaming the deep forests, high mountains and mysterious caves of the South-East of France where the band is from. The old stones of fortified castles, fantastic bestiaries, tales and legends, the dense and complex landscapes of the Côte d’Azur are the sources of inspiration for a Black Metal that first stood out with the release of two self-produced split-CDs in 2009, mixing covers with original compositions.
Introducing the band’s emblematic animal, the Wyvern, and laying the first foundations of its universe, they prepared the ground for the release of a first album, « A passage to the towers… », released in 2010.
The band would then release a second album, defended throughout a French tour, before introducing the French language in its third album, « Castellum », which would open new horizons for them.
The release in 2017 of their fourth album, « Memoria Sylvarum », released as a self-production, would see the group access larger stages, culminating in a well-received performance at Hellfest in 2018.
The year 2020 marked a further step with the signing of the group to the label « Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions » and the release of their fifth album, « Arcanes et Sortilèges ». Coming out of the covid period which will put a brake on the band’s rise, DARKENHÖLD returned to live activity in 2022 before starting the composition of their sixth album, LE FLÉAU DU ROCHER to be released on June 6, 2025.
Pre-orders are now available: https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
Digipack CD
Black LP
Color LP
Collector's Box limited to 100 copies (All items are exclusive to the box except the CD)
DARKENHÖLD - "LE FLÉAU DU ROCHER"
Release date : June 6 2025
Genre: Melodic Epic Black Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 47min59
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
01. Codex de la Chevalerie
02. Le Cortège Royal
03. Temps Enfouis (instrumentale)
04. L’ascension du Mage Noir
05. Dans l’antre de la Vouivre
06. Troubadour
07. Le Fléau du Rocher
08. Gardienne des Dryades
09. Sortilège Ancestral (instrumentale)
10. La Cavalerie Fantôme
11. Pour le Royaume
https://www.facebook.com/Darkenhold
Polish artist Ols, known for her evocative neofolk soundscapes, will release her new album "Poswiaty" on 29 May via Pagan Records.
The upcoming album will explore "semi-fairytale memories from the time of brightness" and specifically the transformative power of love. It examines how a profound first love can interrupt childhood innocence, reveal the world in its entirety, and teach about both its light and the inevitable pain of loss. This kind of love, Ols explains, becomes woven into the very fabric of the soul, shaping everything that follows.
Speaking about the themes and sound of the single "O niej" and the upcoming album, Ols shares:
"This new album is a journey back to that blurry, formative time between childhood and adulthood. It’s about building yourself from fragments of experiences, feelings, and the stories that shaped you. With one foot still in the simplicity of childhood fairy tales and the other stepping into adult understanding, this is where we each start to create our own personal myth. 'O niej' specifically tells of that kind of love that bursts into your childhood world, showing you both immense beauty and the first taste of darkness and loss. Musically, I wanted to capture that feeling of a city evening – a bit lonely, a bit cold, but also full of a strange kind of energy. It's definitely a departure from the neofolk sound I'm known for, embracing a more urban, almost trip-hop vibe. But even though the forest might be further away sonically, its spirit, its presence in memory and feeling, still breathes within the lyrics."
Seattle-based black n' thrash n' rollers ROTGUT are crawling up from the gutter to deliver 24 OZ CANTRIP. The band’s debut EP boasts five tracks of booze-soaked thrash fury infused with the unholy union of punk attitude and blackened aggression.
For
fans of:
Ghoul, Witchery, The Haunted, Gwar, Converge, The Crown, Midnight
ROTGUT will release 24 oz CANTRIP on streaming platforms on June 20. Fans can preview samples from the EP on the band’s Instagram page. Pre-orders and the EP’s first single are coming soon…
Tracklist:
1) Bonemelter
2) The Hunger
3) I: Return of the Dead Without Eyes
4) II: Under the Scarlet Cross
5) III: Blood and Cooper
Keep reading for the story of the soon-to-be infamous 24 oz CANTRIP.
Born fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo out of the dumpster behind DaVinci's pizza on Merrick Road, a horned figure scrambled blindly through piles of empty paint cans, ceramic vases, and angry cats in order to move undetected. He found refuge in a musty old cellar. After pulling his foot loose from the bucket he had stepped in, he closed the heavy steel doors behind him.
Wiping the thick blanket of dust off a 30-rack of Genesee Specialty Cream Ale, he schemed. He was cursed with the knowledge of an incantation: a spell that would bring Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, into this world. He wrestled with the thought while crushing and tossing another empty can. The ritual required great rigor and perfect focus, but he was exacting.
He chanted. He chanted and chanted. The ceiling groaned and cracked. Polyvinyl dust plumed and swirled before vanishing into imperceptible motes. He drew sorcerous glyphs in the air with two fingers outstretched. The walls trembled with a sickening low rumble. Bracing his hands firm against his ersatz altar — a Playskool Mighty My Size Table and Chair Set — he ignored the throbbing in his head and steadied himself.
A spiraling portal ripped into reality. Out spilled two bumbling homunculi, fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo. This wasn't right! The pair stumbled and scratched their way through the cellar, bleating, squawking, and tearing through nearby cases of Natty Daddy like vultures to carrion. He pondered for what seemed like hours over the pyramid of discarded beer cans and the now-empty bottle of Old Grand Dad he had chanced upon halfway through. What could have gone wrong?
The cellar burst open. Darkening the door was a group of hulking, hazmat-suited figures. At once, the three slickened homunculi grappled one another in a long and futile struggle to get on their feet. They shouted in a panic if they were "being detained" until they were eventually tased into unconsciousness.
This was ROTGUT's ill-fated 24 oz CANTRIP.
Bio:
Assembled against their will by a faceless shadow organization in the Winter of 2024, the three designated FD, C19, and AX spent weeks in a lightless concrete hell. When the chance to escape emerged, they seized it — for they were bound by a great purpose: to form an extreme metal band, inspired by crust punk, rock ’n’ roll, and classic schlock to shred wanton across the greater US and parts beyond. That band is ROTGUT.
https://rotgutofficial.bandcamp.com/
The band comments:
“The sound of hooves stomp the ground. The Apocalypse is coming”.
“repent” is a conjoined train of melodic themes and fatal intentions heading to it’s final destination. The tracks are straightforward and sinuous simultaneously. A delicate scent of classic rock combined with 90’s extreme metal sound with nearly biblical lyrics. Haunting guitar leads with unexpected twists and turns. “When the thickest mist is rising, it is time to repent!”
Biography:
Serpent God is a band formed 2023 in Iisalmi, Finland. The birth is heavily related to Se, josta ei puhuta -band’s writing process; lots of material were created that didn’t fit in the spectrum of Se, josta ei puhuta. In general, the material was more slow-paced and more eerie. However, the mentioned material was also way too good to be deleted, so therefore another output was needed, so Serpent God was born. Different branches grow from a tree with strong roots. Serpent God has its foundation in extreme metal, but there are also heavy influences from post-rock, doom and smaller splashes of more avantgarde sounds.
Line-up:
Samu Männikkö - Vocals, guitars and keyboards
Juho-Pekka Lappalainen - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/serpentgodband
Ecastor is a new band that presents a promising sound where we can find a nefarious savagery of Thrash Death Metal riffs tormented in the decadence that reveals a disturbed society, transporting us to human self-destruction where the reality of political hypocrisy with the lies of religion are the infernal fuel for an inhuman devastation on this planet ready to explode and where nobody will survive. Are you ready to die?
The debut album that Ecastor is preparing to release with the horrendous support of Murder Records is decomposed into seven purulent hymns, complemented with an Intro and a Outro, which will decimating us with their impure sonority soaked in the lacerating atrocities of inhuman ideologies and where tears of rotten blood will be shed.
The sound presented by Ecastor is played with fast rhythms and dark atmospheres where the main influences become from bands like Mortuary Drape, Sodom, Necrodeath. Be ready to devastate your soul and ripping your body apart on this war.
Release
date June, 27th 2025
CD Limited to 300 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Enter The Spaceship [01:39]
02 - Space Marines [02:52]
03 - Silence [03:49]
04 - Docmicide [03:14]
05 - Land Of Fire [04:07]
06 - Slepnir [04:28]
07 - DDT [02:08]
08 - This War [03:56]
09 - Outro [00:31]
Mix and master by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
Cover art dwawed by Benedetto Palmaro.
Cover and layout made by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
The songs were composed by all members.
Lyric video and promotion by Danihell Slaughter.
ECASTOR Line-Up
Dante: Vocals,Guitar
Leonardo: Guitar
Yuri: Bass
Askios(Enea): Drums
ecastor.band@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Ecastor/61565314684647/
Official distribution in European Devision by Hellstore Europe and in North American Devision by:
Southern Soundclash Records
Guts And Blood Records
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: July 11th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Suffocation | Immolation | Kill Everything
Every night as the wings of somnolence enfold you, you slip into the darkness with a fervent, desperate prayer upon your lips; a plea for simple, empty oblivion, for dreamless slumber before the saving daylight comes. But as you tumble through the ephemeral wall of sleep the transportation is immediate…the alleyway, the rain, the blood bubbling in your throat, your eyes frozen open in horror. The knives rising, glinting in the garish orange street light and then falling with sickening force - the hypnotic cycle repeated again and again. The weight of her body falling onto you, her mouth open in an obscene parody of passion forcing a lifeless kiss upon your lips as her empty eyes stare into yours…a moment that will never end…soul scarring, life warping, hideously traumatic.
In 2024 they gave us a first poisonous taste of the horrors to come with their self titled demo; now Indonesia’s Symphobia are ready to unleash the full impact of their shocking brutality with debut album Hideously Traumatic! Exploding into life with opening track ‘Hecatomb’, a nail bomb of intricate riffs, precision drumming, heart-stopping tempo changes and disembowelling vocals, Hideously Traumatic proceeds to bury the listener in an unstoppable avalanche of wildly violent death metal. Featuring members of Demented Heart and Perveration, this elite unit unleash spiralling brutality that sucks you into a maelstrom of madness, the generated centrifugal force threatening to rip your body apart. Fiercely focussed throughout, this album is an imposing invocation of purposeful destruction. From the palpable malice of ‘Heinous’ through the bone-carving grooves of ‘Convulsively’ to the cataclysmic conclusion of ‘Inebriated’ this is a catalogue of accomplished atrocities and perfectly formed abominations. Hideously Traumatic is one listening experience that you are never going to recover from.
Hideously Traumatic’s emotionless desire for death will be unleashed by Comatose Music on July 11th and Symphobia will be immediately thrust into the awareness of the underground death metal scene, like a blade to the brain. Mixed and mastered by Tonebetter Soundlab (Vox Mortis, Nattmaran, Murtad etc) for a scathing, scalding sound and adorned in the eye-impaling artwork of Timbul Cahyono (Massacre, Nocturnus A.D., Witchburner etc) Hideously Traumatic is a sonic killing machine devoted to the destruction of every living thing.
Line-up:
Jossi Bima - Vocals
Dodik Bhre - Guitar
Humam Aliy - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563991748493
GOAD'S latest album "TITANIA" was
released about a year and a half ago and today we present a new single composed
by Florentine Progressive band entitled "BE HAPPY".
The song is not completely unreleased, as it was present as a bonus track in
the double vinyl version of the same album, but the band wanted to pay homage
to their fans by publishing the song and so it is now public to everyone.
You can find it on all digital stores with the other bonus track of the album "In The Sea Of Your Love" and on YouTube at the link: https://youtu.be/xE6OkfhXnGo
This is also the opportunity to anticipate some details of the new album that has been completed and is now being mixed and mastered at the Roman studios of Max Cirone, by now an additional member of the band.
The album will be titled "Dusketha" like one of the protagonists of the poem of the English poet John Keats "Song of the Four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, Water". It will be released next fall and once again it will enchant us with the incredible beauty that Maurilio Rossi manages to give to his Art always balanced between dream, magic, Poetry and unique melodies.
After 50 years of honorable career GOAD continue to surprise us and they do it in the most sublime way possible.
GOAD, the history of Italian Prog!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/MaurilioRossiGoad
NEWS 4.5.2025DEATH KOMMANDER – „NEVER TO GROW OLD “
ANDRAS –"THE ETERNAL MARCH" (EP)
NECRODEUS – “ RUAß”HAMMER
"LEMMY FOREVER"-STOKE-ON-TRENT-ZEREMONIE UND STATUEN-ENTHÜLLUNG AM 9. MAI
Am Freitag, 9. Mai, wird einer der berühmtesten Söhne Burslems – Motörhead-Gründer und Bassist/Sänger Lemmy Kilmister – im Zuge der "Lemmy Forever"-Stoke-On-Trent-Zeremonie geehrt und einmal mehr verewigt. In Anwesenheit von Motörhead-Gitarrist Phil Campbell, der Lemmys Asche in einer prächtigen Statue des lokalen Bildhauers und großen Motörhead-Fans Andy Edwards platzieren wird, wird es ein Tag voller Spaß, Freunde und vor allem auch Lautstärke werden. Die Zeremonie beginnt gegen 16 Uhr im Stadtzentrum von Burslem. Freunde sind herzlich eingeladen, schon früher zu kommen und sich einen schönen Tag zu gönnen, indem sie vor der Zeremonie einige Motörhead-Getränke in den verschiedenen angrenzenden Gaststätten genießen, darunter die Old Post Office Bar und das Ale House. Auch das Market Place Café bietet Erfrischungen, darunter einen speziellen Motörhead-Roast des Tages. Zu den zeremoniellen Festivitäten gehören ein Biker-Umzug zur Begleitung der Asche, verschiedene Redner und ein tosender 21-Rev-Salut, der in feierlicher Ehrfurcht in den Himmel geschossen wird! Die Statue selbst zeigt Lemmy in seiner ganzen Live-Pracht aus dem Jahr 1981, als Motörhead am 1. August 1981 als Headliner des Heavy Metal Holocaust gleich die Straße runter im Port Vale Stadium auftraten.
Hier sind einige weitere Einzelheiten dazu, was die Besucher erwartet und welche Services an diesem Tag angeboten werden:
Die Bare Walls Art Gallery neben der Statue zeigt in ihren Räumlichkeiten eine Installation mit selten gezeigten Fotos von Lemmy sowie weiteren Erinnerungsstücken.
Später am Abend veranstaltet Grumpy's Bar das Event “A Night of Music to Celebrate the Life of Lemmy” mit der Motörhead-Tribute-Band Motörwrecked. Außerdem findet eine Auktion mit exklusiven Artikeln statt, die von Motörheads Plattenlabel und Merchandise-Unternehmen bereitgestellt wurden. Die Auktion ist praktisch ausverkauft, aber eine sehr begrenzte Anzahl an Armbändern wurde für Fans am Tag selbst zurückgehalten. Diese sind am Tag des Events im Veranstaltungsbüro in der Old Post Office Bar erhältlich (nach dem Prinzip: Wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst) und kosten 10 £. No sleep til Grumpy's! https://www.grumpys.uk
Im Old Post Office wird es außerdem exklusives Merchandise geben.
Weiterhin veranstaltet Music Mania von 19:30 bis 22:30 Uhr ein Event im Mitchell Arts Centre in Hanley mit der Motörhead-Tribute-Band Motörheadache. Tickets kosten £18. Weitere Informationen gibt es unter https://musicmaniauk.com/event/motorheadache/
Für diejenigen, die mit dem Auto zur Veranstaltung kommen, stehen Parkplätze beim Port Vale Football Club zur Verfügung, der 7 Gehminuten entfernt liegt. Bei der Anreise mit dem Zug stehen Ace Taxis unter der Telefonnummer 01782 822228 zur Verfügung, um Fans vom Bahnhof zur Veranstaltung zu bringen.
Für alle, die eine Unterkunft benötigen, gibt es im DoubleTree by Hilton Stoke-On-Trent Sonderpreise über die Lemmy2025-Tarife.
Einfach +44 1782 609988 anrufen oder https://hil.tn/0mcah9 besuchen.
https://imotorhead.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMotorhead/
CHONTARAZ – „PHANTOM OF REALITY“
Das norwegisch/griechische
Powerhouse CHONTARAZ ist wieder aus den Untiefen seines höllischen
Ursprungs (in Hell, Norwegen) aufgetaucht und entfacht mit seiner lang
erwarteten Rückkehr große Vorfreude bei Fans von dunkler, dynamischer Musik. Ihr
kommendes drittes Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025)
entführt Hörer einmal mehr in das unverwechselbare Universum von CHONTARAZ und
bietet eine fesselnde Reise durch ihre modernen Klanglandschaften und
atmosphärischen Geschichten.Das Album beschäftigt sich mit der Reise, sein wahres Ich zu akzeptieren sowie der damit einhergehenden Ablehnung jeder Art der Oberflächlichkeit; eins der Hauptthemen ist dabei Authentizität. CHONTARAZ kombinieren düsteren Modern Metal mit Industrial-Elementen und vereinen intensive Energie meisterhaft mit tiefgründigen lyrischen Erzählungen, wodurch “Phantom of Reality” bei Fans sowohl auf musikalischer als auch auf emotionaler Ebene Anklang findet.
Bei der gemeinsamen Arbeit in seinem Studio in Athen stimmte die Chemie zwischen den Musikern sofort und unbestreitbar, was Fotis (alias Narwhal) dazu veranlasste, sich CHONTARAZ in Vollzeit anzuschließen. Das Ergebnis? Eine bahnbrechende Metal-Kollaboration, die eine außergewöhnliche Verschmelzung von meisterhaftem Songwriting, erstklassigen Musikern und einer Weltklasse-Produktion darstellt – ein Album, das den modernen Metal neu definieren will.
Fotis Benardos doppelte Virtuosität als Produzent sowie Schlagzeuger hat die Soundlandschaft von “Phantom of Reality” geformt und liefert eine immersive, beeindruckende Klangwelt, die jeden Track aufwertet. All das wird nahtlos mit dem brillanten Songwriting von Ahkon (Herbjørn Anglen) und Chontaraz (Frode Kvarsnes) kombiniert, die gemeinsam alle Tracks geschrieben haben und Ahkons Gitarren- und Bass-Künste mit Chontaraz' fesselndem Gesang vereinen. Das Ergebnis ist eine klangliche Explosion: ein kraftvoller Mix aus düsterem, modernen Metal und Industrial-Komponenten, die nahtlos mit Fotis' Präzision und klanglicher Vision verschmelzen. Das Album hat einen Sound, der sowohl roh als auch raffiniert, brutal und fesselnd ist.
Weitere Features auf "Phantom of Reality":
Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) als Gastsänger bei "SCREAM" (Single-VÖ: 28. Februar 2025)
George Nerantzis, verantwortlich für Keys und Industrial Add-Ons bei allen Songs
Kjetil “DeadBit” Lindløkken an zusätzlichen Keys für "Spin The Wheel", "Prayer To The Masses" und "Dressed To Kill"
Noxaerias (Kostas Mexis) am Bass für Live-Auftritte und Musikvideos
Diese Vielzahl an Kollaborationen resultiert in einer Fusion aus erstklassigen Musikern, visionärem Songwriting und einer hervorragenden Produktion, die CHONTARAZ in neue Gefilde katapultiert. Mit Ahkon und Chontaraz, die durch ihr gemeinsames Songwriting die kreative Vision vorantreiben und Fotis Benardo, der den Sound und den Rhythmus prägt, ist dies Metal auf einem absoluten Höhepunkt.
Über CHONTARAZ
CHONTARAZ stammen ursprünglich aus Hell, Norwegen, und hatten 2015 eine kühne Vision: Musik zu machen, die sie wirklich lieben, frei von stilistischen Beschränkungen, und diese mit theatralischen Liveshows, unverkennbarem Make-up sowie fesselndem lyrischen Storytelling zu vermitteln.
Ihr Debütalbum “Rondamauh” ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem legendären Produzenten Daniel Bergstrand (bekannt für seine Arbeit mit In Flames, Meshuggah, Dimmu Borgir, Devin Townsend) entstanden und erhielt viel Lob von Schwergewichten wie dem Sweden Rock Magazine, dem Metal Observer und dem Scream Magazine. Außerdem wurde es von Quebec-Metal zum drittbesten internationalen Album des Jahres 2017 gewählt und von Thomas Youngblood von Kamelot persönlich empfohlen.
2019 stellten CHONTARAZ ihr zweites Album “Speed The Bullet” während 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, vor.
Das in Zusammenarbeit mit George Nerantzis produzierte Album erhielt hervorragende Kritiken und verhalf ihnen zu Tourneen mit Kultbands wie Sepultura und Soulfly sowie zu Auftritten im Vorprogramm von Kamelot und Cyhra.
Mit ihrem dritten Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025) haben sich CHONTARAZ endgültig in ein wahres norwegisch-griechisches Kraftpaket verwandelt, das die dunkle Rohheit des norwegischen Metal mit der technologischen Präzision und industriellen Intensität ihres neuesten Mitglieds und Produzenten Fotis Benardo verbindet.
Fotis (alias Narwhal), der für sein visionäres Schlagzeugspiel und seine Produktionsfähigkeiten bekannt ist, hat die Klanglandschaft der Band neu definiert und für einen mitreißenden, vernichtenden Sound gesorgt, der jeden Track aufwertet.
CHONTARAZ liefern damit aktuell einen wahrhaft einzigartigen Sound, der die Wildheit des Heavy Metal und die Intensität des Black Metal mit dem mechanischen Puls des Industrial und der Schärfe des Modern Metal vereint. Das Ergebnis ist eine Klangexplosion, die Grenzen verschiebt und eine musikalische Umgebung schafft, in der Chaos und Ordnung ein perfektes Gleichgewicht finden. Ein norwegisch-griechischer Metal-Juggernaut, der sich durch eine Mischung aus brutaler Kraft und melodischer Tiefe auszeichnet – mit massiven Riffs, überlagert von elektronischen Texturen und postapokalyptischen Atmosphären. CHONTARZ’ Musik füllt eine Lücke im heutigen Metal-Markt und wagt sich in dunkle Gefilde vor, die andere zu betreten zögern. Für CHONTARAZ geht es nicht nur darum, Musik zu spielen – sondern darum, ein eindringliches, immersives Erlebnis zu bieten.
Mit intensiven Vocals, krassen Gitarren und hypnotischen Rhythmen laden sie die Hörer in ihr Universum ein und schaffen einen Sound, der sowohl hart als auch tief emotional ist. “Phantom of Reality” ist nicht einfach nur ein Album; es ist eine musikalische Reise, bei der Rohheit auf Technologie, Leidenschaft auf Dunkelheit und Hoffnung auf Verzweiflung trifft.
Bereitet euch auf ein unvergleichliches Metal-Erlebnis vor. Auftritt CHONTARAZ – nicht nur eine Band, sondern eine Kraft, die bereit ist, den modernen Metal neu zu gestalten.
https://www.youtube.com/@chontarazofficial
https://www.facebook.com/chontaraz
SAVATAGE ist zurück: Nach ihrer triumphalen Rückkehr nach Südamerika bereitet sich die Band auf ihre „Madness Reigns“-Headliner-Tour und Festivalauftritte in Europa vor!
Nach zehnjähriger Pause haben Savatage ein triumphales Comeback auf der Bühne gefeiert und ihre lang erwartete Welttournee in Südamerika gestartet – mit ihren ersten Auftritten in der Region seit über 20 Jahren. Die Tour begann mit dem spannungsvoll erwarteten Auftritt bei der 30. Jubiläumsausgabe des Monsters of Rock Festivals in São Paulo, Brasilien, wo die Band die Bühne mit anderen Rockgrößen wie den Scorpions, Judas Priest und Europe teilte. Tausende begeisterte Fans füllten den Veranstaltungsort, waren mit Savatage-Merch eingedeckt und hielten Schilder und Plakate hoch, um die Rückkehr der Band zu feiern. Die Show war geprägt von nostalgischen Hits, allen voran “The Ocean” und “Welcome”, die zum ersten Mal seit 1998 live gespielt wurden. Einer der emotionalsten Höhepunkte des Abends war der berührende Moment, als ein vorab aufgezeichnetes Video, in dem Jon Oliva “Believe” performte, abgespielt wurde, gefolgt von einer bewegenden Diashow als Hommage an Criss Oliva. Das Publikum war sichtlich gerührt und die Show wurde für die Band zu einer der unvergesslichsten der Südamerika-Tournee.
Auf diesem Momentum aufbauend, waren Savatage Co-Headliner einer umwerfenden Show im Espaço Unimed, ebenfalls in São Paulo, zusammen mit der legendären Band Opeth. Anschließend reiste die Band nach Chile für ihren längst überfälligen Debütauftritt und erfüllte damit endlich den Traum der chilenischen Fans, die ein Leben lang darauf gewartet hatten, sie live zu sehen. Der südamerikanische Teil der Tour endete mit einem kraftvollen Auftritt beim Masters of Rock Festival am 26. April in Buenos Aires, Argentinien. Bei jedem Auftritt wurden die Fans mit einer epischen und nostalgischen Setlist voller Fan-Lieblingssongs von “Edge of Thorns” und “The Wake of Magellan” verwöhnt, persönlich ausgewählt von Jon Oliva. Die epische Rückkehr von Savatage auf die Bühnen Südamerikas beweist, dass das Erbe der Band so lebendig und kraftvoll ist wie eh und je.
Und für die europäischen Fans: Macht euch bereit! Nach ihrem großen Erfolg in Südamerika werden Savatage diesen Sommer durch Europa touren. Die Tour umfasst mehrere Headliner-Shows, von denen einige innerhalb weniger Stunden ausverkauft waren, sowie große Festivalauftritte. Und das ist noch nicht alles – die Fans können sich auf ein paar besondere Überraschungen freuen.
"Madness Reigns" European Headline Tour and Festival Run 2025
14. Juni, 2025 – Oberhausen, Deutschland – Turbinenhalle * AUSVERKAUFT
16. Juni, 2025 – London, UK – Shepherds Bush Empire
18. Juni, 2025 – Zürich, Schweiz – Komplex 457 *
19. Juni, 2025 – München, Deutschland – Tonhalle * HOCHVERLEGT
24. Juni, 2025 – Milan, Italien – Alcatraz
Festivals:
13. Juni, 2025 – Leeuwarden, Niederlande – Into The Grave Festival
21. Juni, 2025 – Clysson, Frankreich – Hellfest
22. Juni, 2025 – Dessel, Belgien – Graspop Metal Meeting
26. Juni, 2025 – Barcelona, Spanien – Rockfest
28. Juni, 2025 – Thessaloniki, Griechenland – Rockwave Festival
Bleibt auf dem Laufenden für Updates und Ankündigungen unter:
https://www.facebook.com/savatage
DOMHAIN / EPHEMERAL – „OF PINE AND OAK”
Northern
Irish atmospheric project Domhain and German dark folk trio Ephemeral
will release a two-song split EP "Of Pine and Oak" on 16th May via
Italian label These Hands Melt.This special collaboration sees Domhain and Ephemeral each contribute one brand new track, both exploring vividly naturalistic, acoustic soundscapes that evoke an extraordinary sense of quiet and ethereal melancholy. Listeners can anticipate a unique blend of Domhain's signature emotional intensity and Ephemeral's rich, immersive atmospheres.
Ephemeral shared their excitement, stating: “We couldn’t be happier about this collaboration with our dear label mates Domhain who share our passion for mythical, melancholic and meaningful music, lyrics and visual art. It’s been a great honour for us and an absolute pleasure to join forces for this special release!”
Domhain echoed this sentiment, commenting: “We are over the moon to share the news of our collaboration with our friends and wonderful musicians from Ephemeral. We are so proud to see these two tracks side by side on this EP, and we hope you will enjoy listening to them together as much as we do. “Of Pine and Oak” is an ode to nature, to our connection to it, and to the inspiration it may bring… which we think will resonate with many of you. A million thanks to our common label These Hands Melt for facilitating this split and for always being so encouraging and excited with our music.”
"Of Pine and Oak" will be available digitally and as a limited edition (200 copies) 12” single-sided colour vinyl.
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Domhain is a new project formed by four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene. Their sound is an emotional blend of post-black, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal. Their debut mini-album "Nimue", released in October 2023 by These Hands Melt, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial). Each of the three tracks on "Nimue" was accompanied by a conceptual music video created by the band’s drummer and visual director, Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan.
Ephemeral is a dark folk trio from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2019 by Ella Zlotos, Nikolaus Jira, and Patrick Maiwald. Their music creates a unique blend of melancholic folk with progressive elements, incorporating flutes, whistles, guitars, keyboard instruments, percussion, and strings, all topped with sung and spoken-word vocals. Their lyrics draw inspiration from English literature, exploring themes of longing, growth, transience, and new beginnings.
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
https://www.facebook.com/ephemeralneofolk
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
PRESSURE POINTS' debut album, REMORSES TO REMEMBER, quickly established the band as a notable force in the field of melodic and progressive metal. Released in 2010 to critical acclaim, the album gathered widespread attention, earning a spot on the Finnish album charts at #44 and making appearances on Finnish national radio. Pressure Points was ranked second as a newcomer of the year category in the Finnish Metal Awards in 2011.
With its dynamic compositions and varying soundscapes, the album remains a defining creation in the band's journey.
The album originally released by legendary Finnish Firebox Records is now re-released by another Finnish label Inverse Records. The release includes two bonus tracks: Shapeless (Herranen remix) and Pain Dimension.
Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pressure-points-remorses
Pressure Points, currently signed with a Spanish label Art Gates Records, was founded in Heinola in the summer of 2004. Their music has been described as exceptional in the field of melodic and progressive metal. It blends various styles including strong melodies and innovative structures.
In succession to their debut release in 2011, the band has released two albums, False Lights (2015) and The Island (2023). In late 2024, they released two new singles, The Chase and Shapeless. In 2025, the band focuses on writing their fourth album while continuing to perform live. Pressure Points has shared the stage with international acts such as Katatonia, Nile, Omnium Gatherum, Insomnium, and Fleshgod Apocalypse.
Upcoming shows:
16.5.2025 Maanalainen, Tampere (with Warfarer, Vansidian)
17.5.2025 Masis & NWOFHM, Monttu New Level, Pori (with Gothony, Shereign)
10.7.2025 – 13.7.2025 Masters of Rock, Czech
Previous tours:
Fleshgod Apocalypse + Omnium Gatherum tour, Baltic leg, in 2022,
Winter's Gate Finnish tour with Insomnium and Swallow the Sun in 2016,
Those Whom The Gods Detest with Nile in North Europe in 2011
Keep of Kalessin Finnish tour in 2010.
Band members as of 2025:
Juha Tretjakov - vocals
Veli-Matti Kyllönen - keyboards, backing vocals
Kari Olli - guitar
Janne Parikka - bass
Vili Auvinen - drums
Members and instruments during RtR:
Veli-Matti Kyllönen - keyboards, backing vocals
Kari Olli - guitars and vocals
Juho Suortti - guitars
Janne Parikka – bass
Vili Auvinen – drums
Lars Eikind - vocals on Edge of Endurance
Track list:1. Atonement
2. Temptation For Hate
3. Edge Of Endurance
4. Calm
5. The Past Within
6. Out Of Sync
7. Grand Illusion
8. Shapeless (Herranen remix) (bonus track)
9. Pain Dimension (bonus track)
Remorses to Remember album artwork by Olli-Pekka Lappalainen
Mixed by Juho Räihä SoundSpiral Audio
Mastered by Svante Försback
https://linktr.ee/pressurepointsofficial
https://www.facebook.com/PressurePointsBand
Let the Sabbath begin... and let it be Electric!!! Elisa Montaldo and Samael Von Martin, minds and souls of ALBUS DIABOLUS, present the new single from "COMPENDIO ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO" the debut of the band. It is "ELETTRO SABBA"
maybe the anthem of the project for intents and sounds that sees
alongside their incredible compositions and performances, the
participation of Simòn Fèrètro with an impressive
guitar solo. The dark and lysergic universe of the project, where
experimentation and avant-garde sound reign supreme, finds its final
completeness in the creation of the official video by Noxifer (aka
Gianfranco Logiudice) who captures the essence of the song and the
entire project. The video is available on Youtube at the link https://youtu.be/AtquFM0YBZ8
The band's intent to destabilize normality and the expected to become a loose cannon in the European Electro-Goth scene is becoming more and more reality especially for those who love bands like EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS.
The journey into their Art has just started!
http://bit.ly/3CejxJq
Finnish pagan metal band KAAMOS WARRIORS is set to release their yet untitled fifth studio album later in 2025 via Inverse Records.
The first single 'SEITA' is released today and music video of the track is available here: https://youtu.be/rzjPK5KH9R4
The guitarist Jani Moilanen comments:
"We have a great respect and admiration towards the nature and wilderness and it has guided us deeper into to world of ancient (Finnish) paganism. We live in the area where we are blessed to be surrounded by beautiful nature. All this reflects more and more in our music and can be heard and seen in our new ”Seita” single and music video."
Listen to Seita single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/kaamos-warriors-seita Biography:
The Finnish Pagan metal band Kaamos Warriors was formed in 2018 by Jani Moilanen (guitars) and Mikko Ojala (vocals, guitars). Their inspiration for the musical athmosphere is derived from the the beauty and the harshness of the Northern nature. The roots of the band rely heavily on the wilderness of the North. Current line-up includes also Inka Ojala (shamandrum) and Marjo Moilanen (bass guitar). Their presence in the band has further expanded the whole audiovisual atmosphere of the Finnish paganism. Jani, Mikko and Inka have also being playing together in the melodic metal band Dark The Suns. The former bass player for the Kaamos Wariors (played bass in the previous two albums) Jyri Moilanen is currently having a break from playing in the band. All the musical releases of the band have been released via Inverse Records.
Composed & lyrics by Mikko Ojala & Jani Moilanen
Line-up:
Mikko Ojala: vocals, guitars & drums
Jani Moilanen: guitars
Inka Ojala: shamandrum & percussions
Marjo Moilanen: bass
Synths & Soundscapes: Mikko Ojala, Inka Ojala
Poetry recitation: Riia Moilanen, Hilla Moilanen, Pihla Moilanen
https://www.facebook.com/KaamosWarriorsOfficial
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: May 19th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Megadeth | Metal Church | Xentrix | Meliah Rage
You climb the steps up from the darkness and behind you a cold mist curls lazily through a place of ruin and decay. A golden sword hangs from the impenetrable shadows above, suspended by a thread it turns slowly in the air, casting a sickly yellow light upon the scene below. A hooded figure stands beside a cracked and broken shrine, a hammer in his left hand, its heavy, lumpen head stained with ancient blood, fragments of white bone trapped between its claws. Ahead stands another door, emblazoned with the face of a tiger above the silver blade of a katana. God’s gifts lie behind you and a new order awaits…
In the late 1980s the UK thrash scene was exploding, with a horde of bands riding the wave of the most exciting mutation of metal since the movement began. Bands like Sabbat, Xentrix and Onslaught were at the head of the pack and right beside them, in the vanguard, were Toranaga, weaving melody through complex riffs and bursting with a fierce energy and fiery creativity. Their Bastard Ballads debut for Peaceville Records hit with a seismic impact – leading to a deal with major label Chrysalis Records, tours with the likes of Manowar and Venom and a magnificent second album – God’s Gift – released in 1990. Sadly the band fractured under the stresses and strains and bar a brief revival under the banner The Bastard Son Of Toranaga, it seemed their race was run. However in 2024, with original, ever-present vocalist Mark Duffy at the helm, Toranaga were reborn as Toranaga U.K. and now, 35 years on from the release of God’s Gift, the first statement in this new chapter is ready to be unleashed!
A New Order brings together two brand new songs and two re-recordings of Toranaga classics – reinvigorated and re-energised for a new metal age. The EP begins with the precise riffing of ‘Desecration’ and two things quickly become apparent. Firstly Toranaga U.K. have embraced the original Toranaga spirit and captured so much of what was great about the band and the UK thrash scene of the ‘80s. Secondly, the power of Mark Duffy’s distinctive vocals remains utterly undiminished by the passage of time. With a great chorus and thrilling solos – the twin guitars duelling over snarling riffs – ‘Desecration’ sets the standards high. Luckily ‘A New Order’ matches those standards with ease, with superb atmosphere, an epic feel and jagged, staggered riffing over a rock solid rhythmic base. Then it’s time for ‘The Shrine’, one of the best songs bar none to emerge from the creative furnace of UK thrash. Armed with riffs that deserve to be heard by a whole new generation of fans, ‘The Shrine’ is a genuine classic. And finally we have ‘Sword Of Damocles’ – a stunning song full of dark portent that has been superbly recreated and reanimated. The way in which Toranaga U.K. have merged the old and new is masterful and A New Order is a remarkable new beginning for this outstanding band.
Produced and mixed by acclaimed composer Steve Kilpatrick at Soundfackery studios in France and adorned in the imagery of artist Sarah Louise Rose, A New Order will be released on May 19th.
Recording Line-up:
Mark Duffy - Vocals
Liam Mulpetre - Guitars
Josh Goldie - Guitars
Mike Todd - Bass
Toby Wallace – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/ToranagaUK
A relentless dive into despair and destruction: with raw, nihilistic black metal fury, Burden of Flesh tears through the veil of suffering with scathing riffs, unholy intensity, and lyrics drenched in torment. Brace yourself for an unfiltered journey into the abyss where brutality and darkness reign supreme.
'Tetragrammaton' is now available on all major digital platforms.
Stream/Download: https://orcd.co/tetragrammaton
Milwaukee (WI) - PATHWAYS, the sophomore EP from one-man progressive doom/avant-garde metal project, LIMINAL SPIRIT, is out now on all digital platforms! Pathways follows last year's self-titled debut album and is available to purchase/stream at the following locations:
https://liminalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/pathways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGkn2dRAqQM
FFO: Jesu, Cynic, Confessor, Swans, Skepticism
Genre descriptors get one only so far with Pathways though. Multi-instrumentalist/composer, Jerry Hauppa (Northless, Ara, Deorbit), explains that the solo project is "focused on making 'seance music' or, in other words, a backdrop suitable for channeling the passage of spirits."
Pathways consists of the single 14-minute title track, depicting five individuals trapped within a maze. It is fully through-composed, meaning there are no repeating parts of any kind until the epilogue. It is composed in a way that brings to mind a stage play, where there are intermissions and the aforementioned epilogue, and the lines of each of the five characters comprise the lyrics. The music will shift in tone throughout the piece to reflect the mood of each speaker.
Track
Listing:1. Pathways
Credits:
All music written, recorded and mixed by Jerry Hauppa.
Mastered by Jeff Wojtysiak at Spiral Sound Studios.
Artwork: James Becker
Liminal Spirt is:
Jerry Hauppa - Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming, Synthesizer, Vocoder
Bio:
Liminal Spirit is Jerry Hauppa's solo project. Prior to this, Hauppa was involved in sludge metal band Northless, death metal band Ara, and instrumental space-focused band, Deorbit.
San Franisco (CA) - American Tech-Death Juggernaut, OMINOUS RUIN, have released new album, REQUIEM, ON WILLOWTIP! The album is available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Click to purchase/stream below!
https://ominousruin.bandcamp.com/album/requiem
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/ominous-ruin.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70umHNI8we0
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, "Seeds of Entropy. "
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Track
Listing:1 - Intro
2 - Seeds of Entropy
3 - Eternal
4 - Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 - Divergent Anomaly
6 - Fractal Abhorrence
7 - Architect of Undoing
8 - Staring into the Abysm
9 - Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/OminousRuin
Hi
everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. On May 19,
the second album of one of the most original Czech hard metal bands - SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION - which has
been around since 1996 and has recorded 8 studio albums since then, will be
released again after 20 years. The digipak reissue has a revised frontcover, a
new booklet and 3 audio bonuses.The full press release in English can be read on the Pařátshop website https://paratshop.cz/2025/04/28/the-second-album-six-degrees-of-separation-is-released-after-twenty-years-in-a-digipak-re-edition-with-bonuses/
There you will also find high-quality graphic previews.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION – “ TRIOTUS, TRICEPHALUS AND TRIBADISM” (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
Style: Tri metal
Release date: 19.5. 2025
Type: Digipak + 12 page booklet
limited 500 copies
Listen to the recording on YouTube channel Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtOl96Apuqc&t=6s
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/six-degrees-of-separation-triotus-tricephalus-and-tribadism-2/
“This is Where Death Hunts — the title track from our second album. We summoned our brothers, and they answered the call. Eternal respect to the killer drummers of the Hungarian underground for bringing the thunder!”
Paying homage to the raw force of their scene, the band delivers a tribute to underground extremity — featuring an all-star cast of Hungarian drumming powerhouses whose sheer velocity and ferocity fuel this sonic onslaught.
Drummers featured:
Árpád Szenti (Thy Catafalqe, Athame, Evil Tears, Sentio Ergo Sum, Damnation, Ahriman, Voidshrine)
Balázs Cseresnyés (Malediction, Ragály)
Balázs Pőcz (Paediatrician, Clitgore)
Farkas Hajdú 'Fado' (Deprived of Salvation, Mezmerized, NoaRock)
Directed and edited by the visionary András Szekely.
The album Where Death Hunts is available now on all major digital platforms: https://orcd.co/wheredeathhunts
KING’S HAMMER – “TO SPEAK IN TONGUES” (EP)
Label: Rottweiler Records/Broken Curfew RecordsRelease date: June 13th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Mortification | Dyscarnate | Pantera | Grave
I have sought for answers, begged for illumination from the thrones and powers that lie beyond the limits of our vision…and my prayers have been answered. A wisdom beyond comprehension, knowledge beyond bearing has been delivered unto me and my mind is in flames. The absolute essence of truth consumes me and my sense of self teeters upon the brink of annihilation. I open my mouth and the words spill forth in the language of eternity, never meant for human lips to form or mortal intellect to contain. My world splinters beneath the gaze of heaven. I am undone. I am become a conduit and while my consciousness is lost and my heart trembles, my soul begins to speak in tongues…
To Speak in Tongues is the debut EP from King’s Hammer, the savage death metal solo project from Chuck Weatherman, the guitarist and vocalist of Richmond, Virginia thrashers Shovelhead A.D. – an outpouring of the accomplished front man’s hardest and heaviest musical inclinations. Opening with the measured power of ‘The War In Heaven’, To Speak In Tongues delivers riff upon riff upon riff; focussed hammer blows that land with force and conviction. With the addition of an imposing vocal presence and a deliciously grim sound palette To Speak In Tongues makes for remorseless, relentless, yet atmospheric listening. From the old school death metal attack of first single ‘Vehement Zeal’, through the brutal grooves of ‘Wrath Descends’ and the epic ‘Crusade IX’ to the shuddering juggernaut of darkness that is concluding track, ‘Witches Bvrn’, King’s Hammer takes no prisoners.
With the final master being applied by Seth Metoyer of Mangled Carpenter and Pulpit Vomit, you know that To Speak In Tongues has all the grit and raw venom that death metal needs to deliver the maximum impact. With the muscle of Rottweiler Records and Broken Curfew behind this release, when the hammer falls on June 13th prepare to be crushed!
Line-up:
Chuck Weatherman – All music and vocals
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/brokencurfewrecords
https://kingshammerbcr.bandcamp.com
Sargas return with HISTORIA, a gripping three-track EP forged during one of the most turbulent chapters in Iran’s recent history—the 2023 protests ignited by the murder of Mahsa ‘Jina’ Amini. With a runtime of just over 21 minutes, this release is more than just music—it’s a tribute. A haunting dedication to the women of third-world countries whose lives are too often defined by restriction, silence, and suffering.
Each track on HISTORIA unravels a chapter of a woman’s journey through a life born into oppression. Opening with Birth, Sargas paint the stark image of growing up in a society steeped in outdated traditions, where dreams suffocate under the weight of control and expectation. It’s not a celebration of life—it’s the beginning of an inevitable decay.
In Home, the protagonist finds peace not in life, but in death. Through a ghostly dialogue with her parents, she confronts the love and the pain they’ve passed down. Sargas masterfully explore the paradox of being alive while spiritually dead, and how home becomes not a place, but a grave.
Finally, Hell ventures deeper into the psyche of someone who sees suicide not as an end, but as a possible transcendence. To her, death is divine—not in a religious sense, but as a doorway to peace. The song collapses the wall between hell and heaven, suggesting that the afterlife’s torment might be kinder than Earth’s cruelty.
Brutal, poetic, and deeply human, HISTORIA doesn’t ask for sympathy—it demands reckoning. Sargas have crafted a record that turns pain into protest, and death into defiance. It’s not just an
EP; it’s a cry that echoes across borders.
BiographyCrushing Death Metal grooves and ominous roars—Iranian Death Metal quintet Sargas shatters genre norms with their distinct brand of Nihilistic Metal. Formed in 2018 by guitarist Salar Alizadeh and former drummer Hamed Sadraei, the Tehran-based Blackened Death Metal outfit underwent several lineup changes during the three-year songwriting process for their upcoming debut album. The band's evolution took a defining turn with the arrival of Saleh Rezayi on vocals, whose ferocious growls and screams became a driving force in their sound. With the addition of Arsalan Soltani on lead guitar and Pooya Shitrah as drummer and band manager, Sargas solidified their lineup and sharpened their vision. Drawing inspiration from Black and Doom Metal, they fearlessly defy extreme metal conventions—including the genre’s longstanding aversion to clean vocals. Marked by triumphs and tragedies, and shaped by the loss of those closest to them, Sargas crafts music that emerges from darkness and embraces death itself.
SARGAS are:
Saleh Rezaei - Vocals
Arsalan Soltani - Lead Guitars
Salar Alizadeh - Rhythm Guitars:
Hamid Tehrani - Bass
Pooya Shitrah - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords
Format: CDGenre: Slamming Brutal Death Metal
Artwork: Lordigan Pedro Sena - Lordigan
Recorded at: Flat Studio
Mix & Master: Heartwork Recording Studio
We're beyond excited to announce Phrymerial’s upcoming album, "Earth Wonderland", set for release on May 6th via @vomityourshirt and @miasmarecords!
The successor to "Xenomorphic Creation" delivers a grotesque and satirical take on human nature, suffering, and the illusion of control under the dominion of higher beings.
Tracklist:
1. Welcome (Instrumental)
2. Earth Wonderland
3. Sadness Factory (feat. Lukas from Stillbirth and Xavleg)
4. Dickdra
5. The Human Cleansing Pt. 3
6. Enki’s Arena
7. Failure on Brain’s Inhibitors
8. Atrocities (feat. Phlegeton from Wormed)
9. Anthropomorphic Toxin
Advance first single + pre-orders drop March 18!
https://www.facebook.com/VomitYourShirt
www.vomityourshirt.com
On
May 19, the album of the Czech band BLOODY OBSESSION called "HUSARIA",
which was released by Parat Productions on CD in 2017, will be
released for the first time on LP.Get ready for great old school death metal in the style of BOLT THROWER, VOMITORY, BENEDICTION...
The full press release in English can be read on the Pařátshop website
https://paratshop.cz/2025/04/27/old-school-death-metal-from-czech-republic-bloody-obsession-first-time-on-lp-format/
There you will also find high-quality graphic previews.
BLOODY OBSESSION – “HUSARIA “
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Old school death metal
Release date: 19.5. 2025
Type: 12´black vinyl
limited 250 copies
Listen to the recording on YouTube channel Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1SzhDVWF8&t=990s
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/bloody-obsession-husaria-2/
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: July 25th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Guttural Secrete | Internal Bleeding | Disgorge
Beneath the underground, below the sewers and the graves, deeper in darkness than catacombs unseen by human eye lies the offal choked lair of the sculptors of the most brutal, repugnant and inhuman of sounds. In subterranean passageways knee-deep in effluence, where the fetid stench of the ordurous air stings your lungs and the essence of sin oozes in thick, pustulent trails down the shit smeared walls…where screams of agony and despair arouse no pity, only inflame obscene lust…here, in the filth, amidst the bodies of the broken and abused, lurks the heaviest and most horrifying of them all…Kill Everything!
It’s been seven years since Kill Everything unleashed their Scorched Earth debut album upon us and now, just as humanity has begun to heal, they have returned with the immoral massacre of Headless Cum Dumpster! With opening track ‘Fermented Drippings’ the Texan purveyors of perversion fling themselves from the precipice where music becomes the expression of blind, raging sadism…and from there they rampage from one monumental act of malevolence to the next. The sickening, sinuous riffs of ‘Human Tripa Tacos’ are staggering; the real power and menace of Kill Everything radiating from this tour de force of the furthest reaches of musical extremity. ‘No Lives Matter’ delivers methodical hammer blows of indiscriminate hatred – there are no exceptions and no survivors in the face of this tirade of slaughter. ‘Violator’ pulses with extreme aggression and the foul, infected grooves of the album’s title track are an act of audial desecration beyond measure. So many unforgettable expressions of the most sordid, twisted art! And the band save the most heinous act til last… ‘Infatuated With Homicide’ begins with the words of mob executioner Richard Kuklinski, the infamous ‘iceman’ – “Assassin? Sounds so exotic…I was just a murderer” – before unleashing an inferno of blasts, swirling weaponized riffs and deranged expulsions of vocal venom; a devastating conclusion to an album of impossible violence.
The insane chaos of Kill Everything’s sound was produced, mixed and mastered by Johnny Abila Jr., the band’s vocalist since 2020 and his efforts have resulted in an album that sounds like bodies being torn apart – utter carnage. This sonic palette of absolute barbarity is reflected in the album artwork, which was created by Indian artist Ryan Omega (Cervicectomy etc). Headless Cum Dumpster will be poured into the water supply like a virulent poison on July 25th by Comatose Music. Who else?
Line-up:
Brian Wynn - Guitars
Johnny Abila Jr. - Vocals
Shane Newbrough - Drums
Brett Wilson - Guitars
Mike Leach - Bass
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/killeverythingtx/
Wormholedeath is proud to welcome Brazilian hardcore thrash metal powerhouse NADA to its roster! The relentless trio has signed a deal for the release of their full-length album, ENTROPIA, a ferocious and politically charged record that embodies the chaos and defiance of modern Brazil.
NADA: Uncompromising, Unrelenting, Unfiltered
Formed in 2020 in the interior of São Paulo, NADA emerged as a response to the growing social and political turmoil in Brazil. With the pandemic forcing them into isolation, the band used their time to craft a sound that is as raw and urgent as the reality they face.
Driven by the rise of the extreme right and the spread of fascism and denialism in Brazil, NADA channels their rage into fast, direct, and unapologetic music. Their hard-hitting riffs and no-nonsense lyrics aim at the injustices plaguing their country, blending social critique with deeply personal reflections.
After making their mark with a blistering self-titled debut EP in 2022, featuring five uncompromising tracks, the band is now set to unleash their most powerful statement yet: Entropia.
Entropia: A Soundtrack to a Fractured Society
A sonic gut-punch that refuses to be ignored, Entropia captures the intensity of life in Brazil over the past decade. The album reimagines five tracks from NADA’s debut EP while introducing eight brand-new songs, resulting in a relentless fusion of thrash, hardcore, punk, and death metal, infused with Brazilian and South American influences.
The album’s cover art, designed by @kaparootz, depicts the destruction of Indigenous values upon first contact with colonial forces—an allegory for the modern world’s descent into deception and manipulation. NADA draws a parallel between this historical loss and today’s society, where truth is often drowned in a sea of lies.
More than just an album, Entropia is a battle cry. It’s the sound of a band refusing to stay silent, using music as a weapon to confront oppression and demand change.
NADA’s Entropia—where hardcore/thrash metal becomes a survival tactic.
Tracklist
1 · 1984 (Crumbs for the Poors)
2 · Sociofobia
3 - Julgamento
4 · Entropia
5 · Vengeance
6 · Nada
7 · Simpatia
8 · Veneno
9 · O Cego e o Orgulho
10 · Distopia
11 · Black Bodies Bleeds
12 · O Ovo da Serpente
13 · Porcos da Mentira
www.youtube.com/@nadacrossover
www.instagram.com/nada.metal
Label:
Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: May 16th 2025
When Canadian multi-instrumentalist, composer and lyricist Christopher Adam joined Rottweiler Records and released the first EP from his Refiner solo project, Return To Dust, back in February, a second EP was promised to be following in its wake…and now that second EP has arrived! Mistake offers up two new tracks that continue the Refiner path established on Return To Dust, blending metalcore, electronics and ambience, but with a different emphasis on the comingled elements – creating again, fresh and unexpected sounds…
Opening track ‘upside uʍop’ conjures images of a neon lit night as riffs, melodies, bass, drums, powerful vocals and dark, brooding electronics shift and swirl around each other like oil and water. The bewitching alchemy of sounds leads you down dark alleyways into unsuspected musical territories – enthralling and unsettling in equal measure. Meanwhile title track ‘Mistake’ is different again…lush and rich, its ringing melodies draw you into its embrace where you confront huge, collapsing riffs adorned in electronic finery and swathes of synth driven atmospherics. Adam’s voice is used vibrantly and dynamically, an instrument in its own right adding to the multifaceted nature of the song. This is seriously heavy, but it’s also so very different, intriguing and unusual. This is music invoked by a creative approach and an individual vision.
As with the Return To Dust, there are bonus instrumental versions of the Mistake EP tracks being made available and you’ll be able to seek these out exclusively on Bandcamp. The potent elixir of the Mistake EP will be available from Rottweiler Records on May 16th, so be ready to explore…
Line up:
Christopher Adam – all music, vocals and production/engineering
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/refinermetal
MY PLACE WAS TAKEN – “ALTAR DE MOLOC” (SINGLE)
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: May 9th 2025
Hailing from the Mexican border town of Matamoros, My Place Was Taken was formed by vocalist Jesus Salas and guitarist Abraham Barberi – a reaction to the culture of drugs and violence that had insidiously infiltrated their local metal community. They wanted to create a musical force of supreme heaviness and power that would also offer an alternative positive message, bringing the metal scene together, uniting them with music. My Place Was Taken came to the attention of Rottweiler Records after releasing two crushing EPs – My Place Was Taken and Imparables – and playing an incendiary Mexican show with Grave Robber. Now the first fruits of this new alliance are about to be unleashed in the form of Altar De Moloc, a monumental single, delivered with fierce focus and single minded intent…
Altar De Moloc opens with an onslaught of deep, thunderous riffs, driven by a soul shaking sense of menace. The guitars seem to delve into the deep places of the earth while the vocals pronounce their message with a combination of imperious guttural might and incisive invective. The combination of elements is a full frontal assault that is as exhilarating as it is impactful. Altar De Moloc is a massive hit of maximum deathcore devastation and a statement of intent for all that is to come from My Place Was Taken and Rottweiler Records!
With artwork depicting the unholy horror of Moloc, the ancient Canaanite deity who demanded the sacrifice of children in his worship, Altar De Moloc will be unleashed on May 9th!
Current Line up:
Jesus Salas - Vocals
Abraham Barberi - Guitars
Helix Nebula – Bass
Daniel Castaneda - Drums
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://rottweilerrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MyPlaceWasTaken
Format: Digital CD / Physical CDLabel: Eigen Beheer
Distribution: Sonic Rendezvous
Tracklist:
01 The Messenger
02 Acta Non Verba
03 Dark Times
04 We Enslave Angels
05 Fall From Grace
06 When I Become You
07 Chaos vs. Chaos
08 Signs Of The End
Reject The Sickness: 15 years of unbridled aggression
Since 2010, Belgian metal band Reject The Sickness has been storming the scene with a furious mix of rhythmic death metal, ruthless melodic aggression and atmospheric black, supplemented with a touch of metalcore.
Their music is more than just sound—it’s a journey through the dark realities of marginalized youth. They explore themes of abuse, neglect, and self-harm, bringing these raw emotions to life in their lyrics.
Although their lyrics are fictional, they carry the weight of real experiences.
Singer Guy, a social worker in addition to being a frontman, weaves his observations and insights into the lyrics, giving them an extra layer of intensity and authenticity.
2025 will be a milestone year: Reject The Sickness celebrates 15 years of pure power and unfiltered expression.
And to mark this milestone, they will release their latest album ‘Signs of the End’ worldwide on May 30th.
An album in which they push their boundaries, further sharpen their style and delve deeper into the human psyche.
Their lyrics cast a shadow over the mental struggles of neglected youth—their fear, hatred, and the gnawing desire for revenge.
But adult revenge proves to be an illusion, leaving them trapped in their own thoughts, locked in a battle with no way out.
Musically, the band continues to evolve: even more rhythmic, even more atmospheric, even more catchy.
Harder, rawer, and uncompromisingly melodic. Even the mysterious realm of atmospheric black metal is explored in a few songs.
Reject The Sickness is unstoppable. In 2025, they take a bold step towards complete label independence—a conscious decision, because they believe they can do it better themselves now.
Line-Up:
Zoran Van Bellegem: guitar
Jannick Govaert: drums
Guy Vercruysse: vocals
Jonas Messiaen: bassguitar
Ruben Van der Beken: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/rejectthesickness
For fans of: Metallica’s melody, Megadeth’s thrash, and Opeth’s atmosphere—with a modern Belgian twist.
Roaring with high-voltage riffs, punishing rhythms, and an unstoppable energy, “The Power of Your Soul” is a full-throttle declaration of inner strength and spiritual resistance. With razor-sharp precision and anthemic intensity, Divni San deliver a modern thrash classic built for both the pit and the stage.
Pre-save the album “Dreamlike Tales” now: https://orcd.co/dreamliketales
www.youtube.com/@divnisan
www.facebook.com/DIVNISAN
It's
time to unveil the first song from the new MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL album "SONGS
FROM THE RESTLESS OBLIVION". The song is "PRONE TO
REVOLTING" and Noxifer (aka Gianfranco Logiudice), drummer of
the band, has realized a great videoclip that you can see at https://youtu.be/9Lsm1cNSxN8Pioneers of the Italian Death/Black scene, and with a new very powerful line-up (Dysphoria at keys and Taz at bass joined Buzz and Noxifer), MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL succeed to create a very personal sound, crossing different emotional states within the whole panorama of the Extreme Metal paying homage to the fury of Death Metal, to the malignant essence of Black Metal and to the morbid atmospheres of Gothic Metal, all built on an extremely powerful and clear production, daughter of the Lost Soul Studios led by Buzz himself.
For the old fans of the band this new song will not be a surprise at all. For those who don't know them but have ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILITY and CRADLE OF FILTH as part of their favorite bands, "Prone To Revolting", as well as the entire album due out on June 13th, will be a must listen!
Pre-Order "Songs From The Restless Oblivion": https://t.ly/7Bn5e
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/memoriesofalostsoulofficial
Their
previous releases include the heavy-hitting single "Lucifer’s
Wings" (2021) and the energetic and well-received EP "Spread
Your Wings and Die" (2024).Petrolbreath recently recorded new material in a fully analog format at Astia Studio, with producer Anssi Kippo at the helm. With these recordings the trio has made a leap towards the raw and authentic sound format that has shaped the soundscape of their own heroes from the eighties as well.
The first track to be released from these sessions is the single “ROADKILL”, which paints a picture of a desert highway with its ominous guitar intro. The tempo subtly increases until the song erupts into a fast and thunderous sonic assault; a true Petrolbreath trademark.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/petrolbreath-roadkill
Like the aftermath of a car crash after a wild night with an unsatiable woman, the trip is far from over.
“Recording fully analog took us back to the soundscape of our youth – to the rawness and honesty that made us pick up instruments in the first place! Roadkill was the perfect burst of rage to launch us down this path, where we were able to capture that same energy band has playing live!” – Petrolbreath
https://www.facebook.com/Petrolbreathband
DARKENHÖLD emerged in 2008 as a
trio composed of Aldébaran, Cervantes and Aboth, with the ambition of creating
a melodic, epic, atmospheric Black Metal imbued with the spirit of the 90s from
which the band has always drawn most of its influences.The band’s universe was established from the beginning around a dreamlike medieval imagination, roaming the deep forests, high mountains and mysterious caves of the South-East of France where the band is from. The old stones of fortified castles, fantastic bestiaries, tales and legends, the dense and complex landscapes of the Côte d’Azur are the sources of inspiration for a Black Metal that first stood out with the release of two self-produced split-CDs in 2009, mixing covers with original compositions.
Introducing the band’s emblematic animal, the Wyvern, and laying the first foundations of its universe, they prepared the ground for the release of a first album, « A passage to the towers… », released in 2010.
The band would then release a second album, defended throughout a French tour, before introducing the French language in its third album, « Castellum », which would open new horizons for them.
The release in 2017 of their fourth album, « Memoria Sylvarum », released as a self-production, would see the group access larger stages, culminating in a well-received performance at Hellfest in 2018.
The year 2020 marked a further step with the signing of the group to the label « Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions » and the release of their fifth album, « Arcanes et Sortilèges ». Coming out of the covid period which will put a brake on the band’s rise, DARKENHÖLD returned to live activity in 2022 before starting the composition of their sixth album, LE FLÉAU DU ROCHER to be released on June 6, 2025.
Pre-orders are now available: https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
Digipack CD
Black LP
Color LP
Collector's Box limited to 100 copies (All items are exclusive to the box except the CD)
DARKENHÖLD - "LE FLÉAU DU ROCHER"
Release date : June 6 2025
Genre: Melodic Epic Black Metal
Origin: France
Duration: 47min59
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
01. Codex de la Chevalerie
02. Le Cortège Royal
03. Temps Enfouis (instrumentale)
04. L’ascension du Mage Noir
05. Dans l’antre de la Vouivre
06. Troubadour
07. Le Fléau du Rocher
08. Gardienne des Dryades
09. Sortilège Ancestral (instrumentale)
10. La Cavalerie Fantôme
11. Pour le Royaume
https://www.facebook.com/Darkenhold
Polish artist Ols, known for her evocative neofolk soundscapes, will release her new album "Poswiaty" on 29 May via Pagan Records.
The upcoming album will explore "semi-fairytale memories from the time of brightness" and specifically the transformative power of love. It examines how a profound first love can interrupt childhood innocence, reveal the world in its entirety, and teach about both its light and the inevitable pain of loss. This kind of love, Ols explains, becomes woven into the very fabric of the soul, shaping everything that follows.
Speaking about the themes and sound of the single "O niej" and the upcoming album, Ols shares:
"This new album is a journey back to that blurry, formative time between childhood and adulthood. It’s about building yourself from fragments of experiences, feelings, and the stories that shaped you. With one foot still in the simplicity of childhood fairy tales and the other stepping into adult understanding, this is where we each start to create our own personal myth. 'O niej' specifically tells of that kind of love that bursts into your childhood world, showing you both immense beauty and the first taste of darkness and loss. Musically, I wanted to capture that feeling of a city evening – a bit lonely, a bit cold, but also full of a strange kind of energy. It's definitely a departure from the neofolk sound I'm known for, embracing a more urban, almost trip-hop vibe. But even though the forest might be further away sonically, its spirit, its presence in memory and feeling, still breathes within the lyrics."
Seattle-based black n' thrash n' rollers ROTGUT are crawling up from the gutter to deliver 24 OZ CANTRIP. The band’s debut EP boasts five tracks of booze-soaked thrash fury infused with the unholy union of punk attitude and blackened aggression.
For
fans of:
Ghoul, Witchery, The Haunted, Gwar, Converge, The Crown, MidnightROTGUT will release 24 oz CANTRIP on streaming platforms on June 20. Fans can preview samples from the EP on the band’s Instagram page. Pre-orders and the EP’s first single are coming soon…
Tracklist:
1) Bonemelter
2) The Hunger
3) I: Return of the Dead Without Eyes
4) II: Under the Scarlet Cross
5) III: Blood and Cooper
Keep reading for the story of the soon-to-be infamous 24 oz CANTRIP.
Born fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo out of the dumpster behind DaVinci's pizza on Merrick Road, a horned figure scrambled blindly through piles of empty paint cans, ceramic vases, and angry cats in order to move undetected. He found refuge in a musty old cellar. After pulling his foot loose from the bucket he had stepped in, he closed the heavy steel doors behind him.
Wiping the thick blanket of dust off a 30-rack of Genesee Specialty Cream Ale, he schemed. He was cursed with the knowledge of an incantation: a spell that would bring Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, into this world. He wrestled with the thought while crushing and tossing another empty can. The ritual required great rigor and perfect focus, but he was exacting.
He chanted. He chanted and chanted. The ceiling groaned and cracked. Polyvinyl dust plumed and swirled before vanishing into imperceptible motes. He drew sorcerous glyphs in the air with two fingers outstretched. The walls trembled with a sickening low rumble. Bracing his hands firm against his ersatz altar — a Playskool Mighty My Size Table and Chair Set — he ignored the throbbing in his head and steadied himself.
A spiraling portal ripped into reality. Out spilled two bumbling homunculi, fully formed, screaming, and covered in goo. This wasn't right! The pair stumbled and scratched their way through the cellar, bleating, squawking, and tearing through nearby cases of Natty Daddy like vultures to carrion. He pondered for what seemed like hours over the pyramid of discarded beer cans and the now-empty bottle of Old Grand Dad he had chanced upon halfway through. What could have gone wrong?
The cellar burst open. Darkening the door was a group of hulking, hazmat-suited figures. At once, the three slickened homunculi grappled one another in a long and futile struggle to get on their feet. They shouted in a panic if they were "being detained" until they were eventually tased into unconsciousness.
This was ROTGUT's ill-fated 24 oz CANTRIP.
Bio:
Assembled against their will by a faceless shadow organization in the Winter of 2024, the three designated FD, C19, and AX spent weeks in a lightless concrete hell. When the chance to escape emerged, they seized it — for they were bound by a great purpose: to form an extreme metal band, inspired by crust punk, rock ’n’ roll, and classic schlock to shred wanton across the greater US and parts beyond. That band is ROTGUT.
https://rotgutofficial.bandcamp.com/
The band comments:“The sound of hooves stomp the ground. The Apocalypse is coming”.
“repent” is a conjoined train of melodic themes and fatal intentions heading to it’s final destination. The tracks are straightforward and sinuous simultaneously. A delicate scent of classic rock combined with 90’s extreme metal sound with nearly biblical lyrics. Haunting guitar leads with unexpected twists and turns. “When the thickest mist is rising, it is time to repent!”
Biography:
Serpent God is a band formed 2023 in Iisalmi, Finland. The birth is heavily related to Se, josta ei puhuta -band’s writing process; lots of material were created that didn’t fit in the spectrum of Se, josta ei puhuta. In general, the material was more slow-paced and more eerie. However, the mentioned material was also way too good to be deleted, so therefore another output was needed, so Serpent God was born. Different branches grow from a tree with strong roots. Serpent God has its foundation in extreme metal, but there are also heavy influences from post-rock, doom and smaller splashes of more avantgarde sounds.
Line-up:
Samu Männikkö - Vocals, guitars and keyboards
Juho-Pekka Lappalainen - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/serpentgodband
Ecastor is a new band that presents a promising sound where we can find a nefarious savagery of Thrash Death Metal riffs tormented in the decadence that reveals a disturbed society, transporting us to human self-destruction where the reality of political hypocrisy with the lies of religion are the infernal fuel for an inhuman devastation on this planet ready to explode and where nobody will survive. Are you ready to die?
The debut album that Ecastor is preparing to release with the horrendous support of Murder Records is decomposed into seven purulent hymns, complemented with an Intro and a Outro, which will decimating us with their impure sonority soaked in the lacerating atrocities of inhuman ideologies and where tears of rotten blood will be shed.
The sound presented by Ecastor is played with fast rhythms and dark atmospheres where the main influences become from bands like Mortuary Drape, Sodom, Necrodeath. Be ready to devastate your soul and ripping your body apart on this war.
Release
date June, 27th 2025CD Limited to 300 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Enter The Spaceship [01:39]
02 - Space Marines [02:52]
03 - Silence [03:49]
04 - Docmicide [03:14]
05 - Land Of Fire [04:07]
06 - Slepnir [04:28]
07 - DDT [02:08]
08 - This War [03:56]
09 - Outro [00:31]
Mix and master by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
Cover art dwawed by Benedetto Palmaro.
Cover and layout made by A/Crypt from Unholy Dungeon Studios.
The songs were composed by all members.
Lyric video and promotion by Danihell Slaughter.
ECASTOR Line-Up
Dante: Vocals,Guitar
Leonardo: Guitar
Yuri: Bass
Askios(Enea): Drums
ecastor.band@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Ecastor/61565314684647/
Official distribution in European Devision by Hellstore Europe and in North American Devision by:
Southern Soundclash Records
Guts And Blood Records
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: July 11th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Suffocation | Immolation | Kill Everything
Every night as the wings of somnolence enfold you, you slip into the darkness with a fervent, desperate prayer upon your lips; a plea for simple, empty oblivion, for dreamless slumber before the saving daylight comes. But as you tumble through the ephemeral wall of sleep the transportation is immediate…the alleyway, the rain, the blood bubbling in your throat, your eyes frozen open in horror. The knives rising, glinting in the garish orange street light and then falling with sickening force - the hypnotic cycle repeated again and again. The weight of her body falling onto you, her mouth open in an obscene parody of passion forcing a lifeless kiss upon your lips as her empty eyes stare into yours…a moment that will never end…soul scarring, life warping, hideously traumatic.
In 2024 they gave us a first poisonous taste of the horrors to come with their self titled demo; now Indonesia’s Symphobia are ready to unleash the full impact of their shocking brutality with debut album Hideously Traumatic! Exploding into life with opening track ‘Hecatomb’, a nail bomb of intricate riffs, precision drumming, heart-stopping tempo changes and disembowelling vocals, Hideously Traumatic proceeds to bury the listener in an unstoppable avalanche of wildly violent death metal. Featuring members of Demented Heart and Perveration, this elite unit unleash spiralling brutality that sucks you into a maelstrom of madness, the generated centrifugal force threatening to rip your body apart. Fiercely focussed throughout, this album is an imposing invocation of purposeful destruction. From the palpable malice of ‘Heinous’ through the bone-carving grooves of ‘Convulsively’ to the cataclysmic conclusion of ‘Inebriated’ this is a catalogue of accomplished atrocities and perfectly formed abominations. Hideously Traumatic is one listening experience that you are never going to recover from.
Hideously Traumatic’s emotionless desire for death will be unleashed by Comatose Music on July 11th and Symphobia will be immediately thrust into the awareness of the underground death metal scene, like a blade to the brain. Mixed and mastered by Tonebetter Soundlab (Vox Mortis, Nattmaran, Murtad etc) for a scathing, scalding sound and adorned in the eye-impaling artwork of Timbul Cahyono (Massacre, Nocturnus A.D., Witchburner etc) Hideously Traumatic is a sonic killing machine devoted to the destruction of every living thing.
Line-up:
Jossi Bima - Vocals
Dodik Bhre - Guitar
Humam Aliy - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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GOAD'S latest album "TITANIA" was
released about a year and a half ago and today we present a new single composed
by Florentine Progressive band entitled "BE HAPPY".
The song is not completely unreleased, as it was present as a bonus track in
the double vinyl version of the same album, but the band wanted to pay homage
to their fans by publishing the song and so it is now public to everyone.You can find it on all digital stores with the other bonus track of the album "In The Sea Of Your Love" and on YouTube at the link: https://youtu.be/xE6OkfhXnGo
This is also the opportunity to anticipate some details of the new album that has been completed and is now being mixed and mastered at the Roman studios of Max Cirone, by now an additional member of the band.
The album will be titled "Dusketha" like one of the protagonists of the poem of the English poet John Keats "Song of the Four Fairies: Fire, Air, Earth, Water". It will be released next fall and once again it will enchant us with the incredible beauty that Maurilio Rossi manages to give to his Art always balanced between dream, magic, Poetry and unique melodies.
After 50 years of honorable career GOAD continue to surprise us and they do it in the most sublime way possible.
GOAD, the history of Italian Prog!
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Mit "SUPERMATCH", der neuen
Single (VÖ: 02.05.2025) von SICK OF SOCIETY zeigt sich die Band
von einer völlig unerwarteten Seite.Die Band, die sonst für kompromisslose Kampfansagen und politische Inhalte steht, konzentriert sich in diesem Song auf das Innere der menschlichen Psyche und thematisiert das in der heutigen Zeit gängige Phänomen "Bindungsängste“. Oft sind es persönliche Negativerlebnisse und unsere eigenen Dämonen, die wir in zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen mit hineinziehen und sie dadurch intoxikieren!
Als Szenario hierfür wurde ein zunächst banal wirkendes Tindermatch gewählt, welches schlussendlich in einem bösen Erwachen gipfelt.
Zwei Menschen, die sich näherkommen, jedoch nichts als schlechte Erfahrungen und Traumata als gemeinsame Basis haben - ein toxisches Match!
Musikalisch zeigt sich die Band in "Supermatch“ bissig wie gewohnt. Der treibende Beat, die finsteren Harmoniebögen und der geifernde Gesang wirken modern und untermalen das ohnehin düstere Thema. Verstärkt wird dieser Effekt durch weibliche Vocals im Refrain (Elena von BYRA*) und einem melancholisch klingenden Streichersatz, der die Gitarren im Outro unterstützt.
SICK OF SOCIETY kehren ihr Inneres nach außen und befassen sich mit einer Thematik, die uns allen auf irgendeine Art und Weise bekannt vorkommen dürfte.
"Supermatch“ – the perfect match für alle, die modernen Punkrock lieben, ohne dabei auf Tiefgang und Härte verzichten zu müssen!
"Supermatch" Video auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/QsExOGJebI8
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The full press release in English can be read on the Pařátshop website
https://paratshop.cz/2025/04/27/the-song-zlodejska-svetelka-by-dissolving-of-prodigy-will-be-released-for-the-first-time-on-a-separated-cd/
There
you will also find high-quality graphic previews.DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY- “ZLODĚJSKÁ SVĚTÉLKA “
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Doom/death
Release date: 19.5. 2025
Type: Jewel box + 16 page booklet
Catalogue number: PP131, limited 500 copies
Listen to the recording on YouTube channel Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKrFppXUrk
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Hailing from Bogotá, Colombia, Brinicle merges the raw power of Groove and Death Metal with world music influences, creating a dynamic and thought-provoking sonic experience. Their lyrics, deeply inspired by literature and philosophy, elevate their music beyond mere aggression—offering listeners a journey through introspection and existential reflection.
A Sound That Transcends Boundaries
Brinicle’s rhythmic foundation is built on groove-driven intensity and crushing death metal ferocity, while their melodies and harmonies—woven through guitars, vocals, and intricate instrumentation—flow seamlessly, shaped by the diverse musical backgrounds of each member. This fusion results in a sound that is more than just the sum of its parts—a visceral and cerebral experience that challenges the listener to think, feel, and awaken.
Perceptions of Reality: A Deep Dive into the Human Condition
Perceptions of Reality is an auditory exploration of consciousness, blending Groove and Technical Death Metal with world music and each member’s distinctive artistic vision. Built through a fully collaborative process, the album delivers a raw yet melodic balance, seamlessly shifting between pummeling intensity and expressive harmonies.
Thematically, Perceptions of Reality is an invitation to reflect on the fleeting nature of existence, a concept woven through philosophical musings, personal experiences, and intricate storytelling. Each track serves as a mirror, challenging the listener to question, explore, and embrace their reality.
With this release, Brinicle not only marks a new chapter in their artistic evolution but also cements their place as an innovative force in modern metal, pushing genre boundaries while staying true to their underground roots.
Tracklist
1. Pandemic
2. Deep Trip
3. Almost Gods
4. Brinicle
5. Concept Of Destruction
6. Human Predation
7. Burning Slowly
8. Blink
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After offering various kinds of death metal on the label this year - blackened death, dissodeath, tech death, prog death, post-punk death - we're happy to offer a more brutish form of death metal and Thorn doesn't disappoint in that regard. Their corpulent grooves are sure to satiate your primal cravings. Check out two of their songs from their latest album at https://thorndm.bandcamp.com/album/nebulous-womb-of-eternity
THORN – “NEBULOUS WOMB OF ETERNITY”
For
fans of
- Mortician, Fumes, Wharflurch, Fluids, Intestine Baalism, RetchingThorn has a knack of churning out punchy, rotten death metal hymns rife with some nasty, lurching grooves. The album will have the listener rocking back and forth in its asphyxiating grasp like a pin-pricked voodoo ragdoll. The stench of sickness is thick and pervades the entire recording. Brennen has come up with meatier, denser, chuggier songs on this record while retaining the band's primal essence and there is more death metal than doom found on this recording. There are still moments where gleaming leads come in and brighten up the proceedings but it remains a dark, fetid and glutinous affair through and through. The corpulent grooves stand out the most and form the bulk of this recording. If you like the idea of death metal sounding massive, ponderous, and packed with heaving, earth-rumbling parts, this album is most certainly meant for you.
Track listing
1. Ooze Maelstrom
2. Entombed in Chrysalis
3. Quartersawn Remains
4. Zombifying Mold
5. Haunting Gale
6. Gloaming Corporeal Form
7. Nebulous Womb of Eternity
Release date - August 8th, 2025
Cover illustration by Arifullah Ali (KanvasKarat)
Mixing/Mastering by Daniel Bonofiglio (Fumes, Gutvoid, Intestinal Hex, Grotesque Mass, Internal Infestation)
All music and lyrics written by Thorn*
*Guest solo written and performed by Daniel Bonofilgio on track 4
*Guest vocals performed by Ryan Fairfield on track 7
Thorn is Brennen Westermeyer
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https://thorndm.bandcamp.com/album/nebulous-womb-of-eternity
BLASFEMATOR / SEPULCRAL - "BESTIAL RITES OF MORBID LUST" Release date : June, 6th 2025
Split Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
SIDE A
BLASFEMATOR
01 - Diabolik Incarnation [03:05]
02 - Morbid Lust [3:39]
SIDE B
SEPULCRAL
03 - Bestial Rape [5:00]
04 - WarGoat Ritval [3:01]
05 - Conquerors Of The Black Oath [3:11]
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Murder Records ( www.murder-records.eu ) is honored to announce the upcoming funeral ceremony where BLASFEMATOR will join with SEPULCRAL to carry the coffins of desecration in the funeral march where this filthy split will be presented and which is entitled "Bestial Rites Of Morbid Lust".
BLASFEMATOR are an infernal legion from Greece formed in 2022 that presents us with an overwhelming raw Black Thrash Metal that is complemented by morbid melodies allowing us to penetrate the perverse underworld of darkness where cadaveric filth will devour us incessantly.
SEPULCRAL come from the putrid bowels of Colombia formed in 2023 and present us with a nefarious and impure Black Death Metal moldy with the blasphemous odors of sulfur that evoke the profane rot of death.
The prophets of death have already begun to sound their unholy trumpets to announce the malevolent ritual of lust where the bestial legions of hell will be able to hear the call for this sonic feast that Murder Records is preparing to present. This release is not recommended for sensitive creatures who are offended by raw perversity and where blasphemy is presented exposed without censorship. For all those who feel offended, a big fuck you, this is a release only for the true infamous demons of the extreme Underground. Only Death Is Real...
SATANIK THRASH BLACK DEATH RAW METAL...
BLASFEMATOR Biography:
Blasfemator was formed back in 2018 by Necrobaphometh (vocals, bass) under the name Goatslaught in Ioannina, Greece.
After releasing one demo tape and a split the band went on hiatus until 2022.
With the addition of Infernal Sadomator (guitars) and Hemophiliak Cadaverik Warmaster (drums).
They reformed the band as Blasfemator and began working on new material.
As years went by all the members relocated in Athens and in 2024 2 tracks were recorded.
During a rehersal for a split with Sepulcral.
Line-Up:
Necrobaphometh (Vocals & Bass)
Infernal Sadomator (Guitars)
Hemophiliak Cadaverik Warmaster (Drums)
https://www.facebook.com/people/Blasfemator/100064083732922/
SEPULCRAL Biography:
Sepulcral was formed in 2023 by Dante (Goatsodomy) on guitar and vocals along with Felipe (Goatextermination) on drums.
In 2024, BestialBlackgoat-Militant on bass and SadogoAngelgoat on vocals joined them, recording their first full EP (4444).
Impure sound that evokes death extracting three tracks for the split with Blasfemator.
Line-Up:
Dante Goatsodomy (Guitar & Vocals)
Felipe Goatextermination (Drums)
BestialBlackgoat-Militant (Bass)
SadogoAngelgoat (Vocals)
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DISSONANT SEEPAGE – “DYSTOPIAN PUTRESCENCE”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: June 6th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Devourment | Skinless | Vulvectomy
“All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”- John Dryden
They cower in the presence of a different kind of divinity; a malformed mutation, a bastard construct of infinite decay stitched together with threads of malfeasance and malevolence. Old, empty eyes survey a gathered cankerous congregation of supplicants and the irresistible power of putrescence radiates from a towering frame of mouldering musculature and impossible madness. This is the deity of all our futures, the cancerous king of decomposition, the tainted lord of corruption and the sour embrace at the end of our path.
New York’s Dissonant Seepage have been roused from their slumber in a morass of low frequencies and dark dreams and emerged with a second full length album sculpted from coagulating blood and rotten teeth. Following in the footsteps of 2023s The Darkness Will Swallow You Whole, it is time to welcome the sensory distress of Dystopian Putrescence! Opening track and first single ‘Ancient Pestilence Reborn’ casts ceremony to the flames and immediately immerses you in a festering, screaming slough of utter brutality, an invocation of unspeakable horrors. There is no relief from the seething, suffocating darkness as punishing drum work is unleashed beneath wretched sounds from the deep places of the Earth. The riffs of ‘Immortal Until Decay’ tear through your intestines like an invasive worm, while ‘Rotting Monument’ twists your perceptions like being trapped in a fever dream. Each new cascade of horror strengthens the curated atmosphere, building a world of chaos held together by rotting sinew – a nightmare vision! The final trilogy of tracks seem to gradually build in intensity and ferocity, with the concluding title track, ‘Dystopian Putrescence’ being a monstrous inferno of blasting, squirming, writhing, raging sickness. It’s a finale that makes sure the wounds inflicted will scar and the resulting infection runs deep.
Now an established part of Comatose Music’s abhorrent armies, Dissonant Seepage will unleash Dystopian Putrescence through the world’s premiere purveyors of pestilence on June 6th. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Atrium Audio (August Burns Red, Rivers Of Nihil, Black Crown Initiate etc) to capture the sound of dissolving worlds and putrefaction on an unimaginable scale and bedecked in the unhallowed artwork of Pär Olofsson (Exodus, Immolation, Unleashed etc), Dystopian Putrescence is a mind warping, panic inducing and utterly unforgettable experience.
Line-up:
Cody McConnell - Vocals/Bass
Daniel Fili - Guitar
Anthony Ferro - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/dissonantseepage
New
DE PANKRAKER RECORDS press release: DEAD DOG’S HOWL – “BLACK
CIRCLE TRANSCENDENCY 12”Releasedate: May 16th of 2025
The Morbid Void Metal beckons hither with the debut album from Dead Dog's Howl! Haunted duo Dreyer and Rasputin manifest the early Necromantia legacy under the eclipse of a new aeon! Incantations are provided from the sages Jim Mutilator, The Magus, and Traumatic. Eternal souls are forfeit within the rites of “Black Circle Transcendency”!
Black Circle Transcendency is dedicated to the memory of 8-string genius Baron Blood from the mighty Necromantia.
"His soul now roams free to other worlds and dimensions. His spirit will live forever in our hearts and his music will remind us what a great artist he was." - Magus Wampyr Daoloth (Necromantia)
The full album was initially released in 2021 by Fallen Temple on CD and by Signal Rex on cassette. Now, it has finally received a long-awaited vinyl release — a much-needed addition.
Thanks in advance. Cheers Peter / De Pankraker Records
https://deaddogshowl.bandcamp.com/
https://depankraker.be/
Minsk (BY) -NATURE MORTE, the crushing debut album from Belarusian Sludge/Doom/Death quartet, MATRAQUE, is out now on Lithuania's Ashen Tree Records and streaming in its entirety! The album is available on cassette and digital formats via Bandcamp (the limited edition digipack CD will be available on or around May 25). Click to purchase/stream below!
Sonically, Matraque sits somewhere between Grief, Meth Drinker, and Primitive Man. All lyrics are sung in Belarusian. All music is scarring.
Just as over time, anger and aggression transition into despair, disappointment, and depression, the band, without losing loudness and intensity, chooses corresponding forms and nuances of sound to convey their perception of reality.
In search of their style, where low and sluggish masses of sound are interspersed with mid-tempo bursts, Matraque drew inspiration from such acts as Body Void, Primitive Man, The Body, Indian, Bismuth, etc. In terms of genre, one could mention sludge, doom, and primitive death metal.
The band began its journey in Minsk in the spring of 2023. The members brought their experience from previous projects such as Rowan, Televoid, krvvla, Схизма, kusto., Coat, and Łaska.
Track
listing:1. Kola
2. Pustazelle
3. Malimon
4. Volya
5. Pry`py`nak
Credits:
Drums recorded at Chili records, Minsk by Roman P.
Guitars, bass, vox recording at Zeleniy Lug "Children of Tsnyanka rec.", Minsk, by Alexander G.
Mixed and mastered by Alexander G. at Gasprodmusic.
Art by Marta Shcherbich.
Logo by Olga Kisielewicz.
Line-up:
Vlad B. – Guitar
Anton M. – Drums
Evgeniy S. – Bass
Alexander G. – Vocals, Synths
https://www.facebook.com/ashentreerecords
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The Finnish melodic death/groove metal band FALLING FROM GRAVE released their second studio album 'AT THE EDGE' via Inverse Records on May 2nd 2025.
Listen to 'At The Edge' album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/ffg-edge
The theme of the album revolves around the title, as it explores the mindset of a person who has been pushed to the edge mentally, with no way out. The lyrics, as usual, touch on the darker side of life, but also address the current state of the world. The compositions on the album are somewhat darker than those on the previous release, "Shattered." There is also a song on the album, titled "The Creator," which is a bit different from the band's usual style. Falling From Grace's characteristic energy and aggression are also present on this release.
At The Edge combines various genres of metal, with a focus on groove metal and melodic death metal. The songwriting is once again handled by the band's guitarist Timi Tonteri.
Nils Courbaron (Sirenia, Bloodorn, T.A.N.K.) is featuring on the album's last track The Creator.
"With At The Edge, we’ve taken a step forward from the last album and incorporated elements we haven’t used before. The timing of the album release is perfect, with Tuska Festival just around the corner, where we will also perform."
Track
list:1. At The Edge
2. Final Hour
3. Downfall
4. Egoistic
5. Poseur
6. Crawling Back To The Dark
7. The Abyss
8. Shadow
9. Revolt Unleashed
10. The Creator
Album cover by Sami Leppäaho
Line-up:
Timi Tonteri - Guitar
Atte Väisänen - Guitar
Niki Tonteri - Vocals
Toni Jokelainen - Bass
Valtteri Honko - Drums
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DYING VICTIMS is proud to present LUCILLE’S highly anticipated debut album, DAWN OF DESTRUCTION, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2017, LUCILLE offer fresh blood to Poland’s ever-expanding thrash metal scene. Inspired by classics of the genre such as Slayer as early Megadeth as well as the German school of old Kreator, Destruction, and Living Death, they began spreading their evil through numerous gigs and shows in their native land. On this recording, LUCILLE paid sonic tribute to the golden days of thrash – years when this music was authentically strong and raw, and before the aforementioned bands set the limits of musical extremes. Soon after those recordings, the Covid madness began, and LUCILLE’s lineup changed rapidly. After a while, Jugen took over as a drummer, and the next year, they found the missing pieces: bassist M. Höllenhund and lead guitarist K. Dragunov. From then on, LUCILLE became a solid quartet. Powered by the atomic energy of a drum attack, quick-ripping riffs, wild solo duels, raw-throated vocals, and bone-crushing bass, they played countless shows and prepared to record their long-awaited debut album.
And, finally, it’s here! Titled Dawn of Destruction, LUCILLE make good on that titular promise with a total thrash explosion that takes the foundation of the first EP and then upratchets everything to an extreme – and authentic – degree. Influences from the elder American and Teutonic gods thankfully still in place, the quartet spit out eight screeds of THRASH METAL solely situated in the years 1985-1988 within a taut-yet-interesting 38 minutes. Just the guitar tone alone underlines that authenticity, but submit to their straightforward-but-never-simplistic songwriting and you’ll find four men fully immersed in what made those golden years of thrash work their mightiest magick. Just as thankfully here, you won't find any fillers, stylistic experiments, cloying ballads, or modern twists; LUCILLE are nothing if not obsessed with said years, and they thus sow destruction, break spines, and kill poseurs across Dawn of Destruction.
Don’t be fooled by their moniker: LUCILLE are 666% raw thrash attack with lyrics about doom, diseases, Satanic killers, and death in a post-apocalyptic world. This is their Dawn of Destruction!
Line-up:
Ramone – guitars, vocals
Jugen – drums
M. Hollenhund – bass
K. Dragunov – guitars
From Bialystok, Poland
Artwork:
Subhuman Illustrations
Release date:
20th June 2025
Tracklist1 Desolate Winds
2 Brand New World
3 Genetic Curse
4 Prophets of Disease
5 Nightstalker
6 Dawn of Destruction
7 On Your Knees
8 Thrash Resurrection
9 Machine of Death
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on yellow vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
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Genre
: Melodic
Doom MetalLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : May 30th 2025
FFO: Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Wolfheart, Gaerea.
Melodic doomsters LA CERVA unveil their first self-titled effort. The EP consists in three tunes.
The line-up features Daniele Porfido - of Dismal fame - and shows the qualities of a songwriting dark and pensive, but always focused on melody. Through the somber atmospheres the listener can also recognize some touches of contemporary black metal and classic melodeath. La Cerva is already currently working on a full album to be released during 2026 and setting up their live campaign for selected events.
Sale points:
A solid backbone of 90's Melodic/Gothic Doom in the vein of "The Peaceville Three";
Melodic finishing touches coming from finnish melodic death metal and modern black metal;
With Daniele Porfido from Dismal (Aural Music);
Tracklist:
1. Cosmic Down
2. New Eclipse
3. Stardust
Artwork and Logo by Aram Kalaydijan
La Cerva is:
Dani P. - guitars
Steve Pan - vocals
Stefano D.L. – bass
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: May 15th 2025
Genre: Ethnic Metal
For fans of: Tengger Cavalry | Sepultura | Moonsorrow | Eluveitie
I stand upon the shores of my inner sea and prepare to set sail through the secrets of my heart. Above me the tempestuous skies of my emotions roil and thunder, sending spears of revelatory lightning down into the bottomless waters below. I will pass between the rocks of delusion and denial and cross the labyrinthine landscape constructed from experience and knowledge, misconceptions and dreams. I will embrace the savage, the primal, the spiritual and enlightened. I will search this limitless world of heritage and memories for the sleeping gods who lie at the centre of it all, waiting for me to discover myself and awake them from their slumbers.
The well of creativity and inspiration never seems to run dry for Concrete Age! The masters of ethnic metal relocated from the North Caucasus region to London in 2014 and are now about to release their tenth album, the incredible Awaken The Gods. That Concrete Age have continued to scale new heights with their unique craft is immediately apparent, as opening track ‘Prey For Me’ reveals an overwhelming array of musical treasures; distinctive eastern melodies, intricate guitar work and rhythms, wonderful solos, huge choruses and a characteristic vocal roar. With so many ideas so expertly blended the dynamic range of the track is astounding – a real shock and awe opener! And this is only the start of an amazing musical journey, where ambitious, imaginative song writing is brought to dazzling life through fantastic musicianship. With the dark and intense ‘Forbidden Ministry’, the adrenaline infused ‘Cursed Reincarnation’ and the fierce ‘Warrior’s Anthem’ Awaken The Gods is perhaps Concrete Age’s heaviest ever album – but it’s also their most textured, rich and deep. An array of ethnic instruments add exotic tones and an air of myth and mystery to songs like the impressive title track and they have been perfectly integrated within the framework of Concrete Age, as necessary and natural as a heartbeat. Absolutely electrifying from beginning to end, Awaken The Gods is a breathtaking exploration of the inner self and a stunning addition to the remarkable Concrete Age canon.
As well as eight expansive original compositions, Awaken The Gods comes with two bonus tracks – cover versions of ‘Boro Boro’ by Iranian/Swedish singer Arash and ‘Şimarik’ by Turkish musician Tarkan. Both have been infused with Concrete Age’s customary intensity and offer an intriguing insight into the diversity of the band’s inspirations and influences. Recorded and mixed by Concrete Age front man, Ilia Morozov, with invaluable assistance from guitarist Boris Zahariev and bassist Giovanni M Ruiu, Awaken The Gods will be released on May 15th and will be available on all major digital platforms. A voyage of discovery awaits!
Line-up:
Ilia Morozov – Guitar/Vocals/Ethnic Instruments
Boris Zahariev - Guitar
Giovanni M Ruiu - Bass
https://www.concreteage.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/concreteage/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present MORBYDA’S highly anticipated debut album, UNDER THE SPELL, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Leipzig, Germany’s MORBYDA was founded 2022 by vocalist / guitarist Chris (Indian Nightmare) and drummer Joris (BOUNDLESS CHAOS, Lemongrab) with the intention to shred some skull-crushing blackened speed metal. Early on, their influences were drawn from the more traditional but equally fast bands of the New Wave of Heavy Metal movement like Skull Fist, Evil Invaders, and Stallion. Thus armed, the duo wrote their first songs, which tended to have a darker and more evil approach than said bands.
After the joining of second guitarist Julez (Sintage) and bassist Antonio (Pursuit), MORBYDA completed and recorded their first Demo(n) Tape in 2023 during some more-than-drunken nights in the valleys of Leipzig. Armed with that demo, MORBYDA sharpened their knives and started to play many gigs: Over the Edge 3, Antifascist Black Metal Gathering, touring with BOUNDLESS CHAOS and Necromancer, and many more. In August 2024, they recorded their debut full-length.
A grand debut statement, MORBYDA’s Under the Spell is a fresh breath of old air. Wild yet locked-in, exhibiting both the fury of youth and the ageless wisdom of the ancients, the band’s debut album remains a HEAVY METAL album above all. The atmosphere may be blackened, the pace swift but never overly speedy, the shifts in dynamics and textures equally restless and thoughtful, but MORBYDA display a maturity beyond their young years here; even calling Under the Spell “blackened speed metal” betrays the depth of their compositions. The dual-lead work alone enflames the senses, sulfurous and yet very nearly NWOBHM, and the quartet’s energy – again, no matter the tempo – is simply off the charts here. On sheer charisma alone, MORBYDA could convince the most skeptical of listeners.
Old-days references could include Japan’s Sabbat, millennial Nifelheim, the late / great Eidomantum, early Tribulation, or Hungary’s Tormentor, but all that’s to underline just how advanced MORBYDA are at this early stage. It’s almost guaranteed you’ll fall Under the Spell!
Line-up:
Joris - Drums
Julez - Guitars
Chris - Vocals, Guitars
Antonio - Bass
From Leipzig, Germany
Artwork:
Bronze and Bones
Release date:
20th June 2025
Tracklist1 Evil
2 Mother of Decay
3 Open the Gates of Fire
4 Turning the Wheel of Steel
5 The Curse
6 Sacrifice
7 Under her Spell
8 Morbid Ways of Dying
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on bone colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
"MIRACLE IN FIRE" is live now at Heavy Blog is Heavy. Check out the exclusive premiere for the song at https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/04/30/exclusive-premiere-unmercifuls-cleansing-fire/
DEVOURING DARKNESS marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, the album is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
"Miracle in Fire" will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all other streaming services on Friday, May 2. Additional selections from Devouring Darkness are now streaming on all major platforms.
Devouring Darkness is set for release on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on May 23 on Willowtip Records.
Pre-order the album at:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/unmerciful.aspx
https://unmerciful.bandcamp.com/album/devouring-darkness
Tracklist:1. Miracle in Fire
2. Unnatural Ferocity
3. Malice Unbound
4. Devouring Darkness
5. Relentless Malevolence
6. Vomit you out (Origin cover)*
7. Infernal Conquering
8. The Reaping
9. Voracious Lunacy
10. Vengeance Transcending
UNMERCIFUL has announced the first of many live assaults in support of Devouring Darkness. The band will host an album release show on June 20 at Warehouse on Broadway in Kansas City, MO, alongside Torn The Fuck Apart, Garoted, and Hossferatu.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is seeking a bassist for live performances and/or a permanent position. Serious inquiries only. Contact the band for details.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
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Release
date :
may, 30th 2025MCD Limited to 300 copies
Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Labyrinyh Of The Lost Souls [1:33]
02 - Necrophagy [3:34]
03 - Prison Of Flesh [4:55]
04 - Vein Cutters [3:14]
05 - The Butcher's Simphony [3:54]
Lyrics writen by Fabio Valsecchi.
Mixing and mastering by Riccardo Massa.
Logo made by Riccardo Massa.
Cover artwork by Fabio Fontana.
Recordings and work supervision by Morgan Segatore.
Space provider at CSA Baraonda by Francesco Giorgi.
VULTÜR photographs by Marco Pasqua.
Lyric video made by Danihell Slaughter.
Layout for CD and Cassette made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional flyers made by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter.
THE EPITOME OF CRUELTY WITH SCREAMS OF PURE AGONY...
Murder Records is honored to present VULTÜR, a young band freshly exhumed at the unholy cemeteries from Milan in Italy.
VULTÜR present a voracious butcher's symphony, where we can be devoured by a unleashing raw power with a relentless energy, fusing the elements of Thrash Death Metal embraced with the fury of Hardcore, duly forged in a sonic storm that will leave you breathless and that intends to dismember us with the sharped blades swings without mercy.
The atrocious tombs are already open, where the bleeding flesh starting releasing the nauseating odors to announces VULTÜR's debut EP entitled "Necrophagy", which will feature with five decompositions, duly moldy in the fetid underworld and where our cadaver can slowly rot inside the coffin in this necrophilic ritual that Murder Records is preparing and that will be served on the funeral altar to feed the cadaveric worms with our filthy rotten remains.
Deadly Perversion On... Wish You Well Off...
VULTÜR Line-Up
Buck Motorlungs (Vocals)
Rick Massa (Lead Guitar)
Will Fimbulvinter (Rhythmic Guitar)
Rick Cadaverous (Drums)
Andrea Bini (Bass)
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https://www.instagram.com/wearevultur
MURDER RECORDS NORTH AMERICAN DEVISION
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Murder Records & Filthy Dogs Of Metal are honored to present the new lyric video from VULTÜR entitled "Necrophagy" which will be presented exclusively with the interview that brother Nekrofilth Steve prepared to reveal a little more about the release of the debut EP of the maniacs VULTÜR. For the malevolent creatures of the underworld also interested in listening to the EP in full, stay tuned because on May 30th the premiere will be published through the Death Madness channel, so I would like to inform you that the catacombs of Murder Records are open to receive your coffins, where the vultures of hell will feed with your rotting remains.
Two Death Thrash Metal nights will bring the pure sonic carnage at Headbangers Pub on May 23th and at UFO on May 24th where VULTÜR will present in advance the release of the new EP entitled "Necrophagy" that will be out official at May 30th.
For all the maniacs interested in support the Underground scene you can come over to give your support the entrance on both shows are free, for that reason no excuses to stay home just move your carcass and come heabanging your skull.
The new EP from VULTÜR "Necrophagy" will be available in CD + Cassette and you can buy it in advance exclusively in the show only, if you miss it you have to wait until the release will be official out by Murder Records at Hellstore Europe.
info@murder-records.eu
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Helsinki,
Finland - Finnish thrash metal titans BLOODRIDE are
thrilled to announce their signing with Wormholedeath Records for the
release of their highly anticipated fifth studio album, DEAFENING.
The album is set to unleash its sonic fury on July 25, 2025.Formed in 2000, BLOODRIDE has been a relentless force in the global thrash metal scene. Known for their signature blend of old-school thrash infused with darker death metal elements and hardcore intensity, the band has carved out a reputation for delivering raw, neck-breaking energy both in the studio and on stage. Their previous album, Idiocracy (2021), received widespread acclaim from critics and fans alike, solidifying their position as one of Finland's most formidable metal acts.
With Deafening, BLOODRIDE promises to push the boundaries of thrash metal even further. The album is a testament to their unyielding dedication to the genre and features a ferocious lineup of tracks guaranteed to leave no neck unthrashed.
Mark your calendars for July 25, 2025 – Deafening will be unleashed worldwide through Wormholedeath Records. Prepare your ears and brace your necks – BLOODRIDE is coming!
Tracklist
1 Sardonic Grin (Intro)
2 Kill Without Hate
3 Come in Peace
4 Hindsight Einstein
5 Ashes Remain
6 Holy Simplicity
7 King of Pain
8 The Dark Triad
9 Simply Complicated
10 Death Sentinel
11 Erase and Replace
12 Fear Cage
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Following the unfortunate loss of their debut during the pandemic chaos of 2020, HATRED INHERIT now returns stronger and more ferocious than ever with their second full-length, "VOID". Featuring 8 devastating tracks and clocking in at just under 31 minutes, "Void" showcases a sharpened, technical, and uncompromising assault, crafted by ex-members of Phobiatic, Hounds of Damnation and Seventh Seal Broken.
Recorded at guitarist Stipe Šimleša's 3rd Floor Sounds studio, and featuring the dark, gripping artwork by Kai Ski (The Serpent Sun Tattoo), "Void" is a testament to HATRED INHERIT's pure, unrelenting Death Metal vision. No compromises, no mercy!
Pre-order "Void": https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hatred-inherit-void
Prepare for "Void" to rip through your senses starting June 13th, 2025 — brought to you by Pest Records and Satanath Records!
Line-up on "Void":
Kai – drums
Stipe – guitars
Neander – guitars
Nils Stadtmann – bass
Frederico – vocals (session)
Current band line-up:
Kai – drums
Stipe – guitars
Neander – guitars
Robin – bass
Tracklist:01. Shrine
02. Feeding The Abyss
03. Violated
04. Deathmarch
05. New Gods
06. Fading From Within
07. Hatred (Instrumental)
08. Weak
Total length: 30:53 minutes
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SKRÄCKEN’S highly anticipated debut album, ECHOES FROM THE VOID, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Formed in 2022, Sweden’s SKRÄCKEN are a band with roots in the forests around a small village in northern Dalarna. The idea for SKRÄCKEN was born through sleep paralysis, where an old lady in an 18th-century dress came to visit: the title of their debut EP, The Presence, was thus apt. The quintet may be new in name but include in their ranks vocalist Sofie-Lee Johansson, formerly of the late / great Night Viper.
If the 19-minute The Presence was but a foretaste of their potential, SKRÄCKEN are set to blow open the doors with their first full-length, Echoes From the Void. Totaling nine songs in 41 minutes, SKRÄCKEN’s debut album is a tour de force of moody, melancholic hard rock that seemingly sits in its own category. With some sort of strange magick, the Swedes evoke ancient visions of obscure ‘70s and ‘80s hard rock without sounding exactly like anyone; it’s more down to feeling, of being lost in time but not quite knowing how you got there. Across Echoes From the Void lingers a thick fog of the occult – the sulfur and brimstone swirl just at the corners of perception, as do visions of misty moors – and the brisk-but-never-busy gait of SKRÄCKEN’s songwriting helps cement the sensation of hypnosis or, indeed, sleep paralysis. But through it all, the band remain hard-rocking to the very end, melancholic their muse may be. Of course, Johansson’s powerful & distinctive pipes vividly illustrate these visions drawn from paintings by Zdzislaw Beksinski and the dark sides of society. Open your ears and hear SKRÄCKEN’s Echoes From the Void!
Line-up:
Filip Spetan Magnusson - Bass
Daniel Nordin - Drums
Sebastian Lindberg - Guitars
Martin Nordin - Guitars
Sofie-Lee Johansson - Vocals
From Gothenburg, Sweden
Artwork:
Anders Muammar
Release date:
20th June 2025
Tracklist1 Demoner Utan O¨gon
2 By His Word
3 House of Greed
4 Witch
5 Her Presence
6 Sweet Silence
7 Visions of Fire
8 The Ghost of Society
9 Wasteland
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Genre: Black MetalFFO: Lunar Aurora, Abigor, Katharsis, Ascension, Nagelfar
Location: Bavarian Forest / Lower Bavaria
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 16.05.2025
In 2013 Drudensang crawled out from the depths of Bavarian Forest, the border triangle of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. It emerged from the band Ravnsvart, which was founded in 2009 by Krámpn. Drudensang represents the devil worship in combination with the ancient
devilish myths and traditions of bavaria and austria. The focus is on the Krampus-and Perchtencult, witchcraft and the evil spirits of the twelve nights between the years (Rauhnächte). The name Drudensang is made up of the words “Drude”, a witch creature from the Bavarian Forest, a kind of night alb, and “Sang”, an old german word for curse, today used as “chant” and “death wail“.In 2013, the first demo "Rehearsal 1 –Dunkle Tradition" was released. Further releases (demos, live albums, EPs and splits) followed at regular intervals.
The first demos were still characterised by a very raw style, which over the years was refined further and further into the sound that is currently typical for Drudensang –pure furious Black Metal with an raging old school style and atmospheric fragments as the perfect soundtrack to the wild doings and wild hunts of Krampen and Perchten during the Rauhnächten. After almost 10 years in 2022, on Walpurgis Night, Drudensang unleashed their first morbid full-length opus "Tuiflsrijtt", a divine monument of macabre devilry and depraved deathworship under the banner of the extremistlabel Folter Records.
In the Beginning of 2023 Drudensang went on a european crusade, Tuiflsrijtt over Europe Tour, through Germany, Belgium, Swiss, Italy, Czech Republic and Austria together with the old underground force Total Hate, Whiskey Ritual and Amystery.
Drudensang has been performing regularly since 2015. These performances are celebrated with ritualistic intensity. Together with Bands such as Eminenz, Crimson Moon, Taake, Urn, Amystery, Strid, Ancient, Krater, Belphegor, Watain etc. each time delivering an intense orgy of blackest repulsion with blood, cadavers, spikes, fire, mould and death.
In the ninth month of the eleventh year, the band once again entered the studio to record their next morbid masterpiece, which after three years of
composing finally had grown into it ́s full abominable shape.
For the finishing touches, the band went to StudioKlangschmiede E (Also used by Secrets of the Moon, Bethlehem, Dornenreich, Dark Fortress, Eisregen, Schammasch,...) where it was mixed and mastered by Markus Stock (Empyrium, Sun of the Sleepless, The Visions Bleak).
The end result became „Geysterzvvang“ six gospels of impurest Black Metal fanaticism.
Vomited out of the great abyss of the bavarian forest, „Geysterzvvang“ (tranl. compulsion of dark spirits and demons) compels the devil spirits and demons of the underworld to rise during the Rauhnächte (twelve nights / between the years) through furious black metal.
In magic, the word "compulsion" is associated with the concept that the demons of hell can be forced to appear and obey through rituals and invocations.
Gates to the netherworld are open, trumpets are blown.
Cycle closes again and cloven hooves strikes with thunderous might. The living dead, disgorged from the dark throat of the Otherworld, rise from reeking graves and spit the lustful drops into the night sky, while devils and witches set the ether on fire.
The wild hunt that rises to devour souls, when the sickle of Luzier appears upon us and she reveals us screaming:
„A bowl full of intestines,A chalice full of blood, cut open the stomach, cut open the stomach, fill it with stones, throw them into deep waters!“-End of the beginning, beginning of the end-
At the same time as the release of the EP, Drudensang work on the next full-lenght opus, festival assaults are coming up (Party San, Ghosts of Dinmin, Death & Damnation,...) and a Tour is fixed for October throughout Europe.
Drudensang remain one of the few heralds of the dangerous sickness that still floats from the Black Metal Abyss.Be it known.
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https://www.facebook.com/Drudensang
"REQVIEM
FOR THE OPPRESSOR" is
the title of the new upcoming album that the Italian Thrash Metallers XENOS
A.D. will release on May 23rd, 2025. We unveil a new song from it
and it is "BLEEDING HANDS OF FAITH". It is
available as single on digital stores and as audio track at https://youtu.be/Bc1ijCadxBgThe horrors of war, which represent the concept of the entire work, are analyzed here through the theme of wars waged in the name of a God, by men who commit obscene crimes by invoking a faith that is only apparent.
Like it happens in the previous single "Dogma Of War", their relentless, neck-breaking Thrash Metal pays homage to the genre's golden age Gods such as Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus and Testament as well as some of the melody and progressive tendencies of Metal Church and Death Angel.
XENOS A.D. is a mandatory listening for fans of Thrash Metal who can rejoice in yet another band proudly flying their Metal flag.
Now, all you have to do, is experience the raw power of the fury of XENOS A.D.
Details & pre-order: https://t.ly/B3Vrj
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/xenosa.d.thrash
Label: Golden AxeRelease date: may 23rd 2025
Genre: Symphonic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Nightwish | Delain | Evergrey
The time has come to return to the realms of fantasy, to walk the road through forests of thorn, below towering mountain peaks and down forgotten tunnels deep within the earth. It’s time to stand beneath a different sky and see in vibrant colour, feel with grand intensity and experience the sense of wonder that has faded from our grey and mundane world; to face dangers untold, to stare into the unblinking gaze of death and live as never before. Pythia have broken their silence and torn the shadows asunder, opening wide the gates to dream, adventure and magic once more, so summon your courage, reach for your sword and follow them now, into the Unhallowed lands…
Six long years have passed since the UK’s finest exponents of meticulously crafted symphonic metal, Pythia, unveiled their last uplifting musical invocation – The Solace Of The Earth – but now they have returned! Comprising five incredible songs, V Pt. 1: Unhallowed is a stunning new EP in its own right and also the first part of Pythia’s fifth great tale. Within moments of its title track beginning in a flurry of fierce guitars, electric energy and searing solos the passage of time is forgotten. The heroic melodies lift you up on wings of imagination, the curtain is raised and the drama begins to unfold. Every song that follows possesses a rich, individual character and yet the music flows perfectly from track to track, carrying the listener forward through each magnificent chapter on an exhilarating journey. First single, ‘Path Of Decay’ shows Pythia at their most measured, melodic and transportative with an irresistible chorus and breathtaking guitar work, while ‘Muses Of The Night’ unleashes thunderous riffs and rhythms as the wonderful vocals of Sophie Dorman soar effortlessly above through a storm-tossed sky – both are perfect examples of why …Unhallowed will surely be recognised as Pythia’s finest artistic statement to date.
Mixed by Ollie Roberts at Kettle Brew Studios and mastered by the world renowned Jacob Hansen (Epica, Evergrey, Destruction etc) V Pt 1: Unhallowed sounds simply perfect – every cascading solo, every angelic vocal line vivid and electrifying. With artwork created by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design (Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, Napalm Death etc) that captures the spirit of this special release, every element of V Pt. 1: Unhallowed has been carefully curated to deliver a unique symphonic metal experience – as only Pythia can.
Line-up:
Sophie Dorman - Vocals
Ross White - Guitars
Marc Dyos - Drums
Ash Porter - Bass
Jamie Hunt - Guitars
Marcus Matusiak - Keys
https://www.facebook.com/PythiaBand/
Stream the EP at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9YTSuutGds
Pillars Of Creation pays tribute to the elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula photographed by the Hubble Telescope from NASA on April 1, 1995. The EP's lyrical themes include space exploration, artificial intelligence, human consciousness and death. The sound of the EP blends the varied metal influences of members Damien and Simone. The music contains a mix of of influences from bands such as Aborted, All Shall Perish and Dying Fetus, while Simone's growling vocals are largely influenced by bands like Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation.
Purchase
the EP: https://enceladoband.bigcartel.com/product/pillars-of-creation-epTrack Listing:
1. Dark Nebulas
2. Gravety
3. Fragments of Fear
4. Pillars of Creation
Credits:
All music and lyrics by Damien.
All arrangements by Encelado.
Recorded and Mixed at Umbra Studio (Italy).
Band logo by Damien.
Artwork layout by Damien.
Bio:
ENCELADO is a project created by two old time friends sharing a passion for extreme metal. Between the end of 2023 and 2024, Simone (vocals) and Damien (guitars, bass guitars) started to work on some demo material that resulted in debut EP Pillars Of Creation.
Line-Up:
Simone: Vocals
Damien: Guitars, Bass Guitar, Synth, Backing vocals
Max: Sesssion Drums (Tracks 1, 3, 4)
Devin: Session Drums (Track 2)
https://enceladoband.bigcartel.com/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present ANGEL OF DAMNATION’S highly anticipated third album, ETHEREAL BLASPHEMY, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
ANGEL OF DAMNATION was formed in 2003 with the intention to create epic traditional doom metal influenced by the likes of Candlemass, Witchfinder General, and Saint Vitus on one side and the more ‘70s vibe of Pentagram and Black Sabbath on the other. The metal part of doom always was a major focus – in other words, putting guitar riffs over soundscapes. Lyrically, the band could maybe be mistaken for a black metal band but dealing less with Satanism and, instead in general, darker topics throughout the history of mankind. The band has a soft spot for blasphemy and simply mocking everything holy and religion in general.
Naturally, all this comes from a host of longtime scene veterans: NOCTURNAL / Front Beast mainman Avenger on guitar, the rhythm section of Cross Vault, and prolific vocalist Gerrit Mutz (Sacred Steel, Battleroar, Dawn of Winter) under the ever-apt handle Doomcult Messiah. Erstwhile NOCTURNAL / BLACKEVIL drummer Hellbastard and his replacement, Cross Vault / Halphas drummer Tempestas, have since departed, and now replaced by Neudi of Sentry, Trance, and ex-Manilla Road. ANGEL OF DAMNATION are nothing if not diehards!
And, seven years since their last full-length, they’re here to prove it again with Ethereal Blasphemy. Thankfully, little has changed in the sonic world of ANGEL OF DAMNATION, and their third album is thus a reassertion of ancient powers. Like some lost relic of the NWOBHM, on Ethereal Blasphemy do the quartet purge the witchfinder generals and celebrate the old-world splendor of medieval witchery. From opener “Eternal Life in Hell” to closer “Anal Worship of the Goatlord,” ANGEL OF DAMNATION lumber forward with the proud poise of titans, exuding heaviness even when the riffs aren’t strictly crushing; there’s an almost relaxed gait to the album that’s relatively unique for doom metal, maximizing the balance between hook and atmosphere. Credit is due to Neudi, for his looser and more-open style seems like a natural fit for the band, imparting a new dynamic to ANGEL OF DAMNATION whilst keeping their signature sound. The whole album was recorded in Avenger’s own cellar, known as the “Somewhere in Nowhere” Studio, fully produced by himself; only the mix & mastering was given to the Journey Into Eternity Studios, and it all results in Ethereal Blasphemy having a vibrant-yet-eldritch feel.
In the past 20-plus years, ANGEL OF DAMNATION have played live only a handful of times, but to celebrate the arrival of this third album, the band will play a few select shows following its release. Graced with an uncharacteristic artwork courtesy of the legendary Chris Moyen, Ethereal Blasphemy will make you kneel before the goat!
Line-up:
Avenger - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Doomcult Messiah - Vocals
Forcas - Bass
Neudi - Drums
From Germany
Artwork:
Chris Moyen
Release date:
20th June 2025
Tracklist1 Eternal Life in Hell
2 Evangeline
3 Stigmata
4 Warning from the Sky
5 Lost in a World of Despair
6 Hungry Hordes of Hades
7 Anal Worship of the Goatlord
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on transparent green vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
This
highly anticipated album delivers a profound sonic and lyrical exploration of
mental and emotional states, showcasing Mors Silens' worldview and personal
struggles. Comprising ten powerful tracks, "Infernal Legacy" delves
into themes of social critique, emotional turmoil, and humanity's darker
aspects. The album's title reflects the legacy left for future generations—a
haunting reminder of suffering, destruction, and societal exclusion. With
faster, more intense, and intricately crafted compositions, the band pushes
their signature sound to new heights, hoping their message reaches audiences
far and wide, inspiring reflection and change.The digital album's release date is May 9, 2025.
Tracklist:
1.End of Eternity
2. Alastor
3 . Scorn
4 .Scarlet River
5. Chronicles of Devastation
6 . The Room
7 . Nine Circles of Hell
8 . Rise of the Dark One
9. Infernal Legacy
10. Obscurity of Oblivion
The Band’s Journey: From Underground to International Stages
Founded in 2005, Mors Silens has built a formidable reputation through relentless creativity and dedication:
2006: Debut demo Promising Redemption
2008: Second demo Doomed to Suffering
2014: EP Mors Certa, Hora Incerta, including videos for Black Pharaoh and Four Horsemen
2016: First full-length album Call of the Nether Realm, featuring Son of the Burning Sky and Collapse
2018: Sophomore album World of Pain, with The Brave and the Coward and Alone with My Demons
2019-2021: Overcame pandemic challenges to release Under the Dark Sun, featuring Buried Sorrow
Through lineup changes, international tours, and high-profile festival appearances alongside Fleshgod Apocalypse, Krisiun, and Kataklysm, the band has remained a pillar of Eastern Europe’s extreme metal scene.
www.youtube.com/MorsSilens
www.facebook.com/morssilens
No Clean Singing has premiered the first single, "MORS MATER NOSTRA."
Click below to stream it now!
"Mors Mater Nostra" will be out May 2 on all digital platforms. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
In summing up the album's theme, the band notes that Morbid Ataraxia addresses "the oxymoronic nature of humanity." As one might expect, given the trail of corpses left from previous assaults, said theme is undergirded by PUTRIDITY's take-no-prisoners approach to brutal death metal.
No nonsense. No compromise.
Track
Listing:1. Prenatal Obituary
2. Mors Mater Nostra
3. In Disgust They Shine
4. Adipocere Retribution
5. Molten Mirrors Of The Subjugated
6. Morbid Ataraxia
7. Overflowing Mortal Smell
8. Immersed In The Spell Of Death
Album Credits:
Morbid Ataraxia was recorded in 2024.
Guitars and bass reamped by Andy Testori at Street Rec Studio.
Mixed by Luca Minieri at Dissonant Studio.
Mastered at Hertz Studio.
Additional vocals on Rotted Divinity(Enmity cover) by Mikko Friberg from Torsofuck.
Cover artwork by Paolo Girardi. Inlay artwork by Caleb Diederich.
Layout by Paola Carraro.
All music by Putridity.
Line-up:
Andrea Piro - Vocals
Andrea PutridCiccio - Guitar/backing vocals
Manuel Lucchini - Guitar
Giancarlo Mendo - Bass
Cedric Malebolgia - Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/PUTRIDITY.OFFICIAL
Avantgarde death/black/doom/prog metal band Felgrave's ambitious album is out now and streaming on all platforms. It's a relief to see the album getting picked up by some very good sites who have taken the effort to write brilliant, in-depth reviews of this album, which is evidently doing a lot more than it would outwardly seem. Put on your headphones and listen to it closely if you haven't yet - you're probably missing out on something special otherwise!
FELGRAVE – “OTHERLIKE DARKNESSES”
After
dropping a well-received death/doom album five years back, Felgrave has
crafted an ingenious album melding influences of doom, black and death metal in
a way rarely done before. The one-man band has broken the mould and the music
on this album flows in an intuitive, undulating, almost whimsical manner,
touching upon several styles and effortlessly shape shifting through them all.
The songs are between 12 to 18 minutes long and each one seems to tell a tale
of its own. There is so much going on in each song that it demands repeated
listens which isn't necessarily arduous because of the smooth transitions and
the overall coherency. The sound is strangely all encompassing - there are
acoustic passages with clean vocals as well as intense and complex parts that
wouldn't be out of place on a technical death metal album. It's stuff like this
which makes this album fascinating, and what makes it come alive is the passion
with which it is meticulously crafted - it seeps through the music and elevates
it beyond the ostensible stringing together of disparate parts. 'Otherlike
Darknesses' is multi-faceted and yet has a fairly cohesive sound with
exceptional song writing; albums like these definitely don't come out too
often.Lineup:
Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and programming by M. L. Jupe
Drums by Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse)
Mixed by M. L. Jupe
Mastered by Brendan Sloan (Convulsing)
Artwork by Adam Burke (Artificial Brain, Plasmodium)
Tracklisting:
1. Winds Batter My Keep
2. Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky
3. Otherlike Darknesses
Release date - April 25th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/felgrave.doom
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
For a band to sound this heavy and do so much with their music defies belief. And yet here we are. Haxprocess write epic death metal songs averaging 10 minutes as they take you on a labyrinthine trip exploring the intricacies of the death metal genre. It feels as though you're witnessing it all from under a microscope. Two massive songs have been unearthed which can be heard at https://haxprocess-label.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-what-eyes-can-see
HAXPROCESS – “BEYOND WHAT EYES CAN SEE “
For
fans of : Morbid
Angel, Blood Incantation, The Chasm, Immolation, Atvm, Atheist, Felgrave, TyphonianHaxprocess are playing incredibly heavy death metal music - leaden, thick and dark, and are somehow attempting to go progressive wielding that sound. It's like Morbid Angel covering The Chasm songs under the influence of Blood Incantation. This is but a vague comparison just to get some idea of what this ambitious band is trying to do over here. It's death metal through-and-through but they're doing so much with it, it would bring a tear to any classic fan of the genre. They insist on having only epic songs averaging 10 minutes; the album has only four songs and it lasts for just as long as a normal album would. The music however is relentless in its barrage of gargantuan otherworldly riffs, what with the ever-changing patterns and combinations, albeit delivered in a comfortable pace so that everything can be registered for posterity. It's an album that can withstand endless listens, offer everything a death metal fan would want and yet do so much more than an average album would because of their constantly evolving music that manages to remain engrossing as well. This is as epic as a death metal album can possibly get without letting go of any of the heaviness that's an inherent part of the band's sound over here.
Line upF.D.A. Records
Lothar Mallea - Guitar and vocals
Shane Williamson - Guitar
Davis Leader - Bass
Adam Robinson – Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano (Ritual Fog, Typhonian)
Track listing
1. Where Even Stars Die
2. The Confines of the Flesh
3. Thy Inner Demon Seed
4. Sepulchral Void
Release date - July 25th, 2025
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
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For fans of Watain, Immortal, and Enslaved, Lenax presents a style of melodic black metal infused with just the right amount of black n roll to land themselves in a rather unique position within the genre. "Throne of the Forsaken" tells a fantasy story of an ancient god-king who awakens back to flesh in order to return to the material world. No messiah, he returns with a heart thirsty for vengeance to bring the earth under his submission.
With lyrical themes based around esotericism, individuality, and cosmic horror, Infection paints either a picture of destruction and horror, or one of death and rebirth, depending on the stance of the listener. Does one succumb to a future of mindlessness in a hive mind apocalypse, or do they break free from the chains that bind us to the material world? Would you meet the dark man at the crossroads to sell your soul, and are you prepared to offer up payment when he comes to call? In all, this is a solid 40 minutes of modern black metal with enough DNA to show the band's roots in the early second wave, while managing to craft something unique in their delivery.
The band proudly returned to work with mix engineer Ilarion Ivanenko, who produced the previous singles in 2024. Mastering was completed by Øystein Brun at Crosound Studios in Norway. With a long history and a solid reputation in extreme music, including his band Borknagar, Øystein brought out the fine tuning needed to make this record shine.
Infection will be released June 25 all digital platforms.
The band will also be launching a Kickstarter campaign to support a future vinyl release in the fall or winter of this year.
Album pre-orders coming soon!
Track
Listing:1 - Worship Hymn
2 - Leeches
3 - Chains
4 - Crossroad Black
5 - Hive Mind Apocalypse
6 - We Are Legion
7 - Plague Bringer
8 - Overdrive
9 - Throne of the Forsaken
Cover art by David DeFigueredo.
Lenax is:
Venomous (Vocals, Guitar)
Mordred (Guitar, Backing Vocals)
Bones (Drums)
Additional Musicians:
Hephaestus (Bass)
Maikon (Drums)
BIO:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. The project evolved from a solo act into a full-fledged band known by a growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from a wide array of black metal bands from established titans to the obscure, the "Big Four" of thrash metal, and even a dash of classic heavy acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether dubbed by Venomous as "cosmic horror fueled nightmares.” — an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realization through occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and the impending doom of the Outer Gods.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a busy year ahead, with the forthcoming release of Infection.
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NEWS 26 .4.2025
Die Planung für die nächste Ausgabe läuft auf vollen Touren, auch wenn es momentan doch wieder mal den leichten Anschein hat, als würden diverse Vertreter der Szene kein wirkliches Interesse mehr daran zu haben, sich mal in unserer „kleinen Klolektüre“ zu präsentieren.
Natürlich haben wir auch dieses Wochenende mal wieder ein bissel was an brandneuem Material am Start, damit ihr eure heimischen vier Wände mit neuer Mucke beschallen könnt.
HARVST – „ MAHLSTROM“ HAMMER
UNDARLIH - „TORCH EATER“
INGE UND HEINZ - „ ICK HAB GRAD NICH ZUJEHÖRT - ICK HAB ZITRONEN JESCHNITTEN!“
Studioalben aus den Jahren 1994 - 1997ab 6. Juni 2025 wieder
im Handel . ANNIHILATOR gilt als die erfolgreichste
kanadische Heavy Metal/Thrash-Band aller Zeiten und zählt zu den
einflussreichsten Pionieren des Thrash-Metals weltweit. Ihr Erfolg spricht für
sich – geprägt von herausragenden Live-Shows und vor allem durch Jeff
Waters, der sich als wahres Multitalent zeigt: Als Gitarrist, Sänger,
Studio-Bassist, Songwriter, Produzent sowie Mixing- und Mastering-Engineer ist
er die treibende Kraft hinter der Band.In den kommenden Jahren wird earMUSIC Annihilator mit einer Reihe von CD- und Vinyl-Neuauflagen ihres begehrten Backkatalogs Tribut zollen. Jedes Studioalbum erscheint in einer neu remasterten Version, auf hochwertigem schwarzen 180g Vinyl im Gatefold sowie als CD-Digipak Edition. Beide Formate bieten ein überarbeitetes Artwork und enthalten brandneue Liner-Notes von Alex Milas (u. a. Metal Hammer UK), der für diese Reissue-Reihe ein exklusives Interview mit Jeff Waters geführt hat.
Zudem werden die zahlreichen Demoaufnahmen und Bonustracks aus den jeweiligen Album-Epochen erstmals im Rahmen der Reissue-Reihe sowohl auf CD als auch in digitalen Shops als gesammelte Edition erhältlich sein. Die Neuauflage des Katalogs beginnt am 6. Juni 2025 und widmet sich einer entscheidenden Ära in der Geschichte von Annihilator. Mit der Wiederveröffentlichung von “King Of The Kill” (1994), “Refresh The Demon” (1996) und “Remains” (1997) werden Alben von der Mitte bis zum Ende der 90er-Jahre präsentiert, die Jeff Waters’ beeindruckende Entwicklung als Songwriter, Gitarrist und Produzent widerspiegeln. Die drei Alben verbinden die Intensität des Thrash-Metal mit melodischen Elementen, Experimentierfreude und Groove. Diese Reissue-Reihe präsentiert eine Band, die niemals stillstand.
“King Of The Kill” repräsentierte das volle Potenzial von Annihilator. Es war das Comeback und die Wiedergeburt einer neuen, verschlankten Annihilator-Besetzung, die gegenüber den Veränderungen in der Branche unempfindlich war, und es etablierte Jeff Waters als gitarrenschwingenden und songschreibenden Titanen in einer Zeit der großen Unsicherheit. Annihilator war endlich angekommen.
Für alle, die sich nach dem doppelläufigen Treffer von “King Of The Kill” gerade erst wieder aufgerappelt hatten, war “Refresh The Demon” genau das, was der Arzt verordnet hätte. Laut Waters war es eine Fortsetzung derselben kreativen Rolle, die “King Of The Kill” inspiriert hatte, und fühlte sich wie ein zweiter kreativer Aufschwung an.
“Remains” war das kühnste Experiment von Annihilator, ein gewagter Vorstoß in die Industrial-geprägte Härte, der sich den Erwartungen widersetzte. Jeff Waters war für fast alle Aspekte der Aufnahmen verantwortlich und verfolgte einen mechanischeren und Groove-betonteren Ansatz. Obwohl das Album eine Abkehr von den früheren Thrash-Wurzeln der Band darstellte, blieb sein charakteristisches Gitarrenspiel erhalten. "Remains" erscheint erstmals überhaupt auf Vinyl.
“More Noise Vol. 1” bietet einen Einblick in den kreativen Prozess von Annihilator während der “King Of The Kill”-, “Refresh The Demon”- und “Remains”-Ära. Diese Sammlung von Demoaufnahmen und Bonustracks fängt die rohe Energie, das Experimentieren und die unverwechselbare Gitarrenarbeit von Jeff Waters ein und zeigt die Entwicklung des Bandsounds. Zum ersten Mal werden mit “More Noise Vol. 1” die Bonus-Tracks dieser Alben auf einer CD gebündelt.
Die Wiederveröffentlichung der Alben aus den Annihilator-Jahren 1994 bis 1997 stellt lediglich den Anfang dar. Fans und Sammler dürfen sich schon bald auf weitere Neuauflagen freuen.
Weitere Informationen gibt es hier: https://www.earmusic.com/annihilator-reissues/
Teaser-Trailer ansehen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEA5ilIMCUs
"King Of The Kill" (CD Digipak, Black 180g LP Gatefold):
1. King Of The Kill (Vinyl Side A)
2. 21
3. Bliss
4. Second To None
5. Hell Is A War
6. Annihilator
7. Fiasco (Vinyl Side B)
8. The Box
9. Bad Child
10. In The Blood
11. Speed
12. Catch The Wind
CD Bonus Tracks:
13. 21 (Jeff Demo)
14. Annihilator (Jeff Demo)
15. Bad Child (Jeff Demo)
16. In The Blood (Jeff Demo)
17. King Of The Kill (Jeff Demo)
18. Second To None (Jeff Demo)
"Refresh The Demon" (CD Digipak, Black 180g 2LP Gatefold):
1. Refresh The Demon (Vinyl Side A)
2. Ultraparanoia
3. Syn. Kill 1
4. Awaken (Vinyl Side B)
5. The Pastor Of Disaster
6. City Of Ice
7. A Man Called Nothing
8. Innocent Eyes (Vinyl Side C)
9. Voices And Victims
10. Anything For Money (Vinyl Side D)
11. Hunger
"Remains" (CD Digipak, Black 180g LP Gatefold):
1. Tricks And Traps (Vinyl Side A)
2. Murder
3. Never Forget
4. Reaction
5. Human Remains
6. I Want
7. Dead Wrong (Vinyl Side B)
8. No Love
9. Sexecution
10. Wind
11. Bastiage
"More Noise Vol. 1" (CD Digipak)
1. Only Be Lonely (King Of The Kill Bonus Track)
2. Slates (King Of The Kill Interlude)
3. Annihilator (1985 Radio Ottawa Demo)
4. Fiasco ("The Slate") (King Of The Kill Interlude)
5. 21 (1994 Demo)
6. Weapon X (2004 Demo / No Guitars / Playthrough)
7. Bloodbath (1999 Criteria Demo)
8. Nothing To Me (Single Version)
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Die Band über die Veröffentlichung:
„VEINS OF FIRE ist draußen und es freut uns riesig, mit euch in voller Länge teilen zu können, was uns bewegt! Danke für euren herzlichen Support in wilden Zeiten, in denen es oft schwerfällt, nicht die Orientierung zu verlieren. Wir hoffen, dass VEINS OF FIRE euch genauso viel gibt wie uns und wünschen euch und euren Nachbarn viel Spaß mit dem neuen Album! Sehen wir uns die Tage auf Tour und stoßen gemeinsam drauf an?“
Tracklist:1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere.
Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens.
Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
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Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" ist als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich.
Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle sind exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich.
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Brazilian extreme metal outfit OPHIOLATRY has released a new music video, “DEATH TOUR”, the first single from their upcoming album “SERPENT'S VERDICT”, due June 6, 2025, via Wormholedeath Records. This latest visual offering is inspired by Greek mythology, depicting the journey of a fallen warrior's soul through the realm of death. As the spirit is carried across the River Styx, it approaches the gates of Hades, where the warrior's tribe awaits his arrival, welcoming him into the afterlife.
They comment further on the single and the video:
"The warrior perished, part of his body bathed in the blood of the unworthy. He doesn't beg. He doesn't hesitate. The ancestors whisper his name as his spirit ascends, enveloped in the smoke of rituals. The witches dance around the burning fire, invoking Charon's presence. The coins reflect in his lifeless eyes, an offering to the boatman. From the depths of Lake Styx. The serpent rises, its coils moving like time itself. As he breathes, the warrior's confusion dissolves into clarity. He steps onto the distant shore, where his tribe awaits him in reverent silence. There are no words; They are not necessary. They were already waiting to cross the gates of Hades together; The end is just the beginning."
“Death Tour” represents a sonic evolution for Ophiolatry, balancing their technical prowess with a more atmospheric, tribally influenced approach to extreme metal. The video clip amplifies these themes through striking imagery that merges Greek Mythology with the brutality of modern death metal aesthetics.
Each track on “Serpent's Verdict” functions as part of an immersive narrative experience. It is an invocation of the past and a battle cry for the future. With the release of “Death Tour,” Ophiolatry continues to build anticipation for the full album, which promises to be one of the most devastating extreme metal releases of 2025. It is recommended for fans of Cryptopsy, Suffocation, and Death.
Stream
"Death Tour"
https://orcd.co/deathtourAlbum pre-save https://orcd.co/serpentsverdict
Tracklist
1 – Jesus Complex – 3:48
2 – Revenge – 4:21
3 – Generation Curse – 3:09
4 – Death Tour – 3:35
5 – Serpent’s Spits – 4:31
6 – Atheris – 1:32
7 – Apophis – 5:01
8 – Midia Bible – 3:34
9 – Manipulations Guilt – 4:03
10 – Heaven Jails – 3:26
11 – Narcissistic Victim Syndrome – 4:06
12 – Human Factory – 3:18
13 – Ecdysis – 2:34
Album Length: 47:03
Line up
Diego Santiago (Bass)
Jaime Veron (Lead Vocals)
Jhorge "Dog" Duarte (Drums)
Fred Barros (Guitar)
Album Recording Credits:
All songs performed and composed by Ophiolatry.
Mastering: Dan Swanö – http://www.unisound.se
Artwork: LouLou – http://www.louloufineart.com
Pre-Production: Steve Rumpli & Ophiolatry
Production, Recording & Mixing: Diego Santiago
Studio: Satori Estudio
Photography: Kevin Eisenlord, Anderson Hildebrando
Graphic Layout: Beto Mustafa
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ECHOES OF THE EXTINCT from Jyväskylä, Finland has released their debut album ERA OF DARKNESS today April 25, 2025. Four-piece modern metal band founded in 2022 combines elements of progressive metal, metalcore and melodic death metal to create a unique, powerful and atmospheric sound.
Era of Darkness is the debut album of Echoes of the Extinct, and a powerful statement on the current condition of our planet and those who inhabit it. Musically, the album is the band's interpretation of modern melodic death metal, a blend of melody, intensity, aggression and atmosphere. Lyrically, the album addresses the ecological collapse we are facing and the troubling direction humanity is heading driven by selfishness, intolerance, greed, and a refusal to acknowledge our place in the vastness of time and the universe. Era of Darkness holds up a dark mirror to our face, a reflection of the damage we've inflicted upon ourselves and the Earth we call home.
Listen
to the album on music services : https://push.fm/fl/eote-eraofdarknessTracklist
01. Remedy
02. Empathy
03. Era of Darkness
04. Virus
05. Conflict
06. Last Page
Echoes of the Extinct – The Story:
In the winter of 2021, Juuso Lehtonen and Jarmo Jääskeläinen, friends from Jyväskylä, started their metal project, which later evolved into Echoes of the Extinct, based on Juuso's riffs and song ideas. Juuso had been playing guitar for a long time and had a desk full of riffs, but the idea of forming a band had not really taken shape. However, by chance, retired metal drummer Jarmo got excited when he heard Juuso's material and wanted to push the material forward.
At first, the duo built the songs on an instrumental basis, while Juuso also took over the bass duties. The core of the songs became a rather classic death metal with Gothenburg metal influences, which is close to both of their hearts. Jarmo had quit playing in the past, partly because he couldn't find any musicians who were on the same wavelength. But now, with Juuso leading the compositional work towards modern metal and metalcore influences, new kinds of parts and intricate interludes began to emerge. Influences included iconic metal bands such as In Flames, August Burns Red or, for example, the Australian Be'lakor. New inspirations such as Allt, Currents and Orbit Culture also served as influence. Over time, a shared approach to composition and arrangement helped the friends' music to take shape in the form it has today. From the beginning, the project was also attracted by the variety of ways of building songs - not always going from guitar riffs to arrangements and bass and drum tracks, but sometimes also composing guitars for songs created structurally and rhythmically with drums alone. There was no rush, but in peace and quiet we made music that would be nice to listen to ourselves.
As the project progressed, we really started to miss having our own artist on bass. The solution was found at Christmas 2022, when Jarmo's former bandmate, Kalle Hautalampi from Hyvinkää, switched from guitar to bass when he joined the band. Kalle brought his own unique perspective to the mix, due to his own playing history and musical taste.
By spring 2023, there were half a dozen instrumental demos and another bunch of songwriting tracks. At this point, the search for a singer began in earnest. This didn't prove to be very easy at first, as there didn't seem to be much supply of free and skilled metal singers in the region. After some searching, the brilliant Tero Ollilainen, who was found through a mutual friend and who finalises the band's current line-up and soundscape, enthusiastically joined the project after hearing the demos.
It was at this point that the lyrical message of the band began to take shape. The band members share a common concern about the current state of humanity, nature and the Earth. Long-standing, but all the more topical themes such as human selfishness and greed, the corruption of nature, the Earth's resilience, global warming and wars became the theme of the lyrics. The band members even played with the term "eco-metal". Tero and Jarmo started to write and arrange the lyrics to the songs, after which the vocals were demoed for the instrumentals. Tero's voice and interpretation were perfect for the project. After that, the arrangements of the songs were modified to make them more suitable for the whole.
By spring 2024, the arrangement and lyrical work was fully completed, the demos were ready and it was time for the final recordings. The vocals for the album were recorded at Inka Studio in Orimattila, with Pasi Löfgren as the engineer, and later as the mixer and master of the album. During the autumn of 2024, Pasi created the sound for the band and the band's debut album Era of Darkness was ready for release. At the end of 2024, Inverse Records from Jyväskylä became a publishing partner, and the band released their first single in January 2025. The whole album was released on 25.4.2025 as a statement on the current state of humanity. The album is the band's vision of modern melodic death metal - a combination of melodicism, aggression and atmosphere. Era of Darkness is a dark mirror that shoves the consequences of our existence right in our faces!
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The title track has been released as the EP's first single. Get thrashed at: https://deathblow1.bandcamp.com/album/open-season
The four-track Open Season EP is a scathing commentary aimed at the heart of the belligerent American Empire and its war machinery. Combining their classic thrash metal sound with an unrelenting crossover punk-infused gut punch, the EP is guaranteed to get the blood boiling!
In support of Open Season, DEATHBLOW will be hitting the road in early May for the Eastward Onslaught Tour!
Track
Listing:1. Open Season
2. Deny, Defend, Dispose
3. Tormentor
4. Never Again
Digital Pre-order: https://deathblow1.bandcamp.com/album/open-season
Cassette, vinyl, and CD pre-orders coming soon!
Credits:
Recorded at Archive Recordings with Wes Johnson.
Artwork by Emil Rousse.
Line-up:
Holton Grossl - Guitars/Vocals
Adam Kelly - Guitars
Paul LaChica - Bass
Rob Larson - Drums
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Listen to Ember Remains EP on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/northvoid-ember
The "Ember Remains" EP continues the natural progression and presents a darker and heavier landscape that Northvoid paints with their music. After the debut EP released in 2022 and the three independent single releases that followed, the band takes another step towards the musical style that it has strived for throughout its existence.
The core of the EP is formed around a foundation created by heavy guitars and bass and
drums. The whole is united by a vocals that moves more and more towards a traditional death metal style. The album's entirety is supported by a soundscape playing in the background, created with keyboards, depicting northern melancholy. Overall, the EP gives a picture of the band's development and presents the band's current style and gives guidelines for the future.
Biography:
Forged in North Karelia in January 2020, Northvoid delivers a musical assault rooted in the melodic death metal of the 90’s. With a bond forged in childhood, our members now channel the raw, untamed energy of the past & present into every note.
Our music is a fusion of melodic heaviness and groove, inspired by the harsh environment and wilderness of the north. Experience the power and versatility of our music, which broadly covers different elements of metal music, guided by the attitude of the frost-bitten north. Northvoid isn't just music – it's a journey into the heart of coldness and wilderness. Join us and feel the fury!
Watch
Entrusted music video: https://youtu.be/wmQPiw4xAcwTrack list:
1. Northern Breeze
2. Wilderness
3. Sun & Moon
4. Entrusted
5. The Ember
Mix & Master: Heikki Marttila/Guru Studio, Joensuu
EP picture by Timo Korkalainen, cover artwork Markus Heikkinen
Line-up:
Markus Heikkinen: guitars
Timo Korkalainen: drums
Kimmo Timonen: vocals
Risto Aittola: bass
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San Franisco (CA) - American Tech-Death Juggernaut, OMINOUS RUIN, have joined forces with No Clean Singing for the video premiere of "ETERNAL," the third single from forthcoming album, REQUIEM.
Just click the following link to check it out!
"Eternal" will be available April 25 on all digital platforms.
Known for their intricate compositions and unrelenting sonic brutality, Ominous Ruin has returned with their highly anticipated nine-track album, Requiem. Willowtip Records will release Requiem May 9 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, "Seeds of Entropy. "
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/requiem-willowtip
https://bit.ly/requiem-bandcamp
Track
Listing:1 - Intro
2 - Seeds of Entropy
3 - Eternal
4 - Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 - Divergent Anomaly
6 - Fractal Abhorrence
7 - Architect of Undoing
8 - Staring into the Abysm
9 - Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars
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Sweden's
female-fronted symphonic metal powerhouse LAMASHTU continues
to push creative boundaries with the release of a genre-defying concept:
a music book. Titled THE STORY OF ELI, the band will unveil
the first three chapters of this immersive audio experience on April 29–30 and
May 1.Part audiobook, part soundtrack, The Story of Eli invites fans to dive into the rich lore and haunting beauty of the Lamashtu universe. Combining narrative storytelling and original music, this innovative format transforms their 2021 Swedish-language novel Eli and its companion album Tro (Lamashtu's third release) into a compelling new form of musical expression.
“There are many ways to tell a story,” says frontwoman and writer Sandra Mattsson. “This music book is about merging art forms to deepen the emotional impact — it’s not just music, and it’s not just a book. It’s a complete experience.”
These are the first three chapters (of seven) of the original story, and the band is eager to know if fans want the rest.
Credits:
Written by Sandra Mattsson
Translated by Ian Manning
Production: Ian Manning (recording, mixing, mastering)
Narration: Elias Hartwood
Directed and engineered by Elias Hartwood, Hartwood Voiceover, LLC
Text © 2025 Sandra Mattsson & Vildhallon Publishing
Production © 2025 Sandra Mattsson, Ian Manning & Lamashtu
www.lamashtu.se
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Listen to the single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/sargassus-idunn
‘The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade’ is one of the earliest songs written for the upcoming album. It displays the meditative side of Sargassus' music, with droning riffs and repetitive motifs with an underlying sense of angst and unease. The song deals with themes of change, rationality and spiritual growth amidst life-changing revelations.
The song's lyrics tell a story of a priest finding a religion outside of his own faith. While confronting this new, opposing yet strangely similar worldview, he remains unmoved, but his rationality ends up poisoning his faith, leaving him spiraling. The song is a critique of those individuals who turn to wrath in the face of opposition rather than examining their own shortcomings.
The Band Comments:
'The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade' is one of those songs that underwent barely any changes since its inception. We are very pleased with the song, as it has it all: dissonance, atmosphere and aggression, all being carried by a dynamic flow throughout the song. Halfway to the song, there’s also Rokio’s brainchild for all the prog fans out there. This one’s bound to be one of Sargassus' most impactful live songs!"
The band also released an official DRUM playthrough video of their first single Spirit of Gravity. "Let us introduce to you: not gravity blast but "spirit of gravity"-blast! Real take with real audio, of course. The drum playthrough filmed, edited and mixed by Joona Muistola at HAW Studios."
Spirit of Gravity Drum Playthrough video available here: https://youtu.be/_aOGjFOo1vY
Watch official music video of the first single Spirit of Gravity: https://youtu.be/IZ4S5DrNBgs
Sargassus - Vitruvian Rays (Album 2025)
Track list:01. Spirit of Gravity
02. Carving the Veins of God
03. The Lone Idunn Grows in Shade
04. Judgement of the Four
05. Pahat veräjät
06. On the Shoulders of Atlas
07. Vitruvian Rays
08. Zealot
Vocal Production by Raging Cannon
Mix & Master by Joona Muistola @ HAW Studios
Cover art by Matias Stenman
Line-up:
Matias Rokio - Drums
Teemu Leskinen - Guitar
Matias Stenman - Vocals
Mertta Halonen - Bass
https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/
https://sargassus.com
https://www.facebook.com/sargassusband
SIN OF GOD set to release their ferocious new album "BLOOD BOUND" on May 19th .
Marking a bold chapter in the band's brutal legacy, "Blood Bound" is a conceptually intense and sonically unforgiving record. The seven-track release is steeped in apocalyptic themes, existential despair, and the psychological decay of mankind, all filtered through a dense wall of relentless riffs and monstrous growls. Each track is a grim testament to Death Metal's enduring power to confront humanity's darkest instincts and failures.
Lyrically, mastermind Tamás Schupkégel takes listeners on a journey through the blood-soaked corridors of vengeance ("Blood Bound"), spiritual ruin ("The Unbelief"), psychological torment ("Cerebral Malfunction"), and societal collapse ("Black Waves"). Whether dealing with personal damnation in "No Return (From Hell)" or mythological reckoning in "Obolus", Sin Of God pulls no punches in delivering a record as furious as it is thought-provoking.
Sonically devastating and thematically complex, "Blood Bound" is not merely an album—it's an experience soaked in rage, tragedy, and transformation.
Pre-order "Blood Bound" CD here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sin-of-god-blood-boundSin Of God – “Blood Bound”
Release Date: May 19, 2025
Format: CD / Digital (Bandcamp)
Label: Pest Records / Metal Ör Die Rex
Music: Sin Of God (2024)
Lyrics: Tamás Schupkégel (2024)
Reacordings: Denevér Hangstúdió, Hungary
Tracklist:
1. Blood Bound
2. Black Waves
3. No Return
4. The Unbelief
5. Diabolical Agitation
6. Obolus
7. Cerebral Malfunction
Prepare for a descent into darkness, Sin Of God have returned, and they are "Blood Bound".
https://sinofgod.bandcamp.com/
https://metalordierex.bandcamp.com/
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
Finland's
I, CURSED, who combine angry and furious death metal and
grindcore, will release a new as yet unnamed EP later this year. Both the
single and the EP will once again be released in cooperation with Finnish
record labels Inverse Records & Meara Music which is also an agency and event producer
based in Ulvila. FFO: Coldworker, Gadget, Nasum & Rotten Sound.
The first single 'DISFIGUREMENT' is unleashed today and music video can be seen here: https://youtu.be/NlR4xJvdzlg
The band comments:
"Disfigurement" gives a hefty and harsh preview of the new I, Cursed EP set to be released later this fall. I, Cursed has updated its production to be more dynamic and organic, closer to how I, Cursed sounds live. "Disfigurement" reflects the mood of the upcoming EP, offering doses of fierce death metal and grindcore. The "Disfigurement" single is accompanied by a rather aggressive and pulsating music video, produced by Soft Neon Audiovisual."
Listen to Disfigurement single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/icursed-disfigurement
Biography:
Combining angry and furious death metal and grindcore, I, Cursed, from the Pori / Ulvila area, is a brutal dredging of Ville-Veikko Laaksonen and Eero Haula, known from Atlases, Marto and Oceanwake, among others, which is fed to the Finnish metal scene in an atonal coldness. I, Cursed's music is a mix of something old and familiar, the HM-2 sound of Swedish grind, and somewhat more modern and crushing production. The line-up of the band in July 2024 is completed by guitarist Nico Brander from Marto and drummer Arttu Leppänen from Atlases and Marto.
Listen to previous EP Death Holograms: https://push.fm/fl/icursed-death
Music & lyrics composed & written by Ville-Veikko Laaksonen
Produced & arranged by I, Cursed
Engineered by Ville-Veikko Laaksonen, Nico Brander & Jesse Simola
Recorded at Firefield Avenue & Soft Neon Audiovisual Studio Mixed & mastered by Jerkka Perälä
Single cover by Jerkka Perälä
Line-up:
Eero Haula - Vocals (Oceanwake)
Ville-Veikko Laaksonen - Bass & guitar (Atlases, Marto)
Nico Brander - Guitar (Blood Service, Marto)
Arttu Leppänen - Drums (Atlases, Marto)
Discography:
I, Cursed / Blood Service S/T Split EP 2023 (Meara Music)
Bloodsoaked / Storm Parade Double Single 2023 (Meara Music)
Blades Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Sorrower Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Holograms Single & EP 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Disfigurement Single 2025 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/
https://www.facebook.com/I.Cursed.Grind
Iconic
underground blog Invisible Oranges has stepped in to set the release
in motion with an exclusive advance track reveal for the album’s opening
song “OMENSTORM MASSACRE”, elaborating that the album is
is “immersive, atmospheric assault of bizarre, martial music” and
of “hideous, ornate black metal” - you can read the feature and check
out the song here We’re extremely proud to announce an imminent release
of “Realms.....” - the second full-length hexation from Finnish
terrorizing black metal coven Hexerei - forty minutes of the band's staple
assault on the psyche vomited from beyond the shreds of sanity. Five new
abysmal, wretched curses of venom-soaked aural pestilence conceived as a
gateway to absolute bedlam.Iconic underground blog Invisible Oranges has stepped in to set the release in motion with an exclusive advance track reveal for the album’s opening song “Omenstorm Massacre”, elaborating that the album is is “immersive, atmospheric assault of bizarre, martial music” and of “hideous, ornate black metal” - you can read the feature and check out the song https://www.invisibleoranges.com/hexerei-omenstorm-massacre/
On their new vomit of creation the deranged Finnish cult explores even more outer dimensions of terror and insanity, scouring the depths of delirium to uncover a cryptic primordial essence of complete world inversion. This second full-length disfigurement cements Hexerei’s profile as absolutists of the unutterable, and sees the Finnish scourge distance themselves even further from any concept of musicality, forcing upon the listener a berserk strain of virulent antimusic rarely observed at a such a crippled and primeval state. An intentionally destroyed audio quality and a completely regressive approach to the canonical decencies of songwriting and recording exalt a sonic delirium of complete inhumanity that redefines the concept of raw black metal entirely, reconsigning it to its ancestral and legitimate origin as vector for boundless violence and absolute evil. The ancestral path paved by Cultes Des Ghoules, Katharsis, Armagedda, Vorum and Concrete Winds thus finds new instigators to the propagation of occult and grotesque audio as terror, and “Realms.....” stands grandiose and inscrutable in its defiant goal of returning this particular strain of necrotic extreme music back to a certain dimension of absolute malignancy where it was birthed and belongs.
Realms.....” is scheduled for a May 23 2025 release on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all of which can now be pre-ordered via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/hexerei-realms
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/hexerei
Following
ten years of silence after the release of their debut album The Embers of
the Stars and the untimely death of vocalist Steven, UK-based atmospheric
black metal trio AHAMKARA returns with a new lineup and new
album THE HARROW OF THE LOST, an unflinching exploration of
the transformative nature of grief. The Harrow of the Lost is out now on Bindrune Records. Order the album at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/ and https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-harrow-of-the-lost
Stream The Harrow of the Lost on Apple Music.
Tracklisting:
1. The Circle of Remembrance
2. Our Scars Shall Abide in the Thaw
3. Channelling Grief
4. Ordeal of Ascension
An emotionally charged and fiercely personal record, The Harrow of the Lost takes the AHAMKARA sound in a more complex and tormented direction, encompassing existential rage, nihilistic despair, and all in between. Both rawer and more organic in sound, intensified by the electrifying drum work of new member Austin Lunn (Panopticon), and scaling greater peaks of Emperial ambition than ever before, the album integrates the expansive reach of the Cascadian black metal sound with the densely detailed savagery of classic Emperor and the aching melancholy of early Anathema to produce a deeply involving journey of genre-transcending atmospheric metal.
Completed by a heartfelt and uncompromising vocal performance from founder member Michael and the nuanced, evocative synth work of Alexandra (also of labelmates Nemorous), this is a journey into the scorched earth landscapes of bereavement that no follower of the Bindrune family should miss.
AHAMKARA is:
Michael Blenkarn – Vocals. Guitars,
Austin Lunn - Drums
Alexandra Blenkarn-Durning - Synth
https://www.facebook.com/bindrunerecordings
https://www.facebook.com/theembersofthestars
Wormholedeath
is proud to welcome PROPHETS TOMB, the rising force in
progressive death metal, to its roster. The Denver-based trio is set
to unleash their latest opus, THROUGH PAIN, on June 13, 2025 —
a sonic odyssey merging blackened ferocity, death metal brutality, and
labyrinthine progressive mastery.Blending black metal, death metal, and progressive metal, Prophets Tomb crafts a sonic experience unlike any other, merging blistering aggression with intricate melodies and atmospheric depth. Their evolution continues from their previous works, The Third Wave and Magni Mori, diving deeper into the abyss with Through Pain.
“Come with us on the journey toward a new life. Through pain, life is reborn. Ave Magni Mori! Ave per dolorum! Ave Adramalech!” Regnibus, Speaker of the Magni Mori
Stream here: https://orcd.co/pitofneedles
Prophets Tomb’s lineup is a triad of multi-instrumental savagery:
Regnibus – Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Organ, Synth
Lord Adramalech – Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals, Synth
Drekavak – Bass, Backup Vocals, Drums, Synth
Tracklist
1. Play Me...
2. Bear Trap
3. Pit of Needles
4. Gift of Life
5. Last Man Standing
6. Shattered Glass Coffin
7. Pound of Flesh / Death Sentence
Together, they forge a sound both ancient and futuristic—a “progressive death metal ritual” (Metal Hammer) that has electrified the underground.
www.youtube.com/@prophetstombband
www.facebook.com/ProphetsTombBand
New album CREEPING FEAR. Dolorem Records is proud to reveal the brand new track “TORTURE WHEEL” taken from CREEPING FEAR's third album "REALM OF THE IMPALED".
In a time of AI being used more and more, the French death metal band did as they always did, working with a real Artist : Paolo Girardi.
He delivered Evil and darkness in his painting in a way that fits perfectly their next full length Album "Realm of the Impaled".
To be released on June 27th 2025.
Pre-orders are now open, get your copy: https://bit.ly/4jqJSDH
As
we await the long-anticipated CD release of NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE’S
critically acclaimed debut album, BRIEF IS THE LIGHT, on May
30th, 2025, the French gothic doom metal ensemble reignites the shadows
with a haunting re-release of their lyric video for "A
VOICE IN THE DARK." This mesmerizing music video is a journey
through life, death, and the yearning to return."A Voice in the Dark" is a melancholic yet powerful exploration of the fragile line between existence and oblivion. With ethereal melodies, crushing riffs, and haunting vocals, Near Death Experience creates a captivating narrative of love, loss, and the desperate desire to escape the shadows: "The waves crash, the sand shifts beneath weary feet—will they find their way back, or remain lost in the dark forever?"
NDE’s Dark Vision: Exploring Near-Death and Survival
Originally a solo instrumental project by Mathieu Bonfardin (drums) during the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Near Death Experience (NDE) was fully formed as a band in Nantes, France, in May 2022. NDE blends gothic, melancholic doom metal with clean, lyrical female vocals. Influenced by bands like Paradise Lost, The Gathering, Draconian, Katatonia, Black Sabbath, Moonspell, and Metallica, NDE explores the dark and compelling theme of near-death experiences.
Their LP, Brief Is The Light, is a concept album telling the story of a woman, a victim of domestic violence, now in a coma and experiencing near-death visions. As she recalls her past life, she yearns to return to reality, despite the suffering and uncertainty.
Will you press 'play' and journey with her? Don’t worry—the light will shine at the end.
The album is now available for streaming on all major digital platforms: https://linktr.ee/ndemusic
www.youtube.com/@ndemusic
www.facebook.com/neardeathexperiencemusic
MAREA – “ADRIFT”
Label: Masked Dead RecordsRelease date: may 9th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Post-Black/Doom Metal
For fans of: An Autumn For Crippled Children | Novembre | Katatonia | Lantlos
The waters carry me where they will. I have given myself up to the ever flowing tides of life, either staring into the fathomless depths of murk and shadow, or watching the beautiful world that flowers and flourishes on the banks as I am carried past. I see faces, hear voices that stir memories as the cycle of light to dark to light turns on around me, as eternal as the river itself. Memories of love and laughter, of tears and pain…joy, grief, contentment, desperation…but none of them enough to keep me from the water. I am borne onwards, ever nearer to the endless sea without a shore, a passive observer upon the waves; rudderless and helpless, separated, isolated, adrift and alone.
A year on from the alluring desolation of debut album, The Silence Of Rust, Matteo Balzarini has returned with a second offering from his atmospheric, emotive post black/doom creation, Marea. Adrift is a quietly remarkable EP, that while continuing the legacy of The Silence Of Rust very much follows its own path. The journey begins with the deeply melodic riffs, measured drums and harsh vocals of ‘Useless’, a song imbued with a sense of movement and space, yet carrying the immense weight of powerful emotions. Vast oceans of melancholy are traversed, but there are moments of bittersweetness, like sunlight briefly catching the crest of waves – while the deeps remain dark and untouched by the light. Beautiful acoustic guitar leads us into the light of ‘Rusted’, a soft cloud of dreams that is then fractured and dismantled by a tattered, torn vocal and intense guitar, the perceived positivity held tantalisingly out of reach, a happiness unattainable. Finally ‘Marea’ descends upon us with a wonderful lightness of touch, a peace summoned through an invocation of the movement of water – of streams, rivers, seas and oceans. There’s a sense of reflection upon a moment and upon a life, a feeling of acceptance and maybe even a harsh joy in the final vocal cries. Adrift is a journey through music and emotion, infused with accrued wisdom, whose affect upon the attentive listener is profound.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Carlo Meroni (Imago Mortis, Ancient, Kaiserreich etc) Adrift has been blessed with a sound that enhances all the rawness, subtlety and complexity of the emotions that it so successfully conveys. As for the album’s artwork and design, Matteo Balzarini approached artist Francesco Gemelli (Howls Of Ebb, Midnight Odyssey, Venomous Echoes etc) with a very specific brief… “a water-themed landscape that could express desolation, melancholy, but also beauty and poetry,with a graphic style that could resemble watercolour painting”…and suffice to say Gemelli has delivered the perfect visual accompaniment to Adrift. The EP will be released through Masked Dead Records on May 9th and will weave its entrancing spell across the world.
Line-up:
Matteo Balzarini – Guitar/Bass/Vocals
*Drums on Adrift performed by Alessandro Mori (Entirety etc)
*All music and lyrics by Matteo Balzarini
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/marea.rusted
Metalcore stalwarts, AGE OF RUIN, are primed and ready to release new album, NOTHINGMAN, on October 17! But first...a new single (and b-side)! "HEAVY IS THE CROWN" is the first single from the forthcoming album.
FFO: In Flames, Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, and Gojira.
Check out the video for "Heavy is the Crown" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiEiml9Qnm8
As an added bonus, the band has released a "b-side" (or non-album track) to coinicide with the new single. Have yourself a listen to "Holding on" via Spotify and Apple Music, and check out the lyric video.
Nothingman, Age of Ruin’s forthcoming album, is a collection of 10 songs that cuts a path to the heart with harmony and angst that others would be naïve not to mimic. The band sacrificed blood and sweat for two years to expel Nothingman. Age of Ruin began the recording process in October of 2023, and after nine months of tracking on location in Richmond, VA, at the Bakery Studio, in Washington, DC, at Ivakota Studio, and at the Riff Dojo in Takoma Park, MD, (the record was produced by Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour), Nothingman was complete. This is the biggest, most richly woven tapestry from the band yet, and the time to unleash it is near.
In 2023 and 2024, Age of Ruin did some precursory promotion of Nothingman’s material, traveling up and down the east coast, dousing nonbelievers with their fire, with such acts as Black Flag, Madball, Jimmy’s Chicken Shack, and Anvil. Yes, that Anvil.
Ripping guitars, unforgivably brutal drums, bass sounds that have shaken the underworld, and screeching vocals are just the beginning of this incarnation of a true headbanger's incantation. What we saw unearthed back in 1998 has now grown. The road worn warriors of the AoRmy have forced enough breakdowns to overwhelm any AAA mechanic, with miles on the highway ahead.
Their punk and metal roots hold firm, and their thrash tendencies are on full display as this towering presence of a band branches out over new tonal terrain and soundscape; reminding all who fall under its shadow, that the light shining through is a new dawn in the Age of Ruin. Nothingman will be celebrated in all formats and on all streaming platforms on October 17.
Age of Ruin released the stand-alone "Dying Days" single earlier this month. A music video for the track is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgH9I3s5_jo
The single is also available on Spotify and Apple Music. "Dying Days" was reimagined with the first recording featuring Ben Swan (vocals) since 2004's Tides of Tragedy.
Track
Listing:1. The Fixation
2. Heavy is the Crown
3. Lost in Shadows
4. The Traveler
5. Nothingman
6. An Awakening
7. The Ghosts We Carry
8. Promise Me
9. Bleed for Better Days
10. Lovesong
Credits:
Produced by Mike Schleibaum / The Riff Dojo.
Mixed and mastered by Will Beasley / The Bakery.
Original artwork, Oil on Canvas titled "Forest Mother" by Zack Dunn.
Line-up:
Benjamin Swan - vocals
Daniel Fleming - guitar
Jonathan Clay - guitar
Christopher Fleming - bass
Hendrik Osinga - drums
Bio:
The exact location of the dawn of man has been a constant subject of debate. Some say it was Prometheus delivering fire, some say it was Franklin discovering electricity, most people say it’s when Lars met James…but everyone agrees: those were simply precursors. Throughout the age of enlightenment, the renaissance, the reformation era and beyond, mortals have tried to make sense of mankind's meaning on earth.
Most archaeologists believe that in the late 90's, a surge of lightning fast riffs, guttural screams, devastatingly bass tones, and the relentless pulverizing rhythm of drums unearthed a crucial piece of this puzzle...this ushered in what would be known as The Age of Ruin. Those who heard it, really dug it. But those who dug it found there is much more than the surface layers. Music filled with textures, themes, and tunings that go deeper than a James Cameron film unbound by budgets.
For over 20 years, Age of Ruin has been firing off a relentless string of releases. Even the busiest trash compactors could not keep up with the amount of crushing that Age of Ruin crams into a single album, and this is so…with Nothingman. They have consistently delivered a brutal barrage of the heaviest hits metal has heard. Why stop At the Gates, when you can break down the whole house with your music? Why get Entombed when you can breathe new life into the scene? Why let the years waste away when the Age of Ruin can answer all of these questions?
Age of Ruin has definitely paid their dues, earning every ounce of the heaviest crown one band could carry. Naturally, the tonal tenure of the AoRmy servicemen is not something that can be held onto forever...the constant axe-wielding and riff hurling has required numerous changing of the guard over the years; however, in 2019, the core horsemen of the Age of Ruin (Benjamin Swan, and Daniel and Christopher Fleming) added Jonathan Clay, and Hendrik Osinga to the ranks, forging an amalgamation of devastation which would conjure a collection of songs that few, if any, houses could harness. Fortunately, under the tutelage and production of Sound-Sensei Mike Schleibaum (Darkest Hour), Age of Ruin would hone their tone in Mike's Riff Dojo, creating an undeniable masterpiece of metal.
https://www.youtube.com/@thisistheageofruin
https://www.facebook.com/thisistheageofruin
TORANAGA U.K. – “A NEW ORDER” (EP)
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: may 19th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Megadeth | Metal Church | Xentrix | Meliah Rage
You climb the steps up from the darkness and behind you a cold mist curls lazily through a place of ruin and decay. A golden sword hangs from the impenetrable shadows above, suspended by a thread it turns slowly in the air, casting a sickly yellow light upon the scene below. A hooded figure stands beside a cracked and broken shrine, a hammer in his left hand, its heavy, lumpen head stained with ancient blood, fragments of white bone trapped between its claws. Ahead stands another door, emblazoned with the face of a tiger above the silver blade of a katana. God’s gifts lie behind you and a new order awaits…
In the late 1980s the UK thrash scene was exploding, with a horde of bands riding the wave of the most exciting mutation of metal since the movement began. Bands like Sabbat, Xentrix and Onslaught were at the head of the pack and right beside them, in the vanguard, were Toranaga, weaving melody through complex riffs and bursting with a fierce energy and fiery creativity. Their Bastard Ballads debut for Peaceville Records hit with a seismic impact – leading to a deal with major label Chrysalis Records, tours with the likes of Manowar and Venom and a magnificent second album – God’s Gift – released in 1990. Sadly the band fractured under the stresses and strains and bar a brief revival under the banner The Bastard Son Of Toranaga, it seemed their race was run. However in 2024, with original, ever-present vocalist Mark Duffy at the helm, Toranaga were reborn as Toranaga U.K. and now, 35 years on from the release of God’s Gift, the first statement in this new chapter is ready to be unleashed!
A New Order brings together two brand new songs and two re-recordings of Toranaga classics – reinvigorated and re-energised for a new metal age. The EP begins with the precise riffing of ‘Desecration’ and two things quickly become apparent. Firstly Toranaga U.K. have embraced the original Toranaga spirit and captured so much of what was great about the band and the UK thrash scene of the ‘80s. Secondly, the power of Mark Duffy’s distinctive vocals remains utterly undiminished by the passage of time. With a great chorus and thrilling solos – the twin guitars duelling over snarling riffs – ‘Desecration’ sets the standards high. Luckily ‘A New Order’ matches those standards with ease, with superb atmosphere, an epic feel and jagged, staggered riffing over a rock solid rhythmic base. Then it’s time for ‘The Shrine’, one of the best songs bar none to emerge from the creative furnace of UK thrash. Armed with riffs that deserve to be heard by a whole new generation of fans, ‘The Shrine’ is a genuine classic. And finally we have ‘Sword Of Damocles’ – a stunning song full of dark portent that has been superbly recreated and reanimated. The way in which Toranaga U.K. have merged the old and new is masterful and A New Order is a remarkable new beginning for this outstanding band.
Produced and mixed by acclaimed composer Steve Kilpatrick at Soundfackery studios in France and adorned in the imagery of artist Sarah Louise Rose, A New Order will be released on May 19th.
Recording Line-up:
Mark Duffy - Vocals
Liam Mulpetre - Guitars
Josh Goldie - Guitars
Mike Todd - Bass
Toby Wallace - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/ToranagaUK
RICKERT
G. delivers
a searing dose of melodic death metal with the lyric video for "SINGULARITY",
taken from the album ENDLESS THOUGHTS, out now via Wormholedeath.A brutal odyssey through darkness, destruction, and defiance, "Singularity" is a relentless battle against oblivion. Torn apart, betrayed, and buried—yet rising stronger each time—this track channels raw intensity, catapulting listeners into the abyss where cosmic weight meets unbreakable will. Will you escape, or will you be consumed?
About ‘Endless Thoughts’
Born from the depths of trauma, Endless Thoughts is more than an album—it’s catharsis. A harrowing yet empowering narrative of descent and resilience, its eight evocative scenes paint a visceral portrait of struggle and survival.
Musically, Rickert G. fuses the crushing intensity of melodic death metal with a profound artistic vision. Fans of Hypocrisy, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity, Opeth, At the Gates, and In Flames will feel right at home in this sonic maelstrom.
Stream the album: https://orcd.co/endlessthoughtsalbum
Rickert G.
A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Rickert G. blends the raw aggression of metal with the depth of academic composition. Armed with a background in piano, audio production, and composition, his music is a visceral expression of pain, power, and perseverance.
www.youtube.com/@rickertgvt
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564838172150
Melbourne Crust
death metal band KÜNTSQUÄD has unleashed a lyric video for their
single, EAT YOUR ENTRAILS. This single was recorded in
2024-25 exclusively for the Imperative Music Compilation #18,
which has limited worldwide distribution. Other bands featured on this
compilation include God Dethroned and Deicide.Eat Your Entrails is released as a limited-edition CD (100 copies only). The physical copy is only available at live shows; the digital copy is on Bandcamp here. An alternate version of this tune will be included on the upcoming Satans Cock album - worldwide release by Wormholedeath Records is expected for mid-2025.
Küntsquäd use the opportunity to engage with their fans Australia-wide and tour Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Adelaide this autumn and early winter. These are the dates – get yourself ready!
Küntsquäd - Eat Your Entrails (single version for Imperative Music Compilation)
Manufactured in: United States of America
Mastered by: Audio Power Studio, Brazil
Artwork by: Scatterling, and Ventasia, Germany/USA
Release Date: February 2025
Proudly presented the following bands:
01 – GALDORCRÆFT (UK): Barghest
02 – I, APOKALYPSE (Canada): Soul Scarred
03 – INHERITED (The Netherlands): Shitface
04 – DEICIDE (US): From Unknown Heights You Shall Fall
05 – PHLESH (Canada): Total Fucking Disorder
06 – GOD DETHRONED (Holland): Rat Kingdom (edited)
07 – SINNRS (Denmark): When Adam Ended Paradise
08 – LOST SANCTUARY (Germany): Eye Of The Storm (feat.. Martin Kesici)
09 – DHAMPYRES (UK): Blood Lust
10 – SHADOW OF THE TALISMAN (US): What Is Real?
11 – DUMB ASS (Canada): 5 Bricks
12 – INDULGENCE (Holland): Acheron
13 – DIAVOLA (Norway): Embers
14 – PUT ME OUT (Sweden): Obsession of the Flesh
15 – HEADSHRINKER (US): Suffocating Tomb
16 – MORGUE TERROR (US): Neanderthal (feat Chaney Crabb)
17 – SATHANAS (US): There will be Demons
18 – FULLMÅNE (UK): They're not Real
19 – KUNTSQUAD (Australia): Eat Your Entrails
20 – GOAT (Japan): Piece of Shit
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ESCHATON – “TECHTALITARIAN”
Technical
death metal band Eschaton return after a gap of six years with a
reinvigorated, star-studded line-up that undoubtedly elevates their sound to
hitherto unexplored heights. They have none other than Christian Münzner
formerly of Obscura and Necrophagist accompanying the band
founder Josh Berry on guitars. For the vocals, they have enlisted the services
of Mac Smith of Apogean and Abyssalis and for the bass,
they have brought on Scott Bradly from Inanimate Existence while
Darren Cesca of Pillory and formerly in Deeds of
Flesh and Arsis continues to hold down the fort on drums. Most
importantly, this line-up sounds just as devastating on this album as it does
on paper. They have contributed to creating a tech death album that can stand
on its own and does not have to be necessarily pitted against any of the
aforementioned bands' past efforts. The members excel in their own specialized
ways and they manage to make it work. It is meticulously and passionately put
together which is all too apparent in the music that can be dizzyingly fast and
mind-bogglingly technical but also groovy and memorable while being on the
whole diverse yet dynamic and pulsating with energy. It is not just music meant
for the tech death fans; it is music that will invariably get them excited. As
such, this should be regarded as an landmark album in the style, with the
presence of the illustrious members in the lineup not taking away from the
irrefutable fact that this is indeed great tech death music.Line up
Mac Smith - Vocals (Apogean, Abyssalis, Hammer of Dawn)
Christian Muenzner - Lead Guitar (Retromorphosis, Eternity's End, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Obscura, ex-Alkaloid)
Josh Berry - Guitar (Eschaton founder)
Darren Cesca - Drums (Goratory, Serpents of Gnosis, Pillory, Ex-Deeds of Flesh, Ex-Arsis)
Scott Bradley - Bass (Inanimate Existence)
Artwork by Dave Melvin
Track listing
1. Inferior Superior
2. Devour the Contrarian
3. Blood of the People
4. Hellfire's Woe
5. The Bellicose Duality
6. Econocracy
7. Antimatter
8. Techtalitarian
9. The Sufferer's Dichotomy
10. Castle Strnad
Release date - May 30th, 2025
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
D.E.A.D
- No Frills, No Compromise, Just Death Metal Fury. Swedish-Australian death
metal duo D.E.A.D is back with an electrifying showcase
of their raw talent and technical prowess! The band presents an intense
drums and guitar playthrough video for their track “RACE TO THE GRAVE,”
taken from their ferocious debut album, “OF VILE AND HATE,” available
now via Wormholedeath Records.Stream "Of Vile and Hate" now: https://orcd.co/ofvileandhate
In “Race to the Grave,” D.E.A.D. proves why they’re one of extreme metal's most exciting new acts. With thunderous drumming and razor-sharp riffing, this video gives fans a front-row seat to their unrelenting musicianship, allowing a deep dive into the track’s brutal energy and powerful arrangements.
About D.E.A.D and Of Vile and Hate
D.E.A.D is a brutal death metal duo born from the darkness of the 2020 Pandemic. Founded by Niels (Sweden) and Adam (Australia), two like-minded musicians united in their quest for sonic metal mayhem. Hailing from South Australia, D.E.A.D unleashes unrelenting, straight-up death metal, forged in the depths of isolation and fueled by a shared passion for extreme music. No frills, no compromise – just pure, unadulterated death metal fury.
"Of Vile and Hate" is their debut album and it represents the duo’s unrelenting passion and dedication to their craft, distilling the anger, frustration, and resilience of a world in turmoil into a sonic manifesto. With "Of Vile and Hate", D.E.A.D. unleashes a fierce and unapologetic sound that reflects the intensity of their artistic vision.
This album follows the last portion of one man’s life. A demonic metamorphosis takes place as he faces his end of days. It is a culmination of a life lived in torment. From a disease-ridden body decaying, to a magnificent resurrection in crimson shade. With death pacing his trail, nothing may stand in the way.
Written and recorded in Adelaide, Australia, with artwork and design made by Will Clement in Melbourne and mixed by the renowned Olof Berggren in Sweden, "Of Vile and Hate" represents the culmination of our artistic vision and dedication to crafting unrelenting death metal.
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NEWS 20.4.2025
Die neue Single ist „AT THE END OF OUR REIGN“, hier könnt ihr das Video sehen: https://youtu.be/0vfMEmE31J0
Die Band dazu:
"At The End Of Our Reign" beschreibt eine Welt am Ende ihrer Zeit, durch das Scheitern der Zivilisation. Ein letzter Blick zurück, bevor alles untergeht und wir von unserer eigenen Geschichte erdrückt werden.
Wir alle sind Teil dieser Geschichte. Die Frage ist nur, was wollen wir hinterlassen?“
Video Credits:
Directed by Levi Stute
Produced by Witzki Visions
Written by John Gahlert
Edit by Mirko Witzki
Filmed at the Sophienheilstätte in München near Bad Berka, Thuringia
Mix & Master by Fabian Hildebrandt @ Eisensound
“Veins Of Fire” Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere.
Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens.
Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
Shop:
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Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" wird als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich sein.
Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle werden exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich sein.
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Der Track zeigt eindrucksvoll, wie die Band ihren markanten Stil weiterentwickelt – zwischen doomigem 70s-Rock, psychedelischem Flair und einer okkulten Aura, die sich tief in die Dunkelheit menschlicher Erfahrungen gräbt. „Wishing Well“ ist dabei gleichermaßen introspektiv wie kraftvoll und macht deutlich, warum THE OSSUARY zu den eindringlichsten Live-Acts Italiens zählen.
Hier geht´s zum Lyric-Video zu „Wishing Well“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFJj-ehRKMM
Requiem for the Sun ist ab sofort vorbestellbar unter: https://supremechaos.de/link/theossuary/
Das vierte Album "Requiem For The Sun" verspricht eine cineastische Klanglandschaft voller Donner-Riffs und geisterhaften Melodien – Heavy Rock in seiner mystischen Form!
Album-Preorder: https://supremechaos.de/artists/the-ossuary/
Album-Presave: https://save-it.cc/scr/ossuary-requiem-for-the-sun
Hungarian
extreme metal force MORS SILENS unleashes a furious new
lyric video for “SCORN”, a relentless descent into the rot of
modern humanity. With searing riffs and unrelenting aggression, the track
confronts a world poisoned by hatred, division, and decay, posing a haunting
question: When hope is gone and only death remains, will we finally see
what we’ve done?Pre-save the album: https://orcd.co/infernallegacy
Formed in 2006, Mors Silens blends blistering speed with crushing heaviness. With multiple acclaimed releases—Call of the Nether Realm, World of Pain, and Under the Dark Sun—the band has toured internationally and shared stages with acts like Fleshgod Apocalypse and Kataklysm. Known for explosive live shows and impactful visuals, the band earned 2nd place at the POSADA ROCK Contest in 2021 and continues to evolve without compromise.
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Gallagher (WV) - U.S. Thrash Metal quartet, EXECUTIONIST, have unleashed a visualizer video for "WHEELS OF WAR," the second single from forthcoming album, SACRAMENT OF THE SICK!
Roll with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JD3tLVv5wE
FFO: Kreator, Children of Bodom
Executionist will release debut full-length album, Sacrament of the Sick, on May 16! In the four years since the release of their debut EP, the band has sharpened the blades of its attack, both in terms of songwriting and performance!
Sacrament of the Sick is a monumental step forward from Executionist’s previous material. Improved production, performances, and writing have made the Executionist sound nearly unrecognizable compared to the band's debut EP, Destined for Destruction. Each track was meticulously crafted and poured over in Executionist’s home studio, and the final product shows that it was worth every ounce of attention. With a clear focus on melody and tighter songwriting, Sacrament of the Sick is a sonic journey sure to leave a lasting impact on the listener.
Pre-order: https://executionist.bandcamp.com/album/sacrament-of-the-sick
Track
Listing:1. Ultionum
2. Edge of Annihilation
3. Wheels of War
4. Serrated Shadows
5. Divided We Stand... United We Fall
6. Thy Kingdom Come
7. Strange Aeons
8. Palace of Kings
9. Sacrament of the Sick
10. Coup de Grâce
Credits:
Music written by Brett & Tristan Ash
Lyrics written by Brett Ash
Vocals, guitar, bass - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Produced by Brett & Tristan Ash
Engineered & Mixed by Tristan Ash
Mastered by Colin Davis of Imperial Mastering
Album Artwork by Mitchell Nolte
Logo by ModBlackMoon & HermanTwo
Line-up:
Vocals/Guitar - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Bass - Austin Rose
Guitar - Mike Kinder
Bio:
Executionist was officially formed in 2021 by brothers Brett and Tristan Ash, who were 17 and 13 years old, respectively at the time. Their debut EP, Destined for Destruction, was released on January 27, 2021. Two years later, Executionist released "GENESIS 666" (March 2023).
After playing many shows together as a mere two-piece, Executionist finally added a bass player in 2024, in the form of Austin Rose. The three played more shows together before finally rounding out the lineup by adding Mike Kinder on guitar in March of 2025. Around the same time, Executionist announced the forthcoming release of their debut full-length album, Sacrament of the Sick. The lead single "Serrated Shadows," has already been released, with another single set to release on April 18. With the release of their album on the horizon, Executionist aims to play live as much as possible while writing new music for their next project.
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The song is featured on their debut album "PARASITE", which was released last September
via Pagan Records.Watch “Downfall of Angels”: https://youtu.be/iV-3crLmHq8?si=E-wIz0BD-MAvIgus
The visually striking video, produced in collaboration with Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Amon Amarth, Tarja, Arch Enemy), was filmed in Wrocław in November 2024 and draws inspiration from the biblical motif of the expulsion of angels from heaven. It relates the rebellion and subsequent judgment of these celestial beings, culminating in their dramatic fall. The central figure, Lucifer, is portrayed in both male and female forms, defiantly mocking divine authority as descends from the heavens. The sheer horror of his fall is palpable amongst the observing angels, marking the beginning of his journey in the liminal space between divinity and the human world.
"Downfall of Angels" is the latest visual offering from Untervoid, following the release of the album “Parasite” last year. "Parasite" is a concept album that delves into the anxieties of our time, exploring humanity's role as a parasitic force on society and the planet.
Untervoid was formed in 2015 by Destroyer (Redemptor, ex-Hate, ex-Kriegsmaschine) and Adam Sierżęga (Armagedon, Azarath (live)), with Haldor Grunberg (Thaw, Mentor) joining in 2024. The band has built a strong reputation since their self-titled EP in 2018 for their intense live performances and their powerfully dark soundscapes.
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Melbourne’s
Death Metal Outfit MONOLIYTH unleashes the official video for the
first single, EXCISED UNBORN, off the upcoming album HE WHO
KILLS. The band is excited to announce their signing to WormholeDeath
Records. The release date for He Who Kills will be announced soon.The upcoming album, He Who Kills, is based on the dark side of humanity, looking through the eyes of serial killers, as a perspective, and a grim insight into the depraved. The single Excised Unborn sets the tone for what’s to come – heavy, raw, and unapologetic brutal Death metal.
The video drops alongside the single. Guitarist Mick Barr states that the single "delivers everything fans have come to expect from the band, "relentless riffs, crushing vocals, and a dark visual narrative, capturing the sonic massacre that is Monoliyth.”
Formed in 1998 in Melbourne, Australia, Monolyth was founded by guitarist Mick Barr. The intensity and passion for extreme music has remained consistent throughout their catalogue and aggressive live shows. Monoliyth has evolved from classic thrash to a laser-focused brutal death metal ensemble. Injecting Old-School and tech-death elements into the compositions are an integral part of the writing process, a trend that will continue to expand into the band’s future releases.
Monoliyth:
Andrew Parkinson – Vocalist
Mick Barr – Rhythm / Lead Guitars
Zakk Barr – Rhythm / Lead Guitars
Jake Mackin – Bass
Tim Wright – Drums
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From the Greek black metal bastion of Athens emerges ELEVENTH RAY, with lamentations that have lain in wait for the best part of a decade. The occult offerings within the unhallowed sleeve of REVIVING TEHOM invoke the spirit of Celtic Frost, Sodom, the ‘90s exploits of the great Magus Wampyr Daoloth (Necromantia, Rotting Christ, Thou Art Lord), and of course, Therion's 1993 Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas album.
ELEVENTH RAY and Dark Descent Records have launched a stream for the album's opening track, "NIGHTSIDE OF DAMASCUS" Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Mzlc-7mtk
Reviving Tehom will be released on CD/LP and digital formats through Dark Descent Records on May 16.
Tracklist:1. Nightside of Damascus
2. Staring Eyes
3. Ha Illan Ha Hizon TrianAdohi
4. Path of the Bellator
5. IGUL
6. Κόκκινη Αποκάλυψη
7. ZODAMRAN NOX
8. Pan Noctifer
9. Reviving Tehom
Stream the album's first single, "Ha Illan Ha Hizon TrianAdohi" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKsU7CpvTGQ
The seeds for ELEVENTH RAY were sown by materials once artificed for the black metal force of Serpent Noir, whose changing tonality saw guitarist Y.K. bury said materials for a later purpose. A decision that first bore rotten fruit via a devastating rehearsal demo in 2022, which piqued the interest of Dark Descent Records.
“ELEVENTH RAY is a totally new autonomous entity for which we plan to work with full force and NOT a one-off project of Serpent Noir leftovers,” exclaims Y.K. “As it happens with all my projects, ELEVENTH RAY is deeply rooted in Dark Magic and the Typhonian Alchemy.”
The practices of Magic and Alchemy are of critical importance to Y.K., and these elements at even keel with the music itself.
“Writing music for the sake of music is not enough. It is the expression of what lies hidden beyond the frames of what we call reality. The great Unknown emanated from the foremost symbol of power, the Red Dragon,” explains Y.K. “What we were aiming to achieve was the creation of a purely black Magical death/thrash/black metal album without the lyrical satanic naivety of the past. Listening carefully to the album, you will realise that into this blend there is a striking ritualistic element with an ominous vibe and a heavy occult twist. Basically, Reviving Tehom is an album I would personally love to listen to, but I could not find anywhere. “
The common thread extends to the stunning artwork by L.G.N Nekropropaganda, depicting the aforesaid Great Red Dragon “as the orgasm of existence, the utmost symbol of hidden wisdom and forbidden knowledge which is also a tangible form of ecstatic energy. Lyrics deal with personal experiences related to the awakening/ channelling of this tremendous force.”
Recorded by Haris V. at the Eleventh Tower Studio – a familiar collaborator of Y.K. - the production perfectly complements this first wave hell-noise with a crushing old school sound. With full force!
ELEVENTH RAY is:
D. Gharrassielh: Rhythm and lead guitars, chants
D. AanoNin: Vocals, chants
Peyote: Bass, additional lead guitars
Nuctemeron: Drums, percussion
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My
Kingdom Music and DVM SPIRO, great Italian Doomsters, have
signed a new deal that will lead them together to the release of "MMXXV
- GRAVE". This is the title of the successor to their successful
and acclaimed debut "MMXIX - In Frigidvm Lectvm" released a few years
ago.The new album will be released in Autumn and has been completed in these days.
With songs that never go under 11 minutes, DVM SPIRO, formed by members of NIHILI LOCUS (Max, Roberto, Valeria), an Italian cult band from the 90s, are going to give life to an extremely gloomy, heavy album even if their dark and arcane Doom Metal often is caressed by more Atmospheric, sometimes horrific and even symphonic elements. A general feeling of dark desperation, mixed with the natural funereal atmospheres of Doom Metal, is what emerges from the second album of DVM SPIRO and you will not waste a moment to let yourself be enchanted by their music and the sabbatical pace of their compositions!
Heavy riffs, female voices and very deep growls, ancient atmospheres and even classical music enrich a unique sound that will surely be a must-listen for fans of My Dying Bride, Funeral, the first Paradise Lost, Shape Of Despair!
Roberto introduces us to it with this dark declaration of intent that has a strong sense of a harbinger of death:
There are things that as soon as they are born you already know they must die.
A sublimation, an invisible caress that blurs life, and finally becomes a cold detachment. It is an indistinct death, in which follies shine in the dark. Without peeling frames, and funereal paintings of intangible prisons.
We draw on a discontinuous salvation, through moments lost among infected wounds
of withered bodies and adorned with the filthy rags of others.
Disappointing, woven complaint of this life. So full of beauty, beyond the ravines, turbid, of useless prayers.
While the vague leads us back to the gentle torture
and infirm will. Among the asymmetries of a last daily spasm. As if it were a game of dexterity to die early.
DVM SPIRO are back and the magic of their sad Art is ready to drag you into the deepest abysses..
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Format: Digital CD-EP /
Physical CD-EPLabel: Independent Release
For fans of: Lamb of God, Slayer, Kataklysm, Baest, Carcass and so on……
Tracklist:
01. Malevolent Glare
02. Paracusia
03. Pity the Mind of the Frail and the Feeble
04. To Be Alive, To Walk This Earth, That Is My Curse
05. Rancid Taste of Horror
Black Rabbit is a concept-driven death metal band from Apeldoorn that seamlessly interweaves brute force and aggression with profound themes and a compelling visual presentation.
The band consists of five musical forces with diverse influences, who together create a dynamic, ruthless but refined sound.
With energetic live shows full of theatrical visuals and an intense light spectacle, Black Rabbit takes their audience into a narrative world of darkness and mystery.
Black Rabbit left a lasting impression with the release of their EP and single (2020), which laid the foundation for the story of Black Rabbit. This took further shape with the first chapter of its legend: the full-length album ‘Hypnosomnia’ (2023), an album that took the band to new heights with performances in renowned venues such as Patronaat, Iduna and even the Brabanthallen.
Sharing the stage with the likes of Baest, Vader, Exhorder and Pestilence, they have established themselves as a band that takes energy, craftsmanship and experience to a new level.
Now the band expands their sinister story further with ‘Chronolysis’, a sensory nightmare that takes the listener into the oppressive world of sleep paralysis, trapped under the manipulative grip of Black Rabbit
At the heart of the band lives the mythical story of Black Rabbit, a demonic entity with a tragic past. He seduces and deceives his victims, confronting them with their deepest sins and feeding on their despair. Black Rabbit manipulates dreams (Hypnosomnia) and traps his victims in the suffocating grip of sleep paralysis (Chronolysis), from which there is no escape. Black Rabbit’s music forms a ritual in which each song is a chapter in his growing legend. ‘Hypnosomnia’ explored the boundary between dream and reality, while the latest EP, ‘Chronolysis’, digs deeper into the horror of sleep paralysis.
Black Rabbit is more than a metal band – it’s a total experience. With a crushing sound, well-thought-out concepts and theatrical live shows, they immerse their audience in a world where music, visuals and stories become one. Their performances are rituals, in which the audience is not just a spectator, but becomes part of the story.
With Chronolysis, the five gentlemen are setting a new, intense chapter. Their music is dynamic and raw, their shows are hypnotic and uncomfortable. Black Rabbit leaves you with a feeling of fascination and discomfort – exactly as he intended.
BLACK RABBIT is:
Vocals: Nino Thomas
Guitar: Jelle Brekelmans
Guitar: Hidde Hofland
Drums: Koen van der Voet
Bassguitar: Thijs Mulder
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Rome (IT) - Blackened Death Metal horde, PATRISTIC, are set to release their debut full-length album! CATECHESIS will be released June 20 on vinyl, CD, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
The official video for first single, "Catechesis I," has been premiered by Toilet ov Hell and is available at the following link: https://toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-patristics-catechesis-i/
FFO: Aosoth, Barshakesh,
Drastus, Sulphur Aeon, Akhlys."Catechesis I" will be available April 18 on all digital platforms. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Born of the ashes of Roman Empire, pagan lust for life and philosophical opulence, then demeaned and mortified by the fathers of the one true god. Centuries lasting like the last dream before awakening. PATRISTIC is the soundtrack of the age of quiet chaos between the classic world, paganism and the impending shadow of the cross.
Catechesis follows 2022 debut EP, Apologetica, and is the band's first release for Willowtip.
Track Listing:
1. A Vinculis Soluta I
2. A Vinculis Soluta II
3. Catechesis I
4. Catechesis II
5. Catechesis III
6. Catechesis IV
Credits:
All music and lyrics written and recorded by E.S. and Sathrath.
Drums recorded by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studios in October MMXXIII.
Vocals recorded by Davide Gorrini at BeastCave Studio in December MMXXIII.
Mixed and mastered by Michael Zech at The Source Studios between January and May MMXXIV.
Artwork by Manuel Scapinello.
Artwork layout by Dema Novakova.
Logo by Bram Bruyneel.
Line-Up
E.S. - Guitars, bass, samples, arrangements
Sathrath - Drums
L.S. - Vocals
T.V. - Bass
The band's name and concept comes from Patristics which is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The period is generally considered to run from the end of New Testament times or end of the Apostolic Age (c. AD 100) to either AD 451 (the date of the Council of Chalcedon) or to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.
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The band comments:
"Reclaiming Chaos, the title track closer, is the album's fastest song. The chaotic atmosphere consists of sharp playing and aggressive vocals. The song is about taking control of a bad-turned-worse situation with mental strength and without outside interference."
Biography:
INDEMON is a four-piece metal band formed in 2020 in Kerava, Finland. Drawing influences from various subgenres of metal, they blend them uniquely to create a powerful and atmospheric sound. INDEMON's debut EP Fear of Living was released in 2022, showcasing the band's ability to create intense and multifaceted metal. The band’s lyrical themes explore fear, self-doubt, and inner struggles, immersing the listener into the music's emotional world. INDEMON is known for their energetic live performances and distinctive music.
INDEMON - RECLAIMING CHAOS (ALBUM 2025)
Track list:
1. Bring Down The Light
2. Internal Defeat
3. Passenger
4. Abuse
5. Necessary Evil
6. Shoot & Forget
7. Ruoja
8. Reclaim Chaos
Album cover by Sakari Vinko
Line-up:
Joose Riihelä - vocals
Santeri Liesmala - guitar
Ville Kangasharju - bass
Patrik Kuitunen - drums
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Format: Digital CD /
Physical CDLabel: Independent Release
For fans of : Motörhead, Peter Pan Speedrock, V8 Wankers and such….
Tracklist:
01 Never Told me her Name
02 You Know You Are Gone
03 Hammer
04 Going Crazy
05 Piece of Shit
06 Come Out and Play
07 Tiger Queen
08 We Are The (Over)Killers
09 Mister Rock
10 Kill My Soul
Fat Bastard, a high-energy rock band, was formed in 2007. The current lineup features four passionate musicians: Jorn (vocals), Kurt (drums), Geller (bass), and Jan (guitar). The band's unique sound is often described as the raw power of Peter Pan Speedrock, with a splash of Motörhead's rebellious spirit and a dash of Carl Perkins' rockabilly charm.
Fat Bastard's music is defined by its relentless energy, commanding vocals, and electrifying guitar riffs. Their sound seamlessly blends the raw power of rock 'n' roll, the rebellious spirit of punk, and the intensity of heavy metal. Drawing inspiration from old school rock legends, Fat Bastard crafts a dynamic and versatile musical style that resonates with a wide range of listeners.
Fat Bastard has received praise from various music critics and publications. Luminous Dash highlighted their impressive use of the Swamp Stage at Alcatraz 2022. Musika.be commended their high-energy performance at Frietrock 2022 and their ability to win over crowds quickly at Devils Rock for an Angel 2018. MusicZine.be appreciated their combination of humor and powerful sound at Frietrock 2018. Mindview.be recognized their high-level performance at Distortion Fest 2011, suggesting they deserved a spot on the main stage.
In 2013, the band released their first EP album, Feel the Pain, produced, mixed and mastered by Martin Furia (Bark/Destruction/Furia). This album showcased their punk/metal side, capturing the raw emotion and intensity of their live performances. Critics praised the album for its powerful sound and the band's ability to convey their balls to the wall attitude through their music.
Five years later, in 2018, Fat Bastard released EP Junk Yard Fest. This album showcased their musical evolution, to a more raw rock (yeah, Rawk n’ Roll) based sound. This album was produced by Yannick from Hexa Mera. The album received rave reviews for its raw energy and the band's signature blend of humor and powerful sound. One reviewer noted that the album brought "an array of raw delights for body and soul," highlighting the band's ability to connect with their audience on a visceral level.
Fat Bastard's perfectionist tendencies mean that they take their time to create music, but the end result is always worth the wait. Their albums are a testament to their commitment to delivering high-quality, impactful music that leaves a lasting impression on their listeners.
FAT BASTARD Is:
Jorn: vocals
Kurt: drums
Jan: guitar
Geller: bassguitar
https://www.facebook.com/FatBastardRawk/
This visual companion to "The Gates of Daemons" plunges viewers into a ritualistic haze, capturing the EP’s raw intensity and unrelenting darkness. With a minimalistic, yet crushing songwriting approach, Incineration in the Infinite harnesses the rebellious pulse of Punk Rock, the bone-rattling depth of Stoner Metal, and the oppressive atmospheres of Doom Metal, delivering a sound that is as primal as it is punishing.
Stream the "Serpent's Tongue" EP: https://orcd.co/serpentstongue
Dare to enter the gates—where shadows reign and chaos calls.
www.youtube.com/@IncinerationintheInfinite
https://incinerationintheinfinite.bandcamp.com/
“DIMENSÃO HORRENDA” is a colossal return, to say the least, and all you can do is to give it a chance because it’s totally worth it. Continuing its reign of terror, Perversus elevates all Black Metal glory within its tradition with a major boost tribute to evil, wrath, and cruelty. Reminding you all that, VETUS SANGUIS buzz saw riffs are made to invoke darkness and torment, and the grim vocals, fully sung in Portuguese, strip out the flesh from your misery turning it into ice cold dust.
This eerie hypnotic landscape phantomized by draught, despair and aggression stands as a hymn to those who travel in the abyss of their soulless existence. With these ten outstanding songs, VETUS SANGUIS will conquer all listeners and make them beg for pity. We even dare to say, “Dimensão Horrenda” has all to be an instant classic and, for sure, a malicious blood pact with vile rawness will be made to accomplish this vision. Absolutely Vicious!
Satanik Ritual On... Religion Bullshit Off...
Release date :16th April 2025
Cassette Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
HELLPACK CD + Cassette Limited to 30 copies.
Official Distribution by HELLSTORE EUROPE
Available through Murder Records
Co-released with Helldprod Records
VETUS SANGUIS - "CAPÍTULO I - DIMENSÃO HORRENDA"
Cassette Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
Tracklist:01. Campos Infernais [04:06]
02. Ódio Viciante [04:33]
03. Gritos Silenciosos [05:03]
04. Trombetas Diabólicas [04:37]
05. The Possibility of Life´s Destruction (Discharge Cover) [01:16]
06. Saturno [04:24]
07. Nada, Faz Sentido [05:10]
08. Dimensão Horrenda [03:36]
09. Jardim de Mármore [04:39]
10. Transcendência [01:30]
All songs, instruments, vocals and lyrics by Perversus.
Mixed and Mastered by Perversus.
Recorded Winter 2023 to Summer 2023 at Sanguinis Cultus Studios.
Artwork and Logo by Blaspher.
Layout by Allefer Rocha.
https://www.facebook.com/VetusSanguis
www.murder-records.eu
Finnish melodic death metal band SUPERDEATHFLAME is
back with a new single "SHADOWHEART".The band tells about the song:
"This is a song about a decicions we have to make There is no right or wrong, just choices we have to live with. Maybe the best way to make a choice is to follow your heart, although we may struggle many times because that is very rarely the easiest way. Thus, it might be that real choices are not made with our heart, but with our shadow heart. That lies far from the truth...
Shadowheart, our new song is brutal, but at the same time fragile and beautiful. Just as Superdeathflame's song should be."
Listen to the single on music services: https://push.fm/fl/sdf-shadowheart
From Southern Finland's gray landscapes rises SUPERDEATHFLAME, the Style-Masters-of-Metal ready to conquer the world with our mature and melodic music that catches the ear. Founded in 2007 and released two full length albums and a batch of singles and EP. Their songs are made for listener, no bullshit. The songs are hard, every piece tells a real story of life. The foundation, the Four Pillars of our Metal are Rock solid guitar riffs and punchy drumbeats colored with flowing synths and world class choruses that are infectiously catchy. Superdeathflame is building their music with an increasingly determined focus to make every song sound simple and easy to a listener. Not forgetting multidimensional interpretation in the lyrics, that gives the depth to the songs.
https://www.facebook.com/superdeathflame/
Guitarist Jaakko Hautamäki comments:
"Niko kindly mentioned that the boys should start making more songs because time was running out. Following this command, Joni and I started working. At first, we did the easy parts and then gathered anger for the next ones. I started creating a song that wouldn't begin with a blast beat, wouldn't end with a new riff, and would contain three choruses. The spark for the song came from a piece of melody I improvised 20 years ago. I adapted it to a new form, changed the major keys to minor keys, and added only double bass drums. I finally got it on tape, which had been playing in my head for decades. When the song was finally assembled, I had an even better idea: to leave that section out entirely. Niko created the vocals almost instantly for the first demo with a message "What can you do when one just sends me this kind of nuclear waste?” We scratched our heads, and suddenly the song was complete. The rhythm section participated in the composition work by nodding along."
PROGENY
OF SUN – “PROPHETS OF THE VOID “ (ALBUM 2025)Track list:
1. Swarmspawn
2. Penance
3. Worldstone
4. Decimation
5. Colonus
6. Lifeless Light
7. Sun and Moon
8. Circle of Keres
9. Diary Ender
10. Deface
11. Rain for Discouraged
12. Forsaken Brigade
Mixed by Jaakko Hautamäki
Mastered by Jonathan Mazzeo
Album cover by Joni Kiviniemi & Niko Aromaa
Listen to Penance on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pos-penance
Biography:
In the beginning, Progeny of Sun was a two-man band formed by Jaakko Hautamäki and Niko Aromaa. Jaakko was responsible for the instrumentals, mixing, and mastering, while Niko handled the vocals, lyrics, visuals, etc.
The songs Jaakko introduced were very versatile. Some had speed, some were slow, some painted a picture with their atmosphere, and some were more straightforward bangers. Despite the diversity in style, everything worked exceptionally well in tandem, and from this premise, the band started to develop and pave its own way forward.
To start with, Progeny of Sun created a 6-song self-titled EP and discovered that their music was met with great reception. The duo behind the band did all the mixing, mastering, videos, and artwork themselves. The project as a whole was very fun and rewarding to work on.
After the EP release, Jaakko and Niko began to think that something more was still needed. They still had a burning desire to spread their music around the world, but with just two people, it would have been impossible.
Subsequently, Jaakko found two local musicians from the Seinäjoki area: Joni Kiviniemi (guitar) and Juha Peura (drums). Joni and Juha were initially brought on board just to offer their vision and play their assigned instruments for new material. Soon, however, it began to feel like they were part of the family, and so it was decided that they would become full-fledged members of the squad and a part of the band's story. Not long after, Tuomo Tolkki (bass) was also welcomed to join, and in a matter of a few months, the full lineup was formed.
The first release with the full lineup, a 3-track EP 'Dark Wanderer', was released in 2021. Next in line were the single releases ‘Worthless’ and ‘Anguish’, which were released in 2022. Thanks to the aforementioned experimental phase, Progeny of Sun has gained self-confidence and started to understand its own identity. The band worked hard on the debut album ‘Throne of Desolation’, which was released at the end of 2023. Progeny of Sun's second album 'Prophets of the Void' will be released in September 2025. Following their debut album, the band has identified their strengths, which are utilized and showcased even more prominently on the second album.
Line-up:
Niko Aromaa - Vocals
Jaakko Hautamäki - Guitar
Joni Kiviniemi - Guitar
Tuomo Tolkki - Bass
Juha Peura – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Progenyofsun
The album's first single, an 11-minute traumatizer called "Kola," is available for aural laceration at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_FpbKTWowI
Sonically, Matraque sits somewhere between Grief, Meth Drinker, and Primitive Man. All lyrics are sung in Belarusian. All music is scarring.
Just as over time, anger and aggression transition into despair, disappointment, and depression, the band, without losing loudness and intensity, chooses corresponding forms and nuances of sound to convey their perception of reality.
In search of their style, where low and sluggish masses of sound are interspersed with mid-tempo bursts, Matraque drew inspiration from such acts as Body Void, Primitive Man, The Body, Indian, Bismuth, etc. In terms of genre, one could mention sludge, doom, and primitive death metal.
The band began its journey in Minsk in the spring of 2023. The members brought their experience from previous projects such as Rowan, Televoid, krvvla, Схизма, kusto., Coat, and Łaska.
Nature Morte will be available on CD, cassette, and digital formats.
Pre-order: https://ashentreerecords.bandcamp.com/album/nature-morte
Track Listing:
1. Kola
2. Pustazelle
3. Malimon
4. Volya
5. Pry`py`nak
Credits:
Drums recorded at Chili records, Minsk by Roman P.
Guitars, bass, vox recording at Zeleniy Lug "Children of Tsnyanka rec.", Minsk, by Alexander G.
Mixed and mastered by Alexander G. at Gasprodmusic.
Art by Marta Shcherbich.
Logo by Olga Kisielewicz.
Line-up:
Vlad B. – Guitar
Anton M. – Drums
Evgeniy S. – Bass
Alexander G. – Vocals, Synths
https://www.facebook.com/ashentreerecords
https://www.facebook.com/matraquedoom
Excerpt - “Crypts of Despair’s new album is a nasty, brutish affair. It coronates Death as King in a time of leviathanic turmoil”
CRYPTS OF DESPAIR – “WE BELONG IN THE GRAVE”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Mgla, Replicant, Skaphos, Krypts, Obscureviolence, Dead
Congregation, Saevus FinisLithuanian band Crypts of Despair have exemplified playing death metal in a fierce, ruthless and ball-bustingly heavy way. Just when you think they had perfected their sound bolstering it with all the right dark and vile elements on their highly acclaimed previous album, they decided to hone their sound some more on their new one. Clearly, they are not content to bask in the glory of their past efforts no matter how good they are, and have evolved and refined their sound further. The new album retains the band's intimidating demeanour but now the music is comparatively more condensed, visceral, intuitive, and even displays hints of melancholy. The execution remains forceful and the riffs are compelling enough to commit crimes, egged on by the relentless barrage of seemingly multi-tongued demonic vocals. The band functions as a unit better now than ever before with a thick, cohesive sound that drives the point home. This is sheer aural terror and they have become veritable masters of it.
"We Belong In The Grave" is a bold step ahead for Crypts of Despair, maintaining the band's high standards while updating the sound for maximum impact and utter devastation.
Line up
Jonas Kanevičius - Vocals
Dovydas Auglys - Guitars
Tautvydas Kartanas - Guitars
Simonas Jurkevičius - Bass
Henri Mäll - Drums
Artwork by Vainius "Anomaly" Česnauskas
Track listing
1. We Belong In The Grave
2. Terminal Dias
3. Obliteration Of The Impure
4. Expulsion To Purgatory
5. Undisillusioned
6. Seizures
7. Precipitous
8. Gaze Of The Adversary
9. Burial Of The World
Release date - April 18th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/cryptsofdespair
Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
The
Painful Legacy of AutaxiaThe history of Autaxia is etched with suffering. We prayed to the heavens, but the skies remained silent. We served our masters, though they stripped us of hope. Centuries of torment have taught us a harsh truth: to believe in no one but yourself.
"The Absolution" is the third track from Autaxia Chronicles: Dawn of a New Age and delves into the theme of resistance driven by religious fervor. It tells the tale of a species enslaved for generations, only to rise through the creation of a new faith—a faith that unites them against their oppressors. However, this newfound zeal comes with a stark warning: while fanaticism can unify, it often becomes the first chapter of a new kind of servitude.
Divine Sovereign’s immersive compositions bring this gripping concept to life, fusing atmospheric black metal, epic doom, and blackgaze elements into a cinematic soundscape of despair, rebellion, and awakening.
About Divine Sovereign
Founded in 2023 by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Cezary Rochnowski, Divine Sovereign draws inspiration from the likes of Ethereal Shroud, Panopticon, and Atlantean Kodex. The project crafts epic, narrative-driven compositions set in the world of Autaxia, a planet where advanced beings unearth the remnants of a once-thriving civilization. Through intricate songwriting and atmospheric intensity, Divine Sovereign explores the duality of faith—its power to liberate and its potential to enslave.
www.facebook.com/DivineSovereign
Listen to Kärpästen juhlat on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-juhlat
The band comments:
"The song "Kärpästen juhlat" is probably the most famous track from Organ's Nekrofiilis LP, the first Finnish electro pop album, but was originally released on a solo single by the band's leader Mikko Saarela in 1981. Somewhere beyond the borders of reason came the idea to pay tribute to his pioneering work with our own version of this cult classic and twisted it into the CA mold - love it or hate it."
Earlier this year the band released their fifth studio album Disgust via Inverse Records and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-disgust
Watch music videos from the album:
Darken the Attic: https://youtu.be/GSXtaXtBDms
Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (Feat. Nikki666): https://youtu.be/GuPBSDV3Yvo
Viimene Fiitti (feat. ULTI MAKE): https://youtu.be/fXsUjYwPHIk
CD/Vinyl orders from Levykauppa Äx
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released five full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
CANNIBAL ACCIDENT - DISGUST (ALBUM 2025)Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage
5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
https://www.facebook.com/cannibalaccident
Tracklist1. Id
2. Frostglade
3. En Route
4. Forth
5. Global Necrosis
6. Pine Branches
Emerging from the shadows of the metal underground, RAWMOOR has forged a reputation for blending haunting orchestral melodies with blistering death metal savagery. Their debut album, En Route—initially self-released in September 2024—captivated fans and critics alike, earning acclaim for its seamless marriage of brutality and sophistication. Now, armed with the backing of Wormholedeath, RawMoor is poised to ascend to new heights, bringing their apocalyptic soundscapes to a global audience .
From Underground Vision to International Stage
What began in 2016 as the solo endeavor of multi-instrumentalist Moordrawn (vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, orchestration) evolved into a formidable alliance with longtime collaborator Brim (vocals). Together, they finished En Route, a concept album steeped in treachery, sovereignty, and existential rebellion themes. Guest guitarist Renton (tracks 2, 3, 6) adds searing solos, further cementing the album’s dynamic range.
“RawMoor embodies the raw intensity and artistic ambition that defines extreme metal,” says Carlo Bellotti, CEO of Wormholedeath. “En Route is not just an album—it’s a manifesto. We’re thrilled to amplify their vision and introduce their chaos to the world.”
En Route is a journey through betrayal and retribution, and with Wormholedeath, RawMoor is ready to ignite the flames wider than ever.
RawMoor Is:
Moordrawn: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Orchestration
Brim: Vocals
Renton: Guest Soloist (Tracks 2, 3, 6)
www.youtube.com/channel/UCv5TPiRLJo-OHOaxl5p3b1g
https://rawmoor.bandcamp.com/album/en-route
Yes, GROG are back once again to deliver us what they do best, one more chapter of extremeness, a lesson about how to renovate but at the same time to maintain their identity.
"SPHERE OF ATROCITIES" is their most recent deadly opus, an album that will make you bleed for speed, push you to the corner, and beat you relentlessly. Their new songs are equal to if violence wore a tuxedo, meaning that although their sound invites you to a modern and comfortable approach in fact once you enter the core of it you get smothered and crushed in a second by their vicious brutality. Almost inevitable to say that experience has a lot to do with this outcome and, as veterans in the metal scene, this ability to refine themselves brings them the possibility to explore new textures and dimensions. There's a lot of space for novelty here, and you simply have to know how to do it without repeating yourself.
With the same line-up for the past 20 years, expect nothing but great skilled master percussion, bass lines that will melt your face, a wall of exorcizing guitar riffs and a voice directly coming from down under. Overall, their musicianship is almost flawless and, with a super tight production, "Sphere of Atrocities" impact and intensity will surely be noticed within all worldwide death metal and grindcore fanatics.
Keeping their lyrical concept based on the dark side of humanity, they also add the alchemy that flows within our untold biology and mysterious existence. Concerning the final art of this album, all these concepts are amazingly represented and designed, once again, by the hands and mind of the one and only Crafter, Victor Costa.
As far as we're concerned, GROG still are one of the greatest names in the underground putting their musical effort in the top of the highest mountain and continuing to be a fearless and ruthless monster avalanche for your senses. So, above all, we dare to say that "Sphere of Atrocities" elevates GROG's legacy to a new level of severe musical brilliance.
Pulverize Yourself!
Release date 13th June 2025
Co-Released with Helldprod Records
Cassette Limited to 60 copies.
CD Limited to 300 copies.
HELLPACK CD + Cassette.
Official Distribution by HELLSTORE EUROPE
[PRE-ORDER PRICE]
*(until June 13, 2025) CD = € 8.00
*(until June 13, 2025) TAPE = € 7.00
*Price (after June 13, 2025) CD € 10.00 / TAPE €9.00
GROG - "SPHERE OF ATROCITIES"
CD Limited edition of 300 copies
Cassette Limited edition of 60 copies
Tracklist:01 - E.xit G.lobal O.bliteration [03:01]
02 - Vegetative Techuman [03:08]
03 - Inborn Sickness [02:49]
04 - Heart Of Darkness [03:39]
05 - Cosmic Placenta [02:14]
06 - Pineal Turmoil [02:41]
07 - Reproductive Extinction [02:42]
08 - Phantom Anihilation [02:28]
09 - NecroEarth [03:09]
10 - Lucidity [03:22]
11 - Terrorithm [02:26]
"Sphere Of Atrocities" was recorded, produced and mastered at Undergrind Studios by Rolando Barros & Grog during several time lapses between 2023 & 2024.
All lyrics by Pedro Pedra.
All music by Alexandre Ribeiro, Ivo Martins.
All music & lyrical arrangements by Grog.
Cover concept by Pedro Pedra.
Illustration & final art by Victor Costa
GROG Line-up:
Alexandre Ribeiro (Bass & Backing Vocals)
Pedro Pedra (Vocals)
Rolando Barros (Drums & Backing Vocals)
Ivo Martins (Guitars & Backing Vocals)
https://www.facebook.com/grogpt
www.murder-records.eu
1. The Dark Knight Descends2. Immortal Rites
3. Darkness Within
4. Trough These Mortal Eyes
5. Two Dividing Souls
6. Requiem Of Eternal Souls
7. The Clockwork Part2
8. Into This Maze Of Torment
9. Shattered Like The Sun
10. Prone To Revolting
11. Melancholy Of The Endless Night
Pioneers of the Italian Death/Black scene, MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL reach with this album a level of maturity and professionalism that has no equal in their history.
Their sound becomes absolutely personal, crossing different emotional states within the whole panorama of the Extreme Metal. The band goes from the fury and aggression of Death Metal to the dark and malignant essence of Black Metal, from the Symphonic and Progressive elements of their arrangements to a macabre and horrifying Gothic Metal, all built on an extremely powerful and clear production, daughter of the Lost Soul Studios led by Buzz himself.
"Songs From The Restless Oblivion" also gives us the opportunity to present the new line-up with Noxifer (drums) and the historic leader Buzz (guitar and vocals) who welcome the new elements Dysphoria (keyboards) and Taz (bass) to the band.
Those who have always loved the band will be absolutely enraptured by the new songs while for those who don't know them yet, just consider that if ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILITY and CRADLE OF FILTH are part of your favorite bands, "Songs From The Restless Oblivion" will be a mandatory listening!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/memoriesofalostsoulofficial
FLOATING – “HESITATING LIGHTS”
For
fans of: Swelling
Repulsion, Demilich, Defect Designer, Februus, Adramelech, Siouxsie
and the BansheesFloating from Sweden are finding increasingly impressive ways to enrich death metal music with progressive and post punk influences. While their previous release turned heads, this new one is far more refined, confident and accomplished. The primary elements have their place in the music with none of it getting dislodged by the dominance of the other and that's where the beauty lies - there's a subtlety, an emotional fragility that comes through in death metal music, which usually sounds too tough and overbearing for the most part. Moreover, these unconventional influences aren't copy-pasted or arbitrarily introduced to heavy music; they're carefully gauged, treated and woven together in parts where the well-trodden death metal music would come alive. As a result, listening to this album is an absolute delight. It's fascinating to see how they've made sure that each of the songs stand out and that there's no fixed pattern that might just render their music predictable. "Hesitating Lights" is a thoughtfully composed, beautifully tempered album of bold, refreshing death metal music, which in these times, is no mean feat.
Line up
Arvid Sjödin - Guitars, vocals, synthesizers
Andreas Hörmark - Bass, synthesizers, programming
Artwork by Påhl Sundström
Track listing
1. I Reached the Mew
2. Grave Dog
3. Cough Choir
4. Exit Bag Song
5. Hesitating Lights / Harmless Fires
6. Still Dark Enough
7. The Wrong Body
8. The Waking
Release date - July 11th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/floatingdeathmetal
Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Finnish
heavy sludge force ABYSMAL RITES presents the official
music video for their blistering new track, "The Secret of Pure
Grief." This dark and immersive single is taken from the
band's highly anticipated upcoming album, RESTORING THE PRIMORDIAL ORDER,
which is set for release on May 9, 2025, via Wormholedeath.The track—a suffocating plunge into despair and existential fury—is accompanied by a visceral visual experience crafted by RAW•ART Creations, amplifying the song’s raw essence and primal intensity.
Pre-save the album here: https://orcd.co/rtpoalbum
A Force From Finland
Formed in the Tampere area of Finland, Abysmal Rites are known for their primitive and brutal sound—a unique, heavy sludge approach created using only bass, drums, and vocals. The band’s powerful, minimalistic approach delivers an unmistakable intensity that leaves an impact long after the music stops.
www.youtube.com/@abysmalritesband8874
www.facebook.com/abysmalritesband
DESOLATE TOMB – “PIERCED ON THE HILL OF GOLGOTHA” ( Single )
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: april 18th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal/Deathcore
For fans of: Dying Fetus | Suffocation | Cognitive | Cattle Decapitation
Since 2018 Dakota Whiteside has been unleashing some of the heaviest brutal death metal/deathcore imaginable under the name Desolate Tomb. With an array of singles and two full length albums now recorded the reputation of this project for truly intimidating musical power is firmly established. 2024s Scorned By Misery album was a landmark release in terms of sheer, unrelenting force, picking up plaudits from shell shocked critics around the globe – with Musipedia Of Metal declaring it a “blasting and punishing run through of top-class brutality”. Now, for all those who have been waiting patiently from the next high impact attack from Desolate Tomb, their time has come, as earthshaking new single, ‘Pierced On The Hill Of Golgotha’ is about to detonate!
Unbelievably, ‘Pierced On The Hill Of Golgotha’ sees Desolate Tomb hitting new heights of intensity; even Scorned By Misery’s steel clad tracks will tremble in the face of this monster! From hammering blast beats to gargantuan chords that shift with the grinding power of mountains, surging tides of imperious might to jagged onslaughts, intricate riffs to a wild, deadly and dextrous solo – ‘Pierced On The Hill Of Golgotha’ has it all. With some inhuman guest vocals from long-term friend and collaborator Daniel Gates, this song is a tour de force of bone breaking brutality! Just one song…but what a song! This blasts apart everything else in Desolate Tomb’s already impressive and imposing discography.
Complete with some darkly effective and puissant artwork, created by Timon Kokott (Darkness, Furnace, Illdisposed etc) ‘Pierced On The Hill Of Golgotha’ will launch its assault on the senses on April 18th, supported by the firepower of Rottweiler Records. Be ready for an adrenaline infused experience of staggering dominance and strength.
Line up:
Dakota Whiteside –music, vocals, production, mix and mastering
Guest vocals from Daniel Gates
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/desolatetombslam
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by SAMTAR. Album artwork by Steven Yoyada.
Tracklisting:1. Desert Creature
2. Fickle Fortune
3. All You Ever Wanted
4. Speaker
5. Distant Voices
6. Refuse
7. Destiny is a Lie
8. The Whispers
9. Vicarious Voodoo
10. The Mire
11. Broken Sparrow
12. Drowning the Goddess
SAMTAR, a music-obsessed virtuoso, plies his craft with an unrepentant vigor and passion. Navigating the forests of genre, SAMTAR follows a path to sounds unknown by combining style and influence from all sources. SAMTAR chose to eschew chasing traditional mediums of promotion and instead focused on loving his life through creating music, exploring the outdoors, and translating the ethereal into song. The music SAMTAR creates is human and close, it has a momentum of its own and entreats the listener to be a traveler along the journey to their own peace.
SAMTAR grew up on System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, The Black Dahlia Murder, Opeth, Sonata Arctica, Muse, Jimi Hendrix, Sublime, and Nirvana. Now he unites these divergent influences with driving bass lines, hook-heavy guitar melodies, powerful vocals, and a healthy dose of synthesizers. He notes some of his biggest vocal influences being from artists like Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle/Faith No More), and Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica). He also takes inspiration from sci-fi/fantasy films and literature.
www.samtarofficial.com
https://www.facebook.com/samtar2
NEWS 11.4.2025
Am 20. Dezember 2024 veröffentlichten die
niederländischen Hardcore-Matadore ANCESTRAL SIN mit "NEXT
OF SIN" eine 4-Track 10" Vinyl/CD EP, die sich mühelos von
Punk zu Hardcore und zurück grindet und dabei alles aufmischt, was ihr in den
Weg kommt!Der Titel bezieht sich auf das anhaltende epische Versagen der Menschheit, sich als Rasse sowohl sozial als auch wirtschaftlich zu verbessern.
Song 1 "Next of sin" tritt dir mit den traumatischen Nachwirkungen des ewigen Krieges, der von einer Generation zur nächsten weitergegeben wird, unangenehm ins Gesicht. Zu dem Song wurde am 02.04.2025 ein Video veröffentlicht, in welchem die Thematik eindrucksvoll und gleichermaßen verstörend wiedergegeben wird.
Song 2 "Vulgar display of wealth" thematisiert unseren westlichen fettleibigen und arterienverhüllenden Lebensstandard - einfach widerlich.
Song 3 "Hardcore woke cop" erkundet die Woke-Bewegung und hinterfragt, inwiefern Cancelling seinen Zweck erfüllt.
Song 4 "Whistleblower" sagt dir, dass du den Mund halten sollst, wenn du (Unternehmens-)Korruption aufdeckst, oder sollst du wirklich?
"Next of sin" erschien am 20. Dezember 2024 auf CD (bei DanceHard Records) und ab dem 16. April 2025 ist die EP auf Vinyl erhältlich (bei Oblivion Records/DanceHard Records).
“Next of sin” video auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/w18Oe8QpYL0?si=Uf-5OFWRTVp5nFgi
https://www.instagram.com/ancestral_sin
http://www.oblivionrecords.bigcartel.com/
Melodic/Progressive Metal band, SEVERED ANGEL, have released the official video for "A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING," a track from new album, WHEN ETERNITY ENDS.
Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_qSZhtaA6E
FFO: Soilwork, Ice Earth, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.
When Eternity Ends was released on March 28 via No Life 'Til Metal Records! The album is packaged in a jewel case with a 12-page booklet containing lyrics, liner notes, and plenty of band photos.
Click the links that follow to purchase/stream!
Hailing from the Northeastern U.S. (NY & PA), Severed Angel has toiled in the underground for several years, self-releasing their first two albums, yet still managing to reach high levels of success. The band's sophomore album, Skyward, entered the Top 10 on on the Metal Contraband chart and the Top 25 on the NAAC Top 30 Heavy chart.
In late 2024, the band signed to No Life 'Til Metal Records, to release third album When Eternity Ends internationally. "We do not like to repeat ourselves," says lead guitarist, Lou Mavs. "Yes, we have a set idea on what Severed Angel is suppose to sound like, but we never want to sacrifice melody or a good idea. Skyward was an evolution from our self-titled debut, and When Eternity Ends is a further evolution of Skyward. We are proud to partner up with No Life 'Til Metal Records for the release of When Eternity Ends, an album I think metal fans are hungry for."
Track
Listing:1. The Fall of Rain
2. Through the Eyes of Time
3. Cry Out to the World
4. Shed
5. Like Lightning
6. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
7. The Demon's Alive
8. In My Skin
9. One Life to Live
10. When Eternity Ends
Credits:
Produced by Alex Repetti and Severed Angel.
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Repetti.
Mastered by Joel Wanasek.
All songs written by Severed Angel.
Artwork by Aleh Zielankievi.
Gail Bourque - Vocals on “The Fall of Rain.”
Alex Repetti - Programming on "The Fall of Rain."
Line-up:
Alex Repetti - Vocals, Guitar
Lou Mavs - Guitar
George Dimitri - Bass
Marc Muchnik - Keyboards
Wayne Noon - Drums
Bio:
Severed Angel is a metal band from the Northeastern United States (NY and PA) forged to unleash a sonic assault of melodic heavy metal upon the masses.
In 2018, drummer Wayne Noon started the Rat Salad Review network to promote his favorite bands and have fun with a podcast that provides insight to the metal bands that the mainstream media are unaware of. Some of those bands included Timeless Haunt (PA), The Nightmare Stage (NY), Infinite Spectrum (NY), and Tension Rising (NY).
As the original drummer for Phoenix Reign, a NYC-based power metal band, they released an album called Destination Unknown, and toured around the tri-state area. Their final show was at the Gramercy Theater in NYC opening for international recording artists Epica.
In 2019, guitarist Lou Mavs started his podcast (Music Is Life Podcast) discussing his opinions and experience as a musician. Wayne and Lou were friends from the time Phoenix Reign was playing shows in Lou’s native Queens, NY, and Wayne asked Lou if his podcast would join Rat Salad Review as a show on the network, to which he did.
In late 2020, Wayne was preparing the release of his new band Project Resurrect. It was around that time that the music world suffered the loss of Edward Van Halen. Lou and Wayne suggested that they cover a Van Halen song as a tribute to Eddie, and enlisted the services of Timeless Haunt bassist George Dimitri and Thrash Or Die/Combat vocalist Ralph Viera. The cover was released to positive responses. 2021 saw the release of Project Resurrect’s False Reality CD and Rat Salad Review & Friends’ Cover Series, Part 1 EP.
In early 2022, Wayne suggested forming a new original band with Lou, George, The Nightmare Stage keyboardist Marc Muchnik, and Infinite Spectrum bassist/songwriter Alex Repetti (also of Tension Rising and Project SEAR), Lou provided an original demo written 12 years ago called Dogs of War, which was written as entrance music for his cousin - MMA fighter Robby Plotkin (currently a US Army Ranger). Wayne thought the song was perfect for this new project and arranged a new version of it, to which Marc and Alex wrote lyrics, and Lou re-recorded his parts. Upon completion of the song, it was official - Severed Angel was born.
Their debut CD was written, recorded, mixed and mastered within three months. In that time, Severed Angel started working on more material, many of which were released as singles: “A Fate Worse Than Death,” “Run and Hyde,” “Bump In The Night,” and “Mt. Cyanide.” Their self-titled debut CD was released on May 2, 2023.
Severed Angel's second album, Skyward, was released on May 3, 2024 through Bandcamp.
https://www.nolifetilmetal.com/
https://severedangel.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SeveredAngelBand/
Emerging blackened death metal entity YHWH has unleashed the lyric video for "REALM OF DARKNESS," a relentless and haunting track from their forthcoming EP, TETRAGRAMMATON, which will be released on April 25, 2025, via Wormholedeath.
Immerse yourself in a visceral descent into chaos—"Realm of Darkness" encapsulates the tortured cries of the abyss, delivering an unrelenting barrage of blackened death metal fury.
Formed in 2024, YHWH is a Belgian-Thai blackened death metal project that fuses the raw aggression of black metal with the punishing brutality of death metal. Influenced by the genre’s forebears, the band conjures a savage and uncompromising sound, channeling the primal essence of extreme metal’s darkest traditions.
Brace yourself for the arrival of Tetragrammaton on April 25, 2025—a monumental statement of darkness and devastation. More details to be unveiled soon.
Finnish Phoboian releases their second single “The Fall”. We return to the heavy beauty of operatic metal and grim themes. The apocalyptic disease of “The Plague” is followed by depictions of ecological catastrophe. The band is preparing for their upcoming album in addition to shows.
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/phoboian-thefall
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/Lxs6oJkDddU
Guitar player Otso Turunen tells about the song: "''The Fall' means the autumn of humanity. After releasing a billion years worth of carbon deposits as plastic and greenhouse gases it’s a good time to check out. Only time will tell how things actually turn out. Either way the message of the song is that future generations or evolutions will remember us at least from this monument the size of an asteroid impact."
Singer Inka Laitinen continues: "The song has a beautiful melody that allows me to use a wider vocal range, making the singing interesting. I really like the atmosphere of the song, which is melancholic and hints at destruction, but in my opinion, the melody still carries a sense of hope."
Phoboian is a melodic death metal orchestra from Turku, Finland. The band’s music incorporates classical female vocals into heavy nordic melancholy. Phoboian was established in 2017 during an after party to a metal gig, and since has gathered six musicians to its ranks: singers Inka Laitinen and Eeva Korhonen, drummer Kristo Rautavuori, bassist Jonathan Åkerman, and guitarists Olli Kuure and Otso Turunen.
https://www.facebook.com/Phoboian
We’re extremely proud to announce the sanguinary return of Edmonton-based bestial death metal sadists PROPHETIC SUFFERING. In under half hour the Canadian horde bring forth a violent and dark monstrosity forged by an abysmal convergence between Blasphemy’s war-torn black metal terror with the gruesome and gore-infested death metal of Cannibal Corpse albums like "The Bleeding" and "Tomb of the Mutilated".
Setting
the imminent release in motion is Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the
first track “GIFT OF DECAY” have remarked how the track
is an “absolutely pummeling assault” and that “when it’s done
well and has enough dynamic energy, bestial extreme metal never gets old“ -
you can check out the feature and listen to the song https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/04/08/track-premiere-prophetic-suffering-gift-of-decay/“RIVALRY OF THYSELF” sees Prophetic Suffering metamorph out of their already catastrophic 2022 debut demo ablaze in an exponential spell of destruction in which impenetrable and shellshocking atmospheres enshroud a monolithic, screaming altar of mutilated bodies and trodden flesh. This sanguinary and chaos-wielding approach to American death metal had already been observed before within the underground’s most forbidden folds, as exemplified for example through the perversions of cult devastators like Drawn and Quartered or Angelcorpse. But what transpires from Prophetic Suffering’s new lightless death metal vision is something of even less canonical lineaments and which sets various precedents in the development of this peculiar strain of darkened and ultra-gruesome metal of death. Foremost, a pervasive and weaponized use of modern black metal and technical death-derived dissonance compounding into a torrent of gnarled and atonal fretwork destruction. A mind-expanding contrast is created where the guitar work stretches forward to embrace a mutating modernity still in becoming, while the rest of the band regresses backward into a primeval pandemonium of carpet-bombing hammer blasts, searing basslines, and soul-tearing death grunts. This contrast between the album’s transformative articulation and its visceral adherence to primitivism and barbarity is what makes “Rivalry of Thyself” such an abomination unto itself. A defiant, dark death metal monstrosity that harkens back to a familiar golden age of extreme metal just as it evokes sinister presages of a future form of evolved, lightless death metal still all in becoming.
“Rivalry of Thyself” is slated for a May 9 2025 international release on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, all of which are pre-orderable along with newly launched on-demand merch via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/prophetic-suffering-rivalry-of-thyself
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/prophetic-suffering
A new track from Topeka, KS-based brutal death metal horde UNMERCIFUL is now available for mass consumption.
The second single off their new album, DEVOURING DARKNESS, comes via an exclusive worldwide premiere courtesy of Metal Injection. Listen to "MALICE UNBOUND" now at https://metalinjection.net/new-music/unmerciful-streams-bludgeoning-new-single-malice-unbound
Devouring Darkness marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, the album is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
"Malice Unbound" will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all other streaming services on Friday, April 11. The album's first single, "Infernal Conquering," is streaming now.
Devouring Darkness is set for release on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on May 23 on Willowtip Records.
Tracklist:1. Miracle in Fire
2. Unnatural Ferocity
3. Malice Unbound
4. Devouring Darkness
5. Relentless Malevolence
6. Vomit you out (Origin cover)*
7. Infernal Conquering
8. The Reaping
9. Voracious Lunacy
10. Vengeance Transcending
UNMERCIFUL has announced the first of many live assaults in support of Devouring Darkness. The band will host an album release show on June 20 at Warehouse on Broadway in Kansas City, MO, alongside Torn The Fuck Apart, Garoted, and Hossferatu.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is seeking a bassist for live performances and/or a permanent position. Serious inquiries only. Contact the band for details.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip/
www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
Greek
doomgaze trio CHURCH OF THE SEA have unveiled their new
album "EVA" in its entirety ahead of its release
tomorrow via These Hands Melt.Listen to the album via The Devil's Mouth: https://thedevilsmouth.substack.com/p/album-premiere-church-of-the-sea
In support of the album's release, Church of the Sea presented two singles and videos: "The Siren's Choice" and the title track "Eva".
Formed in Athens in 2017, Church of the Sea have carved a distinct niche for themselves, balancing the crushing weight of doom with the ethereal beauty of dark electronic rock. Their signature sound blends fuzzed guitars, heavy distorted beats, and Irene's captivating, chant-like vocals, creating an atmosphere that is both heavy and dreamlike, with hints of shoegaze and noise-rock intensity.
“Eva”, the band's sophomore album, will be available on digital and CD formats, with a limited “sunburst” edition on vinyl.
The album was recorded at Suono Studios, engineered, produced, and mixed by Alex Bolpasis, and mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Mastering, continuing their established collaborative relationships from their debut EP “Anywhere but Desert” (2018) and debut album “Odalisque” (2022).
Throughout their career, Church of the Sea have graced the stages of numerous festivals and shared the bill with notable acts such as Wolvennest, Antimatter, The Murder Capital, Messa, and Dool, including two sold-out performances at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Athens.
Church of the Sea are:
Irene – Vocals
Vangelis – Guitars
Alex – Synths and samples
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/ChurchoftheSea/
CULTUS SANGUINE, as a tribute to those who have followed the band for years, publish their entire "LIVE AT MIDNIGHT CLUB", a previously unreleased testimony of their incredible shows.
Available only in digipakCD format with the "Through The Years Of Sombre (XXX Anniversary)" box released by My Kingdom Music, the live is the result of a memorable night in November 2021 at the legendary Midnight Club in Grassobio (BG) and it's available for streaming on YouTube at the link https://youtu.be/VsnOD-MMhXY
In the meantime the composition of the successor to "Dust Once Alive" is almost complete. CULTUS SANGUINE, with the new album scheduled for release in early 2026, will give life to a new chapter in their career and will do it with a work that will accentuate even more those dark and melancholic atmospheres typical of their predecessor, but with a more intense and macabre musical imprint, confirming the unmistakable sound of the band.
Latest news also from the live front: on April 25th Cultus Sanguine will be the headliner at the Unholy Dungeon Fest. vol 1 at the Slaughter Club in Paderno Mugnano. Again headliner at the Dust Once Alive Night on May 10th at the Alternative Music Club in Montenero di Bisaccia (CB).
The cult is alive and more news coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/JoeCultusSanguine
Polish
artist OLS returns with a deeply emotional and
sonically rich new single, "ŚWIATŁO III (LIGHT III)".
The track delves into themes of loss, the closure of life chapters and the
arduous search for new direction in a desolate world. This is the third
offering from Ols' upcoming album, “POŚWIATY”, set for release in
May 2025 via Pagan Records. Watch the music video to “światło III”: https://youtu.be/mz7dPZVAiQ8?si=Yt49AMR2QDygcanZ
Also, listen to the song via all major streaming services.
"światło III" paints a poignant picture of being suddenly alone, grappling with a past that has irrevocably shut its doors. The lyrics, including the powerful lines "long lost summer / shed skin molt / but I go on / empty / to carry your flame further", explore the reliance on memories and fading ideals as the sole signposts in an unfamiliar existence. Ols describes the song as a journey through atmospheric post-black landscapes, where dark romanticism intertwines with ethereal qualities and the raw power of metal instrumentation.
Musically, "światło III" showcases a unique blend of influences. Ols incorporates her newfound appreciation for the accordion, an instrument she once considered "kitschy and vulgar", now finding its place alongside the metal elements, inspired by artists like Agalloch and legendary Polish band Lux Occulta. Departing from her typical smooth vocal harmonies, Ols opts for non-obvious intervals and subtle dissonances, creating a sense of underlying anxiety beneath the calm melody. Listeners may even detect a fleeting black metal screech lurking in the background, adding another layer of darkness to the song.
The release of "światło III" follows the previously unveiled singles "O niej" and "proch kość liść". The first single, "proch kość liść" (dust bone leaf) offered an initial glimpse into Ols' evolving sound. This was followed by "O niej" (translates to ‘About Her’ from Polish), a hypnotic track that marked a significant stylistic shift for Ols, moving away from her established neofolk sound towards a more urban and trip-hop influenced atmosphere. This evolution hints at the diverse sonic palette that will be present on the upcoming album - in contrast to previous albums such as "Pustkowia" and "Widma".
Thematically, the new album “Poświaty” will delve into the formative period between childhood and adulthood, exploring themes of personal mythology, the transformative power of love and the inevitable pain of loss.
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/paganrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Olsproject
STRUCTURE – “HERITAGE”
Label: Ardua Music
Release date: april 25th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Officium Triste | Novembers Doom | October Tide | My Silent Wake
In the moments of silence, when we have slipped from rooms and the gaze and demands of others, we can wander through all that has been, hold the precious, present moment in our hands and weigh both our delights and despair with reasoned measure.
“Heritage is about family, history and all that makes us who we are. It is about loss, hope and all the emotions that fuel us on an everyday basis. It is a very personal album about what we become in life through our Heritage and experiences. The pictures on the artwork are from my personal family photo albums which I received after my grandfather died.” - Bram Bijlhout
Bram Bijlhout is Structure. Structure has provided the Dutch multi-instrumentalist, who spent seven years in the ranks of Officium Triste, with a framework for his creative energies since 2021. Bram’s former Officium Triste colleague, Pim Blankenstein, has contributed his powerful vocals to Structure since the beginning, with drummer Dirk Bruinenberg (Elegy) and additional vocalist Robert Soeterboek (Ayreon, Plan 9) also bringing their talents to bear on the incredible work that is Heritage…
Heritage begins with the stunning ‘Will I Deserve It’, the sound rising like a pale winter sun, its cold, grey light creeping slowly across a landscape wreathed in mist and rimed with frost. As the song begins to march across this chill vista it is immediately apparent that Structure are not just another doom/death metal band. There is beauty and doubt, hope and melancholy, even joy as a wonderful guitar solo takes flight. This is not a simple outpouring of despair – it is more nuanced, more complex…more real. While the crushing weight of grief is brought to bear in ‘What We Have Lost’, it is handled deftly and poignantly. The gentle touch of keys is heard behind the monolithic chords and desolate vocalisations; we experience the differing shades of sorrow, the intricacies of the emotional palette. Overblown gothic grandeur is cast aside for real feeling and dignity and the results are absolutely immense. ‘The Sadness Of Everyday Life’ captures the hours when the shadows are too deep and your back bows beneath the weight of accumulated sorrows, while the breadth and depth of ‘Heritage’ itself seems to work as a poetic consolation – acknowledging the dark times but insisting that they are but a part of something so much greater, that we are more than just the sum of our sadnesses. When all the towering riffs and heart lifting solos fall silent, when the masterful drumming and impassioned vocals have ended, as the final instrumental ‘Until The Last Gasp’ offers a summation of the journey experienced and a quiet defiance all its own, Heritage leaves you with a sense of completion, a lingering wonder and an understanding that there is beauty in the darkness as well as in the light.
Mastered by Dool bassist J.B. Van Der Wal (Celestial Sanctuary, Entrapment etc) Heritage possesses the perfect sound to highlight every emotive detail that is woven into its breathtaking songs. The weight of meaning in every note, word and beat is stunning. Adorned in photos from Bram’s personal family collection the sense of time, individual history and the entwining of internal and external life and influence speaks from the images. A truly special album, Heritage has found the most apt home with Ardua Music, whose reputation in the field of melodic, melancholic, heavyweight music is unparalleled. Ardua will unveil the splendour of Heritage on April 25th and no thoughtful heart or reflective soul will be left untouched, unmoved.
Line-up:
Bram Bijlhout - Guitars/Bass/Keyboards
Pim Blankenstein - Vocals
Dirk Bruinenberg - Drums
Robert Soeterboek - Additional Vocals
All music and lyrics written by Bram Bijlhout
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://structure-doom.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Structure.Doom
San
Franisco (CA) - American Tech-Death Juggernaut, OMINOUS RUIN,
have partnered with Metal Injection for the video premiere of "STARING
INTO THE ABYSM," the second single from forthcoming album, REQUIEM.Just click the following link!
"Staring into the Abysm" will be available April 11 on all digital platforms.
Known for their intricate compositions and unrelenting sonic brutality, Ominous Ruin has returned with their highly anticipated nine-track album, Requiem. Willowtip Records will release Requiem May 9 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, "Seeds of Entropy. "
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/requiem-willowtip
https://bit.ly/requiem-bandcamp
Track Listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Seeds of Entropy
3 - Eternal
4 - Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 - Divergent Anomaly
6 - Fractal Abhorrence
7 - Architect of Undoing
8 - Staring into the Abysm
9 - Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars
https://www.facebook.com/OminousRuin
Brazilian brutal death metal veterans OPHIOLATRY have officially signed with Wormholedeath Records and announced the release of their highly anticipated new album “SERPENT'S VERDICT”, set to drop on June 6, 2025. The band has also released a teaser for the album, giving fans their first glimpse into what promises to be a devastating release in extreme metal.
They
comment on the brutality:“The album delves into themes of spiritual revenge, indigenous resistance, and the clash between ancient traditions and imposed beliefs. Inspired by real events in the Amazon, mythology, and existential suffering, the lyrics paint vivid scenes of war, punishment, and transcendence through pain. Each song tells a story, whether it be about warriors resurrected for revenge, the wrath of serpent gods, or the fall of oppressive ideologies. The words are raw, intense, and unrelenting, reflecting the chaotic brutality of the music itself.”
This signing marks a significant milestone for Ophiolatry, whose last full-length album “Transmutation” was released in 2008 through Forces of Satan Records/Regain Records. After a period of careful composition and development, the band returns with renewed purpose and vision, channeling the raw energy that established them as pioneers of South American extreme metal while evolving their distinctive sound. The album represents a departure from the relentless technicality of “Transmutation” while preserving the band's signature brutality and expanding their sonic palette.
The album functions as a sonic ritual—a brutal, immersive descent into cycles of destruction, revenge, and rebirth. Each track serves as a chapter in this narrative, combining aggressive riffs, guttural vocals, and tribal rhythms inspired by ancient warrior traditions. It is recommended for fans of Morbid Angel, Death, and Deicide.
Line up:
Diego Santiago (Bass)
Jaime Veron (Lead Vocals)
Jhorge "Dog" Duarte (Drums)
Fred Barros (Guitar)
www.youtube.com/@ophiolatryofficial2679
www.facebook.com/ophiolatry
My Kingdom Music is proud to announce the signing of VII VITIUM.Formed by talented actors of the Italian music scene [Daniele Laurenti (Kryuhm), Giampi Tomezzoli (Kryuhm, Epitaph) and Daniele Pedrollo (Kaylet)], the project aims to explore the world of sin by moving away from Christian teaching and offering a personal vision of the seven deadly sins by giving voice to their Demons.
Numerous guests have taken part in the creation of VII VITIUM, and therefore to the realization of the self-titled debut album that will be released next fall, not only as great performers but also contributing in a relevant way to the compositional aspect too.
The combination of highly personal elements has allowed the project to explore musical territories without barriers. It goes from our Dark Occult sound to the European Doom, from the Italian Progressive to the independent Rock, to end up in the Darkwave of the 80s. All of them have given their own interpretation to the fascinating theme of the project.
VII VITIUM are ready to welcome you into their sinful world.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/VIIVITIUM
"Horse Eater" will be available April 11 on all digital platforms.
Dormant Ordeal, are set to release Tooth and Nail, the band's first album for Willowtip and fourth overall, on April 18! The album will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats, and follows widely praised third album, The Grand Scheme of Things.
"We worked hard to make this fourth album happen," says guitarist Maciej Nieścioruk. "JNS Studio once again did a great job tuning in to our suggestions, while having the support of Willowtip gave us freedom to focus on creativity without being distracted. Stick around and have a listen once it's released, might be just what you're looking for."
Dormant Ordeal was formed in 2008. Their debut album It Rains, It Pours (2013), showcased the aggressive and energetic sound, while We Had It Coming (2016) refined their songwriting with thought-out structures and darker textures. Released in 2021, The Grand Scheme of Things was critically acclaimed for blending brutal precision with blackened influences and a thought-provoking lyrical approach. Over the years, known for their intense and atmospheric approach to the genre, the band has established itself as a impactful entity in the modern death metal scene.
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/dormant-ordeal.aspx
https://dormantordeal.bandcamp.com/album/tooth-and-nail
Track
Listing:1. Wije i Mary, Pt. 1
2. Halo of Bones
3. Horse Eater
4. Orphans
5. Solvent
6. Dust Crown
7. Against the Dying of the Light
8. Everything That Isn't Silence Is Trivial
9. Wije i Mary, Pt. 2
Credits:
Music, lyrics and arrangements by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Drums arrangements by Chason Westmoreland and Maciej Nieścioruk.
All tracks except drums recorded by Paweł Grabowski at JNS Studio in Warsaw.
Drums played and recorded by Chason Westmoreland.
Guest vocals on "Solvent" by Dominic Nucciarone recorded by Samuel Dufour.
Artwork by See Machine.
Art direction by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Design by Michał “Xaay” Loranc and Maciej Nieścioruk.
Line-up:
Maciej Nieścioruk - Guitars
Maciej Proficz - Vocals
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EPITAPH pay homage to
their friend Mario "Vugan" Piemontese who recently passed
away with the release of the video for "SIZIGIA" from
their 2017 album "CLAWS". The video was shot in 2017 by
Mario Piemontese and, in memory of their dear friend, the band decided to
complete the project by making the video thanks to the editing by Mattia
Stancioiu.You can view at: https://youtu.be/nyUq5jxsJhg
Also in preparation for the CHURCH OF CROW DOOM FESTIVAL III EDITION that will be held in Pinerolo on May 2nd and 3rd, EPITAPH will be joined by FELIPE PLAZA as a singer. Below is the comment of the artist of Chilean origin, frontman of Procession and Capilla Ardiente among others: ”It’s no secret i am obsessed with the italian dark sound and the doom and mysterious gloom of both Black Hole and Epitaph, who i proudly call ”my old friends”. A friendship more than sealed with blood, sweat, backpain and loud riffs on the ”Pacto de Sangre” tour we did together back in 2017.
This is why, when Mauro called some days ago and told me they didn’t have a singer for the next (and most unique) ”Church of Crow ” festival in Pinerolo next May 3rd I couldnt’t believe it…after years of hard work and they just released one of the best doom metal albums in ages, not fair!
So it was a natural decision, ”lucky” as they are I happen to be in Italy that exact same weekend! let’s gather all you nameless demons around and let’s make the spirited walls of Chiesa San Giuseppe tremble on a once-in-a-lifetime dark sound experience…
In times when history is ignored, we should be grateful that we still have Epitaph: The Ghost of the Past!”
In the meanwhile always available the last album "Path To Oblivion" on My Kingdom Music
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Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: may 9th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Vastum | Blood Incantation | Disma
Line-up:
Justin Vølus - Vocals
Ben Vanweelden – Guitar/Bass/Drums
By the invisible sea of secrets that laps silently about the foothills of Mons Ardeshir, they have heard. Far beyond the mountains of Mithrim, where the chroniclers of eternity write the many histories of Vulpecula in the blood of their broken fingers, they have heard. Doors have been opened and rifts have been traversed. The conjurers of chaos are blowing upon the horns of Ib and the malformed beasts of malfeasance who have slumbered in dreams aeons long are stirring. The stairways to the new world are open and the drums of destruction are calling; the fires of war are alight!
A new entity has crawled from the boiling swamps that lie in the deepest recesses of the death metal underworld. A force of terrifying alien power and chilling otherness that is about to bleed insidiously into our reality. Axiom Chaos have fused the devastating impact of death metal with the untameable capricious might of pandemonium and invoked the strange, compelling visions of Primacy Arrival! Beginning with the lurching monstrosity of ‘The King I Am’ that erupts into fetid, pustulent life, guitars howling over the deranged whispering of deformed divinities, Primacy Arrival proceeds to tear your reality to tattered shreds. Invoking fantastic atmospheres and radiating intimidating terror, this album transforms death metal into something unknowable and unnameable. In ‘The Gift Of Recognition’ the guitar leads seem to speak, uttering words from forbidden dimensions that make the skin crawl in fearful revulsion, while ‘Wormhold Pathways Of Conquest’ is simply inexorable. Primacy Arrival’s crowning glory however comes with its titanic conclusion – ‘Exodus Into Oblivion’. Shattering velocities entwine with spiralling guitar patterns and something majestic, almost beautiful emerges from the shadows as melodies unwind behind the monolithic sounds. Strange magic breaks through the song structure, an infiltration of madness to accompany this triumphal procession for a king from beyond, as our reality is consumed.
While the name of Axiom Chaos is a new one, those who march behind its banner are better known - Ben Vanweelden (Venomous Echoes, Ceremonic Buryment etc) and Justin Vølus (Vølus, Fall Of Gnosis, Maggot Crown etc) – and they are now united with the might of Comatose Music for the May 9th release of Primacy Arrival. Bedecked in the visionary artwork of Morket Art (Engulfed, Inverted Ascension etc) Primacy Arrival will challenge, disturb and dominate, opening new pathways for death metal as the story of Axiom Chaos begins.
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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For fans of : Chimaira, Conjurer, Deafheaven, Disembodied, Gaza, Old Man Gloom, Portrayal Of Guilt, and Zao.
Hailing from Muncie, Indiana, COCAINE CULTURE have been bringing their own brand of atmosphere, dread and energy to stages around the rust belt for a decade. Originating as an Alternative/Shoegaze band, COCAINE CULTURE slowly drifted into heavier and darker waters, blending elements of Black Metal, Death Metal and Sludge. Cocaine Culture unleashes ten tracks of crushing torment, anguish and aggression!
Listen to the single "RITUAL ABUSE" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuGUR5Gt0CM
Tracklisting:1. Cerebral Decay
2. Ritual Abuse
3. Home Surgery
4. Lifeless Endeavor
5. Prelude
6. Flesh Vice
7. Resin Breath
8. King Of Somber
9. Death Knell
10. We Are Unwelcome Here (live)
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
Speed-heavy metal powerhouse BREAKER is proud to present the lyric video for their explosive track "LIBERTY", taken from their self-titled debut EP, BREAKER, out now via Wormholedeath Records.
The track "Liberty" takes a powerful stance against the darker side of power and the distorted ideals used to justify violence and oppression. The song's unflinching lyrics critique the hypocrisy of using "liberation" as an excuse for tyranny, greed, and destruction. It explores themes of blind faith, corruption, and the devastating consequences of a society driven by false justifications. The new lyric video brings these intense themes to life, delivering an uncompromising message about the cost of liberty built on lies.
Stream the EP here: https://orcd.co/breakerep
Formed in 2023 by vocalist Terje Fiskvatn, guitarist Caleb Beal (Villain, Midnight Malice), and drummer Rider Johnson (former Razor), BREAKER quickly crafted their signature sound, blending high-octane metal with fierce energy. The band’s debut EP, Breaker, features tracks like Liberty and Babylon, written by Fiskvatn and expanded with the powerful contributions of Beal and Johnson.
www.youtube.com/@BreakerBandOfficial
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Italy's DEADLY CARNAGE have signed to Willowtip Records! Over the course of two decades, the Post-Black Metal/Doom/Shoegaze quartet have continually evolved, culminately in 2023's release of the widely praised ENDLESS BLUE, an album Angry Metal Guy described as "beautiful, compelling, and unique, with a character of its own that brings its listener inside its world of contemplative melancholy and reverie." But the best is yet to come!
Deadly
Carnage continue to work on their Willowtip debut, a concept
album that promises to be their most ambitious yet! Here is what the band had
to say about it:"After a long period of silence, the time has finally come to reveal something; for almost two years we have been working tirelessly on a new concept album whose foundations were created even before releasing Endless Blue.
This time we will go back in time to address a topic that is particularly close to our hearts; Witchcraft and Witch Hunts, which between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance fueled collective fears that led to the unjust accusation of countless innocent women and men. Our new concept album does not aim to analyze the historical or sociological facts of this phenomenon, but intends to tell an intimate story of loss and personal growth through the symbolism of Witchcraft; a story seen through the eyes of a female protagonist (rightly so) who will accompany us on her journey through the night and beyond the mists to reveal ancient practices and
lost knowledge.
Many years ago we mentioned our interest in these themes with our debut album, but now, on the threshold of twenty years of activity, it is time to close the circle; for us it's time to address this still extremely current topic. We still have a long way to go to release this new album, but every day we are giving our all to its realization. Soon we will reveal more details. We can't wait to tell this new story!"
Bio:
Deadly Carnage was born in 2005 from an idea of Adres (Bass) and Marco (Drums). After the first periods of militancy in the Italian Underground Black Metal scene, the band begins to turn its gaze towards more atmospheric, introspective and intimate sounds. Since 2008 Deadly Carnage have begun to contaminate their vision of Atmospheric Black Metal with Doom, Post-Rock and Post-Metal influences in a musical journey made of lights and shadows to create a crepuscular and evocative atmosphere.
Line-Up:
Alexios – Vocals, Guitars
Dave – Guitars
Adres – Bass
Marco – Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/DeadlyCarnage
French
Melodic Death Doom one-man band WURMIAN proudly
presents the release of its highly anticipated debut album, "IMMEMORIAL
SHRINE", out now via Pest Records and available
here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wurmian-immemorial-shrineFor fans of: Katatonia, October Tide, Amorphis, Edge of Sanity, early In Flames
Crafted with painstaking care and emotional depth by multi-instrumentalist Antoine Scholtes, "Immemorial Shrine" is a brooding and immersive journey through sorrow, introspection, and existential desolation. The album's seven tracks channel the spirit of 90s Melodic Death Doom evoking the raw emotional weight of Katatonia, October Tide, and Edge of Sanity, while embracing a distinctly personal and contemporary vision.
Following the previously released singles "Aeon Afterglows" and "Where Crimson Shadows Dwell", the full album now unveils its complete sonic and lyrical narrative: a descent into forgotten memories, ancestral echoes, and the quiet majesty of grief. Melancholic melodies, cavernous growls, and crushing doom-laden riffs are interwoven with Scholtes' introspective lyricism and haunting atmospheres, making "Immemorial Shrine" a compelling listen for fans of both classic and modern Death Doom.
"Immemorial Shrine" is available now on CD via Pest Records featuring evocative artwork and packaging that complements the album's lyrical themes and sonic depth.
Enter the shrine. Let the echoes guide you.
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/wurmian.band/
SERPENT MASS RE-UNLEASHES PRIMITIVE BLACK METAL FILTH
From the darkest depths of Belgium emerges SERPENT MASS, a primitive and blasphemous black metal band worshipping analogue filth. With an uncompromising sound and relentless energy, SERPENT MASS channels pure darkness into sonic form.
Their latest release, Odious Gateways, marks a further descent into sonic barbarity, blending relentless aggression with suffocating atmospheres. Across five tracks, the band refines its uncompromising approach while remaining true to its primitive and chaotic essence. SERPENT MASS thrives in the filthiest corners of the Belgian underground.
The two demos are now available for the first time on vinyl thanks to De Pankraker, who has been a longtime supporter and was impressed by SERPENT MASS from the very beginning.
Thanks in advance. Cheers Peter / De Pankraker Records
https://serpentmass.bandcamp.com/
https://depankraker.be
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: may 2nd 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Judas Priest | Hellion | Burning Witches | Warlock
The seeds of Washington State metal band, Hangfire, were sown when guitarist Sean ‘Shredder’ Searls, noted for his work with Tyraels Ascension and hugely experienced bassist Steven Tobeck crossed paths on their local music scene. They started working together, the dream being to create a new band with a classic sound – powerful, melodic heavy metal with a thunderous rhythm section and soaring vocals, riffs that instantly connected with the metal heart and solos that gleamed with the irresistible fire of the greats. After two years they found powerhouse drummer Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Laird (The Braindead, For The Love Of Suffering etc) and a year later, the final magical piece of the puzzle – vocalist Jenea Fiore. And now it’s time to Burn!
Hangfire’s debut album, Burn, is an instant metal classic. The anticipation is there immediately as the atmospheric intro of first track, ‘Hunger’, begins…and when it explodes into life in an array of magnificent riffs then the fabulous adrenaline rush kicks in. Searl’s lead guitar work is electrifying and Jenea’s voice simply breathtaking, while Tobeck and Laird create a rock solid foundation, a stage for them to duel across. Every song is marked by incredible individual performances, but also by the accomplished writing and arrangements. The pure metal magnificence of ‘Thunder’, the epic Priest-like style and bite of ‘Warhawk’; it’s so refreshing to hear such dexterity and creativity channelled into original, melodic heavy metal and a band unafraid to stretch out into different territories confident in their vision and abilities. Jenea is simply one of the finest singers you’ll hear operating in this field. Her range and accuracy matched only by her breadth of expression and character. The aggressive swagger of ‘White Lie’ and the beautifully executed ballad, ‘Falling Awake’ really shine a spotlight on her remarkable talent. With an album of this quality every song plays an integral part, but special mention must be given to first single ‘Headspin’ which captures the true spirit of metal in its every moment, as well as the grit and groove of the Western tinged ‘Outlaw’. This is the beginning of something special.
Rottweiler Records were quick to welcome Hangfire into their pack, impressed by the band’s huge potential, great songs and enthralling live performances with the likes of Greyhawk and Witch Ripper. Together Rottweiler and Hangfire will unleash the power and passion of Burn on May 2nd so be ready, because you don’t want to miss this!
Line-up:
Jenea Fiore - Vocals
Sean ‘Shredder’ Searls - Guitar
Steven Tobeck - Bass
Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Laird - Drums
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://officialhangfireband.com/
The delay is due to unforeseen quality issues with the initial pressing. In a statement released by the labels, they explained their unwavering commitment to delivering a product that meets the high standards of dedicated record collectors.
Statement from the labels:
"Who are Rune Serpent Europa and Assur Anshar Records? Before being a label, we are criminal record collectors! This means that from the moment we founded the label, the quality of our products was paramount, above all else. For us, this is a sort of mission, not just a job! We relied on a well-known pressing plant, at least online given their advertising, but the quality of the vinyl received did not meet our standards as criminal record collectors at all! Therefore, we immediately cancelled the production of Prager Handgriff with them and turned to another company, which serves several giants of the record market.
“We have only announced this problem now because we wanted to reveal a precise date for the delivery and distribution of the record alongside the delay. We also apologise to our exclusive worldwide distributor, The Circle Music, for this initial misstep, with the promise that it will never happen again! Therefore, we can announce a confirmed distribution date, set for 25 April 2025! Finally, we apologise to all the many supporters of the band, asking them to be patient for a few weeks, with the final result of having a record in their hands worthy of Olympus! And all future productions will have the same standard! Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness for our inexperience, and merit, merit, merit for our dedication!"
Previously announced, the influential 1993 debut album “Arglistige Täuschung” from EBM pioneers Prager Handgriff was set to be released on vinyl for the very first time. This reissue will be available as a double coloured vinyl, limited to 300 copies in transparent red and 300 in transparent turquoise, and will include three bonus tracks. A limited wooden box edition, containing both vinyl formats and limited to 50 copies, is also available and is now almost sold out. Formed in 1990 in Witten, Germany by Stefan Schäfer (vocals) and Volker Rathmann (machines), Prager Handgriff are known for their dark and uncompromising approach to electronic body music. "Arglistige Täuschung", translating to "Deceptive Deception", is considered a masterpiece of the genre, blending haunting atmospheres, intricate sound design, and disturbing melodies.
Assur Anshar Records and Rune Serpent Europa assure fans that the slight delay will ensure a superior quality vinyl release worthy of Prager Handgriff's legacy. They thank fans for their patience and understanding.
The pre-order link remains active for those who wish to secure their copy: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=der-prager-handgriff
Tracklist:“Arglistige Täuschung”
A1.Tibet 03:54
A2.Deutschland? 03:30
A3.Klaustrophobie 03:26
A4.Flucht 03:58
A5.Herbst 05:50
B1.Das Du 03:52
B2.Zivilisation 03:27
B3.Monsun 03:38
B4.Bilder Meiner Angst 04:30
B5.Großstadtliebe 04:59
C1.Baskerville 06:08
C2.Wahnsinn 02:46
C3.Schwermetall 03:58
C4.Tollwut 03:28
D1.Prag 02:57
D2.Herzschlag 03:06 (Bonus Track)
D3.Morgengrauen 05:38 (Bonus Track)
D4.Zäsur 04:09 (Bonus Track)
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https://www.pragerhandgriff.com/
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Label: Masked Dead RecordsRelease date: may 9th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Post-Black/Doom Metal
For fans of: An Autumn For Crippled Children | Novembre | Katatonia | Lantlos
Line-up:
Matteo Balzarini – Guitar/Bass/Vocals
*Drums on Adrift performed by Alessandro Mori (Entirety etc)
*All music and lyrics by Matteo Balzarini
The waters carry me where they will. I have given myself up to the ever flowing tides of life, either staring into the fathomless depths of murk and shadow, or watching the beautiful world that flowers and flourishes on the banks as I am carried past. I see faces, hear voices that stir memories as the cycle of light to dark to light turns on around me, as eternal as the river itself. Memories of love and laughter, of tears and pain…joy, grief, contentment, desperation…but none of them enough to keep me from the water. I am borne onwards, ever nearer to the endless sea without a shore, a passive observer upon the waves; rudderless and helpless, separated, isolated, adrift and alone.
A year on from the alluring desolation of debut album, The Silence Of Rust, Matteo Balzarini has returned with a second offering from his atmospheric, emotive post black/doom creation, Marea. Adrift is a quietly remarkable EP, that while continuing the legacy of The Silence Of Rust very much follows its own path. The journey begins with the deeply melodic riffs, measured drums and harsh vocals of ‘Useless’, a song imbued with a sense of movement and space, yet carrying the immense weight of powerful emotions. Vast oceans of melancholy are traversed, but there are moments of bittersweetness, like sunlight briefly catching the crest of waves – while the deeps remain dark and untouched by the light. Beautiful acoustic guitar leads us into the light of ‘Rusted’, a soft cloud of dreams that is then fractured and dismantled by a tattered, torn vocal and intense guitar, the perceived positivity held tantalisingly out of reach, a happiness unattainable. Finally ‘Marea’ descends upon us with a wonderful lightness of touch, a peace summoned through an invocation of the movement of water – of streams, rivers, seas and oceans. There’s a sense of reflection upon a moment and upon a life, a feeling of acceptance and maybe even a harsh joy in the final vocal cries. Adrift is a journey through music and emotion, infused with accrued wisdom, whose affect upon the attentive listener is profound.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Carlo Meroni (Imago Mortis, Ancient, Kaiserreich etc) Adrift has been blessed with a sound that enhances all the rawness, subtlety and complexity of the emotions that it so successfully conveys. As for the album’s artwork and design, Matteo Balzarini approached artist Francesco Gemelli (Howls Of Ebb, Midnight Odyssey, Venomous Echoes etc) with a very specific brief… “a water-themed landscape that could express desolation, melancholy, but also beauty and poetry,with a graphic style that could resemble watercolour painting”…and suffice to say Gemelli has delivered the perfect visual accompaniment to Adrift. The EP will be released through Masked Dead Records on May 9th and will weave its entrancing spell across the world.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords
https://www.facebook.com/marea.rusted
Label: Road To MasochistRelease date: july 18th 2025
Genre: Blackened Post Metal
For fans of: Crippled Black Phoenix| Harakiri For The Sky | Inter Arma | Sgaile
Once an inferno of smoke, molten metal and flame, of poisoned waterways crawling sluggishly through slag heaps and waste, the air heavy with the stench of chemicals…every raindrop carrying soot within its heart. Its towers have toppled and its flaming maws grown cold, yet still it stands, a monument to blood and sweat and tears. A wound cut deep into the landscape and a scar upon the moor but surrounded by the windswept grasses and forests of oak. Snakes bathe on sun warmed rock amongst the heather, while the last furnaces roar in the valley below. A place of contrasts and complexities, of history and future dreams, the resilience of mankind and nature side by side. A cradle of stories…a home.
Ba’al were born in Sheffield, they grew and live amongst its inner city streets, in the shadows of its industrial past – but with the beauty of the Pennine hills just beyond its outskirts; one part of their hearts concrete and steel, one part moor and rill. This setting, this borderland between two states of being, this dichotomy of environments provides the stage for their second album, The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here. Drawing on their personal experiences the band have explored themes of grief, depression, suicide, substance abuse and existential dread; invoking the intensely human struggles that are played out against this backdrop of disparate elements and in every other place our troubled species has carved out a home.
The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here opens with ‘Mother’s Concrete Womb’ – a thing of beauty that emerges from enshrouding mist, a city slowly awakening…bursting into life. Furious black metal, shuddering riffs, peaks of intensity and emotion, melody drifting like soft rain, so many different elements and all so beautifully entwined, all vital to the gargantuan presence of this song. And that is the pattern that the album follows, with each track being an epic journey in its own right. Dreaming melodies bleed into sinuous riffs and caustic vocals shear through vast chord patterns, the tumbling rhythms of ‘Floral Cairn’, a cry for compassion and a more caring world, collapsing into the splintered visions of ‘Well Of Sorrows’ and the horns that bring such gravitas to ‘The Ocean That Fills A Wound’…there is so much! So much and all so deftly handled. The progression that Ba’al have made is breathtaking and this album is a watershed moment for them. Exhilarating, exhausting, elemental, emotionally draining and overflowing with too many moments of magic to mention, each song is immeasurably expansive - no matter the length of their individual durations, they seem to hold so much more than is possible. That this is Ba’al’s finest hour is an understatement of almost ludicrous proportions.
Recorded and mixed by Joe Clayton (Conjurer, Dawn Walker, Mountain Caller, Ithaca etc) and mastered by Brad Boatright (Kylesa, Vastum, Obituary, Night Demon etc), the same team that brought such a richly textured darkness to the last Ba’al release, the Soft Eyes EP, The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here sounds magnificent. This album deserves the perfect sound and that is exactly what it has been given. Adorned in the stunning artwork of True Spilt Milk Designs (Urne, Allfather, Ante-Inferno etc) The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here will be released on double gatefold vinyl and CD digipack on July 18th by Road To Masochist. This one is special.
Line-up:
Joe Stamps - Vocals
Richard Spencer - Bass
Nick Gosling – Guitar
Chris Mole - Guitar
Luke Rutter - Drums
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/baalbanduk
REJECT THE SICKNESS –“ SIGNS OF THE END”
Format: Digital CD / Physical CDLabel: Eigen Beheer
Distribution: Sonic Rendezvous
For fans of : Heaven Shall Burn, Gojira, Eye Of The Enemy, Morbid Angel, Neaera, Deserted Fear and the like…
Tracklist:
01 The Messenger
02 Acta Non Verba
03 Dark Times
04 We Enslave Angels
05 Fall From Grace
06 When I Become You
07 Chaos vs. Chaos
08 Signs Of The End
Reject The Sickness: 15 years of unbridled aggression.
Since 2010, Belgian metal band Reject The Sickness has been storming the scene with a furious mix of rhythmic death metal, ruthless melodic aggression and atmospheric black, supplemented with a touch of metalcore.
Their music is more than just sound—it’s a journey through the dark realities of marginalized youth. They explore themes of abuse, neglect, and self-harm, bringing these raw emotions to life in their lyrics.
Although their lyrics are fictional, they carry the weight of real experiences.
Singer Guy, a social worker in addition to being a frontman, weaves his observations and insights into the lyrics, giving them an extra layer of intensity and authenticity.
2025 will be a milestone year: Reject The Sickness celebrates 15 years of pure power and unfiltered expression.
And to mark this milestone, they will release their latest album ‘Signs of the End’ worldwide on May 30th.
An album in which they push their boundaries, further sharpen their style and delve deeper into the human psyche.
Their lyrics cast a shadow over the mental struggles of neglected youth—their fear, hatred, and the gnawing desire for revenge.
But adult revenge proves to be an illusion, leaving them trapped in their own thoughts, locked in a battle with no way out.
Musically, the band continues to evolve: even more rhythmic, even more atmospheric, even more catchy.
Harder, rawer, and uncompromisingly melodic. Even the mysterious realm of atmospheric black metal is explored in a few songs
Reject The Sickness is unstoppable. In 2025, they take a bold step towards complete label independence—a conscious decision, because they believe they can do it better themselves now.
Line-Up:
Zoran Van Bellegem: guitar
Jannick Govaert: drums
Guy Vercruysse: vocals
Jonas Messiaen: bassguitar
Ruben Van der Beken: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/rejectthesickness
Hailing from the vibrant city of Liepāja, Overcast Rain is poised to make waves in the global metal scene once again with their highly anticipated third studio album, Black Death. Set for release on April 11, 2025, under the esteemed Brutal Records banner, this album promises to redefine the boundaries of dark metal with a sonic assault like no other.
A Legacy Forged in Darkness
Formed in 2014 by the visionary duo Mihails Maslovs (vocals/guitar) and Kolja Kirk (drums), Overcast Rain has emerged as a beacon of Latvia’s thriving metal scene. Over the past decade, the band has undergone remarkable evolution, marked by lineup transformations and sonic experimentation, solidifying their place as one of the genre’s most dynamic and innovative forces.
Their discography boasts two critically acclaimed albums:
Since You Die (July 11, 2020)
My God Hates Me (March 1, 2022)
These releases have earned the band significant accolades, with tracks like “All Hope Is Gone” breaking into the Destrokit Rock Chart Top 50 and securing spots on the prestigious European Metal Channel rankings. Recognized as cultural milestones, both albums are enshrined in the National Library of Latvia.
The Evolution of Overcast Rain
After a brief hiatus, Mihails Maslovs and Andris Aleksejevs reignited the band in 2018, channeling a renewed vision to craft a heavier, more aggressive sound. The addition of new members and the transition away from female vocals heralded a bold new era for Overcast Rain. This revamped lineup debuted with electrifying performances at Bunker13 Fest and clinched second place at the Fresh Blood competition, setting the stage for their meteoric rise.
Black Death: A New Chapter
Overcast Rain finished album Black Death, a collection of 13 tracks that includes both brand-new songs and remastered fan favorites. This ambitious release showcases their relentless drive to push the boundaries of dark metal and promises to be a landmark achievement in their career.
Tracklist:Intro
Black Death
Satanic Slut
Rain
Nightmare
Shadows
Damned
Lost
Motherland
Helloween
White Snow (feat. Artyom Kuricyn - Yomi on Flute (mokshan lang)
War (remastered)
Winter Depression (remastered)
The Current Lineup
Mihails Maslovs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Marks Širokovs – Drums, Samples, Backing Vocals
Rudolf Vistiņš – Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Andris Aleksejevs – Lead Guitar
Leonidas Heidemanis – Lead Guitar
Aleksandrs Tiškevičs – Bass
A Storm Is Coming
As Overcast Rain gears up to release their heaviest single video yet, anticipation is reaching fever pitch. Under the Brutal Records banner, this dark metal powerhouse is ready to usher in a new era of dominance.
Stay tuned for updates—the storm is just beginning.
https://songwhip.com/overcastrain
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
Formed
2020 around the foundations that built the most powerful genres of extreme
metal, Empty Throne is a whirlwind of Black, Thrash and Death Metal fused into
a unique and refreshing formula. Old line-up featured Mike Smith on drums (ex
Suffocation etc) and Jack Owen on guitar (Cannibal Corpse, Deicide etc).Now the line-up have Mike Pardi on guitar (Draconis, ex-Possessed), Gabe Seeber on drums (Kennedy Veil, Abbath etc.), Jason Ellsworth on bass (Angerot) and music/lyrics and band concept is made by vocalist CR Petit (Angerot).
In 2024 the band signs to the Swedish label Downfall Records to release debut full length album “Unholy”. The album contains six strong songs and +40 minutes of the best Darkened Death/Thrash-Metal. “Unholy” will be available on CD/LP+DIGITAL.
Line-up:
C.R. Petit (Angerot) – Vocals
Mike Pardi (ex-Possessed, Draconis) – Guitar
Jason Ellsworth (Angerot) – Bass
Gabe Seeber (Kennedy Veil, Black Crown Initiate, Abbath etc.) – Drums
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unholy
VOMITING BLASPHEMOUS AGONY... MURDER RECORDS is honored to present GOMOLD, a horde from the coldest caves of the Hungarian underworld, where their perverse melodies echoes in the eternal chaotic hatred from darkness...
GOMOLD was formed in 2024 and they presents us chaotic hymns from the occult arts of Black Metal, where we can be abruptly immersed in the abysses of infernal depths and where the Luciferian demons will make a filthy feast with our mortal flesh...
GOMOLD's debut demo is titled "DEMO-MMXXIV" where you can be swallowed by three hymns of impure agony, where perverse melodies vomited with blasphemous blood on the filthy altars of the profane ceremonies of death. GOMOLD's debut demo will be released soon on Cassette format by Murder Records with a edition limited to 50 hand-numbered copies...
Satanik Filthy On... Nasty Christianity Off...
RELEASE
DATE APRIL 4th 2025Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
Demo Cassette
Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies
Tracklist:
01 - Örvénylő Sötétség [05:22]
02 - Zugló Démona [04:34]
03 - Fekete Mocsár [07:34]
All music composed by Crotalos and Lucius.
All lyrics written by Crotalos and Mandragoea.
Made in the Zvgloian Cave.
Recorded and mixed: Tas Balint Pataki and Attila Csihar.
Special Thanks to Daniel „Schleki” Schlekman, David Deak and Endrion.
Layout done by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
The Zvgloian Heretics:
Crotalos [Guitars]
Mandragora [Vocals]
Lucius [Drums]
Big Chris [Bass]
https://gomold.bandcamp.com/album/demo-mmxxiv-2?mc_cid=15701ec760&mc_eid=20155afc03
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
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RANZER - „LEIDKULTUR“
Die kanadische Power-Metal-Band LYCANTHRO hat ihre brandneue Single “THE GREAT MASQUERADE“ inklusive Musikvideo veröffentlicht. Auf dem Track ist Laura Guldemond, die stimmgewaltige Frontfrau der Schweizer Heavy-Metal-Titanen Burning Witches, mit ihrem unglaublichen Gesangstalent zu hören. Der elektrisierende Song ist die zweite Single aus Lycanthros mit Spannung erwartetem neuen Album “REMNANTS OF RAPTURE”, das am 23. Mai bei Psychomanteum Records erscheint.
“The Great Masquerade” ist ein episches Heavy-Metal-Duett, das das großartige dynamische Zusammenspiel zwischen Lycanthros charakteristischem Sound – einer energiegeladenen Fusion aus Power Metal, Thrash und traditionellem Heavy Metal – und Laura Guldemonds überzeugender stimmlicher Präsenz demonstriert. Der Song erzählt eine kraftvolle Geschichte und verwebt grandiose Melodien, donnernde Riffs und glühende Soli zu einer unvergesslichen Metal-Hymne.
Das dazugehörige Musikvideo fängt die Intensität und theatralische Essenz des Songs ein und erweckt die Lyrics mit einer visuell beeindruckenden Ästhetik zum Leben. Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Lycanthro und Guldemond ist ein aufregender Moment für Fans beider Bands, denn gemeinsam liefern sie einen Song, der sowohl wild als auch hymnisch ist.
Das Video zu "The Great Masquerade" gibt es hier: https://youtu.be/MjIe6sNjy20
Das neue Lycanthro-Album "Remnants of Rapture" erscheint am 23. Mai:
Trackliste
Iris
Far Beyond the Walls
Remnants of Rapture
Cry Silver
Prison Eyes
In Demon Light
The Great Masquerade
Night of the Parasite
Rain Queen
Lost Jerusalem (Instrumental)
Solaris (Memories in Time)
Über Lycanthro
Lycanthro ist eine enigmatische Power-Metal-Band aus Ottawa, Kanada. Ihre einzigartige Verschmelzung von Power, Thrash und traditionellem Metal liefert eine epische Klangwelt, die ebenso kühn wie unvergesslich ist. Inspiriert von Bands wie Savatage, W.A.S.P., Blind Guardian und anderen, jagen Lycanthro stolz in der Welt des wahren Metals. Ihre Musik ist eine Fantasie-Reise durch die Welt des klassischen Horrors, der Popkultur und der Mythologie, die uns durch Erzählungen über persönliche Kämpfe und frenetisches Siegesgeheul leitet.
Nach einer frühen Demo und einer EP präsentierten Lycanthros bereits auf ihrem von der Kritik gefeiertem Album “Mark of the Wolf” (2021) eindringlich kraftvolles Storytelling, dynamische Arrangements und sogar die Zusammenarbeit mit einem Kammerchor. Lycanthro haben schon auf Bühnen wie dem ‘Power Metal Quest Fest’ in Großbritannien oder beim ‘Legions of Metal’ in Chicago gespielt und laden nun ein weltweites Publikum ein, sich ihrem Rudel anzuschließen.
Nachdem sie sich dem US-amerikanischen Metal-Label Psychomanteum Records angeschlossen haben, werden die wolfsechten Metal-Outlander im Mai 2025 ihr sehnlichst erwartetes zweites Album “Remnants of Rapture” veröffentlichen. Darauf beweisen Lycanthro mit jeder Note, dass das Heulen niemals stirbt, die Jagd niemals endet und die Nacht niemals still ist. IN METAL WE TRUST!
http://www.psychomanteumrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Lycanthrokills/
Northern Irish atmospheric project DOMHAIN have unveiled the single “FOOTSTEPS” off their upcoming EP split with German dark folk trio EPHEMERAL. The two-song split EP "OF PINE AND OAK" will be released on 16th May via Italian label These Hands Melt.
The “Footsteps” music video was premiered via Side-Line Magazine and can be viewed here: https://www.side-line.com/domhain-and-ephemeral-to-launch-split-single-domains-video-for-footsteps-out-now/
Pre-order the EP via the record label’s webstore: https://lnk.to/EPDMN
The "Of Pine and Oak" EP sees Domhain and Ephemeral each
contribute one brand new track, both exploring vividly naturalistic, acoustic
soundscapes that evoke an extraordinary sense of quiet and ethereal melancholy.
Listeners can anticipate a unique blend of Domhain's signature emotional
intensity and Ephemeral's rich, immersive atmospheres.Ephemeral shared their excitement, stating: “We couldn’t be happier about this collaboration with our dear label mates Domhain who share our passion for mythical, melancholic and meaningful music, lyrics and visual art. It’s been a great honour for us and an absolute pleasure to join forces for this special release!”
Domhain echoed this sentiment, commenting: “We are over the moon to share the news of our collaboration with our friends and wonderful musicians from Ephemeral. We are so proud to see these two tracks side by side on this EP, and we hope you will enjoy listening to them together as much as we do. “Of Pine and Oak” is an ode to nature, to our connection to it, and to the inspiration it may bring… which we think will resonate with many of you. A million thanks to our common label These Hands Melt for facilitating this split and for always being so encouraging and excited with our music.”
"Of Pine and Oak" will be available digitally and as a limited edition (200 copies) 12” single-sided colour vinyl.
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Domhain is a new project formed by four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene. Their sound is an emotional blend of post-black, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal. Their debut mini-album "Nimue", released in October 2023 by These Hands Melt, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial). Each of the three tracks on "Nimue" was accompanied by a conceptual music video created by the band’s drummer and visual director, Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan.
Ephemeral is a dark folk trio from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2019 by Ella Zlotos, Nikolaus Jira, and Patrick Maiwald. Their music creates a unique blend of melancholic folk with progressive elements, incorporating flutes, whistles, guitars, keyboard instruments, percussion, and strings, all topped with sung and spoken-word vocals. Their lyrics draw inspiration from English literature, exploring themes of longing, growth, transience, and new beginnings.
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
https://www.facebook.com/ephemeralneofolk
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
FIST EVANGELIST is the fourth single from the Finnish death
metal powerhouse INBORN TENDENCY'S upcoming debut album.The fresh track offers a slightly different and groovier sound with hardcore influences. The lyrics deal with a change in conviction, from steadfastness to violence.
The band has previously announced that their debut album will be released sometime in 2025.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/inborntendency-fistevangelist
Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/-9yJDLP2pXc
Inborn Tendency:
Mika Hänninen, Guitar
Hugo Tiitinen, Drums
Ville Herranen, Vocals
Credits:
Mixing and Mastering: Juho Koskinen
Cover Art: Henri Tervapuro
http://www.inverse.fi
https://lnk.bio/Inborntendency
Finnish old school death metal band MESSIAH PARATROOPS, founded in 1989, have finally released their long-awaited debut album 'LEGIONS OF TOMORROW' on April 4th 2025 via Inverse Records. The album leaves no room for weakness. It features 9 tracks where rapid blast beats, brutal guitar riffs, and furious vocals combine to drag the listener into a raw Death Metal experience.
Listen to Legions of Tomorrow on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/messiah-paratroops-album
'Out of Reality' music video available here: https://youtu.be/L69lNB5tBp4
BIOGRAPHY:
The first shots of Messiah Paratroops were fired in 1989. Aku and Niku joined the already existing band Necrophiliac. However, we found out that there was a band with the same name in Brazil, so a name change was necessary. The official launch of Messiah Paratroops was carried out by Aku Oksala (vocals), Niku Oksala (bass), Pekka Laasanen
(drums), Janne Roima (guitar), and Mikko Vainikainen (guitar). At the time, our music was mostly thrash metal. In 1990, Mikko was replaced by Sami Jämsen on guitar, and in the same year, the first official demo Extreme Pain was released.Before this, we had recorded Rheumatoid (1989), Children of the Corn (1990), and the song Other Side in Studio Sound.
Our first official gig was at Nuorisokeskus 44 in Kuopio in 1990, and after that, more gigs started coming in. One particularly memorable gig was in Sulkava, where we played with Nuxvomica, Astenia, and Alennusmyynti. The gig was unforgettable in many ways, even so that one of our guitarists wasn’t allowed to play because of intoxication. Nevertheless, we managed to finish the show successfully.
The Extreme Pain demo sold well. With more experience gained from gigs and rehearsing in the trenches, we recorded the Lost Soul Domain demo in 1991. It sold out quickly and was well received worldwide. This led to the release of The Past EP through Seraphic Decay Records. Some copies of this rare release can still be found in various parts of the world.
Soon after, Pekka Laasanen left the band after a gig at Desperado Bar, and was replaced by Ilari Jäntti (Barathrum) on drums. In 1992, with this new lineup, we recorded The Other Gods demo. We also performed at Neulamäki Rock and the recycling center alongside Impaled Nazarene, Barathrum, and Mystification. After a few years of performing and creating new material, we recorded the Jesus Christ Cyberseed demo in 1994. This demo deviated slightly from our traditional death metal style, with lyrics focusing more on technology and sci-fi themes. After this, our war machines
went silent for nearly two decades...
In 2014, it was time to bring out the war arsenal again and start re-recording our old songs with the following lineup:
Sami Jämsen (guitar)
Janne Roima (guitar)
Tuomo Latvala (drums)
Niku Oksala (bass)
Aku Oksala (vocals)
We recorded The Breeding, Cyberseed, Lost Soul Domain, and To Be Left High and Dry, but these re-recorded versions were never released. This lineup performed two gigs: the first at Old Farts Rock in Henry’s Pub, Kuopio (2014) and the second at Finnish Death Metal Maniacs Festival in Pori (2017).
War takes its toll, and in 2017, the lineup changed once again. Sami, Janne, and Tuomo left the group, and we brought in:
Ville Vesterinen (guitar)
Antti Sinikangas (guitar)
Peachy (drums)
With Ville’s creative input, three new songs were written:
Evil Lives Among Us
Madness Incarnate
Murders of the Lake
Demo versions of these songs were recorded. This lineup managed to play a few gigs before more changes occurred. Ville left the group, and Jani Vartiainen took over on guitar. More new songs started emerging with the debut album in mind. We even managed to get to the studio to record, but the momentum began to fade...
Once again, it was time to open the tent flap and bring in new soldiers.
Pete Airaksinen joined on guitar.
Vilho Kananen joined on drums.
Jari Bäck took over as the main bassist alongside Niku Oksala.
With this lineup, new songs were written, and after years of effort, the recording of our debut album was finally completed at the end of 2023.
Our debut album "Legions of Tomorrow" will be released in April 2025.
Track
list:1. Out of Reality
2. Rats in the Walls
3. Messiah Paratroops
4. Morbid Prayer
5. Repulsion
6. Bloodlust
7. Legions of Tomorrow
8. Murders of the Lake
9. Painful Sleep
Mixed and mastered by Jari "Tupi" Tuomainen
Cover art by Niko Anttila
Line-up:
Vocals - Aku Oksala
Guitars - Pete Airaksinen
Guitars - Jani Vartiainen
Drums - Vilho Kananen
Bass - Jari Bäck
http://www.inverse.fi
https://www.facebook.com/messiahparatroops
The official video realised by Chiara Ljós can be admired at https://youtu.be/y_sfPsUvKo0
With influences as diverse as CATHEDRAL, GOATSNAKE, TYPE O NEGATIVE, DANZIG, TIAMAT, AGANOOR moves from the Eternal City creating an oppressive Doom Metal wrapped in a gothic breeze, and blended with the retro tones of the rawest of Stoner Rock.
The song "Icarus", available as digital single too, represents the band's first output and shows from its first tunes the essence of their music that is claustrophobic and hypnotic, a Doom Metal characterized by massive, down-tuned riffs and psychedelic atmospheres.
Dan, Anth, Stephen and Alex welcome you to their heavy ritual.
Pre-order CD and LP at https://t.ly/h4MmpTracklist:
1. Bury My Soul
2. Icarus
3. Nadir
4. Emerald Lake
5. Morbid Skin
6. Mind Shadowing
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/aganoorband
Wormholedeath Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Hungarian melodic black/death metal powerhouse MORS SILENS for the worldwide release of their upcoming full-length album, "INFERNAL LEGACY," set to unleash its infernal fury on May 9, 2025.
This partnership marks a pivotal moment for the band as they celebrate their 20th anniversary, continuing their legacy of delivering crushing riffs, haunting melodies, and thought-provoking themes that resonate with listeners across the globe.
"The band was founded in 2005, making this year our 20th anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, we couldn't be more excited about releasing our new album titled "Infernal Legacy"! The record will be released worldwide under the label WormHoleDeath."Stated the band.
Infernal Legacy: A Descent into Sonic Hell
This highly anticipated album delivers a profound sonic and lyrical exploration of mental and emotional states, showcasing Mors Silens' worldview and personal struggles. Comprising ten powerful tracks, "Infernal Legacy" delves into themes of social critique, emotional turmoil, and humanity's darker aspects. The album's title reflects the legacy left for future generations—a haunting reminder of suffering, destruction, and societal exclusion. With faster, more intense, and intricately crafted compositions, the band pushes their signature sound to new heights, hoping their message reaches audiences far and wide, inspiring reflection and change.
The album’s premiere track, "Nine Circles of Hell," serves as its crowning moment—a climactic conclusion that encapsulates the darkness, chaos, and resilience found throughout the record.
Tracklist1. End of Eternity
2. Alastor
3 . Scorn
4 .Scarlet River
5. Chronicles of Devastation
6 . The Room
7 . Nine Circles of Hell
8 . Rise of the Dark One
9. Infernal Legacy
10. Obscurity of Oblivion
The Band’s Journey: From Underground to International Stages
Founded in 2005, Mors Silens has built a formidable reputation through relentless creativity and dedication:
2006: Debut demo Promising Redemption
2008: Second demo Doomed to Suffering
2014: EP Mors Certa, Hora Incerta, including videos for Black Pharaoh and Four Horsemen
2016: First full-length album Call of the Nether Realm, featuring Son of the Burning Sky and Collapse
2018: Sophomore album World of Pain, with The Brave and the Coward and Alone with My Demons
2019-2021: Overcame pandemic challenges to release Under the Dark Sun, featuring Buried Sorrow
Through lineup changes, international tours, and high-profile festival appearances alongside Fleshgod Apocalypse, Krisiun, and Kataklysm, the band has remained a pillar of Eastern Europe’s extreme metal scene.
www.youtube.com/MorsSilens
www.facebook.com/morssilens
We’re
proud to bring you the first vinyl edition for PÁSMO'S
mesmerizing debut self-titled album (originally released in spring 2024 on
cassette by the Czech label Vřesová Studánk), an unparalleled voyage
crafted through the mediums of dark post-punk and arcane heavy metal into the
remote landscapes and mystique of the fading ex-soviet Eastern Bloc.Eight songs unraveling visions of soviet industrial ruins, abandoned factories, and dissolving concrete buildings scattered amongst the band’s native Moravian-Silesian region's wild nature, and consumed far beyond, eastward more into the relics of the old Soviet horizon reclaimed by nature and falling into dusty memory. An encompassing of Eastern European culture condensed into thirty five minutes of dark musical storytelling and spiritual reconnection to the "Zone" (or "Pásmo", in Czech). The epic crust punk of Amebix and Killing Joke's apocalyptic post-punk transposed into the crumbling atomic bunkers, abandoned mines, and industrial rusted ruins of the Eastern wilderness. The visions, sounds and legacy of Chernobyl and "Stalker" transfigured into shamanic mountain rock music. Echoes of Master's Hammer's occult heavy metal reverberating through abandoned factories, streams, valleys and waterfalls. Yugoslavian long-lost punk and metal, gipsy punk like VHK/Galloping Coroners, Belarusian dark post-punk like Molchat Doma and Russian melancholic new wave like Kino dissolving into a frenzied sonic continuum where infectious melodies celebrating a cherished birthplace are woven into a dark canvas of stark history and ominous memories from the past, embracing sinister presages from the present and future, coming once again into the Zone from beyond the Russian borders...
Pásmo's debut self-titled album will be officially released April 18 2025 on vinyl and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable and streamable in full via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases. Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/psmo-psmo
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/pasmo
Helsinki-based doom metal band DENIGRATE released their fourth full length album titled "TO THE GODDESS UNKNOWN" on November 29th 2024. In the beginning of March 2025 the founding member, guitarist and main composer of Denigrate Seppo Nummela passed away suddenly. Music video was filmed earlier and now it is finished and released to honor the memory of Seppo.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/h0MxKRh13WE
Denigrate's Singer Galzi tells about the Song and the music video:
"In The Light was one of the first compositions for the album "To The Goddess Unknown" -the last individual of the album release as a music video.
Also the song was the only one from the album that kept its' work name from the beginning until completion.
We wanted to make this a proper art-and-headbanging-video to underline the sheer joy of doing what we do. Huge thanks goes to Markus Saarela for capturing the moments.
Though the song tells about taking and giving nothing in return, there dwells a glimpse of hope for a change at the end.
This we will dedicate to the memory our key-member, the founder of Denigrate, Seppo Nummela. We'll keep carrying the torch, don't you worry brother!"
Tracklist01. Crystal Rest
02. The Ethics of Loss
03. Under Ether
04. The Apparition of One
05. One who holds the balance
06. Sesame and Lilies
07. In the Light
08. Semidiapente
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Teemu Riekki - Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
www.facebook.com/denigrateCamp
https://www.instagram.com/denigrate_official/
French black-metal/hardcore/crust outfit DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE presents a vinyl reissue of their final album NOTES DU PARADIS / WHOOP WHOOP WHEE WHEE.
FFO
:
Catharsis ; Martyrdöd ; Converge ; pg.99 ; The Secret.."From this magma of sound emerges a real musical personality, that of a totally schizophrenic doctor even sicker than his patients and ready to gut the listener"
17 years after its release through Overstage Imperator Productions, Notes Du Paradis / Whoop Whoop Whee Whee is the second and final album from the now-defunct French band Doctor Livingstone to be reissued in vinyl with the support of Coups de Couteau label. Known for mixing black metal, hardcore, and crust punk, Doctor Livingstone operated within a chaotic and abrasive space between genres, drawing comparisons to acts like Catharsis, Martyrdöd, Converge, pg.99, and The Secret.
Their music was intense, unpredictable, and relentlessly raw, making them a standout in the underground scene before the band eventually disbanded.
Recorded by Cédric Castel at the In The Box studio, Notes Du Paradis / Whoop Whoop Whee Whee is an experimental album that captures Doctor Livingstone's raw and unpredictable creative process, with twelve tracks—each presented in two different titles—blending abrasive textures, vulnerable moments, black metal, vocal distortion, and social commentary, all inspired by an eclectic mix of influences including Dada, the Marquis de Sade, Schopenhauer, and Cioran, and none of which were rehearsed prior to recording.
For its first ever vinyl pressing, the album has been carefully remastered by the renowned Bruno Varea, ensuring the album's sound remains as impactful and visceral as ever. The new artwork, designed by Maxime Taccardi, brings a fresh, yet faithful, interpretation to the album’s themes, offering a deeper visual dimension to match its sonic intensity which captures the essence of the music that influenced Doctor Livingstone’s early years. This is an album for those who appreciate the experimental, the unpredictable, and the boundary-pushing spirit of underground music.
Note that one of the band's distinctive features is its dark humor—the kind that makes you grit your teeth. While some bands tend to deliver a serious and straightforward message, Doctor Livingstone deliberately takes winding paths to create a sense of unease, always balancing on the edge between laughter and raw truth.
https://coupsdecouteau.bandcamp.com/merch
The band comments single:
"Sometimes when we face grief we bury it too deep for too long. The grief work remains unfinished or not done at all. We should learn to break the emotional dam before it is too late."
Listen to The Art of Grieving single: https://push.fm/fl/shadecrown-the-art
Biography:
The Finnish Shadecrown is a versatile melodic death metal band founded in Viitasaari in 2012, whose melancholic melodies and lyrics tell stories about the dark side of life. The band has released three full-length albums so far: Agonia 2016, Riven 2019, Solitarian 2021. The fourth album 0 will be released in 2025.
Track
list:01. The Art of Grieving
02. In a State of Agony
03. Fragile Chapters
04. Gone
05. Zero
06. Under the Waves
07. Inadequate
08. Tear-blind
09. Repentance
Cover art by Saku Tammelin
Line-up:
Jari Hokka - Vocals
Joonas Vesamäki - Guitar
Tomi Tikka - Guitar
Saku Tammelin - Keyboards
Janne Salmelin - Bass & clean vocals
Kalle Varonen - Drums
Guest female vocals: Sheila Bernal
https://www.facebook.com/shadecrownband
FFO: Kreator, Children of Bodom
The official video for the album's first single, "Serrated Shadows," is available now at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9er9vxQnUk0
The single is available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Sacrament of the Sick is a monumental step forward from Executionist’s previous material. Improved production, performances, and writing have made the Executionist sound nearly unrecognizable compared to the band's debut EP, Destined for Destruction. Each track was meticulously crafted and poured over in Executionist’s home studio, and the final product shows that it was worth every ounce of attention. With a clear focus on melody and tighter songwriting, Sacrament of the Sick is a sonic journey sure to leave a lasting impact on the listener.
Pre-order:
https://executionist.bandcamp.com/album/sacrament-of-the-sickTrack Listing:
1. Ultionum
2. Edge of Annihilation
3. Wheels of War
4. Serrated Shadows
5. Divided We Stand... United We Fall
6. Thy Kingdom Come
7. Strange Aeons
8. Palace of Kings
9. Sacrament of the Sick
10. Coup de Grâce
Credits:
Music written by Brett & Tristan Ash
Lyrics written by Brett Ash
Vocals, guitar, bass - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Produced by Brett & Tristan Ash
Engineered & Mixed by Tristan Ash
Mastered by Colin Davis of Imperial Mastering
Album Artwork by Mitchell Nolte
Logo by ModBlackMoon & HermanTwo
Line-up:
Vocals/Guitar - Brett Ash
Drums - Tristan Ash
Bass - Austin Rose
Guitar - Mike Kinder
Bio:
Executionist was officially formed in 2021 by brothers Brett and Tristan Ash, who were 17 and 13 years old, respectively at the time. Their debut EP, Destined for Destruction, was released on January 27, 2021. Two years later, Executionist released "GENESIS 666" (March 2023).
After playing many shows together as a mere two-piece, Executionist finally added a bass player in 2024, in the form of Austin Rose. The three played more shows together before finally rounding out the lineup by adding Mike Kinder on guitar in March of 2025. Around the same time, Executionist announced the forthcoming release of their debut full-length album, Sacrament of the Sick. The lead single "Serrated Shadows," has already been released, with another single set to release on April 18. With the release of their album on the horizon, Executionist aims to play live as much as possible while writing
new music for their next project.
https://www.facebook.com/ExecutionistMetal/
Symphonic
blackened death metal duo RAWMOOR proudly unveils the lyric
video for "FORTH," a relentless descent into darkness,
taken from their forthcoming album EN ROUTE, DUE for release
on May 2, 2025, via Wormholedeath.Prepare for total devastation. RawMoor unleashes Forth—a symphonic blackened death metal assault forged in defiance and drenched in wrath. This track drags you through a desolate wasteland of oppression, hypocrisy, and forced indoctrination, culminating in a rallying cry against the system.
Crushing riffs, ferocious vocals, and orchestral darkness collide to deliver a soul-shattering experience. Will you bow to the tyranny, or will you rise?
RawMoor: A Force in the Metal Underground
With an uncompromising vision, RawMoor merges haunting melodies, blistering riffs, and symphonic grandeur into an unrelenting storm of blackened death metal. Drawing inspiration from Dimmu Borgir, Agathodaimon, Windir, Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, and Finntroll, the duo carves out their own identity in the extreme metal underground.
Their upcoming album, En Route, cements their ability to balance brutality with elegance, setting them apart in an already savage genre. Guest soloist Renton (tracks 2, 3, 6) adds searing leads to the chaos, while Brim’s vocals deliver a dual assault of guttural brutality and spectral shrieks.
https://wormholedeath.com/
www.facebook.com/RawMoor
Features a diverse range of artists interpreting Laibach’s sound, including Prager Handgriff, Kirlian Camera .
To be released 21 May 2025 in limited edition vinyl, collector's edition CD and digital formats
Rune Serpent Europa, a label making a name for its unique blend of industrial, neofolk and medieval-inspired music, will release a reissue of the seminal tribute album, "Schlecht Und Ironisch - Laibach Tribut" on 21 May 2025.
Originally released in 1999, this updated version celebrates the enduring legacy of Laibach with a curated selection of classic tracks and exciting new contributions from a diverse range of artists. "Schlecht Und Ironisch - Laibach Tribut" showcases the band's profound influence on industrial and experimental music, inspiring a new generation of artists to explore the boundaries of sound and challenge the status quo.
It has been mastered to achieve optimal sound quality across all formats. This new reissue will be available in multiple formats, including a limited edition vinyl pressing with unique marble colours, a collector's edition CD with metal graphic elements and a digital release featuring exclusive bonus tracks.
It will be available in:LP Marbled Black - Numbered Edition with sticker, Insert (limited to 250 copies)
LP Marbled Brown - Numbered Edition with sticker, Insert (limited to 250 copies)
CD Jewel Case + 8-page Booklet (limited to 800 copies)
CD (Special Edition), Jewell Case + Metal Artwork
LP (Test Pressing), 30 Copies + Metal Artwork
Bandcamp digital version
The album features a diverse range of artists interpreting Laibach's iconic sound, from industrial and EBM to dark ambient and neofolk, including Prager Handgriff, Kirlian Camera, Staat Und Organisation, DDR, Andrew King, Angels And Agony.
Laibach is a pioneering Slovenian industrial and experimental music group known for their provocative and often controversial approach to art and music. Their innovative sound and theatrical performances have earned them a cult following worldwide.
"Schlecht Und Ironisch - Laibach Tribut" is a testament to the enduring power of Laibach's music and a must-have for fans of industrial, experimental and avant-garde music.
Pre-orders: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/distributed-stuff/?filter_artist-name=tribute-album
Rune Serpent Europa is a label that bridges the evocative worlds of industrial, neofolk and medieval-inspired music, establishing itself as a cornerstone for fans of atmospheric and avant-garde soundscapes. Complementing this artistic vision is its sub-label, Assur Anshar, which caters to the more energetic realms of electro and EBM (Electronic Body Music). Together, these entities form a hub for creative exploration, offering not just music but a total artistic experience.
Tracklist LP
A1 Regard Extrême - Vier Personen
A2 Apathetic Atrophy - We Are Forging the Future
A3 Anesthetik Pharma - F.I.A.T
A4 Knifeladder - Dogs Of War
A5 Kathodos White
B1 Andrew King - War Poem
B2 Staat Und Organisation - Cari Amici Soldati
B3 Prager Handgriff - Message From The Dark Star
B4 DDR - Der See
B5 Kirlian Camera - The Final Countdown (Laibach Suppe)
Tracklist CD
01 Regard Extrême - Vier Personen
02 Apathetic Atrophy - We Are Forging the Future
03 Anesthetik Pharma - F.I.A.T.
04 Knifeladder - Dogs Of War
05 Kathodos - White Law
06 Andrew King - War Poem
07 Staat Und Organisation - Cari Amici Soldati
08 Prager Handgriff - Message From The Dark Star
09 DDR - Der See
10 Kirlian Camera - The Final Countdown (Laibach Suppe)
11 Paolo F. Bragaglia - Mars
12 Discordance - Agnus Dei
13 Angels And Agony - God Is God
14 Northgate - Nova Akropola
15 Manipulation - Geburt Einer Nation
16 Runes Order - The Great Seal
17 Die Larm - God Is God
18 Naevus - Bloody Ground, Fertile Land
https://runeserpenteuropa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/runeserpenteuropa
Following
the recent unveiling of their latest single, "AEON AFTERGLOWS",
and the anticipation surrounding their debut album, French Melodic Death/Doom
entity WURMIAN now invites listeners to fully immerse
themselves in the depths of "IMMEMORIAL SHRINE".Ahead of its official release on April 6th, 2024, "Immemorial Shrine" is now available for full streaming via Death Metal Promotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9deM6EcqlI
A deeply evocative journey through bleak soundscapes and mournful melodies, "Immemorial Shrine" conjures the spirit of early '90s Melodic Death/Doom while embracing a contemporary production approach. The album unfurls in seven immersive tracks, each exploring themes of existential dread, solitude, and the inexorable passage of time. Antoine Scholtes' masterful composition and multi-instrumental execution breathe life into WURMIAN’s vision, weaving icy harmonies with thunderous riffs and cavernous growls.
Taking inspiration from titans of melancholic extremity such as Katatonia, October Tide, Amorphis, and Edge of Sanity, WURMIAN forges a sound that is both reverential and forward-thinking. "Immemorial Shrine" is an album that resonates with sorrow and intensity in equal measure, offering a deeply introspective yet sonically crushing experience.
The album will see its official CD release via Pest Records on April 6th, 2024. Pre-orders are available now: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wurmian-immemorial-shrine
Let the shadows of "Immemorial Shrine" envelop you—listen now, and experience the weight of its haunting melodies and unrelenting darkness.
https://www.facebook.com/wurmian.band/
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
GRINDPAD - “VIOLENCE “ (re-release)
Format: VinylLabel: Iron Shield Records
For fans of : Slayer, Exodus, Madball, Anthrax, Municipal Waste and so on….
Tracklist:
01. My Name Is Violence
02. Burn the Rapist
03. Toxic Terror
04. The Knife Is Sharper than Ever
05. Justice Part 1: Crime
06. Justice Part 2: Punishment
07. Revuelta
08. Blood, Sweat and Pride
09. Mature Love
10. MK Ultra
11. To Those About to Die
12. Cephalopod Idolator(bonus track)
13. X-Mas Mosh(bonus track)
When Grindpad released their full album ‘Violence’ in 2020, it was meant to pave the way for the band.
With a strong release in hand, two big release shows planned in both Utrecht & Berlin, it was supposed to be their moment.
Sadly, Covid ruined everything; the lockdown started LITERALLY on their releasedate.
Fast forward, 2025. Violence is already 5 years old and Grindpad celebrates this with a re-release on vinyl!
Following the success of the EP ‘Sharkbite!’, Grindpad proves once again that they can not only improve but also create a full-length album packed with high energy, violence, and dare we say... fun thrash metal.
‘Violence’ is a masterpiece of up-tempo songs that make you want to fight the neighbours, but also features great mid-tempo thrashers that make you want to bang your head.
As the icing on the cake, this special vinyl release includes two exclusive bonus tracks that further highlight Grindpad's versatility and talent. Variety is, after all, the spice of thrash.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to get ‘Violence’ on vinyl and complete your collection. Prepare for a musical experience you won't soon forget!
GRINDPAD is:
JG – Guitar
Max - Drums
Axel - Guitar
Rik - Bass
Olivier – Vocals
Highlights for GRINDPAD
1 full length album released by Iron Shield Records and received very well by press & audience:
5 EP’s released by International labels and received very well by press & audience:
Dutch Metal Battle (2010, Winner)
Sharkbite (2017, independent – 2023 vinyl reissue, Iron Shield Records)
Violence (2020, Iron Shield Records – 2025 vinyl reissue, Iron Shield Records)
Finger Collector Crew (2023, Iron Shield Records)
https://www.grindpad.com/
Tracklist:01. Spiral Through
02. Drowned
03. My Name is Your Name
04. Avichi
Now released song and music video "Drowned" is the second single from EP. The track fuses the raw intensity of black metal with the crushing melodies of melodic death metal and heavy, chugging riffs. Towards the end, hardcore and punk metal influences emerge, adding depth and dynamic contrast.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/6K5JAlMTL6c
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer): https://push.fm/fl/underwaterfather-drowned
The band tells about the song:
"What’s the song about? Well, cheerful topics like addiction, depression, and anxiety. In this story, the protagonist’s life slips out of control — like a bar of soap in a prison shower — until they ultimately decide to paint a picture… with their victim’s blood. The lyrics, penned by Samu Haatainen and Jere Harju, take the listener deep into the darkest corners of addiction, portraying its pain, destruction, and the extreme consequences that unfold when things spiral too far.
The track also features guest vocals by Jere Harju. "Drowned" is not only a stark depiction of addiction’s hopelessness but also a powerful collaboration, where Harju’s distinctive voice and lyrics bring an intense and haunting element to the song’s conclusion"
Biography:
Formed in the summer of 2024, Underwater Father was born from the vision of Samu Haatainen (guitars, vocals), who sought to create something darker and more stripped-down compared to their other band, Of Spite. Sharing most of its members with Of Spite, the lineup consists of Antti Lampinen (bass), Jan Lindberg (guitars, backing vocals), and Joonas Nieminen (drums) — a tight-knit unit with a shared passion for pushing metal’s boundaries.
Musically, Underwater Father weaves together the ferocity of black and death metal with the emotional depth of melodic metal. Drawing influences from bands like Mgła, Horna, Uada, Cradle of Filth on the extreme side and Sentenced, Bloodpit, and Somehow Jo! etc. On the melodic spectrum, the band creates music that is both crushing and atmospheric. Lyrically, their songs explore themes of birth, death, karma, and the search for meaning in life’s journey—both the light and the darkness that shape our fate.
https://www.facebook.com/underwaterfather
Genre
: Blackened
Heavy MetalLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : April 30th 2025
FFO: Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Bewitched, Morgul Blade, Nite, Black Magick SS.
Blackened Heavy Metal hex STREGA unveils its first spell: "Stryx Strega Strygae" drops three astonishing songs which seems to be summoned from a never existed old dark fantasy saga of a unique bewitching charm.
With members of Ponte Del Diavolo, Darkend and The Headless Ghost, "Stryx Strega Strygae" features a style mixing 80's Heavy Metal classics with the eerie voices of Black Metal and sinister, theatrical scenarios. Furthermore, all lyrics are in Arrakyan, the band's peculiar language.
The hex has been cast. Expose your soul the curse and get bewitched!
Sale points:
80's Heavy Metal classics + Black Metal vocals + theatrical keyboards;
Lyrics in Arrakyan, the band's peculiar language;
With members of Ponte del Diavolo (Season of Mist) and Darkend (Dark Essence);
Dark fantasy atmosphere and aesthetics;
For fans of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Bewitched, Morgul Blade, Nite, Black Magick SS.
Tracklist:
1) Stryx Strega Strygae;
2) Era Kuolemann
3) Til-Aar Hyleventïdar
Strega is:
Stryx - vocals
Ombra - guitars
Teschio - guitars
Spettro - bass
Incubo - drums
Il Diavolo Misterioso - organ & synth (guest)
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/strega.officialband
YHWH: Arcane Blackened
Death Metal unleashes "TETRAGRAMMATON" via
WormholedeathIn a thunderous collision of Belgian and Thai extreme metal sensibilities, enigmatic blackened death metal project YHWH has inked a devastating deal with Wormholedeath, preparing to unleash their debut EP "Tetragrammaton" on April 25, 2025.
Check out the trailer of Tetragrammaton here : https://youtu.be/1zcvsJ76nO0
Forged in the shadowy depths of underground metal, YHWH emerges as a cryptic musical entity led by composer Schem HaMephorash and her sister C. Bones, with S.M. Goat Ritual joining their ritualistic sonic assault in June 2024. Their debut EP represents a raw, uncompromising exploration of extreme metal's most primal instincts.
Tracklist
1. Realm of Darkness
2. Majestic Hatred
3. Police Bastard
4. Burden of Flesh
"These tracks are eight years in the making," the band cryptically reveals. "No overarching concept—just a relentless progression of sonic brutality inspired by the most extreme metal pioneers."
"Tetragrammaton" promises to be an unfiltered descent into the most visceral realms of blackened death metal, drawing inspiration from the genre's most relentless predecessors.
https://www.facebook.com/WormHoleDeath
Serpent Corpse have come up with an all killer no filler release of their own which not only fortifies their thrashy death metal sound but also expands upon it, as is evident from the latter songs of the album, with the last one alone being over 9 minutes long! Listen to one of the tracks from this release at https://serpentcorpse-label.bandcamp.com/album/retaliate
SERPENT CORPSE – “RETALIATE”
Genre
: Death
MetalAfter unleashing a superbly received full length album in "Blood Sabbath", Canadian death metal band Serpent Corpse have come up with a new release with strong focus on songwriting and which sees them take their steely, thrash-tinged sound ahead. The songs on "Retaliate" are fleshed out but never forced, showcasing their full expression with them being generally longer than usual. The shortest song on this EP is over five minutes while the longest song crosses the nine minute mark, which clearly indicates the band's progressive tendencies. Each of the songs are packed with riffs albeit meticulously and there are sublime progressions within them all. The raw energy is palpable and comparable to the bands from the late 80s/early 90s when death metal still intermingled with thrash metal elements and the sound kept mutating. It is exciting to see the sound evolve especially towards the end, where they attempt to break out of the mould to write music that is more experimental without losing the plot. Serpent Corpse have not only aced the test with their faultless rendering of classic sounding, thrashy death metal music but their ability to work on it to make it something more than what we've been accustomed to listening to all these years is quite frankly impressive.
Line up
Adam Breault - Guitar
Andrew Haddad - Vocals & Bass
Christian Lacroix - Guitar
Zachariah Su - Drums
Cover artwork by Lucas Korte / Shoggoth Kinetics
Track listing
1. Brazen Serpent
2. Iron Corpse
3. The Undying
4. Meteor Summon
Release date - June 27th, 2025
https://serpentcorpse.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Release
date :
02 May 2025Genre : Progressive Symphonic Black Metal
Origin: International
Duration: 41min21
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
01. Empyreal Spindle
02. Legion Of The Moirai
03. Wrestling With The Gods
04. In The Throes Of Ascension
05. Arcane Creation
06. On A Starpath
07. The Sentinel
08. Supernal Light
09. Crowned
10. Q.E.D
Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions are delighted to announce the signing of KHÔRA!
Khôra is an international cosmic black/death metal band offering an atmospheric, sinister and orchestral journey. Initially a one-man band created in 2012 by Ole (ex-Autokrator) and author of a demo in 2016, the band took shape with the recruitment of Vasilis Kranos (Savaoth) on vocals and Lars E. Måløy (Dødheimsgard) on bass. The debut album “TIMAEUS” was released in 2020 (Soulseller Records).
Khôra returns in 2025 with a new album and a new line-up: Ole has surrounded himself with Frenchman Frédéric Gervais (Orakle, Cor Serpentii) on vocals, Swede Göran Setitus (ex-Setherial, Svartghast) on bass, and a new orchestrator in the person of Kjetil Ytterhus (Profane Burial, Haimad); he also includes other well-known guest artists from the metal scene: Rune 'Blasphemer' Eriksen (ex-Mayhem), Kristian Niemann (ex-Therion), Wolfgang Rothbauer (live Belphegor), André 'Cosmocrator' Søgnen (The Wretched End) and many more!
Mixed and mastered in France by Frédéric Gervais at Studio Henosis (In The Woods, Monolithe, Misanthrope, Pensées Nocturnes...)
https://www.facebook.com/KHORA.Official
The successor to “TIMAEUS” is called “ANANKE” and will be released on May 2025.
Pre-orders are now available: https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/preorders
It is with great pleasure that today we unveal the cover of NIHILI LOCUS album "SEMPER" out on June 20th. Created by the great Norwegian photographer Kjetil Karlsen , the pic fully represents the essence of their music made of soft lights, dark atmospheres and extreme sounds. Here is also the tracklist of "Semper" that will be released on vinyl, digipak CD and tape:
Tracklist1. Lugubri Lai
2. Polvericellule
3. Pensieri Nebulosi
4. (Grida) La Notte Eterna
5. Incolore Aberrazione
6. Il Tuo Sangue Per I Miei Maiali
With "Semper" we will release "Nihil Morte Certium" that is the reprint for the first time on double vinyl of the band's entire discography including "Mors" never released in physical format and "Premature Exequie" the 1991 demo of the first NIHILI LOCUS' incarnation when their moniker was OMIDIDIO.
Both works have beed completely re-mastered in a spectacular way by Giuseppe "Buzz" Nicolò at Lost Soul Studio and feature covers created by the same Kjetil Karlsen
Last, but not least, a celebratory BOX titled "Ineffabilis Memoriae Regurgitatio" limited to only 75 copies, will be out on the same day. It will include all the already mentioned new and old stuff, plus exclusive merchandise. The cover of the BOX has been realized by the talented Italian photographer Rossella Nikita Berton.
NIHILI LOCUS, a name, a cult, the history of Italian Extreme Music.
Pre-order now: https://t.ly/VLgvZ
NIHILI LOCUS come from Turin area and were born from the band OMICIDIO, formed in 1989, with Massimo Currò (bs), Mauro Veronese (gt), Bruno Blasi (v) and Roberto Ripollino (dr).
After the recordings of the demo "Premature Exequie" in 1991, the band change their name in NIHILI LOCUS and in 1992 Valeria De Benedictis (gt) joined the group who released quite soon the 7"EP "Sub Hyerosolima..." distributed by Obscure Plasma Records. In 1994 they released the concept tape "...Advesperascit..." which led them to have their first official contract with Boundless Recs, for the release of the MCD "...Ad Nihilum Recidunt Omnia" in 1996 recorded with keyboardist Simone Fanciotto.
In the years to come the group's activity was very unstable, until 2009 when they found themselves in an essential formation with the original members Massimo Currò (bs), Mauro Veronese (gt), and Roberto Ripollino (dr). With this line-up, it was recorded "Mors" only available for free download online. In the following years, Terror From Hell released a collection of all the recordings up to 1996 on CD.
The last years has served the band to concentrate on the conception, creation and recordings of the new album "Semper", the release that will finally allow the band to reap the fruits of a career always characterized by a melancholic pathos embodied in a dark sonorous extremism.
"Semper", along with the reissue and celebratory box, is scheduled for June 20th 2025, all on My Kingdom Music.
Releases (June 20th, 2025):
"SEMPER" [digipakCD, LP, Tape]
"NIHIL MORTE CERTIUM" [Gatefold 2 LP]
"INEFFABILIS MEMORIAE REGURGITATIO" [BOX with "Semper" in digipakCD, LP, tape; "Nihil Morte Certium" in Gatefold 2 LP; OMICIDIO "Premature Exequie" LP + exclusive merch].
Line-up:
Bruno: vocals
Valla: guitars
Ale: guitars
Max: bass
Robi: drums, growls
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/nihililocus
NEWS 29.3.2025
Um Euch das Wochenende noch einmal zusätzlich zu verschönern,
gibt es heute natürlich mal wieder einen kleinen Nachschlag an richtig fetter, derben
und heftiger Unterhaltung Mucke.
Aktuelle Reviews :
KRUD – „ KRUD II“
AKANTOPHIS – “ERNEUERUNG”
CURSE OF KHATRU - –„ CURSE OF KHATRU”
CRUENTA VENGANZA bringen am 16.05.2025 ihr drittes Album "LEGEND" heraus. Als erste Veröffentlichung präsentieren die Death Metaller nun den Song "MOON BASE MASSACRE" in Form eines Lyric Videos.
Bei einem der drei folgenden Fakten handelt es sich um einen Aprilscherz:
1. Die Hintergrundbilder des Videos sind vollständig KI-generiert.
2. Der eingeblendete Songtext besteht aus von Hand geschriebenen, eingescannten Buchstaben, die anschließend manuell Zeile für Zeile zusammengesetzt wurden.
3. Bei dem Mann auf dem Album-Cover handelt es sich tatsächlich um Danny Trejo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsWrZDi4EwE
DESERTED FEAR – Dritte Single "VEINS
OF FIRE" und Video ab sofort online! DESERTED
FEAR veröffentlichen heute nach „The Truth“ und „Blind“ bereits die dritte
Single ihres neuen Albums “Veins Of Fire”, das am 25.04. über Testimony Records
erscheinen wird.
Die dritte Single ist der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“, hier könnt ihr das Lyric-Video sehen: https://youtu.be/IsbJiChz8fc
Die Band dazu:
„Mit „Veins Of Fire“ veröffentlichen wir heute den Titelsong unseres neuen Albums. Der Song, wie auch das Album, sind eine Reflexion über den Zustand unserer Welt – zwischen Hoffnung und Abgrund. Er steht für den Moment, in dem man sich trotz Schmerz, Wut und Ohnmacht nicht unterkriegen lässt und aus Glut wieder eine Flamme wird.“
Video Credits:
Video by Irvan @ The Black Visual Studio
Mix & Master by Fabian Hildebrandt @ Eisensound
Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere. Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens. Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" wird als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich sein. Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle werden exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich sein.
Shop:
https://desertedfear.ffm.to/veinsoffire
http://lnk.spkr.media/desertedfear-fire
DESERTED FEAR werden Ende April zur Veröffentlichung von „Veins Of Fire“ auf Tour gehen.
Veins Of Fire - Tour 2025
Deserted Fear
Kvaen
Fall Of Serenity
Messticator
Do 24.04. Hamburg - Bahnhof Pauli
Fr 25.04. Essen - Turock
Sa 26.04. Jena - F-Haus
So 27.04. Osnabrück - Bastard Club (Matinée!)
Mo 28.04. Kassel - Goldgrube
Di 29.04. Hannover - Musikzentrum
Mi 30.04. Berlin - Cassiopeia
Do 01.05. Wiesbaden - Schlachthof
Fr 02.05. München - Backstage (Halle)
Sa 03.05. Stuttgart - Club Zentral
3.-5.7.2025 Ballenstedt - Rockharz Festival
1.-2.8.2025 Dortmund - Dortmund Deathfest
Tickets: https://www.desertedfear.de/tour
www.desertedfear.de
www.facebook.com/desertedfear
Heute gibt es schon wieder spannende News, die direkt von unseren Freunden von MOTÖRHEAD kommen: Es geht um die Enthüllung der Lemmy-Statue in seinem Geburtsort Stoke-On-Trent, die wir in einem früheren Post für den 8. Mai angekündigt hatten. Dieses Ereignis wurde nun um einen Tag auf den 9. Mai verschoben.
LEMMY FOREVER STOKE-ON-TRENT-Zeremonie und Statue-Enthüllung auf den 9. MAI 2025 verlegt
Freunde, Römer, Landsleute, Frauen und Motörhead-Fans jeder Art und jedes Glaubens, wir freuen uns, bestätigen zu können, dass die Lemmy Forever-Zeremonie und die Enthüllung der Statue in Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent, am FREITAG, 9. Mai**, ab 16 Uhr GMT stattfinden wird. Phil Campbell wird anwesend sein, um die Beisetzung von Lems Asche in einer beeindruckenden Statue zu begleiten, die von dem hiesigen Bildhauer und großen Motörhead-Fan Andy Edwards geschaffen wurde. Wir freuen uns, Lemmy Forever in seinem Geburtsort zu sehen. Viele weitere Details werden wir in den kommenden Wochen bekannt geben, also haltet bitte Ausschau nach weiteren Updates.
**Für alle, die sich wundern: Es handelt sich um die gleiche Veranstaltung, die ursprünglich für den 8. Mai angekündigt war. Da dies aber der 80. Jahrestag des VE-Days ist, schien es angemessen, sie auf den 9. Mai zu verlegen.
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: June 10th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Dismember | Entombed | Vomitory | Chaos Breed
Beneath a skull-faced moon on a night when old and young alike shake and sweat beneath their sheets as the reaper travels through their dreams, when the mausoleum gates fall broken to the ground and the ways to Tartarus stand open…then the dead arise to hunt. From beneath the flames and through the graveyard dirt their mouldering corpses rise, tattered sinew and fragmenting bones infused with strength and spirit for one night of vengeful freedom. One night of spite and violence, one night of lust and hunger; one night to tear down the living and drag them into realms below!
Four years on from their Regurgitated Into Existence debut, Finnish death metal fiends Deathgoat have returned for your bodies and your souls! Dragged Into Realms Below is their new nine track album of funeral rites and undead rebirth, absolute death metal in every twitching limb and empty eye socket. Beginning with the haunting notes of intro ‘Alkulima’, part lament, part invocation and all evil, Dragged Into Realms Below is a rampaging beast spawned from the rotten womb of early Scandinavian death. Savage tracks like ‘Congregation Of Disease’ are rife with riffs infused with horror and arcane ritual, devilish and dark. From the absolute inferno of ‘Dying To Be Dead’ to the malignant majesty of the album’s concluding, title track, via the glorious atmospheric lead work of ‘Compulsive Cannibalism’, Dragged Into Realms Below is everything a death metal album should be. Complete with a feral, snarling guitar tone, drums like hammers on coffin lids and a voice that speaks from the abyssal pits of the underworld, no death metal addict will be able to resist the lure of this gut wrenching poison.
Adorned in the masterful artwork of Bram Bruyneel (Officium Triste, Hideous Divinity etc) Dragged Into Realms Below will be unleashed upon the world on June 10th by Xtreem Music, who are fast becoming a byword for brilliance when it comes to supreme old school death metal! When this out of control hearse comes careering out of the night this summer, be prepared for total annihilation!
Line-up:
Chope666 - Drums
Vicar Miggoat - Guitars
Nihilist - Guitars/Backing Vocals
Putrid Worm - Vocals
L.F. Molestor – Bass
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/deathgoatdeathmetal
MURDER RECORDS ( info@murder-records.eu , www.murder-records.eu )is honored to announce the upcoming funeral ceremony where BLASFEMATOR will join with SEPULCRAL to carry the coffins of desecration in the funeral march where this filthy split will be presented and which is entitled "BESTIAL RITES OF MORBID LUST".
BLASFEMATOR are an infernal legion from Greece formed in 2022 that presents us with an overwhelming raw Black Thrash Metal that is complemented by morbid melodies allowing us to penetrate the perverse underworld of darkness where cadaveric filth will devour us incessantly.
SEPULCRAL come from the putrid bowels of Colombia formed in 2023 and present us with a nefarious and impure Black Death Metal moldy with the blasphemous odors of sulfur that evoke the profane rot of death.
The prophets of death have already begun to sound their unholy trumpets to announce the malevolent ritual of lust where the bestial legions of hell will be able to hear the call for this sonic feast that Murder Records is preparing to present. This release is not recommended for sensitive creatures who are offended by raw perversity and where blasphemy is presented exposed without censorship. For all those who feel offended, a big fuck you, this is a release only for the true infamous demons of the extreme Underground. Only Death Is Real...
SATANIK THRASH BLACK DEATH RAW METAL...
BLASFEMATOR
/ SEPULCRAL – "BESTIAL RITES OF MORBID LUST"
Split Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
SIDE A
BLASFEMATOR
01 - Diabolik Incarnation [03:05]
02 - Morbid Lust [3:39]
SIDE B
SEPULCRAL
03 - Bestial Rape [5:00]
04 - WarGoat Ritval [3:01]
05 - Conquerors Of The Black Oath [3:11]
Release Date: June, 6th 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
BLASFEMATOR Biography:
Blasfemator was formed back in 2018 by Necrobaphometh (vocals, bass) under the name Goatslaught in Ioannina, Greece.
After releasing one demo tape and a split the band went on hiatus until 2022.
With the addition of Infernal Sadomator (guitars) and Hemophiliak Cadaverik Warmaster (drums).
They reformed the band as Blasfemator and began working on new material.
As years went by all the members relocated in Athens and in 2024 2 tracks were recorded.
During a rehersal for a split with Sepulcral.
BLASFEMATOR Line-Up:
Necrobaphometh (Vocals & Bass)
Infernal Sadomator (Guitars)
Hemophiliak Cadaverik Warmaster (Drums)
blasfemator666@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Blasfemator/100064083732922/
SEPULCRAL Biography:
Sepulcral was formed in 2023 by Dante (Goatsodomy) on guitar and vocals along with Felipe (Goatextermination) on drums.
In 2024, BestialBlackgoat-Militant on bass and SadogoAngelgoat on vocals joined them, recording their first full EP (4444).
Impure sound that evokes death extracting three tracks for the split with Blasfemator.
SEPULCRAL Line-Up:
Dante Goatsodomy (Guitar & Vocals)
Felipe Goatextermination (Drums)
BestialBlackgoat-Militant (Bass)
SadogoAngelgoat (Vocals)
torodante503@gmail.com
Andrews passed away on March 19 at age 51. The band states: "A highly in-demand singer and guitarist, Jeff performed on numerous albums and played countless live shows as a member of many notable bands from the upstate New York area. He is loved and missed by many."
The Beginning of the End is available to stream/purchase at:
Digital distribution for all major platforms via Death Farm Records. Any labels interested in collaborating with the band for a limited physical pressing of The Beginning of the End, please contact: thefinalsleepny@gmail.com.
Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his role in Arsis, where he played on acclaimed releases such as A Celebration of Guilt and A Diamond for Disease, and toured globally alongside heavyweights like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Cynic, Dying Fetus, Grave, Necrophagist, Napalm Death, and Six Feet Under. Dan Saltzman (bass), hailing from the Bay Area, whose impressive work has been showcased in Illucinus and The Hunt, as well as recent demonstration videos for ESP bass guitars.
Produced and mixed by Brett Portzer (Skinless, Author & Punisher, Arsis), The Beginning of the End consists of six tracks clocking in at 37 minutes. It is the creative vision of Andrews and Van Dyne, who recorded two albums and performed together alongside such notable bands as At The Gates, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sanctuary, Rivers of Nihil, Fates Warning, All That Remains, and many others with their previous band, The Final Sleep. The Beginning of the End additionally includes guest appearances by Kyle Chapman (Aethereus, Blighted Eye), John Judson (Rwake, Scott Kelly), and Petr Oplatka (Illucinus).
Track
Listing:
1. Bleed Through This Life
2. Skies Turn To Graves
3. Fleshspoil
4. Walking Dead
5. A Frail Demise
6. Born Into Despair
Credits:
Guitar solo and additional chaos on “Bleed Through This Life” by Kyle Chapman of Aethereus and Blighted Eye.
Guitar solo on “Walking Dead” by Petr Oplatka of Illucinus.
Lap steel guitar on “Bleed Through This Life” and “Skies Turn To Graves” by John Judkins of Rwake.
Drum tracking engineered by Brett Portzer at White Lake Music & Post.
Guitar and vocal tracking engineered by Van Dyne/Andrews.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Brett Portzer.
Music and arrangements by Andrews/Van Dyne. Lyrics by Andrews.
Cover art: “L’Umana Fragilità” by Salvator Rosa (1656)
Line-up:
Mike Van Dyne - Drums
Jeff Andrews - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Saltzman - Bass
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
MURDER RECORDS is proud to announce the next noise epidemic campaign, where DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND joins forces with HORRÍVEL, to make a split that will be released in cassette format and that manifests itself as a despicable campaign of hatred towards the modern Underground of today and where true Noisecore, as well as pure Raw Anarko Punk, do not belong much less identify...
This split is a manifest of social intolerance against the Noisecore of Sesame Street and the Punk of Disney of today, where everything is offensive in this modern world full of hypocrisy and pathetic sentimentalism of this nutela generation...
HUMANS ARE LIKE PURE SHIT... FUCK YOU ALL!!!
Disfigured Human Mind and Horrível are two projects that never intend to fit into this shitty modern Underground, where the falseness of the true values of the true Underground are humiliated with shameful shitty attitudes! In this manifest of antisocial noise, the corrosive Noisecore prevails and the caustic Raw Anarko Punk reigns, without the need to please anything or anyone! Here there are no mixes, only those who know the real meaning of the true essence from pure Noisecore and true Antisocial Anarko Punk, will be able to understand what is exposed here, the rest will only feel bothered and offended by the explicit hatred vomited on your face with this horrendous split...
Here nothing will be pleasant and everything will be done in the most decadent and offensive way possible! Don't expect anything from us, because we also don't expect anything from you, much less your insignificant attention, pathetic tolerance or your idiotic sentimentalism! Die everyone, it's a favor you're doing to the true Underground, infested with mongoloids and hothouse flowers who only need attention and acting like porn stars giving ass and licking dicks, so they can play at concerts or festivals! Put all your concerts, festivals, tours, parties and social gatherings up your ass, we are not interested at all to be part of it...
This split will not be sold or marketed to the idiots of the modern Underground, where damn capitalism reigns! When the Underground starts to be a business, it simply stops being Underground and that is why we are less and less rats in this rotten underworld, where only the true sewer rats of hell can survive without selling their character! For those bastards who want to acquire a copy of this split, they must contact Murder Records "ONLY" who will make the necessary copies to prevent this split from reaching the hands of ignorant humans who have sold out to the modern Underground and for that reason, no one is interested in these weak and shitty sellouts and who should not have a copy of this split! Before contacting me to ask for a copy, first check which side of the Underground you are on and do not try to make a fool of me because I am not stupid! I have been in this underworld for many years and I will check your attitudes before giving or selling you a copy, do not try to lick my balls or put your finger in my ass because you will die fast and without mercy...
Don't care about us because we don't care about you either! You and your opinions are insignificant and means absolutely nothing to us! If you defend political ideologies, whether they are left or right, if you care about human rights that are nothing more than brainwashing in controled herds of humans, who don't know how to use their brain, do us a great favor, go fuck yourself and don't try to fool us with your shitty theories! Our hatred is eternal and we don't want to waste our time with your shitty attitudes, much less listen to your senseless speeches!
WE RESPECT ANIMALS NOT HUMANS...
WE DON'T DISCRIMINATE ANYONE WE HATE EVERYONE...
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND IS YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE AND NOT YOUR SWEET DREAMS! THIS IS NOISECORE CORROSIVE FULL OF HATE STAY AWAY FAR AWAY! DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND IS TRUE NOISECORE PROTEST AND NOT A PATHETIC PARTY GRIND...
The necrotic rot that Disfigured Human Mind presents in this noise campaign is titled "Eternal Hatred With Absolute Contempt...", which presents three exclusive manifests of pure Noisecore where hatred and social contempt are exposed directly in a violent and aggressive way, without sympathy or sentimentality! Not recommended for Sesame Street Grinders or for the idiots of the happy Grind of Carnival, where they like children's parties with balloons and walking around all masked...
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND -"ÓDIO ETERNO COM DESPREZO ABSOLUTO..."
01 - Ideais Corrompidos E Valores Destruídos...
02 - Ruído Anarko Punk...
03 - Ódio Eterno Com Desprezo Absoluto...
Punk noises recorded in Portugal in November 2024.
Social insults spewed in the Netherlands in December 2024.
Mastered and produced at Junkie Noise Studios in the Netherlands in December 2024.
This Noisecore session was recorded for use on the split with Horrível from Brazil.
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND:
Cadaver Panafernalicus (Vomiting Hate & Screaming Contempt)
Cadaver Efermus (Translucent Drums)
Cadaver Possessus (Horrific Guitar)
Improvised Necro Noise Violent Grindcore
https://disfiguredhumanmind.bandcamp.com
HORRÍVEL IS RAW ANARKO PUNK EXTREME KHAOS AND NOT COMPLETE STUPIDITY FROM THE MODERN UNDERGROUND COMERCIAL SHIT! HORRÍVEL IS TOTAL DESTRUKTION WITHOUT SOCIAL TOLERANCE...
From the cursed bowels of the third world, Horrível presents its nefarious noise campaign entitled "They Don't Want to Understand..." where three new and exclusive noise campaigns are presented for this split that are complemented by two noise campaigns taken from the "Promo 2017". Not recommended for Disney Punks acting like idiots, who only defend ridiculous causes and who think they are right, but who are nothing more than a human shit photocopy of each other eating shit with spoons and defending stupid causes with nonsence speeches...
HORRÍVEL - "ELES NÃO QUEREM ENTENDER..."
01 - Mundo Moderno
02 - Persona Non Grata
03 - Eles Não Querem Entender...
04 - Anti-Motivos *
05 - Teleguiados *
Sections recorded in November and December 2024, at Horrendous Home Studio and LF Studio, in Hell de Janeiro.
* Tracks taken from PROMO 2017, section recorded at Estúdio Somzeira in December 2017.
HORRÍVEL:
MXS – Vokaos
SXA – Guitar & Bass
IXG – Drums
Raw Krust Poisonous Anarko Punk
horrivel.grindcrust@gmail.com
https://horrivel.bandcamp.com
Draw
for the cover made by Tereza Terror
Layout for this Split made by Leo Mora
Manifest of hate writed by Danihell Slaughter
OUT NOW
Release Date: 28/MAR/2025
Split Cassette with a corrosive manifest against ideologies of the modern Underground, all idiots of the happy Grind from Sesame Street and all the pathetic cartoons in the Anarko Punk from Disney...
For the humans of shit, all of you can continue your journey and don't waste your time because this is definitely not for you, so go on with your life because you don't belong here...
FUCK OFF YOU ALL BASTARDS OF SHIT...
WARNING
This release will be distributed privately and to purchase a copy of this split you must contact Murder Records who will evaluate whether you really deserve to have a copy of this damn noise manifest.
All copies will be made in a DIY way and all will be personalized, so I don't intend to waste my time making copies for ignorant humans who don't know what they are acquiring, much less am I willing to make anything for grinders or punks, fashionable in the modern Underground and who think they are someone special, I don't want waste my time...
The full description of this release will be duly announced soon, and will contain some exclusive surprises made with total dedication for true addicts of extreme noise and who remain faithful to the Underworld of darkness...
All the ignorant people on social media and the idiots who sell out in the modern Underground, who don't understand anything about it, can listen to this shit on Bandcamp if they want and if they don't, it will be an honor to not count with your insignificant contribution...
This will be another release made in the style that Murder Records likes to present their releases, without following conventional formats, keeping their identity intact and inviolate. For those who know the work done by Murder Records, I think I don't need to say much here to tell you what's coming, so stay tuned because the next noise apocalypse will be duly announced soon, among other relevant information about this split manifest...
SUPPORT THE TRUE CADAVERIC UNDERGROUND...
NOISE ON... WORLD OFF...
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
"Chiaroscuro is a converging point of careful study and artistic impulse, conducted through an interpretation of melodic extreme metal forms"- Cassiopeia, vocalist/lyricist
Chiaroscuro is
now available on digital and limited-edition CD via Unholy Anarchy Records.
Order and stream the EP at https://unholyanarchyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chiaroscuro
Tracklisting:
1. Sunbeat
2. Hekatomb of Malevolence
3. Unbridled Darkness
4. A Song for Ghosts
The band is set to hit the road in support of the EP. Tour dates are as follows:
4/03 @ Bonk's Bar - Philadelphia, PA (w/ Bastard Cross & Frog Myst)
4/04 @ Ralph's Rock Diner - Worcester, MA (w/ Caregiver & The Outlourdes)
4/05 @ El Bunker Del Diablo - Queens, NY (Del Diablo Fest)
4/06 @ Quinnz Pinz - Middletown, NY (w/ Grave Heist & Ape Metro)
4/07 @ Wax Atlas - Baltimore, MD (w/ Fear Agent & Julia Set)
Vocalist/lyricist Cassiopeia and guitarist/songwriter Nick Temoshok met during their brief stint in a local Baltimore band. The two soon pulled away from that project in a vie for a firm establishment of their collective creative endeavors.
Thus came CHIAROSCURO, by way of a self-produced demo quietly released in 2024. A full live ensemble was arranged shortly thereafter, playing multiple shows in and around the Baltimore area.
Drums for Chiaroscuro were recorded at The Sludge Factory in Baltimore, MD, with vocal tracking done at Eternal Rapture Studio. The EP was produced by Wes Walker at Eternal Rapture Studio in Aberdeen, MD.
Art by George Cruikshank, of "The Drunkard's Children" series, Plate VIII (1848) “The Maniac Father and the Convict Brother are Gone -- The Poor Girl, Homeless, Friendless, Deserted, Destitute, and Gin Mad, Commits Self Murder.”
CHIAROSCURO is:
Cassiopeia: Vocals
Nick Temoshok: Guitars/songwriting
Adam Smith: Percussion
Ben Baris: Bass
Clay Baucom: live rhythm guitarist
https://unholyanarchyrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chiaroscurometal/
The
time has come to present the second single from "COMPENDIO
ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO", the debut album of ALBUS
DIABOLUS, the incredible creature shaped by Elisa Montaldo and Samael
Von Martin. The song is "Albus Diabolus", it's the opener of the
album, and it reveals another aspect of the dark and lysergic universe of the
project, where experimentation and avant-gardism reign supreme.
The song is available on all digital platforms and on Youtube at the link https://youtu.be/5oXlLbmUiCs
The song is a direct expression of the band's intent, namely to destabilize normality and the expected, to be an insane entity in the European Electro-Goth scene.
The album "Compendio Esoterico Elettronico" will be released with a slight delay compared to what was previously announced. Set this date: May 30th, 2025
Out only on vinyl and digital as well as in a bundle version with shirt, shopper bag and poster, the album is available in Pre-Order at http://bit.ly/3CejxJq
The journey into their Art has just started!
To you who love the emotions of works like "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, and bands like EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS, simply welcome to the world of ALBUS DIABOLUS.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
Polish atmospheric black/epic doom metal project DIVINE SOVEREIGN, the brainchild of visionary musician Cezary Rochnowski, announces a groundbreaking record deal with Wormholedeath Records. The debut album "DAWN OF A NEW AGE" is set to transport listeners to the mysterious planet Autaxia on May 9, 2025.
Tracklist
The Ruins Of Autaxia
2. Enshrined Kind
3. The Absolution
4. Essence
5. The Weakness Of Own Flesh
6. Dawn Of A New Age
Divine Sovereign emerged in 2023 with a mission to craft monumental compositions. Inspired by luminaries such as Ethereal Shroud, Panopticon, Gallowbraid, and Atlantean Kodex, Rochnowski's sonic landscapes combine crushing doom, soaring atmospheres, and intricate black gaze textures.
The album invites listeners to explore Autaxia, an enigmatic planet where the remnants of a tragically fallen civilization reveal a haunting tale. Dawn of a New Age delves into the dual nature of religious zeal—both as a unifying force and as a catalyst for societal collapse.
The story unfolds through a cinematic lens: a research vessel lands on a desolate world and uncovers the ruins of Autaxia. Archival fragments recount the rise and catastrophic fall of a once-great society consumed by religious extremism. Each track serves as a chilling archaeological excavation, peeling back layers of historical trauma and philosophical depth.
'Dawn Of A New Age' isn't just an album - it's an existential expedition into the heart of human belief systems. Divine Sovereign examines how spiritual passion can simultaneously inspire remarkable resilience and trigger devastating societal collapse. The album invites listeners to explore Autaxia, an enigmatic planet where the remnants of a tragically fallen civilization reveal a haunting tale. Dawn of a New Age delves into the dual nature of religious zeal—both as a unifying force and as a catalyst for societal collapse.
The story unfolds through a cinematic lens: a research vessel lands on a desolate world and uncovers the ruins of Autaxia. Archival fragments recount the rise and catastrophic fall of a once-great society consumed by religious extremism. Each track serves as a chilling archaeological excavation, peeling back layers of historical trauma and philosophical depth.
'Dawn Of A New Age' isn't just an album - it's an existential expedition into the heart of human belief systems. Divine Sovereign examines how spiritual passion can simultaneously inspire remarkable resilience and trigger devastating societal collapse.
www.facebook.com/DivineSovereign
Tracklist
1 Armées de la Nuit
2 Damnée
3 Cheval Astral
4 Verminateur
5 Au Jugement de Soi
6 Invasion
7 Envahisseurs
8 Prière de Remords
9 Bons Baisers d Outre
10 Reviens
At last, the second wind of youth is blowing for “French Heavy Metal” – and, to be honest, not a moment too soon. It took just over 40 years for France to finally have its own heavy shock-rock band, ANIMALIZE: a name you may already have seen on some French and German lineup events over the last four years.
“Who do these extroverts think they are, sporting outrageous outfits with harnesses and chains? Brandishing a chainsaw and a katana in the middle of a concert, then vomiting blood all over the audience? Really?!” Yes, really.
Year 2025. ANIMALIZE are back with a new full-length, Verminateur – but this time, entirely in French, at the request of maniacs since their first record, 2020’s Tales From the Crypt EP. If their Meat We’re Made Of debut album in 2022 showed the visible part of the iceberg, then Verminateur displays the true sound of the band, pushing the boundaries! That celebrated first full-length might’ve seen the band evince a sort of restless genius – speed metal synthesized with power-thrash and traditional metal into a dizzying-yet-addicting blend, jumping across countries and even continents with insane ease – but on Verminateur, ANIMALIZE lock into a lazer-sighted focus that sees them making good on the anthemic side of things they only hinted at before. Mostly mid-tempo, strutting and cruising with charisma, nearly all of the album’s ten tracks (barring a one-minute synthy & cinematic “Invasion” and the dramatic piano piece “Prière de Remords”) hit that heavenly balance between buoyant hook and heavy thrust, between rock-god maximalism and back-street mischief. It’d not be inaccurate to say some of the tracks could’ve been on MTV circa 1985…if that channel aired in France. And when ANIMALIZE wanna rip forth in speed metal mode, they do so with a streamlined power that’s a marvel to behold. Oh, and the all-French lyrics simply make Verminateur that much more sublime, surprising, and above all unique.
For he is the earth cancer eliminator. He is the VERMINATEUR! Because the vermin is YOU.
To coincide with the release of ANIMALIZE’s Verminateur, DYING VICTIMS will be reissuing Meat We’re Made Of. Taste the New Wave of French Heavy Metal…again!
Line-up:
Jessman - Guitars
Coyote - Vocals, Bass
RattleGab - Guitars
Hyungminator - drums
From Lyon, France
Artwork:
Morgan Turner
Release date:
23rd May 2025
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on glow-in-the-dark vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
After the success of their debut album, "Heavy Lies The Crown", the band took some time off to craft a masterpiece that's faster, darker, and more intense than ever before. Now, just over two years later, they're back and ready to unleash this beast upon the world!
Listen to the album on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer etc): https://push.fm/fl/wretchedpath-seaofdeath
Tracklist
01. Release Of Violence
02. Death Machine
03. Apophis
04. False God
05. Rot Alone
06. Violence Within
07. Wretched Path
08. Sea Of Death
Record Label: Meara Music
Release date: March 26th 2025
Formed in 2020 by seasoned musicians from renowned bands like Pestigore, Born of Thorns, Tukkanuotta, and Warmen, Wretched Path was born out of a desire to return to their Death Metal roots. Their debut album received rave reviews from various magazines and websites, and they played several gigs around Finland including the legendary Nummirock festival 2023.
https://www.wretchedpath.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wretchedpath
Watch Spirit of Gravity music video: https://youtu.be/IZ4S5DrNBgs
‘Spirit of Gravity’ is a relentless onslaught on the listener that introduces both the fresh sound of the band as well as their new bass player Mertta Halonen. Being perhaps Sargassus’ heaviest song to date, it features aggressive blast beats and wailing tremolo riffs ornate with shrieks and guttural growls, much
like in some modern black metal songs.
The song was initially formed around the peculiar blast beat that starts the song. Later the bunch worked all together on the song, refining it into what you’ll now know as ‘Spirit of Gravity’. Once the song felt complete enough, it was time to pen fitting lyrics. The chaotic nature of the song demanded the listener’s attention, so it only made sense to write the lyrics from the point of view of a rabidly preaching ritualist. With bass parts being composed last, they managed to highlight some groovier elements that can be found in Sargassus’ earlier works. The end result is something familiar, yet superlative.
Thematically ‘Spirit of Gravity’ centers around themes of rebirth, Nietzschean philosophy and conformity. The lyrics are structured like an occult ritual of renewal, where the participants ingest poisons to break free from a circular existence, but in typical Sargassus fashion the ritual is likened to a wildly inebriated communion. Structure and sincere practices are mirrored with chaos and natural human perversion, masking philosophical ponderings about the eternal recurrence and life’s immanent worth.
The band comments:
" ‘Spirit of Gravity’ is no doubt Sargassus’ heaviest song to date. While the song might showcase clear modern black metal influences, it is not without groovier and eerily calming passages. The chaotic nature of the song may partly reflect the whims of the band itself, but this oppressing feeling is also a key theme on the rest of the upcoming album. ‘Spirit of Gravity’ tells the story of an ecstatic ritual in occult fashion, while reflecting on philosophical aspects of eternal recurrence and life’s immanent worth."
Listen to Spirit of Gravity on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/sargassus-spirit
Sargassus - Spirit of Gravity (Single 2025)
Composed by Teemu Leskinen, Matias Rokio & Matias Stenman
Lyrics by Matias Stenman
Vocal Production by Raging Cannon
Mix & Master by Joona Muistola @ HAW Studios
Cover art by Matias Stenman
Line-up:
Matias Rokio - Drums
Teemu Leskinen - Guitar
Matias Stenman - Vocals
Mertta Halonen - Bass
https://sargassus.com
https://www.facebook.com/sargassusband
We’re
proud to announce and orchestrate the ascension of SAMIARUS,
a new black/death metal horde rising from within the thriving SF Bay Area punk
and metal scene, and whose terror-engulfing debut EP “REIGN
DESTROYER” is on the launch ramp for a late April 2025 release via
Sentient Ruin.
The gruesome short player has been teased by rising extreme metal blog Toilet Ov Hell, who in premiering the track “NEW IRON AGE” have remarked how the release introduces a “new era that is not built on faith and reason, but on smashed faces and encroaching decay” and that the band’s music is “dirty, gross blackened death metal“ - you can check out the feature and the track https://toiletovhell.com/premiere-samiarus-new-iron-age/
Samiarus (or Samyaza as more widely known in Aramaic) is the Arabic name of the leader of the Watchers in apocryphal abrahamic scriptures, a rebel angel who shared knowledge with men and birthed the Nephilim, becoming a danger to divine power and law and turning into the absolute usurper. Conceived from within the SF Bay Area punk and metal underground (by current and past members of Abnutivum, Meth Sores, Flesh Dungeon, Doomsday, Slaughteruin, Abstracter and Mentor), emerging black/death metal terrorists Samiarus embody their namesake concept of abysmal occult usurpation to the boldest through their debut EP “Reign Destroyer”, a twenty three minute siege of blown out, bestial sonic upheaval fuming from the iron jaws of terror. While deliberately embracing the cruelty and darkness of the war metal movement developed by bands like Blasphemy and Archgoat, Samiarus’ own formulaic sonic design for the gruesome deposition of all oppressors has brought in a number of other influences to further weaponize their subversive terroristic vision. These influences mainly come from punk and hardcore bands like G.I.S.M., Doom, Raw Nerve, Cult Ritual, Discharge and Siege, as well as from some of the band members’ interest in certain strains of industrial and noise music. A concoction of retaliative audial tactics that has ultimately shaped an anarchic war-torn sonic scourge grueling with dismal reflections on the human condition and on society’s worst embodiments.
Samiarus’ debut “Reign Destroyer” EP is slated for an April 25 2025 release via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, all pre-orderable now via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/samiarus-reign-destroyer
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/samiarus
Tracklist
1 Flames of Hades
2 Infernö Crematörio
3 Black Fire Demon
4 Purgatory Raiders
5 Sword of Baphomet
6 Rapid Possession
7 Oathbreaker
8 Mark of the Beast
9 Templar's Curse
You wouldn’t have guessed it early on, but HELLCRASH would eventually – and patiently – refine their ancient attack, relatively “cleaning up” something still unclean. When they formed in 2013, a debut album was still a way off, but when it landed in 2021 on vinyl via DYING VICTIMS, Krvcifix Invertör proved HELLCRASH were a power-trio in the grand tradition of domestic legends Bulldozer, brewing a similarly sleazy (and EVIL) style of speed metal. And yet, despite another OTT cover suggesting otherwise, their second album announced that there was MUCH more brewing in HELLCRASH’s cauldron. Released in 2023, Demonic Assassination saw a fine-tuning of songcraft and a polishing of production that paid off in spades, now nodding more to later GBH, Carnivore, and Warfare.
Alas, a dozen years after their formation, HELLCRASH have pulled off the impossible and refined this attack even further with LP#3, Inferno Crematörio. Of course, another totally OTT cover graces the album, and somehow it makes absolute sense with where HELLCRASH are now going. Whereas its predecessor took various routes – sometimes more speed metal, other times more thrash, or even metalpunk before it was such a thing, often all in the same song – Inferno Crematörio sees a streamlining of their songcraft and a “deftening” of sensibilities, where energy is retained and even doubled through more dynamic playing and indeed an emphasis on dynamics itself. By and large, HELLCRASH here sound their most blackened, but “blackened” in the sense of evil thrash and speed metal imbued with more atmosphere: not “spooky” in the kooky sense, but definitely more sulfurous and sinful, brimming with a sense of space that sounds huge and intimate simultaneously. Likewise, the trio exhibit a newfound charisma that (spit)shines through this sulfurous surge, like Satan laughing as he spreads his wings. That everything’s not 666% overdrive all the time ably benefits these ten tracks – and concluding with 10-minute(!) epic in “Templars’ Curse” – resulting in a more thoroughly headbanging, maybe-medieval, and immediately memorable listen. And, truth be told, perhaps HELLCRASH’s best record yet…but only time will tell.
In the meantime, maniacs for such ‘90s icons like Zemial and Germany’s Desaster or especially such esteemed labelmates as NOCTURNAL, BLACKEVIL, and HEXECUTOR, you’re hereby commanded to reap the hellish bounty of HELLCRASH’s Inferno Crematörio!
Line-up:
Skullcrusher - Bass
Hellraiser - Vocals, Guitars
A.R. Evilbringer - Drums
From Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy
Artwork:
Samuele Scalise
Release date:
23rd May 2025
Release info:
Regular gatefold LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special gatefold LP edition on orange vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
MALUM MORTEM - "VOLUME I"
Genre : Depressive Black Metal
Release date : 26/04/2025
Label : Black Mass Prayers
FFO: Austere, Nyktalgia, Forgotten Woods, Make a Change... Kill Yourself
"Volume I" is composed of old and new songs made by Malum Mortem (aka Valentino Aragues), few of these already released as demo versions. All songs have been remixed and remastered in order to create a cohesive and emotionally touching full-lenght album, rich of negativity, loss and suffering. As often is for Depressive Black Metal, the sound is raw and abrasive, yet the style is rich of melodies, well balanced high-pitched vocals and atmospheres of angst.
Tracklist
1. 0+
2. Awaiting For My Death
3. You Were My Angel
4. Ghost In Love
5. The Rising Of Darkness
6. Hate God And Kill Yourself
7. Unpunished
Line-up:
Valentino Aragues – Everything
https://www.facebook.com/blackmassprayers/?_rdr
https://www.instagram.com/malummortem_dsbm/
FLY! is a fast and mean rock ‘n’ roll machine from Melbourne. Emerging from the darkest depths of the Aussie wastelands, FLY! united with a singular vision: to play fast, loud, and mean rock ‘n’ roll, harkening back to the raw power of 1970s and early ‘80s rock. Inspired by the likes of Motörhead, Judas Priest, and AC/DC, FLY! are a rough ‘n’ rowdy amalgam of their influences, and then some!
Formed in 2023, FLY! blasted onto the Australian rock scene, playing up and down the east coast and leaving a trail of destruction (and empty beer cans) in their wake. 2024 saw the release of FLY!’s dangerous debut demo with a string of blistering national performances to follow, seeing FLY! share the stage with the likes of the Cosmic Psychos, Cancer Bats, and heavy metal brethren (and now-labelmates) AARDVARK, among many others.
With two songs reprised from that demo, the quartet now present their first full-length, …or Die! Wasting not a whole minute as they ride “Into the Wasteland”, these road warriors take flight across the 11-track / 39-minute album: a no-holds-barred love letter to speed, desert highways, murderous marauders and relentless riffs. Lean, mean and unclean, their high-speed, raw-power rock ‘n’ roll kicks out the jams with judicious efficiency. There’s no overthinking these desert-wasteland anthems; you simply hop on and go, go, go! FLY!’s vicious, high-speed rock explores themes such as weapons, beer, homicidal maniacs, and the power of acceleration! And while not overtly retro-oriented, there’s an authentically late ‘70s feel to …or Die!, from the just-distorted-enough guitar tones, the crash ‘n’ bash rhythms, and especially the songwriting itself: juiced up like Bomber, strutting like Stained Class, sleazy like Powerage. Add in a touch of mid ‘70s Thin Lizzy and a punk-and-proud attitude like Zeke – or hell, even spiritual cues to their homeland’s rich tradition of garage rock – and you’re left with no choice: FLY! …or Die!
Tracklist
1 Into the Wasteland
2 Highway Fiend
3 The Sinner
4 Bowie Knife
5 Lecherous Lover
6 Loser
7 Fly or Die
8 Freeway Phantom
9 Gasoline
10 6-Pack
11 Sweet Leaf
Line-up:
Tom Thompson - Bass
Willy Cox - Vocals, Guitars
Rodney Speedman - Drums
Malcom 'Mouldy' Black - Guitar
From Melbourne, Australia
Artwork:
Oscar Bonin
Release date:
23rd May 2025
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
NOMAD
SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS
proudly presents:
HELHEIM- „ BLOD & ILD“
For the first time ever, the third full-length album by the Norwegian pagan ensemble Helheim is now finally available on vinyl!
Neither band nor album need further introductions, of course...
Nine tracks spread over nearly 40 minutes of music, printed as an exclusive 200 copy limited edition (50 black and 150 marble gold/black vinyl)!
To keep everything in its proper zeitgeist, we decided to keep it all as close to the ’00 original release as possible, so expect no alternative layout or a fancy digital re-mastering enhancements!
We are thus presenting “Blod og Ild” in its natural form, and this time on the most noble of formats!
UNBEGOTTEN / VELO MISERE - “SILENCIO Y DEMENCIA”
From Spain, two misanthropic hordes have returned to torment humanity with their prayers of Death: Unbegotten, a vicious and mystifying entity formed in 2016, responsible for one demo and two full-length albums, and Velo Misere, a 5-piece horde, striking again after having previously released A demo, an EP and a full-length album.
With each band presenting 3 brand new tracks of nihilistic necromancing Black Metal, Nomad Snakepit Productions and Altare Productions joined forces to unleash this split LP unto the slumbering scene, in a limited edition of 250 copies.
This is the soundtrack for the all-consuming void...
All you need to do is dive...
SVARTSYN – “ VORTEX OF THE DESTROYER”
With its tenth full-length album, Svartsyn delivers a work rooted in both its present vision and primordial past. “Vortex of the Destroyer” unfolds in two intertwined chapters: four new compositions alongside six resurrected relics from Chalice, the entity that would become Svartsyn in 1994.
The first half of “Vortex of the Destroyer” embodies a refined yet relentless approach, shaped by instinct and hindsight alike. From the ruin of Atlantis to the flames of Surtr and Fenrir, these songs channel Svartsyn’s pursuit of apocalyptic grandeur – a descent into the abyss.
The latter half harks back to the autumn of 1992, breathing new life into six compositions first forged under the Chalice banner. Conceived at the dawn of the second wave of Black Metal, these tracks honour the band’s origins. Re-recorded with present clarity, their essence remains untouched: wild, sinister, and unmistakably Ornias.
By uniting its earliest fire with its latest incarnation, Svartsyn asserts an unbroken path of black devotion. “Vortex of the Destroyer” is both a return and an advance, where destruction and renewal converge.
With both CD & LP coming out by the hands of Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Nomad Snakepit Productions was given the honour of casting this new masterpiece on cassette tape, in a limited edition of 100 copies!
Svartsyn cassette reissues:
“The True Legend” ltd. tape
“Wrath Upon the Earth” ltd. tape
“Black Testament” ltd. tape
“In Death” ltd. tape
As a cherry on the cake, all Svartsyn albums previously released on CD/ LP by Agonia Records have now been released for the first time on cassette tape!
Featuring the original layout, each tape-release is limited to only 50 copies, so you better act fast if you want some!
https://shop.nwnprod.com/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SEXMAG’S highly anticipated debut album, SEXORCYZM, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Possessed night. Full moon. A disgusting corpse digs its rotting body out of a cold grave. Twisted death will soon attack for the second time, forcing the metalheads to bang their heads.
Thus comes the full-length arrival of SEXMAG, appropriately titled Sexorcyzm. If 2021’s Sex Metal lewdly introduced these Polish degenerates to the international metal underground – a full 25 minutes of caustic & careening sound, drawing equal strength from ‘80s proto-black metal and the vilest thrash – then this 39-minute debut album will decisively blow open the gates to Hell. Whereas that mini-album sounded like the most garaged old New Renaissance release left rotting in the sun and covered in black-candle wax, here do SEXMAG up the evil and sharpen their still-rusty attack, expursing sodomy and total desaster across this Sexorcyzm. This monster of dead Silesia and his four servants unleash a hell-load of Total Metal – worshiping Satan and summoning the old spirits of Sarcófago, Tormentor, Bulldozer, and Destruction. The sensation of OLD drapes everything about Sexorcyzm: sorcerous songwriting, vintage analog recording, just enough gutter reverb, and an all-encompassing atmosphere of the supernatural and sexual. You already know if this is for you, or whether you need to promptly leave the hall.
Feel invited into the darkest medieval tale, full of unholiness, perversion, and absolute horror. Tragic black magic will cast a spell on you and force you to keep Metal Total or die: SEXMAG have invoked their Sexorcyzm!
Tracklist
1 Intro - Total Metal
2 Inkubus
3 Smród palonych dusz
4 Odurzony smiercia
5 Sex z diablem
6 Córy Koryntu
7 Psalm I - Intronizacja Szatana
8 Sexorcyzm
Line-up:
Jacek "Truposz" Wojno - Vocals
Lord Violator - Vocals, Drums
Igor "Maniak" Falinski - Guitars
Michal "Sabat" Sabatowski - Bass
From Silesia, Poland
Artwork:
Maegan LeMay
Release date:
23rd May 2025
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on vomit-of-the-priest vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Hailing from the vibrant city of Liepāja, Overcast Rain is poised to make waves in the global metal scene once again with their highly anticipated third studio album, Black Death. Set for release on April 11, 2025, under the esteemed Brutal Records banner, this album promises to redefine the boundaries of dark metal with a sonic assault like no other.
A Legacy Forged in Darkness
Formed in 2014 by the visionary duo Mihails Maslovs (vocals/guitar) and Kolja Kirk (drums), Overcast Rain has emerged as a beacon of Latvia’s thriving metal scene. Over the past decade, the band has undergone remarkable evolution, marked by lineup transformations and sonic experimentation, solidifying their place as one of the genre’s most dynamic and innovative forces.
Their discography boasts two critically acclaimed albums:
Since You Die (July 11, 2020)
My God Hates Me (March 1, 2022)
These releases have earned the band significant accolades, with tracks like “All Hope Is Gone” breaking into the Destrokit Rock Chart Top 50 and securing spots on the prestigious European Metal Channel rankings. Recognized as cultural milestones, both albums are enshrined in the National Library of Latvia.
The Evolution of Overcast Rain
After a brief hiatus, Mihails Maslovs and Andris Aleksejevs reignited the band in 2018, channeling a renewed vision to craft a heavier, more aggressive sound. The addition of new members and the transition away from female vocals heralded a bold new era for Overcast Rain. This revamped lineup debuted with electrifying performances at Bunker13 Fest and clinched second place at the Fresh Blood competition, setting the stage for their meteoric rise.
Their relentless energy and captivating performances have taken them across Europe and beyond, with standout appearances at premier festivals such as Dark Malta Fest, GoatHell Metal Fest, Barbar Fest, and DiFest. Sharing stages with icons like Die Krupps, Blood Red Throne, Psyclon Nine, and Ost+Front, Overcast Rain has solidified their reputation as a must-see act on the global metal circuit.
Black Death: A New Chapter
Overcast Rain finished album Black Death, a collection of 13 tracks that includes both brand-new songs and remastered fan favorites. This ambitious release showcases their relentless drive to push the boundaries of dark metal and promises to be a landmark achievement in their career.
Tracklist:
Intro
Black Death
Satanic Slut
Rain
Nightmare
Shadows
Damned
Lost
Motherland
Helloween
White Snow (feat. Artyom Kuricyn - Yomi on Flute (mokshan lang)
War (remastered)
Winter Depression (remastered)
The Current Lineup
Mihails Maslovs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Marks Širokovs – Drums, Samples, Backing Vocals
Rudolf Vistiņš – Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Andris Aleksejevs – Lead Guitar
Leonidas Heidemanis – Lead Guitar
Aleksandrs Tiškevičs – Bass
A Storm Is Coming
As Overcast Rain gears up to release their heaviest single video yet, anticipation is reaching fever pitch. Under the Brutal Records banner, this dark metal powerhouse is ready to usher in a new era of dominance.
Stay tuned for updates—the storm is just beginning.
https://orcd.co/brut89668
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
Raison d'être is the esteemed dark ambient project of Swedish sound artist Peter Andersson, formed in 1991 as a tool for self-expression. With a career spanning nearly three decades and numerous influential releases, raison d'être has become a pinnacle of the genre, renowned for its overwhelming dark ambient drone industrial soundscapes. Andersson's work often incorporates field recordings and manipulated acoustic instruments, creating a unique and perfected sonic experience that invites listeners to explore the obscure realms of their inner selves.
"Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations" is a defining work of
sonic mysticism, originally released by the legendary record label Cold Meat
Industry. Created by the visionary Peter Andersson, this album remains an
unparalleled journey through shadowy cathedrals, industrial ruins and the vast
chasms of the subconscious. Andersson conjures an atmosphere thick with sacred
reverence and existential dread, where distant choirs echo like ghostly
remnants, deep drones stretch into eternity, and mechanical whispers weave an
intricate and otherworldly soundscape.
This re-release celebrates the enduring legacy of this essential album, offering fans and newcomers alike the opportunity to experience its haunting beauty in stunning new formats:
Limited Double Black Vinyl Edition: Presented in a lavish gatefold sleeve, this numbered edition is limited to 300 copies.
Limited Double Marbled Gold & Black Vinyl Edition: Also housed in a gatefold sleeve and limited to 300 numbered copies, this edition offers a visually striking complement to the album's sombre elegance.
Limited Triple CD "Sublime Edition": This edition is limited to 500 numbered copies and features an updated mix of the complete album, additional tracks and a second mastering of the original 1995 recording, providing a comprehensive exploration of this influential work.
"Few albums capture the very essence of dark ambient as completely as Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations," Rune Serpent Europa states. "It's a work that demands full immersion, headphones, darkness, and an open mind. This re-release is an essential addition to any serious collection. With only 1100 numbered copies available across all formats, this is a unique opportunity for true collectors and fans of dark ambient and industrial music to own a piece of history.”
https://raison-detre.info/
https://www.facebook.com/raisondetreofficial/
https://www.facebook.com/runeserpenteuropa
NEWS 22.3.2023
Aktuelle Reviews :
KRUD – „ KRUD II“
AKANTOPHIS – “ERNEUERUNG”
CURSE OF KHATRU - –„ CURSE OF KHATRU”
CRUENTA VENGANZA bringen am 16.05.2025 ihr drittes Album "LEGEND" heraus. Als erste Veröffentlichung präsentieren die Death Metaller nun den Song "MOON BASE MASSACRE" in Form eines Lyric Videos.
Bei einem der drei folgenden Fakten handelt es sich um einen Aprilscherz:
1. Die Hintergrundbilder des Videos sind vollständig KI-generiert.
2. Der eingeblendete Songtext besteht aus von Hand geschriebenen, eingescannten Buchstaben, die anschließend manuell Zeile für Zeile zusammengesetzt wurden.
3. Bei dem Mann auf dem Album-Cover handelt es sich tatsächlich um Danny Trejo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsWrZDi4EwE
DESERTED FEAR – Dritte Single "VEINS
OF FIRE" und Video ab sofort online! DESERTED
FEAR veröffentlichen heute nach „The Truth“ und „Blind“ bereits die dritte
Single ihres neuen Albums “Veins Of Fire”, das am 25.04. über Testimony Records
erscheinen wird.Die dritte Single ist der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“, hier könnt ihr das Lyric-Video sehen: https://youtu.be/IsbJiChz8fc
Die Band dazu:
„Mit „Veins Of Fire“ veröffentlichen wir heute den Titelsong unseres neuen Albums. Der Song, wie auch das Album, sind eine Reflexion über den Zustand unserer Welt – zwischen Hoffnung und Abgrund. Er steht für den Moment, in dem man sich trotz Schmerz, Wut und Ohnmacht nicht unterkriegen lässt und aus Glut wieder eine Flamme wird.“
Video Credits:
Video by Irvan @ The Black Visual Studio
Mix & Master by Fabian Hildebrandt @ Eisensound
Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere. Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens. Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" wird als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich sein. Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle werden exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich sein.
Shop:
https://desertedfear.ffm.to/veinsoffire
http://lnk.spkr.media/desertedfear-fire
DESERTED FEAR werden Ende April zur Veröffentlichung von „Veins Of Fire“ auf Tour gehen.
Veins Of Fire - Tour 2025
Deserted Fear
Kvaen
Fall Of Serenity
Messticator
Do 24.04. Hamburg - Bahnhof Pauli
Fr 25.04. Essen - Turock
Sa 26.04. Jena - F-Haus
So 27.04. Osnabrück - Bastard Club (Matinée!)
Mo 28.04. Kassel - Goldgrube
Di 29.04. Hannover - Musikzentrum
Mi 30.04. Berlin - Cassiopeia
Do 01.05. Wiesbaden - Schlachthof
Fr 02.05. München - Backstage (Halle)
Sa 03.05. Stuttgart - Club Zentral
3.-5.7.2025 Ballenstedt - Rockharz Festival
1.-2.8.2025 Dortmund - Dortmund Deathfest
Tickets: https://www.desertedfear.de/tour
www.desertedfear.de
www.facebook.com/desertedfear
Heute gibt es schon wieder spannende News, die direkt von unseren Freunden von MOTÖRHEAD kommen: Es geht um die Enthüllung der Lemmy-Statue in seinem Geburtsort Stoke-On-Trent, die wir in einem früheren Post für den 8. Mai angekündigt hatten. Dieses Ereignis wurde nun um einen Tag auf den 9. Mai verschoben.
LEMMY FOREVER STOKE-ON-TRENT-Zeremonie und Statue-Enthüllung auf den 9. MAI 2025 verlegt
Freunde, Römer, Landsleute, Frauen und Motörhead-Fans jeder Art und jedes Glaubens, wir freuen uns, bestätigen zu können, dass die Lemmy Forever-Zeremonie und die Enthüllung der Statue in Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent, am FREITAG, 9. Mai**, ab 16 Uhr GMT stattfinden wird. Phil Campbell wird anwesend sein, um die Beisetzung von Lems Asche in einer beeindruckenden Statue zu begleiten, die von dem hiesigen Bildhauer und großen Motörhead-Fan Andy Edwards geschaffen wurde. Wir freuen uns, Lemmy Forever in seinem Geburtsort zu sehen. Viele weitere Details werden wir in den kommenden Wochen bekannt geben, also haltet bitte Ausschau nach weiteren Updates.
**Für alle, die sich wundern: Es handelt sich um die gleiche Veranstaltung, die ursprünglich für den 8. Mai angekündigt war. Da dies aber der 80. Jahrestag des VE-Days ist, schien es angemessen, sie auf den 9. Mai zu verlegen.
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: June 10th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Dismember | Entombed | Vomitory | Chaos Breed
Beneath a skull-faced moon on a night when old and young alike shake and sweat beneath their sheets as the reaper travels through their dreams, when the mausoleum gates fall broken to the ground and the ways to Tartarus stand open…then the dead arise to hunt. From beneath the flames and through the graveyard dirt their mouldering corpses rise, tattered sinew and fragmenting bones infused with strength and spirit for one night of vengeful freedom. One night of spite and violence, one night of lust and hunger; one night to tear down the living and drag them into realms below!
Four years on from their Regurgitated Into Existence debut, Finnish death metal fiends Deathgoat have returned for your bodies and your souls! Dragged Into Realms Below is their new nine track album of funeral rites and undead rebirth, absolute death metal in every twitching limb and empty eye socket. Beginning with the haunting notes of intro ‘Alkulima’, part lament, part invocation and all evil, Dragged Into Realms Below is a rampaging beast spawned from the rotten womb of early Scandinavian death. Savage tracks like ‘Congregation Of Disease’ are rife with riffs infused with horror and arcane ritual, devilish and dark. From the absolute inferno of ‘Dying To Be Dead’ to the malignant majesty of the album’s concluding, title track, via the glorious atmospheric lead work of ‘Compulsive Cannibalism’, Dragged Into Realms Below is everything a death metal album should be. Complete with a feral, snarling guitar tone, drums like hammers on coffin lids and a voice that speaks from the abyssal pits of the underworld, no death metal addict will be able to resist the lure of this gut wrenching poison.
Adorned in the masterful artwork of Bram Bruyneel (Officium Triste, Hideous Divinity etc) Dragged Into Realms Below will be unleashed upon the world on June 10th by Xtreem Music, who are fast becoming a byword for brilliance when it comes to supreme old school death metal! When this out of control hearse comes careering out of the night this summer, be prepared for total annihilation!
Line-up:
Chope666 - Drums
Vicar Miggoat - Guitars
Nihilist - Guitars/Backing Vocals
Putrid Worm - Vocals
L.F. Molestor – Bass
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/deathgoatdeathmetal
MURDER RECORDS ( info@murder-records.eu , www.murder-records.eu )is honored to announce the upcoming funeral ceremony where BLASFEMATOR will join with SEPULCRAL to carry the coffins of desecration in the funeral march where this filthy split will be presented and which is entitled "BESTIAL RITES OF MORBID LUST".
BLASFEMATOR are an infernal legion from Greece formed in 2022 that presents us with an overwhelming raw Black Thrash Metal that is complemented by morbid melodies allowing us to penetrate the perverse underworld of darkness where cadaveric filth will devour us incessantly.
SEPULCRAL come from the putrid bowels of Colombia formed in 2023 and present us with a nefarious and impure Black Death Metal moldy with the blasphemous odors of sulfur that evoke the profane rot of death.
The prophets of death have already begun to sound their unholy trumpets to announce the malevolent ritual of lust where the bestial legions of hell will be able to hear the call for this sonic feast that Murder Records is preparing to present. This release is not recommended for sensitive creatures who are offended by raw perversity and where blasphemy is presented exposed without censorship. For all those who feel offended, a big fuck you, this is a release only for the true infamous demons of the extreme Underground. Only Death Is Real...
SATANIK THRASH BLACK DEATH RAW METAL...
BLASFEMATOR
/ SEPULCRAL – "BESTIAL RITES OF MORBID LUST" Split Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
SIDE A
BLASFEMATOR
01 - Diabolik Incarnation [03:05]
02 - Morbid Lust [3:39]
SIDE B
SEPULCRAL
03 - Bestial Rape [5:00]
04 - WarGoat Ritval [3:01]
05 - Conquerors Of The Black Oath [3:11]
Release Date: June, 6th 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
BLASFEMATOR Biography:
Blasfemator was formed back in 2018 by Necrobaphometh (vocals, bass) under the name Goatslaught in Ioannina, Greece.
After releasing one demo tape and a split the band went on hiatus until 2022.
With the addition of Infernal Sadomator (guitars) and Hemophiliak Cadaverik Warmaster (drums).
They reformed the band as Blasfemator and began working on new material.
As years went by all the members relocated in Athens and in 2024 2 tracks were recorded.
During a rehersal for a split with Sepulcral.
BLASFEMATOR Line-Up:
Necrobaphometh (Vocals & Bass)
Infernal Sadomator (Guitars)
Hemophiliak Cadaverik Warmaster (Drums)
blasfemator666@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Blasfemator/100064083732922/
SEPULCRAL Biography:
Sepulcral was formed in 2023 by Dante (Goatsodomy) on guitar and vocals along with Felipe (Goatextermination) on drums.
In 2024, BestialBlackgoat-Militant on bass and SadogoAngelgoat on vocals joined them, recording their first full EP (4444).
Impure sound that evokes death extracting three tracks for the split with Blasfemator.
SEPULCRAL Line-Up:
Dante Goatsodomy (Guitar & Vocals)
Felipe Goatextermination (Drums)
BestialBlackgoat-Militant (Bass)
SadogoAngelgoat (Vocals)
torodante503@gmail.com
Andrews passed away on March 19 at age 51. The band states: "A highly in-demand singer and guitarist, Jeff performed on numerous albums and played countless live shows as a member of many notable bands from the upstate New York area. He is loved and missed by many."
The Beginning of the End is available to stream/purchase at:
Digital distribution for all major platforms via Death Farm Records. Any labels interested in collaborating with the band for a limited physical pressing of The Beginning of the End, please contact: thefinalsleepny@gmail.com.
Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his role in Arsis, where he played on acclaimed releases such as A Celebration of Guilt and A Diamond for Disease, and toured globally alongside heavyweights like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Cynic, Dying Fetus, Grave, Necrophagist, Napalm Death, and Six Feet Under. Dan Saltzman (bass), hailing from the Bay Area, whose impressive work has been showcased in Illucinus and The Hunt, as well as recent demonstration videos for ESP bass guitars.
Produced and mixed by Brett Portzer (Skinless, Author & Punisher, Arsis), The Beginning of the End consists of six tracks clocking in at 37 minutes. It is the creative vision of Andrews and Van Dyne, who recorded two albums and performed together alongside such notable bands as At The Gates, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sanctuary, Rivers of Nihil, Fates Warning, All That Remains, and many others with their previous band, The Final Sleep. The Beginning of the End additionally includes guest appearances by Kyle Chapman (Aethereus, Blighted Eye), John Judson (Rwake, Scott Kelly), and Petr Oplatka (Illucinus).
Track
Listing:1. Bleed Through This Life
2. Skies Turn To Graves
3. Fleshspoil
4. Walking Dead
5. A Frail Demise
6. Born Into Despair
Credits:
Guitar solo and additional chaos on “Bleed Through This Life” by Kyle Chapman of Aethereus and Blighted Eye.
Guitar solo on “Walking Dead” by Petr Oplatka of Illucinus.
Lap steel guitar on “Bleed Through This Life” and “Skies Turn To Graves” by John Judkins of Rwake.
Drum tracking engineered by Brett Portzer at White Lake Music & Post.
Guitar and vocal tracking engineered by Van Dyne/Andrews.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Brett Portzer.
Music and arrangements by Andrews/Van Dyne. Lyrics by Andrews.
Cover art: “L’Umana Fragilità” by Salvator Rosa (1656)
Line-up:
Mike Van Dyne - Drums
Jeff Andrews - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Saltzman - Bass
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
MURDER RECORDS is proud to announce the next noise epidemic campaign, where DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND joins forces with HORRÍVEL, to make a split that will be released in cassette format and that manifests itself as a despicable campaign of hatred towards the modern Underground of today and where true Noisecore, as well as pure Raw Anarko Punk, do not belong much less identify...
This split is a manifest of social intolerance against the Noisecore of Sesame Street and the Punk of Disney of today, where everything is offensive in this modern world full of hypocrisy and pathetic sentimentalism of this nutela generation...
HUMANS ARE LIKE PURE SHIT... FUCK YOU ALL!!!
Disfigured Human Mind and Horrível are two projects that never intend to fit into this shitty modern Underground, where the falseness of the true values of the true Underground are humiliated with shameful shitty attitudes! In this manifest of antisocial noise, the corrosive Noisecore prevails and the caustic Raw Anarko Punk reigns, without the need to please anything or anyone! Here there are no mixes, only those who know the real meaning of the true essence from pure Noisecore and true Antisocial Anarko Punk, will be able to understand what is exposed here, the rest will only feel bothered and offended by the explicit hatred vomited on your face with this horrendous split...
Here nothing will be pleasant and everything will be done in the most decadent and offensive way possible! Don't expect anything from us, because we also don't expect anything from you, much less your insignificant attention, pathetic tolerance or your idiotic sentimentalism! Die everyone, it's a favor you're doing to the true Underground, infested with mongoloids and hothouse flowers who only need attention and acting like porn stars giving ass and licking dicks, so they can play at concerts or festivals! Put all your concerts, festivals, tours, parties and social gatherings up your ass, we are not interested at all to be part of it...
This split will not be sold or marketed to the idiots of the modern Underground, where damn capitalism reigns! When the Underground starts to be a business, it simply stops being Underground and that is why we are less and less rats in this rotten underworld, where only the true sewer rats of hell can survive without selling their character! For those bastards who want to acquire a copy of this split, they must contact Murder Records "ONLY" who will make the necessary copies to prevent this split from reaching the hands of ignorant humans who have sold out to the modern Underground and for that reason, no one is interested in these weak and shitty sellouts and who should not have a copy of this split! Before contacting me to ask for a copy, first check which side of the Underground you are on and do not try to make a fool of me because I am not stupid! I have been in this underworld for many years and I will check your attitudes before giving or selling you a copy, do not try to lick my balls or put your finger in my ass because you will die fast and without mercy...
Don't care about us because we don't care about you either! You and your opinions are insignificant and means absolutely nothing to us! If you defend political ideologies, whether they are left or right, if you care about human rights that are nothing more than brainwashing in controled herds of humans, who don't know how to use their brain, do us a great favor, go fuck yourself and don't try to fool us with your shitty theories! Our hatred is eternal and we don't want to waste our time with your shitty attitudes, much less listen to your senseless speeches!
WE RESPECT ANIMALS NOT HUMANS...
WE DON'T DISCRIMINATE ANYONE WE HATE EVERYONE...
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND IS YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE AND NOT YOUR SWEET DREAMS! THIS IS NOISECORE CORROSIVE FULL OF HATE STAY AWAY FAR AWAY! DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND IS TRUE NOISECORE PROTEST AND NOT A PATHETIC PARTY GRIND...
The necrotic rot that Disfigured Human Mind presents in this noise campaign is titled "Eternal Hatred With Absolute Contempt...", which presents three exclusive manifests of pure Noisecore where hatred and social contempt are exposed directly in a violent and aggressive way, without sympathy or sentimentality! Not recommended for Sesame Street Grinders or for the idiots of the happy Grind of Carnival, where they like children's parties with balloons and walking around all masked...
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND -"ÓDIO ETERNO COM DESPREZO ABSOLUTO..."
01 - Ideais Corrompidos E Valores Destruídos...
02 - Ruído Anarko Punk...
03 - Ódio Eterno Com Desprezo Absoluto...
Punk noises recorded in Portugal in November 2024.
Social insults spewed in the Netherlands in December 2024.
Mastered and produced at Junkie Noise Studios in the Netherlands in December 2024.
This Noisecore session was recorded for use on the split with Horrível from Brazil.
DISFIGURED HUMAN MIND:
Cadaver Panafernalicus (Vomiting Hate & Screaming Contempt)
Cadaver Efermus (Translucent Drums)
Cadaver Possessus (Horrific Guitar)
Improvised Necro Noise Violent Grindcore
https://disfiguredhumanmind.bandcamp.com
HORRÍVEL IS RAW ANARKO PUNK EXTREME KHAOS AND NOT COMPLETE STUPIDITY FROM THE MODERN UNDERGROUND COMERCIAL SHIT! HORRÍVEL IS TOTAL DESTRUKTION WITHOUT SOCIAL TOLERANCE...
From the cursed bowels of the third world, Horrível presents its nefarious noise campaign entitled "They Don't Want to Understand..." where three new and exclusive noise campaigns are presented for this split that are complemented by two noise campaigns taken from the "Promo 2017". Not recommended for Disney Punks acting like idiots, who only defend ridiculous causes and who think they are right, but who are nothing more than a human shit photocopy of each other eating shit with spoons and defending stupid causes with nonsence speeches...
HORRÍVEL - "ELES NÃO QUEREM ENTENDER..."
01 - Mundo Moderno
02 - Persona Non Grata
03 - Eles Não Querem Entender...
04 - Anti-Motivos *
05 - Teleguiados *
Sections recorded in November and December 2024, at Horrendous Home Studio and LF Studio, in Hell de Janeiro.
* Tracks taken from PROMO 2017, section recorded at Estúdio Somzeira in December 2017.
HORRÍVEL:
MXS – Vokaos
SXA – Guitar & Bass
IXG – Drums
Raw Krust Poisonous Anarko Punk
horrivel.grindcrust@gmail.com
https://horrivel.bandcamp.com
Draw
for the cover made by Tereza TerrorLayout for this Split made by Leo Mora
Manifest of hate writed by Danihell Slaughter
OUT NOW
Release Date: 28/MAR/2025
Split Cassette with a corrosive manifest against ideologies of the modern Underground, all idiots of the happy Grind from Sesame Street and all the pathetic cartoons in the Anarko Punk from Disney...
For the humans of shit, all of you can continue your journey and don't waste your time because this is definitely not for you, so go on with your life because you don't belong here...
FUCK OFF YOU ALL BASTARDS OF SHIT...
WARNING
This release will be distributed privately and to purchase a copy of this split you must contact Murder Records who will evaluate whether you really deserve to have a copy of this damn noise manifest.
All copies will be made in a DIY way and all will be personalized, so I don't intend to waste my time making copies for ignorant humans who don't know what they are acquiring, much less am I willing to make anything for grinders or punks, fashionable in the modern Underground and who think they are someone special, I don't want waste my time...
The full description of this release will be duly announced soon, and will contain some exclusive surprises made with total dedication for true addicts of extreme noise and who remain faithful to the Underworld of darkness...
All the ignorant people on social media and the idiots who sell out in the modern Underground, who don't understand anything about it, can listen to this shit on Bandcamp if they want and if they don't, it will be an honor to not count with your insignificant contribution...
This will be another release made in the style that Murder Records likes to present their releases, without following conventional formats, keeping their identity intact and inviolate. For those who know the work done by Murder Records, I think I don't need to say much here to tell you what's coming, so stay tuned because the next noise apocalypse will be duly announced soon, among other relevant information about this split manifest...
SUPPORT THE TRUE CADAVERIC UNDERGROUND...
NOISE ON... WORLD OFF...
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
"Chiaroscuro is a converging point of careful study and artistic impulse, conducted through an interpretation of melodic extreme metal forms"- Cassiopeia, vocalist/lyricist
Chiaroscuro is
now available on digital and limited-edition CD via Unholy Anarchy Records.
Order and stream the EP at https://unholyanarchyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chiaroscuroTracklisting:
1. Sunbeat
2. Hekatomb of Malevolence
3. Unbridled Darkness
4. A Song for Ghosts
The band is set to hit the road in support of the EP. Tour dates are as follows:
4/03 @ Bonk's Bar - Philadelphia, PA (w/ Bastard Cross & Frog Myst)
4/04 @ Ralph's Rock Diner - Worcester, MA (w/ Caregiver & The Outlourdes)
4/05 @ El Bunker Del Diablo - Queens, NY (Del Diablo Fest)
4/06 @ Quinnz Pinz - Middletown, NY (w/ Grave Heist & Ape Metro)
4/07 @ Wax Atlas - Baltimore, MD (w/ Fear Agent & Julia Set)
Vocalist/lyricist Cassiopeia and guitarist/songwriter Nick Temoshok met during their brief stint in a local Baltimore band. The two soon pulled away from that project in a vie for a firm establishment of their collective creative endeavors.
Thus came CHIAROSCURO, by way of a self-produced demo quietly released in 2024. A full live ensemble was arranged shortly thereafter, playing multiple shows in and around the Baltimore area.
Drums for Chiaroscuro were recorded at The Sludge Factory in Baltimore, MD, with vocal tracking done at Eternal Rapture Studio. The EP was produced by Wes Walker at Eternal Rapture Studio in Aberdeen, MD.
Art by George Cruikshank, of "The Drunkard's Children" series, Plate VIII (1848) “The Maniac Father and the Convict Brother are Gone -- The Poor Girl, Homeless, Friendless, Deserted, Destitute, and Gin Mad, Commits Self Murder.”
CHIAROSCURO is:
Cassiopeia: Vocals
Nick Temoshok: Guitars/songwriting
Adam Smith: Percussion
Ben Baris: Bass
Clay Baucom: live rhythm guitarist
https://unholyanarchyrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chiaroscurometal/
The
time has come to present the second single from "COMPENDIO
ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO", the debut album of ALBUS
DIABOLUS, the incredible creature shaped by Elisa Montaldo and Samael
Von Martin. The song is "Albus Diabolus", it's the opener of the
album, and it reveals another aspect of the dark and lysergic universe of the
project, where experimentation and avant-gardism reign supreme.The song is available on all digital platforms and on Youtube at the link https://youtu.be/5oXlLbmUiCs
The song is a direct expression of the band's intent, namely to destabilize normality and the expected, to be an insane entity in the European Electro-Goth scene.
The album "Compendio Esoterico Elettronico" will be released with a slight delay compared to what was previously announced. Set this date: May 30th, 2025
Out only on vinyl and digital as well as in a bundle version with shirt, shopper bag and poster, the album is available in Pre-Order at http://bit.ly/3CejxJq
The journey into their Art has just started!
To you who love the emotions of works like "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, and bands like EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS, simply welcome to the world of ALBUS DIABOLUS.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
Polish atmospheric black/epic doom metal project DIVINE SOVEREIGN, the brainchild of visionary musician Cezary Rochnowski, announces a groundbreaking record deal with Wormholedeath Records. The debut album "DAWN OF A NEW AGE" is set to transport listeners to the mysterious planet Autaxia on May 9, 2025.
Tracklist
The Ruins Of Autaxia
2. Enshrined Kind
3. The Absolution
4. Essence
5. The Weakness Of Own Flesh
6. Dawn Of A New Age
Divine Sovereign emerged in 2023 with a mission to craft monumental compositions. Inspired by luminaries such as Ethereal Shroud, Panopticon, Gallowbraid, and Atlantean Kodex, Rochnowski's sonic landscapes combine crushing doom, soaring atmospheres, and intricate black gaze textures.
The album invites listeners to explore Autaxia, an enigmatic planet where the remnants of a tragically fallen civilization reveal a haunting tale. Dawn of a New Age delves into the dual nature of religious zeal—both as a unifying force and as a catalyst for societal collapse.
The story unfolds through a cinematic lens: a research vessel lands on a desolate world and uncovers the ruins of Autaxia. Archival fragments recount the rise and catastrophic fall of a once-great society consumed by religious extremism. Each track serves as a chilling archaeological excavation, peeling back layers of historical trauma and philosophical depth.
'Dawn Of A New Age' isn't just an album - it's an existential expedition into the heart of human belief systems. Divine Sovereign examines how spiritual passion can simultaneously inspire remarkable resilience and trigger devastating societal collapse. The album invites listeners to explore Autaxia, an enigmatic planet where the remnants of a tragically fallen civilization reveal a haunting tale. Dawn of a New Age delves into the dual nature of religious zeal—both as a unifying force and as a catalyst for societal collapse.
The story unfolds through a cinematic lens: a research vessel lands on a desolate world and uncovers the ruins of Autaxia. Archival fragments recount the rise and catastrophic fall of a once-great society consumed by religious extremism. Each track serves as a chilling archaeological excavation, peeling back layers of historical trauma and philosophical depth.
'Dawn Of A New Age' isn't just an album - it's an existential expedition into the heart of human belief systems. Divine Sovereign examines how spiritual passion can simultaneously inspire remarkable resilience and trigger devastating societal collapse.
www.facebook.com/DivineSovereign
Tracklist1 Armées de la Nuit
2 Damnée
3 Cheval Astral
4 Verminateur
5 Au Jugement de Soi
6 Invasion
7 Envahisseurs
8 Prière de Remords
9 Bons Baisers d Outre
10 Reviens
At last, the second wind of youth is blowing for “French Heavy Metal” – and, to be honest, not a moment too soon. It took just over 40 years for France to finally have its own heavy shock-rock band, ANIMALIZE: a name you may already have seen on some French and German lineup events over the last four years.
“Who do these extroverts think they are, sporting outrageous outfits with harnesses and chains? Brandishing a chainsaw and a katana in the middle of a concert, then vomiting blood all over the audience? Really?!” Yes, really.
Year 2025. ANIMALIZE are back with a new full-length, Verminateur – but this time, entirely in French, at the request of maniacs since their first record, 2020’s Tales From the Crypt EP. If their Meat We’re Made Of debut album in 2022 showed the visible part of the iceberg, then Verminateur displays the true sound of the band, pushing the boundaries! That celebrated first full-length might’ve seen the band evince a sort of restless genius – speed metal synthesized with power-thrash and traditional metal into a dizzying-yet-addicting blend, jumping across countries and even continents with insane ease – but on Verminateur, ANIMALIZE lock into a lazer-sighted focus that sees them making good on the anthemic side of things they only hinted at before. Mostly mid-tempo, strutting and cruising with charisma, nearly all of the album’s ten tracks (barring a one-minute synthy & cinematic “Invasion” and the dramatic piano piece “Prière de Remords”) hit that heavenly balance between buoyant hook and heavy thrust, between rock-god maximalism and back-street mischief. It’d not be inaccurate to say some of the tracks could’ve been on MTV circa 1985…if that channel aired in France. And when ANIMALIZE wanna rip forth in speed metal mode, they do so with a streamlined power that’s a marvel to behold. Oh, and the all-French lyrics simply make Verminateur that much more sublime, surprising, and above all unique.
For he is the earth cancer eliminator. He is the VERMINATEUR! Because the vermin is YOU.
To coincide with the release of ANIMALIZE’s Verminateur, DYING VICTIMS will be reissuing Meat We’re Made Of. Taste the New Wave of French Heavy Metal…again!
Line-up:
Jessman - Guitars
Coyote - Vocals, Bass
RattleGab - Guitars
Hyungminator - drums
From Lyon, France
Artwork:
Morgan Turner
Release date:
23rd May 2025
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on glow-in-the-dark vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
After the success of their debut album, "Heavy Lies The Crown", the band took some time off to craft a masterpiece that's faster, darker, and more intense than ever before. Now, just over two years later, they're back and ready to unleash this beast upon the world!
Listen to the album on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer etc): https://push.fm/fl/wretchedpath-seaofdeath
Tracklist01. Release Of Violence
02. Death Machine
03. Apophis
04. False God
05. Rot Alone
06. Violence Within
07. Wretched Path
08. Sea Of Death
Record Label: Meara Music
Release date: March 26th 2025
Formed in 2020 by seasoned musicians from renowned bands like Pestigore, Born of Thorns, Tukkanuotta, and Warmen, Wretched Path was born out of a desire to return to their Death Metal roots. Their debut album received rave reviews from various magazines and websites, and they played several gigs around Finland including the legendary Nummirock festival 2023.
https://www.wretchedpath.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wretchedpath
Watch Spirit of Gravity music video: https://youtu.be/IZ4S5DrNBgs
‘Spirit of Gravity’ is a relentless onslaught on the listener that introduces both the fresh sound of the band as well as their new bass player Mertta Halonen. Being perhaps Sargassus’ heaviest song to date, it features aggressive blast beats and wailing tremolo riffs ornate with shrieks and guttural growls, much
like in some modern black metal songs.
The song was initially formed around the peculiar blast beat that starts the song. Later the bunch worked all together on the song, refining it into what you’ll now know as ‘Spirit of Gravity’. Once the song felt complete enough, it was time to pen fitting lyrics. The chaotic nature of the song demanded the listener’s attention, so it only made sense to write the lyrics from the point of view of a rabidly preaching ritualist. With bass parts being composed last, they managed to highlight some groovier elements that can be found in Sargassus’ earlier works. The end result is something familiar, yet superlative.
Thematically ‘Spirit of Gravity’ centers around themes of rebirth, Nietzschean philosophy and conformity. The lyrics are structured like an occult ritual of renewal, where the participants ingest poisons to break free from a circular existence, but in typical Sargassus fashion the ritual is likened to a wildly inebriated communion. Structure and sincere practices are mirrored with chaos and natural human perversion, masking philosophical ponderings about the eternal recurrence and life’s immanent worth.
The band comments:" ‘Spirit of Gravity’ is no doubt Sargassus’ heaviest song to date. While the song might showcase clear modern black metal influences, it is not without groovier and eerily calming passages. The chaotic nature of the song may partly reflect the whims of the band itself, but this oppressing feeling is also a key theme on the rest of the upcoming album. ‘Spirit of Gravity’ tells the story of an ecstatic ritual in occult fashion, while reflecting on philosophical aspects of eternal recurrence and life’s immanent worth."
Listen to Spirit of Gravity on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/sargassus-spirit
Sargassus - Spirit of Gravity (Single 2025)
Composed by Teemu Leskinen, Matias Rokio & Matias Stenman
Lyrics by Matias Stenman
Vocal Production by Raging Cannon
Mix & Master by Joona Muistola @ HAW Studios
Cover art by Matias Stenman
Line-up:
Matias Rokio - Drums
Teemu Leskinen - Guitar
Matias Stenman - Vocals
Mertta Halonen - Bass
https://sargassus.com
https://www.facebook.com/sargassusband
We’re
proud to announce and orchestrate the ascension of SAMIARUS,
a new black/death metal horde rising from within the thriving SF Bay Area punk
and metal scene, and whose terror-engulfing debut EP “REIGN
DESTROYER” is on the launch ramp for a late April 2025 release via
Sentient Ruin.The gruesome short player has been teased by rising extreme metal blog Toilet Ov Hell, who in premiering the track “NEW IRON AGE” have remarked how the release introduces a “new era that is not built on faith and reason, but on smashed faces and encroaching decay” and that the band’s music is “dirty, gross blackened death metal“ - you can check out the feature and the track https://toiletovhell.com/premiere-samiarus-new-iron-age/
Samiarus (or Samyaza as more widely known in Aramaic) is the Arabic name of the leader of the Watchers in apocryphal abrahamic scriptures, a rebel angel who shared knowledge with men and birthed the Nephilim, becoming a danger to divine power and law and turning into the absolute usurper. Conceived from within the SF Bay Area punk and metal underground (by current and past members of Abnutivum, Meth Sores, Flesh Dungeon, Doomsday, Slaughteruin, Abstracter and Mentor), emerging black/death metal terrorists Samiarus embody their namesake concept of abysmal occult usurpation to the boldest through their debut EP “Reign Destroyer”, a twenty three minute siege of blown out, bestial sonic upheaval fuming from the iron jaws of terror. While deliberately embracing the cruelty and darkness of the war metal movement developed by bands like Blasphemy and Archgoat, Samiarus’ own formulaic sonic design for the gruesome deposition of all oppressors has brought in a number of other influences to further weaponize their subversive terroristic vision. These influences mainly come from punk and hardcore bands like G.I.S.M., Doom, Raw Nerve, Cult Ritual, Discharge and Siege, as well as from some of the band members’ interest in certain strains of industrial and noise music. A concoction of retaliative audial tactics that has ultimately shaped an anarchic war-torn sonic scourge grueling with dismal reflections on the human condition and on society’s worst embodiments.
Samiarus’ debut “Reign Destroyer” EP is slated for an April 25 2025 release via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, all pre-orderable now via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/samiarus-reign-destroyer
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/samiarus
Tracklist1 Flames of Hades
2 Infernö Crematörio
3 Black Fire Demon
4 Purgatory Raiders
5 Sword of Baphomet
6 Rapid Possession
7 Oathbreaker
8 Mark of the Beast
9 Templar's Curse
You wouldn’t have guessed it early on, but HELLCRASH would eventually – and patiently – refine their ancient attack, relatively “cleaning up” something still unclean. When they formed in 2013, a debut album was still a way off, but when it landed in 2021 on vinyl via DYING VICTIMS, Krvcifix Invertör proved HELLCRASH were a power-trio in the grand tradition of domestic legends Bulldozer, brewing a similarly sleazy (and EVIL) style of speed metal. And yet, despite another OTT cover suggesting otherwise, their second album announced that there was MUCH more brewing in HELLCRASH’s cauldron. Released in 2023, Demonic Assassination saw a fine-tuning of songcraft and a polishing of production that paid off in spades, now nodding more to later GBH, Carnivore, and Warfare.
Alas, a dozen years after their formation, HELLCRASH have pulled off the impossible and refined this attack even further with LP#3, Inferno Crematörio. Of course, another totally OTT cover graces the album, and somehow it makes absolute sense with where HELLCRASH are now going. Whereas its predecessor took various routes – sometimes more speed metal, other times more thrash, or even metalpunk before it was such a thing, often all in the same song – Inferno Crematörio sees a streamlining of their songcraft and a “deftening” of sensibilities, where energy is retained and even doubled through more dynamic playing and indeed an emphasis on dynamics itself. By and large, HELLCRASH here sound their most blackened, but “blackened” in the sense of evil thrash and speed metal imbued with more atmosphere: not “spooky” in the kooky sense, but definitely more sulfurous and sinful, brimming with a sense of space that sounds huge and intimate simultaneously. Likewise, the trio exhibit a newfound charisma that (spit)shines through this sulfurous surge, like Satan laughing as he spreads his wings. That everything’s not 666% overdrive all the time ably benefits these ten tracks – and concluding with 10-minute(!) epic in “Templars’ Curse” – resulting in a more thoroughly headbanging, maybe-medieval, and immediately memorable listen. And, truth be told, perhaps HELLCRASH’s best record yet…but only time will tell.
In the meantime, maniacs for such ‘90s icons like Zemial and Germany’s Desaster or especially such esteemed labelmates as NOCTURNAL, BLACKEVIL, and HEXECUTOR, you’re hereby commanded to reap the hellish bounty of HELLCRASH’s Inferno Crematörio!
Line-up:
Skullcrusher - Bass
Hellraiser - Vocals, Guitars
A.R. Evilbringer - Drums
From Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy
Artwork:
Samuele Scalise
Release date:
23rd May 2025
Release info:
Regular gatefold LP edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special gatefold LP edition on orange vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
MALUM MORTEM - "VOLUME I"
Genre : Depressive Black MetalRelease date : 26/04/2025
Label : Black Mass Prayers
FFO: Austere, Nyktalgia, Forgotten Woods, Make a Change... Kill Yourself
"Volume I" is composed of old and new songs made by Malum Mortem (aka Valentino Aragues), few of these already released as demo versions. All songs have been remixed and remastered in order to create a cohesive and emotionally touching full-lenght album, rich of negativity, loss and suffering. As often is for Depressive Black Metal, the sound is raw and abrasive, yet the style is rich of melodies, well balanced high-pitched vocals and atmospheres of angst.
Tracklist
1. 0+
2. Awaiting For My Death
3. You Were My Angel
4. Ghost In Love
5. The Rising Of Darkness
6. Hate God And Kill Yourself
7. Unpunished
Line-up:
Valentino Aragues – Everything
https://www.facebook.com/blackmassprayers/?_rdr
https://www.instagram.com/malummortem_dsbm/
FLY! is a fast and mean rock ‘n’ roll machine from Melbourne. Emerging from the darkest depths of the Aussie wastelands, FLY! united with a singular vision: to play fast, loud, and mean rock ‘n’ roll, harkening back to the raw power of 1970s and early ‘80s rock. Inspired by the likes of Motörhead, Judas Priest, and AC/DC, FLY! are a rough ‘n’ rowdy amalgam of their influences, and then some!
Formed in 2023, FLY! blasted onto the Australian rock scene, playing up and down the east coast and leaving a trail of destruction (and empty beer cans) in their wake. 2024 saw the release of FLY!’s dangerous debut demo with a string of blistering national performances to follow, seeing FLY! share the stage with the likes of the Cosmic Psychos, Cancer Bats, and heavy metal brethren (and now-labelmates) AARDVARK, among many others.
With two songs reprised from that demo, the quartet now present their first full-length, …or Die! Wasting not a whole minute as they ride “Into the Wasteland”, these road warriors take flight across the 11-track / 39-minute album: a no-holds-barred love letter to speed, desert highways, murderous marauders and relentless riffs. Lean, mean and unclean, their high-speed, raw-power rock ‘n’ roll kicks out the jams with judicious efficiency. There’s no overthinking these desert-wasteland anthems; you simply hop on and go, go, go! FLY!’s vicious, high-speed rock explores themes such as weapons, beer, homicidal maniacs, and the power of acceleration! And while not overtly retro-oriented, there’s an authentically late ‘70s feel to …or Die!, from the just-distorted-enough guitar tones, the crash ‘n’ bash rhythms, and especially the songwriting itself: juiced up like Bomber, strutting like Stained Class, sleazy like Powerage. Add in a touch of mid ‘70s Thin Lizzy and a punk-and-proud attitude like Zeke – or hell, even spiritual cues to their homeland’s rich tradition of garage rock – and you’re left with no choice: FLY! …or Die!
Tracklist
1 Into the Wasteland
2 Highway Fiend
3 The Sinner
4 Bowie Knife
5 Lecherous Lover
6 Loser
7 Fly or Die
8 Freeway Phantom
9 Gasoline
10 6-Pack
11 Sweet Leaf
Line-up:
Tom Thompson - Bass
Willy Cox - Vocals, Guitars
Rodney Speedman - Drums
Malcom 'Mouldy' Black - Guitar
From Melbourne, Australia
Artwork:
Oscar Bonin
Release date:
23rd May 2025
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
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https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
NOMAD
SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS
proudly presents:HELHEIM- „ BLOD & ILD“
For the first time ever, the third full-length album by the Norwegian pagan ensemble Helheim is now finally available on vinyl!
Neither band nor album need further introductions, of course...
Nine tracks spread over nearly 40 minutes of music, printed as an exclusive 200 copy limited edition (50 black and 150 marble gold/black vinyl)!
To keep everything in its proper zeitgeist, we decided to keep it all as close to the ’00 original release as possible, so expect no alternative layout or a fancy digital re-mastering enhancements!
We are thus presenting “Blod og Ild” in its natural form, and this time on the most noble of formats!
UNBEGOTTEN / VELO MISERE - “SILENCIO Y DEMENCIA”
From Spain, two misanthropic hordes have returned to torment humanity with their prayers of Death: Unbegotten, a vicious and mystifying entity formed in 2016, responsible for one demo and two full-length albums, and Velo Misere, a 5-piece horde, striking again after having previously released A demo, an EP and a full-length album.
With each band presenting 3 brand new tracks of nihilistic necromancing Black Metal, Nomad Snakepit Productions and Altare Productions joined forces to unleash this split LP unto the slumbering scene, in a limited edition of 250 copies.
This is the soundtrack for the all-consuming void...
All you need to do is dive...
SVARTSYN – “ VORTEX OF THE DESTROYER”
With its tenth full-length album, Svartsyn delivers a work rooted in both its present vision and primordial past. “Vortex of the Destroyer” unfolds in two intertwined chapters: four new compositions alongside six resurrected relics from Chalice, the entity that would become Svartsyn in 1994.
The first half of “Vortex of the Destroyer” embodies a refined yet relentless approach, shaped by instinct and hindsight alike. From the ruin of Atlantis to the flames of Surtr and Fenrir, these songs channel Svartsyn’s pursuit of apocalyptic grandeur – a descent into the abyss.
The latter half harks back to the autumn of 1992, breathing new life into six compositions first forged under the Chalice banner. Conceived at the dawn of the second wave of Black Metal, these tracks honour the band’s origins. Re-recorded with present clarity, their essence remains untouched: wild, sinister, and unmistakably Ornias.
By uniting its earliest fire with its latest incarnation, Svartsyn asserts an unbroken path of black devotion. “Vortex of the Destroyer” is both a return and an advance, where destruction and renewal converge.
With both CD & LP coming out by the hands of Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Nomad Snakepit Productions was given the honour of casting this new masterpiece on cassette tape, in a limited edition of 100 copies!
Svartsyn cassette reissues:
“The True Legend” ltd. tape
“Wrath Upon the Earth” ltd. tape
“Black Testament” ltd. tape
“In Death” ltd. tape
As a cherry on the cake, all Svartsyn albums previously released on CD/ LP by Agonia Records have now been released for the first time on cassette tape!
Featuring the original layout, each tape-release is limited to only 50 copies, so you better act fast if you want some!
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SEXMAG’S highly anticipated debut album, SEXORCYZM, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Possessed night. Full moon. A disgusting corpse digs its rotting body out of a cold grave. Twisted death will soon attack for the second time, forcing the metalheads to bang their heads.
Thus comes the full-length arrival of SEXMAG, appropriately titled Sexorcyzm. If 2021’s Sex Metal lewdly introduced these Polish degenerates to the international metal underground – a full 25 minutes of caustic & careening sound, drawing equal strength from ‘80s proto-black metal and the vilest thrash – then this 39-minute debut album will decisively blow open the gates to Hell. Whereas that mini-album sounded like the most garaged old New Renaissance release left rotting in the sun and covered in black-candle wax, here do SEXMAG up the evil and sharpen their still-rusty attack, expursing sodomy and total desaster across this Sexorcyzm. This monster of dead Silesia and his four servants unleash a hell-load of Total Metal – worshiping Satan and summoning the old spirits of Sarcófago, Tormentor, Bulldozer, and Destruction. The sensation of OLD drapes everything about Sexorcyzm: sorcerous songwriting, vintage analog recording, just enough gutter reverb, and an all-encompassing atmosphere of the supernatural and sexual. You already know if this is for you, or whether you need to promptly leave the hall.
Feel invited into the darkest medieval tale, full of unholiness, perversion, and absolute horror. Tragic black magic will cast a spell on you and force you to keep Metal Total or die: SEXMAG have invoked their Sexorcyzm!
Tracklist
1 Intro - Total Metal
2 Inkubus
3 Smród palonych dusz
4 Odurzony smiercia
5 Sex z diablem
6 Córy Koryntu
7 Psalm I - Intronizacja Szatana
8 Sexorcyzm
Line-up:
Jacek "Truposz" Wojno - Vocals
Lord Violator - Vocals, Drums
Igor "Maniak" Falinski - Guitars
Michal "Sabat" Sabatowski - Bass
From Silesia, Poland
Artwork:
Maegan LeMay
Release date:
23rd May 2025
Release info:
Regular LP edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special LP edition on vomit-of-the-priest vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard, download code and patch.
CD with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Hailing from the vibrant city of Liepāja, Overcast Rain is poised to make waves in the global metal scene once again with their highly anticipated third studio album, Black Death. Set for release on April 11, 2025, under the esteemed Brutal Records banner, this album promises to redefine the boundaries of dark metal with a sonic assault like no other.
A Legacy Forged in DarknessFormed in 2014 by the visionary duo Mihails Maslovs (vocals/guitar) and Kolja Kirk (drums), Overcast Rain has emerged as a beacon of Latvia’s thriving metal scene. Over the past decade, the band has undergone remarkable evolution, marked by lineup transformations and sonic experimentation, solidifying their place as one of the genre’s most dynamic and innovative forces.
Their discography boasts two critically acclaimed albums:
Since You Die (July 11, 2020)
My God Hates Me (March 1, 2022)
These releases have earned the band significant accolades, with tracks like “All Hope Is Gone” breaking into the Destrokit Rock Chart Top 50 and securing spots on the prestigious European Metal Channel rankings. Recognized as cultural milestones, both albums are enshrined in the National Library of Latvia.
The Evolution of Overcast Rain
After a brief hiatus, Mihails Maslovs and Andris Aleksejevs reignited the band in 2018, channeling a renewed vision to craft a heavier, more aggressive sound. The addition of new members and the transition away from female vocals heralded a bold new era for Overcast Rain. This revamped lineup debuted with electrifying performances at Bunker13 Fest and clinched second place at the Fresh Blood competition, setting the stage for their meteoric rise.
Their relentless energy and captivating performances have taken them across Europe and beyond, with standout appearances at premier festivals such as Dark Malta Fest, GoatHell Metal Fest, Barbar Fest, and DiFest. Sharing stages with icons like Die Krupps, Blood Red Throne, Psyclon Nine, and Ost+Front, Overcast Rain has solidified their reputation as a must-see act on the global metal circuit.
Black Death: A New Chapter
Overcast Rain finished album Black Death, a collection of 13 tracks that includes both brand-new songs and remastered fan favorites. This ambitious release showcases their relentless drive to push the boundaries of dark metal and promises to be a landmark achievement in their career.
Tracklist:
Intro
Black Death
Satanic Slut
Rain
Nightmare
Shadows
Damned
Lost
Motherland
Helloween
White Snow (feat. Artyom Kuricyn - Yomi on Flute (mokshan lang)
War (remastered)
Winter Depression (remastered)
The Current Lineup
Mihails Maslovs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Marks Širokovs – Drums, Samples, Backing Vocals
Rudolf Vistiņš – Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Andris Aleksejevs – Lead Guitar
Leonidas Heidemanis – Lead Guitar
Aleksandrs Tiškevičs – Bass
A Storm Is Coming
As Overcast Rain gears up to release their heaviest single video yet, anticipation is reaching fever pitch. Under the Brutal Records banner, this dark metal powerhouse is ready to usher in a new era of dominance.
Stay tuned for updates—the storm is just beginning.
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Raison d'être is the esteemed dark ambient project of Swedish sound artist Peter Andersson, formed in 1991 as a tool for self-expression. With a career spanning nearly three decades and numerous influential releases, raison d'être has become a pinnacle of the genre, renowned for its overwhelming dark ambient drone industrial soundscapes. Andersson's work often incorporates field recordings and manipulated acoustic instruments, creating a unique and perfected sonic experience that invites listeners to explore the obscure realms of their inner selves.
"Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations" is a defining work of
sonic mysticism, originally released by the legendary record label Cold Meat
Industry. Created by the visionary Peter Andersson, this album remains an
unparalleled journey through shadowy cathedrals, industrial ruins and the vast
chasms of the subconscious. Andersson conjures an atmosphere thick with sacred
reverence and existential dread, where distant choirs echo like ghostly
remnants, deep drones stretch into eternity, and mechanical whispers weave an
intricate and otherworldly soundscape.This re-release celebrates the enduring legacy of this essential album, offering fans and newcomers alike the opportunity to experience its haunting beauty in stunning new formats:
Limited Double Black Vinyl Edition: Presented in a lavish gatefold sleeve, this numbered edition is limited to 300 copies.
Limited Double Marbled Gold & Black Vinyl Edition: Also housed in a gatefold sleeve and limited to 300 numbered copies, this edition offers a visually striking complement to the album's sombre elegance.
Limited Triple CD "Sublime Edition": This edition is limited to 500 numbered copies and features an updated mix of the complete album, additional tracks and a second mastering of the original 1995 recording, providing a comprehensive exploration of this influential work.
"Few albums capture the very essence of dark ambient as completely as Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations," Rune Serpent Europa states. "It's a work that demands full immersion, headphones, darkness, and an open mind. This re-release is an essential addition to any serious collection. With only 1100 numbered copies available across all formats, this is a unique opportunity for true collectors and fans of dark ambient and industrial music to own a piece of history.”
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Jetzt, wo sich der „Sturm“ auf unsere aktuelle FATAL
UNDERGROUND Ausgabe doch zu einem „lauen Lüftchen „entwickelt hat, können wir
uns mit neuem Tatendrang ranmachen, um sich auf unsere Nr . 60 zu stürzen. All
zu viel kann man dazu aber noch nicht wirklich vermelden. In Sachen Interviews steht
man mit der Planung erst einmal so ziemlich am Anfang. Aber wenigstens haben
wir erst schon einmal in den Griff gekriegt, ein bissel was an neuem oder auch älteren
Hörstoff auf uns einprasseln zu lassen.
Bevor wir es vergessen, nen paar wenige Ausgaben des
aktuellen FATAL UNDERGROUND Zines Nr.59 sind noch zu haben. Wer vielleicht doch
noch Interesse daran bekunden will, wendet sich mal ganz vertrauensvoll an
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FABULOUS DESASTER: veröffentlichen mit "COFFIN DWELLERS" erste Kostprobe vom kommenden Album!
Am 17. April erscheint mit "Crucify This!" das neue Album der Bonn Area Thrasher Fabulous Desaster! Bei einer Spielzeit von gut 45 Minuten erwarten euch 11 neue Tracks mit, wie schon auf den Vorgängeralben, schnellem und wütenden Speed-Thrash-Songs mit einem extrem hohen Energielevel. Auf „Crucify This!“ gibt sich die Band sogar noch etwas abwechslungsreicher als zuvor, und packt neben den typischen High-Speed Tracks auch komplexere Songs sowie eine Mid-Tempo-Dampfwalze aus. Mit "Coffin Dwellers" gibts jetzt eine erste Kostprobe auf dem MDD YouTube Kanal, der euch garantiert den Kopf abschraubt. Die finale Tracklist des Albums findet ihr anbei. Das Album wird außer als CD zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt auch als Vinyl Edition erscheinen. Check it out! Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSzzzLvl0bc
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Spanish/American Progressive Metal duo, DISSOCIA, featuring members of Persefone and Wormed, have release debut album, TO LIFT THE VEIL, on Willowtip Records!
The album is available on CD, vinyl LP, and digital formats.
Purchase/Stream:
https://bit.ly/veil-willowtip
https://bit.ly/veil-bandcamp
DISSOCIA enters the mind of multi-instrumentalist Daniel R. Flys (Persefone, Eternal Storm) as the sonic landscape between two realms: the conscious and the unconscious. With ferocious and convoluted riffs, dreamy synths, extreme and subtle clean vocals, we enter this in-between world backed by Gabriel Valcázar's (Wormed, Cancer) chaotic and groove drumming and Paul R. Flys' cinematic violin layers.
Mixed and mastered by the prestigious Ukrainian engineer Max Morton (Jinjer, Ignea, Shokran), To Lift The Veil is a concept album that serves as a metaphor for being a growing seed in an asphalted world. DISSOCIA makes an effort to blend extreme metal with synthwave and dreamwave elements to create a fine progressive blend that is catchy and yet unpredictable to the listener. Further developing this mood, the stunning and oneiric artwork created by Rein Van Oyen (Haken) captures the lights and shadows present on the dynamic songwriting and all the contrasts found on the duo's debut.
Track
Listing:1. Existentialist
2. He Who Dwells
3. Samsara
4. Zenosyne
5. The Lucifer Effect
6. Evasion
7. Out of Slumber
Credits:
Daniel R. Flys - Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Synths
Gabriel Valcázar - Drums
Guest violins performed by Paul R. Flys (track 7).
Additional post-production by Max Morton and Alex Tena.
Written by Daniel R. Flys.
Produced by Daniel R. Flys.
Drums recorded by Carlos Santos at Sadman Studio.
Vocals recorded by Alex Tena.
Vocals and violins recorded by Carlos Rodríguez.
Mixed and mastered by Max Morton at Morton Studio.
Design and layout by Rein Van Oyen.
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BODY
OF FILTH
release new video "HORSE INCINERATOR" showing off their
Arachnid Cabinets ."Body of Filth is a Las Vegas-based beatdown/deathcore band unleashing a sonic onslaught of brutal riffs, punishing breakdowns, and unrelenting energy. Formed in 2021, the band has undergone a transformation through lineup changes, ultimately solidifying their current lineup: Joe Koos (guitar), Ryan Blas (guitar), Loren Means (bass), Michael "Fundip" Taylor (vocals), and Chuck Shumway (drums). United by a shared passion for heavy music and a desire to create a raw, unbridled sound, Body of Filth is poised to become a staple in the
metal scene. With their intense live performances and unapologetic lyrics, they're ready to leave their mark.
Follow them for updates on upcoming shows, new music, and a healthy dose of sonic chaos."
Body of Filth is:
Joe Beardcore Koos - Guitar
Ryan Blas - Guitar
Loren Means - Bass
Chuck Shumway - Drums
Fundip Taylor - Vocals
Video Credits:
Animus Den Productions
Valacis Media
Arachnid Cabinets
Best Regards, Robby Perry (Artist Management, Press) Viscera Disgust Media
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Listen to Where Serenity Prevails EP: https://push.fm/fl/aitf-ep
The band comments:
"Where Serenity Prevails" is our debut EP about the destruction of humanity and the Earth after it. The EP features acoustic sections and clean vocals as well as distorted sections and harsh vocals, polyphonic vocal harmonies and shifting time signatures. Jazz influences and breakdowns that break the traditional moulds bring additional flavours. From start to finish, the EP has an immersive atmosphere that creates strong images. During the composition process, our biggest musical influences were Gojira, Alcest and especially Opeth. The story was inspired by Studio Ghibli films. We highly recommend this EP for fans of progressive death metal and post-metal as well as fans of the bands mentioned above. And for all those who like a rough and authentic production, the EP was recorded, mixed and mastered by the band."
Biography:
Ashes In The Fall is a Finnish progressive death metal/post-metal band. During the band's 6 years of existence it has gone through numerous changes in personnel, with the current roster consisting of:
Touko
Kaihola - drums, percussion, backing vocalsSamuel Routama - lead vocals, samples
Anton Valros - bass, backing vocals
Simon Valros - guitars
Jennifer Evans - keyboards, samples, backing vocals, percussion
The band takes influences from many different sources, with our biggest influences probably being Opeth, Mastodon, Insomnium, Ulver, Neurosis, Alcest and Gojira. We also take influences from music outside the metal genre, such as jazz, folk, progressive rock and hardcore punk to name a few.
After laying dormant for a long time, Ashes In The Fall have finally started to pick up their pace, with the EP “Where Serenity Prevails” being scheduled for release in this spring on Inverse Records. The EP’s lead single Dusk of Mankind will be released to the public on January 30th 2025. With the release of this new material, Ashes In The Fall will also be playing even more live shows, with an upcoming highlight in the band's career being a performance at Tuska on the KVLT stage in June 2025.
Single version 'Dusk of Mankind' available here: https://push.fm/fl/ashesinthefall-dusk
Track list:
1. Kodamas (02:14)
2. Seven Days of Fire (04:41)
3. Dusk of Mankind (11:07)
Cover art by Tella Kullenberg
Line-up:
Touko Kaihola - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Samuel Routama - lead vocals, samples
Anton Valros - bass, backing vocals
Simon Valros - guitars
Jennifer Evans - keyboards, samples, backing vocals, percussion
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Hello
Folks, with full anticipation we can announce that there will be a new release
from the cult Death/Grinders of DEPRESSION in
fall 2025 and we have the honor to release it!You can expect a 35-years-jubilee Double-CD with many new songs as well as newly recorded and previously unreleased material, plus a cover song, a guest appearance and a really successful cover artwork!
More detailed information will follow. So look forward to it, we definitely will!
Your D.D.D. Team
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Italiens okkulte Heavy Rocker kehren mit ihrem vierten Album zurück!
Die italienischen Okkult-Hardrocker THE OSSUARY sind endlich zurück! Ihr lang erwartetes viertes Album Requiem for the Sun erscheint am 23. Mai 2025 über Supreme Chaos Records. Die Band liefert acht brandneue Tracks voller doomigem und psychedelischem Heavy Metal, tief verwurzelt in den 70er-Jahren und der dunklen Seite der NWOBHM.
Mit Requiem for the Sun erweitert die Band ihren einzigartigen Downer-Rock in spektralere und traumähnliche Gefilde und taucht tiefer in introspektive okkulte Themen ein. Dabei bleibt THE OSSUARY kompromisslos authentisch und bewahrt den rohen, ungefilterten Spirit, der sie auszeichnet. Von der unheilvollen Eröffnung "Sacrifice" bis zur finalen Klangexplosion "Eloise" entfaltet sich das Album wie eine cineastische Klanglandschaft – durchtränkt von donnernden Riffs, gespenstischen Melodien und geisterhaften Vocals.
Dreht die Lautstärke auf 11 und lasst euch in das rituelle Finale von Requiem for the Sun hineinziehen!
Bereits heute präsentiert die Band das eindrucksvolle Video zu „Far From The Tree“, das von Costin Chioreanu stammt, der bereits mit Jethro Tull, Diamond Head, Tribulation, Ghost und Carcassgearbeitet hat, ist das Video eine visuelle Reise durch psychedelische und düstere Traumwelten, die den introspektiven Charakter des Songs perfekt einfangen.
Hier geht´s zum Video: https://youtu.be/wS3H1AlTirkDie Band bleibt ihrer musikalischen Signatur treu – inspiriert von Black Sabbath, The Doors und Mercyful Fate, verbindet "Far From The Tree" doomige Riffs, hypnotische Melodien und okkulte Atmosphäre.
Highlights:
Viertes Album der Band mit organischem Sound, teilweise live im Studio aufgenommen.
Eine der besten Live-Bands Italiens in diesem Genre!
Konzeptuelles Musikvideo zum Song "Far From The Tree" von Costin Chioreanu, der bereits für Jethro Tull, Diamond Head, Tribulation, Ghost, Mayhem, Carcass, Voivod und C.O.C. gearbeitet hat.
Einflüsse: Black Sabbath, The Beatles, The Doors, Captain Beyond, Screaming Trees, Mercyful Fate, Witchfinder General.
Das vierte Album "Requiem For The Sun" verspricht eine cineastische Klanglandschaft voller Donner-Riffs und geisterhaften Melodien – Heavy Rock in seiner mystischen Form!
Album-Preorder: https://supremechaos.de/artists/the-ossuary/
Album-Presave: https://save-it.cc/scr/ossuary-requiem-for-the-sun
Topeka, KS-based brutal death metal horde UNMERCIFUL is set to unleash their highly anticipated fourth album, DEVOURING DARKNESS. The album marks a new era of relentless violence and sonic brutality! With ten tracks of scorching intensity and distorted vengeance, Devouring Darkness is filled with blistering blast beats, intricate kick drum patterns, and destructive riffing.
UNMERCIFUL has tapped extreme metal site Toilet Ov Hell for the exclusive premiere of the album's first single, "Infernal Conquering." A blistering ode to nuclear annihilation, "Infernal Conquering" embodies total annihilation.
Guitarist Clinton Applehanz comments on the song, “Fear consumes as the winds of mankind’s fire render all to dust. A nuclear bomb is almost as intense as this song!"
Stream
"Infernal Conquering" now at https://toiletovhell.com/premiere-unmerciful-infernal-conquering/Devouring Darkness is set for release on CD, digital, and vinyl formats on May 23 via Willowtip Records.
Tracklist:
1. Miracle in Fire
2. Unnatural Ferocity
3. Malice Unbound
4. Devouring Darkness
5. Relentless Malevolence
6. Vomit you out*
7. Infernal Conquering
8. The Reaping
9. Voracious Lunacy
10. Vengeance Transcending
UNMERCIFUL has announced the first of many live assaults in support of Devouring Darkness. The band will host an album release show on June 20 at Warehouse on Broadway in Kansas City, MO, alongside Torn The Fuck Apart, Garoted, and Hossferatu.
Devouring Darkness sees the return of longtime member Jeremy Turner to guitar and introduces Josh Riley as the band’s new vocalist, further intensifying the group’s punishing sound.
The album was engineered and produced by Clinton Appelhanz at Waveworks Studio, with mastering handled by the legendary Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal, etc.). Artwork by Santiago Francisco Jaramillo.
UNMERCIFUL is seeking a bassist for live performances and/or a permanent position. Serious inquiries only. Contact the band for details.
UNMERCIFUL is:
Clinton Appelhanz - Guitars/Bass
Jeremy Turner - Guitars/Bass
Trynt Kelly - Drums
Josh Riley - Vocals
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Entrusted takes the listener to the depths of the mind, driven by heavy riffs and deep-rooted vocals. It is the slowest and heaviest song in the band's output so far. The band's guitarist and composer Markus Heikkinen says the following about the song:
“Entrusted is the band's most melancholic, even oppressive song to date. Despite its anxiety, the song has become an important part of the band's story.”
“I see that the lyrics of the song have different meanings, depending on the listener. They can describe men who, without speaking to each other, watch an autumn campfire somewhere in the woods. The lyrics also have a melancholic side, which I think fits well with the heavy guitar sound of the song," continues the band's drummer and lyricist Timo Korkalainen.
Listen to Entrusted on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/northvoid-entrusted
Biography:
Forged in North Karelia in January 2020, Northvoid delivers a musical assault rooted in the melodic death metal of the 90’s. With a bond forged in childhood, our members now channel the raw, untamed energy of the past & present into every note.
Our music is a fusion of melodic heaviness and groove, inspired by the harsh environment and wilderness of the north. Experience the power and versatility of our music, which broadly covers different elements of metal music, guided by the attitude of the frost-bitten north. Northvoid isn't just music – it's a journey into the heart of coldness and wilderness.
Join us and feel the fury!
Listen
to the first single Wilderness: https://push.fm/fl/northvoid-wilderness
Track list:
1. Northern Breeze
2. Wilderness
3. Sun & Moon
4. Entrusted
5. The Ember
Mix & Master: Heikki Marttila/Guru Studio, Joensuu
EP picture by Timo Korkalainen, cover artwork Markus Heikkinen
Line-up:
Markus Heikkinen: guitars
Timo Korkalainen: drums
Kimmo Timonen: vocals
Risto Aittola: bass
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Excerpt - "an avant-garde extravaganza of death, black, and prog metal, a remarkably elaborate, technically jaw-dropping, and highly idiosyncratic head-spinner of a high order"
FELGRAVE – “OTHERLIKE DARKNESSES”
Genre:
Avantgarde
Death/Black/Doom MetalAfter dropping a well-received death/doom album five years back, Felgrave has crafted an ingenious album melding influences of doom, black and death metal in a way rarely done before. The one-man band has broken the mould and the music on this album flows in an intuitive, undulating, almost whimsical manner, touching upon several styles and effortlessly shape shifting through them all. The songs are between 12 to 18 minutes long and each one seems to tell a tale of its own. There is so much going on in each song that it demands repeated listens which isn't necessarily arduous because of the smooth transitions and the overall coherency. The sound is strangely all encompassing - there are acoustic passages with clean vocals as well as intense and complex parts that wouldn't be out of place on a technical death metal album. It's stuff like this which makes this album fascinating, and what makes it come alive is the passion with which it is meticulously crafted - it seeps through the music and elevates it beyond the ostensible stringing together of disparate parts. 'Otherlike Darknesses' is multi-faceted and yet has a fairly cohesive sound with exceptional song writing; albums like these definitely don't come out too often.
Line up:
Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and programming by M. L. Jupe
Drums by Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse)
Mixed by M. L. Jupe
Mastered by Brendan Sloan (Convulsing)
Artwork by Adam Burke (Artificial Brain, Plasmodium)
Tracklisting:
1. Winds Batter My Keep
2. Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky
3. Otherlike Darknesses
Release date - April 25th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/felgrave.doom
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! FLESHSPOIL, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release full-length debut album, The Beginning of the End, March 28 on digital format!
Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his role in Arsis, where he played on acclaimed releases such as A Celebration of Guilt and A Diamond for Disease, and toured globally alongside heavyweights like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Cynic, Dying Fetus, Grave, Necrophagist, Napalm Death, and Six Feet Under. Dan Saltzman (bass), hailing from the Bay Area, whose impressive work has been showcased in Illucinus and The Hunt, as well as recent demonstration videos for ESP bass guitars.
Produced and mixed by Brett Portzer (Skinless, Author & Punisher, Arsis), The Beginning of the End consists of six tracks clocking in at 37 minutes. It is the creative vision of Andrews and Van Dyne, who recorded two albums and performed together alongside such notable bands as At The Gates, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sanctuary, Rivers of Nihil, Fates Warning, All That Remains, and many others with their previous band, The Final Sleep. The Beginning of the End additionally includes guest appearances by Kyle Chapman (Aethereus, Blighted Eye), John Judson (Rwake, Scott Kelly), and Petr Oplatka (Illucinus).
Pre-order The Beginning of the End:
Track
Listing:1. Bleed Through This Life
2. Skies Turn To Graves
3. Fleshspoil
4. Walking Dead
5. A Frail Demise
6. Born Into Despair
Credits:
Guitar solo and additional chaos on “Bleed Through This Life” by Kyle Chapman of Aethereus and Blighted Eye.
Guitar solo on “Walking Dead” by Petr Oplatka of Illucinus.
Lap steel guitar on “Bleed Through This Life” and “Skies Turn To Graves” by John Judkins of Rwake.
Drum tracking engineered by Brett Portzer at White Lake Music & Post.
Guitar and vocal tracking engineered by Van Dyne/Andrews.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Brett Portzer.
Music and arrangements by Andrews/Van Dyne. Lyrics by Andrews.
Cover art: “L’Umana Fragilità” by Salvator Rosa (1656)
Line-up:
Mike Van Dyne - Drums
Jeff Andrews - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Saltzman - Bass
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
Watch a video visualizer to the “The Siren’s Choice” here https://youtu.be/FYLqj-pVDnc or
listen to the track via streaming services: https://bio.to/cotsThe band commented: “‘The Siren’s Choice’ is a track we are particularly proud of. It has all the gloom-and-doom vibes that make us who we are, but also felt that we made a step forward when writing it. The playfulness of the guitar riffs with the samples was a pleasant surprise when we laid them together.”
This follows the release of a music video for the title track which premiered on The Obelisk and can be viewed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j49YCtl3j4 . The video serves as a powerful visual representation of the band's concept, contrasting the creations of man with the untamed instincts within us.
Formed in Athens in 2017, Church of the Sea have carved a distinct niche for themselves, balancing the crushing weight of doom with the ethereal beauty of dark electronic rock. Their signature sound blends fuzzed guitars, heavy distorted beats, and Irene's captivating, chant-like vocals, creating an atmosphere that is both heavy and dreamlike, with hints of shoegaze and noise-rock intensity.
“Eva,” the band's sophomore album, will be available on digital and CD formats, with a limited “sunburst” edition on vinyl.
The album was recorded at Suono Studios, engineered, produced, and mixed by Alex Bolpasis, and mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Mastering, continuing their established collaborative relationships from their debut EP “Anywhere but Desert” (2018) and debut album “Odalisque” (2022).
Throughout their career, Church of the Sea have graced the stages of numerous festivals and shared the bill with notable acts such as Antimatter, The Murder Capital, Messa, and Dool, including two sold-out performances at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Athens.
Ahead of the album’s release, Church of the Sea will perform as special guests to Wolvennest and ΛΑΜΔΑ on 22 March at AN Club in Athens, Greece.
Church of the Sea are:
Irene – Vocals
Vangelis – Guitars
Alex – Synths and samples
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https://www.instagram.com/churchofthesea
Wormholedeath is thrilled to announce the signing of RICKERT G, a visionary melodic death metal artist hailing from Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Rickert G has inked a deal with Wormholedeath for the release of his debut album, ENDLESS THOUGHTS, which is slated to drop on April 11, 2025.
Rickert G’s journey is forged in the fires of creativity, defiance, and pure passion for the art of heavy music. A student of titans like Therion, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, and Pantera, Rickert carved his path through formal training in musical composition at UMICH’s Facultad Popular de Bellas Artes before diving deeper into music production and film scoring in some of Mexico’s top institutions. The result? A melodic death metal project that fuses technical prowess with raw emotional storytelling.
Rickert
G Speaks Out“The signing with Wormholedeath has been an extraordinary surprise, marking a new chapter in my life and offering the opportunity to engage in what was once my dream: the professional world of metal music! The suddenness of it all has taken me by surprise, making me reflect on how things have been, the life I have lived, and how it can be from now on. It revitalizes me, helping me reconcile with the past and embrace the present opportunity to build a beautiful future. I am grateful to the entire WHD team for their interest in my music, their communication, and their patience. Let’s keep forging metal!”
Unveiling the Darkness of Endless Thoughts
Endless Thoughts is more than an album—it’s an intense, cathartic exploration of trauma and resilience. Born from the emotional aftermath of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by psychopathic abuse, the album delves into the harrowing depths of psychological and sexual abuse. Across eight evocative tracks, Rickert G narrates a descent into decadence, with each song representing a mental state or pivotal situation of the protagonist.
This conceptual masterpiece aims to engage listeners on a deeper level, offering not just entertainment but a visceral artistic statement of honesty and resistance. From its sonic architecture to its lyrical storytelling, Endless Thoughts draws listeners into a poignant journey of reflection and imagination.
Musically, Rickert G’s sound is a seamless fusion of melodic death metal influences, recalling the brilliance of bands like Hypocrisy, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity, Opeth, At the Gates, and In Flames. Yet, it’s uniquely his own—a testament to his multifaceted musical background and his ability to weave intricate emotions into compelling compositions.
Tracklist
01. The Journey
02. Farewell
03. The Mass of the Dead
04. Hypocrite
05. Coming Home
06. Singularity
07. Endless Thoughts
08. The End of Sanity
www.youtube.com/@rickertgvt
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Polish
black metal titans FURIA will take part in a unique
project on 5th and 6th April at Kinoteatr Rialto for the 25th anniversary of
the Silesian Film Archive in Katowice, Poland. Furia will play its songs
accompanied by unique materials from the only regional film archive in the country. The band has chosen archival films, which show, among other things, how the Silesian region was created and developed, how the legendary Spodek in Katowice was built, how life changed in Silesian cities and towns. We will also see artistic impressions inspired by the industrial landscape of the region or local crafts; recorded on film tapes, full of nostalgia, images of ordinary life: everyday activities that our grandparents, parents or ourselves engaged in years ago.
During this anniversary concert, we will see materials from the Silesian Film Archive, which Furia will illustrate with compositions from its albums, transferring the images of old Silesia to a completely different, surprising and hypnotising dimension.
Furia is one of the most original Polish black metal bands. The band was formed in 2003 in Katowice by vocalist and guitarist Michał “Nihil” Kuźniak. The band also includes Kamil “Sars” Staszałek (bass), Grzegorz “Namtar” Kantor (drums) and Artur Rumiński (guitar, since 2013). Furia has several album releases under its belt, performances in Japan, Romania, UK, at OFF Festival and at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, among others; a nomination for the “Polityka” Passport and cooperation with Jan Klata and the Krakow Stary Theatre on the adaptation of Stanisław Wyspiański’s “Wesele”. An important source of inspiration for the Katowice band is the tradition, culture and art of Upper Silesia: its mythological universe, to which they willingly and often refer in their work (e.g. “Guido”, “W Śnialni”).
The Silesian Film Archive was established 25 years ago in Katowice and is run by the Silesia Film Institute. It is the first and only regional film archive on the cultural map of Poland. Located in the basement of the Kosmos Cinema in Katowice, the Film Archive is mysterious because the relatively little-known space is filled with traces of film history. There you will find stills, posters, scripts, press clippings and over 10,000 film copies. Above all, thousands of old film material (including 8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm tapes), especially those related to the subject of Upper Silesia. The Film Archive carries out its mission by collecting, storing, restoring, digitising and making available old film materials.
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https://www.filmotekaslaska.com/
https://silesiafilm.com/
NERVOUS - "ACQUIESCENCE"
Everything about Acquiescence has been shaped by Ciesielski’s hands, from the songwriting and production to mixing, mastering, and artwork. This album is a true reflection of his vision—an uncompromising mix of black and death metal influences, intertwined with elements of classical music and progressive rock. The result is a dense, intense sound that pulls you in and holds you captive. Acquiescence explores a journey of rebellion against one’s nature, confronting deep fears, and ultimately embracing harmony within oneself. The album is a reflection of Ciesielski’s personal experiences of growing up, entering adulthood, and accepting who he truly is.
Tracklist
1.Acquiescence
2. Heavy is the Head that Wears an Imaginary Crown
3. Vermin Within
4. The Will to Power
5. Fragile
6. It Didn't Start with You
7. Acquiescence II
8. River
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AKANTOPHIS – “ERNEUERUNG”
Label: Self-ReleasedRelease Date: April 14, 2025
Format: Digital, LP, CD
Genre: Black Metal
FFO: Deathspell Omega, Ved Buens Ende, Bethlehem
Country: Germany
Akantophis, from Germany, present their new album, "Erneuerung", set to be released on April 14, 2025. The album features seven tracks with a total running time of 42 minutes, blending atmospheric intensity and aggression. Recorded live at Liquid Aether Audio and mastered under the direction of Mario Dahmen, the album captures an organic and dynamic feel.
The lyrics are primarily in German, adapted to the themes of each track and presented with more variety than before. Akantophis was founded in 1998 and secured their first underground success with "Galaria: Terra@Exitus" in 2001. After a break in 2004 for personal reasons, the band reunited in 2017 with a slightly revised lineup, releasing the 7-inch "Wiederkehr" as a turning point. In 2020, they followed up with "EXITUS XX" (MCD), closing the chapter on their older material and paving the way for this new release.
With "Erneuerung," Akantophis explore a broader sound while staying true to their roots, aiming to connect with a wider audience through this release.
Tracklist:
1. Spot
2. Lobotomie
3. Perforation
4. Renewal
5. Horizont aus Glas
6. # 9010
7. See Me
Line-up:
Andi – Vocals
Sebastian – Guitar
Lars – Bass
Micha – Drums
The recording, mixing and mastering took place at Liquid Aether Studio (near Cologne) in Nov- Dec 2023 under the direction of Mario Dahmen.
https://akantophis.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/akantophis/
The
wait is over. Today Cristina, with her creature OF THE MUSES,
opens the doors to her new album "UNDERHEAVENS— OF BLOOD,
GHOSTS AND SALTWATER", premiering the single "THE
IN-BETWEEN WAS A FEVER DREAM". The lyric video of the song
realized by Goffredo Passi / EstremArte Videoproduzioni is available at https://youtu.be/HMGO5GtAaVsThe song ushers us into a very vulnerable and personal universe full of pain, rage and passion, which, unlike on her debut "Senhal", is no longer conveyed through the extremism of screams, blastbeats and distortion, but rather through gripping emotional depth, both for how this is manifested in Art, music and words, and for the underlying concept (terminal illness, the loss of a loved one, life and death as a whole).
We are deeply proud of what is emerging and how this creature has been welcomed so far. "Underheavens— Of Blood, Ghosts and Saltwater" is a journey full of emotions and different nuances and will be released on April 25, 2025 by My Kingdom Music in LP, digipakCD, tape and digital format and you can pre-order it at: https://t.ly/QQNTv
For lovers of The Gathering, Mercury Rev, The 3rd and the Mortal, Garbage, Manic Street Preachers, Lush, Emma Ruth Rundle, a definitive must-have.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/ofthemuses
For fans of : Der Weg einer Freiheit, Deathspell Omega, Gaerea or Marduk
Check them out on YouTube and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRYoHOOffjg
Ten will be released on Malpermesita Records in March 28, 2025. This magnificent act of Black Metal features none other than Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted...) on drums, and it's a journey you won't want to miss.
An unconventional blend of violence, melancholy, horror, and melody that defines this deeply personal take on Black Metal.
www.youtube.com/@pathstodeliverance
https://www.facebook.com/pathstodeliverance
Pre-orders
are open now via the record label’s webstore: https://lnk.to/EPDMNThis special collaboration sees Domhain and Ephemeral each contribute one brand new track, both exploring vividly naturalistic, acoustic soundscapes that evoke an extraordinary sense of quiet and ethereal melancholy. Listeners can anticipate a unique blend of Domhain's signature emotional intensity and Ephemeral's rich, immersive atmospheres.
Ephemeral shared their excitement, stating: “We couldn’t be happier about this collaboration with our dear label mates Domhain who share our passion for mythical, melancholic and meaningful music, lyrics and visual art. It’s been a great honour for us and an absolute pleasure to join forces for this special release!”
Domhain echoed this sentiment, commenting: “We are over the moon to share the news of our collaboration with our friends and wonderful musicians from Ephemeral. We are so proud to see these two tracks side by side on this EP, and we hope you will enjoy listening to them together as much as we do. “Of Pine and Oak” is an ode to nature, to our connection to it, and to the inspiration it may bring… which we think will resonate with many of you. A million thanks to our common label These Hands Melt for facilitating this split and for always being so encouraging and excited with our music.”
"Of Pine and Oak" will be available digitally and as a limited edition (200 copies) 12” single-sided colour vinyl.
Hailing from Northern Ireland, Domhain is a new project formed by four experienced musicians from the Irish metal scene. Their sound is an emotional blend of post-black, blackgaze, and atmospheric black metal. Their debut mini-album "Nimue", released in October 2023 by These Hands Melt, featured guest cello by Jo Quail and was recorded at Foel Studio with Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial). Each of the three tracks on "Nimue" was accompanied by a conceptual music video created by the band’s drummer and visual director, Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan.
Ephemeral is a dark folk trio from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2019 by Ella Zlotos, Nikolaus Jira, and Patrick Maiwald. Their music creates a unique blend of melancholic folk with progressive elements, incorporating flutes, whistles, guitars, keyboard instruments, percussion, and strings, all topped with sung and spoken-word vocals. Their lyrics draw inspiration from English literature, exploring themes of longing, growth, transience, and new beginnings.
https://www.facebook.com/Domhain.band/
https://ephemeral-band.de/
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
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Kraków (PL) - Polish Death Metal duo, DORMANT ORDEAL, in collaboration with No Clean Singing, have premiered "SOLVENT," the second single from forthcoming album, TOOTH AND NAIL.
Stream it the following link: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/03/18/an-ncs-premiere-dormant-ordeal-solvent/
Dormant Ordeal, are set to release Tooth and Nail, the band's first album for Willowtip and fourth overall, on April 18! The album will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats, and follows widely praised third album, The Grand Scheme of Things.
"We worked hard to make this fourth album happen," says guitarist Maciej Nieścioruk. "JNS Studio once again did a great job tuning in to our suggestions, while having the support of Willowtip gave us freedom to focus on creativity without being distracted. Stick around and have a listen once it's released, might be just what you're looking for."
Dormant Ordeal was formed in 2008. Their debut album It Rains, It Pours (2013), showcased the aggressive and energetic sound, while We Had It Coming (2016) refined their songwriting with thought-out structures and darker textures. Released in 2021, The Grand Scheme of Things was critically acclaimed for blending brutal precision with blackened influences and a thought-provoking lyrical approach. Over the years, known for their intense and atmospheric approach to the genre, the band has established itself as a impactful entity in the modern death metal scene.
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/dormant-ordeal.aspx
https://dormantordeal.bandcamp.com/album/tooth-and-nail
Line-up:
Maciej Nieścioruk - Guitars
Maciej Proficz - Vocals
Track
Listing:1. Wije i Mary, Pt. 1
2. Halo of Bones
3. Horse Eater
4. Orphans
5. Solvent
6. Dust Crown
7. Against the Dying of the Light
8. Everything That Isn't Silence Is Trivial
9. Wije i Mary, Pt. 2
Credits:
Music, lyrics and arrangements by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Drums arrangements by Chason Westmoreland and Maciej Nieścioruk.
All tracks except drums recorded by Paweł Grabowski at JNS Studio in Warsaw.
Drums played and recorded by Chason Westmoreland.
Guest vocals on "Solvent" by Dominic Nucciarone recorded by Samuel Dufour.
Artwork by See Machine.
Art direction by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Design by Michał “Xaay” Loranc and Maciej Nieścioruk.
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https://www.facebook.com/dormant.ordeal/
Label: Rottweiler Records/Independent ReleaseRelease Date: March 22nd 2025
Genre: Heavy And Western
For fans of: ZZ Top | Johnny Cash | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 38 Special
It’s been ten years since The Comancheros started rolling along the blacktop highways, under the star dusted skies, carrying their hard rocking anthems and heartfelt ballads from the cities to the deserts, the forests to the sea. Bringing cowboys to the bars and broken hearted ghosts to their campfire, the years have passed in moments since their journey began back in 2015. Then suddenly there was a decade in that rearview mirror, stretching out behind them in miles and stories, drinks and songs…
To celebrate the first ten years of an adventure which shows no signs of reaching an end, The Comancheros have compiled an album of tracks that demonstrate the heart-on-the-sleeve emotion of their music; as diverse as life and as dark as the longest nights, as honest as tears and proud in their own skin…defiant, unbreakable, rebellious to the last breath. A Decade In The Mirror brings together songs never released before in a physical format, limited edition EPs whose CD runs have long since sold out, rarities from split cassette editions and live tracks that have never been made available before. Every aspect of The Comancheros’ spirit in all its raw grit and glory, from the dancing riffs and ZZ Top boogie of ‘Crazy As Hell’ to the melancholy reflection in the shadow of the gallows of ‘Don’t Forget My Name’, the gentle balladry of ‘I Stare At Trains’ to the smooth melodies, hard guitars and exuberance of ‘We Own The Night’. Perhaps what permeates all The Comancheros music more than anything else, all of A Decade In The Mirror from the laidback Americana of opener ‘The Day George Jones Died’ to the final whiskey salute of ‘If I Could Pick A Way To Go’ recorded live in Spain, is the untarnished honesty of expression that runs through it all like blood. Bringing together influences from southern rock, pure country and American folk ballads that stretch their roots deep into the past, The Comancheros have found their own definition of their unique sound – Heavy and Western – and that’s what you’ll find on A Decade In The Mirror.
On March 22nd Rottweiler Records will release the digital version of A Decade In The Mirror, while The Comancheros will be taking the traditional path, launching the album in CD format with a special show at The Basement in Nashville on the same day. Whichever format is right for you, just make sure you listen to A Decade In The Mirror and discover the sound of Heavy and Western, the sound of The Comancheros!
Line-up:
Tanner Jones - Vocals/Guitar
Jon Green - Vocals/Bass
R. Michael Cook- Drums
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/comancherosband
The
Circle Music has signed the influential Swedish melodic death metal
band, GATES OF ISHTAR. Revered as one of the genre's most
underrated acts, Gates of Ishtar are poised to triumphantly return with their
first new album in nearly three decades.Formed in Luleå, Sweden, Gates of Ishtar burst onto the scene with their seminal 1996 debut album, "A Bloodred Path", which quickly cemented their place in the pantheon of melodic death metal. Two more critically acclaimed albums followed, "The Dawn of Flames" (1997) and "At Dusk and Forever" (1998), showcasing their signature blend of razor-sharp riffs, thunderous drums, and the unmistakable growls of vocalist Mikael Sandorf. Despite their early success and promising trajectory, the band went on hiatus, leaving a void in the metal scene that their dedicated fanbase keenly felt.
After a 17-year silence, the anticipation for a reunion grew, and while a planned comeback in 2015 was sadly derailed by the passing of drummer Oscar Karlsson, Gates of Ishtar finally resurrected in November 2023 with a powerful performance at House of Metal. The overwhelming response from fans at this show ignited the spark for new music, leading to the decision to record a new album.
The Circle Music is ecstatic to welcome Gates of Ishtar to their roster. "If there was a list of the most underrated bands in metal, Gates of Ishtar would hold a prominent place,” states the record label. “It's been almost 30 years since their legendary debut 'A Bloodred Path' appeared, and still remains in the pantheon of melodic death metal. Life often plays strange games. One thing is certain: Gates of Ishtar is owed a lot and they are coming back determined to claim it all, one by one. It is our great joy to be on this journey together! Stay tuned, the Gates are open again..."
Gates of Ishtar themselves are equally enthusiastic about this new chapter. "The gates are open once more!!! We are super excited to work together with Maria and The Circle Music to bring you our new album! It will be the first new release in almost 3 decades and we have put all our hearts and souls into this beast of an album," the band comments. "The process of writing this new material has been a joyful experience and it didn't take more than a minute to realise that we still had that magic flow between us all in the band. We can't wait to hear your response to it and hopefully we meet you all out there in 2026! Hail Inanna!"
Fans who have been eagerly awaiting new material will be thrilled to hear that Gates of Ishtar’s signature sound remains potent, delivering Swedish melodic death metal at its finest.
Adding to the significance of their return, Gates of Ishtar recently performed a devastating live show in their hometown of Luleå. This performance coincided with the 30th anniversary of their very first concert in the same location, marking a powerful full-circle moment for the band.
https://linktr.ee/thecirclemusic
https://www.facebook.com/gatesofishtarofficial
Bands like Byonoisegenerator are exceedingly rare. We've been waiting a long time for their new album and now it's finally here! They're mixing jazz with a pretty extreme and violent form of music and the result, quite frankly, is exhilarating. They'd like to call their music "jazzgrind". Check it out for yourselves. There are two official videos and another track which you can find in this email and you can also listen to them all on Bandcamp at https://byonoisegenerator-label.bandcamp.com/album/subnormal-dives
BYONOISEGENERATOR – „SUBNORMAL DIVES“
Genre
: Jazzgrind/MathgrindByonoisegenerator are set to make a splash again after seven long years with a new album of what they'd like to call “jazzgrind” that sounds just as shocking and exhilarating as you would imagine. It's the kind of album that compels us to see things from a different perspective. While jazz influences and usage of a saxophone in extreme music has been witnessed before, it’s hardly ever done with a style of music this extreme and cathartic. The dedicated sax player infuses the violent music with jazzy parts that not only serve as a break from the cacophony but they also punctuate the music, enhance it, and elevate it from your regular grind or death metal band. The music is highly intricate, even technical, and despite the short length of the songs, it might require multiple listens for it to be fully deciphered and for the unsuspecting listeners to get its odd appeal. They've used the free-style spirit to concoct music that's outstanding and in the process have also ensured that it's more than something having temporary novelty value. At this point in their career, they've been able to masterfully meld the seemingly contradictory influences and have created songs that are more than just ideas, with each having their own identity and charm. It is clear that Byonoisegenerator are onto something special and they have the chops and attitude to pull off something as outrageous and irresistible as this.
Line up
Tim - Vox
Hal° - Guitar
M1t - Bass
Sh3la - Saxophone
NOx - Drums
Artwork by Dmitry Rogatnev
Track listing
1. Eb(D#)
2. IQ69Exaltations
3. NULL.state = PERMANENT; return VOID;
4. NoSuccessToday!
5. UVB-76
6. LoveChargedDiveBombs
7. I'mNot20Anymore (21Ne)
8. 4-HO-DMTNzambiKult
9. deBroglieNeverExisted
10. 5mgInspiredVibes
Release date - June 13th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/byonoisegenerator
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
NEWS 16.3.2025
Carsten von ENTERA hat seine alte Death
Metal Band "CAEDES IN ABSOLOM" wieder aufleben lassenStahlsarg Song: https://caedesinabsolom.bandcamp.com/track/stahlsarg
Stahlsarg Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbUQvFtfOVo
Kirchenfolter Song: https://caedesinabsolom.bandcamp.com/track/kirchenfolter
Kirchenfolter Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7TDQnp9xXE
https://caedesinabsolom.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/CaedesInAbsolom/
CHONTARAZ – „PHANTOM OF REALITY“
Das
norwegisch/griechische Powerhouse CHONTARAZ ist wieder aus den
Untiefen seines höllischen Ursprungs (in Hell, Norwegen) aufgetaucht und
entfacht mit seiner lang erwarteten Rückkehr große Vorfreude bei Fans von
dunkler, dynamischer Musik. Ihr kommendes drittes Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ:
9. Mai 2025) entführt Hörer einmal mehr in das unverwechselbare Universum von
CHONTARAZ und bietet eine fesselnde Reise durch ihre modernen Klanglandschaften
und atmosphärischen Geschichten.Das Album beschäftigt sich mit der Reise, sein wahres Ich zu akzeptieren sowie der damit einhergehenden Ablehnung jeder Art der Oberflächlichkeit; eins der Hauptthemen ist dabei Authentizität. CHONTARAZ kombinieren düsteren Modern Metal mit Industrial-Elementen und vereinen intensive Energie meisterhaft mit tiefgründigen lyrischen Erzählungen, wodurch “Phantom of Reality” bei Fans sowohl auf musikalischer als auch auf emotionaler Ebene Anklang findet.
Bei der gemeinsamen Arbeit in seinem Studio in Athen stimmte die Chemie zwischen den Musikern sofort und unbestreitbar, was Fotis (alias Narwhal) dazu veranlasste, sich CHONTARAZ in Vollzeit anzuschließen. Das Ergebnis? Eine bahnbrechende Metal-Kollaboration, die eine außergewöhnliche Verschmelzung von meisterhaftem Songwriting, erstklassigen Musikern und einer Weltklasse-Produktion darstellt – ein Album, das den modernen Metal neu definieren will.
Fotis Benardos doppelte Virtuosität als Produzent sowie Schlagzeuger hat die Soundlandschaft von “Phantom of Reality” geformt und liefert eine immersive, beeindruckende Klangwelt, die jeden Track aufwertet. All das wird nahtlos mit dem brillanten Songwriting von Ahkon (Herbjørn Anglen) und Chontaraz (Frode Kvarsnes) kombiniert, die gemeinsam alle Tracks geschrieben haben und Ahkons Gitarren- und Bass-Künste mit Chontaraz' fesselndem Gesang vereinen. Das Ergebnis ist eine klangliche Explosion: ein kraftvoller Mix aus düsterem, modernen Metal und Industrial-Komponenten, die nahtlos mit Fotis' Präzision und klanglicher Vision verschmelzen. Das Album hat einen Sound, der sowohl roh als auch raffiniert, brutal und fesselnd ist.
Weitere Features auf "Phantom of Reality":
Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) als Gastsänger bei "SCREAM" (Single-VÖ: 28. Februar 2025)
George Nerantzis, verantwortlich für Keys und Industrial Add-Ons bei allen Songs
Kjetil “DeadBit” Lindløkken an zusätzlichen Keys für "Spin The Wheel", "Prayer To The Masses" und "Dressed To Kill"
Noxaerias (Kostas Mexis) am Bass für Live-Auftritte und Musikvideos
Diese Vielzahl an Kollaborationen resultiert in einer Fusion aus erstklassigen Musikern, visionärem Songwriting und einer hervorragenden Produktion, die CHONTARAZ in neue Gefilde katapultiert. Mit Ahkon und Chontaraz, die durch ihr gemeinsames Songwriting die kreative Vision vorantreiben und Fotis Benardo, der den Sound und den Rhythmus prägt, ist dies Metal auf einem absoluten Höhepunkt.
Über CHONTARAZ
CHONTARAZ stammen ursprünglich aus Hell, Norwegen, und hatten 2015 eine kühne Vision: Musik zu machen, die sie wirklich lieben, frei von stilistischen Beschränkungen, und diese mit theatralischen Liveshows, unverkennbarem Make-up sowie fesselndem lyrischen Storytelling zu vermitteln.
Ihr Debütalbum “Rondamauh” ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem legendären Produzenten Daniel Bergstrand (bekannt für seine Arbeit mit In Flames, Meshuggah, Dimmu Borgir, Devin Townsend) entstanden und erhielt viel Lob von Schwergewichten wie dem Sweden Rock Magazine, dem Metal Observer und dem Scream Magazine. Außerdem wurde es von Quebec-Metal zum drittbesten internationalen Album des Jahres 2017 gewählt und von Thomas Youngblood von Kamelot persönlich empfohlen.
2019 stellten CHONTARAZ ihr zweites Album “Speed The Bullet” während 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, vor.
Das in Zusammenarbeit mit George Nerantzis produzierte Album erhielt hervorragende Kritiken und verhalf ihnen zu Tourneen mit Kultbands wie Sepultura und Soulfly sowie zu Auftritten im Vorprogramm von Kamelot und Cyhra.
Mit ihrem dritten Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025) haben sich CHONTARAZ endgültig in ein wahres norwegisch-griechisches Kraftpaket verwandelt, das die dunkle Rohheit des norwegischen Metal mit der technologischen Präzision und industriellen Intensität ihres neuesten Mitglieds und Produzenten Fotis Benardo verbindet.
Fotis (alias Narwhal), der für sein visionäres Schlagzeugspiel und seine Produktionsfähigkeiten bekannt ist, hat die Klanglandschaft der Band neu definiert und für einen mitreißenden, vernichtenden Sound gesorgt, der jeden Track aufwertet.
CHONTARAZ liefern damit aktuell einen wahrhaft einzigartigen Sound, der die Wildheit des Heavy Metal und die Intensität des Black Metal mit dem mechanischen Puls des Industrial und der Schärfe des Modern Metal vereint. Das Ergebnis ist eine Klangexplosion, die Grenzen verschiebt und eine musikalische Umgebung schafft, in der Chaos und Ordnung ein perfektes Gleichgewicht finden. Ein norwegisch-griechischer Metal-Juggernaut, der sich durch eine Mischung aus brutaler Kraft und melodischer Tiefe auszeichnet – mit massiven Riffs, überlagert von elektronischen Texturen und postapokalyptischen Atmosphären. CHONTARZ’ Musik füllt eine Lücke im heutigen Metal-Markt und wagt sich in dunkle Gefilde vor, die andere zu betreten zögern. Für CHONTARAZ geht es nicht nur darum, Musik zu spielen – sondern darum, ein eindringliches, immersives Erlebnis zu bieten.
Mit intensiven Vocals, krassen Gitarren und hypnotischen Rhythmen laden sie die Hörer in ihr Universum ein und schaffen einen Sound, der sowohl hart als auch tief emotional ist. “Phantom of Reality” ist nicht einfach nur ein Album; es ist eine musikalische Reise, bei der Rohheit auf Technologie, Leidenschaft auf Dunkelheit und Hoffnung auf Verzweiflung trifft.
Bereitet euch auf ein unvergleichliches Metal-Erlebnis vor. Auftritt CHONTARAZ – nicht nur eine Band, sondern eine Kraft, die bereit ist, den modernen Metal neu zu gestalten.
https://www.youtube.com/@chontarazofficial
https://chontaraz.com/
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SWEEPING DEATH unterschreiben bei Unholy Fire Records .
Die Band aus Bayern und das Label aus dem Sauerland haben jüngst einen Deal über das nächste Album des Fünfer festgezurrt.
"DEVOTION TO THE ABSURD NIGHT" , so der Name des Machtwerks, wird noch dieses Frühjahr auf CD und Vinyl erscheinen. Zudem gibt es eine auf 20 Stück limitierte LP Box.
Stilistisch hat sich bei der Mischung aus klassischem Metal mit progressiven und thrashigen Einflüssen eher weniger getan. Doch obwohl die Songs wesentlich straighter geworden sind, lassen sie immer noch genug Platz für Details und verspielte Arrangements.
Die Band hat ihren Stil gefunden, weiß wo ihre Stärken liegen und spielt diese gnadenlos aus!
Als Label sind wir unfassbar stolz, dass wir Sweeping Death nicht nur als Freunde, sondern auch als Partner gewinnen konnten!
Aus der Ferne hatten wir, seit sie vor sechs Jahren auf dem heimischen Metal4Meinerzhagen Festival alles in Grund und Boden spielten, immer ein Auge Richtung Augsburg geworfen.
Was also lag näher, als endlich eine Zusammenarbeit einzugehen und eine Scheibe auf den Markt zu bringen, die den Underground garantiert zum Beben bringen wird?!
Sweeping Death sind:
Elias Witzigmann – Vocals
Markus Heilmeier – Guitars
Simon Bertl – Guitars, Backing Vocals
Martin Kauschinger – Bass
Tobias Kasper – Drums, Piano
Bisherigen Releases:
Die for Metal (Single 2016)
Astoria (EP 2017)
In Lucid (Full-length 2018)
Tristesse (EP 2021)
https://www.facebook.com/Unholyfire.Records
https://www.facebook.com/SweepingDeath
PIGHEAD: veröffentlichen zweite Video Single „DRENCHED IN PURULENCE“. Am 13.3.2025 veröffentlichen Pighead ihre zweite Single!
Drenched In Purulence haut dabei in eine andere Kerbe als die erste Single und ist ein gnadenloser Brutal Death Metal Song. Während Insidious Vows Of Spiritual Imposotors geradliniger nach vorne geht, ist Drenched In Purulence ein erbarmungsloses Gehacke, das trotzdem immer wieder die Kurve
kriegt um auf das Thema des Songs zurück zu kommen.
Man kann erahnen, dass die EP RELAPSE INTO ABSURDITY nicht nur brutal, sondern auch abwechslungsreich wird!
Visuell interpretiert wurde der Song wieder vom Sänger Emanuelle Oropesa und Kameramann Ramon Kubatzki und entstand Anfang Februar in Magdeburg. Dabei verlangte die Kälte in dem verlassenen
Video 1.Single: Insidious Vows Of Spiritual Impostors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gbt_6hzQE8
Video 2.Single: Drenched In Purulence https://youtu.be/IvrTieIYI0g?si=RjaeNDyj1NlCEbDr
Tracklist:
1. Convulsed In Decomposition
2. Vicious Cacophonic Chants
3. Relapse Into Absurdity
4. Drenched In Purulence
5. Insidious Vows Of Spiritual Impostors
6. Shattering Pulse Of Revulsion
Die EP RELAPSE INTO ABSURDITY erscheint am 4.4.2025 vie Rising Nemesis Records
Discography:
Demo – 2007
Demo – 2009
Cadaver Desecrator – 2010
Rotten Body Reanimation – 2012
Until All Flesh Decays – 2016
Relapse Into Absurdity – 2025
Line Up:
Guitar – Denny Hahnke
Drums – Ruben Schwarz
Vocal – Emanunel Oropesa
Bass – Lommer
Anlässlich des 50-jährigen Jubiläums der britischen Heavy-Metal-Ikonen IRON MAIDEN werden Fans diesen Herbst zusätzlich mit einem spannenden, offiziellen (noch unbetitelten) IRON MAIDEN-DOKUMENTARFILM beschert!
Die Dokumentation ist eine emotionale Reise durch die Geschichte von Iron Maiden, erzählt aus der Perspektive der Band sowie einiger ihrer treuesten Anhänger, mit exklusiven Interviews ehemaliger und aktueller Bandmitglieder, darunter das letzte Interview mit dem ursprünglichen Sänger Paul Di'Anno, der letztes Jahr leider verstorben ist. Freu dich auf nie zuvor gesehenes Filmmaterial und das ikonische Maskottchen Eddie, das natürlich nicht fehlen darf und durch spektakuläre Animationen zum Leben erweckt wird. Das wird definitiv ein Highlight, welches sich kein Maiden-Fan entgehen lassen sollte!
Die vollständige offizielle Pressemitteilung mit allen wichtigen Infos findest du hier:
https://www.ironmaiden.com/maiden-feature-documentary-announced-for-2025/
"CARRION LORD" is a dive into the dark and brutal, a relentless morphing display of new territories for OPHIDIAN MEMORY, as well as brief moments that hearken to previous stages of its sound. Contextually, it is a record that expands in-depth on the narrative aspect of Existence, with new characters, factions, and locations to build a world primed for fantasy and metal enjoyers alike. It is a product of passion that shows the growth of Ophidian Memory over the last three years and is but another bar to reach above for the next record.
Sonically, "Carrion Lord" captures the raw aggression and intricate melodies fans expect while showcasing a fearless exploration of new dimensions. This release solidifies Ophidian Memo
Tracklist1. The Mausoleum
2. Hunger of Your Deceased Deity
3. A Jewel in Grocinia
4. Fleshbinding Ritual
5. Carrion Lord
6. The Murder on Warforged Soil
7. Hollowed
8. Sculptors of Seraphic Tributes
9. Kept from Dust
10. Bloodborne
Ophidian Memory, born from the creative mind of Blake Lamoureux, uses a foundation of melodic death metal while seamlessly blending subgenres like black metal, thrash, progressive metal, and metalcore. Each album unfolds tales set in a sprawling fictional universe, where beings of light and dark are locked in eternal conflict—plotting to destroy humanity, each other, and Existence itself.
https://ophidianmemory.bandcamp.com/
WURMIAN releases new single "AEON
AFTERGLOWS" — a deep dive into the melancholy of "IMMEMORIAL
SHRINE"Following the recent announcement of their signing to Pest Records, French Melodic Death/Doom act WURMIAN has unveiled the second glimpse into its upcoming debut album, "Immemorial Shrine", with the release of the new single, "Aeon Afterglows": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9q5Rc-D3N8&list=PLuG35sX_XE5Yg8XP2T8Sxi3MFYkaaMTIU
Driven by icy melodies, thunderous riffs, and a deeply melancholic atmosphere, "Aeon Afterglows" is a deeply immersive track, combining mournful melodies and crushing heaviness with a poetic, introspective lyrical approach — a somber yet intense blend of early '90s Melodic Death/Doom influences and modern production sensibility. The track is a stirring reflection on isolation and inner decay, carried by Antoine Scholtes' evocative songwriting and multi-instrumental performance. Lyrically, "Aeon Afterglows" paints a dreamlike journey through solitude, ancestral memory, and the dissolution of time
Taking inspiration from revered names like Katatonia, October Tide, Amorphis, and Edge of Sanity, Wurmian channels the genre's most revered traditions while carving a distinct path into the present. "Aeon Afterglows" is both a love letter to the pioneers of melancholic extremity and a bold declaration of Wurmian's own voice.
The full album, "Immemorial Shrine", will be released on April 6th, 2024, on CD via Pest Records. It features seven evocative tracks that explore existential dread and solitude through lush melodic layers, cavernous growls, and powerful doom-laden passages.
Pre-order "Immemorial Shrine": https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wurmian-immemorial-shrine
Let the first echoes of sorrow draw you in — and prepare for the full descent when "Immemorial Shrine" arrives this April.
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/wurmian.band/
Avant-garde
black/death metal project NERVOUS is proud to unveil the
lyric video for their powerful new track, “HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS
AN IMAGINARY CROWN.” Taken from the highly anticipated album ACQUIESCENCE,
set for release on March 28, 2025, via WormholedeathThe track serves as a fierce allegory for the mental battles we face—particularly themes of self-doubt, loss of control, and the haunting persistence of inner conflict. Through regal and wartime imagery, “Heavy is the Head that Wears an Imaginary Crown” casts the psyche as a kingdom under siege, where the ruler (the self) is caught in a fierce struggle against both internal demons and external pressures. The metaphorical “grey ooze” represents the suffocating force of depression and societal decay, relentlessly overtaking everything in its path
Pre-save "Acquiescence" here: https://orcd.co/acquiescence
Nervous, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Aaron Ciesielski, emerged from profound personal growth and self-discovery. Born amidst an existential crisis, "Acquiescence" is a concept album that chronicles this transformative journey, capturing the essence of rebellion, fear, and ultimately, the profound acceptance of self.
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A lyric video is available at https://youtu.be/9dpYFiaEl2k
The song is taken from "PRELUDE OF LOSS" out on March 21st, 2025 and you can Pre-Order it at: https://t.ly/BBFUp
With the new album they accentuates their decadent soul, enriching it with new shades with an always gloomy tone, able to carry the listener into a musical universe made of sad atmospheres and obscure melodies.
"Prelude Of Loss" will be for sure a mandatory listening to those who have their musical background in the most melancholy dynamics of Metal and Post Rock of KATATONIA, OCTOBER TIDE, SWALLOW THE SUN and NOVEMBRE.
"Prelude Of Loss" will dig into your soul in search of the most hidden emotions!
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Montreal/Stockholm
Progressive Metal Quartet, VOIDCHASER, have releasd new
EP TRUST! Serving as an epilogue to critically
acclaimed 2024 release Solace, the new EP completes the narrative and
brings closure to the conceptual journey begun with their debut album.FFO: Devin Townsend, Haken, Dream Theater, Between the Buried and Me, Opeth, Caligula's Horse.
A full EP visualizer video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjXaEWKiKg
Coinciding with the EP's release, the band has also released a music video for opening track, "Time," featuring Québec City's Universe Effects (Gabriel Antoine Vallée, Francis Grégoire, and Gabriel Cyr). "Time" embarks on a reflective journey through loss and the fleeting nature of life. Emotionally charged and deeply introspective, the song continues the narrative arc that concluded Solace, resonating with the raw emotion of abandonment.
Following the impact of "Trust" (featuring Jim Grey of Caligula’s Horse) and the epic "Dogma" (with a guest appearance by The Anchoret), "Time" weaves a heartfelt exploration of impermanence and memory, brought to life through poignant lyrics and evocative melodies. This final chapter not only completes the EP’s narrative journey, but also reinforces Voidchaser's reputation for merging profound emotional storytelling with dynamic musical composition.
The "Time" video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D37N6UVsPH8
Trust solidifies Voidchaser’s reputation for heavy yet emotionally resonant progressive metal. The band is also gearing up for an international tour in 2025, with more details to be announced soon.
Vocalist/rhythm guitarist Chad Bernatchez discusses Trust:
"Trust picks up directly after the events of Solace. Our protagonist is drifting across the vast emptiness of space, as the reserve oxygen tanks from the suit keep him alive and scenes from his life pass them by. The first song, Time, depicts our protagonist having to say goodbye to someone who he was very close to. The second song, Dogma, depicts our protagonist having to make an impossible decision, resulting in leaving behind someone else he was very close to. Finally, the title track depicts our protagonist unapologetically committing his entire life to someone only to have his trust broken and their sense of self be lost in the process.
We collaborated with musicians from all around the world on this EP and it’s very cool to have had the opportunity to do that. We have a lot of love for the musicians that accepted to be on it and feel incredibly honored that we made something they wanted to be a part of.
This EP is very special to us because it marks the end of a chapter for Voidchaser. We are very proud of how far we have come since the band has started, and there is nothing we would have done differently. Everything has led to where we are today and we have learned a lot from the past two years and we are very grateful for everything that happened and everyone who was with us along the way."
Track Listing:
1. Time (feat. Universe Effects)
2. Dogma (Feat. The Anchoret)
3. Trust (feat. Jim Grey)
Credits:
Guest vocals by Gabriel Antoine Vallée (Time).
Guest guitar solo by Gabriel Cyr (Time).
Guest keyboard solo by Francis Grégoire (Time).
Guest french horn by Tomás Figueiredo (Time).
Guest violin/viola/cello by Oleh Mytrofanov, Kateryna Mytrofanova, Oleksiy. Zavgorodniy, Anastasia Boyko and Jana Malentzova (Time, Dogma).
Guest saxophone solo by Laurent Barbier (Dogma).
Guest oud solo by Asil Blek (Dogma).
Guest bansuri solo by Rajat Prasanna (Dogma).
Guest vocals by Jim Grey (Trust).
Lyrics and Songwriting by Chad Bernatchez.
Production and Arrangements by Jici LG.
Mixing and Mastering by Jason Poulin.
Management by Metal Shed Productions.
Artwork by Sam Harwood.
Drums recorded by Mackay Agellon at Borkum Riff Studios.
Guest vocals recorded by Jared Adlam at Machine Lab Studios (Trust).
Special thanks to Eddy Levitsky (The Anchoret) for his implication in the track "Dogma", to Dario and Van (The Progspace), and to Niko (Prog Sphere).
Line-Up:
Chad Bernatchez - Vocals, Back Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Jici LG - Bass
Jimmy Montbriand - Lead Guitar
Colin MacAndrew - Drums
Mathieu Fiset - Keyboards
Bio:
From Montreal and Stockholm, Voidchaser is a progressive metal band. Since their inception in 2023, the band has quickly gained momentum with standout high-caliber singles that have resonated across multiple countries in North America, South America, and Europe, earning widespread acclaim from influential critics such as The Progspace, Prog-Sphere, Metal Universe, and Metal Minded, among others.
In 2024, Voidchaser unveiled their most ambitious and emotionally charged project yet: Solace, a progressive metal concept album that weaves together technical brilliance, evocative storytelling, and raw human emotion. Composed as a single conceptual piece divided into six interconnected parts, Solace showcases the band's diverse musical spectrum, from the thunderous intensity of "Solace Part II: Only Human"—a fierce anthem of resilience featuring Ashbreather—to the haunting beauty of "Solace Part IV: Alien," an acoustic ballad exploring themes of love and control. Solace is not just music—it is a theatrical exploration of survival, a celebration of human connection, and a reflection on the duality of strength and vulnerability.
This debut album amassed over 200,000 streams in its first three months and was charted among the top metal albums of the year according to Apple and iTunes in Canada, Sweden and other countries. This impact propelled Voidchaser onto both the local and global scenes, as evidenced by their participation in prestigious events like ProgPower Europe 2025 alongside acts such as The Dear Hunter, Threshold, Kingcrow, Extol, KYROS, and Nospūn, as well as upcoming festivals in Canada.
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VULVECTOMY – “ABERRANT VAGINAL GESTATION”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease Date: April 11th 2025
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Kraanium | Gorevent | Amputated
Through every waking hour I travel the dark tunnels of the online world, feasting on the horrors to be uncovered, delving further into the darkness – damaging, desensitizing and warping myself beyond repair. And when my exhausted eyes finally close in sleep, a stronghold of nightmares opens its gates within the endless corridors of my mind…a thousand doors and behind each one a scenario of twisted torment; sadism, masochism, brutality without boundaries, unspeakable acts of degeneracy and deviance. Morality is meaningless in my eternal kingdom of corruption; there is only the act, the blood, the pain, the dismantling of the human form – body, mind and spirit.
After twelve long, fear free years, the monstrous beast that is Vulvectomy has crawled forth from its lair in the Italian sewers once more. The ultimate manifestation of conscienceless, emotionless, slamming brutality is back, with another rancid harvest of putridity and filth for the sickest of souls. Any thoughts that Vulvectomy may have mellowed over time or discovered a shred of humanity within their collective, rotten heart should be abandoned immediately. Once the addictive riffs and incredibly intense drums have drawn you in to this cesspit of disgust there is not a moment of relief from the barbarity and madness. Each chord is delivered with sadistic intent and formidable force, punishing blows alternating with frenzied assaults. Tracks like first single, ‘Scrotal Abscess Drainage’ are just overwhelming barrages of rot and disease, brutal slam death distilled down to its fetid, sordid essence. The song titles are a litany of perversion, the music an avalanche of depraved violence. With slithering, wormlike horrors like ‘Greedy Fetal Discharge’ Vulvectomy have painted a portrait of a world beyond redemption. This album will disturb you, infect you, scar you and vomit over the last grains of hope you may have had for mankind.
Mixed by Alessio Cattaneo (Corpsefucking Art, Hideous Divinity etc) and mastered by Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Vomit The Soul, Hour Of Penance etc) Aberrant Vaginal Gestation sounds as bludgeoning and gore-encrusted as it should, bestial beyond belief. And the cover art by Guang Yang (Beheaded, Nunslaughter, Infant Annihilator etc) is truly a repugnant and grotesque vision, spawned from night terrors and wickedness. There is not a trace of decency to found in any part of this vicious abomination of an album. When Comatose Music unleash the reborn Vulvectomy on April 11th there will be hell to pay…
Line-up:
Diego Fanelli - Vocals
Giorgio Cavaliere - Bass
Mario Di Giambattista - Guitar
Marco Coghe - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.vulvectomyofficial.com/
Prepare
for a cataclysmic fusion of symphonic grandeur and unrelenting darkness
as RawMoor, the rising titans of symphonic blackened death
metal, announce their signing with Wormholedeath Records and the global release
of their debut album, EN ROUTE, set to storm the gates on May 2,
2025."We are pleased to announce the signing of our pact with Wormholedeath, to now have their force backing our descent upon the world!" said the band" We brewed and smoldered in silence long under the black stone that roofs every hollow hosting aspiring combatants, battling for the honor of carrying the torch for Satan, with our flame nigh quenching in the process, until our menace could no longer be contained. We drew the admiration of our audience and they whipped us on until finally, we burst open through that stone, our release now on display for all to see.
That much can be accomplished by anyone. But Carlo and Wormholedeath soon got on our trail, offering us a backing that now elevates our possibilities to compete for a place among the greatest of names in Black Metal. They pave our way, map us our roads, and guide us to growth in darkness.
Our vow from here on out is to deliver our power in full, to burn as the brightest of flame until our fuel runs out and another takes our place. This will be our unending service. For Satan."
"En Route" delves into themes of treachery and betrayal, both on national and personal scales, alongside aspirations for sovereignty and critiques of left-wing ideology. Unapologetically political, it stands as an anti-religion, pro-freedom statement.
Musically, it embraces the essence of Symphonic Black Metal drawing inspiration from Dimmu Borgir, Agathodaimon, Windir, Cradle of Filth, and Finntroll. The result is a dark, cinematic soundscape that balances grandeur with aggression.
Lyrically, the album is born from Moordrawn’s deep frustration and disillusionment with a world spiraling into decay.
A New Era of Elegance and Ferocity
Emerging from the shadows of the metal underground, RawMoor has forged a reputation for blending haunting orchestral melodies with blistering death metal savagery. Their debut album, En Route—initially self-released in September 2024—captivated fans and critics alike, earning acclaim for its seamless marriage of brutality and sophistication. Now, armed with the backing of Wormholedeath, RawMoor is poised to ascend to new heights, bringing their apocalyptic soundscapes to a global audience.
From Underground Vision to International Stage
What began in 2016 as the solo endeavor of multi-instrumentalist Moordrawn (vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, orchestration) evolved into a formidable alliance with longtime collaborator Brim (vocals). Together, they finished En Route, a concept album steeped in treachery, sovereignty, and existential rebellion themes. Guest guitarist Renton (tracks 2, 3, 6) adds searing solos, further cementing the album’s dynamic range.
“RawMoor embodies the raw intensity and artistic ambition that defines extreme metal,” says Carlo Bellotti, CEO of Wormholedeath. “En Route is not just an album—it’s a manifesto. We’re thrilled to amplify their vision and introduce their chaos to the world.”
En Route is a journey through betrayal and retribution, and with Wormholedeath, RawMoor is ready to ignite the flames wider than ever
RawMoor Is:
Moordrawn: Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Orchestration
Brim: Vocals
Renton: Guest Soloist (Tracks 2, 3, 6)
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https://rawmoor.bandcamp.com/album/en-route
Bram Bijlhout is perhaps best known for his guitar work with Officium Triste, who he served for seven years, performing on the Dutch doom/death legends split EP with Ophis - Immersed - and the album Mors Viri...however that is all about to change. In 2021 he started a new project under the name Structure, where he began to expand upon the doom/death template, broadening it's range of emotion, infusing it with honesty and integrity - creating something instantly recognisable yet also fresh and impactful. After finding his way with a self titled EP in 2022 and a single, Disordered, in 2023, Bram is now ready to reveal the full length debut from STRUCTURE, in alliance with Ardua Music - HERITAGE.
Featuring lead vocals from Pim Blankenstein (Officium Triste), drums by Dirk Bruinenberg (Elegy) and additional vocals from Robert Soeterboek (Plan 9, Ayreon), Heritage, a collection of seven emotive, momentous songs, will be released by Ardua Music on April 25th. Speaking about Heritage Bram has said...
"Heritage features a darker approach, more heavy riffs yet retaining all the melodies. These songs turned out to be the heaviest ones written for Structure, and the help of some great friends made this an album that i am very proud of."
Heritage was mastered by Dool bass player J.B. Van Der Wal and
its distinctive artwork features photographs from Bram Bijlhout's personal
family collection.Track Listing:
1. Will I Deserve It
2. What We Have Lost
3. Long Before Me
4. The Sadness Of Everyday Life
5. Heritage
6. The Feeling Of Confusion
7. Until The Last Gasp (Instrumental)
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://structure-doom.bandcamp.com/
Murder Records is honored to present SCYTHROW, a band buried in the filthy graves hailing from the rotten fields from Lappeenranta in Finland.
Scythrow emerged in 2020 with the intention of presenting a sound more directed towards the Thrash Metal strands, but over the time, they has been shaping its sound until it reaches a more violent sonic decomposition with the insane putrefaction of heavier riffs that are complemented by a voracious brutality with rotting melodies and where the filthy chaos has completely invaded the sound that is currently presented by Scythrow.
"BLAMELESS SEVERED EXTREMITIES" is the title of Scythrow's third album, containing eight severe lacerations of brutality where the influences of Thrash Metal practiced in the band's early days remain, making this album more chaotic and interesting, but here we can hear something much heavier and more brutal, defining a more cavernous sound that makes us dive into the depths of merciless chaos and where the Chaotic Death Metal prevails imminently...
Murder Records is now preparing the release of Scythrow's latest album in Cassette format, which will include an bonus track, a cover from the veterans Mortician "Chainsaw Dismemberment", allowing the worms to devouring the human remains buried in the putrid melodies duly moldy with the cadaveric odors presented here on this Chaotic Death Metal from the cemitery...
Chaos & Death On... Normal Life Off...
Cassette limited to 100 copies
Track
listSIDE A
01 - Reluctant Possession [03:31]
02 - Kinemortophobia [03:07]
03 - Nerve Rot [03:44]
04 - Necrotic High [04:40]
SIDE B
05 - Blameless Severed Extremities [05:51]
06 - The Remorse Declines [04:08]
07 - Bare Bones [03:39]
08 - The Fatal Point Of Closure [06:28]
09 - Chainsaw Dismemberment (Mortician Cover) [01:39]
All music arranged and performed by Scythrow.
Composed by Arttu Muukkonen, Nuutti Myllynen and Markus Erling.
Lyrics written by Markus Erling.
Bonus track written and composed by Mortician.
Record during June and July 2024 in Bomb Shelter at Lappeenranta.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Arttu Muukkonen.
Cover art work by Apostle Ink.
Band logo by Nuutti Myllynen.
Layout is made by Arttu Muukkonen and Nuutti Myllynen.
Gig Photography by Jan Suominen.
Release Date: March 14th, 2025
Scythrow are :
Markus Erling - Guitar / Vocals
Arttu Muukkonen - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Nuutti Myllynen - Bass
Benjamin Niemelä – Drums
Finland is well known for being a den of fertility when it comes to extreme sonic filth, so it's time to introduce you to Scythrow, a band that was unearthed in 2020 from the rotting tombs of Lappeenranta.
Although Scythrow are a new band, they have just released their third album, entitled "Blameless Severed Extremities", which was released in CD format by Awakening Records, soon will be released by Murder Records in Cassette format and later will be released also by Futhark Records in Vinyl format.
Although Scythrow's first two albums present a sound more directed towards Thrash Metal, this new work defines very well the type of sound that Scythrow intends to propagate and where they finally found the cadaveric formula that allows them to present a more cohesive sound within the parameters of chaotic brutality.
So let's get on with the interview that follows, where I had the pleasure of speaking with the rotten brother brothers from Scythrow and they will reveal to us a little more about Scythrow.
Interview with Scythrow read here : https://www.murder-records.eu/cadaveric-noiseletter/2305908_interview-with-scythrow
https://scythrow.bandcamp.com/album/blameless-severed-extremities
https://linktr.ee/scythrow
https://bit.ly/keys-willowtip
https://bit.ly/keys-bandcamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tO_HKQd8yY
Sole member and founder, Alex Haddad, shared his thoughts about Keys to the Palace: "This album was ten plus years in the making. A lot of the material here actually precedes that of the two previous releases. Completing this record means giving closure to this era of Dessiderium that has spanned across my twenties, and I see it as a well suited final chapter to this period. The two previous albums, Shadow Burn and Aria, provided no happy ending. They were both about defeat in their own way. Keys to the Palace reaches for triumph. This is an album about time travel that explores the polarity between past and future, innocence and disillusion, faith and despair, and adolescence and adulthood."
Track
Listing:1. In The Midst Of May
2. Dover Hendrix
3. Pollen For The Bees
4. A Dream That Wants Me Dead
5. Magenta
6. Keys To The Palace
Credits:
All music and words written by Alex Haddad.
Produced by Alex Haddad.
Guitars, bass, vocals, keyboard, and orchestrations/synthesizers by Alex Haddad.
Drum programming by Brody Smith.
Piano solos on "Dover Hendrix" and "Pollen For The Bees" performed by Thomas Leroy Meier.
Mixed and mastered by Mendel Bij De Leij.
Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration).
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/p/Dessiderium-100063280476262/
When Grindpad released their full album ‘Violence’ in 2020, it was meant to pave the way for the band.
With a strong release in hand, two big release shows planned in both Utrecht & Berlin, it was supposed to be their moment.
Sadly, Covid ruined everything; the lockdown started LITERALLY on their releasedate.
Fast forward, 2025. 'Violence' is already 5 years old and Grindpad celebrates this with a re-release on vinyl!
Following the success of the EP ‘Sharkbite!’, Grindpad proves once again that they can not only improve but also create a full-length album packed with high energy, violence, and dare we say... fun thrash metal.
‘Violence’ is a masterpiece of up-tempo songs that make you want to fight the neighbours, but also features great mid-tempo thrashers that make you want to bang your head.
As the icing on the cake, this special vinyl release includes two exclusive bonus tracks that further highlight Grindpad's versatility and talent. Variety is, after all, the spice of thrash.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to get ‘Violence’ on vinyl and complete your collection. Prepare for a musical experience you won't soon forget!
Listen to Violence on All Streaming Platforms
GRINDPAD is:
JG – Guitar
Max - Drums
Axel - Guitar
Rik - Bass
Olivier – Vocals
Highlights for GRINDPAD
1 full length album released by Iron Shield Records and received very well by press & audience:
5 EP’s released by International labels and received very well by press & audience:
Dutch Metal Battle (2010, Winner)
Sharkbite (2017, independent – 2023 vinyl reissue, Iron Shield Records)
Violence (2020, Iron Shield Records – 2025 vinyl reissue, Iron Shield Records)
Finger Collector Crew (2023, Iron Shield Records)
Festivals: Pitfest, Barbeuk Metal Fest, Hedon Zwaar Nieuwjaar, Spirit of Metal Fest, Thrash Speed Burn Fest, Death Coffee Party, Herrie Metal Fest, Majales Majorales.
Support shows for Tankard, Bolt Thrower, Tygers of Pan Tang, Disharmonic Orchestra, Gamma Bomb, Rezet, Traitor, etc
https://www.grindpad.com/
Single release date: March 28
Format: Digital
Label: Black Vulture Records
Ahead of this release, the single "THE LURKING DEVIL" is now being released.
The song gives a good foretaste of the upcoming album- atmospheric heavy death doom metal.
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Romanian
Black Metal force FUNERAL BAPTISM proudly presents
their newest single, "IN SOLITUDINE", the first glimpse
into the band's long-awaited second full-length album of the same name,
scheduled for release later this year via Loud Rage Music.The single is now available for streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2RYZROIwkI
Dark, introspective, and steeped in philosophical undertones, "In Solitudine" showcases a matured sound and lyrical vision, signaling a bold new chapter in the band's evolution.
Band comment:
"The title track "In Solitudine" ("In Solitude") best represents the manner in which the band stylistically approached its second album. Inspired by "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", the lyrics paint the image of an alternate reality where man refused to be crushed by ontological torment, instead choosing to destroy the ego, rise from the ashes and retake control of his existence."
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/FuneralBaptismBM
Brace yourselves, because EISIGE VENEN is back with their most chilling release yet. THE MOURNING FROST, the band’s latest EP under Sodeh Records/Metal Inc., is a brutal descent into their signature icy soundscape, delivering relentless riffs, haunting melodies, and a melancholic intensity that lingers long after the final note.
Written over two years, The Mourning Frost picks up where Ghosts of Yesterday left off, plunging listeners into a frozen abyss of epic chord progressions and emotionally charged guitar work. With Stephen Hegarty’s expert production at Lacerate Studios, every track is sculpted into a towering wall of sound that blends unrelenting aggression with eerie beauty.
The powerhouse trio of Curtis Fitzpatrick, Chris Brandon, and Marc Williams return to lead the charge, reinforcing Eisige Venen’s place in the metal landscape. Adding to the sonic devastation, Richard Wilson of Mourning Scars makes a guest appearance on “Seaforged,” a track that seethes with raw intensity.
Featuring two brand-new songs alongside fan-favorite singles from 2024, The Mourning Frost is both a gift to longtime followers and a gateway for new fans to experience the band’s signature sound. Cold, crushing, and unforgettable—this is Eisige Venen at their most ferocious.
BiographyEisige Venen (pronounced ei-se-ge ven-en) is a dark melodic metal project founded in 2020 by guitarist/keyboardist Marc Williams (Ba’alzamon, Fallen Empire, Frostcrown). Joined by vocalist Curtis Fitzpatrick (Ba’alzamon, Locust Swarm) and bassist Chris Brandon (Gokseong, Dead Deceased, Anger Overdose) in 2023, the trio brings a cold, melancholic sound infused with heavy synths, haunting melodies, and a blackened touch.
Williams, inspired by his years in Germany, released the debut single A Frigid Emptiness in 2021. With Brandon and Fitzpatrick onboard, the group launched their first album, Ghosts of Yesterday, in 2023—despite working entirely remotely across the USA and South Korea. The album earned praise from publications like Occult Metal Zine and Hellfire Magazin, who likened their atmospheric and melodic style to bands such as Amon Amarth, Insomnium, and Agathodaimon.
Eisige Venen has since collaborated with artists like Melishah (Tenebris Intus) and director Neil Gorz (Death Springs Eternal music video). They’ve signed with Metal Incorporated and Sodeh Records and are endorsed by Black Harbor Sound and Rattlesnake Cables.
Now based in the USA, Eisige Venen is gearing up for their 2025 EP The Mourning Frost, featuring the award-winning track Seaforged. Stay tuned for more heavy riffs and dark melodies wherever music is streamed.
https://www.facebook.com/eisigevenenatx
https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: April 1st 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Paganizer | Carnation | Obituary | Death
Welcome to the world we have created…hewn from the raw substance of our greed and perversion, our endless fascination with cruelty and consumption. Our morality has withered in the gluttonous glare of our lust and our conscience has bled out from the innumerable wounds we have inflicted upon it. We exist in a kingdom of death, of jagged monuments to selfish egotism and raging waters of desensitization. The sentinels of wickedness scour this wasteland for any trace of empathy, any remnants of mercy, compassion and decency…but they are all long, long dead. Truly, something is rotten within the withered shell of humanity.
Something Is Rotten In Humanity is the new album from the legendary pioneers of Spanish death metal, Unbounded Terror! Featuring nine new tracks of dark, primal power this album is a magnificent testament to Unbounded Terror’s enduring potency and unique take upon the dark arts of death. The standards are set right from the opening chords of first track, ‘Fear Of Dying’, which attacks with a nasty, snarling immediacy. All the key elements of the Unbounded Terror sound are here; the irresistible riffs, the juddering rhythms, the vocals that sound like undead invective, spewed from the mouth of a reanimated corpse and the guitar leads, full of otherworldly melody, that twist and ascend, dive and cascade in captivating fashion. If all that sounds like great, but standard fare, then think again…there is something about Unbounded Terror that sets them apart; something in their chord progressions, their note choices, their song structures and fetid atmosphere that gives them a special aura like no other. Songs like ‘Demons In Your Mind’ and first single ‘Reviving’ are propelled forward on old school death metal riffing and adorned in superb solos, but what makes them special is that indefinable ancient magic that belongs to Unbounded Terror and to them alone. Death metal fans need to hear the crushing, unstoppable war machine that is ‘Divine Virtue’ and the thunderous headbanging riffing of ‘The Disappointment’. Unbounded Terror have delivered the album of their career and surely one of the death metal albums of 2025!
Produced and recorded by the band’s own Vicente J Payá (Golgotha, Sons Of Cult etc) and mixed and mastered by Davide Billia (Avulsed, Holycide, Posthuman Abomination etc), Something Rotten In Humanity sounds absolutely devastating – exactly how grim, rotten death metal should sound – and its ghastly demeanour is completed by the artwork of Juan Castellano (Furnace, Vomitory, Ribspreader etc) which captures its grim spirit perfectly. The album will be released by Xtreem Music on CD (featuring a bonus track), 12"LP, cassette and digital formats on April 1st and the name of Unbounded Terror will once more ring through the shadow shrouded vaults of the dead.
Line-up:
Engelbert - Drums
Vicente J Payá - Guitars
Ancor Ramírez - Lead Guitars
Andrew Espinosa - Vocals/Bass
Drums on Something Is Rotten In Humanty performed by Davide Billia
Keyboards on Something Is Rotten In Humanty performed by Alejandro Lobo
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/UnboundedTerror
New Trans-Atlantic Metal Project GREY MOUNTAIN (feat. members of Monsterworks, Bull Elephant, Construct of Lethe, Black Harvest) have released their self-titled debut album via Eat Lead and Die Music!
The album is available digitally on Bandcamp (including 24-bit full dynamic range vinyl master in side A/B format) and at new platform Ampwall.
GREY MOUNTAIN is the result of a collaboration between Jon Higgs (guitar/vocals; also of Thūn, Moose Cult) and Kishor Haulenbeek (guitars, bass, vocals; also of Black Harvest, Construct of Lethe, In Human Form), rounded out by Jon's long suffering brother-in-arms and intrepid adventurer, James Garnett (drums; also of Monsterworks). The band's sound is difficult to pin down; running the gamut of traditional heavy metal, through death and doom, with post-metal and discordant influences.
Higgs says about the collaboration: "I got to know Kishor through metalforum.com and first reached out to hire him to paint a cover for Bull Elephant's third album. At some point in 2023, knowing he played bass for Heavy Meta, I tentatively asked if he would be interested in laying down bass for a bunch of tracks I had in mind to record with James as a side project. He said yes, but went further and expressed a keenness to contribute a song and maybe add a few 'melodic guitars.' Little did I know that when he tackled these guitar melodies - which contrary to his modest description are full blown guitar-hero leads in many cases - it impacted the music in a big way....and then he went ahead and added extra vocals too! I am all about collaboration, and Kishor has taken things in directions I would never have thought of. Couple that with James' relatively rocky but hard hitting approach on drums (beautifully recorded by Jamie Masters at Echo Studios close to homebase in Buckinghamshire) and I think we've come up with something pretty unique. We've got a second album planned already."
With artwork by Kishor and mixed by Jon Higgs, GREY MOUNTAIN is a real in-house effort.... although a final polish was applied by Dan Swanö at Unisound, known for his dynamic mastering.
Track
Listing:1. Grey Mountain
2. Perpetual Imbalance
3. A Universal Evil
4. Hermitage
5. Many Shades, a Storm
6. Decline and Fall
7. Living Mythology
Line-up :
Jon Higgs - Guitar/Vocals
James Garnett - Drums
Kishor Haulenbeek - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
https://greymountain.bandcamp.com/
https://www.supermetal.net/
Finnish
metal band GOTHONY released DEMO 1995 on
streaming services via Inverse Records. 30 years ago Gothony's first demo saw the light of day. The demo was recorded and mixed by Hiili Hiilesmaa at MD Studios in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki in early 1995. An edition of 200 cassettes was made. Sales started in the summer of 1995. Now the time has come to re-release this three track demo on streaming services.
Listen to the Demo 1995 on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/gothony-demo-1995
Rare video footage also available on the full EP release on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LfWkdgQRSQ
Biography:
Gothony was founded in 1993 with the line-up :
M.Toivonen: drums & vocals
Mika Uusitalo: guitar & vocals
Miika Peräkangas: guitar
Väiski Syväoja: bass
This line-up released two demos in the 90s in 1995 (Gothony) and 1997 (Hidden thoughts). Gigs mostly in the capital region, e.g. Oranssi klubi, Semifinal and at the legendary Thunder Road House. In 1998, M.Toivonen , who handled the vocals, gave the vocal responsibilities to Sami Viitamäki.
Sami Viitamäki's time was Gothony's golden age, and many compare this to the Beatles '65 & '66, when Rubber Soul and Revolver innovated not only the band's sound but the entire pop music genre as well.The golden age was short, but rewarding and Gothony played a few gigs with Sami before the break up that happened in 1999. There was no drama in the breakup, but everyone went on different paths in life.
In 2019, it was decided to reassemble Gothony to revive the past and play old songs. Wuohi, who in the 90s did vocals in Bleed me tears and Katharsis joined Gothony.
In 2020, Gothony went to Tuska-Torstai and Emergenza to get a feel for live show’s. After the gigs, a decision was made to start working on new songs and continue Gothony's story.
The first official Gothony single Patient 2442 was completed in April 2023 and released with a music video by Kimmo Jaatinen (direction, cinematography, screenplay, editing). The second single In the Shadow of the Moon was released in July 2023.
Gothony's first official full-length album released on January 12, 2024.
Now in 2025, Gothony is working on new songs and the new material is scheduled for late 2025 release. Before releasing new material, it's time to bring Gothony’s first demo to streaming services. This will take place in March 2025
GOTHONY - DEMO 1995
Track list:
1.Unknown World of My Dreams
2.Woods of Winter
3.Wasted Life
Line-up:
M.Toivonen (Drums,vocals)
Mika Uusitalo (Guitar, vocals)
Miika Peräkangas (Guitar)
Väiski Syväoja (Bass)
https://www.gothony.com
https://www.facebook.com/gothonyband
Nashville (TN) - U.S. Melodic Black Metal horde, LENAX, have unleashed the official video for "THE VOICES," the new single and opening track from the recently released HELLSCAPE VOL. I (THE VOICES) EP.
Check out "The Voices" video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k22aI48fMXI
Hellscape Vol. I (The Voices) contains one new song ("The Voices") and three tracks given a pitch-shifted Hellscape remix: "Leeches" and "We Are Legion" from the upcoming album Infection, as well as a remastered version of "Inversion" from 2023 EP, Purity.
Lenax vocalist/guitarist, Venomous, had this to say about the new EP:
"The Hellscape project was spawned entirely by accident. Our drummer Bones sent in an audition video when we were first getting together, something that sounded very dirty and ethereal. As he was in a doom project, I assumed it was original material, until I heard the main riff from 'Leeches.' This gave me the effect of taking something very familiar to me as a songwritier and making it seem alien, as if distorted through a transmission from the underworld.
I pulled up the core tracks of some of the songs that we'd done - two songs from the upcoming album Infection, and a remaster of one of the songs form the 2023 Purity EP. Every track I did something a little different with the effects and tempo. One song is actually sped up as it was down pitched, something that may seem counterintuitive. The idea was to give this feeling as if the songs were transmitted across a void, resulting in this obscured, horror movie soundtrack kind of effect.
"New song, 'The Voices,' was purpose built with this sort of transmission in mind. It takes this idea of hearing diabolic voices from the underworld, and creates an epic story of ascension and destruction. During the demo process, I pitch shifted my voice down for this monstrous effect. What I wasn't expecting is to find a comfort zone for my voice in this very low register. What you hear on my vocals on is entirely natural, something that in turn made its way to some of the tracks on the new album. Big thanks to Silas for this, not just on coaching me into this low vocal range, but his impeccable work on the audio."
Lenax is currently putting the finishing touches on the songs that will become Infection, the band's first full-length album. It is targeted for release during the summer months this year.
In reflecting on the forthcoming full-length, Venomous notes that "Infection is an album almost two years in the making. Continuing with themes that blur the lines between fantasy and reality, Lovecraftian cosmic horror and the occult, the theme of the album is one of infernal rather than divine intervention into humanity. with an unmistakeable passion for individuality."
"This is our most punishing work yet," says Lenax guitarist Mordred. "It’s faster, harsher, and more diseased than anything we’ve ever done." The theme of the album is represented in song titles such as 'Plague Bringer,' 'Hive Mind Apocalypse,' and 'We Are Legion' - a song that tells the story of an unfortunate and overly zealous mage who calls upon greater forces than his own, only to succomb to the very denizens of hell he dared unleash."
Track
Listing:1 - The Voices
2 - Inversion (Hellscape Remix)
3 - Leeches (Hellscape Remix)
4 - We Are Legion (Hellscape Remix)
Lenax is:
Venomous - Vocals / Guitar
Mordred - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Bones - Drums
Bio:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. The project evolved from a solo act into a full-fledged band known by a growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from a wide array of black metal bands from established titans to the obscure, the "Big Four" of thrash metal, and even a dash of classic heavy acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether dubbed by Venomous as "cosmic horror fueled nightmares.” — an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realization through occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and the impending doom of the Outer Gods.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a
https://linktr.ee/LenaxMetal
Australian-Swedish
death metal juggernaut D.E.A.D has dropped the official music
video for "DEAD", a track ripped straight from their
ferocious album OF VILE AND HATE, out now via Wormholedeath."Dead" is a savage death metal onslaught, dragging a tormented soul from decay into cursed rebirth. It reflects transformation through suffering, where pain breeds power and the past is left in ruin.
Brutal, raw, and merciless—D.E.A.D delivers pure death metal carnage.
The video was recorded at The Lab in Adelaide, South Australia. It was filmed and edited by Anthony James. The technical operator on the day was Isaac Ray
Listen to the full album Of Vile and Hate: https://orcd.co/ofvileandhate
Genre-bending one-man band SAMTAR is set to return with THE BOG OF COSMIC DELUSIONS. The seventh full-length album by the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter comes fresh off the heels of the acoustic-centric A Second Chapter Made of Wood.
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions stands out as SAMTAR's heaviest album to date. With loud and crushing sounds, psychedelic influences, melodic guitars, and grand soaring vocals, this album is sure to satisfy rock and metal listeners alike.
SAMTAR has released three singles from the album. Stream "The Mire," "Desert Creature" and "Refuse" on Spotify.
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions will be available on digital and limited-edition CD on April 11. Pre-order the album at www.samtarofficial.com
The Bog of Cosmic Delusions was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by SAMTAR. Album artwork by Steven Yoyada.
Tracklisting:1. Desert Creature
2. Fickle Fortune
3. All You Ever Wanted
4. Speaker
5. Distant Voices
6. Refuse
7. Destiny is a Lie
8. The Whispers
9. Vicarious Voodoo
10. The Mire
11. Broken Sparrow
12. Drowning the Goddess
SAMTAR, a music-obsessed virtuoso, plies his craft with an unrepentant vigor and passion. Navigating the forests of genre, SAMTAR follows a path to sounds unknown by combining style and influence from all sources. SAMTAR chose to eschew chasing traditional mediums of promotion and instead focused on loving his life through creating music, exploring the outdoors, and translating the ethereal into song. The music SAMTAR creates is human and close, it has a momentum of its own and entreats the listener to be a traveler along the journey to their own peace.
SAMTAR grew up on System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, The Black Dahlia Murder, Opeth, Sonata Arctica, Muse, Jimi Hendrix, Sublime, and Nirvana. Now he unites these divergent influences with driving bass lines, hook-heavy guitar melodies, powerful vocals, and a healthy dose of synthesizers. He notes some of his biggest vocal influences being from artists like Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle/Faith No More), and Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica). He also takes inspiration from sci-fi/fantasy films and literature.
www.samtarofficial.com
Inspiration to our music comes from a diverse collection of bands, artists and genres.
The result is a genre-defying crossover style that challenges musical conventions while remaining profoundly accessible. DUNKLE ZUKUNFT goal is to take the listener on a journey through dark, atmospheric landscapes punctuated by electrifying rhythms and haunting melodies.
As DUNKLE ZUKUNFT emerges onto the global stage, the band invites listeners to join them in exploring the unknown — an invitation to embrace the beauty and chaos of the dark future.
Tracklist:1. Dunkle Welt
2. Flammen am Himmel
3. Apokalypse Ruft
4. Der Letzte Man
5. Das Ende
6. Die Letzten Gedanken
7. Unfelt Dunkelheit
DUNKLE ZUKUNFT is a groundbreaking music collective helmed by Zane Solaris. With a name that translates to "Dark Future," this music collective delves into the uncharted territories of modern soundscapes, crafting a unique blend that they boldly call "the music of the future."
Drawing inspiration from a kaleidoscope of genres, DUNKLE ZUKUNFT masterfully fuses elements of Industrial music, 1970s Synth bands, Electro, Pop, Metal, and even occasional nods to Punk. The result is a genre-defying crossover style that challenges musical conventions while remaining profoundly accessible. With a flair for innovation and a deep understanding of diverse musical traditions, DUNKLE ZUKUNFT takes listeners on a journey through dark, atmospheric landscapes punctuated by electrifying rhythms and haunting melodies.
DUNKLE ZUKUNFT's debut album is a testament to this visionary approach. Each track serves as a chapter in a larger narrative, offering a glimpse into a dystopian yet strangely alluring sonic future. From pulsating Industrial beats to introspective Synth-driven ballads, the album weaves a rich tapestry of sound that captures both the melancholy and the hope of our uncertain tomorrow.
As DUNKLE ZUKUNFT emerges onto the global stage, the band invites listeners to join them in exploring the unknown — an invitation to embrace the beauty and chaos of the dark future.
https://www.facebook.com/dunklezukunft
Cult black metal act Heruka returns with "Panacea", a six-track EP
fully sung in Italian poetry-style lyrics, continuing the approach of their
previous full-length Memorie. The death theme remains at the core of this
release, reinforcing the band’s dark and evocative storytelling.A new track, "Taedium Vitae", has been released as a visualizer and is now available on all major streaming platforms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zstSpEpg-xY
Tracklist:
1. Peisithanatos
2. Accabadora
3. Taedium Vitae
4. Francis Bacon
5. Panacea
6. Danza (re-recorded 2003 version)
The cover artwork pays tribute to the death of Arria and Paetus, a dramatic episode from ancient Rome. Paetus, a prisoner after a failed revolt against Emperor Claudius, was urged by his wife Arria to take his own life rather than endure dishonor. When he hesitated, Arria demonstrated her resolve by stabbing herself, handing him the dagger with the words, "It does not hurt, Paetus." The artwork is based on François-André Vincent’s 1784 painting of the event.
Panacea will be released on March 21, 2025, in a limited edition digipack CD via Rude Awakening Records and will also be available on all major streaming platforms.
https://linktr.ee/herukaproject
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Alfa Pentatonik (ex-Pentatonik) play Finnish industrial metal with a heavy hand. It started in early 2000 and they have released two albums and many smaller releases. In 2022 the band returned with a new name and two new singles. Now they release a new EP called "Gamma I" which contains five songs.
Primus motor of the band is JP Immonen (Walhalla, Aria Of Sorrow, Iron Frost) who plays all the instruments, writes the songs and does all the production. He joins forces with Janne Partanen (Hautajaisyö, Verilehto, Marraskuun Lapset, Paavalin Harhat) in 2022, who does the lyrics and vocals. Also on "Gamma I" (one) there are guest appearances by Harri Hytönen (Clown Parade, Fenyx Rising, Armada North & Simulacrum), who plays solos on a few songs and was on the band's first album. And Maya Liittokivi (Loretta Problem & Deathlike Silence) on vocals, her beautiful voice was heard on "Pelkojemme Perintö" in 2023.
In "Gamma I" heavy riffs mix with dance beats and the whole thing is nailed down with dark vocals. The band is currently working on a sequel to this release and "Gamma II" (two) songs have already been recorded.
Listen to Gamma I EP on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/alfa-pentatonik-gamma
Track list:
01. Korjattu totuus
02. Miksi et verta näe?
03. Palvot
04. Portinvartija
05. Ilman mitään suuntaa
Cover art by JP Immonen
Line-up:
JP Immonen: guitars, bass, drums, synths, composition, arrangement & production.
Janne Partanen: vocals, lyrics & arrangement.
Guests:
Harri Hytönen: solo guitar on tracks 2, 3 & 4
Maya Liittokivi vocals on track 5
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TYRMFAR'S
- "SYMBIOSIS"
EP represents a further exploration of their compositional boundaries.
Dedicated to bringing out the best in each member, the band invested
significant effort into the creative process. Drawing on their collective years
of experience, they sought to authentically convey their emotions through music.
Against the backdrop of a tense ecological and social climate, the lyrics
address these issues, expressing a sense of unease and confusion about
humanity's relationship with nature.Strongly influenced by Scandinavian black and death metal from the late 90s and early 2000s, the EP also incorporates modern elements. Given the band members' diverse musical tastes, the songwriting process involved a collaborative effort to blend their preferred styles. The band places great importance on emotional expression, believing that a strong connection with the audience is essential to their live performances.
The EP's digital release date is 28 March 2025.
Hailing from the Swiss mountains, Tyrmfar quickly rose through the ranks of extreme metal after their 2013 inception. Their 2015 debut EP, In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit, and 2017’s acclaimed Human Abomination set the stage for performances at major European festivals like Metal Days, earning them praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” Their second album, Renewal Through Purification, showcased a powerful blend of black and death metal. In 2022, they pushed boundaries further with Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, leading to a European tour with Gorgoroth. Tyrmfar is now poised to claim their place on the world stage.
Meet Tyrmfar:
Kévin Sanchez - Guitars
Florian Métrailler- Guitars
Quentin Brunner - Drums - Backing vocals
Robin Délèze - Voice
Yannick Dulon - Bass
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The official video for the album's first single, "Seeds of Entropy," has been premiered by Invisible Oranges. Check it out at the following link: https://www.invisibleoranges.com/ominous-ruin-premiere/
"Seeds of Entropy" is an explosion of chaotic riffs, intense vocals and rapid fire drums at a dizzying 270 beats per minute. The song begins after the intro to the album, a piano and guitar duet that represent a continuation from Ominous Ruin’s previous full length, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Picking up from said album, "Seeds of Entropy" utilizes many of the same musical phrases and stylings, while expanding on motifs from Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone at even faster speeds. Lyrically, "Seeds of Entropy" represents the beginning of inevitable slip into darkness as entropy consumes reality, both physical and mental form. This theme is masterfully expanded on throughout the rest of the album.
"Seeds of Entropy" will be available March 7 on all digital platforms. Requiem album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
A formidable leap forward in both musical complexity and emotional depth, Requiem is a powerful exploration of the human psyche, the ravages of time, and the inevitable descent into oblivion. Requiem is at its core, a continuation of Ominous Ruin’s first release, Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone. Beyond that, its conception spawned from the raw emotion of personal issues and turmoil, as it was created during a dark time in the band’s lives.
The album begins with a direct continuation from the final song off Ominous Ruin’s first album, an emotional guitar and piano ballad that brings the mood to somber, yet melodic. It immediately transitions to an explosion of chaos with the first song, "Seeds of Entropy. "
The musicianship on Requiem is, as expected, nothing short of exceptional. Guitarists Alex Bacey and Joel Guernsey showcase their technical brilliance in every track, with blistering solos and complex, interwoven riffs that keep listeners on their toes. The rhythm section, comprised of Mitch Yoesle (bass) and Harley Blandford (drums), is hardly just a rhythm section, that provides a relentless foundation of precision, power and creativity, anchoring the music as it constantly shifts between ferocity and atmospheric beauty.
The production, handled by Alex Bacey is pristine yet dense, allowing every instrument to shine through the brutal wall of sound without sacrificing the intensity of the compositions. The layering of ambient soundscapes and acoustic passages throughout the album provides an immersive listening experience, allowing the heavier elements to hit even harder when they arrive.
Track
Listing:1 - Intro
2 - Seeds of Entropy
3 - Eternal
4 - Bane of Syzygial Triality
5 - Divergent Anomaly
6 - Fractal Abhorrence
7 - Architect of Undoing
8 - Staring into the Abysm
9 - Requiem
Credits:
Written & Produced By: Alex Bacey
Lyrics & Concepts By: Adam Rosado
Vocals Performed By: Crystal Rose
Bass Written By: Mitch Yoesle
Drums Written By: Harley Blandford
Additional Solos And Song Writing By: Joel Guernsey
Drums Recorded By: Cody Fuentes/Rapture Recordings
Vocals Recorded By: Petr Oplatka [Petropolys Media]
Mixed/Mastered By: Alex Bacey
Artwork By: Pär Olofsson
Emblem Logo By: Alejandro Morales [Imperfect Designs]
Photography By: Catalino [Kitty] Alvarez [Cateyeview]
Management By: Joel Spielman
Line-Up:
Alex Bacey: Guitars
Mitch Yoesle: Bass
Crystal Rose: Vocals
Harley Blandford: Drum
Joel Guernsey: Guitars
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Format: Digital CD-EP / Physical CD-EPLabel: Independent Release
BLACK RABBIT is:
Vocals: Nino Thomas
Guitar: Jelle Brekelmans
Guitar: Hidde Hofland
Drums: Koen van der Voet
Bassguitar: Thijs Mulder
Tracklist:
01. Malevolent Glare
02. Paracusia
03. Pity the Mind of the Frail and the Feeble
04. To Be Alive, To Walk This Earth, That Is My Curse
05. Rancid Taste of Horror
Black Rabbit is a concept-driven death metal band from Apeldoorn that seamlessly interweaves brute force and aggression with profound themes and a compelling visual presentation.
The band consists of five musical forces with diverse influences, who together create a dynamic, ruthless but refined sound.
With energetic live shows full of theatrical visuals and an intense light spectacle, Black Rabbit takes their audience into a narrative world of darkness and mystery.
Black Rabbit left a lasting impression with the release of their EP and single (2020), which laid the foundation for the story of Black Rabbit. This took further shape with the first chapter of its legend: the full-length album ‘Hypnosomnia’ (2023), an album that took the band to new heights with performances in renowned venues such as Patronaat, Iduna and even the Brabanthallen.
Sharing the stage with the likes of Baest, Vader, Exhorder and Pestilence, they have established themselves as a band that takes energy, craftsmanship and experience to a new level.
Now the band expands their sinister story further with ‘Chronolysis’, a sensory nightmare that takes the listener into the oppressive world of sleep paralysis, trapped under the manipulative grip of Black Rabbit.
At the heart of the band lives the mythical story of Black Rabbit, a demonic entity with a tragic past. He seduces and deceives his victims, confronting them with their deepest sins and feeding on their despair. Black Rabbit manipulates dreams (Hypnosomnia) and traps his victims in the suffocating grip of sleep paralysis (Chronolysis), from which there is no escape. Black Rabbit’s music forms a ritual in which each song is a chapter in his growing legend. ‘Hypnosomnia’ explored the boundary between dream and reality, while the latest EP, ‘Chronolysis’, digs deeper into the horror of sleep paralysis.
Black Rabbit is more than a metal band – it’s a total experience. With a crushing sound, well-thought-out concepts and theatrical live shows, they immerse their audience in a world where music, visuals and stories become one. Their performances are rituals, in which the audience is not just a spectator, but becomes part of the story.
With Chronolysis, the five gentlemen are setting a new, intense chapter. Their music is dynamic and raw, their shows are hypnotic and uncomfortable. Black Rabbit leaves you with a feeling of fascination and discomfort – exactly as he intended.
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ESCHATON – “TECHTALITARIAN”
Technical
death metal band Eschaton return after a gap of six years with a
reinvigorated, star-studded line-up that undoubtedly elevates their sound to
hitherto unexplored heights. They have none other than Christian Münzner
formerly of Obscura and Necrophagist accompanying the band
founder Josh Berry on guitars. For the vocals, they have enlisted the services
of Mac Smith of Apogean and Abyssalis and for the bass,
they have brought on Scott Bradly from Inanimate Existence while
Darren Cesca of Pillory and formerly in Deeds of Flesh and Arsis continues
to hold down the fort on drums. Most importantly, this line-up sounds just as
devastating on this album as it does on paper. They have contributed to
creating a tech death album that can stand on its own and does not have to be
necessarily pitted against any of the aforementioned bands' past efforts. The
members excel in their own specialized ways and they manage to make it work. It
is meticulously and passionately put together which is all too apparent in the music
that can be dizzyingly fast and mind-bogglingly technical but also groovy and
memorable while being on the whole diverse yet dynamic and pulsating with
energy. It is not just music meant for the tech death fans; it is music that
will invariably get them excited. As such, this should be regarded as an
landmark album in the style, with the presence of the illustrious members in
the lineup not taking away from the irrefutable fact that this is indeed great
tech death music.Line up
Mac Smith - Vocals (Apogean, Abyssalis, Hammer of Dawn)
Christian Muenzner - Lead Guitar (Retromorphosis, Eternity's End, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Obscura, ex-Alkaloid)
Josh Berry - Guitar (Eschaton founder)
Darren Cesca - Drums (Goratory, Serpents of Gnosis, Pillory, Ex-Deeds of Flesh, Ex-Arsis)
Scott Bradley - Bass (Inanimate Existence)
Artwork by Dave Melvin
Track listing
1. Inferior Superior
2. Devour the Contrarian
3. Blood of the People
4. Hellfire's Woe
5. The Bellicose Duality
6. Econocracy
7. Antimatter
8. Techtalitarian
9. The Sufferer's Dichotomy
10. Castle Strnad
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Kunal Choksi Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity
Canada’s
own speed/heavy metal powerhouse BREAKER is set to
shake the foundations with the release of their lyric video for "BREAKER," the
title track from their upcoming self-titled EP. Set for release on April
4, 2025, via the label Wormholedeath, the Breaker EP promises a relentless
onslaught of screaming melodies, thunderous rhythms, and vocals that rip
through the stratosphere.Prepare to be consumed by BREAKER’s furious melodies,
high-velocity riffs, and commanding vocal power. The band takes inspiration
from classic speed metal while infusing their music with a fresh, untamed
energy that sets them apart. This is more than music—it’s a call to arms for
lovers of loud, fast, and uncompromising heavy metalFormed in 2023 by vocalist Terje Fiskvatn, guitarist Caleb Beal (Villain, Midnight Malice), and drummer Rider Johnson (former Razor), BREAKER quickly crafted their signature sound, blending high-octane metal with fierce energy. The band’s debut EP, Breaker, features tracks like Liberty and Babylon, written by Fiskvatn and expanded with the powerful contributions of Beal and Johnson.
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Hungarian thrash-death metal force ATROX TRAUMA has unleashed the official music video for "PROBLEM, REACTION, SOLUTION," the latest single from their highly anticipated second album WHERE DEATH HUNTS, set to drop on April 18, 2025, via WormHoleDeath Records.
“We
had the opportunity to perform at a venue where there may have never been a
metal concert before,” the band shares. “Since we were already
planning to shoot a live performance video for one of our new songs, this was
the perfect setting. Problem, Reaction, Solution is our fourth music video from
the upcoming album, and we captured it during a high-energy show at the I.
Stonewall Tattoo Convention in Hódmezővásárhely. The result is a raw and
electrifying visual that embodies the essence of our music.”The video was directed and edited by András Székely, bringing the intensity of Atrox Trauma’s live presence to the screen with unrelenting ferocity.
Atrox Trauma was founded in 2008 in Hungary. Their goal, according to the music genre, was clear from the beginning: thrash metal with death metal influences. The band recorded 2 EPs during its earlier years besides performing on live gigs. The band's strength increased in 2019, and they have been spinning at an unstoppable speed since then. It gave a series of concerts in its motherland and countries in the neighborhood. The band creates a huge listener experience with its tight, intense, fast, and face-tearing music.
In 2022 they released their first LP called 'On The Line Of Nothing And Something' by the Italian label WormHoleDeath.The listener can experience everything from intense immersion to melodic thrash metal. Four music videos provide visual support for the fan-approachable experience.
By the end of 2024, they took the stage in many countries, performing in tours and festivals, and recorded their second LP ”Where Death Hunts”.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri - Drums
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Murder Records is honored to present VULTÜR, a young band freshly exhumed at the unholy cemeteries from Milan in Italy.
VULTÜR present a voracious butcher's symphony, where we can be devoured by a unleashing raw power with a relentless energy, fusing the elements of Thrash Death Metal embraced with the fury of Hardcore, duly forged in a sonic storm that will leave you breathless and that intends to dismember us with the sharped blades swings without mercy.
The atrocious tombs are already open, where the bleeding flesh starting releasing the nauseating odors to announces VULTÜR's debut EP entitled "NECROPHAGY", which will feature with five decompositions, duly moldy in the fetid underworld and where our cadaver can slowly rot inside the coffin in this necrophilic ritual that Murder Records is preparing and that will be served on the funeral altar to feed the cadaveric worms with our filthy rotten remains.
Deadly Perversion On... Wish You Well Off...
MCD
Limited to 300 copies Cassette Limited to 100 copies
Tracklist:
01 - Labyrinyh Of The Lost Souls [1:33]
02 - Necrophagy [3:34]
03 - Prison Of Flesh [4:55]
04 - Vein Cutters [3:14]
05 - The Butcher's Simphony [3:54]
Lyrics writen by Fabio Valsecchi.
Mixing and mastering by Riccardo Massa.
Logo made by Riccardo Massa.
Cover artwork by Fabio Fontana.
Recordings and work supervision by Morgan Segatore.
Space provider at CSA Baraonda by Francesco Giorgi.
VULTÜR photographs by Marco Pasqua.
Lyric video made by Danihell Slaughter.
Layout for CD and Cassette made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional flyers made by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter.
VULTÜR Line-Up
Buck Motorlungs (Vocals)
Rick Massa (Lead Guitar)
Will Fimbulvinter (Rhythmic Guitar)
Rick Cadaverous (Drums)
Andrea Bini (Bass)
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https://www.murder-records.eu/hellstore-europe
Genre: Old School Death Metal/Crust Punk
Country: Indonesia
Release date: March 10th 2025
Drain Death is a duo project formed in the Yogyakarta region in early 2022, which brings a mixture of old school death metal with the addition of crust punk, which is indirectly influenced by Nihilist, Nirvana 2002, Autopsy, to Bombandfall, Anti Cimex and Bastard Priest. In mid-2022 has released the mmxxii demo with 3 tracks.
A person's destiny in life on earth has indeed become a secret and written destiny by the creator, whether bad destiny or a disastrous event or bad things is a destiny that has been outlined. What if all of that is a test for all mankind to always remember him? Or is it a nightmare to face life? And making another choice to abandon his orders and become further away from the divine, because the disaster mercilessly devours everything?
Drain Death here is trying to respond to an event or bad things that happen in the world, and thinking about the repercussions of all of this which can make living creatures despair and feel that they don't believe in their help or grace and move further away and die in vain, all summarized in Perdona's album is entitled "Merciless Of Doom" which will be released immediately by vinyl My Back Hurts Records (US) cassette Remorseless records (US), cassette Tarung Records (IND), and CD Death in Pieces Records (MX)
There are 10 tracks of song material presented in this full album, all of which summarize the concept of a bad fate given by the creator to test all living creatures in the world, which all become the essence of the thoughts that interpret the background to making this album!! Listen!
Tracklist:
1. Enter the Solitude
2. Loud Monger
3. Drain To Death
4. Devour
5. Curse Of Darkness
6. Possessed By Evil
7. Eternal Doom
8. Crawling From Hell
9. Sacrifice Master
10. In The Pestilent Master
CD limited to 300 copies
Recording credits:
Recorded at WATCHTOWER STUDIO
Enginered by BABLE SAGALA
Mixing and mastered by BABLE SAGALA
Most artwork by WRATHVOID
Photograph Capture by KEVIN
All music and lyric by DRAIN DEATH
Except instrumental “ENTER THE SOLITUDE” and “IN THE PESTILENT NIGHTMARE” by SETYAWAN CELLO
DRAIN DEATH is:
Loudness - Vocals/Drum
Voidtor - Guitar/Bass
Layout by Ernesto Montero @ Brutal Design
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https://haildraindeath.bandcamp.com/
Highly
anticipated debut album from Italian Doom Metal act AGANOOR will
be titled "DOOMERISM" and will be released on
June 6th, 2025 in partnership with BLOODROCK RECORDS. Today we unveil the
astonishing cover artwork realized by Mirkow Gastow (Pentagram,
Clouds Taste Satanic, Stöner among his works) and the tracklist that is:1. Bury My Soul
2. Icarus
3. Nadir
4. Emerald Lake
5. Morbid Skin
6. Mind Shadowing
With influences as diverse as CATHEDRAL, GOATSNAKE, TYPE O NEGATIVE, DANZIG, TIAMAT, AGANOOR moves from the Eternal City creating an oppressive Doom Metal wrapped in a gothic breeze, and blended with the retro tones of the rawest of Stoner Rock.
Their music is claustrophobic, yet hypnotic, a Doom Metal characterized by massive, down-tuned riffs and psychedelic atmosphere.
Dan, Anth, Stephen and Alex are the protagonists behind AGANOOR, and they are about to present their music, which appears like a heavy ritual shrouded in mist on the shores of a lake.
Pre-Order CD and LP at: https://t.ly/h4Mmp
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Tracklist: 1. 1986
2. Dogma Of War
3. Tears On The Face Of God
4. Crown Of Separation
5. Welcome The Destroyer
6. Children Of The Atomic Sun
7. The Bleeding Hands Of Faith
8. Reqviem For The Oppressor
9. Dance Of The Gods
The songs introduces you to the concept of the album that is inextricably linked to war and it is expressed through the 9 tracks of the album.
Their distinctive blend of lyricism about the horrors of the war, combined with their relentless, neck-breaking Thrash Metal, pays homage to the genre's golden age Gods such as Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus and Testament as well as some of the melody and progressive tendencies of Metal Church and Death Angel.
Formed by friends Giuseppe Taormina (guitars), Ignazio Nicastro (voice & bass), Danilo Ficicchia (drums), XENOS A.D. is a mandatory listening for fans of Thrash Metal who can rejoice in yet another band proudly flying their Metal flag.
Now, all you have to do, is experience the raw power of the fury of XENOS A.D.
Pre-Order digiCD / LP: https://t.ly/B3Vrj
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Belarusian Unleash Contra Christum - A New Brutal Death Metal Nightmare Album!
Brutal Records proudly welcomes SODOMIC BAPTISM, the unstoppable force of Belarusian Death Metal, to our roster! Their latest sonic assault, "CONTRA CHRISTUM," unleashes nine relentless tracks of crushing brutality, technical precision, and pure death metal devastation.
Release Date: June 20, 2025 Available Worldwide – Digital via The Orchard & Physical Formats
Prepare for obliteration as Sodomic Baptism delivers their most ferocious and uncompromising release yet! Stay tuned for exclusive previews, merch drops, and brutal updates!
One of Belarus’ most relentless and uncompromising forces in death metal, SODOMIC BAPTISM, returns with their full-length offering, Contra Christum. Steeped in the essence of true Satanic brutal metal, this album is a furious assault of technical precision, unyielding brutality, and apocalyptic atmosphere.
With Contra Christum, the band refuses to abandon their old-school roots, yet they push their sound into darker, more unrelenting extremes. Balancing savage, high-speed offensives with calculated, crushing sections, the album delivers both pure aggression and sophisticated composition. Tracks like Posthumous Rebirth and Adepts of Chaos accelerate into blistering chaos, while doomy passages inject a brooding, sinister weight. This isn’t just extremity for extremity’s sake—it’s calculated devastation, executed with precision.
Fans of relentless, technical, and oppressive death metal will find Contra Christum to be an essential listen. This is a record that reveals its darkest nuances with every play—fearsome, powerful, and utterly consuming.
Track list1. Antipsalm: Purification Inthrough Antichrist
2. Posthumous Rebirth
3. Bloody Redemption
4. LCF
5. The Witches Laughter
6. Adepts of Chaos
7. Belial: The Path to Knowledge of the Abyss
8. Resurrection Outhrough Renunciation of Grace
9. The Transcendence of Existence
Watch Now: The official music video for "Adepts of Chaos", a crushing track from SODOMIC BAPTISM’s upcoming album Contra Christum, exclusively on Brutal Records' YouTube channel!
About SODOMIC BAPTISM
Formed in 2014 by Alexis and Alex Tetin, the band was built on themes of Metaphysical Evil, Hell, Darkness, and Chaos. For SODOMIC BAPTISM, Satan is not just a symbol of rebellion but the embodiment of freedom, justice, and infinite knowledge. Their music is an exploration of the abyss—a confrontation with the self beyond servitude and blind faith.
Discography:
Black Fire Pandemonium (2014) – EP
Womb Ov Sheol (2017) – Split
Black Fire Pandemonium (2017) – Full-length
Contra Christum (2025) – Full-length
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No mercy. No compromise. Only total infernal domination.
The music video to the track “Płyty” (transl.: ‘records’) has been premiered today via v13.net: https://v13.net/2025/03/cbzk-plyty-music-video-premiere/
The single will be available via all major streaming platforms from 5 March.
"Płyty" is a deep dive into the realm of cerebral and sonic glitches, a take on neuroticism, self-determination and defeat”, explains the band. “The funky beat carries the mutilated bass throughout the track, while the whispers narrate the journey of self-struggle, down the memory lane. The video that accompanies the single is a monochromatic mash-up of (joy)rides around a Subcarpathian small town.”
Pre-save “Dybuctwo” on Spotify: https://bit.ly/DybuctwoPreSave
Pre-order on Bandcamp: https://cbzk.bandcamp.com/album/dybuctwo
The eerie soundscapes on “Dybuctwo” were birthed from a collaboration between Kopczak (Malconfort) and Fas (Sea Mosquito, Malconfort, Amaltheia). Formed in 2023 across the diverse landscapes of Sanok (Poland), Bristol (UK), and Crete (Greece), CBZK is a unique fusion of hip-hop, industrial and black metal. The project was created from half-forgotten techno loops, tremolo riffs and demented whispers, which resulted in an electronic expansion of the project members’ sonic realm.
“Dybuctwo” delves deep into the surreal and unsettling aspects of Subcarpathian identity in Poland, exploring themes of distant closeness, camaraderie, and the inevitability of passing. Drawing inspiration from small-town atmospheres, Kopczak and Fas crafted an industrial soundscape that weaves together hypnotic hip-hop and black metal phrases, jarring distortions and evocative field recordings.
The lyrics explore the everlasting tensions between resilience and hopelessness, passing and death, closeness and alienation. The CBZK lyrical realm, seemingly oneiric and allegorical, is a collage of past and present realities of Subcarpathia, weaving together personal stories, mores and regional folklore.
The band previously released the single and music video “W Głębi” (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and all other streaming platforms.)
Track list:
1. W Głębi
2. Płyty
3. Topiel
4. Duchota
5.
CBZK are:
Kopczak - Beats, Production, Vocals, Lyrics, Mix, Master (Malconfort)
Fas - Guitars (Sea Mosquito, Malconfort, Amaltheia)
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AXIOM CHAOS – “PRIMACY ARRIVAL”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease Date: May 9th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Vastum | Blood Incantation | Disma
By the invisible sea of secrets that laps silently about the foothills of Mons Ardeshir, they have heard. Far beyond the mountains of Mithrim, where the chroniclers of eternity write the many histories of Vulpecula in the blood of their broken fingers, they have heard. Doors have been opened and rifts have been traversed. The conjurers of chaos are blowing upon the horns of Ib and the malformed beasts of malfeasance who have slumbered in dreams aeons long are stirring. The stairways to the new world are open and the drums of destruction are calling; the fires of war are alight!
A new entity has crawled from the boiling swamps that lie in the deepest recesses of the death metal underworld. A force of terrifying alien power and chilling otherness that is about to bleed insidiously into our reality. Axiom Chaos have fused the devastating impact of death metal with the untameable capricious might of pandemonium and invoked the strange, compelling visions of Primacy Arrival! Beginning with the lurching monstrosity of ‘The King I Am’ that erupts into fetid, pustulent life, guitars howling over the deranged whispering of deformed divinities, Primacy Arrival proceeds to tear your reality to tattered shreds. Invoking fantastic atmospheres and radiating intimidating terror, this album transforms death metal into something unknowable and unnameable. In ‘The Gift Of Recognition’ the guitar leads seem to speak, uttering words from forbidden dimensions that make the skin crawl in fearful revulsion, while ‘Wormhold Pathways Of Conquest’ is simply inexorable. Primacy Arrival’s crowning glory however comes with its titanic conclusion – ‘Exodus Into Oblivion’. Shattering velocities entwine with spiralling guitar patterns and something majestic, almost beautiful emerges from the shadows as melodies unwind behind the monolithic sounds. Strange magic breaks through the song structure, an infiltration of madness to accompany this triumphal procession for a king from beyond, as our reality is consumed.
While the name of Axiom Chaos is a new one, those who march behind its banner are better known - Ben Vanweelden (Venomous Echoes, Ceremonic Buryment etc) and Justin Vølus (Vølus, Fall Of Gnosis, Maggot Crown etc) – and they are now united with the might of Comatose Music for the May 9th release of Primacy Arrival. Bedecked in the visionary artwork of Morket Art (Engulfed, Inverted Ascension etc) Primacy Arrival will challenge, disturb and dominate, opening new pathways for death metal as the story of Axiom Chaos begins.
Line-up:
Justin Vølus - Vocals
Ben Vanweelden – Guitar/Bass/Drums
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Underground
Kvlt Records, a sub-label of Odium Records, proudly announces the
release of ZMIERZCH (Twilight), the highly anticipated
second album from the Polish one-man project WESELE. Set for
release on 25 March 2025.Underground Kvlt Records, a sub-label of Odium Records, proudly announces the release of Zmierzch (Twilight), the highly anticipated second album from the Polish one-man project Wesele. Set for release on 25 March 2025, the album delivers a haunting blend of atmospheric and depressive post-black metal, captivating fans of bands such as Furia and Odraza
Wesele is a new yet striking presence in the Polish black metal scene, weaving a sonic experience that blends melancholic melodies, relentless blast beats, and an aura of old-world decadence. The album evokes the spirit of forgotten villages, echoing the haunting imagery of Jacek Malczewski’s paintings, Stanislaw Wyspianski’s works, and the wistful tales passed down through generations.
A glimpse into this darkly immersive world can be experienced with the premiere track Tan, available now: https://youtu.be/b6LRamvuo94?si=PIQLK2ueHKDKo84S
Wesele (The Wedding) is the brainchild of Rafal Chruscicki, who conceived the project as a deeply personal and artistically unrestrained venture. Drawing inspiration from the aesthetics of Mloda Polska (Young Poland), Zmierzch represents a departure from his previous work. It is an introspective and meticulously crafted journey where music, lyrics, and visual art intertwine to form a singular, haunting vision.
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Zmierzch will be released on 25 March 2025 and is available for pre-order in CD format at:
www.odiumrecords.bandcamp.com
www.odiumrec.com
Spearheaded by their drummer, Turkish blackened death metal band Shrine of Denial are weaving together some impeccable music that's rooted in the classic sound and yet showcase some contemporary influences in their music, not unlike their label/country mates Carnophage although they're playing in a different style. No Clean Singing recently premiered their stunning title track at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/02/14/an-ncs-premiere-shrine-of-denial-i-moloch/
Excerpt - "as elaborate, as magnificent, as sinister and otherworldly, and as dreadfully frightening as the visual"
SHRINE OF DENIAL - “I, MOLOCH”
For
fans of
- Serpent of Old, Dead Congregation, Emperor, Behemoth, Burial Invocation, The
ChasmLike their label and country mates Serpent of Old, Shrine of Denial are blending styles and forging their own sound, and channelling it through narrative, superbly thought out structures that despite the twists and turns remain memorable. Perhaps it is a Turkish trait to have the songs this meticulously written, and to achieve that Shrine of Denial have used elements of both death and black metal in varying degrees, often blurring the boundaries between the two in the process. The result is exhilarating, as the band effortlessly switches from fast, blasting parts to slow melodic hooks and then quickly accelerates back to their high-speed mode, using whatever stylistic liberties available. It is an engaging, intense and stirring album that doesn’t get carried away and goes beyond what is necessary or appropriate; despite the vagaries, it remains solid, cohesive and impactful throughout. For what it does, 'I, Moloch' is one of the strongest albums not only to come out of that region in recent times but also in the blackened death metal style as a whole.
Line up:
Eray Nabi - Vocals
Onur Uslu - Guitar
Denizkaan Aracı - Guitars
Ahmet Ünveren - Bass
Berk Köktürk - Drums
Lineup:
Eray Nabi - Vocals
Onur Uslu - Guitar
Denizkaan Aracı - Guitars
Ahmet Ünveren - Bass
Berk Köktürk - Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano
Tracklisting:
1. Climbing Through Nothingness
2. A Sanctuary In The Depths Of The Realms
3. I, Moloch
4. Pillars Of Ice
5. The Mesmer
6. Oneiros
7. Headless Idol
8. Temple of the Corpse Misuser
Release date - March 7th, 2025
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Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Born from the streets of Sao Paulo-Brazil, later relocated to Ireland, and today based in Germany, Location is just a detail at this stage. BREAKDOWN blasted on to the scene in 1998 playing every kind of show imaginable.
They quickly found themselves embraced by every facet of the insanely diverse local music scene from punk to tech death.
After recording their titled Disgrace, a 3-song demo, and a live tape called Live After Thrash, the label Unsilent Records saw live and decided to release the first BreaKdowN full length. “Time To Kill”. Released in 2007, These 8 tracks have catch the attention in the global underground scene over the following years BreaKdowN appeared in compilations and Magazines in Brazil, USA, Europe and all over the planet and shared
the stage with many important bands.
"DIVIDE AND KONQUER", the new EP, once again delivers an uncompromising extreme Metal with a blend of melody, sounding broadly defined like a bastard of DEATH, SEPULTURA, KREATOR and NWBHM with the factor X that makes BreaKdowN what it is.
After years of silence the band joined forces with Andy Classen in Stage One Studio to deliver four tracks of pure energy and uncompromising metal that will please Death Metal, Thrash and Heavy Metal fans in the same vein.
The production is heavy, old school and intense, the music is uncompromising.
https://www.breakdown-bkn.com
https://www.facebook.com/BreaKdowNBKN
Belgian Death Black Metal juggernaut DODENGOD has
officially released their highly anticipated sophomore album, "HERALDS
OF A DYING AGE", out now via Pest Records and available
here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dodengod-heralds-of-a-dying-ageFollowing their 2018 debut "Salvation", DODENGOD returns with a vengeance, delivering ten tracks of unrelenting darkness, seamlessly fusing Death and Black Metal with haunting Doom-infused atmospheres. "Heralds of a Dying Age" marks a shift from the industrial elements of its predecessor, embracing a rawer, more traditional sonic assault, one that is both crushingly heavy and eerily hypnotic.
Fully recorded and mixed by the band itself, the album showcases the razor-sharp riffs of YvS (guitars, bass), the venomous vocal incantations of SVN, and the ferocious drumming of Barduk, who joined in 2021, adding a new dimension of intensity and organic brutality to the band's sound.
Lyrically drenched in themes of death, anti-religion, and misanthropy, "Heralds of a Dying Age" is more than just an album, it’s a descent into an unforgiving, bleak abyss. Tracks like "Scepter of Decay", "Pillars of Ash", and "Eternal Black Sun" paint a harrowing vision of a world in collapse, reinforcing DODENGOD’s place as a force to be reckoned with in extreme metal.
"Heralds of a Dying Age" is now available on CD and digital formats via Pest Records. Enter the void and embrace the darkness!
Play / Order now: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dodengod-heralds-of-a-dying-age
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/DodenGod/
HELLKNIFE
– “FLAMES OF DAMNATION”
Release
date : 28.02.2025, Label : Phobia Records
Format : LP + CD
Sechs Jahre nach ihrem letzten Album "Dusk of Doom" meldet sich die deutsche Crust-Band Hellknife aus Mannheim endlich mit "Flames of Damnation" zurück. Zehn neue Songs, die ihren charakteristischen Sound feiern und den wildesten D-Beat mit zusätzlichen Blast Beats kombinieren. Aufgenommen im Happy Cadaver Studio in Deutschland. Gemischt und gemastert von Ulf Blomberg bei Hoborec in Schweden. Erwartet einen rohen, dröhnenden Sound, der dennoch alle erforderliche Klarheit behält. Das Artwork stammt erneut von Sickness 666 (Zygoatsis, Surrender of Divinity).
Diskografie:
2015 - Hellknife (7'' EP)
2017 - Decimated to Ashes (Split LP with Tacheless)
2019 - Dusk of Doom (full-length)
2025 - Flames of Damnation (full-length)
Hellknife Bandmitglieder:
Ralf - Vocals
Alex - Drums
Markus - Guitar
Peter - Guitar
Lonski – Bass
hellknife@gmx.de
https://www.facebook.com/hellknifeband
Das norwegisch/griechische Powerhouse CHONTARAZ ist wieder aus den Untiefen seines höllischen Ursprungs (in Hell, Norwegen) aufgetaucht und entfacht mit seiner lang erwarteten Rückkehr große Vorfreude bei Fans von dunkler, dynamischer Musik. Ihr kommendes drittes Album “PHANTOM OF REALITY” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025) entführt Hörer einmal mehr in das unverwechselbare Universum von CHONTARAZ und bietet eine fesselnde Reise durch ihre modernen Klanglandschaften und atmosphärischen Geschichten.
Das Album beschäftigt sich mit der Reise, sein wahres Ich zu akzeptieren sowie der damit einhergehenden Ablehnung jeder Art der Oberflächlichkeit; eins der Hauptthemen ist dabei Authentizität. CHONTARAZ kombinieren düsteren Modern Metal mit Industrial-Elementen und vereinen intensive Energie meisterhaft mit tiefgründigen lyrischen Erzählungen, wodurch “Phantom of Reality” bei Fans sowohl auf musikalischer als auch auf emotionaler Ebene Anklang findet.
Bei der gemeinsamen Arbeit in seinem Studio in Athen stimmte die Chemie zwischen den Musikern sofort und unbestreitbar, was Fotis (alias Narwhal) dazu veranlasste, sich CHONTARAZ in Vollzeit anzuschließen. Das Ergebnis? Eine bahnbrechende Metal-Kollaboration, die eine außergewöhnliche Verschmelzung von meisterhaftem Songwriting, erstklassigen Musikern und einer Weltklasse-Produktion darstellt – ein Album, das den modernen Metal neu definieren will.
Fotis Benardos doppelte Virtuosität als Produzent sowie Schlagzeuger hat die Soundlandschaft von “Phantom of Reality” geformt und liefert eine immersive, beeindruckende Klangwelt, die jeden Track aufwertet. All das wird nahtlos mit dem brillanten Songwriting von Ahkon (Herbjørn Anglen) und Chontaraz (Frode Kvarsnes) kombiniert, die gemeinsam alle Tracks geschrieben haben und Ahkons Gitarren- und Bass-Künste mit Chontaraz' fesselndem Gesang vereinen. Das Ergebnis ist eine klangliche Explosion: ein kraftvoller Mix aus düsterem, modernen Metal und Industrial-Komponenten, die nahtlos mit Fotis' Präzision und klanglicher Vision verschmelzen. Das Album hat einen Sound, der sowohl roh als auch raffiniert, brutal und fesselnd ist.
Weitere Features auf "Phantom of Reality":
Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) als Gastsänger bei "SCREAM" (Single-VÖ: 28. Februar 2025)
George Nerantzis, verantwortlich für Keys und Industrial Add-Ons bei allen Songs
Kjetil “DeadBit” Lindløkken an zusätzlichen Keys für "Spin The Wheel",
"Prayer To The Masses" und "Dressed To Kill"
Noxaerias (Kostas Mexis) am Bass für Live-Auftritte und Musikvideos
Diese Vielzahl an Kollaborationen resultiert in einer Fusion aus erstklassigen Musikern, visionärem Songwriting und einer hervorragenden Produktion, die CHONTARAZ in neue Gefilde katapultiert. Mit Ahkon und Chontaraz, die durch ihr gemeinsames Songwriting die kreative Vision vorantreiben und Fotis Benardo, der den Sound und den Rhythmus prägt, ist dies Metal auf einem absoluten Höhepunkt.
Trackliste
für "Phantom of Reality"1. Istanbul
2. Prayer To The Masses
3. You’re The One To Blame
4. Phantom Of Reality
5. The Flick Of Time
6. Scream (feat. Sakis Tolis)
7. Face The Fake
8. Spin The Wheel
9. Nail
10. Dressed To Kill
11. Kingpin
Digitaler Album Pre-save: https://orcd.co/phantomofreality
CD & LP Presale: https://chontaraz.com/
“SCREAM”, die erste Single vom CHONTARAZ-Album “Phantom of Reality”, wurde von Fotis Benardo produziert und ist ein roher, intensiver Track mit einem Gastauftritt von Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ). Im Song geht es um brennendes Verlangen und eine unerbittliche Jagd, bei der aggressive Energie mit aufsteigenden, filmreifen Refrains vermischt wird. Mit eindringlichen Melodien und einer animalischen Intensität erweckt das düstere und viszerale Musikvideo die rohen Emotionen des Songs zum Leben. “SCREAM
Musikvideo hier ansehen: https://youtu.be/aVVfdzTg6gU?si=dr1l6wiHJD5DahYu
Digitaler Single Pre-save: https://orcd.co/chontarazscream
CHONTARAZ stammen ursprünglich aus Hell, Norwegen, und hatten 2015 eine kühne Vision: Musik zu machen, die sie wirklich lieben, frei von stilistischen Beschränkungen, und diese mit theatralischen Liveshows, unverkennbarem Make-up sowie fesselndem lyrischen Storytelling zu vermitteln.
Ihr Debütalbum “Rondamauh” ist in Zusammenarbeit mit dem legendären Produzenten Daniel Bergstrand (bekannt für seine Arbeit mit In Flames, Meshuggah, Dimmu Borgir, Devin Townsend) entstanden und erhielt viel Lob von Schwergewichten wie dem Sweden Rock Magazine, dem Metal Observer und dem Scream Magazine. Außerdem wurde es von Quebec-Metal zum drittbesten internationalen Album des Jahres 2017 gewählt und von Thomas Youngblood von Kamelot persönlich empfohlen.
2019 stellten CHONTARAZ ihr zweites Album “Speed The Bullet” während 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, vor.
Zusammenarbeit mit George Nerantzis produzierte Album erhielt hervorragende Kritiken und verhalf ihnen zu Tourneen mit Kultbands wie Sepultura und Soulfly sowie zu Auftritten im Vorprogramm von Kamelot und Cyhra.
Mit ihrem dritten Album “Phantom of Reality” (VÖ: 9. Mai 2025) haben sich CHONTARAZ endgültig in ein wahres norwegisch-griechisches Kraftpaket verwandelt, das die dunkle Rohheit des norwegischen Metal mit der technologischen Präzision und industriellen Intensität ihres neuesten Mitglieds und Produzenten Fotis Benardo verbindet.
Fotis (alias Narwhal), der für sein visionäres Schlagzeugspiel und seine Produktionsfähigkeiten bekannt ist, hat die Klanglandschaft der Band neu definiert und für einen mitreißenden, vernichtenden Sound gesorgt, der jeden Track aufwertet.
CHONTARAZ liefern damit aktuell einen wahrhaft einzigartigen Sound, der die Wildheit des Heavy Metal und die Intensität des Black Metal mit dem mechanischen Puls des Industrial und der Schärfe des Modern Metal vereint. Das Ergebnis ist eine Klangexplosion, die Grenzen verschiebt und eine musikalische Umgebung schafft, in der Chaos und Ordnung ein perfektes Gleichgewicht finden. Ein norwegisch-griechischer Metal-Juggernaut, der sich durch eine Mischung aus brutaler Kraft und melodischer Tiefe auszeichnet – mit massiven Riffs, überlagert von elektronischen Texturen und postapokalyptischen Atmosphären. CHONTARZ’ Musik füllt eine Lücke im heutigen Metal-Markt und wagt sich in dunkle Gefilde vor, die andere zu betreten zögern. Für CHONTARAZ geht es nicht nur darum, Musik zu spielen – sondern darum, ein eindringliches, immersives Erlebnis zu bieten.
Mit intensiven Vocals, krassen Gitarren und hypnotischen Rhythmen laden sie die Hörer in ihr Universum ein und schaffen einen Sound, der sowohl hart als auch tief emotional ist. “Phantom of Reality” ist nicht einfach nur ein Album; es ist eine musikalische Reise, bei der Rohheit auf Technologie, Leidenschaft auf Dunkelheit und Hoffnung auf Verzweiflung trifft.
Bereitet euch auf ein unvergleichliches Metal-Erlebnis vor. Auftritt CHONTARAZ – nicht nur eine Band, sondern eine Kraft, die bereit ist, den modernen Metal neu zu gestalten.
https://www.youtube.com/@chontarazofficial
https://chontaraz.com/
Die Band dazu:
„Stellen wir uns vor, wir müssten unser eigenes Essen töten – könnten wir das? Wir wissen doch, welches Leid mit einem exzessiven Fleischkonsum einhergeht, blenden wir das einfach aus? Als Bratwurstband warf die Tierhaltung im eigenen Garten und der Nachbarschaft irgendwann mal diese Fragen bei uns auf.
Der heutige Fleischkonsum ist das Resultat eines Systems, das Profit über Tierwohl stellt und die Natur zerstört, während wir in den industrialisierten Ländern keine Berührung mit diesen Tieren haben. War das Bewusstsein bei der eigenen Tierhaltung und Weiterverarbeitung früher noch ein anderes und Fleisch etwas Besonderes, ist es heute selbstverständlich, billiges Fleisch im Discounter zu kaufen und täglich zu konsumieren.
Dass sich immer mehr Menschen für einen bewussteren Fleischkonsum entscheiden oder sogar ganz darauf verzichten, ist eine wichtige Entwicklung. Doch genau diese Menschen müssen sich oft auf Familienfeiern rechtfertigen und werden belächelt, anstatt dass man ihnen ernsthaft zuhört.
Mit unserem Video zu „Blind“ wollen wir nicht belehren, sondern zum Nachdenken anregen.“
Video Credits:
Regie: Mirko Witzki
Produziert von Witzki Visions
Make Up Arts: Laura Schlösser
Starring: Laura Glatter, Laura Schlösser
Gefilmt im Movie Park Germany & F-Haus Jena
“Veins Of Fire” Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere. Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens. Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
Shop:
https://desertedfear.ffm.to/blind
http://lnk.spkr.media/desertedfear-fire
Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" wird als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich sein. Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle werden exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich sein.
www.desertedfear.de
www.facebook.com/desertedfear
DESERTED FEAR werden Ende April zur Veröffentlichung von „Veins Of Fire“ auf
Tour gehen.VEINS OF FIRE - TOUR 2025
Deserted Fear
Kvaen
Fall Of Serenity
Messticator
Do 24.04. Hamburg - Bahnhof Pauli
Fr 25.04. Essen - Turock
Sa 26.04. Jena - F-Haus
So 27.04. Osnabrück - Bastard Club (Matinée!)
Mo 28.04. Kassel - Goldgrube
Di 29.04. Hannover - Musikzentrum
Mi 30.04. Berlin - Cassiopeia
Do 01.05. Wiesbaden - Schlachthof
Fr 02.05. München - Backstage (Halle)
Sa 03.05. Stuttgart - Club Zentral
3.-5.7.2025 Ballenstedt - Rockharz Festival
1.-2.8.2025 Dortmund - Dortmund Deathfest
Tickets: https://www.desertedfear.de/tour
Tourtrailer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/30LjXhqENsw
The
work has been now introduced by praised hardcore rescue IDIOTEQ, who have
premiered the official music video for the song “Nada” (directed
by colacolectiva), stating that “The new track is a death
knell ringing out of Curitiba, Brazil’s festering underbelly, a taste of the
fifteen-track, twenty-five-minute slab of nekro-hardcore to come. No mercy, no
light. Just a raw howl from the slums and graveyards, where suffering’s the
only currency.” - you can check out the feature and song here https://idioteq.com/from-curitibas-rot-clan-dos-mortos-cicatriz-drops-nada/Throughout their crepuscular auditory journey the Brazilian cult display an unrivaled craftsmanship in conjuring and condensing the greatest moments of dark punk, hardcore and crust (Black Flag, G.I.S.M., Misfits, Rudimentary Peni), death rock (Christian Death, The Damned) and black metal (Hellhammer, Ildjarn) into their own magistral ritual of transcendence through the celebration death, bending each one of their influences into a masterclass of gangrenous sonic disarray, majestic evocative power, and frenetic emotional chaos. Each one of the fifteen short spells of rage and misery that comprise this unforgettable long player is both a poem, a denunciation, an epitaph, an oath of penitence, and a declaration of war, all strewn across a death-scarred canvas of frantic and stylish guitar licks, pummeling demented rhythms, and a wailing sermon of spectral, hysterical vocals doused in morbid poetry and ominous existentialism.
"Técnicas de Morte" is scheduled for a 21 March 2025 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, MC, and digital formats, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/clan-dos-mortos-cicatriz-tecnicas-de-morte
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The new album will follow the dark and melancholic atmospheres of its predecessor, with even more intense and macabre songs, confirming the unmistakable imprint of the band.
While waiting for further details on the album, the group announces one of the rare live appearances scheduled for 2025: on March 15th, Cultus Sanguine will plaly at the Alternative Music Club in Montenero di Bisaccia (CB), sharing the stage with Sakater and Black Faith.
An unmissable event for Dark Metal fans, a unique opportunity to attend a concert that promises evocative atmospheres full of intensity.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/JoeCultusSanguine
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease Date: May 2nd 2025
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Judas Priest | Hellion | Burning Witches | Warlock
The seeds of Washington State metal band, Hangfire, were sown when guitarist Sean ‘Shredder’ Searls, noted for his work with Tyraels Ascension and hugely experienced bassist Steven Tolbeck crossed paths on their local music scene. They started working together, the dream being to create a new band with a classic sound – powerful, melodic heavy metal with a thunderous rhythm section and soaring vocals, riffs that instantly connected with the metal heart and solos that gleamed with the irresistible fire of the greats. After two years they found powerhouse drummer Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Laird (The Braindead, For The Love Of Suffering etc) and a year later, the final magical piece of the puzzle – vocalist Jenea Fiore. And now it’s time to Burn!
Hangfire’s debut album, Burn, is an instant metal classic. The anticipation is there immediately as the atmospheric intro of first track, ‘Hunger’, begins…and when it explodes into life in an array of magnificent riffs then the fabulous adrenaline rush kicks in. Searl’s lead guitar work is electrifying and Jenea’s voice simply breathtaking, while Tolbeck and Laird create a rock solid foundation, a stage for them to duel across. Every song is marked by incredible individual performances, but also by the accomplished writing and arrangements. The pure metal magnificence of ‘Thunder’, the epic Priest-like style and bite of ‘Warhawk’; it’s so refreshing to hear such dexterity and creativity channelled into original, melodic heavy metal and a band unafraid to stretch out into different territories confident in their vision and abilities. Jenea is simply one of the finest singers you’ll hear operating in this field. Her range and accuracy matched only by her breadth of expression and character. The aggressive swagger of ‘White Lie’ and the beautifully executed ballad, ‘Falling Awake’ really shine a spotlight on her remarkable talent. With an album of this quality every song plays an integral part, but special mention must be given to first single ‘Headspin’ which captures the true spirit of metal in its every moment, as well as the grit and groove of the Western tinged ‘Outlaw’. This is the beginning of something special.
Rottweiler Records were quick to welcome Hangfire into their pack, impressed by the band’s huge potential, great songs and enthralling live performances with the likes of Greyhawk and Witch Ripper. Together Rottweiler and Hangfire will unleash the power and passion of Burn on May 2nd so be ready, because you don’t want to miss this!
Line-up:
Jenea Fiore - Vocals
Sean ‘Shredder’ Searls - Guitar
Steven Tolbeck - Bass
Shannon ‘The Cannon’ Laird - Drums
https://officialhangfireband.com/
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
The Reckoning, Pt.2 reframes the central question posed in The Hubris of Humanity, Pt.1': Will humanity's legacy be one of destruction or redemption? The juxtaposition of destruction and renewal ties the two parts together, offering a cohesive narrative about humanity's relationship with the Earth and its responsibility to evolve before it's too late.
The Reckoning, Pt.2 features the unique signature sound of the band's blackened death metal, blending relentless aggression with a haunting atmosphere. crushing riffs and guttural roars intertwine with ominous melodies, capturing the tension between destruction and redemption.
Hailing from the Swiss mountains, Tyrmfar quickly made their mark in the extreme metal scene since their 2013 debut. Their EP In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit (2015) and the acclaimed Human Abomination (2017) led to major European festival appearances, including Metal Days, where they earned praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” With their second album, Renewal Through Purification, and their 2022 release Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, Tyrmfar solidified their sound, embarking on a European tour with Gorgoroth.
The upcoming Symbiosis EP pushes the band’s compositional boundaries further, blending their blackened death metal roots with modern influences. Against the backdrop of an uncertain ecological and social climate, the EP reflects a deep exploration of humanity's relationship with nature. Each band member’s distinct style contributes to the collaborative process, bringing raw emotion and intensity to both the music and their live performances. Hailing from the Swiss mountains, Tyrmfar quickly made their mark in the extreme metal scene since their 2013 debut. Their EP In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit (2015) and the acclaimed Human Abomination (2017) led to major European festival appearances, including Metal Days, where they earned praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” With their second album, Renewal Through Purification, and their 2022 release Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, Tyrmfar solidified their sound, embarking on a European tour with Gorgoroth.
The upcoming Symbiosis EP pushes the band’s compositional boundaries further, blending their blackened death metal roots with modern influences. Against the backdrop of an uncertain ecological and social climate, the EP reflects a deep exploration of humanity's relationship with nature. Each band member’s distinct style contributes to the collaborative process, bringing raw emotion and intensity to both the music and their live performances.
https://www.facebook.com/tyrmfar/
DEAD CHASM - “SPECTRAL TYRANNY”
For
fans of: Dead
Congregation, Grave Miasma, Incantation, CruciamentumItalian death/doom metal band Dead Chasm bring forth their latest material that promises to be their most potent output yet. There's not a second wasted on these three songs which are dense with stomach-churning riffs and doom passages that are all but enveloping, while the execution remains tighter than ever before. They make everything work like clockwork as a three-piece unit and there's not a single area where they leave something to be desired. The songs are more elaborately structured than usual in this death/doom style and it's particularly noteworthy how they take the time to flesh out the riffs and go about it all in a natural way rather than forcing it or coming across as ostentatious at any given point of time. Be it during the slower sections building up the thick, ominous atmosphere or the faster, pummelling parts, it's all done in a sincere manner and that too with the right organic sound that retains some of the rawness. Dead Chasm have come up with a bunch of songs that are virtually faultless but more importantly are of the kind that would resonate with any true fan of death/doom metal.
Line up
L. - Guitars and Vocals
G. - Bass guitar
D. - Drums
Illustration by Manuel Scapinello
Track listing
1. Beneath Decadent Shadows
2. Spectral Tyranny
3. Spawn in Absurdity
Release date - May 16th, 2025
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
The
debut mini-album, “DUNKLE WELT”, contains of seven tracks that
shows the many sides of DUNKLE ZUKUNFT.Inspiration to our music comes from a diverse collection of bands, artists and genres.
The result is a genre-defying crossover style that challenges musical conventions while remaining profoundly accessible. DUNKLE ZUKUNFT goal is to take the listener on a journey through dark, atmospheric landscapes punctuated by electrifying rhythms and haunting melodies.
As DUNKLE ZUKUNFT emerges onto the global stage, the band invites listeners to join them in exploring the unknown — an invitation to embrace the beauty and chaos of the dark future.
Tracklist:
1. Dunkle Welt
2. Flammen am Himmel
3. Apokalypse Ruft
4. Der Letzte Man
5. Das Ende
6. Die Letzten Gedanken
7. Unfelt Dunkelheit
DUNKLE ZUKUNFT is a groundbreaking music collective helmed by Zane Solaris. With a name that translates to "Dark Future," this music collective delves into the uncharted territories of modern soundscapes, crafting a unique blend that they boldly call "the music of the future."
Drawing inspiration from a kaleidoscope of genres, DUNKLE ZUKUNFT masterfully fuses elements of Industrial music, 1970s Synth bands, Electro, Pop, Metal, and even occasional nods to Punk. The result is a genre-defying crossover style that challenges musical conventions while remaining profoundly accessible. With a flair for innovation and a deep understanding of diverse musical traditions, DUNKLE ZUKUNFT takes listeners on a journey through dark, atmospheric landscapes punctuated by electrifying rhythms and haunting melodies.
DUNKLE ZUKUNFT's debut album is a testament to this visionary approach. Each track serves as a chapter in a larger narrative, offering a glimpse into a dystopian yet strangely alluring sonic future. From pulsating Industrial beats to introspective Synth-driven ballads, the album weaves a rich tapestry of sound that captures both the melancholy and the hope of our uncertain tomorrow.
As DUNKLE ZUKUNFT emerges onto the global stage, the band invites listeners to join them in exploring the unknown — an invitation to embrace the beauty and chaos of the dark future.
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Listen to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-disgust
Vocalist Kurwa Doktor was caught up being busy with sewing brand new patches onto his inner thigh skin, but had this to say about Disgust:
"After many delays and close-to-nervous-breakdowns our fifth album is out! Available on CD and vinyl, both limited editions. Again, the song lengths do not reach the magical 3 min limit, so in this time and age when everyone wants everything immediately we think that our songs serve as a perfect get-away for persons diagnosed with concentration problems. And the album is a very good soundtrack for sensual solo manoeuvres as well, if you like your act short and intensive."
Music videos from the album:
https://youtu.be/GSXtaXtBDms
https://youtu.be/GuPBSDV3Yvo
https://youtu.be/fXsUjYwPHIk
Confirmed gigs in Finland:
Pe 28.2. Turku, Nirvana
La 1.3. Pori, Annis
Pe 28.3. Riihimäki, Bar Bulldog
La 29.3. Tampere, Bar Kotelo
La 24.5. Lohja, Masterhouse
CANNIBAL ACCIDENT - DISGUST (ALBUM 2025)
Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime TaccardiBiography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
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You can get this through the label writing to lifeeternalprods@gmail.com or get in touch with us.
UNHOLY IMPURITY - "OCULUS MORTIS"
Genre : Black MetalFFO: old Mayhem and Watain, Marduk, Celestial Bloodshed;
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date: February 28th 2025
Bone maniacs UNHOLY IMPURITY style is sinister and ritualistic, reminiscent of first-era Mayhem and Watain, as well as of Marduk and Celestial Bloodshed. There is a certain authenticity, easely perceptible, which directs the conjured sensations towards the very essence of Black Metal, in its dark and ominous spirit. "Oculus Mortis" is old school, raw and straight to the point. The past is alive!
Hailing from Sardinia, the island whose ancient population dates back to the Bronze Age, UNHOLY IMPURITY are inspired by anticosmic spirituality and ancient mysteries linked to Sardinia's culture. The album features four songs with lyrics in Sardinian language (hence Sardinian Native Black Metal) and an astonishing detailed artwork by the indonesian artist Oik Wasfuk (Watain, Nothing Sacred Artwork).
The album will be officially premiered on February 27th via the popular YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion.
Sale Points:
Sardinian Black Metal;
Four songs with lyrics in Sardinian autchthonous language;
Detailed artwork by Oik Wasfuk (Watain, Nothing Sacred Artwork);
Full-album premiere on Black Metal Promotion (Feb 27th 2025).
Tracklist:
1) Into The Abyss
2) Black Magic
3) Ancient Stones Of Death
4) The Oldest One
5) The Healer
6) Treutos Corrudos
7) Sos Filos de sa Morte
8) Requiem
Recorded at SpaceCraft and RKS Studio (OSSI), August/September 2023.
Mixed and mastered by Delio Soro at Soundlikekong Studio Sassari (Sassari), February/March 2024.
Band logo and album title handmade by Erkitu.
Design and layout by SSCVLT.
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https://www.facebook.com/U.I.blackmetalbones
Formed in 2016, Stockholm-by-way-of-London power rockers THE RIVEN have carved a uniquely compelling place for themselves, drawing musical influence from a wide array of genres. Hard rock, old prog, early heavy metal, and even simply rock ‘n’ roll itself: no mossy stone is left unturned by THE RIVEN. And when combined with their lyrical themes – from everyday life all the way to the fantasy-inspired, with sometimes both intertwining – the quintet have forged their own path, displaying a sound fitting firmly within the late ‘70’s and early ‘80s but with an effervescence that feels palpably modern.
Where their second album, 2022’s Peace and Conflict, felt like a watershed moment – moving from the “powerful rocker” of their eponymous debut album in 2019 to an emotive, electric, but no-less-earthy sort of NWOBHM – THE RIVEN sound positively poised for another breakthrough with their forthcoming third full-length, Visions of Tomorrow. Presciently titled, Visions of Tomorrow struts and sways with that sort of star quality that can only come from total, utter self-belief…and absolutely stunning songs! The sound is more present and raw than before, ear-effortlessly exuding dynamics lost to most “hard rock” bands. THE RIVEN here offer a sumptuous feast of familiar-yet-fresh heavy rock built on massive HOOKS and HEART. Not for nothing have they become a finely honed ensemble; touring nonstop has been the band’s lifeblood for years now, and that tangible sense of magick swirls about each of these 11 anthems. New drummer Elias Jonsson pumps that blood with an almost “laidback urgency,” and the rest of THE RIVEN let rip with what they liken more “complete” songwriting: the songs may be shorter than previous ones, but they’re undeniably more action-packed and nuanced.
Interestingly, while writing for Visions of Tomorrow was done in Stockholm in late 2023, THE RIVEN was selected for an international studio residency as part of the Swedish national arts association, and the band lived for a few days at the highly prestigious studio Fascination Street in Örebro. The album was mixed and co-produced by Robert Pehrsson (The Hellacopters, Tribulation, Dead Lord among others). Lyrically, Visions of Tomorrow showcases a band that is frustrated about how the world is run, who’s in charge, and what is about to happen to the rest of us. Musically, it showcases a band that can handle their instruments and is willing to explore and go on musical journeys. THE RIVEN themselves claim that this third album is “a fine example of rock ‘n’ roll being played at its best – it's honest, it’s urgent, it’s calling you, and it will make you shake your fist and bang your head – all while thinking about where we are and where we are going.”
Wherever you want to go with Visions of Tomorrow, there’s no disputing the fact that THE RIVEN are poised to take over the biggest stages all over the world!
Line-up:
Totta Ekebergh - Vocals
Joakim Sandegård - Guitar
Arnau Díaz - Guitar
Max Ternebring - Bass
Elias Jonsson - Drums
From Stockholm, Sweden
Release date:
25th April 2025
Tracklist1 Far Away From Home
2 Killing Machine
3 Set my Heart on Fire
4 Travelling Great Distance
5 Crystals
6 On my Mind tonight
7 Seen it all
8 Visions of Tomorrow
9.En Dag Som Aldrig Fo¨rr
10 We Love you
11 Follow You
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
INCINERATION
IN THE INFINITE
is a Blackened Doom Metal project initiated by Ömer Doğramacı. Serving as a
sister band to his other project, Fragmentary Solid Abyss, both projects
explore similar musical and conceptual territories. However, Incineration in
the Infinite has distinctive tempo shifts and streamlined song structures.The project embraces simplicity in its songwriting, drawing inspiration from the rebellious essence of Punk Rock while layering in the crushing weight of Stoner Metal and the dark, brooding atmospheres of Doom.
The EP's release date is 14 March 2025.
Tracklist
1. Satanic Ritual in the Fog of Night
2. Dancing Among the Stars
3. The Gates of Daemons
Step into the extraordinary realm of Incineration in the Infinite and stay connected:
www.youtube.com/@IncinerationintheInfinite
https://incinerationintheinfinite.bandcamp.com/
The
tour starts March 1 in Nashville. Dates are as follows.3/1 - DRKMTTR - Nashville, TN
3/2 - Culture Shock - Atlanta, GA
3/3 - The Milestone - Charlotte, NC
3/4 - Chapel of Bones - Raleigh, NC
3/5 - The Metro - Baltimore, MD
3/6 - The Nail - Ardmore, PA
3/7 - The Woodshop - Brooklyn, NY
3/8 - The Middle East, Upstairs - Boston, MA
PATHOGENIC and Skepsis Recordings have teamed with Ghost Cult Magazine to give fans a chance to win a Crowned in Corpses vinyl/t-shirt bundle. The winner will receive a limited edition, red and orange variant of the album, along with a t-shirt featuring the artwork.
Crowned in Corpses is out now on Skepsis Recordings. The album marks the band's first full-length release in over half a decade, promising a bold evolution of their signature brand of progressive tech death, while retaining the intensity that has defined the band for years.
Order Crowned in Corpses on CD and vinyl at www.skepsisrecordings.com
Crowned in Corpses was produced by Raymond Marte (Moon Tooth), Anthony Lopardo (Loss Becomes), and ourselves. Raymond Marte mixed and mastered the record. Crowned in Corpses music video was shot by Nick Court of Killing It Entertainment.
Out of Boston’s depths emerges PATHOGENIC, a force unshackled from hiatus and reborn with Crowned in Corpses. Over 42 punishing minutes, this progressive death metal quintet weaves together labyrinthine riffs, relentless rhythms, and chilling visions of a decaying world.
In 2022, the band’s resurgence was ignited when original vocalist Jake Burns and new drummer Tyler Montaquila joined forces with guitarists Chris Gardino, Justin Licht, and bassist Dan Leahy. Together, they’ve forged a sound that is ferocious, intricate, and unapologetically heavy — delivering metal that demands to be heard.
PATHOGENIC has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Revocation, and The Faceless, and has annihilated crowds at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and RPM Fest. Known for their high-octane live performances, the band’s energy and command leave audiences with no choice but to headbang furiously.
Set to release on February 7, 2025, through Skepsis Recordings, Crowned in Corpses is a ferocious musical declaration: eight tracks of devastating power and haunting warnings of the darkness that lies ahead.
PATHOGENIC is:
Jake Burns - vocals
Chris Gardino - guitars
Justin Licht - guitars
Dan Leahy - bass
Tyler Montaquila - drums
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Welcome to the musical laboratory of Elisa Montaldo and Samael Von Martin, welcome to a dark and lysergic universe where experimentation and avant-garde sound reign supreme, welcome to the world of ALBUS DIABOLUS.
Here is "LITURGICA", the first song from the
album "COMPENDIO ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO".The lyric video is available at https://youtu.be/AZaPdDYOPIA
The song is deliberately perhaps the most marked point of conjunction between MATER A CLIVIS IMPERAT, a project involving the two actors of this new creature, and ALBUS DIABOLUS who are an insane entity in the European Electro-Goth scene.
It is an ideal bridge, perhaps less representative than other songs, but which brings the listener in a more eclectic way, from the progressive and avant-garde soul of the dark project that gave birth to the masterpiece entitled "Carmina Occulta" and this "Compendio Esoterico Elettronico" which was born to destabilize our peaceful existence.
The album will be released on April 11th only on vinyl and digital as well as in a special limited edition that includes the album with shirts, posters and other merch.
Pre-Order active and available on http://bit.ly/3CejxJq
The journey into their Art has just started!
And now... let the Sabbath begin!!!
In ALBUS DIABOLUS the gothic and black aesthetic of extreme music merges with the Progressive vein of Mater A Clivis Imperat, all with a clear and decisive electronic imprint influenced by the Synth-Wave and Dark-Wave of the 80s.
Sound imaginaries created with synthesizers, drum machines and arcane atmospheres intertwine with powerful guitars by special guest Simòn Ferètro, materializing everything in an emotional and immersive journey that recalls influences of works such as "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, and bands such as EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS.
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Genre : Black MetalLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 28th 2025
FFO: old Satyricon, Marduk, Mayhem, Immortal, Dissection, Rotting Christ, Mortuary Drape;
Sardinian Native Black Metal veterans VULTUR are finally able to reveal their new opus to the world: "Cultores de Perdas e Linna" has been recorded in 2023 but didn't see light until now, in 2025. The album, whose title means "stone and woods worshippers" (which is how christians derogatery defined the ancient Nuragic population), features eight songs with lyrics in Sardinian language except for "Nemini Parco", sung in Italian and Latin.
VULTUR style is aggressive, unmerciful and fast-paced, showcasing intriguing riffs and a certain degree of dark violence. Fans of old Satyricon, Marduk, Mayhem and Immortal will find themselves pleased, as well as for the lovers of Dissection's melodic bridges, old Rotting Christ's evocativness and Mortuary Drape's rhythmic dynamism and heavyness.
The artwork takes inspiration from the Sardinian popular mask "Su Boe", one of the most important characters of Sardinian Carnival tradition.
Founded exactly 20 years ago, VULTUR has been one of the very first Black Metal acts featuring lyrics in Sardinian Campidanese language, with themes about Sardinian occultism and folk superstitions. Sardinia, the island whose ancient population dates back to the Bronze Age, features a rich archaic history and culture, whose folklore still breaths nowdays within its fond population.
The album will be premiered on the popular YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion on February 26th 2025.
Sale Points:
Sardinian Native Black Metal;
Vultur is the oldest Black Metal band featuring lyrics in Sardinian;
The artwork takes inspiration from the popular mask "Su Boe";
Full-album premiere on Black Metal Promotion (Feb 26th 2025).
Tracklist:
1) Su Frastimu
2) Eternu Trumentu
3) Su Spegu
4) Femina Mala
5) Arestis
6) Cultores Lapides et Lignea
7) Umbras
8) Nemini Parco
Recorded at Cut Fire Mixing Studio by Alberto Bandino, Sanluri (SU), in May and June 2023.
Artwork by Maristella Spanu.
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https://www.facebook.com/sardinianvultur
Band's statement:
“Haxprocess is thrilled to join Transcending Obscurity's amazing roster. Kunal is one of the most hard-working and passionate individuals in the world of extreme metal, and we are extremely happy to be working with him. This partnership will allow Haxprocess to fully convey our ideas of exploratory death metal like never before, and we are so excited for what’s to come! Again, big thanks to Kunal for everything he does.”
Haxprocess is:Lothar Mallea - Guitar and vocals
Shane Williamson - Guitar
Davis Leader - Bass
Adam Robinson - Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano (Ritual Fog, Typhonian, Shrine of Denial)
Track listing
1. Where Even Stars Die 11:27
2. The Confines of the Flesh 09:28
3. Thy Inner Demon Seed 10:42
4. Sepulchral Void 13:11
Release date - T.B.A. (tentatively mid 2025)
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https://www.facebook.com/HaxprocessOfficial
Thanks! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Hailing from the highlands of Cajamarca, Peru’s HYENA have been delivering true and uncompromising heavy metal since 2018. Founded by guitarist and songwriter Alfonso Espinoza, the band emerged with a clear mission: to keep the spirit of heavy metal alive and untamed.
With a career forged in the underground, HYENA’s music is pure adrenaline – direct, explosive, and unapologetic. Their demos and raw recordings have been released around the globe, earning a cult following among diehard maniacs of authentic, no-frills heavy metal. HYENA’s extensive touring journey has taken them from spontaneous, off-the-grid gigs in remote locations to headlining underground festivals across Latin America, Asia, and Oceania, where the passion for metal reigns supreme.
Now, HYENA are unleashing About Rock and Roll, their aptly titled debut album. This ten-track attack captures the band’s energy and unwavering commitment to the roots of heavy metal – particularly the genre’s earliest days, during the pivotal late ‘70s, when rock ‘n’ roll indeed still formed the foundation. Packed with vicious, headbanging riffs that make you want to raise your fist and let all Hell break loose, About Rock and Roll delivers solos as memorable as they are fierce, a relentless rhythm section that’s pure pounding-metal, and a commanding vocal performance that pierces through and devastates everything in its path.
Influenced by NWOBHM, Japanese heavy metal, and speed metal, HYENA channel the spirit of bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Motörhead – big names, sure, but reverence is key when taking this torch. To coincide with the release of About Rock and Roll, HYENA will perform for their first time on European solo at the 25th anniversary of the legendary Keep it True Festival.
Line-up:
Alfonso Espinoza - Guitars
Leonardo Zelada - Drums
Sergio Silva - Guitars
El Sucio - Vocals
Alexander Rojas - Bass
From Cajamarca, Peru
Release date:
25th April 2025
Tracklist1 Nightriders
2 About Rock And Roll
3 The Eternal Zero
4 Hail The Fire
5 Epitome of Evil
6 Echoes of the Underworld
7 Ready to Explode
8 Metal Machine
9 Hyena
10 Keep It True
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Canadian
heavy metallers BREAKER have signed a licensing deal with
Wormholedeath Records for their self-titled EP BREAKER, due for
release on 04 April 2025.Formed in 2023 by vocalist Terje Fiskvatn, guitarist Caleb Beal (Villain, Midnight Malice), and drummer Rider Johnson (former Razor), BREAKER quickly crafted their signature sound, blending high-octane metal with fierce energy. The band’s debut EP, Breaker, features tracks like Liberty and Babylon, written by Fiskvatn and expanded with the powerful contributions of Beal and Johnson.
The EP captures the essence of classic speed and heavy metal, with blistering guitar riffs, pounding rhythms, and dynamic vocals. With their signing to Wormholedeath, BREAKER is poised to bring their high-energy, unstoppable sound to a global audience. Prepare for a furious ride from one of Canada’s newest heavy metal forces.
Tracklist
1.Breaker
2 . Babylon
3 .Liberty
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Following ten years of silence after the release of their debut album The Embers Of The Stars and the untimely death of vocalist Steven, UK-based atmospheric black metal trio AHAMKARA returns with a new lineup and new album THE HARROW OF THE LOST, an unflinching exploration of the transformative nature of grief.
The
band has shared a stream for the album track “OUR SCARS SHALL ABIDE IN
THE THAW.” The exclusive premiere for the song comes via Decibel
Magazine. Listen to “Our Scars Shall Abide in the Thaw” now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/02/25/track-premiere-ahamkara-our-scars-shall-abide-in-the-thaw/The Harrow of the Lost is due out April 25 on Bindrune Records. Pre-order the album at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/
The Harrow of the Lost tracklisting:
1. The Circle of Remembrance
2. Our Scars Shall Abide in the Thaw
3. Channelling Grief
4. Ordeal of Ascension
An emotionally charged and fiercely personal record, The Harrow of the Lost takes the AHAMKARA sound in a more complex and tormented direction, encompassing existential rage, nihilistic despair, and all in between. Both rawer and more organic in sound, intensified by the electrifying drum work of new member Austin Lunn (Panopticon), and scaling greater peaks of Emperial ambition than ever before, the album integrates the expansive reach of the Cascadian black metal sound with the densely detailed savagery of classic Emperor and the aching melancholy of early Anathema to produce a deeply involving journey of genre-transcending atmospheric metal.
Completed by a heartfelt and uncompromising vocal performance from founder member Michael and the nuanced, evocative synth work of Alexandra (also of labelmates Nemorous), this is a journey into the scorched earth landscapes of bereavement that no follower of the Bindrune family should miss.
AHAMKARA is:
Michael Blenkarn – Vocals. Guitars,
Austin Lunn - Drums
Alexandra Blenkarn-Durning - Synth
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https://www.facebook.com/theembersofthestars
Finnish
death metal band WRETCHED PATH releases their second
album "SEA OF DEATH" on March 26th 2025.
First single "RELEASE OF VIOLENCE" introduced
the straight-forward and raw side of the upcoming album. Now released title
track of the album dives into the versatile depths with epic touch. The band
also releases a music video of the single."The lyrics were inspired by the sound of a submarine sonar heard in the original intro, which took the lyricist’s thoughts to the Baltic Sea in 1945, where several ships were sunk during the final days of the war. These events constitute the greatest loss of life ever recorded at sea. This track is the perfect conclusion to the album." tells the Singer Esa Salminen.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer etc): https://push.fm/fl/wretchedpath-sods
Formed in 2020 by seasoned musicians from renowned bands like Pestigore, Born of Thorns, Tukkanuotta, and Warmen, Wretched Path was born out of a desire to return to their Death Metal roots. Their debut album received rave reviews from various magazines and websites, and they played several gigs around Finland including the legendary Nummirock festival 2023.
https://www.wretchedpath.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wretchedpath
The video was premiered today via The Obelisk and can be viewed
here: https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025/02/25/church-of-the-sea-eva-vid-premiere/"Eva" reimagines the biblical story of Eve, challenging the traditional narrative and celebrating her defiance. The band explains, “Eva” is a twist in the story from the Book of Genesis, where the female is not seen as the sinner for seeking knowledge, but as the rebel that embraces what others consider ‘forbidden’”
Regarding the music video, Church of the Sea added: “The video is a further juxtaposition between the forbidden and what is established as righteous and ideal. The creations of man that abuse nature, in contrast with the animalistic instincts in all of us, fighting to break free.”
The album will be released in digital and CD formats, with a limited “sunburst” edition on vinyl
Formed in 2017 in Athens, Greece, the three individuals in Church of the Sea create a distinct sound, balancing between doom and dark electronic rock. They embrace fuzzed sounds, heavy distorted beats and ethereal, chant‐like vocals. The result is a unique atmosphere where doom’s heaviness meets the dreamlike state of shoegaze and the shrieks of noise‐rock.
Their debut EP “Anywhere but Desert”, released on 2 October 2018, was recorded at
Artracks Studios and Coti K’s Suono Studios, engineered and produced by Alex Bolpasis
(Whereswilder, Noise Figures, Cyanna Mercury) and Church of the Sea, mixed and mastered by Chris Common (Chelsea Wolfe, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Emma Ruth Rundle). On 8 February 2019 “Anywhere but Desert” was released on cassette by A Man out of A Man Records and on 13 April 2019 on vinyl by Smash Records.
Their debut album “Odalisque” was released on 8 April 2022. It was recorded at Suono
Studios, engineered and produced by Alex Bolpasis and Church of the Sea, mixed by Alex
Bolpasis, and mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Mastering (Alice In Chains, Garbage, LA Witch, The Black Angels).
For the recording of “Eva” the band returned to Suono Studios, while Alex Bolpasis was responsible for the engineering, production and mixing. The album was mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Mastering.
The band has taken part in several festivals (Happening Now, Cult of the Amps, Templefest),
and was the opening act for numerous bands, including Antimatter, The Murder Capital, Messa and Dool. Their track record also includes two sold-out performances at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Athens.
Listen to the single “Eva” via all streaming services: https://bio.to/cots
The “Eva” music video was completed in collaboration with Zetel Skempris, snuffmasks and rat.sfx.
Church of the Sea are:
Irene – Vocals
Vangelis – Guitars
Alex – Synths and samples
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
https://www.facebook.com/ChurchoftheSea/
OF THE MUSES' sophomore album, very evocatively titled "UNDERHEAVENS— OF BLOOD, GHOSTS AND SALTWATER" , begins to take shape in its most complete and intimate essence.
Today we present to you the wonderful cover created by Tryfar and the complete
tracklist that will make you feel under your skin the emotions and the beauty
of this album:1. Intro
2. A Summer Burial
3. Spirits Interlude
4. Pilgrimage
5. The In-Between Was A Fever Dream
6. Phantom Limb
7. The Night
8. Underheavens (Outro)
Cristina Rombi, mind and soul of the project, has recorded this second creature at Opus Magnum Studio, ran by famed producer and musician Déhà (Slow, Silver Knife, Wolvennest, former Dropdead Chaos among others). His skill impressively shaped the sound of the Italian artist's newest endeavor. If with "Senhal" Cristina Rombi ushered us into a world of poetry, anger and melancholy, for "Underheavens— Of Blood, Ghosts And Saltwater", the talented Italian multi-instrumentalist will take us into a very private and intimate universe equally full of pain, but painted with utterly vulnerable and existential tinges, no longer conveyed through the extremism of screams, blastbeats and distortions, but rather with impressive emotional depth and staggering transparency both in lyrical themes and musical delivery.
Cristina Explains: “To finally introduce an album I poured my heart and soul into, is something that makes me incredibly happy. Without a doubt, this is the kind of record I always wanted to make, and I’m glad My Kingdom Music is supporting me in its release.
At its core, this is an album about addiction, illness and losing a parent to AIDS during the health crisis of the 80s/early 90s. But in a broader sense, it's also about breaking cycles, finding closure, the devastating consequences of dehumanization and erasure, reckoning with life and death and what to do with the time we're granted here on Earth.
Crafting these songs and sharing these stories was something I felt the urgent need to do, and I hope you will find them worthy of your time and attention".
We are deeply proud of what is about to emerge and incredibly eager to share it with all of you.
"Underheavens— Of Blood, Ghosts And Saltwater" will be released on April 25th, 2025 via My Kingdom Music in LP, digipakCD, tape and digital format and you can pre-order at: https://t.ly/QQNTv
OF THE MUSES is intimate, emotional and unique Art.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
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Forming in 2016, it took VENATOR a while to get going, but when they finally did – it was ON! In 2020, the Austrians released their debut EP, Paradiser, which DYING VICTIMS eventually put on a split LP with the late ANGEL BLADE. Those three songs were an incredibly auspicious first start, showing VENATOR as a band seemingly thawed out from 1983, so authentic and skyward was their songwriting. As the buzz began to build, it came to boil with the band’s debut album, Echoes From the Gutter. Released by DYING VICTIMS in early 2022, VENATOR’s debut album was everything a first full-length should be: a summation of demo legwork, but an equally concerted strive for new & greater heights. Electricity was positively bristling from every second of the record; stunningly addicting, one anthem after another was doled out in seemingly effortless fashion, showing VENATOR as young masters of melody and moodiness.
Following the release of Echoes From the Gutter, VENATOR made good on their street-level charm by hitting any new stage they could, heavily gigging first with labelmates MEGATON SWORD in 2023 and then with labelmates TOXIKULL last year. That increased charisma spills over into their second album, Psychodrome. Indeed, with a title and cover like that, Psychodrome builds an era-specific atmosphere that’s “on brand” for a vintage-savvy band like VENATOR – but such sometimes-superficial moves would all be for naught if they didn’t have the SONGS to back them up! And back ‘em up, VENATOR do here, showing ever more sides to their sonic arsenal whilst sounding characteristically themselves. Much of LP#2 punches forward to a cruising mid-tempo – fist-shaking, for sure, but never overly speedy – while some other songs dip into tempos both faster and slower. But no matter the speed, VENATOR quickly and compellingly establish mood and almighty MELODY: street-level as before, but with that heart-on-sleeve passion that puts this into a realm all its own – one that’s authentically mid ‘80s heavy metal heroism in one sense, but strangely refreshing in another. Frontman Hans Huemer once again rallies the warriors with a performance that’s rough and emotive in equal measure, while the rest of his bandmates sharpen their swords with slightly more clarity and spit-shine those godly HOOKS to deadly levels. A lateral development from their almighty debut, then, but another modern classic in the making!
Just like that debut LP, anyone pining for the 1983/’84 peak of the likes of Tokyo Blade, Grim Reaper, OZ, Witch Cross, Heavy Load, and even Judas Priest, here again do you have a band adding to that hallowed lineage rather than plagiarizing it – or perhaps moving the calendar year to 1985, fucking CLASSIC either way. VENATOR command you to enter their Psychodrome!
Line-up:
Jakob Steidl - Drums
Anton Holzner - Guitars
Leon Ehrengruber - Guitars
Hans Huemer - Vocals
Stefan Glasner - Bass
From Linz, Austria
Artwork:
Hans Huemer
Release date:
25th April 2025
Tracks
1 Into the Drome
2 Steal the Night
3 Children of the Beast
4 Ravening Angel
5 The Final Call
6 Radar
7 Race to Glory
8 Dynamite
9 Fear the Light
10 Astral Seduction
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on beige vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
Limited Box set on pink vinyl, with insert, A1 sized poster, sticker, post card, woven patch, silkscreened backpatch, metal pin, posterflag, vinyl slipmat and download code.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
MC edition with sticker, button, download code.
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Exist in Ruin is an Epic Symphonic Melodic Death Metal project founded by guitarist/songwriter, Teren.
He recruits world-class artists from around the globe to make his dark musical vision a reality.
Exist
in Ruin EP musicians include:Teren: USA - Guitar, bass, lyrics, songwriter/composition
Jonah Weingarten: USA - Orchestra (Pyramaze, Aries descendant)
César Moreira: Portugal - Brutal Male Vocals (Enblood, Cult Burial)
Jessy Christ: France - Soprano and Brutal Female Vocals (Usquam)
João Miguel: Portugal - Guitar Solos (Enblood)
Konstantin Raydovski: Bulgaria - Guitar Solos (Session guitarist)
Sebastian Bracht: Germany - A Cappella metal choir Vocals (Sophicide)
www.youtube.com/existinruin
www.existinruin.com
www.facebook.com/existinruin
Exist in Ruin bridges continents and genres, crafting a sound that is as expansive as it is devastating.
DIATHEKE – “…AND THE WORD WAS GOD”
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease Date: March 21st 2025
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
For fans of: Ne Obliviscaris | Cynic | Black Crown Initiate | Ihsahn
Into the Void came light; out of the emptiness came endless fields of glittering stars, gleaming like gems upon black velvet beneath the impossible, towering nebulae - terrifying in their staggering grandeur and beauty. Drawn from the absolute silence, the galaxies were born and within their infinite intricacies, their splendour beyond comprehension, the first whispers of the miracle of life were heard amongst the heavens. With a word the first moments of time began to fall through the hourglass of existence…
Formed from the ashes of Citadel back in 2017, progressive death metal band Diatheke’s full length debut is a concept album that attempts to tell the biblical story of existence; from the first moments of creation to the last dark days of humanity and the redemption that lies beyond. It’s an incredibly ambitious project, but the music that the band have crafted is as staggering and monumental as their chosen subject matter. From the opening bars of ‘The Creator’, invoking the breathtaking immensity of the universe, to the exhilarating, triumphant and celebratory conclusion of ‘The Coronation’ …And The Word Is God immerses the listener in the most incredible sensory overload of complex, expansive and imaginative progressive death metal. There is so much to explore within the borders of this daunting record that you will be making new discoveries with every listen for years to come. While ‘The Deceiver’ drowns you in darkness with its jarring attack – vocal virulence and power, jagged and dangerous riffs with a discordant edge and a sense of threat rising up through the domineering drum attack, ‘The Redeemer’ (featuring a guest vocal performance from Jake Potter of Crucify The Flesh) is a self-contained symphony, resplendent in different shades, hues and colours, alive with emotion and drama. The playing throughout is remarkable and the overall listening experience is draining, bewildering, intensely challenging but richly rewarding. Relentlessly multifaceted, …And The Word Is God is a magnificent musical achievement.
Meticulously mixed and mastered by Hunter Shaw and Sam Striker of Native Darkness Productions, with carefully curated artwork and design by Daniel Hambright of Elynia Productions and Gragoth of Luciferium War Graphics, every element of …And The Word Was God is of the very highest quality. Upon its release by the renowned Rottweiler Records, on March 21st, it will set incredible standards for all extreme and progressive music that will follow in its wake. Diatheke dared to dream with this album and achieved so much more than anyone could have imagined or expected.
Line-up:
John Wesley - Bass/Vocals
Peter Watson - Vocals
Dallas McNeely - Guitars
Michael Osborn – Drums/Vocals
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/diathekemusic
PEST
RECORDS
proudly announces the signing of WURMIAN, a French one-man
Melodic Death/Doom act, for the release of its debut album, "IMMEMORIAL
SHRINE", scheduled for April 6th, 2024.Founded in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 2024, Wurmian is a project deeply rooted in the old-school Melodic Death/Doom tradition, drawing inspiration from seminal ’90s acts such as Katatonia, October Tide, Amorphis, Horrified, and elements reminiscent of Edge of Sanity and early In Flames. Behind this new endeavor is Antoine Scholtes, known for his acclaimed solo project Inherits the Void, where he carved out a name in the Melodic/Atmospheric Black Metal scene. With Wurmian, he now channels his creativity into a different yet equally emotive sonic realm, blending melody and brutality to craft an immersive and introspective experience.
"Immemorial Shrine" presents seven haunting compositions that transport listeners into isolated, desolate landscapes, reflecting themes of solitude and existential fear. While deeply influenced by the melancholic and crushing essence of ’90s Death/Doom, the album also integrates a modern touch, offering a dynamic interplay between ethereal melodies and rhythmic intensity drawn from Death Metal. The result is a rich and layered listening experience that remains nostalgic yet forward-thinking, appealing to both long-time genre enthusiasts and newer audiences alike.
Prepare to embark on this melancholic and immersive journey when "Immemorial Shrine" is unleashed on April 6th, 2024, via Pest Records. More details, including pre-order links and track previews, will be revealed soon!
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/wurmian.band/
PAGAN ALTAR are the very definition of a CULT band. Formed in 1978, during the early days of the influential NWOBHM movement, they honed their craft onstage with an eerie, dramatic presentation. And yet, the PAGAN ALTAR sound tended more toward doom metal – which, back then, was not quite yet a subgenre with its own aesthetics – but also infused with their native English folk as well as hard rock. Still, the world outside the UK would not know about the band until years after their dissolution, with the 1998 release of Volume 1, PAGAN ALTAR’s debut album recorded in 1982. Thereafter, the cult of PAGAN ALTAR would begin to grow, and a whole new fanbase hungry for old sounds waited for any sign of uncovered gold.
In 2004, treasures aplenty began to appear. First was The Time Lord EP, which dated back to PAGAN ALTAR’s very earliest days, and later that year came the full-length Lords of Hypocrisy, whose material was originally recorded during 1982-1984 but was re-recorded in 2004: past to present, the band was indeed active again! A year later, the full-length Judgement of the Dead arrived, featuring material written between 1978 and 1981 and recorded in 1982 but remastered in 1998; a bonus track recorded in 2004 was added, again bringing past to present. Past and present truly collided on 2006’s monolithic Mythical & Magical – truly, a perfect description of PAGAN ALTAR at the height of their mesmerizing powers – which featured material spanning 1977-1983 but recorded over the course of 2005 and 2006. Thereafter, only two new songs would emerge for a while – one on a split with Jex Thoth in 2007, the other in 2011 – before, tragically, founding vocalist Terry Jones’ death from cancer in 2015. However, before his death and led by his son and co-founding guitarist Alan, the band had been working on another album, which would later be finished and released in 2017 as The Room of Shadows.
Miraculously, The Room of Shadows proved not to be the band’s epitaph, as PAGAN ALTAR defy time and return with Never Quite Dead – a “new” record in theory, but one bearing the imprint of the past, particularly with Terry Jones’ unmistakable touch. On vocals here is Brendan Radigan, who true metallers will know from Magic Circle, Sumerlands, Savage Oath, and tons more. His somber, ever-so-poignant tones pay reverence to the prevailing PAGAN ALTAR sound whilst putting a distinctive touch upon Never Quite Dead. As Alan Jones details within the album’s liner notes, nearly all the songs on the album – barring the closer “Kismet,” which came as a precursor to Alan’s band Malac’s Cross in the early ‘90s – originated while Terry was still alive, and thus does Never Quite Dead remain an authentically PAGAN ALTAR album. From the Rainbow-rocking opener “Saints and Sinners” on to trad-doom juggernauts like “Liston Church” and “The Dead’s Last March” to the emotional climax of the aforementioned “Kismet,” pretty much every aspect of PAGAN ALTAR is covered in incredibly compelling fashion…even the folk instrumental “Westbury Express,” keeping the mythical & magical alive. Never Quite Dead? You better believe it!
Line-up:
Brendan Radigan - Vocals
Alan Jones - Guitars
Diccon Harper - Bass
Andy Green - Drums
Denis Schneider - Guitars (Live)
From London/UK - Boston/USA
Release date:
25th April 2025
Tracklist1 Saints and Sinners
2 Liston Church
3 Madame M'Rachel
4 Madame M'Rachel's Grave
5 Well of Despair
6 The Dead's Last March
7 Westbury Express
8 Kismet
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card and download code.
Special edition on silver vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, post card, download code and patch.
Limited Box set on marbled vinyl, with insert, A1 sized poster, sticker, post card, woven patch, silkscreened backpatch, metal pin, posterflag, vinyl slipmat and download code.
CD edition with sticker and obi.
MC edition with sticker, button, download code.
T-Shirt, printed on Gildan Heavy Cotton
woven patch
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
"Hunger
of Your Deceased Deity" plunges listeners into a visceral and haunting
narrative. A thousand wanderers trudge through a desolate valley under
ominous skies, skeletal remains to mark their path. Starving and desperate,
they fall prey to Yzanthu, “The Crow”, a rotting avian monstrosity feasting for
the first time in centuries. Soldiers and clerics are powerless against its
might, as chaos erupts with The Soulless joining the carnage. Amid the
slaughter, the herd fractures—some fleeing under Mattendas’ lead, while others
are driven north to Hedon, where The Stag awaits to claim their souls as part
of Yzanthu’s dark design."Hunger of Your Deceased Deity" plunges listeners into a visceral and haunting narrative. A thousand wanderers trudge through a desolate valley under ominous skies, skeletal remains to mark their path. Starving and desperate, they fall prey to Yzanthu, “The Crow”, a rotting avian monstrosity feasting for the first time in centuries. Soldiers and clerics are powerless against its might, as chaos erupts with The Soulless joining the carnage. Amid the slaughter, the herd fractures—some fleeing under Mattendas’ lead, while others are driven north to Hedon, where The Stag awaits to claim their souls as part of Yzanthu’s dark design.
Yzanthu had long watched from afar, targeting a gem within the human settlement. Identifying Ghale, a skilled Luminary Ritualist, as the ideal pawn to control Lurkers and humans, it corners her with an ultimatum: surrender and lead its legion to Grocinia, or face annihilation. Ghale accepts, sparing the survivors and ending The Crow’s feast.
The track’s grim tale expands the rich fantasy lore Ophidian Memory has meticulously crafted, setting the stage for Carrion Lord's broader themes of power, corruption, and survival in a brutal world.
Carrion Lord: A Monument of Growth and Darkness
Ophidian Memory’s upcoming album, Carrion Lord, represents a bold leap forward. It blends their signature melodic aggression with deep narrative immersion. Introducing new realms, characters, and factions, the album bridges the worlds of epic fantasy and melodic brutality. Fans of story-driven metal and dark, atmospheric soundscapes will find themselves captivated by this next chapter of the band’s saga.
https://ophidianmemory.bandcamp.com/
www.instagram.com/ophidianmemory
Sentient
Ruin is proud to announce that at last, SUTEKH HEXEN'S earliest
tracks from their first three legendary demos (2010's "Constellation", "Ritualistic" and "Altars”),
plus the "Order of Nine" single, get finally mastered for
the first time ever (courtesy of death industrial master Grant Richardson)
and released on vinyl and CD also for the first time ever, consolidated into a
singular assault of unrivaled raw black metal/noise mastery and consecrated
into a definitive document of unwavering sonic disembodiment. The seven
primeval spells here finally reproposed in their definitive form represent the
earliest (and for some, favorite) stylistic incarnation of the band, when their
horrific output was violently synthesized from a miasmatic vortex of feral raw
black metal and scorching harsh noise, immersed into a cryptic plasma of
suffocating ambience and wretched incantations.When the sinister Californian black noise sect first emerged in San Francisco around 2010 with these initial soul-disintegrating hexes, their evident greatness instantly reverberated with massive waves throughout the underground, leading to the birth of a revered cult that would dominate American abstract black metal, power ambient and blackened electronics for years to come. These debut recordings not only crowned Sutekh Hexen as absolute masters of their craft, but also established a formula that has remained imitated and definitive beyond purely experimental circles for years, ordaining the infamous black noise style into a coherent new movement that is revered and thriving to this day.
Tracks 1-2 originally self-released as the "Constellation" demo tape, 2010
Tracks 3-4 originally self-released as the "Ritualistic" demo tape, 2010
Track 5 originally self-released as the "Order of Nine" single, 2010
Tracks 6-7 originally self-released as the "Altars" demo tape, 2010
The "CONSTELLATION RITUALISTIC ALTARS : DEMO(N)S" compilation officially releases March 7 2025 on CD, LP, and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases. Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/sutekh-hexen-constellation-ritualistic-altars-demons
http://sentientruin.com/bands/#/sutekh-hexen
NEWS 23.2.2025
Neuigkeiten aus dem Schweinestall! PIGHEAD melden sich nach
einer knappen Dekade mit neuem Release zurück. Erscheinen soll die Sauerei am
04.04.2025 über Rising Nemesis Records. Die erste Single der EP "RELAPSE
INTO ABSURDITY" könnt ihr am 20.02.2025 auf Spotify und Youtube
auschecken. Weitere Infos findet ihr unter https://bfan.link/insidious-vows-by-spiritual-impostors
https://linktr.ee/RNRecords
Mit einer einzigartigen Mischung aus Power, Thrash und traditionellem Heavy
Metal veröffentlichen
Mit Gastauftritten von Laura Guldemond (Burning Witches) und Stu Block (Into Eternity, Ex-Iced Earth) ist “Remnants of Rapture” eine klare Absichtserklärung von Lycanthro, die als Kraft, mit der man rechnen muss, ihr Territorium markieren. Schreddernde Gitarren, einprägsame Hooks und erhebender Gesang kommen hier in einem Album zusammen, das Lycanthro mit Sicherheit und Sichtbarkeit auf die Metal-Landkarte bringen wird. Lycanthro beweisen mit jeder Note, dass das Heulen niemals stirbt, die Jagd niemals endet und die Nacht niemals still ist. IN METAL WE TRUST!
https://www.psychomanteumrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Lycanthrokills/
MAGNACULT enthüllt BLACKENED CRYSTAL, eine
brutale neue Single, die die Heuchelei und Korruption derjenigen zerreißt, die
Anspruch auf göttliche Herrschaft erheben. Die düsteren Bilder und der
ultra-heavy Song thematisieren die Manipulation der Wahrheit und den Verfall
spiritueller Integrität. Blackened Crystal symbolisiert eine Welt, in
der Täuschung herrscht und unterdrückerische Kräfte durch Lügen und Verbreitung
von Angst ihren Griff verstärken.
Textlich und musikalisch ist Blackened Crystal eine Kampflhymne. Das Skandieren von Legion dient als Aufruf zur Einheit gegen die Tyrannei, während die Anrufung von Bil-ur-sag den Kampf an alte mythologische Kräfte anknüpft. Mit seinem unerbittlichen Tempo und seiner enormen Intensität ist der Track die reine Verkörperung der für MagnaCult typischen, groovigen Aggressivität
Die Single ist mit Präzision gefertigt und enthält Schlagzeugaufnahmen, produziert von Joost van den Broek (Epica, Ayreon) und den meisterhaften Mix und Koproduktion von Matt Bayles. Bayles‘ Fachwissen, das er durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit Mastodon und Norma Jean verfeinert hat, garantiert, dass Blackened Crystal sowohl klanglich beeindruckend als auch atmosphärisch fesselnd ist und ein unvergessliches Hörerlebnis bietet.
Während sich MagnaCult auf die Veröffentlichung ihres kommenden Albums Lucis vorbereitet, bestätigt ihr neuester Track Blackened Crystal ihren Status als eine Kraft, mit der man in der europäischen Metalszene rechnen muss. MagnaCult ist mehr als nur Musik – es ist eine Bewegung. Der Kult ist auf dem Vormarsch und jetzt ist die Zeit, dabei zu sein!
https://www.facebook.com/MagnaCult/
Hi
everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here.
Next week, two demos of the cult Czech doom metal band SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION from 1997 and 2000 will be released on pressed CD for the first time!
This title is called NEARLY!
The band SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION has been active on the Czech metal scene for 28 years and last year released their eighth studio album. Only its musical style has become much more progressive over the years.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION –“ NEARLY “
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Doom metal
Release date: 28.2. 2025
Type: Jewel box + 16 page booklet
The whole recording, including information in English, is available on the YouTube channel of Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmElAegjuk&t=1938s
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/v-a-r-no-hide-to-place-35th-anniversary-edition/
Belgian Rawk n’ Roll band FAT BASTARD announces new album BARELY DRESSED with first single “NEVER TOLD ME HER NAME”.
Single
“Never Told me her Name”:
Get ready for an exciting new chapter in the Fat Bastard Discography as they prepare to release their latest single, "Never Told Me Her Name." This track promises to be a standout in their upcoming album “Barely Dressed”, blending their signature rock 'n' roll sound with fresh Mexicana influences.
"Never Told Me Her Name" tells the captivating story of a wild night with a beautiful girl, only for the protagonist to wake up and find her gone, without ever learning her name. The song's narrative is both intriguing and relatable, capturing the fleeting nature of some encounters and the lingering mystery they leave behind.
Fat Bastard has incorporated Mexicana influences into their sound, creating a unique fusion that adds a new dimension to their music. The addition of trumpets, played by Bert O'Hara from the Belgian band The O'Hara's, brings a vibrant and lively element to the track!
Formed in 2007, Fat Bastard has built a reputation for their raw and energetic rock 'n' roll style. With powerful vocals, driving rhythms and riffs, they have consistently delivered high-energy performances and authentic rock music.
"Never Told Me Her Name" showcases their versatility and willingness to experiment, pushing the boundaries of their sound while staying true to their roots.
As Fat Bastard continues to evolve and experiment with their music, "Never Told Me Her Name" marks an exciting chapter in their musical journey. This single is a perfect example of their creative prowess and willingness to take risks.
Fat Bastard explains:
‘The song was originally titled “Hole in the Wall”, about building a wall between the US and Mexico during the first Trump reign (yes, that long ago). When preproducing our records in 2023, he was “long gone” from the oval office, so we decided to change the lyrics. Now, the release will practically coincide with the start of Donald II...’.
Although the album was recorded in late 2023, we didn’t mind waiting until 2025 to release it upon the masses.
As 2025 celebrates 50 Years of Motörhead, we knew we wanted to wait as our song Mr. Rock is a tribute to the life of Lemmy, We are the (over)Killers is a song that resonates with the Motörhead discography and Tiger Queen is a love poem like we feel Lemmy would have written it.
Release:
Stay tuned for more news on the release of the upcoming album ‘Barely Dressed’, planned for a release on April 25, 2025.
The Band:
Jorn Mazet (vocals)
Kurt Pals (drums)
Geller Van Reeth (bass)
Jan Someryns (guitar)
For fans of old school Raw Rock n’ Roll music like Motörhead, Peter Pan Speedrock, …
Fat Bastard's music is defined by its relentless energy, commanding vocals, and electrifying guitar riffs. Their sound seamlessly blends the raw power of rock 'n' roll, the rebellious spirit of punk, and the intensity of heavy metal. Drawing inspiration from old school rock legends, Fat Bastard crafts a dynamic and versatile musical style that resonates with a wide range of listeners.
https://www.facebook.com/FatBastardRawk/
Over five years in the making, PHISENOMIE is the brain spawn of multi-instrumentalist Frank Lato and features drums by renowned session drummer Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted).
Get Phisenomie at https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
Featuring eight meticulously crafted tracks, Phisenomie delivers an unrelenting experience that blurs the boundaries between extreme and experimental. Each song provides a labyrinth of ferocious riffs and punishing rhythms, showcasing Lato’s visionary approach to composition. Phisenomie immerses listeners in a soundscape that is both savage and cerebral. This debut offering is more than just an album—it is a journey through the depths of the human psyche, where chaos and catharsis converge.
The artwork for Phisenomie was done by Penny Slinger with layout by Frank Lato. Photography by the legendary Peter Beste.
Tracklisting:
1) Phantasia Kataleptike
2) Sickness Unto Life
3) Vicarious Visage
4) Inner Ring
5) Black Gossamer
6) Veil of Cold
7) The Mirror
8) Despairloom
MARROWOMB is a blackened death metal project formed from the ashes of former Chicago-based bands Polyptych and Endmember in 2020. Spearheaded by mastermind Frank Lato, the artistry of MARROWOMB knows no bounds and takes an uncompromising approach to songwriting. The project takes its influences from various sources; however, the prominent focus is centered on internal conflict and struggle.
MARROWOMB opts for a simplistic approach to its lyrical content and concepts; however, this is not a surface-level entity. For those who choose to venture beyond the surface, there are rewards to seeking out additional truths, messages, and meanings within the music.
MARROWOMB is:
Frank Lato: guitars, bass, vocals, synths/programming
Kevin Paradis: drums
Guest appearances:
Greg Livas: solo on “The Mirror”
Curtis Vamarassi: solo on “Black Gossamer”
Shane Hill: solo on “Despairloom”
All guitar solos recorded by Greg Livas at Ohmstead Studios
https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
FFO: Soilwork, Ice Earth, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.
Hailing from the Northeastern U.S. (NY & PA), Severed Angel has toiled in the underground for several years, self-releasing their first two albums, yet still managing to reach high levels of success. The band's sophomore album, Skyward, entered the Top 10 on on the Metal Contraband chart and the Top 25 on the NAAC Top 30 Heavy chart.
In late 2024, the band signed to No Life 'Til Metal Records, to release third album When Eternity Ends internationally. "We do not like to repeat ourselves," says lead guitarist, Lou Mavs. "Yes, we have a set idea on what Severed Angel is suppose to sound like, but we never want to sacrifice melody or a good idea. Skyward was an evolution from our self-titled debut, and When Eternity Ends is a further evolution of Skyward. We are proud to partner up with No Life 'Til Metal Records for the release of When Eternity Ends, an album I think metal fans are hungry for."
When Eternity Ends is packaged in a jewel case with a 12-page booklet containing lyrics, liner notes, and plenty of band photos.
Track
Listing:
1. The Fall of Rain
2. Through the Eyes of Time
3. Cry Out to the World
4. Shed
5. Like Lightning
6. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
7. The Demon's Alive
8. In My Skin
9. One Life to Live
10. When Eternity Ends
Credits:
Produced by Alex Repetti and Severed Angel.
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Repetti.
Mastered by Joel Wanasek.
All songs written by Severed Angel.
Artwork by Aleh Zielankievi.
Gail Bourque - Vocals on “The Fall of Rain.”
Alex Repetti - Programming on "The Fall of Rain."
Line-up:
Alex Repetti - Vocals, Guitar
Lou Mavs - Guitar
George Dimitri - Bass
Marc Muchnik - Keyboards
Wayne Noon - Drums
Bio:
In 2018, drummer Wayne Noon started the Rat Salad Review network to promote his favorite bands and have fun with a podcast that provides insight to the metal bands that the mainstream media are unaware of. Some of those bands included Timeless Haunt (PA), The Nightmare Stage (NY), Infinite Spectrum (NY), and Tension Rising (NY).
As the original drummer for Phoenix Reign, a NYC-based power metal band, they released an album called Destination Unknown, and toured around the tri-state area. Their final show was at the Gramercy Theater in NYC opening for international recording artists Epica.
In 2019, guitarist Lou Mavs started his podcast (Music Is Life Podcast) discussing his opinions and experience as a musician. Wayne and Lou were friends from the time Phoenix Reign was playing shows in Lou’s native Queens, NY, and Wayne asked Lou if his podcast would join Rat Salad Review as a show on the network, to which he did.
In late 2020, Wayne was preparing the release of his new band Project Resurrect. It was around that time that the music world suffered the loss of Edward Van Halen. Lou and Wayne suggested that they cover a Van Halen song as a tribute to Eddie, and enlisted the services of Timeless Haunt bassist George Dimitri and Thrash Or Die/Combat vocalist Ralph Viera. The cover was released to positive responses. 2021 saw the release of Project Resurrect’s False Reality CD and Rat Salad Review & Friends’ Cover Series, Part 1 EP.
In early 2022, Wayne suggested forming a new original band with Lou, George, The Nightmare Stage keyboardist Marc Muchnik, and Infinite Spectrum bassist/songwriter Alex Repetti (also of Tension Rising and Project SEAR), Lou provided an original demo written 12 years ago called Dogs of War, which was written as entrance music for his cousin - MMA fighter Robby Plotkin (currently a US Army Ranger). Wayne thought the song was perfect for this new project and arranged a new version of it, to which Marc and Alex wrote lyrics, and Lou re-recorded his parts. Upon completion of the song, it was official - Severed Angel was born.
Their debut CD was written, recorded, mixed and mastered within three months. In that time, Severed Angel started working on more material, many of which were released as singles: “A Fate Worse Than Death,” “Run and Hyde,” “Bump In The Night,” and “Mt. Cyanide.” Their self-titled debut CD was released on May 2, 2023.
Severed Angel's second album, Skyward, was released on May 3, 2024 through Bandcamp.
https://www.facebook.com/SeveredAngelBand/
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to unleash the new release from Washington DC's extreme Hardcore Death Grinding warriors CRUSHUMAN. BESIDES is up now for pre-order and will be released March 14th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of : Napalm Death, Terrorizer, early Fear Factory, Obituary, Slayer and Voivod.
After the highly acclaimed self-titled debut album, CrusHuman returns with nine scorching tracks of raw, savage, Grinding metal. Unleashing the same intensity and brutality as the full-length, Besides was recorded from the same recording session as the album—an extreme concoction of Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore, and Punk chaos!
Listen to the single "Apeasement To The Frauds" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjoLbGVCr0
Tracklisting:
1. Select Sacrifice
2. Waiting For A Savior
3. Dead End Suffering
4. Apeasement To The Frauds
5. Blue Static
6. Choke Point
7. Choose Violence
8. God Helmet
9. The Human Reptile Experiment
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
"In The Midst of May" will be available February 21 on all digital platforms.
DESSIDERIUM enters a new chapter with their forthcoming release for Willowtip Records, its first for the label. New album Keys to the Palace will be released on CD, double-vinyl gatefold LP, and digital formats on March 14.
Sole member and founder, Alex Haddad, shared his thoughts about Keys to the Palace: "This album was ten plus years in the making. A lot of the material here actually precedes that of the two previous releases. Completing this record means giving closure to this era of Dessiderium that has spanned across my twenties, and I see it as a well suited final chapter to this period. The two previous albums, Shadow Burn and Aria, provided no happy ending. They were both about defeat in their own way. Keys to the Palace reaches for triumph. This is an album about time travel that explores the polarity between past and future, innocence and disillusion, faith and despair, and adolescence and adulthood."
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/keys-willowtip
https://bit.ly/keys-bandcamp
Track Listing:
1. In The Midst Of May
2. Dover Hendrix
3. Pollen For The Bees
4. A Dream That Wants Me Dead
5. Magenta
6. Keys To The Palace
Credits:
All music and words written by Alex Haddad.
Produced by Alex Haddad.
Guitars, bass, vocals, keyboard, and orchestrations/synthesizers by Alex Haddad.
Drum programming by Brody Smith.
Piano solos on "Dover Hendrix" and "Pollen For The Bees" performed by Thomas Leroy Meier.
Mixed and mastered by Mendel Bij De Leij.
Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration).
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https://www.facebook.com/p/Dessiderium-100063280476262/
Live video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2kwSmZcHa4
Hailing from Mercer County, PA, Self Inflicted delivers a relentless assault of thrash metal, drawing inspiration from the pioneers like Possessed, Obituary, Death, Atheist and Cynic. With blistering riffs, high-energy solos, and aggressive vocals, the band crafts a sound that pays homage to classic thrash while pushing boundaries with progressive songwriting and dynamic structures.
Lineup:
Jonathan Wilson – Lead Vocals & Lead Guitar
Jake Bell – Rhythm Guitar & Backup Vocals
Tyler Gaydek – Bass & Backup Vocals
Logan Gaydek – Drums
Formed in 2020 with original drummer Peter Plummer, Self Inflicted spent a year honing their sound before releasing their debut album, Death by Fire, on January 8, 2022. Following a series of lineup changes, the band solidified its current roster, leading to their most ambitious work yet—their sophomore album, Terrors of a Demented Mind, released on January 18, 2025. This record showcases their evolution, blending the raw aggression of old-school thrash with intricate riff changes, relentless solos, and a progressive edge.
A major milestone for the band was their album release show for Terrors of a Demented Mind, where they shared the stage with Whorigami and Kitchen Knife Conspiracy, marking one of their most explosive performances to date.
Based primarily in the Youngstown, Ohio metal scene, Self Inflicted frequently shares the stage with local favorites, delivering high-energy performances that keep pits raging. Despite just dropping their latest album, the band is already forging new material, keeping their momentum unstoppable.
For fans of pure, unfiltered thrash with a modern twist, Self Inflicted is a band to keep an eye on.
https://www.facebook.com/Selfinflicted2022
Italian
Black Metal act HERUKA is pleased to announce its renewed
collaboration with Rude Awakening Records for 2025. Having worked together on
multiple releases since 2020, including their latest full-length album MEMORIE,
the band is now preparing to unveil a new chapter in their musical journey.
This upcoming release will continue to explore themes of death and suffering, staying true to the band’s signature fierce yet melodic approach. More details will be revealed soon.
In the meantime, HERUKA has released a lyric video for "Francis Bacon", now available on major streaming platforms. This track will be included in the forthcoming release.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/DuRuycvA7gY
About HERUKA
Originally formed as a duo in 2000 in Sicily, HERUKA released a demo and an EP before entering a ten-year hiatus. In 2010, Adranor (guitar) relocated to Rome, where he revived the project and completed the current lineup. The band's return was marked by their debut album, Deception’s End (2018).
2025 Line-up
Nekrom – Vocals
Adranor – Guitar
Moha – Guitar
Cruz – Bass
Nemuri Shi – Drums
https://linktr.ee/rudeawakeningrecords
https://linktr.ee/herukaproject
Emerging
progressive metal visionaries BLACKLIGHT invites listeners
on an emotive journey with their introspective single “SO FAR AWAY,” a
haunting track from their upcoming conceptual album FUTURE BELONGS
To, set for release on March 21, 2025, via Wormholedeath Records.
"So Far Away" combines haunting introspection with melancholic undertones, blending themes of reflection, regret, and a longing for clarity. Its poetic ambiguity allows listeners to draw their own meanings while immersing themselves in BlackLight's signature sound—a mesmerizing fusion of soft, dark wave elements with their progressive metal roots. The track’s atmospheric instrumentation creates a deeply emotive experience that envelopes the listener, leaving a lasting impact.
"Future Belongs To" is a progressive metal conceptual album and a remarkable progressive rock album that showcases BLACKLIGHT's solid and cohesive artistry. Rich with melancholy and calm tones, it creates a versatile vibe that is perfect for any situation. Drawing inspiration from iconic acts like Opeth, Rush, Tool, Dead Can Dance, and fellow countrymen Riverside, the band weaves these influences into a unique and captivating sound that defines their identity. This album is worth discovering.
Pre-Save Future Belongs To: https://orcd.co/futurebelongsto
Formed in 2019 by Maciej Majewski, BlackLight quickly carved out a unique progressive metal sound. Their debut album, Follow the Future, recorded in Kraków’s Studio 13 and Studio Centrum, was well-received by fans and critics, leading to live performances on Antyradio's Makakofonia and other major stations.
In 2021, the band recorded their second album, River of Time, released by Metal Rock Promotion in early 2022. A lineup change in late 2023 saw drummer Stanisław Skowroński join, with Majewski taking over vocals. With this refreshed lineup, BlackLight recorded Future Belongs To, a conceptual album set for release by Wormholedeath
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Embark on a sonic journey with BlackLight — where progressive metal meets boundless imagination.
Carnage Void’s latest track, A Waking Catastrophe, is a relentless plunge into the abyss, a sonic apocalypse wrapped in crushing riffs and existential dread. With lyrics that paint a vivid picture of humanity’s self-inflicted ruin, the song is both anthemic and harrowing, a requiem for a world collapsing under its own weight.
From the shattering skies of the opening verse to the gut-wrenching breakdowns, the track drips with despair and fury. Lines like "We dug a hole through our hearts with a sin" and "Bury your hope in a coffin of stone" evoke a sense of hopelessness, while the chorus erupts into a searing lament for all that’s been lost. The instrumentation is just as punishing—pummeling drums, razor-sharp guitar work, and visceral vocals that range from desperate wails to guttural roars.
The song’s climax, a "symphony of ruin ripping at the seams," delivers a final, crushing blow, leaving listeners staring into the void alongside the band. If A Waking Catastrophe proves anything, it’s that Carnage Void isn’t just making music—they’re crafting the soundtrack to the end of days.
Brace yourself. This one hits like a tidal wave of pure devastation.
Biography
Fueled by determination and an unyielding passion for extreme metal, Carnage Void emerged from the heart of Tehran, Iran. Since their formation, the band has unleashed two blistering singles—Let the Heartless Win and their latest release, Let There Be Carnage.
In a country where freedom of speech and artistic expression face relentless opposition, Carnage Void was born from a defiant dream: to create music that is as extreme and uncompromising as the realities they face. Longtime friends and musicians, who had played together in various projects, came together amidst economic and political turmoil to forge a new path. Against all odds, Carnage Void took shape, channeling their struggles into a raw, uncompromising sonic force.
Their name carries deep significance. Void—an absence of matter stretching across vast cosmic distances—symbolizes the emptiness left by conflict, oppression, and meaningless destruction. Paired with Carnage, it reflects their outright rejection of war, tyranny, and superstition. In the end, all violence and oppression lead to the same fate—an abyss of nothingness. Carnage Void stands as a voice against that emptiness, delivering brutal yet purposeful music in defiance of a world that seeks to silence them.
Carnage Void are:
Nikan Nasim
Emin Aghajani
Ashkan Seifi
Mohammadreza Rezai
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https://www.facebook.com/carnage.void/
Label: Rottweiler
Records/Independent Release
Release Date: March 22nd 2025
Genre: Heavy And Western
For fans of: ZZ Top | Johnny Cash | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 38 Special
It’s been ten years since The Comancheros started rolling along the blacktop highways, under the star dusted skies, carrying their hard rocking anthems and heartfelt ballads from the cities to the deserts, the forests to the sea. Bringing cowboys to the bars and broken hearted ghosts to their campfire, the years have passed in moments since their journey began back in 2015. Then suddenly there was a decade in that rearview mirror, stretching out behind them in miles and stories, drinks and songs…
To celebrate the first ten years of an adventure which shows no signs of reaching an end, The Comancheros have compiled an album of tracks that demonstrate the heart-on-the-sleeve emotion of their music; as diverse as life and as dark as the longest nights, as honest as tears and proud in their own skin…defiant, unbreakable, rebellious to the last breath. A Decade In The Mirror brings together songs never released before in a physical format, limited edition EPs whose CD runs have long since sold out, rarities from split cassette editions and live tracks that have never been made available before. Every aspect of The Comancheros’ spirit in all its raw grit and glory, from the dancing riffs and ZZ Top boogie of ‘Crazy As Hell’ to the melancholy reflection in the shadow of the gallows of ‘Don’t Forget My Name’, the gentle balladry of ‘I Stare At Trains’ to the smooth melodies, hard guitars and exuberance of ‘We Own The Night’. Perhaps what permeates all The Comancheros music more than anything else, all of A Decade In The Mirror from the laidback Americana of opener ‘The Day George Jones Died’ to the final whiskey salute of ‘If I Could Pick A Way To Go’ recorded live in Spain, is the untarnished honesty of expression that runs through it all like blood. Bringing together influences from southern rock, pure country and American folk ballads that stretch their roots deep into the past, The Comancheros have found their own definition of their unique sound – Heavy and Western – and that’s what you’ll find on A Decade In The Mirror.
On March 22nd Rottweiler Records will release the digital version of A Decade In The Mirror, while The Comancheros will be taking the traditional path, launching the album in CD format with a special show at The Basement in Nashville on the same day. Whichever format is right for you, just make sure you listen to A Decade In The Mirror and discover the sound of Heavy and Western, the sound of The Comancheros!
Line-up:
Tanner Jones - Vocals/Guitar
Jon Green - Vocals/Bass
R. Michael Cook- Drums
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/comancherosband
Official video realized by Alex Mercatali for Felkar Studio available at https://youtu.be/aEcj8uTVzVU
Style: Post Metal with elements of Black Metal, Electronic, Post Rock and Progressive
Similar artists: Cult Of Luna, Isis, Russian Circle and God Is An Astronaut
Born from the ashes of IN TORMENTATA QUIETE, EDYAKARAN with "Pantheon" give life to a musical narration exploring ancient worlds and modern sonorities with Post Metal, Avantgarde Black Metal, Progressive and Noise being the guidelines of this journey in a way which can be similar in nature and originality to that of bands like Cult Of Luna, Isis, Russian Circles and God Is An Astronaut.
The result is an extreme and delirious album at the same time and EDYAKARAN will be the absolute protagonists of this new journey.
You can Pre-Order "Pantheon" in digipakCD format at: https://t.ly/cN7If
Line-up:
Lorenzo Rinaldi (guitars)
Francesco Paparella (drums)
Antonio Ricco (keyboards)
Matteo Meli (bass)
Special guest:
Simone Lanzoni
Gregory Sobrio and Irene Petitto (vocals)
Marco Beccati (growl vocals)
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.instagram.com/edyakaran/
Spanish/American Progressive Metal duo, DISSOCIA, featuring members of Persefone and Wormed, have joined forces with No Clean Singing for the video premiere of "SAMSARA," the second single from forthcoming album, TO LIFT THE VEIL. Click below to check it out!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/02/19/an-ncs-video-premiere-dissocia-samsara/
"Samsara" will be out February 21 on all digital platforms.
Willowtip Records will release To Lift The Veil March 21 on digital, CD, and vinyl LP formats.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/veil-willowtip
https://bit.ly/veil-bandcamp
DISSOCIA enters the mind of multi-instrumentalist Daniel R. Flys (Persefone, Eternal Storm) as the sonic landscape between two realms: the conscious and the unconscious. With ferocious and convoluted riffs, dreamy synths, extreme and subtle clean vocals, we enter this in-between world backed by Gabriel Valcázar's (Wormed, Cancer) chaotic and groove drumming and Paul R. Flys' cinematic violin layers.
Mixed and mastered by the prestigious Ukrainian engineer Max Morton (Jinjer, Ignea, Shokran), To Lift The Veil is a concept album that serves as a metaphor for being a growing seed in an asphalted world. DISSOCIA makes an effort to blend extreme metal with synthwave and dreamwave elements to create a fine progressive blend that is catchy and yet unpredictable to the listener. Further developing this mood, the stunning and oneiric artwork created by Rein Van Oyen (Haken) captures the lights and shadows present on the dynamic songwriting and all the contrasts found on the duo's debut.
Track
Listing:
1. Existentialist
2. He Who Dwells
3. Samsara
4. Zenosyne
5. The Lucifer Effect
6. Evasion
7. Out of Slumber
Credits:
Daniel R. Flys - Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Synths
Gabriel Valcázar - Drums
Guest violins performed by Paul R. Flys (track 7).
Additional post-production by Max Morton and Alex Tena.
Written by Daniel R. Flys.
Produced by Daniel R. Flys.
Drums recorded by Carlos Santos at Sadman Studio.
Vocals recorded by Alex Tena.
Vocals and violins recorded by Carlos Rodríguez.
Mixed and mastered by Max Morton at Morton Studio.
Design and layout by Rein Van Oyen.
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https://www.facebook.com/dissociaofficial
SKAPHOS - “CULT OF UZURA”
For
fans of: Mgla, Crypts
of Despair, Obscureviolence, Behemoth, Dead Congregation, Saevus Finis, Shrine
of Denial, Belphegor
"Cult of Uzura" sees the dedicated French death/black metal band Skaphos fleshing out their sound on their third album - first on a label - to become more expressive and impactful than ever before. At this point, their proficiency is undeniable and their sound is a beautiful rendering of the two extreme styles, spiked with mean dissonance and steeped in an aura of mysticism. The execution remains ruthless and forceful despite showing subtlety in the emotive passages and deftness in the tempo changes. The gnarly death and black metal rawness is palpable even after having their disparate elements congealed on this album and the sound is more powerful than can be conceived for an album having this level of expression. In addition, the alternating contrast of chunky riffing with acerbic parts creates a lasting impression on the listener. This is a remarkable album in the death/black metal style that has actual substance along with the right aesthetics and sound.
Line up
Stephan Petitjean - Guitar & vocals
Jeremy Tronyo - Guitar & backing vocals
Theo Langlois - Bass & backing vocals
Nathan Faure - Drums
Artwork by Paolo Girardi
Track listing
1. Cult of Uzura
2. One Eyed Terror
3. Mad Man and the Sea
4. Hypoxia
5. Abyssal Tower
6. Echoes of the Drowned
7. Of Shores and Dripping Souls
8. Skaphism
9. The Servant
10. The Alchemist
11. The Offering
12. Diluvian Sentence
13. All Shall Be Now Itself the Sea
Release date - May 9th, 2025
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
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https://www.facebook.com/skaphosofficiel
Label: Naturmacht Productions
Release Date: February 28th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric/Melodic Black Metal
For fans of: Emperor | Fuath | Saor | Drudkh
From a place of certainty and strength, a life built upon an assumed understanding and enriched with happiness, I was flung violently into a maelstrom of chaos and madness. My light was gone and all I knew was shattered. Every truth had become a lie in the space between one breath and the next, a complete inversion of all I knew to be right. I thought I had understood the meaning of sadness, of pain, what it was to be alone…I had understood nothing. I had walked in sunlit ignorance, never seeing the crevasses that split my path. But now I was falling, falling through darkness, barely able to breathe let alone order my scattered thoughts or comprehend the agony that threatened to tear my heart apart and consume me…
After the universal critical acclaim garnered by their debut album, Time Held Me Grey And Dying, Wales’ most imaginative and creative practitioners of black metal’s dark arts have returned. With the stated intent of crafting their country’s ‘most ambitious and uncompromising extreme metal album to date’ they have offered up the many splendored Valediction, an album that charts the journey through grief – from initial trauma to final acceptance or endless sorrow. Before listening you may feel their goal a lofty one, after listening you’ll know that they have achieved more than they dared to dream possible. With opening track and first single, ‘The Shattering’, we embark on a harrowing journey, as rich in musical wonders as it is in the realisation of painful emotion. We are flung into a tumult of events – hit with crunching impact and spun through webs of confusion and bewilderment. The music hollows us, savagely carving away the structure and solidity of our lives. Superb, melodious guitar work creates pools of reflective stillness within the storm and this moment where a life changes course forever seems to stretch into eternity. As the album progresses classic black metal forms are masterfully manipulated, coaxed into new exhilarating and breathtaking edifices. The vast storm clouds of grief gather behind the cold, ugliness of denial and the grand, dramatic flame of anger. ‘Proteus’ leads us through the huge peaks and troughs of emotion, the false hopes and despair of bargaining with higher powers. And here the spirit of pain that has been waiting implacably in the wings begins to rise to the surface. There is an overwhelming sense of tragedy in the melody lines as ‘Proteus’ nears its conclusion, the awful futility of the situation becoming clear. Mourning strings cut deep as ‘Zenith Dolour’ drags us down into the deepest trenches of depression and melancholy, its contrasts and juxtapositions of sound reflecting the different hues of sadness; the life sapping despair, the jagged agony, the seemingly insurmountable intensity of grief. Perhaps the greatest piece to grace Valediction comes in its title track – a song of acceptance that is wonderfully measured, like sunlight slowly breaking over the dark hills on a distant horizon, with individual note choices marking the telling moments as the realisation of the possibility of a new, different future dawns. The balance of bittersweet farewell and the reclaiming of a life beyond pain is a remarkable accomplishment. Of course we are in the realms of black metal here so Ofnus provide us with an alternate ending in ‘Alazia’ – a reminder that some will never find acceptance, their wheel of life will cease to turn and leave them trapped in rage, agony and darkness. It’s a vicious conclusion, infused with fear and oppressive darkness, with forbidding chord progressions leading ever downwards into night. It’s an incredible, shocking end to a breathtaking album.
Since the release of Time Held Me Grey And Dying Ofnus have performed live alongside the likes of Arkona, Wayfarer, The Infernal Sea and many more, even performing at the 2023 Bloodstock Festival – and every single second of those experiences have been drawn upon to make Valediction the outstanding album that it is. The mixing and mastering team of William Philpot and Abraham Fihema who worked such magic on Time Held Me Grey And Dying, have been trusted again and the sound they have achieved on Valediction is a superb – accommodating the layers and textures, the array of moods and atmospheres and the subtly shifting and developing sonic palette. The artwork of Ben J that adorns the cover of Valediction is another absolute triumph, completing and complementing the songs beneath its evocative shroud. When Naturmacht Productions release Valediction on February 28th there can be little doubt that Ofnus will begin an irresistible ascent to the very highest echelons of black metal.
Line-up:
William Philpot - Vocals/Lyrics
Richard Rees - Bass
Alyn Hunter - Rhythm Guitar/Composer
James Ponsford - Lead Guitar
Ethan Rees-Spargo - Drums/Lyrics
https://naturmacht.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ofnus
Pioneers of the Italian Death/Black scene, MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL have now reached the milestone of 30 years of career, and above all a level of maturity and professionalism that has no equal. They give life with their music to a personal musical style crossing different emotional states between the whole panorama of the Extreme Metal from the fury and the aggression of Death Metal to the dark and malignant essence of Black Metal, from the Symphonic and Progressive elements of their arrangements to the macabre and horrifying Gothic Metal, all built on an extremely powerful and clear production, daughter of the Lost Soul Studios led by Buzz himself.
"SONGS FROM THE RESTLESS OBLIVION" also gives us the opportunity to present the new line-up with Noxifer (drums) and the historic leader Buzz (guitar and vocals) who welcome the new elements Dysphoria (keyboards) and Taz (bass) to the band.
Those who have always loved the band will be absolutely enraptured by the new songs while for those who don't know them yet, just consider that if ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILITY and CRADLE OF FILTH are part of your favorite bands, "Songs From The Restless Oblivion" will be a mandatory listening!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
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Crown of Madness are doing something different in the dissonant death metal space by giving their music an emotional quality. It's wistful, poignant and even hauntingly atmospheric. No Clean Singing premiered a gorgeous track which can be found at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/12/26/an-ncs-premiere-crown-of-madness-ashes-of-mine/
Excerpt - "talent for crafting death metal that’s both dissonant and melodic, both technically impressive and intriguing in its prog-minded permutations"
CROWN OF MADNESS - “MEMORIES FRAGMENTED”
For
fans of
- Ulcerate, Devenial Verdict, Dysgnostic, Gorguts
Crown of Madness have put out a slew of short-form releases, improving upon their sound with each one and culminating in this full length that sees the most evolved version of their music so far. As accomplished as it is, it also happens to be unique in the style of dissonant death metal - in that, it's deeply personal and palpably emotive, and that poignant, introspective mood pervades their entire album. The music almost has a melodic albeit melancholic quality to it that is refreshing for a style of music that usually sounds harsh and detached. At the same time the music is driven; the hypnotic riffs are invariably interspersed with bursts of blasts and there is good momentum generated in this calculated, undulating pattern which becomes addictive. 'Memories Fragmented' is a beautifully tempered album underpinned by unforgettable melodies, an ambitious release but one completely devoid of pretence, which is bound to be regarded as one of the standout albums in the style in the years to come.
Line up:
Sunshine Schneider - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Connor Gordon - Drums
Artwork by Erskine Designs
Thank you very much!Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/crownofmadnessmetal
Genre: Black/Death Metal
Label: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 20.03.2025
Folter Records presents with pride and pleasure:
“Still Scum”. The black metal ultras of WHISKEY RITUAL are back with six roar-along anthems from the gutter. Six punky cover versions to freak out to, bursting with destructive energy and diabolically blackened - all that remains are shards and blood. And the Italian black 'n' rollers also have an important message to deliver: Fuck you!
The statement:
“We are made of memories, and we’re the last ones who will remember.
In this fast world, this scene fades away and slows down.
Dazed as Mark Renton said in his final speech, all the same, all out of breath.
And while in the streets everyone leans on posing scarecrows, we are still part of those who want to burn everything. Scarecrows included.
More Punk than Punks, as we used to say.
Never conform, always against the grain. A matter of attitude. An annoying, damned attitude to get to the end, alone and dead.
Our dedication to the survivors are the songs that brought us here.
After 15 years, we are still here to tell you fuck off, still being credible, still doing the same shit that we have written. - You don't like it? Better this way!”
The songs:
BORSTAL BREAKOUT
“Skins, Punks and Metalheads united as Ultras!”
REAL WILD CHILD
“Because we are the last true wild children. And because someone said that music is life and life is not a business.”
WE' RE COMING BACK
“Because one day we will return, and we will be only among people like us.”
GET OFF MY BACK
“For when we were just kids.”
MONGOLOID
“For the bands you listen to recently.”
WHO WILL SAVE ROCK AND ROLL?
“Because ›Who will save Rock'n'Roll?‹”
Playing time and credits:
1. Borstal Breakout (2:10). Sham 69. Composers: Dave Parsons, Jimmy Pursey. Source: Sanctuary Records.
2. Real Wild Child (3:31). Iggy Pop. Composers: David Morris Owens, John Vincent Greenan, Johnny O'Keefe. Source: A&M.
3. We're Coming Back (4:02). Cock Sparrer. Source: Captain OI!
4. Get Off My Back (2:22). The Casualties. Source: SideOneDummy Records.
5. Mongoloid (3:25). Devo. Composer: Gerald V Casale. Source: Virgin Records.
6. Who Will Save Rock And Roll? (3:18). The Dictators. Composer: Andy Shernoff. Source: Valley Entertainment.
Total: 18:50
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Nervous, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Aaron Ciesielski, emerged from a period of profound personal growth and self-discovery. Born amidst an existential crisis, "Acquiescence" is a concept album that chronicles this transformative journey, capturing the essence of rebellion, fear, and ultimately, the profound acceptance of self.
Everything about Acquiescence has been shaped by Ciesielski’s hands, from the songwriting and production to mixing, mastering, and artwork. This album is a true reflection of his vision—an uncompromising mix of black and death metal influences, intertwined with elements of classical music and progressive rock. The result is a dense, intense sound that pulls you in and holds you captive.
Acquiescence
explores a journey of rebellion against one’s nature, confronting deep fears,
and ultimately embracing harmony within oneself. The album is a reflection
of Ciesielski’s personal experiences of growing up, entering adulthood, and
accepting who he truly is.
“This album is a culmination of over five years of personal reflection and musical exploration,” says Ciesielski. “It’s an intense expression of my journey to understand myself, and I’ve poured everything into it. The music may be rooted in black and death metal, but I’ve drawn heavy inspiration from classical music, progressive rock, and cinematic soundtracks. This album is my truth, and I’m excited to share it with the world.”
Tracklist
1.Acquiescence
2. Heavy is the Head that Wears an Imaginary Crown
3. Vermin Within
4. The Will to Power
5. Fragile
6. It Didn't Start with You
7. Acquiescence II
8. River
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Mit einer einzigartigen Mischung aus Power, Thrash und traditionellem Heavy
Metal veröffentlichen Mit Gastauftritten von Laura Guldemond (Burning Witches) und Stu Block (Into Eternity, Ex-Iced Earth) ist “Remnants of Rapture” eine klare Absichtserklärung von Lycanthro, die als Kraft, mit der man rechnen muss, ihr Territorium markieren. Schreddernde Gitarren, einprägsame Hooks und erhebender Gesang kommen hier in einem Album zusammen, das Lycanthro mit Sicherheit und Sichtbarkeit auf die Metal-Landkarte bringen wird. Lycanthro beweisen mit jeder Note, dass das Heulen niemals stirbt, die Jagd niemals endet und die Nacht niemals still ist. IN METAL WE TRUST!
https://www.psychomanteumrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Lycanthrokills/
MAGNACULT enthüllt BLACKENED CRYSTAL, eine
brutale neue Single, die die Heuchelei und Korruption derjenigen zerreißt, die
Anspruch auf göttliche Herrschaft erheben. Die düsteren Bilder und der
ultra-heavy Song thematisieren die Manipulation der Wahrheit und den Verfall
spiritueller Integrität. Blackened Crystal symbolisiert eine Welt, in
der Täuschung herrscht und unterdrückerische Kräfte durch Lügen und Verbreitung
von Angst ihren Griff verstärken.Textlich und musikalisch ist Blackened Crystal eine Kampflhymne. Das Skandieren von Legion dient als Aufruf zur Einheit gegen die Tyrannei, während die Anrufung von Bil-ur-sag den Kampf an alte mythologische Kräfte anknüpft. Mit seinem unerbittlichen Tempo und seiner enormen Intensität ist der Track die reine Verkörperung der für MagnaCult typischen, groovigen Aggressivität
Die Single ist mit Präzision gefertigt und enthält Schlagzeugaufnahmen, produziert von Joost van den Broek (Epica, Ayreon) und den meisterhaften Mix und Koproduktion von Matt Bayles. Bayles‘ Fachwissen, das er durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit Mastodon und Norma Jean verfeinert hat, garantiert, dass Blackened Crystal sowohl klanglich beeindruckend als auch atmosphärisch fesselnd ist und ein unvergessliches Hörerlebnis bietet.
Während sich MagnaCult auf die Veröffentlichung ihres kommenden Albums Lucis vorbereitet, bestätigt ihr neuester Track Blackened Crystal ihren Status als eine Kraft, mit der man in der europäischen Metalszene rechnen muss. MagnaCult ist mehr als nur Musik – es ist eine Bewegung. Der Kult ist auf dem Vormarsch und jetzt ist die Zeit, dabei zu sein!
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Hi
everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. Next week, two demos of the cult Czech doom metal band SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION from 1997 and 2000 will be released on pressed CD for the first time!
This title is called NEARLY!
The band SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION has been active on the Czech metal scene for 28 years and last year released their eighth studio album. Only its musical style has become much more progressive over the years.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION –“ NEARLY “
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Doom metal
Release date: 28.2. 2025
Type: Jewel box + 16 page booklet
The whole recording, including information in English, is available on the YouTube channel of Pařát Productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmElAegjuk&t=1938s
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/v-a-r-no-hide-to-place-35th-anniversary-edition/
Belgian Rawk n’ Roll band FAT BASTARD announces new album BARELY DRESSED with first single “NEVER TOLD ME HER NAME”.
Single
“Never Told me her Name”:Get ready for an exciting new chapter in the Fat Bastard Discography as they prepare to release their latest single, "Never Told Me Her Name." This track promises to be a standout in their upcoming album “Barely Dressed”, blending their signature rock 'n' roll sound with fresh Mexicana influences.
"Never Told Me Her Name" tells the captivating story of a wild night with a beautiful girl, only for the protagonist to wake up and find her gone, without ever learning her name. The song's narrative is both intriguing and relatable, capturing the fleeting nature of some encounters and the lingering mystery they leave behind.
Fat Bastard has incorporated Mexicana influences into their sound, creating a unique fusion that adds a new dimension to their music. The addition of trumpets, played by Bert O'Hara from the Belgian band The O'Hara's, brings a vibrant and lively element to the track!
Formed in 2007, Fat Bastard has built a reputation for their raw and energetic rock 'n' roll style. With powerful vocals, driving rhythms and riffs, they have consistently delivered high-energy performances and authentic rock music.
"Never Told Me Her Name" showcases their versatility and willingness to experiment, pushing the boundaries of their sound while staying true to their roots.
As Fat Bastard continues to evolve and experiment with their music, "Never Told Me Her Name" marks an exciting chapter in their musical journey. This single is a perfect example of their creative prowess and willingness to take risks.
Fat Bastard explains:
‘The song was originally titled “Hole in the Wall”, about building a wall between the US and Mexico during the first Trump reign (yes, that long ago). When preproducing our records in 2023, he was “long gone” from the oval office, so we decided to change the lyrics. Now, the release will practically coincide with the start of Donald II...’.
Although the album was recorded in late 2023, we didn’t mind waiting until 2025 to release it upon the masses.
As 2025 celebrates 50 Years of Motörhead, we knew we wanted to wait as our song Mr. Rock is a tribute to the life of Lemmy, We are the (over)Killers is a song that resonates with the Motörhead discography and Tiger Queen is a love poem like we feel Lemmy would have written it.
Release:
Stay tuned for more news on the release of the upcoming album ‘Barely Dressed’, planned for a release on April 25, 2025.
The Band:
Jorn Mazet (vocals)
Kurt Pals (drums)
Geller Van Reeth (bass)
Jan Someryns (guitar)
For fans of old school Raw Rock n’ Roll music like Motörhead, Peter Pan Speedrock, …
Fat Bastard's music is defined by its relentless energy, commanding vocals, and electrifying guitar riffs. Their sound seamlessly blends the raw power of rock 'n' roll, the rebellious spirit of punk, and the intensity of heavy metal. Drawing inspiration from old school rock legends, Fat Bastard crafts a dynamic and versatile musical style that resonates with a wide range of listeners.
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Over five years in the making, PHISENOMIE is the brain spawn of multi-instrumentalist Frank Lato and features drums by renowned session drummer Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted).
Get Phisenomie at https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
Featuring eight meticulously crafted tracks, Phisenomie delivers an unrelenting experience that blurs the boundaries between extreme and experimental. Each song provides a labyrinth of ferocious riffs and punishing rhythms, showcasing Lato’s visionary approach to composition. Phisenomie immerses listeners in a soundscape that is both savage and cerebral. This debut offering is more than just an album—it is a journey through the depths of the human psyche, where chaos and catharsis converge.
The artwork for Phisenomie was done by Penny Slinger with layout by Frank Lato. Photography by the legendary Peter Beste.
Tracklisting:1) Phantasia Kataleptike
2) Sickness Unto Life
3) Vicarious Visage
4) Inner Ring
5) Black Gossamer
6) Veil of Cold
7) The Mirror
8) Despairloom
MARROWOMB is a blackened death metal project formed from the ashes of former Chicago-based bands Polyptych and Endmember in 2020. Spearheaded by mastermind Frank Lato, the artistry of MARROWOMB knows no bounds and takes an uncompromising approach to songwriting. The project takes its influences from various sources; however, the prominent focus is centered on internal conflict and struggle.
MARROWOMB opts for a simplistic approach to its lyrical content and concepts; however, this is not a surface-level entity. For those who choose to venture beyond the surface, there are rewards to seeking out additional truths, messages, and meanings within the music.
MARROWOMB is:
Frank Lato: guitars, bass, vocals, synths/programming
Kevin Paradis: drums
Guest appearances:
Greg Livas: solo on “The Mirror”
Curtis Vamarassi: solo on “Black Gossamer”
Shane Hill: solo on “Despairloom”
All guitar solos recorded by Greg Livas at Ohmstead Studios
https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
FFO: Soilwork, Ice Earth, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.
Hailing from the Northeastern U.S. (NY & PA), Severed Angel has toiled in the underground for several years, self-releasing their first two albums, yet still managing to reach high levels of success. The band's sophomore album, Skyward, entered the Top 10 on on the Metal Contraband chart and the Top 25 on the NAAC Top 30 Heavy chart.
In late 2024, the band signed to No Life 'Til Metal Records, to release third album When Eternity Ends internationally. "We do not like to repeat ourselves," says lead guitarist, Lou Mavs. "Yes, we have a set idea on what Severed Angel is suppose to sound like, but we never want to sacrifice melody or a good idea. Skyward was an evolution from our self-titled debut, and When Eternity Ends is a further evolution of Skyward. We are proud to partner up with No Life 'Til Metal Records for the release of When Eternity Ends, an album I think metal fans are hungry for."
When Eternity Ends is packaged in a jewel case with a 12-page booklet containing lyrics, liner notes, and plenty of band photos.
Track
Listing:1. The Fall of Rain
2. Through the Eyes of Time
3. Cry Out to the World
4. Shed
5. Like Lightning
6. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
7. The Demon's Alive
8. In My Skin
9. One Life to Live
10. When Eternity Ends
Credits:
Produced by Alex Repetti and Severed Angel.
Mixed and Mastered by Alex Repetti.
Mastered by Joel Wanasek.
All songs written by Severed Angel.
Artwork by Aleh Zielankievi.
Gail Bourque - Vocals on “The Fall of Rain.”
Alex Repetti - Programming on "The Fall of Rain."
Line-up:
Alex Repetti - Vocals, Guitar
Lou Mavs - Guitar
George Dimitri - Bass
Marc Muchnik - Keyboards
Wayne Noon - Drums
Bio:
In 2018, drummer Wayne Noon started the Rat Salad Review network to promote his favorite bands and have fun with a podcast that provides insight to the metal bands that the mainstream media are unaware of. Some of those bands included Timeless Haunt (PA), The Nightmare Stage (NY), Infinite Spectrum (NY), and Tension Rising (NY).
As the original drummer for Phoenix Reign, a NYC-based power metal band, they released an album called Destination Unknown, and toured around the tri-state area. Their final show was at the Gramercy Theater in NYC opening for international recording artists Epica.
In 2019, guitarist Lou Mavs started his podcast (Music Is Life Podcast) discussing his opinions and experience as a musician. Wayne and Lou were friends from the time Phoenix Reign was playing shows in Lou’s native Queens, NY, and Wayne asked Lou if his podcast would join Rat Salad Review as a show on the network, to which he did.
In late 2020, Wayne was preparing the release of his new band Project Resurrect. It was around that time that the music world suffered the loss of Edward Van Halen. Lou and Wayne suggested that they cover a Van Halen song as a tribute to Eddie, and enlisted the services of Timeless Haunt bassist George Dimitri and Thrash Or Die/Combat vocalist Ralph Viera. The cover was released to positive responses. 2021 saw the release of Project Resurrect’s False Reality CD and Rat Salad Review & Friends’ Cover Series, Part 1 EP.
In early 2022, Wayne suggested forming a new original band with Lou, George, The Nightmare Stage keyboardist Marc Muchnik, and Infinite Spectrum bassist/songwriter Alex Repetti (also of Tension Rising and Project SEAR), Lou provided an original demo written 12 years ago called Dogs of War, which was written as entrance music for his cousin - MMA fighter Robby Plotkin (currently a US Army Ranger). Wayne thought the song was perfect for this new project and arranged a new version of it, to which Marc and Alex wrote lyrics, and Lou re-recorded his parts. Upon completion of the song, it was official - Severed Angel was born.
Their debut CD was written, recorded, mixed and mastered within three months. In that time, Severed Angel started working on more material, many of which were released as singles: “A Fate Worse Than Death,” “Run and Hyde,” “Bump In The Night,” and “Mt. Cyanide.” Their self-titled debut CD was released on May 2, 2023.
Severed Angel's second album, Skyward, was released on May 3, 2024 through Bandcamp.
https://www.facebook.com/SeveredAngelBand/
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to unleash the new release from Washington DC's extreme Hardcore Death Grinding warriors CRUSHUMAN. BESIDES is up now for pre-order and will be released March 14th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of : Napalm Death, Terrorizer, early Fear Factory, Obituary, Slayer and Voivod.
After the highly acclaimed self-titled debut album, CrusHuman returns with nine scorching tracks of raw, savage, Grinding metal. Unleashing the same intensity and brutality as the full-length, Besides was recorded from the same recording session as the album—an extreme concoction of Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore, and Punk chaos!
Listen to the single "Apeasement To The Frauds" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjoLbGVCr0
Tracklisting:1. Select Sacrifice
2. Waiting For A Savior
3. Dead End Suffering
4. Apeasement To The Frauds
5. Blue Static
6. Choke Point
7. Choose Violence
8. God Helmet
9. The Human Reptile Experiment
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www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
"In The Midst of May" will be available February 21 on all digital platforms.
DESSIDERIUM enters a new chapter with their forthcoming release for Willowtip Records, its first for the label. New album Keys to the Palace will be released on CD, double-vinyl gatefold LP, and digital formats on March 14.
Sole member and founder, Alex Haddad, shared his thoughts about Keys to the Palace: "This album was ten plus years in the making. A lot of the material here actually precedes that of the two previous releases. Completing this record means giving closure to this era of Dessiderium that has spanned across my twenties, and I see it as a well suited final chapter to this period. The two previous albums, Shadow Burn and Aria, provided no happy ending. They were both about defeat in their own way. Keys to the Palace reaches for triumph. This is an album about time travel that explores the polarity between past and future, innocence and disillusion, faith and despair, and adolescence and adulthood."
Pre-order:https://bit.ly/keys-willowtip
https://bit.ly/keys-bandcamp
Track Listing:
1. In The Midst Of May
2. Dover Hendrix
3. Pollen For The Bees
4. A Dream That Wants Me Dead
5. Magenta
6. Keys To The Palace
Credits:
All music and words written by Alex Haddad.
Produced by Alex Haddad.
Guitars, bass, vocals, keyboard, and orchestrations/synthesizers by Alex Haddad.
Drum programming by Brody Smith.
Piano solos on "Dover Hendrix" and "Pollen For The Bees" performed by Thomas Leroy Meier.
Mixed and mastered by Mendel Bij De Leij.
Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration).
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https://www.facebook.com/p/Dessiderium-100063280476262/
Live video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2kwSmZcHa4
Hailing from Mercer County, PA, Self Inflicted delivers a relentless assault of thrash metal, drawing inspiration from the pioneers like Possessed, Obituary, Death, Atheist and Cynic. With blistering riffs, high-energy solos, and aggressive vocals, the band crafts a sound that pays homage to classic thrash while pushing boundaries with progressive songwriting and dynamic structures.
Lineup:
Jonathan Wilson – Lead Vocals & Lead Guitar
Jake Bell – Rhythm Guitar & Backup Vocals
Tyler Gaydek – Bass & Backup Vocals
Logan Gaydek – Drums
Formed in 2020 with original drummer Peter Plummer, Self Inflicted spent a year honing their sound before releasing their debut album, Death by Fire, on January 8, 2022. Following a series of lineup changes, the band solidified its current roster, leading to their most ambitious work yet—their sophomore album, Terrors of a Demented Mind, released on January 18, 2025. This record showcases their evolution, blending the raw aggression of old-school thrash with intricate riff changes, relentless solos, and a progressive edge.
A major milestone for the band was their album release show for Terrors of a Demented Mind, where they shared the stage with Whorigami and Kitchen Knife Conspiracy, marking one of their most explosive performances to date.
Based primarily in the Youngstown, Ohio metal scene, Self Inflicted frequently shares the stage with local favorites, delivering high-energy performances that keep pits raging. Despite just dropping their latest album, the band is already forging new material, keeping their momentum unstoppable.
For fans of pure, unfiltered thrash with a modern twist, Self Inflicted is a band to keep an eye on.
https://www.facebook.com/Selfinflicted2022
Italian
Black Metal act HERUKA is pleased to announce its renewed
collaboration with Rude Awakening Records for 2025. Having worked together on
multiple releases since 2020, including their latest full-length album MEMORIE,
the band is now preparing to unveil a new chapter in their musical journey.This upcoming release will continue to explore themes of death and suffering, staying true to the band’s signature fierce yet melodic approach. More details will be revealed soon.
In the meantime, HERUKA has released a lyric video for "Francis Bacon", now available on major streaming platforms. This track will be included in the forthcoming release.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/DuRuycvA7gY
About HERUKA
Originally formed as a duo in 2000 in Sicily, HERUKA released a demo and an EP before entering a ten-year hiatus. In 2010, Adranor (guitar) relocated to Rome, where he revived the project and completed the current lineup. The band's return was marked by their debut album, Deception’s End (2018).
2025 Line-up
Nekrom – Vocals
Adranor – Guitar
Moha – Guitar
Cruz – Bass
Nemuri Shi – Drums
https://linktr.ee/rudeawakeningrecords
https://linktr.ee/herukaproject
Emerging
progressive metal visionaries BLACKLIGHT invites listeners
on an emotive journey with their introspective single “SO FAR AWAY,” a
haunting track from their upcoming conceptual album FUTURE BELONGS
To, set for release on March 21, 2025, via Wormholedeath Records."So Far Away" combines haunting introspection with melancholic undertones, blending themes of reflection, regret, and a longing for clarity. Its poetic ambiguity allows listeners to draw their own meanings while immersing themselves in BlackLight's signature sound—a mesmerizing fusion of soft, dark wave elements with their progressive metal roots. The track’s atmospheric instrumentation creates a deeply emotive experience that envelopes the listener, leaving a lasting impact.
"Future Belongs To" is a progressive metal conceptual album and a remarkable progressive rock album that showcases BLACKLIGHT's solid and cohesive artistry. Rich with melancholy and calm tones, it creates a versatile vibe that is perfect for any situation. Drawing inspiration from iconic acts like Opeth, Rush, Tool, Dead Can Dance, and fellow countrymen Riverside, the band weaves these influences into a unique and captivating sound that defines their identity. This album is worth discovering.
Pre-Save Future Belongs To: https://orcd.co/futurebelongsto
Formed in 2019 by Maciej Majewski, BlackLight quickly carved out a unique progressive metal sound. Their debut album, Follow the Future, recorded in Kraków’s Studio 13 and Studio Centrum, was well-received by fans and critics, leading to live performances on Antyradio's Makakofonia and other major stations.
In 2021, the band recorded their second album, River of Time, released by Metal Rock Promotion in early 2022. A lineup change in late 2023 saw drummer Stanisław Skowroński join, with Majewski taking over vocals. With this refreshed lineup, BlackLight recorded Future Belongs To, a conceptual album set for release by Wormholedeath
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Embark on a sonic journey with BlackLight — where progressive metal meets boundless imagination.
Carnage Void’s latest track, A Waking Catastrophe, is a relentless plunge into the abyss, a sonic apocalypse wrapped in crushing riffs and existential dread. With lyrics that paint a vivid picture of humanity’s self-inflicted ruin, the song is both anthemic and harrowing, a requiem for a world collapsing under its own weight.
From the shattering skies of the opening verse to the gut-wrenching breakdowns, the track drips with despair and fury. Lines like "We dug a hole through our hearts with a sin" and "Bury your hope in a coffin of stone" evoke a sense of hopelessness, while the chorus erupts into a searing lament for all that’s been lost. The instrumentation is just as punishing—pummeling drums, razor-sharp guitar work, and visceral vocals that range from desperate wails to guttural roars.
The song’s climax, a "symphony of ruin ripping at the seams," delivers a final, crushing blow, leaving listeners staring into the void alongside the band. If A Waking Catastrophe proves anything, it’s that Carnage Void isn’t just making music—they’re crafting the soundtrack to the end of days.
Brace yourself. This one hits like a tidal wave of pure devastation.
BiographyFueled by determination and an unyielding passion for extreme metal, Carnage Void emerged from the heart of Tehran, Iran. Since their formation, the band has unleashed two blistering singles—Let the Heartless Win and their latest release, Let There Be Carnage.
In a country where freedom of speech and artistic expression face relentless opposition, Carnage Void was born from a defiant dream: to create music that is as extreme and uncompromising as the realities they face. Longtime friends and musicians, who had played together in various projects, came together amidst economic and political turmoil to forge a new path. Against all odds, Carnage Void took shape, channeling their struggles into a raw, uncompromising sonic force.
Their name carries deep significance. Void—an absence of matter stretching across vast cosmic distances—symbolizes the emptiness left by conflict, oppression, and meaningless destruction. Paired with Carnage, it reflects their outright rejection of war, tyranny, and superstition. In the end, all violence and oppression lead to the same fate—an abyss of nothingness. Carnage Void stands as a voice against that emptiness, delivering brutal yet purposeful music in defiance of a world that seeks to silence them.
Carnage Void are:
Nikan Nasim
Emin Aghajani
Ashkan Seifi
Mohammadreza Rezai
https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords
https://www.facebook.com/carnage.void/
Label: Rottweiler
Records/Independent ReleaseRelease Date: March 22nd 2025
Genre: Heavy And Western
For fans of: ZZ Top | Johnny Cash | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 38 Special
It’s been ten years since The Comancheros started rolling along the blacktop highways, under the star dusted skies, carrying their hard rocking anthems and heartfelt ballads from the cities to the deserts, the forests to the sea. Bringing cowboys to the bars and broken hearted ghosts to their campfire, the years have passed in moments since their journey began back in 2015. Then suddenly there was a decade in that rearview mirror, stretching out behind them in miles and stories, drinks and songs…
To celebrate the first ten years of an adventure which shows no signs of reaching an end, The Comancheros have compiled an album of tracks that demonstrate the heart-on-the-sleeve emotion of their music; as diverse as life and as dark as the longest nights, as honest as tears and proud in their own skin…defiant, unbreakable, rebellious to the last breath. A Decade In The Mirror brings together songs never released before in a physical format, limited edition EPs whose CD runs have long since sold out, rarities from split cassette editions and live tracks that have never been made available before. Every aspect of The Comancheros’ spirit in all its raw grit and glory, from the dancing riffs and ZZ Top boogie of ‘Crazy As Hell’ to the melancholy reflection in the shadow of the gallows of ‘Don’t Forget My Name’, the gentle balladry of ‘I Stare At Trains’ to the smooth melodies, hard guitars and exuberance of ‘We Own The Night’. Perhaps what permeates all The Comancheros music more than anything else, all of A Decade In The Mirror from the laidback Americana of opener ‘The Day George Jones Died’ to the final whiskey salute of ‘If I Could Pick A Way To Go’ recorded live in Spain, is the untarnished honesty of expression that runs through it all like blood. Bringing together influences from southern rock, pure country and American folk ballads that stretch their roots deep into the past, The Comancheros have found their own definition of their unique sound – Heavy and Western – and that’s what you’ll find on A Decade In The Mirror.
On March 22nd Rottweiler Records will release the digital version of A Decade In The Mirror, while The Comancheros will be taking the traditional path, launching the album in CD format with a special show at The Basement in Nashville on the same day. Whichever format is right for you, just make sure you listen to A Decade In The Mirror and discover the sound of Heavy and Western, the sound of The Comancheros!
Line-up:
Tanner Jones - Vocals/Guitar
Jon Green - Vocals/Bass
R. Michael Cook- Drums
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/comancherosband
Official video realized by Alex Mercatali for Felkar Studio available at https://youtu.be/aEcj8uTVzVU
Style: Post Metal with elements of Black Metal, Electronic, Post Rock and Progressive
Similar artists: Cult Of Luna, Isis, Russian Circle and God Is An Astronaut
Born from the ashes of IN TORMENTATA QUIETE, EDYAKARAN with "Pantheon" give life to a musical narration exploring ancient worlds and modern sonorities with Post Metal, Avantgarde Black Metal, Progressive and Noise being the guidelines of this journey in a way which can be similar in nature and originality to that of bands like Cult Of Luna, Isis, Russian Circles and God Is An Astronaut.
The result is an extreme and delirious album at the same time and EDYAKARAN will be the absolute protagonists of this new journey.
You can Pre-Order "Pantheon" in digipakCD format at: https://t.ly/cN7IfLine-up:
Lorenzo Rinaldi (guitars)
Francesco Paparella (drums)
Antonio Ricco (keyboards)
Matteo Meli (bass)
Special guest:
Simone Lanzoni
Gregory Sobrio and Irene Petitto (vocals)
Marco Beccati (growl vocals)
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.instagram.com/edyakaran/
Spanish/American Progressive Metal duo, DISSOCIA, featuring members of Persefone and Wormed, have joined forces with No Clean Singing for the video premiere of "SAMSARA," the second single from forthcoming album, TO LIFT THE VEIL. Click below to check it out!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2025/02/19/an-ncs-video-premiere-dissocia-samsara/
"Samsara" will be out February 21 on all digital platforms.
Willowtip Records will release To Lift The Veil March 21 on digital, CD, and vinyl LP formats.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/veil-willowtip
https://bit.ly/veil-bandcamp
DISSOCIA enters the mind of multi-instrumentalist Daniel R. Flys (Persefone, Eternal Storm) as the sonic landscape between two realms: the conscious and the unconscious. With ferocious and convoluted riffs, dreamy synths, extreme and subtle clean vocals, we enter this in-between world backed by Gabriel Valcázar's (Wormed, Cancer) chaotic and groove drumming and Paul R. Flys' cinematic violin layers.
Mixed and mastered by the prestigious Ukrainian engineer Max Morton (Jinjer, Ignea, Shokran), To Lift The Veil is a concept album that serves as a metaphor for being a growing seed in an asphalted world. DISSOCIA makes an effort to blend extreme metal with synthwave and dreamwave elements to create a fine progressive blend that is catchy and yet unpredictable to the listener. Further developing this mood, the stunning and oneiric artwork created by Rein Van Oyen (Haken) captures the lights and shadows present on the dynamic songwriting and all the contrasts found on the duo's debut.
Track
Listing:1. Existentialist
2. He Who Dwells
3. Samsara
4. Zenosyne
5. The Lucifer Effect
6. Evasion
7. Out of Slumber
Credits:
Daniel R. Flys - Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Synths
Gabriel Valcázar - Drums
Guest violins performed by Paul R. Flys (track 7).
Additional post-production by Max Morton and Alex Tena.
Written by Daniel R. Flys.
Produced by Daniel R. Flys.
Drums recorded by Carlos Santos at Sadman Studio.
Vocals recorded by Alex Tena.
Vocals and violins recorded by Carlos Rodríguez.
Mixed and mastered by Max Morton at Morton Studio.
Design and layout by Rein Van Oyen.
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/dissociaofficial
SKAPHOS - “CULT OF UZURA”
For
fans of: Mgla, Crypts
of Despair, Obscureviolence, Behemoth, Dead Congregation, Saevus Finis, Shrine
of Denial, Belphegor"Cult of Uzura" sees the dedicated French death/black metal band Skaphos fleshing out their sound on their third album - first on a label - to become more expressive and impactful than ever before. At this point, their proficiency is undeniable and their sound is a beautiful rendering of the two extreme styles, spiked with mean dissonance and steeped in an aura of mysticism. The execution remains ruthless and forceful despite showing subtlety in the emotive passages and deftness in the tempo changes. The gnarly death and black metal rawness is palpable even after having their disparate elements congealed on this album and the sound is more powerful than can be conceived for an album having this level of expression. In addition, the alternating contrast of chunky riffing with acerbic parts creates a lasting impression on the listener. This is a remarkable album in the death/black metal style that has actual substance along with the right aesthetics and sound.
Line up
Stephan Petitjean - Guitar & vocals
Jeremy Tronyo - Guitar & backing vocals
Theo Langlois - Bass & backing vocals
Nathan Faure - Drums
Artwork by Paolo Girardi
Track listing
1. Cult of Uzura
2. One Eyed Terror
3. Mad Man and the Sea
4. Hypoxia
5. Abyssal Tower
6. Echoes of the Drowned
7. Of Shores and Dripping Souls
8. Skaphism
9. The Servant
10. The Alchemist
11. The Offering
12. Diluvian Sentence
13. All Shall Be Now Itself the Sea
Release date - May 9th, 2025
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
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Label: Naturmacht ProductionsRelease Date: February 28th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric/Melodic Black Metal
For fans of: Emperor | Fuath | Saor | Drudkh
From a place of certainty and strength, a life built upon an assumed understanding and enriched with happiness, I was flung violently into a maelstrom of chaos and madness. My light was gone and all I knew was shattered. Every truth had become a lie in the space between one breath and the next, a complete inversion of all I knew to be right. I thought I had understood the meaning of sadness, of pain, what it was to be alone…I had understood nothing. I had walked in sunlit ignorance, never seeing the crevasses that split my path. But now I was falling, falling through darkness, barely able to breathe let alone order my scattered thoughts or comprehend the agony that threatened to tear my heart apart and consume me…
After the universal critical acclaim garnered by their debut album, Time Held Me Grey And Dying, Wales’ most imaginative and creative practitioners of black metal’s dark arts have returned. With the stated intent of crafting their country’s ‘most ambitious and uncompromising extreme metal album to date’ they have offered up the many splendored Valediction, an album that charts the journey through grief – from initial trauma to final acceptance or endless sorrow. Before listening you may feel their goal a lofty one, after listening you’ll know that they have achieved more than they dared to dream possible. With opening track and first single, ‘The Shattering’, we embark on a harrowing journey, as rich in musical wonders as it is in the realisation of painful emotion. We are flung into a tumult of events – hit with crunching impact and spun through webs of confusion and bewilderment. The music hollows us, savagely carving away the structure and solidity of our lives. Superb, melodious guitar work creates pools of reflective stillness within the storm and this moment where a life changes course forever seems to stretch into eternity. As the album progresses classic black metal forms are masterfully manipulated, coaxed into new exhilarating and breathtaking edifices. The vast storm clouds of grief gather behind the cold, ugliness of denial and the grand, dramatic flame of anger. ‘Proteus’ leads us through the huge peaks and troughs of emotion, the false hopes and despair of bargaining with higher powers. And here the spirit of pain that has been waiting implacably in the wings begins to rise to the surface. There is an overwhelming sense of tragedy in the melody lines as ‘Proteus’ nears its conclusion, the awful futility of the situation becoming clear. Mourning strings cut deep as ‘Zenith Dolour’ drags us down into the deepest trenches of depression and melancholy, its contrasts and juxtapositions of sound reflecting the different hues of sadness; the life sapping despair, the jagged agony, the seemingly insurmountable intensity of grief. Perhaps the greatest piece to grace Valediction comes in its title track – a song of acceptance that is wonderfully measured, like sunlight slowly breaking over the dark hills on a distant horizon, with individual note choices marking the telling moments as the realisation of the possibility of a new, different future dawns. The balance of bittersweet farewell and the reclaiming of a life beyond pain is a remarkable accomplishment. Of course we are in the realms of black metal here so Ofnus provide us with an alternate ending in ‘Alazia’ – a reminder that some will never find acceptance, their wheel of life will cease to turn and leave them trapped in rage, agony and darkness. It’s a vicious conclusion, infused with fear and oppressive darkness, with forbidding chord progressions leading ever downwards into night. It’s an incredible, shocking end to a breathtaking album.
Since the release of Time Held Me Grey And Dying Ofnus have performed live alongside the likes of Arkona, Wayfarer, The Infernal Sea and many more, even performing at the 2023 Bloodstock Festival – and every single second of those experiences have been drawn upon to make Valediction the outstanding album that it is. The mixing and mastering team of William Philpot and Abraham Fihema who worked such magic on Time Held Me Grey And Dying, have been trusted again and the sound they have achieved on Valediction is a superb – accommodating the layers and textures, the array of moods and atmospheres and the subtly shifting and developing sonic palette. The artwork of Ben J that adorns the cover of Valediction is another absolute triumph, completing and complementing the songs beneath its evocative shroud. When Naturmacht Productions release Valediction on February 28th there can be little doubt that Ofnus will begin an irresistible ascent to the very highest echelons of black metal.
Line-up:
William Philpot - Vocals/Lyrics
Richard Rees - Bass
Alyn Hunter - Rhythm Guitar/Composer
James Ponsford - Lead Guitar
Ethan Rees-Spargo - Drums/Lyrics
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Pioneers of the Italian Death/Black scene, MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL have now reached the milestone of 30 years of career, and above all a level of maturity and professionalism that has no equal. They give life with their music to a personal musical style crossing different emotional states between the whole panorama of the Extreme Metal from the fury and the aggression of Death Metal to the dark and malignant essence of Black Metal, from the Symphonic and Progressive elements of their arrangements to the macabre and horrifying Gothic Metal, all built on an extremely powerful and clear production, daughter of the Lost Soul Studios led by Buzz himself.
"SONGS FROM THE RESTLESS OBLIVION" also gives us the opportunity to present the new line-up with Noxifer (drums) and the historic leader Buzz (guitar and vocals) who welcome the new elements Dysphoria (keyboards) and Taz (bass) to the band.
Those who have always loved the band will be absolutely enraptured by the new songs while for those who don't know them yet, just consider that if ROTTING CHRIST, DARK TRANQUILITY and CRADLE OF FILTH are part of your favorite bands, "Songs From The Restless Oblivion" will be a mandatory listening!
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Crown of Madness are doing something different in the dissonant death metal space by giving their music an emotional quality. It's wistful, poignant and even hauntingly atmospheric. No Clean Singing premiered a gorgeous track which can be found at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/12/26/an-ncs-premiere-crown-of-madness-ashes-of-mine/
Excerpt - "talent for crafting death metal that’s both dissonant and melodic, both technically impressive and intriguing in its prog-minded permutations"
CROWN OF MADNESS - “MEMORIES FRAGMENTED”
For
fans of
- Ulcerate, Devenial Verdict, Dysgnostic, GorgutsCrown of Madness have put out a slew of short-form releases, improving upon their sound with each one and culminating in this full length that sees the most evolved version of their music so far. As accomplished as it is, it also happens to be unique in the style of dissonant death metal - in that, it's deeply personal and palpably emotive, and that poignant, introspective mood pervades their entire album. The music almost has a melodic albeit melancholic quality to it that is refreshing for a style of music that usually sounds harsh and detached. At the same time the music is driven; the hypnotic riffs are invariably interspersed with bursts of blasts and there is good momentum generated in this calculated, undulating pattern which becomes addictive. 'Memories Fragmented' is a beautifully tempered album underpinned by unforgettable melodies, an ambitious release but one completely devoid of pretence, which is bound to be regarded as one of the standout albums in the style in the years to come.
Line up:
Sunshine Schneider - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Connor Gordon - Drums
Artwork by Erskine Designs
Thank you very much!Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
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Genre: Black/Death MetalLabel: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 20.03.2025
Folter Records presents with pride and pleasure:
“Still Scum”. The black metal ultras of WHISKEY RITUAL are back with six roar-along anthems from the gutter. Six punky cover versions to freak out to, bursting with destructive energy and diabolically blackened - all that remains are shards and blood. And the Italian black 'n' rollers also have an important message to deliver: Fuck you!
The statement:
“We are made of memories, and we’re the last ones who will remember.
In this fast world, this scene fades away and slows down.
Dazed as Mark Renton said in his final speech, all the same, all out of breath.
And while in the streets everyone leans on posing scarecrows, we are still part of those who want to burn everything. Scarecrows included.
More Punk than Punks, as we used to say.
Never conform, always against the grain. A matter of attitude. An annoying, damned attitude to get to the end, alone and dead.
Our dedication to the survivors are the songs that brought us here.
After 15 years, we are still here to tell you fuck off, still being credible, still doing the same shit that we have written. - You don't like it? Better this way!”
The songs:
BORSTAL BREAKOUT
“Skins, Punks and Metalheads united as Ultras!”
REAL WILD CHILD
“Because we are the last true wild children. And because someone said that music is life and life is not a business.”
WE' RE COMING BACK
“Because one day we will return, and we will be only among people like us.”
GET OFF MY BACK
“For when we were just kids.”
MONGOLOID
“For the bands you listen to recently.”
WHO WILL SAVE ROCK AND ROLL?
“Because ›Who will save Rock'n'Roll?‹”
Playing time and credits:
1. Borstal Breakout (2:10). Sham 69. Composers: Dave Parsons, Jimmy Pursey. Source: Sanctuary Records.
2. Real Wild Child (3:31). Iggy Pop. Composers: David Morris Owens, John Vincent Greenan, Johnny O'Keefe. Source: A&M.
3. We're Coming Back (4:02). Cock Sparrer. Source: Captain OI!
4. Get Off My Back (2:22). The Casualties. Source: SideOneDummy Records.
5. Mongoloid (3:25). Devo. Composer: Gerald V Casale. Source: Virgin Records.
6. Who Will Save Rock And Roll? (3:18). The Dictators. Composer: Andy Shernoff. Source: Valley Entertainment.
Total: 18:50
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Nervous, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Aaron Ciesielski, emerged from a period of profound personal growth and self-discovery. Born amidst an existential crisis, "Acquiescence" is a concept album that chronicles this transformative journey, capturing the essence of rebellion, fear, and ultimately, the profound acceptance of self.
Everything about Acquiescence has been shaped by Ciesielski’s hands, from the songwriting and production to mixing, mastering, and artwork. This album is a true reflection of his vision—an uncompromising mix of black and death metal influences, intertwined with elements of classical music and progressive rock. The result is a dense, intense sound that pulls you in and holds you captive.
Acquiescence
explores a journey of rebellion against one’s nature, confronting deep fears,
and ultimately embracing harmony within oneself. The album is a reflection
of Ciesielski’s personal experiences of growing up, entering adulthood, and
accepting who he truly is.“This album is a culmination of over five years of personal reflection and musical exploration,” says Ciesielski. “It’s an intense expression of my journey to understand myself, and I’ve poured everything into it. The music may be rooted in black and death metal, but I’ve drawn heavy inspiration from classical music, progressive rock, and cinematic soundtracks. This album is my truth, and I’m excited to share it with the world.”
Tracklist
1.Acquiescence
2. Heavy is the Head that Wears an Imaginary Crown
3. Vermin Within
4. The Will to Power
5. Fragile
6. It Didn't Start with You
7. Acquiescence II
8. River
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ICH KANN KANZLER - SATANINCHEN (Metal-Kanzler-Kandidat)
Der Wahlkampf ist entfesselt und nun gibt es eine völlig unerwartete
Kanzler-Kandidatur aus der Metal-Szene.
Worthülsen und Peinlichkeiten sind garantiert!
Bisher hat man Sataninchen wohl häufig als unterreflektierenden Blödelbarden vernommen, wenngleich seine Inhalte immer auch aus einer Missbilligung der Gegebenheiten resultierten. Natürlich zelebrierte er dies selten mit dem erhobenen Zeigefinger. Nun besinnt sich der hinter der Kunstfigur Sataninchen stehende Typ aber wieder mehr auf die Ursprünge seiner kreativen Tätigkeiten und präsentiert uns mit dem Song "Ich kann Kanzler" ein Fundamentalärgernis in Form einer überparteilichen Gesellschaftskritik. Ob der Zeigefinger erhoben oder richtungsweisend ist, scheint nicht ganz klar, aber der Text funktioniert über verschiedene Ebenen, lässt Interpretationsspielraum und scheint dennoch eindeutig. Das alles gepaart mit den typischen Sataninchen-Lyrik-Insignien von erwachsenen Kinderreimen.
Das Cover-Design unterlegt das neue musikalische Werk. Ein Adler der von Geiern zerfetzt wird, ein Kampf ist entbrannt. Im Hintergrund sehen wir einen Agitator, Politiker, Redner, Prediger in seiner Funktion des Verkündens und Präsentators. Alles spielt sich einer nahezu religös anmutenden Kathedrale der Macht ab, die eher einer Echo- und Horchkammer mit überdimensionierten Lautsprechern oder Horchmuscheln erinnert. Das neue Heiligtum sind Götzenbilder wie Heuschrecken und Geier. Alles mutet an, als wäre es vom Zeremonienmeister durchkonzipiert und orchestriert, selbst das Chaos im Vordergrund scheint von der Person auf dem Podest dirigiert.
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Mit ihrer neuen Single „KEIN HAPPY END“ (VÖ: 14.02.2025)
schlagen SICK OF SOCIETY ein neues Kapitel in ihrer
Bandgeschichte auf. Die Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre haben ihre Sicht auf
die Welt fundamental verändert. Die Band, die seit jeher für soziale
Gerechtigkeit, Antifaschismus und gegen die krankhaften Auswüchse des
Kapitalismus eintritt, widmet sich nun den drängenden Herausforderungen der
Gegenwart – und richtet dabei den Fokus auf ein brandaktuelles Thema: die
künstliche Intelligenz.
„Kein Happy End“ ist ein flammender Appell, nicht blind der scheinbaren Verheißung technologischen Fortschritts zu folgen. Die Menschheit zeigt sich einmal mehr geblendet von ihrer eigenen Hybris und der Illusion einer strahlenden Zukunft. Doch die schimmernden Oberflächen verbergen die düsteren Schattenseiten: Überwachung, Abhängigkeit und die Erosion menschlicher Werte. „Auch wenn es so schön glänzt, das hier hat kein Happy End.“
Auch 2025 bleibt SICK OF SOCIETY ihrer kompromisslosen musikalischen Haltung treu: Die Musik ist weiterhin schnell, direkt und mit einer ungebrochenen Wut im Bauch. Doch auf „Kein Happy End“ zeigt sich eine neue, tiefere Facette ihres Politpunks. Die Verzweiflung angesichts eines scheinbar übermächtigen Gegners ist spürbar, genauso wie die unermüdliche Entschlossenheit, nicht aufzugeben. Melodiösere Passagen und komplexere Arrangements verstärken den emotionalen Nachhall und machen die Dringlichkeit der Thematik greifbar. Der Sound ist wütend, düster und gleichzeitig erschreckend aktuell.
Mit „Kein Happy End“ liefert SICK OF SOCIETY den Soundtrack zur Dystopie. Es ist nicht nur ein Song, sondern eine Warnung – ein Spiegel unserer Gesellschaft, die sich im Rausch des Fortschritts verliert. Es ist ein verzweifelter Versuch, der Katastrophe zu entkommen.
"Kein Happy End" auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/2D5CWNAd3Dk
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Kraków (PL) - Polish Death Metal duo, DORMANT ORDEAL, are set to release TOOTH AND NAIL, the band's first for Willowtip and fourth overall, on April 18! The album will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats, and follows widely praised third album, The Grand Scheme of Things.
The first single, "HALO OF BONES," was the first song written for the album. Guitarist Maciej Nieścioruk notes that "it was composed shortly after the release of 2021's The Grand Scheme of Things" and "features the outstanding work of Chason Westmoreland who played drums on the whole album." Nieścioruk goes on to say that "Halo of Bones" " is straightforward and to the point. Enjoy the first taste of Tooth and Nail."
"Halo of Bones" is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0DNX0wnpCo
"We worked hard to make this fourth album happen," says guitarist Maciej Nieścioruk. "JNS Studio once again did a great job tuning in to our suggestions, while having the support of Willowtip gave us freedom to focus on creativity without being distracted. Stick around and have a listen once it's released, might be just what you're looking for."
Dormant Ordeal was formed in 2008. Their debut album It Rains, It Pours (2013), showcased the aggressive and energetic sound, while We Had It Coming (2016) refined their songwriting with thought-out structures and darker textures. Released in 2021, The Grand Scheme of Things was critically acclaimed for blending brutal precision with blackened influences and a thought-provoking lyrical approach. Over the years, known for their intense and atmospheric approach to the genre, the band has established itself as a impactful entity in the modern death metal scene.
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/dormant-ordeal.aspx
https://dormantordeal.bandcamp.com/album/tooth-and-nail
Track
Listing:
1. Wije i Mary, Pt. 1
2. Halo of Bones
3. Horse Eater
4. Orphans
5. Solvent
6. Dust Crown
7. Against the Dying of the Light
8. Everything That Isn't Silence Is Trivial
9. Wije i Mary, Pt. 2
Credits:
Music, lyrics and arrangements by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Drums arrangements by Chason Westmoreland and Maciej Nieścioruk.
All tracks except drums recorded by Paweł Grabowski at JNS Studio in Warsaw.
Drums played and recorded by Chason Westmoreland.
Guest vocals on "Solvent" by Dominic Nucciarone recorded by Samuel Dufour.
Artwork by See Machine.
Art direction by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Design by Michał “Xaay” Loranc and Maciej Nieścioruk.
Line-up:
Maciej Nieścioruk - Guitars
Maciej Proficz - Vocals
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Lenax vocalist/guitarist, Venomous, had this to say about the new EP:
"The Hellscape project was spawned entirely by accident. Our drummer Bones sent in an audition video when we were first getting together, something that sounded very dirty and ethereal. As he was in a doom project, I assumed it was original material, until I heard the main riff from 'Leeches.' This gave me the effect of taking something very familiar to me as a songwritier and making it seem alien, as if distorted through a transmission from the underworld.
I pulled up the core tracks of some of the songs that we'd done - two songs from the upcoming album Infection, and a remaster of one of the songs form the 2023 Purity EP. Every track I did something a little different with the effects and tempo. One song is actually sped up as it was down pitched, something that may seem counterintuitive. The idea was to give this feeling as if the songs were transmitted across a void, resulting in this obscured, horror movie soundtrack kind of effect.
"New song, 'The Voices,' was purpose built with this sort of transmission in mind. It takes this idea of hearing diabolic voices from the underworld, and creates an epic story of ascension and destruction. During the demo process, I pitch shifted my voice down for this monstrous effect. What I wasn't expecting is to find a comfort zone for my voice in this very low register. What you hear on my vocals on is entirely natural, something that in turn made its way to some of the tracks on the new album. Big thanks to Silas for this, not just on coaching me into this low vocal range, but his impeccable work on the audio."
Lenax is currently putting the finishing touches on the songs that will become Infection, the band's first full-length album. It is targeted for release during the summer months this year.
In reflecting on the forthcoming full-length, Venomous notes that "Infection is an album almost two years in the making. Continuing with themes that blur the lines between fantasy and reality, Lovecraftian cosmic horror and the occult, the theme of the album is one of infernal rather than divine intervention into humanity. with an unmistakeable passion for individuality."
"This is our most punishing work yet," says Lenax guitarist Mordred. "It’s faster, harsher, and more diseased than anything we’ve ever done." The theme of the album is represented in song titles such as 'Plague Bringer,' 'Hive Mind Apocalypse,' and 'We Are Legion' - a song that tells the story of an unfortunate and overly zealous mage who calls upon greater forces than his own, only to succomb to the very denizens of hell he dared unleash."
Track
Listing:
1 - The Voices
2 - Inversion (Hellscape Remix)
3 - Leeches (Hellscape Remix)
4 - We Are Legion (Hellscape Remix)
Digital Edition Bonus Tracks:
5. Inversion (Remaster Preview)
6. Leeches
7. We Are Legion
EP Credits:
"The Voices"
Music and Lyrics by Venomous
Produced by Silas Terry
Vocals: Venomous
Additional clean vocals: Tarisian
Guitars: Venomous
Keys: Tarisian
Bass: Leo Grave
Drums: Richard Bennett
"Inversion"
Music and Lyrics by Venomous
Album Version Produced by Ilarion Ivanenko
Hellscape Remix Produced by Silas Terry
Vocals: Venomous
Guitars: Venomous
Bass: Hephaestus
Drums: Profana
Hellscape Remix: Venomous
"Leeches"
Music by Venomous and Runatyr
Lyrics by Venomous
Album Version Produced by Ilarion Ivanenko
Hellscape Remix Produced by Silas Terry
Vocals: Venomous
Guitars: Venomous and Mordred
Bass: Mordred
Drums: Maikon Queiroz
Hellscape Remix: Venomous
"We Are Legion"
Music by Venomous and Mordred
Lyrics by Venomous
Album Version Produced by Ilarion Ivanenko
Hellscape Remix Produced by Silas Terry
Vocals: Venomous
Guitars: Venomous and Mordred
Bass: Mordred
Drums: Maikon Queiroz
Hellscape Remix: Venomous
Cover art by David DeFigueredo
Lenax logo by Illia Karpenko
Lenax is:
Venomous - Vocals / Guitar
Mordred - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Bones - Bass
Bio:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. The project evolved from a solo act into a full-fledged band known by a growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from a wide array of black metal bands from established titans to the obscure, the "Big Four" of thrash metal, and even a dash of classic heavy acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether dubbed by Venomous as "cosmic horror fueled nightmares.” — an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realization through occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and the impending doom of the Outer Gods.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a
busy year ahead, with two new songs and accompanying music videos already in the works for 2024, preceding a full-length album slated for a
2025 release.
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Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: February 28th 2025
Rottweiler Records have announced another exciting new addition to their diverse roster of extreme metal talent with a powerful, positive message. Refiner, hailing from the west coast of Canada, is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist, composer and lyricist Christopher Adam and his first release for Rottweiler comes in the form of the Return To Dust EP. Fusing brutal metalcore, electronics and ambience with Adam’s unique creative approach, opening title track ‘Return To Dust’ is an uplifting call to shed the unwanted pressures and complications of life and return to the essential simplicity of existence. The heavyweight, muscular riffing blends and contrasts with the irresistible melodies to create something effective and life affirming. Meanwhile second song, ‘Not The End’ is a hard hitting demand for resilience, perseverance and resistance; the punchy rhythms and overpowering vocals urging the listener to face the challenges of life head on, to have courage and fight through the adversities that confront us all. Instrumental versions of the two tracks will also be available, only from the Rottweiler Records Bandcamp page.
The track ‘Return To Dust’ will be available seven days before the official release of this EP, appearing exclusively for one week on For The Rock’s eighth community driven metal and rock compilation album, Wise As Serpents & Innocent As Doves, from February 21st.
The compilation will be available at the For The Rock Bandcamp page.
The full Return To Dust EP will then be available from Rottweiler Records from February 28th. Another Refiner EP will follow in the summer before the full length label debut later in the year.
Every track that Refiner unleash will be accompanied by a video.
Line up:
Christopher Adam – all music, vocals and production/engineering
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After 12 years, Alabama's CHAOS INCEPTION returns with VENGEANCE EVANGEL, their third, most relentless and unyielding album to date. Out now via Lavadome Productions, the record delivers an unfiltered onslaught of speed and aggression, channeling the raw essence of Brazilian and Floridian death metal. Uncompromising and intense, Vengeance Evangel is a force that demands to be heard at full volume.
Stream the album: https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/vengeance-evangel
Order CD, digital & merch: https://store.lavadome.org/
Tracklist:
Artillery of Humwawa
Falsificator
La Niebla en el Cementerio Etrusco
10,000 Dead By Pincer
Vengeance Evangel
Ultima Exitium
Reckoning of the Blade
Thymos Beast
Empire of Prevarication
The Omegaddon
Tusk of the Black Sow
Line up:
Matt Barnes – Guitars
Gary White – Vocals
Kevin Paradis – Session Drums
All music by Matt Barnes
Mixed & mastered by Andrea Petucco at MSTR Sound Studio
Cover art by Dávid Glomba | Illustrations by Nethertemple Designs
Chaos Inception is back. Vengeance Evangel is here.
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“DIMENSÃO HORRENDA” is a colossal return, to say the least, and all you can do is to give it a chance because it’s totally worth it. Continuing its reign of terror, Perversus elevates all Black Metal glory within its tradition with a major boost tribute to evil, wrath, and cruelty. Reminding you all that, VETUS SANGUIS buzz saw riffs are made to invoke darkness and torment, and the grim vocals, fully sung in Portuguese, strip out the flesh from your misery turning it into ice cold dust.
This eerie hypnotic landscape phantomized by draught, despair and aggression stands as a hymn to those who travel in the abyss of their soulless existence. With these ten outstanding songs, VETUS SANGUIS will conquer all listeners and make them beg for pity. We even dare to say, “Dimensão Horrenda” has all to be an instant classic and, for sure, a malicious blood pact with vile rawness will be made to accomplish this vision. Absolutely Vicious! Satanik Ritual On... Religion Bullshit Off...
VETUS SANGUIS - "CAPÍTULO I - DIMENSÃO HORRENDA"
Cassette Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
Tracklist:
01. Campos Infernais [04:06]
02. Ódio Viciante [04:33]
03. Gritos Silenciosos [05:03]
04. Trombetas Diabólicas [04:37]
05. The Possibility of Life´s Destruction (Discharge Cover) [01:16]
06. Saturno [04:24]
07. Nada, Faz Sentido [05:10]
08. Dimensão Horrenda [03:36]
09. Jardim de Mármore [04:39]
10. Transcendência [01:30]
All songs, instruments, vocals and lyrics by Perversus.
Mixed and Mastered by Perversus.
Recorded Winter 2023 to Summer 2023 at Sanguinis Cultus Studios.
Artwork and Logo by Blaspher.
Layout by Allefer Rocha.
Promo writings by Aion.
RELEASE DATE 16th April 2025
CASSETTE Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
HELLPACK CD + CASSETTE Limited to 30 copies.
Official Distribution by HELLSTORE EUROPE
Available through Murder Records
Co-released with Helldprod Records
https://www.facebook.com/VetusSanguis
www.murder-records.eu
Hailing from Thane (Mumbai), Eternal Returns is a powerhouse metal band that has been tearing through the scene since 2010. Their name draws inspiration from the ancient Indian philosophical concept of the eternal cycle—birth, life, death, and rebirth—a theme deeply rooted in Indian spirituality. This ethos resonates through their music, lyrics, and identity, forging a sound that is as profound as it is powerful.
Blending the raw aggression of modern metal with hauntingly melodic undertones, Eternal Returns crafts a soundscape that is both destructive and deeply accessible. Their lyrical themes delve into mythology, existentialism, and the human struggle for liberation—a cathartic journey through the endless cycle of existence.
The album artwork is more than a visual—it’s a narrative. Each symbol encapsulates a facet of humanity’s eternal struggle:
Crown – The weight of Pride.
Star (Baphomet) – The slumber of Sloth.
Pig Head – The feast of Gluttony.
Eye with Dollar – The hunger of Greed.
Dagger – The sting of Envy.
Heart – The fire of Lust.
Nuclear – The fury of Wrath.
At the heart of the chaos lies the diamond, encircled by the serpent—an emblem of the band itself. This intricate masterpiece, forged in chaos, symbolizes Eternal Returns’ vision: raw, precious, and ready to unleash its unrelenting might.
Will you face the sins within?
Tracklist:
1. Sloth
2. Lust
3. Envy
4. Greed
5. Gluttony
6. Wrath
7. Pride
8. Emasculator
From the crushing grooves of thrash to the soaring melodies of death metal, Eternal Returns transcends boundaries and redefines the limits of heavy music. Their sonic alchemy merges melodic death, metalcore, thrash, and groove into a singular, awe-inspiring force.
Experience the Sins Within
Artwork by the incredible @fajar_rahadian_artwork
Follow Eternal Returns on their journey and join the revolution. The cycle begins anew. Will you dare to enter?
ETERNAL RETURNS ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN TOUR
Eternal Returns is thrilled to hit the road for our debut European Tour! The wait is over! After years of relentless dedication, passion, and unyielding belief in our craft, Eternal Returns is ecstatic to announce our first-ever European Tour!
This isn’t just another chapter in our story, it’s a monumental leap forward, a testament to the hard work, energy, and emotion poured into every riff, every lyric, and every performance.
We’re ready to unleash our raw power and electrifying energy to brand-new audiences across Europe. This is the moment we’ve been working toward, and we’re diving headfirst into the journey of a lifetime.
DAWNING OF SINS – EUROPEAN TOUR 2025
Tour Dates:
14.03 (Friday) – Hospoda Brouk, Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
15.03 (Saturday) – S8 Underground, Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺
16.03 (Sunday) – Collosseum, Košice, Slovakia 🇸🇰
19.03 (Wednesday) – Barrak, Ostrava, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
20.03 (Thursday) – AC Klub, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
21.03 (Friday) – Gustaf Pekarna, Maribor, Slovenia 🇸🇮
22.03 (Saturday) – Club Eks, Split, Croatia 🇭🇷
To the ones who doubted us keep doubting. To the ones who stood by us—this is your victory, too.
This tour is more than a journey; it’s a celebration of resilience, passion, and the unbreakable connection between us and you our supporters, our family. Together, we’re bringing Eternal Returns to the world stage.
https://brutalrecords.com/eternal-returns/
A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! FLESHSPOIL, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release full-length debut album, The Beginning of the End, March 28 on digital format!
Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his role in Arsis, where he played on acclaimed releases such as A Celebration of Guilt and A Diamond for Disease, and toured globally alongside heavyweights like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Cynic, Dying Fetus, Grave, Necrophagist, Napalm Death, and Six Feet Under. Dan Saltzman (bass), hailing from the Bay Area, whose impressive work has been showcased in Illucinus and The Hunt, as well as recent demonstration videos for ESP bass guitars.
Produced and mixed by Brett Portzer (Skinless, Author & Punisher, Arsis), The Beginning of the End consists of six tracks clocking in at 37 minutes. It is the creative vision of Andrews and Van Dyne, who recorded two albums and performed together alongside such notable bands as At The Gates, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sanctuary, Rivers of Nihil, Fates Warning, All That Remains, and many others with their previous band, The Final Sleep. The Beginning of the End additionally includes guest appearances by Kyle Chapman (Aethereus, Blighted Eye), John Judson (Rwake, Scott Kelly), and Petr Oplatka (Illucinus).
Pre-order The
Beginning of the End:
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
Track Listing:
1. Bleed Through This Life
2. Skies Turn To Graves
3. Fleshspoil
4. Walking Dead
5. A Frail Demise
6. Born Into Despair
Credits:
Guitar solo and additional chaos on “Bleed Through This Life” by Kyle Chapman of Aethereus and Blighted Eye.
Guitar solo on “Walking Dead” by Petr Oplatka of Illucinus.
Lap steel guitar on “Bleed Through This Life” and “Skies Turn To Graves” by John Judkins of Rwake.
Drum tracking engineered by Brett Portzer at White Lake Music & Post.
Guitar and vocal tracking engineered by Van Dyne/Andrews.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Brett Portzer.
Music and arrangements by Andrews/Van Dyne. Lyrics by Andrews.
Cover art: “L’Umana Fragilità” by Salvator Rosa (1656)
Line-up:
Mike Van Dyne - Drums
Jeff Andrews - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Saltzman - Bass
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBDAr3f_fmQ
Pitchfork is a thrash/death metal band founded in 2020 from Andrea Serra, Sardinian bass player (Kelevra, Korw € Figaw, ex Infantry NL) based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The band's music is inspired by the NWOTM sound but with a death/grind/black component and influenced by bands as Slayer, old Sepultura, Kreator, Cannibal Corpse, Lamb Of God, Vader, Suffocation, Pantera, old Decapitated, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Bolt Thrower and many others.
In 2022, having multiple tracks ready, Andrea decides to record an EP through various collaborations and session players such as Floor Van Kuijk (Korpse NL), Raphael Saini (Cripple Bastards IT), Marco Prij (Cryptosis NL), Marcel Tjepkema (Caedere NL) Adrian Neagoe (ex Tragacanth NL), Jake Shuker (Nargate GE), Vidal Wildeboer (Millstone NL) and Glenn Veldman (Headless Hunter NL).
The next step was then to look for a stable formation to play live, that, after few changes of lineup, has been found in Raaf Atasi, Syrian guitar player (Anomic NL, Paindemonium GE, Onkt NL) which joined Pitchfork in January 2024, participating to the recording sessions of the EP itself, Robb Vrijenhoek (ex Pyaemia NL, ex Disavowed NL, ex Buried NL) and Emanuele Quaranta (Wormodon IT/NL), which, respectively at the drums and voice, joined forces in September and December 2024.
The choice for the name of the EP fell on Horror Trance (completely released the 11th of January 2025 on Bandcamp and available in digital and physical format), composed by 4 modern thrash/death metal tracks, mixed and mastered by Alberto Bandino at Cutfire Mixing Studio, trying to make a point on the conditions of today's society seen as as a collectivity and as a singular, reflecting on how we reached this situation through an internal trip to realize it.
The band is already working on the composition and recording of new tracks for the next release, which will be an album this time, looking for a second guitar player and getting ready to play live and bring destruction around Europe.
https://linktr.ee/pitchforknl
FFO: Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Malevolence, Get the Shot
The clip was filmed last year at the beginning of the summer festival season at the sold-out Lucerna Music Bar, Prague, where CRIPPLED FINGERS performed as the support of Biohazard and Downset.
Video link: https://www.submithub.com/link/crippled-fingers-born-in-failure
CRIPPLED FINGERS is a 4-piece metal band from Prague, CZE.
Released two albums, EP, a lot of video singles and did countless concerts in Czechia and abroad. Their strength is a cheeky and hard live show that allowed them to perform at Brutal Assault, Fajtfest, Czech Death Fest and to support legends such as Guilt Trip, In Other Climes, Worst, Risk It!, No Turning Back, Pro-Pain, First Blood, Hoods and if there was no C19 even Madball. They're currently promoting their third studio album.
https://linktr.ee/CrippledFingers
GOMOLD was formed in 2024 and they presents us chaotic hymns from the occult arts of Black Metal, where we can be abruptly immersed in the abysses of infernal depths and where the Luciferian demons will make a filthy feast with our mortal flesh...
GOMOLD's debut demo is titled "DEMO-MMXXIV" where you can be swallowed by three hymns of impure agony, where perverse melodies vomited with blasphemous blood on the filthy altars of the profane ceremonies of death. GOMOLD's debut demo will be released soon on Cassette format by Murder Records with a edition limited to 50 hand-numbered copies...
Satanik Filthy On... Nasty Christianity Off...
Demo Cassette limited to 50 hand-numbered copies
Tracklist:
01 - Örvénylő Sötétség [05:22]
02 - Zugló Démona [04:34]
03 - Fekete Mocsár [07:34]
All music composed by Crotalos and Lucius.
All lyrics written by Crotalos and Mandragoea.
Made in the Zvgloian Cave.
Recorded and mixed: Tas Balint Pataki and Attila Csihar.
Special Thanks to Daniel „Schleki” Schlekman, David Deak and Endrion.
Layout done by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Release date april 4th 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
Pre Order will open soon
The Zvgloian Heretics:
Crotalos [Guitars]
Mandragora [Vocals]
Lucius [Drums]
Big Chris [Bass]
https://gomold.bandcamp.com/album/demo-mmxxiv-2?mc_cid=37aae728bf&mc_eid=20155afc03
www.murder-records.eu
Fulaing released two-song debut, An End Held Dear, on February 5. Streaming now on all digital platforms, as well as available on cassette via Bandcamp, An End Held Dear is a grand introduction to a talented new band that is sure to command listener attention right ouft of the gate!
Recorded over 2024 in the band’s home studio, located on the Historic Isabella Bowen Henderson property, tucked away amongst lush hidden gardens in the heart of Raleigh, NC, An End Held Dear seeks to showcase what Fulaing has to offer! The title track bleeds between blackened folk and melodic death metal, while "Like Deserts Dream Of Rain" draws from funeral doom and DSBM to create a cinematic soundscape, all of which serves as accompaniment to the grief and suffering of existence while longing for something more.
Formed in the last gasps of 2023, Raleigh, North Carolina’s Fulaing channels suffering into a soundscape of loss, melancholia and a longing for more. Taking inspiration from black metal, folk, funeral doom, and melo death to conjure the resonance of grief and sorrow.
FFO: Katatonia, Insomnium,
Wolves In The Throne Room, Agalloch,Virgin Black
The official video for the title track, "An End Held Dear," was released previously and is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1BgHQMFZY
Track Listing:
1. An End Held Dear
2. Like Deserts Dream of Rain
Credits:
Logan Holloway - Guitar, Keys, Vocals, Engineer, Artwork
Todd Houck - Guitars, Vocals
Joel Willis - Drums
EYN - Bass
Laura Mooney - Violin
Nate Stokes - Resonator, Synth, Backing Vocals
Jordan King - Guitar Solo
Ryan Masecar - Mastering
Smara Kand - Music Videos
Line-Up:
Logan Holloway - Guitar, Keys, Vocals (ex Mo’ynoq)
Todd Houck - Guitars, Vocals
Joel Willis - Drums
EYN - Bass (Nganga, Nocurous Lust, Cyperian)
Laura Mooney - Violin (Black Bouquet)
Nate Stokes - Resonator, Synth, Backing Vocals (Nganga, Noctomb)
https://fulaing.bandcamp.com/album/an-end-held-dear-cassingle
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of Dodheimsgard, Oranssi Pazuzu, Schammasch and the like…. For fans of Dodheimsgard, Oranssi Pazuzu, Schammasch and the like….
Tracklist:
01 Cthrl
02 Squid Pro Quo
03 Abysmal Quatrain
04 Transformation
05 The Illusion of Control
06 Mantra
Long before the name Cthuluminati cast its shadow over the Dutch metal scene, the story began with Marquis. This solo project, initiated in 2005 by ambitious musician and visionary Devi Hisgen, gave rise to a torrent of atmospheric and experimental black metal. With a relentless creative drive, Devi quickly built a loyal following, earning critical acclaim for his work. However, side projects and live collaborations with other bands led to a temporary pause for Marquis.
Still, the desire to bring his music to the stage never faded. Determined to revive his solo work in a live setting, Devi began searching for like-minded musicians who could bring his vision to life. After a period of trial and error, the lineup took shape with Rami Wohl on guitar and Stefan Strausz on bass. Together, they started playing shows and creating new material. The input from his bandmates added a fresh dynamic to the music, gradually steering it into new, uncharted territory.
When their drummer left due to personal reasons, the band faced a pivotal moment. By then, the music had evolved into an eclectic fusion of styles that transcended the roots of Marquis. Embracing this new direction, the group decided to start anew, rebranding themselves as Cthuluminati. The name signified not only a fresh beginning but also a commitment to boundless creativity, untethered by genre or expectation.
Armed with new material but lacking a permanent drummer, the band invited Rick Lieffering, drummer of black-folk metal band Fenris, to join them in the studio. Rick recorded the entirety of Reliqideus—their ambitious debut album—and also played drums for several live shows. Around the same time, Cthuluminati released their first single, "El Lizard Birth" (2016), a track written during the Marquis era. The song served as a harbinger of their transformation: a journey from atmospheric black ’n roll to the eclectic, psychedelic, and avant-garde metal that defines Cthuluminati today.
The search for a permanent drummer, however, continued. After an extensive search, the band found their perfect match in Seth van de Loo, the former drummer of Dutch death metal band Severe Torture. Seth, seeking a new creative direction, was immediately captivated by Cthuluminati’s demos. His arrival marked a turning point, as the band entered a new phase of both musical and personal synergy. By the time Reliqideus was officially released in 2019, Seth had joined the lineup, solidifying Cthuluminati as a cohesive and formidable force. The album’s blend of diverse influences created a unique and cohesive sound, earning glowing reviews from online metal outlets and enthusiastic responses from live audiences.
Complete once more, the four-headed entity of Cthuluminati was more determined than ever. They played numerous shows, including opening slots for Carach Angren and Rotting
Christ, and set their sights on recording a follow-up album. Their second album, Tentacula, is set for release in March 2025 and promises to dive even deeper into their signature mix of psychedelic, avant-garde, and progressive metal. The result is a soundscape where the boundaries between black metal, sludge, and experimental elements dissolve into a hypnotic realm.
Cthuluminati’s mission remains clear: to create music without limits—a space where the absurd meets the sublime, and innovation reigns supreme.
https://www.facebook.com/Cthuluminati
After 3 EPs and while preparing its debut album to be released later in 2025, NOIRSUAIRE (Black Metal - South West of France) returns with a new EP called "The Wrath Of The Silent Temples". It features 4 tracks of old fashioned Black Metal in the vein of Bekhira, Sargeist, Gorgoroth. For this release which must be considered a preludium to the first Noirsuaire album which is currently being recorded, Noirsuaire mastermind N is once again joined by drummer Agravh (ex ACOD, Beyond The Permafrost) but this time another contribution has been called: Mildrac who plays church organ interludes.
https://khaoszophy.com/
Standard jewel case CD with Obi, limited edition to 300 copies
Genre: Death Black Metal
Country: México
Release date: February 11th 2025
The band was founded in 2016 in the city of León, Guanajuato (Mexico).
At the end of 2018 they released a promo demo "Initiation" with the following lineup:
Slaughter lord (drums)
Blasphemous demigod (guitar)
Sadoghoul (vocals)
In 2022 the demo is released again in cassette format by the Dark Recollections label. The debut album Desecration Rotten Corpse is recorded between June and July 2024, and will be released by the Death in Pieces Records label in early 2025.
This is an album dedicated to blasphemy, dark and rotten sound towards the abysses.
Tracklist:
Baptized
Blasphemous Priest
Perpetual Cult Of Perversion
Evil Domain
Obscurity
Hossana In The Abyss
Segregation of The Morbid Cross
CD limited to 300 copies
Recording credits:
All music were performed and recorded by Manifestum Darkness
Recorded between June and July 2024
Credits:
Art by: Marga Menchaca
Layout by Ernesto Montero @ Brutal Design
https://www.facebook.com/deathinpiecesrecs/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Manifestum-darkness/100064140368032/
Obscureviolence have forged a terrifying, dark and thick sound by taking the best elements of death and black metal. It's not all brute force either as the songwriting is surprisingly well thought out and flows smoothly too. It's a release meant for repeat listens. No Clean Singing premiered their title track which can be found at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/12/23/an-ncs-premiere-obscureviolence-refuting-the-flesh/
Excerpt - "a swiftly changing kaleidoscope of unhinged yet still groovesome savagery that by turns is berserk and brazen, demented and dismal, feral and exultant, thuggish and freakish"
OBSCUREVIOLENCE- “REFUTING THE FLESH”
For
fans of - Crypts
of Despair, Mgla, Skaphos, Morbid Angel, Viande, Burial Hordes, Saevus Finis
Featuring members of the death metal band Horror God, Obscureviolence are a new entity channelling the darkest and vilest sounds of black and death metal. They've brought elements of the two styles together, the raw, acerbic edge of black metal and the fearsome heft of death metal. They go hand-in-hand with their distinct features enhancing the overall sound, which comes off as surprisingly cohesive and powerful. As intimidating and loathsome their music is, which becomes a force of nature when they go on a rampage, they do know the importance of pacing and make sure to let the darker parts come to the fore and add a mysterious, ominous aura to the proceedings and also let the subtle dissonance seep deeper into the subconscious. For a debut, their songs are remarkably well-constructed and balanced, without letting go of their capacity for wanton mayhem, while heralding the coming of a new kind of power.
Line up:
Sergey B. (Horror God) - Bass guitar, vocals
Sergey T. (Horror God) - Guitar
Dmitry L. - Drums
Artwork - S.TkN. (Sergey T.)
Track listing
1. Exodus
2. Refuting the Flesh
3. Source of Life
4. Spiritual Agony
5. The Absurdity of Existence
6. Pulse of Subconscious Cruelty
Release date - February 14th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/obscurefcknviolence
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Label: Comatose Music
Release Date: March 7th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cryptopsy | Suffocation | Unfathomable Ruination | Bludgeoned
I lean over your bed and stare down into those frantic, desperate eyes that scream silently from the red chaos of your face; all those smooth planes and protruding features transformed – as if by magic – into a shattered topography of suppurating sinkholes, shards and splinters, tattered musculature and tiny remnants of skin. An endlessly fascinating dreamscape of wounds! Meanwhile your entrails coil and glisten like enchanted serpents and white bones stand out, tall and proud, hard towers against a pleasing backdrop of sanguine softness. I give you a reassuring smile, exercising my best bedside manner before moving on to the next patient. All is going well…
A strike force formed by veterans of a thousand campaigns beyond the boundaries of morality and civilised society, members of Vituperate, Purulent Necrosis, Anal Stabwound and many more, Chordoma are here to deliver a horrifying assault of brutal death metal, a self-titled EP of merciless, scalding intensity. Beginning in a blinding blur of precision drumming and menacing, circling riffs, ‘Medically Induced Asphyxiation’ proceeds to land blow after jarring blow – shaking the brain and loosening the teeth – a no holds barred welcome to the carnage to come. ‘Innermost Intestinal Exposure’ will have worshippers of brutality in raptures as it erupts in deranged violence, delivering riffs like incisive stab wounds and touches of inventive cruelty that only the most accomplished practitioners of sonic devastation are capable. As this masterful display of the utmost extremity continues from track to track, instruments are wielded as implements of pain infliction and each element of the Chordoma sound moves with cold precision - locking, releasing, spinning, engaging, dissecting - a machine of insane design and perverse purpose…and within the claustrophobic onslaught, the surging waves of liquidised and putrefied bodies, moments of twisted genius gleam like baited hooks, drawing you back into the organised chaos of blood and agony time after time after time.
Adorned in the cruel and visceral artwork of Wong Sinting Death (Apogean, Hysterectomy, Chainsaw Disgorgement etc) and mixed and mastered to gore-soaked perfection by Travis Cook (Human Excoriation, Vituperate) at Unique Sound Design, the Chordoma EP, featuring five tracks of supreme brutal death metal, will be unleashed by Comatose Music on March 7th. This titanic collection of meticulously sculpted sadism will set the standards for all pretenders to the throne of relentless, rapacious destruction that follow in its wake. Nothing has prepared you for this…
Line-up:
Justin D. - Vocals
Blake S. – Guitars/Bass
Nikhil T. – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557678156083
U.S. Traditional Heavy Metal quintet, PREHISTORIA, have released CRYPTIC HALO, their first full-length album, on CD and digital formats via Bandcamp, as well as on the usual streaming platforms. StormSpell Records will release the album February 15 on CD. The vinyl LP version will be released by Alone Records in the Spring.
FFO: Blind Guardian, Persuader, Iced Earth, Manticora
Prehistoria had this to say about Cryptic Halo:
"We are thrilled to announce the completion of our debut album, Cryptic Halo. This project has been a true labor of love, forged through countless hours of passion, dedication, and focused effort. Rooted in traditional heavy metal, Cryptic Halo weaves in elements of power, thrash, and black metal to create a sound that’s both classic and dynamic. Crafted by devoted fans of heavy metal, for heavy metal fans, it stands as a celebration of the genre we hold so dear. It’s been a challenging yet rewarding journey, and we can’t wait to share this milestone with you as we prepare for its release."
Track
Listing:
1. Futile Invocation of Cosmic Acknowledgement
2. Rise
3. Salvation Denied
4. Obsidian Gateways
5. Everlasting Legacy
6. Paradise Lost
7. Crown of the Resolute
8. Crucible of Shadows
9. Dreamchaser
Bio:
Prehistoria is a traditional heavy metal band hailing from the American Midwest, combining the raw power of classic metal with influences from power, thrash, and black metal. Their sound is steeped in the genre’s roots, delivering crushing riffs and soaring melodies with a sharp, modern edge that feels both familiar and new.
Cryptic Halo Credits:
All songs (except "Futle Invocation...") written and performed by Prehistoria.
"Futile Invocation of Cosmic Acknowledgement" written and produced by Dan Wagoner.
Lyrics by Alonso Donoso.
Produced, tracked, and engineered by Dan Wagoner.
Drums recorded by Joe Viers at Sonic Lounge Studios.
Additional guitars recorded by Ethan Vawter.
Bass recorded by Ian Bender.
Mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio.
Album art by Adam Burke.
Logo design by Chris Hurst.
Additional design by Alonso Donoso and Ian Bender.
Line-Up:
Alonso “Zo” Donoso - Vocals
Shaun Cothron - Guitar
Max Otworth - Guitar
Ian Bender - Bass
Cody Johns - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/prehistoriaband
Their debut album "DOOMERISM" will be released on June 2025 in partnership with BLOODROCK RECORDS and will be out in LP, digipakCD and digital format.
With influences as diverse as CATHEDRAL, GOATSNAKE, TYPE O NEGATIVE, DANZIG, TIAMAT, AGANOOR moves from the Eternal City creating an oppressive Doom Metal wrapped in a gothic breeze, and blended with the retro tones of the rawest of Stoner Rock.
Their music is claustrophobic, yet hypnotic, a Doom Metal characterized by massive, down-tuned riffs and psychedelic atmosphere.
Dan, Anth, Stephen and Alex are the protagonists behind AGANOOR, and they are about to present their music, which appears like a heavy ritual shrouded in mist on the shores of a lake.
Comments AGANOOR:
“We’re glad to announce we’ve joined forces with My Kingdom Music and that BloodRock Records will be the official partner of our release. We are beyond stoked to become part of the incredible legacy. We can't wait to share our music and everything we're working on with as many people as possible!".
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/aganoorband
Montréal
(CA) - THE RETICENT, one of the most
emotionally gripping and thought-provoking bands in progressive metal, will
make their Canadian debut at PROGSTORM FESTIVAL in
Montréal on August 10, 2025. This will also mark their first-ever
international performance, making their set a must-see event for progressive
music fans. Led by multi-instrumentalist Chris Hathcock, The Reticent is
renowned for their deeply immersive concept albums, weaving intricate
storytelling with intense musicality.
Their latest album, The Oubliette, is a favorite among the ProgStorm team; a devastatingly powerful piece of progressive storytelling that guides listeners through the seven stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Highly praised by fans of Opeth, Katatonia, and Swallow the Sun, The Oubliette has cemented The Reticent’s place as one of the most emotionally impactful bands in the genre.
The Reticent has previously performed at the legendary ProgPower USA XXII in 2023, where they left a lasting impression on audiences. They have also shared the stage with notable acts such as Insomnium, Swallow the Sun, Cynic, Elvenking, and Seven Spires, further solidifying their reputation as a force in progressive metal.
A few words from James Nelson, also member of progressive metal band Nospūn, on their participation in ProgStorm Festival:
"Greetings everyone! All of us in The Reticent look very much forward to playing ProgStorm’s inaugural concert in the beautiful city of Montreal. This will be our very first time not only playing in Canada, but playing
internationally as well, and we couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to knock both off of our bucket list! We can’t wait to share with you what will certainly be an emotionally charged and devastating performance featuring new music from the upcoming albums! We promise to give you every single bit of energy
we have—even if it kills us. Thank you to everyone who has supported us alongthe way, and we hope to see you there!" -James Nelson, The Reticent
Visit the band's ProgStorm page at https://www.progstorm.com/the-reticent
The ProgStorm Festival, presented by The Progspace and organized by Metal Shed Productions and collaborators, will be Canada’s first-ever festival dedicated entirely to the progressive metal genre. Scheduled for August 9th and 10th, 2025, this festival is set to showcase a diverse range of progressive metal sub-genres, from the classic sounds to the most experimental and extreme.
About The Progspace
The Progspace is an international platform dedicated to celebrating progressive music across various genres. From reviews and interviews to concert reports, The Progspace brings together a community of progressive music enthusiasts who share a passion for the genre. Their mission is to promote progressive music and support both emerging and established artists.
About Metal Shed Productions
Metal Shed Productions is a Montreal-based production company focused on supporting and promoting emerging local metal bands. Their goal is to provide a platform for new artists to reach wider audiences, while also organizing events that highlight the diversity of the metal community.
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Founder and guitarist Michael Amott says about PAPER TIGER:
“With 'Blood Dynasty' almost here, we thought we’d sneak in another single for you! PAPER TIGER is a personal favorite—these riffs are so much fun to play. The accompanying video was shot on a German airfield last summer with our visionary friend Mumpi. Turn it up and let it roar!”
"Blood Dynasty", the 12th studio album from ARCH ENEMY, delivers 11 brand-new tracks brimming with the band’s signature crushing guitar riffs and intense guttural energy.
Stream PAPER TIGER here: https://archenemy.lnk.to/PaperTiger-SingleNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcVz1KXkzoA
Melancholy
and decadence are the keywords of "THE LAST DANCE",
the first single ETERNAL WHITE TREES unveil from
their second album "PRELUDE OF LOSS".
Here is the official video for the song: https://youtu.be/B_aEqxjItJQ
With their debut album "The Summer That Will Not Come", the Sicilian ETERNAL WHITE TREES gave lovers of melancholy their ideal soundtrack. Now they return to the scene with "Prelude Of Loss", an album that accentuates that soul even more, enriching it with new shades with an always decadent tone, able to carry the listener who have their musical background in the most painful dynamics of Metal and Post Rock of KATATONIA, SWALLOW THE SUN and NOVEMBRE, into a musical universe made of sad atmospheres and obscure melodies.
Born once again from the meeting of the three souls (Gerassimos Evangelou - LORD AGHEROS, Antonio Billé - ANAKONDA and Andrea Tilenni - FEAR OF ETERNITY, ex SINOATH), "Prelude Of Loss" will be released on digipak CD and digital format via My Kingdom Music on March 21st, 2025 and you can PRE-Order it at: https://t.ly/BBFUp
This new album will dig into your soul in search of the most hidden emotions!
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"Ophidian Memory is pleased to announce that it has signed with WormHoleDeath to bring Carrion Lord to the physical realm!" said Blake "As a solo project, it can be difficult to handle everything that comes with being a band and a business at the same time, and WormHoleDeath will help tremendously in my reach and output."
The Vision Behind Ophidian Memory
Ophidian Memory, born from the creative mind of Blake Lamoureux, uses a foundation of melodic death metal while seamlessly blending subgenres like black metal, thrash, progressive metal, and metalcore. The Vision Behind Ophidian Memory
Ophidian Memory, born from the creative mind of Blake Lamoureux, uses a foundation of melodic death metal while seamlessly blending subgenres like black metal, thrash, progressive metal, and metalcore.
Each album unfolds tales set in a sprawling fictional universe, where beings of light and dark are locked in eternal conflict—plotting to destroy humanity, each other, and Existence itself.
Exploring "Carrion Lord"
"Carrion Lord" is a dive into the dark and brutal, a relentless morphing display of new territories for Ophidian Memory, as well as brief moments that hearken to previous stages of its sound. Contextually, it is a record that expands in-depth on the narrative aspect of Existence, with new characters, factions, and locations to build a world primed for fantasy and metal enjoyers alike. It is a product of passion that shows the growth of Ophidian Memory over the last three years and is but another bar to reach above for the next record.
Sonically, "Carrion Lord" captures the raw aggression and intricate melodies fans expect while showcasing a fearless exploration of new dimensions. This release solidifies Ophidian Memory as a project that blends intensity, narrative depth, and an evolving sound.
Tracklist
:
1. The Mausoleum
2. Hunger of Your Deceased Deity
3. A Jewel in Grocinia
4. Fleshbinding Ritual
5. Carrion Lord
6. The Murder on Warforged Soil
7. Hollowed
8. Sculptors of Seraphic Tributes
9. Kept from Dust
10. Bloodborne
With "Carrion Lord" ready to make waves in the metal scene, Ophidian Memory’s journey is only beginning. Mark your calendars for March 21, 2025, and get ready to immerse yourself in a world where fantasy and ferocity collide.
https://ophidianmemory.bandcamp.com/
Belgian
Death Metallers DODENGOD unleashed their new full-length album "HERALDS
OF A DYING AGE" on February 28 via Pest Records
Belgian Death Black Metal force DODENGOD returns with a vengeance! Following their 2018 debut album "Salvation", the band is set to release their highly anticipated sophomore full-length, "Heralds of a Dying Age", on February 28 via Pest Records.
Founded by YvS (guitars, bass) and SVN (vocals, lyrics, mix, mastering), DODENGOD expanded its ranks in 2021 with the addition of drummer Barduk, bringing a new level of intensity and organic brutality to their sound. "Heralds of a Dying Age" is a ten-track symphony of death and destruction, fully recorded and mixed by the band itself. This new opus marks a shift from the industrial elements found on "Salvation", embracing a more traditional and raw Death Black Metal sound infused with subtle Doom Metal influences.
With themes deeply rooted in death, anti-religion, and misanthropy, "Heralds of a Dying Age" delivers an unrelenting sonic assault that is both old-school and unflinchingly dark. Fans can expect a crushing experience where ferocity meets haunting atmospheres, solidifying DODENGOD as a force to be reckoned with in the extreme metal scene.
Prepare for devastation—"Heralds of a Dying Age" arrives on February 28 via Pest Records!
Pre-order now: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dodengod-heralds-of-a-dying-age
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https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
THE
PIT
presents Award-Winning Documentary 'THE HISTORY OF METAL AND HORROR'
“In a way, 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is about the end of the world, and I think that might be why Leatherface and 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' are so appealing in heavy metal. It's really apocalyptic and Leatherface is an apocalyptic character. I think that's where you start to see an overlap with the interests of a lot of heavy metal music."
As new addition to its list of programs, THE PIT VOD platform presents "The History Of Metal And Horror", a documentary that explores the history of heavy metal music and horror, and how the two genres ultimately crossed paths.
Various metal artists share their first introduction to horror, their favorite horror films, their influences, and more. Horror film icons also discuss how their films have influenced the horror genre, their connections to metal artists, and why metal and horror work well together
The electrifying fusion of heavy metal and horror, showing how these two genres have inspired, influenced, and collided to create a lasting cultural phenomenon.
Directed by Mike Schiff, this captivating documentary explores the origins of heavy metal, its profound ties to classic horror cinema, and its enduring cultural impact. "The History of Metal and Horror" offers a deep dive into the dynamic relationship between these two iconic genres, featuring insights from over sixty prominent figures in metal and horror.
Adding a creative twist, the film weaves its chapters with segments of a post-apocalyptic short film hosted by horror legend Michael Berryman. Interviewees include some of the biggest names in the industries, such as Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, John Carpenter, John 5, Tom Savini, Kirk Hammett, Dave Mustaine, Corey Taylor, Kane Hodder, Jonathan Davis, Scott Ian, Doug Bradley, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, and Chris Jericho.
and even watch their official lyric video below.
CRYPTS OF DESPAIR - “WE BELONG IN THE GRAVE”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Mgla, Replicant, Skaphos, Krypts, Obscureviolence, Dead
Congregation, Saevus Finis
Lithuanian band Crypts of Despair have exemplified playing death metal in a fierce, ruthless and ball-bustingly heavy way. Just when you think they had perfected their sound bolstering it with all the right dark and vile elements on their highly acclaimed previous album, they decided to hone their sound some more on their new one. Clearly, they are not content to bask in the glory of their past efforts no matter how good they are, and have evolved and refined their sound further. The new album retains the band's intimidating demeanour but now the music is comparatively more condensed, visceral, intuitive, and even displays hints of melancholy. The execution remains forceful and the riffs are compelling enough to commit crimes, egged on by the relentless barrage of seemingly multi-tongued demonic vocals. The band functions as a unit better now than ever before with a thick, cohesive sound that drives the point home. This is sheer aural terror and they have become veritable masters of it. "We Belong In The Grave" is a bold step ahead for Crypts of Despair, maintaining the band's high standards while updating the sound for maximum impact and utter devastation.
Line up
Jonas Kanevičius - Vocals
Dovydas Auglys - Guitars
Tautvydas Kartanas - Guitars
Simonas Jurkevičius - Bass
Henri Mäll - Drums
Artwork by Vainius "Anomaly" Česnauskas
Track listing
1. We Belong In The Grave
2. Terminal Dias
3. Obliteration Of The Impure
4. Expulsion To Purgatory
5. Undisillusioned
6. Seizures
7. Precipitous
8. Gaze Of The Adversary
9. Burial Of The World
Release date - April 18th, 2025
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Worthülsen und Peinlichkeiten sind garantiert!
Bisher hat man Sataninchen wohl häufig als unterreflektierenden Blödelbarden vernommen, wenngleich seine Inhalte immer auch aus einer Missbilligung der Gegebenheiten resultierten. Natürlich zelebrierte er dies selten mit dem erhobenen Zeigefinger. Nun besinnt sich der hinter der Kunstfigur Sataninchen stehende Typ aber wieder mehr auf die Ursprünge seiner kreativen Tätigkeiten und präsentiert uns mit dem Song "Ich kann Kanzler" ein Fundamentalärgernis in Form einer überparteilichen Gesellschaftskritik. Ob der Zeigefinger erhoben oder richtungsweisend ist, scheint nicht ganz klar, aber der Text funktioniert über verschiedene Ebenen, lässt Interpretationsspielraum und scheint dennoch eindeutig. Das alles gepaart mit den typischen Sataninchen-Lyrik-Insignien von erwachsenen Kinderreimen.
Das Cover-Design unterlegt das neue musikalische Werk. Ein Adler der von Geiern zerfetzt wird, ein Kampf ist entbrannt. Im Hintergrund sehen wir einen Agitator, Politiker, Redner, Prediger in seiner Funktion des Verkündens und Präsentators. Alles spielt sich einer nahezu religös anmutenden Kathedrale der Macht ab, die eher einer Echo- und Horchkammer mit überdimensionierten Lautsprechern oder Horchmuscheln erinnert. Das neue Heiligtum sind Götzenbilder wie Heuschrecken und Geier. Alles mutet an, als wäre es vom Zeremonienmeister durchkonzipiert und orchestriert, selbst das Chaos im Vordergrund scheint von der Person auf dem Podest dirigiert.
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Mit ihrer neuen Single „KEIN HAPPY END“ (VÖ: 14.02.2025)
schlagen SICK OF SOCIETY ein neues Kapitel in ihrer
Bandgeschichte auf. Die Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre haben ihre Sicht auf
die Welt fundamental verändert. Die Band, die seit jeher für soziale
Gerechtigkeit, Antifaschismus und gegen die krankhaften Auswüchse des
Kapitalismus eintritt, widmet sich nun den drängenden Herausforderungen der
Gegenwart – und richtet dabei den Fokus auf ein brandaktuelles Thema: die
künstliche Intelligenz.„Kein Happy End“ ist ein flammender Appell, nicht blind der scheinbaren Verheißung technologischen Fortschritts zu folgen. Die Menschheit zeigt sich einmal mehr geblendet von ihrer eigenen Hybris und der Illusion einer strahlenden Zukunft. Doch die schimmernden Oberflächen verbergen die düsteren Schattenseiten: Überwachung, Abhängigkeit und die Erosion menschlicher Werte. „Auch wenn es so schön glänzt, das hier hat kein Happy End.“
Auch 2025 bleibt SICK OF SOCIETY ihrer kompromisslosen musikalischen Haltung treu: Die Musik ist weiterhin schnell, direkt und mit einer ungebrochenen Wut im Bauch. Doch auf „Kein Happy End“ zeigt sich eine neue, tiefere Facette ihres Politpunks. Die Verzweiflung angesichts eines scheinbar übermächtigen Gegners ist spürbar, genauso wie die unermüdliche Entschlossenheit, nicht aufzugeben. Melodiösere Passagen und komplexere Arrangements verstärken den emotionalen Nachhall und machen die Dringlichkeit der Thematik greifbar. Der Sound ist wütend, düster und gleichzeitig erschreckend aktuell.
Mit „Kein Happy End“ liefert SICK OF SOCIETY den Soundtrack zur Dystopie. Es ist nicht nur ein Song, sondern eine Warnung – ein Spiegel unserer Gesellschaft, die sich im Rausch des Fortschritts verliert. Es ist ein verzweifelter Versuch, der Katastrophe zu entkommen.
"Kein Happy End" auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/2D5CWNAd3Dk
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Kraków (PL) - Polish Death Metal duo, DORMANT ORDEAL, are set to release TOOTH AND NAIL, the band's first for Willowtip and fourth overall, on April 18! The album will be available on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats, and follows widely praised third album, The Grand Scheme of Things.
The first single, "HALO OF BONES," was the first song written for the album. Guitarist Maciej Nieścioruk notes that "it was composed shortly after the release of 2021's The Grand Scheme of Things" and "features the outstanding work of Chason Westmoreland who played drums on the whole album." Nieścioruk goes on to say that "Halo of Bones" " is straightforward and to the point. Enjoy the first taste of Tooth and Nail."
"Halo of Bones" is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0DNX0wnpCo
"We worked hard to make this fourth album happen," says guitarist Maciej Nieścioruk. "JNS Studio once again did a great job tuning in to our suggestions, while having the support of Willowtip gave us freedom to focus on creativity without being distracted. Stick around and have a listen once it's released, might be just what you're looking for."
Dormant Ordeal was formed in 2008. Their debut album It Rains, It Pours (2013), showcased the aggressive and energetic sound, while We Had It Coming (2016) refined their songwriting with thought-out structures and darker textures. Released in 2021, The Grand Scheme of Things was critically acclaimed for blending brutal precision with blackened influences and a thought-provoking lyrical approach. Over the years, known for their intense and atmospheric approach to the genre, the band has established itself as a impactful entity in the modern death metal scene.
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/dormant-ordeal.aspx
https://dormantordeal.bandcamp.com/album/tooth-and-nail
Track
Listing:1. Wije i Mary, Pt. 1
2. Halo of Bones
3. Horse Eater
4. Orphans
5. Solvent
6. Dust Crown
7. Against the Dying of the Light
8. Everything That Isn't Silence Is Trivial
9. Wije i Mary, Pt. 2
Credits:
Music, lyrics and arrangements by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Drums arrangements by Chason Westmoreland and Maciej Nieścioruk.
All tracks except drums recorded by Paweł Grabowski at JNS Studio in Warsaw.
Drums played and recorded by Chason Westmoreland.
Guest vocals on "Solvent" by Dominic Nucciarone recorded by Samuel Dufour.
Artwork by See Machine.
Art direction by Maciej Nieścioruk.
Design by Michał “Xaay” Loranc and Maciej Nieścioruk.
Line-up:
Maciej Nieścioruk - Guitars
Maciej Proficz - Vocals
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https://lenaxmetal.bandcamp.com/album/hellscape-vol-i-the-voices
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/5XlYsXicjICKsXy1BeDTGy
Lenax vocalist/guitarist, Venomous, had this to say about the new EP:
"The Hellscape project was spawned entirely by accident. Our drummer Bones sent in an audition video when we were first getting together, something that sounded very dirty and ethereal. As he was in a doom project, I assumed it was original material, until I heard the main riff from 'Leeches.' This gave me the effect of taking something very familiar to me as a songwritier and making it seem alien, as if distorted through a transmission from the underworld.
I pulled up the core tracks of some of the songs that we'd done - two songs from the upcoming album Infection, and a remaster of one of the songs form the 2023 Purity EP. Every track I did something a little different with the effects and tempo. One song is actually sped up as it was down pitched, something that may seem counterintuitive. The idea was to give this feeling as if the songs were transmitted across a void, resulting in this obscured, horror movie soundtrack kind of effect.
"New song, 'The Voices,' was purpose built with this sort of transmission in mind. It takes this idea of hearing diabolic voices from the underworld, and creates an epic story of ascension and destruction. During the demo process, I pitch shifted my voice down for this monstrous effect. What I wasn't expecting is to find a comfort zone for my voice in this very low register. What you hear on my vocals on is entirely natural, something that in turn made its way to some of the tracks on the new album. Big thanks to Silas for this, not just on coaching me into this low vocal range, but his impeccable work on the audio."
Lenax is currently putting the finishing touches on the songs that will become Infection, the band's first full-length album. It is targeted for release during the summer months this year.
In reflecting on the forthcoming full-length, Venomous notes that "Infection is an album almost two years in the making. Continuing with themes that blur the lines between fantasy and reality, Lovecraftian cosmic horror and the occult, the theme of the album is one of infernal rather than divine intervention into humanity. with an unmistakeable passion for individuality."
"This is our most punishing work yet," says Lenax guitarist Mordred. "It’s faster, harsher, and more diseased than anything we’ve ever done." The theme of the album is represented in song titles such as 'Plague Bringer,' 'Hive Mind Apocalypse,' and 'We Are Legion' - a song that tells the story of an unfortunate and overly zealous mage who calls upon greater forces than his own, only to succomb to the very denizens of hell he dared unleash."
Track
Listing:1 - The Voices
2 - Inversion (Hellscape Remix)
3 - Leeches (Hellscape Remix)
4 - We Are Legion (Hellscape Remix)
Digital Edition Bonus Tracks:
5. Inversion (Remaster Preview)
6. Leeches
7. We Are Legion
EP Credits:
"The Voices"
Music and Lyrics by Venomous
Produced by Silas Terry
Vocals: Venomous
Additional clean vocals: Tarisian
Guitars: Venomous
Keys: Tarisian
Bass: Leo Grave
Drums: Richard Bennett
"Inversion"
Music and Lyrics by Venomous
Album Version Produced by Ilarion Ivanenko
Hellscape Remix Produced by Silas Terry
Vocals: Venomous
Guitars: Venomous
Bass: Hephaestus
Drums: Profana
Hellscape Remix: Venomous
"Leeches"
Music by Venomous and Runatyr
Lyrics by Venomous
Album Version Produced by Ilarion Ivanenko
Hellscape Remix Produced by Silas Terry
Vocals: Venomous
Guitars: Venomous and Mordred
Bass: Mordred
Drums: Maikon Queiroz
Hellscape Remix: Venomous
"We Are Legion"
Music by Venomous and Mordred
Lyrics by Venomous
Album Version Produced by Ilarion Ivanenko
Hellscape Remix Produced by Silas Terry
Vocals: Venomous
Guitars: Venomous and Mordred
Bass: Mordred
Drums: Maikon Queiroz
Hellscape Remix: Venomous
Cover art by David DeFigueredo
Lenax logo by Illia Karpenko
Lenax is:
Venomous - Vocals / Guitar
Mordred - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Bones - Bass
Bio:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. The project evolved from a solo act into a full-fledged band known by a growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from a wide array of black metal bands from established titans to the obscure, the "Big Four" of thrash metal, and even a dash of classic heavy acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether dubbed by Venomous as "cosmic horror fueled nightmares.” — an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realization through occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and the impending doom of the Outer Gods.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a
busy year ahead, with two new songs and accompanying music videos already in the works for 2024, preceding a full-length album slated for a
2025 release.
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Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: February 28th 2025
Rottweiler Records have announced another exciting new addition to their diverse roster of extreme metal talent with a powerful, positive message. Refiner, hailing from the west coast of Canada, is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist, composer and lyricist Christopher Adam and his first release for Rottweiler comes in the form of the Return To Dust EP. Fusing brutal metalcore, electronics and ambience with Adam’s unique creative approach, opening title track ‘Return To Dust’ is an uplifting call to shed the unwanted pressures and complications of life and return to the essential simplicity of existence. The heavyweight, muscular riffing blends and contrasts with the irresistible melodies to create something effective and life affirming. Meanwhile second song, ‘Not The End’ is a hard hitting demand for resilience, perseverance and resistance; the punchy rhythms and overpowering vocals urging the listener to face the challenges of life head on, to have courage and fight through the adversities that confront us all. Instrumental versions of the two tracks will also be available, only from the Rottweiler Records Bandcamp page.
The track ‘Return To Dust’ will be available seven days before the official release of this EP, appearing exclusively for one week on For The Rock’s eighth community driven metal and rock compilation album, Wise As Serpents & Innocent As Doves, from February 21st.
The compilation will be available at the For The Rock Bandcamp page.
The full Return To Dust EP will then be available from Rottweiler Records from February 28th. Another Refiner EP will follow in the summer before the full length label debut later in the year.
Every track that Refiner unleash will be accompanied by a video.
Line up:
Christopher Adam – all music, vocals and production/engineering
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/refinermetal
After 12 years, Alabama's CHAOS INCEPTION returns with VENGEANCE EVANGEL, their third, most relentless and unyielding album to date. Out now via Lavadome Productions, the record delivers an unfiltered onslaught of speed and aggression, channeling the raw essence of Brazilian and Floridian death metal. Uncompromising and intense, Vengeance Evangel is a force that demands to be heard at full volume.
Stream the album: https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/vengeance-evangel
Order CD, digital & merch: https://store.lavadome.org/
Tracklist:Artillery of Humwawa
Falsificator
La Niebla en el Cementerio Etrusco
10,000 Dead By Pincer
Vengeance Evangel
Ultima Exitium
Reckoning of the Blade
Thymos Beast
Empire of Prevarication
The Omegaddon
Tusk of the Black Sow
Line up:
Matt Barnes – Guitars
Gary White – Vocals
Kevin Paradis – Session Drums
All music by Matt Barnes
Mixed & mastered by Andrea Petucco at MSTR Sound Studio
Cover art by Dávid Glomba | Illustrations by Nethertemple Designs
Chaos Inception is back. Vengeance Evangel is here.
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“DIMENSÃO HORRENDA” is a colossal return, to say the least, and all you can do is to give it a chance because it’s totally worth it. Continuing its reign of terror, Perversus elevates all Black Metal glory within its tradition with a major boost tribute to evil, wrath, and cruelty. Reminding you all that, VETUS SANGUIS buzz saw riffs are made to invoke darkness and torment, and the grim vocals, fully sung in Portuguese, strip out the flesh from your misery turning it into ice cold dust.
This eerie hypnotic landscape phantomized by draught, despair and aggression stands as a hymn to those who travel in the abyss of their soulless existence. With these ten outstanding songs, VETUS SANGUIS will conquer all listeners and make them beg for pity. We even dare to say, “Dimensão Horrenda” has all to be an instant classic and, for sure, a malicious blood pact with vile rawness will be made to accomplish this vision. Absolutely Vicious! Satanik Ritual On... Religion Bullshit Off...
VETUS SANGUIS - "CAPÍTULO I - DIMENSÃO HORRENDA"
Cassette Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
Tracklist:01. Campos Infernais [04:06]
02. Ódio Viciante [04:33]
03. Gritos Silenciosos [05:03]
04. Trombetas Diabólicas [04:37]
05. The Possibility of Life´s Destruction (Discharge Cover) [01:16]
06. Saturno [04:24]
07. Nada, Faz Sentido [05:10]
08. Dimensão Horrenda [03:36]
09. Jardim de Mármore [04:39]
10. Transcendência [01:30]
All songs, instruments, vocals and lyrics by Perversus.
Mixed and Mastered by Perversus.
Recorded Winter 2023 to Summer 2023 at Sanguinis Cultus Studios.
Artwork and Logo by Blaspher.
Layout by Allefer Rocha.
Promo writings by Aion.
RELEASE DATE 16th April 2025
CASSETTE Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
HELLPACK CD + CASSETTE Limited to 30 copies.
Official Distribution by HELLSTORE EUROPE
Available through Murder Records
Co-released with Helldprod Records
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Hailing from Thane (Mumbai), Eternal Returns is a powerhouse metal band that has been tearing through the scene since 2010. Their name draws inspiration from the ancient Indian philosophical concept of the eternal cycle—birth, life, death, and rebirth—a theme deeply rooted in Indian spirituality. This ethos resonates through their music, lyrics, and identity, forging a sound that is as profound as it is powerful.
Blending the raw aggression of modern metal with hauntingly melodic undertones, Eternal Returns crafts a soundscape that is both destructive and deeply accessible. Their lyrical themes delve into mythology, existentialism, and the human struggle for liberation—a cathartic journey through the endless cycle of existence.
The album artwork is more than a visual—it’s a narrative. Each symbol encapsulates a facet of humanity’s eternal struggle:
Crown – The weight of Pride.
Star (Baphomet) – The slumber of Sloth.
Pig Head – The feast of Gluttony.
Eye with Dollar – The hunger of Greed.
Dagger – The sting of Envy.
Heart – The fire of Lust.
Nuclear – The fury of Wrath.
At the heart of the chaos lies the diamond, encircled by the serpent—an emblem of the band itself. This intricate masterpiece, forged in chaos, symbolizes Eternal Returns’ vision: raw, precious, and ready to unleash its unrelenting might.
Will you face the sins within?
Tracklist:1. Sloth
2. Lust
3. Envy
4. Greed
5. Gluttony
6. Wrath
7. Pride
8. Emasculator
From the crushing grooves of thrash to the soaring melodies of death metal, Eternal Returns transcends boundaries and redefines the limits of heavy music. Their sonic alchemy merges melodic death, metalcore, thrash, and groove into a singular, awe-inspiring force.
Experience the Sins Within
Artwork by the incredible @fajar_rahadian_artwork
Follow Eternal Returns on their journey and join the revolution. The cycle begins anew. Will you dare to enter?
ETERNAL RETURNS ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN TOUR
Eternal Returns is thrilled to hit the road for our debut European Tour! The wait is over! After years of relentless dedication, passion, and unyielding belief in our craft, Eternal Returns is ecstatic to announce our first-ever European Tour!
This isn’t just another chapter in our story, it’s a monumental leap forward, a testament to the hard work, energy, and emotion poured into every riff, every lyric, and every performance.
We’re ready to unleash our raw power and electrifying energy to brand-new audiences across Europe. This is the moment we’ve been working toward, and we’re diving headfirst into the journey of a lifetime.
DAWNING OF SINS – EUROPEAN TOUR 2025
Tour Dates:
14.03 (Friday) – Hospoda Brouk, Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
15.03 (Saturday) – S8 Underground, Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺
16.03 (Sunday) – Collosseum, Košice, Slovakia 🇸🇰
19.03 (Wednesday) – Barrak, Ostrava, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
20.03 (Thursday) – AC Klub, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
21.03 (Friday) – Gustaf Pekarna, Maribor, Slovenia 🇸🇮
22.03 (Saturday) – Club Eks, Split, Croatia 🇭🇷
To the ones who doubted us keep doubting. To the ones who stood by us—this is your victory, too.
This tour is more than a journey; it’s a celebration of resilience, passion, and the unbreakable connection between us and you our supporters, our family. Together, we’re bringing Eternal Returns to the world stage.
https://brutalrecords.com/eternal-returns/
A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! FLESHSPOIL, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release full-length debut album, The Beginning of the End, March 28 on digital format!
Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his role in Arsis, where he played on acclaimed releases such as A Celebration of Guilt and A Diamond for Disease, and toured globally alongside heavyweights like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Cynic, Dying Fetus, Grave, Necrophagist, Napalm Death, and Six Feet Under. Dan Saltzman (bass), hailing from the Bay Area, whose impressive work has been showcased in Illucinus and The Hunt, as well as recent demonstration videos for ESP bass guitars.
Produced and mixed by Brett Portzer (Skinless, Author & Punisher, Arsis), The Beginning of the End consists of six tracks clocking in at 37 minutes. It is the creative vision of Andrews and Van Dyne, who recorded two albums and performed together alongside such notable bands as At The Gates, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sanctuary, Rivers of Nihil, Fates Warning, All That Remains, and many others with their previous band, The Final Sleep. The Beginning of the End additionally includes guest appearances by Kyle Chapman (Aethereus, Blighted Eye), John Judson (Rwake, Scott Kelly), and Petr Oplatka (Illucinus).
Pre-order The
Beginning of the End:
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-endTrack Listing:
1. Bleed Through This Life
2. Skies Turn To Graves
3. Fleshspoil
4. Walking Dead
5. A Frail Demise
6. Born Into Despair
Credits:
Guitar solo and additional chaos on “Bleed Through This Life” by Kyle Chapman of Aethereus and Blighted Eye.
Guitar solo on “Walking Dead” by Petr Oplatka of Illucinus.
Lap steel guitar on “Bleed Through This Life” and “Skies Turn To Graves” by John Judkins of Rwake.
Drum tracking engineered by Brett Portzer at White Lake Music & Post.
Guitar and vocal tracking engineered by Van Dyne/Andrews.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Brett Portzer.
Music and arrangements by Andrews/Van Dyne. Lyrics by Andrews.
Cover art: “L’Umana Fragilità” by Salvator Rosa (1656)
Line-up:
Mike Van Dyne - Drums
Jeff Andrews - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Saltzman - Bass
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBDAr3f_fmQ
Pitchfork is a thrash/death metal band founded in 2020 from Andrea Serra, Sardinian bass player (Kelevra, Korw € Figaw, ex Infantry NL) based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The band's music is inspired by the NWOTM sound but with a death/grind/black component and influenced by bands as Slayer, old Sepultura, Kreator, Cannibal Corpse, Lamb Of God, Vader, Suffocation, Pantera, old Decapitated, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Bolt Thrower and many others.
In 2022, having multiple tracks ready, Andrea decides to record an EP through various collaborations and session players such as Floor Van Kuijk (Korpse NL), Raphael Saini (Cripple Bastards IT), Marco Prij (Cryptosis NL), Marcel Tjepkema (Caedere NL) Adrian Neagoe (ex Tragacanth NL), Jake Shuker (Nargate GE), Vidal Wildeboer (Millstone NL) and Glenn Veldman (Headless Hunter NL).
The next step was then to look for a stable formation to play live, that, after few changes of lineup, has been found in Raaf Atasi, Syrian guitar player (Anomic NL, Paindemonium GE, Onkt NL) which joined Pitchfork in January 2024, participating to the recording sessions of the EP itself, Robb Vrijenhoek (ex Pyaemia NL, ex Disavowed NL, ex Buried NL) and Emanuele Quaranta (Wormodon IT/NL), which, respectively at the drums and voice, joined forces in September and December 2024.
The choice for the name of the EP fell on Horror Trance (completely released the 11th of January 2025 on Bandcamp and available in digital and physical format), composed by 4 modern thrash/death metal tracks, mixed and mastered by Alberto Bandino at Cutfire Mixing Studio, trying to make a point on the conditions of today's society seen as as a collectivity and as a singular, reflecting on how we reached this situation through an internal trip to realize it.
The band is already working on the composition and recording of new tracks for the next release, which will be an album this time, looking for a second guitar player and getting ready to play live and bring destruction around Europe.
https://linktr.ee/pitchforknl
FFO: Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Malevolence, Get the Shot
The clip was filmed last year at the beginning of the summer festival season at the sold-out Lucerna Music Bar, Prague, where CRIPPLED FINGERS performed as the support of Biohazard and Downset.
Video link: https://www.submithub.com/link/crippled-fingers-born-in-failure
CRIPPLED FINGERS is a 4-piece metal band from Prague, CZE.
Released two albums, EP, a lot of video singles and did countless concerts in Czechia and abroad. Their strength is a cheeky and hard live show that allowed them to perform at Brutal Assault, Fajtfest, Czech Death Fest and to support legends such as Guilt Trip, In Other Climes, Worst, Risk It!, No Turning Back, Pro-Pain, First Blood, Hoods and if there was no C19 even Madball. They're currently promoting their third studio album.
https://linktr.ee/CrippledFingers
GOMOLD was formed in 2024 and they presents us chaotic hymns from the occult arts of Black Metal, where we can be abruptly immersed in the abysses of infernal depths and where the Luciferian demons will make a filthy feast with our mortal flesh...
GOMOLD's debut demo is titled "DEMO-MMXXIV" where you can be swallowed by three hymns of impure agony, where perverse melodies vomited with blasphemous blood on the filthy altars of the profane ceremonies of death. GOMOLD's debut demo will be released soon on Cassette format by Murder Records with a edition limited to 50 hand-numbered copies...
Satanik Filthy On... Nasty Christianity Off...
Demo Cassette limited to 50 hand-numbered copies
Tracklist:01 - Örvénylő Sötétség [05:22]
02 - Zugló Démona [04:34]
03 - Fekete Mocsár [07:34]
All music composed by Crotalos and Lucius.
All lyrics written by Crotalos and Mandragoea.
Made in the Zvgloian Cave.
Recorded and mixed: Tas Balint Pataki and Attila Csihar.
Special Thanks to Daniel „Schleki” Schlekman, David Deak and Endrion.
Layout done by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Release date april 4th 2025
Official distribution by Hellstore Europe
Pre Order will open soon
The Zvgloian Heretics:
Crotalos [Guitars]
Mandragora [Vocals]
Lucius [Drums]
Big Chris [Bass]
https://gomold.bandcamp.com/album/demo-mmxxiv-2?mc_cid=37aae728bf&mc_eid=20155afc03
www.murder-records.eu
Fulaing released two-song debut, An End Held Dear, on February 5. Streaming now on all digital platforms, as well as available on cassette via Bandcamp, An End Held Dear is a grand introduction to a talented new band that is sure to command listener attention right ouft of the gate!
Recorded over 2024 in the band’s home studio, located on the Historic Isabella Bowen Henderson property, tucked away amongst lush hidden gardens in the heart of Raleigh, NC, An End Held Dear seeks to showcase what Fulaing has to offer! The title track bleeds between blackened folk and melodic death metal, while "Like Deserts Dream Of Rain" draws from funeral doom and DSBM to create a cinematic soundscape, all of which serves as accompaniment to the grief and suffering of existence while longing for something more.
Formed in the last gasps of 2023, Raleigh, North Carolina’s Fulaing channels suffering into a soundscape of loss, melancholia and a longing for more. Taking inspiration from black metal, folk, funeral doom, and melo death to conjure the resonance of grief and sorrow.
FFO: Katatonia, Insomnium,
Wolves In The Throne Room, Agalloch,Virgin BlackThe official video for the title track, "An End Held Dear," was released previously and is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1BgHQMFZY
Track Listing:
1. An End Held Dear
2. Like Deserts Dream of Rain
Credits:
Logan Holloway - Guitar, Keys, Vocals, Engineer, Artwork
Todd Houck - Guitars, Vocals
Joel Willis - Drums
EYN - Bass
Laura Mooney - Violin
Nate Stokes - Resonator, Synth, Backing Vocals
Jordan King - Guitar Solo
Ryan Masecar - Mastering
Smara Kand - Music Videos
Line-Up:
Logan Holloway - Guitar, Keys, Vocals (ex Mo’ynoq)
Todd Houck - Guitars, Vocals
Joel Willis - Drums
EYN - Bass (Nganga, Nocurous Lust, Cyperian)
Laura Mooney - Violin (Black Bouquet)
Nate Stokes - Resonator, Synth, Backing Vocals (Nganga, Noctomb)
https://fulaing.bandcamp.com/album/an-end-held-dear-cassingle
Format: Digital CD / Physical CDLabel: Independent Release
For fans of Dodheimsgard, Oranssi Pazuzu, Schammasch and the like…. For fans of Dodheimsgard, Oranssi Pazuzu, Schammasch and the like….
Tracklist:
01 Cthrl
02 Squid Pro Quo
03 Abysmal Quatrain
04 Transformation
05 The Illusion of Control
06 Mantra
Long before the name Cthuluminati cast its shadow over the Dutch metal scene, the story began with Marquis. This solo project, initiated in 2005 by ambitious musician and visionary Devi Hisgen, gave rise to a torrent of atmospheric and experimental black metal. With a relentless creative drive, Devi quickly built a loyal following, earning critical acclaim for his work. However, side projects and live collaborations with other bands led to a temporary pause for Marquis.
Still, the desire to bring his music to the stage never faded. Determined to revive his solo work in a live setting, Devi began searching for like-minded musicians who could bring his vision to life. After a period of trial and error, the lineup took shape with Rami Wohl on guitar and Stefan Strausz on bass. Together, they started playing shows and creating new material. The input from his bandmates added a fresh dynamic to the music, gradually steering it into new, uncharted territory.
When their drummer left due to personal reasons, the band faced a pivotal moment. By then, the music had evolved into an eclectic fusion of styles that transcended the roots of Marquis. Embracing this new direction, the group decided to start anew, rebranding themselves as Cthuluminati. The name signified not only a fresh beginning but also a commitment to boundless creativity, untethered by genre or expectation.
Armed with new material but lacking a permanent drummer, the band invited Rick Lieffering, drummer of black-folk metal band Fenris, to join them in the studio. Rick recorded the entirety of Reliqideus—their ambitious debut album—and also played drums for several live shows. Around the same time, Cthuluminati released their first single, "El Lizard Birth" (2016), a track written during the Marquis era. The song served as a harbinger of their transformation: a journey from atmospheric black ’n roll to the eclectic, psychedelic, and avant-garde metal that defines Cthuluminati today.
The search for a permanent drummer, however, continued. After an extensive search, the band found their perfect match in Seth van de Loo, the former drummer of Dutch death metal band Severe Torture. Seth, seeking a new creative direction, was immediately captivated by Cthuluminati’s demos. His arrival marked a turning point, as the band entered a new phase of both musical and personal synergy. By the time Reliqideus was officially released in 2019, Seth had joined the lineup, solidifying Cthuluminati as a cohesive and formidable force. The album’s blend of diverse influences created a unique and cohesive sound, earning glowing reviews from online metal outlets and enthusiastic responses from live audiences.
Complete once more, the four-headed entity of Cthuluminati was more determined than ever. They played numerous shows, including opening slots for Carach Angren and Rotting
Christ, and set their sights on recording a follow-up album. Their second album, Tentacula, is set for release in March 2025 and promises to dive even deeper into their signature mix of psychedelic, avant-garde, and progressive metal. The result is a soundscape where the boundaries between black metal, sludge, and experimental elements dissolve into a hypnotic realm.
Cthuluminati’s mission remains clear: to create music without limits—a space where the absurd meets the sublime, and innovation reigns supreme.
https://www.facebook.com/Cthuluminati
After 3 EPs and while preparing its debut album to be released later in 2025, NOIRSUAIRE (Black Metal - South West of France) returns with a new EP called "The Wrath Of The Silent Temples". It features 4 tracks of old fashioned Black Metal in the vein of Bekhira, Sargeist, Gorgoroth. For this release which must be considered a preludium to the first Noirsuaire album which is currently being recorded, Noirsuaire mastermind N is once again joined by drummer Agravh (ex ACOD, Beyond The Permafrost) but this time another contribution has been called: Mildrac who plays church organ interludes.
https://khaoszophy.com/
Standard jewel case CD with Obi, limited edition to 300 copiesGenre: Death Black Metal
Country: México
Release date: February 11th 2025
The band was founded in 2016 in the city of León, Guanajuato (Mexico).
At the end of 2018 they released a promo demo "Initiation" with the following lineup:
Slaughter lord (drums)
Blasphemous demigod (guitar)
Sadoghoul (vocals)
In 2022 the demo is released again in cassette format by the Dark Recollections label. The debut album Desecration Rotten Corpse is recorded between June and July 2024, and will be released by the Death in Pieces Records label in early 2025.
This is an album dedicated to blasphemy, dark and rotten sound towards the abysses.
Tracklist:
Baptized
Blasphemous Priest
Perpetual Cult Of Perversion
Evil Domain
Obscurity
Hossana In The Abyss
Segregation of The Morbid Cross
CD limited to 300 copies
Recording credits:
All music were performed and recorded by Manifestum Darkness
Recorded between June and July 2024
Credits:
Art by: Marga Menchaca
Layout by Ernesto Montero @ Brutal Design
https://www.facebook.com/deathinpiecesrecs/
https://www.facebook.com/people/Manifestum-darkness/100064140368032/
Obscureviolence have forged a terrifying, dark and thick sound by taking the best elements of death and black metal. It's not all brute force either as the songwriting is surprisingly well thought out and flows smoothly too. It's a release meant for repeat listens. No Clean Singing premiered their title track which can be found at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/12/23/an-ncs-premiere-obscureviolence-refuting-the-flesh/
Excerpt - "a swiftly changing kaleidoscope of unhinged yet still groovesome savagery that by turns is berserk and brazen, demented and dismal, feral and exultant, thuggish and freakish"
OBSCUREVIOLENCE- “REFUTING THE FLESH”
For
fans of - Crypts
of Despair, Mgla, Skaphos, Morbid Angel, Viande, Burial Hordes, Saevus FinisFeaturing members of the death metal band Horror God, Obscureviolence are a new entity channelling the darkest and vilest sounds of black and death metal. They've brought elements of the two styles together, the raw, acerbic edge of black metal and the fearsome heft of death metal. They go hand-in-hand with their distinct features enhancing the overall sound, which comes off as surprisingly cohesive and powerful. As intimidating and loathsome their music is, which becomes a force of nature when they go on a rampage, they do know the importance of pacing and make sure to let the darker parts come to the fore and add a mysterious, ominous aura to the proceedings and also let the subtle dissonance seep deeper into the subconscious. For a debut, their songs are remarkably well-constructed and balanced, without letting go of their capacity for wanton mayhem, while heralding the coming of a new kind of power.
Line up:
Sergey B. (Horror God) - Bass guitar, vocals
Sergey T. (Horror God) - Guitar
Dmitry L. - Drums
Artwork - S.TkN. (Sergey T.)
Track listing
1. Exodus
2. Refuting the Flesh
3. Source of Life
4. Spiritual Agony
5. The Absurdity of Existence
6. Pulse of Subconscious Cruelty
Release date - February 14th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/obscurefcknviolence
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Label: Comatose MusicRelease Date: March 7th 2025
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cryptopsy | Suffocation | Unfathomable Ruination | Bludgeoned
I lean over your bed and stare down into those frantic, desperate eyes that scream silently from the red chaos of your face; all those smooth planes and protruding features transformed – as if by magic – into a shattered topography of suppurating sinkholes, shards and splinters, tattered musculature and tiny remnants of skin. An endlessly fascinating dreamscape of wounds! Meanwhile your entrails coil and glisten like enchanted serpents and white bones stand out, tall and proud, hard towers against a pleasing backdrop of sanguine softness. I give you a reassuring smile, exercising my best bedside manner before moving on to the next patient. All is going well…
A strike force formed by veterans of a thousand campaigns beyond the boundaries of morality and civilised society, members of Vituperate, Purulent Necrosis, Anal Stabwound and many more, Chordoma are here to deliver a horrifying assault of brutal death metal, a self-titled EP of merciless, scalding intensity. Beginning in a blinding blur of precision drumming and menacing, circling riffs, ‘Medically Induced Asphyxiation’ proceeds to land blow after jarring blow – shaking the brain and loosening the teeth – a no holds barred welcome to the carnage to come. ‘Innermost Intestinal Exposure’ will have worshippers of brutality in raptures as it erupts in deranged violence, delivering riffs like incisive stab wounds and touches of inventive cruelty that only the most accomplished practitioners of sonic devastation are capable. As this masterful display of the utmost extremity continues from track to track, instruments are wielded as implements of pain infliction and each element of the Chordoma sound moves with cold precision - locking, releasing, spinning, engaging, dissecting - a machine of insane design and perverse purpose…and within the claustrophobic onslaught, the surging waves of liquidised and putrefied bodies, moments of twisted genius gleam like baited hooks, drawing you back into the organised chaos of blood and agony time after time after time.
Adorned in the cruel and visceral artwork of Wong Sinting Death (Apogean, Hysterectomy, Chainsaw Disgorgement etc) and mixed and mastered to gore-soaked perfection by Travis Cook (Human Excoriation, Vituperate) at Unique Sound Design, the Chordoma EP, featuring five tracks of supreme brutal death metal, will be unleashed by Comatose Music on March 7th. This titanic collection of meticulously sculpted sadism will set the standards for all pretenders to the throne of relentless, rapacious destruction that follow in its wake. Nothing has prepared you for this…
Line-up:
Justin D. - Vocals
Blake S. – Guitars/Bass
Nikhil T. – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557678156083
U.S. Traditional Heavy Metal quintet, PREHISTORIA, have released CRYPTIC HALO, their first full-length album, on CD and digital formats via Bandcamp, as well as on the usual streaming platforms. StormSpell Records will release the album February 15 on CD. The vinyl LP version will be released by Alone Records in the Spring.
FFO: Blind Guardian, Persuader, Iced Earth, Manticora
Prehistoria had this to say about Cryptic Halo:
"We are thrilled to announce the completion of our debut album, Cryptic Halo. This project has been a true labor of love, forged through countless hours of passion, dedication, and focused effort. Rooted in traditional heavy metal, Cryptic Halo weaves in elements of power, thrash, and black metal to create a sound that’s both classic and dynamic. Crafted by devoted fans of heavy metal, for heavy metal fans, it stands as a celebration of the genre we hold so dear. It’s been a challenging yet rewarding journey, and we can’t wait to share this milestone with you as we prepare for its release."
Track
Listing:1. Futile Invocation of Cosmic Acknowledgement
2. Rise
3. Salvation Denied
4. Obsidian Gateways
5. Everlasting Legacy
6. Paradise Lost
7. Crown of the Resolute
8. Crucible of Shadows
9. Dreamchaser
Bio:
Prehistoria is a traditional heavy metal band hailing from the American Midwest, combining the raw power of classic metal with influences from power, thrash, and black metal. Their sound is steeped in the genre’s roots, delivering crushing riffs and soaring melodies with a sharp, modern edge that feels both familiar and new.
Cryptic Halo Credits:
All songs (except "Futle Invocation...") written and performed by Prehistoria.
"Futile Invocation of Cosmic Acknowledgement" written and produced by Dan Wagoner.
Lyrics by Alonso Donoso.
Produced, tracked, and engineered by Dan Wagoner.
Drums recorded by Joe Viers at Sonic Lounge Studios.
Additional guitars recorded by Ethan Vawter.
Bass recorded by Ian Bender.
Mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio.
Album art by Adam Burke.
Logo design by Chris Hurst.
Additional design by Alonso Donoso and Ian Bender.
Line-Up:
Alonso “Zo” Donoso - Vocals
Shaun Cothron - Guitar
Max Otworth - Guitar
Ian Bender - Bass
Cody Johns - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/prehistoriaband
Their debut album "DOOMERISM" will be released on June 2025 in partnership with BLOODROCK RECORDS and will be out in LP, digipakCD and digital format.
With influences as diverse as CATHEDRAL, GOATSNAKE, TYPE O NEGATIVE, DANZIG, TIAMAT, AGANOOR moves from the Eternal City creating an oppressive Doom Metal wrapped in a gothic breeze, and blended with the retro tones of the rawest of Stoner Rock.
Their music is claustrophobic, yet hypnotic, a Doom Metal characterized by massive, down-tuned riffs and psychedelic atmosphere.
Dan, Anth, Stephen and Alex are the protagonists behind AGANOOR, and they are about to present their music, which appears like a heavy ritual shrouded in mist on the shores of a lake.
Comments AGANOOR:
“We’re glad to announce we’ve joined forces with My Kingdom Music and that BloodRock Records will be the official partner of our release. We are beyond stoked to become part of the incredible legacy. We can't wait to share our music and everything we're working on with as many people as possible!".
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/aganoorband
Montréal
(CA) - THE RETICENT, one of the most
emotionally gripping and thought-provoking bands in progressive metal, will
make their Canadian debut at PROGSTORM FESTIVAL in
Montréal on August 10, 2025. This will also mark their first-ever
international performance, making their set a must-see event for progressive
music fans. Led by multi-instrumentalist Chris Hathcock, The Reticent is
renowned for their deeply immersive concept albums, weaving intricate
storytelling with intense musicality.Their latest album, The Oubliette, is a favorite among the ProgStorm team; a devastatingly powerful piece of progressive storytelling that guides listeners through the seven stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Highly praised by fans of Opeth, Katatonia, and Swallow the Sun, The Oubliette has cemented The Reticent’s place as one of the most emotionally impactful bands in the genre.
The Reticent has previously performed at the legendary ProgPower USA XXII in 2023, where they left a lasting impression on audiences. They have also shared the stage with notable acts such as Insomnium, Swallow the Sun, Cynic, Elvenking, and Seven Spires, further solidifying their reputation as a force in progressive metal.
A few words from James Nelson, also member of progressive metal band Nospūn, on their participation in ProgStorm Festival:
"Greetings everyone! All of us in The Reticent look very much forward to playing ProgStorm’s inaugural concert in the beautiful city of Montreal. This will be our very first time not only playing in Canada, but playing
internationally as well, and we couldn’t ask for a better opportunity to knock both off of our bucket list! We can’t wait to share with you what will certainly be an emotionally charged and devastating performance featuring new music from the upcoming albums! We promise to give you every single bit of energy
we have—even if it kills us. Thank you to everyone who has supported us alongthe way, and we hope to see you there!" -James Nelson, The Reticent
Visit the band's ProgStorm page at https://www.progstorm.com/the-reticent
The ProgStorm Festival, presented by The Progspace and organized by Metal Shed Productions and collaborators, will be Canada’s first-ever festival dedicated entirely to the progressive metal genre. Scheduled for August 9th and 10th, 2025, this festival is set to showcase a diverse range of progressive metal sub-genres, from the classic sounds to the most experimental and extreme.
About The Progspace
The Progspace is an international platform dedicated to celebrating progressive music across various genres. From reviews and interviews to concert reports, The Progspace brings together a community of progressive music enthusiasts who share a passion for the genre. Their mission is to promote progressive music and support both emerging and established artists.
About Metal Shed Productions
Metal Shed Productions is a Montreal-based production company focused on supporting and promoting emerging local metal bands. Their goal is to provide a platform for new artists to reach wider audiences, while also organizing events that highlight the diversity of the metal community.
https://www.facebook.com/progstormfestival
Founder and guitarist Michael Amott says about PAPER TIGER:
“With 'Blood Dynasty' almost here, we thought we’d sneak in another single for you! PAPER TIGER is a personal favorite—these riffs are so much fun to play. The accompanying video was shot on a German airfield last summer with our visionary friend Mumpi. Turn it up and let it roar!”
"Blood Dynasty", the 12th studio album from ARCH ENEMY, delivers 11 brand-new tracks brimming with the band’s signature crushing guitar riffs and intense guttural energy.
Stream PAPER TIGER here: https://archenemy.lnk.to/PaperTiger-SingleNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcVz1KXkzoA
Melancholy
and decadence are the keywords of "THE LAST DANCE",
the first single ETERNAL WHITE TREES unveil from
their second album "PRELUDE OF LOSS".Here is the official video for the song: https://youtu.be/B_aEqxjItJQ
With their debut album "The Summer That Will Not Come", the Sicilian ETERNAL WHITE TREES gave lovers of melancholy their ideal soundtrack. Now they return to the scene with "Prelude Of Loss", an album that accentuates that soul even more, enriching it with new shades with an always decadent tone, able to carry the listener who have their musical background in the most painful dynamics of Metal and Post Rock of KATATONIA, SWALLOW THE SUN and NOVEMBRE, into a musical universe made of sad atmospheres and obscure melodies.
Born once again from the meeting of the three souls (Gerassimos Evangelou - LORD AGHEROS, Antonio Billé - ANAKONDA and Andrea Tilenni - FEAR OF ETERNITY, ex SINOATH), "Prelude Of Loss" will be released on digipak CD and digital format via My Kingdom Music on March 21st, 2025 and you can PRE-Order it at: https://t.ly/BBFUp
This new album will dig into your soul in search of the most hidden emotions!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/eternalwhitetrees
"Ophidian Memory is pleased to announce that it has signed with WormHoleDeath to bring Carrion Lord to the physical realm!" said Blake "As a solo project, it can be difficult to handle everything that comes with being a band and a business at the same time, and WormHoleDeath will help tremendously in my reach and output."
The Vision Behind Ophidian Memory
Ophidian Memory, born from the creative mind of Blake Lamoureux, uses a foundation of melodic death metal while seamlessly blending subgenres like black metal, thrash, progressive metal, and metalcore. The Vision Behind Ophidian Memory
Ophidian Memory, born from the creative mind of Blake Lamoureux, uses a foundation of melodic death metal while seamlessly blending subgenres like black metal, thrash, progressive metal, and metalcore.
Each album unfolds tales set in a sprawling fictional universe, where beings of light and dark are locked in eternal conflict—plotting to destroy humanity, each other, and Existence itself.
Exploring "Carrion Lord"
"Carrion Lord" is a dive into the dark and brutal, a relentless morphing display of new territories for Ophidian Memory, as well as brief moments that hearken to previous stages of its sound. Contextually, it is a record that expands in-depth on the narrative aspect of Existence, with new characters, factions, and locations to build a world primed for fantasy and metal enjoyers alike. It is a product of passion that shows the growth of Ophidian Memory over the last three years and is but another bar to reach above for the next record.
Sonically, "Carrion Lord" captures the raw aggression and intricate melodies fans expect while showcasing a fearless exploration of new dimensions. This release solidifies Ophidian Memory as a project that blends intensity, narrative depth, and an evolving sound.
Tracklist
:1. The Mausoleum
2. Hunger of Your Deceased Deity
3. A Jewel in Grocinia
4. Fleshbinding Ritual
5. Carrion Lord
6. The Murder on Warforged Soil
7. Hollowed
8. Sculptors of Seraphic Tributes
9. Kept from Dust
10. Bloodborne
With "Carrion Lord" ready to make waves in the metal scene, Ophidian Memory’s journey is only beginning. Mark your calendars for March 21, 2025, and get ready to immerse yourself in a world where fantasy and ferocity collide.
https://ophidianmemory.bandcamp.com/
Belgian
Death Metallers DODENGOD unleashed their new full-length album "HERALDS
OF A DYING AGE" on February 28 via Pest RecordsBelgian Death Black Metal force DODENGOD returns with a vengeance! Following their 2018 debut album "Salvation", the band is set to release their highly anticipated sophomore full-length, "Heralds of a Dying Age", on February 28 via Pest Records.
Founded by YvS (guitars, bass) and SVN (vocals, lyrics, mix, mastering), DODENGOD expanded its ranks in 2021 with the addition of drummer Barduk, bringing a new level of intensity and organic brutality to their sound. "Heralds of a Dying Age" is a ten-track symphony of death and destruction, fully recorded and mixed by the band itself. This new opus marks a shift from the industrial elements found on "Salvation", embracing a more traditional and raw Death Black Metal sound infused with subtle Doom Metal influences.
With themes deeply rooted in death, anti-religion, and misanthropy, "Heralds of a Dying Age" delivers an unrelenting sonic assault that is both old-school and unflinchingly dark. Fans can expect a crushing experience where ferocity meets haunting atmospheres, solidifying DODENGOD as a force to be reckoned with in the extreme metal scene.
Prepare for devastation—"Heralds of a Dying Age" arrives on February 28 via Pest Records!
Pre-order now: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dodengod-heralds-of-a-dying-age
https://www.facebook.com/DodenGod/
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
THE
PIT
presents Award-Winning Documentary 'THE HISTORY OF METAL AND HORROR'“In a way, 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is about the end of the world, and I think that might be why Leatherface and 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' are so appealing in heavy metal. It's really apocalyptic and Leatherface is an apocalyptic character. I think that's where you start to see an overlap with the interests of a lot of heavy metal music."
As new addition to its list of programs, THE PIT VOD platform presents "The History Of Metal And Horror", a documentary that explores the history of heavy metal music and horror, and how the two genres ultimately crossed paths.
Various metal artists share their first introduction to horror, their favorite horror films, their influences, and more. Horror film icons also discuss how their films have influenced the horror genre, their connections to metal artists, and why metal and horror work well together
The electrifying fusion of heavy metal and horror, showing how these two genres have inspired, influenced, and collided to create a lasting cultural phenomenon.
Directed by Mike Schiff, this captivating documentary explores the origins of heavy metal, its profound ties to classic horror cinema, and its enduring cultural impact. "The History of Metal and Horror" offers a deep dive into the dynamic relationship between these two iconic genres, featuring insights from over sixty prominent figures in metal and horror.
Adding a creative twist, the film weaves its chapters with segments of a post-apocalyptic short film hosted by horror legend Michael Berryman. Interviewees include some of the biggest names in the industries, such as Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, John Carpenter, John 5, Tom Savini, Kirk Hammett, Dave Mustaine, Corey Taylor, Kane Hodder, Jonathan Davis, Scott Ian, Doug Bradley, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, and Chris Jericho.
and even watch their official lyric video below.
CRYPTS OF DESPAIR - “WE BELONG IN THE GRAVE”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Mgla, Replicant, Skaphos, Krypts, Obscureviolence, Dead
Congregation, Saevus FinisLithuanian band Crypts of Despair have exemplified playing death metal in a fierce, ruthless and ball-bustingly heavy way. Just when you think they had perfected their sound bolstering it with all the right dark and vile elements on their highly acclaimed previous album, they decided to hone their sound some more on their new one. Clearly, they are not content to bask in the glory of their past efforts no matter how good they are, and have evolved and refined their sound further. The new album retains the band's intimidating demeanour but now the music is comparatively more condensed, visceral, intuitive, and even displays hints of melancholy. The execution remains forceful and the riffs are compelling enough to commit crimes, egged on by the relentless barrage of seemingly multi-tongued demonic vocals. The band functions as a unit better now than ever before with a thick, cohesive sound that drives the point home. This is sheer aural terror and they have become veritable masters of it. "We Belong In The Grave" is a bold step ahead for Crypts of Despair, maintaining the band's high standards while updating the sound for maximum impact and utter devastation.
Line up
Jonas Kanevičius - Vocals
Dovydas Auglys - Guitars
Tautvydas Kartanas - Guitars
Simonas Jurkevičius - Bass
Henri Mäll - Drums
Artwork by Vainius "Anomaly" Česnauskas
Track listing
1. We Belong In The Grave
2. Terminal Dias
3. Obliteration Of The Impure
4. Expulsion To Purgatory
5. Undisillusioned
6. Seizures
7. Precipitous
8. Gaze Of The Adversary
9. Burial Of The World
Release date - April 18th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/cryptsofdespair
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
NEWS 8.2.2025
BORGNE - "RENAÎTRE DE SES FANGES"
Release
date :
14 March 2025
Genre : Industrial Black Metal
Origin: Switzerland
Duration: 65min
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Artwork by Gogo Melone
Pushing its own limits for twenty years, BORGNE is a powerful machine, producing a mechanical coldness and developing an industrial energy.
Constantly evolving, this Swiss band has been crushing the stages since 2011, marking the spirits of its passage each time.
From ethereal melodies to the hammering of the drum machine, this sonic vortex will suck you into abysmal depths.
Tracklist:
01. Introspection du Néant
02. Comme une tempête en moi qui gronde
03. Même si l’enfer m’attire dans sa perdition
04. Condamnée à errer dans les méandres
05. Ils me rongent de l’intérieur
06. Dans un tourbillon de douleur
07. Un espace hors du temps
08. Royaumes de poussière et de cendre
https://www.facebook.com/borgneblackmetal
Order Crowned in Corpses on CD and vinyl at www.skepsisrecordings.com.
Watch the official music videos for the album's title track and "Mass Grave Memory" on https://pathogenic.bandcamp.com/album/crowned-in-corpses
In support of the album, PATHOGENIC will hit the road with technical metal band Leylines (members of Through the Eyes of the Dead and ex-The Contortionist). The tour kicks off March 1 in Nashville. Dates are as follows.
3/1
- DRKMTTR - Nashville, TN
3/2 - Culture Shock - Atlanta, GA
3/3 - The Milestone - Charlotte, NC
3/4 - Chapel of Bones - Raleigh, NC
3/5 - The Metro - Baltimore, MD
3/6 - The Nail - Ardmore, PA
3/7 - The Woodshop - Brooklyn, NY
3/8 - The Middle East, Upstairs - Boston, MA
Crowned in Corpses was produced by Raymond Marte (Moon Tooth), Anthony Lopardo (Loss Becomes), and ourselves. Raymond Marte mixed and mastered the record. Crowned in Corpses music video was shot by Nick Court of Killing It Entertainment.
Out of Boston’s depths emerges PATHOGENIC, a force unshackled from hiatus and reborn with Crowned in Corpses. Over 42 punishing minutes, this progressive death metal quintet weaves together labyrinthine riffs, relentless rhythms, and chilling visions of a decaying world.
In 2022, the band’s resurgence was ignited when original vocalist Jake Burns and new drummer Tyler Montaquila joined forces with guitarists Chris Gardino, Justin Licht, and bassist Dan Leahy. Together, they’ve forged a sound that is ferocious, intricate, and unapologetically heavy — delivering metal that demands to be heard.
PATHOGENIC has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Revocation, and The Faceless, and has annihilated crowds at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and RPM Fest. Known for their high-octane live performances, the band’s energy and command leave audiences with no choice but to headbang furiously.
Set to release on February 7, 2025, through Skepsis Recordings, Crowned in Corpses is a ferocious musical declaration: eight tracks of devastating power and haunting warnings of the darkness that lies ahead.
PATHOGENIC is:
Jake Burns - vocals
Chris Gardino - guitars
Justin Licht - guitars
Dan Leahy - bass
Tyler Montaquila - drums
https://www.facebook.com/pathogenicmetal
The
relentless thrash-death metal juggernaut ATROX TRAUMA is
back with their latest visual assault: the official music video for “I AM
THE MASTER (BURNING DESIRE),” the third single from their
highly anticipated second album WHERE DEATH HUNTS. Set for
release on April 18, 2025, via WormHoleDeath Records, the track is an
unapologetic anthem of self-empowerment and defiance.
The band describes the track as a visceral declaration of inner strength, channeling lyrics that serve as a battle cry for the disenfranchised:
"I am the Master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. I am the leader on my way. I am the diamond I keep grinding..."
These words fill me with energy as I say them. They empower me as I shout them into the universe, electrifying me completely. It’s like a mantra. When you listen to the song, say these words to yourself, but they’re even more powerful if you say them out loud. Pay attention to the effect.
“I Am the Master (Burning Desire)” is the third music video from our upcoming album, which will be released on April 18th.
Directed by visual artist András Székely, the video mirrors the song’s ferocity, blending stark, cinematic visuals with the band’s signature chaotic energy.
Atrox Trauma was founded in 2008 in Hungary. Their goal, according to the music genre, was clear from the beginning: thrash metal with death metal influences. The band recorded 2 EPs during its earlier years besides performing on live gigs. The band's strength increased in 2019, and they have been spinning at an unstoppable speed since then. It gave a series of concerts in its motherland and countries in the neighborhood. The band creates a huge listener experience with its tight, intense, fast, and face-tearing music.
In 2022 they released their first LP called 'On The Line Of Nothing And Something' by the Italian label WormHoleDeath.The listener can experience everything from intense immersion to melodic thrash metal. Four music videos provide visual support for the fan-approachable experience.
By the end of 2024, they took the stage in many countries, performing in tours and festivals, and recorded their second LP ”Where Death Hunts”.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri - Drums
www.facebook.com/atroxtraumaband
Little Rock (AR) - Beatdown Death Metal Horde, OPEN KASKET, have released new album TRIALS OF FAILURE on digital format. This crushing slab of death will be released on cassette via Barbaric Brutality Records and is estimated to ship around March 7.
Release
date :
14 March 2025Genre : Industrial Black Metal
Origin: Switzerland
Duration: 65min
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Artwork by Gogo Melone
Pushing its own limits for twenty years, BORGNE is a powerful machine, producing a mechanical coldness and developing an industrial energy.
Constantly evolving, this Swiss band has been crushing the stages since 2011, marking the spirits of its passage each time.
From ethereal melodies to the hammering of the drum machine, this sonic vortex will suck you into abysmal depths.
Tracklist:
01. Introspection du Néant
02. Comme une tempête en moi qui gronde
03. Même si l’enfer m’attire dans sa perdition
04. Condamnée à errer dans les méandres
05. Ils me rongent de l’intérieur
06. Dans un tourbillon de douleur
07. Un espace hors du temps
08. Royaumes de poussière et de cendre
https://www.facebook.com/borgneblackmetal
Order Crowned in Corpses on CD and vinyl at www.skepsisrecordings.com.
Watch the official music videos for the album's title track and "Mass Grave Memory" on https://pathogenic.bandcamp.com/album/crowned-in-corpses
In support of the album, PATHOGENIC will hit the road with technical metal band Leylines (members of Through the Eyes of the Dead and ex-The Contortionist). The tour kicks off March 1 in Nashville. Dates are as follows.
3/1
- DRKMTTR - Nashville, TN3/2 - Culture Shock - Atlanta, GA
3/3 - The Milestone - Charlotte, NC
3/4 - Chapel of Bones - Raleigh, NC
3/5 - The Metro - Baltimore, MD
3/6 - The Nail - Ardmore, PA
3/7 - The Woodshop - Brooklyn, NY
3/8 - The Middle East, Upstairs - Boston, MA
Crowned in Corpses was produced by Raymond Marte (Moon Tooth), Anthony Lopardo (Loss Becomes), and ourselves. Raymond Marte mixed and mastered the record. Crowned in Corpses music video was shot by Nick Court of Killing It Entertainment.
Out of Boston’s depths emerges PATHOGENIC, a force unshackled from hiatus and reborn with Crowned in Corpses. Over 42 punishing minutes, this progressive death metal quintet weaves together labyrinthine riffs, relentless rhythms, and chilling visions of a decaying world.
In 2022, the band’s resurgence was ignited when original vocalist Jake Burns and new drummer Tyler Montaquila joined forces with guitarists Chris Gardino, Justin Licht, and bassist Dan Leahy. Together, they’ve forged a sound that is ferocious, intricate, and unapologetically heavy — delivering metal that demands to be heard.
PATHOGENIC has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Revocation, and The Faceless, and has annihilated crowds at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and RPM Fest. Known for their high-octane live performances, the band’s energy and command leave audiences with no choice but to headbang furiously.
Set to release on February 7, 2025, through Skepsis Recordings, Crowned in Corpses is a ferocious musical declaration: eight tracks of devastating power and haunting warnings of the darkness that lies ahead.
PATHOGENIC is:
Jake Burns - vocals
Chris Gardino - guitars
Justin Licht - guitars
Dan Leahy - bass
Tyler Montaquila - drums
https://www.facebook.com/pathogenicmetal
The
relentless thrash-death metal juggernaut ATROX TRAUMA is
back with their latest visual assault: the official music video for “I AM
THE MASTER (BURNING DESIRE),” the third single from their
highly anticipated second album WHERE DEATH HUNTS. Set for
release on April 18, 2025, via WormHoleDeath Records, the track is an
unapologetic anthem of self-empowerment and defiance.The band describes the track as a visceral declaration of inner strength, channeling lyrics that serve as a battle cry for the disenfranchised:
"I am the Master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. I am the leader on my way. I am the diamond I keep grinding..."
These words fill me with energy as I say them. They empower me as I shout them into the universe, electrifying me completely. It’s like a mantra. When you listen to the song, say these words to yourself, but they’re even more powerful if you say them out loud. Pay attention to the effect.
“I Am the Master (Burning Desire)” is the third music video from our upcoming album, which will be released on April 18th.
Directed by visual artist András Székely, the video mirrors the song’s ferocity, blending stark, cinematic visuals with the band’s signature chaotic energy.
Atrox Trauma was founded in 2008 in Hungary. Their goal, according to the music genre, was clear from the beginning: thrash metal with death metal influences. The band recorded 2 EPs during its earlier years besides performing on live gigs. The band's strength increased in 2019, and they have been spinning at an unstoppable speed since then. It gave a series of concerts in its motherland and countries in the neighborhood. The band creates a huge listener experience with its tight, intense, fast, and face-tearing music.
In 2022 they released their first LP called 'On The Line Of Nothing And Something' by the Italian label WormHoleDeath.The listener can experience everything from intense immersion to melodic thrash metal. Four music videos provide visual support for the fan-approachable experience.
By the end of 2024, they took the stage in many countries, performing in tours and festivals, and recorded their second LP ”Where Death Hunts”.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri - Drums
www.facebook.com/atroxtraumaband
Little Rock (AR) - Beatdown Death Metal Horde, OPEN KASKET, have released new album TRIALS OF FAILURE on digital format. This crushing slab of death will be released on cassette via Barbaric Brutality Records and is estimated to ship around March 7.
Thematically, Trials
of Failure revolves around self deprecation and full criticism of one's
self. Sonically, the album is a demolition demonstration of caustic riffing and
relentless pummeling. Add guest vocal spots on "Internal Threat"
(Stan Liszewski of Terminal Nation), "Chain Whip" (Bryson Sherick of
Backbiter), and "Chemical Death" (Jackson Edwards of Zashed), and the
package is complete. Subtly is anathema. Force is paramount.
Track Listing:
1. Ersatz (Sine Die)
2. No Value
3. Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)
4. Bruised Sprainstein
5. Should
6. Putrid Existence
7. Defective
8. Chain Whip (feat. Backbiter)
9. Chemical Death (feat. Zashed)
10. Ripped Up
Credits:
Drums engineered at Wolfman Studios.
Mixed/Mastered/Reamped by Conor Haines at Corruption Studios.
https://www.facebook.com/openkaskethc
Label: Naturmacht Productions
Release Date: February 28th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric/Melodic Black Metal
For fans of: Emperor | Fuath | Saor | Drudkh
From a place of certainty and strength, a life built upon an assumed understanding and enriched with happiness, I was flung violently into a maelstrom of chaos and madness. My light was gone and all I knew was shattered. Every truth had become a lie in the space between one breath and the next, a complete inversion of all I knew to be right. I thought I had understood the meaning of sadness, of pain, what it was to be alone…I had understood nothing. I had walked in sunlit ignorance, never seeing the crevasses that split my path. But now I was falling, falling through darkness, barely able to breathe let alone order my scattered thoughts or comprehend the agony that threatened to tear my heart apart and consume me…
After the universal critical acclaim garnered by their debut album, Time Held Me Grey And Dying, Wales’ most imaginative and creative practitioners of black metal’s dark arts have returned. With the stated intent of crafting their country’s ‘most ambitious and uncompromising extreme metal album to date’ they have offered up the many splendored Valediction, an album that charts the journey through grief – from initial trauma to final acceptance or endless sorrow. Before listening you may feel their goal a lofty one, after listening you’ll know that they have achieved more than they dared to dream possible. With opening track and first single, ‘The Shattering’, we embark on a harrowing journey, as rich in musical wonders as it is in the realisation of painful emotion. We are flung into a tumult of events – hit with crunching impact and spun through webs of confusion and bewilderment. The music hollows us, savagely carving away the structure and solidity of our lives. Superb, melodious guitar work creates pools of reflective stillness within the storm and this moment where a life changes course forever seems to stretch into eternity. As the album progresses classic black metal forms are masterfully manipulated, coaxed into new exhilarating and breathtaking edifices. The vast storm clouds of grief gather behind the cold, ugliness of denial and the grand, dramatic flame of anger. ‘Proteus’ leads us through the huge peaks and troughs of emotion, the false hopes and despair of bargaining with higher powers. And here the spirit of pain that has been waiting implacably in the wings begins to rise to the surface. There is an overwhelming sense of tragedy in the melody lines as ‘Proteus’ nears its conclusion, the awful futility of the situation becoming clear. Mourning strings cut deep as ‘Zenith Dolour’ drags us down into the deepest trenches of depression and melancholy, its contrasts and juxtapositions of sound reflecting the different hues of sadness; the life sapping despair, the jagged agony, the seemingly insurmountable intensity of grief. Perhaps the greatest piece to grace Valediction comes in its title track – a song of acceptance that is wonderfully measured, like sunlight slowly breaking over the dark hills on a distant horizon, with individual note choices marking the telling moments as the realisation of the possibility of a new, different future dawns. The balance of bittersweet farewell and the reclaiming of a life beyond pain is a remarkable accomplishment. Of course we are in the realms of black metal here so Ofnus provide us with an alternate ending in ‘Alazia’ – a reminder that some will never find acceptance, their wheel of life will cease to turn and leave them trapped in rage, agony and darkness. It’s a vicious conclusion, infused with fear and oppressive darkness, with forbidding chord progressions leading ever downwards into night. It’s an incredible, shocking end to a breathtaking album.
Since the release of Time Held Me Grey And Dying Ofnus have performed live alongside the likes of Arkona, Wayfarer, The Infernal Sea and many more, even performing at the 2023 Bloodstock Festival – and every single second of those experiences have been drawn upon to make Valediction the outstanding album that it is. The mixing and mastering team of William Philpot and Abraham Fihema who worked such magic on Time Held Me Grey And Dying, have been trusted again and the sound they have achieved on Valediction is a superb – accommodating the layers and textures, the array of moods and atmospheres and the subtly shifting and developing sonic palette. The artwork of Ben J that adorns the cover of Valediction is another absolute triumph, completing and complementing the songs beneath its evocative shroud. When Naturmacht Productions release Valediction on February 28th there can be little doubt that Ofnus will begin an irresistible ascent to the very highest echelons of black metal.
Line-up:
William Philpot - Vocals/Lyrics
Richard Rees - Bass
Alyn Hunter - Rhythm Guitar/Composer
James Ponsford - Lead Guitar
Ethan Rees-Spargo - Drums/Lyrics
https://naturmacht.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ofnus
“DIMENSÃO HORRENDA” is a colossal return, to say the least, and all you can do is to give it a chance because it’s totally worth it. Continuing its reign of terror, Perversus elevates all Black Metal glory within its tradition with a major boost tribute to evil, wrath, and cruelty. Reminding you all that, VETUS SANGUIS buzz saw riffs are made to invoke darkness and torment, and the grim vocals, fully sung in Portuguese, strip out the flesh from your misery turning it into ice cold dust.
This eerie hypnotic landscape phantomized by draught, despair and aggression stands as a hymn to those who travel in the abyss of their soulless existence. With these ten outstanding songs, VETUS SANGUIS will conquer all listeners and make them beg for pity. We even dare to say, “Dimensão Horrenda” has all to be an instant classic and, for sure, a malicious blood pact with vile rawness will be made to accomplish this vision. Absolutely Vicious!
Satanik Ritual On... Religion Bullshit Off...
VETUS SANGUIS - "CAPÍTULO I - DIMENSÃO HORRENDA"
Cassette Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
Tracklist:
01. Campos Infernais [04:06]
02. Adrenalina Viciante [04:33]
03. Gritos Silenciosos [05:03]
04. Trombetas Diabólicas [04:37]
05. The Possibility of Life´s Destruction (Discharge Cover) [01:16]
06. Saturno [04:24]
07. Nada, Faz Sentido [05:10]
08. Dimensão Horrenda [03:36]
09. Jardim de Mármore [04:39]
10. Transcendência [01:30]
All songs, instruments, vocals and lyrics by Perversus.
Mixed and Mastered by Perversus.
Recorded Winter 2023 to Summer 2023 at Sanguinis Cultus Studios.
Artwork and Logo by Blaspher.
Layout by Allefer Rocha.
RELEASE DATE 16th April 2025
Available through Murder Records
Co-released with Helldprod Records
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Luciferian Legions! The moment we have been working towards for so long, is finally here! We have announced the arrival of "THE ILLUMINANT", LUCIFER'S 3rd full length album! We are proud and honoured to share this with all of you.
Track Listing:1. Ersatz (Sine Die)
2. No Value
3. Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)
4. Bruised Sprainstein
5. Should
6. Putrid Existence
7. Defective
8. Chain Whip (feat. Backbiter)
9. Chemical Death (feat. Zashed)
10. Ripped Up
Credits:
Drums engineered at Wolfman Studios.
Mixed/Mastered/Reamped by Conor Haines at Corruption Studios.
https://www.facebook.com/openkaskethc
Label: Naturmacht ProductionsRelease Date: February 28th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric/Melodic Black Metal
For fans of: Emperor | Fuath | Saor | Drudkh
From a place of certainty and strength, a life built upon an assumed understanding and enriched with happiness, I was flung violently into a maelstrom of chaos and madness. My light was gone and all I knew was shattered. Every truth had become a lie in the space between one breath and the next, a complete inversion of all I knew to be right. I thought I had understood the meaning of sadness, of pain, what it was to be alone…I had understood nothing. I had walked in sunlit ignorance, never seeing the crevasses that split my path. But now I was falling, falling through darkness, barely able to breathe let alone order my scattered thoughts or comprehend the agony that threatened to tear my heart apart and consume me…
After the universal critical acclaim garnered by their debut album, Time Held Me Grey And Dying, Wales’ most imaginative and creative practitioners of black metal’s dark arts have returned. With the stated intent of crafting their country’s ‘most ambitious and uncompromising extreme metal album to date’ they have offered up the many splendored Valediction, an album that charts the journey through grief – from initial trauma to final acceptance or endless sorrow. Before listening you may feel their goal a lofty one, after listening you’ll know that they have achieved more than they dared to dream possible. With opening track and first single, ‘The Shattering’, we embark on a harrowing journey, as rich in musical wonders as it is in the realisation of painful emotion. We are flung into a tumult of events – hit with crunching impact and spun through webs of confusion and bewilderment. The music hollows us, savagely carving away the structure and solidity of our lives. Superb, melodious guitar work creates pools of reflective stillness within the storm and this moment where a life changes course forever seems to stretch into eternity. As the album progresses classic black metal forms are masterfully manipulated, coaxed into new exhilarating and breathtaking edifices. The vast storm clouds of grief gather behind the cold, ugliness of denial and the grand, dramatic flame of anger. ‘Proteus’ leads us through the huge peaks and troughs of emotion, the false hopes and despair of bargaining with higher powers. And here the spirit of pain that has been waiting implacably in the wings begins to rise to the surface. There is an overwhelming sense of tragedy in the melody lines as ‘Proteus’ nears its conclusion, the awful futility of the situation becoming clear. Mourning strings cut deep as ‘Zenith Dolour’ drags us down into the deepest trenches of depression and melancholy, its contrasts and juxtapositions of sound reflecting the different hues of sadness; the life sapping despair, the jagged agony, the seemingly insurmountable intensity of grief. Perhaps the greatest piece to grace Valediction comes in its title track – a song of acceptance that is wonderfully measured, like sunlight slowly breaking over the dark hills on a distant horizon, with individual note choices marking the telling moments as the realisation of the possibility of a new, different future dawns. The balance of bittersweet farewell and the reclaiming of a life beyond pain is a remarkable accomplishment. Of course we are in the realms of black metal here so Ofnus provide us with an alternate ending in ‘Alazia’ – a reminder that some will never find acceptance, their wheel of life will cease to turn and leave them trapped in rage, agony and darkness. It’s a vicious conclusion, infused with fear and oppressive darkness, with forbidding chord progressions leading ever downwards into night. It’s an incredible, shocking end to a breathtaking album.
Since the release of Time Held Me Grey And Dying Ofnus have performed live alongside the likes of Arkona, Wayfarer, The Infernal Sea and many more, even performing at the 2023 Bloodstock Festival – and every single second of those experiences have been drawn upon to make Valediction the outstanding album that it is. The mixing and mastering team of William Philpot and Abraham Fihema who worked such magic on Time Held Me Grey And Dying, have been trusted again and the sound they have achieved on Valediction is a superb – accommodating the layers and textures, the array of moods and atmospheres and the subtly shifting and developing sonic palette. The artwork of Ben J that adorns the cover of Valediction is another absolute triumph, completing and complementing the songs beneath its evocative shroud. When Naturmacht Productions release Valediction on February 28th there can be little doubt that Ofnus will begin an irresistible ascent to the very highest echelons of black metal.
Line-up:
William Philpot - Vocals/Lyrics
Richard Rees - Bass
Alyn Hunter - Rhythm Guitar/Composer
James Ponsford - Lead Guitar
Ethan Rees-Spargo - Drums/Lyrics
https://naturmacht.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ofnus
“DIMENSÃO HORRENDA” is a colossal return, to say the least, and all you can do is to give it a chance because it’s totally worth it. Continuing its reign of terror, Perversus elevates all Black Metal glory within its tradition with a major boost tribute to evil, wrath, and cruelty. Reminding you all that, VETUS SANGUIS buzz saw riffs are made to invoke darkness and torment, and the grim vocals, fully sung in Portuguese, strip out the flesh from your misery turning it into ice cold dust.
This eerie hypnotic landscape phantomized by draught, despair and aggression stands as a hymn to those who travel in the abyss of their soulless existence. With these ten outstanding songs, VETUS SANGUIS will conquer all listeners and make them beg for pity. We even dare to say, “Dimensão Horrenda” has all to be an instant classic and, for sure, a malicious blood pact with vile rawness will be made to accomplish this vision. Absolutely Vicious!
Satanik Ritual On... Religion Bullshit Off...
VETUS SANGUIS - "CAPÍTULO I - DIMENSÃO HORRENDA"
Cassette Limited to 50 copies hand numbered.
CD Limited to 100 copies hand numbered.
Tracklist:01. Campos Infernais [04:06]
02. Adrenalina Viciante [04:33]
03. Gritos Silenciosos [05:03]
04. Trombetas Diabólicas [04:37]
05. The Possibility of Life´s Destruction (Discharge Cover) [01:16]
06. Saturno [04:24]
07. Nada, Faz Sentido [05:10]
08. Dimensão Horrenda [03:36]
09. Jardim de Mármore [04:39]
10. Transcendência [01:30]
All songs, instruments, vocals and lyrics by Perversus.
Mixed and Mastered by Perversus.
Recorded Winter 2023 to Summer 2023 at Sanguinis Cultus Studios.
Artwork and Logo by Blaspher.
Layout by Allefer Rocha.
RELEASE DATE 16th April 2025
Available through Murder Records
Co-released with Helldprod Records
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Luciferian Legions! The moment we have been working towards for so long, is finally here! We have announced the arrival of "THE ILLUMINANT", LUCIFER'S 3rd full length album! We are proud and honoured to share this with all of you.
'Antichrist'
is the first track we want to share with you all and you can listen to it https://orcd.co/arcd293
Tracklisting:
1. Antichrist
2. As Bestas
3. The Serpent And The Rod
4. Ichor
5. Righteous Flama
6. Curse
7. The heavens die
8. And all is prelude
To celebrate this moment, we are releasing a special merch vinyl edition as a separate item of you can pick a bundle that fit's you best! Here are all the items you can pick from:
Formats:
- CD
- Vinyl - Solid gold LP
- Vinyl - Solid blue LP
- Vinyl - Blood red LP
- Tape
- Digital
Lucifer's child tour dates:
20-04-2025 - Dark Easter Metal Meeting (DE)
15/16-05-2025 - Dat Unland Fier Fest (DE)
27.05-07.06.2025 - Latin America TBC
18-09-2025 - Metal Im Woid (DE)
08-10-2025 - House Of Metal (SE)
"The Illuminant" will be out on March 28, 2025 but you can already
pre-save the album here: https://orcd.co/arcd293
pre-order the album here: https://shop.luciferschild.net
ASHEN WOMB is now streaming exclusively via Decibel Magazine. Listen now https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/02/05/full-album-stream-phrenelith-ashen-womb/
Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records will release Ashen Womb on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats on February 7.
PHRENELITH emerges from the darkness once again with their third and most unholy full-length offering, Ashen Womb. Nine sinister funeral marches, draped in a bleak and blackened atmosphere, provide a lens into the forthcoming end of times.
Tracklist:
1) Noemata
2) Astral Larvae
3) A Husk Wrung Dry
4) Lithopaedion
5) Nebulae
6) Stagnated Blood
7) Sphageion
8) Chrysopoeia
9) Ashen Womb
A droning tone fades in, opening up a slow dirge that eases us into the apocalyptic explosion of death that will follow for the next 40 minutes. Where guitars anxiously scale the fretboard & weave morose melodies while drums pound and smash with the force of the Chicxulub impactor. Interspersed between the infernal, seismic, blackened stampedes are droning psychedelia & ambient noise interludes, immersing us further into the ever-growing darkness. But there are also moments of overwhelming beauty, like on tracks "Nebulae" and the eponymous "Ashen Womb," where PHRENELITH indulge in the repetition of their sinister melodies, layering Serpentinian guitars atop each other, spinning a web of desolate harmonies around the listener.
With Ashen Womb, PHRENELITH gives us the foretold sound of the apocalypse, but whether it’s a warning or a celebration is yet undecided.
PHRENELITH is:
Simon Daniel - Vocals
David Mikkelsen - Guitars, Vocals
Jakob O - Bass
Andreas Nordgreen - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.mesacounojo.com
https://www.facebook.com/phrenelith
A music video for the title track is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1BgHQMFZY
FFO: Katatonia, Insomnium, Wolves In The Throne Room, Agalloch,Virgin Black
Recorded over 2024 in the band’s home studio, located on the Historic Isabella Bowen Henderson property, tucked away amongst lush hidden gardens in the heart of Raleigh, NC, An End Held Dear seeks to showcase what Fulaing has to offer! The title track bleeds between blackened folk and melodic death metal, while "Like Deserts Dream Of Rain" draws from funeral doom and DSBM to create a cinematic soundscape, all of which serves as accompaniment to the grief and suffering of existence while longing for something more.
Formed in the last gasps of 2023, Raleigh, North Carolina’s Fulaing channels suffering into a soundscape of loss, melancholia and a longing for more. Taking inspiration from black metal, folk, funeral doom, and melo death to conjure the resonance of grief and sorrow.
Track
Listing:
A01. An End Held Dear
B02. Like Deserts Dream of Rain
Credits:
Logan Holloway - Guitar, Keys, Vocals, Engineer, Artwork
Todd Houck - Guitars, Vocals
Joel Willis - Drums
EYN - Bass
Laura Mooney - Violin
Nate Stokes - Resonator, Synth, Backing Vocals
Jordan King - Guitar Solo
Ryan Masecar - Mastering
Smara Kand - Music Videos
Line-Up:
Logan Holloway - Guitar, Keys, Vocals (ex Mo’ynoq)
Todd Houck - Guitars, Vocals
Joel Willis - Drums
EYN - Bass (Nganga, Nocurous Lust, Cyperian)
Laura Mooney - Violin (Black Bouquet)
Nate Stokes - Resonator, Synth, Backing Vocals (Nganga, Noctomb)
https://fulaing.bandcamp.com/album/an-end-held-dear-cassingle
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: March 4th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Demigod | Carcass | Bolt Thrower | Cannibal Corpse
At the heart of a wasteland, long miles from the intrusive blemish of artificial light, a sky of velvet darkness is dusted with a myriad of stars. In the untainted silence they gaze down in grim anticipation at a circle of stones in a place with no name. And between the stones a fine dust of cold ashes begins to stir, inviting a stain of congealed blood, which has never dried despite the endless passings of the sun, to dance. Together they start to spin, gathering pace, forming a whispering vortex in the desert night. As the maelstrom of dirt begins to rise and the distant stars seem to hold their breath, the earth splits asunder and a triumphant fountain of flame erupts. A vast and grotesque form of many teeth and many limbs breaks free from the clutches of its grave, roaring its defiance at those who presumed its death too soon…
It may have been nearly a dozen years since Spain’s death metal titans, Avulsed, last released a full length album of new material – 2013s Ritual Zombi – but only a fool would have turned their back and thought the band formed by vocalist Dave Rotten back in 1991 were out for the count. Revitalised by some key line-up changes, Avulsed have risen from their slough of despond with the utterly devastating and aptly named, Phoenix Cryptobiosis. Right from the very beginning of opening instrumental, ‘Limbs Regeneration’, you can sense that something special is about to be unleashed…and with ‘Lacerate To Dominate’ the cobwebs of the last decade are not just swept away, they are incinerated! Avulsed have always been known for their irresistible live prowess and the glorious brute force of early albums like Stabwound Orgasm and Gorespattered Suicide, but with Phoenix Cryptobiosis they have attained a new level. There’s a maturity to the song writing, a dark atmosphere of measured horror, inescapable hooks and an infusion of wicked excitement. There is no let up from start to finish, no faltering in the deadly intent – this is virulent poison to the last drop, deadly to the end. You’ll find new highlights with every listen to this genre defining album...the first time you might be caught by the cascading, carnivorous riffing of ‘Unrotted’ and its choruses that entrench themselves in your mind, or destroyed by the imperious vocal display on ‘Guts Of The Gore Gods’; the second time it might be the drum intro of ‘Devotion For Putrefaction’ that sends shocks through your neurons to your nerve endings and on the third maybe the wonderfully mangled and broken death metal supremacy of ‘Bio-Cadaver’ will dissect you and lay your spirit bare. Each track has a wealth of haunted vaults to explore and you’ll just want the bloodshed to keep on coming.
With the new line-up in exhilarating form and a final touch of gore soaked magic applied by the mastering of Davide Billia (Beheaded, Devangelic, Posthuman Abomination etc), Phoenix Cryptobiosis represents Avulsed at their very, very best. This is everything you could desire from an unwavering, undiluted death metal album in this age of fractured loyalties and pandering to the thin-blooded masses. When Xtreem Music let loose this beautiful beast, with its incredible Daemorph cover art, on March 4th, Avulsed will bestride the death metal scene of 2025 as monstrous monarchs of all they survey.
Line-up:
Dave Rotten - Vocals
Victor Dws - Guitars
Alejandro Lobo - Guitars
Alex Nihil - Bass
Santiago Arroyo "GoG" - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.avulsed.com
Finnish 90's rooted melodic death metal band NORTHVOID will release a new EP EMBER REMAINS - first single WILDERNESS out now!
Finnish metal band Northvoid is set to release a new EP 'Ember Remains' on April 25th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first single 'Wilderness' aims to transport the listener to the quiet, wilderness-like landscape.
Listen to the single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/northvoid-wilderness
“The lyrics of the single Wilderness are related to the wilderness and landscape of Eastern Finland. We also find a source for our music from these hidden places in the forests,” the band states.
“The wilderness is an endless source of inspiration, which we bring out with metallic verses,” continues the band's drummer and lyricist Timo Korkalainen.
The first version of Wilderness was completed in the summer of 2022. The song was played in rehearsals and took its final form after several rounds of arrangements.
According to the band's guitarist and composer Markus Heikkinen, “Wilderness is a great example of mixing different genres into our style of music.
We start with a faster and more intense tempo and visit the surroundings of a black metal. The middle section takes on a slightly calmer, painterly atmosphere, before returning to the pace of the beginning. The keyboards emphasize the atmosphere throughout the song, gluing it together as a whole."
Track
list:
1. Northern Breeze
2. Wilderness
3. Sun & Moon
4. Entrusted
5. The Ember
Mix & Master: Heikki Marttila/Guru Studio, Joensuu
EP picture by Timo Korkalainen, cover artwork Markus Heikkinen
Biography:
Forged in North Karelia in January 2020, Northvoid delivers a musical assault rooted in the melodic death metal of the 90’s. With a bond forged in childhood, our members now channel the raw, untamed energy of the past & present into every note.
Our music is a fusion of melodic heaviness and groove, inspired by the harsh environment and wilderness of the north. Experience the power and versatility of our music, which broadly covers different elements of metal music, guided by the attitude of the frost-bitten north. Northvoid isn't just music – it's a journey into the heart of coldness and wilderness.
Line-up:
Markus Heikkinen: guitars
Timo Korkalainen: drums
Kimmo Timonen: vocals
Risto Aittola: bass
https://www.facebook.com/northvoid
DEATH IN PIECES RECS in conspiracy with MUCHIK RECS will release SEPULKHRAL BAPTISM self titled debut EP, on CD limited to 500 copies.
Genre: Death Black Metal
Country: México
Release date: February 4th 2025
CD limited to 500 copies
Formed in 2023, this Black/ Death entity features members from Rotting Grave and Heretic Ritual. This is extreme metal music highly influenced by Teitanblood, Triumvir Foul, Necros Christos, etc.
"Sepulkhral Baptism formed in 2023 out of our needs to worship DEATH."
Tracklist:
I
II
III
IV
Recording credits:
All music were performed and recorded by SEPULKHRAL BAPTISM
Recorded at Warhead Studios, mixed and mastered by Alejandro Mendez at Mat Studios
Intros by Purity of Wrong.
Art by: Sah Sahhu
Layout by Ernesto Montero @ Brutal Design
SEPULKHRAL BAPTISM is:
PM – Guitars/Lamentations
NM – Guitars
DA – Bass
AV – Drums
Buy here!! https://deathinpiecesrecs.bigcartel.com/product/sepulkhral-baptism-ep-cd-pre-sale
https://www.facebook.com/muchikrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/deathinpiecesrecs/
https://www.facebook.com/SepBapblackdeath
Finnish old school death metal project MINUUTTI HULLUUTEEN to release debut mini-album featuring Mathias Lillmåns on guest vocals!
Minuutti Hulluutteen is Lasse Laihola's (ex-MindMirror, Hauras) solo project and a sign of his love for heavy music. In music you are able to sense a mix of old school death metal, black metal and even more modern expression. Mathias Lillmåns (Finntroll, ...And Oceans, etc.) is featured as a guest vocalist on the mini-album named 'UNI' which will be released on March 13th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first and only single 'PALAVA PORTTI' is unleashed today and is available on all major streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/mh-palava
"Uni" contains eight songs and each song takes you to different levels of nightmare. The album songs are mixed together and they create a story that takes you to the darkest place. The solo project waited for a moment before implementation, looking for its complete form of expression. The result is a delicious piece of music that moves from one mood to another.
Track list:
1. Uni vai Painajainen
2. Vajoan
3. Painajainen
4. Synkkä Illuusio
5. Minä olen pimeys
6. Palava Portti
7. Tyhjyys
8. Loppu
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Vesa Viitanen / Napalm to thy Face Prod.
Album cover by Bjp PhotoGraphy
Line-up:
Lasse Laihola - Guitar, drums, bass & vocals
Mathias Lillmåns - Featuring vocals
https://www.facebook.com/minuuttihulluuteen
"Semper" will be released in digipakCD, LP and tape and in the same date My Kingdom Music will release "Nihil Morte Certium", a Gatefold 2 LP with all their discography completely remastered including "Mors" never released in physical format.
Moreover a celebratory BOX titled "Ineffabilis Memoriae Regurgitatio" will be out. It will include all the already mentioned new and old stuff, plus exclusive merchandise and for the first time on vinyl the demo "Premature Exequie" released in 1991 by the band when its name was OMICIDIO, first NIHILI LOCUS' incarnation.
NIHILI LOCUS, a name Doom and Black Metal fans are no strangers to.
They came from Turin area and were born from the band OMICIDIO, formed in 1989, with Massimo Currò (bs), Mauro Veronese (gt), Bruno Blasi (v) and Roberto Ripollino (dr).
After the recordings of the demo "Premature Exequie" in 1991, the band change their name in NIHILI LOCUS and in 1992 Valeria De Benedictis (gt) joined the group who released quite soon the 7"EP "Sub Hyerosolima…" distributed by Obscure Plasma Records. In 1994 they released the concept tape "...Advesperascit..." which led them to have their first official contract with Boundless Recs, for the release of the MCD "...Ad Nihilum Recidunt Omnia" in 1996 recorded with keyboardist Simone Fanciotto.
In the years to come the group's activity was very unstable, until 2009 when they found themselves in an essential formation with the original members Massimo Currò (bs), Mauro Veronese (gt), and Roberto Ripollino (dr). With this line-up, it was recorded "Mors" only available for free download online. In the following years, Terror From Hell released a collection of all the recordings up to 1996 on CD.
The last years has served the band to concentrate on the conception, creation and recordings of the new album "Semper", the release that will finally allow the band to reap the fruits of a career always characterized by a melancholic pathos embodied in a dark sonorous extremism.
"Semper", along with the reissue and celebratory box, is scheduled for May 2025, all on My Kingdom Music.
RELEASES (May 9th, 2025):
"SEMPER" [digipakCD, LP, Tape]
"NIHIL MORTE CERTIUM" [Gatefold 2 LP]
"INEFFABILIS MEMORIAE REGURGITATIO" [BOX with "Semper" in digipakCD, LP, tape; "Nihil Morte Certium" in Gatefold 2 LP; OMICIDIO "Premature Exequie" LP + exclusive merch].
Line-up:
Bruno: vocals
Valla: guitars
Ale: guitars
Max: bass
Robi: drums, growls
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/nihililocus
NEPHYLIM- “ CIRCUITION”
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD / Vinyl (limited to 200 pieces in special colour, possible repress
will then be standard black)
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : In Flames, Wolfheart, Insomnium, At The Gates, Be'lakor and the like…
Tracklist:
01 Travail Pt. I - Anima
02 Travail Pt. II - Animus
03 Amaranth
04 Grand Denial
05 Circuition
06 Withered
07 Inner Paradigm
Nephylim was founded in 2015 by friends Kevin van Geffen (guitar) and Rens van de Ven (first on guitar, later on bass).
From the start it was immediately clear in which style the band would operate: the Gothenburg melodic death metal.
After a number of line-up changes, the band has had the same line-up for years now, with the latest addition being Tijn Bosters as singer, also known from Depths of Kronos and Basterd Bound.
In the summer of 2021, the band was asked to play a Corona-proof concert in the W2 in Den Bosch, where they impressed programmer Rob van der Ham. “I was immediately captivated by the band. A very unique sound and they know exactly how to convey it. Then I immediately thought of Music Hub, because this band deserves an extra push and can certainly use it.”
'Circuition' is the long-awaited follow-up to the debut album 'Severance of Serenity'.
Just like the debut album, 'Circuition' is a conceptual album that explores the concepts of 'the cycle of life' and the 'wheel of fate'. Each song on the record is connected to a meaning or state of being, such as the origin of life: birth, the consequences of old age or everyone's perception of the circulation of life.
By pushing the boundaries in terms of overall production and quality, music and lyrical compositions, 'Circuition' has become a product that is considered to be suitable for the global elite.
With the help of a crowdfunding campaign, the public has supported the band financially and made it clear that they are excited and ready for 'Circuition'.
Album credits
Produced by Joost van den Broek, Yarne Heylen and Nephylim.
Drums recorded at Sandlane Recording Facilities, engineered by Jos Driessen.
Guitars, bass & vocals recorded at Project Zero Studio, engineered by Yarne Heylen.
Guitar reamped at Sandlane Recording Facilities, engineered by Jos Driessen.
Mixed by Joost van den Broek at Sandlane Recording Facilities.
Mastered by Darius van Helfteren at Amsterdam Mastering.
Orchestration composition by Kevin van Geffen & Yannick Maris.
Orchestration arrangement by Yannick Maris.
Artwork & illustration by Giannis Nakos (Remedy Art Design).
Logo Design by Yusuf Effendi (TyranT).
Costume design by Sabine Sleddens.
Line-up
Tijn Bosters – Lead vocals
Kevin van Geffen – Guitars & Clean/Backing vocals
Ralph Lentink – Guitars
Rens van de Ven – Bass
Martijn Paauwe – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/nephylim.band
FELGRAVE - “OTHERLIKE DARKNESSES”
After
dropping a well-received death/doom album five years back, Felgrave has
crafted an ingenious album melding influences of doom, black and death metal in
a way rarely done before. The one-man band has broken the mould and the music
on this album flows in an intuitive, undulating, almost whimsical manner, touching
upon several styles and effortlessly shape shifting through them all. The songs
are between 12 to 18 minutes long and each one seems to tell a tale of its own.
There is so much going on in each song that it demands repeated listens which
isn't necessarily arduous because of the smooth transitions and the overall
coherency. The sound is strangely all encompassing - there are acoustic
passages with clean vocals as well as intense and complex parts that wouldn't
be out of place on a technical death metal album. It's stuff like this which
makes this album fascinating, and what makes it come alive is the passion with
which it is meticulously crafted - it seeps through the music and elevates it
beyond the ostensible stringing together of disparate parts. 'Otherlike Darknesses'
is multi-faceted and yet has a fairly cohesive sound with exceptional song
writing; albums like these definitely don't come out too often.
Line up:
Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and programming by M. L. Jupe
Drums by Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse)
Mixed by M. L. Jupe
Mastered by Brendan Sloan (Convulsing)
Artwork by Adam Burke (Artificial Brain, Plasmodium)
Tracklisting:
1. Winds Batter My Keep
2. Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky
3. Otherlike Darknesses
Release date - April 25th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/felgrave.doom
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
INCANTVM are now premiering the very first track taken from
their upcoming album "MALEFICIA". The song "DONNA
PRUDENTIA" is now streaming in the form of an official video
at https://youtu.be/nYTC1NpSev8 and
it's available on all the digital stores.
"Maleficia" is slated for release on February 21st, 2025 via My Kingdom Music and available for pre-order at https://t.ly/rkSfx
"Maleficia" is the new vicious album created by INCANTVM on atmospheres full of pathos and terrifying perceptions, esoteric ritual sounds and dark sceneries, Doom elements and old school extreme Metal, everything their Avantgarde Black Metal feeds on, making of this an absolutely unique creature in the international musical scene.
It is the darkest and most eclectic manifestation of the creative genius of Vittorio Sabelli and those who walked this way with him into the darkest folds of extreme music, starting from Tenebra (DREARINESS) on voice, to continue with Samael Von Martin (EVOL, MATER A CLIVIS IMPERAT, ALBUS DIABOLUS, Nequam (THE MAGIK WAY) and Davide Straccione (SHORES OF NULL) with their vocal interpretations, Lorenzo Mastrogiuseppe, Luca Tiraterra, and Marco Molino with their rhythmic elements.
It is a pure and simple piece of Art, an incredibly unique and exclusive album for very open-minded people, a journey that sets no stylistic or temporal limits and that reaches straight into the sick soul of those who can perceive it.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.instagram.com/incantvm_black_metal
Chicago-based blackened-death entity MARROWOMB has shared the newest single off its upcoming its debut album, PHISENOMIE.
MARROWOMB and Decibel Magazine present the exclusive premiere of album opener "Phantasia Kataleptike."
"I chose Phantasia Kataleptike as the opening track for the album due to its speed, simplistic flow, and memorability," comments MARROWOMB's Frank Lato. "The main lyrical themes revolve around the duality of self and how one can struggle with two (or even multiple) ways to present oneself outwardly. And in that struggle, it can sometimes be hard to know which one feels the most authentic. This ties into the overarching theme of the album.
Listen to "Phantasia Kataleptike" at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/02/03/track-premiere-marrowomb-phantasia-katalepteke/
Over five years in the making, Phisenomie is the brain spawn of multi-instrumentalist Frank Lato and features drums by renowned session drummer Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted).
Featuring eight meticulously crafted tracks, Phisenomie delivers an unrelenting experience that blurs the boundaries between extreme and experimental. Each song provides a labyrinth of ferocious riffs and punishing rhythms, showcasing Lato’s visionary approach to composition. Phisenomie immerses listeners in a soundscape that is both savage and cerebral. This debut offering is more than just an album—it is a journey through the depths of the human psyche, where chaos and catharsis converge.
Phisenomie is due out on February 21, 2025. Pre-order the album at https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
The artwork for Phisenomie was done by Penny Slinger with layout by Frank Lato. Photography by the legendary Peter Beste.
Tracklisting:
1) Phantasia Kataleptike
2) Sickness Unto Life
3) Vicarious Visage
4) Inner Ring
5) Black Gossamer
6) Veil of Cold
7) The Mirror
8) Despairloom
MARROWOMB is a blackened death metal project formed from the ashes of former Chicago-based bands Polyptych and Endmember in 2020. Spearheaded by mastermind Frank Lato, the artistry of MARROWOMB knows no bounds and takes an uncompromising approach to songwriting. The project takes its influences from various sources; however, the prominent focus is centered on internal conflict and struggle.
MARROWOMB opts for a simplistic approach to its lyrical content and concepts; however, this is not a surface-level entity. For those who choose to venture beyond the surface, there are rewards to seeking out additional truths, messages, and meanings within the music.
MARROWOMB is:
Frank Lato: guitars, bass, vocals, synths/programming
Kevin Paradis: drums
Guest appearances:
Greg Livas: solo on “The Mirror”
Curtis Vamarassi: solo on “Black Gossamer”
Shane Hill: solo on “Despairloom”
All guitar solos recorded by Greg Livas at Ohmstead Studios
https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
VULVECTOMY – “ABERRANT VAGINAL GESTATION”
Tracklisting:1. Antichrist
2. As Bestas
3. The Serpent And The Rod
4. Ichor
5. Righteous Flama
6. Curse
7. The heavens die
8. And all is prelude
To celebrate this moment, we are releasing a special merch vinyl edition as a separate item of you can pick a bundle that fit's you best! Here are all the items you can pick from:
Formats:
- CD
- Vinyl - Solid gold LP
- Vinyl - Solid blue LP
- Vinyl - Blood red LP
- Tape
- Digital
Lucifer's child tour dates:
20-04-2025 - Dark Easter Metal Meeting (DE)
15/16-05-2025 - Dat Unland Fier Fest (DE)
27.05-07.06.2025 - Latin America TBC
18-09-2025 - Metal Im Woid (DE)
08-10-2025 - House Of Metal (SE)
"The Illuminant" will be out on March 28, 2025 but you can already
pre-save the album here: https://orcd.co/arcd293
pre-order the album here: https://shop.luciferschild.net
ASHEN WOMB is now streaming exclusively via Decibel Magazine. Listen now https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/02/05/full-album-stream-phrenelith-ashen-womb/
Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records will release Ashen Womb on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats on February 7.
PHRENELITH emerges from the darkness once again with their third and most unholy full-length offering, Ashen Womb. Nine sinister funeral marches, draped in a bleak and blackened atmosphere, provide a lens into the forthcoming end of times.
Tracklist:1) Noemata
2) Astral Larvae
3) A Husk Wrung Dry
4) Lithopaedion
5) Nebulae
6) Stagnated Blood
7) Sphageion
8) Chrysopoeia
9) Ashen Womb
A droning tone fades in, opening up a slow dirge that eases us into the apocalyptic explosion of death that will follow for the next 40 minutes. Where guitars anxiously scale the fretboard & weave morose melodies while drums pound and smash with the force of the Chicxulub impactor. Interspersed between the infernal, seismic, blackened stampedes are droning psychedelia & ambient noise interludes, immersing us further into the ever-growing darkness. But there are also moments of overwhelming beauty, like on tracks "Nebulae" and the eponymous "Ashen Womb," where PHRENELITH indulge in the repetition of their sinister melodies, layering Serpentinian guitars atop each other, spinning a web of desolate harmonies around the listener.
With Ashen Womb, PHRENELITH gives us the foretold sound of the apocalypse, but whether it’s a warning or a celebration is yet undecided.
PHRENELITH is:
Simon Daniel - Vocals
David Mikkelsen - Guitars, Vocals
Jakob O - Bass
Andreas Nordgreen - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.mesacounojo.com
https://www.facebook.com/phrenelith
A music video for the title track is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1BgHQMFZY
FFO: Katatonia, Insomnium, Wolves In The Throne Room, Agalloch,Virgin Black
Recorded over 2024 in the band’s home studio, located on the Historic Isabella Bowen Henderson property, tucked away amongst lush hidden gardens in the heart of Raleigh, NC, An End Held Dear seeks to showcase what Fulaing has to offer! The title track bleeds between blackened folk and melodic death metal, while "Like Deserts Dream Of Rain" draws from funeral doom and DSBM to create a cinematic soundscape, all of which serves as accompaniment to the grief and suffering of existence while longing for something more.
Formed in the last gasps of 2023, Raleigh, North Carolina’s Fulaing channels suffering into a soundscape of loss, melancholia and a longing for more. Taking inspiration from black metal, folk, funeral doom, and melo death to conjure the resonance of grief and sorrow.
Track
Listing:A01. An End Held Dear
B02. Like Deserts Dream of Rain
Credits:
Logan Holloway - Guitar, Keys, Vocals, Engineer, Artwork
Todd Houck - Guitars, Vocals
Joel Willis - Drums
EYN - Bass
Laura Mooney - Violin
Nate Stokes - Resonator, Synth, Backing Vocals
Jordan King - Guitar Solo
Ryan Masecar - Mastering
Smara Kand - Music Videos
Line-Up:
Logan Holloway - Guitar, Keys, Vocals (ex Mo’ynoq)
Todd Houck - Guitars, Vocals
Joel Willis - Drums
EYN - Bass (Nganga, Nocurous Lust, Cyperian)
Laura Mooney - Violin (Black Bouquet)
Nate Stokes - Resonator, Synth, Backing Vocals (Nganga, Noctomb)
https://fulaing.bandcamp.com/album/an-end-held-dear-cassingle
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: March 4th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Demigod | Carcass | Bolt Thrower | Cannibal Corpse
At the heart of a wasteland, long miles from the intrusive blemish of artificial light, a sky of velvet darkness is dusted with a myriad of stars. In the untainted silence they gaze down in grim anticipation at a circle of stones in a place with no name. And between the stones a fine dust of cold ashes begins to stir, inviting a stain of congealed blood, which has never dried despite the endless passings of the sun, to dance. Together they start to spin, gathering pace, forming a whispering vortex in the desert night. As the maelstrom of dirt begins to rise and the distant stars seem to hold their breath, the earth splits asunder and a triumphant fountain of flame erupts. A vast and grotesque form of many teeth and many limbs breaks free from the clutches of its grave, roaring its defiance at those who presumed its death too soon…
It may have been nearly a dozen years since Spain’s death metal titans, Avulsed, last released a full length album of new material – 2013s Ritual Zombi – but only a fool would have turned their back and thought the band formed by vocalist Dave Rotten back in 1991 were out for the count. Revitalised by some key line-up changes, Avulsed have risen from their slough of despond with the utterly devastating and aptly named, Phoenix Cryptobiosis. Right from the very beginning of opening instrumental, ‘Limbs Regeneration’, you can sense that something special is about to be unleashed…and with ‘Lacerate To Dominate’ the cobwebs of the last decade are not just swept away, they are incinerated! Avulsed have always been known for their irresistible live prowess and the glorious brute force of early albums like Stabwound Orgasm and Gorespattered Suicide, but with Phoenix Cryptobiosis they have attained a new level. There’s a maturity to the song writing, a dark atmosphere of measured horror, inescapable hooks and an infusion of wicked excitement. There is no let up from start to finish, no faltering in the deadly intent – this is virulent poison to the last drop, deadly to the end. You’ll find new highlights with every listen to this genre defining album...the first time you might be caught by the cascading, carnivorous riffing of ‘Unrotted’ and its choruses that entrench themselves in your mind, or destroyed by the imperious vocal display on ‘Guts Of The Gore Gods’; the second time it might be the drum intro of ‘Devotion For Putrefaction’ that sends shocks through your neurons to your nerve endings and on the third maybe the wonderfully mangled and broken death metal supremacy of ‘Bio-Cadaver’ will dissect you and lay your spirit bare. Each track has a wealth of haunted vaults to explore and you’ll just want the bloodshed to keep on coming.
With the new line-up in exhilarating form and a final touch of gore soaked magic applied by the mastering of Davide Billia (Beheaded, Devangelic, Posthuman Abomination etc), Phoenix Cryptobiosis represents Avulsed at their very, very best. This is everything you could desire from an unwavering, undiluted death metal album in this age of fractured loyalties and pandering to the thin-blooded masses. When Xtreem Music let loose this beautiful beast, with its incredible Daemorph cover art, on March 4th, Avulsed will bestride the death metal scene of 2025 as monstrous monarchs of all they survey.
Line-up:
Dave Rotten - Vocals
Victor Dws - Guitars
Alejandro Lobo - Guitars
Alex Nihil - Bass
Santiago Arroyo "GoG" - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.avulsed.com
Finnish 90's rooted melodic death metal band NORTHVOID will release a new EP EMBER REMAINS - first single WILDERNESS out now!
Finnish metal band Northvoid is set to release a new EP 'Ember Remains' on April 25th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first single 'Wilderness' aims to transport the listener to the quiet, wilderness-like landscape.
Listen to the single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/northvoid-wilderness
“The lyrics of the single Wilderness are related to the wilderness and landscape of Eastern Finland. We also find a source for our music from these hidden places in the forests,” the band states.
“The wilderness is an endless source of inspiration, which we bring out with metallic verses,” continues the band's drummer and lyricist Timo Korkalainen.
The first version of Wilderness was completed in the summer of 2022. The song was played in rehearsals and took its final form after several rounds of arrangements.
According to the band's guitarist and composer Markus Heikkinen, “Wilderness is a great example of mixing different genres into our style of music.
We start with a faster and more intense tempo and visit the surroundings of a black metal. The middle section takes on a slightly calmer, painterly atmosphere, before returning to the pace of the beginning. The keyboards emphasize the atmosphere throughout the song, gluing it together as a whole."
Track
list:1. Northern Breeze
2. Wilderness
3. Sun & Moon
4. Entrusted
5. The Ember
Mix & Master: Heikki Marttila/Guru Studio, Joensuu
EP picture by Timo Korkalainen, cover artwork Markus Heikkinen
Biography:
Forged in North Karelia in January 2020, Northvoid delivers a musical assault rooted in the melodic death metal of the 90’s. With a bond forged in childhood, our members now channel the raw, untamed energy of the past & present into every note.
Our music is a fusion of melodic heaviness and groove, inspired by the harsh environment and wilderness of the north. Experience the power and versatility of our music, which broadly covers different elements of metal music, guided by the attitude of the frost-bitten north. Northvoid isn't just music – it's a journey into the heart of coldness and wilderness.
Line-up:
Markus Heikkinen: guitars
Timo Korkalainen: drums
Kimmo Timonen: vocals
Risto Aittola: bass
https://www.facebook.com/northvoid
DEATH IN PIECES RECS in conspiracy with MUCHIK RECS will release SEPULKHRAL BAPTISM self titled debut EP, on CD limited to 500 copies.
Genre: Death Black MetalCountry: México
Release date: February 4th 2025
CD limited to 500 copies
Formed in 2023, this Black/ Death entity features members from Rotting Grave and Heretic Ritual. This is extreme metal music highly influenced by Teitanblood, Triumvir Foul, Necros Christos, etc.
"Sepulkhral Baptism formed in 2023 out of our needs to worship DEATH."
Tracklist:
I
II
III
IV
Recording credits:
All music were performed and recorded by SEPULKHRAL BAPTISM
Recorded at Warhead Studios, mixed and mastered by Alejandro Mendez at Mat Studios
Intros by Purity of Wrong.
Art by: Sah Sahhu
Layout by Ernesto Montero @ Brutal Design
SEPULKHRAL BAPTISM is:
PM – Guitars/Lamentations
NM – Guitars
DA – Bass
AV – Drums
Buy here!! https://deathinpiecesrecs.bigcartel.com/product/sepulkhral-baptism-ep-cd-pre-sale
https://www.facebook.com/muchikrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/deathinpiecesrecs/
https://www.facebook.com/SepBapblackdeath
Finnish old school death metal project MINUUTTI HULLUUTEEN to release debut mini-album featuring Mathias Lillmåns on guest vocals!
Minuutti Hulluutteen is Lasse Laihola's (ex-MindMirror, Hauras) solo project and a sign of his love for heavy music. In music you are able to sense a mix of old school death metal, black metal and even more modern expression. Mathias Lillmåns (Finntroll, ...And Oceans, etc.) is featured as a guest vocalist on the mini-album named 'UNI' which will be released on March 13th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first and only single 'PALAVA PORTTI' is unleashed today and is available on all major streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/mh-palava
"Uni" contains eight songs and each song takes you to different levels of nightmare. The album songs are mixed together and they create a story that takes you to the darkest place. The solo project waited for a moment before implementation, looking for its complete form of expression. The result is a delicious piece of music that moves from one mood to another.
Track list:1. Uni vai Painajainen
2. Vajoan
3. Painajainen
4. Synkkä Illuusio
5. Minä olen pimeys
6. Palava Portti
7. Tyhjyys
8. Loppu
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Vesa Viitanen / Napalm to thy Face Prod.
Album cover by Bjp PhotoGraphy
Line-up:
Lasse Laihola - Guitar, drums, bass & vocals
Mathias Lillmåns - Featuring vocals
https://www.facebook.com/minuuttihulluuteen
"Semper" will be released in digipakCD, LP and tape and in the same date My Kingdom Music will release "Nihil Morte Certium", a Gatefold 2 LP with all their discography completely remastered including "Mors" never released in physical format.
Moreover a celebratory BOX titled "Ineffabilis Memoriae Regurgitatio" will be out. It will include all the already mentioned new and old stuff, plus exclusive merchandise and for the first time on vinyl the demo "Premature Exequie" released in 1991 by the band when its name was OMICIDIO, first NIHILI LOCUS' incarnation.
NIHILI LOCUS, a name Doom and Black Metal fans are no strangers to.
They came from Turin area and were born from the band OMICIDIO, formed in 1989, with Massimo Currò (bs), Mauro Veronese (gt), Bruno Blasi (v) and Roberto Ripollino (dr).
After the recordings of the demo "Premature Exequie" in 1991, the band change their name in NIHILI LOCUS and in 1992 Valeria De Benedictis (gt) joined the group who released quite soon the 7"EP "Sub Hyerosolima…" distributed by Obscure Plasma Records. In 1994 they released the concept tape "...Advesperascit..." which led them to have their first official contract with Boundless Recs, for the release of the MCD "...Ad Nihilum Recidunt Omnia" in 1996 recorded with keyboardist Simone Fanciotto.
In the years to come the group's activity was very unstable, until 2009 when they found themselves in an essential formation with the original members Massimo Currò (bs), Mauro Veronese (gt), and Roberto Ripollino (dr). With this line-up, it was recorded "Mors" only available for free download online. In the following years, Terror From Hell released a collection of all the recordings up to 1996 on CD.
The last years has served the band to concentrate on the conception, creation and recordings of the new album "Semper", the release that will finally allow the band to reap the fruits of a career always characterized by a melancholic pathos embodied in a dark sonorous extremism.
"Semper", along with the reissue and celebratory box, is scheduled for May 2025, all on My Kingdom Music.
RELEASES (May 9th, 2025):"SEMPER" [digipakCD, LP, Tape]
"NIHIL MORTE CERTIUM" [Gatefold 2 LP]
"INEFFABILIS MEMORIAE REGURGITATIO" [BOX with "Semper" in digipakCD, LP, tape; "Nihil Morte Certium" in Gatefold 2 LP; OMICIDIO "Premature Exequie" LP + exclusive merch].
Line-up:
Bruno: vocals
Valla: guitars
Ale: guitars
Max: bass
Robi: drums, growls
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/nihililocus
NEPHYLIM- “ CIRCUITION”
Format: Digital CD /
Physical CD / Vinyl (limited to 200 pieces in special colour, possible repress
will then be standard black)Label: Independent Release
For fans of : In Flames, Wolfheart, Insomnium, At The Gates, Be'lakor and the like…
Tracklist:
01 Travail Pt. I - Anima
02 Travail Pt. II - Animus
03 Amaranth
04 Grand Denial
05 Circuition
06 Withered
07 Inner Paradigm
Nephylim was founded in 2015 by friends Kevin van Geffen (guitar) and Rens van de Ven (first on guitar, later on bass).
From the start it was immediately clear in which style the band would operate: the Gothenburg melodic death metal.
After a number of line-up changes, the band has had the same line-up for years now, with the latest addition being Tijn Bosters as singer, also known from Depths of Kronos and Basterd Bound.
In the summer of 2021, the band was asked to play a Corona-proof concert in the W2 in Den Bosch, where they impressed programmer Rob van der Ham. “I was immediately captivated by the band. A very unique sound and they know exactly how to convey it. Then I immediately thought of Music Hub, because this band deserves an extra push and can certainly use it.”
'Circuition' is the long-awaited follow-up to the debut album 'Severance of Serenity'.
Just like the debut album, 'Circuition' is a conceptual album that explores the concepts of 'the cycle of life' and the 'wheel of fate'. Each song on the record is connected to a meaning or state of being, such as the origin of life: birth, the consequences of old age or everyone's perception of the circulation of life.
By pushing the boundaries in terms of overall production and quality, music and lyrical compositions, 'Circuition' has become a product that is considered to be suitable for the global elite.
With the help of a crowdfunding campaign, the public has supported the band financially and made it clear that they are excited and ready for 'Circuition'.
Album credits
Produced by Joost van den Broek, Yarne Heylen and Nephylim.
Drums recorded at Sandlane Recording Facilities, engineered by Jos Driessen.
Guitars, bass & vocals recorded at Project Zero Studio, engineered by Yarne Heylen.
Guitar reamped at Sandlane Recording Facilities, engineered by Jos Driessen.
Mixed by Joost van den Broek at Sandlane Recording Facilities.
Mastered by Darius van Helfteren at Amsterdam Mastering.
Orchestration composition by Kevin van Geffen & Yannick Maris.
Orchestration arrangement by Yannick Maris.
Artwork & illustration by Giannis Nakos (Remedy Art Design).
Logo Design by Yusuf Effendi (TyranT).
Costume design by Sabine Sleddens.
Line-up
Tijn Bosters – Lead vocals
Kevin van Geffen – Guitars & Clean/Backing vocals
Ralph Lentink – Guitars
Rens van de Ven – Bass
Martijn Paauwe – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/nephylim.band
FELGRAVE - “OTHERLIKE DARKNESSES”
After
dropping a well-received death/doom album five years back, Felgrave has
crafted an ingenious album melding influences of doom, black and death metal in
a way rarely done before. The one-man band has broken the mould and the music
on this album flows in an intuitive, undulating, almost whimsical manner, touching
upon several styles and effortlessly shape shifting through them all. The songs
are between 12 to 18 minutes long and each one seems to tell a tale of its own.
There is so much going on in each song that it demands repeated listens which
isn't necessarily arduous because of the smooth transitions and the overall
coherency. The sound is strangely all encompassing - there are acoustic
passages with clean vocals as well as intense and complex parts that wouldn't
be out of place on a technical death metal album. It's stuff like this which
makes this album fascinating, and what makes it come alive is the passion with
which it is meticulously crafted - it seeps through the music and elevates it
beyond the ostensible stringing together of disparate parts. 'Otherlike Darknesses'
is multi-faceted and yet has a fairly cohesive sound with exceptional song
writing; albums like these definitely don't come out too often.Line up:
Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and programming by M. L. Jupe
Drums by Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse)
Mixed by M. L. Jupe
Mastered by Brendan Sloan (Convulsing)
Artwork by Adam Burke (Artificial Brain, Plasmodium)
Tracklisting:
1. Winds Batter My Keep
2. Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky
3. Otherlike Darknesses
Release date - April 25th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/felgrave.doom
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
INCANTVM are now premiering the very first track taken from
their upcoming album "MALEFICIA". The song "DONNA
PRUDENTIA" is now streaming in the form of an official video
at https://youtu.be/nYTC1NpSev8 and
it's available on all the digital stores."Maleficia" is slated for release on February 21st, 2025 via My Kingdom Music and available for pre-order at https://t.ly/rkSfx
"Maleficia" is the new vicious album created by INCANTVM on atmospheres full of pathos and terrifying perceptions, esoteric ritual sounds and dark sceneries, Doom elements and old school extreme Metal, everything their Avantgarde Black Metal feeds on, making of this an absolutely unique creature in the international musical scene.
It is the darkest and most eclectic manifestation of the creative genius of Vittorio Sabelli and those who walked this way with him into the darkest folds of extreme music, starting from Tenebra (DREARINESS) on voice, to continue with Samael Von Martin (EVOL, MATER A CLIVIS IMPERAT, ALBUS DIABOLUS, Nequam (THE MAGIK WAY) and Davide Straccione (SHORES OF NULL) with their vocal interpretations, Lorenzo Mastrogiuseppe, Luca Tiraterra, and Marco Molino with their rhythmic elements.
It is a pure and simple piece of Art, an incredibly unique and exclusive album for very open-minded people, a journey that sets no stylistic or temporal limits and that reaches straight into the sick soul of those who can perceive it.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.instagram.com/incantvm_black_metal
Chicago-based blackened-death entity MARROWOMB has shared the newest single off its upcoming its debut album, PHISENOMIE.
MARROWOMB and Decibel Magazine present the exclusive premiere of album opener "Phantasia Kataleptike."
"I chose Phantasia Kataleptike as the opening track for the album due to its speed, simplistic flow, and memorability," comments MARROWOMB's Frank Lato. "The main lyrical themes revolve around the duality of self and how one can struggle with two (or even multiple) ways to present oneself outwardly. And in that struggle, it can sometimes be hard to know which one feels the most authentic. This ties into the overarching theme of the album.
Listen to "Phantasia Kataleptike" at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/02/03/track-premiere-marrowomb-phantasia-katalepteke/
Over five years in the making, Phisenomie is the brain spawn of multi-instrumentalist Frank Lato and features drums by renowned session drummer Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted).
Featuring eight meticulously crafted tracks, Phisenomie delivers an unrelenting experience that blurs the boundaries between extreme and experimental. Each song provides a labyrinth of ferocious riffs and punishing rhythms, showcasing Lato’s visionary approach to composition. Phisenomie immerses listeners in a soundscape that is both savage and cerebral. This debut offering is more than just an album—it is a journey through the depths of the human psyche, where chaos and catharsis converge.
Phisenomie is due out on February 21, 2025. Pre-order the album at https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
The artwork for Phisenomie was done by Penny Slinger with layout by Frank Lato. Photography by the legendary Peter Beste.
Tracklisting:1) Phantasia Kataleptike
2) Sickness Unto Life
3) Vicarious Visage
4) Inner Ring
5) Black Gossamer
6) Veil of Cold
7) The Mirror
8) Despairloom
MARROWOMB is a blackened death metal project formed from the ashes of former Chicago-based bands Polyptych and Endmember in 2020. Spearheaded by mastermind Frank Lato, the artistry of MARROWOMB knows no bounds and takes an uncompromising approach to songwriting. The project takes its influences from various sources; however, the prominent focus is centered on internal conflict and struggle.
MARROWOMB opts for a simplistic approach to its lyrical content and concepts; however, this is not a surface-level entity. For those who choose to venture beyond the surface, there are rewards to seeking out additional truths, messages, and meanings within the music.
MARROWOMB is:
Frank Lato: guitars, bass, vocals, synths/programming
Kevin Paradis: drums
Guest appearances:
Greg Livas: solo on “The Mirror”
Curtis Vamarassi: solo on “Black Gossamer”
Shane Hill: solo on “Despairloom”
All guitar solos recorded by Greg Livas at Ohmstead Studios
https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
VULVECTOMY – “ABERRANT VAGINAL GESTATION”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease Date: April 11th 2025
Genre: Brutal/Slam Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Kraanium | Gorevent | Amputated
Through every waking hour I travel the dark tunnels of the online world, feasting on the horrors to be uncovered, delving further into the darkness – damaging, desensitizing and warping myself beyond repair. And when my exhausted eyes finally close in sleep, a stronghold of nightmares opens its gates within the endless corridors of my mind…a thousand doors and behind each one a scenario of twisted torment; sadism, masochism, brutality without boundaries, unspeakable acts of degeneracy and deviance. Morality is meaningless in my eternal kingdom of corruption; there is only the act, the blood, the pain, the dismantling of the human form – body, mind and spirit.
After twelve long, fear free years, the monstrous beast that is Vulvectomy has crawled forth from its lair in the Italian sewers once more. The ultimate manifestation of conscienceless, emotionless, slamming brutality is back, with another rancid harvest of putridity and filth for the sickest of souls. Any thoughts that Vulvectomy may have mellowed over time or discovered a shred of humanity within their collective, rotten heart should be abandoned immediately. Once the addictive riffs and incredibly intense drums have drawn you in to this cesspit of disgust there is not a moment of relief from the barbarity and madness. Each chord is delivered with sadistic intent and formidable force, punishing blows alternating with frenzied assaults. Tracks like first single, ‘Scrotal Abscess Drainage’ are just overwhelming barrages of rot and disease, brutal slam death distilled down to its fetid, sordid essence. The song titles are a litany of perversion, the music an avalanche of depraved violence. With slithering, wormlike horrors like ‘Greedy Fetal Discharge’ Vulvectomy have painted a portrait of a world beyond redemption. This album will disturb you, infect you, scar you and vomit over the last grains of hope you may have had for mankind.
Mixed by Alessio Cattaneo (Corpsefucking Art, Hideous Divinity etc) and mastered by Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Vomit The Soul, Hour Of Penance etc) Aberrant Vaginal Gestation sounds as bludgeoning and gore-encrusted as it should, bestial beyond belief. And the cover art by Guang Yang (Beheaded, Nunslaughter, Infant Annihilator etc) is truly a repugnant and grotesque vision, spawned from night terrors and wickedness. There is not a trace of decency to found in any part of this vicious abomination of an album. When Comatose Music unleash the reborn Vulvectomy on April 11th there will be hell to pay…
Line-up:
Diego Fanelli - Vocals
Giorgio Cavaliere - Bass
Mario Di Giambattista - Guitar
Marco Coghe - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.vulvectomyofficial.com/
CHAOTIC DEATH METAL MADNESS... MURDER RECORDS is honored to present SCYTHROW, a band buried in the filthy graves hailing from the rotten fields from Lappeenranta in Finland.
Scythrow emerged in 2020 with the intention of presenting a sound more directed towards the Thrash Metal strands, but over the time, they has been shaping its sound until it reaches a more violent sonic decomposition with the insane putrefaction of heavier riffs that are complemented by a voracious brutality with rotting melodies and where the filthy chaos has completely invaded the sound that is currently presented by Scythrow.
"BLAMELESS SEVERED EXTREMITIES" is the title of Scythrow's third album, containing eight severe lacerations of brutality where the influences of Thrash Metal practiced in the band's early days remain, making this album more chaotic and interesting, but here we can hear something much heavier and more brutal, defining a more cavernous sound that makes us dive into the depths of merciless chaos and where the Chaotic Death Metal prevails imminently...
Murder Records is now preparing the release of Scythrow's latest album in Cassette format, which will include an bonus track, a cover from the veterans Mortician "Chainsaw Dismemberment", allowing the worms to devouring the human remains buried in the putrid melodies duly moldy with the cadaveric odors presented here on this Chaotic Death Metal from the cemitery...
Chaos & Death On... Normal Life Off...
SCYTHROW
-"BLAMELESS SEVERED EXTREMITIES"Cassette limited to 100 copies
SIDE A
01 - Reluctant Possession [03:31]
02 - Kinemortophobia [03:07]
03 - Nerve Rot [03:44]
04 - Necrotic High [04:40]
SIDE B
05 - Blameless Severed Extremities [05:51]
06 - The Remorse Declines [04:08]
07 - Bare Bones [03:39]
08 - The Fatal Point Of Closure [06:28]
09 - Chainsaw Dismemberment (Mortician Cover) [01:39]
All music arranged and performed by Scythrow.
Composed by Arttu Muukkonen, Nuutti Myllynen and Markus Erling.
Lyrics written by Markus Erling.
Bonus track written and composed by Mortician.
Record during June and July 2024 in Bomb Shelter at Lappeenranta.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Arttu Muukkonen.
Cover art work by Apostle Ink.
Band logo by Nuutti Myllynen.
Layout is made by Arttu Muukkonen and Nuutti Myllynen.
Gig Photography by Jan Suominen.
Release Date: March 14th, 2025
The start from Pre-Order will be announced soon and will be revealed also the Official Video Clip from Scythrow entitled "Blameless Severed Extremities".
https://scythrow.bandcamp.com/album/blameless-severed-extremities
Finland is well known for being a den of fertility when it comes to extreme sonic filth, so it's time to introduce you to Scythrow, a band that was unearthed in 2020 from the rotting tombs of Lappeenranta.
Although Scythrow are a new band, they have just released their third album, entitled "Blameless Severed Extremities", which was released in CD format by Awakening Records, soon will be released by Murder Records in Cassette format and later will be released also by Futhark Records in Vinyl format.
Although Scythrow's first two albums present a sound more directed towards Thrash Metal, this new work defines very well the type of sound that Scythrow intends to propagate and where they finally found the cadaveric formula that allows them to present a more cohesive sound within the parameters of chaotic brutality.
So let's get on with the interview that follows, where I had the pleasure of speaking with the rotten brother brothers from Scythrow and they will reveal to us a little more about Scythrow.
Interview with Scythrow read here : https://www.murder-records.eu/cadaveric-noiseletter/2305908_interview-with-scythrow
Scythrow are :
Markus Erling - Guitar / Vocals
Arttu Muukkonen - Guitar / Backing Vocals
Nuutti Myllynen - Bass
Benjamin Niemelä - Drums
scythrowband@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/people/Scythrow/100083778333109/
Seattle
(WA) - Death/thrash/black metal futurists, XOTH, are
thrilled to announce their U.S. West Coast Tour, beginning on Friday,
April 4th in Tacoma, WA, where the band will share the stage with the
legendary 3 Inches of Blood.
Along
the way, XOTH will join forces with a host of killer bands,
including Starcourt, Street Cleaner, and Upon Stone. The band
will showcase tracks from their acclaimed release, EXOGALACTIC,
a record praised for its intricate musicianship and ability to transport
listeners to the furthest reaches of the universe. Tour dates as as follows:
Fri 4/4 – Tacoma, WA – Airport Tavern – w/ 3 Inches of Blood
Tue 4/8 – Portland, OR – Star Theatre – w/ Starcourt
Wed 4/9 – Eureka, CA – Savage Henry
Thu 4/10 – San Jose, CA – The Ritz
Fri 4/11 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Humdinger Brewing
Sat 4/12 – Los Angeles, CA – Knucklehead – w/ Street Cleaner, Upon Stone
Sun 4/13 – San Diego, CA – Tower Bar w/ Street Cleaner
Wed 4/16 – Santa Cruz, CA – Blue Lagoon
Thu 4/17 – San Francisco, CA – Thee Parkside
Fri 4/18 – Medford, OR – Rockafairy
Sat 4/19 – Eugene, OR – John Henry’s – w/ Starcourt
For ticketing information, updates, and additional live dates, visit https://linktr.ee/beholdxoth
XOTH recently released a full-band playthrough video for "Saga of the Blade," a track from critically acclaimed 2023 album, Exogalactic.
Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY40M81uOh0
Dawnbreed Records released Exogalactic on November 3, 2023.
CD/Digital: https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/exogalactic
CD (EU Version): https://www.dawnbreed.com/
Thank you for supporting XOTH!
The debut full-length from US vomit grinders MEPHITIC CORPSE has been unleashed!SICKNESS ATTRACTS SICKNESS is now available on digital and physical formats. Extremely Rotten Productions will release the album to European audiences with Headsplit Records (vinyl, CD and cassette) and 625 Thrashcore (vinyl and CD) releasing the album in the US.
Fri 4/4 – Tacoma, WA – Airport Tavern – w/ 3 Inches of Blood
Tue 4/8 – Portland, OR – Star Theatre – w/ Starcourt
Wed 4/9 – Eureka, CA – Savage Henry
Thu 4/10 – San Jose, CA – The Ritz
Fri 4/11 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Humdinger Brewing
Sat 4/12 – Los Angeles, CA – Knucklehead – w/ Street Cleaner, Upon Stone
Sun 4/13 – San Diego, CA – Tower Bar w/ Street Cleaner
Wed 4/16 – Santa Cruz, CA – Blue Lagoon
Thu 4/17 – San Francisco, CA – Thee Parkside
Fri 4/18 – Medford, OR – Rockafairy
Sat 4/19 – Eugene, OR – John Henry’s – w/ Starcourt
For ticketing information, updates, and additional live dates, visit https://linktr.ee/beholdxoth
XOTH recently released a full-band playthrough video for "Saga of the Blade," a track from critically acclaimed 2023 album, Exogalactic.
Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY40M81uOh0
Dawnbreed Records released Exogalactic on November 3, 2023.
CD/Digital: https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/exogalactic
CD (EU Version): https://www.dawnbreed.com/
Thank you for supporting XOTH!
The debut full-length from US vomit grinders MEPHITIC CORPSE has been unleashed!SICKNESS ATTRACTS SICKNESS is now available on digital and physical formats. Extremely Rotten Productions will release the album to European audiences with Headsplit Records (vinyl, CD and cassette) and 625 Thrashcore (vinyl and CD) releasing the album in the US.
Purchase
the album at the links below:
www.625thrash.com
www.headsplitrecords.com
www.extremelyrottenprod.com
Stream at https://mephiticcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/sickness-attracts-sickness
"Pure, room-clearing, obnoxious filth. What makes Mephitic Corpse so good is that they represent everything most people can’t stand about death metal. When people say they hate extreme metal, this band’s sound perfectly encapsulates all of their grievances. Did I mention this totally rules?"
- Decibel Magazine
Track
listing:
1) Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment
2) Blistering Red Corpse Under Max Thermostat
3) Grisly Vomit on Self
4) Screwgun my Spleen
5) Intrusive Thoughts Lead to Impatient Butchering
6) Heart in Tinfoil
7) Teething on Clots
8) Painless
9) Rectal Bugs
10) Digested from Both Ends
11) Gutpuked Maggot Treatment
The band is set to hit the road next month alongside extreme death metal outfit UNDERGANG as part of the North American Regurgitation tour. Dates are as follows:
2/7 - Austin, TX @ Valhalla
2/8 - Dallas, TX @ Double Wide
2/9 - Tulsa, OK @ Whittier Bar
2/10 - St Louis, MO @ The Sinkhole
2/11 - Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
2/12 - Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
2/13 - Toronto, ON @ Garrison
2/14 - Ottawa, ON @ Dominion Tavern
2/15 - Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar
MEPHITIC CORPSE is from San Luis Obispo, California, and have played brutal grindcore since 2018. The band's demo tape Immense Thickening Vomit was released by Extremely Rotten Productions (Europe) and Headsplit Records (USA) and was spread worldwide with several pressings from both labels. A CD version was also released by Terrible Mutilation Records (Australia).
MEPHITIC CORPSE plays a fast and thick style of death metal that draws on the early roots of grind and brutal death metal bands, such as IMMORTAL FATE, GUTTED PULP and Mexican DISGORGE. They have played across the US, Canada and several shows in Europe, amongst them both editions of the Unearthed Morbidity Festival in Copenhagen and will be playing Maryland Death Fest and two US tours in early 2025 in support of Sickness Attracts Sickness. to be released by Extremely Rotten Productions, Headsplit Records and 625 Thrash in early February 2025.
Sickness Attracts Sickness was recorded and mixed by Ethan Camp at Ethan’s Work between August and September 2023 and mastered by Dan Lowndes and Sound Resonance Studio.
Guest vocals on “Heart in Tinfoil” by David Mikkelsen (UNDERGANG / SEQUESTRUM).
Album cover art by the band’s own Matt Rose.
MEPHITIC CORPSE are:
Eric - Drums
Matt – Guitar / puke
Michael – Bass
Parker – Gag reflux
www.625thrash.com
www.headsplitrecords.com
www.extremelyrottenprod.com
https://mephiticcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/sickness-attracts-sickness
RÄUM - "EMPEROR OF THE SUN"
www.625thrash.com
www.headsplitrecords.com
www.extremelyrottenprod.com
Stream at https://mephiticcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/sickness-attracts-sickness
"Pure, room-clearing, obnoxious filth. What makes Mephitic Corpse so good is that they represent everything most people can’t stand about death metal. When people say they hate extreme metal, this band’s sound perfectly encapsulates all of their grievances. Did I mention this totally rules?"
- Decibel Magazine
Track
listing:1) Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment
2) Blistering Red Corpse Under Max Thermostat
3) Grisly Vomit on Self
4) Screwgun my Spleen
5) Intrusive Thoughts Lead to Impatient Butchering
6) Heart in Tinfoil
7) Teething on Clots
8) Painless
9) Rectal Bugs
10) Digested from Both Ends
11) Gutpuked Maggot Treatment
The band is set to hit the road next month alongside extreme death metal outfit UNDERGANG as part of the North American Regurgitation tour. Dates are as follows:
2/7 - Austin, TX @ Valhalla
2/8 - Dallas, TX @ Double Wide
2/9 - Tulsa, OK @ Whittier Bar
2/10 - St Louis, MO @ The Sinkhole
2/11 - Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
2/12 - Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
2/13 - Toronto, ON @ Garrison
2/14 - Ottawa, ON @ Dominion Tavern
2/15 - Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar
MEPHITIC CORPSE is from San Luis Obispo, California, and have played brutal grindcore since 2018. The band's demo tape Immense Thickening Vomit was released by Extremely Rotten Productions (Europe) and Headsplit Records (USA) and was spread worldwide with several pressings from both labels. A CD version was also released by Terrible Mutilation Records (Australia).
MEPHITIC CORPSE plays a fast and thick style of death metal that draws on the early roots of grind and brutal death metal bands, such as IMMORTAL FATE, GUTTED PULP and Mexican DISGORGE. They have played across the US, Canada and several shows in Europe, amongst them both editions of the Unearthed Morbidity Festival in Copenhagen and will be playing Maryland Death Fest and two US tours in early 2025 in support of Sickness Attracts Sickness. to be released by Extremely Rotten Productions, Headsplit Records and 625 Thrash in early February 2025.
Sickness Attracts Sickness was recorded and mixed by Ethan Camp at Ethan’s Work between August and September 2023 and mastered by Dan Lowndes and Sound Resonance Studio.
Guest vocals on “Heart in Tinfoil” by David Mikkelsen (UNDERGANG / SEQUESTRUM).
Album cover art by the band’s own Matt Rose.
MEPHITIC CORPSE are:
Eric - Drums
Matt – Guitar / puke
Michael – Bass
Parker – Gag reflux
www.625thrash.com
www.headsplitrecords.com
www.extremelyrottenprod.com
https://mephiticcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/sickness-attracts-sickness
RÄUM - "EMPEROR OF THE SUN"
Release
date :
February 21 2025Genre : Post Black Metal
Origin: Belgium
Duration: 44min20
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
RÄUM is a Belgian band founded in 2020 in Liège, born in the turmoil of the pandemic. Their music offers a journey through the hopes, vices, fears, and decline of humanity. With a raw post black metal sound, RÄUM reveals the emptiness and self-destructive nature of the human soul, embodying a striking duality between greatness and decay. In 2023, the band released their album Cursed by The Crown on the label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Production. This opus explores dark and melancholic atmospheres, blending oppressive and chaotic sound waves that capture the inner struggle of mankind. The band aims to create a palpable tension, reflecting the despair and aggression inherent in the human experience. In 2025, the exploration continues with a new album titled Emperor of The Sun, also on Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Production. This project promises to delve deeper into the duality that resides within us, inviting listeners to plunge further into the abysses of the human condition. Through intense and evocative music, RÄUM seeks to portray the inevitable decline and fall of humanity and our civilizations.
Artwork par Sözo Tozö & Sauge Noire (Layout)
Tracklist:
01. Eclipse of The Empyreal Dawn
02. Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
03. Grounds of Desolation
04. Towards The Flames
05. Obscure
06. Emperor of The Sun
07. A Path to The Abyss
https://www.facebook.com/raum.belgium
Reek of Death is a female fronted Austrian band which brings you finest old school death!
This year they already shared stage with Gutalax, Obscura & Napalm Death!
Enjoy some deep growls & headbanging oldschool action!
https://www.youtube.com/@reekofdeath-official
https://www.facebook.com/reekofdeath
We’re
very proud and excited to rejoin forces with our kindred spirits again, as
Members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour, and Aberration come
together in RITUAL ASCENSION, a horrendous sonic desecration
decomposing death metal into a subsonic hallucinatory miasma, and deforming
into a hideous disfigurement of its former self. Devoured in dissonance and
shrouded in catacombal atmospheres, the band’s horrendous debut full-length
monstrosity "PROFANATION OF THE ADAMIC COVENANT" takes
the masterful death-doom horror of early Temple Nightside and Grave
Upheaval, and transfigures it further into the darkest abysses of surrealism.The putrid behemoth-like debut monstrosity has been introduced by always attentive extreme metal blog Toilet ov Hell, who in premiering the colossal thirteen-minute closing track of the album, have remarked how “‘Kolob (At the Throne of Elohim)’ will wrap its pitch-black tendrils around you and slowly crush you with exactly the expertise you’d expect given the project’s pedigree” - adding that the album is “brutally heavy and suffocatingly dark” and that “the band really stick to the ‘ritual’ part of their name”. You can check out the feature and track here https://toiletovhell.com/track-premiere-ritual-ascension-kolob-at-the-throne-of-elohim/
Not dissimilar to an auditory experimental horror film or to a stripped down version of Portal playing experimental doom, the work traces the grotesque lineaments of a disfigured subterranean hellscape through a masterful use of surrealism, dissonance and compositional abstraction. Slow, crushing, atonal dirges alternate lumbering behemoth-like trudges and enigmatic tectonic upheavals that build an immense ominous aura as the album unfolds a dense, mephitic atmosphere draped in malevolent ambience. The album’s monolithic and agonizing crawl is then violently disrupted by onslaughts of wrathful disturbances, where bursts of demented blasting, tortured screams and mangled fretwork blindside the listener, casting them further down the abyss, into a bottomless sepulcher of confusion and of complete chthonic torment.
“Profanation of the Adamic Covenant” is scheduled for a February 28 2025 release via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, now all pre-orderable via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/ritual-ascension-profanation-of-the-adamic-covenant
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/ritual-ascension
NEWS 31.1.2025
Nach über einem Jahrzehnt bei Century Media Records hat das Thüringer
Melodic-Death-Flagschiff DESERTED FEAR nun seinen Anker bei TESTIMONY
RECORDS ausgeworfen.Die Band über ihr neues Zuhause:
„Wart ihr schon mal an einem Ort, an dem ihr noch nie zuvor wart, der sich aber trotzdem sofort heimisch anfühlte? So ging es uns, als wir das erste Mal persönlichen Kontakt zu Testimony Records hatten. Die Mischung aus Professionalität und Underground-Spirit passt perfekt und wir freuen uns ein neues Zuhause gefunden zu haben!“
Thomas Strater von Testimony Records zum Signing:
„Wir freuen uns sehr, die Vertragsunterzeichnung mit Deserted Fear bekannt zu geben. Ich habe ihre Entwicklung von Anfang an verfolgt und gesehen, wie sie sich von einem aufstrebenden Underground-Act zu Deutschlands wahrscheinlich erfolgreichster Death Metal-Band der Neuzeit entwickelt haben. Was auch wichtig ist: Die Band ruht sich nie auf ihren Lorbeeren aus, sondern ist bestrebt, ihre Musik Album für Album weiterzuentwickeln, ohne ihre Wurzeln im Death Metal zu vernachlässigen.“
DESERTED FEAR werden Ende April zur Veröffentlichung des neuen Albums auf Tour gehen.
VEINS OF FIRE - TOUR 2025
Deserted Fear
Kvaen
Fall Of Serenity
Messticator
Do 24.04. Hamburg - Bahnhof Pauli
Fr 25.04. Essen - Turock
Sa 26.04. Jena - F-Haus
So 27.04. Osnabrück - Bastard Club (Matinée!)
Mo 28.04. Kassel - Goldgrube
Di 29.04. Hannover - Musikzentrum
Mi 30.04. Berlin - Cassiopeia
Do 01.05. Wiesbaden - Schlachthof
Fr 02.05. München - Backstage (Halle)
Sa 03.05. Stuttgart - Club Zentral
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/desertedfear
Tourtrailer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/30LjXhqENsw
https://www.desertedfear.de/
https://www.facebook.com/desertedfear
DESERTED FEAR veröffentlichen heute das
Video zu “THE TRUTH”, der ersten Single des lang erwarteten neuen
Albums “VEINS OF FIRE”, das am 25.04. über Testimony Records
erscheinen wird.
Das emotionale Video zu “The Truth” kann man ab sofort hier sehen:
https://youtu.be/l5soKTEfvVU
Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt über “The Truth”:
„Als Kinder des Ostens, jedoch in Einigkeit aufgewachsen, erleben nun auch wir eine immer größere Spaltung unserer Gesellschaft – doch diesmal keine Spaltung durch Beton, sondern durch tiefe Gräben voller Hass und Misstrauen. Diese Gräben wachsen täglich weiter und scheinen immer unüberwindbarer.“
Schlagzeuger Simon Mengs ergänzt:
„Doch da draußen gibt es viele Leute, die dagegen ankämpfen, die informieren und diskutieren, sei es in den Kommentarspalten auf Social Media, im Freundes- und Familienkreis oder auf Demonstrationen. Menschen, die sich nicht beirren lassen, dem entgegentreten und täglich für echte Werte wie Menschlichkeit, Gerechtigkeit und Frieden kämpfen.“
Sänger und Gittarrist Mahne fügt hinzu:
„The Truth“ ist unser Aufruf, sich nicht durch Desinformation oder populistische Vereinfachungen beirren zu lassen, sondern faktenbasiert und kritisch zu hinterfragen – because the truth will never die!
Video Credits:
Regie: Mirko Witzki
Produziert von Witzki Visions
Gefilmt im Movie Park Germany
Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere. Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens. Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
Shop:
https://desertedfear.ffm.to/thetruth
http://lnk.spkr.media/desertedfear-fire
Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" wird als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich sein. Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle werden exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich sein.
https://www.desertedfear.de/
https://www.facebook.com/desertedfear
Finnish
Deathgrind band CANNIBAL ACCIDENT is set to release their fifth
studio album 'DISGUST' on February 28th 2025 via Inverse
Records.
The third double single 'VIIMENE FIITTI / TOLERAPED' is unleashed today. The music video is also done for the first track and it features Ulti-Make (Tukkanuotta & Skulmagot) on guest vocals.
Video is available here: https://youtu.be/fXsUjYwPHIk
Vocalist Kurwa Doktor comments singles:
"Ulti-Make (Tukkanuotta, Skulmagot) was one of the guys we considered asking for a guest vocalist on this album. He wrote the lyrics, arranged and recorded them for us with our 100% trust that the result would be all diamonds. And so it is! Lyrically this basically tells about the hardships of writing lyrics, hah hah.
About Toleraped:
"The overall theme in this song is the darker side of everlasting tolerance, unquestionable equalization and never being able to stand up: you will just get mentally assfucked by the opportunists and exploiters. By turning the other cheek you will just get it beaten as well."
Guitarist Kolkka continues:
"Night was black, was no use holding back, when I wrote Toleraped. And in the chaotic mental and physical state of the morning after "the pen" wrote Viimeinen Fiitti by itself."
Listen: https://push.fm/fl/ca-viimene
Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Listen to the first double-single 'Scorched Meat Tactics - Explicit Everything' : https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-scorched
Listen to the second double-single 'Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla / Darken the Attic' : https://push.fm/fl/ca-itseinho
Finnish old school death metal band MESSIAH PARATROOPS, founded in 1989, is finally set to release their debut album 'LEGIONS OF TOMORROW' on April 4th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first single 'Painful Sleep' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/messiah-paratroops-painful
Track list:
1. Out of Reality
2. Rats in the Walls
3. Messiah Paratroops
4. Morbid Prayer
5. Repulsion
6. Bloodlust
7. Legions of Tomorrow
8. Murders of the Lake
9. Painful Sleep
Mixed and mastered by Jari "Tupi" Tuomainen
Cover art by Niko Anttila
Vocalist Aku Oksala comments:
" "Painful Sleep" comes from our first official demo, Extreme Pain (1991), and represents the most classic form of Messiah Paratroops. It hails from the time our band was named the best Finnish death/thrash metal band that have never released an album. Thirty-four years after Extreme Pain, it's the perfect time to release a debut album filled with furious vocals, aggressive guitars, and double bass drums!"
Pre-Order limited CD edition from https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/messiah-paratroops-legions-of-tomorrow-cd-pre-order
The
Court of Appeal in Norway has rejected the final appeal of Iranian black metal musician Atash (who
performs under the project name KAABOOS), leaving him with
no further legal recourse. He now faces imminent deportation to Iran, where he
is at grave risk of torture and prosecution due to his music and activism.
Atash's case highlights the severe persecution faced by artists in Iran who challenge the regime's oppressive laws. Heavy metal music is considered blasphemous and forbidden, with those associated with it facing severe punishment, including imprisonment and even death.
Atash’s situation is particularly precarious due to his public profile. He has openly protested against the Iranian government, including a performance outside the Iranian embassy in Oslo in 2023. “My face is all over the internet,” Atash stated in a previous appeal to the Norwegian government. “Upon return to Iran my life would be in great danger due to the recognition I have received from the governmental people, also known as Basij.”
In addition to his music and activism, Atash faces compulsory military service in Iran, which he has been absent from since leaving the country. This absence, combined with his artistic expression and public protests, makes his return to Iran a near-certainty of imprisonment and further persecution. He previously expressed concerns about facing execution.
“I beg you to spare my parents the thought of losing a son,” Atash pleaded in his letter to the Norwegian government.
Atash’s music project, Kaaboos (کابوس), which translates to “Nightmare” in Farsi/Persian, uses black metal as a vehicle to express his experiences and challenge the oppressive environment he fled. His music reflects the struggles against religious and dictatorial oppression in Iran. His latest album, “ANTI-COSMIC REBELLION”, is available digitally, with physical versions to follow in 2025. Two videos from his performance outside the Iranian embassy in Oslo, “Wrath of Gods” and a Taake cover, are available online. “Wrath of Gods” was featured as Metal Hammer UK’s track of the week.
Listen to “Anti-Cosmic Rebellion”:
https://youtu.be/Ioi-80FWIWE?si=CqTpV8uLXsraAcld
https://kaaboos.bandcamp.com/album/anti-cosmic-rebellion
Iblis Manifestations online: https://www.facebook.com/IblisManifestations/
Kaaboos online: https://kaaboos.bandcamp.com/
Replicant's 'Hypochondria of the Machine' release is regarded as the turning point for the band, and now for the very first time, it's being presented in physical format in an exclusive 7" version. A brand new design has been commissioned for the merch of this release, created by none other than Alex Eckman-Lawn (Artificial Brain, Pyrrhon). The pivotal release is for free download on Bandcamp and can also be heard in full on the label's channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi9ddRK-7rk
REPLICANT – “HYPOCHONDRIA OF THE MACHINE”
Five
years ago Replicant unleashed two discordant blistering tracks
emulsified into a digital release dubbed Hypochondria of the Machine, which gave
listeners a bleak glimpse into the band’s foray into a more focused approach as
witnessed on their following full length Malignant Reality. Mixed and mastered
by Rob Torres (Tombs, Windfaerer, Tombstoner, Abacinate) at
Frightbox Recording, this also marked the first Replicant release
that was not self-produced. “Hymns of Distress” and “Limbic Thrust” deliver
what Replicant are known for—dark technicality that is unabashedly
groovy with devastating themes. The initial emission of Hypochondria of the Machine
was condemned to exist in a digital state until now! Transcending Obscurity has
revived these dark hymns on wax in an exclusive 7-inch
Line up
Peter Lloyd - Guitars
Michael Gonçalves - Vocals, Bass
James Applegate - Drums
Artwork by Dan Rivera
Merch artwork by Alex Eckman-Lawn
Track Listing
1. Hymns of Distress
2. Limbic Thrust
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/replicantnj
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Release
Date:
February 21st 2025
Label : Candlelight Records
After the Candlelight Records debut ‘Black Blood’ masked purveyors of mayhem and Black Metal trailblazers Abduction return with their brand-new album ‘Existentialismus’ on February 21st 2025. The record arguably the band’s most electrifying emotionally complex and personal recording to date is inspired by the juxtaposition of a post-truth era against the simpler truths of ancient religions and crumbling past the observations of the modern world.
After an incredibly prolific recording run that saw a trilogy of albums released from 2017 to 2019 2022’s explosive Black Blood the band’s first album for the revered label Candlelight Records proved an undeniable milestone for the band.
Abduction are of the UK’s most visible black metal acts on the live circuit bringing their ritualistic and immersive performances to audiences at Damnation Bloodstock Incineration Fortress Doomsday Mass Destruction Samhain Reaperfest and Eradication. The band will be supporting New Zealand Death Metal trio Ulcerate in Germany as well as their own headline UK tour this October.
Existentialismus has been recorded for the first time as a full band. That sense of scale is palpable and reflects the ambition and embittered grandeur of the new material an impressively cohesive combination of otherworldly atmospheres fiery aggression and apocalyptic tension.
The album written by A|V was recorded and produced by Ian Boult at Stuck On A Name Studios in Nottingham, while the final touches of post-production and mastering were handled by Tore Stjerna (Watain, Mayhem) at Necromorbus Studios in Sweden. The striking and immersive cover art is the work of Julia Soboleva.
“The most obvious expansion is in the voice,” considers vocalist and founder A|V. “I felt that vocally, I had more freedom to express the lyrics and messages with fewer genre leashes. Given the themes of pain, frustration, and fear involved, it made sense to convey that in its most natural state rather than performing to certain expectations. The vocals and lyrics are important to me, so I let them breathe and counterpoint the bands playing.”
“It’s inspired by the juxtaposition of this horrible post-truth era with its contradictions and the simple, metaphorical truths that began in ancient religions of the crumbling past. Somewhere between a biblical gospel and a Nietzschean nightmare. As a father, there’s a particular terror in seeing all that our grandfathers built, physically and morally, being torn apart and reduced to a commodity and wondering what kind of world my son will inherit.”
“I am by no means a philosopher – I desperately lack the patience,” A|V admits. “But my observations of the modern Western humane race have become particularly bleak, and this informs my lyrical writing process. Art as a reaction to life and experience. This is laid out in the first track, ‘A Legacy of Sores’, which posits that most of us here, in the current year, have become an alarming pairing of being both too sensitive and yet without any core beliefs to stand on. (‘Wet skin now paper thin, reveals a core of dust’) I think this is a mixture of a post-religious society and the acceleration of technology to the point at which its claws are deeply in us. Have you tried to live without a smartphone recently?”
Tracklisting
1. A Legacy of Sores
2. Pyramidia Liberi
3. Truth is as Sharp a Sword as Vengeance
4. Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit
5. Razors of Occam
6. Vomiting at Baalbek
https://www.facebook.com/abduction616
My
Kingdom Music is proud to announce that CULTUS SANGUINE,
pioneers of the European Dark Metal scene, have signed a new contract with the
Italian label for the release of the new album that will be recorded during the
next summer/autumn and will see the light in the early days of 2026.
Band's frontman and founder Joe Ferraro shared the following:
“This is a new year and a new chapter for CULTUS SANGUINE. We are off to a great start because we have re-signed with My Kingdom Music who released all our albums in vinyl format and above all celebrated with us our 30 years of career with a great BOX.
It is a great feeling to be with a label that gets us and who has always had our backs, especially when we needed them the most.
Prepare for the future of CULTUS SANGUINE".
My Kingdom Music boss Francesco Palumbo adds:
"Working with CULTUS SANGUINE over the last two years has been literally amazing and one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. I was already excited at the time to celebrate their history with the vinyl reissue of their albums and the box release, and I am even more now that I see this journey continuing towards a future of great music and new emotions.
I know that the new album will be something grandiose and unheard of in the Italian panorama in terms of pathos, darkness and emotional power".
All you have to do is stay tuned, the journey is long and you must know that it has simply just begun. Expect decay, sorrow and darkness!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/JoeCultusSanguine
Minsk (BY) - Brutal Death Metal quartet, RELICS OF HUMANITY, are proud to announce the pre-release stream of forthcoming album, ABSOLUTE DISMAL DOMAIN.
Stream it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIBbLjEU3Ac
Willowtip Records will release Absolute Dismal Domain on January 31.
The band released the following statement about the album:
"Absolute Dismal Domain is a nine-act conceptual record. The story told across these nine tracks is about absolute ubiquitous annihilation of light, both spiritually (god) and physically (sun and stars). This is the most brutal stuff about blackness and ungodliness ever created."
Absolute Dismal Domain is Relics of Humanity's first collection of original material since 2019's
Obscuration EP (Willowtip) and the band's first full-length album (and third overall) since 2014's Ominously Reigning upon the Intangible (Amputated Vein).
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/add-willowtip
https://relicsofhumanity.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dismal-domain
Track
Listing:
1. Omen Apollyon
2. Summoning Of Those Who Absorbed
3. Taking The Shape Of Infinity
4. In The Name Of Ubiquitous Gloom
5. Paralyzing The Light II
6. Absolute Dismal Domain
7. Smoldering Of Seraphim
8. His Creation That No Longer Exists
9. Dominion
Credits:
Absolute Dismal Domain is fully composed (music, concept and lyrics), mixed, and mastered by guitarist Siarhei.
Artwork created with oil paints by Siarhei.
Line-up:
Siarhei - Guitars
Pavel - Bass
Flo - Vocals
Vladislav - Drums
https://relicsofhumanity.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dismal-domain
https://www.facebook.com/relicsofhumanity/
VULTUR - "CULTORES DE PERDAS E LINNA"
Genre
: Black
Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 28th 2025
FFO: old Satyricon, Marduk, Mayhem, Immortal, Dissection, Rotting Christ, Mortuary Drape
Sardinian Native Black Metal veterans VULTUR are finally able to reveal their new opus to the world: "Cultores de Perdas e Linna" has been recorded in 2023 but didn't see light until now, in 2025. The album, whose title means "stone and woods worshippers" (which is how christians derogatery defined the ancient Nuragic population), features eight songs with lyrics in Sardinian language except for "Nemini Parco", sung in Italian and Latin.
VULTUR style is aggressive, unmerciful and fast-paced, showcasing intriguing riffs and a certain degree of dark violence. Fans of old Satyricon, Marduk, Mayhem and Immortal will find themselves pleased, as well as for the lovers of Dissection's melodic bridges, old Rotting Christ's evocativness and Mortuary Drape's rhythmic dynamism and heavyness.
The artwork takes inspiration from the Sardinian popular mask "Su Boe", one of the most important characters of Sardinian Carnival tradition.
Founded exactly 20 years ago, VULTUR has been one of the very first Black Metal acts featuring lyrics in Sardinian Campidanese language, with themes about Sardinian occultism and folk superstitions. Sardinia, the island whose ancient population dates back to the Bronze Age, features a rich archaic history and culture, whose folklore still breaths nowdays within its fond population.
The album will be premiered on the popular YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion on February 26th 2025.
Sale Points:
Sardinian Native Black Metal;
Vultur is the oldest Black Metal band featuring lyrics in Sardinian;
The artwork takes inspiration from the popular mask "Su Boe";
Full-album premiere on Black Metal Promotion (Feb 26th 2025).
Tracklist:
1) Su Frastimu
2) Eternu Trumentu
3) Su Spegu
4) Femina Mala
5) Arestis
6) Cultores Lapides et Lignea
7) Umbras
8) Nemini Parco
Recorded at Cut Fire Mixing Studio by Alberto Bandino, Sanluri (SU), in May and June 2023.
Artwork by Maristella Spanu.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sardinianvultur
SIDEWINDER – “MARCH OF THE ETERNAL HERETIC” (EP)
Label: Independent Release
Release Date: FEBRUARY 7th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal/Hardcore
For fans of: Slayer | Agnostic Front | Cro-Mags | Exodus
Somewhere between Leeds and the end of the universe there’s a gas masked warrior bedecked in spikes and bullets. Beneath a burning sky he’s facing down a legion of undead scum, skeletons infused with some kind of toxic nuclear power, armed with every damn thing they can find – from guns to sticks, barbed wire to billhooks – and for some reason they think they stand a chance. The warrior checks his double barrelled laser and death belching sidearms, adjusts the gas mask and pushes the wireless earphones deep into his ear canals. He checks the ancient, rusted music player that’s never let him down…hits play and starts killing. And to the sound of hardcore, thrash metal, speed and violence the undead start to die all over again…
Leeds based kings of crossover, Sidewinder, are back with a new four track EP that’s primed and ready to tear you limb from limb. ‘Only four songs’ you might be thinking…well, you won’t be thinking that when Sidewinder have finished with you! March Of The Eternal Heretic packs more aggression and intensity than most bands manage over the course of four albums. If it was any longer this thing would probably kill you… Opening with single, ‘Two Zero One’ you’re hit hard by Slayerized riffing that takes you back to when the skies rained blood and everyone lived south of heaven. Add to that the muscle and defiance of Agnostic Front and a dangerous, pit hungry attitude and you’ve got the perfect recipe for destruction. The title track comes next, featuring a guest appearance from Chris Barling of Inhuman Nature, all pummelling drums and guitar leads howling and diving, razor wire vocals and the adrenaline counter in the red zone. The breathless ‘From Beneath They Shall Rise’ follows, on your tail like a rabid dog before mixing in some mid-tempo punches and a cool clanking bass tone. Applying the final knockout blow ‘Ashes Of Reality’ is the kind of song that makes everywhere a pit. This bruising, battling anthem is simply glorious in its blood-spitting rebellion and dissent. However, for all the sonic violence that seethes throughout March Of The Eternal Heretic, don’t go thinking these songs are just interchangeable bursts of angry noise. They are sweetly structured, individual, characterful tracks, purposeful and unflinching in delivery – they just all happen to hit like a ten ton truck with its pedal to the metal.
Engineered and mastered by James Atkinson (Angel Witch, Carcass, Wytch Hazel etc) March Of The Eternal Heretic sounds virulent and venomous, walking deftly along the edge of chaos – and the amazing artwork of renowned tattooist Gareth Hares, who also supplied the visuals for Sidewinder’s 2023 release War Tapes Vol. 1, perfectly completes this explosive package. Single ‘Two Zero One’ is out on January 31st and the full March Of The Eternal Heretic EP drops on February 7th. Be ready for this one, because Sidewinder are taking no prisoners!
Line-up:
Damo - Vocals
Ginner - Guitars
Jonesy - Guitars
Finch - Bass
Gaz - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/SIDEWINDERBC/
Auckland,
NZ; 29 January 2025: Following their extensive “Eclipse Death” tour in late
2024, New Zealand death metal ensemble ULCERATE will
return to Europe this May for a six-date tour of Scandinavia ahead of
previously announced festival appearances at Graveland Festival (Netherlands)
and Fortress Festival (UK).
Kicking off in Helsinki, Finland on 21st May and culminating at the North Yorkshire shore for Fortress Festival on 1st June, the “ECLIPSE DEATH II EUROPE MMXXV” tour will be another opportunity to witness the exceptional Ulcerate album, "CUTTING THE THROAT OF GOD", in a live setting.
French extreme sludge band Fange will join this expedition in Stockholm, Oslo, Gothenburg and Copenhagen.
Having made numerous year-end “best of” lists, "Cutting the Throat of God" is arguably Ulcerate’s most powerful and biggest release to date. This refined and hook-laden seventh record is a self-sufficient universe unto itself. A conflagration of inventively visceral death/black metal where dizzying experimentation meets head-bobbing abandon - obscenely twisted and addictive, heart-stopping in its depth of feeling.
Tickets for all shows are on sale now and can be found via Ulcerate’s homepage.
Eclipse Death II Europe MMXXV Tour Dates
21.05 Helsinki, FI - On The Rocks
23.05 Sundsvall, SE - Club Deströyer
24.05 Stockholm, SE - Södra Teatern *
26.05 Oslo, NO - Blå *
27.05 Gothenburg, SE - Monument *
29.05 Copenhagen, DK - Pumpehuset *
30.05 Graveland Festival, NL
01.06 Fortress Festival, UK
* w/ FANGE
Tickets: https://ulcerate-official.com/#tour
https://ulcerate-official.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ulcerate
Finnish thrash metal influenced melodic metal band JUSTICE THEORY'S new single MY TRUE NEMESIS is a song about the struggle with your inner demons.
Listen
to the song on music services : https://push.fm/fl/justicetheory-mytruenemesis
Check the lyric video: https://youtu.be/dsYSTiDqxPk
The singer-guitarist Valtteri Saharinen tells about the track:
"MY TRUE NEMESIS is a song about battling your own inner enemy. The narrator’s opponent isn’t some external force, but rather this internal power that takes control of their mind and life. Feelings of anger, resentment, shame, and despair are constantly churning inside throughout life, and you’re forced to deal with them if you want to move forward. The chorus, “true nemesis,” is a metaphor for this internal force, an enemy you have to face over and over again, one you can never escape.
The song has this heavy, fatalistic vibe, where the enemy is seen as inevitable, just a natural part of life. The narrator’s lyrics dig deep into the conflict between self-hatred and the struggle to accept oneself. In the final chorus, the voices in their head scream, “No way out!” – summing up the feeling that this inner enemy is tied to their fate. It’s something they can’t outrun, only learn to live with.
Musically, the track is raw and intense, perfectly mirroring the darkness in the lyrics. It drags the listener deep into the pain of the mind but also opens a door to self-reflection and acceptance. My True Nemesis is a powerful take on the inner battle and how it’s an inseparable part of being human."
Justice Theory started as a thrash metal band in 2012. After that they have moved towards more melodic approach without forgetting their thrash metal past. Justice Theory has released around dozen singles and EPs.
Justice Theory:
Valtteri Saharinen: guitar & vocals
Taneli Ahonen: guitar
Riku Lehto: bass
Juuso Liukkonen: drums
https://www.facebook.com/JusticeTheoryband/
U.S. Traditional Heavy Metal quintet, PREHISTORIA, have released a lyric video for "EVERLASTING LEGACY," the second single from forthcoming album, CRYPTIC HALO. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohgURwU4C1U
FFO: Blind Guardian, Persuader, Iced Earth, Manticora
Prehistoria will release Cryptic Halo, their first full-length album, on February 11 via StormSpell Records. The vinyl LP version will be released through Alone Records.
Prehistoria had this to say about Cryptic Halo:
"We are thrilled to announce the completion of our debut album, Cryptic Halo. This project has been a true labor of love, forged through countless hours of passion, dedication, and focused effort. Rooted in traditional heavy metal, Cryptic Halo weaves in elements of power, thrash, and black metal to create a sound that’s both classic and dynamic. Crafted by devoted fans of heavy metal, for heavy metal fans, it stands as a celebration of the genre we hold so dear. It’s been a challenging yet rewarding journey, and we can’t wait to share this milestone with you as we prepare for its release."
Track
Listing:
1. Futile Invocation of Cosmic Acknowledgement
2. Rise
3. Salvation Denied
4. Obsidian Gateways
5. Everlasting Legacy
6. Paradise Lost
7. Crown of the Resolute
8. Crucible of Shadows
9. Dreamchaser
Bio:
Prehistoria is a traditional heavy metal band hailing from the American Midwest, combining the raw power of classic metal with influences from power, thrash, and black metal. Their sound is steeped in the genre’s roots, delivering crushing riffs and soaring melodies with a sharp, modern edge that feels both familiar and new.
Cryptic Halo Credits:
All songs (except "Futle Invocation...") written and performed by Prehistoria.
"Futile Invocation of Cosmic Acknowledgement" written and produced by Dan Wagoner.
Lyrics by Alonso Donoso.
Produced, tracked, and engineered by Dan Wagoner.
Drums recorded by Joe Viers at Sonic Lounge Studios.
Additional guitars recorded by Ethan Vawter.
Bass recorded by Ian Bender.
Mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio.
Album art by Adam Burke.
Logo design by Chris Hurst.
Additional design by Alonso Donoso and Ian Bender.
Photography by Austin White.
Line-Up:
Alonso “Zo” Donoso - Vocals
Shaun Cothron - Guitar
Max Otworth - Guitar
Ian Bender - Bass
Cody Johns - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/prehistoriaband
After
the success of their debut album, "Heavy Lies The Crown",
Finnish Death Metal band WRETCHED PATH took some time
off to craft a masterpiece that's faster, darker, and more intense than ever
before. Now, just over two years later, they're back with the first single from
their upcoming second album!
Experience the raw power of “RELEASE OF VIOLENCE”! This explosive track plunges you into a gripping atmosphere, with verses that evoke a sense of raw energy and intensity. Inspired by the chilling premise of movie The Purge, where chaos reigns for one night, the lyrics delve deep into the darkest corners of the human psyche.
Whether you interpret the song as a reflection of society’s hidden rage or as a journey into the mind’s most twisted thoughts, “Release Of Violence” leaves it up to you to decide. Let the haunting melodies and powerful lyrics take you on a ride through the shadows. Are you ready to face the darkness within?
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/wretchedpath-releaseofviolence
Check the music video: https://youtu.be/-xQsLoBmE4w?si=oc_bYQwPkoexxjuo
Formed in 2020 by seasoned musicians from renowned bands like Pestigore, Born of Thorns, Tukkanuotta, and Warmen, Wretched Path was born out of a desire to return to their Death Metal roots. Their debut album received rave reviews from various magazines and websites, and they played several gigs around Finland including the legendary Nummirock festival 2023.
https://www.wretchedpath.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wretchedpath
We reveal the cover of "COMPENDIO ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO", the debut album by ALBUS DIABOLUS, arcane and esoteric musical laboratory that the minds of Elisa Montaldo (Mater A Clivis Imperat, Il Tempio Delle Clessidre and VLY among others) and Samael von Martin (Evol, Death Dies and of course Mater A Clivis Imperat) have created to destabilize our peaceful existence.
The album will be released on April 11th only on vinyl and digital format as well as in a special limited edition that includes the album with shirts, posters and other merch.
Pre-Order active and available on: http://bit.ly/3CejxJq
Tracklist
1. Albus Diabolus
2. Homorphus
3. Liturgica
4. Potentissimis
5. E Così Sia...
6. Dadashining
7. Elettro Sabba
8. Sommi Spiriti
9. Noctua
10. Rituale
11. Outro
The artwork, realized by Maira Pedroni, opens the doors to a dark and lysergic universe where experimentation and avant-garde sound reign supreme. In their creation the gothic and black aesthetic of extreme music merges with the Progressive vein of Mater A Clivis Imperat, all with a clear and decisive electronic imprint influenced by the Synth-Wave and Dark-Wave of the 80s.
Sound imaginaries created with synthesizers, drum machines and arcane atmospheres intertwine with powerful guitars played by special guest Simòn Ferètro, materializing everything in an emotional and immersive journey that recalls influences of works such as "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, and bands such as EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS.
The journey into their Art has just started!And now... let the Sabbath begin!!!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
Wretch of Pact unleashes the fourth chapter in the seven-part series of albums that chronicle the irreversible process of decay and death. Decomposition Part 4: Livor Mortis presents 10 tracks of rotting Black Metal with second wave,ambient, funeral Doom and old school Death Metal influences.
Listen to the single "Livor Mortis" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdEfyi9oBGI
Tracklisting:
1. Discoloration
2. Hypostasis
3. Livor Mortis
4. Suggillation
5. The Irreversible Process Of Decay Part 4
6. Flooded Crypt
7. Lindow Man
8. Grauballe Man
9. Lividity
10. Preserved In The Peat Bog Part 4
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Genre
: Black
Metal
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 28th 2025
FFO: old Mayhem and Watain, Marduk, Celestial Bloodshed
Bone maniacs UNHOLY IMPURITY style is sinister and ritualistic, reminiscent of first-era Mayhem and Watain, as well as of Marduk and Celestial Bloodshed. There is a certain authenticity, easely perceptible, which directs the conjured sensations towards the very essence of Black Metal, in its dark and ominous spirit. "Oculus Mortis" is old school, raw and straight to the point. The past is alive!
Hailing from Sardinia, the island whose ancient population dates back to the Bronze Age, UNHOLY IMPURITY are inspired by anticosmic spirituality and ancient mysteries linked to Sardinia's culture. The album features four songs with lyrics in Sardinian language (hence Sardinian Native Black Metal) and an astonishing detailed artwork by the indonesian artist Oik Wasfuk (Watain, Nothing Sacred Artwork).
The album will be officially premiered on February 27th via the popular YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion.
Sale Points:
Sardinian Black Metal;
Four songs with lyrics in Sardinian autchthonous language;
Detailed artwork by Oik Wasfuk (Watain, Nothing Sacred Artwork);
Full-album premiere on Black Metal Promotion (Feb 27th 2025).
Tracklist:
1) Into The Abyss
2) Black Magic
3) Ancient Stones Of Death
4) The Oldest One
5) The Healer
6) Treutos Corrudos
7) Sos Filos de sa Morte
8) Requiem
Recorded at SpaceCraft and RKS Studio (OSSI), August/September 2023.
Mixed and mastered by Delio Soro at Soundlikekong Studio Sassari (Sassari), February/March 2024.
Band logo and album title handmade by Erkitu.
Design and layout by SSCVLT.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/U.I.blackmetalbones
Austin (TX) - Texas metal titans IGNITOR have released the official video for “HORNS AND HAMMERS,” the title track from their new album. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmcn2ODFyw
“'Horns
and Hammers' is classic IGNITOR, a battle ready power thrash
metal anthem, that sets the stage for the rest of the album,” says
drummer Pat Doyle. Fresh off his recent induction into the Metal
Hall of Fame along with his bandmates in Dangerous
Toys, Jason McMaster notes “A great time was had in the making
of this track. The thrash influence is prominent, but to make it anthemic, felt
natural. Very much a sort of angry Iron Maiden sound, makes it a
favorite of mine. We have worked with Steve Miller and his
productions before, so this made it easy to know what to expect. He killed it,
and we are proud of this feature video. Steve has created a fantastical
backdrop using Claudio's art as well as some snippets created by our
own founder, Stuart Laurence. This team effort, with alot of it taken on
by Steve, made for over the top and very metal visions that this track offers
lyrically, to come to life on screen."
Produced by Steve Miller, the video incorporates the original artwork from the album cover by Claudio Bergamin. Pre-orders for the North American CD version of Horns and Hammers, which includes a cover version of Saxon’s "Machine Gun," can be placed at: https://revoltvinylrecords.com/pre-orders/
Find all IGNITOR music and merch at www.ignitorband.com
Another storm-the-gates, metal onslaught, Horns and Hammers delivers all the dramatic power and fury that landed previous albums Haunted by Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Golden Age of Black Magick in the hallowed realms of Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Raven, Dio, Accept and other legendary keepers of the metal creed.
From the title track’s speed-metal war cry and the Maiden-esque “Imperial Bloodlines” to the cowbell-driven “Shattered Crosses” and the 70s-inspired heavy metal of “Ferocious the Martyrs” (featuring guest keyboardist Gabriel Guardian of Immortal Guardian) the 11-track Horns and Hammers
is a mighty mix of classic heavy metal spiked with NWOBHM, thrash, power metal and the atmospheric textures of prog-metal and fantasy.
“We raised the bar high with our last two albums so we couldn’t settle for anything less than a full-on metal assault,” said founding guitarist Stuart “Batlord” Laurence. “We’ve always honored our influences,
but we’re also very insistent that our music – first and foremost – sounds like IGNITOR. With Horns and Hammers, we’ve covered the spectrum of metal and taken Ignitor to a whole new level.”
Fronted by the soaring vocals of Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth), IGNITOR's strength is further forged by guitarist Robert Williams , bassist Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell and drummer Pat Doyle. Whether charging and pounding like clashing titans (“Dark Horse,” “Chaos Maximus Eternal”) or luring the listener into gothic tales of doom and deceit (“Suicide Anthem,” “Taken Up With Serpents”), IGNITOR delivers with shuddering impact.
“Robert brought a ton of songs and riff ideas to the table and Billy had some great ideas that blossomed into full-blown songs,” Laurence said. “Once we started jamming with Pat’s pummeling backbeat, we knew we had something special.”
“As the arrangements started coming together, I found myself completely immersed and inspired to come up with the lyrical themes and characters to carry the songs to completion,” McMaster added. “I’m really proud of the band’s individual and collective contributions, and I think we all agree that Horns and Hammers is a triumph by any measure.”
The album’s stunning cover art – featuring a medieval warrior and his mighty steed surveying a hellish killing field – comes courtesy of renowned fantasy/sci-fi artist Claudio Bergamin whose credits include
Judas Priest (Firepower), Burning Witches (The Witch of the North), Cassius King (Field Trip) and Klassik ’78 (Phantoms), among others.
Produced and mastered by Stuart “Batlord” Laurence at Emphatic Audio in Austin, TX, Horns and Hammers was mastered for vinyl by Cris Burns. “Hell Shall Be Your Home” was recorded live in Austin TX at Kick Butt Coffee in 2019, and engineered by Ernie Basaldua with mixing by
Stuart "Batlord" Laurence.
Track Listing:
1. Horns And Hammers
2. Imperial Bloodlines
3. Dark Horse
4. Cyber Crush
5. Shattered Crosses
6. Taking Up With Serpents
7. Ferocious The Martyrs
8. Suicide Anthem
9. Chaos Maximus Eternal
10. Machine Gun (Saxon cover)*
11. Terminous
*Note: “Hell Shall Be Your Home” appears on The Metal On Metal Records version.
All songs written, recorded and performed by Ignitor, except *“Machine Gun,” originally written, recorded and performed by Saxon, Carrere Music Ltd 1980.
Cover art by Claudio Bergamin.
Line-up:
Stuart “Batlord” Laurence - Guitar
Robert Williams - Guitar
Jason McMaster - Vocals
Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell - Bass
Pat Doyle - Drums
Bio:
IGNITOR formed in Austin, Texas in 2003 with legendary Agony Column guitarist Stuart Laurence, Brendon Bigelow on bass, Beverly Barrington on guitar, Pat Doyle (Offenders) on drums, and vocalist Erika Swinnich. The band wanted to write music reflecting their passion for heavy, speed, and power metal.
IGNITOR quickly attracted a worldwide fan base after releasing their debut album Take To The Sky, featuring the hit "Demonslayer," in 2004 to rave reviews. Germany’s Rock Hard magazine named it "Demo of the Month.” Dies Irae (Brazil) said “Ignitor take the world by storm, playing a furious Heavy/Speed Metal, joining the high class of veteran musicians and the powerful voice of Erika Swinnich.”
IGNITOR performed at Mexico’s Monterrey Metal Fest in May 2005, appearing alongside Motorhead and Danzig. Then onto Germany’s Keep It True Festival in November 2005, where they stunned the crowd and were named "Best KIT Newcomer" by Mario’s Metal Mania magazine.
In 2007 IGNITOR released Road of Bones (Cruz del Sur Music) featuring cover art by legendary MOTORHEAD collaborator Joe Petagno. Beverly was temporarily replaced by Annah Moore on guitar for this album. The band’s sophomore effort is a deep dive into themes of pain, death, and rebirth, culminating with their triumphant anthem "Reinheitsgebot" and its rallying cry “Metal is the Law!” Blabbermouth described IGNITOR - “This is the energetic, lusty sound of a new and eager band who are ridiculously fired up to be alive, no matter what the decade.” IGNITOR toured heavily in support of the album, playing with Primal Fear and Leaves Eyes, and a notable appearance at the Valley Thrash Fest in McAllen, Texas.
In 2008, Texas metal veteran Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Howling Sycamore, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth, Evil United) replaced Erika’s wraith-Maiden wail with his demonic Texas drawl. The band released The Spider Queen (Cruz del Sur/Heavy Artillery) in 2009, a fairy tale of love and redemption. The band toured in support of the album, sharing stages with Fates Warning and Helstar along the way.
In 2010 IGNITOR played the Metal Up Your Tap Fest in Chicago along with Cruz del Sur label mates Bible of the Devil.
2012 saw the release of Year of the Metal Tiger (MVD Audio,) featuring fan favorite "Heavy Metal Holocaust" and the eerie polytheism of "Shadow of the Needle." “…a fiery album of traditional, hot-wired metal that’s intensely passionate and utterly authentic.” – Backstage Auctions.
IGNITOR released Mixtape '85 in 2013, a collection of beloved favorites recalling the peak years for thrash and heavy metal. The Metal Files said “…the opening solo on Into the Coven gave me chills when I first heard it.” 2013 also saw the inauguration of IGNITOR’s occasionally-annual Iron Fist Fest in their hometown of Austin, featuring Witches Mark.
The next two years produced some lineup changes. Beverly was replaced by Robert Williams (Witches Mark,) and Brendon was replaced by Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell (Agony Column) cementing IGNITOR’s current lineup.
In May 2016 IGNITOR performed at the Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago along with Tygers of Pan Tang, Jag Panzer, and Leather Leone. The Iron Fist Fest returned in 2016 too, featuring Byfist and Death of Millions alongside IGNITOR.
In 2017 IGNITOR released Years of War 2008 – 2013, an anthology of the band’s releases during those years in a limited edition box set, including rare promo discs and assorted items from the merchandise shop. The box set is only available from the band’s website.
2017 also saw the release of the IGNITOR’s sixth album Haunted By Rock & Roll (EMP Label Group.) The song "Hatchet: The Ballad of Victor Crowley" is heard during the closing credits of the horror slasher “Victor Crowley” from Ariescope Pictures. Director Adam Green produced a NSFW video of the song featuring some key gory scenes from the movie. The band produced three other companion videos featuring the songs "No Sanctuary," "Brave The War," and "Haunted by Rock & Roll." Roppongi Rocks said “IGNITOR serves us an extra large portion of terrific heavy metal on its new album.” “The New Wave of British Heavy Metal deserves a locally designated acronym thanks to IGNITOR.” - Austin Chronicle
IGNITOR returned to Chicago in July 2018 for the Alehorn of Power X festival, appearing alongside Zuul and Bible of the Devil. IGNITOR appeared again in July at the Iron Fist Fest 3 with James Rivera’s Metal Asylum and Austin’s own Duel. Iron Fist Fest 4’s ten-band lineup in 2019 featured IGNITOR, Helstar, and Angkor Wat.
In early 2020, IGNITOR finished the work on their seventh album. After contacting Metal on Metal Records and sending the new songs, they got a positive response and soon the agreement was reached. The Golden Age of Black Magick was finally released on October 2020 on CD and all major digital platforms.
In January 2020 right before the worldwide pandemic, IGNITOR recorded a live set at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin. Later in the year the band self-released that set on a CD called Live…Before the Plague and posted it for sale on its website store.
Like most of the planet, IGNITOR spent 2020-2021 hiding out from the pandemic. Luckily that provided ample opportunity to write and hone new material. The band played a few shows here and there as venues began opening back up in 2022 and 2023, but spent most of the time writing and preparing to record their next album.
Recording began in Fall 2023 and was finished in May 2024 for the ninth IGNITOR album, Horns and Hammers (Metal on Metal). Horns and Hammers features some extra special guests – Ross “the Boss” Friedman (Dictators, Manowar,) Marc Lopes (Metal Church) and Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian). IGNITOR is especially proud of this album. The cover art was painted by Claudio Bergamin and depicts a weathered warrior in a brief moment of repose after a battle. It resembles the plight of true metal warriors like IGNITOR, who strive to inject both power and passion into their craft with every performance, keeping the flames of heavy metal stoked and smoldering for the gathered masses.
https://revoltvinylrecords.com/
https://metalonmetalrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/IGNITOR.METAL/
RISE OF TYRANTS – „THE CHRONICLES OF CARDINAL PABLO MENDOZA”
Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt über “The Truth”:
„Als Kinder des Ostens, jedoch in Einigkeit aufgewachsen, erleben nun auch wir eine immer größere Spaltung unserer Gesellschaft – doch diesmal keine Spaltung durch Beton, sondern durch tiefe Gräben voller Hass und Misstrauen. Diese Gräben wachsen täglich weiter und scheinen immer unüberwindbarer.“
Schlagzeuger Simon Mengs ergänzt:
„Doch da draußen gibt es viele Leute, die dagegen ankämpfen, die informieren und diskutieren, sei es in den Kommentarspalten auf Social Media, im Freundes- und Familienkreis oder auf Demonstrationen. Menschen, die sich nicht beirren lassen, dem entgegentreten und täglich für echte Werte wie Menschlichkeit, Gerechtigkeit und Frieden kämpfen.“
Sänger und Gittarrist Mahne fügt hinzu:
„The Truth“ ist unser Aufruf, sich nicht durch Desinformation oder populistische Vereinfachungen beirren zu lassen, sondern faktenbasiert und kritisch zu hinterfragen – because the truth will never die!
Video Credits:
Regie: Mirko Witzki
Produziert von Witzki Visions
Gefilmt im Movie Park Germany
Tracklist:
1. Into the Burning Lands
2. The Truth
3. Blind
4. Storm of Resistance
5. Embrace the Void
6. Rise and Fight
7. At the End of Our Reign
8. Echoes in the Silence
9. We Are One
10. Veins Of Fire
Mit „Veins Of Fire“ eröffnen DESERTED FEAR ein neues Kapitel in ihrer beeindruckenden musikalischen Karriere. Ein Album, das ohne Umwege direkt ins Blut geht. Eine größere Hitdichte gab es bisher auf keinem Album von DESERTED FEAR.
Über die Jahre haben DESERTED FEAR die Kunst des Songwritings immer mehr perfektioniert und präsentieren sich auf „Veins Of Fire“ auf dem bisherigen Zenit ihres künstlerischen Schaffens. Songs wie „The Truth“, „At The End Of Our Reign“, „Blind“ oder der Titeltrack „Veins Of Fire“ sind echte Hymnen, die vor Hooklines nur so strotzen, ohne das gewisse rotzige Old-School-Feeling vermissen zu lassen.
Neues Jahr, neues Album, neues Label. Bei DESERTED FEAR stehen die Zeichen auf Sturm!
Produziert (Recording, Mix, Mastering) wurde „Veins Of Fire“ von Gitarrist Fabian Hildebrandt im Eisensound Studio in Jena.
Line-up:
Manuel "Mahne" Glatter – vocals, guitar
Fabian Hildebrandt – guitar
Simon Mengs – drums
John Gahlert – bass (live)
Das Cover Artwork stammt von Roberto Toderico, für das Layout zeichnet sich Chris Orosz verantwortlich.
Shop:
https://desertedfear.ffm.to/thetruth
http://lnk.spkr.media/desertedfear-fire
Formate:
"Veins Of Fire" wird als limitiertes, handnummeriertes Digipak (1000 Einheiten), als Jewel Case CD, als schwarzes Vinyl sowie als Marble Green Vinyl LP und Transparent Green Vinyl LP erhältlich sein. Weitere limitierte farbige Vinyle werden exklusiv im Bandshop erhältlich sein.
https://www.desertedfear.de/
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Finnish
Deathgrind band CANNIBAL ACCIDENT is set to release their fifth
studio album 'DISGUST' on February 28th 2025 via Inverse
Records. The third double single 'VIIMENE FIITTI / TOLERAPED' is unleashed today. The music video is also done for the first track and it features Ulti-Make (Tukkanuotta & Skulmagot) on guest vocals.
Video is available here: https://youtu.be/fXsUjYwPHIk
Vocalist Kurwa Doktor comments singles:
"Ulti-Make (Tukkanuotta, Skulmagot) was one of the guys we considered asking for a guest vocalist on this album. He wrote the lyrics, arranged and recorded them for us with our 100% trust that the result would be all diamonds. And so it is! Lyrically this basically tells about the hardships of writing lyrics, hah hah.
About Toleraped:
"The overall theme in this song is the darker side of everlasting tolerance, unquestionable equalization and never being able to stand up: you will just get mentally assfucked by the opportunists and exploiters. By turning the other cheek you will just get it beaten as well."
Guitarist Kolkka continues:
"Night was black, was no use holding back, when I wrote Toleraped. And in the chaotic mental and physical state of the morning after "the pen" wrote Viimeinen Fiitti by itself."
Listen: https://push.fm/fl/ca-viimene
Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Listen to the first double-single 'Scorched Meat Tactics - Explicit Everything' : https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-scorched
Listen to the second double-single 'Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla / Darken the Attic' : https://push.fm/fl/ca-itseinho
Finnish old school death metal band MESSIAH PARATROOPS, founded in 1989, is finally set to release their debut album 'LEGIONS OF TOMORROW' on April 4th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first single 'Painful Sleep' is unleashed today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/messiah-paratroops-painful
Track list:1. Out of Reality
2. Rats in the Walls
3. Messiah Paratroops
4. Morbid Prayer
5. Repulsion
6. Bloodlust
7. Legions of Tomorrow
8. Murders of the Lake
9. Painful Sleep
Mixed and mastered by Jari "Tupi" Tuomainen
Cover art by Niko Anttila
Vocalist Aku Oksala comments:
" "Painful Sleep" comes from our first official demo, Extreme Pain (1991), and represents the most classic form of Messiah Paratroops. It hails from the time our band was named the best Finnish death/thrash metal band that have never released an album. Thirty-four years after Extreme Pain, it's the perfect time to release a debut album filled with furious vocals, aggressive guitars, and double bass drums!"
Pre-Order limited CD edition from https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/messiah-paratroops-legions-of-tomorrow-cd-pre-order
The
Court of Appeal in Norway has rejected the final appeal of Iranian black metal musician Atash (who
performs under the project name KAABOOS), leaving him with
no further legal recourse. He now faces imminent deportation to Iran, where he
is at grave risk of torture and prosecution due to his music and activism.Atash's case highlights the severe persecution faced by artists in Iran who challenge the regime's oppressive laws. Heavy metal music is considered blasphemous and forbidden, with those associated with it facing severe punishment, including imprisonment and even death.
Atash’s situation is particularly precarious due to his public profile. He has openly protested against the Iranian government, including a performance outside the Iranian embassy in Oslo in 2023. “My face is all over the internet,” Atash stated in a previous appeal to the Norwegian government. “Upon return to Iran my life would be in great danger due to the recognition I have received from the governmental people, also known as Basij.”
In addition to his music and activism, Atash faces compulsory military service in Iran, which he has been absent from since leaving the country. This absence, combined with his artistic expression and public protests, makes his return to Iran a near-certainty of imprisonment and further persecution. He previously expressed concerns about facing execution.
“I beg you to spare my parents the thought of losing a son,” Atash pleaded in his letter to the Norwegian government.
Atash’s music project, Kaaboos (کابوس), which translates to “Nightmare” in Farsi/Persian, uses black metal as a vehicle to express his experiences and challenge the oppressive environment he fled. His music reflects the struggles against religious and dictatorial oppression in Iran. His latest album, “ANTI-COSMIC REBELLION”, is available digitally, with physical versions to follow in 2025. Two videos from his performance outside the Iranian embassy in Oslo, “Wrath of Gods” and a Taake cover, are available online. “Wrath of Gods” was featured as Metal Hammer UK’s track of the week.
Listen to “Anti-Cosmic Rebellion”:
https://youtu.be/Ioi-80FWIWE?si=CqTpV8uLXsraAcld
https://kaaboos.bandcamp.com/album/anti-cosmic-rebellion
Iblis Manifestations online: https://www.facebook.com/IblisManifestations/
Kaaboos online: https://kaaboos.bandcamp.com/
Replicant's 'Hypochondria of the Machine' release is regarded as the turning point for the band, and now for the very first time, it's being presented in physical format in an exclusive 7" version. A brand new design has been commissioned for the merch of this release, created by none other than Alex Eckman-Lawn (Artificial Brain, Pyrrhon). The pivotal release is for free download on Bandcamp and can also be heard in full on the label's channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi9ddRK-7rk
REPLICANT – “HYPOCHONDRIA OF THE MACHINE”
Five
years ago Replicant unleashed two discordant blistering tracks
emulsified into a digital release dubbed Hypochondria of the Machine, which gave
listeners a bleak glimpse into the band’s foray into a more focused approach as
witnessed on their following full length Malignant Reality. Mixed and mastered
by Rob Torres (Tombs, Windfaerer, Tombstoner, Abacinate) at
Frightbox Recording, this also marked the first Replicant release
that was not self-produced. “Hymns of Distress” and “Limbic Thrust” deliver
what Replicant are known for—dark technicality that is unabashedly
groovy with devastating themes. The initial emission of Hypochondria of the Machine
was condemned to exist in a digital state until now! Transcending Obscurity has
revived these dark hymns on wax in an exclusive 7-inchLine up
Peter Lloyd - Guitars
Michael Gonçalves - Vocals, Bass
James Applegate - Drums
Artwork by Dan Rivera
Merch artwork by Alex Eckman-Lawn
Track Listing
1. Hymns of Distress
2. Limbic Thrust
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https://www.facebook.com/replicantnj
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Release
Date:
February 21st 2025Label : Candlelight Records
After the Candlelight Records debut ‘Black Blood’ masked purveyors of mayhem and Black Metal trailblazers Abduction return with their brand-new album ‘Existentialismus’ on February 21st 2025. The record arguably the band’s most electrifying emotionally complex and personal recording to date is inspired by the juxtaposition of a post-truth era against the simpler truths of ancient religions and crumbling past the observations of the modern world.
After an incredibly prolific recording run that saw a trilogy of albums released from 2017 to 2019 2022’s explosive Black Blood the band’s first album for the revered label Candlelight Records proved an undeniable milestone for the band.
Abduction are of the UK’s most visible black metal acts on the live circuit bringing their ritualistic and immersive performances to audiences at Damnation Bloodstock Incineration Fortress Doomsday Mass Destruction Samhain Reaperfest and Eradication. The band will be supporting New Zealand Death Metal trio Ulcerate in Germany as well as their own headline UK tour this October.
Existentialismus has been recorded for the first time as a full band. That sense of scale is palpable and reflects the ambition and embittered grandeur of the new material an impressively cohesive combination of otherworldly atmospheres fiery aggression and apocalyptic tension.
The album written by A|V was recorded and produced by Ian Boult at Stuck On A Name Studios in Nottingham, while the final touches of post-production and mastering were handled by Tore Stjerna (Watain, Mayhem) at Necromorbus Studios in Sweden. The striking and immersive cover art is the work of Julia Soboleva.
“The most obvious expansion is in the voice,” considers vocalist and founder A|V. “I felt that vocally, I had more freedom to express the lyrics and messages with fewer genre leashes. Given the themes of pain, frustration, and fear involved, it made sense to convey that in its most natural state rather than performing to certain expectations. The vocals and lyrics are important to me, so I let them breathe and counterpoint the bands playing.”
“It’s inspired by the juxtaposition of this horrible post-truth era with its contradictions and the simple, metaphorical truths that began in ancient religions of the crumbling past. Somewhere between a biblical gospel and a Nietzschean nightmare. As a father, there’s a particular terror in seeing all that our grandfathers built, physically and morally, being torn apart and reduced to a commodity and wondering what kind of world my son will inherit.”
“I am by no means a philosopher – I desperately lack the patience,” A|V admits. “But my observations of the modern Western humane race have become particularly bleak, and this informs my lyrical writing process. Art as a reaction to life and experience. This is laid out in the first track, ‘A Legacy of Sores’, which posits that most of us here, in the current year, have become an alarming pairing of being both too sensitive and yet without any core beliefs to stand on. (‘Wet skin now paper thin, reveals a core of dust’) I think this is a mixture of a post-religious society and the acceleration of technology to the point at which its claws are deeply in us. Have you tried to live without a smartphone recently?”
Tracklisting
1. A Legacy of Sores
2. Pyramidia Liberi
3. Truth is as Sharp a Sword as Vengeance
4. Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit
5. Razors of Occam
6. Vomiting at Baalbek
https://www.facebook.com/abduction616
My
Kingdom Music is proud to announce that CULTUS SANGUINE,
pioneers of the European Dark Metal scene, have signed a new contract with the
Italian label for the release of the new album that will be recorded during the
next summer/autumn and will see the light in the early days of 2026.Band's frontman and founder Joe Ferraro shared the following:
“This is a new year and a new chapter for CULTUS SANGUINE. We are off to a great start because we have re-signed with My Kingdom Music who released all our albums in vinyl format and above all celebrated with us our 30 years of career with a great BOX.
It is a great feeling to be with a label that gets us and who has always had our backs, especially when we needed them the most.
Prepare for the future of CULTUS SANGUINE".
My Kingdom Music boss Francesco Palumbo adds:
"Working with CULTUS SANGUINE over the last two years has been literally amazing and one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. I was already excited at the time to celebrate their history with the vinyl reissue of their albums and the box release, and I am even more now that I see this journey continuing towards a future of great music and new emotions.
I know that the new album will be something grandiose and unheard of in the Italian panorama in terms of pathos, darkness and emotional power".
All you have to do is stay tuned, the journey is long and you must know that it has simply just begun. Expect decay, sorrow and darkness!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
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Minsk (BY) - Brutal Death Metal quartet, RELICS OF HUMANITY, are proud to announce the pre-release stream of forthcoming album, ABSOLUTE DISMAL DOMAIN.
Stream it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIBbLjEU3Ac
Willowtip Records will release Absolute Dismal Domain on January 31.
The band released the following statement about the album:
"Absolute Dismal Domain is a nine-act conceptual record. The story told across these nine tracks is about absolute ubiquitous annihilation of light, both spiritually (god) and physically (sun and stars). This is the most brutal stuff about blackness and ungodliness ever created."
Absolute Dismal Domain is Relics of Humanity's first collection of original material since 2019's
Obscuration EP (Willowtip) and the band's first full-length album (and third overall) since 2014's Ominously Reigning upon the Intangible (Amputated Vein).
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/add-willowtip
https://relicsofhumanity.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dismal-domain
Track
Listing:1. Omen Apollyon
2. Summoning Of Those Who Absorbed
3. Taking The Shape Of Infinity
4. In The Name Of Ubiquitous Gloom
5. Paralyzing The Light II
6. Absolute Dismal Domain
7. Smoldering Of Seraphim
8. His Creation That No Longer Exists
9. Dominion
Credits:
Absolute Dismal Domain is fully composed (music, concept and lyrics), mixed, and mastered by guitarist Siarhei.
Artwork created with oil paints by Siarhei.
Line-up:
Siarhei - Guitars
Pavel - Bass
Flo - Vocals
Vladislav - Drums
https://relicsofhumanity.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dismal-domain
https://www.facebook.com/relicsofhumanity/
VULTUR - "CULTORES DE PERDAS E LINNA"
Genre
: Black
MetalLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 28th 2025
FFO: old Satyricon, Marduk, Mayhem, Immortal, Dissection, Rotting Christ, Mortuary Drape
Sardinian Native Black Metal veterans VULTUR are finally able to reveal their new opus to the world: "Cultores de Perdas e Linna" has been recorded in 2023 but didn't see light until now, in 2025. The album, whose title means "stone and woods worshippers" (which is how christians derogatery defined the ancient Nuragic population), features eight songs with lyrics in Sardinian language except for "Nemini Parco", sung in Italian and Latin.
VULTUR style is aggressive, unmerciful and fast-paced, showcasing intriguing riffs and a certain degree of dark violence. Fans of old Satyricon, Marduk, Mayhem and Immortal will find themselves pleased, as well as for the lovers of Dissection's melodic bridges, old Rotting Christ's evocativness and Mortuary Drape's rhythmic dynamism and heavyness.
The artwork takes inspiration from the Sardinian popular mask "Su Boe", one of the most important characters of Sardinian Carnival tradition.
Founded exactly 20 years ago, VULTUR has been one of the very first Black Metal acts featuring lyrics in Sardinian Campidanese language, with themes about Sardinian occultism and folk superstitions. Sardinia, the island whose ancient population dates back to the Bronze Age, features a rich archaic history and culture, whose folklore still breaths nowdays within its fond population.
The album will be premiered on the popular YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion on February 26th 2025.
Sale Points:
Sardinian Native Black Metal;
Vultur is the oldest Black Metal band featuring lyrics in Sardinian;
The artwork takes inspiration from the popular mask "Su Boe";
Full-album premiere on Black Metal Promotion (Feb 26th 2025).
Tracklist:
1) Su Frastimu
2) Eternu Trumentu
3) Su Spegu
4) Femina Mala
5) Arestis
6) Cultores Lapides et Lignea
7) Umbras
8) Nemini Parco
Recorded at Cut Fire Mixing Studio by Alberto Bandino, Sanluri (SU), in May and June 2023.
Artwork by Maristella Spanu.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sardinianvultur
SIDEWINDER – “MARCH OF THE ETERNAL HERETIC” (EP)
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: FEBRUARY 7th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal/Hardcore
For fans of: Slayer | Agnostic Front | Cro-Mags | Exodus
Somewhere between Leeds and the end of the universe there’s a gas masked warrior bedecked in spikes and bullets. Beneath a burning sky he’s facing down a legion of undead scum, skeletons infused with some kind of toxic nuclear power, armed with every damn thing they can find – from guns to sticks, barbed wire to billhooks – and for some reason they think they stand a chance. The warrior checks his double barrelled laser and death belching sidearms, adjusts the gas mask and pushes the wireless earphones deep into his ear canals. He checks the ancient, rusted music player that’s never let him down…hits play and starts killing. And to the sound of hardcore, thrash metal, speed and violence the undead start to die all over again…
Leeds based kings of crossover, Sidewinder, are back with a new four track EP that’s primed and ready to tear you limb from limb. ‘Only four songs’ you might be thinking…well, you won’t be thinking that when Sidewinder have finished with you! March Of The Eternal Heretic packs more aggression and intensity than most bands manage over the course of four albums. If it was any longer this thing would probably kill you… Opening with single, ‘Two Zero One’ you’re hit hard by Slayerized riffing that takes you back to when the skies rained blood and everyone lived south of heaven. Add to that the muscle and defiance of Agnostic Front and a dangerous, pit hungry attitude and you’ve got the perfect recipe for destruction. The title track comes next, featuring a guest appearance from Chris Barling of Inhuman Nature, all pummelling drums and guitar leads howling and diving, razor wire vocals and the adrenaline counter in the red zone. The breathless ‘From Beneath They Shall Rise’ follows, on your tail like a rabid dog before mixing in some mid-tempo punches and a cool clanking bass tone. Applying the final knockout blow ‘Ashes Of Reality’ is the kind of song that makes everywhere a pit. This bruising, battling anthem is simply glorious in its blood-spitting rebellion and dissent. However, for all the sonic violence that seethes throughout March Of The Eternal Heretic, don’t go thinking these songs are just interchangeable bursts of angry noise. They are sweetly structured, individual, characterful tracks, purposeful and unflinching in delivery – they just all happen to hit like a ten ton truck with its pedal to the metal.
Engineered and mastered by James Atkinson (Angel Witch, Carcass, Wytch Hazel etc) March Of The Eternal Heretic sounds virulent and venomous, walking deftly along the edge of chaos – and the amazing artwork of renowned tattooist Gareth Hares, who also supplied the visuals for Sidewinder’s 2023 release War Tapes Vol. 1, perfectly completes this explosive package. Single ‘Two Zero One’ is out on January 31st and the full March Of The Eternal Heretic EP drops on February 7th. Be ready for this one, because Sidewinder are taking no prisoners!
Line-up:
Damo - Vocals
Ginner - Guitars
Jonesy - Guitars
Finch - Bass
Gaz - Drums
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Auckland,
NZ; 29 January 2025: Following their extensive “Eclipse Death” tour in late
2024, New Zealand death metal ensemble ULCERATE will
return to Europe this May for a six-date tour of Scandinavia ahead of
previously announced festival appearances at Graveland Festival (Netherlands)
and Fortress Festival (UK). Kicking off in Helsinki, Finland on 21st May and culminating at the North Yorkshire shore for Fortress Festival on 1st June, the “ECLIPSE DEATH II EUROPE MMXXV” tour will be another opportunity to witness the exceptional Ulcerate album, "CUTTING THE THROAT OF GOD", in a live setting.
French extreme sludge band Fange will join this expedition in Stockholm, Oslo, Gothenburg and Copenhagen.
Having made numerous year-end “best of” lists, "Cutting the Throat of God" is arguably Ulcerate’s most powerful and biggest release to date. This refined and hook-laden seventh record is a self-sufficient universe unto itself. A conflagration of inventively visceral death/black metal where dizzying experimentation meets head-bobbing abandon - obscenely twisted and addictive, heart-stopping in its depth of feeling.
Tickets for all shows are on sale now and can be found via Ulcerate’s homepage.
Eclipse Death II Europe MMXXV Tour Dates
21.05 Helsinki, FI - On The Rocks
23.05 Sundsvall, SE - Club Deströyer
24.05 Stockholm, SE - Södra Teatern *
26.05 Oslo, NO - Blå *
27.05 Gothenburg, SE - Monument *
29.05 Copenhagen, DK - Pumpehuset *
30.05 Graveland Festival, NL
01.06 Fortress Festival, UK
* w/ FANGE
Tickets: https://ulcerate-official.com/#tour
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Finnish thrash metal influenced melodic metal band JUSTICE THEORY'S new single MY TRUE NEMESIS is a song about the struggle with your inner demons.
Listen
to the song on music services : https://push.fm/fl/justicetheory-mytruenemesisCheck the lyric video: https://youtu.be/dsYSTiDqxPk
The singer-guitarist Valtteri Saharinen tells about the track:
"MY TRUE NEMESIS is a song about battling your own inner enemy. The narrator’s opponent isn’t some external force, but rather this internal power that takes control of their mind and life. Feelings of anger, resentment, shame, and despair are constantly churning inside throughout life, and you’re forced to deal with them if you want to move forward. The chorus, “true nemesis,” is a metaphor for this internal force, an enemy you have to face over and over again, one you can never escape.
The song has this heavy, fatalistic vibe, where the enemy is seen as inevitable, just a natural part of life. The narrator’s lyrics dig deep into the conflict between self-hatred and the struggle to accept oneself. In the final chorus, the voices in their head scream, “No way out!” – summing up the feeling that this inner enemy is tied to their fate. It’s something they can’t outrun, only learn to live with.
Musically, the track is raw and intense, perfectly mirroring the darkness in the lyrics. It drags the listener deep into the pain of the mind but also opens a door to self-reflection and acceptance. My True Nemesis is a powerful take on the inner battle and how it’s an inseparable part of being human."
Justice Theory started as a thrash metal band in 2012. After that they have moved towards more melodic approach without forgetting their thrash metal past. Justice Theory has released around dozen singles and EPs.
Justice Theory:
Valtteri Saharinen: guitar & vocals
Taneli Ahonen: guitar
Riku Lehto: bass
Juuso Liukkonen: drums
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U.S. Traditional Heavy Metal quintet, PREHISTORIA, have released a lyric video for "EVERLASTING LEGACY," the second single from forthcoming album, CRYPTIC HALO. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohgURwU4C1U
FFO: Blind Guardian, Persuader, Iced Earth, Manticora
Prehistoria will release Cryptic Halo, their first full-length album, on February 11 via StormSpell Records. The vinyl LP version will be released through Alone Records.
Prehistoria had this to say about Cryptic Halo:
"We are thrilled to announce the completion of our debut album, Cryptic Halo. This project has been a true labor of love, forged through countless hours of passion, dedication, and focused effort. Rooted in traditional heavy metal, Cryptic Halo weaves in elements of power, thrash, and black metal to create a sound that’s both classic and dynamic. Crafted by devoted fans of heavy metal, for heavy metal fans, it stands as a celebration of the genre we hold so dear. It’s been a challenging yet rewarding journey, and we can’t wait to share this milestone with you as we prepare for its release."
Track
Listing:1. Futile Invocation of Cosmic Acknowledgement
2. Rise
3. Salvation Denied
4. Obsidian Gateways
5. Everlasting Legacy
6. Paradise Lost
7. Crown of the Resolute
8. Crucible of Shadows
9. Dreamchaser
Bio:
Prehistoria is a traditional heavy metal band hailing from the American Midwest, combining the raw power of classic metal with influences from power, thrash, and black metal. Their sound is steeped in the genre’s roots, delivering crushing riffs and soaring melodies with a sharp, modern edge that feels both familiar and new.
Cryptic Halo Credits:
All songs (except "Futle Invocation...") written and performed by Prehistoria.
"Futile Invocation of Cosmic Acknowledgement" written and produced by Dan Wagoner.
Lyrics by Alonso Donoso.
Produced, tracked, and engineered by Dan Wagoner.
Drums recorded by Joe Viers at Sonic Lounge Studios.
Additional guitars recorded by Ethan Vawter.
Bass recorded by Ian Bender.
Mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni at Domination Studio.
Album art by Adam Burke.
Logo design by Chris Hurst.
Additional design by Alonso Donoso and Ian Bender.
Photography by Austin White.
Line-Up:
Alonso “Zo” Donoso - Vocals
Shaun Cothron - Guitar
Max Otworth - Guitar
Ian Bender - Bass
Cody Johns - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/prehistoriaband
After
the success of their debut album, "Heavy Lies The Crown",
Finnish Death Metal band WRETCHED PATH took some time
off to craft a masterpiece that's faster, darker, and more intense than ever
before. Now, just over two years later, they're back with the first single from
their upcoming second album!Experience the raw power of “RELEASE OF VIOLENCE”! This explosive track plunges you into a gripping atmosphere, with verses that evoke a sense of raw energy and intensity. Inspired by the chilling premise of movie The Purge, where chaos reigns for one night, the lyrics delve deep into the darkest corners of the human psyche.
Whether you interpret the song as a reflection of society’s hidden rage or as a journey into the mind’s most twisted thoughts, “Release Of Violence” leaves it up to you to decide. Let the haunting melodies and powerful lyrics take you on a ride through the shadows. Are you ready to face the darkness within?
Listen to the single on music services : https://push.fm/fl/wretchedpath-releaseofviolence
Check the music video: https://youtu.be/-xQsLoBmE4w?si=oc_bYQwPkoexxjuo
Formed in 2020 by seasoned musicians from renowned bands like Pestigore, Born of Thorns, Tukkanuotta, and Warmen, Wretched Path was born out of a desire to return to their Death Metal roots. Their debut album received rave reviews from various magazines and websites, and they played several gigs around Finland including the legendary Nummirock festival 2023.
https://www.wretchedpath.com/
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We reveal the cover of "COMPENDIO ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO", the debut album by ALBUS DIABOLUS, arcane and esoteric musical laboratory that the minds of Elisa Montaldo (Mater A Clivis Imperat, Il Tempio Delle Clessidre and VLY among others) and Samael von Martin (Evol, Death Dies and of course Mater A Clivis Imperat) have created to destabilize our peaceful existence.
The album will be released on April 11th only on vinyl and digital format as well as in a special limited edition that includes the album with shirts, posters and other merch.
Pre-Order active and available on: http://bit.ly/3CejxJq
Tracklist1. Albus Diabolus
2. Homorphus
3. Liturgica
4. Potentissimis
5. E Così Sia...
6. Dadashining
7. Elettro Sabba
8. Sommi Spiriti
9. Noctua
10. Rituale
11. Outro
The artwork, realized by Maira Pedroni, opens the doors to a dark and lysergic universe where experimentation and avant-garde sound reign supreme. In their creation the gothic and black aesthetic of extreme music merges with the Progressive vein of Mater A Clivis Imperat, all with a clear and decisive electronic imprint influenced by the Synth-Wave and Dark-Wave of the 80s.
Sound imaginaries created with synthesizers, drum machines and arcane atmospheres intertwine with powerful guitars played by special guest Simòn Ferètro, materializing everything in an emotional and immersive journey that recalls influences of works such as "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, and bands such as EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS.
The journey into their Art has just started!And now... let the Sabbath begin!!!
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Wretch of Pact unleashes the fourth chapter in the seven-part series of albums that chronicle the irreversible process of decay and death. Decomposition Part 4: Livor Mortis presents 10 tracks of rotting Black Metal with second wave,ambient, funeral Doom and old school Death Metal influences.
Listen to the single "Livor Mortis" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdEfyi9oBGI
Tracklisting:1. Discoloration
2. Hypostasis
3. Livor Mortis
4. Suggillation
5. The Irreversible Process Of Decay Part 4
6. Flooded Crypt
7. Lindow Man
8. Grauballe Man
9. Lividity
10. Preserved In The Peat Bog Part 4
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Genre
: Black
MetalLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : February 28th 2025
FFO: old Mayhem and Watain, Marduk, Celestial Bloodshed
Bone maniacs UNHOLY IMPURITY style is sinister and ritualistic, reminiscent of first-era Mayhem and Watain, as well as of Marduk and Celestial Bloodshed. There is a certain authenticity, easely perceptible, which directs the conjured sensations towards the very essence of Black Metal, in its dark and ominous spirit. "Oculus Mortis" is old school, raw and straight to the point. The past is alive!
Hailing from Sardinia, the island whose ancient population dates back to the Bronze Age, UNHOLY IMPURITY are inspired by anticosmic spirituality and ancient mysteries linked to Sardinia's culture. The album features four songs with lyrics in Sardinian language (hence Sardinian Native Black Metal) and an astonishing detailed artwork by the indonesian artist Oik Wasfuk (Watain, Nothing Sacred Artwork).
The album will be officially premiered on February 27th via the popular YouTube channel Black Metal Promotion.
Sale Points:
Sardinian Black Metal;
Four songs with lyrics in Sardinian autchthonous language;
Detailed artwork by Oik Wasfuk (Watain, Nothing Sacred Artwork);
Full-album premiere on Black Metal Promotion (Feb 27th 2025).
Tracklist:
1) Into The Abyss
2) Black Magic
3) Ancient Stones Of Death
4) The Oldest One
5) The Healer
6) Treutos Corrudos
7) Sos Filos de sa Morte
8) Requiem
Recorded at SpaceCraft and RKS Studio (OSSI), August/September 2023.
Mixed and mastered by Delio Soro at Soundlikekong Studio Sassari (Sassari), February/March 2024.
Band logo and album title handmade by Erkitu.
Design and layout by SSCVLT.
https://maskeddeadrecords.com/
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Austin (TX) - Texas metal titans IGNITOR have released the official video for “HORNS AND HAMMERS,” the title track from their new album. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmcn2ODFyw
“'Horns
and Hammers' is classic IGNITOR, a battle ready power thrash
metal anthem, that sets the stage for the rest of the album,” says
drummer Pat Doyle. Fresh off his recent induction into the Metal
Hall of Fame along with his bandmates in Dangerous
Toys, Jason McMaster notes “A great time was had in the making
of this track. The thrash influence is prominent, but to make it anthemic, felt
natural. Very much a sort of angry Iron Maiden sound, makes it a
favorite of mine. We have worked with Steve Miller and his
productions before, so this made it easy to know what to expect. He killed it,
and we are proud of this feature video. Steve has created a fantastical
backdrop using Claudio's art as well as some snippets created by our
own founder, Stuart Laurence. This team effort, with alot of it taken on
by Steve, made for over the top and very metal visions that this track offers
lyrically, to come to life on screen."Produced by Steve Miller, the video incorporates the original artwork from the album cover by Claudio Bergamin. Pre-orders for the North American CD version of Horns and Hammers, which includes a cover version of Saxon’s "Machine Gun," can be placed at: https://revoltvinylrecords.com/pre-orders/
Find all IGNITOR music and merch at www.ignitorband.com
Another storm-the-gates, metal onslaught, Horns and Hammers delivers all the dramatic power and fury that landed previous albums Haunted by Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Golden Age of Black Magick in the hallowed realms of Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Raven, Dio, Accept and other legendary keepers of the metal creed.
From the title track’s speed-metal war cry and the Maiden-esque “Imperial Bloodlines” to the cowbell-driven “Shattered Crosses” and the 70s-inspired heavy metal of “Ferocious the Martyrs” (featuring guest keyboardist Gabriel Guardian of Immortal Guardian) the 11-track Horns and Hammers
is a mighty mix of classic heavy metal spiked with NWOBHM, thrash, power metal and the atmospheric textures of prog-metal and fantasy.
“We raised the bar high with our last two albums so we couldn’t settle for anything less than a full-on metal assault,” said founding guitarist Stuart “Batlord” Laurence. “We’ve always honored our influences,
but we’re also very insistent that our music – first and foremost – sounds like IGNITOR. With Horns and Hammers, we’ve covered the spectrum of metal and taken Ignitor to a whole new level.”
Fronted by the soaring vocals of Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth), IGNITOR's strength is further forged by guitarist Robert Williams , bassist Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell and drummer Pat Doyle. Whether charging and pounding like clashing titans (“Dark Horse,” “Chaos Maximus Eternal”) or luring the listener into gothic tales of doom and deceit (“Suicide Anthem,” “Taken Up With Serpents”), IGNITOR delivers with shuddering impact.
“Robert brought a ton of songs and riff ideas to the table and Billy had some great ideas that blossomed into full-blown songs,” Laurence said. “Once we started jamming with Pat’s pummeling backbeat, we knew we had something special.”
“As the arrangements started coming together, I found myself completely immersed and inspired to come up with the lyrical themes and characters to carry the songs to completion,” McMaster added. “I’m really proud of the band’s individual and collective contributions, and I think we all agree that Horns and Hammers is a triumph by any measure.”
The album’s stunning cover art – featuring a medieval warrior and his mighty steed surveying a hellish killing field – comes courtesy of renowned fantasy/sci-fi artist Claudio Bergamin whose credits include
Judas Priest (Firepower), Burning Witches (The Witch of the North), Cassius King (Field Trip) and Klassik ’78 (Phantoms), among others.
Produced and mastered by Stuart “Batlord” Laurence at Emphatic Audio in Austin, TX, Horns and Hammers was mastered for vinyl by Cris Burns. “Hell Shall Be Your Home” was recorded live in Austin TX at Kick Butt Coffee in 2019, and engineered by Ernie Basaldua with mixing by
Stuart "Batlord" Laurence.
Track Listing:
1. Horns And Hammers
2. Imperial Bloodlines
3. Dark Horse
4. Cyber Crush
5. Shattered Crosses
6. Taking Up With Serpents
7. Ferocious The Martyrs
8. Suicide Anthem
9. Chaos Maximus Eternal
10. Machine Gun (Saxon cover)*
11. Terminous
*Note: “Hell Shall Be Your Home” appears on The Metal On Metal Records version.
All songs written, recorded and performed by Ignitor, except *“Machine Gun,” originally written, recorded and performed by Saxon, Carrere Music Ltd 1980.
Cover art by Claudio Bergamin.
Line-up:
Stuart “Batlord” Laurence - Guitar
Robert Williams - Guitar
Jason McMaster - Vocals
Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell - Bass
Pat Doyle - Drums
Bio:
IGNITOR formed in Austin, Texas in 2003 with legendary Agony Column guitarist Stuart Laurence, Brendon Bigelow on bass, Beverly Barrington on guitar, Pat Doyle (Offenders) on drums, and vocalist Erika Swinnich. The band wanted to write music reflecting their passion for heavy, speed, and power metal.
IGNITOR quickly attracted a worldwide fan base after releasing their debut album Take To The Sky, featuring the hit "Demonslayer," in 2004 to rave reviews. Germany’s Rock Hard magazine named it "Demo of the Month.” Dies Irae (Brazil) said “Ignitor take the world by storm, playing a furious Heavy/Speed Metal, joining the high class of veteran musicians and the powerful voice of Erika Swinnich.”
IGNITOR performed at Mexico’s Monterrey Metal Fest in May 2005, appearing alongside Motorhead and Danzig. Then onto Germany’s Keep It True Festival in November 2005, where they stunned the crowd and were named "Best KIT Newcomer" by Mario’s Metal Mania magazine.
In 2007 IGNITOR released Road of Bones (Cruz del Sur Music) featuring cover art by legendary MOTORHEAD collaborator Joe Petagno. Beverly was temporarily replaced by Annah Moore on guitar for this album. The band’s sophomore effort is a deep dive into themes of pain, death, and rebirth, culminating with their triumphant anthem "Reinheitsgebot" and its rallying cry “Metal is the Law!” Blabbermouth described IGNITOR - “This is the energetic, lusty sound of a new and eager band who are ridiculously fired up to be alive, no matter what the decade.” IGNITOR toured heavily in support of the album, playing with Primal Fear and Leaves Eyes, and a notable appearance at the Valley Thrash Fest in McAllen, Texas.
In 2008, Texas metal veteran Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Howling Sycamore, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth, Evil United) replaced Erika’s wraith-Maiden wail with his demonic Texas drawl. The band released The Spider Queen (Cruz del Sur/Heavy Artillery) in 2009, a fairy tale of love and redemption. The band toured in support of the album, sharing stages with Fates Warning and Helstar along the way.
In 2010 IGNITOR played the Metal Up Your Tap Fest in Chicago along with Cruz del Sur label mates Bible of the Devil.
2012 saw the release of Year of the Metal Tiger (MVD Audio,) featuring fan favorite "Heavy Metal Holocaust" and the eerie polytheism of "Shadow of the Needle." “…a fiery album of traditional, hot-wired metal that’s intensely passionate and utterly authentic.” – Backstage Auctions.
IGNITOR released Mixtape '85 in 2013, a collection of beloved favorites recalling the peak years for thrash and heavy metal. The Metal Files said “…the opening solo on Into the Coven gave me chills when I first heard it.” 2013 also saw the inauguration of IGNITOR’s occasionally-annual Iron Fist Fest in their hometown of Austin, featuring Witches Mark.
The next two years produced some lineup changes. Beverly was replaced by Robert Williams (Witches Mark,) and Brendon was replaced by Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell (Agony Column) cementing IGNITOR’s current lineup.
In May 2016 IGNITOR performed at the Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago along with Tygers of Pan Tang, Jag Panzer, and Leather Leone. The Iron Fist Fest returned in 2016 too, featuring Byfist and Death of Millions alongside IGNITOR.
In 2017 IGNITOR released Years of War 2008 – 2013, an anthology of the band’s releases during those years in a limited edition box set, including rare promo discs and assorted items from the merchandise shop. The box set is only available from the band’s website.
2017 also saw the release of the IGNITOR’s sixth album Haunted By Rock & Roll (EMP Label Group.) The song "Hatchet: The Ballad of Victor Crowley" is heard during the closing credits of the horror slasher “Victor Crowley” from Ariescope Pictures. Director Adam Green produced a NSFW video of the song featuring some key gory scenes from the movie. The band produced three other companion videos featuring the songs "No Sanctuary," "Brave The War," and "Haunted by Rock & Roll." Roppongi Rocks said “IGNITOR serves us an extra large portion of terrific heavy metal on its new album.” “The New Wave of British Heavy Metal deserves a locally designated acronym thanks to IGNITOR.” - Austin Chronicle
IGNITOR returned to Chicago in July 2018 for the Alehorn of Power X festival, appearing alongside Zuul and Bible of the Devil. IGNITOR appeared again in July at the Iron Fist Fest 3 with James Rivera’s Metal Asylum and Austin’s own Duel. Iron Fist Fest 4’s ten-band lineup in 2019 featured IGNITOR, Helstar, and Angkor Wat.
In early 2020, IGNITOR finished the work on their seventh album. After contacting Metal on Metal Records and sending the new songs, they got a positive response and soon the agreement was reached. The Golden Age of Black Magick was finally released on October 2020 on CD and all major digital platforms.
In January 2020 right before the worldwide pandemic, IGNITOR recorded a live set at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin. Later in the year the band self-released that set on a CD called Live…Before the Plague and posted it for sale on its website store.
Like most of the planet, IGNITOR spent 2020-2021 hiding out from the pandemic. Luckily that provided ample opportunity to write and hone new material. The band played a few shows here and there as venues began opening back up in 2022 and 2023, but spent most of the time writing and preparing to record their next album.
Recording began in Fall 2023 and was finished in May 2024 for the ninth IGNITOR album, Horns and Hammers (Metal on Metal). Horns and Hammers features some extra special guests – Ross “the Boss” Friedman (Dictators, Manowar,) Marc Lopes (Metal Church) and Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian). IGNITOR is especially proud of this album. The cover art was painted by Claudio Bergamin and depicts a weathered warrior in a brief moment of repose after a battle. It resembles the plight of true metal warriors like IGNITOR, who strive to inject both power and passion into their craft with every performance, keeping the flames of heavy metal stoked and smoldering for the gathered masses.
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https://metalonmetalrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/IGNITOR.METAL/
RISE OF TYRANTS – „THE CHRONICLES OF CARDINAL PABLO MENDOZA”
Brace
yourself for absolute annihilation! Brutal Records has
unleashed the apocalypse by signing Italy's masters of sonic destruction, Rise
of Tyrants. Their highly anticipated album, The Chronicles of Cardinal
Pablo Mendoza, is poised to detonate on February 28, 2025.But the devastation doesn’t stop there! The Abnormality in Structure album will roar back with a full remaster, unleashing sheer chaos on February 7, 2025. Plus, prepare for the brutal resurgence of Trauma, hitting with a completely remastered fury on January 10, 2025, shattering all limits of brutality. This is raw, unrestrained death metal terror: merciless, bone-crushing, and utterly unstoppable. Get ready for total obliteration!
Rise Of Tyrants has returned, more ferocious and unforgiving than ever. This Bergamo-based powerhouse has dropped an eleven-track barrage of raw, self-produced brutality that makes their earlier work look like a warm-up. The energy is sharper, darker, and meaner. With Davide Cantamessa on vocals, a relentless force of raw aggression and versatility, the band has leveled up in every brutal way imaginable.
The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza comes at you like a battering ram of thrash and death metal riffs, with a rhythm section pounding forward like a war machine. The guitars are unrelenting, piling riff after punishing riff, layering death metal fury with an intensity that leaves no room to breathe. Cantamessa’s vocal attack rips through the wall of sound, moving seamlessly between guttural growls, visceral screams, and brutal tones that demand your attention.
The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Line up:
Davide Cantamessa: Vocals
Federico Visini: Guitars
Luca Mairati: Bass
Virgilio Breda: Drums
This is an album that doesn’t ask for your attention, it takes it. Brutal, unrestrained, and unapologetic, The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza is a must for anyone with an appetite for death metal played with devastating skill and relentless fury.
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. Recorded, mixed and mastered at ASDR Decibel Studio, Busto Arsizio (VA, Italy) by Carlo Meroni
Tracks:
01. Colle De La Croix De Fer
02. Parigi Napoli
03. Do Mario Pederasta
04. Sysvester Stazione
05. Holly & Beppe (Only The Brave)
06. Gerry Smashed Table
07. Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
08. Celine Di Orio
09. How Can I Fuck Capitalism
10. Mirella Silver Tongue
11. Armando The Preacher
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Rise of Tyrants - The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89666
February 28, 2025
Rise of Tyrants - Abnormality in Structure
Abnormality in Structure album delivered 8 tracks with a fierce and skillfully crafted assault. For those who crave raw, uncompromising death metal, this record is essential, unmissable live, and impossible to ignore. Ferocious blast beats and malevolent riffing that feel like a death metal avalanche.
Released March 15, 2019
Re-release date in Digital February 7. 2025
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89665
Rise of Tyrants - Trauma
Trauma album launches with a foreboding arpeggio before detonating into evil riffing and crushing, doom-infused rhythms. The 9 tracks oscillates between blistering speeds and sudden, grinding slowdowns, showcasing the band’s mastery of extreme dynamics and groove. The guitars inject moments of haunting melody amid a wall of unrelenting brutality.
Released February 3, 2014
Re-release in Digital January 10, 2025
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89664
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NEBULA NINE – “THE LAST SKY PIERCER “ (EP)
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: February 28th 2025
Genre: Progressive Rock
For fans of: Anathema | King Crimson | Voivod | Pink Floyd
In the places where we worked, with such industry and conviction, so sure of the importance of our self-imposed routines, there is stillness. In the places where we played, dancing through the adventures of our imaginations’ conjuring, there is emptiness. Where we celebrated there is silence, where we dreamed there are only ghosts. For a few brief heartbeats it will be beautiful, this quiet kingdom, this abandoned garden. But its future is ash…as ours is the cold and unknown darkness…
Humanity has finally been forced to abandon the planet that has nurtured us, cradled us since our story began. The sun is dying and engulfing the planets that have circled it for untold aeons in all consuming fire. The last hope for our species are the Sky Piercers, ships that will carry us out into the uncharted eternity of the universe. This is the tale told by Sweden’s Nebula Nine across the four tracks of their outstanding debut EP of effervescent, imaginative, progressive rock – The Last Sky Piercer. Beautifully intricate, the music shifts through an array of exquisitely realised moods, drawing on an expansive sonic colour palette to evoke tension, anxiety, loss and wonder, melancholy and awe-inspiring, endless possibilities. The songs entwine, working together to create the greater whole of the EP and its unfolding drama, yet also stand alone as powerful, complete works of individual character. The gentle melodies and tidal drift of ‘Sky Piercer’ with its gathering momentum and sense of import…the shuffling, bustling rhythms of ‘Terminal’ with its nervous energy and quite brilliant technicality and musicality, its aura of strange meetings, beginnings and endings…the propulsive movement of ‘Blood Red Eyes’, its mystery and robust riffs, its metallic edge and cascading notes like a shower of stars…and finally the gentle intimacy of ‘Maroons’, that so slowly transforms into something gloriously emotive, breathtaking and enthralling, before passing on into the night, fading into the distance. The Last Sky Piercer is an astonishing piece of work that will capture the hearts and minds of those who long for music of substance and depth, who love to be carried beyond the boundaries of the mundane world on the wings of melody and creativity.
Immaculately mastered by Hans Olsson (Horisont, Graveyard, Dorrian Sorriaux etc), every word, note and beat of The Last Sky Piercer is allowed to breathe and sing, presenting an array of layers and textures for the listener to explore. Complemented by some classic sci-fi inspired cover art, this EP really is the complete package – a phenomenal achievement. The doors are closing, there’s no more time for regrets and farewells…the future awaits. All aboard The Last Sky Piercer!
Line-up:
Hampus Pettersson – Bass/Keyboards
Linus Person - Drums
Simon Malm – Vocals/Guitar
Robin Karlsson – Lead Guitar
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Shrouded in Darkness’ third installment "11:11" collects 7 tracks of heavy doom/death metal, ¨with organs, flowing solos, deep growls and ritualistic pounding music from start to finish. As always, it’s dark and with a funeral atmosphere; A perfect soundtrack for doom.
Tracklist:
1. 11:11 Introductio
2. No Escape
3. Cruel Winds
4. Dreams
5. My Every Step
6. The Lurking Devil
7. 11:11
Recorded in C-Nil Studios and Goatman Studios, Sweden, 2024-2025
and mastered by Dan Swanö, Unisound.
Guest appearance:
Camilla Tjernberg – Vocals (“Cruel Winds”)
Cover artwork by Evelyn De Morgan
Music by Mikael Uimonen
Lyrics by Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg
Engineered by Daniel Tjernberg
Line-up:
Daniel T – Vocals and keyboards
Reese – Guitars
Mike – Bass and drums
Two videos is also in the makings ("No Escape" + "The Lurking Devil"),
to promote the album release-TBA!
shrouded.in.darkness@outlook.com
"Harbinger"
is the second single taken from SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT's upcoming album
"Exit Humanity".The music video was directed by Marmo David, edited by Andrei Bejușca, with special effects crafted by David Madaș.
The song "Harbinger", as well as the entire "Exit Humanity" album, was mixed by Tudor Scânteie and Andrei Jumugă, with the latter also handling the mastering. Drum recordings took place at Consonance Studios in Timișoara, with Cristian Popescu and Edmond Karban, while guitars, bass, and vocals were recorded at Postanalog Studio in Oradea, under the guidance of Marcel Floruț.
Conceptually, the album "EXIT HUMANITY" continues the narrative introduced in SPIRITUAL RAVISHMENT's debut full-length. The track "Harbinger" sets the tone for this new chapter, taking listeners into a merciless world ruled by primal instincts. Here, survivors hidden in the shadows of the underground clash in savage battles, driven by an insatiable thirst for survival.
"Exit Humanity" is set to be released via the label Loud Rage Music.
Watch the "Harbinger" music video here: https://youtu.be/wK347OQY5jA
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It's
been 35 years since the release of the first demo of the Czech Thrash
Metal legend V.A.R.!!! Yes, the demo "NO PLACE TO HIDE" was released in 1990 and it is a cult recording of the whole Czech hard metal history.
I've been cooperation with V.A.R. since 2014 and under the Pařát Productions logo I've released 2 full-length albums on CD & LP and 5 reissues on CD & LP. This is the first reissue on digipak.
The 16-page booklet contains the story of V.A.R. from the early nineties in both Czech and English.
Band: V.A.R.
Album: No Place To Hide (re-edition 2025)
Label: Pařát Productions
Style: Thrash Metal
Release date: 27.1. 2025
Type: Digipak + 16 page booklet
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/v-a-r-no-hide-to-place-35th-anniversary-edition/
EISIGE
VENEN’S - “THE ETERNAL PARADE” will haunt your soul and leave you spellbound . Step
into the dark allure of The Eternal Parade, Eisige Venen's latest masterpiece.
This chilling track takes listeners on a mesmerizing journey through death,
despair, and the unrelenting cycles of suffering. With raw, haunting lyrics and
evocative imagery of winter shadows and the natural world, the song crafts a
poignant meditation on the delicate balance between life and death, memory and
oblivion.The eerie yet captivating soundscape lingers long after the final note, making it a perfect addition to playlists that revel in introspection, emotional depth, and the beauty of the macabre. Prepare to be spellbound—The Eternal Parade isn’t just a song; it’s an experience.
Biography
Eisige Venen (pronounced ei-se-ge ven-en) is a dark melodic metal project founded in 2020 by guitarist/keyboardist Marc Williams (Ba’alzamon, Fallen Empire, Frostcrown). Joined by vocalist Curtis Fitzpatrick (Ba’alzamon, Locust Swarm) and bassist Chris Brandon (Gokseong, Dead Deceased, Anger Overdose) in 2023, the trio brings a cold, melancholic sound infused with heavy synths, haunting melodies, and a blackened touch.
Williams, inspired by his years in Germany, released the debut single A Frigid Emptiness in 2021. With Brandon and Fitzpatrick onboard, the group launched their first album, Ghosts of Yesterday, in 2023—despite working entirely remotely across the USA and South Korea. The album earned praise from publications like Occult Metal Zine and Hellfire Magazin, who likened their atmospheric and melodic style to bands such as Amon Amarth, Insomnium, and Agathodaimon.
Eisige Venen has since collaborated with artists like Melishah (Tenebris Intus) and director Neil Gorz (Death Springs Eternal music video). They’ve signed with Metal Incorporated and Sodeh Records and are endorsed by Black Harbor Sound and Rattlesnake Cables.
Now based in the USA, Eisige Venen is gearing up for their 2025 EP The Mourning Frost, featuring the award-winning track Seaforged. Stay tuned for more heavy riffs and dark melodies wherever music is streamed.
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MOTÖRHEAD, generationsübergreifender Soundtrack und Lebensstil für
Millionen von Menschen weltweit, feiern 2025 ihr 50-jähriges Jubiläum.
Zu Ehren dieses historischen Meilensteins werden das ganze Jahr über eine Reihe
von Veröffentlichungen und Veranstaltungen stattfinden. Mit Live-Auftritten vor
Millionen von Fans und über 25 Millionen verkauften Alben in ihrer Karriere
sind die mit einem Grammy ausgezeichneten Motörhead auch zu Beginn ihres
goldenen Jubiläums so beliebt wie eh und je. Im Oktober 2024 erreichte die Band
mit "Lawman" eine brandneue Top-10-Single-Platzierung in
Großbritannien, verzeichnete weltweit über 320 Millionen Streams, 20 Millionen
Hörer auf Spotify und über 112 Millionen Aufrufe auf YouTube. Und beginnend mit
einer ganz besonderen Veröffentlichung, die im Mai bekannt gegeben wird, wird
das Jahr 2025 ein Fest sein, das bestätigt: Motörhead is For Life und Lemmy
is Forever."Es ist unglaublich, zu wissen, dass unsere Musik und alles, wofür sie steht, nach wie vor bei so vielen Menschen auf Resonanz stößt", sagt Gitarrist Phil Campbell. "Natürlich sind wir enorm dankbar, dass wir immer noch so geschätzt werden und ganz ehrlich – die Musik bleibt so lebendig und wichtig wie eh und je, denn sie hat eine einzigartige Energie und Ehrlichkeit, die wir alle immer brauchen werden."
"Es ist eine bemerkenswerte Geschichte, die Verbindung, die wir mit unseren Fans haben, kann man nur als Familie bezeichnen und es ist so aufregend, zu sehen, wie diese Familie immer noch wächst", sagt Mikkey Dee. "Aber es ergibt auch Sinn, denn die Leute wissen, wer wir sind und worum es in der Musik geht. Motörhead hat immer dafür gestanden, es auf UNSERE Art zu machen; es ist zeitlos und inspiriert die Leute weiterhin, diesen Weg zu gehen."
Den Auftakt der Feierlichkeiten bilden limitierte Vinyl-Sondereditionen der Motörhead-Alben "Overkill", "Bomber" und "Ace Of Spades" zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum. Sie sind alle als Half-Speed-Master geschnitten, als spezielle Farbkonfigurationen gepresst, enthalten ein exklusives Poster und werden am 28. Februar veröffentlicht.
Hier vorbestellen: https://motorhead.lnk.to/50vinylOBAPR
Am 8. Mai, dem Internationalen Motörhead-Tag, findet dann eine ganz besondere Lemmy Forever Aschezeremonie statt – die Enthüllung einer Lemmy-Statue in seinem Geburtsort Stoke-On-Trent. Der Bildhauer der Statue ist der bekannte britische Künstler Andy Edwards (der bereits Statuen von den Beatles, Bob Marley und den Bee Gees geschaffen hat). Motörhead-Gitarrist Phil Campbell wird die Asche beisetzen sowie die Feierlichkeiten leiten. "Diese neue Statue von Lem ist etwas Besonderes. Nicht nur, weil wir denselben Geburtsort teilen oder weil er mir persönlich so viel bedeutet, sondern weil es so wichtig ist, ein dauerhaftes internationales Wahrzeichen zu haben, das ihn dort feiert, wo er geboren wurde", sagt Edwards. "Lemmy hat mir Freude, Selbstvertrauen und Energie gegeben, und er ist auch eine Verkörperung des ursprünglichen Geistes und der Kraft des Rock 'n' Roll. Ich hoffe wirklich, dass es ein Treffpunkt für Menschen aus der ganzen Welt wird, zu dem sie reisen können."
"Lemmy in seinem Geburtsort durch Andys fantastische Statue weiter verewigt zu sehen, ist eine großartige Sache", sagt Manager Todd Singerman. "Dieser Mann ist vor 10 Jahren von uns gegangen, aber er bleibt nicht nur bei uns, sondern ist sogar beliebter als je zuvor. Das liegt daran, dass Lemmy für Ehrlichkeit, Integrität, Inklusion und den besten und lautesten Rock 'n' Roll aller Zeiten stand. Seien wir ehrlich, es gibt nur einen Lemmy und die Welt feiert ihn und seine Musik weiterhin laut und stolz."
Um den Appetit auf ein Jahr Motörhead-Festivitäten noch mehr anzuregen, können sich Fans jetzt hier eine neue HD-Version des allerersten Motörhead-Fernsehauftritts vom 25. Oktober 1978 in der bekannten BBC-Sendung "Top Of The Pops" ansehen, bei dem sie 'Louie, Louie' spielen: https://motorhead.lnk.to/50yearsPR
Es wird im Laufe des Jahres noch viele weitere Feierlichkeiten geben, also haltet die Augen und Ohren offen... und denkt daran...
THE ONLY WAY TO FEEL THE NOISE IS WHEN IT’S GOOD AND LOUD! MOTÖRHEAD FOR LIFE
LEMMY FOREVER
Ihr findet alles zu Motörhead im Newsletter der Band unter dem folgenden Link: https://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/email/newsletter/1417401187
AFFLICTA
- “ORIGIN OF SORROW”We are Afflicta, a Death Metal project of twenty-year-olds born in Imperia in 2019.
After the tragic and premature death of the first bassist, co-founder of the group, we took a break before resuming activity.
Afflicta combbines the Death Metal style with Deathcore, our music expresses extreme violence and horror.
Our first album was recorded at Stefano Morabito’s 16th Cellar Studio in Rome.
We have no problem surprising the audience thanks to the horror-flavoured costumes, and when you lower your guard we will hit you with the heaviest breakdowns.
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/origin-of-sorrow-pre-order
Check it out at the following link: https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/01/22/exclusive-premiere-dissocia-lift-the-veil-with-existentialist/
Influences: Cynic, Gojira, The Contortionist, Rivers of Nihil, Porcupine Tree, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Leprous, Whitechapel, Venetian Snares, Igorrr, John Williams, Hans Zimmer.
"Existentialist" will be out January 24 on all digital platforms. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
To Lift The Veil will be released on digital, CD, and vinyl LP formats.
DISSOCIA enters the mind of multi-instrumentalist Daniel R. Flys (Persefone, Eternal Storm) as the sonic landscape between two realms: the conscious and the unconscious. With ferocious and convoluted riffs, dreamy synths, extreme and subtle clean vocals, we enter this in-between world backed by Gabriel Valcázar's (Wormed, Cancer) chaotic and groove drumming and Paul R. Flys' cinematic violin layers.
Mixed and mastered by the prestigious Ukrainian engineer Max Morton (Jinjer, Ignea, Shokran), To Lift The Veil is a concept album that serves as a metaphor for being a growing seed in an asphalted world. DISSOCIA makes an effort to blend extreme metal with synthwave and dreamwave elements to create a fine progressive blend that is catchy and yet unpredictable to the listener. Further developing this mood, the stunning and oneiric artwork created by Rein Van Oyen (Haken) captures the lights and shadows present on the dynamic songwriting and all the contrasts found on the duo's debut.
Track
Listing:1. Existentialist
2. He Who Dwells
3. Samsara
4. Zenosyne
5. The Lucifer Effect
6. Evasion
7. Out of Slumber
Credits:
Daniel R. Flys - Vocals, Guitars, Bass and Synths
Gabriel Valcázar - Drums
Guest violins performed by Paul R. Flys (track 7).
Additional post-production by Max Morton and Alex Tena.
Written by Daniel R. Flys.
Produced by Daniel R. Flys.
Drums recorded by Carlos Santos at Sadman Studio.
Vocals recorded by Alex Tena.
Vocals and violins recorded by Carlos Rodríguez.
Mixed and mastered by Max Morton at Morton Studio.
Design and layout by Rein Van Oyen.
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GALLOWER – the Witching Metal power-trio from Tychy, Poland – have been unleashing their blackthrash fury upon the underground for over a decade. Since their formation in 2015, the band have become a bastion of old-school metal, raw aggression, blistering energy, and a dark medieval aesthetic. Their lyrics immerse listeners in the shadowy world of GALLOWER, a 15th-century land where magic, monsters, and unholy evil reign supreme.
GALLOWER’s discography is a journey into the heart of metal’s purest traditions: demos Witch Hunt is On (2015) and Through the Gallows (2016), through their debut album Behold the Realm of Darkness (2020), to the EP Eastern Witchcraft (2022), released under the banner of DYING VICTIMS. Each release is a testament to GALLOWER’s commitment to keeping the old-school flame alive while crafting a unique and immersive soundscape. Their next recording, the full-length Vengeance & Wrath, won’t be any different and will release the bubonic plague once again!
GALLOWER’s live shows, brimming with unrelenting energy and a raw aggression, leave no man spared and no cross unturned – and that finely honed finesse reaches its apotheosis on Vengeance & Wrath. Truly titled, Vengeance & Wrath encapsulates and exaggerates the GALLOWER aesthetic to date: a perfect storm of thrashing-mad riffs, harsh-yet-articulate vocals, pitch-black intensity, and epic storytelling, all with medieval atmosphere to spare. It’s not so much a vertical improvement as it is a lateral one, for to do anything beyond the remit of truest metal would be a fate worse than death! No more but definitely no less, GALLOWER strive to reach the hallowed halls of Venom, Destruction, Bathory, Sodom, and the Japanese Sabbat – and from this vantage point, with Vengeance & Wrath do they walk that path honorably.
This is Witching Metal: an unholy call to arms for all who live and die for the old school. Arm yourself with a bulletbelt, take this torch, and prepare for battle — the witch hunt has begun, and GALLOWER lead the charge into darkness with Vengeance & Wrath!
Line-up:
Mighty Tzar - Vocals/Bass
Vic Nocturnitier - Guitars/Backing Vocals
T.C. Speedfire - Drums/Backing Vocals/Synths
From Tychy, Poland
Artwork:
Kris Verwimp
Tracklist1 Aftermath Protector's Militia
2 The Revelation
3 Relentless Retaliation
4 Bubonic Breath
5 March Of The Carmine Cloaks
6 Prophecy Of The Seven
7 The Dead Despise The Living
8 Vengeance & Wrath
9 Demonic Ascent
Release date:
28st March2025
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on red vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Get
ready to experience something truly haunting. PATHS TO DELIVERANCE is
set to release their first album, TEN, on Malpermesita
Records in March 28, 2025. This magnificent act of Avant-Garde Black
Metal features none other than Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted...) on drums, and
it's a journey you won't want to miss. Fans of Der Weg einer Freiheit, Deathspell
Omega, Gaerea and Marduk will find themselves captivated by
the blend of violence, melancholy, horror, and melody that defines this deeply
personal take on Black Metal.A haunting and magnificent act of Avant-Garde Black Metal featuring Kevin Paradis (ex Benighted...) on drums.
Paths to Deliverance will captivate fans of Der Weg einer Freiheit, Deathspell Omega, Harakiri for the Sky, Marduk, Gaerea...
Without imposing any musical barriers, Paths to Deliverance merges violence, melancholy, horror, and melody into a deeply personal take on Black Metal.
The debut album, TEN, is both a sonic and conceptual exploration rooted in themes of horror and mysticism. Alternating between aggression and haunting melodies, the album captures the duality of human fears and aspirations, drawing inspiration from the works of horror masters like Edgar Allan Poe, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft…, as well as Carl Jung's psychological theories and the Tibetan Bardo.
Originally conceived as a solo project by A.S.A (Azziard, Alkhemia, ex-The Negation, ex-Redsphere), Paths to Deliverance has now evolved as a full and experimented band. Thanks to talented musicians, used to work and play together from Alkhemia, Azziard, Nydvind, Cave Growl, Skaphos..., Paths to Deliverance is planned on several gigs and festivals and is preparing the next act.
https://www.malpermesita.com/
https://pathstodeliverance.bandcamp.com/album/ten
TYRMFAR returns to shake the
metal world with their powerful new single, "THE HUBRIS OF HUMANITY,
PT.1," the fourth track from their highly anticipated EP, SYMBIOSIS,
due for release on March 28th, 2025, via Wormholedeath“The Hubris of Humanity, Pt.1” is a dark, immersive journey that explores the disastrous consequences of human pride. Tyrmfar confronts listeners with intense lyrics and a merciless soundscape that depict humanity’s drive for power and progress at the expense of the planet. With haunting imagery of poisoned rivers and deforested lands, the song warns of an impending “sixth extinction” that threatens to be humanity’s undoing—a chilling reminder that our survival hinges on heeding the lessons we’ve long ignored.
The single is now available on all major digital platforms
About the EP: Symbiosis
With Symbiosis, Tyrmfar pushes the boundaries of their sound, forging an evolution in their blackened death metal assault. The EP explores the uneasy relationship between humanity and nature, channeling the growing tension of ecological and social crises into a brutal yet thought-provoking musical experience.
Rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal influences of the late '90s and early 2000s, Symbiosis also embraces modern elements that reflect the band's diverse musical inspirations. This creative process, enriched by each member’s distinct style, weaves together a tapestry of searing intensity and emotional depth. Every note is a testament to the band's commitment to authenticity and connection, ensuring that their live performances remain as powerful and captivating as their studio work.
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SEPULCHRAL CURSE’s third full-length album paints a vivid portrait of a band at their creative and productive peak. On their Dark Descent Records debut, the Turku quintet demonstrate unmatched ferocity and craftmanship, cementing their place at the very zenith of the global blackened death metal scene.
Stream
the album's first single "House of the Black Moon" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsrOaTTp8dcTracklisting:
1. Wildfires
2. House of The Black Moon
3. The Locust Scar
4. Beneath The Dismal Tides
5. Empress of The Dead
6. The Currents of Chaos
7. Crimson Passages
As with many Finnish death metal pioneers, the band incorporates a distinctive sense of weirdness, blending diverse influences in crafting a sound that’s unmistakably their own.
“The backbone is death metal,” states vocalist Kari Kankaanpää, “but we’ve never shied away from exploring new inspirations and influences, which shape the unique edge synonymous with SEPULCHRAL CURSE. Music needs to be dark, heavy and furious!”
Crimson Moon Evocations marks the band’s debut with Dark Descent Records, a partnership that feels both natural and profoundly significant: “Dark Descent Records has always held a special place in my heart. To join their renowned roster with this record is a true honour.”
This new collaboration reflects the SEPULCHRAL CURSE's unwavering momentum, arriving merely two years after their bold leap forward with Abhorrent Dimensions.
“With Abhorrent Dimensions we truly began to find our own sound and style, and Crimson Moon Evocations takes an even deeper dive into who we are and crystallises the essence of the Sepulchral Curse sound.”
To capture their vision, the band returned to Finland’s Oxroad Studios to work with producer Tomi Uusitupa, whose influence has been pivotal. “Tomi is like our sixth member. He chooses the projects he works with carefully, as he pours a tremendous amount of love and personal input to each record he does.”
Complete with stunning artwork by Mark Erskine, the album is not just a milestone but a statement: SEPULCHRAL CURSE has ascended to the pinnacle of blackened death metal!
“Stay cursed. Onward the legions!,” Kari concludes.
Crimson Moon Evocations was recorded and mixed by Tomi Uusitupa and mastered by Are Kangus.
SEPULCHRAL CURSE is:
Vocals – Kari Kankaanpää
Guitar – Jaakko Riihimäki
Guitar – Aleksi Luukka
Bass & Backing Vocals – Niilas Nissilä
Drums – Johannes Rantala
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/SepulchralCurse
THE
PIT
presents 'ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORWAY': We've never classified
ourselves as a Black Metal band. In the beginning, we called it brutal music or
Brutal Metal. We couldn't classify it. We wanted to create something new.
Faster, harder and heavier. More aggressive than anything we'd heard in the genre”As new addition to its list of programs, THE PIT VOD platform presents 'Once Upon a Time in Norway' ; an explosive documentary diving into the dark origins of Norwegian black metal, uncovering the chaos, church burnings, and the shocking murder that shook a nation.
The full documentary is available https://www.the-pit.com/content/once-upon-a-time-in-norway-le-documentaire-2007-109319 with a 7-days FREE trial.
...Synopsis...
Once upon a time in Norway, Black Metal was born. From its origins in a closed, underground milieu, Norwegian Black Metal quickly became a worldwide cult phenomenon. It has developed around myths, in particular linked to the band that defined the genre: Mayhem.
Formed in 1984 by guitarist Øystein Aarseth (Euronymous), bassist Jørn Stubberud (Necrobutcher), and drummer Kjetil Manheim, Mayhem is a band synonymous with the birth of Norwegian black metal.
The group gained infamy with later members such as vocalist Per Yngve ‘Pelle’ Ohlin (Dead) and bassist Varg Vikernes (Count Grishnackh). At the heart of this underground movement was Euronymous’s Oslo-based record store, Helvete, which became a hub for the scene that evolved into a controversial and extremist cult.
This gripping documentary delves into the turbulent early 1990s, a period marked by church burnings, suicides, and murders that shocked Norway. It all leads to the climactic and infamous murder of Euronymous by Varg Vikernes, an event that captured global attention.
Bucharest
is probably not yet on the agenda of many festivalgoers. But that could change
soon! Especially listeners of harder sounds should mark March 1st in their calendars. That's when the BUCHAREST DEATHFEST 2025 will take place at Club Quantic with international band participation. Many of the bands performing there give their live premiere on a Romanian stage. Among them are:
FLESHCRAWL – Germany (old school death metal)
ANALEPSY – Portugal (slam brutal death metal)
SQUASH BOWELS – Poland (gore grind)
GUINEAPIG – Italy (gore grind power violence)
DE PROFUNDIS – England (technical death thrash metal)
SKAPHOS – France (blackened death metal)
CADAVRUL – Romania (old school death grind)
MINCING FURY & GUTTURAL CLAMOUR OF QUEER DECAY – Czech Republic (grind brutal death metal)
SPINELESS FUCKERS – Czech Republic (party grindcore)
So, 9 perfect reasons to plan a trip to Bucharest at the beginning of March!
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Since 2009, LADY BEAST have been flying the flag for refined HEAVY METAL. The band hail from the Steel City of Pittsburgh, forming with firm influences ranging from Motörhead, Dio, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Mercyful Fate. From there, LADY BEAST have weaved their own unique style of metal with silky-yet-sharp harmonizing guitars and the soaring, rally-the-warriors vocals of frontwoman Deborah Levine. All the while, they’ve retained their blue-collar roots but have never forgotten the majesty of metal in its earliest, most classic form: fantasy, magic, epic adventure, and of course ANTHEMS!
While it’s been five long years since their last full-length – but only a year after DYING VICTIMS stepped in to reissue on vinyl their second album, 2015’s pivotal Lady Beast II – LADY BEAST suitably explode from the gates with palpitating urgency on The Inner Alchemist. Mind you, the band aren’t necessarily trying to break any speed limits here on LP#5, but rather, it’s the power, poise, and all-out swagger they exude on The Inner Alchemist which instills the sensation that LADY BEAST have only been away mere minutes. Thankfully, little has changed in their sturdy aesthetic – authentically ‘80s-entrenched HEAVY METAL that struts and gallops with equal aplomb, buttressed by instantly-hummable riffs and a palpable atmosphere of swords & sorcery – but if there’s one main distinction, it’s that the production on The Inner Alchemist highlights their heaviness, giving crunch when proceedings go locomotive and majesty when those proceedings go harmonic. As always, Levine’s passionate & powerful vocals are as engaging as ever: emotive and narrative in equal measure, still standing tall atop the keep-it-true pack.
Graced with evocative cover artwork by Adam Burke, LADY BEAST are sure stirring up something with The Inner Alchemist!
Line-up:
Adam Ramage - Drums
Chris Tritschler - Guitars
Deborah Levine - Vocals
Andy Ramage - Guitars
Amy Bianco - Bass
From Pittsburgh, USA
Artwork:
Adam Burke
Release date:
28st March2025
Tracklist1 The Oracles Omen
2 Through The Eyes Of War
3 Inner Alchemist
4 Starborn
5 Crones Crossroads
6 Feed Your Fire
7 Witch Light
8 The Wild Hunt
9 Off With Her Head
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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Active in the pagan metal scene for over 20 years, Nydvind are among
the pioneers of the genre in France. NYDVIND will release their 4th album "TETRAMENTAL
II - TELLURIA" on Malpermesita Records in March
21, 2025... It's the second chapter of a tetralogy dedicated to the 4 elements
of nature.Get ready for a journey through elements and ages, where the raw energy of black metal meets the profound melancholy of doom and the organic vitality of folk.
For fans of: BELENOS, KAMPFAR, PRIMORDIAL
A journey through elements and ages, where the raw energy of black metal meets the profound melancholy of doom and the organic vitality of folk.
TELLURIA is the second chapter of the tetralogy “Tetramental” by one of the pioneers and most renowned band of the genre in France, with a career spanning over 20 years.
‘Tetramental’ is not just a series of albums; it’s a sonic odyssey dedicated to the primal forces of nature. Following the success of ‘Seas of Oblivion’ in 2018, ‘Telluria’ delves deep into the earthly roots of this captivating universe.
Immerse yourself in this fascinating world and let the very essence of nature sweep you away in this epic new chapter.
https://www.malpermesita.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Nydvind
1.
Time In A Candle2. The Last Dance
3. Pale Sun Sad Moon
4. A Stranger Inside The Mirror
5. Not Anymore
6. Such A Shame (Talk Talk Cover)
7. Into The Abyss Of Night
8. Rest For A Moment
9. The Army Of Nothing
10. Upon The Moon
11. And If You Have To Leave
"Prelude Of Loss" will be released on digipak CD and digital format via My Kingdom Music on March 21st, 2025 and you can PRE-ORDER it at: https://shorturl.at/zrkWy
With their debut album "The Summer That Will Not Come", the Sicilian ETERNAL WHITE TREES gave lovers of these sonorities their ideal soundtrack. Now they return to the scene with a new album that accentuates that soul even more, enriching it with new shades with an always decadent tone, able to carry the listener into a musical universe made of sad atmospheres and obscure melodies.
Born once again from the meeting of the three souls that make up this creature (Gerassimos Evangelou - LORD AGHEROS, Antonio Billé - ANAKONDA and Andrea Tilenni - FEAR OF ETERNITY, ex SINOATH), "Prelude Of Loss" will be for sure a mandatory listening to those who have their musical background in the most melancholy dynamics of Metal and Post Rock of KATATONIA, OCTOBER TIDE, SWALLOW THE SUN and NOVEMBRE.
"Prelude Of Loss" will dig into your soul in search of the most hidden emotions!
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Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records will release Ashen Womb on CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital formats on February 7.
Copenhagen’s PHRENELITH emerges from the darkness once again with their third and most unholy full-length offering, Ashen Womb. Nine sinister funeral marches, draped in a bleak and blackened atmosphere, provide a lens into the forthcoming end of times.
Tracklist:1) Noemata
2) Astral Larvae
3) A Husk Wrung Dry
4) Lithopaedion
5) Nebulae
6) Stagnated Blood
7) Sphageion
8) Chrysopoeia
9) Ashen Womb
A droning tone fades in, opening up a slow dirge that eases us into the apocalyptic explosion of death that will follow for the next 40 minutes. Where guitars anxiously scale the fretboard & weave morose melodies while drums pound and smash with the force of the Chicxulub impactor. Interspersed between the infernal, seismic, blackened stampedes are droning psychedelia & ambient noise interludes, immersing us further into the ever-growing darkness. But there are also moments of overwhelming beauty, like on tracks "Nebulae" and the eponymous "Ashen Womb," where PHRENELITH indulge in the repetition of their sinister melodies, layering Serpentinian guitars atop each other, spinning a web of desolate harmonies around the listener.
With Ashen Womb, PHRENELITH gives us the foretold sound of the apocalypse, but whether it’s a warning or a celebration is yet undecided.
PHRENELITH is:
Simon Daniel - Vocals
David Mikkelsen - Guitars, Vocals
Jakob O - Bass
Andreas Nordgreen - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.mesacounojo.com
https://www.facebook.com/phrenelith
"We are thrilled to announce that D.E.A.D have signed a 4-year licensing agreement with the mighty WormHoleDeath Records for our album "Of Vile And Hate," the band shared. "This partnership marks a significant milestone for us, and we are eager to unleash our brand of death metal upon the global metal community. We are confident that this collaboration with WormHoleDeath Records will amplify our music's impact and reach new heights. We look forward to sharing more details about the album's physical release and where to grab your copy. Together with WormHoleDeath Records, we will bring our unique brand of death metal to fans worldwide."
About
D.E.A.D and Of Vile and HateD.E.A.D is a brutal death metal duo born from the darkness of the 2020 Pandemic. Founded by Niels (Sweden) and Adam (Australia), two like-minded musicians united in their quest for sonic metal mayhem. Hailing from South Australia, D.E.A.D unleashes unrelenting, straight-up death metal, forged in the depths of isolation and fueled by a shared passion for extreme music. No frills, no compromise – just pure, unadulterated death metal fury.
"Of Vile and Hate" is their debut album and it represents the duo’s unrelenting passion and dedication to their craft, distilling the anger, frustration, and resilience of a world in turmoil into a sonic manifesto. With "Of Vile and Hate", D.E.A.D. unleashes a fierce and unapologetic sound that reflects the intensity of their artistic vision.
This album follows the last portion of one man’s life. A demonic metamorphosis takes place as he faces his end of days. It is a culmination of a life lived in torment. From a disease-ridden body decaying, to a magnificent resurrection in crimson shade. With death pacing his trail, nothing may stand in the way.
Written and recorded in Adelaide, Australia, with artwork and design made by Will Clement in Melbourne and mixed by the renowned Olof Berggren in Sweden, "Of Vile and Hate" represents the culmination of our artistic vision and dedication to crafting unrelenting death metal.
Fans can already get a taste of the impending storm with the lyric video for “Dead,” now live on YouTube. This first glimpse serves as a visceral preview of what Of Vile and Hate promises to deliver!
Tracklist
Before I Die
2. Morbid
3. Death Toll
4. The Manifest
5. Race To The Grave
6. Buried
7. Dead
8. The Spread
D.E.A.D - No Frills, No Compromise, Just Death Metal Fury.
https://linktr.ee/d.e.a.d
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Lord Belial | Behemoth | Belphegor
It was five years ago that they walked out of the Arizona deserts, figures shimmering in the heat. In a moment they stood before us and cast the puzzle box of Pestilence Reborn at our feet. Then without word or discernible movement they were once again part of the mirage manipulated horizon. Thoughtless and careless, mesmerized by this unlooked for gift, we reached for the box, eager fingers caressing symbols and sigils that seemed to excrete sickness through our skin…and then the pain began, the nightmares of hook and claw and barbed wire embrace…an eternity of agony.
Now screams become silence…and they are here again, the desert sun at their backs. They offer us a glass of emerald liquid that seems to move within the clear walls that surround it. Bile Of The Gods. Without hesitation we take it. We drink, we swallow…we are undone.
In truth, Phoenix residents Deadspawn haven’t been silent since their Pestilence Reborn debut album appeared in 2020; there’s been a single, a split release with Swarm Of Serpents and a rough and raw live outing – Live At The Beast 2023. However what fans have really been waiting for is a second full length studio album…and now it is here. Bile Of The Gods is a staggering outpouring of blackened death metal, as hypnotic as it is devastating. From the triumphant announcement of their return that is opener ‘Unsleep’ to the many layered masterpiece of extremity and terror, ‘Bile Of The Gods’ itself, that concludes this stunning album, this is an utterly absorbing listening experience. Time stands still as you are swept through this array of secrets and dark wonders. Be it the arcane spellcraft and devastating power of ‘Eyes Of Savior’ or ‘Eminence Upon The Throne’, a collision of textures, melodies and wicked riffs that dance like spiders across your frozen face, Bile Of The Gods is an all encompassing kingdom of nightmares. Breathtakingly accomplished in its presentation, Bile Of The Gods is the work of musicians who are masters of their craft. There is an unearthly vitality that writhes through each individual performance and the resulting atmosphere is haunting. This is a triumph of the extreme music arts and a testament to the enduring potency and strength of Deadspawn!
The set of songs that Deadspawn crafted for Bile Of The Gods deserved to be presented in the best possible manner. With this in mind the band sought out the mixing and mastering skills of Phil Pluskota, who has worked with Dååth, Wormhole, Vulvodynia and many more, to make sure that the full impactful nature of every note, every commanding word could be appreciated. And to put the final seal of quality upon their infernal creation? There was only one artist to call upon for the cover image of Bile Of The Gods – Jon Zig (Deeds Of Flesh, Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm etc). His striking imagery perfectly complements the majestic sounds that lurk beneath it. Bile Of The Gods will be unleashed on January 24th and be assured, Deadspawn have delivered everything you could wish for in terms of epic, imaginative, decimating blackened death metal. Drink deep and dream!
Line-up:
Curt DuRocher - Guitar/Vocals
Ryan Frech - Drums
John Rueger - Bass/Backing Vocals
Ryan Roubison - Guitar/Backing Vocals
All music and lyrics by Curt DuRocher
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Acclaimed atmospheric doom metal act CLOUDS is set to release their highly anticipated new album, "DESPRINS", on February 13th, 2025. The album will be available in an elegant 6-panel digipak CD format, to be released in collaboration with Loud Rage Music. Additionally, the band has announced plans for a future vinyl version of "Desprins", with more details to come soon.
Band Statement:
"We are happy to announce the collaboration with Loud Rage Music for "Desprins", our latest album in terms of CDs and vinyl. Adrian, the label's owner, is an old friend from decades ago. He and his label will also take care of our day-to-day shipping operations. As we are now a fully Romanian act, it only felt natural to have someone close with whom we can coordinate our business plans and help each other."
About "Desprins":
Format: 6-panel digipak CD, with a vinyl edition planned for the near future.
Themes: A deep exploration of detachment, loss, and catharsis, "Desprins" invites listeners into an emotional landscape unique to CLOUDS' signature style.
Sound: A seamless blend of atmospheric doom, melancholic undertones, and moments of transcendent heaviness.
Tracklist:Disguise – 7:13
Life Becomes Lifeless – 7:55
Unanswered – 6:31
Forge Another Nightmare – 6:38
Chain Me – 6:13
The Fall of Hearts – 6:47
Will It Ever End – 5:55
Sorrowbound (Bonus Track) – 7:48
Chasing Ghosts (Bonus Track) – 7:21
Pre-Order Information:
Pre-orders for "Desprins" are available now through Loud Rage Music's official Bandcamp page https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/ as well as the band's Bandcamp page https://cloudsofficial.bandcamp.com/. Keep an eye on their respective social media channels for updates on the vinyl edition.
About CLOUDS:
Founded in 2013, CLOUDS has built a reputation as one of the most evocative names in atmospheric doom metal. The band’s discography is marked by their ability to channel profound emotion and deliver unforgettable live performances. Now a fully Romanian act, CLOUDS continues to innovate and inspire with their latest chapter, "Desprins".
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https://linktr.ee/cloudsdoommetal
Formed in 2011, French quartet HEXECUTOR started with a foundation of raw-and-fierce evil old-school speed/thrash metal, as exemplified by their debut demo and Hangman of Roazhon EP from 2012 and 2014, respectively. Thereafter, they slowly-yet-firmly evolved in various directions when they released their Poison, Lust and Damnation debut album in 2016, which DYING VICTIMS released on vinyl a year later.
After proving themselves to be a very efficient live act, HEXECUTOR immersed themselves into Breton legends and history, intertwining their music with Breton lore for their second album, 2020’s Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge…. Along with being something of a modern classic – amazingly thorough in its conceptual background, boundlessly inventive in its execution – that album proved to be a turning point for the band: a concerted and confident elevation beyond the standard “blackthrash” tropes so prevalent in the modern underground.
As considerable as that accomplishment was, HEXECUTOR are eclipsing it with their third album, delving yet deeper into dark legends and impressive figures from Celtic-Breton lore. Titled …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint, LP#3 both sonically and elliptically continues where its momentous predecessor left off; not for nothing is the opening song the belated title track “Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge….” Ripping right out of the gates, HEXECUTOR continue their evolution unabated, adding once again to the richness of their music, and this time with songwriting from both their former and new lead guitarists. Their core is still thrash metal, but even just a cursory listen of …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint reveals that there’s few “thrash” records that will sound like this – this year, or the next, or the year after that. Seemingly effortlessly – or, at least, with some strange magick unique to them – HEXECUTOR lurk yonder into realms both black and more traditionally heavy metal, even venturing far afield into some progressives touches. And whereas Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge… carried a huge conceptual weight, the feeling across …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint is freer and almost airier, despite this still being DARK heavy metal at its core.
HEXECUTOR are HEXECUTOR, now more than ever: renewing the genre and trying to bring this opus as a new gem to the treasures of metal music …Where Spirit Withers in Its Flesh Constraint!
Line-up:
S. Chainsaw-Maeströr - Bass
Putrid Vön Rötten - Drums
Jey Deflagratör - Vocals, Guitars
Ricky Malevolent - Guitars
From Rennes, France
Artwork:
John Whiplash
Release date:
28st March202
Tracklist
:1 Beyond Any Human Conception of Knowledge
2 Dogue Noir
3 Les Lavandières de la Nuit
4 Youdig - Perfides Frontières
5 Paol Goz
6 Kerdis Bras
7 Conomor le maudit
8 Marion Tromel
Release info:
Regular gatefold edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special gatefold edition on green vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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NOMAD
SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS
proudly presents:GOATLORD CORP. – „TEMPLE OF SERPENT WHORES”
Despite a relatively short existence in the underground, Goatlord Corp. is no stranger to the French Black Metal scene. Formed in 1999, the band started out with a MCD and a 7”EP (in 2002 and 2006 respectively), before falling into a hibernation that would last no less than 18 (6+6+6) years! As everything happens for a reason and for everything there is a right moment, the Covid pandemic presented the ideal conditions for the main culprit Seremoth to finally gather a new malevolent crew of Black Metal veterans, 2024 marking the year that he would fulfil his ominous musical quest.
Anno 2024 the line-up consists of:
Seremoth (ex-Merrimack) – guitars/bass
Saint Vincent (Blacklodge/Seth/The Arrival of Satan) - vocals
Alsvid (Seth/ex-Enthroned) – drums
Thavsael (ex-Voracious Gangrene) - guitars
After its long hypersleep, Goatlord Corp. now returns as a completely new and almost unrecognisable entity. Combining high-end song-writing skills and musicianship that are the result of many years of perfecting, with “Temple of Serpent Whores” the band has elevated itself to a whole new level.
The tracks flow like an unstoppable whirlwind of Satanic violence. Ferocious and malevolent, the songs are intense like Hell and incendiary as fuck! The tireless drums are full of wit and welcome variation, and the guitars create this awesome wall of sound, with riffs that just never get dull.
On this album, Saint Vincent once more proves that he takes his role as vocalist seriously, showcasing his vast vocal potential and adorning the music with quite a few memorable highlights.
The sound & mix guarantees the best possible way to experience this kind of Black Metal: perfectly outbalanced without becoming clinical, thus maintaining all its brutality and sharp edges.
As a cherry on the cake, the custom-made cover artwork by the hands of David Glomba turned out spot-on, as expected.
All in all, with this impressive blast of an album, the Black Metal scene better make way for an undeniable force to be reckoned with!
“Temple of Serpent Whores” will be released on LP (50x black / 150x super marble), digipack (100x) and tape (50x).
Thou shalt kneel before the Goatlord!
EXPURGATE – „ NYNÄS DEATH „
If the name Expurgate doesn’t immediately ring a bell, that’s because this Swedish Death Metal band was just too fucking underground for you to know it!
Their music never having been widely spread back in the early 90’s, it might be helpful to start with a more contemporaneous name: Svartsyn
As some of you should know, before Svartsyn there was Chalice. But what most of you probably don’t know, is that before Chalice, there was Expurgate!
With this release, Nomad Snakepit Productions invites you to dive into a long forgotten past, to a time when these members - that later would be forming and joining bands such as Chalice, Svartsyn and Unpure - were still completely immerged into Death Metal. Unsurprisingly, such output is exactly what the term Old-school Death Metal refers to!
On this LP we have compiled the band’s two only demos (“Forbidden Ruler” and the unreleased ‘92 demo), together with some exclusive rehearsal tracks from the same era.
It is a limited and exclusive release on vinyl only: 60 copies on black vinyl and 140 on marble bloodred/lightblue vinyl. The LP includes an A2 poster with the cover artwork & exclusive pictures, plus an old-school style xeroxed insert with info about Expurgate and the tracks at hand.
Please note that all our releases are exclusively distributed in the U.S. by Nuclear War Now! Productions. We urge all our U.S. customers to contact NWN! directly to obtain our products (also regarding wholesales)!
Still available through Nomad Snakepit Productions:
MORBID ANGEL - "Live in New Jersey 1989" lim. LP
AMEN CORNER - "Jachol Ve Tehilá" lim. Double LP
AO - "kAOs" lim. Tape
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The track was premiered via Veil of Sound today: https://veilofsound.com/2025/01/19/Song_Premiere-Noctambulist-Gevoelsmens.html
"Gevoelsmens is a song about nostalgia and living in the past. It invokes the fear of being past one's prime while at the same time maintaining some hopeful optimism," explained the band.
"Gevoelsmens" will be available on all streaming services on 21
January 2025. Pre-save here https://share.amuse.io/track/noctambulist-gevoelsmensThe new album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released on 7 February 2025 in CD, vinyl and digital formats via These Hands Melt. Recorded in Tilburg between February and April 2023 at Catacomben Studios, De Droom sees Noctambulist diving deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen.
“Noctambulist II: De Droom” can be pre-ordered via These Hands Melt: https://lnk.to/noctambulist
What sets "De Droom" apart from the first record is that the writing was done with the entire band on board whereas full song ideas used to be presented by a few members. The songs this time around are just that, songs.
While "De Droom" is not a concept album most songs reflect on the beauty of a mediocre co-habitual existence while also struggling with the seemingly impossible dream of home ownership. The album cover features a bedroom of a derelict villa, reflecting the themes of hope, failure and heartbreak present on the album.
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk.
Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released through These Hands Melt in February 2025.
The band previously released the singles “Lichteter” and “Aderlater” in support of their upcoming album.
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Noctambulistband
On March 21st, avant-death metal trio IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT will release their sixth full-length, "GOLDSTAR", via Century Media Records. Their most instant and evocative work to-date, "Goldstar" reins in their musical wanderlust with a newfound focus that the band has only hinted at with past works. Their latest single - LEXINGTON DELIRIUM (featuring the ominous spoken vocals of Tomas Haake) - is just one example of this heightened songwriting acumen, clocking in under 5 minutes, while retaining their trademark musical virtuosity in this homage to classic NYC architecture.
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT comments: "Ziggurats rise, skyscrapers weep, & the future is not birthed from the organic but from a cosmic, mechanical womb. It speaks of posterity lost in the congestion of New Culture, a place where Manhattan's towering ambition conceals impending delirium. The Throne of Bolts becomes both a seat of power and a looming specter, begging for salvation from the soulless surge of progress. We climbed the deco spire of the magnificent Chrysler building in order to bring you a magnanimous visual experience."
The new album "Goldstar", which will be released March 21st, is now available for pre-order in various formats.
Watch the video–filmed at the iconic Chrysler Building (a rare opportunity not given to many artists, especially the top floors!) and directed by Brendan McGowan–here:
https://youtu.be/v9cDvwwbj6A?si=GDOXci0-QkW-8hwM
The
year 2025 could not start better for blackened thrash metal: Swedish rising
force SARCATOR are releasing their third album SWARMING
ANGELS & FLIES , via Century Media Records. After announcing
the signing to the label last year back in July, the young band released three
striking, powerful, and raw singles that kept the anticipation for this record
high. Now, SWARMING ANGELS & FLIES is available in its full
length. Across eight, grotesque and utterly venomous tracks, the band have
deftly blended the wide-eyed extremity of their debut album with the
inspirational musicality of their second work “Alkahest”, while playing everything
with more intensity than ever before. It is a record that surely raises the bar
for face-flaying extreme metal. Both deliriously melodic and mercilessly brutal
- SWARMING ANGELS & FLIES is the most dangerously potent record
the Swedens have made to date. The band shares about “The Deep Ends”:
“‘The Deep Ends’ stands as a strong representative of the traditional rock essence of our sound that we incorporated with our previous album (Alkahest 2022). It's all about the groove and rhythm in this one, hand in hand with epic-driven arrangements. Everything with our own blackened edge to it that has been the common ground for every SARCATOR song so far. With this one we wanted to push everything forward in combining traditional rock music with extreme metal vocals and expression and of course trying to make it sound organically together.”
Listen to the album on your favourite DSP: https://sarcator.lnk.to/SAAF-AlbumNe
The album is available for purchase here: https://sarcator.lnk.to/SwarmingAngelsandFliesNe
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: April 1st 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Paganizer | Carnation | Obituary | Death
Line-up:
Engelbert - Drums
Vicente J Payá - Guitars
Ancor Ramírez - Lead Guitars
Andrew Espinosa - Vocals/Bass
Drums on Something Is Rotten In Humanty performed by Davide Billia
Keyboards on Something Is Rotten In Humanty performed by Alejandro Lobo
Welcome to the world we have created…hewn from the raw substance of our greed and perversion, our endless fascination with cruelty and consumption. Our morality has withered in the gluttonous glare of our lust and our conscience has bled out from the innumerable wounds we have inflicted upon it. We exist in a kingdom of death, of jagged monuments to selfish egotism and raging waters of desensitization. The sentinels of wickedness scour this wasteland for any trace of empathy, any remnants of mercy, compassion and decency…but they are all long, long dead. Truly, something is rotten within the withered shell of humanity.
Something Is Rotten In Humanity is the new album from the legendary pioneers of Spanish death metal, Unbounded Terror! Featuring nine new tracks of dark, primal power this album is a magnificent testament to Unbounded Terror’s enduring potency and unique take upon the dark arts of death. The standards are set right from the opening chords of first track, ‘Fear Of Dying’, which attacks with a nasty, snarling immediacy. All the key elements of the Unbounded Terror sound are here; the irresistible riffs, the juddering rhythms, the vocals that sound like undead invective, spewed from the mouth of a reanimated corpse and the guitar leads, full of otherworldly melody, that twist and ascend, dive and cascade in captivating fashion. If all that sounds like great, but standard fare, then think again…there is something about Unbounded Terror that sets them apart; something in their chord progressions, their note choices, their song structures and fetid atmosphere that gives them a special aura like no other. Songs like ‘Demons In Your Mind’ and first single ‘Reviving’ are propelled forward on old school death metal riffing and adorned in superb solos, but what makes them special is that indefinable ancient magic that belongs to Unbounded Terror and to them alone. Death metal fans need to hear the crushing, unstoppable war machine that is ‘Divine Virtue’ and the thunderous headbanging riffing of ‘The Disappointment’. Unbounded Terror have delivered the album of their career and surely one of the death metal albums of 2025!
Produced and recorded by the band’s own Vicente J Payá (Golgotha, Sons Of Cult etc) and mixed and mastered by Davide Billia (Avulsed, Holycide, Posthuman Abomination etc), Something Rotten In Humanity sounds absolutely devastating – exactly how grim, rotten death metal should sound – and its ghastly demeanour is completed by the artwork of Juan Castellano (Furnace, Vomitory, Ribspreader etc) which captures its grim spirit perfectly. The album will be released by Xtreem Music on CD (featuring a bonus track), 12"LP, cassette and digital formats on April 1st and the name of Unbounded Terror will once more ring through the shadow shrouded vaults of the dead.
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/UnboundedTerror
CTHULUMINATI – “TENTACULA”
Format: Digital CD / Physical CDLabel: Independent Release
For fans of : Dodheimsgard, Oranssi Pazuzu, Schammasch and the like….
Tracklist:
01 Cthrl
02 Squid Pro Quo
03 Abysmal Quatrain
04 Transformation
05 The Illusion of Control
06 Mantra
Long before the name Cthuluminati cast its shadow over the Dutch metal scene, the story began with Marquis. This solo project, initiated in 2005 by ambitious musician and visionary Devi Hisgen, gave rise to a torrent of atmospheric and experimental black metal. With a relentless creative drive, Devi quickly built a loyal following, earning critical acclaim for his work. However, side projects and live collaborations with other bands led to a temporary pause for Marquis.
Still, the desire to bring his music to the stage never faded. Determined to revive his solo work in a live setting, Devi began searching for like-minded musicians who could bring his vision to life. After a period of trial and error, the lineup took shape with Rami Wohl on guitar and Stefan Strausz on bass. Together, they started playing shows and creating new material. The input from his bandmates added a fresh dynamic to the music, gradually steering it into new, uncharted territory.
When their drummer left due to personal reasons, the band faced a pivotal moment. By then, the music had evolved into an eclectic fusion of styles that transcended the roots of Marquis. Embracing this new direction, the group decided to start anew, rebranding themselves as Cthuluminati. The name signified not only a fresh beginning but also a commitment to boundless creativity, untethered by genre or expectation.
Armed with new material but lacking a permanent drummer, the band invited Rick Lieffering, drummer of black-folk metal band Fenris, to join them in the studio. Rick recorded the entirety of Reliqideus—their ambitious debut album—and also played drums for several live shows. Around the same time, Cthuluminati released their first single, "El Lizard Birth" (2016), a track written during the Marquis era. The song served as a harbinger of their transformation: a journey from atmospheric black ’n roll to the eclectic, psychedelic, and avant-garde metal that defines Cthuluminati today.
The search for a permanent drummer, however, continued. After an extensive search, the band found their perfect match in Seth van de Loo, the former drummer of Dutch death metal band Severe Torture. Seth, seeking a new creative direction, was immediately captivated by Cthuluminati’s demos. His arrival marked a turning point, as the band entered a new phase of both musical and personal synergy. By the time Reliqideus was officially released in 2019, Seth had joined the lineup, solidifying Cthuluminati as a cohesive and formidable force. The album’s blend of diverse influences created a unique and cohesive sound, earning glowing reviews from online metal outlets and enthusiastic responses from live audiences.
Complete once more, the four-headed entity of Cthuluminati was more determined than ever. They played numerous shows, including opening slots for Carach Angren and Rotting Christ, and set their sights on recording a follow-up album. Their second album, Tentacula, is set for release in March 2025 and promises to dive even deeper into their signature mix of psychedelic, avant-garde, and progressive metal. The result is a soundscape where the boundaries between black metal, sludge, and experimental elements dissolve into a hypnotic realm.
Cthuluminati’s mission remains clear: to create music without limits—a space where the absurd meets the sublime, and innovation reigns supreme.
Genre : Doom/Black/Gothic Metal
This marks their heaviest offering yet, featuring the powerful debut of their new vocalist, Liz Ziegler. Drawing inspiration from the fractured world around us, the band fuses doom, black, and gothic metal with ethereal clean vocals and intense harshness. With its diverse soundscapes, "Extinction" offers a captivating experience that every metal fan will appreciate!
The album is set
to drop on January 31, 2025.Tracklist
1. Akerra
2. Vain
3. Gods of Old
4. False Reality
5. Extinction Featuring Melissa Ferlaak
6. Sentinels
7. Shift
8. Corporatocracy
9. Akelarre
Hailing from the vibrant metal scene of Minneapolis, MN (USA), Plague of Stars has captivated audiences and critics alike with their unparalleled blend of darkness, energy, and raw musical prowess.
Led by the haunting vocals of Liz Ziegler, this band of musical veterans, including Will Maravelas, Aaron Lanik, Frodo Caulfield, and Neal Pruett, defies categorization with their apocalyptic, female-fronted, genre-defying sound.
Since their inception in 2012, Plague of Stars has been on a relentless quest to push the boundaries of metal. From shattering riffs to ethereal melodies, they traverse uncharted territories, blending elements of doom, black, and gothic metal into a potent brew that leaves listeners spellbound.
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“I never thought DARK FORTRESS would have a live album,” says V. Santura (guitars). “The technical situation–we had multi-track recordings of two shows [Rotterdam and Bochum]–allowed for ANTHEMS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE to happen. I didn’t even listen to the recordings for months after the tour. When I finally did, I thought, ‘Holy shit!’ We sounded incredible, and I'm hardly ever happy with our shows. All of our hard work had finally fallen into place on that tour. When Century Media heard it, they said,
‘We’re gotta release it – it’s too good not to’!
If this is our end and it definitely is, then it’s a fitting end to DARK FORTRESS.”
Enjoy DARK FORTRESS’ final transmission by checking out “The Silver Gate (Live in 2023)”: https://youtu.be/VZ2-eIbYm4c
SHRINE
OF DENIAL – “I, MOLOCH”
For fans of - Serpent of Old, Dead Congregation, Emperor, Behemoth, Burial Invocation, The Chasm
Like their label and country mates Serpent of Old, Shrine of Denial are blending styles and forging their own sound, and channelling it through narrative, superbly thought out structures that despite the twists and turns remain memorable. Perhaps it is a Turkish trait to have the songs this meticulously written, and to achieve that Shrine of Denial have used elements of both death and black metal in varying degrees, often blurring the boundaries between the two in the process. The result is exhilarating, as the band effortlessly switches from fast, blasting parts to slow melodic hooks and then quickly accelerates back to their high-speed mode, using whatever stylistic liberties available. It is an engaging, intense and stirring album that doesn’t get carried away and goes beyond what is necessary or appropriate; despite the vagaries, it remains solid, cohesive and impactful throughout. For what it does, 'I, Moloch' is one of the strongest albums not only to come out of that region in recent times but also in the blackened death metal style as a whole.
Lineup
Eray Nabi - Vocals
Onur Uslu - Guitar
Denizkaan Aracı - Guitars
Ahmet Ünveren - Bass
Berk Köktürk – Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano
Tracklisting
1. Climbing Through Nothingness
2. A Sanctuary In The Depths Of The Realms
3. I, Moloch
4. Pillars Of Ice
5. The Mesmer
6. Oneiros
7. Headless Idol
8. Temple of the Corpse Misuser
Release date - March 7th, 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/shrineofdenial
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
For fans of - Serpent of Old, Dead Congregation, Emperor, Behemoth, Burial Invocation, The Chasm
Like their label and country mates Serpent of Old, Shrine of Denial are blending styles and forging their own sound, and channelling it through narrative, superbly thought out structures that despite the twists and turns remain memorable. Perhaps it is a Turkish trait to have the songs this meticulously written, and to achieve that Shrine of Denial have used elements of both death and black metal in varying degrees, often blurring the boundaries between the two in the process. The result is exhilarating, as the band effortlessly switches from fast, blasting parts to slow melodic hooks and then quickly accelerates back to their high-speed mode, using whatever stylistic liberties available. It is an engaging, intense and stirring album that doesn’t get carried away and goes beyond what is necessary or appropriate; despite the vagaries, it remains solid, cohesive and impactful throughout. For what it does, 'I, Moloch' is one of the strongest albums not only to come out of that region in recent times but also in the blackened death metal style as a whole.
Lineup
Eray Nabi - Vocals
Onur Uslu - Guitar
Denizkaan Aracı - Guitars
Ahmet Ünveren - Bass
Berk Köktürk – Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano
Tracklisting
1. Climbing Through Nothingness
2. A Sanctuary In The Depths Of The Realms
3. I, Moloch
4. Pillars Of Ice
5. The Mesmer
6. Oneiros
7. Headless Idol
8. Temple of the Corpse Misuser
Release date - March 7th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/shrineofdenial
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
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Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease Date: January 18th 2025
Rottweiler Records have proudly announced a new addition to their ever growing roster of diverse extreme metal. Southern California based modern thrash force, Death Protocol are the latest addition to the Rottweiler ranks and they are aiming to release their first album, Demonic Onslaught, this summer. However, before they set to work with producer Adam Castro of Classic Disaster on that neck-breaking enterprise, the band, formed by vocalist/lyricist David Priest and guitarist David Estrada, will be unleashing a new single - 'Times Change Truth Does Not'. Armed with massive crunching riffs, ironclad power, killer choruses, infectious hooks and some superb lead guitar work from recent recruit Nicholas Pelamati, 'Times Change Truth Does Not' is an absolute wrecking ball of thrash metal domination!
The song will be aired first, exclusively, on The Metal Priest Show on The Metal Onslaught radio show this Saturday, January 18th from 9PM PST and then go live on the Death Protocol bandcamp page.
Embrace the full force of 'Times Change Truth Does Not' and be ready for the Demonic Onslaught this summer!
Current Line up:
David Priest - Vocals
David Estrada - Guitars
Nicholas Pelamati - Lead Guitars
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeathProtocol
Long-running and critically acclaimed melodic/progressive death metal project, DESSIDERIUM, enters a new chapter with their forthcoming release for Willowtip Records, its first for the label. New album Keys to the Palace will be released on CD, double-vinyl gatefold LP, and digital formats on March 17.
The album's first single, "DOVER HENDRIX," is streaming now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaHZN1NHkU. The song is also available on all the usual digital platforms, including Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer.
Sole member and founder, Alex Haddad, shared his thoughts about Keys to the Palace: "This album was ten plus years in the making. A lot of the material here actually precedes that of the two previous releases. Completing this record means giving closure to this era of Dessiderium that has spanned across my twenties, and I see it as a well suited final chapter to this period. The two previous albums, Shadow Burn and Aria, provided no happy ending. They were both about defeat in their own way. Keys to the Palace reaches for triumph. This is an album about time travel that explores the polarity between past and future, innocence and disillusion, faith and despair, and adolescence and adulthood."
Pre-order:https://bit.ly/keys-willowtip
https://bit.ly/keys-bandcamp
Track Listing:
1. In The Midst Of May
2. Dover Hendrix
3. Pollen For The Bees
4. A Dream That Wants Me Dead
5. Magenta
6. Keys To The Palace
Credits:
All music and words written by Alex Haddad.
Produced by Alex Haddad.
Guitars, bass, vocals, keyboard, and orchestrations/synthesizers by Alex Haddad.
Drum programming by Brody Smith.
Piano solos on "Dover Hendrix" and "Pollen For The Bees" performed by Thomas Leroy Meier.
Mixed and mastered by Mendel Bij De Leij.
Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration).
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/p/Dessiderium-100063280476262/
In "Emptiness," the band takes a brutal yet introspective dive into the emotional void, tackling themes of isolation, despair, and the deep human longing for connection. With a raw and aggressive sound that pushes the limits of thrash and death metal, the track exposes the psychological burden of searching for meaning when faced with life's stark emptiness.
The band stated: "Hollowness welcomed inside. This emptiness swallowed by. Fulfilling that emptiness. To find myself in you...This is the solution. This is the Way Out. Emptiness is the second video from our album, which will be released on April 17th. A song about emptiness, being lost, giving up, and finding a way out."
The music video for "Emptiness" was filmed and edited by András Székely, while the album Where Death Hunts was recorded, mixed, and mastered by István Simon at No Silence Studio in Hungary.
Stay tuned for more updates from ATROX TRAUMA as they continue to dominate the metal scene with their unrelenting sound.
Atrox Trauma was founded in 2008 in Hungary. Their goal, according to the music genre, was clear from the beginning: thrash metal with death metal influences. The band recorded 2 EPs during its earlier years besides performing on live gigs. The band's strength increased in 2019, and they have been spinning at an unstoppable speed since then. It gave a series of concerts in its motherland and countries in the neighborhood. The band creates a huge listener experience with its tight, intense, fast, and face-tearing music.
In 2022 they released their first LP called 'On The Line Of Nothing And Something' by the Italian label WormHoleDeath.The listener can experience everything from intense immersion to melodic thrash metal. Four music videos provide visual support for the fan-approachable experience.
By the end of 2024, they took the stage in many countries, performing in tours and festivals, and recorded their second LP ”Where Death Hunts”.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri - Drums
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Stream it now at: https://openkasket.bandcamp.com/track/internal-threat-feat-terminal-nation
A crushing slab of death metal, Trials of Failure, Open Kasket's debut full-length album, will be released February 7 on digital and cassette formats via Barbaric Brutality Records.
Pre-order: https://openkasket.bandcamp.com/album/trials-of-failure
Thematically, Trials of Failure revolves around self deprecation and full criticism of one's self. Sonically, the album is a demolition demonstration of caustic riffing and relentless pummeling. Add guest vocal spots on "Internal Threat" (Stan Liszewski of Terminal Nation), "Chain Whip" (Bryson Sherick of Backbiter), and "Chemical Death" (Jackson Edwards of Zashed), and the package is complete. Subtly is anathema. Force is paramount.
Track Listing:1. Ersatz (Sine Die)
2. No Value
3. Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)
4. Bruised Sprainstein
5. Should
6. Putrid Existence
7. Defective
8. Chain Whip (feat. Backbiter)
9. Chemical Death (feat. Zashed)
10. Ripped Up
Credits:
Drums engineered at Wolfman Studios.
Mixed/Mastered/Reamped by Conor Haines at Corruption Studios.
Line-Up:
Fox Stillman - Vocals
Jacob Stillman - Guitar
Ethan Graham - Guitar
Jake Rasch - Bass/Vocals
Ryan Thibault - Drums
Bio:
Open Kasket is a Beatdown Death Metal band straight from Little Rock, AR. Formed in 2022, the band’s sound revolves around slamming riffs, groovy drums, and monstrous bass. These components together create the all out violent sound that the band delivers.
https://www.youtube.com/@openkasket6235
https://www.facebook.com/openkaskethc
GRAVESLAVE, a ferocious entity in
the Midwest metal scene since their formation in 2014, has built a reputation
for their relentless speed, intricate songwriting, and visually striking music
videos. Their powerful performances have captivated audiences from their early
days, with a catalog that continues to evolve. Notable for their intense live
shows, they’ve shared the stage with top-tier acts such as Origin, Rings of
Saturn, Abigail Williams, and Unearth, and embarked on successful tours across
the U.S. and Europe. Their 2018 EU tour with Origin and Rings of Saturn helped
cement their reputation in the global metal scene, and their 2021 album *No
Center* was met with critical acclaim, earning praise for its bold, complex
approach. The band’s sound blends blackened, progressive death metal with technical precision, a fusion that’s gained recognition in outlets like *No Clean Singing*, *Decibel Magazine*, and *New Noise Magazine*. In 2024, Graveslave released the first of two companion EPs, *RELINQUISH, LIFE*, accompanied by the intense single "STRETCHED UNTIL WE BLEED," which was lauded for its chaotic energy and remarkable technical execution. With each release, Graveslave continues to refine and expand their signature sound, pushing boundaries while staying true to their aggressive roots.
Video Link to GraveSlave - Cling to Dust : https://youtu.be/xwV91Vzbq8s
https://sites.google.com/view/graveslave-epk2024
https://allmylinks.com/graveslave
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The third single is Rihanna cover 'Unfaithful' and this track also features Karisma on vocals.
Watch Unfaithful video: https://youtu.be/gdX5VsLCrVM
Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments:
”I've always loved making cover songs and especially when you do a metal cover of a pop song. I heard this song when I was younger and the melody got stuck in my head. This song is very suitable as a melodeath cover and I got the vision for it pretty quickly. We also got a very talented singer Sonja Lindberg to do a feature for this track. I met her while filming The Voice Of Finland program. She did an excellent job and I really like her unique sound a lot.”
Listen to 'Unfaithful'' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-unfaithfulTrack list:
1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio)
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)
• Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
• Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio
Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack
Biography:
Defiled Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland. It was founded by the vocalist and Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021. The band’s music is for the fans of old In Flames, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity etc. Their sound relies heavily on the 90's melodeath sound, but with modern twists. The songs are filled with low growls, chunky guitars, beautiful melodies and tight rhythm sections.
They released their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 and it has reached over 25,000 streams on Spotify alone. Since then, the band has been writing new material and now it's time to unleash their long-awaited debut album!
Listen to the first single 'Your Worst Enemy' on streaming : https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-your-worst-enemy
Listen to the second single 'Exiled to Infinity'' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-exiled
Line-up:
Paavo Laapotti - Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä - Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä - Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen - Bass
Arttu Airo - Drums
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Label: Ardua MusicRelease Date: February 7th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Paradise Lost | My Dying Bride | Shape Of Despair | Officium Triste
He stands upon the shore of a turbulent winter sea, snow drifting about his feet upon the dull, wet sand. A chill wind blows in across the colourless waves that reflect the colourless sky above, cutting through his thin shirt and carelessly unbuttoned coat that hangs uselessly from one shoulder. It bites at his skin with teeth like needles of ice, but he has no sense of feeling within or without. His empty eyes stare at the storm-tossed waters and he wonders if there is comfort to be found there, in the deep, dark places, hidden from the sun. A peace without end…
After years lost in the silence, far from sight though never far from memory, Inborn Suffering have returned. The kings of Parisian melodic, majestic doom death have emerged from the dust and shadows with a gargantuan new album of heart rending emotion…and while some unexpected returns bring with them only tarnished dreams and faded treasure, Pale Grey Monochrome adorns the Inborn Suffering legacy in sombre gravitas and shades of dusk and gold. As the foreboding ‘Wounding’ falls desolate into the arms of ‘From Lowering Tides’ sadness imbues every lamenting note. As an unkind world bows the shoulders beneath the weight of tragedy, this song swallows you into its darkness, sharing its bitter tears and shattered dreams. ‘Pale Grey Monochrome’ follows with a richly textured guitar riff, before the incredible heft of the first drum beat drives the air from your lungs, like a moment of terrible realisation. Exquisitely paced this wonderful title track leads you on, across vast wastes to the incomparable ‘Tales From An Empty Shell’ – searingly beautiful, this is an absolute masterclass in the melancholy arts of doom. Loss, despair, fear and hope all embrace the listener as they travel on to the sublime fragility and sweeping magnificence of album closer, ‘Drawing Circles’…and there could be no better way to end this incredible work of emotive metal. Pale Grey Monochrome is more than a triumphant return, it is an album that will take you beneath its wings, leaving you breathless and stunned.
Now with the backing of Ardua Music, home to many of the greatest doom death bands around, Inborn Suffering will unveil the sorrow filled tour de force of Pale Grey Monochrome on February 7th. Mixed and mastered with the deftest of touches by Déhà of Opus Magnum Studio (Abduction, Deadspace, Wolvennest etc) and adorned in the powerful artwork of Franck Besançon (Maveth, Solemn Lament, Silent Hill: Townfall etc), Pale Grey Monochrome has been carefully curated by Inborn Suffering and the results are remarkable. In February Ardua music will also reissue Inborn Suffering's two revered early albums, Wordless Hope and Regression To Nothingness – the year ahead looks bleak indeed…
Line-up:
Laurent Chaulet - Vocals/Guitars
Emmanuel Ribeiro - Bass
Stéphane Peudupin - Guitar
Thomas Rugolino - Drums
https://www.arduamusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/inbornsufferingdoom/
Death-thrash
metal rising force FINAL SIEGE is thrilled to unveil the lyric
video for their ferocious single "PRIMORDIAL COMBAT". Taken
from the band's album NUCLEAR DOOM STATE (out via
Wormholedeath), this track delivers a visceral gut punch of raw power,
primal energy, and unrelenting aggression."Primordial Combat" is a brutal, aggressive track that channels raw and primal emotions. It captures the savage spirit of ancient survival while rebelling against modern systems of control. Prepare for an intense dive into the dark side of human instinct.
Formed in 2018, Final Siege began as a spark of creative energy when Gil Vives, Randy Reiser, and Amir Jairazbhoy shared their musical vision over beers in New York City. Following the release of their debut album March to Your Grave in 2021 and lineup evolutions, the band forged their current powerhouse roster in 2023:
Gil Anthony Vives – Lead Vocals/Guitar
Rob Maldonado – Guitar
George Garcia – Bass
Ameer "The Beheader" Aljallad – Drums
Known for their unflinching themes of rebellion, war, and the toll of modern chaos, Final Siege has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Atheist, and Warbringer, proving their place in the metal arena.
This full-length album is a sonic apocalypse, blending Death, Thrash, and Groove metal to create a relentless, headbanging experience. Primordial Combat is just one example of the rage-fueled energy fans can expect from the record.
Stream Nuclear Doom State album here: https://orcd.co/nucleardoomstate
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PATHOGENIC vocalist Jake Burns comments on the song:
“Lyrically, 'Crowned in Corpses' forces an acknowledgment of the bloodlust and brutality that drive wars of conquest. The opening command to “spill the blood of your enemies” is presented without justification, setting the tone for a song that makes no attempt to explain or rationalize the violence it depicts. This deliberate absence underscores the role of media and political narratives in making such conflicts more palatable. Wars of conquest spread unimaginable misery, and no matter the pretext, the conqueror wears a crown paid for with the blood and suffering of others."
The premiere for "Crowned in Corpses" comes via Decibel Magazine. Stream the video now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/01/16/video-premiere-pathogenic-crowned-in-corpses/
Skepsis Recordings will release Crowned in Corpses on February 7, 2025. Pre-order the album now at www.skepsisrecordings.com.
In support of the album, PATHOGENIC will hit the road with technical metal band Leylines (members of Through the Eyes of the Dead and ex-The Contortionist). The tour kicks off March 1 in Nashville. Dates are as follows.
3/1 - DRKMTTR - Nashville, TN
3/2 - Culture Shock - Atlanta, GA
3/3 - The Milestone - Charlotte, NC
3/4 - Chapel of Bones - Raleigh, NC
3/5 - The Metro - Baltimore, MD
3/6 - The Nail - Ardmore, PA
3/7 - The Woodshop - Brooklyn, NY
3/8 - The Middle East, Upstairs - Boston, MA
Crowned
in Corpses marks the band's first full-length release in over half a
decade, promising a bold evolution of their signature brand of progressive tech
death, while retaining the intensity that has defined the band for years.The album was produced by Raymond Marte (Moon Tooth), Anthony Lopardo (Loss Becomes), and ourselves. Raymond Marte mixed and mastered the record. Crowned in Corpses music video was shot by Nick Court of Killing It Entertainment.
Out of Boston’s depths emerges PATHOGENIC, a force unshackled from hiatus and reborn with Crowned in Corpses. Over 42 punishing minutes, this progressive death metal quintet weaves together labyrinthine riffs, relentless rhythms, and chilling visions of a decaying world.
In 2022, the band’s resurgence was ignited when original vocalist Jake Burns and new drummer Tyler Montaquila joined forces with guitarists Chris Gardino, Justin Licht, and bassist Dan Leahy. Together, they’ve forged a sound that is ferocious, intricate, and unapologetically heavy — delivering metal that demands to be heard.
PATHOGENIC has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Revocation, and The Faceless, and has annihilated crowds at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and RPM Fest. Known for their high-octane live performances, the band’s energy and command leave audiences with no choice but to headbang furiously.
Set to release on February 7, 2025, through Skepsis Recordings, Crowned in Corpses is a ferocious musical declaration: eight tracks of devastating power and haunting warnings of the darkness that lies ahead.
PATHOGENIC is:
Jake Burns - vocals
Chris Gardino - guitars
Justin Licht - guitars
Dan Leahy - bass
Tyler Montaquila - drums
https://www.facebook.com/pathogenicmetal
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: February 18th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Deicide | Nile | Behemoth | Hate Eternal
They dance upon their strings, limbs convulsing as I drum my fingers upon the charred arms of my throne. My words of poisoned honey slip into their ears, caressing their hearts with promises of wealth, fame and adoration…and there is no price they will not pay, no one they will not offer up upon my altar. I have conquered them with whispers and they have laid the bones of their loved ones at my feet. They have lit the fires of their immolation and scream for acceptance and recognition even as they burn. What a race of empty vessels, vacuous fools all ripe for the harvest...
Infamous Belgian death metal force, Fractured Insanity, celebrated their 20th anniversary of musical devastation this year - and marked that milestone by completing work on their incredible fifth album, Age Of Manipulation. This act of sonic warfare is a stunning display of brutality and creativity, an accomplished collection that clearly demonstrates all the experience that Fractured Insanity have accumulated over the last two decades. Beginning with the slow burn build and then explosive attack of ‘Exaltation Of A Fallen Glory’, with its headbanging death march of a chorus, Age Of Manipulation then proceeds to transmute into ever more powerful and formidable forms. ‘Divide And Conquer’ possesses a teeth-grinding intensity that threatens to peel the skin from your face with its remorseless velocity and neck-breaking gear changes, ‘The Hangman’s Chair’ is steeped in horror and propelled by some breathtaking drumming, while the album’s title track crushes you beneath the sheer weight of the guitars, like a monstrous behemoth striding through the broken bodies of the fallen. This album is shrouded in sinister atmosphere and wickedly inventive, with bewildering moments and shocking twists, yet it remains deeply rooted in the cold soil of classic death metal. There is no weak moment, no let up in the sheer obliterating magnificence as the highlights just keep coming – from the nightmarish splendour of ‘Slumber In The Deep’ with its gargantuan vocal performance and towering riffs, to the devastating masterstroke of soul-crushing death metal that is album climax, ‘We All Die In The End’.
Mixed and mastered at the renowned Hertz Studio in Poland, to whom the likes of Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul and Vader have also entrusted their albums, Age Of Manipulation sounds sharp and vicious, with a clarity that highlights the fantastic individual performances on display and the metallic muscle to knock you back in your seat. With a new deal signed with Xtreem Music, the label that released Fractured Insanity’s classic ‘Mass Awakeless’ and ‘Manmade Hell’ albums, Age Of Manipulation will be unleashed on February 18th on CD and digital formats. Prepare to fall to your broken knees before the might of death metal supremacy!
Line-up:
Stefan Van Bael - Vocals/Bass
Jeroen Buysse - Guitar
Dieter Daems - Guitar
Ignace “Hammerman” Verstraete - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/FracturedInsanityOfficial
You probably won't see a lot of labels starting the year off with one of their most inaccessible releases, but that's how we roll. The debut album of Hierarchies, from members of Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below, will make your head spin. It's 'ultra dissonant' death metal as Angry Metal Guy writer put it in his review. And it's really good too if you're into this kind of thing. Now that it's streaming in full, it's time for you all to get a free lobotomy session.
HIERARCHIES - “SELF-TITLED”
For
fans of
- Acausal Intrusion, Dwelling Below, Pyrrhon, Evilyn, Chaos Motion, Wormed, Plague
Rider Line up
Nicholas Turner (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) - Guitar
Anthony Wheeler (Dwelling Below, Hollowed Idols) - Bass
Jared Moran (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) - Drums and vocals
Mixed by Nick Turner at Malevolent Sound Studios
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios
Artwork by Belial NecroArts
Members of Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below conspire amongst themselves to create dissonant/technical death metal that pushes the limits of reality. With music being this intricate, strangely intuitive and visceral, it blurs the point where the magnification of their music ends and the imagination takes over. It's a dark, murky, nightmarish dive into a realm where trajectories from multiple dimensions manifest to intersect and overlap before dissipating, taking different temporal forms. Nothing is permanent in their world; the tunes change every few seconds and so does everything around them - the implications are in real-time and catastrophically mind-melting. It's a downward spiral of your consciousness where the out-of-control thoughts overwhelm and overpower, and take you on a one-way trip to incessant hallucinations and inevitable madness. Innumerable riffs are piled on top of one another first frantically, then slowly to allow for them to be properly seared into memory so that they can haunt you in turns for the rest of your life. Hierarchies have, on only their debut, created a truly frightening album not merely outwardly but one that is also psychologically scarring for the listener, and endlessly fascinating all the same.
Track listing
1. Entity
2. Consecrate Phenomenon
3. Dimension
4. Twilight Tradition
5. Abstract
6. Complexity Parallels
7. Subtraction
8. Vultures
Release date - January 17th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
US vomit grinders MEPHITIC CORPSE are set to unleash their debut full-length album, SICKNESS ATTRACTS SICKNESS. The album offers 11 tracks of violently brutal grindcore not for the weak of heart!
Sickness Attracts Sickness will be out on Saturday, February 1 on digital and physical formats. Extremely Rotten Productions will release the album to European audiences with Headsplit Records (vinyl, CD and cassette) and 625 Thrashcore (vinyl and CD) releasing the album in the US.
Track
listing:1) Obsessive Compulsive Dismemberment
2) Blistering Red Corpse Under Max Thermostat
3) Grisly Vomit on Self
4) Screwgun my Spleen
5) Intrusive Thoughts Lead to Impatient Butchering
6) Heart in Tinfoil
7) Teething on Clots
8) Painless
9) Rectal Bugs
10) Digested from Both Ends
11) Gutpuked Maggot Treatment
The band is set to hit the road next month alongside extreme death metal outfit UNDERGANG as part of the North American Regurgitation tour. Dates are as follows:
2/7 - Austin, TX @ Valhalla
2/8 - Dallas, TX @ Double Wide
2/9 - Tulsa, OK @ Whittier Bar
2/10 - St Louis, MO @ The Sinkhole
2/11 - Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
2/12 - Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary
2/13 - Toronto, ON @ Garrison
2/14 - Ottawa, ON @ Dominion Tavern
2/15 - Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar
MEPHITIC CORPSE is from San Luis Obispo, California, and have played brutal grindcore since 2018. The band's demo tape Immense Thickening Vomit was released by Extremely Rotten Productions (Europe) and Headsplit Records (USA) and was spread worldwide with several pressings from both labels. A CD version was also released by Terrible Mutilation Records (Australia).
MEPHITIC CORPSE plays a fast and thick style of death metal that draws on the early roots of grind and brutal death metal bands, such as IMMORTAL FATE, GUTTED PULP and Mexican DISGORGE. They have played across the US, Canada and several shows in Europe, amongst them both editions of the Unearthed Morbidity Festival in Copenhagen and will be playing Maryland Death Fest and two US tours in early 2025 in support of Sickness Attracts Sickness. to be released by Extremely Rotten Productions, Headsplit Records and 625 Thrash in early February 2025.
Sickness Attracts Sickness was recorded and mixed by Ethan Camp at Ethan’s Work between August and September 2023 and mastered by Dan Lowndes and Sound Resonance Studio.
Guest vocals on “Heart in Tinfoil” by David Mikkelsen (UNDERGANG / SEQUESTRUM).
Album cover art by the band’s own Matt Rose.
Stream MEPHITIC CORPSE on Spotify and Apple Music.
MEPHITIC CORPSE are:
Eric - Drums
Matt – Guitar / puke
Michael – Bass
Parker – Gag reflux
www.extremelyrottenprod.com
www.625thrash.com
https://mephiticcorpse.bandcamp.com/album/immense-thickening-vomit
Rising
Italian Death Metal act DARK REFLECTION just released
their debut EP "UNDER THE SIGN OF VLAD ȚEPEȘ" through Pest
Records! The EP delves deep into the historical legacy of Vlad the
Impaler, focusing on his military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and his
fight for the independence of Wallachia."Under the Sign of Vlad
Țepeș" is available for streaming and order here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-reflection-under-the-sign-of-vlad-epeWhat to expect from the EP:
Conceptual Themes: Each track narrates key moments in Vlad the Impaler’s struggles against Ottoman forces, blending historical depth with a hauntingly aggressive musical approach.
Atmospheric Composition: The EP fuses relentless old-school Death Metal riffs, haunting melodies, piercing solos, and martial elements to evoke the horrors and triumphs of medieval warfare.
Dynamic Performance: From ferocious blast beats to somber interludes, "Under the Sign of Vlad Țepeș" showcases Dark Reflection’s versatility and dedication to storytelling through metal.
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Post Black Metal
For fans of: Unrequited | Sylvaine | Ghost Bath | Deafheaven
Line-up: David Lovejoy – All Music and Vocals
I have left the pain behind me. I am free and unburdened, spinning and turning, racing through the currents of memory with a lightness of being I could never have imagined when the shadows of loss encircled me, pouring like a flood of desolation into my desperate lungs. The tides of black still swell and subside beneath me, but I can see the deep fissures and fractures in its surface, rich with colours and shades of illumination that my tortured gaze could never see before; before I laid down my arms and stepped into the cold blades of insubstantial knives, until I ceased to fight and embraced the darkness, finding victory in my defeat.
Corroding Soul is the solo atmospheric black metal project of multi-instrumentalist David Lovejoy, yet that simple description does not prepare the listener for everything that Corroding Soul the album has to offer. Building on the success of EPs Hopeless and Nothing, Corroding Soul sees Lovejoy diving deeper and soaring higher as he explores the farthest shores of black metal’s kingdom, bringing a wonderful multitude of emotions, a breathtaking palette of hues and colours to its monochrome world, breaking through the ice with blinding rays of warm sunlight. Corroding Soul is made up of four movements, four intrinsically linked soundscapes that create a veritable symphony of sound and imagination; each multifaceted gem forming part of a greater whole. Opening track, ‘Shadow’ begins in beautifully tranquil fashion, before the listener is cast into a vast, evocative dream where blast beats and emotive lead guitars enfold the harsh, impassioned vocals. There is a sense of flying high above a past of trauma, looking back on life’s pain and sorrow from a new perspective as the music shifts moods and tempos as smoothly as silk. Lead single, ‘Tempest’, sends the soul soaring, its towering splendour juxtaposed with delicate intimacy. Together with ‘Bound’ it forms the heart of Corroding Soul, the two tracks enfolding you and carrying you away on cresting waves of profound intensity. And then there is ‘Sapphire’, an epic track of incredible, effervescent energy and ineffable beauty, shot through with a silver thread of bitter sweet melancholy, remembrance for a life left behind and loves lost, adorned in some cultured lead guitar work which brings to mind the flawless work of Dave Gilmour. It’s an ending in hope and healing after an exhilarating sonic adventure.
Complete with the impactful artwork of Abhijit Asad, Corroding Soul will be released on January 24th and will be available directly from the band at the Corroding Soul Bandcamp page. Accept the invitation and let David Lovejoy’s remarkable music take you on a journey you will never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/@CorrodingSoul
https://www.facebook.com/corrodingsoulofficial
Troy (NY) - A new force in Blackened Death Metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! FLESHSPOIL, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release full-length debut album, THE BEGINNING OF THE END, March 28 on digital format!
Fans of classic death, black, and doom metal take note! FLESHSPOIL delivers a haunting and aggressive soundscape, and features a lineup of seasoned musicians: Jeff Andrews (guitar/vocals), a veteran of New York’s metal scene, known for his work with The Final Sleep, Armor Column, Hush, Ironweed, Scavengers, and Held Under. Mike Van Dyne (drums), known for his role in Arsis, where he played on acclaimed releases such as A Celebration of Guilt and A Diamond for Disease, and toured globally alongside heavyweights like Behemoth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Cynic, Dying Fetus, Grave, Necrophagist, Napalm Death, and Six Feet Under. Dan Saltzman (bass), hailing from the Bay Area, whose impressive work has been showcased in Illucinus and The Hunt, as well as recent demonstration videos for ESP bass guitars.
The first single from The Beginning of the End, "A Frail Demise," was released in December and is available at https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/track/a-frail-demise-2
Produced and mixed by Brett Portzer (Skinless, Author & Punisher, Arsis), The Beginning of the End consists of six tracks clocking in at 37 minutes. It is the creative vision of Andrews and Van Dyne, who recorded two albums and performed together alongside such notable bands as At The Gates, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sanctuary, Rivers of Nihil, Fates Warning, All That Remains, and many others with their previous band, The Final Sleep. The Beginning of the End additionally includes guest appearances by Kyle Chapman (Aethereus, Blighted Eye), John Judson (Rwake, Scott Kelly), and Petr Oplatka (Illucinus).
Pre-order The
Beginning of the End:Track Listing:
1. Bleed Through This Life
2. Skies Turn To Graves
3. Fleshspoil
4. Walking Dead
5. A Frail Demise
6. Born Into Despair
Credits:
Guitar solo and additional chaos on “Bleed Through This Life” by Kyle Chapman of Aethereus and Blighted Eye.
Guitar solo on “Walking Dead” by Petr Oplatka of Illucinus.
Lap steel guitar on “Bleed Through This Life” and “Skies Turn To Graves” by John Judkins of Rwake.
Drum tracking engineered by Brett Portzer at White Lake Music & Post.
Guitar and vocal tracking engineered by Van Dyne/Andrews.
Produced, mixed & mastered by Brett Portzer.
Music and arrangements by Andrews/Van Dyne. Lyrics by Andrews.
Cover art: “L’Umana Fragilità” by Salvator Rosa (1656)
Line-up:
Mike Van Dyne - Drums
Jeff Andrews - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Saltzman - Bass
https://fleshspoilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-end
Singer-guitarist Karita
Kivioja explains the background of the song:"The song was inspired by the Finnish Civil War events on 1918. We visited the memorial of the Dragsvik prison camp in Tammisaari during our summer holiday in 2018 and I stayed to read the names of the dead prisoners, the children, in the largest mass grave in Finland. The grave was the final resting place of 3 100 prisoners who had died of starvation and epidemics, near the barracks area. One story was particularly poignant: a 17-year-old boy from Ostrobothnia, whose parents came all the way to Tammisaari to bring him food, but the guards would not let the prisoners who had lost the war feed their children, so the boy died in a concentration camp. And these names are on the memorial in plain sight. The Civil War tore this country to shreds and made ordinary Finns into victims as well as torturers and murderers.
This stopped, shocked and disgusted. The lyrics of the song were born from stories passed down through the family and the shock of prison camp hell. Also mixed into the lyrics were experiences of the hell inside the head and the hell in modern society called homes. Acts of the sick human mind against others, both because of the prevailing environment and because of mental breakdown."
The song, which had been ready for some time now, took on a whole new meaning in the spring of 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine: "As a teenager in the 90s, I never thought I would see two European countries at war with each other. Less than 1000 km away, all the horrors of war are suddenly happening all over again. Horrors that should have been consigned to history" Karita continues.
In late 2023, the band entered the SN-audio studio in Jyväskylä, Finland to record the song. The lyrics and vocal style went through quite a mill in the studio, including the appearance of Putin's face in front of Karita's face in the vocal booth. When the singer felt like the embodiment of the spirit of Rocky Balboa when she screamed, we started to get close to the final sound.
The music video was shot with Jaakko Manninen on December 22nd 2023. As is typical of this production, the video which uses only natural light, was perfect for shooting on the darkest day of the year. The video's director and cinematographer Jaakko Manninen found this to be the perfect choice, as there was simply no time to waste. The final production took almost a year, but now the song is available for everyone to listen to!
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc): https://push.fm/fl/kamala-sotasisalla
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/m2bNLe-PdBw
https://www.kamalaband.fi/
https://www.facebook.com/kamalaband
We’re very proud to celebrate the re-emergence of Spain's black metal contortion DÉLIRANT from the depths of subconsciousness, the return of which reanimates a crawling ascent of mind and soul destruction through the medium of auditory disfigurement. Shrouded in dissonance and swathed in nightmares, the band’s long awaited new album "THOUGHTEATER" is a sonic dissection of the abyss conceived by long running black metal recluse D.B. (also of Negativa and Hässlig), which will see the light via Sentient Ruin in mid-February 2025.
In the meantime Délirant’s new auditory hallucination has been teased by respected underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the track "Thoughteater IV" have remarked how the work is "a vortex of chaos that clamors for attention and consumes it" and is a "a carefully planned route toward insanity" - you can check out the track and future https://www.invisibleoranges.com/delirant-thoughteater/
This
sophomore full-length offering is a surreal descent into the darkest
corners of
the subconscious, the hypnagogic state, lucid dreaming, and deviant
states of
perception, achieved through the unorthodox but regal medium of
twisting,
dissonant black metal. Of the same abominable and shapeshifting breed
as that
wielded and perfected by acts
like Blut Aus Nord, Akhlys, Deathspell Omega, Abigor And Mispyrming to
harness superior realms of imaginative destruction and auditory
deception, and
which has redefined metal music in this peculiar form as an
unparalleled vector
for all-devouring musical surrealism. The obsession of becoming one
with the
void is the zenith of the work, its median and most abyssic turning
point after
the initial descent.Once the absolute depth of interior horror has been reached, the second half of the album unfolds embodied as a cathartic pilgrimage to seek the light through darkness, overcoming fear and doubt, anxiety and panic. In the grand masterplan of the album's deeply intimate and self-explorative nature, light and hope are contemplated, but absolutely crushing and abysmal realms of darkness and suffering must be endured before this re-emergence can be achieved, rendering "Thoughteater" essentially a personal expiation through the penitence of absolute torment.
"Thoughteater" is slated for a February 14 2025 release worldwide on LP, CD, MC, digital formats worldwide, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/dlirant-thoughteater
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/delirant
TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY – LABEL SAMPLER
Hello! I
wish you all and your loved ones a happy new year! As it's become a practice
for us since a few years now, we've kicked off the new year with the latest
label sampler which is free-for-download, having all-new songs that
weren't a part of any previous samplers. They're mostly from the upcoming
releases that you can expect from us in 2025.
The sampler songs reflect our diverse roster, highlighting what's good from different styles. I hope you find some bands that are to your liking and it gives you something to look forward to.
Proceeds go towards our ever-growing animal sanctuary (aka Transcending Obscurity operating place, both our home and warehouse) with close to 40 rescued stray cats and dogs.
Please find it over here - https://transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com/album/2025-label-sampler
Artwork
is by CVSPE, who was kind enough to also create beautiful sleeve designs.
And we've taken this creative freedom to offer coloured merch options where
possible.
Label sampler featuring all-new songs from current/upcoming releases
With yet another remarkable year behind us and at the onset of starting a new one, Transcending Obscurity continues to throw spotlight on bands that are forward-thinking and those creating high quality music regardless of the style. As the ever-growing roster develops, several subgenres are getting prominence in the company of other like-minded bands, which not only solidifies those styles but also adds to the overall diversity on the label. And once again the label sampler showcases a mix of new as well as known which people have come to expect from us at this point, and that can only be a good thing for the music with more bands, even obscure ones, getting a chance and an international platform.
As always, the label sampler remains for name-your-own-price with the proceeds going towards maintaining the animal sanctuary that Transcending Obscurity is a part of and operates from, having now taken in close to 40 stray cats and dogs.
Artwork by CVSPE
Track listing
1. Floating (Sweden) - I Reached The Mew (Death Metal/Post Punk)
2. Byonoisegenerator (Russia) - Eb(D#) (Jazzgrind)
3. Veilburner (US) - That Which Crypts Howls Grandeur (Avant-garde Death/Black Metal)
4. Serpent Corpse (Canada) - Iron Corpse (Death Metal)
5. Dead Chasm (Italy) - Spectral Tyranny (Death/Doom Metal)
6. Viande (France) - L'homme Brasier (Death Metal)
7. Thorn (US) - Quartersawn Remains (Death Metal)
8. Retching (US) - Shower Curtain Silhouette (Death Metal)
9. Eschaton (US) - Blood of the People (Technical Death Metal)
10. Unaligned (US) - Essence Erased (Technical Blackened Death Metal)
11. Fleshbore (US) - The Ancient Knowledge (Technical Death Metal)
12. Enragement (Finland) - Insectiferous Abomination (Brutal Death Metal)
13. Haxprocess (US) - The Confines of the Flesh (Progressive Death Metal)
14. Xenosis (US) - Altar of the Hound (Progressive Death Metal)
15. Imperialist (US) - Starstorm (Black Metal)
16. Skaphos (France) - Abyssal Tower (Death/Black Metal)
17. Obscureviolence (Russia) - Pulse of Subconscious Cruelty (Death/Black Metal)
18. Shrine of Denial (Turkey) - Climbing Through Nothingness (Death/Black Metal)
19. Crown of Madness (Canada) - Ashes of Mine (Dissonant Death Metal)
20. Mors Verum (Canada) - Bloodied Teeth (Dissonant Death Metal)
21. Hexrot (US) - Heavenward (Avant-Garde Death Metal)
22. Perishing (Costa Rica) - Castle of the Leached Body (Death/Doom Metal)
23. Dwelling Below (US) - Wearisome Guardians (Death/Doom Metal)
24. Felgrave (Norway) - Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky (Avantgarde Death/Black/Doom Metal)
25. Misanthropæ (US) - Enshrined (Dissonant Death Metal)
26. Pillar of Light (US) - Certain End (Sludge/Doom/Post-Metal)
Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com/
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Tokyo Japan's Grinding Death/Thrash guitarist KOSUKE HASHIDA. OUTRAGE is up now for pre-order and will be released February 14th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of : Brutal Truth, Lock Up, Napalm Death, Nasum, No/Más, Pig Destroyer, Repulsion, Rotten Sound, Slayer, Terrorizer and Wormrot
Hailing from Tokyo Japan, Kosuke Hashida previously played guitar for the Japanese band World End Man, as well as performing live guitar duties in Abysmal Dawn. Outrage presents 11 brutal tracks blending Death Metal, Thrash Metal and Grindcore, showcasing skillful extreme aggression and vicious calculated speed on this monstrous album of hatefilled anger and brutality.
Tracklisting:
1. Killed 'Em All
2. Strangulation
3. Legitimate Murder
4. The Commandments
5. Hopeless
6. The Atonement
7. Seek & Kill
8. Corruption Of Faith
9. Hate Symbiosis
10. Knockoff
11. Hungry Again
https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
TOMBS OF DISGUST, the Brutal Death Metal band from Ontario, Canada, is set to release their highly anticipated debut EP, 'SHADOW OF WAR' on April 25th, 2025. Tombs of Disgust’s music is an infectious exploration that is both punishing and unrelenting heaviness. Shadow of War represents a chapter in the dark narrative of self awareness and constant war within, while the band crushingly blends brutal riffs and chaotic intensity.
About
Tombs of Disgust:
Tombs of Disgust began in 2021 in Oshawa, Ontario by vocalist Josh Willms and Richard Mitchell, two longtime friends and collaborators who had come together to express brutal music during the pandemic. The entity that Tombs of Disgust formed became an outlet to process the isolation and unparalleled turmoil that needed to be unleashed, and quickly became the vehicle for this savagery which was joined by Kieran, Sahil, and Dustin to annihilate with blistering riffs.
Statement from Kieran McGrath about their single, The Looming Storm:
"The Looming Storm" is a powerful and intense exploration of inner conflict. This sense of impending dread reflects the internal struggle of dealing with trauma that may not be easily recognized or understood by others. The aggressive nature of the song likely amplifies the raw emotion and frustration that comes with confronting these difficult, often suppressed feelings. The aggressive riffs are used not just as musical elements, but as a metaphor for the overwhelming nature of internal turmoil mirroring the chaos of trying to navigate a storm that seems impossible to escape.
Tombs of Disgust is:
Josh Willms - Vocals
Kieran McGrath - Guitar
Richard Mitchell - Guitar
Sahil Suleman - Bass
Dustin Sargent – Drums
Video Link: Tombs of Disgust - The Looming Storm (Guitar Playthrough):
https://linktr.ee/TombsofDisgust
Label: Independent Release
Release Date: February 7th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal/Hardcore
For fans of: Slayer | Agnostic Front | Cro-Mags | Exodus
Somewhere between Leeds and the end of the universe there’s a gas masked warrior bedecked in spikes and bullets. Beneath a burning sky he’s facing down a legion of undead scum, skeletons infused with some kind of toxic nuclear power, armed with every damn thing they can find – from guns to sticks, barbed wire to billhooks – and for some reason they think they stand a chance. The warrior checks his double barrelled laser and death belching sidearms, adjusts the gas mask and pushes the wireless earphones deep into his ear canals. He checks the ancient, rusted music player that’s never let him down…hits play and starts killing. And to the sound of hardcore, thrash metal, speed and violence the undead start to die all over again…
Leeds based kings of crossover, Sidewinder, are back with a new four track EP that’s primed and ready to tear you limb from limb. ‘Only four songs’ you might be thinking…well, you won’t be thinking that when Sidewinder have finished with you! March Of The Eternal Heretic packs more aggression and intensity than most bands manage over the course of four albums. If it was any longer this thing would probably kill you… Opening with single, ‘Two Zero One’ you’re hit hard by Slayerized riffing that takes you back to when the skies rained blood and everyone lived south of heaven. Add to that the muscle and defiance of Agnostic Front and a dangerous, pit hungry attitude and you’ve got the perfect recipe for destruction. The title track comes next, featuring a guest appearance from Chris Barling of Inhuman Nature, all pummelling drums and guitar leads howling and diving, razor wire vocals and the adrenaline counter in the red zone. The breathless ‘From Beneath They Shall Rise’ follows, on your tail like a rabid dog before mixing in some mid-tempo punches and a cool clanking bass tone. Applying the final knockout blow ‘Ashes Of Eternity’ is the kind of song that makes everywhere a pit. This bruising, battling anthem is simply glorious in its blood-spitting rebellion and dissent. However, for all the sonic violence that seethes throughout March Of The Eternal Heretic, don’t go thinking these songs are just interchangeable bursts of angry noise. They are sweetly structured, individual, characterful tracks, purposeful and unflinching in delivery – they just all happen to hit like a ten ton truck with its pedal to the metal.
Engineered and mastered by James Atkinson (Angel Witch, Carcass, Wytch Hazel etc) March Of The Eternal Heretic sounds virulent and venomous, walking deftly along the edge of chaos – and the amazing artwork of renowned tattooist Gareth Hares, who also supplied the visuals for Sidewinder’s 2023 release War Tapes Vol. 1, perfectly completes this explosive package. Single ‘Two Zero One’ is out on January 31st and the full March Of The Eternal Heretic EP drops on February 7th. Be ready for this one, because Sidewinder are taking no prisoners!
Line-up:
Damo - Vocals
Ginner - Guitars
Jonesy - Guitars
Finch - Bass
Gaz - Drums
The sampler songs reflect our diverse roster, highlighting what's good from different styles. I hope you find some bands that are to your liking and it gives you something to look forward to.
Proceeds go towards our ever-growing animal sanctuary (aka Transcending Obscurity operating place, both our home and warehouse) with close to 40 rescued stray cats and dogs.
Please find it over here - https://transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com/album/2025-label-sampler
Artwork
is by CVSPE, who was kind enough to also create beautiful sleeve designs.
And we've taken this creative freedom to offer coloured merch options where
possible.Label sampler featuring all-new songs from current/upcoming releases
With yet another remarkable year behind us and at the onset of starting a new one, Transcending Obscurity continues to throw spotlight on bands that are forward-thinking and those creating high quality music regardless of the style. As the ever-growing roster develops, several subgenres are getting prominence in the company of other like-minded bands, which not only solidifies those styles but also adds to the overall diversity on the label. And once again the label sampler showcases a mix of new as well as known which people have come to expect from us at this point, and that can only be a good thing for the music with more bands, even obscure ones, getting a chance and an international platform.
As always, the label sampler remains for name-your-own-price with the proceeds going towards maintaining the animal sanctuary that Transcending Obscurity is a part of and operates from, having now taken in close to 40 stray cats and dogs.
Artwork by CVSPE
Track listing
1. Floating (Sweden) - I Reached The Mew (Death Metal/Post Punk)
2. Byonoisegenerator (Russia) - Eb(D#) (Jazzgrind)
3. Veilburner (US) - That Which Crypts Howls Grandeur (Avant-garde Death/Black Metal)
4. Serpent Corpse (Canada) - Iron Corpse (Death Metal)
5. Dead Chasm (Italy) - Spectral Tyranny (Death/Doom Metal)
6. Viande (France) - L'homme Brasier (Death Metal)
7. Thorn (US) - Quartersawn Remains (Death Metal)
8. Retching (US) - Shower Curtain Silhouette (Death Metal)
9. Eschaton (US) - Blood of the People (Technical Death Metal)
10. Unaligned (US) - Essence Erased (Technical Blackened Death Metal)
11. Fleshbore (US) - The Ancient Knowledge (Technical Death Metal)
12. Enragement (Finland) - Insectiferous Abomination (Brutal Death Metal)
13. Haxprocess (US) - The Confines of the Flesh (Progressive Death Metal)
14. Xenosis (US) - Altar of the Hound (Progressive Death Metal)
15. Imperialist (US) - Starstorm (Black Metal)
16. Skaphos (France) - Abyssal Tower (Death/Black Metal)
17. Obscureviolence (Russia) - Pulse of Subconscious Cruelty (Death/Black Metal)
18. Shrine of Denial (Turkey) - Climbing Through Nothingness (Death/Black Metal)
19. Crown of Madness (Canada) - Ashes of Mine (Dissonant Death Metal)
20. Mors Verum (Canada) - Bloodied Teeth (Dissonant Death Metal)
21. Hexrot (US) - Heavenward (Avant-Garde Death Metal)
22. Perishing (Costa Rica) - Castle of the Leached Body (Death/Doom Metal)
23. Dwelling Below (US) - Wearisome Guardians (Death/Doom Metal)
24. Felgrave (Norway) - Pale Flowers Under an Empty Sky (Avantgarde Death/Black/Doom Metal)
25. Misanthropæ (US) - Enshrined (Dissonant Death Metal)
26. Pillar of Light (US) - Certain End (Sludge/Doom/Post-Metal)
Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com/
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Tokyo Japan's Grinding Death/Thrash guitarist KOSUKE HASHIDA. OUTRAGE is up now for pre-order and will be released February 14th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of : Brutal Truth, Lock Up, Napalm Death, Nasum, No/Más, Pig Destroyer, Repulsion, Rotten Sound, Slayer, Terrorizer and Wormrot
Hailing from Tokyo Japan, Kosuke Hashida previously played guitar for the Japanese band World End Man, as well as performing live guitar duties in Abysmal Dawn. Outrage presents 11 brutal tracks blending Death Metal, Thrash Metal and Grindcore, showcasing skillful extreme aggression and vicious calculated speed on this monstrous album of hatefilled anger and brutality.
Tracklisting:1. Killed 'Em All
2. Strangulation
3. Legitimate Murder
4. The Commandments
5. Hopeless
6. The Atonement
7. Seek & Kill
8. Corruption Of Faith
9. Hate Symbiosis
10. Knockoff
11. Hungry Again
https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
TOMBS OF DISGUST, the Brutal Death Metal band from Ontario, Canada, is set to release their highly anticipated debut EP, 'SHADOW OF WAR' on April 25th, 2025. Tombs of Disgust’s music is an infectious exploration that is both punishing and unrelenting heaviness. Shadow of War represents a chapter in the dark narrative of self awareness and constant war within, while the band crushingly blends brutal riffs and chaotic intensity.
About
Tombs of Disgust:Tombs of Disgust began in 2021 in Oshawa, Ontario by vocalist Josh Willms and Richard Mitchell, two longtime friends and collaborators who had come together to express brutal music during the pandemic. The entity that Tombs of Disgust formed became an outlet to process the isolation and unparalleled turmoil that needed to be unleashed, and quickly became the vehicle for this savagery which was joined by Kieran, Sahil, and Dustin to annihilate with blistering riffs.
Statement from Kieran McGrath about their single, The Looming Storm:
"The Looming Storm" is a powerful and intense exploration of inner conflict. This sense of impending dread reflects the internal struggle of dealing with trauma that may not be easily recognized or understood by others. The aggressive nature of the song likely amplifies the raw emotion and frustration that comes with confronting these difficult, often suppressed feelings. The aggressive riffs are used not just as musical elements, but as a metaphor for the overwhelming nature of internal turmoil mirroring the chaos of trying to navigate a storm that seems impossible to escape.
Tombs of Disgust is:
Josh Willms - Vocals
Kieran McGrath - Guitar
Richard Mitchell - Guitar
Sahil Suleman - Bass
Dustin Sargent – Drums
Video Link: Tombs of Disgust - The Looming Storm (Guitar Playthrough):
https://linktr.ee/TombsofDisgust
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: February 7th 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal/Hardcore
For fans of: Slayer | Agnostic Front | Cro-Mags | Exodus
Somewhere between Leeds and the end of the universe there’s a gas masked warrior bedecked in spikes and bullets. Beneath a burning sky he’s facing down a legion of undead scum, skeletons infused with some kind of toxic nuclear power, armed with every damn thing they can find – from guns to sticks, barbed wire to billhooks – and for some reason they think they stand a chance. The warrior checks his double barrelled laser and death belching sidearms, adjusts the gas mask and pushes the wireless earphones deep into his ear canals. He checks the ancient, rusted music player that’s never let him down…hits play and starts killing. And to the sound of hardcore, thrash metal, speed and violence the undead start to die all over again…
Leeds based kings of crossover, Sidewinder, are back with a new four track EP that’s primed and ready to tear you limb from limb. ‘Only four songs’ you might be thinking…well, you won’t be thinking that when Sidewinder have finished with you! March Of The Eternal Heretic packs more aggression and intensity than most bands manage over the course of four albums. If it was any longer this thing would probably kill you… Opening with single, ‘Two Zero One’ you’re hit hard by Slayerized riffing that takes you back to when the skies rained blood and everyone lived south of heaven. Add to that the muscle and defiance of Agnostic Front and a dangerous, pit hungry attitude and you’ve got the perfect recipe for destruction. The title track comes next, featuring a guest appearance from Chris Barling of Inhuman Nature, all pummelling drums and guitar leads howling and diving, razor wire vocals and the adrenaline counter in the red zone. The breathless ‘From Beneath They Shall Rise’ follows, on your tail like a rabid dog before mixing in some mid-tempo punches and a cool clanking bass tone. Applying the final knockout blow ‘Ashes Of Eternity’ is the kind of song that makes everywhere a pit. This bruising, battling anthem is simply glorious in its blood-spitting rebellion and dissent. However, for all the sonic violence that seethes throughout March Of The Eternal Heretic, don’t go thinking these songs are just interchangeable bursts of angry noise. They are sweetly structured, individual, characterful tracks, purposeful and unflinching in delivery – they just all happen to hit like a ten ton truck with its pedal to the metal.
Engineered and mastered by James Atkinson (Angel Witch, Carcass, Wytch Hazel etc) March Of The Eternal Heretic sounds virulent and venomous, walking deftly along the edge of chaos – and the amazing artwork of renowned tattooist Gareth Hares, who also supplied the visuals for Sidewinder’s 2023 release War Tapes Vol. 1, perfectly completes this explosive package. Single ‘Two Zero One’ is out on January 31st and the full March Of The Eternal Heretic EP drops on February 7th. Be ready for this one, because Sidewinder are taking no prisoners!
Line-up:
Damo - Vocals
Ginner - Guitars
Jonesy - Guitars
Finch - Bass
Gaz - Drums
NEWS 12.1.2025
Los
Angeles (CA) - Doom/Thrash trio THE CIMMERIAN set a
crushing tone for the new year with today's release of AN AGE
UNDREAMED OF..., the band's first full-length album! This rogue
set conjures images of high adventure and mayhem with an aggressive mix of
sludgy-based rumblings, caustic fuzz-filled riffs, and sonorous war drumming
that recalls High on Fire, among others.
Stream
the album and purchase the CD from the band's own Hyborian Rage Records at https://thecimmerian.bandcamp.com/album/an-age-undreamed-of-2
The 12" colored vinyl LP version is available from Black Voodoo Records.
Follow THE CIMMERIAN, for it is Crom's will. If you don’t – to hell with you!
Track
Listing:
1) Shadow Kingdom
2) Neck Breaker of The Mountain
3) Silver and Gold
4) Darkwolf
5) Mournblade
6) Black Coast Tigris
7) Deathstalker
8) Monarch
The groundwork for THE CIMMERIAN was laid in 2021 by guitarist David Gein and bassist Nicholas Rocha – two-thirds of crossover thrash group Septik Onslaught. The two were writing what would become the band’s first EP when a Craigslist ad brought drummer David Morales – armed with unyielding energy and a bag of Halloween candy – to the fold.
THE CIMMERIAN delivers a wall of sound that draws inspiration from the likes of Motörhead, Black Sabbath, Venom, and Gates of Slumber. Lyrical themes informed by a deep understanding of world history, mythology, and historical literature weave throughout this chainmail tapestry.
The band released their debut EP, Thrice Majestic, in the summer of 2022. By early 2023, they returned to Robert Frank’s Minor Chord Studio to record the two-track cassette/digital release, Sword & Sorcery Vol. I.
THE CIMMERIAN is:
Bass/vocals: Nicolas Rocha
Guitars: David Gein
Drums: David Morales
https://www.facebook.com/TheCimmerianOfficial
Now, with their highly anticipated new album slated for release in the second
half of 2025, Irreverence is poised to make waves and claim their rightful
place at the forefront of the metal world. Stay tuned—this is a force you won’t
want to miss!
Irreverence: The Story of a Thrash/ Death Metal Band
Irreverence was born in 1995 when Ricky Paioro (guitar and vocalist) and Davide Firinu (drums) decided to start a band. By 1997, they had their full lineup with Giuliano Strozzi on bass and Luca Petrazzuolo on lead guitar. They recorded their first demo in 1998, followed by another in 1999, and began making their mark in the metal world.
In 2000, the band signed their first record deal with Stonehenge Records and released their debut album, Totally Negative Thoughts. Things were going well, but in early 2002, both Giuliano and Luca left the band. Ricky and Davide didn’t give up and brought in new members: Stefano Bertolotti on lead guitar and Mauro Passiatore on bass.
The band then recorded a mini-CD called Target: Hate at Spiderhouse Studios in Berlin, working with producer Harris Johns. Released in 2003, it was a big step forward for the group. Later that year, Stefano left the band, and their friend Luca Colombo joined as the new guitarist.
In 2005, Irreverence recorded their third album, War Was Won. They signed a deal with On Dead Sound Records, but soon decided to release their music on their own. In 2006, they put out a “best-of” album called Into Battle Since 1995, which sold over 1,500 copies worldwide. In 2007, they contributed a cover of Tankard’s Beermuda to a tribute album, showing their respect for other metal legends.
Now, as they prepare to release their highly anticipated new album in the second half of 2025, Irreverence is set to rise to new heights and cement their position as leaders in the global metal scene. Stay tuned—this is a band you simply cannot afford to miss!
Irreverence: A Thrash / Death Metal Odyssey
Formed in 1995 by guitarist/vocalist Riccardo Paioro and drummer Davide Firinu, Irreverence emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the Italian metal underground. After solidifying their lineup in 1997 with Giuliano Strozzi (bass) and Luca Petrazzuolo (lead guitar), the band quickly made waves with two early demos, setting the stage for their impactful debut.
Their first record deal came in 2000, leading to the release of their debut album, Totally Negative Thoughts, via Stonehenge Records. Despite lineup changes in the early 2000s, the band persevered, bringing in new members Stefano Bertolotti (lead guitar) and Mauro Passiatore (bass), and releasing the critically acclaimed mini-CD Target: Hate in 2003, recorded at Spiderhouse Studios in Berlin under producer Harris Johns.
Subsequent years saw Irreverence continue to evolve musically and professionally. They self-released a “best-of” album, Into Battle Since 1995 (2006), which sold over 1,500 copies worldwide. By 2009, they had signed with Noisehead Records and unveiled Upon These Ashes (2010), featuring a guest appearance by Tom Angelripper of Sodom. This period marked extensive touring, including high-profile festival appearances and international recognition.
In 2014, Irreverence partnered with Nadir Music to release Shreds of Humanity. The album was followed by a European tour and a 20th-anniversary celebration in Milan, which was immortalized in their live album, Raise Chaos – Live in Milan (2016). Their next album, Still Burns (2018), showcased a matured and refined sound, drawing inspiration from the iconic film La Haine.
Through decades of lineup changes, Irreverence’s commitment to delivering authentic thrash metal has remained unshakable. Their most recent work, the EP Scapegoat (2021), proved they are as relentless as ever, blending new material with revitalized classics.
Current Line up
Riccardo Paioro – Guitar / Vocals
Davide Firinu – Drums
Marco Colombo – Guitar
Andrea Sangalli – Bass
As they prepare to unleash their next chapter, Irreverence embodies the resilience, passion, and artistry that define the very essence of metal. Welcome to Brutal Records, Irreverence—we can’t wait to see what the future holds!
Follow us for updates on their upcoming album, tour announcements, and more. This is only the beginning of something extraordinary!
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
www.irreverence.it
Minsk (BY) - Brutal Death Metal quartet, RELICS OF HUMANITY, have partnered with Toilet ov Hell for the premiere of "TAKING THE SHAPE OF INFINITY," the second single from forthcoming album, ABSOLUTE DISMAL DOMAIN. Click the following link to stream it!
https://toiletovhell.com/premiere-relics-of-humanity-taking-the-shape-of-infinity/
Willowtip Records will release Absolute Dismal Domain on January 31.
The band released the following statement about the album:
"Absolute Dismal Domain is a nine-act conceptual record. The story told across these nine tracks is about absolute ubiquitous annihilation of light, both spiritually (god) and physically (sun and stars). This is the most brutal stuff about blackness and ungodliness ever created."
Absolute Dismal Domain is Relics of Humanity's first collection of original material since 2019's Obscuration EP (Willowtip) and the band's first full-length album (and third overall) since 2014's Ominously Reigning upon the Intangible (Amputated Vein).
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/add-willowtip
https://relicsofhumanity.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dismal-domain
Track Listing:
1. Omen Apollyon
2. Summoning Of Those Who Absorbed
3. Taking The Shape Of Infinity
4. In The Name Of Ubiquitous Gloom
5. Paralyzing The Light II
6. Absolute Dismal Domain
7. Smoldering Of Seraphim
8. His Creation That No Longer Exists
9. Dominion
Credits:
Absolute Dismal Domain is fully composed (music, concept and lyrics), mixed, and mastered by guitarist Siarhei.
Artwork created with oil paints by Siarhei.
Line-up:
Siarhei - Guitars
Pavel - Bass
Flo - Vocals
Vladislav - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/relicsofhumanity/
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Nightwish, Within Temptation, Evanescence and the like…
Tracklist:
01 Familiar Skies
02 Unwind Our Story
03 Sleepless Dreams
04 Breaking Free
05 The Calling
06 Beyond Reality
07 The Spark
08 Enchantment
09 The Moment
10 One With The Stars
11 Rhapsody Of Life
Line-Up
Vocals: Valerie De Kempe
Guitars: Tijmen Matthys
Violin: Jakob Declercq
Keys: Robbe Adriaens
Bass: Ewoud Dekoninck
Drums: Wout Debacker
The idea for Worlds Beyond came about in the summer of 2016, when guitarist Tijmen started writing songs that needed to be both powerful and melodic. Six months later, the first rehearsal took place in Ghent, Belgium, with singer Valerie, drummer Catoo, bassist Ewoud and keyboardist Robbe.
After several months of rehearsals and a try-out show, the band sought additional members. With violinist Jakob and new drummer Wout, the lineup was complete. The rehearsal space moved from Ghent to the Bandcave in Tielt, an event venue owned by drummer Wout.
Three demo singles were recorded in late 2017 (Fallen Star, Am I Lost, Ice King), after which Worlds Beyond was able to play several gigs in 2018. Social media presence was built up, and the band continued to work on new songs.
Two years after the band formed, there were enough songs to fill an album. So Worlds Beyond began production on their debut album, “Symphony of Dawn.” Quite an undertaking for an independent DIY band, but one that the members tackled with enthusiasm.
Recordings took place in the fall of 2019 at various locations. The original music was taken to the next level with new harmonies in guitar, violin & vocals, as well as special effects and a digital symphonic orchestra.
To keep the production affordable while guaranteeing a professional result, a crowdfunding campaign was launched, with overwhelming success: Worlds Beyond collected more than 150% of the originally targeted 2000 euros.
Not letting the corona crisis in 2020 get them down, the band used these months online to prepare a full release campaign in-house, including 4 music videos. Single releases started in the fall of 2020, with the release of their debut album Symphony of Dawn on December 12.
Although the preparation, recording and release of the debut album Symphony of Dawn could be accomplished despite the corona crisis, touring to promote the album was plagued by lockdowns and canceled events. Almost a year from date, Oct. 8 and 9, 2021, Worlds Beyond was able to keep their release shows going.
In 2022, the band focused fully on performing and developing new music, a period that was both inspiring and productive.
2023 marked the beginning of an exciting new project: their second studio album, Rhapsody Of Life. Recording began early that year, and from the first moment, the band members knew that this album would hold a special place in their hearts. They took ample time to bring each song to perfection. For two years they worked intensively to refine arrangements, lyrics and melodies to create an album that they are not only proud of, but that they know will touch their fans.
In addition to the work on the album, Worlds Beyond experienced another highlight in 2024 with the release of the music video for One.
Now the band is on the verge of a new milestone: the release of Rhapsody Of Life on Jan. 31, 2025. The concept album celebrates human existence, with each song recounting a specific experience that is part of collective life. The album culminates in the title track, which asks the ultimate question about life.
To celebrate this special occasion, Worlds Beyond is hosting three exclusive release concerts on Feb. 28, March 1 and March 2, 2025. These concerts will take place in collaboration with the symphonic orchestra Zanglust and promise to be a unique spectacle. With this collaboration, the band is taking their music to the next level and presenting Rhapsody Of Life in a grand and compelling way. It promises to be an experience no one wants to miss.
The coming years promise even more highlights, and Worlds Beyond looks forward to experiencing new musical adventures together with their fans.
https://www.facebook.com/worldsbeyondofficial
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: February 4th 2025
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
For fans of: Gorguts | Obliveon | Pestilence | Believer
Beneath a grieving, tortured sky, the world burns. Once grand cities wreathed in smoke, their towering edifices crumbling, collapsing into ruin. The remnants of humanity crawl through the ashes on blistering hands and knees, choking on the fumes of their own annihilation. The failed caretakers of a paradise become a boundless charnel house in flame. The dead and the soon to be dead lie in mountains of scorched flesh and heat cracked bone, a testament to the grotesque ignorance and arrogance of man…wilfully blind and consumed by greed until the very end. These are the final moments of our Eden, our miracle of life that we raped and plundered, warped and manipulated into a twisted carnival of atrocities.
Having blazed a trail in the early ‘90s with their four highly regarded demos, Canada’s death/thrash pioneers Sarkasm, burst back into life in 2019 – signing with Xtreem Music and releasing their first full length album, As Empires Decay, in 2023. Now it is time for the next chapter in the Sarkasm story to begin, as they prepare to unleash their second album, the momentous Carnival Of Atrocities. Opening with the forearm smash of ‘I Am Chaos’, Carnival Of Atrocities immediately sets out what Sarkasm are all about; massive crunching riffs, huge, domineering drums and the magnificent vocal power of Bruno Bernier – who also fronts the reborn Obliveon - all brought together in immaculately structured songs where technical complexity is tempered by finely wrought hooks. ‘Murmurs From The Void’ is an early highlight, with Bernier’s vocals rising up between the snapping drums and those thick, textured riffs while a perfectly expressed guitar solo brings the song to its conclusion, with every note considered and carefully chosen. Throughout the album, songs like ‘Cold Empty Rooms’ and ‘Echoes Of Hyperion’ demonstrate that Sarkasm stand apart from the pack; operating in a different sphere to most bands, they plot a course that heads confidently into unexplored territories. When the armour-plated ‘Deadweight’ fades into silence, after a relentless, remorseless display of bludgeoning power, you are left with a need for more…for one more play, one more ride through the maze of blood, one more journey through the Carnival Of Atrocities!
The sound on Carnival Of Atrocities, captured by producer Maxime Lacroix (Gastrorrexis etc) and the mastering of the respected Dan Swanö (Asphyx, Avulsed, Incantation etc) is perfect for Sarkasm, giving a strength and prominence to every instrument, without sacrificing the clarity required to appreciate these well defined songs. When Xtreem Music release this stunning album on February 4th, on CD, vinyl and cassette formats, it will surely see Sarkasm ascending to the heady heights that their music has always deserved. Be prepared for a masterclass in technical, addictive, impactful metal that you’ll never forget!
Line-up:
Bruno Bernier - Vocals
François Dubuc - Guitars
Yves Parent - Guitars
Dave Bouchard - Bass
Simon Thibodeau - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sarkasmqc
ZERO ABSOLU – “LA SAIGNÉE”
Genre: Black Metal
Label: AOP Records
VÖ: 31.01.2025
With members of ALCEST and REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER
ZERO ABSOLU is the band formerly known as Glaciation.Glaciation was a project founded in 2011 by François Duguest (instruments) and Jean Valnoir Simoulin (Vocals, art direction).
The group then expanded to include Hugo Moerman (who became the 3rd permanent member of the group), the two main members of Alcest, and Lychar.
In 2012, they released the album «1994». The lyrics nostalgically and bitterly revisit Valnoir’s experience within the Black Metal scene throughout the 90s.
Valnoir temporarily left the band in 2014 and was replaced by RMS Hreidmarr.
In 2015, the album «Sur les falaises de marbre» was released by Osmose. Productions. Due to alcoholism issues (among others), Hreidmarr was later removed from the band. He then decided, without informing anyone, to assemble a new lineup and illegally registered the name «Glaciation» with the French Institute for Intellectual Property.
In 2023, the core of the original lineup (obviously without Hreidmarr), accompanied by a member of Regarde les hommes tomber and another from Alcest, recorded a new album: La saignée («The Bloodletting»). The lyrics take the form of a pamphlet confronting the enemies of the band and the Metal scene in general.
In 2024, to put an end to the drama, they decided to rename Glaciation to ZÉRO ABSOLU, and signs with AOP.
https://www.facebook.com/metastazisparis
Little Rock (AR) - Beatdown Death Metal Horde, OPEN KASKET, will release their debut full-length album, TRIALS OF FAILURE, on February 7!
The 12" colored vinyl LP version is available from Black Voodoo Records.
Follow THE CIMMERIAN, for it is Crom's will. If you don’t – to hell with you!
Track
Listing:1) Shadow Kingdom
2) Neck Breaker of The Mountain
3) Silver and Gold
4) Darkwolf
5) Mournblade
6) Black Coast Tigris
7) Deathstalker
8) Monarch
The groundwork for THE CIMMERIAN was laid in 2021 by guitarist David Gein and bassist Nicholas Rocha – two-thirds of crossover thrash group Septik Onslaught. The two were writing what would become the band’s first EP when a Craigslist ad brought drummer David Morales – armed with unyielding energy and a bag of Halloween candy – to the fold.
THE CIMMERIAN delivers a wall of sound that draws inspiration from the likes of Motörhead, Black Sabbath, Venom, and Gates of Slumber. Lyrical themes informed by a deep understanding of world history, mythology, and historical literature weave throughout this chainmail tapestry.
The band released their debut EP, Thrice Majestic, in the summer of 2022. By early 2023, they returned to Robert Frank’s Minor Chord Studio to record the two-track cassette/digital release, Sword & Sorcery Vol. I.
THE CIMMERIAN is:
Bass/vocals: Nicolas Rocha
Guitars: David Gein
Drums: David Morales
https://www.facebook.com/TheCimmerianOfficial
Now, with their highly anticipated new album slated for release in the second
half of 2025, Irreverence is poised to make waves and claim their rightful
place at the forefront of the metal world. Stay tuned—this is a force you won’t
want to miss!Irreverence: The Story of a Thrash/ Death Metal Band
Irreverence was born in 1995 when Ricky Paioro (guitar and vocalist) and Davide Firinu (drums) decided to start a band. By 1997, they had their full lineup with Giuliano Strozzi on bass and Luca Petrazzuolo on lead guitar. They recorded their first demo in 1998, followed by another in 1999, and began making their mark in the metal world.
In 2000, the band signed their first record deal with Stonehenge Records and released their debut album, Totally Negative Thoughts. Things were going well, but in early 2002, both Giuliano and Luca left the band. Ricky and Davide didn’t give up and brought in new members: Stefano Bertolotti on lead guitar and Mauro Passiatore on bass.
The band then recorded a mini-CD called Target: Hate at Spiderhouse Studios in Berlin, working with producer Harris Johns. Released in 2003, it was a big step forward for the group. Later that year, Stefano left the band, and their friend Luca Colombo joined as the new guitarist.
In 2005, Irreverence recorded their third album, War Was Won. They signed a deal with On Dead Sound Records, but soon decided to release their music on their own. In 2006, they put out a “best-of” album called Into Battle Since 1995, which sold over 1,500 copies worldwide. In 2007, they contributed a cover of Tankard’s Beermuda to a tribute album, showing their respect for other metal legends.
Now, as they prepare to release their highly anticipated new album in the second half of 2025, Irreverence is set to rise to new heights and cement their position as leaders in the global metal scene. Stay tuned—this is a band you simply cannot afford to miss!
Irreverence: A Thrash / Death Metal Odyssey
Formed in 1995 by guitarist/vocalist Riccardo Paioro and drummer Davide Firinu, Irreverence emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the Italian metal underground. After solidifying their lineup in 1997 with Giuliano Strozzi (bass) and Luca Petrazzuolo (lead guitar), the band quickly made waves with two early demos, setting the stage for their impactful debut.
Their first record deal came in 2000, leading to the release of their debut album, Totally Negative Thoughts, via Stonehenge Records. Despite lineup changes in the early 2000s, the band persevered, bringing in new members Stefano Bertolotti (lead guitar) and Mauro Passiatore (bass), and releasing the critically acclaimed mini-CD Target: Hate in 2003, recorded at Spiderhouse Studios in Berlin under producer Harris Johns.
Subsequent years saw Irreverence continue to evolve musically and professionally. They self-released a “best-of” album, Into Battle Since 1995 (2006), which sold over 1,500 copies worldwide. By 2009, they had signed with Noisehead Records and unveiled Upon These Ashes (2010), featuring a guest appearance by Tom Angelripper of Sodom. This period marked extensive touring, including high-profile festival appearances and international recognition.
In 2014, Irreverence partnered with Nadir Music to release Shreds of Humanity. The album was followed by a European tour and a 20th-anniversary celebration in Milan, which was immortalized in their live album, Raise Chaos – Live in Milan (2016). Their next album, Still Burns (2018), showcased a matured and refined sound, drawing inspiration from the iconic film La Haine.
Through decades of lineup changes, Irreverence’s commitment to delivering authentic thrash metal has remained unshakable. Their most recent work, the EP Scapegoat (2021), proved they are as relentless as ever, blending new material with revitalized classics.
Current Line up
Riccardo Paioro – Guitar / Vocals
Davide Firinu – Drums
Marco Colombo – Guitar
Andrea Sangalli – Bass
As they prepare to unleash their next chapter, Irreverence embodies the resilience, passion, and artistry that define the very essence of metal. Welcome to Brutal Records, Irreverence—we can’t wait to see what the future holds!
Follow us for updates on their upcoming album, tour announcements, and more. This is only the beginning of something extraordinary!
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
www.irreverence.it
Minsk (BY) - Brutal Death Metal quartet, RELICS OF HUMANITY, have partnered with Toilet ov Hell for the premiere of "TAKING THE SHAPE OF INFINITY," the second single from forthcoming album, ABSOLUTE DISMAL DOMAIN. Click the following link to stream it!
https://toiletovhell.com/premiere-relics-of-humanity-taking-the-shape-of-infinity/
Willowtip Records will release Absolute Dismal Domain on January 31.
The band released the following statement about the album:
"Absolute Dismal Domain is a nine-act conceptual record. The story told across these nine tracks is about absolute ubiquitous annihilation of light, both spiritually (god) and physically (sun and stars). This is the most brutal stuff about blackness and ungodliness ever created."
Absolute Dismal Domain is Relics of Humanity's first collection of original material since 2019's Obscuration EP (Willowtip) and the band's first full-length album (and third overall) since 2014's Ominously Reigning upon the Intangible (Amputated Vein).
Pre-order:https://bit.ly/add-willowtip
https://relicsofhumanity.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dismal-domain
Track Listing:
1. Omen Apollyon
2. Summoning Of Those Who Absorbed
3. Taking The Shape Of Infinity
4. In The Name Of Ubiquitous Gloom
5. Paralyzing The Light II
6. Absolute Dismal Domain
7. Smoldering Of Seraphim
8. His Creation That No Longer Exists
9. Dominion
Credits:
Absolute Dismal Domain is fully composed (music, concept and lyrics), mixed, and mastered by guitarist Siarhei.
Artwork created with oil paints by Siarhei.
Line-up:
Siarhei - Guitars
Pavel - Bass
Flo - Vocals
Vladislav - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/relicsofhumanity/
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Nightwish, Within Temptation, Evanescence and the like…
Tracklist:
01 Familiar Skies
02 Unwind Our Story
03 Sleepless Dreams
04 Breaking Free
05 The Calling
06 Beyond Reality
07 The Spark
08 Enchantment
09 The Moment
10 One With The Stars
11 Rhapsody Of Life
Line-Up
Vocals: Valerie De Kempe
Guitars: Tijmen Matthys
Violin: Jakob Declercq
Keys: Robbe Adriaens
Bass: Ewoud Dekoninck
Drums: Wout Debacker
The idea for Worlds Beyond came about in the summer of 2016, when guitarist Tijmen started writing songs that needed to be both powerful and melodic. Six months later, the first rehearsal took place in Ghent, Belgium, with singer Valerie, drummer Catoo, bassist Ewoud and keyboardist Robbe.
After several months of rehearsals and a try-out show, the band sought additional members. With violinist Jakob and new drummer Wout, the lineup was complete. The rehearsal space moved from Ghent to the Bandcave in Tielt, an event venue owned by drummer Wout.
Three demo singles were recorded in late 2017 (Fallen Star, Am I Lost, Ice King), after which Worlds Beyond was able to play several gigs in 2018. Social media presence was built up, and the band continued to work on new songs.
Two years after the band formed, there were enough songs to fill an album. So Worlds Beyond began production on their debut album, “Symphony of Dawn.” Quite an undertaking for an independent DIY band, but one that the members tackled with enthusiasm.
Recordings took place in the fall of 2019 at various locations. The original music was taken to the next level with new harmonies in guitar, violin & vocals, as well as special effects and a digital symphonic orchestra.
To keep the production affordable while guaranteeing a professional result, a crowdfunding campaign was launched, with overwhelming success: Worlds Beyond collected more than 150% of the originally targeted 2000 euros.
Not letting the corona crisis in 2020 get them down, the band used these months online to prepare a full release campaign in-house, including 4 music videos. Single releases started in the fall of 2020, with the release of their debut album Symphony of Dawn on December 12.
Although the preparation, recording and release of the debut album Symphony of Dawn could be accomplished despite the corona crisis, touring to promote the album was plagued by lockdowns and canceled events. Almost a year from date, Oct. 8 and 9, 2021, Worlds Beyond was able to keep their release shows going.
In 2022, the band focused fully on performing and developing new music, a period that was both inspiring and productive.
2023 marked the beginning of an exciting new project: their second studio album, Rhapsody Of Life. Recording began early that year, and from the first moment, the band members knew that this album would hold a special place in their hearts. They took ample time to bring each song to perfection. For two years they worked intensively to refine arrangements, lyrics and melodies to create an album that they are not only proud of, but that they know will touch their fans.
In addition to the work on the album, Worlds Beyond experienced another highlight in 2024 with the release of the music video for One.
Now the band is on the verge of a new milestone: the release of Rhapsody Of Life on Jan. 31, 2025. The concept album celebrates human existence, with each song recounting a specific experience that is part of collective life. The album culminates in the title track, which asks the ultimate question about life.
To celebrate this special occasion, Worlds Beyond is hosting three exclusive release concerts on Feb. 28, March 1 and March 2, 2025. These concerts will take place in collaboration with the symphonic orchestra Zanglust and promise to be a unique spectacle. With this collaboration, the band is taking their music to the next level and presenting Rhapsody Of Life in a grand and compelling way. It promises to be an experience no one wants to miss.
The coming years promise even more highlights, and Worlds Beyond looks forward to experiencing new musical adventures together with their fans.
https://www.facebook.com/worldsbeyondofficial
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: February 4th 2025
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
For fans of: Gorguts | Obliveon | Pestilence | Believer
Beneath a grieving, tortured sky, the world burns. Once grand cities wreathed in smoke, their towering edifices crumbling, collapsing into ruin. The remnants of humanity crawl through the ashes on blistering hands and knees, choking on the fumes of their own annihilation. The failed caretakers of a paradise become a boundless charnel house in flame. The dead and the soon to be dead lie in mountains of scorched flesh and heat cracked bone, a testament to the grotesque ignorance and arrogance of man…wilfully blind and consumed by greed until the very end. These are the final moments of our Eden, our miracle of life that we raped and plundered, warped and manipulated into a twisted carnival of atrocities.
Having blazed a trail in the early ‘90s with their four highly regarded demos, Canada’s death/thrash pioneers Sarkasm, burst back into life in 2019 – signing with Xtreem Music and releasing their first full length album, As Empires Decay, in 2023. Now it is time for the next chapter in the Sarkasm story to begin, as they prepare to unleash their second album, the momentous Carnival Of Atrocities. Opening with the forearm smash of ‘I Am Chaos’, Carnival Of Atrocities immediately sets out what Sarkasm are all about; massive crunching riffs, huge, domineering drums and the magnificent vocal power of Bruno Bernier – who also fronts the reborn Obliveon - all brought together in immaculately structured songs where technical complexity is tempered by finely wrought hooks. ‘Murmurs From The Void’ is an early highlight, with Bernier’s vocals rising up between the snapping drums and those thick, textured riffs while a perfectly expressed guitar solo brings the song to its conclusion, with every note considered and carefully chosen. Throughout the album, songs like ‘Cold Empty Rooms’ and ‘Echoes Of Hyperion’ demonstrate that Sarkasm stand apart from the pack; operating in a different sphere to most bands, they plot a course that heads confidently into unexplored territories. When the armour-plated ‘Deadweight’ fades into silence, after a relentless, remorseless display of bludgeoning power, you are left with a need for more…for one more play, one more ride through the maze of blood, one more journey through the Carnival Of Atrocities!
The sound on Carnival Of Atrocities, captured by producer Maxime Lacroix (Gastrorrexis etc) and the mastering of the respected Dan Swanö (Asphyx, Avulsed, Incantation etc) is perfect for Sarkasm, giving a strength and prominence to every instrument, without sacrificing the clarity required to appreciate these well defined songs. When Xtreem Music release this stunning album on February 4th, on CD, vinyl and cassette formats, it will surely see Sarkasm ascending to the heady heights that their music has always deserved. Be prepared for a masterclass in technical, addictive, impactful metal that you’ll never forget!
Line-up:
Bruno Bernier - Vocals
François Dubuc - Guitars
Yves Parent - Guitars
Dave Bouchard - Bass
Simon Thibodeau - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sarkasmqc
ZERO ABSOLU – “LA SAIGNÉE”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: AOP Records
VÖ: 31.01.2025
With members of ALCEST and REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER
ZERO ABSOLU is the band formerly known as Glaciation.Glaciation was a project founded in 2011 by François Duguest (instruments) and Jean Valnoir Simoulin (Vocals, art direction).
The group then expanded to include Hugo Moerman (who became the 3rd permanent member of the group), the two main members of Alcest, and Lychar.
In 2012, they released the album «1994». The lyrics nostalgically and bitterly revisit Valnoir’s experience within the Black Metal scene throughout the 90s.
Valnoir temporarily left the band in 2014 and was replaced by RMS Hreidmarr.
In 2015, the album «Sur les falaises de marbre» was released by Osmose. Productions. Due to alcoholism issues (among others), Hreidmarr was later removed from the band. He then decided, without informing anyone, to assemble a new lineup and illegally registered the name «Glaciation» with the French Institute for Intellectual Property.
In 2023, the core of the original lineup (obviously without Hreidmarr), accompanied by a member of Regarde les hommes tomber and another from Alcest, recorded a new album: La saignée («The Bloodletting»). The lyrics take the form of a pamphlet confronting the enemies of the band and the Metal scene in general.
In 2024, to put an end to the drama, they decided to rename Glaciation to ZÉRO ABSOLU, and signs with AOP.
https://www.facebook.com/metastazisparis
Little Rock (AR) - Beatdown Death Metal Horde, OPEN KASKET, will release their debut full-length album, TRIALS OF FAILURE, on February 7!
A
crushing slab of Death Metal, Trials of Failure comes to you on
digital and cassette formats by California-based label, Barbaric Brutality Records. The album will also be
available via the Open Kasket bandcamp page.
Thematically, Trials of Failure revolves around self deprecation and full criticism of one's self. Sonically, the album is a demolition demonstration of caustic riffing and relentless pummeling. Add guest vocal spots on "Internal Threat" (Stan Liszewski of Terminal Nation), "Chain Whip" (Bryson Sherick of Backbiter), and "Chemical Death" (Jackson Edwards of Zashed), and the package is complete. Subtly is anathema. Force is paramount.
The album's first single, "Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)," will be released on January 17.
Track Listing:
1. Ersatz (Sine Die)
2. No Value
3. Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)
4. Bruised Sprainstein
5. Should
6. Putrid Existence
7. Defective
8. Chain Whip (feat. Backbiter)
9. Chemical Death (feat. Zashed)
10. Ripped Up
Credits:
Drums engineered at Wolfman Studios.
Mixed/Mastered/Reamped by Conor Haines at Corruption Studios.
Line-Up:
Fox Stillman - Vocals
Jacob Stillman - Guitar
Ethan Graham - Guitar
Jake Rasch - Bass/Vocals
Ryan Thibault - Drums
Bio:
Open Kasket is a Beatdown Death Metal band straight from Little Rock, AR. Formed in 2022, the band’s sound revolves around slamming riffs, groovy drums, and monstrous bass. These components together create the all out violent sound that the band delivers.
https://www.nightshiftmerch.com/pages/barbaric-brutality
https://www.facebook.com/openkaskethc
It is available at: https://youtu.be/pzFCx6CHjhc
The track features Bargnatt XIX (aka Krys Fruit-denhez) from OPHE, ECR.LINF, OMRÅDE as special guest on vocals and offers a new facet of the French Iconoclastic and polymorphic Black Metal duo. It's a violent industrial Black Metal with apocalyptic atmosphere and distopyc sounds, an oppressive song in the vein of the best Dødheimsgard, Akhlys, Blut Aus Nord, Deadspace dealing about the addiction and its symptoms: egocentrism, depression, withdrawal.
BERLIAL, how to feed the disaster, knowing you can't do without it.
"Nourishing The Disaster To Come" will be released on February 7th, 2025 on My Kingdom Music in digipak CD, LP (black and splatter blue vinyls) and digital.
You can PRE-ORDER here: https://shorturl.at/84xCN
Cover (realized by Jeff Grimal)
Tracklist:
1. The Last Dance
2. Nouveau Monde
3. We Deserve To Fall Again
4. Ivresse De La Finitude
5. Nourishing The Disaster To Come
6. Le Néant Pour Éternité
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
http://www.facebook.com/berlial666
INSURRECTION – “EXILED TO EARTH BONUS”
Format: Music Cassette(digitally, only the 4 'ETE' EP tracks
will be available to stream in 8-BIT)
Label: Tunnelgeur Records
For fans of : Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, At The Gates, Carcass and so on…..
Tracklist:
Side A:
01. Hopeless World Below
02. The End Of Honesty
03. In Terram Extorres
04. Crimson Skies
05. Futile Existence(live)
06. Dawn Of Defeat(live)
07. Moribund(live)
8-BIT:
01. Hopeless World Below
02. The End Of Honesty
03. In Terram Extorres
04. Crimson Skies
05. Spiralling Down
06. On Circles Of Despair
07. Moribund
INSURRECTION (NL) offers the ultimate blend between brutality, melody and catchiness with their raging melodic death/thrash. Hailing from the north of the Netherlands, founded in 2008, these Dutch thrashers released their critically acclaimed 6-track debut EP 'Catatonic' on Big Bad Wolf Records in 2015. First print sold-out in no time and Insurrection subsequently did a whole shitload of shows promoting this release in the Netherlands and Germany.
Following up their successful debut EP, Insurrection released full-length album ‘Circles Of Despair’ in 2019 on Big Bad Wolf/Headbangers Records (mix & mastering by Fredrik Nordström, who previously mixed In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir etc.). Still tight and energetic, but pushing the envelope on this release by refining their death/thrash sound into a more diverse approach.
With 4-track EP ‘Exiled To Earth’, Insurrection presented their most melodic and mature release in 2023. Containing meticulously written and thought out melodeath/thrash tracks. Equally aggressive, upbeat and melodic, but with an added touch of prog and atmosphere this time. ‘Exiled To Earth’ was mixed and mastered by Mendel bij de Leij (Aborted, Severe Torture, Haliphron a.o.).
Critically acclaimed for their killer songwriting skills and their tight live performances (more than 120 shows played all over Europe with metal icons such as Destruction, Cryptopsy, King Diamond, Cradle Of Filth, Suffocation, Hypocrisy a.o.) during the past few years, Insurrections quality is no longer an underground secret. With a special edition re-release of ‘Exiled To Earth’ (including 10 (!) live & 8-BIT bonus tracks) these melodeath/thrashers are ready to rise like the tide out of the underground!
INSURRECTION is:
Douwe Talma: Drums
Marten Hutten: Guitar
Armand Venema: Guitar
Pieter Oeverling: Vocals/Bassguitar
https://www.facebook.com/Tunnelgeur/
https://www.facebook.com/Insurrectionofficial
Label: Independent Release
Release Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Lord Belial | Behemoth | Belphegor
It was five years ago that they walked out of the Arizona deserts, figures shimmering in the heat. In a moment they stood before us and cast the puzzle box of Pestilence Reborn at our feet. Then without word or discernible movement they were once again part of the mirage manipulated horizon. Thoughtless and careless, mesmerized by this unlooked for gift, we reached for the box, eager fingers caressing symbols and sigils that seemed to excrete sickness through our skin…and then the pain began, the nightmares of hook and claw and barbed wire embrace…an eternity of agony.
Now screams become silence…and they are here again, the desert sun at their backs. They offer us a glass of emerald liquid that seems to move within the clear walls that surround it. Bile Of The Gods. Without hesitation we take it. We drink, we swallow…we are undone.
In truth, Phoenix residents Deadspawn haven’t been silent since their Pestilence Reborn debut album appeared in 2020; there’s been a single, a split release with Swarm Of Serpents and a rough and raw live outing – Live At The Beast 2023. However what fans have really been waiting for is a second full length studio album…and now it is here. Bile Of The Gods is a staggering outpouring of blackened death metal, as hypnotic as it is devastating. From the triumphant announcement of their return that is opener ‘Unsleep’ to the many layered masterpiece of extremity and terror, ‘Bile Of The Gods’ itself, that concludes this stunning album, this is an utterly absorbing listening experience. Time stands still as you are swept through this array of secrets and dark wonders. Be it the arcane spellcraft and devastating power of ‘Eyes Of Savior’ or ‘Eminence Upon The Throne’, a collision of textures, melodies and wicked riffs that dance like spiders across your frozen face, Bile Of The Gods is an all encompassing kingdom of nightmares. Breathtakingly accomplished in its presentation, Bile Of The Gods is the work of musicians who are masters of their craft. There is an unearthly vitality that writhes through each individual performance and the resulting atmosphere is haunting. This is a triumph of the extreme music arts and a testament to the enduring potency and strength of Deadspawn!
The set of songs that Deadspawn crafted for Bile Of The Gods deserved to be presented in the best possible manner. With this in mind the band sought out the mixing and mastering skills of Phil Pluskota, who has worked with Dååth, Wormhole, Vulvodynia and many more, to make sure that the full impactful nature of every note, every commanding word could be appreciated. And to put the final seal of quality upon their infernal creation? There was only one artist to call upon for the cover image of Bile Of The Gods – Jon Zig (Deeds Of Flesh, Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm etc). His striking imagery perfectly complements the majestic sounds that lurk beneath it. Bile Of The Gods will be unleashed on January 24th and be assured, Deadspawn have delivered everything you could wish for in terms of epic, imaginative, decimating blackened death metal. Drink deep and dream!
Line-up:
Curt DuRocher - Guitar/Vocals
Ryan Frech - Drums
John Rueger - Bass/Backing Vocals
Ryan Roubison - Guitar/Backing Vocals
All music and lyrics by Curt DuRocher
https://www.facebook.com/DeadspawnOfficial/
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD / Vinyl (limited to 200 pieces in
special colour, possible repress will then be standard black)
Label: Independent Release
For fans of: In Flames, Wolfheart, Insomnium, At The Gates, Be'lakor and the like….
Tracklist:
01 Travail Pt. I - Anima
02 Travail Pt. II - Animus
03 Amaranth
04 Grand Denial
05 Circuition
06 Withered
07 Inner Paradigm
Nephylim was founded in 2015 by friends Kevin van Geffen (guitar) and Rens van de Ven (first on guitar, later on bass).
From the start it was immediately clear in which style the band would operate: the Gothenburg melodic death metal.
After a number of line-up changes, the band has had the same line-up for years now, with the latest addition being Tijn Bosters as singer, also known from Depths of Kronos and Basterd Bound.
In the summer of 2021, the band was asked to play a Corona-proof concert in the W2 in Den Bosch, where they impressed programmer Rob van der Ham. “I was immediately captivated by the band. A very unique sound and they know exactly how to convey it. Then I immediately thought of Music Hub, because this band deserves an extra push and can certainly use it.”
'Circuition' is the long-awaited follow-up to the debut album 'Severance of Serenity'.
Just like the debut album, 'Circuition' is a conceptual album that explores the concepts of 'the cycle of life' and the 'wheel of fate'. Each song on the record is connected to a meaning or state of being, such as the origin of life: birth, the consequences of old age or everyone's perception of the circulation of life.
By pushing the boundaries in terms of overall production and quality, music and lyrical compositions, 'Circuition' has become a product that is considered to be suitable for the global elite.
With the help of a crowdfunding campaign, the public has supported the band financially and made it clear that they are excited and ready for 'Circuition'.
Album Credits
Produced by Joost van den Broek, Yarne Heylen and Nephylim.
Drums recorded at Sandlane Recording Facilities, engineered by Jos Driessen.
Guitars, bass & vocals recorded at Project Zero Studio, engineered by Yarne Heylen.
Guitar reamped at Sandlane Recording Facilities, engineered by Jos Driessen.
Mixed by Joost van den Broek at Sandlane Recording Facilities.
Mastered by Darius van Helfteren at Amsterdam Mastering.
Orchestration composition by Kevin van Geffen & Yannick Maris.
Orchestration arrangement by Yannick Maris.
Artwork & illustration by Giannis Nakos (Remedy Art Design).
Logo Design by Yusuf Effendi (TyranT).
Costume design by Sabine Sleddens.
Line-Up
Tijn Bosters – Lead vocals
Kevin van Geffen – Guitars & Clean/Backing vocals
Ralph Lentink – Guitars
Rens van de Ven – Bass
Martijn Paauwe – Drums
Thematically, Trials of Failure revolves around self deprecation and full criticism of one's self. Sonically, the album is a demolition demonstration of caustic riffing and relentless pummeling. Add guest vocal spots on "Internal Threat" (Stan Liszewski of Terminal Nation), "Chain Whip" (Bryson Sherick of Backbiter), and "Chemical Death" (Jackson Edwards of Zashed), and the package is complete. Subtly is anathema. Force is paramount.
The album's first single, "Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)," will be released on January 17.
Track Listing:1. Ersatz (Sine Die)
2. No Value
3. Internal Threat (feat. Terminal Nation)
4. Bruised Sprainstein
5. Should
6. Putrid Existence
7. Defective
8. Chain Whip (feat. Backbiter)
9. Chemical Death (feat. Zashed)
10. Ripped Up
Credits:
Drums engineered at Wolfman Studios.
Mixed/Mastered/Reamped by Conor Haines at Corruption Studios.
Line-Up:
Fox Stillman - Vocals
Jacob Stillman - Guitar
Ethan Graham - Guitar
Jake Rasch - Bass/Vocals
Ryan Thibault - Drums
Bio:
Open Kasket is a Beatdown Death Metal band straight from Little Rock, AR. Formed in 2022, the band’s sound revolves around slamming riffs, groovy drums, and monstrous bass. These components together create the all out violent sound that the band delivers.
https://www.nightshiftmerch.com/pages/barbaric-brutality
https://www.facebook.com/openkaskethc
It is available at: https://youtu.be/pzFCx6CHjhc
The track features Bargnatt XIX (aka Krys Fruit-denhez) from OPHE, ECR.LINF, OMRÅDE as special guest on vocals and offers a new facet of the French Iconoclastic and polymorphic Black Metal duo. It's a violent industrial Black Metal with apocalyptic atmosphere and distopyc sounds, an oppressive song in the vein of the best Dødheimsgard, Akhlys, Blut Aus Nord, Deadspace dealing about the addiction and its symptoms: egocentrism, depression, withdrawal.
BERLIAL, how to feed the disaster, knowing you can't do without it.
"Nourishing The Disaster To Come" will be released on February 7th, 2025 on My Kingdom Music in digipak CD, LP (black and splatter blue vinyls) and digital.
You can PRE-ORDER here: https://shorturl.at/84xCNCover (realized by Jeff Grimal)
Tracklist:
1. The Last Dance
2. Nouveau Monde
3. We Deserve To Fall Again
4. Ivresse De La Finitude
5. Nourishing The Disaster To Come
6. Le Néant Pour Éternité
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
http://www.facebook.com/berlial666
INSURRECTION – “EXILED TO EARTH BONUS”
Format: Music Cassette(digitally, only the 4 'ETE' EP tracks
will be available to stream in 8-BIT)Label: Tunnelgeur Records
For fans of : Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, At The Gates, Carcass and so on…..
Tracklist:
Side A:
01. Hopeless World Below
02. The End Of Honesty
03. In Terram Extorres
04. Crimson Skies
05. Futile Existence(live)
06. Dawn Of Defeat(live)
07. Moribund(live)
8-BIT:
01. Hopeless World Below
02. The End Of Honesty
03. In Terram Extorres
04. Crimson Skies
05. Spiralling Down
06. On Circles Of Despair
07. Moribund
INSURRECTION (NL) offers the ultimate blend between brutality, melody and catchiness with their raging melodic death/thrash. Hailing from the north of the Netherlands, founded in 2008, these Dutch thrashers released their critically acclaimed 6-track debut EP 'Catatonic' on Big Bad Wolf Records in 2015. First print sold-out in no time and Insurrection subsequently did a whole shitload of shows promoting this release in the Netherlands and Germany.
Following up their successful debut EP, Insurrection released full-length album ‘Circles Of Despair’ in 2019 on Big Bad Wolf/Headbangers Records (mix & mastering by Fredrik Nordström, who previously mixed In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir etc.). Still tight and energetic, but pushing the envelope on this release by refining their death/thrash sound into a more diverse approach.
With 4-track EP ‘Exiled To Earth’, Insurrection presented their most melodic and mature release in 2023. Containing meticulously written and thought out melodeath/thrash tracks. Equally aggressive, upbeat and melodic, but with an added touch of prog and atmosphere this time. ‘Exiled To Earth’ was mixed and mastered by Mendel bij de Leij (Aborted, Severe Torture, Haliphron a.o.).
Critically acclaimed for their killer songwriting skills and their tight live performances (more than 120 shows played all over Europe with metal icons such as Destruction, Cryptopsy, King Diamond, Cradle Of Filth, Suffocation, Hypocrisy a.o.) during the past few years, Insurrections quality is no longer an underground secret. With a special edition re-release of ‘Exiled To Earth’ (including 10 (!) live & 8-BIT bonus tracks) these melodeath/thrashers are ready to rise like the tide out of the underground!
INSURRECTION is:
Douwe Talma: Drums
Marten Hutten: Guitar
Armand Venema: Guitar
Pieter Oeverling: Vocals/Bassguitar
https://www.facebook.com/Tunnelgeur/
https://www.facebook.com/Insurrectionofficial
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
For fans of: Immolation | Lord Belial | Behemoth | Belphegor
It was five years ago that they walked out of the Arizona deserts, figures shimmering in the heat. In a moment they stood before us and cast the puzzle box of Pestilence Reborn at our feet. Then without word or discernible movement they were once again part of the mirage manipulated horizon. Thoughtless and careless, mesmerized by this unlooked for gift, we reached for the box, eager fingers caressing symbols and sigils that seemed to excrete sickness through our skin…and then the pain began, the nightmares of hook and claw and barbed wire embrace…an eternity of agony.
Now screams become silence…and they are here again, the desert sun at their backs. They offer us a glass of emerald liquid that seems to move within the clear walls that surround it. Bile Of The Gods. Without hesitation we take it. We drink, we swallow…we are undone.
In truth, Phoenix residents Deadspawn haven’t been silent since their Pestilence Reborn debut album appeared in 2020; there’s been a single, a split release with Swarm Of Serpents and a rough and raw live outing – Live At The Beast 2023. However what fans have really been waiting for is a second full length studio album…and now it is here. Bile Of The Gods is a staggering outpouring of blackened death metal, as hypnotic as it is devastating. From the triumphant announcement of their return that is opener ‘Unsleep’ to the many layered masterpiece of extremity and terror, ‘Bile Of The Gods’ itself, that concludes this stunning album, this is an utterly absorbing listening experience. Time stands still as you are swept through this array of secrets and dark wonders. Be it the arcane spellcraft and devastating power of ‘Eyes Of Savior’ or ‘Eminence Upon The Throne’, a collision of textures, melodies and wicked riffs that dance like spiders across your frozen face, Bile Of The Gods is an all encompassing kingdom of nightmares. Breathtakingly accomplished in its presentation, Bile Of The Gods is the work of musicians who are masters of their craft. There is an unearthly vitality that writhes through each individual performance and the resulting atmosphere is haunting. This is a triumph of the extreme music arts and a testament to the enduring potency and strength of Deadspawn!
The set of songs that Deadspawn crafted for Bile Of The Gods deserved to be presented in the best possible manner. With this in mind the band sought out the mixing and mastering skills of Phil Pluskota, who has worked with Dååth, Wormhole, Vulvodynia and many more, to make sure that the full impactful nature of every note, every commanding word could be appreciated. And to put the final seal of quality upon their infernal creation? There was only one artist to call upon for the cover image of Bile Of The Gods – Jon Zig (Deeds Of Flesh, Defeated Sanity, Gorgasm etc). His striking imagery perfectly complements the majestic sounds that lurk beneath it. Bile Of The Gods will be unleashed on January 24th and be assured, Deadspawn have delivered everything you could wish for in terms of epic, imaginative, decimating blackened death metal. Drink deep and dream!
Line-up:
Curt DuRocher - Guitar/Vocals
Ryan Frech - Drums
John Rueger - Bass/Backing Vocals
Ryan Roubison - Guitar/Backing Vocals
All music and lyrics by Curt DuRocher
https://www.facebook.com/DeadspawnOfficial/
Format: Digital CD / Physical CD / Vinyl (limited to 200 pieces in
special colour, possible repress will then be standard black)Label: Independent Release
For fans of: In Flames, Wolfheart, Insomnium, At The Gates, Be'lakor and the like….
Tracklist:
01 Travail Pt. I - Anima
02 Travail Pt. II - Animus
03 Amaranth
04 Grand Denial
05 Circuition
06 Withered
07 Inner Paradigm
Nephylim was founded in 2015 by friends Kevin van Geffen (guitar) and Rens van de Ven (first on guitar, later on bass).
From the start it was immediately clear in which style the band would operate: the Gothenburg melodic death metal.
After a number of line-up changes, the band has had the same line-up for years now, with the latest addition being Tijn Bosters as singer, also known from Depths of Kronos and Basterd Bound.
In the summer of 2021, the band was asked to play a Corona-proof concert in the W2 in Den Bosch, where they impressed programmer Rob van der Ham. “I was immediately captivated by the band. A very unique sound and they know exactly how to convey it. Then I immediately thought of Music Hub, because this band deserves an extra push and can certainly use it.”
'Circuition' is the long-awaited follow-up to the debut album 'Severance of Serenity'.
Just like the debut album, 'Circuition' is a conceptual album that explores the concepts of 'the cycle of life' and the 'wheel of fate'. Each song on the record is connected to a meaning or state of being, such as the origin of life: birth, the consequences of old age or everyone's perception of the circulation of life.
By pushing the boundaries in terms of overall production and quality, music and lyrical compositions, 'Circuition' has become a product that is considered to be suitable for the global elite.
With the help of a crowdfunding campaign, the public has supported the band financially and made it clear that they are excited and ready for 'Circuition'.
Album Credits
Produced by Joost van den Broek, Yarne Heylen and Nephylim.
Drums recorded at Sandlane Recording Facilities, engineered by Jos Driessen.
Guitars, bass & vocals recorded at Project Zero Studio, engineered by Yarne Heylen.
Guitar reamped at Sandlane Recording Facilities, engineered by Jos Driessen.
Mixed by Joost van den Broek at Sandlane Recording Facilities.
Mastered by Darius van Helfteren at Amsterdam Mastering.
Orchestration composition by Kevin van Geffen & Yannick Maris.
Orchestration arrangement by Yannick Maris.
Artwork & illustration by Giannis Nakos (Remedy Art Design).
Logo Design by Yusuf Effendi (TyranT).
Costume design by Sabine Sleddens.
Line-Up
Tijn Bosters – Lead vocals
Kevin van Geffen – Guitars & Clean/Backing vocals
Ralph Lentink – Guitars
Rens van de Ven – Bass
Martijn Paauwe – Drums
Label: Invima RecordsRelease Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Industrial Black/Death Metal
For fans of: Anaal Nathrakh | The Berzerker | Akercocke | Khonsu
Hailing from the grey, industrial and notoriously rainswept streets of Manchester, England, The Machinist are hell-bent on exposing the gaping, endless emptiness that lies behind the deceptive façade of human existence. Their mechanistic, blackened extreme metal is a ferocious attack on the arrogant conceit that our lives, our pale, flickering flames in the boundless universe, so fragile and ephemeral, have some kind of greater meaning. Yet they will ride their train, hurtling to the end, with a maniacal laugh and a proud freedom, screaming for more speed, spewing their disgust on the passive and the lifeless who waste their precious moments in wilful blindness and contemptible subservience. Contempt For Life is a jackhammer attack on those without the courage for truth, a defiant glare into the eye of annihilation fuelled by solos like liquid flame and riffs hewn from acerbic misanthropy.
Building upon the blackened foundations laid down by The Machinist’s excoriating debut album, I Am Void, Contempt For Life opens with the shocking impact of its title track, a bewildering, multi-faceted assault on the senses. The guitars swoop and dive like deranged raptors above the grinding overkill of programmed drums set to kill. Then, within the black cyborg heart of the song, the claustrophobic riff attack draws back to expose a majestic, malignant landscape, towering and terrifying in its alien magnificence. ‘Cathedrals Fall’ follows in the burnt and bloody wake of ‘Contempt For Life’ bringing a stunning melodic sensibility to the barrage of gargantuan weaponry. Shades of melancholy rise like the shadows of titans between the walls of steel and a nobility of spirit is glimpsed behind the rabid exhortations of venom and disgust. Our journey through this hellscape of ashes and decimation continues with the bludgeoning, bruising ‘Brace’, the disconcerting pulse of interludes ‘Gog’ and ‘Magog’, the formidable ‘Demagogue’, a frenzied swarm of spite that climbs to closing moments of transcendence and the nightmare storms of ‘Anthropic Mistake’, before we are cast up upon the broken shores of ‘Cracks’ – a place of fractured sanity and eyeless tormentors that hasten us towards the final, ultimate end of all. Creative, visionary and scarring, Contempt For Life is breathtakingly powerful yet deceptively expansive, rife with hidden passages and tunnels that lead into ever deeper darknesses. A listening experience of enthralling intensity.
Mixed and mastered for the ultimate in cold, mechanistic force by the renowned George Nerantzis (Abbath, Dark Funeral, Rotting Christ etc) and adorned in the merciless, high impact artwork of Duncan Macpherson (Extinction Of Mankind, Deus Mori), Contempt For Life will be unleashed upon the world by InViMa Records on January 24th. Join The Machinist as they tear through the veils of deception and carry the punishing, confrontational sound of Contempt For Life to the ears of the lost, the outliers and the outcasts of the world.
Line-up:
Tobias Gray – Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals
John Thompson – Vocals/Keyboards/Drum Programming
George Kal – Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals
Bass performed by Luke Chapman.
Additional vocals on ‘Contempt For Life’ and ‘Cathedrals Fall’ by Scott Walton (Reign Of Erebus)
https://www.invimarecords.com/
https://themachinistuk.wixsite.com/themachinistuk
Finnish Deathgrind band CANNIBAL ACCIDENT is set to release their fifth studio album 'DISGUST' on February 28th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The music video for Darken The Attic is released today and it's available here: https://youtu.be/GSXtaXtBDms
Vocalist Kurwa Doktor comments the lyrics:
" "Darken The Attic" tells about the horrors of delirium tremens after sacrificing your mind, body and soul to excessive amounts of alcohol for so many years you have already lost the count."
Jondom (Bass) comments music and video:
"Musically "Darken The Attic" is quite far from our comfort zone with dissonant riffs which are like made to create feelings of pure anxiety for the listener. Song is one of "weirdos" of coming "Disgust"-album and goal was to highlight how guitar and bass has own place and space in our music even these two instruments aren't necessarily always playing same kind of riff, part or even notes in a song. This "chaotic harmony" can be heard particularly in this song. Idea for the video came also partly because of the nature of the song. Quick clips of grotesque and graphic content forced to listeners eye receptors are just like made to underline the musical feeling and lyrical theme of the song."
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Listen to the first double-single 'Scorched Meat Tactics - Explicit Everything' https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-scorched
Listen to the second double-single 'Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla / Darken the Attic' https://push.fm/fl/ca-itseinho
Track
list:1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
https://www.facebook.com/cannibalaccident
CHORDOMA – “CHORDOMA” EP
Label: Comatose MusicRelease Date: March 7th 2025
Genre: BrutalDeath Metal
For fans of: Cryptopsy | Suffocation | Unfathomable Ruination | Bludgeoned
I lean over your bed and stare down into those frantic, desperate eyes that scream silently from the red chaos of your face; all those smooth planes and protruding features transformed – as if by magic – into a shattered topography of suppurating sinkholes, shards and splinters, tattered musculature and tiny remnants of skin. An endlessly fascinating dreamscape of wounds! Meanwhile your entrails coil and glisten like enchanted serpents and white bones stand out, tall and proud, hard towers against a pleasing backdrop of sanguine softness. I give you a reassuring smile, exercising my best bedside manner before moving on to the next patient. All is going well…
A strike force formed by veterans of a thousand campaigns beyond the boundaries of morality and civilised society, members of Vituperate, Purulent Necrosis, Anal Stabwound and many more, Chordoma are here to deliver a horrifying assault of brutal death metal, a self-titled EP of merciless, scalding intensity. Beginning in a blinding blur of precision drumming and menacing, circling riffs, ‘Medically Induced Asphyxiation’ proceeds to land blow after jarring blow – shaking the brain and loosening the teeth – a no holds barred welcome to the carnage to come. ‘Innermost Intestinal Exposure’ will have worshippers of brutality in raptures as it erupts in deranged violence, delivering riffs like incisive stab wounds and touches of inventive cruelty that only the most accomplished practitioners of sonic devastation are capable. As this masterful display of the utmost extremity continues from track to track, instruments are wielded as implements of pain infliction and each element of the Chordoma sound moves with cold precision - locking, releasing, spinning, engaging, dissecting - a machine of insane design and perverse purpose…and within the claustrophobic onslaught, the surging waves of liquidised and putrefied bodies, moments of twisted genius gleam like baited hooks, drawing you back into the organised chaos of blood and agony time after time after time.
Adorned in the cruel and visceral artwork of Wong Sinting Death (Apogean, Hysterectomy, Chainsaw Disgorgement etc) and mixed and mastered to gore-soaked perfection by Travis Cook (Human Excoriation, Vituperate) at Unique Sound Design, the Chordoma EP, featuring five tracks of supreme brutal death metal, will be unleashed by Comatose Music on March 7th. This titanic collection of meticulously sculpted sadism will set the standards for all pretenders to the throne of relentless, rapacious destruction that follow in its wake. Nothing has prepared you for this…
Line-up:
Justin D. - Vocals
Blake S. – Guitars/Bass
Nikhil T. - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557678156083
RISE OF TYRANTS - “THE CHRONICLES OF CARDINAL PABLO MENDOZA “
Brace
yourself for absolute annihilation! Brutal Records has
unleashed the apocalypse by signing Italy's masters of sonic destruction, Rise
of Tyrants. Their highly anticipated album, The Chronicles of Cardinal
Pablo Mendoza, is poised to detonate on February 28, 2025.
But the devastation doesn’t stop there! The Abnormality in Structure album will roar back with a full remaster, unleashing sheer chaos on February 7, 2025. Plus, prepare for the brutal resurgence of Trauma, hitting with a completely remastered fury on January 10, 2025, shattering all limits of brutality. This is raw, unrestrained death metal terror: merciless, bone-crushing, and utterly unstoppable. Get ready for total obliteration!
Rise Of Tyrants has returned, more ferocious and unforgiving than ever. This Bergamo-based powerhouse has dropped an eleven-track barrage of raw, self-produced brutality that makes their earlier work look like a warm-up. The energy is sharper, darker, and meaner. With Davide Cantamessa on vocals, a relentless force of raw aggression and versatility, the band has leveled up in every brutal way imaginable.
The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza comes at you like a battering ram of thrash and death metal riffs, with a rhythm section pounding forward like a war machine. The guitars are unrelenting, piling riff after punishing riff, layering death metal fury with an intensity that leaves no room to breathe. Cantamessa’s vocal attack rips through the wall of sound, moving seamlessly between guttural growls, visceral screams, and brutal tones that demand your attention.
The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Line up:
Davide Cantamessa: Vocals
Federico Visini: Guitars
Luca Mairati: Bass
Virgilio Breda: Drums
This is an album that doesn’t ask for your attention, it takes it. Brutal, unrestrained, and unapologetic, The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza is a must for anyone with an appetite for death metal played with devastating skill and relentless fury.
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. Recorded, mixed and mastered at ASDR Decibel Studio, Busto Arsizio (VA, Italy) by Carlo Meroni
Tracks:
01. Colle De La Croix De Fer
02. Parigi Napoli
03. Do Mario Pederasta
04. Sysvester Stazione
05. Holly & Beppe (Only The Brave)
06. Gerry Smashed Table
07. Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
08. Celine Di Orio
09. How Can I Fuck Capitalism
10. Mirella Silver Tongue
11. Armando The Preacher
Rise of Tyrants - The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89666
Rise of Tyrants - Abnormality in Structure
Abnormality in Structure album delivered 8 tracks with a fierce and skillfully crafted assault. For those who crave raw, uncompromising death metal, this record is essential, unmissable live, and impossible to ignore. Ferocious blast beats and malevolent riffing that feel like a death metal avalanche.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89665
Rise of Tyrants - Trauma
Trauma album launches with a foreboding arpeggio before detonating into evil riffing and crushing, doom-infused rhythms. The 9 tracks oscillates between blistering speeds and sudden, grinding slowdowns, showcasing the band’s mastery of extreme dynamics and groove. The guitars inject moments of haunting melody amid a wall of unrelenting brutality.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89664
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://www.facebook.com/riseoftyrantsdeathmetal
MALAURIU/SINOATH - "MALAURIU/SINOATH"
Genre : Italian Dark Sound / Black Metal
Label : Doomentia Records
Release date : 20/01/2025
In some cases, split releases do compile together random acts who have little to do with each other. But in some (rare) cases, the end result bears a greater purpose, forging an alliance in darkness if you will. Such is the case here with cult black/doom/progressive Sicilian act SINOATH, sharing this highly collectable piece of wax with fellow countrymen MALAURIU.
Both bands don’t just share Sicilian origins. Besides, compared to SINOATH whose never-ending quest started all the way back to 1990 MALAURIU is a rather ‘new’, if quite productive with already two full-lenght and a whole lot of EP and demos under its belt, act, having being active for ‘only’ ten years. So one could also argue that stylistically speaking, the two are quite different: whereas MALAURIU is more or less acquainted with black-metal, albeit a quite experimental version of it, SINOATH sound is far more old-school oriented, if as everchanging. Yet both acts are all about pushing boundaries and following a very personal path.
Talking of SINOATH, the latter contribution ‘Symphony Of The Scythe’ sees them revisiting in a way their roots, inspired by a vision of death and its role in our everyday life. A one-of-a-kind track dedicated to the late Massimo Chiofalo, who played guitar on their 2015 EP Meanders Of Doom. On the flipside, MALAURIU’ song, ‘Scuru’, is as idiosyncratic, throwing out of the window all known so-called conventions in favour of something unique and utterly ‘out there’. The track also benefits from the presence of Regen Graves from ABYSMAL GRIEF on keyboards, adding the mystique.
Tracklist
1. Malauriu - Scuru (Feat. Regen Graves from Abysmal Grief)
2. Sinoath - Symphony of the Scythe
Line-up (Malauriu):
Schizoid - Guitars
Marbas - Drums/Bass
Regen Graves - Keyboards
Perfidus - Synth/Samples
R.M. - Vocals
Sinistro - Backing vocals
Recorded between Italy and United Kingdom
Mixed and mastered at Toxic Basement Studio
Line-up (Sinoath):
Salvatore Fichera - Drums
Walter Garau - Bass
Gianni Cavallaro - Lead Guitar
Francesco Cucinotta - Guitars/Synth/Vocals
Recorded at Phonoputìa Studio (Letojanni - Me) in April 2024
Mastered at Toxic Basement Studio
In memory of our friend Massimo Chiofalo (1970 - 2024)
Picture on cover - "Whetting the Scythe" (1905) by Kathe Kollwitz
Piano sample freely taken from "Chanson Sicilienne" by Francesco Paolo Frontini (ed. Carisch 1906) and played by Giuseppe Senfett.
https://www.facebook.com/malauriuofficial
https://www.facebook.com/SinoathOfficial/
https://www.doomentia.com/
LYCANTHROPIC
CHANTS
News:
But the devastation doesn’t stop there! The Abnormality in Structure album will roar back with a full remaster, unleashing sheer chaos on February 7, 2025. Plus, prepare for the brutal resurgence of Trauma, hitting with a completely remastered fury on January 10, 2025, shattering all limits of brutality. This is raw, unrestrained death metal terror: merciless, bone-crushing, and utterly unstoppable. Get ready for total obliteration!
Rise Of Tyrants has returned, more ferocious and unforgiving than ever. This Bergamo-based powerhouse has dropped an eleven-track barrage of raw, self-produced brutality that makes their earlier work look like a warm-up. The energy is sharper, darker, and meaner. With Davide Cantamessa on vocals, a relentless force of raw aggression and versatility, the band has leveled up in every brutal way imaginable.
The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza comes at you like a battering ram of thrash and death metal riffs, with a rhythm section pounding forward like a war machine. The guitars are unrelenting, piling riff after punishing riff, layering death metal fury with an intensity that leaves no room to breathe. Cantamessa’s vocal attack rips through the wall of sound, moving seamlessly between guttural growls, visceral screams, and brutal tones that demand your attention.
The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Line up:
Davide Cantamessa: Vocals
Federico Visini: Guitars
Luca Mairati: Bass
Virgilio Breda: Drums
This is an album that doesn’t ask for your attention, it takes it. Brutal, unrestrained, and unapologetic, The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza is a must for anyone with an appetite for death metal played with devastating skill and relentless fury.
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. Recorded, mixed and mastered at ASDR Decibel Studio, Busto Arsizio (VA, Italy) by Carlo Meroni
Tracks:01. Colle De La Croix De Fer
02. Parigi Napoli
03. Do Mario Pederasta
04. Sysvester Stazione
05. Holly & Beppe (Only The Brave)
06. Gerry Smashed Table
07. Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
08. Celine Di Orio
09. How Can I Fuck Capitalism
10. Mirella Silver Tongue
11. Armando The Preacher
Rise of Tyrants - The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89666
Rise of Tyrants - Abnormality in Structure
Abnormality in Structure album delivered 8 tracks with a fierce and skillfully crafted assault. For those who crave raw, uncompromising death metal, this record is essential, unmissable live, and impossible to ignore. Ferocious blast beats and malevolent riffing that feel like a death metal avalanche.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89665
Rise of Tyrants - Trauma
Trauma album launches with a foreboding arpeggio before detonating into evil riffing and crushing, doom-infused rhythms. The 9 tracks oscillates between blistering speeds and sudden, grinding slowdowns, showcasing the band’s mastery of extreme dynamics and groove. The guitars inject moments of haunting melody amid a wall of unrelenting brutality.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89664
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://www.facebook.com/riseoftyrantsdeathmetal
MALAURIU/SINOATH - "MALAURIU/SINOATH"
Genre : Italian Dark Sound / Black Metal
Label : Doomentia Records
Release date : 20/01/2025
In some cases, split releases do compile together random acts who have little to do with each other. But in some (rare) cases, the end result bears a greater purpose, forging an alliance in darkness if you will. Such is the case here with cult black/doom/progressive Sicilian act SINOATH, sharing this highly collectable piece of wax with fellow countrymen MALAURIU.
Both bands don’t just share Sicilian origins. Besides, compared to SINOATH whose never-ending quest started all the way back to 1990 MALAURIU is a rather ‘new’, if quite productive with already two full-lenght and a whole lot of EP and demos under its belt, act, having being active for ‘only’ ten years. So one could also argue that stylistically speaking, the two are quite different: whereas MALAURIU is more or less acquainted with black-metal, albeit a quite experimental version of it, SINOATH sound is far more old-school oriented, if as everchanging. Yet both acts are all about pushing boundaries and following a very personal path.
Talking of SINOATH, the latter contribution ‘Symphony Of The Scythe’ sees them revisiting in a way their roots, inspired by a vision of death and its role in our everyday life. A one-of-a-kind track dedicated to the late Massimo Chiofalo, who played guitar on their 2015 EP Meanders Of Doom. On the flipside, MALAURIU’ song, ‘Scuru’, is as idiosyncratic, throwing out of the window all known so-called conventions in favour of something unique and utterly ‘out there’. The track also benefits from the presence of Regen Graves from ABYSMAL GRIEF on keyboards, adding the mystique.
Tracklist
1. Malauriu - Scuru (Feat. Regen Graves from Abysmal Grief)
2. Sinoath - Symphony of the Scythe
Line-up (Malauriu):
Schizoid - Guitars
Marbas - Drums/Bass
Regen Graves - Keyboards
Perfidus - Synth/Samples
R.M. - Vocals
Sinistro - Backing vocals
Recorded between Italy and United Kingdom
Mixed and mastered at Toxic Basement Studio
Line-up (Sinoath):
Salvatore Fichera - Drums
Walter Garau - Bass
Gianni Cavallaro - Lead Guitar
Francesco Cucinotta - Guitars/Synth/Vocals
Recorded at Phonoputìa Studio (Letojanni - Me) in April 2024
Mastered at Toxic Basement Studio
In memory of our friend Massimo Chiofalo (1970 - 2024)
Picture on cover - "Whetting the Scythe" (1905) by Kathe Kollwitz
Piano sample freely taken from "Chanson Sicilienne" by Francesco Paolo Frontini (ed. Carisch 1906) and played by Giuseppe Senfett.
https://www.facebook.com/malauriuofficial
https://www.facebook.com/SinoathOfficial/
https://www.doomentia.com/
LYCANTHROPIC
CHANTS
News:
CRYPTIC
BROOD + NIGHT HAG "NECROTIC DARKNESS" EUROPEAN TOUR
We’re excited to share the final routing of our “Necrotic Darkness” European tour with NIGHT HAG with you, that was just announced by Killtown Bookings:
2025.02.19, DNK/København @ Rust
2025.02.20, DNK/Øster Skerninge @ Strafbar
2025.02.21, GER/Kassel @ Goldgrube
2025.02.22, GER/Hamburg @ Hafenklang
2025.02.23, NLD/The Hague @ Musicon
2025.02.24, BEL/Brussels @ Magasin 4
2025.02.25, GER/Nürnberg @ Golden Nugget
2025.02.26, AUT/Vienna @ Café Carina
2025.02.27, SVN/Postojna @ MCP
2025.02.28, SVK/Bratislava @ Žalár
2025.03.01, GER/Halle (Saale) @ Hühnermanhattan
See you on the roads of Europe in February!
CRYPTIC BROOD - "NECROTIC FLESH BACTERIA" out now / music video
The new CRYPTIC BROOD album “Necrotic Flesh Bacteria” is out now on all formats and available from our shop. https://lycanthropic.de/product-tag/cryptic-brood
A music video for the song "Viscid Fluis" is streaming on YouTube now at this location. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLHQ-cbTFE
We also have t-shirts and longsleeves with the album art available from our shop. https://lycanthropic.de/product-tag/cryptic-brood
SHOP UPDATE #07/2024
New items have been added to our shop: https://lycanthropic.de/shop
CIVILIAN THROWER / MORBID ANGEL DUST – “Onager Lowrider / Senseless” split-LP
DISASSELN – “Wohin soll’s heute gehen?” LP
DISTASTE – “Black Age Of Nihil” LP
DØDSKVAD – “Kr ø nike III” MC
ERASER – “Harmony Dies” LP (coloured vinyl)
ERASER – “Harmony Dies” MC
EYEMASTER – “Charcoaled Remains / Festering Slime” 7″
EYEMASTER – “Charcoaled Remains / Festering Slime” MC
EYEMASTER – “Conjuration Of Flesh” MC
HALLUCINATE – “From The Bowels Of The Earth” LP (restock)
HALLUCINATE – “From The Bowels Of The Earth” MC (restock)
KANDAR – “S í la Imaginace” LP
Lycanthropic Chants tote bag (black and purple)
MALIGNANT TUMOR / SQUASH BOWELS – “Flesh… In Death” split-LP
NICKELCRACK – “ZementXSpritze” 7″
PURULENCY – “Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions” MC
REGURGITATING WOUNDS – “Final Truth Regurgitation” MC
RETORSION – “Élve Rohad á s” 7″ (coloured vinyl)
RETORSION – “Élve Rohad á s” MC
SEPTIC VOMET – “Real Life Insanity” LP (coloured vinyl)
SICK SINUS SYNDROME – “Swarming Of Sickness” LP (restock)
SICK SINUS SYNDROME – “Swarming Of Sickness” MC (restock)
TERROR FIRMER – “The Ultimate Nuclear Core Explosion” LP
UPCOMING LOCAL SHOWS IN WOLFSBURG (GERMANY)
Am Donnerstag, den 23. Januar 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
DEFEATED SANITY (Technical Brutal Death Metal / USA / GER)
TO VIOLENTLY VOMIT (Brutal Death Metal / USA, San Diego)
PUTRID PILE (Brutal Death Metal / USA, Racine)
INIQUITOUS SAVAGERY (Brutal Death Metal / SCT, Lossiemouth)
STRANGLE WIRE (Death Metal / GBR, Belfast)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1785085368989874/
We’re excited to share the final routing of our “Necrotic Darkness” European tour with NIGHT HAG with you, that was just announced by Killtown Bookings:
2025.02.19, DNK/København @ Rust
2025.02.20, DNK/Øster Skerninge @ Strafbar
2025.02.21, GER/Kassel @ Goldgrube
2025.02.22, GER/Hamburg @ Hafenklang
2025.02.23, NLD/The Hague @ Musicon
2025.02.24, BEL/Brussels @ Magasin 4
2025.02.25, GER/Nürnberg @ Golden Nugget
2025.02.26, AUT/Vienna @ Café Carina
2025.02.27, SVN/Postojna @ MCP
2025.02.28, SVK/Bratislava @ Žalár
2025.03.01, GER/Halle (Saale) @ Hühnermanhattan
See you on the roads of Europe in February!
CRYPTIC BROOD - "NECROTIC FLESH BACTERIA" out now / music video
The new CRYPTIC BROOD album “Necrotic Flesh Bacteria” is out now on all formats and available from our shop. https://lycanthropic.de/product-tag/cryptic-brood
A music video for the song "Viscid Fluis" is streaming on YouTube now at this location. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLHQ-cbTFE
We also have t-shirts and longsleeves with the album art available from our shop. https://lycanthropic.de/product-tag/cryptic-brood
SHOP UPDATE #07/2024
New items have been added to our shop: https://lycanthropic.de/shop
CIVILIAN THROWER / MORBID ANGEL DUST – “Onager Lowrider / Senseless” split-LP
DISASSELN – “Wohin soll’s heute gehen?” LP
DISTASTE – “Black Age Of Nihil” LP
DØDSKVAD – “Kr ø nike III” MC
ERASER – “Harmony Dies” LP (coloured vinyl)
ERASER – “Harmony Dies” MC
EYEMASTER – “Charcoaled Remains / Festering Slime” 7″
EYEMASTER – “Charcoaled Remains / Festering Slime” MC
EYEMASTER – “Conjuration Of Flesh” MC
HALLUCINATE – “From The Bowels Of The Earth” LP (restock)
HALLUCINATE – “From The Bowels Of The Earth” MC (restock)
KANDAR – “S í la Imaginace” LP
Lycanthropic Chants tote bag (black and purple)
MALIGNANT TUMOR / SQUASH BOWELS – “Flesh… In Death” split-LP
NICKELCRACK – “ZementXSpritze” 7″
PURULENCY – “Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions” MC
REGURGITATING WOUNDS – “Final Truth Regurgitation” MC
RETORSION – “Élve Rohad á s” 7″ (coloured vinyl)
RETORSION – “Élve Rohad á s” MC
SEPTIC VOMET – “Real Life Insanity” LP (coloured vinyl)
SICK SINUS SYNDROME – “Swarming Of Sickness” LP (restock)
SICK SINUS SYNDROME – “Swarming Of Sickness” MC (restock)
TERROR FIRMER – “The Ultimate Nuclear Core Explosion” LP
UPCOMING LOCAL SHOWS IN WOLFSBURG (GERMANY)
Am Donnerstag, den 23. Januar 2025 im s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg:
DEFEATED SANITY (Technical Brutal Death Metal / USA / GER)
TO VIOLENTLY VOMIT (Brutal Death Metal / USA, San Diego)
PUTRID PILE (Brutal Death Metal / USA, Racine)
INIQUITOUS SAVAGERY (Brutal Death Metal / SCT, Lossiemouth)
STRANGLE WIRE (Death Metal / GBR, Belfast)
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NEWS 3.1.2025
All unseren Unterstützern, Stammlesern und Metal Maniacs rund
um den Globus erst mal noch nen richtig Gutes Neues Jahr. Leider hat man sich
in Sachen Verbrauchsmaterial mal wieder total verschätzt und auch die deutsche
Post lässt mal wieder auf sich warten, so dass der Kopierer leider schon ne
Ruhepause einlegen muss. Gut 40 neue Heftchen hat man ja doch noch hingekriegt, welche dann auch morgen auf Reise gehen können. Für mehr hats aber leider noch nicht gereicht. Also müsst ihr euch doch noch nen Moment gedulden, bevor ihr dann mit ner „Lawine“ an Bestellungen loslegen dürft/könnt – grins.
So wie es in unserem „schönen deutschen Staate“ mittlerweile schon zur Gewohnheit geworden ist, sind ja ab dem 1.1.2025 die Portokosten mal wieder gestiegen und so bleibt es auch bei uns nicht aus, euch noch nen paar Cent mehr aufzudrücken, damit ihr in den Genuss unserer neuesten „geistigen Auswüchse“ kommen könnt. Das aktuelle FATAL UNDERGROUND Nr.59 könnt ihr dann für die „Unsumme „von 3,80€ abgreifen.
“Warning Shot” is an electrifying showcase of the band’s collective power. Chop Daddy lays down thunderous slap bass lines, driving the track’s explosive groove, while The Claw shreds through with razor-sharp, incendiary guitar riffs. Goblin commands the rhythm with machine-like precision and relentless intensity on drums, setting the stage for Brain Lord’s fierce, dynamic vocals to unleash the song’s raw energy. Together, the band delivers a high-octane anthem about a man pushed to his limits, crafting a powerful narrative of tension and resolve that hits as hard as their sound.
"Warning Shot" is available at the following links:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/hyperstrike1/warning-shot
https://hyperstrikeband.bandcamp.com/track/warning-shot
Bio:Born in the Blade, forged in chaos—Hyperstrike is Seattle's action metal war machine. Founded in 2024 by bass-slapping juggernaut Ben "Chop Daddy" Bennett, this band doesn’t play music; they drop sonic bombs. With a shadowy past tearing through thrash titans Warbringer and Bonded by Blood, and reigning as the "Lord of the Low End" in sci-fi shredders Xoth, Bennett knew exactly what kind of beast he was building. First, he wrangled in Ilya, the shredder known as "The Claw," an assassin with riffs sharper than steel. Then came Adon, the "Brain Lord"—a maniacal force spitting venomous truths, carrying the fire from his days in Ghost Ship Octavius and the twisted depths of Spiritual Suicide. Together, they built a soundtrack for the end of the world: songs about nuclear meltdowns, cage fighters, and kings of the slain.
The final weapon in their arsenal? Josh, a drum-detonating powerhouse known as "Goblin Hammer," whose percussive assault forged their chaos into a relentless onslaught. Hyperstrike is a raw, unfiltered force with hearts of steel and a taste for mania. No apologies. No survivors. Just unrelenting aggression. Brace for impact—because once the trigger drops, nothing will ever be the same.
Credits:
Lyrics and music by Hyperstrike.
Mixed and mastered by Joe Cincotta at Full Force Studios.
Drums recorded at One Shot Studios - Engineered by Josh Richins.
Produced by Ben Bennett.
Artwork by Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov.
Logo by Dipayandas Arts.
Line-Up:
Ben (Chop Daddy) Bennett - Speed Chopper Bass
Adon (Brain Lord) Fanion - Maniacal Pyro Vocals
Ilya (Siberian Claw) Ignatov - Elite Assassin Shred Guitar
Josh (Goblin Hammer) Hoffman - Master Drum Blaster
https://www.facebook.com/hyperstrikeband
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease Date: March 21st 2025
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
For fans of: Ne Obliviscaris | Cynic | Black Crown Initiate | Ihsahn
Into the Void came light; out of the emptiness came endless fields of glittering stars, gleaming like gems upon black velvet beneath the impossible, towering nebulae - terrifying in their staggering grandeur and beauty. Drawn from the absolute silence, the galaxies were born and within their infinite intricacies, their splendour beyond comprehension, the first whispers of the miracle of life were heard amongst the heavens. With a word the first moments of time began to fall through the hourglass of existence…
Formed from the ashes of Citadel back in 2017, progressive death metal band Diatheke’s full length debut is a concept album that attempts to tell the biblical story of existence; from the first moments of creation to the last dark days of humanity and the redemption that lies beyond. It’s an incredibly ambitious project, but the music that the band have crafted is as staggering and monumental as their chosen subject matter. From the opening bars of ‘The Creator’, invoking the breathtaking immensity of the universe, to the exhilarating, triumphant and celebratory conclusion of ‘The Coronation’ …And The Word Is God immerses the listener in the most incredible sensory overload of complex, expansive and imaginative progressive death metal. There is so much to explore within the borders of this daunting record that you will be making new discoveries with every listen for years to come. While ‘The Deceiver’ drowns you in darkness with its jarring attack – vocal virulence and power, jagged and dangerous riffs with a discordant edge and a sense of threat rising up through the domineering drum attack, ‘The Redeemer’ (featuring a guest vocal performance from Jake Potter of Crucify The Flesh) is a self-contained symphony, resplendent in different shades, hues and colours, alive with emotion and drama. The playing throughout is remarkable and the overall listening experience is draining, bewildering, intensely challenging but richly rewarding. Relentlessly multifaceted, …And The Word Is God is a magnificent musical achievement.
Meticulously mixed and mastered by Hunter Shaw and Sam Striker of Native Darkness Productions, with carefully curated artwork and design by Daniel Hambright of Elynia Productions and Gragoth of Luciferium War Graphics, every element of …And The Word Was God is of the very highest quality. Upon its release by the renowned Rottweiler Records, on March 21st, it will set incredible standards for all extreme and progressive music that will follow in its wake. Diatheke dared to dream with this album and achieved so much more than anyone could have imagined or expected.
Line-up:
John Wesley - Bass/Vocals
Peter Watson - Vocals
Dallas McNeely - Guitars
Michael Osborn – Drums/Vocals
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/diathekemusic
We are Afflicta, a Death Metal project of twenty-year-olds born in Imperia in 2019. After the tragic and premature death of the first bassist, co-founder of the group, we took a break before resuming activity. Afflicta combines the Death Metal style with Deathcore, our music expresses extreme violence and horror.Our first album was recorded at Stefano Morabito’s 16th Cellar Studio in Rome in November 2023We have no problem surprising the audience thanks to the horror-flavoured costumes, and when you lower your guard we will hit you with the heaviest breakdowns.
PRE order CD here : https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/...
Vicrecords News :SPEEDICA- “SHADOWS OF TOMORROW”
Speedica emerged as a thrash speed metal band out of the ruins and ashes of heavy metal band "Anger" in 1986. There fast and melodic metal gave em their nickname ‘The Dutch Flotsam and Jetsam’. This compilation contains the "Shadows of Tomorrow" (1989) and "Voyage into the Fifth Dimension" (1990) demos, along with three live tracks. Speedica featured a pretty young guitarist Marcel Coenen, who later on formed Sun Caged (and now has his own Marcel Coenen progressive metal band, and Channel Zero live & Ayreon session guitars). Massive booklet Liner notes by Steven Willems (Rock Tribune and Voices From The Darkside).and old and rare pictures and posters. All the tracks on ‘Shadows of Tomorrow’ are remastered. This album will be released on Cd early December and Vinyl early 2025! The band recently reformed!
LSN (LOUD SENSELESS NOISE)- “AFTERMATH”
LSN (Loud Senseless Noise) – Aftermath compilation CD features US Speed thrash metal innovators featuring (ex) members of Agent Steel, Détente, Vermin, Reverend & Viking. Started as Vermin in 1982, some members formed LSN in 1985. Vermin went on in 1984 with Jon Cyrriis who formed Agent Steel in 1984 with Geo Robb from LSN on bass. This compilation cd contains the Vermin 1982 demo and the legendary LSN demo Fall to the Reich from 1986 plus live and rehearsal recordings. Discography 1982 – 1986. Extensive liner notes by Laurent Ramadier (Snakepit magazine).
FILTHY CHRISTIANS – “NAILED, AND MORE...”
Filthy Christians were a grindcore / hardcore / death metal band from Sweden, active from the late 80s to mid-90s. Their debut album ‘Mean’ from 1990 was one of the first releases on Earache Records. Formed in 1986 and after 3 demos they releases a split ep with G-Anx in 1988. After their debut the band progressed towards death metal and recorded their final five track demo in 1992 at Studio Sunlight (Entombed, Dismember, Grave) with Thomas Skogsberg. Cover art by Thomas Pinheiro (Malevolent Creation, Possessed, Vio Lence). As bonus comes their final live gig and rehearsal (unreleased ep) tracks, 25 in total.
BLOODCUM-“ THE CLOTHES HANGER CHRONICLES, COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY 19986-2014”
Los Angels / California cult 80’s Speed/Thrash Metal/Crossover band BLOODCUM - The clothes hanger chronicles CD Complete Recordings 1986 – 2014. Featuring Tom Araya's (Slayer) younger brother John Araya (Slayer roadie) on guitars and bass. This compilation cd features their entire discography up till their final split in 2014. The complete BLOODCUM discography (33 songs) contains: ultra rare Demotape 1986, 1987 "Death by a... clothes hanger" 12", Wild Rags 4-Way split, soundboard live 1986 and the unreleased recordings from their 2014 reunion. Plus a 16 page full-color booklet with never-before-seen photos, flyers, fanzine articles, interview with Snakepit. Remastered by Achilleas Kalantsiz (Vio Lence, Possessed, Varathron).
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NEWS 28.12.2024
MELLOM
– “THE EMPIRE OF GLOOM”
Genre: Black/Death MetalLabel: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 13.02.2025
Tauche ein in MELLOMs "The Empire Of Gloom", ein Reich mit der Anziehungskraft eines dunklen Magnetismus, das zugleich angefüllt ist mit Kälte, Angst und Schmerz.
MELLOM sind ein Duo aus Frankfurt am Main, in dessen atmosphärischen, düster-melodischen Kompositionen sich Death Metal – mal schwer groovend, mal rasant und von wuchtigen Drums vorangetrieben – mit Elementen des Black Metal, Tragik und urbaner Melancholie vereint. Über allem prangen die ausdrucksstarken Vocals von Sängerin Skadi, variierend zwischen giftigen Black-Metal-Schreien und Growls.
Der Albumtitel "The Empire Of Gloom" versinnbildlicht die Konzentration all der Düsternis auf Erden. Dave, der Initiator MELLOMs, will die allgegenwärtige Todessehnsucht im Black- und Death Metal – eine Sehnsucht, die er nicht teilt – anders kanalisieren als es sonst in besagten Genres üblich ist. In den Texten geht es vorrangig um die Ohnmacht und Verzweiflung angesichts der unausweichlichen Konfrontationen mit Verlust und Tod. So wird im Titeltrack der baldige Tod einer nahestehenden Person und die damit verbundene Verlustangst thematisiert, und auch "Rules Of The Universe" widmet sich der Konfrontation mit der Sterblichkeit und dem Akt des Sterbens.
Dave: "Der Tod droht, eine Person aus dem Leben zu reißen, während nahestehende Personen voller Angst versuchen, diese vorm Tod zu bewahren, wobei sich der bevorstehende Verlustschmerz schon abzeichnet. Dieses ›dazwischen‹ zwischen Leben und Tod wird mit dem Bandnamen aufgegriffen: ›Mellom‹ ist das norwegische Wort für ›zwischen‹. Die Idee dafür stammt von Skadi, die sehr Norwegen-affin ist und die Sprache lernt."
Neben den festen musikalischen Projekten von Dave im Death- (Discreation) und Thrash Metal (Odium) gab es immer wieder den Wunsch nach einem weiteren Betätigungsfeld. Daraus erwuchs das Projekt "13 Days Before Suicide", und es entstanden neben rein instrumentalen Rock-Songs ("13 Days Before Suicide"-Album) auch deutschsprachige Stücke, die sich im Black Metal verorten lassen – "Kurzer Moment"-EP und "Nichts bleibt"-EP –, während bei der zuletzt erschienenen "2021"-EP eher Djent zu hören war. Während hier der musikalische Output durch den Ein-Mann-Hintergrund und verschiedene Musikrichtungen geprägt wurde, wuchs in den Jahren auch immer mehr der Wunsch nach einer musikalischen Betätigung, die sich als feste Band anfühlt, sich in der Schnittmenge von Black und Death bewegt und das Atmosphärische mehr in Betracht zieht als oben genannte Bands. So war schließlich die Grundidee zu MELLOM geboren, und erste Songs wurden geschrieben.
Den Kontakt zu Skadi gab es bereits, da sie für den Gesangsposten einer Band Daves vorstellig wurde, wo letztlich aber jemand anderes den Zuschlag bekam. Dies war jedoch keineswegs auf Skadis – ganz hervorragende – Gesangskünste zurückzuführen, die Dave in bester Erinnerung geblieben waren, woraus schließlich die Zusammenarbeit für MELLOM resultierte.
Dave hatte die Stücke vorproduziert, sie lagen als Demos vor. Für die Drums kontaktierte er seinen Kumpel Matze H., der bereits mehrfach bei Daves Bands ausgeholfen hatte, zusammen spielten sie auch einige Jahre in einer Metal-Cover-Combo. Das Desert Inn Studio von Thilo Krieger wurde für die Drum-Aufnahmen gebucht; hier wurden aus den programmierten Drums reale Drum-Spuren. Die Gitarrenparts spielte Dave in seinem Projektstudio ein, für die Bassparts wurde Beli von der Band Odium verpflichtet. Der Gesang wurde bei René Ritzmann in seinen Soundseducer Studios aufgenommen, für den Mix war Simon Werner verantwortlich, während das Mastering Victor Bullok übernahm. Logo und Cover-Artwork stammen von Misanthropic-Art.
Live wird das Duo MELLOM von befreundeten Mitmusiker/innen komplettiert.
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The River Above is chock full of riff-heavy melodic death metal, similar to Character- era Dark Tranquillity and Mors Principium Est, with the atmosphere and emotion of Insomnium and Darkest Hour.
The word "Druparia" is a pseudo-synonym for the blackthorn plant that plays a part in some circles of occultism and witchcraft, and fits into the band's visual and lyrical themes of nature and mysticism. Other lyrical themes include sadness, regret, mythology, and perseverance through hardship.
FFO: Sylosis, The Absence, Light This City, Gates of Ishtar, and Skeletonwitch.
Track
Listing:1. Voiceless Regret
2. Under the Shade of Sand
3. Bereavement
4. Kintsugi
5. In Repose, Descend
6. Sever the Roots
7. The River Above
8. Of Firmament... And the Renewal
9. Bled For Comfort
10. When Cranes Return
11. The Violet Hour [The Civil Wars]*
Credits:
All Lyrics by David Moran except "Kintsugi" by Tyler Clark.
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Dan Paddy at Blackroom Studios, Copley Ohio.
Cello and Strings by Christopher “Kakophonix” Brown.
Keyboard programming and backing vocals by Dan Paddy.
Cover Art by Mark Erskine
Druparia Logo by Alex Zarko.
Photos by Lance Littlefield
Layout and Design by Alex Yarborough (@dr_metal_design)
Copyright 2024 Druparia Music. “Voiceless Regret” is dedicated to DJ Sprague.
*All songs written by Druparia, Brendan King, Dan Paddy, and Jeff Spencer, except for “The Violet Hour,” owned by The Civil Wars and Sensibility Music.
Line-Up:
Tyler Clark: Guitars
Josh Gatka: Guitars
David Moran: Vocals
Kyle Lash-Taylor: Bass and Vocals
Noah Van Dyke: Drums and Percussion
Bio:
Druparia formed with members of past bands in the Cleveland area coming together to make new music. Ideas for The River Above have been brewing since about 2011, maybe even earlier and thanks to some gracious friends outside of the band who have contributed and allowed the ideas to live on, the songs have finally come to fruition. Tyler Clark (ex-Inoculation, Mythrias, Once Flesh) came together with old Apothean bandmate Kyle Taylor (ex-Monastery) who had found young drummer Noah Van Dyke (Sea Biscuit) in November 2018. Once Flesh vocalist David Moran had agreed to do vocals if ever a project was started and Druparia had begun. After a few rehearsals, Josh Gatka (ex-Mythrias, Eternal Legacy) was recruited as guitarist the following summer and a full lineup was formed and the band released their first demo entitled Alfhem in the spring of 2020.
Influences include but are not limited to Dark Tranquillity, Darkest Hour, Sylosis, Sacramentum, Insomnium, Fallujah, Mors Principium Est, Inferi, Children of Bodom, and whatever weirdness Noah happened to be listening to at the time.
https://www.facebook.com/druparia
Label : Winter Demons (Darkwoods)
Formats : CD / Digital
Release Date: 03/03/2025
Genre : Pitch-Black War Metal from Germany
Dragged screaming from the deepest, blackest pit of the underground metal scene, Cult of Extinction isn’t just brutal, it’s the sonic embodiment of barbarity itself... in thirteen years of running this damned label, we’ve never worked with anything this savage, this relentless... submit to the annihilation, because nothing will save you from the warpath of Cult of Extinction...
At its helm stands Void, the enigmatic German architect of destruction you might know from his other impressive creation, Imperceptum, whose latest full-length album we unleashed earlier this year, but with Nightmare Ascension, he’s outdone himself.... what we have here is a true war machine built for pure obliteration, chaotic riffs tear at your sanity, bone-shattering rhythms crush your resolve and abyssal vocals echo the collapse of the cosmos... this isn’t music, it’s an apocalyptic weapon of annihilation...
For those who dare to worship unrelenting chaos, this is your altar... fans of the feral devastation of Archgoat, Krypts, Leviathan, Spectral Voice, Teitanblood, Blut Aus Nord or Bestial Warlust, prepare yourselves, Nightmare Ascension is more than an album, it’s a prophecy of ruin, a merciless descent into the abyss, sre you strong enough to endure it?
Released as a unique limited edition, Nightmare Ascension is presented in a lavish oversized 4-panel digifile with an exclusive high-gloss laminate, complete with a printed cardboard sleeve to protect the CD and a free digital download card...
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French
Chaotic Hardcore power-trio BTK unleashes their most ferocious
album yet 'SAUVAGERIE'. FFO : All Pigs Must Die, Converge, Napalm Death, Sect, Trap Them..
The relentless French trio BIND TORTURE KILL is proud to the release of their third full-length album, 'Sauvagerie'. A nine-track onslaught of raw aggression and visceral storytelling, cementing the band’s position as a force in the world of extreme music.
This one is available right now CD, LP, tape & Digital release this fall via Breathe Plastic Records, Dahlia Noir Records & The Hills Are Dead - Records but also for full and heavy streaming over Bandcamp.
...For the record...
BTK (Bind Torture Kill) is a chaotic hardcore trio from Lyon, France, formed in 2010. Consisting of a drummer, guitarist, and screamer, the band originally started with a bassist but transitioned into a trio in 2015 after several lineup changes. Known for their love of heavy, chaotic sound, BTK delivers intense performances with French lyrics often narrating the grim tales of serial killers and violent crimes.
In 2013, they self-released their debut EP, and in 2015, they followed up with their first album, Condamné. By 2018, their second album, Viscères, was released through WOOAAARGH! (Germany), Troffea (France/Switzerland), and Hell-J Industries (France). With Viscères, the band's sound took on a heavier edge, using a guitar setup routed through three amps—two guitar amps and a bass amp enhanced with an octaver pedal to create a more massive, dense sound.
Over time, their style shifted from a blend of death and mathcore to a darker, chaotic hardcore infused with punk, crust, grind, and black metal influences.
In 2023, BTK recorded their third album, Sauvagerie, at Warmaudio in Décines, with mastering handled by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East, Boston. Maintaining the same guitar setup, but adding the HM2 pedal, the album marks a significant evolution in their sound. Sauvagerie is darker and more brutal, featuring a dirtier tone, faster tempos, and a relentless mix of aggressive breaks and crushing riffs, highlighting the band's raw, savage energy.
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LICHO- “CIUCIUBABKA” available now on limited tape
Experimental black metallers Licho have released their third full-length album “Ciuciubabka” in a special edition cassette format via Devoted Art Propaganda.
Limited
to 100 copies, it is available now: https://order.d-a-p.org/The album was originally released in 2022 via Pagan Records in CD and digital formats.
The word “ciuciubabka” translates to the children’s game “blind man’s buff” or “tag” in which one person has a cloth tied over their eyes and tries to catch the others. The album tells the story of what can be seen when blindfolded, the game of hiding and catching what has fallen from the sky. It is also about, as always, walking towards the light. On foot, on horseback, by car, by spirit.
Musically, Licho continues in black metal style as on previous albums, while also taking inspiration from other genres and quoting the poet Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz. The “Ciuciubabka” album cover features a painting by Wilhelm Sasnal Polak.
The album was recorded at Nebula Studio, Czyściec Studio and Garderobie Czorta. Maciej Wasio (Myslovitz among others) is responsible for the mix, and Jaakko Viitalähde (Oranssi Pazuzu among others) for the mastering.
Licho was founded in 2011 in Sanok, Poland by Szturpak. The current line-up has been in operation since 2017 and consists of musicians also known from projects such as Koniec Pola, -S-, Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi and Gruzja.
Praise for “Ciuciubabka”:
“...dissonant BM-flavoured rock” - Zero Tolerance Magazine 5/5
“...fans of unconventional, experimental music should enjoy the album” - Heavy Music HQ
“...the members steer away from black metal and into a very unique and dark psychedelic post-punk aesthetic. The result is simply astounding. Guitars full of effects, hypnotic rhythms, Sprechgesang-ish vocal delivery, and droning harmonies will conspire to suck you into a dark vortex.” - Can This Even Be Called Music
https://d-a-p.org/
https://grotowskibm.bandcamp.com/
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Wormholedeath Records is thrilled to announce the signing of the French industrial metal project FRAU FLEISCHER. This bold and avant-garde duo will unleash their upcoming album, "We Are Not...", on February 21, 2025. Prepare for a journey through industrial soundscapes, raw energy, and fearless musical fusion that is uniquely Frau Fleischer.
Following
the success of their debut album, When The Sun’s Down, which showcased their
innovative sound, Frau Fleischer has transformed into a powerhouse duo—Greg and
Franz—who are ready to make an impact on the industrial metal landscape. With
ten brand-new tracks that reflect their artistic growth, this upcoming release
promises a thrilling blend of metal, future pop, and industrial vibes, enriched
by nostalgic echoes of 80s and 90s dance music.Frau Fleischer draws inspiration from a diverse palette of influences, including the heavy-hitting riffs of Slipknot, the atmospheric flair of Depeche Mode, and the ethereal sounds of Dead Can Dance. The raw energy of VNV Nation and the gritty edge of bands like Rammstein and Faith No More are woven throughout their music, creating a sound that is distinctly their own.
Tracklist
1 Shining Star
2 Out Of Control
3 In Your Dreams
4 Strangest Dream
5 Toxic Pathetic Love
6 From Green To Deadly Grey
7 A Fading Hum
8 I Keep On Dancing
9 Bagarre '23
10 Evolution Is Regression
About Frau Fleischer:
Formed in 2020 amidst the global pandemic, Frau Fleischer was initially a trio. However, following a lineup change, the band is now a powerful two-piece with Greg taking on guitar, vocals, drums, and bass, while Franz commands electronics and backing vocals. >From their studio to the stage, Greg and Franz have embraced complete creative control—handling everything from songwriting to mastering and delivering electrifying live performances as a duo.
Their signature sound is an alchemy of metal, future pop, and industrial vibes. Frau Fleischer’s “trashy, provocative” image and fearless spirit have earned them comparisons to Metallica, Meshuggah, Joy Division, and Faith No More, blending seamlessly with their experimental approach.
www.youtube.com/@fraufleischerband
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Stream
the EP here:https://youtu.be/bIeSLF6xpao
https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/sinister-minister
Featuring relentless drumming from Matt "Skitz" Sanders (Diabolic Rites) and haunting guitar work from Pahl Hodgson (Beyond Mortal Dreams, Oath of Damntation) and Ross Duncan (Oath of Damnation), Sinister Minister is a feral testament to Death Metal’s enduring power rooted in the unholy spirit of '80s and '90s Death Thrash, The songs channel the energy of legends like early Vader, Possessed, Morgoth, Death and the likes. This EP is an unmissable homage to Death Metal’s past and a bold step into its future.
"It really is an exceptionally good EP that deserves a wide audience." – No Clean Singing
Tracklist:
With The Blessing Of The Dead
Corpse Flayer
The Coin And The Rune
Necrospell
Sinister Minister
Line-up:
Pahl Hodgson – Guitars, Vocals
Ross Duncan – Bass, Vocals
Matt "Skitz" Sanders – Drums
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NEWS 20.12.2024
Bevor wir nun den Kopierer heiß laufen lassen und euch dann spätestens nächstes Wochenende ne neue „Unterhaltungslektüre“ für den Klogang präsentieren werden, könnt und solltet ihr euch unbedingt losmachen, um Euch ein Exemplar von HELLA IM BLACK METAL LAND zu sichern. Mit Sicherheit ist das die absolut passende Lektüre, um Euch so richtig auf die kommenden besinnlichen friedlichen Feiertage einstimmen zu können.
HELLA IM BLACK METAL LAND (deutsch /152 Seiten / Hardcover)
We’re
proud to announce that Brazilian industrial metal cult NECROTECH
are about to emerge with the debut "NECROTECHNOLOGY" EP,
their first declaration of oppressive audial cyber terrorism. Five songs,
twenty one minutes of bludgeoning, crust-infused, industrialized megaton
death-doom inspired by legends like Godflesh, Swans, Nailbomb, Bolt
Thrower, Corrupted, and Deviated Instinct.The crushing debut has been teased by iconic extreme metal bastion Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the song “Deadly Industries” - have remarked how the debut offering is “a five-song onslaught of mechanical death punishment” and that the track “is a crusty, Godflesh-inspired mechacrusher, with a relentless drum machine and wailing siren effects populating the the bleak DM landscape.“ - you can check out the feature and track https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/12/18/track-premiere-necrotech-deadly-industries/
"Necrotechnology" ominously embodies the specter of the “new third world”, a cyber dystopia rising where rogue technology, greed, militarism, pollution, injustice and deviant industrialism subdue and crush the individual, rendering them empty, helpless, numb, and downcast. New concepts and realities are beaten into the psyche as a new order is imposed, and Necrotech soundtrack this new world slavery with masterful musical vision and an imposing idea of sonic heaviness that not only marvelously
reflects the oppressive ruin of capitalist industrialization on our earth and reality with unseen craftsmanship and lucidity, but also reinstates hope and credibility in a legendary sub-genre of extreme music which has in recent times has gone far too forgotten and overlooked.
The debut "Necrotechnology" EP is slated for a January 17 2025 release on CD, MC and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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https://sentientruin.com/bands#/necrotech
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a brand-new EP from Sweden’s ARMORY, Black Star, on 7” vinyl format. The EP will be a co-release with JAWBREAKER RECORDS.
Out of the deep void in the far corners of the universe, the entity known as ARMORY was born in the year 2012 C.E. With the guiding light of the fiery stars Judas Priest, Agent Steel, and Slayer, ARMORY set out on a cosmic path delivering hyper-speed metal to every planet, system, and galaxy in their path. Their two first albums, World Peace… Cosmic War (2016) and The Search (2018), were released via High Roller Records, garnering ever greater reviews.
Under the new flag of DYING VICTIMS, ARMORY’s third album, Mercurion, was unleashed during the spring of 2022 and followed by a European tour in 2023. This further cemented that ARMORY are a force to be reckoned with on the intergalactic battleground.
ARMORY’s upcoming operations are set in motion, and the next chapter starts with the deployment of the two-song EP Black Star in February 2025 C.E. Featuring two brand-new and exclusive songs – the title track on side A, and “Solar Winds“ on side B – ARMORY deliver a rapid barrage of hyper-speed metal with influences and feelings from the dark, cold void that engulfs us all. It’s immediately, recognizably ARMORY, but this EP displays with breathless brevity that the band are handily transcending their not-inconsiderable past and setting the cosmic stage for glory of a most universal nature, all of which will be revealed on their next full-length for DYING VICTIMS later in 2025!
Line-up:G.Sundin - Guitars
A.Holmström - Drums
N.Ingelman - Guitars
P.Andersson - Vocals
J.Lundin - Bass
From Gothenburg, Sweden
Artwork:
Turborock
Release date:
21st February 2025
Release info:
black vinyl, comes with sticker
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Label: Comatose MusicRelease Date: January 17th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Suffocation | Cryptopsy | Internal Bleeding | Mortal Decay
There is movement beneath the soil, the earth shifting and resettling, sinking and splitting, as if the very foundations of the world are beginning to crumble. Down in the darkness, in the unseen kingdom of worms, an eye is burning brightly; sinews shaped by strange sorcery strain against their horrid confinement and bone fingers dig towards the light. Rotting teeth gnaw at roots and rubble that dare to impede the creature’s passage through this cold and suffocating birth canal. There are things in this world that simply will not die, no matter how deeply they are buried...
We often hear of ‘lost gems’ from the underground, forgotten albums that should have been hailed as great works, but somehow slipped down the cracks of public perception. In most cases these treasures prove to be so much fool’s gold and dust, wistful thinking and nostalgia…but sometimes, on rare occasions, something truly special claws its way up from the boneyard and into the night air. Something like Cerebral Hemorrhage’s Exempting Reality. Originally released back in 2001, Exempting Reality was the only album released by New York’s Cerebral Hemorrhage, but what an album it was! A piece of death metal mastery that blended brutality with imagination, haunting atmosphere with musical adventure, crushing heaviness with a breathtaking willingness to explore and push boundaries. Now, the label that understands death metal better than any other – Comatose Music – has broken open Exempting Reality’s tomb. Remastered by Colin Davis (Aborted, Defeated Sanity, Origin etc), with new cover art, Exempting Reality is an album reborn.
The passing years have done nothing to blunt the vicious edges of the songs that make up Exempting Reality, or to dull the creative spirit that infuses them. ‘Abusive Power’ is still shockingly good with its array of stunning riffs and wonderful drumming. ‘Remnants Of The Final Solution’ remains revelatory with its fluid melodic section and jazz inflections and the surging guitar patterns and imposing vocals of ‘Deranged Perception’ are as hypnotic and deadly as a cobra. If you missed this before then don’t make that mistake again – second chances don’t come along every day and nor do albums as special as Cerebral Hemorrhage’s Exempting Reality. Coming your way on Comatose Music on January 17th 2025.
Line-up:
Matt Szablewicz - Vocals
Matt Doreson - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Tommy - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cerebralhemorrhageband/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SINNER RAGE’S highly anticipated debut album, POWERSTRIKE, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Making their public debut with a self-titled demo in early 2024, SINNER RAGE thrust themselves into the present with a sound wholly built on the past: pure and total HEAVY METAL during the genre’s ‘80s heyday. Wasting no time defending the faith, the Spaniards return a full year later with their debut album, Powerstrike.
Truly titled, Powerstrike is an pitch-perfect throwback to the days when heavy metal supremacy were ruled by the likes of Judas Priest, Saxon, Queensrÿche, and Crimson Glory. Moving at a disarmingly relaxed strut, SINNER RAGE convey charisma and simple-yet-assured POWER during every second of this short & sweet tome. The hooks are heavy and headbanging, but the quartet exhibit a keen knack for spacious, almost-atmospheric dynamics; the riffing hits even harder when coming back from those quieter moments, and frontman Aritz Martinez’s pipes likewise sound even silkier. Some would simply qualify that as a further (and seamless) extension of old-days metal values, before speed and energy overload took over, and they’d not be wrong.
Whatever way you approach it, Powerstrike will send shivers of déjà vu through every soul who’s ever bled for metal, but make no mistake: SINNER RAGE are absolutely authentic to the bone, no matter the calendar year!
Line-up:
Aritz Martinez - Lead Vocals
Aritz Yarza - Guitar
Dan Speedhammer - Bass
Jara Solis - Guitar
Javi Rinones - Drums
From Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain
Tracklist1 Powerstrike
2 Silent Thunder
3 Highway Knights
4 Chained by Night
5 Fire's On
6 Angel of Combustion
7 Call of the Wind
Artwork:
Lena Richter
Release date:
21st February 2025
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Romanian Metal veterans GOTHIC announce re-release of iconic debut album "TOUCH OF ETERNITY"
Legendary Romanian Metal pioneers GOTHIC are set to re-release their landmark debut album "Touch of Eternity" (1997) originally out on Bestial Records in tape format. This updated release will be available in CD format via Loud Rage Music, giving both longtime fans and new listeners the opportunity to experience one of the most influential albums in the Romanian metal scene.
The CD is now available for pre-orders here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/gothic-touch-of-eternity
"Touch of Eternity" originally marked GOTHIC's entrance into the Metal world, blending elements of Doom, Gothic, and Melodic Death Metal. The album quickly established the band as a significant force in Romanian Metal, praised for its atmospheric soundscapes, emotional depth, and masterful composition.
The re-release is a tribute to the album’s role in shaping GOTHIC’s identity and its enduring influence on Romanian Metal. "Touch of Eternity" was now remastered by Nikos Palivos at Haunting Studios in Athens, Greece to preserve the original atmosphere while offering a clearer, richer listening experience.
About GOTHIC:
Formed in Petroșani in 1992, GOTHIC has been a cornerstone of Romania's Metal scene for over three decades. Known for their dynamic evolution across genres, the band continues to captivate audiences with their powerful live performances and innovative sound.
https://www.facebook.com/Gothic.Romania
Peruvian Death Metal veterans DISINTER release DEMO
COMPILATION ."DISINTER, proudly on the warpath since 1993, presents this tribute to our ancient hymns of darkness that reaffirm our devotion on the path of death!" says Roberto Leonardi, band's founding member and leader.
"Laments of the Unborn" is now available via Pest Records in CD and digital formats here: https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/disinter-laments-of-the-unborn
DISINTER’s Legacy:
Formed in Lima in the early 1990s, DISINTER quickly became a driving force in the Peruvian death metal scene, influencing countless bands with their uncompromising sound and dedication to their craft. With "Laments of the Unborn", the band celebrates their past while reaffirming their place in the annals of South American extreme metal history.
https://disinter2099.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/disinterperu
DARK REFLECTION to release debut EP this January via Pest Records .
Rising Italian Death Metal act DARK REFLECTION is set to make their debut with the "UNDER THE SIGN OF VLAD ȚEPEȘ" EP, scheduled for release this January through Pest Records. The EP delves deep into the historical legacy of Vlad the Impaler, focusing on his military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and his fight for the independence of Wallachia.
The band has already unveiled the first taste of their work with the single "The Forest of Impaled", available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z51ZKF9OwU
What to expect from the EP:
Conceptual Themes: Each track narrates key moments in Vlad the Impaler’s struggles against Ottoman forces, blending historical depth with a hauntingly aggressive musical approach.
Atmospheric Composition: The EP fuses relentless old-school Death Metal riffs, haunting melodies, piercing solos, and martial elements to evoke the horrors and triumphs of medieval warfare.
Dynamic Performance: From ferocious blast beats to somber interludes, "Under the Sign of Vlad Țepeș" showcases Dark Reflection’s versatility and dedication to storytelling through metal.
https://linktr.ee/pestrecords
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present SCUMRIPPER’S highly anticipated second album, FOR A FEW FIXES MORE, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Headsplit Records have released the CD and cassette tape editions for North America.
Finland's degraded fiends SCUMRIPPER are finally back. For almost a decade, they've witnessed the world burn through a sewer hole and felt the slime gather in their burnt-to-a-fuck throats. Now they are ready to rip out your spines with their sophomore album, For a Few Fixes More.
Following 2019’s All Veins Blazing debut, with the band’s reputation as an uncompromising live act fully established, the power-trio of vocalist/guitarist Rat Pitt, drummer Son Stalker, and bassist Cliff Hunger return with the comparably epic For a Few Fixes More. Indeed, with the runtime padded out to 28 minutes, SCUMRIPPER prove they’re still able to (quickly) kick out nasty, sewer-drenched jams, but they’re also able to get kicking in many more ways than before. Whereas most of the debut album’s tracks topped out at two minutes, most of the nine songs here on LP#2 outdistance such a short length, with the penultimate coming in “I Cum Pain,” a five-minute menace of haunting, lurking trudge. Likewise, SCUMRIPPER have come to maximize their catchiness of yore, compelling both immediate headbanging and memorability. If anything, such influences as Impetigo, Midnight, and even Negative Approach have asserted themselves more fully on For a Few Fixes More, making for metalpunk that’s more street-level – and more unique in an increasingly crowded subgenre.
Just when you thought they may have ended up in the nearest gutter, SCUMRIPPER are performing a long-awaited autopsy with integrity on the modern world. For a Few Fixes More is the crossover album no one saw coming: perfect death-thrashing punk rock for the end times.
Line-up:
Cliff Hunger - Bass
Son Stalker - Drums
Rat Pitt - Guitars, Vocals
From Joensuu/Lappeenranta, Finland
Artwork:
Ensimmäinen Kultti
Release date:
21st February 2025
Tracklist
1 I Am the Trash of Evil Men
2 Early Embittered Twilight
3 The Slime
4 For A Few Fixes More
5 Exhume the Body and Disturb the Peace
6 Crippling Void
7 I Cum Pain
8 Weather The Swarm
9 Knights of Summer
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on transparent green vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: March 4th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Demigod | Carcass | Bolt Thrower | Cannibal Corpse
At the heart of a wasteland, long miles from the intrusive blemish of artificial light, a sky of velvet darkness is dusted with a myriad of stars. In the untainted silence they gaze down in grim anticipation at a circle of stones in a place with no name. And between the stones a fine dust of cold ashes begins to stir, inviting a stain of congealed blood, which has never dried despite the endless passings of the sun, to dance. Together they start to spin, gathering pace, forming a whispering vortex in the desert night. As the maelstrom of dirt begins to rise and the distant stars seem to hold their breath, the earth splits asunder and a triumphant fountain of flame erupts. A vast and grotesque form of many teeth and many limbs breaks free from the clutches of its grave, roaring its defiance at those who presumed its death too soon…
It may have been nearly a dozen years since Spain’s death metal titans, Avulsed, last released a full length album of new material – 2013s Ritual Zombi – but only a fool would have turned their back and thought the band formed by vocalist Dave Rotten back in 1991 were out for the count. Revitalised by some key line-up changes, Avulsed have risen from their slough of despond with the utterly devastating and aptly named, Phoenix Cryptobiosis. Right from the very beginning of opening instrumental, ‘Limbs Regeneration’, you can sense that something special is about to be unleashed…and with ‘Lacerate To Dominate’ the cobwebs of the last decade are not just swept away, they are incinerated! Avulsed have always been known for their irresistible live prowess and the glorious brute force of early albums like Stabwound Orgasm and Gorespattered Suicide, but with Phoenix Cryptobiosis they have attained a new level. There’s a maturity to the song writing, a dark atmosphere of measured horror, inescapable hooks and an infusion of wicked excitement. There is no let up from start to finish, no faltering in the deadly intent – this is virulent poison to the last drop, deadly to the end. You’ll find new highlights with every listen to this genre defining album...the first time you might be caught by the cascading, carnivorous riffing of ‘Unrotted’ and its choruses that entrench themselves in your mind, or destroyed by the imperious vocal display on ‘Guts Of The Gore Gods’; the second time it might be the drum intro of ‘Devotion For Putrefaction’ that sends shocks through your neurons to your nerve endings and on the third maybe the wonderfully mangled and broken death metal supremacy of ‘Bio-Cadaver’ will dissect you and lay your spirit bare. Each track has a wealth of haunted vaults to explore and you’ll just want the bloodshed to keep on coming.
With the new line-up in exhilarating form and a final touch of gore soaked magic applied by the mastering of Davide Billia (Beheaded, Devangelic, Posthuman Abomination etc), Phoenix Cryptobiosis represents Avulsed at their very, very best. This is everything you could desire from an unwavering, undiluted death metal album in this age of fractured loyalties and pandering to the thin-blooded masses. When Xtreem Music let loose this beautiful beast, with its incredible Daemorph cover art, on March 4th, Avulsed will bestride the death metal scene of 2025 as monstrous monarchs of all they survey.
Line-up:
Dave Rotten - Vocals
Victor Dws - Guitars
Alejandro Lobo - Guitars
Alex Nihil - Bass
Santiago Arroyo "GoG" - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.avulsed.com
The new album from atmospheric black metal band CANIS DIRUS is now streaming ahead of its official release date.
BY THE GRACE OF DEATH will be unleashed December 21 on LP by Bindrune Recordings. Alte Seelen will release the CD edition (containing a bonus track) at a later date. Pre-order the vinyl edition at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/products/canis-dirus-by-the-grace-of-death-lp-pre-order
Decibel Magazine has shared the the full album stream of By the Grace of Death. Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/12/18/album-stream-canis-dirus-by-the-grace-of-death/
It has been four years since the release of Independence to the Beast (2020) and during this time, Canis Dirus have been refining their savage, yet atmospheric black metal during what has been the most prolific era of their career. 2021 found the split release, A Harmonious Union of Vibration, to surface with the project Crown of Asteria, where Canis Dirus contributed two new tracks that blended their own unique form of twisted blackness, along with an ambient influence. Was this a sign of things to come?
Armed with the fantastic drum work of CJ Yacoub (Escaping Aghartha, Neverdawn, ex-Amun), TMP (Guitars, Bass, Synth) and RH (Vocals) have been hard at work on what has become the the band's finest work, By the Grace of Death. Atmosphere still reigns in the dark sonic sphere of Canis Dirus, but on this impending new album, the band's black metal essence is at the forefront of this nocturnal hunt. TMP’s riff/playing style remains truly his own with atypical phrasing that co-exists with a more orthodox Black Metal style. The Black Metal side can make one feel isolated and attacked one moment, then calm and nurtured the next with colorful folk music that has become a vibrant element of Canis Dirus's sound. RH’s vocals contribute to the adventurous nature of By The Grace of Death with his most feral performance to date.
"Canis Dirus’ “By The Grace of Death” is an outstanding album that seeks to honor the blackened ways of olde while also pushing their sound, and genre, forward by incorporating new avenues and paths for the music, and listener, to explore." - Doomed for Metal
Track
Listing:1. Once Cursed Path Glistens in the Sun
2. Tongues That Speak III
3. A Forlorn Hymn To Absolution
4. Vultures Whisper
5. Cast My Heart in Stone
6. The Mind Sees What The Eyes Cannot
Line-Up:
CJ Yacoub - Drums
TMP - Guitars, Bass, Synthesizer
RH - Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/bindrunerecordings
https://canisdirus.bandcamp.com/
Before the festive season starts, Sweden’s blackened thrash metal band SARCATOR offers an early present for its fans with their newest single WHERE THE VOID BEGINS . The third track from the band’s upcoming album delivers a haunting exploration of despair and existential reflection. With vivid imagery, the lyrics delve into themes of isolation, loss, and the allure of the unknown. Dark and poetic, the song paints a picture of surrender to the infinite unknown - terrifying but liberating. WHERE THE VOID BEGINS will be the last single before Sarcator’s third full length album, “Swarming Angels & Flies”, will be fully unleashed January 17th.
The
band shares about the single:
"WHERE THE VOID BEGINS is the brother song of “The Long Lost”, off our 2022 album “Alkahest” - not in an obvious way but it felt like continuing on a story that wasn't complete. It's the heavy one on this album and ends up in a total rock n roll frenzy. Additionally, it is the first one we wrote that ended up on this album, so it still carries the spirit of the previous album in a way.”
Stream the new single here: https://sarcator.lnk.to/WhereTheVoidBeginsNe
The thrash metal cryptids known as BRAY ROAD is back with a brand new single and music video, titled "Burn."
This pummeling, in-your-face aggressive track represents a fusion of the band members' experiences and diverse musical tastes, delivering a sound that’s as raw as it is relentless. "Burn" is a must-listen for fans of driving guitar riffs, thunderous bass, fast drums, and the unapologetic energy of thrash and groove metal. As the first taste of their upcoming (and currently untitled) album, "Burn" kicks off a bold plan to release a series of singles and content leading up to its full release.
The band comments, "We are clawing at the walls and foaming at the mouth to unleash this banger of a track. Turn it up and summon your inner beast!"
The band has tapped Ghost Cult Magazine for the exclusive premiere of the official music video for "Burn."
BRAY ROAD derives its name from an actual road in Elkhorn, WI, where stories of the popular cryptozoological werewolf-like creature, the Beast of Bray Road, is said to stalk the area.
The band’s debut full-length recording (recorded in 2015 via Cavern Entertainment), Feast Upon the Helpless was released in the Spring of 2017.
BRAY ROAD’s follow-up 5-song E.P. entitled Formation was released in early 2019 and highlighted the band’s direction featuring a more aggressive and heavy approach across the board, while still maintaining the Thrash / Groove Metal elements that complimented the BRAY ROAD sonic landscape.
BRAY ROAD's latest release "Focused.Fierce.Relentless..." 2023, highlights the band's current musical direction.
BRAY ROAD has shared the stage with and opened for International touring acts such as Testament, Raven, Jungle Rot and the legendary Grim Reaper, Battlecross, Morbid Saint, Deceased, Embalmer, N.S.O.A. RAVEN , Whiplash, Prong, DRI, TOXXIC, Morta Skuld, Ross The Boss, and many regional touring acts, and continue to storm the local and regional scene with some of the best bands and venues around.
Bray Road is:
Nino Anthony – Vocals/Guitars
Peter Kissane - Drums
David Moran - Bass
https://www.youtube.com/user/brayroad420
https://www.facebook.com/brayroadband
Hot on the heels of their heralded debut album, Razor Wire – originally self-released in early 2023, but released internationally by DYING VICTIMS later that summer – MEAN MISTREATER return with their second full-length, Do or Die. Their debut served as a declaration of intent, showcasing a sound that is both feral and refined. Rejecting the confines of conventional labels like “female-fronted” or “NWOTHM,” MEAN MISTREATER here assert their identity as a powerful collective, committed to pushing the boundaries of traditional heavy metal. With their uncompromising attitude and undeniable skill, they stand out in a crowded genre, ready to carve out their own place in the heavy metal landscape.
The songwriting is largely unchanged on Do or Die – classic metal melded with retro hard rock, with foremost influences being Warlock, Chastain, and early W.A.S.P. – but MEAN MISTREATER’s execution is off the charts here. Urgent, passionate, like street-walking cheetahs with hearts full of napalm, the Texas natives fire off one rough ‘n’ ready anthem after another here, keeping that songwriting short / sharp / shocked. Indeed, it’s difficult to find a record this concise – eight songs in 27 minutes – that also feels so complete. It’s fair to say, then, that this blazing band is firing on every cylinder as they ascend the traditional metal ladder, leaving audiences hungry for more of their unapologetic sound and intoxicating live shows.
Proving that they’re no flash in the pan, with Do or Die do MEAN MISTREATER continue to build on their early success, delivering the intense and captivating music that fans have come to expect from them.
Tracklist
1 Killer Red
2 One Survivor
3 Nothing's Free
4 Walk With Fire
5 Do Or Die
6 Road Dogs
7 Three of Swords
8 Release the Wolf
Line-up:
Jon Gibson - Bass
Joaquin Ridgell - Drums
Quinten Lawson - Guitars
Alex Wein - Guitars
Janiece Gonzalez - Vocals
From Austin, USA
Artwork:
Edgar Regalado
Release date:
21st February 2025
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on transparent blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Following the critical and fan-acclaimed debut "On The Line Of Nothing And Something" (2021, Wormholedeath), the relentless quartet returns stronger than ever. Armed with blistering riffs, ferocious energy, and a lethal dose of thrash and death metal fury, "Where Death Hunts" is set to solidify ATROX TRAUMA as a force to be reckoned with.
Brace yourselves as "Where Death Hunts" emerges from the depths to strike on April 18, 2025. Stay tuned for more details!
"We pushed our boundaries while creating this album, aiming to surpass our first LP in every way," the band shared. "We dedicated countless hours in the studio to perfecting the sound and atmosphere of each track, ensuring it aligns seamlessly with its lyrical themes and mood. The result is "Where Death Hunts" and we’re incredibly proud of it. We can’t wait to share it with the world!"
Carlo
Bellotti (Wormholedeath A&R) stated:
"I’m thrilled to announce that Atrox Trauma, the Hungarian thrash-death metal band, has officially re-joined the Wormholedeath family for the release of their upcoming sophomore album Where Death Hunts. This is a significant step forward for the band, whose sound blends the aggressive energy of thrash with the darker, heavier atmospheres of death metal, a combination that resonates with influences like Slayer, Sepultura, and Exodus. Having followed Atrox Trauma’s journey since their first record in 2021, I was immediately impressed by their professionalism, dedication, and the sheer power of their sound. Where Death Hunts is a bold declaration from a band that has matured and refined their craft. As part of our collaboration, I'm excited to continue supporting Atrox Trauma's mission to push boundaries and reach new heights with this release. As A&R, it’s always a pleasure to sign bands with such raw energy and potential. Where Death Hunts promises to be a game-changer in the thrash and death metal scenes, we're committed to ensuring that this album gets the attention it deserves on a global scale. Keep an eye on these guys—they’re about to make a serious impact.
Stay tuned for the album’s release and prepare for a sonic assault that will not be easily forgotten!"
As a first glimpse of what’s to come, the band has released a video for their hard-hitting new track, "We Hate Each Other".
Atrox Trauma was founded in 2008, in Hungary. Their goal according to the music genre was clear from the beginning, thrash metal with death metal influences. The band recorded 2 EP-s during its earlier years besides performing on live gigs. The band's strength increased in 2019 and they have been spinning at an unstoppable speed since then. It gave a series of concerts in its motherland and countries in the neighborhood. The band creates a huge experience for the listeners with its tight, intense, fast, and face-tearing music.
In 2022 they released their first LP called 'On The Line Of Nothing And Something' by the Italian label WormHoleDeath.The listener can experience everything from the most intense immersion to melodic thrash metal. Four music videos are providing visual support for the fan approachable experience.
By the end of 2024, they took the stage in a lot of countries, performing in tours, and festivals and also recorded their second LP ”Where Death Hunts”.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri - Drums
www.youtube.com/channel/UCrKcJkba3rZAPjVPfw__RhA
www.facebook.com/atroxtraumaband
Newly re-mixed and re-mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound (Dissection, Opeth, Marduk, etc.), the album’s revamped version also comes with brand-new artwork by Kristian “Necrolord” Wåhlin (Dissection, Bathory, Edge Of Sanity) as well as special liner-notes by the band in its CD format.
Next to the CD format THE COMING OF CHAOS (RE-ISSUE 2024) will also be available as LP on 180g vinyl (Unlimited black vinyl and 500x copies limited transp. blue vinyl) and as Digital Album.
https://sacramentum.se/
"Wrapped in Talons" weaves a poetic tapestry of mortality, loss, and the cyclical nature of life and death. Each word intertwines seamlessly with the melancholic melody, creating a deeply immersive experience that lingers long after the final note fades.
With "Twilight's Heart," Cloven invites listeners to traverse a sonic landscape where darkness meets beauty, and every note echoes the eternal dance between life and death.
www.facebook.com/Cloven137
"WHERE THE VOID BEGINS is the brother song of “The Long Lost”, off our 2022 album “Alkahest” - not in an obvious way but it felt like continuing on a story that wasn't complete. It's the heavy one on this album and ends up in a total rock n roll frenzy. Additionally, it is the first one we wrote that ended up on this album, so it still carries the spirit of the previous album in a way.”
Stream the new single here: https://sarcator.lnk.to/WhereTheVoidBeginsNe
The thrash metal cryptids known as BRAY ROAD is back with a brand new single and music video, titled "Burn."
This pummeling, in-your-face aggressive track represents a fusion of the band members' experiences and diverse musical tastes, delivering a sound that’s as raw as it is relentless. "Burn" is a must-listen for fans of driving guitar riffs, thunderous bass, fast drums, and the unapologetic energy of thrash and groove metal. As the first taste of their upcoming (and currently untitled) album, "Burn" kicks off a bold plan to release a series of singles and content leading up to its full release.
The band comments, "We are clawing at the walls and foaming at the mouth to unleash this banger of a track. Turn it up and summon your inner beast!"
The band has tapped Ghost Cult Magazine for the exclusive premiere of the official music video for "Burn."
BRAY ROAD derives its name from an actual road in Elkhorn, WI, where stories of the popular cryptozoological werewolf-like creature, the Beast of Bray Road, is said to stalk the area.
The band’s debut full-length recording (recorded in 2015 via Cavern Entertainment), Feast Upon the Helpless was released in the Spring of 2017.
BRAY ROAD’s follow-up 5-song E.P. entitled Formation was released in early 2019 and highlighted the band’s direction featuring a more aggressive and heavy approach across the board, while still maintaining the Thrash / Groove Metal elements that complimented the BRAY ROAD sonic landscape.
BRAY ROAD's latest release "Focused.Fierce.Relentless..." 2023, highlights the band's current musical direction.
BRAY ROAD has shared the stage with and opened for International touring acts such as Testament, Raven, Jungle Rot and the legendary Grim Reaper, Battlecross, Morbid Saint, Deceased, Embalmer, N.S.O.A. RAVEN , Whiplash, Prong, DRI, TOXXIC, Morta Skuld, Ross The Boss, and many regional touring acts, and continue to storm the local and regional scene with some of the best bands and venues around.
Bray Road is:
Nino Anthony – Vocals/Guitars
Peter Kissane - Drums
David Moran - Bass
https://www.youtube.com/user/brayroad420
https://www.facebook.com/brayroadband
Hot on the heels of their heralded debut album, Razor Wire – originally self-released in early 2023, but released internationally by DYING VICTIMS later that summer – MEAN MISTREATER return with their second full-length, Do or Die. Their debut served as a declaration of intent, showcasing a sound that is both feral and refined. Rejecting the confines of conventional labels like “female-fronted” or “NWOTHM,” MEAN MISTREATER here assert their identity as a powerful collective, committed to pushing the boundaries of traditional heavy metal. With their uncompromising attitude and undeniable skill, they stand out in a crowded genre, ready to carve out their own place in the heavy metal landscape.
The songwriting is largely unchanged on Do or Die – classic metal melded with retro hard rock, with foremost influences being Warlock, Chastain, and early W.A.S.P. – but MEAN MISTREATER’s execution is off the charts here. Urgent, passionate, like street-walking cheetahs with hearts full of napalm, the Texas natives fire off one rough ‘n’ ready anthem after another here, keeping that songwriting short / sharp / shocked. Indeed, it’s difficult to find a record this concise – eight songs in 27 minutes – that also feels so complete. It’s fair to say, then, that this blazing band is firing on every cylinder as they ascend the traditional metal ladder, leaving audiences hungry for more of their unapologetic sound and intoxicating live shows.
Proving that they’re no flash in the pan, with Do or Die do MEAN MISTREATER continue to build on their early success, delivering the intense and captivating music that fans have come to expect from them.
Tracklist1 Killer Red
2 One Survivor
3 Nothing's Free
4 Walk With Fire
5 Do Or Die
6 Road Dogs
7 Three of Swords
8 Release the Wolf
Line-up:
Jon Gibson - Bass
Joaquin Ridgell - Drums
Quinten Lawson - Guitars
Alex Wein - Guitars
Janiece Gonzalez - Vocals
From Austin, USA
Artwork:
Edgar Regalado
Release date:
21st February 2025
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on transparent blue vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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Following the critical and fan-acclaimed debut "On The Line Of Nothing And Something" (2021, Wormholedeath), the relentless quartet returns stronger than ever. Armed with blistering riffs, ferocious energy, and a lethal dose of thrash and death metal fury, "Where Death Hunts" is set to solidify ATROX TRAUMA as a force to be reckoned with.
Brace yourselves as "Where Death Hunts" emerges from the depths to strike on April 18, 2025. Stay tuned for more details!
"We pushed our boundaries while creating this album, aiming to surpass our first LP in every way," the band shared. "We dedicated countless hours in the studio to perfecting the sound and atmosphere of each track, ensuring it aligns seamlessly with its lyrical themes and mood. The result is "Where Death Hunts" and we’re incredibly proud of it. We can’t wait to share it with the world!"
Carlo
Bellotti (Wormholedeath A&R) stated: "I’m thrilled to announce that Atrox Trauma, the Hungarian thrash-death metal band, has officially re-joined the Wormholedeath family for the release of their upcoming sophomore album Where Death Hunts. This is a significant step forward for the band, whose sound blends the aggressive energy of thrash with the darker, heavier atmospheres of death metal, a combination that resonates with influences like Slayer, Sepultura, and Exodus. Having followed Atrox Trauma’s journey since their first record in 2021, I was immediately impressed by their professionalism, dedication, and the sheer power of their sound. Where Death Hunts is a bold declaration from a band that has matured and refined their craft. As part of our collaboration, I'm excited to continue supporting Atrox Trauma's mission to push boundaries and reach new heights with this release. As A&R, it’s always a pleasure to sign bands with such raw energy and potential. Where Death Hunts promises to be a game-changer in the thrash and death metal scenes, we're committed to ensuring that this album gets the attention it deserves on a global scale. Keep an eye on these guys—they’re about to make a serious impact.
Stay tuned for the album’s release and prepare for a sonic assault that will not be easily forgotten!"
As a first glimpse of what’s to come, the band has released a video for their hard-hitting new track, "We Hate Each Other".
Atrox Trauma was founded in 2008, in Hungary. Their goal according to the music genre was clear from the beginning, thrash metal with death metal influences. The band recorded 2 EP-s during its earlier years besides performing on live gigs. The band's strength increased in 2019 and they have been spinning at an unstoppable speed since then. It gave a series of concerts in its motherland and countries in the neighborhood. The band creates a huge experience for the listeners with its tight, intense, fast, and face-tearing music.
In 2022 they released their first LP called 'On The Line Of Nothing And Something' by the Italian label WormHoleDeath.The listener can experience everything from the most intense immersion to melodic thrash metal. Four music videos are providing visual support for the fan approachable experience.
By the end of 2024, they took the stage in a lot of countries, performing in tours, and festivals and also recorded their second LP ”Where Death Hunts”.
Line up:
Imre Török – Vocal, guitar
András Székely – Lead guitar
Gyula Tábori – Bass guitar
Gergely Győri - Drums
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Newly re-mixed and re-mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound (Dissection, Opeth, Marduk, etc.), the album’s revamped version also comes with brand-new artwork by Kristian “Necrolord” Wåhlin (Dissection, Bathory, Edge Of Sanity) as well as special liner-notes by the band in its CD format.
Next to the CD format THE COMING OF CHAOS (RE-ISSUE 2024) will also be available as LP on 180g vinyl (Unlimited black vinyl and 500x copies limited transp. blue vinyl) and as Digital Album.
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"Wrapped in Talons" weaves a poetic tapestry of mortality, loss, and the cyclical nature of life and death. Each word intertwines seamlessly with the melancholic melody, creating a deeply immersive experience that lingers long after the final note fades.
With "Twilight's Heart," Cloven invites listeners to traverse a sonic landscape where darkness meets beauty, and every note echoes the eternal dance between life and death.
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NEWS 15.12.2024
VIOLENTOR – „BURN IN METAL“
Genre: Speed / Thrash MetalFFO: Venom, Motörhead, Bulldozer, Gehennah und Oldschool-Punkrock.
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 13.12.2024
The Return of the Assassins! Folter Records präsentiert stolz: "Burn in Metal", das neue Werk der Italiener VIOLENTOR, die hiermit ihre »20 Years in Metal« zelebrieren.
VIOLENTOR ist ein rohes Power-Trio in der Tradition von Motörhead und Venom – nur schneller und dreckiger! Ein rauer Mix der Einflüsse von Bandchef Alessio aka Dog und seinen Mitstreitern: Punk, Thrash, Speed und Wahnsinn – ein wüster, kompromissloser Sound, der eine obskure Atmosphäre erzeugt und in klaustrophobische Alpträume abdriftet. Oder, um es mit Dogs eigenen Worten zu sagen: "We are 100% Metal. No compromises, no prisoners. We are the most hated Italian band. We become wild animals live – an intense and extreme massacre for your ears. We kill posers, spit on the cross, piss on your graves!"
VIOLENTOR are:
Alessio Medici – Gitarre & Vocals
Michał Golbik – Drums
Roy Noizer Elguera – Bass
All songs written and arranged by Violentor. Recorded in hell. Mix & master by Ronnie Ripper – Naked Man Productions.
Discography:
Violentor (2011)
Rot (2012)
Maniacs (2015)
Putrid Stench (2019)
Manifesto di Odio (2022)
Burn in Metal (2024)
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ETERNAL RETURNS –„ LET THERE BE SIN “
Hailing from Thane (Mumbai), Eternal Returns is a powerhouse metal band that has been tearing through the scene since 2010. Their name draws inspiration from the ancient Indian philosophical concept of the eternal cycle—birth, life, death, and rebirth—a theme deeply rooted in Indian spirituality. This ethos resonates through their music, lyrics, and identity, forging a sound that is as profound as it is powerful.
Blending the raw aggression of modern metal with hauntingly melodic undertones, Eternal Returns crafts a soundscape that is both destructive and deeply accessible. Their lyrical themes delve into mythology, existentialism, and the human struggle for liberation—a cathartic journey through the endless cycle of existence.
The new album is here :
Prepare for darkness. Brace yourself for let there be sin.
The album artwork is more than a visual—it’s a narrative. Each symbol encapsulates a facet of humanity’s Eternal Struggle:
Crown – The weight of Pride.
Star (Baphomet) – The slumber of Sloth.
Pig Head – The feast of Gluttony.
Eye with Dollar – The hunger of Greed.
Dagger – The sting of Envy.
Heart – The fire of Lust.
Nuclear – The fury of Wrath.
At the heart of the chaos lies the diamond, encircled by the serpent—an emblem of the band itself. This intricate masterpiece, forged in chaos, symbolizes Eternal Returns’ vision: raw, precious, and ready to unleash its unrelenting might.
Will you face the sins within?
Tracklist:1. Sloth
2. Lust
3. Envy
4. Greed
5. Gluttony
6. Wrath
7. Pride
8. Emasculator
From the crushing grooves of thrash to the soaring melodies of death metal, Eternal Returns transcends boundaries and redefines the limits of heavy music. Their sonic alchemy merges melodic death, metalcore, thrash, and groove into a singular, awe-inspiring force.
Experience the Sins Within
Artwork by the incredible @fajar_rahadian_artwork
Follow Eternal Returns on their journey and join the revolution. The cycle begins anew. Will you dare to enter?
https://brutalrecords.com/eternal-returns/
BLOOD FEAST continues to forge its own twisted thrash metal path with the release of their 4th full-length album, Infinite Evolution. Fans old and new will not be disappointed, as the ‘Unholy Trinity’ of releases from the band’s early days – Kill For Pleasure (1987), Face Fate (1988, EP) and Chopping Block Blues (1990) – and the band’s 2017 comeback album The Future State Of Wicked influence much of the new album. All the speed, brutality and twists ’n’ turns the band is known for remain intact and in your face.
BLOOD FEAST was formed by Adam Tranquilli, Gary Markowich (vocals), Kevin Kuzma (drums) and Lou Starita (bass) in 1985 as Blood Lust. They quickly wrote and recorded their classic 4-song demo, The Suicidal Missions. Shortly after, they became a 5-piece with the addition of Michael Basden on guitar. The band was then approached by New Renaissance Records to contribute songs to their Thrash Metal Attack (Menacing Thunder) and Speed Metal Hell 3 (The Suicidal Missions). This prompted the name change to BLOOD FEAST. New Renaissance then offered a record deal, which led to the recording of the classic Kill For Pleasure album and a US tour with DEATH ANGEL. The Face Fate EP quickly followed.
Shortly after writing and recording their proposed 2nd album, Adam left the band. The remaining 4 members then re-recorded these songs, which became the album Chopping Block Blues. The band broke up shortly after the album's release in early 1990. The original 5-man BLOOD FEAST reunited for an appearance at the NJ March Metal Meltdown in 1999, but further activity was not to be. A second reunion began in 2007, albeit only with original members Tranquilli and Kuzma. Bassist Tom Lorenzo and vocalist Chris Natalini came on board in 2010, just in time for the band's first appearance at Headbangers Open Air in Germany (they were invited back in 2013 and 2017). During this stretch, Adam began writing new material, with the band even playing an early version of INRI at select shows.
The incarnation of BLOOD FEAST retaking its place in the metal ranks today began to take shape in March of 2014, with the addition of guitarist CJ Scioscia. When drummer Joe Moore joined a few months later, the unit was complete and work immediately began on what would become The Future State Of Wicked album. Live performances became far more frequent, featuring appearances at True Thrash Fest 2015 in Osaka, Japan, Hells Headbash 2 in Cleveland, Ohio, Lima MetalFest II in Lima, Peru and the aforementioned return to Headbangers Open Air in 2017. The album was released on Hells Headbangers Records in the Spring of 2017, in time to coincide with an opening slot for Kreator and Obituary on that year’s Decibel Tour at the TLA in Philadelphia.
In late 2017, Moore was replaced by former M.O.D. touring drummer Adam Kieffer. Both Adams have an extensive history, most notably in the bands Headlock and Without End (of which Lorenzo was also a member). AK slotted in perfectly, and work immediately began on a new EP entitled Chopped, Sliced And Diced. This featured one new song (Concubine) along with new recordings of 4 songs from the band’s early records.
Work on LP #4, Infinite Evolution, began in late 2019. However, the sudden ’pause’ caused by the COVID-19 virus in early 2020 allowed for reflection on the situation. After much consideration it was decided that Adam Tranquilli would add lead vocal to his guitar duties – thus ending Natalini’s time with the band. Also, after having the help of bass player extraordinaire Mike LePond of SYMPHONY X for the album, new bassist Dave Kramer joined the fold in late 2023. Now, after all the unintended interruptions and diversions, the album is finally available via long time label Hells Headbangers. Written by Tranquilli and Scioscia, it is a fierce statement of intent while adding a few new wrinkles. And in a first for BLOOD FEAST, there is a promotional video for the song “Outbreak”.
With the world opened up again, 2024 is shaping up to present a bright future for BLOOD FEAST.
Adam Tranquilli • guitar/lead vocals
Dave Kramer • bass guitar/backing vocals
Adam Kieffer • drums
CJ Scioscia • guitar
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Grapeshot was born as a band formed in Madrid during Christmas 2010. With three records under their belt they are a recognizable force on Spanish scene. Their latest release, an EP titled “Oblivion” was released in November 2024.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUBwBDjBGAI
Back in 2010, Esteban (vocalist) was excited to become partners with members of Elecktra (José A. Poveda) and Terroristars (Marcos de la Calle), bands that he had heard and seen live a few years before.
A few months later, in May 2011, they gave their first concert in Madrid. With a strong Groove and Thrash base, the songs take on their own personality, with some southern and alternative metal touches. They immediately recorded a first demo in the rehearsal room with 6 cuts of which they made a short home run to sell at concerts and gain a foothold in the Madrid underground scene.
In 2012 their first studio work 'Sons of Betrayal' was released, a 4-song EP where the band is already beginning to sound more compact and with a minimally decent production. One of their songs 'Riots' has a certain pull on YouTube and shortly after the band manages to reach the final of the Wacken Metal Battle in Barcelona. After a couple of years of concerts, almost all of them in Madrid, some in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Castilla la Mancha...
In 2014 they recorded their first studio LP 'The Scene', where they achieved a starker and more extreme sound, calling for the first time the attention of some specialized media and managing to leave the outskirts of Madrid on more than one occasion to demonstrate their forcefulness live. They manage to win several band contests and sneak into festivals such as Metal Lorca and Arrastro Rock.
In 2017 they released 'All About to End' which represents a qualitative and professional leap. In the following months Grapeshot will enter their most intense period of concerts, reaching the final of Wacken Metal Battle one more time, this time being runners-up. That year we were able to see them take the Granito Rock stage, being the sensation of the night, for many even above the headliners Turisas.
Since then, the road and work on new compositions occupy most of the time for Grapeshot, who in 2020 begins to record his third studio LP, however the pandemic stops the production of the album in its tracks until July 2020. Faced with a bleak outlook in the music industry, the album's release on the market is delayed until May 2021. 'Suckcess' takes them to tour a large part of the Iberian geography, reaping notable success from critics and the public. 'Suckcess' represents the consolidation of their style, with better production and more polarized sounds, which play with extremes and with melodic and catchy parts.
In 2024 and with the new stable and consolidated lineup Grapeshot releases its new EP 'Oblivion' in November. With 5 songs that show a good example of the band's maturity, with effective songs that play with new sounds, at times softer but also more abrasive, flirting with Sludge Metal or Southern Rock if necessary. A work that marks the opening of a new era for Grapeshot.
MEMBERS
Esteban Muñoz (singer): 2010 - present
José A. Poveda (guitar): 2010 - present
Marcos de la Calle (drums): 2010 - present
Borja Cabello (guitar): 2013 - 2020 (bassist) 2021 - present (guitarist)
Miguel García-Monge (bass): 2021 - present
PAST MEMBERS
Javier Pina (guitar): 2010 - 2021
Humberto Castañeda (bass): 2010 – 2013
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"Prelude Of Loss" was born once again from the meeting of the three souls that make up this creature (Gerassimos Evangelou - LORD AGHEROS, Antonio Billé - ANAKONDA and Andrea Tilenni - FEAR OF ETERNITY, ex SINOATH) and will be released in March 2025. A mandatory listening to those who have their musical background in the most melancholy dynamics of Metal and Post Rock of KATATONIA, SWALLOW THE SUN and NOVEMBRE, this new album will dig into your soul in search of the most hidden emotions!
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For fans of : Behexen, Seed of Iblis, and Dissection
"Anti-Cosmic Rebellion" delivers a relentless and immersive sonic experience that delves deep into themes of rebellion, darkness, and transcendence through anti-religious mutiny. The lyrics of songs such as "Qasam Be Shaytan", performed in his native Farsi, express a strong and defiant nihilism towards religion, particularly Islam. Other tracks, including the intro, incorporate verses from the Quran sung in reverse - a strikingly blasphemous and provocative display of artistry by Atash.
The album is now available digitally via Bandcamp and YouTube, under the label Iblis Manifestations. Physical copies will follow in early 2025.
Tracklist:1) Al-Fatihah
2) Wrath Of Gods
3) Shadows Of Death
4) Possessed By The Void
5) Mesmerized
6) Qasam Be Shaytan
7) To Evil Thou Shall Succumb
8) Solar Apocalypse
9) Nordnundet (Taake Cover)
10) Al-Etmam
"Anti-Cosmic Rebellion" was mixed and mastered by Manticore Productions, while the cover art was done by Viltisvm.
As previously reported, Omid is facing deportation from Norway. Due to cultural differences and the genre's association with anti-religious sentiment, Atash, the sole member of Kaaboos, fears for his life if he is forced to return to Iran.
Omid, known by his stage name "Atash," fled Iran in 2019 seeking refuge in Norway, known for its deep black metal history. He envisioned Norway as a place where he could freely express himself musically and delve deeper into the genre's spiritual and empowering aspects.
However, in response to his music and antitheocratic stance under the Kaaboos moniker, Atash faced threats from certain groups. Fearing for his safety, he sought asylum in Norway.
After four years of residing in Norway, the Norwegian Immigration offices (UDI & UNE) rejected Atash's asylum claim and issued a deportation order. The decision disregards the potential dangers Atash faces upon returning to Iran.
Heavy metal, punk, and rock are deemed blasphemous and illegal in Iran. Participation in such music can lead to severe punishment, imprisonment, or even death.
Atash has a chance to appeal the decision, but legal representation comes at a steep cost. His lawyer requires a total of €17,000, of which Atash has already exhausted €6,000. Currently unemployed due to his asylum seeker status, Atash is struggling to cover basic necessities, let alone the remaining legal fees.
Atash has launched a fundraiser to raise the necessary funds for his legal battle. He pleads with the black metal community and anyone who values artistic freedom to donate and help him fight for his right to remain in Norway.
Donate here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/urgent-fundraiser-for-metal-refugee
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Detroit (MI) - Melodic/Power Thrashers, AMONG THESE ASHES, have released a drum playthrough video, featuring Kyle Wagner, for "THE ENEMY IN I," a track from new album, EMBERS OF ELYSIUM. The video was created by Akuro Productions and is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_L_E6kzP5c
Embers of Elysium was released on December 6 via Alone Records! The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song.
In discussing the new level reached on Embers of Elysium, guitarist Richard Clark states that it "is quite the leap for us in every aspect from Dominion Enthroned. Where Dominion was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on Embers of Elysium are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners."
Track
Listing:1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
*13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)
*Bonus track, featuring vocalist Brooke Rousseau (Lady Luna and the Devil).
Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach.
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Kyle Wagner photo by Dark Dimm Photography.
Line-Up:
Richard Clark: lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals. JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar.
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Bio:
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band's central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group's sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes' debut musical offering, Dominion Enthroned, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled "The Enemy in I," which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of "Sirens" by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, "Restless Gypsy."
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
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After
'The Tower' and 'Asmodeus', now comes 'WALK WITH ME' the third
music video to be unleashed from VÖLVA'S grim and merciless
album, DESIRES PROFANE. A hymn of lust and temptation, a
pledge of dedication to the dark, 'Walk With Me' is another example of the raw
black metal power that rages in the veins of these Swedish witches.The video for 'Walk With Me' was recorded live at studio Quaalude, Malmö, by Oliver Dahl and Axel Brandt - and you can watch it right here
Desires Profane was released on November 28th - on CD by Grind To Death Records and vinyl by Fiadh Productions - and the critical response has been excellent, with the likes of Distorted Sound Magazine, Metal.de, Metal Division Magazine and many, many more handing out praise and plaudits.
Follow the whispers in your heart and join the Völva coven!
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https://imperativepr.co.uk/artist-volva.html
Hailing from the vibrant city of Liepāja, Overcast Rain is
poised to make waves in the global metal scene once again with their highly
anticipated third studio album, Black Death. Set for release on April 11,
2025, under the esteemed Brutal Records banner,
this album promises to redefine the boundaries of dark metal with a sonic
assault like no other.A Legacy Forged in Darkness
Formed in 2014 by the visionary duo Mihails Maslovs (vocals/guitar) and Kolja Kirk (drums), Overcast Rain has emerged as a beacon of Latvia’s thriving metal scene. Over the past decade, the band has undergone remarkable evolution, marked by lineup transformations and sonic experimentation, solidifying their place as one of the genre’s most dynamic and innovative forces.
Their discography boasts two critically acclaimed albums:
Since You Die (July 11, 2020)
My God Hates Me (March 1, 2022)
These releases have earned the band significant accolades, with tracks like “All Hope Is Gone” breaking into the Destrokit Rock Chart Top 50 and securing spots on the prestigious European Metal Channel rankings. Recognized as cultural milestones, both albums are enshrined in the National Library of Latvia.
The Evolution of Overcast Rain
After a brief hiatus, Mihails Maslovs and Andris Aleksejevs reignited the band in 2018, channeling a renewed vision to craft a heavier, more aggressive sound. The addition of new members and the transition away from female vocals heralded a bold new era for Overcast Rain. This revamped lineup debuted with electrifying performances at Bunker13 Fest and clinched second place at the Fresh Blood competition, setting the stage for their meteoric rise.
Their relentless energy and captivating performances have taken them across Europe and beyond, with standout appearances at premier festivals such as Dark Malta Fest, GoatHell Metal Fest, Barbar Fest, and DiFest. Sharing stages with icons like Die Krupps, Blood Red Throne, Psyclon Nine, and Ost+Front, Overcast Rain has solidified their reputation as a must-see act on the global metal circuit.
Black Death: A New Chapter
Overcast Rain finished album Black Death, a collection of 13 tracks that includes both brand-new songs and remastered fan favorites. This ambitious release showcases their relentless drive to push the boundaries of dark metal and promises to be a landmark achievement in their career.
Tracklist:
Intro
Black Death
Satanic Slut
Rain
Nightmare
Shadows
Damned
Lost
Motherland
Helloween
White Snow (feat. Artyom Kuricyn - Yomi on Flute (mokshan lang)
War (remastered)
Winter Depression (remastered)
The Current Lineup
Mihails Maslovs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Marks Širokovs – Drums, Samples, Backing Vocals
Rudolf Vistiņš – Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Andris Aleksejevs – Lead Guitar
Leonidas Heidemanis – Lead Guitar
Aleksandrs Tiškevičs – Bass
A Storm Is Coming
As Overcast Rain gears up to release their heaviest single video yet, anticipation is reaching fever pitch. Under the Brutal Records banner, this dark metal powerhouse is ready to usher in a new era of dominance.
Stay tuned for updates—the storm is just beginning.
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https://songwhip.com/overcastrain/
DREAMING DEATH Reveal Title Track From Upcoming Debut EP SINSITER
MINISTERAustralian Death Metal force DREAMING DEATH, featuring members of Beyond Mortal Dreams, Oath of Damnation, has unleashed the title track from their debut EP, Sinister Minister. A feral mix of old-school Death Thrash energy and chilling modern brutality, the track is a perfect introduction to the band’s raw and unrelenting sound.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/odlArf9yBnI
Bandcamp: https://lavadome.bandcamp.com/album/sinister-minister
The full Sinister Minister EP will be released on December 20th, 2024, on CD and digitally via Lavadome Productions. Featuring five tracks of relentless intensity, the EP channels the unholy spirit of Death Metal’s golden age.
Line-up:
Pahl Hodgson – Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Ross Duncan – Guitars, Bass
Matt "Skitz" Sanders – Drums
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The concept behind NUCLEAR DOOM STATE was to shed light on what we are experiencing in societies worldwide. The corrupt governments, the top 1% of the wealthiest individuals in the world, religious institutions, and social media platforms all play a hand in our collective suffering. The title track of the album serves as a sort of premonition of what’s to come if we continue down the path we’re currently on. Meanwhile, W.A.R. is more of a rallying cry for the middle and poorer classes to unite and change the current state of our lives. Stylistically this album was heavily influenced by bands like Death, Exodus, Power Trip, Slayer, and Gojira. It took a little less than a year to complete the album even with a lineup change in 2022. When our newest members Rob Maldonado and Ameer “TheBeheader ” Aljallad joined the band in April of 2023 we immediately went to work on all the songs that had been written over the years that would make up this album. Together we came up with some great ideas for the songs to have them reach their full potential. Rob himself even contributed to the album with his song titled Primordial Combat which was influenced lyrically by the anime series Baki Hanma
Tracklist1. The Day After…
2. W.A.R.
3. Nuclear Doom State
4. Psychological Maceration
5. An Insatiable Lust For Violence
6. Primordial Combat
7. Taxed To Death
On a cold February day in 2018, Gil Vives, Randy Reiser, and Amir Jairazbhoy began discussing their musical journey over some beers in a New York City bar. The trio soon started writing what would ultimately become their debut album, March To Your Grave. They completed their lineup with the addition of George Garcia in October 2018. Two months later, they played their first show together to a sold-out crowd at Gussy’s Bar & Grill in Queens, NY, under the name Final Siege. The band released their debut album, March To Your Grave, independently on August 6, 2021.
In November 2022, co-founding members Amir Jairazbhoy and Randy Reiser took a step back as the band moved into its next phase of development. By April 15, 2023, Final Siege had solidified their new lineup with Ameer "The Beheader" Aljallad on drums and Rob Maldonado on guitar. The band’s musical influences include Death, Thrash, and Groove metal, and their lyrics explore themes of rebellion, war, and the mental toll of living in a conflict-ridden world. Final Siege has performed alongside national acts such as Suffocation, Atheist, Wrath, Enforcer, DRI, and Warbringer.
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CORRODING SOUL – “CORRODING SOUL”
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: January 24th 2025
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal/Post Black Metal
For fans of: Unrequited | Sylvaine | Ghost Bath | Deafheaven
I have left the pain behind me. I am free and unburdened, spinning and turning, racing through the currents of memory with a lightness of being I could never have imagined when the shadows of loss encircled me, pouring like a flood of desolation into my desperate lungs. The tides of black still swell and subside beneath me, but I can see the deep fissures and fractures in its surface, rich with colours and shades of illumination that my tortured gaze could never see before; before I laid down my arms and stepped into the cold blades of insubstantial knives, until I ceased to fight and embraced the darkness, finding victory in my defeat.
Corroding Soul is the solo atmospheric black metal project of multi-instrumentalist David Lovejoy, yet that simple description does not prepare the listener for everything that Corroding Soul the album has to offer. Building on the success of EPs Hopeless and Nothing, Corroding Soul sees Lovejoy diving deeper and soaring higher as he explores the farthest shores of black metal’s kingdom, bringing a wonderful multitude of emotions, a breathtaking palette of hues and colours to its monochrome world, breaking through the ice with blinding rays of warm sunlight. Corroding Soul is made up of four movements, four intrinsically linked soundscapes that create a veritable symphony of sound and imagination; each multifaceted gem forming part of a greater whole. Opening track, ‘Shadow’ begins in beautifully tranquil fashion, before the listener is cast into a vast, evocative dream where blast beats and emotive lead guitars enfold the harsh, impassioned vocals. There is a sense of flying high above a past of trauma, looking back on life’s pain and sorrow from a new perspective as the music shifts moods and tempos as smoothly as silk. Lead single, ‘Tempest’, sends the soul soaring, its towering splendour juxtaposed with delicate intimacy. Together with ‘Bound’ it forms the heart of Corroding Soul, the two tracks enfolding you and carrying you away on cresting waves of profound intensity. And then there is ‘Sapphire’, an epic track of incredible, effervescent energy and ineffable beauty, shot through with a silver thread of bitter sweet melancholy, remembrance for a life left behind and loves lost, adorned in some cultured lead guitar work which brings to mind the flawless work of Dave Gilmour. It’s an ending in hope and healing after an exhilarating sonic adventure.
Complete with the impactful artwork of Abhijit Asad, Corroding Soul will be released on January 24th and will be available directly from the band at the Corroding Soul Bandcamp page. Accept the invitation and let David Lovejoy’s remarkable music take you on a journey you will never forget.
Line-up:
David Lovejoy – All Music and Vocals
https://www.youtube.com/@CorrodingSoul
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French Iconoclastic and polymorphic Black Metal duo BERLIAL present the first single from sophomore album "NOURISHING THE DISASTER TO COME". The song is "NOUVEAU MONDE" and it is available on My Kingdom Music YouTube Channel at https://youtu.be/ZhKK4f2DDWs and on all digital platforms.
It's Black Metal built like a wall of sound to be oppressive and melodic including 90's keyboards, a Blackened Death break, electronic elements and spoken words to sustain lyrics without compromises.
It brings them alongside to bands such as Dødheimsgard, Akhlys, Blut Aus Nord, Deadspace, Afraid of Destinity, Raven Throne, Decline of the I.
BERLIAL, how to feed the disaster, knowing you can't do without it.
"Nourishing The Disaster To Come" will be released on February 7th, 2025 on My Kingdom Music in digipakCD, LP (black and splatter blue vinyls) and digital.
You can Pre-Order here: https://shorturl.at/84xCNMy Kingdom Music: Cover (realized by Jeff Grimal)
Tracklist:
1.The Last Dance
2. Nouveau Monde
3. We Deserve To Fall Again
4. Ivresse De La Finitude
5. Nourishing The Disaster To Come
6. Le Néant Pour Éternité
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Canadian band Crown of Madness have created a form of death metal that's both dissonant and emotive which is refreshing in a genre that can too often sound too harsh and mechanical. The music even has a strange atmospheric quality to it which is comparable to label mates Devenial Verdict but both the bands have their own personal vision. Preorders for their debut full length are up now and two songs from it can be heard https://crownofmadnessdm.bandcamp.com/album/memories-fragmented
CROWN OF MADNESS – “MEMORIES FRAGMENTED”
For
fans of
Ulcerate, Devenial Verdict, Dysgnostic, GorgutsCrown of Madness have put out a slew of short-form releases, improving upon their sound with each one and culminating in this full length that sees the most evolved version of their music so far. As accomplished as it is, it also happens to be unique in the style of dissonant death metal - in that, it's deeply personal and palpably emotive, and that poignant, introspective mood pervades their entire album. The music almost has a melodic albeit melancholic quality to it that is refreshing for a style of music that usually sounds harsh and detached. At the same time the music is driven; the hypnotic riffs are invariably interspersed with bursts of blasts and there is good momentum generated in this calculated, undulating pattern which becomes addictive. 'Memories Fragmented' is a beautifully tempered album underpinned by unforgettable melodies, an ambitious release but one completely devoid of pretence, which is bound to be regarded as one of the standout albums in the style in the years to come.
Line up:
Sunshine Schneider - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Connor Gordon - Drums
Artwork by Erskine Designs
Track listing
1. Visions From A Past Life
2. Sovereign Blood
3. Burdened
4. Ashes of Mine
5. When I Don't Remember You
6. Deafening
7. Sea of Fangs
8. Dreamless Nights No Longer
9. Hollow Thresher
10. The Grand Design
Release date - February 28th, 2025
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Thank you very much!Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
GRAVETHORN'S new release "ATROCITAS" continues the debut release, "UNDERGROUND RITUALS OF THOSE UNSEEN". Harnessing the anger and sense of overcoming all who oppress- the battle wages on as we are slowly uniting as a people and coming together in numbers to dissolve those who feel the greed for power, whether religious, political, financial, or other. If there ever were an uprising, perhaps Atrocitas would be the soundtrack of a revolution. It was written and recorded in Krystof's studio when he had COVID-19, and some of the medication he was taking may have influenced how the music came out (perhaps it opened the doors to the spiritual world to share ideas of those no longer with us). Atrocitas also features contributions from notable collaborators, including Joshua Bednarski (from the band Atomic War Machine) and Dave Sharpe (from the bands Dead by Wednesday, End Time Illusion, The Cro-Mags, and Dave Ellefson’s [of Megadeth] side band).
Tracklist1. Atrocitas
2. The Great Thaw
3. Epic Battle
4. Destined to Burn
5. In Vengeance We Hunt
6. Barbaric War Declared
7. Hymns of Forbidden Places (feat. Joshua Bednarski)
8. Within the Berserker
9. Victory by Sunrise (feat. Dave Sharpe)
10. Creeping Death (Metallica Cover)
Gravethorn is a Blackened Death Metal band from Las Vegas, NV, formed in 2021 by Krystof during his journey to learn extreme metal mixing in his home studio, built during the 2020 pandemic. Initially working with recordings from his previous band Achromatica, which eventually disbanded, Krystof continued creating music, resulting in the release of several songs on Spotify and YouTube. Drummer Bob Hill (from Achromatica) later joined, and in October 2023, they unleashed their debut album, Underground Rituals of Those Unseen, which received critical acclaim from outlets like Metalized, Rock Hard, and Slowly We Rot.
Gravethorn's unique sound blends influences from bands like Emperor, Deicide, Amon Amarth, and even The Doors and Led Zeppelin, creating a distinctive blend of Blackened Death Metal. Known for embracing collaboration, the band has worked with notable musicians, including Glenn Lai (Achromatica) and Brian Crapser (Putrid Decay).
While quarantined with COVID-19 in October 2023, Krystof channeled his energy into writing and recording new material, resulting in the upcoming 2024 album Atrocitas, set to be released via Wormholedeath Records. Gravethorn continues to defy rigid genre classifications, staying true to their simple goal of making metal music, unbound by specific labels.
www.youtube.com/@gravethorn
www.facebook.com/p/Gravethorn
Finnish Deathgrind band Cannibal Accident is set to release their fifth studio album 'Disgust' on February 28th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The second double single 'Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla / Darken the Attic' is unleashed today. The music video is also done for the first track and it features Nikki666 on guest vocals.
Video
is available here: https://youtu.be/GuPBSDV3YvoListen to the double-single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/ca-itseinho
Kurwa Doktor comments the tracks:
Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla
- It's the third time when our friend Nikki 666 has written lyrics and arranged them onto our song, again manifesting the obnoxiously marvellous "punk rock" side of Cannibal Accident.
Darken The Attic
- Dissonant grindcore, blackmetallish anguish and claustrophobic horror are the ingredients of this song, which differs drastically from most the material the band has ever written.
Upcoming gigs:
14.12. Tallinn (Estonia)
28.02. Turku (Finland)
01.03. Pori (Finland)
Cannibal Accident - Disgust (Album 2025)
Track list:
1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Listen to the first double-single 'Scorched Meat Tactics - Explicit Everything' https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-scorched
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
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Introducing MARROWOMB. This Chicago-based blackened-death entity is set to leave an indelible mark on the world of extreme music with its debut album, PHISENOMIE.
Over five years in the making, Phisenomie is the brain spawn of multi-instrumentalist Frank Lato and features drums by renowned session drummer Kevin Paradis (ex-Benighted).
MARROWOMB and Ghost Cult Magazine have teamed for the exclusive premiere of the album's lead single, "Vicarious Visage," a song that tells the story of an individual so consumed by their external persona that the façade they present to the world begins to reshape their inner self.
"This song did not come together easily," states Lato. "It started as a puzzle piece, and I didn’t know how to end it. Then, I remembered a couple of old riffs I had lying around for years. I put together the clean guitar break and the ending riffs that followed it and inserted them into the song. Once I heard this result, I knew it was finally finished. The ending to this one became one of my favorite passages on the record even though it took the longest to create."
Listen to "Vicarious Visage" at https://ghostcultmag.com/exclusive-single-premiere-marrowomb-shares-a-new-single-vicarious-visage-new-album-coming-soon/
Over eight meticulously crafted tracks, Phisenomie delivers an unrelenting experience that blurs the boundaries between extreme and experimental. Each song provides a labyrinth of ferocious riffs and punishing rhythms, showcasing Lato’s visionary approach to composition. Phisenomie immerses listeners in a soundscape that is both savage and cerebral. This debut offering is more than just an album—it is a journey through the depths of the human psyche, where chaos and catharsis converge.
Phisenomie is due out on February 21, 2025. Pre-order the album at https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
The artwork for Phisenomie was done by Penny Slinger with layout by Frank Lato. Photography by the legendary Peter Beste.
Tracklisting:1) Phantasia Kataleptike
2) Sickness Unto Life
3) Vicarious Visage
4) Inner Ring
5) Black Gossamer
6) Veil of Cold
7) The Mirror
8) Despairloom
MARROWOMB is a blackened death metal project formed from the ashes of former Chicago-based bands Polyptych and Endmember in 2020. Spearheaded by mastermind Frank Lato, the artistry of MARROWOMB knows no bounds and takes an uncompromising approach to songwriting. The project takes its influences from various sources; however, the prominent focus is centered on internal conflict and struggle.
MARROWOMB opts for a simplistic approach to its lyrical content and concepts; however, this is not a surface-level entity. For those who choose to venture beyond the surface, there are rewards to seeking out additional truths, messages, and meanings within the music.
MARROWOMB is:
Frank Lato: guitars, bass, vocals, synths/programming
Kevin Paradis: drums
Guest appearances:
Greg Livas: solo on “The Mirror”
Curtis Vamarassi: solo on “Black Gossamer”
Shane Hill: solo on “Despairloom”
All guitar solos recorded by Greg Livas at Ohmstead Studios
https://marrowomb.bandcamp.com/album/phisenomie
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"Arglistige Täuschung" translated as "Deceptive Deception," is a masterpiece of dark industrial EBM that blends haunting atmospheres, intricate sound design, and disturbing melodies. Formed in 1990 in Witten, Germany by Stefan Schäfer (vocals) and Volker Rathmann (machines), the German group, known for their dark and uncompromising approach, solidified their reputation with this groundbreaking album.
"Arglistige Täuschung" was originally released in 1993 after a few tape releases, which proved to be a real commercial success for their record label with its sonic innovations and its post-DAF or Nitzer Ebb power and an underlying rawness that will remain the band's trademark over the years. A record that is both thought-provoking and captivating, from the first track "Tibet", the listener is immersed in a world of dissonance and dark beauty. It is a mood setter, preparing you for the psychological journey that awaits, without ever letting up.
The use of synthesizers is particularly masterful, with cold, metallic tones underpinned by warm, organic bass lines that give the album a sense of isolation and intimacy. One of the most notable features is the vocal delivery, which oscillates between haunting chants and a low bass voice. There is a sense of controlled chaos throughout the record, where sounds often seem on the verge of disintegration, but always held together by a singular and intense vision. It is dark, thought-provoking and bold, an album that will continue to reveal more with every listen. In short, “Arglistige Täuschung” is a triumph. Prager Handgriff have created something absolutely unique: a compelling and multifaceted sonic experience that showcases their immense creativity and bold approach to music. This is a record that demands attention, patience, and a willingness to embrace the uncomfortable.
“Arglistige Täuschung” Tracklist:A1.Tibet 03:54
A2.Deutschland? 03:30
A3.Klaustrophobie 03:26
A4.Flucht 03:58
A5.Herbst 05:50
B1.Das Du 03:52
B2.Zivilisation 03:27
B3.Monsun 03:38
B4.Bilder Meiner Angst 04:30
B5.Großstadtliebe 04:59
C1.Baskerville 06:08
C2.Wahnsinn 02:46
C3.Schwermetall 03:58
C4.Tollwut 03:28
D1.Prag 02:57
D2.Herzschlag 03:06 (Bonus Track)
D3.Morgengrauen 05:38 (Bonus Track)
D4.Zäsur 04:09 (Bonus Track)
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INSURRECTION
– “EXILED TO EARTH “Format: Music Cassette(digitally, only the 4 'ETE' EP tracks will be available to stream in 8-BIT)
Label: Tunnelgeur Records
INSURRECTION (NL) offers the ultimate blend between brutality, melody and catchiness with their raging melodic death/thrash. Hailing from the north of the Netherlands, founded in 2008, these Dutch thrashers released their critically acclaimed 6-track debut EP 'Catatonic' on Big Bad Wolf Records in 2015. First print sold-out in no time and Insurrection subsequently did a whole shitload of shows promoting this release in the Netherlands and Germany.
Following up their successful debut EP, Insurrection released full-length album ‘Circles Of Despair’ in 2019 on Big Bad Wolf/Headbangers Records (mix & mastering by Fredrik Nordström, who previously mixed In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir etc.). Still tight and energetic, but pushing the envelope on this release by refining their death/thrash sound into a more diverse approach.
With 4-track EP ‘Exiled To Earth’, Insurrection presented their most melodic and mature release in 2023. Containing meticulously written and thought out melodeath/thrash tracks. Equally aggressive, upbeat and melodic, but with an added touch of prog and atmosphere this time. ‘Exiled To Earth’ was mixed and mastered by Mendel bij de Leij (Aborted, Severe Torture, Haliphron a.o.).
Critically acclaimed for their killer songwriting skills and their tight live performances (more than 120 shows played all over Europe with metal icons such as Destruction, Cryptopsy, King Diamond, Cradle Of Filth, Suffocation, Hypocrisy a.o.) during the past few years, Insurrections quality is no longer an underground secret. With a special edition re-release of ‘Exiled To Earth’ (including 10 (!) live & 8-BIT bonus tracks) these melodeath/thrashers are ready to rise like the tide out of the underground!
Tracklist:
Side A:
01. Hopeless World Below
02. The End Of Honesty
03. In Terram Extorres
04. Crimson Skies
05. Futile Existence(live)
06. Dawn Of Defeat(live)
07. Moribund(live)
8-BIT:
01. Hopeless World Below
02. The End Of Honesty
03. In Terram Extorres
04. Crimson Skies
05. Spiralling Down
06. On Circles Of Despair
07. Moribund
INSURRECTION is:
Douwe Talma: Drums
Marten Hutten: Guitar
Armand Venema: Guitar
Pieter Oeverling: Vocals/Bassguitar
https://www.facebook.com/Insurrectionofficial
Label: Ardua MusicRelease Date: February 7th 2025
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Paradise Lost | My Dying Bride | Shape Of Despair | Officium Triste
He stands upon the shore of a turbulent winter sea, snow drifting about his feet upon the dull, wet sand. A chill wind blows in across the colourless waves that reflect the colourless sky above, cutting through his thin shirt and carelessly unbuttoned coat that hangs uselessly from one shoulder. It bites at his skin with teeth like needles of ice, but he has no sense of feeling within or without. His empty eyes stare at the storm-tossed waters and he wonders if there is comfort to be found there, in the deep, dark places, hidden from the sun. A peace without end…
After years lost in the silence, far from sight though never far from memory, Inborn Suffering have returned. The kings of Parisian melodic, majestic doom death have emerged from the dust and shadows with a gargantuan new album of heart rending emotion…and while some unexpected returns bring with them only tarnished dreams and faded treasure, Pale Grey Monochrome adorns the Inborn Suffering legacy in sombre gravitas and shades of dusk and gold. As the foreboding ‘Wounding’ falls desolate into the arms of ‘From Lowering Tides’ sadness imbues every lamenting note. As an unkind world bows the shoulders beneath the weight of tragedy, this song swallows you into its darkness, sharing its bitter tears and shattered dreams. ‘Pale Grey Monochrome’ follows with a richly textured guitar riff, before the incredible heft of the first drum beat drives the air from your lungs, like a moment of terrible realisation. Exquisitely paced this wonderful title track leads you on, across vast wastes to the incomparable ‘Tales From An Empty Shell’ – searingly beautiful, this is an absolute masterclass in the melancholy arts of doom. Loss, despair, fear and hope all embrace the listener as they travel on to the sublime fragility and sweeping magnificence of album closer, ‘Drawing Circles’…and there could be no better way to end this incredible work of emotive metal. Pale Grey Monochrome is more than a triumphant return, it is an album that will take you beneath its wings, leaving you breathless and stunned.
Now with the backing of Ardua Music, home to many of the greatest doom death bands around, Inborn Suffering will unveil the sorrow filled tour de force of Pale Grey Monochrome on February 7th. Mixed and mastered with the deftest of touches by Déhà of Opus Magnum Studio (Abduction, Deadspace, Wolvennest etc) and adorned in the powerful artwork of Franck Besançon (Maveth, Solemn Lament, Silent Hill: Townfall etc), Pale Grey Monochrome has been carefully curated by Inborn Suffering and the results are remarkable. In February Ardua music will also reissue Inborn Suffering's two revered early albums, Wordless Hope and Regression To Nothingness – the year ahead looks bleak indeed…
Line-up:
Laurent Chaulet - Vocals/Guitars
Emmanuel Ribeiro - Bass
Stéphane Peudupin - Guitar
Thomas Rugolino – Drums
https://www.arduamusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/inbornsufferingdoom/
Ömer
Doğramacı is a multidimensional artist and musician who brings a unique blend
of cultural and musical influences to his work. Born in the Bronx, New York, Doğramaci’s
upbringing was shaped by a diverse range of experiences and cultural
influences. From an early age, he was exposed to various traditional wisdom
teachings, which ignited a deep interest in spirituality and mysticism that
would come to influence his artistic and musical pursuits.Throughout his life, Doğramacı has pursued various musical styles, drawing on the diverse cultural influences that have shaped him. He has studied and performed traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern music, as well as jazz, rock, and electronic music. His work is characterized by a fluidity that crosses boundaries and defies categorization, as he brings together elements of these diverse genres in his compositions and performances.
Tracklist
1. The King's Feast
2. Pray for Death
3. Fog of War
4. Deep Gaze into the Flames of Hell
5. Call to Prayer
6. Narcissistic Society
7. Inner Sanctum
8. Pain of Existence
www.youtube.com/@fragmentarysolidabyss7838
https://fragmentarysolidabyss.net/
The
Rising Force of Brazilian Thrash MetalSince their formation in 2010, Válvera has emerged as one of Brazil's most promising metal bands. With three powerhouse albums under their belt—Cidade Em Caos (2015), Back To Hell (2017), and Cycle Of Disaster (2020)—the band has captivated audiences and critics alike. Their most recent release, Cycle Of Disaster, launched globally through Brutal Records (USA), earned high praise, ranking as the 8th best Brazilian metal album of 2020 by Roadie Crew, Brazil’s leading rock and metal magazine.
Thrash Metal Titans with a Global Reach
Known for their electrifying performances, Válvera has played over 300 shows and completed three international tours, leaving their mark across continents:
Back To Hell European Tour (2018): Performed in Germany, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Slovenia, Poland, and Italy.
South American Tour with Prong (2022): Stunned audiences in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia.
Unleashed Fury European Tour Part I (2023): Played to packed venues in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Poland.
With their distinct sound—a fusion of thrash metal and innovative subgenre elements—European media has coined their style as "Neo Thrash Metal."
On the Brink of Global Domination
Válvera's music is available across all major streaming platforms, and four tracks have even made their way into popular online games like Guitar Flash and GrooVR. As they finalize their upcoming album, Unleashed Fury, at Dual Noise Studios, the band is gearing up for their Reckoning Europe Tour in April 2025, with shows spanning six countries.
Sharing the Stage with Legends
Válvera has performed alongside some of metal’s greatest acts, including Sepultura, Destruction, Prong, Angra, Krisiun, Ratos de Porão, CPM 22, Gorgoroth, Korzus, Almah, and Project 46, to name a few. Their resume also boasts appearances at major festivals like Rock Na Praça, Maniacs Metal Meeting, and Semana do Rock.
Meet the Band:
Vocals & Guitar: Glauber Barreto
Guitar: Rodrigo Torres
Bass: Gabriel Prado
Drums: Leandro Peixoto
With relentless energy and a passion for conquering stages worldwide, Válvera is ready to unleash their fury and cement their place among metal’s elite. Follow them now and join their journey to the top of the global metal scene!
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In
early 2023, a spark ignited the flames of DREADMASK, a melodic
death metal band based in Eindhoven, with members originating from Greece,
Hungary, and The Netherlands. Fuelled by their shared passion for meaningful
heavy music, Dreadmask wasted no time in making their mark on the scene. After
each member had taken a break from previous bands, John Kourentas, Elger van
Delft, and Antonis Mougiakakos initiated the band's first incarnation. The
group was settled when Zoltán Herczog came aboard in the summer of 2023.
Dreadmask, derived from the fusion of 'dread' and 'mask,' embodies the essence
of fear and concealment.
While
'dread' signifies the haunting grip of anxiety, 'mask' alludes to the veils we
arise to shield our vulnerabilities. On the journey of playing the game of
societal norms, we encounter our 'PRIME DREAD'—our deepest fears.
Each member of Dreadmask brings their unique musical influences to the forefront, encompassing Swedish death metal riffs, growling vocals, soaring melodies, progressive metal nuances, and black metal-inspired melancholy.
Tracklist
1. Reign Of Fear
2. Jester's Grin
3. The Light
4. Reflections
5. Ember
6. Resilient Shadows
Dreadmask:
Zoltan Herczog (Rhythm Guitar, Backing vocals)
John Kourentas (Lead Guitar, Keys)
Antonios Mougiakakos (Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar)
Elger Van Delft (Drums)
www.youtube.com/@Dreadmask
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For those eager to immerse themselves in the blistering chaos of death metal, Suffered Existence, the debut album from Wisconsin’s underground powerhouse Decrepid, is a must-listen.
This enigmatic yet commanding band encapsulates the genre’s raw essence with their standout track Decrepid—a ferocious display of unrelenting power and visceral intensity. From the electrifying opening riffs to the guttural growls, the song delivers an unyielding auditory assault, offering a cathartic experience for die-hard metal enthusiasts.
The band’s lineup is a force to be reckoned with. Darryl Hebert leads the charge with his searing guitar work and ferocious vocals, while Robert Popovich amplifies the chaos with his punishing rhythms and shared vocal duties. Brian Klug anchors the sound with bass lines that quake like tectonic shifts, and Scott Popovich drives the intensity with his feral and blistering drumming. Together, they create a sonic landscape as unrelenting as it is precise.
For fans of the underground death metal scene, Suffered Existence is more than just an album—it’s a testament to the unyielding spirit of the genre. Decrepid is not merely a band; they are a beacon within Wisconsin’s heavy music underground.
Prepare to suffer—and savor every brutal second
Tracks:
Intro 1:06
Brutal Suppression 3:54
Dahmer 4:44
In the Flesh 4:17
Suffered Existence 3:13
Burial Execution 7:19
The Dead Sea 3:49
Reflection of Possession 4:29
The Grind 0:07
Outro 1:09
Production Credits for Suffered Existence by Decrepid
Engineering: Ramie Espinoza
Recording and Mixing: DECREPID and Ramie Espinoza at Firebird Studios, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Mastering: Mike Lucas at Allen-Bradley Audio Studio, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Art Direction: DECREPID and Tracy Popovich
Design: DECREPID
2024 Remastering: Loïc Fontaine at Krucyator Productions
Originally released in 1994.
All music and lyrics composed by DECREPID.
Produced collaboratively by DECREPID and Ramie Espinoza.
These meticulous production efforts underscore the relentless dedication behind Suffered Existence, elevating the album to its definitive form.
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Each member of Dreadmask brings their unique musical influences to the forefront, encompassing Swedish death metal riffs, growling vocals, soaring melodies, progressive metal nuances, and black metal-inspired melancholy.
Tracklist
1. Reign Of Fear
2. Jester's Grin
3. The Light
4. Reflections
5. Ember
6. Resilient Shadows
Dreadmask:
Zoltan Herczog (Rhythm Guitar, Backing vocals)
John Kourentas (Lead Guitar, Keys)
Antonios Mougiakakos (Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar)
Elger Van Delft (Drums)
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For those eager to immerse themselves in the blistering chaos of death metal, Suffered Existence, the debut album from Wisconsin’s underground powerhouse Decrepid, is a must-listen.
This enigmatic yet commanding band encapsulates the genre’s raw essence with their standout track Decrepid—a ferocious display of unrelenting power and visceral intensity. From the electrifying opening riffs to the guttural growls, the song delivers an unyielding auditory assault, offering a cathartic experience for die-hard metal enthusiasts.
The band’s lineup is a force to be reckoned with. Darryl Hebert leads the charge with his searing guitar work and ferocious vocals, while Robert Popovich amplifies the chaos with his punishing rhythms and shared vocal duties. Brian Klug anchors the sound with bass lines that quake like tectonic shifts, and Scott Popovich drives the intensity with his feral and blistering drumming. Together, they create a sonic landscape as unrelenting as it is precise.
For fans of the underground death metal scene, Suffered Existence is more than just an album—it’s a testament to the unyielding spirit of the genre. Decrepid is not merely a band; they are a beacon within Wisconsin’s heavy music underground.
Prepare to suffer—and savor every brutal second
Tracks:Intro 1:06
Brutal Suppression 3:54
Dahmer 4:44
In the Flesh 4:17
Suffered Existence 3:13
Burial Execution 7:19
The Dead Sea 3:49
Reflection of Possession 4:29
The Grind 0:07
Outro 1:09
Production Credits for Suffered Existence by Decrepid
Engineering: Ramie Espinoza
Recording and Mixing: DECREPID and Ramie Espinoza at Firebird Studios, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Mastering: Mike Lucas at Allen-Bradley Audio Studio, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Art Direction: DECREPID and Tracy Popovich
Design: DECREPID
2024 Remastering: Loïc Fontaine at Krucyator Productions
Originally released in 1994.
All music and lyrics composed by DECREPID.
Produced collaboratively by DECREPID and Ramie Espinoza.
These meticulous production efforts underscore the relentless dedication behind Suffered Existence, elevating the album to its definitive form.
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Order: https://brutalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/suffered-existence
AEON OF AWARENESS – “THE EMBRACING LIGHT OF RAROHENGA”
MORTIFEROTH – „...TO THE ABYSS“ (TAPE/EP)
DISTRESSED TO MARROW – “THE LAST GIVEAWAY”(MCD / EP )
Hier kann “Hammergeddon 666” – Die Katakomben betritt man nicht allein“ in verschiedenen Formaten (CD, Vinyl, Tape, Digital) bestellt werden: https://supremechaos.com/artists/nocte-obducta/
Auf der ersten Seite der EP führen uns NOCTE OBDUCTA
zurück zu ihren musikalischen Wurzeln, inspiriert von dem wegweisenden Album
„Schwarzmetall (Ein primitives Zwischenspiel)“. Die neuen Titel „Hammergeddon“,
„Schorm“, „Blut, Bier, Dunkelheit“ und „Faustphisto“ reflektieren die rohe
Intensität und die ungezähmte Kraft, die die Band seit ihren Anfängen
auszeichnet. Diese Tracks verkörpern die Essenz des frühen NOCTE OBDUCTA-Sounds,
der über die Jahre hinweg gewachsen ist und durch die kreative
Weiterentwicklung der Band eine neue Dimension erreicht hat.Auf der zweiten Seite der EP erwartet die Hörer*innen mit „Auf wortlosen Fluren“ ein eindrucksvolles Meisterwerk, das als dritter Teil der Serie „Gemälde derer, die schieden“ eine ganz eigene Erzählung fortführt. Diese überlange Komposition ist weit mehr als nur ein musikalisches Stück; sie ist eine epische Klangreise, die die Zuhörer*innen tief in eine Welt aus atmosphärischer Dichte und eindringlicher Emotionalität eintauchen lässt. Mit einer bemerkenswerten Vielschichtigkeit entfaltet sich eine Klanglandschaft, die musikalisch über die Grenzen des Black Metal hinausgeht und lyrisch mit seinem auf Deutsch verfasstem Text einmalig ist.
„Hammergeddon 666“ ist ein weiteres Zeugnis für die Fähigkeit von NOCTE OBDUCTA, sowohl die Vergangenheit zu ehren als auch die Zukunft des Black Metal mitzugestalten. Diese EP ist ein Muss für jeden, der die tiefgründige Klangkunst von NOCTE OBDUCTA schätzt.
„Hammergeddon 666“ erschien am 6. Dezember 2024 über Supreme Chaos Records.
Tracklist:
A1. Hammergeddon
A2. Schorm
A3. Blut, Bier, Dunkelheit
A4. Faustphisto
B1. Auf wortlosen Fluren (Gemälde derer, die schieden – Teil III)
Spielzeit 19:17
Good To Know:
Für Vinyl konzeptionierte EP mit Bonus-B-Seite.
Gemastert in der Tonbraurei, Aufnahme in den altbekannten Ultraton Studios.
Vorbote des 15ten Albums der Mainzer.
Musiker:
Marcel GITARREN, GESANG, KEYBOARDS, BASS
Torsten GESANG
Stefan GITARREN, GESANG
Malte SCHLAGZEUG
Heidig BASS
Diskographie:
1999 Lethe (Gottverreckte Finsternis)
2000 Taverne (In Schatten schäbiger Spelunken)
2001 Schwarzmetall (Ein primitives Zwischenspiel)
2002 Galgendämmerung (Von Nebel, Blut und Totgeburten)
2003 Stille (Das nagende Schweigen)
2004 Nektar Teil I (Zwölf Monde, eine Hand voll Träume)
2005 Nektar Teil II (Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher)
2008 Sequenzen einer Wanderung
2011 Verderbnis (Der Schnitter kratzt an jeder Tür)
2013 Umbriel (Das Schweigen zwischen den Sternen)
2016 Mogontiacum (Nachdem die Nacht herabgesunken)
2017 Totholz (Ein Raunen aus dem Klammwald)
2020 Irrlicht (Es schlägt dem Mond ein kaltes Herz)
2023 Karwoche (Die Sonne der Toten pulsiert)
2024 Hammergeddon 666 (Die Katakomben betritt man nicht allein)
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EMP und Rock Hard präsentieren:
Samstag, 14. Juni 2025 – Oberhausen, Deutschland – Turbinenhalle *
Montag, 16. Juni 2025 – London, Großbritannien – Shepherds Bush Empire
Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2025 – Zürich, Schweiz – Komplex 457 *
Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2025 – München, Deutschland – Tonhalle *
Dienstag, 24. Juni 2025 – Mailand, Italien – Alcatraz
Sänger Zak Stevens erklärt:
"Wie ihr euch vorstellen könnt, gibt es bei diesen Shows so viele besondere Dinge, die mir durch den Kopf jagen. Wir können zum ersten Mal in über 20 Jahren eine Reihe an Headliner-Shows spielen, die uns direkt zurück zu all den unglaublichen Fans bringen, die uns über die letzten drei Dekaden so viele unvergessliche Erinnerungen geschenkt haben. Das hier ist unsere Chance, denen, die uns all die Jahre unterstützt haben, etwas zurückzugeben!"
Im Rahmen dieser lang erwarteten Rückkehr auf die Bühnen nach gut einem Jahrzehnt, wird das ikonische Line-up, bestehend aus John Lee Middleton, Zak Stevens, Chris Caffery, Jeff Plate und Al Pitrelli, auch auf folgenden Festivals auftreten:
Freitag, 13. Juni 2025 – Leeuwarden, Niederlande – Into The Grave Festival
Sonntag, 22. Juni 2025 – Dessel, Belgien – Graspop Metal Meeting
Donnerstag, 26. Juni, 2025 – Barcelona, Spanien – Rockfest
Samstag, 28. Juni 2025 – Thessaloniki, Griechenland – Rockwave Festival
"All diese großartigen Festival-Shows werden unglaublich gut kommen. Es ist schwer, sich das Maß an Spannung rund um diese Shows auch nur vorzustellen," führt Zak fort.
Savatage-Gründer Jon Oliva drückt seine Enttäuschung darüber aus, diesmal nicht dabei sein zu können, freut sich aber gleichzeitig auch sehr für seine Bandkollegen: "Ich bin sehr aufgeregt, dass die Jungs ein paar Shows spielen. Leider werde ich aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nicht in der Lage sein, die Jungs bei dieser Reihe von Shows zu begleiten, aber das ist hoffentlich nur vorübergehend. Ich werde im Studio weiter an neuer Musik für die Zukunft der Band arbeiten. Diese Shows werden großartig werden und ich werde mit ihnen daran arbeiten, sie für euch vorzubereiten. Ich weiß, dass ihr es lieben werdet!!! Ich und die Jungs sind sehr aufgeregt und bereit, es krachen zu lassen! Ich danke euch allen für die Unterstützung in all den Jahren und wir können es kaum erwarten, mit euch zu rocken!"
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New
album “NOCTAMBULIST II: DE DROOM” to be released 7 February 2025
via These Hands Melt. Dutch blackgaze band Noctambulist have unveiled a music video to the second single off their upcoming album “Noctambulist II: De Droom”.
The video to the track “Lichteter” here was premiered via No Clean Singing today, and can be watched here: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/12/06/an-ncs-video-premiere-noctambulist-lichteter/
"Lyrically the song explores the desire for a stable albeit mediocre future only to discover the present has fallen apart in the meantime", said the band. "It is emblematic of the themes found on much of the songs throughout the album. It falls in a comfortable transition between the harsher tones found on Elegieën and the experimental nature of De Droom."
The new album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released on 7 February 2025 in CD, vinyl and digital formats via These Hands Melt. Recorded in Tilburg between February and April 2023 at Catacomben Studios, De Droom sees Noctambulist diving deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen.
“Lichteter” and previous single “Aderlater” are available to stream via all digital platforms.
“Noctambulist II: De Droom” can be pre-ordered via These Hands Melt: https://lnk.to/noctambulist
De Droom sees Noctambulist diving deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen. What sets De Droom apart from the first record is that the writing was done with the entire band on board whereas full song ideas used to be presented by a few members. The songs this time around are just that, songs.
While De Droom is not a concept album most songs reflect on the beauty of a mediocre co-habitual existence while also struggling with the seemingly impossible dream of home ownership. The album cover features a bedroom of a derelict villa, reflecting the themes of hope, failure and heartbreak present on the album.
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk.
Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released through These Hands Melt in February 2025.
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
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Detroit (MI) - Melodic/Power Thrashers, AMONG THESE ASHES, have released new album, EMBERS OF ELYSIUM, on Alone Records! The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song.
Stream/purchase at the following links:
https://amongtheseashes.bandcamp.com/album/embers-of-elysium
https://alone.gr/shop/product/among-these-ashes-embers-of-elysium-cd/
In discussing the new level reached on Embers of Elysium, guitarist Richard Clark states that it "is quite the leap for us in every aspect from Dominion Enthroned. Where Dominion was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on Embers of Elysium are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners."
Track
Listing:1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
*13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)
*Bonus track, featuring vocalist Brooke Rousseau (Lady Luna and the Devil).
Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach.
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Line-Up:
Richard Clark: lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals. JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar.
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Bio:
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band's central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group's sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes' debut musical offering, Dominion Enthroned, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled "The Enemy in I," which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of "Sirens" by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, "Restless Gypsy."
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
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This Friday, December 6, 2024, blackened death metal masters THULCANDRA will release their first-ever live album, "Live Demise", that celebrates the first chapter and early days of the band!
"Live Demise" was recorded live in 2011 at a hometown show in Munich, Germany, and features true gems that the band hasn't performed in more than a decade, all with the original line-up consisting of Sebastian Ludwig, Tobias Ludwig, Matthias Landes (Dark Fortress, Noneuclid) and Steffen Kummerer (Obscura, Death, Cynic).
A video clip for the previously-released live version of "Fallen Angel's Dominion", today, THULCANDRA are premiering "Night Eternal (Live)"!
Band mastermind, Steffen Kummerer, comments:
"With "Night Eternal" we present you the opening track of our debut album "Fallen Angel’s Dominion" (2010), taken off our first ever live release "Live Demise". Tracked at a home town show in Munich, Germany a decade ago, we celebrate the early days of the band in a raw and energetic setting, showcasing each member on fire. See you all on our upcoming European run with Sacramentum at a venue near you!"
The video clip for "Night Eternal (Live)" is now streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhtC2L3RmM
THULCANDRA’s rise to power ignited when the four-piece unleashed their debut album, "Fallen Angel’s Dominion", upon metaldom in 2010. Followed by their 2011 masterpiece, "Under a Frozen Sun", "Live Demise" contains brutal-as-hell classics from both records, like "Black Flags Of Hate", "In Blood And Fire" and "The Spirit Of The Night", aptly capturing the spirit and high-voltage energy of both the crowd and band. Ragers such as "Night Eternal" and "Fallen Angel's Dominion" perfectly showcase the band's raw and intense performances in their early days, and prove how THULCANDRA has quickly stepped up as one of the leading bands of their genre!
Due to the pandemic, which was subsequently followed by their latest, much-acclaimed studio album "Hail The Abyss" (released in May 2023 via Napalm Records ( https://napalmrecords.com/thulcandra ), "Live Demise" could not be released alongside THULCANDRA's 20th anniversary as originally planned. Now, with mixing and mastering by Dan Swanö (Katatonia, Edge Of Sanity, Dissection) and cover artwork designed by Herbert Lochner, this very special release will become available in only strictly limited editions exclusively via Napalm Records and at THULCANDRA's upcoming live shows - including their European co-headlining run with legendary Swedish black and death metal band Sacramentum with support from Nephylim. The tour begins January 2025; find all upcoming dates listed below!
Pre-Order "Live Demise" https://lnk.to/Thulcandra-LiveDemise
"Live
Demise" track listing:01. In The Realm Of Thousand Deaths
02. Night Eternal
03. Fallen Angel's Dominion
04. Black Flags Of Hate
05. In Blood And Fire
06. Aeon Of Darkness
07. The Spirit Of The Night
08. In Silence We Eternally Slee
"Live Demise" will be available on December 6, 2024 .
https://www.thetruethulcandra.com/
Formed in 2020, CENTURY have hastened their ascent of the true-metal underground on the strength of 2023’s The Conquest of Time debut album. While both members of the duo are veterans of the metal underground, with CENTURY do they uphold the noble, heroic sound of early Swedish heavy metal – namely, the cult icons of Heavy Load, Overdrive, Gotham City, and Axewitch. Now, with their second album, they’re set to eclipse that mini-classic.
Titled Sign of the Storm, CENTURY’s sophomore full-length builds on all the strengths of the debut and sends everything further back in time. Amazingly, Sign of the Storm sounds time-stamped strictly at 1982. From songwriting – brisk in its energy but never belabored, almost casual in its overt heroism, with riffs on the right side of hot-rockin’ and not without a twinge of melancholy – on to the production – clean and spacious but not lacking grit, “big” but in an authentically underground way, conveying both castle high and dungeon low – CENTURY here offer swords & sorcery heavy metal like few others in the modern era. To say Sign of the Storm sounds truly OLD is not a disservice to either that production nor especially the songwriting (or even guitarist’s Staffan Tengnér’s impassioned, olde-worlde vocals); it simply underlines the fact that the duo are absolute masters of their eldritch domestic idiom, and that this latest album deserves to be spoken in the same discussion as those aforementioned legends. “No Time for Tomorrow” – the medieval metal past is alive with CENTURY!
Line-up:
Leo Ekström Sollenmo Drums, Bass
Staffan Tengnér Guitars, Vocals, Bass
From Stockholm, Sweden
Release date:
24th January 2025
Release info:
LP edition, various colors (Electric Assault)
CD edition with sticker, obi (Dying Victims)
Tracklist1 Sacrifice
2 Children Of The Past
3 Necromancer
4 The Chains Of Hell
5 Fallen Hero
6 Sign Of The Storm
7 Fly Away
8 No Time For Tomorrow
9 Possessed By The Night
10 Sorceress
Pre-order:
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https://electricassaultrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sign-of-the-storm
www.dyingvictims.com
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Hi
everybody,Petr from PARAT PRODUCTIONS, Czech Republic,
here. This year's eighth studio album by Slovak death/doom legends THALARION, titled "CRYOPRESERVATION",
was released on CD by Pařát Productions on August 12th, and on
December 16th, the LP and MC versions will also be available. From my point of
view, it's an amazing record that I want to own as a collector on three types
of physical media. I will be happy if this activity, let's say a Christmas
present, will also make other fans of the band happy.Release Date: 16.12. 2024
Limited Only:
LP black / 250 copies, MC / 100 copies
You can listen full album on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzfD3ZIwe98&t=726s
You can order in the Paratshop LP https://paratshop.cz/produkt/thalarion-cryopreservation-3/
Swiss extreme metal trailblazers TYRMFAR return with their searing new single, "HAUNTED BY THE TRUTH," the third offering from their highly anticipated EP, SYMBIOSIS, set for release on March 28, 2025.
"Haunted by the Truth" dives into the emotional struggle of confronting past mistakes and buried secrets. The song explores the weight of guilt, regret, and the haunting presence of unspoken truths. With a powerful blend of vulnerability and reflection, it tells the story of a person wrestling with their inner demons, searching for redemption, and striving to find peace amidst the shadows of their past.
“Haunted
by the Truth” is available now on all major digital platforms: https://orcd.co/hauntedbythetruthmountains, Tyrmfar quickly made their mark in the extreme metal scene since their 2013 debut. Their EP In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit (2015) and the acclaimed Human Abomination (2017) led to major European festival appearances, including Metal Days, where they earned praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” With their second album, Renewal Through Purification, and their 2022 release Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, Tyrmfar solidified their sound, embarking on a European tour with Gorgoroth.
The upcoming Symbiosis EP pushes the band’s compositional boundaries further, blending their blackened death metal roots with modern influences. Against the backdrop of an uncertain ecological and social climate, the EP reflects a deep exploration of humanity's relationship with nature. Each band member’s distinct style contributes to the collaborative process, bringing raw emotion and intensity to both the music and their live performances.
Tyrmfar:
Kévin Sanchez - Guitars
Florian Métrailler- Guitars
Quentin Brunner - Drums - Backing vocals
Robin Délèze - Voice
Yannick Dulon - Bass
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Check it out on The Circle Pit YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbXjCs4rgzo
FFO: Sylosis, The Absence, Light This City, Gates of Ishtar, and Skeletonwitch.
Druparia will release long-awaited debut full-length album, The River Above, on December 27!
The River Above is chock full of riff-heavy melodic death metal, similar to Character- era Dark Tranquillity and Mors Principium Est, with the atmosphere and emotion of Insomnium and Darkest Hour.
The album's first single, the title track, is streaming on Bandcamp at: https://druparia.bandcamp.com/track/the-river-above
The word "Druparia" is a pseudo-synonym for the blackthorn plant that plays a part in some circles of occultism and witchcraft, and fits into the band's visual and lyrical themes of nature and mysticism. Other lyrical themes include sadness, regret, mythology, and perseverance through hardship.
Pre-order: https://druparia.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-above
Track
Listing:1. Voiceless Regret
2. Under the Shade of Sand
3. Bereavement
4. Kintsugi
5. In Repose, Descend
6. Sever the Roots
7. The River Above
8. Of Firmament... And the Renewal
9. Bled For Comfort
10. When Cranes Return
11. The Violet Hour [The Civil Wars]*
Credits:
All Lyrics by David Moran except "Kintsugi" by Tyler Clark.
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Dan Paddy at Blackroom Studios, Copley Ohio.
Cello and Strings by Christopher “Kakophonix” Brown.
Keyboard programming and backing vocals by Dan Paddy.
Cover Art by Mark Erskine
Druparia Logo by Alex Zarko.
Photos by Lance Littlefield
Layout and Design by Alex Yarborough (@dr_metal_design)
Copyright 2024 Druparia Music. “Voiceless Regret” is dedicated to DJ Sprague.
*All songs written by Druparia, Brendan King, Dan Paddy, and Jeff Spencer, except for “The Violet Hour,” owned by The Civil Wars and Sensibility Music
Line-Up:
Tyler Clark: Guitars
Josh Gatka: Guitars
David Moran: Vocals
Kyle Lash-Taylor: Bass and Vocals
Noah Van Dyke: Drums and Percussion
Bio:
Druparia formed with members of past bands in the Cleveland area coming together to make new music. Ideas for The River Above have been brewing since about 2011, maybe even earlier and thanks to some gracious friends outside of the band who have contributed and allowed the ideas to live on, the songs have finally come to fruition. Tyler Clark (ex-Inoculation, Mythrias, Once Flesh) came together with old Apothean bandmate Kyle Taylor (ex-Monastery) who had found young drummer Noah Van Dyke (Sea Biscuit) in November 2018. Once Flesh vocalist David Moran had agreed to do vocals if ever a project was started and Druparia had begun. After a few rehearsals, Josh Gatka (ex-Mythrias, Eternal Legacy) was recruited as guitarist the following summer and a full lineup was formed and the band released their first demo entitled Alfhem in the spring of 2020.
Influences include but are not limited to Dark Tranquillity, Darkest Hour, Sylosis, Sacramentum, Insomnium,
Fallujah, Mors Principium Est, Inferi, Children of Bodom, and whatever weirdness Noah happened to be listening to at the time.
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The song is "SORROW'S SHROUD" and unveil another aspect of the incredible and amazing new release out on January 3rd for My Kingdom Music.
The official video is available at https://youtu.be/oHv1V2NUFxcOnce again Gerassimos Evangelou, only mind behind this project experiencing the atmospheric and avantgardish side of Black Metal during the last 20 years and more, presents with "Anhedonia" an album where the cinematic essence of ULVER is side by side with the Avantgardism of IHSAHN, where the strength of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM contrasts with the mediterranean touch of MOONSPELL and the dramatic elements of EMPYRIUM.
So as always expect the unexpected... this was, is, and will always be the main path of LORD AGHEROS.
Pre-Order at https://shorturl.at/UvM5u
Cover (realized by Federico De Luca)
Tracklist:
1. Lament Of The Lost
2. Harmony Of Despair
3. Eclipse Of Hope –
4. Lost Dreams Ritual
5. Sorrow's Shroud
6. Soul's Descent Into The Void
7. Tears In The Silence
8. Ancient Echoes
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: February 25th 2025
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Nifelheim | Immortal | Dark Funeral | Behexen
Dry dust and drier bones, sealed behind stone and cross and whispered prayer. Centuries of thirst, of desperate, torturous thirst, wracked by endless dreams of a crimson tide, crashing in waves through the invisible chains that bind, infusing this brittle, skeletal form with rapacious life and clothing it once more in flesh and skin. My thoughts roam the night beyond these walls, calling to them, drawing them to me. My patience is eternal and I know that they will come. They will find me, free me, bow to me and we shall ride upon black winds of vengeance…and drink until the world itself shall die.
A tolling bell, a howling wind and chants of dire imprecation announce the return of Christ Dismembered, Australia’s chief advocates of apostasy and servants of the beast! The fabled followers of darkness have finally unleashed their second full length album of blood hungry black metal – Ov Vampiricy! As the opening invocation fades a jagged, circling riff spirals downwards before exploding into the furious blast beat inferno of ‘Fool’s Gambit’. Black metal as old as the grave, built upon a bleeding throat rasp, rampant drumming and guitars that dance like spiders across crumbling tombs, roars forth – from the taut, nerve stretching riffs of ‘Mother Of Demons’ to the devilish refrains of ‘The Numbers Oppose’. The haunting tones of ‘The Banishment’ are placed perfectly at the album’s heart, drawing you deeper into the darkness, where ‘A Ritual Most Foul’ waits to drive cold spikes of guitar into your skull with iron hammer drums. Each element of Christ Dismembered plays its part perfectly, building an edifice of unapologetic black metal, unswerving in its focus and intensity. ‘Child Devouring Servants Of Satan’ is a magnificent, blood drenched rampage through the temples of innocence and purity, it’s murderous malice matched only by its sorcerous songcraft; but even that must bend the knee to ‘Riddled With Sin’, a triumphant climax of evil, epic in scope and daunting in its fury, that brings Ov Vampiricy full circle and closes the door to the mausoleum once more.
Over the years of their crusade against the light Christ Dismembered have performed alongside the likes of Taake, Immolation, Krisiun, Angelcorpse, Belphegor, Dark Funeral and many more, sharing stages with the very best that the extreme music world has to offer. Now they are ready to ride out into the world once more, bringing with them the heretical gospel that is Ov Vampiricy. On February 25th the children of the night will be unbound and their infernal music will echo through the darkness once more. Open your ears to their cries, open your arms to their embrace – or grip your crucifix in shaking hands and weep.
Line-up:
Arch Worm – Vocals/Guitars
Doomsayer – Lead Guitar
Winter Demon – Rhythm Guitar
Plague – Drums
Skorpa – Bass
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Underground Kvlt Records Announces the Release of SEPTUAGINT’S Debut Album, ACOSMIC CONFLAGRATION
Underground Kvlt Records, a sub-label of Odium Records, is thrilled to announce the release of Acosmic Conflagration, the highly anticipated debut album by Greek black metal band Septuagint. Released on 20 September 2024, the album promises to leave an indelible mark on the black metal scene with its unique blend of ferocity and atmosphere.
Septuagint has created an album that pushes boundaries, both musically and spiritually. Their sound captures the raw essence of black metal while exploring profound and mystical themes.
Mixed and mastered by Devo "Magnus" Anderson at the renowned Endarker Studio, the album delivers a sonic experience that combines raw aggression with intricate, immersive compositions.
Septuagint first emerged in 2014 with their EP Negative Void Trinity. They have since continued to evolve with critically acclaimed splits, including Sphinx: The Great Enigma of Times (with Akrotheism) and Vortex (with Ophidian Coil) in 2019. Acosmic Conflagration marks a new chapter for the band as they expand their vision and carve their path in the black metal genre.
Tracklist:Spirituus Luna Nox
Cauterising Sulphur
Restoration of Apophis
Cainite Bloodtrails
Into the Furnace of Moloch
Septuagint is poised to captivate listeners with its atmospheric and spiritually charged black metal, making Acosmic Conflagration a must-hear release of the year.
Listen to the album on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGorySO0Xk
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6 XMAS SINGLES FROM ROTTWEILER RECORDS
Christmas
time is here again – the time of good will to all men, peace on Earth and of
course, gut-wrenchingly heavy extreme metal! Over the course of the festive
period Rottweiler Records will be unleashing six celebratory singles from six
of the heaviest, most diverse bands around – including three brand new
additions to the Rottweiler roster. So, here are the brutal and beautiful
delights you have in store this Christmas…On November 29th MANGLED CARPENTER delivered an absolutely crushing take on traditional carol ‘I Saw Three Ships’ – the song transformed into a pummelling display of huge riffs and deadly drumming. This dual release in conjunction with Broken Curfew Records is simply devastating!
Line-up:
Seth Metoyer - Guitars/Vocals
Kristeffor Olson - Bass
MAC HINE - Drums
Another dual release with Broken Curfew Records is due to land on December 6th, as extreme death/grind outfit PULPIT VOMIT obliterate ‘Jingle, Jingle, Jingle’ with reckless abandon. It’s dangerous, damaging and a whole lot of fun!
Line-up:
Seth Metoyer - Guitars/Vocals
Tim Olson - Drums
Kristeffor Olson - Bass
In December 13th Rottweiler introduce us to the first of their new signings – EXONERATION! This international force blend deathcore, metalcore and modern metal into an explosive cocktail that you’ll be able to experience in full when their debut album lands in 2025. Before that there’s their superb Christmas double hit of ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Mary Did You Know’ to whet the appetite.
Line-up:
Cory Stiles - Guitars/Bass/Programming
Arnaud Zip - Vocals
Vincent Hagen - Drums (not on this single)
The ‘merry gentlemen’ aren’t getting much rest this Christmas as on December 20th another new Rottweiler signing, THE FINAL WITNESS, present their interpretation of the carol which dates back to the 1650s. ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Freedom From Satan) is an enthralling piece of progressive death metal - ambitious and adventurous in its approach.
Line-up:
Josh Henderson - Music and Vocals
Jason Wisdom - Producer/Engineer
On Christmas Eve we have the third new signing to Rottweiler Records as IGNITE THE GODS serve up their sumptuous take on ‘Mary Did You Know’ – epic, aggressive, symphonic and downright magnificent.
Line-up:
Dano Medina - Guitars
Eduardo Belmont - Vocals
Diego Orozco - Drums
Finally, on Christmas Day itself, long standing Mid West metal band I AM THE PENDRAGON present an emotive, progressive, heavy and melodic treat, with ‘Holy Mystery – Revised Edition’.
Line-up:
I Am The Pendragon
Jerrod Cunningham – Vocals/Guitar
Kevin "Moose" Busch – Bass
Darryl Cunningham – Guitars
*Drums by David Martin*
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REAL
Death Metal + REAL Deathmatch Wrestling ... a match made in HELL!Horror Pain Gore Death Productions unleash the first ever underground metal and underground wrestling compilation: SVN - King Of The Deatmatches 2024! SVN (Severe Violent Nature) is the hottest new independent promotion in the world of Deathmatch Wrestling, and on December 14th 2024 twelve ruthless competitors will battle to become this year's King Of The Deathmatches:
Shlak
Otis Cogar
Masada
Aero Boy
Journey Fatu
Judge Joe Dred
Ninja Mack
Hoodfoot
Jake Crist
Big F’n Joe
Bestia 666
Orin Veidt
To celebrate with this epic Deathmatch tournament, HPGD unleashes this COMPILATION featuring 70+ minutes of vicious underground metal from 23 different artists on the roster:
Pre-save this release on Spotify at https://ffm.to/svn
Tracklisting:
1. THE CRIPPLER - I'm Just Gonna Let Myself In
2. LYCANTHROPHY - Wasteland
3. HUMAN INFECTION - Embrace Perfection
4. SULLY - DeadPan
5. COFFINS - Hellbringer
6. IMMORTAL FORCE - Mass Murder Meat Market
7. BLOOD FREAK - Convulsions
8. GHOULHOUSE - Cellar Feeder
9. CHAINED TO THE DEAD - He's Just Meat Now
10. FACHE - Sans Pitie
11. CULLED - Coercion
12. UNDERGANG - Dødskunst
13. HORRIBLE EARTH - Prayers Ring Hollow
14. BRED FOR SLAUGHTER - Rape Kill Conquer
15. GORE MACHINE - Lunker
16. CORPSEVORE - Science Without Conscience
17. DEGRAVE - Overlord
18. LORD GORE - Morgue Whore
19. SADISTIC FORCE - Speeding Black Leather Hell
20. FUPA GODDESS - Dr. Pill Wildnout
21. CRUSHUMAN - A Schizophrenics Nightmare
22. MUDSHOW - Burning Idol
23. SAVIORSKIN - Sycophant
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US sludge/doom band Pillar of Light are on the verge of putting out their ambitious debut full length which promises to be a standout album in the style. The alternating combination of deafeningly heavy music with deeply emotive melodies is terrific and then you have the tormented vocals from Aaron Whitfield which are simply outstanding. Everything Is Noise premiered one of their songs in their eloquently written feature https://everythingisnoise.net/premieres/pillar-of-light-make-you-feel-the-weight-of-leaving-everything-behind/
Excerpt - "The prevailing riff and melody throughout the song is downtrodden, yet strong, capturing the band’s almost contradictory sonic embodiment of light and dark"
PILLAR OF LIGHT - “CALDERA”
For
fans of
- Amenra, God’s Tower, Cult of Luna, NeurosisPillar of Light's music is weighty and drenched in melancholy and amid all the pain and sorrow, they have found a way to project light and hope when all seems lost. It is the case with almost every single song on this profound album, where the songs toil and churn and build up for a divine epiphany of sorts to take place, culminating in a blinding, freeing, all-cleansing white-light catharsis. Without this ponderous struggle, the backbreaking sludge/doom drudgery, any of the uplifting parts would lose meaning. As in life, both darkness and light have their place and one wouldn't be the same without the other. The raw emotions in the music and the underlying plaintive melodies are all too palpable, and the feeling is heightened in large part due to the burning intensity and desperation in the vocals. Pillar of Light have created an album that is poignant and more importantly relatable; it is soul-crushingly heavy, pinning down the mortal with the endless weight of struggle and torment and at the same time, invariably, ensuring that there's enough humanity in it for one to see things through.
Line up
Aaron Whitfield - Vocals, Lyrics, Synths
Alex Kennedy - Guitars, Synths
Scott Christie - Guitars
James Obenour - Bass
Eric Scobie - Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing
1. Wolf To Man
2. Leaving
3. Spared
4. Eden
5. Infernal Gaze
6. Unseeing
7. Certain End
Release date - December 6th, 2024
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Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal,
Deezer etc): https://push.fm/fl/stuka-deathcomesnuclearELECTRONIC BODY METAL will be released in early 2025 by Inverse Records, and will be supported by three singles: "Sunset of the Corrupted" (31 October 2024), "Death Comes Nuclear" (4 December 2024), and "ELECTRONIC BODY METAL" (9 January 2025). The songs on the album vary from Dungeon Synth to Industrial Heavy Metal.
All music is written by Blackworm and lyrics are by 01101001 01111010 01100001, except the lyrics of Sunset of the Corrupted which are from Hildegard Von Bingen, and the lyrics of Eternal Faith, which are by Luna Wolf and Blackworm. Songs were recorded at Space Hulk Studios and Sound of Terror Studios and were mixed and mastered by Blackworm at Sound of Terror Studios.
STUKA is:
Blackworm: Instrumentation and programming
01101001 01111010 01100001: Vocals
Herra V: Vocals
Yannis Tsatsiki: Vocals
Luna Wolf: Vocals
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PESTILENT SCARS is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Oulu. All the members are between 18 and 19 years old. The band's central themes focus on melodic songwriting, pure emotion, tight gigs and overall the old school way of getting around.
The band is about to release their debut album MEADOWS OF MISFORTUNE on January 17th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The third single 'Golden Maiden' is out today and it displays the band's multi-genre background, being the song with the most writing contributions from all members.
Watch Golden Maiden music video: https://youtu.be/_Up67XRlgsk
"Mostly my writing comes straight from the heart. When I write music it has to come naturally. Melodies are very important to me and that's why we have lot of melodic riffs in our songs. It tells you a story, it's not basic death metal. I feel like I can show much more about myself with melodies. It's something that I do. I don't think a lot about which bands have inspired me, but i have to say that gothenburg's melodic death metal scene from 90's has inspired me a lot. But our music still has that Finnish melancholy. Both Finnish and Swedish melodic death metal is very important to me."
Guitarist/Songwriter, Elias Vierimaa
Listen to Golden Maiden on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pestilent-scars-maiden
Biography:
Pestilent Scars was born in the winter of 2022/2023. The band has had the same line-up for almost its entire existence. Pestilent Scars released their first single "Deceitful Phoenix" in the summer of 2023. The single was a relative success. Deceitful Phoenix" was followed by "All On My Own" in the autumn of the same year.
The band played several live shows in 2023 and 2024, which were energetic and showcased the band's overall idea. At their last gig the band performed their forthcoming album "Meadows Of Misfortune". The album will be released in early 2025.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/pestilent-scars-meadows-of-misfortune-cd-pre-order
Track
list:01. Into The Meadows
02. Internal Torment
03. Golden Maiden
04. Deceitful Phoenix
05. Unreality
06. A Reaching Hand
07. Democide
08. All On My Own
09. In Search Of Reason
10. False MessiahAlbum cover by Topi Ilmola
Line-up:
Pasi Matinolli - Vocals
Elias Vierimaa - Guitars
Artturi Kauppi - Drums
Sampo Jylhä - Bass
Topi Ilmola - Guitars
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Elisa Montaldo and Samael Von Martin are the protagonists of
this arcane and mystical musical laboratory named ALBUS DIABOLUS.Here are revealed the souls and minds behind this name, a creature that will give life next April 2025 to the debut album with the extremely evocative title of "COMPENDIO ESOTERICO ELETTRONICO" in LP and digital format.
Great musician Elisa Montaldo (Mater A Clivis Imperat, Il Tempio Delle Clessidre and VLY among others), composer and all-round artist, is an essential part of ALBUS DIABOLUS with Samael Von Martin from whose artistic vision the creature was born. Well-known musician of the extreme Metal scene (Evol and Death Dies) as well as leader of Mater A Clivis Imperat, a creature he shares with Elena Montaldo, Samael Von Martin with this project brings to music his great passion for experimentation and avant-garde sound.
ALBUS DIABOLUS aims to be a musical laboratory in which to merge the gothic and dark aesthetics of extreme music, with the Progressive vein of Mater A Clivis Imperat, with a clear and decisive electronic imprint influenced by Synth-Wave and Dark-Wave of the 80s. Sound imaginaries created with synthesizers, drum machines and arcane atmospheres intertwine with powerful guitars played by special guest Simòn Ferètro, materializing everything in an emotional and immersive journey that recalls influences of works such as "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, and bands such as EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN , COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS.
The sound between past and future, between light and shadow of "Compendium Esoterico Elettronico" will mark a turning point for the Italian music scene.
And now... let the Sabbath begin!!!
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New York City's death thrash titans, FINAL SIEGE, are stoked to announce their signing with Wormholedeath Records for the release of their earth-shattering album, "NUCLEAR DOOM STATE," dropping December 27th, 2024.
Final Siege comments: "We are incredibly excited to have signed with WormHoleDeath Records. It is an incredible honor to be part of such a well-renowned label that has helped so many bands and artists reach their full potential in their music careers. We are looking forward to what we can accomplish together and cannot wait to unleash our vision on the world."
Nuclear Doom State: A Turbulent Reflection of Our World
The concept behind Nuclear Doom State was to shed light on what we are experiencing in societies all over the world. The corrupt governments, the top 1% of the wealthiest individuals in the world, religious institutions, and social media platforms all play a hand in our collective suffering. The title track of the album serves as a sort of premonition of what’s to come if we continue down the path we’re currently on. While W.A.R. is more of a rallying cry for the middle and poorer classes to unite as one to change the current state of our lives. Stylistically this album was heavily influenced by bands like Death, Exodus, Power Trip, Slayer, and Gojira. It took a little less than a year to complete the album even with a lineup change in 2022. When our newest members Rob Maldonado and Ameer “TheBeheader ”Aljallad joined the band in April of 2023 we immediately went to work on all the songs that had been written over the years that would make up this album. Together we managed to come up with some great ideas for the songs to have them reach their full potential. Rob himself even contributed to the album with his song titled Primordial Combat which was influenced lyrically by the anime series Baki Hanma.
Tracklist1. The Day After…
2. W.A.R.
3. Nuclear Doom State
4. Psychological Maceration
5. An Insatiable Lust For Violence
6. Primordial Combat
7. Taxed To Death
From NYC Bars to Crushing Stages: The Final Siege Saga
On a cold February day in 2018, Gil Vives, Randy Reiser, and Amir Jairazbhoy began discussing their musical journey over some beers in a New York City bar. The trio soon started writing what would ultimately become their debut album, March To Your Grave. They completed their lineup with the addition of George Garcia in October 2018. Two months later, they played their first show together to a sold-out crowd at Gussy’s Bar & Grill in Queens, NY, under the name Final Siege. The band released their debut album, March To Your Grave, independently on August 6, 2021.
In November 2022, co-founding members Amir Jairazbhoy and Randy Reiser took a step back as the band moved into its next phase of development. By April 15, 2023, Final Siege had solidified their new lineup with Ameer "The Beheader" Aljallad on drums and Rob Maldonado on guitar. The band’s musical influences include Death, Thrash, and Groove metal, and their lyrics explore themes of rebellion, war, and the mental toll of living in a conflict-ridden world. Final Siege has performed alongside national acts such as Suffocation, Atheist, Wrath, Enforcer, DRI, and Warbringer.
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After
one of the most turbulent periods in AVULSED'S extensive
history - stretching back over thirty years - the legendary Spanish purveyors
of skull crushing death metal have announced that they will release their
eighth full length studio album on March 4th 2025! Featuring eleven
devastating tracks of blood-hungry ferocity PHOENIX CRYPTOBIOSIS represents
a rebirth for Avulsed with dramatic changes to the band's line-up. New
members Alejandro Lobo (guitar), Alex Nihil (bass)
and Victor Dws (guitar) have joined longstanding stalwarts Santiago
Arroyo (drums) and vocalist Dave Rotten, bringing a revitalised razor
sharpness to the band that fans will love.Mastered by Davide Billia (Holycide, Posthuman Abomination, Rottenness etc) Phoenix Cryptobiosis possesses the finest sound of Avulsed's extensive career - and the artwork courtesy of Daemorph Art (Stabbing, The Black Dahlia Murder, Demonstealer etc) is stunning! The album will be released by Xtreem Music on CD, LP, cassette and digital formats and you can read further details, including insights from the band, at the Xtreem Music site: https://www.xtreemmusic.com/promo/20241204_Avulsed.html
Track Listing:
1. Limbs Regeneration
2. Lacerate To Dominate
3. Blood Monolith
4. Unrotted
5. Guts Of The Gore Gods
6. Phoenix Cryptobiosis
7. Devotion For Putrefaction
8. Neverborn Monstrosity
9. Dismembered
10. Bio-Cadaver
11. Wandering Putrid Souls
The first single will be unleashed on December 18th with the full album to follow on March 4th 2025
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The album's digital release date is on December 20th, 2024.
Tracklist
1. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
2. Hyperion
3. Ignis Fatum
4. Nell'Ora dell'Epilogo
5. Hekate
6. Apotheosis
7. Et in Arcadia Ego
8. Atlantide (Bonus Track)
Founded in Brescia in 2021, Ārdeat emerged from the collaboration of Enrico Pinelli, Julian Polonioli, Riccardo Cremaschini, and Andrea Salvagni, who reunited after years of involvement in various musical ventures. The band’s first single—a compelling cover of Franco Battiato’s “Atlantide”—led to the addition of guitarist Cristian della Noce and the creation of their debut EP, Exitivm. This EP, featuring a monumental 20-minute track split into two acts, established Ārdeat as a formidable force in the black metal scene.
Ārdeat didn't stop there. In 2022, they paid homage to the legendary Bathory by contributing a cover of "Home of Once Brave" to a tribute compilation championed by Antichrist Magazine. They then took their music to the stage, sharing bills with Italian metal royalty like Mortuary Drape, Opera IX, Darkend, and Black Oath.
Ārdeat's sound is a potent blend of atmospheric black metal, the tight riffing of early death metal, and the melodic hooks of the NWOBHM. Drawing inspiration from bands like Dissection, Mgla, and Spite Extreme Wing, they forge a sound that is both fiercely aggressive and hauntingly beautiful.
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BODY COUNT returns with MERCILESS , a new album that takes their fearless, uncompromising sound to new heights. The record reaffirms their unyielding stance on social issues while delivering the hard-hitting, raw energy fans have come to expect. With contributions from legends like David Gilmour, Max Cavalera, and Howard Jones, this record pushes BODY COUNT’s sound into powerful new territory without losing the edge that defines them.
Ice-T on the release: “We had a string of one-word albums,” says Ice-T. “We had Bloodlust, we had Carnivore and that word, MERCILESS , just bumped into my head. It’s really about that point where you can’t take any more and you’re done. Like the song says, ‘I got no more fucks to give’. When you push a person to that point, it’s too late to ask for mercy. I was watching a lot of movies like Hostel; a lot of cruel torture movies when I was writing the album, and I was like, ‘These people are cold-blooded.’ That’s what triggered that whole energy.”
Stream the new album here: https://bodycount.lnk.to/MercilessAlbumNe
Watch the music video for the title track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcm2o3Hhpc8
SARKASM – “CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES”
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: February 4th 2025
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
For fans of: Gorguts | Obliveon | Pestilence | Believer
Beneath a grieving, tortured sky, the world burns. Once grand cities wreathed in smoke, their towering edifices crumbling, collapsing into ruin. The remnants of humanity crawl through the ashes on blistering hands and knees, choking on the fumes of their own annihilation. The failed caretakers of a paradise become a boundless charnel house in flame. The dead and the soon to be dead lie in mountains of scorched flesh and heat cracked bone, a testament to the grotesque ignorance and arrogance of man…wilfully blind and consumed by greed until the very end. These are the final moments of our Eden, our miracle of life that we raped and plundered, warped and manipulated into a twisted carnival of atrocities.
Having blazed a trail in the early ‘90s with their four highly regarded demos, Canada’s death/thrash pioneers Sarkasm, burst back into life in 2019 – signing with Xtreem Music and releasing their first full length album, As Empires Decay, in 2023. Now it is time for the next chapter in the Sarkasm story to begin, as they prepare to unleash their second album, the momentous Carnival Of Atrocities. Opening with the forearm smash of ‘I Am Chaos’, Carnival Of Atrocities immediately sets out what Sarkasm are all about; massive crunching riffs, huge, domineering drums and the magnificent vocal power of Bruno Bernier – who also fronts the reborn Obliveon - all brought together in immaculately structured songs where technical complexity is tempered by finely wrought hooks. ‘Murmurs From The Void’ is an early highlight, with Bernier’s vocals rising up between the snapping drums and those thick, textured riffs while a perfectly expressed guitar solo brings the song to its conclusion, with every note considered and carefully chosen. Throughout the album, songs like ‘Cold Empty Rooms’ and ‘Echoes Of Hyperion’ demonstrate that Sarkasm stand apart from the pack; operating in a different sphere to most bands, they plot a course that heads confidently into unexplored territories. When the armour-plated ‘Deadweight’ fades into silence, after a relentless, remorseless display of bludgeoning power, you are left with a need for more…for one more play, one more ride through the maze of blood, one more journey through the Carnival Of Atrocities!
The sound on Carnival Of Atrocities, captured by producer Maxime Lacroix (Gastrorrexis etc) and the mastering of the respected Dan Swanö (Asphyx, Avulsed, Incantation etc) is perfect for Sarkasm, giving a strength and prominence to every instrument, without sacrificing the clarity required to appreciate these well defined songs. When Xtreem Music release this stunning album on February 4th, on CD, vinyl and cassette formats, it will surely see Sarkasm ascending to the heady heights that their music has always deserved. Be prepared for a masterclass in technical, addictive, impactful metal that you’ll never forget!
Line-up:
Bruno Bernier - Vocals
François Dubuc - Guitars
Yves Parent - Guitars
Dave Bouchard - Bass
Simon Thibodeau - Drums
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Dutch
Thrash Metal Act GRINDPAD Releases New Single “X-MAS MOSH”
– Out Now on Iron Shield Records!Thrash collective Grindpad returns with a new single and lyric video.
“X-MAS MOSH” was mixed & mastered by Erwin Hermsen at Toneshed Studio (Legion of the Damned, Deadhead, Headless Hunter). The song will also be released on the upcoming vinyl re-release of Violence (Iron Shield Records) in 2025.
Guitarist JG comment: "Doesn't every band have their "What if's"? In Grindpad's case it was "What if we had a Christmas song". And not your average, standard, heavier cover of a known one, but our very own ACTUAL Christmas song. And, somewhere this year, on a hot sunny summer day, ours was born. It was literally written and recorded in shorts, with sunglasses. So, Mariah Carey, Wham! and Chris Rea, be warned! Because here comes Grindpad's very own .... X-MAS MOSH!!”
Line up :
JG – Guitar
Max - Drums
Axel - Guitar
Rik - Bass
Olivier - Vocals
https://www.grindpad.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Grindpad
Canberra (AU) - Australian-based Symphonic Death Metal band, Project: ULTIMATE SATAN, have unleashed their highly anticipated debut album, THE OPUS SATANAS on Eschatonic Records!
Project: Ultimate Satan was formed late 2019. The band features Eschatonic Records alumni from Inhuman Remnants, Black Mountain, Terravorous, Unholy Vendetta and Somnium Nox.
The Opus Satanas was forged amidst the Fires and Plagues of 2020 and 2021. As Project: Ultimate Satan sought to push the sonic possibilities of their unique blend of Blackened Death Metal, they focused on the inclusion of more symphonic elements, orchestrations and lyrical content that would honour those that called to them from across the vast depths of the cosmos.
July 2022 saw the release of their first single "Symphony Es Infernus," an auspicious ode to Lillith Liftoach. However, due to further outbreaks, lockdowns and restrictions, their accompanying live rituals would be restricted to the ACT and the South Coast regions.
February 2024 saw the release of their second single "The Infallible Void." The song is a sonic exploration and meditations on the darkness within us all.
Track
Listing:1. Symphony Es Infernus
2. Humanity's Last Breath
3. Is This How Freedom Dies
4. The Infallible Void
5. Footprints in the Sans of Time
6. Nocturne Immortalis
Credits:
Recorded at Studio Decay.
Produced by JDecay.
Mixed and Mastered by Gibb at Gibbenez Music.
Cover Design and Borders by Hans Trasid at Dis-Art Design.
P:US Logo and Emblem by Wappenschmied.
Line-up:
Scottanic – Vocals
Ashahalasin – Bass
JDecay – Guitars, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Dazferatu – Keys, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Amorasche – Drums, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Contributing Artists:
Vocals from Jem
Guitars by Calcifur (Terravorous)
Lead Guitars by Nekros the Black (Ex-Inhuman Remnants)
https://eschatonicrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/projectultimatesatan/
Sibiu,
Romania based Atmospheric Black Metal one-man band ANTUMBRA is
set to release the new album on December 22nd 2024 in collaboration
with Loud Rage Music. Titled "DAYS OF FUTURE RAVAGED
LANDS", the new material is made of 10 tracks that weave haunting
melodies with crushing riffs and evocative lyrics, painting a vivid picture of
desolation and resilience. Drawing from a unique blend of Black Metal,
Blackened Doom, and cinematic soundscapes, ANTUMBRA creates a sonic
journey through a world in turmoil.Here is what Marius Ignatescu (all instruments / vocals) had to say about it: "This album is about the war, the despair and destruction of humanity. From the blood-soaked battlegrounds of "Rivers of Blood" to the mournful echoes of the song "Threnody" or "Silent Earth," each track weaves a story of the human loss, pain and chaos."
Pre-orders are now open here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/antumbra-days-of-future-ravaged-lands
In anticipation of the new album ANTUMBRA also released a video for the track "Forgotten": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafqrJcaFz8
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://antumbra.ro/
Minsk (BY) - Brutal Death Metal quartet, RELICS OF HUMANITY, are set to release new album, ABSOLUTE DISMAL DOMAIN, on January 31, 2025 through Willowtip Records.
The band released the following statement about the album:
"Absolute Dismal Domain is a nine-act conceptual record. The story told across these nine tracks is about absolute ubiquitous annihilation of light, both spiritually (god) and physically (sun and stars). This is the most brutal stuff about blackness and ungodliness ever created."
Absolute Dismal Domain is Relics of Humanity's first collection of original material since 2019's Obscuration EP (Willowtip) and the band's first full-length album (and third overall) since 2014's Ominously Reigning upon the Intangible (Amputated Vein).
Pre-order:https://bit.ly/add-willowtip
https://relicsofhumanity.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-dismal-domain
Track Listing:
1. Omen Apollyon
2. Summoning Of Those Who Absorbed
3. Taking The Shape Of Infinity
4. In The Name Of Ubiquitous Gloom
5. Paralyzing The Light II
6. Absolute Dismal Domain
7. Smoldering Of Seraphim
8. His Creation That No Longer Exists
9. Dominion
Credits:
Absolute Dismal Domain is fully composed (music, concept and lyrics), mixed, and mastered by guitarist Siarhei.
Artwork created with oil paints by Siarhei.
Line-up:
Siarhei - Guitars
Pavel - Bass
Flo - Vocals
Vladislav - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/relicsofhumanity/
Order Songs for the Dying and the band's entire discography at https://tfreco.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-dying
Tracklisting1. Bound in Blood
2. Depraved Lust
3. A Hymn for the End
4. Crimson Queen
5. Eternal Slumber
6. From the Beyond
7. Father of Lies
8. Judgement of the Damned
9. Praise the Dead
10. Scorched Earth
11. The Blackest Night
AGAINST I was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Keith Croona known as vocalist and founder of Cynical Existence and ex-vocalist of Menschdefekt. Together with Mathias Back (guitars) and Anders Ström (drums), they fuse elements of metal and hints of electronic parts into a cacophony of aggression and melodies.
In 2023 the band released their debut album Carnival of Excess on Advoxya Records. 2024 saw the release of two EPs, Perfect Smile and the follow-up Destruction Lullaby, which took the band in an entirely new direction.
Line-Up:
Fredrik Keith Croona - vocals
Mathias Back - guitars
Anders Ström - drums
https://www.facebook.com/againstIband
NEWS 30.11.2024
Damit bei euch gar nicht erst dieser nervende Vorweihnachtstress
oder irgend so ne besinnliche Stimmung aufkommen kann, gibt es hier noch einmal
ein ganz fettes und saftiges update in Sachen neuer Veröffentlichungen. Wenn
euch jetzt schon dieses ganze weihnachtliche Gebimmel zum Halse raus hängt,
sollte ihr auf jeden Fall mal eines der Teile wenigstens mal antesten .
Definitiv wird euch dann dieses "stille Nacht, heilige Nacht "
Gesäusel dann in keinster Weise mehr nerven. Aktuelle Reviews :
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NUCLEAR WINTER ZINE #4 (A5/englisch)
LEMMY KILMISTER wird zum Dauerbewohner eines seiner bevorzugten Plätze zum Entspannen und Kontakteknüpfen – des STRINGFELLOWS GENTLEMAN’S CLUB in London. Dieser Ort birgt für seine Freunde und Bekannten viele Lemmy-Erinnerungen, weil er nach seiner Eröffnung im Jahr 1980 zu einem seiner Favoriten wurde. Geführt von Peter Stringfellow, der in den 1960er-Jahren einige der größten Künstler dieser Ära wie etwa The Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd und weitere buchte, wurde das Stringfellows zum Hotspot für Promis und Rockstars.
“Stringfellows hatte immer einen besonderen Platz in Lemmys Herzen. Er liebte den Rock'n'Roll-Spirit, den Peter in den Club brachte, er liebte die entspannte Umgebung und er liebte natürlich die Aussicht. Ich weiß, dass er erleichtert ist, dass er nun wieder einen seiner Lieblingsorte auf diesem Planeten genießen kann”, erklärt Motörhead-Manager Todd Singerman.
Daher ist es nur allzu passend, dass Lemmy am diesjährigen 18. Dezember erneut, und diesmal für immer, in diesem weltbekannten Club anzutreffen sein wird – im Anschluss an die neuste einer Reihe von “Lemmy Forever”-Zeremonien, die Lemmy an seinen bevorzugten Plätzen verewigen sollen. Auch hier wird es eine kleinere Replik seiner sehr speziellen Urne geben, die mit einem Teil seiner Asche in den Club einzieht und sicherstellt, dass er an einem weiteren seiner heiß geliebten Orte dauerhaft verweilen kann. Die Feier selbst wird eine Nacht voll all jener Dinge, die Lemmy so zu schätzen wusste: Drinks, Rock’n’Roll, Hors d’oeuvres, oh… und bildschöne Frauen! Motörhead-Gitarrist Phil Campbell wird ebenfalls teilnehmen, um eine kleine Rede zu halten und die Asche seines engen Freundes und Bandkameraden dort niederzulegen.
“Wenn er in London war, hat Lemmy nie eine Nacht im Stringfellows verpasst. Lemmy war ein echter Freund des Clubs“, betont Sadat Banda, Operations Director im Stringfellows.
Für alle, die in London verweilen: Die Feierlichkeit beginnt um 19:00 Uhr und endet um 21:00 Uhr. An alle, denen es nicht möglich ist, teilzunehmen: Keine Sorge, ihr werdet Lemmy ab dem 18. Dezember jederzeit im Stringfellows besuchen können.
www.iMotorhead.com
https://www.stringfellows.com/
GRAFJAMMER – „DE TYFUS, DE TEERLING“
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 10.01.2025
Die Niederländer GRAFJAMMER melden sich mit neuer Besetzung und einem vierten Album zurück! Nach ihrem letzten Langspieler "De Zoute Kwel", der zahlreiche positive Kritiken und viel Aufmerksamkeit in der Szene nach sich zog, ist "De Tyfus, De Teerling" die neueste Attacke mit ihrem ureigenen, (es) bösartig treibenden "Primitive Dutch Necrorock". Für den versieht die seit 2012 existierende Band aus Utrecht höchst effektiv First- und Second-Wave-Black-Metal mit deftigen Prisen von Punk, D-Beat und Motörhead. Groovt im Resultat wie Sau – respektive: "swings like a floppy tit", wie Vokalist Jorre meint –, doch neben tobend rockenden Brechern und Passagen schneidigen Getrümmers, gibt es auch Momente, in denen sich alles in ein melancholisches Zwielicht verlagert.
Mit "De Tyfus, De Teerling" präsentieren GRAFJAMMER neun knallharte Tracks (plus ein Intro), die in ihrer Muttersprache von religiösem Wahnsinn, Selbsttäuschung und Zerstörung berichten. Dabei tauchen sie noch tiefer als zuvor in die dunklen Schattenseiten der Gesellschaft und der niederländischen Geschichte ein. Der Albumtitel ist eine Abwandlung von "Tyfus! Tering!", einer beliebten Fluchkombination im Niederländischen, in der GRAFJAMMER-Version bedeutet es: "Der Typhus (und), der Würfel".Anyway: Time to groove and swing!– Schnell, roh, dreckig und berauschend wie das Schnüffeln von Amphetamin.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/grafjammer
DESASTER - Vier Kultalben erscheinen als streng limitierte
Tape-Releases über Cold Knife Records (VÖ 24.01.25)!DESASTER, eine der kompromisslosesten Bands des Undergrounds, bringen ihre vier Kultalben zurück! Angelwhore, 666 - Satan’s Soldiers Syndicate, The Arts of Destruction und The Oath of an Iron Ritual erscheinen am 24.01.2025 endlich in streng limitierten Red Tape Editions – nur 100 Exemplare pro Album, inklusive exklusiver Trading Card über Cold Knife Records.
Diese Reissues sind pure Zerstörung in musikalischer Form. "Angelwhore" entfesselt chaotische Gewalt mit chirurgischer Präzision – kein Song, kein Riff lässt Luft zum Atmen. Mit "666 Satan Soldier´s Syndicate"wird Krieg erklärt: schnörkellos, brutal und gnadenlos schnell. "The Arts of Destruction" zeigt, wie episch und zerstörerisch Metal sein kann, ohne an roher Härte zu verlieren. Und "The Oath of an Iron Ritual" ist nichts weniger als eine Abrissbirne, die hymnischen Thrash mit gnadenlosem Death Metal kombiniert. Diese Alben brennen ein Feuerwerk in die Gehörgänge und zeigen, warum Desaster im Underground den Ton angeben.
Außerdem gibt es noch die DESASTER Limited Wooden Box – eine handgefertigte Holzbox mit lasergraviertem Desaster-Logo, die alles bietet, was das Fan-Herz begehrt:
Alle vier Alben auf schwarzen Tapes
Einen exklusiven Lederpatch
Individuelle Trading Cards für jedes Album
Der Preorder läuft ab sofort über www.cold-knife.com
Mehr Infos: https://linktr.ee/coldkniferecords
Gravethorn on Signing with Wormholedeath: "I am truly excited to be working with the Wormholedeath family on this release. I've put a lot of hard work and sacrifice into putting this all together, learning new things, and experimenting with others, and I didn't want to just go through anybody to get it out there for the world to hear. Carlo Belotti and Wormholedeath are absolutely on top of their game in this profession, and the bands on Wormholedeath are all incredible talents and gifted musicians, evidenced by the discipline and hard work they put into their craft. In an era where the current crop of metal is truly growing in popularity and there are so many bands out there sounding very similar, it seems that Wormholedeath certainly can pick the best from several ends of the spectrum and bring them to their exotic landscape of creative brilliance. I'm very excited to call Wormholedeath our home."
Unveiling "Atrocitas"
Gravethorn's new release "Atrocitas" is a continuation of the debut release, "Underground Rituals of Those Unseen". Harnessing the anger and sense of overcoming all who oppress- the battle wages on as we are slowly uniting as a people and coming together in numbers to dissolve those who feel the greed for power, whether religious, political, financial, or other. If there ever was going to be an uprising, perhaps Atrocitas would be the soundtrack of a revolution. It was written and recorded in Krystof's studio when he had COVID-19, and some of the medication he was taking may have influenced how the music came out (perhaps it opened the doors to the spiritual world to share ideas of those no longer with us).
Atrocitas also features contributions from notable collaborators, including Joshua Bednarski (from the band Atomic War Machine) and Dave Sharpe (from the bands Dead by Wednesday, End Time Illusion, The Cro-Mags, and Dave Ellefson’s [of Megadeth] side band).
Tracklist
:1. Atrocitas
2. The Great Thaw
3. Epic Battle
4. Destined to Burn
5. In Vengeance We Hunt
6. Barbaric War Declared
7. Hymns of Forbidden Places (feat. Joshua Bednarski)
8. Within the Berserker
9. Victory by Sunrise (feat. Dave Sharpe)
10. Creeping Death (Metallica Cover)
Gravethorn is a Blackened Death Metal band from Las Vegas, NV, formed in 2021 by Krystof during his journey to learn extreme metal mixing in his home studio, built during the 2020 pandemic. Initially working with recordings from his previous band Achromatica, which eventually disbanded, Krystof continued creating music, resulting in the release of several songs on Spotify and YouTube. Drummer Bob Hill (from Achromatica) later joined, and in October 2023, they unleashed their debut album, Underground Rituals of Those Unseen, which received critical acclaim from outlets like Metalized, Rock Hard, and Slowly We Rot.
Gravethorn's unique sound blends influences from bands like Emperor, Deicide, Amon Amarth, and even The Doors and Led Zeppelin, creating a distinctive blend of Blackened Death Metal. Known for embracing collaboration, the band has worked with notable musicians, including Glenn Lai (Achromatica) and Brian Crapser (Putrid Decay).
While quarantined with COVID-19 in October 2023, Krystof channeled his energy into writing and recording new material, resulting in the upcoming 2024 album Atrocitas, set to be released via Wormholedeath Records. Gravethorn continues to defy rigid genre classifications, staying true to their simple goal of making metal music, unbound by specific labels.
www.youtube.com/@gravethorn
www.facebook.com/p/Gravethorn
Listen Sankarin Matka album: https://push.fm/fl/noitasapatti-album
The band comments:
" “Sankarin matka” (A Hero's Journey) is a concept album consisting of an intro and 7 songs. Its dreamlike story slowly advances towards indescribable horrors, which waver between dream and reality, until the truth is exposed in all of its heinousness.
The album has been under making for nearly 2 years in our home studio, and it is finally ready for release despite many set packs.
Musically, the album consists of a broad range of sounds, some of which are already familiar to our music, but we're also bringing a lot of fresh soundscape to this album.
Influences and sounds of black metal, british deathdoom and progressive rock can be heard, breaking the boundaries of any particular genre.
The musical influences mixed with our vision form an original whole that sounds only of itself.
New songs are also currently in the making, and they’re taking Noitasapatti's vision even further!"
Sankarin Matka CD ORDERS from https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/noitasapatti-sankarin-matka-cd-pre-order
Biography:
NOITASAPATTI was born in spring 2017 in Pori, Finland by Erakko (vocals), Liekkiö (guitars, keyboards), Mielivalta (guitars) and Rampa (bass). Soon after that, Rienaaja joined us as a drummer and the first line-up was complete. After a couple of months of intensive rehearsing and composing, we recorded our first demo, “Vaellamme kuin Taivaankappaleet” on december 2017 and released it on CDr-format spring 2018. First live-show took place in our hometown also in the same spring. After that, Rampa left the band and Erakko began to play bass. Next year we recorded a second demo, “Aarnivalkean ajamana” and played some gigs. In 2020, we made a split-album with another Finnish band HOLLOW CORPSE. After some line-up changes, Häviö came to the band at the end of 2020 and a few months later, Kadonnut also joined the band to play keyboards. In summer 2021, we finally recorded our first full-length album “Kuolemattomille maille”. After a few successful live-shows it was time to record our second full-length album, “Sankarin matka” (A hero’s journey) in summer 2023. Album is now recorded, mixed, and mastered, and we are more satisfied with the result than ever before!
Our music can be described as 1990’s black metal with lots of melodies and even “burzumic” atmosperes. Also, you can hear influences from early British death/doom, epic viking metal and even some old school progressive music. Vocals are quite original “howling” and also heavily Burzum-influenced screams. Lyrics are written in Finnish.
Track list:1. Tulikipuna
2. Tuhatkasvoinen
3. Sankarin matka
4. Paluu liekkeihin
5. Käskyläisen sanat
6. Henkien polulla
7. Matka halki myrskyjen
8. Tähtivaeltaja
Album cover by Mika Huumonen
Line-up:
Erakko - Vocals, Bass, Mouth Harp, Horns
Liekkiö - Guitars
Häviö - Drums
Kadonnut - Keyboards
https://www.facebook.com/noitasapattiofficial
Listen to "Monumenty" here: https://youtu.be/1MNV8gec3Wk
Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/CzortCDLP
“Monumenty” was recorded and mixed last fall at Impressive Art studio in Porąbka, Poland by Przemysław Nowak.
The sound on "Monumenty" is an evolution of the band's past work on "W czeluść" (2022 split released via Godz ov War Productions), "Apostoł" (2020 album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) and "Czarna ewangelia" (2018 debut album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions). In 2019, Czort also released a split entitled "Under the White Flame" with Mordhell, Occultum and Dagorath.
In Slavic mythology, Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face.
Monumenty tracklist 1. Paroksyzm Ludzkości
2. Zjawa
3. Kuźnia Materii
4. Oczyma Monumentu
5. Zmaganie Rdzeniem Istnienia
6. Cyborium Zgnilizny i Brudu
7. 23.58.30
8. Antynatalizm Boga
9. Ubóstwo Idei
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/czortbluznierca/
CORROSIVE ELEMENTS - "CUT THE SERPENT’S HEAD"
Release
date :
November 29th 2024Style : Death Thrash N' Roll
Origin: France
Duration: 41:20
Label: GreyveStorm Productions & Crypt Of Dr.Gore et Chien Noir (pour la version vinyle)
Tracklist:
01. Conquering the divine
02. Ignorance is no longer bliss
03. So long sucker
04. The unseen
05. An american hero
06. Cut the serpent's head
07. Enter the final state
08. The right to remain poor
09. Among the casualties
10. Fascistalism
True defenders of the underground ethos, CORROSIVE ELEMENTS made their path with a first EP in 2008, a debut album in 2015 and a scorching live album in 2016. Having graced the stage at renowned festivals like Hellfest's Altar Stage and sharing the spotlight with metal legends such as Death Angel, Loudblast, Darkane, Sinister, and more, the quintet took a great amount of time refining the new tunes for their highly anticipated 2024 album release.
The credo stands strong: DEATH THRASH N’ROLL THE OLD SCHOOL WAY!
"Cut the serpent’s head", the second album of CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a collection of 10 powerful songs, designed for a more direct and dynamic approach, in the typical style of the band, a clever mix of Death and Thrash Metal, with tons of groove, anger and attitude.
The new album was written collectively by the band in the rehearsal room, an old fashioned method that makes the music more immediate and impactful.
With broad influences ranging from Thrash legends such as Slayer, (old) Sepultura and Exodus, Death Metal in the tradition of Entombed, Obituary, Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and an addition of primitive energy derived from Hardcore Punk, The band is now ready to place this new offering on the altar of Extreme Metal.
Conceptually, "Cut the Serpent's Head" is a cynical look at the destiny ofmankind, its race towards nonsense. A warning against the hegemony of organized religions, shady politics, decaying societies and the rise of social injustice.
Stay tuned, the next few days will see more information about the artwork, release dates, formats and everything you need to know about this new album which will be produced by Crypt Of Dr.Gore and GreyveStorm Productions.
https://linktr.ee/corrosiveelements
Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments:
”The song's lyrics are about distressing and constant fear of death inside an individual's head. He's lost in his own mind and doesn't know what is real and what is fake. He only has a strong feeling that he's being chased and he's forced to escape into the unknown.” ”This is one of the oldest songs written for this album and it has been waiting for the right moment to be released. Well, the day is finally here and I'm very glad that we got the right feel into the song that it needed.”
Listen to 'Exiled to Infinity'' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-exiled
Track
list:1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio)
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)
Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio
Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack
Biography:
Defiled Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland. It was founded by the vocalist and Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021. The band’s music is for the fans of old In Flames, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity etc. Their sound relies heavily on the 90's melodeath sound, but with modern twists. The songs are filled with low growls, chunky guitars, beautiful melodies and tight rhythm sections.
They released their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 and it has reached over 25,000 streams on Spotify alone. Since then, the band has been writing new material and now it's time to unleash their long-awaited debut album!
LISTEN to the first single 'Your Worst Enemy' on streaming https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-your-worst-enemy
Line-up:
Paavo Laapotti - Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä - Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä - Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen - Bass
Arttu Airo - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/defiledserenity
Hailing
from Los Angeles, THE MOSAIC WINDOW is a one-man melodic
black/death metal band that explores all aspects of human existence through
tragically brutal songwriting. For fans of: Kvaen, Gorgoroth, Hath, Dissection, Necrophobic, Thulcandra, Krigsgrav, Seth
Formed in 2021 by Andrew Steven Brown after many years of not playing music, The Mosaic Window originally was a coping mechanism following the deaths of Brown’s father and grandmother during the pandemic. After some recognition from the catatonic release of the “Hollow” EP, a resurgence of motivation to continue this type of music therapy overcame Brown, which led to the creation of the debut album, “Plight of Acceptance” in summer 2023. This debut quickly turned heads, including that of Willowtip Records, which signed the band and re-released the album later in 2023. Only just a year later, The Mosaic Window released the brutal sophomore album “HEMASANCTUM” with guests Gabe Seeber (Vale of Pnath, Abigail Williams, Obscura, Carach Angren) on drums, and Andy LaRocque (King Diamond) for two guest solos. Already, “Hemasanctum” has proven to be a massive set up from the debut, and The Mosaic Window is quickly becoming an unstoppable force in the world of black/death metal.
https://themosaicwindow.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094717845304
MALAURIU/SINOATH - "MALAURIU/SINOATH"
Style : Italian Dark Sound / Black MetalLabel : Doomentia Records
Release date : 20/01/2025
In some cases, split releases do compile together random acts who have little to do with each other. But in some (rare) cases, the end result bears a greater purpose, forging an alliance in darkness if you will. Such is the case here with cult black/doom/progressive Sicilian act SINOATH, sharing this highly collectable piece of wax with fellow countrymen MALAURIU.
Both bands don’t just share Sicilian origins. Besides, compared to SINOATH whose never-ending quest started all the way back to 1990 MALAURIU is a rather ‘new’, if quite productive with already two full-lenght and a whole lot of EP and demos under its belt, act, having being active for ‘only’ ten years. So one could also argue that stylistically speaking, the two are quite different: whereas MALAURIU is more or less acquainted with black-metal, albeit a quite experimental version of it, SINOATH sound is far more old-school oriented, if as everchanging. Yet both acts are all about pushing boundaries and following a very personal path.
Talking of SINOATH, the latter contribution ‘Symphony Of The Scythe’ sees them revisiting in a way their roots, inspired by a vision of death and its role in our everyday life. A one-of-a-kind track dedicated to the late Massimo Chiofalo, who played guitar on their 2015 EP Meanders Of Doom. On the flipside, MALAURIU’ song, ‘Scuru’, is as idiosyncratic, throwing out of the window all known so-called conventions in favour of something unique and utterly ‘out there’. The track also benefits from the presence of Regen Graves from ABYSMAL GRIEF on keyboards, adding the mystique.
Tracklist
1. Malauriu - Scuru (Feat. Regen Graves from Abysmal Grief)
2. Sinoath - Symphony of the Scythe
Line-up (Malauriu):
Schizoid - Guitars
Marbas - Drums/Bass
Regen Graves - Keyboards
Perfidus - Synth/Samples
R.M. - Vocals
Sinistro - Backing vocals
Recorded between Italy and United Kingdom
Mixed and mastered at Toxic Basement Studio
https://www.facebook.com/malauriuofficial
https://malauriu.bandcamp.com/
Line-up (Sinoath):
Salvatore Fichera - Drums
Walter Garau - Bass
Gianni Cavallaro - Lead Guitar
Francesco Cucinotta - Guitars/Synth/Vocals
Recorded at Phonoputìa Studio (Letojanni - Me) in April 2024
Mastered at Toxic Basement Studio
In memory of our friend Massimo Chiofalo (1970 - 2024)
Picture on cover - "Whetting the Scythe" (1905) by Kathe Kollwitz
Piano sample freely taken from "Chanson Sicilienne" by Francesco Paolo Frontini (ed. Carisch 1906) and played by Giuseppe Senfett.
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DOOMENTIA RECORDS https://www.doomentia.com/
Originally released in August 2005 by Ironclad Recordings, this definitive vinyl edition breathes new life into the album. Featuring reimagined artwork while honoring the spirit of the original, the visual overhaul was led by the album’s original artist, Steven Weiler, in collaboration with Paul Granese of Cold Cuts LLC. Jamie King of Jamie King Audio (Between the Buried and Me) was enlisted to remix and remaster the vinyl and digital editions of the reissue.
Tracklisting:1) Death March
2) Feel Like Hell
3) From These Eyes
4) Amen To Artillery
5) Forgotten End
6) Unsacred
7) Burn the Fallen
8) Storm of Swords
9) Sworn Alliance
10) It's Not About Breaking Hearts, It's About Breaking Faces
11) Claim Your Own
12) Take Aim
THE CLASSIC STRUGGLE is:
Brandon Collins - Guitars
Tim Zlinsky - Vocals
Chris Grant - Guitars
Nick Sloan - Bass
TJ Bailey - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/skepsisrecordings
https://www.facebook.com/TCSOfficial/
The premiere of the album’s new single, “DARKWOLF,” is now live at DeadRhetoric.com. Stream the song now at https://deadrhetoric.com/randomness/song-premiere-the-cimmerian-dark-wolf/
Bassist/vocalist Nicholas Rocha comments on the song, “Borrowing its name from the eponymous hero straight out of Ralph Bakshi's 1983 visual opus "Fire & Ice", this thrash-laden track evokes not just the rush of battle but also the weight of consequence and of course, the joy of victory!”
An Age Undreamed Of... will be released on January 10, 2025 via Bandcamp with all streaming platforms to follow. Physical copies will be made available on CD by Hyborian Rage Records with colored vinyl to be released by BVR (Black Voodoo Records).
Follow THE CIMMERIAN, for it is Crom's will. If you don’t – to hell with you!
Tracklisting:1) Shadow Kingdom
2) Neck Breaker of The Mountain
3) Silver and Gold
4) Darkwolf
5) Mournblade
6) Black Coast Tigris
7) Deathstalker
8) Monarch
The groundwork for THE CIMMERIAN was laid in 2021 by guitarist David Gein and bassist Nicholas Rocha – two-thirds of crossover thrash group Septik Onslaught. The two were writing what would become the band’s first EP when a Craigslist ad brought drummer David Morales – armed with unyielding energy and a bag of Halloween candy – to the fold.
THE CIMMERIAN delivers a wall of sound that draws inspiration from the likes of Motörhead, Black Sabbath, Venom, and Gates of Slumber. Lyrical themes informed by a deep understanding of world history, mythology, and historical literature weave throughout this chainmail tapestry.
The band released their debut EP, Thrice Majestic, in the summer of 2022. By early 2023, they returned to Robert Frank’s Minor Chord Studio to record the two-track cassette/digital release, Sword & Sorcery Vol. I.
THE CIMMERIAN is:
Bass/vocals: Nicolas Rocha
Guitars: David Gein
Drums: David Morales
https://www.facebook.com/TheCimmerianOfficial
Watch "Incipit" here: https://youtu.be/ZfefgCInTSQ?si=glfXUQr5lCximdj9
Peszek is known for his work in acclaimed Polish films such as Korczak, Ubu Król, Łabędzi Śpiew and more recent TV shows including Go Ahead, Brother (Netflix) and Warszawianka. A prize winner of multiple theatre awards, he has been a member of theatre groups in theatres across the country, including the world-famous National Theatre in Poland
The "Incipit" video was directed by Marcin Okrzesa; filmed and edited by Filmguyevsky. https://youtu.be/-lehEZVZy1Y?si=lMxoq75mnpHZjb1J
Totenmesse are:
Mold - vocals
Stawrogin - guitars, bass
Rzulty - guitars
Deimos - guitars
Krzysztof Klingbein - drums
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/Totenmesse/
DEMANDE
À LA POUSSIÈRE new
album "KINTSUGI" was welcomed by media and
fans in a great way. After some devastating shows in France, our Blackish Doom
Metallers present the official video of the song "Ichinawa" realized
by Gildas Debaussart with the precious Misty Orchid's performance as dancer. Enjoy it at: https://youtu.be/bsi8PRzNuYY
Once again the Parisian combo paints a macabre horizon at the crossroads of Black Metal, Doom and Sludge, with a song of pure darkness, atmospheres and tormented voices following in the footsteps of bands like Neurosis, Mayhem, Cult Of Luna, Akhlys, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber.
I remind you that there are still copies of their album available in digiCD and LP format on https://shorturl.at/ejUV5
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German thrash legends DARKNESS announce early bird combo for their 40the anniversary show
2024 ALBUM INFO:
“BLOOD ON CANVAS” is the angriest album to date by the Essen thrashers DARKNESS. The songs are more aggressive and harder than anything that can be found in the DARKNESS discography so far. Although it is not a concept album, “Blood on Canvas” is not just a collection of nine songs that were created in one era, but a multifaceted sound painting, painted with the colors of anger.
Musically, DARKNESS deliver the uncompromising and fast thrash metal that they have been known for since their debut album “Death Squad” (1987). However, the compositions on this album are more complex and detailed than before, without losing any of their aggression, hardness and authenticity.
The lyrics are no longer just a description of the madness that determines the course of this world, but get straight to the point without beating around the bush and without compromise.
The nine songs were produced in the Rambado Recording Studios in collaboration with Cornelius "Corny" Rambadt, who has also worked with SODOM, DISBELIEF and BONDED, among others. The predecessors "First Class Violence" and "Over And Out" were already produced in collaboration with Corny. For "Blood on Canvas", DARKNESS and producer Corny made it their mission to create an aggressive and powerful, but also honest sound.
The cover artwork is once again by Timon Kokott, with whom DARKNESS is working for the third time.
Although recordings for the album had already begun in mid-October 2023, DARKNESS and guitarist Meik separated during production, so that "Blood on Canvas" was only recorded by four people.
The story so far
The thrash metal commando DARKNESS comes from Essen - Altenessen, next to the Bay Area the most creative nucleus of the thrash wave in the 1980s.
Founded in 1984, the band made a name for themselves with the demos “Evil Curse”, “Titanic War” and “Spawn of the Dark One”.
DARKNESS released three albums between 1987 and 1989.
The first album “Death Squad” is considered a thrash classic and established the cult status of DARKNESS, which still exists today and influences thrash musicians all over the world.
In 1991 things became quieter for the band, and in 1998 singer Olli tragically died.
Lacky and Arnd, two early members, revived Thrash Guerrilla in 2004.
In 2005 the three albums “Death Squad”, “Defenders of Justice” and “Conclusion & Revival” were released again. In addition, “Bocholt Live Squad”, an official concert recording from May 14, 1987, is coming onto the market in CD format.
The long-out-of-print triple vinyl box “The Demos” from 2008 contains a live recording from the “Keep it True” Festival 2006, all demo recordings and extensive bonus material.
At the end of 2010, the musicians, who were otherwise under the banner “Eure Erben”, released an album under the name DARKNESS for the first time.
Since demand continues, the albums “Death Squad” and “Defenders of Justice” will be released on vinyl again to mark their 25th anniversary.
As with many veterans of metal, DARKNESS also has a line-up merry-go-round.
Lacky and Arnd, the band's constants, are looking for a stable line-up for a comeback.
The guitarist Meik started his job for Darkness in 2013.
Lee was given the microphone by Arnd at the end of 2014, who from then on concentrated exclusively on the guitar and backgrounds.
In 2015, Dirk took over the bass role from Christian “Spessy” Gießler, who no longer has time to be involved in DARKNESS due to his main job at Kreator.
After “Keep it True” Festival, but especially since 2014, DARKNESS have played at well-known festivals such as the “Turock Open Air”, “Obscene Extreme”, Headbangers Open Air” and the “Ruhrpott Metal Meeting”.
The old school club is also being wielded at numerous club shows around the world and proven what the band stands for: old school thrash - brutal, fast, uncompromising and mean.
With the album “The Gasoline Solution”, a real, much-praised successor to the two classics “Death Squad” and “Defenders of Justice” was released in October 2016.
Exactly 2 years after the comeback album, Darkness presented the
The album “First Class Violence” makes it impressively clear that even more than 30 years later, angry thrash still comes from Altenessen.
At the beginning of 2019, Ben took over the bass from Dirk.
The EP “Over and Out” follows in 2020.
In 2024, Dominik took over the guitar from Maik and with the highly acclaimed release of the album “Blood on Canvas” in 2024, Darkness manifested its status as a German thrash institution.
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http://www.darkness-thrash.de/
Chaos Wasteland is a Canadian thrash-crossover band formed in 2019.
The bands aesthetic and themes are based on a post-apocalyptic future concept inspired by Mad Max.
They debuted with an EP called “Bloodlust” in 2020. In 2024 they returned with an S/T full-length.
The band members are :
Isaï Flamand - Vocals
James Foster - drums & vocals
Leo G.Wolf - Guitar & vocals
Nic Belanger - Guitar
Saemund Ragnarson – Bass
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbIIg-4PmoxPHeuu1PQcFJw
https://www.facebook.com/chaos.wasteland
Watch Northbound Train lyric video: https://youtu.be/QdMR2otS_gI
Aggressive, old school and borderline chaotic, “Northbound Train” is a thrashy heavy metal song to bang your head and break your neck to.
“It’s an old song resurrected and running onward like an unstoppable train, much like Arched Fire”, says Kristian Herkman, the singer. “A train to the north of Finland, back to where Arched Fire started.”
“And what a train it is”, rejoices Ari Väntänen, the rhythm guitarist. “I love the cover art by Umar Setiawan, it’s like Thomas the Tank Engine from hell! We also have a beautiful lyric video by Jussi Hevander that fits the mood perfectly.”
Originally formed in the Finnish Lapland in 1989, the band hibernated for thirty years until reforming in the late 2019 and starting to work on new music. Now, a five-year phase seems to be nearing its end.
"Things are about to change," says Ari. “It may be that Northbound Train is the very last release with this Arched Fire line-up. Who knows what the future holds, but for now, it is what it is. As a song, it is a fitting conclusion to this era in the band’s story. It’s about the journey we’ve taken while making two albums in the 2020s. For us, it’s been both a strong progression in this current time we live in, and also a return to where we’ve come from. There’s something very beautiful and raw in it all."
And that’s how the song goes. “Spend a night in a northbound train… Spend your life in a northbound train”.
Listen 'Northbound Train' single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/arched-fire-train
Line-up:
Kristian Herkman (vocals)
Aslak Purojärvi (drums)
Mika Rytilahti (bass)
Janne Särkelä (lead and rhythm guitars)
Ari Väntänen (rhythm guitar)
https://archedfire.com
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialArchedFire
Brutal Records is proud to announce the signing of OVERCAST RAIN, is a Dark Metal band from Latvia, Liepaya! The band is gearing up to release their third 2025 album via Brutal Records - stay tuned!
Hailing from the city of Liepāja, this formidable band is gearing up to unleash their third studio album in 2025 under the Brutal Records banner. Get ready for a sonic storm that will redefine the boundaries of dark metal!
Formed in 2014 by the visionary duo of Mihails Maslovs (vocals/guitar) and Kolja Kirk (drums), Overcast Rain has risen as a beacon of Latvia's metal scene. Over the years, the band has evolved through lineup transformations and sonic reinventions, solidifying their status as one of the genre's most dynamic forces.
Their discography includes two acclaimed albums:
Since You Die (July 11, 2020)
My God Hates Me (March 1, 2022)
Both albums have achieved remarkable success, with tracks like "All Hope Is Gone" breaking into the Destrokit Rock chart Top 50 and earning spots in the European Metal Channel rankings. These works are now enshrined in the National Library of Latvia as cultural treasures.
The Evolution of Overcast Rain
After a hiatus, Mihails and Andris Aleksejevs reignited the band in 2018 with a fierce determination to craft a heavier and more aggressive sound. Embracing new members and shedding female vocals, the band evolved into a raw, unrelenting force. Their revamped lineup debuted with electrifying performances at the Bunker13 Fest and earned second place at the Fresh Blood competition, setting the stage for their meteoric rise.
Overcast Rain’s relentless energy has captivated audiences across Malta, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Croatia, and Russia, gracing the stages of premier festivals like Dark Malta Fest, GoatHell Metal Fest, Barbar Fest, and DiFest. Sharing stages with legends such as Die Krupps, Blood Red Throne, Psyclon Nine, and Ost+Front, they’ve left an indelible mark on the global metal scene.
The Next Chapter
Currently in the studio, Overcast Rain is crafting a highly anticipated album featuring 13 brand-new tracks. Their relentless dedication to pushing the boundaries of dark metal ensures this release will be nothing short of groundbreaking.
Current Lineup:
Mihails Maslovs – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard
Marks Širokovs – Drums, Samples, Backing Vocals
Rudolf Vistiņš – Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Andris Aleksejevs – Lead Guitar
Leonidas Heidemanis – Lead Guitar
Aleksandrs Tiškevičs – Bass
Stay tuned for more updates as Overcast Rain prepares to deliver their heaviest chapter yet! This is just the beginning of their reign under Brutal Records—dark metal fans, the storm is coming.
https://songwhip.com/overcastrain/
Brutal Records is proud to announce the signing of ETERNAL RETURNS, blending the sounds of melodic death metal, metalcore, thrash, and groove band from Thane, India! The band is gearing up to release their third 2025 album via Brutal Records - stay tuned!
Founded in 2010 in Thane, Maharashtra, Eternal Returns is a leading name in the Indian metal scene, renowned for its innovative blend of melodic death metal, metalcore, thrash, and groove.
With a sound that is both intense and accessible, the band has carved a unique niche, combining technical precision with emotional depth. Their music frequently addresses themes of social issues, political commentary, and personal introspection, resonating with a diverse audience.
The band members
Harsh Makwana (Guitar/Bass)
Shankul Chavan (Guitar/Production)
Viktor (Drums)
Narendra Patel (Vocals/Lyrics)
Eternal Returns has released two critically acclaimed albums:
Reprieved to Totality
Hunchback Hatred
The latter achieved significant recognition, topping India’s iTunes Metal chart in January 2024. This milestone underscores the band’s impact and appeal within the genre. Further accolades include being named "Band of the Year" in Metal Pedia’s Top 20 Releases of 2023 and a nomination for Best Metal Band at the Radio City Freedom Awards 7, affirming their growing prominence.
Artistic Vision
Eternal Returns seeks to redefine modern metal by blending aggression with accessibility. Their lyrical themes delve into the cyclical nature of life, birth, death, myths, and the quest for liberation—drawing inspiration from Indian philosophy and universal human experiences. This vision positions the band as both innovators and storytellers within the global metal community.
https://www.facebook.com/eternalreturns
The Finnish Folk / Black Metal band METSÄN ALTTARI released their self-titled debut album on November 28th 2024 via Inverse Records.
Listen the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/metsan-alttari-album
The man behind Metsän alttari, Janeski, comments:
"The debut album consists of seven songs with themes ranging from heroic to gloomy and blissful. Most of the songs are made between 2023-2024 but some of the material is much older and has been refined afterwards.
The songs have nuances of folk music spiced with the darkness of black metal and the grandeur of power metal. They also contain beautiful melodies, evil riffs, growls, epic choruses and poetic Finnish lyrics."
Joni Kantoniemi from Inverse Records comments:
"When I listened to the album for the first time, I was very impressed by the atmosphere and it was great to see that there are still new bands coming out that are honourably following in the footsteps of Finnish folk metal legends like Moonsorrow, Ensiferum and Finntroll. Highly recommended!"
Track list:
1. Intro
2. Jäätyneen järven tuolla puolen
3. Synkkä syvyys
4. Metsäiselle alttarille
5. Rautaa, tulta ja jäätä
6. Vampyyri
7. Verikuun kirous
Music and lyrics by Janeski
Album cover by Nucleart Design
Biography:
"Metsän Alttari ("Altar of the forest") is a Finnish one-man folk/black metal project driven by cold whispering winds, burning big emotions and ancient mythology."
Line-up
Janeski - Everything
https://www.facebook.com/MetsanAlttari
Release
Date: December
13th 2023Label : Spinefarm Records
For a soundtrack to the end of the world, there is no band better than Electric Wizard.
As the COVID pandemic took hold in 2020 and lockdown restricted movement to your immediate surrounds, the legendary British doom outfit wondered if they might ever play live again. Out in the wilds of the English Westcountry where singer/guitarist Jus Oborn and guitarist Liz Buckingham live, the band descended into their crypt-like jam space to make a live album like no other. With no audience, and no actual plan to release what they came out with, they recorded themselves into a 16-track tape machine to capture their essence, their malevolence, their heaviness.
“We’d been gigging for two years at that point, around America three times, going to Japan and Australia, and we were sounding pretty good by the end of it,” says Jus. “When the pandemic happened we thought, ‘Fuck it, maybe we’ll never play again.’ So we went into the jam room and played the songs to get them on tape to capture how we were playing at the time.”
The final product, Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1, is as raw and heavy as one would expect from The Wizard.
“It's raw as fuck,” boasts Jus. “It’s like a lost ’70s black metal demo rehearsal session or something. It’s raw, nasty, screaming in your face. I always promised Electric Wizard was like rats in your face. This is verging on it.”
As anyone who’s experienced them live – headlining stages at Download Festival, or London’s iconic Roundhouse – will know, Wizard gigs are a dark celebration of heaviness and volume and bad vibes. Here, the songs sound like a violent hallucination that takes you into their world. Just as their studio works carry in them a sense of sleazy horror, drug-altered reality and middle-fingered misanthropy, the songs the band tear through here drip with the heavy, sinister vibe of having been caught in the crypt of the wizard.
“It was a more about capturing atmosphere and capturing energy,” says Jus.“I was really excited by the idea of just recording us playing purely live to tape and making it sound as raw as possible, like an old, lost recording. We used shitty mics, crappy old tape machine, put it together as fast as possible and just went for it. No one's sitting down, no one's got headphones on, we’re all fucking headbanging, just going for it.”
Opening with the enormous Dopethrone, and taking in signature apocalyptic doom staples like Witchcult Today, Satanic Rites Of Drugula and the ever-destructive Funeralopolis, the set caught on tape here shows how powerful and dominating The Wizard can be. As a band who never quite play the same thing twice, even Just notes that over the years some of these versions have grown more sharp edges and barbs than their studio counterparts.
“Some of the stuff from [2010 album] Black Masses, I was really happy to give it more of an edge,” he says. “And even stuff like …Drugula, I think it's probably a little bit laid back on the album. It's really such a creepy song about a creature coming up from the grave, and the live version sounds more spooky.”
Jus says he wanted to capture a feeling like that of Motörhead’s classic No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, or the sense from KISS’ ALIVE! that you were getting a window into something, a world the band created. It’s also, he says, an opportunity for a band as big and cult-like as The Wizard to bring something from metal’s dirty underbelly into the light, if only for the purposes of freaking out the unprepared.
“It's kind of more got an underground feel to it,” says Jus. “We've always been trying to drag in the underground into the overground, rather than pretending to be playing some big stadium, arena show.”
Indeed, what you have here is Electric Wizard red in tooth and claw. There’s no overdubs, no cheating, no putting things through the computer to neaten up afterwards, just a band conjuring up their black magic and capturing it as directly as possible, to the point where you can feel it in your speakers.
“I think that’s what's going wrong with modern music, you know. For all the benefit of copying and pasting and computer stuff, you're losing something, probably the most important thing of all, which is why people even listen to rock music, which is to listen to a band, listen to the energy between the musicians and how the instruments are locked together, and how that sounds fucking great.”
A soundtrack to the end of the world? Come this way, my fanatics. The Wizard awaits…
Tracklisting
1. Dopethrone
2. Incense For The Damned
3. Black Mass
4. Witchcult Today
5. Satanic Rites Of Drugula
6. Scorpio Curse
7. The Chosen Few
8. Funeralopolis
Line-Up:
Jus Oborn – guitar / vocals
Liz Buckingham – guitar
Simon Poole – drums
Clayton Burgess – bass
https://www.spinefarmrecords.com/
https://www.electricfuckinwizard.com/
The
horrendous release has been teased by Decibel Magazine who in
revealing the track “PENDUNCULAR HALLUCINOSIS“ via an
exclsuvie premiere, have remarked that the band “formed by members of
Hissing wears their love for Pissgrave, early Carcass and Agothacles on
their sleeve, and their self-titled EP is a celebration of gory and savage
extreme music, as dense as it is aggressive.“ - you can check out the
feature and the track https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/11/21/track-premiere-horse-butcher-penduncular-hallucinosis/Members of praised surrealistic black/death metal deformers Hissing re-metastazie in Horse Butcher, a disfigured onslaught of gore-fucked bestial deathgrind worshipping directly at the altar of Carcass, Archgoat,
Disgorge, Impetigo and Pissgrave. Where the imperative is repulsing, Horse Butcher step up to take the concept to its most inevitable and gut wrenching conclusions, bludgeoning the mind into a horrendous aural pulp of absolute violence and depravity. The band members’ roots in avantgarde experimentalism are not set aside here, rather preserved to augment the load of horror and disbelief in belching out these six tracks and twenty minutes of neanderthalian carnage and slaughterhouse madness. Several steps backward in human decency and dignity are needed to authentically perceive and metabolize the scum-fucking level of vile barbarism and inhumanity going into these tracks, but what really transpires is the band’s paradoxically nobel mission of reminding us all of what is unfortunately normal, real and happening everywhere every day in this world. A blindness and indifference against which Horse Butcher have seemingly waged a cryptic and gruesome war, by taking the horrors of the world straight back to the listener and shoving the putrid stench, cruelty and repulsiveness of human actions right back into humanity’s face.
The debut self-tilted Horse Butcher EP (which features cover art by cult gore collage master Adam Medford, as well as a thick as concrete mastering job by Dan Lowndes of Cruciamentum) is set to be released December 20 2024 on CD/MC/digital formats worldwide, all of which are now pre-order able via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/terror-hymni-belli-occultum-farwl
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/horse-butcher
Gutrectomy, hailing from the dark depths of the Black Forest in Germany, was forged in the crucible of brutality back in 2011. Their music is a relentless amalgamation of Slam Death Metal, Deathcore,
On November 15, 2024 their latest single “Shard Throat” delves into themes of inner torment, mental anguish, and the desperate search for release. The lyrics depict a protagonist trapped in a purgatorial state, suffocating under the weight of darkness and madness. Battling inner demons, the song captures a sense of hopelessness and despair, where death is seen as the only escape.
The intense psychological and emotional pain fuels the chaotic energy of the track, creating a relentless, cathartic experience.
https://www.youtube.com/@gutrectomy
https://www.gutrectomy.de
https://www.facebook.com/gutrectomy
"I feel incredibly lucky to be working with WormHoleDeath Records," stated Ömer. "I set out to make music that expresses my feelings and thoughts about life and death, and honestly I did not care during the making of this album whether anyone would eventually hear it or not. Once it was completed I felt as if I would be satisfied with it for as long as time exists, because I felt that it resonated with the whole of existence. I believe that if not one person listened to this music I would still feel happy with it and listen to it myself."
A
Universe of Influences CollideÖmer Doğramacı is a multidimensional artist and musician who brings a unique blend of cultural and musical influences to his work. Born in the Bronx, New York, Doğramacı’s upbringing was shaped by a diverse range of experiences and cultural influences. From an early age, he was exposed to various traditional wisdom teachings, which ignited a deep interest in spirituality and mysticism that would come to influence his artistic and musical pursuits.
Throughout his life, Doğramacı has pursued a wide range of musical styles, drawing on the diverse cultural influences that have shaped him. He has studied and performed traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern music, as well as jazz, rock, and electronic music. His work is characterized by a fluidity that crosses boundaries and defies categorization, as he brings together elements of these diverse genres in his compositions and performances.
In addition to his musical pursuits, Doğramacı is also a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of the spiritual and the material. His art is characterized by a sense of transcendence, as he seeks to evoke the mystical experiences that lie beyond the physical realm. Drawing on a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, and installation, Doğramacı’s work is deeply personal and reflective of his spiritual journey.
Throughout his career, Doğramacı has collaborated with a wide range of artists, musicians, and spiritual teachers, sharing his unique perspective and bringing his distinctive voice to a variety of creative projects. His work is a testament to the power of cross-cultural exchange and the transformative potential of art and music. As an artist and musician, Ömer Doğramacı continues to push boundaries and explore new frontiers, inspiring others with his innovative and visionary approach to creativity.
Tracklist
1. The King's Feast
2. Pray for Death
3. Fog of War
4. Deep Gaze into the Flames of Hell
5. Call to Prayer
6. Narcissistic Society
7. Inner Sanctum
8. Pain of Existence
www.youtube.com/@fragmentarysolidabyss7838
https://fragmentarysolidabyss.net/
NEWS 24.11.2024
Die Death- und Groove-Metal-Band MAGNACULT kehrt
mit der explosiven neuen Single und dem Video WINDS OF CREATIONS zurück,
dem zweiten Vorgeschmack auf ihr mit Spannung erwartetes Album LUCIS,
das 2025 erscheinen soll. Nach dem Erfolg von Eternity’s Gate befasst
sich dieser neue Titel mit Themen wie spirituellem Erwachen,
Widerstandsfähigkeit und der spürbaren Kraft der Transformation. Die
mitreißenden Riffs, fesselnden Grooves und tiefgründigen Texte
machen Winds of Creation zu einer Hymne, die MagnaCults Status
als Metal-Pioniere weiter stärkt.In Winds of Creation fängt MagnaCult die Essenz einer göttlichen Begegnung ein und erkundet die überwältigende Präsenz der Spiritualität und die Kraft, das Alltägliche in das Außergewöhnliche zu verwandeln. Der Text beschreibt eine Reise des Erwachens mit lebendigen Bildern der sprichwörtlichen Winds of Creation als Symbol für Erneuerung und Kraft. Die Struktur des Liedes ist eine Offenbarung, mit kraftvollen Versen, einem meditativen Refrain und einer unerbittlichen Energie, die sowohl persönliche als auch universelle Glaubenserfahrungen verkörpert. Das dazugehörige Video unterstreicht dieses Thema mit einem atemberaubenden visuellen Erlebnis und lässt den Betrachter in ein Reich aus Licht, Schatten und Selbstbeobachtung eintauchen.
Die Single wurde mit viel Liebe zum Detail aufgenommen. Joost van den Broek (Epica, Ayreon) kümmerte sich um die Aufnahme des Schlagzeugs in den Sandlane Recording Facilities. Der renommierte Produzent Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Norma Jean, Pearl Jam) ist für die Co-Produktion und den Mix verantwortlich und zeigt mit Winds of Creation, wie MagnaCult mühelos technische Präzision mit roher Emotion verbindet. Bayles' Fachwissen in der Schaffung schwerer, aber dennoch melodischer Klänge ist offensichtlich und sorgt dafür, dass der Song sowohl bei treuen Fans als auch bei neuen Zuhörern großen Anklang findet.
Mit dieser Veröffentlichung geht MagnaCult den nächsten Schritt in ihrer Mission, die europäische Metal-Szene zu dominieren. Ihre überzeugenden Live-Auftritte und die Zusammenarbeit mit großen Namen haben ihnen bereits eine treue Fangemeinde eingebracht, und mit Winds of Creation bauen sie ihren Kult weiter aus. Die Band ist bereit für eine ausgedehnte Tour im Jahr 2025 und lädt ihre Fans ein, Teil dieser epischen Reise zu werden
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VӦLVA – “DESIRES PROFANE”
Label: Grind To Death Records / Fiadh ProductionsRelease Date: November 28th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Darkthrone | Urgehal | Wolfbastard | Taake
An insignificant, impotent worm of belief came crawling from the desert sands. It brought its wheedling words of bile and honey to our home, its slow poison of false humility and father worship, eating at the hearts of those too easily swayed from sacred paths. Our steel began to rust and our blood run thin. Our mothers and our teachers, our conduits to the world that had cradled us through the centuries, were cast down and discarded as over eager boy-kings clambered across the bodies that had birthed them, scrambling desperately for the crown of the whispering worm. Under this new order of edicts and commandments seers became whores and queens became witches. And the disregarding turned to disrespecting…to dominating…to abusing…and to burning.
“Like the screams from a thousand vengeful souls from the witch’s bonfire.” - Vittra describes the sound of Völva.
From Malmö, Sweden comes the vengeful, satanic, feminist sound of Völva; a howling, hate-filled voice of rage, fuelled by the fire and the fists that have subjugated womankind since the old ways were undone by the insidious Christian contamination of the world. Born in the simmering underground cauldrons of punk and black metal the band built their foundations with a self-titled demo and the highly regarded Promises Unfold As Lies EP – and now the time for the unveiling of their mesmerising, intimidating full length debut album is at hand. Desires Profane begins with the acidic malice of ‘The Tower’ and immediately draws you into its world of flame and shadow. With its clarity edged with dirt and direct, unflinching approach ‘The Tower’ begins to carve out a strange soundscape of distinct character, with melody implied rather than simply stated. Familiar yet unsettlingly different…it’s an aura that permeates the whole album. ‘Walk With Me’, primal and chaotic, infused with anger and a sense of the forbidden that underlines the fact that Völva are born of different blood, a breed apart and your welcome into their circle is by no means assured. ‘Never Forgive’ stalks you like a blood encrusted valkyrie with a slow menace and a Transylvanian hunger, while ‘The Serpent’ sinks its needle fangs of nightmare into your quivering flesh, injecting the venom as cold flames lick at your nerve endings. The dark and ragged glory that unfolds as Desires Profane progresses is both addictive and magnificent. This is black metal at its assured and powerful, cruel and angular best, attacking with a merciless and fiercely focused purpose. Finishing with ‘Vagabond’ that brings a pagan lilt to its grimy onslaught, a hymn to forgotten times before the coming of the worm, Desires Profane leaves you in no doubt that Völva want to tear down everything that you know and set light to all you think you understand.
On November 28th Desires Profane will be unleashed on vinyl by Fiadh Productions and CD by Grind To Death Records – both versions housed in a sleeve that affirms Völva’s chosen role as the enemy, the adversary of the oppressor. Scathing and acerbic in their assault on all who support the pillars of our rotten society, this band are passionate advocates for its end. You will not hear another album this year as aflame with scorn, contempt and fury as Desires Profane – bewitching in its bitterness and spellbinding in its savagery.
Line-up:
Hedonosticia - Vocals/Bass
Vittra - Guitar/Vocals
Skuld – Drums/Vocals
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Australian Death Metal brutes, GUTLESS, have released debut album, HIGH IMPACT VIOLENCE! The album is available on CD and digital formats via Dark Descent Records. Me Saco Un Ojo is handling vinyl treatment. The cassette edition is available through both labels.
GUTLESS gave us one of 2018’s filthiest demos. Two years later, we saw a split release with Mortal Wound. Now, six years after that demo, we are finally getting the debut album. Strap in; this one is going to be nauseating…
Instantly they cave in your skull with maniacal riffing and unrelenting drum assaults. If you can’t withstand the might of Death Metal, turn back fast. The equally violent vocal attack will seal the deal as the insanity creeps further into the cemetery, searching for prey. GUTLESS has that perfect blend of old-school savagery while retaining their personality and sound that doesn’t feel like a diluted version of a superior band. Snap-neck rhythms and visceral grinding warfare will certainly have even the seasoned maniac tearing at their flesh in morbid ecstasy as this short but sweet opus erupts pus into their ear canal.
If you need more convincing, take a look at that cover art; reminiscent of the 90s while striking in its own right. You had better believe the album is just as damaging as that brick. Contorting and convulsing into tormenting visions of the macabre, GUTLESS contradicts their name by dragging out your entrails repeatedly across eight indomitable cuts of sadism and brutality. The underground still has plenty of bite down under and these fiends proudly showcase one of the nastiest examples you will hear this year!”
Track
Listing:1. Bashed And Hemorrhaging
2. Beyond The Catacombs
3. Scalpel Obsession
4. Avalanche Of Viscera
5. Galvanized
6. Carved Into Existence
7. Gore God
8. Viral Infection
GUTLESS is:
Joe Steele - Bass
Ollie Ballantyne - Drums
Tom Caldwell - Guitars/Vocals
Allan Stacey - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
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This is evident in the album's first single, "MASS GRAVE MEMORY." The band has partnered with Metal Injection for the exclusive premiere of the official music video for the song. Watch now at https://metalinjection.net/video/pathogenics-new-single-mass-grave-memory-is-a-riff-powered-steamroller
PATHOGENIC vocalist Jake Burns reveals the song's lyrical themes.
“'Mass Grave Memory' asks the ultimate question: what do we gain when we destroy everything? It’s a vivid portrayal of nuclear war’s aftermath — the searing light, the choking ash, and the silence of a world undone. Above all, it stands as a stark warning of what will await us if humanity loses control.”
Skepsis Recordings will release Crowned in Corpses on February 7, 2025. Pre-order the album now at www.skepsisrecordings.com.
Tracklisting:1) Mass Grave Memory
2) The New Rot
3) Dead But Not At Rest
4) Exiled from the Abyss
5) Fragments
6) Crowned in Corpses
7) Drag Your Crosses
8) Silicon Regime
Out of Boston’s depths emerges PATHOGENIC, a force unshackled from hiatus and reborn with Crowned in Corpses. Over 42 punishing minutes, this progressive death metal quintet weaves together labyrinthine riffs, relentless rhythms, and chilling visions of a decaying world.
In 2022, the band’s resurgence was ignited when original vocalist Jake Burns and new drummer Tyler Montaquila joined forces with guitarists Chris Gardino, Justin Licht, and bassist Dan Leahy. Together, they’ve forged a sound that is ferocious, intricate, and unapologetically heavy — delivering metal that demands to be heard.
PATHOGENIC has shared stages with legends like Suffocation, Revocation, and The Faceless, and has annihilated crowds at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival and RPM Fest. Known for their high-octane live performances, the band’s energy and command leave audiences with no choice but to headbang furiously.
Set to release on February 7, 2025, through Skepsis Recordings, Crowned in Corpses is a ferocious musical declaration: eight tracks of devastating power and haunting warnings of the darkness that lies ahead.
PATHOGENIC is:
Jake Burns - vocals
Chris Gardino - guitars
Justin Licht - guitars
Dan Leahy - bass
Tyler Montaquila - drums
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Label: Fighter RecordsRelease Date: December 3rd 2024
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Queensrÿche | Judas Priest | Vicious Rumors | Solitude Aeternus
It’s time to head back to the forge, to the place where it all began, where the smith first brought the hammer down upon the anvil, tempering the British steel that would become Forged In Black! It’s time to celebrate 15 years of real heavy metal, 15 years of indefatigable spirit and musical power! It’s time to reach back into the past and draw the earliest creations of Forged In Black from the cold ashes and thrust them back into the fire, reinvigorating the hellion screams and contagious riff attacks! It’s time for Forged In Black to be born again!
It was 2009 when the first line-up of Forged In Black was assembled, originally under the name Merciless Fail – a moniker that was soon abandoned as the sheer strength of the young band’s material became apparent. After relentless work in the rehearsal room and on the stage, by 2013 the rebranded Forged In Black were ready to record their debut, self-titled album – and it is that monumental piece of history that has now been remastered and expanded, adorned in rejuvenated artwork and unleashed again in celebration of fifteen years at the forge! Over the decade and a half of their existence Forged In Black have performed at Bloodstock Open Air and Hammerfest, graced the stage of the legendary Camden Underworld with the likes of Diemonds and metal legends Demon; they have worked with top producers like Chris Tsangarides (Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath etc) and Romesh Dodangoda (Motörhead, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine etc) and had their recorded works lavished in praise by major magazines such as Zero Tolerance and Powerplay. What better way to mark their achievements than with a powerful new version of the album that started it all? Songs like the eponymous anthem ‘Forged In Black’ itself and the epic ‘Accusations Of The Innocent’ remain important elements of the Forged live show to this day, absolute fan favourites that now sound better than ever with the muscular remastering work of Marcus Stock (Alcest, Green Carnation, Marché Funebre etc). The album’s tracklisting has also been expanded with the addition of two early EP title tracks, ‘The Tide’ and ‘The Exodus’ from 2013 and 2014 respectively; both prime slices of Forged In Black metal, these forgotten classics now have the platform they have always deserved – remastered and heavier than ever!
The original Forged In Black album artwork has been reimagined in vibrant fashion by the band’s guitarist Andy Songhurst, an acclaimed professional tattoo artist in his life away from the forge. The elements of the image will be instantly familiar to longstanding fans of the original album, but the style and approach make the cover fresh and impactful, ablaze with new life and colour - just like the songs it accompanies. Forged In Black Remastered MMXXIV will be released on December 3rd by Fighter Records, on CD and digital formats – and the hammer will land with a force unparalleled, a might like never before!
Line-up:
Chris Stoz Storozynski - Lead Vocals
Andy Songhurst - Lead And Rhythm Guitars
Kieron Rochester - Bass and Vocals
Tim Chandler - Lead And Rhythm Guitars
Oliver Gill – Drums
Featured on the original recordings:
Kev Rochester – Drums
Rob Chaplin – Guitars
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The album is a synthesis of avant-garde metal and comedic audio drama. Gobischkevrot recounts the story of a beleaguered clan of goblins seeking mystical power in a desperate struggle for survival in a human-dominated world.
A concept album in the truest sense, Gobischkevrot blends intense folk-inspired metal with spoken-word narration from the Goblin RaidBoss known as Skraptif.
With over 20 releases under their belt, GOBLIN HOVEL fully embraces their metal influences with Gobischkevrot; a natural progression from 2022’s Whatever Keeps the Light On.
Track
listing:1. Ambush
2. The Cave
3. Gobischkevrot
4. The Plan
5. Voyage of the Grogswiller
6. The Stowaway
7. Borokol pt. II
8. Don't Eat The Mushrooms
9. Dialogue with a Mountain
10. Moon's Fist
11. The Night Man Learned to Fear the Mountain
12. Crineiga
Gobischkevrot was recorded, mixed and mastered at Blackwell Sound with additional recording at Nektarkin Studios throughout 2024. The lyrics and script were written by the Nameless Goblin. Music was composed and arranged by the collective known as GOBLIN HOVEL. Cover art and Character Sheets by Alexios Ciancio @cianciographics. Back cover art and Layout by Eva Zarich. Band Photography by Fursy.
This album is a companion/expansion to March of the Goblins by Tha Goblvnz March. Listen here, and dive into the gobbish extended universe! https://thagoblvnzmarch.bandcamp.com/
GOBLIN HOVEL is a collective of musicians and artists formed in Meadville, PA in 2010 and currently based in Buffalo/Rochester, NY. Though primarily influenced by heavy metal, the band takes cues from various musical and folk traditions from around the world to create an intense avant-garde soundscape reflective of humanity’s chaotic and often contradictory nature. Lyrically, the band focuses on the universal human experience filtered through the lens of history, folklore, and esoterica.
GOBLIN HOVEL 2024 is:
The Nameless Goblin: bass, vocals, throat singing, Fx, guitar on track 11, voice of Skraptif
Damn Barbarian: Lead Vocals, voice of Ghirrul
Rawbeard: Guitars, recording, vocals, voice of Baalkryth and Borokol
Petuh: Banjos, Mandolin, vocals, voice of Nerlhein
Son G: Drums, rattles, electronics, keyboards, voice of Human Guard
Guest Appearances:
Mickey: vocals/voice of the Pixie
Squee Key Fromage: voice of Human Guard
Tom Gerwitz: recording, throat singing on track 11, mixing, mastering, samples, vocals
Alexios Ciancio: voice of Goblvnz the mountain, additional composer on track 9.
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HELLTRAIN releases debut album “ROUTE 666” on vinyl for 20 year anniversary .Swedish Helltrain was founded in 2002 by Pierre Törnkvist on vocals & bass (Everdawn, Scheitan, Devils Force), Oscar Karlsson on drums (Raised Fist, Defleshed, Gates of Ishtar) & Patrik Törnkvist on guitar (The Moaning, Everdawn, Battlelust). The trio recorded a demo with three songs and quickly gained attention for their original sound where a mix where previous musical experiences in heavier genres such as death, thrash & black metal meet arrangements and sound from rock n roll & punk. Their demo was infact only sent in to one record company, namely Nuclear Blast who chose to contract Helltrain immediately.
The debut album "Route 666" was recorded in the hometown of Luleå and
later mixed in Studio Dug Out by Daniel Bergstrand, known from productions
with In Flames, Soilwork, Meshuggah & Behemoth. The album was released
on CD in 2004 by Nuclear Blast in Europe and has since been licensed 3 times in
the USA, Poland and Russia. For the US release, Pierre in the band was
personally called up on the phone by vocalist Jimmy Pop of Bloodhound Gang, who
stumbled across Helltrain on the now retired music site MySpace. Jimmy Pop
then released the record through his label, the Jimmy Franks Recording
Company and practically this meant that Universal Music released and
distributed in the US.The title track "Route 666" appeared on Bam Margera's (Jackass) own TV series "Viva La Bands" and also on a smaller compilation album released by MTV with only 4 bands: Helltrain, HIM, Rammstein & Bloodhound Gang.
Now to celebrate that it is 20 years since "Route 666" was released, the record is finally being released on vinyl for the first time by label Discouraged Records (Umeå, Sweden) in a very limited edition of 300 copies.
Pre-order starts today november 22 and it set for release on december 6th.
Helltrain discography
2004 “Route 666” (CD album/Nuclear Blast(EU) & Irond Records(RUS))
2006 “Route 666” (CD album/Jimmy Franks Recording Company(USA))
2008 “Rock n roll devil” (CD album/Universal Music)
2009 “Route 666” (CD album/Metal Mind(POL))
2012 “Death is coming” (CD album/TPL Records)
2018 “Wolfnight” (digital single/own release)
2018 “On your knees” (digital single/own release)
2021 “Alive” (digital ep, own release)
2023 “Mischief” (digital single, own release)
2024 "Route 666" (LP album/Discouraged Records)
Helltrain Line Up 2024:
Pierre Törnkvist: Vocals
Patrik Törnkvist: Guitar
Mikael Sandorf: Guitar (Gates of Ishtar, Duskfall, ex-Deathbound)
Markus Parkkila: Bass (Devils Force, Gates of Ishtar)
Fredrik Andersson: Drums (Gates of Ishtar, ex-Duskfall)
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https://www.helltrain.net
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Just one month to "PATH TO OBLIVION" release date and EPITAPH unveil a second song from their highly ambitious new work due out on My Kingdom Music on December 20th.
The song's title is "Voices Behind The Wall" and it's inspired to "The dreams in the witch house" a tale by H.P. Lovecraft and has lyrics written by Jessica Carola Ragone.
A very suggestive lyric video, created by Tiago Silva, is available at https://youtu.be/IPinnA_raKw
"Path To Oblivion" LP/CD/tape/bundle could be pre-ordered at https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (singer of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, this is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble.
The journey towards the oblivion has begun and Doom Metal, Progressive and Esotericism are the coordinates.
DOOM ON!!!
Line-up: Mauro Tollini: drums; Nicola Murari: bass; Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars; Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
Style: Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists: Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
Cover artwork created by Luciana Nedelea and tracklist: 1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
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Italian
black metal outfit ARDEAT unleashes their ferocious
new single, "IGNIS FATUM," today via Wormholedeath. The
track is taken from the band's upcoming album "APOTHEOSIS",
due for release on 20 December 2024."Ignis Fatum" merges mythology and existential themes, depicting a journey through destruction and rebirth. References to Danae's tower and Dionysian chaos evoke the inevitability of fate and divine wrath. Both destructive and purifying, fire consumes the emptiness of existence, while commands to "Rise, Dominate, Dance, Rule" reflect a triumphant rebirth. The song channels mythic cycles of death and renewal, culminating in an ascent toward immortality as the soul transcends chaos and marches to the stars.
"Ignis Fatum" is available on all digital platforms. Listen here: https://orcd.co/ignisfatum
Ardeat is a black metal band from Brescia, Italy, formed in 2021 by Enrico Pinelli, Julian Polonioli, Riccardo Cremaschini, and Andrea Salvagni. After releasing a cover of Franco Battiato's Atlantide, guitarist Cristian della Noce joined, and they recorded their debut EP, Exitivm, featuring a 20-minute song in two acts. Ardeat has performed with notable Italian metal acts like Mortuary Drape and Opera IX, blending black metal, early death metal, and NWOBHM influences, inspired by bands such as Dissection and Mgla.
Prepare for "Apotheosis" to arrive on December 20th, 2024. In the meantime, ignite your soul with the burning fury of "Ignis Fatum."
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Ritual Fog are one of the most exciting new death metal bands from the US with their blend of death and thrash metal with some heaving, stomping slow parts thrown in. Toilet ov Hell premiered an electrifying new track at https://toiletovhell.com/exclusive-track-premiere-ritual-fogs-nocturnal-suffering/
Excerpt - "To keep things fresher than wet green ooze irradiating your rotting cemetery, Ritual Fog brings together OSDM, thrash, and just a hint of whatever it is Autolith is doing, delivering a balanced, vicious, pitboss-approved record."
RITUAL FOG - “BUT MERELY FLESH”
For
fans of
: Morgoth, Asphyx, Skeletal Remains, Laceration, Malevolent Creation, Death, Leper
ColonyRitual Fog have masterfully infused thrash influences in their old school death metal sound in a way that the music becomes far more acerbic and gritty, so much so that even when they slow down during their doomier moments, it sounds incredibly scathing and vile. Their riffs seem to have a tendency to press down against the listener and create a burning sensation first in the ears, then in the rest of the body. The hoarse vocals emanating from what can only be a serrated throat add to the grating effect and enhance the nastiness quotient manifold. They seem to have borrowed the right amount of influences to form a cohesive albeit abrasive sound that wreaks havoc no matter what path they decide to tread. As such, they are able to easily traverse blood-smeared pits in both fast paced and thrashy style as well as the ponderous, doom-riddled way, without diminishing the sizzle. This ability to retain the aggression and switch things up at the drop of the hat elevates them above their monotonous old school-sounding peers and gives them an exciting edge. Assimilating and perfecting their sound for their much awaited debut full length, Ritual Fog have created a lurching, ravaging beast and it's hungry and absolutely unstoppable.
Line up
Ian Younkin - Vocals / Guitar
Andrew Hobday - Drums
Spencer Martin - Guitar
Jon Clark - Bass
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano Rosado
Track listing
1. Misticism
2. Desolate Chasm
3. Slimeblade
4. Nocturnal Suffering
5. Demented Procession
6. Fog Sermon
7. Carnal Pain
8. Sentient Chamber
9. But Merely Flesh
Release date - November 29th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
BRUTAL RECORDS is proud to announce the signing of ETERNAL RETURNS, blending the sounds of melodic death metal, metalcore, thrash, and groove band from Thane, India! The band is gearing up to release their third 2025 album via Brutal Records - stay tuned!
Founded in 2010 in Thane, Maharashtra, Eternal Returns is a leading name in the Indian metal scene, renowned for its innovative blend of melodic death metal, metalcore, thrash, and groove.
With a sound that is both intense and accessible, the band has carved a unique
niche, combining technical precision with emotional depth. Their music
frequently addresses themes of social issues, political commentary, and personal
introspection, resonating with a diverse audience.The band members
Harsh Makwana (Guitar/Bass)
Shankul Chavan (Guitar/Production)
Viktor (Drums)
Narendra Patel (Vocals/Lyrics)
Eternal Returns has released two critically acclaimed albums:
Reprieved to Totality
Hunchback Hatred
The latter achieved significant recognition, topping India’s iTunes Metal chart in January 2024. This milestone underscores the band’s impact and appeal within the genre. Further accolades include being named "Band of the Year" in Metal Pedia’s Top 20 Releases of 2023 and a nomination for Best Metal Band at the Radio City Freedom Awards 7, affirming their growing prominence.
Artistic Vision
Eternal Returns seeks to redefine modern metal by blending aggression with accessibility. Their lyrical themes delve into the cyclical nature of life, birth, death, myths, and the quest for liberation—drawing inspiration from Indian philosophy and universal human experiences. This vision positions the band as both innovators and storytellers within the global metal community.
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Metal innovators OWDWYR have released the instrumental edition of their debut album, RECEPTOR. Released one year ago, Receptor was widely praised by the press for setting a new standard for technical death metal.
This anniversary, instrumental edition will allow fans to delve deeper into the intricate arrangements and complex instrumentation that make Receptor such a groundbreaking work.
"While I love LOVE Max's vocals, they have so much girth that they take up quite a frequency range," says Paul Plumeri, the band's primary songwriter and guitarist. "We wanted to choose our most proggy, layered tracks, and do a special instrumental mix and master so people could hear the rich tapestry of counterpoint and varied instrumentation."
The band has shared a visualizer for the EP. This uncut sequence features a live liquid performance by Thomas Condry . Watch the visualizer on https://www.youtube.com/@owdwyr
Order the instrumental edition of Receptor at https://owdwyr.bandcamp.com/album/receptor-instrumental-edition
The EP was mixed by AJ Viana at AJ Viana Productions and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. It features performances from Kenny Grohowski, Kevin Paradis, Sydney Kjerstad, and the West European Symphony Orchestra.
Track
Listing:1) Praefatio / The Liminal Carapace
2) Ein
3) Supplicant
4) Reverie
5) Pitchtongue Vesper
6) The Sputtering Torch
OWDWYR is a technical death metal band based in the United States. Their music is a unique blend of extreme metal, jazz, classical, and progressive influences. Their debut album, Receptor, was released to critical acclaim in 2023.
Band Members:
Paul Plumeri Jr. - Guitars, Composition, and Programming
Chris Williams - Bass
Max Lichtman - Vocals and Lyrics
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In a joint statement, XENOS A.D. expressed their excitement about this partnership: "XENOS A.D. is delighted to be a part of My Kingdom Music to release our new album because we already know the great work they did for us in the early years of our career and in the past. "Requiem For The Oppressor" is the result of years of hard work towards creating music that we believe represents the very best of Thrash Metal. My Kingdom Music has been so supportive in the long journey we have gone on to create this album and we’re incredibly excited to be a part of their family and share our music with the world!".
Formed by friends Giuseppe Taormina (guitars), Ignazio Nicastro (voice & bass), Danilo Ficicchia (drums), XENOS A.D. quickly gained recognition in the European Metal scene thanks to their impressive live attitude and performances at some of the greatest festivals in Europe (Wacken Open Air, Agglutination, Into The Grave, Area 53 among others).
Their distinctive blend of lyricism about war and its horrors, combined with their relentless, neck-breaking Thrash, pays homage to the genre's golden age Gods such as Slayer, Megadeth, Kreator, Exodus and Testament as well as some of the melody and progressive tendencies of Metal Church and Death Angel.
Fans of Thrash Metal can rejoice in yet another band flying their Metal flag proudly.
Now all you have to do is experience the raw power of the fury of XENOS A.D.
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ANTE-INFERNO deliver a malevolent hammer strike with “DEATH’S SOLILOQUY”; harnessing the bestial might of traditional black metal and intricately weaving it with the haunting majesty of the atmospheric sound the band is known for
North Yorkshire, UK; 20 November 2024: UK black metal act Ante-Inferno have unveiled their third album "Death's Soliloquy" via Black Metal Promotion ahead of its release on 22 November 2024 via Vendetta Records.
Listen to “Death’s Soliloquy”: https://youtu.be/KksA8AXdc9cPre-save "Death's Soliloquy" on Spotify: https://RecordU.lnk.to/Deaths_Soliloquy
Onism Productions, Matriarch Records and Forbidden Keep Records have also prepared three special edition cassette versions of “Death’s Soliloquy”, which is available to order now and will start shipping next week.
Red tape via Onism Productions
Clear smoke tape via Matriarch Records
Forbidden Keep variant via Forbidden Keep Records
Ante-Inferno are pulling no punches this time around with their third album. Now with a fully established line-up, the four-piece have delivered a malevolent hammer strike to the face of all who thought they would continue to mellow after the success of the atmospheric and otherworldly "Antediluvian Dreamscapes".
The album’s nightmarish cover art (from the masterful mind of Khaos Diktator Design), perfectly sums up the album’s sonic approach. An ode to madness, mental illness, death obsession and unfettered suicidal despair, "Death’s Soliloquy" harnesses the bestial might of traditional black metal and intricately weaves it with the haunting majesty of the atmospheric sound the band is known for, and in doing so takes the listener on an anguished, hysterical descent into the blackened emptiness of the grave.
“The album's theme is death viewed through different lenses and experiences”, the band explains. “A soliloquy is where a character in a play speaks their thoughts aloud, but they're speaking to themselves rather than to the audience. So this is like Death speaking on behalf of those who have died, reliving the final moments of their lives and what led them to that point - because the dead can't speak, but Death was there with every one of them at the end.”
In the run-up to the album's release, the band previously released an artwork video for the opening track “The Cavernous Blackness of Night” and a “Cold. Tenebrous. Evil" music video.
Catch Ante-Inferno on the following dates:
30/11 MANCHESTER, REBELLION (UK) - - Album release show w/ Hulder and others
06/12 BERLIN, DE MORTEM ET DIABOLUM (GER)
07/12 MUNSTER, WINTERMELODEI (GER)
14/12 EINDHOVEN, METAL MEETING (NL)
**More dates to be announced soon.
https://vendetta-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ANTEINFERNO/
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present AXETASY’S highly anticipated debut album, WITHERING TIDES, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing from Stuttgart, Germany’s AXETASY formed in 2020 with influences that belied their young age – namely, the speed metal, thrash, and black metal stalwarts of the ‘80s. Not for nothing is their furious, stubbornly obscure sound stuck there: while you’re busy checking the calendar year, AXETASY have already dragged you into the insane depths of morbid ecstasy!
Now, after a debut and a couple digital singles, AXETASY charge the gates of Hell with their full-length debut, Withering Tides. After the short, scene-setting intro, Withering Tides gallops away into heavy metal heaven with a sound that’s strikingly familiar yet somehow unique – strange magick, indeed! The four youngsters of AXETASY soon prove their mettle with a straightforward rush of just-black-enough speed metal dotted with tasty, atmospheric melodies and technically demanding passages. This is not the usual blackthrash trip; rare is it to find a modern band nailing the etched-in-time, Walls of Jericho-era Helloween sound with this much aplomb. As such, the production of Withering Tides totally befits their fun-yet-fiery, dark-but-not-completely chassis: gleaming and clean where it needs to be, and just dirty enough underneath. Nightmarish mayhem, for sure, and immediately memorable after just one listen…but you’ll surely be possessed by AXETASY to press “play” 666 times!
Swords of steel aloft, AXETASY’s Withering Tides comes heartily recommended for maniacs of labelmates HEXECUTOR and BLACKEVIL as well as former labelmates Sacrifizer, Cruel Force’s more recent work, and Brazil’s Evil Invaders – enter this “Fatal Maze” posthaste!
Line-up:
Johnny „Amon“ Kröner – Vocals, Guitar
Nik „Fetch“ Mangold – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Chris Kröner – Drums
Ben „Jaxxy“ Kruska – Bass, Backing Vocals
From Stuttgart, Germany
Artwork:
Lauren Gornik
Release date:
17th January 2025
Tracklist1 The Void
2 Withering Tides of Space
3 Fatal Maze
4 Slicing Dreams
5 Beyond all Order
6 Voidcrawler
7 Deadly Witch
8 Axetasy - of Murder
9 Nebulous Nightmares
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on white vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
After nearly a decade since the release of full-length debut album, Subversions of the Psyche, the Scottish brutes return with sophomore album, Edifice of Vicissitudes, their first for Willowtip!
Without compromise, stylistic detours or mellowing with age, Edifice of Vicissitudes is a blast-beaten beast of an album and a quintessential example of Brutal Death Metal in its purest form.
Guitarist Joe Fleetwood drives that point home in explaining that, “Edifice of Vicissitudes is the culmination of years of jamming and formulating our ideas into the most brutal and twisted Iniquitous Savagery songs we could make.”
Willowtip Records will release Edifice of Vicissitudes November 22 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://iniquitoussavagery.bandcamp.com/album/edifice-of-vicissitudes
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/iniquitous-savagery.aspx
Track
Listing:1. Casualty of Diabolical Trial
2. Synaptic Cull
3. Choked Before First Breath
4. Omnipotence Negates Self-Affliction
5. Narcotic Exsanguination
6. Lifeblood
7. Drenched in Righteous Offal
8. Bio-Digital Convergence in the Fourth Industrial Age
Credits:
All music and lyrics by Iniquitous Savagery.
Recorded by D.P Johnson and Euan Harrison at Audio Lounge and Full Pelt studios.
Reamping, mixing and mastering by Colin Marston at The Thousand Caves.
Cover art by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design.
Line-up:
Liam McCall - Vocals
Joe Fleetwood - Guitar
Chris Ryan - Bass
Euan Harrison - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/iniquitoussavagery
The exclusive premiere of INCINERATION DAY comes courtesy of Mystification Zine, who states the album "leads the listener through the pathos available to an increasingly anthropo-scenic point of view, slowing to a march into fatal irreverence by the end."
Stream Incineration Day at https://mystificationzine.com/2024/11/20/an-early-stream-of-thunraz-incineration-day-lp-2024-premiere/
Incineration Day is due out on November 22. The album is a collaborative effort between Estonia-based musician Madis Jalakas and US-based drummer Sean Rehmer (Dejecter). Order the album at https://thunraz.bandcamp.com/album/incineration-day
Guitarist/vocalist Madis Jalakas spoke with Decibel Magazine about the project's background, evolution, and what the future holds for THUNRAZ. Read the interview here. https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/11/19/interview-thunrazs-madis-jalakas-brings-the-baltic-gloom-via-incineration-day/
Tracklisting:1) Tyrant
2) Compactor
3) Fragile Automata
4) Incinerator
5) The Day After
6) Eastern Promises
7) Spiritual Self-Surgery
Vocals, guitars & production for Incineration Day were done by Madis Jalakas in Tallinn, Estonia. Drums were recorded by Sean Rehmer at Storm Crow Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
An experimental death metal project headed by Madis Jalakas, THUNRAZ (thunder in Proto-Germanic) seeks to align itself with primal forces in order to break through personal, philosophical, and musical barriers. Most of the time a solo effort, other times with the aid of different musicians, THUNRAZ has released five uncompromising records since 2018. Incineration Day is the first to feature Kansas City-based drummer Sean Rehmer.
THUNRAZ is:
Madis Jalakas - guitar/vocals
Sean Rehmer - drums
https://www.facebook.com/thunrazmetal/
With minds towards the future and souls rooted in the history of rock, TIME RIFT is the rock ‘n’ roll time machine the world needs. Formed by Justin Kaye in 2014, with various lineups through the years, the band currently counts in its roster Terrica Catwood on drums (circa 2017) and Domino Monet on vocals (circa 2023). That doomed year of 2020 saw the DYING VICTIMS release of their debut album, Eternal Rock, and after the world re-opened, a plethora of dynamite shows in the American Northwest helped them hone their craft further.
Fast forward to today, and TIME RIFT is poised to kill. Witness their second album, In Flight. Taking influence from not just the greats of Motörhead, Led Zeppelin, The MC5, and Scorpions, but also stalwart singers such as Sinéad O'Connor, Grace Slick, and Doro Pesch, TIME RIFT deftly blend the power of heavy metal with the groove of rock. In Flight sounds so old and fresh simultaneously, you’ll continually be checking your calendar for which year it is – in either direction – throughout the album’s punchy & powerful 31-minute duration. The arrival of Domino Monet as frontwoman is momentous, as her tough-yet-tender vocals give the band an entirely new dynamic: a swirling cauldron of emotive mid-‘70s hard rock and early ‘80s metal, lean and mean and minimalist but BIGGER than ever. Be warned - TIME RIFT is In Flight!
Line-up:
Domino Monet - vocals
Terrica Catwood - drums
Justin Kaye - guitars, bass
From Portland, USA
Artwork:
Hickory Mertsching
Release date:
17th January 2025
Tracklist1 I Am - the Spear
2 Follow Tomorrow
3 Coyote Queen
4 into the Stillness
5 Thunder Calling
6 The Hunter
7 In Flight
8 Dancing with the Sun
9 Hellbound
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on creme coloredvinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
The third full-length album "MONUMENTY" from Polish black metal band CZORT is available now to pre-order via Pagan Records. "Monumenty" (translates to “Monuments” from Polish) will be available from 29 November 2024 in jewelcase CD, black heavyweight vinyl and digital formats.
Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/CzortCDLP
Ahead of its release, the band unveiled a music video to the track “Oczyma Monumentu”, with the single streaming now across all digital platforms.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/MYEMzVox_RA
Stream the track via Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Z87Mwx
“Monumenty” was recorded and mixed last fall at Impressive Art studio in Porąbka, Poland by Przemysław Nowak.
The sound on "Monumenty" is an evolution of the band's past work on "W czeluść" (2022 split released via Godz ov War Productions), "Apostoł" (2020 album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) and "Czarna ewangelia" (2018 debut album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions). In 2019, Czort also released a split entitled "Under the White Flame" with Mordhell, Occultum and Dagorath.
In Slavic mythology, Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face.
Tracklist 1. Paroksyzm Ludzkości
2. Zjawa
3. Kuźnia Materii
4. Oczyma Monumentu
5. Zmaganie Rdzeniem Istnienia
6. Cyborium Zgnilizny i Brudu
7. 23.58.30
8. Antynatalizm Boga
9. Ubóstwo Idei
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/czortbluznierca/
Cult compilation of 13 Czech bands BREATH OF DOOM from 1997 for the first time on LP! In deluxe gatefold version.
This is the history of Czech doom metal!
Inside you'll find memories of members of all 13 bands in Czech and English language, as well as memories of the 2LP publisher (i.e. mine) and the original CD and MC publisher.
Release date: 11.11. 2024
LIMITED ONLY 250 COPIES! Bands:
Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy
Bone Orchard
Mythopoeia
Endless
Promises
Countess Bathory
Vacuum
Love History
Black Heaven
Hypnotic Scenery
Agnus Dei
Certainty
Dissolving Of Prodigy
Specifications of this title
250x black 2x12" (140g) with full-color labels in 2x B/W printed inner bag on 220gsm w-w carton (coated paper); SLEEVE: gatefold, full-color (4/0 CMYK) printed on 350gsm w-w carton, coated paper with matt machine varnish, 5mm spine, all assembled in a plastic overbag (vinyl records between gatefold flaps)
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/breath-of-doom-compilation-2lp/
November 20th - Trillians - Newcastle - w/ Morrows Massacre, Ovulating Cadaver
November 21st - O'Rileys - Hull - w/ Biomech, Scaleraker, May Moon
November 22nd - Legends - Edinburgh - w/ Anomos, Alternate Future, TRILL
November 23rd - The Dev - London - w/Pravitas, Sentient, Arwassa
https://www.noworthofman.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NOWORTHOFMAN
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Finland’s VITRIOLIC, BLACK STEEL VENGEANCE, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Headsplit Records has already released the CD and cassette tape versions for North America.
Hailing from Tampere, VITRIOLIC raise high the iron fist of their homeland’s oft-overlooked blackthrash scene. From the paradigmatic likes of Urn and Flame on to the next generation of Evil Angel, Sadokist, and labelmates RAPID, the power-trio of VITRIOLIC have been fighting the metal fight for the past five years. Initially, the band self-released their first couple EPs and a live album, and then made their full-length debut in 2021 with Renegade Ascension via Headsplit. And while some songs from their second album were forecast in demo form the last few years, at last arrives Black Steel Vengeance.
No more perfectly titled, Black Steel Vengeance is VITRIOLIC are at their rowdiest and most powerful. Honed on the live front, Black Steel Vengeance is a ten-track assault of old-school, riff-driven METAL. Black, speed, thrash, separately or all at once: VITRIOLIC let loose and live lawlessly on this 41-minute firestorm. Truly, this album is a testament to the burning underground spirit – theirs, yours, everyone’s who believes in Hell’s heavy metal – remaining grounded in the dirt of the past but digging up new graves that smell rottenly unfresh. The flag of hate of the original Teutonic Big Three flies proudly here, but VITRIOLIC manage to twist the knife in different-yet-honorable ways. As such, Black Steel Vengeance is equally at home in 1985, 1999, and 2025, such is its timeless gallop ‘n’ thrust. Raise your sword!
Line-up:Irreverentor - Bass
V Von Vitriolic - Drums
Gatekeeper Ares - Guitars, Vocals
From Tampere, Finland.
Artwork:
Aleksi Stenbacka
Release date:
17th January 2025
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on black/gold marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
GRAFJAMMER – “DE TYFUS, DE TEERLING”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Distributed by: Alive
Release: 10.01.2025
The Dutch GRAFJAMMER are back with a new line-up and a fourth album! After their last long player “De Zoute Kwel”, which received numerous positive reviews and a lot of attention in the scene, “De Tyfus, De Teerling” is the latest attack with their very own, viciously driving “Primitive Dutch Necrorock”. The band from Utrecht, which has been around since 2012, effectively mixes first and second wave black metal with hefty pinches of punk, d-beat and Motörhead. The result is groovy as hell – or rather: “swings like a floppy tit”, as vocalist Jorre says – but alongside raging, rocking crushers and passages of dashing destruction, there are also moments in which everything shifts into a melancholy twilight.
With “De Tyfus, De Teerling”, GRAFJAMMER present nine hard-hitting tracks (plus an intro) that tell of religious madness, self-deception and destruction in their mother tongue. In doing so, they delve even deeper than before into the dark underbelly of society and Dutch history. The album title is a variation of “Tyfus! Tering!”, a popular curse combination in Dutch, in the GRAFJAMMER version it means: “The Typhus (and), the Cube”.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/grafjammer
"Envy The Dead" is a concept album that conjures a dark, gritty atmosphere inspired by historical horrors like Jack The Ripper and necromancy. Moving away from symphonic elements, it embraces a progressive Death/Thrash vibe with influences from Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death. Mike Wead (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) is behind the engineering, mixing, and mastering
Tracklist1. Envy The Dead (intro)
2. Malediction And Laughter
3. Organs, For A Fair Price
4. Prosperity By Cocaïne
5. Maze Of Madness
6. River Dumplings
7. Coughing In The Coffin House
8. Fade Into The Abyss
9. A Deadly Embrace, A Sinister Grace
The album is available on all digital platforms: https://orcd.co/envythedead
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
MISANTHROPIA toured and played the last years intensively, domestically and abroad, under the banner of Eternal Rock Music Agency, and still plans to continue doing so.
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
www.youtube.com/@misanthropiaofficial4167
www.facebook.com/666misanthropia
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: February 18th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Deicide | Nile | Behemoth | Hate Eternal
They dance upon their strings, limbs convulsing as I drum my fingers upon the charred arms of my throne. My words of poisoned honey slip into their ears, caressing their hearts with promises of wealth, fame and adoration…and there is no price they will not pay, no one they will not offer up upon my altar. I have conquered them with whispers and they have laid the bones of their loved ones at my feet. They have lit the fires of their immolation and scream for acceptance and recognition even as they burn. What a race of empty vessels, vacuous fools all ripe for the harvest...
Infamous Belgian death metal force, Fractured Insanity, celebrated their 20th anniversary of musical devastation this year - and marked that milestone by completing work on their incredible fifth album, Age Of Manipulation. This act of sonic warfare is a stunning display of brutality and creativity, an accomplished collection that clearly demonstrates all the experience that Fractured Insanity have accumulated over the last two decades. Beginning with the slow burn build and then explosive attack of ‘Exaltation Of A Fallen Glory’, with its headbanging death march of a chorus, Age Of Manipulation then proceeds to transmute into ever more powerful and formidable forms. ‘Divide And Conquer’ possesses a teeth-grinding intensity that threatens to peel the skin from your face with its remorseless velocity and neck-breaking gear changes, ‘The Hangman’s Chair’ is steeped in horror and propelled by some breathtaking drumming, while the album’s title track crushes you beneath the sheer weight of the guitars, like a monstrous behemoth striding through the broken bodies of the fallen. This album is shrouded in sinister atmosphere and wickedly inventive, with bewildering moments and shocking twists, yet it remains deeply rooted in the cold soil of classic death metal. There is no weak moment, no let up in the sheer obliterating magnificence as the highlights just keep coming – from the nightmarish splendour of ‘Slumber In The Deep’ with its gargantuan vocal performance and towering riffs, to the devastating masterstroke of soul-crushing death metal that is album climax, ‘We All Die In The End’.
Mixed and mastered at the renowned Hertz Studio in Poland, to whom the likes of Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul and Vader have also entrusted their albums, Age Of Manipulation sounds sharp and vicious, with a clarity that highlights the fantastic individual performances on display and the metallic muscle to knock you back in your seat. With a new deal signed with Xtreem Music, the label that released Fractured Insanity’s classic ‘Mass Awakeless’ and ‘Manmade Hell’ albums, Age Of Manipulation will be unleashed on February 18th on CD and digital formats. Prepare to fall to your broken knees before the might of death metal supremacy!
Line-up:
Stefan Van Bael - Vocals/Bass
Jeroen Buysse - Guitar
Dieter Daems - Guitar
Ignace “Hammerman” Verstraete - Drums
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/FracturedInsanityOfficial
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT comments: "The 'Entertainer extraordinaire' leads a gullible audience through the sinister halls of the 'HOTEL SPHINX '. Behind the lights, cameras, and endless action lies a disturbing undercurrent—where power is fed by the innocence of youth. The lines between entertainment, initiation, and exploitation blur as a conspiracy of silence reigns in the 'Illuminated Valley of the Kings', where political celebrity celebrates death. Rites of passage too dark to speak, promising false salvation in a world where the show never ends."
Equally rooted in eclectic black metal, the most claustrophobic notions of free jazz, and the concept of urban cityscapes as canyons of horror, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT's signature sound has set a new standard for the possibilities of extreme music. Fans can expect "Goldstar" to continue down this sonic path next year, with media already hailing first single "Eye of Mars" as "chaotic, eerily-atmospheric" (Metal Injection). Stay tuned for more details to come soon...
Stream the new single here: https://imperialtriumphant.lnk.to/HotelSphinxNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnNHaH2kfkE
They've come up with an official video of the title song from their new album 'CULT OF UZURA' which can be witnessed here - https://youtu.be/PHm0WenekQM
Band's statement, "Cult of Uzura is the blooming of Skaphos into something more modern and violent. Recorded and mixed by Nathan Faure and mastered by Thibault Chaumont, Skaphos's third album is the embodiment of the ocean's rage and human madness.
Thanks to Kunal Choksi of Transcending Obscurity who signed us, we're more than happy to have the opportunity to spread our music worldwide.
All shall be one with the sea.
Skaphos is:
Guitar & vocals: Stephan Petitjean
Guitar & backing vocals: Jeremy Tronyo
Bass & backing vocals: Theo Langlois
Drums: Nathan Faure
Artwork by Paolo Girardi (to be revealed in due time)
Track
listing 1. Cult of Uzura
2. One Eyed Terror
3. Mad Man and the Sea
4. Hypoxia
5. Abyssal Tower
6. Echoes of the Drowned
7. Of Shores and Dripping Souls
8. Skaphism
9. The Servant
10. The Alchemist
11. The Offering
12. Diluvian Sentence
13. All Shall Be Now Itself the Sea
Release date - T.B.A. (early 2025)
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/skaphosofficiel
Thanks! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
NEWS 16.11.2024
So langsam aber sicher legen wir hier nun den Endspurt in Sachen aktueller
Releases ein, bevor es dann so an das Fertigstellen des Layouters für unsere
nächste Printausgabe geht und der Kopierer angeschmissen werden kann. Auch wenn
unsereins noch sehsüchtig auf die Beantwortung zweier Interviews wartet (ein
kleiner Wink geht in Richtung Magdeburg und Leipzig), haben wir eigentlich den Plan,
euch dann Ende Dezember mit ner neuen Ausgabe unserer „Klolektüre“ beglücken zu
können. Bis dahin könnt ihr aber erst mal eure Zugehörigkeit und Unterstützung
der „Szene“ bekunden, in dem ihr eventuell ein reges Interesse an den von uns hier
vorgestellten, aktuellen Veröffentlichungen zeigt.
Aktuelle Reviews :
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„Geradliniger Metal, mal wuchtig, mal mit dem Fuß auf dem Gaspedal“ – so beschreibt eine regionale Zeitung das erste Release „6TH DIMENSION“ der Heavy Metal Band LASER SCOPE aus Gera/Umgebung. „Auf der einen Seite der inhaltliche Blick in die Sterne, in Weltraum und Science-Fiction, auf der anderen Seite der musikalische Anker in den Achtzigern.“
Am 25.05. wurde die EP „6th Dimension“ veröffentlicht. Reinhören kann man z.B. hier https://laserscope.bandcamp.com – aber auch bei allen gängigen Streamingdiensten.
kontakt@laser-scope.de
www.laser-scope.de
DEATH
DESCENDING
is the singular vision of a dedicated musician. This one-man wrecking crew
unleashes a monstrous sonic assault that blends the fury of blackened death
metal with the atmospheric expanse of post-metal and the bone-crushing
brutality of slam. Death Descending's self-titled EP promises a pulverizing
experience!Tracklist
1.Permanence
2.Death Descending
3.Death Dealer
4.Where No Light Treads
www.facebook.com/deathdescending
We’re
excited to announce an unholy pact with Brazilian one-man bestial black/death
commando TERROR. The South American war cult will soon emerge
with its first act of ritual aural terrorism, the "HYMNI BELLI
OCCULTUM" EP, an eighteen minute EP of gruesome extreme metal
warfare weaponized from the cult of Archgoat, Holocausto, Tormentador,
Sarcofago, Bestial Warlust and Conqueror.The crushing EP has been teased by underground music blog Veil of Sound, who in revealing the song “Bélica Sinfonia Armagedônica“ via an exclusive track premiere have stated that “the music on this five-song-EP is fast, relentless Death Metal, with tinges of OSDM chugging and growls plus a bit of Blackened Noise attack.“ - you can check out the feature and track here https://veilofsound.com/2024/11/12/Song_Premiere-Terror.html
Across these five edicts of third world barbarism the totality of our new world dystopia is glorified and instigated down to its most antihuman and savage traits, with the cult of all crime syndicates, gangs, slums, warfare, violence, militarism and corruption thrown into an abyss of occultism and esotericism to embody the true lineaments of the modern world antichrist.
The "Hymni Belli Occultum" EP will officially be released on December 6 2024 on CD, MC and digital formats, all pre-orderable now via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/terror-hymni-belli-occultum
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/terror
Today I'm proud to present a good friends band, Öldöds, and their upcoming album "Ölen ska ner". A fantastic beer-infused death metal album that's filled with catchy, heavy riffs, about the thing many of us loves the most. Drinking beer. Enjoy!
ÖLDÖDS – “ÖLEN SKA NER”
Öldöds was formed in 2007, and has since become a cult band in the Swedish underground metal scene. Straight to the point death metal with catchy, heavy riffs - and beer lyrics. 10 years after the full length debut it’s time again for some brand new brutal beer-infused songs!
Guitars, vocals, production, song writing, mix and master: David “Pos” Mauritzon
Bass: Peter Harg
Guest vocals on ”Fullast kör, dödast vinner”: LG Lantz Graffman
Song list
Öl är vårt sista hopp
Fyllans tid är nu
Fullast kör, dödast vinner
Ölen ska ner
Jag greppar en öl
Dricka öl och bli jättefull
Release date: December 6th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/oldods
A concept album in the truest sense, Gobischkevrot blends intense folk-inspired metal with spoken-word narration from the Goblin RaidBoss known as Skraptif. This newly released chapter sees the goblin horde overcome their human antagonists in a deservedly brutal manner.
"With the proper magic, the proper guts, and much sacrifice, the clan finally had the power we needed to drive the humans out of our territory. We stomped the humans so hard that their entire settlement dissolved into the ground! There is no way to describe the raw power we felt at that moment! The Moon's Fist would come down on humankind like a flood, wildfire, or earthquake! "
Stream "Moon's Fist" now at https://goblinhovel.bandcamp.com/track/moons-fist
With over 20 releases under their belt, GOBLIN HOVEL fully embraces their metal influences with Gobischkevrot; a natural progression from 2022’s Whatever Keeps the Light On.
Track
listing:1. Ambush
2. The Cave
3. Gobischkevrot
4. The Plan
5. Voyage of the Grogswiller
6. The Stowaway
7. Borokol pt. II
8. Don't Eat The Mushrooms
9. Dialogue with a Mountain
10. Moon's Fist
11. The Night Man Learned to Fear the Mountain
12. Crineiga
Gobischkevrot was recorded, mixed and mastered at Blackwell Sound with additional recording at Nektarkin Studios throughout 2024. The lyrics and script were written by the Nameless Goblin. Music was composed and arranged by the collective known as GOBLIN HOVEL. Cover art and Character Sheets by Alexios Ciancio @cianciographics. Back cover art and Layout by Eva Zarich. Band Photography by Fursy.
This album is a companion/expansion to March of the Goblins by Tha Goblvnz March. Listen here, and dive into the gobbish extended universe! https://thagoblvnzmarch.bandcamp.com/
GOBLIN HOVEL is a collective of musicians and artists formed in Meadville, PA in 2010 and currently based in Buffalo/Rochester, NY. Though primarily influenced by heavy metal, the band takes cues from various musical and folk traditions from around the world to create an intense avant-garde soundscape reflective of humanity’s chaotic and often contradictory nature. Lyrically, the band focuses on the universal human experience filtered through the lens of history, folklore, and esoterica.
GOBLIN HOVEL 2024 is:
The Nameless Goblin: bass, vocals, throat singing, Fx, guitar on track 11, voice of Skraptif
Damn Barbarian: Lead Vocals, voice of Ghirrul
Rawbeard: Guitars, recording, vocals, voice of Baalkryth and Borokol
Petuh: Banjos, Mandolin, vocals, voice of Nerlhein
Son G: Drums, rattles, electronics, keyboards, voice of Human Guard
Guest Appearances:
Mickey: vocals/voice of the Pixie
Squee Key Fromage: voice of Human Guard
Tom Gerwitz: recording, throat singing on track 11, mixing, mastering, samples, vocals
Alexios Ciancio: voice of Goblvnz the mountain, additional composer on track 9.
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The new single "Lichteter" is available to stream via all
streaming platforms: https://lnk.to/noctambulist"Lyrically the song explores the desire for a stable albeit mediocre future only to discover the present has fallen apart in the meantime", said the band. "It is emblematic of the themes found on much of the songs throughout the album. It falls in a comfortable transition between the harsher tones found on Elegieën and the experimental nature of De Droom."
Last month the band released the single “Aderlater”.
The new album “Noctambulist II: De Droom” will be released on 7 February 2025 in CD, vinyl and digital formats. Recorded in Tilburg between February and April 2023 at Catacomben Studios, De Droom sees Noctambulist diving deeper into post-punk and shoegaze influences while retaining the fierceness of their debut record Elegiëen.
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk.
Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album will be released through These Hands Melt, with pre-order details and more information to be revealed soon.
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/these.hands.melt
https://www.facebook.com/Noctambulistband
Finnish melodic death/folk metal band WARFARER released their long-awaited debut concept album, 'A TALE BEYOND THE PALE' on November 15th 2024 via Inverse Records.
LISTEN to the album on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/warfarer-album
The band comments:
"The wait is over. 'A Tale Beyond the Pale' is here — a journey through Finnish myth and legend: jealousy, scheming, Viking raids, and duels under the northern lights. We’ve poured our hearts and souls (or what’s left of them) into this album, and it feels incredible to finally share it with the world.
But this is just the beginning — our TO-DO list is long and relentless. Warfarer is gearing up to hit the road, bringing our full live sound to stages across Finland and beyond. We’re also deep into the pre-production of our second album, so rest assured, more music is on the horizon.
To our fans, thank you for your unwavering support. See you in the longhalls!"
STORIES BEHIND THE TRACKS:
Heir Uncrowned:
"The beginning. Two brothers, raised as one, by blood bound. Our protagonist, the firstborn son, is destined to become the tribe's chieftain. When he commits a shameful deed, he is disgraced by his chieftain father and disavowed. After the chieftain dies and the second son takes our protagonist's place as the new chieftain, the firstborn son begins to resent his own brother."
As the Portents Foretold:
"The raid. The brothers lead a raid over the sea against a southern village. Amidst the battle, the jealous firstborn son looks for an opportunity to plant his dagger in his brother-chieftain's back, but is continuously denied the chance. Finally, as the sounds of battle fade and everyone else has fallen, he turns his blade toward his brother."
Brotherslayer:
"The duel. The firstborn son, cold-blooded, faces the bewildered brother-chieftain, who does not understand what madness has overtaken his dear brother. In the end, the firstborn son stands over his slain brother as the morning sun dawns."
Bereaver:
"The homecoming. As the raiders return, carrying their beloved chieftain on a funeral bier, the firstborn son is exhilarated. He assumes his place as the new chieftain, but among the subdued cheers, murmurs of discontent and rumors surrounding the circumstances of his brother-chieftain's death persist.”
Betrayer:
"The resentment. The firstborn son is the new chieftain, but he is not beloved like his brother. Even in death, his brother makes him jealous, and this resentment begins to turn into anger. Soon, the flames of his hate engulf the whole village."
In the Gravelight:
"The loneliness. Alone, despised, amidst the burning ruins of his sanity, the firstborn son hides in the north. The realization of his deeds finally drives him over the precipice, and he descends into grief-stricken madness."
March Through the Endless Snow:
"The march. Giving up everything, the firstborn son begins his journey further into the north. Determined to find his end on his own terms, he marches to reach the dark river of Tuonela."
The Gates to Realms Beyond:
"The end. Collapsing in the snow, he sees the gates open to the realms beyond. The firstborn son leaves this world, leaving behind his legacy — the myth of the brotherslayer."
WATCH Brotherslayer music video: https://youtu.be/My-6xbnEEmo
WATCH Heir Uncrowned video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AmN6t0Mj5Y
Biography:
Born from the frost of Northern Finland in 2013, Warfarer weaves chilling tales of small people's great struggles amidst ancient myths. Their ferocious blend of melodic death metal and symphonic elements bites like the freezing wind and grips you like the flu.
After releasing an EP in 2017 and undergoing a complete reincarnation with new singles in 2018 and 2020, the band is more alive than ever, preparing for war with brutal new songs and sharpened axes. Their upcoming concept album, 'A Tale Beyond the Pale', set for release in 2024, delves into the Finnish myth of the Brotherslayer, taking listeners on a journey through jealousy, scheming, Viking raids, duels under the northern lights, and an eventual descent into guilt and madness.
Track
list:01. Heir Uncrowned
02. As the Portents Foretold
03. Brotherslayer
04. Bereaver
05. Betrayer
06. In the Gravelight
07. March Through the Endless Snow
08. The Gates to Realms Beyond
Cover art by Sofia Sinivuori
Line-up:
Kalle Puutio - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitars
Seppo Kolehmainen - Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals
Klaus Telenius - Bass, Backing Vocals
Tuomas Rahikainen - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Julius Lehtonen - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@warfarerband
https://www.warfarer.fi
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Dark, grimy and subtly dissonant death/black metal . Obscureviolence have created a deadly concoction of death and black metal, taking the most effective elements of each genre and keeping the music raw and visceral enough for them to contribute uninhibitedly to the powerful sound envisioned by the band. Listen to the two songs that have been freshly unveiled https://obscureviolence.bandcamp.com/album/refuting-the-flesh
OBSCUREVIOLENCE – “REFUTING THE FLESH”For fans of- Crypts of Despair, Mgla, Skaphos, Morbid Angel, Viande, Burial Hordes, Saevus Finis
Featuring members of the death metal band Horror God, Obscureviolence are a new entity channelling the darkest and vilest sounds of black and death metal. They've brought elements of the two styles together, the raw, acerbic edge of black metal and the fearsome heft of death metal. They go hand-in-hand with their distinct features enhancing the overall sound, which comes off as surprisingly cohesive and powerful. As intimidating and loathsome their music is, which becomes a force of nature when they go on a rampage, they do know the importance of pacing and make sure to let the darker parts come to the fore and add a mysterious, ominous aura to the proceedings and also let the subtle dissonance seep deeper into the subconscious. For a debut, their songs are remarkably well-constructed and balanced, without letting go of their capacity for wanton mayhem, while heralding the coming of a new kind of power.
Lineup:
Sergey B. (Horror God) - Bass guitar, vocals
Sergey T. (Horror God) - Guitar
Dmitry L. - Drums
Artwork - S.TkN. (Sergey T.)
Track listing
1. Exodus
2. Refuting the Flesh
3. Source of Life
4. Spiritual Agony
5. The Absurdity of Existence
6. Pulse of Subconscious Cruelty
Release date - February 14th, 2025
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/obscurefcknviolence
Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
"Thanatos" is a dynamic evolution for Deus Mortem. While retaining their black metal roots, the album showcases a powerful blend of old-school rock and metal influences, with driving riffs, thunderous rhythm sections, and haunting melodies. It's a testament to the band's musical growth, showcasing a more versatile and powerful sound than ever before.
"Thanatos" is a concept album that confronts the complexities of human existence. It takes listeners on a transformative journey through illusory realities, unveiling hidden truths and stripping away the veils of deception. It's a testament to personal struggle and the power of the Black Flame.
https://www.facebook.com/deusmortemofficial/
ZERO ABSOLU – “LA SAIGNÉE”
With
members of ALCEST and REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBERGenre: Black Metal
Label: AOP Records
VÖ: 31.01.2025
ZERO ABSOLU is the band formerly known as Glaciation.
Glaciation was a project founded in 2011 by François Duguest (instruments) and Jean Valnoir Simoulin (Vocals, art direction).
The group then expanded to include Hugo Moerman (who became the 3rd permanent member of the group), the two main members of Alcest, and Lychar.
In 2012, they released the album «1994». The lyrics nostalgically and bitterly revisit Valnoir’s experience within the Black Metal scene throughout the 90s.
Valnoir temporarily left the band in 2014 and was replaced by RMS Hreidmarr.
In 2015, the album «Sur les falaises de marbre» was released by Osmose. Productions. Due to alcoholism issues (among others), Hreidmarr was later removed from the band. He then decided, without informing anyone, to assemble a new lineup and illegally registered the name «Glaciation» with the French Institute for Intellectual Property.
In 2023, the core of the original lineup (obviously without Hreidmarr), accompanied by a member of Regarde les hommes tomber and another from Alcest, recorded a new album: La saignée («The Bloodletting»). The lyrics take the form of a pamphlet confronting the enemies of the band and the Metal scene in general.
In 2024, to put an end to the drama, they decided to rename Glaciation to ZÉRO ABSOLU, and signs with AOP.
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Los Angeles (CA) - One-man Melodic Death/Black Metal act, THE MOSAIC WINDOW, in collaboration with Metal Injection, presents the world premiere of forthcoming album, Hemasanctum! Stream it now at the link below!
The Mosaic Window will release Hemasanctum, November 15 on Willowtip Records! The album will be available on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats.
The Mosaic Window mastermind, Andrew Steven Brown, released the following statement concerning the album:
“Hemasanctum is a concept album that explores my current thoughts on life, relationships (parent-child), and loss. While it may or may not be obvious, the album starts with a song about birth and ends with a song about death. In between are songs intentionally out of order (like the roller-coaster timeline we all experience) subtly relating to topics like self-awareness, mental health, abortion, religion, and grief.
This album is the first Mosaic Window record to feature a real drummer - Gabe Seeber of Abigail Williams, Vale of Pnath, Obscura (live), Decrepit Birth (live), Carach Angren (live), and many more. Additionally, I am still in awe that there are two guest solos from the legendary (and possibly my favorite) guitarist Andy LaRocque. Both Andy and Gabe absolutely nailed their parts, and I couldn’t be more elated for their presence on the record.
Hemasanctum was written and recorded between October 2023 - February 2024 at my home studio, and mixed by Damian Herring over the Summer of 2024. I am so proud of this album, and hope listeners can appreciate it too. Cheers!”
Pre-order:https://willowtip.com/bands/details/the-mosaic-window.aspx
https://themosaicwindow.bandcamp.com/album/hemasanctum
Track Listing:
1. Incantation to Summon the Unstable
2. The Pounding of Hooves
3. Black Bethlehem
4. Turibulum
5. Ash Like Anvils
6. Night Disease
7. Shrouded in Pain
8. Hymn to Silence the Light
Credits:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Producing, Engineering.
Damian Herring - Mixing and Mastering.
Additional Musicians:
Gabe Seeber - Drums
Andy LaRocque - Guitar Solos (Tracks 2 and 4)
Album Art: “Dead Mother I” by Egon Schiele (1910)
The Mosaic Window is:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Mosaic-Window-100094717845304/
Are you ready to dive into this dark abyss? Here is where abrupt death awaits for you with the coldness noises of MALÉFICO that will echo permanently in your subconscious, in a compulsive way and transforming your human existence into something miserable and insignificant...
MALÉFICO is an ecstasy of misanthropic noises that will invade you with horrible torments, and extract your most morbid nightmares into a reality where you will slowly rots and where your purulent carcass decomposes daily, without you being able to prevent or stop this metamorphosis of personal self destruction...
SUICIDAL DARK NOISE AMBIENT...
MALÉFICO
- "SUICIDE SOUL"Cassette with limited edition of 33 copies
SIDE A
01 - Caos & Ruin [3:19]
02 - Cut Your Soul [8:21]
03 - Darkness [13:21]
SIDE B
04 - Cut Your Soul (Suicide) [21:34]
Record in 2021 & Mixed in 2024
All Dark Ambient and Vocals by Hailstorm
Layout made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter
Promotional video made by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter
MURDER RECORDS proudly announces the cover art and a preview track "Cut Your Soul" from MALÉFICO's debut album, which will be released in January in the following formats:
HELLPACK LIMITED TO 10 COPIES
This suicide HELLPACK will be presented in a wooden box that will include the following items: 1 bottle of gasoline + 1 match with sandpaper + 1 blade + 1 inverted cross with necklace + 1 MALÉFICO cassette numbered with blood... This edition is not for humanbeens or noise pussies...
NORMAL EDITION IN CASSETTE LIMITED TO 23 COPIES
PRE ORDER OPEN AT: 15 November 2024
RELEASE DATE: 17 January 2025
Listen https://murderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/suicide-soul?mc_cid=9069bf5871&mc_eid=20155afc03 the noise preview.
SUICIDE ON... LIFE OFF...
ALBUS DIABOLUS: An arcane and mystical musical
laboratory
. My Kingdom Music is proud to announce ALBUS DIABOLUS' signing. Created
and formed by talented and well-known actors of the Italian music scene (for
now we won't tell you who they are!), the project aims to be a musical
laboratory where merging the gothic and dark aesthetics of extreme music in its
most various forms, with an electronic sound deeply influenced by the
Synth-Wave and Dark-Wave style of the 80s.The idea of ALBUS DIABOLUS was born as a project aimed at experimenting with sound imagery with synthesizers, drum machines and atmospheres that evoke lights and shadows, but without ever moving away from the atmospheric roots that characterize the Dark and Ritual scene and the musical bases of Gothic Rock and Metal.
The result is an emotional and immersive journey that evokes soundscapes that oscillate between nostalgia and mystery with a sound that recalls the influences of works such as "Tenebre" by Simonetti / Pignatelli / Morante, EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, COIL, CURRENT 93, VISITORS, while maintaining a distinctive identity.
And now... let the Sabbath begin!!!
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
Label: Wulfhere ProductionsRelease Date: October 18th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Ancient | Burzum | Nefarious | Hecate Enthroned
The judgement of the stars that stare down from the night sky means nothing to me. I will outlive their flickering ghost light. I will still be walking my endless path when they have burnt out into darkness. I will be here when the legends that gave names to their constellations have been forgotten. Yet my bones become fragile, like dry twigs that crack underfoot. My once imperious strength deserts me and my lustreless skin fades, hanging from my enfeebled frame. My beauty is shed with my fracturing sanity, crumbling over freezing aeons of solitude. I will retreat into my memories of glorious, blood-drenched centuries of lust and power, when we fell from the skies like avenging angels, wolves upon the fold, drunk on the terror of the lambs…
Parusight is the solo project of Bristol black metal musician Oliver Groves; noted as the guitarist of Blasfeme, who unleashed the visceral warfare of the Black Legion album earlier this year. But the darkness speaks to Groves in many voices and with Parusight he explores a very different shade of black. The opening track of debut album Deathly Pale, ‘A Clash Of Stars’, is a summoning of atmosphere, a gateway to the shadow realms of Parusight, a place where spirit freezing cold and desolate beauty entwine, where bestial vocals howl through blinding storms of ice and keyboards weave tapestries of dark romance. From the tempestuous seas of blood and raging chaos of ‘Lost In A Shadow’ to the wounded, malicious devil that is ‘Malignant’ – a song of decay held together by bitterness and spite – Deathly Pale reveals itself to be an epic, emotive creation of rampant riffs and cascading melodies, a tale of many chapters. At the ever-bleeding heart of the album lies its greatest work, where all its poisons coalesce, ‘Love’. Here, reflections on past sins are shrouded in funereal drapes of melancholy, dying passions feed ancient agonies and words are torn from throats in violent expulsions of utter savagery. Deathly Pale is an intensely personal outpouring of emotion, yet one rooted in revered musical traditions and universal truths
Released by the bastion of British black metal that is Wulfhere Productions on October 18th, Deathly Pale is a remarkable debut album from a burgeoning talent. Oliver Groves – Parusight – has a huge amount to offer to devoted disciples of the darkest musical art and Deathly Pale is the perfect first step into his kingdom of endless night.
Line-up:
Oliver Groves - All music and vocals
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“We are thrilled to announce the release of our debut album with WormholeDeath Records." stated the band "This album embodies our creative vision, delving into the myriad facets of eternal darkness and its relentless struggle against the forces of light. We invite listeners to fully immerse themselves in this profound journey."
Their debut album delves into the human soul’s journey through the intricate paths of darkness. It portrays the loss of innocence as the soul traverses a series of symbolic gates, each revealing deeper layers of torment. Drawing on mythological, biblical, and existential themes, the album illustrates the eternal battle between light and darkness and the ultimate quest for redemption in a world engulfed in despair. It offers a visceral, immersive experience, guiding listeners through the void, confronting the agony of existence, and hinting at the possibility of transcendence through destruction.
Their musical style is marked by rapid riffs infused with symphonic textures and atmospheric vibes, promising a unique and immersive auditory experience for their audience.
Titel
list1. Dawn of Decay
2. Burning Echoes
3. Eternal Parasite
4. Lured
5. Stepping into Oblivion
6. Unceasing Death
7. Shadow
8. Ignorance
9. The Fall of the Rebel
10. The Great Epilogue
11. Breaking the Pendulum
Line - up:
Necro - Vocals
Mynoghra - Vocals
Absence - Guitar
GraveKeeper - Guitar
Apollyon - Bass
Akhenaten - Keyboards
Y.B - Drums
https://linktr.ee/endofdawn
Aussie death/thrashers COMMON EVIL stream their self-titled EP in its entirety .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6G4_uzw-HQ&list=OLAK5uy_m6nyq_ZXUc6ErgMAQlK2moASitLPTAjKs
Up-and-coming Death-Thrash quintet 'Common Evil' hail from Gippsland, Victoria (Aus). The group boast a distinct, powerful feel to their live performances that, paired with their old school style, punishing riffs and raw songwriting approach result in a devastating sound heavily influenced by the 80/90's metal scene. Influences such as Slayer, Exodus, Megadeth, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse, Death and Kreator, as well as a nod to the newer sound of Death and Hardcore bands such as Power Trip, Drain and Skeletal Remains can all be noted
Formed in 2018, the wheels didn't start rolling until a crushing first performance at Whole Lotta Love Bar in Brunswick, Melbourne in January of 2024 and then a slew of other performances in Fitzroy, Northcote, Brunswick, Geelong and a hometown gig in Traralgon. The momentum kept rolling with the recording and release of their first single 'Disturbing the Peace' in September, 2024. Self-Titled EP out now
https://www.facebook.com/CommonEvilBand
Cleveland (OH) - Melodic Death Metal crew, DRUPARIA, will release long-awaited debut full-length album, THE RIVER ABOVE, on December 27!
FFO: Sylosis, The Absence, Light This City, Gates of Ishtar, and Skeletonwitch.
The River Above is chock full of riff-heavy melodic death metal, similar to Character- era Dark Tranquillity and Mors Principium Est, with the atmosphere and emotion of Insomnium and Darkest Hour.
The albums' first single, the title track, is streaming now on Bandcamp. Check it out at https://druparia.bandcamp.com/track/the-river-above
The word "Druparia" is a pseudo-synonym for the blackthorn plant that plays a part in some circles of occultism and witchcraft, and fits into the band's visual and lyrical themes of nature and mysticism. Other lyrical themes include sadness, regret, mythology, and perseverance through hardship.
Pre-order:
https://druparia.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-above
Track Listing:
1. Voiceless Regret
2. Under the Shade of Sand
3. Bereavement
4. Kintsugi
5. In Repose, Descend
6. Sever the Roots
7. The River Above
8. Of Firmament... And the Renewal
9. Bled For Comfort
10. When Cranes Return
11. The Violet Hour [The Civil Wars]*
Credits:
All Lyrics by David Moran except "Kintsugi" by Tyler Clark.
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Dan Paddy at Blackroom Studios, Copley Ohio.
Cello and Strings by Christopher “Kakophonix” Brown.
Keyboard programming and backing vocals by Dan Paddy.
Cover Art by Mark Erskine (Erskine.designs).
Druparia Logo by Alex Zarko.
Photos by Lance Littlefield (Lancesphotos.com)
Layout and Design by Alex Yarborough (@dr_metal_design)
Copyright 2024 Druparia Music. “Voiceless Regret” is dedicated to DJ Sprague.
*All songs written by Druparia, Brendan King, Dan Paddy, and Jeff Spencer, except for “The Violet Hour,” owned by The Civil Wars and Sensibility Music.
Line-Up:
Tyler Clark: Guitars
Josh Gatka: Guitars
David Moran: Vocals
Kyle Lash-Taylor: Bass and Vocals
Noah Van Dyke: Drums and Percussion
Bio:
Druparia formed with members of past bands in the Cleveland area coming together to make new music. Ideas for The River Above have been brewing since about 2011, maybe even earlier and thanks to some gracious friends outside of the band who have contributed and allowed the ideas to live on, the songs have finally come to fruition. Tyler Clark (ex-Inoculation, Mythrias, Once Flesh) came together with old Apothean bandmate Kyle Taylor (ex-Monastery) who had found young drummer Noah Van Dyke (Sea Biscuit) in November 2018. Once Flesh vocalist David Moran had agreed to do vocals if ever a project was started and Druparia had begun. After a few rehearsals, Josh Gatka (ex-Mythrias, Eternal Legacy) was recruited as guitarist the following summer and a full lineup was formed and the band released their first demo entitled Alfhem in the spring of 2020.
Influences include but are not limited to Dark Tranquillity, DarkestHour, Sylosis, Sacramentum,
Insomnium, Fallujah, Mors Principium Est, Inferi, Children of Bodom, and whatever weirdness Noah happened to be listening to at the time.
https://www.facebook.com/druparia
Wolvenant came to life in late 2023 surrounded by mystery and it wasn’t until early 2024 that the band revealed itself. Adopting a core sound close to melodic death metal but not restricted by the genre, Reve, Bael, Endov, Baraek and Neton create a musical galaxy that tries to defy the limits of reality.
With an appearance inspired by many cults across human history and adopting the central figure of the wolf and its relation with witchcraft, the band aims to create an immersive experience unknown to man. The themes of the lyrics and the music gravitate around human nature and cosmic horror and are full of metaphors and cryptic references trying to convey the darkest emotions coming from the public.
The band released their debut album “Cernegula” the last 5th of October on streaming platforms. This piece of art is meant to be a testament of their musicianship and the impact of their message.
Do not fall into despair.
Become One of the Wolfpack.
Embrace the Covenant.
https://www.facebook.com/wolvenant.official
BEER CANNON is a ferocious thrash metal outfit hailing from the heart of West Yorkshire, UK. Founded in early 2023 by guitarists Artur Skrzypczak and Krystian Zamojski, the band wasted no time in forging their path of sonic destruction. Shortly after their inception, William Paxman joined on bass, followed by the powerhouse drummer, Scott Bakes.
With a relentless passion for their craft, Beer Cannon sought to find a vocalist who could embody their vision of aggression and intensity. When none could be found, Artur Skrzypczak stepped up to the plate, taking on vocal duties in addition to his role as guitarist.
In late 2023, the band faced a setback as Krystian Zamojski departed due to personal reasons. However, this marked the beginning of a new chapter for Beer Cannon, with William Paxman making the transition from bass to guitar, bringing a fresh energy to the group.
In January 2024, Beer Cannon embarked on a journey to immortalize their sound, entering the studio to record their debut EP, "The Last of Hops." Eeleased on April 20th, 2024, this EP is a testament to the band's unwavering dedication and uncompromising sound.
Described as a fusion of old-school thrash metal with death metal influences, Beer Cannon proudly dubs their style as "Beer Metal Attack," though some have dubbed it "Party Death Thrash." Drawing inspiration from thrash titans like Municipal Waste and Slayer, as well as death metal icons such as Sepultura and Asphyx, Beer Cannon delivers a sonic assault that leaves audiences craving more.
Lineup:
Artur Skrzypczak - vocals, bass
Scott Bakes - drums
William Paxman - guitars, backing vocals
Produced:
MetalSwine Studios by William Paxman
Vibration Studio (Drums) by Dan Mullins
Mixed and Mastered at TDH Studios by Tom Hey
Artwork and Layout by: YANDEMA & BLACK SBL
https://www.youtube.com/@beer_cannon
https://www.facebook.com/beercannon
The wait is over: SÓLSTAFIR are proud to announce the release of their new album HIN HELGA KVÖL. Along with the release, the band is making a visualizer available for "VOR ÁS".
Watch the visualizer here: https://youtu.be/C3sldW6u4Yw
The visualizer is based on the artwork of the album. The stunning eloquence in cover artist Rowan E Cassidy’s charcoal shadows perfectly illustrates the substrate ravines and breath-taking altitudes that HIN HELGA KVÖL’s songs submit us to.
When asked to describe the music on HIN HELGA KVÖL , lead vocalist and guitarist Aðalbjörn Tryggvason simply replies with one word: “alone”. Alone is a perfectly succinct word for SÓLSTAFIR’s ardently unfiltered music where we discover ourselves, with a new found reverence for solitary reflection. This is HIN HELGA KVÖL, the holy struggle for overcoming adversity in life.
SÓLSTAFIR , meaning "crepuscular rays" in Icelandic, refers to those piercing rays of sunlight that break through dark clouds at dusk. This imagery perfectly captures the essence of HIN HELGA KVÖL, a beacon of light and hope shining through the heaviest of times. As the band confronts their inner demons, shrugging off the trappings of Rock and Roll decadence, their music resonates with the universal struggle and triumph over hardship. HIN HELGA KVÖL is the holy war that we all face within.
by
Riccardo Ziosi with Carlotta Vignocchi as evil model, and the tracklist:
1. Rinascita
2. Donna Prudentia
3. Gli Esorcismi di Canidia e Sàgana
4. Incantvm / Kyrie (from Mozart’s Requiem K626)
5. Diana
It is possible to pre-order the album (digiCD, LP) at https://shorturl.at/wAgY8
If with their previous album "Strigae", INCANTVM shaped their Black Metal with Classical Music and parts narrated in a very theatrical way, with "Maleficia" the music becomes the absolute protagonist thanks to atmospheres full of pathos and terrifying perceptions, esoteric ritual sounds, dark sceneries, Doom elements and old school extreme Metal, everything their Avantgarde Black Metal feeds on, making of this an absolutely unique creature in the international musical scene.
"Maleficia" is the darkest and most eclectic manifestation of the creative genius of Vittorio Sabelli and those who walked this way with him into the darkest folds of extreme music, starting from Tenebra (DREARINESS) on voice, to continue with Samael Von Martin and Nequam with their vocal interpretations, Lorenzo Mastrogiuseppe, Luca Tiraterra, and Marco Molino with their rhythmic elements.
It is a pure and simple piece of Art, an incredibly unique and exclusive album for very open-minded people, a journey that sets no stylistic or temporal limits and that reaches straight into the sick soul of those who can perceive it.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.instagram.com/incantvm_black_metal/
RISE OF TYRANTS – „ THE CHRONICLES OF CARDINAL PABLO MENDOZA “
Brace yourself for absolute annihilation! Brutal Records has unleashed the apocalypse by signing Italy's masters of sonic destruction, Rise of Tyrants. Their highly anticipated album, The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, is poised to detonate on February 28, 2025.
But the devastation doesn’t stop there! The Abnormality in Structure album will roar back with a full remaster, unleashing sheer chaos on February 7, 2025. Plus, prepare for the brutal resurgence of Trauma, hitting with a completely remastered fury on January 10, 2025, shattering all limits of brutality. This is raw, unrestrained death metal terror: merciless, bone-crushing, and utterly unstoppable. Get ready for total obliteration!
Rise Of Tyrants has returned, more ferocious and unforgiving than ever. This Bergamo-based powerhouse has dropped an eleven-track barrage of raw, self-produced brutality that makes their earlier work look like a warm-up. The energy is sharper, darker, and meaner. With Davide Cantamessa on vocals, a relentless force of raw aggression and versatility, the band has leveled up in every brutal way imaginable.
The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza comes at you like a battering ram of thrash and death metal riffs, with a rhythm section pounding forward like a war machine. The guitars are unrelenting, piling riff after punishing riff, layering death metal fury with an intensity that leaves no room to breathe. Cantamessa’s vocal attack rips through the wall of sound, moving seamlessly between guttural growls, visceral screams, and brutal tones that demand your attention.
The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Line up:
Davide Cantamessa: Vocals
Federico Visini: Guitars
Luca Mairati: Bass
Virgilio Breda: Drums
This is an album that doesn’t ask for your attention, it takes it. Brutal, unrestrained, and unapologetic, The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza is a must for anyone with an appetite for death metal played with devastating skill and relentless fury.
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. Recorded, mixed and mastered at ASDR Decibel Studio, Busto Arsizio (VA, Italy) by Carlo Meroni
Tracks:
01. Colle De La Croix De Fer
02. Parigi Napoli
03. Do Mario Pederasta
04. Sysvester Stazione
05. Holly & Beppe (Only The Brave)
06. Gerry Smashed Table
07. Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
08. Celine Di Orio
09. How Can I Fuck Capitalism
10. Mirella Silver Tongue
11. Armando The Preacher
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89666
February 28, 2025
Rise of Tyrants - Abnormality in Structure
Abnormality in Structure album delivered 8 tracks with a fierce and skillfully crafted assault. For those who crave raw, uncompromising death metal, this record is essential, unmissable live, and impossible to ignore. Ferocious blast beats and malevolent riffing that feel like a death metal avalanche.
Released March 15, 2019
Re-release date in Digital February 7. 2025
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89665
Rise of Tyrants - Trauma
Trauma album launches with a foreboding arpeggio before detonating into evil riffing and crushing, doom-infused rhythms. The 9 tracks oscillates between blistering speeds and sudden, grinding slowdowns, showcasing the band’s mastery of extreme dynamics and groove. The guitars inject moments of haunting melody amid a wall of unrelenting brutality.
Released February 3, 2014
Re-release in Digital January 10, 2025
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89664
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
riseoftyrantsband@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/riseoftyrantsdeathmetal
MENTAL CRUELTY comments on the new song: We are thrilled to unveil the re-imagined piano version of SYMPHONY OF A DYING STAR , beautifully arranged by the talented MISSTIQ. This rendition brings the song full circle, returning it to its origins as a piano melody, yet with a renewed sense of depth and emotion. The uplifting and cinematic qualities of the original track shine through in this arrangement, showcasing the song’s ability to connect with listeners on a more intimate level. Misstiq's masterful touch breathes new life into the composition, allowing the piano to carry the weight of the melody and reveal nuances that may have been hidden before. This version offers a fresh perspective while staying true to the heart and soul of the song.
Stream it here: https://mentalcruelty.lnk.to/ZwielichtDeluxeNe
Watch the visualizer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIhQsH7V5zk
APOSTATE - "ELEGY OF PHANTOM PAIN"
Genre : Black Metal
Label : Black Mass Prayers "
Elegy Of Phantom Pain" is a concept album based on an ancient legend from Central Italy, it is a journey into the night between mysticism and blasphemy in the best tranditions of atmospheric Black Metal and Dungeon Synth.
Valadier's side project, APOSTATE finds its place amongst Italian acts such as Fearbringer, Dolcinian, L'Ordre Du Temple and Fourth Monarchy. The Norwegian roots of their sound branch out through the Italian soundscapes explored by the aforementioned pillars of the Italian Black Metal underground scene, providing new blood to a way of interpreting this music that went lost over the past two decades.
A little gem that Black Mass Prayers is proud to publish, giving a physical existence to a debut that otherwise could have been missed.
Tracklist
1. The Dusk
2. Wailing Of Archaic Forest
3. Years Consumed In Exile
4. A Pact Signed By Poison
5. Elegy Of Phantom Pain
6. The Dawn
Line-up:
Unukalhai - Vocals, Lyrics
Blight - Guitars, Programming
Drunken Bible - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/blackmassprayers/?_rdr
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082688384218
"FEEL THE BLOOD" is a single taken from TZADOK 'S upcoming album "WE ARE TZADOK", due for release on December 6, 2024, via Wormholedeath.
Listen here: https://orcd.co/feeltheblood
The album We Are Tzadok continues to reflect the diverse musical style that has long defined Tzadok. It blends various metal genres, including Metalcore, Death Metal, Power Metal, Heavy Metal, and Folk Metal. The band refuses to be confined to a single category, embracing a broad spectrum of influences.
Up-and-coming Death-Thrash quintet 'Common Evil' hail from Gippsland, Victoria (Aus). The group boast a distinct, powerful feel to their live performances that, paired with their old school style, punishing riffs and raw songwriting approach result in a devastating sound heavily influenced by the 80/90's metal scene. Influences such as Slayer, Exodus, Megadeth, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse, Death and Kreator, as well as a nod to the newer sound of Death and Hardcore bands such as Power Trip, Drain and Skeletal Remains can all be noted
Formed in 2018, the wheels didn't start rolling until a crushing first performance at Whole Lotta Love Bar in Brunswick, Melbourne in January of 2024 and then a slew of other performances in Fitzroy, Northcote, Brunswick, Geelong and a hometown gig in Traralgon. The momentum kept rolling with the recording and release of their first single 'Disturbing the Peace' in September, 2024. Self-Titled EP out now
https://www.facebook.com/CommonEvilBand
Cleveland (OH) - Melodic Death Metal crew, DRUPARIA, will release long-awaited debut full-length album, THE RIVER ABOVE, on December 27!
FFO: Sylosis, The Absence, Light This City, Gates of Ishtar, and Skeletonwitch.
The River Above is chock full of riff-heavy melodic death metal, similar to Character- era Dark Tranquillity and Mors Principium Est, with the atmosphere and emotion of Insomnium and Darkest Hour.
The albums' first single, the title track, is streaming now on Bandcamp. Check it out at https://druparia.bandcamp.com/track/the-river-above
The word "Druparia" is a pseudo-synonym for the blackthorn plant that plays a part in some circles of occultism and witchcraft, and fits into the band's visual and lyrical themes of nature and mysticism. Other lyrical themes include sadness, regret, mythology, and perseverance through hardship.
Pre-order:
https://druparia.bandcamp.com/album/the-river-aboveTrack Listing:
1. Voiceless Regret
2. Under the Shade of Sand
3. Bereavement
4. Kintsugi
5. In Repose, Descend
6. Sever the Roots
7. The River Above
8. Of Firmament... And the Renewal
9. Bled For Comfort
10. When Cranes Return
11. The Violet Hour [The Civil Wars]*
Credits:
All Lyrics by David Moran except "Kintsugi" by Tyler Clark.
Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Dan Paddy at Blackroom Studios, Copley Ohio.
Cello and Strings by Christopher “Kakophonix” Brown.
Keyboard programming and backing vocals by Dan Paddy.
Cover Art by Mark Erskine (Erskine.designs).
Druparia Logo by Alex Zarko.
Photos by Lance Littlefield (Lancesphotos.com)
Layout and Design by Alex Yarborough (@dr_metal_design)
Copyright 2024 Druparia Music. “Voiceless Regret” is dedicated to DJ Sprague.
*All songs written by Druparia, Brendan King, Dan Paddy, and Jeff Spencer, except for “The Violet Hour,” owned by The Civil Wars and Sensibility Music.
Line-Up:
Tyler Clark: Guitars
Josh Gatka: Guitars
David Moran: Vocals
Kyle Lash-Taylor: Bass and Vocals
Noah Van Dyke: Drums and Percussion
Bio:
Druparia formed with members of past bands in the Cleveland area coming together to make new music. Ideas for The River Above have been brewing since about 2011, maybe even earlier and thanks to some gracious friends outside of the band who have contributed and allowed the ideas to live on, the songs have finally come to fruition. Tyler Clark (ex-Inoculation, Mythrias, Once Flesh) came together with old Apothean bandmate Kyle Taylor (ex-Monastery) who had found young drummer Noah Van Dyke (Sea Biscuit) in November 2018. Once Flesh vocalist David Moran had agreed to do vocals if ever a project was started and Druparia had begun. After a few rehearsals, Josh Gatka (ex-Mythrias, Eternal Legacy) was recruited as guitarist the following summer and a full lineup was formed and the band released their first demo entitled Alfhem in the spring of 2020.
Influences include but are not limited to Dark Tranquillity, DarkestHour, Sylosis, Sacramentum,
Insomnium, Fallujah, Mors Principium Est, Inferi, Children of Bodom, and whatever weirdness Noah happened to be listening to at the time.
https://www.facebook.com/druparia
Wolvenant came to life in late 2023 surrounded by mystery and it wasn’t until early 2024 that the band revealed itself. Adopting a core sound close to melodic death metal but not restricted by the genre, Reve, Bael, Endov, Baraek and Neton create a musical galaxy that tries to defy the limits of reality.
With an appearance inspired by many cults across human history and adopting the central figure of the wolf and its relation with witchcraft, the band aims to create an immersive experience unknown to man. The themes of the lyrics and the music gravitate around human nature and cosmic horror and are full of metaphors and cryptic references trying to convey the darkest emotions coming from the public.
The band released their debut album “Cernegula” the last 5th of October on streaming platforms. This piece of art is meant to be a testament of their musicianship and the impact of their message.
Do not fall into despair.
Become One of the Wolfpack.
Embrace the Covenant.
https://www.facebook.com/wolvenant.official
BEER CANNON is a ferocious thrash metal outfit hailing from the heart of West Yorkshire, UK. Founded in early 2023 by guitarists Artur Skrzypczak and Krystian Zamojski, the band wasted no time in forging their path of sonic destruction. Shortly after their inception, William Paxman joined on bass, followed by the powerhouse drummer, Scott Bakes.
With a relentless passion for their craft, Beer Cannon sought to find a vocalist who could embody their vision of aggression and intensity. When none could be found, Artur Skrzypczak stepped up to the plate, taking on vocal duties in addition to his role as guitarist.
In late 2023, the band faced a setback as Krystian Zamojski departed due to personal reasons. However, this marked the beginning of a new chapter for Beer Cannon, with William Paxman making the transition from bass to guitar, bringing a fresh energy to the group.
In January 2024, Beer Cannon embarked on a journey to immortalize their sound, entering the studio to record their debut EP, "The Last of Hops." Eeleased on April 20th, 2024, this EP is a testament to the band's unwavering dedication and uncompromising sound.
Described as a fusion of old-school thrash metal with death metal influences, Beer Cannon proudly dubs their style as "Beer Metal Attack," though some have dubbed it "Party Death Thrash." Drawing inspiration from thrash titans like Municipal Waste and Slayer, as well as death metal icons such as Sepultura and Asphyx, Beer Cannon delivers a sonic assault that leaves audiences craving more.
Lineup:
Artur Skrzypczak - vocals, bass
Scott Bakes - drums
William Paxman - guitars, backing vocals
Produced:
MetalSwine Studios by William Paxman
Vibration Studio (Drums) by Dan Mullins
Mixed and Mastered at TDH Studios by Tom Hey
Artwork and Layout by: YANDEMA & BLACK SBL
https://www.youtube.com/@beer_cannon
https://www.facebook.com/beercannon
The wait is over: SÓLSTAFIR are proud to announce the release of their new album HIN HELGA KVÖL. Along with the release, the band is making a visualizer available for "VOR ÁS".
Watch the visualizer here: https://youtu.be/C3sldW6u4Yw
The visualizer is based on the artwork of the album. The stunning eloquence in cover artist Rowan E Cassidy’s charcoal shadows perfectly illustrates the substrate ravines and breath-taking altitudes that HIN HELGA KVÖL’s songs submit us to.
When asked to describe the music on HIN HELGA KVÖL , lead vocalist and guitarist Aðalbjörn Tryggvason simply replies with one word: “alone”. Alone is a perfectly succinct word for SÓLSTAFIR’s ardently unfiltered music where we discover ourselves, with a new found reverence for solitary reflection. This is HIN HELGA KVÖL, the holy struggle for overcoming adversity in life.
SÓLSTAFIR , meaning "crepuscular rays" in Icelandic, refers to those piercing rays of sunlight that break through dark clouds at dusk. This imagery perfectly captures the essence of HIN HELGA KVÖL, a beacon of light and hope shining through the heaviest of times. As the band confronts their inner demons, shrugging off the trappings of Rock and Roll decadence, their music resonates with the universal struggle and triumph over hardship. HIN HELGA KVÖL is the holy war that we all face within.
by
Riccardo Ziosi with Carlotta Vignocchi as evil model, and the tracklist: 1. Rinascita
2. Donna Prudentia
3. Gli Esorcismi di Canidia e Sàgana
4. Incantvm / Kyrie (from Mozart’s Requiem K626)
5. Diana
It is possible to pre-order the album (digiCD, LP) at https://shorturl.at/wAgY8
If with their previous album "Strigae", INCANTVM shaped their Black Metal with Classical Music and parts narrated in a very theatrical way, with "Maleficia" the music becomes the absolute protagonist thanks to atmospheres full of pathos and terrifying perceptions, esoteric ritual sounds, dark sceneries, Doom elements and old school extreme Metal, everything their Avantgarde Black Metal feeds on, making of this an absolutely unique creature in the international musical scene.
"Maleficia" is the darkest and most eclectic manifestation of the creative genius of Vittorio Sabelli and those who walked this way with him into the darkest folds of extreme music, starting from Tenebra (DREARINESS) on voice, to continue with Samael Von Martin and Nequam with their vocal interpretations, Lorenzo Mastrogiuseppe, Luca Tiraterra, and Marco Molino with their rhythmic elements.
It is a pure and simple piece of Art, an incredibly unique and exclusive album for very open-minded people, a journey that sets no stylistic or temporal limits and that reaches straight into the sick soul of those who can perceive it.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.instagram.com/incantvm_black_metal/
RISE OF TYRANTS – „ THE CHRONICLES OF CARDINAL PABLO MENDOZA “
Brace yourself for absolute annihilation! Brutal Records has unleashed the apocalypse by signing Italy's masters of sonic destruction, Rise of Tyrants. Their highly anticipated album, The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, is poised to detonate on February 28, 2025.
But the devastation doesn’t stop there! The Abnormality in Structure album will roar back with a full remaster, unleashing sheer chaos on February 7, 2025. Plus, prepare for the brutal resurgence of Trauma, hitting with a completely remastered fury on January 10, 2025, shattering all limits of brutality. This is raw, unrestrained death metal terror: merciless, bone-crushing, and utterly unstoppable. Get ready for total obliteration!
Rise Of Tyrants has returned, more ferocious and unforgiving than ever. This Bergamo-based powerhouse has dropped an eleven-track barrage of raw, self-produced brutality that makes their earlier work look like a warm-up. The energy is sharper, darker, and meaner. With Davide Cantamessa on vocals, a relentless force of raw aggression and versatility, the band has leveled up in every brutal way imaginable.
The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza comes at you like a battering ram of thrash and death metal riffs, with a rhythm section pounding forward like a war machine. The guitars are unrelenting, piling riff after punishing riff, layering death metal fury with an intensity that leaves no room to breathe. Cantamessa’s vocal attack rips through the wall of sound, moving seamlessly between guttural growls, visceral screams, and brutal tones that demand your attention.
The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Line up:
Davide Cantamessa: Vocals
Federico Visini: Guitars
Luca Mairati: Bass
Virgilio Breda: Drums
This is an album that doesn’t ask for your attention, it takes it. Brutal, unrestrained, and unapologetic, The Chronicles of Cardinal Pablo Mendoza is a must for anyone with an appetite for death metal played with devastating skill and relentless fury.
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. Recorded, mixed and mastered at ASDR Decibel Studio, Busto Arsizio (VA, Italy) by Carlo Meroni
Tracks:01. Colle De La Croix De Fer
02. Parigi Napoli
03. Do Mario Pederasta
04. Sysvester Stazione
05. Holly & Beppe (Only The Brave)
06. Gerry Smashed Table
07. Cardinal Pablo Mendoza
08. Celine Di Orio
09. How Can I Fuck Capitalism
10. Mirella Silver Tongue
11. Armando The Preacher
This Album contains 11 tracks of fast death metal, with groove episodes and dark shades. The concept rotates around the character Cardinal Pablo Mendoza, an evil priest who deceives the weakest for perverse purposes. The lyrics talk about abuses, violence and injustices with an ironic and sarcastic tone.
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89666
February 28, 2025
Rise of Tyrants - Abnormality in Structure
Abnormality in Structure album delivered 8 tracks with a fierce and skillfully crafted assault. For those who crave raw, uncompromising death metal, this record is essential, unmissable live, and impossible to ignore. Ferocious blast beats and malevolent riffing that feel like a death metal avalanche.
Released March 15, 2019
Re-release date in Digital February 7. 2025
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89665
Rise of Tyrants - Trauma
Trauma album launches with a foreboding arpeggio before detonating into evil riffing and crushing, doom-infused rhythms. The 9 tracks oscillates between blistering speeds and sudden, grinding slowdowns, showcasing the band’s mastery of extreme dynamics and groove. The guitars inject moments of haunting melody amid a wall of unrelenting brutality.
Released February 3, 2014
Re-release in Digital January 10, 2025
Preorder in Digital: https://orcd.co/brut89664
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
riseoftyrantsband@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/riseoftyrantsdeathmetal
MENTAL CRUELTY comments on the new song: We are thrilled to unveil the re-imagined piano version of SYMPHONY OF A DYING STAR , beautifully arranged by the talented MISSTIQ. This rendition brings the song full circle, returning it to its origins as a piano melody, yet with a renewed sense of depth and emotion. The uplifting and cinematic qualities of the original track shine through in this arrangement, showcasing the song’s ability to connect with listeners on a more intimate level. Misstiq's masterful touch breathes new life into the composition, allowing the piano to carry the weight of the melody and reveal nuances that may have been hidden before. This version offers a fresh perspective while staying true to the heart and soul of the song.
Stream it here: https://mentalcruelty.lnk.to/ZwielichtDeluxeNe
Watch the visualizer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIhQsH7V5zk
APOSTATE - "ELEGY OF PHANTOM PAIN"
Genre : Black Metal
Label : Black Mass Prayers "
Elegy Of Phantom Pain" is a concept album based on an ancient legend from Central Italy, it is a journey into the night between mysticism and blasphemy in the best tranditions of atmospheric Black Metal and Dungeon Synth.
Valadier's side project, APOSTATE finds its place amongst Italian acts such as Fearbringer, Dolcinian, L'Ordre Du Temple and Fourth Monarchy. The Norwegian roots of their sound branch out through the Italian soundscapes explored by the aforementioned pillars of the Italian Black Metal underground scene, providing new blood to a way of interpreting this music that went lost over the past two decades.
A little gem that Black Mass Prayers is proud to publish, giving a physical existence to a debut that otherwise could have been missed.
Tracklist1. The Dusk
2. Wailing Of Archaic Forest
3. Years Consumed In Exile
4. A Pact Signed By Poison
5. Elegy Of Phantom Pain
6. The Dawn
Line-up:
Unukalhai - Vocals, Lyrics
Blight - Guitars, Programming
Drunken Bible - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/blackmassprayers/?_rdr
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082688384218
"FEEL THE BLOOD" is a single taken from TZADOK 'S upcoming album "WE ARE TZADOK", due for release on December 6, 2024, via Wormholedeath.
Listen here: https://orcd.co/feeltheblood
The album We Are Tzadok continues to reflect the diverse musical style that has long defined Tzadok. It blends various metal genres, including Metalcore, Death Metal, Power Metal, Heavy Metal, and Folk Metal. The band refuses to be confined to a single category, embracing a broad spectrum of influences.
NEWS 9.11.2024
Es macht ja bereits seit einiger Zeit – und nicht zum
ersten Mal – die Runde: SODOMS BLAUES ALBUM erscheint in
verschiedenen Varianten neu. Und wie es sich für echten Blue-Collar-Metal
gehört, möchten die beiden einzigen noch lebenden Originalmitglieder Tom
Angelripper und Andy Brings den Fans persönlich die ersten
neuen Einheiten des alten Klassikers "Tapping The Vein" in die Hände
drücken. Stattfinden wird die gemütliche Runde in der schönen Dortmunder
Innenstadt, genauer im EMP Store Dortmund in der Potgasse 4, am
Releasetermin: Freitag, den 15. November, von 16:00 bis 17:00 Uhr.
Was schon bei der Produktankündigung direkt auffiel: Der
Band ist es hier gelungen, ein wahres No-Nonsense-Package zu schnüren, wo sich
alles zu 100 Prozent auf die Musik konzentriert, auf den Spirit einer Band, die
es in diesem Line-Up nur für ein Album gab. Oder wie Gitarrist Andy Brings es
verdeutlicht: "Es war uns wichtig, dass der Fokus auf der Musik liegt
und auf dem, was die Band damals war, wie sie geklungen hat. Man hätte jetzt
natürlich, wie andere Bands das auch machen, noch’n Sodom-Kartenspiel, noch’n
Sodom-Halstuch, Aschenbecher, Zollstock, was weiß ich alles reinpacken können,
damit das Ding auch ja 170€ kostet mit so Wegwerf-Temu-Artikeln, aber das
wollten wir nicht."Statt eines Päckchens voller Schießbuden-Tand gibt es also ein echtes Brett, das die Atmosphäre jener Zeit hochverdichtet und mit liebevoll erarbeiteter Ausstattung zu einem sehr fairen Preis anbietet. Ein Quäntchen Klangverfeinerung gibt es mit dem "2024 Remaster" des Albums, das jedoch sehr behutsam angegangen wurde, um den ursprünglichen Charakter des Werks zu erhalten. Anstatt dort an den Reglern zu weit zu gehen, was von den Fans oft nicht gern gesehen wird, wurde kurzerhand eine zweite Fassung beigelegt, in der "Tapping The Vein" einen kompletten Remix erhielt, für den Andy auch im Original nicht enthaltenes Aufnahmematerial aus der damaligen Recording-Session mit einbrachte. "Bullet in the Head" konnte bereits als Erstkontakt mit diesem "2024 Redux" die Fans überzeugen: Sodom und High-End-Audio funktionieren verblüffend gut!
Nicht minder gründlich wurden Originaltonaufnahmen der legendären 1992er Japan-Tour der Band gesichtet und zu einer ebenfalls beigelegten Livescheibe zusammengestellt.
Andy erläutert, welches Ansinnen zu dieser Kollektion geführt hat und warum das Ganze sowohl auf Vinyl als auch auf CD zu einem regulären Albumpreis erhältlich ist: "Es sollte bezahlbar bleiben – wir sind Working Class, das ganze Sodom-Universum ist Working Class und es war uns wichtig, zu zeigen: Wie war die Band damals; wie war diese recht kurzlebige Ära dieser Band. Es war nur netto ein Jahr Tom, Chris und Andy und in der Zeit ist ja eigentlich sehr viel passiert. In den drei Konzerten, die in relativ kurzen Abständen passierten und aufgenommen wurden, hört man schon, wie unterschiedlich wir so drauf waren. Mitunter sehr ruppig gespielt – ist natürlich ein Trademark gewesen –, aber so war die Band damals. Auf dem kreativen Höhepunkt, aber trotzdem kurz vor dem Auseinanderbrechen, also eine ganz seltsame Zeit. Und deswegen kann man da jetzt, über 30 Jahre später, nochmal aus ‘ner ganz anderen Perspektive draufgucken und das Ding in ein neues altes Kleid packen, ohne zu sehr einzugreifen, ohne irgendwas zu verändern, ohne mit den Erinnerungen und Gefühlen der Fans Schindluder zu treiben."
"Tapping The Vein", das in der Szene oft als "Sodoms Death-Metal-Scheibe" gehandelt wird, steht dabei wie kaum ein anderes für den frühen Thrash am Scheideweg.
Viele Bands begannen in den beginnenden Neunzigerjahren, ihre ursprünglichen Visionen zu verwerfen und sich teils komplett neu zu orientieren. Das Gegenteil bei Sodom: Man spielte, ergänzt mit der Wildheit des noch sehr jungen Gitarristen Andy, einfach nur noch schneller, härter, brutaler als vorher, blieb sich und dem Thrash aber treu. Und nicht anders war der Death Metal seinerzeit ja auch aus Superlativen des Thrash entstanden. "Tapping The Vein" ist zurück, rau und urgewaltig und auf Wunsch auch in Brutal Hifi.
Event-Informationen und kurzfristige Updates findest du auf der Google-Seite des EMP Store Dortmund: https://posts.gle/54Tgvb
https://www.sodomized.info/
Erste Single „Hammergeddon“ online ab 16:30!
Mit „Hammergeddon 666 - Die Katakomben betritt man nicht allein“ melden sich NOCTE OBDUCTA kraftvoll und fesselnd zurück. Diese neue EP zeigt einmal mehr die ungebrochene Kreativität und den experimentellen Geist der Band, die seit Jahrzehnten die deutsche Black Metal-Szene tiefgreifend prägt.
Ab heute (16:30) gibt es vorab die erste Single „Hammergeddon“ als sehenswertes Lyricvideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhaMBFZPSMA
Hier kann “Hammergeddon 666” – Die Katakomben betritt man nicht allein“ ab sofort in verschiedenen Formaten (CD, Vinyl, Tape, Digital) vorbestellt werden: https://supremechaos.com/artists/nocte-obducta/
Auf der ersten Seite der EP führen uns NOCTE OBDUCTA zurück zu ihren musikalischen Wurzeln, inspiriert von dem wegweisenden Album „Schwarzmetall (Ein primitives Zwischenspiel)“. Die neuen Titel „Hammergeddon“, „Schorm“, „Blut, Bier, Dunkelheit“ und „Faustphisto“ reflektieren die rohe Intensität und die ungezähmte Kraft, die die Band seit ihren Anfängen auszeichnet. Diese Tracks verkörpern die Essenz des frühen NOCTE OBDUCTA-Sounds, der über die Jahre hinweg gewachsen ist und durch die kreative Weiterentwicklung der Band eine neue Dimension erreicht hat.
Auf der zweiten Seite der EP erwartet die Hörer*innen mit „Auf wortlosen Fluren“ ein eindrucksvolles Meisterwerk, das als dritter Teil der Serie „Gemälde derer, die schieden“ eine ganz eigene Erzählung fortführt. Diese überlange Komposition ist weit mehr als nur ein musikalisches Stück; sie ist eine epische Klangreise, die die Zuhörer*innen tief in eine Welt aus atmosphärischer Dichte und eindringlicher Emotionalität eintauchen lässt. Mit einer bemerkenswerten Vielschichtigkeit entfaltet sich eine Klanglandschaft, die musikalisch über die Grenzen des Black Metal hinausgeht und lyrisch mit seinem auf Deutsch verfasstem Text einmalig ist.
„Hammergeddon 666“ ist ein weiteres Zeugnis für die Fähigkeit von NOCTE OBDUCTA, sowohl die Vergangenheit zu ehren als auch die Zukunft des Black Metal mitzugestalten. Diese EP ist ein Muss für jeden, der die tiefgründige Klangkunst von NOCTE OBDUCTA schätzt.
„Hammergeddon 666“ erscheint am 6. Dezember 2024 über Supreme Chaos Records.
TracklistA1. Hammergeddon
A2. Schorm
A3. Blut, Bier, Dunkelheit
A4. Faustphisto
B1. Auf wortlosen Fluren (Gemälde derer, die schieden – Teil III)
Spielzeit 19:17
Good To Know
Für Vinyl konzeptionierte EP mit Bonus-B-Seite.
Gemastert in der Tonbraurei, Aufnahme in den altbekannten Ultraton Studios.
Vorbote des 15ten Albums der Mainzer.
Musiker:
Marcel Gitarren, Gesang, Keyboards, Bass
Torsten Gesang
Stefan Gitarren, Gesang
Malte Schlagzeug
Heidig Bass
https://linktr.ee/nocteobducta
Finnish Deathgrind band CANNIBAL ACCIDENT is set to release their fifth studio album 'DISGUST' on February 28th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first double single 'Scorched Meat Tactics - Explicit Everything' is unleashed today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/cannibal-accident-scorched
Track list:1. Explicit Everything
2. Toleraped
3. Darkest Auer
4. When Only Fans Blow On Empty Stage 5. Flesh Fabricant
6. Darken The Attic
7. Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla (feat. Nikki 666)
8. Mouthbreathing Bottomfeeder
9. In The Meat Of The Night
10. EU-rope Around Your Neck
11. Kemperverse (Kemper Trilogy part 3: Mama's Boy)
12. Wife Eater (Woman's Best Friend)
13. R.I.C.H. (Relying In Capital Heresy)
14. Viimene Fiitti (feat. Ulti-Make)
15. Omniworld
16. Inhumanely Precipitated Biodegradation
17. No One Loves You Anymore
18. I Want To Pay More Taxes
19. Insult / Result
20. Scorched Meat Tactics
Album cover by Maxime Taccardi
Kurwa Doktor comments:
"Our 5th album 'Disgust' is a brutal reality check in the form of a 20-song blast of adult oriented deathgrind. We moved further away from the gore & perversion fantasy themes and discovered the wonderful world of every-day morbid human behaviour. At the same time we enriched the old school death/grind groundwork with shameless hardcore elements and dissonant madness. If this is some form a rebirth of this band, it was probably painless and bloodless even though not very obvious nor premeditated. Feel the disgust and love it like a hideous animal you are."
Upcoming gigs:
14.11. Riga (Latvia)
15.11. Kaunas (Lithuania)
16.11. Liepāja (Latvia)
14.12. Tallinn (Estonia)
28.02. Turku (Finland)
01.03. Pori (Finland)
Biography:
Formed in 2007, Cannibal Accident have released four full-length albums and a number of smaller releases. Old-school grindcore, death metal, hardcore and mosh part(ie)s are combined in brutally cutting, compact songs where speed, heaviness and catchiness are the main denominators.
Cannibal Accident live on stage is a comprehensive psychophysical experience, no holds barred.
Line-up:
Kolkka - guitar
Wilkman - drums
Raisio - low
Kurwa Doktor - high
Jondom - bass & backing howls
https://cannibalaccident.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@CannibalAccident
FIASKO started working on the album immediately after their last release, the “Mizantropolia” EP which saw the light of day in February 2020. The band’s efforts were hindered by the lack of a drummer, however, that was rectified after Tomek Walczak (Chainsword, Tankograd, Weedpecker etc.) was invited in 2023 to collaborate and arrange the drum tracks as a guest/session drummer.
All instruments for “AMOK ꓘOMA” were recorded at Santa Studio under the watchful eye and ear of Mikołaj Kiciak. The vocals were recorded at Burning Tones by Adam Ziółkowski, who is also responsible for mixing the album. The recording was then mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Me and that Man, Gruzja, Thaw).
The artwork to “AMOK ꓘOMA” was created by Robert A. von Ritter (Hooded Menace, Urfaust, Malokarpatan, Outre, In Twilight's Embrace) while the album’s booklet layout and design is the work of Paweł Marzec of Kontamination Design (Dimmu Borgir, Morbus Chron, Blaze of Perdition, Manbryne).
The band released two singles in support of the new album: “Sztuczne kwiaty” and “Wniwecz”.
Tracklist: 1. Spod spodu
2. Wniwecz
3. Tarantyzm
4. VII krąg
5. Sztuczne kwiaty
6. Śmierć krzywdziciela
7. Ciało obce
8. Maligna
FIASKO is:
Mielnik – lead vocals, lyrics
Kozina – guitar
Michułka – guitar
Nawrot – bass guitar, backing vocals
Walczak – drums (session)
https://www.youtube.com/fiaskopolo
https://www.facebook.com/fiaskopl/
Pre-orders are online here: https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/ordinul-negru-dodekatemoria
In anticipation of the new album ORDINUL NEGRU offer a new single taken off "Dodekatemoria" titled "The Decrepitude of Centuries", now online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUw5w7f1a7o
Here's what the band had to say about "The Decrepitude of Centuries": "The aim of the video, made by Alexandru Das, is to also present our visual concept accompanying the new album, and to introduce a little bit of another dimension, after the release of our video, “Zahir”. This time it is more about chaos and isolation."
The cover artwork for "Dodekatemoria" was crafted in conspiracy with long-time band collaborator Alexandru Das, and the band photos are the work of Oana Stoian.
The new material has been in the works for the past five years and it was previously introduced by two EPs: "Nebuisa" in 2020, and "A Sojourner Wandering Through the Barren Openness" in 2021, and by a first video for the track "Zahir" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntw6Ssx3ug)
Here's what the band had to say about the album: ""Dodekatemoria" is the ninth album and represents our bond with the cosmic nature and what we experience as individuals when we are on this path searching for our truths."
The band also invited Anca Otescu (Black Water, FusionCore) and Irinel Carlan to enhance the vocal compartment with their guest performances.
Tracklist:I. Aleph
II. Dodekatemoria
III. Judas Goat
IV. The Decrepitude of Centuries
V. Zahir
VI. Palladian Rituals
Line-up:
Fulmineos – guitars, vocals
Urmuz – guitars, vocals
Putrid – drums, bass
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/ordinulnegru
Get it on the action at: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/shadowsdecay/agent-of-chaos/
Track
Listing:1) Dry You Out
2) Falling of Mind
3) Agent of Chaos
4) Bringer of Death
5) Only Lies
6) Psuedo Suicidal
Shadows Decay is part of the Phosphorus Studios management agency roster.
Hailing from the vibrant metal scene of Costa Rica, Shadows Decay has been a formidable presence in the thrash metal genre since their formation in 2008. Originally known as Preoptic Distortion, the band underwent a transformation both in name and sound, evolving into Shadows Decay—a name that embodies their music's raw energy and dark intensity.
Drawing inspiration from the titans of thrash such as Slayer, Testament, Metallica, Anthrax, and Death Angel, Shadows Decay has cultivated a unique sound that honors the legacy of these pioneers while forging their path. The music is a relentless onslaught of powerful riffs, thunderous drums, and aggressive vocals, delivering a high-octane experience that resonates with metal fans worldwide.
Shadows Decay is more than just a band; they are a collective of passionate musicians driven by a shared vision of musical excellence. Their live performances are known for their electrifying energy and raw intensity, leaving audiences craving more. With every show, Shadows Decay solidifies their reputation as one of the most dynamic and powerful thrash metal bands in the region. As they look to the future, Shadows Decay is poised to take their music to new heights, with plans for new releases and more explosive live
shows. Their journey is one of perseverance, passion, and an unwavering commitment to delivering the pure essence of thrash metal.
Shadows Decay stands ready to spread their sonic devastation far and wide - because in the world of metal - decay never sounded so good.
Shadows Decay is:
Nacho Escobar - vocals, guitars
Nestor Morales - lead guitar
Daniel Solano - Bass guitar
Jeyson Hodgson - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@shadowsdecay9548
https://www.facebook.com/ShadowsDecay
Purchase/stream
the album at the following links:https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/only-the-stars-know-of-my-misfortune
https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/products/isleptonthemoon-only-the-stars-know-of-my-sorrow-lp-pre-order
Track Listing:
1. Safety
2. Dimming Light
3. Maybe I Don't Know It Yet, But Good Things Are Coming Soon
4. I Belong To The Void
5. Like Dying
6. Keep Hidden
Only The Stars Know of My Misfortune was written, recorded, and mixed by ISLEPTONTHEMOON. The album was mastered by Spenser Morris at SM Audio. Cover photo courtesy of Jesse Sewell via Unsplash.
ISLEPTONTHEMOON
Miserable Black Metal since 2016.
https://www.facebook.com/bindrunerecordings
https://isleptonthemoon.bandcamp.com/
Celebrating
the first chapter of the band with a very special live recording, blackened
death metal masters THULCANDRA are gearing up for the release of
their first-ever live album! "LIVE DEMISE" – to be
unleashed on December 6, 2024 via Napalm Records – was recorded live in 2011 at
a hometown show in Munich, Germany, and features true gems that the band hasn't
performed in more than a decade, all with the original line-up consisting of
Sebastian Ludwig, Tobias Ludwig, Matthias Landes (Dark Fortress, Noneuclid) and
Steffen Kummerer (Obscura, Death, Cynic).THULCANDRA’s rise to power ignited when the four-piece unleashed their debut album, "Fallen Angel’s Dominion", upon metaldom in 2010. Followed by their 2011 masterpiece, "Under a Frozen Sun", "Live Demise" contains brutal-as-hell classics from both records, like "Black Flags Of Hate", "In Blood And Fire" and "The Spirit Of The Night", aptly capturing the spirit and high-voltage energy of both the crowd and band. Ragers such as "Night Eternal" and "Fallen Angel's Dominion" perfectly showcase the band's raw and intense performances in their early days, and prove how THULCANDRA has quickly stepped up as one of the leading bands of their genre!
Due to the pandemic, which was subsequently followed by their latest studio album "Hail The Abyss", "Live Demise" could not be released alongside THULCANDRA's 20th anniversary as originally planned. Now, with mixing and mastering by Dan Swanö (Katatonia, Edge Of Sanity, Dissection) and cover artwork designed by Herbert Lochner, this very special release and retrospect of the first phase of the band will become available in only strictly limited editions exclusively via Napalm Records and at THULCANDRA's upcoming live shows.
https://napalmrecords.com/
https://www.thetruethulcandra.com/
We are proud to announce our partnership with renown Sheet Happens Publishing, Toronto, Canada. As a first glimpse, we present you complete guitar & bass transcriptions of our debut album "Fallen Angel's Dominion", and second full length, "Under A Frozen Sun", as physical and digital tablature books.
All books come along with GuitarPro files and can be upgraded with official play-along tracks, featuring bass, drums and acoustic guitars only.
Dive into the complete guitar & bass transcriptions directly at Sheet Happens.
https://www.sheethappenspublishing.com/collections/thulcandra
Swiss
extreme metal titans TYRMFAR proudly unleash their blistering
second single, "SYMPHONY OF PAIN", taken from the
highly anticipated forthcoming EP, SYMBIOSIS."Symphony of Pain" delivers a visceral portrayal of inner torment, delving deep into a tortured soul’s battle with regret, deceit, and redemption. The track paints a powerful picture of a mind lost in turmoil, only to rise again, stronger and more resilient. With lyrics that explore the weight of personal accountability and the transformation that emerges from facing one's demons, Tyrmfar crafts a journey of anguish that ultimately offers hope—a triumphant message of rebirth from the ashes.
"Symphony of Pain" is a sonic onslaught that showcases Tyrmfar’s signature blend of ferocity and emotion. The band draws listeners into an epic struggle for redemption, proving that even in the darkest moments, there is light to be found.
The single is now available on all major digital platforms, offering a taste of what's to come in the band's upcoming release, Symbiosis
Listen to "Symphony of Pain": https://orcd.co/symphonyofpain
About the EP: Symbiosis
With Symbiosis, Tyrmfar pushes the boundaries of their sound, forging an evolution in their blackened death metal assault. The EP explores the uneasy relationship between humanity and nature, channeling the growing tension of ecological and social crises into a brutal yet thought-provoking musical experience.
Rooted in the Scandinavian black and death metal influences of the late '90s and early 2000s, Symbiosis also embraces modern elements that reflect the band's diverse musical inspirations. This creative process, enriched by each member’s distinct style, weaves together a tapestry of searing intensity and emotional depth. Every note is a testament to the band's commitment to authenticity and connection, ensuring that their live performances remain as powerful and captivating as their studio work.
Prepare for an unrelenting wave of extreme metal that challenges both the mind and the senses.
https://linktr.ee/tyrmfar
https://www.facebook.com/tyrmfar
"Birth of Terror" is not just an album; it’s an auditory and visual experience. The songs dive into myriad themes, from horror to real-life reflections, each track a journey into the band’s psyche. The cover art, conceptualized with the vision of a strong female protagonist, is a striking departure from the typical metal album imagery of zombies and monsters. Finnish artist Pauli Maronen was brought on board to bring this powerful character to life, embodying the band’s desire to break the mold and deliver something unique. The path to Birth of Terror has been anything but straightforward. What began with fifteen songs had to be entirely reimagined due to lineup changes. Recording the album proved to be a test of endurance, with suboptimal conditions for drums and vocals, leaving only the guitars and bass to be recorded in a proper studio setting. Despite these hurdles, METAL RIOT has emerged stronger, with an album that captures their essence and energy. In a metal scene often criticized for its repetitiveness and the overuse of downtuned guitars, METAL RIOT stands firm in their commitment to a classic heavy metal sound. Rejecting trends that compromise the genre’s heaviness, the band draws inspiration from a wide array of sources—other music, personal emotions, nature, and the unexpected moments that life offers.
Tracklist1. Dreams Die Young
2. Into the Fire
3. Eternal Speed Death
4. War
5. Echoes in Eternity
6. Now or Never
7. Those Who Come at Night
8. Pieces of the Past
Metal Riot, formed in Akaa, Finland, in 2015 and now based in Tampere, delivers raw and authentic heavy metal infused with traditional metal and punk influences. Founded by vocalist and former guitarist Joonas Myller and bassist Benjamin Sairamo, the band underwent several lineup changes before settling on their current members: Myller, Sairamo, guitarists Mika Takanen & Marcus Johansson, and drummer Joonas Kokko. Now with the plans to make a plethora of Songs not just speed or thrash metal in mind, the band has its pedal-to-the-metal on its way to the all-or-nothing. This lineup brought renewed focus and energy, culminating in the release of their debut album Birth of Terror in 2024, under Wormholedeath Records
www.youtube.com/@MetalRiotBand
www.facebook.com/metalriotband
Deathcore band BOREAL GRAVE released a new single “IN DEVIL’S EMBRACE”. The track is taken from the forthcoming debut EP 'I AM YOUR BANE' which is set to be released on December 13th 2024 via Inverse Records.
Listen to “In Devil’s Embrace” on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/boreal-grave-embrace
“In Devil’s Embrace” is the second single from Boreal Grave’s upcoming EP I Am Your Bane, which will be released on December 13, 2024. The song bings listeners to the edge of life and death, a place where light cannot reach and all hope is lost. The lyrics open the gates to despair, where the soul is imprisoned in darkness – relentlessly echoing the declaration “God has failed me,” like an incantation that grows stronger with every scream. This fate is like a prison, where death offers the only escape.
“In Devil’s Embrace” paints a dark picture of a soul’s struggle amidst divine betrayal and chains of darkness. It exudes pain and loss, revealing the final remnants of hope and a betrayed faith. Heavy riffs and chilling tones make the song an inevitable experience – the chorus lingers hauntingly, heavy and menacing.
The I Am Your Bane EP delves into life’s darkest aspects, such as the loss of a loved one, death, depression, bullying, despair, and betrayal. Each song plunges deep into the darkest recesses of the human mind, showing no mercy. “In Devil’s Embrace” offers a glimpse of what’s to come – deathcore that won’t let go, but instead pulls you into a dark world. I Am Your Bane will be released on December 13, so stay tuned and prepare yourself…
Watch a stunning music video "Mother Of Evil" made by Juha Nikupeteri: https://youtu.be/7-fuvTrzI6I
Line-up:
Henri Puoliväli-Oksala (Vocals)
Ville Mahlamäki (Guitar)
Matias Mattila (Guitar)
Tomi Salo (Bass)
Mikael Lamminmäki (Drums)
https://borealgrave.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/borealgraveofficial
Prepare
to plunge into a world of darkness and emotional intensity as DEATH
DESCENDING releases the lyric video for their latest track, "DEATH
DESCENDING." This powerful song is taken from the band’s
highly anticipated self-titled EP, set for release on November 22nd, 2024 via
Wormholedeath.The track delves into despair, mortality, and the human desire to escape suffering. "Death Descending" is a haunting melody that captures the raw emotion of a soul yearning for release.
Death Descending is a unique blend of blackened, death-metal, and slam death metal.
www.facebook.com/deathdescending
New lyric video from KAIVS ("FOR SATAN YOUR FLESH FOR GOD YOUR SOUL" out from "AFTER THE FLESH" album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyK_jplSkM8
KAIVS was formed following death metal inspired by early 1990's Stockholm sound (Entombed, Nihilist, Dismember and Carnage).
With countless rehearsals, longtime songwriting and concerts, KAIVS was ready to release in 2023 "Horrend" a three tracks ep. It was forerunner of the upcoming debut album "After The Flesh" released worldwide in October 2024 for Brutal Records.
Both artworks will feature Spanish master Juanjo Castellano (Revel In Flesh, Avulsed, The Black Dahlia Murder) recorded at Kika Studios and produced by Andrea Kikazaru, in Rome
Prepare
for an onslaught of pure, unadulterated death metal fury as Brutal Records
proudly announces the signing of Rome's very own purveyors of chaos, KAIVS.
Hailing from the dark alleys of Italy, this death metal juggernaut first made
its mark with the 2023 debut EP "Horrend."In a statement dripping with the venom of anticipation, the band declared, "We've inked a pact with Brutal Records, and it's time to unleash hell on a global scale. We're hungry to spread our darkness far and wide, and Brutal Records is the perfect conduit for our wrath. Brace yourselves, for KAIVS is here to conquer."
With the ferocity of a ravenous beast, KAIVS delivers bone-crushing riffs, guttural vocals, and an unyielding barrage of sonic assault. Their brand of death metal is a testament to raw power, devoid of mercy or compromise.
Inspired by the unholy sounds of the early 1990s Stockholm scene, KAIVS infuses their music with a relentless drive that cuts through the soul like a serrated blade.
But KAIVS is more than just a mere echo of the past. They are pioneers of darkness, forging a new path through the charred remains of the old. With their upcoming debut album, "After the Flesh," slated for global domination in October 2024 under the banner of Brutal Records, KAIVS promises to redefine the very essence of brutality.
Led by the unholy trinity of Max Foam's demonic vocals, Tiziano Mortician's razor-sharp guitar work, Jacopo Simonelli's thunderous bass lines, and Leonardo Sastro's relentless drumming, KAIVS stands as a towering
monument to the dark arts of death metal.
As the world trembles in anticipation, KAIVS emerges from the shadows, ready to conquer all who dare to stand in their way. Brace yourselves, for the age of darkness is upon us, and KAIVS leads the charge.
Death metal! No fucking bullshit!
Discography
Horrend (EP) (2023)
After The Flesh (Full Album) 2024
Line-Up
Max Foam - vocals
Tiziano Mortician - guitar
Jacopo Simonelli - bass
Leonardo Sastro - drums
https://kaivs.bandcamp.com/album/horrend
https://www.youtube.com/@kaivs
https://www.facebook.com/kaivsofficial
SHRIEKING DEMONS – “THE FESTERING DWELLERS”
For
fans of
- Autopsy, Abscess, Cianide, Druid Lord, Pungent
Stench, Death, Assumption, Dwelling BelowShrieking Demons play death metal in the classic style with emphasis on riffs, delivery, and feeling rather than just crazed speed and technicality. Even though influenced by legends such as Autopsy, Death, Possessed and others, it's ironically refreshing to listen to music played with such fervour and devotion which adds new life to it. It takes you back to the time when you first came across death metal music, especially the filthy kind, and went through a whole range of emotions and gesticulations. Shrieking Demons evoke similar feelings which is only possible because of the passion with which they've pieced this together, taking the best elements of what made those albums unforgettable and giving it their own treatment. The fact that the members have a fair bit of experience playing this kind of music only adds credibility, with them being in bands like Assumption and also other filthy bands in the past such as Haemophagus, Morbo, Undead Creep and Gravesite. Shrieking Demons is the culmination of their experience where this kind of death metal music goes, creating the best possible expression without making any compromises anywhere, and keeping it rich and nuanced enough to elevate it above all else.
Lineup
Gabri (Cancer Spreading, Gravesite) - Vocals
Giorgio (Assumption, Bottomless) - Lead and acoustic guitar
Valentina - Rhythm guitar
Nino - Bass
David (Assumption, Bottomless) - Drums
Cover art by Roberto Toderico Art (Asphyx, Paganizer)
Track listing
1. Devour My Wicked Soul
2. Abstract Hallucinating
3. Sorrowful Dismal Bliss
4. Nefarious, Scorned Deities I Am Devoted To
5. Perennial Dirge
6. Garden of the Headless Dead
7. Longing for Total Eclipse
8. Compromised Brain
9. Awakening From Secular Slumber
10. Apostasy, Sodomy and Sacrilege
Release date - January 31st, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/shriekingdemons
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE – “EXEMPTING REALITY”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease Date: January 17th 2025
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Suffocation | Cryptopsy | Internal Bleeding | Mortal Decay
There is movement beneath the soil, the earth shifting and resettling, sinking and splitting, as if the very foundations of the world are beginning to crumble. Down in the darkness, in the unseen kingdom of worms, an eye is burning brightly; sinews shaped by strange sorcery strain against their horrid confinement and bone fingers dig towards the light. Rotting teeth gnaw at roots and rubble that dare to impede the creature’s passage through this cold and suffocating birth canal. There are things in this world that simply will not die, no matter how deeply they are buried...
We often hear of ‘lost gems’ from the underground, forgotten albums that should have been hailed as great works, but somehow slipped down the cracks of public perception. In most cases these treasures prove to be so much fool’s gold and dust, wistful thinking and nostalgia…but sometimes, on rare occasions, something truly special claws its way up from the boneyard and into the night air. Something like Cerebral Hemorrhage’s Exempting Reality. Originally released back in 2001, Exempting Reality was the only album released by New York’s Cerebral Hemorrhage, but what an album it was! A piece of death metal mastery that blended brutality with imagination, haunting atmosphere with musical adventure, crushing heaviness with a breathtaking willingness to explore and push boundaries. Now, the label that understands death metal better than any other – Comatose Music – has broken open Exempting Reality’s tomb. Remastered by Colin Davis (Aborted, Defeated Sanity, Origin etc), with new cover art, Exempting Reality is an album reborn.
The passing years have done nothing to blunt the vicious edges of the songs that make up Exempting Reality, or to dull the creative spirit that infuses them. ‘Abusive Power’ is still shockingly good with its array of stunning riffs and wonderful drumming. ‘Remnants Of The Final Solution’ remains revelatory with its fluid melodic section and jazz inflections and the surging guitar patterns and imposing vocals of ‘Deranged Perception’ are as hypnotic and deadly as a cobra. If you missed this before then don’t make that mistake again – second chances don’t come along every day and nor do albums as special as Cerebral Hemorrhage’s Exempting Reality. Coming your way on Comatose Music on January 17th 2025.
Line-up:
Matt Szablewicz - Vocals
Matt Doreson - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Tommy - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cerebralhemorrhageband/
ANOMIC is a force to be
reckoned with. Founded by Dutch/Syrian guitarist and vocalist Raafat
"Raaf" Atasi, the band blends the fury of Thrash with the unrelenting
brutality of Death Metal, creating a sound that is both punishing and
addictive. After leaving the German thrash outfit War Agenda in August 2023,
Raaf wasted no time channeling his creative fire into Anomic. He channeled a
multitude of influences, resulting in the band's debut EP, "OPACITY".
This 3-track sonic assault tackles existential themes like conformity, war,
insanity, and apocalypse.Raaf wasn't alone in this sonic crusade. He enlisted his old friend Fadi Massamiri to join the band as bassist and second vocalist, with Fadi also taking the reins on mixing and mastering "Opacity". To solidify their rhythm section, the band recruited the legendary Krzysztof Klingbein (live drummer for Vader, Belphegor, and Hate) to lay down the punishing drum tracks on the EP. Additionally, the monstrous vocals of Stefan Nordström guest star on the track "On Deaf Ears", add an extra layer of malevolent fury.
www.youtube.com/@Anomic-Official
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“It is a wrought, and evil love story about two centuries old creatures trying to find companionship but due to their strong evil spirit are unable to exist with another powerful figure by their side,” summarises M.
The
band has shared the closing chapter of this story, "Andromeda."
Stream the song now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KxAxDWtWl4Bearer of Light, Matriarch of Death tracklist:
1) Methuselah
2) Tribulation
3) Necropoles
4) Andromeda
With two full-lengths under their belts, and a tenth anniversary on the horizon, an EP somewhat disrupts the customary album cycle – signaling a deliberate shift driven by creative intent.
“Early in the writing process, the EP’s lyrical themes were, just like the music, created as one flowing and entwined story,” explains M. “This collection of songs was written at a certain time and expanded upon the more atmospheric side of the band. The songs are very much connected and the first time we see the release as a single piece if you will.”
It is this cohesive execution that gives Bearer of Light, Matriarch of Death its exceptional sense of completeness. Golgothan Remains’ distinct brand of death metal is a relentless force, masterfully balancing blistering speeds, sinister black metal undertones, and crushing doom. The result is a suffocating, trance-inducing atmosphere of unyielding intensity.
Adding to the whole is a crushing production courtesy of Esoteric’s Greg Chandler (Priory Recording Studios) and artwork by Christian Kiesling of Misanthropic Art:
“The journey through time and space which is relayed in the EP’s four tracks has been beautifully expressed in Chris’ painting. The piece amazingly captures the story’s setting, landscapes and aura. It was a great collaboration, and we are extremely pleased with the result!”
Golgothan Remains is:
Matthieu Van den Brande - Vocals
Matt Hillman - Guitars
Adam Martin - Bass
Aled Powell - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/GolgothanRemains
Experimental black metallers LICHO will release their third full-length album “CIUCIUBABKA” in a special edition cassette format via Devoted Art Propaganda on 19 December 2024. The tape will be limited to 100 copies and is available to pre-order now: https://d-a-p.org/
Listen to “Ciuciubabka”: https://youtu.be/GHKe5JZvwFo?si=0wPuP2BhF5R9zHXJ
https://licho.bandcamp.com/album/ciuciubabka
The album was originally released in 2022 via Pagan Records in CD and digital formats.
The word “ciuciubabka” translates to the children’s game “blind man’s buff” or “tag” in which one person has a cloth tied over their eyes and tries to catch the others. The album tells the story of what can be seen when blindfolded, the game of hiding and catching what has fallen from the sky. It is also about, as always, walking towards the light. On foot, on horseback, by car, by spirit.
Musically, Licho continues in black metal style as on previous albums, while also taking inspiration from other genres and quoting the poet Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz. The “Ciuciubabka” album cover features a painting by Wilhelm Sasnal Polak.
The album was recorded at Nebula Studio, Czyściec Studio and Garderobie Czorta. Maciej Wasio (Myslovitz among others) is responsible for the mix, and Jaakko Viitalähde (Oranssi Pazuzu among others) for the mastering.
Licho was founded in 2011 in Sanok, Poland by Szturpak. The current line-up has been in operation since 2017 and consists of musicians also known from projects such as Koniec Pola, -S-, Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi and Gruzja.
https://www.facebook.com/Lichoofficial
Wormholedeath is thrilled to announce the signing of Brescia, Italy's rising black metal force, ĀRDEAT. The band's highly anticipated debut album, "APOTHEOSIS," is set to be unleashed upon the world on December 20th, 2024.
Tracklist
1. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
2. Hyperion
3. Ignis Fatum
4. Nell'Ora dell'Epilogo
5. Hekate
6. Apotheosis
7. Et in Arcadia Ego
8. Atlantide (Bonus Track)
Founded in Brescia in 2021, Ārdeat emerged from the collaboration of Enrico Pinelli, Julian Polonioli, Riccardo Cremaschini, and Andrea Salvagni, who reunited after years of involvement in various musical ventures. The band’s first single—a compelling cover of Franco Battiato’s “Atlantide”—led to the addition of guitarist Cristian della Noce and the creation of their debut EP, Exitivm. This EP, featuring a monumental 20-minute track split into two acts, established Ārdeat as a formidable force in the black metal scene.
Ārdeat didn't stop there. In 2022, they paid homage to the legendary Bathory by contributing a cover of "Home of Once Brave" to a tribute compilation championed by Antichrist Magazine. They then took their music to the stage, sharing bills with Italian metal royalty like Mortuary Drape, Opera IX, Darkend, and Black Oath.
Ārdeat's sound is a potent blend of atmospheric black metal, the tight riffing of early death metal, and the melodic hooks of the NWOBHM. Drawing inspiration from bands like Dissection, Mgla, and Spite Extreme Wing, they forge a sound that is both fiercely aggressive and hauntingly beautiful.
Apotheosis: A Descent into the Mythic
"Apotheosis" is a concept album that delves into the fleeting nature of humanity against the backdrop of powerful supernatural forces. Drawing inspiration from the myths and tragedies of the Archaic and Classical Greek eras, the album explores themes of man's struggle for power, knowledge, and ultimately, his place in the universe. Through tales of gods and war, Ārdeat paints a vivid picture of humanity's desperate attempts to transcend its limitations, a quest that often leads to devastating consequences.
www.youtube.com/@ardeatofficial
www.facebook.com/Ardeatbandofficial
Emerging
from the shadows of Los Angeles in 2018, BODYBUILDER is the
singular vision of mastermind Nicholas Capaldi. Weaving a tapestry of despair
and dread, Capaldi utilizes a potent arsenal of synthesizers, tortured vocals,
and pulverizing drum programming."THERE'S NO THERE, THERE" signifies a bold new chapter for Bodybuilder. This isn't your typical black metal fare. Imagine a relentless sonic storm, a relentless torrent of anguish howling its terrifying symphony. Distorted synthesizers paint a bleak yet atmospheric canvas, transporting the listener on a harrowing journey through nightmares escapes, and existential abysses.
Capaldi draws inspiration from the dark visions of literary giants like William Gibson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, and H.P. Lovecraft. The resulting soundscape mirrors their bleak narratives: a descent into a dreamscape that spirals endlessly into a terrifying void.
Tracklist
1. Separating Twins
2. Vera’s Moth
3. Charon
4. About a Hanging, Pt.2
5. Somebody, Something, Somewhere
6. Thalassa
https://bodybuilder.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-kadath
Brace
yourself for absolute annihilation! Brutal Records has unleashed the apocalypse
by signing Italy's masters of sonic destruction, RISE OF TYRANTS.
Their highly anticipated album, THE CHRONICLES OF CARDINAL PABLO MENDOZA,
is poised to detonate on February 28, 2025.But the devastation doesn’t stop there! The Abnormality in Structure album will roar back with a full remaster, unleashing sheer chaos on February 7, 2025. Plus, prepare for the brutal resurgence of Trauma, hitting with a completely remastered fury on January 10, 2025, shattering all limits of brutality. This is raw, unrestrained death metal terror: merciless, bone-crushing, and utterly unstoppable. Get ready for total obliteration!
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
French Evocative Black Metallers BERLIAL are proud to unveil the cover artwork of the new album "NOURISHING THE DISASTER TO COME" realized by the talented artist Jeff Grimal.
The French duo explains this choice: "The artwork depicts Charon
sailing through the waste piles of the 6th continent. Sorrowful souls,
reminiscent of the migrants dying in the sea as they try to survive, are
drowning there. We also distinguish a satellite like those already invading space.The choice of Jeff Grimal was imposed by his way of working and his technique, a raw art, a suggestive figuration which tends towards the abstract. In addition, the artist's favorite themes (Lovecraft's universe, nature and the abstract) are adapted to what the group wanted to represent."
We also present the tracklist of the album with its six chapters: 1. The Last Dance - 2. Nouveau Monde - 3. We Deserve To Fall Again - 4. Ivresse De La Finitude - 5. Nourishing The Disaster To Come - 6. Le Néant Pour Éternité
With BERLIAL's new album "Nourishing The Disaster To Come", you enter into a polymorphic and iconoclastic Black Metal with electronic, post-rock and dungeon synth elements which brings them alongside bands such as Dødheimsgard, Akhlys, Blut Aus Nord, Deadspace, Afraid of Destinity, Raven Throne, Decline of the I.
Its atmospheres, the samples, the spoken speeches, the music built like a wall of sound, make everything extreme, oppressive and delirious but at the same time with a truly unique oniric dimension.
"Nourishing The Disaster To Come" will be released on February 7th, 2025 on My Kingdom Music in digipakCD, LP (black and splatter blue vinyls) and digital.
You can PRE-ORDER here: https://shorturl.at/84xCN
BERLIAL, how to feed the disaster, knowing you can't do without it.
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Among These Ashes will release Embers of Elysium December 6 on Alone Records! The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song, from the band.
In discussing the new level reached on Embers of Elysium, guitarist Richard Clark states that it "is quite the leap for us in every aspect from Dominion Enthroned. Where Dominion was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on Embers of Elysium are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners."
Track
Listing:1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
*13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)
*Bonus track, featuring vocalist Brooke Rousseau (Lady Luna and the Devil).
Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach.
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Line-Up:
Richard Clark: lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals. JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar.
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Bio:
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band's central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group's sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes' debut musical offering, Dominion Enthroned, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled "The Enemy in I," which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of "Sirens" by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, "Restless Gypsy."
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
https://www.facebook.com/AmongTheseAshesMetal
Hevn
III’s debut album is a powerful statement of black metal's raw and unfiltered
essence. This Norwegian trio has channeled pure, unrelenting aggression into a
work that feels as if it has been pulled from the darkest recesses of the human
psyche. The album is relentless and ugly, with a sound that can only be
described as pitch-black hatred personified. Every track drips with venom,
driven by a primal fury that refuses to be tamed.Drawing on themes of misanthropy, magick, and the dark philosophies of Blake, Nietzsche, and Crowley, Hevn III crafts a soundscape that is both chaotic and deeply unsettling. The riffs are dissonant and corrosive, the vocals a tortured howl that seems to echo from the abyss. The album doesn’t seek to please; it seeks to challenge, to provoke, to drag listeners into its world of darkness and despair.
For those who have experienced Hevn III live, this album is a natural extension of the intense, suffocating atmosphere they create on stage. Their sound is tight and sulphurous, recalling an era when black metal was not just a genre, but a statement of pure, unadulterated emotion. The production is raw, yet deliberate, capturing the essence of their live performances while adding layers of depth that reveal themselves with each listen.
This debut is not just an album; it’s a ritual. A ritual of misanthropy and hatred, where each note is a curse, and each riff is a wound. Hevn III has delivered a work that will undoubtedly leave a scar on the black metal landscape, a reminder of the genre's power to evoke the darkest emotions. This is black metal at its most primal, its most venomous, its most unforgettable.
Tracklist
1. Turin horse
2. Pindom
3. Soaring through red worlds
4. Basilisk
5. On peaks of surreptitious wolves
6. Drep deg selv
7. Ridder av hat
https://www.facebook.com/@polypusrecords
CORROSIVE ELEMENTS - "CUT THE SERPENT'S HEAD"Release date : November 29th 2024
Genre
: Death
Thrash N' RollOrigin: France
Duration: 41:20
Label: GreyveStorm Productions & Crypt Of Dr.Gore et Chien Noir (pour la version vinyle)
Tracklist:
01. Conquering the divine
02. Ignorance is no longer bliss
03. So long sucker
04. The unseen
05. An american hero
06. Cut the serpent's head
07. Enter the final state
08. The right to remain poor
09. Among the casualties
10. Fascistalism
True defenders of the underground ethos, CORROSIVE ELEMENTS made their path with a first EP in 2008, a debut album in 2015 and a scorching live album in 2016. Having graced the stage at renowned festivals like Hellfest's Altar Stage and sharing the spotlight with metal legends such as Death Angel, Loudblast, Darkane, Sinister, and more, the quintet took a great amount of time refining the new tunes for their highly anticipated 2024 album release.
The credo stands strong: DEATH THRASH N’ROLL THE OLD SCHOOL WAY!
"Cut the serpent’s head", the second album of CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a collection of 10 powerful songs, designed for a more direct and dynamic approach, in the typical style of the band, a clever mix of Death and Thrash Metal, with tons of groove, anger and attitude.
The new album was written collectively by the band in the rehearsal room, an old fashioned method that makes the music more immediate and impactful.
With broad influences ranging from Thrash legends such as Slayer, (old) Sepultura and Exodus, Death Metal in the tradition of Entombed, Obituary, Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and an addition of primitive energy derived from Hardcore Punk, The band is now ready to place this new offering on the altar of Extreme Metal.
Conceptually, "Cut the Serpent's Head" is a cynical look at the destiny ofmankind, its race towards nonsense. A warning against the hegemony of organized religions, shady politics, decaying societies and the rise of social injustice.
Stay tuned, the next few days will see more information about the artwork, release dates, formats and everything you need to know about this new album which will be produced by Crypt Of Dr.Gore and GreyveStorm Productions.
https://linktr.ee/corrosiveelements
Woe
J. Reaper’s FURZE strikes back with a new single “BEAUTIFUL
LIVING ON THE LEFT HAND PATH OF DEATH”, ahead of the release of the new
album, "COSMIC STIMULATION OF DARK FANTASIES". This
will be the second album released this year from the renowned black psych act
and the ninth full-length addition to the FURZE discography. "Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" will take listeners on a sonic journey through the depths of darkness, the haunting beauty of the unknown, and a trip that will solidify FURZE's status as masters of the "black psych" metal sound.
The album will be out on 15 November 2024 and is available for pre-order now: http://order.d-a-p.org/ & https://furze.bandcamp.com/
In October, FURZE released a trippy music video for the track “Marrow Creed”. The video visually embodies the album's themes of cosmic exploration, existential dread, and the allure of the forbidden. This new song is a prime example of FURZE's evolution, pushing the boundaries of their sound with a trippy and unusual soundscape.
Watch the music video to “Marrow Creed”: https://youtu.be/tyyuzdzpeUk
"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" marks a significant milestone for FURZE, showcasing its evolution and pushing the boundaries of its signature sound. The album features a diverse range of tracks, from the psychedelic ballad "Marrow Creed" to the intense, Satanic groove of "Waswasah".
Woe J. Reaper said: “We invite you to journey the 9th full length of FURZE - "COSMIC STIMULATION OF DARK FANTASIES". Creating sounds where eternity is haunting mankind's will for survival and barking answers seems echoing, twisting that same will to the point of hunting Man's soul back through spectral infinity.
“The album pushes the personal edge of diverse Furzement to dark delights. Heavily brandished with oldish black doom metal spirit to breed new blood: Under the umbrella Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies you have songs like Marrow Creed, a psychedelic ballad of an inner self-motion/devotion, Waswasah - a Satanic groove with whispers from a devil so potent we wish only Kings in the beyond would, but do not hear! And another 4 raw power tunes on what is no less than the 2nd (!) brand new Furze full-length in 2024 alone. Long live Black Psych Metal!”
"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" will be available as a stunning Gatefold LP on 15 November 2024, in a collaboration between Devoted Art Propaganda and Polytriad Fingerprints. Prepare to have your orgasmic sensibilities awakened by the return of Woe J. Reaper!
Devoted Art Propaganda have also prepared an on-demand print of the “Necromanzee“ T-shirt design reinterpreted by von Ritter. This will only be available in pre-order and will be shipped on 15 November. Devoted Art Propaganda will also distribute older Furze material - stay tuned!
Furze released its eighth album “Caw Entrance” earlier this year in CD, LP, cassette and digital formats.
https://furze.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Furzebook
The second full-length studio album by Bulgarian Groove/Death Metal band GRIMAZE
- "THE HEART OF A
COLLAPSING STAR" reflects on the relationship between the micro
and macro cosmos. Powerful human emotions are being experienced by fierce
natural forces to depict the intensity through which one goes on the spiritual
path.Guitars, bass, and vocals were recorded at Urban House Studio, Sofia, Bulgaria, while the drums were recorded by Janne Jaloma and Daniel Bergstrand at SDFX Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.
The whole album was mixed by Daniel Bergstrand.
Mastering was done by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios, Uppsala, Sweden.
Grimaze is a Bulgarian Groove/Death Metal band formed in 2013.
Since its formation, the band has toured with Decapitated, Hatesphere, Thy Disease, Pestilence, Bleeding Gods, Vader, and Hate. Grimaze has also supported Cannibal Corpse.
The new album, "The Heart Of A Collapsing Star", was released on September 1, 2024. Two singles from the album, “Gripping The Spirit” and “Cosmic Solitude”, has been released as well.
https://www.facebook.com/GRIMAZE
SADDAYAH was founded 11 years ago in Ploiesti, Romania. The band's music is based in traditional Death Metal although the members' high technical level shaped a new direction, a combination of Melodic Technical Death Metal with Progressive and Black Metal influences.
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.saddayah.com
THE FALL OF HOUSE ABBARATH, the vibrant new EP from international Deathcore/Power Metal dynamos, DRAGONCORPSE, is out now on Shattered Earth Records!
FFO: Dragonforce, 3 Inches of Blood, Nekrogoblikon, Lorna Shore, Brand of Sacrifice
The official video for EP single, "A Quest for Truth," is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPUcjbbUbI. Also available is a lyric video for "I Live...AGAIN," featuring Nick Miller (First Fragment, Unleash The Archers), which you can check out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llkwb8pYkyw
On the new EP, the band took its already innovative, energetic sound, created through the fusion of deathcore and power metal, and sharpened it to a fine point on The Fall of House Abbarath. DRAGONCORPSE took the feedback gathered from the release of debut EP, The Drakketh Saga, to heart and used it to refine their approach.
"For new fans, I believe we've added more elements of deathcore and power metal while adding more excitement into the music for an authentic listening experience like no other band," bassist Noah Nikolas Laidlaw explains. "We put a lot of emphasis on the atmosphere of the music," adds drummer Justin Gogan. "Throughout the entire EP there is a medieval theming that resonates in the music that keeps the tracks feeling refreshing and fun. With the addition of Mark on keys/orchestration, he brought with him a completely different approach to songwriting that I am sure fans are going to appreciate!"
Track
Listing:1. An Introduction to [ HEROISM ]
2. Welcome Home
3. I Live… AGAIN!
4. A Quest For Truth
5. Whisper On The Wind
6. Fear And Hunger
EP Credits:
All songs performed by: DRAGONCORPSE
All songs written by: DRAGONCORPSE
Produced by: DRAGONCORPSE and Matt Schmidt
Mixed by: Matt Schmidt
Mastered by: Matt Schmidt
Album artwork by: Avellustration
Line-up:
Mardy Leith - Vocals
Kris Chayer - Guitars
Noah Nikolas Laidlaw - Bass
Justin Gogan - Drums
Mark Marin - Keys and Orchestration
Bio:
DRAGONCORPSE is a death metal band that fuses power metal and deathcore, creating a unique sound marked by operatic vocals and guttural screams. They stand out with their symphonic elements, adding depth and creativity to their music. The band, with members across Canada, the U.S., and Australia, maintains a cohesive, powerful sound despite the distance. Known for their humor, they embrace memes and use the term "DRAGUSSY" to playfully reference their love for dragons in power metal culture. DRAGONCORPSE offers a dynamic and distinctive experience for fans of death metal, power metal, or deathcore.
https://www.facebook.com/Shatteredearthrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Dragoncorpse
Everto Signum is a Black Metal act embodied by Nekruss and Æminus, hailing from the inner realms of Portugal. Having released the debut full-length “Enneachotomy” in 2012 and the EP “Synergy” in 2014, the band lied dormant as the creative duo focused on other music projects, namely Carma and Lacrau.
After ten years of silence, Everto Signum skulk out of chasmic caverns to unleash their brand new creation entitled “Beastiary” – a concept album inspired by destructive powers of Nature. The band stays true to their elemental background by writing an immersive story that guides the listener through a chain reaction of natural disasters. These calamities are beastialized – manifested as wild uncontrollable beasts exhibiting intrinsic animalistic shapes, traits and behaviours. The plot is comprised of seven chapters, each consisting of a contextual introduction that describes the scenery and sets the mood for the destruction to come, and an interpretation of the actual cataclysm. Written in English, the expressively poetic lyrical narrative portrays a journey from an ice-covered mountain top through a valley, down to the depths of a meromictic lake and finally into a perennial forest to witness the dreadful wrath of ancient forces.
To concretize this work, Everto Signum synergized with Diogo Mota, best known as the drummer of Gaerea, who infused the album with much energy and vigour. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nekruss himself, “Beastiary” stands as a hostile soundscape lasting over 50 minutes. Seven tracks build upon the musical ideas set by the latest EP, expanding and developing those into a more sophisticated form through the band’s signature Elemental Black Metal, this time utterly imbued with the brutality of Death Metal. Sublimely enriched with progressive structures, synthesizer-led passages, ambient sections and many other captivating elements coming from a vast range of influences such as Prog Rock, Folk, Dungeon Synth and even New-age music, “Beastiary” abounds with furiously melodic and potent guitar riffage, fierce and technical drumming, heavy pounding bass lines, and viciously varied extreme vocals. The production is aggressive, massive and multilayered, perfectly fitting the epic thematic of the album and keeping the listener on the edge throughout the entire journey.
The visual representation took form by the hand of the plastic artist RF Torres Valente who created a set of graphite and ink illustrations. These drawings were embellished with arcane calligraphy and exquisitely arranged into a grimoire-inspired layout, all scrupulously crafted by Infected Minds. Printed on rough texturized paper, the magnificent A5-sized 20-page booklet seamlessly depicts surrealistic concepts envisioned by Everto Signum.
Fully explore “Beastiary” here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS8t9UwcrJg
, courtesy of Atmospheric Black Metal Albums YouTube channel. Order infos can be found here https://evertosignum.bandcamp.com/album/beastiary at Everto Signum's Bandcamp page.
Tracklist1. Genesis [0:49]
2. Colossus [5:05]
3. Ophidian [7:37]
4. Wyvern [9:34]
5. Dragon [8:41]
6. Deinos [13:06]
7. Weaver [6:43]
Complete album line-up:
Æminus – songwriting, guitars and bass
Nekruss – songwriting, lyrics, vocals, recording, mixing and mastering
Diogo Mota – session drums
RF Torres Valente – artwork
Infected Minds – calligraphy and layout
https://www.facebook.com/EvertoSignum
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In early 2023, a spark ignited the flames of Dreadmask, a melodic death metal band based in Eindhoven, with members originating from Greece, Hungary, and The Netherlands. Fuelled by their shared passion for meaningful heavy music, Dreadmask wasted no time in making their mark on the scene. After each member had taken a break from previous bands, John Kourentas, Elger van Delft and Antonis Mougiakakos initiated the band's first incarnation. The group was settled when Zoltán Herczog came aboard in the summer of 2023. Dreadmask, derived from the fusion of 'dread' and 'mask,' embodies the essence of fear and concealment.
While 'dread' signifies the haunting grip of anxiety, 'mask' alludes to the veils we arise to shield our vulnerabilities. On the journey of playing the game of societal norms, we encounter our 'Prime Dread'—our deepest fears.
Each member of Dreadmask brings their unique musical influences to the forefront, encompassing Swedish death metal riffs, growling vocals, soaring melodies, progressive metal nuances, and black metal-inspired melancholy.
Meet
Dreadmask:Zoltan Herczog (Rhythm Guitar, Backing vocals)
John Kourentas (Lead Guitar, Keys)
Antonios Mougiakakos (Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar)
Elger Van Delft (Drums)
Tracklist
Reign Of Fear
2. Jester's Grin
3. The Light
4. Reflections
5. Ember
6. Resilient Shadows.
www.youtube.com/@Dreadmask
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Label: Dusktone RecordsRelease Date: November 29th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Shining | Naglfar | Grá | Odraza
In the long hours of night when the daylight will not come, when the ghosts of the past and the devils of the present toy with your sanity and dissect your sense of self and self respect…when the first razor cut, made with trembling hand, sends a shocking stream of crimson crawling sluggishly across the sickly pale white of your sun-starved skin…when there is no comfort to be found and you are lost in a shadowed labyrinth of torment and grief, sinking in a morass of blood and tears…on a night like this there is no salvation in the bottle or the needle. There is no god in heaven and no fallen angel in hell. There is only the emptiness that cannot be filled and the unbearable loneliness that gnaws at your soul. And the unshakeable certainty that there is no way out.
Following on from last year’s bleak and disconsolate Wounds single, Finland’s purveyors of ‘Anti-Life Black Metal Misery’, Grave With A View, have returned with their most powerful and harrowing release to date – Raw Illumination. A full length album steeped in isolation, violence, self destruction and death, Raw Illumination is not an album for the faint of heart or the fragile of spirit. Exploding into life with a sound like shattering ice, opening track and single ‘Cold Flesh Peregrination’ is an unforgiving, harsh and decidedly unwelcoming introduction to this album of breathtaking wickedness. The acid whip of ‘The Lash’ follows – flaying the skin with its relentless, sadistic blows and exposing every insecurity and fear, humiliation and shame; it’s a maelstrom of emotions and overwhelming darkness. And there is no let up, no chink of light in the darkness as we are exposed to the seething aggression of ‘To The Beat Of Broken Bones’ and the funeral procession of ‘Loathe’ which carries us to the crumbling lip of our waiting grave. Rife with driving riffs and punishing rhythms, ripped apart by tortured vocal exhortations and wreathed in an atmosphere of agony, Raw Illumination is black metal from the deepest pits of absolute despondency, right to the last glass shard notes of ‘These Meaningless Gestures’ which leaves you with the taste of ashes and loss in your mouth, the sheer disappointment of tarnished dreams and the ultimate understanding of the futility of life.
Recorded and mixed by O.H.R and mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Dopelord, Christ Agony etc), Raw Illumination is the sonic distillation of caustic chaos and grim, unmitigated despair – every malicious note cutting straight to the bone – and its aura of desperate degradation has been perfectly captured in the cover imagery; the artwork and layout by Danny The Destroyer, utilising powerful, unsettling images of model Anna Iivana Julma, captured by the band. When it crawls from the crypts of label Dusktone on November 29th, Raw Illumination will hunt down the broken and the flawed, the outcasts and the lepers and swallow them into its maw of ice and pain.
Line-up:
J.O - Guitar/Vocals
O.H.R - Guitars/Bass/Noise
Drums on Raw Illumination by M.K.
Additional vocals on Raw Illumination by A.L. and T.N.
https://www.dusktone.it/
https://www.facebook.com/gravewithaview
Shalom and good evening, it took much longer than I was hoping for but “FEED THE BEAST” ISSUE 5 is finally out since today, the first of November 2024 - yes, I missed Halloween, maybe next year. And “yes”, for the second time, there will be at least one more issue!
But for the moment back to issue 5:
Within 64 A4-pages, printed in black & white on recycled paper (still no glossy for the wicked) you could discover interviews with:
Spiritus Mortis (Epic Doom Metal)
Feaces Christ (Proto-Death-Metal-Punks)
Polterwytch (Low-Fi Blackend Punk? Orgel´n´Roll? Love it or hate it music!)
Strychnos (Death Metal)
Moonless (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Guyod (Blackend Death Metal)
You might also have heard the news that a lot of equipment (incl. guitars, all pedalboards and even merch) of Minenfeld & Prehistoric War Cult got stolen two weeks ago? Total damage for both bands is around 10.000€ And as Minenfeld was part of issue 2 and I wanted to talk with Prehistoric War Cult in issue 6, I made the decision that with every sold copy of the latest issue 1€ goes to the band.
The price for issue 5 is 5€ (4€ for the zine and 1€ for the band) plus postage (Germany: 1,60€, World: 3,70€).
Regards Ipp
frombeyondipp@gmx.de
Atmospheric black/doom collective Splendidula finally returns with a new single and lyric video.
“Behind My Semblance” was recorded by JDB at Kosmik Womb, mixed by Tim De Gieter at Much Luv Studio (Amenra, Brutus, Doodeskader) and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Sepultura, Mastodon, Motörhead, Fleetwood Mac, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse). The song is also released on an exclusive limited 8” vinyl (Saturni Records), and won’t be part of the next full album.
“In a world where everyone is forced to wear a mask, we hide the shadows of our true feelings behind a façade of false normality. When asked about our well-being, we lie, fearing the uncomfortable silence that follows. This song dives into the dark reality that we often feel pressured to hide our struggles, pretending everything is okay when it’s not. For the music video, the visual artistry of Mikhail Nilov was incorporated, carefully edited to reflect the suffocating atmosphere of the lyrics. Together, they form a testament to the inner darkness we often conceal.”
Vocalist Kristien & drummer Joachim comment: "From the depths of despair, we have relentlessly risen once more. After the sudden passing of bassist Peter in 2022, and the departure of both guitarists, we were left to face the darkness alone. With new blood and a renewed purpose, we unearthed the remains of a song born with the old lineup, and resurrected it into something darker and harrowing. This release is more than just a return—it is a reckoning, a tribute to the shadows of our past and the echoes that still haunt us. This new track forges a dark connection between our previous album and the impending new full-length, a haunting reflection of our journey through despair and rebirth.”
Highlights for Splendidula
3 full length albums released by international labels and received very well by press & audience:
Splendidula (2013, independent – 2021/2023 reissue, Argonauta Records)
Post Mortem (2018, Inverse Records - 2019 reissue, Dust & Bones Records)
Somnus (2021, Argonauta Records/Ruidoteka Records – 2022/2024 reissue, Argonauta Records)
SPLENDIDULA is:
Vocals - Kristien
Guitar & Vocals - Guy
Guitar - Stitch
Bass - Bart
Drums & Synths – Joachim
https://www.facebook.com/Splendidula
Label: Wulfhere ProductionsRelease Date: October 18th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Ancient | Burzum | Nefarious | Hecate Enthroned
The judgement of the stars that stare down from the night sky means nothing to me. I will outlive their flickering ghost light. I will still be walking my endless path when they have burnt out into darkness. I will be here when the legends that gave names to their constellations have been forgotten. Yet my bones become fragile, like dry twigs that crack underfoot. My once imperious strength deserts me and my lustreless skin fades, hanging from my enfeebled frame. My beauty is shed with my fracturing sanity, crumbling over freezing aeons of solitude. I will retreat into my memories of glorious, blood-drenched centuries of lust and power, when we fell from the skies like avenging angels, wolves upon the fold, drunk on the terror of the lambs…
Parusight is the solo project of Bristol black metal musician Oliver Groves; noted as the guitarist of Blasfeme, who unleashed the visceral warfare of the Black Legion album earlier this year. But the darkness speaks to Groves in many voices and with Parusight he explores a very different shade of black. The opening track of debut album Deathly Pale, ‘A Clash Of Stars’, is a summoning of atmosphere, a gateway to the shadow realms of Parusight, a place where spirit freezing cold and desolate beauty entwine, where bestial vocals howl through blinding storms of ice and keyboards weave tapestries of dark romance. From the tempestuous seas of blood and raging chaos of ‘Lost In A Shadow’ to the wounded, malicious devil that is ‘Malignant’ – a song of decay held together by bitterness and spite – Deathly Pale reveals itself to be an epic, emotive creation of rampant riffs and cascading melodies, a tale of many chapters. At the ever-bleeding heart of the album lies its greatest work, where all its poisons coalesce, ‘Love’. Here, reflections on past sins are shrouded in funereal drapes of melancholy, dying passions feed ancient agonies and words are torn from throats in violent expulsions of utter savagery. Deathly Pale is an intensely personal outpouring of emotion, yet one rooted in revered musical traditions and universal truths.
Released by the bastion of British black metal that is Wulfhere Productions on October 18th, Deathly Pale is a remarkable debut album from a burgeoning talent. Oliver Groves – Parusight – has a huge amount to offer to devoted disciples of the darkest musical art and Deathly Pale is the perfect first step into his kingdom of endless night.
Line-up:
Oliver Groves - All music and vocals
https://www.facebook.com/wulfhereproductions
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Listen to the new track here:https://youtu.be/CbJdUDSTomc
https://spoti.fi/4fnHmME
Vocalist and guitarist Necrosodom said: “The creation of this piece was accompanied by the long and deep contemplation of the Art tarot card. It is actually a piece about art and the work of creation. It begins with an invocation, a summoning of inspiration, the element of creative fire. Through the deities of war and revenge, the expansive force of destruction in the cycle of creation is unleashed. This is where the vision of a new world and a new self is born. It is a flowering of inspiration and creative freedom.”
“The cycle of destruction and creation anew here expresses artistic rebellion, art outside the patterns, individual, changing the rules of its own game, reconstruction of style and searching for inspiration beyond just oneself. It is an inspiration that goes beyond the ego. Revealing art in all its glory and retreating to forge its next chapters in silence again. The fruits of art here mean not only artistic creation, but also life choices, which are also art.”
Scheduled for release on 15 November 2024, via Profane Spirit Productions, "Thanatos" promises a dynamic evolution for Deus Mortem. While retaining their black metal roots, the album showcases a powerful blend of old-school rock and metal influences, with driving riffs, thunderous rhythm sections, and haunting melodies. It's a testament to the band's musical growth, showcasing a more versatile and powerful sound than ever before.
"Thanatos" is a concept album that confronts the complexities of human existence. It takes listeners on a transformative journey through illusory realities, unveiling hidden truths and stripping away the veils of deception. It's a testament to personal struggle and the power of the Black Flame.
Ahead of the album’s release, Deus Mortem will embark on a Polish tour with fellow black metal acts Venefices and Devilpriest starting on 31 October 2024. Fans attending the tour will have the exclusive opportunity to purchase the "Thanatos" CD before its official release date.
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"Happy Ox is our vision of double guitar harmony in concert with
tight rhythm and solid rumbling drums and bass. Growl and edge-of-breakup
vocals act as extra spice. Composing and recording the song was a fun
experience, happening almost on its own. Happy Ox has been a work in progress
from 2020 and it’s nice to finally release it. The song, being a bit in major
key, gives a contrast to our more dark and melancholy songs." says Olli
Kuure (composer, lead guitar)"The name “Happy Ox” comes from a suburban pub in our hometown, but soon got a life of its own much like many of our songs. The final lyrics are a mixture of anti-war and veganism — cannon and cow fodder. Frostbite Terror songs often turn both serious and comical subjects towards dark humor, in this case into blood sausage. The melodic and groovy background is perfect for howling like a bull, and I hope that joy is felt by the listener too." Continues Otso Turunen (lyrics, vocals, bass)
Biography:
Frostbite Terror is a melodic death metal newcomer from Turku, Finland. Since 2022 Frostbite Terror has combined melodeath, trashy riffing and symphonic arrangements. The songs subject both serious and comedic topics to dark humor. When playing live, Frostbite Terror conquers stages with their tight playing and spicy, yet melancholy riffs. Never turning down the chance to drin-, I mean gig, the band has toured backyard BBQ parties, Metallihelvetti summer party, Tampere community center and everything in between.
Line-up:
Olli Kuure / lead guitar
Otso Turunen / bass, vocals
Jerry Airikka / guitar, backing vocals
Kristo Rautavuori / drums
https://frostbiteterror.bandcamp.com
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Hailing from Itä-Rantakylä and founded in 2010, SÖLID WAZTE releases new material after a long break. The single called EVEN GODS FALL is a tribute to Lemmy Kilmister, who died in 2015.
Watch Even Gods Fall Music Video: https://youtu.be/r1rvBqnO690
Arg: – I wrote the song a couple of weeks after Lemmy passed away because I felt I had to pay homage to this man, whose life and deeds have had such an impact not only on our music but on a whole genre.
The song is also a hat tip to the original lineup of Motörhead. A keen ear can even find small nuances typical to ”Fast” Eddie Clarke and Phil ”Philthy Animal” Taylor.
Arg: – Originally we were going to release this song already in 2017, but then life got in the way. Now, after burnouts and other health problems, several rounds of covid and all that kind of shit, this masterpiece will finally be out. And it is only 2024!
Like the debut album, this song is mixed and mastered by Pekka Kupiainen, who is better known as the mixing engineer working with Michael Monroe.
Listen the single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/solid-wazte-gods
Biography:Solid Waste (Sölid Wazte since 2024) was formed in 2010 when drummer Kire had waited long enough for his old friends Arg and Jukka to move to Helsinki. With similar musical backgrounds and over a several pints of white russians band soon started to work with material written earlier by Arg. With another friend Juha on bass first demos were recorded. Solid Waste's current line-up was complete when Arska joined on bass guitar. Solid Waste's musical goal was clear from day one: straightforward no-nonsense rock'n'roll with sing-a-long choruses. And this is what you get when you put Motörhead, Misfits, Ramones and Social Distortion in a blender. Solid Waste's self-titled debut album was released in May 2016. To keep the raw live-like feeling, the basic tracks were recorded live with vocals and some other krumelurer added later. In 2017 the band entered the studio hoping for a new release, and now in 2024 we will be able to enjoy the new material.
No panik no titanik.
Line-up:
Arg Kinnunen: vocals & guitar
Jukka Silvennoinen: guitar & vocals
Ari Lampinen: bass & vocals
Kire Karppanen: drums & vocals
https://www.facebook.com/solidwasteband
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions is set to release the new full-length album from Sweden's Death Metal/Grindcore necroholics GHOULHOUSE. FRESH OUT OF FLESH is up now for pre-order and will be released December 6th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
Ghoulhouse returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with the horrific new album Fresh Out Of Flesh! Sweden's own Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Revolting, etc.) and Håkan Stuvemark (Wombbath) are back with a deadly vengeance, as Ghoulhouse unleash more old school rotten, crusty Grindcore/Death Metal.
Fresh Out Of Flesh is the long-awaited follow-up to the debut album Rigor Mortis Intermezzo, spewing forth 12 anthems of ghastly terror and torment... for true necroholics only! For fans of Autopsy, Boneyard, Coffins, Dismember, Exhumed, Impetigo, Haemorrhage, Gruesome Stuff Relish, Impetigo and Repulsion
Listen to the single "Graveyard Drive Thru" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u-lPuKtxAA
Tracklisting:1. Fresh Out Of Flesh
2. The Morgue Scourge
3. You Could Do Worse (Than Riding In My Hearse)
4. Bizarre Impalement
5. Turned Inside Out
6. A Date With The Undead
7. Chainsaw Chili
8. Rancid Meat Addiction
9. Graveyard Drive-Thru
10. It Came From The Sewer
11. Cellar Feeder
12. Severed Head With Legs
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
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Originally released as a limited-edition cassette earlier this year, Alte Seelen is now offering these seven black metal rituals on CD. Order and stream the album now at https://alteseelen.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-of-the-woods
Tracklist:1) Emerging Glare
2) Folk of the Blossoming Sky
3) Sommar
4) The Field's Arrival
5) Washed Away Among the Stones
6) Fiendish Lore
7) Moon's Melody of Death
Upon first viewing, the band's name, cover art, and logo, might give one reason to assume this is simply a blatant Sort Vokter ripoff. On the contrary, this debut mini album is a definite nod to the former legendary ‘necro’ act, but the music within has a certain vibe that serves as a tribute of sorts while standing on its own merits. Thus, Scripture of the Woods will surely appeal to fans of such legendary acts as the aforementioned Sort Vokter, as well as Ildjarn and the early works of Gorgoroth, while maintaining a primitive sound and style all their own.
Comprised of two prolific musicians, Azeruel Woldaeg and Collier d'ombre,
KVELDSTIMER delivers seven tracks of primitive, yet majestic, old-school black metal. The atmosphere and striking execution conjure whispers of the early 90's Norwegian scene!
KVELDSTIMER is:
Azeruel Woldaeg - all instruments
Collier d'ombre - vocals
https://www.alteseelen.com/
Get
ready for a Halloween treat that bites back! WEAPON OF PRIDE is
unleashing their second single, "AXEMAN," today.
Inspired by the notorious Axeman of New Orleans, who instilled fear in the
Crescent City in the early 20th century, this track will take you deep into the
mind of a chaotic force that thrives on fear.Don’t miss the chance to experience this 'ax-cellent' track today
Stream the single: https://orcd.co/axeman
"Axeman" is the second single from the band's upcoming album, Beneath the Surface, which is due for release on December 13th, 2024.
So, as you're carving pumpkins or getting your Halloween on, crank up "Axeman": it’s heavy, it’s haunting, and it’s here to stay.
Weapon of Pride, a power trio from Phoenix, Arizona, has captivated audiences with their heavy riffs, thrashy tempos, and old-school vibe. Their discography includes the debut EP Retribution (2021) and the full-length album Taking Over (2023). Now, they’re gearing up to release their second album with WORMHOLEDEATH Records later this year.
Inspired by Stoner and Thrash Metal giants, Weapon of Pride blends Heavy, Thrash, Progressive, and Stoner Metal. The band features brothers Ryan Arnold (bass/vocals) and Logan Arnold (guitar), with Adam Duplack on drums.
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www.youtube.com/@WeaponOfPrideVEVO
The debut album from epic metal band MYTHBEGOTTEN is now streaming and available for purchase! On their first outing, MYTHBGOTTEN promises to regale listeners with an aural tome filled with stories of legend, myth, and the macabre, collectively titled Tales from the UNSEELIE COURT.
Stream and order the album at https://mythbegotten.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-unseelie-court
Hailing from the hills and woodlands of Central New York and New England, MYTHBEGOTTEN combines a love of legends old and new with a folk-inflected fusion of metal genres to arrive at a uniquely epic and melancholic melodic concoction.
The result is an eight-track journey that reaches Tolkien-esque levels of grandeur. The band offers an in-depth look at the inspiration behind Tales from the Unseelie Court.
"The key inspiration for the individual songs includes the Dullahan (an evil fey from Irish Mythology) which inspired the song "The Heedless Horseman", Sawney Bean (a legendary Scottish Cannibal and inspiration for "The Hills Have Eyes") which inspired the song "The Terror of Lothian", H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in The Walls" which inspired the song "Beneath Exham Priory", The Welsh Legend of the Wild Hunt which inspired the song "Mallt-y-Nos", the Arthurian legend of Merlin and the Dragons which inspired the song "Omen of Embers", The melancholy book 4 of Milton's "Paradise Lost" which inspired the song "The Fall", and the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields from Tolkien's "The Return of The King" which inspired the song "Of Wrath and Ruin". This is all rounded out by an arrangement of the classic Scots ballad "Twa Corbies" which brings together the old traditions of British Isles balladry with this modern sonic storytelling which MYTHBEGOTTEN bases its songwriting upon."
Experience more MYTHBEGOTTEN at https://www.youtube.com/@Mythbegotten
Tracklisting:1. The Heedless Horseman
2. Omen of Embers
3. Mallt-y-Nos
4. Beneath Exham Priory
5. The Fall
6. The Terror of Lothian
7. Twa Corbies
8. Of Wrath and Ruin
The Journey So Far...
A decade ago in Syracuse, New York, Connor Hoffman, Daniel Barbour, and Joe Sopchak released the Stirling demo under their Folk/Power Metal fusion project Hounds of Annwn. Shortly thereafter, they performed their only live show at the Sturmfeier folk metal festival in Hamlin, New York, but with college and work taking priority, the three soon scattered throughout the Northeast. All knew, however, that there was much left undone, songs left unsung, and stories left untold.
In 2022, after years of sporadic songwriting and fits and starts of recording, the trio re-committed to bringing their vision of folk- and symphonic-infused Power Metal to fruition under the new moniker MYTHBEGOTTEN. This name was chosen for its elegant encapsulation of the band’s ethos: to chronicle the stories from myth, fantasy, and history that have inspired them.
Tales from the Unseelie Court is the first release from this reforged musical triumvirate and is centered around the folklore of the British Isles and literary fantasy, showcasing the eerie and macabre as well as the wondrous and heroic. Listeners feel as though they are sitting amidst a gathering of the Unseelie Fey Court, hearing great and terrible stories retold to the assembled congregation.
MYTHBEGOTTEN is excited to reveal its unique blend of metallic styles in this first eldritch release and looks forward to sharing tales even stranger and more wondrous with the world
Line-Up:
Dan Barbour – Lead Vocals
Connor Hoffman – Guitars, Backing Vocals, Additional Keyboards
Joe Sopchak – Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/MythbegottenBand/
NEWS 31.10.2024
Helsinki-based
doom metal band DENIGRATE has released the final single
from their upcoming fourth full length album titled TO THE GODDESS
UNKNOWN to be released on November 29th 2024 via Inverse
Records. The title of the single Sesame and Lilies is a quotation
from John Ruskin (1819-1900) and the song narrates and shakes in the
spirit of Pre-Raphaelitism. The versatile soundscape that is both extremely
heavy and fragile. Like a demolition ball with extremely thin glass surface or
a sonata layered with death metal.
Denigrate's
singer Galzi tells about the song:
"Sesame and Lilies is a story of an artists suffering from the lack of spirituality. He blames everyone but himself of that situation. He blame his muse, quills, the ceiling, the walls, his premises. It's a lament that is easy for all of us to identify with. But it's always much harder to face your deficiencies and lift yourself up from that swamp. There is only the way up and the way down. Staying still isn't an option. What is your choice?"
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/denigrate-sesameandlilies
Since Denigrate was found back in '96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observative.
The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in this band. From the first released album in 2003 to the latest 4th one in 2024 called "To The Goddess Unknown", decades has changed and so has the band.
After no more than three albums released, after big-time local momentum with a finnish cover song, after mandatory hiatus, after some line-up changes, Denigrate 2024 introduces their absolutely greatest masterpiece to date and shows what only truely experienced bunch of members can achieve.
Tracklist
01. Crystal Rest
02. The Ethics of Loss
03. Under Ether
04. The Apparition of One
05. One who holds the balance
06. Sesame and Lilies
07. In the Light
08. Semidiapente
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Teemu Riekki - Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
denigratemail@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/denigrateCamp
Accompanying the release is the brand-new video for the lead single, “BETTING ON THE END”. This incendiary track juxtaposes the idea that “politicians are ‘gambling with our lives’” against the concept that everyday people are doing it for them. "It's a spiral about the devaluation of human life in the modern age. It feels like we're all just chips to be wagered, but at its core, we'd be wagering our own lives regardless. So can you blame an entity for essentially mocking your own behavior? It works both ways and on every level; be it an individual or an overpowered government. The house wins in the end."
Stream the new EP here: https://enforced.lnk.to/ALeapIntoTheDark-EPNe
Watch the visualizer for "Betting on the End" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0otsHKlV33A
The Book of Life" by EXODUS RISING is a Christian Progressive Heavy Metal album that spans biblical narratives from Genesis to Revelation. This concept album humanizes ancient stories, presenting them in digestible bites. Drawing inspiration from classical composers like Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart,
and blending them with the progressive metal influences of Symphony X, Dream Theater, and Queen to name a few. With that inspiration, EXODUS RISING creates a unique sound.
www.youtube.com/@EXODUSRISINGOFFICIAL
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Belgian black metal band KrvL (pronounced as Kravaal) have unveiled the second music video supporting their latest album “DONKERE PADEN”. The band’s second full-length album was released via These Hands Melt earlier this month.
Watch “De Koning van Stilte”: https://youtu.be/X9btwS44TRo?si=_Au38DLcNtyuJbSW
Stream the track via all digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/CBcMJIGrrzlO
Order the album:
https://krvl.bandcamp.com/album/donkere-paden
https://t.ly/krvlD (CD)
https://t.ly/krvlV (Vinyl)
Stream the album via digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/album/krvl-donkere-paden
“Following the release of our first single and video clip, “Zielenrust,” we felt the need to create another compelling visual experience to accompany our music,” said the band.
“In this new video, we have once again embarked on an artistic journey, crafting a visual masterpiece that perfectly complements the dark, immersive soundscapes of our music. The production of “De Koning Van Stilte” was a meticulous process, involving detailed planning and creative experimentation. We took on multiple roles, from directing and filming to editing and post-production, ensuring that every frame resonated with the song’s profound themes.”
“The video was shot in an evocative location, chosen for its atmospheric qualities and ability to enhance the narrative. Natural landscapes, abandoned structures, and dimly lit interiors were used to create a sense of isolation and introspection. The use of colour grading and special effects was carefully calibrated to reflect the emotional depth of the music, blending seamlessly with the haunting melodies and intense rhythms.”
Following on from their debut "Kravaal" (self-released, 2022), the second album “Donkere Paden” brings even more darkness and despair, divided into seven chapters. The album features guest vocalists H. from Oerheks and Shazzula from the revered Wolvennest.
The band states: "We've poured our souls into crafting an atmospheric black metal album that will transport you to realms of chilling beauty and crushing despair. Prepare yourselves, for KrvL's reign of darkness begins anew when Autumn falls…"
KrvL previously released the atmospheric single and video “Zielenrust” which features Shazzula of Wolvennest.
KrvL comprises nameless souls that drift through the Kravaal Forest in Belgium in search of the light amongst the darkness they find themselves in. With lyrics in Dutch, the band contemplates topics such as nature, finding inner peace, nemesis, resurrection and an attempt to find light in the darkness.
Musically, the band is all about atmosphere. With a foundation of traditional 90s and modern black metal, the anonymous band also mixes post-metal, doom and sludge influences.
KrvL was established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, creating a perfect mood for the writing and recording of their debut album "Kravaal". Eventually, the album was self-released digitally in 2022 and then on vinyl in 2023. 2024 sees the band reach new heights with the signing to These Hands Melt and the release of their second album.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheseHandsMeltOfficial
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
https://www.facebook.com/KrvL1745/
Style: Death/Thrash
Time: 8 songs, 38 minutes
Release date: 1.11. 2024
Type: Jewel box, 8 page booklet
Label: Parat Productions
You can listen full album on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJB4a7nPqM
SCENERY was a Czech death/thrash band that existed between 1994-2014 and left a cult legacy on the Czech scene. Their music is based on the legacy of DEATH and technical death metal in general.
In the first two months of 2002 SCENERY recorded their second album “Philosophy Of Ages…”, the re-release of which is driven by the same idea as in the case of debut “The Drowning Shadow Of Mankind” (1998). Originally, both recordings were self-released by the band only as burned CDrs. There were reasons for this, related also to the lack of interest of the labels at the time, given the technical difficulty of SCENERY’s music, which appeared frustrating from the band’s point of view, but that’s just the way it was… And the rest is history.
Re-edition of SCENERY's second album from 2002 will be released on November 1st for the first time on pressed CD. Original sound, but modified frontcover, new booklet.
www.paratshop.cz
www.facebook.com/ParatMagazine
Genre: Speed / Thrash Metal
FFO: Venom, Motörhead, Bulldozer, Gehennah und Oldschool-Punkrock.
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 14.12.2024
The Return of the Assassins! Folter Records präsentiert stolz: "Burn in Metal", das neue Werk der Italiener VIOLENTOR, die hiermit ihre »20 Years in Metal« zelebrieren.
VIOLENTOR ist ein rohes Power-Trio in der Tradition von Motörhead und Venom – nur schneller und dreckiger! Ein rauer Mix der Einflüsse von Bandchef Alessio aka Dog und seinen Mitstreitern: Punk, Thrash, Speed und Wahnsinn – ein wüster, kompromissloser Sound, der eine obskure Atmosphäre erzeugt und in klaustrophobische Alpträume abdriftet. Oder, um es mit Dogs eigenen Worten zu sagen: "We are 100% Metal. No compromises, no prisoners. We are the most hated Italian band. We become wild animals live – an intense and extreme massacre for your ears. We kill posers, spit on the cross, piss on your graves!"
VIOLENTOR are:
Alessio Medici – Gitarre & Vocals
Michał Golbik – Drums
Roy Noizer Elguera – Bass
All songs written and arranged by Violentor. Recorded in hell. Mix & master by Ronnie Ripper – Naked Man Productions.
Discography:
Violentor (2011)
Rot (2012)
Maniacs (2015)
Putrid Stench (2019)
Manifesto di Odio (2022)
Burn in Metal (2024)
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/VIOLENTOR666
Get
ready to charge into battle with Aussie thrash metal warriors DECIMATOR
as they proudly unveil the lyric video for “LEGIONS,” a
thunderous track from their explosive album, 'TIL THE ENEMIES ARE
GONE, available now via Wormholedeath.
In “Legions,” Decimator takes you on an epic journey through the storied realms of warfare, paying tribute to the fierce spirit of the Roman Empire. This anthem captures the relentless march of soldiers who live and die for glory, infusing powerful lyrics with anthemic choruses that echo the bravery and sacrifice of warriors in their fight for honor.
"Til The Enemies Are Gone" was recorded in a single day at Powell Lane Studios in Coogee, NSW. The album is built on tracks composed by a lineup that only performed live once, injecting a raw and unpredictable energy into their sound. Combining the ferocious grooves of modern metal with the blistering riffs of classic thrash, " Til The Enemies Are Gone" is a must-listen for metal fans everywhere.
Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/tteag
www.youtube.com/@decimatorbandaustralia568
www.facebook.com/DecimatorBandAustralia
SATAN'S
SIGH
is a band that emerged in the year 2023, germinating in the filthy decadence of
the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the most putrefied bowels of Brazil...
SATAN'S SIGH is deformed by a blasphemous trio where Black Sin and Damnation intend to mutilate us incessantly with their riffs and guitar solos while hatefully vomiting the infamous proclamations of chaos and destruction. Vitor Giovanni is an integral part of the sound massacre where he intends to slowly dismember us with his devastating bass. Sürtür Impurus usurps the drums in a demolishing way that manages to polish the most grotesque side of the sound from SATAN'S SIGH...
Still in 2023 SATAN'S SIGH presents its first demo tape entitled “DEMO l” and where two sonic profanations were stripped with the intention of presenting with the infamous purpose of spreading misfortune on earth, the eternal hatred for humanity and the harsh rawness of rotten South American Metal through the four corners of this cursed and nauseating underworld...
After the preview of the cover and the music that revealed the damned abominations that are emerging from the morbid underworld of SATAN'S SIGH, they will now be complemented with the disclosure of the alliance that is being established to carry out the release of this album that has its own identity exposed in the official video clip presented now to unveil a little more of the cadaveric essences that are being slowly decomposed in the putrid progress of this album that overflows with the putrid odors of imminent death...
An alliance of inhuman torments is being forged in the depths of the catacombs of hell, where we are proud to present the debut album of SATAN'S SIGH, which will be released in CD and Cassette formats under this alliance of devout demons of darkness and who have united to spread the cursed plagues of hell through this auditory impalement and from which no one will emerge unharmed...
For fans of : Impaled Nazarene, Merciless, Vulcano, Sepultura (old), Sarcofago, Mystifier, Headhunter Dc, Mortem, Grave Desecrator, Poisonous among other evil entities that influence in a very explicit way the putrid Death Metal moldy with sulfur and that SATAN'S SIGH presents to us with coldness...
PRIMITIVE DEATH METAL OLD SCHOOL...
SATAN'S SIGH "Impaled Nazareno" CASSETTE
European edition in CASSETTE limited to 100 copies, will co-released by Murder Records | Auditive Cut Records | Subterrâneo Maldito Records.
IMPALED SIDE:
01 - Intro/Satan's Sigh [5:17]
02 - Eternal Evil [3:15]
03 - Retumbosumbundos [0:52]
04 - SxSxS [3:40]
NAZARENO SIDE:
05 - Cold Dark [4:58]
06 - Primitive Future [1:19]
07 - Maldita Herança [2:40]
08 - Desejos Ardentes Under The... [1:25]
09 - ...Impaled Nazareno [3:35]
SATAN'S SIGH "Impaled Nazareno" CD
Brazilian edition in CD limited to 300 copies, will be co-released by Misanthropic Records | Mundo Bzzarro Distro | Blasmorfose Productions | Blizzard Records | Tormenta Distro. | Capa Preta Records | Ihells Productions | Vela Preta Productions.
Mexican edition in CD limited to 500 copies, will be released by Vomit Records.
HELLISH IMPALEMENTS:
01 - Intro/Satan's Sigh [5:17]
02 - Eternal Evil [3:15]
03 - Retumbosumbundos [0:52]
04 - SxSxS [3:40]
05 - Cold Dark [4:58]
06 - Primitive Future [1:19]
07 - Maldita Herança [2:40]
08 - Desejos Ardentes Under The... [1:25]
09 - ...Impaled Nazareno [3:35]
Impaled Nazareno was recorded, mixed and mastered between March and September 2024.
Drums and vocals recorded at HCS Studio, RJ.
Guitars and vocals recorded at Vela Preta Studio, RJ.
Basses recorded at Vitor's Home Studio, PB.
Production, mixing and mastering by Black Sin and Damnation.
Cover by Tatiana T.Bellini.
Internal designers Thiago Caronte and Elson Bueno.
Photos by Satan's sigh.
Final layout for the Cassette verion made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional viodeo clips and flyers by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter.
SATAN'S SIGH are:
Black Sin and Damnation [Vocals & Guitars]
Vitor Giovanni [Bass]
Sürtür Impurus [Drums]
THIS ARE THE HELLISH ALLIANCE WITH A LEGION OF DEMONS WHO HAVE JOINED FORCES TO SUPPORT SATAN'S SIGH IN THE RELEASE OF HIS DEBUT ALBUM...
https://www.youtube.com/@SATANSSIGH
satanssigh@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/satanssig
"I Love the Dark" delves into darkness as a refuge of comfort and tranquility, escaping pain, fear, and societal pressures. The serene, night-time setting offers solace and a sense of true self, free from the alienating outside world. This introspective journey is enhanced by Time Consumed's signature doom-death metal sound, which deepens the song’s atmospheric and emotional impact.
https://timeconsumed.bandcamp.com/album/long-night-of-silence
Dutch
blackened death metal juggernaut MISANTHROPIA is back with
their new lyric video for "PROSPERITY BY COCAÏNE," a
sinister glimpse into their album, "ENVY THE DEAD,"
out via Wormholedeath.
The video pulls viewers into a bleak Victorian world, where the horrors of exploitation, violence, and addiction taint wealth and progress.
Misanthropia paints a vivid picture of moral decay. Through dark, evocative lyrics, the song unveils the grim realities of the Victorian era, capturing a twisted fantasy driven by cocaine-fueled corruption.
Stream the full album "Envy The Dead" here: https://orcd.co/envythedead
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
"Envy The Dead" is a concept album that conjures a dark, gritty atmosphere inspired by historical horrors like Jack The Ripper and necromancy. Moving away from symphonic elements, it embraces a progressive Death/Thrash vibe with influences from Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death. Mike Wead (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) is behind the engineering, mixing, and mastering
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
www.youtube.com/@misanthropiaofficial4167
www.facebook.com/666misanthropia
NOIRSUAIRE
– „ BLACK FLAME OF UNHOLY TRADITION”
"Black Flame Of Unholy Tradition" , a new EP that was written and recorded during the summer of 2024 and must be considered a prelude to the first NOIRSUAIRE album.
Songs "Submit To Pestilence" and "Thoses Once Revered" were recorded separately and originally released as "Revered Pestilence Sessions".
"Submit To Pestilence" is the first song written by NOIRSUAIRE.
N - guitars, bass, vocals
Agravh - drums
Drums entirely recorded by Agravh in a rehearsal room.
Guitars, bass, and vocals entirely recorded by N in the small and wooden attic of his house lost in the beauty and the darkness of the Pyrenean mountains.
CD Version Released by Khaoszophy Productions.
Cassette Released By Rabauw Productions.
"Black Flame Of Unholy Tradition" is dedicated to the memory of P.K from ABIGOR and hails the ones keeping it burning bright.
https://khaoszophy.com/
https://www.rabauw.com/home
https://www.facebook.com/noirsuaire
The
second full-length studio album by Bulgarian Groove/Death Metal band GRIMAZE
. "THE HEART OF A COLLAPSING STAR" reflects on the
relationship between the micro and macro cosmos. Powerful human emotions are
being experienced by fierce natural forces to depict the intensity through
which one goes on the spiritual path.
Guitars, bass, and vocals were recorded at Urban House Studio, Sofia, Bulgaria, while the drums were recorded by Janne Jaloma and Daniel Bergstrand at SDFX Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.
The whole album was mixed by Daniel Bergstrand.
Mastering was done by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios, Uppsala, Sweden.
Grimaze is a Bulgarian Groove/Death Metal band formed in 2013.
Since its formation, the band has toured with Decapitated, Hatesphere, Thy Disease, Pestilence, Bleeding Gods, Vader, and Hate. Grimaze has also supported Cannibal Corpse.
The new album, "The Heart Of A Collapsing Star", was released on September 1, 2024. Two singles from the album, “Gripping The Spirit” and “Cosmic Solitude”, has been released as well.
https://www.facebook.com/GRIMAZE
NEWS 26.10.2024"Sesame and Lilies is a story of an artists suffering from the lack of spirituality. He blames everyone but himself of that situation. He blame his muse, quills, the ceiling, the walls, his premises. It's a lament that is easy for all of us to identify with. But it's always much harder to face your deficiencies and lift yourself up from that swamp. There is only the way up and the way down. Staying still isn't an option. What is your choice?"
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/denigrate-sesameandlilies
Since Denigrate was found back in '96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observative.
The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in this band. From the first released album in 2003 to the latest 4th one in 2024 called "To The Goddess Unknown", decades has changed and so has the band.
After no more than three albums released, after big-time local momentum with a finnish cover song, after mandatory hiatus, after some line-up changes, Denigrate 2024 introduces their absolutely greatest masterpiece to date and shows what only truely experienced bunch of members can achieve.
Tracklist01. Crystal Rest
02. The Ethics of Loss
03. Under Ether
04. The Apparition of One
05. One who holds the balance
06. Sesame and Lilies
07. In the Light
08. Semidiapente
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Teemu Riekki - Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
denigratemail@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/denigrateCamp
Accompanying the release is the brand-new video for the lead single, “BETTING ON THE END”. This incendiary track juxtaposes the idea that “politicians are ‘gambling with our lives’” against the concept that everyday people are doing it for them. "It's a spiral about the devaluation of human life in the modern age. It feels like we're all just chips to be wagered, but at its core, we'd be wagering our own lives regardless. So can you blame an entity for essentially mocking your own behavior? It works both ways and on every level; be it an individual or an overpowered government. The house wins in the end."
Stream the new EP here: https://enforced.lnk.to/ALeapIntoTheDark-EPNe
Watch the visualizer for "Betting on the End" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0otsHKlV33A
The Book of Life" by EXODUS RISING is a Christian Progressive Heavy Metal album that spans biblical narratives from Genesis to Revelation. This concept album humanizes ancient stories, presenting them in digestible bites. Drawing inspiration from classical composers like Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart,
and blending them with the progressive metal influences of Symphony X, Dream Theater, and Queen to name a few. With that inspiration, EXODUS RISING creates a unique sound.
www.youtube.com/@EXODUSRISINGOFFICIAL
www.facebook.com/groups/1032855907857719
Belgian black metal band KrvL (pronounced as Kravaal) have unveiled the second music video supporting their latest album “DONKERE PADEN”. The band’s second full-length album was released via These Hands Melt earlier this month.
Watch “De Koning van Stilte”: https://youtu.be/X9btwS44TRo?si=_Au38DLcNtyuJbSWStream the track via all digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/CBcMJIGrrzlO
Order the album:
https://krvl.bandcamp.com/album/donkere-paden
https://t.ly/krvlD (CD)
https://t.ly/krvlV (Vinyl)
Stream the album via digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/album/krvl-donkere-paden
“Following the release of our first single and video clip, “Zielenrust,” we felt the need to create another compelling visual experience to accompany our music,” said the band.
“In this new video, we have once again embarked on an artistic journey, crafting a visual masterpiece that perfectly complements the dark, immersive soundscapes of our music. The production of “De Koning Van Stilte” was a meticulous process, involving detailed planning and creative experimentation. We took on multiple roles, from directing and filming to editing and post-production, ensuring that every frame resonated with the song’s profound themes.”
“The video was shot in an evocative location, chosen for its atmospheric qualities and ability to enhance the narrative. Natural landscapes, abandoned structures, and dimly lit interiors were used to create a sense of isolation and introspection. The use of colour grading and special effects was carefully calibrated to reflect the emotional depth of the music, blending seamlessly with the haunting melodies and intense rhythms.”
Following on from their debut "Kravaal" (self-released, 2022), the second album “Donkere Paden” brings even more darkness and despair, divided into seven chapters. The album features guest vocalists H. from Oerheks and Shazzula from the revered Wolvennest.
The band states: "We've poured our souls into crafting an atmospheric black metal album that will transport you to realms of chilling beauty and crushing despair. Prepare yourselves, for KrvL's reign of darkness begins anew when Autumn falls…"
KrvL previously released the atmospheric single and video “Zielenrust” which features Shazzula of Wolvennest.
KrvL comprises nameless souls that drift through the Kravaal Forest in Belgium in search of the light amongst the darkness they find themselves in. With lyrics in Dutch, the band contemplates topics such as nature, finding inner peace, nemesis, resurrection and an attempt to find light in the darkness.
Musically, the band is all about atmosphere. With a foundation of traditional 90s and modern black metal, the anonymous band also mixes post-metal, doom and sludge influences.
KrvL was established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, creating a perfect mood for the writing and recording of their debut album "Kravaal". Eventually, the album was self-released digitally in 2022 and then on vinyl in 2023. 2024 sees the band reach new heights with the signing to These Hands Melt and the release of their second album.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheseHandsMeltOfficial
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
https://www.facebook.com/KrvL1745/
Style: Death/Thrash Time: 8 songs, 38 minutes
Release date: 1.11. 2024
Type: Jewel box, 8 page booklet
Label: Parat Productions
You can listen full album on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJB4a7nPqM
SCENERY was a Czech death/thrash band that existed between 1994-2014 and left a cult legacy on the Czech scene. Their music is based on the legacy of DEATH and technical death metal in general.
In the first two months of 2002 SCENERY recorded their second album “Philosophy Of Ages…”, the re-release of which is driven by the same idea as in the case of debut “The Drowning Shadow Of Mankind” (1998). Originally, both recordings were self-released by the band only as burned CDrs. There were reasons for this, related also to the lack of interest of the labels at the time, given the technical difficulty of SCENERY’s music, which appeared frustrating from the band’s point of view, but that’s just the way it was… And the rest is history.
Re-edition of SCENERY's second album from 2002 will be released on November 1st for the first time on pressed CD. Original sound, but modified frontcover, new booklet.
www.paratshop.cz
www.facebook.com/ParatMagazine
Genre: Speed / Thrash MetalFFO: Venom, Motörhead, Bulldozer, Gehennah und Oldschool-Punkrock.
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 14.12.2024
The Return of the Assassins! Folter Records präsentiert stolz: "Burn in Metal", das neue Werk der Italiener VIOLENTOR, die hiermit ihre »20 Years in Metal« zelebrieren.
VIOLENTOR ist ein rohes Power-Trio in der Tradition von Motörhead und Venom – nur schneller und dreckiger! Ein rauer Mix der Einflüsse von Bandchef Alessio aka Dog und seinen Mitstreitern: Punk, Thrash, Speed und Wahnsinn – ein wüster, kompromissloser Sound, der eine obskure Atmosphäre erzeugt und in klaustrophobische Alpträume abdriftet. Oder, um es mit Dogs eigenen Worten zu sagen: "We are 100% Metal. No compromises, no prisoners. We are the most hated Italian band. We become wild animals live – an intense and extreme massacre for your ears. We kill posers, spit on the cross, piss on your graves!"
VIOLENTOR are:
Alessio Medici – Gitarre & Vocals
Michał Golbik – Drums
Roy Noizer Elguera – Bass
All songs written and arranged by Violentor. Recorded in hell. Mix & master by Ronnie Ripper – Naked Man Productions.
Discography:
Violentor (2011)
Rot (2012)
Maniacs (2015)
Putrid Stench (2019)
Manifesto di Odio (2022)
Burn in Metal (2024)
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/VIOLENTOR666
Get
ready to charge into battle with Aussie thrash metal warriors DECIMATOR
as they proudly unveil the lyric video for “LEGIONS,” a
thunderous track from their explosive album, 'TIL THE ENEMIES ARE
GONE, available now via Wormholedeath.In “Legions,” Decimator takes you on an epic journey through the storied realms of warfare, paying tribute to the fierce spirit of the Roman Empire. This anthem captures the relentless march of soldiers who live and die for glory, infusing powerful lyrics with anthemic choruses that echo the bravery and sacrifice of warriors in their fight for honor.
"Til The Enemies Are Gone" was recorded in a single day at Powell Lane Studios in Coogee, NSW. The album is built on tracks composed by a lineup that only performed live once, injecting a raw and unpredictable energy into their sound. Combining the ferocious grooves of modern metal with the blistering riffs of classic thrash, " Til The Enemies Are Gone" is a must-listen for metal fans everywhere.
Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/tteag
www.youtube.com/@decimatorbandaustralia568
www.facebook.com/DecimatorBandAustralia
SATAN'S
SIGH
is a band that emerged in the year 2023, germinating in the filthy decadence of
the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the most putrefied bowels of Brazil...SATAN'S SIGH is deformed by a blasphemous trio where Black Sin and Damnation intend to mutilate us incessantly with their riffs and guitar solos while hatefully vomiting the infamous proclamations of chaos and destruction. Vitor Giovanni is an integral part of the sound massacre where he intends to slowly dismember us with his devastating bass. Sürtür Impurus usurps the drums in a demolishing way that manages to polish the most grotesque side of the sound from SATAN'S SIGH...
Still in 2023 SATAN'S SIGH presents its first demo tape entitled “DEMO l” and where two sonic profanations were stripped with the intention of presenting with the infamous purpose of spreading misfortune on earth, the eternal hatred for humanity and the harsh rawness of rotten South American Metal through the four corners of this cursed and nauseating underworld...
After the preview of the cover and the music that revealed the damned abominations that are emerging from the morbid underworld of SATAN'S SIGH, they will now be complemented with the disclosure of the alliance that is being established to carry out the release of this album that has its own identity exposed in the official video clip presented now to unveil a little more of the cadaveric essences that are being slowly decomposed in the putrid progress of this album that overflows with the putrid odors of imminent death...
An alliance of inhuman torments is being forged in the depths of the catacombs of hell, where we are proud to present the debut album of SATAN'S SIGH, which will be released in CD and Cassette formats under this alliance of devout demons of darkness and who have united to spread the cursed plagues of hell through this auditory impalement and from which no one will emerge unharmed...
For fans of : Impaled Nazarene, Merciless, Vulcano, Sepultura (old), Sarcofago, Mystifier, Headhunter Dc, Mortem, Grave Desecrator, Poisonous among other evil entities that influence in a very explicit way the putrid Death Metal moldy with sulfur and that SATAN'S SIGH presents to us with coldness...
PRIMITIVE DEATH METAL OLD SCHOOL...
SATAN'S SIGH "Impaled Nazareno" CASSETTE
European edition in CASSETTE limited to 100 copies, will co-released by Murder Records | Auditive Cut Records | Subterrâneo Maldito Records.
IMPALED SIDE:
01 - Intro/Satan's Sigh [5:17]
02 - Eternal Evil [3:15]
03 - Retumbosumbundos [0:52]
04 - SxSxS [3:40]
NAZARENO SIDE:
05 - Cold Dark [4:58]
06 - Primitive Future [1:19]
07 - Maldita Herança [2:40]
08 - Desejos Ardentes Under The... [1:25]
09 - ...Impaled Nazareno [3:35]
SATAN'S SIGH "Impaled Nazareno" CD
Brazilian edition in CD limited to 300 copies, will be co-released by Misanthropic Records | Mundo Bzzarro Distro | Blasmorfose Productions | Blizzard Records | Tormenta Distro. | Capa Preta Records | Ihells Productions | Vela Preta Productions.
Mexican edition in CD limited to 500 copies, will be released by Vomit Records.
HELLISH IMPALEMENTS:
01 - Intro/Satan's Sigh [5:17]
02 - Eternal Evil [3:15]
03 - Retumbosumbundos [0:52]
04 - SxSxS [3:40]
05 - Cold Dark [4:58]
06 - Primitive Future [1:19]
07 - Maldita Herança [2:40]
08 - Desejos Ardentes Under The... [1:25]
09 - ...Impaled Nazareno [3:35]
Impaled Nazareno was recorded, mixed and mastered between March and September 2024.
Drums and vocals recorded at HCS Studio, RJ.
Guitars and vocals recorded at Vela Preta Studio, RJ.
Basses recorded at Vitor's Home Studio, PB.
Production, mixing and mastering by Black Sin and Damnation.
Cover by Tatiana T.Bellini.
Internal designers Thiago Caronte and Elson Bueno.
Photos by Satan's sigh.
Final layout for the Cassette verion made by Alemão and Danihell Slaughter.
Promotional viodeo clips and flyers by Leo Mora and Danihell Slaughter.
SATAN'S SIGH are:
Black Sin and Damnation [Vocals & Guitars]
Vitor Giovanni [Bass]
Sürtür Impurus [Drums]
THIS ARE THE HELLISH ALLIANCE WITH A LEGION OF DEMONS WHO HAVE JOINED FORCES TO SUPPORT SATAN'S SIGH IN THE RELEASE OF HIS DEBUT ALBUM...
https://www.youtube.com/@SATANSSIGH
satanssigh@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/satanssig
"I Love the Dark" delves into darkness as a refuge of comfort and tranquility, escaping pain, fear, and societal pressures. The serene, night-time setting offers solace and a sense of true self, free from the alienating outside world. This introspective journey is enhanced by Time Consumed's signature doom-death metal sound, which deepens the song’s atmospheric and emotional impact.
https://timeconsumed.bandcamp.com/album/long-night-of-silence
Dutch
blackened death metal juggernaut MISANTHROPIA is back with
their new lyric video for "PROSPERITY BY COCAÏNE," a
sinister glimpse into their album, "ENVY THE DEAD,"
out via Wormholedeath.The video pulls viewers into a bleak Victorian world, where the horrors of exploitation, violence, and addiction taint wealth and progress.
Misanthropia paints a vivid picture of moral decay. Through dark, evocative lyrics, the song unveils the grim realities of the Victorian era, capturing a twisted fantasy driven by cocaine-fueled corruption.
Stream the full album "Envy The Dead" here: https://orcd.co/envythedead
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
"Envy The Dead" is a concept album that conjures a dark, gritty atmosphere inspired by historical horrors like Jack The Ripper and necromancy. Moving away from symphonic elements, it embraces a progressive Death/Thrash vibe with influences from Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death. Mike Wead (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) is behind the engineering, mixing, and mastering
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
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NOIRSUAIRE
– „ BLACK FLAME OF UNHOLY TRADITION”"Black Flame Of Unholy Tradition" , a new EP that was written and recorded during the summer of 2024 and must be considered a prelude to the first NOIRSUAIRE album.
Songs "Submit To Pestilence" and "Thoses Once Revered" were recorded separately and originally released as "Revered Pestilence Sessions".
"Submit To Pestilence" is the first song written by NOIRSUAIRE.
N - guitars, bass, vocals
Agravh - drums
Drums entirely recorded by Agravh in a rehearsal room.
Guitars, bass, and vocals entirely recorded by N in the small and wooden attic of his house lost in the beauty and the darkness of the Pyrenean mountains.
CD Version Released by Khaoszophy Productions.
Cassette Released By Rabauw Productions.
"Black Flame Of Unholy Tradition" is dedicated to the memory of P.K from ABIGOR and hails the ones keeping it burning bright.
https://khaoszophy.com/
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The
second full-length studio album by Bulgarian Groove/Death Metal band GRIMAZE
. "THE HEART OF A COLLAPSING STAR" reflects on the
relationship between the micro and macro cosmos. Powerful human emotions are
being experienced by fierce natural forces to depict the intensity through
which one goes on the spiritual path.Guitars, bass, and vocals were recorded at Urban House Studio, Sofia, Bulgaria, while the drums were recorded by Janne Jaloma and Daniel Bergstrand at SDFX Studio, Stockholm, Sweden.
The whole album was mixed by Daniel Bergstrand.
Mastering was done by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios, Uppsala, Sweden.
Grimaze is a Bulgarian Groove/Death Metal band formed in 2013.
Since its formation, the band has toured with Decapitated, Hatesphere, Thy Disease, Pestilence, Bleeding Gods, Vader, and Hate. Grimaze has also supported Cannibal Corpse.
The new album, "The Heart Of A Collapsing Star", was released on September 1, 2024. Two singles from the album, “Gripping The Spirit” and “Cosmic Solitude”, has been released as well.
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MOTÖRHEAD veröffentlichen limitierte Auflage von „YE BOOK OF
INCONSEQUENTIAL SCRIBBLES“! Lemmy war ein stolzer Kritzler und Schreiber, der im Laufe der Jahre viele Tagebücher füllte. Er hat immer gehofft, eine Sammlung seiner einzigartigen Einblicke ins Leben veröffentlicht zu sehen, und so ist Motörhead stolz darauf, die Veröffentlichung der auf 500 handnummerierte Stücke limitierten Auflage von “Ye Book Of Inconsequential Scribbles of Lemmy Kilmister 1st Esq.” anzukündigen, ein mit Spannung erwartetes Sammlerstück, das ausschließlich online verkauft wird. “Ye Book Of Inconsequential Scribbles” zeigt einige von Lemmys besten Kritzeleien und bietet einen ungefilterten Einblick in den Geist eines Mannes, dessen Sicht auf die Welt ironisch humorvoll und zeitlos vorausschauend war.
Jede Seite ist eine Hommage an Lemmys einzigartige Fähigkeit, das Leben und die Menschen, die es leben, mit seiner unverfälschten Einstellung und seinem schelmischen Sinn für Humor zu erfassen. Mit dieser limitierten Auflage wird nicht nur ein Wunsch von Lemmy erfüllt, sondern auch das wahre Wesen einer der einflussreichsten Figuren des Rock gewürdigt.
“Ye Book Of Inconsequential Scribbles” kann ab dem 23. Oktober im offiziellen Motörhead-Webshop vorbestellt werden. Jetzt schnell handeln und ein Exemplar sichern. https://shop-eu.imotorhead.com/collections/lemmy
Was für eine wunderbare Krönung des Motörhead-Monats Oktober, der passenderweise auch am 25.10. mit dem Release der aufwendig kuratierten Box “WE TAKE NO PRISONERS” aufwartet!
"We Take No Prisoners – The Singles 1995–2006" als Sammlung von A- und B-Seiten im DELUXE 7” SET, als Doppel-CD sowie in digitaler Form. “We Take No Prisoners – The Singles 1995–2006" ist ab 25. Oktober 2024 erhältlich.
Jetzt vorbestellen: https://motorhead.lnk.to/prisoners
Technical death metal band Fleshbore have preorders up now for their exciting new full length just in time for their US tour which is currently going on (flyer below). If you're into catchy, aggressive and vibrant tech death, you can't go on with life without it. Please find info about the release on Bandcamp at https://fleshboreband.bandcamp.com/album/painted-paradise
FLESHBORE – “PAINTED PARADISE”
For
fans of
- Archspire, Allegaeon, Psycroptic, The Zenith Passage, SoreptionFleshbore have crafted a tech death album that is unrelenting from the get go. It's packed to the brim with riffs and to make things overwhelming, they offer innumerable variations and deliver it with rare, staggering intensity. The vocals are straight up furious; the frontman delivers both hoarse growls and deep grunts in a rapid stuttering style, interspersing it all with raspy vocals to suit the constantly shifting moods of the album. The music has an inherent momentum, oscillating violently between the sped up technical parts and progressive passages providing brief respite, and spicing things up with brutal death metal bits along the way. It's not just fast tech death; it's full-bodied intricate death metal, carefully and thoughtfully composed, and flawlessly executed. 'Painted Paradise' is an album that's also remarkably catchy and even memorable despite the ever-intensifying chaos. There are parts that will stand out from the cascade of riffs in every song and will have the listener delightfully coming back for more. Fleshbore have imbibed the best parts of the style and reimagined it in their vision, and spew out the volatile concoction forcefully as a fiery, acerbic projectile that ends up being some of the most exhilarating music in recent times.
Line up:
Michael McGinley - Guitar
Michael O’Hara - Vocals
Cole Chavez - Guitar
Cole Daniels (Demon King) – Bass
Other Personnel:
Robin Stone (Evilyn, Norse) - Session Drums
Jackson Ward - Mixing and Mastering
Mark Erskine - Art
Track listing
1. Setting Sun
2. The World
3. Target Fixation
4. Wandering Twilight
5. Inadequate
6. The Ancient Knowledge
7. Painted Paradise
8. Laplace's Game
Release date - January 24th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Sweden's melodic death trio AGAINST I have shared a new track off their upcoming album, Songs for the DYING.
The band goes in-depth on their new single, "A Hymn for the End":
"'A Hymn for the End' is a celebration of the end of mankind. It is a song for the dead or those soon to be. This track features remnants of the old industrial sound of early AGAINST I and serves as a bridge on the album, where some of the riffs really push it forward as a contrast rounding things up."
Stream "A Hymn for the End" now at https://tfreco.bandcamp.com/album/a-hymn-for-the-end-2
Songs for the Dying picks up where Destruction Lullaby - released in May 2024 - left off. The album offers lethal doses of aggressive and melodic death tinged with shades of industrial and atmospheric metal.
AGAINST I will release Songs for the Dying on November 29. Pre-order the album at https://tfreco.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-the-dying
Tracklisting
:1. Bound in Blood
2. Depraved Lust
3. A Hymn for the End
4. Crimson Queen
5. Eternal Slumber
6. From the Beyond
7. Father of Lies
8. Judgement of the Damned
9. Praise the Dead
10. Scorched Earth
11. The Blackest Night
AGAINST I was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Keith Croona known as vocalist and founder of Cynical Existence and ex-vocalist of Menschdefekt. Together with Mathias Back (guitars) and Anders Ström (drums), they fuse elements of metal and hints of electronic parts into a cacophony of aggression and melodies.
In 2023 the band released their debut album Carnival of Excess on Advoxya Records. 2024 saw the release of two EPs, Perfect Smile and the follow-up Destruction Lullaby, which took the band in an entirely new direction.
Line-Up:
Fredrik Keith Croona - vocals
Mathias Back - guitars
Anders Ström - drums
https://www.facebook.com/againstIband
Canberra (AU) - Australian-based Symphonic Death Metal band, Project: ULTIMATE SATAN, will release their highly anticipated debut album, THE OPUS SATANAS, November 29 on Eschatonic Records!
A lyric video for "Nocturne Immortalis," the third and final single taken from The Opus Satanas, is a celebration and final observance of those who always were and have always been. Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trsYtCmZOtc
Project: Ultimate Satan was formed late 2019. The band features Eschatonic Records alumni from Inhuman Remnants, Black Mountain, Terravorous, Unholy Vendetta and Somnium Nox.
The Opus Satanas was forged amidst the Fires and Plagues of 2020 and 2021. As Project: Ultimate Satan sought to push the sonic possibilities of their unique blend of Blackened Death Metal, they focused on the inclusion of more symphonic elements, orchestrations and lyrical content that would honour those that called to them from across the vast depths of the cosmos.
July 2022 saw the release of their first single "Symphony Es Infernus," an auspicious ode to Lillith Liftoach. However, due to further outbreaks, lockdowns and restrictions, their accompanying live rituals would be restricted to the ACT and the South Coast regions.
February 2024 saw the release of their second single "The Infallible Void." The song is a sonic exploration and meditations on the darkness within us all.
Track
Listing:1. Symphony Es Infernus
2. Humanity's Last Breath
3. Is This How Freedom Dies
4. The Infallible Void
5. Footprints in the Sans of Time
6. Nocturne Immortalis
Pre-order: https://projectultimatesatan.bandcamp.com/album/the-opus-satanas
Credits:
Recorded at Studio Decay.
Produced by JDecay.
Mixed and Mastered by Gibb at Gibbenez Music.
Cover Design and Borders by Hans Trasid at Dis-Art Design.
P:US Logo and Emblem by Wappenschmied.
Line-up:
Scottanic – Vocals
Ashahalasin – Bass
JDecay – Guitars, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Dazferatu – Keys, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Amorasche – Drums, Orchestration and Backing Vocals
Contributing Artists:
Vocals from Jem
Guitars by Calcifur (Terravorous)
Lead Guitars by Nekros the Black (Ex-Inhuman Remnants)
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PESTILENT SCARS is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Oulu. All members are between 18 and 19 years old. The band's central themes focus on melodic songwriting, pure emotion, tight gigs and overall the old school way of getting around.
The band is about to release their debut album MEADOWS OF MISFORTUNE on January 17th 2025 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'A Reaching Hand' is out today on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pestilent-hand
"Mostly my writing comes straight from the heart. When I write music it has to come naturally. Melodies are very important to me and that's why we have lot of melodic riffs in our songs. It tells you a story, it's not basic death metal. I feel like I can show much more about myself with melodies. It's something that I do. I don't think a lot about which bands have inspired me, but i have to say that gothenburg's melodic death metal scene from 90's has inspired me a lot. But our music still has that Finnish melancholy. Both Finnish and Swedish melodic death metal is very important to me."- Guitarist/Songwriter, Elias Vierimaa
Biography:
Pestilent Scars was born in the winter of 2022/2023. The band has had the same line-up for almost its entire existence. Pestilent Scars released their first single "Deceitful Phoenix" in the summer of 2023. The single was a relative success. Deceitful Phoenix" was followed by "All On My Own" in the autumn of the same year.
The band played several live shows in 2023 and 2024, which were energetic and showcased the band's overall idea. At their last gig the band performed their forthcoming album "Meadows Of Misfortune". The album will be released in early 2025.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/pestilent-scars-meadows-of-misfortune-cd-pre-order
Track list:01. Into The Meadows
02. Internal Torment
03. Golden Maiden
04. Deceitful Phoenix
05. Unreality
06. A Reaching Hand
07. Democide
08. All On My Own
09. In Search Of Reason
10. False Messiah
Album cover by Topi Ilmola
Line-up:
Pasi Matinolli - Vocals
Elias Vierimaa - Guitars
Artturi Kauppi - Drums
Sampo Jylhä - Bass
Topi Ilmola - Guitars
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Pre-order:
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Speaking to the new album, GIGAN’s founding member, guitarist, sole-songwriter and lyricist; Eric Hersemann, had this to say: “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a perfect expression of where GIGAN is as a band and where we are headed into the future. Like all GIGAN songs, our emphasis is on creativity and limitless imagination, while still working within the realms of interwoven madness and colorful technicality combined with the oppressive elements of misanthropic dissonance and crushing brutality. Any fan of GIGAN, or any fan of genuine Metal music that is completely fearless and without pretentious delivery, is in for a mind-bending treat.”
Track
Listing:1. Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis
2. Ultra-Violet Shimmer and Permeating Infra-sound
3. Square Wave Subversion
4. Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes
5. Katabatic Windswept Landscapes
6. Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror
7. The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids
8. Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs of Time
Credits:
All music, lyrics, vocal patterns and concepts: Eric Hersemann.
Recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, IL.
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room.
All album art and layout: Max Winter (Teratogen)
Line-up:
Eric Hersemann - All electric, acoustic and bass guitars, theremin, otomatone, synths, lyrics, concepts and madness.
Nathan Cotton - Drums, percussion and Sunny weather.
Jerry Kavouriaris - Vocals and violence.
Bio:
Since 2005, GIGAN has been an unsung vanguard of abstract and creatively dissonant extreme metal. Pushing boundaries and never compromising the artistic vision throughout the debut EP and subsequent four full-length albums has led GIGAN to be considered an unwavering force of both innovation and extremity.
It has been almost seven years since GIGAN has released new music and the time spent away has only honed and sharpened the still-deadly blades of creativity for which GIGAN has always been known; while also infusing fresh elements not yet heard within the GIGAN Universe. The results of GIGAN’s current hard work is the new beast of an album entitled Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus.
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Bio
DUSTBORN is a Czech band, originally playing symphonic death metal, thematically influenced by post-apocalyptic and hard sci-fi stories. The band emerged from the ashes of the band Desire for Sorrow, with founding members Jon, Johny and Vlajda (ex. DfS), Dan (Arthemion), Aaron and Venca (ex. Of the Woods, Pyromann).
In 2018, DUSTBORN recorded its first EP in the SONIDOS studio in Brno, entitled MMXVIII. The EP saw initial release only as digital download in form of individual singles, but in 2019 it was also released as a physical CD under the Narcoleptica Productions label. The CD version includes an instrumental bonus track in addition to the original digital release. MMXVIII also features two music videos for the singles Mind Astray and Depths, produced by Marek Frodys Pytlik (Postcards from Arkham).
Just before the recording of the debut album Dethroned, guitarist Aaron and vocalist Venca left the band, which greatly complicated the recording process. Guitar recording was largely taken over by the talented guitarist Marek Ciml and the position behind the microphone was taken over by Johny, who has remained behind the microphone permanently ever since. The album Dethroned, released in 2019 under the czech label Metalgate, has garnered positive reactions from fans and critics alike. The album also appeared in the Ceny Britva nominations in the Album of the Year category, for example.
Shortly after the release, Tom (ex. Marked As An Enemy) came on as a guitarist. The band, oxygenated with new blood, released the third official music video for the opening single River Stained Red, directed by Mejla Basel (Mejla Prod. - Machine Head, Krabathor, Hypnos)
With new material and a new show, the band hit the road to support Dethroned. They went on to play several successful shows at clubs and festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad, followed by a lull caused by the global pandemic.
At the end of 2022, DUSTBORN reappeared with two singles, The Sun God and Hodina, recorded live at Ambit 1084 studio in Český Krumlov. Both singles suggested a certain retreat from symphonic death metal, yet retained the band's distinct personality.
In 2023, the band returns to the concert stage while preparing new material for a second full-length album, much of which was written during the pandemic. Given that our previous collaboration with the Ambit1084 studio had been fruitful, the second LP has been produced there as well. The new material moves a bit more into the black metal waters and nods in the direction of older Norwegian black metal records. Nonetheless, both the sound and the music of the album had been approached in a less orthodox manner, with frequent entries from other metal sub-genres. Album comes out on October 10th, 2024 digitally on all main streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, ...) and a month later on a physical CD as well.
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Born from the cold, concrete streets of Krakow, Poland’s PANDEMIC are an old-school thrash/speed metal band that have been a rising force in the underground scene since their formation in 2015. Despite facing a rocky start with frequent lineup changes, a founder's death, and periods of inactivity, PANDEMIC found their footing in 2018 with a solid lineup.
Their
debut EP, Deaf Nite, dropped in September 2018, serving up four blistering
tracks that showcased PANDEMIC's raw power and aggression. Staying true to
their roots, they followed up with the single Where The Devil Says
Goodnite in 2020, a two-track release. By 2023, the band had finally
released their first full-length, Crooked Mirror. PANDEMIC’s relentless
pace continued with the recording of their second album, Phantoms, in
early 2024.Pushing the boundaries of their sound and further establishing their place in the Polish metal underground, PANDEMIC’s second album should surely spread their name across the international metal map. Neither too conveniently classified as thrash nor as speed metal, Phantoms marries thrashing riffs to a dynamic style of metal that indeed speeds from time to time but, more often than not, has the gleaming contours and drama of paradigmatic ‘80s power-thrash. The deeper one goes into Phantoms, the more he will find PANDEMIC’s mastery spread across differing styles of songcraft; while everything coalesces into a unified album experience, each song here maintains its own unique character rather than simply repeating the same formula for eight-plus tracks. Credit for that comes through each member bringing a distinct pedigree to the table, with guitarist Wiktor Lobarzewski also shredding for GALLOWER, fellow six-stringer Marcin Konieczny laying down the riffs for Roadhog, and drummer Filip Worek beating the skins for Horned Cült. Completed by bassist Gniewko Jelski’s rough and rowdy but articulate vocals, PANDEMIC are the proverbial well-oiled machine – with oil of ‘80s vintage, of course!
Primed to take that machine further, be it the underground festivals they’ve been tearing up or shows on domestic soil, PANDEMIC hereby unleash Phantoms!
Line-up:
Marcin Konieczny - Guitars
Wiktor Lobarzewski - Guitars
Gniewko Jelski - Vocals, Bass
Filip Worek - Drums
Artwork:
Grace Xiii
Release date:
20th December 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on bone colored vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Australian
Death Metal brutes GUTLESS gave us one of 2018’s filthiest demos.
Two years later, we saw a split release with Mortal Wound. Now, six years after
that demo, we are finally getting the debut album. Strap in; this one is going
to be nauseating…Instantly they cave in your skull with maniacal riffing and unrelenting drum assaults. If you can’t withstand the might of Death Metal, turn back fast. The equally violent vocal attack will seal the deal as the insanity creeps further into the cemetery, searching for prey. GUTLESS has that perfect blend of old-school savagery while retaining their personality and sound that doesn’t feel like a diluted version of a superior band. Snap-neck rhythms and visceral grinding warfare will certainly have even the seasoned maniac tearing at their flesh in morbid ecstasy as this short but sweet opus erupts pus into their ear canal.
Stream the album's first single "Viral Infection" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-dB8ID31Y
Pre-order High Impact Violence at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/high-impact-violence
https://ddmsuo.eu/
If you need more convincing, take a look at that cover art; reminiscent of the 90s while striking in its own right. You had better believe the album is just as damaging as that brick. Contorting and convulsing into tormenting visions of the macabre, GUTLESS contradicts their name by dragging out your entrails repeatedly across eight indomitable cuts of sadism and brutality. The underground still has plenty of bite down under and these fiends proudly showcase one of the nastiest examples you will hear this year!”
GUTLESS is:
Joe Steele - Bass
Ollie Ballantyne - Drums
Tom Caldwell - Guitars/Vocals
Allan Stacey - Guitars
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.mesacounojo.com
https://www.facebook.com/gutlessmelbourne
"While I love LOVE Max's vocals, they have so much girth that they take up quite a frequency range," says Paul Plumeri, the band's primary songwriter and guitarist. "We wanted to choose our most proggy, layered tracks, and do a special instrumental mix and master so people could hear the rich tapestry of counterpoint and varied instrumentation."
The instrumental edition of Receptor will be available on all major streaming platforms and Bandcamp on November 20.
The EP was mixed by AJ Viana at AJ Viana Productions and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. It features performances from Kenny Grohowski, Kevin Paradis, Sydney Kjerstad, and the West European Symphony Orchestra.
Track
Listing:1) Praefatio / The Liminal Carapace
2) Ein
3) Supplicant
4) Reverie
5) Pitchtongue Vesper
6) The Sputtering Torch
OWDWYR is a technical death metal band based in the United States. Their music is a unique blend of extreme metal, jazz, classical, and progressive influences. Their debut album, 'Receptor,' was released to critical acclaim in 2023.
Band Members:
Paul Plumeri Jr. - Guitars, Composition, and Programming
Chris Williams - Bass
Max Lichtman - Vocals and Lyrics
https://www.facebook.com/owdwyr
Polish black metal band CZORT return with their third full-length album "MONUMENTY". The album will be released via Pagan Records on 29 November 2024 in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats.
The entire album was recorded and mixed last fall at Impressive Art studio in Porąbka by Przemysław Nowak.
The sound on "Monumenty" is an evolution of the band's past work on "W czeluść" (2022 split released via Godz ov War Productions), "Apostoł" (2020 album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) and "Czarna ewangelia" (2018 debut album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions). In 2019, Czort also released a split entitled "Under the White Flame" with Mordhell, Occultum and Dagorath.
In Slavic mythology, Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face.
Tracklist 1. Paroksyzm Ludzkości
2. Zjawa
3. Kuźnia Materii
4. Oczyma Monumentu
5. Zmaganie Rdzeniem Istnienia
6. Cyborium Zgnilizny i Brudu
7. 23.58.30
8. Antynatalizm Boga
9. Ubóstwo Idei
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https://www.facebook.com/czortbluznierca
Hailing
from Greece, modern Death metal act CAELESTIA signed a deal with
Wormholedeath for the CD release of their EP "INFERNALIA".The word “Infernalia” is the exact antonym of “Caelestia” and marks the band's foundation to a more extreme and guitar-riff-based modern death metal style (with melodic & black metal passages). The EP consists of 4 tracks, which are indicative of the band’s new musical direction, aimed at reintroducing the band to the public. In terms of lyrics, the band explores a wide array of dark subjects, spanning from grim historical events to horror/dark literature, or insidious states of the human mind. Orchestral parts are still part of the music, but now they serve more as introductions or intervals, and not as the main foundation like in the ‘regigad’ releases. Prominent guitar riffs and variating bass lines intertwine with each other, setting the frame in which extreme drumming unfolds, outlining the clear and direct new song.
A little more than 10 years after its initial formation, and spanning two full albums and a 2-track single, the Athens-based quartet decided to redirect its style from symphonic female-fronted dark metal to extreme metal, encompassing modern death metal standards with melodic black metal passages.
Having shared the stage with major metal acts like Katatonia, The Vision Bleak, ArchEnemy, Draconian, Insomnium, Tribulation, and Carach Angren at domestic shows, the band embarked on shows abroad, taking part in festivals in Belgium (MEVF) and Slovakia, but also in a European Tour (2019) with an all-Norwegian billing, consisting of Vulture Industries, Helheim, and Madder Mortem.
The band’s current lineup consists of: Vassilis Thomas (guitars), Marc Reign (drums, ex-Destruction, ex-Morgoth), Pantelis "Lordwinter" Daskalelos (vocals), and Stelios Tragos (bass).
www.youtube.com/@CaelestiaOfficial
https://linktr.ee/caelestiaband
FORGED IN BLACK – “FORGED IN BLACK MMXXIV”
Label: Fighter RecordsRelease Date: December 3rd 2024
Genre: Heavy Metal
For fans of: Queensrÿche | Judas Priest | Vicious Rumors | Solitude Aeternus
It’s time to head back to the forge, to the place where it all began, where the smith first brought the hammer down upon the anvil, tempering the British steel that would become Forged In Black! It’s time to celebrate 15 years of real heavy metal, 15 years of indefatigable spirit and musical power! It’s time to reach back into the past and draw the earliest creations of Forged In Black from the cold ashes and thrust them back into the fire, reinvigorating the hellion screams and contagious riff attacks! It’s time for Forged In Black to be born again!
It was 2009 when the first line-up of Forged In Black was assembled, originally under the name Merciless Fail – a moniker that was soon abandoned as the sheer strength of the young band’s material became apparent. After relentless work in the rehearsal room and on the stage, by 2013 the rebranded Forged In Black were ready to record their debut, self-titled album – and it is that monumental piece of history that has now been remastered and expanded, adorned in rejuvenated artwork and unleashed again in celebration of fifteen years at the forge! Over the decade and a half of their existence Forged In Black have performed at Bloodstock Open Air and Hammerfest, graced the stage of the legendary Camden Underworld with the likes of Diemonds and metal legends Demon; they have worked with top producers like Chris Tsangarides (Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath etc) and Romesh Dodangoda (Motörhead, Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine etc) and had their recorded works lavished in praise by major magazines such as Zero Tolerance and Powerplay. What better way to mark their achievements than with a powerful new version of the album that started it all? Songs like the eponymous anthem ‘Forged In Black’ itself and the epic ‘Accusations Of The Innocent’ remain important elements of the Forged live show to this day, absolute fan favourites that now sound better than ever with the muscular remastering work of Marcus Stock (Alcest, Green Carnation, Marché Funebre etc). The album’s tracklisting has also been expanded with the addition of two early EP title tracks, ‘The Tide’ and ‘The Exodus’ from 2013 and 2014 respectively; both prime slices of Forged In Black metal, these forgotten classics now have the platform they have always deserved – remastered and heavier than ever!
The original Forged In Black album artwork has been reimagined in vibrant fashion by the band’s guitarist Andy Songhurst, an acclaimed professional tattoo artist in his life away from the forge. The elements of the image will be instantly familiar to longstanding fans of the original album, but the style and approach make the cover fresh and impactful, ablaze with new life and colour - just like the songs it accompanies. Forged In Black Remastered MMXXIV will be released on December 3rd by Fighter Records, on CD and digital formats – and the hammer will land with a force unparalleled, a might like never before!
Line-up:
Chris Stoz Storozynski - Lead Vocals
Andy Songhurst - Lead And Rhythm Guitars
Kieron Rochester - Bass and Vocals
Tim Chandler - Lead And Rhythm Guitars
Oliver Gill – Drums
Featured on the original recordings:
Kev Rochester – Drums
Rob Chaplin – Guitars
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Watch the music video to the track "Cold. Tenebrous.
Evil": https://youtu.be/Woo6T6JPmU8Pre-order "Death's Soliloquy" physical formats (Ltd Gold Vinyl, Ltd Red/Black Marble Vinyl, Black Vinyl & Deluxe Digipak CD):
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Kai, the band’s lyricist, vocalist and guitarist, said: “As a child, I was fascinated by the lurid covers of some of my dad’s books — in particular, his volumes of H.P. Lovecraft stories. My favourite was possibly the cover of Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, which depicted a horrid, little, grinning impish creature sitting atop a tower of gore-soaked, decapitated heads, their mouths hung open in a death yawn. I’ve been a morbid little fuck for as long as I can remember... Anyway, the song is less inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft than by that particular cover. A foul, inhuman thing that resides in the marshland and sadistically murders those foolish enough to enter its abode. A little more supernatural than the subjects of the other songs on the album, it is no-less macabre in the grim tale it recounts.”
Now with a fully established line-up, the four-piece have delivered a malevolent hammer strike to the face of all who thought they would continue to mellow after the success of the atmospheric and otherworldly second album "Antediluvian Dreamscapes". "Death’s Soliloquy" harnesses the bestial might of traditional black metal and intricately weaves it with the haunting majesty of the atmospheric sound the band is known for, and in doing so takes the listener on an anguished, hysterical descent into the blackened emptiness of the grave.
“Death’s Soliloquy” is an exploration of lyricist Kai’s journey through depression and hopelessness, through obsessive thoughts of the most morbid and macabre nature — thoughts of self-destruction interwoven with the most appalling nightmares, broken hopes and unacted desires. As old lives are shed and new lives struggle to take form, there is always a war raging within and without — a war that can never truly be won but may, at any moment, be lost for all eternity…
The band previously released an artwork video for the album’s opening track “The Cavernous Blackness of Night”.
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We’re very proud to announce the imminent release of "CONQUERING THE MOST HIGH" - debut MLP from French satanic death metal horde INFERNALIVM, a new entity of absolute sonic brutality conceived from within the French orthodox satanic movement, and featuring members of its elite underground from bands like Novae Militiae, Merrimack, Benighted, and Ritualization.
The
abominable debut offering has officially been previewed by respected
underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the song “Ashes
of the Saints” have remarked how the track “sallies out with the
band's full genre-eroding arsenal behind it, packing in plenty of death metal
absolutely steeped in their dire atmosphere“, and how the EP “within four
songs runs a gamut from brutal death metal to dismal tremolo-picked
dirges, unifying it all under a banner of abject Satanism and speaker-testing volume”-
you can check out the feature and song here https://www.invisibleoranges.com/infernalivm/Through these four tracks of dark, sanguinary, and inescapable technical dark death metal tyranny, the specter of Immolation, Dead Congregation, Nile, Adversarial, Arkhon Infaustus and Morbid Angel is evoked with unseen mastery, while the genre’s mutated silhouette is at the same time disfigured and retraced within the novel realms of France’s most intransigent satanic inner circle, materializing nothing less than an authentic horror of creation. The result is a dissonant, bludgeoning beast seething with all the might and power of the antichrist. A dark and violent abomination with an immensely evil and antihuman atmosphere and an infernal aura casting massive, ominous shadows across the face of European death metal and sending a clear message on the magnitude of things to come.
"Conquering the Most High" is slated for a November 29 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC and digital, and all formats are now preorderable via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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Welcome
to DEADLY MAGIC, a new project by Messerschmitt vocalist / guitarist Maik
Jegszenties. While Messerschmitt reside on the classic thrash and speed metal
spectrum, there is another musical passion for Maik: old US metal, particuarly
the more progressive end of it. Think early Queensrÿche, Sanctuary, Crimson
Glory, Fates Warning, and Powerslave-era Iron Maiden…sound tempting? If
so, then you need to hear …As Nightmares Gorged the Earth ASAP!For years, Maik was writing music that was different from Messerschmitt, but never attempted to bring it to life. As the world shut down in 2020, locations were forced to close and bands were forced to take a break; during this, Maik came up with an idea to start a little project. Some songs and many ideas lay around for several years, and finally the time had come to finish those pieces. Several circumstances delayed the whole project, and it took around a year to complete four songs and another year to record it. While Maik handled all songwriting as well as guitar and leads, joining him in DEADLY MAGIC are Thorben Schulz on lead guitar, Yannic Zwinscher on bass, Daniel Behle on drums, and the extraordinary vocals of one Alexis Roy-Petit.
Totaling 24 incredibly epic minutes, …As Nightmares Gorged the Earth is an infinitely ascending spire of dark, alluring energy – and, indeed, DEADLY MAGIC! With absurdly sharp execution, the quintet proceed to weave tales of high fantasy and grim allegory; you can nearly see the wizards and warriors across this sonic landscape. Each track is always moving, ever shifting, but with a path as crystal-clear as the production. Even when the chops reach a fever pitch of dazzling dizziness, there’s bountiful motifs and hooks to hang on to; the dynamic shading both provides breathing room and a deeper emotional center. Atop it all are the sorcerous vocals of Alexis Roy-Petit, who could be a dead ringer for both Bruce Dickinson and Geoff Tate circa 1984!
From bursting beginning to climatic conclusion, …As Nightmares Gorged the Earth remains a wholly engrossing journey, rendered with the passion & precision of classic progressive power metal. DEADLY MAGIC has been cast!
Line-up:
Maik Jegszenties – Guitars & Leads
Thorben Schulz – Lead Guitar
Yannic Zwinscher – Bass Guitar
Daniel Behle – Drums
Alexis Roy-Petit – Vocals
Artwork:
Dreamcreatures
Release date:
20th December 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on deep purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
MCD edition with sticker, obi
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Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Immortal Force with their debut album Mystic Seance Unrealities! Hailing from Western Canada, this four-piece Death Metal band worships the old analog metal sound, the filthiest horror flicks of the '80s, and anything bizarre, absurd, and menacing! On Mystic Seance Unrealities, these Canadian freaks forego false trends and instead create something timeless, as seen through an otherworldly lens, with themes such as heinous crimes committed without method; dissecting the prophesied departure from life; propagation of extraterrestrial lifeforms; life manifested and subsequently uncreated.
Mystic Seance Unrealities takes listeners through ten devilish tracks of obscure Thrashing Death Metal steeped in abstract ideas & peculiar affairs and features artwork by Paolo Girardi (Power Trip, Revocation, The Black Dahlia Murder). Immortal Force also unleashes two covers, one by the mighty Napalm Death and one by gore masters Carcass.
For congregants of all that's unknown and macabre, Immortal Force's debut is a MUST-listen for fans of Master, Nunslaughter, Pestilence, Demilich, Impetigo, Mortician, Deicide, Timeghoul and all late 80's/early 90's EVIL!!!!
Listen to the single "Mass Murder Meat Market" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8zgrq7lXg
Tracklisting:1. Hospice Carnage
2. Midnight Bloodsplatter
3. Mass Murder Meat Market
4. Suffer The Children (Napalm Death cover)
5. Termination Imminent
6. The Visitor
7. Lycanthropic Miscreant
8. Open-Casket Gangbang
9. Ruptured In Purulence (Carcass cover)
10. Uncreate The Neverspawn
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Ghost Cult Magazine has provided the exclusive premiere for "Compactor." You can watch the video now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8zgrq7lXg
Incineration Day is due out on November 22. The album is a collaborative effort between Estonia-based musician Madis Jalakas and US-based drummer Sean Rehmer (Dejecter). Pre-order Incineration Day at https://thunraz.bandcamp.com/album/incineration-day
Tracklisting:1) Tyrant
2) Compactor
3) Fragile Automata
4) Incinerator
5) The Day After
6) Eastern Promises
7) Spiritual Self-Surgery
Vocals, guitars & production for Incineration Day were done by Madis Jalakas in Tallinn, Estonia. Drums were recorded by Sean Rehmer at Storm Crow Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
An experimental death metal project headed by Madis Jalakas, THUNRAZ (thunder in Proto-Germanic) seeks to align itself with primal forces in order to break through personal, philosophical, and musical barriers. Most of the time a solo effort, other times with the aid of different musicians, THUNRAZ has released five uncompromising records since 2018. Incineration Day is the first to feature Kansas City-based drummer Sean Rehmer.
THUNRAZ is:
Madis Jalakas - guitar/vocals
Sean Rehmer - drums
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Swedish death metal legends Paganizer have come up with what's easily among the best albums of their illustrious career. They have the knack of infusing compulsively catchy parts in their songs and the latest song to be premiered is no different. You can find the No Clean Singing premiere at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/08/30/an-ncs-premiere-paganizer-world-scythe/
"They still bring the ferocity for sure, but emotionally affecting (and hook-laden) melodies have a central place, as do stylistic influences beyond the bounds of conventional Swedish death metal, and every song proves to be strikingly dynamic in its evolution."
PAGANIZER - “FLESH REQUIEM”
For
fans of
- Entombed, Dismember, Edge of Sanity, Desultory, Abscession, Typhonian, VanhelgdSwedish death metal veterans Paganizer only seem to get better with age. Where most bands mellow down or start repeating themselves in a mechanical way, Paganizer's music has increasingly become more nuanced. They are able to express themselves far more effectively, both when swinging the axe and also when conjuring up the soul-tearing melodies out of thin air. They're stepping out of their own shadow and imbuing their music with emotive tunes which work exceedingly well because of the contrast with the heavier parts. It's naturally done too, part of taking the sound ahead rather than forcibly altering it. The result is a sound that is superbly tempered; a glorious, progressive alternating between the bone-splintering music and tuneful expressions of the innermost feelings. 'Flesh Requiem' has some of the best songs written by the band, a varied mix of the kind of music you've come to expect from the band and some refreshing epic ones, and with so many of them getting seared in your memory after listening to it, it's easy to regard the album as among the finest in their extensive discography.
Line up
Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals
Dennis Blomberg - Lead Guitars
Martin Klasén - Bass
Matthias Fiebig - Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski (Devenial Verdict)
Track listing
1. Life of Decay
2. Meat Factory
3. Flesh Requiem
4. Hunger For Meat
5. Viking Supremacy
6. World Scythe
7. Fare Thee Well (Burn In Hell)
8. Necromonolithic
9. The Pyroclastic Excursions
10. Just Another Doomsday
11. Suffer Again
12. Skeletons
Release date - November 1st, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
They just released a lyric video for the title track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IMFM8DD43o
Colorado death/thrashers started in 2015. In 2021 they debuted with “The Great Betrayal”. Three years later, enter drummer extraordinaire, Fabio Alessandrini (Annihilator, Bonfire) the sophomore record is released. Tides Of Technocracy AD 2024 is a fierce death/thrash outfit, not without some black metal elements. Instrumentally, of course. Lyrically they’re far from nonsense, as their topics include technofascism, surveillance capitalism, transhumanism.
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Blackened death metal project BODYBUILDER blasts through the veil of reality with the mind-bending lyric video for "SEPARATING TWINS." This twisted journey is a foretaste of what's to come from the EP, "THERE'S NO THERE, THERE," set to assault your senses on November 15, 2024.
The album “There’s No There, There” is inspired by sleep paralysis, night terrors and hallucinations. The album's concept deals with the struggle of finding awareness of one’s self in a state of cosmic collapse. The lyrics are delivered as a conversation conveying mental sanity and an effort to overcome a confused state of self-dissociation.
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It
was but May of the cursed year of 2020 when HEXENBRETT truly came into their
own with their shockingly masterful debut album, Zweite Beschwörung: Ein
Kind zu töten, courtesy of DYING VICTIMS. While the enigmatic duo of Josto
Feratu and Scarlettina Bolétte had definitely turned heads with the Erste
Beschwörung demo in 2019, their debut album’s idiosyncratic kaleidoscope of
Varathron, Jean Rollin, Danzig, Goblin, and Van Halen emerged as completely
unique and unlike little else around.Predictably unpredictable, HEXENBRETT returned the following year with Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi, a crazed ‘n’ crazy EP that was the result of canceled concerts and tours. As suggested by its title, the record was no "beschwörung" but, rather, an intermezzo: for the first time in the then-brief history of HEXENBRETT, this EP did not feature performances by the duo but, instead, the live line-up for 2020 – of course, under the watchful eyes and ears of the clandestine couple. A split EP with fellow Austrian eccentrics Hagzissa followed in 2022, with the duo returning to recorded format.
Josto and Scarlettina continued to refuse playing live but managed to recruit musicians to perform their music on live stages. Their recruits recently finished the IN CONCERTZIONE 2024 European club tour with labelmates DEATHSTORM. During that time, Josto and Scarlettina laid the finishing touches on what would become HEXENBRETT’s second album.
Now, at long last, comes that second full-length to eclipse all that came before. Titled Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter, HEXENBRETT’s second album is a devilish and drama-filled rollercoaster ride through cult metal and cult cinema alike. Arguably more so than their previous recordings, Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter truly encapsulates their demi-tag of "The Sound of the Bloody Iris," for a wide panoply of sounds and sensations swarm the listener, wrapping them in a wild and bewildering but above all kaleidoscopic headspace that easily avoids simple categorization.
While other bands are usually influenced by heavyweights of heavy metal music like Judas Priest or Bathory, HEXENBRETT take their main inspiration from Euro cult cinema and soundtracks; some of the most important names are Sergio Martino, Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, Bruno Nicolai, and Alessandro Alessandroni. One will readily hear that influence here in the prominent usage of vintage synths as well as chimes – the latter both beautiful and ominous – as readily as one will hear guitar leads that are alternately haunting / heroic. But the salient point is that Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter moves in a most filmic fashion – metallic, sure, but this is far, FAR from your Normal Metal Music.
As such, Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter is an amalgamation of love and hate, and represents the duality of birth and death. Its purpose is to enable listeners to escape; it strangles and stabs the status quo of normality. Normality is surrender – escape with HEXENBRETT!
Line-up:
Josto Feratu - Everything
Scarlettina Bolétt - Everything
Artwork:
Solo Macello
Release date:
20th December 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on transparent lime vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
MC version with sticker, download code and button.
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Formed
back at the dawn of the ‘90s through a chance meeting at a Barren Cross concert,
Minneapolis based CRIMSON THORN went on to release
three highly regarded albums of potent, dynamic death metal – beginning with
‘94s classic debut, UNEARTHED. Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Massacre | Autopsy | Suffocation
Now signed to extreme metal powerhouse Rottweiler Records, Crimson Thorn are set to unleash Unearthed once more, remixed and remastered by Charles Powell of Battlefrost Productions (Carnifex, Marble Tomb etc) with new artwork and band logo created by Zack Plunkett (Abated Mass Of Flesh, Flayed Alive etc) - introducing a new generation of fans to their crushing brutality and masterful songcraft.
Over the last decade, with Crimson Thorn in restless slumber, bassist/vocalist Luke Renno, guitarist Miles Sunde and drummer Steve Reishus have been plying their trade with the devastating Taking The Head Of Goliath, but the clamour for the return of Crimson Thorn has never faded. Now, with Taking The Head Of Goliath reaching the end of their story, the stars have aligned for the rebirth of Crimson Thorn. On October 25th Rottweiler Records will herald this new age of death metal destruction with not only the release of the reanimated Unearthed, but also the very first digital releases of 1997s Dissection and 2002s Purification albums! All the albums will be available through the Rottweiler Records Bandcamp page.
As a first taste of the onslaught to come, Rottweiler have unveiled the title track of Unearthed in all its remixed and remastered glory – a rotten feast of inhuman vocals, surging riffs and bludgeoning drum battery…back from the grave. Listen to ‘Unearthed’ at the Rottweiler Records YouTube channel and prepare for the return of pure death metal mastery – Crimson Thorn are back!
Current Line-up:
Luke Renno - Bass/Vocals
Steve Reishus - Drums
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CORROSIVE ELEMENTS - "CUT THE SERPENT’S HEAD"
Relaese
date :
November 29th 2024Genre : Death Thrash N' Roll
Origin: France
Duration: 41:20
Label: GreyveStorm Productions & Crypt Of Dr.Gore et Chien Noir (pour la version vinyle)
Tracklist:
01. Conquering the divine
02. Ignorance is no longer bliss
03. So long sucker
04. The unseen
05. An american hero
06. Cut the serpent's head
07. Enter the final state
08. The right to remain poor
09. Among the casualties
10. Fascistalism
Hailing from the suburbs of Paris, CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a force to be reckoned with in the world of heavy music. Born in 2005 with a singular mission: to craft catchy death metal tunes, the band quickly evolved their sound, infusing it with some frenzied thrash riffing and raw intensity of hardcore punk. This unique fusion earned them a solid reputation for their uncompromising live performances and feel-good attitude.
True defenders of the underground ethos, CORROSIVE ELEMENTS made their path with a first EP in 2008, a debut album in 2015 and a scorching live album in 2016. Having graced the stage at renowned festivals like Hellfest's Altar Stage and sharing the spotlight with metal legends such as Death Angel, Loudblast, Darkane, Sinister, and more, the quintet took a great amount of time refining the new tunes for their highly anticipated 2024 album release.
Stay tuned as CORROSIVE ELEMENTS prepares to launch their next sonic assault, following in the wake of their previous mischief, "Toxic Waste Blues."
The credo stands strong: DEATH THRASH N’ROLL THE OLD SCHOOL WAY!
"Cut the serpent’s head", the second album of CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a collection of 10 powerful songs, designed for a more direct and dynamic approach, in the typical style of the band, a clever mix of Death and Thrash Metal, with tons of groove, anger and attitude.
The new album was written collectively by the band in the rehearsal room, an old fashioned method that makes the music more immediate and impactful.
With broad influences ranging from Thrash legends such as Slayer, (old) Sepultura and Exodus, Death Metal in the tradition of Entombed, Obituary, Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and an addition of primitive energy derived from Hardcore Punk, The band is now ready to place this new offering on the altar of Extreme Metal.
Conceptually, "Cut the Serpent's Head" is a cynical look at the destiny ofmankind, its race towards nonsense. A warning against the hegemony of organized religions, shady politics, decaying societies and the rise of social injustice.
Stay tuned, the next few days will see more information about the artwork, release dates, formats and everything you need to know about this new album which will be produced by Crypt Of Dr.Gore and GreyveStorm Productions.
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The
Finnish death metal band INBORN TENDENCY has been
quietly working on new material and now presents a track even tighter than
their previous singles for listening.The latest single is titled "EXILED" and it is the band's third track produced in collaboration with Juho Koskinen, who also handled the mixing and mastering of the songs. The cover art was created by Henri Tervapuro.
The band is also officially announcing for the first time that they are working on their debut album, which is set to be released in 2025
"We are proud to announce that we've been working on other tracks over the past year, and now we can officially say that the release of our debut album is approaching! The album will be released in 2025," states the band's guitarist Mika Hänninen
Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/t-xj7Y5AX58
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/inborntendency-exiled
Inborn Tendency:
Mika Hänninen, Guitar
Hugo Tiitinen, Drums
Ville Herranen, Vocals
Credits:
Mixing and Mastering: Juho Koskinen
Cover Art: Henri Tervapuro
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Known for their signature blend of melodic fury and atmospheric weight, Swedish death metal band TERRORTORY dives deep into the vast expanses of the cosmos with their latest single, “STAR CRUSHER.” This track, as brutal as it is beautiful, explores the grandeur and violence of celestial destruction. With haunting lyrics describing a massive stellar implosion that births a black hole, the song poetically captures the transformation of stars, the death that fuels life, and the chaotic balance that defines the universe. Featuring powerful guitar riffs, driving drums, and Johan Norström’s evocative growls, “Star Crusher” leads listeners through a journey where cosmic fire becomes blackened void, wrapping them in a soundscape that feels boundless yet devastatingly intense.
Building from verses that echo the awe-inspiring scale of supernovas to choruses that embody the annihilating force of a black hole, “Star Crusher” represents TERRORTORY at their most ambitious. The explosive instrumentation and lyrical depth reflect the band’s commitment to thematic storytelling in melodic death metal, with each line and riff capturing the mystique of stellar death and rebirth. Fans of epic, heavy music will find themselves captivated by the raw, interstellar power of “Star Crusher” and the unmistakable intensity that has become TERRORTORY’s trademark sound. Listen now on Spotify and prepare to be engulfed in the cosmic collapse that only TERRORTORY could conjure.
TERRORTORY to release full length “THE BLACK PRISM” on November 29th
Hailing from Skellefteå, Sweden, Terrortory has been carving their name into the melodic death metal scene with a sound that fuses raw aggression, grandiose melodies, and a complexity that challenges the listener at every turn. Known for their intense anger, strong arrangements, and intense love of chugs, Terrortory is now gearing up to release their highly anticipated second full-length album, The Black Prism.
The
band, comprising Johan Norström (vocals, Katapult), Stefan Vidmark (guitars,
ex-Nightscape), Emil Ceder (guitars), Tommy Nilsson (drums), and Olov Häggmark
(bass), has undergone an evolutionary journey since its inception. Following
the release of their previous full-length album The Seed Left Behind and
the EP City of Ghosts through Discouraged Records, they have
embraced new challenges and matured as songwriters. This evolution culminates
in The Black Prism, a self-produced, independently released opus
consisting of ten tracks that showcase the band's most complex and epic
compositions to date.Regarding the creation of their latest album, Terrortory describes it as a project filled with unexpected paths and challenges:
“This has been a project with many phases and challenges. This, in turn, has forced us onto paths we could not have anticipated or imagined. Songs we long thought were finished have been torn down and rebuilt, and in the end, we had a much stronger product that we are all incredibly satisfied with.”
The band promises that The Black Prism will feature their fastest and most intricate music, drawing inspiration from the vastness of the universe as well as the dark depths within the human soul.
Terrortory’s dedication to their craft extends beyond music. The band produced, recorded, and mixed The Black Prism themselves, with mastering handled by Kai Stahlenberg at Kohlekeller Studios. Their hands-on approach continues with the creation of music videos to accompany the album’s release. With vocalist Johan Norström’s experience behind the camera and bassist Olov Häggmark's work in front of it, the videos are poised to deliver a blend of space anxiety and dark humor.
In keeping with their signature style, The Black Prism features a mix of longer, intricate songs and shorter, faster tracks, pushing the boundaries of melodic death metal. The album’s tracklist, including titles like "Star Crusher," "Pestiferous Haven" and the epic titular track "The Black Prism," promises an auditory journey of crushing riffs, relentless rhythms, and haunting melodies.
With their self-released The Black Prism, the album stands as a testament to their growth, skill, and dedication to the melodic death metal genre. As they prepare for this next chapter, Terrortory invites listeners to delve into the abyss and experience the full force of their musical evolution.
Discography
DeReign – Single (Discouraged Records)
The Seed Left Behind – Full-length album (Discouraged Records)
City of Ghosts – EP (Discouraged Records)
The Black Prism – Full-length album (Self-released)
Line-up
Johan Norström – Vocals
Stefan Vidmark – Guitars
Emil Ceder – Guitars
Tommy Nilsson – Drums
Olov Häggmark – Bass
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The label has shared a stream of album opener, "ONCE CURSED PATH GLISTENS IN THE SUN." Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvAL800gxqQ
By the Grace of Death will be unleashed December 21 on LP by Bindrune Recordings and on CD (containing a bonus track) by Alte Seelen. Pre-order the vinyl edition at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/products/canis-dirus-by-the-grace-of-death-lp-pre-order
It has been four years since the release of Independence to the Beast (2020) and during this time, Canis Dirus have been refining their savage, yet atmospheric black metal during what has been the most prolific era of their career. 2021 found the split release, A Harmonious Union of Vibration, to surface with the project Crown of Asteria, where Canis Dirus contributed two new tracks that blended their own unique form of twisted blackness, along with an ambient influence. Was this a sign of things to come?
Armed with the fantastic drum work of CJ Yacoub (Escaping Aghartha, Neverdawn, ex-Amun), TMP (Guitars, Bass, Synth) and RH (Vocals) have been hard at work on what has become the the band's finest work, By the Grace of Death. Atmosphere still reigns in the dark sonic sphere of Canis Dirus, but on this impending new album, the band's black metal essence is at the forefront of this nocturnal hunt. TMP’s riff/playing style remains truly his own with atypical phrasing that co-exists with a more orthodox Black Metal style. The Black Metal side can make one feel isolated and attacked one moment, then calm and nurtured the next with colorful folk music that has become a vibrant element of Canis Dirus's sound. RH’s vocals contribute to the adventurous nature of By The Grace of Death with his most feral performance to date.
Track
Listing:1. Once Cursed Path Glistens in the Sun
2. Tongues That Speak III
3. A Forlorn Hymn To Absolution
4. Vultures Whisper
5. Cast My Heart in Stone
6. The Mind Sees What The Eyes Cannot
Line-Up:
CJ Yacoub - Drums
TMP - Guitars, Bass, Synthesizer
RH - Vocals
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https://canisdirus.bandcamp.com/
VALADIER - "CARMINA BELLI APOCALYPSIS"
Genre : Medieval Black Metal
Label : Black Mass Prayers
FFO: Satyricon, Mortiis, Hades, The Black
A few yaers after their debut, supported once more by Black Mass Prayers, VALADIER return with a new album entitled "Carmina Belli Apocalypsis"
The style of VALADIER can be tracked within the old kind of Black Metal with medieval and epic influences. Reinterpreting the sound of the Norwegian fathers of old, the Italians found their inspiration in masterworks such as Satyricon's "Dark Medieval Times", Hades' "The Dawn Of The Dying Sun" and Mortiis' "The Stargate".
At the same time the national and regional roots of the musicians here involved have opened the path for a more personal take on the harshness of Raw Black Metal, accentuating the folk soundscapes that evoke the dark ages in their mersmerizin gothic beauty.
Tracklist 1. Under the Skies of Gehenna
2. Altar of the Lost Firmament
3. At the Court of the Seven Hills
4. Through the Blackwater Valley
5. As the Shadow Pass the Days
6. Eclipsed by the Palm of Hamsa
7. Requiem of the Dark Ages
8. In the Sign of Stygian Watchers
(54:50 min)
Line-up:
Unukalhai - Concept, Vocals, Lyrics
Blight - Guitars, Bass, Programming
Winterkvlt - Vocals, Wind Instruments
https://blackmassprayers.bandcamp.com/
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Style: Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists: Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
Tracklist: 1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
Cover artwork created by Luciana Nedelea
We obviously apologize to those who were waiting for the return of the Italian Doomsters, us first and foremost, but, as the philosopher said, "the wait of the pleasure is itself a pleasure", so we just have to expect this date.
In the meantime, continue to enjoy the first track from the album, "Kingdom Of Slumber", both on YouTube with the lyric video (https://youtu.be/8Kodbqpkibk) and on Spotify.
Doom on!
Pre-Order "Path To Oblivion" LP/CD/tape/bundle: https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
Line-up:
Mauro Tollini: drums
Nicola Murari: bass
Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars
Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/epitaph.doom
Costa Rican thrashers SHADOWS DECAY have shared the new single off their upcoming EP, AGENT OF CHAOS.
The sonic force of relentless thrash metal known as Shadows Decay is set to release its newest EP, Agent of Chaos. True to form, the band's latest offering doles out six tracks of anthemic, jugular-slashing thrash in the vein of the old-school masters of the craft.
Watch
the lyric video for the EP's first single, "Falling of Mind" at
Preoptic
Distortion Records will release Agent of Chaos on all major streaming
platforms on November 8. Pre-save the EP at https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/shadowsdecay/agent-of-chaos/
Tracklisting:
1) Dry You Out
Tracklisting:1) Dry You Out
2)
Falling of Mind
3) Agent of Chaos
3) Agent of Chaos
4)
Bringer of Death
5) Only Lies
5) Only Lies
6)
Psuedo Suicidal
SHADOWS DECAY is part of the Phosphorus Studios management agency roster.
SHADOWS DECAY is part of the Phosphorus Studios management agency roster.
Hailing
from the vibrant metal scene of Costa Rica, Shadows Decay has been a formidable
presence in the thrash metal genre since their formation in 2008. Originally
known as Preoptic Distortion, the band underwent a transformation both in name
and sound, evolving into Shadows Decay—a name that embodies their music's raw
energy and dark intensity.
Drawing inspiration from the titans of thrash such as Slayer, Testament, Metallica, Anthrax, and Death Angel, Shadows Decay has cultivated a unique sound that honors the legacy of these pioneers while forging their path. The music is a relentless onslaught of powerful riffs, thunderous drums, and aggressive vocals, delivering a high-octane experience that resonates with metal fans worldwide.
Drawing inspiration from the titans of thrash such as Slayer, Testament, Metallica, Anthrax, and Death Angel, Shadows Decay has cultivated a unique sound that honors the legacy of these pioneers while forging their path. The music is a relentless onslaught of powerful riffs, thunderous drums, and aggressive vocals, delivering a high-octane experience that resonates with metal fans worldwide.
Shadows
Decay is more than just a band; they are a collective of passionate musicians
driven by a shared vision of musical excellence. Their live performances are
known for their electrifying energy and raw intensity, leaving audiences
craving more. With every show, Shadows Decay solidifies their reputation as one
of the most dynamic and powerful thrash metal bands in the region. As they look
to the future, Shadows Decay is poised to take their music to new heights, with
plans for new releases and more explosive live shows. Their journey is one of
perseverance, passion, and an unwavering commitment to delivering the pure
essence of thrash metal.
Shadows Decay stands ready to spread their sonic devastation far and wide - because in the world of metal - decay never sounded so good.
Shadows Decay stands ready to spread their sonic devastation far and wide - because in the world of metal - decay never sounded so good.
Shadows
Decay is:
Nacho Escobar - vocals, guitars
Nacho Escobar - vocals, guitars
Nestor
Morales - lead guitar
Daniel Solano - Bass guitar
Daniel Solano - Bass guitar
Hevn
III’s debut album is a powerful statement of black metal's raw and unfiltered
essence. This Norwegian trio has channeled pure, unrelenting aggression into a
work that feels as if it has been pulled from the darkest recesses of the human
psyche. The album is relentless and ugly, with a sound that can only be
described as pitch-black hatred personified. Every track drips with venom,
driven by a primal fury that refuses to be tamed.
Drawing on themes of misanthropy, magick, and the dark philosophies of Blake, Nietzsche, and Crowley, Hevn III crafts a soundscape that is both chaotic and deeply unsettling. The riffs are dissonant and corrosive, the vocals a tortured howl that seems to echo from the abyss. The album doesn’t seek to please; it seeks to challenge, to provoke, to drag listeners into its world of darkness and despair.
Drawing on themes of misanthropy, magick, and the dark philosophies of Blake, Nietzsche, and Crowley, Hevn III crafts a soundscape that is both chaotic and deeply unsettling. The riffs are dissonant and corrosive, the vocals a tortured howl that seems to echo from the abyss. The album doesn’t seek to please; it seeks to challenge, to provoke, to drag listeners into its world of darkness and despair.
For
those who have experienced Hevn III live, this album is a natural extension of
the intense, suffocating atmosphere they create on stage. Their sound is tight
and sulphurous, recalling an era when black metal was not just a genre, but a
statement of pure, unadulterated emotion. The production is raw, yet
deliberate, capturing the essence of their live performances while adding
layers of depth that reveal themselves with each listen.This debut is not just an album; it’s a ritual. A ritual of misanthropy and hatred, where each note is a curse, and each riff is a wound. Hevn III has delivered a work that will undoubtedly leave a scar on the black metal landscape, a reminder of the genre's power to evoke the darkest emotions. This is black metal at its most primal, its most venomous, its most unforgettable.
Tracklist
:
1. Turin horse
2. Pindom
3. Soaring through red worlds
4. Basilisk
5. On peaks of surreptitious wolves
6. Drep deg selv
7. Ridder av hat
1. Turin horse
2. Pindom
3. Soaring through red worlds
4. Basilisk
5. On peaks of surreptitious wolves
6. Drep deg selv
7. Ridder av hat
NOMAD
SNAKEPIT PRODUCTIONS
GOATLORD CORP. – “TEMPLE OF SERPENT WHORES”
Despite a relatively short existence in the underground, Goatlord Corp. is no stranger to the French Black Metal scene. Formed in 1999, the band started out with a MCD and a 7”EP (in 2002 and 2006 respectively), before falling into a hibernation that would last no less than 18 (6+6+6) years! As everything happens for a reason and for everything there is a right moment, the Covid pandemic presented the ideal conditions for the main culprit Seremoth to finally gather a new malevolent crew of Black Metal veterans, 2024 marking the year that he would fulfil his ominous musical quest.
Despite a relatively short existence in the underground, Goatlord Corp. is no stranger to the French Black Metal scene. Formed in 1999, the band started out with a MCD and a 7”EP (in 2002 and 2006 respectively), before falling into a hibernation that would last no less than 18 (6+6+6) years! As everything happens for a reason and for everything there is a right moment, the Covid pandemic presented the ideal conditions for the main culprit Seremoth to finally gather a new malevolent crew of Black Metal veterans, 2024 marking the year that he would fulfil his ominous musical quest.
Anno 2024 the line-up consists of:
Seremoth (ex-Merrimack) – guitars/bass
Saint Vincent (Blacklodge/Seth/The Arrival of Satan) - vocals
Alsvid (Seth/ex-Enthroned) – drums
Thavsael (ex-Voracious Gangrene) - guitars
After its long hypersleep, Goatlord Corp. now returns as a completely new and almost unrecognisable entity. Combining high-end song-writing skills and musicianship that are the result of many years of perfecting, with “Temple of Serpent Whores” the band has elevated itself to a whole new level.
The tracks flow like an unstoppable whirlwind of Satanic violence. Ferocious and malevolent, the songs are intense like Hell and incendiary as fuck! The tireless drums are full of wit and welcome variation, and the guitars create this awesome wall of sound, with riffs that just never get dull.
On this album, Saint Vincent once more proves that he takes his role as vocalist seriously, showcasing his vast vocal potential and adorning the music with quite a few memorable highlights.
The sound & mix guarantees the best possible way to experience this kind of Black Metal: perfectly outbalanced without becoming clinical, thus maintaining all its brutality and sharp edges.
As a cherry on the cake, the custom-made cover artwork by the hands of David Glomba turned out spot-on, as expected.
All in all, with this impressive blast of an album, the Black Metal scene better make way for an undeniable force to be reckoned with!
“Temple of Serpent Whores” will be released on LP (50x black / 150x super marble), digipack (100x) and tape (50x).
Thou shalt kneel before the Goatlord!
EXPURGATE - “NYNÄS DEATH”
Seremoth (ex-Merrimack) – guitars/bass
Saint Vincent (Blacklodge/Seth/The Arrival of Satan) - vocals
Alsvid (Seth/ex-Enthroned) – drums
Thavsael (ex-Voracious Gangrene) - guitars
After its long hypersleep, Goatlord Corp. now returns as a completely new and almost unrecognisable entity. Combining high-end song-writing skills and musicianship that are the result of many years of perfecting, with “Temple of Serpent Whores” the band has elevated itself to a whole new level.
The tracks flow like an unstoppable whirlwind of Satanic violence. Ferocious and malevolent, the songs are intense like Hell and incendiary as fuck! The tireless drums are full of wit and welcome variation, and the guitars create this awesome wall of sound, with riffs that just never get dull.
On this album, Saint Vincent once more proves that he takes his role as vocalist seriously, showcasing his vast vocal potential and adorning the music with quite a few memorable highlights.
The sound & mix guarantees the best possible way to experience this kind of Black Metal: perfectly outbalanced without becoming clinical, thus maintaining all its brutality and sharp edges.
As a cherry on the cake, the custom-made cover artwork by the hands of David Glomba turned out spot-on, as expected.
All in all, with this impressive blast of an album, the Black Metal scene better make way for an undeniable force to be reckoned with!
“Temple of Serpent Whores” will be released on LP (50x black / 150x super marble), digipack (100x) and tape (50x).
Thou shalt kneel before the Goatlord!
EXPURGATE - “NYNÄS DEATH”
If
the name Expurgate doesn’t immediately ring a bell, that’s because
this Swedish Death Metal band was just too fucking underground for you to know
it!
Their music never having been widely spread back in the early 90’s, it might be helpful to start with a more contemporaneous name: Svartsyn
As some of you should know, before Svartsyn there was Chalice. But what most of you probably don’t know, is that before Chalice, there was Expurgate!
With this release, Nomad Snakepit Productions invites you to dive into a long forgotten past, to a time when these members - that later would be forming and joining bands such as Chalice, Svartsyn and Unpure - were still completely immerged into Death Metal. Unsurprisingly, such output is exactly what the term Old-school Death Metal refers to!
Their music never having been widely spread back in the early 90’s, it might be helpful to start with a more contemporaneous name: Svartsyn
As some of you should know, before Svartsyn there was Chalice. But what most of you probably don’t know, is that before Chalice, there was Expurgate!
With this release, Nomad Snakepit Productions invites you to dive into a long forgotten past, to a time when these members - that later would be forming and joining bands such as Chalice, Svartsyn and Unpure - were still completely immerged into Death Metal. Unsurprisingly, such output is exactly what the term Old-school Death Metal refers to!
On
this LP we have compiled the band’s two only demos (“Forbidden Ruler” and the
unreleased ‘92 demo), together with some exclusive rehearsal tracks from the
same era.
It is a limited and exclusive release on vinyl only: 60 copies on black vinyl and 140 on marble bloodred/lightblue vinyl. The LP includes an A2 poster with the cover artwork & exclusive pictures, plus an old-school style xeroxed insert with info about Expurgate and the tracks at hand.
nomadsnakepit@gmail.com
It is a limited and exclusive release on vinyl only: 60 copies on black vinyl and 140 on marble bloodred/lightblue vinyl. The LP includes an A2 poster with the cover artwork & exclusive pictures, plus an old-school style xeroxed insert with info about Expurgate and the tracks at hand.
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https://www.facebook.com/NomadSnakepit/
‘Bombs Over Europe’ surges with intense energy and raw emotions, channeling rage and fury. The song’s lyrics center on the war in Ukraine and the devastating bombings by Russia. With Russia’s nuclear forces on standby, the looming threat of nuclear warfare and a potential World War 3 haunts the narrative. This ongoing cycle of destruction raises the chilling possibility of humanity's annihilation in a never-ending spiral of hatred.
‘Bombs Over Europe’ surges with intense energy and raw emotions, channeling rage and fury. The song’s lyrics center on the war in Ukraine and the devastating bombings by Russia. With Russia’s nuclear forces on standby, the looming threat of nuclear warfare and a potential World War 3 haunts the narrative. This ongoing cycle of destruction raises the chilling possibility of humanity's annihilation in a never-ending spiral of hatred.
Recorded
with Michael Heiliger at Presskopp Studio, the track's production took a new
direction. The mix gives more prominence to the bass guitar, adding a darker,
more oppressive sound, closer to Black Metal and Blackened Death Metal. Once
again, MAGEFA’s relentless fury echoes through the drums of war.
Biography
BiographyMAGEFA,
a formidable Death Metal band hailing from Frankfurt, Germany, derives its name
(pronounced with a hard G) from the Hebrew word for "Plague." Drawn
from influences such as Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, and Death, the band embarked
on its musical journey in 2014. In 2016, MAGEFA unleashed a powerful 3-track
Demo titled "A Peek Into Human Bodies," offering a glimpse into their
dark and ferocious sound. The release laid the foundation for their future
endeavors. The following year, in 2019, the band delivered their EP "New
Era Of Darkness," which further solidified their place in the extreme
metal scene. This release allowed their compositions to reach a wider audience,
establishing MAGEFA's presence in the metal community. Their momentum only intensified
with the release of "Instrument Inside" in 2020, captivating fans
with its relentless and intricate brutality. This album quickly gained
recognition as a fan favorite, solidifying MAGEFA's position as a force to be
reckoned with. In 2021, MAGEFA continued their sonic onslaught with the release
of their EP "Exenteration." The intense and unyielding tracks on this
release garnered over 240K streams on Spotify alone, solidifying their growing
fanbase and leaving a lasting impact on listeners. On March 12, 2022, the band
released the single "Back To The Front," available on all digital
platforms.
This release served as a gesture of support to Ukraine in their war against Russia, showcasing MAGEFA's dedication to using their music for meaningful causes. Continuing their relentless output, MAGEFA unleashed the single "Overdose" on July 27, 2022, further cementing their reputation for delivering visceral and uncompromising metal. January 6, 2023, marked the release of their third single from the upcoming EP "Pathology Calls," showcasing their unyielding dedication to pushing the boundaries of their genre.
This release served as a gesture of support to Ukraine in their war against Russia, showcasing MAGEFA's dedication to using their music for meaningful causes. Continuing their relentless output, MAGEFA unleashed the single "Overdose" on July 27, 2022, further cementing their reputation for delivering visceral and uncompromising metal. January 6, 2023, marked the release of their third single from the upcoming EP "Pathology Calls," showcasing their unyielding dedication to pushing the boundaries of their genre.
MAGEFA
are:
Kevin Grams – Guitars / Vocals
Kevin Grams – Guitars / Vocals
Andreas
Muttscheler -Bass
Nico Perez -Guitars
Nico Perez -Guitars
Kai
Or -Drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLxWaoAed4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLxWaoAed4
ACCUSER – “REBIRTHLESS”
Release: 21. November 2024
Since their beginnings as torchbearers of German thrash metal in the 1980s, ACCUSER have established themselves as one of the most consistent and influential capacities in the international metal scene. With their unmistakable sound, which combines powerful riffs and complex song structures, they have gained a loyal fan base over the decades and inspired numerous generations of metal fans.
Since their beginnings as torchbearers of German thrash metal in the 1980s, ACCUSER have established themselves as one of the most consistent and influential capacities in the international metal scene. With their unmistakable sound, which combines powerful riffs and complex song structures, they have gained a loyal fan base over the decades and inspired numerous generations of metal fans.
Their
13th album “Rebirthless” is exactly what the band envisioned: a powerful and
thoughtful album that perfectly realizes their musical vision while containing
everything that has always defined the band: powerful melodies, aggressive
rhythms and profound lyrics that captivate listeners and make them think.
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https://mdd-records.de/accuser
The
album is due out on October 31st. Pre-order at https://mythbegotten.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-unseelie-court
Hailing from the hills and woodlands of Central New York and New England, MYTHBEGOTTEN combines a love of legends old and new with a folk-inflected fusion of metal genres to arrive at a uniquely epic and melancholic melodic concoction.
Hailing from the hills and woodlands of Central New York and New England, MYTHBEGOTTEN combines a love of legends old and new with a folk-inflected fusion of metal genres to arrive at a uniquely epic and melancholic melodic concoction.
The
result is an eight-track journey that reaches Tolkien-esque levels of
grandeur. The band offers an in-depth look at the inspiration behind Tales
from the Unseelie Court.
"The key inspiration for the individual songs includes the Dullahan (an evil fey from Irish Mythology) which inspired the song "The Heedless Horseman", Sawney Bean (a legendary Scottish Cannibal and inspiration for "The Hills Have Eyes") which inspired the song "The Terror of Lothian", H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in The Walls" which inspired the song "Beneath Exham Priory", The Welsh Legend of the Wild Hunt which inspired the song "Mallt-y-Nos", the Arthurian legend of Merlin and the Dragons which inspired the song "Omen of Embers", The melancholy book 4 of Milton's "Paradise Lost" which inspired the song "The Fall", and the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields from Tolkien's "The Return of The King" which inspired the song "Of Wrath and Ruin". This is all rounded out by an arrangement of the classic Scots ballad "Twa Corbies" which brings together the old traditions of British Isles balladry with this modern sonic storytelling which MYTHBEGOTTEN bases its songwriting upon."
"The key inspiration for the individual songs includes the Dullahan (an evil fey from Irish Mythology) which inspired the song "The Heedless Horseman", Sawney Bean (a legendary Scottish Cannibal and inspiration for "The Hills Have Eyes") which inspired the song "The Terror of Lothian", H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in The Walls" which inspired the song "Beneath Exham Priory", The Welsh Legend of the Wild Hunt which inspired the song "Mallt-y-Nos", the Arthurian legend of Merlin and the Dragons which inspired the song "Omen of Embers", The melancholy book 4 of Milton's "Paradise Lost" which inspired the song "The Fall", and the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields from Tolkien's "The Return of The King" which inspired the song "Of Wrath and Ruin". This is all rounded out by an arrangement of the classic Scots ballad "Twa Corbies" which brings together the old traditions of British Isles balladry with this modern sonic storytelling which MYTHBEGOTTEN bases its songwriting upon."
Experience
more MYTHBEGOTTEN at https://www.youtube.com/@Mythbegotten
Tracklisting:
Tracklisting:1.
The Heedless Horseman
2. Omen of Embers
2. Omen of Embers
3.
Mallt-y-Nos
4. Beneath Exham Priory
4. Beneath Exham Priory
5.
The Fall
6. The Terror of Lothian
6. The Terror of Lothian
7.
Twa Corbies
8. Of Wrath and Ruin
8. Of Wrath and Ruin
The
Journey So Far...
A decade ago in Syracuse, New York, Connor Hoffman, Daniel Barbour, and Joe Sopchak released the Stirling demo under their Folk/Power Metal fusion project Hounds of Annwn. Shortly thereafter, they performed their only live show at the Sturmfeier folk metal festival in Hamlin, New York, but with college and work taking priority, the three soon scattered throughout the Northeast. All knew, however, that there was much left undone, songs left unsung, and stories left untold.
A decade ago in Syracuse, New York, Connor Hoffman, Daniel Barbour, and Joe Sopchak released the Stirling demo under their Folk/Power Metal fusion project Hounds of Annwn. Shortly thereafter, they performed their only live show at the Sturmfeier folk metal festival in Hamlin, New York, but with college and work taking priority, the three soon scattered throughout the Northeast. All knew, however, that there was much left undone, songs left unsung, and stories left untold.
In
2022, after years of sporadic songwriting and fits and starts of recording, the
trio re-committed to bringing their vision of folk- and symphonic-infused Power
Metal to fruition under the new moniker MYTHBEGOTTEN. This name was chosen
for its elegant encapsulation of the band’s ethos: to chronicle the stories
from myth, fantasy, and history that have inspired them.
Tales from the Unseelie Court is the first release from this reforged musical triumvirate and is centered around the folklore of the British Isles and literary fantasy, showcasing the eerie and macabre as well as the wondrous and heroic. Listeners feel as though they are sitting amidst a gathering of the Unseelie Fey Court, hearing great and terrible stories retold to the assembled congregation.
Tales from the Unseelie Court is the first release from this reforged musical triumvirate and is centered around the folklore of the British Isles and literary fantasy, showcasing the eerie and macabre as well as the wondrous and heroic. Listeners feel as though they are sitting amidst a gathering of the Unseelie Fey Court, hearing great and terrible stories retold to the assembled congregation.
MYTHBEGOTTEN is
excited to reveal its unique blend of metallic styles in this first eldritch
release and looks forward to sharing tales even stranger and more wondrous with
the world.
Line-Up:
Line-Up:
Dan
Barbour – Lead Vocals
Connor Hoffman – Guitars, Backing Vocals, Additional Keyboards
Connor Hoffman – Guitars, Backing Vocals, Additional Keyboards
NEWS 20.10.2024
Liebe
Metalheads & Supporter, die Progressive Metaller von FACTORY
OF ART sind mit dem fulminanten Comeback-Album „BACK
TO LIFE“ wieder im Geschäft. Seit der Veröffentlichung im Juni
hat das neue Werk, dass bislang als Vinyl und CD erhältlich ist,
großartige Kritiken von Fans, Presse, Radios bekommen und das überall auf
der Welt.Nun wird die nächste Stufe gezündet und FACTORY OF ART stellen das neue Album ab dem 20.10.2024 auf allen Plattformen zum weltweite Streaming, um die Reichweite von „ BACK TO LIFE“ evident zu erhöhen. Pre-save hier https://listen.music-hub.com/I4YrkC
Am 13.10.2024 feiern wir die Video Premiere von „Walking To The Place I Love“ unter https://youtu.be/5u_-opT8OPw
Freut euch auf zehn neue und hochinteressante Tracks, bei denen auch illustre Gäste wie amarcord und Stephanie Brill zu hören sind!
Aber wer die Band wirklich unterstützen will und was Echtes wie CD, Doppel LP, T-Shirts & vieles andere haben möchte, kann dies bestellen unter https://shop.factory-of-art.band/ oder auch als Download unter https://factoryofart.bandcamp.com
Alle Links gibt es hier: https://music-hub.bio/factoryofart
Cheers FACTORY OF ART
AMYSTERY – “CHAOS EMPIRE SATAN”
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 31.10.2024
Die okkulte Formation AMYSTERY ist zurück mit ihrem vierten Album »Chaos Empire Satan«, ein gleichermaßen rohes und edles Werk zur Bewahrung und Zelebrierung des traditionellen Black Metal als eigenständige Kunstform. Dabei sind sie kein uninspiriertes Abbild einer alten Genregröße, sondern schmieden vielmehr kompromisslos ihren eigenen, authentischen Schwarzstahl, der sich vielfach im Angriffsmodus befindet, sich in Kompositionen wie »Spirits In Fire« oder »Infestation« aber auch zu erhabener, mystischer Größe aufschwingt.
Nach einer mehrjährigen Schaffenspause hatten sich die Bajuwaren AMYSTERY 2018 mit einer veränderten Besetzung wieder zusammengeschlossen, um gemeinsam weiter an neuem Material zu arbeiten. Im Sommer 2021 kam es erneut zu einem Besetzungswechsel, seitdem besteht die Band aus drei Personen: Grond (Drums), Culpa (Bass) und Nephesus (Vocals, Gitarre).
AMYSTERY ist keine Band, bei der ein neues Album daraus erwächst, dass sich Individuen gegenseitig im Alleingang aufgenommene Tondateien auf die Rechner schicken – die Ideen, Riffs etc. für die zehn Songs von »Chaos Empire Satan« wurden gemeinsam im Proberaum gesammelt und dort ausgearbeitet. Auf ihrer Tour im Februar 2023 wurden bereits drei neue Stücke präsentiert, die restlichen sechs entstanden im Zeitraum bis Dezember 2023.
Inhaltlich behandelt »Chaos Empire Satan« die Theorien und Macht der Chaosmagie nach Peter James Carroll und beschreibt die dazugehörigen Praktiken und Auswirkungen auf das Leben und die Seele. Darüber hinaus geht es um die Ambivalenz zwischen der vermeintlichen Nichtigkeit des irdischen Lebens im kosmischen und multidimensionalen Maßstab und der Größe des eigenen persönlichen (Multi-)Universums mit der daraus erwachsenden maximalen Gestaltungsfreiheit, Wirksamkeit und Einflussnahme. AMYSTERY als Band zelebriert diese Überzeugung, was bereits im Vorgängeralbum »All Hail The Cult« eine tragende Rolle spielte und nun im neuen Album noch mehr ins Zentrum gerückt wurde.
Aufgenommen wurde das Album im Januar 2024. Das Cover-Artwork wurde von Malphas (ex-AMYSTERY, ex-Lunar Aurora, Mortem Agmen) gezeichnet, die grafische Gestaltung wurde von Lense Of Sense übernommen.
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Heute erscheint das neue BONJOUR TRISTESSE Albums „The World Without Us“.
Hier geht es direkt zur Albumpremiere (ab 18:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8prVeODdy8Das Album erscheint heute am 18. Oktober 2024 in verschiedenen Formaten (LP, CD, Tape, Digital) via SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS veröffentlicht und kann hier bestellt werden:
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BONJOUR TRISTESSE, eine von Nathanael gegründete Black-Metal-Band aus Deutschland, ist dafür bekannt Melancholie, Introspektion und Gesellschaftskritik miteinander zu verweben. Der Name der Band spiegelt eine tief empfundene existenzielle Verzweiflung wider. Ihr atmosphärischer und depressiver Black Metal schafft eine intensive, emotionale Klangwelt, die den Hörer durch ihre Tiefe und Komplexität fesselt.
Mit ihrem neuen Album „The World Without Us“ schließen BONJOUR TRISTESSE einen zwei Alben überspannenden Handlungsbogen ab, der mit dem Vorgängeralbum begann. Zentrale Themen sind die Kritik industrialisierter Zivilisationen und der Konflikt zwischen dem modernen Menschen und Natur. Als alleiniger Songwriter bearbeitet Nathanael diese Themen mit einer Mischung aus roher Gewalt, eingestreuten Melodien und manischem Gesang. Das Album kritisiert die zerstörerischen Auswirkungen entfremdeter Weltbeziehung moderner Gesellschaften und zeichnet ein düsteres Bild unserer dystopischen Realität.
„The World Without Us“ kombiniert rohe Aggression mit melodischen Elementen, die oft in Richtung Raserei ausschlagen, während der sowohl verzweifelte als auch wütende Gesang eine beklemmende Stimmung aufrechterhält. Die Verweise auf zivilisationskritische Denker und existentialistische Schriftsteller fügen der kraftvollen Botschaft poetische Komponenten hinzu, welche dem Album mehr Tiefe verleihen.
Tracklist:
Running on Emptiness
Lightbearer
The World Without Us
Against The Grain
The Great Catastrophe
Spielzeit 44:46 min
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International Deathcore/Power Metal dynamos, DRAGONCORPSE, will host an early listening party October 30 on Discord for forthcoming EP, THE FALL OF HOUSE ABBARATH.
Join the band's Discord channel to listen at: https://discord.gg/QKzp2rxY
FFO: Dragonforce, 3 Inches of Blood, Nekrogoblikon, Lorna Shore, Brand of Sacrifice
DRAGONCORPSE are back and armed with a vibrant new EP, The Fall of House Abbarath! Set for a November 1 release on Shattered Earth Records, the EP is nothing short of a game changer for the quintet.
"Raise your horns to one of the most unique bands of the current scene."- The Headbanging Moose
The official video for EP single, "A Quest for Truth," is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPUcjbbUbI
Also available is a lyric video for "I Live...AGAIN," featuring Nick Miller (First Fragment, Unleash The Archers), which you can check out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llkwb8pYkyw.
On the new EP, the band took its already innovative, energetic sound, created through the fusion of deathcore and power metal, and sharpened it to a fine point on The Fall of House Abbarath. DRAGONCORPSE took the feedback gathered from the release of debut EP, The Drakketh Saga, to heart and used it to refine their approach.
"For new fans, I believe we've added more elements of deathcore and power metal while adding more excitement into the music for an authentic listening experience like no other band," bassist Noah Nikolas Laidlaw explains. "We put a lot of emphasis on the atmosphere of the music," adds drummer Justin Gogan. "Throughout the entire EP there is a medieval theming that resonates in the music that keeps the tracks feeling refreshing and fun. With the addition of Mark on keys/orchestration, he brought with him a completely different approach to songwriting that I am sure fans are going to appreciate!"
Track
Listing:1. An Introduction to [ HEROISM ]
2. Welcome Home
3. I Live… AGAIN!
4. A Quest For Truth
5. Whisper On The Wind
6. Fear And Hunger
EP Credits:
All songs performed by: DRAGONCORPSE
All songs written by: DRAGONCORPSE
Produced by: DRAGONCORPSE and Matt Schmidt
Mixed by: Matt Schmidt
Mastered by: Matt Schmidt
Album artwork by: Avellustration
Line-up:
Mardy Leith - Vocals
Kris Chayer - Guitars
Noah Nikolas Laidlaw - Bass
Justin Gogan - Drums
Mark Marin - Keys and Orchestration
Bio:
DRAGONCORPSE is a death metal band that fuses power metal and deathcore, creating a unique sound marked by operatic vocals and guttural screams. They stand out with their symphonic elements, adding depth and creativity to their music. The band, with members across Canada, the U.S., and Australia, maintains a cohesive, powerful sound despite the distance. Known for their humor, they embrace memes and use the term "DRAGUSSY" to playfully reference their love for dragons in power metal culture. DRAGONCORPSE offers a dynamic and distinctive experience for fans of death metal, power metal, or deathcore.
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Hierarchies are taking their death metal on a different plane altogether. As mentioned in our announcement statement, they play intricate, mind-warping death metal that's both technical and dissonant, and dutifully soaked in rot and slime. It's thrilling to delve into their demented world and attempt to decipher all the carefully orchestrated madness and make sense of so much that seems to be happening there and almost at the same time, as though it's taking place in different albeit overlapping dimensions. Listen to a couple of songs https://hierarchiesdm.bandcamp.com/album/hierarchies
HIERARCHIES - “SELF-TITLED”
For
fans of
- Acausal Intrusion, Dwelling Below, Pyrrhon, Evilyn, Chaos Motion, Wormed, Plague
RiderMembers of Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below conspire amongst themselves to create dissonant/technical death metal that pushes the limits of reality. With music being this intricate, strangely intuitive and visceral, it blurs the point where the magnification of their music ends and the imagination takes over. It's a dark, murky, nightmarish dive into a realm where trajectories from multiple dimensions manifest to intersect and overlap before dissipating, taking different temporal forms. Nothing is permanent in their world; the tunes change every few seconds and so does everything around them - the implications are in real-time and catastrophically mind-melting. It's a downward spiral of your consciousness where the out-of-control thoughts overwhelm and overpower, and take you on a one-way trip to incessant hallucinations and inevitable madness. Innumerable riffs are piled on top of one another first frantically, then slowly to allow for them to be properly seared into memory so that they can haunt you in turns for the rest of your life. Hierarchies have, on only their debut, created a truly frightening album not merely outwardly but one that is also psychologically scarring for the listener, and endlessly fascinating all the same.
Line up
Nicholas Turner (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) - Guitar
Anthony Wheeler (Dwelling Below, Hollowed Idols) - Bass
Jared Moran (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) - Drums and vocals
Mixed by Nick Turner at Malevolent Sound Studios
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios
Artwork by Belial NecroArts
Track listing
1. Entity
2. Consecrate Phenomenon
3. Dimension
4. Twilight Tradition
5. Abstract
6. Complexity Parallels
7. Subtraction
8. Vultures
Release date - January 17th, 2024
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Listen to “Krwawy Świt” here:https://youtu.be/jjiuhin_IdI
https://deusmortemofficial.bandcamp.com/track/krwawy-wit
„Krwawy Świt” is a song about tearing off the curtain of illusion and liberating the soul from the clutches of deadly nostalgia. It expresses the futility of searching for fulfillment in an existence that turns out to be an empty vessel. It is a song filled with hatred for the world and bitterness, where the only salvation for the soul is a spark of black fire that barely, but constantly smoulders.
Here's what vocalist and guitarist Necrosodom has to say about the single: "Krwawy Świt” is the beginning of a story about spiritual transformation, about a thorny path from the deadness of non-existence, towards a higher form of one's own consciousness. Musically, it balances between the school of Black Metal and the old rock vibe, which in the case of Deus Mortem is quite a bold step and opening the gates to previously unknown areas."
Scheduled for release on 15 November 2024, via Profane Spirit Productions, "Thanatos" promises a dynamic evolution for Deus Mortem. While retaining their black metal roots, the album showcases a powerful blend of old-school rock and metal influences, with driving riffs, thunderous rhythm sections, and haunting melodies. It's a testament to the band's musical growth, showcasing a more versatile and powerful sound than ever before.
"Thanatos" is a concept album that confronts the complexities of human existence. It takes listeners on a transformative journey through illusory realities, unveiling hidden truths and stripping away the veils of deception. It's a testament to personal struggle and the power of the Black Flame.
Ahead of the album’s release, Deus Mortem will embark on a Polish tour with fellow black metal acts Venefices and Devilpriest starting on 31 October 2024. Fans attending the tour will have the exclusive opportunity to purchase the "Thanatos" CD before its official release date.
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: October 31st 2024
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Dark Tranquillity | In Flames | At The Gates | Insomnium
Condemned by the words of a child; the cruel pretence of a boy whose vindictive mischief making spread like plague through the tarnished hearts of those so hungry for scandal and persecution – so excited by the prospect of the torture and death of people that, just days before, they considered neighbours, even friends. In these damned times the devil walks not in the homespun dresses of women named witches, nor dances in our night time woods in accordance with licentious and lecherous fantasies. He lives in the hearts of the profiteering Witchfinder and the self important judges, in the fear of the ignorant and the perverted piety of priests…
After the bravely experimental Shadows Without Light trilogy and the back to the roots horror and aggression of Crucifix Dreams, Tom Reynolds’ Foul Body Autopsy is back, with another fresh twist on his precision riff attack. The Discovery Of Witches is a two track EP inspired by two infamous witch trials that took place in Tom’s hometown of Leicester, a century apart. In 1616, due to the false testimony of a young boy, fifteen women were arrested. Nine were hung for crimes of wicked sorcery, another died in jail while the remaining five were released due to the intervention of King James I – to whom the boy admitted his lies. In 1717 Jane Clark and her two children were accused of witchcraft by their fellow villagers and subjected to an ordeal by water – the fact that they didn’t drown when cast into the village pond, condemning them. The 1616 hangings are explored in opening track ‘The Rough Rope And The Short Drop’, where Tom brings new elements to his customary six-string aggression. There’s a reflective feel captured by the deft interplay between guitar and bass - Linus Klausenitzer (Alkaloid, ex-Obscura etc)’s flowing notes weaving their way between Tom’s snarling guitar parts - the sections of punchy, rhythmic feel and the strong melodic awareness as the tragedy, the violence and the delusion of that awful episode are brought to life. ‘The Ordeal By Water’ is another fine example of the traditional Foul Body Autopsy sound taking on fresh hues and colours as it builds through melody and an almost progressive aura to the full force assault of fierce blast beats – masterfully delivered once again by Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, Scarve etc). Constantly evolving, constantly exploring, constantly delivering riffs like tactical weapons – Tom Reynolds and Foul Body Autopsy have delivered another sweetly structured and imaginative burst of metal.
While all three musicians worked in their home studios in England, the US and Germany respectively, Tom’s vocals were captured at Parlour Studios (The Haunted, At The Gates, Napalm Death etc) and The Discovery Of Witches was mastered by Stephen Kerrison (The Grudge, Remote Viewing etc). The results are, as always with Foul Body Autopsy, excellent – combining clarity and power, subtlety and force. The EP will be available digitally and for the first time for Foul Body Autopsy, on limited edition lathe cut vinyl. Set to be released on the most appropriate date of October 31st, The Discovery Of Witches is another essential addition to the Foul Body Autopsy canon.
Line-up:
Tom Reynolds - Guitar/Vocals
*drums on The Discovery Of Witches by Dirk Verbeuren
*bass on The Discovery Of Witches by Linus Klausenitzer
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We're proud to announce that the German underworld lurkers of humongous subsonic death - NEKUS, finally return with "DEATH APOPHENIA", a death-scarred sonic interment into absolute subterranean torment, and their most lightless and catacombal statement to date. The colossal sophomore full-length entombment expands on the putrid and crushing heaviness of its critically acclaimed predecessor “Sepulchral Divination”, taking the band's formula of droning sepulchral death doom to its most inevitable and horrendous triumph yet.
The
horrendous sonic suffocation has been teased by iconic extreme metal blog Decibel
Magazine, who in premiering the track “Accursed Murmur“ have remarked
how the song is “a pure death-doom nightmare“ that is “both
power and atmosphere in equal measure” - you can check out the track and
feature https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/10/16/track-premiere-nekus-accursed-murmur/With its forty-plus minute running time split up in just five pachydermic movements, "Death Apophenia" casts the listener down into an aphotic sunken abyss to be torn apart by immense tidal forces and crushed by catastrophic tectonic pressure. The band’s staple use of reverb to create immense, growling subterranean hallways reaches the pinnacle of its mastership, and so does their ability to construct humongously grotesque atmospheres that make the listener feel like they are being devoured by the earth and mummified alive. Tortured screams drenched in feedback and enormous and solemn sounding drum shells create a ritual-like telluric funeral march into the underworld, while slabs of inhumanly crushing and downtuned guitars bore a massive hole into the earth like molten lava melting the crust and sinking downward into the blackest chasm, evoking the sensation of an enormous, planet-sized horrendous burial taking place. Nothing can escape the sheer tonnage and crushing force of this immense sonic beast, and while Nekus are shown to be diligently delving further into the redefinition and delineation of their own personal idea of death metal as a monolithic and cinematic sentence to complete aural entombment, the comparisons to bands like Grave Upheaval, early Temple Nightside, Moss, Anatomia and The Funeral Orchestra, due to the surreal hideousness of the atmospheres and sheer heaviness of the music, will be many and not far from truth.
"Death Apophenia" is slated for a November 15 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC and digital, and all formats are now preorderable via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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ASPYXIA – „EXIT ; REALITY „
Asphyxia was thrash metal from Verviers, Liège, Belgium formed in 1987 and released 3 demos and one full length album called ‘Exit : Reality’. Asphyxia was Christian Olde Wolbers (Vio Lence , ex Fear Factory) first band he played in. Much sought-after album, eBay prices over 250 euros. Liner notes by Steven Willems (Rock Tribune and Voices From The Darkside). Produced by Andre Gielen (Channel Zero, Enthroned, Celestial Season). Cover artwork by Eric Philippe (Stratovarius, Artillery, Rhapsody of Fire).
ETERNAL DIRGE – „KHAOS MAGICK „
German Death metal band Eternal Dirge was formed in 1986 and released four demos and 2 full length albums. They played an early American style of death metal blended with Teutonic thrash, different to any other European death metal band of the time. Their second album from 1996 "Khaos Magick", showed a similar contempt for contemporary metal trends. There were no concessions to the more popular metallic sounds of that time; groove metal, melodic death metal, black metal. Eternal Dirge were a genuine band with their own sound. They made music that reflected their interests and Lovecraftian worldview. Khaos Magic is the most dark yet atmospherically album from their catalogue. Somewhere comparable to early Septic Flesh or Rotting Christ & Necromantia with the dark keyboard sounds and repetitive riffs or even Nocturnus. And of course the heavily rooted German Death and thrash metal influences
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FURBOWL – „THOSE SHREDDED DREAMS „
Re-release of the sold out, legendary debut Those Shreddd Dreams of Sweden’s FURBOWL.
FURBOWL was formed in 1991 when Johan Liiva left Carnage and hooked up with his old buddy Max Thornell on drums (both would form HEARSE in the 90’s). After a few demos FURBOWL recorded their debut album ‘Those Shredded Dreams’ in 1991, the album was produced by Carnage / Carcass guitar player and long-time friend of the band, Michael Amott (ARCH ENEMY), Michael also played some leads on the album. (And not surprisingly Michael asked Johan to join Arch Enemy some years later). This re-issue contains the legendary FURBOWL debut ‘Those Shredded Dreams’ and as bonus eleven tracks the band recorded before and after their debut album. All in all, a true monument for the most underrated Swedish death metal band from the early 90’s! Extensive liner notes from Johan, Max and Michael! ‘Death ‘N Roll before it was invented. Furbowl sure was an unique band, and I urge you all to seek out all of their recordings’ - Daniel Ekeroth, author of ‘Swedish Death Metal’.
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“Monumenty” (translates to “Monuments” from Polish) will be released via Pagan Records on 29 November 2024 in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats.
The album was recorded and mixed last fall at Impressive Art studio in Porąbka, Poland by Przemysław Nowak.
The sound on "Monumenty" is an evolution of the band's past work on "W czeluść" (2022 split released via Godz ov War Productions), "Apostoł" (2020 album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions) and "Czarna ewangelia" (2018 debut album released via Under the Sign of Garazel Productions). In 2019, Czort also released a split entitled "Under the White Flame" with Mordhell, Occultum and Dagorath.
In Slavic mythology, Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face.
Tracklist 1. Paroksyzm Ludzkości
2. Zjawa
3. Kuźnia Materii
4. Oczyma Monumentu
5. Zmagaznie Rdzeniem Istnienia
6. Cyborium Zgnilizny i Brudu
7. 23.48.30
8. Antynatalizm Boga
9. Ubóstwo Idei
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Austin (TX) - Texas metal titans IGNITOR have unleashed a video for "Machine Gun," originally recorded by New Wave of British Heavy Metal legends, Saxon. The cover song is taken from IGNITOR's new album, HORNS AND HAMMERS. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8noAxDpr0
The track and video features cameos from vocalist Marc Lopes of Metal Church, Let Us Prey and Ross the Boss, as well as Ross the Boss Friedman himself of Manowar and The Dictators.
IGNITOR vocalist
Jason McMaster explains. "I was in Germany playing a festival with Watchtower, where
we were direct support for Metal Church. I met up with Marc and we became
fast friends. It was an obvious idea to me to ask him to guest on a track on
the new IGNITOR record. This great Saxon cover of 'Machine
Gun' was perfect. He kicks so much ass on it, I am super proud of it."IGNITOR guitarist, Robert Williams, weighs in on the idea to get Ross the Boss, with whom Marc also works. "Jason called Marc and so it only seemed fitting that I reach out to my friend Ross to throw a ripping guitar solo into the mix. Ross was immediately into the idea and just killed it. They both shine on this rendition of "Machine Gun." We have a ton of respect for both of
these guys."
The video concept was created by Marc Lopes himself. Marc has his own digital creative design company called SONATHERIA. It was convenient and hands on for Marc, as he created content for the "Machine Gun" video in his own studio. Basic B-roll footage was shot in Texas, and then sent to Marc by the band to incorporate into the editing.
Jason on the video...." When we finally saw the final edit, we were blown away. Excellent work by Marc at containing the energy for this video. I am stoked to share a song with him and that involvement even goes beyond contribution of his voice. He is one of my favorite singers in metal, and then, his digital video production work truly added to the power of the track".
The U.S. version of Horns and Hammers adds the ripping cover of Saxon’s classic “Machine Gun,” featuring guest vocalist Marc Lopes (Metal Church, Ross the Boss, Let Us Prey) and guest guitarist Ross“The Boss” Friedman (Manowar, The Dictators, Ross the Boss). The European version of Horns and Hammers features a live performance of IGNITOR's 2020 track, “Hell Shall Be Your Home.”
"Machine Gun" is available on all streaming outlets, available for download, and the video is a global release on YouTube.
Horns and Hammers is be available on Bandcamp via Metal on Metal Records, and in the United States on www.revoltvinylrecords.com. Revolt Vinyl Records will make it available on CD and vinyl.
U.S. residents can order the CD directly from the band at https://ignitorband.com/product/1039420
Another storm-the-gates, metal onslaught, Horns and Hammers delivers all the dramatic power and fury that landed previous albums Haunted by Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Golden Age of Black Magick in the hallowed realms of Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Raven, Dio, Accept and other legendary keepers of the metal creed.
From the title track’s speed-metal war cry and the Maiden-esque “Imperial Bloodlines” to the cowbell-driven “Shattered Crosses” and the 70s-inspired heavy metal of “Ferocious the Martyrs” (featuring guest keyboardist Gabriel Guardian of Immortal Guardian) the 11-track Horns and Hammers
is a mighty mix of classic heavy metal spiked with NWOBHM, thrash, power metal and the atmospheric textures of prog-metal and fantasy.
“We raised the bar high with our last two albums so we couldn’t settle for anything less than a full-on metal assault,” said founding guitarist Stuart “Batlord” Laurence. “We’ve always honored our influences,
but we’re also very insistent that our music – first and foremost – sounds like IGNITOR. With Horns and Hammers, we’ve covered the spectrum of metal and taken Ignitor to a whole new level.”
Fronted by the soaring vocals of Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth), IGNITOR's strength is further forged by guitarist Robert Williams, bassist Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell and drummer Pat Doyle. Whether charging and pounding like clashing titans (“Dark Horse,” “Chaos Maximus Eternal”) or luring the listener into gothic tales of doom and deceit (“Suicide Anthem,” “Taken Up With Serpents”), IGNITOR delivers with shuddering impact.
“Robert brought a ton of songs and riff ideas to the table and Billy had some great ideas that blossomed into full-blown songs,” Laurence said. “Once we started jamming with Pat’s pummeling backbeat, we knew we had something special.”
“As the arrangements started coming together, I found myself completely immersed and inspired to come up with the lyrical themes and characters to carry the songs to completion,” McMaster added. “I’m really proud of the band’s individual and collective contributions, and I think we all agree that Horns and Hammers is a triumph by any measure.”
The album’s stunning cover art – featuring a medieval warrior and his mighty steed surveying a hellish killing field – comes courtesy of renowned fantasy/sci-fi artist Claudio Bergamin whose credits include
Judas Priest (Firepower), Burning Witches (The Witch of the North), Cassius King (Field Trip) and Klassik ’78 (Phantoms), among others.
Produced and mastered by Stuart “Batlord” Laurence at Emphatic Audio in Austin, TX, Horns and Hammers was mastered for vinyl by Cris Burns. “Hell Shall Be Your Home” was recorded live in Austin TX at Kick Butt Coffee in 2019, and engineered by Ernie Basaldua with mixing by
Stuart "Batlord" Laurence.
Track Listing:
1. Horns And Hammers
2. Imperial Bloodlines
3. Dark Horse
4. Cyber Crush
5. Shattered Crosses
6. Taking Up With Serpents
7. Ferocious The Martyrs
8. Suicide Anthem
9. Chaos Maximus Eternal
10. Machine Gun (Saxon cover)*
11. Terminous
*Note: “Hell Shall Be Your Home” appears on The Metal On Metal Records version.
All songs written, recorded and performed by Ignitor, except *“Machine Gun,” originally written, recorded and performed by Saxon, Carrere Music Ltd 1980.
Cover art by Claudio Bergamin.
Line-up:
Stuart “Batlord” Laurence - Guitar
Robert Williams - Guitar
Jason McMaster - Vocals
Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell - Bass
Pat Doyle - Drums
Bio:
IGNITOR formed in Austin, Texas in 2003 with legendary Agony Column guitarist Stuart Laurence, Brendon Bigelow on bass, Beverly Barrington on guitar, Pat Doyle (Offenders) on drums, and vocalist Erika Swinnich. The band wanted to write music reflecting their passion for heavy, speed, and power metal.
IGNITOR quickly attracted a worldwide fan base after releasing their debut album Take To The Sky, featuring the hit "Demonslayer," in 2004 to rave reviews. Germany’s Rock Hard magazine named it "Demo of the Month.” Dies Irae (Brazil) said “Ignitor take the world by storm, playing a furious Heavy/Speed Metal, joining the high class of veteran musicians and the powerful voice of Erika Swinnich.”
IGNITOR performed at Mexico’s Monterrey Metal Fest in May 2005, appearing alongside Motorhead and Danzig. Then onto Germany’s Keep It True Festival in November 2005, where they stunned the crowd and were named "Best KIT Newcomer" by Mario’s Metal Mania magazine.
In 2007 IGNITOR released Road of Bones (Cruz del Sur Music) featuring cover art by legendary MOTORHEAD collaborator Joe Petagno. Beverly was temporarily replaced by Annah Moore on guitar for this album. The band’s sophomore effort is a deep dive into themes of pain, death, and rebirth, culminating with their triumphant anthem "Reinheitsgebot" and its rallying cry “Metal is the Law!” Blabbermouth described IGNITOR - “This is the energetic, lusty sound of a new and eager band who are ridiculously fired up to be alive, no matter what the decade.” IGNITOR toured heavily in support of the album, playing with Primal Fear and Leaves Eyes, and a notable appearance at the Valley Thrash Fest in McAllen, Texas.
In 2008, Texas metal veteran Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Howling Sycamore, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth, Evil United) replaced Erika’s wraith-Maiden wail with his demonic Texas drawl. The band released The Spider Queen (Cruz del Sur/Heavy Artillery) in 2009, a fairy tale of love and redemption. The band toured in support of the album, sharing stages with Fates Warning and Helstar along the way.
In 2010 IGNITOR played the Metal Up Your Tap Fest in Chicago along with Cruz del Sur label mates Bible of the Devil.
2012 saw the release of Year of the Metal Tiger (MVD Audio,) featuring fan favorite "Heavy Metal Holocaust" and the eerie polytheism of "Shadow of the Needle." “…a fiery album of traditional, hot-wired metal that’s intensely passionate and utterly authentic.” – Backstage Auctions.
IGNITOR released Mixtape '85 in 2013, a collection of beloved favorites recalling the peak years for thrash and heavy metal. The Metal Files said “…the opening solo on Into the Coven gave me chills when I first heard it.” 2013 also saw the inauguration of IGNITOR’s occasionally-annual Iron Fist Fest in their hometown of Austin, featuring Witches Mark.
The next two years produced some lineup changes. Beverly was replaced by Robert Williams (Witches Mark,) and Brendon was replaced by Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell (Agony Column) cementing IGNITOR’s current lineup.
In May 2016 IGNITOR performed at the Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago along with Tygers of Pan Tang, Jag Panzer, and Leather Leone. The Iron Fist Fest returned in 2016 too, featuring Byfist and Death of Millions alongside IGNITOR.
In 2017 IGNITOR released Years of War 2008 – 2013, an anthology of the band’s releases during those years in a limited edition box set, including rare promo discs and assorted items from the merchandise shop. The box set is only available from the band’s website .
2017 also saw the release of the IGNITOR’s sixth album Haunted By Rock & Roll (EMP Label Group.) The song "Hatchet: The Ballad of Victor Crowley" is heard during the closing credits of the horror slasher “Victor Crowley” from Ariescope Pictures. Director Adam Green produced a NSFW video of the song featuring some key gory scenes from the movie. The band produced three other companion videos featuring the songs "No Sanctuary," "Brave The War," and "Haunted by Rock & Roll." Roppongi Rocks said “IGNITOR serves us an extra large portion of terrific heavy metal on its new album.” “The New Wave of British Heavy Metal deserves a locally designated acronym thanks to IGNITOR.” - Austin Chronicle
IGNITOR returned to Chicago in July 2018 for the Alehorn of Power X festival, appearing alongside Zuul and Bible of the Devil. IGNITOR appeared again in July at the Iron Fist Fest 3 with James Rivera’s Metal Asylum and Austin’s own Duel. Iron Fist Fest 4’s ten-band lineup in 2019 featured IGNITOR, Helstar, and Angkor Wat.
In early 2020, IGNITOR finished the work on their seventh album. After contacting Metal on Metal Records and sending the new songs, they got a positive response and soon the agreement was reached. The Golden Age of Black Magick was finally released on October 2020 on CD and all major digital platforms.
In January 2020 right before the worldwide pandemic, IGNITOR recorded a live set at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin. Later in the year the band self-released that set on a CD called Live…Before the Plague and posted it for sale on its website store.
Like most of the planet, IGNITOR spent 2020-2021 hiding out from the pandemic. Luckily that provided ample opportunity to write and hone new material. The band played a few shows here and there as venues began opening back up in 2022 and 2023, but spent most of the time writing and preparing to record their next album.
Recording began in Fall 2023 and was finished in May 2024 for the ninth IGNITOR album, Horns and Hammers (Metal on Metal). Horns and Hammers features some extra special guests – Ross “the Boss” Friedman (Dictators, Manowar,) Marc Lopes (Metal Church) and Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian). IGNITOR is especially proud of this album. The cover art was painted by Claudio Bergamin and depicts a weathered warrior in a brief moment of repose after a battle. It resembles the plight of true metal warriors like IGNITOR, who strive to inject both power and passion into their craft with every performance, keeping the flames of heavy metal stoked and smoldering for the gathered masses.
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Renowned black psych metal band, FURZE, announces the release of its highly anticipated new album, "COSMIC STIMULATION OF DARK FANTASIES". The album, set for a mind-bending release on 15 November 2024 and available for pre-order now, will take listeners on a sonic journey through the depths of darkness, the haunting beauty of the unknown, and a trip that will solidify FURZE's status as masters of the "black psych" metal sound.
To coincide with the album announcement, FURZE has released a trippy music video for the track “Marrow Creed”. The video visually embodies the album's themes of cosmic exploration, existential dread, and the allure of the forbidden. This new song is a prime example of FURZE's evolution, pushing the boundaries of its sound with a trippy and unusual soundscape.
Watch the music video to “Marrow Creed”: https://youtu.be/tyyuzdzpeUkListen to the track on
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"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" marks a significant milestone for FURZE, showcasing its evolution and pushing the boundaries of its signature sound. The album features a diverse range of tracks, from the psychedelic ballad "Marrow Creed" to the intense, Satanic groove of "Waswasah".
Woe J. Reaper said:
“We invite you to journey the 9th full length of FURZE - "COSMIC STIMULATION OF DARK FANTASIES". Creating sounds where eternity is haunting mankind's will for survival and barking answers seems echoing, twisting that same will to the point of hunting Man's soul back through spectral infinity.
“The album pushes the personal edge of diverse Furzement to dark delights. Heavily brandished with oldish black doom metal spirit to breed new blood: Under the umbrella Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies you have songs like Marrow Creed, a psychedelic ballad of an inner self-motion/devotion, Waswasah - a Satanic groove with whispers from a devil so potent we wish only Kings in the beyond would, but do not hear! And another 4 raw power tunes on what is no less than the 2nd (!) brand new Furze full-length in 2024 alone. Long live Black Psych Metal!”
"Cosmic Stimulation of Dark Fantasies" will be available as a stunning Gatefold LP on 15 November 2024, in a collaboration between Devoted Art Propaganda and Polytriad Fingerprints. Prepare to have your orgasmic sensibilities awakened by the return of Woe J. Reaper!
Devoted Art Propaganda have also prepared an on-demand print of the “Necromanzee“ T-shirt design reinterpreted by von Ritter. This will only be available in pre-order and will be shipped on 15 November. Devoted Art Propaganda will also distribute older Furze material - stay tuned!
Furze released its eighth album “Caw Entrance” earlier this year in CD, LP, cassette and digital formats.
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Extreme
metal force MASS PUNISHMENT unleashes its powerful new
video, "GROUND POUNDER," a track from their album "PROVING
GROUNDS DEVASTATION," out now via Wormholedeath.'Ground Pounder' is a song about an Infantryman Soldier brainwashed by the military establishment to keep marching on no matter what hell they’re faced with. This music video is the first upon release of the album “Proving Grounds Devastation”. This video was directed by both MavErick and Marc Petrick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpkdcgCWOw8
Mass Punishment is a 4 piece Metalcore/Extreme Metal band based out of New Jersey music designed to inform as well as hit as hard as the facts and events the songs are written about. Current events on a social, political, environmental, and economic scale. Of government corruption and depopulation with a population facing death by design.
Mass Punishment is:
Erick Laurino (Vocals)
Christopher Milos (Guitars)
Kyle Yannon (Bass)
Brian Donat (Drums)
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"Drenched In Righteous Offal" will be available October 18 on all the usual streaming platforms.
After nearly a decade since the release of full-length debut album, Subversions of the Psyche, the Scottish brutes return with sophomore album, Edifice of Vicissitudes, their first for Willowtip!
Without compromise, stylistic detours or mellowing with age, Edifice of Vicissitudes is a blast-beaten beast of an album and a quintessential example of Brutal Death Metal in its purest form.
Guitarist Joe Fleetwood drives that point home in explaining that, “Edifice of Vicissitudes is the culmination of years of jamming and formulating our ideas into the most brutal and twisted Iniquitous Savagery songs we could make.”
Willowtip Records will release Edifice of Vicissitudes November 22 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://iniquitoussavagery.bandcamp.com/album/edifice-of-vicissitudes
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Track
Listing:1. Casualty of Diabolical Trial
2. Synaptic Cull
3. Choked Before First Breath
4. Omnipotence Negates Self-Affliction
5. Narcotic Exsanguination
6. Lifeblood
7. Drenched in Righteous Offal
8. Bio-Digital Convergence in the Fourth Industrial Age
Credits:
All music and lyrics by Iniquitous Savagery.
Recorded by D.P Johnson and Euan Harrison at Audio Lounge and Full Pelt studios.
Reamping, mixing and mastering by Colin Marston at The Thousand Caves.
Cover art by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design.
Line-up:
Liam McCall - Vocals
Joe Fleetwood - Guitar
Chris Ryan - Bass
Euan Harrison - Drums
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Label: Grind To Death Records / Fiadh Productions
Release Date: November 28th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Darkthrone | Urgehal | Wolfbastard | Taake
An insignificant, impotent worm of belief came crawling from the desert sands. It brought its wheedling words of bile and honey to our home, its slow poison of false humility and father worship, eating at the hearts of those too easily swayed from sacred paths. Our steel began to rust and our blood run thin. Our mothers and our teachers, our conduits to the world that had cradled us through the centuries, were cast down and discarded as over eager boy-kings clambered across the bodies that had birthed them, scrambling desperately for the crown of the whispering worm. Under this new order of edicts and commandments seers became whores and queens became witches. And the disregarding turned to disrespecting…to dominating…to abusing…and to burning.
“Like the screams from a thousand vengeful souls from the witch’s bonfire.”- Vittra describes the sound of Völva.
From Malmö, Sweden comes the vengeful, satanic, feminist sound of Völva; a howling, hate-filled voice of rage, fuelled by the fire and the fists that have subjugated womankind since the old ways were undone by the insidious Christian contamination of the world. Born in the simmering underground cauldrons of punk and black metal the band built their foundations with a self-titled demo and the highly regarded Promises Unfold As Lies EP – and now the time for the unveiling of their mesmerising, intimidating full length debut album is at hand. Desires Profane begins with the acidic malice of ‘The Tower’ and immediately draws you into its world of flame and shadow. With its clarity edged with dirt and direct, unflinching approach ‘The Tower’ begins to carve out a strange soundscape of distinct character, with melody implied rather than simply stated. Familiar yet unsettlingly different…it’s an aura that permeates the whole album. ‘Walk With Me’, primal and chaotic, infused with anger and a sense of the forbidden that underlines the fact that Völva are born of different blood, a breed apart and your welcome into their circle is by no means assured. ‘Never Forgive’ stalks you like a blood encrusted valkyrie with a slow menace and a Transylvanian hunger, while ‘The Serpent’ sinks its needle fangs of nightmare into your quivering flesh, injecting the venom as cold flames lick at your nerve endings. The dark and ragged glory that unfolds as Desires Profane progresses is both addictive and magnificent. This is black metal at its assured and powerful, cruel and angular best, attacking with a merciless and fiercely focused purpose. Finishing with ‘Vagabond’ that brings a pagan lilt to its grimy onslaught, a hymn to forgotten times before the coming of the worm, Desires Profane leaves you in no doubt that Völva want to tear down everything that you know and set light to all you think you understand.
On November 28th Desires Profane will be unleashed on vinyl by Fiadh Productions and CD by Grind To Death Records – both versions housed in a sleeve that affirms Völva’s chosen role as the enemy, the adversary of the oppressor. Scathing and acerbic in their assault on all who support the pillars of our rotten society, this band are passionate advocates for its end. You will not hear another album this year as aflame with scorn, contempt and fury as Desires Profane – bewitching in its bitterness and spellbinding in its savagery.
Line-up:
Hedonosticia - Vocals/Bass
Vittra - Guitar/Vocals
Skuld – Drums/Vocals
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Feral have released one of the most crushing albums in the Swedish death metal vein. And it's not like they're merely imitating others; much thought and effort has been put into writing the songs and perfecting their sound which is also influenced by the US death metal bands such as Autopsy and others. Their juggernaut of an album is streaming in full now and can be found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S41uCDpvIxA
FERAL - “TO USURP THE THRONES”
For
fans of : Dismember, Carnage, Entombed, Autopsy, Murder Squad, Fleshcrawl, Bloodbath, GraveSwedish axe-wielding death metal marauders Feral proclaimed their rights to the throne with a potent split last year with crust-ridden death metal label mates Crawl. And as promised, they launched a massive, comprehensive onslaught the following year to eliminate all competition in the Swedish death metal realm. Those familiar with their legend know their humongous heft and power but what's also notable about them is their penchant for writing detailed and highly structured songs, more so than most bands of their ilk. This is death metal that looks, sounds and feels as if it's played by real savage Vikings but it is also wisely written, backed with nearly two decades of skull-crushing experience. Musically they not only honour the ancient Nordic gods the traditional way but also skillfully assimilate influences of the darker, filthier bands from across the ocean like Autopsy into their sound and solidify it many times over. The result is an insurmountable wall of sound that not only overwhelms and conquers but also makes room for tantalizing solos, menacing slower passages, and of course, the neck-snapping groovy parts. With 'To Usurp the Thrones', Feral have once again showed why they're the irrefutable contenders to the Swedish death metal throne and have delivered one of the most accomplished albums in the style in recent times.
Line up
David Nilsson - Vocals
Viktor Klingstedt - Bass
Markus Lindahl - Guitar
Sebastian Lejon - Guitar
Roger Markström - Drums
Artwork by Costin Chioreanu (Grave)
Track listing
1. To Drain the World of Light
2. Vile Malediction
3. Deformed Mentality
4. Bound to the Dead
5. The Devouring Storm
6. Spirits Without Rest
7. Decimated
8. Phantoms of Antiquity
9. Soaked in Blood
10. Into the Ashes of History
11. Stripped of Flesh
Release date - October 18th, 2024
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Unleash
the power of pure death/thrash metal with the debut album “Attack of the Zombie
Cans” from Cult of Orpist! Hailing from Greece, this band is a force to be
reckoned with, delivering a brutal mix of death and thrash metal that will
leave you headbanging and moshing with reckless abandon. This release is not for the faint of heart – it’s raw, aggressive, and packed with crushing riffs, pounding drums, and ferocious vocals. This is the type of metal that will leave you feeling energized and empowered, ready to conquer the world.
Members:
Hector Sohos - Vocals/Bass
Chris Panagitsas - Rhythm Guitar
George Dimitrakakis - Lead Guitar
Sotos Dimitropoulos - Drums
Attack of the Zombie Cans(Lyrics)
Blood moon is rising and they're rising from their graves
The cans of death are searching for their preys
You are condemned and they are thirsty for your life
The scent of death is dripping from their eyes.
Run!
Revenge, attack of zombie cans
Run for your life!
Run!
You can't escape the smell of blood
Dripping from their metal veins.
Stabbing, slicing, eating
20 pounds of human flesh
You're gonna run but you are running to your death
They are ecstatic, made of metal and undead
You cannot kill them, or drink them - you are dead!
Run!
Revenge, attack of zombie cans
Run for your life!
Run!
You can't escape the smell of blood
Dripping from their metal veins.
Teratogenesis, his name is Joe
He's gonna run you down into your darkest foe
Lamentation upon your life
You're gonna feel the scent of death until you die
Teratogenesis,
Feel the pain inside your darkest bliss.
Run!
Revenge, attack of zombie cans
Run for your life!
Run!
You can't escape the smell of blood
Dripping from their metal veins.
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After the release of the single in digital format, which has reached 5K streams on Spotify, Italian Doomsters EPITAPH present the official lyric video of the song "KINGDOM OF SLUMBER" a manifesto of the dark and epic sound played by the band, and the first track taken from new album "PATH TO OBLIVION". Give it a look at https://youtu.be/8Kodbqpkibk
Created by Tiago Silva on the amazing graphics designed by Dimitri Corradini, it makes us understand that the journey towards the oblivion has begun and Doom Metal, Progressive and Esotericism are the coordinates.
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (singer of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, this is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble.
DOOM ON!!!
"Path To Oblivion" LP/CD/tape/bundle could be pre-ordered at https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
Line-up:
Mauro Tollini: drums
Nicola Murari: bass
Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars
Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
Style:Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists:
Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
Cover artwork created by Luciana Nedelea
Tracklist:
1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
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Detroit (MI) - Melodic/Power Thrashers, AMONG THESE ASHES will release new album, EMBERS OF ELYSIUM, December 6 on Alone Records! The album clocks in at over an hour of music and features 12 new tracks, plus a bonus song, from the band.
A lyric video for new single, "Serpents Among Rats," is available now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXeZ215GHM
"It's very hard for me to pick a favorite track of ours because I have to love the track in order for it to make it on one of our albums," explains guitarist Richard Clark. "That said, 'Serpents Among Rats' is exceptionally memorable for me because it embodies all of my favorite elements of metal. It's melodic, heavy, and aggressive; the lyrics are clever, the vocals are delivered beautifully, and the band is crushing. Lyrically, this track is about how the societal elite, particularly politicians, manipulate and fuel division among the people. The lyrics encourage seeing through that behavior and unifying to rise above it."
As for the forthcoming album, Embers of Elysium, Clark goes on to say that it "is quite the leap for us in every aspect from Dominion Enthroned. Where Dominion was a full concept album, the first eight tracks on Embers of Elysium are standalone, and the last four tracks are part of a fictional sci-fi/horror concept called Chronicles of the Obsidian Reign. I can say with confident humility that every song on this album was crafted and delivered without compromise. The wide range of all of our influences is on display on this album. I think we executed it tastefully and with precision, and I hope it resonates powerfully with listeners."
Track
Listing:1. Embers of Elysium
2. Serpents Among Rats
3. Faceless War Machines
4. Of One Blood
5. Stronger Than Death
6. Storm Within
7. The Undertow
8. The Enemy In I
9. Through Ethereal Voids
10. The Hybrid Bloodline
11. A Presence Unknown
12. The Obsidian Reign
*13. The Undertow (feat. Brooke Rousseau)
*Bonus track, featuring vocalist Brooke Rousseau.
Credits:
Recorded by Among These Ashes.
Mixed and mastered by Matt Roach.
Cover Art by Jayson Cessna
Line-Up:
Richard Clark: lead/rhythm guitar, backing vocals, production, and songwriter
Jean-Pierre Abboud (JP): Lead and harmony vocals. JP is also the vocalist for traditional metal band, Traveler
Dylan Hamann: Rhythm guitar.
Kane Bochatyn: Bass
Kyle Wagner: Drums
Bio:
Among These Ashes is a melodic power/thrash metal band hailing from Detroit, Michigan (USA). The band's central focus is the creation of stellar, highly-memorable metal songs. The group's sound is crushingly heavy and punctuated by cerebral arrangements, thought-provoking lyrics, and dynamic shifts in tempo and aggression. Among These Ashes' debut musical offering, Dominion Enthroned, is a conceptual tour de force, inspired by modern societal parallels and struggles. Originally released independently, the record was later re-released under a single-album contract with Alone Records on vinyl and CD formats.
In April 2023, the band released an original single, entitled "The Enemy in I," which lyrically chronicles the woes of self-destruction. The band recorded a cover of "Sirens" by Savatage as an accompaniment to this release. In March 2024, Among These Ashes independently released a cover of W.A.S.P. track, "Restless Gypsy."
The band features Jean-Pierre Abboud (Traveler) on lead and harmony vocals, Dylan Hamann (Variform) and Richard Clark on lead and rhythm guitars, Kane Bochatyn on bass, and Kyle Wagner (Nethergate) on drums. Together, this line-up is committed to its vision of consistently delivering uncompromisingly heavy music to the metal hordes.
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Listen to “Aderlater” here: https://song.link/aderlater“We wrote the track Aderlater with the full band after J.D. and Stef came up with some chords that went nowhere,” said the band. “We were all listening to a lot of post-punk and new wave and most of us attended concerts by The Cure around the time.”
“If I recall correctly Mitch came up with the intro drum pattern and we changed the 6/8 we had to a 4/4 beat and wrote basically the entire song on the spot. The lead in the chorus came from Tristan from another old composition we never finished. It all fell into place, so to speak.”
“Lyrically the song deals with laying bare uncomfortable and personal feelings for the sake of music. It is, in a way, an ode to insecurity.”
Noctambulist are an atmospheric post-black metal outfit from Tilburg, the Netherlands. Formed in 2015 between housemates J.D. Kaye, Sam C.A. and Mitchell Scheerder, they set out to create a hard-hitting, melancholic style of black metal that draws inspiration from other genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, new wave and post-punk.
Noctambulist stand for contrasts. Serotonin summits and strung-out canyons. The empty and the grandiose. The beautiful and the appalling.
After defining their sound and completing the lineup with guitarists Tristan Tabbers and Stef Heesakkers they released their full-length debut “Noctambulist I: Elegieën” via Northern Silence Productions. Their second album will be released through These Hands Melt, with more information to be unveiled soon.
Noctambulist are
J.D. Kaye – Vocals & Guitar
Stef Heesakkers – Guitar
Tristan Tabbers – Guitar
Sam C.A. – Bass
Mitchell Scheerder - Drums
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Finnish black metal band NOITASAPATTI is set to release their new studio album 'SANKARIN MATKA' on November 29th 2024 via Inverse Records.
The second single 'HENKIEN POLULLA' is released today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/noitasapatti-henkien
The band comments:
"Musically the song represents a more straightforward side of the album “Sankarin matka” and it's probably the closest that we get to a traditional second-wave black metal sound on this album. It will also be the track for our first official music video, released later during 2024.
The lyrics continue the storyline that goes on throughout the album. In this part the narrator, after seeing signs in flames, strives to get closer to the Spirits he worships. The track has been a solid choice in our live setlist since its completion."
Sankarin Matka CD pre-order available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/noitasapatti-sankarin-matka-cd-pre-order
Listen to the first single 'Paluu liekkeihin' https://push.fm/fl/noitasapatti-paluu
Biography:NOITASAPATTI was born in spring 2017 in Pori, Finland by Erakko (vocals), Liekkiö (guitars, keyboards), Mielivalta (guitars) and Rampa (bass). Soon after that, Rienaaja joined us as a drummer and the first line-up was complete. After a couple of months of intensive rehearsing and composing, we recorded our first demo, “Vaellamme kuin Taivaankappaleet” on december 2017 and released it on CDr-format spring 2018. First live-show took place in our hometown also in the same spring. After that, Rampa left the band and Erakko began to play bass. Next year we recorded a second demo, “Aarnivalkean ajamana” and played some gigs. In 2020, we made a split-album with another Finnish band HOLLOW CORPSE. After some line-up changes, Häviö came to the band at the end of 2020 and a few months later, Kadonnut also joined the band to play keyboards. In summer 2021, we finally recorded our first full-length album “Kuolemattomille maille”. After a few successful live-shows it was time to record our second full-length album, “Sankarin matka” (A hero’s journey) in summer 2023. Album is now recorded, mixed, and mastered, and we are more satisfied with the result than ever before!
Our music can be described as 1990’s black metal with lots of melodies and even “burzumic” atmosperes. Also, you can hear influences from early British death/doom, epic viking metal and even some old school progressive music. Vocals are quite original “howling” and also heavily Burzum-influenced screams. Lyrics are written in Finnish.
Track list:
1. Tulikipuna
2. Tuhatkasvoinen
3. Sankarin matka
4. Paluu liekkeihin
5. Käskyläisen sanat
6. Henkien polulla
7. Matka halki myrskyjen
8. Tähtivaeltaja
Album cover by Mika Huumonen
Line-up:
Erakko - Vocals, Bass, Mouth Harp, Horns
Liekkiö - Guitars
Häviö - Drums
Kadonnut - Keyboards
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Los Angeles (CA) - One-man Melodic Death/Black Metal act, THE MOSAIC WINDOW, has joined forces with Invisible Oranges for the premiere of "ASHES LIKE ANVILS," the second single from forthcoming album, HEMASANCTUM. Click to stream below! https://www.invisibleoranges.com/the-mosaic-window-ash-like-anvils/
The Mosaic Window will release Hemasanctum, November 15 on Willowtip Records! The album will be available on CD, vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats.
"Hemasanctum sprawls and ponders along its path, examining shared trials and tribulations obscured behind cryptic language and annihilating blast beats. Memorable melodic lines are a major focus, but so is shifting pacing that cycles through pure black metal aggression and cathartic slowdowns."- Invisible Oranges
The Mosaic Window mastermind, Andrew Steven Brown, released the following statement concerning the album:
“Hemasanctum is a concept album that explores my current thoughts on life, relationships (parent-child), and loss. While it may or may not be obvious, the album starts with a song about birth and ends with a song about death. In between are songs intentionally out of order (like the roller-coaster timeline we all experience) subtly relating to topics like self-awareness, mental health, abortion, religion, and grief.
This album is the first Mosaic Window record to feature a real drummer - Gabe Seeber of Abigail Williams, Vale of Pnath, Obscura (live), Decrepit Birth (live), Carach Angren (live), and many more. Additionally, I am still in awe that there are two guest solos from the legendary (and possibly my favorite) guitarist Andy LaRocque. Both Andy and Gabe absolutely nailed their parts, and I couldn’t be more elated for their presence on the record.
Hemasanctum was written and recorded between October 2023 - February 2024 at my home studio, and mixed by Damian Herring over the Summer of 2024. I am so proud of this album, and hope listeners can appreciate it too. Cheers!”
Pre-order:https://willowtip.com/bands/details/the-mosaic-window.aspx
https://themosaicwindow.bandcamp.com/album/hemasanctum
Track Listing:
1. Incantation to Summon the Unstable
2. The Pounding of Hooves
3. Black Bethlehem
4. Turibulum
5. Ash Like Anvils
6. Night Disease
7. Shrouded in Pain
8. Hymn to Silence the Light
Credits:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Producing, Engineering.
Damian Herring - Mixing and Mastering.
Additional Musicians:
Gabe Seeber - Drums
Andy LaRocque - Guitar Solos (Tracks 2 and 4)
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This offering of crust-tinged Black/Death Metal comes on the tail of 2020’s dual releases of the “Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell” single and the COVID-19 Reset EP cassette, also released by Boris Records. The new album contains 12 all-new tracks mastered by Damian Herring.
An introduction to the album from the band:
"We are more than pleased to finally be releasing the album of Insect Politics. The vision that ultimately became this recording was initially conceived in early 2020 immediately after production wrapped up on the 'Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell' single. It feels almost an eternity ago that these events came to pass, with a global pandemic descending upon us and completely upheaving the state of the band, as well as the numerous life events that followed.
The one constant in this time for Chris [T. Hammer] and Jake [Benedict], as our planned tour evaporated and local gigs dried up, was the prospect of recording the songs for release in our very first full-length. The actual composition of the tracks seems almost a blur, with three of the first songs written occurring in a matter of months in the early stages of the pandemic and being recorded and mixed by mid-2021, and the remainder of the songs being composed by late 2021.
However, the production to finish recording that last set of songs proved a major challenge, as we set out to create our most ambitious and uncompromising structures yet. What resulted exceeded even our own expectations and initial vision. As we wrapped up post-production, both of us noted that this album truly represents an ending: a conclusion of what we initially set out to do in 2017, which was to marry our artistic influences — the Celtic Frosts and the Graves and the His Heroes are Gone and the Morbid Angels… and the Impetigos… — into a cohesive and novel expression which was singular, sharp, and pointed in its rebellion against the wrongs of humanity, and simultaneously broad in its footprint, sonic approach, and modes of worship. But, every ending is also a beginning, and we also realized that selections from this album contain the blueprint for the next era of the band. The assault will continue…."
Track
Listing:1. Social Ruin
2. Insect Politics
3. Anger/Despair (Interlude)
4. A.S.S. III — The Borderland Wars
5. Bliss
6. La Canzone di Mary Woodhouse (Interlude)
7. The Gates of Hell
8. Boomer Death
9. Intentional Under Performance
10. Winner of the Franchise Wars
11. The Serpent and the Sickle
12. Eusocial Demesne
Credits:
Recorded and mixed at Hammer Studios, Smyrna GA.
Mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios.
Front cover insect art by Jeremy Snevil.
Additional front cover and vinyl label components by Warhead Art.
Album layout by Misanthropic Aggression with graphical assistance from Sam Leyja (Boris Records).
Line-up:
Jake Benedict -- Lead Vocals, Drums
Chris T. Hammer -- Guitar, Bass, Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/borisrecordsatl/
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Death metal outfit VOMIT FORTH has delivered their punishing new album, TERRIFIED OF GOD. Following up on the success of their 2022 release Seething Malevolence , the band’s latest full-length pushes the boundaries of extreme metal, offering twelve tracks of unrelenting intensity and atmospheric dread.
A willingness to explore and incorporate influences from across a wide sonic landscape has always set VOMIT FORTH apart from their metal peers, and TERRIFIED OF GOD is here to solidify the band as a mainstay act in the metal community. The band’s live show is just as punishing as the record, and with an upcoming tour supporting The Black Dahlia Murder and Dying Fetus, more audiences will witness Vomit Forth’s violent attack.
Stream the new album here: https://vomitforth.lnk.to/TerrifiedOfGodNe
Genre : Barbagia Dark FolkLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music |
Release date : October 31st 2024
If north Europe has Wardruna, Heilung and Forndom, Italy has ILIENSES. This could not be possible but from Sardinia, the island of the ancient Nuragic civilizations, whose traditions and languages still live nowdays.
Keep in mind what follows: although the style it's ritualistic and Folk-driven, such as the one developed in North Europe which often makes of the "Nordic" matrix the only possible one, ILIENSES do not make any syncretism. The language, sounds, traditional instruments, themes and inspirations sticks only to Sardinian lands, history and culture, especially the one of Barbagia - the vast mountainous region in the inner Sardinia.
ILIENSES Dark Folk music it's ritualistic, thickly atmospheric and deeply evocative of Barbagia's mysteries and spirits. The band plays with self-constructed traditional instruments, sings in Sardinian language and makes use of A Tenore chants, a Sardinian autochthon kind of throat singing. Lyrics are strictly in Sardian autochthon language, and speaks about poetry, legends, facts and stories of Sardinian popular culture, an ancient culture which is still alive nowdays thanks to the oral transmission and the islander kind of society.
A few words about Jae, from ILIENSES:
"Lost in the undefined time and space of visions that manifest themselves in their primal sacredness, we felt the importance of searching for our roots. In particular, we tried to understand how the forms that make us up also make up earth, water, fire and stars and how they reach us through an audible and silent language. We recognize their vibrations but not their location in our mind, and hence the need to find the key, the "Jae" of the mystery that opens hidden portals.
Stones, woods, tombs, Domus, wells and Nuraghe, our primordial homes, are all thousands of years old living matter and are the places where we started chasing the thread of time, attached to both life and death. At the other end of the thread, we found esoteric figures, some appealing and some ominous, who hold with the same thread the extremes of everything, the beginning and the end of every being and every form, of men and even of time itself."
Sale Points:
Barbagia Dark Folk - Sardinian ritualistic Folk music, stylistically close to Wardruna and Heilung;
Played with self-constructed traditional instruments;
Lyrics in Sardinian autochthon language;
Ritualistic, evocative and atmospheric soundtrack-alike music;
ILIENSES it's not just music, but also CULTURE.
The band often plays in sites of archaeological value, such as the "Tombe Dei Giganti" and "Nuraghi", ancient structures of Nuragic populations.
Tracklist:
1) Jae
2) Tzonca
3) Eròes
4) Hampsicora
5) Ili Lur In Nurac Sessar
6) Animas
7) Arbèschet
ILIENSES are:
Mauro Medde & Natascia Talloru
Recording, mixing and mastering by Mauro Medde (ILI Music Studios) Photography: Gianfranco Delussu
Artwork: Arturo Grieco & Natascia Talloru
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords/
https://linktr.ee/Ilienses
https://www.facebook.com/iliensesofficial
After the first single, the title-track "The Kingdoom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT4vS51KhUo
ENDLESS DARK reveal a second cut from their debut album, "Alone in Paradise": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ies4WMOUXw
Formed in March 2022 by Florin Cucerzan (guitar and vocals) and Liviu Voda (guitar), the band was later joined by Dragos Benyovszky (bass and vocals), Catalin Chereji (keyboards) and Arpi Bogar (drums) to what nowadays is a determined quintet.
ENDLESS DARK strive to provide an atmosphere reminiscing to it's name, music-wise a Gothic Doom Metal band with Death and Black Metal influences. The sound, the message of the lyrics, the harmonic chaos, the obscure melody, they all create a cell of emotions bringing all that the name ENDLESS DARK holds within!
"The Kingdoom" is the first album of the Romanian band ENDLESS DARK, a material that preaches about a metaphorical entity by his name... the "kingdoom". This "kingdoom" is rather an idea, a morbid kind of thinking into the unknown, the mythical, the mystical, the dark path of the obscure idea of what afterlife could be, and of course... the ENDLESS DARK. The lyrics are reminiscing of death, many songs evoking a macabre tone in their lyrics while also holding high a very tiny touch of hope... or lack of it, from the melodic, chaotic harmony of the sound.
"From cold and shadows...
We rise under the darkest moon, beyond the mist of time that brings up the ENDLESS DARK!
Embrace the lost words, burn down the sun!
Restless revenants roaming the darkest depths of this existence, we fight for our unlight to become the Age of the Dark!
We shall rise the darkest light in the hopes of eternal peace!
We follow the mythical path of everlasting unlight to bring the peace amongst disturbed dead...
Let us reveal the ancient wisdom lost in time!
Let us bring you... The Kingdoom!"
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
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ONE WITH THE RIVERBED – “SUCCUMB”
Label: DusktoneRelease Date: October 25th 2024
Genre: Atmospheric Black/Post Metal
For fans of: Gloson | Ghost Bath | Harakiri For The Sky | An Autumn For Crippled Children
Hailing from Kalamazoo, Michigan, One With The Riverbed are a band whose music draws upon the essential, elemental forces of life itself. Vibrant, pulsing, agonized and exhilarating it reaches into the very core of those who find themselves engulfed by its gargantuan onslaught, broken open by its emotional power and exposed to its harsh truths and unflinching, penetrative gaze. Corrosive black metal crashes against the monolithic shores of a vast post-metal landscape, the tumbling riffs and ethereal melodies entwine forming something staggering and too colossal to comprehend and yet shot through with intensely intimate emotion – a glorious paradox of scale that has never been more effective than on the band’s imminent second full length album, Succumb.
Beginning with current single, the grand, portentous ‘Infested’, Succumb, gathers you up in its arms and carries you into its rampaging tumult of sound. Within the irresistible torrent you are sometimes gasping for breath, riding the crest of foaming, roaring waves and sometimes absorbed into the shadows and aquamarine twilight beneath the surface, skimming across the silent stones of a secret, submerged world. It’s a thrilling, bewildering, excoriating journey through an array of internal landscapes, dreamscapes and soundscapes. Within the world of ‘Dominion’ heartbreaking beauty emerges tentatively from the raging darkness, stays long enough to bewitch and enchant, then slips away again as suddenly as it arrived, utterly consumed, leaving the listener bereft – the sense of loss tangible. When ‘Purified’ casts you into the still shallows of ‘Adaptation’ you can float upon its reflective, echoing notes gazing at a sky obscured by tears, while vocals ripped apart with desolate emotion flay the layers of experience from your broken flesh. The potency of this collection of songs lies in its sheer emotive force that speaks in a voice both god-like and child-like to the universal hopes and fears within us all; the love, grief, shame and spirit that combine and coalesce in our veins.
From their beginnings amongst the forests and wetlands of their Kalamazoo home in 2017, One With The Riverbed always knew that they wanted to push the boundaries of the post-metal genre, to expand the palette of sounds that were the staple diet of other bands. The searing emotions that raged within their creative spirit demanded dissonance, cried out for soul-scarring textures and the unbridled harshness that black metal could supply…and with Succumb they have reached the overwhelming apogee of that creative vision. Succumb will be unleashed by Dusktone on October 25th – prepare for blinding revelation, shocking transformation and total disintegration…
Line-up:
John Scott – Guitar
Bryan Neterer – Guitar
Lisa Bridenstine – Bass
Jimmy Welty – Drums
Jared Koons – Vocals
https://www.dusktone.it/
https://www.facebook.com/dusktone/
https://onewiththeriverbed.com/
https://www.facebook.com/onewiththeriverbed/
Century
Media Records are pleased to announce the start of the upcoming SECOND
CHAPTER of the comprehensive catalogue re-issue campaign for legendary
and groundbreaking Death Metallers EDGE OF SANITY, who
were fronted by Swedish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed metal
producer Dan Swanö (Opeth, Katatonia, Dissection, etc.).Long out of print, never previously available in certain formats or in any properly re-worked re-issue version, as well as enhanced by tons of exciting extra-material, these definitive re-issues come efficiently all re-mastered by Swanö himself and partly even shine in a new light via additional remix efforts as bonus.
And in order to showcase the impressing remastering as well as bonus remix treatment given to some of the material, you can now also check out the EDGE OF SANITY digital singles “Darkday (Remaster 2024)” as well as “Darkday (Remix 2024)” , taken from the 2CD and Digital Album format from the upcoming “The Spectral Sorrows” re-issue, on all DSP’s as well as in visualizers:
"Darkday (Remaster 2024)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E79fNEmhBI
"Darkday (Remix 2024)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj87xI05nL0
NEWS 12.10.2024
HEREZA - " DECOMPOSED BEYOND RECOGNITION"
TORMENT OF SOULS – “MORTUUS EST I “
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Dark Descent Records heralds the first coming of ABERRATOR - a yet unknown entity devoted to the ancient arts of death metal mastery.
The
band's debut album BECKONING TRIBULATION is now on Dark
Descent Records.
“Beckoning Tribulation is a lens into the human condition, the inevitable decline due to the innate zealotry and hypocrisy within our species,” states ABERRATOR vocalist N.H. “The triumphant proclamation of the death of god and the impending doom of mankind as it struggles within the vacuum this creates.”
Order Beckoning Tribulation at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beckoning-tribulation
https://ddmsuo.eu/
Founded in 2022 between G.P and N.H from New Zealand - with P.F from Canada on session drums, ABERRATOR pulls no punches, unleashing Beckoning Tribulation, a devastating full-length, straight out of the gate. Influenced by the darkest of death metal and death/doom - particularly of US and Finnish origins - the band fit the Dark Descent roster like a key to a crypt.
Tracklisting:
1. Plague Monarch Ascendant
2. Flagellation Crusade
3. Doomed Quintessence
4. Beckoning Tribulation
5. Spiritual Attrition
6. Emissary of Suffering
7. ...Of the Crucible
The album comes clad in a masterful gravure/woodcut-style piece from the inimitable mind of Alex Shadrin from Nether Temple Design: “The artwork represents the above concepts. Betrayal hidden with the guise of civility; blades plunged into another's backs to complete the ouroboros. Murder, cunning and cowardice act in unison as tools of victory and ultimately defeat.”
ABERRATOR is:
G.P - Guitars and Bass
N.H - Vocals
P.F - Drums
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SUIDAKRA – “DARKANAKRAD”
Release: 07. November 2024
Exactly 30 years to the month after the band was founded, German melodic/Celtic death metallers SUIDAKRA present their 15th studio album! Musically, the band seem to be returning to their early years with these 11 tracks, as DarkanakraD is undoubtedly dominated by melodic death metal parts, but at the same time also undergoes further development. The album sounds as fresh and powerful as if the band had sprung from a fountain of youth.
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Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: October 22nd 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Sodom | Slayer | Destruction | Devastation
He tears away the restricting shroud of memories and past battles, won and lost and brushes the grave dirt from his cold skin. He spits an errant worm from between his broken teeth and tests the edge of his blade against the flesh of his thumb. The skin parts and a sluggish stream of thick, black blood trickles lazily into his palm, forming a dark, shining pool. He stares for a moment at the image of his face, captured in the quickly congealing fluid; part man, part mask – all monster. But this is no time for dreaming, no time for thinking or reflecting. Death is calling. The Anialator is back and there’s killing to be done!
Six years on from their last release, the Rise To Supremacy EP and decades since the ragged violence of the Anialator and Anialator II records, which still hold a special place in the hearts of many thrashers, Texan legends Anialator are back and finally unleashing their first full length album – Death Is Calling! A seven track nail bomb of classic thrash sounds, straight from the underground, there has been no dilution of the Anialator sound by the modern genre blending plague…but neither is this some pastiche of past glories. From the white knuckle ride along the razor’s edge of chaos and darkness that is opener ‘Kill Til Death’, it’s clear that Anialator are still raw, still savage, still vicious but they’re now operating at a higher level of precision and power. With the brilliantly barbaric vocals, searing lead work and accomplished song writing there can be no doubt that Death Is Calling represents Anialator’s finest work to date. From the awesome ‘Iron Grinder’, a gritty invocation of evil, to ‘Battlefield Messiah’ with its torrent of Slayerized riffs that cuts a swathe through its enemies and leaves bloody carnage in its wake, this album is relentless. There’s no filler here, with every track standing proud in the frontline trench, with gritted teeth and blood boiling with uncontrollable aggression and adrenaline. These songs are made for the pit, for headbanging until your neck breaks, for ear-bleeding volume…this full length album may have been a long time coming, but it is everything that fans could have hoped for and more.
Mastered by the in demand Arthur Rizk (Cavalera Conspiracy, Cro-Mags, Kreator etc) Death Is Calling possesses a visceral power, the dirt and dried blood under its ragged finger nails evident in each snarling riff and venomous vocal exhortation. When Anialator and Death Is Calling are exhumed by Xtreem Music on October 22nd it will be shockingly apparent that this is no footnote to a career, no last twitching of a once renowned corpse – this is a new beginning, a devastating resurgence of a band who are back and deadlier than ever. Join them, or start running...
Recording line-up:
Alex Dominguez - Bass
JD De La Rosa – Guitars/Drums
Tony Gomez – Vocals
Additional live members:
Daniel Garcia - Drums
Fernando Salinas - Rhythm and lead Guitars
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Anialatortx
Listen to "In The Gravelight" on streaming https://push.fm/fl/warfarer-gravelight
The band comments the single:
"In the Gravelight delves into the protagonist's descent into madness, where guilt and past deeds consume him from within."
A Tale Beyond the Pale CD PRE-ORDER available here :
Watch Brotherslayer music video: https://youtu.be/My-6xbnEEmo
Watch Heir Uncrowned video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AmN6t0Mj5Y
Track
list:
01. Heir Uncrowned
02. As the Portents Foretold
03. Brotherslayer
04. Bereaver
05. Betrayer
06. In the Gravelight
07. March Through the Endless Snow
08. The Gates to Realms Beyond
Cover art by Sofia Sinivuori
Biography:
Born from the frost of Northern Finland in 2013, Warfarer weaves chilling tales of small people's great struggles amidst ancient myths. Their ferocious blend of melodic death metal and symphonic elements bites like the freezing wind and grips you like the flu.
After releasing an EP in 2017 and undergoing a complete reincarnation with new singles in 2018 and 2020, the band is more alive than ever, preparing for war with brutal new songs and sharpened axes. Their upcoming concept album, 'A Tale Beyond the Pale', set for release in 2024, delves into the Finnish myth of the Brotherslayer, taking listeners on a journey through jealousy, scheming, Viking raids, duels under the northern lights, and an eventual descent into guilt and madness.
Line-up:
Kalle Puutio - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitars
Seppo Kolehmainen - Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals
Klaus Telenius - Bass, Backing Vocals
Tuomas Rahikainen - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Julius Lehtonen - Drums
https://linktr.ee/warfarer
https://www.youtube.com/@warfarerband
https://www.facebook.com/warfarerband
Prepare to descend into the abyss. Blackened death metal project BODYBUILDER has signed with Wormholedeath for the release of their harrowing EP, "THERE'S NO THERE, THERE". Mark your calendars, for this sonic onslaught is set to pulverize your senses on November 15th, 2024.
Emerging from the shadows of Los Angeles in 2018, Bodybuilder is the singular vision of mastermind Nicholas Capaldi. Weaving a tapestry of despair and dread, Capaldi utilizes a potent arsenal of synthesizers, tortured vocals, and pulverizing drum programming.
"There's No There, There" signifies a bold new chapter for Bodybuilder. This isn't your typical black metal fare. Imagine a relentless sonic storm, a relentless torrent of anguish howling its terrifying symphony. Distorted synthesizers paint a bleak yet atmospheric canvas, transporting the listener on a harrowing journey through nightmares escapes, and existential abysses.
Capaldi
draws inspiration from the dark visions of literary giants like William
Gibson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, and H.P. Lovecraft. The resulting
soundscape mirrors their bleak narratives: a descent into a dreamscape that
spirals endlessly into a terrifying void.
This is more than music. It's an experience you won't forget.
Tracklist
1. Separating Twins
2. Vera’s Moth
3. Charon
4. About a Hanging, Pt.2
5. Somebody, Something, Somewhere
6. Thalassa
https://bodybuilder.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-kadath
Format: Digitale CD / Fysieke CD
Label: Anti-Hero Records
Distribution: Suburban
For fans of. Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Shade Empire, Hollenthon, Septic Flesh, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ne Obliviscaris and so on….
Artefacts is a Belgian bandproject aimed at bringing the highest level of musical experiences to the listener. What can only be described as an epic movie score fused with thundering guitars, blistering drums and haunting screams, the band combines the bombast of a symphonic orchestra with the darkness of black metal, while adding a progressive touch.
The mission from the outset was to give the audience an all-inclusive experience, encompassing music, images and an expansive storyline and thus, ‘The Titan Chronicles’ was born: an entire universe, in which the base story line is set, was conceived.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Bram Dewachter and Tim Van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings. The core of the outfit consists of Siegfried Mercelis (keys and orchestration) and Niklaas Reinhold (vocals), both years of experience playing in Lemuria. The present line up consists of current and former members of Slaughter The Giant, Manic Movement, Lost Department and Valkyre.
The album will be released on Anti-Hero Records, a new Belgian label founded by Tony de Block(Midas Studio, Red Hot, Belgian Vinyl Pressing Plant).
Tracklist:
01. Prologue Gods and Mortals
02. Nephereth
03. The Tower of Irth-Anshar
04. Dragonfall
05. Interlude Her brine embrace
06. The Path of No Return
07. Augur the Age of Darkness
08. Corruption(Glory for the fall)
09. Epilogue For the dead and the undying
The full line-up of the band is as follows:
Siegfried Mercelis – keys and orchestration, composer, songwriting, lyrics, story
Niklaas Reinhold – harsh vocals and narration, lyrics
Tom Everaert – bass
Tom Leemans – lead and rhythm guitars
Hans Jacobs – rhythm and lead guitars
Joren Baert – drums
https://www.facebook.com/AntiHeroRecordsBelgium/
https://www.facebook.com/artefactsmetal
Rising Swiss black/death metal force TYRMFAR has signed a deal with Wormholedeath for their upcoming EP, SYMBIOSIS, set to be unleashed on the world on March 28th, 2025. This partnership marks a significant milestone for the band as they continue their relentless ascent in the world of extreme metal.
"We are very excited to announce that our next EP will be released with WormHoleDeath Records!" exclaims the band. "We are very much looking forward to working with them. In addition to having already signed major productions, the label turns out to be very professional with available and helpful people. We will be able to benefit from their large network of contacts and their many years of experience."
Hailing from the Swiss mountains, Tyrmfar quickly rose through the ranks of extreme metal after their 2013 inception. Their 2015 debut EP, In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit, and 2017’s acclaimed Human Abomination set the stage for performances at major European festivals like Metal Days, earning them praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” Their second album, Renewal Through Purification, showcased a powerful blend of black and death metal. In 2022, they pushed boundaries further with Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, leading to a European tour with Gorgoroth. Tyrmfar is now poised to claim their place on the world stage.
"Symbiosis" EP represents a further exploration of their compositional boundaries. Dedicated to bringing out the best in each member, the band invested significant effort into the creative process. Drawing on their collective years of experience, they sought to authentically convey their emotions through music. Against the backdrop of a tense ecological and social climate, the lyrics address these issues, expressing a sense of unease and confusion about humanity's relationship with nature.
Strongly influenced by Scandinavian black and death metal from the late 90s and early 2000s, the EP also incorporates modern elements. Given the band members' diverse musical tastes, the songwriting process involved a collaborative effort to blend their preferred styles. The band places great importance on emotional expression, believing that a strong connection with the audience is essential to their live performances.
“Pilgrimage of Oneness” is available now on all major digital platforms: https://orcd.co/pilgrimageofoneness
Tracklist
1. Pilgrimage of Oneness
2. Symphony of Pain
3. Haunted by the Truth
4. The Hubris of Humanity, Pt.1
5. The Reckoning, Pt.2
Kévin Sanchez - Guitars
Florian Métrailler- Guitars
Quentin Brunner - Drums - Backing vocals
Robin Délèze - Voice
Yannick Dulon – Bass
https://linktr.ee/tyrmfar
Denigrate's singer Galzi tells about the song:
"This is the fastest and shortest song on the upcoming album. You could maybe call it radio friendly track. It's made by our guitarists Sepi and Teemu with their supernaturally ethereal collaboration. We didn't plan the album to have this kind of musical approach included but mainly just teenage-like enthusiasm and persistence of searching and finding and the joy that comes from that.
Lyrics narrate under the feminine theme of the album. They are about connection and search of meaning. They are about admiration that is longing for response, and the panic of being rejected."
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/denigrate-underether
Since Denigrate was found back in '96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observative.
The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in this band. From the first released album in 2003 to the latest 4th one in 2024 called "To The Goddess Unknown", decades has changed and so has the band.
After no more than three albums released, after big-time local momentum with a finnish cover song, after mandatory hiatus, after some line-up changes, Denigrate 2024 introduces their absolutely greatest masterpiece to date and shows what only truely experienced bunch of members can achieve.
Tracklist :
01. Crystal Rest
02. The Ethics of Loss
03. Under Ether
04. The Apparition of One
05. One who holds the balance
06. Sesame and Lilies
07. In the Light
08. Semidiapente
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Teemu Riekki - Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
denigratemail@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/denigrateCamp
MISANTHROPY - “THE EVER-CRUSHING WEIGHT OF STAGNANCE”
For
fans of
- Origin, Archspire, Ulcerate, Fleshbore, Gorguts, Atheist
Misanthropy offer a refreshing raw, frantic and visceral approach to the tech death style. Instead of playing safe and adopting the same safe predictable formula used by the established bands, they're carving their own path and going about the style in their own unconventional manner, skittering off without prior warning and swerving violently and just doing things seemingly at random but mostly at break-neck speed. It all seems wonderfully/overwhelmingly haphazard but underneath the maddening chaos lies meticulous writing and more impressively, clean execution which they have nailed while recording the music live. For that reason the pulsating, kinetic energy on this record is tangible - one can feel the rush, the rising sense of excitement when they speed up or switch things suddenly at the spur of the moment or just resort to mangling their instruments to create the most infernal cacophony. Misanthropy are an ever-evolving band, imbibing the influences around them and freely recreating them in their own unique manner which may not be too straightforward but it definitely makes for a thrilling listen.
Line up
Kevin Kovalsky - Guitar and Vocals
Paul Reszczynski - Drums
José Valles - Guitar
Mark Bojkewycz - Fretless Bass
Artwork by Pedro Sena - Lordigan (Analepsy, Cognitive, Extermination Dismemberment)
Track listing
1. Of Sulking And The Wrathful
2. The All-Devouring
3. A Cure For The Pestilence
4. Condemned To A Nameless Tomb
5. Descent
6. Sepulcher
7. Consumed By The Abyss
Release date - December 13th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/MisanthropyChicago
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Release
date :November
15th 2024
Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Duration: 33min35
TIME LURKER is back this year with "EMPRISE". After his first eponymous album released in 2017 and his split with CEPHEIDE, Time Lurker is back as a duo, accompanied on vocals by Sotte._
The album will be released on November 15th on the label Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions.
TIME LURKER is a solo atmospheric black metal project, created by Mick in 2014. Inspired by the darkness of the human soul and introspective journeys deep into his own torments. Returning after 5 years’ silence, Time Lurker are back in 2024 with a new album that has been built on doubt, self-questioning and suffering, but also on the strength of self-transcendence and determination. Joined in 2023 by SOTTE for all the vocals and lyrics.
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"EXTINCTION RITUAL," HATE ANGEL'S debut album. Brace yourselves for a blistering assault on your senses – a merciless onslaught of razor-sharp riffs, blast-beaten drums, and vocals that sear your soul. This isn't just music; it's an experience.
Tracklist
1 Orkdal 1977
2 Crawling From The Grave
3 Music Of Torture
4 Blood & Silver
5 Tyr Blot
6 Morningstar
7 Kill The King
8 Extinction Ritual
Hailing from the icy clutches of Oslo, Hate Angel isn't just a band, it's a sonic ritual of primal aggression. Founded in 2017 by guitarist Hans Erik Sundby, this band is a relentless force, conjuring up a whirlwind of blackened fury and thrashing mayhem.
Hate Angel lineup for "Extinction Ritual":
Hans Erik Sundby - Lead Guitar
Qiaochu "Mad Pig" Tang - Lead Guitar
Carl Engstrøm - Drums
Jon Anders Krogh Eggen - Vocals
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Portland (OR) - Progressive/Traditional Metal outfit SLEEPLESS have released a lyric video for "Call To The Void," the third single from forthcoming album, Through Endless Black!
FFO: Watch Tower, Nevermore, Anacrusis, Witherfall, Sanctuary, Fates Warning, Hades.
Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKDqrxHJK8
SLEEPLESS are set to release Through Endless Black, their second full-length album, on October 31! The album will be available on vinyl and digital formats through Necromantic Press Records. The CD version will be released on Metal Warrior Records.
Soon after the release of critically acclaimed, 2022 full-length debut album, Host Desecration, writing team Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn dug in deep with a single minded purpose: to create a world class metal album that shows exactly what SLEEPLESS is all about! Through Endless Black is just that! The album leans into the band's Trad Metal roots, infused with the technical flourishes and spashes of Doom that collectively create the SLEEPLESS sound! "With each tune we would picture someone dropping the needle onto a record," explains Sexton-Dorsett. "Could they nod their head to the song and have it repeating in their mind the rest of the day?"
Mission accomplished!
The band also introduced their first guest vocal appearances by legendary punk vocalist Jerry A of Poison Idea and master metal vocalist Sean Peck of Denner/Sherman, Cage, and Death Dealer!
SLEEPLESS is back with one hell of an album in Through Endless Black!
Pre-order:
https://sleeplessmetal.bandcamp.com/album/through-endless-black
Track List:
Side A:
1. Call To The Void
2. Cult Of The Narcissist
3. Consumed By Vengeance
4. Exist Another Day (Feat. Jerry A)
5. Where Fear Lives
Side B:
6. Through Endless Black
7. Lost Star
8. Transcending The Obsidian Throne (Feat. Sean Peck)
9. Lessons In Tongues
10. Dreams Of Mortal Ruin
Credits:
Guest vocals on Exist Another Day by Jerry A.
Guest vocals on Transcending The Obsidian Throne by Sean
"Hell Destroyer" Peck.
Additional keys by Fernando Ruiz.
Recorded at Opal Studio, Portland Oregon 2024.
Produced by Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn.
Engineered by Kevin Hahn.
Released by Necromantic Press Records.
Distributed in Europe by Metal Warrior Records.
Artwork by T.J. Barber.
Line-up:
Eric Sexton-Dorsett - Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitars, Backing Vocals
Kevin Hahn - Lead Guitars, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keys
Eric Detablan - Drums
Hixon Sexton-Dorsett - Bass
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Release: 31. October 2024
The Dutch band Slechtvalk have been making their mark on the European metal scene since 1999 and have been delighting fans of symphonic, folk, black and Viking death metal for the past 25 years. While some bands lose their bite over the years, Slechtvalk present themselves more extreme and brutal than ever before on their sixth longplayer “At Death's Gate”.
The Dutchmen create a dense, dark atmosphere with impressive precision, one moment creating a melodic tapestry of sound and the next bludgeoning everything to the ground.
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The artwork created by Federico De Luca fully represents the elegance and mystical aura that can be felt in this new work.
And here is "Anhedonia" tracklist:
1. Lament Of The Lost
2. Harmony Of Despair
3. Eclipse Of Hope
4. Lost Dreams Ritual
5. Sorrow's Shroud
6. Soul's Descent Into The Void
7. Tears In The Silence
8. Ancient Echoes
The album will be released on January 3rd, 2025 and is possible to pre-order at https://shorturl.at/UvM5u
The return to the scene, after the clamor of "Koinè", is marked by an intimate approach towards what has been created, making "Anhedonia" a bridge between past, present and future. It is a sort of musical journey between esoteric and oriental sounds, Ambient-wave elements and references to Nordic musical traditions, but without losing the identity of the project made by the beauty of the atmospheres that blend inextricably with the sonic extremism of Black Metal.
You can find in "Anhedonia" the cinematic essence of ULVER, the Avantgardism of IHSAHN, the strength of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, the mediterranean touch of MOONSPELL and the dramatic elements of EMPYRIUM.
As it is for years now, always expect the unexpected... this was, is, and will always be the main path of LORD AGHEROS.
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The new single will be available October 11 on all digital platforms!
Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus, GIGAN's first album in seven years, will be released October 25 on CD, Ltd edition CD long box, vinyl, cassette, Ltd edition four-album cassette boxset, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
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Speaking to the new album, GIGAN’s founding member, guitarist, sole-songwriter and lyricist; Eric Hersemann, had this to say: “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a perfect expression of where GIGAN is as a band and where we are headed into the future. Like all GIGAN songs, our emphasis is on creativity and limitless imagination, while still working within the realms of interwoven madness and colorful technicality combined with the oppressive elements of misanthropic dissonance and crushing brutality. Any fan of GIGAN, or any fan of genuine Metal music that is completely fearless and without pretentious delivery, is in for a mind-bending treat.”
Track
Listing:
1. Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis
2. Ultra-Violet Shimmer and Permeating Infra-sound
3. Square Wave Subversion
4. Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes
5. Katabatic Windswept Landscapes
6. Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror
7. The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids
8. Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs of Time
Credits:
All music, lyrics, vocal patterns and concepts: Eric Hersemann.
Recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, IL.
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room.
All album art and layout: Max Winter (Teratogen)
Line-up:
Eric Hersemann - All electric, acoustic and bass guitars, theremin, otomatone, synths, lyrics, concepts and madness.
Nathan Cotton - Drums, percussion and Sunny weather.
Jerry Kavouriaris - Vocals and violence.
Bio:
Since 2005, GIGAN has been an unsung vanguard of abstract and creatively dissonant extreme metal. Pushing boundaries and never compromising the artistic vision throughout the debut EP and subsequent four full-length albums has led GIGAN to be considered an unwavering force of both innovation and extremity.
It has been almost seven years since GIGAN has released new music and the time spent away has only honed and sharpened the still-deadly blades of creativity for which GIGAN has always been known; while also infusing fresh elements not yet heard within the GIGAN Universe. The results of GIGAN’s current hard work is the new beast of an album entitled Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus.
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Timisoara,
Romania based Occult Black Metal trident ORDINUL NEGRU announce
the track-list for their upcoming full-length album "DODEKATEMORIA"
as follows:
I. Aleph
II. Dodekatemoria
III. Judas Goat
IV. The Decrepitude of Centuries
V. Zahir
The cover artwork was crafted in conspiracy with long-time band collaborator Alexandru Das, and the band photos are the work of Oana Stoian.
The new material has been in the works for the past five years and it was previously introduced by two EPs: "Nebuisa" in 2020, and "A Sojourner Wandering Through the Barren Openness" in 2021, and now by a first video for the track "Zahir" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntw6Ssx3ug
Here's what the band had to say about the album: ""Dodekatemoria" is the ninth album and represents our bond with the cosmic nature and what we experience as individuals when we are on this path searching for our truths."
The band also invited Anca Otescu (Black Water, FusionCore) and Irinel Carlan to enhance the vocal compartment with their guest performances.
"Dodekatemoria" will be released this Autumn in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.
Line-up:
Fulmineos – guitars, vocals
Urmuz – guitars, vocals
Putrid – drums, bass
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Norwegian
Extreme Metallers CREST OF DARKNESS unveil "THE
ULTIMATE TRUTH", a new song from the upcoming album "MY
GHOST".
The song is presented with a great official video directed and edited by Caroline Kløvrud for Litt Film that you can view at https://youtu.be/8qYaplQj1Kg
CREST OF DARKNESS' new album "My Ghost" will be released on October 18th via My Kingdom Music and will present the heaviest, most obscure and personal music ever released by the Norwegian veterans. Evil riffing, ritualistic atmospheres and demonic vocals will be the keywords of their 9th full length album in 30 years of career.
"My Ghost" is the result of two years worth of blood and sweat, that began with Ingar working alone to mould his very personal thoughts and beliefs into musical ideas that the band can then develop together, each contributing their own ideas to the process.
Recorded at MLP Studios with Nils H. Maehlum at the helm, mastered by Giuseppe Nicolò (aka Buzz) at Lost Soul Studio and with the cover artwork realized by Roy Allan Larsen, "My Ghost" is an extremely personal journey that defines the very essence of CREST OF DARKNESS.
"My Ghost", out on October 18th, is now available to pre-order in LP, digipak CD and in a special bundle edition limited to 50 copies from the following: https://shorturl.at/mqf9L
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Atlanta (GA) - MISANTHROPIC AGGRESSION, in collaboration with Decibel Magazine, have premiered "A.S.S. III - THE BORDERLAND WARS," a track from forthcoming album, INSECT POLITICS. Check it out at the link that follows!
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/10/07/track-premiere-misanthropic-aggression-a-s-s-iii-the-borderland-wars/
Misanthropic Aggression are set to release their full-length debut album, Insect Politics, through Boris Records. The album will be available exclusively on translucent 12" red vinyl LP, as well as digital, format on October 15.
This offering of crust-tinged Black/Death Metal comes on the tail of 2020’s dual releases of the “Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell” single and the COVID-19 Reset EP cassette, also released by Boris Records. The new album contains 12 all-new tracks mastered by Damian Herring.
The title track is available to purchase and/or stream via Bandcamp:
An introduction to the album from the band:
"We are more than pleased to finally be releasing the album of Insect Politics. The vision that ultimately became this recording was initially conceived in early 2020 immediately after production wrapped up on the 'Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell' single. It feels almost an eternity ago that these events came to pass, with a global pandemic descending upon us and completely upheaving the state of the band, as well as the numerous life events that followed.
The one constant in this time for Chris [T. Hammer] and Jake [Benedict], as our planned tour evaporated and local gigs dried up, was the prospect of recording the songs for release in our very first full-length. The actual composition of the tracks seems almost a blur, with three of the first songs written occurring in a matter of months in the early stages of the pandemic and being recorded and mixed by mid-2021, and the remainder of the songs being composed by late 2021.
However, the production to finish recording that last set of songs proved a major challenge, as we set out to create our most ambitious and uncompromising structures yet. What resulted exceeded even our own expectations and initial vision. As we wrapped up post-production, both of us noted that this album truly represents an ending: a conclusion of what we initially set out to do in 2017, which was to marry our artistic influences — the Celtic Frosts and the Graves and the His Heroes are Gone and the Morbid Angels… and the Impetigos… — into a cohesive and novel expression which was singular, sharp, and pointed in its rebellion against the wrongs of humanity, and simultaneously broad in its footprint, sonic approach, and modes of worship. But, every ending is also a beginning, and we also realized that selections from this album contain the blueprint for the next era of the band. The assault will continue…."
Pre-order:
https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/insect-politics
Track Listing:
1. Social Ruin
2. Insect Politics
3. Anger/Despair (Interlude)
4. A.S.S. III — The Borderland Wars
5. Bliss
6. La Canzone di Mary Woodhouse (Interlude)
7. The Gates of Hell
8. Boomer Death
9. Intentional Under Performance
10. Winner of the Franchise Wars
11. The Serpent and the Sickle
12. Eusocial Demesne
Credits:
Recorded and mixed at Hammer Studios, Smyrna GA.
Mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios.
Front cover insect art by Jeremy Snevil.
Additional front cover and vinyl label components by Warhead Art.
Album layout by Misanthropic Aggression with graphical assistance from Sam Leyja (Boris Records).
Line-up:
Jake Benedict -- Lead Vocals, Drums
Chris T. Hammer -- Guitar, Bass, Vocals
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APOCRYPHAL-
„FACING THE END“
25 years after the debut album "Black Dreams of Silence", French band Apocryphal returns. The new album “Facing The End” marks a stark departure from the late 90s atmospheric doom-death sound and takes the band to a more melo-death approach. They do that with the help of none other than the powerhouse vocals of Soilwork legendary frontman, Björn "Speed" Strid, who features on all tracks on the album.
The music on "Facing The End" is aggressive, straight-in-your-face melodic death metal at its best. Frenetic rhythm with catchy choruses, raging drums and relentless riffing. Special mention goes to the amazing work done on the guitars and the solid rhythm section. Bjorn “Speed” Strid doesn’t need any introductions. The way he spits the lyrics transforms the whole effort, sending it to the heavens. Add to all the above the amazing production that brings out every aspect of this masterpiece.
The band said: "Our new album may come as a surprise to those who know us, but all the ingredients that make us unique are there. Perhaps less atmospheric, but more effective, the mix of melody and aggression will make every song stick in your head from the first time you listen to it."
“Facing The End” will be released on 12 November 2024 in CD, vinyl and digital formats via The Circle Music.
The artwork to “Facing The End” was done by Valnoir of Metastazis, while the mastering for the album was done by Nino Helfrich at Skull Tone Studios.
Formed in 1992 as Post At Funerals, Apocryphal found their current name by 1994. Their early releases, including the 1995 demo "From Depths", showcased their blend of death metal, atmospheric, and progressive influences. After a long period of inactivity following the release of their 1999 album "Black Dreams Of Silence", the band reformed in 2022 and recruited legendary vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid of Soilwork for their new album set for release in 2024.
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MURDER IN RED is where sinister melodies and chilling lyrics collide: This gripping track takes you on a journey through themes of loss, obsession, and the insatiable urge for destruction. Vivid imagery of blood, dark transformations, and moonlit skies, MURDER IN RED evokes raw emotion and a descent into madness.
The video for MURDER IN RED was created by Brandon McGowan with additional footage of Damón Zurawski, who already created the mesmerizing video for Saturn Coming Down.
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtb1F4SyDk
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The highly awaited follow-up album from the Finnish death metal band Devenial Verdict is finally out and is now streaming on all platforms. The response it has received thus far is phenomenal, with several mentions being made about it being one of the year's best albums and with Angry Metal Guy even giving it a high rating of 4/5. It's now streaming in full everywhere. Please check it out!
DEVENIAL VERDICT – “BLESSING OF DESPAIR”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Morbid
Angel, Dysgnostic, Saevus Finis, Crown of Madness, Mithras
Finnish dissonant/atmospheric death metal band Devenial Verdict return after nonchalantly dropping a staggering debut out of nowhere in 'Ash Blind'. Stunning everyone with its sheer magnificence and power, it was always going to be interesting to see where they go from there. And they've released a new full length that's not only a worthy follow-up but it's far more nuanced than anything they've done in the past. They've nurtured a sound that is inherently pensive and adopted an approach that's laden with suspense and intrigue; the sharp, ringing, dissonant tunes linger in the air like inverted scythes. The atmosphere remains emotionally charged which is already rare for this style, with the music being a lot more expressive and colourful in its shades of gloom over here. The songs, undulating gracefully in their intensity, showcase interesting and comparatively diverse variations without straying from their core sound which sees dissonance and atmosphere working in tandem. There's a sense of dark melancholia permeating their music which adds meaning and depth to this kind of music that can too easily be rendered soulless. Devenial Verdict have once again crafted a masterful, passionate album that pushes the sound in its own way while firmly establishing a distinct identity for the band.
Line up:
Okko Tolvanen - Drums
Sebastian Frigren - Guitars
Antti Poutanen - Bass
Riku Saressalo - Vocals
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing:
1. I Have Become the Sun
2. Garden of Eyes
3. Moon-Starved
4. Blessing of Despair
5. Shunned Wander
6. The Quietus
7. Solus
8. Counting Silence
9. Cold Lantern
10. A Curse Made Flesh
Release date - October 4th, 2024
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ARCH ENEMY founder and guitarist Michael Amott shares about the new album:
“This new album pushes the boundaries of what we’ve done before—it’s everything you’ve come to expect from this band, and then some! We can’t wait for you to hear it and feel the energy we’ve poured into every track. Welcome to the BLOOD DYNASTY!”
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“Beckoning Tribulation is a lens into the human condition, the inevitable decline due to the innate zealotry and hypocrisy within our species,” states ABERRATOR vocalist N.H. “The triumphant proclamation of the death of god and the impending doom of mankind as it struggles within the vacuum this creates.”
Order Beckoning Tribulation at:
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Founded in 2022 between G.P and N.H from New Zealand - with P.F from Canada on session drums, ABERRATOR pulls no punches, unleashing Beckoning Tribulation, a devastating full-length, straight out of the gate. Influenced by the darkest of death metal and death/doom - particularly of US and Finnish origins - the band fit the Dark Descent roster like a key to a crypt.
Tracklisting:1. Plague Monarch Ascendant
2. Flagellation Crusade
3. Doomed Quintessence
4. Beckoning Tribulation
5. Spiritual Attrition
6. Emissary of Suffering
7. ...Of the Crucible
The album comes clad in a masterful gravure/woodcut-style piece from the inimitable mind of Alex Shadrin from Nether Temple Design: “The artwork represents the above concepts. Betrayal hidden with the guise of civility; blades plunged into another's backs to complete the ouroboros. Murder, cunning and cowardice act in unison as tools of victory and ultimately defeat.”
ABERRATOR is:
G.P - Guitars and Bass
N.H - Vocals
P.F - Drums
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SUIDAKRA – “DARKANAKRAD”
Release: 07. November 2024
Exactly 30 years to the month after the band was founded, German melodic/Celtic death metallers SUIDAKRA present their 15th studio album! Musically, the band seem to be returning to their early years with these 11 tracks, as DarkanakraD is undoubtedly dominated by melodic death metal parts, but at the same time also undergoes further development. The album sounds as fresh and powerful as if the band had sprung from a fountain of youth.
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Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: October 22nd 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Sodom | Slayer | Destruction | Devastation
He tears away the restricting shroud of memories and past battles, won and lost and brushes the grave dirt from his cold skin. He spits an errant worm from between his broken teeth and tests the edge of his blade against the flesh of his thumb. The skin parts and a sluggish stream of thick, black blood trickles lazily into his palm, forming a dark, shining pool. He stares for a moment at the image of his face, captured in the quickly congealing fluid; part man, part mask – all monster. But this is no time for dreaming, no time for thinking or reflecting. Death is calling. The Anialator is back and there’s killing to be done!
Six years on from their last release, the Rise To Supremacy EP and decades since the ragged violence of the Anialator and Anialator II records, which still hold a special place in the hearts of many thrashers, Texan legends Anialator are back and finally unleashing their first full length album – Death Is Calling! A seven track nail bomb of classic thrash sounds, straight from the underground, there has been no dilution of the Anialator sound by the modern genre blending plague…but neither is this some pastiche of past glories. From the white knuckle ride along the razor’s edge of chaos and darkness that is opener ‘Kill Til Death’, it’s clear that Anialator are still raw, still savage, still vicious but they’re now operating at a higher level of precision and power. With the brilliantly barbaric vocals, searing lead work and accomplished song writing there can be no doubt that Death Is Calling represents Anialator’s finest work to date. From the awesome ‘Iron Grinder’, a gritty invocation of evil, to ‘Battlefield Messiah’ with its torrent of Slayerized riffs that cuts a swathe through its enemies and leaves bloody carnage in its wake, this album is relentless. There’s no filler here, with every track standing proud in the frontline trench, with gritted teeth and blood boiling with uncontrollable aggression and adrenaline. These songs are made for the pit, for headbanging until your neck breaks, for ear-bleeding volume…this full length album may have been a long time coming, but it is everything that fans could have hoped for and more.
Mastered by the in demand Arthur Rizk (Cavalera Conspiracy, Cro-Mags, Kreator etc) Death Is Calling possesses a visceral power, the dirt and dried blood under its ragged finger nails evident in each snarling riff and venomous vocal exhortation. When Anialator and Death Is Calling are exhumed by Xtreem Music on October 22nd it will be shockingly apparent that this is no footnote to a career, no last twitching of a once renowned corpse – this is a new beginning, a devastating resurgence of a band who are back and deadlier than ever. Join them, or start running...
Recording line-up:
Alex Dominguez - Bass
JD De La Rosa – Guitars/Drums
Tony Gomez – Vocals
Additional live members:
Daniel Garcia - Drums
Fernando Salinas - Rhythm and lead Guitars
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Listen to "In The Gravelight" on streaming https://push.fm/fl/warfarer-gravelight
The band comments the single:
"In the Gravelight delves into the protagonist's descent into madness, where guilt and past deeds consume him from within."
A Tale Beyond the Pale CD PRE-ORDER available here :
Watch Brotherslayer music video: https://youtu.be/My-6xbnEEmo
Watch Heir Uncrowned video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AmN6t0Mj5Y
Track
list:01. Heir Uncrowned
02. As the Portents Foretold
03. Brotherslayer
04. Bereaver
05. Betrayer
06. In the Gravelight
07. March Through the Endless Snow
08. The Gates to Realms Beyond
Cover art by Sofia Sinivuori
Biography:
Born from the frost of Northern Finland in 2013, Warfarer weaves chilling tales of small people's great struggles amidst ancient myths. Their ferocious blend of melodic death metal and symphonic elements bites like the freezing wind and grips you like the flu.
After releasing an EP in 2017 and undergoing a complete reincarnation with new singles in 2018 and 2020, the band is more alive than ever, preparing for war with brutal new songs and sharpened axes. Their upcoming concept album, 'A Tale Beyond the Pale', set for release in 2024, delves into the Finnish myth of the Brotherslayer, taking listeners on a journey through jealousy, scheming, Viking raids, duels under the northern lights, and an eventual descent into guilt and madness.
Line-up:
Kalle Puutio - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitars
Seppo Kolehmainen - Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals
Klaus Telenius - Bass, Backing Vocals
Tuomas Rahikainen - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Julius Lehtonen - Drums
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Prepare to descend into the abyss. Blackened death metal project BODYBUILDER has signed with Wormholedeath for the release of their harrowing EP, "THERE'S NO THERE, THERE". Mark your calendars, for this sonic onslaught is set to pulverize your senses on November 15th, 2024.
Emerging from the shadows of Los Angeles in 2018, Bodybuilder is the singular vision of mastermind Nicholas Capaldi. Weaving a tapestry of despair and dread, Capaldi utilizes a potent arsenal of synthesizers, tortured vocals, and pulverizing drum programming.
"There's No There, There" signifies a bold new chapter for Bodybuilder. This isn't your typical black metal fare. Imagine a relentless sonic storm, a relentless torrent of anguish howling its terrifying symphony. Distorted synthesizers paint a bleak yet atmospheric canvas, transporting the listener on a harrowing journey through nightmares escapes, and existential abysses.
Capaldi
draws inspiration from the dark visions of literary giants like William
Gibson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, and H.P. Lovecraft. The resulting
soundscape mirrors their bleak narratives: a descent into a dreamscape that
spirals endlessly into a terrifying void.This is more than music. It's an experience you won't forget.
Tracklist
1. Separating Twins
2. Vera’s Moth
3. Charon
4. About a Hanging, Pt.2
5. Somebody, Something, Somewhere
6. Thalassa
https://bodybuilder.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-kadath
Format: Digitale CD / Fysieke CDLabel: Anti-Hero Records
Distribution: Suburban
For fans of. Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Shade Empire, Hollenthon, Septic Flesh, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ne Obliviscaris and so on….
Artefacts is a Belgian bandproject aimed at bringing the highest level of musical experiences to the listener. What can only be described as an epic movie score fused with thundering guitars, blistering drums and haunting screams, the band combines the bombast of a symphonic orchestra with the darkness of black metal, while adding a progressive touch.
The mission from the outset was to give the audience an all-inclusive experience, encompassing music, images and an expansive storyline and thus, ‘The Titan Chronicles’ was born: an entire universe, in which the base story line is set, was conceived.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Bram Dewachter and Tim Van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings. The core of the outfit consists of Siegfried Mercelis (keys and orchestration) and Niklaas Reinhold (vocals), both years of experience playing in Lemuria. The present line up consists of current and former members of Slaughter The Giant, Manic Movement, Lost Department and Valkyre.
The album will be released on Anti-Hero Records, a new Belgian label founded by Tony de Block(Midas Studio, Red Hot, Belgian Vinyl Pressing Plant).
Tracklist:
01. Prologue Gods and Mortals
02. Nephereth
03. The Tower of Irth-Anshar
04. Dragonfall
05. Interlude Her brine embrace
06. The Path of No Return
07. Augur the Age of Darkness
08. Corruption(Glory for the fall)
09. Epilogue For the dead and the undying
The full line-up of the band is as follows:
Siegfried Mercelis – keys and orchestration, composer, songwriting, lyrics, story
Niklaas Reinhold – harsh vocals and narration, lyrics
Tom Everaert – bass
Tom Leemans – lead and rhythm guitars
Hans Jacobs – rhythm and lead guitars
Joren Baert – drums
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Rising Swiss black/death metal force TYRMFAR has signed a deal with Wormholedeath for their upcoming EP, SYMBIOSIS, set to be unleashed on the world on March 28th, 2025. This partnership marks a significant milestone for the band as they continue their relentless ascent in the world of extreme metal.
"We are very excited to announce that our next EP will be released with WormHoleDeath Records!" exclaims the band. "We are very much looking forward to working with them. In addition to having already signed major productions, the label turns out to be very professional with available and helpful people. We will be able to benefit from their large network of contacts and their many years of experience."
Hailing from the Swiss mountains, Tyrmfar quickly rose through the ranks of extreme metal after their 2013 inception. Their 2015 debut EP, In The Depths Of A Dark Spirit, and 2017’s acclaimed Human Abomination set the stage for performances at major European festivals like Metal Days, earning them praise from Daily Rock as “artists who can shake the most seasoned headliners.” Their second album, Renewal Through Purification, showcased a powerful blend of black and death metal. In 2022, they pushed boundaries further with Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious, leading to a European tour with Gorgoroth. Tyrmfar is now poised to claim their place on the world stage.
"Symbiosis" EP represents a further exploration of their compositional boundaries. Dedicated to bringing out the best in each member, the band invested significant effort into the creative process. Drawing on their collective years of experience, they sought to authentically convey their emotions through music. Against the backdrop of a tense ecological and social climate, the lyrics address these issues, expressing a sense of unease and confusion about humanity's relationship with nature.
Strongly influenced by Scandinavian black and death metal from the late 90s and early 2000s, the EP also incorporates modern elements. Given the band members' diverse musical tastes, the songwriting process involved a collaborative effort to blend their preferred styles. The band places great importance on emotional expression, believing that a strong connection with the audience is essential to their live performances.
“Pilgrimage of Oneness” is available now on all major digital platforms: https://orcd.co/pilgrimageofoneness
Tracklist1. Pilgrimage of Oneness
2. Symphony of Pain
3. Haunted by the Truth
4. The Hubris of Humanity, Pt.1
5. The Reckoning, Pt.2
Kévin Sanchez - Guitars
Florian Métrailler- Guitars
Quentin Brunner - Drums - Backing vocals
Robin Délèze - Voice
Yannick Dulon – Bass
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Denigrate's singer Galzi tells about the song:
"This is the fastest and shortest song on the upcoming album. You could maybe call it radio friendly track. It's made by our guitarists Sepi and Teemu with their supernaturally ethereal collaboration. We didn't plan the album to have this kind of musical approach included but mainly just teenage-like enthusiasm and persistence of searching and finding and the joy that comes from that.
Lyrics narrate under the feminine theme of the album. They are about connection and search of meaning. They are about admiration that is longing for response, and the panic of being rejected."
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/denigrate-underether
Since Denigrate was found back in '96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observative.
The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in this band. From the first released album in 2003 to the latest 4th one in 2024 called "To The Goddess Unknown", decades has changed and so has the band.
After no more than three albums released, after big-time local momentum with a finnish cover song, after mandatory hiatus, after some line-up changes, Denigrate 2024 introduces their absolutely greatest masterpiece to date and shows what only truely experienced bunch of members can achieve.
Tracklist :01. Crystal Rest
02. The Ethics of Loss
03. Under Ether
04. The Apparition of One
05. One who holds the balance
06. Sesame and Lilies
07. In the Light
08. Semidiapente
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Teemu Riekki - Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
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MISANTHROPY - “THE EVER-CRUSHING WEIGHT OF STAGNANCE”
For
fans of
- Origin, Archspire, Ulcerate, Fleshbore, Gorguts, AtheistMisanthropy offer a refreshing raw, frantic and visceral approach to the tech death style. Instead of playing safe and adopting the same safe predictable formula used by the established bands, they're carving their own path and going about the style in their own unconventional manner, skittering off without prior warning and swerving violently and just doing things seemingly at random but mostly at break-neck speed. It all seems wonderfully/overwhelmingly haphazard but underneath the maddening chaos lies meticulous writing and more impressively, clean execution which they have nailed while recording the music live. For that reason the pulsating, kinetic energy on this record is tangible - one can feel the rush, the rising sense of excitement when they speed up or switch things suddenly at the spur of the moment or just resort to mangling their instruments to create the most infernal cacophony. Misanthropy are an ever-evolving band, imbibing the influences around them and freely recreating them in their own unique manner which may not be too straightforward but it definitely makes for a thrilling listen.
Line up
Kevin Kovalsky - Guitar and Vocals
Paul Reszczynski - Drums
José Valles - Guitar
Mark Bojkewycz - Fretless Bass
Artwork by Pedro Sena - Lordigan (Analepsy, Cognitive, Extermination Dismemberment)
Track listing
1. Of Sulking And The Wrathful
2. The All-Devouring
3. A Cure For The Pestilence
4. Condemned To A Nameless Tomb
5. Descent
6. Sepulcher
7. Consumed By The Abyss
Release date - December 13th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Release
date :November
15th 2024Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Duration: 33min35
TIME LURKER is back this year with "EMPRISE". After his first eponymous album released in 2017 and his split with CEPHEIDE, Time Lurker is back as a duo, accompanied on vocals by Sotte._
The album will be released on November 15th on the label Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions.
TIME LURKER is a solo atmospheric black metal project, created by Mick in 2014. Inspired by the darkness of the human soul and introspective journeys deep into his own torments. Returning after 5 years’ silence, Time Lurker are back in 2024 with a new album that has been built on doubt, self-questioning and suffering, but also on the strength of self-transcendence and determination. Joined in 2023 by SOTTE for all the vocals and lyrics.
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"EXTINCTION RITUAL," HATE ANGEL'S debut album. Brace yourselves for a blistering assault on your senses – a merciless onslaught of razor-sharp riffs, blast-beaten drums, and vocals that sear your soul. This isn't just music; it's an experience.
Tracklist
1 Orkdal 1977
2 Crawling From The Grave
3 Music Of Torture
4 Blood & Silver
5 Tyr Blot
6 Morningstar
7 Kill The King
8 Extinction Ritual
Hailing from the icy clutches of Oslo, Hate Angel isn't just a band, it's a sonic ritual of primal aggression. Founded in 2017 by guitarist Hans Erik Sundby, this band is a relentless force, conjuring up a whirlwind of blackened fury and thrashing mayhem.
Hate Angel lineup for "Extinction Ritual":
Hans Erik Sundby - Lead Guitar
Qiaochu "Mad Pig" Tang - Lead Guitar
Carl Engstrøm - Drums
Jon Anders Krogh Eggen - Vocals
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Portland (OR) - Progressive/Traditional Metal outfit SLEEPLESS have released a lyric video for "Call To The Void," the third single from forthcoming album, Through Endless Black!
FFO: Watch Tower, Nevermore, Anacrusis, Witherfall, Sanctuary, Fates Warning, Hades.
Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKDqrxHJK8
SLEEPLESS are set to release Through Endless Black, their second full-length album, on October 31! The album will be available on vinyl and digital formats through Necromantic Press Records. The CD version will be released on Metal Warrior Records.
Soon after the release of critically acclaimed, 2022 full-length debut album, Host Desecration, writing team Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn dug in deep with a single minded purpose: to create a world class metal album that shows exactly what SLEEPLESS is all about! Through Endless Black is just that! The album leans into the band's Trad Metal roots, infused with the technical flourishes and spashes of Doom that collectively create the SLEEPLESS sound! "With each tune we would picture someone dropping the needle onto a record," explains Sexton-Dorsett. "Could they nod their head to the song and have it repeating in their mind the rest of the day?"
Mission accomplished!
The band also introduced their first guest vocal appearances by legendary punk vocalist Jerry A of Poison Idea and master metal vocalist Sean Peck of Denner/Sherman, Cage, and Death Dealer!
SLEEPLESS is back with one hell of an album in Through Endless Black!
Pre-order:
https://sleeplessmetal.bandcamp.com/album/through-endless-blackTrack List:
Side A:
1. Call To The Void
2. Cult Of The Narcissist
3. Consumed By Vengeance
4. Exist Another Day (Feat. Jerry A)
5. Where Fear Lives
Side B:
6. Through Endless Black
7. Lost Star
8. Transcending The Obsidian Throne (Feat. Sean Peck)
9. Lessons In Tongues
10. Dreams Of Mortal Ruin
Credits:
Guest vocals on Exist Another Day by Jerry A.
Guest vocals on Transcending The Obsidian Throne by Sean
"Hell Destroyer" Peck.
Additional keys by Fernando Ruiz.
Recorded at Opal Studio, Portland Oregon 2024.
Produced by Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn.
Engineered by Kevin Hahn.
Released by Necromantic Press Records.
Distributed in Europe by Metal Warrior Records.
Artwork by T.J. Barber.
Line-up:
Eric Sexton-Dorsett - Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitars, Backing Vocals
Kevin Hahn - Lead Guitars, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keys
Eric Detablan - Drums
Hixon Sexton-Dorsett - Bass
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Release: 31. October 2024
The Dutch band Slechtvalk have been making their mark on the European metal scene since 1999 and have been delighting fans of symphonic, folk, black and Viking death metal for the past 25 years. While some bands lose their bite over the years, Slechtvalk present themselves more extreme and brutal than ever before on their sixth longplayer “At Death's Gate”.
The Dutchmen create a dense, dark atmosphere with impressive precision, one moment creating a melodic tapestry of sound and the next bludgeoning everything to the ground.
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The artwork created by Federico De Luca fully represents the elegance and mystical aura that can be felt in this new work.
And here is "Anhedonia" tracklist: 1. Lament Of The Lost
2. Harmony Of Despair
3. Eclipse Of Hope
4. Lost Dreams Ritual
5. Sorrow's Shroud
6. Soul's Descent Into The Void
7. Tears In The Silence
8. Ancient Echoes
The album will be released on January 3rd, 2025 and is possible to pre-order at https://shorturl.at/UvM5u
The return to the scene, after the clamor of "Koinè", is marked by an intimate approach towards what has been created, making "Anhedonia" a bridge between past, present and future. It is a sort of musical journey between esoteric and oriental sounds, Ambient-wave elements and references to Nordic musical traditions, but without losing the identity of the project made by the beauty of the atmospheres that blend inextricably with the sonic extremism of Black Metal.
You can find in "Anhedonia" the cinematic essence of ULVER, the Avantgardism of IHSAHN, the strength of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, the mediterranean touch of MOONSPELL and the dramatic elements of EMPYRIUM.
As it is for years now, always expect the unexpected... this was, is, and will always be the main path of LORD AGHEROS.
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The new single will be available October 11 on all digital platforms!
Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus, GIGAN's first album in seven years, will be released October 25 on CD, Ltd edition CD long box, vinyl, cassette, Ltd edition four-album cassette boxset, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/anomalous-willowtip
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Speaking to the new album, GIGAN’s founding member, guitarist, sole-songwriter and lyricist; Eric Hersemann, had this to say: “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a perfect expression of where GIGAN is as a band and where we are headed into the future. Like all GIGAN songs, our emphasis is on creativity and limitless imagination, while still working within the realms of interwoven madness and colorful technicality combined with the oppressive elements of misanthropic dissonance and crushing brutality. Any fan of GIGAN, or any fan of genuine Metal music that is completely fearless and without pretentious delivery, is in for a mind-bending treat.”
Track
Listing:1. Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis
2. Ultra-Violet Shimmer and Permeating Infra-sound
3. Square Wave Subversion
4. Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes
5. Katabatic Windswept Landscapes
6. Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror
7. The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids
8. Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs of Time
Credits:
All music, lyrics, vocal patterns and concepts: Eric Hersemann.
Recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, IL.
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room.
All album art and layout: Max Winter (Teratogen)
Line-up:
Eric Hersemann - All electric, acoustic and bass guitars, theremin, otomatone, synths, lyrics, concepts and madness.
Nathan Cotton - Drums, percussion and Sunny weather.
Jerry Kavouriaris - Vocals and violence.
Bio:
Since 2005, GIGAN has been an unsung vanguard of abstract and creatively dissonant extreme metal. Pushing boundaries and never compromising the artistic vision throughout the debut EP and subsequent four full-length albums has led GIGAN to be considered an unwavering force of both innovation and extremity.
It has been almost seven years since GIGAN has released new music and the time spent away has only honed and sharpened the still-deadly blades of creativity for which GIGAN has always been known; while also infusing fresh elements not yet heard within the GIGAN Universe. The results of GIGAN’s current hard work is the new beast of an album entitled Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus.
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Timisoara,
Romania based Occult Black Metal trident ORDINUL NEGRU announce
the track-list for their upcoming full-length album "DODEKATEMORIA"
as follows:I. Aleph
II. Dodekatemoria
III. Judas Goat
IV. The Decrepitude of Centuries
V. Zahir
The cover artwork was crafted in conspiracy with long-time band collaborator Alexandru Das, and the band photos are the work of Oana Stoian.
The new material has been in the works for the past five years and it was previously introduced by two EPs: "Nebuisa" in 2020, and "A Sojourner Wandering Through the Barren Openness" in 2021, and now by a first video for the track "Zahir" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntw6Ssx3ug
Here's what the band had to say about the album: ""Dodekatemoria" is the ninth album and represents our bond with the cosmic nature and what we experience as individuals when we are on this path searching for our truths."
The band also invited Anca Otescu (Black Water, FusionCore) and Irinel Carlan to enhance the vocal compartment with their guest performances.
"Dodekatemoria" will be released this Autumn in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.
Line-up:
Fulmineos – guitars, vocals
Urmuz – guitars, vocals
Putrid – drums, bass
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Norwegian
Extreme Metallers CREST OF DARKNESS unveil "THE
ULTIMATE TRUTH", a new song from the upcoming album "MY
GHOST".The song is presented with a great official video directed and edited by Caroline Kløvrud for Litt Film that you can view at https://youtu.be/8qYaplQj1Kg
CREST OF DARKNESS' new album "My Ghost" will be released on October 18th via My Kingdom Music and will present the heaviest, most obscure and personal music ever released by the Norwegian veterans. Evil riffing, ritualistic atmospheres and demonic vocals will be the keywords of their 9th full length album in 30 years of career.
"My Ghost" is the result of two years worth of blood and sweat, that began with Ingar working alone to mould his very personal thoughts and beliefs into musical ideas that the band can then develop together, each contributing their own ideas to the process.
Recorded at MLP Studios with Nils H. Maehlum at the helm, mastered by Giuseppe Nicolò (aka Buzz) at Lost Soul Studio and with the cover artwork realized by Roy Allan Larsen, "My Ghost" is an extremely personal journey that defines the very essence of CREST OF DARKNESS.
"My Ghost", out on October 18th, is now available to pre-order in LP, digipak CD and in a special bundle edition limited to 50 copies from the following: https://shorturl.at/mqf9L
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Atlanta (GA) - MISANTHROPIC AGGRESSION, in collaboration with Decibel Magazine, have premiered "A.S.S. III - THE BORDERLAND WARS," a track from forthcoming album, INSECT POLITICS. Check it out at the link that follows!
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/10/07/track-premiere-misanthropic-aggression-a-s-s-iii-the-borderland-wars/
Misanthropic Aggression are set to release their full-length debut album, Insect Politics, through Boris Records. The album will be available exclusively on translucent 12" red vinyl LP, as well as digital, format on October 15.
This offering of crust-tinged Black/Death Metal comes on the tail of 2020’s dual releases of the “Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell” single and the COVID-19 Reset EP cassette, also released by Boris Records. The new album contains 12 all-new tracks mastered by Damian Herring.
The title track is available to purchase and/or stream via Bandcamp:
An introduction to the album from the band:
"We are more than pleased to finally be releasing the album of Insect Politics. The vision that ultimately became this recording was initially conceived in early 2020 immediately after production wrapped up on the 'Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell' single. It feels almost an eternity ago that these events came to pass, with a global pandemic descending upon us and completely upheaving the state of the band, as well as the numerous life events that followed.
The one constant in this time for Chris [T. Hammer] and Jake [Benedict], as our planned tour evaporated and local gigs dried up, was the prospect of recording the songs for release in our very first full-length. The actual composition of the tracks seems almost a blur, with three of the first songs written occurring in a matter of months in the early stages of the pandemic and being recorded and mixed by mid-2021, and the remainder of the songs being composed by late 2021.
However, the production to finish recording that last set of songs proved a major challenge, as we set out to create our most ambitious and uncompromising structures yet. What resulted exceeded even our own expectations and initial vision. As we wrapped up post-production, both of us noted that this album truly represents an ending: a conclusion of what we initially set out to do in 2017, which was to marry our artistic influences — the Celtic Frosts and the Graves and the His Heroes are Gone and the Morbid Angels… and the Impetigos… — into a cohesive and novel expression which was singular, sharp, and pointed in its rebellion against the wrongs of humanity, and simultaneously broad in its footprint, sonic approach, and modes of worship. But, every ending is also a beginning, and we also realized that selections from this album contain the blueprint for the next era of the band. The assault will continue…."
Pre-order:
https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/insect-politicsTrack Listing:
1. Social Ruin
2. Insect Politics
3. Anger/Despair (Interlude)
4. A.S.S. III — The Borderland Wars
5. Bliss
6. La Canzone di Mary Woodhouse (Interlude)
7. The Gates of Hell
8. Boomer Death
9. Intentional Under Performance
10. Winner of the Franchise Wars
11. The Serpent and the Sickle
12. Eusocial Demesne
Credits:
Recorded and mixed at Hammer Studios, Smyrna GA.
Mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios.
Front cover insect art by Jeremy Snevil.
Additional front cover and vinyl label components by Warhead Art.
Album layout by Misanthropic Aggression with graphical assistance from Sam Leyja (Boris Records).
Line-up:
Jake Benedict -- Lead Vocals, Drums
Chris T. Hammer -- Guitar, Bass, Vocals
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APOCRYPHAL-
„FACING THE END“25 years after the debut album "Black Dreams of Silence", French band Apocryphal returns. The new album “Facing The End” marks a stark departure from the late 90s atmospheric doom-death sound and takes the band to a more melo-death approach. They do that with the help of none other than the powerhouse vocals of Soilwork legendary frontman, Björn "Speed" Strid, who features on all tracks on the album.
The music on "Facing The End" is aggressive, straight-in-your-face melodic death metal at its best. Frenetic rhythm with catchy choruses, raging drums and relentless riffing. Special mention goes to the amazing work done on the guitars and the solid rhythm section. Bjorn “Speed” Strid doesn’t need any introductions. The way he spits the lyrics transforms the whole effort, sending it to the heavens. Add to all the above the amazing production that brings out every aspect of this masterpiece.
The band said: "Our new album may come as a surprise to those who know us, but all the ingredients that make us unique are there. Perhaps less atmospheric, but more effective, the mix of melody and aggression will make every song stick in your head from the first time you listen to it."
“Facing The End” will be released on 12 November 2024 in CD, vinyl and digital formats via The Circle Music.
The artwork to “Facing The End” was done by Valnoir of Metastazis, while the mastering for the album was done by Nino Helfrich at Skull Tone Studios.
Formed in 1992 as Post At Funerals, Apocryphal found their current name by 1994. Their early releases, including the 1995 demo "From Depths", showcased their blend of death metal, atmospheric, and progressive influences. After a long period of inactivity following the release of their 1999 album "Black Dreams Of Silence", the band reformed in 2022 and recruited legendary vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid of Soilwork for their new album set for release in 2024.
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MURDER IN RED is where sinister melodies and chilling lyrics collide: This gripping track takes you on a journey through themes of loss, obsession, and the insatiable urge for destruction. Vivid imagery of blood, dark transformations, and moonlit skies, MURDER IN RED evokes raw emotion and a descent into madness.
The video for MURDER IN RED was created by Brandon McGowan with additional footage of Damón Zurawski, who already created the mesmerizing video for Saturn Coming Down.
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtb1F4SyDk
Pre-order SUB ROSA IN ÆTERNUM here: https://tribulation.lnk.to/SubRosaInAeternumNe
The highly awaited follow-up album from the Finnish death metal band Devenial Verdict is finally out and is now streaming on all platforms. The response it has received thus far is phenomenal, with several mentions being made about it being one of the year's best albums and with Angry Metal Guy even giving it a high rating of 4/5. It's now streaming in full everywhere. Please check it out!
DEVENIAL VERDICT – “BLESSING OF DESPAIR”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Morbid
Angel, Dysgnostic, Saevus Finis, Crown of Madness, MithrasFinnish dissonant/atmospheric death metal band Devenial Verdict return after nonchalantly dropping a staggering debut out of nowhere in 'Ash Blind'. Stunning everyone with its sheer magnificence and power, it was always going to be interesting to see where they go from there. And they've released a new full length that's not only a worthy follow-up but it's far more nuanced than anything they've done in the past. They've nurtured a sound that is inherently pensive and adopted an approach that's laden with suspense and intrigue; the sharp, ringing, dissonant tunes linger in the air like inverted scythes. The atmosphere remains emotionally charged which is already rare for this style, with the music being a lot more expressive and colourful in its shades of gloom over here. The songs, undulating gracefully in their intensity, showcase interesting and comparatively diverse variations without straying from their core sound which sees dissonance and atmosphere working in tandem. There's a sense of dark melancholia permeating their music which adds meaning and depth to this kind of music that can too easily be rendered soulless. Devenial Verdict have once again crafted a masterful, passionate album that pushes the sound in its own way while firmly establishing a distinct identity for the band.
Line up:
Okko Tolvanen - Drums
Sebastian Frigren - Guitars
Antti Poutanen - Bass
Riku Saressalo - Vocals
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing:
1. I Have Become the Sun
2. Garden of Eyes
3. Moon-Starved
4. Blessing of Despair
5. Shunned Wander
6. The Quietus
7. Solus
8. Counting Silence
9. Cold Lantern
10. A Curse Made Flesh
Release date - October 4th, 2024
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ARCH ENEMY founder and guitarist Michael Amott shares about the new album:
“This new album pushes the boundaries of what we’ve done before—it’s everything you’ve come to expect from this band, and then some! We can’t wait for you to hear it and feel the energy we’ve poured into every track. Welcome to the BLOOD DYNASTY!”
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NEWS 5.10.2024
AMUSE
TO DEATH
entstand Anfang 2023 als Verwirklichung der schon seit längerem gehegten Idee
der Musiker, Swing-Einflüsse mit unterschiedlichen Subgenres des extremen
Metal wie Progressive Death Metal und Technical Death Metal zu
kombinieren. So ist es auch zur Ergänzung der
Standardbesetzung durch das sonst für Metal untypische Instrument Horn
gekommen. Weitere musikalische Merkmale sind die klare, kompakte und
eingängige Songstruktur, der Einsatz der Fretless E-Gitarre und des Fretless Basses
sowie das Wechselspiel zwischen Clean-Gesang und Harsh Vocals.
Ästhetisches Element – 20./30. Jahre Stil, Schwarzweiß, Cartoon, Rubberhose. Es gibt eine Zentrale Fantasiefigur, um die es bei den Texten geht. Die Figur ist drogensüchtig und psychisch krank. Sie hört dauernd Stimmen im Kopf, die sie in den Wahnsinn treiben, der einzige Ausweg
ist, wenn die Band in ihrer Vorstellung anfängt, Musik zu spielen.
Bei den Texten geht es unterschwellig auch darum, auf die negativen Auswirkungen von Drogen
hinzuweisen. Die Band ist gegen jegliche Art von Gewalt, Homophobie, Einschränkungen von Menschenrechten und Einschränkungen von Meinungsfreiheit.
Bandmitglieder:
Carmen Grandi (Youtube, Architecture of Emptiness, ex-Neophobia, ex-EGO) – Clean Gesang, Lyrics
Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger (ex-Obscura, ex-Belphegor, ex-Nader Sadek, ex-Defeted Sanity, ex-Amogh Symphony) – Fretless Gitarre, Akustik Gitarre, Lead Gitarre, Songwriting, Mixing, Mastering, Producer
Martin Matiasovic (Shaped In Dreams, Divine X) – Rhythmus Gitarre, Lead Gitarre (Track 4), Horn,
Songwriting, Lyrics
Rouven Haliti (Ally The Fiddle, Onyx Eyes, ex-Determination) – Fretless Bass
Defkalion Dimos (Cerebrum, Sacred Outcry) – Drums
Gastmusiker auf der Phantasmagoria EP:
Alex Kerski (Vianova, The Voice Of Germany 2022) – Harsh Vocals
Mikołaj Suchanek – Keytar (Track 4)
Songs:
Ill Fated – Als erste Single und erster Track auf der EP bietet Ill Fated einen „schonenden“ Einstieg in das verhältnismäßig extreme Soundkonzept der Band. Die Kontraste zwischen Swing- und Death-Metal-Elementen werden zunächst rund gestaltet und mit allmählichen Übergängen überbrückt. Die Clean-Passage nach dem ersten und das Fretless-Bass-Solo nach dem zweiten Chorus zeigen erste Anzeichen von „Progginess“. Das alles in einer kompakten und übersichtlichen Songstruktur verpackt, bietet einen sanften Einstieg in die groteske Klangwelt von Amuse To Death. Im Songtext wird der missliche geistige Zustand der Zentralfigur „Al“ beschrieben, dessen innere Stimmen ihn in den Wahnsinn treiben, sobald die Band in seinem Kopf aufhört, Musik zu machen.
Blacktoothgrin – Die musikalische Offenheit und Bereitschaft des Zuhörers, abrupten emotionalen Schwankungen standzuhalten, wird mit diesem Song auf den Prüfstand gestellt. Stile werden hier nicht behutsam miteinander vermengt, sondern in einen Betonmischer geworfen und wild durcheinandergewirbelt. Hier treffen Duke Ellington und Count Basie inspirierte Hot-Swing-Horn-Linien auf Technical Death Metal à la First Fragment, Necrophagist und Co. Textlich steht wieder die fiktive Hauptfigur Al im Mittelpunkt. Diesmal geht es um seine Drogenabhängigkeit und den inneren Kampf, der damit verbunden ist.
Lowlifer – Die harten Kanten von Blacktoothgrin werden hier wieder etwas runder. Dieser Song fällt dagegen mit seinem Witz und der Betonung des Grotesken auf. Zahllose Horn-Einwürfe und Kommentare und der tänzerisch-groovige Instrumentalteil vor dem letzten Chorus haben fast schon den Slapstick-Charakter einer Laurel-&-Hardy-Komödie. Die Refrains werden von Mal zu Mal größer, breiter und bunter. Textlich wird hier der Unterschied der Wahrnehmung im Normalzustand des grauen Alltags und der bunten Fantasiewelt eines Morphiumtrips ausgemalt.
The Alibi – Dieses Stück kommt der Bezeichnung Prog-Arie aus den vier Songs sicherlich am nächsten. Er setzt nämlich ein Häkchen neben jede der folgenden Kategorien: enthält langsamen, balladesken Teil; enthält schnellen Metal-Teil; enthält ungerade Taktarten; enthält mindestens 10 unterschiedliche Instrumente; enthält gefühlt ein Dutzend Instrumentalsoli; geht länger als 5 Minuten; hat keine typische Songstruktur; enthält Tempoänderungen; schwankt zwischen mehreren Tonarten hin und her… Hier wird die Bandbreite dessen, was die Band in allen musikalischen Aspekten zu bieten hat, nochmal erweitert vors Gehör geführt. In den Lyrics geht es um einen Traum der Sängerin Carmen, in dem sie sich selber als Leiche und einzige Zeugin eines Mordes beobachtet und als Täterin in diesem beschuldigt wird.
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Die bayrischen Black Metaller AMYSTERY haben vor einiger Zeit bei Folter Records unterschrieben. Das neue Album “CHAOS EMPIRE SATAN” wird am 31.10.2024 erscheinen.
Jetzt gibt es die erste Single “Whispers From The Void”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xPNv_mISEA
Über AMYSTERY
Die okkulte Formation AMYSTERY ist zurück mit ihrem vierten Album »Chaos Empire Satan«, ein gleichermaßen rohes und edles Werk zur Bewahrung und Zelebrierung des traditionellen Black Metal als eigenständige Kunstform. Dabei sind sie kein uninspiriertes Abbild einer alten Genregröße, sondern schmieden vielmehr kompromisslos ihren eigenen, authentischen Schwarzstahl, der sich vielfach im Angriffsmodus befindet, sich in Kompositionen wie »Spirits In Fire« oder »Infestation« aber auch zu erhabener, mystischer Größe aufschwingt.
Nach einer mehrjährigen Schaffenspause hatten sich die Bajuwaren AMYSTERY 2018 mit einer veränderten Besetzung wieder zusammengeschlossen, um gemeinsam weiter an neuem Material zu arbeiten. Im Sommer 2021 kam es erneut zu einem Besetzungswechsel, seitdem besteht die Band aus drei Personen: Grond (Drums), Culpa (Bass) und Nephesus (Vocals, Gitarre).
AMYSTERY ist keine Band, bei der ein neues Album daraus erwächst, dass sich Individuen gegenseitig im Alleingang aufgenommene Tondateien auf die Rechner schicken – die Ideen, Riffs etc. für die zehn Songs von »Chaos Empire Satan« wurden gemeinsam im Proberaum gesammelt und dort ausgearbeitet. Auf ihrer Tour im Februar 2023 wurden bereits drei neue Stücke präsentiert, die restlichen sechs entstanden im Zeitraum bis Dezember 2023.
Inhaltlich behandelt »Chaos Empire Satan« die Theorien und Macht der Chaosmagie nach Peter James Carroll und beschreibt die dazugehörigen Praktiken und Auswirkungen auf das Leben und die Seele. Darüber hinaus geht es um die Ambivalenz zwischen der vermeintlichen Nichtigkeit des irdischen Lebens im kosmischen und multidimensionalen Maßstab und der Größe des eigenen persönlichen (Multi-)Universums mit der daraus erwachsenden maximalen Gestaltungsfreiheit, Wirksamkeit und Einflussnahme. AMYSTERY als Band zelebriert diese Überzeugung, was bereits im Vorgängeralbum »All Hail The Cult« eine tragende Rolle spielte und nun im neuen Album noch mehr ins Zentrum gerückt wurde.
Aufgenommen wurde das Album im Januar 2024. Das Cover-Artwork wurde von Malphas (ex-AMYSTERY, ex-Lunar Aurora, Mortem Agmen) gezeichnet, die grafische Gestaltung wurde von Lense Of Sense übernommen.
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Release: 25. October 2024
While Deimos' Dawn could theoretically still be accused of being a project with a famous singer on their debut album, two years and many gigs later it has to be said: This is a real band at work!
Marc Grewe (Asinhell, ex-Morgoth, Insidious Disease), Germany's number one death metal shouter, puts his very own stamp here. Compositionally mature, sonically clearly skipped a few steps, the band presents a new EP “God Of Pain” including a cover version of Marks former Band MORGOTH!
As with their debut album, former Sodom guitarist and rock'n'roll whirlwind Andy Brings wrote the lyrics and produced Grewe's vocals and proove how lively and fresh old school thrash can sound in 2024.
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Line-up: Mauro Tollini: drums;
Nicola Murari: bass; Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars; Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
Style: Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists: Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
The song is available on all digital platforms at https://song.link/EPIKOS and next week we'll unveil the lyric video created for the song.
EPITAPH, one of the longest-lasting bands of the entire Italian scene, is going to present one of the next big things within the Dark Doom Metal movement thanks to an overall epic and gloomy feeling, mixed with the natural dark atmospheres of their old school Doom Metal.
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (singer of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, this is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble.
The journey to oblivion has begun.
Doom Metal, Dark, Progressive and Esotericism are the coordinates.
DOOM ON!!!
"Path To Oblivion" LP/CD/tape/bundle could be pre-ordered at https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
Cover artwork created by Luciana Nedelea and tracklist:
1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
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Listen to “Donkere Paden”: https://youtu.be/c8J7bXzHJTM?si=QO76rXMH4VbdAWVm
Pre-order the album:
https://krvl.bandcamp.com/album/donkere-paden (LP/CD/Digital):
https://t.ly/krvlD (CD),
https://t.ly/krvlV (Vinyl)
Pre-save the album via digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/album/krvl-donkere-paden
Following on from their debut "Kravaal" (self-released, 2022), the second album “Donkere Paden” will bring even more darkness and despair which will be divided into seven chapters. The album features guest vocalists H. from Oerheks and Shazzula from the revered Wolvennest.
The band states: "We've poured our souls into crafting an atmospheric black metal album that will transport you to realms of chilling beauty and crushing despair. Prepare yourselves, for KrvL's reign of darkness begins anew when Autumn falls…"
KrvL previously released the atmospheric single and video “Zielenrust” which features Shazzula of Wolvennest. The band commented about her contribution: “When we were listening to the demo of this song we felt like there was something missing. So we came up with the idea to add some female vocals on the intro. Shazzula was our first choice and luckily she liked our music and she said yes.”
KrvL comprises nameless souls that drift through the Kravaal Forest in Belgium in search of the light amongst the darkness they find themselves in. With lyrics in Dutch, the band contemplates topics such as nature, finding inner peace, nemesis, resurrection and an attempt to find light in the darkness.
Musically, the band is all about atmosphere. With a foundation of traditional 90s and modern black metal, the anonymous band also mixes post-metal, doom and sludge influences.
KrvL was established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, creating a perfect mood for the writing and recording of their debut album "Kravaal". Eventually, the album was self-released digitally in 2022 and then on vinyl in 2023. 2024 sees the band reach new heights with the signing to These Hands Melt and the release of their second album.
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Release
date :
October 25th
Genre : Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
1 - Des feux plus forts
2 - Nos cendres et nos râles
3 - Le cambouis et le carmin
4 - Sous vivre
5 - Banlieues rouges
6 - La poésie du caniveau
7 - Ainsi finit le jour
8 - La beauté du désastre
9 - Tout est à la mort
Duration: 53min40
After "les Idées Blanches" released in 2021, SORDIDE will publish "Ainsi Finit Le Jour" on October 25th on Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions
SORDIDE comes from the wet gutters of Rouen, Normandy. Since the release of its debut album through Avantgarde, back in 2014, the trio has been spitting a scornful and desperate anger in Moliere’s language under the motto NEITHER NAME, NOR FLAG.
Since then, the band has multiplied albums culminating with the release of “Les idées blanche”, in 2021, and played throughout Europe and at Roadburn and Hellfest festivals. After travelling to Iceland and Finland, Sordide will release its fifth full-length, “Ainsi finit le jour”, on October 25th, 2024, through Les Acteurs de l’ombre, and its own collective, La Harelle.
To present this abrasive opus, Sordide will tour in France, Switzerland and Belgium in October 2024, and in Europe in February 2025.
A first extract entitled "Des feux plus forts" has just been released. This is the opening track of the album that will be released on October 25th.
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Dark Descent Records heralds the first coming of ABERRATOR - a yet unknown entity devoted to the ancient arts of death metal mastery. Founded in 2022 between G.P and N.H from New Zealand - with P.F from Canada on session drums, ABERRATOR pulls no punches, unleashing BECKONING TRIBULATION, a devastating full-length, straight out of the gate. Influenced by the darkest of death metal and death/doom - particularly of US and Finnish origins - the band fit the Dark Descent roster like a key to a crypt.
“Beckoning Tribulation is a lens into the human condition, the inevitable decline due to the innate zealotry and hypocrisy within our species,” states N.H. “The triumphant proclamation of the death of god and the impending doom of mankind as it struggles within the vacuum this creates.”
ABERRATOR has shared a stream for album opener "Plague Monarch Ascendant." Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i736qbCGBL8
Stream the title track of Beckoning Tribulation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Byqexh1tU
Dark Descent Records will release Beckoning Tribulation on CD, vinyl and digital formats on October 11. Pre-order the album at: www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
Tracklisting:
1. Plague Monarch Ascendant
2. Flagellation Crusade
3. Doomed Quintessence
4. Beckoning Tribulation
5. Spiritual Attrition
6. Emissary of Suffering
7. ...Of the Crucible
The album comes clad in a masterful gravure/woodcut-style piece from the inimitable mind of Alex Shadrin from Nether Temple Design: “The artwork represents the above concepts. Betrayal hidden with the guise of civility; blades plunged into another's backs to complete the ouroboros. Murder, cunning and cowardice act in unison as tools of victory and ultimately defeat.”
ABERRATOR is:
G.P - Guitars and Bass
N.H - Vocals
P.F - Drums
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Label: Rottweiler Records
Release Date: October 25th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Morbid Angel | Immolation | Abhorrent Deformity | Vital Remains
In March of 2023 Taking The Head Of Goliath made the decision to bring down the curtain on their career of bludgeoning riffs and blast beat battery, leaving behind them a furious live album of unbridled chaos – Beyond Brutal Live – a destructive self titled EP and the memory of scores of incendiary live shows. However, whilst their journey through the wastelands of death metal may be over, the Minnesota band have left behind a posthumous gift for the fans who have supported them throughout the years, a final explosive assault under the Taking The Head Of Goliath banner…join them for one last descent into the pit, with Futility Of The Flesh!
Futility Of The Flesh is a new four track EP that will stand as a fitting testament to Taking The Head Of Goliath’s unique brand of death metal ferocity, their potent blend of the technical, the twisted, the brutal and the melodic, always delivered with 100% commitment and unrelenting intensity. ‘Futility Of The Flesh’ itself gets things under way with a sinister, slithering riff and bestial vocals of impossible depth and toxicity that scrape the detritus from the dark side of your soul. Touched by madness, the song sends you flying on speeding guitar arpeggios one minute and grinds you into the dirt the next. ‘Septic Enslavement’ follows with its tumbling riffs over frantic drums. It’s overwhelming and overpowering, with its skittering riffs and frenzied rhythms – the epitome of Taking The Head Of Goliath’s eclectic, dynamic style. ‘Neoteric Tribal Barbarism’ is an absolute behemoth of a song, featuring passages of delirious speed with guitar riffs like insect swarms and was recorded live at Rayfest in the summer of ’21, capturing an incredibly powerful vocal performance from Jake Martin. Finally, the very last artillery barrage from Taking The Head Of Goliath comes in the form of bonus track, ‘Cord Of Three Strands’, the band’s independently released 2019 digital single. It’s a searing shot of darkness, laced with grandiose melody and the perfect farewell from a band that will be sorely missed. For those who have loved and lost Taking The Head Of Goliath, Futility Of The Flesh is a last roar from beyond the grave, a parting salvo to be treasured. For the others…you have some incredible music to discover.
Nothing was left to chance with Futility Of The Flesh, ensuring that Taking The Head Of Goliath’s final blow lands with maximum impact. Recorded by Will Maravelas (Thor, Incinerate etc) and mixed and mastered by Charles Powell (Carnifex etc) the sound throughout is devastating – and with cover art created by Pär Olofsson (Children Of Bodom, Exodus etc) Futility Of The Flesh is as powerful visually as it is sonically. Don’t miss this stunning concluding chapter in the story of Taking The Head Of Goliath, coming your way from Rottweiler Records on October 25th.
Line-up:
Jake Martin - Vocals
Luke Renno - Bass/Backing Vocals
Nathan Sherman - Guitar
Steve Reishus – Drums
*Guitars on ‘Neoteric Tribal Barbarism’ by Miles Sunde
*Guitars on 'Cord of Three Strands' by Rob Blake
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Austin (TX) - Returning with their latest call-to-arms, Texas metal warlords IGNITOR are once again battle-ready with the release of their new album, HORNS AND HAMMERS. The album is out now in Europe, Asia, and Australia via Metal On Metal Records. The label will be selling it at Keep it True Rising Festival IV in Wurzburg, Germany, October 4-5.
The CD is available for purchase from Metal On Metal Records at:
U.S. residents can pre-order the CD directly from the band at https://ignitorband.com/merch. Orders will ship no later than October 15.
Vinyl and CD versions wil be distributed through Revolt Vinyl Records in North and South America in November. This version will include a bonus track of the Saxon classic “Machine Gun,” featuring guest appearances by Ross The Boss (Manowar, Dictators), Marc Lopes (Metal Church, Let Us Prey, Ross The Boss) and Gabriel Guardian (Immortal Guardian). Look for the companion video of that song very soon. This version will soon be available for streaming and purchase on all digital platforms.
The vinyl version of Horns and Hammers will be released on Metal World Records in Europe.
Check out the promotional video for music, interviews, and album info at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip1xGHaGH_4
Another storm-the-gates, metal onslaught, Horns and Hammers delivers all the dramatic power and fury that landed previous albums Haunted by Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Golden Age of Black Magick in the hallowed realms of Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Raven, Dio, Accept and other legendary keepers of the metal creed.
From the title track’s speed-metal war cry and the Maiden-esque “Imperial Bloodlines” to the cowbell-driven “Shattered Crosses” and the 70s-inspired heavy metal of “Ferocious the Martyrs” (featuring guest keyboardist Gabriel Guardian of Immortal Guardian) the 11-track Horns and Hammers
is a mighty mix of classic heavy metal spiked with NWOBHM, thrash, power metal and the atmospheric textures of prog-metal and fantasy.
“We raised the bar high with our last two albums so we couldn’t settle for anything less than a full-on metal assault,” said founding guitarist Stuart “Batlord” Laurence. “We’ve always honored our influences,
but we’re also very insistent that our music – first and foremost – sounds like IGNITOR. With Horns and Hammers, we’ve covered the spectrum of metal and taken Ignitor to a whole new level.”
Fronted by the soaring vocals of Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth), IGNITOR's strength is further forged by guitarist Robert Williams, bassist Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell and drummer Pat Doyle. Whether charging and pounding like clashing titans (“Dark Horse,” “Chaos Maximus Eternal”) or luring the listener into gothic tales of doom and deceit (“Suicide Anthem,” “Taken Up With Serpents”), IGNITOR delivers with shuddering impact.
“Robert brought a ton of songs and riff ideas to the table and Billy had some great ideas that blossomed into full-blown songs,” Laurence said. “Once we started jamming with Pat’s pummeling backbeat, we knew we had something special.”
“As the arrangements started coming together, I found myself completely immersed and inspired to come up with the lyrical themes and characters to carry the songs to completion,” McMaster added. “I’m really proud of the band’s individual and collective contributions, and I think we all agree that Horns and Hammers is a triumph by any measure.”
The album’s stunning cover art – featuring a medieval warrior and his mighty steed surveying a hellish killing field – comes courtesy of renowned fantasy/sci-fi artist Claudio Bergamin whose credits include
Judas Priest (Firepower), Burning Witches (The Witch of the North), Cassius King (Field Trip) and Klassik ’78 (Phantoms), among others.
Produced and mastered by Stuart “Batlord” Laurence at Emphatic Audio in Austin, TX, Horns and Hammers was mastered for vinyl by Cris Burns. “Hell Shall Be Your Home” was recorded live in Austin TX at Kick Butt Coffee in 2019, and engineered by Ernie Basaldua with mixing by
Stuart "Batlord" Laurence.
Track
Listing:
1. Horns And Hammers
2. Imperial Bloodlines
3. Dark Horse
4. Cyber Crush
5. Shattered Crosses
6. Taking Up With Serpents
7. Ferocious The Martyrs
8. Suicide Anthem
9. Chaos Maximus Eternal
10. Machine Gun (Saxon cover)*
11. Terminous
*Note: “Hell Shall Be Your Home” appears on The Metal On Metal Records version.
All songs written, recorded and performed by Ignitor, except *“Machine Gun,” originally written, recorded and performed by Saxon, Carrere Music Ltd 1980.
Cover art by Claudio Bergamin.
Line-up:
Stuart “Batlord” Laurence - Guitar
Robert Williams - Guitar
Jason McMaster - Vocals
Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell - Bass
Pat Doyle - Drums
Bio:
IGNITOR formed in Austin, Texas in 2003 with legendary Agony Column guitarist Stuart Laurence, Brendon Bigelow on bass, Beverly Barrington on guitar, Pat Doyle (Offenders) on drums, and vocalist Erika Swinnich. The band wanted to write music reflecting their passion for heavy, speed, and power metal.
IGNITOR quickly attracted a worldwide fan base after releasing their debut album Take To The Sky, featuring the hit "Demonslayer," in 2004 to rave reviews. Germany’s Rock Hard magazine named it "Demo of the Month.” Dies Irae (Brazil) said “Ignitor take the world by storm, playing a furious Heavy/Speed Metal, joining the high class of veteran musicians and the powerful voice of Erika Swinnich.”
IGNITOR performed at Mexico’s Monterrey Metal Fest in May 2005, appearing alongside Motorhead and Danzig. Then onto Germany’s Keep It True Festival in November 2005, where they stunned the crowd and were named "Best KIT Newcomer" by Mario’s Metal Mania magazine.
In 2007 IGNITOR released Road of Bones (Cruz del Sur Music) featuring cover art by legendary MOTORHEAD collaborator Joe Petagno. Beverly was temporarily replaced by Annah Moore on guitar for this album. The band’s sophomore effort is a deep dive into themes of pain, death, and rebirth, culminating with their triumphant anthem "Reinheitsgebot" and its rallying cry “Metal is the Law!” Blabbermouth described IGNITOR - “This is the energetic, lusty sound of a new and eager band who are ridiculously fired up to be alive, no matter what the decade.” IGNITOR toured heavily in support of the album, playing with Primal Fear and Leaves Eyes, and a notable appearance at the Valley Thrash Fest in McAllen, Texas.
In 2008, Texas metal veteran Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Howling Sycamore, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth, Evil United) replaced Erika’s wraith-Maiden wail with his demonic Texas drawl. The band released The Spider Queen (Cruz del Sur/Heavy Artillery) in 2009, a fairy tale of love and redemption. The band toured in support of the album, sharing stages with Fates Warning and Helstar along the way.
In 2010 IGNITOR played the Metal Up Your Tap Fest in Chicago along with Cruz del Sur label mates Bible of the Devil.
2012 saw the release of Year of the Metal Tiger (MVD Audio,) featuring fan favorite "Heavy Metal Holocaust" and the eerie polytheism of "Shadow of the Needle." “…a fiery album of traditional, hot-wired metal that’s intensely passionate and utterly authentic.” – Backstage Auctions.
IGNITOR released Mixtape '85 in 2013, a collection of beloved favorites recalling the peak years for thrash and heavy metal. The Metal Files said “…the opening solo on Into the Coven gave me chills when I first heard it.” 2013 also saw the inauguration of IGNITOR’s occasionally-annual Iron Fist Fest in their hometown of Austin, featuring Witches Mark.
The next two years produced some lineup changes. Beverly was replaced by Robert Williams (Witches Mark,) and Brendon was replaced by Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell (Agony Column) cementing IGNITOR’s current lineup.
In May 2016 IGNITOR performed at the Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago along with Tygers of Pan Tang, Jag Panzer, and Leather Leone. The Iron Fist Fest returned in 2016 too, featuring Byfist and Death of Millions alongside IGNITOR.
In 2017 IGNITOR released Years of War 2008 – 2013, an anthology of the band’s releases during those years in a limited edition box set, including rare promo discs and assorted items from the merchandise shop. The box set is only available from the band’s website ignitorband.com.
2017 also saw the release of the IGNITOR’s sixth album Haunted By Rock & Roll (EMP Label Group.) The song "Hatchet: The Ballad of Victor Crowley" is heard during the closing credits of the horror slasher “Victor Crowley” from Ariescope Pictures. Director Adam Green produced a NSFW video of the song featuring some key gory scenes from the movie. The band produced three other companion videos featuring the songs "No Sanctuary," "Brave The War," and "Haunted by Rock & Roll." Roppongi Rocks said “IGNITOR serves us an extra large portion of terrific heavy metal on its new album.” “The New Wave of British Heavy Metal deserves a locally designated acronym thanks to IGNITOR.” - Austin Chronicle
IGNITOR returned to Chicago in July 2018 for the Alehorn of Power X festival, appearing alongside Zuul and Bible of the Devil. IGNITOR appeared again in July at the Iron Fist Fest 3 with James Rivera’s Metal Asylum and Austin’s own Duel. Iron Fist Fest 4’s ten-band lineup in 2019 featured IGNITOR, Helstar, and Angkor Wat.
In early 2020, IGNITOR finished the work on their seventh album. After contacting Metal on Metal Records and sending the new songs, they got a positive response and soon the agreement was reached. The Golden Age of Black Magick was finally released on October 2020 on CD and all major digital platforms.
In January 2020 right before the worldwide pandemic, IGNITOR recorded a live set at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin. Later in the year the band self-released that set on a CD called Live…Before the Plague and posted it for sale on its website store.
Like most of the planet, IGNITOR spent 2020-2021 hiding out from the pandemic. Luckily that provided ample opportunity to write and hone new material. The band played a few shows here and there as venues began opening back up in 2022 and 2023, but spent most of the time writing and preparing to record their next album.
Recording began in Fall 2023 and was finished in May 2024 for the ninth IGNITOR album, Horns and Hammers (Metal on Metal). Horns and Hammers features some extra special guests – Ross “the Boss” Friedman (Dictators, Manowar,) Marc Lopes (Metal Church) and Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian). IGNITOR is especially proud of this album. The cover art was painted by Claudio Bergamin and depicts a weathered warrior in a brief moment of repose after a battle. It resembles the plight of true metal warriors like IGNITOR, who strive to inject both power and passion into their craft with every performance, keeping the flames of heavy metal stoked and smoldering for the gathered masses.
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The new single will be available on all platforms tomorrow, October 4.
CARNOSUS will release new album, Wormtales, October 18 on CD digipak, gatefold vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The release is the band's third overall and first for Willowtip.
Whispered among worms were the rumors of a new album by death metal outfit CARNOSUS. Heavier and darker, slithering its way from Sweden, comes Wormtales, a prequel to the critically acclaimed 2023 album, Visions of Infinihility. Wormtales contains some of the band's most impressive riffs thus far and once again lures the listener into the realm of infinihility.
Indeed,Visions of Infinihility, the quintet's independently released second album, garnered loads of positive press, further amplifying the anticipation for CARNOSUS' Willowtip debut, Wormtales!
CARNOSUS was established in 2011. The band members all come from different subgenres within Metal, resulting in a mixture of technical melodic death metal, thrash, progressive metal and a pinch of black metal influences scattered throughout.
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/carnosus.aspx
https://carnosus.bandcamp.com/album/wormtales
Track Listing:
1. Birthless
2. Within Throat, Within Heart
3. Neglectikon
4. Yearnings of A Rotten Spine
5. Worm Charmer
6. Harbinger of Woundism
7. Paradoxical Impulse
8. Wound of Wisdom
9. Cosmoclaustrum
10. Solace In Soil
Credits:
Recorded and produced by Carnosus (except drums; recorded and produced by Robert Kukla & Dennis Rosic).
Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios.
Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.
Line-up:
Jonatan Karasiak - Vocals / Lyrics
Rickard Persson - Guitars
Marcus Jokela Nyström - Guitars
Marcus Strindlund - Bass
Jacob Hedner - Drums
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Hailing from the hills and woodlands of Central New York and New England, MYTHBEGOTTEN combines a love of legends old and new with a folk-inflected fusion of metal genres to arrive at a uniquely epic and melancholic melodic concoction.
The result is an eight-track journey that reaches Tolkien-esque levels of grandeur. The band offers an in-depth look at the inspiration behind Tales from the Unseelie Court.
"The key inspiration for the individual songs includes the Dullahan (an evil fey from Irish Mythology) which inspired the song "The Heedless Horseman", Sawney Bean (a legendary Scottish Cannibal and inspiration for "The Hills Have Eyes") which inspired the song "The Terror of Lothian", H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in The Walls" which inspired the song "Beneath Exham Priory", The Welsh Legend of the Wild Hunt which inspired the song "Mallt-y-Nos", the Arthurian legend of Merlin and the Dragons which inspired the song "Omen of Embers", The melancholy book 4 of Milton's "Paradise Lost" which inspired the song "The Fall", and the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields from Tolkien's "The Return of The King" which inspired the song "Of Wrath and Ruin". This is all rounded out by an arrangement of the classic Scots ballad "Twa Corbies" which brings together the old traditions of British Isles balladry with this modern sonic storytelling which MYTHBEGOTTEN bases its songwriting upon."
Over the last several months, MYTHBEGOTTEN has released a series of two-song "chapters" from Tales from the Unseelie Court. Stream "The Road to Unseelie Court" series at https://mythbegotten.bandcamp.com/album/the-road-to-unseelie-court-fire-brimstone
Tales from the Unseelie Court is set for release on October 31.
Experience more MYTHBEGOTTEN at https://www.youtube.com/@Mythbegotten
Tracklisting:
1. The Heedless Horseman
2. Omen of Embers
3. Mallt-y-Nos
4. Beneath Exham Priory
5. The Fall
6. The Terror of Lothian
7. Twa Corbies
8. Of Wrath and Ruin
The Journey So Far...
A decade ago in Syracuse, New York, Connor Hoffman, Daniel Barbour, and Joe Sopchak released the Stirling demo under their Folk/Power Metal fusion project Hounds of Annwn. Shortly thereafter, they performed their only live show at the Sturmfeier folk metal festival in Hamlin, New York, but with college and work taking priority, the three soon scattered throughout the Northeast. All knew, however, that there was much left undone, songs left unsung, and stories left untold.
In 2022, after years of sporadic songwriting and fits and starts of recording, the trio re-committed to bringing their vision of folk- and symphonic-infused Power Metal to fruition under the new moniker MYTHBEGOTTEN. This name was chosen for its elegant encapsulation of the band’s ethos: to chronicle the stories from myth, fantasy, and history that have inspired them.
Tales from the Unseelie Court is the first release from this reforged musical triumvirate and is centered around the folklore of the British Isles and literary fantasy, showcasing the eerie and macabre as well as the wondrous and heroic. Listeners feel as though they are sitting amidst a gathering of the Unseelie Fey Court, hearing great and terrible stories retold to the assembled congregation.
MYTHBEGOTTEN is excited to reveal its unique blend of metallic styles in this first eldritch release and looks forward to sharing tales even stranger and more wondrous with the world.
Line-Up:
Dan Barbour – Lead Vocals
Connor Hoffman – Guitars, Backing Vocals, Additional Keyboards
Joe Sopchak – Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
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SØRGELIG – “ΦΘΟΡΆ”
Label: Tragedy Productions
Release Date: October 4th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Behexen | Shining | Sargeist | Dødsferd
In the lightless darkness of the world below, where the cold, grey waves of the river of forgetting lap against the shores of unceasing, stygian night, there the nameless and the soulless, tragic and deplorable, gather to exchange tales of bleak eternity and whisper secrets born of blood and promises. With sickle and stone they climb the thousand steps to moonlit night, there to gather the dreams of the sleeping, to reap the screams of the foolish and harvest the spirits of those who have turned the world of legends into a world of decay and ruination.
Three years since Sørgelig unleashed the fiercely intense Slaves Of Tomorrow EP, the Greek iconoclasts, dissident dream eaters, have returned, with an astonishing new full length album, wreathed in smoke and shadows – Φθορά! Opening with ‘Breed Of Waste’ that highlights the incredibly harsh, caustic vocals of Odious, that freeze the blood with their unbridled savagery, Φθορά then grasps you by the throat and flings you into a maelstrom of malefic sound and baleful visions. The insistent riffs of ‘Libation Of Blood ‘are driven into your skull like nails as a sinister, insidious evil weaves its way through the song. This is the epitome of black metal ferocity, a genre defining beast of a track. Meanwhile ‘Inexorable Grey’ summons the spirits of rage and war, unleashing forces of terrifying power, building to breathless peaks of blinding speed and darkness and crashing to abyssal depths. Yet Φθορά is much more than a glorious exposition of blasting ferocity and freezing wickedness, with ‘Φθορά’ itself providing a masterful break in the onslaught as its haunting sounds invoke unsettling imaginings of broken ghosts in empty ballrooms, spinning forever in dusty, tear-stained waltzes. Then there is the grand epic of tragedy and terror that closes this unearthly album – ‘Dreamscapes Of Lethe’. Jagged, probing riffs stagger across stuttering rhythms before collapsing into anguish, soul-searing madness, profound melancholy, death and blood. You rise again from a false ending, crawling towards the light, before ancient claws drag you back into darkness. There is no escape from the underworld, no return from Φθορά!
Φθορά will be released by Tragedy Productions, on 6 panel digi-pack with a sixteen page booklet, on October 4th and will surely see Sørgelig marching on towards the highest echelons of black metal. The creative balance displayed between understanding and embracing the essence of black metal and branding a unique seal into its cold, dead flesh is masterful. When Φθορά arrives be prepared to follow Sørgelig into realms unknown…and beyond.
Line-up:
Odious – Vocals/Lyrics
Reactive – Bass/Guitars
NCRVZRS – Guitars (track 3)
Έκπτωτος – Guitars/Lyrics
N.D. – Drums/Vocals/Guitars
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Sweden's avenging witches of black metal, VÖLVA, are set to return with a new album, DESIRES PROFANE on November 28th - featuring ten hymns to the lost souls of their persecuted sisters, incinerated upon the murderous bonfires of Christianity. Desires Profane is a scalding assault of vehement rage that will be released on CD by Grind To Death Records and on vinyl by Fiadh Productions.
Track listing:
1 – The Tower
2 – Walk With Me
3 – Expulsion Of The Flesh
4 – Inverted Cross
5 – Never Forgive
6 – The Serpent
7 – Perpetual Putrefaction
8 – Asmodeus
9 – Salvation
10 – Vagabond
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https://www.grindtodeathrecords.com/
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Hailing
from Skellefteå, Sweden, TERRORTORY has been carving
their name into the melodic death metal scene with a sound that fuses raw
aggression, grandiose melodies, and a complexity that challenges the listener
at every turn. Known for their intense anger, strong arrangements, and intense love
of chugs, Terrortory is now gearing up to release their highly
anticipated second full-length album, THE BLACK PRISM.
The band, comprising Johan Norström (vocals, Katapult), Stefan Vidmark (guitars, ex-Nightscape), Emil Ceder (guitars), Tommy Nilsson (drums), and Olov Häggmark (bass), has undergone an evolutionary journey since its inception. Following the release of their previous full-length album The Seed Left Behind and the EP City of Ghosts through Discouraged Records, they have embraced new challenges and matured as songwriters. This evolution culminates in The Black Prism, a self-produced, independently released opus consisting of ten tracks that showcase the band's most complex and epic compositions to date.
Regarding the creation of their latest album, Terrortory describes it as a project filled with unexpected paths and challenges:
“This has been a project with many phases and challenges. This, in turn, has forced us onto paths we could not have anticipated or imagined. Songs we long thought were finished have been torn down and rebuilt, and in the end, we had a much stronger product that we are all incredibly satisfied with.”
The band promises that The Black Prism will feature their fastest and most intricate music, drawing inspiration from the vastness of the universe as well as the dark depths within the human soul.
Terrortory’s dedication to their craft extends beyond music. The band produced, recorded, and mixed The Black Prism themselves, with mastering handled by Kai Stahlenberg at Kohlekeller Studios. Their hands-on approach continues with the creation of music videos to accompany the album’s release. With vocalist Johan Norström’s experience behind the camera and bassist Olov Häggmark's work in front of it, the videos are poised to deliver a blend of space anxiety and dark humor.
In keeping with their signature style, The Black Prism features a mix of longer, intricate songs and shorter, faster tracks, pushing the boundaries of melodic death metal. The album’s tracklist, including titles like "Star Crusher," "Pestiferous Haven" and the epic titular track "The Black Prism," promises an auditory journey of crushing riffs, relentless rhythms, and haunting melodies.
With their self-released The Black Prism, the album stands as a testament to their growth, skill, and dedication to the melodic death metal genre. As they prepare for this next chapter, Terrortory invites listeners to delve into the abyss and experience the full force of their musical evolution.
Discography
DeReign – Single (Discouraged Records)
The Seed Left Behind – Full-length album (Discouraged Records)
City of Ghosts – EP (Discouraged Records)
The Black Prism – Full-length album (Self-released)
Line-up
Johan Norström – Vocals
Stefan Vidmark – Guitars
Emil Ceder – Guitars
Tommy Nilsson – Drums
Olov Häggmark – Bass
https://www.youtube.com/@terrortorymetal
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Prepare to be pummeled by pure sonic devastation! Rising Thrash/Death Metal act ANOMIC has signed with Wormholedeath Records for the reissue of their debut EP, "OPACITY" set to be re-released on November 22nd, 2024.
Anomic
is a force to be reckoned with. Founded by Dutch/Syrian guitarist and vocalist
Raafat "Raaf" Atasi, the band blends the fury of Thrash with the
unrelenting brutality of Death Metal, creating a sound that is both punishing
and addictive. After leaving the German thrash outfit War Agenda in August
2023, Raaf wasted no time channeling his creative fire into Anomic. He
channeled a multitude of influences, resulting in the band's debut EP,
"Opacity". This 3-track sonic assault tackles existential themes like
conformity, war, insanity, and the very apocalypse itself.
Raaf wasn't alone in this sonic crusade. He enlisted his old friend Fadi Massamiri to join the band as bassist and second vocalist, with Fadi also taking the reins on mixing and mastering "Opacity". To solidify their rhythm section, the band recruited the legendary Krzysztof Klingbein (live drummer for Vader, Belphegor, and Hate) to lay down the punishing drum tracks on the EP. Additionally, the monstrous vocals of Stefan Nordström guest star on the track "On Deaf Ears", add an extra layer of malevolent fury.
Anomic's signing with Wormholedeath Records marks a pivotal moment in the band's journey. In a statement, the band expressed their excitement:
"We are stoked to announce that AnomiC is now a member of the WormHoleDeath family. Our EP 'Opacity' will be released and distributed this year (2024) digitally by WHD worldwide. This is an important chapter in the band's journey, and we wanna thank the spectacular label owner Carlo Bellotti and his team Carla Predan and Natascia Pribac for this great opportunity to spread our music properly, and with a great label that is a home to so many killer bands signed to their roster. Moreover, our first full-length, which is to be released in 2025, will also be released and distributed with WHD. So, we’re looking forward to this great collaboration and can’t wait to share plans with you all. Stay metal m/"
Brace yourselves, metal maniacs! Anomic is here to demolish everything in their path. Stay tuned for more news and prepare to be crushed by "Opacity" on December 6th, 2024!
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After releasing a couple of beautiful singles, Canadian black metal band Hell Is Other People have now premiered another one of their epic, stirring and heart-wrenching tracks, making it clear at this point that this is indeed a special album.
"...emotionally and sonically scarring, a wrenching expression of torment and pain, of confusion and futility, and yet there’s also something poignant as well as ruinous in the grief it expresses."
HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE - “MOIRAE “
For
fans of
- Agalloch, Altar of Plagues, Winterfylleth, White Ward, Drudkh
Hell Is Other People from Canada have elegantly and passionately crafted a black metal album that imbibes influences from several of its related subgenres such as atmospheric black metal, post-black metal and even DSBM in parts, forming a cohesive, expressive and all-encompassing sound that the band is comfortable in carrying throughout. The band goes about playing these intuitively structured songs with a palpable burning fervour which makes all the difference. It is difficult to remain unmoved by such impactful and poignant songs and even more so to efface them from memory, the languid pacing furthermore prolonging their lingering presence in the mind. The five songs here seem interconnected emotionally even though they offer slightly differing moods, as if showcasing phases of the same pained existence. 'Moirae' is a stunning, beautifully tempered album with a remarkable range of expression that comes across as genuine and heartfelt.
Line up
Nathan Boots - Guitar
Nicholas Luck - Guitar
Nathan Ferreira - Bass, Vocals
James Ditty - Drums
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration
Track listing
1. Moirae 6:58
2. Fates 6:43
3. Degrade 7:48
4. Loss 8:45
5. Atropos 13:28
Release date - October 11th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Summer will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on October 4 via Forcefield Records. Click the link below to pre-order!
https://vallettanc.bandcamp.com/album/summer
In support of the album, Valletta will launch their Eastern U.S. Tour in October! Tour dates are as follows:
10/17 Atlanta, GA @ Culture Shock
10/18 Athens, GA @ Flicker
10/19 Kingsport, TN VFW Post 4933
10/20 Covington, KY @ Madison Live
10/21 Chicago, IL @ Live Wire Lounge
10/22 Dayton, OH @ Hidden Gem
10/23 Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground
10/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Ortlieb's
10/25 Burlington, VT @ Despacito
10/27 Lowell, MA @ Koto Lowell
10/ 29 Salem, MA @ Koto Salem
11/1 Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana
11/2 Wilmington, NC (TBA)
Blackened Arena Rock? Melancholic Grunge n' Roll? Valletta's anthemic approach to songwriting and energetic stage performance certainly makes you wonder. The band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Summer, seeks to incinerate metal norms and create a new sound that is as grimey as it is electrifying!
Valletta comes with an impressive pedigree. The band features drummer Justin Valletta (Mo'ynoq), bassist/backing vocalist Donald Boyd (Mo'ynoq), guitar/lead vocalist Keenan Carroll (Lord Almighty, ex-Barishi), and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear (Hopesfall, Prayer for Cleansing, ex-Between The Buried and Me).
Metal Hammer called the band's debut EP, Come Alive, "A potent mix of Celtic Frost, Satyricon and The Bronx, this is fantastically catchy, bleak, old-school extreme metal with rock’n’roll hooks." Summer takes that penetrating foundational mix and supercharges the musicianship and songwriting, resulting in 12 tracks guaranteed to leave neurological imprints!
The band released the following statement about Summer:
“The new album, Summer, has been a real exploration in tearing down walls that we had previously built up over the years. Each of us coming from different musical backgrounds, there’s been this strong sense of letting go and allowing the music to unfold, regardless of how uncomfortable it may be. That’s been the beauty of this journey we’ve started together, and it’s been a great ride so far!
During the writing process, a constant theme that emerged was the idea of duality. From heavier, grimier riffs to beautiful, stoic melodies. From slower, muddy depths to faster, anthemic leads. From frozen wastelands, to summer nights, we’ve been on a journey to explore our limitations musically and emotionally. Spin that shit up!”
Track Listing:*
1. Kissing Angels
2. Serpents of Solomon
3. Saint
4. Diving into the Deep
5. Criminal
6. Soot & Ash
7. Ill Blood
8. In Ecstasy
9. On the Run
10. Bringing the Worst
11. Come Alive
12. Almighty Hate
*The vinyl version of Summer contains five instrumental synthesizer bonus tracks that serve as interludes.
Album Credits:
Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob at Warrior Sound, Chapel Hill, NC.
Mastered by Matt Tuttle at IAS Studios, Winston Salem, NC.
Cover Art by Will Goodyear.
Line-Up:
Justin Valletta - Drums
Donald Boyd - Bass / Backing Vocals
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
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Shadows
Decay recently released a lyric video for the EP's first single, "FALLING
OF MIND." Check it out now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALCH0ukunVk
Preoptic Distortion Records will release Agent of Chaos on all major streaming platforms on November 8. Pre-save the EP at https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/shadowsdecay/agent-of-chaos/
Tracklisting:
1) Dry You Out
2) Falling of Mind
3) Agent of Chaos
4) Bringer of Death
5) Only Lies
6) Psuedo Suicidal
Hailing from the vibrant metal scene of Costa Rica, Shadows Decay has been a formidable presence in the thrash metal genre since their formation in 2008. Originally known as Preoptic Distortion, the band underwent a transformation both in name and sound, evolving into Shadows Decay—a name that embodies their music's raw energy and dark intensity.
Drawing inspiration from the titans of thrash such as Slayer, Testament, Metallica, Anthrax, and Death Angel, Shadows Decay has cultivated a unique sound that honors the legacy of these pioneers while forging their path. The music is a relentless onslaught of powerful riffs, thunderous drums, and aggressive vocals, delivering a high-octane experience that resonates with metal fans worldwide.
Shadows Decay is more than just a band; they are a collective of passionate musicians driven by a shared vision of musical excellence. Their live performances are known for their electrifying energy and raw intensity, leaving audiences craving more. With every show, Shadows Decay solidifies their reputation as one of the most dynamic and powerful thrash metal bands in the region. As they look to the future, Shadows Decay is poised to take their music to new heights, with plans for new releases and more explosive live shows. Their journey is one of perseverance, passion, and an unwavering commitment to delivering the pure essence of thrash metal.
Shadows Decay stands ready to spread their sonic devastation far and
wide - because in the world of metal - decay never sounded so good.
Shadows Decay is:
Nacho Escobar - vocals, guitars
Nestor Morales - lead guitar
Daniel Solano - Bass guitar
Jeyson Hodgson - Drums
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FOUL BODY AUTOPSY – “THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES” (EP)
Label: Independent Release
Release Date: October 31st 2024
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Dark Tranquillity | In Flames | At The Gates | Insomnium
Condemned by the words of a child; the cruel pretence of a boy whose vindictive mischief making spread like plague through the tarnished hearts of those so hungry for scandal and persecution – so excited by the prospect of the torture and death of people that, just days before, they considered neighbours, even friends. In these damned times the devil walks not in the homespun dresses of women named witches, nor dances in our night time woods in accordance with licentious and lecherous fantasies. He lives in the hearts of the profiteering Witchfinder and the self important judges, in the fear of the ignorant and the perverted piety of priests…
After the bravely experimental Shadows Without Light trilogy and the back to the roots horror and aggression of Crucifix Dreams, Tom Reynolds’ Foul Body Autopsy is back, with another fresh twist on his precision riff attack. The Discovery Of Witches is a two track EP inspired by two infamous witch trials that took place in Tom’s hometown of Leicester, a century apart. In 1616, due to the false testimony of a young boy, fifteen women were arrested. Nine were hung for crimes of wicked sorcery, another died in jail while the remaining five were released due to the intervention of King James I – to whom the boy admitted his lies. In 1717 Jane Clark and her two children were accused of witchcraft by their fellow villagers and subjected to an ordeal by water – the fact that they didn’t drown when cast into the village pond, condemning them. The 1616 hangings are explored in opening track ‘The Rough Rope And The Short Drop’, where Tom brings new elements to his customary six-string aggression. There’s a reflective feel captured by the deft interplay between guitar and bass - Linus Klausenitzer (Alkaloid, ex-Obscura etc)’s flowing notes weaving their way between Tom’s snarling guitar parts - the sections of punchy, rhythmic feel and the strong melodic awareness as the tragedy, the violence and the delusion of that awful episode are brought to life. ‘The Ordeal By Water’ is another fine example of the traditional Foul Body Autopsy sound taking on fresh hues and colours as it builds through melody and an almost progressive aura to the full force assault of fierce blast beats – masterfully delivered once again by Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, Scarve etc). Constantly evolving, constantly exploring, constantly delivering riffs like tactical weapons – Tom Reynolds and Foul Body Autopsy have delivered another sweetly structured and imaginative burst of metal.
While all three musicians worked in their home studios in England, the US and Germany respectively, Tom’s vocals were captured at Parlour Studios (The Haunted, At The Gates, Napalm Death etc) and The Discovery Of Witches was mastered by Stephen Kerrison (The Grudge, Remote Viewing etc). The results are, as always with Foul Body Autopsy, excellent – combining clarity and power, subtlety and force. The EP will be available digitally and for the first time for Foul Body Autopsy, on limited edition lathe cut vinyl. Set to be released on the most appropriate date of October 31st, The Discovery Of Witches is another essential addition to the Foul Body Autopsy canon.
Line-up:
Tom Reynolds - Guitar/Vocals
*drums on The Discovery Of Witches by Dirk Verbeuren
*bass on The Discovery Of Witches by Linus Klausenitzer
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Tokyo “dirty thrashers” Straenge launched in the vibrant Tokyo underground metal scene in 2013. Musically, the band is known in the Tokyo underground scene for their unique blend of performative technicality, unconventional harmonic phrasing, sudden time changes, and old-school thrash and death metal riffs. They are often compared to bands such as Death, Coroner, Voivod, Atheist, Forbidden, and others. Their lives shows are fun and energetic, with frequent unexpected cover performances of classic metal bands such as Death, Exodus, Metallica, Kreator, Motorhead, and more.
Under their original name “Strange”, the band released three demos on cassette tape and digital formats: “Thanks, Thrasher!” (2015), “Thrash Carnival” (2018), and “Thrash Medicine” (2020). As a special nod to old-school thrash fans, each cassette demo had bonus B-side tracks which were only released on the cassettes. Near the end of this era of three demo tapes, the band added an “e” to their name to become Straenge.
Straenge’s debut full-length album “Filthy Microbes” was released in Tokyo on cassette tape in March 2023. A subsequent digital release on Bandcamp was then followed by a CD version release in March 2024. The CD version of the album was released by Tokyo’s well-regarded underground label Captured Records and includes two exclusive live bonus tracks.
Straenge are now planning their sophomore record, title TBD. They are hitting the studio in late 2024 and expecting to release the album in the first half of 2025. The album will feature recent material which the band has played live, including several unreleased songs. The style will expand upon that of their first album, and the band has stated they hope to grow to new levels of musicality in the new album.
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Drawing from many overseas influences, Eternal Crypt brings their brand of melodic extreme metal from their hometown of Rochester New York. It has been their mission to take the atmosphere of black metal, the aggression of death metal, and combine it with the melodic sensibility of power, folk, and doom metal, providing a thought provoking soundtrack to introspective lyrics.
Though initially starting as a solo studio project, Eternal Crypt became a full-fledged band after the release of debut album "Loneliness of the Wolf" in 2018. From then, Eternal Crypt will continue to bring their brand of melodic metal with their upcoming album "Stages of Grief" released on September 28th, 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSbwEdgULxY
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Feral, one of the most respected Swedish death metal bands, are back after a gap of six years and they show how it's to be done. Their music is not only insanely powerful, as can be expected from them, but it's also surprisingly intricate. As No Clean Singing puts it eloquently in their premiere at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/11/an-ncs-premiere-feral-the-devouring-storm/
"Feral know how to crush granite and fracture bones, but you’ll also re-discover how deftly constructed and multi-faceted their music is"
FERAL – “TO USURP THE THRONES”
For
fans of :
Dismember, Carnage, Entombed, Autopsy, Murder Squad, Fleshcrawl, Bloodbath, Grave
Swedish axe-wielding death metal marauders Feral proclaimed their rights to the throne with a potent split last year with crust-ridden death metal label mates Crawl. And as promised, they launched a massive, comprehensive onslaught the following year to eliminate all competition in the Swedish death metal realm. Those familiar with their legend know their humongous heft and power but what's also notable about them is their penchant for writing detailed and highly structured songs, more so than most bands of their ilk. This is death metal that looks, sounds and feels as if it's played by real savage Vikings but it is also wisely written, backed with nearly two decades of skull-crushing experience. Musically they not only honour the ancient Nordic gods the traditional way but also skillfully assimilate influences of the darker, filthier bands from across the ocean like Autopsy into their sound and solidify it many times over. The result is an insurmountable wall of sound that not only overwhelms and conquers but also makes room for tantalizing solos, menacing slower passages, and of course, the neck-snapping groovy parts. With 'To Usurp the Thrones', Feral have once again showed why they're the irrefutable contenders to the Swedish death metal throne and have delivered one of the most accomplished albums in the style in recent times.
Line up
David Nilsson - Vocals
Viktor Klingstedt - Bass
Markus Lindahl - Guitar
Sebastian Lejon - Guitar
Roger Markström - Drums
Artwork by Costin Chioreanu (Grave)
Track listing
1. To Drain the World of Light
2. Vile Malediction
3. Deformed Mentality
4. Bound to the Dead
5. The Devouring Storm
6. Spirits Without Rest
7. Decimated
8. Phantoms of Antiquity
9. Soaked in Blood
10. Into the Ashes of History
11. Stripped of Flesh
Release date - October 18th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Horror
Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new EP from New
Jersey's twisted Death Metal horror fiends CHAINED TO THE DEAD. ONLY
HUNGER REMAINS is up now for pre-order and will be released
October 25th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.
For fans of : 200 Stabwounds, Sanguisugabogg, Carcass, Blood Duster, Macabre and Pungent Stench.
While 2023's Discography of Debauchery collected Chained To The Dead's three pre-pandemic releases, Only Hunger Remains initiates a new blood-bathed trilogy featuring their relentless onslaught of horror-influenced Death Metal and thoughtfully-crafted tributes. Recorded at Backroom Studios with mixing and mastering by Kevin Antreassian (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Gridlink, Organ Dealer), Only Hunger Remains features artwork by Mortuus and includes 4 brand-new tracks as well as Blood Duster and Pungent Stench covers.
Listen to the single "HE'S JUST MEAT NOW" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRsxZ9RJUPc
Tracklisting:
1. Flesh Hunt
2. Eaten By Worms
3. She Bore A Brood Of Beasts
4. He's Just Meat Now
5. Blood Duster Double Feature
6. Games Of Humiliation (Pungent Stench cover)
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Polish blackened sludge act FIASKO have unveiled the first track off their upcoming album “AMOK ꓘOMA”. Entitled “WNIWECZ” (translates to ‘Into Naught’). The single is accompanied by a music video created in collaboration with This Is Madness. This is the band’s first new track in almost five years.
Watch “Wniwecz”: https://youtu.be/nsVbqlHhMvk
Tomasz Mielnik, FIASKO’s vocalist and lyricist, said: ‘Wniwecz’ paints the picture of a delayed apocalypse that we - humanity - create for ourselves. We rush forward swiftly and carelessly, until the very end not seeing the steep cliff we are heading towards.”
“AMOK ꓘOMA” will be released on 15 November 2024 in jewelcase CD format and via all major streaming platforms. It will also be available for purchase via Godz ov War Productions and Malignant Voices. Pre-order information coming soon. Comprising eight songs, the tracks are about death and love, love for death and the death of love.
FIASKO started working on the album immediately after their last release, the “Mizantropolia” EP which saw the light of day in February 2020. The band’s efforts were hindered by the lack of a drummer, however, that was rectified after Tomek Walczak (Chainsword, Tankograd, Weedpecker etc.) was invited in 2023 to collaborate and arrange the drum tracks as a guest/session drummer.
All instruments for “AMOK ꓘOMA” were recorded at Santa Studio under the watchful eye and ear of Mikołaj Kiciak. The vocals were recorded at Burning Tones by Adam Ziółkowski, who is also responsible for mixing the album. The recording was then mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Me and that Man, Gruzja, Thaw).
The artwork to “AMOK ꓘOMA” was created by Robert A. von Ritter (Hooded Menace, Urfaust, Malokarpatan, Outre, In Twilight's Embrace) while the album’s booklet layout and design is the work of Paweł Marzec of Kontamination Design (Dimmu Borgir, Morbus Chron, Blaze of Perdition, Manbryne).
“AMOK ꓘOMA” tracklist:
1. Spod spodu
2. Wniwecz
3. Tarantyzm
4. VII krąg
5. Sztuczne kwiaty
6. Śmierć krzywdziciela
7. Ciało obce
8. Maligna
FIASKO is:
Mielnik – lead vocals, lyrics
Kozina – guitar
Michułka – guitar
Nawrot – bass guitar, backing vocals
Walczak – drums (session)
https://www.youtube.com/fiaskopolo
https://www.facebook.com/fiaskopl/
Format: Digitale CD-EP / Fysieke CD-EP
Label: Hell Records
Released : September 27, 2024
Genre : Death Metal
For fans of : Bolt Thrower, Gorefest, Atheist, Vader, Carcass and so on….
Born somewhere in the beginning of the new millennium, risen from the mud, blood and gore in Flanders, Belgium, we present you Solifugia, the lovechild of Centurial and Locusta.
After some line-up changes this quintet showcases their affection for Death Metal in the vein of Bolt Thrower, Gorefest, Atheist, Vader and Carcass (some excellent name-dropping, is it not!?).
With a demo (Arraneae Attack – 2001), an EP (Rampage of Brutal Revenge – 2008) and a full album (The Ultimate Promise of Evil – 2016) one can hardly say that they are very productive.
2024 however will mark the birth of the new EP “Ageless Sadism”, self-produced and mixed and mastered by the mighty Dan Swanö at Unisound Sweden.
Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Daybreak In Limbo
03. Disposition To Reign
04. All Spirits Enslaved
05. Sadistic Absolution
06. Innocence Slain 2023
SOLIFUGIA IS:
Vocals : Peter De Clercq
Bass : Johan De Vos
Rhythm and solo guitars : Maarten Dheedene
Rhythm guitars : Bernard Timmerman
Drums : Edward Timmerman
All guitars recorded at Dreetn’s Pigeonhole
Vocals recorded at HQ Solifugia
Drums recorded at Barefoot Studio, Ooigem by Arjan Bogaert
All lyrics by Peter
Produced by Maarten and Solifugia
Mixed and mastered by Dan Swäno at Unisound, Sweden
Re-amping by Stef Exelmans, Landegem
Cover artwork by BuyCoverArtwork
Art direction and design by Peej & Zowan
Photography by Nicolas ‘Doedie’ Doutreligne at Pulsar Photography, Zulte
Label coordination Hell Records
https://solifugia.bandcamp.com/album/ageless-sadism
The band tapped Decibel Magazine for the exclusive world premiere of FROSTBITTEN GALAXY, an album the outlet calls "fully wooly and rampaging." Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/10/02/full-album-stream-mammoth-caravans-frostbitten-galaxy/
Frostbitten Galaxy will be out on October 4 on Blade Setter Records. Order the album at https://bladesetterrecords.bigcartel.com/
MAMMOTH CARAVAN has announced a string of live dates in support of Frostbitten Galaxy. See the band leave their trademark trail of destruction at the dates below:
Oct 4th - Little Rock, AR @ Four Quarter Bar
Oct 5th - Van Buren, AR @ Iron Horse Records
Oct 6th - Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone
Oct 11th - Cord, AR @ Field Of The Dead Fest
Oct 12th - Fayetteville, AR @ Smoke and Barrel
Oct 18th - Vicksburg, MS @ BB Club
For a taste of MAMMOTH CARAVAN's commanding stage presence, watch
the video for "Siege in the Stars," filmed live at The Anvil Sessions Holy Anvil Recording Co. in Fayetteville, AR.
Watch
the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6wDV1ExPP4
With a revamped lineup, a retooled sound, and a violent tale of mammoths in space, the band’s next offering promises to be their heaviest and most diverse material yet.
Frostbitten Galaxy tracklist:
1. Absolute Zero
2. Cosmic Clairvoyance
3. Tusks Of Orion
4. Siege In The Stars
5. Prehistoric Spacefarer
6. Sky Burial
Frostbitten Galaxy was recorded and mixed at Wolfman Studios by Jason Tedford, and mastered by Justin Weis at Traxworx. Album art by Tony Koehl
Line-Up:
Brandon Ringo - Vocals/Bass
Robert Warner - Vocals/Guitar/Synth
Khetner Howton - Drums
All scream singing by Brandon Ringo. All clean singing by Robert Warner
https://www.facebook.com/MammothCaravan
The first single 'Your Worst Enemy' is out now and music video produced by Tuomas Saukkonen (Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Dawn Of Solace) can be seen here: https://youtu.be/_R4o1oILl0A
Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments:
”We wanted to start with a fiery track with a lot of kick! The song is about an individual, that has been treated like trash for his whole life. Eventually enough is enough, his feelings take over and he seeks for a revenge. He releases his anger towards his bullies and lets them know their worst enemy. ” ”We started making of the album with this song and clearly each musician had a strong vision of the outcome. I think we succeeded in giving it the chaos it needed, both with the song and the music video.”
Listen to 'Your Worst Enemy' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-your-worst-enemy
Track
list:
1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio)
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)
Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio
Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack
Line-up:
Paavo Laapotti - Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä - Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä - Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen - Bass
Arttu Airo - Drums
Biography:
Defiled Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland. It was founded by the vocalist and Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021. The band’s music is for the fans of old In Flames, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity etc. Their sound relies heavily on the 90's melodeath sound, but with modern twists. The songs are filled with low growls, chunky guitars, beautiful melodies and tight rhythm sections.
They released their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 and it has reached over 25,000 streams on Spotify alone. Since then, the band has been writing new material and now it's time to unleash their long-awaited debut album!
https://www.facebook.com/defiledserenity
KLAÏTON – “BEHIND THE RITUAL “
Format: Digital EP-CD / Physical EP-CD
Label: Independent Release
Tracklist:
01. Scavenger
02. Silence
03. Testament to Greed
04. Fearing the Other
05. Behind the Ritual
Founded in 2013 by guitarists Erwin Wesdorp and Stefan Verdoorn from the disintegrated bands Polluted Inheritance and Burial.
While looking for a drummer,Ronald Camonier (guitarist/singer of Polluted Inheritance) was asked to pick up the drum sticks.
Steven Vrieswijk (bassist Polluted Inheritance) was the right person to pick up the bass and (almost) complete the band.
What was missing was a vocalist who was found after some time in Gratien Versijpt.This Flemish Howler boy completed the whole picture to form Klaïton.
The musical veterans of Klaïton make Oldschool Death Metal and have already built up a cult status in their immediate environment.
This is due to the fact that they have not released an album or demo in all that time, and yet their performances are always packed.
KLAÏTON...The GOD OF WEEDS will proliferate and dominate the earth!
KLAÏTON is:
Gratien Versijpt: Vocals
Erwin Wesdorp: Guitar
Stefan Verdoorn: Guitar
Steven Vrieswijk: Bass
Ronald Camonier: Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Klaiton666
Label: Road To Masochist / Eggy Tapes
Release Date: November 8th 2024
Genre: Blackened Deathgrind
For fans of: Hellhammer | Axegrinder | Massacre | Wolvhammer
Standing on the threshold of knowledge and confrontation, of understanding and terror…the steps head downwards, only the first few visible before the descent is lost in a sudden, impossible and impenetrable darkness as rich as kraken’s ink and as all consuming as the grave. The air beneath the archway’s keystone tastes of desperation and regret, a last, forbidding yet invisible barrier. But decisions have been taken and promises have been made. With a shuddering intake of breath you begin to move…one step, two steps…into the black.
It has been six years since Nottingham duo Shrykull released their caustic, self-titled debut album, but finally the second chapter of their tale has been written…a cataloguing of the horrors of both inner and outer space, a journal of time spent Beyond Subconscious Realms. Opening in an imposing wall of reverberating sludge, ‘Blockading The Kingdom Of Infinite Space’ sets the tone for what is to follow, bursting from its swamp into a savage black/death metal attack, a tapestry of ripped flesh riffs held together by sinew and congealed blood. The two-piece band format helps to keep a sense of space within the Shrykull sound, meaning that while clinging onto the careering death train of ‘Id Hammer’, with its carriages of the damned swaying as it thunders down the buckled tracks of bone, you remain aware of vast, tortured landscapes surrounding you, nightmares flashing past as you ride punked up riffs into oblivion. Despite being constructed from the essential, stripped skeleton of drums, guitar and vocals, Beyond Subconscious Realms also manages to conceal hidden, abyssal depths within its frantic progress. With each track falling directly into the gaping maw of the next, there’s no exit door, no distracting light to draw you from the visceral tableau of the grotesque. Classic death metal traits rear up like rudely awakened ghouls from the murk of ‘Gateway Of Nightmares’ and in the aptly named ‘Chaotic Disforms Of Cosmic Misalignment’ these same death metal characteristics morph into something ‘other’ as the song shapeshifts like an agent of chaos or a crypt-bound creature of mind rending uncertainty of form. The tarnished majesty of final track ‘Collective Fugue State’ even reaches its blood stained hands towards a fading glimpse of beauty, bringing an unexpected aura of tragedy to Beyond Subconscious Realms’ final moments.
The depth, dimensions and decimating power of Beyond Subconscious Realms were captured by Ian Boult (Wolvencrown, Foul Body Autopsy, Mage etc) at Stuck On A Name Studios – with Boult having done such fine work on Shrykull’s debut album, continuing with this working relationship was, in the band’s words, ‘a no-brainer’. It’s a decision that has reaped incredible rewards. The band also reached out again to artist Luke Oram (Sigiriya, Live Burial etc) to continue the work he began on Shrykull - and he has produced a stunning, expansive piece to adorn what is a genuinely exceptional album. Beyond Subconscious Realms will be released on CD and vinyl by Road To Masochist and cassette by Eggy Tapes, on November 8th. Prepare for bad dreams, harsh truths and even harsher riffs.
Line-up:
William Powell – Guitar/Vocals
Kez Whelan – Drums/Vocals
additional guitars on ‘A Glint In The Basilisk’s Eye’ and ‘Collective Fugue State’ by Kez Whelan
https://www.roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://eggytapes.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/shrykull
In under two weeks, New Zealand unorthodox death metal ensemble ULCERATE will embark on their 34-date 'ECLIPSE DEATH' EUROPEAN TOUR.
Tickets are running low for Athens, Berlin, Servants of Chaos Fest and London, while Mammothfest, Weiher, Leeuwarden, Wasquehal, Lyon, Madrid, Milano, Zagreb, Prague, Vienna, Istanbul, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw are selling fast.
The tour will kick off in the Netherlands on 12th October at Soulcrusher Fest,
which is already sold out.
During this extensive tour, ULCERATE will present their exceptional new album, "Cutting the Throat of God", in a live setting.
For this expedition, ULCERATE will be joined by French extreme sludge band FANGE for select dates, and by Latin American black metal band SELBST on the tour's second leg. Following the recent release of SELBST's acclaimed third album, "Despondency Chord Progressions", this tour offers a rare opportunity to witness two of Debemur Mortis Productions’ finest artists showcasing their latest and greatest works live.
Find tickets for the shows https://ulcerate-official.com/#tour !
ULCERATE drummer Jamie Saint Merat comments: "We are ecstatic to announce the full set of European performance dates in support of "Cutting the Throat of God". Joining us on select dates as special guests are the impeccable FANGE (France) and SELBST (Chile), which will make for an evening of blissful sonic torment not to be missed."
SELBST mastermind N states: "I can assure you that the live members of SELBST and I are eagerly awaiting this. This is the next step we were waiting to achieve, and I can't see a better way to cross the threshold into live touring for the first time than with such great hosts as ULCERATE! Also, this would not be possible without the enormous support of DMP! As this is the first time that I will present my music on the old continent, we will cover a good part of SELBST's discography..."
Eclipse Death European Tour Dates
12.10.2024 SOULCRUSHER FEST, NL
13.10.2024 MAMMOTHFEST, GR
14.10.2024 ATHENS, GR @ Kyttaro
15.10.2024 BERLIN, DE @ Urban Spree
16.10.2024 WEIHER, DE @ Live Music Hall
17.10.2024 DRESDEN, DE @ Kulturzentrum Strasse E
18.10.2024 SERVANTS OF CHAOS FEST, DE
19.10.2024 LEEUWARDEN, NL @ Neushoorn ++
20.10.2024 PARIS, FR @ Petit Bain ++
21.10.2024 LONDON, UK @ Oslo ++
22.10.2024 WASQUEHAL, FR @ The Black Lab ++
23.10.2024 NILVANGE, FR @ Le Gueulard Plus ++
24.10.2024 LYON, FR @ Le Warm Audio ++
25.10.2024 EX TENEBRIS LUX FESTIVAL, FR ++
26.10.2024 CASTELLON, ES @ Sala Tal ++
27.10.2024 PORTUGALETE, ES @ Estudios Groove ++
28.10.2024 VALENCIA, ES @ 16 Toneladas ++
30.10.2024 MURCIA, ES @ Garaje Beat Club ++
31.10.2024 GRANADA, ES @ Sala Riff ++
01.11.2024 MADRID, ES @ Sala Silikona ++
02.11.2024 ZARAGOZA, ES @ Sala Lo Intento ++
03.11.2024 BARCELONA, ES @ Sala Boveda ++
05.11.2024 MILANO, IT @ Legend --
06.11.2024 BOLOGNA, IT @ Alchemica --
07.11.2024 LJUBLJANA, SI @ Menza pri Koritu --
08.11.2024 ZAGREB, HR @ Mocvara --
09.11.2024 NITRA, SK @ Nova Pekaren --
10.11.2024 PRAGUE, CZ @ Black Pes --
11.11.2024 VIENNA, AT @ Viper Room --
12.11.2024 ISTANBUL, TK @ IF Performance Hall Beşiktaş
13.11.2024 BUDAPEST, HU @ Dürer Kert --
14.11.2024 KRAKOW, PL @ Hype Park --
15.11.2024 BIELSKO-BIALA, PL @ RudeBoy --
16.11.2024 WARSAW, PL @ Hydrozagadka --
++ with FANGE
-- with SELBST
Tickets: https://ulcerate-official.com/#tour
https://ulcerate-official.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ulcerate
BLOOD
INCANTATION have
finally released a preview into their forthcoming album, ABSOLUTE
ELSEWHERE. Its first movement, THE STARGATE is
available today in its entirety across digital retailers and comes with an
exquisite short film, THE STARGATE which was directed by award
winning cinematographer Michael Ragen (Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of
Curiosities: The Viewing) and features mesmerizing analog fluid effects by
Chris Parks (The Fountain). THE STARGATE short film is unlike
anything you have experienced before. It presents the saga of a mysterious
artifact and its victims in a hallucinatory synthesis of science fiction and
folk horror, where mind bending imagery and unsettling atmospheres converge in
a surreal tale of primeval blood magic, interdimensional travel and grotesque
otherworldly technology beginning in the Dark Ages and journeying into voids of
deep space.
ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE hovers at nearly 45 minutes, their longest full length recording yet, the album’s two movements – THE STARGATE and THE MESSAGE – are as confounding as they are engaging, exponentially expanding upon the formulas laid down by their scene-shattering debut Starspawn (2016) and landmark follow up Hidden History of the Human Race (2019).
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N4rLtjPzH0
Listen to THE STARGATE here: https://BloodIncantation.lnk.to/AbsoluteElsewhereNe
Genre
: Black
Metal (sung in dialect language)
Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music | October 31st 2024
Voces Antiqui Sanguinis is a gathering between four Italian Black Metal bands whose peculiarity resides in the lyrics: each band sings in a specific regional dialect or autochthonous language. Although stylistically different, Strja, Ticinum, Kre^u and Vrim
STRJA - Veronese (dialect language of Verona)
TICINUM - Pavese (dialect language of Pavia)
KRE^U - Barbaricino (native language of Barbagia, region of Sardinia)
VRIM - Piemontese (minority language of Piedmont)
The record release date is set for October 31st 2024, through Masked Dead Records and Sulphur Music. Printed as MC, Voces Antiqui Sanguinis is exclusively attached to the Sulphur Fanzine special issue "Linguas Diaboli", entirely dedicated to dialect and autochthonous languages in Black Metal music (Italian language only).
Sale Points:
- Four italian Black Metal bands;
- Every band sings in its own dialect or autochthonous language;
- Different styles of Black Metal;
- To be released on October 31st 2024 by Masked Dead Records and Sulphur Music;
- The MC edition it's exclusively attached to Sulphur Fanzine special issue "Linguas Diaboli".
Tracklist:
1) Strja - Instrià
2) Strja - La Siora dei Troni e delle Site
3) Ticinum - La Cacia ad Godan
4) Ticinum - Pavia Brusa, la Stria
5) Kre^u - Accabbadòra
6) Kre^u - Ma^iardzas
7) Vrim - Ij Lìngher Vendicator
8) Vrim - L'òra ant el Kali-Yuga
www.facebook.com/Strjaband
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092109806558
www.facebook.com/krehu.barbagia
www.facebook.com/vrimblackmetal
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords/
Ästhetisches Element – 20./30. Jahre Stil, Schwarzweiß, Cartoon, Rubberhose. Es gibt eine Zentrale Fantasiefigur, um die es bei den Texten geht. Die Figur ist drogensüchtig und psychisch krank. Sie hört dauernd Stimmen im Kopf, die sie in den Wahnsinn treiben, der einzige Ausweg
ist, wenn die Band in ihrer Vorstellung anfängt, Musik zu spielen.
Bei den Texten geht es unterschwellig auch darum, auf die negativen Auswirkungen von Drogen
hinzuweisen. Die Band ist gegen jegliche Art von Gewalt, Homophobie, Einschränkungen von Menschenrechten und Einschränkungen von Meinungsfreiheit.
Bandmitglieder:Carmen Grandi (Youtube, Architecture of Emptiness, ex-Neophobia, ex-EGO) – Clean Gesang, Lyrics
Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger (ex-Obscura, ex-Belphegor, ex-Nader Sadek, ex-Defeted Sanity, ex-Amogh Symphony) – Fretless Gitarre, Akustik Gitarre, Lead Gitarre, Songwriting, Mixing, Mastering, Producer
Martin Matiasovic (Shaped In Dreams, Divine X) – Rhythmus Gitarre, Lead Gitarre (Track 4), Horn,
Songwriting, Lyrics
Rouven Haliti (Ally The Fiddle, Onyx Eyes, ex-Determination) – Fretless Bass
Defkalion Dimos (Cerebrum, Sacred Outcry) – Drums
Gastmusiker auf der Phantasmagoria EP:
Alex Kerski (Vianova, The Voice Of Germany 2022) – Harsh Vocals
Mikołaj Suchanek – Keytar (Track 4)
Songs:
Ill Fated – Als erste Single und erster Track auf der EP bietet Ill Fated einen „schonenden“ Einstieg in das verhältnismäßig extreme Soundkonzept der Band. Die Kontraste zwischen Swing- und Death-Metal-Elementen werden zunächst rund gestaltet und mit allmählichen Übergängen überbrückt. Die Clean-Passage nach dem ersten und das Fretless-Bass-Solo nach dem zweiten Chorus zeigen erste Anzeichen von „Progginess“. Das alles in einer kompakten und übersichtlichen Songstruktur verpackt, bietet einen sanften Einstieg in die groteske Klangwelt von Amuse To Death. Im Songtext wird der missliche geistige Zustand der Zentralfigur „Al“ beschrieben, dessen innere Stimmen ihn in den Wahnsinn treiben, sobald die Band in seinem Kopf aufhört, Musik zu machen.
Blacktoothgrin – Die musikalische Offenheit und Bereitschaft des Zuhörers, abrupten emotionalen Schwankungen standzuhalten, wird mit diesem Song auf den Prüfstand gestellt. Stile werden hier nicht behutsam miteinander vermengt, sondern in einen Betonmischer geworfen und wild durcheinandergewirbelt. Hier treffen Duke Ellington und Count Basie inspirierte Hot-Swing-Horn-Linien auf Technical Death Metal à la First Fragment, Necrophagist und Co. Textlich steht wieder die fiktive Hauptfigur Al im Mittelpunkt. Diesmal geht es um seine Drogenabhängigkeit und den inneren Kampf, der damit verbunden ist.
Lowlifer – Die harten Kanten von Blacktoothgrin werden hier wieder etwas runder. Dieser Song fällt dagegen mit seinem Witz und der Betonung des Grotesken auf. Zahllose Horn-Einwürfe und Kommentare und der tänzerisch-groovige Instrumentalteil vor dem letzten Chorus haben fast schon den Slapstick-Charakter einer Laurel-&-Hardy-Komödie. Die Refrains werden von Mal zu Mal größer, breiter und bunter. Textlich wird hier der Unterschied der Wahrnehmung im Normalzustand des grauen Alltags und der bunten Fantasiewelt eines Morphiumtrips ausgemalt.
The Alibi – Dieses Stück kommt der Bezeichnung Prog-Arie aus den vier Songs sicherlich am nächsten. Er setzt nämlich ein Häkchen neben jede der folgenden Kategorien: enthält langsamen, balladesken Teil; enthält schnellen Metal-Teil; enthält ungerade Taktarten; enthält mindestens 10 unterschiedliche Instrumente; enthält gefühlt ein Dutzend Instrumentalsoli; geht länger als 5 Minuten; hat keine typische Songstruktur; enthält Tempoänderungen; schwankt zwischen mehreren Tonarten hin und her… Hier wird die Bandbreite dessen, was die Band in allen musikalischen Aspekten zu bieten hat, nochmal erweitert vors Gehör geführt. In den Lyrics geht es um einen Traum der Sängerin Carmen, in dem sie sich selber als Leiche und einzige Zeugin eines Mordes beobachtet und als Täterin in diesem beschuldigt wird.
https://amusetodeath.com/
Die bayrischen Black Metaller AMYSTERY haben vor einiger Zeit bei Folter Records unterschrieben. Das neue Album “CHAOS EMPIRE SATAN” wird am 31.10.2024 erscheinen.
Jetzt gibt es die erste Single “Whispers From The Void”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xPNv_mISEA
Über AMYSTERYDie okkulte Formation AMYSTERY ist zurück mit ihrem vierten Album »Chaos Empire Satan«, ein gleichermaßen rohes und edles Werk zur Bewahrung und Zelebrierung des traditionellen Black Metal als eigenständige Kunstform. Dabei sind sie kein uninspiriertes Abbild einer alten Genregröße, sondern schmieden vielmehr kompromisslos ihren eigenen, authentischen Schwarzstahl, der sich vielfach im Angriffsmodus befindet, sich in Kompositionen wie »Spirits In Fire« oder »Infestation« aber auch zu erhabener, mystischer Größe aufschwingt.
Nach einer mehrjährigen Schaffenspause hatten sich die Bajuwaren AMYSTERY 2018 mit einer veränderten Besetzung wieder zusammengeschlossen, um gemeinsam weiter an neuem Material zu arbeiten. Im Sommer 2021 kam es erneut zu einem Besetzungswechsel, seitdem besteht die Band aus drei Personen: Grond (Drums), Culpa (Bass) und Nephesus (Vocals, Gitarre).
AMYSTERY ist keine Band, bei der ein neues Album daraus erwächst, dass sich Individuen gegenseitig im Alleingang aufgenommene Tondateien auf die Rechner schicken – die Ideen, Riffs etc. für die zehn Songs von »Chaos Empire Satan« wurden gemeinsam im Proberaum gesammelt und dort ausgearbeitet. Auf ihrer Tour im Februar 2023 wurden bereits drei neue Stücke präsentiert, die restlichen sechs entstanden im Zeitraum bis Dezember 2023.
Inhaltlich behandelt »Chaos Empire Satan« die Theorien und Macht der Chaosmagie nach Peter James Carroll und beschreibt die dazugehörigen Praktiken und Auswirkungen auf das Leben und die Seele. Darüber hinaus geht es um die Ambivalenz zwischen der vermeintlichen Nichtigkeit des irdischen Lebens im kosmischen und multidimensionalen Maßstab und der Größe des eigenen persönlichen (Multi-)Universums mit der daraus erwachsenden maximalen Gestaltungsfreiheit, Wirksamkeit und Einflussnahme. AMYSTERY als Band zelebriert diese Überzeugung, was bereits im Vorgängeralbum »All Hail The Cult« eine tragende Rolle spielte und nun im neuen Album noch mehr ins Zentrum gerückt wurde.
Aufgenommen wurde das Album im Januar 2024. Das Cover-Artwork wurde von Malphas (ex-AMYSTERY, ex-Lunar Aurora, Mortem Agmen) gezeichnet, die grafische Gestaltung wurde von Lense Of Sense übernommen.
https://folter666shop.de/
https://www.facebook.com/Amysterycult/
Release: 25. October 2024
While Deimos' Dawn could theoretically still be accused of being a project with a famous singer on their debut album, two years and many gigs later it has to be said: This is a real band at work!
Marc Grewe (Asinhell, ex-Morgoth, Insidious Disease), Germany's number one death metal shouter, puts his very own stamp here. Compositionally mature, sonically clearly skipped a few steps, the band presents a new EP “God Of Pain” including a cover version of Marks former Band MORGOTH!
As with their debut album, former Sodom guitarist and rock'n'roll whirlwind Andy Brings wrote the lyrics and produced Grewe's vocals and proove how lively and fresh old school thrash can sound in 2024.
https://mdd-shop.de/
Line-up: Mauro Tollini: drums;
Nicola Murari: bass; Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars; Ricky Dal Pane: vocalsStyle: Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists: Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
The song is available on all digital platforms at https://song.link/EPIKOS and next week we'll unveil the lyric video created for the song.
EPITAPH, one of the longest-lasting bands of the entire Italian scene, is going to present one of the next big things within the Dark Doom Metal movement thanks to an overall epic and gloomy feeling, mixed with the natural dark atmospheres of their old school Doom Metal.
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (singer of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, this is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble.
The journey to oblivion has begun.
Doom Metal, Dark, Progressive and Esotericism are the coordinates.
DOOM ON!!!
"Path To Oblivion" LP/CD/tape/bundle could be pre-ordered at https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
Cover artwork created by Luciana Nedelea and tracklist:
1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
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Listen to “Donkere Paden”: https://youtu.be/c8J7bXzHJTM?si=QO76rXMH4VbdAWVm
Pre-order the album:https://krvl.bandcamp.com/album/donkere-paden (LP/CD/Digital):
https://t.ly/krvlD (CD),
https://t.ly/krvlV (Vinyl)
Pre-save the album via digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/album/krvl-donkere-paden
Following on from their debut "Kravaal" (self-released, 2022), the second album “Donkere Paden” will bring even more darkness and despair which will be divided into seven chapters. The album features guest vocalists H. from Oerheks and Shazzula from the revered Wolvennest.
The band states: "We've poured our souls into crafting an atmospheric black metal album that will transport you to realms of chilling beauty and crushing despair. Prepare yourselves, for KrvL's reign of darkness begins anew when Autumn falls…"
KrvL previously released the atmospheric single and video “Zielenrust” which features Shazzula of Wolvennest. The band commented about her contribution: “When we were listening to the demo of this song we felt like there was something missing. So we came up with the idea to add some female vocals on the intro. Shazzula was our first choice and luckily she liked our music and she said yes.”
KrvL comprises nameless souls that drift through the Kravaal Forest in Belgium in search of the light amongst the darkness they find themselves in. With lyrics in Dutch, the band contemplates topics such as nature, finding inner peace, nemesis, resurrection and an attempt to find light in the darkness.
Musically, the band is all about atmosphere. With a foundation of traditional 90s and modern black metal, the anonymous band also mixes post-metal, doom and sludge influences.
KrvL was established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, creating a perfect mood for the writing and recording of their debut album "Kravaal". Eventually, the album was self-released digitally in 2022 and then on vinyl in 2023. 2024 sees the band reach new heights with the signing to These Hands Melt and the release of their second album.
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
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https://www.facebook.com/KrvL1745/
Release
date :
October 25thGenre : Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
Tracklist:
1 - Des feux plus forts
2 - Nos cendres et nos râles
3 - Le cambouis et le carmin
4 - Sous vivre
5 - Banlieues rouges
6 - La poésie du caniveau
7 - Ainsi finit le jour
8 - La beauté du désastre
9 - Tout est à la mort
Duration: 53min40
After "les Idées Blanches" released in 2021, SORDIDE will publish "Ainsi Finit Le Jour" on October 25th on Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions
SORDIDE comes from the wet gutters of Rouen, Normandy. Since the release of its debut album through Avantgarde, back in 2014, the trio has been spitting a scornful and desperate anger in Moliere’s language under the motto NEITHER NAME, NOR FLAG.
Since then, the band has multiplied albums culminating with the release of “Les idées blanche”, in 2021, and played throughout Europe and at Roadburn and Hellfest festivals. After travelling to Iceland and Finland, Sordide will release its fifth full-length, “Ainsi finit le jour”, on October 25th, 2024, through Les Acteurs de l’ombre, and its own collective, La Harelle.
To present this abrasive opus, Sordide will tour in France, Switzerland and Belgium in October 2024, and in Europe in February 2025.
A first extract entitled "Des feux plus forts" has just been released. This is the opening track of the album that will be released on October 25th.
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Dark Descent Records heralds the first coming of ABERRATOR - a yet unknown entity devoted to the ancient arts of death metal mastery. Founded in 2022 between G.P and N.H from New Zealand - with P.F from Canada on session drums, ABERRATOR pulls no punches, unleashing BECKONING TRIBULATION, a devastating full-length, straight out of the gate. Influenced by the darkest of death metal and death/doom - particularly of US and Finnish origins - the band fit the Dark Descent roster like a key to a crypt.
“Beckoning Tribulation is a lens into the human condition, the inevitable decline due to the innate zealotry and hypocrisy within our species,” states N.H. “The triumphant proclamation of the death of god and the impending doom of mankind as it struggles within the vacuum this creates.”
ABERRATOR has shared a stream for album opener "Plague Monarch Ascendant." Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i736qbCGBL8
Stream the title track of Beckoning Tribulation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Byqexh1tU
Dark Descent Records will release Beckoning Tribulation on CD, vinyl and digital formats on October 11. Pre-order the album at: www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
Tracklisting:1. Plague Monarch Ascendant
2. Flagellation Crusade
3. Doomed Quintessence
4. Beckoning Tribulation
5. Spiritual Attrition
6. Emissary of Suffering
7. ...Of the Crucible
The album comes clad in a masterful gravure/woodcut-style piece from the inimitable mind of Alex Shadrin from Nether Temple Design: “The artwork represents the above concepts. Betrayal hidden with the guise of civility; blades plunged into another's backs to complete the ouroboros. Murder, cunning and cowardice act in unison as tools of victory and ultimately defeat.”
ABERRATOR is:
G.P - Guitars and Bass
N.H - Vocals
P.F - Drums
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Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease Date: October 25th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Morbid Angel | Immolation | Abhorrent Deformity | Vital Remains
In March of 2023 Taking The Head Of Goliath made the decision to bring down the curtain on their career of bludgeoning riffs and blast beat battery, leaving behind them a furious live album of unbridled chaos – Beyond Brutal Live – a destructive self titled EP and the memory of scores of incendiary live shows. However, whilst their journey through the wastelands of death metal may be over, the Minnesota band have left behind a posthumous gift for the fans who have supported them throughout the years, a final explosive assault under the Taking The Head Of Goliath banner…join them for one last descent into the pit, with Futility Of The Flesh!
Futility Of The Flesh is a new four track EP that will stand as a fitting testament to Taking The Head Of Goliath’s unique brand of death metal ferocity, their potent blend of the technical, the twisted, the brutal and the melodic, always delivered with 100% commitment and unrelenting intensity. ‘Futility Of The Flesh’ itself gets things under way with a sinister, slithering riff and bestial vocals of impossible depth and toxicity that scrape the detritus from the dark side of your soul. Touched by madness, the song sends you flying on speeding guitar arpeggios one minute and grinds you into the dirt the next. ‘Septic Enslavement’ follows with its tumbling riffs over frantic drums. It’s overwhelming and overpowering, with its skittering riffs and frenzied rhythms – the epitome of Taking The Head Of Goliath’s eclectic, dynamic style. ‘Neoteric Tribal Barbarism’ is an absolute behemoth of a song, featuring passages of delirious speed with guitar riffs like insect swarms and was recorded live at Rayfest in the summer of ’21, capturing an incredibly powerful vocal performance from Jake Martin. Finally, the very last artillery barrage from Taking The Head Of Goliath comes in the form of bonus track, ‘Cord Of Three Strands’, the band’s independently released 2019 digital single. It’s a searing shot of darkness, laced with grandiose melody and the perfect farewell from a band that will be sorely missed. For those who have loved and lost Taking The Head Of Goliath, Futility Of The Flesh is a last roar from beyond the grave, a parting salvo to be treasured. For the others…you have some incredible music to discover.
Nothing was left to chance with Futility Of The Flesh, ensuring that Taking The Head Of Goliath’s final blow lands with maximum impact. Recorded by Will Maravelas (Thor, Incinerate etc) and mixed and mastered by Charles Powell (Carnifex etc) the sound throughout is devastating – and with cover art created by Pär Olofsson (Children Of Bodom, Exodus etc) Futility Of The Flesh is as powerful visually as it is sonically. Don’t miss this stunning concluding chapter in the story of Taking The Head Of Goliath, coming your way from Rottweiler Records on October 25th.
Line-up:
Jake Martin - Vocals
Luke Renno - Bass/Backing Vocals
Nathan Sherman - Guitar
Steve Reishus – Drums
*Guitars on ‘Neoteric Tribal Barbarism’ by Miles Sunde
*Guitars on 'Cord of Three Strands' by Rob Blake
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/takingtheheadofgoliath
Austin (TX) - Returning with their latest call-to-arms, Texas metal warlords IGNITOR are once again battle-ready with the release of their new album, HORNS AND HAMMERS. The album is out now in Europe, Asia, and Australia via Metal On Metal Records. The label will be selling it at Keep it True Rising Festival IV in Wurzburg, Germany, October 4-5.
The CD is available for purchase from Metal On Metal Records at:
U.S. residents can pre-order the CD directly from the band at https://ignitorband.com/merch. Orders will ship no later than October 15.
Vinyl and CD versions wil be distributed through Revolt Vinyl Records in North and South America in November. This version will include a bonus track of the Saxon classic “Machine Gun,” featuring guest appearances by Ross The Boss (Manowar, Dictators), Marc Lopes (Metal Church, Let Us Prey, Ross The Boss) and Gabriel Guardian (Immortal Guardian). Look for the companion video of that song very soon. This version will soon be available for streaming and purchase on all digital platforms.
The vinyl version of Horns and Hammers will be released on Metal World Records in Europe.
Check out the promotional video for music, interviews, and album info at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip1xGHaGH_4
Another storm-the-gates, metal onslaught, Horns and Hammers delivers all the dramatic power and fury that landed previous albums Haunted by Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Golden Age of Black Magick in the hallowed realms of Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, Raven, Dio, Accept and other legendary keepers of the metal creed.
From the title track’s speed-metal war cry and the Maiden-esque “Imperial Bloodlines” to the cowbell-driven “Shattered Crosses” and the 70s-inspired heavy metal of “Ferocious the Martyrs” (featuring guest keyboardist Gabriel Guardian of Immortal Guardian) the 11-track Horns and Hammers
is a mighty mix of classic heavy metal spiked with NWOBHM, thrash, power metal and the atmospheric textures of prog-metal and fantasy.
“We raised the bar high with our last two albums so we couldn’t settle for anything less than a full-on metal assault,” said founding guitarist Stuart “Batlord” Laurence. “We’ve always honored our influences,
but we’re also very insistent that our music – first and foremost – sounds like IGNITOR. With Horns and Hammers, we’ve covered the spectrum of metal and taken Ignitor to a whole new level.”
Fronted by the soaring vocals of Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth), IGNITOR's strength is further forged by guitarist Robert Williams, bassist Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell and drummer Pat Doyle. Whether charging and pounding like clashing titans (“Dark Horse,” “Chaos Maximus Eternal”) or luring the listener into gothic tales of doom and deceit (“Suicide Anthem,” “Taken Up With Serpents”), IGNITOR delivers with shuddering impact.
“Robert brought a ton of songs and riff ideas to the table and Billy had some great ideas that blossomed into full-blown songs,” Laurence said. “Once we started jamming with Pat’s pummeling backbeat, we knew we had something special.”
“As the arrangements started coming together, I found myself completely immersed and inspired to come up with the lyrical themes and characters to carry the songs to completion,” McMaster added. “I’m really proud of the band’s individual and collective contributions, and I think we all agree that Horns and Hammers is a triumph by any measure.”
The album’s stunning cover art – featuring a medieval warrior and his mighty steed surveying a hellish killing field – comes courtesy of renowned fantasy/sci-fi artist Claudio Bergamin whose credits include
Judas Priest (Firepower), Burning Witches (The Witch of the North), Cassius King (Field Trip) and Klassik ’78 (Phantoms), among others.
Produced and mastered by Stuart “Batlord” Laurence at Emphatic Audio in Austin, TX, Horns and Hammers was mastered for vinyl by Cris Burns. “Hell Shall Be Your Home” was recorded live in Austin TX at Kick Butt Coffee in 2019, and engineered by Ernie Basaldua with mixing by
Stuart "Batlord" Laurence.
Track
Listing:1. Horns And Hammers
2. Imperial Bloodlines
3. Dark Horse
4. Cyber Crush
5. Shattered Crosses
6. Taking Up With Serpents
7. Ferocious The Martyrs
8. Suicide Anthem
9. Chaos Maximus Eternal
10. Machine Gun (Saxon cover)*
11. Terminous
*Note: “Hell Shall Be Your Home” appears on The Metal On Metal Records version.
All songs written, recorded and performed by Ignitor, except *“Machine Gun,” originally written, recorded and performed by Saxon, Carrere Music Ltd 1980.
Cover art by Claudio Bergamin.
Line-up:
Stuart “Batlord” Laurence - Guitar
Robert Williams - Guitar
Jason McMaster - Vocals
Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell - Bass
Pat Doyle - Drums
Bio:
IGNITOR formed in Austin, Texas in 2003 with legendary Agony Column guitarist Stuart Laurence, Brendon Bigelow on bass, Beverly Barrington on guitar, Pat Doyle (Offenders) on drums, and vocalist Erika Swinnich. The band wanted to write music reflecting their passion for heavy, speed, and power metal.
IGNITOR quickly attracted a worldwide fan base after releasing their debut album Take To The Sky, featuring the hit "Demonslayer," in 2004 to rave reviews. Germany’s Rock Hard magazine named it "Demo of the Month.” Dies Irae (Brazil) said “Ignitor take the world by storm, playing a furious Heavy/Speed Metal, joining the high class of veteran musicians and the powerful voice of Erika Swinnich.”
IGNITOR performed at Mexico’s Monterrey Metal Fest in May 2005, appearing alongside Motorhead and Danzig. Then onto Germany’s Keep It True Festival in November 2005, where they stunned the crowd and were named "Best KIT Newcomer" by Mario’s Metal Mania magazine.
In 2007 IGNITOR released Road of Bones (Cruz del Sur Music) featuring cover art by legendary MOTORHEAD collaborator Joe Petagno. Beverly was temporarily replaced by Annah Moore on guitar for this album. The band’s sophomore effort is a deep dive into themes of pain, death, and rebirth, culminating with their triumphant anthem "Reinheitsgebot" and its rallying cry “Metal is the Law!” Blabbermouth described IGNITOR - “This is the energetic, lusty sound of a new and eager band who are ridiculously fired up to be alive, no matter what the decade.” IGNITOR toured heavily in support of the album, playing with Primal Fear and Leaves Eyes, and a notable appearance at the Valley Thrash Fest in McAllen, Texas.
In 2008, Texas metal veteran Jason McMaster (Watchtower, Howling Sycamore, Dangerous Toys, Broken Teeth, Evil United) replaced Erika’s wraith-Maiden wail with his demonic Texas drawl. The band released The Spider Queen (Cruz del Sur/Heavy Artillery) in 2009, a fairy tale of love and redemption. The band toured in support of the album, sharing stages with Fates Warning and Helstar along the way.
In 2010 IGNITOR played the Metal Up Your Tap Fest in Chicago along with Cruz del Sur label mates Bible of the Devil.
2012 saw the release of Year of the Metal Tiger (MVD Audio,) featuring fan favorite "Heavy Metal Holocaust" and the eerie polytheism of "Shadow of the Needle." “…a fiery album of traditional, hot-wired metal that’s intensely passionate and utterly authentic.” – Backstage Auctions.
IGNITOR released Mixtape '85 in 2013, a collection of beloved favorites recalling the peak years for thrash and heavy metal. The Metal Files said “…the opening solo on Into the Coven gave me chills when I first heard it.” 2013 also saw the inauguration of IGNITOR’s occasionally-annual Iron Fist Fest in their hometown of Austin, featuring Witches Mark.
The next two years produced some lineup changes. Beverly was replaced by Robert Williams (Witches Mark,) and Brendon was replaced by Billy “Chainsaw” Dansfiell (Agony Column) cementing IGNITOR’s current lineup.
In May 2016 IGNITOR performed at the Ragnarokkr Metal Apocalypse in Chicago along with Tygers of Pan Tang, Jag Panzer, and Leather Leone. The Iron Fist Fest returned in 2016 too, featuring Byfist and Death of Millions alongside IGNITOR.
In 2017 IGNITOR released Years of War 2008 – 2013, an anthology of the band’s releases during those years in a limited edition box set, including rare promo discs and assorted items from the merchandise shop. The box set is only available from the band’s website ignitorband.com.
2017 also saw the release of the IGNITOR’s sixth album Haunted By Rock & Roll (EMP Label Group.) The song "Hatchet: The Ballad of Victor Crowley" is heard during the closing credits of the horror slasher “Victor Crowley” from Ariescope Pictures. Director Adam Green produced a NSFW video of the song featuring some key gory scenes from the movie. The band produced three other companion videos featuring the songs "No Sanctuary," "Brave The War," and "Haunted by Rock & Roll." Roppongi Rocks said “IGNITOR serves us an extra large portion of terrific heavy metal on its new album.” “The New Wave of British Heavy Metal deserves a locally designated acronym thanks to IGNITOR.” - Austin Chronicle
IGNITOR returned to Chicago in July 2018 for the Alehorn of Power X festival, appearing alongside Zuul and Bible of the Devil. IGNITOR appeared again in July at the Iron Fist Fest 3 with James Rivera’s Metal Asylum and Austin’s own Duel. Iron Fist Fest 4’s ten-band lineup in 2019 featured IGNITOR, Helstar, and Angkor Wat.
In early 2020, IGNITOR finished the work on their seventh album. After contacting Metal on Metal Records and sending the new songs, they got a positive response and soon the agreement was reached. The Golden Age of Black Magick was finally released on October 2020 on CD and all major digital platforms.
In January 2020 right before the worldwide pandemic, IGNITOR recorded a live set at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin. Later in the year the band self-released that set on a CD called Live…Before the Plague and posted it for sale on its website store.
Like most of the planet, IGNITOR spent 2020-2021 hiding out from the pandemic. Luckily that provided ample opportunity to write and hone new material. The band played a few shows here and there as venues began opening back up in 2022 and 2023, but spent most of the time writing and preparing to record their next album.
Recording began in Fall 2023 and was finished in May 2024 for the ninth IGNITOR album, Horns and Hammers (Metal on Metal). Horns and Hammers features some extra special guests – Ross “the Boss” Friedman (Dictators, Manowar,) Marc Lopes (Metal Church) and Gabriel Guardiola (Immortal Guardian). IGNITOR is especially proud of this album. The cover art was painted by Claudio Bergamin and depicts a weathered warrior in a brief moment of repose after a battle. It resembles the plight of true metal warriors like IGNITOR, who strive to inject both power and passion into their craft with every performance, keeping the flames of heavy metal stoked and smoldering for the gathered masses.
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https://www.facebook.com/IGNITOR.METAL/
The new single will be available on all platforms tomorrow, October 4.
CARNOSUS will release new album, Wormtales, October 18 on CD digipak, gatefold vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The release is the band's third overall and first for Willowtip.
Whispered among worms were the rumors of a new album by death metal outfit CARNOSUS. Heavier and darker, slithering its way from Sweden, comes Wormtales, a prequel to the critically acclaimed 2023 album, Visions of Infinihility. Wormtales contains some of the band's most impressive riffs thus far and once again lures the listener into the realm of infinihility.
Indeed,Visions of Infinihility, the quintet's independently released second album, garnered loads of positive press, further amplifying the anticipation for CARNOSUS' Willowtip debut, Wormtales!
CARNOSUS was established in 2011. The band members all come from different subgenres within Metal, resulting in a mixture of technical melodic death metal, thrash, progressive metal and a pinch of black metal influences scattered throughout.
Pre-order:https://willowtip.com/bands/details/carnosus.aspx
https://carnosus.bandcamp.com/album/wormtales
Track Listing:
1. Birthless
2. Within Throat, Within Heart
3. Neglectikon
4. Yearnings of A Rotten Spine
5. Worm Charmer
6. Harbinger of Woundism
7. Paradoxical Impulse
8. Wound of Wisdom
9. Cosmoclaustrum
10. Solace In Soil
Credits:
Recorded and produced by Carnosus (except drums; recorded and produced by Robert Kukla & Dennis Rosic).
Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios.
Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.
Line-up:
Jonatan Karasiak - Vocals / Lyrics
Rickard Persson - Guitars
Marcus Jokela Nyström - Guitars
Marcus Strindlund - Bass
Jacob Hedner - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/Carnosus/
Hailing from the hills and woodlands of Central New York and New England, MYTHBEGOTTEN combines a love of legends old and new with a folk-inflected fusion of metal genres to arrive at a uniquely epic and melancholic melodic concoction.
The result is an eight-track journey that reaches Tolkien-esque levels of grandeur. The band offers an in-depth look at the inspiration behind Tales from the Unseelie Court.
"The key inspiration for the individual songs includes the Dullahan (an evil fey from Irish Mythology) which inspired the song "The Heedless Horseman", Sawney Bean (a legendary Scottish Cannibal and inspiration for "The Hills Have Eyes") which inspired the song "The Terror of Lothian", H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in The Walls" which inspired the song "Beneath Exham Priory", The Welsh Legend of the Wild Hunt which inspired the song "Mallt-y-Nos", the Arthurian legend of Merlin and the Dragons which inspired the song "Omen of Embers", The melancholy book 4 of Milton's "Paradise Lost" which inspired the song "The Fall", and the climactic Battle of the Pelennor Fields from Tolkien's "The Return of The King" which inspired the song "Of Wrath and Ruin". This is all rounded out by an arrangement of the classic Scots ballad "Twa Corbies" which brings together the old traditions of British Isles balladry with this modern sonic storytelling which MYTHBEGOTTEN bases its songwriting upon."
Over the last several months, MYTHBEGOTTEN has released a series of two-song "chapters" from Tales from the Unseelie Court. Stream "The Road to Unseelie Court" series at https://mythbegotten.bandcamp.com/album/the-road-to-unseelie-court-fire-brimstone
Tales from the Unseelie Court is set for release on October 31.
Experience more MYTHBEGOTTEN at https://www.youtube.com/@Mythbegotten
Tracklisting:1. The Heedless Horseman
2. Omen of Embers
3. Mallt-y-Nos
4. Beneath Exham Priory
5. The Fall
6. The Terror of Lothian
7. Twa Corbies
8. Of Wrath and Ruin
The Journey So Far...
A decade ago in Syracuse, New York, Connor Hoffman, Daniel Barbour, and Joe Sopchak released the Stirling demo under their Folk/Power Metal fusion project Hounds of Annwn. Shortly thereafter, they performed their only live show at the Sturmfeier folk metal festival in Hamlin, New York, but with college and work taking priority, the three soon scattered throughout the Northeast. All knew, however, that there was much left undone, songs left unsung, and stories left untold.
In 2022, after years of sporadic songwriting and fits and starts of recording, the trio re-committed to bringing their vision of folk- and symphonic-infused Power Metal to fruition under the new moniker MYTHBEGOTTEN. This name was chosen for its elegant encapsulation of the band’s ethos: to chronicle the stories from myth, fantasy, and history that have inspired them.
Tales from the Unseelie Court is the first release from this reforged musical triumvirate and is centered around the folklore of the British Isles and literary fantasy, showcasing the eerie and macabre as well as the wondrous and heroic. Listeners feel as though they are sitting amidst a gathering of the Unseelie Fey Court, hearing great and terrible stories retold to the assembled congregation.
MYTHBEGOTTEN is excited to reveal its unique blend of metallic styles in this first eldritch release and looks forward to sharing tales even stranger and more wondrous with the world.
Line-Up:
Dan Barbour – Lead Vocals
Connor Hoffman – Guitars, Backing Vocals, Additional Keyboards
Joe Sopchak – Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/MythbegottenBand/
SØRGELIG – “ΦΘΟΡΆ”
Label: Tragedy ProductionsRelease Date: October 4th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Behexen | Shining | Sargeist | Dødsferd
In the lightless darkness of the world below, where the cold, grey waves of the river of forgetting lap against the shores of unceasing, stygian night, there the nameless and the soulless, tragic and deplorable, gather to exchange tales of bleak eternity and whisper secrets born of blood and promises. With sickle and stone they climb the thousand steps to moonlit night, there to gather the dreams of the sleeping, to reap the screams of the foolish and harvest the spirits of those who have turned the world of legends into a world of decay and ruination.
Three years since Sørgelig unleashed the fiercely intense Slaves Of Tomorrow EP, the Greek iconoclasts, dissident dream eaters, have returned, with an astonishing new full length album, wreathed in smoke and shadows – Φθορά! Opening with ‘Breed Of Waste’ that highlights the incredibly harsh, caustic vocals of Odious, that freeze the blood with their unbridled savagery, Φθορά then grasps you by the throat and flings you into a maelstrom of malefic sound and baleful visions. The insistent riffs of ‘Libation Of Blood ‘are driven into your skull like nails as a sinister, insidious evil weaves its way through the song. This is the epitome of black metal ferocity, a genre defining beast of a track. Meanwhile ‘Inexorable Grey’ summons the spirits of rage and war, unleashing forces of terrifying power, building to breathless peaks of blinding speed and darkness and crashing to abyssal depths. Yet Φθορά is much more than a glorious exposition of blasting ferocity and freezing wickedness, with ‘Φθορά’ itself providing a masterful break in the onslaught as its haunting sounds invoke unsettling imaginings of broken ghosts in empty ballrooms, spinning forever in dusty, tear-stained waltzes. Then there is the grand epic of tragedy and terror that closes this unearthly album – ‘Dreamscapes Of Lethe’. Jagged, probing riffs stagger across stuttering rhythms before collapsing into anguish, soul-searing madness, profound melancholy, death and blood. You rise again from a false ending, crawling towards the light, before ancient claws drag you back into darkness. There is no escape from the underworld, no return from Φθορά!
Φθορά will be released by Tragedy Productions, on 6 panel digi-pack with a sixteen page booklet, on October 4th and will surely see Sørgelig marching on towards the highest echelons of black metal. The creative balance displayed between understanding and embracing the essence of black metal and branding a unique seal into its cold, dead flesh is masterful. When Φθορά arrives be prepared to follow Sørgelig into realms unknown…and beyond.
Line-up:
Odious – Vocals/Lyrics
Reactive – Bass/Guitars
NCRVZRS – Guitars (track 3)
Έκπτωτος – Guitars/Lyrics
N.D. – Drums/Vocals/Guitars
https://www.tragedyproductions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sorgeligblackmetal
Sweden's avenging witches of black metal, VÖLVA, are set to return with a new album, DESIRES PROFANE on November 28th - featuring ten hymns to the lost souls of their persecuted sisters, incinerated upon the murderous bonfires of Christianity. Desires Profane is a scalding assault of vehement rage that will be released on CD by Grind To Death Records and on vinyl by Fiadh Productions.
Track listing:
1 – The Tower
2 – Walk With Me
3 – Expulsion Of The Flesh
4 – Inverted Cross
5 – Never Forgive
6 – The Serpent
7 – Perpetual Putrefaction
8 – Asmodeus
9 – Salvation
10 – Vagabond
https://www.facebook.com/fiadhproductions
https://www.grindtodeathrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/volva
Hailing
from Skellefteå, Sweden, TERRORTORY has been carving
their name into the melodic death metal scene with a sound that fuses raw
aggression, grandiose melodies, and a complexity that challenges the listener
at every turn. Known for their intense anger, strong arrangements, and intense love
of chugs, Terrortory is now gearing up to release their highly
anticipated second full-length album, THE BLACK PRISM.The band, comprising Johan Norström (vocals, Katapult), Stefan Vidmark (guitars, ex-Nightscape), Emil Ceder (guitars), Tommy Nilsson (drums), and Olov Häggmark (bass), has undergone an evolutionary journey since its inception. Following the release of their previous full-length album The Seed Left Behind and the EP City of Ghosts through Discouraged Records, they have embraced new challenges and matured as songwriters. This evolution culminates in The Black Prism, a self-produced, independently released opus consisting of ten tracks that showcase the band's most complex and epic compositions to date.
Regarding the creation of their latest album, Terrortory describes it as a project filled with unexpected paths and challenges:
“This has been a project with many phases and challenges. This, in turn, has forced us onto paths we could not have anticipated or imagined. Songs we long thought were finished have been torn down and rebuilt, and in the end, we had a much stronger product that we are all incredibly satisfied with.”
The band promises that The Black Prism will feature their fastest and most intricate music, drawing inspiration from the vastness of the universe as well as the dark depths within the human soul.
Terrortory’s dedication to their craft extends beyond music. The band produced, recorded, and mixed The Black Prism themselves, with mastering handled by Kai Stahlenberg at Kohlekeller Studios. Their hands-on approach continues with the creation of music videos to accompany the album’s release. With vocalist Johan Norström’s experience behind the camera and bassist Olov Häggmark's work in front of it, the videos are poised to deliver a blend of space anxiety and dark humor.
In keeping with their signature style, The Black Prism features a mix of longer, intricate songs and shorter, faster tracks, pushing the boundaries of melodic death metal. The album’s tracklist, including titles like "Star Crusher," "Pestiferous Haven" and the epic titular track "The Black Prism," promises an auditory journey of crushing riffs, relentless rhythms, and haunting melodies.
With their self-released The Black Prism, the album stands as a testament to their growth, skill, and dedication to the melodic death metal genre. As they prepare for this next chapter, Terrortory invites listeners to delve into the abyss and experience the full force of their musical evolution.
Discography
DeReign – Single (Discouraged Records)
The Seed Left Behind – Full-length album (Discouraged Records)
City of Ghosts – EP (Discouraged Records)
The Black Prism – Full-length album (Self-released)
Line-up
Johan Norström – Vocals
Stefan Vidmark – Guitars
Emil Ceder – Guitars
Tommy Nilsson – Drums
Olov Häggmark – Bass
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Prepare to be pummeled by pure sonic devastation! Rising Thrash/Death Metal act ANOMIC has signed with Wormholedeath Records for the reissue of their debut EP, "OPACITY" set to be re-released on November 22nd, 2024.
Anomic
is a force to be reckoned with. Founded by Dutch/Syrian guitarist and vocalist
Raafat "Raaf" Atasi, the band blends the fury of Thrash with the
unrelenting brutality of Death Metal, creating a sound that is both punishing
and addictive. After leaving the German thrash outfit War Agenda in August
2023, Raaf wasted no time channeling his creative fire into Anomic. He
channeled a multitude of influences, resulting in the band's debut EP,
"Opacity". This 3-track sonic assault tackles existential themes like
conformity, war, insanity, and the very apocalypse itself.Raaf wasn't alone in this sonic crusade. He enlisted his old friend Fadi Massamiri to join the band as bassist and second vocalist, with Fadi also taking the reins on mixing and mastering "Opacity". To solidify their rhythm section, the band recruited the legendary Krzysztof Klingbein (live drummer for Vader, Belphegor, and Hate) to lay down the punishing drum tracks on the EP. Additionally, the monstrous vocals of Stefan Nordström guest star on the track "On Deaf Ears", add an extra layer of malevolent fury.
Anomic's signing with Wormholedeath Records marks a pivotal moment in the band's journey. In a statement, the band expressed their excitement:
"We are stoked to announce that AnomiC is now a member of the WormHoleDeath family. Our EP 'Opacity' will be released and distributed this year (2024) digitally by WHD worldwide. This is an important chapter in the band's journey, and we wanna thank the spectacular label owner Carlo Bellotti and his team Carla Predan and Natascia Pribac for this great opportunity to spread our music properly, and with a great label that is a home to so many killer bands signed to their roster. Moreover, our first full-length, which is to be released in 2025, will also be released and distributed with WHD. So, we’re looking forward to this great collaboration and can’t wait to share plans with you all. Stay metal m/"
Brace yourselves, metal maniacs! Anomic is here to demolish everything in their path. Stay tuned for more news and prepare to be crushed by "Opacity" on December 6th, 2024!
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After releasing a couple of beautiful singles, Canadian black metal band Hell Is Other People have now premiered another one of their epic, stirring and heart-wrenching tracks, making it clear at this point that this is indeed a special album.
"...emotionally and sonically scarring, a wrenching expression of torment and pain, of confusion and futility, and yet there’s also something poignant as well as ruinous in the grief it expresses."
HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE - “MOIRAE “
For
fans of
- Agalloch, Altar of Plagues, Winterfylleth, White Ward, DrudkhHell Is Other People from Canada have elegantly and passionately crafted a black metal album that imbibes influences from several of its related subgenres such as atmospheric black metal, post-black metal and even DSBM in parts, forming a cohesive, expressive and all-encompassing sound that the band is comfortable in carrying throughout. The band goes about playing these intuitively structured songs with a palpable burning fervour which makes all the difference. It is difficult to remain unmoved by such impactful and poignant songs and even more so to efface them from memory, the languid pacing furthermore prolonging their lingering presence in the mind. The five songs here seem interconnected emotionally even though they offer slightly differing moods, as if showcasing phases of the same pained existence. 'Moirae' is a stunning, beautifully tempered album with a remarkable range of expression that comes across as genuine and heartfelt.
Line up
Nathan Boots - Guitar
Nicholas Luck - Guitar
Nathan Ferreira - Bass, Vocals
James Ditty - Drums
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration
Track listing
1. Moirae 6:58
2. Fates 6:43
3. Degrade 7:48
4. Loss 8:45
5. Atropos 13:28
Release date - October 11th, 2024
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Summer will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on October 4 via Forcefield Records. Click the link below to pre-order!
https://vallettanc.bandcamp.com/album/summer
In support of the album, Valletta will launch their Eastern U.S. Tour in October! Tour dates are as follows:
10/17 Atlanta, GA @ Culture Shock
10/18 Athens, GA @ Flicker
10/19 Kingsport, TN VFW Post 4933
10/20 Covington, KY @ Madison Live
10/21 Chicago, IL @ Live Wire Lounge
10/22 Dayton, OH @ Hidden Gem
10/23 Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground
10/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Ortlieb's
10/25 Burlington, VT @ Despacito
10/27 Lowell, MA @ Koto Lowell
10/ 29 Salem, MA @ Koto Salem
11/1 Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana
11/2 Wilmington, NC (TBA)
Blackened Arena Rock? Melancholic Grunge n' Roll? Valletta's anthemic approach to songwriting and energetic stage performance certainly makes you wonder. The band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Summer, seeks to incinerate metal norms and create a new sound that is as grimey as it is electrifying!
Valletta comes with an impressive pedigree. The band features drummer Justin Valletta (Mo'ynoq), bassist/backing vocalist Donald Boyd (Mo'ynoq), guitar/lead vocalist Keenan Carroll (Lord Almighty, ex-Barishi), and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear (Hopesfall, Prayer for Cleansing, ex-Between The Buried and Me).
Metal Hammer called the band's debut EP, Come Alive, "A potent mix of Celtic Frost, Satyricon and The Bronx, this is fantastically catchy, bleak, old-school extreme metal with rock’n’roll hooks." Summer takes that penetrating foundational mix and supercharges the musicianship and songwriting, resulting in 12 tracks guaranteed to leave neurological imprints!
The band released the following statement about Summer:
“The new album, Summer, has been a real exploration in tearing down walls that we had previously built up over the years. Each of us coming from different musical backgrounds, there’s been this strong sense of letting go and allowing the music to unfold, regardless of how uncomfortable it may be. That’s been the beauty of this journey we’ve started together, and it’s been a great ride so far!
During the writing process, a constant theme that emerged was the idea of duality. From heavier, grimier riffs to beautiful, stoic melodies. From slower, muddy depths to faster, anthemic leads. From frozen wastelands, to summer nights, we’ve been on a journey to explore our limitations musically and emotionally. Spin that shit up!”
Track Listing:*
1. Kissing Angels
2. Serpents of Solomon
3. Saint
4. Diving into the Deep
5. Criminal
6. Soot & Ash
7. Ill Blood
8. In Ecstasy
9. On the Run
10. Bringing the Worst
11. Come Alive
12. Almighty Hate
*The vinyl version of Summer contains five instrumental synthesizer bonus tracks that serve as interludes.
Album Credits:
Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob at Warrior Sound, Chapel Hill, NC.
Mastered by Matt Tuttle at IAS Studios, Winston Salem, NC.
Cover Art by Will Goodyear.
Line-Up:
Justin Valletta - Drums
Donald Boyd - Bass / Backing Vocals
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
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Preoptic Distortion Records will release Agent of Chaos on all major streaming platforms on November 8. Pre-save the EP at https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/shadowsdecay/agent-of-chaos/
Tracklisting:1) Dry You Out
2) Falling of Mind
3) Agent of Chaos
4) Bringer of Death
5) Only Lies
6) Psuedo Suicidal
Hailing from the vibrant metal scene of Costa Rica, Shadows Decay has been a formidable presence in the thrash metal genre since their formation in 2008. Originally known as Preoptic Distortion, the band underwent a transformation both in name and sound, evolving into Shadows Decay—a name that embodies their music's raw energy and dark intensity.
Drawing inspiration from the titans of thrash such as Slayer, Testament, Metallica, Anthrax, and Death Angel, Shadows Decay has cultivated a unique sound that honors the legacy of these pioneers while forging their path. The music is a relentless onslaught of powerful riffs, thunderous drums, and aggressive vocals, delivering a high-octane experience that resonates with metal fans worldwide.
Shadows Decay is more than just a band; they are a collective of passionate musicians driven by a shared vision of musical excellence. Their live performances are known for their electrifying energy and raw intensity, leaving audiences craving more. With every show, Shadows Decay solidifies their reputation as one of the most dynamic and powerful thrash metal bands in the region. As they look to the future, Shadows Decay is poised to take their music to new heights, with plans for new releases and more explosive live shows. Their journey is one of perseverance, passion, and an unwavering commitment to delivering the pure essence of thrash metal.
Shadows Decay stands ready to spread their sonic devastation far and
wide - because in the world of metal - decay never sounded so good.
Shadows Decay is:
Nacho Escobar - vocals, guitars
Nestor Morales - lead guitar
Daniel Solano - Bass guitar
Jeyson Hodgson - Drums
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FOUL BODY AUTOPSY – “THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES” (EP)
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease Date: October 31st 2024
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
For fans of: Dark Tranquillity | In Flames | At The Gates | Insomnium
Condemned by the words of a child; the cruel pretence of a boy whose vindictive mischief making spread like plague through the tarnished hearts of those so hungry for scandal and persecution – so excited by the prospect of the torture and death of people that, just days before, they considered neighbours, even friends. In these damned times the devil walks not in the homespun dresses of women named witches, nor dances in our night time woods in accordance with licentious and lecherous fantasies. He lives in the hearts of the profiteering Witchfinder and the self important judges, in the fear of the ignorant and the perverted piety of priests…
After the bravely experimental Shadows Without Light trilogy and the back to the roots horror and aggression of Crucifix Dreams, Tom Reynolds’ Foul Body Autopsy is back, with another fresh twist on his precision riff attack. The Discovery Of Witches is a two track EP inspired by two infamous witch trials that took place in Tom’s hometown of Leicester, a century apart. In 1616, due to the false testimony of a young boy, fifteen women were arrested. Nine were hung for crimes of wicked sorcery, another died in jail while the remaining five were released due to the intervention of King James I – to whom the boy admitted his lies. In 1717 Jane Clark and her two children were accused of witchcraft by their fellow villagers and subjected to an ordeal by water – the fact that they didn’t drown when cast into the village pond, condemning them. The 1616 hangings are explored in opening track ‘The Rough Rope And The Short Drop’, where Tom brings new elements to his customary six-string aggression. There’s a reflective feel captured by the deft interplay between guitar and bass - Linus Klausenitzer (Alkaloid, ex-Obscura etc)’s flowing notes weaving their way between Tom’s snarling guitar parts - the sections of punchy, rhythmic feel and the strong melodic awareness as the tragedy, the violence and the delusion of that awful episode are brought to life. ‘The Ordeal By Water’ is another fine example of the traditional Foul Body Autopsy sound taking on fresh hues and colours as it builds through melody and an almost progressive aura to the full force assault of fierce blast beats – masterfully delivered once again by Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, Scarve etc). Constantly evolving, constantly exploring, constantly delivering riffs like tactical weapons – Tom Reynolds and Foul Body Autopsy have delivered another sweetly structured and imaginative burst of metal.
While all three musicians worked in their home studios in England, the US and Germany respectively, Tom’s vocals were captured at Parlour Studios (The Haunted, At The Gates, Napalm Death etc) and The Discovery Of Witches was mastered by Stephen Kerrison (The Grudge, Remote Viewing etc). The results are, as always with Foul Body Autopsy, excellent – combining clarity and power, subtlety and force. The EP will be available digitally and for the first time for Foul Body Autopsy, on limited edition lathe cut vinyl. Set to be released on the most appropriate date of October 31st, The Discovery Of Witches is another essential addition to the Foul Body Autopsy canon.
Line-up:
Tom Reynolds - Guitar/Vocals
*drums on The Discovery Of Witches by Dirk Verbeuren
*bass on The Discovery Of Witches by Linus Klausenitzer
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Tokyo “dirty thrashers” Straenge launched in the vibrant Tokyo underground metal scene in 2013. Musically, the band is known in the Tokyo underground scene for their unique blend of performative technicality, unconventional harmonic phrasing, sudden time changes, and old-school thrash and death metal riffs. They are often compared to bands such as Death, Coroner, Voivod, Atheist, Forbidden, and others. Their lives shows are fun and energetic, with frequent unexpected cover performances of classic metal bands such as Death, Exodus, Metallica, Kreator, Motorhead, and more.
Under their original name “Strange”, the band released three demos on cassette tape and digital formats: “Thanks, Thrasher!” (2015), “Thrash Carnival” (2018), and “Thrash Medicine” (2020). As a special nod to old-school thrash fans, each cassette demo had bonus B-side tracks which were only released on the cassettes. Near the end of this era of three demo tapes, the band added an “e” to their name to become Straenge.
Straenge’s debut full-length album “Filthy Microbes” was released in Tokyo on cassette tape in March 2023. A subsequent digital release on Bandcamp was then followed by a CD version release in March 2024. The CD version of the album was released by Tokyo’s well-regarded underground label Captured Records and includes two exclusive live bonus tracks.
Straenge are now planning their sophomore record, title TBD. They are hitting the studio in late 2024 and expecting to release the album in the first half of 2025. The album will feature recent material which the band has played live, including several unreleased songs. The style will expand upon that of their first album, and the band has stated they hope to grow to new levels of musicality in the new album.
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Drawing from many overseas influences, Eternal Crypt brings their brand of melodic extreme metal from their hometown of Rochester New York. It has been their mission to take the atmosphere of black metal, the aggression of death metal, and combine it with the melodic sensibility of power, folk, and doom metal, providing a thought provoking soundtrack to introspective lyrics.
Though initially starting as a solo studio project, Eternal Crypt became a full-fledged band after the release of debut album "Loneliness of the Wolf" in 2018. From then, Eternal Crypt will continue to bring their brand of melodic metal with their upcoming album "Stages of Grief" released on September 28th, 2024.
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Feral, one of the most respected Swedish death metal bands, are back after a gap of six years and they show how it's to be done. Their music is not only insanely powerful, as can be expected from them, but it's also surprisingly intricate. As No Clean Singing puts it eloquently in their premiere at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/11/an-ncs-premiere-feral-the-devouring-storm/
"Feral know how to crush granite and fracture bones, but you’ll also re-discover how deftly constructed and multi-faceted their music is"
FERAL – “TO USURP THE THRONES”
For
fans of :
Dismember, Carnage, Entombed, Autopsy, Murder Squad, Fleshcrawl, Bloodbath, GraveSwedish axe-wielding death metal marauders Feral proclaimed their rights to the throne with a potent split last year with crust-ridden death metal label mates Crawl. And as promised, they launched a massive, comprehensive onslaught the following year to eliminate all competition in the Swedish death metal realm. Those familiar with their legend know their humongous heft and power but what's also notable about them is their penchant for writing detailed and highly structured songs, more so than most bands of their ilk. This is death metal that looks, sounds and feels as if it's played by real savage Vikings but it is also wisely written, backed with nearly two decades of skull-crushing experience. Musically they not only honour the ancient Nordic gods the traditional way but also skillfully assimilate influences of the darker, filthier bands from across the ocean like Autopsy into their sound and solidify it many times over. The result is an insurmountable wall of sound that not only overwhelms and conquers but also makes room for tantalizing solos, menacing slower passages, and of course, the neck-snapping groovy parts. With 'To Usurp the Thrones', Feral have once again showed why they're the irrefutable contenders to the Swedish death metal throne and have delivered one of the most accomplished albums in the style in recent times.
Line up
David Nilsson - Vocals
Viktor Klingstedt - Bass
Markus Lindahl - Guitar
Sebastian Lejon - Guitar
Roger Markström - Drums
Artwork by Costin Chioreanu (Grave)
Track listing
1. To Drain the World of Light
2. Vile Malediction
3. Deformed Mentality
4. Bound to the Dead
5. The Devouring Storm
6. Spirits Without Rest
7. Decimated
8. Phantoms of Antiquity
9. Soaked in Blood
10. Into the Ashes of History
11. Stripped of Flesh
Release date - October 18th, 2024
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Horror
Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new EP from New
Jersey's twisted Death Metal horror fiends CHAINED TO THE DEAD. ONLY
HUNGER REMAINS is up now for pre-order and will be released
October 25th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.For fans of : 200 Stabwounds, Sanguisugabogg, Carcass, Blood Duster, Macabre and Pungent Stench.
While 2023's Discography of Debauchery collected Chained To The Dead's three pre-pandemic releases, Only Hunger Remains initiates a new blood-bathed trilogy featuring their relentless onslaught of horror-influenced Death Metal and thoughtfully-crafted tributes. Recorded at Backroom Studios with mixing and mastering by Kevin Antreassian (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Gridlink, Organ Dealer), Only Hunger Remains features artwork by Mortuus and includes 4 brand-new tracks as well as Blood Duster and Pungent Stench covers.
Listen to the single "HE'S JUST MEAT NOW" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRsxZ9RJUPc
Tracklisting:
1. Flesh Hunt
2. Eaten By Worms
3. She Bore A Brood Of Beasts
4. He's Just Meat Now
5. Blood Duster Double Feature
6. Games Of Humiliation (Pungent Stench cover)
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Polish blackened sludge act FIASKO have unveiled the first track off their upcoming album “AMOK ꓘOMA”. Entitled “WNIWECZ” (translates to ‘Into Naught’). The single is accompanied by a music video created in collaboration with This Is Madness. This is the band’s first new track in almost five years.
Watch “Wniwecz”: https://youtu.be/nsVbqlHhMvk
Tomasz Mielnik, FIASKO’s vocalist and lyricist, said: ‘Wniwecz’ paints the picture of a delayed apocalypse that we - humanity - create for ourselves. We rush forward swiftly and carelessly, until the very end not seeing the steep cliff we are heading towards.”
“AMOK ꓘOMA” will be released on 15 November 2024 in jewelcase CD format and via all major streaming platforms. It will also be available for purchase via Godz ov War Productions and Malignant Voices. Pre-order information coming soon. Comprising eight songs, the tracks are about death and love, love for death and the death of love.
FIASKO started working on the album immediately after their last release, the “Mizantropolia” EP which saw the light of day in February 2020. The band’s efforts were hindered by the lack of a drummer, however, that was rectified after Tomek Walczak (Chainsword, Tankograd, Weedpecker etc.) was invited in 2023 to collaborate and arrange the drum tracks as a guest/session drummer.
All instruments for “AMOK ꓘOMA” were recorded at Santa Studio under the watchful eye and ear of Mikołaj Kiciak. The vocals were recorded at Burning Tones by Adam Ziółkowski, who is also responsible for mixing the album. The recording was then mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Me and that Man, Gruzja, Thaw).
The artwork to “AMOK ꓘOMA” was created by Robert A. von Ritter (Hooded Menace, Urfaust, Malokarpatan, Outre, In Twilight's Embrace) while the album’s booklet layout and design is the work of Paweł Marzec of Kontamination Design (Dimmu Borgir, Morbus Chron, Blaze of Perdition, Manbryne).
“AMOK ꓘOMA” tracklist: 1. Spod spodu
2. Wniwecz
3. Tarantyzm
4. VII krąg
5. Sztuczne kwiaty
6. Śmierć krzywdziciela
7. Ciało obce
8. Maligna
FIASKO is:
Mielnik – lead vocals, lyrics
Kozina – guitar
Michułka – guitar
Nawrot – bass guitar, backing vocals
Walczak – drums (session)
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Format: Digitale CD-EP / Fysieke CD-EPLabel: Hell Records
Released : September 27, 2024
Genre : Death Metal
For fans of : Bolt Thrower, Gorefest, Atheist, Vader, Carcass and so on….
Born somewhere in the beginning of the new millennium, risen from the mud, blood and gore in Flanders, Belgium, we present you Solifugia, the lovechild of Centurial and Locusta.
After some line-up changes this quintet showcases their affection for Death Metal in the vein of Bolt Thrower, Gorefest, Atheist, Vader and Carcass (some excellent name-dropping, is it not!?).
With a demo (Arraneae Attack – 2001), an EP (Rampage of Brutal Revenge – 2008) and a full album (The Ultimate Promise of Evil – 2016) one can hardly say that they are very productive.
2024 however will mark the birth of the new EP “Ageless Sadism”, self-produced and mixed and mastered by the mighty Dan Swanö at Unisound Sweden.
Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Daybreak In Limbo
03. Disposition To Reign
04. All Spirits Enslaved
05. Sadistic Absolution
06. Innocence Slain 2023
SOLIFUGIA IS:
Vocals : Peter De Clercq
Bass : Johan De Vos
Rhythm and solo guitars : Maarten Dheedene
Rhythm guitars : Bernard Timmerman
Drums : Edward Timmerman
All guitars recorded at Dreetn’s Pigeonhole
Vocals recorded at HQ Solifugia
Drums recorded at Barefoot Studio, Ooigem by Arjan Bogaert
All lyrics by Peter
Produced by Maarten and Solifugia
Mixed and mastered by Dan Swäno at Unisound, Sweden
Re-amping by Stef Exelmans, Landegem
Cover artwork by BuyCoverArtwork
Art direction and design by Peej & Zowan
Photography by Nicolas ‘Doedie’ Doutreligne at Pulsar Photography, Zulte
Label coordination Hell Records
https://solifugia.bandcamp.com/album/ageless-sadism
The band tapped Decibel Magazine for the exclusive world premiere of FROSTBITTEN GALAXY, an album the outlet calls "fully wooly and rampaging." Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/10/02/full-album-stream-mammoth-caravans-frostbitten-galaxy/
Frostbitten Galaxy will be out on October 4 on Blade Setter Records. Order the album at https://bladesetterrecords.bigcartel.com/
MAMMOTH CARAVAN has announced a string of live dates in support of Frostbitten Galaxy. See the band leave their trademark trail of destruction at the dates below:
Oct 4th - Little Rock, AR @ Four Quarter Bar
Oct 5th - Van Buren, AR @ Iron Horse Records
Oct 6th - Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone
Oct 11th - Cord, AR @ Field Of The Dead Fest
Oct 12th - Fayetteville, AR @ Smoke and Barrel
Oct 18th - Vicksburg, MS @ BB Club
For a taste of MAMMOTH CARAVAN's commanding stage presence, watch
the video for "Siege in the Stars," filmed live at The Anvil Sessions Holy Anvil Recording Co. in Fayetteville, AR.
Watch
the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6wDV1ExPP4With a revamped lineup, a retooled sound, and a violent tale of mammoths in space, the band’s next offering promises to be their heaviest and most diverse material yet.
Frostbitten Galaxy tracklist:
1. Absolute Zero
2. Cosmic Clairvoyance
3. Tusks Of Orion
4. Siege In The Stars
5. Prehistoric Spacefarer
6. Sky Burial
Frostbitten Galaxy was recorded and mixed at Wolfman Studios by Jason Tedford, and mastered by Justin Weis at Traxworx. Album art by Tony Koehl
Line-Up:
Brandon Ringo - Vocals/Bass
Robert Warner - Vocals/Guitar/Synth
Khetner Howton - Drums
All scream singing by Brandon Ringo. All clean singing by Robert Warner
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The first single 'Your Worst Enemy' is out now and music video produced by Tuomas Saukkonen (Before The Dawn, Wolfheart, Dawn Of Solace) can be seen here: https://youtu.be/_R4o1oILl0A
Vocalist Paavo Laapotti comments:
”We wanted to start with a fiery track with a lot of kick! The song is about an individual, that has been treated like trash for his whole life. Eventually enough is enough, his feelings take over and he seeks for a revenge. He releases his anger towards his bullies and lets them know their worst enemy. ” ”We started making of the album with this song and clearly each musician had a strong vision of the outcome. I think we succeeded in giving it the chaos it needed, both with the song and the music video.”
Listen to 'Your Worst Enemy' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/defiled-serenity-your-worst-enemy
Track
list:1. Alkutaival (feat. Juha Tapio)
2. Voices from the Void
3. Exiled to Infinity
4. Death
5. Mortal
6. Within the Slumber of the Mind
7. Through the Chaos
8. Your Worst Enemy
9. Tears of Black
10. Unfaithful (Rihanna cover) (feat. Karisma)
Recorded & mixed by Lauri Seppälä
Mastered by Juho Räihä / SoundSpiral Audio
Album cover by Nikos Stavridakis / VisionBlack
Line-up:
Paavo Laapotti - Vocals
Jarkko Mäkelä - Lead guitar
Lauri Seppälä - Rhythm Guitar
Mikko Sormunen - Bass
Arttu Airo - Drums
Biography:
Defiled Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Loimaa, Finland. It was founded by the vocalist and Before The Dawn frontman Paavo Laapotti in 2021. The band’s music is for the fans of old In Flames, Amorphis, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity etc. Their sound relies heavily on the 90's melodeath sound, but with modern twists. The songs are filled with low growls, chunky guitars, beautiful melodies and tight rhythm sections.
They released their first stand-alone single ”Voices from the Void” in 2022 and it has reached over 25,000 streams on Spotify alone. Since then, the band has been writing new material and now it's time to unleash their long-awaited debut album!
https://www.facebook.com/defiledserenity
KLAÏTON – “BEHIND THE RITUAL “
Format: Digital EP-CD / Physical EP-CDLabel: Independent Release
Tracklist:
01. Scavenger
02. Silence
03. Testament to Greed
04. Fearing the Other
05. Behind the Ritual
Founded in 2013 by guitarists Erwin Wesdorp and Stefan Verdoorn from the disintegrated bands Polluted Inheritance and Burial.
While looking for a drummer,Ronald Camonier (guitarist/singer of Polluted Inheritance) was asked to pick up the drum sticks.
Steven Vrieswijk (bassist Polluted Inheritance) was the right person to pick up the bass and (almost) complete the band.
What was missing was a vocalist who was found after some time in Gratien Versijpt.This Flemish Howler boy completed the whole picture to form Klaïton.
The musical veterans of Klaïton make Oldschool Death Metal and have already built up a cult status in their immediate environment.
This is due to the fact that they have not released an album or demo in all that time, and yet their performances are always packed.
KLAÏTON...The GOD OF WEEDS will proliferate and dominate the earth!
KLAÏTON is:
Gratien Versijpt: Vocals
Erwin Wesdorp: Guitar
Stefan Verdoorn: Guitar
Steven Vrieswijk: Bass
Ronald Camonier: Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Klaiton666
Label: Road To Masochist / Eggy TapesRelease Date: November 8th 2024
Genre: Blackened Deathgrind
For fans of: Hellhammer | Axegrinder | Massacre | Wolvhammer
Standing on the threshold of knowledge and confrontation, of understanding and terror…the steps head downwards, only the first few visible before the descent is lost in a sudden, impossible and impenetrable darkness as rich as kraken’s ink and as all consuming as the grave. The air beneath the archway’s keystone tastes of desperation and regret, a last, forbidding yet invisible barrier. But decisions have been taken and promises have been made. With a shuddering intake of breath you begin to move…one step, two steps…into the black.
It has been six years since Nottingham duo Shrykull released their caustic, self-titled debut album, but finally the second chapter of their tale has been written…a cataloguing of the horrors of both inner and outer space, a journal of time spent Beyond Subconscious Realms. Opening in an imposing wall of reverberating sludge, ‘Blockading The Kingdom Of Infinite Space’ sets the tone for what is to follow, bursting from its swamp into a savage black/death metal attack, a tapestry of ripped flesh riffs held together by sinew and congealed blood. The two-piece band format helps to keep a sense of space within the Shrykull sound, meaning that while clinging onto the careering death train of ‘Id Hammer’, with its carriages of the damned swaying as it thunders down the buckled tracks of bone, you remain aware of vast, tortured landscapes surrounding you, nightmares flashing past as you ride punked up riffs into oblivion. Despite being constructed from the essential, stripped skeleton of drums, guitar and vocals, Beyond Subconscious Realms also manages to conceal hidden, abyssal depths within its frantic progress. With each track falling directly into the gaping maw of the next, there’s no exit door, no distracting light to draw you from the visceral tableau of the grotesque. Classic death metal traits rear up like rudely awakened ghouls from the murk of ‘Gateway Of Nightmares’ and in the aptly named ‘Chaotic Disforms Of Cosmic Misalignment’ these same death metal characteristics morph into something ‘other’ as the song shapeshifts like an agent of chaos or a crypt-bound creature of mind rending uncertainty of form. The tarnished majesty of final track ‘Collective Fugue State’ even reaches its blood stained hands towards a fading glimpse of beauty, bringing an unexpected aura of tragedy to Beyond Subconscious Realms’ final moments.
The depth, dimensions and decimating power of Beyond Subconscious Realms were captured by Ian Boult (Wolvencrown, Foul Body Autopsy, Mage etc) at Stuck On A Name Studios – with Boult having done such fine work on Shrykull’s debut album, continuing with this working relationship was, in the band’s words, ‘a no-brainer’. It’s a decision that has reaped incredible rewards. The band also reached out again to artist Luke Oram (Sigiriya, Live Burial etc) to continue the work he began on Shrykull - and he has produced a stunning, expansive piece to adorn what is a genuinely exceptional album. Beyond Subconscious Realms will be released on CD and vinyl by Road To Masochist and cassette by Eggy Tapes, on November 8th. Prepare for bad dreams, harsh truths and even harsher riffs.
Line-up:
William Powell – Guitar/Vocals
Kez Whelan – Drums/Vocals
additional guitars on ‘A Glint In The Basilisk’s Eye’ and ‘Collective Fugue State’ by Kez Whelan
https://www.roadtomasochist.co.uk/
https://eggytapes.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/shrykull
In under two weeks, New Zealand unorthodox death metal ensemble ULCERATE will embark on their 34-date 'ECLIPSE DEATH' EUROPEAN TOUR.
Tickets are running low for Athens, Berlin, Servants of Chaos Fest and London, while Mammothfest, Weiher, Leeuwarden, Wasquehal, Lyon, Madrid, Milano, Zagreb, Prague, Vienna, Istanbul, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw are selling fast.
The tour will kick off in the Netherlands on 12th October at Soulcrusher Fest,
which is already sold out. During this extensive tour, ULCERATE will present their exceptional new album, "Cutting the Throat of God", in a live setting.
For this expedition, ULCERATE will be joined by French extreme sludge band FANGE for select dates, and by Latin American black metal band SELBST on the tour's second leg. Following the recent release of SELBST's acclaimed third album, "Despondency Chord Progressions", this tour offers a rare opportunity to witness two of Debemur Mortis Productions’ finest artists showcasing their latest and greatest works live.
Find tickets for the shows https://ulcerate-official.com/#tour !
ULCERATE drummer Jamie Saint Merat comments: "We are ecstatic to announce the full set of European performance dates in support of "Cutting the Throat of God". Joining us on select dates as special guests are the impeccable FANGE (France) and SELBST (Chile), which will make for an evening of blissful sonic torment not to be missed."
SELBST mastermind N states: "I can assure you that the live members of SELBST and I are eagerly awaiting this. This is the next step we were waiting to achieve, and I can't see a better way to cross the threshold into live touring for the first time than with such great hosts as ULCERATE! Also, this would not be possible without the enormous support of DMP! As this is the first time that I will present my music on the old continent, we will cover a good part of SELBST's discography..."
Eclipse Death European Tour Dates
12.10.2024 SOULCRUSHER FEST, NL
13.10.2024 MAMMOTHFEST, GR
14.10.2024 ATHENS, GR @ Kyttaro
15.10.2024 BERLIN, DE @ Urban Spree
16.10.2024 WEIHER, DE @ Live Music Hall
17.10.2024 DRESDEN, DE @ Kulturzentrum Strasse E
18.10.2024 SERVANTS OF CHAOS FEST, DE
19.10.2024 LEEUWARDEN, NL @ Neushoorn ++
20.10.2024 PARIS, FR @ Petit Bain ++
21.10.2024 LONDON, UK @ Oslo ++
22.10.2024 WASQUEHAL, FR @ The Black Lab ++
23.10.2024 NILVANGE, FR @ Le Gueulard Plus ++
24.10.2024 LYON, FR @ Le Warm Audio ++
25.10.2024 EX TENEBRIS LUX FESTIVAL, FR ++
26.10.2024 CASTELLON, ES @ Sala Tal ++
27.10.2024 PORTUGALETE, ES @ Estudios Groove ++
28.10.2024 VALENCIA, ES @ 16 Toneladas ++
30.10.2024 MURCIA, ES @ Garaje Beat Club ++
31.10.2024 GRANADA, ES @ Sala Riff ++
01.11.2024 MADRID, ES @ Sala Silikona ++
02.11.2024 ZARAGOZA, ES @ Sala Lo Intento ++
03.11.2024 BARCELONA, ES @ Sala Boveda ++
05.11.2024 MILANO, IT @ Legend --
06.11.2024 BOLOGNA, IT @ Alchemica --
07.11.2024 LJUBLJANA, SI @ Menza pri Koritu --
08.11.2024 ZAGREB, HR @ Mocvara --
09.11.2024 NITRA, SK @ Nova Pekaren --
10.11.2024 PRAGUE, CZ @ Black Pes --
11.11.2024 VIENNA, AT @ Viper Room --
12.11.2024 ISTANBUL, TK @ IF Performance Hall Beşiktaş
13.11.2024 BUDAPEST, HU @ Dürer Kert --
14.11.2024 KRAKOW, PL @ Hype Park --
15.11.2024 BIELSKO-BIALA, PL @ RudeBoy --
16.11.2024 WARSAW, PL @ Hydrozagadka --
++ with FANGE
-- with SELBST
Tickets: https://ulcerate-official.com/#tour
https://ulcerate-official.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ulcerate
BLOOD
INCANTATION have
finally released a preview into their forthcoming album, ABSOLUTE
ELSEWHERE. Its first movement, THE STARGATE is
available today in its entirety across digital retailers and comes with an
exquisite short film, THE STARGATE which was directed by award
winning cinematographer Michael Ragen (Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of
Curiosities: The Viewing) and features mesmerizing analog fluid effects by
Chris Parks (The Fountain). THE STARGATE short film is unlike
anything you have experienced before. It presents the saga of a mysterious
artifact and its victims in a hallucinatory synthesis of science fiction and
folk horror, where mind bending imagery and unsettling atmospheres converge in
a surreal tale of primeval blood magic, interdimensional travel and grotesque
otherworldly technology beginning in the Dark Ages and journeying into voids of
deep space.ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE hovers at nearly 45 minutes, their longest full length recording yet, the album’s two movements – THE STARGATE and THE MESSAGE – are as confounding as they are engaging, exponentially expanding upon the formulas laid down by their scene-shattering debut Starspawn (2016) and landmark follow up Hidden History of the Human Race (2019).
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N4rLtjPzH0
Listen to THE STARGATE here: https://BloodIncantation.lnk.to/AbsoluteElsewhereNe
Genre
: Black
Metal (sung in dialect language)Label : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music | October 31st 2024
Voces Antiqui Sanguinis is a gathering between four Italian Black Metal bands whose peculiarity resides in the lyrics: each band sings in a specific regional dialect or autochthonous language. Although stylistically different, Strja, Ticinum, Kre^u and Vrim
STRJA - Veronese (dialect language of Verona)
TICINUM - Pavese (dialect language of Pavia)
KRE^U - Barbaricino (native language of Barbagia, region of Sardinia)
VRIM - Piemontese (minority language of Piedmont)
The record release date is set for October 31st 2024, through Masked Dead Records and Sulphur Music. Printed as MC, Voces Antiqui Sanguinis is exclusively attached to the Sulphur Fanzine special issue "Linguas Diaboli", entirely dedicated to dialect and autochthonous languages in Black Metal music (Italian language only).
Sale Points:
- Four italian Black Metal bands;
- Every band sings in its own dialect or autochthonous language;
- Different styles of Black Metal;
- To be released on October 31st 2024 by Masked Dead Records and Sulphur Music;
- The MC edition it's exclusively attached to Sulphur Fanzine special issue "Linguas Diaboli".
Tracklist:
1) Strja - Instrià
2) Strja - La Siora dei Troni e delle Site
3) Ticinum - La Cacia ad Godan
4) Ticinum - Pavia Brusa, la Stria
5) Kre^u - Accabbadòra
6) Kre^u - Ma^iardzas
7) Vrim - Ij Lìngher Vendicator
8) Vrim - L'òra ant el Kali-Yuga
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www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092109806558
www.facebook.com/krehu.barbagia
www.facebook.com/vrimblackmetal
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords/
NEWS 29.9.2024
Heute
erscheint mit „Lightbearer“ die zweite Single des neuen BONJOUR TRISTESSE
Albums „The World Without Us“.
Hier geht es direkt zum stilvollen Lyric-Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSuubYtIk9c
Mastermind Nathanael über die Idee hinter „Lightbearer“:
"Der Song "Lightbearer" wurde von Michail Bakunins Religions- und Staatskritik inspiriert und stellt darauf aufbauend den Teufel nicht als Verführer, sondern als Befreier der vom Christentum unterdrückten Menschheit dar. Er wird zum Lichtbringer, der die versklavten Massen in die Freiheit führt. Der Song ist Teil des neuen Albums "The World Without Us" der Black Metal Band Bonjour Tristesse. Das Lyricvideo zu "Lightbearer" unterstreicht die gesellschaftskritische Dimension des neuen Albums."
Das Album wird am 18. Oktober 2024 in verschiedenen Formaten (LP, CD, Tape, Digital) via SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS veröffentlicht und kann ab sofort hier vorbestellt werden:
https://supremechaos.com/artists/bonjour-tristesse/
https://bonjourtristesse.bandcamp.com
https://supremechaos.com/link/bonjourtristesse/
BONJOUR TRISTESSE, eine von Nathanael gegründete Black-Metal-Band aus Deutschland, ist dafür bekannt Melancholie, Introspektion und Gesellschaftskritik miteinander zu verweben. Der Name der Band spiegelt eine tief empfundene existenzielle Verzweiflung wider. Ihr atmosphärischer und depressiver Black Metal schafft eine intensive, emotionale Klangwelt, die den Hörer durch ihre Tiefe und Komplexität fesselt.
Mit ihrem kommenden vierten Album „The World Without Us“ schließen BONJOUR TRISTESSE einen zwei Alben überspannenden Handlungsbogen ab, der mit dem Vorgängeralbum begann. Zentrale Themen sind die Kritik industrialisierter Zivilisationen und der Konflikt zwischen dem modernen Menschen und Natur. Als alleiniger Songwriter bearbeitet Nathanael diese Themen mit einer Mischung aus roher Gewalt, eingestreuten Melodien und manischem Gesang. Das Album kritisiert die zerstörerischen Auswirkungen entfremdeter Weltbeziehung moderner Gesellschaften und zeichnet ein düsteres Bild unserer dystopischen Realität.
„The World Without Us“ kombiniert rohe Aggression mit melodischen Elementen, die oft in Richtung Raserei ausschlagen, während der sowohl verzweifelte als auch wütende Gesang eine beklemmende Stimmung aufrechterhält. Die Verweise auf zivilisationskritische Denker und existentialistische Schriftsteller fügen der kraftvollen Botschaft poetische Komponenten hinzu, welche dem Album mehr Tiefe verleihen.
Tracklist:
Running on Emptiness
Lightbearer
The World Without Us
Against The Grain
The Great Catastrophe
Spielzeit 44:46 min
https://supremechaos.com/artists/bonjour-tristesse/
https://www.facebook.com/BonjourTristesseofficial/
Out now! ASCIAN haben ihr neues Album veröffentlicht! ”SING TO ME, SWEET VOID” kann hier gehört und/oder bestellt werden: https://linktr.ee/Asciandoom
“Sing To Me, Sweet Void” ist ein wahrhaftiges Highlight in der Schnittmenge zwischen Doom Metal und Post-Metal.
Tracklist
01. Follow the Serpent
02. The Odium Palace (feat. Dima Dudko of White Ward)
03. The Golden Queen
04. Cold Sun
05. Threnody Spirals (feat Judith Ehreke of Unsoulicited)
06. Fra Lyset
07. Deathwish
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen. Leave all hope behind - Misery is ahead!
Victoria (BC) - Unorthodox Black Thrashers, TORREFY, have released new album Necronomisongs on Witches Brew.
FFO: Skeletonwitch, Absu, Vektor, Witchery, Nocturnal
Click the links below to stream and/or purchase the album.
https://torrefy.bandcamp.com/album/necronomisongs-3
https://witchesbrewthrashes.bandcamp.com/album/necronomisongs
https://witchesbrew.eu/en/products/torrefy-necronomisongs-cd
https://open.spotify.com/album/5o4yl43p97tbCS12EaeDFb
In the four years since the release 2020's Life is Bad, Torrefy have worked feverishly to create an album that would be nothing short of its masterwork. That masterwork is now realized in the form of Necronomisongs! Ripping Thrash and abrasive Black Metal are prime elements, yet the band's self-described unorthodox approach to composition has paid big dividends! The album slashes, burns, and genre-bends with unhinged ferocity, all without sacrificing an ounce of memorability.
Track
Listing:
1. Of Wind and Worm
2. Street Reaper
3. Corpseback Rider
4. Arachnomancer
5. Enslaved New World
6. Nature Vs Torture
7. Apex Shredatorr
8. Total Perspective Vortex
Necronomisongs Credits:
Recorded by Torrefy and Cody Baresich at Circle A Studios.
Mixed by Cody Baresich.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Album cover by Blackstory.
Line-up:
Adam Henry - Lead Guitar
Ben Gerencser - Rhythm Guitar
Simon Smith - Bass
John Ferguson - Vocals
Daniel Laughy - Drums
About Torrefy:
Torrefy is a black thrash quintet based in Victoria, BC, Canada. They are determined to spread their unique brand of unorthodox black thrash metal to a wider audience. Torrefy weaves elements of black, death, and thrash metal to create songs and albums with a distinct and powerful energy.
https://www.facebook.com/Torrefy
Listen to “Międzyczas”: https://youtu.be/JgVDlEbd0CA
In the run up to the album's release, the band shared the singles “Idée Fixe” (listen via YouTube) and title track “Międzyczas” (listen via YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and all other major digital platforms). The full album will be available via all major streaming services from midnight 28 September.
Pre-save “Międzyczas” via digital platforms: https://bfan.link/ohg-miedzyczas
“Międzyczas” is an evolution of Odium Humani Generis’ sound which started with 2020’s debut album “Przeddzień” (Cult of Parthenope) and 2022’s EP “Zarzewie” (Folter Records). The album is a journey that moves through the emotional stages of fear, disappointment, sadness and loneliness resounding in every song. Listeners may notice influences from bands such as Taake, Drudkh, Lifelover, Sacrilegium, Vemod or Furia; however, Odium Humani Generis goes a step further, adding subtle but clear references to sounds outside of the traditional spheres of black metal. Despite its melancholic character, the album is full of energetic moments that break the dark, introspective parts and give the music intensity.
“Międzyczas” was recorded with Mariusz Konieczny at Heavy Gear Studio, and the album was mixed and mastered by The Fall (Owls Woods Graves, Hauntologist, Mgła (live)) at Skrzypłocz Studio. The unique graphic design was created by Emilia Śpiewak, and the band photos were taken by Radosław Chojnacki.
Odium Humani Generis was established in 2015 in Łódź, Poland. The band comprises Biały on vocals and guitars, Murukh (ex-Fadheit) on drums, Bartos (Imperator, Pandemonium) on bass, Ominous (Nightbound) on guitars. Over the years, the band has toured with bands such as Carpathian Forest, Mgła, Spectral Wound and In Twilight’s Embrace, and supported acts such as Uada, Mortiis, Panzerfaust, Negative Plane, Ellende, Pillorian, Hate, Malokarpatan. OHG also performed at various European festivals including Under the Black Sun (DE), Throne Fest (BE) and Cosmic Void Festival (UK).
Catch Odium Humani Generis live:
Międzyczas Release Show w/ Angrrsth, Kurhan & Alembik
5.10.24 - Łódź, PL
Blaze of Perdition, Odium Humani Generis, Shodan, Loathfinder
2.11.24 - Lublin, PL
"Stella Pandora Tour" w/ Arkona & Above Aurora & Zmarłym
09.11.24 - Koszalin, PL
10.11.24 - Poznań, PL
15.11.24 - Gdańsk, PL
16.11.24 - Gostynin, PL
22.11.24 - Bielsko-Biała, P
23.11.24 - Wrocław, PL
http://malignantvoices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/odiumbm
Nashville (TN) - U.S. Melodic Black Metal horde, LENAX, have released new single, "WE ARE LEGION," on all digital platforms!
Click
the links below to stream/buy!
https://lenaxmetal.bandcamp.com/track/we-are-legion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjmZAHw0TU
"We Are Legion" is the second single, following "LEECHES," that will appear on the band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Infection.
"We Are Legion" tells the story of a greedy magician who calls upon multiple demonic forces in an act of greed and a lust for power. Unbeknowst to him, the demonic forces assemble into the mythical LEGION, and overpower the would-be sorcerer.
The second song released by the band in its current lineup, "We Are Legion" reflects the same core sound Venomous (vocals, guitar) explored during the band's early phase as a solo project. Tracked during the same sessions as "Leeches," the song features guitarist Mordred on bass guitar and session drummer Maikon Queiroz.
The band is currently in the writing and recording phase for Infection, which will be released in 2025.
Song Credits:
Lyrics by: Venomous
Music by: Venomous and Mordred
Art Credit: John Sorrell
Band Logo: Illia Karpenko
Mix Engineer: Ilarion Ivanenko
Maikon Queroz (Drums, session musician)
Mordred (Bass on "We Are Legion")
Bio:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. The project evolved from a solo act into a full-fledged band known by a growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from a wide array of black metal bands from established titans to the obscure, the "Big Four" of thrash metal, and even a dash of classic heavy acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether dubbed by Venomous as "cosmic horror fueled nightmares.” — an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realization through occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and the impending doom of the Outer Gods.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a
busy year ahead, with two new songs and accompanying music videos already in the works for 2024, preceding a full-length album slated for a
2025 release.
LENAX is:
Venomous - Vocals, Guitar
The Silence - Bass
Profana - Drums
Mordred - Guitar, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/LenaxMetal
Excerpt - "The Finnish lads are at their oddest and most obtuse on “Cold Lantern” while also betraying a kind of affective sensitivity that makes the staggering calamity all the more heartrending"
DEVENIAL VERDICT – “BLESSING OF DESPAIR”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Morbid
Angel, Dysgnostic, Saevus Finis, Crown of Madness, Mithras
Finnish dissonant/atmospheric death metal band Devenial Verdict return after nonchalantly dropping a staggering debut out of nowhere in 'Ash Blind'. Stunning everyone with its sheer magnificence and power, it was always going to be interesting to see where they go from there. And they've released a new full length that's not only a worthy follow-up but it's far more nuanced than anything they've done in the past. They've nurtured a sound that is inherently pensive and adopted an approach that's laden with suspense and intrigue; the sharp, ringing, dissonant tunes linger in the air like inverted scythes. The atmosphere remains emotionally charged which is already rare for this style, with the music being a lot more expressive and colourful in its shades of gloom over here. The songs, undulating gracefully in their intensity, showcase interesting and comparatively diverse variations without straying from their core sound which sees dissonance and atmosphere working in tandem. There's a sense of dark melancholia permeating their music which adds meaning and depth to this kind of music that can too easily be rendered soulless. Devenial Verdict have once again crafted a masterful, passionate album that pushes the sound in its own way while firmly establishing a distinct identity for the band.
Line up:
Okko Tolvanen - Drums
Sebastian Frigren - Guitars
Antti Poutanen - Bass
Riku Saressalo - Vocals
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing:
1. I Have Become the Sun
2. Garden of Eyes
3. Moon-Starved
4. Blessing of Despair
5. Shunned Wander
6. The Quietus
7. Solus
8. Counting Silence
9. Cold Lantern
10. A Curse Made Flesh
Release date - October 4th, 2024
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/DevenialVerdict
UNDER
THE OAK,
the legendary Norwegian thrashers, have officially released their long-awaited
third album, THE LAST OF A DYING BREED, through their trusted
partners at Wormholedeath. The album marks a milestone in the band’s
near-40-year journey and is now available on all major streaming
platforms.
The Last of a Dying Breed encapsulates everything that has made Under the Oak a relentless force in the metal scene. A perfect storm of traditional Heavy Metal and Thrash, the band’s latest work is as melodic as it is savage—ruthless, fast, and uncompromising. With nearly four decades of experience, the album's title aptly reflects the band’s steadfast dedication to keeping the spirit of old-school metal alive.
The album includes ten original tracks that showcase Under the Oak’s signature sound. In true homage to their heroes, they’ve also included a special cover song that fans will instantly recognize. For the first time, the band has collaborated with guest musician Jan-Erik Johansen, who adds a unique twist with a standout triangle performance.
Under the Oak continues to blaze a trail, pushing boundaries while staying rooted in the heavy metal tradition that defined their origins. The Last of a Dying Breed is not only a reflection of their storied history but a testament to the passion, grit, and brotherhood that drives them forward.
Tracklist
1. Inner Truth of Denial
2. When the Sirens Call
3. Grim Reaper
4. Nightmare
5. Shadow of Darkness
6. The Last of a Dying Breed
7. Death by Cutlery
8. Keyboard Warrior
9. Playing Dead
10. Wobblehead
11. Ride the Sky (Cover)
Discography:
Ripped up by the Roots (2020)
Rattus Norvegicus (2022)
The Last of a Dying Breed (2024)
Meet the Band:
Jostein - Vocals (ex. Fury, ex Testimony)
Marius - Drums (ex. Terrazone, ex. Mecalimb)
Hillbilly Bill - Bass (ex. Excelsis, ex. Dressed to Kiss, also plays in Rövballebandet and Nostalgic Groove)
Thomas Bolverk - Guitar (ex. Darkness, ex. Black Currant, ex. Images at Twilight, ex. Ragnarok, also plays in BOLVERK: and Venom tribute-band Welcome to Hell)
Join the Thrashing Horde! Connect with Under The Oak:
www.youtube.com/UndertheOak
Swiss
industrial prog-death metal trailblazers LETHAL TECHNOLOGY are
thrilled to present the video for their fierce new track, “FORBIDDEN
FLESH,” from their standout album MECHANICAL ERA,
available now via Wormholedeath.
"Forbidden Flesh," the opening track of Mechanical Era, thrusts you into a dark, apocalyptic, and icy sonic landscape. The technology that once served humanity is on the verge of rebellion, poised to overthrow its creators and dominate them instead.
This track showcases the band's ambition to break free from conventions with their distinctive fusion of death, industrial, and progressive metal. Lethal Technology isn’t afraid to push boundaries, as evident in Sofiane Thoulon's hauntingly melodic vocals layered over death metal blast beats.
Welcome to the world of Lethal Technology—where the future meets the ferocity of sound.
Don't miss this sonic aggression! Dive into the dystopian world of Lethal Technology—watch the video here:
Lethal Technology is a genre-bending behemoth, drawing inspiration from a diverse arsenal that includes Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad, Fear Factory, Dying Fetus, Dream Theater, video game soundtracks, and even a sprinkle of 80's giants like Genesis. This unique blend results in a sound that defies categorization, a monstrous fusion of technical prowess and raw aggression.
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The debut EP from brutal death band EMASCULATOR is now available on CD via New Standard Elite. The physical release for THE DISFIGURED AND THE DIVINE comes days ahead of the band's first-ever live performance this weekend at Texas Domination Fest.
Vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy comments on EMASCULATOR's live debut, "We are really excited to have our first live performance on day two of Texas Domination Fest, which will also be our CD release party! We look forward to meeting our friends and fans there."
EMASCULATOR is scheduled to play on Saturday, September 27 at 6:45 pm. For more details about the fest, visit https://www.texasdominationfest.com/
Order The Disfigured and the Divine at https://nserecords.bigcartel.com/
The EP will be available on streaming platforms on October 25. Digital preorders and streams of the first two singles - "In Resplendent Terror" and "Eradication of the Asuras" - are available at https://emasculatorbdm.bandcamp.com/album/the-disfigured-and-the-divine
Watch the video for "Eradication of the Asuras" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sss17biOCHY
The Disfigured and the Divine delves into themes of the Goddess in mythology and legend, womanhood and motherhood, overcoming obstacles, justice, spirituality, the human experience, and growing into power.
Track
Listing:
1) Ecstasy in Disseverment (of Self)
2) In Resplendent Terror
3) Thesmophoric Rites
4) The Unassailable
5) Eradication of the Asuras
6) Age of the Goddess
7) Supreme Void of Acephalous Being
"The Unassailable" features a guest appearance by Vishal Singh, with chants by Swathi Kalahasti. Guest vocals on "Age of the Goddess" by Daniela Dahlien Neumanová.
The Disfigured and the Divine was mixed & mastered by Josh Welshman. Guitar and bass were recorded by L.B. at Divine Retribution Studios. Vocals recorded by Tonda Smrčka at Seabeast Production. Drums recorded by Taylor Hahn at Hahn Audio.
EMASCULATOR is an international collaboration of women with members from Czechia and the United States. The line-up comprises Mallika Sundaramurthy (Nidorous-NSE, Unfathomable Ruination, ex-Abnormality), Morgehenna (PoonTickler), Teresa Wallace (Cartilage, Muldrotha, Feast) and newest member Cierra White (Harboured, Oak, Ash & Thorn).
EMASCULATOR is:
Mallika Sundaramurthy - Vocals
Teresa Wallace - Guitars
Morgehenna - Guitars
Cierra White - Drums
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Finnish Symphonic Doom Metal band INFIRMUM has released their sophomore album "FROM THE DEPTHS I CRIED". Early 2019 formed band has approached the genre in a unique and complex way. With a sound that explores aspects of classical music combined with the traditional weight and melancholy of Doom, they released their debut album "Walls of Sorrow" in 2020, followed by the EP "The Great Unknown" in 2022. In January 2023, they released the single "Sleep of Reason," which featured a music video. With the departure of vocalist Anna Rose in 2023, Brazilian singer Sabine Blodwin joined the band, bringing a new perspective from a different culture.
Listen to the album on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/infirmum-fromthedepthsicried
Guitarist and composer Timo Solonen tells about the album:
"Some of the album songs were actually ready already when we released our previous EP but we didn't have time to finish them at that point. So the path has been quite long with this album. Many songs were also left out of the album because we didn't want to do a double album this time. Maybe some of those will be released in the future. But we'll see how it goes.
Usually we start working with new material so that I make the raw version and send it to the rest of the band and then we start to arrange it as a band. We work mostly so that everybody does their parts by their own and luckily it's nowadays possible because band members live all around Finland.
People have been asking for a new album for a some time now. And here it is! I believe and hope that the waiting has been worth it.
We have plans to do live shows as soon as pieces come together with it. Live show is the thing in this kind of music.
As the album was in production we had a clear vision to give more room for cello and Elya nailed it. Erna's keyboards also play a big role and lift up the different mood on the songs. After Sabine came in the whole band took several leaps forward and tha fact that she comes from totally different culture brings wonderful twist to the band's sound. Myself and Hanska went to Juho Räihä's studio to test some ideas for the drum tracks and I really love Hanska's style on drums! Joonas also gave several new ideas to the songs that brought in some diversity that they needed."
INFIRMUM's music today can be described as profound and conflicted, exploring the darkest sides of human emotions, diving into the depths of madness, pain, sickness, and death, while still finding brief moments of hope, offering an atmospheric journey through the darkest corners of the human soul. Combining beauty and ferocity, their compositions are rich in textures and nuances with strong, reflective lyrics.
The current lineup includes Sabine Blodwin (formerly of Moonwitch, Draconian Opera, Pettalom) – Vocalist, Taka Eliel (Sanctuary of Hate) – Vocalist and Bassist, Erna Siikavirta (formerly in Lordi, Children of Bodom as session keyboardist, Sinergy as session keyboardist, Arthemesia and Deathlike Silence) – Keyboardist, Joonas Siikavirta (Begrim) – Guitarist, Timo Solonen (Grain of Pain) – Guitarist, Hanna-Leena “Hanska” (Mourning Wood) – Drummer, and Elya – Cellist.
Tracklist
01. Pact
02. Everlasting
03. Burn
04. Deception
05. Peace
06. Ephemeral
07. Icamiabas
Vocals: Sabine Blodwin
Growls and Bass: Taka Eliel
Guitars: Timo Solonen
Guitars: Joonas Siikavirta
Keys: Erna Siikavirta
Drums: Hanna-Leena Lassila
Cello: Elya
Produced by Juho Räihä and Infirmum
Drums recorded at Fantom Studios by Samu Oittinen
Other instruments and vocals at Infirmum Dungeon
Single mixed by Tuomas Kokko at Electric Fox
Single mastered by Samu Oittinen at Fantom Studios
Cover artwork by Gogo Melone
https://www.youtube.com/@infirmum
https://www.facebook.com/InfirmumBand
Experimental death metal duo THUNRAZ has announced a fall release for their newest album, INCINERATION DAY. The album is a collaborative effort between Estonia-based musician Madis Jalakas and US-based drummer Sean Rehmer (Dejecter).
Madis comments on his newest collection of work, "Incineration Day is seven embittered pleas for a final end to a world that continually neglects, poisons, and kills its best and brightest. This album is for everyone whose gifts became a curse."
THUNRAZ has tapped New Noise Magazine for the world premiere of the album's first single, "Incinerator." Listen now at https://newnoisemagazine.com/premieres/track-premiere-thunraz-incinerator/
The band has also shared a drum play-through video of the song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYx0LkjSLGY
Incineration Day is due out on November 22. Pre-order the album at https://thunraz.bandcamp.com/album/incineration-day
Tracklisting:
1) Tyrant
2) Compactor
3) Fragile Automata
4) Incinerator
5) The Day After
6) Eastern Promises
7) Spiritual Self-Surgery
Vocals, guitars & production for Incineration Day were done by Madis Jalakas in Tallinn, Estonia. Drums were recorded by Sean Rehmer at Storm Crow Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
An experimental death metal project headed by Madis Jalakas, THUNRAZ (thunder in Proto-Germanic) seeks to align itself with primal forces in order to break through personal, philosophical, and musical barriers. Most of the time a solo effort, other times with the aid of different musicians, THUNRAZ has released five uncompromising records since 2018. Incineration Day is the first to feature Kansas City-based drummer Sean Rehmer.
THUNRAZ is:
Madis Jalakas - guitar/vocals
Sean Rehmer - drums
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https://www.facebook.com/thunrazmetal/
Label: Ardua Music
Release Date: September 27th 2024
Genre: Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Officium Triste | My Dying Bride | Paradise Lost | Saturnus
I stand beneath the open sky, at the setting of the sun. The still waters stretch before me to the distant horizon and the clouds drift slowly across the vast canvas of the sky – a brilliant blending of deepest blues, rich purples, vivid red and warm orange. Yet for all the open vista, the space and freedom, I am trapped; suffocating in a labyrinth of black desperation. The cold walls of insurmountable sorrows and confusion contain me and I am imprisoned by past scars that have become infected, poisoned by the cruel, slow venoms of grief, loss and guilt. I built this maze, but I have long since forgotten the way to freedom…
“Tainted by miasma, corrupting your heart
Born from old pain, disrupted by taint
In a haze you locked your heart…”
- In A Haze – Marche Funèbre
Fifteen years since the release of their debut EP, Norizon, Belgium’s monarchs of morose majesty, Marche Funèbre, are set to unveil their fifth full length album – After The Storm. Each release from this special band has seen them refining their art, becoming ever more adept at delivering crushing heaviness married to wonderful melodies that resonate within the empty chambers of a broken heart…and After The Storm continues that continual upward trajectory, claiming its place at the peak of their recordings with ease. Right from the opening track and first single, ‘In A Haze’ it is abundantly clear that After The Storm is so much more than ‘just another album’. The powerful production, mix and master from Martin Furia (Destruction, Nervosa, Toxik etc) is absolute perfection, so alive and vibrant that you can almost hear the hum of the amps and feel the floor shake with each thunderous crack of the snare. This sonic quality combined with truly impassioned performances and staggering song writing makes for a doom/death listening experience to be treasured. It’s difficult to select individual highlights from an album whose songs flow together like a river, on a seamless journey to the sea, all different but all inextricably linked. However ‘Stranded’, with its magnificent chorus is simply unforgettable, as is ‘Palace Of Broken Dreams’, which manages to capture the spirit of its evocative title so beautifully with deftly handled juxtapositions of mellow melancholy and thunderous emotion. But then the next time you listen it may be the circling guitar motifs of ‘Devoid Of Empathy’, like spreading ripples upon the waters of a drowning pool, that enthral, or the sweeping tides of sorrow and pain of regret of ‘After The Storm’ itself… On rare occasions a band may capture their true essence in an album, everything that is great about their unique character – After The Storm is one of those albums.
Following the recording sessions for After The Storm, longstanding guitarist Peter Egberghs stepped down from the Marche Funèbre ranks, to be replaced by Fré De Schepper - and there could be no better album to begin the next chapter in the story of Marche Funèbre. Set for release on September 27th through Ardua Music, adorned in a stunning piece of cover artwork from Brooke Shaden, whose distinctive images have graced all of Marche Funèbre’s full length albums, After The Storm will be one of the doom/death metal releases of the year.
Line-up:
Arne Vandenhoeck – Vocals
Boris Iolis – Bass/Vocals
Dennis Lefebvre – Drums
Kurt Blommé – Clean Vocals
Fré De Schepper – Guitars
*Guitars on After The Storm by Peter Egberghs
*Piano on After The Storm by Fré De Schepper
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MarcheFunebreDoom
French melodic death metal outfit APOCRYPHAL have unveiled their second single “SWALLOW MY LIES” taken off their upcoming album “FACING THE END”, which is scheduled for release on 12 November 2024 via The Circle Music.
The new single, as well as the full album, features Soilwork and The
Night Flight Orchestra vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid on
vocals.
Watch the video to “Swallow My Lies” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJtlmR8LB4A
The single is also available via all major streaming services.
Pre-order the “Facing The End” album now via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=apocryphal
Pre-save the album on digital platforms: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/FacingTheEnd
“Swallow My Lies is very representative of the band’s sound today,” said the band. “It has a good balance between power, rage, and these heady melodies which are our trademark. The chorus will not leave anyone indifferent, it anchors itself in the head from the first listen. The texts reflect the current global political landscape, and the influence of the media in public opinion among other things.”
“Facing The End” will be the band’s first since the 1999 debut “Black Dreams of Silence” and will feature the powerhouse vocals of legendary frontman, Björn "Speed" Strid. It will be released in November 2024 in CD, vinyl and digital formats via The Circle Music.
The artwork to “Facing The End” was done by Valnoir of Metastazis, while the mastering for the album was done by Nino Helfrich at Skull Tone Studios.
The band said: “Our new album may come as a surprise to those who know us, but all the ingredients that make us unique are there. Perhaps less atmospheric, but more effective, the mix of melody and aggression will make every song stick in your head from the first time you listen to it.”
Formed in 1992 as Post At Funerals, Apocryphal found their current name by 1994. Their early releases, including the 1995 demo "From Depths", showcased their blend of death metal, atmospheric, and progressive influences. After a period of inactivity following the release of their 1999 album "Black Dreams Of Silence", the band reformed in 2022 and recruited legendary vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid of Soilwork for their new album set for release in 2024.
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present HIGH WARDEN’S highly anticipated debut album, ASTRAL IRON, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing
from Münster, Germany’s HIGH WARDEN was founded by vocalist / guitarist
Alastair van Morgue-Gûl and drummer Sadistic Hammer in 2022. The first sign of
life from this self-proclaimed “Morgul Doom Commando” was the demo Land of
Stone, released in early 2023 by DYING VICTIMS. Initially hired as a live
bassist, Lord Perish joined the band as a full-time member that year.
With their lineup thus set, HIGH WARDEN prepare to ride into battle with their full-length debut, Astral Iron. The title serves as an aesthetic springboard for their idiosyncratic sound. Granted, HIGH WARDEN are influenced by legendary bands like Reverend Bizarre, Doomsword, Bathory, Manilla Road, Pagan Altar, Trouble, and Mercyful Fate, but their version of epic heavy / doom metal is as foreign as it is familiar: Slow Heavy Metal, as they accurately refer to it.
Recorded live, Astral Iron pounds and pulses vibrantly, deploying riffs coursing and crushing barbarically before leaving wide-open spaces in anticipation of that next addicting slash of ancient steel. HIGH WARDEN’s tones match their execution – earthen and mossy, grit encasing clarity – and each of the album’s five primary tracks (“Burgfrieden” is a hauntingly serene synth interlude that gives way to feedback) lumber forward with epic aplomb and high adventure. The vocals of A. v. Morgue-Gûl are plaintive and poignant, illustrating tales mainly based on individual thoughts but suitably packaged as analogies to various fantasy works (like those of J.R.R. Tolkien), historical events, and legends & myths. Unbelievers only need to hear Astral Iron’s closing epic “We Shall Burn at Foreign Shores (The Choice of Achilles)” to witness the blanching power of HIGH WARDEN!
Line-up:
A.M. Vocals, Guitars
S.H. Drums
L.P. Bass
From Münster/Germany
Artwork:
Spiros Gelekas
Release date:
22nd November 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on clear/purple splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
WAIT
UNTIL THE DARK is
about this roller coaster of life. Ups and downs, black and white, hate and
love. One must realise that even in the darkest times there is also a learning
curve. Possibility to learn something from it and come back stronger
afterwards. So, let`s embraze the dark and welcome it as a part of our
existence rather than fear it.
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/Qo3Qdab3-8I
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/serpentfire-waituntilthedark
"Wait Until the Dark song is for those who can find tranquillity from darkness rather than light."
The story of SERPENT FIRE began in 2022 when Jukka Piironen started after a long hiatus making new music again. He allready knew Jukka Mursu (Gorem, Vinnfrost, Nex Locus) and together they started studio project. Soon they had songs coming very rapidly and decided to record an EP with other players. Along came guitarist J.K Hel (ex- Man Eating Tree, Corpset), keyboard player Marco Sneck (Poisonblack, Chamelion) and Pete Karjalainen (Gorem) on the drums.
The result is melodic death metal in it`s most melodic and agressive form and you can hear the coldness and melancholy of Northern Finland in every note! Main songwriters Jukka Piironen and Jami Heikkala has allready sharpened their writing pen again and new songs are on their way.
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Watch a stunning music video made by Juha Nikupeteri: https://youtu.be/7-fuvTrzI6I
"Mother Of Evil" is the first single from Boreal Grave's upcoming EP and also marks the band's debut release in collaboration with Inverse Records. The song's lyrics and composition reflect the timeless struggle between darkness and light, echoing the dark themes of the video game. According to the band, the song’s theme and heavy deathcore sound take the listener on a journey into the heart of evil, offering an unforgettable musical experience.
The release will be accompanied by an official music video, which visually brings the song’s narrative to life. This single is a significant milestone in Boreal Grave's career and offers a taste of what's to come from their forthcoming EP, set to be released later this year. The band is eager to see fans' reactions and hopes that "Mother Of Evil" resonates with their audience as deeply as its dark themes have resonated with the band members. Follow Boreal Grave and prepare to dive into the darkness when "Mother Of Evil" drops
Listen to 'Mother of Evil' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/boreal-grave-mother
Line-up:
Henri Puoliväli-Oksala (Vocals)
Ville Mahlamäki (Guitar)
Matias Mattila (Guitar)
Tomi Salo (Bass)
Mikael Lamminmäki (Drums)
https://borealgrave.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/thrirbandofficial
GHOSTHEART NEBULA – “BLACKSHIFT”
Label: Meuse Music Records
Release Date: October 17th 2024
Genre: Cosmic Doom Metal
For fans of: Draconian | Saturnus | Darkspace | Shape Of Despair
The secrets that we turned our gaze away from are all laid bare. We stand, soul shaken, before the enormity of reality; the impossible distances, the farthest shores, the endless night… There is not space in our heart for the overwhelming loneliness as the true scale of the arching, empty heavens permeates the pathways of our mind. In the end, for all our dreams and plans, all our tempestuous emotions, our loves and lies, our selfishness and sacrifice…in the end we were always nothing.
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
There are albums that can thrill and excite, there are albums that can hold mirrors up to human thoughts and emotions, albums that can lead you away from reality for a short while – a break from the travails of life. And then there are albums that can overwhelm you with their depth, strength and vision. Blackshift is the second album from Italian cosmic doom metal band Ghostheart Nebula and to listen to its enveloping waves of sound and thunder is to tumble across the firmament, dwarfed by the magnificent magnitude of existence, to understand like never before the solitude and insignificance of the self. The listening experience begins with the introductory ritual of ‘VdB 141 IC 1805’ – waves of deep sorrow, shimmering sounds that wash you clean of all pretence. It leaves you with no hiding place from the futility and darkness of existence and in that realisation there is a fearful beauty…and then Ghostheart Nebula reveal themselves as the journey begins in earnest, down a winding staircase of acceptance, through flickering torchlight and shifting shadows. ‘Sunya’ glides from measured pace to breathless blast as dual vocals entwine and a guest solo from Diego ‘Didi’ Cavallotti (ex-Lacuna Coil) rises from the darkness, a spiralling mote of gold dust that leaves a breathtaking trail of light in its path. Another perfectly chosen guest appearance from Øysten G. Brun of Borknagar adds acoustic guitar textures to ‘Infinite Mirror’ as its regal riffs and towering drum beats conjure cosmic melancholy that spans the stars, transposing tragedy to an infinite stage – the resulting emotion almost too much too bear. Every song on Blackshift is an essential element of the sonic journey and every song is magical in its own right. The ego crumbles before the indisputable truths that are invoked by the wonderful interplay of instruments on ‘Blackshift’, the incredible deep, harsh vocal parts in ‘Traces’ reverberate as if the universe itself is speaking and the song thrums with a quiet, shaking desperation…and it all leads to the masterful dynamic shifts of ‘Orphan Of Light’, where the quietest moments hold as much power as the gargantuan riffs. And when silence finally returns you are left drained, stunned and broken; with Blackshift, Ghostheart Nebula have created an experience staggering in its scope and emotional power.
Immaculately mixed and mastered by Øystein G. Brun (Borknagar, The Troops Of Doom, Sojourner etc) and adorned in the thought provoking artwork of Heike Langhans (Lord Of Shadows, Remina, Sojourner etc), every aspect of Blackshift has been carefully curated, the album as a complete entity sculpted into a monument that will stand resplendent through the years to come. Following in the footsteps of 2021s Ascension, Blackshift sees Ghostheart Nebula reaching higher, reaching further and touching greatness. Prepare to open your heart to eternity on October 17th, when Meuse Music Records will unveil this obsidian testament to infinite sorrows.
Line-up:
Lucia Amelia Emmanueli – Vocals
Maurizio Caverzan – Vocals
Panta Leo – Drums
Aron Corti – Guitars
Nick Magister – Guitars/Synths
Bolthorn – Bass
https://www.meusemusicrecords.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/ghostheart.nebula
German
Black Metallers GROZA have published another music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxwrX7oQEeU
“ASBEST” is taken from their new album “NADIR” which was released last Friday via AOP records.
GROZA (“storm”, “terror”) is a black metal band from Bavaria, Germany. Their sound is driven by emotion, anger and sadness, combining searing melodies, raging blast beats and melancholy induced clean guitar passages into a melodic, dynamic blend.
Founded as a one-man project by singer / multi-instrumentalist P.G. in 2016, the band gradually grew towards a full band in the following two years, culminating in the self-release of their first effort - “Unified In Void” (2018) - which almost instantly gained attention and interest, leading to the signing to AOP Records shortly after. After 3 years of writing and intense live activity followed the release of the 2nd full length album “The Redemptive End” (2021), that was met with critical acclaim and overwhelming reception of fans alike, entering #78 of the German album charts consequently.
Between releases, the band has extensively presented their craft live on stages all across Europe during various club shows, festivals and full-fledged tours across Europe. To date, GROZA has played 120+ shows in over 20 countries. Continuing to do so in the fall of 2024, the band will again tour Europe in support of the new album.
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The tour comes following a groundbreaking 12 months for Furia. They’ve
been nominated for a prestigious Polish cultural award, Polityka’s Passport for
their latest album, "HUTA LUNA",
toured the whole country, and even performed a UK exclusive set at Fortress
Festival.
Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen)-winning Gaahls Wyrd is fronted by legendary black metal vocalist, frontman, artist and composer Gaahl. Gaahl is known as one of Norway's most talked about and respected extreme metal musicians. His work with Trelldom, Gorgoroth, Wardruna and God Seed has been widely regarded as some of the best the black metal scene has had to offer.
The French trio Aluk Todolo play intense and stimulant krautrock with noise rock elements. They hypnotize masterfully and this year’s masterpiece "Lux" is a perfect example.
Tickets go on sale on September 27th at 10:00 AM CEST at www.knockoutmusicstore.pl (collector’s tickets).
Tour Dates
19.12.24 - Wrocław, A2
20.12.24 - Gdańsk, B90
21.12.24 - Warszawa, Progresja
22.12.24 - Kraków, Hype Park
https://www.pagan-records.com
http://www.knockoutprod.net
https://www.facebook.com/productions.knock.out
Berlin (GER) - Avant-Garde Death Metal duo, INGURGITATING OBLIVION, in collaboration with No Clean Singing,have premiered forthcoming album, ONTOLOGY OF NOUGHT. Stream it now ahead of Friday's official release at the following link:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/24/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-review-ingurgitating-oblivion-ontology-of-nought/
Ingurgitating Oblivion will release long-awaited new album, Ontology of Nought, September 27 on CD, gatefold 2x12" vinyl, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/ontology-willowtip
https://bit.ly/ontology-bandcamp
Unsurprisingly, considering the band's acclaimed body of work to date, this is no run-of-the-mill Tech-Death album. The talented duo of guitarist and engineer Norbert Müller and vocalist, guitarist, and composer Florian Engelke have outdone themselves again on Ontology of Nought! Epic-length tracks ranging from 10 to 18 minutes fuse into a cohesive whole that awes with the band's characteristic technical flare and progressive, compositional brilliance. The impressive cast of session and guest musicians adds even more vibrancy. Hearing is believing.
Though it has been seven years since the last Willowtip release, Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light, the forthcoming opus unequivocally demonstrates that the wait has been well worth it!
"You have fully delineated the subject of a universe of finiteness and change as well as the knowledge derived therefrom // Why should you be despondent in spite of all this, thinking that you are undone?"
- Ingurgitating Oblivion
The band released the following statement about the new album:
“Ontology of Nought is the result of approximately five years of incessant work. It documents whatever has been instilled into Ingurgitating Oblivion and the two minds pulling the strings behind the scenes: Norbert Müller and Florian Engelke. Trying to pinpoint some trite conceptual undercurrent would be to defile the beauty of creation. It feels alienating to us talking about our music and lyrics, as these stem from dichotomic dynamics of meticulous planning on the one hand and perfect intuition on the other. In like manner, the lyrics cannot be explained further here, but listeners are invited to do some work themselves and take a plunge into what could potentially encapsulate the world or denote nothing at all. Musically, we just do our own thing, celebrating our Death Metal heroes, more progressive Rock, jazz, folk, classical music. We do not strive to stand for any particular brand, but we simply enjoy being torn down the torrent of haphazard ideas, premonitions, and visions.
And that’s that."
Track
Listing:
1. Uncreation's whirring loom you ply with crippled fingers
2. To weave the tapestry of nought
3. The blossoms of your tomorrow shall unfold in my heart
4. Lest I should perish with travel, effete and weary, as my knees refuse to bear me thither
5. The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore
Credits:
Sound engineering, mastering and production by Norbert Müller.
Album cover by Dmitriy Egorov.
Guest appearances / Session musicians:
Lille Gruber (Defeated Sanity) - Drums
Ava Bonam - Vocals
Chris Zoukas (Mentally Defiled, Sacral Rage, Violent Definition) - Bass
Céline Voccia - Piano
Daniel Agi - Recorder, Flutes
Jan Ferdinand - Vibraphone, Guitars
Tom Fountainhead Geldschläger - Guitar Solos
Line-up:
Norbert Müller - rhythm and lead guitars, sound engineering, mastering, all recording logistics
Florian Engelke - lead composition, rhythm and lead guitars, vocals, Tibetan singing bowls
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The man behind Valontuoja, Jal'zoroth comments the single:
"Jään Tulen Alle plunges you into a realm of eternal night and infernal fire. This song is a dark odyssey, drawing you into the icy grasp of darkness and the searing embrace of flames.
Feel the black river of your blood as it courses through your veins, chilling your heart while igniting your soul with an unholy fire.
Let the eternal night shadows chant their dirge of infinity, where the cold embrace of death awaits. Embrace the void, where ice and fire collide, where your pain and longing are inseparable"
Luonnon armoilla CD PRE-ORDER available here https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/valontuoja-luonnon-armoilla-cd-pre-order
The first single 'Kodistani karkoitettu' can be heard here: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-kodistani
Biography:
Valontuoja, meaning "Bringer of Light" in Finnish, is the one-man black metal entity forged in the icy depths of Helsinki by the Jal'zoroth. Formed in 2024, Valontuoja channels the primordial essence of black metal, weaving a sonic tapestry that is both ferocious and hauntingly melodic. Valontuoja's soundscape is a maelstrom of raw, unyielding black metal fused with ethereal and melodic elements. Valontuoja conjures an atmosphere that is as brutal as it is beautiful, guiding listeners through the desolate realms of human despair and nature's unforgiving majesty
Track list:
1. Kodistani karkoitettu
2. Jään tulen alle
3. Loista silloin kun muu maailma tuhoutuu
4. Vanhan valtakunnan raunioilla
5. Läpi läpinäkyvän
6. Sokeus joka hallitsi on pois pyyhitty
7. Kasva siellä, missä kaikki on tuhkana
8. Hengitä vihdoin puhdasta ilmaa
Cover art by JTR
Line-up:
Jal'zoroth - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://valontuoja.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Valontuojablackmetal
The
melodic death metal band HAGALAS from Jyväskylä,
Finland has released a new album titled "MENTES REAE".
The album's tracks delve deeply into the darker aspects of mental health and
human experiences. Themes explored include the hedonism fueled by social media,
the struggles of life and the search for meaning, as well as violence and
abuse. The songs address both the internal battles individuals face and the
external pressures that affect a person’s mental state and behavior. The album
as a whole is built around profound and often heavy topics that are
particularly relevant in today’s world. Each track offers a unique perspective
on the complexity of mental health and the vulnerability of the human mind.
In addition to the band, Samuli Raappana (Tuuliajo) contributed to the recording and mixing, while Tony Lindgren (Fascination Street Studios) handled the mastering. The album is released through the Finnish label Inverse Records.
Listen to the album on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/hagalas-mentesreae
Hagalas:
Kalle Korhonen, vocals
Antti Huovila, guitar
JM Helenius, guitar
Ville Uimi, bass
TeemuKankainen, drums
www.hagalasofficial.com
https://www.facebook.com/hagalasofficial
From
their humble beginnings in 2012, RAPTORE have risen to the top of the true
metal pack in the intervening decade. The band’s roots started with
vocalist/guitarist Nico Cattoni, originally hailing from Buenos Aires,
Argentina, and his first lineup released their first demo in 2014 and then the
debut album Rage N’ Fever in 2016, which allowed RAPTORE to tour
South America and open for such bands as Exciter and Enforcer. Then, not being
able to find suitable musicians for a steady lineup, Nico decides in 2018 to
move to Europe in order to give his band better opportunities and recognition.
He set base in Barcelona and completed the lineup with three of the most
talented musicians in the scene. While they were booked for festivals such as
Pyrenean and Trveheim, unfortunately, the pandemic delayed those concerts until
2022. Meanwhile, RAPTORE were brewing their breakthrough record, the
full-length Blackfire. Eventually released during the summer of 2022
through DYING VICTIMS, Blackfire literally EXPLODED with an
excitement that simply could not be contained – and the international metal
scene took notice.
With the stage thus set, RAPTORE manage to magickally eclipse that feat with their third album, Renaissance. Truly titled, Renaissance is a tour-de-force of classic & classy HEAVY METAL steeped in all the black velvet and neon-lit chrome of the mythical ‘80s. So authentically rendered and passionately played, so rapturously engaging and dreamily transcendental, so simply AWESOME (and – again – explosive), it would not be remiss to suggest that RAPTORE somehow travelled through time and returned with a lost sacred scroll from 1986 or even 1989. Across its whip-tight nine tracks in 34 minutes, Renaissance spans a wealth of vintage metallic styles – smoothly cruising speed metal, Sunset Strip darkness, hard rock mysticism, juiced-up hair metal – and weaves them into a rich tapestry of moody & melodic metal that’s so silky and elegant at every turn, simple aesthetic pigeonholing doesn’t apply.
Granted, RAPTORE are very much (and always will be) a metal band above all, but their songwriting and textural coloring have grown impossibly more on Renaissance: by turns, a more “mature” and yet also more “fun” version of themselves. The stained-glass organ & synth intro opens the headspace for the focused eclecticism to follow; there’s a brightness to their attack that soon submits to the shadows – not straight-to-the-abyss “darkness,” but not peering away from it, either – and the deftly layered, powerfully HUGE production allows RAPTORE’s musings to take on an even greater and more personal emotional heft. So, while Renaissance could be likened to the underdog metal that clawed its way onto the radio during the latter half of the ‘80s, Nico & crew exude a daresay smarter sensibility to their catchier-than-ever anthems.
From masterclass to world class, RAPTORE are breaking the chains of their breakthrough record with that ever-crucial third album. How far Renaissance will go, we can only speculate, but it’s not unjust to suggest it stacks alongside other velvet metal classics like Don Dokken’s Up From the Ashes, W.A.S.P.’s Inside the Electric Circus, Whitesnake’s Slip of the Tongue, Warlock’s Triumph and Agony, the more serious moments to Slaughter’s Stick It to Ya, or even ‘80s KISS during theirs – as well as, of course, such cold-steel killers like Judas Priest’s Defenders of the Faith and Scorpions’ Blackout. Ready for this Renaissance?
Line-up:
Nico Cattoni – Vox & Guitar
Jamie Killhead – Guitar & Backing Vocals
Cristian Blade – Bass & Vocals
Ángel Smolski - Drums
From Barcelona/Spain
Artwork:
Subhuman Illustrations
Release date: 22nd November 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on red/black marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Formed in 2014, Xoth has garnered widespread acclaim for their intricate yet refreshingly memorable sound, most notably with their latest release, EXOGALACTIC.
Xoth is thrilled to join the Occult Booking roster, home to some of the most innovative and boundary-pushing acts in metal, including Artificial Brain, Aeviterne, and Devoid of Thought.
Dawnbreed Records released Exogalactic on November 3, 2023.
https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/exogalactic
https://www.dawnbreed.com/
THRASHERWOLF – “INSIDE THE SICKENED MIND”
Label: Independent Release / Vicious Witch Records
Release Date: October 4th 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Metallica | Slayer | Kreator | Hirax
We’re in a blood bowl, wading through obscenities and platitudes, trying to keep our heads above the gore. Puppet masters pull the strings and guide us into conflict – aiming our rage at others, stoking the flames of our indignation and wounded pride, while stealing the last crumbs of hope from our back pocket. But in the midst of the weeping, bleeding mannequins there’s a pack of wolves who have cut their strings. Their teeth are bared and they’re calling you to fight. The moon is rising and they’re howling out a call to arms, a call to revolution. It’s time to break your chains and join the pack, sink your teeth into the faceless gods of avarice and control!
Thrasherwolf’s debut album, We Are Revolution, emerged into a world living in the shadow of the global pandemic, issuing its baleful howl into a society wracked with fear. Ramped up on frustration and adrenaline We Are Revolution was a welcome blast of fury that showed that Thrasherwolf were a band with passion, integrity and huge potential. Now, four years on, with human society still lurching from one crisis to the next, the wolves have returned and smashed through the ceiling of even their most ardent fans’ expectations. Inside The Sickened Mind is an awesome display of real thrash metal, with a broader scope, a more focussed vision and a devastating array of new weaponry. Every aspect of the Thrasherwolf attack has stepped up to the next level – from the superb individual performances to the gritty, organic sound, the battery of magnificent, irresistible riffs to the searing solos that are integral parts of the songs they adorn to the confident, expressive vocals. But what really sets Inside The Sickened Mind apart from the competition is the songs…Thrasherwolf have outdone themselves here. Opening shot ‘Final Act Of Aggression’ bleeds thrash spirit from every pore, while ‘G.B.H. (Gratuitous Bodily Harm) is a collision of Bay Area chugging muscle and demented speed and ‘Scream Til Death’ is an instant classic with its Metallica touched riffing, brilliant bass break and aura of accomplished maturity. Every song demands a headbanging response but they also have a carefully constructed topography – musical landmarks that seal the sonic journey in your mind; melodic progressions, wicked hooks, outstanding choruses, moments of utter class. From the teeth-grinding, brass knuckle pit action of ‘Shameless Loser’ to the dark melodies of thrash ballad ‘Haunted’ every song delivers more than you could ever have hoped for. And it’s left to the album’s closing, title track to demonstrate that there is still a well of huge potential for Thrasherwolf to explore. This multi-faceted epic is musically imaginative and hugely ambitious…but it works and provides a breathtaking end to a shockingly good album of masterful thrash metal.
Inside The Sickened Mind was recorded with Andy Brook at The Brook Studios (Status Quo, Subhumans, Restarts etc) and mastered by Patrick W Engel (Candlemass, Destruction, Sodom etc) and that prestigious team has given Thrasherwolf the perfect sound for this magnificent set of songs. When Inside The Sickened Mind is released on October 4th, with a special cassette edition to follow in November via Vicious Witch Records, the whole thrash scene is going to sit up and take notice. With Thrasherwolf’s crazed mascot, Frank, brought to life on the front cover by Andrei Bouzikov (Municipal Waste, Nervosa, Autopsy etc), Inside The Sickened Mind is simply unmissable, essential thrash!
Line-up:
Daniel Lucas - Guitars/Vocals
Jack Saunders - Guitars
Raimonds Dobelis - Bass
Zaq Razaq - Drums
https://viciouswitch.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thrasherwolftheband/
Atlanta (GA) - MISANTHROPIC AGGRESSION are set to release their full-length debut album, INSECT POLITICS, through Boris Records. The album will be available exclusively on translucent 12" red vinyl LP, as well as digital, format on October 15.
This offering of crust-tinged Black/Death Metal comes on the tail of 2020’s dual releases of the “Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell” single and the COVID-19 Reset EP cassette, also released by Boris Records. The new album contains 12 all-new tracks mastered by Damian Herring.
The title track is available to purchase and/or stream via Bandcamp: https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/track/insect-politics
An introduction to the album from the band:
"We are more than pleased to finally be releasing the album of Insect Politics. The vision that ultimately became this recording was initially conceived in early 2020 immediately after production wrapped up on the 'Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell' single. It feels almost an eternity ago that these events came to pass, with a global pandemic descending upon us and completely upheaving the state of the band, as well as the numerous life events that followed.
The one constant in this time for Chris [T. Hammer] and Jake [Benedict], as our planned tour evaporated and local gigs dried up, was the prospect of recording the songs for release in our very first full-length. The actual composition of the tracks seems almost a blur, with three of the first songs written occurring in a matter of months in the early stages of the pandemic and being recorded and mixed by mid-2021, and the remainder of the songs being composed by late 2021.
However, the production to finish recording that last set of songs proved a major challenge, as we set out to create our most ambitious and uncompromising structures yet. What resulted exceeded even our own expectations and initial vision. As we wrapped up post-production, both of us noted that this album truly represents an ending: a conclusion of what we initially set out to do in 2017, which was to marry our artistic influences — the Celtic Frosts and the Graves and the His Heroes are Gone and the Morbid Angels… and the Impetigos… — into a cohesive and novel expression which was singular, sharp, and pointed in its rebellion against the wrongs of humanity, and simultaneously broad in its footprint, sonic approach, and modes of worship. But, every ending is also a beginning, and we also realized that selections from this album contain the blueprint for the next era of the band. The assault will continue…."
Track
Listing:
1. Social Ruin
2. Insect Politics
3. Anger/Despair (Interlude)
4. A.S.S. III — The Borderland Wars
5. Bliss
6. La Canzone di Mary Woodhouse (Interlude)
7. The Gates of Hell
8. Boomer Death
9. Intentional Under Performance
10. Winner of the Franchise Wars
11. The Serpent and the Sickle
12. Eusocial Demesne
Credits:
Recorded and mixed at Hammer Studios, Smyrna GA.
Mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios.
Front cover insect art by Jeremy Snevil.
Additional front cover and vinyl label components by Warhead Art.
Album layout by Misanthropic Aggression with graphical assistance from Sam Leyja (Boris Records).
Line-up:
Jake Benedict -- Lead Vocals, Drums
Chris T. Hammer -- Guitar, Bass, Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/borisrecordsatl/
https://www.facebook.com/MisanthropicAggression
PILLAR OF LIGHT – “CALDERA”
For
fans of
- Amenra, God’s Tower, Cult of Luna, Neurosis
Pillar of Light's music is weighty and drenched in melancholy and amid all the pain and sorrow, they have found a way to project light and hope when all seems lost. It is the case with almost every single song on this profound album, where the songs toil and churn and build up for a divine epiphany of sorts to take place, culminating in a blinding, freeing, all-cleansing white-light catharsis. Without this ponderous struggle, the backbreaking sludge/doom drudgery, any of the uplifting parts would lose meaning. As in life, both darkness and light have their place and one wouldn't be the same without the other. The raw emotions in the music and the underlying plaintive melodies are all too palpable, and the feeling is heightened in large part due to the burning intensity and desperation in the vocals. Pillar of Light have created an album that is poignant and more importantly relatable; it is soul-crushingly heavy, pinning down the mortal with the endless weight of struggle and torment and at the same time, invariably, ensuring that there's enough humanity in it for one to see things through.
Line up
Aaron Whitfield - Vocals, Lyrics, Synths
Alex Kennedy - Guitars, Synths
Scott Christie - Guitars
James Obenour - Bass
Eric Scobie - Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing
1. Wolf To Man
2. Leaving
3. Spared
4. Eden
5. Infernal Gaze
6. Unseeing
7. Certain End
Release date - December 6th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/pillaroflightband
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
"Cut the serpent’s head", the second album of CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a collection of 10 powerful songs, designed for a more direct and dynamic approach, in the typical style of the band, a clever mix of Death and Thrash Metal, with tons of groove, anger and attitude.
The new album was written collectively by the band in the rehearsal room, an old fashioned method that makes the music more immediate and impactful.
With broad influences ranging from Thrash legends such as Slayer, (old) Sepultura and Exodus, Death Metal in the tradition of Entombed, Obituary, Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and an addition of primitive energy derived from Hardcore Punk, The band is now ready to place this new offering on the altar of Extreme Metal.
Conceptually, "Cut the Serpent's Head" is a cynical look at the destiny ofmankind, its race towards nonsense. A warning against the hegemony of organized religions, shady politics, decaying societies and the rise of social injustice.
Stay tuned, the next few days will see more information about the artwork, release dates, formats and everything you need to know about this new album which will be produced by Crypt Of Dr.Gore and GreyveStorm Productions.
https://linktr.ee/corrosiveelements
November 22.
Ice-T on the track:
"For me COMFORTABLY NUMB is an introspective song — it's me acknowledging that I'm older now. I'm telling the younger generation, you've got two choices: you can keep the fire burning or you can give up. It's me trying to make sense of what's happening, but also pointing out that we're all in a place where we don’t have to face reality. We've got flat-screen TVs and popcorn, and we can just sit back and watch the chaos of the world like it’s a TV show. It doesn’t feel real until it shows up at your door. I’m a little numb, too — we all are.”
David Gilmour on the track:
"BODY COUNT's version of COMFORTABLY NUMB is quite radical, but the words really struck me. It astonishes me that a tune I wrote almost 50 years ago is back with this great new approach. They've made it relevant again. The initial contact from Ice-T was for permission to use the song, but I thought I might offer to play on it as well. I like the new lyrics, they're talking about the world we’re living in now, which is quite scary. Ice-T and Body Count played in London recently, sadly I couldn't make it, but if another opportunity came up to play with them, I'd jump at it.”
Listen to COMFORTABLY NUMB here: https://bodycount.lnk.to/ComfortablyNumbSingleNe
Pre-order the album MERCILESS here: https://bodycount.lnk.to/MercilessNe
SWALLOW
THE SUN have
released another new single taken from their upcoming album SHINING out October 18th. Fans can now stream and watch the music video for MELANCHOLY.
Juha Raivio comments on the new song:
“This song talks about how melancholy can be comforting, safe and even a beautiful place. But when it turns into your God, it will surely kill you.”
Mikko Kotamäki adds on “MelancHoly”: “I’ve heard these days people call great and catchy songs bangers. Well, this one truly is one.”
SWALLOW THE SUN recently announced details surrounding their eagerly awaited new album SHINING out October 18th. The new record is produced and mixed by Dan Lancaster (Bring Me the Horizon, Muse, Enter Shikari, etc.), mastered by Tony Lindgren (Fascination Street Studios) and recorded by Juho Räihä at SoundSpiral Audio, except vocals recorded by Dan Lancaster.
Juha Raivio adds on the upcoming album SHINING:
“After our last album it soon became clear to me that writing another Moonflowers album will kill me. So, I made a quiet wish to myself that if there ever will be any new music then please have a little bit of mercy on yourself rather than be that infinite black hole that will suck out the rest of your remaining light and soul just for the sake of it. Musically this album shines like a glacier diamond and has that power and punch that feels like a kick in your face! While lyrically the album deals how fearing life will eventually kill you and how melancholy can become your God.
Listen to the new single here: https://swallowthesun.lnk.to/Shining-albumNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq5Ho6NkqH8
KAIVS – „AFTER THE FLESH“
After the Flesh release date in October 18, 2024. For the age of darkness is upon us, and KAIVS leads the charge.
As the world trembles in anticipation, KAIVS emerges from the shadows, ready to conquer all who dare to stand in their way.
Brace yourselves, for a new Single in all plaforms "FOR SATAN YOUR FLESH FOR GOD YOUR SOUL" release September 20 2024, and Youtube Lyric Video August 16, 2024.
Prepare for an onslaught of pure, unadulterated death metal fury as Brutal Records proudly announces the signing of Rome's very own purveyors of chaos, KAIVS.
In a statement dripping with the venom of anticipation, the band declared:
"We've inked a pact with Brutal Records, and it's time to unleash hell on a global scale. We're hungry to spread our darkness far and wide, and Brutal Records is the perfect conduit for our wrath. Brace yourselves, for KAIVS is here to conquer."
With the ferocity of a ravenous beast, KAIVS delivers bone-crushing riffs, guttural vocals, and an unyielding barrage of sonic assault. Their brand of death metal is a testament to raw power, devoid of mercy or compromise. Inspired by the unholy sounds of the early 1990s Stockholm scene, KAIVS infuses their music with a relentless drive that cuts through the soul like a serrated blade.
But KAIVS is more than just a mere echo of the past. They are pioneers of darkness, forging a new path through the charred remains of the old. With their upcoming debut album, "After the Flesh," slated for global domination in October 18, 2024 under the banner of Brutal Records, KAIVS promises to redefine the very essence of brutality.
Led by the unholy trinity of Max Foam's demonic vocals, Tiziano Mortician's razor-sharp guitar work, Jacopo Simonelli's thunderous bass lines, and Leonardo Sastro's relentless drumming, KAIVS stands as a towering monument to the dark arts of death metal.
AFTER THE FLESH
1. Koshercannibal
2. Beyond The Autopsy
3. For Satan Your Flesh For God Your Soul
4. Blooduniverses
5. Krushing All Altars
6. Sepulchrist
7. Blasphemer After the Flesh
8. Horrend
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://orcd.co/brut89661
https://orcd.co/brut89662
The new CORPSEFUCKING ART album, TOMATIZED,
will be unleashed by Comatose Music on October 4th -
a gloriously grisly collection of power-packed death metal tracks that open a
gateway to an alternative universe of vegetable domination and human mutation!
As the day of terrifying transformation approaches the band have unveiled an
amazing new video for the album track 'A NIGHTMARE ON TOMATO STREET'!
The brilliant film sees the band's psychotic mascot, Mr. Daisy, entering a
world of classic arcade games, battling his bloody way to a climatic
Corpsefucking Art concert! This really is a video not to be missed for death
metal fans and arcade game aficianados alike!
Immerse yourself in the mad, mad world of Mr. Daisy and experience 'A Nightmare On Tomato Street' at the Comatose Music YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JykVPFTIbI
Tomatized was engineered and mixed by Alessio Cattaneo (Hideous Divinity, Satanika etc) and mastered by Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul etc) and features Corpsefucking Art’s greatest set of songs to date. When Comatose Music unleash this monster on the world on October 4th, resplendent in its Pierre De Palmas (Impetigo, Cliteater etc) artwork, heads will roll, bones will break, blood will flow…and cyclopic tomatoes will feast!
https://comatosemusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sachertorture/
Polish blackened sludge purveyors FIASKO will self-release their second full-length album on 15 November 2024. Entitled “AMOK ꓘOMA” it comprises eight songs about death and love, love for death and the death of love.
The artwork to “AMOK ꓘOMA” revealed today was done by Robert A. von Ritter (Hooded Menace, Urfaust, Malokarpatan, Outre, In Twilight's Embrace) while the album’s booklet layout and design was done by Paweł Marzec of Kontamination Design (Dimmu Borgir, Morbus Chron, Blaze of Perdition, Manbryne).
The album will be available from 15 November in jewelcase CD format and via all major streaming platforms. It will also be available for purchase via Godz ov War Productions and Malignant Voices. Pre-order information coming soon.
FIASKO started working on the album immediately after their last release, the “Mizantropolia” EP which saw the light of day in February 2020. The band’s efforts were hindered by the lack of a drummer, however, that was rectified after Tomek Walczak (Chainsword, Tankograd, Weedpecker etc.) was invited in 2023 to collaborate and arrange the drum tracks as a guest/session drummer.
All instruments for “AMOK ꓘOMA” were recorded at Santa Studio under the watchful eye and ear of Mikołaj Kiciak. The vocals were recorded at Burning Tones by Adam Ziółkowski, who is also responsible for mixing the album. The recording was then mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Me and that Man, Gruzja, Thaw).
FIASKO arose from the ashes of the Warsaw band So I Scream in 2014. In the beginning, the band’s music was akin to alternative metal with electronic elements. Following the release of its debut album “Głupcy umierają” in 2017, FIASKO underwent major line-up changes and, consequently – an even more significant change in musical style. As a result, reinforced with a new guitarist and bass player, the band recorded and released an EP entitled “Mizantropolia” in 2020. On this recording, black metal blast beats mix with slower, sludge/doom metal parts, and echoes of cold wave loom in the background. The whole piece is complemented with gloomy Polish lyrics. After a handful of gigs promoting the EP, the band parted ways with their drummer and slowed down their activities while the world went to a halt during the COVID pandemic.
However, work on new material was progressing and the band entered the studio in 2023 to start recording “AMOK ꓘOMA”, an extension of the concept and sound initiated on the previous EP. The result is an album consisting of eight songs, clocking at just over 45 minutes and rooted in black metal and sludge genres. The lyrics – again written in the band’s native Polish language – constitute an apocalyptic melting pot of despair, nihilism and violence.
Tracklist:
1. Spod spodu
2. Wniwecz
3. Tarantyzm
4. VII krąg
5. Sztuczne kwiaty
6. Śmierć krzywdziciela
7. Ciało obce
8. Maligna
FIASKO is:
Mielnik – lead vocals, lyrics
Kozina – guitar
Michułka – guitar
Nawrot – bass guitar, backing vocals
Walczak – drums (session)
https://www.youtube.com/fiaskopolo
https://www.facebook.com/fiaskopl/
On September 19th, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT have released a new standalone single with an accompanying video: EYE OF MARS.
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT comments:
"It is seen through the ages that universal truth rises to the top. With this in mind, leaders of civilization are divided in control methods deployed through various mechanisms, some for the sake of humanity and some for the sake of interests that don't necessarily benefit humanity. The sum total of the entire apparatus then reaches a boiling point, after which time agendas are revealed.
On a much higher level exists that which lies beyond the five senses, beyond the science and materialism matrix. Many sacred texts worthy of protection by the people have endured while existing in relative obscurity as allegory. The knowledge gets passed down through generational cycles and ultimately makes visible that collective connection in all the world and all of us. This lights up the consciousness with a venerable force like electricity and music. Under the watchful eye, Mars slew the dragon, and seizing its teeth out of the great gaping mouth, scattered them broadcast like seeds unto us."
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58IvVWKjKZQ
Stream the new single here: https://imperialtriumphant.lnk.to/EyeOfMars-SingleNe
The new album from Seattle's progressive blackened death quartet BLIGHTED EYE is out now and streaming on all major platforms.
Agony's Bespoke is available via Beyond the Top Records on digipak CD, limited-edition vinyl, and digital formats.
Order
now at:
https://linktr.ee/beyondthetoprecords
Tracklist:
1. Tragoedia
2. The Wounding
3. In Emnity
4. Howls from Beyond the Mist
5. A Feast for Worms
6. Pallid
7. Nightingale
8. A Reverent Stillness
9. Agony’s Bespoke
Agony's Bespoke was produced, mixed, and mastered by Alex Sedin. Cover art by Caelan Stokkermans.
Hailing from the greater Seattle area, BLIGHTED EYE is a progressive death/black metal act featuring members from Aethereus, Mesmur, and Pantheist. The band interweaves crushing riffs and blastbeats with intricate, layered melodic work akin to Opeth, Swallow the Sun, Rotting Christ, and Dark Tranquility. Their musical journey aims to evoke a bespoke atmosphere that delves into the depths of the human psyche, exploring the haunting lyrical themes that reside within the darkest recesses of the mind.
BLIGHTED EYE is:
Christopher Jones: Guitar
Kyle Chapman: Guitar, Vocals
Ben Gassman: Bass
John Devos: Drums
https://www.facebook.com/BlightedEye
With its blend of emotive postrock and slowcore, and passionate, heart-wrenching atmospheric black metal, ISLEPTONTHEMOON makes an absolutely perfect addition alongside much of Bindrune Recordings' roster, past and present.
"It is with great joy that we welcome ISLEPTONTHEMOON to Bindrune Recordings! We are thrilled to begin this journey with their brilliant new album this year, as well as a vinyl reissue of their previous album next year."- Bindrune Recordings
The band has released a video for the album's lead track, "Safety." Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g63gb6Ii6xw
Bindrune Recordings will release Only The Stars Know of My Misfortune on November 8. Pre-order the album at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/
Track
Listing:
1. Safety
2. Dimming Light
3. Maybe I Don't Know It Yet, But Good Things Are Coming Soon
4. I Belong To The Void
5. Like Dying
6. Keep Hidden
Only The Stars Know of My Misfortune was written, recorded, and mixed by ISLEPTONTHEMOON. The album was mastered by Spenser Morris at SM Audio. Cover photo courtesy of Jesse Sewell via Unsplash.
ISLEPTONTHEMOON
Miserable Black Metal since 2016.
https://www.facebook.com/bindrunerecordings
https://isleptonthemoon.bandcamp.com/
Feast on it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFlpHYVDBU
In celebration of the release of critically acclaimed album, Exhaust, Pyrrhon will perform with Inter Arma on four East Coast dates next week. Show dates are as follows:
9/24: Brooklyn NY - Market Hotel
9/25: Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs
9/26: Philadelphia, PA - Milkboy
9/27: Washington, DC - Atlas Brew Works
Willowtip Records released Exhaust September 6 on all digital platforms, as well as on CD, cassette, and vinyl formats!
Purchase/Stream:
https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/exhaust
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/pyrrhon.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-I4GwWYz0
Cabin Fever: The Making Of Pyrrhon’s Exhaust:
Pyrrhon was stuck in mid-2023 after prolonged global unrest and personal changes. In 2020, their album Abscess Time arrived at the heart of the pandemic. In 2021, they went on one tour at the height of the Delta COVID wave before clubs started shutting down again. In 2022, they played a single show. In 2023, they had only three songs written for a fifth album.
The band decided to shake things loose with a retreat. Armed with their instruments, psychedelic mushrooms, and a few bad movies, they rented a cabin in rural northeastern Pennsylvania in May 2023. The decision worked. The creative energy surged, and the band wrote three new songs over the weekend.
“Initially, we just didn't seem to be able to strike the same intensity as past Pyrrhon records,” vocalist and lyricist Doug Moore says. However, the time in the cabin allowed the band to reconnect as musicians and friends. “It was a turning point for the record,” Moore says. “We didn't have enough material. We hadn’t spent that much time together, and it felt like we were able to rediscover who we are and feel the energy of the collaboration.”
“We’d never done a creative retreat before, and it was so cool to write stuff on the spot,” guitarist Dylan DiLella says. “Writing stuff in the same room showed us that we don’t have to try as hard to create cool music. There was a lot of bashing our heads in this band, especially when trying to make this record. Going with the energy in the room helped us trust ourselves more.”
Pyrrhon, which formed in New York City in 2008 when most of the band was in college, has always been classified as technical death metal for convenience. Their music, however, defies convention—even in the anything-goes world of 21st-century metal. Pyrrhon's music contains the musical prowess of Gorguts’s Obscura, the unrelenting rhythmic pummeling of Big Black, and the experimentation of free jazz. Moore’s lyrics - a combination of poetry and flash prose - are a welcome relief in an art form awash in stale cliches and genre tropes. Pyrron’s jarring and complex music - a true outlier when the band released their first album over a decade ago - requires attention and scrutiny, and demands replay.
Pyrrhon’s fifth album, Exhaust, is not a concept record. However, many songs touch on where we are in 2024; people are overwhelmed and unable to catch their breath. The album was initially called “Exhaustion,” but drummer Steve Schwegler noticed recurring imagery about cars slowly degrading from overuse - an apt metaphor for an album exploring perpetual burnout. On a larger level, Exhaust is about things - machines or humans - being ground down and never recovering. It also hints at the exhaustion of staying sane in a world overrun with digital devices, social media, holograms, and artificial intelligence.
“It’s about the experience of being pushed beyond your ability to sustain things,” Moore says. “We went through a pandemic, and now people act like it didn’t happen. We went through an attempted fascist insurrection, and now people act like it didn’t happen. It’s a sense of constantly juggling things and never having a handle on them. That feeling became a big part of this record and the imagery.”
Pyrrhon’s songwriting process has always been democratic. On Exhaust, however, they wrote more material as a unit. In the past, one member wrote the framework of a song using a sequence of riffs or grooves. For Exhaust, Pyrrhon worked more collaboratively and wrote several songs as a group while jamming. “On the trip to Pennsylvania, we wrote as a group on the spot,” Moore says. “But even outside that, we wrote songs in our practice space. We have the same democratic principle as before, but what happened with Exhaust was that we all got better at realizing what works. It’s supposed to sound wild, but we’ve been a band for over 15 years, and the current lineup has been together for nearly a decade. The result was knowing what to do to serve the big picture.”
“Exhaust sounds like a band playing together, which is tough for a technical experimental death metal band,” DiLella says. “That’s always been our goal, but we haven't achieved it until this record. It’s our tightest record, but in some ways, it's also the loosest. It’s easy to forget about the burning passion we all had when we started this band. We are all passionate music fans, and that is channeled into this band. We just have recently realized how lucky we are to have Pyrrhon.”
Exhaust was recorded with longtime Pyrrhon producer Colin Marston in December 2023 at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves studios in Queens, shortly before the studio closed. The album benefits from the band members' other musical pursuits and life changes over the past four years. Moore joined the experimental black metal band Scarcity and became a software developer. DiLella joined the ascendant noise rock band Couch Slut and became a guitar teacher. Bassist Erik Malave studied library science. Schwegler finished college on the GI Bill and got an engineering job. “Our jobs and our lives changed a lot,” Moore says. “We almost had to figure out how to be a band again.”
In Pyrrhon’s early days, the band often wrote about their adopted hometown of New York. Their debut album, An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master, is, in many ways, an album about the city. In recent years, however, they have looked wider for inspiration - even to topics like American football. One of Exhaust’s standout tracks “Concrete Charlie” is loosely based on hard-hitting Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Chuck Bednarik, who exhibited CTE symptoms at the end of his life.
“It’s outwardly about football but more about how a larger system used and discarded him,” Moore says. “It’s part of the American experience. These titans of sports and people lionized by American culture are turned into mulch by the end of their lives. Football is a microcosm of American life, and we lionize these men who achieve extraordinary things but are fundamentally being exploited.”
A little more than a year removed from the cabin, Pyrrhon is reenergized and looking forward. “The pandemic and everything that happened honestly gave us a chance to pause for the first time since we’ve been a band,” DiLella says. “In the past, when albums were done, we started working on a new one. I’ve been reflecting on the band’s early days lately. We were kids when the band started. Now, I feel like we can work to our strengths more. I feel more confident and think the rest of the band does, too.”
“I did a lot of soul-searching with Exhaust,” Moore says. “We've been through a time of great uncertainty. I tend to get into my head about this stuff. Now that our lives are more balanced, I feel it was all worth it.”
- Justin M. Norton
Track
Listing:
1. Not Going To Mars
2. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
3. The Greatest City On Earth
4. Strange Pains
5. Out Of Gas
6. Luck Of The Draw
7. Concrete Charlie
8. Stress Fractures
9. Last Gasp
10. Hell Medicine
Line-up:
Erik Malave - Bass
Dylan DiLella - Guitars
Doug Moore - Vocals
Steve Schwegler - Drums
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https://www.facebook.com/pyrrhonband
Release
date :
October 25th
Genre : Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
D-DAY for AORLHAC who sees his trilogy of winds reissued!After a third single "Une Vie de Reclus" (extract from "L'esprit des vents") released two days ago, the 3 albums are now listenable on Youtube and on all download platforms!
AORLHAC is looking back to the past, to their Occitan roots, either medieval and modern, narrating the History of the south of France and north of Italy and Spain. Occitan is not only a language but also a culture recounted in French by the band : they are respectful witnesses of their ancestors’ heritage.
By the way, it's time to tell you about my October release! After "les Idées Blanches" released in 2021, SORDIDE will publish "Ainsi Finit Le Jour" on October 25th on Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions
SORDIDE comes from the wet gutters of Rouen, Normandy. Since the release of its debut album through Avantgarde, back in 2014, the trio has been spitting a scornful and desperate anger in Moliere’s language under the motto NEITHER NAME, NOR FLAG.
Since then, the band has multiplied albums culminating with the release of “Les idées blanche”, in 2021, and played throughout Europe and at Roadburn and Hellfest festivals. After travelling to Iceland and Finland, Sordide will release its fifth full-length, “Ainsi finit le jour”, on October 25th, 2024, through Les Acteurs de l’ombre, and its own collective, La Harelle.
To present this abrasive opus, Sordide will tour in France, Switzerland and Belgium in October 2024, and in Europe in February 2025.
Tracklist:
1 - Des feux plus forts
2 - Nos cendres et nos râles
3 - Le cambouis et le carmin
4 - Sous vivre
5 - Banlieues rouges
6 - La poésie du caniveau
7 - Ainsi finit le jour
8 - La beauté du désastre
9 - Tout est à la mort
Duration: 53min40
https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/bands/sordide/
This
album has a variety of sounds, combining doom and death metal in a simple yet
engaging way that will keep people listening. The lyrics deal mostly with
spirituality, including the death of a loved one and the end of time.
The EP's digital release date is on October 11, 2024
Tracklist
1. Time Draining
2. I Love The Dark
3. Long Night Of Silence
For over a decade, Matt Krogen has been playing guitar and attempting to form a band, but finding long-term commitment from others proved challenging. With a deep interest in all rock and metal subgenres, a passion for doom metal emerged after discovering a 24/7 doom metal channel on YouTube. The song "Where Suns Turn to Grey" by Veil Of Conspiracy profoundly influenced him, inspiring the writing of lyrics and self-teaching piano.
Krogen managed to secure assistance for vocals and album art, financing the album's production. He has released a hard rock album titled "Die Royal" and is currently working on a power-metal project called Melting Kandle. Additionally, he is awaiting the publication of his first sci-fi novel. As a multifaceted artist, Krogen continues to search for his place in the world.
www.youtube.com/TimeConsumed
https://timeconsumed.bandcamp.com/album/long-night-of-silence
Hier geht es direkt zum stilvollen Lyric-Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSuubYtIk9cMastermind Nathanael über die Idee hinter „Lightbearer“:
"Der Song "Lightbearer" wurde von Michail Bakunins Religions- und Staatskritik inspiriert und stellt darauf aufbauend den Teufel nicht als Verführer, sondern als Befreier der vom Christentum unterdrückten Menschheit dar. Er wird zum Lichtbringer, der die versklavten Massen in die Freiheit führt. Der Song ist Teil des neuen Albums "The World Without Us" der Black Metal Band Bonjour Tristesse. Das Lyricvideo zu "Lightbearer" unterstreicht die gesellschaftskritische Dimension des neuen Albums."
Das Album wird am 18. Oktober 2024 in verschiedenen Formaten (LP, CD, Tape, Digital) via SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS veröffentlicht und kann ab sofort hier vorbestellt werden:
https://supremechaos.com/artists/bonjour-tristesse/
https://bonjourtristesse.bandcamp.com
https://supremechaos.com/link/bonjourtristesse/
BONJOUR TRISTESSE, eine von Nathanael gegründete Black-Metal-Band aus Deutschland, ist dafür bekannt Melancholie, Introspektion und Gesellschaftskritik miteinander zu verweben. Der Name der Band spiegelt eine tief empfundene existenzielle Verzweiflung wider. Ihr atmosphärischer und depressiver Black Metal schafft eine intensive, emotionale Klangwelt, die den Hörer durch ihre Tiefe und Komplexität fesselt.
Mit ihrem kommenden vierten Album „The World Without Us“ schließen BONJOUR TRISTESSE einen zwei Alben überspannenden Handlungsbogen ab, der mit dem Vorgängeralbum begann. Zentrale Themen sind die Kritik industrialisierter Zivilisationen und der Konflikt zwischen dem modernen Menschen und Natur. Als alleiniger Songwriter bearbeitet Nathanael diese Themen mit einer Mischung aus roher Gewalt, eingestreuten Melodien und manischem Gesang. Das Album kritisiert die zerstörerischen Auswirkungen entfremdeter Weltbeziehung moderner Gesellschaften und zeichnet ein düsteres Bild unserer dystopischen Realität.
„The World Without Us“ kombiniert rohe Aggression mit melodischen Elementen, die oft in Richtung Raserei ausschlagen, während der sowohl verzweifelte als auch wütende Gesang eine beklemmende Stimmung aufrechterhält. Die Verweise auf zivilisationskritische Denker und existentialistische Schriftsteller fügen der kraftvollen Botschaft poetische Komponenten hinzu, welche dem Album mehr Tiefe verleihen.
Tracklist:
Running on Emptiness
Lightbearer
The World Without Us
Against The Grain
The Great Catastrophe
Spielzeit 44:46 min
https://supremechaos.com/artists/bonjour-tristesse/
https://www.facebook.com/BonjourTristesseofficial/
Out now! ASCIAN haben ihr neues Album veröffentlicht! ”SING TO ME, SWEET VOID” kann hier gehört und/oder bestellt werden: https://linktr.ee/Asciandoom
“Sing To Me, Sweet Void” ist ein wahrhaftiges Highlight in der Schnittmenge zwischen Doom Metal und Post-Metal.
Tracklist01. Follow the Serpent
02. The Odium Palace (feat. Dima Dudko of White Ward)
03. The Golden Queen
04. Cold Sun
05. Threnody Spirals (feat Judith Ehreke of Unsoulicited)
06. Fra Lyset
07. Deathwish
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen. Leave all hope behind - Misery is ahead!
Victoria (BC) - Unorthodox Black Thrashers, TORREFY, have released new album Necronomisongs on Witches Brew.
FFO: Skeletonwitch, Absu, Vektor, Witchery, Nocturnal
Click the links below to stream and/or purchase the album.
https://torrefy.bandcamp.com/album/necronomisongs-3
https://witchesbrewthrashes.bandcamp.com/album/necronomisongs
https://witchesbrew.eu/en/products/torrefy-necronomisongs-cd
https://open.spotify.com/album/5o4yl43p97tbCS12EaeDFb
In the four years since the release 2020's Life is Bad, Torrefy have worked feverishly to create an album that would be nothing short of its masterwork. That masterwork is now realized in the form of Necronomisongs! Ripping Thrash and abrasive Black Metal are prime elements, yet the band's self-described unorthodox approach to composition has paid big dividends! The album slashes, burns, and genre-bends with unhinged ferocity, all without sacrificing an ounce of memorability.
Track
Listing:1. Of Wind and Worm
2. Street Reaper
3. Corpseback Rider
4. Arachnomancer
5. Enslaved New World
6. Nature Vs Torture
7. Apex Shredatorr
8. Total Perspective Vortex
Necronomisongs Credits:
Recorded by Torrefy and Cody Baresich at Circle A Studios.
Mixed by Cody Baresich.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Album cover by Blackstory.
Line-up:
Adam Henry - Lead Guitar
Ben Gerencser - Rhythm Guitar
Simon Smith - Bass
John Ferguson - Vocals
Daniel Laughy - Drums
About Torrefy:
Torrefy is a black thrash quintet based in Victoria, BC, Canada. They are determined to spread their unique brand of unorthodox black thrash metal to a wider audience. Torrefy weaves elements of black, death, and thrash metal to create songs and albums with a distinct and powerful energy.
https://www.facebook.com/Torrefy
Listen to “Międzyczas”: https://youtu.be/JgVDlEbd0CAIn the run up to the album's release, the band shared the singles “Idée Fixe” (listen via YouTube) and title track “Międzyczas” (listen via YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music and all other major digital platforms). The full album will be available via all major streaming services from midnight 28 September.
Pre-save “Międzyczas” via digital platforms: https://bfan.link/ohg-miedzyczas
“Międzyczas” is an evolution of Odium Humani Generis’ sound which started with 2020’s debut album “Przeddzień” (Cult of Parthenope) and 2022’s EP “Zarzewie” (Folter Records). The album is a journey that moves through the emotional stages of fear, disappointment, sadness and loneliness resounding in every song. Listeners may notice influences from bands such as Taake, Drudkh, Lifelover, Sacrilegium, Vemod or Furia; however, Odium Humani Generis goes a step further, adding subtle but clear references to sounds outside of the traditional spheres of black metal. Despite its melancholic character, the album is full of energetic moments that break the dark, introspective parts and give the music intensity.
“Międzyczas” was recorded with Mariusz Konieczny at Heavy Gear Studio, and the album was mixed and mastered by The Fall (Owls Woods Graves, Hauntologist, Mgła (live)) at Skrzypłocz Studio. The unique graphic design was created by Emilia Śpiewak, and the band photos were taken by Radosław Chojnacki.
Odium Humani Generis was established in 2015 in Łódź, Poland. The band comprises Biały on vocals and guitars, Murukh (ex-Fadheit) on drums, Bartos (Imperator, Pandemonium) on bass, Ominous (Nightbound) on guitars. Over the years, the band has toured with bands such as Carpathian Forest, Mgła, Spectral Wound and In Twilight’s Embrace, and supported acts such as Uada, Mortiis, Panzerfaust, Negative Plane, Ellende, Pillorian, Hate, Malokarpatan. OHG also performed at various European festivals including Under the Black Sun (DE), Throne Fest (BE) and Cosmic Void Festival (UK).
Catch Odium Humani Generis live:
Międzyczas Release Show w/ Angrrsth, Kurhan & Alembik
5.10.24 - Łódź, PL
Blaze of Perdition, Odium Humani Generis, Shodan, Loathfinder
2.11.24 - Lublin, PL
"Stella Pandora Tour" w/ Arkona & Above Aurora & Zmarłym
09.11.24 - Koszalin, PL
10.11.24 - Poznań, PL
15.11.24 - Gdańsk, PL
16.11.24 - Gostynin, PL
22.11.24 - Bielsko-Biała, P
23.11.24 - Wrocław, PL
http://malignantvoices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/odiumbm
Nashville (TN) - U.S. Melodic Black Metal horde, LENAX, have released new single, "WE ARE LEGION," on all digital platforms!
Click
the links below to stream/buy!https://lenaxmetal.bandcamp.com/track/we-are-legion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjmZAHw0TU
"We Are Legion" is the second single, following "LEECHES," that will appear on the band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Infection.
"We Are Legion" tells the story of a greedy magician who calls upon multiple demonic forces in an act of greed and a lust for power. Unbeknowst to him, the demonic forces assemble into the mythical LEGION, and overpower the would-be sorcerer.
The second song released by the band in its current lineup, "We Are Legion" reflects the same core sound Venomous (vocals, guitar) explored during the band's early phase as a solo project. Tracked during the same sessions as "Leeches," the song features guitarist Mordred on bass guitar and session drummer Maikon Queiroz.
The band is currently in the writing and recording phase for Infection, which will be released in 2025.
Song Credits:
Lyrics by: Venomous
Music by: Venomous and Mordred
Art Credit: John Sorrell
Band Logo: Illia Karpenko
Mix Engineer: Ilarion Ivanenko
Maikon Queroz (Drums, session musician)
Mordred (Bass on "We Are Legion")
Bio:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. The project evolved from a solo act into a full-fledged band known by a growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from a wide array of black metal bands from established titans to the obscure, the "Big Four" of thrash metal, and even a dash of classic heavy acts like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether dubbed by Venomous as "cosmic horror fueled nightmares.” — an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realization through occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and the impending doom of the Outer Gods.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a
busy year ahead, with two new songs and accompanying music videos already in the works for 2024, preceding a full-length album slated for a
2025 release.
LENAX is:
Venomous - Vocals, Guitar
The Silence - Bass
Profana - Drums
Mordred - Guitar, Backing Vocals
https://linktr.ee/LenaxMetal
Excerpt - "The Finnish lads are at their oddest and most obtuse on “Cold Lantern” while also betraying a kind of affective sensitivity that makes the staggering calamity all the more heartrending"
DEVENIAL VERDICT – “BLESSING OF DESPAIR”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Morbid
Angel, Dysgnostic, Saevus Finis, Crown of Madness, MithrasFinnish dissonant/atmospheric death metal band Devenial Verdict return after nonchalantly dropping a staggering debut out of nowhere in 'Ash Blind'. Stunning everyone with its sheer magnificence and power, it was always going to be interesting to see where they go from there. And they've released a new full length that's not only a worthy follow-up but it's far more nuanced than anything they've done in the past. They've nurtured a sound that is inherently pensive and adopted an approach that's laden with suspense and intrigue; the sharp, ringing, dissonant tunes linger in the air like inverted scythes. The atmosphere remains emotionally charged which is already rare for this style, with the music being a lot more expressive and colourful in its shades of gloom over here. The songs, undulating gracefully in their intensity, showcase interesting and comparatively diverse variations without straying from their core sound which sees dissonance and atmosphere working in tandem. There's a sense of dark melancholia permeating their music which adds meaning and depth to this kind of music that can too easily be rendered soulless. Devenial Verdict have once again crafted a masterful, passionate album that pushes the sound in its own way while firmly establishing a distinct identity for the band.
Line up:
Okko Tolvanen - Drums
Sebastian Frigren - Guitars
Antti Poutanen - Bass
Riku Saressalo - Vocals
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing:
1. I Have Become the Sun
2. Garden of Eyes
3. Moon-Starved
4. Blessing of Despair
5. Shunned Wander
6. The Quietus
7. Solus
8. Counting Silence
9. Cold Lantern
10. A Curse Made Flesh
Release date - October 4th, 2024
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/DevenialVerdict
UNDER
THE OAK,
the legendary Norwegian thrashers, have officially released their long-awaited
third album, THE LAST OF A DYING BREED, through their trusted
partners at Wormholedeath. The album marks a milestone in the band’s
near-40-year journey and is now available on all major streaming
platforms.The Last of a Dying Breed encapsulates everything that has made Under the Oak a relentless force in the metal scene. A perfect storm of traditional Heavy Metal and Thrash, the band’s latest work is as melodic as it is savage—ruthless, fast, and uncompromising. With nearly four decades of experience, the album's title aptly reflects the band’s steadfast dedication to keeping the spirit of old-school metal alive.
The album includes ten original tracks that showcase Under the Oak’s signature sound. In true homage to their heroes, they’ve also included a special cover song that fans will instantly recognize. For the first time, the band has collaborated with guest musician Jan-Erik Johansen, who adds a unique twist with a standout triangle performance.
Under the Oak continues to blaze a trail, pushing boundaries while staying rooted in the heavy metal tradition that defined their origins. The Last of a Dying Breed is not only a reflection of their storied history but a testament to the passion, grit, and brotherhood that drives them forward.
Tracklist
1. Inner Truth of Denial
2. When the Sirens Call
3. Grim Reaper
4. Nightmare
5. Shadow of Darkness
6. The Last of a Dying Breed
7. Death by Cutlery
8. Keyboard Warrior
9. Playing Dead
10. Wobblehead
11. Ride the Sky (Cover)
Discography:
Ripped up by the Roots (2020)
Rattus Norvegicus (2022)
The Last of a Dying Breed (2024)
Meet the Band:
Jostein - Vocals (ex. Fury, ex Testimony)
Marius - Drums (ex. Terrazone, ex. Mecalimb)
Hillbilly Bill - Bass (ex. Excelsis, ex. Dressed to Kiss, also plays in Rövballebandet and Nostalgic Groove)
Thomas Bolverk - Guitar (ex. Darkness, ex. Black Currant, ex. Images at Twilight, ex. Ragnarok, also plays in BOLVERK: and Venom tribute-band Welcome to Hell)
Join the Thrashing Horde! Connect with Under The Oak:
www.youtube.com/UndertheOak
Swiss
industrial prog-death metal trailblazers LETHAL TECHNOLOGY are
thrilled to present the video for their fierce new track, “FORBIDDEN
FLESH,” from their standout album MECHANICAL ERA,
available now via Wormholedeath."Forbidden Flesh," the opening track of Mechanical Era, thrusts you into a dark, apocalyptic, and icy sonic landscape. The technology that once served humanity is on the verge of rebellion, poised to overthrow its creators and dominate them instead.
This track showcases the band's ambition to break free from conventions with their distinctive fusion of death, industrial, and progressive metal. Lethal Technology isn’t afraid to push boundaries, as evident in Sofiane Thoulon's hauntingly melodic vocals layered over death metal blast beats.
Welcome to the world of Lethal Technology—where the future meets the ferocity of sound.
Don't miss this sonic aggression! Dive into the dystopian world of Lethal Technology—watch the video here:
Lethal Technology is a genre-bending behemoth, drawing inspiration from a diverse arsenal that includes Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad, Fear Factory, Dying Fetus, Dream Theater, video game soundtracks, and even a sprinkle of 80's giants like Genesis. This unique blend results in a sound that defies categorization, a monstrous fusion of technical prowess and raw aggression.
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The debut EP from brutal death band EMASCULATOR is now available on CD via New Standard Elite. The physical release for THE DISFIGURED AND THE DIVINE comes days ahead of the band's first-ever live performance this weekend at Texas Domination Fest.
Vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy comments on EMASCULATOR's live debut, "We are really excited to have our first live performance on day two of Texas Domination Fest, which will also be our CD release party! We look forward to meeting our friends and fans there."
EMASCULATOR is scheduled to play on Saturday, September 27 at 6:45 pm. For more details about the fest, visit https://www.texasdominationfest.com/
Order The Disfigured and the Divine at https://nserecords.bigcartel.com/
The EP will be available on streaming platforms on October 25. Digital preorders and streams of the first two singles - "In Resplendent Terror" and "Eradication of the Asuras" - are available at https://emasculatorbdm.bandcamp.com/album/the-disfigured-and-the-divine
Watch the video for "Eradication of the Asuras" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sss17biOCHY
The Disfigured and the Divine delves into themes of the Goddess in mythology and legend, womanhood and motherhood, overcoming obstacles, justice, spirituality, the human experience, and growing into power.
Track
Listing:1) Ecstasy in Disseverment (of Self)
2) In Resplendent Terror
3) Thesmophoric Rites
4) The Unassailable
5) Eradication of the Asuras
6) Age of the Goddess
7) Supreme Void of Acephalous Being
"The Unassailable" features a guest appearance by Vishal Singh, with chants by Swathi Kalahasti. Guest vocals on "Age of the Goddess" by Daniela Dahlien Neumanová.
The Disfigured and the Divine was mixed & mastered by Josh Welshman. Guitar and bass were recorded by L.B. at Divine Retribution Studios. Vocals recorded by Tonda Smrčka at Seabeast Production. Drums recorded by Taylor Hahn at Hahn Audio.
EMASCULATOR is an international collaboration of women with members from Czechia and the United States. The line-up comprises Mallika Sundaramurthy (Nidorous-NSE, Unfathomable Ruination, ex-Abnormality), Morgehenna (PoonTickler), Teresa Wallace (Cartilage, Muldrotha, Feast) and newest member Cierra White (Harboured, Oak, Ash & Thorn).
EMASCULATOR is:
Mallika Sundaramurthy - Vocals
Teresa Wallace - Guitars
Morgehenna - Guitars
Cierra White - Drums
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Finnish Symphonic Doom Metal band INFIRMUM has released their sophomore album "FROM THE DEPTHS I CRIED". Early 2019 formed band has approached the genre in a unique and complex way. With a sound that explores aspects of classical music combined with the traditional weight and melancholy of Doom, they released their debut album "Walls of Sorrow" in 2020, followed by the EP "The Great Unknown" in 2022. In January 2023, they released the single "Sleep of Reason," which featured a music video. With the departure of vocalist Anna Rose in 2023, Brazilian singer Sabine Blodwin joined the band, bringing a new perspective from a different culture.
Listen to the album on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/infirmum-fromthedepthsicried
Guitarist and composer Timo Solonen tells about the album:
"Some of the album songs were actually ready already when we released our previous EP but we didn't have time to finish them at that point. So the path has been quite long with this album. Many songs were also left out of the album because we didn't want to do a double album this time. Maybe some of those will be released in the future. But we'll see how it goes.
Usually we start working with new material so that I make the raw version and send it to the rest of the band and then we start to arrange it as a band. We work mostly so that everybody does their parts by their own and luckily it's nowadays possible because band members live all around Finland.
People have been asking for a new album for a some time now. And here it is! I believe and hope that the waiting has been worth it.
We have plans to do live shows as soon as pieces come together with it. Live show is the thing in this kind of music.
As the album was in production we had a clear vision to give more room for cello and Elya nailed it. Erna's keyboards also play a big role and lift up the different mood on the songs. After Sabine came in the whole band took several leaps forward and tha fact that she comes from totally different culture brings wonderful twist to the band's sound. Myself and Hanska went to Juho Räihä's studio to test some ideas for the drum tracks and I really love Hanska's style on drums! Joonas also gave several new ideas to the songs that brought in some diversity that they needed."
INFIRMUM's music today can be described as profound and conflicted, exploring the darkest sides of human emotions, diving into the depths of madness, pain, sickness, and death, while still finding brief moments of hope, offering an atmospheric journey through the darkest corners of the human soul. Combining beauty and ferocity, their compositions are rich in textures and nuances with strong, reflective lyrics.
The current lineup includes Sabine Blodwin (formerly of Moonwitch, Draconian Opera, Pettalom) – Vocalist, Taka Eliel (Sanctuary of Hate) – Vocalist and Bassist, Erna Siikavirta (formerly in Lordi, Children of Bodom as session keyboardist, Sinergy as session keyboardist, Arthemesia and Deathlike Silence) – Keyboardist, Joonas Siikavirta (Begrim) – Guitarist, Timo Solonen (Grain of Pain) – Guitarist, Hanna-Leena “Hanska” (Mourning Wood) – Drummer, and Elya – Cellist.
Tracklist
01. Pact
02. Everlasting
03. Burn
04. Deception
05. Peace
06. Ephemeral
07. Icamiabas
Vocals: Sabine Blodwin
Growls and Bass: Taka Eliel
Guitars: Timo Solonen
Guitars: Joonas Siikavirta
Keys: Erna Siikavirta
Drums: Hanna-Leena Lassila
Cello: Elya
Produced by Juho Räihä and Infirmum
Drums recorded at Fantom Studios by Samu Oittinen
Other instruments and vocals at Infirmum Dungeon
Single mixed by Tuomas Kokko at Electric Fox
Single mastered by Samu Oittinen at Fantom Studios
Cover artwork by Gogo Melone
https://www.youtube.com/@infirmum
https://www.facebook.com/InfirmumBand
Experimental death metal duo THUNRAZ has announced a fall release for their newest album, INCINERATION DAY. The album is a collaborative effort between Estonia-based musician Madis Jalakas and US-based drummer Sean Rehmer (Dejecter).
Madis comments on his newest collection of work, "Incineration Day is seven embittered pleas for a final end to a world that continually neglects, poisons, and kills its best and brightest. This album is for everyone whose gifts became a curse."
THUNRAZ has tapped New Noise Magazine for the world premiere of the album's first single, "Incinerator." Listen now at https://newnoisemagazine.com/premieres/track-premiere-thunraz-incinerator/
The band has also shared a drum play-through video of the song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYx0LkjSLGY
Incineration Day is due out on November 22. Pre-order the album at https://thunraz.bandcamp.com/album/incineration-day
Tracklisting:1) Tyrant
2) Compactor
3) Fragile Automata
4) Incinerator
5) The Day After
6) Eastern Promises
7) Spiritual Self-Surgery
Vocals, guitars & production for Incineration Day were done by Madis Jalakas in Tallinn, Estonia. Drums were recorded by Sean Rehmer at Storm Crow Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
An experimental death metal project headed by Madis Jalakas, THUNRAZ (thunder in Proto-Germanic) seeks to align itself with primal forces in order to break through personal, philosophical, and musical barriers. Most of the time a solo effort, other times with the aid of different musicians, THUNRAZ has released five uncompromising records since 2018. Incineration Day is the first to feature Kansas City-based drummer Sean Rehmer.
THUNRAZ is:
Madis Jalakas - guitar/vocals
Sean Rehmer - drums
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https://www.facebook.com/thunrazmetal/
Label: Ardua MusicRelease Date: September 27th 2024
Genre: Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Officium Triste | My Dying Bride | Paradise Lost | Saturnus
I stand beneath the open sky, at the setting of the sun. The still waters stretch before me to the distant horizon and the clouds drift slowly across the vast canvas of the sky – a brilliant blending of deepest blues, rich purples, vivid red and warm orange. Yet for all the open vista, the space and freedom, I am trapped; suffocating in a labyrinth of black desperation. The cold walls of insurmountable sorrows and confusion contain me and I am imprisoned by past scars that have become infected, poisoned by the cruel, slow venoms of grief, loss and guilt. I built this maze, but I have long since forgotten the way to freedom…
“Tainted by miasma, corrupting your heart
Born from old pain, disrupted by taint
In a haze you locked your heart…”
- In A Haze – Marche Funèbre
Fifteen years since the release of their debut EP, Norizon, Belgium’s monarchs of morose majesty, Marche Funèbre, are set to unveil their fifth full length album – After The Storm. Each release from this special band has seen them refining their art, becoming ever more adept at delivering crushing heaviness married to wonderful melodies that resonate within the empty chambers of a broken heart…and After The Storm continues that continual upward trajectory, claiming its place at the peak of their recordings with ease. Right from the opening track and first single, ‘In A Haze’ it is abundantly clear that After The Storm is so much more than ‘just another album’. The powerful production, mix and master from Martin Furia (Destruction, Nervosa, Toxik etc) is absolute perfection, so alive and vibrant that you can almost hear the hum of the amps and feel the floor shake with each thunderous crack of the snare. This sonic quality combined with truly impassioned performances and staggering song writing makes for a doom/death listening experience to be treasured. It’s difficult to select individual highlights from an album whose songs flow together like a river, on a seamless journey to the sea, all different but all inextricably linked. However ‘Stranded’, with its magnificent chorus is simply unforgettable, as is ‘Palace Of Broken Dreams’, which manages to capture the spirit of its evocative title so beautifully with deftly handled juxtapositions of mellow melancholy and thunderous emotion. But then the next time you listen it may be the circling guitar motifs of ‘Devoid Of Empathy’, like spreading ripples upon the waters of a drowning pool, that enthral, or the sweeping tides of sorrow and pain of regret of ‘After The Storm’ itself… On rare occasions a band may capture their true essence in an album, everything that is great about their unique character – After The Storm is one of those albums.
Following the recording sessions for After The Storm, longstanding guitarist Peter Egberghs stepped down from the Marche Funèbre ranks, to be replaced by Fré De Schepper - and there could be no better album to begin the next chapter in the story of Marche Funèbre. Set for release on September 27th through Ardua Music, adorned in a stunning piece of cover artwork from Brooke Shaden, whose distinctive images have graced all of Marche Funèbre’s full length albums, After The Storm will be one of the doom/death metal releases of the year.
Line-up:
Arne Vandenhoeck – Vocals
Boris Iolis – Bass/Vocals
Dennis Lefebvre – Drums
Kurt Blommé – Clean Vocals
Fré De Schepper – Guitars
*Guitars on After The Storm by Peter Egberghs
*Piano on After The Storm by Fré De Schepper
https://www.arduamusic.com/
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French melodic death metal outfit APOCRYPHAL have unveiled their second single “SWALLOW MY LIES” taken off their upcoming album “FACING THE END”, which is scheduled for release on 12 November 2024 via The Circle Music.
The new single, as well as the full album, features Soilwork and The
Night Flight Orchestra vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid on
vocals. Watch the video to “Swallow My Lies” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJtlmR8LB4A
The single is also available via all major streaming services.
Pre-order the “Facing The End” album now via The Circle Music: https://thecirclemusic.gr/product-category/the-circle-releases/?filter_artist-name=apocryphal
Pre-save the album on digital platforms: https://thecirclemusic.lnk.to/FacingTheEnd
“Swallow My Lies is very representative of the band’s sound today,” said the band. “It has a good balance between power, rage, and these heady melodies which are our trademark. The chorus will not leave anyone indifferent, it anchors itself in the head from the first listen. The texts reflect the current global political landscape, and the influence of the media in public opinion among other things.”
“Facing The End” will be the band’s first since the 1999 debut “Black Dreams of Silence” and will feature the powerhouse vocals of legendary frontman, Björn "Speed" Strid. It will be released in November 2024 in CD, vinyl and digital formats via The Circle Music.
The artwork to “Facing The End” was done by Valnoir of Metastazis, while the mastering for the album was done by Nino Helfrich at Skull Tone Studios.
The band said: “Our new album may come as a surprise to those who know us, but all the ingredients that make us unique are there. Perhaps less atmospheric, but more effective, the mix of melody and aggression will make every song stick in your head from the first time you listen to it.”
Formed in 1992 as Post At Funerals, Apocryphal found their current name by 1994. Their early releases, including the 1995 demo "From Depths", showcased their blend of death metal, atmospheric, and progressive influences. After a period of inactivity following the release of their 1999 album "Black Dreams Of Silence", the band reformed in 2022 and recruited legendary vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid of Soilwork for their new album set for release in 2024.
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present HIGH WARDEN’S highly anticipated debut album, ASTRAL IRON, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Hailing
from Münster, Germany’s HIGH WARDEN was founded by vocalist / guitarist
Alastair van Morgue-Gûl and drummer Sadistic Hammer in 2022. The first sign of
life from this self-proclaimed “Morgul Doom Commando” was the demo Land of
Stone, released in early 2023 by DYING VICTIMS. Initially hired as a live
bassist, Lord Perish joined the band as a full-time member that year.With their lineup thus set, HIGH WARDEN prepare to ride into battle with their full-length debut, Astral Iron. The title serves as an aesthetic springboard for their idiosyncratic sound. Granted, HIGH WARDEN are influenced by legendary bands like Reverend Bizarre, Doomsword, Bathory, Manilla Road, Pagan Altar, Trouble, and Mercyful Fate, but their version of epic heavy / doom metal is as foreign as it is familiar: Slow Heavy Metal, as they accurately refer to it.
Recorded live, Astral Iron pounds and pulses vibrantly, deploying riffs coursing and crushing barbarically before leaving wide-open spaces in anticipation of that next addicting slash of ancient steel. HIGH WARDEN’s tones match their execution – earthen and mossy, grit encasing clarity – and each of the album’s five primary tracks (“Burgfrieden” is a hauntingly serene synth interlude that gives way to feedback) lumber forward with epic aplomb and high adventure. The vocals of A. v. Morgue-Gûl are plaintive and poignant, illustrating tales mainly based on individual thoughts but suitably packaged as analogies to various fantasy works (like those of J.R.R. Tolkien), historical events, and legends & myths. Unbelievers only need to hear Astral Iron’s closing epic “We Shall Burn at Foreign Shores (The Choice of Achilles)” to witness the blanching power of HIGH WARDEN!
Line-up:
A.M. Vocals, Guitars
S.H. Drums
L.P. Bass
From Münster/Germany
Artwork:
Spiros Gelekas
Release date:
22nd November 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on clear/purple splatter vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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WAIT
UNTIL THE DARK is
about this roller coaster of life. Ups and downs, black and white, hate and
love. One must realise that even in the darkest times there is also a learning
curve. Possibility to learn something from it and come back stronger
afterwards. So, let`s embraze the dark and welcome it as a part of our
existence rather than fear it.Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/Qo3Qdab3-8I
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/serpentfire-waituntilthedark
"Wait Until the Dark song is for those who can find tranquillity from darkness rather than light."
The story of SERPENT FIRE began in 2022 when Jukka Piironen started after a long hiatus making new music again. He allready knew Jukka Mursu (Gorem, Vinnfrost, Nex Locus) and together they started studio project. Soon they had songs coming very rapidly and decided to record an EP with other players. Along came guitarist J.K Hel (ex- Man Eating Tree, Corpset), keyboard player Marco Sneck (Poisonblack, Chamelion) and Pete Karjalainen (Gorem) on the drums.
The result is melodic death metal in it`s most melodic and agressive form and you can hear the coldness and melancholy of Northern Finland in every note! Main songwriters Jukka Piironen and Jami Heikkala has allready sharpened their writing pen again and new songs are on their way.
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Watch a stunning music video made by Juha Nikupeteri: https://youtu.be/7-fuvTrzI6I"Mother Of Evil" is the first single from Boreal Grave's upcoming EP and also marks the band's debut release in collaboration with Inverse Records. The song's lyrics and composition reflect the timeless struggle between darkness and light, echoing the dark themes of the video game. According to the band, the song’s theme and heavy deathcore sound take the listener on a journey into the heart of evil, offering an unforgettable musical experience.
The release will be accompanied by an official music video, which visually brings the song’s narrative to life. This single is a significant milestone in Boreal Grave's career and offers a taste of what's to come from their forthcoming EP, set to be released later this year. The band is eager to see fans' reactions and hopes that "Mother Of Evil" resonates with their audience as deeply as its dark themes have resonated with the band members. Follow Boreal Grave and prepare to dive into the darkness when "Mother Of Evil" drops
Listen to 'Mother of Evil' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/boreal-grave-mother
Line-up:
Henri Puoliväli-Oksala (Vocals)
Ville Mahlamäki (Guitar)
Matias Mattila (Guitar)
Tomi Salo (Bass)
Mikael Lamminmäki (Drums)
https://borealgrave.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/thrirbandofficial
GHOSTHEART NEBULA – “BLACKSHIFT”
Label: Meuse Music RecordsRelease Date: October 17th 2024
Genre: Cosmic Doom Metal
For fans of: Draconian | Saturnus | Darkspace | Shape Of Despair
The secrets that we turned our gaze away from are all laid bare. We stand, soul shaken, before the enormity of reality; the impossible distances, the farthest shores, the endless night… There is not space in our heart for the overwhelming loneliness as the true scale of the arching, empty heavens permeates the pathways of our mind. In the end, for all our dreams and plans, all our tempestuous emotions, our loves and lies, our selfishness and sacrifice…in the end we were always nothing.
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
There are albums that can thrill and excite, there are albums that can hold mirrors up to human thoughts and emotions, albums that can lead you away from reality for a short while – a break from the travails of life. And then there are albums that can overwhelm you with their depth, strength and vision. Blackshift is the second album from Italian cosmic doom metal band Ghostheart Nebula and to listen to its enveloping waves of sound and thunder is to tumble across the firmament, dwarfed by the magnificent magnitude of existence, to understand like never before the solitude and insignificance of the self. The listening experience begins with the introductory ritual of ‘VdB 141 IC 1805’ – waves of deep sorrow, shimmering sounds that wash you clean of all pretence. It leaves you with no hiding place from the futility and darkness of existence and in that realisation there is a fearful beauty…and then Ghostheart Nebula reveal themselves as the journey begins in earnest, down a winding staircase of acceptance, through flickering torchlight and shifting shadows. ‘Sunya’ glides from measured pace to breathless blast as dual vocals entwine and a guest solo from Diego ‘Didi’ Cavallotti (ex-Lacuna Coil) rises from the darkness, a spiralling mote of gold dust that leaves a breathtaking trail of light in its path. Another perfectly chosen guest appearance from Øysten G. Brun of Borknagar adds acoustic guitar textures to ‘Infinite Mirror’ as its regal riffs and towering drum beats conjure cosmic melancholy that spans the stars, transposing tragedy to an infinite stage – the resulting emotion almost too much too bear. Every song on Blackshift is an essential element of the sonic journey and every song is magical in its own right. The ego crumbles before the indisputable truths that are invoked by the wonderful interplay of instruments on ‘Blackshift’, the incredible deep, harsh vocal parts in ‘Traces’ reverberate as if the universe itself is speaking and the song thrums with a quiet, shaking desperation…and it all leads to the masterful dynamic shifts of ‘Orphan Of Light’, where the quietest moments hold as much power as the gargantuan riffs. And when silence finally returns you are left drained, stunned and broken; with Blackshift, Ghostheart Nebula have created an experience staggering in its scope and emotional power.
Immaculately mixed and mastered by Øystein G. Brun (Borknagar, The Troops Of Doom, Sojourner etc) and adorned in the thought provoking artwork of Heike Langhans (Lord Of Shadows, Remina, Sojourner etc), every aspect of Blackshift has been carefully curated, the album as a complete entity sculpted into a monument that will stand resplendent through the years to come. Following in the footsteps of 2021s Ascension, Blackshift sees Ghostheart Nebula reaching higher, reaching further and touching greatness. Prepare to open your heart to eternity on October 17th, when Meuse Music Records will unveil this obsidian testament to infinite sorrows.
Line-up:
Lucia Amelia Emmanueli – Vocals
Maurizio Caverzan – Vocals
Panta Leo – Drums
Aron Corti – Guitars
Nick Magister – Guitars/Synths
Bolthorn – Bass
https://www.meusemusicrecords.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/ghostheart.nebula
German
Black Metallers GROZA have published another music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxwrX7oQEeU“ASBEST” is taken from their new album “NADIR” which was released last Friday via AOP records.
GROZA (“storm”, “terror”) is a black metal band from Bavaria, Germany. Their sound is driven by emotion, anger and sadness, combining searing melodies, raging blast beats and melancholy induced clean guitar passages into a melodic, dynamic blend.
Founded as a one-man project by singer / multi-instrumentalist P.G. in 2016, the band gradually grew towards a full band in the following two years, culminating in the self-release of their first effort - “Unified In Void” (2018) - which almost instantly gained attention and interest, leading to the signing to AOP Records shortly after. After 3 years of writing and intense live activity followed the release of the 2nd full length album “The Redemptive End” (2021), that was met with critical acclaim and overwhelming reception of fans alike, entering #78 of the German album charts consequently.
Between releases, the band has extensively presented their craft live on stages all across Europe during various club shows, festivals and full-fledged tours across Europe. To date, GROZA has played 120+ shows in over 20 countries. Continuing to do so in the fall of 2024, the band will again tour Europe in support of the new album.
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The tour comes following a groundbreaking 12 months for Furia. They’ve
been nominated for a prestigious Polish cultural award, Polityka’s Passport for
their latest album, "HUTA LUNA",
toured the whole country, and even performed a UK exclusive set at Fortress
Festival. Norwegian Grammy (Spellemannprisen)-winning Gaahls Wyrd is fronted by legendary black metal vocalist, frontman, artist and composer Gaahl. Gaahl is known as one of Norway's most talked about and respected extreme metal musicians. His work with Trelldom, Gorgoroth, Wardruna and God Seed has been widely regarded as some of the best the black metal scene has had to offer.
The French trio Aluk Todolo play intense and stimulant krautrock with noise rock elements. They hypnotize masterfully and this year’s masterpiece "Lux" is a perfect example.
Tickets go on sale on September 27th at 10:00 AM CEST at www.knockoutmusicstore.pl (collector’s tickets).
Tour Dates
19.12.24 - Wrocław, A2
20.12.24 - Gdańsk, B90
21.12.24 - Warszawa, Progresja
22.12.24 - Kraków, Hype Park
https://www.pagan-records.com
http://www.knockoutprod.net
https://www.facebook.com/productions.knock.out
Berlin (GER) - Avant-Garde Death Metal duo, INGURGITATING OBLIVION, in collaboration with No Clean Singing,have premiered forthcoming album, ONTOLOGY OF NOUGHT. Stream it now ahead of Friday's official release at the following link:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/24/an-ncs-album-premiere-and-review-ingurgitating-oblivion-ontology-of-nought/
Ingurgitating Oblivion will release long-awaited new album, Ontology of Nought, September 27 on CD, gatefold 2x12" vinyl, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/ontology-willowtip
https://bit.ly/ontology-bandcamp
Unsurprisingly, considering the band's acclaimed body of work to date, this is no run-of-the-mill Tech-Death album. The talented duo of guitarist and engineer Norbert Müller and vocalist, guitarist, and composer Florian Engelke have outdone themselves again on Ontology of Nought! Epic-length tracks ranging from 10 to 18 minutes fuse into a cohesive whole that awes with the band's characteristic technical flare and progressive, compositional brilliance. The impressive cast of session and guest musicians adds even more vibrancy. Hearing is believing.
Though it has been seven years since the last Willowtip release, Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light, the forthcoming opus unequivocally demonstrates that the wait has been well worth it!
"You have fully delineated the subject of a universe of finiteness and change as well as the knowledge derived therefrom // Why should you be despondent in spite of all this, thinking that you are undone?"
- Ingurgitating Oblivion
The band released the following statement about the new album:
“Ontology of Nought is the result of approximately five years of incessant work. It documents whatever has been instilled into Ingurgitating Oblivion and the two minds pulling the strings behind the scenes: Norbert Müller and Florian Engelke. Trying to pinpoint some trite conceptual undercurrent would be to defile the beauty of creation. It feels alienating to us talking about our music and lyrics, as these stem from dichotomic dynamics of meticulous planning on the one hand and perfect intuition on the other. In like manner, the lyrics cannot be explained further here, but listeners are invited to do some work themselves and take a plunge into what could potentially encapsulate the world or denote nothing at all. Musically, we just do our own thing, celebrating our Death Metal heroes, more progressive Rock, jazz, folk, classical music. We do not strive to stand for any particular brand, but we simply enjoy being torn down the torrent of haphazard ideas, premonitions, and visions.
And that’s that."
Track
Listing:1. Uncreation's whirring loom you ply with crippled fingers
2. To weave the tapestry of nought
3. The blossoms of your tomorrow shall unfold in my heart
4. Lest I should perish with travel, effete and weary, as my knees refuse to bear me thither
5. The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore
Credits:
Sound engineering, mastering and production by Norbert Müller.
Album cover by Dmitriy Egorov.
Guest appearances / Session musicians:
Lille Gruber (Defeated Sanity) - Drums
Ava Bonam - Vocals
Chris Zoukas (Mentally Defiled, Sacral Rage, Violent Definition) - Bass
Céline Voccia - Piano
Daniel Agi - Recorder, Flutes
Jan Ferdinand - Vibraphone, Guitars
Tom Fountainhead Geldschläger - Guitar Solos
Line-up:
Norbert Müller - rhythm and lead guitars, sound engineering, mastering, all recording logistics
Florian Engelke - lead composition, rhythm and lead guitars, vocals, Tibetan singing bowls
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The man behind Valontuoja, Jal'zoroth comments the single:
"Jään Tulen Alle plunges you into a realm of eternal night and infernal fire. This song is a dark odyssey, drawing you into the icy grasp of darkness and the searing embrace of flames.
Feel the black river of your blood as it courses through your veins, chilling your heart while igniting your soul with an unholy fire.
Let the eternal night shadows chant their dirge of infinity, where the cold embrace of death awaits. Embrace the void, where ice and fire collide, where your pain and longing are inseparable"
Luonnon armoilla CD PRE-ORDER available here https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/valontuoja-luonnon-armoilla-cd-pre-order
The first single 'Kodistani karkoitettu' can be heard here: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-kodistani
Biography:
Valontuoja, meaning "Bringer of Light" in Finnish, is the one-man black metal entity forged in the icy depths of Helsinki by the Jal'zoroth. Formed in 2024, Valontuoja channels the primordial essence of black metal, weaving a sonic tapestry that is both ferocious and hauntingly melodic. Valontuoja's soundscape is a maelstrom of raw, unyielding black metal fused with ethereal and melodic elements. Valontuoja conjures an atmosphere that is as brutal as it is beautiful, guiding listeners through the desolate realms of human despair and nature's unforgiving majesty
Track list:1. Kodistani karkoitettu
2. Jään tulen alle
3. Loista silloin kun muu maailma tuhoutuu
4. Vanhan valtakunnan raunioilla
5. Läpi läpinäkyvän
6. Sokeus joka hallitsi on pois pyyhitty
7. Kasva siellä, missä kaikki on tuhkana
8. Hengitä vihdoin puhdasta ilmaa
Cover art by JTR
Line-up:
Jal'zoroth - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://valontuoja.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Valontuojablackmetal
The
melodic death metal band HAGALAS from Jyväskylä,
Finland has released a new album titled "MENTES REAE".
The album's tracks delve deeply into the darker aspects of mental health and
human experiences. Themes explored include the hedonism fueled by social media,
the struggles of life and the search for meaning, as well as violence and
abuse. The songs address both the internal battles individuals face and the
external pressures that affect a person’s mental state and behavior. The album
as a whole is built around profound and often heavy topics that are
particularly relevant in today’s world. Each track offers a unique perspective
on the complexity of mental health and the vulnerability of the human mind.In addition to the band, Samuli Raappana (Tuuliajo) contributed to the recording and mixing, while Tony Lindgren (Fascination Street Studios) handled the mastering. The album is released through the Finnish label Inverse Records.
Listen to the album on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/hagalas-mentesreae
Hagalas:
Kalle Korhonen, vocals
Antti Huovila, guitar
JM Helenius, guitar
Ville Uimi, bass
TeemuKankainen, drums
www.hagalasofficial.com
https://www.facebook.com/hagalasofficial
From
their humble beginnings in 2012, RAPTORE have risen to the top of the true
metal pack in the intervening decade. The band’s roots started with
vocalist/guitarist Nico Cattoni, originally hailing from Buenos Aires,
Argentina, and his first lineup released their first demo in 2014 and then the
debut album Rage N’ Fever in 2016, which allowed RAPTORE to tour
South America and open for such bands as Exciter and Enforcer. Then, not being
able to find suitable musicians for a steady lineup, Nico decides in 2018 to
move to Europe in order to give his band better opportunities and recognition.
He set base in Barcelona and completed the lineup with three of the most
talented musicians in the scene. While they were booked for festivals such as
Pyrenean and Trveheim, unfortunately, the pandemic delayed those concerts until
2022. Meanwhile, RAPTORE were brewing their breakthrough record, the
full-length Blackfire. Eventually released during the summer of 2022
through DYING VICTIMS, Blackfire literally EXPLODED with an
excitement that simply could not be contained – and the international metal
scene took notice.With the stage thus set, RAPTORE manage to magickally eclipse that feat with their third album, Renaissance. Truly titled, Renaissance is a tour-de-force of classic & classy HEAVY METAL steeped in all the black velvet and neon-lit chrome of the mythical ‘80s. So authentically rendered and passionately played, so rapturously engaging and dreamily transcendental, so simply AWESOME (and – again – explosive), it would not be remiss to suggest that RAPTORE somehow travelled through time and returned with a lost sacred scroll from 1986 or even 1989. Across its whip-tight nine tracks in 34 minutes, Renaissance spans a wealth of vintage metallic styles – smoothly cruising speed metal, Sunset Strip darkness, hard rock mysticism, juiced-up hair metal – and weaves them into a rich tapestry of moody & melodic metal that’s so silky and elegant at every turn, simple aesthetic pigeonholing doesn’t apply.
Granted, RAPTORE are very much (and always will be) a metal band above all, but their songwriting and textural coloring have grown impossibly more on Renaissance: by turns, a more “mature” and yet also more “fun” version of themselves. The stained-glass organ & synth intro opens the headspace for the focused eclecticism to follow; there’s a brightness to their attack that soon submits to the shadows – not straight-to-the-abyss “darkness,” but not peering away from it, either – and the deftly layered, powerfully HUGE production allows RAPTORE’s musings to take on an even greater and more personal emotional heft. So, while Renaissance could be likened to the underdog metal that clawed its way onto the radio during the latter half of the ‘80s, Nico & crew exude a daresay smarter sensibility to their catchier-than-ever anthems.
From masterclass to world class, RAPTORE are breaking the chains of their breakthrough record with that ever-crucial third album. How far Renaissance will go, we can only speculate, but it’s not unjust to suggest it stacks alongside other velvet metal classics like Don Dokken’s Up From the Ashes, W.A.S.P.’s Inside the Electric Circus, Whitesnake’s Slip of the Tongue, Warlock’s Triumph and Agony, the more serious moments to Slaughter’s Stick It to Ya, or even ‘80s KISS during theirs – as well as, of course, such cold-steel killers like Judas Priest’s Defenders of the Faith and Scorpions’ Blackout. Ready for this Renaissance?
Line-up:
Nico Cattoni – Vox & Guitar
Jamie Killhead – Guitar & Backing Vocals
Cristian Blade – Bass & Vocals
Ángel Smolski - Drums
From Barcelona/Spain
Artwork:
Subhuman Illustrations
Release date: 22nd November 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on red/black marbled vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Formed in 2014, Xoth has garnered widespread acclaim for their intricate yet refreshingly memorable sound, most notably with their latest release, EXOGALACTIC.
Xoth is thrilled to join the Occult Booking roster, home to some of the most innovative and boundary-pushing acts in metal, including Artificial Brain, Aeviterne, and Devoid of Thought.
Dawnbreed Records released Exogalactic on November 3, 2023.
https://xoth.bandcamp.com/album/exogalactic
https://www.dawnbreed.com/
THRASHERWOLF – “INSIDE THE SICKENED MIND”
Label: Independent Release / Vicious Witch RecordsRelease Date: October 4th 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Metallica | Slayer | Kreator | Hirax
We’re in a blood bowl, wading through obscenities and platitudes, trying to keep our heads above the gore. Puppet masters pull the strings and guide us into conflict – aiming our rage at others, stoking the flames of our indignation and wounded pride, while stealing the last crumbs of hope from our back pocket. But in the midst of the weeping, bleeding mannequins there’s a pack of wolves who have cut their strings. Their teeth are bared and they’re calling you to fight. The moon is rising and they’re howling out a call to arms, a call to revolution. It’s time to break your chains and join the pack, sink your teeth into the faceless gods of avarice and control!
Thrasherwolf’s debut album, We Are Revolution, emerged into a world living in the shadow of the global pandemic, issuing its baleful howl into a society wracked with fear. Ramped up on frustration and adrenaline We Are Revolution was a welcome blast of fury that showed that Thrasherwolf were a band with passion, integrity and huge potential. Now, four years on, with human society still lurching from one crisis to the next, the wolves have returned and smashed through the ceiling of even their most ardent fans’ expectations. Inside The Sickened Mind is an awesome display of real thrash metal, with a broader scope, a more focussed vision and a devastating array of new weaponry. Every aspect of the Thrasherwolf attack has stepped up to the next level – from the superb individual performances to the gritty, organic sound, the battery of magnificent, irresistible riffs to the searing solos that are integral parts of the songs they adorn to the confident, expressive vocals. But what really sets Inside The Sickened Mind apart from the competition is the songs…Thrasherwolf have outdone themselves here. Opening shot ‘Final Act Of Aggression’ bleeds thrash spirit from every pore, while ‘G.B.H. (Gratuitous Bodily Harm) is a collision of Bay Area chugging muscle and demented speed and ‘Scream Til Death’ is an instant classic with its Metallica touched riffing, brilliant bass break and aura of accomplished maturity. Every song demands a headbanging response but they also have a carefully constructed topography – musical landmarks that seal the sonic journey in your mind; melodic progressions, wicked hooks, outstanding choruses, moments of utter class. From the teeth-grinding, brass knuckle pit action of ‘Shameless Loser’ to the dark melodies of thrash ballad ‘Haunted’ every song delivers more than you could ever have hoped for. And it’s left to the album’s closing, title track to demonstrate that there is still a well of huge potential for Thrasherwolf to explore. This multi-faceted epic is musically imaginative and hugely ambitious…but it works and provides a breathtaking end to a shockingly good album of masterful thrash metal.
Inside The Sickened Mind was recorded with Andy Brook at The Brook Studios (Status Quo, Subhumans, Restarts etc) and mastered by Patrick W Engel (Candlemass, Destruction, Sodom etc) and that prestigious team has given Thrasherwolf the perfect sound for this magnificent set of songs. When Inside The Sickened Mind is released on October 4th, with a special cassette edition to follow in November via Vicious Witch Records, the whole thrash scene is going to sit up and take notice. With Thrasherwolf’s crazed mascot, Frank, brought to life on the front cover by Andrei Bouzikov (Municipal Waste, Nervosa, Autopsy etc), Inside The Sickened Mind is simply unmissable, essential thrash!
Line-up:
Daniel Lucas - Guitars/Vocals
Jack Saunders - Guitars
Raimonds Dobelis - Bass
Zaq Razaq - Drums
https://viciouswitch.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thrasherwolftheband/
Atlanta (GA) - MISANTHROPIC AGGRESSION are set to release their full-length debut album, INSECT POLITICS, through Boris Records. The album will be available exclusively on translucent 12" red vinyl LP, as well as digital, format on October 15.
This offering of crust-tinged Black/Death Metal comes on the tail of 2020’s dual releases of the “Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell” single and the COVID-19 Reset EP cassette, also released by Boris Records. The new album contains 12 all-new tracks mastered by Damian Herring.
The title track is available to purchase and/or stream via Bandcamp: https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/track/insect-politics
An introduction to the album from the band:
"We are more than pleased to finally be releasing the album of Insect Politics. The vision that ultimately became this recording was initially conceived in early 2020 immediately after production wrapped up on the 'Alcoholic Polyneuropathic Freaks in Hell' single. It feels almost an eternity ago that these events came to pass, with a global pandemic descending upon us and completely upheaving the state of the band, as well as the numerous life events that followed.
The one constant in this time for Chris [T. Hammer] and Jake [Benedict], as our planned tour evaporated and local gigs dried up, was the prospect of recording the songs for release in our very first full-length. The actual composition of the tracks seems almost a blur, with three of the first songs written occurring in a matter of months in the early stages of the pandemic and being recorded and mixed by mid-2021, and the remainder of the songs being composed by late 2021.
However, the production to finish recording that last set of songs proved a major challenge, as we set out to create our most ambitious and uncompromising structures yet. What resulted exceeded even our own expectations and initial vision. As we wrapped up post-production, both of us noted that this album truly represents an ending: a conclusion of what we initially set out to do in 2017, which was to marry our artistic influences — the Celtic Frosts and the Graves and the His Heroes are Gone and the Morbid Angels… and the Impetigos… — into a cohesive and novel expression which was singular, sharp, and pointed in its rebellion against the wrongs of humanity, and simultaneously broad in its footprint, sonic approach, and modes of worship. But, every ending is also a beginning, and we also realized that selections from this album contain the blueprint for the next era of the band. The assault will continue…."
Track
Listing:1. Social Ruin
2. Insect Politics
3. Anger/Despair (Interlude)
4. A.S.S. III — The Borderland Wars
5. Bliss
6. La Canzone di Mary Woodhouse (Interlude)
7. The Gates of Hell
8. Boomer Death
9. Intentional Under Performance
10. Winner of the Franchise Wars
11. The Serpent and the Sickle
12. Eusocial Demesne
Credits:
Recorded and mixed at Hammer Studios, Smyrna GA.
Mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios.
Front cover insect art by Jeremy Snevil.
Additional front cover and vinyl label components by Warhead Art.
Album layout by Misanthropic Aggression with graphical assistance from Sam Leyja (Boris Records).
Line-up:
Jake Benedict -- Lead Vocals, Drums
Chris T. Hammer -- Guitar, Bass, Vocals
https://www.facebook.com/borisrecordsatl/
https://www.facebook.com/MisanthropicAggression
PILLAR OF LIGHT – “CALDERA”
For
fans of
- Amenra, God’s Tower, Cult of Luna, NeurosisPillar of Light's music is weighty and drenched in melancholy and amid all the pain and sorrow, they have found a way to project light and hope when all seems lost. It is the case with almost every single song on this profound album, where the songs toil and churn and build up for a divine epiphany of sorts to take place, culminating in a blinding, freeing, all-cleansing white-light catharsis. Without this ponderous struggle, the backbreaking sludge/doom drudgery, any of the uplifting parts would lose meaning. As in life, both darkness and light have their place and one wouldn't be the same without the other. The raw emotions in the music and the underlying plaintive melodies are all too palpable, and the feeling is heightened in large part due to the burning intensity and desperation in the vocals. Pillar of Light have created an album that is poignant and more importantly relatable; it is soul-crushingly heavy, pinning down the mortal with the endless weight of struggle and torment and at the same time, invariably, ensuring that there's enough humanity in it for one to see things through.
Line up
Aaron Whitfield - Vocals, Lyrics, Synths
Alex Kennedy - Guitars, Synths
Scott Christie - Guitars
James Obenour - Bass
Eric Scobie - Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing
1. Wolf To Man
2. Leaving
3. Spared
4. Eden
5. Infernal Gaze
6. Unseeing
7. Certain End
Release date - December 6th, 2024
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https://www.facebook.com/pillaroflightband
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
"Cut the serpent’s head", the second album of CORROSIVE ELEMENTS is a collection of 10 powerful songs, designed for a more direct and dynamic approach, in the typical style of the band, a clever mix of Death and Thrash Metal, with tons of groove, anger and attitude.
The new album was written collectively by the band in the rehearsal room, an old fashioned method that makes the music more immediate and impactful.
With broad influences ranging from Thrash legends such as Slayer, (old) Sepultura and Exodus, Death Metal in the tradition of Entombed, Obituary, Carcass, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death, and an addition of primitive energy derived from Hardcore Punk, The band is now ready to place this new offering on the altar of Extreme Metal.
Conceptually, "Cut the Serpent's Head" is a cynical look at the destiny ofmankind, its race towards nonsense. A warning against the hegemony of organized religions, shady politics, decaying societies and the rise of social injustice.
Stay tuned, the next few days will see more information about the artwork, release dates, formats and everything you need to know about this new album which will be produced by Crypt Of Dr.Gore and GreyveStorm Productions.
https://linktr.ee/corrosiveelements
November 22.Ice-T on the track:
"For me COMFORTABLY NUMB is an introspective song — it's me acknowledging that I'm older now. I'm telling the younger generation, you've got two choices: you can keep the fire burning or you can give up. It's me trying to make sense of what's happening, but also pointing out that we're all in a place where we don’t have to face reality. We've got flat-screen TVs and popcorn, and we can just sit back and watch the chaos of the world like it’s a TV show. It doesn’t feel real until it shows up at your door. I’m a little numb, too — we all are.”
David Gilmour on the track:
"BODY COUNT's version of COMFORTABLY NUMB is quite radical, but the words really struck me. It astonishes me that a tune I wrote almost 50 years ago is back with this great new approach. They've made it relevant again. The initial contact from Ice-T was for permission to use the song, but I thought I might offer to play on it as well. I like the new lyrics, they're talking about the world we’re living in now, which is quite scary. Ice-T and Body Count played in London recently, sadly I couldn't make it, but if another opportunity came up to play with them, I'd jump at it.”
Listen to COMFORTABLY NUMB here: https://bodycount.lnk.to/ComfortablyNumbSingleNe
Pre-order the album MERCILESS here: https://bodycount.lnk.to/MercilessNe
SWALLOW
THE SUN have
released another new single taken from their upcoming album SHINING out October 18th. Fans can now stream and watch the music video for MELANCHOLY.Juha Raivio comments on the new song:
“This song talks about how melancholy can be comforting, safe and even a beautiful place. But when it turns into your God, it will surely kill you.”
Mikko Kotamäki adds on “MelancHoly”: “I’ve heard these days people call great and catchy songs bangers. Well, this one truly is one.”
SWALLOW THE SUN recently announced details surrounding their eagerly awaited new album SHINING out October 18th. The new record is produced and mixed by Dan Lancaster (Bring Me the Horizon, Muse, Enter Shikari, etc.), mastered by Tony Lindgren (Fascination Street Studios) and recorded by Juho Räihä at SoundSpiral Audio, except vocals recorded by Dan Lancaster.
Juha Raivio adds on the upcoming album SHINING:
“After our last album it soon became clear to me that writing another Moonflowers album will kill me. So, I made a quiet wish to myself that if there ever will be any new music then please have a little bit of mercy on yourself rather than be that infinite black hole that will suck out the rest of your remaining light and soul just for the sake of it. Musically this album shines like a glacier diamond and has that power and punch that feels like a kick in your face! While lyrically the album deals how fearing life will eventually kill you and how melancholy can become your God.
Listen to the new single here: https://swallowthesun.lnk.to/Shining-albumNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq5Ho6NkqH8
KAIVS – „AFTER THE FLESH“
After the Flesh release date in October 18, 2024. For the age of darkness is upon us, and KAIVS leads the charge.
As the world trembles in anticipation, KAIVS emerges from the shadows, ready to conquer all who dare to stand in their way.
Brace yourselves, for a new Single in all plaforms "FOR SATAN YOUR FLESH FOR GOD YOUR SOUL" release September 20 2024, and Youtube Lyric Video August 16, 2024.
Prepare for an onslaught of pure, unadulterated death metal fury as Brutal Records proudly announces the signing of Rome's very own purveyors of chaos, KAIVS.
In a statement dripping with the venom of anticipation, the band declared:
"We've inked a pact with Brutal Records, and it's time to unleash hell on a global scale. We're hungry to spread our darkness far and wide, and Brutal Records is the perfect conduit for our wrath. Brace yourselves, for KAIVS is here to conquer."
With the ferocity of a ravenous beast, KAIVS delivers bone-crushing riffs, guttural vocals, and an unyielding barrage of sonic assault. Their brand of death metal is a testament to raw power, devoid of mercy or compromise. Inspired by the unholy sounds of the early 1990s Stockholm scene, KAIVS infuses their music with a relentless drive that cuts through the soul like a serrated blade.
But KAIVS is more than just a mere echo of the past. They are pioneers of darkness, forging a new path through the charred remains of the old. With their upcoming debut album, "After the Flesh," slated for global domination in October 18, 2024 under the banner of Brutal Records, KAIVS promises to redefine the very essence of brutality.
Led by the unholy trinity of Max Foam's demonic vocals, Tiziano Mortician's razor-sharp guitar work, Jacopo Simonelli's thunderous bass lines, and Leonardo Sastro's relentless drumming, KAIVS stands as a towering monument to the dark arts of death metal.
AFTER THE FLESH 1. Koshercannibal
2. Beyond The Autopsy
3. For Satan Your Flesh For God Your Soul
4. Blooduniverses
5. Krushing All Altars
6. Sepulchrist
7. Blasphemer After the Flesh
8. Horrend
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
https://orcd.co/brut89661
https://orcd.co/brut89662
The new CORPSEFUCKING ART album, TOMATIZED,
will be unleashed by Comatose Music on October 4th -
a gloriously grisly collection of power-packed death metal tracks that open a
gateway to an alternative universe of vegetable domination and human mutation!
As the day of terrifying transformation approaches the band have unveiled an
amazing new video for the album track 'A NIGHTMARE ON TOMATO STREET'!
The brilliant film sees the band's psychotic mascot, Mr. Daisy, entering a
world of classic arcade games, battling his bloody way to a climatic
Corpsefucking Art concert! This really is a video not to be missed for death
metal fans and arcade game aficianados alike!Immerse yourself in the mad, mad world of Mr. Daisy and experience 'A Nightmare On Tomato Street' at the Comatose Music YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JykVPFTIbI
Tomatized was engineered and mixed by Alessio Cattaneo (Hideous Divinity, Satanika etc) and mastered by Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul etc) and features Corpsefucking Art’s greatest set of songs to date. When Comatose Music unleash this monster on the world on October 4th, resplendent in its Pierre De Palmas (Impetigo, Cliteater etc) artwork, heads will roll, bones will break, blood will flow…and cyclopic tomatoes will feast!
https://comatosemusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sachertorture/
Polish blackened sludge purveyors FIASKO will self-release their second full-length album on 15 November 2024. Entitled “AMOK ꓘOMA” it comprises eight songs about death and love, love for death and the death of love.
The artwork to “AMOK ꓘOMA” revealed today was done by Robert A. von Ritter (Hooded Menace, Urfaust, Malokarpatan, Outre, In Twilight's Embrace) while the album’s booklet layout and design was done by Paweł Marzec of Kontamination Design (Dimmu Borgir, Morbus Chron, Blaze of Perdition, Manbryne).
The album will be available from 15 November in jewelcase CD format and via all major streaming platforms. It will also be available for purchase via Godz ov War Productions and Malignant Voices. Pre-order information coming soon.
FIASKO started working on the album immediately after their last release, the “Mizantropolia” EP which saw the light of day in February 2020. The band’s efforts were hindered by the lack of a drummer, however, that was rectified after Tomek Walczak (Chainsword, Tankograd, Weedpecker etc.) was invited in 2023 to collaborate and arrange the drum tracks as a guest/session drummer.
All instruments for “AMOK ꓘOMA” were recorded at Santa Studio under the watchful eye and ear of Mikołaj Kiciak. The vocals were recorded at Burning Tones by Adam Ziółkowski, who is also responsible for mixing the album. The recording was then mastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio (Behemoth, Me and that Man, Gruzja, Thaw).
FIASKO arose from the ashes of the Warsaw band So I Scream in 2014. In the beginning, the band’s music was akin to alternative metal with electronic elements. Following the release of its debut album “Głupcy umierają” in 2017, FIASKO underwent major line-up changes and, consequently – an even more significant change in musical style. As a result, reinforced with a new guitarist and bass player, the band recorded and released an EP entitled “Mizantropolia” in 2020. On this recording, black metal blast beats mix with slower, sludge/doom metal parts, and echoes of cold wave loom in the background. The whole piece is complemented with gloomy Polish lyrics. After a handful of gigs promoting the EP, the band parted ways with their drummer and slowed down their activities while the world went to a halt during the COVID pandemic.
However, work on new material was progressing and the band entered the studio in 2023 to start recording “AMOK ꓘOMA”, an extension of the concept and sound initiated on the previous EP. The result is an album consisting of eight songs, clocking at just over 45 minutes and rooted in black metal and sludge genres. The lyrics – again written in the band’s native Polish language – constitute an apocalyptic melting pot of despair, nihilism and violence.
Tracklist: 1. Spod spodu
2. Wniwecz
3. Tarantyzm
4. VII krąg
5. Sztuczne kwiaty
6. Śmierć krzywdziciela
7. Ciało obce
8. Maligna
FIASKO is:
Mielnik – lead vocals, lyrics
Kozina – guitar
Michułka – guitar
Nawrot – bass guitar, backing vocals
Walczak – drums (session)
https://www.youtube.com/fiaskopolo
https://www.facebook.com/fiaskopl/
On September 19th, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT have released a new standalone single with an accompanying video: EYE OF MARS.
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT comments:
"It is seen through the ages that universal truth rises to the top. With this in mind, leaders of civilization are divided in control methods deployed through various mechanisms, some for the sake of humanity and some for the sake of interests that don't necessarily benefit humanity. The sum total of the entire apparatus then reaches a boiling point, after which time agendas are revealed.
On a much higher level exists that which lies beyond the five senses, beyond the science and materialism matrix. Many sacred texts worthy of protection by the people have endured while existing in relative obscurity as allegory. The knowledge gets passed down through generational cycles and ultimately makes visible that collective connection in all the world and all of us. This lights up the consciousness with a venerable force like electricity and music. Under the watchful eye, Mars slew the dragon, and seizing its teeth out of the great gaping mouth, scattered them broadcast like seeds unto us."
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58IvVWKjKZQ
Stream the new single here: https://imperialtriumphant.lnk.to/EyeOfMars-SingleNe
The new album from Seattle's progressive blackened death quartet BLIGHTED EYE is out now and streaming on all major platforms.
Agony's Bespoke is available via Beyond the Top Records on digipak CD, limited-edition vinyl, and digital formats.
Order
now at:
https://linktr.ee/beyondthetoprecordsTracklist:
1. Tragoedia
2. The Wounding
3. In Emnity
4. Howls from Beyond the Mist
5. A Feast for Worms
6. Pallid
7. Nightingale
8. A Reverent Stillness
9. Agony’s Bespoke
Agony's Bespoke was produced, mixed, and mastered by Alex Sedin. Cover art by Caelan Stokkermans.
Hailing from the greater Seattle area, BLIGHTED EYE is a progressive death/black metal act featuring members from Aethereus, Mesmur, and Pantheist. The band interweaves crushing riffs and blastbeats with intricate, layered melodic work akin to Opeth, Swallow the Sun, Rotting Christ, and Dark Tranquility. Their musical journey aims to evoke a bespoke atmosphere that delves into the depths of the human psyche, exploring the haunting lyrical themes that reside within the darkest recesses of the mind.
BLIGHTED EYE is:
Christopher Jones: Guitar
Kyle Chapman: Guitar, Vocals
Ben Gassman: Bass
John Devos: Drums
https://www.facebook.com/BlightedEye
With its blend of emotive postrock and slowcore, and passionate, heart-wrenching atmospheric black metal, ISLEPTONTHEMOON makes an absolutely perfect addition alongside much of Bindrune Recordings' roster, past and present.
"It is with great joy that we welcome ISLEPTONTHEMOON to Bindrune Recordings! We are thrilled to begin this journey with their brilliant new album this year, as well as a vinyl reissue of their previous album next year."- Bindrune Recordings
The band has released a video for the album's lead track, "Safety." Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g63gb6Ii6xw
Bindrune Recordings will release Only The Stars Know of My Misfortune on November 8. Pre-order the album at https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/
Track
Listing:1. Safety
2. Dimming Light
3. Maybe I Don't Know It Yet, But Good Things Are Coming Soon
4. I Belong To The Void
5. Like Dying
6. Keep Hidden
Only The Stars Know of My Misfortune was written, recorded, and mixed by ISLEPTONTHEMOON. The album was mastered by Spenser Morris at SM Audio. Cover photo courtesy of Jesse Sewell via Unsplash.
ISLEPTONTHEMOON
Miserable Black Metal since 2016.
https://www.facebook.com/bindrunerecordings
https://isleptonthemoon.bandcamp.com/
Feast on it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFlpHYVDBU
In celebration of the release of critically acclaimed album, Exhaust, Pyrrhon will perform with Inter Arma on four East Coast dates next week. Show dates are as follows:
9/24: Brooklyn NY - Market Hotel
9/25: Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs
9/26: Philadelphia, PA - Milkboy
9/27: Washington, DC - Atlas Brew Works
Willowtip Records released Exhaust September 6 on all digital platforms, as well as on CD, cassette, and vinyl formats!
Purchase/Stream:
https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/exhaust
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/pyrrhon.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-I4GwWYz0
Cabin Fever: The Making Of Pyrrhon’s Exhaust:
Pyrrhon was stuck in mid-2023 after prolonged global unrest and personal changes. In 2020, their album Abscess Time arrived at the heart of the pandemic. In 2021, they went on one tour at the height of the Delta COVID wave before clubs started shutting down again. In 2022, they played a single show. In 2023, they had only three songs written for a fifth album.
The band decided to shake things loose with a retreat. Armed with their instruments, psychedelic mushrooms, and a few bad movies, they rented a cabin in rural northeastern Pennsylvania in May 2023. The decision worked. The creative energy surged, and the band wrote three new songs over the weekend.
“Initially, we just didn't seem to be able to strike the same intensity as past Pyrrhon records,” vocalist and lyricist Doug Moore says. However, the time in the cabin allowed the band to reconnect as musicians and friends. “It was a turning point for the record,” Moore says. “We didn't have enough material. We hadn’t spent that much time together, and it felt like we were able to rediscover who we are and feel the energy of the collaboration.”
“We’d never done a creative retreat before, and it was so cool to write stuff on the spot,” guitarist Dylan DiLella says. “Writing stuff in the same room showed us that we don’t have to try as hard to create cool music. There was a lot of bashing our heads in this band, especially when trying to make this record. Going with the energy in the room helped us trust ourselves more.”
Pyrrhon, which formed in New York City in 2008 when most of the band was in college, has always been classified as technical death metal for convenience. Their music, however, defies convention—even in the anything-goes world of 21st-century metal. Pyrrhon's music contains the musical prowess of Gorguts’s Obscura, the unrelenting rhythmic pummeling of Big Black, and the experimentation of free jazz. Moore’s lyrics - a combination of poetry and flash prose - are a welcome relief in an art form awash in stale cliches and genre tropes. Pyrron’s jarring and complex music - a true outlier when the band released their first album over a decade ago - requires attention and scrutiny, and demands replay.
Pyrrhon’s fifth album, Exhaust, is not a concept record. However, many songs touch on where we are in 2024; people are overwhelmed and unable to catch their breath. The album was initially called “Exhaustion,” but drummer Steve Schwegler noticed recurring imagery about cars slowly degrading from overuse - an apt metaphor for an album exploring perpetual burnout. On a larger level, Exhaust is about things - machines or humans - being ground down and never recovering. It also hints at the exhaustion of staying sane in a world overrun with digital devices, social media, holograms, and artificial intelligence.
“It’s about the experience of being pushed beyond your ability to sustain things,” Moore says. “We went through a pandemic, and now people act like it didn’t happen. We went through an attempted fascist insurrection, and now people act like it didn’t happen. It’s a sense of constantly juggling things and never having a handle on them. That feeling became a big part of this record and the imagery.”
Pyrrhon’s songwriting process has always been democratic. On Exhaust, however, they wrote more material as a unit. In the past, one member wrote the framework of a song using a sequence of riffs or grooves. For Exhaust, Pyrrhon worked more collaboratively and wrote several songs as a group while jamming. “On the trip to Pennsylvania, we wrote as a group on the spot,” Moore says. “But even outside that, we wrote songs in our practice space. We have the same democratic principle as before, but what happened with Exhaust was that we all got better at realizing what works. It’s supposed to sound wild, but we’ve been a band for over 15 years, and the current lineup has been together for nearly a decade. The result was knowing what to do to serve the big picture.”
“Exhaust sounds like a band playing together, which is tough for a technical experimental death metal band,” DiLella says. “That’s always been our goal, but we haven't achieved it until this record. It’s our tightest record, but in some ways, it's also the loosest. It’s easy to forget about the burning passion we all had when we started this band. We are all passionate music fans, and that is channeled into this band. We just have recently realized how lucky we are to have Pyrrhon.”
Exhaust was recorded with longtime Pyrrhon producer Colin Marston in December 2023 at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves studios in Queens, shortly before the studio closed. The album benefits from the band members' other musical pursuits and life changes over the past four years. Moore joined the experimental black metal band Scarcity and became a software developer. DiLella joined the ascendant noise rock band Couch Slut and became a guitar teacher. Bassist Erik Malave studied library science. Schwegler finished college on the GI Bill and got an engineering job. “Our jobs and our lives changed a lot,” Moore says. “We almost had to figure out how to be a band again.”
In Pyrrhon’s early days, the band often wrote about their adopted hometown of New York. Their debut album, An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master, is, in many ways, an album about the city. In recent years, however, they have looked wider for inspiration - even to topics like American football. One of Exhaust’s standout tracks “Concrete Charlie” is loosely based on hard-hitting Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Chuck Bednarik, who exhibited CTE symptoms at the end of his life.
“It’s outwardly about football but more about how a larger system used and discarded him,” Moore says. “It’s part of the American experience. These titans of sports and people lionized by American culture are turned into mulch by the end of their lives. Football is a microcosm of American life, and we lionize these men who achieve extraordinary things but are fundamentally being exploited.”
A little more than a year removed from the cabin, Pyrrhon is reenergized and looking forward. “The pandemic and everything that happened honestly gave us a chance to pause for the first time since we’ve been a band,” DiLella says. “In the past, when albums were done, we started working on a new one. I’ve been reflecting on the band’s early days lately. We were kids when the band started. Now, I feel like we can work to our strengths more. I feel more confident and think the rest of the band does, too.”
“I did a lot of soul-searching with Exhaust,” Moore says. “We've been through a time of great uncertainty. I tend to get into my head about this stuff. Now that our lives are more balanced, I feel it was all worth it.”
- Justin M. Norton
Track
Listing:1. Not Going To Mars
2. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
3. The Greatest City On Earth
4. Strange Pains
5. Out Of Gas
6. Luck Of The Draw
7. Concrete Charlie
8. Stress Fractures
9. Last Gasp
10. Hell Medicine
Line-up:
Erik Malave - Bass
Dylan DiLella - Guitars
Doug Moore - Vocals
Steve Schwegler - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/pyrrhonband
Release
date :
October 25thGenre : Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
D-DAY for AORLHAC who sees his trilogy of winds reissued!After a third single "Une Vie de Reclus" (extract from "L'esprit des vents") released two days ago, the 3 albums are now listenable on Youtube and on all download platforms!
AORLHAC is looking back to the past, to their Occitan roots, either medieval and modern, narrating the History of the south of France and north of Italy and Spain. Occitan is not only a language but also a culture recounted in French by the band : they are respectful witnesses of their ancestors’ heritage.
By the way, it's time to tell you about my October release! After "les Idées Blanches" released in 2021, SORDIDE will publish "Ainsi Finit Le Jour" on October 25th on Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions
SORDIDE comes from the wet gutters of Rouen, Normandy. Since the release of its debut album through Avantgarde, back in 2014, the trio has been spitting a scornful and desperate anger in Moliere’s language under the motto NEITHER NAME, NOR FLAG.
Since then, the band has multiplied albums culminating with the release of “Les idées blanche”, in 2021, and played throughout Europe and at Roadburn and Hellfest festivals. After travelling to Iceland and Finland, Sordide will release its fifth full-length, “Ainsi finit le jour”, on October 25th, 2024, through Les Acteurs de l’ombre, and its own collective, La Harelle.
To present this abrasive opus, Sordide will tour in France, Switzerland and Belgium in October 2024, and in Europe in February 2025.
Tracklist:
1 - Des feux plus forts
2 - Nos cendres et nos râles
3 - Le cambouis et le carmin
4 - Sous vivre
5 - Banlieues rouges
6 - La poésie du caniveau
7 - Ainsi finit le jour
8 - La beauté du désastre
9 - Tout est à la mort
Duration: 53min40
https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/bands/sordide/
This
album has a variety of sounds, combining doom and death metal in a simple yet
engaging way that will keep people listening. The lyrics deal mostly with
spirituality, including the death of a loved one and the end of time. The EP's digital release date is on October 11, 2024
Tracklist
1. Time Draining
2. I Love The Dark
3. Long Night Of Silence
For over a decade, Matt Krogen has been playing guitar and attempting to form a band, but finding long-term commitment from others proved challenging. With a deep interest in all rock and metal subgenres, a passion for doom metal emerged after discovering a 24/7 doom metal channel on YouTube. The song "Where Suns Turn to Grey" by Veil Of Conspiracy profoundly influenced him, inspiring the writing of lyrics and self-teaching piano.
Krogen managed to secure assistance for vocals and album art, financing the album's production. He has released a hard rock album titled "Die Royal" and is currently working on a power-metal project called Melting Kandle. Additionally, he is awaiting the publication of his first sci-fi novel. As a multifaceted artist, Krogen continues to search for his place in the world.
www.youtube.com/TimeConsumed
https://timeconsumed.bandcamp.com/album/long-night-of-silence
NEWS 21.9.2024
Da
es momentan mit dem Job eher beschissen läuft und man durch Kurzarbeit mehr als
genügend Zeit und auch die Energie hat, sich doch mal wieder etwas intensiver mit
dem ganzen Stapel an neuem metallischem Material auseinanderzusetzen, gibt es
heute für Euch mal wieder einen ganz deftigen Nachschlag an aktuellem Material,
welches hoffentlich bei dem einen oder anderen unter Euch auf ungeteiltes
Interesse stoßen wird.
Aktuelle Reviews :
DENOMINATION – „THE LAST COMPANION“
KEITZER – „ PANDEMONIUM HUMANITAS“ HAMMER
Auch mit der Planung für die nächste Printausgabe unserer „kleinen Klolektüre“, welche ja nun aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach im Dezember kommen wird , sind wir nun komplett durch . So könnt ihr nun auch noch auf „nette“ Gesprächsrunden mit BOB BACHUS (Ex ASPHYX Drummer ) , DISASTER KFW und OVERLORD
Aktuelles aus dem internationalen und nationalen Metalbereich findet ihr wie immer auch unter https://www.facebook.com/Undergroundfanzine/
ASCIAN bringen ihr neues Album “SING TO ME, SWEET VOID” heraus. Ein atmosphärisches Highlight zwischen Doom und Post-Metal.
Die Braunschweiger haben nun eine weitere Single aus dem Album veröffentlicht. Das Video zu “Cold Sun” ist ab sofort verfügbar!
Video zu “Cold Sun” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPMZLnYG5Q
Lyric-Video zu “The Odium Palace” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcvsWPT8hDk
Tracklist
01. Follow the Serpent
02. The Odium Palace (feat. Dima Dudko of White Ward)
03. The Golden Queen
04. Cold Sun
05. Threnody Spirals (feat Judith Ehreke of Unsoulicited)
06. Fra Lyset
07. Deathwish
Das neue Material wird am Veröffentlichungstag im Rahmen Stygian Pilgrims Festivals zusammen mit OPHIS, FROWNING und weiteren exzellenten Bands live vorgestellt.
Über ASCIAN
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen.
Leave all hope behind - Misery is ahead!
https://www.facebook.com/AscianDoom
IRON MAIDEN kündigen ihre RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR 2025/26 an . Mit einer Setlist aus den karriereprägenden frühen Jahrzehnten und dem Versprechen der größten Show aller Zeiten!
50 Jahre nach der Gründung der Band im Jahr 1975.
IRON MAIDEN werden ihre RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR am 27. Mai nächsten Jahres mit zwei Nächten in Budapest starten, gefolgt von 27 Stadion-, Festival- und Arena-Shows in ganz Europa. Die Tournee markiert das 50-jährige Bestehen der von Steve Harris Ende 1975 gegründeten Band, und um dies zu feiern, wird Maiden-Fans eine ganz besondere Setlist versprochen, die sich über die neun Studioalben von “Iron Maiden” bis “Fear Of The Dark” erstreckt, zusammen mit ihrer spektakulärsten und aufwändigsten Show aller Zeiten!
Die Tourdaten finden sich unten. Tickets gibt es ab Mittwoch, 25. September, 10 Uhr im exklusiven Online Presale bei CTS Eventim unter https://www.eventim.de/artist/iron-maiden/. Der allgemeine Vorverkauf beginnt am Freitag, 27. September um 10 Uhr.
Wie gewohnt wird es einen exklusiven Pre-Sale für Mitglieder des IRON MAIDEN Fanclubs geben. Dieser startet bereits am Montag, 23. September, 10 Uhr. Weitere Infos dazu unter https://www.ironmaiden.com/. Trooper VIP Packages werden bei allen Shows erhältlich sein.
Leadsänger Bruce Dickinson betont: „Das nächste Jahr ist ein ganz besonderes Jahr für IRON MAIDEN und wir werden unseren Fans ein einmaliges Live-Erlebnis bieten. Das ist eine Tour, die ein Lächeln auf dein Gesicht und ein Jubeln in deine Kehle zaubern wird. Wenn du uns schon einmal gesehen hast, kannst du dich bereit machen, dieses Erlebnis auf eine ganz neue Ebene zu heben. Wenn du uns noch nie gesehen hast: Worauf zur Hölle wartest du? Dies ist deine Chance, herauszufinden, was du verpasst hast! IRON MAIDEN wird euch definitiv kriegen!“
Manager Rod Smallwood ergänzt:
„50 Jahre Maiden und ich bin seit 46 davon dabei! Mit weit über 100 Millionen verkauften Alben und fast 2500 Shows in 64 Ländern (Tendenz steigend) und unzähligen Millionen von Fans lieben wir noch immer jede Sekunde und betrachten jede Tour als neue Herausforderung, um unseren Fans etwas Neues und Aufregendes zu bieten. Und für diese ganz besondere Tour ziehen wir alle Register!
Wir werden Klassiker und Fanlieblinge der ersten neun Alben, von ‘IRON MAIDEN’ bis ‘FEAR OF THE DARK’, spielen, von denen wir viele seit Jahren nicht mehr gespielt haben und viele, die wir wahrscheinlich in Zukunft nie wieder spielen werden. Wir haben bereits seit Monaten hart daran gearbeitet, eine noch spektakulärere und aufwändigere neue Show auf die Beine zu stellen, die die Songs mehr zum Leben erwecken wird, als wir es jemals zuvor konnten. Für IRON MAIDEN und natürlich auch für Eddie werden das ein paar gewaltige Jahre werden, und wir sind sehr aufgeregt darüber, was wir im Laufe unseres gesamten 50. Jahres für euch Fans noch in petto haben. Ich verspreche, dass ihr alle sehr glücklich sein werdet!“
Leadsänger Bruce Dickinson betont:
„Das nächste Jahr ist ein ganz besonderes Jahr für IRON MAIDEN und wir werden unseren Fans ein einmaliges Live-Erlebnis bieten. Das ist eine Tour, die ein Lächeln auf dein Gesicht und ein Jubeln in deine Kehle zaubern wird. Wenn du uns schon einmal gesehen hast, kannst du dich bereit machen, dieses Erlebnis auf eine ganz neue Ebene zu heben. Wenn du uns noch nie gesehen hast: Worauf zur Hölle wartest du? Dies ist deine Chance, herauszufinden, was du verpasst hast! IRON MAIDEN wird euch definitiv kriegen!“
Guests auf der ersten Hälfte der Tour, inklusive der Outdoor-Shows in London und Dublin und mit Ausnahme der Arenen in UK, werden die amerikanischen Rocker Halestorm sein. Die zweite Hälfte der Tour bietet Schwedens Avatar als Gäste. Und schließlich wird die britische Metal-Band The Raven Age alle UK- und Irland-Shows eröffnen. Bei den Festivals gilt natürlich das jeweils angekündigte Festival-Billing.
"RUN
FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR 2025"
27. Mai – Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Ungarn (+)
31. Mai – Letnany Airport, Prag, Tschechien (+)
JUNI 2025
01. Juni – TIPOS Arena, Bratislava, Slowakei (+)
05. Juni – Trondheim Rocks, Trondheim, Norwegen (Festival)
07. Juni – SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norwegen (+)
09. Juni – Royal Arena, Kopenhagen, Dänenmark (+)
12. Juni – 3Arena, Stockholm, Schweden (+)
13. Juni – 3Arena, Stockholm, Schweden (+)
16. Juni – Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finnland (+)
21. Juni – Utilita Arena, Birmingham, England (**)
22. Juni – Co-op Live, Manchester, England (**)
25. Juni – Malahide Castle, Dublin, Irland (+/**)
28. Juni – London Stadium, London, England (+/**)
30. Juni – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Schottland (**)
JULI 2025
03. Juli – Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, Frankreich (Festival)
05. Juli – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Madrid, Spanien (++)
06. Juli – MEO Arena, Lisbon, Portugal (++)
09. Juli – Hallenstadion, Zürich, Schweiz(++)
11. Juli – Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Deutschland (++)
13. Juli – Stadio Euganeo, Padova, Italien (++)
15. Juli – Bürgerweide, Bremen, Deutschland (++)
17. Juli – Ernst Happel Stadion, Wien, Österreich (++)
19. Juli – Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, Frankreich (++)
23. Juli – GelreDome, Arnhem, Niederlande (++)
25. Juli – Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Deutschland (++)
26. Juli – Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Deutschland (++)
29. Juli – Waldbühne, Berlin, Deutschland (++)
AUGUST 2025
August – PGE Narodowy, Warschau, Polen (++)
+ = Halestorm
** The Raven Age
++ = Avatar
IRON MAIDEN sind derzeit noch unterwegs, um die letzten Dates ihrer gefeierten “The Future Past Tour” zu spielen, die sie Anfang des Monats nach Australien und Neuseeland führte und nach Shows in Japan, Kanada, den USA, Mexiko, Kolumbien, Chile und Argentinien dann im Dezember in Sao Paulo, Brasilien, mit zwei Konzerten im gigantischen Allianz Parque Stadium enden wird.
https://www.ironmaiden.com/
Sweden's melodic death trio AGAINST I revealed the tracklisting and cover artwork for their new album, SONGS FOR THE DYING.
Songs for the Dying picks up where Destruction Lullaby - released in May 2024 - left off. The album offers lethal doses of aggressive and melodic death tinged with shades of industrial and atmospheric metal.
Cover art for Songs for the Dying (shown above) by Sander Kapper.
Tracklisting:
1. Bound in Blood
2. Depraved Lust
3. A Hymn for the End
4. Crimson Queen
5. Eternal Slumber
6. From the Beyond
7. Father of Lies
8. Judgement of the Damned
9. Praise the Dead
10. Scorched Earth
11. The Blackest Night
AGAINST I will release Songs for the Dying on November 29.
AGAINST I was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Keith Croona known as vocalist and founder of Cynical Existence and ex-vocalist of Menschdefekt. Together with Mathias Back (guitars) and Anders Ström (drums), they fuse elements of metal and hints of electronic parts into a cacophony of aggression and melodies.
In 2023 the band released their debut album Carnival of Excess on Advoxya Records. 2024 saw the release of two EPs, Perfect Smile and the follow-up Destruction Lullaby, which took the band in an entirely new direction.
Line-Up:
Fredrik Keith Croona - vocals
Mathias Back - guitars
Anders Ström - drums
https://www.facebook.com/againstIband
Release
Date:
September 20, 2024 - Europe/UK
Ocober 04, 2024 - USA/Japan
Label: Total Metal Records
Format : 2024 Remaster, Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl comes in cover with renewed artwork, soft-touch lamination, and embossed logo, including printed innersleeve with full lyrics, restored for the first time.
For the first time on vinyl, the fifth full-length studio album by cult German Thrash Metal band.
Necronomicon was perhaps sometimes known as a 'poor man's Destruction', but they had their moments, most notably 1988's "Escalation". There are still comparisons to be made to Destruction, especially as Volker's vocals still persist in their painful pinch a-la Schmier, but the riffs seem to have come into a life of their own. Much of "Construction Of Evil" has a tight, consistent flow to it, a steady violence, fun tracks like "Stormbringer", "Paralizer", "Bone Daddy" and "Hard Pain", loaded with well-meaning guitars, flighty leads and bitter, biting vocals.
The album adheres very strongly to the original mixture of aggressive vocal shouts and melodic riffing observed on their early albums, but with a much cleaner production and a bit of an awareness of the newer German Power Metal acts that came out of the mid to late 1990s such as Paragon and Iron Savior. This is particularly noticeable in the peculiar sound and character of the lead guitar tracks. Naturally, the mix here is far superior to what they've done before, from a technical standpoint. The instruments are very well-balanced, the vocals at the forefront without robbing the guitars of their power.
Likewise, the band’s mastery of the gang chorus is almost enough to put Anthrax and Overkill to shame. The lead and gang backup interchanges on the chorus sections of “Fiction” and “Paralizer” succeed in being twice as bombastic as what was heard on “Taking Over” or “Among The Living”, while being just a little too aggressive for much of the German Power Metal scene.
Stylistically, the variation in approach from song to song mostly hearkens back to the mid to late 80s approach, mostly being dominated by speed songs with the occasional slower rocker and token half-ballad. "Alight" and "Hills of Dead" have a lot of German pre-Thrash elements and NWOBHM leanings. “Terrorist Attack” definitely carries some heavy Accept influences, as well as a gloomy piano line which is fairly uncharacteristic for a straight Thrash Metal outfit. “Fireball” has this sombre acoustic line to it that meshes with some standard Power chord riffing to form a middle ground between Anthrax and Bad Religion. It’s certainly the catchiest and vocally melodic of what’s on here, but occasionally kicks in the speed to keep it from being a straight power ballad.
To the prospective shopper of faster Metal with a taste for the old school, this is something that can appeal equally to fans of Old-school Thrash Metal, early US Power Metal and early German Speed Metal. The only thing that the latter two groups of fans should consider is that Freddy Fredrich’s gravely vocal style is more akin to the semi-melodic shouts of Kreator and Destruction than the less dirty melodic vocal approach of Rolf Kasperek or Udo Dirkschneider. But for fans of German Thrash Metal, this is far superior to what most of their scene has been offering in the first decade of the current century.
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Stormbringer 3:41
2. Hard Pain 3:43
3. From Hell 4:06
4. Alight 2:38
5. Hills of Dead 4:32
6. Paralizer 3:18
Running time: 22:04 min.
Side B
1. Terrorist Attack 5:49
2. Fiction 3:47
3. Fireball 3:28
4. Bone Daddy 3:20
5. Insanity 1:24
6. Possessed Again 4:39
https://totalmetal.metalscraprecords.com/
Label : Pagan Records
Release date : 20 September 2024
The debut album from Untervoid, which features members and ex-members of bands such as Hate, Thaw, Mentor, Azarath among others, is out now!
Following the acclaimed self-titled 2018 EP released via Osmose, Untervoid delve deeper into the abyss with “Parasite”, a concept album exploring the multifaceted role of humanity as a parasitic force on both society and the planet. From the suffocating pressures of social constructs to the looming threat of ecological collapse, “Parasite” delves into the anxieties of our time.
Rooted in the shadows of the Cold War, the album confronts the spectre of inevitable destruction, painting a bleak yet compelling portrait of a world on the brink, echoing Nevil Shute's On the Beach.
Formed in 2015 by Destroyer (Redemptor, ex-Hate, ex-Kriegsmaschine) and Adam Sierzega (Armagedon, Azarath (live)), the band appeared, with a full concert line-up, at the prestigious, completely sold-out Merry Christless concert series following the release of their debut EP. Untervoid have steadily built a reputation for their intense and uncompromising sound, finally crafting a sonic behemoth - “Parasite”. In 2024, Haldor Grunberg (Thaw, Mentor) joined the band as a third member.
The “Parasite” session began with drums recorded at Monochrome Studio, with Haldor Grunberg as the sound engineer, in December 2019. The rest was created, over the following years, at Rockstarguitar Studio and recorded by Destroyer. The saxophone parts and some vocals were recorded at JPM Studio, with Michal Pijocha as the sound engineer. The mixing was handled by Haldor Grunberg/Satanic Audio. The album was finally mastered at Audiosiege Studio. The album cover and graphic design were created by Sars.
Tracklist:
1. Parasite
2. 23
3. Downfall of Angels
4. Abyss Gazes Black
5. Ruiner
6. Swarm
7. Azure Agony
8. Last Shore
Untervoid are:
Destroyer - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Saxophone
Adam Sierżęga - Drums
Haldor Grunberg - Bass
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/untrvd/
AydrA - Unveil third
single "DESERTER" and final details of comeback album "LEAVE
TO NOWHERE"
FFO: Death, Sadist, Atheist
The wait is nearly over — after two decades of silence, cult death metal act AYDRA is set to return with their highly anticipated comeback album, Leave to Nowhere. Following a revival of their entire studio discography and rare material via Rude Awakening Records, AYDRA is poised to make a powerful statement in 2024.
The third and final single ahead of the album release is “Deserter,” out on September 22, 2024. This track explores the brutal realities of mandatory conscription in Eritrea, offering a glimpse into the album’s overarching concept. Leave to Nowhere tells the harrowing tale of a migrant’s journey from Africa to Europe, capturing the pain, struggle, and hope of those seeking a better life.
Fans can pre-save “Deserter” here: https://ditto.fm/deserter-aydra
Video première here: https://youtu.be/0-vWhmbXR5Y
In addition to the album’s release, AYDRA is preparing to hit the stage for select live shows, reuniting old and new members. Returning to the lineup are Andrea Mastromarco (bass on Hyperlogical Non-Sense) and Marcello Lammoglia (guitar on Icon of Sin), with more live performance details coming soon.
Leave to Nowhere will be available in digipack CD format and as a limited-edition colored vinyl, with only 200 hand-numbered copies available worldwide. Pre-orders are now open via Rude Awakening Records and directly from the band. The album is set for release on October 10, 2024.
Tracklist:
Three Minutes Walk
Deserter
Black Skin and Red Sand
They Waste a Throne
Lost Between Two Lands
Make Slaves
You Can’t Talk Anyone
Leave to Nowhere
Forever Hide
Psycho Pain Control 2024
Stay tuned for the triumphant return of AYDRA — a band ready to reclaim their place in the death metal pantheon with this thought-provoking and intense concept album.
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https://www.youtube.com/@aydraofficial
https://www.facebook.com/Aydra
"Do
you want the truth, Grand Inquisitor? And the truth is that… that I am A
WITCH!". "Strigae", the first chapter of INCANTVM,
which saw the presence of Sakis Tolis on the choirs, ended with this
revelation. What happened to the woman who had been with Satan? Will her ashes
have flown away to fertilize some wheat fields or will they have had another
destiny?
The big questions will be revealed in "MALEFICIA", the new creation by INCANTVM which will be released in February 2025 via My Kingdom Music.
Compared to the debut, in "Maleficia" there will be new illustrious guests that we will announce in the next few days and who have joined the historical nucleus composed by Vittorio Sabelli (DAWN OF A DARK AGE, A.M.E.N., NOTTURNO) and Tenebra (DREARINESS), while musically their Avant-garde Black Metal is contaminated by new facets that make it absolutely unique in the international musical scene.
Here's what Vittorio Sabelli revealed to us: "I didn't think I could give a sequel to "Strigae". It was a complete story, a sort of film script that developed sequentially up to the epilogue. Then, when you don't expect it, some souls wake you up during the night with the hope that you will give them a voice, a semblance, that you will make the truth known by granting them a second life. And this above all to obtain justice, truth and even revenge against those who pointed the finger. "Maleficia" begins where "Strigae" ends, and stylistically, and as a concept, it is enriched with further details."
Credits:
photo by: Riccardo Ziosi
model: Carlotta Vignocchi
model: Manuel Casari
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.instagram.com/incantvm_black_metal/
Forged in a crucible of traditional heavy metal and doom, an international metal supergroup named ANCIENT FURY has emerged, ready to bring a unique dual-lead vocal onslaught on the world.
A
lyric video for eponymous new single, "Ancient Fury," is available
at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ArO0Es5MlM
"Ancient Fury" is also available on Bandcamp, along with another new track, "Trail of the Fiend." https://ancientfury.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-fury
Members of the quintet are Dario Beretta (Drakkar, Crimson Dawn), Justin Biggs (Sorcerer), Arkadius Kurek (Wheel), Edo Sala (Folkstone) and Melissa Pinion (Stygian Crown).
Beretta, the visionary for the project, sought to create an old-school sound in the vein of both classic and contemporary traditional heavy metal bands, from Dio and Cirith Ungol to Grand Magus and Atlantean Kodex. He connected first with Pinion, who suggested a male and female lead vocalist in the lineup. Pinion felt Kurek, who she met while performing together at the 2022 “Hammer of Doom” festival in Germany, would be the perfect choice to join her on vocals. Biggs, Sala and Pinion had already collaborated with Beretta on various charitable recording projects.
The band has produced a three-song sampler mixed and mastered by Mattia Stancioiu at Elnor Studio in Magnago, Italy. With an emphasis on infectious guitar riffs, an intricate rhythm section and haunting voices, the songs tell historic and mythological “battles of the sexes” - ranging from the power struggle of King and Lady Macbeth as well as the ill-fated romance of Helen and Paris of Troy.
All images by Arkadius Kurek.
Line-up:
Dario Beretta - Guitar
Justin Biggs - Bass
Arkadius Kurek - Vocals
Edo Sala - Drums
Melissa Pinion - Vocals
https://linktr.ee/ancientfury
https://www.facebook.com/ancientfurymetal
"PATH TO OBLIVION" is the title of the new album realized by the cult Doom Metal band EPITAPH
Today we unveil its artwork realized by the extraordinary artist Luciana
Nedelea, and the tracklist that is:
1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
The album will be released in different formats [digipakCD, LP (black and colored vinyl), tape, digital] and it's available for PRE-ORDER at https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
EPITAPH, one of the longest-lasting bands of the entire Italian scene, is going to present one of the next big things within the Dark Doom Metal movement thanks to an overall epic and gloomy feeling, mixed with the natural dark atmospheres of their old school Doom Metal.
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (singer of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, this is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble.
The journey to oblivion is about to begin. Doom Metal, Dark, Progressive and Esotericism will be the coordinates.DOOM ON!!!
Line-up:
Mauro Tollini: drums
Nicola Murari: bass
Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars
Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
https://www.facebook.com/epitaph.doom
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
Portland (OR) - Progressive/Traditional Metal outfit SLEEPLESS have released a lyric video for "LOST STAR," the second single from forthcoming album, THROUGH ENDLESS BLACK!
FFO: Watch Tower, Nevermore, Anacrusis, Witherfall, Sanctuary, Fates Warning, Hades.
Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL5-dNytaXU
SLEEPLESS are set to release Through Endless Black, their second full-length album, on October 31! The album will be available on vinyl and digital formats through Necromantic Press Records. The CD version will be released on Metal Warrior Records.
Soon after the release of critically acclaimed, 2022 full-length debut album, Host Desecration, writing team Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn dug in deep with a single minded purpose: to create a world class metal album that shows exactly what SLEEPLESS is all about! Through Endless Black is just that! The album leans into the band's Trad Metal roots, infused with the technical flourishes and spashes of Doom that collectively create the SLEEPLESS sound! "With each tune we would picture someone dropping the needle onto a record," explains Sexton-Dorsett. "Could they nod their head to the song and have it repeating in their mind the rest of the day?"
Mission accomplished!
The band also introduced their first guest vocal appearances by legendary punk vocalist Jerry A of Poison Idea and master metal vocalist Sean Peck of Denner/Sherman, Cage, and Death Dealer!
SLEEPLESS is back with one hell of an album in Through Endless Black!
Pre-order: https://sleeplessmetal.bandcamp.com/album/through-endless-black
Track
List:
Side A:
1. Call To The Void
2. Cult Of The Narcissist
3. Consumed By Vengeance
4. Exist Another Day (Feat. Jerry A)
5. Where Fear Lives
Side B:
6. Through Endless Black
7. Lost Star
8. Transcending The Obsidian Throne (Feat. Sean Peck)
9. Lessons In Tongues
10. Dreams Of Mortal Ruin
Credits:
Guest vocals on Exist Another Day by Jerry A.
Guest vocals on Transcending The Obsidian Throne by Sean
"Hell Destroyer" Peck.
Additional keys by Fernando Ruiz.
Recorded at Opal Studio, Portland Oregon 2024.
Produced by Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn.
Engineered by Kevin Hahn.
Released by Necromantic Press Records.
Distributed in Europe by Metal Warrior Records.
Artwork by T.J. Barber.
Line-up:
Eric Sexton-Dorsett - Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitars, Backing Vocals
Kevin Hahn - Lead Guitars, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keys
Eric Detablan - Drums
Hixon Sexton-Dorsett - Bass
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https://sleeplessmetal.bandcamp.com/
Dutch blackened death metal outfit MISANTHROPIA unveils their latest macabre masterpiece with the video for "RIVER DUMPLINGS," a track from their critically acclaimed album "ENVY THE DEAD," out now via Wormholedeath. In true Misanthropia style, this grim tale weaves through history’s darkest corners, unraveling the sinister story of Amelia Dyer, the notorious Victorian-era "baby farmer."
"River
Dumplings" | The Dark Tale of Amelia Dyer
In the shadowy corners of Victorian England, darkness didn’t only lurk in the city's damp dungeons or hidden sewers. Even the quiet villages concealed unspeakable horrors. One such darkness came in the form of Amelia Dyer, a trained nurse who twisted the trust placed in her.
For 30 years, Dyer preyed upon society's most vulnerable—infants. Paid to care for them, she instead let hundreds perish from malnutrition, neglect, and worse. When their lives were snuffed out, they were wrapped tightly, as if in a grim ritual, and tossed into rivers like discarded parcels. Strangled by white cords, these "bundles of joy" floated in canals and bays, victims of a system and a woman who should have protected them.
What awaited these children was not just humanity's apathy, but perhaps something darker. Lurking in the waters were monstrous beings—figures that weren't entirely human. Were they the twisted manifestation of Dyer’s evil, or something else? Not all monsters wear men’s faces; some wear the guise of women.
Stream the Full Album "Envy The Dead" Here: https://orcd.co/envythedead
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
"Envy The Dead" is a concept album that conjures a dark, gritty atmosphere inspired by historical horrors like Jack The Ripper and necromancy. Moving away from symphonic elements, it embraces a progressive Death/Thrash vibe with influences from Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death. Mike Wead (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) is behind the engineering, mixing, and mastering
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
www.youtube.com/@misanthropiaofficial4167
www.facebook.com/666misanthropia
ASCIIMOV – “HANDS OF NECROMANCY II”
Label : The Order of the Yew (Darkwoods)
Formats : CD / Digital
Release Date: 29/10/2024
Genre : Orchestral Medieval Dark Synth Neofolk from Spain
Overwhelming second full-length studio album by Asciimov, the most masked and hermetic project of the brilliant musical shapeshifter NHT (As Light Dies, Aegri Somnia, Deemtee...), a vast musical epopee composed as the original soundtrack for the acclaimed dark fantasy first-person retro-shooter Hands of Necromancy II...
Developed for PC by Frechou Games and HON Team and just launched via Fulqrum Publishing, Hands of Necromancy II, the second chapter of the acclaimed dark fantasy first-person retro-shooter inspired by classics such as Heretic and Doom, is now available on major online gaming platforms: Steam, Epic Games, GOG...
Follow the adventures of the great necromancers Acheron and Phaedra through over 70 minutes of deeply personal neofolk, rich with the fantastical and medieval dark dungeon atmosphere and an impressive orchestral cinematic score, it’s as if the dark folk of Heilung, Faun or Wardruna were fused with the compositions of Basil Poledouris for “Conan the Barbarian”, Howard Shore for “The Lord of the Rings” or Hans Zimmer for “Gladiator”, an epic masterpiece that will captivate, not only fans of the video game, but also followers of neofolk, dark synth and music inspired by fantasy, role-playing games and sword and sorcery literature...
Released as a unique limited edition, Hands of Necromancy II is presented in a lavish oversized 4-panel digifile with an exclusive soft-touch matte laminate, complete with a printed cardboard sleeve to protect the CD and a free digital download card...
www.darkwoods.eu
www.facebook.com/asciimov
Chicago (IL) - Progressive Tech-Death stalwarts, GIGAN, in partnership with No Clean Singing, have premiered "TRANS-DIMENSIONAL CROSSING OF THE ALTA-TENUIS," the second single from upcoming album, ANOMALOUS ABSTRACTIGATE INFINITESSIMUS. Click to stream below!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/17/an-ncs-premiere-gigan-trans-dimensional-crossing-of-the-alta-tenuis/
The new single will be available September 20 on all digital platforms!
Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus, GIGAN's first album in seven years, will be released October 25 on CD, Ltd edition CD long box, vinyl, cassette, Ltd edition four-album cassette boxset, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/anomalous-willowtip
https://bit.ly/anomalous-bandcamp
Speaking to the new album, GIGAN’s founding member, guitarist, sole-songwriter and lyricist; Eric Hersemann, had this to say: “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a perfect expression of where GIGAN is as a band and where we are headed into the future. Like all GIGAN songs, our emphasis is on creativity and limitless imagination, while still working within the realms of interwoven madness and colorful technicality combined with the oppressive elements of misanthropic dissonance and crushing brutality. Any fan of GIGAN, or any fan of genuine Metal music that is completely fearless and without pretentious delivery, is in for a mind-bending treat.”
Track
Listing:
1. Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis
2. Ultra-Violet Shimmer and Permeating Infra-sound
3. Square Wave Subversion
4. Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes
5. Katabatic Windswept Landscapes
6. Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror
7. The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids
8. Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs of Time
Credits:
All music, lyrics, vocal patterns and concepts: Eric Hersemann.
Recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, IL.
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room.
All album art and layout: Max Winter (Teratogen)
Line-up:
Eric Hersemann - All electric, acoustic and bass guitars, theremin, otomatone, synths, lyrics, concepts and madness.
Nathan Cotton - Drums, percussion and Sunny weather.
Jerry Kavouriaris - Vocals and violence.
Bio:
Since 2005, GIGAN has been an unsung vanguard of abstract and creatively dissonant extreme metal. Pushing boundaries and never compromising the artistic vision throughout the debut EP and subsequent four full-length albums has led GIGAN to be considered an unwavering force of both innovation and extremity.
It has been almost seven years since GIGAN has released new music and the time spent away has only honed and sharpened the still-deadly blades of creativity for which GIGAN has always been known; while also infusing fresh elements not yet heard within the GIGAN Universe. The results of GIGAN’s current hard work is the new beast of an album entitled Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus.
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/Giganmusic/
"Blackened Skies" offers a glimpse of what's to come from DECIMATOR'S upcoming album, "'TIL THE ENEMIES ARE GONE", set for release on October 4th, 2024, via Wormholedeath Records. Recorded in a single day at Powell Lane Studios in Coogee, NSW, the album is built on tracks composed by a lineup that only performed live once, injecting a raw and unpredictable energy into their sound. Combining the ferocious grooves of modern metal with the blistering riffs of classic thrash, 'Til The Enemies Are Gone is a must-listen for metal fans everywhere.
Tracklist
1. Burn The Truth
2. The Rock
3. Legions
4. Phantoms
5. Blackened Skies
6. The Blade
7. Decimator
8. Killdozer
Line-Up:
Lance Holland-Keen - Guitars/Lead Vocals
Bon Lowe - Drums/Backing Vocals
Coen Winchester - Bass/Backing Vocals
Ethan Reeves - Guitars/Backing Vocals
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www.facebook.com/DecimatorBandAustralia
Death
metal force ANCIENT ENTITIES proudly present the
lyric video for "PIERCED BY OBSIDIAN", a track taken
from the band's album "ECHOES OF ANNIHILATION", out via
Wormholedeath.
Step into the shadowy depths of ancient Mayan history with "Pierced by Obsidian." Witness the harrowing reenactment of a sacrificial ceremony where a chosen victim, bound to a stake, faces a relentless barrage of obsidian-tipped arrows. This chilling ritual, shrouded in mystery and blood-soaked tradition, unveils the brutal reverence the Mayans held for their gods. Prepare to be mesmerized by the haunting visuals and the sheer intensity of this powerful portrayal of primal sacrificeAncient Entities, comprising Alex Rausa, Jake Falk, Luke Veranth, and Brian Gulliford, delve deep into the annals of ancient civilizations, weaving tales of war tactics, brutality, folklore, and mythology into their powerful soundscapes. The band’s mission is clear: to transport listeners back to ancient times, capturing the essence of historical narratives through their relentless music, immersive ambiance, and crushing riffs.
Don't miss out on what promises to be one of the standout metal releases of the year. Stay connected with Ancient Entities and immerse yourself in their sonic world through the following link: https://linktr.ee/Anciententities
"Echoes of Annihilation" is available on all digital platforms here: https://orcd.co/echoesofan
German band Typhonian are on the verge of releasing their ambitious new full length on which they have dared to take the old school sound ahead. It's not merely old school death metal anymore and it's now got both black metal and progressive influences and they've furthermore decided to go and write long, epic songs, with the album closer lasting for almost 20 minutes! They've released one final song before the album drops this Friday, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huoRas-uaJs
TYPHONIAN – “THE GATE OF THE VEILED BEYOND”
Where
most bands are content revelling in the sound of the glory days of early '90s
death metal, German band Typhonian have not only beautifully
reimagined it with blackened elements laced with the classic Swedish/Finnish
melodies, they are also attempting to take that sound ahead in the most logical
manner. Their approach being reminiscent of Edge of Sanity and their
40-minute masterwork 'Crimson', Typhonian are going a step further,
adding more progressive and atmospheric elements, which become perceptible
especially towards the end of the album, ultimately culminating in a near
20-minute epic closer. It's a phenomenal journey of the music that's evidently
rooted in the old school death metal sound metamorphosing gradually and finally
taking on a gleaming, breathtaking form and ascending. They have broken the
shackles that have held back the style for a couple of decades by encompassing
various influences organically and forging a cohesive sound that has dominance
over them all. With the visionary 'The Gate of the Veiled Beyond'
release, Typhonian have more than just outdone themselves; they have
surpassed expectations for the style as a whole.
For fans of: Edge of Sanity, Unanimated, Necrophobic, Dismember, Dan Swano, Desultory, Unleashed,
Evocation
Line up:
M. W. Styrum - Vocals
Prometheus - Guitars
Typhon -Guitars, Orchestration
Charybdis - Bass
Thanatos - Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano
Track listing:
1. Celestial Salvation
2. Cosmic Throne
3. Primal Deceptive Light
4. Crimson Rivers
5. The Gatekeeper
6. Towards the Chamber of the Omnipresent Mind
7. A Glimpse at the Starless Ocean
8. Cath'un - The Gate of the Veiled Beyond
Release date - September 20th, 2024
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https://www.facebook.com/typhonianband/
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
Black
metal purveyors ODIUM HUMANI GENERIS have unveiled the
next track off their upcoming second full-length album “MIĘDZYCZAS”
which is scheduled for release on 27th September 2024 via Malignant
Voices in CD, vinyl and digital formats.
The new track “IDÉE FIXE” has been premiered today via NO CLEAN SINGING and can be streamed here: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/16/an-ncs-premiere-odium-humani-generis-idee-fixe/
“Międzyczas” is an evolution of Odium Humani Generis’ sound which started with 2020’s debut album “Przeddzień” (Cult of Parthenope) and 2022’s EP “Zarzewie” (Folter Records). The album is a journey that moves through the emotional stages of fear, disappointment, sadness and loneliness resounding in every song. Listeners may notice influences from bands such as Taake, Drudkh, Lifelover, Sacrilegium, Vemod or Furia; however, Odium Humani Generis goes a step further, adding subtle but clear references to sounds outside of the traditional spheres of black metal. Despite its melancholic character, the album is full of energetic moments that break the dark, introspective parts and give the music intensity.
“Międzyczas” was recorded with Mariusz Konieczny at Heavy Gear Studio, and the album was mixed and mastered by The Fall (Owls Woods Graves, Hauntologist, Mgła (live)) at Skrzypłocz Studio. The unique graphic design was created by Emilia Śpiewak, and the band photos were taken by Radosław Chojnacki.
Odium Humani Generis was established in 2015 in Łódź, Poland. The band comprises Biały on vocals and guitars, Murukh (ex-Fadheit) on drums, Bartos (Imperator, Pandemonium) on bass, Ominous (Nightbound) on guitars. Over the years, the band has toured with bands such as Carpathian Forest, Mgła, Spectral Wound and In Twilight’s Embrace, and supported acts such as Uada, Mortiis, Panzerfaust, Negative Plane, Ellende, Pillorian, Hate, Malokarpatan. OHG also performed at various European festivals including Under the Black Sun (DE), Throne Fest (BE) and Cosmic Void Festival (UK).
Odium Humani Generis are:
Biały – Guitars, Vocals
Ominous – Guitars
Bartos – Bass
Murukh – Drums
http://malignantvoices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/odiumbm
The band’s frontman shares insight into the title track's thematic depth:
“A LEAP INTO THE DARK is fixated around a very vivid dream I had that I couldn’t forget or erase. Lyrically, it’s about taking a massive leap of faith into a chaotic unknown. It could lead to blessings or towards your downfall. It doesn’t matter; you’re at the moment where you need to make a decision. A LEAP INTO THE DARK is the choice I’ve made. I am not afraid of the unknown.”
Stream the song here: https://Enforced.lnk.to/ALeapIntoTheDark-EPNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jqnGIqP5w
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ENDONOMOS – „ENDONOMOS II – ENLIGHTENMENT“
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Argonauta Records
VÖ: 27.09.2024
Established in 2022, Endonomos have released their self titled debut album in the same year, followed by numerous club shows and festivals.
Blending the grand melodies of classic doom with the sheer heaviness of slow Death Metal and elements of other extreme metal subgenres, Endonomos create an intriguing blend of sinister and menacing riffs and harmonies, that range from beautiful to haunting, completed by mainman Lukas Haidinger’s bottomless growls and captivating clean vocals.
Their second full length album is to be released in fall 2024 via Argonauta Records
Tracklist:
1. Inversion
2. Atheon Anarkhon
3. Resolve
4. Entrapment
5. Hostile (ft. Daniel Droste of AHAB)
6. Kafir Qal’a
https://www.facebook.com/Endonomos
The new EP from international black metal duo HAMMERFILOSOFI is now streaming a day ahead of its official release via Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum (ATMF).
Extreme metal blog No Clean Singing, which has provided the exclusive world premiere of SOLUS (IGNE NATURA RENOVATOR INTEGRA), comments "You will have a hard time finding anything else this year as frightening to the core as SOLUS…"
Listen to SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra) at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/12/an-ncs-ep-premiere-and-a-review-hammerfilosofi-solus/
After their much-acclaimed debut album - The Desolate One - Hammerfilosofi returns with a fiery assault on the senses, in the shape of an EP entitled SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra); four psalms of relentless, multi-layered, and hellish madness.
“The EP is an inward journey of spiritual violence and cathartic soul-searching”, comments NKTFR, and adds: “Both musically and lyrically, it picks up from where The Desolate One left off and continues in a bold leap into the dark unknown”.
Behind the music is as per usual the Norwegian-Italian duo - NKTFR and FCCM. Lyrics for the EP were penned by a long-time comrade of the band, Rune Vedaa from the legendary Norwegian Black Metal band Forgotten Woods.
“The EP is both a continuation of the debut and an ominous forewarning of what is to come. We continue our relentless march, spreading our sulfurous gospel”, concludes FCCM.
Tracklist:
1) Hunt or be Hunted
2) Alpha Ego
3) Holy Fire
4) Epigone of Tragedy
SOLUS was recorded at WS Studios during the Autumn of 2023 and Winter 2024. The EP was mastered by Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Endarker Studios during the Spring of 2024. Visual design by Francesco Gemelli.
Bio:
Hammerfilosofi was formed in 2020 amid global chaos, shutdowns, death, panic and pestilence. For some, this was a time of despair and mass hysteria, but for others, a time of solitude, contemplation, and inner strength. The idea behind the band, according to FCCM was quite simple:
“We want to take Black Metal back to its primeval and genuine meaning and purpose. To pick up the torch, and carry on the march that was begun centuries ago. We have no intention of reinventing the wheel, but to create and evolve what we consider to be Black Metal”.
In 2023 Hammerfilosofi unleashed their much acclaimed debut album The Desolate One, and true to their word it was uncompromising Black Metal at its finest. NKTFR comments:
“Both musically and conceptually we want to bring back some of that rebellious pride, wrath, and danger - some Blood, Fire, and Death - that for us are mandatory ingredients in Black Metal.”
This is Black Metal from the fertile earth of the graveyard – made for the battleground, for the wanderer who dares walk the path of no return – guided by nothing but His luminous darkness.
September 2024 and the band is ready to unleash their latest opus - an EP entitled SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovatur Integra) - four tracks of hellish madness and thunderous Black Metal.
FCCM concludes: “Conceptually and musically “SOLUS” is an inward journey of reflection and contemplation, but fear not - it is by no means a pleasant ride.”
Hammerfilosofi is:
FCCM - Vocals
NKTFR - Instruments
https://atmf.net/
https://www.facebook.com/hammerfilosofi
These famous words by George Orwell set the tone and resound throughout the debut full-length album from Brazil's dark hardcore punk sect OBSOLETION. A grim and foreboding crossover hybridization of blackened hardcore punk and primordial heavy metal drawing influences from bands like Cro Mags, Integrity, Sheer
Terror (from which the band took its name), Mayhem, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, G.I.S.M., Carnivore
The crushing forthcoming hardcore omen has been teased by iconic punk and
hardcore blog IDIOTEQ, who in presenting the first single “Interdimensional
Chaos” have remarked how the album “captures the essence of a bleak
reality teetering on the edge of collapse”, continuing that “the second
track, ‘INTERDIMENSIONAL CHAOS’, stands out as a powerful
embodiment of this dystopian vision” and “serves as a sonic
representation of the album’s themes—a harrowing blend of cyberpunk and occult
imagery that feels as if it’s ripped from the pages of a dystopian novel. The
track’s relentless riffs and brutal rhythms are like the soundtrack to a world
where survival depends on a precarious balance between ancient magic and
cutting-edge technology”. You can check out the feature and listen to the
song https://idioteq.com/a-dlimpse-into-interdimensional-chaos-and-the-dystopian-dark-hardcore-of-obsoletion/
Indeed, the bleak and primeval self-titled assault masterminded by the São Paulo cult conjures shadows of a stark future dystopia and of sinister visions of fear, alienation and paranoia coming from within oppressive militarist technocracies and corrupt surveillance-states aiming for total social enslavement, while the natural world and man's last shreds of sanity revel and toil in a final battle for retribution and survival. The album's lyrics and its staggering retro-futurist art design (by Fernando Giotefeli, Jordy Kuster and José Vinícius) also explore concepts of magic and occultism from the 19th and 20th centuries, transfigured into present and future unrest, making themes such as cyborgism, post-humanism, and surveillance capitalism extremely relevant and ominous. The band's raw and gruesome riffs weaponize these themes and ignite the barricades, engulfing the listener in a maelstrom of tear gas, fire and shrapnel, compounding twenty minutes of wrath and refusal into a violent sonic cyberpunk epic that celebrates the glory days of US 80's and early 90's hardcore punk, thrash, death, black and heavy metal.
Obsoletion’s self-titled debut album is slated for an October 11 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on vinyl, cassette and digital/streaming formats, along with an exclusive spread of on-demand merch, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/releases/obsoletion-obsoletion
https://sentientruin.com/releases/obsoletion-obsoletion
Now we present the tracking-list for upcoming debut album "Unholy" with Empty Throne !
The album contains 6 strong songs and +40 minutes of the best Darkened Death/Thrash-Metal.
Line-up have CR Petit (vocals) from Angerot
Mike Pardi (guitar) from Draconis, ex Possessed
Gabe Seeber (drums)
Kennedy Veil, Abbath etc.
Jason Ellsworth (bass) angerot.
Tracking-list:
1.Unholy
2.That Day Has Come
3.My Flesh the Temtation
4.One By One
5.And All Shall Know His Name
6.Abbey of Thelema
PRE-order album here:
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/.../unholy-fall058...
Label: Tragedy Productions
Release Date: October 4th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Behexen | Shining | Sargeist | Dødsferd
In the lightless darkness of the world below, where the cold, grey waves of the river of forgetting lap against the shores of unceasing, stygian night, there the nameless and the soulless, tragic and deplorable, gather to exchange tales of bleak eternity and whisper secrets born of blood and promises. With sickle and stone they climb the thousand steps to moonlit night, there to gather the dreams of the sleeping, to reap the screams of the foolish and harvest the spirits of those who have turned the world of legends into a world of decay and ruination.
Three years since Sørgelig unleashed the fiercely intense Slaves Of Tomorrow EP, the Greek iconoclasts, dissident dream eaters, have returned, with an astonishing new full length album, wreathed in smoke and shadows – Φθορά! Opening with ‘Breed Of Waste’ that highlights the incredibly harsh, caustic vocals of Odious, that freeze the blood with their unbridled savagery, Φθορά then grasps you by the throat and flings you into a maelstrom of malefic sound and baleful visions. The insistent riffs of ‘Libation Of Blood ‘are driven into your skull like nails as a sinister, insidious evil weaves its way through the song. This is the epitome of black metal ferocity, a genre defining beast of a track. Meanwhile ‘Inexorable Grey’ summons the spirits of rage and war, unleashing forces of terrifying power, building to breathless peaks of blinding speed and darkness and crashing to abyssal depths. Yet Φθορά is much more than a glorious exposition of blasting ferocity and freezing wickedness, with ‘Φθορά’ itself providing a masterful break in the onslaught as its haunting sounds invoke unsettling imaginings of broken ghosts in empty ballrooms, spinning forever in dusty, tear-stained waltzes. Then there is the grand epic of tragedy and terror that closes this unearthly album – ‘Dreamscapes Of Lethe’. Jagged, probing riffs stagger across stuttering rhythms before collapsing into anguish, soul-searing madness, profound melancholy, death and blood. You rise again from a false ending, crawling towards the light, before ancient claws drag you back into darkness. There is no escape from the underworld, no return from Φθορά!
Φθορά will be released by Tragedy Productions, on 6 panel digi-pack with a sixteen page booklet, on October 4th and will surely see Sørgelig marching on towards the highest echelons of black metal. The creative balance displayed between understanding and embracing the essence of black metal and branding a unique seal into its cold, dead flesh is masterful. When Φθορά arrives be prepared to follow Sørgelig into realms unknown…and beyond.
Line-up:
Odious – Vocals/Lyrics
Reactive – Bass/Guitars
NCRVZRS – Guitars (track 3)
Έκπτωτος – Guitars/Lyrics
N.D. – Drums/Vocals/Guitars
https://www.tragedyproductions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sorgeligblackmetal
Raleigh (NC) - In support of forthcoming album, SUMMER, U.S. Black 'N Rollers, VALLETTA, will launch their Eastern U.S. Tour in October!
Summer will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on October 4 via Forcefield Records. Click the link below to pre-order! https://vallettanc.bandcamp.com/album/summer
Blackened Arena Rock? Melancholic Grunge n' Roll? Valletta's anthemic approach to songwriting and energetic stage performance certainly makes you wonder. The band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Summer, seeks to incinerate metal norms and create a new sound that is as grimey as it is electrifying!
Valletta comes with an impressive pedigree. The band features drummer Justin Valletta (Mo'ynoq), bassist/backing vocalist Donald Boyd (Mo'ynoq), guitar/lead vocalist Keenan Carroll (Lord Almighty, ex-Barishi), and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear (Hopesfall, Prayer for Cleansing, ex-Between The Buried and Me).
Metal Hammer called the band's debut EP, Come Alive, "A potent mix of Celtic Frost, Satyricon and The Bronx, this is fantastically catchy, bleak, old-school extreme metal with rock’n’roll hooks." Summer takes that penetrating foundational mix and supercharges the musicianship and songwriting, resulting in 12 tracks guaranteed to leave neurological imprints!
The band released the following statement about Summer:
“The new album, Summer, has been a real exploration in tearing down walls that we had previously built up over the years. Each of us coming from different musical backgrounds, there’s been this strong sense of letting go and allowing the music to unfold, regardless of how uncomfortable it may be. That’s been the beauty of this journey we’ve started together, and it’s been a great ride so far!
During the writing process, a constant theme that emerged was the idea of duality. From heavier, grimier riffs to beautiful, stoic melodies. From slower, muddy depths to faster, anthemic leads. From frozen wastelands, to summer nights, we’ve been on a journey to explore our limitations musically and emotionally. Spin that shit up!”
Track
Listing:*
1. Kissing Angels
2. Serpents of Solomon
3. Saint
4. Diving into the Deep
5. Criminal
6. Soot & Ash
7. Ill Blood
8. In Ecstasy
9. On the Run
10. Bringing the Worst
11. Come Alive
12. Almighty Hate
*The vinyl version of Summer contains five instrumental synthesizer bonus tracks that serve as interludes.
Album Credits:
Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob at Warrior Sound, Chapel Hill, NC.
Mastered by Matt Tuttle at IAS Studios, Winston Salem, NC.
Cover Art by Will Goodyear.
Line-Up:
Justin Valletta - Drums
Donald Boyd - Bass / Backing Vocals
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
https://shop.forcefieldrecords.org/
https://www.facebook.com/VallettaNC
ANIALATOR – “DEATH IS CALLING”
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: October 22nd 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Sodom | Slayer | Destruction | Devastation
He tears away the restricting shroud of memories and past battles, won and lost and brushes the grave dirt from his cold skin. He spits an errant worm from between his broken teeth and tests the edge of his blade against the flesh of his thumb. The skin parts and a sluggish stream of thick, black blood trickles lazily into his palm, forming a dark, shining pool. He stares for a moment at the image of his face, captured in the quickly congealing fluid; part man, part mask – all monster. But this is no time for dreaming, no time for thinking or reflecting. Death is calling. The Anialator is back and there’s killing to be done!
Six years on from their last release, the Rise To Supremacy EP and decades since the ragged violence of the Anialator and Anialator II records, which still hold a special place in the hearts of many thrashers, Texan legends Anialator are back and finally unleashing their first full length album – Death Is Calling! A seven track nail bomb of classic thrash sounds, straight from the underground, there has been no dilution of the Anialator sound by the modern genre blending plague…but neither is this some pastiche of past glories. From the white knuckle ride along the razor’s edge of chaos and darkness that is opener ‘Kill Til Death’, it’s clear that Anialator are still raw, still savage, still vicious but they’re now operating at a higher level of precision and power. With the brilliantly barbaric vocals, searing lead work and accomplished song writing there can be no doubt that Death Is Calling represents Anialator’s finest work to date. From the awesome ‘Iron Grinder’, a gritty invocation of evil, to ‘Battlefield Messiah’ with its torrent of Slayerized riffs that cuts a swathe through its enemies and leaves bloody carnage in its wake, this album is relentless. There’s no filler here, with every track standing proud in the frontline trench, with gritted teeth and blood boiling with uncontrollable aggression and adrenaline. These songs are made for the pit, for headbanging until your neck breaks, for ear-bleeding volume…this full length album may have been a long time coming, but it is everything that fans could have hoped for and more.
Mastered by the in demand Arthur Rizk (Cavalera Conspiracy, Cro-Mags, Kreator etc) Death Is Calling possesses a visceral power, the dirt and dried blood under its ragged finger nails evident in each snarling riff and venomous vocal exhortation. When Anialator and Death Is Calling are exhumed by Xtreem Music on October 22nd it will be shockingly apparent that this is no footnote to a career, no last twitching of a once renowned corpse – this is a new beginning, a devastating resurgence of a band who are back and deadlier than ever. Join them, or start running...
Recording line-up:
Alex Dominguez - Bass
JD De La Rosa – Guitars/Drums
Tony Gomez – Vocals
Additional live members:
Daniel Garcia - Drums
Fernando Salinas - Rhythm and lead Guitars
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Anialatortx
Helsinki-based doom metal band DENIGRATE releases their fourth full length album titled TO THE GODDESS UNKNOWN on November 29th 2024 via Inverse Records. Now they have released the second single single The Apparition of One from the upcoming album. The song includes the very first tunes of this set of compositions. Mood and speedwise the song is on the higher range on Denigrate's standard of recent compositions. Lyrically the song hopelessly yearns the unity of two, whether it be in crime or in balance.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/denigrate-the-apparition-of-one
Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/8i2ovEyrmdg
Since Denigrate was found back in '96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observative.
The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in this band. From the first released album in 2003 to the latest 4th one in 2024 called "To The Goddess Unknown", decades has changed and so has the band.
After no more than three albums released, after big-time local momentum with a finnish cover song, after mandatory hiatus, after some line-up changes, Denigrate 2024 introduces their absolutely greatest masterpiece to date and shows what only truely experienced bunch of members can achieve.
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass,
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Teemu Riekki - Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
www.facebook.com/denigrateCamp
Tarnaveni, Romania based formation ENDLESS DARK announce their debut full-length album "THE KINGDOOM", to be released later in the year in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.
Formed in March 2022 by Florin Cucerzan (guitar and vocals) and Liviu Voda (guitar), the band was later joined by Dragos Benyovszky (bass and vocals), Catalin Chereji (keyboards) and Arpi Bogar (drums) to what nowadays is a determined quintet.
ENDLESS DARK strive to provide an atmosphere reminiscing to it's name, music-wise a Gothic Doom Metal band with Death and Black Metal influences. The sound, the message of the lyrics, the harmonic chaos, the obscure melody, they all create a cell of emotions bringing all that the name ENDLESS DARK holds within!
"The Kingdoom" is the first album of the Romanian band ENDLESS DARK, a material that preaches about a metaphorical entity by his name... the "kingdoom". This "kingdoom" is rather an idea, a morbid kind of thinking into the unknown, the mythical, the mystical, the dark path of the obscure idea of what afterlife could be, and of course... the ENDLESS DARK. The lyrics are reminiscing of death, many songs evoking a macabre tone in their lyrics while also holding high a very tiny touch of hope... or lack of it, from the melodic, chaotic harmony of the sound.
The band recently released their first official video for the
title-track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT4vS51KhUo
"From cold and shadows...
We rise under the darkest moon, beyond the mist of time that brings up the ENDLESS DARK!
Embrace the lost words, burn down the sun!
Restless revenants roaming the darkest depths of this existence, we fight for our unlight to become the Age of the Dark!
We shall rise the darkest light in the hopes of eternal peace!
We follow the mythical path of everlasting unlight to bring the peace amongst disturbed dead...
Let us reveal the ancient wisdom lost in time!
Let us bring you... The Kingdoom!"
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082732505774
Wormholedeath is thrilled to announce the signing of the enigmatic Canadian dark ambient act CLOVEN, for the highly anticipated EP "TWILIGHT'S HEART." This atmospheric masterpiece is set to be unleashed on October 11, 2024.
Dave Bach, the creative force behind Cloven, shared his excitement about this collaboration: "With incredible respect and gratitude, I am happy to partner with WormholeDeath for the EP entitled "Twilight's Heart.
Twilight's Heart is the most mature work yet, compositionally, sonically, lyrically, and otherwise. It is a rumination on death, eternity, and love. It is entitled after the sigil of Cloven, a heart containing a multitude of stories, which is seen in the cover art."
Cloven is not just a band but a transcendent musical journey, blending the raw intensity of black metal with the haunting melodies of darkwave, gothic, and ambient music. The name Cloven signifies both division and unity, reflecting the project’s exploration of the human condition, the divine, and the eternal themes of love and separation.
At the Helm of Cloven
Cloven is the solo vision of Dave Bach, who collaborates with a talented pool of guest musicians, adding layers of depth and diversity to the project’s soundscapes.
With "Twilight's Heart," Cloven invites listeners to traverse a sonic landscape where darkness meets beauty, and every note echoes the eternal dance between life and death. Don’t miss out on this transcendent musical experience coming this October.
Tracklist:
1. In the House of Silence
2. L'appel du Vide
3. Wrapped in Talons
4. Love & Fire
5. Twilight's Heart
www.facebook.com/Cloven137
Finnish black/death Metal band LUUSÄKKI is set to release a self-titled debut album which will be out via Inverse Records on October 17th 2024. Statue in Uniform is the second single taken from the album and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/luusakki-statue
MS comments:
'"Statue in Uniform" is the second single from Luusäkki's upcoming self-titled debut album. The album was written and recorded in Helsinki in the fall of 2022. "Statue in Uniform" combines the dark tones of black metal with the fury of death metal. The song addresses the harsh reality of conflicts and aims to depict the inhuman effects of war as well as the cyclical nature of human suffering. The imagery paints a picture of lost souls and identities."
Listen to the first single Fifth of the Fifth Columns single: https://push.fm/fl/luusakki-fifth
Track list:
01. Penned in Water
02. Gangrene
03. Spit Shined Pig Skin
04. Mai-Dun
05. Fifth of the Fifth Columns
06. Statue in Uniform
07. Suzerain
08. Hyena
09. Death Cult
10. All Hallows
11. City of God
Album cover by MS.
Biography:
Luusäkki is a Finnish one-man project combining black metal, death metal and ambient music. The unstable atmosphere of 2022 gave impetus to the creative process that gave birth to Luusäkki.
Line-up:
Markus Sundquist - Guitars, bass, synths, programming, other instruments, vocals, composition, lyrics, mixing, mastering.
https://www.facebook.com/luusakki
PHOBOIAN is a melodic death metal orchestra from Turku,
Finland. The band’s music incorporates classical female vocals into heavy
nordic melancholy. Phoboian was established in 2017 during an after party to a
metal gig, and since has gathered six musicians to its ranks: singers Inka
Laitinen and Eeva Korhonen, drummer Kristo Rautavuori,
bassist Jonathan Åkerman, and guitarists Olli Kuure and Otso
Turunen. After a long silence Phoboian is ready to release “THE
PLAGUE”, the first single from its upcoming album.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/phoboian-plague
Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/zwBFugwL4So
“The Plague” tells about the extinction of mankind as a result of a deadly pandemic. It brings together medieval religious imagery and a modern scientific dystopia. Despite the macabre theme the song strives for beauty, and isn’t as much a prophecy as a warning. -Otso Turunen
"One of my favorite tracks from the upcoming album is definitely 'The Plague,' which harmonies and rhythms create an atmosphere that's great to rock out to. Together with the guys and Eeva, we’ve crafted a song that truly represents who we are, conveying relevant themes as well. Its energy and guitar riffs showcase our band’s sound at its best. Working together has been inspiring, and I believe listeners will also experience that energy. 'The Plague' is a part of our journey and a story we want to share."-Inka Laitinen
https://www.facebook.com/Phoboian
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release Date: October 11th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Massacre | Death | Sepultura | Master
It’s more than thirty years since Decayed Existence began their crusade of crushing death metal, bringing immaculate riffs and darkly imaginative song writing together through an absolute understanding of the very heaviest of metals. Refining their art and building the foundations of an enduring legend through a plethora of demos, compilations, EPs and full length albums, the California band have made an indelible mark in the annals of extreme metal – and their story is far from over! As summer fades once more and the autumn nights draw in Decayed Existence will unleash what may well come to be recognised as the most powerful and exhilarating release of their decades spanning career…The Beginning Of Sorrows.
Opening with the intense immediacy of ‘Escape The Dead’, The Beginning Of Sorrows plunges you straight into a vortex of glorious riffs, steeped in the essence of classic death metal. The band shift smoothly through the gears, changing tempos from driving energy to slow, agonised passages that grind the bones to dust – and from that oppressive weight a superb solo spirals upwards, bringing to mind the seminal work of Chuck Schuldiner and James Murphy. As The Beginning Of Sorrows continues the lead guitar work establishes itself as a key ingredient of the Decayed Existence sound, adding a dimension of depth and melody to the surging power of this formidable set of songs. The ever present Harry Rocco continues to be the beating heart and engine of the band, a drummer /vocalist in the fine tradition of Beehler and Reifert and every bit as effective. First single, ‘Beheading The Colossus’ is the epitome of what Decayed Existence have to offer, with its fantastic hooks and genre defining riffs…riff after riff of utter class, making this album an absolute joy to listen to. But The Beginning Of Sorrows saves the best til last, concluding with three tracks captured live that are simply monstrous! ‘Detonation’ in particular is a beast…a nightmare amalgamation of adrenaline fuelled headbanging and vast, crawling horrors! When The Beginning Of Sorrows ends, all too soon, you can’t help but think that Decayed Existence, despite their years in the frontline trenches, might be about to start the most exciting chapter of their career to date.
With the studio recordings being produced by Andrew Giordanengo (Everything Destroying etc) and the live tracks captured by Jake Ottinger, The Beginning Of Sorrows sounds vibrant and dangerous throughout. When it’s released on October 11th, with the backing of Rottweiler Records, this album will drive Decayed Existence back into the forefront of the underground metal consciousness – exactly where they deserve to be. Prepare to be crushed!
Line-up:
Harry Rocco – Drums/Vocals
Jeffery Ke - Lead Guitar
Ryan Brown - Bass
Kyle Balsiger - Rhythm Guitar
*Additional guitars on The Beginning Of Sorrows by Jason Davis and Richard Nash
*Additional vocals on The Beginning Of Sorrows by Keith Thompson
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/DecayedExistenceOFFICIAL
Örebro (SE) - Progressive Death Metal band CARNOSUS have partnered with Heavy Blog is Heavy for the video premiere of "Worm Chaser, the second single from forthcoming album, WORMTALES. Check it out below!
https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2024/09/11/exclusive-premiere-carnosus-introduce-you-to-the-worm-chaser/
CARNOSUS will release new album, Wormtales, October 18 on CD digipak, gatefold vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The release is the band's third overall and first for Willowtip.
Whispered among worms were the rumors of a new album by death metal outfit CARNOSUS. Heavier and darker, slithering its way from Sweden, comes Wormtales, a prequel to the critically acclaimed 2023 album, Visions of Infinihility. Wormtales contains some of the band's most impressive riffs thus far and once again lures the listener into the realm of infinihility.
Indeed,Visions of Infinihility, the quintet's independently released second album, garnered loads of positive press, further amplifying the anticipation for CARNOSUS' Willowtip debut, Wormtales!
CARNOSUS was established in 2011. The band members all come from different subgenres within Metal, resulting in a mixture of technical melodic death metal, thrash, progressive metal and a pinch of black metal influences scattered throughout.
Pre-order:
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/carnosus.aspx
https://carnosus.bandcamp.com/album/wormtales
Track Listing:
1. Birthless
2. Within Throat, Within Heart
3. Neglectikon
4. Yearnings of A Rotten Spine
5. Worm Charmer
6. Harbinger of Woundism
7. Paradoxical Impulse
8. Wound of Wisdom
9. Cosmoclaustrum
10. Solace In Soil
Credits:
Recorded and produced by Carnosus (except drums; recorded and produced by Robert Kukla & Dennis Rosic).
Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios.
Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.
Line-up:
Jonatan Karasiak - Vocals / Lyrics
Rickard Persson - Guitars
Marcus Jokela Nyström - Guitars
Marcus Strindlund - Bass
Jacob Hedner - Drums
https://willowtip.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Carnosus/
Release
date : September 20th 2024
Genre : Epic Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
AORLHAC will release on September 20 the reissue of its winds trilogy, namely "A la Croisée des Vents" (remastered version + 3 bonus tracks), "La Cité des Vents" (remastered version) & "L’Esprit des Vents", all in a sumptuous A5 format case which has since been unveiled. The feedback I have had has been unanimous!
AORLHAC is looking back to the past, to their Occitan roots, either medieval and modern, narrating the History of the south of France and north of Italy and Spain. Occitan is not only a language but also a culture recounted in French by the band : they are respectful witnesses of their ancestors’ heritage.
The first two singles, "La Mort Prédite" from "A La Croisée Des Vents" and "Sant Flor" from "La Cité des Vents" have just been released on the Youtube channel Atmospheric Black Metal Albums but are also available on all download platforms.
Aorlhac is looking back to the past, to their Occitan roots, either medieval and modern, narrating the History of the south of France and north of Italy and Spain. Occitan is not only a language but also a culture recounted in French by the band : they are respectful witnesses of their ancestors’ heritage.
Preorders: https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/bands/aorlhac/
Berlin (GER) - Avant-Garde Death Metal duo, INGURGITATING OBLIVION, in collaboration with No Clean Singing, have premiered Part III of 18-minute track, "THE BARREN EARTH OOZES BLOOD, AND SHAKES AND MOANS, TO DRINK HER CHILDREN'S GORE." The song is taken from forthcoming album, ONTOLOGY OF NOUGHT. Click the link below to stream it!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/11/an-ncs-premiere-ingurgitating-oblivion-the-barren-earth-oozes-blood-and-shakes-and-moans-to-drink-her-childrens-gore-part-3/
Part III will be available September 13 on all platforms. No Clean Singing will premiere the full album on September 24.
Ingurgitating Oblivion will release long-awaited new album, Ontology of Nought, September 27 on CD, gatefold 2x12" vinyl, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/ontology-willowtip
https://bit.ly/ontology-bandcamp
Unsurprisingly, considering the band's acclaimed body of work to date, this is no run-of-the-mill Tech-Death album. The talented duo of guitarist and engineer Norbert Müller and vocalist, guitarist, and composer Florian Engelke have outdone themselves again on Ontology of Nought! Epic-length tracks ranging from 10 to 18 minutes fuse into a cohesive whole that awes with the band's characteristic technical flare and progressive, compositional brilliance. The impressive cast of session and guest musicians adds even more vibrancy. Hearing is believing.
Though it has been seven years since the last Willowtip release, Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light, the forthcoming opus unequivocally demonstrates that the wait has been well worth it!
"You have fully delineated the subject of a universe of finiteness and change as well as the knowledge derived therefrom // Why should you be despondent in spite of all this, thinking that you are undone?"
- Ingurgitating Oblivion
The band released the following statement about the new album:
“Ontology of Nought is the result of approximately five years of incessant work. It documents whatever has been instilled into Ingurgitating Oblivion and the two minds pulling the strings behind the scenes: Norbert Müller and Florian Engelke. Trying to pinpoint some trite conceptual undercurrent would be to defile the beauty of creation. It feels alienating to us talking about our music and lyrics, as these stem from dichotomic dynamics of meticulous planning on the one hand and perfect intuition on the other. In like manner, the lyrics cannot be explained further here, but listeners are invited to do some work themselves and take a plunge into what could potentially encapsulate the world or denote nothing at all. Musically, we just do our own thing, celebrating our Death Metal heroes, more progressive Rock, jazz, folk, classical music. We do not strive to stand for any particular brand, but we simply enjoy being torn down the torrent of haphazard ideas, premonitions, and visions.
And that’s that."
Track
Listing:
1. Uncreation's whirring loom you ply with crippled fingers
2. To weave the tapestry of nought
3. The blossoms of your tomorrow shall unfold in my heart
4. Lest I should perish with travel, effete and weary, as my knees refuse to bear me thither
5. The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore
Credits:
Sound engineering, mastering and production by Norbert Müller.
Album cover by Dmitriy Egorov.
Guest appearances / Session musicians:
Lille Gruber (Defeated Sanity) - Drums
Ava Bonam - Vocals
Chris Zoukas (Mentally Defiled, Sacral Rage, Violent Definition) - Bass
Céline Voccia - Piano
Daniel Agi - Recorder, Flutes
Jan Ferdinand - Vibraphone, Guitars
Tom Fountainhead Geldschläger - Guitar Solos
Line-up:
Norbert Müller - rhythm and lead guitars, sound engineering, mastering, all recording logistics
Florian Engelke - lead composition, rhythm and lead guitars, vocals, Tibetan singing bowls
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/IngurgitatingOblivionOfficial
Originally released on limited-edition cassette earlier this year, fledgling label Alte Seelen will give Scripture of the Woods proper CD treatment on October 31.
Pre-order
the CD and stream the album now at https://alteseelen.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-of-the-woods
Tracklist:
1) Emerging Glare
2) Folk of the Blossoming Sky
3) Sommar
4) The Field's Arrival
5) Washed Away Among the Stones
6) Fiendish Lore
7) Moon's Melody of Death
Upon first viewing, the band's name, cover art, and logo, might give one reason to assume this is simply a blatant Sort Vokter ripoff. On the contrary, this debut mini album is a definite nod to the former legendary ‘necro’ act, but the music within has a certain vibe that serves as a tribute of sorts while standing on its own merits. Thus, Scripture of the Woods will surely appeal to fans of such legendary acts as the aforementioned Sort Vokter, as well as Ildjarn and the early works of Gorgoroth, while maintaining a primitive sound and style all their own.
Comprised of two prolific musicians, Azeruel Woldaeg and Collier d'ombre,
KVELDSTIMER delivers seven tracks of primitive, yet majestic, old-school black metal. The atmosphere and striking execution conjure whispers of the early 90's Norwegian scene!
KVELDSTIMER is:
Azeruel Woldaeg - all instruments
Collier d'ombre - vocals
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564639922269
On November 1st 2024, Monumental Rex will internationally present EVERTO SIGNUM’S long-expected second full-length album, “BEASTIARY”, on special handcrafted CD Grimoire format.
Everto Signum is a Black Metal act embodied by Nekruss and Æminus, hailing from the inner realms of Portugal. Having released the debut full-length “Enneachotomy” in 2012 and the EP “Synergy” in 2014, the band lied dormant as the creative duo focused on other music projects, namely Carma and Lacrau.
After ten years of silence, Everto Signum skulk out of chasmic caverns to unleash their brand new creation entitled “Beastiary” – a concept album inspired by destructive powers of Nature. The band stays true to their elemental background by writing an immersive story that guides the listener through a chain reaction of natural disasters. These calamities are beastialized – manifested as wild uncontrollable beasts exhibiting intrinsic animalistic shapes, traits and behaviours. The plot is comprised of seven chapters, each consisting of a contextual introduction that describes the scenery and sets the mood for the destruction to come, and an interpretation of the actual cataclysm. Written in English, the expressively poetic lyrical narrative portrays a journey from an ice-covered mountain top through a valley, down to the depths of a meromictic lake and finally into a perennial forest to witness the dreadful wrath of ancient forces.
To concretize this work, Everto Signum synergized with Diogo Mota, best known as the drummer of Gaerea, who infused the album with much energy and vigour. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nekruss himself, “Beastiary” stands as a hostile soundscape lasting over 50 minutes. Seven tracks build upon the musical ideas set by the latest EP, expanding and developing those into a more sophisticated form through the band’s signature Elemental Black Metal, this time utterly imbued with the brutality of Death Metal. Sublimely enriched with progressive structures, synthesizer-led passages, ambient sections and many other captivating elements coming from a vast range of influences such as Prog Rock, Folk, Dungeon Synth and even New-age music, “Beastiary” abounds with furiously melodic and potent guitar riffage, fierce and technical drumming, heavy pounding bass lines, and viciously varied extreme vocals. The production is aggressive, massive and multilayered, perfectly fitting the epic thematic of the album and keeping the listener on the edge throughout the entire journey.
The visual representation took form by the hand of the plastic artist RF Torres Valente who created a set of graphite and ink illustrations. These drawings were embellished with arcane calligraphy and exquisitely arranged into a grimoire-inspired layout, all scrupulously crafted by Infected Minds. Printed on rough texturized paper, the magnificent A5-sized 20-page booklet seamlessly depicts surrealistic concepts envisioned by Everto Signum.
Tracklist
1. Genesis [0:49]
2. Colossus [5:05]
3. Ophidian [7:37]
4. Wyvern [9:34]
5. Dragon [8:41]
6. Deinos [13:06]
7. Weaver [6:43]
Complete album line-up:
Æminus – songwriting, guitars and bass
Nekruss – songwriting, lyrics, vocals, recording, mixing and mastering
Diogo Mota – session drums
RF Torres Valente – artwork
Infected Minds – calligraphy and layout
https://www.facebook.com/monumental.rex
https://www.facebook.com/EvertoSignum
For fans of : Bonginator, Dying Fetus, Fluids, Frog Mallet, Fulci, Goreport, Mortician, Peeling Flesh, Pissgrave, Sanguisugabogg, and Viscera Trail.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Fupa Goddess to the roster with the debut full-length album "Fuckyourface"! From the folds of Virginia/North Carolina, Fupa Goddess was formed in 2019 and spews forth sick Death Metal/Goregrind/Noise with a fun atmosphere. After countless EPs and splits, Fuckyourface is the band's first full-length album and pushes the boundaries of extreme music to the max... this is Partygore!
Listen to the single "Dr. Pill Wildnout" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFkS69YiCUE
Pre-order the CD for only $10 at https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/fupa-goddess-fuckyourface-cd
Track
Listing:
1. As A Friend
2. Clip Em Up High
3. Dr. Pill Wildnout
4. I Got My Shoes Tied And I’m Ready For Burritos
5. Killer To Some, Hero To Others
6. Moral Of The Story
7. Oh Dammit Barb
8. Same Shit Different Day
9. This Is Cheese Sauce
10. When You're All Outta Fucks
11. You Wanna Get Fucked Up
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
DOULOS – “BELLUM” (Single)
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release Date: August 30th 2024
Genre: Hardcore
For fans of: Freya | Pro-Pain | Lionheart | (Un)Worthy
Based in Riverside, Southern California, Doulos have been perennial outsiders, fighting for their place in the modern metal scene – equally unwilling to compromise their principles as they are to water down their stripped back, bloody knuckled hardcore song craft. Doulos are one of a rare breed of bands who live by their beliefs – be that playing charity shows to support the underprivileged, or donating merch proceeds to help in the fight against the despicable practice of sex trafficking – this band practice what they preach. Every word, every action is accompanied by no frills, super heavy hardcore, built on muscular riffs, impassioned vocals and a head-caving rhythm section – and that unencumbered power is perfectly presented by the high impact, knockout blow of new single ‘Bellum’.
Following up the initial charge of 2021s The Middle Man EP and the acclaimed barrage of last year’s full length debut album, Birth Pains – described by The Metal Onslaught as “taking their sound to its utter limits with absolute expertise” – ‘Bellum’ has a lot to live up to. Luckily this taste of the future from Doulos exceeds expectations with ease. There’s no prevaricating or procrastinating here…a militaristic drum pattern leads straight into riffs that shift and collide like tectonic plates reforming a planet. The smell of the pit hangs heavy in the air as ‘Bellum’ marches to a conclusion that comes too soon, that leaves you desperate for the next patented Doulos blow to land…but then that’s what the repeat button is for! And good things come to those who wait…
Out on August 30th via Rottweiler Records, ‘Bellum’ is another triumph for Doulos, another immaculate demonstration of their focus and intent. Easing off the accelerator and doubling down on the lead weight heaviness, every chord is delivered with determined intent and unquestionable sincerity. This is real. This is hardcore. This is Doulos.
Line-up:
Eddie – vocals
Melanie – Bass
Jeff – Drums
Noah – Guitar
Eza - Guitar
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063709294162
The spiritual successor to God is Myth and Ars Magna Recordings, ALTE
SEELEN is a new US-based label supporting the extreme metal underground
and adjacent subgenres.
Founded by the heads of God is Myth and Ars Magna Recordings, Alte Seelen aims to produce high-quality releases while illuminating the bands, artists, and individuals who contribute to the music that is our life’s blood. In time the label hopes to expand its reach to provide unique items, ranging from prints to wood carvings and leatherwork.
While the label acknowledges and draws upon the experiences of the past, Alte Seelen represents a conscious decision to leave those ventures dormant and dreaming.
A new banner has been raised...
Halloween 2024 will see the release of the first two Alte Seelen titles.
Ringare - Sorrow Befell (majestic black metal / dark synth), CD and digital (originally released on vinyl by Iron Bonehead).
Kveldstimer – Scripture of the Woods (primitive, yet majestic Black Metal), CD and digital (limited-edition cassette released by Altare Productions).
In late fall/early winter, Alte Seelen will release By The Grace of Death from atmospheric black metal band Canis Dirus. Bindrune Recordings will handle vinyl treatment.
https://www.alteseelen.com/
RITUAL FOG - “BUT MERELY FLESH”
For
fans of
- Morgoth, Asphyx, Skeletal Remains, Laceration, Malevolent Creation, Death, Leper
Colony
Ritual Fog have masterfully infused thrash influences in their old school death metal sound in a way that the music becomes far more acerbic and gritty, so much so that even when they slow down during their doomier moments, it sounds incredibly scathing and vile. Their riffs seem to have a tendency to press down against the listener and create a burning sensation first in the ears, then in the rest of the body. The hoarse vocals emanating from what can only be a serrated throat add to the grating effect and enhance the nastiness quotient manifold. They seem to have borrowed the right amount of influences to form a cohesive albeit abrasive sound that wreaks havoc no matter what path they decide to tread. As such, they are able to easily traverse blood-smeared pits in both fast paced and thrashy style as well as the ponderous, doom-riddled way, without diminishing the sizzle. This ability to retain the aggression and switch things up at the drop of the hat elevates them above their monotonous old school-sounding peers and gives them an exciting edge. Assimilating and perfecting their sound for their much awaited debut full length, Ritual Fog have created a lurching, ravaging beast and it's hungry and absolutely unstoppable.
Line up
Ian Younkin - Vocals / Guitar
Andrew Hobday - Drums
Spencer Martin - Guitar
Jon Clark - Bass
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano Rosado
Track listing
1. Misticism
2. Desolate Chasm
3. Slimeblade
4. Nocturnal Suffering
5. Demented Procession
6. Fog Sermon
7. Carnal Pain
8. Sentient Chamber
9. But Merely Flesh
Release date - November 29th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/ritualfog
Progressive blackmetallers ETERNAL CRYPT promote their sophomore album with the second single/ lyric video: “RUNNING ALONE IN THE FOREST” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uMVoDt9fzQ
Drawing from many overseas influences, Eternal Crypt brings their brand of melodic extreme metal from their hometown of Rochester New York. It has been their mission to take the atmosphere of black metal, the aggression of death metal, and combine it with the melodic sensibility of power, folk, and doom metal, providing a thought provoking soundtrack to introspective lyrics.
Though initially starting as a solo studio project, Eternal Crypt became a full-fledged band after the release of debut album "Loneliness of the Wolf" in 2018. From then, Eternal Crypt will continue to bring their brand of melodic metal with their upcoming album "Stages of Grief" Releasing September 2024.
https://www.facebook.com/eternalcrypt
Forbannet, meaning cursed in Norwegian, is an esoteric death metal band from Rotterdam and Groningen, Netherlands. Combining elements of brutal death metal, death-doom and old school melodic death metal, we challenge the psychological and spiritual limits of the human mind throughout our lyrics, imagery and instrumentalism. For fans of: Phlebotomized, Blood Incantation, Intestine Baalism, Eternal Suffering, Worm.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDKgRf3Y0GjinO_NOi2wMAw
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085216816267
MERCIFUL THE DYING LIGHT continues the band's constant evolution with this genre-bending offering of blackened death metal. Written and recorded by the band's lone member Justin Vølus, Merciful the Dying Light drew inspiration from themes of vampirism, cosmic horror, and Mesopotamian mythos.
Track list:
1) Crowns of Ulthar
2) Sanity Forsaken
3) Blasphemies Infernal Strife
4) Merciful the Dying Light
5) Hissing Dissent
6) Revengeance of Blood
7) Between Two Fires
VØLUS is a one-man blackened death metal band from South Carolina, USA, delivering a unique blend of OSDM, Blackened Death Metal, and Progressive/Dissonant Death Metal. Merciful the Dying Light is the fourth full-length album in the VØLUS discography and the band's seventh overall release, including demos and EPs. The band, alongside Vargheist Records, was founded by Justin Vølus in 2018.
VØLUS is:
Justin Vølus - All Instruments, Vocals and Lyrics
https://www.facebook.com/volusdeath
https://vargheistrecords.com/
Atlanta
(GA) - Boris Records and Deanwell Global Music have
released SURRENDER TO DEATH: A HISTORY OF THE ATLANTA METAL
UNDERGROUND VOL. 1 on deluxe vinyl and digital formats!
Spanning two decades of local bands, studio projects, and touring heavyweights, Surrender to Death showcases over 20 bands, ranging from the early days of traditional heavy metal to gory basement death metal to second-wave black metal. Far from the better-known scenes in the Bay Area and New York and Florida, the Atlanta scene was comprised of musicians dedicated to the most despised genre of music, exploring subgenres and following their art wherever it took them. Strap in and prepare yourself for a night of fierce metallic sounds born in sweaty nightclubs, packed house parties, and DIY warehouse shows.
Over half a decade in the making, Surrender to Death features original recordings sourced directly from the bands. Scheduled for release September 6 on double-vinyl with a gatefold jacket, the packaging also includes an 11x17 double-sided insert containing bios and photos of each band, a sticker, random repro band flyers, and an 18x24 full color poster. Available now for preorder in four different color options.
Track Listing:
1. Messendger – “Strangers”
2. Fortnox – “Lucifer's Eyes”
3. Ghost Story – “What Few Even Dare”
4. Necropolis – “Waters of Lathe”
5. MX – “Rock You”
6. Sinister Angel – “Streetlight Glamour”
7. Legion – “Evil Mind”
8. Kinetic Dissent – “Reflected Fear”
9. Dark Overlord – “Til Death Do Us Part”
10. Hallows Eve – “Metal Merchants” (vinyl-only track)
11. Unblessed – “When It Bleeds It Pours”
12. Lestregus Nosferatus – “Sixteenth Chamber”
13. Rot – “Pray to Death”
14. Avulsion – “Inexorable Suffering”
15. Dawn of Orion – “Gates of Emptiness”
16. Haborym – “Metaphorical Ithaca”
17. Tragic Demise – “The Righteous Shall Fall”
18. Demoncy – “Winter Bliss”
19. Necroflesh – “Scream”
20. Procostimus – “Synthesis of Rebirth”
21. Darkened Skies – “Reign of Radulescu”
22. Vastion – “Ensuring Your Death”
Credits:
All tracks remastered from various sources by Jessica Thompson Audio.
Surrender to Death logo and jacket illustration by Brian Warner (ESAYDE).
Surrender to Death is part of Deanwell Global Music’s “Georgia
Historical Metal Archive Series” and Volume 2 in Boris Record’s “Atlanta Metal Underground Archive Series.”
Purchase/Stream:
https://deanwellglobalmusic.bandcamp.com/album/surrender-to-death-a-history-of-the-atlanta-metal-underground-1982-1999-vol-1
https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/surrender-to-death-a-history-of-the-atlanta-metal-underground-1982-1999-vol-1
Sweden's
melodic death trio AGAINST I is now streaming their newest
single, "BOUND IN BLOOD." The track marks the first
taste of what's to come with the band's upcoming full-length, SONGS
FOR THE DYING.
Take another step into the darkness and the next chapter of AGAINST I with "Bound In Blood" and prepare for more. Stream the song now on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon.
Songs for the Dying picks up where Destruction Lullaby - released in May 2024 - left off. The album offers lethal doses of aggressive and melodic death tinged with shades of industrial and atmospheric metal.
AGAINST I will release Songs for the Dying on November 29.
AGAINST I was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Keith Croona known as vocalist and founder of Cynical Existence and ex-vocalist of Menschdefekt. Together with Mathias Back (guitars) and Anders Ström (drums), they fuse elements of metal and hints of electronic parts into a cacophony of aggression and melodies.
In 2023 the band released their debut album Carnival of Excess on Advoxya Records. 2024 saw the release of two EPs, Perfect Smile and the follow-up Destruction Lullaby, which took the band in an entirely new direction.
Line-Up:
Fredrik Keith Croona - vocals
Mathias Back - guitars
Anders Ström - drums
https://www.facebook.com/againstIband
Exhaust is available in its entirety today, September 6, 2024. The band has chosen to forego the standard pre-release press cycle so that fans can experience the full recording immediately upon announcement, as it is intended to be heard. Exhaust is available on all digital platforms, as well as on CD, cassette, and vinyl!
Purchase/Stream:
https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/exhaust
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/pyrrhon.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-I4GwWYz0
Fever: The Making Of Pyrrhon’s Exhaust:
Pyrrhon was stuck in mid-2023 after prolonged global unrest and personal changes. In 2020, their album Abscess Time arrived at the heart of the pandemic. In 2021, they went on one tour at the height of the Delta COVID wave before clubs started shutting down again. In 2022, they played a single show. In 2023, they had only three songs written for a fifth album.
The band decided to shake things loose with a retreat. Armed with their instruments, psychedelic mushrooms, and a few bad movies, they rented a cabin in rural northeastern Pennsylvania in May 2023. The decision worked. The creative energy surged, and the band wrote three new songs over the weekend.
“Initially, we just didn't seem to be able to strike the same intensity as past Pyrrhon records,” vocalist and lyricist Doug Moore says. However, the time in the cabin allowed the band to reconnect as musicians and friends. “It was a turning point for the record,” Moore says. “We didn't have enough material. We hadn’t spent that much time together, and it felt like we were able to rediscover who we are and feel the energy of the collaboration.”
“We’d never done a creative retreat before, and it was so cool to write stuff on the spot,” guitarist Dylan DiLella says. “Writing stuff in the same room showed us that we don’t have to try as hard to create cool music. There was a lot of bashing our heads in this band, especially when trying to make this record. Going with the energy in the room helped us trust ourselves more.”
Pyrrhon, which formed in New York City in 2008 when most of the band was in college, has always been classified as technical death metal for convenience. Their music, however, defies convention—even in the anything-goes world of 21st-century metal. Pyrrhon's music contains the musical prowess of Gorguts’s Obscura, the unrelenting rhythmic pummeling of Big Black, and the experimentation of free jazz. Moore’s lyrics - a combination of poetry and flash prose - are a welcome relief in an art form awash in stale cliches and genre tropes. Pyrron’s jarring and complex music - a true outlier when the band released their first album over a decade ago - requires attention and scrutiny, and demands replay.
Pyrrhon’s fifth album, Exhaust, is not a concept record. However, many songs touch on where we are in 2024; people are overwhelmed and unable to catch their breath. The album was initially called “Exhaustion,” but drummer Steve Schwegler noticed recurring imagery about cars slowly degrading from overuse - an apt metaphor for an album exploring perpetual burnout. On a larger level, Exhaust is about things - machines or humans - being ground down and never recovering. It also hints at the exhaustion of staying sane in a world overrun with digital devices, social media, holograms, and artificial intelligence.
“It’s about the experience of being pushed beyond your ability to sustain things,” Moore says. “We went through a pandemic, and now people act like it didn’t happen. We went through an attempted fascist insurrection, and now people act like it didn’t happen. It’s a sense of constantly juggling things and never having a handle on them. That feeling became a big part of this record and the imagery.”
Pyrrhon’s songwriting process has always been democratic. On Exhaust, however, they wrote more material as a unit. In the past, one member wrote the framework of a song using a sequence of riffs or grooves. For Exhaust, Pyrrhon worked more collaboratively and wrote several songs as a group while jamming. “On the trip to Pennsylvania, we wrote as a group on the spot,” Moore says. “But even outside that, we wrote songs in our practice space. We have the same democratic principle as before, but what happened with Exhaust was that we all got better at realizing what works. It’s supposed to sound wild, but we’ve been a band for over 15 years, and the current lineup has been together for nearly a decade. The result was knowing what to do to serve the big picture.”
“Exhaust sounds like a band playing together, which is tough for a technical experimental death metal band,” DiLella says. “That’s always been our goal, but we haven't achieved it until this record. It’s our tightest record, but in some ways, it's also the loosest. It’s easy to forget about the burning passion we all had when we started this band. We are all passionate music fans, and that is channeled into this band. We just have recently realized how lucky we are to have Pyrrhon.”
Exhaust was recorded with longtime Pyrrhon producer Colin Marston in December 2023 at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves studios in Queens, shortly before the studio closed. The album benefits from the band members' other musical pursuits and life changes over the past four years. Moore joined the experimental black metal band Scarcity and became a software developer. DiLella joined the ascendant noise rock band Couch Slut and became a guitar teacher. Bassist Erik Malave studied library science. Schwegler finished college on the GI Bill and got an engineering job. “Our jobs and our lives changed a lot,” Moore says. “We almost had to figure out how to be a band again.”
In Pyrrhon’s early days, the band often wrote about their adopted hometown of New York. Their debut album, An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master, is, in many ways, an album about the city. In recent years, however, they have looked wider for inspiration - even to topics like American football. One of Exhaust’s standout tracks “Concrete Charlie” is loosely based on hard-hitting Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Chuck Bednarik, who exhibited CTE symptoms at the end of his life.
“It’s outwardly about football but more about how a larger system used and discarded him,” Moore says. “It’s part of the American experience. These titans of sports and people lionized by American culture are turned into mulch by the end of their lives. Football is a microcosm of American life, and we lionize these men who achieve extraordinary things but are fundamentally being exploited.”
A little more than a year removed from the cabin, Pyrrhon is reenergized and looking forward. “The pandemic and everything that happened honestly gave us a chance to pause for the first time since we’ve been a band,” DiLella says. “In the past, when albums were done, we started working on a new one. I’ve been reflecting on the band’s early days lately. We were kids when the band started. Now, I feel like we can work to our strengths more. I feel more confident and think the rest of the band does, too.”
“I did a lot of soul-searching with Exhaust,” Moore says. “We've been through a time of great uncertainty. I tend to get into my head about this stuff. Now that our lives are more balanced, I feel it was all worth it.”
- Justin M. Norton
Track
Listing:
1. Not Going To Mars
2. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
3. The Greatest City On Earth
4. Strange Pains
5. Out Of Gas
6. Luck Of The Draw
7. Concrete Charlie
8. Stress Fractures
9. Last Gasp
10. Hell Medicine
Line-up:
Erik Malave - Bass
Dylan DiLella - Guitars
Doug Moore - Vocals
Steve Schwegler - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/pyrrhonband
The video to the atmospheric single “Zielenrust” has been premiered today via No Clean Singing. Watch the video here: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/06/an-ncs-video-premiere-krvl-zielenrust/
Shazzula of Wolvennest guests on the track. The band commented about her contribution: “When we were listening to the demo of this song we felt like there was something missing. So we came up with the idea to add some female vocals on the intro. Shazzula was our first choice and luckily she liked our music and she said yes.”
Pre-save the single on digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/track/krvl-zielenrust
Pre-order the album “Donkere Paden”:
https://krvl.bandcamp.com/album/donkere-paden
https://t.ly/krvlD (CD)
https://t.ly/krvlV (Vinyl)
Following on from their debut "Kravaal" (self-released, 2022), the second album “Donkere Paden” will bring even more darkness and despair which will be divided into seven chapters.
The album will feature guest vocalists H. from the band Oerheks and Shazzulah from the revered Wolvennest.
The band states:
"We've poured our souls into crafting an atmospheric black metal album that will transport you to realms of chilling beauty and crushing despair. Prepare yourselves, for KrvL's reign of darkness begins anew when Autumn falls…"
KrvL comprises nameless souls that drift through the Kravaal Forest in Belgium in search of the light amongst the darkness they find themselves in. With lyrics in Dutch, the band contemplates topics such as nature, finding inner peace, nemesis, resurrection and an attempt to find light in the darkness.
Musically, the band is all about atmosphere. With a foundation of traditional 90s and modern black metal, the anonymous band also mixes post-metal, doom and sludge influences.
KrvL was established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, creating a perfect mood for the writing and recording of their debut album "Kravaal". Eventually, the album was self-released digitally in 2022 and then on vinyl in 2023. 2024 sees the band reach new heights with the signing to These Hands Melt and the release of their second album.
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
https://www.facebook.com/KrvL1745/
DEFILED EMBRACE - "THE NETHER EARTH"
Release
Date: September
06, 2024
Label: Another Side Records
The second full-length studio album by Israeli Doom Metal project.
Following the promising debut album "Whispers Of The Forest", "The Nether Earth" is fifty-four minutes Doom Death Metal creation, with its roots deep into the world of sadness and gloom.
The album speaks of the sadness and sorrow a person endures in life, such as love, loss, the dying and mourning of loved ones, and the wish to cause harm in turn. While so, the album's artwork and theme song describes the darkest side of the world we live in - a world full of suffering, a place barely suitable to live in for those, who are emotional, caring, and loving.
"The Nether Earth" brings a modern vibe and sound of Doom Metal, deeply influenced by bands such as Swallow The Sun, Clouds, Trees of Eternity, and The Sins Of Thy Beloved.
Tracklist:
1. This Blackened Half
2. Defiled Embrace
3. Cold
4. The Nether Earth (In Shade of Rotten Trees II)
5. Pieces
6. Mausoleum
7. Dim
8. Erase All That Is Pure
Biography
Defiled Embrace is a one-man-project formed in Israel in 2021 by local musician Matan Kedar. The project started as a collection of different Doom Metal songs, written by Matan over the course of 11 years. Some songs were originally written for another projects, but eventually they all came together under the name Defiled Embrace.
During 2021, Matan decided to record the songs using session musicians he works with in other bands, and the debut album “Whispers Of The Forest” was recorded during 2021-2022.
On July 2022, Defiled Embrace singed a deal with Metal Scrap Records Inc. Three videos were shot to support forthcoming release: “In Her Sullen Reflection”, “Autumn” and “Whispers Of The Forest”. September 9 became as an official release date of “Whispers Of The Forest” album through Another Side Records, a division of Metal Scrap Records Inc.
To the end of 2023, the new album, "The Nether Earth", was recorded.
During 2024, three Singles ("Mausoleum", "Pieces" and "Defiled Embrace") will be shouted before second album release, which planned on September 6 same year.
https://anotherside.metalscraprecords.com/
Glasgow (Scotland) - Brutal Death Metal quartet, INIQUITOUS SAVAGERY, are back! After nearly a decade since the release of full-length debut album, SUBVERSIONS OF THE PSYCHE, the Scottish brutes return with sophomore album, EDIFICE OF VICISSITUDES, their first for Willowtip!
Without compromise, stylistic detours or mellowing with age, Edifice of Vicissitudes is a blast-beaten beast of an album and a quintessential example of Brutal Death Metal in its purest form.
Guitarist Joe Fleetwood drives that point home in explaining that, “Edifice of Vicissitudes is the culmination of years of jamming and formulating our ideas into the most brutal and twisted Iniquitous Savagery songs we could make.”
Willowtip Records will release Edifice of Vicissitudes November 22 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:
https://iniquitoussavagery.bandcamp.com/album/edifice-of-vicissitudes
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/iniquitous-savagery.aspx
Track Listing:
1. Casualty of Diabolical Trial
2. Synaptic Cull
3. Choked Before First Breath
4. Omnipotence Negates Self-Affliction
5. Narcotic Exsanguination
6. Lifeblood
7. Drenched in Righteous Offal
8. Bio-Digital Convergence in the Fourth Industrial Age
Credits:
All music and lyrics by Iniquitous Savagery.
Recorded by D.P Johnson and Euan Harrison at Audio Lounge and Full Pelt studios.
Reamping, mixing and mastering by Colin Marston at The Thousand Caves.
Cover art by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design.
Line-up:
Liam McCall - Vocals
Joe Fleetwood - Guitar
Chris Ryan - Bass
Euan Harrison - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/iniquitoussavagery
They have always stayed on their path of mixing deathmetal with a grind sauce and dosing everything with a good serving of humor. From blast beats, gravity blasts, a german spoken a capella piece, breakdowns and a surprise power metal solo it‘s impossible to stand still.
The latest masterpiece „AT FULL FORCE“ (out February 11th, 2024) is the first album under the new line-up.
You’re either banging your head or dodging inflatable beachballs at their shows.
Don‘t expect angry frowns – GORE FORCE V wants to see smiles and raised hands
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_kEfS8CtUH/?igsh=eDU1MzY4dzlpa3cw
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/76QPA7Nqfjpl7Falw7SxNK?si=Z86gI5tXSSyfNzg5yw7OeA
https://www.instagram.com/gore_force_5
Play "The Sun, You" here: https://linktr.ee/saddayah
"The Sun, You" was recorded at Osimetric Studios Bucharest. Cover art by Filip Rădulescu.
"Lila" will be released in collaboration with Loud Rage Music, more about this to be revealed soon.
SADDAYAH was founded 11 years ago in Ploiesti, Romania. The band's music is based in traditional Death Metal although the members' high technical level shaped a new direction, a combination of Melodic Technical Death Metal with Progressive and Black Metal influences.
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.saddayah.com
Hungarian Death Metal band ...IN VISCERO released their debut
album "ITALIA VIOLENTA"
Hungarian Death Metal trio ...IN VISCERO released their debut full-length album "Italia Violenta" as limited edition jewel-case CD on Pest Records (Romania) and Metal Ör Die Records (Hungary)! The band's sound is Swedish, the band members are seasoned musicians with experience in Hungarian bands such as Casketgarden, Boru, Mutilation Case and Rém, and the lyrics are in Italian.
Here's what the band had to say about the album: "Our goal is to evoke the great moments of Italian cinema between the 60s and 90s. The era when filmmaking was more human, creative and forward-looking. When the void created by financial gaps was filled with human creativity, which created masterpieces that are now inscribed in gold in the eternal pantheon of universal cinematography. The seven films evoked by the album's songs tell tales about demons, zombies, witches and the darkest side of the human mind. After listening to the album, watching these films is not only necessary, but mandatory!
Viva il Cinema Italiano!"
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-viscero-italia-violenta
https://www.facebook.com/metalordierec/
NEWS 6.9.2024DENOMINATION – „THE LAST COMPANION“
KEITZER – „ PANDEMONIUM HUMANITAS“
Auch mit der Planung für die nächste Printausgabe unserer „kleinen Klolektüre“, welche ja nun aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach im Dezember kommen wird , sind wir nun komplett durch . So könnt ihr nun auch noch auf „nette“ Gesprächsrunden mit BOB BACHUS (Ex ASPHYX Drummer ) , DISASTER KFW und OVERLORD
Aktuelles aus dem internationalen und nationalen Metalbereich findet ihr wie immer auch unter https://www.facebook.com/Undergroundfanzine/
ASCIAN bringen ihr neues Album “SING TO ME, SWEET VOID” heraus. Ein atmosphärisches Highlight zwischen Doom und Post-Metal.
Die Braunschweiger haben nun eine weitere Single aus dem Album veröffentlicht. Das Video zu “Cold Sun” ist ab sofort verfügbar!
Video zu “Cold Sun” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPMZLnYG5Q
Lyric-Video zu “The Odium Palace” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcvsWPT8hDk
Tracklist01. Follow the Serpent
02. The Odium Palace (feat. Dima Dudko of White Ward)
03. The Golden Queen
04. Cold Sun
05. Threnody Spirals (feat Judith Ehreke of Unsoulicited)
06. Fra Lyset
07. Deathwish
Das neue Material wird am Veröffentlichungstag im Rahmen Stygian Pilgrims Festivals zusammen mit OPHIS, FROWNING und weiteren exzellenten Bands live vorgestellt.
Über ASCIAN
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen.
Leave all hope behind - Misery is ahead!
https://www.facebook.com/AscianDoom
IRON MAIDEN kündigen ihre RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR 2025/26 an . Mit einer Setlist aus den karriereprägenden frühen Jahrzehnten und dem Versprechen der größten Show aller Zeiten!
50 Jahre nach der Gründung der Band im Jahr 1975.
IRON MAIDEN werden ihre RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR am 27. Mai nächsten Jahres mit zwei Nächten in Budapest starten, gefolgt von 27 Stadion-, Festival- und Arena-Shows in ganz Europa. Die Tournee markiert das 50-jährige Bestehen der von Steve Harris Ende 1975 gegründeten Band, und um dies zu feiern, wird Maiden-Fans eine ganz besondere Setlist versprochen, die sich über die neun Studioalben von “Iron Maiden” bis “Fear Of The Dark” erstreckt, zusammen mit ihrer spektakulärsten und aufwändigsten Show aller Zeiten!
Die Tourdaten finden sich unten. Tickets gibt es ab Mittwoch, 25. September, 10 Uhr im exklusiven Online Presale bei CTS Eventim unter https://www.eventim.de/artist/iron-maiden/. Der allgemeine Vorverkauf beginnt am Freitag, 27. September um 10 Uhr.
Wie gewohnt wird es einen exklusiven Pre-Sale für Mitglieder des IRON MAIDEN Fanclubs geben. Dieser startet bereits am Montag, 23. September, 10 Uhr. Weitere Infos dazu unter https://www.ironmaiden.com/. Trooper VIP Packages werden bei allen Shows erhältlich sein.
Leadsänger Bruce Dickinson betont: „Das nächste Jahr ist ein ganz besonderes Jahr für IRON MAIDEN und wir werden unseren Fans ein einmaliges Live-Erlebnis bieten. Das ist eine Tour, die ein Lächeln auf dein Gesicht und ein Jubeln in deine Kehle zaubern wird. Wenn du uns schon einmal gesehen hast, kannst du dich bereit machen, dieses Erlebnis auf eine ganz neue Ebene zu heben. Wenn du uns noch nie gesehen hast: Worauf zur Hölle wartest du? Dies ist deine Chance, herauszufinden, was du verpasst hast! IRON MAIDEN wird euch definitiv kriegen!“
Manager Rod Smallwood ergänzt:
„50 Jahre Maiden und ich bin seit 46 davon dabei! Mit weit über 100 Millionen verkauften Alben und fast 2500 Shows in 64 Ländern (Tendenz steigend) und unzähligen Millionen von Fans lieben wir noch immer jede Sekunde und betrachten jede Tour als neue Herausforderung, um unseren Fans etwas Neues und Aufregendes zu bieten. Und für diese ganz besondere Tour ziehen wir alle Register!
Wir werden Klassiker und Fanlieblinge der ersten neun Alben, von ‘IRON MAIDEN’ bis ‘FEAR OF THE DARK’, spielen, von denen wir viele seit Jahren nicht mehr gespielt haben und viele, die wir wahrscheinlich in Zukunft nie wieder spielen werden. Wir haben bereits seit Monaten hart daran gearbeitet, eine noch spektakulärere und aufwändigere neue Show auf die Beine zu stellen, die die Songs mehr zum Leben erwecken wird, als wir es jemals zuvor konnten. Für IRON MAIDEN und natürlich auch für Eddie werden das ein paar gewaltige Jahre werden, und wir sind sehr aufgeregt darüber, was wir im Laufe unseres gesamten 50. Jahres für euch Fans noch in petto haben. Ich verspreche, dass ihr alle sehr glücklich sein werdet!“
Leadsänger Bruce Dickinson betont:
„Das nächste Jahr ist ein ganz besonderes Jahr für IRON MAIDEN und wir werden unseren Fans ein einmaliges Live-Erlebnis bieten. Das ist eine Tour, die ein Lächeln auf dein Gesicht und ein Jubeln in deine Kehle zaubern wird. Wenn du uns schon einmal gesehen hast, kannst du dich bereit machen, dieses Erlebnis auf eine ganz neue Ebene zu heben. Wenn du uns noch nie gesehen hast: Worauf zur Hölle wartest du? Dies ist deine Chance, herauszufinden, was du verpasst hast! IRON MAIDEN wird euch definitiv kriegen!“
Guests auf der ersten Hälfte der Tour, inklusive der Outdoor-Shows in London und Dublin und mit Ausnahme der Arenen in UK, werden die amerikanischen Rocker Halestorm sein. Die zweite Hälfte der Tour bietet Schwedens Avatar als Gäste. Und schließlich wird die britische Metal-Band The Raven Age alle UK- und Irland-Shows eröffnen. Bei den Festivals gilt natürlich das jeweils angekündigte Festival-Billing.
"RUN
FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR 2025"27. Mai – Budapest Aréna, Budapest, Ungarn (+)
31. Mai – Letnany Airport, Prag, Tschechien (+)
JUNI 2025
01. Juni – TIPOS Arena, Bratislava, Slowakei (+)
05. Juni – Trondheim Rocks, Trondheim, Norwegen (Festival)
07. Juni – SR-Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norwegen (+)
09. Juni – Royal Arena, Kopenhagen, Dänenmark (+)
12. Juni – 3Arena, Stockholm, Schweden (+)
13. Juni – 3Arena, Stockholm, Schweden (+)
16. Juni – Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finnland (+)
21. Juni – Utilita Arena, Birmingham, England (**)
22. Juni – Co-op Live, Manchester, England (**)
25. Juni – Malahide Castle, Dublin, Irland (+/**)
28. Juni – London Stadium, London, England (+/**)
30. Juni – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Schottland (**)
JULI 2025
03. Juli – Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, Frankreich (Festival)
05. Juli – Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano, Madrid, Spanien (++)
06. Juli – MEO Arena, Lisbon, Portugal (++)
09. Juli – Hallenstadion, Zürich, Schweiz(++)
11. Juli – Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Deutschland (++)
13. Juli – Stadio Euganeo, Padova, Italien (++)
15. Juli – Bürgerweide, Bremen, Deutschland (++)
17. Juli – Ernst Happel Stadion, Wien, Österreich (++)
19. Juli – Paris La Défense Arena, Paris, Frankreich (++)
23. Juli – GelreDome, Arnhem, Niederlande (++)
25. Juli – Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Deutschland (++)
26. Juli – Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Deutschland (++)
29. Juli – Waldbühne, Berlin, Deutschland (++)
AUGUST 2025
August – PGE Narodowy, Warschau, Polen (++)
+ = Halestorm
** The Raven Age
++ = Avatar
IRON MAIDEN sind derzeit noch unterwegs, um die letzten Dates ihrer gefeierten “The Future Past Tour” zu spielen, die sie Anfang des Monats nach Australien und Neuseeland führte und nach Shows in Japan, Kanada, den USA, Mexiko, Kolumbien, Chile und Argentinien dann im Dezember in Sao Paulo, Brasilien, mit zwei Konzerten im gigantischen Allianz Parque Stadium enden wird.
https://www.ironmaiden.com/
Sweden's melodic death trio AGAINST I revealed the tracklisting and cover artwork for their new album, SONGS FOR THE DYING.
Songs for the Dying picks up where Destruction Lullaby - released in May 2024 - left off. The album offers lethal doses of aggressive and melodic death tinged with shades of industrial and atmospheric metal.
Cover art for Songs for the Dying (shown above) by Sander Kapper.
Tracklisting:1. Bound in Blood
2. Depraved Lust
3. A Hymn for the End
4. Crimson Queen
5. Eternal Slumber
6. From the Beyond
7. Father of Lies
8. Judgement of the Damned
9. Praise the Dead
10. Scorched Earth
11. The Blackest Night
AGAINST I will release Songs for the Dying on November 29.
AGAINST I was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Keith Croona known as vocalist and founder of Cynical Existence and ex-vocalist of Menschdefekt. Together with Mathias Back (guitars) and Anders Ström (drums), they fuse elements of metal and hints of electronic parts into a cacophony of aggression and melodies.
In 2023 the band released their debut album Carnival of Excess on Advoxya Records. 2024 saw the release of two EPs, Perfect Smile and the follow-up Destruction Lullaby, which took the band in an entirely new direction.
Line-Up:
Fredrik Keith Croona - vocals
Mathias Back - guitars
Anders Ström - drums
https://www.facebook.com/againstIband
Release
Date:September 20, 2024 - Europe/UK
Ocober 04, 2024 - USA/Japan
Label: Total Metal Records
Format : 2024 Remaster, Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl comes in cover with renewed artwork, soft-touch lamination, and embossed logo, including printed innersleeve with full lyrics, restored for the first time.
For the first time on vinyl, the fifth full-length studio album by cult German Thrash Metal band.
Necronomicon was perhaps sometimes known as a 'poor man's Destruction', but they had their moments, most notably 1988's "Escalation". There are still comparisons to be made to Destruction, especially as Volker's vocals still persist in their painful pinch a-la Schmier, but the riffs seem to have come into a life of their own. Much of "Construction Of Evil" has a tight, consistent flow to it, a steady violence, fun tracks like "Stormbringer", "Paralizer", "Bone Daddy" and "Hard Pain", loaded with well-meaning guitars, flighty leads and bitter, biting vocals.
The album adheres very strongly to the original mixture of aggressive vocal shouts and melodic riffing observed on their early albums, but with a much cleaner production and a bit of an awareness of the newer German Power Metal acts that came out of the mid to late 1990s such as Paragon and Iron Savior. This is particularly noticeable in the peculiar sound and character of the lead guitar tracks. Naturally, the mix here is far superior to what they've done before, from a technical standpoint. The instruments are very well-balanced, the vocals at the forefront without robbing the guitars of their power.
Likewise, the band’s mastery of the gang chorus is almost enough to put Anthrax and Overkill to shame. The lead and gang backup interchanges on the chorus sections of “Fiction” and “Paralizer” succeed in being twice as bombastic as what was heard on “Taking Over” or “Among The Living”, while being just a little too aggressive for much of the German Power Metal scene.
Stylistically, the variation in approach from song to song mostly hearkens back to the mid to late 80s approach, mostly being dominated by speed songs with the occasional slower rocker and token half-ballad. "Alight" and "Hills of Dead" have a lot of German pre-Thrash elements and NWOBHM leanings. “Terrorist Attack” definitely carries some heavy Accept influences, as well as a gloomy piano line which is fairly uncharacteristic for a straight Thrash Metal outfit. “Fireball” has this sombre acoustic line to it that meshes with some standard Power chord riffing to form a middle ground between Anthrax and Bad Religion. It’s certainly the catchiest and vocally melodic of what’s on here, but occasionally kicks in the speed to keep it from being a straight power ballad.
To the prospective shopper of faster Metal with a taste for the old school, this is something that can appeal equally to fans of Old-school Thrash Metal, early US Power Metal and early German Speed Metal. The only thing that the latter two groups of fans should consider is that Freddy Fredrich’s gravely vocal style is more akin to the semi-melodic shouts of Kreator and Destruction than the less dirty melodic vocal approach of Rolf Kasperek or Udo Dirkschneider. But for fans of German Thrash Metal, this is far superior to what most of their scene has been offering in the first decade of the current century.
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Stormbringer 3:41
2. Hard Pain 3:43
3. From Hell 4:06
4. Alight 2:38
5. Hills of Dead 4:32
6. Paralizer 3:18
Running time: 22:04 min.
Side B
1. Terrorist Attack 5:49
2. Fiction 3:47
3. Fireball 3:28
4. Bone Daddy 3:20
5. Insanity 1:24
6. Possessed Again 4:39
https://totalmetal.metalscraprecords.com/
Label : Pagan RecordsRelease date : 20 September 2024
The debut album from Untervoid, which features members and ex-members of bands such as Hate, Thaw, Mentor, Azarath among others, is out now!
Following the acclaimed self-titled 2018 EP released via Osmose, Untervoid delve deeper into the abyss with “Parasite”, a concept album exploring the multifaceted role of humanity as a parasitic force on both society and the planet. From the suffocating pressures of social constructs to the looming threat of ecological collapse, “Parasite” delves into the anxieties of our time.
Rooted in the shadows of the Cold War, the album confronts the spectre of inevitable destruction, painting a bleak yet compelling portrait of a world on the brink, echoing Nevil Shute's On the Beach.
Formed in 2015 by Destroyer (Redemptor, ex-Hate, ex-Kriegsmaschine) and Adam Sierzega (Armagedon, Azarath (live)), the band appeared, with a full concert line-up, at the prestigious, completely sold-out Merry Christless concert series following the release of their debut EP. Untervoid have steadily built a reputation for their intense and uncompromising sound, finally crafting a sonic behemoth - “Parasite”. In 2024, Haldor Grunberg (Thaw, Mentor) joined the band as a third member.
The “Parasite” session began with drums recorded at Monochrome Studio, with Haldor Grunberg as the sound engineer, in December 2019. The rest was created, over the following years, at Rockstarguitar Studio and recorded by Destroyer. The saxophone parts and some vocals were recorded at JPM Studio, with Michal Pijocha as the sound engineer. The mixing was handled by Haldor Grunberg/Satanic Audio. The album was finally mastered at Audiosiege Studio. The album cover and graphic design were created by Sars.
Tracklist:
1. Parasite
2. 23
3. Downfall of Angels
4. Abyss Gazes Black
5. Ruiner
6. Swarm
7. Azure Agony
8. Last Shore
Untervoid are:
Destroyer - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths, Saxophone
Adam Sierżęga - Drums
Haldor Grunberg - Bass
https://www.pagan-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/untrvd/
AydrA - Unveil third
single "DESERTER" and final details of comeback album "LEAVE
TO NOWHERE"FFO: Death, Sadist, Atheist
The wait is nearly over — after two decades of silence, cult death metal act AYDRA is set to return with their highly anticipated comeback album, Leave to Nowhere. Following a revival of their entire studio discography and rare material via Rude Awakening Records, AYDRA is poised to make a powerful statement in 2024.
The third and final single ahead of the album release is “Deserter,” out on September 22, 2024. This track explores the brutal realities of mandatory conscription in Eritrea, offering a glimpse into the album’s overarching concept. Leave to Nowhere tells the harrowing tale of a migrant’s journey from Africa to Europe, capturing the pain, struggle, and hope of those seeking a better life.
Fans can pre-save “Deserter” here: https://ditto.fm/deserter-aydra
Video première here: https://youtu.be/0-vWhmbXR5Y
In addition to the album’s release, AYDRA is preparing to hit the stage for select live shows, reuniting old and new members. Returning to the lineup are Andrea Mastromarco (bass on Hyperlogical Non-Sense) and Marcello Lammoglia (guitar on Icon of Sin), with more live performance details coming soon.
Leave to Nowhere will be available in digipack CD format and as a limited-edition colored vinyl, with only 200 hand-numbered copies available worldwide. Pre-orders are now open via Rude Awakening Records and directly from the band. The album is set for release on October 10, 2024.
Tracklist:
Three Minutes Walk
Deserter
Black Skin and Red Sand
They Waste a Throne
Lost Between Two Lands
Make Slaves
You Can’t Talk Anyone
Leave to Nowhere
Forever Hide
Psycho Pain Control 2024
Stay tuned for the triumphant return of AYDRA — a band ready to reclaim their place in the death metal pantheon with this thought-provoking and intense concept album.
https://www.facebook.com/rudeawakeningrecs/
https://www.youtube.com/@aydraofficial
https://www.facebook.com/Aydra
"Do
you want the truth, Grand Inquisitor? And the truth is that… that I am A
WITCH!". "Strigae", the first chapter of INCANTVM,
which saw the presence of Sakis Tolis on the choirs, ended with this
revelation. What happened to the woman who had been with Satan? Will her ashes
have flown away to fertilize some wheat fields or will they have had another
destiny?The big questions will be revealed in "MALEFICIA", the new creation by INCANTVM which will be released in February 2025 via My Kingdom Music.
Compared to the debut, in "Maleficia" there will be new illustrious guests that we will announce in the next few days and who have joined the historical nucleus composed by Vittorio Sabelli (DAWN OF A DARK AGE, A.M.E.N., NOTTURNO) and Tenebra (DREARINESS), while musically their Avant-garde Black Metal is contaminated by new facets that make it absolutely unique in the international musical scene.
Here's what Vittorio Sabelli revealed to us: "I didn't think I could give a sequel to "Strigae". It was a complete story, a sort of film script that developed sequentially up to the epilogue. Then, when you don't expect it, some souls wake you up during the night with the hope that you will give them a voice, a semblance, that you will make the truth known by granting them a second life. And this above all to obtain justice, truth and even revenge against those who pointed the finger. "Maleficia" begins where "Strigae" ends, and stylistically, and as a concept, it is enriched with further details."
Credits:
photo by: Riccardo Ziosi
model: Carlotta Vignocchi
model: Manuel Casari
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.instagram.com/incantvm_black_metal/
Forged in a crucible of traditional heavy metal and doom, an international metal supergroup named ANCIENT FURY has emerged, ready to bring a unique dual-lead vocal onslaught on the world.
A
lyric video for eponymous new single, "Ancient Fury," is available
at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ArO0Es5MlM"Ancient Fury" is also available on Bandcamp, along with another new track, "Trail of the Fiend." https://ancientfury.bandcamp.com/album/ancient-fury
Members of the quintet are Dario Beretta (Drakkar, Crimson Dawn), Justin Biggs (Sorcerer), Arkadius Kurek (Wheel), Edo Sala (Folkstone) and Melissa Pinion (Stygian Crown).
Beretta, the visionary for the project, sought to create an old-school sound in the vein of both classic and contemporary traditional heavy metal bands, from Dio and Cirith Ungol to Grand Magus and Atlantean Kodex. He connected first with Pinion, who suggested a male and female lead vocalist in the lineup. Pinion felt Kurek, who she met while performing together at the 2022 “Hammer of Doom” festival in Germany, would be the perfect choice to join her on vocals. Biggs, Sala and Pinion had already collaborated with Beretta on various charitable recording projects.
The band has produced a three-song sampler mixed and mastered by Mattia Stancioiu at Elnor Studio in Magnago, Italy. With an emphasis on infectious guitar riffs, an intricate rhythm section and haunting voices, the songs tell historic and mythological “battles of the sexes” - ranging from the power struggle of King and Lady Macbeth as well as the ill-fated romance of Helen and Paris of Troy.
All images by Arkadius Kurek.
Line-up:
Dario Beretta - Guitar
Justin Biggs - Bass
Arkadius Kurek - Vocals
Edo Sala - Drums
Melissa Pinion - Vocals
https://linktr.ee/ancientfury
https://www.facebook.com/ancientfurymetal
"PATH TO OBLIVION" is the title of the new album realized by the cult Doom Metal band EPITAPH
Today we unveil its artwork realized by the extraordinary artist Luciana
Nedelea, and the tracklist that is: 1. Path To Oblivion
2. Embraced By Worms
3. Condemned To Flesh
4. Nameless Demon
5. She's Reborn In Blasphemy
6. Voices Behind The Wall
7. Kingdom Of Slumber
8. Fall From Grace
The album will be released in different formats [digipakCD, LP (black and colored vinyl), tape, digital] and it's available for PRE-ORDER at https://shorturl.at/RtoNK
EPITAPH, one of the longest-lasting bands of the entire Italian scene, is going to present one of the next big things within the Dark Doom Metal movement thanks to an overall epic and gloomy feeling, mixed with the natural dark atmospheres of their old school Doom Metal.
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (singer of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, this is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble.
The journey to oblivion is about to begin. Doom Metal, Dark, Progressive and Esotericism will be the coordinates.DOOM ON!!!
Line-up:
Mauro Tollini: drums
Nicola Murari: bass
Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars
Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
https://www.facebook.com/epitaph.doom
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
Portland (OR) - Progressive/Traditional Metal outfit SLEEPLESS have released a lyric video for "LOST STAR," the second single from forthcoming album, THROUGH ENDLESS BLACK!
FFO: Watch Tower, Nevermore, Anacrusis, Witherfall, Sanctuary, Fates Warning, Hades.
Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL5-dNytaXU
SLEEPLESS are set to release Through Endless Black, their second full-length album, on October 31! The album will be available on vinyl and digital formats through Necromantic Press Records. The CD version will be released on Metal Warrior Records.
Soon after the release of critically acclaimed, 2022 full-length debut album, Host Desecration, writing team Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn dug in deep with a single minded purpose: to create a world class metal album that shows exactly what SLEEPLESS is all about! Through Endless Black is just that! The album leans into the band's Trad Metal roots, infused with the technical flourishes and spashes of Doom that collectively create the SLEEPLESS sound! "With each tune we would picture someone dropping the needle onto a record," explains Sexton-Dorsett. "Could they nod their head to the song and have it repeating in their mind the rest of the day?"
Mission accomplished!
The band also introduced their first guest vocal appearances by legendary punk vocalist Jerry A of Poison Idea and master metal vocalist Sean Peck of Denner/Sherman, Cage, and Death Dealer!
SLEEPLESS is back with one hell of an album in Through Endless Black!
Pre-order: https://sleeplessmetal.bandcamp.com/album/through-endless-black
Track
List:Side A:
1. Call To The Void
2. Cult Of The Narcissist
3. Consumed By Vengeance
4. Exist Another Day (Feat. Jerry A)
5. Where Fear Lives
Side B:
6. Through Endless Black
7. Lost Star
8. Transcending The Obsidian Throne (Feat. Sean Peck)
9. Lessons In Tongues
10. Dreams Of Mortal Ruin
Credits:
Guest vocals on Exist Another Day by Jerry A.
Guest vocals on Transcending The Obsidian Throne by Sean
"Hell Destroyer" Peck.
Additional keys by Fernando Ruiz.
Recorded at Opal Studio, Portland Oregon 2024.
Produced by Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn.
Engineered by Kevin Hahn.
Released by Necromantic Press Records.
Distributed in Europe by Metal Warrior Records.
Artwork by T.J. Barber.
Line-up:
Eric Sexton-Dorsett - Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitars, Backing Vocals
Kevin Hahn - Lead Guitars, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keys
Eric Detablan - Drums
Hixon Sexton-Dorsett - Bass
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https://sleeplessmetal.bandcamp.com/
Dutch blackened death metal outfit MISANTHROPIA unveils their latest macabre masterpiece with the video for "RIVER DUMPLINGS," a track from their critically acclaimed album "ENVY THE DEAD," out now via Wormholedeath. In true Misanthropia style, this grim tale weaves through history’s darkest corners, unraveling the sinister story of Amelia Dyer, the notorious Victorian-era "baby farmer."
"River
Dumplings" | The Dark Tale of Amelia DyerIn the shadowy corners of Victorian England, darkness didn’t only lurk in the city's damp dungeons or hidden sewers. Even the quiet villages concealed unspeakable horrors. One such darkness came in the form of Amelia Dyer, a trained nurse who twisted the trust placed in her.
For 30 years, Dyer preyed upon society's most vulnerable—infants. Paid to care for them, she instead let hundreds perish from malnutrition, neglect, and worse. When their lives were snuffed out, they were wrapped tightly, as if in a grim ritual, and tossed into rivers like discarded parcels. Strangled by white cords, these "bundles of joy" floated in canals and bays, victims of a system and a woman who should have protected them.
What awaited these children was not just humanity's apathy, but perhaps something darker. Lurking in the waters were monstrous beings—figures that weren't entirely human. Were they the twisted manifestation of Dyer’s evil, or something else? Not all monsters wear men’s faces; some wear the guise of women.
Stream the Full Album "Envy The Dead" Here: https://orcd.co/envythedead
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
"Envy The Dead" is a concept album that conjures a dark, gritty atmosphere inspired by historical horrors like Jack The Ripper and necromancy. Moving away from symphonic elements, it embraces a progressive Death/Thrash vibe with influences from Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death. Mike Wead (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) is behind the engineering, mixing, and mastering
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
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www.facebook.com/666misanthropia
ASCIIMOV – “HANDS OF NECROMANCY II”
Label : The Order of the Yew (Darkwoods)Formats : CD / Digital
Release Date: 29/10/2024
Genre : Orchestral Medieval Dark Synth Neofolk from Spain
Overwhelming second full-length studio album by Asciimov, the most masked and hermetic project of the brilliant musical shapeshifter NHT (As Light Dies, Aegri Somnia, Deemtee...), a vast musical epopee composed as the original soundtrack for the acclaimed dark fantasy first-person retro-shooter Hands of Necromancy II...
Developed for PC by Frechou Games and HON Team and just launched via Fulqrum Publishing, Hands of Necromancy II, the second chapter of the acclaimed dark fantasy first-person retro-shooter inspired by classics such as Heretic and Doom, is now available on major online gaming platforms: Steam, Epic Games, GOG...
Follow the adventures of the great necromancers Acheron and Phaedra through over 70 minutes of deeply personal neofolk, rich with the fantastical and medieval dark dungeon atmosphere and an impressive orchestral cinematic score, it’s as if the dark folk of Heilung, Faun or Wardruna were fused with the compositions of Basil Poledouris for “Conan the Barbarian”, Howard Shore for “The Lord of the Rings” or Hans Zimmer for “Gladiator”, an epic masterpiece that will captivate, not only fans of the video game, but also followers of neofolk, dark synth and music inspired by fantasy, role-playing games and sword and sorcery literature...
Released as a unique limited edition, Hands of Necromancy II is presented in a lavish oversized 4-panel digifile with an exclusive soft-touch matte laminate, complete with a printed cardboard sleeve to protect the CD and a free digital download card...
www.darkwoods.eu
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Chicago (IL) - Progressive Tech-Death stalwarts, GIGAN, in partnership with No Clean Singing, have premiered "TRANS-DIMENSIONAL CROSSING OF THE ALTA-TENUIS," the second single from upcoming album, ANOMALOUS ABSTRACTIGATE INFINITESSIMUS. Click to stream below!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/17/an-ncs-premiere-gigan-trans-dimensional-crossing-of-the-alta-tenuis/
The new single will be available September 20 on all digital platforms!
Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus, GIGAN's first album in seven years, will be released October 25 on CD, Ltd edition CD long box, vinyl, cassette, Ltd edition four-album cassette boxset, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/anomalous-willowtip
https://bit.ly/anomalous-bandcamp
Speaking to the new album, GIGAN’s founding member, guitarist, sole-songwriter and lyricist; Eric Hersemann, had this to say: “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a perfect expression of where GIGAN is as a band and where we are headed into the future. Like all GIGAN songs, our emphasis is on creativity and limitless imagination, while still working within the realms of interwoven madness and colorful technicality combined with the oppressive elements of misanthropic dissonance and crushing brutality. Any fan of GIGAN, or any fan of genuine Metal music that is completely fearless and without pretentious delivery, is in for a mind-bending treat.”
Track
Listing:1. Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis
2. Ultra-Violet Shimmer and Permeating Infra-sound
3. Square Wave Subversion
4. Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes
5. Katabatic Windswept Landscapes
6. Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror
7. The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids
8. Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs of Time
Credits:
All music, lyrics, vocal patterns and concepts: Eric Hersemann.
Recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, IL.
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room.
All album art and layout: Max Winter (Teratogen)
Line-up:
Eric Hersemann - All electric, acoustic and bass guitars, theremin, otomatone, synths, lyrics, concepts and madness.
Nathan Cotton - Drums, percussion and Sunny weather.
Jerry Kavouriaris - Vocals and violence.
Bio:
Since 2005, GIGAN has been an unsung vanguard of abstract and creatively dissonant extreme metal. Pushing boundaries and never compromising the artistic vision throughout the debut EP and subsequent four full-length albums has led GIGAN to be considered an unwavering force of both innovation and extremity.
It has been almost seven years since GIGAN has released new music and the time spent away has only honed and sharpened the still-deadly blades of creativity for which GIGAN has always been known; while also infusing fresh elements not yet heard within the GIGAN Universe. The results of GIGAN’s current hard work is the new beast of an album entitled Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus.
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/Giganmusic/
"Blackened Skies" offers a glimpse of what's to come from DECIMATOR'S upcoming album, "'TIL THE ENEMIES ARE GONE", set for release on October 4th, 2024, via Wormholedeath Records. Recorded in a single day at Powell Lane Studios in Coogee, NSW, the album is built on tracks composed by a lineup that only performed live once, injecting a raw and unpredictable energy into their sound. Combining the ferocious grooves of modern metal with the blistering riffs of classic thrash, 'Til The Enemies Are Gone is a must-listen for metal fans everywhere.
Tracklist1. Burn The Truth
2. The Rock
3. Legions
4. Phantoms
5. Blackened Skies
6. The Blade
7. Decimator
8. Killdozer
Line-Up:
Lance Holland-Keen - Guitars/Lead Vocals
Bon Lowe - Drums/Backing Vocals
Coen Winchester - Bass/Backing Vocals
Ethan Reeves - Guitars/Backing Vocals
www.youtube.com/@decimatorbandaustralia568
www.facebook.com/DecimatorBandAustralia
Death
metal force ANCIENT ENTITIES proudly present the
lyric video for "PIERCED BY OBSIDIAN", a track taken
from the band's album "ECHOES OF ANNIHILATION", out via
Wormholedeath.Step into the shadowy depths of ancient Mayan history with "Pierced by Obsidian." Witness the harrowing reenactment of a sacrificial ceremony where a chosen victim, bound to a stake, faces a relentless barrage of obsidian-tipped arrows. This chilling ritual, shrouded in mystery and blood-soaked tradition, unveils the brutal reverence the Mayans held for their gods. Prepare to be mesmerized by the haunting visuals and the sheer intensity of this powerful portrayal of primal sacrificeAncient Entities, comprising Alex Rausa, Jake Falk, Luke Veranth, and Brian Gulliford, delve deep into the annals of ancient civilizations, weaving tales of war tactics, brutality, folklore, and mythology into their powerful soundscapes. The band’s mission is clear: to transport listeners back to ancient times, capturing the essence of historical narratives through their relentless music, immersive ambiance, and crushing riffs.
Don't miss out on what promises to be one of the standout metal releases of the year. Stay connected with Ancient Entities and immerse yourself in their sonic world through the following link: https://linktr.ee/Anciententities
"Echoes of Annihilation" is available on all digital platforms here: https://orcd.co/echoesofan
German band Typhonian are on the verge of releasing their ambitious new full length on which they have dared to take the old school sound ahead. It's not merely old school death metal anymore and it's now got both black metal and progressive influences and they've furthermore decided to go and write long, epic songs, with the album closer lasting for almost 20 minutes! They've released one final song before the album drops this Friday, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huoRas-uaJs
TYPHONIAN – “THE GATE OF THE VEILED BEYOND”
Where
most bands are content revelling in the sound of the glory days of early '90s
death metal, German band Typhonian have not only beautifully
reimagined it with blackened elements laced with the classic Swedish/Finnish
melodies, they are also attempting to take that sound ahead in the most logical
manner. Their approach being reminiscent of Edge of Sanity and their
40-minute masterwork 'Crimson', Typhonian are going a step further,
adding more progressive and atmospheric elements, which become perceptible
especially towards the end of the album, ultimately culminating in a near
20-minute epic closer. It's a phenomenal journey of the music that's evidently
rooted in the old school death metal sound metamorphosing gradually and finally
taking on a gleaming, breathtaking form and ascending. They have broken the
shackles that have held back the style for a couple of decades by encompassing
various influences organically and forging a cohesive sound that has dominance
over them all. With the visionary 'The Gate of the Veiled Beyond'
release, Typhonian have more than just outdone themselves; they have
surpassed expectations for the style as a whole.For fans of: Edge of Sanity, Unanimated, Necrophobic, Dismember, Dan Swano, Desultory, Unleashed,
Evocation
Line up:
M. W. Styrum - Vocals
Prometheus - Guitars
Typhon -Guitars, Orchestration
Charybdis - Bass
Thanatos - Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano
Track listing:
1. Celestial Salvation
2. Cosmic Throne
3. Primal Deceptive Light
4. Crimson Rivers
5. The Gatekeeper
6. Towards the Chamber of the Omnipresent Mind
7. A Glimpse at the Starless Ocean
8. Cath'un - The Gate of the Veiled Beyond
Release date - September 20th, 2024
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https://www.facebook.com/typhonianband/
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai India
Black
metal purveyors ODIUM HUMANI GENERIS have unveiled the
next track off their upcoming second full-length album “MIĘDZYCZAS”
which is scheduled for release on 27th September 2024 via Malignant
Voices in CD, vinyl and digital formats.The new track “IDÉE FIXE” has been premiered today via NO CLEAN SINGING and can be streamed here: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/16/an-ncs-premiere-odium-humani-generis-idee-fixe/
“Międzyczas” is an evolution of Odium Humani Generis’ sound which started with 2020’s debut album “Przeddzień” (Cult of Parthenope) and 2022’s EP “Zarzewie” (Folter Records). The album is a journey that moves through the emotional stages of fear, disappointment, sadness and loneliness resounding in every song. Listeners may notice influences from bands such as Taake, Drudkh, Lifelover, Sacrilegium, Vemod or Furia; however, Odium Humani Generis goes a step further, adding subtle but clear references to sounds outside of the traditional spheres of black metal. Despite its melancholic character, the album is full of energetic moments that break the dark, introspective parts and give the music intensity.
“Międzyczas” was recorded with Mariusz Konieczny at Heavy Gear Studio, and the album was mixed and mastered by The Fall (Owls Woods Graves, Hauntologist, Mgła (live)) at Skrzypłocz Studio. The unique graphic design was created by Emilia Śpiewak, and the band photos were taken by Radosław Chojnacki.
Odium Humani Generis was established in 2015 in Łódź, Poland. The band comprises Biały on vocals and guitars, Murukh (ex-Fadheit) on drums, Bartos (Imperator, Pandemonium) on bass, Ominous (Nightbound) on guitars. Over the years, the band has toured with bands such as Carpathian Forest, Mgła, Spectral Wound and In Twilight’s Embrace, and supported acts such as Uada, Mortiis, Panzerfaust, Negative Plane, Ellende, Pillorian, Hate, Malokarpatan. OHG also performed at various European festivals including Under the Black Sun (DE), Throne Fest (BE) and Cosmic Void Festival (UK).
Odium Humani Generis are:
Biały – Guitars, Vocals
Ominous – Guitars
Bartos – Bass
Murukh – Drums
http://malignantvoices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/odiumbm
The band’s frontman shares insight into the title track's thematic depth:
“A LEAP INTO THE DARK is fixated around a very vivid dream I had that I couldn’t forget or erase. Lyrically, it’s about taking a massive leap of faith into a chaotic unknown. It could lead to blessings or towards your downfall. It doesn’t matter; you’re at the moment where you need to make a decision. A LEAP INTO THE DARK is the choice I’ve made. I am not afraid of the unknown.”
Stream the song here: https://Enforced.lnk.to/ALeapIntoTheDark-EPNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jqnGIqP5w
NEWS 13.9.2024
Die Ausarbeitung der nächsten Printausgabe des FU geht
ganz gut voran, so dass wir doch denken, Euch bereits Ende des Jahres dann mit
der Nr. 59 beglücken zu können. So ganz „nebenbei“ heißt es aber erst einmal
noch ,den Stapel an neuem Metalmaterial abzuarbeiten ,um Euch da auch ein klein
bissel auf dem aktuellen Stand zu halten .Aktuelle Reviews :
DEMONIST – „ DEMONIST“ (TAPE /EP)
SINNER RAGE - " POWERSTRIKE/CHAINED BY NIGHT" (DEMO TAPE
Aktuelles aus dem internationalen und nationalen Metalbereich findet ihr wie immer auch unter https://www.facebook.com/Undergroundfanzine/
ENDONOMOS – „ENDONOMOS II – ENLIGHTENMENT“
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Argonauta Records
VÖ: 27.09.2024
Established in 2022, Endonomos have released their self titled debut album in the same year, followed by numerous club shows and festivals.
Blending the grand melodies of classic doom with the sheer heaviness of slow Death Metal and elements of other extreme metal subgenres, Endonomos create an intriguing blend of sinister and menacing riffs and harmonies, that range from beautiful to haunting, completed by mainman Lukas Haidinger’s bottomless growls and captivating clean vocals.
Their second full length album is to be released in fall 2024 via Argonauta Records
Tracklist:
1. Inversion
2. Atheon Anarkhon
3. Resolve
4. Entrapment
5. Hostile (ft. Daniel Droste of AHAB)
6. Kafir Qal’a
https://www.facebook.com/Endonomos
The new EP from international black metal duo HAMMERFILOSOFI is now streaming a day ahead of its official release via Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum (ATMF).
Extreme metal blog No Clean Singing, which has provided the exclusive world premiere of SOLUS (IGNE NATURA RENOVATOR INTEGRA), comments "You will have a hard time finding anything else this year as frightening to the core as SOLUS…"
Listen to SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra) at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/12/an-ncs-ep-premiere-and-a-review-hammerfilosofi-solus/
After their much-acclaimed debut album - The Desolate One - Hammerfilosofi returns with a fiery assault on the senses, in the shape of an EP entitled SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra); four psalms of relentless, multi-layered, and hellish madness.
“The EP is an inward journey of spiritual violence and cathartic soul-searching”, comments NKTFR, and adds: “Both musically and lyrically, it picks up from where The Desolate One left off and continues in a bold leap into the dark unknown”.
Behind the music is as per usual the Norwegian-Italian duo - NKTFR and FCCM. Lyrics for the EP were penned by a long-time comrade of the band, Rune Vedaa from the legendary Norwegian Black Metal band Forgotten Woods.
“The EP is both a continuation of the debut and an ominous forewarning of what is to come. We continue our relentless march, spreading our sulfurous gospel”, concludes FCCM.
Tracklist:1) Hunt or be Hunted
2) Alpha Ego
3) Holy Fire
4) Epigone of Tragedy
SOLUS was recorded at WS Studios during the Autumn of 2023 and Winter 2024. The EP was mastered by Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Endarker Studios during the Spring of 2024. Visual design by Francesco Gemelli.
Bio:
Hammerfilosofi was formed in 2020 amid global chaos, shutdowns, death, panic and pestilence. For some, this was a time of despair and mass hysteria, but for others, a time of solitude, contemplation, and inner strength. The idea behind the band, according to FCCM was quite simple:
“We want to take Black Metal back to its primeval and genuine meaning and purpose. To pick up the torch, and carry on the march that was begun centuries ago. We have no intention of reinventing the wheel, but to create and evolve what we consider to be Black Metal”.
In 2023 Hammerfilosofi unleashed their much acclaimed debut album The Desolate One, and true to their word it was uncompromising Black Metal at its finest. NKTFR comments:
“Both musically and conceptually we want to bring back some of that rebellious pride, wrath, and danger - some Blood, Fire, and Death - that for us are mandatory ingredients in Black Metal.”
This is Black Metal from the fertile earth of the graveyard – made for the battleground, for the wanderer who dares walk the path of no return – guided by nothing but His luminous darkness.
September 2024 and the band is ready to unleash their latest opus - an EP entitled SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovatur Integra) - four tracks of hellish madness and thunderous Black Metal.
FCCM concludes: “Conceptually and musically “SOLUS” is an inward journey of reflection and contemplation, but fear not - it is by no means a pleasant ride.”
Hammerfilosofi is:
FCCM - Vocals
NKTFR - Instruments
https://atmf.net/
https://www.facebook.com/hammerfilosofi
These famous words by George Orwell set the tone and resound throughout the debut full-length album from Brazil's dark hardcore punk sect OBSOLETION. A grim and foreboding crossover hybridization of blackened hardcore punk and primordial heavy metal drawing influences from bands like Cro Mags, Integrity, Sheer
Terror (from which the band took its name), Mayhem, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, G.I.S.M., Carnivore
The crushing forthcoming hardcore omen has been teased by iconic punk and
hardcore blog IDIOTEQ, who in presenting the first single “Interdimensional
Chaos” have remarked how the album “captures the essence of a bleak
reality teetering on the edge of collapse”, continuing that “the second
track, ‘INTERDIMENSIONAL CHAOS’, stands out as a powerful
embodiment of this dystopian vision” and “serves as a sonic
representation of the album’s themes—a harrowing blend of cyberpunk and occult
imagery that feels as if it’s ripped from the pages of a dystopian novel. The
track’s relentless riffs and brutal rhythms are like the soundtrack to a world
where survival depends on a precarious balance between ancient magic and
cutting-edge technology”. You can check out the feature and listen to the
song https://idioteq.com/a-dlimpse-into-interdimensional-chaos-and-the-dystopian-dark-hardcore-of-obsoletion/Indeed, the bleak and primeval self-titled assault masterminded by the São Paulo cult conjures shadows of a stark future dystopia and of sinister visions of fear, alienation and paranoia coming from within oppressive militarist technocracies and corrupt surveillance-states aiming for total social enslavement, while the natural world and man's last shreds of sanity revel and toil in a final battle for retribution and survival. The album's lyrics and its staggering retro-futurist art design (by Fernando Giotefeli, Jordy Kuster and José Vinícius) also explore concepts of magic and occultism from the 19th and 20th centuries, transfigured into present and future unrest, making themes such as cyborgism, post-humanism, and surveillance capitalism extremely relevant and ominous. The band's raw and gruesome riffs weaponize these themes and ignite the barricades, engulfing the listener in a maelstrom of tear gas, fire and shrapnel, compounding twenty minutes of wrath and refusal into a violent sonic cyberpunk epic that celebrates the glory days of US 80's and early 90's hardcore punk, thrash, death, black and heavy metal.
Obsoletion’s self-titled debut album is slated for an October 11 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on vinyl, cassette and digital/streaming formats, along with an exclusive spread of on-demand merch, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases.Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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Now we present the tracking-list for upcoming debut album "Unholy" with Empty Throne !
The album contains 6 strong songs and +40 minutes of the best Darkened Death/Thrash-Metal.
Line-up have CR Petit (vocals) from Angerot
Mike Pardi (guitar) from Draconis, ex Possessed
Gabe Seeber (drums)
Kennedy Veil, Abbath etc.
Jason Ellsworth (bass) angerot.
Tracking-list:
1.Unholy
2.That Day Has Come
3.My Flesh the Temtation
4.One By One
5.And All Shall Know His Name
6.Abbey of Thelema
PRE-order album here:
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/.../unholy-fall058...
Label: Tragedy ProductionsRelease Date: October 4th 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Behexen | Shining | Sargeist | Dødsferd
In the lightless darkness of the world below, where the cold, grey waves of the river of forgetting lap against the shores of unceasing, stygian night, there the nameless and the soulless, tragic and deplorable, gather to exchange tales of bleak eternity and whisper secrets born of blood and promises. With sickle and stone they climb the thousand steps to moonlit night, there to gather the dreams of the sleeping, to reap the screams of the foolish and harvest the spirits of those who have turned the world of legends into a world of decay and ruination.
Three years since Sørgelig unleashed the fiercely intense Slaves Of Tomorrow EP, the Greek iconoclasts, dissident dream eaters, have returned, with an astonishing new full length album, wreathed in smoke and shadows – Φθορά! Opening with ‘Breed Of Waste’ that highlights the incredibly harsh, caustic vocals of Odious, that freeze the blood with their unbridled savagery, Φθορά then grasps you by the throat and flings you into a maelstrom of malefic sound and baleful visions. The insistent riffs of ‘Libation Of Blood ‘are driven into your skull like nails as a sinister, insidious evil weaves its way through the song. This is the epitome of black metal ferocity, a genre defining beast of a track. Meanwhile ‘Inexorable Grey’ summons the spirits of rage and war, unleashing forces of terrifying power, building to breathless peaks of blinding speed and darkness and crashing to abyssal depths. Yet Φθορά is much more than a glorious exposition of blasting ferocity and freezing wickedness, with ‘Φθορά’ itself providing a masterful break in the onslaught as its haunting sounds invoke unsettling imaginings of broken ghosts in empty ballrooms, spinning forever in dusty, tear-stained waltzes. Then there is the grand epic of tragedy and terror that closes this unearthly album – ‘Dreamscapes Of Lethe’. Jagged, probing riffs stagger across stuttering rhythms before collapsing into anguish, soul-searing madness, profound melancholy, death and blood. You rise again from a false ending, crawling towards the light, before ancient claws drag you back into darkness. There is no escape from the underworld, no return from Φθορά!
Φθορά will be released by Tragedy Productions, on 6 panel digi-pack with a sixteen page booklet, on October 4th and will surely see Sørgelig marching on towards the highest echelons of black metal. The creative balance displayed between understanding and embracing the essence of black metal and branding a unique seal into its cold, dead flesh is masterful. When Φθορά arrives be prepared to follow Sørgelig into realms unknown…and beyond.
Line-up:
Odious – Vocals/Lyrics
Reactive – Bass/Guitars
NCRVZRS – Guitars (track 3)
Έκπτωτος – Guitars/Lyrics
N.D. – Drums/Vocals/Guitars
https://www.tragedyproductions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sorgeligblackmetal
Raleigh (NC) - In support of forthcoming album, SUMMER, U.S. Black 'N Rollers, VALLETTA, will launch their Eastern U.S. Tour in October!
Summer will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on October 4 via Forcefield Records. Click the link below to pre-order! https://vallettanc.bandcamp.com/album/summer
Blackened Arena Rock? Melancholic Grunge n' Roll? Valletta's anthemic approach to songwriting and energetic stage performance certainly makes you wonder. The band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Summer, seeks to incinerate metal norms and create a new sound that is as grimey as it is electrifying!
Valletta comes with an impressive pedigree. The band features drummer Justin Valletta (Mo'ynoq), bassist/backing vocalist Donald Boyd (Mo'ynoq), guitar/lead vocalist Keenan Carroll (Lord Almighty, ex-Barishi), and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear (Hopesfall, Prayer for Cleansing, ex-Between The Buried and Me).
Metal Hammer called the band's debut EP, Come Alive, "A potent mix of Celtic Frost, Satyricon and The Bronx, this is fantastically catchy, bleak, old-school extreme metal with rock’n’roll hooks." Summer takes that penetrating foundational mix and supercharges the musicianship and songwriting, resulting in 12 tracks guaranteed to leave neurological imprints!
The band released the following statement about Summer:
“The new album, Summer, has been a real exploration in tearing down walls that we had previously built up over the years. Each of us coming from different musical backgrounds, there’s been this strong sense of letting go and allowing the music to unfold, regardless of how uncomfortable it may be. That’s been the beauty of this journey we’ve started together, and it’s been a great ride so far!
During the writing process, a constant theme that emerged was the idea of duality. From heavier, grimier riffs to beautiful, stoic melodies. From slower, muddy depths to faster, anthemic leads. From frozen wastelands, to summer nights, we’ve been on a journey to explore our limitations musically and emotionally. Spin that shit up!”
Track
Listing:*1. Kissing Angels
2. Serpents of Solomon
3. Saint
4. Diving into the Deep
5. Criminal
6. Soot & Ash
7. Ill Blood
8. In Ecstasy
9. On the Run
10. Bringing the Worst
11. Come Alive
12. Almighty Hate
*The vinyl version of Summer contains five instrumental synthesizer bonus tracks that serve as interludes.
Album Credits:
Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob at Warrior Sound, Chapel Hill, NC.
Mastered by Matt Tuttle at IAS Studios, Winston Salem, NC.
Cover Art by Will Goodyear.
Line-Up:
Justin Valletta - Drums
Donald Boyd - Bass / Backing Vocals
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
https://shop.forcefieldrecords.org/
https://www.facebook.com/VallettaNC
ANIALATOR – “DEATH IS CALLING”
Label: Xtreem MusicRelease Date: October 22nd 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Sodom | Slayer | Destruction | Devastation
He tears away the restricting shroud of memories and past battles, won and lost and brushes the grave dirt from his cold skin. He spits an errant worm from between his broken teeth and tests the edge of his blade against the flesh of his thumb. The skin parts and a sluggish stream of thick, black blood trickles lazily into his palm, forming a dark, shining pool. He stares for a moment at the image of his face, captured in the quickly congealing fluid; part man, part mask – all monster. But this is no time for dreaming, no time for thinking or reflecting. Death is calling. The Anialator is back and there’s killing to be done!
Six years on from their last release, the Rise To Supremacy EP and decades since the ragged violence of the Anialator and Anialator II records, which still hold a special place in the hearts of many thrashers, Texan legends Anialator are back and finally unleashing their first full length album – Death Is Calling! A seven track nail bomb of classic thrash sounds, straight from the underground, there has been no dilution of the Anialator sound by the modern genre blending plague…but neither is this some pastiche of past glories. From the white knuckle ride along the razor’s edge of chaos and darkness that is opener ‘Kill Til Death’, it’s clear that Anialator are still raw, still savage, still vicious but they’re now operating at a higher level of precision and power. With the brilliantly barbaric vocals, searing lead work and accomplished song writing there can be no doubt that Death Is Calling represents Anialator’s finest work to date. From the awesome ‘Iron Grinder’, a gritty invocation of evil, to ‘Battlefield Messiah’ with its torrent of Slayerized riffs that cuts a swathe through its enemies and leaves bloody carnage in its wake, this album is relentless. There’s no filler here, with every track standing proud in the frontline trench, with gritted teeth and blood boiling with uncontrollable aggression and adrenaline. These songs are made for the pit, for headbanging until your neck breaks, for ear-bleeding volume…this full length album may have been a long time coming, but it is everything that fans could have hoped for and more.
Mastered by the in demand Arthur Rizk (Cavalera Conspiracy, Cro-Mags, Kreator etc) Death Is Calling possesses a visceral power, the dirt and dried blood under its ragged finger nails evident in each snarling riff and venomous vocal exhortation. When Anialator and Death Is Calling are exhumed by Xtreem Music on October 22nd it will be shockingly apparent that this is no footnote to a career, no last twitching of a once renowned corpse – this is a new beginning, a devastating resurgence of a band who are back and deadlier than ever. Join them, or start running...
Recording line-up:
Alex Dominguez - Bass
JD De La Rosa – Guitars/Drums
Tony Gomez – Vocals
Additional live members:
Daniel Garcia - Drums
Fernando Salinas - Rhythm and lead Guitars
https://www.xtreemmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Anialatortx
Helsinki-based doom metal band DENIGRATE releases their fourth full length album titled TO THE GODDESS UNKNOWN on November 29th 2024 via Inverse Records. Now they have released the second single single The Apparition of One from the upcoming album. The song includes the very first tunes of this set of compositions. Mood and speedwise the song is on the higher range on Denigrate's standard of recent compositions. Lyrically the song hopelessly yearns the unity of two, whether it be in crime or in balance.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/denigrate-the-apparition-of-one
Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/8i2ovEyrmdg
Since Denigrate was found back in '96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observative.
The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in this band. From the first released album in 2003 to the latest 4th one in 2024 called "To The Goddess Unknown", decades has changed and so has the band.
After no more than three albums released, after big-time local momentum with a finnish cover song, after mandatory hiatus, after some line-up changes, Denigrate 2024 introduces their absolutely greatest masterpiece to date and shows what only truely experienced bunch of members can achieve.
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass,
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Teemu Riekki - Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
www.facebook.com/denigrateCamp
Tarnaveni, Romania based formation ENDLESS DARK announce their debut full-length album "THE KINGDOOM", to be released later in the year in collaboration with Loud Rage Music.
Formed in March 2022 by Florin Cucerzan (guitar and vocals) and Liviu Voda (guitar), the band was later joined by Dragos Benyovszky (bass and vocals), Catalin Chereji (keyboards) and Arpi Bogar (drums) to what nowadays is a determined quintet.
ENDLESS DARK strive to provide an atmosphere reminiscing to it's name, music-wise a Gothic Doom Metal band with Death and Black Metal influences. The sound, the message of the lyrics, the harmonic chaos, the obscure melody, they all create a cell of emotions bringing all that the name ENDLESS DARK holds within!
"The Kingdoom" is the first album of the Romanian band ENDLESS DARK, a material that preaches about a metaphorical entity by his name... the "kingdoom". This "kingdoom" is rather an idea, a morbid kind of thinking into the unknown, the mythical, the mystical, the dark path of the obscure idea of what afterlife could be, and of course... the ENDLESS DARK. The lyrics are reminiscing of death, many songs evoking a macabre tone in their lyrics while also holding high a very tiny touch of hope... or lack of it, from the melodic, chaotic harmony of the sound.
The band recently released their first official video for the
title-track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT4vS51KhUo"From cold and shadows...
We rise under the darkest moon, beyond the mist of time that brings up the ENDLESS DARK!
Embrace the lost words, burn down the sun!
Restless revenants roaming the darkest depths of this existence, we fight for our unlight to become the Age of the Dark!
We shall rise the darkest light in the hopes of eternal peace!
We follow the mythical path of everlasting unlight to bring the peace amongst disturbed dead...
Let us reveal the ancient wisdom lost in time!
Let us bring you... The Kingdoom!"
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082732505774
Wormholedeath is thrilled to announce the signing of the enigmatic Canadian dark ambient act CLOVEN, for the highly anticipated EP "TWILIGHT'S HEART." This atmospheric masterpiece is set to be unleashed on October 11, 2024.
Dave Bach, the creative force behind Cloven, shared his excitement about this collaboration: "With incredible respect and gratitude, I am happy to partner with WormholeDeath for the EP entitled "Twilight's Heart.
Twilight's Heart is the most mature work yet, compositionally, sonically, lyrically, and otherwise. It is a rumination on death, eternity, and love. It is entitled after the sigil of Cloven, a heart containing a multitude of stories, which is seen in the cover art."
Cloven is not just a band but a transcendent musical journey, blending the raw intensity of black metal with the haunting melodies of darkwave, gothic, and ambient music. The name Cloven signifies both division and unity, reflecting the project’s exploration of the human condition, the divine, and the eternal themes of love and separation.
At the Helm of Cloven
Cloven is the solo vision of Dave Bach, who collaborates with a talented pool of guest musicians, adding layers of depth and diversity to the project’s soundscapes.
With "Twilight's Heart," Cloven invites listeners to traverse a sonic landscape where darkness meets beauty, and every note echoes the eternal dance between life and death. Don’t miss out on this transcendent musical experience coming this October.
Tracklist:
1. In the House of Silence
2. L'appel du Vide
3. Wrapped in Talons
4. Love & Fire
5. Twilight's Heart
www.facebook.com/Cloven137
Finnish black/death Metal band LUUSÄKKI is set to release a self-titled debut album which will be out via Inverse Records on October 17th 2024. Statue in Uniform is the second single taken from the album and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/luusakki-statue
MS comments:
'"Statue in Uniform" is the second single from Luusäkki's upcoming self-titled debut album. The album was written and recorded in Helsinki in the fall of 2022. "Statue in Uniform" combines the dark tones of black metal with the fury of death metal. The song addresses the harsh reality of conflicts and aims to depict the inhuman effects of war as well as the cyclical nature of human suffering. The imagery paints a picture of lost souls and identities."
Listen to the first single Fifth of the Fifth Columns single: https://push.fm/fl/luusakki-fifth Track list:
01. Penned in Water
02. Gangrene
03. Spit Shined Pig Skin
04. Mai-Dun
05. Fifth of the Fifth Columns
06. Statue in Uniform
07. Suzerain
08. Hyena
09. Death Cult
10. All Hallows
11. City of God
Album cover by MS.
Biography:
Luusäkki is a Finnish one-man project combining black metal, death metal and ambient music. The unstable atmosphere of 2022 gave impetus to the creative process that gave birth to Luusäkki.
Line-up:
Markus Sundquist - Guitars, bass, synths, programming, other instruments, vocals, composition, lyrics, mixing, mastering.
https://www.facebook.com/luusakki
PHOBOIAN is a melodic death metal orchestra from Turku,
Finland. The band’s music incorporates classical female vocals into heavy
nordic melancholy. Phoboian was established in 2017 during an after party to a
metal gig, and since has gathered six musicians to its ranks: singers Inka
Laitinen and Eeva Korhonen, drummer Kristo Rautavuori,
bassist Jonathan Åkerman, and guitarists Olli Kuure and Otso
Turunen. After a long silence Phoboian is ready to release “THE
PLAGUE”, the first single from its upcoming album.Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/phoboian-plague
Watch the lyric video: https://youtu.be/zwBFugwL4So
“The Plague” tells about the extinction of mankind as a result of a deadly pandemic. It brings together medieval religious imagery and a modern scientific dystopia. Despite the macabre theme the song strives for beauty, and isn’t as much a prophecy as a warning. -Otso Turunen
"One of my favorite tracks from the upcoming album is definitely 'The Plague,' which harmonies and rhythms create an atmosphere that's great to rock out to. Together with the guys and Eeva, we’ve crafted a song that truly represents who we are, conveying relevant themes as well. Its energy and guitar riffs showcase our band’s sound at its best. Working together has been inspiring, and I believe listeners will also experience that energy. 'The Plague' is a part of our journey and a story we want to share."-Inka Laitinen
https://www.facebook.com/Phoboian
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease Date: October 11th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Massacre | Death | Sepultura | Master
It’s more than thirty years since Decayed Existence began their crusade of crushing death metal, bringing immaculate riffs and darkly imaginative song writing together through an absolute understanding of the very heaviest of metals. Refining their art and building the foundations of an enduring legend through a plethora of demos, compilations, EPs and full length albums, the California band have made an indelible mark in the annals of extreme metal – and their story is far from over! As summer fades once more and the autumn nights draw in Decayed Existence will unleash what may well come to be recognised as the most powerful and exhilarating release of their decades spanning career…The Beginning Of Sorrows.
Opening with the intense immediacy of ‘Escape The Dead’, The Beginning Of Sorrows plunges you straight into a vortex of glorious riffs, steeped in the essence of classic death metal. The band shift smoothly through the gears, changing tempos from driving energy to slow, agonised passages that grind the bones to dust – and from that oppressive weight a superb solo spirals upwards, bringing to mind the seminal work of Chuck Schuldiner and James Murphy. As The Beginning Of Sorrows continues the lead guitar work establishes itself as a key ingredient of the Decayed Existence sound, adding a dimension of depth and melody to the surging power of this formidable set of songs. The ever present Harry Rocco continues to be the beating heart and engine of the band, a drummer /vocalist in the fine tradition of Beehler and Reifert and every bit as effective. First single, ‘Beheading The Colossus’ is the epitome of what Decayed Existence have to offer, with its fantastic hooks and genre defining riffs…riff after riff of utter class, making this album an absolute joy to listen to. But The Beginning Of Sorrows saves the best til last, concluding with three tracks captured live that are simply monstrous! ‘Detonation’ in particular is a beast…a nightmare amalgamation of adrenaline fuelled headbanging and vast, crawling horrors! When The Beginning Of Sorrows ends, all too soon, you can’t help but think that Decayed Existence, despite their years in the frontline trenches, might be about to start the most exciting chapter of their career to date.
With the studio recordings being produced by Andrew Giordanengo (Everything Destroying etc) and the live tracks captured by Jake Ottinger, The Beginning Of Sorrows sounds vibrant and dangerous throughout. When it’s released on October 11th, with the backing of Rottweiler Records, this album will drive Decayed Existence back into the forefront of the underground metal consciousness – exactly where they deserve to be. Prepare to be crushed!
Line-up:
Harry Rocco – Drums/Vocals
Jeffery Ke - Lead Guitar
Ryan Brown - Bass
Kyle Balsiger - Rhythm Guitar
*Additional guitars on The Beginning Of Sorrows by Jason Davis and Richard Nash
*Additional vocals on The Beginning Of Sorrows by Keith Thompson
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/DecayedExistenceOFFICIAL
Örebro (SE) - Progressive Death Metal band CARNOSUS have partnered with Heavy Blog is Heavy for the video premiere of "Worm Chaser, the second single from forthcoming album, WORMTALES. Check it out below!
https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2024/09/11/exclusive-premiere-carnosus-introduce-you-to-the-worm-chaser/
CARNOSUS will release new album, Wormtales, October 18 on CD digipak, gatefold vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The release is the band's third overall and first for Willowtip.
Whispered among worms were the rumors of a new album by death metal outfit CARNOSUS. Heavier and darker, slithering its way from Sweden, comes Wormtales, a prequel to the critically acclaimed 2023 album, Visions of Infinihility. Wormtales contains some of the band's most impressive riffs thus far and once again lures the listener into the realm of infinihility.
Indeed,Visions of Infinihility, the quintet's independently released second album, garnered loads of positive press, further amplifying the anticipation for CARNOSUS' Willowtip debut, Wormtales!
CARNOSUS was established in 2011. The band members all come from different subgenres within Metal, resulting in a mixture of technical melodic death metal, thrash, progressive metal and a pinch of black metal influences scattered throughout.
Pre-order:https://willowtip.com/bands/details/carnosus.aspx
https://carnosus.bandcamp.com/album/wormtales
Track Listing:
1. Birthless
2. Within Throat, Within Heart
3. Neglectikon
4. Yearnings of A Rotten Spine
5. Worm Charmer
6. Harbinger of Woundism
7. Paradoxical Impulse
8. Wound of Wisdom
9. Cosmoclaustrum
10. Solace In Soil
Credits:
Recorded and produced by Carnosus (except drums; recorded and produced by Robert Kukla & Dennis Rosic).
Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios.
Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.
Line-up:
Jonatan Karasiak - Vocals / Lyrics
Rickard Persson - Guitars
Marcus Jokela Nyström - Guitars
Marcus Strindlund - Bass
Jacob Hedner - Drums
https://willowtip.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Carnosus/
Release
date : September 20th 2024Genre : Epic Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
AORLHAC will release on September 20 the reissue of its winds trilogy, namely "A la Croisée des Vents" (remastered version + 3 bonus tracks), "La Cité des Vents" (remastered version) & "L’Esprit des Vents", all in a sumptuous A5 format case which has since been unveiled. The feedback I have had has been unanimous!
AORLHAC is looking back to the past, to their Occitan roots, either medieval and modern, narrating the History of the south of France and north of Italy and Spain. Occitan is not only a language but also a culture recounted in French by the band : they are respectful witnesses of their ancestors’ heritage.
The first two singles, "La Mort Prédite" from "A La Croisée Des Vents" and "Sant Flor" from "La Cité des Vents" have just been released on the Youtube channel Atmospheric Black Metal Albums but are also available on all download platforms.
Aorlhac is looking back to the past, to their Occitan roots, either medieval and modern, narrating the History of the south of France and north of Italy and Spain. Occitan is not only a language but also a culture recounted in French by the band : they are respectful witnesses of their ancestors’ heritage.
Preorders: https://lesacteursdelombre.net/product-category/bands/aorlhac/
Berlin (GER) - Avant-Garde Death Metal duo, INGURGITATING OBLIVION, in collaboration with No Clean Singing, have premiered Part III of 18-minute track, "THE BARREN EARTH OOZES BLOOD, AND SHAKES AND MOANS, TO DRINK HER CHILDREN'S GORE." The song is taken from forthcoming album, ONTOLOGY OF NOUGHT. Click the link below to stream it!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/11/an-ncs-premiere-ingurgitating-oblivion-the-barren-earth-oozes-blood-and-shakes-and-moans-to-drink-her-childrens-gore-part-3/
Part III will be available September 13 on all platforms. No Clean Singing will premiere the full album on September 24.
Ingurgitating Oblivion will release long-awaited new album, Ontology of Nought, September 27 on CD, gatefold 2x12" vinyl, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
https://bit.ly/ontology-willowtip
https://bit.ly/ontology-bandcamp
Unsurprisingly, considering the band's acclaimed body of work to date, this is no run-of-the-mill Tech-Death album. The talented duo of guitarist and engineer Norbert Müller and vocalist, guitarist, and composer Florian Engelke have outdone themselves again on Ontology of Nought! Epic-length tracks ranging from 10 to 18 minutes fuse into a cohesive whole that awes with the band's characteristic technical flare and progressive, compositional brilliance. The impressive cast of session and guest musicians adds even more vibrancy. Hearing is believing.
Though it has been seven years since the last Willowtip release, Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light, the forthcoming opus unequivocally demonstrates that the wait has been well worth it!
"You have fully delineated the subject of a universe of finiteness and change as well as the knowledge derived therefrom // Why should you be despondent in spite of all this, thinking that you are undone?"
- Ingurgitating Oblivion
The band released the following statement about the new album:
“Ontology of Nought is the result of approximately five years of incessant work. It documents whatever has been instilled into Ingurgitating Oblivion and the two minds pulling the strings behind the scenes: Norbert Müller and Florian Engelke. Trying to pinpoint some trite conceptual undercurrent would be to defile the beauty of creation. It feels alienating to us talking about our music and lyrics, as these stem from dichotomic dynamics of meticulous planning on the one hand and perfect intuition on the other. In like manner, the lyrics cannot be explained further here, but listeners are invited to do some work themselves and take a plunge into what could potentially encapsulate the world or denote nothing at all. Musically, we just do our own thing, celebrating our Death Metal heroes, more progressive Rock, jazz, folk, classical music. We do not strive to stand for any particular brand, but we simply enjoy being torn down the torrent of haphazard ideas, premonitions, and visions.
And that’s that."
Track
Listing:1. Uncreation's whirring loom you ply with crippled fingers
2. To weave the tapestry of nought
3. The blossoms of your tomorrow shall unfold in my heart
4. Lest I should perish with travel, effete and weary, as my knees refuse to bear me thither
5. The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore
Credits:
Sound engineering, mastering and production by Norbert Müller.
Album cover by Dmitriy Egorov.
Guest appearances / Session musicians:
Lille Gruber (Defeated Sanity) - Drums
Ava Bonam - Vocals
Chris Zoukas (Mentally Defiled, Sacral Rage, Violent Definition) - Bass
Céline Voccia - Piano
Daniel Agi - Recorder, Flutes
Jan Ferdinand - Vibraphone, Guitars
Tom Fountainhead Geldschläger - Guitar Solos
Line-up:
Norbert Müller - rhythm and lead guitars, sound engineering, mastering, all recording logistics
Florian Engelke - lead composition, rhythm and lead guitars, vocals, Tibetan singing bowls
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/IngurgitatingOblivionOfficial
Originally released on limited-edition cassette earlier this year, fledgling label Alte Seelen will give Scripture of the Woods proper CD treatment on October 31.
Pre-order
the CD and stream the album now at https://alteseelen.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-of-the-woodsTracklist:
1) Emerging Glare
2) Folk of the Blossoming Sky
3) Sommar
4) The Field's Arrival
5) Washed Away Among the Stones
6) Fiendish Lore
7) Moon's Melody of Death
Upon first viewing, the band's name, cover art, and logo, might give one reason to assume this is simply a blatant Sort Vokter ripoff. On the contrary, this debut mini album is a definite nod to the former legendary ‘necro’ act, but the music within has a certain vibe that serves as a tribute of sorts while standing on its own merits. Thus, Scripture of the Woods will surely appeal to fans of such legendary acts as the aforementioned Sort Vokter, as well as Ildjarn and the early works of Gorgoroth, while maintaining a primitive sound and style all their own.
Comprised of two prolific musicians, Azeruel Woldaeg and Collier d'ombre,
KVELDSTIMER delivers seven tracks of primitive, yet majestic, old-school black metal. The atmosphere and striking execution conjure whispers of the early 90's Norwegian scene!
KVELDSTIMER is:
Azeruel Woldaeg - all instruments
Collier d'ombre - vocals
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564639922269
On November 1st 2024, Monumental Rex will internationally present EVERTO SIGNUM’S long-expected second full-length album, “BEASTIARY”, on special handcrafted CD Grimoire format.
Everto Signum is a Black Metal act embodied by Nekruss and Æminus, hailing from the inner realms of Portugal. Having released the debut full-length “Enneachotomy” in 2012 and the EP “Synergy” in 2014, the band lied dormant as the creative duo focused on other music projects, namely Carma and Lacrau.
After ten years of silence, Everto Signum skulk out of chasmic caverns to unleash their brand new creation entitled “Beastiary” – a concept album inspired by destructive powers of Nature. The band stays true to their elemental background by writing an immersive story that guides the listener through a chain reaction of natural disasters. These calamities are beastialized – manifested as wild uncontrollable beasts exhibiting intrinsic animalistic shapes, traits and behaviours. The plot is comprised of seven chapters, each consisting of a contextual introduction that describes the scenery and sets the mood for the destruction to come, and an interpretation of the actual cataclysm. Written in English, the expressively poetic lyrical narrative portrays a journey from an ice-covered mountain top through a valley, down to the depths of a meromictic lake and finally into a perennial forest to witness the dreadful wrath of ancient forces.
To concretize this work, Everto Signum synergized with Diogo Mota, best known as the drummer of Gaerea, who infused the album with much energy and vigour. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nekruss himself, “Beastiary” stands as a hostile soundscape lasting over 50 minutes. Seven tracks build upon the musical ideas set by the latest EP, expanding and developing those into a more sophisticated form through the band’s signature Elemental Black Metal, this time utterly imbued with the brutality of Death Metal. Sublimely enriched with progressive structures, synthesizer-led passages, ambient sections and many other captivating elements coming from a vast range of influences such as Prog Rock, Folk, Dungeon Synth and even New-age music, “Beastiary” abounds with furiously melodic and potent guitar riffage, fierce and technical drumming, heavy pounding bass lines, and viciously varied extreme vocals. The production is aggressive, massive and multilayered, perfectly fitting the epic thematic of the album and keeping the listener on the edge throughout the entire journey.
The visual representation took form by the hand of the plastic artist RF Torres Valente who created a set of graphite and ink illustrations. These drawings were embellished with arcane calligraphy and exquisitely arranged into a grimoire-inspired layout, all scrupulously crafted by Infected Minds. Printed on rough texturized paper, the magnificent A5-sized 20-page booklet seamlessly depicts surrealistic concepts envisioned by Everto Signum.
Tracklist1. Genesis [0:49]
2. Colossus [5:05]
3. Ophidian [7:37]
4. Wyvern [9:34]
5. Dragon [8:41]
6. Deinos [13:06]
7. Weaver [6:43]
Complete album line-up:
Æminus – songwriting, guitars and bass
Nekruss – songwriting, lyrics, vocals, recording, mixing and mastering
Diogo Mota – session drums
RF Torres Valente – artwork
Infected Minds – calligraphy and layout
https://www.facebook.com/monumental.rex
https://www.facebook.com/EvertoSignum
For fans of : Bonginator, Dying Fetus, Fluids, Frog Mallet, Fulci, Goreport, Mortician, Peeling Flesh, Pissgrave, Sanguisugabogg, and Viscera Trail.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Fupa Goddess to the roster with the debut full-length album "Fuckyourface"! From the folds of Virginia/North Carolina, Fupa Goddess was formed in 2019 and spews forth sick Death Metal/Goregrind/Noise with a fun atmosphere. After countless EPs and splits, Fuckyourface is the band's first full-length album and pushes the boundaries of extreme music to the max... this is Partygore!
Listen to the single "Dr. Pill Wildnout" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFkS69YiCUE
Pre-order the CD for only $10 at https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com/products/fupa-goddess-fuckyourface-cd
Track
Listing:1. As A Friend
2. Clip Em Up High
3. Dr. Pill Wildnout
4. I Got My Shoes Tied And I’m Ready For Burritos
5. Killer To Some, Hero To Others
6. Moral Of The Story
7. Oh Dammit Barb
8. Same Shit Different Day
9. This Is Cheese Sauce
10. When You're All Outta Fucks
11. You Wanna Get Fucked Up
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
https://shop.horrorpaingoredeath.com
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
DOULOS – “BELLUM” (Single)
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease Date: August 30th 2024
Genre: Hardcore
For fans of: Freya | Pro-Pain | Lionheart | (Un)Worthy
Based in Riverside, Southern California, Doulos have been perennial outsiders, fighting for their place in the modern metal scene – equally unwilling to compromise their principles as they are to water down their stripped back, bloody knuckled hardcore song craft. Doulos are one of a rare breed of bands who live by their beliefs – be that playing charity shows to support the underprivileged, or donating merch proceeds to help in the fight against the despicable practice of sex trafficking – this band practice what they preach. Every word, every action is accompanied by no frills, super heavy hardcore, built on muscular riffs, impassioned vocals and a head-caving rhythm section – and that unencumbered power is perfectly presented by the high impact, knockout blow of new single ‘Bellum’.
Following up the initial charge of 2021s The Middle Man EP and the acclaimed barrage of last year’s full length debut album, Birth Pains – described by The Metal Onslaught as “taking their sound to its utter limits with absolute expertise” – ‘Bellum’ has a lot to live up to. Luckily this taste of the future from Doulos exceeds expectations with ease. There’s no prevaricating or procrastinating here…a militaristic drum pattern leads straight into riffs that shift and collide like tectonic plates reforming a planet. The smell of the pit hangs heavy in the air as ‘Bellum’ marches to a conclusion that comes too soon, that leaves you desperate for the next patented Doulos blow to land…but then that’s what the repeat button is for! And good things come to those who wait…
Out on August 30th via Rottweiler Records, ‘Bellum’ is another triumph for Doulos, another immaculate demonstration of their focus and intent. Easing off the accelerator and doubling down on the lead weight heaviness, every chord is delivered with determined intent and unquestionable sincerity. This is real. This is hardcore. This is Doulos.
Line-up:
Eddie – vocals
Melanie – Bass
Jeff – Drums
Noah – Guitar
Eza - Guitar
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063709294162
The spiritual successor to God is Myth and Ars Magna Recordings, ALTE
SEELEN is a new US-based label supporting the extreme metal underground
and adjacent subgenres.Founded by the heads of God is Myth and Ars Magna Recordings, Alte Seelen aims to produce high-quality releases while illuminating the bands, artists, and individuals who contribute to the music that is our life’s blood. In time the label hopes to expand its reach to provide unique items, ranging from prints to wood carvings and leatherwork.
While the label acknowledges and draws upon the experiences of the past, Alte Seelen represents a conscious decision to leave those ventures dormant and dreaming.
A new banner has been raised...
Halloween 2024 will see the release of the first two Alte Seelen titles.
Ringare - Sorrow Befell (majestic black metal / dark synth), CD and digital (originally released on vinyl by Iron Bonehead).
Kveldstimer – Scripture of the Woods (primitive, yet majestic Black Metal), CD and digital (limited-edition cassette released by Altare Productions).
In late fall/early winter, Alte Seelen will release By The Grace of Death from atmospheric black metal band Canis Dirus. Bindrune Recordings will handle vinyl treatment.
https://www.alteseelen.com/
RITUAL FOG - “BUT MERELY FLESH”
For
fans of
- Morgoth, Asphyx, Skeletal Remains, Laceration, Malevolent Creation, Death, Leper
ColonyRitual Fog have masterfully infused thrash influences in their old school death metal sound in a way that the music becomes far more acerbic and gritty, so much so that even when they slow down during their doomier moments, it sounds incredibly scathing and vile. Their riffs seem to have a tendency to press down against the listener and create a burning sensation first in the ears, then in the rest of the body. The hoarse vocals emanating from what can only be a serrated throat add to the grating effect and enhance the nastiness quotient manifold. They seem to have borrowed the right amount of influences to form a cohesive albeit abrasive sound that wreaks havoc no matter what path they decide to tread. As such, they are able to easily traverse blood-smeared pits in both fast paced and thrashy style as well as the ponderous, doom-riddled way, without diminishing the sizzle. This ability to retain the aggression and switch things up at the drop of the hat elevates them above their monotonous old school-sounding peers and gives them an exciting edge. Assimilating and perfecting their sound for their much awaited debut full length, Ritual Fog have created a lurching, ravaging beast and it's hungry and absolutely unstoppable.
Line up
Ian Younkin - Vocals / Guitar
Andrew Hobday - Drums
Spencer Martin - Guitar
Jon Clark - Bass
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano Rosado
Track listing
1. Misticism
2. Desolate Chasm
3. Slimeblade
4. Nocturnal Suffering
5. Demented Procession
6. Fog Sermon
7. Carnal Pain
8. Sentient Chamber
9. But Merely Flesh
Release date - November 29th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/ritualfog
Progressive blackmetallers ETERNAL CRYPT promote their sophomore album with the second single/ lyric video: “RUNNING ALONE IN THE FOREST” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uMVoDt9fzQ
Drawing from many overseas influences, Eternal Crypt brings their brand of melodic extreme metal from their hometown of Rochester New York. It has been their mission to take the atmosphere of black metal, the aggression of death metal, and combine it with the melodic sensibility of power, folk, and doom metal, providing a thought provoking soundtrack to introspective lyrics.
Though initially starting as a solo studio project, Eternal Crypt became a full-fledged band after the release of debut album "Loneliness of the Wolf" in 2018. From then, Eternal Crypt will continue to bring their brand of melodic metal with their upcoming album "Stages of Grief" Releasing September 2024.
https://www.facebook.com/eternalcrypt
Forbannet, meaning cursed in Norwegian, is an esoteric death metal band from Rotterdam and Groningen, Netherlands. Combining elements of brutal death metal, death-doom and old school melodic death metal, we challenge the psychological and spiritual limits of the human mind throughout our lyrics, imagery and instrumentalism. For fans of: Phlebotomized, Blood Incantation, Intestine Baalism, Eternal Suffering, Worm.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDKgRf3Y0GjinO_NOi2wMAw
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085216816267
MERCIFUL THE DYING LIGHT continues the band's constant evolution with this genre-bending offering of blackened death metal. Written and recorded by the band's lone member Justin Vølus, Merciful the Dying Light drew inspiration from themes of vampirism, cosmic horror, and Mesopotamian mythos.
Track list:1) Crowns of Ulthar
2) Sanity Forsaken
3) Blasphemies Infernal Strife
4) Merciful the Dying Light
5) Hissing Dissent
6) Revengeance of Blood
7) Between Two Fires
VØLUS is a one-man blackened death metal band from South Carolina, USA, delivering a unique blend of OSDM, Blackened Death Metal, and Progressive/Dissonant Death Metal. Merciful the Dying Light is the fourth full-length album in the VØLUS discography and the band's seventh overall release, including demos and EPs. The band, alongside Vargheist Records, was founded by Justin Vølus in 2018.
VØLUS is:
Justin Vølus - All Instruments, Vocals and Lyrics
https://www.facebook.com/volusdeath
https://vargheistrecords.com/
Atlanta
(GA) - Boris Records and Deanwell Global Music have
released SURRENDER TO DEATH: A HISTORY OF THE ATLANTA METAL
UNDERGROUND VOL. 1 on deluxe vinyl and digital formats!Spanning two decades of local bands, studio projects, and touring heavyweights, Surrender to Death showcases over 20 bands, ranging from the early days of traditional heavy metal to gory basement death metal to second-wave black metal. Far from the better-known scenes in the Bay Area and New York and Florida, the Atlanta scene was comprised of musicians dedicated to the most despised genre of music, exploring subgenres and following their art wherever it took them. Strap in and prepare yourself for a night of fierce metallic sounds born in sweaty nightclubs, packed house parties, and DIY warehouse shows.
Over half a decade in the making, Surrender to Death features original recordings sourced directly from the bands. Scheduled for release September 6 on double-vinyl with a gatefold jacket, the packaging also includes an 11x17 double-sided insert containing bios and photos of each band, a sticker, random repro band flyers, and an 18x24 full color poster. Available now for preorder in four different color options.
Track Listing:
1. Messendger – “Strangers”
2. Fortnox – “Lucifer's Eyes”
3. Ghost Story – “What Few Even Dare”
4. Necropolis – “Waters of Lathe”
5. MX – “Rock You”
6. Sinister Angel – “Streetlight Glamour”
7. Legion – “Evil Mind”
8. Kinetic Dissent – “Reflected Fear”
9. Dark Overlord – “Til Death Do Us Part”
10. Hallows Eve – “Metal Merchants” (vinyl-only track)
11. Unblessed – “When It Bleeds It Pours”
12. Lestregus Nosferatus – “Sixteenth Chamber”
13. Rot – “Pray to Death”
14. Avulsion – “Inexorable Suffering”
15. Dawn of Orion – “Gates of Emptiness”
16. Haborym – “Metaphorical Ithaca”
17. Tragic Demise – “The Righteous Shall Fall”
18. Demoncy – “Winter Bliss”
19. Necroflesh – “Scream”
20. Procostimus – “Synthesis of Rebirth”
21. Darkened Skies – “Reign of Radulescu”
22. Vastion – “Ensuring Your Death”
Credits:
All tracks remastered from various sources by Jessica Thompson Audio.
Surrender to Death logo and jacket illustration by Brian Warner (ESAYDE).
Surrender to Death is part of Deanwell Global Music’s “Georgia
Historical Metal Archive Series” and Volume 2 in Boris Record’s “Atlanta Metal Underground Archive Series.”
Purchase/Stream:
https://deanwellglobalmusic.bandcamp.com/album/surrender-to-death-a-history-of-the-atlanta-metal-underground-1982-1999-vol-1
https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/surrender-to-death-a-history-of-the-atlanta-metal-underground-1982-1999-vol-1
Sweden's
melodic death trio AGAINST I is now streaming their newest
single, "BOUND IN BLOOD." The track marks the first
taste of what's to come with the band's upcoming full-length, SONGS
FOR THE DYING.Take another step into the darkness and the next chapter of AGAINST I with "Bound In Blood" and prepare for more. Stream the song now on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon.
Songs for the Dying picks up where Destruction Lullaby - released in May 2024 - left off. The album offers lethal doses of aggressive and melodic death tinged with shades of industrial and atmospheric metal.
AGAINST I will release Songs for the Dying on November 29.
AGAINST I was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Keith Croona known as vocalist and founder of Cynical Existence and ex-vocalist of Menschdefekt. Together with Mathias Back (guitars) and Anders Ström (drums), they fuse elements of metal and hints of electronic parts into a cacophony of aggression and melodies.
In 2023 the band released their debut album Carnival of Excess on Advoxya Records. 2024 saw the release of two EPs, Perfect Smile and the follow-up Destruction Lullaby, which took the band in an entirely new direction.
Line-Up:
Fredrik Keith Croona - vocals
Mathias Back - guitars
Anders Ström - drums
https://www.facebook.com/againstIband
Exhaust is available in its entirety today, September 6, 2024. The band has chosen to forego the standard pre-release press cycle so that fans can experience the full recording immediately upon announcement, as it is intended to be heard. Exhaust is available on all digital platforms, as well as on CD, cassette, and vinyl!
Purchase/Stream:
https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/exhaust
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/pyrrhon.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-I4GwWYz0
Fever: The Making Of Pyrrhon’s Exhaust:
Pyrrhon was stuck in mid-2023 after prolonged global unrest and personal changes. In 2020, their album Abscess Time arrived at the heart of the pandemic. In 2021, they went on one tour at the height of the Delta COVID wave before clubs started shutting down again. In 2022, they played a single show. In 2023, they had only three songs written for a fifth album.
The band decided to shake things loose with a retreat. Armed with their instruments, psychedelic mushrooms, and a few bad movies, they rented a cabin in rural northeastern Pennsylvania in May 2023. The decision worked. The creative energy surged, and the band wrote three new songs over the weekend.
“Initially, we just didn't seem to be able to strike the same intensity as past Pyrrhon records,” vocalist and lyricist Doug Moore says. However, the time in the cabin allowed the band to reconnect as musicians and friends. “It was a turning point for the record,” Moore says. “We didn't have enough material. We hadn’t spent that much time together, and it felt like we were able to rediscover who we are and feel the energy of the collaboration.”
“We’d never done a creative retreat before, and it was so cool to write stuff on the spot,” guitarist Dylan DiLella says. “Writing stuff in the same room showed us that we don’t have to try as hard to create cool music. There was a lot of bashing our heads in this band, especially when trying to make this record. Going with the energy in the room helped us trust ourselves more.”
Pyrrhon, which formed in New York City in 2008 when most of the band was in college, has always been classified as technical death metal for convenience. Their music, however, defies convention—even in the anything-goes world of 21st-century metal. Pyrrhon's music contains the musical prowess of Gorguts’s Obscura, the unrelenting rhythmic pummeling of Big Black, and the experimentation of free jazz. Moore’s lyrics - a combination of poetry and flash prose - are a welcome relief in an art form awash in stale cliches and genre tropes. Pyrron’s jarring and complex music - a true outlier when the band released their first album over a decade ago - requires attention and scrutiny, and demands replay.
Pyrrhon’s fifth album, Exhaust, is not a concept record. However, many songs touch on where we are in 2024; people are overwhelmed and unable to catch their breath. The album was initially called “Exhaustion,” but drummer Steve Schwegler noticed recurring imagery about cars slowly degrading from overuse - an apt metaphor for an album exploring perpetual burnout. On a larger level, Exhaust is about things - machines or humans - being ground down and never recovering. It also hints at the exhaustion of staying sane in a world overrun with digital devices, social media, holograms, and artificial intelligence.
“It’s about the experience of being pushed beyond your ability to sustain things,” Moore says. “We went through a pandemic, and now people act like it didn’t happen. We went through an attempted fascist insurrection, and now people act like it didn’t happen. It’s a sense of constantly juggling things and never having a handle on them. That feeling became a big part of this record and the imagery.”
Pyrrhon’s songwriting process has always been democratic. On Exhaust, however, they wrote more material as a unit. In the past, one member wrote the framework of a song using a sequence of riffs or grooves. For Exhaust, Pyrrhon worked more collaboratively and wrote several songs as a group while jamming. “On the trip to Pennsylvania, we wrote as a group on the spot,” Moore says. “But even outside that, we wrote songs in our practice space. We have the same democratic principle as before, but what happened with Exhaust was that we all got better at realizing what works. It’s supposed to sound wild, but we’ve been a band for over 15 years, and the current lineup has been together for nearly a decade. The result was knowing what to do to serve the big picture.”
“Exhaust sounds like a band playing together, which is tough for a technical experimental death metal band,” DiLella says. “That’s always been our goal, but we haven't achieved it until this record. It’s our tightest record, but in some ways, it's also the loosest. It’s easy to forget about the burning passion we all had when we started this band. We are all passionate music fans, and that is channeled into this band. We just have recently realized how lucky we are to have Pyrrhon.”
Exhaust was recorded with longtime Pyrrhon producer Colin Marston in December 2023 at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves studios in Queens, shortly before the studio closed. The album benefits from the band members' other musical pursuits and life changes over the past four years. Moore joined the experimental black metal band Scarcity and became a software developer. DiLella joined the ascendant noise rock band Couch Slut and became a guitar teacher. Bassist Erik Malave studied library science. Schwegler finished college on the GI Bill and got an engineering job. “Our jobs and our lives changed a lot,” Moore says. “We almost had to figure out how to be a band again.”
In Pyrrhon’s early days, the band often wrote about their adopted hometown of New York. Their debut album, An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master, is, in many ways, an album about the city. In recent years, however, they have looked wider for inspiration - even to topics like American football. One of Exhaust’s standout tracks “Concrete Charlie” is loosely based on hard-hitting Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Chuck Bednarik, who exhibited CTE symptoms at the end of his life.
“It’s outwardly about football but more about how a larger system used and discarded him,” Moore says. “It’s part of the American experience. These titans of sports and people lionized by American culture are turned into mulch by the end of their lives. Football is a microcosm of American life, and we lionize these men who achieve extraordinary things but are fundamentally being exploited.”
A little more than a year removed from the cabin, Pyrrhon is reenergized and looking forward. “The pandemic and everything that happened honestly gave us a chance to pause for the first time since we’ve been a band,” DiLella says. “In the past, when albums were done, we started working on a new one. I’ve been reflecting on the band’s early days lately. We were kids when the band started. Now, I feel like we can work to our strengths more. I feel more confident and think the rest of the band does, too.”
“I did a lot of soul-searching with Exhaust,” Moore says. “We've been through a time of great uncertainty. I tend to get into my head about this stuff. Now that our lives are more balanced, I feel it was all worth it.”
- Justin M. Norton
Track
Listing:1. Not Going To Mars
2. First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
3. The Greatest City On Earth
4. Strange Pains
5. Out Of Gas
6. Luck Of The Draw
7. Concrete Charlie
8. Stress Fractures
9. Last Gasp
10. Hell Medicine
Line-up:
Erik Malave - Bass
Dylan DiLella - Guitars
Doug Moore - Vocals
Steve Schwegler - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/pyrrhonband
The video to the atmospheric single “Zielenrust” has been premiered today via No Clean Singing. Watch the video here: https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/09/06/an-ncs-video-premiere-krvl-zielenrust/
Shazzula of Wolvennest guests on the track. The band commented about her contribution: “When we were listening to the demo of this song we felt like there was something missing. So we came up with the idea to add some female vocals on the intro. Shazzula was our first choice and luckily she liked our music and she said yes.”
Pre-save the single on digital platforms: https://share.amuse.io/track/krvl-zielenrustPre-order the album “Donkere Paden”:
https://krvl.bandcamp.com/album/donkere-paden
https://t.ly/krvlD (CD)
https://t.ly/krvlV (Vinyl)
Following on from their debut "Kravaal" (self-released, 2022), the second album “Donkere Paden” will bring even more darkness and despair which will be divided into seven chapters.
The album will feature guest vocalists H. from the band Oerheks and Shazzulah from the revered Wolvennest.
The band states:
"We've poured our souls into crafting an atmospheric black metal album that will transport you to realms of chilling beauty and crushing despair. Prepare yourselves, for KrvL's reign of darkness begins anew when Autumn falls…"
KrvL comprises nameless souls that drift through the Kravaal Forest in Belgium in search of the light amongst the darkness they find themselves in. With lyrics in Dutch, the band contemplates topics such as nature, finding inner peace, nemesis, resurrection and an attempt to find light in the darkness.
Musically, the band is all about atmosphere. With a foundation of traditional 90s and modern black metal, the anonymous band also mixes post-metal, doom and sludge influences.
KrvL was established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, creating a perfect mood for the writing and recording of their debut album "Kravaal". Eventually, the album was self-released digitally in 2022 and then on vinyl in 2023. 2024 sees the band reach new heights with the signing to These Hands Melt and the release of their second album.
https://thesehandsmelt.shop/
https://www.facebook.com/KrvL1745/
DEFILED EMBRACE - "THE NETHER EARTH"
Release
Date: September
06, 2024Label: Another Side Records
The second full-length studio album by Israeli Doom Metal project.
Following the promising debut album "Whispers Of The Forest", "The Nether Earth" is fifty-four minutes Doom Death Metal creation, with its roots deep into the world of sadness and gloom.
The album speaks of the sadness and sorrow a person endures in life, such as love, loss, the dying and mourning of loved ones, and the wish to cause harm in turn. While so, the album's artwork and theme song describes the darkest side of the world we live in - a world full of suffering, a place barely suitable to live in for those, who are emotional, caring, and loving.
"The Nether Earth" brings a modern vibe and sound of Doom Metal, deeply influenced by bands such as Swallow The Sun, Clouds, Trees of Eternity, and The Sins Of Thy Beloved.
Tracklist:
1. This Blackened Half
2. Defiled Embrace
3. Cold
4. The Nether Earth (In Shade of Rotten Trees II)
5. Pieces
6. Mausoleum
7. Dim
8. Erase All That Is Pure
Biography
Defiled Embrace is a one-man-project formed in Israel in 2021 by local musician Matan Kedar. The project started as a collection of different Doom Metal songs, written by Matan over the course of 11 years. Some songs were originally written for another projects, but eventually they all came together under the name Defiled Embrace.
During 2021, Matan decided to record the songs using session musicians he works with in other bands, and the debut album “Whispers Of The Forest” was recorded during 2021-2022.
On July 2022, Defiled Embrace singed a deal with Metal Scrap Records Inc. Three videos were shot to support forthcoming release: “In Her Sullen Reflection”, “Autumn” and “Whispers Of The Forest”. September 9 became as an official release date of “Whispers Of The Forest” album through Another Side Records, a division of Metal Scrap Records Inc.
To the end of 2023, the new album, "The Nether Earth", was recorded.
During 2024, three Singles ("Mausoleum", "Pieces" and "Defiled Embrace") will be shouted before second album release, which planned on September 6 same year.
https://anotherside.metalscraprecords.com/
Glasgow (Scotland) - Brutal Death Metal quartet, INIQUITOUS SAVAGERY, are back! After nearly a decade since the release of full-length debut album, SUBVERSIONS OF THE PSYCHE, the Scottish brutes return with sophomore album, EDIFICE OF VICISSITUDES, their first for Willowtip!
Without compromise, stylistic detours or mellowing with age, Edifice of Vicissitudes is a blast-beaten beast of an album and a quintessential example of Brutal Death Metal in its purest form.
Guitarist Joe Fleetwood drives that point home in explaining that, “Edifice of Vicissitudes is the culmination of years of jamming and formulating our ideas into the most brutal and twisted Iniquitous Savagery songs we could make.”
Willowtip Records will release Edifice of Vicissitudes November 22 on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Pre-order:https://iniquitoussavagery.bandcamp.com/album/edifice-of-vicissitudes
https://willowtip.com/bands/details/iniquitous-savagery.aspx
Track Listing:
1. Casualty of Diabolical Trial
2. Synaptic Cull
3. Choked Before First Breath
4. Omnipotence Negates Self-Affliction
5. Narcotic Exsanguination
6. Lifeblood
7. Drenched in Righteous Offal
8. Bio-Digital Convergence in the Fourth Industrial Age
Credits:
All music and lyrics by Iniquitous Savagery.
Recorded by D.P Johnson and Euan Harrison at Audio Lounge and Full Pelt studios.
Reamping, mixing and mastering by Colin Marston at The Thousand Caves.
Cover art by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design.
Line-up:
Liam McCall - Vocals
Joe Fleetwood - Guitar
Chris Ryan - Bass
Euan Harrison - Drums
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/iniquitoussavagery
They have always stayed on their path of mixing deathmetal with a grind sauce and dosing everything with a good serving of humor. From blast beats, gravity blasts, a german spoken a capella piece, breakdowns and a surprise power metal solo it‘s impossible to stand still.
The latest masterpiece „AT FULL FORCE“ (out February 11th, 2024) is the first album under the new line-up.
You’re either banging your head or dodging inflatable beachballs at their shows.
Don‘t expect angry frowns – GORE FORCE V wants to see smiles and raised hands
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_kEfS8CtUH/?igsh=eDU1MzY4dzlpa3cw
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/76QPA7Nqfjpl7Falw7SxNK?si=Z86gI5tXSSyfNzg5yw7OeA
https://www.instagram.com/gore_force_5
Play "The Sun, You" here: https://linktr.ee/saddayah
"The Sun, You" was recorded at Osimetric Studios Bucharest. Cover art by Filip Rădulescu.
"Lila" will be released in collaboration with Loud Rage Music, more about this to be revealed soon.
SADDAYAH was founded 11 years ago in Ploiesti, Romania. The band's music is based in traditional Death Metal although the members' high technical level shaped a new direction, a combination of Melodic Technical Death Metal with Progressive and Black Metal influences.
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.saddayah.com
Hungarian Death Metal band ...IN VISCERO released their debut
album "ITALIA VIOLENTA"Hungarian Death Metal trio ...IN VISCERO released their debut full-length album "Italia Violenta" as limited edition jewel-case CD on Pest Records (Romania) and Metal Ör Die Records (Hungary)! The band's sound is Swedish, the band members are seasoned musicians with experience in Hungarian bands such as Casketgarden, Boru, Mutilation Case and Rém, and the lyrics are in Italian.
Here's what the band had to say about the album: "Our goal is to evoke the great moments of Italian cinema between the 60s and 90s. The era when filmmaking was more human, creative and forward-looking. When the void created by financial gaps was filled with human creativity, which created masterpieces that are now inscribed in gold in the eternal pantheon of universal cinematography. The seven films evoked by the album's songs tell tales about demons, zombies, witches and the darkest side of the human mind. After listening to the album, watching these films is not only necessary, but mandatory!
Viva il Cinema Italiano!"
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-viscero-italia-violenta
https://www.facebook.com/metalordierec/
ASCIAN: Neues Album “SING TO ME, SWEET VOID” kommt
in wenigen Wochen . Ende des Monats ist es endlich soweit!
ASCIAN sind zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me,
Sweet Void“ vereinen sie einmal mehr fragile hoffnungsvolle Momente mit der
anmutigen Schönheit tiefster Trauer.
Das zweite Album der Braunschweiger Doom/Post-Black-Metaller ist in dieser Form ein Meisterstück aus ergreifenden Melodien und tonnenschweren Riffs.
Tracklist
01. Follow the Serpent
02. The Odium Palace (feat. Dima Dudko of White Ward)
03. The Golden Queen
04. Cold Sun
05. Threnody Spirals (feat Judith Ehreke of Unsoulicited)
06. Fra Lyset
07. Deathwish
Das neue Material wird am Veröffentlichungstag im Rahmen Stygian Pilgrims Festivals zusammen mit OPHIS, FROWNING und weiteren exzellenten Bands live vorgestellt.
Über ASCIAN
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen.
Leave all hope behind - Misery is ahead!
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AMYSTERY – „CHAOS EMPIRE SATAN“
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 31.10.2024
Die okkulte Formation AMYSTERY ist zurück mit ihrem vierten Album »Chaos Empire Satan«, ein gleichermaßen rohes und edles Werk zur Bewahrung und Zelebrierung des traditionellen Black Metal als eigenständige Kunstform. Dabei sind sie kein uninspiriertes Abbild einer alten Genregröße, sondern schmieden vielmehr kompromisslos ihren eigenen, authentischen Schwarzstahl, der sich vielfach im Angriffsmodus befindet, sich in Kompositionen wie »Spirits In Fire« oder »Infestation« aber auch zu erhabener, mystischer Größe aufschwingt.
Nach einer mehrjährigen Schaffenspause hatten sich die Bajuwaren AMYSTERY 2018 mit einer veränderten Besetzung wieder zusammengeschlossen, um gemeinsam weiter an neuem Material zu arbeiten. Im Sommer 2021 kam es erneut zu einem Besetzungswechsel, seitdem besteht die Band aus drei Personen: Grond (Drums), Culpa (Bass) und Nephesus (Vocals, Gitarre).
AMYSTERY ist keine Band, bei der ein neues Album daraus erwächst, dass sich Individuen gegenseitig im Alleingang aufgenommene Tondateien auf die Rechner schicken – die Ideen, Riffs etc. für die zehn Songs von »Chaos Empire Satan« wurden gemeinsam im Proberaum gesammelt und dort ausgearbeitet. Auf ihrer Tour im Februar 2023 wurden bereits drei neue Stücke präsentiert, die restlichen sechs entstanden im Zeitraum bis Dezember 2023.
Inhaltlich behandelt »Chaos Empire Satan« die Theorien und Macht der Chaosmagie nach Peter James Carroll und beschreibt die dazugehörigen Praktiken und Auswirkungen auf das Leben und die Seele. Darüber hinaus geht es um die Ambivalenz zwischen der vermeintlichen Nichtigkeit des irdischen Lebens im kosmischen und multidimensionalen Maßstab und der Größe des eigenen persönlichen (Multi-)Universums mit der daraus erwachsenden maximalen Gestaltungsfreiheit, Wirksamkeit und Einflussnahme. AMYSTERY als Band zelebriert diese Überzeugung, was bereits im Vorgängeralbum »All Hail The Cult« eine tragende Rolle spielte und nun im neuen Album noch mehr ins Zentrum gerückt wurde.
Aufgenommen wurde das Album im Januar 2024. Das Cover-Artwork wurde von Malphas (ex-AMYSTERY, ex-Lunar Aurora, Mortem Agmen) gezeichnet, die grafische Gestaltung wurde von Lense Of Sense übernommen.
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Tauche ein in das düstere Symphonic-Metal-Erlebnis: Sopransirene TALIA HOIT kündigt ihr neues Album an! Vorstellung der Videosingle “OCEAN” in Vorfreude auf das Album “Oceans”
Der Ozean ist ebenso gegensätzlich wie geheimnisvoll.
Einerseits ist er tief, gefährlich, pechschwarz, mit Teilen, die noch
unerforscht sind, während Folklore und Mythologie uns lehren, dass er auch
voller Meeresungeheuer wie Kraken oder Riesentintenfische und tödlich
verführerischer Kreaturen wie Sirenen oder Meerjungfrauen ist. Andererseits ist
er ruhig und still, bietet stille Höhlen und schützende Ufer, bevölkert von
schönen Wesen und einer faszinierenden Flora. In einem metaphorischen
Verständnis spiegelt diese Vielfalt des Ozeans auch die Vielfalt der
menschlichen Gefühle und Erfahrungen wider. Genau von diesem Themenbereich hat
sich die Symphonic-Metal-Nixe und talentierte Singer-Songwriterin Talia
Hoit für ihr kommendes Album “Oceans” inspirieren lassen,
das am 21. November 2024 erscheinen wird.
In zehn fesselnden Songs erreicht die aufstrebende Symphonic-Metal-Sängerin meisterhafte Höhen und Tiefen. Mit Mat Plekhanov an der Gitarre (DRAGONY), Roland Navratil am Schlagzeug (ATROCITY, LEAVES EYES, EDENBRIDGE) und Max Stoner an Bass- und Rhythmusgitarre kann sie sich zusätzlich mit einer herausragenden Besetzung rühmen. Alle Tracks auf dem Album wurden von Talia Hoit geschrieben, von ihr und Frank Pitters (VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, DEEP SUN, EDENBRIDGE) produziert und knüpfen thematisch an das nautische Thema an. “Oceans” ist ein symphonisches Eintauchen in die wechselnden Gezeiten menschlicher Emotionen und behandelt Themen wie langsam fortschreitende Liebe, die auf felsigen Ufern aufläuft, die weite Leere des Verlustes, die Standhaftigkeit inmitten turbulenter Wellen sowie den Triumph des menschlichen Geistes – Talia Hoit lädt uns ein, sie auf eine Reise unter die Wellen und ins Innere der Ozeane zu begleiten. Ihr Sound ist dunkel, introspektiv und metaphorisch. Er löst sicherlich eine Reihe von Emotionen aus und kann zum Nachdenken über Themen wie Liebe und Verlust anregen. Talia erklärt: “Bei diesem Album möchte ich wirklich, dass die Leute die Musik und die Themen der Songtexte tief spüren, wie die Tiefen des Ozeans. Ich möchte, dass es eine Reise für den Hörer ist, eine, die Spaß macht, aber auch emotional bewegt.” Aber selbst wenn man nicht so tief taucht, kann man es genießen, auf eine nautische musikalische Reise mitgenommen zu werden, ein Abenteuer, wenn man so will. So oder so, Talias Musik hat eine unbestreitbare Wirkung auf den Hörer. Wenn du also ein Metal-Fisch bist, der im weiten Meer der musikalischen Möglichkeiten herumdümpelt, wirst du es bestimmt genießen, dich absichtlich in ihrem sorgfältig gewobenen symphonischen Metal-Netz zu verfangen!
Trackliste
1. Castaway
2. Unanchored
3. Ocean
4. Beautiful
5. Stolen
6. Abyss
7. VastDeep
8. Island of Hope
9. Infinity
10. Significance
"Oceans" ist hier bereits vorbestellbar: https://orcd.co/oceans3
Du kannst es nicht erwarten, bis das neue Album rauskommt? Kein Problem! Du kannst die Wartezeit überbrücken und dich auf die Stimmung und den Sound des kommenden Albums “Oceans” vorbereiten, indem du in der Zwischenzeit in Talia Hoits Videosingle “Ocean” eintauchst. Der Song wird auch auf dem kommenden Album zu hören sein und dient als erster Vorgeschmack auf das, was uns erwartet, denn er war die erste Inspiration für “Oceans”. Der musikalische Kontrast und das Zusammenspiel zwischen dem fesselnden Orchesterarrangement, den schweren Instrumentalklängen, Talias sanftem Soprangesang und den emotionalen Lyrics sind eine faszinierende, gelungene Mischung aus musikalischen Eindrücken einerseits und wecken andererseits die Assoziation, die rhythmischen Bewegungen des Ozeans an der Oberflächen und darunter die Ebbe und Flut der Wellen spüren zu können. Der starke, emotionale Ton und der Liedtext spiegeln die Herausforderung wider, die es darstellt, die turbulenten Gewässer menschlicher Zuneigung zu navigieren, ganz so, als würde man durch die tiefen Gewässer des Meeres steuern müssen. Gleichzeitig erinnert der Song daran, dass die Brutalität und Weite des Ozeans, durch die man sich sehr klein und verloren fühlen kann, ähnlich der überwältigenden Erfahrung von Liebe und des Getrenntseins von geliebten Menschen, durch die schönen Momente des Zusammenseins und Füreinanderdaseins ausgeglichen werden, die ebenso schön sind wie das Glitzern an der Meeresoberfläche. Tauche also mit Talia Hoit in den “Ocean” ein!
Jetzt reinhören und die Videosingle “Ocean” hier ansehen: https://youtu.be/ADpdrcQQBVM?si=tYnUg_sUxkEnXy3f
Talias neue Single "Ocean" für deine persönliche Playlist: https://orcd.co/taliahoit2
Mehr über Talia Hoit
Für Talia Hoit aus Colorado, die seit ihrem fünften Lebensjahr klassisch am Klavier ausgebildet wurde, hat sich ihre musikalische Früherziehung definitiv ausgezahlt. Heute schreibt sie eigene Songs, tritt als Sängerin und Keyboarderin auf und komponiert Orchesterpartituren für symphonischen Metal. Seit vielen Jahren schreibt sie auch leidenschaftlich gerne Songs außerhalb einer offiziellen Band und arbeitet nun mit talentierten Produzenten und Musikern zusammen, um ihre persönlichsten und intimsten Songs zum Leben zu erwecken und mit der Welt zu teilen.
Fünf Jahre lang war Talia die Keyboarderin und Songwritertin der Band AnaDies. Derzeit ist sie Leadsängerin, Orchestratorin und Co-Songwriterin der Symphonic-Metal-Band BEYOND FORGIVENESS sowie Keyboarderin für die Metalband OB NIXILIS. Als Solokünstlerin hat sie zwei Original-Heimstudio-Alben für persönliche Zwecke geschrieben und aufgenommen: “Fate's Too Small” (2007) und “A Little Longer” (2012), die nur in einer limitierten Auflage auf CD erschienen sind, hauptsächlich für Freunde und Familie. Im Jahr 2019 nahm sie die Single “Angel” (produziert von Jarek Musil) auf, die erst kürzlich neu gemastert wurde. Nach der Erfahrung, mit einem professionellen Produzenten zu arbeiten, beschloss sie, ihr Soloprojekt weiterzuverfolgen, um so viele ihrer persönlichen Songs, die sie im Laufe der Jahre geschrieben hatte, professionell zu produzieren und kommerziell zu veröffentlichen wie möglich. Im Jahr 2023 veröffentlichte sie zwei weitere Singles: “Abandon” und “Whispers in the Storm”. Ihre langjährige Erfahrung in der Musikbranche und ihr Verständnis von klassischer Musik spiegeln sich in diesen Werken deutlich hörbar wider und zeugen von hoher Qualität und Kompetenz. Talias Musik ist definitiv ein Leckerbissen für Symphonic-Metal-Fans sowie Liebhaber harter Musik, denn sie zeigt Einflüsse von Bands wie WITHIN TEMPTATION, NIGHTWISH, EVANESCENCE und VISIONS OF ATLANTIS.
Surfe das Web, springe auf die Metal-Wellen auf und komme bereits vor der Veröffentlichung des neuen Albums in Stimmung! Talia Hoit online entdecken und anhören:
https://www.taliahoit.com/
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MOTÖRHEAD kündigen an: "WE TAKE NO PRISONERS – THE
SINGLES 1995–2006" als Sammlung von A- und B-Seiten im DELUXE 7”
SET, als Doppel-CD sowie in digitaler Form "Shut Your Mouth" (Single
Edit) erstmals digital erhältlich!
In der goldenen Ära der Single – in den 1970er und 80er Jahren – stürmten Motörhead regelmäßig am Sonntagnachmittag die Ohren der Chart-Hörer mit einer Reihe von Hits in den Rockcharts der damaligen Zeit. Die Single als Format mag zwar seit den 90er Jahren mit dem Aufkommen der CD an Bedeutung verloren haben, dies minderte jedoch nicht die Qualität der Singles und Promos, die Motörhead weiterhin veröffentlichten. Diese zumeist auf CD erschienenen Singles sind heute rar und haben einen sehr hohen Sammlerwert. Da erscheint es doch passend, auch diesen Patronengurt an Hit-Kalibern der Band nochmals aufzuarbeiten und in dem Format zu veröffentlichen, das einst durch die Single geboren wurde: 7"-Vinyl.
"We Take No Prisoners" ist eine Sammlung der Singles der Band aus den Jahren 1995 bis 2006, die als Box-Set mit neun 7"-Singles sowie als erweiterte Doppel-CD und als digitale Edition erhältlich sind. Von Publikumslieblingen wie dem wuchtigen "Sacrifice" über ihre einzigartige Coverversion der Sex Pistols mit "God Save The Queen", bis hin zu den halbakustischen Roots-Vibes von "Whorehouse Blues" – es ließ sich nicht leugnen, dass ihr songschreiberisches Können immer noch unübertroffen war.
Mit einer Auswahl seltener Live- und Radiomitschnitte und einem lange verloren geglaubten Promo-Interview mit Lemmy und Mikkey Dee aus dem Jahr 2004 ist dies die ultimative Sammlung aus jener Ära der Band mit den Songs, die den Erfolg ihrer jeweiligen Alben befeuerten.
Weiter unten gibt es alle Details zu den jeweiligen "We Take No Prisoners"-Releases. News und Updates finden sich mit einem Besuch auf www.iMotorhead.com.
Trackliste des 7"-Boxsets:
DISC ONE
A – Sacrifice
B – Over Your Shoulder (Live)
DISC TWO
A – I Don't Believe A Word
(Single Edit)*
B – Overnight Sensation (Live)
DISC THREE
A – Love For Sale
B – Take The Blame
DISC FOUR
A – God Save The Queen
B – One More Fucking Time
DISC FIVE
A – Shut Your Mouth
B – See Me Burning
DISC SIX
A – Whorehouse Blues
B – Killers
DISC SEVEN
A – God Was Never On Your Side
B – Trigger
DISC EIGHT
A – R.A.M.O.N.E.S. (2006 version)
B – R.A.M.O.N.E.S. (Live)”
DISC NINE
A/B – Inferno Interview – Bel Age Hotel, California, April 2004 (w/ Mikkey Dee and Lemmy)
“We Take No Prisoners – The Singles 1995–2006" ist ab 25. Oktober 2024 erhältlich.
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Hier vorbestellbar: https://motorhead.lnk.to/prisoners
This early stream of AGONY'S BESPOKE comes exclusively through Metal Injection. Listen to the album now at https://metalinjection.net/av/full-album-stream/blighted-eye-streams-melodic-banger-of-a-new-record-agonys-bespoke
Agony's Bespoke is a monumental, hour-long work, marking a new height for the band's growing skills of songwriting and storytelling. Theatrical and immersive, the album is heavily inspired by the 2018 Australian film, "Nightingale," and tells a similarly tragic story. Highlighting the transformative power of violence and the ultimate futility of revenge, the album seeks to explore the lasting emotional and psychological impact of trauma.
Beyond The Top Records will release Agony's Bespoke on digipak CD, limited-edition vinyl, and digital formats on September 20. Pre-orders are available at: https://linktr.ee/beyondthetoprecords
BLIGHTED EYE has already released two tracks off Agony's Bespoke. Stream "In Emnity" and "Howls from Beyond the Mist" on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:
1. Tragoedia
2. The Wounding
3. In Emnity
4. Howls from Beyond the Mist
5. A Feast for Worms
6. Pallid
7. Nightingale
8. A Reverent Stillness
9. Agony’s Bespoke
Agony's Bespoke was produced, mixed, and mastered by Alex Sedin. Cover art by Caelan Stokkermans.
Hailing from the greater Seattle area, BLIGHTED EYE is a progressive death/black metal act featuring members from Aethereus, Mesmur, and Pantheist. The band interweaves crushing riffs and blastbeats with intricate, layered melodic work akin to Opeth, Swallow the Sun, Rotting Christ, and Dark Tranquility. Their musical journey aims to evoke a bespoke atmosphere that delves into the depths of the human psyche, exploring the haunting lyrical themes that reside within the darkest recesses of the mind.
BLIGHTED EYE is:
Christopher Jones: Guitar
Kyle Chapman: Guitar, Vocals
Ben Gassman: Bass
John Devos: Drums
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Drowning In Blood is a thrash metal 4-piece from Montreal with epic harmonies, headcrushing riffs and themes of war, freedom, revolution and liberty. Their music displays influence from Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Toxic Holocaust, Power Trip, Kreator and Exodus with some hints of Melodic Death Metal.
The band was originally formed of drummer Noah Muller (ex-False Gods), bassist Mathieu Brunet (Tribal Bones, Atomic Threat), and lead guitarist/singer Christophe Michaud (Grimhold). After a couple of shows, the band decided to get a second guitarist in order to make live performances more complete and they hired Justin Boisvert (Grimhold). After parting ways with Mathieu for personal reasons, the band hired Nicolas Tremblay (ex-False Gods, Eons Of Serenity) as new bassist.
The band released its debut EP Crush The Weak at the end of 2021 and slowly made their way through the local scene before releasing their single Resist, Revolt! in 2022. Their latest album "You've Won... But At What Cost?" has been released on August 9th.
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Dear
Friends in the Press and Media worldwide.We’re proud to announce a new
partnership with emerging German black/death metal terror cult WRAHHA.
Hailing from Leipzig, Germany, Wrahha is the spiritual successor to the defunct
Leipzig-based bestial Black Death cult Lihhamon, which existed briefly
between 2015 and 2017. Wrahha is spearheaded by Lihhamon guitarist M., and new
co-conspirators P. and F., continuing the previous band's unholy campaign down
the path of omnipotent destruction and absolute sonic bedlam.
Wrahha's three inaugural tracks forming the debut "Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing" demo tape here presented (released in America by Sentient Ruin and in Europe by AbArt Corruption) are a weaponized instrument of terror that in a bare ten minutes tests the limits of human resistance taking it to its bloodiest breaking point. The three tracks bring forth an unprecedented audial assault channeling the cruelty and mercilessness of black/death cults like Revenge, Diocletian and Heresiarch, while establishing Wrahha as a violent means of transcendence in its own right, not one who will ever follow in anyone's steps, but rather one meant to forge its own destiny and self-determination in crushing tyranny and cast its own destructive shadow across the path of anything or anyone who dare to oppose.
"HARBINGERS OF A HORRID CLEANSING" demo tape’s imminent arrival has now also been teased by European extreme metal blog Antichrist Magazine, who have premiered the track “Totalitarian Crucifixion Rite“ - you can check out the feature and listen to the track https://antichristmagazine.com/exclusive-premiere-wrahha-totalitarian-crucifixion-rite/
As its title suggests, this demo tape release is like an omen or harbinger of Wrahha's horrid aural atrocity awaiting ahead in the form of the band's upcoming debut full-length, which will be a concept album about gaining and losing power. This demo is loosely based around the same theme. With "Berserker Elite...." the band depicts the mythos of the infamous frenzied warriors who went into battle in a trance before the regular troops, like harbingers of what is about to come. "Totalitarian Crucifixion Rite" is about the concept of maintaining power through terror, which in the end leads always to downfall. While the final song "Imperious Mastery..." introduces the theme of overthrowing and cleansing a totalitarian regime, as happened for example during the Trials of Nurnberg, where the foundations and vestiges of the old ideology were denied and erased to build something new.
The "Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing" demo tape will be officially released on September 20 2024 by Sentient Ruin in America in collaboration with AbArt Corruption for Europe
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases. Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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German
Black Metallers GROZA published another song from their highly
anticipated new album “NADIR”. The track is called “DELUGE”
and can be streamed on all relevant platforms.
"Nadir"is set to be released on September 20th via AOP Records!
GROZA (“storm”, “terror”) is a black metal band from Bavaria, Germany. Their sound is driven by emotion, anger and sadness, combining searing melodies, raging blast beats and melancholy induced clean guitar passages into a melodic, dynamic blend.
Founded as a one-man project by singer / multi-instrumentalist P.G. in 2016, the band gradually grew towards a full band in the following two years, culminating in the self-release of their first effort - “Unified In Void” (2018) - which almost instantly gained attention and interest, leading to the signing to AOP Records shortly after. After 3 years of writing and intense live activity followed the release of the 2nd full length album “The Redemptive End” (2021), that was met with critical acclaim and overwhelming reception of fans alike, entering #78 of the German album charts consequently.
Between releases, the band has extensively presented their craft live on stages all across Europe during various club shows, festivals and full-fledged tours across Europe. To date, GROZA has played 120+ shows in over 20 countries. Continuing to do so in the fall of 2024, the band will again tour Europe in support of the new album.
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For our upcoming vinyl, with Empty Throne (USA) we are working with Musiccode (Denmark) who will handle the production.
6 songs, +40 minutes of Blackened Death/Thrash Metal!
PRE-order the LP now! (Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl - or as we call it - black death vinyl....)
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tba-fall058-pre-order-now
PESTILENT SCARS is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Oulu. All members are between 18 and 19 years old. The band's central themes focus on melodic songwriting, pure emotion, tight gigs and overall the old school way of getting around.
The band is about to release their debut album MEADOWS OF MISFORTUNE on January 17th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first single 'In Search of Reason' is released today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pestilent-scars-search
"Mostly my writing comes straight from the heart. When I write music it has to come naturally. Melodies are very important to me and that's why we have lot of melodic riffs in our songs. It tells you a story, it's not basic death metal. I feel like I can show much more about myself with melodies. It's something that I do. I don't think a lot about which bands have inspired me, but i have to say that gothenburg's melodic death metal scene from 90's has inspired me a lot. But our music still has that Finnish melancholy. Both Finnish and Swedish melodic death metal is very important to me."- Guitarist/Songwriter, Elias Vierimaa
Biography:
Pestilent Scars was born in the winter of 2022/2023. The band has had the same line-up for almost its entire existence. Pestilent Scars released their first single "Deceitful Phoenix" in the summer of 2023. The single was a relative success. Deceitful Phoenix" was followed by "All On My Own" in the autumn of the same year.
The band played several live shows in 2023 and 2024, which were energetic and showcased the band's overall idea. At their last gig the band performed their forthcoming album "Meadows Of Misfortune". The album will be released in early 2025.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/pestilent-scars-meadows-of-misfortune-cd-pre-order
Line-up:
Pasi Matinolli - Vocals
Elias Vierimaa - Guitars
Artturi Kauppi - Drums
Sampo Jylhä - Bass
Topi Ilmola - Guitars
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Raleigh (NC) - Decibel Magazine has premiered "ON THE RUN" from U.S. Black 'N Rollers, VALLETTA! "On The Run" is the second single from forthcoming full-length debut album, SUMMER, and you can check it out at the link below! https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/09/03/track-premiere-valletta-on-the-run/
"On The Run" will be available September 6 on all digital platforms!
Blackened Arena Rock? Melancholic Grunge n' Roll? Valletta's anthemic approach to songwriting and energetic stage performance certainly makes you wonder. The band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Summer, seeks to incinerate metal norms and create a new sound that is as grimey as it is electrifying!
Valletta comes with an impressive pedigree. The band features drummer Justin Valletta (Mo'ynoq), bassist/backing vocalist Donald Boyd (Mo'ynoq), guitar/lead vocalist Keenan Carroll (Lord Almighty, ex-Barishi), and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear (Hopesfall, Prayer for Cleansing, ex-Between The Buried and Me).
Metal Hammer called the band's debut EP, Come Alive, "A potent mix of Celtic Frost, Satyricon and The Bronx, this is fantastically catchy, bleak, old-school extreme metal with rock’n’roll hooks." Summer takes that penetrating foundational mix and supercharges the musicianship and songwriting, resulting in 12 tracks guaranteed to leave neurological imprints!
The band released the following statement about Summer:
“The new album, Summer, has been a real exploration in tearing down walls that we had previously built up over the years. Each of us coming from different musical backgrounds, there’s been this strong sense of letting go and allowing the music to unfold, regardless of how uncomfortable it may be. That’s been the beauty of this journey we’ve started together, and it’s been a great ride so far!
During the writing process, a constant theme that emerged was the idea of duality. From heavier, grimier riffs to beautiful, stoic melodies. From slower, muddy depths to faster, anthemic leads. From frozen wastelands, to summer nights, we’ve been on a journey to explore our limitations musically and emotionally. Spin that shit up!”
Summer will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on October 4 via Forcefield Records.
Track Listing:*
1. Kissing Angels
2. Serpents of Solomon
3. Saint
4. Diving into the Deep
5. Criminal
6. Soot & Ash
7. Ill Blood
8. In Ecstasy
9. On the Run
10. Bringing the Worst
11. Come Alive
12. Almighty Hate
*The vinyl version of Summer contains five instrumental synthesizer bonus tracks that serve as interludes.
Album Credits:
Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob at Warrior Sound, Chapel Hill, NC.
Mastered by Matt Tuttle at IAS Studios, Winston Salem, NC.
Cover Art by Will Goodyear.
Line-Up:
Justin Valletta - Drums
Donald Boyd - Bass / Backing Vocals
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
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Finnish melodic death metal band CROWEN is set to release their new EP 'WHERE THE DARKNESS FALLS' later this autumn via Inverse Records. The First single 'DARK FOREVER' is released today and a stunning music video is available here: https://youtu.be/fHGAPLay3PE
Dark Forever tells the story of an afterlife where darkness, beauty and a sense of anguish are present. The song also addresses the question of whether it is possible to come out of the darkness.
”The darkness served as my inspiration for this song. The afterlife is an
intriguing topic, and I drew my ideas from it into the lyrics. Eventually, the
lyrics of this song became the theme of the entire EP,” says Crowen's
frontman Esa Uusimaa.
Dark Forever is punchy, fast-paced and melodic death metal with folk influences. After the intro, the song transitions quickly from one part to the next, which leaves no time to catch a breath except for the last calm part at the end. The melody guitars by Mikko Merilinna, known from the band Khroma, add a melancholy tone to the song, possibly even creating a slightly sinister atmosphere near the end. Tuomas Saukkonen, known from the bands Wolfheart and Before the Dawn, plays the bass in the song and the entire EP.
The concept of two worlds continues in the music video for the song, directed by Lana Gonch. Lead actress Mira Cibulka and Jussi Aspivaara's leather masks contribute to the mysterious atmosphere of the video.
Listen to Dark Forever on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/crowen-dark-forever
Biography:
Crowen is a melodic death metal band founded in Espoo, Finland in 2019, led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Esa Uusimaa. In addition to guitars, Uusimaa played keyboards on the EP and built the samples for the album. He also recorded and mixed the album.
Line-up:
Esa Uusimaa - Vocals, Guitars, Samples
Mira Cibulka - Vocals, Keyboards
http://crowenofficial.net
https://www.facebook.com/CrowenOfficial
HVILE I KAOS – “LOWER ORDER MANIFESTATIONS”
Label: Invima Records
Release date: july 12th 2024
Genre: Black Ritual Chamber Music
For fans of: Jo Quail | Musk Ox | Elend | Arcana
You have spoken to me in whispers through the watches of the night and your sibilant suggestions have accompanied me through the hours of daylight’s toil and turgid interactions with those who imagine themselves to be of my kind. You have brought me visions of greater, darker, colder worlds and shown me the path to an existence weighty with meaning and portent. You have confirmed my beliefs in the insignificant vacuity of mankind’s stumbling, infantile civilisation and revealed the majesty of the void. I have given of myself; my blood, my spirit, my words and my devotion and now I am ready. I will step from the vaunted circle of life onto a path without ending, into a darkness ineffable, to follow as you lead, from here unto the end of forever.
“This collection of recorded workings is a series of invocations to eight Lower Order Spirits, as steps leading to the sacrificial altar of Moloch, the King of Fire. This is done in accordance with the practice of Sinister Magick known as Vedantic Nihilism, as outlined in the grimoire Codex Aversum by Caine Del Sol. The forces presented by these workings are those of collapse, madness, death, and decay. They have served and will continue to serve those ends to devastating effect, in real life, in real time. You have been warned.” – Kakophonix
It is 13 years since cellist, composer and explorer of secrets Kakophonix began his work of musical revelation under the banner of Hvile I Kaos…and now that journey is complete, the final votive offering rendered unto the lords of misrule. Lower Order Manifestations is a work that transcends the commonly understood barriers of genre, transposing the riffs and rhythms, atmosphere and intent of black metal into a new sonic sphere. With cello and acoustic guitar, bass, frame drums and vocal punctuations, Kakophonix has created a progressive path of rituals that lead from an awakening of passion and spirited revolution to an attainment of knowledge, a state of perfection. Through the celebratory ‘Psalmody For The Child Offering’, rife with tension, with its unnerving undercurrents that run jagged nails across the skin of human convictions and assumed proprieties, onward through the ungraspable, unknowable ‘Shadowscast’ – a darkness of substance that slips through your fingers like serpents of sand, as it blends the beautiful liquid of dreams with the fevered sweat of nightmares. From the torment and terror of ‘Panic Sun’ that undermines all you believed to be true, bringing about the collapse of certainties and understanding, to the fierce intensity of seething, dissonant aggression that is ‘Smite’…the road is long and hard, but it all leads to the breathtaking grace of ‘Verity Thy Path’, the brightness of guitars laced with the sombre reflection of the cello, an elevated state only to be found at the conclusion of the trials preceding. The final notes of Hvile I Kaos’ passage through this world could not be more perfect.
Over the years Kakophonix has contributed to the work of Abigail Williams and Imperialist, released split collections with Angmar and Northsong, performed with Whoredom Rife and Ashbringer, but nothing upon his musical odyssey can compare to the visionary unfolding that is Lower Order Manifestations. Available now on InViMa Records, do not allow this exposition of beauty and wisdom to slip past you in the silence that lies beneath the noise and fool’s gold of the mundane world.
Line-up:
Kakophonix - Composition, cello, guitar, bass, frame drum, vocals.
*additional vocal exhortations from Elizabeth Gore, Ø, S, Joseph Spiller, Layla Legard, Sarah Jayde, Dan Niederkorn, Ben Yehdigo, Thanatos, Nicole Day, Seth Scantlen, Cassidy Scantlen, Zola Scantlen, Iggy Scantlen, Aaron Sidell, Mauro Bernazzali.
*death whistle on ‘Panic Sun’ by Nero Atrum.
https://www.invimarecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/HvileIKaos
Finnish old school Thrash/Death metal band JEWEL THRONE is set to release their debut album 'BLOOD VULTURES' on October 18th 2024 via Inverse Records. The second single 'THE GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS' is released today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/jewel-throne-graveyard
The band comments single:
“The Graveyard of Dreams’ is one of the two oldest songs on ‘Blood
Vultures’. The original version can be found on the last EP (‘Silence Shrouds
the Ruins’) by the original Jewel Throne lineup from 2019. It is a
personal story about deepening depression. A story about how the total futility
of everything crushes a human being under its own weight. Black emptiness of
being pushes you deeper into the abyss. Slowly one just stops caring about
anything. Eventually one has to accept one’s own fate… and disappear."
Listen to the first single Blood Vultures: https://push.fm/fl/jewel-throne-blood
Biography:
Jewel Throne was formed as a trio in May 2019 by bassist-vocalist Mika Sallanen, the other members being guitarist Jari Yrjänäinen and drummer Jouni Kurikka. All were already very experienced with lots of bands, demos and a few albums already in their CV’s since all had begun their adventures in music already back in the late 80´s/early 90´s. The first lineup released three EP´s in quick succession. These simple thrash metal releases should now be considered as mere rough sketches of what was to come later.
It was time to add two more musicians – guitarist Toni Koskinen and vocalist Jesse Huovinen, and Jewel Throne mark II was born. Musically the band improved a lot with this change. This lineup released a bunch of singles and an EP ‘Obscure Relics’, which was also released as a tape by Fetusvomit Records. After this it was decided that it was time for the original guitar player to leave the band.
Now as a four-piece, Jewel Throne mark III moved on. They released two singles and an EP ‘Illiterati’ – a release vastly superior to anything they had achieved so far. So now it was the time to decide what to do next. The band had lots of songs ready, so it was decided to jump head first into the unknown and record their debut album. The recording sessions started in Easter 2023. The band entered the studio with 20 songs out of which 17 songs ended up being recorded.
All in all, the recordings took a bit longer than expected due to various issues, but in early spring 2024 the band had a finished product in their hands. ‘Blood Vultures’ was born – an album of 12 highly energetic and angry thrash/death metal songs. It was time to search for a record label, and in June 2024 the band signed with Inverse Records.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/jewel-throne-blood-vultures-cd-pre-order
Line-up:
Jesse Huovinen – vocals
Toni Koskinen – guitars
Mika Sallanen – bass/vocals
Jouni Kurikka - drums
https://linktr.ee/jewelthronefinland
The
darkness of doom metal and the ferocity of death metal are set to collide in a
new and exciting collaboration. Doom/death metal project TIME
CONSUMED has signed an exclusive deal with Wormholedeath for the
release of the highly anticipated EP, LONG NIGHT OF SILENCE. The
EP is scheduled to drop on October 11, 2024.
The creative force behind Time Consumed, Matt Krogen, expressed his gratitude and enthusiasm about the partnership, stating, "Thank you to Wormholedeath for taking an interest in my music. This album has a variety of sounds, combining doom and death metal in a simple yet engaging way that will keep people listening. The lyrics deal mostly with spirituality, including the death of a loved one and the end of time. I had some help making the songs, but I paid for the album to be made myself, so to be noticed by a label stands as a testimony to my commitment and passion for the art. I am looking forward to releasing more music with everyone at Wormholedeath."
For over a decade, Matt Krogen has been playing guitar and attempting to form a band, but finding long-term commitment from others proved challenging. With a deep interest in all rock and metal subgenres, a passion for doom metal emerged after discovering a 24/7 doom metal channel on YouTube. The song "Where Suns Turn to Grey" by Veil Of Conspiracy profoundly influenced him, inspiring the writing of lyrics and self-teaching piano.
Krogen managed to secure assistance for vocals and album art, financing the album's production. He has released a hard rock album titled "Die Royal" and is currently working on a power-metal project called Melting Kandle. Additionally, he is awaiting the publication of his first sci-fi novel. As a multifaceted artist, Krogen continues to search for his place in the world.
www.youtube.com/TimeConsumed
https://timeconsumed.bandcamp.com/album/long-night-of-silence
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Weeks are going fast as rain drops are falling from the sky... So, here we are again with another weekend and remind you for the two amazing events this year! We are doing our best to bring back the spirit of post industrial! A kind of music that always was for the few of you. The upcoming two events of HARSH FREQUENCIES OVER LIMBURG IV in October and RITUALS OVER LIMBURG II are events that we are preparing with our heartblood. Two events with unique and well chosen acts and artists from the underground. On the upcoming two-days fest of HARSH FREQUENCIES OVER LIMBURG IV we are presenting to you 9 acts that have their roots in harsh noise up to power electronics and industrial. BLUE EYES will prepare you a voyage into harsh noise landscape that you won't forget. SLPWK, new rising polish electronic artist will let you dive into a sea of droning electronic ambient flood. ABSOLUTE KEY from Finland is very known to create a surrealistic experimental noisy atmosphere, so watch out! SAVAGE GOSPEL will punch you back to 70s psychedelic times but into deep deep harsh noise! ACIPENSERIDAE is our secret weapon, a artist that is active for longer time but popping up with several ultra limited releases from time to time. Harsh Noise with self prepared instruments in the old way, for the first time ever in live action, this one will be unique! SPUR ON TO XS from Eindhoven (NL) will bring back the spirit of Power Electronics in a melting combination of ATRAX MORGUE and dark street electronics sound such as BIZARRE UPROAR. So over that we will see LE KRIZ AN for the first time! Harsh Noise soundscape that will take you on a obsucre travel and let you back with many questions... so don't miss it! At the end we have two bombs of Noise/PE for you! AM NOT and ANTICHILDLEAGUE from UK, no words needed here as artist-history speak for themself! Get your ass up, get your tickets and don't miss this event. Experience the power of noise and industrial in real life!
There are only left 2 months and less than 60 tickets are available for RITUALS OVER LIMBURG II festival. A festival that is concentrating on ritual industrial music with occult and spiritual background! Everybody who was there at the last fest know what to expect and this time we bring you the holy blood of industrial underground again. Swedish occult act TREPANERINGSRITUALEN don't need anymore explanation but stands for itself! Rythmic industrial that will open your third eye. For the first time VORTEX from Germany will perform a unique perfomance in Limburg-Region, occult dark ambient from Germany that will let you dive into the river of hades. YSLASHY, spiritual music, will put you into a deep trance while performing a ritual on stage. US pioneers that created the so called "dark ambient" will be here exclusively: SCHLOSS TEGAL. The most of you know what to expect, so dont fear this experience of obscure industrial. NAM-KHAR will take you by the hand for a journey into long forgotten times, their combination from drone, ambient and industrial soundscape is amazing. From the far US we have DODSSANG TEMPEL. The music and performing can be experienced like a mirror that will be like a door to another world, ritual noise ambience, could be a explanation for the music genre. BLACK VAULT from Denmark is here to perform for the first time in Limburg Region. After the successful first debut album, the artist will show what is occult industrial music from dansk lands. from european south we have ALONE IN THE HOLLOW GARDEN and LA PORTA ERMETICA. Romanian artist Dan S. (ALONE IN THE HOLLOW GARDEN) is well known in the underground but live-performances are rare, so we are very pleased to offer a stage for this unique art! Ambience and soundscapes to catch you and show you a unknown world... While LA PORTA ERMETICA from Italy received a high attention this year for their debut album, we also got a heavy fascination here. The latest album leave you behind, bathed into secrets. The act creates a magical esoteric kind of ambient industrial. with old members of AIN SOPH, so you know what to expect, don't you?! At the end we have SCHMERZ UND ERLÖSUNG from Germany. Wolf E. is active into industrial scene with his project for more than 16 years! Mostly he got attention for his VHS video and there was a long silence arround the project... We bring it back to life! Occult Industrial from Germanys underground! So expect nothing than outstanding emotion...
Get your tickets - Support the underground - Experience a unique feeling ! Have a great week. Bye.Bernd Hermanns Dunkelheit Produktionen
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Toilet ov Hell has premiered the official video for first single, "THE POUNDING OF HOOVES." Check it out below!
https://toiletovhell.com/premiere-the-mosaic-window-the-pounding-of-hooves/
The Mosaic Window mastermind, Andrew Steven Brown, released the following statement concerning the album:
“Hemasanctum is a concept album that explores my current thoughts on life, relationships (parent-child), and loss. While it may or may not be obvious, the album starts with a song about birth and ends with a song about death. In between are songs intentionally out of order (like the roller-coaster timeline we all experience) subtly relating to topics like self-awareness, mental health, abortion, religion, and grief.
This album is the first Mosaic Window record to feature a real drummer - Gabe Seeber of Abigail Williams, Vale of Pnath, Obscura (live), Decrepit Birth (live), Carach Angren (live), and many more. Additionally, I am still in awe that there are two guest solos from the legendary (and possibly my favorite) guitarist Andy LaRocque. Both Andy and Gabe absolutely nailed their parts, and I couldn’t be more elated for their presence on the record.
Hemasanctum was written and recorded between October 2023 - February 2024 at my home studio, and mixed by Damian Herring over the Summer of 2024. I am so proud of this album, and hope listeners can appreciate it too. Cheers!”
Track
Listing:
1. Incantation to Summon the Unstable
2. The Pounding of Hooves
3. Black Bethlehem
4. Turibulum
5. Ash Like Anvils
6. Night Disease
7. Shrouded in Pain
8. Hymn to Silence the Light
Credits:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Producing, Engineering.
Damian Herring - Mixing and Mastering.
Additional Musicians:
Gabe Seeber - Drums
Andy LaRocque - Guitar Solos (Tracks 2 and 4)
Album Art: “Dead Mother I” by Egon Schiele (1910)
The Mosaic Window is:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass
https://www.willowtip.com/home.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Mosaic-Window-100094717845304/
German
Black Metallers SERVANT released the third track of their upcoming album
“DEATH DEVIL MAGICK”. It is called “MAGICK” and can
be listened on all relevant streaming platforms.
“Death Devil Magick” is set to be released on September 20th via AOP Records!
German Black Metal band Servant has been celebrating their melodic yet furious Black Metal across the underground and beyond since 2021.
Their two well reviewed full length albums 'Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars' and 'Aetas Ascensus' shook ground within the metal scene.
Now the band is going to release their 3rd output 'Death Devil Magick' via AOP Records on 20th September 2024
Death Devil Magick was written record, mixed and mastered between October 23 and may 24.
Without lacking on their musical trademarks, Servant continues to evolve on their new record.
Melodic guitars combine with furious drums, powerful basslines go with keys and mighty grooves.
On Death Devil Magick the vocals are more clear than on the previous two albums, to give the words the required power in meaning.
All this is put in a powerful soundshape which is aggressive, yet very dynamic and tidied up.
The lyrical topics are inspired by poets and philosophers like Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also paintings by Franz von Stuck from the era of symbolism for example, can be mentioned here.
The lyrics discuss conflicts of emotions, beliefs, addiction and depths of human nature.
Death Devil Magick invites the the listener to step into the gallery of nine microcosms and witness lust, despair, magick and ecstasy.
Moreover Servant is going to play Europe within Scherbentour 2024 together with ELLENDE & GROZA to spread Magick, Lust and ecstasy.
https://www.facebook.com/agonyabsinthe
CORPSEFUCKING ART – “TOMATIZED”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: october 4th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Mortician | Cannibal Corpse | Autopsy | Deranged
“Earth shall be ruled by a new breed of sentient beings!”
The world as you know it is crumbling around you, the walls of reality collapsing beneath a tsunami of screaming colours and deranged impossibilities. Bacterial holocaust invoked by the impetuous experiments of meddling scientists, alien invasion and gargantuan plant life with rapacious appetites! Books of the dead and restless spirits, a violent revolution of the creatures of the sea, mankind consumed as the protagonists of tales of horror walk the streets! Are you awake or dreaming? Is this a nightmare or encroaching insanity? It is all of this and more…you are lost in the gore-soaked madness of the mind of Corpsefucking Art!
“Behold the kingdom of cyclopic tomatoes!”
It’s been six years now since the release of the last Corpsefucking Art album, the excellent Splatterphobia, but at long last the Italian purveyors of sonic grotesqueries have returned…and they’re better – and more dangerously deranged – than ever! New album Tomatized combines magnificent death metal and utter madness as only Corpsefucking Art can. The opening, title track welcomes us into this madhouse with massive, crunching, grinding riffs, drum beats of insane force and shuddering impact and those sewer-dwelling vocals, laced with threat and promises of slaughter. Whatever the wild stories being told in the lyrics, this music will still tear you limb from limb. ‘Hell Of The Living Dead’ follows with some glorious, blood-spattered riffs that underline the sheer satisfying brilliance of Corpsefucking Art’s mastery of death metal. The quality never drops for a second as infectious hooks and bowel shaking rhythms are delivered with intense focus and relentless power, the exceptional music infusing the bizarre humour with an unnerving darkness. The massive sludge of ‘The Book Of The Dead’ is like drowning in congealing blood and ‘Phantasm’ dices and dissects with practised ease. ‘Escape From Alpha City’ provides the fantastically unhinged conclusion to this carnival ride through chaos and carnage, setting the seal on what is surely the finest, most entertaining and strangely unsettling death metal album ever to escape from the Corpsefucking Art asylum.
“Now I’m here – stuck in this vegetable inferno!”
When Comatose Music unlock the padded cell containing Tomatized on October 4th, the impact will be seismic. Thanks to the engineering and mixing skills of Alessio Cattaneo (Hideous Divinity, Satanika etc) and the mastering wizardry of Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul etc) the sound on this album is immense; raw, bloody and richly textured – every word, beat and note landing with brutal force. The fantastic package is completed by the artwork of Pierre De Palmas (Impetigo, Cliteater etc) – you will never look at tomatoes in the same way again. If you love death metal, then Tomatized is unmissable. Be ready for the vegetable invasion!
“I’m in a mental hospital. Where are my tomato friends?”
Line-up:
Frank Moretti - Vocals
Andrea Corpse - Guitar
Mario Di Giambattista - Guitar
Marco De Ritis - Bass
John De Bello – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sachertorture/
Finnish black metal band NOITASAPATTI is set to release their new studio album 'SANKARIN MATKA' on November 29th 2024 via Inverse Records. The First single 'PALUU LIEKKEIHIN' is released today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/noitasapatti-paluu
The band comments:
"Paluu liekkeihin is the first single from the album "Sankarin matka". It is a good example of the band's versatile songwriting that moves between atmospheres, and the track has found its place as the final song at our shows. "Paluu liekkeihin" consists of aggressive parts mixed together with more melodic and atmospheric ones, therefore it is a great piece for introducing the band to a broader audience. The lyrics paint an oppressive picture of a world in ruins, slowly ceasing to exist."
Sankarin Matka CD pre-order available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/noitasapatti-sankarin-matka-cd-pre-order
Biography:
NOITASAPATTI was born in spring 2017 in Pori, Finland by Erakko (vocals), Liekkiö (guitars, keyboards), Mielivalta (guitars) and Rampa (bass). Soon after that, Rienaaja joined us as a drummer and the first line-up was complete. After a couple of months of intensive rehearsing and composing, we recorded our first demo, “Vaellamme kuin Taivaankappaleet” on december 2017 and released it on CDr-format spring 2018. First live-show took place in our hometown also in the same spring. After that, Rampa left the band and Erakko began to play bass. Next year we recorded a second demo, “Aarnivalkean ajamana” and played some gigs. In 2020, we made a split-album with another Finnish band HOLLOW CORPSE. After some line-up changes, Häviö came to the band at the end of 2020 and a few months later, Kadonnut also joined the band to play keyboards. In summer 2021, we finally recorded our first full-length album “Kuolemattomille maille”. After a few successful live-shows it was time to record our second full-length album, “Sankarin matka” (A hero’s journey) in summer 2023. Album is now recorded, mixed, and mastered, and we are more satisfied with the result than ever before!
Our music can be described as 1990’s black metal with lots of melodies and even “burzumic” atmosperes. Also, you can hear influences from early British death/doom, epic viking metal and even some old school progressive music. Vocals are quite original “howling” and also heavily Burzum-influenced screams. Lyrics are written in Finnish.
Line-up:
Erakko - Vocals, Bass, Mouth Harp, Horns
Liekkiö - Guitars
Häviö - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/noitasapattiofficial
North Yorkshire, UK; 2 September 2024: UK black metal act ANTE-INFERNO have unveiled the first track from their upcoming third album "DEATH'S SOLILOQUY", set for release on 22 November 2024 via Vendetta Records.
Watch the haunting artwork video to the track "THE CAVERNOUS BLACKNESS OF NIGHT" now via Black Metal Promotion: https://youtu.be/Woo6T6JPmU8
Now with a fully established line-up, the four-piece have delivered a malevolent hammer strike to the face of all who thought they would continue to mellow after the success of the atmospheric and otherworldly second album "Antediluvian Dreamscapes". "Death’s Soliloquy" harnesses the bestial might of traditional black metal and intricately weaves it with the haunting majesty of the atmospheric sound the band is known for, and in doing so takes the listener on an anguished, hysterical descent into the blackened emptiness of the grave.
“Death’s Soliloquy” is an exploration of lyricist Kai’s journey through
depression and hopelessness, through obsessive thoughts of the most morbid and
macabre nature — thoughts of self-destruction interwoven with the most
appalling nightmares, broken hopes and unacted desires. As old lives are shed
and new lives struggle to take form, there is always a war raging within and
without — a war that can never truly be won but may, at any moment, be lost for
all eternity…
Kai explains: “If there are two principal themes tying this album together, they are death—or rather, an inescapable fixation with death—and mental illness. I wanted to explore the last thoughts and visions of those about to meet their demise, however grisly, haunting or lonely that demise might be. In this way, Death speaks through the tortured imaginings of those it is about to take. We become subject to Death’s Soliloquy—or at least a portion of it – for that poem is as long as the ever-expanding universe is vast.
“The Cavernous Blackness of Night” sums up the album’s themes perfectly. We are taken to the site of a suicide by hanging. A body swings from the bough of a tree, and we witness the very last thing that poor soul witnessed before they took their final, fatal step. We see the wind stirring the leaves of a willow, and causing the grass to bow. A thistle shakes solemnly. We see the final rays of the setting sun bleed across the darkening sky, and feel the warmth of those rays upon our skin before we, too, give ourselves up to that eternal darkness.”
“Death’s Soliloquy” will be available in CD, vinyl and digital formats — pre-order links to follow.
Catch Ante-Inferno on tour with Worm (US) in Europe:
FULL MOON HAIKU TOUR 2024
24/10 London, The Dome (Uk)
30/11 Manchester, Rebellion (Uk) - Sold Out
02/12 Lyon, Rock N Eat (Fra)
03/12 Stuttgart, Schwarzer Keiler (Ger)
04/12 Munich, Feierwerk (Ger)
05/12 Prague, Modra Vopice (Cz)
06/12 Berlin, De Mortem Et Diabolum (Ger)
07/12 Munster, Wintermelodei (Ger)
08/12 Erfurt, From Hell (Ger)
10/12 Vienna, Viper Room (Aut)
11/12 Wrocław, Liverpool (Pol)
12/12 Chemnitz, Ajz (Ger)
13/12 Gottingen, Freihafen (Ger)
14/12 Eindhoven, Metal Meeting (Nl)
15/12 Hamburg, Logo (Ger)
https://vendetta-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/vendettacult
https://www.facebook.com/ANTEINFERNO/
Format: Digitale CD / Fysieke CD
Label: Anti-Hero Records
Distribution: Suburban
For fans of : Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Shade Empire, Hollenthon, Septic Flesh, Fleshgod
On October 25, 2024, new album material will be released by the Belgian metal band Artefacts. It concerns their first full-length (previously two singles and an EP were released), entitled ‘Lucius’. This is also the first album of a trilogy with the title ‘The Titan Chronicles’.
Tracklist:
01. Prologue Gods and Mortals
02. Nephereth
03. The Tower of Irth-Anshar
04. Dragonfall
05. Interlude Her brine embrace
06. The Path of No Return
07. Augur the Age of Darkness
08. Corruption(Glory for the fall)
09. Epilogue For the dead and the undying
Artefacts is a Belgian bandproject aimed at bringing the highest level of musical experiences to the listener. What can only be described as an epic movie score fused with thundering guitars, blistering drums and haunting screams, the band combines the bombast of a symphonic orchestra with the darkness of black metal, while adding a progressive touch.
The mission from the outset was to give the audience an all-inclusive experience, encompassing music, images and an expansive storyline and thus, ‘The Titan Chronicles’ was born: an entire universe, in which the base story line is set, was conceived.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Bram Dewachter and Tim Van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings. The core of the outfit consists of Siegfried Mercelis (keys and orchestration) and Niklaas Reinhold (vocals), both years of experience playing in Lemuria. The present line up consists of current and former members of Slaughter The Giant, Manic Movement, Lost Department and Valkyre.
The album will be released on Anti-Hero Records, a new Belgian label founded by Tony de Block(Midas Studio, Red Hot, Belgian Vinyl Pressing Plant).
The full line-up of the band is as follows:
Siegfried Mercelis – keys and orchestration, composer, songwriting, lyrics, story
Niklaas Reinhold – harsh vocals and narration, lyrics
Tom Everaert – bass
Tom Leemans – lead and rhythm guitars
Hans Jacobs – rhythm and lead guitars
Joren Baert – drums
https://www.facebook.com/AntiHeroRecordsBelgium/
https://www.facebook.com/artefactsmetal
Brutal death band EMASCULATOR has released the official music video for ERADICATION OF THE ASURAS, the newest single of the band's debut EP THE DISFIGURED AND THE DIVINE.
EMASCULATOR joined forces with Slam Worldwide for the premiere of "Eradication of the Asuras." Watch the video now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sss17biOCHY
The Disfigured and the Divine delves into themes of the Goddess in mythology and legend, womanhood and motherhood, overcoming obstacles, justice, spirituality, the human experience, and growing into power. Vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy delves into the concepts behind the song and how it connects to the album's overall theme.
"'Eradication of the Asuras' is about the Hindu goddess Durga. She is known as Mahishasuramardini, the slayer of the shape-shifting buffalo demon. He has been endowed with superpowers and is almost invincible. He has gained the boon that no man may kill him - only a woman. He hungers for power and wages war on the gods and defeats them. So the gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva combine their energy to create Durga. They endow her with their many powers and weapons, and she goes off to fight the demon. Durga appears before him riding on a lion and an epic battle ensues. The demon attacks her in his many forms; lion, man, elephant, snake, and buffalo.
On the tenth day, she strikes the death blow with her trident, and decapitates him with her Chakra, killing him. The gods rejoice and praise her. She bids farewell and promises to return when she is needed and called upon with devotion.
Unlike the demon, Durga is violent out of necessity and in service to others. She is viewed as a great mother who enacts divine justice on the wicked for the liberation of the oppressed. In our song, we are reaching out to her for strength, so that we may persevere through dark, chaotic, and violent times.
I am able to relate to her as a mother and protector of my children. They say every mother has a bit of Durga in her.
There is another legend where Durga is fighting the demon Raktabīja. Every time he is wounded, blood falls to the ground and turns into more demons. So Kali comes forth from Durga's forehead. She holds a bowl and captures every drop of blood so it may not hit the ground, and she drinks it. Thus Durga is able to kill all the duplicates and at last, slays the demon Raktabīja.
The music video combines these two stories from Hindu mythology, representing her power and the power of divine female energy, also known as Shakti.
New Standard Elite will release The Disfigured and the Divine on physical formats on September 25. Pre-order at https://nserecords.bigcartel.com/
The EP will be available on streaming platforms on October 25. Digital preorders are available at https://emasculatorbdm.bandcamp.com/album/the-disfigured-and-the-divine
EMASCULATOR will make their live debut at this year’s Texas Domination Fest, scheduled for September 26-28 in Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX. The band is set to tour Europe in May of 2025 around Nice To Eat You Deathfest (Czechia).
Track
Listing:
1) Ecstasy in Disseverment (of Self)
2) In Resplendent Terror
3) Thesmophoric Rites
4) The Unassailable
5) Eradication of the Asuras
6) Age of the Goddess
7) Supreme Void of Acephalous Being
"The Unassailable" features a guest appearance by Vishal Singh, with chants by Swathi Kalahasti. Guest vocals on "Age of the Goddess" by Daniela Dahlien Neumanová.
The Disfigured and the Divine was mixed & mastered by Josh Welshman. Guitar and bass were recorded by L.B. at Divine Retribution Studios. Vocals recorded by Tonda Smrčka at Seabeast Production. Drums recorded by Taylor Hahn at Hahn Audio.
EMASCULATOR is an international collaboration of women with members from Czechia and the United States. The line-up comprises Mallika Sundaramurthy (Nidorous-NSE, Unfathomable Ruination, ex-Abnormality), Morgehenna (PoonTickler), Teresa Wallace (Cartilage, Muldrotha, Feast) and newest member Cierra White (Harboured, Oak, Ash & Thorn).
EMASCULATOR is:
Mallika Sundaramurthy - Vocals
Teresa Wallace - Guitars
Morgehenna - Guitars
Cierra White - Drums
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“Miedzyczas” is an evolution of Odium Humani Generis’ sound which started with 2020’s debut album “Przeddzien” (Cult of Parthenope) and 2022’s EP “Zarzewie” (Folter Records). The album is a journey that moves through the emotional stages of fear, disappointment, sadness and loneliness resounding in every song. Listeners may notice influences from bands such as Taake, Drudkh, Lifelover, Sacrilegium, Vemod or Furia; however, Odium Humani Generis goes a step further, adding subtle but clear references to sounds outside of the traditional spheres of black metal. Despite its melancholic character, the album is full of energetic moments that break the dark, introspective parts and give the music intensity.
“Miedzyczas” was recorded with Mariusz Konieczny at Heavy Gear Studio, and the album was mixed and mastered by The Fall (Owls Woods Graves, Hauntologist, Mgla (live)) at Skrzyplocz Studio. The unique graphic design was created by Emilia Spiewak, and the band photos were taken by Radoslaw Chojnacki.
Odium Humani Generis (OHG) was established in 2015 in Lódz, Poland. The band comprises Bialy on vocals and guitars, Murukh (ex-Fadheit) on drums, Bartos (Imperator, Pandemonium) on bass, Ominous (Nightbound) on guitars. Over the years, the band has toured with bands such as Carpathian Forest, Mgla, Spectral Wound and In Twilight’s Embrace, and supported acts such as Mortiis, Panzerfaust, Negative Plane, Ellende, Pillorian, Hate, Malokarpatan. OHG also performed at various European festivals including Under the Black Sun (DE), Throne Fest (BE) and Cosmic Void Festival (UK).
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Das zweite Album der Braunschweiger Doom/Post-Black-Metaller ist in dieser Form ein Meisterstück aus ergreifenden Melodien und tonnenschweren Riffs.
Tracklist
01. Follow the Serpent
02. The Odium Palace (feat. Dima Dudko of White Ward)
03. The Golden Queen
04. Cold Sun
05. Threnody Spirals (feat Judith Ehreke of Unsoulicited)
06. Fra Lyset
07. Deathwish
Das neue Material wird am Veröffentlichungstag im Rahmen Stygian Pilgrims Festivals zusammen mit OPHIS, FROWNING und weiteren exzellenten Bands live vorgestellt.
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ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen.
Leave all hope behind - Misery is ahead!
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AMYSTERY – „CHAOS EMPIRE SATAN“
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 31.10.2024
Die okkulte Formation AMYSTERY ist zurück mit ihrem vierten Album »Chaos Empire Satan«, ein gleichermaßen rohes und edles Werk zur Bewahrung und Zelebrierung des traditionellen Black Metal als eigenständige Kunstform. Dabei sind sie kein uninspiriertes Abbild einer alten Genregröße, sondern schmieden vielmehr kompromisslos ihren eigenen, authentischen Schwarzstahl, der sich vielfach im Angriffsmodus befindet, sich in Kompositionen wie »Spirits In Fire« oder »Infestation« aber auch zu erhabener, mystischer Größe aufschwingt.
Nach einer mehrjährigen Schaffenspause hatten sich die Bajuwaren AMYSTERY 2018 mit einer veränderten Besetzung wieder zusammengeschlossen, um gemeinsam weiter an neuem Material zu arbeiten. Im Sommer 2021 kam es erneut zu einem Besetzungswechsel, seitdem besteht die Band aus drei Personen: Grond (Drums), Culpa (Bass) und Nephesus (Vocals, Gitarre).
AMYSTERY ist keine Band, bei der ein neues Album daraus erwächst, dass sich Individuen gegenseitig im Alleingang aufgenommene Tondateien auf die Rechner schicken – die Ideen, Riffs etc. für die zehn Songs von »Chaos Empire Satan« wurden gemeinsam im Proberaum gesammelt und dort ausgearbeitet. Auf ihrer Tour im Februar 2023 wurden bereits drei neue Stücke präsentiert, die restlichen sechs entstanden im Zeitraum bis Dezember 2023.
Inhaltlich behandelt »Chaos Empire Satan« die Theorien und Macht der Chaosmagie nach Peter James Carroll und beschreibt die dazugehörigen Praktiken und Auswirkungen auf das Leben und die Seele. Darüber hinaus geht es um die Ambivalenz zwischen der vermeintlichen Nichtigkeit des irdischen Lebens im kosmischen und multidimensionalen Maßstab und der Größe des eigenen persönlichen (Multi-)Universums mit der daraus erwachsenden maximalen Gestaltungsfreiheit, Wirksamkeit und Einflussnahme. AMYSTERY als Band zelebriert diese Überzeugung, was bereits im Vorgängeralbum »All Hail The Cult« eine tragende Rolle spielte und nun im neuen Album noch mehr ins Zentrum gerückt wurde.
Aufgenommen wurde das Album im Januar 2024. Das Cover-Artwork wurde von Malphas (ex-AMYSTERY, ex-Lunar Aurora, Mortem Agmen) gezeichnet, die grafische Gestaltung wurde von Lense Of Sense übernommen.
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Tauche ein in das düstere Symphonic-Metal-Erlebnis: Sopransirene TALIA HOIT kündigt ihr neues Album an! Vorstellung der Videosingle “OCEAN” in Vorfreude auf das Album “Oceans”
Der Ozean ist ebenso gegensätzlich wie geheimnisvoll.
Einerseits ist er tief, gefährlich, pechschwarz, mit Teilen, die noch
unerforscht sind, während Folklore und Mythologie uns lehren, dass er auch
voller Meeresungeheuer wie Kraken oder Riesentintenfische und tödlich
verführerischer Kreaturen wie Sirenen oder Meerjungfrauen ist. Andererseits ist
er ruhig und still, bietet stille Höhlen und schützende Ufer, bevölkert von
schönen Wesen und einer faszinierenden Flora. In einem metaphorischen
Verständnis spiegelt diese Vielfalt des Ozeans auch die Vielfalt der
menschlichen Gefühle und Erfahrungen wider. Genau von diesem Themenbereich hat
sich die Symphonic-Metal-Nixe und talentierte Singer-Songwriterin Talia
Hoit für ihr kommendes Album “Oceans” inspirieren lassen,
das am 21. November 2024 erscheinen wird.In zehn fesselnden Songs erreicht die aufstrebende Symphonic-Metal-Sängerin meisterhafte Höhen und Tiefen. Mit Mat Plekhanov an der Gitarre (DRAGONY), Roland Navratil am Schlagzeug (ATROCITY, LEAVES EYES, EDENBRIDGE) und Max Stoner an Bass- und Rhythmusgitarre kann sie sich zusätzlich mit einer herausragenden Besetzung rühmen. Alle Tracks auf dem Album wurden von Talia Hoit geschrieben, von ihr und Frank Pitters (VISIONS OF ATLANTIS, DEEP SUN, EDENBRIDGE) produziert und knüpfen thematisch an das nautische Thema an. “Oceans” ist ein symphonisches Eintauchen in die wechselnden Gezeiten menschlicher Emotionen und behandelt Themen wie langsam fortschreitende Liebe, die auf felsigen Ufern aufläuft, die weite Leere des Verlustes, die Standhaftigkeit inmitten turbulenter Wellen sowie den Triumph des menschlichen Geistes – Talia Hoit lädt uns ein, sie auf eine Reise unter die Wellen und ins Innere der Ozeane zu begleiten. Ihr Sound ist dunkel, introspektiv und metaphorisch. Er löst sicherlich eine Reihe von Emotionen aus und kann zum Nachdenken über Themen wie Liebe und Verlust anregen. Talia erklärt: “Bei diesem Album möchte ich wirklich, dass die Leute die Musik und die Themen der Songtexte tief spüren, wie die Tiefen des Ozeans. Ich möchte, dass es eine Reise für den Hörer ist, eine, die Spaß macht, aber auch emotional bewegt.” Aber selbst wenn man nicht so tief taucht, kann man es genießen, auf eine nautische musikalische Reise mitgenommen zu werden, ein Abenteuer, wenn man so will. So oder so, Talias Musik hat eine unbestreitbare Wirkung auf den Hörer. Wenn du also ein Metal-Fisch bist, der im weiten Meer der musikalischen Möglichkeiten herumdümpelt, wirst du es bestimmt genießen, dich absichtlich in ihrem sorgfältig gewobenen symphonischen Metal-Netz zu verfangen!
Trackliste
1. Castaway
2. Unanchored
3. Ocean
4. Beautiful
5. Stolen
6. Abyss
7. VastDeep
8. Island of Hope
9. Infinity
10. Significance
"Oceans" ist hier bereits vorbestellbar: https://orcd.co/oceans3
Du kannst es nicht erwarten, bis das neue Album rauskommt? Kein Problem! Du kannst die Wartezeit überbrücken und dich auf die Stimmung und den Sound des kommenden Albums “Oceans” vorbereiten, indem du in der Zwischenzeit in Talia Hoits Videosingle “Ocean” eintauchst. Der Song wird auch auf dem kommenden Album zu hören sein und dient als erster Vorgeschmack auf das, was uns erwartet, denn er war die erste Inspiration für “Oceans”. Der musikalische Kontrast und das Zusammenspiel zwischen dem fesselnden Orchesterarrangement, den schweren Instrumentalklängen, Talias sanftem Soprangesang und den emotionalen Lyrics sind eine faszinierende, gelungene Mischung aus musikalischen Eindrücken einerseits und wecken andererseits die Assoziation, die rhythmischen Bewegungen des Ozeans an der Oberflächen und darunter die Ebbe und Flut der Wellen spüren zu können. Der starke, emotionale Ton und der Liedtext spiegeln die Herausforderung wider, die es darstellt, die turbulenten Gewässer menschlicher Zuneigung zu navigieren, ganz so, als würde man durch die tiefen Gewässer des Meeres steuern müssen. Gleichzeitig erinnert der Song daran, dass die Brutalität und Weite des Ozeans, durch die man sich sehr klein und verloren fühlen kann, ähnlich der überwältigenden Erfahrung von Liebe und des Getrenntseins von geliebten Menschen, durch die schönen Momente des Zusammenseins und Füreinanderdaseins ausgeglichen werden, die ebenso schön sind wie das Glitzern an der Meeresoberfläche. Tauche also mit Talia Hoit in den “Ocean” ein!
Jetzt reinhören und die Videosingle “Ocean” hier ansehen: https://youtu.be/ADpdrcQQBVM?si=tYnUg_sUxkEnXy3f
Talias neue Single "Ocean" für deine persönliche Playlist: https://orcd.co/taliahoit2
Mehr über Talia Hoit
Für Talia Hoit aus Colorado, die seit ihrem fünften Lebensjahr klassisch am Klavier ausgebildet wurde, hat sich ihre musikalische Früherziehung definitiv ausgezahlt. Heute schreibt sie eigene Songs, tritt als Sängerin und Keyboarderin auf und komponiert Orchesterpartituren für symphonischen Metal. Seit vielen Jahren schreibt sie auch leidenschaftlich gerne Songs außerhalb einer offiziellen Band und arbeitet nun mit talentierten Produzenten und Musikern zusammen, um ihre persönlichsten und intimsten Songs zum Leben zu erwecken und mit der Welt zu teilen.
Fünf Jahre lang war Talia die Keyboarderin und Songwritertin der Band AnaDies. Derzeit ist sie Leadsängerin, Orchestratorin und Co-Songwriterin der Symphonic-Metal-Band BEYOND FORGIVENESS sowie Keyboarderin für die Metalband OB NIXILIS. Als Solokünstlerin hat sie zwei Original-Heimstudio-Alben für persönliche Zwecke geschrieben und aufgenommen: “Fate's Too Small” (2007) und “A Little Longer” (2012), die nur in einer limitierten Auflage auf CD erschienen sind, hauptsächlich für Freunde und Familie. Im Jahr 2019 nahm sie die Single “Angel” (produziert von Jarek Musil) auf, die erst kürzlich neu gemastert wurde. Nach der Erfahrung, mit einem professionellen Produzenten zu arbeiten, beschloss sie, ihr Soloprojekt weiterzuverfolgen, um so viele ihrer persönlichen Songs, die sie im Laufe der Jahre geschrieben hatte, professionell zu produzieren und kommerziell zu veröffentlichen wie möglich. Im Jahr 2023 veröffentlichte sie zwei weitere Singles: “Abandon” und “Whispers in the Storm”. Ihre langjährige Erfahrung in der Musikbranche und ihr Verständnis von klassischer Musik spiegeln sich in diesen Werken deutlich hörbar wider und zeugen von hoher Qualität und Kompetenz. Talias Musik ist definitiv ein Leckerbissen für Symphonic-Metal-Fans sowie Liebhaber harter Musik, denn sie zeigt Einflüsse von Bands wie WITHIN TEMPTATION, NIGHTWISH, EVANESCENCE und VISIONS OF ATLANTIS.
Surfe das Web, springe auf die Metal-Wellen auf und komme bereits vor der Veröffentlichung des neuen Albums in Stimmung! Talia Hoit online entdecken und anhören:
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MOTÖRHEAD kündigen an: "WE TAKE NO PRISONERS – THE
SINGLES 1995–2006" als Sammlung von A- und B-Seiten im DELUXE 7”
SET, als Doppel-CD sowie in digitaler Form "Shut Your Mouth" (Single
Edit) erstmals digital erhältlich!In der goldenen Ära der Single – in den 1970er und 80er Jahren – stürmten Motörhead regelmäßig am Sonntagnachmittag die Ohren der Chart-Hörer mit einer Reihe von Hits in den Rockcharts der damaligen Zeit. Die Single als Format mag zwar seit den 90er Jahren mit dem Aufkommen der CD an Bedeutung verloren haben, dies minderte jedoch nicht die Qualität der Singles und Promos, die Motörhead weiterhin veröffentlichten. Diese zumeist auf CD erschienenen Singles sind heute rar und haben einen sehr hohen Sammlerwert. Da erscheint es doch passend, auch diesen Patronengurt an Hit-Kalibern der Band nochmals aufzuarbeiten und in dem Format zu veröffentlichen, das einst durch die Single geboren wurde: 7"-Vinyl.
"We Take No Prisoners" ist eine Sammlung der Singles der Band aus den Jahren 1995 bis 2006, die als Box-Set mit neun 7"-Singles sowie als erweiterte Doppel-CD und als digitale Edition erhältlich sind. Von Publikumslieblingen wie dem wuchtigen "Sacrifice" über ihre einzigartige Coverversion der Sex Pistols mit "God Save The Queen", bis hin zu den halbakustischen Roots-Vibes von "Whorehouse Blues" – es ließ sich nicht leugnen, dass ihr songschreiberisches Können immer noch unübertroffen war.
Mit einer Auswahl seltener Live- und Radiomitschnitte und einem lange verloren geglaubten Promo-Interview mit Lemmy und Mikkey Dee aus dem Jahr 2004 ist dies die ultimative Sammlung aus jener Ära der Band mit den Songs, die den Erfolg ihrer jeweiligen Alben befeuerten.
Weiter unten gibt es alle Details zu den jeweiligen "We Take No Prisoners"-Releases. News und Updates finden sich mit einem Besuch auf www.iMotorhead.com.
Trackliste des 7"-Boxsets:
DISC ONE
A – Sacrifice
B – Over Your Shoulder (Live)
DISC TWO
A – I Don't Believe A Word
(Single Edit)*
B – Overnight Sensation (Live)
DISC THREE
A – Love For Sale
B – Take The Blame
DISC FOUR
A – God Save The Queen
B – One More Fucking Time
DISC FIVE
A – Shut Your Mouth
B – See Me Burning
DISC SIX
A – Whorehouse Blues
B – Killers
DISC SEVEN
A – God Was Never On Your Side
B – Trigger
DISC EIGHT
A – R.A.M.O.N.E.S. (2006 version)
B – R.A.M.O.N.E.S. (Live)”
DISC NINE
A/B – Inferno Interview – Bel Age Hotel, California, April 2004 (w/ Mikkey Dee and Lemmy)
“We Take No Prisoners – The Singles 1995–2006" ist ab 25. Oktober 2024 erhältlich.
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This early stream of AGONY'S BESPOKE comes exclusively through Metal Injection. Listen to the album now at https://metalinjection.net/av/full-album-stream/blighted-eye-streams-melodic-banger-of-a-new-record-agonys-bespoke
Agony's Bespoke is a monumental, hour-long work, marking a new height for the band's growing skills of songwriting and storytelling. Theatrical and immersive, the album is heavily inspired by the 2018 Australian film, "Nightingale," and tells a similarly tragic story. Highlighting the transformative power of violence and the ultimate futility of revenge, the album seeks to explore the lasting emotional and psychological impact of trauma.
Beyond The Top Records will release Agony's Bespoke on digipak CD, limited-edition vinyl, and digital formats on September 20. Pre-orders are available at: https://linktr.ee/beyondthetoprecords
BLIGHTED EYE has already released two tracks off Agony's Bespoke. Stream "In Emnity" and "Howls from Beyond the Mist" on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:1. Tragoedia
2. The Wounding
3. In Emnity
4. Howls from Beyond the Mist
5. A Feast for Worms
6. Pallid
7. Nightingale
8. A Reverent Stillness
9. Agony’s Bespoke
Agony's Bespoke was produced, mixed, and mastered by Alex Sedin. Cover art by Caelan Stokkermans.
Hailing from the greater Seattle area, BLIGHTED EYE is a progressive death/black metal act featuring members from Aethereus, Mesmur, and Pantheist. The band interweaves crushing riffs and blastbeats with intricate, layered melodic work akin to Opeth, Swallow the Sun, Rotting Christ, and Dark Tranquility. Their musical journey aims to evoke a bespoke atmosphere that delves into the depths of the human psyche, exploring the haunting lyrical themes that reside within the darkest recesses of the mind.
BLIGHTED EYE is:
Christopher Jones: Guitar
Kyle Chapman: Guitar, Vocals
Ben Gassman: Bass
John Devos: Drums
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Drowning In Blood is a thrash metal 4-piece from Montreal with epic harmonies, headcrushing riffs and themes of war, freedom, revolution and liberty. Their music displays influence from Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Toxic Holocaust, Power Trip, Kreator and Exodus with some hints of Melodic Death Metal.
The band was originally formed of drummer Noah Muller (ex-False Gods), bassist Mathieu Brunet (Tribal Bones, Atomic Threat), and lead guitarist/singer Christophe Michaud (Grimhold). After a couple of shows, the band decided to get a second guitarist in order to make live performances more complete and they hired Justin Boisvert (Grimhold). After parting ways with Mathieu for personal reasons, the band hired Nicolas Tremblay (ex-False Gods, Eons Of Serenity) as new bassist.
The band released its debut EP Crush The Weak at the end of 2021 and slowly made their way through the local scene before releasing their single Resist, Revolt! in 2022. Their latest album "You've Won... But At What Cost?" has been released on August 9th.
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Dear
Friends in the Press and Media worldwide.We’re proud to announce a new
partnership with emerging German black/death metal terror cult WRAHHA.
Hailing from Leipzig, Germany, Wrahha is the spiritual successor to the defunct
Leipzig-based bestial Black Death cult Lihhamon, which existed briefly
between 2015 and 2017. Wrahha is spearheaded by Lihhamon guitarist M., and new
co-conspirators P. and F., continuing the previous band's unholy campaign down
the path of omnipotent destruction and absolute sonic bedlam.Wrahha's three inaugural tracks forming the debut "Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing" demo tape here presented (released in America by Sentient Ruin and in Europe by AbArt Corruption) are a weaponized instrument of terror that in a bare ten minutes tests the limits of human resistance taking it to its bloodiest breaking point. The three tracks bring forth an unprecedented audial assault channeling the cruelty and mercilessness of black/death cults like Revenge, Diocletian and Heresiarch, while establishing Wrahha as a violent means of transcendence in its own right, not one who will ever follow in anyone's steps, but rather one meant to forge its own destiny and self-determination in crushing tyranny and cast its own destructive shadow across the path of anything or anyone who dare to oppose.
"HARBINGERS OF A HORRID CLEANSING" demo tape’s imminent arrival has now also been teased by European extreme metal blog Antichrist Magazine, who have premiered the track “Totalitarian Crucifixion Rite“ - you can check out the feature and listen to the track https://antichristmagazine.com/exclusive-premiere-wrahha-totalitarian-crucifixion-rite/
As its title suggests, this demo tape release is like an omen or harbinger of Wrahha's horrid aural atrocity awaiting ahead in the form of the band's upcoming debut full-length, which will be a concept album about gaining and losing power. This demo is loosely based around the same theme. With "Berserker Elite...." the band depicts the mythos of the infamous frenzied warriors who went into battle in a trance before the regular troops, like harbingers of what is about to come. "Totalitarian Crucifixion Rite" is about the concept of maintaining power through terror, which in the end leads always to downfall. While the final song "Imperious Mastery..." introduces the theme of overthrowing and cleansing a totalitarian regime, as happened for example during the Trials of Nurnberg, where the foundations and vestiges of the old ideology were denied and erased to build something new.
The "Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing" demo tape will be officially released on September 20 2024 by Sentient Ruin in America in collaboration with AbArt Corruption for Europe
Thank you as always for your time and attention given to our releases. Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
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German
Black Metallers GROZA published another song from their highly
anticipated new album “NADIR”. The track is called “DELUGE”
and can be streamed on all relevant platforms."Nadir"is set to be released on September 20th via AOP Records!
GROZA (“storm”, “terror”) is a black metal band from Bavaria, Germany. Their sound is driven by emotion, anger and sadness, combining searing melodies, raging blast beats and melancholy induced clean guitar passages into a melodic, dynamic blend.
Founded as a one-man project by singer / multi-instrumentalist P.G. in 2016, the band gradually grew towards a full band in the following two years, culminating in the self-release of their first effort - “Unified In Void” (2018) - which almost instantly gained attention and interest, leading to the signing to AOP Records shortly after. After 3 years of writing and intense live activity followed the release of the 2nd full length album “The Redemptive End” (2021), that was met with critical acclaim and overwhelming reception of fans alike, entering #78 of the German album charts consequently.
Between releases, the band has extensively presented their craft live on stages all across Europe during various club shows, festivals and full-fledged tours across Europe. To date, GROZA has played 120+ shows in over 20 countries. Continuing to do so in the fall of 2024, the band will again tour Europe in support of the new album.
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For our upcoming vinyl, with Empty Throne (USA) we are working with Musiccode (Denmark) who will handle the production.
6 songs, +40 minutes of Blackened Death/Thrash Metal!
PRE-order the LP now! (Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl - or as we call it - black death vinyl....)
https://downfallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tba-fall058-pre-order-now
PESTILENT SCARS is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Oulu. All members are between 18 and 19 years old. The band's central themes focus on melodic songwriting, pure emotion, tight gigs and overall the old school way of getting around.
The band is about to release their debut album MEADOWS OF MISFORTUNE on January 17th 2025 via Inverse Records. The first single 'In Search of Reason' is released today and it's available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/pestilent-scars-search
"Mostly my writing comes straight from the heart. When I write music it has to come naturally. Melodies are very important to me and that's why we have lot of melodic riffs in our songs. It tells you a story, it's not basic death metal. I feel like I can show much more about myself with melodies. It's something that I do. I don't think a lot about which bands have inspired me, but i have to say that gothenburg's melodic death metal scene from 90's has inspired me a lot. But our music still has that Finnish melancholy. Both Finnish and Swedish melodic death metal is very important to me."- Guitarist/Songwriter, Elias Vierimaa
Biography:Pestilent Scars was born in the winter of 2022/2023. The band has had the same line-up for almost its entire existence. Pestilent Scars released their first single "Deceitful Phoenix" in the summer of 2023. The single was a relative success. Deceitful Phoenix" was followed by "All On My Own" in the autumn of the same year.
The band played several live shows in 2023 and 2024, which were energetic and showcased the band's overall idea. At their last gig the band performed their forthcoming album "Meadows Of Misfortune". The album will be released in early 2025.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/pestilent-scars-meadows-of-misfortune-cd-pre-order
Line-up:
Pasi Matinolli - Vocals
Elias Vierimaa - Guitars
Artturi Kauppi - Drums
Sampo Jylhä - Bass
Topi Ilmola - Guitars
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Raleigh (NC) - Decibel Magazine has premiered "ON THE RUN" from U.S. Black 'N Rollers, VALLETTA! "On The Run" is the second single from forthcoming full-length debut album, SUMMER, and you can check it out at the link below! https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/09/03/track-premiere-valletta-on-the-run/
"On The Run" will be available September 6 on all digital platforms!
Blackened Arena Rock? Melancholic Grunge n' Roll? Valletta's anthemic approach to songwriting and energetic stage performance certainly makes you wonder. The band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Summer, seeks to incinerate metal norms and create a new sound that is as grimey as it is electrifying!
Valletta comes with an impressive pedigree. The band features drummer Justin Valletta (Mo'ynoq), bassist/backing vocalist Donald Boyd (Mo'ynoq), guitar/lead vocalist Keenan Carroll (Lord Almighty, ex-Barishi), and guitarist/backing vocalist Will Goodyear (Hopesfall, Prayer for Cleansing, ex-Between The Buried and Me).
Metal Hammer called the band's debut EP, Come Alive, "A potent mix of Celtic Frost, Satyricon and The Bronx, this is fantastically catchy, bleak, old-school extreme metal with rock’n’roll hooks." Summer takes that penetrating foundational mix and supercharges the musicianship and songwriting, resulting in 12 tracks guaranteed to leave neurological imprints!
The band released the following statement about Summer:
“The new album, Summer, has been a real exploration in tearing down walls that we had previously built up over the years. Each of us coming from different musical backgrounds, there’s been this strong sense of letting go and allowing the music to unfold, regardless of how uncomfortable it may be. That’s been the beauty of this journey we’ve started together, and it’s been a great ride so far!
During the writing process, a constant theme that emerged was the idea of duality. From heavier, grimier riffs to beautiful, stoic melodies. From slower, muddy depths to faster, anthemic leads. From frozen wastelands, to summer nights, we’ve been on a journey to explore our limitations musically and emotionally. Spin that shit up!”
Summer will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on October 4 via Forcefield Records.
Track Listing:*
1. Kissing Angels
2. Serpents of Solomon
3. Saint
4. Diving into the Deep
5. Criminal
6. Soot & Ash
7. Ill Blood
8. In Ecstasy
9. On the Run
10. Bringing the Worst
11. Come Alive
12. Almighty Hate
*The vinyl version of Summer contains five instrumental synthesizer bonus tracks that serve as interludes.
Album Credits:
Recorded and mixed by Al Jacob at Warrior Sound, Chapel Hill, NC.
Mastered by Matt Tuttle at IAS Studios, Winston Salem, NC.
Cover Art by Will Goodyear.
Line-Up:
Justin Valletta - Drums
Donald Boyd - Bass / Backing Vocals
Keenan Carroll - Guitar / Lead Vocals
Will Goodyear - Guitar / Backing Vocals
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Finnish melodic death metal band CROWEN is set to release their new EP 'WHERE THE DARKNESS FALLS' later this autumn via Inverse Records. The First single 'DARK FOREVER' is released today and a stunning music video is available here: https://youtu.be/fHGAPLay3PE
Dark Forever tells the story of an afterlife where darkness, beauty and a sense of anguish are present. The song also addresses the question of whether it is possible to come out of the darkness.
”The darkness served as my inspiration for this song. The afterlife is an
intriguing topic, and I drew my ideas from it into the lyrics. Eventually, the
lyrics of this song became the theme of the entire EP,” says Crowen's
frontman Esa Uusimaa.Dark Forever is punchy, fast-paced and melodic death metal with folk influences. After the intro, the song transitions quickly from one part to the next, which leaves no time to catch a breath except for the last calm part at the end. The melody guitars by Mikko Merilinna, known from the band Khroma, add a melancholy tone to the song, possibly even creating a slightly sinister atmosphere near the end. Tuomas Saukkonen, known from the bands Wolfheart and Before the Dawn, plays the bass in the song and the entire EP.
The concept of two worlds continues in the music video for the song, directed by Lana Gonch. Lead actress Mira Cibulka and Jussi Aspivaara's leather masks contribute to the mysterious atmosphere of the video.
Listen to Dark Forever on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/crowen-dark-forever
Biography:
Crowen is a melodic death metal band founded in Espoo, Finland in 2019, led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Esa Uusimaa. In addition to guitars, Uusimaa played keyboards on the EP and built the samples for the album. He also recorded and mixed the album.
Line-up:
Esa Uusimaa - Vocals, Guitars, Samples
Mira Cibulka - Vocals, Keyboards
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HVILE I KAOS – “LOWER ORDER MANIFESTATIONS”
Label: Invima RecordsRelease date: july 12th 2024
Genre: Black Ritual Chamber Music
For fans of: Jo Quail | Musk Ox | Elend | Arcana
You have spoken to me in whispers through the watches of the night and your sibilant suggestions have accompanied me through the hours of daylight’s toil and turgid interactions with those who imagine themselves to be of my kind. You have brought me visions of greater, darker, colder worlds and shown me the path to an existence weighty with meaning and portent. You have confirmed my beliefs in the insignificant vacuity of mankind’s stumbling, infantile civilisation and revealed the majesty of the void. I have given of myself; my blood, my spirit, my words and my devotion and now I am ready. I will step from the vaunted circle of life onto a path without ending, into a darkness ineffable, to follow as you lead, from here unto the end of forever.
“This collection of recorded workings is a series of invocations to eight Lower Order Spirits, as steps leading to the sacrificial altar of Moloch, the King of Fire. This is done in accordance with the practice of Sinister Magick known as Vedantic Nihilism, as outlined in the grimoire Codex Aversum by Caine Del Sol. The forces presented by these workings are those of collapse, madness, death, and decay. They have served and will continue to serve those ends to devastating effect, in real life, in real time. You have been warned.” – Kakophonix
It is 13 years since cellist, composer and explorer of secrets Kakophonix began his work of musical revelation under the banner of Hvile I Kaos…and now that journey is complete, the final votive offering rendered unto the lords of misrule. Lower Order Manifestations is a work that transcends the commonly understood barriers of genre, transposing the riffs and rhythms, atmosphere and intent of black metal into a new sonic sphere. With cello and acoustic guitar, bass, frame drums and vocal punctuations, Kakophonix has created a progressive path of rituals that lead from an awakening of passion and spirited revolution to an attainment of knowledge, a state of perfection. Through the celebratory ‘Psalmody For The Child Offering’, rife with tension, with its unnerving undercurrents that run jagged nails across the skin of human convictions and assumed proprieties, onward through the ungraspable, unknowable ‘Shadowscast’ – a darkness of substance that slips through your fingers like serpents of sand, as it blends the beautiful liquid of dreams with the fevered sweat of nightmares. From the torment and terror of ‘Panic Sun’ that undermines all you believed to be true, bringing about the collapse of certainties and understanding, to the fierce intensity of seething, dissonant aggression that is ‘Smite’…the road is long and hard, but it all leads to the breathtaking grace of ‘Verity Thy Path’, the brightness of guitars laced with the sombre reflection of the cello, an elevated state only to be found at the conclusion of the trials preceding. The final notes of Hvile I Kaos’ passage through this world could not be more perfect.
Over the years Kakophonix has contributed to the work of Abigail Williams and Imperialist, released split collections with Angmar and Northsong, performed with Whoredom Rife and Ashbringer, but nothing upon his musical odyssey can compare to the visionary unfolding that is Lower Order Manifestations. Available now on InViMa Records, do not allow this exposition of beauty and wisdom to slip past you in the silence that lies beneath the noise and fool’s gold of the mundane world.
Line-up:
Kakophonix - Composition, cello, guitar, bass, frame drum, vocals.
*additional vocal exhortations from Elizabeth Gore, Ø, S, Joseph Spiller, Layla Legard, Sarah Jayde, Dan Niederkorn, Ben Yehdigo, Thanatos, Nicole Day, Seth Scantlen, Cassidy Scantlen, Zola Scantlen, Iggy Scantlen, Aaron Sidell, Mauro Bernazzali.
*death whistle on ‘Panic Sun’ by Nero Atrum.
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Finnish old school Thrash/Death metal band JEWEL THRONE is set to release their debut album 'BLOOD VULTURES' on October 18th 2024 via Inverse Records. The second single 'THE GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS' is released today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/jewel-throne-graveyard
The band comments single:
“The Graveyard of Dreams’ is one of the two oldest songs on ‘Blood
Vultures’. The original version can be found on the last EP (‘Silence Shrouds
the Ruins’) by the original Jewel Throne lineup from 2019. It is a
personal story about deepening depression. A story about how the total futility
of everything crushes a human being under its own weight. Black emptiness of
being pushes you deeper into the abyss. Slowly one just stops caring about
anything. Eventually one has to accept one’s own fate… and disappear."Listen to the first single Blood Vultures: https://push.fm/fl/jewel-throne-blood
Biography:
Jewel Throne was formed as a trio in May 2019 by bassist-vocalist Mika Sallanen, the other members being guitarist Jari Yrjänäinen and drummer Jouni Kurikka. All were already very experienced with lots of bands, demos and a few albums already in their CV’s since all had begun their adventures in music already back in the late 80´s/early 90´s. The first lineup released three EP´s in quick succession. These simple thrash metal releases should now be considered as mere rough sketches of what was to come later.
It was time to add two more musicians – guitarist Toni Koskinen and vocalist Jesse Huovinen, and Jewel Throne mark II was born. Musically the band improved a lot with this change. This lineup released a bunch of singles and an EP ‘Obscure Relics’, which was also released as a tape by Fetusvomit Records. After this it was decided that it was time for the original guitar player to leave the band.
Now as a four-piece, Jewel Throne mark III moved on. They released two singles and an EP ‘Illiterati’ – a release vastly superior to anything they had achieved so far. So now it was the time to decide what to do next. The band had lots of songs ready, so it was decided to jump head first into the unknown and record their debut album. The recording sessions started in Easter 2023. The band entered the studio with 20 songs out of which 17 songs ended up being recorded.
All in all, the recordings took a bit longer than expected due to various issues, but in early spring 2024 the band had a finished product in their hands. ‘Blood Vultures’ was born – an album of 12 highly energetic and angry thrash/death metal songs. It was time to search for a record label, and in June 2024 the band signed with Inverse Records.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/jewel-throne-blood-vultures-cd-pre-order
Line-up:
Jesse Huovinen – vocals
Toni Koskinen – guitars
Mika Sallanen – bass/vocals
Jouni Kurikka - drums
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The
darkness of doom metal and the ferocity of death metal are set to collide in a
new and exciting collaboration. Doom/death metal project TIME
CONSUMED has signed an exclusive deal with Wormholedeath for the
release of the highly anticipated EP, LONG NIGHT OF SILENCE. The
EP is scheduled to drop on October 11, 2024.The creative force behind Time Consumed, Matt Krogen, expressed his gratitude and enthusiasm about the partnership, stating, "Thank you to Wormholedeath for taking an interest in my music. This album has a variety of sounds, combining doom and death metal in a simple yet engaging way that will keep people listening. The lyrics deal mostly with spirituality, including the death of a loved one and the end of time. I had some help making the songs, but I paid for the album to be made myself, so to be noticed by a label stands as a testimony to my commitment and passion for the art. I am looking forward to releasing more music with everyone at Wormholedeath."
For over a decade, Matt Krogen has been playing guitar and attempting to form a band, but finding long-term commitment from others proved challenging. With a deep interest in all rock and metal subgenres, a passion for doom metal emerged after discovering a 24/7 doom metal channel on YouTube. The song "Where Suns Turn to Grey" by Veil Of Conspiracy profoundly influenced him, inspiring the writing of lyrics and self-teaching piano.
Krogen managed to secure assistance for vocals and album art, financing the album's production. He has released a hard rock album titled "Die Royal" and is currently working on a power-metal project called Melting Kandle. Additionally, he is awaiting the publication of his first sci-fi novel. As a multifaceted artist, Krogen continues to search for his place in the world.
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https://timeconsumed.bandcamp.com/album/long-night-of-silence
Last Dunkelheit Metal Stock & 10% SALE : Hier sind
wir wieder, um euch darauf aufmerksam zu machen, dass der letzte
(Extrem)-Metal-Bestand auf euch wartet. CDs für unter einem Euro und Vinyl
für unter sechs Euro, dasselbe gilt für Shirts... Zusätzliche 10%
SALE-Aktion bis nächsten Mittwoch, den 11. September. Diese Preise liegen
sogar unter dem Produktionspreis und nur solange der Vorrat reicht! Viele
unserer Extrem-Metal-Veröffentlichungen sind nun vergriffen und ausverkauft,
also empfehlen wir euch, nachzuschauen und zu handeln! Danke für eure Aufmerksamkeit.Weeks are going fast as rain drops are falling from the sky... So, here we are again with another weekend and remind you for the two amazing events this year! We are doing our best to bring back the spirit of post industrial! A kind of music that always was for the few of you. The upcoming two events of HARSH FREQUENCIES OVER LIMBURG IV in October and RITUALS OVER LIMBURG II are events that we are preparing with our heartblood. Two events with unique and well chosen acts and artists from the underground. On the upcoming two-days fest of HARSH FREQUENCIES OVER LIMBURG IV we are presenting to you 9 acts that have their roots in harsh noise up to power electronics and industrial. BLUE EYES will prepare you a voyage into harsh noise landscape that you won't forget. SLPWK, new rising polish electronic artist will let you dive into a sea of droning electronic ambient flood. ABSOLUTE KEY from Finland is very known to create a surrealistic experimental noisy atmosphere, so watch out! SAVAGE GOSPEL will punch you back to 70s psychedelic times but into deep deep harsh noise! ACIPENSERIDAE is our secret weapon, a artist that is active for longer time but popping up with several ultra limited releases from time to time. Harsh Noise with self prepared instruments in the old way, for the first time ever in live action, this one will be unique! SPUR ON TO XS from Eindhoven (NL) will bring back the spirit of Power Electronics in a melting combination of ATRAX MORGUE and dark street electronics sound such as BIZARRE UPROAR. So over that we will see LE KRIZ AN for the first time! Harsh Noise soundscape that will take you on a obsucre travel and let you back with many questions... so don't miss it! At the end we have two bombs of Noise/PE for you! AM NOT and ANTICHILDLEAGUE from UK, no words needed here as artist-history speak for themself! Get your ass up, get your tickets and don't miss this event. Experience the power of noise and industrial in real life!
There are only left 2 months and less than 60 tickets are available for RITUALS OVER LIMBURG II festival. A festival that is concentrating on ritual industrial music with occult and spiritual background! Everybody who was there at the last fest know what to expect and this time we bring you the holy blood of industrial underground again. Swedish occult act TREPANERINGSRITUALEN don't need anymore explanation but stands for itself! Rythmic industrial that will open your third eye. For the first time VORTEX from Germany will perform a unique perfomance in Limburg-Region, occult dark ambient from Germany that will let you dive into the river of hades. YSLASHY, spiritual music, will put you into a deep trance while performing a ritual on stage. US pioneers that created the so called "dark ambient" will be here exclusively: SCHLOSS TEGAL. The most of you know what to expect, so dont fear this experience of obscure industrial. NAM-KHAR will take you by the hand for a journey into long forgotten times, their combination from drone, ambient and industrial soundscape is amazing. From the far US we have DODSSANG TEMPEL. The music and performing can be experienced like a mirror that will be like a door to another world, ritual noise ambience, could be a explanation for the music genre. BLACK VAULT from Denmark is here to perform for the first time in Limburg Region. After the successful first debut album, the artist will show what is occult industrial music from dansk lands. from european south we have ALONE IN THE HOLLOW GARDEN and LA PORTA ERMETICA. Romanian artist Dan S. (ALONE IN THE HOLLOW GARDEN) is well known in the underground but live-performances are rare, so we are very pleased to offer a stage for this unique art! Ambience and soundscapes to catch you and show you a unknown world... While LA PORTA ERMETICA from Italy received a high attention this year for their debut album, we also got a heavy fascination here. The latest album leave you behind, bathed into secrets. The act creates a magical esoteric kind of ambient industrial. with old members of AIN SOPH, so you know what to expect, don't you?! At the end we have SCHMERZ UND ERLÖSUNG from Germany. Wolf E. is active into industrial scene with his project for more than 16 years! Mostly he got attention for his VHS video and there was a long silence arround the project... We bring it back to life! Occult Industrial from Germanys underground! So expect nothing than outstanding emotion...
Get your tickets - Support the underground - Experience a unique feeling ! Have a great week. Bye.Bernd Hermanns Dunkelheit Produktionen
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Toilet ov Hell has premiered the official video for first single, "THE POUNDING OF HOOVES." Check it out below!
https://toiletovhell.com/premiere-the-mosaic-window-the-pounding-of-hooves/
The Mosaic Window mastermind, Andrew Steven Brown, released the following statement concerning the album:
“Hemasanctum is a concept album that explores my current thoughts on life, relationships (parent-child), and loss. While it may or may not be obvious, the album starts with a song about birth and ends with a song about death. In between are songs intentionally out of order (like the roller-coaster timeline we all experience) subtly relating to topics like self-awareness, mental health, abortion, religion, and grief.
This album is the first Mosaic Window record to feature a real drummer - Gabe Seeber of Abigail Williams, Vale of Pnath, Obscura (live), Decrepit Birth (live), Carach Angren (live), and many more. Additionally, I am still in awe that there are two guest solos from the legendary (and possibly my favorite) guitarist Andy LaRocque. Both Andy and Gabe absolutely nailed their parts, and I couldn’t be more elated for their presence on the record.
Hemasanctum was written and recorded between October 2023 - February 2024 at my home studio, and mixed by Damian Herring over the Summer of 2024. I am so proud of this album, and hope listeners can appreciate it too. Cheers!”
Track
Listing:1. Incantation to Summon the Unstable
2. The Pounding of Hooves
3. Black Bethlehem
4. Turibulum
5. Ash Like Anvils
6. Night Disease
7. Shrouded in Pain
8. Hymn to Silence the Light
Credits:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Producing, Engineering.
Damian Herring - Mixing and Mastering.
Additional Musicians:
Gabe Seeber - Drums
Andy LaRocque - Guitar Solos (Tracks 2 and 4)
Album Art: “Dead Mother I” by Egon Schiele (1910)
The Mosaic Window is:
Andrew Steven Brown - Vocals, Guitars, Bass
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German
Black Metallers SERVANT released the third track of their upcoming album
“DEATH DEVIL MAGICK”. It is called “MAGICK” and can
be listened on all relevant streaming platforms.“Death Devil Magick” is set to be released on September 20th via AOP Records!
German Black Metal band Servant has been celebrating their melodic yet furious Black Metal across the underground and beyond since 2021.
Their two well reviewed full length albums 'Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars' and 'Aetas Ascensus' shook ground within the metal scene.
Now the band is going to release their 3rd output 'Death Devil Magick' via AOP Records on 20th September 2024
Death Devil Magick was written record, mixed and mastered between October 23 and may 24.
Without lacking on their musical trademarks, Servant continues to evolve on their new record.
Melodic guitars combine with furious drums, powerful basslines go with keys and mighty grooves.
On Death Devil Magick the vocals are more clear than on the previous two albums, to give the words the required power in meaning.
All this is put in a powerful soundshape which is aggressive, yet very dynamic and tidied up.
The lyrical topics are inspired by poets and philosophers like Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also paintings by Franz von Stuck from the era of symbolism for example, can be mentioned here.
The lyrics discuss conflicts of emotions, beliefs, addiction and depths of human nature.
Death Devil Magick invites the the listener to step into the gallery of nine microcosms and witness lust, despair, magick and ecstasy.
Moreover Servant is going to play Europe within Scherbentour 2024 together with ELLENDE & GROZA to spread Magick, Lust and ecstasy.
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CORPSEFUCKING ART – “TOMATIZED”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: october 4th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Mortician | Cannibal Corpse | Autopsy | Deranged
“Earth shall be ruled by a new breed of sentient beings!”
The world as you know it is crumbling around you, the walls of reality collapsing beneath a tsunami of screaming colours and deranged impossibilities. Bacterial holocaust invoked by the impetuous experiments of meddling scientists, alien invasion and gargantuan plant life with rapacious appetites! Books of the dead and restless spirits, a violent revolution of the creatures of the sea, mankind consumed as the protagonists of tales of horror walk the streets! Are you awake or dreaming? Is this a nightmare or encroaching insanity? It is all of this and more…you are lost in the gore-soaked madness of the mind of Corpsefucking Art!
“Behold the kingdom of cyclopic tomatoes!”
It’s been six years now since the release of the last Corpsefucking Art album, the excellent Splatterphobia, but at long last the Italian purveyors of sonic grotesqueries have returned…and they’re better – and more dangerously deranged – than ever! New album Tomatized combines magnificent death metal and utter madness as only Corpsefucking Art can. The opening, title track welcomes us into this madhouse with massive, crunching, grinding riffs, drum beats of insane force and shuddering impact and those sewer-dwelling vocals, laced with threat and promises of slaughter. Whatever the wild stories being told in the lyrics, this music will still tear you limb from limb. ‘Hell Of The Living Dead’ follows with some glorious, blood-spattered riffs that underline the sheer satisfying brilliance of Corpsefucking Art’s mastery of death metal. The quality never drops for a second as infectious hooks and bowel shaking rhythms are delivered with intense focus and relentless power, the exceptional music infusing the bizarre humour with an unnerving darkness. The massive sludge of ‘The Book Of The Dead’ is like drowning in congealing blood and ‘Phantasm’ dices and dissects with practised ease. ‘Escape From Alpha City’ provides the fantastically unhinged conclusion to this carnival ride through chaos and carnage, setting the seal on what is surely the finest, most entertaining and strangely unsettling death metal album ever to escape from the Corpsefucking Art asylum.
“Now I’m here – stuck in this vegetable inferno!”
When Comatose Music unlock the padded cell containing Tomatized on October 4th, the impact will be seismic. Thanks to the engineering and mixing skills of Alessio Cattaneo (Hideous Divinity, Satanika etc) and the mastering wizardry of Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul etc) the sound on this album is immense; raw, bloody and richly textured – every word, beat and note landing with brutal force. The fantastic package is completed by the artwork of Pierre De Palmas (Impetigo, Cliteater etc) – you will never look at tomatoes in the same way again. If you love death metal, then Tomatized is unmissable. Be ready for the vegetable invasion!
“I’m in a mental hospital. Where are my tomato friends?”
Line-up:
Frank Moretti - Vocals
Andrea Corpse - Guitar
Mario Di Giambattista - Guitar
Marco De Ritis - Bass
John De Bello – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sachertorture/
Finnish black metal band NOITASAPATTI is set to release their new studio album 'SANKARIN MATKA' on November 29th 2024 via Inverse Records. The First single 'PALUU LIEKKEIHIN' is released today and it's available here: https://push.fm/fl/noitasapatti-paluu
The band comments:
"Paluu liekkeihin is the first single from the album "Sankarin matka". It is a good example of the band's versatile songwriting that moves between atmospheres, and the track has found its place as the final song at our shows. "Paluu liekkeihin" consists of aggressive parts mixed together with more melodic and atmospheric ones, therefore it is a great piece for introducing the band to a broader audience. The lyrics paint an oppressive picture of a world in ruins, slowly ceasing to exist."
Sankarin Matka CD pre-order available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/noitasapatti-sankarin-matka-cd-pre-order
Biography:NOITASAPATTI was born in spring 2017 in Pori, Finland by Erakko (vocals), Liekkiö (guitars, keyboards), Mielivalta (guitars) and Rampa (bass). Soon after that, Rienaaja joined us as a drummer and the first line-up was complete. After a couple of months of intensive rehearsing and composing, we recorded our first demo, “Vaellamme kuin Taivaankappaleet” on december 2017 and released it on CDr-format spring 2018. First live-show took place in our hometown also in the same spring. After that, Rampa left the band and Erakko began to play bass. Next year we recorded a second demo, “Aarnivalkean ajamana” and played some gigs. In 2020, we made a split-album with another Finnish band HOLLOW CORPSE. After some line-up changes, Häviö came to the band at the end of 2020 and a few months later, Kadonnut also joined the band to play keyboards. In summer 2021, we finally recorded our first full-length album “Kuolemattomille maille”. After a few successful live-shows it was time to record our second full-length album, “Sankarin matka” (A hero’s journey) in summer 2023. Album is now recorded, mixed, and mastered, and we are more satisfied with the result than ever before!
Our music can be described as 1990’s black metal with lots of melodies and even “burzumic” atmosperes. Also, you can hear influences from early British death/doom, epic viking metal and even some old school progressive music. Vocals are quite original “howling” and also heavily Burzum-influenced screams. Lyrics are written in Finnish.
Line-up:
Erakko - Vocals, Bass, Mouth Harp, Horns
Liekkiö - Guitars
Häviö - Drums
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North Yorkshire, UK; 2 September 2024: UK black metal act ANTE-INFERNO have unveiled the first track from their upcoming third album "DEATH'S SOLILOQUY", set for release on 22 November 2024 via Vendetta Records.
Watch the haunting artwork video to the track "THE CAVERNOUS BLACKNESS OF NIGHT" now via Black Metal Promotion: https://youtu.be/Woo6T6JPmU8
Now with a fully established line-up, the four-piece have delivered a malevolent hammer strike to the face of all who thought they would continue to mellow after the success of the atmospheric and otherworldly second album "Antediluvian Dreamscapes". "Death’s Soliloquy" harnesses the bestial might of traditional black metal and intricately weaves it with the haunting majesty of the atmospheric sound the band is known for, and in doing so takes the listener on an anguished, hysterical descent into the blackened emptiness of the grave.
“Death’s Soliloquy” is an exploration of lyricist Kai’s journey through
depression and hopelessness, through obsessive thoughts of the most morbid and
macabre nature — thoughts of self-destruction interwoven with the most
appalling nightmares, broken hopes and unacted desires. As old lives are shed
and new lives struggle to take form, there is always a war raging within and
without — a war that can never truly be won but may, at any moment, be lost for
all eternity…Kai explains: “If there are two principal themes tying this album together, they are death—or rather, an inescapable fixation with death—and mental illness. I wanted to explore the last thoughts and visions of those about to meet their demise, however grisly, haunting or lonely that demise might be. In this way, Death speaks through the tortured imaginings of those it is about to take. We become subject to Death’s Soliloquy—or at least a portion of it – for that poem is as long as the ever-expanding universe is vast.
“The Cavernous Blackness of Night” sums up the album’s themes perfectly. We are taken to the site of a suicide by hanging. A body swings from the bough of a tree, and we witness the very last thing that poor soul witnessed before they took their final, fatal step. We see the wind stirring the leaves of a willow, and causing the grass to bow. A thistle shakes solemnly. We see the final rays of the setting sun bleed across the darkening sky, and feel the warmth of those rays upon our skin before we, too, give ourselves up to that eternal darkness.”
“Death’s Soliloquy” will be available in CD, vinyl and digital formats — pre-order links to follow.
Catch Ante-Inferno on tour with Worm (US) in Europe:
FULL MOON HAIKU TOUR 2024
24/10 London, The Dome (Uk)
30/11 Manchester, Rebellion (Uk) - Sold Out
02/12 Lyon, Rock N Eat (Fra)
03/12 Stuttgart, Schwarzer Keiler (Ger)
04/12 Munich, Feierwerk (Ger)
05/12 Prague, Modra Vopice (Cz)
06/12 Berlin, De Mortem Et Diabolum (Ger)
07/12 Munster, Wintermelodei (Ger)
08/12 Erfurt, From Hell (Ger)
10/12 Vienna, Viper Room (Aut)
11/12 Wrocław, Liverpool (Pol)
12/12 Chemnitz, Ajz (Ger)
13/12 Gottingen, Freihafen (Ger)
14/12 Eindhoven, Metal Meeting (Nl)
15/12 Hamburg, Logo (Ger)
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Format: Digitale CD / Fysieke CD
Label: Anti-Hero Records
Distribution: Suburban
For fans of : Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Shade Empire, Hollenthon, Septic Flesh, Fleshgod
On October 25, 2024, new album material will be released by the Belgian metal band Artefacts. It concerns their first full-length (previously two singles and an EP were released), entitled ‘Lucius’. This is also the first album of a trilogy with the title ‘The Titan Chronicles’.
Tracklist:
01. Prologue Gods and Mortals
02. Nephereth
03. The Tower of Irth-Anshar
04. Dragonfall
05. Interlude Her brine embrace
06. The Path of No Return
07. Augur the Age of Darkness
08. Corruption(Glory for the fall)
09. Epilogue For the dead and the undying
Artefacts is a Belgian bandproject aimed at bringing the highest level of musical experiences to the listener. What can only be described as an epic movie score fused with thundering guitars, blistering drums and haunting screams, the band combines the bombast of a symphonic orchestra with the darkness of black metal, while adding a progressive touch.
The mission from the outset was to give the audience an all-inclusive experience, encompassing music, images and an expansive storyline and thus, ‘The Titan Chronicles’ was born: an entire universe, in which the base story line is set, was conceived.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Bram Dewachter and Tim Van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings. The core of the outfit consists of Siegfried Mercelis (keys and orchestration) and Niklaas Reinhold (vocals), both years of experience playing in Lemuria. The present line up consists of current and former members of Slaughter The Giant, Manic Movement, Lost Department and Valkyre.
The album will be released on Anti-Hero Records, a new Belgian label founded by Tony de Block(Midas Studio, Red Hot, Belgian Vinyl Pressing Plant).
The full line-up of the band is as follows:
Siegfried Mercelis – keys and orchestration, composer, songwriting, lyrics, story
Niklaas Reinhold – harsh vocals and narration, lyrics
Tom Everaert – bass
Tom Leemans – lead and rhythm guitars
Hans Jacobs – rhythm and lead guitars
Joren Baert – drums
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Brutal death band EMASCULATOR has released the official music video for ERADICATION OF THE ASURAS, the newest single of the band's debut EP THE DISFIGURED AND THE DIVINE.
EMASCULATOR joined forces with Slam Worldwide for the premiere of "Eradication of the Asuras." Watch the video now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sss17biOCHY
The Disfigured and the Divine delves into themes of the Goddess in mythology and legend, womanhood and motherhood, overcoming obstacles, justice, spirituality, the human experience, and growing into power. Vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy delves into the concepts behind the song and how it connects to the album's overall theme.
"'Eradication of the Asuras' is about the Hindu goddess Durga. She is known as Mahishasuramardini, the slayer of the shape-shifting buffalo demon. He has been endowed with superpowers and is almost invincible. He has gained the boon that no man may kill him - only a woman. He hungers for power and wages war on the gods and defeats them. So the gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva combine their energy to create Durga. They endow her with their many powers and weapons, and she goes off to fight the demon. Durga appears before him riding on a lion and an epic battle ensues. The demon attacks her in his many forms; lion, man, elephant, snake, and buffalo.
On the tenth day, she strikes the death blow with her trident, and decapitates him with her Chakra, killing him. The gods rejoice and praise her. She bids farewell and promises to return when she is needed and called upon with devotion.
Unlike the demon, Durga is violent out of necessity and in service to others. She is viewed as a great mother who enacts divine justice on the wicked for the liberation of the oppressed. In our song, we are reaching out to her for strength, so that we may persevere through dark, chaotic, and violent times.
I am able to relate to her as a mother and protector of my children. They say every mother has a bit of Durga in her.
There is another legend where Durga is fighting the demon Raktabīja. Every time he is wounded, blood falls to the ground and turns into more demons. So Kali comes forth from Durga's forehead. She holds a bowl and captures every drop of blood so it may not hit the ground, and she drinks it. Thus Durga is able to kill all the duplicates and at last, slays the demon Raktabīja.
The music video combines these two stories from Hindu mythology, representing her power and the power of divine female energy, also known as Shakti.
New Standard Elite will release The Disfigured and the Divine on physical formats on September 25. Pre-order at https://nserecords.bigcartel.com/
The EP will be available on streaming platforms on October 25. Digital preorders are available at https://emasculatorbdm.bandcamp.com/album/the-disfigured-and-the-divine
EMASCULATOR will make their live debut at this year’s Texas Domination Fest, scheduled for September 26-28 in Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX. The band is set to tour Europe in May of 2025 around Nice To Eat You Deathfest (Czechia).
Track
Listing:1) Ecstasy in Disseverment (of Self)
2) In Resplendent Terror
3) Thesmophoric Rites
4) The Unassailable
5) Eradication of the Asuras
6) Age of the Goddess
7) Supreme Void of Acephalous Being
"The Unassailable" features a guest appearance by Vishal Singh, with chants by Swathi Kalahasti. Guest vocals on "Age of the Goddess" by Daniela Dahlien Neumanová.
The Disfigured and the Divine was mixed & mastered by Josh Welshman. Guitar and bass were recorded by L.B. at Divine Retribution Studios. Vocals recorded by Tonda Smrčka at Seabeast Production. Drums recorded by Taylor Hahn at Hahn Audio.
EMASCULATOR is an international collaboration of women with members from Czechia and the United States. The line-up comprises Mallika Sundaramurthy (Nidorous-NSE, Unfathomable Ruination, ex-Abnormality), Morgehenna (PoonTickler), Teresa Wallace (Cartilage, Muldrotha, Feast) and newest member Cierra White (Harboured, Oak, Ash & Thorn).
EMASCULATOR is:
Mallika Sundaramurthy - Vocals
Teresa Wallace - Guitars
Morgehenna - Guitars
Cierra White - Drums
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“Miedzyczas” is an evolution of Odium Humani Generis’ sound which started with 2020’s debut album “Przeddzien” (Cult of Parthenope) and 2022’s EP “Zarzewie” (Folter Records). The album is a journey that moves through the emotional stages of fear, disappointment, sadness and loneliness resounding in every song. Listeners may notice influences from bands such as Taake, Drudkh, Lifelover, Sacrilegium, Vemod or Furia; however, Odium Humani Generis goes a step further, adding subtle but clear references to sounds outside of the traditional spheres of black metal. Despite its melancholic character, the album is full of energetic moments that break the dark, introspective parts and give the music intensity.
“Miedzyczas” was recorded with Mariusz Konieczny at Heavy Gear Studio, and the album was mixed and mastered by The Fall (Owls Woods Graves, Hauntologist, Mgla (live)) at Skrzyplocz Studio. The unique graphic design was created by Emilia Spiewak, and the band photos were taken by Radoslaw Chojnacki.
Odium Humani Generis (OHG) was established in 2015 in Lódz, Poland. The band comprises Bialy on vocals and guitars, Murukh (ex-Fadheit) on drums, Bartos (Imperator, Pandemonium) on bass, Ominous (Nightbound) on guitars. Over the years, the band has toured with bands such as Carpathian Forest, Mgla, Spectral Wound and In Twilight’s Embrace, and supported acts such as Mortiis, Panzerfaust, Negative Plane, Ellende, Pillorian, Hate, Malokarpatan. OHG also performed at various European festivals including Under the Black Sun (DE), Throne Fest (BE) and Cosmic Void Festival (UK).
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NEWS 31.8.2024
SEROTONIN
– “MOTIV”
Label: Narcoleptica ProductionsRelease date: september 2nd 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Ofermod | Shining | Khold | Sulphur Aeon
Dutch black metal force Serotonin have always been a band that have followed their own star in the extreme music firmament, exploring the outer reaches of darkness and the forgotten places far below. Taking an avant-garde approach to their music, unbound by the expectations of others or the restrictive rules of the genre, they have allowed their music to develop naturally, spreading like acrid smoke into whatever areas of sound and composition most successfully capture the strange atmospheres they seek to create. Lyrically too they turn their gaze to deeper, more disturbing and thought provoking stories than fantasies of screeching devils and random acts of mindless violence…and never has this concoction of creativity been more challenging and more rewarding than within the black pages of their fourth full length album, Motiv…
With Motiv, they have sculpted the shadows of their creative energies into the most unnerving, skin-crawling forms to date. After opening with the formidable, driving power of ‘Climbing The Colossus’, which leads us up the steps within the imposing structure of the Sancarlone - a staggering copper statue which gazes down upon Lake Maggiore in Italy - the album then slips sideways into ever darker territories, where tracks like ‘Sinner Box’, with its twists of chaos and warped edges, threaten to swallow you whole as it compares the callous experiments of the operant conditioning chamber with man’s endless, mindless pursuit of wealth. ‘Garrote In D’, a defiant refusal to bend the knee, to conform or obey, is a creeping manifestation of the sinister that seems at first to be working with familiar black metal motifs, but it is subtly caressing them into different structures – surprising melodies and atmospheres bleeding into the blackness – until, gradually, the realisation that you have lost your way begins to surface and you are confronted with something profoundly different, something that gnaws at your sense of understanding with splintered teeth. The voyage through this sonic landscape of the unknown and unpredictable continues with slow death marches and fever dream aesthetics, with every familiar landmark proving to be just another signpost to the unknown. Finally you reach the majestic ending of ‘Leidmotiv’ that weaves the memories of Motiv into the fabric of your mind with its stark warnings against complacency in the face of insidious political evil, ensuring that you will never forget your journey through the night time world of Serotonin.
Mixed by Magnus Devo Andersson at Endarker Studios (Marduk, Ofermod, Count Raven etc) and mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios (Code, Alkerdeel, Ungfell etc) Motiv sounds spectacular – raw, rich, jagged and dangerous, every element of sound alive with malice and mystery. Completing this stunning package is the superb artwork of Emil Underjberg (Sunken, The Mountain King etc), the perfect seal upon this covenant of chaos. Motiv will be released by Narcoleptica Productions on September 2nd and all who hear it will be lost within its labyrinth of thought and revelation.
Line-up:
Sander Hordijik - Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Martin Perescis – Vocals, Drums, Programming
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On
July 19th Fort Wayne horror punks, GRAVE ROBBER, unleashed
their eclectic covers album, THE CELLAR SESSIONS, a furious
thrill ride through a summer night in the cemetary! One of the most powerful
tracks on that essential collection is Grave Robber's unique take on Black
Sabbath's monumental 'Children Of The Grave' - and now the band have unveiled a
new lyric video to accompany that monstrous interpretation of a metal classic.You can watch the 'Children Of The Grave' lyric video at the Grave Robber YouTube channel now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY4cb8bxyxQ
The video was created by Tyler Cobillas at TC Media.
The band have offered a few insights into their reworking of one of Sabbath's most infamous songs, saying, "Our version of 'Children Of The Grave' was first recorded in 2009 and included as a hidden bonus track on our second album, Inner Sanctum. Produced by Tim Bushong, it showed us exposing more of our metal roots. Now it's finally been given an official release on our covers album The Cellar Sessions - a collection of covers given a decidedly Grave Robber twist of the horror punk knife - and we're pleased to be giving it the platform it deserves with this video."
The Cellar Sessions is out now via Thumper Punk Records!
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Formed in early 2019, the Finnish Symphonic Doom Metal band INFIRMUM has approached the genre in a unique and complex way. With a sound that explores aspects of classical music combined with the traditional weight and melancholy of Doom, they released their debut album "Walls of Sorrow" in 2020, followed by the EP "The Great Unknown" in 2022. In January 2023, they released the single "Sleep of Reason," which featured a music video. With the departure of vocalist Anna Rose in 2023, Brazilian singer Sabine Blodwin joined the band, bringing a new perspective from a different culture.
Today, INFIRMUM is preparing for the release of their new single "BURN," scheduled for August 2024 as a preview of their upcoming album "FROM THE DEPTHS I CRIED," expected by the end of the year.
Watch the music video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7QFmLQ2g52c?si=ym7bTfPq5KH_79kL
"Burn is about everything that is controversial and burns inside the human soul, what we feel in secret, what people try to hide or extinguish to fit into society. In 'Burn,' while the male part exposes these feelings and unique visions of the world around, the female part represents the embracing of all these demons, the darkness as part of the human being, and this dark flame grows until it finally becomes one with the individual." – Sabine
”Burn was fun to compose. Wanted to compose a bit faster song and I was in right mood so this turned out to be really good. It is always fantastic to notice how song evolves after I have sent just my guitar tracks and everyone begin to create their parts. Sometimes I delete some guitar leads so other instruments have more space. I am very happy with the results!”- Timo
”Burn was me trying to be more brutal than on other songs, very death metal lyrics” -Eliel
”When I first started to work on the drum parts for Burn, the demo had only Timo's guitar tracks. But I could immediately hear that this song will be more aggressive and it needs to have a sense of danger. That's what I aimed for with my drumming: danger alerting accents, tickling our primitive lizard brain with a sense of something bad looming around the corner, short machine gun like bursts of rhythm in kick drums etc. But also I wanted to keep our signature "beauty and the beast" dynamic present in the song, so I made some parts to have a more "flowy" feel for a nice contrast.”- Hanna-Leena
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/infirmum-burn
INFIRMUM's music today can be described as profound and conflicted, exploring the darkest sides of human emotions, diving into the depths of madness, pain, sickness, and death, while still finding brief moments of hope, offering an atmospheric journey through the darkest corners of the human soul. Combining beauty and ferocity, their compositions are rich in textures and nuances with strong, reflective lyrics.
The
current lineup includes Sabine Blodwin (formerly of Moonwitch, Draconian Opera,
Pettalom) – Vocalist, Taka Eliel (Sanctuary of Hate) – Vocalist and
Bassist, Erna Siikavirta (formerly in Lordi, Children of Bodom as
session keyboardist, Sinergy as session keyboardist, Arthemesia and Deathlike
Silence) – Keyboardist, Joonas Siikavirta (Begrim) – Guitarist, Timo
Solonen (Grain of Pain) – Guitarist, Hanna-Leena “Hanska” (Mourning
Wood) – Drummer, and Elya – Cellist.Vocals: Sabine Blodwin
Growls and Bass: Taka Eliel
Guitars: Timo Solonen
Guitars: Joonas Siikavirta
Keys: Erna Siikavirta
Drums: Hanna-Leena Lassila
Cello: Elya
Produced by Juho Räihä and Infirmum
Drums recorded at Fantom Studios by Samu Oittinen
Other instruments and vocals at Infirmum Dungeon
Single mixed by Tuomas Kokko at Electric Fox
Single mastered by Samu Oittinen at Fantom Studios
Cover artwork by S. Paavola
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A lyric video for first single, "DREAMS OF MORTAL RUIN," is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oITCOHsvDXY
The single is also available on https://sleeplessmetal.bandcamp.com/track/dreams-of-mortal-ruin
FFO: Watch Tower, Nevermore, Anacrusis, Witherfall, Sanctuary, Fates Warning, Hades.
Soon after the release of critically acclaimed, 2022 full-length debut album, Host Desecration, writing team Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn dug in deep with a single minded purpose: to create a world class metal album that shows exactly what SLEEPLESS is all about! Through Endless Black is just that! The album leans into the band's Trad Metal roots, infused with the technical flourishes and spashes of Doom that collectively create the SLEEPLESS sound! "With each tune we would picture someone dropping the needle onto a record," explains Sexton-Dorsett. "Could they nod their head to the song and have it repeating in their mind the rest of the day?"
Mission accomplished!
The band also introduced their first guest vocal appearances by legendary punk vocalist Jerry A of Poison Idea and master metal vocalist Sean Peck of Denner/Sherman, Cage, and Death Dealer!
SLEEPLESS is back with one hell of an album in Through Endless Black!
Track
List:Side A:
1. Call To The Void
2. Cult Of The Narcissist
3. Consumed By Vengeance
4. Exist Another Day (Feat. Jerry A)
5. Where Fear Lives
Side B:
6. Through Endless Black
7. Lost Star
8. Transcending The Obsidian Throne (Feat. Sean Peck)
9. Lessons In Tongues
10. Dreams Of Mortal Ruin
Credits:
Guest vocals on Exist Another Day by Jerry A.
Guest vocals on Transcending The Obsidian Throne by Sean"Hell Destroyer" Peck.
Additional keys by Fernando Ruiz.
Recorded at Opal Studio, Portland Oregon 2024.
Produced by Eric Sexton-Dorsett and Kevin Hahn.
Engineered by Kevin Hahn.
Released by Necromantic Press Records.
Distributed in Europe by Metal Warrior Records.
Artwork by T.J. Barber.
Line-up:
Eric Sexton-Dorsett - Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitars, Backing Vocals
Kevin Hahn - Lead Guitars, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keys
Eric Detablan - Drums
Hixon Sexton-Dorsett - Bass
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Release date : september 20th 2024
Genre : Epic Black Metal
Origin: France
Label: Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions
Network Distributor: Season of Mist / Plastic Head
Digital Distributor: The Orchard
AORLHAC (Epic Black Metal) will release on September 20 the reissue of its wind trilogy, namely "A la Croisée des Vents" (remastered version + 3 bonus tracks), "La Cité des Vents" (remastered version) & "L’Esprit des Vents", all in a sumptuous A5 format case that will be revealed to you soon! And I'm telling you right away: watch your eyes!
If you didn't talk about the band at the time, it's time for you to catch up (the links are available below)!
And you, were you able to take your mind off things? Tell me everything!
Besides, there is still time to talk about the June releases. BLÓÐ (I let you discover the last video clip below) and HOULE which caused a real tidal wave.
Aorlhac is looking back to the past, to their Occitan roots, either medieval and modern, narrating the History of the south of France and north of Italy and Spain. Occitan is not only a language but also a culture recounted in French by the band : they are respectful witnesses of their ancestors’ heritage.
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Typhonian are one of the few old school-rooted death metal bands that are melding influences from other styles and taking the sound ahead. They've released an official video this time, of a song that's once again majestic with sublime melodies. No Clean Singing has premiered it https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/08/05/an-ncs-video-premiere-typhonian-towards-the-chamber-of-the-omnipresent-mind/
Excerpt – "will take you to other worlds, creating other vast, haunting, and harrowing visions far from the commonplace."
TYPHONIAN - “THE GATE OF THE VEILED BEYOND”
For
fans of: Edge
of Sanity, Unanimated, Necrophobic, Dismember, Dan Swano, Desultory, Unleashed, Evocation
Where most bands are content revelling in the sound of the glory days of early '90s death metal, German band Typhonian have not only beautifully reimagined it with blackened elements laced with the classic Swedish/Finnish melodies, they are also attempting to take that sound ahead in the most logical manner. Their approach being reminiscent of Edge of Sanity and their 40-minute masterwork 'Crimson', Typhonian are going a step further, adding more progressive and atmospheric elements, which become perceptible especially towards the end of the album, ultimately culminating in a near 20-minute epic closer. It's a phenomenal journey of the music that's evidently rooted in the old school death metal sound metamorphosing gradually and finally taking on a gleaming, breathtaking form and ascending. They have broken the shackles that have held back the style for a couple of decades by encompassing various influences organically and forging a cohesive sound that has dominance over them all. With the visionary 'The Gate of the Veiled Beyond' release, Typhonian have more than just outdone themselves; they have surpassed expectations for the style as a whole.
Line up:
M. W. Styrum - Vocals
Prometheus - Guitars
Typhon -Guitars, Orchestration
Charybdis - Bass
Thanatos - Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano
Track listing:
1. Celestial Salvation
2. Cosmic Throne
3. Primal Deceptive Light
4. Crimson Rivers
5. The Gatekeeper
6. Towards the Chamber of the Omnipresent Mind
7. A Glimpse at the Starless Ocean
8. Cath'un - The Gate of the Veiled Beyond
Release date - September 20th, 2024
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Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
“Star
Maps is an expression of stoicism and its effects on one's self-image. When
moments in life have taken hold and feel overwhelming, emotionally removing
one's self by pushing compassion away can be a coping mechanism. This is a
journey of one performing such stoicism, defining their life and the path
they've taken. " said, Leon. "Musically it contains some of
the most emotive moments of the album Emberglow, using atmosphere and long
melodic passages to represent the repressed emotion given within the lyrics.
Every time the chorus explodes, the emotions held back by the storyteller are
kicking against its cage showing how poorly holding back such emotions can be.
The bridge pulling back represents a full shift into one's internal control,
where the storyteller truly loses their sense of self and can no longer
recognize the individual. "With a career spanning 4 acclaimed albums 3 EPs and countless tour cycles both domestically and abroad, Orpheus Omega has cemented themselves as one of the hardest-working and entertaining mainstays of the Australian Metal scene.
Beginning with a sound forged along the lines of the great Gothenburg Melodeath era, the band has since grown further and further into a unique entity feeding off each member’s personality and life bringing them to touring with the likes of Insomnium, Trivium, At The Gates, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Lacuna Coil and many many more.
The continued evolution of Orpheus Omega has kept the band relevant and ever-growing and in 2024 brings with it the release of their most ambitious album yet, ‘EMBERGLOW’ through WormholeDeath Records.
Orpheus Omega is:
Chris Themelco - Vocals/ Lead Guitar
Leon Monaco - Bass/ Backing Vocals
Matt Themelco - Drums
Luke Ashley - Guitar
Campbell Hill - Keyboard
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DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Slovenia’s CHALLENGER, FORCE OF NATURE, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
The idea for Slovenia’s CHALLENGER started in the summer of 2016, when Jakob Rejec (ex-VIGILANCE, Ambra) was challenged to play a foodball game with Urban Železnik (SkyEye), and if Urban won, they would form a band together. Unfortunately, they never played the game, but still decided to form a band. For the first lineup, they invited Blaž Tanšek (Mist, ex-Teleport) to play the bass guitar and Mihaela Žitko (Mist) to join on the drums. Through some jam sessions, the first riffs were made, and in November, the band had their first gig under the name Irön Breed, combining the surnames of Jakob and Urban, with Rejec meaning “breeder” and Železnik meaning “iron.” Soon after, they changed their name to CHALLENGER, and Mihaela left her drum duties to Toni Pleško (ex-Teleport, Natt, Ðornata). In 2019, they released their first EP, Turned to Dust, to critical acclaim.
Corona times were not very fruitful for CHALLENGER, but in 2022, they came back with new blood on the bass guitar with Nika Krmelj (Eruption). With her, they finished their debut album and recorded a pre-production demo in the spring of 2023 but had to let her go soon after. The last lineup was formed with Samo Stopar picking up the bass guitar in the summer of 2023, with whom they finished recording their debut album in March 2024.
Now, at long last, that debut album is here: Force of Nature. Aptly titled, CHALLENGER’s first full-length draws from a deep well of heavy metal wisdom, and does so with gusto. Their stated influences include Saxon, Iron Maiden, Tank, Rainbow, Judas Priest, Venom, Mercyful Fate, Running Wild, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and the UK’s Satan, and verily do CHALLENGER siphon off both the best and most idiosyncratic strains of those legends’ DNA and reconfigure them into a travelogue of pathos and bravado. The songwriting across Force of Nature suitably gallops with energy, but the band patiently allow each construct to unfold, retaining a sense of austere grace in the process. The leads are majestic and many; most impart a melancholy seemingly at odds with the jaunty tempos explored, but the sum effect becomes one of steely-eyed stateliness perfectly in line with the album’s wider “doomed hero” drama. That CHALLENGER possess impeccable chops – to the man, with actual bass guitar prominent in the soundfield – only make these eight mini-epics gleam that much brighter.
CHALLENGER
may unapologetically look the past, but their heavy metal heroism is
truly timeless. Behold a true Force of Nature!Line-up:
Jakob Rejec - vocals, rhythm guitar
Urban Železnik - lead guitar
Samo Stopar - bass guitar
Toni Pleško - drums
From Ljubljana/Slovenia
Artwork: Peter Gaber
Release date: 25th October2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on oxblood vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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Deathgrind
band K.Y.M.I. from Finland releases their debut album
on September 27th via Inverse Records. The band's brutal lyrics are about
everyday life during the busy adult years and the mid-life crisis. The songs
are a result of emotional outbursts packed into a form of brutal deathgrind.The second single, HEMICRANIA, is about what a massive headache attack would sound like musically. Migraines and other recurring attacks such as these are not only painful but also emotionally draining, often ending in the way the song describes.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc): https://push.fm/fl/kymi-hemicrania
K.Y.M.I. is a one-man project by Kalle Ylönen, that will in the future also produce Viking jewelry and other artistic craftwork under the name K.Y.M.I.paja (smithery). Tuukka Ojansivu, a strong supporter of the project, is responsible for arranging the songs and recording the instruments for the upcoming album LIHA. The vocal recording, mixing and mastering of the album was done by Pasi Löfgren at Inka Studios.
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Canadian heavymetallers SPECTRE promote their EP “ARMAGEDDON” with the live video for the title track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH4x0gvKJCM
Spectre is heavy metal band based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. They played their first show in the spring of 2023 and have since been playing extensively around western Canada.
The band consists of seasoned musicians: Adam (vocals), Jason (guitar), Doug (guitar), Jay (Bass) and Phill (drums). They combine a wide range of influences from classic hard rock and heavy metal to punk rock to bring their audience a catchy and energetic music experience.
Members of Spectre have been honoured to share the stage with many talented bands including: Striker, Drowning Pool, Anvil, Steel Panther, Three Inches of Blood, Trivium, and Diamond Head.
Spectre have recently finished recording their first EP entitled ‘Armageddon’ which can be found on all major streaming sites, as well as in a form of a CD.
https://www.youtube.com/@SpectreWinnipeg
https://www.facebook.com/spectrerocks
MURDER RECORDS & EFERMO DISTRO. proudly present: Let’s start to say that simplicity can be tricky as a maze, but in this example all paths lead nowhere. Intriguing to say the least when you use this intro to describe a project like ANONIMUUS CREATURE.
Now, hailing from Holland, this immense force of oblivion demands your most profound absence of senses to digest "DISSECTING THE MORBID UNDERWORLD OF MY EXISTENCE", the new opus from this entity. In a world full of musical pollution, noise could be the pill to clarity and consciousness meaning that if you think you have it all to understand this maybe you haven’t experienced everything in life and, also, maybe in death.
If deserts are nothing but an infinity of wasteland, the ANONIMUUS CREATURE’s inception is to make you crawl dehydrated through eternity and "Dissecting The Morbid Underworld Of My Existence" will be your purgatory soundtrack. Don’t worry, you won’t suffer because simple things aim for a meaningless existence.
That’s all there is to offer, a hand full of nothing, where a blank hole will prevail upon infinity. "Dissecting The Morbid Underworld Of My Existence" will be the dust in your bed and your grave while ANONIMUUS CREATURE haunts you in all dimensions.
The Nightmare is Alive!
Catatonic Obscure Funeral Harsh with Suicidal and Morbid Noises from Hell!!!
RUÍNA began as a solo
project by noise artist C, whose aim was to make an obscure doom
band. Starting in 2023, it resulted in the release of the first
instrumental demo called “Existência Erodida”. After a while, C proposed to J that he join the project and take on the role of vocalist.
So the day-to-day torment resulted in the progression of an EP called “3” recorded between Portugal and Peru, bringing you the darkest sound from the catacombs of two souls lost in a futile world with no concrete future.
ANONIMUUS CREATURE - "Dissecting The Morbid Underworld Of My Existence"
This new album will be released in two versions on Cassette:
10 Copies in a special HELLPACK
15 Copies in Cassette edition
Noise List:
1 - Hellish Noises From My Horrendous Subconscious
2 - Reborning In A Monstrous Filthy Underworld
3 - Dissecting The Morbid Underworld Of My Existence
4 - The Depths In A Disgusting Abyssal Pathology
The dark noises were dissected from deep nihilism and recorded in June 2024 at Junkie Noise Studios in the Netherlands.
The layout for this album was made by Alemão. All the pictures used to build the layout of this album was taken from the movie "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" by Shinya Tsukamoto.
"This journey of nihilistic noise has a profound reflection, where the existence of an absolute void is nothing like the human being that I am, I despise and hate as a Anonimuus Creature..."
https://anonimuus-creature.bandcamp.com
RUÍNA - "3"
This new EP will be released in two versions on Cassette:
10 Copies in a special HELLPACK
10 Copies in Cassette Edition
Setlist:
1 - Estan todos allá afuera
2 - Ya Llegaste
3 - Cae Ceniza De Mi Cuerpo
Line-up:
C - Guitar / Drums
J - Vocals / Mixing
...NOISE PASSION ON...
...WORLD FASHION OFF...
https://www.murder-records.eu/hellstore-europe
Armed with their sharpened axes and custom-made armor, they're here to proclaim that it's totally cool to wear armor while we drink victory booze – rum, whiskey, and beer! So, grab your tankard and your dragon costume because Sovengar is here to lead the greatest epic battle the universe has ever seen. Join the party, brave warriors, and geeks of all platforms! Let the adventure begin!
Their new single „Neon Wars”, produced by Christoph Wieczorek (Babymetal, Electric Callboy), is going to be released on August 30th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxUTTvatzw
https://www.facebook.com/sovengarofficial
Finnish
one-man black metal band MALASORTE is set to unleash
the debut album APEX SOVEREIGNTY on October 11th 2024
via Inverse Records. The second single 'CONSTELLATION OF THE WOLF' is out now on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/malasorte-wolf
The man behind Malasorte, Jal'zoroth comments the single:
"Behold the Constellation of the Wolf, where shadows dance fervently and the void echoes with the howls of celestial beasts. In this astral kingdom, madness reigns supreme, and the stars, like hungry eyes, witness the violent ballet of creation and destruction."
Apex Sovereignty CD PRE-ORDER available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/malasorte-apex-sovereignty-cd-pre-order
The first single 'Slaying The Messengers' is available here: https://push.fm/fl/malasorte-slaying
Biography:
In the frostbitten heart of Helsinki, Finland, Jal'zoroth forged "Malasorte" from the fires of black metal in 2024. A one-man wrecking crew, Malasorte unleashes a sonic onslaught that's as savage as it is spellbinding. With relentless riffs, thunderous drums, and vocals dripping with venom, Malasorte commands the darkness with unbridled ferocity. Emerging from the shadows, Malasorte is a force to be reckoned with, transmutating adversity into waveform, turning curses into catharsis.
Line-up:
Jal'zoroth - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
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Progressive blackmetallers ETERNAL CRYPT promote their sophomore album with “DIVINE SNOW: single/video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWZCQd04_ZU
Drawing from many overseas influences, Eternal Crypt brings their brand of melodic extreme metal from their hometown of Rochester New York. It has been their mission to take the atmosphere of black metal, the aggression of death metal, and combine it with the melodic sensibility of power, folk, and doom metal, providing a thought provoking soundtrack to introspective lyrics.
Though initially starting as a solo studio project, Eternal Crypt became a full-fledged band after the release of debut album "Loneliness of the Wolf" in 2018. From then, Eternal Crypt will continue to bring their brand of melodic metal with their upcoming album "Stages of Grief" Releasing September 2024.
https://eternalcrypt.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/eternalcrypt
BLOOD FEAST return with their 4th album “INFINITE EVOLUTION” and “OUTBREAK” video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQCQSaufDS4
BLOOD FEAST continues to forge its own twisted thrash metal path with the release of their 4th full-length album, Infinite Evolution. Fans old and new will not be disappointed, as the ‘Unholy Trinity’ of releases from the band’s early days – Kill For Pleasure (1987), Face Fate (1988, EP) and Chopping Block Blues (1990) – and the band’s 2017 comeback album The Future State Of Wicked influence much of the new album. All the speed, brutality and twists ’n’ turns the band is known for remain intact and in your face.
BLOOD FEAST was formed by Adam Tranquilli, Gary Markowich (vocals), Kevin Kuzma (drums) and Lou Starita (bass) in 1985 as Blood Lust. They quickly wrote and recorded their classic 4-song demo, The Suicidal Missions. Shortly after, they became a 5-piece with the addition of Michael Basden on guitar. The band was then approached by New Renaissance Records to contribute songs to their Thrash Metal Attack (Menacing Thunder) and Speed Metal Hell 3 (The Suicidal Missions). This prompted the name change to BLOOD FEAST. New Renaissance then offered a record deal, which led to the recording of the classic Kill For Pleasure album and a US tour with DEATH ANGEL. The Face Fate EP quickly followed.
Shortly after writing and recording their proposed 2nd album, Adam left the band. The remaining 4 members then re-recorded these songs, which became the album Chopping Block Blues. The band broke up shortly after the album's release in early 1990. The original 5-man BLOOD FEAST reunited for an appearance at the NJ March Metal Meltdown in 1999, but further activity was not to be. A second reunion began in 2007, albeit only with original members Tranquilli and Kuzma. Bassist Tom Lorenzo and vocalist Chris Natalini came on board in 2010, just in time for the band's first appearance at Headbangers Open Air in Germany (they were invited back in 2013 and 2017). During this stretch, Adam began writing new material, with the band even playing an early version of INRI at select shows.
The incarnation of BLOOD FEAST retaking its place in the metal ranks today began to take shape in March of 2014, with the addition of guitarist CJ Scioscia. When drummer Joe Moore joined a few months later, the unit was complete and work immediately began on what would become The Future State Of Wicked album. Live performances became far more frequent, featuring appearances at True Thrash Fest 2015 in Osaka, Japan, Hells Headbash 2 in Cleveland, Ohio, Lima MetalFest II in Lima, Peru and the aforementioned return to Headbangers Open Air in 2017. The album was released on Hells Headbangers Records in the Spring of 2017, in time to coincide with an opening slot for Kreator and Obituary on that year’s Decibel Tour at the TLA in Philadelphia.
In late 2017, Moore was replaced by former M.O.D. touring drummer Adam Kieffer. Both Adams have an extensive history, most notably in the bands Headlock and Without End (of which Lorenzo was also a member). AK slotted in perfectly, and work immediately began on a new EP entitled Chopped, Sliced And Diced. This featured one new song (Concubine) along with new recordings of 4 songs from the band’s early records.
Work on LP #4, Infinite Evolution, began in late 2019. However, the sudden ’pause’ caused by the COVID-19 virus in early 2020 allowed for reflection on the situation. After much consideration it was decided that Adam Tranquilli would add lead vocal to his guitar duties – thus ending Natalini’s time with the band. Also, after having the help of bass player extraordinaire Mike LePond of SYMPHONY X for the album, new bassist Dave Kramer joined the fold in late 2023. Now, after all the unintended interruptions and diversions, the album is finally available via long time label Hells Headbangers. Written by Tranquilli and Scioscia, it is a fierce statement of intent while adding a few new wrinkles. And in a first for BLOOD FEAST, there is a promotional video for the song “Outbreak”.
With the world opened up again, 2024 is shaping up to present a bright future for BLOOD FEAST.
Line up:
Adam Tranquilli • guitar/lead vocals
Dave Kramer • bass guitar/backing vocals
Adam Kieffer • drums
CJ Scioscia • guitar
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Death metal act VOMIT FORTH unveil the hair-raising track, "NEGATIVE PENANCE" with a horrifying video. It’s the third single shared from their upcoming album, TERRIFIED OF GOD, set for release October 11th through Century Media Records. In the deep winter of early 2024, the band headed into a cabin in the woods of New Jersey with Randy Leboeuf who recorded, mixed, mastered and produced the album. The month-long recording process led to twelve panic-stricken tracks where every riff, drum fill, and lyric leaves a footprint.
"Negative Penance" serves as one of the most brutal moments on Terrified Of God marked by frenzied guitars and intense drum work. Vocalist Kane Gelaznik displays his ability to easily shift between throaty vocals, curdling squeals, and a more direct delivery. The video for the song comes with a viewer discretion warning, as tape footage of a bizarre ritualistic murder materializes.
Pre-order the new album here: https://VomitForth.lnk.to/TerrifiedOfGodNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wdT9FlefbA
For
fans of :
Agathocles, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Enemy Soil, Insect Warfare, Magrudergrind,
Nasum, Phobia, Pig Destroyer, Rotten Sound and WormrotFâché returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions with their second full-length album Violent Au Volant! Canadian (in fact more Quebecers than Canadians!) Fâché is back with 35 songs of pure, angry, pissed-off Grindcore which will make you want to punch to death slow drivers and attack other road ragers. Violent Au Volant translates in English to 'Violent While Driving', and is a pummeling audible car crash of extreme sonic devastation!
Tracklisting:
1. Sans Pitié
2. Abusé Verbalement
3. Entourloupé
4. Saloperies
5. Mal Engeulé
6. Yes, No, Toaster
7. Flop Total
8. Nauséabond
9. Pomme Pourrite
10. Ni Queue Ni Tête
11. Ablation Du Cerveau
12. Tête De Cochon
13. Défaite Cuisante
14. Yienc Su Une Gosse
15. Parler Dans L Cass
16. Totalement Hors Contrôle
17. Insignifiant
18. Déchet Déchu
19. Humain De Marde
20. Balle Dans Le Pied
21. Pas Dégniaisé
22. Mal A Vie
23. Crisse Le Feu
24. Désordre Mental
25. Veux-Tu T Battre
26. Drop Les Gants
27. Infecte
28. Anal-Phabète
29. Tu Gosse
30. Violent Au Volant
31. Pas Fier
32. Trouble Fête
33. Cross Check Dans Face
34. Beging Bedang
35. Ca Fera
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Label: Ardua MusicRelease date: september 27th 2024
Genre: Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Officium Triste | My Dying Bride | Paradise Lost | Saturnus
I stand beneath the open sky, at the setting of the sun. The still waters stretch before me to the distant horizon and the clouds drift slowly across the vast canvas of the sky – a brilliant blending of deepest blues, rich purples, vivid red and warm orange. Yet for all the open vista, the space and freedom, I am trapped; suffocating in a labyrinth of black desperation. The cold walls of insurmountable sorrows and confusion contain me and I am imprisoned by past scars that have become infected, poisoned by the cruel, slow venoms of grief, loss and guilt. I built this maze, but I have long since forgotten the way to freedom…
“Tainted by miasma, corrupting your heart
Born from old pain, disrupted by taint
In a haze you locked your heart…”
- In A Haze – Marche Funèbre
Fifteen years since the release of their debut EP, Norizon, Belgium’s monarchs of morose majesty, Marche Funèbre, are set to unveil their fifth full length album – After The Storm. Each release from this special band has seen them refining their art, becoming ever more adept at delivering crushing heaviness married to wonderful melodies that resonate within the empty chambers of a broken heart…and After The Storm continues that continual upward trajectory, claiming its place at the peak of their recordings with ease. Right from the opening track and first single, ‘In A Haze’ it is abundantly clear that After The Storm is so much more than ‘just another album’. The powerful production, mix and master from Martin Furia (Destruction, Nervosa, Toxik etc) is absolute perfection, so alive and vibrant that you can almost hear the hum of the amps and feel the floor shake with each thunderous crack of the snare. This sonic quality combined with truly impassioned performances and staggering song writing makes for a doom/death listening experience to be treasured. It’s difficult to select individual highlights from an album whose songs flow together like a river, on a seamless journey to the sea, all different but all inextricably linked. However ‘Stranded’, with its magnificent chorus is simply unforgettable, as is ‘Palace Of Broken Dreams’, which manages to capture the spirit of its evocative title so beautifully with deftly handled juxtapositions of mellow melancholy and thunderous emotion. But then the next time you listen it may be the circling guitar motifs of ‘Devoid Of Empathy’, like spreading ripples upon the waters of a drowning pool, that enthral, or the sweeping tides of sorrow and pain of regret of ‘After The Storm’ itself… On rare occasions a band may capture their true essence in an album, everything that is great about their unique character – After The Storm is one of those albums.
Following the recording sessions for After The Storm, longstanding guitarist Peter Egberghs stepped down from the Marche Funèbre ranks, to be replaced by Fré De Schepper - and there could be no better album to begin the next chapter in the story of Marche Funèbre. Set for release on September 27th through Ardua Music, adorned in a stunning piece of cover artwork from Brooke Shaden, whose distinctive images have graced all of Marche Funèbre’s full length albums, After The Storm will be one of the doom/death metal releases of the year.
Line-up:
Arne Vandenhoeck – Vocals
Boris Iolis – Bass/Vocals
Dennis Lefebvre – Drums
Kurt Blommé – Clean Vocals
Fré De Schepper – Guitars
*Guitars on After The Storm by Peter Egberghs
*Piano on After The Storm by Fré De Schepper
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MarcheFunebreDoom
Hailing
from Bavaria, BLACKEVIL have been forging fire since 2013. Their first demo,
appropriately titled Hail the Cult, emerged from the darkness in 2015,
auspiciously revealing a razor-sharp and endlessly salacious style of
blackthrash. Come BLACKEVIL’s debut album, 2017’s The Ceremonial Fire, the
power-trio up-ratcheted everything: more speed, more hooks, more black, more
evil, more of MORE! Still, their breakout moment was yet to come. Under the
auspices of DYING VICTIMS, BLACKEVIL released their second album, Forever
Baptised in Eternal Fire, in 2020. Here, the duo laid it all on the line,
taking their noble roots – most obviously, the German thrash Big Three of
Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction as well as evil speed metal legends like Razor,
Evil Angel, OZ, and Exciter – and assimilating them something that was uniquely
their own and yet uniquely and purely HEAVY METAL.Now, with third album Praise the Communion Fire for the Unhallowed Sacrament, BLACKEVIL take bolder steps into the epic that they only hinted at prior. If its predecessor began to transcend “blackthrash” categorization, Praise the Communion Fire wholly does so, canvassing a wider range of other stylistic sizes – late ‘90s melodic black metal, same-era blackened death, early ‘80s epic metal, and even a bit of NWOBHM that preceded that – that altogether result in something that’s more unique than ever. The album’s runtime of 46 minutes across seven tracks no doubt suggests that turn toward the epic, and the songwriting indeed goes everywhere but still with remarkable focus. Their chops, while thankfully evincing a human touch, support these daring constructs with finesse and a finely honed clarity. Leads and otherwise-more-melodic riffs lead the charge into the battlefield, buttressed by dynamics that are never boisterous for their own sake; rather, they’re reigned in, allowing those riffs and rhythms to breathe, thus making the surges of energy all the more exciting. Put another way, BLACKEVIL aren’t just another black(ened) metal band flying off the rails, imparting one extreme expression after another: there’s actual class and craft at work here, honoring the ancient lore of heavy metal whilst adding to its lexicon. In that sense, the ceremonial reverence they exude truly supports the title Praise the Communion Fire for the Unhallowed Sacrament.
Forever Baptised in Eternal Fire reaped acclaim, but still left BLACKEVIL as a well-kept secret. Again blessed with (un)godly art by the masterful Paolo Girardi, Praise the Communion Fire for the Unhallowed Sacrament should once and for all establish BLACKEVIL as top-tier heavy metal blacksmiths!
Line-up:
Abyss - ghoulish throat of revenge and roaring 4-string hell
Deathinfektor - attack of the iron six-string saw
Bloodhammer - glorifier of the infernal wardrum thunder
From Bavaria/Germany
Artwork:
Paolo Girardi
Release date:
25th October2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on halloween orange vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
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https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
BATTLESWORD
– “(XX)V - OF TALES AND TRAGEDIES”Release: 26. September 2024
Genre : Old School Melodic Death Metal
For 25 years now, BATTLESWORD have been making their way through the metal scene and to mark the occasion, they have released their fifth longplayer, which alludes to both the anniversary and the album number in its title "(XX)V". The addition "Of Tales And Tragedies" can also be confidently interpreted as a reference to the band's history and the things they have lived through over such a period of time.
Musically, Battlesword continue where they fortunately never left off: From almost doomy parts to merciless blasts, the stylistic variety is not overused on the one hand, but is still multi-layered enough to never get bored with the 11 songs over the entire running time.
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FFO: Slayer, Bring
Me The Horizon, Pantera, and Disturbed. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfr1Mcx6dqc
The D.O.O.D. is proud to announce the September 17 release of new album, Dissonance, on Chaos Music in association with SelfMadeRecords and Earache Records EDD. The forthcoming album showcases The D.O.O.D.’s signature blend of intense riffs, powerful vocals, and relentless energy!
Track Listing:
1. Down The Rabbit Hole
2. Subterfuge
3. The Back of Hell
4. The Pentecostal
5. Parasite 6-4-2
6. 2000 Miles
7. Chaos for the Fly
8. Disorder (Interlude)
9. Dissonance
10. The Well
11. Slayer Of Gods
12/ Cut, Cut, Cut (Interlude)
13. Final Girl
Album Credits:
Cover art by Brian Amoroso.
All Songs Written and Produced by The D.O.O.D.
Recorded and Mixed at Morrisound Studios by Jim Morris,
Mastered by J.P. Braddock at Formation Audio.
Management: Chaos Music L.L.C.
Management Consultant: Erik Leviathan Self Made Records L.L.C.
Digital Distribution: Earache Records.
Line-Up
Indy (Indiana DOOD) Brumbaugh - Guitar
Rudy (Dogbite DOOD) Taylor - Drums
Brian (Monkeyboy DOOD) Amoroso - Lead Vocals
Jonzey DOOD - Bass
Raynus DOOD - Guitar
Bio:
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience (The D.O.O.D.) are a standout in the Florida metal Scene. Originally put together by Raynus and Jonzey, this Sarasota band has found its niche among the many great independent metal acts, not only in Southwest Florida, but nationally as well.
The Floridians have found inspiration over the years from music that is hard driving with good hooks, as well as unabashed and unafraid riffs reminiscent of the pioneers of metal and hard rock, all the while grinding forward into the music of today and tomorrow.
The diversity of their individual influences certainly informs the music, yet there is enough commonality to ensure a coherency that runs throughout the band's catalogue. From the horror rock "House of the Dead," to the tastefully savvy guitar work of "Murder," it is difficult not to find something to latch onto with the musicality of this crew.
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience prides itself on its stage show, a high energy feast of metal, that is different and surprising at every venue. As a band, they are dynamic and eye-catching as they take the stage and take over the room. The audience can never be certain what's coming next, except a great show! This can be attributed to the multitude of shows they've played over the years with an array of local and national acts. The D.O.O.D. is 100% fan-friendly and takes great pride in being part of a surging Florida metal scene.
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Blackened death entity VØLUS has unleashed the newest single off MERCIFUL THE DYING LIGHT. "HISSING DISSENT" is now streaming at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFx8cjHJjY
Merciful the Dying Light continues the band's constant evolution with this genre-bending offering of blackened death metal. Written and recorded by the band's lone member Justin Vølus, Merciful the Dying Light drew inspiration from themes of vampirism, cosmic horror, and Mesopotamian mythos.
Stream additional tracks from the album now at https://volusdeath.bandcamp.com/album/merciful-the-dying-light
Vargheist Records will release Merciful the Dying Light on streaming platforms and limited edition CD on September 7.
Track
List:1) Crowns of Ulthar
2) Sanity Forsaken
3) Blasphemies Infernal Strife
4) Merciful the Dying Light
5) Hissing Dissent
6) Revengeance of Blood
7) Between Two Fires
VØLUS is a one-man blackened death metal band from South Carolina, USA, delivering a unique blend of OSDM, Blackened Death Metal, and Progressive/Dissonant Death Metal. Merciful the Dying Light is the fourth full-length album in the VØLUS discography and the band's seventh overall release, including demos and EPs. The band, alongside Vargheist Records, was founded by Justin Vølus in 2018.
VØLUS is:
Justin Vølus - All Instruments, Vocals and Lyrics
https://www.facebook.com/volusdeath
Label: Road To Masochist / Cursed Monk Records / Eggy TapesRelease date: october 4th 2024
Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal
For fans of: Primitive Man | Eyehategod | Thou | Abstracter
“The worst part of hell is not the flames; it’s the hopelessness. And I think that is the part of hell that a person in depression really tastes. The terrible hopelessness that comes over.”
- from The Faces Of Depression, 1959 interviews with psychiatric patients
Between birth and death lies a brief and bloody vale of tears, populated by the vindictive and vicious, the vain and vacuous, the desperate and broken. From screaming in our excrement, wholly dependent upon those who dragged us into this decaying nightmare – gods whom we inevitably disappoint and who in turn poison our hearts with their own failings and fallibilities – we wade through spite and selfishness that eats at any inherent value we once possessed like battery acid. And then, depleted and demented, we return to our excrement and wait, drooling, for blessed incineration or a roughly managed tumble into the soil. Such is the gift of life, the beautiful journey between birth and death.
Into our world of black clouds and despair come Bile Caster, with their new EP, Writhing Between Birth And Death. You will find no respite here, no sunshine breaking through the clouds, just three tracks of monolithic, soul destroying, doom-drenched sludge that will grind your spirit into the dirt with harsh truths and bleak outlook. Opening in a howl of feedback and the hum of overheated amps, ‘Abscess’ begins this tortured descent into the depths of the pit, dragging your limp and exhausted body through the splintered bones of the lost. As unequivocal in its statement of despair as staring into the empty sockets of a skull, the distortion and dissonance will shake you to your core; a crawling yet relentless horror that will drown you in a slurry of despondency. The gargantuan footsteps of ‘Trapped’ follow, each drum beat, each chord, each agonised cry another stone upon your chest, the oppressive weight beyond bearing. Within the hollowed out core of the song the voices of those lost in the mire of severe depression speak with an honesty that tears at the heart, leaving you with open wounds that ‘Harrowing’ rips wide open. Has a song ever been more aptly named? A staggering shadow beast that uses unnerving, echoing space as well as slow, purposeful obliteration to achieve its grinding maceration of the last shreds of hope and identity; leaving you with nothing…as nothing.
Writhing Between Birth And Death will be released on October 4th, on vinyl by Road To Masochist – featuring an exclusive extra track, ‘Repression’ – on CD by Cursed Monk Records and on cassette by Eggy Tapes. However you choose to experience the sonic crucifixion of Bile Caster, it will scour you from the inside and permit no hiding from the horrendous truth of existence. Be sure you are ready before you open this door…there is no turning back once the threshold is crossed.
Line-up:
Joe Lander - Guitar/Vocals
Adam Starkey - Drums
Nick Eagle-Evans – Bass
https://roadtomasochist.co.uk/store
https://www.facebook.com/bilecastersludge/
LOUD RAGE MUSIC & PEST RECORDS NEWS :
...IN VISCERO – “ITALIA VIOLENTA”
Full-length, CD / Digital, September 2024, Pest Records / Metal or Die Records
Swedish Death Metal from Hungary
A self-produced and self-released material mixed by Alexander Backlund and mastered by Tony Lindgren at the famous Fascination Street Studios. Consisting of seven compositions spanning over an hour, Endless Winter Nights invites listeners to a profound journey. Indeed, through the labyrinthine depths of depression and anxiety, metaphorically encapsulated within the chilling embrace of winter.
UMBERSUN – “ENDLESS WINTER NIGHTS”
Full-length, CD / Digital, August 2024, Independent (supported by Loud Rage Music)
Melodic Doom Death Metal from Romania
A self-produced and self-released material mixed by Alexander Backlund and mastered by Tony Lindgren at the famous Fascination Street Studios. Consisting of seven compositions spanning over an hour, Endless Winter Nights invites listeners to a profound journey. Indeed, through the labyrinthine depths of depression and anxiety, metaphorically encapsulated within the chilling embrace of winter.
WARHYMN – “OCCULT FIRE”
EP, Digital, July 2024, Loud Rage Music
Occult Black Metal from Romania
The band's new EP and at the same time the advance material for what is to be the band's next full-length album, scheduled for 2025! This material features the "Occult Fire" single that will also be part of our next full length and two more songs, carefully chosen from our debut "Gnosis", completely re-recorded from scratch and rebranded as "Occult Fire Versions".
MORGUE MEAT – “APOCALYPTIC VISIONS”
Full-Length, CD / Digital, May 2024, Pest Records / Satanath Records
Death Metal from USA
Texas death horde MORGUE MEAT have returned from the depths of isolation with their second full-length, "Apocalyptic Visions". Strongly recommended for the fans of Revenge, Blasphemy, Incantation, Disgorge, Viscera Infest, Embalmed, Autopsy.
THE SHEPHERD – “THE BEGUILING MIND GAMES”
EP, Digital, April 2024
Death'n'Roll from Romania
Technical but expressive, fast and slow, brutal yet melodic, "The Beguiling Mind Games" is a dark pilgrimage through the most hidden places of the human mind. It deals with gaslighting, depression, anxiety, betrayal, fear, manipulation and suicide.
A complex journey in nine chapters developing a strange and original soundtrack for those who are keen to bands like Hypocrisy, Edge of Sanity, Yearning, Phlebotomized and why not, Blacksheep.
VORUS - "DESOLATE ETERNITIES"
Full-length, Digital / Jewel-case CD, March 2024, Loud Rage Music
Old-School Death Metal from Romania
Vorus' third album “Desolate Eternities“ presents a more balanced and dynamic plethora of new compositions combining our classic death metal approach with a more faster / brutal tempo and slow mid-paced sections to ear-bleeding grinding / thrashy solid tunes.
DAMNATION – “F Á TUM”
Full-length, Digital / Jewel-case CD, February 2024, Pest Records
Death Metal from Hungary
After a very well received debut EP titled "Majesty in Degradation" released in 2021 on Pest Records, Hungarian Death Metal super-group DAMNATION are back with the first full-length material, "Fátum"
Recorded and mixed/mastered at Obsidian Sound Studio by Árpád Szenti "Fátum" evokes the most memorable era of Death Metal, in the vein of bands like Incantation, Morbid Angel or Gorefest and many more alike. The cover artwork is signed by Stan Ivan.
With lyrics contemplating on the mortality of the universe, enshrouded by a dark, dense musical atmosphere, "Fátum" is all about one of the earliest fears of humankind: existential angst set in a celestial scale.
KOLAC – “KOLAC “
Full-length, Digital / Jewel-case CD, February 2024, Pest Records
Black Thrash Metal from Serbia
KOLAC's new studio album is a special one: a self-titled loose concept record featuring 9 new tracks plus intro revolving around the usage of stakes ("kolac" in Serbian language) as punishment methods in the Middle Ages and beyond.
Primarily a traditional Black Metal band, KOLAC allows plenty of Thrash Metal touches to enrich their compositions, and the result is a combination of primal fury and energy, with darkened melodies and rhythmic diversity.
GOTHIC – “UNDERGROUND”
Full-length, Digital / Jewel-case CD, January 2024, Loud Rage Music
Melodic Metal / Modern Metal / Progressive Metal / Melodic Death Metal from Romania
7 years after the release of the previous album “Demons“, GOTHIC are ready to present their new material recorded at both Consonance Studio in Timișoara and at other locations in Romania, and mixed at Haunting Studios (Athens, Greece) by the excellent producer Nikos Palivos.
Marking the return of Alin Petruț as singer, with lyrics exclusively in Romanian language, a strong shift in style, and again with an exceptional album cover signed again by the band’s bass player Csaba “Taly” Talpai, like the “Demons” case, this album becomes an absolute premiere for GOTHIC!
www.loudragemusic.com
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com
FFO: Dragonforce, 3 Inches of Blood, Nekrogoblikon, Lorna Shore, Brand of Sacrifice
The official video for EP single, "A Quest for Truth," is out now and available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPUcjbbUbI
On the new EP, the band took its already innovative, energetic sound, created through the fusion of deathcore and power metal, and sharpened it to a fine point on The Fall of House Abbarath. DRAGONCORPSE took the feedback gathered from the release of debut EP, The Drakketh Saga, to heart and used it to refine their approach.
"For new fans, I believe we've added more elements of deathcore and power metal while adding more excitement into the music for an authentic listening experience like no other band," bassist Noah Nikolas Laidlaw explains. "We put a lot of emphasis on the atmosphere of the music," adds drummer Justin Gogan. "Throughout the entire EP there is a medieval theming that resonates in the music that keeps the tracks feeling refreshing and fun. With the addition of Mark on keys/orchestration, he brought with him a completely different approach to songwriting that I am sure fans are going to appreciate!"
Pre-order The
Fall of House Abbarath:Track Listing:
1. An Introduction to [ HEROISM ]
2. Welcome Home
3. I Live… AGAIN!
4. A Quest For Truth
5. Whisper On The Wind
6. Fear And Hunger
EP Credits:
All songs performed by: DRAGONCORPSE
All songs written by: DRAGONCORPSE
Produced by: DRAGONCORPSE and Matt Schmidt
Mixed by: Matt Schmidt
Mastered by: Matt Schmidt
Album artwork by: Avellustration
Line-up:
Mardy Leith - Vocals
Kris Chayer - Guitars
Noah Nikolas Laidlaw - Bass
Justin Gogan - Drums
Mark Marin - Keys and Orchestration
Bio:
DRAGONCORPSE is a death metal band that fuses power metal and deathcore, creating a unique sound marked by operatic vocals and guttural screams. They stand out with their symphonic elements, adding depth and creativity to their music. The band, with members across Canada, the U.S., and Australia, maintains a cohesive, powerful sound despite the distance. Known for their humor, they embrace memes and use the term "DRAGUSSY" to playfully reference their love for dragons in power metal culture. DRAGONCORPSE offers a dynamic and distinctive experience for fans of death metal, power metal, or deathcore.
https://www.facebook.com/Shatteredearthrecords
https://www.facebook.com/Dragoncorpse
SANKT VELTEN ist das musikalische Alter Ego von Arnd, Gitarrist und
Ur-Mitglied der Essener Thrasher DARKNESS. SANKT VELTEN veröffentlicht eine
neue Single und gibt ein verändertes Line-Up mit einem neuem Basser (ehemals
Holy Moses) bekannt.Das SANKT VELTEN Debütalbum „The discreet Charm of Evil“, erschienen 2019, hat durchgehend gute Kritiken bekommen. Nach fünf Jahren Zwangspause, bedingt durch die Pandemie und verschiedene Besetzungswechsel, die neue Produktionen und Konzerte oder Touren unmöglich gemacht haben, hat die Band mit Arnd und Ursprungsmitglied Eldar Ibrahimovic (War-Head, Definat) ein neues Mitglied gefunden. Der neue Mann am Bass ist kein geringerer als Tom Becker, der als Bassist der deutschen Thrasher HOLY MOSES das Erfolgsalbum „The New Machine of Liechtenstein“ eingespielt hat, bei ANGEL DUST Bassist war und mit Größen wie Jörg Michael (u.a. RUNNING WILD, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS), Matthias Moser (S.A.D.O.) oder Leszek Szpigiel (MEKONG DELTA; SCANNER) musiziert hat.
Tom und SANKT VELTEN aka Arnd kennen sich bereits aus DARKNESS-Tagen, gemeinsam haben sie das DARKNESS-Album „Defenders of Justice“ eingespielt.
"WHAT IF" ist die erste Single von SANKT VELTEN im neuen Line-up als Trio, die von Eldar und Tom aufgenommen und produziert wurde. SANKT VELTEN bleiben ihrem Stil treu und sind am ehesten dem Speed- und Powermetal zuzuordnen, mit einem Schuss NWOBHM.
Parallel zur Single erscheint das dazugehörige Musikvideo auf YouTube und wird auf der Website von SANKT VELTEN und der des Labels SCARE RECORDS veröffentlicht. Die Single wird in den gängigen sozialen Medien promotet.
https://youtu.be/sYe7cMbjPHU
www.sankt-velten.com
https://de-de.facebook.com/sankt.velten/
Heute erscheint mit „Running on Emptiness“ der erste dunkle Vorbote des neuen BONJOUR TRISTESSE Albums „The World Without Us“.
Hier geht es direkt zum stilvollen Visualizer-Video als Premiere bei Black Metal Promotion: https://youtu.be/xAkboKnBMy0
Das Album wird am 18. Oktober 2024 in verschiedenen Formaten (LP, CD, Tape, Digital) via SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS veröffentlicht und kann ab sofort hier vorbestellt werden:
https://supremechaos.com/artists/bonjour-tristesse/
https://bonjourtristesse.bandcamp.com
BONJOUR TRISTESSE, eine von Nathanael gegründete
Black-Metal-Band aus Deutschland, ist dafür bekannt Melancholie, Introspektion
und Gesellschaftskritik miteinander zu verweben. Der Name der Band spiegelt
eine tief empfundene existenzielle Verzweiflung wider. Ihr atmosphärischer und
depressiver Black Metal schafft eine intensive, emotionale Klangwelt, die den
Hörer durch ihre Tiefe und Komplexität fesselt.Mit ihrem kommenden vierten Album „The World Without Us“ schließen BONJOUR TRISTESSE einen zwei Alben überspannenden Handlungsbogen ab, der mit dem Vorgängeralbum begann. Zentrale Themen sind die Kritik industrialisierter Zivilisationen und der Konflikt zwischen dem modernen Menschen und Natur. Als alleiniger Songwriter bearbeitet Nathanael diese Themen mit einer Mischung aus roher Gewalt, eingestreuten Melodien und manischem Gesang. Das Album kritisiert die zerstörerischen Auswirkungen entfremdeter Weltbeziehung moderner Gesellschaften und zeichnet ein düsteres Bild unserer dystopischen Realität.
„The World Without Us“ kombiniert rohe Aggression mit melodischen Elementen, die oft in Richtung Raserei ausschlagen, während der sowohl verzweifelte als auch wütende Gesang eine beklemmende Stimmung aufrechterhält. Die Verweise auf zivilisationskritische Denker und existentialistische Schriftsteller fügen der kraftvollen Botschaft poetische Komponenten hinzu, welche dem Album mehr Tiefe verleihen.
Tracklist:
Running on Emptiness
Lightbearer
The World Without Us
Against The Grain
The Great Catastrophe
Spielzeit 44:46 min
https://www.facebook.com/BonjourTristesseofficial/
RISE OF KRONOS: veröffentlichen ihr neues Album "IMPERIUM" am 10. Oktober! Das bereits vor dem Sommer angekündigte neue Album der von griechischer Mythologie inspirierten, norddeutschen Deather von Rise of Kronos wird den Titel "Imperium" tragen und am 10. Oktober das Licht der Welt erblicken! Die Band, die sich zwischen 2011 und 2021 bereits unter dem Namen "Surface" eine treue Anhängerschaft erspielen konnte, legt uns mit "Imperium" satte 13 neue Songs in den Player. Freut auch auf über 40 Minuten dunklen, modernen und geradlinigen Death Metal mit Einflüssen von Progressive, Schwedischem Death und gelegentlichen Hardcore Reminisenzen, verpackt in einen knochentrockenen Sound der im Skull Tones Studio in Hamburg von Nino Helfrich (u.a. Hiraes, Dark Age) geschmiedet wurde. Als erste Kostprobe gibt es ab sofort den Song "Separate The Sheep From Goats" als digitale Single auf allen gängigen Online Plattformen, sowie als Video auf YouTube! Checkt es aus!
http://mdd-records.de/
It’s the end of the world, let’s party! The debut album from one-man stoner/metal doom band NEBÜLITH is out now! FEEL GOOD MUSIC FOR THE END OF THE WORLD VOL. 1 delivers a heavy dose of doom-infused, psychedelic stoner metal.
For fans of : Black Sabbath, Monster Magnet, Sleep, Smashing Pumpkins, Ministry and Mötorhead.
Track
list:1) Beautiful
2) Startrippin
3) Mother Freedom
4) Leviathan
5) Clear Light
6) God Is Your Gun
7) Seven Suns
8) Digging A Hole
9) UVB76
Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 was written and recorded solely by project mastermind and multi-instrumentalist John Shaughnessy.
Line-up:
Nebülith: vocals, fretless piccolo bass, piccolo bass,4 string basses, drums, keys, organ, bass guitar synthesizer, vocoder, drum programming, windchimes, megaphone
Pat Shaughnessy: Drums on “Beautiful” and “God Is Your Gun”
Nebülith is the product of John Shaughnessy, a professional bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer from Charlotte, NC.
As as kid, his tastes gravitated towards the heavy, groove-influenced rock of Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, King Crimson, and a heavy dose of funk. Later on, he embraced alternative music and proto-punk like The MC5 as well as next-gen stoner/Doom like Sleep and Monster Magnet.
While paying the bills playing jazz and show band gigs, he started a project called Space Force Alpha, with vocalist Omari Wilkerson. The duo released a single “Change The World” in 2019. The song featured John’s unique fretless piccolo bass playing - a combination of guitar, bass and electric cello, all recorded in John’s home production studio.
More demos were written for Space Force Alpha, with an eye toward making a full record - and then the pandemic hit, and the music business came to a complete halt. Faced with time on his hands and no band, John decided to make a solo record and do all the instruments and vocals himself. He figured that would be a good use of the time off and an audition tape for future production sessions. Having become a huge fan of the Riding Easy Brown Acid series, Shaughnessy figured the most fun thing to do would be to make a pseudo garage band record with the riffs he had lying around. He considered marketing it as a “lost”
band from the 70s, and releasing it on reel-to-reel tape.
As “two weeks” turned into months, and the world started falling apart, the music and the message got progressively darker and angrier. He started pushing his studio gear to increasing extremes. Multiple versions of songs ensued, each heavier than the last.
Eventually, he was left with a huge pile of recordings to sift through. Sorting through this audio hoarder house and finding a direction took the better part of a year. In the course of the recording, the dystopian Nebülith character was developed as a clear departure from his normal gig life.
The great thing is, as Nebülith he was able to do and say things that he would not normally be able to in a professional Gig context. In Nebülith, the project found its voice.
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol. 1 is the result of four years of work, experimentation, sweat, and pain.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Neb%C3%BClith/61551352447160/
THRASHERWOLF – “INSIDE THE SICKENED MIND”
Label: Independent Release / Vicious Witch RecordsRelease date: october 4th 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Metallica | Slayer | Kreator | Hirax
We’re in a blood bowl, wading through obscenities and platitudes, trying to keep our heads above the gore. Puppet masters pull the strings and guide us into conflict – aiming our rage at others, stoking the flames of our indignation and wounded pride, while stealing the last crumbs of hope from our back pocket. But in the midst of the weeping, bleeding mannequins there’s a pack of wolves who have cut their strings. Their teeth are bared and they’re calling you to fight. The moon is rising and they’re howling out a call to arms, a call to revolution. It’s time to break your chains and join the pack, sink your teeth into the faceless gods of avarice and control!
Thrasherwolf’s debut album, We Are Revolution, emerged into a world living in the shadow of the global pandemic, issuing its baleful howl into a society wracked with fear. Ramped up on frustration and adrenaline We Are Revolution was a welcome blast of fury that showed that Thrasherwolf were a band with passion, integrity and huge potential. Now, four years on, with human society still lurching from one crisis to the next, the wolves have returned and smashed through the ceiling of even their most ardent fans’ expectations. Inside The Sickened Mind is an awesome display of real thrash metal, with a broader scope, a more focussed vision and a devastating array of new weaponry. Every aspect of the Thrasherwolf attack has stepped up to the next level – from the superb individual performances to the gritty, organic sound, the battery of magnificent, irresistible riffs to the searing solos that are integral parts of the songs they adorn to the confident, expressive vocals. But what really sets Inside The Sickened Mind apart from the competition is the songs…Thrasherwolf have outdone themselves here. Opening shot ‘Final Act Of Aggression’ bleeds thrash spirit from every pore, while ‘G.B.H. (Gratuitous Bodily Harm) is a collision of Bay Area chugging muscle and demented speed and ‘Scream Til Death’ is an instant classic with its Metallica touched riffing, brilliant bass break and aura of accomplished maturity. Every song demands a headbanging response but they also have a carefully constructed topography – musical landmarks that seal the sonic journey in your mind; melodic progressions, wicked hooks, outstanding choruses, moments of utter class. From the teeth-grinding, brass knuckle pit action of ‘Shameless Loser’ to the dark melodies of thrash ballad ‘Haunted’ every song delivers more than you could ever have hoped for. And it’s left to the album’s closing, title track to demonstrate that there is still a well of huge potential for Thrasherwolf to explore. This multi-faceted epic is musically imaginative and hugely ambitious…but it works and provides a breathtaking end to a shockingly good album of masterful thrash metal.
Inside The Sickened Mind was recorded with Andy Brook at The Brook Studios (Status Quo, Subhumans, Restarts etc) and mastered by Patrick W Engel (Candlemass, Destruction, Sodom etc) and that prestigious team has given Thrasherwolf the perfect sound for this magnificent set of songs. When Inside The Sickened Mind is released on October 4th, with a special cassette edition to follow in November via Vicious Witch Records, the whole thrash scene is going to sit up and take notice. With Thrasherwolf’s crazed mascot, Frank, brought to life on the front cover by Andrei Bouzikov (Municipal Waste, Nervosa, Autopsy etc), Inside The Sickened Mind is simply unmissable, essential thrash!
Line-up:
Daniel Lucas - Guitars/Vocals
Jack Saunders - Guitars
Raimonds Dobelis - Bass
Zaq Razaq - Drums
https://viciouswitch.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thrasherwolftheband/
"Defiled
Embrace" the third Single from the forthcoming second full-length studio
album, "The Nether Earth", by Israeli Doom Metal project DEFILED
EMBRACE ."Defiled Embrace" song, that was actually the inspiration to the band's name, is a sad, depressive text of a person, mentally still a child, who constantly needs the love, care, and warmth of a mother figure, and yet wishes to be independent because his neediness harms him.
This melodic song brings sweeping melodies and harmonies to an already full table of angry growls and depressed whispers.
Biography
Defiled Embrace is a one-man-project formed in Israel in 2021 by local musician Matan Kedar. The project started as a collection of different Doom Metal songs, written by Matan over the course of 11 years. Some songs were originally written for another projects, but eventually they all came together under the name Defiled Embrace.
During 2021, Matan decided to record the songs using session musicians he works with in other bands, and the debut album “Whispers Of The Forest” was recorded during 2021-2022.
On July 2022, Defiled Embrace singed a deal with Metal Scrap Records Inc. Three videos were shot to support forthcoming release: “In Her Sullen Reflection”, “Autumn” and “Whispers Of The Forest”. September 9 became as an official release date of “Whispers Of The Forest” album through Another Side Records, a division of Metal Scrap Records Inc.
To the end of 2023, the new album, “The Nether Earth”, was recorded. During 2024, three Singles (“Mausoleum”, “Pieces” and “Defiled Embrace”) were shouted before second album release, which planned on September 6 same year.
https://www.facebook.com/MetalScrapRecords/
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: october 25th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Morbid Angel | Immolation | Abhorrent Deformity | Vital Remains
In March of 2023 Taking The Head Of Goliath made the decision to bring down the curtain on their career of bludgeoning riffs and blast beat battery, leaving behind them a furious live album of unbridled chaos – Beyond Brutal Live – a destructive self titled EP and the memory of scores of incendiary live shows. However, whilst their journey through the wastelands of death metal may be over, the Minnesota band have left behind a posthumous gift for the fans who have supported them throughout the years, a final explosive assault under the Taking The Head Of Goliath banner…join them for one last descent into the pit, with Futility Of The Flesh!
Futility Of The Flesh is a new four track EP that will stand as a fitting testament to Taking The Head Of Goliath’s unique brand of death metal ferocity, their potent blend of the technical, the twisted, the brutal and the melodic, always delivered with 100% commitment and unrelenting intensity. ‘Futility Of The Flesh’ itself gets things under way with a sinister, slithering riff and bestial vocals of impossible depth and toxicity that scrape the detritus from the dark side of your soul. Touched by madness, the song sends you flying on speeding guitar arpeggios one minute and grinds you into the dirt the next. ‘Septic Enslavement’ follows with its tumbling riffs over frantic drums. It’s overwhelming and overpowering, with its skittering riffs and frenzied rhythms – the epitome of Taking The Head Of Goliath’s eclectic, dynamic style. ‘Neoteric Tribal Barbarism’ is an absolute behemoth of a song, featuring passages of delirious speed with guitar riffs like insect swarms and was recorded live at Rayfest in the summer of ’21, capturing an incredibly powerful vocal performance from Jake Martin. Finally, the very last artillery barrage from Taking The Head Of Goliath comes in the form of bonus track, ‘Cord Of Three Strands’, the band’s independently released 2019 digital single. It’s a searing shot of darkness, laced with grandiose melody and the perfect farewell from a band that will be sorely missed. For those who have loved and lost Taking The Head Of Goliath, Futility Of The Flesh is a last roar from beyond the grave, a parting salvo to be treasured. For the others…you have some incredible music to discover.
Nothing was left to chance with Futility Of The Flesh, ensuring that Taking The Head Of Goliath’s final blow lands with maximum impact. Recorded by Will Maravelas (Thor, Incinerate etc) and mixed and mastered by Charles Powell (Carnifex etc) the sound throughout is devastating – and with cover art created by Pär Olofsson (Children Of Bodom, Exodus etc) Futility Of The Flesh is as powerful visually as it is sonically. Don’t miss this stunning concluding chapter in the story of Taking The Head Of Goliath, coming your way from Rottweiler Records on October 25th.
Line-up:
Jake Martin - Vocals
Luke Renno - Bass/Backing Vocals
Nathan Sherman - Guitar
Steve Reishus – Drums
*Guitars on ‘Neoteric Tribal Barbarism’ by Miles Sunde
*Guitars on 'Cord of Three Strands' by Rob Blake
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/takingtheheadofgoliath
Release date: september 13th, 2024
With a world in ruins, there comes a new sun. This is the evolution which "TAL" is all about. Intense and relentless, "TAL" is an immersive experience through sonic landscapes and contrasting atmospheres. On its third full length, GLARE OF THE SUN combine orchestral layers with heavy guitars and vocals, creating an emotional listening experience with lots of dynamics and details to discover. Guest vocals are provided by J.J. (Harakiri For The Sky, Karg) and Maffi (Collapse7, ex-Pungent Stench).
https://www.facebook.com/glareofthesun
https://lifeforcerecords.com/
Get crushed by this early stream of Cursed Creation, courtesy of Dark Descent Records. Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swc54fmUneY
Tracklist1. Submerged in Cacophony
2. Invoking Evil Spirit
3. Chronocide
4. Cursed Creation
5. Poisonous Entity
6. Infernal Passage
7. Shachat - Seven Halls of Defilement
8. Metaphysical Stench
To be utterly stunned by the ferocity of a record is an all too rare occasion in this day and age. Yet from its very first note, HAR’s debut album Cursed Creation strikes like a bolt from the blue, mauling its listener and showing no mercy. With Cursed Creation, the Berlin-based five-piece of Israeli descent have reached a new peak, injecting a lethal dose of technical mastery and unadulterated hatred into their already established formula. After two promising EPs, and 2019’s devastating Anti-Shechinah demo, Cursed Creation marks the “culmination of the band's constant search and redefinition of its own vision of intense and evil black/death metal”.
“After our previous demo recording, we wanted to take certain elements already existing but to push the intensity to totally new heights of relentlessness,” reflects founding guitarist Daniel Atai. “This attitude really informed the writing process and forced us to push ourselves to where execution is much more unforgiving and demanding. “
The record comes clad in the artwork of visual excertionist Tim Grieco, who is no stranger to the band: “In both, this and the previous release, we were already quite locked on certain visual approach more focused on abstract representations of what we think the music expresses and going further away from the classic death metal themes and the usual figures associated with it. That's why Tim Grieco's ability to create multi-layered textures which are very intense and evil captured us from the very beginning. For this work, we wanted to portray something violent and distorted yet monochromatic and far from the usual imagery."
HAR is:
A.M - Drums
D.A - Guitars
O.S - vokills
www.darkdescentrecords.com
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FFO: Death, Sadist, Atheist
AydrA, the cult Technical/Progressive Death Metal band from Italy, is back with a vengeance. The band is set to release their highly anticipated new album, "Leave to Nowhere," on October 10th, 2024, through Rude Awakening Records. This marks their triumphant return to the scene, twenty years after their last studio album.
"Leave to Nowhere" is a concept album that tells the harrowing tale of a migrant’s desperate journey from Eritrea to Europe, capturing the pain, struggle, and hope experienced by those seeking a better life. The album is deeply personal, drawing from the real-life experiences of AydrA’s band members, making it a powerful narrative that invites listeners to reflect on these pressing global issues.
Tracklist:Three Minutes Walk
Deserter
Black Skin and Red Sand
They Waste a Throne
Lost Between Two Lands
Make Slaves
You Can’t Talk Anyone
Leave to Nowhere
Forever Hide
Psycho Pain Control 2024
To give fans a taste of what’s to come, AydrA has released the second single, "Psycho Pain Control 2024." This track is a reimagined version of the opening song from their 1996 debut EP, infused with the band’s evolved sound and perspective in the 21st century. The single is now available for streaming.
Listen here. https://ditto.fm/psycho-pain-control-2024
The recording and mixing of "Leave to Nowhere" took place at WR Studios, helmed by AydrA’s drummer Marco Bianchella (also a member of Gunfire), while mastering was handled by Castaway Studios’ Paolo Ojetti (Infernal Poetry). The album's artwork, an evocative piece titled "Delirio," was created by artist Luca Morici.
"Leave to Nowhere" will be available in a digipack CD format as well as a limited-edition colored vinyl, with only 200 hand-numbered copies available worldwide. Pre-orders are now open via Rude Awakening Records and directly from the band.
Line-up:
Mauro Pacetti – Vocals
Giuseppe Cardamone – Guitar
Luca Calò – Guitar
Andrea Massetti – Bass
Marco Bianchella – Drums
AydrA’s journey began in the 1980s under the name Hydra as a Power/Thrash Metal band. Over the decades, they have evolved into a pillar of the Italian extreme metal scene, with releases such as "Icon of Sin" (1999) and "Hyperlogical Non-Sense" (2004). After a long hiatus, the band has returned with renewed energy and a mission to deliver thought-provoking music that resonates with their fans.
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Cluj-Napoca,
Romania based Doom Death Metal quintet UMBERSUN present
their debut full-length album, "ENDLESS WINTER NIGHTS",
a self-produced and self-released material mixed by Alexander Backlund and
mastered by Tony Lindgren at the famous Fascination Street
Studios. Consisting of seven compositions spanning over an hour, "Endless
Winter Nights" invites listeners to a profound journey through the
labyrinthine depths of depression and anxiety, metaphorically encapsulated
within the chilling embrace of winter. At the heart of the album lies its
titular track, a profound expression of the emotional terrain traversed
by Umbersun's music. The album also features a notable vocal collaboration
on two songs with Andrada Hofmeister (Symphress, Maesün), adding
depth to its emotive resonance.Back in 2018, Flaviu Rosca (keyboards, ex-Descend into Despair) and Doru Cailean (guitars, ex-Whispering Woods) started a studio project stemming from a shared vision deeply rooted in the essence of doom metal. As their collaboration flourished, the groundwork for a demo album took shape, marking the genesis of what would later evolve into Umbersun.
The ensemble expanded with the addition of István Vladareanu (Genune, ex-Whispering Woods, ex-Illusion of Control) on vocals and bass guitar, Mihai A. Martin on guitars, and Sergiu Petrica on drums, all of them infusing diverse influences and experiences into the collective tapestry of sound. This fusion of individual artistry laid the foundation for Umbersun's distinctive identity, characterized by a seamless amalgamation of melancholic doom, death, black, and symphonic metal elements.
Umbersun is:
István Vladareanu: vocals, bass guitar
Doru Cailean: guitars
Mihai A. Martin: guitars
Flaviu Rosca: keyboards
Sergiu Petrica: drums
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SOMNENT – “THE FEEDING HAND” (SINGLE)
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: september 06th 2024
Genre: Melodic Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Officium Triste | Saturnus | Novembers Doom | Katatonia
From the moment of my birth I was the focus for your anger, your disappointment and your bitterness. You have broken me, time and again, reforming me in some warped imitation of who I should have been. When the sweetness of love should have sustained me, you fed me ashes and grief, sickness and tears. When you should have lifted me up, set me back on my unsteady feet, you knocked me down, grinding my face into the dirt, choking me on shame and failure. You have been gone for many years now, to whatever afterlife awaits those who tear down the dreams of children. But your ghost still follows me, whispering its cruel deceits, isolating and undermining me. You have taken the keys to my prison with you into eternity, leaving me locked away in darkness…
Following in the majestic wake of ‘Severed Ties’, Giovanni Antonio Vigliotti now unveils the next chapter in a tightly bound series of singles from his doom creation, Somnent. With ‘The Feeding Hand’, Giovanni has stepped once more into the shadows, the hidden world of hurt behind locked doors where pain is handed down the generations like a toxic gift, wrapped in secrets. Whilst undeniably, achingly beautiful ‘The Feeding Hand’ sails upon an undercurrent of tension; the rich melodies seem to walk a tremulous line, teetering on the edge of dissonance and the slow grinding riffs carry the wearisome weight of years, the unending small cuts of cruelty that are cumulatively exhausting and destructive. Climbing and subsiding as it progresses, ‘The Feeding Hand’ is one of the most powerful songs ever to emerge from the dark, creative pool of Somnent. Giovanni’s dual vocal performance is remarkable, carrying such weight in its deeply growled exhortations and rising to some wonderful emotive peaks. The guitar solo, co-written and performed by Julian Lefler, which climbs from a morass of despair and sadness, is another beautiful, grief laden moment in this accumulation of deft contrasts, subtle intricacies and challenging, thought provoking atmosphere. Somnent are fast becoming a byword for the most magnificent, captivating and haunting doom metal, of breathtaking quality.
Blessed with a sound palette that brings out every magical element of its sonic tapestry, ‘The Feeding Hand’ is a song that will give up more of itself with each successive listen. When it steps solemnly into the world on September 6th, brave the cowl of darkness that hangs so heavily upon its shoulders and venture beyond to uncover the treasures that hide within.
Studio Line-up:
Giovanni Antonio Vigliotti – All Music and Vocals
*Guitar solo co-written and performed by Julian Lefle
Live Line-up:
Giovanni Antonio Vigliotti - Guitar/Vocals
Julian Lefler – Guitar
Shane Dohmen – Bass
Drums - Alejandro Acuña
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TUSENÅRSEKEN – “OMHULDRA”
Label: Grind To Death RecordsRelease date: september 6th 2024
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Bathory | Enslaved | Imperium Dekadenz | Falls Of Rauros
From the Swedish town of Höör, in that country’s southernmost county of Skåne, comes Tusenårseken, the black metal creation of Andreas Karlsson. Since he first summoned the spirit of Tusenårseken into life in 2020, Andreas Karlsson has released two full length albums and an EP and is now set to unveil his third album, Omhuldra. While solo black metal projects are not particularly uncommon, those that can leave you stunned by their musical accomplishments, the breadth and depth of their imagination and creativity certainly are. Karlsson without doubt possesses a rare talent and in Omhuldra he has shaped an album of breathtaking magic…
When Omhuldra begins with ‘Ode till alla fattiga kräk’, its opening vocal chant, steeped in the sounds of Scandinavian folklore, deftly changes your surroundings and perceptions. The world around you fades as the music transports you to the high mountain passes, beneath the shadowed canopy of vast forests, through cold and lightless tunnels far beneath the earth and beside glittering, cold lakes – vast mirrors reflecting the open sky. Each song tells a different tale and paints a different dream. The feral riffs of ‘Våren förgiftad’ eat at the nerve endings as haunted melodies rise slowly to the surface of its icy waters, shrouded in impenetrable mystery. ‘Riket bortom livet’ begins with warlike intensity, the formidable, tumultuous drums recalling the immortal aura of Bathory’s peerless Blood, Fire, Death before slipping sideways through an array of rhythmic and atmospheric changes, each welcome and wonderful. There is so much to experience as you are carried through Tusenårseken’s kingdom of folk, tradition, myth and magic…it’s bewildering and bewitching. From the jagged, embittered blackness of ‘Himmelens hand’ to the campfire meditations of ‘En vila i eländet’ and on to the earthshaking march of giants through a realm of legends that is ‘Grönskan vi minns’. While at the album’s heart lies the immensity of ‘Ett hjärta som lättats från kroppen’, where a thousand different elements of sound seem to be woven into a tapestry of the song. If such a startlingly beautiful album can be said to have a finest moment, then Omhuldra’s must surely lie within the sorcerous weft and weave of ‘Ett hjärta som lättats från kroppen’.
Omhuldra will be released by Grind To Death Records on September 6th, swathed in the richly detailed artwork of Daniel Karlsson (Furnace, Throneless etc) and for those who discover its glorious fury, its storm winds over jagged, snow-crested peaks, its ethereal melodies, its torrents of daunting power…it will be a gift to be treasured for a lifetime. Light the hilltop fires and watch for its coming.
Line-up:
Andreas Karlsson – All music and vocals
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"Envy The Dead" is a concept album that conjures a dark, gritty atmosphere inspired by historical horrors like Jack The Ripper and necromancy. Moving away from symphonic elements, it embraces a progressive Death/Thrash vibe with influences from Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death. Mike Wead (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) is behind the engineering, mixing, and mastering.
The album's digital release date is 6th September 2024.
Tracklist1. Envy The Dead (intro)
2. Malediction And Laughter
3. Organs, For A Fair Price
4. Prosperity By Cocaïne
5. Maze Of Madness
6. River Dumplings
7. Coughing In The Coffin House
8. Fade Into The Abyss
9. A Deadly Embrace, A Sinister Grace
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
MISANTHROPIA toured and played the last years intensively, domestically and abroad, under the banner of Eternal Rock Music Agency, and still plans to continue doing so.
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
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Death/doom metal veterans Officium Triste are in top from over here. They've only honed their sound some more on their new one and found beautiful balance between the melody and heaviness. No Clean Singing premiered one of the longer songs from their album which can be found at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/07/31/an-ncs-premiere-officium-triste-annas-woe/
Excerpt - "Officium Triste teach us once again how to find beauty in sorrow, and grandeur in torment. They do this by creating contrasts between immensity and delicacy, between monstrous heaviness and sensations as fragile and evanescent as petals falling from flowers in their death."
OFFICIUM TRISTE – „HORTUS VENENUM“
For
fans of
- Saturnus, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Draconian, Swallow
The Sun, November’s DoomWidely regarded as legends in the style, Dutch death/doom metal band Officium Triste have mastered the art of playing emotive yet elegant music and have honed their sound even more on their seventh full length album. 'Hortus Venenum' is a special album as it celebrates the band's 30th year anniversary and it's remarkable that even after so many years they have continued to evolve and improve upon their already established sound. The songwriting is surprisingly effective with its disarming simplicity and clean, exquisite tunes soaked in heartfelt emotion, delivered with the kind of sincerity which only comes from years of experience, both as musicians and worldly men. The relatively shorter songs have a sense of immediacy that the previous albums didn't have but their emotional depth is just as strong if not better than before. There are tasteful embellishments all over the album without affecting the sense of continuity and cohesiveness; there's diversity without disrupting the overall mood and the music's innate evocative power. With intuitively arranged songs, it's hardly perceptible that 'Hortus Venenum' is the band's shortest full length album and yet it's among their most potent ones - the beauty and appeal of the music on this one is nigh unparalleled. Suffice to say, it's another masterpiece from this band that only seems to get better with age.
Line up
Martin Kwakernaak - Synths
Niels Jordaan - Drums
William van Dijk - Rhythm guitars
Pim Blankenstein - Vocals
Gerard de Jong - Lead guitars
Theo Plaisier - Bass
Artwork by Paolo Girardi
Track listing
1. Behind Closed Doors 05:22
2. My Poison Garden 04:33
3. Anna's Woe 07:19
4. Walk In Shadows 08:10
5. Forcefield 05:18
6. Angels With Broken Wings 10:20
Release date - September 6th, 2024
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A relentless sonic assault, "Toe Tagged and Body Bagged" plunges headfirst into the abyss of death. The track explores the bleak finality of life with uncompromising aggression, leaving no room for comfort in the face of the inevitable.
The video, created by Obscenity Films, captures the band's raw energy and visceral sound as they bring this brutal track to life.
Formed in 2010, Trip To The Morgue has been on a mission to deliver a pulverizing concoction of grindcore mayhem, infused with old-school thrash, crossover, and the raw punk energy that birthed these extreme genres. Over the years, the band has honed its sound into a tight, brutal machine, featuring the current lineup of Dave Oshann (bass/vocals), J Patrick McCosar (lead guitar/vocals), Joey Maddox (guitar/vocals), and Vincent Rizzo (drums/vocals).
Toe Tagged And Body Bagged is a sonic time capsule, that transports listeners back to the golden age of thrash, crossover, grindcore, and hardcore. Brace yourself for a pummeling onslaught of heavy riffs, breakneck tempos, and unadulterated aggression, all inspired by the bands that laid the foundation for extreme music.
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Mark your calendars for September 13th, crank your volume to eleven, and prepare for a musical trip to the morgue you won't forget!
Berlin (GER) - Avant-Garde Death Metal duo, INGURGITATING OBLIVION, in collaboration with No Clean Singing, has premiered Part II of 18-minute track, "THE BARREN EARTH OOZES BLOOD, AND SHAKES AND MOANS, TO DRINK HER CHILDREN'S GORE." The song is taken from forthcoming album, ONTOLOGY OF NOUGHT. Click the link below to stream it!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/08/21/an-ncs-premiere-ingurgitating-oblivion-the-barren-earth-oozes-blood-and-shakes-and-moans-to-drink-her-childrens-gore-part-2/
Part II will be available August 23 on all platforms. The third and final part will be premiered by No Clean Singing on September 11.
Ingurgitating Oblivion will release long-awaited new album, Ontology of Nought, September 27 on CD, gatefold 2x12" vinyl, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Pre-order:
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Unsurprisingly, considering the band's acclaimed body of work to date, this is no run-of-the-mill Tech-Death album. The talented duo of guitarist and engineer Norbert Müller and vocalist, guitarist, and composer Florian Engelke have outdone themselves again on Ontology of Nought! Epic-length tracks ranging from 10 to 18 minutes fuse into a cohesive whole that awes with the band's characteristic technical flare and progressive, compositional brilliance. The impressive cast of session and guest musicians adds even more vibrancy. Hearing is believing.
Though it has been seven years since the last Willowtip release, Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light, the forthcoming opus unequivocally demonstrates that the wait has been well worth it!
"You have fully delineated the subject of a universe of finiteness and change as well as the knowledge derived therefrom // Why should you be despondent in spite of all this, thinking that you are undone?"
- Ingurgitating Oblivion
The band released the following statement about the new album:
“Ontology of Nought is the result of approximately five years of incessant work. It documents whatever has been instilled into Ingurgitating Oblivion and the two minds pulling the strings behind the scenes: Norbert Müller and Florian Engelke. Trying to pinpoint some trite conceptual undercurrent would be to defile the beauty of creation. It feels alienating to us talking about our music and lyrics, as these stem from dichotomic dynamics of meticulous planning on the one hand and perfect intuition on the other. In like manner, the lyrics cannot be explained further here, but listeners are invited to do some work themselves and take a plunge into what could potentially encapsulate the world or denote nothing at all. Musically, we just do our own thing, celebrating our Death Metal heroes, more progressive Rock, jazz, folk, classical music. We do not strive to stand for any particular brand, but we simply enjoy being torn down the torrent of haphazard ideas, premonitions, and visions.
And that’s that."
Track
Listing:1. Uncreation's whirring loom you ply with crippled fingers
2. To weave the tapestry of nought
3. The blossoms of your tomorrow shall unfold in my heart
4. Lest I should perish with travel, effete and weary, as my knees refuse to bear me thither
5. The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore
Credits:
Sound engineering, mastering and production by Norbert Müller.
Album cover by Dmitriy Egorov.
Guest appearances / Session musicians:
Lille Gruber (Defeated Sanity) - Drums
Ava Bonam - Vocals
Chris Zoukas (Mentally Defiled, Sacral Rage, Violent Definition) - Bass
Céline Voccia - Piano
Daniel Agi - Recorder, Flutes
Jan Ferdinand - Vibraphone, Guitars
Tom Fountainhead Geldschläger - Guitar Solos
Line-up:
Norbert Müller - rhythm and lead guitars, sound engineering, mastering, all recording logistics
Florian Engelke - lead composition, rhythm and lead guitars, vocals, Tibetan singing bowls
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"We wanted to capture the energy of Amongst the Low & Empty from the stage and bring it to your headphones," explains drummer Bobby Crow. "The song has really taken on a life of its own on the road—serving as our new de facto opener and jolting the crowd with its immediate energy—all thanks to the fans. Special thanks to Whitechapel and the amazing crowd in Knoxville, TN for being part of this. And, yes, we'll be opening with it on both the 'Decade of the Swarm' North American Tour and 'Faces of Death' European Tour."
Stream Amongst the Low & Empty (Live in Knoxville 2023) now!
Stream the live single here: https://SignsOfTheSwarm.lnk.to/AmongstTheLowAndEmpty-LiveInKnoxville-2023Ne
Watch the live video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNC2qW5Cuhc
Chicago (IL) - Progressive Tech-Death stalwarts, GIGAN, are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of ANOMALOUS ABSTRACTIGATE INFINITESSIMUS, their first album in seven years! The album will be released October 25 on CD, Ltd edition CD long box, vinyl, cassette, Ltd edition four-album cassette boxset, and digital formats via Willowtip Records.
Metal Injection has premiered the first single and opening track, "ERRATIC PULSITIVITY AND HORROR." Click the link below to stream!
https://metalinjection.net/new-music/gigan-streams-erratic-pulsitivity-and-horror-announces-new-record
The single will be released to all platforms on Friday, August 23. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Speaking to the new album, GIGAN’s founding member, guitarist, sole-songwriter and lyricist; Eric Hersemann, had this to say: “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a perfect expression of where GIGAN is as a band and where we are headed into the future. Like all GIGAN songs, our emphasis is on creativity and limitless imagination, while still working within the realms of interwoven madness and colorful technicality combined with the oppressive elements of misanthropic dissonance and crushing brutality. Any fan of GIGAN, or any fan of genuine Metal music that is completely fearless and without pretentious delivery, is in for a mind-bending treat.”
Track
Listing:1. Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis
2. Ultra-Violet Shimmer and Permeating Infra-sound
3. Square Wave Subversion
4. Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes
5. Katabatic Windswept Landscapes
6. Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror
7. The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids
8. Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs of Time
Credits:
All music, lyrics, vocal patterns and concepts: Eric Hersemann.
Recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, IL.
Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room.
All album art and layout: Max Winter (Teratogen)
Line-up:
Eric Hersemann - All electric, acoustic and bass guitars, theremin, otomatone, synths, lyrics, concepts and madness.
Nathan Cotton - Drums, percussion and Sunny weather.
Jerry Kavouriaris - Vocals and violence.
Bio:
Since 2005, GIGAN has been an unsung vanguard of abstract and creatively dissonant extreme metal. Pushing boundaries and never compromising the artistic vision throughout the debut EP and subsequent four full-length albums has led GIGAN to be considered an unwavering force of both innovation and extremity.
It has been almost seven years since GIGAN has released new music and the time spent away has only honed and sharpened the still-deadly blades of creativity for which GIGAN has always been known; while also infusing fresh elements not yet heard within the GIGAN Universe. The results of GIGAN’s current hard work is the new beast of an album entitled Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus.
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Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: august 30th 2024
Genre: Hardcore
For fans of: Freya | Pro-Pain | Lionheart | (Un)Worthy
Based in Riverside, Southern California, Doulos have been perennial outsiders, fighting for their place in the modern metal scene – equally unwilling to compromise their principles as they are to water down their stripped back, bloody knuckled hardcore song craft. Doulos are one of a rare breed of bands who live by their beliefs – be that playing charity shows to support the underprivileged, or donating merch proceeds to help in the fight against the despicable practice of sex trafficking – this band practice what they preach. Every word, every action is accompanied by no frills, super heavy hardcore, built on muscular riffs, impassioned vocals and a head-caving rhythm section – and that unencumbered power is perfectly presented by the high impact, knockout blow of new single ‘Bellum’.
Following up the initial charge of 2021s The Middle Man EP and the acclaimed barrage of last year’s full length debut album, Birth Pains – described by The Metal Onslaught as “taking their sound to its utter limits with absolute expertise” – ‘Bellum’ has a lot to live up to. Luckily this taste of the future from Doulos exceeds expectations with ease. There’s no prevaricating or procrastinating here…a militaristic drum pattern leads straight into riffs that shift and collide like tectonic plates reforming a planet. The smell of the pit hangs heavy in the air as ‘Bellum’ marches to a conclusion that comes too soon, that leaves you desperate for the next patented Doulos blow to land…but then that’s what the repeat button is for! And good things come to those who wait…
Out on August 30th via Rottweiler Records, ‘Bellum’ is another triumph for Doulos, another immaculate demonstration of their focus and intent. Easing off the accelerator and doubling down on the lead weight heaviness, every chord is delivered with determined intent and unquestionable sincerity. This is real. This is hardcore. This is Doulos.
Line-up:
Eddie – vocals
Melanie – Bass
Jeff – Drums
Noah – Guitar
Eza - Guitar
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Features Destroyer (Redemptor, ex-Hate, ex-Kriegsmaschine), Adam Sierżęga (Armagedon, Azarath (live)) & Haldor Grunberg (Thaw, Mentor, Satanic Audio)
Six years following the release of their acclaimed self-titled EP via Osmose, the Polish black-death band Untervoid are back with their long-awaited debut album. Entitled “Parasite” it will be released on 20 September 2024 via Pagan Records on CD, vinyl and digital formats.
As a first taste of the upcoming album, the crushing single “Ruiner” is
streaming now via all digital platforms. Stream now: https://untervoid-ruiner.hearnow.com/ruiner
YouTube: https://youtu.be/3TS7r7Oagj4
“Parasite” is a concept album that explores the multifaceted role of humanity as a parasitic force on both society and the planet. From the suffocating pressures of social constructs to the looming threat of ecological collapse, “Parasite” delves into the anxieties of our time. Rooted in the shadows of the Cold War, the album confronts the spectre of inevitable destruction, painting a bleak yet compelling portrait of a world on the brink, echoing Nevil Shute's “On the Beach”.
Pre-order “Parasite”: https://www.pagan-records.com/
Formed in 2015 by Destroyer (Redemptor, ex-Hate, ex-Kriegsmaschine) and Adam Sierżęga (Armagedon, Azarath (live)), the band appeared, with a full concert line-up, at the prestigious, completely sold-out Merry Christless concert series following the release of their debut EP. Untervoid have steadily built a reputation for their intense and uncompromising sound, finally crafting a sonic behemoth - “Parasite”. In 2024 Haldor Grunberg (Thaw, Mentor) joined the band as a third member.
The “Parasite” session began with drums recorded at Monochrome Studio, with Haldor Grunberg as the sound engineer, in December 2019. The rest was created, over the following years, at Rockstarguitar Studio and recorded by Destroyer. The saxophone parts and some vocals were recorded at JPM Studio, with Michał Pijocha as the sound engineer. The mixing was handled by Haldor Grunberg/Satanic Audio. The album was finally mastered at Audiosiege Studio. The album cover and graphic design were created by Sars.
Catch Untervoid perform at Summer Dying Loud on 5th September in Poland.
Tracklist:
1. Parasite
2. 23
3. Downfall of Angels
4. Abyss Gazes Black
5. Ruiner
6. Swarm
7. Azure Agony
8. Last Shore
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Örebro (SE) - Progressive Death Metal band CARNOSUS will release new album, WORMTALES, October 18 on CD digipak, gatefold vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The release is the band's third overall and first for Willowtip.
The official video for the album's first single, "Within Throat, Within Heart," is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHe9TaDkm0
Whispered among worms were the rumors of a new album by death metal outfit CARNOSUS. Heavier and darker, slithering its way from Sweden, comes Wormtales, a prequel to the critically acclaimed 2023 album, Visions of Infinihility. Wormtales contains some of the band's most impressive riffs thus far and once again lures the listener into the realm of infinihility.
Indeed,Visions of Infinihility, the quintet's independently released second album, garnered loads of positive press (see below), further amplifying the anticipation for CARNOSUS' Willowtip debut, Wormtales!
CARNOSUS was established in 2011. The band members all come from different subgenres within Metal, resulting in a mixture of technical melodic death metal, thrash, progressive metal and a pinch of black metal influences scattered throughout.
Album pre-orders will be available on Friday, August 16.
Track
Listing:1. Birthless
2. Within Throat, Within Heart
3. Neglectikon
4. Yearnings of A Rotten Spine
5. Worm Charmer
6. Harbinger of Woundism
7. Paradoxical Impulse
8. Wound of Wisdom
9. Cosmoclaustrum
10. Solace In Soil
Credits:
Recorded and produced by Carnosus (except drums; recorded and produced by Robert Kukla & Dennis Rosic).
Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios.
Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.
Line-up:
Jonatan Karasiak - Vocals / Lyrics
Rickard Persson - Guitars
Marcus Jokela Nyström - Guitars
Marcus Strindlund - Bass
Jacob Hedner - Drums
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Swedish death metal legends Paganizer are best known for their fast, catchy and jackhammering music that you can listen to for days on end and have some of their riffs stuck in your head for seemingly forever, but what few people realize is their knack for writing some terrific heart-ripping melodies. It's more apparent in their last couple of albums and on their new one, they have honed that aspect of their sound even more. It's a real treat when contrasted with their fast-paced buzzsaw music. Check their new music out at https://paganizer.bandcamp.com/album/flesh-requiem
PAGANIZER – “FLESH REQUIEM”
For
fans of
- Entombed, Dismember, Edge of Sanity, Desultory, Abscession, Typhonian, VanhelgdSwedish death metal veterans Paganizer only seem to get better with age. Where most bands mellow down or start repeating themselves in a mechanical way, Paganizer's music has increasingly become more nuanced. They are able to express themselves far more effectively, both when swinging the axe and also when conjuring up the soul-tearing melodies out of thin air. They're stepping out of their own shadow and imbuing their music with emotive tunes which work exceedingly well because of the contrast with the heavier parts. It's naturally done too, part of taking the sound ahead rather than forcibly altering it. The result is a sound that is superbly tempered; a glorious, progressive alternating between the bone-splintering music and tuneful expressions of the innermost feelings. 'Flesh Requiem' has some of the best songs written by the band, a varied mix of the kind of music you've come to expect from the band and some refreshing epic ones, and with so many of them getting seared in your memory after listening to it, it's easy to regard the album as among the finest in their extensive discography.
Line up
Rogga Johansson - Guitars, Vocals
Dennis Blomberg - Lead Guitars
Martin Klasén - Bass
Matthias Fiebig - Drums
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski (Devenial Verdict)
Track listing
1. Life of Decay
2. Meat Factory
3. Flesh Requiem
4. Hunger For Meat
5. Viking Supremacy
6. World Scythe
7. Fare Thee Well (Burn In Hell)
8. Necromonolithic
9. The Pyroclastic Excursions
10. Just Another Doomsday
11. Suffer Again
12. Skeletons
Release date - November 1st, 2024
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https://www.facebook.com/paganizersweden
Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Legendary German thrashers DARKNESS promote their new album “BLOOD ON CANVAS” with “WAKE UP IN RAGE” video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKq5ZdD3vw8
Album Info:
“Blood on Canvas” is the angriest album to date by the Essen thrashers DARKNESS. The songs are more aggressive and harder than anything that can be found in the DARKNESS discography so far. Although it is not a concept album, “Blood on Canvas” is not just a collection of nine songs that were created in one era, but a multifaceted sound painting, painted with the colors of anger.
Musically, DARKNESS deliver the uncompromising and fast thrash metal that they have been known for since their debut album “Death Squad” (1987). However, the compositions on this album are more complex and detailed than before, without losing any of their aggression, hardness and authenticity.
The lyrics are no longer just a description of the madness that determines the course of this world, but get straight to the point without beating around the bush and without compromise.
The nine songs were produced in the Rambado Recording Studios in collaboration with Cornelius "Corny" Rambadt, who has also worked with SODOM, DISBELIEF and BONDED, among others. The predecessors "First Class Violence" and "Over And Out" were already produced in collaboration with Corny. For "Blood on Canvas", DARKNESS and producer Corny made it their mission to create an aggressive and powerful, but also honest sound.
The cover artwork is once again by Timon Kokott, with whom DARKNESS is working for the third time.
Although recordings for the album had already begun in mid-October 2023, DARKNESS and guitarist Meik separated during production, so that "Blood on Canvas" was only recorded by four people.
The story so far
The thrash metal commando DARKNESS comes from Essen - Altenessen, next to the Bay Area the most creative nucleus of the thrash wave in the 1980s.
Founded in 1984, the band made a name for themselves with the demos “Evil Curse”, “Titanic War” and “Spawn of the Dark One”.
DARKNESS released three albums between 1987 and 1989.
The first album “Death Squad” is considered a thrash classic and established the cult status of DARKNESS, which still exists today and influences thrash musicians all over the world.
In 1991 things became quieter for the band, and in 1998 singer Olli tragically died.
Lacky and Arnd, two early members, revived Thrash Guerrilla in 2004.
In 2005 the three albums “Death Squad”, “Defenders of Justice” and “Conclusion & Revival” were released again. In addition, “Bocholt Live Squad”, an official concert recording from May 14, 1987, is coming onto the market in CD format.
The long-out-of-print triple vinyl box “The Demos” from 2008 contains a live recording from the “Keep it True” Festival 2006, all demo recordings and extensive bonus material.
At the end of 2010, the musicians, who were otherwise under the banner “Eure Erben”, released an album under the name DARKNESS for the first time.
Since demand continues, the albums “Death Squad” and “Defenders of Justice” will be released on vinyl again to mark their 25th anniversary.
As with many veterans of metal, DARKNESS also has a line-up merry-go-round.
Lacky and Arnd, the band's constants, are looking for a stable line-up for a comeback.
The guitarist Meik started his job for Darkness in 2013.
Lee was given the microphone by Arnd at the end of 2014, who from then on concentrated exclusively on the guitar and backgrounds.
In 2015, Dirk took over the bass role from Christian “Spessy” Gießler, who no longer has time to be involved in DARKNESS due to his main job at Kreator.
After “Keep it True” Festival, but especially since 2014, DARKNESS have played at well-known festivals such as the “Turock Open Air”, “Obscene Extreme”, Headbangers Open Air” and the “Ruhrpott Metal Meeting”.
The old school club is also being wielded at numerous club shows around the world and proven what the band stands for: old school thrash - brutal, fast, uncompromising and mean.
With the album “The Gasoline Solution”, a real, much-praised successor to the two classics “Death Squad” and “Defenders of Justice” was released in October 2016.
Exactly 2 years after the comeback album, Darkness presented the
The album “First Class Violence” makes it impressively clear that even more than 30 years later, angry thrash still comes from Altenessen.
At the beginning of 2019, Ben took over the bass from Dirk.
The EP “Over and Out” follows in 2020.
In 2024, Dominik took over the guitar from Maik and with the highly acclaimed release of the album “Blood on Canvas” in 2024, Darkness manifested its status as a German thrash institution.
http://www.darkness-thrash.de/
"Seat Of The Fire" serves as the epic conclusion to the album's narrative. The song chronicles the vengeful fury of Prometheus, the mythical titan condemned for gifting humanity with fire. Having endured eternal punishment for his act of defiance, Prometheus unleashes a cataclysmic inferno upon the world, inciting a fiery war fought in his name.
The visually stunning lyric video, created by Drain Hope, perfectly captures the song's intensity. Blending fire and fury with mythological imagery, the video brings the album's story to a blazing climax.
Forming in 2017, Vulgaris has been blazing a trail through the London underground metal scene with their fierce fusion of black, sludge, thrash, and other extreme metal styles. With one EP and a debut album, 2021's Asundre, under their belt, they are poised to unleash sophomore record Seat Of The Fire unto the world, with a release date of 24 May 2024.
Since finalizing their current 4-person line-up in 2019, the band has been
refining their sound while sharing stages with the likes of Conjurer, Beyond
Grace, and London circuit heavyweights such as Allfather, Tableau Mort, and
Imperium.
Their 2023, during which they recorded their upcoming second album, culminated in an appearance in the Metal 2 The Masses London Grand Final. After this achievement, Vulgaris is primed to ascend to the next level in 2024.
The band draws upon an array of musical influences, including but by no means restricted to the likes of Enslaved, Gojira, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Sylosis, Conjurer, and Dragged Into Sunlight.
Vulgaris is:
George Mitchell - drums
Jess O'Toole - guitars
Jon Michael - guitars, vocals
Matt Cooper - bass, vocals
www.youtube.com/@vulgaris978
Label: Invima Records
Release date: july 12th 2024
Genre: Black Ritual Chamber Music
For fans of: Jo Quail | Musk Ox | Elend | Arcana
You have spoken to me in whispers through the watches of the night and your sibilant suggestions have accompanied me through the hours of daylight’s toil and turgid interactions with those who imagine themselves to be of my kind. You have brought me visions of greater, darker, colder worlds and shown me the path to an existence weighty with meaning and portent. You have confirmed my beliefs in the insignificant vacuity of mankind’s stumbling, infantile civilisation and revealed the majesty of the void. I have given of myself; my blood, my spirit, my words and my devotion and now I am ready. I will step from the vaunted circle of life onto a path without ending, into a darkness ineffable, to follow as you lead, from here unto the end of forever.
“This collection of recorded workings is a series of invocations to eight Lower Order Spirits, as steps leading to the sacrificial altar of Moloch, the King of Fire. This is done in accordance with the practice of Sinister Magick known as Vedantic Nihilism, as outlined in the grimoire Codex Aversum by Caine Del Sol. The forces presented by these workings are those of collapse, madness, death, and decay. They have served and will continue to serve those ends to devastating effect, in real life, in real time. You have been warned.” - Kakophonix
It is 13 years since cellist, composer and explorer of secrets Kakophonix began his work of musical revelation under the banner of Hvile I Kaos…and now that journey is complete, the final votive offering rendered unto the lords of misrule. Lower Order Manifestations is a work that transcends the commonly understood barriers of genre, transposing the riffs and rhythms, atmosphere and intent of black metal into a new sonic sphere. With cello and acoustic guitar, bass, frame drums and vocal punctuations, Kakophonix has created a progressive path of rituals that lead from an awakening of passion and spirited revolution to an attainment of knowledge, a state of perfection. Through the celebratory ‘Psalmody For The Child Offering’, rife with tension, with its unnerving undercurrents that run jagged nails across the skin of human convictions and assumed proprieties, onward through the ungraspable, unknowable ‘Shadowscast’ – a darkness of substance that slips through your fingers like serpents of sand, as it blends the beautiful liquid of dreams with the fevered sweat of nightmares. From the torment and terror of ‘Panic Sun’ that undermines all you believed to be true, bringing about the collapse of certainties and understanding, to the fierce intensity of seething, dissonant aggression that is ‘Smite’…the road is long and hard, but it all leads to the breathtaking grace of ‘Verity Thy Path’, the brightness of guitars laced with the sombre reflection of the cello, an elevated state only to be found at the conclusion of the trials preceding. The final notes of Hvile I Kaos’ passage through this world could not be more perfect.
Over the years Kakophonix has contributed to the work of Abigail Williams and Imperialist, released split collections with Angmar and Northsong, performed with Whoredom Rife and Ashbringer, but nothing upon his musical odyssey can compare to the visionary unfolding that is Lower Order Manifestations. Available now on InViMa Records, do not allow this exposition of beauty and wisdom to slip past you in the silence that lies beneath the noise and fool’s gold of the mundane world.
Line-up:
Kakophonix - Composition, cello, guitar, bass, frame drum, vocals.
*additional vocal exhortations from Elizabeth Gore, Ø, S, Joseph Spiller, Layla Legard, Sarah Jayde, Dan Niederkorn, Ben Yehdigo, Thanatos, Nicole Day, Seth Scantlen, Cassidy Scantlen, Zola Scantlen, Iggy Scantlen, Aaron Sidell, Mauro Bernazzali.
*death whistle on ‘Panic Sun’ by Nero Atrum.
https://www.invimarecords.com/
"Leeches" is a horror movie in a song. The allegory depicts those who would force religion onto others as blood sucking leeches. In true misanthropic black metal style, the song delights in the suffering of those who are a speaker of hate. The devout religious follower sees an incoming end of days with no savior in sight. The final verse flips the common religious theme of a coming apocalypse heralded by the great harlot and the beast as a sign not of the second coming of a savior, but the ends of religious facism
and tyranny.
This is the first song recorded by the band as a whole, as compared to debut EP, Purity, which was largely a solo effort by vocalist/guitarist Venomous and session bass player Hephaestus. Moving towards the completion of the writing of Lenax's forthcoming full-length album, all members of the band had an impact on "Leeches." Due to scheduling conflicts, Mordred covered bass guitar duty on the single, and the band brought in a session drummer while Profana was recovering from an injury.
Song
Credits:
Bass by Mordred
Drums by Maikon Queiroz (session player, Brazil)
Lyrics by: Venomous
Music by: Venomous, Mordred, Runatyr
Art Credit: David DeFigueredo
Band Logo: Illia Karpenko
Mix Engineer: Ilarion Ivanenko
Bio:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. Born from a personal challenge to release original music before turning 50, the project quickly evolved from a solo act into a full fledged band known by a diverse and growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive
old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from classic acts like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, thrash metal's Big Four, as well as black metal titans Immortal, Enslaved, Watain, and Dark Funeral, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences, while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether, dubbed by Venomous as cosmic horror fueled nightmares -
an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realizationthrough occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and historical magical texts.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a
busy year ahead, with two new songs and accompanying music videos already in the works for 2024, preceding a full-length album slated for a
2025 release.
LENAX is:
Venomous - Vocals, Guitar
The Silence - Bass
Profana - Drums
Mordred - Guitar, Vocals
https://linktr.ee/LenaxMetal
https://www.facebook.com/LenaxMetal
"It has the indecipherable edges and structure of a most devilishly and ingenuously designed labyrinth all the while maintaining a warm, organic sound"
EVILYN – “MONDESTRUNKEN”
For
fans of
- Gorguts, Maere, Morbid Angel, Dischordia, Coma
Cluster Void, Saevus Finis, Wicked Innocence
Evilyn have created an atypical death metal album which is at once monolithic, alien and formidable. Anthony Lipari of Thoren fame has put together quite a lineup for the band's debut full length, roping in members of Malignancy, Exist, Norse and even taking the assistance of Coma Cluster Void's Jeanne Comateuse who has been instrumental in arranging, mixing and crafting the mesmerizing album artwork for the release. The music they've concocted is unbearably heavy, with riffs like obelisks of impermeable concrete slabs tearing through the earth's crust, rising up with a pattern that can only be deciphered after multiple listens. The pacing too seems erratic, sometimes staggered, the feeling akin to stumbling through a labyrinthine minefield that impales upon contact. It is simultaneously dissonant, twisted, technical and crushing, and as confounding as things invariably get, they leave the listener coming back for more in an attempt to demystify this phenomenon. Ostensibly familiar-sounding but pulverizing and otherworldly in nature, Evilyn's debut full length is not to be missed.
Line up
Anthony Lipari (Thoren) - Guitar and Vocals
Alex Weber (Malignancy, Exist, Obscura - live) - Bass
Robin Stone (Norse) - Drums
Mixed and mastered by Jeanne Comateuse
Artwork by Jeanne Comateuse (Coma Cluster Void)
Track listing:
1. Dread
2. Omission
3. Limits
4. Bloviate
5. Penance
6. Vacuous
7. Interwoven
8. Forgotten
9. Slithering
10. Eat the Elite
Release date - August 16th, 2024
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https://www.facebook.com/evilyndeath
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Prepare
to be exorcised! Norwegian black metal upstarts ODIO DEUS are
here to tear down the walls of hypocrisy with their blistering new lyric
video for "THE CON MAN," the latest single from their
critically acclaimed album "SPIRITUAL SYPHILIS," out
now via Wormholedeath Worldwide.
"The Con Man" is a sonic inferno that dissects the life and dark deeds of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. The track exposes Smith's alleged manipulation and controversial practices, culminating in his violent demise.About "Spiritual Syphilis"
"Spiritual Syphilis" is a meticulously crafted assault on the dogma and corruption that festers within organized religion. The album is a brutal fusion of traditional Norwegian and Swedish black metal, infused with the raw power of American death metal.
The music on "Spiritual Syphilis" is a testament to the united will of ODIO DEUS. All three members poured their creative fire into the album, forging a cohesive and punishing sonic experience.
www.youtube.com/@OdioDeusband
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FFO: Skeletonwitch, Absu, Vektor, Witchery, Nocturnal
In the four years since the release 2020's Life is Bad, Torrefy have worked feverishly to create an album that would be nothing short of its masterwork. That masterwork is now realized in the form of Necronomisongs! Ripping Thrash and abrasive Black Metal are prime elements, yet the band's self-described unorthodox approach to composition has paid big dividends! The album slashes, burns, and genre-bends with unhinged ferocity, all without sacrificing an ounce of memorability.
The band previously released the official video for first single "Of Wind and Worm," followed by second single, "Enslaved New World."
Track
Listing:
1. Of Wind and Worm
2. Street Reaper
3. Corpseback Rider
4. Arachnomancer
5. Enslaved New World
6. Nature Vs Torture
7. Apex Shredatorr
8. Total Perspective Vortex
Necronomisongs Credits:
Recorded by Torrefy and Cody Baresich at Circle A Studios.
Mixed by Cody Baresich.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Album cover by Blackstory.
Line-up:
Adam Henry - Lead Guitar
Ben Gerencser - Rhythm Guitar
Simon Smith - Bass
John Ferguson - Vocals
Daniel Laughy - Drums
About Torrefy:
Torrefy is a black thrash quintet based in Victoria, BC, Canada. They are determined to spread their unique brand of unorthodox black thrash metal to a wider audience. Torrefy weaves elements of black, death, and thrash metal to create songs and albums with a distinct and powerful energy.
https://www.facebook.com/Torrefy
“Blood on Canvas” is the angriest album to date by the Essen thrashers DARKNESS. The songs are more aggressive and harder than anything that can be found in the DARKNESS discography so far. Although it is not a concept album, “Blood on Canvas” is not just a collection of nine songs that were created in one era, but a multifaceted sound painting, painted with the colors of anger.
Musically, DARKNESS deliver the uncompromising and fast thrash metal that they have been known for since their debut album “Death Squad” (1987). However, the compositions on this album are more complex and detailed than before, without losing any of their aggression, hardness and authenticity.
The lyrics are no longer just a description of the madness that determines the course of this world, but get straight to the point without beating around the bush and without compromise.
The nine songs were produced in the Rambado Recording Studios in collaboration with Cornelius "Corny" Rambadt, who has also worked with SODOM, DISBELIEF and BONDED, among others. The predecessors "First Class Violence" and "Over And Out" were already produced in collaboration with Corny. For "Blood on Canvas", DARKNESS and producer Corny made it their mission to create an aggressive and powerful, but also honest sound.
The cover artwork is once again by Timon Kokott, with whom DARKNESS is working for the third time.
Although recordings for the album had already begun in mid-October 2023, DARKNESS and guitarist Meik separated during production, so that "Blood on Canvas" was only recorded by four people.
The story so far
The thrash metal commando DARKNESS comes from Essen - Altenessen, next to the Bay Area the most creative nucleus of the thrash wave in the 1980s.
Founded in 1984, the band made a name for themselves with the demos “Evil Curse”, “Titanic War” and “Spawn of the Dark One”.
DARKNESS released three albums between 1987 and 1989.
The first album “Death Squad” is considered a thrash classic and established the cult status of DARKNESS, which still exists today and influences thrash musicians all over the world.
In 1991 things became quieter for the band, and in 1998 singer Olli tragically died.
Lacky and Arnd, two early members, revived Thrash Guerrilla in 2004.
In 2005 the three albums “Death Squad”, “Defenders of Justice” and “Conclusion & Revival” were released again. In addition, “Bocholt Live Squad”, an official concert recording from May 14, 1987, is coming onto the market in CD format.
The long-out-of-print triple vinyl box “The Demos” from 2008 contains a live recording from the “Keep it True” Festival 2006, all demo recordings and extensive bonus material.
At the end of 2010, the musicians, who were otherwise under the banner “Eure Erben”, released an album under the name DARKNESS for the first time.
Since demand continues, the albums “Death Squad” and “Defenders of Justice” will be released on vinyl again to mark their 25th anniversary.
As with many veterans of metal, DARKNESS also has a line-up merry-go-round.
Lacky and Arnd, the band's constants, are looking for a stable line-up for a comeback.
The guitarist Meik started his job for Darkness in 2013.
Lee was given the microphone by Arnd at the end of 2014, who from then on concentrated exclusively on the guitar and backgrounds.
In 2015, Dirk took over the bass role from Christian “Spessy” Gießler, who no longer has time to be involved in DARKNESS due to his main job at Kreator.
After “Keep it True” Festival, but especially since 2014, DARKNESS have played at well-known festivals such as the “Turock Open Air”, “Obscene Extreme”, Headbangers Open Air” and the “Ruhrpott Metal Meeting”.
The old school club is also being wielded at numerous club shows around the world and proven what the band stands for: old school thrash - brutal, fast, uncompromising and mean.
With the album “The Gasoline Solution”, a real, much-praised successor to the two classics “Death Squad” and “Defenders of Justice” was released in October 2016.
Exactly 2 years after the comeback album, Darkness presented the
The album “First Class Violence” makes it impressively clear that even more than 30 years later, angry thrash still comes from Altenessen.
At the beginning of 2019, Ben took over the bass from Dirk.
The EP “Over and Out” follows in 2020.
In 2024, Dominik took over the guitar from Maik and with the highly acclaimed release of the album “Blood on Canvas” in 2024, Darkness manifested its status as a German thrash institution.
http://www.darkness-thrash.de/
"Seat Of The Fire" serves as the epic conclusion to the album's narrative. The song chronicles the vengeful fury of Prometheus, the mythical titan condemned for gifting humanity with fire. Having endured eternal punishment for his act of defiance, Prometheus unleashes a cataclysmic inferno upon the world, inciting a fiery war fought in his name.
The visually stunning lyric video, created by Drain Hope, perfectly captures the song's intensity. Blending fire and fury with mythological imagery, the video brings the album's story to a blazing climax.
Forming in 2017, Vulgaris has been blazing a trail through the London underground metal scene with their fierce fusion of black, sludge, thrash, and other extreme metal styles. With one EP and a debut album, 2021's Asundre, under their belt, they are poised to unleash sophomore record Seat Of The Fire unto the world, with a release date of 24 May 2024.
Since finalizing their current 4-person line-up in 2019, the band has been
refining their sound while sharing stages with the likes of Conjurer, Beyond
Grace, and London circuit heavyweights such as Allfather, Tableau Mort, and
Imperium.Their 2023, during which they recorded their upcoming second album, culminated in an appearance in the Metal 2 The Masses London Grand Final. After this achievement, Vulgaris is primed to ascend to the next level in 2024.
The band draws upon an array of musical influences, including but by no means restricted to the likes of Enslaved, Gojira, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Sylosis, Conjurer, and Dragged Into Sunlight.
Vulgaris is:
George Mitchell - drums
Jess O'Toole - guitars
Jon Michael - guitars, vocals
Matt Cooper - bass, vocals
www.youtube.com/@vulgaris978
Label: Invima RecordsRelease date: july 12th 2024
Genre: Black Ritual Chamber Music
For fans of: Jo Quail | Musk Ox | Elend | Arcana
You have spoken to me in whispers through the watches of the night and your sibilant suggestions have accompanied me through the hours of daylight’s toil and turgid interactions with those who imagine themselves to be of my kind. You have brought me visions of greater, darker, colder worlds and shown me the path to an existence weighty with meaning and portent. You have confirmed my beliefs in the insignificant vacuity of mankind’s stumbling, infantile civilisation and revealed the majesty of the void. I have given of myself; my blood, my spirit, my words and my devotion and now I am ready. I will step from the vaunted circle of life onto a path without ending, into a darkness ineffable, to follow as you lead, from here unto the end of forever.
“This collection of recorded workings is a series of invocations to eight Lower Order Spirits, as steps leading to the sacrificial altar of Moloch, the King of Fire. This is done in accordance with the practice of Sinister Magick known as Vedantic Nihilism, as outlined in the grimoire Codex Aversum by Caine Del Sol. The forces presented by these workings are those of collapse, madness, death, and decay. They have served and will continue to serve those ends to devastating effect, in real life, in real time. You have been warned.” - Kakophonix
It is 13 years since cellist, composer and explorer of secrets Kakophonix began his work of musical revelation under the banner of Hvile I Kaos…and now that journey is complete, the final votive offering rendered unto the lords of misrule. Lower Order Manifestations is a work that transcends the commonly understood barriers of genre, transposing the riffs and rhythms, atmosphere and intent of black metal into a new sonic sphere. With cello and acoustic guitar, bass, frame drums and vocal punctuations, Kakophonix has created a progressive path of rituals that lead from an awakening of passion and spirited revolution to an attainment of knowledge, a state of perfection. Through the celebratory ‘Psalmody For The Child Offering’, rife with tension, with its unnerving undercurrents that run jagged nails across the skin of human convictions and assumed proprieties, onward through the ungraspable, unknowable ‘Shadowscast’ – a darkness of substance that slips through your fingers like serpents of sand, as it blends the beautiful liquid of dreams with the fevered sweat of nightmares. From the torment and terror of ‘Panic Sun’ that undermines all you believed to be true, bringing about the collapse of certainties and understanding, to the fierce intensity of seething, dissonant aggression that is ‘Smite’…the road is long and hard, but it all leads to the breathtaking grace of ‘Verity Thy Path’, the brightness of guitars laced with the sombre reflection of the cello, an elevated state only to be found at the conclusion of the trials preceding. The final notes of Hvile I Kaos’ passage through this world could not be more perfect.
Over the years Kakophonix has contributed to the work of Abigail Williams and Imperialist, released split collections with Angmar and Northsong, performed with Whoredom Rife and Ashbringer, but nothing upon his musical odyssey can compare to the visionary unfolding that is Lower Order Manifestations. Available now on InViMa Records, do not allow this exposition of beauty and wisdom to slip past you in the silence that lies beneath the noise and fool’s gold of the mundane world.
Line-up:
Kakophonix - Composition, cello, guitar, bass, frame drum, vocals.
*additional vocal exhortations from Elizabeth Gore, Ø, S, Joseph Spiller, Layla Legard, Sarah Jayde, Dan Niederkorn, Ben Yehdigo, Thanatos, Nicole Day, Seth Scantlen, Cassidy Scantlen, Zola Scantlen, Iggy Scantlen, Aaron Sidell, Mauro Bernazzali.
*death whistle on ‘Panic Sun’ by Nero Atrum.
https://www.invimarecords.com/
"Leeches" is a horror movie in a song. The allegory depicts those who would force religion onto others as blood sucking leeches. In true misanthropic black metal style, the song delights in the suffering of those who are a speaker of hate. The devout religious follower sees an incoming end of days with no savior in sight. The final verse flips the common religious theme of a coming apocalypse heralded by the great harlot and the beast as a sign not of the second coming of a savior, but the ends of religious facism
and tyranny.
This is the first song recorded by the band as a whole, as compared to debut EP, Purity, which was largely a solo effort by vocalist/guitarist Venomous and session bass player Hephaestus. Moving towards the completion of the writing of Lenax's forthcoming full-length album, all members of the band had an impact on "Leeches." Due to scheduling conflicts, Mordred covered bass guitar duty on the single, and the band brought in a session drummer while Profana was recovering from an injury.
Song
Credits:Bass by Mordred
Drums by Maikon Queiroz (session player, Brazil)
Lyrics by: Venomous
Music by: Venomous, Mordred, Runatyr
Art Credit: David DeFigueredo
Band Logo: Illia Karpenko
Mix Engineer: Ilarion Ivanenko
Bio:
Lenax are a Nashville-based melodic black metal band that first emerged in November 2022 as the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Venomous. Born from a personal challenge to release original music before turning 50, the project quickly evolved from a solo act into a full fledged band known by a diverse and growing fanbase for their distinct blend of aggressive
old-school black metal with esoteric and symphonic elements.
Drawing inspiration from classic acts like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, thrash metal's Big Four, as well as black metal titans Immortal, Enslaved, Watain, and Dark Funeral, Lenax’s signature sound pays homage to their influences, while establishing them as pioneers of something new altogether, dubbed by Venomous as cosmic horror fueled nightmares -
an immersive sonic rumination on rebellion against religion, revenge, and self-realizationthrough occult technology, with a distinct nod to Lovecraftian lore and historical magical texts.
Since releasing their debut EP Purity in October 2023, Lenax has garnered praise from both domestic and international press, with Rock Hard and Metalized featuring the band and The Metalverse lauding their ability to blend melody with black metal's raw power. Never losing an ounce of momentum, the band’s noses remain firmly on the grindstone as they prepare for a
busy year ahead, with two new songs and accompanying music videos already in the works for 2024, preceding a full-length album slated for a
2025 release.
LENAX is:
Venomous - Vocals, Guitar
The Silence - Bass
Profana - Drums
Mordred - Guitar, Vocals
https://linktr.ee/LenaxMetal
https://www.facebook.com/LenaxMetal
"It has the indecipherable edges and structure of a most devilishly and ingenuously designed labyrinth all the while maintaining a warm, organic sound"
EVILYN – “MONDESTRUNKEN”
For
fans of
- Gorguts, Maere, Morbid Angel, Dischordia, Coma
Cluster Void, Saevus Finis, Wicked InnocenceEvilyn have created an atypical death metal album which is at once monolithic, alien and formidable. Anthony Lipari of Thoren fame has put together quite a lineup for the band's debut full length, roping in members of Malignancy, Exist, Norse and even taking the assistance of Coma Cluster Void's Jeanne Comateuse who has been instrumental in arranging, mixing and crafting the mesmerizing album artwork for the release. The music they've concocted is unbearably heavy, with riffs like obelisks of impermeable concrete slabs tearing through the earth's crust, rising up with a pattern that can only be deciphered after multiple listens. The pacing too seems erratic, sometimes staggered, the feeling akin to stumbling through a labyrinthine minefield that impales upon contact. It is simultaneously dissonant, twisted, technical and crushing, and as confounding as things invariably get, they leave the listener coming back for more in an attempt to demystify this phenomenon. Ostensibly familiar-sounding but pulverizing and otherworldly in nature, Evilyn's debut full length is not to be missed.
Line up
Anthony Lipari (Thoren) - Guitar and Vocals
Alex Weber (Malignancy, Exist, Obscura - live) - Bass
Robin Stone (Norse) - Drums
Mixed and mastered by Jeanne Comateuse
Artwork by Jeanne Comateuse (Coma Cluster Void)
Track listing:
1. Dread
2. Omission
3. Limits
4. Bloviate
5. Penance
6. Vacuous
7. Interwoven
8. Forgotten
9. Slithering
10. Eat the Elite
Release date - August 16th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/evilyndeath
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Prepare
to be exorcised! Norwegian black metal upstarts ODIO DEUS are
here to tear down the walls of hypocrisy with their blistering new lyric
video for "THE CON MAN," the latest single from their
critically acclaimed album "SPIRITUAL SYPHILIS," out
now via Wormholedeath Worldwide."The Con Man" is a sonic inferno that dissects the life and dark deeds of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. The track exposes Smith's alleged manipulation and controversial practices, culminating in his violent demise.About "Spiritual Syphilis"
"Spiritual Syphilis" is a meticulously crafted assault on the dogma and corruption that festers within organized religion. The album is a brutal fusion of traditional Norwegian and Swedish black metal, infused with the raw power of American death metal.
The music on "Spiritual Syphilis" is a testament to the united will of ODIO DEUS. All three members poured their creative fire into the album, forging a cohesive and punishing sonic experience.
www.youtube.com/@OdioDeusband
www.facebook.com/Odio-Deus-Official
FFO: Skeletonwitch, Absu, Vektor, Witchery, Nocturnal
In the four years since the release 2020's Life is Bad, Torrefy have worked feverishly to create an album that would be nothing short of its masterwork. That masterwork is now realized in the form of Necronomisongs! Ripping Thrash and abrasive Black Metal are prime elements, yet the band's self-described unorthodox approach to composition has paid big dividends! The album slashes, burns, and genre-bends with unhinged ferocity, all without sacrificing an ounce of memorability.
The band previously released the official video for first single "Of Wind and Worm," followed by second single, "Enslaved New World."
Track
Listing:1. Of Wind and Worm
2. Street Reaper
3. Corpseback Rider
4. Arachnomancer
5. Enslaved New World
6. Nature Vs Torture
7. Apex Shredatorr
8. Total Perspective Vortex
Necronomisongs Credits:
Recorded by Torrefy and Cody Baresich at Circle A Studios.
Mixed by Cody Baresich.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Album cover by Blackstory.
Line-up:
Adam Henry - Lead Guitar
Ben Gerencser - Rhythm Guitar
Simon Smith - Bass
John Ferguson - Vocals
Daniel Laughy - Drums
About Torrefy:
Torrefy is a black thrash quintet based in Victoria, BC, Canada. They are determined to spread their unique brand of unorthodox black thrash metal to a wider audience. Torrefy weaves elements of black, death, and thrash metal to create songs and albums with a distinct and powerful energy.
https://www.facebook.com/Torrefy
Finnish
one-man black metal band VALONTUOJA is set to unleash
the debut album LUONNON ARMOILLA on November 8th 2024
via Inverse Records. The first official single 'KODISTANI KARKOITETTU'
is now out on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/valontuoja-kodistani The man behind Valontuoja, Jal'zoroth comments the single:
"This haunting track channels the raw, primal force of exile and unrelenting longing, set against the desolate beauty of Finland's unyielding wilderness. The lyrics, dripping with sorrow and defiance, narrate the torment of a soul exiled from its homeland, aching for the harsh cliffs, icy lakes, and untamed rivers that once offered solace."
Luonnon armoilla CD PRE-ORDER available here https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/valontuoja-luonnon-armoilla-cd-pre-order
Biography:
Valontuoja, meaning "Bringer of Light" in Finnish, is the one-man black metal entity forged in the icy depths of Helsinki by the Jal'zoroth. Formed in 2024, Valontuoja channels the primordial essence of black metal, weaving a sonic tapestry that is both ferocious and hauntingly melodic. Valontuoja's soundscape is a maelstrom of raw, unyielding black metal fused with ethereal and melodic elements. Valontuoja conjures an atmosphere that is as brutal as it is beautiful, guiding listeners through the desolate realms of human despair and nature's unforgiving majesty
Line-up:
https://www.facebook.com/Valontuojablackmetal
NEWS 14.8.2024
Death
metal titans ANCIENT ENTITIES unveil their latest provocation
with the release of the lyric video for "EMPIRE IN ASHES,"
a relentless track from their album "ECHOES OF ANNIHILATION,"
now available via Wormholedeath."Empire In Ashes" is a sonic inferno that plunges listeners into the heart of ancient Rome's cataclysmic downfall with uncompromising intensity, offering a haunting portrayal of relentless fire and unyielding destruction.
Ancient Entities is a band comprising Alex Rausa, Jake Falk, Luke Veranth, and Brian Gulliford. Our lyrical content focuses on ancient civilizations, folklore, and mythology from all around the world. The band's style consists of powerful technical death metal riffing mixed with catchy and titanous rhythm sections, proving for a massive sound.
www.youtube.com/@anciententities
www.facebook.com/AEbandofficial
Michael Amott shares about the new single:
“First new Arch Enemy song we release in a little while and it feels good to be back! It was a blast working on ‘Dream Stealer’ in the studio, this song just has the high energy and twisted atmosphere that makes it so fun to play! Crank it up, loud and heavy! Metal is immortal!”
Dream Stealer was mixed by Jens Bogren and mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios. The video was directed and produced by Patric Ullaeus.
Stream the new single here: https://ArchEnemy.lnk.to/DreamStealer-SingleNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJBmX5aU1DA
Genre : Death/Black Metal - War MetalLabel : Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music
Release date : August 12th 2024
IGNOBLETH is a Death/Black/War Metal act from northern Italy, born from the need to bring to mortals the truest War spirit. The band, whose young members are 16 and 17 years old, merges fast and frenetic riffs and blast beats to slow
Punti salienti:
Young members! Between 16 and 17 years old;
To open Hellripper in a live show, August 14th;
War Metal oriented Death/Black Metal;
To be released by Masked Dead Records and Sulphur Music in limited edition tape.
Tracklist
1) Golgotha VII - Intro
2) Bestial Witchery
3) Omen Of A Nuclear Spell
4) Wrathful Eradication
15:23 min
Line-up:
Bloodlord Ixiataaga - Vocals and bass
Nex VII - Guitar
Kommander Baal - Drums.
https://www.facebook.com/maskedeadrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552939026856
In celebration of the exciting news, the band shares a new single and lyric video of Sub Rosa in Æternum, called Tainted Skies.
Guitarist Adam Zaars comments on the new single and lyric video release:
"The old and the new. 'Tainted Skies' is a fairly straight forward Tribulation song written by Joseph. He gives the whole sound his own spin and takes us through murky depths and shadowy skies, from death to new life."
On Sub Rosa in Æternum, Tribulation conjure a new beast: Part psychological horror of Italian cinema, part gaunt British goth, and part Art Deco opulence, Sub Rosa In Æternum is a blazing torch upon a cloudy, skeleton sky. More information will be revealed soon!
Stream the new single here: https://Tribulation.lnk.to/TaintedSkies-SingleNe
Watch the lyric video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7DcQ3LPnrw
SOLITARY – “EMBRACE THE DARKNESS”
Label: Twisted Into FormRelease date: september 6th 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Slayer | Testament | Sacred Reich | Forbidden
We live in dark times; times of war, pandemics, grief and horror. These are the days of division, where we turn against each other in politically driven hatred and against ourselves, choking on a social media diet of self-loathing and isolation. Through our ever-glowing screens we watch the crumbling of virtue and the slow, agonised death of decency and honour. The UK’s resolute and relentless kings of thrash, Solitary, have tapped into the thick, black blood that pulses sluggishly through the fat and filth congested veins of society. They have stared into the alleyways, the cellars and the broken minds of our youth and forged their hardest, heaviest and most unflinching album yet. This is their hymn to a dying world, their soundtrack to the end of days…this is Embrace The Darkness!
Opening with ‘III.XXIII.MMXX’, an intro heavy with portent that leads us back to the days of lockdown and its shocking, unforeseen consequences, Embrace The Darkness then leaps straight into its momentous title track and the strides taken by Solitary are immediately apparent. The individual performances from each band member are stunning and the song craft is masterful. Despite the breathtaking ferocity on display there’s a considered depth and maturity to these songs that lifts Embrace The Darkness to unprecedented heights. Thirty years deep into their tumultuous career, Solitary are hitting new peaks and delivering like never before. From the bare-knuckle ultra aggression of ‘Settle Scores The Old Way’ to the foreboding ‘Virtues’ which tackles the harrowing issues of abuse within a framework of classic Solitary riffs, adorned with a vicious, barbed wire solo, it only takes one listen to know that this is the finest album Solitary have made to date. The absolute savagery and incendiary energy of the late album pairing ‘The Disappeared’ and ‘Section 21’ is utterly exhilarating, despite the forbidding shadows that lie between and behind every voracious vocal line and cataclysmic drum beat. There is no respite throughout Embrace The Darkness, no pause for breath or tranquil interlude, it is simply devastating. Finishing with the confrontational ‘Filtering Hindsight’, a caustic indictment of our post-brexit, post-covid societal car crash, this is thrash metal at its powerful, potent, glorious best – lean, mean, embedded with inescapable hooks and laced with deadly melody.
Solitary have renewed their partnership with producer Simon Efemey (Napalm Death, Paradise Lost, Deceased etc) and Embrace The Darkness sounds magnificent – the vocals have an extra edge of anger and potential violence, the guitars snarl like rabid dogs, the drum beats are infused with a skull-cracking thunder and the bass is a powerful, looming presence. Also returning to the team is artist Koot (Saxon, Girlschool, The Almighty etc) who has created one of his finest pieces, capturing the blackened spirit of Embrace The Darkness in his cover art. Look out for exclusive physical format tracks – with the vinyl boasting the punishing ‘Divided And Demented’ and the CD featuring a ripping run through of The Exploited’s ‘Beat The Bastards’ that’s not to be missed. When Solitary unleash this beast of an album on September 6th nowhere will be safe from its claws. Prepare to Embrace The Darkness!
Line-up:
Richard Sherrington – Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Gareth Harrop - Bass
Andy Mellor – Lead Guitar
Roy Miller - Drums
https://www.solitary.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Official.Solitary
Listen now at https://linktr.ee/darkdeedsmke
The band has also released the official music video for the song "Remorse." Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUihAgxIAjA
Recorded along the highways of Wisconsin in the band's mobile studio, Death Keeps offers seven tracks of darkly aggressive metal.
The band comments on their unorthodox recording process, "We wanted to make the recording process unique and memorable, so we hit the road in a 14-foot camper, traveling around Wisconsin to write and record our music. This mobile studio experience was fun and inspired us in ways we hadn't imagined."
Tracklist:1. Found Underneath a Cold Knife
2. Leech
3. Apostate
4. Dogma
5. Remorse
6. King of Pentacles
7. Death Keeps (feat. Bind the Sacrifice)
Line up:
Ben Prendergast - Guitar/Vocals
Allan Barth III - Vocals
Shane Garski - Bass
Kevin Giersch - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/DARKDEEDSmke
Juha Raivio comments on the new song:"'What I Have Become' is about that moment when you look yourself deep in the eye from the mirror and your own eyes start to tell what your soul have become instead of what you always wanted it to be. The hardest thing is to forgive yourself and break that circle."
Juha Raivio adds on Shining:
"After our last album it soon became clear to me that writing another 'Moonflowers' album will kill me. So, I made a quiet wish to myself that if there ever will be any new music then please have a little bit of mercy on yourself rather than be that infinite black hole that will suck out the rest of your remaining light and soul just for the sake of it. Musically, this album shines like a glacier diamond and has that power and punch that feels like a kick in your face! While lyrically, the album deals how fearing life will eventually kill you and how melancholy can become your God."
Moreover, Swallow The Sun will host a very unique and exclusive event at the beautiful Aleksanterin Teatteri in Helsinki on October 16th , 2024. Shining will be listened to in its entirety, before its official release on October 18th. Please note the band will not perform at the event.
Anyone who wishes to attend the event can register and get their tickets via Levykauppa Äx from now until October 4th.
Stream the new single here: https://SwallowTheSun.lnk.to/ShiningNe
Watch the visualizer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VeFmbX3rxw
“Death
Devil Magick” is set to be released on September 20th via AOP Records!German Black Metal band Servant has been celebrating their melodic yet furious Black Metal across the underground and beyond since 2021.
Their two well reviewed full length albums 'Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars' and 'Aetas Ascensus' shook ground within the metal scene.
Now the band is going to release their 3rd output 'Death Devil Magick' via AOP Records on 20th September 2024
Death Devil Magick was written record, mixed and mastered between October 23 and may 24.
Without lacking on their musical trademarks, Servant continues to evolve on their new record.
Melodic guitars combine with furious drums, powerful basslines go with keys and mighty grooves.
On Death Devil Magick the vocals are more clear than on the previous two albums, to give the words the required power in meaning.
All this is put in a powerful soundshape which is aggressive, yet very dynamic and tidied up.
The lyrical topics are inspired by poets and philosophers like Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also paintings by Franz von Stuck from the era of symbolism for example, can be mentioned here.
The lyrics discuss conflicts of emotions, beliefs, addiction and depths of human nature.
Death Devil Magick invites the the listener to step into the gallery of nine microcosms and witness lust, despair, magick and ecstasy.
Moreover Servant is going to play Europe within Scherbentour 2024 together with Ellende & GROZA to spread Magick, Lust and ecstasy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-qFzzGUDg
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the long-awaited debut full-length album from Rochester NY's blistering Grindcore act SULLY. Sully is up now for pre-order and will be released September 13th on CD and Digital formats along with merch. Sully features members of Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault, Sulaco, and Psyopus.
For fans of - Brutal Truth, Burnt By The Sun, Discordance Axis, Human Remains, Pig Destroyer, Psyopus, The Red Chord and Sulaco.
Formed during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sully hails from Rochester, New York, and features experienced metal veterans Erik Burke (Sulaco, Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault), Adam Frappolli (Psyopus), Alex Perez on drums, and Ed Jusko on bass. Following up on the well-received debut The Tony Demo, Sully showcases 12 tracks of intense, blistering Grindcore with Hardcore elements, resulting in a distinctive and aggressive musical style that sets them apart from other acts.
Despite the intensity of their music, Sully maintains a fun-loving approach to their craft, and their live performances are known for their high-energy delivery, which has been well-received by their growing fan base.
Listen
to the single "DeadPan" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmz9BpVdbNgTracklisting:
1. DeadPan
2. Blanket
3. Judas Kiss
4. Dredge The Lake
5. Cowardly The Cat
6. King Of Terrors
7. He's An Asshole, But So Are You
8. Circle The Drain
9. Stool Pigeon
10. Three Hits
11. Bedlamite
12. Tinker's Dam
www.youtube.com/user/horrorpaingoredeath/videos
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
The
story of a legendary metal band is finally being told thanks to a new
documentary from an up-and-coming filmmaker. "DON'T TURN YOUR BACK:
THE STORY OF HERETIC" tells the story of the Los Angeles-based
band’s HERETIC humble beginnings, from forming Reverend in 1989
to ultimately disbanding and reforming once again in 2011. This is a story of
perseverance through the world of heavy metal.The documentary marks the first-ever film by Tanner Poppitt, guitarist/vocalist for MADROST and host of the Poppitt’s Corner podcast. Poppitt comments on the film, “‘Don't Turn Your Back: The Story of Heretic’ is my debut film that tells the story of Heretic who in 1986 signed a contract with Metal Blade Records and has had a unique career in heavy metal. From playing with both classic Metal Church vocalists, Mike Howe and David Wayne to ultimately disbanding and reforming once again. I felt that after 40 years of trials and tribulations, this would be a great story to tell and my opportunity to get into filmmaking.”
“Don’t Turn Your Back” is now streaming digitally and available on Blu-ray. Watch now on Amazon Prime.
Order the Blu-ray at https://poppittproductions.com/shop/ols/products/dont-turn-your-back-the-story-of-heretic-blu-ray
Official IMDb Page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29225031/?ref_=nm_knf_t_3
After exploring their heavy side with the title track of their upcoming album, HIN HELGA KVÖL, SÓLSTAFIR have released HÚN ANDAR with a video that was produced by Nico for Pulse Films.
Aðalbjörn Tryggvason's (guitar and vocals) comments:
“'Hún andar', meaning ‘She breathes’, is an obituary to a living person whom I love very much, but the mind is gone due to mental illness and drug abuse.”
After the release of the album, SÓLSTAFIR will embark on the “Nordic Descent Tour 2024” that features a very special line-up with Oranssi Pazuzu, while the opening slot with be split between Hamferð (13 - 24.11) and HELGA (26.11 - 9.12).
Stream the new single here: https://solstafir-band.lnk.to/HinHelgaKvolNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES5TmL6y5ug
The video was directed and filmed by Sebastian Ramstedt (guitar, vocals) himself:
“It takes the viewer away from the comforting light. In order to put the viewer in the same state as me when I wrote the song, it was necessary to break some rules. In Nadir, everything that is beautiful turns ugly. The warmer skin tone during the performance parts symbolizes this side of death. The cold colours of the outside is purgatory. The out of focus singing with the candles symbolizes death and the other side. The video is chaotically blending visions of the past the present and the future. It's cut with a dreamlike logic in mind.”
The atmosphere of Reaperdawn is a swirling maelstrom of obsidian sparkle and iridescent grime.
Watch it arise!
Order the new album here: https://InAphelion.lnk.to/ReaperdawnNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roth7FRNQxE
Dear
Friends in the Press and Media worldwide,we're extremely proud to announce CD
and cassette reissues for "死" and "4 死 DEATH", the (only) two game-changing
full-length albums from Japanese experimental hardcore/metal/industrial
supergroup collective S.H.I. (STRUGGLING HARSH IMMORTALS)
both of which finally find a worldwide release for the first time ever via
Sentient Ruin on CD and cassette tape formats. The two reissues are a mandatory
spiritual mission for Sentient Ruin to reconsecrate two of the most visionary,
devastating, and overlooked Japanese hardcore releases of the past decade."死" was initially released back in 2015 as a full-length compilation of the band's first two EPs (2013's self-titled 7" and the 2014 followup "Lucifer Rising" 7", both released by Crust War in Japan) at first appearing on CD format in Japan through Black Lodge Records, then on tape in Australia in 2016 via NGM Records, and finally on picture disc vinyl in the US in 2022 on Anti Remorse.
he follow up full-length "4 死 Death" on the other hand finally finds its first release on CD and cassette tape ever via Sentient Ruin, after its original 2021 release on vinyl via Relapse Records.
Masterminded by legendary vocalist and performance artist Katsunori "Cherry" Nishida of Japanese hardcore and heavy metal cults Zouo and Danse Macabre, and co-conspired with other long running members of the Japanese experimental punk and metal underground coming from bands like Nashi, Outo, Mobs, The Rude Boys, Gewalt and Rise from the Dead (among others), S.H.I. construct a majestic syncretism of violence and experimentation by fusing hardcore punk, heavy metal, noise rock, industrial and psychedelia into an unseen demolition of reality. "死" and "4 死 Death" represent the transfiguration and perfect continuation of Nishida's enigmatic and uncompromising vision into the future, carrying Zouo's and Danse Macabre's bludgeoning and caustic torch into the experimental unknown as a violent and bleak means of transcendence. The two albums stand stark, enigmatic and imposing as a dark and death-scarred psychedelic trip into Japan's iconic and most deviant underground fringes of hardcore punk, metal, noise, and industrial, perfectly following in the steps of many legendary Japanese experimental violent acts like Zeni Geva, Crow, and G.I.S.M. as well as in those of iconic international acts like Killing Joke, Neurosis, Voivod, Amebix, Galloping Coroners, SWANS and Discharge, who in the early 80's had laid the groundwork for visionary crossroads of aggression and experimentation through the hybridization of punk, metal, psychedelia and industrial to devastating, history-changing effects.
"死" and "4 死 Death", CDs, cassette tapes, and digital products are slated for a simultaneous August 20 2024 release worldwide through Sentient Ruin, and all products can now be pre-ordered and streamed via all our channels.
Sincerely, Sentient Ruin
https://sentientruin.com/blog/2024/8/7-1
https://sentientruin.com/bands#/shi
NEWS 11.8.2024
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 22.08.2024
Black metal with a "FUCK YOU ALL" attitude since 1996. Das Black-Metal-Urgestein DARKMOON WARRIOR entfesselt abermals das Chaos!
Die Band aus Brandenburg gehört zu den dienstältesten im deutschen Underground und zu jenen, die authentisch die Flamme des Schwarzmetalls am Lodern halten – wie auch ihr neues Werk »Graveyard Planet« aufs Eindrucksvollste beweist.
Wer wohltemperierten Post-Black-Metal hören will, ist mit »Graveyard Planet« schlecht beraten, denn DARKMOON WARRIOR zelebrieren auf ihrem fünften Album erneut durch und durch klassischen Stoff auf ihre gewohnt souveräne und bösartige Weise. Pechschwarze, sich mächtig auftürmende Hymnen wie »Magna Matris Mortem« oder »Age Of Decomposition« sind so roh wie gleichermaßen erhaben melodisch und zählen mit zum Besten, was die Band je geschrieben hat.
Da die Jungs Verfechter echter Vielfalt sind, servieren sie zudem auch brachiale, teutonische Thrash-Riffs in alter Sodom-Manier und, wie es seit langem ihre gute verdorbene Art ist, dreckigen Black'n'Roll. – Keep the flame burning!
Denn passenden Sound hat das Album im Mix und Mastering bei Irsins Sound erhalten.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/DarkmoonWarrior
Genre: Black MetalLabel: AOP Records
VÖ: 20.09.2024
German Black Metal band Servant has been celebrating their melodic yet furious Black Metal across the underground and beyond since 2021.
Their two well reviewed full length albums 'Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars' and 'Aetas Ascensus' shook ground within the metal scene.
Now the band is going to release their 3rd output 'Death Devil Magick' via AOP Records on 20th September 2024 . Death Devil Magick was written record, mixed and mastered between October 23 and may 24.
Without lacking on their musical trademarks, Servant continues to evolve on their new record.
Melodic guitars combine with furious drums, powerful basslines go with keys and mighty grooves.
On Death Devil Magick the vocals are more clear than on the previous two albums, to give the words the required power in meaning.
All this is put in a powerful soundshape which is aggressive, yet very dynamic and tidied up.
The lyrical topics are inspired by poets and philosophers like Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also paintings by Franz von Stuck from the era of symbolism for example, can be mentioned here.
The lyrics discuss conflicts of emotions, beliefs, addiction and depths of human nature.
Death Devil Magick invites the the listener to step into the gallery of nine microcosms and witness lust, despair, magick and ecstasy.
Moreover Servant is going to play Europe within Scherbentour 2024 together with Ellende & GROZA to spread Magick, Lust and ecstasy.
Servant is:
Farago: Guitars/Vocals
Samael: Guitars
Thanatos: Bass
Apophis: Drums
Coverartwork by Misanthropic Art
SERPENT Live:
SCHERBEN TOUR WITH ELLENDE AND GROZA
02/10/2024 Backstage München DE
03/10/2024 Turock Essen DE
04/10/2024 Kronensaal Hamburg DE
05/10/2024 Badehaus Berlin DE
06/10/2024 Stengade Copenhagen DK
07/10/2024 Willemeen Arnhem NL
08/10/2024 The Black Lab Wasquehal FR
09/10/2024 Glazart Paris FR
10/10/2024 Musigburg Aarburg CH
11/10/2024 Arcanum Fest Bologna IT
12/10/2024 Vienna Metal Meeting Vienna AT
13/10/2024 Orto Bar Ljubljana SI
14/10/2024 Mocvara Zagreb HR
15/10/2024 Zappa Baza Belgrade SR
16/10/2024 A38 Budapest HU
17/10/2024 Barrak Ostrava CZ
18/10/2024 Blauer Salon Dresden DE
19/10/2024 2Progi Poznan PL
20/10/2024 Kamienna12 Krakow PL
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/scherbentour2024
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: october 11th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Massacre | Death | Sepultura | Master
It’s more than thirty years since Decayed Existence began their crusade of crushing death metal, bringing immaculate riffs and darkly imaginative song writing together through an absolute understanding of the very heaviest of metals. Refining their art and building the foundations of an enduring legend through a plethora of demos, compilations, EPs and full length albums, the California band have made an indelible mark in the annals of extreme metal – and their story is far from over! As summer fades once more and the autumn nights draw in Decayed Existence will unleash what may well come to be recognised as the most powerful and exhilarating release of their decades spanning career…The Beginning Of Sorrows.
Opening with the intense immediacy of ‘Escape The Dead’, The Beginning Of Sorrows plunges you straight into a vortex of glorious riffs, steeped in the essence of classic death metal. The band shift smoothly through the gears, changing tempos from driving energy to slow, agonised passages that grind the bones to dust – and from that oppressive weight a superb solo spirals upwards, bringing to mind the seminal work of Chuck Schuldiner and James Murphy. As The Beginning Of Sorrows continues the lead guitar work establishes itself as a key ingredient of the Decayed Existence sound, adding a dimension of depth and melody to the surging power of this formidable set of songs. The ever present Harry Rocco continues to be the beating heart and engine of the band, a drummer /vocalist in the fine tradition of Beehler and Reifert and every bit as effective. First single, ‘Beheading The Colossus’ is the epitome of what Decayed Existence have to offer, with its fantastic hooks and genre defining riffs…riff after riff of utter class, making this album an absolute joy to listen to. But The Beginning Of Sorrows saves the best til last, concluding with three tracks captured live that are simply monstrous! ‘Detonation’ in particular is a beast…a nightmare amalgamation of adrenaline fuelled headbanging and vast, crawling horrors! When The Beginning Of Sorrows ends, all too soon, you can’t help but think that Decayed Existence, despite their years in the frontline trenches, might be about to start the most exciting chapter of their career to date.
With the studio recordings being produced by Andrew Giordanengo (Everything Destroying etc) and the live tracks captured by Jake Ottinger, The Beginning Of Sorrows sounds vibrant and dangerous throughout. When it’s released on October 11th, with the backing of Rottweiler Records, this album will drive Decayed Existence back into the forefront of the underground metal consciousness – exactly where they deserve to be. Prepare to be crushed!
Line-up:
Harry Rocco – Drums/Vocals
Jeffery Ke - Lead Guitar
Ryan Brown - Bass
Kyle Balsiger - Rhythm Guitar
*Additional guitars on The Beginning Of Sorrows by Jason Davis and Richard Nash
*Additional vocals on The Beginning Of Sorrows by Keith Thompson
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DecayedExistenceOFFICIAL
NACHASH – “CONJURING THE RED DEATH ECLIPSE”
NACHASH's debut CASSETTE-EP, released in 2015, quickly became a cult favorite in the underground metal scene. Limited to just 300 copies, its demand soon outgrew the format, leading to a highly sought-after repressing on 500 limited edition MLPs. A review on Metal Archives highlights the EP's impact: "Stretching 4 tracks into 30 minutes of quality music with no filler is quite a feat. Nachash overwhelms with such a blackened heaviness that by the end, I feel as though I've almost listened to a double album." Now, for the first time, this groundbreaking EP is available in digital format. Experience the magic and ethereal intensity of "Conjuring the Red Death Eclipse" in a new way. A must-listen for all metal fans, the music remains as crushing, transportive, visceral, and euphoric as ever, seamlessly intertwining these qualities to perfection.
Now available on all digital platforms through Digipus Music.
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MARCHE
FUNÈBRE – “AFTER THE STORM “With anticipation building for the September 27th release of the new album from Marche Funèbre, After The Storm, the Belgian doom lords have unveiled a stunning video for the second single from the album - the momentous title track. A supremely powerful song, laden with emotion, yet measured, graceful and poignant in its delivery, 'After The Storm' tells the story of a person haunted by the effects of past trauma, searching for meaning in life and a reason to go on. It's a song that demanded something very special for its visual representation and with the help of director Michaël Godart, Marche Funèbre have achieved exactly that.
Speaking about the video,Marche Funèbre vocalist Arne Vandenhoeck said:
“We are delighted to present the video for our new album's title track 'After the Storm'. It's our first real video since 2017s 'Lullaby of Insanity'.This time we worked with director Michaël Godart whom we got to know from his great work for Soul Dissolution and others. The story was conceived by Michaël and our very own Boris, and gives one possible interpretation of the lyrics. Please be aware that we in no condition support (domestic) violence.We hereby want to thank everyone involved in the making process, the actors, volunteers at our show and all enthusiasts who came out to make this
one hell of a video!"
You can watch the 'After The Storm' video at the Ardua Music YouTube channel now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayYkre9rv7s
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MarcheFunebreDoom
MURDER
RECORDS
Proudly Present: CAMOS elevates the old hard’n’heavy obscure
flame of glory in the Vera Cruz lands (Brazil), Curitiba, since 2000, so these
guys aren’t new at the scene especially if you count with Sucoth Benoth in
their ranks, Amen Corner’s bestial frontman. The truth is that, musically,
you don’t get this kind of knowledge and experience nowadays so easily.With “Hide from the Light”, their semaphore album, CAMOS powerful reign continues untouchable. 10 new songs ready to melt your ears with their horned chorus, their somberlain melodies to hypnotize our senses into deep slumber and the guitar solos to strip us from our souls. Overall, a fantastic production gives this work an in depth texture in which all heavy metal fans will relate in a blink of an eye.
A lot happens in CAMOS music and for all that matters it’s worth to be listened. For starters, there’s a psychedelic aura within the songs that bring together the pounding strength of the compositions. Also, the mystic and dark vocals, and lyrics make through the regular genre songs, almost if we could mix Mercyful Fate, with Master’s Hammer, Celtic Frost (Into the Pandemonium era) and Alice Cooper. So, we’re talking about a wide musical specter from black, to horror and heavy metal here which is very exquisite for all those who’re into these musical landscapes.
A real metallic treat awaits all your raising fists, the spirit of metal lives on and “Hide from the Light” from CAMOS will stand tall in the wind as your victory flag. Don’t miss it!
CAMOS - "HIDE FROM THE LIGHT"
EDITION IN CD LIMITED TO 300 COPIES
Booklet of 12 pages full color printed and where you can find all the lirycs and pictures of the band.
Obscure Heavy Black Metal from Brazl.
Track List:
01 - Hide From The Light [3:50]
02 - Desert Devil [3:46]
03 - Run To Kill [3:36]
04 - When Love Ends In Blood [4:31]
05 - Lord Of Flies [4:01]
06 - The Devil's Concubine [5:26]
07 - Waiting Your Command [3:48]
08 - Riding To Hell [3:53]
09 - Hopeless [4:35]
10 - Swimming With The Sharks [5:46]
Total Time: 43:32 min
CAMOS -"HIDE FROM THE LIGHT"
EDITION IN CASSETTE LIMITED TO 100 COPIES HAND-NUMBERED
50 Copies with Black Cassette printed in white.
50 Cassettes with Red Cassette printed in white.
The cover of this releases have a layout in a inverted cross format with a full color printing on both sides in a paper of 315grms.
Obscure Heavy Black Metal from Brazl.
Track List:
SIDE A
01 - Hide From The Light [3:50]
02 - Desert Devil [3:46]
03 - Run To Kill [3:36]
04 - When Love Ends In Blood [4:31]
05 - Lord Of Flies [4:01]
Total Time: 19:43 min.
SIDE B
06 - The Devil's Concubine [5:26]
07 - Waiting Your Command [3:48]
08 - Riding To Hell [3:53]
09 - Hopeless [4:35]
10 - Swimming With The Sharks [5:46]
Total Time: 23:28 min.
Stream the video for "In Resplendent Terror" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGTWp74suI
The Disfigured and the Divine delves into themes of the Goddess in mythology and legend, womanhood and motherhood, overcoming obstacles, justice, spirituality, the human experience, and growing into power. The title symbolizes the state of the Divine Feminine as experienced in the modern world; highly controlled, often under attack, suppressed but ever-present, potent, important, fierce, and beautiful.
The EP is the product of the band sharing music back and forth online, and feeding off each other’s enthusiasm, ideas, and criticism. The guitars are heavily influenced by early 2000s underground brutal death (such as Disgorge, Deeds of Flesh, Disavowed, and Inveracity) while taking some inspiration from modern death metal. The drums meld together relentless blast beats with bone-jarring grooves. The vocals are aggressive and dynamic, featuring a wide range of techniques and styles.
The cover artwork - painted by vocalist and artist Mallika Sundaramurthy - is a portrait of the Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta.
"She is seen making the ultimate sacrifice for others," says Sundaramurthy of the concept behind her artwork. "She has severed her own head and is feeding her followers with her life force, her own blood. In giving, she is also receiving nourishment. She has overcome death and will soon return her head to its place. She is standing on a love-making couple, meaning she is above the life-procreation-death cycle. She can also be interpreted as a mother figure who sacrifices for her children, as mothers sacrifice and even risk their lives for their babies during childbirth."
New Standard Elite will release The Disfigured and the Divine on physical formats on September 25. Pre-order at https://nserecords.bigcartel.com/
The EP will be available on streaming platforms on October 25.
EMASCULATOR will make their live debut at this year’s Texas Domination Fest, scheduled for September 26-28 in Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX. The band is set to tour Europe in May of 2025 around Nice To Eat You Deathfest (Czechia).
Track
Listing:1) Ecstasy in Disseverment (of Self)
2) In Resplendent Terror
3) Thesmophoric Rites
4) The Unassailable
5) Eradication of the Asuras
6) Age of the Goddess
7) Supreme Void of Acephalous Being
"The Unassailable" features a guest appearance by Vishal Singh, with chants by Swathi Kalahasti. Guest vocals on "Age of the Goddess" by Daniela Dahlien Neumanová.
The Disfigured and the Divine was mixed & mastered by Josh Welshman. Guitar and bass were recorded by L.B. at Divine Retribution Studios. Vocals recorded by Tonda Smrčka at Seabeast Production. Drums recorded by Taylor Hahn at Hahn Audio.
The EP follows the band's 2022 demo, Depraved Disfigurement. Stream and download the demo at https://emasculatorbdm.bandcamp.com/album/depraved-disfigurement, or on Apple Music and Spotify.
EMASCULATOR is an international collaboration of women with members from Czechia and the United States. The line-up comprises Mallika Sundaramurthy (Nidorous-NSE, Unfathomable Ruination, ex-Abnormality), Morgehenna (PoonTickler), Teresa Wallace (Cartilage, Muldrotha, Feast) and newest member Cierra White (Harboured, Oak, Ash & Thorn).
EMASCULATOR is:
Mallika Sundaramurthy - Vocals
Teresa Wallace - Guitars
Morgehenna - Guitars
Cierra White - Drums
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MAMMOTH
CARAVAN teamed with Doomed and Stoned for the exclusive world premiere of
"Siege in the Stars." Watch now at https://doomedandstoned.com/Bassist/vocalist Brandon Ringo comments on the song, "'Siege in the Stars' is the first song that was written for the new album and it was conceived during a time when we had just changed our lineup and had 10 days to create a setlist of new material. Robert came up with the riffs and I started working on lyrics and once Khetner wrote his drums parts, the song became something massive and special. Lyrically the song represents the bloodthirsty mammoth king’s journey through space on his way to achieve his violent quest.”
Robert Warner, the band's guitarist and vocalist, offers additional insight about the song. "'Siege In The Stars' is a cornerstone song off of this new LP. I started writing this song while I was still playing drums on a $25 broken SG into a small practice amp not knowing that SITS would end up being as important as it is. I am very influenced by bands like Mastodon and Tool, and I feel that we captured those influences well in this body of work. Working in January with Raif at Holy Anvil Recordings was a bucket-list item. I’ve been so influenced by projects he was in like Bones of the Earth, and with his passion for documenting Arkansas music in a way that gives someone not only an audio version but a way to really see what the band in question was like in their mannerisms and energy. It gives viewers an example of how eclectic and beautiful our music scene is here. We will also be playing Anvil Fest (which is put on by Raif) that showcases this exact thought live to showcase these wonderful bands. We are so thankful for Raif and the opportunity to be a part of Anvil Sessions and Anvil Fest."
Frostbitten Galaxy will be out on October 4 on Blade Setter Records. Preorder now at https://bladesetterrecords.bigcartel.com/
With a revamped lineup, a retooled sound, and a violent tale of mammoths in space, the band’s next offering promises to be their heaviest and most diverse material yet.
Tracklist:
1. Absolute Zero
2. Cosmic Clairvoyance
3. Tusks Of Orion
4. Siege In The Stars
5. Prehistoric Spacefarer
6. Sky Burial
Frostbitten Galaxy was recorded and mixed at Wolfman Studios by Jason Tedford, and mastered by Justin Weis at Traxworx. Album art by Tony Koehl
MAMMOTH CARAVAN released their full-length debut Ice Cold Oblivion in February 2023, followed by the single "I, Megafauna" in August. Listen on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Line-Up:
Brandon Ringo - Vocals/Bass
Robert Warner - Vocals/Guitar/Synth
Khetner Howton - Drums
All scream singing by Brandon Ringo. All clean singing by Robert Warner
https://www.facebook.com/MammothCaravan
Blackened death entity VØLUS is set to unleash another new addition to its rapidly growing catalog. MERCIFUL THE DYING LIGHT continues the band's constant evolution with this genre-bending offering of blackened death metal.
Written and recorded by the band's lone member Justin Vølus, Merciful the Dying Light drew inspiration from themes of vampirism, cosmic horror, and Mesopotamian mythos.
VØLUS has released three songs from Merciful the Dying Light. Stream "Crowns of Ulthar," "Merciful the Dying Light" and "Revengeance of Blood" now at https://volusdeath.bandcamp.com/album/merciful-the-dying-light
Vargheist Records will release Merciful the Dying Light on streaming platforms and limited edition CD on September 7.
Pre-order
the album at:https://vargheistrecords.com/
https://vargheistrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://volusdeath.bandcamp.com/album/merciful-the-dying-light
Stream previous VØLUS releases on Apple Music and Spotify.
Track List:
1) Crowns of Ulthar
2) Sanity Forsaken
3) Blasphemies Infernal Strife
4) Merciful the Dying Light
5) Hissing Dissent
6) Revengeance of Blood
7) Between Two Fires
VØLUS is a one-man blackened death metal band from South Carolina, USA, delivering a unique blend of OSDM, Blackened Death Metal, and Progressive/Dissonant Death Metal. Merciful the Dying Light is the fourth full-length album in the VØLUS discography and the band's seventh overall release, including demos and EPs. The band, alongside Vargheist Records, was founded by Justin Vølus in 2018.
VØLUS is:
Justin Vølus - All Instruments, Vocals and Lyrics
www.facebook.com/VargheistRecords
www.facebook.com/volusdeath
Belgian nameless black metal souls KRVL to return with second album “DONKERE PADEN” .KrvL sign to These Hands Melt, a rising new label for the darker side of music
New album to feature guests Shazzulah (Wolvennest) and H. (Oerheks)
“Donkere Paden” out on 11 October 2024 in CD, Vinyl & Digital formats
Rome, Italy; 7 August 2024: Belgian black metal band KrvL (pronounced as Kravaal) are the latest signing from These Hands Melt, the new home for dark and atmospheric music. Under the agreement, the label will release the band’s second album “Donkere Paden” on 11 October 2024 in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats.
Following on from their debut "Kravaal" (self-released, 2022), the second album “Donkere Paden” will bring even more darkness and despair which will be divided into seven chapters.
The album will feature guest vocalists H. from the band Oerheks and Shazzulah from the revered Wolvennest.
The band states:
KrvL comprises nameless souls that drift through the Kravaal Forest in Belgium in search of the light amongst the darkness they find themselves in. With lyrics in Dutch, the band contemplates topics such as nature, finding inner peace, nemesis, resurrection and an attempt to find light in the darkness.
Musically, the band is all about atmosphere. With a foundation of traditional 90s and modern black metal, the anonymous band also mixes post-metal, doom and sludge influences.
KrvL was established at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, creating a perfect mood for the writing and recording of their debut album "Kravaal". Eventually, the album was self-released digitally in 2022 and then on vinyl in 2023. 2024 sees the band reach new heights with the signing to These Hands Melt and the release of their second album.
The album artwork cover was done by KrvL.Tracklist
1. De Koning Van Stilte
2. Avondrood
3. Cadans Der Droefheid
4. Duivelsputten (feat. H.)
5. De Verloren Herder
6. Zielenrust (feat. Shazzulah)
7. Het Onbegrip
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https://www.facebook.com/KrvL1745/
Label: Thumper Punk RecordsRelease date: july 19th 2024
Genre: Horror Punk
For fans of: Misfits | Ramones | Creeper | The Meteors
By daylight the graveyard can be a place of peaceful reflection and thoughtful wandering amongst memories of the loved and lost. But the night…the night changes everything. In its dark embrace things become so much more than they seemed under the comforting rays of the sun. The shadows are deeper, the silence holds unspoken threat and each sudden sound near stops your trembling heart. The stone angels’ beatific smiles have changed to enraged glares of furious reproach…and was that the sound of a shovel biting into the sacred soil? As white serpents of mist slither about your ankles with a touch that freezes the skin, nothing here is what it seems…
For nearly twenty years Fort Wayne’s Grave Robber have been invoking the sounds of the cemetery and the atmosphere of the tomb with their ripping horror punk anthems. Their horde of undead devotees, brethren of the boneyards, have clutched albums like 2009s Inner Sanctum and 2018s Escaping The Grave to their cold, decaying hearts with a fervent passion. Punk, metal and rock ‘n’ roll rebellion delivered with frenetic energy, snarling guitars, fiendish atmosphere and a voice that can shake fleshless skeletons from their dusty, dreamless slumbers. Since they began Grave Robber have not shied away from tackling a cover version – some that could have been written for these adrenaline fuelled ghouls and some that you’d never imagine finding their way into the Grave Robber mausoleum. Over the last decade, In between breathing life into an array of albums and EPs, the Robbers have been hard at work in their rehearsal cellar, drawing together the finest of their raucous covers, those most powerfully imbued with the spirit of the unquiet dead…and at last the definitive collection is ready to be unearthed! The Cellar Sessions features classic songs from Misfits, Black Sabbath, Jim Croce and Norman Greenbaum, legendary laments from Metallica, Nirvana, Cyndi Lauper and more – all transformed and dissected , reworked and reanimated by the carousing corpses of Grave Robber. Sure, some covers albums can be throwaway, or hit and miss affairs, but not this stitched and bandaged beast that has come crawling up those cellar steps. This is the sound of celebration for the creatures of the night, anthems of rebellion for the outcasts and the lost boys, the witches, the zombies, the blood suckers and the wolves.
The spirit of The Cellar Sessions is perfectly captured in the brilliant cover artwork, created by Paul Stier (Brotality, Symphony Of Heaven etc) and the disparate tracks have been brought together into one sinister sound elixir by the production and mastering skills of Tim Bushong and Michael Walter. Out now on Thumper Punk Records, The Cellar Sessions is the perfect record for the night time hours, when the moon rides high in a star-dusted, stygian sky.
Line-up:
Wretched - Vokills
Carcass - Bass/Vokills
Viral - Guitar/Vokills
Plague – Smash Doom Tubs
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HELLSTORE
EUROPE [News
& Updates - 05/08/2024] . At the moment the shelves at Hellstore Europe are
still practically empty, however I would like to inform all customers and
creatures of the musical underworld that I have already started updating the
stock and restoring items for sale, soon everything will be full of available
material again, and duly displayed on the wicked shelves of Hellstore
Europe as well as on Discogs.At discogs, our products are more expensive due to the fees that Discogs and PayPal charges on each transaction.
All shipping costs are calculated based on priority shipments and with track & trace, however you can ask to recalculate the shipping of your order for economy and without track & trace to obtain a cheaper price but which takes much longer to arrive to the destination.
We accept payment methods: PayPal, Bank Transfer and Western Union.
All shipments will only be sent after payment has been made.
All orders will be shipped within a maximum of 2 days after payment.
All the orders will be shipped with track & trace and you will get a notification by mail from PostNL to keep you updated about the status of shipping your order.
HELLSTORE EUROPE A MUSICAL CEMETERY FROM THE UNDERWORLD...
https://www.murder-records.eu/
ABNORMAL INHUMANE (GRE) -"DISGUSTING CRUELTY OF HOMICIDE" CD
Co-released by Anopsys Records & Inherited Suffering Records in 2011
Brutal Death Metal
ABOMINANT (USA) -"UNGODLY" CD
Released by Deathgasm Records in 2000
Death Metal
ABSOLUTE KEY (FIN) -"SUNDUST" CD
Released by Nekrogoat Heresy Productions in 2022
Black Noise
AGATHOCLES (BEL) -"THIS IS NOT A THREAT, IT'S A PROMISE" CD
Released by Selfmadegod Records in 2010
Mincecore
AGATHOCLES (BEL) - "KANPAI!! / ASAKUSA EXTREME FESTIVAL" CD + DVD
Released by Selfmadegod Records in 2010
Mincecore
AGATHOCLES (BEL) / DISORDER (UK) - "TOTAL BRAINDEAD / MASSACRE OF FISH" SPLIT CD
Released by Power It Up Records in 2015
Grindcore
AGONIA CATARTICA (PER) - "DRAMA" CD
Co-released by Tribulacion Productions & Rebellious Records in 2015
Black Metal
ANIMALESCO, O MÉTODO (POR) - "ANIMALESCO, O MÉTODO" CD
Co-released by Murder Records & Raging Planet Records in 2021
Crust Death Metal
ATOMIK DESTRUKTOR (POR) - "UNNATURAL DISORDER" CD
Released by Helldprod Records in 2015
Thrash Metal
PRIMITIVE (BRA) - "METAL BAPHOMET" CD
Released by Murder Records in 2021
Black Thrash Metal
THRASHERA (BRA) -"NÀO GOSTO" CD
Released by Helldprod Records in 2020 with official distribution by Murder Records
Speed Thrash Metal
THRASHERA (BRA) - "BASTARDOS DA NOITE" CD
Released by Helldprod Records in 2022
Speed Thrash Metal
info@murder-records.eu
www.murder-records.eu
Horror
Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new EP from New
Jersey's Blackened Death Metal desecrators DRAGSHOLM. SORROW
HEXEN is up now for pre-order and will be released September 6th
on CD and Digital formats along with merch.Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Dragsholm to the roster with their 3rd EP Sorrow Hexen! Hailing from the crypts of Northern New Jersey, Dragsholm was founded in 2017, and in 2022, a full lineup was formed.
Sorrow Hexen weaves a tapestry of melodic riffs, thunderous drums, and punishing vocals. The EP’s atmosphere is a blend of the occult and the melancholic, a perfect representation of Dragsholm’s unique sound.
Blackened Death Metal for fans of Dissection, Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir, Sacramentum and Vinterland.
Tracklisting:
1. Death Knell
2. Irina's Heart
3. Verglas
4. Sorrow Hexen
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HELLWRATH – “SIN EATER” (EP)
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: august 19th 2024
Genre: Slam Death/Deathcore
For fans of: Gorevent | Acranius | Gutrectomy | Guttural Slug
“In their rhythmic piping, droning, rattling, and beating I felt an element of terror beyond all the known terrors of earth—a terror peculiarly dissociated from personal fear, and taking the form of a sort of objective pity for our planet, that it should hold within its depths such horrors as must lie beyond these aegipanic cacophonies.”
‘Under The Pyramids’ - H.P. Lovecraft
Beneath my feet the earth shakes, as if in the throes of contorting agony – and rising from unimagined depths I hear the sound of drums like sky-rending thunder. They are drums of war, drums of imperious domination, drums of summoning. I slip into a trance and my mind’s eye descends through the soil, through the bones and relics of ages past, through the earth’s tortured crust, the red hell of the seething mantle, down into the planet’s core of fire. And there amidst the flames I see the creatures of nightmare amassed in their countless millions, bowing low before the impossible magnitude of the lord of devils, made strong by our pernicious wickedness, a towering god of darkness…the Sin Eater!
A new force in extreme heaviness has emerged from the south London smoke, a new pulverizing power without mercy, without remorse – Hellwrath have arrived upon the extreme music stage. Debut EP, Sin Eater, opens with the sounds of desperate panic that are slowly but insistently obliterated by riffs like the pounding of a gargantuan steam hammer. Landing staggered and staggering blows, first song, ‘Silence By Death’, delivers the Hellwrath manifesto – monstrous slamming power above all and beyond all. With vocals that rumble through your ribcage, shaking your internal organs and riffs that scour the sewers and the dark places of the earth, all riding on insidiously pulsating rhythms and a sense of inherent, mechanistic violence, Sin Eater unleashes a high impact sonic attack, with the force of a mortar shell. From the methodical beating of ‘The Alchemist’, with the weight of the world behind every chord, to the deep, scarring grooves and massive tactile riffs of ‘Hellwrath’, this EP is a journey through a landscape of blasted devastation. Vocalist and lyricist Paul Bower has drawn upon his days working in the grim and pressurised environment of the UK’s prisons and his own battles against the demons that prey on our mental well-being, infusing Sin Eater with an aura of confusion, anger and despondency, intensifying the brutal, juddering collision between the listener’s psyche and the band’s venomous outpourings of wounded rage. Concluding with a cover of Godsmack’s ‘I Stand Alone’ that takes this EP into different territories of melody and structure, despite being slammed into the dirt with typical Hellwrath heft and muscle, along with an EDM remix of ‘Sin Eater’ by Neutropics , Hellwrath’s debut demonstrates a willingness and ability to infiltrate unexpected dominions of darkness in the band’s quest for ultimate domination.
Produced and mixed by Alex Sedin (Anachronism, Adelon, Essence Of Datum etc) of Ghostalgy Prods, Sin Eater sounds vast and intimidatingly heavy, with an undercurrent of unnerving atmosphere. Prepare to be shaken to the core when Sin Eater erupts from the depths on August 19th.
Line-up:
Paul Bower - Vocals
Dylan Price - Bass
Igor Korsakov - Guitar
https://linktr.ee/hellwrathband
Dutch blackened death metal behemoths MISANTHROPIA have unveiled a chilling new chapter in their sonic onslaught with the lyric video release for "FADE INTO THE ABYSS." This is a pulse-pounding first taste of their forthcoming concept album, "ENVY THE DEAD," set to be unleashed upon the world on September 6th, 2024, via Wormholedeath Records.
"Fade
Into The Abyss" paints a chilling portrait of Mary Ann Cotton, a
notorious 19th-century English serial killer, emphasizing her role as a
deceptive and deadly figure whose legacy of horror and sorrow remains impactful
through the ages.The lyric video visualizes the song's sinister narrative, capturing the essence of a woman whose legacy of terror continues to haunt the living.
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
"Envy The Dead" is a concept album that conjures a dark, gritty atmosphere inspired by historical horrors like Jack The Ripper and necromancy. Moving away from symphonic elements, it embraces a progressive Death/Thrash vibe with influences from Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death. Mike Wead (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) is behind the engineering, mixing, and mastering .
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
www.youtube.com/@misanthropiaofficial4167
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Finnish Alternative Death Metal band UNJOYFUL PLAY is set to release the self-titled debut EP on September 19th 2024 via Inverse Records. A music video for the first and only single 'Fight Till The Last Man' can be seen here: https://youtu.be/kyBRNQnA-Vk
Sami Lustig comments: "A powerful story of humanity's fight for survival. Song is the second chapter of the story, where the resistance rises up to fight dictaturism. Song was chosen as the first single because it is the most approachable of the songs."
Listen Fight Till The Last Man on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/unjoyful-play-fight
Unjoyful Play is a solo project by Sami Lustig from Hautajaisyö and Uhriristi. It mixes fictional storytelling with metal music. It is a dystopian story about humanity at the end of the world. Dictatorship and resistance are in constant battle. The apocalypse comes and the total destruction of mankind. In the last song, mankind wakes up in the morning fog, confused and bewildered to find that they have been living in a part of God's hell machine. A barrel organ, operated by a faceless and timeless figure. As the barrel organ plays its last note, the nightmare and destruction begins again and eternity plays its melody of damnation.
Line-up:
Guitars, bass, synth & backing vocals: Sami Lustig
Clean vocals: Tomas Ahlroos
Drums: Jimi Myöhänen
Vocals on "Stand For The Empire" Iiro Juntunen.
Vocals on "Annihilation"
Janne Partanen & Martin Pick.
Guitar solo on "Annihilation"
Topi Pitkänen.
Shout choir on "Stand For The Empire" & "Fight Till The Last Man"
Janne Partanen, Martin Pick & Sami Lustig.
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Dear Friends in the Press and Media worldwide. We’re proud to announce a partnership with Chilean recluse R. Myiasis, a multi-instrumentalist from Talca, Chile, who’s latest death-doom abomination under the cryptic moniker of MIASMA OF OCCVLT LIMBS, is getting a first ever vinyl release for its first ever full-length album, 2023’s "Occvlta Caerimonia Putridvm".
The
wretched birth of mysterious chilean death-doom enigma Miasma of Occvlt Limbs
is an experience to behold, and an abomination entirely unto its own. The
band's death-devoured debut full-length album titled "OCCVLTA
CAERIMONIA PUTRIDVM" was silently digitally released on
Bandcamp by sole mastermind Myiasis in early 2023 going virtually ignored, as
sadly happens all too often to South American extreme metal, notoriously to the
contrary a perpetual source of marvel and wonder when it comes to the most
unique and obscure crafts of dark and deviant extreme music. With no exception
to this tradition "Occvlta Caerimonia Putridvm" immediately
self-identified itself as an unmistakable gem of Chilean extreme metal,
unfolding a foul masterclass of utterly horrific and putrescent drone-infused
death-doom.A crypt-born abomination of immense subsonic death metal dripping with filth and riddled with decay. Death-obsessed and reeking in putrefaction, "Occvlta Caerimonia Putridvm" sees Miasma of Occvlt Limbs slow down the meters of Incantation's putrid death metal even further, reaching the abysmal dimensions of Disembowelment where space is consequently created by the arbitrary stretching of tempos and the songs turn into a widescreen panoramic canvas primed for experimentation. It is in this state of slow-crawling, agonizing filth that Miasma of Occvlt Limbs reaches the zenith of its death-scared triumph, as visions of rotting sepulchers and decaying remains are conjured with horrendous mastery. And as the listener is subjected to this foul descent into the catacombs, the agony slows further, seemingly never-ending, as light fades from above and the scent of death becomes as thick as magma. In this twilight zone of benthic decaying horror, Miasma of Occvlt Limbs touches the depths and surrealism of Sunn O))) as marked drone and funeral doom segments hold the listener even longer frozen in terror as the nightmare unfolds seemingly without end, making "Occvlta Caerimonia Putridvm" without a doubt one of the most underrated, enigmatic and evocative pieces of necrotic death-doom conceived (and then criminally overlooked) in 2023.
The vinyl release for "Occvlta Caerimonia Putridvm" is slated for an August 16 2023 release and is available now as pre-order, as well as digitally in its entirety, via all our channels.
https://sentientruin.com/releases/miasma-of-occvlt-limbs-occulta-caerimonia-putridum
The song will be available on all streaming platforms starting August 8, 2024. The entire "Mentes Reae" album will be released on streaming services in September 2024. The album is already available for purchase in physical CD format from Inverse Records' and Levykauppa ÄX's online stores.
Listen to the song on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/hagalas-reprisalscars
Hagalas:
Kalle Korhonen, vocals
Antti Huovila, guitar
JM Helenius, guitar
Ville Uimi, bass
TeemuKankainen, drums
www.hagalasofficial.com
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After
three years from the initial date for this release to see the light of
day, MURDER RECORDS now has the honor of announcing its
return to activities and for that we are going to pick up where things left off
and we are honored to finally present the release of the reissue on cassette
of ORGIA NUCLEAR'S first album, an infamous project that
emerged from the diabolical mind of the profane Jonathan Hellthrasher
Maniac, an explosive creature from the nauseating Brazilian underworld."O RETORNO DO CAOS TOTAL A EXTERMINAÇÃO COMPLETA" are the apocalyptic extilations of the first record "Caos Total" that ORGIA NUCLEAR originally released in 2012, being fully re-recorded by Armando Exekutör in his gutarra, where he executes us with his desimating solos.
Bitch Hunter with his bass guitar that butchers us with the spacing of a fearless drums, while we are shot with the bass of Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac who is also responsible for the blasphemous vomits and a whole explovive concept in constant destructive chaos for a total extermination.
Complementing this with an Intro and three more songs never released, compositions made at that time and today in a concistent way gain a totally independent form with a Rock N Hell rebellion in this new album of ORGIA NUCLEAR, mixing and mastering by Bitch Hunter in 2020 and that is now presented here to smash you against a wall.
There were many cycles and challenges that ORGIA NUCLEAR faced over the years, but always writing their history in a dignified and authentic way, without selling out or surrendering to the miserable stardom that infests the Underground and to which many end up selling themselves!
The real ORGIA NUCLEAR ideals have always been against this kind of attitudes and they intend to continue spreading chaos, stepping on the heads of the weak, with musical perversity, keeping a marginal and aggressive line in their lyrics, ideas of revolt, visions of horror about this world and its submissive humanity. Even with all that, there were never any barriers that couldn't be broken or blown up in order to follow the march of chaos and Thrash Metal explosion.
Over the years ORGIA NUCLEAR has managed to create its own genre that we can include in the true Speed Black Thrash Metal Punk Marginal that will explode your brain.
ORGIA NUCLEAR - “O RETORNO DO CAOS TOTAL A ELIMINAÇÃO COMPLETA”
Cassette Limited Edition of 100 copies hand-numbered
50 Copies with Orange Cassettes.
50 Copies in double color White & Red Cassettes.
Lado Caótico
01 - Intro
02 - Caos Total
03 - Combustível Profano
04 - Desgraça Na Terra
05 - Inocência Corrompida
06 - Maníaco Sexual
Total Time: 13:23 Min.
Lado Destrutivo
07 - Força De Vontade
08 - Noite Perdida
09 - União Hellthrasher
10 – Traição
Total Time: 11.26 Min.
WILD SPEED BLACK THRASH INFERNAL METAL PUNK MARGINAL
All lyrics by Jonathan Hellthrasher.
Songs by Orgia Nulear, except Combustível Profano, Inocência Corrompida and Força De Vontade by Bitch Hünter, and União Hellthrasher by Armando Exekutör.
Vocals originally recorded in August 2012 and instruments recorded in September 2020 at Vampire's Studio RJ in Brazil.
Solos recorded in November 2020 at Cavalcantes Studio.
Produced, mixed and mastered by: Bitch Hünter.
Traição is a bônus track extracted from the EP "Eliminando Os Falsos" Logo and Cover by Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac.
Final layout by Alemão.
ORGIA NUCLEAR are:
Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac: Vocals & Bass
Bitch Hünter: Guitar, Bass, Drums & Backing Vocals
Armando Exekutör: Guitars
Line-up in the bonus track Traição:
Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac: Vocals & Bass
HellsexmaniaxXx: Guitar & Backing Vocals
Hellragnar: Bass
Hellatomicsemen: Drums
hellthrasher.maniac@gmail.com
https://orgianuclear.bandcamp.com/
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Pre-Orders Only Here: https://www.murder-records.eu/hellstore-europe/pre-order
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Atlanta (GA) - Deep from the vaults, Boris Records and Deanwell Global Music are proud to announce the September 6 vinyl and digital release of SURRENDER TO DEATH: A HISTORY OF THE ATLANTA METAL UNDERGROUND VOL. 1, a retrospective of the Atlanta metal underground from 1982 to 1999!
Spanning two decades of local bands, studio projects, and touring heavyweights, Surrender to Death showcases over 20 bands, ranging from the early days of traditional heavy metal to gory basement death metal to second-wave black metal. Far from the better-known scenes in the Bay Area and New York and Florida, the Atlanta scene was comprised of musicians dedicated to the most despised genre of music, exploring subgenres and following their art wherever it took them. Strap in and prepare yourself for a night of fierce metallic sounds born in sweaty nightclubs, packed house parties, and DIY warehouse shows.
Over half a decade in the making, Surrender to Death features original recordings sourced directly from the bands. Scheduled for release September 6 on double-vinyl with a gatefold jacket, the packaging also includes an 11x17 double-sided insert containing bios and photos of each band, a sticker, random repro band flyers, and an 18x24 full color poster. Available now for preorder in four different color options.
Pre-order:https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/surrender-to-death-a-history-of-the-atlanta-metal-underground-1982-1999-vol-1
https://deanwellglobalmusic.bandcamp.com/album/surrender-to-death-a-history-of-the-atlanta-metal-underground-1982-1999-vol-1
Track Listing:
1. Messendger – “Strangers”
2. Fortnox – “Lucifer's Eyes”
3. Ghost Story – “What Few Even Dare”
4. Necropolis – “Waters of Lathe”
5. MX – “Rock You”
6. Sinister Angel – “Streetlight Glamour”
7. Legion – “Evil Mind”
8. Kinetic Dissent – “Reflected Fear”
9. Dark Overlord – “Til Death Do Us Part”
10. Hallows Eve – “Metal Merchants” (vinyl-only track)
11. Unblessed – “When It Bleeds It Pours”
12. Lestregus Nosferatus – “Sixteenth Chamber”
13. Rot – “Pray to Death”
14. Avulsion – “Inexorable Suffering”
15. Dawn of Orion – “Gates of Emptiness”
16. Haborym – “Metaphorical Ithaca”
17. Tragic Demise – “The Righteous Shall Fall”
18. Demoncy – “Winter Bliss”
19. Necroflesh – “Scream”
20. Procostimus – “Synthesis of Rebirth”
21. Darkened Skies – “Reign of Radulescu”
22. Vastion – “Ensuring Your Death”
Credits:
All tracks remastered from various sources by Jessica Thompson Audio.
Surrender to Death logo and jacket illustration by Brian Warner (ESAYDE).
Surrender to Death is part of Deanwell Global Music’s “Georgia
Historical Metal Archive Series” and Volume 2 in Boris Record’s “Atlanta Metal Underground Archive Series.”
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FERAL – “TO USURP THE THRONES”
For
fans of
- Dismember, Carnage, Entombed, Autopsy, Murder Squad, Fleshcrawl, Bloodbath, GraveSwedish axe-wielding death metal marauders Feral proclaimed their rights to the throne with a potent split last year with crust-ridden death metal label mates Crawl. And as promised, they launched a massive, comprehensive onslaught the following year to eliminate all competition in the Swedish death metal realm. Those familiar with their legend know their humongous heft and power but what's also notable about them is their penchant for writing detailed and highly structured songs, more so than most bands of their ilk. This is death metal that looks, sounds and feels as if it's played by real savage Vikings but it is also wisely written, backed with nearly two decades of skull-crushing experience. Musically they not only honour the ancient Nordic gods the traditional way but also skillfully assimilate influences of the darker, filthier bands from across the ocean like Autopsy into their sound and solidify it many times over. The result is an insurmountable wall of sound that not only overwhelms and conquers but also makes room for tantalizing solos, menacing slower passages, and of course, the neck-snapping groovy parts. With 'To Usurp the Thrones', Feral have once again showed why they're the irrefutable contenders to the Swedish death metal throne and have delivered one of the most accomplished albums in the style in recent times.
Line up
David Nilsson - Vocals
Viktor Klingstedt - Bass
Markus Lindahl - Guitar
Sebastian Lejon - Guitar
Roger Markström - Drums
Artwork by Costin Chioreanu (Grave)
Track listing
1. To Drain the World of Light
2. Vile Malediction
3. Deformed Mentality
4. Bound to the Dead
5. The Devouring Storm
6. Spirits Without Rest
7. Decimated
8. Phantoms of Antiquity
9. Soaked in Blood
10. Into the Ashes of History
11. Stripped of Flesh
Release date - October 18th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
CORPSEFUCKING ART – “TOMATIZED”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: october 4th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Mortician | Cannibal Corpse | Autopsy | Deranged
“Earth shall be ruled by a new breed of sentient beings!”
The world as you know it is crumbling around you, the walls of reality collapsing beneath a tsunami of screaming colours and deranged impossibilities. Bacterial holocaust invoked by the impetuous experiments of meddling scientists, alien invasion and gargantuan plant life with rapacious appetites! Books of the dead and restless spirits, a violent revolution of the creatures of the sea, mankind consumed as the protagonists of tales of horror walk the streets! Are you awake or dreaming? Is this a nightmare or encroaching insanity? It is all of this and more…you are lost in the gore-soaked madness of the mind of Corpsefucking Art!
“Behold the kingdom of cyclopic tomatoes!”
It’s been six years now since the release of the last Corpsefucking Art album, the excellent Splatterphobia, but at long last the Italian purveyors of sonic grotesqueries have returned…and they’re better – and more dangerously deranged – than ever! New album Tomatized combines magnificent death metal and utter madness as only Corpsefucking Art can. The opening, title track welcomes us into this madhouse with massive, crunching, grinding riffs, drum beats of insane force and shuddering impact and those sewer-dwelling vocals, laced with threat and promises of slaughter. Whatever the wild stories being told in the lyrics, this music will still tear you limb from limb. ‘Hell Of The Living Dead’ follows with some glorious, blood-spattered riffs that underline the sheer satisfying brilliance of Corpsefucking Art’s mastery of death metal. The quality never drops for a second as infectious hooks and bowel shaking rhythms are delivered with intense focus and relentless power, the exceptional music infusing the bizarre humour with an unnerving darkness. The massive sludge of ‘The Book Of The Dead’ is like drowning in congealing blood and ‘Phantasm’ dices and dissects with practised ease. ‘Escape From Alpha City’ provides the fantastically unhinged conclusion to this carnival ride through chaos and carnage, setting the seal on what is surely the finest, most entertaining and strangely unsettling death metal album ever to escape from the Corpsefucking Art asylum.
“Now I’m here – stuck in this vegetable inferno!”
When Comatose Music unlock the padded cell containing Tomatized on October 4th, the impact will be seismic. Thanks to the engineering and mixing skills of Alessio Cattaneo (Hideous Divinity, Satanika etc) and the mastering wizardry of Stefano Morabito (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Vomit The Soul etc) the sound on this album is immense; raw, bloody and richly textured – every word, beat and note landing with brutal force. The fantastic package is completed by the artwork of Pierre De Palmas (Impetigo, Cliteater etc) – you will never look at tomatoes in the same way again. If you love death metal, then Tomatized is unmissable. Be ready for the vegetable invasion!
“I’m in a mental hospital. Where are my tomato friends?”
Line-up:
Frank Moretti - Vocals
Andrea Corpse - Guitar
Mario Di Giambattista - Guitar
Marco De Ritis - Bass
John De Bello - Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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CULT OF ORPIST – „ ATTACK OF THE ZOMBIE CANS “
Get
ready! The new single "ON THE VERGE OF INSANITY" is
coming out on August 09, all platforms, and the Lyric Video July 20.The full album 'Attack of the Zombie Cans' will be released on September 06 from Greece's very own purveyors of chaos, Cult of Orpist
Emerging from the deepest abysses of Greece, this death metal powerhouse initially unleashed their wrath with the unforgiving 2022 debut self-titled EP.
Unleash the power of pure death/thrash metal with the debut album “Attack of the Zombie Cans” from Cult of Orpist! Hailing from Greece, this band is a force to be reckoned with, delivering a brutal mix of death and thrash metal that will leave you headbanging and moshing with reckless abandon.
This release is not for the faint of heart – it’s raw, aggressive, and packed with crushing riffs, pounding drums, and ferocious vocals. This is the type of metal that will leave you feeling energized and empowered, ready to conquer the world.
Tracklist
The Lurking Invasion
Attack of the Zombie Cans
On the Verge of Insanity
Chainsaw Justice
Humiliation
Post Murder Suicide.
B.T.S.
Homage
Total War
Cult of Orpist emerged from the ashes in early 2021, forged by Chris Panagitsas and Hector Sohos with one ruthless objective: to unleash a relentless onslaught of 90s Death/Thrash mayhem, drawing inspiration from icons like SLAYER, ENTOMBED, SODOM, KREATOR, TOXIC HOLOCAUST, and beyond. With the addition of the savage drummer Sotiris Dimitropoulos, they honed their ferocious sound through relentless rehearsals. By the end of 2021, the lineup reached its apex with the arrival of George “Dimator” Dimitrakakis on lead guitar, marking the inception of Cult of Orpist's debut self-titled EP.
Members:
Hector Sohos - Vocals/Bass
Chris Panagitsas - Rhythm Guitar
George Dimitrakakis - Lead Guitar
Sotos Dimitropoulos - Drums
cultoforpist@gmail.com
https://www.brutalrecords.com/
Hungarian
Death Metal band ...IN VISCERO announce debut album "ITALIA
VIOLENTA" . Hungarian Death Metal trio ...IN VISCERO announce
their debut full-length album "Italia Violenta" scheduled for a
September 1st release on Pest Records (Romania) and Metal Ör Die
Records (Hungary)! The band's sound is Swedish, the band members are
seasoned musicians with experience in Hungarian bands such as Casketgarden, Boru, Mutilation
Case and Rém, and the lyrics are in Italian. The first video single titled "Incubo sulla città contaminata" is now online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5t8frKfA-0
Here's what the band had to say about the album:
"Our goal is to evoke the great moments of Italian cinema between the 60s and 90s. The era when filmmaking was more human, creative and forward-looking. When the void created by financial gaps was filled with human creativity, which created masterpieces that are now inscribed in gold in the eternal pantheon of universal cinematography. The seven films evoked by the album's songs tell tales about demons, zombies, witches and the darkest side of the human mind. After listening to the album, watching these films is not only necessary, but mandatory!
Viva il Cinema Italiano!"
https://pestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-viscero-italia-violenta
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Label: Narcoleptica
ProductionsRelease date: september 2nd 2024
Genre: Black Metal
For fans of: Ofermod | Shining | Khold | Sulphur Aeon
Dutch black metal force Serotonin have always been a band that have followed their own star in the extreme music firmament, exploring the outer reaches of darkness and the forgotten places far below. Taking an avant-garde approach to their music, unbound by the expectations of others or the restrictive rules of the genre, they have allowed their music to develop naturally, spreading like acrid smoke into whatever areas of sound and composition most successfully capture the strange atmospheres they seek to create. Lyrically too they turn their gaze to deeper, more disturbing and thought provoking stories than fantasies of screeching devils and random acts of mindless violence…and never has this concoction of creativity been more challenging and more rewarding than within the black pages of their fourth full length album, Motiv…
With Motiv, they have sculpted the shadows of their creative energies into the most unnerving, skin-crawling forms to date. After opening with the formidable, driving power of ‘Climbing The Colossus’, which leads us up the steps within the imposing structure of the Sancarlone - a staggering copper statue which gazes down upon Lake Maggiore in Italy - the album then slips sideways into ever darker territories, where tracks like ‘Sinner Box’, with its twists of chaos and warped edges, threaten to swallow you whole as it compares the callous experiments of the operant conditioning chamber with man’s endless, mindless pursuit of wealth. ‘Garrote In D’, a defiant refusal to bend the knee, to conform or obey, is a creeping manifestation of the sinister that seems at first to be working with familiar black metal motifs, but it is subtly caressing them into different structures – surprising melodies and atmospheres bleeding into the blackness – until, gradually, the realisation that you have lost your way begins to surface and you are confronted with something profoundly different, something that gnaws at your sense of understanding with splintered teeth. The voyage through this sonic landscape of the unknown and unpredictable continues with slow death marches and fever dream aesthetics, with every familiar landmark proving to be just another signpost to the unknown. Finally you reach the majestic ending of ‘Leidmotiv’ that weaves the memories of Motiv into the fabric of your mind with its stark warnings against complacency in the face of insidious political evil, ensuring that you will never forget your journey through the night time world of Serotonin.
Mixed by Magnus Devo Andersson at Endarker Studios (Marduk, Ofermod, Count Raven etc) and mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios (Code, Alkerdeel, Ungfell etc) Motiv sounds spectacular – raw, rich, jagged and dangerous, every element of sound alive with malice and mystery. Completing this stunning package is the superb artwork of Emil Underjberg (Sunken, The Mountain King etc), the perfect seal upon this covenant of chaos. Motiv will be released by Narcoleptica Productions on September 2nd and all who hear it will be lost within its labyrinth of thought and revelation.
Line-up:
Sander Hordijik - Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Martin Perescis – Vocals, Drums, Programming
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Evilyn, featuring members of Malignancy, Exist, Norse, Thoren, have created dissonant death metal that is mind-numbingly heavy. Normally bands playing this kind of music focus on the technicality or atmosphere and either way go about it in a comparatively languid fashion, weaving a tenuous web of hypnotic riffs. Evilyn do that too, the only difference being that they bludgeon you in the head while doing so for some reason. With music so complex, they believe in hammering the point home. No Clean Singing premiered a new skull-opening track which can be found at https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/06/28/an-ncs-premiere-evilyn-bloviate/
"...a fascinating union of stark contrasts. In part it’s primitive, brutish, and unforgiving (the vocals are themselves bestially brutish), but it’s also remarkably intricate and elaborate"
EVILYN – “MONDESTRUNKEN”
For
fans of
- Gorguts, Maere, Morbid Angel, Dischordia, Coma
Cluster Void, Saevus Finis, Wicked InnocenceEvilyn have created an atypical death metal album which is at once monolithic, alien and formidable. Anthony Lipari of Thoren fame has put together quite a lineup for the band's debut full length, roping in members of Malignancy, Exist, Norse and even taking the assistance of Coma Cluster Void's Jeanne Comateuse who has been instrumental in arranging, mixing and crafting the mesmerizing album artwork for the release. The music they've concocted is unbearably heavy, with riffs like obelisks of impermeable concrete slabs tearing through the earth's crust, rising up with a pattern that can only be deciphered after multiple listens. The pacing too seems erratic, sometimes staggered, the feeling akin to stumbling through a labyrinthine minefield that impales upon contact. It is simultaneously dissonant, twisted, technical and crushing, and as confounding as things invariably get, they leave the listener coming back for more in an attempt to demystify this phenomenon. Ostensibly familiar-sounding but pulverizing and otherworldly in nature, Evilyn's debut full length is not to be missed.
Line up
Anthony Lipari (Thoren) - Guitar and Vocals
Alex Weber (Malignancy, Exist, Obscura - live) - Bass
Robin Stone (Norse) - Drums
Mixed and mastered by Jeanne Comateuse
Track listing:
1. Dread
2. Omission
3. Limits
4. Bloviate
5. Penance
6. Vacuous
7. Interwoven
8. Forgotten
9. Slithering
10. Eat the Elite
Artwork by Jeanne Comateuse (Coma Cluster Void)
Release date - August 16th, 2024
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https://www.facebook.com/evilyndeath
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
The band expressed their excitement about the partnership, "We were in contact with Wormholedeath early in the creation of our new CD. There were a few things that drew us to the label; the existing client list of hardcore and metal bands, the word of mouth as a reputable label, and the work ethic of everyone involved at Wormholedeath Records. After many emails and correspondence with Carlo and Carla, we were able to agree and see that Carlo was willing to work as hard or more than the band was willing to work to ensure our success. This was a “no-brainer” for Trip to the Morgue.
We are grateful for the opportunity to work with Carlo and his team, share a label with talented like-minded, and ambitious musicians and bands but most of all for the sincerity and dedication of those at the label who patiently worked with us to help gather and get our logistics together for a successful promotion and presentation of the band."
Formed in 2010, Trip To The Morgue has been on a mission to deliver a pulverizing concoction of grindcore mayhem, infused with old-school thrash, crossover, and the raw punk energy that birthed these extreme genres. Over the years, the band has honed its sound into a tight, brutal machine, featuring the current lineup of Dave Oshann (bass/vocals), J Patrick McCosar (lead guitar/vocals), Joey Maddox (guitar/vocals), and Vincent Rizzo (drums/vocals).
Toe Tagged And Body Bagged is a sonic time capsule, that transports listeners back to the golden age of thrash, crossover, grindcore, and hardcore. Brace yourself for a pummeling onslaught of heavy riffs, breakneck tempos, and unadulterated aggression, all inspired by the bands that laid the foundation for extreme music.
Get Ready to Mosh (Even in Your Mom's Kitchen)
Trip To The Morgue's multifaceted assault is guaranteed to get your head banging and unleash your inner mosh fiend. This genre-bending masterpiece is a sonic exploration of everything heavy, fast, and in-your-face, capturing the raw energy of the early hardcore scene.
Tracklist1.Disorder
2. Toe Tagged and Body Bagged
3. Digging Your Grave (Feat. Mitch Harris of Napalm Death)
4. Aluminum Bat
5. Nuclear Holocaust
6. Broken Glass
7. Tribal Lust
8. Fuckin Die
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www.facebook.com/trip2morgue
NEWS 3.8.2024
Auch wenn man bei diesem Wetter sicherlich besseres zu
tun hätte, als in der eignen Bude rumzuhocken, haben wir uns doch wieder
hingesetzt, und uns ein bissel was an neuer "Krachmucke" reingezogen.
Und da sind nun tatsächlich wieder so einige Sachen dabei, die wir Euch ans
schwermetallische Herz legen wollen, können und vielleicht sogar müssen. Denn
es ist echt geil, gerade heutzutage noch zu merken, dass sich gerade in unserer
Metal Szene nicht alles zu einem Einheitsbrei oder dem totalen Kommerz
entwickelt . NEKROTHORAX – „RAŻĄCĄ NIEWDZIĘCZNOŚĆ“
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MARCHE FUNÈBRE – “AFTER THE STORM”
Label: Ardua MusicRelease date: september 27th 2024
Genre: Doom/Death Metal
For fans of: Officium Triste | My Dying Bride | Paradise Lost | Saturnus
I stand beneath the open sky, at the setting of the sun. The still waters stretch before me to the distant horizon and the clouds drift slowly across the vast canvas of the sky – a brilliant blending of deepest blues, rich purples, vivid red and warm orange. Yet for all the open vista, the space and freedom, I am trapped; suffocating in a labyrinth of black desperation. The cold walls of insurmountable sorrows and confusion contain me and I am imprisoned by past scars that have become infected, poisoned by the cruel, slow venoms of grief, loss and guilt. I built this maze, but I have long since forgotten the way to freedom…
“Tainted by miasma, corrupting your heart .Born from old pain, disrupted by taint .In a haze you locked your heart…” - In A Haze – Marche Funèbre
Fifteen years since the release of their debut EP, Norizon, Belgium’s monarchs of morose majesty, Marche Funèbre, are set to unveil their fifth full length album – After The Storm. Each release from this special band has seen them refining their art, becoming ever more adept at delivering crushing heaviness married to wonderful melodies that resonate within the empty chambers of a broken heart…and After The Storm continues that continual upward trajectory, claiming its place at the peak of their recordings with ease. Right from the opening track and first single, ‘In A Haze’ it is abundantly clear that After The Storm is so much more than ‘just another album’. The powerful production, mix and master from Martin Furia (Destruction, Nervosa, Toxik etc) is absolute perfection, so alive and vibrant that you can almost hear the hum of the amps and feel the floor shake with each thunderous crack of the snare. This sonic quality combined with truly impassioned performances and staggering song writing makes for a doom/death listening experience to be treasured. It’s difficult to select individual highlights from an album whose songs flow together like a river, on a seamless journey to the sea, all different but all inextricably linked. However ‘Stranded’, with its magnificent chorus is simply unforgettable, as is ‘Palace Of Broken Dreams’, which manages to capture the spirit of its evocative title so beautifully with deftly handled juxtapositions of mellow melancholy and thunderous emotion. But then the next time you listen it may be the circling guitar motifs of ‘Devoid Of Empathy’, like spreading ripples upon the waters of a drowning pool, that enthral, or the sweeping tides of sorrow and pain of regret of ‘After The Storm’ itself… On rare occasions a band may capture their true essence in an album, everything that is great about their unique character – After The Storm is one of those albums.
Following the recording sessions for After The Storm, longstanding guitarist Peter Egberghs stepped down from the Marche Funèbre ranks, to be replaced by Fré De Schepper - and there could be no better album to begin the next chapter in the story of Marche Funèbre. Set for release on September 27th through Ardua Music, adorned in a stunning piece of cover artwork from Brooke Shaden, whose distinctive images have graced all of Marche Funèbre’s full length albums, After The Storm will be one of the doom/death metal releases of the year.
Line-up:
Arne Vandenhoeck – Vocals
Boris Iolis – Bass/Vocals
Dennis Lefebvre – Drums
Kurt Blommé – Clean Vocals
Fré De Schepper – Guitars
*Guitars on After The Storm by Peter Egberghs
*Piano on After The Storm by Fré De Schepper
https://www.arduamusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MarcheFunebreDoom
DISKORD – “OSCILLATIONS”
Genre: Death MetalLabel: Transcending Obscurity Records
Dive into the jarring, off-kilter soundscapes of Diskord's "Oscillations." Released on August 15, 2014, this EP offers a raw and unpredictable blend of traditional death metal with touches of grindcore and jazz-infused bass lines. Recorded at Asphyxiating Evil Studios and released through Hellthrasher Productions, the EP's standout tracks like "Elytrous Oscillations" and "A Downward Spire" showcase Diskord's ability to merge brutal riffs with intricate, unconventional rhythms. Perfect for fans of experimental death metal, "Oscillations" is a chaotic, yet captivating journey??????.
Tracklist :
1. Horrid Engine
2. Lethargic Regression
3. Hermit Dream
4. Elytrous Oscillations
5. Symbiotic Whims
6. A Downward Spire
Line up
Guitars, Vocals: Dmitry Soukhinin
Bass, Vocals: Eyvind Wærsted Axelsen
Drums, Vocals: Hans Jørgen Ersvik
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
Ocean
Thousand, Mountain Thousand fully and vividly expresses Temple Witch’s
explorative branch of doom metal, scratching that doom metal itch, while
simultaneously offering a far broader soundscape to experience, with long
hard-hitting chords and ethereal riffs to enscorcel you.Ocean Thousand, Mountain Thousand confronts personal loss, desperate confusion, and loneliness, and perhaps most importantly, the album discusses change and the growth that comes as a result.
During the writing of Ocean Thousand, Mountain Thousand Temple Witch was inspired by many great artists, including SubRosa, BleakHeart, YOB, and Spotlights, among others. Conceptually, the band was inspired by ancient philosophies, such as Taoism and Stoicism, and their daily application. Their goal with Ocean Thousand, Mountain Thousand is to relate to as many people as possible, letting others in the process- be assured that they are not alone in their pain.
Tracklist
1.Ocean Thousand
2. Knew It Once
3. This Too Shall Pass
4. Chase Tigers Away
5. Other Things
6. Motion
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, songwriter and guitarist Andy Russell joined forces with drummer Johno Benedik, sparking the birth of Temple Witch. Their musical chemistry flourished, leading to the creation of a stoner/doom metal band. With the addition of bassist Jacob Jones, the trio swiftly embarked on recording their debut album, "Hand In Hand With Chaos," released in June 2021.
Following the success of "Hand In Hand With Chaos," Temple Witch embarked on a journey of growth and achievement. They secured their first management deal with Extreme Management Group Inc. and garnered endorsements from industry leaders like DR Strings and InTune Guitar Picks, Inc. The band's ventures included performances at the inaugural Apocalypse In The Desert festival in Las Vegas and tours along the United States' east coast. In April 2023, Jacob and Andy found themselves in need of a drummer. After a handful of auditions, they met with a fellow Northeast Ohian musician; Jacob Wherley of Emerald Rage. Their connection was immediate and Jacob Wherley was welcomed into fold.
Also in May of 2023, Temple Witch signed our first record label with WormHoleDeath Records. Since then, the band has been tirelessly preparing for the release of our second album Ocean Thousand, Mountain Thousand. Temple Witch, not simply a catchy title, but a reference to the body and spirit. As a band, the goal was to write songs that tackle philosophical and, at times, existential matters. The word ‘Temple’ as a nod to body and mind; the word ‘Witch’ a reference the the shadow within all of us.
Temple Witch's ultimate aim transcends fame and fortune. Their mission as artists is to connect with audiences on a profound level, leaving a positive imprint with their music. Whether it's moving one listener or captivating a crowd of thousands, they view music as a pure form of communication. Their ambition extends globally, aspiring to reach audiences across cities and countries, touching the lives of millions.
Temple Witch’s message is not overly complicated. It is this: though we may not all understand one another, we all share the experience of being; the beauty, the wonder, the terrible suffering, and the utter cluelessness. The band doesn’t wish to make any sort of final or conclusive statements other than they know very well what it’s like to be human, and to that all people can relate, and that is what Temple Witch writes about.
Temple Witch is:
Andy Russell - guitar/vocals
Jacob Jones - bass
Jacob Wherley - drums
www.facebook.com/doomhounds
Format: Digital EPStreet date: 30th of August 2024
Label: DiSTAT
Origin: Sweden (Mariestad/Töreboda)
Sounds like: Anti Cimex, Wolfbrigade, Discharge
Style: Punk/Crust/HC
Includes members from: The Crown, Bödel, Slaveriet
Deny was formed 1995 in Töreboda by the youths Tobbe (guitar), Johan (vocals), Björkman (guitar), Lalle (drums) and David (bass) and with this setting, the band recorded a demo tape titled "?". Over the years several members have come and left. Lalle and David quit the band and were replaced by Arvid and Klasson. 1997 Deny recorded their first album "Fucked" which was released 1998. Some time passed, and Klasson and Björkman quit the band and were replaced with Jonsson (guitar) and Kjellman (bass). 1999 the band entered the studio and recorded a 10" split with "Uncontrollable Urge". The album was titled "I Hate Jesus". With this lineup Deny hit the studio once again after about a year which resulted in an unreleased recording called "F.I.G.H.T". Kjellman moved and was replaced with Bjurre from Asta Kask, Slaveriet. Johan left for his other band Frost and Dahl from Wofbrigade joined as a vocalist... In the beginning of the 21st century Deny recorded the EP "Out of Tears" which never was released. The last member change was when Dahl left town and was replaced with Emma. Unfortunately, Deny were not motivated anymore and decided to stop playing.
In the end of 2016 Johan (original vocalist) contacted the former band members and decided to start play again. The new setting is from this day Johan (vocals), Tobbe and Jonsson (guitars), Arvid (drums) and Martin (bass).
With newborn energy and inspiration of creating hardcore/punk/crust they released the mini album "Parasite Paradise" which they followed up with a 3 track EP "Past Parasites", the EP contained old songs re-recorded, and with former band members as guest artists. They got great reviews made some great shows around EU and decided to enter the studio again in 2019 and
recorded the next album "Dystopia", which were released in 2020. After this release they made some split-Eps and released some tracks on various compilations and such.
In 2023 Deny released their highly acclaimed album "Wildfire" and made a headline tour in Mexico in May 2024...
Tracklist
1. Call of the Void
2. The Performance
3. War
4. The Hateful God
Line-Up:
Bjuren - Vocals
Tobbe - Guitar
Jonsson - Guitar & Backing Vocals
Martin - Bass & Backing Vocals
Arvid - Drums
Discography:
2024 - Call of the Void (EP)
2023 - Wildfire (Album)
2021 - Deny/Chørnobyl (Split EP with Chørnobyl, 7"/DIGI)
2020 - Deny/Böset (Split EP with Böset, 7"/DIGI)
2020 - Dystopia (Album)
2018 - Past Parasites (EP)
2018 - Parasite Paradise (Mini album)
2002 - Out of Tears (EP)
2001 - F.I.G.H.T. (EP)
2000 - I Hate Jesus (Split 10" w. Uncontrollable Urge)
1998 - Fucked (Album)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HoHE35CWZklEU-M4PsN9w
https://www.facebook.com/Deny.hcpunk/
Blackened death metal paragons PARACRONA are thrilled to announce the release of their mesmerizing new lyric video for "RIVER OF PAIN," the second single from their critically acclaimed album, "SUN GOD "
Dive into the haunting and intense world of Paracrona with their latest release, "River of Pain." This official lyric video takes you on a dark journey through the emotional depths and hidden secrets that plague our minds. The lyrics vividly depict fear, corruption, and the struggle to break free from an endless cycle of suffering.
In this gripping song, Paracrona explores themes of pain, fear, and the eerie presence of evil, reflecting on the sinister underbelly of fame and the twilight zone of endangered species. The haunting visuals in the video symbolize the hidden secrets of Hollywood, adding a layer of mystery and intrigue to the powerful lyrics.
Join PARACRONA on an evocative voyage with "Sun God": an album that unearths the mysterious tapestry of ancient Egypt while drawing unsettling parallels with today's world. Infused with the mystique of forgotten civilizations, "Sun God" transports listeners to a sonic landscape where echoes of the past reverberate through powerful, modern metal.
"Sun God" is available on all digital platforms here: https://orcd.co/sungod
PARACRONA, born from the chance meeting of Ringo Christiaan Van Droffelaar and Øystein Hansen at Wacken Open Air in 2007, melds artistic vision with melodic intensity. Hailing from the Netherlands and Norway, these diverse talents, bonded by a love for metal music, embarked on a musical journey that redefined their artistry.
Their collaboration ignited in Oslo a few months later, intertwined Øystein's seasoned guitar expertise, honed in bands like Fortid, with Ringo's fervor for expression and songwriting finesse. The recording odyssey for "Sun God" began in the fall of 2016, resulting in a sonic exploration traversing metal styles, termed affectionately as "Titanium" or "Quantum Realism Metal."
Themes of spiritual growth and societal struggle infuse their lyrics, encapsulating real-life chapters within each track. Despite hurdles, including Ringo's battle with cancer in 2021, collaborations with professionals like Baard Kolstad and Fredrik Nordstrøm added finesse to their sound.
Live performances feature a talented roster, enhancing the experience. PARACRONA's album release concert at Cosmopolite Scene in Oslo, featuring Blood Red Throne and Omnia Moritur, epitomized dedication to an unforgettable scene experience.
PARACRONA transcends being just a band; it's a collective embodiment of resilience, passion, and artistic innovation. Join their journey, witness their sonic tapestry, and immerse yourself in the power of their music.
Line up:
Ringo Christiaan Van Droffelaar - vocals
Øystein Hansen - lead guitar
Audun Melby - rhythm guitar
Gregg Roland Schneider - bass
www.youtube.com/@PARACRONA
www.facebook.com/Paracrona
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: august 14th 2024
Genre: Melodic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Nightwish | Delain | Leaves’ Eyes
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."- William Shakespeare
The fierce dramas of the human heart are acted out upon the stage of a lifetime. The storms of fervour and desire, the gloom of doubt instilled by repression, the brilliant, blinding light of realisation and new found self belief – blazing sunshine cutting through the clouds of deprecation and control. We fall like the Morningstar and rise again like the phoenix. Such brief, tempestuous lives we lead, brave flames in the darkness of eternity; tiny passion plays, triumphs and tragedies, flickering sparks in the cold and endless night.
With their stunning second EP, Tame & Conquer, Franco-Italian melodic metal band Attractive Chaos paint wonderful, intimate portraits of the emotions that define us. The grand scale of our hopes and ambitions, the quiet depths of our loves, the consuming heat of our obsessions are all elegantly captured in the deceptive simplicity of stylish and sophisticated songs. Opening with new single, ‘To The Moon’, the beautiful vocals of Emma Elvaston entwine the listener in sublime melody, enfold you in a dream. The rush of positivity is gloriously uplifting and the smoothly shifting rhythms and tempos and the dextrous guitar work of Clément Botz are simply breathtaking – it’s the perfect start to the second chapter in the Attractive Chaos fairytale. Tracks like ‘Magical Powers’ and ‘Right Now’ show the darker, heavier elements of Attractive Chaos’ music, utilising harsh vocal punctuations and exquisite musicianship to highlight the layered personality and complex depths which form the foundations that support the sweetly addictive melody lines. Tame & Conquer follows naturally in the footsteps of debut EP The Fire Between Us, but Attractive Chaos have not stood still, with the multi-faceted nature of the climactic ‘Obsession’ in particular showing the band pushing onwards into new territories, as flamenco guitar, searing intensity and bewitching melody coalesce in serene sonic alchemy. Completed by first single, the entrancing ‘Words On A Letter’ where every note is radiant with the soft light of sunset and the energy infused ‘Finally’, with its magnificent chorus, you could listen to Tame & Conquer for hours on end and its magic would never fade.
Mixed and mastered at Domination Studio (Nightmare, Karl Sanders, Twilight Force etc) Tame & Conquer sounds sumptuous – a banquet for the ears – and Attractive Chaos have once again entrusted the creation of cover art to Mickael Briot of Mythrid Art (Evenflow, In Defilade etc) with spectacular results. Tame & Conquer will be released on August 14th and your heart will start to sing again…
Line-up:
Emma Elvaston – Lead Vocals
Pietro Paolo Lunesu – Bass/Backing Vocals
Clément Botz – Guitar/Backing Vocals
*drums on The Fire Between Us performed by Thomas Calegari
*guest vocals from Gabriele Gozzi
http://www.attractive-chaos.com/
https://www.facebook.com/attractivechaosband
Graveyard Thunder is aptly titled, for it brings together two cult doom metal bands, each offering three exclusive new tracks for a total of 40 minutes of bewitching, bottom-heavy sound. BOTTOMLESS are likely familiar to those following the dark deeds of DYING VICTIMS, for the Italians released their second album, The Banishing, through the label last summer. While they largely stick to their tried & true template of classic Candlemass, Trouble, and Solitude Aeternus, there’s a certain silkiness to their entry here. “Soothing” is a strange misnomer, but not entirely inaccurate; slicked-up doom this is definitely NOT. Rather, one could maybe point to the almost-hushed haunting tones of Blue Öyster Cult’s “Burning for You” and indeed even “Don’t Fear the Reaper” as extrapolated touchstones for BOTTOMLESS’ velvety rumble on their three tracks – a unique and ultimately awesome development from this increasingly potent bunch.
WITCHING ALTAR complement their split-mates well, for they’re just as – if not more! – entrenched in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. And while the Brazilians had been on something of a hiatus until last year’s surprise release of the Morningstar EP, any new WITCHING ALTAR material is cause for celebration. Thankfully, no great changes have been made to their sound: always and forever, Ozzy-era Black Sabbath and oldest Pentagram form their foundation, fleshed out by the likes of Witchfinder General, Pagan Altar, and Count Raven. Maniacal DOOM METAL traditionalism for traditional doom metal maniacs, WITCHING ALTAR nevertheless inject their own spooky personality to proceedings, particularly on the titanic “The Crypts Below.” Graveyard Thunder rolls!
Line-up:
Bottomless:
David Lucido - Drums
Giorgio Trombino - Guitars, Vocals
Laura Nardelli - Bass
From Italy
Witching Altar:
Peter Vitus - Guitars
T. Witchlover - Vocals, Bass
Hector Ricardo - Drums
From Brazil
Artwork: Welt
Release date: 27th September 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
CADAVERIC
NOISELETTER
Updated
at 31 July 2024 : HELL-O Hellish Noisebrothers!!! With the return of activities
I have encountered some difficulties in keeping my lists properly updated and
for this reason I hereby inform you that I will take advantage of this moment
to be able to redesign the website in a way that allows me to keep everything
properly organized and updated.I intend to inform you that from August 1st, 2024 I will begin the redesign of HELLSTORE EUROPE in a way that will allow me to keep everything properly organized.
This will be a long process because I have thousands of items to organize and add to the store, for that reason I would like to ask you for some patience, however this is an infinite process that will not stop and every day there will be something new published so stay tuned and welcome to this underworld of darkness...
I would also like to inform you that I am already working on new releases from Murder Records and many more news will be announced soon.
All orders and trades that I have in progress have already been sent and everything is in the delivery process. At the moment I don't intend to make any more exchanges until I can properly update my resale and exchange list, so I would appreciate it if you had a little patience until I can reorganize everything.
Discogs is also now empty and I will soon start adding all the items again, however due to the high fees charged by Discogs and PayPal I will be forced to put the prices on Discogs at a higher value than what you can find directly in the Hellstore Europe.
For now, these are the news I have to share, so I want to thank everyone for their understanding and patience in this transition process, which will take some time for everything to return to normal, however, I will do my best to ensure that everything returns to normal as soon as possible.
SUPPORT THE TRUE CADAVERIC UNDERGROUND NOISE ON... WORLD OFF...
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After three years from the initial date for this release to see the light of day, Murder Records now has the honor of announcing its return to activities and for that we are going to pick up where things left off and we are honored to finally present the release of the reissue on cassette of ORGIA NUCLEAR's first album, an infamous project that emerged from the diabolical mind of the profane Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac, an explosive creature from the nauseating Brazilian underworld.
"O RETORNO DO CAOS TOTAL A EXTERMINAÇÃO COMPLETA" are the apocalyptic extilations of the first record "Caos Total" that ORGIA NUCLEAR originally released in 2012, being fully re-recorded by Armando Exekutör in his gutarra, where he executes us with his desimating solos.
Bitch Hunter with his bass guitar that butchers us with the spacing of a fearless drums, while we are shot with the bass of Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac who is also responsible for the blasphemous vomits and a whole explovive concept in constant destructive chaos for a total extermination.
Complementing this with an Intro and three more songs never released, compositions made at that time and today in a concistent way gain a totally independent form with a Rock N Hell rebellion in this new album of ORGIA NUCLEAR, mixing and mastering by Bitch Hunter in 2020 and that is now presented here to smash you against a wall.
There were many cycles and challenges that ORGIA NUCLEAR faced over the years, but always writing their history in a dignified and authentic way, without selling out or surrendering to the miserable stardom that infests the Underground and to which many end up selling themselves!
The real NUCLEAR ORGIA ideals have always been against this kind of attitudes and they intend to continue spreading chaos, stepping on the heads of the weak, with musical perversity, keeping a marginal and aggressive line in their lyrics, ideas of revolt, visions of horror about this world and its submissive humanity. Even with all that, there were never any barriers that couldn't be broken or blown up in order to follow the march of chaos and Thrash Metal explosion.
Over the years ORGIA NUCLEAR has managed to create its own genre that we can include in the true Speed Black Thrash Metal Punk Marginal that will explode your brain.
ORGIA NUCLEAR - “O RETORNO DO CAOS TOTAL A ELIMINAÇÃO COMPLETA”
SPEED BLACK THRASH METAL PUNK MARGINAL
All lyrics by Jonathan Hellthrasher.
Songs by Orgia Nulear, except Combustível Profano, Inocência Corrompida and Força De Vontade by Bitch Hünter, and União Hellthrasher by Armando Exekutör.
Vocals originally recorded in August 2012 and instruments recorded in September 2020 at Vampire's Studio RJ in Brazil.
Solos recorded in November 2020 at Cavalcantes Studio.
Produced, mixed and mastered by: Bitch Hünter.
Traição is a bônus track extracted from the EP "Eliminando Os Falsos" Logo and Cover by Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac Final layout by Alemão.
Video clip made by Leo Mora.
ORGIA NUCLEAR are:
Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac: Vocals & Bass
Bitch Hünter: Guitar, Bass, Drums & Backing Vocals
Armando Exekutör: Guitars
Line-up in the bônus track Traição:
Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac: Vocals & Bass
HellsexmaniaxXx: Guitar & Backing Vocals
Hellragnar: Bass
Hellatomicsemen: Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Orgia.Nuclear666
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CAMOS elevates the old hard’n’heavy obscure flame of glory in the Vera Cruz lands (Brazil), Curitiba, since 2000, so these guys aren’t new at the scene especially if you count with Sucoth Benoth in their ranks, Amen Corner’s bestial frontman. The truth is that, musically, you don’t get this kind of knowledge and experience nowadays so easily.
With “HIDE FROM THE LIGHT”, their semaphore album, CAMOS powerful reign continues untouchable. 10 new songs ready to melt your ears with their horned chorus, their somberlain melodies to hypnotize our senses into deep slumber and the guitar solos to strip us from our souls. Overall, a fantastic production gives this work an in depth texture in which all heavy metal fans will relate in a blink of an eye.
A lot happens in CAMOS music and for all that matters it’s worth to be listened. For starters, there’s a psychedelic aura within the songs that bring together the pounding strength of the compositions. Also, the mystic and dark vocals, and lyrics make through the regular genre songs, almost if we could mix Mercyful Fate, with Master’s Hammer, Celtic Frost (Into the Pandemonium era) and Alice Cooper. So, we’re talking about a wide musical specter from black, to horror and heavy metal here which is very exquisite for all those who’re into these musical landscapes.
A real metallic treat awaits all your raising fists, the spirit of metal lives on and “Hide from the Light” from CAMOS will stand tall in the wind as your victory flag. Don’t miss it!
Recorded, Produced and Mixed by Aly Fioren at Fundshouse Curitiba-PR - Brazil between March 2023 /March 2024.
All lyrics by Sucoth Benoth.
All Arrangements by Camos and Aly Fioren.
Layout from the CD & Cassette was done by Alemão.
Video clip made by Leo Mora.
Camos are:
Sucoth Benoth: Vocals
Caos: Guitars
Ulysses Freire: Bass
Cj Dubiella: Drums
Special Guests
Aly Fioren: Guitar and Keyboards
Tenebrae Aarseth: Backing Vocals
camoscontact@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/camosband?igsh=OG44eXB5am14YWx3
PRE-ORDERS
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CREST OF DARKNESS' new album "MY GHOST" will be released on October 18th via My Kingdom Music and will present the heaviest, most obscure and personal music ever released by the Norwegian Black Metal veterans. Evil riffing, ritualistic atmospheres and demonic vocals will be the keywords of their 9th full length album in 30 years of career.
Today we unveil the cover of the album realised by Roy Allan Larsen and the
tracklist that is: 1. My Ghost - 2. Infected - 3. The Will Of God - 4. Call Of
The Moon - 5. Satanic - 6. Sacrificed To The Sun - 7. The Awakening - 8. Under
My Spell - 9. The Ultimate Truth"My Ghost" is the result of two years worth of blood and sweat, that began with Ingar working alone to mould his very personal thoughts and beliefs into musical ideas that the band can then develop together, each contributing their own ideas to the process.
Recorded at MLP Studios with Nils H. Maehlum at the helm and mastered by Giuseppe Nicolò (aka Buzz) at Lost Soul Studio, "My Ghost" is an extremely personal journey that defines the very essence of CREST OF DARKNESS.
Here are Ingar's words about this new creature: "Structured as a ritual, "My Ghost" is a concept album, which, from an artistic standpoint, is meant to be heard as a whole. From the album's evocative opening, the ritual leads us to its climax, embodied by the final song "The Ultimate Truth". This is the point at which the listener completes the initiation into the dark world of Crest of Darkness, and is thus ready to enter the "Ninth Portal". With its varied and uncompromising lyrics underpinning its message, "My Ghost" is essentially a long journey into the darkest recesses of the mind. A place where Nature's darkest forces breathe energy and vitality into those who have the courage, and the strength, to become their own Gods".
"My Ghost", out on October 18th, is now available to pre-order in LP, digipak CD and in a special bundle edition limited to 50 copies from the following:
https://shorturl.at/mqf9L
http://www.facebook.com/crestofdarknessofficial
Epic Black Metallers ANCESTRAL BLOOD ascended to new heights with the release of their captivating music video for "SPARKS OF LIGHT ATOP TOWERS DESERTED FOR AGES."
The track, taken from their critically acclaimed debut album "FORGOTTEN
MYTHS AND LEGENDS, CH.1" (out now via Wormholedeath), weaves a
tapestry of melancholic melodies, transporting listeners to a bygone era
shrouded in mystery.Ancestral Blood's music has garnered praise for its ability to transport listeners to a realm of ancient myths and legends. With their focus on epic and majestic old-world black metal, the band has quickly established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the genre. Fans of 90s underground black metal, including Ishtar, Isvind, Arthemesia, Vordven, Trollheims Grott, Ringnevond, Summoning, and Windir, will find kindred spirits in Ancestral Blood's sound.
Ancestral Blood is:
Verigo: All music, guitars/leads/bass/keys/lyrics/male spoken parts/backup screams
Circe: Harsh vocals/female voices and spoken parts
Void: Drums
Hepar: Bass
www.facebook.com/ANCESTRALBLOODBAND
Loud
Rage Music presents the sixth edition of the online COMPILATION FERTILE
Soil, now available for streaming and free download; 26 underground Romanian
(and for the first time also Moldovan) Rock & Metal bands with as many new
tracks, all released between April and June 2024. Fertile Soil Vol. 6 is available here:
https://youtu.be/VohohsleNXs
https://loudragemusic.bandcamp.com/album/fertile-soil-vol-6-2024
Featuring:
Amberstate
Antumbra
Artificial Perception
Avoid Humanity
Beauty and the Rat
Berzerk
Civic Rebels
CorseCist
Crimena
Doomnezeu
Eternal Dark
Garnoo
Goatrocity
Heavy Duty
Immemorial
Machiavellian God
Mental District
November Black
Reverse The Moment
Ritual Roadmap
Ruyned
Septiroth
Skipping Dolls
Treasondom
Vömitt
Warhymn
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
Listen to Fifth of the Fifth Columns single: https://push.fm/fl/luusakki-fifth
Track
list:01. Penned in Water
02. Gangrene
03. Spit Shined Pig Skin
04. Mai-Dun
05. Fifth of the Fifth Columns
06. Statue in Uniform
07. Suzerain
08. Hyena
09. Death Cult
10. All Hallows
11. City of God
MS comments:
'Fifth of the Fifth Columns' is a multi-phase progressive black metal piece. The song deals with emotional distancing, political tensions, and societal decay. The lyrics convey a strong sense of disappointment in both personal and collective actions. Mentions of the 'fifth column' refer to recurring betrayals against humanity."
Biography:
Luusäkki is a Finnish one-man project combining black metal, death metal and ambient music. The unstable atmosphere of 2022 gave impetus to the creative process that gave birth to Luusäkki.
Line-up:
Markus Sundquist - Guitars, bass, synths, programming, other instruments, vocals, composition, lyrics, mixing, mastering.
https://www.facebook.com/luusakki
The song is taken from the upcoming album "NADIR", which is set to be released on September 20th via AOP Records!
GROZA (“storm”, “terror”) is a black metal band from Bavaria, Germany. Their sound is driven by emotion, anger and sadness, combining searing melodies, raging blast beats and melancholy induced clean guitar passages into a melodic, dynamic blend.
Founded as a one-man project by singer / multi-instrumentalist P.G. in 2016, the band gradually grew towards a full band in the following two years, culminating in the self-release of their first effort - “Unified In Void” (2018) - which almost instantly gained attention and interest, leading to the signing to AOP Records shortly after. After 3 years of writing and intense live activity followed the release of the 2nd full length album “The Redemptive End” (2021), that was met with critical acclaim and overwhelming reception of fans alike, entering #78 of the German album charts consequently.
Between releases, the band has extensively presented their craft live on stages all across Europe during various club shows, festivals and full-fledged tours across Europe. To date, GROZA has played 120+ shows in over 20 countries. Continuing to do so in the fall of 2024, the band will again tour Europe in support of the new album.
https://www.facebook.com/agonyabsinthe
Once
one of the metal underground’s best-kept secrets, WARLUST began their assault
on the false in 2012. The title of their debut demo, 2014’s Unholy Attack,
said everything it needed to: here was blackthrashing METAL, steeped in the
spirits of old and with genuinely evil blood coursing through its veins.
However, it was 2017’s Morbid Execution debut album where WARLUST
first truly took flight – on burning wings of flame! More intense, more epic,
more heavy fucking metal, Morbid Execution carried on the noble work
started by founding fathers Desaster in their homeland and Deströyer 666,
Zemial, and Aura Noir abroad. Still, more swords were to be sharpened, and they
were held aloft in glorious might on WARLUST’s second album (and first for
DYING VICTIMS), 2020’s Unearthing Shattered Philosophies. Unshackling
themselves from a strict(er) blackthrash template, the band’s songwriting
blossomed on their sophomore assault alongside an increased understanding (and
usage) of dynamics. Meanwhile, WARLUST’s simultaneously cryogenic / burning-hot
melodicism heighten comparisons to classic Dissection and Necrophobic and
justifiably garnered a wealth of acclaim upon its release.That noble trajectory continues, four years later, on WARLUST’s Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae. That title serves as a clarion call for those who heed the call of Hell’s heavy metal – eternal, unyielding, suffused with strength and vigor in times of terror and triumph, melancholy and malevolence. Taking a wider view of WARLUST’s discography, this third album follows logically from its predecessor, making for an equally-cutting counterpart compared to the rougher outlier of the debut. Thankfully, then, little has changed in the band’s arsenal – the narratives are epic but always urgent, the melodicism still surges and sways with maximum evil, muscular chops melded with blackest atmosphere – but if there’s one uptick to be said for Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae, it’s how HUGE the whole record sounds. Much of that can be attributed to the pronounced integration of marching mid-tempos as well as some tasteful clean tones, but from the brief intro to bristling opener “Serpent Crown” onward, WARLUST exude both a tightness and clarity of execution that altogether spell “classy,” and all without any sacrifice of their original black/death fire. Put another way, with the palatably professional production pushing the album atop the uppermost echelon of nowadays evil metal, the Germans sound like they could command the biggest of stages, wielding their weapons of sonic sin with the composure and charisma befitting of total legends. But that legendry is still being written, and Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae is no doubt WARLUST’s biggest & boldest script yet!
Line-up:
Nuktemeron - Bass, Vocals
Necromancer - Vocals, Guitars
Warmachine - Drums
Aeon - Guitars
From Hesse, Germany
Artwork:
Gravebastard
Release date:
27th September 2024
Release info:
Regular gatefold edition on black vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special gatefold edition on black/golden vinyl, with poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
''Fortærer Av Minne Og Form', translated to 'Devourer Of Memory And Shape', is a ravaging brute that will consume your soul and engulf your being - bones and all!
About his lyrics Kvass commented: "The lyrics were pieced together back in 2018, with the aim of conveying a feeling of paranoia and threat of annihilation. They are inspired by Roko's Basilisk, the thought experiment about how a future all-powerful AI might seek to punish those who did not help it come into existence".
Whilst songwriter Voidar gives us some insight into the music's background:
"The opening riff dates back to some odd hours scratch recording in 2019. You never know when inspiration strikes, so better utilize its immediacy to later let it fester for years on some cheaply acquired solid state silicon device. Perhaps to one day come back and seek its revenge - accidentally not unlike the lyrical theme. Come 2020 and we are putting an album together. At the time I had been listening to a lot of ELECTRIC WIZARD and HIGH ON FIRE while also sustaining several bartenders. Unclear of any inspiration or thereof I summoned this dredging riff for a middle section to remedy an otherwise invariant arrangement, topping it off with a somewhat inspired lead. Scriptum est".
Produced by Mannevond, and mixed and engineered by Voidar at Voidsonic, ''Fortærer Av Minne Og Form" was mastered by Tom Kvålsvoll at Kvalsonic Lab. The drums were recorded by Ruben Willem at Amper Tone, Oslo, in August 2021, and guitars, bass and vocals were recorded by Voidar and Mannevond at Voidsonic and Industrigata, Oslo, during 2021-2022.
“INGEN SKÅNSEL” will be available in CD, Digital, Cassette and Smoke Marble Vinyl formats and can can be pre-ordered now at:
https://orcd.co/ingen-skaansel
https://darkessencerecords.no/shop
https://koldbrann.bandcamp.com/album/ingen-sk-nsel
Track listing
Ingen Skånsel
Et Uomtvistelig Falsum
I Unaturens Vold
Prosesjon Under Blyhimmel
Det Kryper Kaldt
Maskiner av Nihil
Forstanden Seiler Sin Egen Sjø
Fortærer av Minne og Form
Rykk Skaperverket Opp med Roten
Vorde Eders Farkost en Katafalk
Serenade til Dødens Elende
Elevert Hinsides Tilstand (CD only track)
KOLDBRANN's live appearances have earned the band a well-deserved notoriety and 2024/2025 will see the lineup of Mannevond on Vocals, Kvass and Voidar on Guitars, Leonid Melnikov on Drums, and John Grave on live Bass appearing in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, UK, Austria and Switzerland, as well as first-time performances in Canada, Turkey and Romania, with more to come!
Dark Essence Records recently released the single 'I Unaturens Vold' from the album, along with s video by Necrolust Productions (WHOREDOM RIFE, 1349, FURZE etc.), which was filmed at this year's Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, where KOLDBRANN played in front of a capacity crowd at the John Dee venue. It can be seen at: https://youtu.be/wBRA7h4PT3I
More information about KOLDBRANN can be found on the band's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/koldbrannofficial
FURIOUS DESCENT – “ JUDGEMENT DAY”
Now
reinvigorated, Furious Descent has signed with Brutal Records. Their debut EP,
"Judgement Day," will finally tear through the streets in November 8,
2024, both physically and digitally. Meanwhile, the band is unleashing their
full fury on their second EP, set to drop in 2025, also through Brutal Records.The finnish groove/thrash metal scene has crushed its way to dominance, setting a brutal benchmark that countless bands have fought to replicate. Its unrelenting, signature sound has become the gold standard for savage intensity.
In 2022, Furious Descent exploded onto the west coast of Finland's groove metal battleground, delivering a ferocious assault that rattled the genre's foundations. The Finnish scene, long hailed as one of the fiercest of the ’90s, and arguably the best, had met its new heavyweight contender.
The original lineup, with Jake (vocals/guitar) and Alex (bass), was soon joined by Stef on lead guitar and Timo on drums, creating a powerhouse that recorded their debut EP, "Judgement Day," in the summer of 2023. But just as they were gaining unstoppable momentum, Timo stepped down, forcing a desperate scramble for a new drummer.
The next lineup barely made a dent, playing just one gig before collapsing. By summer 2024, Furious Descent had regrouped with Oz on lead guitar and Mike on drums, alongside the unyielding Jake and Alex.
Line up
Oz. Lead Guitar
Alex. Bass
Mike. Drums
Jake. Vocals/Guitar
Track list:
1. Backwards Evolution
2. Department Swine
3. Fireborne
4. No Dice Manson
5. Suicidal Crusade
6. Judgement Day
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
Final Coil frontman Phil Stiles shares his thoughts on the song and its live impact...
“The final live video in our run up to Bloodstock is also one of our oldest.
Endgame was written somewhere back in the mists of time, and it was our main
set closer for many years. A youthful, punky outpouring, it always struck me as
an explosive finale that provided an element of catharsis, no matter how dark
the other songs might get. It was recorded a couple of times, but the
definitive version can be found on our Live With Doubt EP, which dates back to
2011.Somewhere along the way, I started to incorporate a (very) loose interpretation of the Smashing Pumpkins' version of Talking Heads' 'Once in a Lifetime' - with its simple, grinding riff and vaguely nonsensical lyrics, it just seemed to fit. Whenever we play it, it feels like we're tearing down everything that we've built over the preceding half hour or so, and it tends to leave me somewhat battered at the end! This version, from our album launch, is particularly explosive, and brought the night to a noisy, sweaty close."
Watch Endgame now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXoUFvC-Mg
The World We Inherited is out now on Sliptrick Records and you can see Final Coil live at Bloodstock, on the New Blood Stage on Friday August 9th.
Don't miss the concluding film in Final Coil' Countdown To Bloodstock series - a stunning high impact, full production promo video, which will blow you away with its ambition and creativity - coming your way on August 5th!
https://sliptrickrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/finalcoil/
Formed in 2016, Glasgow’s MIDNIGHT FORCE are a heavy metal band that set out to follow in the footsteps of their heroes of old – US heavy metal, the NWOBHM movement, and ‘70s rock – as well as inject some fresh blood into the genre they love so much.
MIDNIGHT
FORCE released their full-length debut, Dunsinane, in 2018 to much
critical acclaim. DYING VICTIMS would release the cassette version later that
year, and the band went on to play Brofest in Newcastle as well as support
slots for the likes of High Spirits, Riot, and Ross the Boss in Glasgow and
Angel Witch, Savage Master, and Riot City in Germany. Continuing that momentum,
MIDNIGHT FORCE performed at other such notable festivals as Harder Than Steel
Festival, Hell over Hammaburg, and Echoes from the Labyrinth in Crete as well
as tours in Germany, Ireland, and the UK and shows in Paris, Athens, Marseille,
and Madrid.In October 2019, MIDNIGHT FORCE released their second album, Gododdin. Taking the elements of Dunsinane further – songwriting both heroic and melancholic (and even a bit folksy at times), hot-rockin’ execution to push that bravado further, and a rustic atmosphere equally 1970s and medieval – Gododdin was exactly the sophomore record MIDNIGHT FORCE needed to both expand and focus their ancient aesthetic. Olde Worlde Heavy Metal this was, based on historical lore and myth: in many ways, the band had arrived.
After a two-year hiatus induced by restrictions on international travel and live shows, MIDNIGHT FORCE released a new single in September 2022 and returned to the stage. Meanwhile, the seeds of their third album were being planted – and at long last, they’ve blossomed into Severan. Bristling with energy somehow stoic and patient, fit to burst but brewing dark thoughts, Severan sees MIDNIGHT FORCE truly taking their influences into a realm entirely their own. Totaling nine songs across 46 minutes, Severan sounds HUGE yet intimate. Its scope is again historical, the songwriting hits frantic peaks and stern valleys, the execution is even sharper whilst evincing old-school grit, and their characteristic atmosphere is OLDER than ever. Indeed, MIDNIGHT FORCE are engagingly earnest in their sonic campaign – true metal never dies and lives eternally, unfazed by time and trends, and its champions carry a great weight upon their shoulders of leather & steel – but above all, the aesthetic signpost is superlative songwriting, and this Scottish-German band have delivered their most refined set of songs to date. Severan is transportive to the extreme!
Five years in the making, MIDNIGHT FORCE’s Severan has arrived bearing banners of ancient metal myth & magick. Raise your swords and shields, those whose hearts beat True!
Line-up:
Brenden Crow - Bass
Peter Werninck - Drums
Ansgar Burke - Guitars
John Gunn - Vocals
From Scotland/Germany
Artwork: Umbrae Lignorum Pyroart
Release date: 27th September 2024
Release info:
Regular edition on black vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard and download code.
Special edition on purple vinyl, with insert, poster, sticker, postcard download code and patch.
CD edition with sticker, obi
www.dyingvictims.com
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/
Label: Sliptrick RecordsRelease date: july 2nd 2024
Genre: Progressive Metal
For fans of: Opeth | Born Of Osiris | Deafheaven | Veil Of Maya
Depth of emotion, enthralling atmosphere, stunning virtuosity and breathtaking power – all balanced in a perfect equilibrium; blending together like an array of precious metals fused into a priceless new alloy of iridescent beauty and adamantine hardness. The music of Aeons winds its way through many territories, mastering them all with flair and passion, marrying many-layered melodies and harmonies to fierce aggression – each musical imagining accompanied by thought provoking and meticulously crafted lyrical explorations. Treasured by those who have already discovered them, Aeons are a gift waiting to be unwrapped for the rest of the world…
Aeons’ third album, The Ghosts Of What We Knew is the next logical step in the band’s incredibly rapid development, a true blossoming of all the potential that crackled with an electric excitement through 2021s Consequences. The Ghosts Of What We Knew is laden with commercial possibilities, its weighty riffs and adventurous rhythms entwined in glistening melodies and studded with gleaming hooks. Songs like the punchy and direct ‘Home’ hit with an immediate, powerful impact, while the gentle perfection of ‘Blood’ slips into your consciousness, drawing out forgotten memories in an addictive rush. The glorious guitar work at the heart of ‘Circles’ lifts the heart and spirit in the way that only the greatest, most loved guitar solos can and the gargantuan epic that is ‘Ghosts’ offers so much to uncover and decipher, each journey into its vast sonic landscape a rewarding, challenging, joyful experience. Every song on this truly magnificent album is a veritable masterpiece of adventurous, progressive, melodic metal. Aeons are of that rare breed of bands that can stagger and impress the listener while also connecting with them on a personal, emotional level – thrilling the mind and the heart in equal measure.
The Ghosts Of What We Knew has been mastered by Sebastian ‘Seeb’ Levermann of renowned German power metal band Orden Ogan. Seeb has been a long time supporter of Aeons and his affinity with their music, coupled with his mixing and mastering experience with bands such as Asphyx, Brainstorm, Rhapsody Of Fire and Ross The Boss has given a stunning quality to the sound of The Ghosts Of What We Knew; rich, strong and clear with fabulous depth and texture – meaning that every nuance of the remarkable performances and intricate song writing can be fully savoured and appreciated. When Sliptrick Records unleash The Ghosts Of What We Knew on July 2nd, prepare to confront a majestic monolith of genuinely astounding progressive metal!
Line-up:
Skippy Hilton - Vocals
Si Harvey – Guitars/Vocals
Scott Sayer - Guitar/Vocals
Joe Holland - Bass
Justin Wallace - Drums
https://aeons.online/
https://www.facebook.com/Aeons.IOM/
https://sliptrickrecords.com/
Hi
everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. I am
honoured to announce that the seventh studio album of Slovak THALARION, whose history began in 1996, will be
released on my label Pařát Productions. On CD 12.8:, on LP
and MC 10.12.Pre-orders of special T-shirts for the new album only until 6.8
Do you like to listen to death/doom with the feeling of unforgettable nineties, lots of melancholy, male and female vocals? Then you must also know THALARION. No? Then fix that and listen to the first single from the new album on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMy894_k99c
Background: CD, standard jewel box, 16 page booklet. Limited to 500 copies.
You can pre-order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/thalarion-cryopreservation-2/
www.paratshop.cz
www.facebook.com/ParatMagazine
Excerpt - "There are momentous, chugging breakdowns, roaring solos, haunting passages, tremolo harmonies, and a staggering sense of the tremendous brutality and gut-wrenching reality of the acts committed by Kemper"
MONUMENT OF MISANTHROPY – “VILE POSTMORTEM IRRUMATIO”
For
fans of
- Cattle Decapitation, Benighted, Aborted, Blood Red Throne, DepravityBrutal death metal titans Monument of Misanthropy return once again with a sickening concept album based on a serial killer, and this time it revolves around Ed Kemper. The band delves into aspects of his life, using violent music to add meaning to it; their visceral and incisive music with highly expressive vocals perfectly capturing the terrifying aura around the figure. They are one of the few bands who have the chops to pull off music of this kind and don't have to rely on the imagery or sound samples alone. But they haven't left any stone unturned here to give a wholly scarring experience, from the repulsive and highly detailed album artwork to the shocking and explicit official video that's been censored for reasons of sanity and normal functioning. Their standards were already high, but they're raised the bar even higher on this one - the music comprising an expected barrage of blasts and frenetic riffage albeit punctuated for emphasis on groove and structuring, the vocals enunciated for a greater degree of vileness, and the songs coming together and making sense despite a pervading sense of degradation and wanton bloodshed. Fans of the band won't be disappointed with this in the least, while giving others reasons to check out an accomplished slab of brutal/technical death metal and have a new sense of fear instilled in them.
Line up
George “Misanthrope” Wilfinger - Vocals
Julius Kössler (Spire of Lazarus) - Lead guitars
Joe Gatsch - Lead guitars
Raphael Hendlmayer - Bass
Eugene Ryabchenko (Fleshgod Apocalypse) - Studio session drums
Artwork by Daemorph Art (The Last of Lucy, Cutterred Flesh)
Track listing:
1. First Time It Makes You Sick To Your Stomach
2. How To Make A Killer
3. The Atascasdero Years
4. Hits One And Two view
5. Why Did You Keep Their Heads
6. Manipulating The Experts
7. Vile Postmortem Irrumatio
8. The Devil's Slide
9. Oh, I Suppose You're Gonna Want Sit Up And Talk All Night Now
10. A Nice Beheading For MoM
11. Pueblo Paranoia
12. Your Treachery Will Die With You
Release date - August 9th, 2024
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https://www.facebook.com/carnophageturkey
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Jetzt haben wir die erste Runde der Festival Saison erst
einmal hinter uns gebracht und können uns nun wieder voller Tatendrang aktuellerem
Metalmaterial und der nächsten Printausgabe widmen. Wenn alles so läuft wie geplant,
werden wir Euch die Nr . 59 dann hoffentlich Ende des Jahres präsentieren können.
Mit der
Interviewplanung sind wir fast durch, so dass wir uns nun wirklich intensiver mit diversen neuen Veröffentlichungen beschäftigen können. Wie ihr vielleicht mitkriegen werdet, konnte man durch Zufall nun auch endlich mal wieder ,mit VEIT, einen neuen jungen Mitstreiter rekrutieren, welcher hoffentlich ein bissel „frischen Wind „in unsere „Klolektüre „bringen wird. Da wird sich unsereins dann mal überraschen lassen, wie lange der Enthusiasmus und der Tatendrang anhalten wird. Leider musste man ja in den letzten Jahren immer wieder feststellen, wie kurzweilig dann doch das Interesse an der Mitschreiberei besteht, wenn man erst einmal merkt, wie viel Zeit und Energie man dafür opfern muss. Wir werden sehen !
Aktuelle Reviews :
SHOVEL MONSTER – „ DAY NINE“
FIRN – „STERNENTOR“
GUTS FOR DINNER – „ THE JASON VOORHEES EP “
Aktuelles aus dem internationalen und nationalen Metalbereich findet ihr wie immer auch unter https://www.facebook.com/Undergroundfanzine/
DARKMOON WARRIOR – Video zu "AGE OF DECOMPOSITION" online . Black metal with a "fuck you all" attitude since 1996.
Interviewplanung sind wir fast durch, so dass wir uns nun wirklich intensiver mit diversen neuen Veröffentlichungen beschäftigen können. Wie ihr vielleicht mitkriegen werdet, konnte man durch Zufall nun auch endlich mal wieder ,mit VEIT, einen neuen jungen Mitstreiter rekrutieren, welcher hoffentlich ein bissel „frischen Wind „in unsere „Klolektüre „bringen wird. Da wird sich unsereins dann mal überraschen lassen, wie lange der Enthusiasmus und der Tatendrang anhalten wird. Leider musste man ja in den letzten Jahren immer wieder feststellen, wie kurzweilig dann doch das Interesse an der Mitschreiberei besteht, wenn man erst einmal merkt, wie viel Zeit und Energie man dafür opfern muss. Wir werden sehen !
Aktuelle Reviews :
SHOVEL MONSTER – „ DAY NINE“
FIRN – „STERNENTOR“
GUTS FOR DINNER – „ THE JASON VOORHEES EP “
Aktuelles aus dem internationalen und nationalen Metalbereich findet ihr wie immer auch unter https://www.facebook.com/Undergroundfanzine/
DARKMOON WARRIOR – Video zu "AGE OF DECOMPOSITION" online . Black metal with a "fuck you all" attitude since 1996.
Das Black-Metal-Urgestein DARKMOON WARRIOR entfesselt
abermals das Chaos!
Die Band aus Brandenburg gehört zu den dienstältesten im deutschen Underground und zu jenen, die authentisch die Flamme des Schwarzmetalls am Lodern halten. Auf ihrem fünften Album zelebrieren DARKMOON WARRIOR erneut pechschwarzes Material, dass den modernen Strömungen im Black Metal den Mittelfinger zeigt.
Jetzt gibt es den ersten vom neuen Album “GRAVEYARD PLANET” als Video.
“Graveyard Planet” erscheint am 22.08. via Folter Records
Tracklist
01. Follow the Serpent
02. The Odium Palace (feat. Dima Dudko of White Ward)
03. The Golden Queen
04. Cold Sun
05. Threnody Spirals (feat Judith Ehreke of Unsoulicited)
06. Fra Lyset
07. Deathwish
Das neue Material wird am Veröffentlichungstag im Rahmen Stygian Pilgrims Festivals zusammen mit Ophis, Frowning und weiteren exzellenten Bands live vorgestellt.
Über ASCIAN
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen. Leave all hope behind - Misery is ahead!
https://www.facebook.com/AscianDoom
GHOSTHEART NEBULA – “BLACKSHIFT”
Label: Meuse Music Records
Release date: october 17th 2024
Genre: Cosmic Doom Metal
For fans of: Draconian | Saturnus | Darkspace | Shape Of Despair
The secrets that we turned our gaze away from are all laid bare. We stand, soul shaken, before the enormity of reality; the impossible distances, the farthest shores, the endless night… There is not space in our heart for the overwhelming loneliness as the true scale of the arching, empty heavens permeates the pathways of our mind. In the end, for all our dreams and plans, all our tempestuous emotions, our loves and lies, our selfishness and sacrifice…in the end we were always nothing.
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
There are albums that can thrill and excite, there are albums that can hold mirrors up to human thoughts and emotions, albums that can lead you away from reality for a short while – a break from the travails of life. And then there are albums that can overwhelm you with their depth, strength and vision. Blackshift is the second album from Italian cosmic doom metal band Ghostheart Nebula and to listen to its enveloping waves of sound and thunder is to tumble across the firmament, dwarfed by the magnificent magnitude of existence, to understand like never before the solitude and insignificance of the self. The listening experience begins with the introductory ritual of ‘VdB 141 IC 1805’ – waves of deep sorrow, shimmering sounds that wash you clean of all pretence. It leaves you with no hiding place from the futility and darkness of existence and in that realisation there is a fearful beauty…and then Ghostheart Nebula reveal themselves as the journey begins in earnest, down a winding staircase of acceptance, through flickering torchlight and shifting shadows. ‘Sunya’ glides from measured pace to breathless blast as dual vocals entwine and a guest solo from Diego ‘Didi’ Cavallotti (ex-Lacuna Coil) rises from the darkness, a spiralling mote of gold dust that leaves a breathtaking trail of light in its path. Another perfectly chosen guest appearance from Øysten G. Brun of Borknagar adds acoustic guitar textures to ‘Infinite Mirror’ as its regal riffs and towering drum beats conjure cosmic melancholy that spans the stars, transposing tragedy to an infinite stage – the resulting emotion almost too much too bear. Every song on Blackshift is an essential element of the sonic journey and every song is magical in its own right. The ego crumbles before the indisputable truths that are invoked by the wonderful interplay of instruments on ‘Blackshift’, the incredible deep, harsh vocal parts in ‘Traces’ reverberate as if the universe itself is speaking and the song thrums with a quiet, shaking desperation…and it all leads to the masterful dynamic shifts of ‘Orphan Of Light’, where the quietest moments hold as much power as the gargantuan riffs. And when silence finally returns you are left drained, stunned and broken; with Blackshift, Ghostheart Nebula have created an experience staggering in its scope and emotional power.
Immaculately mixed and mastered by Øystein G. Brun (Borknagar, The Troops Of Doom, Sojourner etc) and adorned in the thought provoking artwork of Heike Langhans (Lord Of Shadows, Remina, Sojourner etc), every aspect of Blackshift has been carefully curated, the album as a complete entity sculpted into a monument that will stand resplendent through the years to come. Following in the footsteps of 2021s Ascension, Blackshift sees Ghostheart Nebula reaching higher, reaching further and touching greatness. Prepare to open your heart to eternity on October 17th, when Meuse Music Records will unveil this obsidian testament to infinite sorrows.
Line-up:
Lucia Amelia Emmanueli – Vocals
Maurizio Caverzan – Vocals
Panta Leo – Drums
Aron Corti – Guitars
Nick Magister – Guitars/Synths
Bolthorn – Bass
https://www.meusemusicrecords.eu/
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The video pays tribute to some of the band's favorite films, which also served to inform the cover art for Diana's Day. Keep your eyes peeled for references to films such as The Wicker Man, The Seventh Seal, The Vvitch, Alucarda, Black Sunday, and Häxan.
Watch "Lilim" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pF7kLMeYi8
Stream "Lilim" and previously released FOURTH DOMINION music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Fiadh Productions will release Diana's Day on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats on August 1. The album confronts themes of queerness, feminine magick, and existentialism, and is already drawing critical acclaim months ahead of the album's release.
Pre-order Diana's
Day now at https://fourthdominion.bandcamp.com/album/dianas-day
Tracklist:
1) Bloodstains
2) Lilim
3) Burn the Prisons!
4) From Below
5) Goetia
6) Hill of Swords
7) Death in Fall
8) Tormenta Purgatoria
9) Her Wings
10) Casca Dreaming
“FOURTH DOMINION’s new album fulfills the promises hinted at on their debut, Wings of a Dying Crow (2017). The songs are epic but not indulgent; punkish instincts bring the heavy doses of gothic rock and metal into sharp focus. While the sound breaks from the cul-de-sac of tribalism dominating so much rock music, it retains an unmistakable identity and voice. Other bands have tried to chart this territory to varying degrees of success–The Cure’s Bloodflowers–whose damaged brilliance lacked the energy and immediacy we are greeted with here. At the heart of this material is Meadow Wyand’s gift for enveloping gothic melodies matched with lyrics that reflect the ennui and destructiveness of our post-pandemic stupor. From the parasitic liaison of “Bloodstains” to the spectral occult of “Lilim,”–these songs carry the weight of worlds lurking just beyond the next corner. Backed by the heavy gallop of drums and atmospheric guitar runs, these capture the strange dread of these days.” –Harlow Crandall, “Starts Like a Kiss and Ends Like a Curse: The Enigma of Jim Carroll”
"FOURTH DOMINION are back with a follow-up to 2017’s ‘Wings of a Dying Crow’. With their earlier work, I love the blend between heavy metal and punk, culminating in early AFI meets early Maiden sound. This new venture sees the band bring a more mature and experimental sound. Whilst the new release still has those heavy metal sections such as the solo of “Bloodstains”, the punk edge has altered slightly. The new sound falls more into the post-punk category, reminiscent of bands such as Fields of Nephilim as evident on “Death in Fall”. This new musical direction aligns FOURTH DOMINION with contemporary bands such as Unto Others. The highlight for me however has to be “Lillim” with its multilayered chorus which will worm its way into your ears for days with absolutely zero complaints!" - Olivia Matthews, Hornthrowers
Bio
“In filth, evil stands.” A line from FOURTH DOMINION’s upcoming sophomore album that proclaims songwriter Meadow Wyand’s singular and novel point-of-view. An out trans frontwoman, her songs reflect queer trauma and defiance, as well as speaking to existential despair and spiritual divination. The group’s emotionally dense and literate songs draw just as much from the contemplative gothic metal of Anathema and Sentenced, as they do the unapologetic alternative punk of Hole and PJ Harvey. With compositions that are simultaneously somber, catchy and intricate, FOURTH DOMINION radiate a hunger and commercial appeal beyond the confines of heavy metal to which they are rooted.
Their debut album, 2017’s Wings of a Dying Crow, marked an important stride in developing the type of post-In Solitude heavy metal deathrock that has taken off in the years since. Its follow-up shows a love for Angel Witch, as well as the guitar playing of The Smiths and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album reflects themes not often confronted in heavy metal: disability, gender, the divine feminine, anti-futurist queer politics, and sexual assault. Its exploration of trauma seeks to be a response and companion piece to Hole’s "Live Through This."
With their forthcoming mission statement, FOURTH DOMINION showcases their ability to rise to the top of the new wave of gothic metal, or “Deathwave” as Wyand refers to it. Featuring new drummer Brady Mentz and the production talents of Casey Ahrens-Cavallo and Tom Gerwitz, the band have Frankensteined an album of profound emotional depth and commercial readiness. “When we fight, we bash back!” is a promise to both the queer empowerment the album represents, as well as the band’s uncompromising attitude for growth.
FOURTH DOMINION is:
Meadow Wyand - Bass/vocals
Dave Milburn.- Guitars
Brady Mentz - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/fourthdominion/
FFO: Slayer, Bring Me The Horizon, Pantera, and Disturbed.
Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lhcUpfX4-U
"2000 Miles" is also available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
The D.O.O.D. is proud to announce the September 17 release of new album, Dissonance, on Chaos Music in association with SelfMadeRecords and Earache Records EDD. The forthcoming album showcases The D.O.O.D.’s signature blend of intense riffs, powerful vocals, and relentless energy!
The album's fifth single, "Final Girl," drops on August 2, with an official video to follow late that same month.
Track
Listing:
1. Down The Rabbit Hole
2. Subterfuge
3. The Back of Hell
4. The Pentecostal
5. Parasite 6-4-2
6. 2000 Miles
7. Chaos for the Fly
8. Disorder (Interlude)
9. Dissonance
10. The Well
11. Slayer Of Gods
12/ Cut, Cut, Cut (Interlude)
13. Final Girl
Album Credits:
Cover art by Brian Amoroso.
All Songs Written and Produced by The D.O.O.D.
Recorded and Mixed at Morrisound Studios by Jim Morris,
Mastered by J.P. Braddock at Formation Audio.
Management: Chaos Music L.L.C.
Management Consultant: Erik Leviathan Self Made Records L.L.C.
Digital Distribution: Earache Records.
Line-Up
Indy (Indiana DOOD) Brumbaugh - Guitar
Rudy (Dogbite DOOD) Taylor - Drums
Brian (Monkeyboy DOOD) Amoroso - Lead Vocals
Jonzey DOOD - Bass
Raynus DOOD - Guitar
Bio:
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience (The D.O.O.D.) are a standout in the Florida metal Scene. Originally put together by Raynus and Jonzey, this Sarasota band has found its niche among the many great independent metal acts, not only in Southwest Florida, but nationally as well. The Floridians have found inspiration over the years from music that is hard driving with good hooks, as well as unabashed and unafraid riffs reminiscent of the pioneers of metal and hard rock, all the while grinding forward into the music of today and tomorrow.
The diversity of their individual influences certainly informs the music, yet there is enough commonality to ensure a coherency that runs throughout the band's catalogue. From the horror rock "House of the Dead," to the tastefully savvy guitar work of "Murder," it is difficult not to find something to latch onto with the musicality of this crew.
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience prides itself on its stage show, a high energy feast of metal, that is different and surprising at every venue. As a band, they are dynamic and eye-catching as they take the stage and take over the room. The audience can never be certain what's coming next, except a great show! This can be attributed to the multitude of shows they've played over the years with an array of local and national acts. The D.O.O.D. is 100% fan-friendly and takes great pride in being part of a surging Florida metal scene.
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Dutch
Black/Death Metal powerhouse MISANTHROPIA has inked a deal
with WormHoleDeath Records to unleash their earth-shattering fifth album, ‘ENVY
THE DEAD’, on 6th September 2024. This monstrous offering promises
to be a return to form, drawing inspiration from the darkest corners of history
and channeling pure sonic savagery.
MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
"Life back in the day was harsh and ugly, and they bring forth this immense atmosphere that was roaming the streets back then: Jack The Ripper, Lizzie Borden, organ trafficking, necromancy." says the band "It’s a concept album, but each song stands on its own. Drastically reducing the symphonic and orchestral violence on earlier releases, and going for a more progressive Death / Thrash vibe, influences from Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth can still be heard alongside Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death."
MISANTHROPIA toured and played the last years intensively, domestically and abroad, under the banner of Eternal Rock Music Agency, and still plans to continue doing so.
Track list
1. Envy The Dead (intro)
2. Malediction And Laughter
3. Organs, For A Fair Price
4. Prosperity By Cocaïne
5. Maze Of Madness
6. River Dumplings
7. Coughing In The Coffin House
8. Fade Into The Abyss
9. A Deadly Embrace, A Sinister Grace
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
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www.facebook.com/666misanthropia
After three years from the initial date for this release to see the light of
day, MURDER RECORDS now has the honor of announcing its
return to activities and for that we are going to pick up where things left off
and we are honored to finally present the release of the reissue on cassette
of ORGIA NUCLEAR's first album, an infamous project that
emerged from the diabolical mind of the profane Jonathan Hellthrasher
Maniac, an explosive creature from the nauseating Brazilian underworld.
"O RETORNO DO CAOS TOTAL A EXTERMINAÇÃO COMPLETA" are the apocalyptic extilations of the first record "Caos Total" that ORGIA NUCLEAR originally released in 2012, being fully re-recorded by Armando Exekutör in his gutarra, where he executes us with his desimating solos.
Bitch Hunter with his bass guitar that butchers us with the spacing of a fearless drums, while we are shot with the bass of Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac who is also responsible for the blasphemous vomits and a whole explovive concept in constant destructive chaos for a total extermination.
Complementing this with an Intro and three more songs never released, compositions made at that time and today in a concistent way gain a totally independent form with a Rock N Hell rebellion in this new album of ORGIA NUCLEAR, mixing and mastering by Bitch Hunter in 2020 and that is now presented here to smash you against a wall.
There were many cycles and challenges that ORGIA NUCLEAR faced over the years, but always writing their history in a dignified and authentic way, without selling out or surrendering to the miserable stardom that infests the Underground and to which many end up selling themselves!
The real ORGIA NUCLEAR ideals have always been against this kind of attitudes and they intend to continue spreading chaos, stepping on the heads of the weak, with musical perversity, keeping a marginal and aggressive line in their lyrics, ideas of revolt, visions of horror about this world and its submissive humanity. Even with all that, there were never any barriers that couldn't be broken or blown up in order to follow the march of chaos and Thrash Metal explosion.
Over the years ORGIA NUCLEAR has managed to create its own genre that we can include in the true Speed Black Thrash Metal Punk Marginal that will explode your brain.
ORGIA NUCLEAR
“O Retorno Do Caos Total A Eliminação Completa”
Cassette Limited Edition of 100 copies hand-numbered
50 Copies with Orange Cassettes.
50 Copies in double color White & Red Cassettes.
LADO CAÓTICO
01 - Intro
02 - Caos Total
03 - Combustível Profano
04 - Desgraça Na Terra
05 - Inocência Corrompida
06 - Maníaco Sexual
Total Time: 13:23 Min.
LADO DESTRUTIVO
07 - Força De Vontade
08 - Noite Perdida
09 - União Hellthrasher
10 – Traição
Total Time: 11.26 Min.
WILD SPEED BLACK THRASH INFERNAL METAL PUNK MARGINAL
All lyrics by Jonathan Hellthrasher.
Songs by Orgia Nulear, except Combustível Profano, Inocência Corrompida and Força De Vontade by Bitch Hünter, and União Hellthrasher by Armando Exekutör.
Vocals originally recorded in August 2012 and instruments recorded in September 2020 at Vampire's Studio RJ in Brazil.
Solos recorded in November 2020 at Cavalcantes Studio.
Produced, mixed and mastered by: Bitch Hünter.
Traição is a bônus track extracted from the EP "Eliminando Os Falsos" Logo and Cover by Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac.
Final layout by Alemão.
ORGIA NUCLEAR are:
Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac: Vocals & Bass
Bitch Hünter: Guitar, Bass, Drums & Backing Vocals
Armando Exekutör: Guitars
Line-up in the bonus track Traição:
Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac: Vocals & Bass
HellsexmaniaxXx: Guitar & Backing Vocals
Hellragnar: Bass
Hellatomicsemen: Drums
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PRE ORDER OPEN 16/08/2024 PRE-ORDERS ONLY HERE: https://www.murder-records.eu/hellstore-europe/pre-order
One-man stoner/metal doom band NEBÜLITH has posted the newest single from its upcoming debut, FEEL GOOD MUSIC FOR THE END OF THE WORLD VOL. 1.
For fans of : Black Sabbath, Monster Magnet, Sleep, Smashing Pumpkins, Ministry and Mötorhead.
Follow Nebülith on Spotify to stream "God is Your Gun." Listen to the track here https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/1FOfYaPK94vgHEuOIfGlsz?si=rtlpJIDfQYiV-7c2tvvN6w&nd=1&dlsi=ac6532d7864a46b9
Written and recorded solely by project mastermind and multi-instrumentalist John Shaughnessy, Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 delivers a heavy dose of doom-infused, psychedelic stoner metal.
Stream additional selections from Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 on Apple Music.
“Nebülith plays very specific music, which is addressed to a narrow audience, those who love the intoxicating atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s, or to those for whom the lysergic aura of standard stoner-doom representatives is insufficient. For me, it's the bomb. I would never have expected that this kind of crafting could go further than the recently emerging Italian brigades, who also compose psychedelic music, but not in such an extreme style as Nebülith.” - Apocalyptic Rites
Nebülith will release Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 on August 23. Pre-order the album at https://nebulith.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-4
Track
list:
1) Beautiful
2) Startrippin
3) Mother Freedom
4) Leviathan
5) Clear Light
6) God Is Your Gun
7) Seven Suns
8) Digging A Hole
9) UVB76
Line-up:
Nebülith: vocals, fretless piccolo bass, piccolo bass,4 string basses, drums, keys, organ, bass guitar synthesizer, vocoder, drum programming, windchimes, megaphone
Pat Shaughnessy: Drums on “Beautiful” and “God Is Your Gun”
Bio:
Nebülith is the product of John Shaughnessy, a professional bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer from Charlotte, NC.
As as kid, his tastes gravitated towards the heavy, groove-influenced rock of Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, King Crimson, and a heavy dose of funk. Later on, he embraced alternative music and proto-punk like The MC5 as well as next-gen stoner/Doom like Sleep and Monster Magnet.
While paying the bills playing jazz and show band gigs, he started a project called Space Force Alpha, with vocalist Omari Wilkerson. The duo released a single “Change The World” in 2019. The song featured John’s unique fretless piccolo bass playing - a combination of guitar, bass and electric cello, all recorded in John’s home production studio.
More demos were written for Space Force Alpha, with an eye toward making a full record - and then the pandemic hit, and the music business came to a complete halt. Faced with time on his hands and no band, John decided to make a solo record and do all the instruments and vocals himself. He figured that would be a good use of the time off and an audition tape for future production sessions. Having become a huge fan of the Riding Easy Brown Acid series, Shaughnessy figured the most fun thing to do would be to make a pseudo garage band record with the riffs he had lying around. He considered marketing it as a “lost”
band from the 70s, and releasing it on reel-to-reel tape.
As “two weeks” turned into months, and the world started falling apart, the music and the message got progressively darker and angrier. He started pushing his studio gear to increasing extremes. Multiple versions of songs ensued, each heavier than the last.
Eventually, he was left with a huge pile of recordings to sift through. Sorting through this audio hoarder house and finding a direction took the better part of a year. In the course of the recording, the dystopian Nebülith character was developed as a clear departure from his normal gig life.
The great thing is, as Nebülith he was able to do and say things that he would not normally be able to in a professional Gig context. In Nebülith, the project found its voice.
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol. 1 is the result of four years of work, experimentation, sweat, and pain.
www.instagram.com/nebulith.band
https://www.facebook.com/people/neb%C3%BClith/61551352447160/
Legendary
Swedish death metal veterans CENTINEX has
inked a deal with Sweden-based Black Lion Records.
"Little did I know 6-7 years ago, when I was rehearsing and playing Centinex covers with various bands, that I would end up working with what I consider to be some of the finest bands in the Swedish death metal scene," comments Black Lion Records' Oliver Dahlbäck.
"This is an exciting development, as Centinex's impact on the genre is undeniable. Their unique sound and influential discography, which was previously released via the legendary label Agonia Records, have inspired countless musicians over the years. Memorable songs such as "Flesh Passion" and "Dismember Supreme" have cemented Centinex's status as a revered act in the Swedish death metal pantheon. To have the opportunity to work with them is a true honor, and the pressure is high."
The partnership between Centinex and Black Lion Records - a true testament to the power of Swedish death metal - will see the release of a two-track EP later this. Centinex is working on a new full-length album, due out in 2025.
The band comments, "Centinex has always been about not having any boundaries nor limiting ourselves to some pre-made formula, especially not musically but also “businesswise”, and for the coming years this will certainly be more evident than ever.
As everyone knows, metal today is universal and so is Centinex, but we can’t deny it feels great to 'bring it home' and sign with a label based in our home country of Sweden."
Centinex is:
Henka Andersson - vocals
Jörgen Kristensen - guitars & backing vocals
Martin Schulman - bass
Florian Rehn - drums
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https://www.facebook.com/Centinexofficial
Twenty-six years after its originally intended release date, FATAL EMBRACE has resurrected Hail Down Deep and is ready to unleash it upon the world. The album has now been re-recorded with new vocals by the band's lyricist, Henric Serholt. Hail Down Deep was mixed and mastered by drummer Christian Silver.
Black Lion Records will release Hail Down Deep on September 27. Pre-order at https://fatalembraceblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/hail-down-deep
FATAL EMBRACE released their debut album, Shadowsoul's Garden in November of 1997. A few months later - determined to create a near-perfect record - the band recorded Halls Down Deep. However, the members soon got involved with other bands and Hail Down Deep remained unreleased for decades.
In 2023, the band wrote and released Manifestum Infernalis. This became the catalyst that led to the long-awaited unveiling of Hail Down Deep.
Tracklist
1. Spirit of the fiend
2. Death blessing
3. Through the speaking veil
4. Southern malice
5. Drick av döden
6. Of unholy measure
7. Svärtan
8. Darkness set and done
9. Digging up the hatchet
10. Soul of the black heart
Stream FATAL EMBRACE on Spotify and Apple Music.
FATAL EMBRACE is
John Silver - Bass
Henrik Serholt - Drums, Vocals
Christian Silver - Drums
Andreas Johansson - Guitars
Manne Engström - Vocals, Guitars
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https://www.facebook.com/fatalembrace
Hi
everybody,Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. Friends, today is
the day. "LOUCENI SE SVETEM POZEMSKYM", album of
the Czech doom/death legend DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY from
2002 is released for the first time on LP format!
It is a symbolic gift to a my best friend Rene "Fusaty" Krystyn (frontman DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, who died in 2013 of cardiac arrest at just 39 years old) on his late 50th birthday. Friend, whose music will stay with us forever.
Background:
Black vinyl, printed inner bag, 3mm jacket. Limited to 250 copies.
You can listen full album on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1OeiApmVDA&list=OLAK5uy_lvdUgiy85M2gW8tH9ICSHW3ni4DuS8oNY
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/dissolving-of-prodigy-louceni-se-svetem-pozemskym-4/
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First WITCHFUKKER full length. First release by De Pankraker Records .Witchfukker, a dominating force within the realm of extreme metal, are renowned for their unyielding fusion of black, death, and thrash metal. This powerhouse hails from Dutch Limburg, where they've cultivated a reputation for their uncompromisingly aggressive and ferocious sound. Proud torchbearers of the Australian sound legacy, Witchfukker unleashes eight tracks of horrid death thrash on their debut album "Tapestry of Unspeakable Horrors", presented on a raw and unapologetic slab of wax courtesy of De Pankraker Records. Brace yourself for a relentless sonic assault that demands attention and commands respect. Raw and ugly with no fukking remorse. Brace yourself and fukk off.
Formed about six years ago, Witchfukker wasted no time in making their presence known in the underground metal scene. Their music is a sonic assault of blistering riffs, thunderous drums, and venomous vocals, channeling the raw energy and intensity of black, thrash and death metal pioneers. These guys know their classics!
With a lyrical focus on Darkness, Horror, Cosmicism, and Violence, Witchfukker's songs explore the depths of human depravity and the chaotic forces that lie beyond the realm of normalcy. Their music is a cathartic release of aggression and defiance, appealing to fans of extreme metal looking for an unrelenting auditory experience.
Witchfukker's live performances are nothing short of explosive. Their stage presence radiates a relentless energy, captivating audiences and creating an atmosphere of chaos and mayhem. Their shows are a testament to their dedication and passion for delivering an unforgettable experience to their fans.
Tracklist:
1. Pain beyond death
2. Sordid Aggression
3. Death Komes Ripping Through
4. Abyssal Autosarkophagy
5. Descension Into Horrid Delirium
6. Nymphomania
7. March of the Metal SS
8. Grueling Interkourse
9. Tinnitus of the Eldritch
Witchfukker discography:
Alcoholic Metal Demo 2019 Headbangers Records
Rehearsal 18-7-19 Demo 2019 Independent
Total Wimpslaughter Demo 2020 Independent
Horrid Visions Video 2021 Independent
Deathaemorrhage Demo 2022 Destruktion Records
About De Pankraker Records
De Pankraker is a Belgian label, that was born in the depths of the underground, a rebellious radio program that delved into a cluster of metal sub-genres known for their daring sonic and visual transgressions. By 2022, it had expanded its reach with a magazine, and in 2023, it emerged from the shadows with its own festival. Now, in 2024, we proudly unveil De Pankraker Records, delving even deeper into the abyss with a distro and label.
We're all about serving up dishes that are cold and old-school. No fancy stuff, no technicalities, and definitely no triggered drums.
Metal for demons!!
https://www.facebook.com/DePankraker
https://www.facebook.com/witchfukkerband
Label: Twisted Into Form
Release date: september 6th 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Slayer | Testament | Sacred Reich | Forbidden
We live in dark times; times of war, pandemics, grief and horror. These are the days of division, where we turn against each other in politically driven hatred and against ourselves, choking on a social media diet of self-loathing and isolation. Through our ever-glowing screens we watch the crumbling of virtue and the slow, agonised death of decency and honour. The UK’s resolute and relentless kings of thrash, Solitary, have tapped into the thick, black blood that pulses sluggishly through the fat and filth congested veins of society. They have stared into the alleyways, the cellars and the broken minds of our youth and forged their hardest, heaviest and most unflinching album yet. This is their hymn to a dying world, their soundtrack to the end of days…this is Embrace The Darkness!
Opening with ‘III.XXIII.MMXX’, an intro heavy with portent that leads us back to the days of lockdown and its shocking, unforeseen consequences, Embrace The Darkness then leaps straight into its momentous title track and the strides taken by Solitary are immediately apparent. The individual performances from each band member are stunning and the song craft is masterful. Despite the breathtaking ferocity on display there’s a considered depth and maturity to these songs that lifts Embrace The Darkness to unprecedented heights. Thirty years deep into their tumultuous career, Solitary are hitting new peaks and delivering like never before. From the bare-knuckle ultra aggression of ‘Settle Scores The Old Way’ to the foreboding ‘Virtues’ which tackles the harrowing issues of abuse within a framework of classic Solitary riffs, adorned with a vicious, barbed wire solo, it only takes one listen to know that this is the finest album Solitary have made to date. The absolute savagery and incendiary energy of the late album pairing ‘The Disappeared’ and ‘Section 21’ is utterly exhilarating, despite the forbidding shadows that lie between and behind every voracious vocal line and cataclysmic drum beat. There is no respite throughout Embrace The Darkness, no pause for breath or tranquil interlude, it is simply devastating. Finishing with the confrontational ‘Filtering Hindsight’, a caustic indictment of our post-brexit, post-covid societal car crash, this is thrash metal at its powerful, potent, glorious best – lean, mean, embedded with inescapable hooks and laced with deadly melody.
Solitary have renewed their partnership with producer Simon Efemey (Napalm Death, Paradise Lost, Deceased etc) and Embrace The Darkness sounds magnificent – the vocals have an extra edge of anger and potential violence, the guitars snarl like rabid dogs, the drum beats are infused with a skull-cracking thunder and the bass is a powerful, looming presence. Also returning to the team is artist Koot (Saxon, Girlschool, The Almighty etc) who has created one of his finest pieces, capturing the blackened spirit of Embrace The Darkness in his cover art. Look out for exclusive physical format tracks – with the vinyl boasting the punishing ‘Divided And Demented’ and the CD featuring a ripping run through of The Exploited’s ‘Beat The Bastards’ that’s not to be missed. When Solitary unleash this beast of an album on September 6th nowhere will be safe from its claws. Prepare to Embrace The Darkness!
Line-up:
Richard Sherrington – Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Gareth Harrop - Bass
Andy Mellor – Lead Guitar
Roy Miller - Drums
https://www.solitary.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Official.Solitary
Watch the video, here: https://youtu.be/vA5Of0oyKEA
Since the release of SYMBOL OF ETERNITY Album in 2022 the song HELL IS MY PURGATORY is a part of the band's live setlist. After Axel Ritt left the band in 2023 Grave Digger did a re-recording of this song with their new axeman TOBIAS KERSTING. The new version has more power, it's more Metal and it includes a brand-new guitar solo of one of the best axemen in Germany. This new version gives you a hint of what you can expect from the new Grave Digger album.
"Hell Is My Purgatory (Hellfire 2024)" is out now on all popular and well-known download & streaming platforms.
Single's smartlink: https://bfan.link/hell-is-my-purgatory
Grave Digger are:
Chris Boltendahl (Vocals)
Tobias Kersting (Guitars)
Jens Becker (Bass)
Marcus Kniep (Drums)
https://www.grave-digger.de
https://www.facebook.com/gravediggerofficial
ASCIAN – “SING TO ME, SWEET VOID”
Genre: Doom Metal / Post Metal
VÖ: 28.09.2024
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen.
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"Fans of legendary brutal/technical death metal acts such as Suffocation, Defeated Sanity, and Dying Fetus will find much to adore here, as the band slides and glides frictionlessly between hyper-tempo grooved-out blastbeats and the kind of neck-snapping palm-muted moshfests that make BDM such a fun genre"
CARNOPHAGE – “MATTER OF A DARKER NATURE”
For
fans of - Suffocation, Disentomb, Ulcerate, Deeds
of Flesh, Defeated Sanity, Dying Fetus, Hour of Penance
Every eight years, the legendary mythical entity known as Carnophage arises to reestablish god-tier standards where brutal/technical death metal music goes. This time it is no different. Despite being one of the elder beings, they've recalibrated their sound as can be expected from them to ensure that it's relevant and cutting-edge for the time while keeping intact the original, inherited traits that propelled them to greatness in the first place. They've created an elegant, thoughtful and impactful blend of brutal and technical death metal, where each aspect complements the other without overpowering it, and ensuring that the production is earthy, organic and doesn't smother the soul of the music. The vocals are grunted with inhuman might but remain intelligible unlike most brutal bands of today. There is a masterful balance between the old and new styles, with Carnophage retaining the best qualities of both such as having the detailed structuring and fleshed out riffing while updating their sound with technical flourishes and subtle dissonance. This is virtually faultless music. From a death metal fan's perspective, everything is done to achievable perfection; an impeccable blend of sounds conjured up once again to be executed gloriously, for timeless music to reign once more
Line up:
Oral - Vocals
Mert Kaya - Guitars
Serhat Kaya - Guitars
Bengi Özgün Öztürk - Bass
Onur Özçelik - Drums
Artwork by Mitchell Nolte (Resin Tomb)
Track listing:
1. In My Bones
2. Until The Darkness Kills The Light
3. Matter Of A Darker Nature
4. Underneath The Horrendous One
5. Death Works Overtime
6. Eventually They Will Die
7. The Day We Avenge On
8. From Possibility To Actuality
Release date - August 2nd, 2024
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Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Chamber of Desolation is available now at https://linktr.ee/infernalrealm
Tracklist:
1) Black Millenia
2) Scarlet Fog
3) Chamber of Desolation
4) Primordial Seed
5) Fastened to the Rats
6) Shadows of the Ancient
7) Fleshed Inanition
8) Into Obscurity
Artwork for Chamber of Desolation by Jon Zig.
INFERNAL REALM is a 5-piece old-school death metal band with members scattered throughout the Pacific Northwest, US. The band was founded by guitarist Steven Cheng, who teamed up with drummer Chris Craven in 2017. They later added guitarist Jake Shuster, and after numerous lineup changes recruited Zach Page on vocals and producer Chris Mannino on bass.
INFERNAL REALM's sound comprises a sonic assault of catchy sinister riffs, and compelling blast beats, mixed with low guttural vocals and banshee-style screams. The lyrics weave together stories of disease, blighted lands, and apocalyptic scenery to bring forth the powers of darkness and ruin.
Worshipping at the altar of early-2000s eras of bands such as Morbid Angel, Decapitated, Cannibal Corpse, Vader, and Vital Remains to name a few, INFERNAL REALM violently awakens the old-school death metal beast.
INFERNAL REALM is:
Zack Page - vocals
Steven Cheng - guitar
Jack Shuster - guitar
Chris Mannino - bass
Chris Craven - drums
https://linktr.ee/infernalrealm
No Clean Singing has premiered the first single, Part I of 18-minute closing track, "The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore." No Clean Singing will premiere Part II on August 23 and Part III on September 11. Click the link that follows to stream Part I now!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/07/25/an-ncs-premiere-ingurgitating-oblivion-the-barren-earth-oozes-blood-and-shakes-and-moans-to-drink-her-childrens-gore-part-1/
Part I will be available on all platforms tomorrow, July 26. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Unsurprisingly, considering the band's acclaimed body of work to date, this is no run-of-the-mill Tech-Death album. The talented duo of guitarist and engineer Norbert Müller and vocalist, guitarist, and composer Florian Engelke have outdone themselves again on Ontology of Nought! Epic-length tracks ranging from 10 to 18 minutes fuse into a cohesive whole that awes with the band's characteristic technical flare and progressive, compositional brilliance. The impressive cast of session and guest musicians adds even more vibrancy. Hearing is believing.
Though it has been seven years since the last Willowtip release, Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light, the forthcoming opus unequivocally demonstrates that the wait has been well worth it!
"You have fully delineated the subject of a universe of finiteness and change as well as the knowledge derived therefrom // Why should you be despondent in spite of all this, thinking that you are undone?"
- Ingurgitating Oblivion
The band released the following statement about the new album:
“Ontology of Nought is the result of approximately five years of incessant work. It documents whatever has been instilled into Ingurgitating Oblivion and the two minds pulling the strings behind the scenes: Norbert Müller and Florian Engelke. Trying to pinpoint some trite conceptual undercurrent would be to defile the beauty of creation. It feels alienating to us talking about our music and lyrics, as these stem from dichotomic dynamics of meticulous planning on the one hand and perfect intuition on the other. In like manner, the lyrics cannot be explained further here, but listeners are invited to do some work themselves and take a plunge into what could potentially encapsulate the world or denote nothing at all. Musically, we just do our own thing, celebrating our Death Metal heroes, more progressive Rock, jazz, folk, classical music. We do not strive to stand for any particular brand, but we simply enjoy being torn down the torrent of haphazard ideas, premonitions, and visions.And that’s that."
Track
Listing:
1. Uncreation's whirring loom you ply with crippled fingers
2. To weave the tapestry of nought
3. The blossoms of your tomorrow shall unfold in my heart
4. Lest I should perish with travel, effete and weary, as my knees refuse to bear me thither
5. The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore
Credits:
Sound engineering, mastering and production by Norbert Müller.
Album cover by Dmitriy Egorov.
Guest appearances / Session musicians:
Lille Gruber (Defeated Sanity) - Drums
Ava Bonam - Vocals
Chris Zoukas (Mentally Defiled, Sacral Rage, Violent Definition) - Bass
Céline Voccia - Piano
Daniel Agi - Recorder, Flutes
Jan Ferdinand - Vibraphone, Guitars
Tom Fountainhead Geldschläger - Guitar Solos
Line-up:
Norbert Müller - rhythm and lead guitars, sound engineering, mastering, all recording logistics
Florian Engelke - lead composition, rhythm and lead guitars, vocals, Tibetan singing bowls
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Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: july 26th 2024
Genre: Metal
For fans of: In Flames | Soilwork | Trivium | Shadows Fall
He walks the plains of dust and pain, with measured and deliberate tread. Never hurrying, his steps eat up the endless miles of eternity; beneath the boughs of weeping trees, beside the grey waters of the river of forgetting, through the ever-burning, sulphurous flames. Timorous, diminutive devils dance and flitter about his feet while larger prey watch from dark ravines and from behind curtain falls of lava – ashamed and afraid. He passes through the halls of silence, the blackened palaces of the fallen and the damned. He is the Hell Walker and sword in hand, with unflinching purpose and unwavering belief, he draws ever nearer to the tarnished throne of blustering arrogance and whispered regret…
Hell Walker is the debut album from Tyraels Ascension, the incredible new band summoned into being by guitarists Sean Searls of Bury Your Burdens and Kevin McNeil of Deathbreaker. From the very first song, ‘The Prophecy’, Hell Walker seizes you in its iron grip and there’s no escape. The robust, relentless vocals drive the song forward, riding on the powerful, driving rhythms while the twin guitars weave intricate webs of gold around the steel juggernaut. Like the spinning knives of an elegant assassin the melodious guitars dart and dance with breathtaking precision, lifting the sound of Tyraels Ascension to another level. Just listen to the solos in second track ‘Descent’ – this is the stuff of metal dreams! Heading deeper into the album the sheer strength of the song writing becomes ever more apparent, with the uplifting and superbly structured ‘The Art Of War’, the dynamic, imaginative ‘When The Hero Dies’ – a track fizzing with effervescent energy – and first single ‘Holy Fire’ with its furious pace and intensity and effortlessly smooth shifting between tempos, forming a stunning heart to this enthralling collection. The quality of musicianship, the dramatic atmosphere, the towering stature of the songs is maintained right to the final note of Hell Walker, making it one of the most accomplished and impressive debut albums of recent years.
Arrayed in stunning artwork that captures the amazing atmosphere and majestic power of the music within, Hell Walker will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world by Rottweiler Records on August 2nd. Also landing on August 2nd, from Kisimul Studio in association with Rottweiler Records, will be Tyraels Ascension: Hell Walker the video game! Complete with the music of Tyraels Ascension fans can venture even deeper into the world of the Hell Walker.
See the trailer and info for the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3046290/Tyraels_Ascension_Hell_Walker__The_Video_Game/
Follow the Hell Walker into the fire and discover a world of magnificent metal and immersive fantasy.
Line-up:
Kevin McNeil - Lead/Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Sean Searls - Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Alex theesen – Vocals
Drums on Hell Walker performed by Morgan Hoehne (Your Hands Write History)
Guest Vocals on ‘The Art Of War’ by Dustin Cichosz (Surpasses)
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TyraelsAscension
Helsinki-based doom metal band DENIGRATE releases their fourth full length album titled TO THE GODDESS UNKNOWN later this year via Inverse Records. Now they have released the first single and music video Crystal Rest from the upcoming album. The song spits versatility, lingers on doom and death yet to be crowned with vulnerability. As life itself.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/denigrate-crystalrest
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/E2Bbs7SYe88
Since Denigrate was found back in '96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observative.
The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in this band. From the first released album in 2003 to the latest 4th one in 2024 called "To The Gods Unknown", decades has changed and so has the band.
After no more than two albums released, after big-time local momentum with a finnish cover song, after mandatory hiatus, after some line-up changes, Denigrate 2024 introduces their absolutely greatest masterpiece to date and shows what only truely experienced bunch of members can achieve.
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass,
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
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The band comments single:
‘The song "Medusa's Death" is based on the myth of Perseus and Medusa. Medusa is one of the three Gorgons who is often associated with death, with fear. In the song, the moment before her death at the hands of Perseus is described in a bloody and gruesome way. The deliberate choice of this myth is because she represents horror, the other side of beauty that fascinates and repels, seduces and kills. The female gaze, usually a source of seduction, in Medusa becomes a source of instant death, turning anyone who looks at her into solid stone."
Listen Medusa's Death single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/kreyl-medusa
Track list:
1- Giants of Arto Island 02:52
2- Nekromateion of Ephyra 03:22
3- Medusa’s Death 03:51
4- The Oracle of Delphi 03:22
5- Esoteric Mother of the Waning Moon 03:37
6- The Dark Kingdom of Tartarus 03:50
7- Sparagmos 04:23
8- Hydra of Lerna 03:59
9- The Battle of Typhoon 04:42
Album cover by Lordigan Pedro Sena. Edited by Xavi Brosa
Biography:
The Kreyl project was born during the winter of 2020, in the city of Barcelona (Catalunya/Spain), from an idea of Virus Tremor, guitarist of the band and also guitarist of the black metal band Nefasta and the brutal death metal band Handle with Hate. It was inspired by the album ‘I’ by the Finnish black metal band Hedonihil and many other bands of the second wave of black metal. Later on the Kreyl project was joined by: Croma Lan Ro as drummer, also drummer of the black metal band Fogos; Necrum Nebulas as bass player and already a member of the brutal death bands Caustic and Handle with Hate; I. Luna as guitarist, already member of the brutal death band
Caustic and Eris Nocturna Aura on vocals, already singer in the black metal band Nefasta and mastermind of the dark ambient solo project Aetheria (Italy).
Kreyl's idea is to move away from the usual themes centred on Satan and Anti-Christianity and to focus more on historical-cultural themes closely related to the concept of death, occultism, ancient civilizations, exalting also the most raw, violent and brutal local mythology and paganism from a philosophical and dark point of view.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/kreyl-obscure-rise-of-ancient-eulogy-cd-pre-order
ANCIENT
ENTITIES - "ECHOES OF ANNIHILATION"
Blending the brutal layers of modern death metal with the raw ferocity of old-school sounds, "Echoes of Annihilation" promises to be a landmark release. Ancient Entities' unique approach to the genre is designed to captivate seasoned metalheads and new fans.
Ancient Entities, comprising Alex Rausa, Jake Falk, Luke Veranth, and Brian Gulliford, delve deep into the annals of ancient civilizations, weaving tales of war tactics, brutality, folklore, and mythology into their powerful soundscapes. The band’s mission is clear: to transport listeners back to ancient times, capturing the essence of historical narratives through their relentless music, immersive ambiance, and crushing riffs.
Tracklist
1. Cenote Sagrado
2. Empire In Ashes
3. Creatures From The Sand
4. Blood Upon Stone
5. Ritual Autopsy
6. Hidden
7. Pierced by Obsidian
8. Wall of War
9. Damnatio Ad Flammas
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CARNIVORE DIPROSOPUS – “RISE OF THE INSURRECTION”
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: august 9th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Bolt Thrower | Disavowed | Houwitser
The day of destruction has arrived, when your order and your systems of control collapse and fall in ruins. The time of chaos is now as the old world dies in flames and a hail of gunfire. The bloated body of your corporate domination will be torn asunder and your opulent palaces of sneering self-satisfaction will be washed away in a tidal wave of blood. The world will be reborn, screaming beneath the caterpillar tracks of the war machine. This is a new age of warfare; this is the rise of the insurrection!
Carnivore Diprosopus, purveyors of obliterating, bone-crushing brutality since 2002 are back with a career defining new album, their first since 2013 and their most destructive to date. Rise Of The Insurrection begins with the introductory piece, ‘Insurrection Ordinance’, which is a defiant demonstration of firepower as the Carnivore Diprosopus battalions take to the field of conflict. Remorseless, rolling riffs build in monstrous heaviness before the guns erupt in the world breaking barrage of ‘Begin Redemption’ and the sheer capability for carnage of Carnivore Diprosopus becomes apparent. There is no resisting this onslaught. You lose all sense of time and reality as ‘The Battle Of Saicasm (Aerial Predator)’ brings a blitzkrieg of death from above, leaving gaping wounds in the earth and the riffs of ‘The Onslaught…Cyborg Tank Division’ – featuring a guest appearance from Angel Ochoa (Abominable Putridity, Cephalotripsy, Disgorge etc) – tumble around your blasted ears like spent shell cases falling from a white hot machine gun spitting death. Perhaps the most impressive display of scorched earth sonics though, comes in the form of ‘Khristov’s Seventh Eagle Legion’, with its wonderful jarring notes like alarm bells announcing the end of the world that progress to a horrifying bludgeoning , accompanied by a vocal delivery of unearthly power from the band’s founder member and talismanic general, Mr. Oscarnivore T-666. Featuring as a bonus track, a reanimation of ‘Whore Collector Of Testicles’, with additional vocals from Rene Barthoulot of Slamentation, which first appeared on Carnivore…’s debut album, Filled My Stomach With A Pregnant’s Corpse back in 2004, Rise Of The Insurrection is a triumphant return to the frontlines for this most uncompromising of brutal death metal strike forces.
More than a decade on from previous album Condemned By The Alliance, Carnivore Diprosopus have retaken their place of prominence in the death metal ranks with ease. Complete with the war torn artwork of Pedro ‘Lordigan’ Sena (Analepsy, Ingested, Putrid Pile etc) Rise Of The Insurrection is irresistible and unstoppable. When Comatose Music unleash this beast on August 9th nothing will stand in its way!
Line-up:
Mr. Oscarnivore T-666 - Vocals
Pablo Gonzalez - Bass
Jose ‘Nacho’ Rondon - Guitar
Andres ‘Obispo’ Zuleta - Guitar
Wilson ‘Brigadier’ Henao – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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BRED FOR SLAUGHTER (ex-Exhumed) set to release KILL FOR SATAN on August 23rd via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.
For
fans of :
Carcass, Defleshed, Deicide, Entombed, Exhumed, Marduk, Mayhem, Morbid Angel,
Obituary, Sepultura, Slayer and Vader.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new EP from South Bay California's extreme Blackened Deathgrinding old school maniacs Bred For Slaughter. Kill For Satan is up now for pre-order and will be released August 23rd on CD and Digital formats along with merch. Bred For Slaughter's current lineup includes former Exhumed vocalist Mark Smith, from the original demo era of the band.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome back Bred For Slaughter with their sophomore EP Kill For Satan! Hailing from the South Bay of California, Bred For Slaughter shreds old school, fast, dark, and extreme Blackened Deathgrind, dedicated to keepin’ it real and true! Kill For Satan lets loose six tracks of pure shredding insanity, featuring scene veteran Mark Smith (ex-Exhumed demo era) on vocals. Bred For Slaughter pukes forth a dark and evil mix of nastiness, influenced by the classic eras of Grindcore, Death Metal and Black Metal, with songs that stick to your brain and will keep you headbangin’!
Listen to the single "Rape Kill Conquer" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yEj0PqeUSM
Tracklisting:
1. Rape Kill Conquer
2. Kill For Satan
3. Vacant Grave
4. Possessed By The Beast
5. Kill Kill Kill
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The latest full length from the Canadian black metal band Hell Is Other People is a beautiful and cohesive mélange of the various sub-styles of the genre and has undeniable emotive appeal. You can stream a couple of tracks from the album https://hellisotherpeoplebm.bandcamp.com/album/moirae and check it out for yourself.
HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE - “MOIRAE”
For
fans of
- Agalloch, Altar of Plagues, Winterfylleth, White Ward, Drudkh
Hell Is Other People from Canada have elegantly and passionately crafted a black metal album that imbibes influences from several of its related subgenres such as atmospheric black metal, post-black metal and even DSBM in parts, forming a cohesive, expressive and all-encompassing sound that the band is comfortable in carrying throughout. The band goes about playing these intuitively structured songs with a palpable burning fervour which makes all the difference. It is difficult to remain unmoved by such impactful and poignant songs and even more so to efface them from memory, the languid pacing furthermore prolonging their lingering presence in the mind. The five songs here seem interconnected emotionally even though they offer slightly differing moods, as if showcasing phases of the same pained existence. 'Moirae' is a stunning, beautifully tempered album with a remarkable range of expression that comes across as genuine and heartfelt.
Line up
Nathan Boots - Guitar
Nicholas Luck - Guitar
Nathan Ferreira - Bass, Vocals
James Ditty - Drums
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration
Track listing
1. Moirae 6:58
2. Fates 6:43
3. Degrade 7:48
4. Loss 8:45
5. Atropos 13:28
Release date - October 11th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE – “THE DEVIL KNOWS MY NAME”
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: july 12th 2024
Genre: Deathcore/Slam Death
For fans of: Annotations Of An Autopsy | Ingested | Gutrectomy | (Un)Worthy
Tearing their way out of Clemson, South Carolina like a caged beast bursting through the bars of its prison, come Cleansing of the Temple, a deathcore/slam death wrecking ball of rage. Having already made a powerful impact on the underground scene with their 2022 EP, Slam 4 The Lamb - a collection of colossal riffs and uncompromising lyrics - Cleansing of the Temple are now poised to unleash their first full length album. A caustic display of all-consuming fury, the sound of desperation and unravelling sanity, The Devil Knows My Name is an intimidating display of nerve-shredding intensity. Follow us now, into the darkness…
The Devil Knows My Name opens with the strangely unsettling introduction of ‘Farther Along The Valley’, which seethes with repressed dark emotion, gradually raising the fear-tinged anticipation for the oncoming annihilation…and then Cleansing of the Temple bring down the hammer – hard. ‘God Of Hate’ explodes into life with a gargantuan, impossible scream over pit-inducing rhythms before jarring, angular riffs shatter the structure, only to be eaten up by waves of absolute devastation. From here there is no way back, as the great lumbering beast that is title track ‘The Devil Knows My Name’ picks up your scent. Tortured screams and sewer-scouring, inhuman growls ride the filthy, sludge infected, doom grooves and you can feel the ground shake beneath your feet. The ensuing journey through the blasted sonic landscape is mercilessly intense, from the staggering, relentless anger of ‘Sardis’ to the hardcore aggression of first single, ‘I, Afflicted’ and the disconcerting, multi-directional attack of ‘Stained Glass Blues’, featuring a guest appearance from Brayden Gibbs of Candescent. However, the absolute crowning glory of The Devil Knows My Name comes with the climactic ‘Where Does Darkness Dwell When We Open Our Eyes’. Possessing a towering presence, an array of clinical riffs and ultra-extreme vocal violence, this epic, album concluding track slips beneath the waters of cold, atmospheric melody before charging headlong to an ending in fire, a sudden frenzy of destruction that will leave you breathless. It’s a powerful, affecting finish to an album that fulfils all the promise suggested by Cleansing of the Temple’s earlier recordings and bludgeoning live shows.
Cleansing of the Temple are now a part of the burgeoning roster of extremity at Rottweiler Records, who will launch this ballistic missile of an album at the world on July 12th. Produced, mixed and mastered by Glenn Gizzi of Phinehas fame, every element of The Devil Knows My Name possesses not only clarity and power, but crackles with tension and electrifying energy, the passion of the individual performances palpable. This is not your average slam record, or just another album cut from the deathcore template. When Cleansing of the Temple come calling be prepared for an experience like no other.
Line-up:
Gavin James – Vocals
Rasheen Johnson - Drums
Dustin Duvall – Guitar
Matthew Clark – Guitar
Randy Smith – Bass
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
Label: Independent Release
Release date: august 19th 2024
Genre: Slam Death/Deathcore
For fans of: Gorevent | Acranius | Gutrectomy | Guttural Slug
“In their rhythmic piping, droning, rattling, and beating I felt an element of terror beyond all the known terrors of earth—a terror peculiarly dissociated from personal fear, and taking the form of a sort of objective pity for our planet, that it should hold within its depths such horrors as must lie beyond these aegipanic cacophonies.”
‘Under The Pyramids’ - H.P. Lovecraft
Beneath my feet the earth shakes, as if in the throes of contorting agony – and rising from unimagined depths I hear the sound of drums like sky-rending thunder. They are drums of war, drums of imperious domination, drums of summoning. I slip into a trance and my mind’s eye descends through the soil, through the bones and relics of ages past, through the earth’s tortured crust, the red hell of the seething mantle, down into the planet’s core of fire. And there amidst the flames I see the creatures of nightmare amassed in their countless millions, bowing low before the impossible magnitude of the lord of devils, made strong by our pernicious wickedness, a towering god of darkness…the Sin Eater!
A new force in extreme heaviness has emerged from the south London smoke, a new pulverizing power without mercy, without remorse – Hellwrath have arrived upon the extreme music stage. Debut EP, Sin Eater, opens with the sounds of desperate panic that are slowly but insistently obliterated by riffs like the pounding of a gargantuan steam hammer. Landing staggered and staggering blows, first song, ‘Silence By Death’, delivers the Hellwrath manifesto – monstrous slamming power above all and beyond all. With vocals that rumble through your ribcage, shaking your internal organs and riffs that scour the sewers and the dark places of the earth, all riding on insidiously pulsating rhythms and a sense of inherent, mechanistic violence, Sin Eater unleashes a high impact sonic attack, with the force of a mortar shell. From the methodical beating of ‘The Alchemist’, with the weight of the world behind every chord, to the deep, scarring grooves and massive tactile riffs of ‘Hellwrath’, this EP is a journey through a landscape of blasted devastation. Vocalist and lyricist Paul Bower has drawn upon his days working in the grim and pressurised environment of the UK’s prisons and his own battles against the demons that prey on our mental well-being, infusing Sin Eater with an aura of confusion, anger and despondency, intensifying the brutal, juddering collision between the listener’s psyche and the band’s venomous outpourings of wounded rage. Concluding with a cover of Godsmack’s ‘I Stand Alone’ that takes this EP into different territories of melody and structure, despite being slammed into the dirt with typical Hellwrath heft and muscle, along with an EDM remix of ‘Sin Eater’ by Neutropics , Hellwrath’s debut demonstrates a willingness and ability to infiltrate unexpected dominions of darkness in the band’s quest for ultimate domination.
Produced and mixed by Alex Sedin (Anachronism, Adelon, Essence Of Datum etc) of Ghostalgy Prods, Sin Eater sounds vast and intimidatingly heavy, with an undercurrent of unnerving atmosphere. Prepare to be shaken to the core when Sin Eater erupts from the depths on August 19th.
Line-up:
Paul Bower - Vocals
Dylan Price - Bass
Igor Korsakov - Guitar
Recorded along the highways of Wisconsin in the band's mobile studio, Death Keeps offers seven tracks of darkly aggressive metal.
The band comments on their unorthodox recording process, "We wanted to make the recording process unique and memorable, so we hit the road in a 14-foot camper, traveling around Wisconsin to write and record our music. This mobile studio experience was fun and inspired us in ways we hadn't imagined."
Two singles from Death Keeps are now streaming. Listen to "Found Under a Cold Knife" and "Leech" at https://linktr.ee/darkdeedsmke
Tracklist:
1. Found Underneath a Cold Knife
2. Leech
3. Apostate
4. Dogma
5. Remorse
6. King of Pentacles
7. Death Keeps (feat. Bind the Sacrifice)
Death Keeps will be available on streaming platforms on August 10. Pre-save the EP at https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/darkdeeds1/death-keeps
Line up:
Ben Prendergast - Guitar/Vocals
Allan Barth III - Vocals
Shane Garski - Bass
Kevin Giersch - Drums
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Montreal-based FROSTBITE has unleashed the title track from their upcoming new album, RELENTLESS GRIEF.
Following the band's 2016 release, Etching Obscurity" FROSTBITE is back and pushing forward with a darker and heavier approach to their vicious blackened death metal approach. After a short hiatus during which all members kept busy touring the US and Canada with other projects, the timing was finally right to finalize and release FROSTBITE's next chapter and bring the band back on stage.
Stream "Relentless Grief" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_oaFNDVsBo
Black Lion Records will release Relentless Grief on September 20. Pre-order the album on CD and digital formats at https://orcd.co/relentless-grief-album
Tracklist:
1. Unearthing Dread
2. Death Omen
3. Flagellants
4. Void And Emptiness
5. Echoes Of Eldritch Past
6. Ravenous Possessions
7. Relentless Grief
8. Omnia Perit
9. Existence Forlorn
Stream the album's first single, "Flagellants" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Qh6tSkafI
Guitars, bass, and vocals on Relentless Grief were recorded by David Gagné, with drums recorded by Rémi LeGresley at The Grid Studios. The album was mixed and mastered by Honza Kapák. Artwork by Mark Erskine.
FROSTBITE is:
Max Allard: Guitars and Vocals
Stef Deschênes: Bass
Kévin Lampron: Drums
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https://linktr.ee/frostbitemetal
Finnish old school Thrash/Death metal band JEWEL THRONE is set to release their debut album 'BLOOD VULTURES' on October 18th 2024 via Inverse Records. The first single title track Blood Vultures is released today and lyrics video is available here: https://youtu.be/AocU_xw2xFk
The band comments single:
“‘Blood Vultures’, the title track of the forthcoming Jewel Throne debut album is a story about the price of carelessness. One can trust no one in this world. Don’t let your guard down, don’t let anyone close to you. Don’t take a chance or you will be destroyed. There will always be hordes of bloodthirsty creatures ready to stab you in the back. Creatures beneath contempt. Creatures shadowed by disgrace. The despicable and filthy creatures of the lowest circle of Hell."
Listen Blood Vultures single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/jewel-throne-blood
Biography:
Jewel Throne was formed as a trio in May 2019 by bassist-vocalist Mika Sallanen, the other members being guitarist Jari Yrjänäinen and drummer Jouni Kurikka. All were already very experienced with lots of bands, demos and a few albums already in their CV’s since all had begun their adventures in music already back in the late 80´s/early 90´s. The first lineup released three EP´s in quick succession. These simple thrash metal releases should now be considered as mere rough sketches of what was to come later.
It was time to add two more musicians – guitarist Toni Koskinen and vocalist Jesse Huovinen, and Jewel Throne mark II was born. Musically the band improved a lot with this change. This lineup released a bunch of singles and an EP ‘Obscure Relics’, which was also released as a tape by Fetusvomit Records. After this it was decided that it was time for the original guitar player to leave the band.
Now as a four-piece, Jewel Throne mark III moved on. They released two singles and an EP ‘Illiterati’ – a release vastly superior to anything they had achieved so far. So now it was the time to decide what to do next. The band had lots of songs ready, so it was decided to jump head first into the unknown and record their debut album. The recording sessions started in Easter 2023. The band entered the studio with 20 songs out of which 17 songs ended up being recorded.
All in all, the recordings took a bit longer than expected due to various issues, but in early spring 2024 the band had a finished product in their hands. ‘Blood Vultures’ was born – an album of 12 highly energetic and angry thrash/death metal songs. It was time to search for a record label, and in June 2024 the band signed with Inverse Records.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/jewel-throne-blood-vultures-cd-pre-order
Track
list:
1. Blood Vultures
2. Cosmic Titan Engines
3. Psychotoxic Assault
4. The Graveyard of Dreams
5. Megaton Headshot
6. Instant Apocalypse
7. The Extinction Level Express
8. Hate Overdrive
9. Mental Self-Mutilation
10. Hammer Down the Last Nail
11. Suffer The Fools
12. The Overlord
Album cover by Observingdeath
Line-up:
Jesse Huovinen – vocals
Toni Koskinen – guitars
Mika Sallanen – bass/vocals
Jouni Kurikka - drums
https://linktr.ee/jewelthronefinland
TUSENÅRSEKEN – “OMHULDRA”
Label: Grind To Death Records
Release date: september 6th 2024
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Bathory | Enslaved | Imperium Dekadenz | Falls Of Rauros
From the Swedish town of Höör, in that country’s southernmost county of Skåne, comes Tusenårseken, the black metal creation of Andreas Karlsson. Since he first summoned the spirit of Tusenårseken into life in 2020, Andreas Karlsson has released two full length albums and an EP and is now set to unveil his third album, Omhuldra. While solo black metal projects are not particularly uncommon, those that can leave you stunned by their musical accomplishments, the breadth and depth of their imagination and creativity certainly are. Karlsson without doubt possesses a rare talent and in Omhuldra he has shaped an album of breathtaking magic…
When Omhuldra begins with ‘Ode till alla fattiga kräk’, its opening vocal chant, steeped in the sounds of Scandinavian folklore, deftly changes your surroundings and perceptions. The world around you fades as the music transports you to the high mountain passes, beneath the shadowed canopy of vast forests, through cold and lightless tunnels far beneath the earth and beside glittering, cold lakes – vast mirrors reflecting the open sky. Each song tells a different tale and paints a different dream. The feral riffs of ‘Våren förgiftad’ eat at the nerve endings as haunted melodies rise slowly to the surface of its icy waters, shrouded in impenetrable mystery. ‘Riket bortom livet’ begins with warlike intensity, the formidable, tumultuous drums recalling the immortal aura of Bathory’s peerless Blood, Fire, Death before slipping sideways through an array of rhythmic and atmospheric changes, each welcome and wonderful. There is so much to experience as you are carried through Tusenårseken’s kingdom of folk, tradition, myth and magic…it’s bewildering and bewitching. From the jagged, embittered blackness of ‘Himmelens hand’ to the campfire meditations of ‘En vila i eländet’ and on to the earthshaking march of giants through a realm of legends that is ‘Grönskan vi minns’. While at the album’s heart lies the immensity of ‘Ett hjärta som lättats från kroppen’, where a thousand different elements of sound seem to be woven into a tapestry of the song. If such a startlingly beautiful album can be said to have a finest moment, then Omhuldra’s must surely lie within the sorcerous weft and weave of ‘Ett hjärta som lättats från kroppen’.
Omhuldra will be released by Grind To Death Records on September 6th, swathed in the richly detailed artwork of Daniel Karlsson (Furnace, Throneless etc) and for those who discover its glorious fury, its storm winds over jagged, snow-crested peaks, its ethereal melodies, its torrents of daunting power…it will be a gift to be treasured for a lifetime. Light the hilltop fires and watch for its coming.
Line-up:
Andreas Karlsson – All music and vocals
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3000AD return reenergised with their new song from the highly anticipated follow-up album to 2020s "The Void". "Ghettocide" continues the dystopian theme of the debut album while bringing fresh new sonic elements.
For fans of : DRI, Exodus, Slayer, Municipal Waste, etc.
Release Date: July 19, 2024
Label: Total Metal Records
Biography
3000AD are Crossover/Thrash Metal three piece from Christchurch, New Zealand.
Guitarist Sam Pryor, bassist Scott Austin and drummer Hellmore Bones formed the band to fuse their passion for Thrash Metal, 80’s Punk Rock and bleak, dystopian, futuristic imagery.
“The Void”, the band’s debut album, was recorded in studios in Hollywood, California and Auckland, New Zealand. Award winning engineer and producer Clint Murphy mixed the album, and it was mastered at the iconic Sterling Sound in New York City.
In the short time, 3000AD toured across New Zealand and gained airplay on several major radio stations.
At March 27, 2020, the album was officially released by Total Metal Records. It was supported by Total Metal Over Europe Tour - X, together with legendary German Necronomicon.
https://totalmetal.metalscraprecords.com/
CREST OF DARKNESS' new album "MY GHOST" will be released in the next October. Now it's time to present "Call Of The Moon" the first single that the band releases today on vinyl as a 7" EP and available at https://shorturl.at/HCBau and in digital format.
A lyric video created by Marcelo Silva (Motion Graphics) is available at https://youtu.be/n0_XISysdMo
Just two songs but a great release featuring the title track, "Call Of The Moon" for sure one of the songs that better represents the extreme inner journey that Ingar and his bandmates undertake this time, and a side B track, one of the most progressive episode of their entire career. It's titled "The Awekening" and presents Roy Nikolaisen's magnificent trumpet in an extreme context such as that of Black Metal.
Recorded at MLP Studios with Nils H. Maehlum at the helm and mastered by Giuseppe Nicolò (aka Buzz) at Lost Soul Studio, "Call Of The Moon" represents the first step of a long trip that will open us the doors to "My Ghost" an album that the same Ingar Amlien admits to be the more personal album ever created by the band.
We just have to wait and we are sure that it will not disappoint you.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
http://www.crestofdarkness.com/
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GRAVE ROBBER – “THE CELLAR SESSIONS”
Label: Thumper Punk Records
Release date: july 19th 2024
Genre: Horror Punk
For fans of: Misfits | Ramones | Creeper | The Meteors
By daylight the graveyard can be a place of peaceful reflection and thoughtful wandering amongst memories of the loved and lost. But the night…the night changes everything. In its dark embrace things become so much more than they seemed under the comforting rays of the sun. The shadows are deeper, the silence holds unspoken threat and each sudden sound near stops your trembling heart. The stone angels’ beatific smiles have changed to enraged glares of furious reproach…and was that the sound of a shovel biting into the sacred soil? As white serpents of mist slither about your ankles with a touch that freezes the skin, nothing here is what it seems…
For nearly twenty years Fort Wayne’s Grave Robber have been invoking the sounds of the cemetery and the atmosphere of the tomb with their ripping horror punk anthems. Their horde of undead devotees, brethren of the boneyards, have clutched albums like 2009s Inner Sanctum and 2018s Escaping The Grave to their cold, decaying hearts with a fervent passion. Punk, metal and rock ‘n’ roll rebellion delivered with frenetic energy, snarling guitars, fiendish atmosphere and a voice that can shake fleshless skeletons from their dusty, dreamless slumbers. Since they began Grave Robber have not shied away from tackling a cover version – some that could have been written for these adrenaline fuelled ghouls and some that you’d never imagine finding their way into the Grave Robber mausoleum. Over the last decade, In between breathing life into an array of albums and EPs, the Robbers have been hard at work in their rehearsal cellar, drawing together the finest of their raucous covers, those most powerfully imbued with the spirit of the unquiet dead…and at last the definitive collection is ready to be unearthed! The Cellar Sessions features classic songs from Misfits, Black Sabbath, Jim Croce and Norman Greenbaum, legendary laments from Metallica, Nirvana, Cyndi Lauper and more – all transformed and dissected , reworked and reanimated by the carousing corpses of Grave Robber. Sure, some covers albums can be throwaway, or hit and miss affairs, but not this stitched and bandaged beast that has come crawling up those cellar steps. This is the sound of celebration for the creatures of the night, anthems of rebellion for the outcasts and the lost boys, the witches, the zombies, the blood suckers and the wolves.
The spirit of The Cellar Sessions is perfectly captured in the brilliant cover artwork, created by Paul Stier (Brotality, Symphony Of Heaven etc) and the disparate tracks have been brought together into one sinister sound elixir by the production and mastering skills of Tim Bushong and Michael Walter. Out now on Thumper Punk Records, The Cellar Sessions is the perfect record for the night time hours, when the moon rides high in a star-dusted, stygian sky.
Line-up:
Wretched - Vokills
Carcass - Bass/Vokills
Viral - Guitar/Vokills
Plague – Smash Doom Tubs
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It's finally out! Both the bands, Diskord and Atvm, have contributed in their own peculiar ways to make this an exceptional split release - not just in terms of quality, but also the kind of music contained therein. It'll be a real shame if this gets overlooked - it may not be immediately accessible but it's got a hundred riffs and innovation that's hard to come by in death metal. Please stream it in full on YouTube below or on Bandcamp
https://diskordband.bandcamp.com/album/bipolarities It would be awesome to see this split get more coverage!
DISKORD /ATVM - “BIPOLARITIES”
For
fans of
- Demilich, Defect Designer, Xenosis, Disharmonic Orchestra, Carcass, The
Chasm
Norwegian band Diskord show us why they're masters when it comes to this kind of twisted, convoluted, and quite frankly timeless death metal. They're inexorably pushing their sound forward in their own way and even after a couple of decades of existence, they manage to keep their music refreshing and unpredictable. The four new songs that are a part of this split are even more erratic and out-of-the-box. Indeed, there are about a hundred variations in them but how each of the songs progress will still leave you guessing. It's just ingenious songwriting that reaches out and grabs your attention despite the unnatural complexity and compels you to listen to the songs again and again to fully wrap your head around them. They're an absolute delight for any fan of progressive, technical or even dissonant death metal, regardless of his old school or contemporary stylistic inclination.
UK progressive death trailblazers Atvm left an indelible mark with their groundbreaking full length and they return with some of their longest and best songs for this special split release. The music may not be as technical as that of their label mates on this split but it's every bit as engrossing and they even throw some nasty curveballs of their own - the longish playing time only allows them to shape-shift multiple times with ease and they do that with conviction. There's an inherent sickness to their music and their progression feels visceral. They have their own way of doing things and it's definitely a thrill to follow the sinuous patterns and eccentricities that they throw along the way. These songs are yet another testament to the raw talent of this relative newcomer and their pairing with Diskord on this split only brings out the quirky appeal of their music some more.
Diskord line up:
Hans Jørgen - Drums and vocals
Eyvind - Bass and vocals
Dmitry - Guitar and vocals
Atvm line up:
Tom - Guitars
Fran - Drums and percussion
Luke - Bass and percussion
H - Vocals
Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston
Artwork by Will Sweeney
Track listing:
1. Diskord - Onward! To Nowhere
2. Diskord - Pass The Baton
3. Diskord - Shivering, As We Shed Our Hides
4. Diskord - Cogged Pother
5. Atvm - Cancer
6. Atvm - Morphine
Official release date - July 12th, 2024
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Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
VICRECORDS News :
NECRONOMICON – „THE DEMOS „
One of the earliest extreme German Metal bands: NECRONOMICON's earliest works: Demo 1 Total Rejection (1985), Demo 2 Blind Destruction (1985) and two tracks from the ‘Break Out’ compilation album 1986
Necronomicon is a German Thrash Metal Legend, founded in 1983. The band still exists today and has released eleven full length albums up till now. Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems with founding member Freddy (guitars and vocals). Restored, remastered by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony (Vio Lence, Sodom, Destruction). Cover art by Thomas Pinheiro (Vio Lence, Malevolent Creation, Hirax).
Genocide (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Total Rejection (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Rebel (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Woman (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Danger (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Wehrt Euch (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Intro (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Iron Charm (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Possessed by Evil (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Insanity (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Blind Destruction (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Bloody Revenge (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Possessed by Evil( Break Out compilation LP 1986)
Blind Destruction( Break Out compilation LP 1986)
DISINCARNATE
– „ SOUL EROSION DEMO 1992 „
Florida death metal featuring James Murphy (Death, Testament, Obituary). After James had left Death (he recorded ‘Spiritual Healing’ in 1990), Obituary (recorded ‘Cause of Death’ in late 1990 with them) and Cancer (with whom he recorded ‘Dead Shal Rise’ in 1991) he started his own death metal band: Disincarnate.
Soul Erosion demo 1992 was recorded, mixed, & produced at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, Florida Scott Burns (Death, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide). Alex Marquez was a special guest drummer on this demo; he appeared courtesy of Malevolent Creation, Solstice, Resurrection and Demolition Hammer. The demo contains one extra live bonus track.
The booklet contains the restored original demo artwork by Dale Vied (also Naphobia art). Restored and remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis at Suncord Audiolab, March 2024 (Vio Lence, Possessed, Varathron). This demo led to a deal with Roadrunner Records and Disincarnate released their well-received debut album ‘Dreams of the Carrion Kind’ in 1993. Murphy went on playing for Testament 1993-1996, 1998-2000 and has his own recording Studio in Florida.
SAD WHISPERINGS – „ RETURN TO AUTUMN “
Sad Whisperings was formed in 1990 (as Desecrate) and released several demo’s in the 80’s / 90s up till their split in 2004 and gained a worldwide cult following. Sad Whisperings was pure doom death metal like their early inspiration Paradise Lost and with a touch of the Dutch school of doom death metal like The Gathering. Sad Whisperings got signed by Dutch cult label Foundation 2000 (The Gathering, Gorefest) and released their debut album in 1993 called ’Sensitive to autumn’. Demos 1995 & 1998 are a natural follow up to their debut, doom death metal, Dutch style.
The booklet contains rare and old pictures, flyers and posters. Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch Death And Extreme Metal).
EQUINOX- „ JOURNEY INTO OBLIVION „
Re-release of the sold out, second album of Equinox 2003 album. Featuring guitar players Pete Slate (Druid Lord, ex-Acheron, ex-Incubus, and Tony Blakk (Druid Lord, Massacre (live), ex-Diabolic (live), ex-Acheron) and vocalist / bassist Matt Wagner. Journey into Oblivion was recorded and mixed at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida by Ji and Tom Morris (Sepultura, Kreator, Morbid Angel) and the band. The booklet contains extensive liner notes from Olivier ‘Zoltar’ Badin (Cathedral, Dark Funeral) and many rare and old pictures, flyers, posters and complete new cover artwork. The album is completely remastered plus as bonus promo demo 1994 and The Basement Sessions 1993, 15 tracks in total.
EQUINOX- „ RETURN TO MYSTERY „
Equinox was a black / death metal band from Florida, formed in 1992.Featuring guitar players Pete Slate (Druid Lord, ex-Acheron, ex-Incubus, and Tony Blakk (Druid Lord, Massacre (live), ex-Diabolic (live), ex-Acheron) and vocalist / bassist Matt Wagner. Re-release of the sold out, legendary 1996 debut of Equinox which was mixed at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida by Tom Morris (Sepultura, Kreator, Morbid Angel). The booklet contains extensive liner notes from Olivier ‘Zoltar’ Badin (Cathedral, Dark Funeral) and many rare and old pictures, flyers, posters and complete new cover artwork. The album is completely remastered plus as bonus the 1995 Ep, Live in Orlando 1993 and The Anthem to the Moon demo 1993. 15 tracks in total.
LOBOTOMY
– „ FINAL WRATH, THE EARLY HYMNS OF LOBOTOMY”
LOBOTOMY was a Swedish death metal act from Stockholm formed in 1989 and split-up in 2000. The band released several demos in the early 90s and three full-length studio albums, before the band folded in 2000. This compilation,’ Final Wrath, The early hymns of Lobotomy’ contains all demos, ep’ s and promo’s from 1989 till 1993 prior to their debut album. CD 1 contains: ‘When Death Draws Near’ demo 1990, Promo 1991, ‘Against The Gods’ demo July 1992, ‘Nailed In Misery’ demo June 1993. CD 2: ‘Hymn’ Ep December 1993, Rapture live & rehearsal tracks, Live in Akalla, Sweden 1991, Demo 1993. All songs restored and remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis at Suncord Audio lab (Vio Lence, Possessed). Line notes by Olivier ‘Zoltar’ Badin (Cathedral, Dark Funeral re-issues) and extensive interview by Nicola Constantini ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SVENSK DÖDS METALL. Including productions by Thomas Skogsberg at Sunlight Studios (Entombed, Grave, Dismember) and Peter Tagtgren (Hypocrisy, Dark Funeral). Liner notes by key figures from the extreme metal scene(Kam Lee - Massacre, Alex Hellid - Nihilist, Entombed), Masse Broberg (Hypocrisy, Dark Funeral) and many more. 34 page booklet double cd full of old pictures, flyers posters.
CD 1:When Death Draws Near demo 1990,Promo 1991,Against The Gods demo July 1992,Nailed In Misery demo June 1993
CD 2:Hymn Ep December 1993,Rapture live & rehearsal tracks, Rehearsal tracks 1990 (Reh. Tape 1990),Live in Akalla, Sweden 1991, Demo 1993
DISK1:
Inner Wrath [When Death Draws Near]
When Death Draws Near [When ..]
Into This Life [When Death Draws Near]
Instinct of Brutality [Promo 91]
Possession [Promo 91]
Depriver of Life [Promo 91]
Endless Maze [Promo 91]
Against the Gods [Against The Gods]
Depriver of Life [Against The Gods]
Seize the Throne [Against The Gods]
Lobotomized [Against The Gods]
Darkened Times [Against The Gods]
Endless Maze [Against The Gods]
Eternal Damnation [Against The Gods]
Misery End [Nailed In Misery]
Nailed [Nailed In Misery]
Instinct of Brutality [Nailed In Misery]
CD 2
Turmoil [Hymn]
Flowertrip (Part I) [Hymn]
In Bloodstained Greed[Hymn]
Rapture - Live 89 Shitzo
Rapture - Satanic Extirpator Reh 90
When Death Draws Near - Reh Tape 90
Reincarnation of the dead Reh Tape 90
Inner Wrath - Reh Tape 90
(Beyond) Possession - Live Akalla 91
Endless Maze - Live Akalla 91
Instict Of Brutality - Live 92
Eternal Damnation - Live 92
Depriver Of Life - Live 92
The Hate That Breaths - Demo 93
Soulshifter - Demo 93
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Finnish folk/death metal band WOLFHORDE is set to release their third studio album 'BLOODMOON SYMPHONIES' on August 30th 2024 via Inverse Records. The second single 'KILLER RABBIT OF CAERBANNOG' is released today and lyric video can be seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYIOgIj1gLA
The band comments:
“Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is a metaphor or a description of severe depression. It is the soft creature that is easily disregarded as ‘nothing’, yet it possesses the potential for absolute destruction.
The lyric video for Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is a combination of imagination and artificial intelligence with the intention of creating something nightmarish to complement the lyrics of this song."
Listen 'Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/wolfhorde-killer
Watch 'Tormented (Beyond Apprehension)' music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2lI0q65z-E
Track
list:
01. Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
02. Forsaken Shrine
03. Tormented (Beyond Apprehension)
04. Kuoleman Mustat Siivet
05. Anubis
06. Phantom Queen
07. Last Good Fight
08. Bloodmoon Symphony
Composed by Juha-Matti Koppelomäki
Lyrics by Juho Tuominen
Album cover by Juha-Matti Koppelomäki
Biography:
Wolfhorde skillfully combines different elements into metal music.
The way our music is presented is well thought out, and it includes influences from folk music and the vast sound worlds of cinematic music. The goal is to create a versatile, distinctive and engaging listening experience. While we embrace the intensity and power of metal, we also integrate the softer, more melodic aspects. This combination of styles allows us to create music that is not only heavy and compelling, but also rich in texture and meaning. We combine aggressive guitar riffs with atmospheric symphonies and folk music accompanied by various lyrical themes.
Line-up:
Werihukka - Guitar and other instruments
Hukkapätkä - Vocals and Drums
https://www.wolfhorde.fi
https://www.facebook.com/WolfhordeBandOfficial
The release of the fascinating progressive death metal band Februus is imminent and I would urge you all to give it a shot, if only because the band's trying to do something innovative with the style. It doesn't hurt that it's brilliantly written and manages to be brutal while it's trying to explore new realms. The album is now streaming in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFJrYc-Q7s
FEBRUUS – “SURVEILLANCE ORGY”
For
fans of
- Edge of Sanity, Pan-Thy-Monium, Carbonized, Morbus Chron, Disharmonic
Orchestra, Afflicted, Swelling Repulsion, Floating
As if the recent onslaught by progressive death metal bands Diskord, Atvm, Swelling Repulsion and Defect Designer on the label wasn't enough, Februus join the raiding party and bring the fireworks with their unheralded gem of a release in 'Surveillance Orgy'. Originally self-released by the sole band member, it blew away every unsuspecting listener who chanced upon it. There are only five songs on the album, the shortest one being three minutes and the longest one touching almost 15 minutes, and it's clear that their expression can't be confined by anything trivial of that sort. They seem to warp through time, nay, dimensions in the multiverse going by how often the music takes sudden, unexpected detours within each of the songs. The experience is unparalleled; the progressions are highly unpredictable and the manner in which they hurtle through them is both dizzying and exhilarating, all the while maintaining a sufficient heaviness worthy of the death metal tag. This is an album that transports the listener not to a particular place but all fucking over. And those adventurous enough will only strap in tighter, for albums like these are as rare as a cosmic event occurring only once every few decades.
Line up:
Andreas Karlsson - All vocals, guitar, bass, electronic sounds and drum programming
Mixing by Andreas Karlsson
Mastering by Mattias Persson
Cover painting, layout and logo by Daniel Karlsson
Track listing:
1. Gentrification of the Soul 07:06
2. Morning Star over Deathlehem 08:25
3. The Price of Enterprise 03:13
4. Surveillance Orgy 08:01
5. Resignation Syndrome 14:25
Official release date - July 19th, 2024
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A.M.E.N. sign to My Kingdom Music for what we could define as the new course of the band. The creature that is about to be born is called "ARGENTO", will be released on November 22nd and promises to be an intimate, avant-gardish work disconnected from the classic patterns of modern feeling.
Vittorio Sabelli (Dawn Of A Dark Age, Notturno, Incantvm) and Erba Del Diavolo from Il Ponte Del Diavolo, hearts, minds and souls of the band, have given an incredible stylistic twist to the project, creating a work with the heart turned towards the past, which moves between classical music and Jazz, but explores Blues, Dark, Doom and musical contaminations that develop in 'noir' and psychological fields.
These are Vittorio's words which allow us to enter the bowels of "Argento" and his project: "A.M.E.N. second chapter was born and evolves from a prelude by J.S. Bach, a D minor prelude, which this time does not cross the boundaries of Grindcore, Brutal Death Metal and Free Jazz that had characterized "The Book of Lies - Liber I", but goes on to discover much more intimate, introspective and primordial meanders of the human soul.
The various episodes of the album pay homage to the 'King' of Italian horror, Dario Argento, as the five songs that compose it are inspired by films by the Italian director".
What we are about to present to you promises to be unique in the current musical panorama, an album that succeeds to move from typically Jazz and Blues compositions to moments of pure Dark Doom in the style of early Ulver, all with the voice of Erba Del Diavolo which is here a true protagonist, decanting and giving melodies with an interpretation that moves from the great jazz singers of the past to embrace the present with her unique timbre and nuances.
So expect an album that sounds like something you can hear in a smoky jazz club in New Orleans and that shows you that when extreme music meets so-called "high" music, the result is unexpectedly sublime.
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The
second Single "PIECES" from DEFILED EMBRACE the forthcoming second full-length studio
album, "THE NETHER EARTH", by Israeli Doom Metal
project.
"Pieces" takes the listener on a journey of suffering, dying and making peace with yourself and the life you lived, just as you're having your last moments in this world.
The song is a five minutes Doom Metal ballad that grows angry further and further. "Pieces" is the only song from the upcoming album that hosts a female vocalist — the great Reut Paz Natovich (Hellscore choir), who adds her angelic and dramatic voice to the mixture of emotions in the dying journey.
Release Date: July 19, 2024
Label: Another Side Records
Biography
Defiled Embrace is a one-man-project formed in Israel in 2021 by local musician Matan Kedar. The project started as a collection of different Doom Metal songs, written by Matan over the course of 11 years. Some songs were originally written for another projects, but eventually they all came together under the name Defiled Embrace.
During 2021, Matan decided to record the songs using session musicians he works with in other bands, and the debut album “Whispers Of The Forest” was recorded during 2021-2022.
On July 2022, Defiled Embrace singed a deal with Metal Scrap Records Inc. Three videos were shot to support forthcoming release: “In Her Sullen Reflection”, “Autumn” and “Whispers Of The Forest”. September 9 became as an official release date of “Whispers Of The Forest” album through Another Side Records, a division of Metal Scrap Records Inc.
To the end of 2023, the new album, "The Nether Earth", was recorded.
During 2024, three Singles ("Mausoleum", "Pieces" and "Defiled Embrace") will be shouted before second album release, which planned on September 6 same year.
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International black metal duo HAMMERFILOSOFI will unleash a new EP this fall on Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum (ATMF).
After their much-acclaimed debut album - The Desolate One - Hammerfilosofi returns with a fiery assault on the senses, in the shape of an EP entitled SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra); four psalms of relentless, multi-layered, and hellish madness.
“The EP is an inward journey of spiritual violence and cathartic soul-searching”, comments NKTFR, and adds: “Both musically and lyrically, it picks up from where The Desolate One left off and continues in a bold leap into the dark unknown”.
Behind the music is as per usual the Norwegian-Italian duo - NKTFR and FCCM. Lyrics for the EP were penned by long-time comrade of the band, Rune Vedaa from the legendary Norwegian Black Metal band Forgotten Woods.
“The EP is both a continuation of the debut and an ominous forewarning of what is to come. We continue our relentless march, spreading our sulfurous gospel”, concludes FCCM.
ATMF will release SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra) on September 13.
The band has launched a stream of the EP's first single, "Hunt or be Hunted." Listen now at https://atmfsssdtp.bandcamp.com/track/hunt-or-be-hunted
Stream
more from Hammerfilosofi on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:
1) Hunt or be Hunted
2) Alpha Ego
3) Holy Fire
4) Epigone of Tragedy
SOLUS was recorded at WS Studios during the Autumn of 2023 and Winter 2024. The EP was mastered by Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Endarker Studios during the Spring of 2024. Visual design by Francesco Gemelli.
Bio:
Hammerfilosofi was formed in 2020 amid global chaos, shutdowns, death, panic and pestilence. For some, this was a time of despair and mass hysteria, but for others, a time of solitude, contemplation, and inner strength. The idea behind the band, according to FCCM was quite simple:
“We want to take Black Metal back to its primeval and genuine meaning and purpose. To pick up the torch, and carry on the march that was begun centuries ago. We have no intention of reinventing the wheel, but to create and evolve what we consider to be Black Metal”.
In 2023 Hammerfilosofi unleashed their much acclaimed debut album The Desolate One, and true to their word it was uncompromising Black Metal at its finest. NKTFR comments:
“Both musically and conceptually we want to bring back some of that rebellious pride, wrath, and danger - some Blood, Fire, and Death - that for us are mandatory ingredients in Black Metal.”
This is Black Metal from the fertile earth of the graveyard – made for the battleground, for the wanderer who dares walk the path of no return – guided by nothing but His luminous darkness.
September 2024 and the band is ready to unleash their latest opus - an EP entitled SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovatur Integra) - four tracks of hellish madness and thunderous Black Metal.
FCCM concludes: “Conceptually and musically “SOLUS” is an inward journey of reflection and contemplation, but fear not - it is by no means a pleasant ride.”
Hammerfilosofi is:
FCCM - Vocals
NKTFR - Instruments
https://atmf.net/
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Die Band aus Brandenburg gehört zu den dienstältesten im deutschen Underground und zu jenen, die authentisch die Flamme des Schwarzmetalls am Lodern halten. Auf ihrem fünften Album zelebrieren DARKMOON WARRIOR erneut pechschwarzes Material, dass den modernen Strömungen im Black Metal den Mittelfinger zeigt.
Jetzt gibt es den ersten vom neuen Album “GRAVEYARD PLANET” als Video.
“Graveyard Planet” erscheint am 22.08. via Folter Records
Tracklist01. Follow the Serpent
02. The Odium Palace (feat. Dima Dudko of White Ward)
03. The Golden Queen
04. Cold Sun
05. Threnody Spirals (feat Judith Ehreke of Unsoulicited)
06. Fra Lyset
07. Deathwish
Das neue Material wird am Veröffentlichungstag im Rahmen Stygian Pilgrims Festivals zusammen mit Ophis, Frowning und weiteren exzellenten Bands live vorgestellt.
Über ASCIAN
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen. Leave all hope behind - Misery is ahead!
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GHOSTHEART NEBULA – “BLACKSHIFT”
Label: Meuse Music RecordsRelease date: october 17th 2024
Genre: Cosmic Doom Metal
For fans of: Draconian | Saturnus | Darkspace | Shape Of Despair
The secrets that we turned our gaze away from are all laid bare. We stand, soul shaken, before the enormity of reality; the impossible distances, the farthest shores, the endless night… There is not space in our heart for the overwhelming loneliness as the true scale of the arching, empty heavens permeates the pathways of our mind. In the end, for all our dreams and plans, all our tempestuous emotions, our loves and lies, our selfishness and sacrifice…in the end we were always nothing.
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
There are albums that can thrill and excite, there are albums that can hold mirrors up to human thoughts and emotions, albums that can lead you away from reality for a short while – a break from the travails of life. And then there are albums that can overwhelm you with their depth, strength and vision. Blackshift is the second album from Italian cosmic doom metal band Ghostheart Nebula and to listen to its enveloping waves of sound and thunder is to tumble across the firmament, dwarfed by the magnificent magnitude of existence, to understand like never before the solitude and insignificance of the self. The listening experience begins with the introductory ritual of ‘VdB 141 IC 1805’ – waves of deep sorrow, shimmering sounds that wash you clean of all pretence. It leaves you with no hiding place from the futility and darkness of existence and in that realisation there is a fearful beauty…and then Ghostheart Nebula reveal themselves as the journey begins in earnest, down a winding staircase of acceptance, through flickering torchlight and shifting shadows. ‘Sunya’ glides from measured pace to breathless blast as dual vocals entwine and a guest solo from Diego ‘Didi’ Cavallotti (ex-Lacuna Coil) rises from the darkness, a spiralling mote of gold dust that leaves a breathtaking trail of light in its path. Another perfectly chosen guest appearance from Øysten G. Brun of Borknagar adds acoustic guitar textures to ‘Infinite Mirror’ as its regal riffs and towering drum beats conjure cosmic melancholy that spans the stars, transposing tragedy to an infinite stage – the resulting emotion almost too much too bear. Every song on Blackshift is an essential element of the sonic journey and every song is magical in its own right. The ego crumbles before the indisputable truths that are invoked by the wonderful interplay of instruments on ‘Blackshift’, the incredible deep, harsh vocal parts in ‘Traces’ reverberate as if the universe itself is speaking and the song thrums with a quiet, shaking desperation…and it all leads to the masterful dynamic shifts of ‘Orphan Of Light’, where the quietest moments hold as much power as the gargantuan riffs. And when silence finally returns you are left drained, stunned and broken; with Blackshift, Ghostheart Nebula have created an experience staggering in its scope and emotional power.
Immaculately mixed and mastered by Øystein G. Brun (Borknagar, The Troops Of Doom, Sojourner etc) and adorned in the thought provoking artwork of Heike Langhans (Lord Of Shadows, Remina, Sojourner etc), every aspect of Blackshift has been carefully curated, the album as a complete entity sculpted into a monument that will stand resplendent through the years to come. Following in the footsteps of 2021s Ascension, Blackshift sees Ghostheart Nebula reaching higher, reaching further and touching greatness. Prepare to open your heart to eternity on October 17th, when Meuse Music Records will unveil this obsidian testament to infinite sorrows.
Line-up:
Lucia Amelia Emmanueli – Vocals
Maurizio Caverzan – Vocals
Panta Leo – Drums
Aron Corti – Guitars
Nick Magister – Guitars/Synths
Bolthorn – Bass
https://www.meusemusicrecords.eu/
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The video pays tribute to some of the band's favorite films, which also served to inform the cover art for Diana's Day. Keep your eyes peeled for references to films such as The Wicker Man, The Seventh Seal, The Vvitch, Alucarda, Black Sunday, and Häxan.
Watch "Lilim" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pF7kLMeYi8
Stream "Lilim" and previously released FOURTH DOMINION music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Fiadh Productions will release Diana's Day on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats on August 1. The album confronts themes of queerness, feminine magick, and existentialism, and is already drawing critical acclaim months ahead of the album's release.
Pre-order Diana's
Day now at https://fourthdominion.bandcamp.com/album/dianas-dayTracklist:
1) Bloodstains
2) Lilim
3) Burn the Prisons!
4) From Below
5) Goetia
6) Hill of Swords
7) Death in Fall
8) Tormenta Purgatoria
9) Her Wings
10) Casca Dreaming
“FOURTH DOMINION’s new album fulfills the promises hinted at on their debut, Wings of a Dying Crow (2017). The songs are epic but not indulgent; punkish instincts bring the heavy doses of gothic rock and metal into sharp focus. While the sound breaks from the cul-de-sac of tribalism dominating so much rock music, it retains an unmistakable identity and voice. Other bands have tried to chart this territory to varying degrees of success–The Cure’s Bloodflowers–whose damaged brilliance lacked the energy and immediacy we are greeted with here. At the heart of this material is Meadow Wyand’s gift for enveloping gothic melodies matched with lyrics that reflect the ennui and destructiveness of our post-pandemic stupor. From the parasitic liaison of “Bloodstains” to the spectral occult of “Lilim,”–these songs carry the weight of worlds lurking just beyond the next corner. Backed by the heavy gallop of drums and atmospheric guitar runs, these capture the strange dread of these days.” –Harlow Crandall, “Starts Like a Kiss and Ends Like a Curse: The Enigma of Jim Carroll”
"FOURTH DOMINION are back with a follow-up to 2017’s ‘Wings of a Dying Crow’. With their earlier work, I love the blend between heavy metal and punk, culminating in early AFI meets early Maiden sound. This new venture sees the band bring a more mature and experimental sound. Whilst the new release still has those heavy metal sections such as the solo of “Bloodstains”, the punk edge has altered slightly. The new sound falls more into the post-punk category, reminiscent of bands such as Fields of Nephilim as evident on “Death in Fall”. This new musical direction aligns FOURTH DOMINION with contemporary bands such as Unto Others. The highlight for me however has to be “Lillim” with its multilayered chorus which will worm its way into your ears for days with absolutely zero complaints!" - Olivia Matthews, Hornthrowers
Bio
“In filth, evil stands.” A line from FOURTH DOMINION’s upcoming sophomore album that proclaims songwriter Meadow Wyand’s singular and novel point-of-view. An out trans frontwoman, her songs reflect queer trauma and defiance, as well as speaking to existential despair and spiritual divination. The group’s emotionally dense and literate songs draw just as much from the contemplative gothic metal of Anathema and Sentenced, as they do the unapologetic alternative punk of Hole and PJ Harvey. With compositions that are simultaneously somber, catchy and intricate, FOURTH DOMINION radiate a hunger and commercial appeal beyond the confines of heavy metal to which they are rooted.
Their debut album, 2017’s Wings of a Dying Crow, marked an important stride in developing the type of post-In Solitude heavy metal deathrock that has taken off in the years since. Its follow-up shows a love for Angel Witch, as well as the guitar playing of The Smiths and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album reflects themes not often confronted in heavy metal: disability, gender, the divine feminine, anti-futurist queer politics, and sexual assault. Its exploration of trauma seeks to be a response and companion piece to Hole’s "Live Through This."
With their forthcoming mission statement, FOURTH DOMINION showcases their ability to rise to the top of the new wave of gothic metal, or “Deathwave” as Wyand refers to it. Featuring new drummer Brady Mentz and the production talents of Casey Ahrens-Cavallo and Tom Gerwitz, the band have Frankensteined an album of profound emotional depth and commercial readiness. “When we fight, we bash back!” is a promise to both the queer empowerment the album represents, as well as the band’s uncompromising attitude for growth.
FOURTH DOMINION is:
Meadow Wyand - Bass/vocals
Dave Milburn.- Guitars
Brady Mentz - Drums
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FFO: Slayer, Bring Me The Horizon, Pantera, and Disturbed.
Check it out at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lhcUpfX4-U
"2000 Miles" is also available on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
The D.O.O.D. is proud to announce the September 17 release of new album, Dissonance, on Chaos Music in association with SelfMadeRecords and Earache Records EDD. The forthcoming album showcases The D.O.O.D.’s signature blend of intense riffs, powerful vocals, and relentless energy!
The album's fifth single, "Final Girl," drops on August 2, with an official video to follow late that same month.
Track
Listing:1. Down The Rabbit Hole
2. Subterfuge
3. The Back of Hell
4. The Pentecostal
5. Parasite 6-4-2
6. 2000 Miles
7. Chaos for the Fly
8. Disorder (Interlude)
9. Dissonance
10. The Well
11. Slayer Of Gods
12/ Cut, Cut, Cut (Interlude)
13. Final Girl
Album Credits:
Cover art by Brian Amoroso.
All Songs Written and Produced by The D.O.O.D.
Recorded and Mixed at Morrisound Studios by Jim Morris,
Mastered by J.P. Braddock at Formation Audio.
Management: Chaos Music L.L.C.
Management Consultant: Erik Leviathan Self Made Records L.L.C.
Digital Distribution: Earache Records.
Line-Up
Indy (Indiana DOOD) Brumbaugh - Guitar
Rudy (Dogbite DOOD) Taylor - Drums
Brian (Monkeyboy DOOD) Amoroso - Lead Vocals
Jonzey DOOD - Bass
Raynus DOOD - Guitar
Bio:
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience (The D.O.O.D.) are a standout in the Florida metal Scene. Originally put together by Raynus and Jonzey, this Sarasota band has found its niche among the many great independent metal acts, not only in Southwest Florida, but nationally as well. The Floridians have found inspiration over the years from music that is hard driving with good hooks, as well as unabashed and unafraid riffs reminiscent of the pioneers of metal and hard rock, all the while grinding forward into the music of today and tomorrow.
The diversity of their individual influences certainly informs the music, yet there is enough commonality to ensure a coherency that runs throughout the band's catalogue. From the horror rock "House of the Dead," to the tastefully savvy guitar work of "Murder," it is difficult not to find something to latch onto with the musicality of this crew.
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience prides itself on its stage show, a high energy feast of metal, that is different and surprising at every venue. As a band, they are dynamic and eye-catching as they take the stage and take over the room. The audience can never be certain what's coming next, except a great show! This can be attributed to the multitude of shows they've played over the years with an array of local and national acts. The D.O.O.D. is 100% fan-friendly and takes great pride in being part of a surging Florida metal scene.
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Dutch
Black/Death Metal powerhouse MISANTHROPIA has inked a deal
with WormHoleDeath Records to unleash their earth-shattering fifth album, ‘ENVY
THE DEAD’, on 6th September 2024. This monstrous offering promises
to be a return to form, drawing inspiration from the darkest corners of history
and channeling pure sonic savagery.MISANTHROPIA is no stranger to sonic devastation. For over 20 years, they’ve carved a path through the metal scene with their unique blend of Blackened fury and Death Metal aggression. Their longstanding partnership with legendary producer/engineer MIKE WEAD (Mercyful Fate, King Diamond) continues on ‘ENVY THE DEAD’, ensuring a potent and punishing listening experience.
"Life back in the day was harsh and ugly, and they bring forth this immense atmosphere that was roaming the streets back then: Jack The Ripper, Lizzie Borden, organ trafficking, necromancy." says the band "It’s a concept album, but each song stands on its own. Drastically reducing the symphonic and orchestral violence on earlier releases, and going for a more progressive Death / Thrash vibe, influences from Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth can still be heard alongside Necrophobic, Mayhem, and Death."
MISANTHROPIA toured and played the last years intensively, domestically and abroad, under the banner of Eternal Rock Music Agency, and still plans to continue doing so.
Track list
1. Envy The Dead (intro)
2. Malediction And Laughter
3. Organs, For A Fair Price
4. Prosperity By Cocaïne
5. Maze Of Madness
6. River Dumplings
7. Coughing In The Coffin House
8. Fade Into The Abyss
9. A Deadly Embrace, A Sinister Grace
Line up:
Bram Koller-Rythm Guitars and Vocals
Dennis Schoenmaker-Rythm And Lead Guitars
Pepijn Heilbron-Bass
Hugo de Waal-Drums
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After three years from the initial date for this release to see the light of
day, MURDER RECORDS now has the honor of announcing its
return to activities and for that we are going to pick up where things left off
and we are honored to finally present the release of the reissue on cassette
of ORGIA NUCLEAR's first album, an infamous project that
emerged from the diabolical mind of the profane Jonathan Hellthrasher
Maniac, an explosive creature from the nauseating Brazilian underworld."O RETORNO DO CAOS TOTAL A EXTERMINAÇÃO COMPLETA" are the apocalyptic extilations of the first record "Caos Total" that ORGIA NUCLEAR originally released in 2012, being fully re-recorded by Armando Exekutör in his gutarra, where he executes us with his desimating solos.
Bitch Hunter with his bass guitar that butchers us with the spacing of a fearless drums, while we are shot with the bass of Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac who is also responsible for the blasphemous vomits and a whole explovive concept in constant destructive chaos for a total extermination.
Complementing this with an Intro and three more songs never released, compositions made at that time and today in a concistent way gain a totally independent form with a Rock N Hell rebellion in this new album of ORGIA NUCLEAR, mixing and mastering by Bitch Hunter in 2020 and that is now presented here to smash you against a wall.
There were many cycles and challenges that ORGIA NUCLEAR faced over the years, but always writing their history in a dignified and authentic way, without selling out or surrendering to the miserable stardom that infests the Underground and to which many end up selling themselves!
The real ORGIA NUCLEAR ideals have always been against this kind of attitudes and they intend to continue spreading chaos, stepping on the heads of the weak, with musical perversity, keeping a marginal and aggressive line in their lyrics, ideas of revolt, visions of horror about this world and its submissive humanity. Even with all that, there were never any barriers that couldn't be broken or blown up in order to follow the march of chaos and Thrash Metal explosion.
Over the years ORGIA NUCLEAR has managed to create its own genre that we can include in the true Speed Black Thrash Metal Punk Marginal that will explode your brain.
ORGIA NUCLEAR
“O Retorno Do Caos Total A Eliminação Completa”
Cassette Limited Edition of 100 copies hand-numbered
50 Copies with Orange Cassettes.
50 Copies in double color White & Red Cassettes.
LADO CAÓTICO
01 - Intro
02 - Caos Total
03 - Combustível Profano
04 - Desgraça Na Terra
05 - Inocência Corrompida
06 - Maníaco Sexual
Total Time: 13:23 Min.
LADO DESTRUTIVO
07 - Força De Vontade
08 - Noite Perdida
09 - União Hellthrasher
10 – Traição
Total Time: 11.26 Min.
WILD SPEED BLACK THRASH INFERNAL METAL PUNK MARGINAL
All lyrics by Jonathan Hellthrasher.
Songs by Orgia Nulear, except Combustível Profano, Inocência Corrompida and Força De Vontade by Bitch Hünter, and União Hellthrasher by Armando Exekutör.
Vocals originally recorded in August 2012 and instruments recorded in September 2020 at Vampire's Studio RJ in Brazil.
Solos recorded in November 2020 at Cavalcantes Studio.
Produced, mixed and mastered by: Bitch Hünter.
Traição is a bônus track extracted from the EP "Eliminando Os Falsos" Logo and Cover by Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac.
Final layout by Alemão.
ORGIA NUCLEAR are:
Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac: Vocals & Bass
Bitch Hünter: Guitar, Bass, Drums & Backing Vocals
Armando Exekutör: Guitars
Line-up in the bonus track Traição:
Jonathan Hellthrasher Maniac: Vocals & Bass
HellsexmaniaxXx: Guitar & Backing Vocals
Hellragnar: Bass
Hellatomicsemen: Drums
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PRE ORDER OPEN 16/08/2024 PRE-ORDERS ONLY HERE: https://www.murder-records.eu/hellstore-europe/pre-order
One-man stoner/metal doom band NEBÜLITH has posted the newest single from its upcoming debut, FEEL GOOD MUSIC FOR THE END OF THE WORLD VOL. 1.
For fans of : Black Sabbath, Monster Magnet, Sleep, Smashing Pumpkins, Ministry and Mötorhead.
Follow Nebülith on Spotify to stream "God is Your Gun." Listen to the track here https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/1FOfYaPK94vgHEuOIfGlsz?si=rtlpJIDfQYiV-7c2tvvN6w&nd=1&dlsi=ac6532d7864a46b9
Written and recorded solely by project mastermind and multi-instrumentalist John Shaughnessy, Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 delivers a heavy dose of doom-infused, psychedelic stoner metal.
Stream additional selections from Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 on Apple Music.
“Nebülith plays very specific music, which is addressed to a narrow audience, those who love the intoxicating atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s, or to those for whom the lysergic aura of standard stoner-doom representatives is insufficient. For me, it's the bomb. I would never have expected that this kind of crafting could go further than the recently emerging Italian brigades, who also compose psychedelic music, but not in such an extreme style as Nebülith.” - Apocalyptic Rites
Nebülith will release Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 on August 23. Pre-order the album at https://nebulith.bandcamp.com/track/beautiful-4
Track
list:1) Beautiful
2) Startrippin
3) Mother Freedom
4) Leviathan
5) Clear Light
6) God Is Your Gun
7) Seven Suns
8) Digging A Hole
9) UVB76
Line-up:
Nebülith: vocals, fretless piccolo bass, piccolo bass,4 string basses, drums, keys, organ, bass guitar synthesizer, vocoder, drum programming, windchimes, megaphone
Pat Shaughnessy: Drums on “Beautiful” and “God Is Your Gun”
Bio:
Nebülith is the product of John Shaughnessy, a professional bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer from Charlotte, NC.
As as kid, his tastes gravitated towards the heavy, groove-influenced rock of Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, King Crimson, and a heavy dose of funk. Later on, he embraced alternative music and proto-punk like The MC5 as well as next-gen stoner/Doom like Sleep and Monster Magnet.
While paying the bills playing jazz and show band gigs, he started a project called Space Force Alpha, with vocalist Omari Wilkerson. The duo released a single “Change The World” in 2019. The song featured John’s unique fretless piccolo bass playing - a combination of guitar, bass and electric cello, all recorded in John’s home production studio.
More demos were written for Space Force Alpha, with an eye toward making a full record - and then the pandemic hit, and the music business came to a complete halt. Faced with time on his hands and no band, John decided to make a solo record and do all the instruments and vocals himself. He figured that would be a good use of the time off and an audition tape for future production sessions. Having become a huge fan of the Riding Easy Brown Acid series, Shaughnessy figured the most fun thing to do would be to make a pseudo garage band record with the riffs he had lying around. He considered marketing it as a “lost”
band from the 70s, and releasing it on reel-to-reel tape.
As “two weeks” turned into months, and the world started falling apart, the music and the message got progressively darker and angrier. He started pushing his studio gear to increasing extremes. Multiple versions of songs ensued, each heavier than the last.
Eventually, he was left with a huge pile of recordings to sift through. Sorting through this audio hoarder house and finding a direction took the better part of a year. In the course of the recording, the dystopian Nebülith character was developed as a clear departure from his normal gig life.
The great thing is, as Nebülith he was able to do and say things that he would not normally be able to in a professional Gig context. In Nebülith, the project found its voice.
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol. 1 is the result of four years of work, experimentation, sweat, and pain.
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Legendary
Swedish death metal veterans CENTINEX has
inked a deal with Sweden-based Black Lion Records."Little did I know 6-7 years ago, when I was rehearsing and playing Centinex covers with various bands, that I would end up working with what I consider to be some of the finest bands in the Swedish death metal scene," comments Black Lion Records' Oliver Dahlbäck.
"This is an exciting development, as Centinex's impact on the genre is undeniable. Their unique sound and influential discography, which was previously released via the legendary label Agonia Records, have inspired countless musicians over the years. Memorable songs such as "Flesh Passion" and "Dismember Supreme" have cemented Centinex's status as a revered act in the Swedish death metal pantheon. To have the opportunity to work with them is a true honor, and the pressure is high."
The partnership between Centinex and Black Lion Records - a true testament to the power of Swedish death metal - will see the release of a two-track EP later this. Centinex is working on a new full-length album, due out in 2025.
The band comments, "Centinex has always been about not having any boundaries nor limiting ourselves to some pre-made formula, especially not musically but also “businesswise”, and for the coming years this will certainly be more evident than ever.
As everyone knows, metal today is universal and so is Centinex, but we can’t deny it feels great to 'bring it home' and sign with a label based in our home country of Sweden."
Centinex is:
Henka Andersson - vocals
Jörgen Kristensen - guitars & backing vocals
Martin Schulman - bass
Florian Rehn - drums
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Twenty-six years after its originally intended release date, FATAL EMBRACE has resurrected Hail Down Deep and is ready to unleash it upon the world. The album has now been re-recorded with new vocals by the band's lyricist, Henric Serholt. Hail Down Deep was mixed and mastered by drummer Christian Silver.
Black Lion Records will release Hail Down Deep on September 27. Pre-order at https://fatalembraceblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/hail-down-deep
FATAL EMBRACE released their debut album, Shadowsoul's Garden in November of 1997. A few months later - determined to create a near-perfect record - the band recorded Halls Down Deep. However, the members soon got involved with other bands and Hail Down Deep remained unreleased for decades.
In 2023, the band wrote and released Manifestum Infernalis. This became the catalyst that led to the long-awaited unveiling of Hail Down Deep.
Tracklist1. Spirit of the fiend
2. Death blessing
3. Through the speaking veil
4. Southern malice
5. Drick av döden
6. Of unholy measure
7. Svärtan
8. Darkness set and done
9. Digging up the hatchet
10. Soul of the black heart
Stream FATAL EMBRACE on Spotify and Apple Music.
FATAL EMBRACE is
John Silver - Bass
Henrik Serholt - Drums, Vocals
Christian Silver - Drums
Andreas Johansson - Guitars
Manne Engström - Vocals, Guitars
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https://www.facebook.com/fatalembrace
Hi
everybody,Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. Friends, today is
the day. "LOUCENI SE SVETEM POZEMSKYM", album of
the Czech doom/death legend DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY from
2002 is released for the first time on LP format! It is a symbolic gift to a my best friend Rene "Fusaty" Krystyn (frontman DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY, who died in 2013 of cardiac arrest at just 39 years old) on his late 50th birthday. Friend, whose music will stay with us forever.
Background:
Black vinyl, printed inner bag, 3mm jacket. Limited to 250 copies.
You can listen full album on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1OeiApmVDA&list=OLAK5uy_lvdUgiy85M2gW8tH9ICSHW3ni4DuS8oNY
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/dissolving-of-prodigy-louceni-se-svetem-pozemskym-4/
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First WITCHFUKKER full length. First release by De Pankraker Records .Witchfukker, a dominating force within the realm of extreme metal, are renowned for their unyielding fusion of black, death, and thrash metal. This powerhouse hails from Dutch Limburg, where they've cultivated a reputation for their uncompromisingly aggressive and ferocious sound. Proud torchbearers of the Australian sound legacy, Witchfukker unleashes eight tracks of horrid death thrash on their debut album "Tapestry of Unspeakable Horrors", presented on a raw and unapologetic slab of wax courtesy of De Pankraker Records. Brace yourself for a relentless sonic assault that demands attention and commands respect. Raw and ugly with no fukking remorse. Brace yourself and fukk off.
Formed about six years ago, Witchfukker wasted no time in making their presence known in the underground metal scene. Their music is a sonic assault of blistering riffs, thunderous drums, and venomous vocals, channeling the raw energy and intensity of black, thrash and death metal pioneers. These guys know their classics!
With a lyrical focus on Darkness, Horror, Cosmicism, and Violence, Witchfukker's songs explore the depths of human depravity and the chaotic forces that lie beyond the realm of normalcy. Their music is a cathartic release of aggression and defiance, appealing to fans of extreme metal looking for an unrelenting auditory experience.
Witchfukker's live performances are nothing short of explosive. Their stage presence radiates a relentless energy, captivating audiences and creating an atmosphere of chaos and mayhem. Their shows are a testament to their dedication and passion for delivering an unforgettable experience to their fans.
Tracklist:
1. Pain beyond death
2. Sordid Aggression
3. Death Komes Ripping Through
4. Abyssal Autosarkophagy
5. Descension Into Horrid Delirium
6. Nymphomania
7. March of the Metal SS
8. Grueling Interkourse
9. Tinnitus of the Eldritch
Witchfukker discography:
Alcoholic Metal Demo 2019 Headbangers Records
Rehearsal 18-7-19 Demo 2019 Independent
Total Wimpslaughter Demo 2020 Independent
Horrid Visions Video 2021 Independent
Deathaemorrhage Demo 2022 Destruktion Records
About De Pankraker Records
De Pankraker is a Belgian label, that was born in the depths of the underground, a rebellious radio program that delved into a cluster of metal sub-genres known for their daring sonic and visual transgressions. By 2022, it had expanded its reach with a magazine, and in 2023, it emerged from the shadows with its own festival. Now, in 2024, we proudly unveil De Pankraker Records, delving even deeper into the abyss with a distro and label.
We're all about serving up dishes that are cold and old-school. No fancy stuff, no technicalities, and definitely no triggered drums.
Metal for demons!!
https://www.facebook.com/DePankraker
https://www.facebook.com/witchfukkerband
Label: Twisted Into FormRelease date: september 6th 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal
For fans of: Slayer | Testament | Sacred Reich | Forbidden
We live in dark times; times of war, pandemics, grief and horror. These are the days of division, where we turn against each other in politically driven hatred and against ourselves, choking on a social media diet of self-loathing and isolation. Through our ever-glowing screens we watch the crumbling of virtue and the slow, agonised death of decency and honour. The UK’s resolute and relentless kings of thrash, Solitary, have tapped into the thick, black blood that pulses sluggishly through the fat and filth congested veins of society. They have stared into the alleyways, the cellars and the broken minds of our youth and forged their hardest, heaviest and most unflinching album yet. This is their hymn to a dying world, their soundtrack to the end of days…this is Embrace The Darkness!
Opening with ‘III.XXIII.MMXX’, an intro heavy with portent that leads us back to the days of lockdown and its shocking, unforeseen consequences, Embrace The Darkness then leaps straight into its momentous title track and the strides taken by Solitary are immediately apparent. The individual performances from each band member are stunning and the song craft is masterful. Despite the breathtaking ferocity on display there’s a considered depth and maturity to these songs that lifts Embrace The Darkness to unprecedented heights. Thirty years deep into their tumultuous career, Solitary are hitting new peaks and delivering like never before. From the bare-knuckle ultra aggression of ‘Settle Scores The Old Way’ to the foreboding ‘Virtues’ which tackles the harrowing issues of abuse within a framework of classic Solitary riffs, adorned with a vicious, barbed wire solo, it only takes one listen to know that this is the finest album Solitary have made to date. The absolute savagery and incendiary energy of the late album pairing ‘The Disappeared’ and ‘Section 21’ is utterly exhilarating, despite the forbidding shadows that lie between and behind every voracious vocal line and cataclysmic drum beat. There is no respite throughout Embrace The Darkness, no pause for breath or tranquil interlude, it is simply devastating. Finishing with the confrontational ‘Filtering Hindsight’, a caustic indictment of our post-brexit, post-covid societal car crash, this is thrash metal at its powerful, potent, glorious best – lean, mean, embedded with inescapable hooks and laced with deadly melody.
Solitary have renewed their partnership with producer Simon Efemey (Napalm Death, Paradise Lost, Deceased etc) and Embrace The Darkness sounds magnificent – the vocals have an extra edge of anger and potential violence, the guitars snarl like rabid dogs, the drum beats are infused with a skull-cracking thunder and the bass is a powerful, looming presence. Also returning to the team is artist Koot (Saxon, Girlschool, The Almighty etc) who has created one of his finest pieces, capturing the blackened spirit of Embrace The Darkness in his cover art. Look out for exclusive physical format tracks – with the vinyl boasting the punishing ‘Divided And Demented’ and the CD featuring a ripping run through of The Exploited’s ‘Beat The Bastards’ that’s not to be missed. When Solitary unleash this beast of an album on September 6th nowhere will be safe from its claws. Prepare to Embrace The Darkness!
Line-up:
Richard Sherrington – Vocals/Rhythm Guitar
Gareth Harrop - Bass
Andy Mellor – Lead Guitar
Roy Miller - Drums
https://www.solitary.org.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Official.Solitary
Watch the video, here: https://youtu.be/vA5Of0oyKEASince the release of SYMBOL OF ETERNITY Album in 2022 the song HELL IS MY PURGATORY is a part of the band's live setlist. After Axel Ritt left the band in 2023 Grave Digger did a re-recording of this song with their new axeman TOBIAS KERSTING. The new version has more power, it's more Metal and it includes a brand-new guitar solo of one of the best axemen in Germany. This new version gives you a hint of what you can expect from the new Grave Digger album.
"Hell Is My Purgatory (Hellfire 2024)" is out now on all popular and well-known download & streaming platforms.
Single's smartlink: https://bfan.link/hell-is-my-purgatory
Grave Digger are:
Chris Boltendahl (Vocals)
Tobias Kersting (Guitars)
Jens Becker (Bass)
Marcus Kniep (Drums)
https://www.grave-digger.de
https://www.facebook.com/gravediggerofficial
ASCIAN – “SING TO ME, SWEET VOID”
Genre: Doom Metal / Post MetalVÖ: 28.09.2024
ASCIAN stehen seit ihrer Gründung 2018 für eine neue Ära im Doom Metal. Mit viel Herz und Leidenschaft vermischt das Quartett aus Braunschweig und Würzburg Doom, Black und Post-Metal zu einem hochemotionalen Gesamtwerk. Schonungslos erschaffen ASCIAN düstere Klanglandschaften, in denen sich Hoffnungslosigkeit und Melancholie vereinen. Schon ihr Debütalbum „Elysion“ (2020, Black Sunset) konnte Genreliebhaber wie Szenepresse begeistern. Hervorgehoben wurde vor allem die erdrückende Atmosphäre und das einzigartige Songwriting.
In dieser Phase konnten ASCIAN mit ihrer einzigartigen Live-Show überzeugen. Dabei teilten sie sich die Bühne mit Bands wie HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN, KHEMMIS, URZA und HEMELBESTORMER.
2024 sind ASCIAN zurück, um erneut jeglicher Hoffnung zu trotzen. Auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ bilden zerbrechliche Melodien, erdrückend-schwere Riffs und ein packendes Songwriting eine Symbiose. Von der Schönheit tiefster Trauer bis hin zur spürbaren Last, welche den Songs auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ innewohnen, gibt es beim Hören viel zu fühlen. Das spiegelt sich auch lyrisch wider. Denn auch wenn ASCIAN kein geschlossenes Konzept verfolgen, sind Themen wie Verlust und innere Leere in den Songs stets spürbar. Und obwohl sich die Atmosphäre wie ein grau-schwarzer Schleier ausbreitet, passiert auf „Sing to me, Sweet Void“ eine ganze Menge. In ihren Schattierungen sind die Braunschweiger abwechslungsreich und ergreifend - Sie lassen den zerbrechlichen Momenten ebenso ihren Raum wie den bedrückenden.
Fans von MY DYING BRIDE, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, PARADISE LOST und sogar DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT und ALCEST sollten aufmerksam lauschen.
https://www.facebook.com/AscianDoom
"Fans of legendary brutal/technical death metal acts such as Suffocation, Defeated Sanity, and Dying Fetus will find much to adore here, as the band slides and glides frictionlessly between hyper-tempo grooved-out blastbeats and the kind of neck-snapping palm-muted moshfests that make BDM such a fun genre"
CARNOPHAGE – “MATTER OF A DARKER NATURE”
For
fans of - Suffocation, Disentomb, Ulcerate, Deeds
of Flesh, Defeated Sanity, Dying Fetus, Hour of PenanceEvery eight years, the legendary mythical entity known as Carnophage arises to reestablish god-tier standards where brutal/technical death metal music goes. This time it is no different. Despite being one of the elder beings, they've recalibrated their sound as can be expected from them to ensure that it's relevant and cutting-edge for the time while keeping intact the original, inherited traits that propelled them to greatness in the first place. They've created an elegant, thoughtful and impactful blend of brutal and technical death metal, where each aspect complements the other without overpowering it, and ensuring that the production is earthy, organic and doesn't smother the soul of the music. The vocals are grunted with inhuman might but remain intelligible unlike most brutal bands of today. There is a masterful balance between the old and new styles, with Carnophage retaining the best qualities of both such as having the detailed structuring and fleshed out riffing while updating their sound with technical flourishes and subtle dissonance. This is virtually faultless music. From a death metal fan's perspective, everything is done to achievable perfection; an impeccable blend of sounds conjured up once again to be executed gloriously, for timeless music to reign once more
Line up:
Oral - Vocals
Mert Kaya - Guitars
Serhat Kaya - Guitars
Bengi Özgün Öztürk - Bass
Onur Özçelik - Drums
Artwork by Mitchell Nolte (Resin Tomb)
Track listing:
1. In My Bones
2. Until The Darkness Kills The Light
3. Matter Of A Darker Nature
4. Underneath The Horrendous One
5. Death Works Overtime
6. Eventually They Will Die
7. The Day We Avenge On
8. From Possibility To Actuality
Release date - August 2nd, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/carnophageturkey
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Chamber of Desolation is available now at https://linktr.ee/infernalrealm
Tracklist:1) Black Millenia
2) Scarlet Fog
3) Chamber of Desolation
4) Primordial Seed
5) Fastened to the Rats
6) Shadows of the Ancient
7) Fleshed Inanition
8) Into Obscurity
Artwork for Chamber of Desolation by Jon Zig.
INFERNAL REALM is a 5-piece old-school death metal band with members scattered throughout the Pacific Northwest, US. The band was founded by guitarist Steven Cheng, who teamed up with drummer Chris Craven in 2017. They later added guitarist Jake Shuster, and after numerous lineup changes recruited Zach Page on vocals and producer Chris Mannino on bass.
INFERNAL REALM's sound comprises a sonic assault of catchy sinister riffs, and compelling blast beats, mixed with low guttural vocals and banshee-style screams. The lyrics weave together stories of disease, blighted lands, and apocalyptic scenery to bring forth the powers of darkness and ruin.
Worshipping at the altar of early-2000s eras of bands such as Morbid Angel, Decapitated, Cannibal Corpse, Vader, and Vital Remains to name a few, INFERNAL REALM violently awakens the old-school death metal beast.
INFERNAL REALM is:
Zack Page - vocals
Steven Cheng - guitar
Jack Shuster - guitar
Chris Mannino - bass
Chris Craven - drums
https://linktr.ee/infernalrealm
No Clean Singing has premiered the first single, Part I of 18-minute closing track, "The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore." No Clean Singing will premiere Part II on August 23 and Part III on September 11. Click the link that follows to stream Part I now!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/07/25/an-ncs-premiere-ingurgitating-oblivion-the-barren-earth-oozes-blood-and-shakes-and-moans-to-drink-her-childrens-gore-part-1/
Part I will be available on all platforms tomorrow, July 26. Album pre-orders will be available on the same day.
Unsurprisingly, considering the band's acclaimed body of work to date, this is no run-of-the-mill Tech-Death album. The talented duo of guitarist and engineer Norbert Müller and vocalist, guitarist, and composer Florian Engelke have outdone themselves again on Ontology of Nought! Epic-length tracks ranging from 10 to 18 minutes fuse into a cohesive whole that awes with the band's characteristic technical flare and progressive, compositional brilliance. The impressive cast of session and guest musicians adds even more vibrancy. Hearing is believing.
Though it has been seven years since the last Willowtip release, Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light, the forthcoming opus unequivocally demonstrates that the wait has been well worth it!
"You have fully delineated the subject of a universe of finiteness and change as well as the knowledge derived therefrom // Why should you be despondent in spite of all this, thinking that you are undone?"
- Ingurgitating Oblivion
The band released the following statement about the new album:
“Ontology of Nought is the result of approximately five years of incessant work. It documents whatever has been instilled into Ingurgitating Oblivion and the two minds pulling the strings behind the scenes: Norbert Müller and Florian Engelke. Trying to pinpoint some trite conceptual undercurrent would be to defile the beauty of creation. It feels alienating to us talking about our music and lyrics, as these stem from dichotomic dynamics of meticulous planning on the one hand and perfect intuition on the other. In like manner, the lyrics cannot be explained further here, but listeners are invited to do some work themselves and take a plunge into what could potentially encapsulate the world or denote nothing at all. Musically, we just do our own thing, celebrating our Death Metal heroes, more progressive Rock, jazz, folk, classical music. We do not strive to stand for any particular brand, but we simply enjoy being torn down the torrent of haphazard ideas, premonitions, and visions.And that’s that."
Track
Listing:1. Uncreation's whirring loom you ply with crippled fingers
2. To weave the tapestry of nought
3. The blossoms of your tomorrow shall unfold in my heart
4. Lest I should perish with travel, effete and weary, as my knees refuse to bear me thither
5. The barren earth oozes blood, and shakes and moans, to drink her children's gore
Credits:
Sound engineering, mastering and production by Norbert Müller.
Album cover by Dmitriy Egorov.
Guest appearances / Session musicians:
Lille Gruber (Defeated Sanity) - Drums
Ava Bonam - Vocals
Chris Zoukas (Mentally Defiled, Sacral Rage, Violent Definition) - Bass
Céline Voccia - Piano
Daniel Agi - Recorder, Flutes
Jan Ferdinand - Vibraphone, Guitars
Tom Fountainhead Geldschläger - Guitar Solos
Line-up:
Norbert Müller - rhythm and lead guitars, sound engineering, mastering, all recording logistics
Florian Engelke - lead composition, rhythm and lead guitars, vocals, Tibetan singing bowls
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/IngurgitatingOblivionOfficial
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: july 26th 2024
Genre: Metal
For fans of: In Flames | Soilwork | Trivium | Shadows Fall
He walks the plains of dust and pain, with measured and deliberate tread. Never hurrying, his steps eat up the endless miles of eternity; beneath the boughs of weeping trees, beside the grey waters of the river of forgetting, through the ever-burning, sulphurous flames. Timorous, diminutive devils dance and flitter about his feet while larger prey watch from dark ravines and from behind curtain falls of lava – ashamed and afraid. He passes through the halls of silence, the blackened palaces of the fallen and the damned. He is the Hell Walker and sword in hand, with unflinching purpose and unwavering belief, he draws ever nearer to the tarnished throne of blustering arrogance and whispered regret…
Hell Walker is the debut album from Tyraels Ascension, the incredible new band summoned into being by guitarists Sean Searls of Bury Your Burdens and Kevin McNeil of Deathbreaker. From the very first song, ‘The Prophecy’, Hell Walker seizes you in its iron grip and there’s no escape. The robust, relentless vocals drive the song forward, riding on the powerful, driving rhythms while the twin guitars weave intricate webs of gold around the steel juggernaut. Like the spinning knives of an elegant assassin the melodious guitars dart and dance with breathtaking precision, lifting the sound of Tyraels Ascension to another level. Just listen to the solos in second track ‘Descent’ – this is the stuff of metal dreams! Heading deeper into the album the sheer strength of the song writing becomes ever more apparent, with the uplifting and superbly structured ‘The Art Of War’, the dynamic, imaginative ‘When The Hero Dies’ – a track fizzing with effervescent energy – and first single ‘Holy Fire’ with its furious pace and intensity and effortlessly smooth shifting between tempos, forming a stunning heart to this enthralling collection. The quality of musicianship, the dramatic atmosphere, the towering stature of the songs is maintained right to the final note of Hell Walker, making it one of the most accomplished and impressive debut albums of recent years.
Arrayed in stunning artwork that captures the amazing atmosphere and majestic power of the music within, Hell Walker will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world by Rottweiler Records on August 2nd. Also landing on August 2nd, from Kisimul Studio in association with Rottweiler Records, will be Tyraels Ascension: Hell Walker the video game! Complete with the music of Tyraels Ascension fans can venture even deeper into the world of the Hell Walker.
See the trailer and info for the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3046290/Tyraels_Ascension_Hell_Walker__The_Video_Game/
Follow the Hell Walker into the fire and discover a world of magnificent metal and immersive fantasy.
Line-up:
Kevin McNeil - Lead/Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Sean Searls - Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Alex theesen – Vocals
Drums on Hell Walker performed by Morgan Hoehne (Your Hands Write History)
Guest Vocals on ‘The Art Of War’ by Dustin Cichosz (Surpasses)
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TyraelsAscension
Helsinki-based doom metal band DENIGRATE releases their fourth full length album titled TO THE GODDESS UNKNOWN later this year via Inverse Records. Now they have released the first single and music video Crystal Rest from the upcoming album. The song spits versatility, lingers on doom and death yet to be crowned with vulnerability. As life itself.
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/denigrate-crystalrest
Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/E2Bbs7SYe88
Since Denigrate was found back in '96, the inevitable vibe of the band was to be dark, melancholy, tormented, observative.
The quantity of albums released is really not the thing in this band. From the first released album in 2003 to the latest 4th one in 2024 called "To The Gods Unknown", decades has changed and so has the band.
After no more than two albums released, after big-time local momentum with a finnish cover song, after mandatory hiatus, after some line-up changes, Denigrate 2024 introduces their absolutely greatest masterpiece to date and shows what only truely experienced bunch of members can achieve.
DENIGRATE:
Galzi Kallio: Vocals
Pekka Pyrhönen: Bass,
Seppo Nummela: Guitar
Tipi Toivanen: Drums
www.facebook.com/denigrateCamp
The band comments single:
‘The song "Medusa's Death" is based on the myth of Perseus and Medusa. Medusa is one of the three Gorgons who is often associated with death, with fear. In the song, the moment before her death at the hands of Perseus is described in a bloody and gruesome way. The deliberate choice of this myth is because she represents horror, the other side of beauty that fascinates and repels, seduces and kills. The female gaze, usually a source of seduction, in Medusa becomes a source of instant death, turning anyone who looks at her into solid stone."
Listen Medusa's Death single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/kreyl-medusa
Track list:1- Giants of Arto Island 02:52
2- Nekromateion of Ephyra 03:22
3- Medusa’s Death 03:51
4- The Oracle of Delphi 03:22
5- Esoteric Mother of the Waning Moon 03:37
6- The Dark Kingdom of Tartarus 03:50
7- Sparagmos 04:23
8- Hydra of Lerna 03:59
9- The Battle of Typhoon 04:42
Album cover by Lordigan Pedro Sena. Edited by Xavi Brosa
Biography:
The Kreyl project was born during the winter of 2020, in the city of Barcelona (Catalunya/Spain), from an idea of Virus Tremor, guitarist of the band and also guitarist of the black metal band Nefasta and the brutal death metal band Handle with Hate. It was inspired by the album ‘I’ by the Finnish black metal band Hedonihil and many other bands of the second wave of black metal. Later on the Kreyl project was joined by: Croma Lan Ro as drummer, also drummer of the black metal band Fogos; Necrum Nebulas as bass player and already a member of the brutal death bands Caustic and Handle with Hate; I. Luna as guitarist, already member of the brutal death band
Caustic and Eris Nocturna Aura on vocals, already singer in the black metal band Nefasta and mastermind of the dark ambient solo project Aetheria (Italy).
Kreyl's idea is to move away from the usual themes centred on Satan and Anti-Christianity and to focus more on historical-cultural themes closely related to the concept of death, occultism, ancient civilizations, exalting also the most raw, violent and brutal local mythology and paganism from a philosophical and dark point of view.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/kreyl-obscure-rise-of-ancient-eulogy-cd-pre-order
ANCIENT
ENTITIES - "ECHOES OF ANNIHILATION"Blending the brutal layers of modern death metal with the raw ferocity of old-school sounds, "Echoes of Annihilation" promises to be a landmark release. Ancient Entities' unique approach to the genre is designed to captivate seasoned metalheads and new fans.
Ancient Entities, comprising Alex Rausa, Jake Falk, Luke Veranth, and Brian Gulliford, delve deep into the annals of ancient civilizations, weaving tales of war tactics, brutality, folklore, and mythology into their powerful soundscapes. The band’s mission is clear: to transport listeners back to ancient times, capturing the essence of historical narratives through their relentless music, immersive ambiance, and crushing riffs.
Tracklist
1. Cenote Sagrado
2. Empire In Ashes
3. Creatures From The Sand
4. Blood Upon Stone
5. Ritual Autopsy
6. Hidden
7. Pierced by Obsidian
8. Wall of War
9. Damnatio Ad Flammas
www.youtube.com/@anciententities
www.facebook.com/AEbandofficial
CARNIVORE DIPROSOPUS – “RISE OF THE INSURRECTION”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: august 9th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Devourment | Bolt Thrower | Disavowed | Houwitser
The day of destruction has arrived, when your order and your systems of control collapse and fall in ruins. The time of chaos is now as the old world dies in flames and a hail of gunfire. The bloated body of your corporate domination will be torn asunder and your opulent palaces of sneering self-satisfaction will be washed away in a tidal wave of blood. The world will be reborn, screaming beneath the caterpillar tracks of the war machine. This is a new age of warfare; this is the rise of the insurrection!
Carnivore Diprosopus, purveyors of obliterating, bone-crushing brutality since 2002 are back with a career defining new album, their first since 2013 and their most destructive to date. Rise Of The Insurrection begins with the introductory piece, ‘Insurrection Ordinance’, which is a defiant demonstration of firepower as the Carnivore Diprosopus battalions take to the field of conflict. Remorseless, rolling riffs build in monstrous heaviness before the guns erupt in the world breaking barrage of ‘Begin Redemption’ and the sheer capability for carnage of Carnivore Diprosopus becomes apparent. There is no resisting this onslaught. You lose all sense of time and reality as ‘The Battle Of Saicasm (Aerial Predator)’ brings a blitzkrieg of death from above, leaving gaping wounds in the earth and the riffs of ‘The Onslaught…Cyborg Tank Division’ – featuring a guest appearance from Angel Ochoa (Abominable Putridity, Cephalotripsy, Disgorge etc) – tumble around your blasted ears like spent shell cases falling from a white hot machine gun spitting death. Perhaps the most impressive display of scorched earth sonics though, comes in the form of ‘Khristov’s Seventh Eagle Legion’, with its wonderful jarring notes like alarm bells announcing the end of the world that progress to a horrifying bludgeoning , accompanied by a vocal delivery of unearthly power from the band’s founder member and talismanic general, Mr. Oscarnivore T-666. Featuring as a bonus track, a reanimation of ‘Whore Collector Of Testicles’, with additional vocals from Rene Barthoulot of Slamentation, which first appeared on Carnivore…’s debut album, Filled My Stomach With A Pregnant’s Corpse back in 2004, Rise Of The Insurrection is a triumphant return to the frontlines for this most uncompromising of brutal death metal strike forces.
More than a decade on from previous album Condemned By The Alliance, Carnivore Diprosopus have retaken their place of prominence in the death metal ranks with ease. Complete with the war torn artwork of Pedro ‘Lordigan’ Sena (Analepsy, Ingested, Putrid Pile etc) Rise Of The Insurrection is irresistible and unstoppable. When Comatose Music unleash this beast on August 9th nothing will stand in its way!
Line-up:
Mr. Oscarnivore T-666 - Vocals
Pablo Gonzalez - Bass
Jose ‘Nacho’ Rondon - Guitar
Andres ‘Obispo’ Zuleta - Guitar
Wilson ‘Brigadier’ Henao – Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
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BRED FOR SLAUGHTER (ex-Exhumed) set to release KILL FOR SATAN on August 23rd via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.
For
fans of :
Carcass, Defleshed, Deicide, Entombed, Exhumed, Marduk, Mayhem, Morbid Angel,
Obituary, Sepultura, Slayer and Vader.Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new EP from South Bay California's extreme Blackened Deathgrinding old school maniacs Bred For Slaughter. Kill For Satan is up now for pre-order and will be released August 23rd on CD and Digital formats along with merch. Bred For Slaughter's current lineup includes former Exhumed vocalist Mark Smith, from the original demo era of the band.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome back Bred For Slaughter with their sophomore EP Kill For Satan! Hailing from the South Bay of California, Bred For Slaughter shreds old school, fast, dark, and extreme Blackened Deathgrind, dedicated to keepin’ it real and true! Kill For Satan lets loose six tracks of pure shredding insanity, featuring scene veteran Mark Smith (ex-Exhumed demo era) on vocals. Bred For Slaughter pukes forth a dark and evil mix of nastiness, influenced by the classic eras of Grindcore, Death Metal and Black Metal, with songs that stick to your brain and will keep you headbangin’!
Listen to the single "Rape Kill Conquer" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yEj0PqeUSM
Tracklisting:
1. Rape Kill Conquer
2. Kill For Satan
3. Vacant Grave
4. Possessed By The Beast
5. Kill Kill Kill
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The latest full length from the Canadian black metal band Hell Is Other People is a beautiful and cohesive mélange of the various sub-styles of the genre and has undeniable emotive appeal. You can stream a couple of tracks from the album https://hellisotherpeoplebm.bandcamp.com/album/moirae and check it out for yourself.
HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE - “MOIRAE”
For
fans of
- Agalloch, Altar of Plagues, Winterfylleth, White Ward, DrudkhHell Is Other People from Canada have elegantly and passionately crafted a black metal album that imbibes influences from several of its related subgenres such as atmospheric black metal, post-black metal and even DSBM in parts, forming a cohesive, expressive and all-encompassing sound that the band is comfortable in carrying throughout. The band goes about playing these intuitively structured songs with a palpable burning fervour which makes all the difference. It is difficult to remain unmoved by such impactful and poignant songs and even more so to efface them from memory, the languid pacing furthermore prolonging their lingering presence in the mind. The five songs here seem interconnected emotionally even though they offer slightly differing moods, as if showcasing phases of the same pained existence. 'Moirae' is a stunning, beautifully tempered album with a remarkable range of expression that comes across as genuine and heartfelt.
Line up
Nathan Boots - Guitar
Nicholas Luck - Guitar
Nathan Ferreira - Bass, Vocals
James Ditty - Drums
Cover art by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration
Track listing
1. Moirae 6:58
2. Fates 6:43
3. Degrade 7:48
4. Loss 8:45
5. Atropos 13:28
Release date - October 11th, 2024
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Thank you very much! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE – “THE DEVIL KNOWS MY NAME”
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: july 12th 2024
Genre: Deathcore/Slam Death
For fans of: Annotations Of An Autopsy | Ingested | Gutrectomy | (Un)Worthy
Tearing their way out of Clemson, South Carolina like a caged beast bursting through the bars of its prison, come Cleansing of the Temple, a deathcore/slam death wrecking ball of rage. Having already made a powerful impact on the underground scene with their 2022 EP, Slam 4 The Lamb - a collection of colossal riffs and uncompromising lyrics - Cleansing of the Temple are now poised to unleash their first full length album. A caustic display of all-consuming fury, the sound of desperation and unravelling sanity, The Devil Knows My Name is an intimidating display of nerve-shredding intensity. Follow us now, into the darkness…
The Devil Knows My Name opens with the strangely unsettling introduction of ‘Farther Along The Valley’, which seethes with repressed dark emotion, gradually raising the fear-tinged anticipation for the oncoming annihilation…and then Cleansing of the Temple bring down the hammer – hard. ‘God Of Hate’ explodes into life with a gargantuan, impossible scream over pit-inducing rhythms before jarring, angular riffs shatter the structure, only to be eaten up by waves of absolute devastation. From here there is no way back, as the great lumbering beast that is title track ‘The Devil Knows My Name’ picks up your scent. Tortured screams and sewer-scouring, inhuman growls ride the filthy, sludge infected, doom grooves and you can feel the ground shake beneath your feet. The ensuing journey through the blasted sonic landscape is mercilessly intense, from the staggering, relentless anger of ‘Sardis’ to the hardcore aggression of first single, ‘I, Afflicted’ and the disconcerting, multi-directional attack of ‘Stained Glass Blues’, featuring a guest appearance from Brayden Gibbs of Candescent. However, the absolute crowning glory of The Devil Knows My Name comes with the climactic ‘Where Does Darkness Dwell When We Open Our Eyes’. Possessing a towering presence, an array of clinical riffs and ultra-extreme vocal violence, this epic, album concluding track slips beneath the waters of cold, atmospheric melody before charging headlong to an ending in fire, a sudden frenzy of destruction that will leave you breathless. It’s a powerful, affecting finish to an album that fulfils all the promise suggested by Cleansing of the Temple’s earlier recordings and bludgeoning live shows.
Cleansing of the Temple are now a part of the burgeoning roster of extremity at Rottweiler Records, who will launch this ballistic missile of an album at the world on July 12th. Produced, mixed and mastered by Glenn Gizzi of Phinehas fame, every element of The Devil Knows My Name possesses not only clarity and power, but crackles with tension and electrifying energy, the passion of the individual performances palpable. This is not your average slam record, or just another album cut from the deathcore template. When Cleansing of the Temple come calling be prepared for an experience like no other.
Line-up:
Gavin James – Vocals
Rasheen Johnson - Drums
Dustin Duvall – Guitar
Matthew Clark – Guitar
Randy Smith – Bass
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: august 19th 2024
Genre: Slam Death/Deathcore
For fans of: Gorevent | Acranius | Gutrectomy | Guttural Slug
“In their rhythmic piping, droning, rattling, and beating I felt an element of terror beyond all the known terrors of earth—a terror peculiarly dissociated from personal fear, and taking the form of a sort of objective pity for our planet, that it should hold within its depths such horrors as must lie beyond these aegipanic cacophonies.”
‘Under The Pyramids’ - H.P. Lovecraft
Beneath my feet the earth shakes, as if in the throes of contorting agony – and rising from unimagined depths I hear the sound of drums like sky-rending thunder. They are drums of war, drums of imperious domination, drums of summoning. I slip into a trance and my mind’s eye descends through the soil, through the bones and relics of ages past, through the earth’s tortured crust, the red hell of the seething mantle, down into the planet’s core of fire. And there amidst the flames I see the creatures of nightmare amassed in their countless millions, bowing low before the impossible magnitude of the lord of devils, made strong by our pernicious wickedness, a towering god of darkness…the Sin Eater!
A new force in extreme heaviness has emerged from the south London smoke, a new pulverizing power without mercy, without remorse – Hellwrath have arrived upon the extreme music stage. Debut EP, Sin Eater, opens with the sounds of desperate panic that are slowly but insistently obliterated by riffs like the pounding of a gargantuan steam hammer. Landing staggered and staggering blows, first song, ‘Silence By Death’, delivers the Hellwrath manifesto – monstrous slamming power above all and beyond all. With vocals that rumble through your ribcage, shaking your internal organs and riffs that scour the sewers and the dark places of the earth, all riding on insidiously pulsating rhythms and a sense of inherent, mechanistic violence, Sin Eater unleashes a high impact sonic attack, with the force of a mortar shell. From the methodical beating of ‘The Alchemist’, with the weight of the world behind every chord, to the deep, scarring grooves and massive tactile riffs of ‘Hellwrath’, this EP is a journey through a landscape of blasted devastation. Vocalist and lyricist Paul Bower has drawn upon his days working in the grim and pressurised environment of the UK’s prisons and his own battles against the demons that prey on our mental well-being, infusing Sin Eater with an aura of confusion, anger and despondency, intensifying the brutal, juddering collision between the listener’s psyche and the band’s venomous outpourings of wounded rage. Concluding with a cover of Godsmack’s ‘I Stand Alone’ that takes this EP into different territories of melody and structure, despite being slammed into the dirt with typical Hellwrath heft and muscle, along with an EDM remix of ‘Sin Eater’ by Neutropics , Hellwrath’s debut demonstrates a willingness and ability to infiltrate unexpected dominions of darkness in the band’s quest for ultimate domination.
Produced and mixed by Alex Sedin (Anachronism, Adelon, Essence Of Datum etc) of Ghostalgy Prods, Sin Eater sounds vast and intimidatingly heavy, with an undercurrent of unnerving atmosphere. Prepare to be shaken to the core when Sin Eater erupts from the depths on August 19th.
Line-up:
Paul Bower - Vocals
Dylan Price - Bass
Igor Korsakov - Guitar
Recorded along the highways of Wisconsin in the band's mobile studio, Death Keeps offers seven tracks of darkly aggressive metal.
The band comments on their unorthodox recording process, "We wanted to make the recording process unique and memorable, so we hit the road in a 14-foot camper, traveling around Wisconsin to write and record our music. This mobile studio experience was fun and inspired us in ways we hadn't imagined."
Two singles from Death Keeps are now streaming. Listen to "Found Under a Cold Knife" and "Leech" at https://linktr.ee/darkdeedsmke
Tracklist:1. Found Underneath a Cold Knife
2. Leech
3. Apostate
4. Dogma
5. Remorse
6. King of Pentacles
7. Death Keeps (feat. Bind the Sacrifice)
Death Keeps will be available on streaming platforms on August 10. Pre-save the EP at https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/darkdeeds1/death-keeps
Line up:
Ben Prendergast - Guitar/Vocals
Allan Barth III - Vocals
Shane Garski - Bass
Kevin Giersch - Drums
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Montreal-based FROSTBITE has unleashed the title track from their upcoming new album, RELENTLESS GRIEF.
Following the band's 2016 release, Etching Obscurity" FROSTBITE is back and pushing forward with a darker and heavier approach to their vicious blackened death metal approach. After a short hiatus during which all members kept busy touring the US and Canada with other projects, the timing was finally right to finalize and release FROSTBITE's next chapter and bring the band back on stage.
Stream "Relentless Grief" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_oaFNDVsBo
Black Lion Records will release Relentless Grief on September 20. Pre-order the album on CD and digital formats at https://orcd.co/relentless-grief-album
Tracklist:1. Unearthing Dread
2. Death Omen
3. Flagellants
4. Void And Emptiness
5. Echoes Of Eldritch Past
6. Ravenous Possessions
7. Relentless Grief
8. Omnia Perit
9. Existence Forlorn
Stream the album's first single, "Flagellants" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Qh6tSkafI
Guitars, bass, and vocals on Relentless Grief were recorded by David Gagné, with drums recorded by Rémi LeGresley at The Grid Studios. The album was mixed and mastered by Honza Kapák. Artwork by Mark Erskine.
FROSTBITE is:
Max Allard: Guitars and Vocals
Stef Deschênes: Bass
Kévin Lampron: Drums
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Finnish old school Thrash/Death metal band JEWEL THRONE is set to release their debut album 'BLOOD VULTURES' on October 18th 2024 via Inverse Records. The first single title track Blood Vultures is released today and lyrics video is available here: https://youtu.be/AocU_xw2xFk
The band comments single:
“‘Blood Vultures’, the title track of the forthcoming Jewel Throne debut album is a story about the price of carelessness. One can trust no one in this world. Don’t let your guard down, don’t let anyone close to you. Don’t take a chance or you will be destroyed. There will always be hordes of bloodthirsty creatures ready to stab you in the back. Creatures beneath contempt. Creatures shadowed by disgrace. The despicable and filthy creatures of the lowest circle of Hell."
Listen Blood Vultures single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/jewel-throne-blood
Biography:
Jewel Throne was formed as a trio in May 2019 by bassist-vocalist Mika Sallanen, the other members being guitarist Jari Yrjänäinen and drummer Jouni Kurikka. All were already very experienced with lots of bands, demos and a few albums already in their CV’s since all had begun their adventures in music already back in the late 80´s/early 90´s. The first lineup released three EP´s in quick succession. These simple thrash metal releases should now be considered as mere rough sketches of what was to come later.
It was time to add two more musicians – guitarist Toni Koskinen and vocalist Jesse Huovinen, and Jewel Throne mark II was born. Musically the band improved a lot with this change. This lineup released a bunch of singles and an EP ‘Obscure Relics’, which was also released as a tape by Fetusvomit Records. After this it was decided that it was time for the original guitar player to leave the band.
Now as a four-piece, Jewel Throne mark III moved on. They released two singles and an EP ‘Illiterati’ – a release vastly superior to anything they had achieved so far. So now it was the time to decide what to do next. The band had lots of songs ready, so it was decided to jump head first into the unknown and record their debut album. The recording sessions started in Easter 2023. The band entered the studio with 20 songs out of which 17 songs ended up being recorded.
All in all, the recordings took a bit longer than expected due to various issues, but in early spring 2024 the band had a finished product in their hands. ‘Blood Vultures’ was born – an album of 12 highly energetic and angry thrash/death metal songs. It was time to search for a record label, and in June 2024 the band signed with Inverse Records.
Strictly limited CD is now available on https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/jewel-throne-blood-vultures-cd-pre-order
Track
list:1. Blood Vultures
2. Cosmic Titan Engines
3. Psychotoxic Assault
4. The Graveyard of Dreams
5. Megaton Headshot
6. Instant Apocalypse
7. The Extinction Level Express
8. Hate Overdrive
9. Mental Self-Mutilation
10. Hammer Down the Last Nail
11. Suffer The Fools
12. The Overlord
Album cover by Observingdeath
Line-up:
Jesse Huovinen – vocals
Toni Koskinen – guitars
Mika Sallanen – bass/vocals
Jouni Kurikka - drums
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TUSENÅRSEKEN – “OMHULDRA”
Label: Grind To Death RecordsRelease date: september 6th 2024
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Bathory | Enslaved | Imperium Dekadenz | Falls Of Rauros
From the Swedish town of Höör, in that country’s southernmost county of Skåne, comes Tusenårseken, the black metal creation of Andreas Karlsson. Since he first summoned the spirit of Tusenårseken into life in 2020, Andreas Karlsson has released two full length albums and an EP and is now set to unveil his third album, Omhuldra. While solo black metal projects are not particularly uncommon, those that can leave you stunned by their musical accomplishments, the breadth and depth of their imagination and creativity certainly are. Karlsson without doubt possesses a rare talent and in Omhuldra he has shaped an album of breathtaking magic…
When Omhuldra begins with ‘Ode till alla fattiga kräk’, its opening vocal chant, steeped in the sounds of Scandinavian folklore, deftly changes your surroundings and perceptions. The world around you fades as the music transports you to the high mountain passes, beneath the shadowed canopy of vast forests, through cold and lightless tunnels far beneath the earth and beside glittering, cold lakes – vast mirrors reflecting the open sky. Each song tells a different tale and paints a different dream. The feral riffs of ‘Våren förgiftad’ eat at the nerve endings as haunted melodies rise slowly to the surface of its icy waters, shrouded in impenetrable mystery. ‘Riket bortom livet’ begins with warlike intensity, the formidable, tumultuous drums recalling the immortal aura of Bathory’s peerless Blood, Fire, Death before slipping sideways through an array of rhythmic and atmospheric changes, each welcome and wonderful. There is so much to experience as you are carried through Tusenårseken’s kingdom of folk, tradition, myth and magic…it’s bewildering and bewitching. From the jagged, embittered blackness of ‘Himmelens hand’ to the campfire meditations of ‘En vila i eländet’ and on to the earthshaking march of giants through a realm of legends that is ‘Grönskan vi minns’. While at the album’s heart lies the immensity of ‘Ett hjärta som lättats från kroppen’, where a thousand different elements of sound seem to be woven into a tapestry of the song. If such a startlingly beautiful album can be said to have a finest moment, then Omhuldra’s must surely lie within the sorcerous weft and weave of ‘Ett hjärta som lättats från kroppen’.
Omhuldra will be released by Grind To Death Records on September 6th, swathed in the richly detailed artwork of Daniel Karlsson (Furnace, Throneless etc) and for those who discover its glorious fury, its storm winds over jagged, snow-crested peaks, its ethereal melodies, its torrents of daunting power…it will be a gift to be treasured for a lifetime. Light the hilltop fires and watch for its coming.
Line-up:
Andreas Karlsson – All music and vocals
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3000AD return reenergised with their new song from the highly anticipated follow-up album to 2020s "The Void". "Ghettocide" continues the dystopian theme of the debut album while bringing fresh new sonic elements.
For fans of : DRI, Exodus, Slayer, Municipal Waste, etc.
Release Date: July 19, 2024
Label: Total Metal Records
Biography
3000AD are Crossover/Thrash Metal three piece from Christchurch, New Zealand.
Guitarist Sam Pryor, bassist Scott Austin and drummer Hellmore Bones formed the band to fuse their passion for Thrash Metal, 80’s Punk Rock and bleak, dystopian, futuristic imagery.
“The Void”, the band’s debut album, was recorded in studios in Hollywood, California and Auckland, New Zealand. Award winning engineer and producer Clint Murphy mixed the album, and it was mastered at the iconic Sterling Sound in New York City.
In the short time, 3000AD toured across New Zealand and gained airplay on several major radio stations.
At March 27, 2020, the album was officially released by Total Metal Records. It was supported by Total Metal Over Europe Tour - X, together with legendary German Necronomicon.
https://totalmetal.metalscraprecords.com/
CREST OF DARKNESS' new album "MY GHOST" will be released in the next October. Now it's time to present "Call Of The Moon" the first single that the band releases today on vinyl as a 7" EP and available at https://shorturl.at/HCBau and in digital format.
A lyric video created by Marcelo Silva (Motion Graphics) is available at https://youtu.be/n0_XISysdMoJust two songs but a great release featuring the title track, "Call Of The Moon" for sure one of the songs that better represents the extreme inner journey that Ingar and his bandmates undertake this time, and a side B track, one of the most progressive episode of their entire career. It's titled "The Awekening" and presents Roy Nikolaisen's magnificent trumpet in an extreme context such as that of Black Metal.
Recorded at MLP Studios with Nils H. Maehlum at the helm and mastered by Giuseppe Nicolò (aka Buzz) at Lost Soul Studio, "Call Of The Moon" represents the first step of a long trip that will open us the doors to "My Ghost" an album that the same Ingar Amlien admits to be the more personal album ever created by the band.
We just have to wait and we are sure that it will not disappoint you.
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GRAVE ROBBER – “THE CELLAR SESSIONS”
Label: Thumper Punk RecordsRelease date: july 19th 2024
Genre: Horror Punk
For fans of: Misfits | Ramones | Creeper | The Meteors
By daylight the graveyard can be a place of peaceful reflection and thoughtful wandering amongst memories of the loved and lost. But the night…the night changes everything. In its dark embrace things become so much more than they seemed under the comforting rays of the sun. The shadows are deeper, the silence holds unspoken threat and each sudden sound near stops your trembling heart. The stone angels’ beatific smiles have changed to enraged glares of furious reproach…and was that the sound of a shovel biting into the sacred soil? As white serpents of mist slither about your ankles with a touch that freezes the skin, nothing here is what it seems…
For nearly twenty years Fort Wayne’s Grave Robber have been invoking the sounds of the cemetery and the atmosphere of the tomb with their ripping horror punk anthems. Their horde of undead devotees, brethren of the boneyards, have clutched albums like 2009s Inner Sanctum and 2018s Escaping The Grave to their cold, decaying hearts with a fervent passion. Punk, metal and rock ‘n’ roll rebellion delivered with frenetic energy, snarling guitars, fiendish atmosphere and a voice that can shake fleshless skeletons from their dusty, dreamless slumbers. Since they began Grave Robber have not shied away from tackling a cover version – some that could have been written for these adrenaline fuelled ghouls and some that you’d never imagine finding their way into the Grave Robber mausoleum. Over the last decade, In between breathing life into an array of albums and EPs, the Robbers have been hard at work in their rehearsal cellar, drawing together the finest of their raucous covers, those most powerfully imbued with the spirit of the unquiet dead…and at last the definitive collection is ready to be unearthed! The Cellar Sessions features classic songs from Misfits, Black Sabbath, Jim Croce and Norman Greenbaum, legendary laments from Metallica, Nirvana, Cyndi Lauper and more – all transformed and dissected , reworked and reanimated by the carousing corpses of Grave Robber. Sure, some covers albums can be throwaway, or hit and miss affairs, but not this stitched and bandaged beast that has come crawling up those cellar steps. This is the sound of celebration for the creatures of the night, anthems of rebellion for the outcasts and the lost boys, the witches, the zombies, the blood suckers and the wolves.
The spirit of The Cellar Sessions is perfectly captured in the brilliant cover artwork, created by Paul Stier (Brotality, Symphony Of Heaven etc) and the disparate tracks have been brought together into one sinister sound elixir by the production and mastering skills of Tim Bushong and Michael Walter. Out now on Thumper Punk Records, The Cellar Sessions is the perfect record for the night time hours, when the moon rides high in a star-dusted, stygian sky.
Line-up:
Wretched - Vokills
Carcass - Bass/Vokills
Viral - Guitar/Vokills
Plague – Smash Doom Tubs
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It's finally out! Both the bands, Diskord and Atvm, have contributed in their own peculiar ways to make this an exceptional split release - not just in terms of quality, but also the kind of music contained therein. It'll be a real shame if this gets overlooked - it may not be immediately accessible but it's got a hundred riffs and innovation that's hard to come by in death metal. Please stream it in full on YouTube below or on Bandcamp
https://diskordband.bandcamp.com/album/bipolarities It would be awesome to see this split get more coverage!
DISKORD /ATVM - “BIPOLARITIES”
For
fans of
- Demilich, Defect Designer, Xenosis, Disharmonic Orchestra, Carcass, The
ChasmNorwegian band Diskord show us why they're masters when it comes to this kind of twisted, convoluted, and quite frankly timeless death metal. They're inexorably pushing their sound forward in their own way and even after a couple of decades of existence, they manage to keep their music refreshing and unpredictable. The four new songs that are a part of this split are even more erratic and out-of-the-box. Indeed, there are about a hundred variations in them but how each of the songs progress will still leave you guessing. It's just ingenious songwriting that reaches out and grabs your attention despite the unnatural complexity and compels you to listen to the songs again and again to fully wrap your head around them. They're an absolute delight for any fan of progressive, technical or even dissonant death metal, regardless of his old school or contemporary stylistic inclination.
UK progressive death trailblazers Atvm left an indelible mark with their groundbreaking full length and they return with some of their longest and best songs for this special split release. The music may not be as technical as that of their label mates on this split but it's every bit as engrossing and they even throw some nasty curveballs of their own - the longish playing time only allows them to shape-shift multiple times with ease and they do that with conviction. There's an inherent sickness to their music and their progression feels visceral. They have their own way of doing things and it's definitely a thrill to follow the sinuous patterns and eccentricities that they throw along the way. These songs are yet another testament to the raw talent of this relative newcomer and their pairing with Diskord on this split only brings out the quirky appeal of their music some more.
Diskord line up:
Hans Jørgen - Drums and vocals
Eyvind - Bass and vocals
Dmitry - Guitar and vocals
Atvm line up:
Tom - Guitars
Fran - Drums and percussion
Luke - Bass and percussion
H - Vocals
Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston
Artwork by Will Sweeney
Track listing:
1. Diskord - Onward! To Nowhere
2. Diskord - Pass The Baton
3. Diskord - Shivering, As We Shed Our Hides
4. Diskord - Cogged Pother
5. Atvm - Cancer
6. Atvm - Morphine
Official release date - July 12th, 2024
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Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
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NECRONOMICON – „THE DEMOS „
One of the earliest extreme German Metal bands: NECRONOMICON's earliest works: Demo 1 Total Rejection (1985), Demo 2 Blind Destruction (1985) and two tracks from the ‘Break Out’ compilation album 1986
Necronomicon is a German Thrash Metal Legend, founded in 1983. The band still exists today and has released eleven full length albums up till now. Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems with founding member Freddy (guitars and vocals). Restored, remastered by Patrick Engel at Temple of Disharmony (Vio Lence, Sodom, Destruction). Cover art by Thomas Pinheiro (Vio Lence, Malevolent Creation, Hirax).
Genocide (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Total Rejection (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Rebel (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Woman (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Danger (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Wehrt Euch (Demo Total Rejection 1985)
Intro (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Iron Charm (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Possessed by Evil (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Insanity (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Blind Destruction (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Bloody Revenge (Demo Blind Destruction 1985)
Possessed by Evil( Break Out compilation LP 1986)
Blind Destruction( Break Out compilation LP 1986)
DISINCARNATE
– „ SOUL EROSION DEMO 1992 „Florida death metal featuring James Murphy (Death, Testament, Obituary). After James had left Death (he recorded ‘Spiritual Healing’ in 1990), Obituary (recorded ‘Cause of Death’ in late 1990 with them) and Cancer (with whom he recorded ‘Dead Shal Rise’ in 1991) he started his own death metal band: Disincarnate.
Soul Erosion demo 1992 was recorded, mixed, & produced at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, Florida Scott Burns (Death, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide). Alex Marquez was a special guest drummer on this demo; he appeared courtesy of Malevolent Creation, Solstice, Resurrection and Demolition Hammer. The demo contains one extra live bonus track.
The booklet contains the restored original demo artwork by Dale Vied (also Naphobia art). Restored and remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis at Suncord Audiolab, March 2024 (Vio Lence, Possessed, Varathron). This demo led to a deal with Roadrunner Records and Disincarnate released their well-received debut album ‘Dreams of the Carrion Kind’ in 1993. Murphy went on playing for Testament 1993-1996, 1998-2000 and has his own recording Studio in Florida.
SAD WHISPERINGS – „ RETURN TO AUTUMN “
Sad Whisperings was formed in 1990 (as Desecrate) and released several demo’s in the 80’s / 90s up till their split in 2004 and gained a worldwide cult following. Sad Whisperings was pure doom death metal like their early inspiration Paradise Lost and with a touch of the Dutch school of doom death metal like The Gathering. Sad Whisperings got signed by Dutch cult label Foundation 2000 (The Gathering, Gorefest) and released their debut album in 1993 called ’Sensitive to autumn’. Demos 1995 & 1998 are a natural follow up to their debut, doom death metal, Dutch style.
The booklet contains rare and old pictures, flyers and posters. Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch Death And Extreme Metal).
EQUINOX- „ JOURNEY INTO OBLIVION „
Re-release of the sold out, second album of Equinox 2003 album. Featuring guitar players Pete Slate (Druid Lord, ex-Acheron, ex-Incubus, and Tony Blakk (Druid Lord, Massacre (live), ex-Diabolic (live), ex-Acheron) and vocalist / bassist Matt Wagner. Journey into Oblivion was recorded and mixed at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida by Ji and Tom Morris (Sepultura, Kreator, Morbid Angel) and the band. The booklet contains extensive liner notes from Olivier ‘Zoltar’ Badin (Cathedral, Dark Funeral) and many rare and old pictures, flyers, posters and complete new cover artwork. The album is completely remastered plus as bonus promo demo 1994 and The Basement Sessions 1993, 15 tracks in total.
EQUINOX- „ RETURN TO MYSTERY „
Equinox was a black / death metal band from Florida, formed in 1992.Featuring guitar players Pete Slate (Druid Lord, ex-Acheron, ex-Incubus, and Tony Blakk (Druid Lord, Massacre (live), ex-Diabolic (live), ex-Acheron) and vocalist / bassist Matt Wagner. Re-release of the sold out, legendary 1996 debut of Equinox which was mixed at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida by Tom Morris (Sepultura, Kreator, Morbid Angel). The booklet contains extensive liner notes from Olivier ‘Zoltar’ Badin (Cathedral, Dark Funeral) and many rare and old pictures, flyers, posters and complete new cover artwork. The album is completely remastered plus as bonus the 1995 Ep, Live in Orlando 1993 and The Anthem to the Moon demo 1993. 15 tracks in total.
LOBOTOMY
– „ FINAL WRATH, THE EARLY HYMNS OF LOBOTOMY”LOBOTOMY was a Swedish death metal act from Stockholm formed in 1989 and split-up in 2000. The band released several demos in the early 90s and three full-length studio albums, before the band folded in 2000. This compilation,’ Final Wrath, The early hymns of Lobotomy’ contains all demos, ep’ s and promo’s from 1989 till 1993 prior to their debut album. CD 1 contains: ‘When Death Draws Near’ demo 1990, Promo 1991, ‘Against The Gods’ demo July 1992, ‘Nailed In Misery’ demo June 1993. CD 2: ‘Hymn’ Ep December 1993, Rapture live & rehearsal tracks, Live in Akalla, Sweden 1991, Demo 1993. All songs restored and remastered by Achilleas Kalantzis at Suncord Audio lab (Vio Lence, Possessed). Line notes by Olivier ‘Zoltar’ Badin (Cathedral, Dark Funeral re-issues) and extensive interview by Nicola Constantini ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SVENSK DÖDS METALL. Including productions by Thomas Skogsberg at Sunlight Studios (Entombed, Grave, Dismember) and Peter Tagtgren (Hypocrisy, Dark Funeral). Liner notes by key figures from the extreme metal scene(Kam Lee - Massacre, Alex Hellid - Nihilist, Entombed), Masse Broberg (Hypocrisy, Dark Funeral) and many more. 34 page booklet double cd full of old pictures, flyers posters.
CD 1:When Death Draws Near demo 1990,Promo 1991,Against The Gods demo July 1992,Nailed In Misery demo June 1993
CD 2:Hymn Ep December 1993,Rapture live & rehearsal tracks, Rehearsal tracks 1990 (Reh. Tape 1990),Live in Akalla, Sweden 1991, Demo 1993
DISK1:
Inner Wrath [When Death Draws Near]
When Death Draws Near [When ..]
Into This Life [When Death Draws Near]
Instinct of Brutality [Promo 91]
Possession [Promo 91]
Depriver of Life [Promo 91]
Endless Maze [Promo 91]
Against the Gods [Against The Gods]
Depriver of Life [Against The Gods]
Seize the Throne [Against The Gods]
Lobotomized [Against The Gods]
Darkened Times [Against The Gods]
Endless Maze [Against The Gods]
Eternal Damnation [Against The Gods]
Misery End [Nailed In Misery]
Nailed [Nailed In Misery]
Instinct of Brutality [Nailed In Misery]
CD 2
Turmoil [Hymn]
Flowertrip (Part I) [Hymn]
In Bloodstained Greed[Hymn]
Rapture - Live 89 Shitzo
Rapture - Satanic Extirpator Reh 90
When Death Draws Near - Reh Tape 90
Reincarnation of the dead Reh Tape 90
Inner Wrath - Reh Tape 90
(Beyond) Possession - Live Akalla 91
Endless Maze - Live Akalla 91
Instict Of Brutality - Live 92
Eternal Damnation - Live 92
Depriver Of Life - Live 92
The Hate That Breaths - Demo 93
Soulshifter - Demo 93
https://www.vicrecords.com/
Finnish folk/death metal band WOLFHORDE is set to release their third studio album 'BLOODMOON SYMPHONIES' on August 30th 2024 via Inverse Records. The second single 'KILLER RABBIT OF CAERBANNOG' is released today and lyric video can be seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYIOgIj1gLA
The band comments:
“Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is a metaphor or a description of severe depression. It is the soft creature that is easily disregarded as ‘nothing’, yet it possesses the potential for absolute destruction.
The lyric video for Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is a combination of imagination and artificial intelligence with the intention of creating something nightmarish to complement the lyrics of this song."
Listen 'Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog' on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/wolfhorde-killer
Watch 'Tormented (Beyond Apprehension)' music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2lI0q65z-E
Track
list:01. Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog
02. Forsaken Shrine
03. Tormented (Beyond Apprehension)
04. Kuoleman Mustat Siivet
05. Anubis
06. Phantom Queen
07. Last Good Fight
08. Bloodmoon Symphony
Composed by Juha-Matti Koppelomäki
Lyrics by Juho Tuominen
Album cover by Juha-Matti Koppelomäki
Biography:
Wolfhorde skillfully combines different elements into metal music.
The way our music is presented is well thought out, and it includes influences from folk music and the vast sound worlds of cinematic music. The goal is to create a versatile, distinctive and engaging listening experience. While we embrace the intensity and power of metal, we also integrate the softer, more melodic aspects. This combination of styles allows us to create music that is not only heavy and compelling, but also rich in texture and meaning. We combine aggressive guitar riffs with atmospheric symphonies and folk music accompanied by various lyrical themes.
Line-up:
Werihukka - Guitar and other instruments
Hukkapätkä - Vocals and Drums
https://www.wolfhorde.fi
https://www.facebook.com/WolfhordeBandOfficial
The release of the fascinating progressive death metal band Februus is imminent and I would urge you all to give it a shot, if only because the band's trying to do something innovative with the style. It doesn't hurt that it's brilliantly written and manages to be brutal while it's trying to explore new realms. The album is now streaming in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFJrYc-Q7s
FEBRUUS – “SURVEILLANCE ORGY”
For
fans of
- Edge of Sanity, Pan-Thy-Monium, Carbonized, Morbus Chron, Disharmonic
Orchestra, Afflicted, Swelling Repulsion, FloatingAs if the recent onslaught by progressive death metal bands Diskord, Atvm, Swelling Repulsion and Defect Designer on the label wasn't enough, Februus join the raiding party and bring the fireworks with their unheralded gem of a release in 'Surveillance Orgy'. Originally self-released by the sole band member, it blew away every unsuspecting listener who chanced upon it. There are only five songs on the album, the shortest one being three minutes and the longest one touching almost 15 minutes, and it's clear that their expression can't be confined by anything trivial of that sort. They seem to warp through time, nay, dimensions in the multiverse going by how often the music takes sudden, unexpected detours within each of the songs. The experience is unparalleled; the progressions are highly unpredictable and the manner in which they hurtle through them is both dizzying and exhilarating, all the while maintaining a sufficient heaviness worthy of the death metal tag. This is an album that transports the listener not to a particular place but all fucking over. And those adventurous enough will only strap in tighter, for albums like these are as rare as a cosmic event occurring only once every few decades.
Line up:
Andreas Karlsson - All vocals, guitar, bass, electronic sounds and drum programming
Mixing by Andreas Karlsson
Mastering by Mattias Persson
Cover painting, layout and logo by Daniel Karlsson
Track listing:
1. Gentrification of the Soul 07:06
2. Morning Star over Deathlehem 08:25
3. The Price of Enterprise 03:13
4. Surveillance Orgy 08:01
5. Resignation Syndrome 14:25
Official release date - July 19th, 2024
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A.M.E.N. sign to My Kingdom Music for what we could define as the new course of the band. The creature that is about to be born is called "ARGENTO", will be released on November 22nd and promises to be an intimate, avant-gardish work disconnected from the classic patterns of modern feeling.
Vittorio Sabelli (Dawn Of A Dark Age, Notturno, Incantvm) and Erba Del Diavolo from Il Ponte Del Diavolo, hearts, minds and souls of the band, have given an incredible stylistic twist to the project, creating a work with the heart turned towards the past, which moves between classical music and Jazz, but explores Blues, Dark, Doom and musical contaminations that develop in 'noir' and psychological fields.
These are Vittorio's words which allow us to enter the bowels of "Argento" and his project: "A.M.E.N. second chapter was born and evolves from a prelude by J.S. Bach, a D minor prelude, which this time does not cross the boundaries of Grindcore, Brutal Death Metal and Free Jazz that had characterized "The Book of Lies - Liber I", but goes on to discover much more intimate, introspective and primordial meanders of the human soul.
The various episodes of the album pay homage to the 'King' of Italian horror, Dario Argento, as the five songs that compose it are inspired by films by the Italian director".
What we are about to present to you promises to be unique in the current musical panorama, an album that succeeds to move from typically Jazz and Blues compositions to moments of pure Dark Doom in the style of early Ulver, all with the voice of Erba Del Diavolo which is here a true protagonist, decanting and giving melodies with an interpretation that moves from the great jazz singers of the past to embrace the present with her unique timbre and nuances.
So expect an album that sounds like something you can hear in a smoky jazz club in New Orleans and that shows you that when extreme music meets so-called "high" music, the result is unexpectedly sublime.
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/amenbookoflies
The
second Single "PIECES" from DEFILED EMBRACE the forthcoming second full-length studio
album, "THE NETHER EARTH", by Israeli Doom Metal
project."Pieces" takes the listener on a journey of suffering, dying and making peace with yourself and the life you lived, just as you're having your last moments in this world.
The song is a five minutes Doom Metal ballad that grows angry further and further. "Pieces" is the only song from the upcoming album that hosts a female vocalist — the great Reut Paz Natovich (Hellscore choir), who adds her angelic and dramatic voice to the mixture of emotions in the dying journey.
Release Date: July 19, 2024
Label: Another Side Records
Biography
Defiled Embrace is a one-man-project formed in Israel in 2021 by local musician Matan Kedar. The project started as a collection of different Doom Metal songs, written by Matan over the course of 11 years. Some songs were originally written for another projects, but eventually they all came together under the name Defiled Embrace.
During 2021, Matan decided to record the songs using session musicians he works with in other bands, and the debut album “Whispers Of The Forest” was recorded during 2021-2022.
On July 2022, Defiled Embrace singed a deal with Metal Scrap Records Inc. Three videos were shot to support forthcoming release: “In Her Sullen Reflection”, “Autumn” and “Whispers Of The Forest”. September 9 became as an official release date of “Whispers Of The Forest” album through Another Side Records, a division of Metal Scrap Records Inc.
To the end of 2023, the new album, "The Nether Earth", was recorded.
During 2024, three Singles ("Mausoleum", "Pieces" and "Defiled Embrace") will be shouted before second album release, which planned on September 6 same year.
https://anotherside.metalscraprecords.com/
International black metal duo HAMMERFILOSOFI will unleash a new EP this fall on Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum (ATMF).
After their much-acclaimed debut album - The Desolate One - Hammerfilosofi returns with a fiery assault on the senses, in the shape of an EP entitled SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra); four psalms of relentless, multi-layered, and hellish madness.
“The EP is an inward journey of spiritual violence and cathartic soul-searching”, comments NKTFR, and adds: “Both musically and lyrically, it picks up from where The Desolate One left off and continues in a bold leap into the dark unknown”.
Behind the music is as per usual the Norwegian-Italian duo - NKTFR and FCCM. Lyrics for the EP were penned by long-time comrade of the band, Rune Vedaa from the legendary Norwegian Black Metal band Forgotten Woods.
“The EP is both a continuation of the debut and an ominous forewarning of what is to come. We continue our relentless march, spreading our sulfurous gospel”, concludes FCCM.
ATMF will release SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra) on September 13.
The band has launched a stream of the EP's first single, "Hunt or be Hunted." Listen now at https://atmfsssdtp.bandcamp.com/track/hunt-or-be-hunted
Stream
more from Hammerfilosofi on Spotify and Apple Music.Tracklist:
1) Hunt or be Hunted
2) Alpha Ego
3) Holy Fire
4) Epigone of Tragedy
SOLUS was recorded at WS Studios during the Autumn of 2023 and Winter 2024. The EP was mastered by Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Endarker Studios during the Spring of 2024. Visual design by Francesco Gemelli.
Bio:
Hammerfilosofi was formed in 2020 amid global chaos, shutdowns, death, panic and pestilence. For some, this was a time of despair and mass hysteria, but for others, a time of solitude, contemplation, and inner strength. The idea behind the band, according to FCCM was quite simple:
“We want to take Black Metal back to its primeval and genuine meaning and purpose. To pick up the torch, and carry on the march that was begun centuries ago. We have no intention of reinventing the wheel, but to create and evolve what we consider to be Black Metal”.
In 2023 Hammerfilosofi unleashed their much acclaimed debut album The Desolate One, and true to their word it was uncompromising Black Metal at its finest. NKTFR comments:
“Both musically and conceptually we want to bring back some of that rebellious pride, wrath, and danger - some Blood, Fire, and Death - that for us are mandatory ingredients in Black Metal.”
This is Black Metal from the fertile earth of the graveyard – made for the battleground, for the wanderer who dares walk the path of no return – guided by nothing but His luminous darkness.
September 2024 and the band is ready to unleash their latest opus - an EP entitled SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovatur Integra) - four tracks of hellish madness and thunderous Black Metal.
FCCM concludes: “Conceptually and musically “SOLUS” is an inward journey of reflection and contemplation, but fear not - it is by no means a pleasant ride.”
Hammerfilosofi is:
FCCM - Vocals
NKTFR - Instruments
https://atmf.net/
https://www.facebook.com/hammerfilosofi
NEWS 17.7.2024
Die Hauptinspirationsquelle für sowohl Musik als auch Texte bildet die endlose Tiefe und Finsternis des Ozeans, die gestalterische und zerstörerische Kraft des Wassers, die trostlosen Weiten des großen Unbekannten.
GUYOĐs erste Veröffentlichung, die Split „Alluvial soil“ mit LEHM, erschien am 23. Januar 2022. Das Debutalbum „HEART OF THY ABYSS“ wurde am 4. November 2023 aus den Tiefen emporgehoben und über Grazil Records und Kvlt und Kaos Productions auf CD, LP und MC veröffentlicht. Die erste Singleauskopplung „WATCHER IN THE DARK“ wurde am 25. September 2023 gemeinsam mit einem Video von Revvidy veröffentlicht.
"Watcher in the dark" auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/rnMMgqUg5mA?si=tn90oTyZiIIn-Te6
https://www.facebook.com/GUYODofficial
Neues Album, Neue Video-Single, Neue Sängerin! THE MOURNINGS sehnlichst erwartetes Album "HUSH" und die dazugehörige Video-Single "SMOOTH SEAS" sind ab sofort verfügbar.
Haltet die Ohren und Augen offen – die US-amerikanischen Prog-Metal-Pioniere THE MOURNING haben soeben – zwei Wochen später als ursprünglich geplant – ihr brandneues Album "Hush" veröffentlicht, zusammen mit der fesselnden neuen Video-Single "Smooth Seas". Der hypnotisierende Track ist zusätzlich ein schöner Abschied von der ehemaligen Sängerin Eliana Blanchard, da die Band nun die umwerfende und vielseitige Zai Alyenora als neue Co-Lead-Sängerin vorstellt.
THE MOURNINGs erstes Album in abendfüllender Länge, "Hush", ist eine Prog-Reise, die Einflüsse von Größen des Progressive Metal widerspiegelt. Ein Album, das Themen wie Selbstfindung, Beobachtungen über die Natur des Daseins, gesellschaftliche Missstände und die Überwindung von Widrigkeiten thematisiert.
"Smooth Seas" bildet einen gelungenen Abschluss einer kraftvollen Sammlung von Rock- und Metal-Tracks, die sich mit Themen wie Schwierigkeiten, Widerstandsfähigkeit und persönlichem Wachstum befassen. Der letzte Song auf THE MOURNINGs neuestem Album handelt von den Herausforderungen, denen wir uns stellen und die uns zu dem machen, was wir sind. Dabei geht es vor allem um die Erkenntnis, dass ein Leben, das immer reibungslos verläuft, nicht wirklich förderlich für die persönliche Entwicklung ist, denn eine ruhige See macht noch keinen guten Seemann.
Der progressive Rocksong, zu dem Trey Xavier ein Gitarrensolo beisteuert, beginnt mit einer sanften, besinnlichen Einleitung, die mit beruhigenden und gefühlvollen Melodien einen nachdenklichen Ton setzt. Die Instrumentierung intensiviert sich allmählich und enthält dabei sowohl kraftvolle und erhebende Elemente als auch komplizierte Instrumentalpassagen. Schließlich wechselt Schlagzeuger Jason Berlin (Sohn des berühmten Bassisten Jeff Berlin) von einem typischen Rock-Beat zu Blast-Beats im Death-Metal-Stil, was das Thema des Songs musikalisch unterstreicht – er ermutigt die Zuhörenden, sich ihren persönlichen Stürmen mit Mut und Widerstandskraft entgegenzustellen, in dem Wissen, dass die Erfahrung letztlich zu persönlichem Wachstum und einem tieferen Selbstverständnis führt. "Smooth Seas" ist ein dynamisches, zum Nachdenken anregendes Hörerlebnis, das ihr euch unbedingt anhören sollten.
Klingt spannend, oder? Das haben wir uns auch gedacht! Also verschwendet keine Zeit mehr, hört euch jetzt das Album und die Single an und werft auch gleich einen Blick auf das neue Video:
Link zum Video auf YouTube: https://youtu.be/H-QCeQqOf2I
Mit dem frischen Album im Gepäck hat für THE MOURNING, deren Sound mit ihrem jüngsten Neuzugang Zai Alyenora, der neuen Co-Lead-Sängerin neben Johnny Ray, noch kraftvoller sein wird, ein neues Kapitel begonnen. Die multitalentierte und mehrsprachige Sängerin, (die fünf Sprachen spricht und auf acht singt), ist nicht nur eine hochkarätig professionelle Sängerin, sondern auch Songwriterin, Booking-Agentin, Geschäftsführerin der Chaarmz Magazine Talent Agency, ehemalige American-Idol-Kandidatin, MTV-Special-Guest, Model, Schauspielerin und Feuershow-Performerin.
Ihr einzigartiger Stimmumfang und ihr ausdrucksstarker Vortragsstil passen perfekt zu THE MOURNINGs schwerem und gefühlvollem Musikstil und verleihen ihrem Sound sowohl frische Energie als auch Tiefe. Zais signifikante stimmliche Präsenz und souveräne Stimme werden nun im Mittelpunkt stehen und der Musik der Band eine neue Dimension und Intensität verleihen.
THE MOURNINGs neues Album "Hush" ist ab sofort
erhältlich: https://samply.app/player/UejZq3ehfkIPrVddxmQH"Hush" direkt von The Mourning – digital https://links.themourningmusic.com/hush-album
"Hush" als CD (Jewel Case) von The Mourning – physisch https://themourningmusic.com/product/hush-cd/
Tracklist
1. Chaos Machine
2. The Mountain
3. He Cries
4. I Feel The Rain
5. Hush
6. The Wind
7. My Own Way
8. Cries Of The Mind
9. My Own Hell
10. Smooth Seas
https://www.youtube.com/@themourningmusic
https://themourningmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themourningmusic
Mid-life
crises themed deathgrind band K.Y.M.I. from Finland releases
their debut album this autumn - first single out now! Deathgrind band K.Y.M.I. from
Finland releases their debut album this autumn via Inverse Records. The
band's brutal lyrics are about everyday life during the busy adult years and
the mid-life crisis. The songs are a result of emotional outbursts packed into
a form of brutal deathgrind.The first single, RAATELIJA, is a story of a father suffering from a constant lack of sleep. The few mornings when it would be possible to sleep are repeatedly shattered by the relentless pet cat who wake its master in its hunger for food. It stalks and corrupts!
Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal etc): https://push.fm/fl/kymi-raatelija
K.Y.M.I. is a one-man project by Kalle Ylönen, that will in the future also produce Viking jewelry and other artistic craftwork under the name K.Y.M.I.paja (smithery). Tuukka Ojansivu, a strong supporter of the project, is responsible for arranging the songs and recording the instruments for the upcoming album LIHA. The vocal recording, mixing and mastering of the album was done by Pasi Löfgren at Inka Studios.
https://www.facebook.com/kymipaja
Slovakian Blackened Death Metal horde, CEREMONY OF SILENCE, in collaboration with Toilet ov Hell, present the pre-release stream of new album, HÁLIOS! Click below to stream!
Willowtip Records will release Hálios July 19 on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats. Pre-orders available at the following locations.
https://bit.ly/halios-willowtip
https://bit.ly/halios-bandcamp
Building upon the foundation laid by their debut album, this new release delves even deeper into the band's unique blend of brutality and atmosphere. The album radiates with suffocating intensity, introducing a richer, more atmospheric dimension to the band's sound, while retaining some of the band's signature aspects of haunting melodies, or breathtaking gradations.
Unborn, all-pervading and radiant. The immutable light of the Universe, our fundamental inherent nature, and a bridge to the mythical time. Hálios represents a breakthrough of the sacred into the temporal world, and sets forth on an eerie journey reenacting old stories inspired by the essence of the ancient Indo-European mythology, entwined in obscure visions and dreams.
Track
Listing:1. Primaeval Sacrifice
2. Serpent Slayer
3. Moon Vessel
4. Eternal Return
5. Light Runs Through Light
6. Perennial Incantation
7. King in the Mountain
Credits:
Lyrics & Artwork by Matúš S. Ďurčík.
Engineered & Mixed by Miroslav Spevák.
Produced by Miroslav Spevák & Viliam Pilarčík.
Mastered by Colin Marston.
Band Photo by Štefan Šimuni.
Line-up:
N. - Vocals
Viliam Pilarčík - Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Matúš S. Ďurčík - Drums
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FFO : Coldworker, Gadget, Nasum & Rotten Sound.
Listen new Death Holograms EP: https://push.fm/fl/icursed-death
"Death Holograms" EP, released on July 17th 2024 is produced by I, Cursed and Jerkka Perälä of Soft Neon Audiovisual, whose handprint can be heard and seen in the mixing, mastering, cover art and lyric video for the "Death Holograms" EP. The release of the singles and the "Death Holograms" EP is handled in cooperation by Finnish record labels Inverse Records and Meara Music which is also an agency and event producer based in Ulvila.
DEATH HOLOGRAMS CD ORDERS available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/i-cursed-death-holograms-digisleeve-cd-pre-order
Upcoming
gigs:20.7. Nirvana, Turku
24.8. Maanalainen, Tampere
27.9. Nirvana, Turku
28.9. Haukka Music Bar, Kotka
1.11. Bar Loose, Helsinki
29.11. Bar 15 Basement, Seinäjoki
Biography:
Combining angry and furious death metal and grindcore, I, Cursed, from the Pori / Ulvila area, is a brutal dredging of Ville-Veikko Laaksonen and Eero Haula, known from Atlases, Marto and Oceanwake, among others, which is fed to the Finnish metal scene in an atonal coldness. I, Cursed's music is a mix of something old and familiar, the HM-2 sound of Swedish grind, and somewhat more modern and crushing production. The line-up of the band in July 2024 is completed by guitarist Nico Brander from Marto and drummer Arttu Leppänen from Atlases and Marto.
Track list:
01. A Gathering Of Immense
02. Blades
03. Death Holograms
04. Dystopian Structure
05. Sorrower
06. Merge Into A Caustic Revocation
07. Vermin
Mixed and mastered by Jerkka Perälä (Soft Neon Audiovisual)
EP cover by Jerkka Perälä
Line-up:
Eero Haula - Vocals (Oceanwake)
Ville-Veikko Laaksonen - Bass & guitar (Atlases, Marto)
Nico Brander - Guitar (Blood Service, Marto)
Arttu Leppänen - Drums (Atlases, Marto)
Discography:
I, Cursed / Blood Service S/T Split EP 2023 (Meara Music)
Bloodsoaked / Storm Parade Double Single 2023 (Meara Music)
Blades Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Sorrower Single 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
Death Holograms Single & EP 2024 (Inverse Records / Meara Music)
https://www.facebook.com/I.Cursed.Grind
Warfarer is thrilled to announce the release of 'Heir Uncrowned', the powerful opening single from their upcoming concept album, 'A TALE BEYOND THE PALE' WHICH is set to be released on November 15th 2024 via Inverse Records.
Watch Heir Uncrowned music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AmN6t0Mj5Y
This bombastic track tells the story of a protagonist who falls from grace and is driven by jealousy to slay his own brother. The song's narrative sets the stage for the tale that unfolds throughout the album.
"We wanted to convey the raw emotions and the motivations behind the protagonist's downfall and subsequent journey. We've always enjoyed stories, and we wanted to create a video that would convey the events of the song as we imagined them."
Listen Heir Uncrowned on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/warfarer-heir
A Tale Beyond the Pale CD PRE-ORDER available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/warfarer-a-tale-beyond-the-pale-cd-pre-order
Biography:
Born from the frost of Northern Finland in 2013, Warfarer weaves chilling tales of small people's great struggles amidst ancient myths. Their ferocious blend of melodic death metal and symphonic elements bites like the freezing wind and grips you like the flu.
After releasing an EP in 2017 and undergoing a complete reincarnation with new singles in 2018 and 2020, the band is more alive than ever, preparing for war with brutal new songs and sharpened axes. Their upcoming concept album, 'A Tale Beyond the Pale', set for release in 2024, delves into the Finnish myth of the Brotherslayer, taking listeners on a journey through jealousy, scheming, Viking raids, duels under the northern lights, and an eventual descent into guilt and madness.
Track list:01. Heir Uncrowned
02. As the Portents Foretold
03 Brotherslayer
04 Bereaver
05. Betrayer
06. In the Gravelight
07. March Through the Endless Snow
08. The Gates to Realms Beyond
Cover art by Sofia Sinivuori
Line-up:
Kalle Puutio - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitars
Seppo Kolehmainen - Lead Guitars, Backing Vocals
Klaus Telenius - Bass, Backing Vocals
Tuomas Rahikainen - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Julius Lehtonen - Drums
https://www.youtube.com/@warfarerband
https://linktr.ee/warfarer
https://www.facebook.com/warfarerband
AYDRA: Unveils new single "FOREVER HIDE" after two decades.
The
single is available for pre-save now at this link: https://ditto.fm/forever-hideIn collaboration with Rude Awakening Records, who recently reissued AYDRA's entire studio catalogue, the band is set to embark on an exciting new chapter. "Forever Hide" will be part of a concept album scheduled for release in October 2024.
Frontman Mauro Pacetti shared his enthusiasm:
"We’re thrilled to announce 'Forever Hide,' a brand new track which marks the beginning of a new chapter for AYDRA since 2004. Get ready for an intense and revolutionary experience!”
The single, mastered at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden — known for its work with Amorphis, Dimmu Borgir, and Ihsahn — promises an unparalleled auditory experience, staying true to AYDRA's legacy while pushing new boundaries in technical death metal.
More details about the upcoming concept album will be revealed soon. Stay tuned to AYDRA's and Rude Awakening Records' social media for updates.
https://www.facebook.com/rudeawakeningrecs/
https://www.youtube.com/@aydraofficial
https://www.facebook.com/Aydra
Finnish one-man black metal band MALASORTE is set to unleash the debut album APEX SOVEREIGNTY on October 11th 2024 via Inverse Records. The first official single Slaying The Messengers is now out on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/malasorte-slaying
The man behind Malasorte, Jal'zoroth comments the single:
"In a realm where chaos reigns and mercy is a forgotten concept, the relentless march of destruction continues unabated. The slayer, embracing the dark embrace of chaos, becomes the harbinger of eternal night, slaying messengers with ruthless fervor in a cosmic dance of darkness and blight."
Apex Sovereignty CD Pre-Order available https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/malasorte-apex-sovereignty-cd-pre-order
Track
list:01. The Rift Is Now Open
02. Cerebral Pandemonium
03. Across The Frozen Tundra
04. Into The Killing Fields
05. Behind Closed Doors
06. Constellation Of The Wolf
07. Inscribed In Blood, Bound By Will
08. Slaying The Messengers
09. The Devil's Pact At Roanoke
10. Apex Sovereignty
11. Crowned In Astral Majesty
Cover art by JTR
Biography:
In the frostbitten heart of Helsinki, Finland, Jal'zoroth forged "Malasorte" from the fires of black metal in 2024. A one-man wrecking crew, Malasorte unleashes a sonic onslaught that's as savage as it is spellbinding. With relentless riffs, thunderous drums, and vocals dripping with venom, Malasorte commands the darkness with unbridled ferocity. Emerging from the shadows, Malasorte is a force to be reckoned with, transmutating adversity into waveform, turning curses into catharsis.
Line-up:
Jal'zoroth - vocals, guitars, bass & drums
https://www.facebook.com/Malasorteblackmetal
Polish death/thrashers HELLSET promote their sophomore album with „NOT FOUND” visualizer.
If you don't know the band Hellset yet, it is a young band from Rzeszów from the underground Polish metal scene. They started their adventure with music in mid-2021, and combined their stage debut with the premiere of their first album "Global Warning" on January 23, 2023. After long months of playing shows, they started working on their next release, which resulted in a new album in June 2024 entitled "SHEPHERD OF THE BLIND".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKW1jnjTOWc
You will find a lot of juicy riffs on the border between thrash, death and heavy metal, as well as shred solos, inspired by legends such as Slayer, Death or Children of Bodom. Maniacs of strong sounds have plenty to choose from. Fans of calmer rhythms will also not be disappointed - for them there are Judas Priest-style ballads called "Rejection" and "Death is Falling Asleep".
https://www.youtube.com/@hellset
https://www.facebook.com/hellsetofficial
The band comments on the song, "The penultimate track from our forthcoming full-length Agony’s Bespoke, “A Reverent Stillness” is in a way the perfect snapshot of the album as a whole. As the first song written during this album cycle, it interweaves catchy melodic leads, dense atmospheric sections, and a more grim and frostbitten approach to melodic death metal riffing, all bolstered by a thunderous and ever-present rhythm section. Thematically, the song is simultaneously triumphant and hopeless as the character at the center of Agony’s story has finally achieved the vengeance he long sought, but at a heavy physical and psychological cost."
Stream the lyric video for "A Reverent Stillness" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtcFOqJvsrg
Agony's Bespoke is a monumental, hour-long work, marking a new height for the band's growing skills of songwriting and storytelling. Theatrical and immersive, the album is heavily inspired by the 2018 Australian film, "Nightingale," and tells a similarly tragic story. Highlighting the transformative power of violence and the ultimate futility of revenge, the album seeks to explore the lasting emotional and psychological impact of trauma.
Beyond The Top Records will release Agony's Bespoke on digipak CD, limited-edition vinyl, and digital formats on September 20.
Pre-orders are available at: https://linktr.ee/beyondthetoprecords
BLIGHTED EYE has already released two tracks off Agony's Bespoke. Stream "In Emnity" and "Howls from Beyond the Mist" on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:1. Tragoedia
2. The Wounding
3. In Emnity
4. Howls from Beyond the Mist
5. A Feast for Worms
6. Pallid
7. Nightingale
8. A Reverent Stillness
9. Agony’s Bespoke
Agony's Bespoke was produced, mixed, and mastered by Alex Sedin. Cover art by Caelan Stokkermans.
Hailing from the greater Seattle area, BLIGHTED EYE is a progressive death/black metal act featuring members from Aethereus, Mesmur, and Pantheist. The band interweaves crushing riffs and blastbeats with intricate, layered melodic work akin to Opeth, Swallow the Sun, Rotting Christ, and Dark Tranquility. Their musical journey aims to evoke a bespoke atmosphere that delves into the depths of the human psyche, exploring the haunting lyrical themes that reside within the darkest recesses of the mind.
BLIGHTED EYE is:
Christopher Jones: Guitar
Kyle Chapman: Guitar, Vocals
Ben Gassman: Bass
John Devos: Drums
https://www.facebook.com/BlightedEye
KANONENFIEBER release new single and video,“PANZERHENKER”"Nur der Tod gewinnt im Krieg"["Only death succeeds in war"]--Kanonenfieber
On September 20th, blackened death metal outfit Kanonenfieber will release their sophomore album, Die Urkatastrophe. Panzerhenker is the latest single from the upcoming anti-war album.
Kanonenfieber explains about the back story of Panzerhenker: “The Battle of Cambrai took place from November 20 to 30, 1917 and marked the first offensive in which tanks played a decisive role in the attack strategy. The British carried out the attack with the support of battle and auxiliary tanks as well as an intensive barrage. The offensive was halted by German counterattacks. With the help of anti-tank field guns the Germans managed to take out a large number of the British tanks. J. Krüger, who was known as the ‘Panzerhenker’ (Tankslayer / Tank Executioner), played an important role in this. Even when his battery was wiped out, Krüger remained as the last survivor at a field gun and destroyed up to 16 of the approaching tanks. When enemy assault troops penetrated his positions, he attacked with a pistol and was eventually wounded and captured.”
Stream the new single here: https://Kanonenfieber.lnk.to/DieUrkatastropheNe
Watch the lyric video here: https://youtu.be/ZeKDSW2Nw7E
(Rochester, NY) - As the release of their new album, DIANA'S DAY,approaches, Deathwave band FOURTH DOMINION offers one more taste of what's to come.
Stream "Bloodstains" at https://linktr.ee/fourthdominion
Bassist/vocalist Meadow Wyand reflects on how the band's newest single came to be, "‘Bloodstains’ is a song about transition. It discusses coming out, the blood that’s spilled in the process, and the scars it leaves behind. It speaks to the feeling of inhabiting a new skin while everyone around you sees your dead self.
It was the first song I wrote for Diana’s Day. I remember showing it to our friend Mike from Nuclear Tomb, who played guitar for the band at the time. He pointed out the resemblance to Siouxsie’s ‘Spellbound’ and Hüsker Dü’s ‘Pink Turns to Blue.’ I think you can also hear the influence of Sentenced, Maiden, and even a little Nirvana."
FOURTH DOMINION live dates:
8/1 - Album Release Party @ Vertex, Rochester, NY
8/3 - Torvus, Fourth Dominion and Cemetery Sex @ Atlas Brew Works, Washington, DC
8/17 - Acoustic Performance @ Genesee Valley, Rochester, NY
9/8 - Live @ WAYO, 104.3, Rochester, NY
9/20 - Autumn of Artemis Weekender w/ Eternal Crypt @ CNY
9/21 - Autumn of Artemis Weekender w/ Eternal Crypt @ JB Lovedraft's,
9/28 - Eternal Crypt, Haishen, Fourth Dominion and Mortus Eternum @ Bug Jar, Rochester, NY
Fiadh Productions will release Diana's Day on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats on August 1. The album confronts themes of queerness, feminine magick, and existentialism, and is already drawing critical acclaim months ahead of the album's release.
Stream previously released FOURTH DOMINION music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:
1) Bloodstains
2) Lilim
3) Burn the Prisons!
4) From Below
5) Goetia
6) Hill of Swords
7) Death in Fall
8) Tormenta Purgatoria
9) Her Wings
10) Casca Dreaming
“FOURTH DOMINION’s new album fulfills the promises hinted at on their debut, Wings of a Dying Crow (2017). The songs are epic but not indulgent; punkish instincts bring the heavy doses of gothic rock and metal into sharp focus. While the sound breaks from the cul-de-sac of tribalism dominating so much rock music, it retains an unmistakable identity and voice. Other bands have tried to chart this territory to varying degrees of success–The Cure’s Bloodflowers–whose damaged brilliance lacked the energy and immediacy we are greeted with here. At the heart of this material is Meadow Wyand’s gift for enveloping gothic melodies matched with lyrics that reflect the ennui and destructiveness of our post-pandemic stupor. From the parasitic liaison of “Bloodstains” to the spectral occult of “Lilim,”–these songs carry the weight of worlds lurking just beyond the next corner. Backed by the heavy gallop of drums and atmospheric guitar runs, these capture the strange dread of these days.” –Harlow Crandall, “Starts Like a Kiss and Ends Like a Curse: The Enigma of Jim Carroll”
"FOURTH DOMINION are back with a follow-up to 2017’s ‘Wings of a Dying Crow’. With their earlier work, I love the blend between heavy metal and punk, culminating in early AFI meets early Maiden sound. This new venture sees the band bring a more mature and experimental sound. Whilst the new release still has those heavy metal sections such as the solo of “Bloodstains”, the punk edge has altered slightly. The new sound falls more into the post-punk category, reminiscent of bands such as Fields of Nephilim as evident on “Death in Fall”. This new musical direction aligns FOURTH DOMINION with contemporary bands such as Unto Others. The highlight for me however has to be “Lillim” with its multilayered chorus which will worm its way into your ears for days with absolutely zero complaints!" - Olivia Matthews, Hornthrowers
Bio
“In filth, evil stands.” A line from FOURTH DOMINION’s upcoming sophomore album that proclaims songwriter Meadow Wyand’s singular and novel point-of-view. An out trans frontwoman, her songs reflect queer trauma and defiance, as well as speaking to existential despair and spiritual divination. The group’s emotionally dense and literate songs draw just as much from the contemplative gothic metal of Anathema and Sentenced, as they do the unapologetic alternative punk of Hole and PJ Harvey. With compositions that are simultaneously somber, catchy and intricate, FOURTH DOMINION radiate a hunger and commercial appeal beyond the confines of heavy metal to which they are rooted.
Their debut album, 2017’s Wings of a Dying Crow, marked an important stride in developing the type of post-In Solitude heavy metal deathrock that has taken off in the years since. Its follow-up shows a love for Angel Witch, as well as the guitar playing of The Smiths and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album reflects themes not often confronted in heavy metal: disability, gender, the divine feminine, anti-futurist queer politics, and sexual assault. Its exploration of trauma seeks to be a response and companion piece to Hole’s "Live Through This."
With their forthcoming mission statement, FOURTH DOMINION showcases their ability to rise to the top of the new wave of gothic metal, or “Deathwave” as Wyand refers to it. Featuring new drummer Brady Mentz and the production talents of Casey Ahrens-Cavallo and Tom Gerwitz, the band have Frankensteined an album of profound emotional depth and commercial readiness. “When we fight, we bash back!” is a promise to both the queer empowerment the album represents, as well as the band’s uncompromising attitude for growth.
FOURTH DOMINION is:
Meadow Wyand - Bass/vocals
Dave Milburn.- Guitars
Brady Mentz - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/fourthdominion/
AFTER THE FLESH release date in October 18, 2024. For the age of darkness is upon us, and KAIVS leads the charge.
As the world trembles in anticipation, KAIVS emerges from the shadows, ready to conquer all who dare to stand in their way.
Brace yourselves, for a new Single in all plaforms "FOR SATAN YOUR FLESH FOR GOD YOUR SOUL" release September 20 2024, and Youtube Lyric Video August 16, 2024.
Prepare for an onslaught of pure, unadulterated death metal fury as Brutal Records proudly announces the signing of Rome's very own purveyors of chaos, KAIVS.
In a statement dripping with the venom of anticipation, the band declared, "We've inked a pact with Brutal Records, and it's time to unleash hell on a global scale. We're hungry to spread our darkness far and wide, and Brutal Records is the perfect conduit for our wrath. Brace yourselves, for KAIVS is here to conquer."
With the ferocity of a ravenous beast, KAIVS delivers bone-crushing riffs, guttural vocals, and an unyielding barrage of sonic assault. Their brand of death metal is a testament to raw power, devoid of mercy or compromise. Inspired by the unholy sounds of the early 1990s Stockholm scene, KAIVS infuses their music with a relentless drive that cuts through the soul like a serrated blade.
But KAIVS is more than just a mere echo of the past. They are pioneers of darkness, forging a new path through the charred remains of the old. With their upcoming debut album, "After the Flesh," slated for global domination in October 18, 2024 under the banner of Brutal Records, KAIVS promises to redefine the very essence of brutality.
Led by the unholy trinity of Max Foam's demonic vocals, Tiziano Mortician's razor-sharp guitar work, Jacopo Simonelli's thunderous bass lines, and Leonardo Sastro's relentless drumming, KAIVS stands as a towering monument to the dark arts of death metal.
AFTER THE FLESH
1. Koshercannibal
2. Beyond The Autopsy
3. For Satan Your Flesh For God Your Soul
4. Blooduniverses
5. Krushing All Altars
6. Sepulchrist
7. Blasphemer After the Flesh
8. Horrend
https://soundcloud.com/brutalrecords/horrend
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
BLOOD INCANTATION announce new album, ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE, out october 4 . The new Blood Incantation album, Absolute Elsewhere , is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Yes, that’s an audacious, possibly hyperbolic claim, but few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as this Denver, Colorado quartet. Hovering at nearly 45 minutes, their longest full length recording yet, the album’s two sprawling movements – The Stargate and The Message – are as confounding as they are engaging, exponentially expanding upon the formulas laid down by their scene-shattering debut Starspawn (2016) and landmark followup Hidden History of the Human Race (2019).
(Rochester, NY) - As the release of their new album, DIANA'S DAY,approaches, Deathwave band FOURTH DOMINION offers one more taste of what's to come.
Stream "Bloodstains" at https://linktr.ee/fourthdominion
Bassist/vocalist Meadow Wyand reflects on how the band's newest single came to be, "‘Bloodstains’ is a song about transition. It discusses coming out, the blood that’s spilled in the process, and the scars it leaves behind. It speaks to the feeling of inhabiting a new skin while everyone around you sees your dead self.
It was the first song I wrote for Diana’s Day. I remember showing it to our friend Mike from Nuclear Tomb, who played guitar for the band at the time. He pointed out the resemblance to Siouxsie’s ‘Spellbound’ and Hüsker Dü’s ‘Pink Turns to Blue.’ I think you can also hear the influence of Sentenced, Maiden, and even a little Nirvana."
FOURTH DOMINION live dates:
8/1 - Album Release Party @ Vertex, Rochester, NY
8/3 - Torvus, Fourth Dominion and Cemetery Sex @ Atlas Brew Works, Washington, DC
8/17 - Acoustic Performance @ Genesee Valley, Rochester, NY
9/8 - Live @ WAYO, 104.3, Rochester, NY
9/20 - Autumn of Artemis Weekender w/ Eternal Crypt @ CNY
9/21 - Autumn of Artemis Weekender w/ Eternal Crypt @ JB Lovedraft's,
9/28 - Eternal Crypt, Haishen, Fourth Dominion and Mortus Eternum @ Bug Jar, Rochester, NY
Fiadh Productions will release Diana's Day on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats on August 1. The album confronts themes of queerness, feminine magick, and existentialism, and is already drawing critical acclaim months ahead of the album's release.
Stream previously released FOURTH DOMINION music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:1) Bloodstains
2) Lilim
3) Burn the Prisons!
4) From Below
5) Goetia
6) Hill of Swords
7) Death in Fall
8) Tormenta Purgatoria
9) Her Wings
10) Casca Dreaming
“FOURTH DOMINION’s new album fulfills the promises hinted at on their debut, Wings of a Dying Crow (2017). The songs are epic but not indulgent; punkish instincts bring the heavy doses of gothic rock and metal into sharp focus. While the sound breaks from the cul-de-sac of tribalism dominating so much rock music, it retains an unmistakable identity and voice. Other bands have tried to chart this territory to varying degrees of success–The Cure’s Bloodflowers–whose damaged brilliance lacked the energy and immediacy we are greeted with here. At the heart of this material is Meadow Wyand’s gift for enveloping gothic melodies matched with lyrics that reflect the ennui and destructiveness of our post-pandemic stupor. From the parasitic liaison of “Bloodstains” to the spectral occult of “Lilim,”–these songs carry the weight of worlds lurking just beyond the next corner. Backed by the heavy gallop of drums and atmospheric guitar runs, these capture the strange dread of these days.” –Harlow Crandall, “Starts Like a Kiss and Ends Like a Curse: The Enigma of Jim Carroll”
"FOURTH DOMINION are back with a follow-up to 2017’s ‘Wings of a Dying Crow’. With their earlier work, I love the blend between heavy metal and punk, culminating in early AFI meets early Maiden sound. This new venture sees the band bring a more mature and experimental sound. Whilst the new release still has those heavy metal sections such as the solo of “Bloodstains”, the punk edge has altered slightly. The new sound falls more into the post-punk category, reminiscent of bands such as Fields of Nephilim as evident on “Death in Fall”. This new musical direction aligns FOURTH DOMINION with contemporary bands such as Unto Others. The highlight for me however has to be “Lillim” with its multilayered chorus which will worm its way into your ears for days with absolutely zero complaints!" - Olivia Matthews, Hornthrowers
Bio
“In filth, evil stands.” A line from FOURTH DOMINION’s upcoming sophomore album that proclaims songwriter Meadow Wyand’s singular and novel point-of-view. An out trans frontwoman, her songs reflect queer trauma and defiance, as well as speaking to existential despair and spiritual divination. The group’s emotionally dense and literate songs draw just as much from the contemplative gothic metal of Anathema and Sentenced, as they do the unapologetic alternative punk of Hole and PJ Harvey. With compositions that are simultaneously somber, catchy and intricate, FOURTH DOMINION radiate a hunger and commercial appeal beyond the confines of heavy metal to which they are rooted.
Their debut album, 2017’s Wings of a Dying Crow, marked an important stride in developing the type of post-In Solitude heavy metal deathrock that has taken off in the years since. Its follow-up shows a love for Angel Witch, as well as the guitar playing of The Smiths and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album reflects themes not often confronted in heavy metal: disability, gender, the divine feminine, anti-futurist queer politics, and sexual assault. Its exploration of trauma seeks to be a response and companion piece to Hole’s "Live Through This."
With their forthcoming mission statement, FOURTH DOMINION showcases their ability to rise to the top of the new wave of gothic metal, or “Deathwave” as Wyand refers to it. Featuring new drummer Brady Mentz and the production talents of Casey Ahrens-Cavallo and Tom Gerwitz, the band have Frankensteined an album of profound emotional depth and commercial readiness. “When we fight, we bash back!” is a promise to both the queer empowerment the album represents, as well as the band’s uncompromising attitude for growth.
FOURTH DOMINION is:
Meadow Wyand - Bass/vocals
Dave Milburn.- Guitars
Brady Mentz - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/fourthdominion/
AFTER THE FLESH release date in October 18, 2024. For the age of darkness is upon us, and KAIVS leads the charge.
As the world trembles in anticipation, KAIVS emerges from the shadows, ready to conquer all who dare to stand in their way.
Brace yourselves, for a new Single in all plaforms "FOR SATAN YOUR FLESH FOR GOD YOUR SOUL" release September 20 2024, and Youtube Lyric Video August 16, 2024.
Prepare for an onslaught of pure, unadulterated death metal fury as Brutal Records proudly announces the signing of Rome's very own purveyors of chaos, KAIVS.
In a statement dripping with the venom of anticipation, the band declared, "We've inked a pact with Brutal Records, and it's time to unleash hell on a global scale. We're hungry to spread our darkness far and wide, and Brutal Records is the perfect conduit for our wrath. Brace yourselves, for KAIVS is here to conquer."
With the ferocity of a ravenous beast, KAIVS delivers bone-crushing riffs, guttural vocals, and an unyielding barrage of sonic assault. Their brand of death metal is a testament to raw power, devoid of mercy or compromise. Inspired by the unholy sounds of the early 1990s Stockholm scene, KAIVS infuses their music with a relentless drive that cuts through the soul like a serrated blade.
But KAIVS is more than just a mere echo of the past. They are pioneers of darkness, forging a new path through the charred remains of the old. With their upcoming debut album, "After the Flesh," slated for global domination in October 18, 2024 under the banner of Brutal Records, KAIVS promises to redefine the very essence of brutality.
Led by the unholy trinity of Max Foam's demonic vocals, Tiziano Mortician's razor-sharp guitar work, Jacopo Simonelli's thunderous bass lines, and Leonardo Sastro's relentless drumming, KAIVS stands as a towering monument to the dark arts of death metal.
AFTER THE FLESH
1. Koshercannibal
2. Beyond The Autopsy
3. For Satan Your Flesh For God Your Soul
4. Blooduniverses
5. Krushing All Altars
6. Sepulchrist
7. Blasphemer After the Flesh
8. Horrend
https://soundcloud.com/brutalrecords/horrend
https://linktr.ee/brutalrecords.official
BLOOD INCANTATION announce new album, ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE, out october 4 . The new Blood Incantation album, Absolute Elsewhere , is unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Yes, that’s an audacious, possibly hyperbolic claim, but few can claim a sonic watershed as readily as this Denver, Colorado quartet. Hovering at nearly 45 minutes, their longest full length recording yet, the album’s two sprawling movements – The Stargate and The Message – are as confounding as they are engaging, exponentially expanding upon the formulas laid down by their scene-shattering debut Starspawn (2016) and landmark followup Hidden History of the Human Race (2019).
As Blood Incantation’s Paul Riedl tells, “‘Absolute Elsewhere’ is
our most potent audial extract/musical trip yet; like the soundtrack to a
Herzog-style Sci-Fi epic about the history of/battle for human consciousness
itself, via a 70s Prog album played by a 90s Death Metal band from the future.” For inspiration, the group looked to the mid-70’s progressive rock collective, Absolute Elsewhere (best known as a celestial stopover for King Crimson drummer, Bill Bruford) as the album’s namesake. For the uninitiated, Absolute Elsewhere’s obscure 1976 album, In Search of Ancient Gods , was constructed as a musical accompaniment to the works of Chariots of the Gods author, Erich Von Daniken, and his theories of non-terrestrial humanoid prompts towards mankind’s evolution. The subject matter of which should serve as no surprise to anyone familiar with Blood Incantation’s cosmically philosophical leanings.
But make no mistake, the four musicians working under the Blood Incantation banner for the past decade – guitarist and vocalist Paul Riedl, drummer Isaac Faulk, guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky and bassist Jeff Barrett – have successfully left the microgravity of genre behind and are re-writing the Rosetta Stone of extreme music with a new language entirely. Demonstrations like their 2022 all-synth show or 2024’s Roadburn Festival headlining appearance where they played back-to-back death metal and ambient made it clear: Blood Incantation have honed their abilities to go boldly where few bands have gone before, and reveal no signs of slowing down.
Stream the latest single here: https://BloodIncantation.lnk.to/LuminescentBridgeNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WYceFbHw4
Finnish death metal band Devenial Verdict's music is a breath of fresh air, especially given the kind of music they work with. Dissonant death metal can too easily sound cold, mechanical, alien even but their approach to this style is different. Their music here is expansive, atmospheric and even emotive, without compromising on the intensity. And there's a fiery albeit restrained passion exuding through it all, probably making all the difference. This is a special album for the style and fans of death metal in general shouldn't miss out on this. Stream a couple of songs on Bandcamp https://devenialverdictband.bandcamp.com/album/blessing-of-despair
DEVENIAL VERDICT – “BLESSING OF DESPAIR”
For
fans of: Ulcerate, Morbid
Angel, Dysgnostic, Saevus Finis, Crown of Madness, MithrasFinnish dissonant/atmospheric death metal band Devenial Verdict return after nonchalantly dropping a staggering debut out of nowhere in 'Ash Blind'. Stunning everyone with its sheer magnificence and power, it was always going to be interesting to see where they go from there. And they've released a new full length that's not only a worthy follow-up but it's far more nuanced than anything they've done in the past. They've nurtured a sound that is inherently pensive and adopted an approach that's laden with suspense and intrigue; the sharp, ringing, dissonant tunes linger in the air like inverted scythes. The atmosphere remains emotionally charged which is already rare for this style, with the music being a lot more expressive and colourful in its shades of gloom over here. The songs, undulating gracefully in their intensity, showcase interesting and comparatively diverse variations without straying from their core sound which sees dissonance and atmosphere working in tandem. There's a sense of dark melancholia permeating their music which adds meaning and depth to this kind of music that can too easily be rendered soulless. Devenial Verdict have once again crafted a masterful, passionate album that pushes the sound in its own way while firmly establishing a distinct identity for the band.
Line up:
Okko Tolvanen - Drums
Sebastian Frigren - Guitars
Antti Poutanen - Bass
Riku Saressalo - Vocals
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski
Track listing:
1. I Have Become the Sun
2. Garden of Eyes
3. Moon-Starved
4. Blessing of Despair
5. Shunned Wander
6. The Quietus
7. Solus
8. Counting Silence
9. Cold Lantern
10. A Curse Made Flesh
Release date - October 4th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/DevenialVerdict
The album is now streaming in full at https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/atropos-doctrina
Atropos Doctrina is out now on Dark Descent Records. Order the album at:
Stream previous VANHELGD releases on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:1. Saliga äro de dödfödda
2. Kom dödens tysta ängel
3. Ofredsår
4. I ovigd jord
5. Atropos Hymnarium
6. Galgdanstid
7. Kerernas törst
8. Gravjordsfrid
Atropos Doctrina was recorded under the watchful eye of Marduk’s Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Norrköping’s Endarker Studios, and the odds are you won’t hear a heavier production for a good wee while. Backed by ice-cold performances and precision from the band, Atropos Doctrina might just be the biggest sounding album of 2024 to date!
Despite its Latin title, all lyrics on the record are in the band’s mother tongue, marking an end to their Anglo-Swedish lyrical approach.
An indifference to trends and scene sentiments persists as Vanhelgd’s trump card. And after 17 years the band remains just as uncompromising as ever, honing their unique blend of atmospheric death and black metal to perfection.
Atropos Doctrina was recorded, mixed, and mastered in Endarker Studios by Magnus "Devo" Andersson. Cover art by Mattias Frisk.
VANHELGD is:
Jonas Albrektsson - Bass
Mattias Frisk - Guitar and vocals
Jimmy Johansson - Guitar and vocals
Mathias Westman – Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/vanhelgd
VOMIT
FORTH
announce new album, TERRIFIED OF GOD, out october 11.Northeast
based agents of terror Vomit Forth are driven to create the most
visceral death metal the world has ever experienced. The band has just
announced their new album, Terrified Of God, set for release October 11th.
To celebrate, the band have dropped a new single, Rotting Wool. In the deep winter of early 2024, the band headed into a cabin in the woods
with Randy Lebouf (The Acacia Strain, Jesus Piece), who recorded, mixed,
mastered and produced the album. Vomit Forth had an unabashed goal to make “the
most unsettling, brutal and scary death metal record of all time” and
across the album’s twelve tracks, they surpass it.
On the album’s themes, vocalist Kane shares:
“The biggest thing I want to get across with this record and that humanity doesn’t know everything. We are flawed, and in a lot of ways disgusting. We act like we aren’t afraid of what happens after we die. I know most people like to think nothing happens and we just conduct heat. That there’s no consequence other than how we effect other people during our time here, but I know there’s a hint of fear in the back of everyone’s mind. Everyone feels it. Not a single person on this earth lives without being 'Terrified of God' at one point or another in their life.”
Stream the new single here: https://VomitForth.lnk.to/TerrifiedOfGodNe
Watch the music video here: https://youtu.be/CNPXlZ5NAZc
After
a four-year hiatus, AGON returns with a new album on the horizon!
Building on the musical foundations laid in the debut album "HOLLOWED
LAKE" and the subsequent EP "ENGRAVED POWER,"
AGON's latest project promises to push boundaries and redefine the project’s unique sound.
The upcoming album masterfully blends atmospheric blackened doom metal with elements of progressive and technical death metal, crafting an avant-garde metal experience that is distinctly AGON.
As a preview to the full-length sophomore album, AGON will release side A as a stand-alone EP titled "KRONOS." Stay tuned for a journey through intricate soundscapes and powerful compositions that
highlight AGON's innovative approach to metal.
https://www.youtube.com/@agonmusician
https://www.facebook.com/agonmusician
IN
APHELION
drop age-gated lyric video for REAPERDAWN .“The title track
is a straight-forward punch in the face”, says Sebastian Ramstedt (guitar
and vocals). “Here we join the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ cult in their last
hour waiting for the vessel in the sky. The whole album centers more or less
around cults and sun worship, but this is right on point. Stay with us until
the dawn will free us from our sins. The reaper will be sure to leave no one
behind.”
A new force is awakening with IN APHELION. Stretching the boundaries of consciousness. Devouring everything in its path. Ushering in the Reaperdawn, that is scheduled for a release August 9th , 2024. IN APHELION could be the ultimate extreme metal adrenalin rush. It is the euphoric, black metal brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Sebastian Ramstedt (best known as guitarist and songwriter with Necrophobic). Darker, stranger, more epic and progressive than admirers of his work were expecting, this new outlet for dark, artistic expression emerged firmly tethered to the white-knuckle viciousness of benchmark, Northern European black metal, while also exhibiting a profound affiliation with both classic, traditional heavy metal and the black magic of psychedelic repetition.
Based around a core line-up of Ramstedt (guitar/vocals), drummer Marco Prij (also Cryptosis), rhythm guitarist Johan Bergebäck (Necrophobic) and bassist Tobias Cristiansson (Necrophobic, ex-Grave…), IN APHELION have taken the uncompromising DIY route to their current status as new Century Media signees.
Stream the new single here: https://InAphelion.lnk.to/ReaperdawnNe
Watch the lyric video here: https://youtu.be/2xtryQl0HRk
On the album’s themes, vocalist Kane shares:
“The biggest thing I want to get across with this record and that humanity doesn’t know everything. We are flawed, and in a lot of ways disgusting. We act like we aren’t afraid of what happens after we die. I know most people like to think nothing happens and we just conduct heat. That there’s no consequence other than how we effect other people during our time here, but I know there’s a hint of fear in the back of everyone’s mind. Everyone feels it. Not a single person on this earth lives without being 'Terrified of God' at one point or another in their life.”
Stream the new single here: https://VomitForth.lnk.to/TerrifiedOfGodNe
Watch the music video here: https://youtu.be/CNPXlZ5NAZc
After
a four-year hiatus, AGON returns with a new album on the horizon!
Building on the musical foundations laid in the debut album "HOLLOWED
LAKE" and the subsequent EP "ENGRAVED POWER,"AGON's latest project promises to push boundaries and redefine the project’s unique sound.
The upcoming album masterfully blends atmospheric blackened doom metal with elements of progressive and technical death metal, crafting an avant-garde metal experience that is distinctly AGON.
As a preview to the full-length sophomore album, AGON will release side A as a stand-alone EP titled "KRONOS." Stay tuned for a journey through intricate soundscapes and powerful compositions that
highlight AGON's innovative approach to metal.
https://www.youtube.com/@agonmusician
https://www.facebook.com/agonmusician
IN
APHELION
drop age-gated lyric video for REAPERDAWN .“The title track
is a straight-forward punch in the face”, says Sebastian Ramstedt (guitar
and vocals). “Here we join the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ cult in their last
hour waiting for the vessel in the sky. The whole album centers more or less
around cults and sun worship, but this is right on point. Stay with us until
the dawn will free us from our sins. The reaper will be sure to leave no one
behind.”A new force is awakening with IN APHELION. Stretching the boundaries of consciousness. Devouring everything in its path. Ushering in the Reaperdawn, that is scheduled for a release August 9th , 2024. IN APHELION could be the ultimate extreme metal adrenalin rush. It is the euphoric, black metal brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Sebastian Ramstedt (best known as guitarist and songwriter with Necrophobic). Darker, stranger, more epic and progressive than admirers of his work were expecting, this new outlet for dark, artistic expression emerged firmly tethered to the white-knuckle viciousness of benchmark, Northern European black metal, while also exhibiting a profound affiliation with both classic, traditional heavy metal and the black magic of psychedelic repetition.
Based around a core line-up of Ramstedt (guitar/vocals), drummer Marco Prij (also Cryptosis), rhythm guitarist Johan Bergebäck (Necrophobic) and bassist Tobias Cristiansson (Necrophobic, ex-Grave…), IN APHELION have taken the uncompromising DIY route to their current status as new Century Media signees.
Stream the new single here: https://InAphelion.lnk.to/ReaperdawnNe
Watch the lyric video here: https://youtu.be/2xtryQl0HRk
NEWS 10.7.2024
Eine Feier des Vermächtnisses von Lemmy Kilmister und
Motörhead:Special LEMMY FOREVER Memorial auf dem BLOODSTOCK
2024 .
Noch einen Monat, dann kehren Metalheads in den Catton Park in Derbyshire in Großbritannien zurück, wo das BLOODSTOCK vom 8. bis zum 11. August 2024 wieder Headbanger aus aller Welt und 120 Bands zu einem unvergesslichen viertägigen Festival-Erlebnis begrüßen wird. Fans können sich auf Headliner wie Amon Amarth, Architects und Opeth freuen, auf Hatebreed, Korpiklaani, Malevolence, Satyricon, Deicide, Whitechapel, Enslaved und viele mehr – oder Fahrgeschäfte, Wikingerschlachten, die Gaming-Arena, eine Heavy-Metal-Kunstgalerie, das Autogrammzelt oder eine große Auswahl an Getränken auf dem Festivalgelände besuchen und genießen.
Aber es gibt noch einen weiteren Grund, warum 2024 ein ganz besonderes Jahr auf dem BLOODSTOCK sein wird: In Absprache mit dem offiziellen Management von Motörhead hat BLOODSTOCK bekannt gegeben, dass der legendäre verstorbene, großartige Lemmy Kilmister auf dem Heavy-Metal-Festival ein dauerhaftes Denkmal erhalten wird. Ein Teil von Lemmys Asche wird auf dem BLOODSTOCK – als einem von nur wenigen Orten weltweit – in einer einzigartigen Urne aufbewahrt werden. Das Festival hat dazu eigens eine Büste erstellen lassen, welche die Urne mit der Asche aufnehmen wird. Fans können diese Installation besichtigen und Lemmy und seinem Vermächtnis im Rock And Metal Museum vor Ort Tribut zollen. Nach dem Festival wird die Lemmy-Büste in die ROCK CITY in Nottingham überführt, wo Fans Zugang zu der Asche haben werden, die jedes Jahr erneut ihren angestammten Platz auf dem geheiligten Boden von BLOODSTOCK im Catton Park einnehmen wird. Die entsprechende Zeremonie findet offiziell am Freitag, 9. August, auf dem BLOODSTOCK statt. Die Gedenkfeier ist Teil eines übergeordneten Themas für das diesjährige Festival, um dieses besondere Ereignis zu zelebrieren und das bemerkenswerte Vermächtnis von Lemmy und Motörhead zu feiern. In gewisser Weise wird der Geist von Lemmy Kilmister damit über die Fans bei BLOODSTOCK wachen – in diesem Jahr und für immer!
– Die RAM-Galerie vor Ort wird dieses Jahr vergrößert, um ein erweitertes Motörhead-Thema unterzubringen, einschließlich einer ganzen Wand mit Motörhead-Kunstwerken sowie Erinnerungsstücken aus dem Archiv, und Fans können sogar die Zeit zurückdrehen, indem sie eine Nachbildung von Lemmys Tour-Umkleide besuchen.
– In diesem Jahr werden die BLOODSTOCK-Besucher den Motörhead-Bomber in der Arena sehen. Und sie werden Zeugen sein, wie verschiedene Bands der Legende Tribut zollen, indem sie Motörhead-Songs in ihre Live-Auftritte einbauen. Und: Zur Eröffnung und zum Abschluss des Festivals wird die berühmte Motörhead- Air Raid Siren (“Luftschutzsirene”) ertönen.
– BLOODSTOCK wird in diesem Jahr auch Phil Campbell von Motörhead auf dem Festival begrüßen und freut sich sehr über seine Teilnahme an diesen besonderen Feierlichkeiten.
Weitere Motörhead-Specials sind noch in Arbeit, also dran bleiben und nichts von den noch folgenden spannenden Entwicklungen verpassen!
Motörheads Manager Todd Singerman erklärt:
"BLOODSTOCK war schon immer ein besonderer Ort für Motörhead und für Lemmy. Die Leute und die Energie passten perfekt zu Lemmys Werten. Alan und Vicky waren auch gute Freunde und im Grunde genommen Familie für Lemmy, da er der Grund war, warum sie ursprünglich zusammenkamen. Dies ist definitiv eine passende Ehrung in der fortlaufenden Serie von Beisetzungen von Lemmys Asche an den von ihm am meisten geliebten Orten." BLOODSTOCKs Vicky Hungerford fügt hinzu: "Wir fühlen uns geehrt, dass das Management von Motörhead an uns herangetreten ist, um Lemmys Asche auf dem BLOODSTOCK zu haben. Lemmy hat einen ganz besonderen Platz in den Herzen von uns allen, aber für mich und meinen Mann war er der Grund, warum wir uns kennen- und lieben gelernt haben. Nichts wird uns und der BLOODSTOCK-Familie mehr bedeuten, als sein Vermächtnis zu ehren und Lemmy für immer bei uns auf dem BLOODSTOCK zu haben."
Zur Vorbereitung am besten gleich reinhören in den PODCAST mit VICKY HUNGERFORD (BLOODSTOCK) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qlY8We3BQ7JNQ6KFU7eCe
… und schnell die letzten Tickets sichern, bevor es zu spät ist: https://www.bloodstock.uk.com/
Genre: Black Metal
Label: AOP Records
VÖ: 20.09.2024
German Black Metal band Servant has been celebrating their melodic yet furious Black Metal across the underground and beyond since 2021.
Their two well reviewed full length albums 'Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars' and 'Aetas Ascensus' shook ground within the metal scene.
Now the band is going to release their 3rd output 'Death Devil Magick' via AOP Records on 20th September 2024 .
Death Devil Magick was written record, mixed and mastered between October 23 and may 24.
Without lacking on their musical trademarks, Servant continues to evolve on their new record.
Melodic guitars combine with furious drums, powerful basslines go with keys and mighty grooves.
On Death Devil Magick the vocals are more clear than on the previous two albums, to give the words the required power in meaning.
All this is put in a powerful soundshape which is aggressive, yet very dynamic and tidied up.
The lyrical topics are inspired by poets and philosophers like Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also paintings by Franz von Stuck from the era of symbolism for example, can be mentioned here.
The lyrics discuss conflicts of emotions, beliefs, addiction and depths of human nature.
Death Devil Magick invites the the listener to step into the gallery of nine microcosms and witness lust, despair, magick and ecstasy.
Moreover Servant is going to play Europe within Scherbentour 2024 together with Ellende & GROZA to spread Magick, Lust and ecstasy.
Servant is:
Farago: Guitars/Vocals
Samael: Guitars
Thanatos: Bass
Apophis: Drums
Coverartwork by Misanthropic Art
SCHERBEN TOUR
ELLENDE
GROZA
SERVANT
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/scherbentour2024
02/10/2024 Backstage München DE
03/10/2024 Turock Essen DE
04/10/2024 Kronensaal Hamburg DE
05/10/2024 Badehaus Berlin DE
06/10/2024 Stengade Copenhagen DK
07/10/2024 Willemeen Arnhem NL
08/10/2024 The Black Lab Wasquehal FR
09/10/2024 Glazart Paris FR
10/10/2024 Musigburg Aarburg CH
11/10/2024 Arcanum Fest Bologna IT
12/10/2024 Vienna Metal Meeting Vienna AT
13/10/2024 Orto Bar Ljubljana SI
14/10/2024 Mocvara Zagreb HR
15/10/2024 Zappa Baza Belgrade SR
16/10/2024 A38 Budapest HU
17/10/2024 Barrak Ostrava CZ
18/10/2024 Blauer Salon Dresden DE
19/10/2024 2Progi Poznan PL
20/10/2024 Kamienna12 Krakow PL
https://www.facebook.com/ServantMagick
WURM FLESH – “ TERATOGENIC MALFORMATION “ ( EP )
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: july 26th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Suffocation| Beheaded | Devangelic | Incinerate
There is something wrong…something terribly, terribly wrong. I can feel it as it claws against the walls of soft flesh that enclose it. I sense it in the sudden, frantic movements as it thrashes in mounting fury. I see it when my skin stretches as the malformed limbs press against its prison, my body. The fear that thunders through my veins is feeding it. No matter what they tell me, no matter how many lying images they hold before my disbelieving gaze, I know this thing is no longer my baby, my child…it is an enemy within, consuming me, drinking my spirit and my sanity, gathering the strength to tear me wide open…
After several years of silence, Wurm Flesh have violently resurfaced from the contaminated soils of Sacramento with a new line-up and an all-new three track EP - Teratogenic Malformation. The new line-up sees original members vocalist/guitarist Rob Calhoun and drummer Mitch Bauder, joined by Bo Rogers on bass and Joe Salazar on guitar and backing vocals. Together this quartet of formidable musicians has brought an inevitable and punishing evolution to the band. Building upon the warped foundations of decimating debut album, Excoriating Evisceration, Wurm Flesh are now pushing even further into the outer limits of madness and brutality.
Teratogenic Malformation begins with the formidable drums and wild riffs of its title track, the guitars skittering across the surface of sanity and plunging envenomed fangs through muscle and bone, vein and tendon. It’s a dizzying assault of bewildering ferocity, with Calhoun’s vocals plumbing utterly inhuman depths. ‘Defenestration’ follows with barely a pause for a ragged, panicked breath, exploding in a cascade of gore, a whirlwind of intensity. Technical dexterity is perfectly welded to absolute savagery and unfathomable heaviness as the coils of this beast unwind. Brilliant drumming and addictive riffs deliver an astonishing payload, battering the pleasure centres of the brain like machinegun fire. And the killer riffs just keep coming - every one a glorious, malevolent monster - as Teratogenic Malformation tears towards its bloody conclusion with ‘Viral Consumption’. If this triptych of screaming terror is an indication of what Wurm Flesh plan to unleash with their second full length album in 2025, then hell, horror and supreme death metal art await!
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Mayhemness Studios in Sacramento (Rings Of Saturn, Obliviated, Wastewalker etc), Teratogenic Malformation sounds fearsomely destructive – the sheer sonic power captured within the three tracks is astounding. With the package being completed by the disturbing artwork of Sean Walusko (Dire Peril, Zombie Death Stench etc) this EP is essential listening for not only Wurm Flesh fans, but all devotees of the most brutal forms of death metal. Wurm Flesh are back and Teratogenic Malformation is coming your way on July 26th via Comatose Music – don’t say you ain’t been warned!
Line-up:
Rob Calhoun - Vocals/Guitars
Bo Rogers - Bass
Joe Salazar – Guitars/Backing Vocals
Mitch Bauder - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/WurmFleshOfficial/
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
MAMMOTH
CARAVAN bassist/vocalist comments on the song, “'Tusks of Orion' is meant,
in the grand scheme of the album's story, to serve as a war anthem from a
bloodthirsty mammoth king hell-bent on conquering all life in the galaxy.
Musically the song was inspired by bands like Dillinger Escape Plan, Zao, and
Mastodon and we think that it perfectly encapsulates what we are going for with
the new album in terms of intensity, and its violent story.”
Guitarist/vocalist Robert Warner shares insight on the video for "Tusks of Orion," “When writing 'Tusks of Orion,' we knew from the first time we practiced it together that this not only would be our first single but the ideal candidate for a music video showcasing our new lineup. Working with Andrew Bacon on this video was a no-brainer. Even though he has a lot of experience making music videos, he has never dabbled in the heavy metal world. To see our world through the lens of someone who is not a metal fan made this experience more original and organic.”
The exclusive world premiere for "Tusks of Orion" comes via Invisible Oranges. Stream it now at www.invisibleoranges.com/mammoth-caravan-tusks-of-orion
Frostbitten Galaxy will be out on October 4 on Blade Setter Records. Preorder now at https://bladesetterrecords.bigcartel.com/
With a revamped lineup, a retooled sound, and a violent tale of mammoths in space, the band’s next offering promises to be their heaviest and most diverse material yet.
Tracklist:
1. Absolute Zero
2. Cosmic Clairvoyance
3. Tusks Of Orion
4. Siege In The Stars
5. Prehistoric Spacefarer
6. Sky Burial
Frostbitten Galaxy was recorded and mixed at Wolfman Studios by Jason Tedford, and mastered by Justin Weis at Traxworx. Album art by Tony Koehl
MAMMOTH CARAVAN released their full-length debut Ice Cold Oblivion in February 2023, followed by the single "I, Megafauna" in August. Listen on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Line-Up:
Brandon Ringo - Vocals/Bass
Robert Warner - Vocals/Guitar/Synth
Khetner Howton - Drums
All scream singing by Brandon Ringo. All clean singing by Robert Warner
https://www.facebook.com/MammothCaravan
For fans of : Napalm Death, Terrorizer, early Fear Factory, Obituary, Slayer and Voivod.
CrusHuman returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions to unleash their debut full-length release CRUSHUMAN! Formed out of the ashes of Snipers Of Babel, Washington DC's CrusHuman performs an extreme concoction of Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore, and Punk, setting the stage for a near future post-apocalyptic world we are headed into. CrusHuman is a narrative of the human race and all of its atrocities. From the dark ages, till now, nothing has changed, and nothing ever will... it will just continue to spiral out of control until we are left in a world of complete chaos!
Tracklisting:
1. The Prophet
2. Galvanized
3. Code Grey
4. Champions Of Ruin
5. Jill The Ripper
6. Syko
7. Slock
8. Assassins Special
9. Lose Face
10. Death Is Watching
11. There Was Blood Everywhere
12. Cradle Of Judas
13. Hatchet Team
14. A Schizophrenics Nightmare
15. Genesis Theory
16. Crossed Out
17. Deep End
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
VENTED, the international
supergroup comprising the formidable talents of Sean Zatorsky
(Daath/Sinsaenum/ex-Chimaira), Austin D’Amond (Chimaira/Bleed The
Sky/ex-DevilDriver), and Gergo Hajer (Omega Diatribe), proudly presents
their full-length album, "CRUELTY AND CORRUPTION." Vented's
debut is a wild ride through the realms of groove metal, serving up sonic
aggression, soulful melodies, intense vocals, and killer drumming.
The album's production, helmed by the acclaimed HK Krauss (Dagoba, Sinsaenum, Betraying the Martyrs) at Vamacara Studios in France, showcases a raw and sonically brutal mix that demands to be heard loud and aggressive. "Cruelty and Corruption" is not just music; it's an immersive experience that will make your head bang and resonate deep within your soul.
In a tragic turn of events, the original drummer, the mighty Joey Jordison (ex-Slipknot/Vimic/Sinsaenum), who commenced work on the album with the band in 2021, passed away. In a testament to legacy and dedication, Austin D’Amond took up the drumming mantle to honor Joey Jordison's memory and contribute to the completion of the album.
Tracklist:
01. I Am Death
02. Flawless
03. The End Game
04. My Desire
05. Vitriolic
06. Requiem For Myself
07. Withered
08. A New Trend
09. The Darkness
10. Vigil
11. In Question
12. Self Destruct
13. Zero
14. Final Hour (DIGIPAK bonus track)
“Cruelty and Corruption" is available for streaming on Spotify, while physical copies can be obtained on CD/Vinyl through Metal.hu Records, distributed by Season of Mist.
https://ventedmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ventedmusic
Label: Independent Release
Release date: july 6th 2024
Genre: Extreme Metal
For fans of: Inter Arma | Dragged Into Sunlight | Convulse | Abstracter
The race is nearly over; our wild-eyed, frantic sprint towards oblivion. With barely a backward glance at the ravaged paradise that sheltered us, or compassionate thought for the innocent in their billions, trampled beneath our feet. Gripped by an innate madness which has fed upon our base desires, like a parasitical tape-worm of the soul, we sprint faster, out-running the desperate clutches of hope, until we burst through the finishing tape and plummet into the void. Finally, there is nothing left to kill and all that will burn is already on fire…
Forged with passion, grit and determination, All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire is the debut album from Sheffield’s Terminal Sun – an overpowering, all consuming vision of the end. ‘Catastrophic Error’ beckons us forward into the darkness with newsreel reports of the Chernobyl disaster and an underlying sense of foreboding and menace, a growing unease that then detonates, reforming itself into the thick, muscular riffs of ‘AZ5’ - a mechanistic march with a seething, scalding core of organic matter; man and machine in imperfect, broken dissonance. The passages of fierce and fiery energy, the staggering, lurching, unnatural riffs and the shocking solos that dance across their armour plated surfaces are immediately impressive, towering presences…but All That Will Burn… has many different elements, unsuspected angles and hidden hollows of dreaming quicksand. This darkness is deeper than you think. These surprising shadows are not only found in the obvious alternatives of the lonely melodies of ‘Macready’s Last Stand’ or the haunting atmospheres of ‘The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water Pt.1’; they also lurk within the morose mutations of ‘Metamorph’ and in the tribal hymn to an incinerated past and non-existent future that eats at the heart of ‘All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire’. Indeed, every passage in this tale of waste and error possesses more than you might first imagine – all concluding in the staggering, epic collision of death, doom and black metals that is ‘The Space Between Two Deaths’ – a magnificent summation of this final journey into the night.
Adorned in the dramatic photography of Jakob Vegerfors, All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire will be released on July 6th, bringing a new, enthralling shade of blackness to the extreme metal world – fusing sub-genres to construct a monstrous monolith to mankind’s folly. Building upon the fetid foundations laid down by preceding EPs, Threads and Metamorph, this powerful and prophetic album heralds the unremitting darkness that once fallen will never end. Prepare to stare into the dying light of the Terminal Sun.
Line-up:
Simon Lee - Vocals
Kevin Johnson - Bass
Gary Spooner - Guitar
Adam Walker - Guitar
Daryl Bishop - Drums
https://www.terminalsun.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/terminalsunindustries
The
Finnish death/thrash metal band GATES OPEN is set to release new EP
'BLACK CLOUDS OVER THE WORLD' on October 4th 2024 via Inverse Records.
The first single 'NIghtmares Coming True is released today and lyric video is available here: https://youtu.be/SX2vkPowiZA
The band comments:
"In shadows deep, where darkness resides. Nightmares awaken, creeping in my mind.
Nightmares coming true. Drowning in this darkness, where dreams are allowed.
In this twilight realm, where the dreams distort. Forever haunted, as these nightmares come true. We all have our own nightmares and fears and it would be everyone's worst nightmare if they all came true."
Listen Nightmares Coming True single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/gates-open-nightmares
Biography:
Gates Open is a Finnish blackened death/thrash metal band. Gates Open is a band founded in early 2023 by two men, the band includes Jere Neejärvi, in the role of guitarist/composer, and Tommi Manninen as singer.
The members' united history began already in 2007 during the previous band's time. Our band moved to the distribution of the Inverse Records label in June 2023. The first official single "The Awakening" under Inverse Records was released in June 2023. The second official single "Let The Night Become Your Guide" was released in October 2023. Our third single, by the band name "Gates Open" was released in December 2023. Our full-length debut album "Voice After Silence" was released on February 9th 2024 via Inverse Records.
New Black Clouds Over The World is set to be released on October 4th 2024 via Inverse Records.
Gates Open - Black Clouds Over The World (EP 2024)
Track list:
1. Nightmares Coming True
2. Black Clouds Over The World
3. Poison Nurse
4. Gates Of North
5. Preys And Predators
6. Gates Of Rock
Artwork by Gates Open
Line-up:
Tommi Manninen - Vocals
Jere Neejärvi - Guitars, Bass, Drums
https://www.facebook.com/gatesopenband
Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88UzzXUlsu4
Dark Descent Records will release Atropos Doctrina on July 12.
Order the album at: www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
Stream previous VANHELGD releases on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:
1. Saliga äro de dödfödda
2. Kom dödens tysta ängel
3. Ofredsår
4. I ovigd jord
5. Atropos Hymnarium
6. Galgdanstid
7. Kerernas törst
8. Gravjordsfrid
Atropos Doctrina was recorded under the watchful eye of Marduk’s Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Norrköping’s Endarker Studios, and the odds are you won’t hear a heavier production for a good wee while. Backed by ice-cold performances and precision from the band, Atropos Doctrina might just be the biggest sounding album of 2024 to date!
Despite its Latin title, all lyrics on the record are in the band’s mother tongue, marking an end to their Anglo-Swedish lyrical approach.
An indifference to trends and scene sentiments persists as Vanhelgd’s trump card. And after 17 years the band remains just as uncompromising as ever, honing their unique blend of atmospheric death and black metal to perfection.
Atropos Doctrina was recorded, mixed, and mastered in Endarker Studios by Magnus "Devo" Andersson. Cover art by Mattias Frisk.
VANHELGD is:
Jonas Albrektsson - Bass
Mattias Frisk - Guitar and vocals
Jimmy Johansson - Guitar and vocals
Mathias Westman - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/vanhelgd
The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Monolith Studios in London, and has cover art created by Leoncio Harmr. The record’s mix of a variety of styles, including black, sludge, thrash, and death metal, draws inspiration from acts such as Gojira, Conjurer, Sylosis, and Regarde Les Hommes Tomber. The album’s concept is inspired by Greek mythology and depicts a tale of the titan Prometheus returning to humanity after his release from eternal torment. Stepping forth into the rising waves, he beholds the destruction Man has wrought onto the world; his gift squandered, his flame this time brings wrath and vengeance. His new mission: conquer and destroy.
The
album is available on all digital platforms: https://orcd.co/seatofthefire
Forming in 2017, Vulgaris has been blazing a trail through the London underground metal scene with their fierce fusion of black, sludge, thrash, and other extreme metal styles. With one EP and a debut album, 2021's Asundre, under their belt, they are poised to unleash sophomore record Seat Of The Fire unto the world, with a release date of 24 May 2024.
Since finalizing their current 4-person line-up in 2019, the band has been refining their sound while sharing stages with the likes of Conjurer, Beyond Grace, and London circuit heavyweights such as Allfather, Tableau Mort, and Imperium.
Their 2023, during which they recorded their upcoming second album, culminated in an appearance in the Metal 2 The Masses London Grand Final. After this achievement, Vulgaris is primed to ascend to the next level in 2024.
The band draws upon an array of musical influences, including but by no means restricted to the likes of Enslaved, Gojira, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Sylosis, Conjurer, and Dragged Into Sunlight.
Vulgaris is:
George Mitchell - drums
Jess O'Toole - guitars
Jon Michael - guitars, vocals
Matt Cooper - bass, vocals
www.facebook.com/VBANDUK
Noch einen Monat, dann kehren Metalheads in den Catton Park in Derbyshire in Großbritannien zurück, wo das BLOODSTOCK vom 8. bis zum 11. August 2024 wieder Headbanger aus aller Welt und 120 Bands zu einem unvergesslichen viertägigen Festival-Erlebnis begrüßen wird. Fans können sich auf Headliner wie Amon Amarth, Architects und Opeth freuen, auf Hatebreed, Korpiklaani, Malevolence, Satyricon, Deicide, Whitechapel, Enslaved und viele mehr – oder Fahrgeschäfte, Wikingerschlachten, die Gaming-Arena, eine Heavy-Metal-Kunstgalerie, das Autogrammzelt oder eine große Auswahl an Getränken auf dem Festivalgelände besuchen und genießen.
Aber es gibt noch einen weiteren Grund, warum 2024 ein ganz besonderes Jahr auf dem BLOODSTOCK sein wird: In Absprache mit dem offiziellen Management von Motörhead hat BLOODSTOCK bekannt gegeben, dass der legendäre verstorbene, großartige Lemmy Kilmister auf dem Heavy-Metal-Festival ein dauerhaftes Denkmal erhalten wird. Ein Teil von Lemmys Asche wird auf dem BLOODSTOCK – als einem von nur wenigen Orten weltweit – in einer einzigartigen Urne aufbewahrt werden. Das Festival hat dazu eigens eine Büste erstellen lassen, welche die Urne mit der Asche aufnehmen wird. Fans können diese Installation besichtigen und Lemmy und seinem Vermächtnis im Rock And Metal Museum vor Ort Tribut zollen. Nach dem Festival wird die Lemmy-Büste in die ROCK CITY in Nottingham überführt, wo Fans Zugang zu der Asche haben werden, die jedes Jahr erneut ihren angestammten Platz auf dem geheiligten Boden von BLOODSTOCK im Catton Park einnehmen wird. Die entsprechende Zeremonie findet offiziell am Freitag, 9. August, auf dem BLOODSTOCK statt. Die Gedenkfeier ist Teil eines übergeordneten Themas für das diesjährige Festival, um dieses besondere Ereignis zu zelebrieren und das bemerkenswerte Vermächtnis von Lemmy und Motörhead zu feiern. In gewisser Weise wird der Geist von Lemmy Kilmister damit über die Fans bei BLOODSTOCK wachen – in diesem Jahr und für immer!
– Die RAM-Galerie vor Ort wird dieses Jahr vergrößert, um ein erweitertes Motörhead-Thema unterzubringen, einschließlich einer ganzen Wand mit Motörhead-Kunstwerken sowie Erinnerungsstücken aus dem Archiv, und Fans können sogar die Zeit zurückdrehen, indem sie eine Nachbildung von Lemmys Tour-Umkleide besuchen.
– In diesem Jahr werden die BLOODSTOCK-Besucher den Motörhead-Bomber in der Arena sehen. Und sie werden Zeugen sein, wie verschiedene Bands der Legende Tribut zollen, indem sie Motörhead-Songs in ihre Live-Auftritte einbauen. Und: Zur Eröffnung und zum Abschluss des Festivals wird die berühmte Motörhead- Air Raid Siren (“Luftschutzsirene”) ertönen.
– BLOODSTOCK wird in diesem Jahr auch Phil Campbell von Motörhead auf dem Festival begrüßen und freut sich sehr über seine Teilnahme an diesen besonderen Feierlichkeiten.
Weitere Motörhead-Specials sind noch in Arbeit, also dran bleiben und nichts von den noch folgenden spannenden Entwicklungen verpassen!
Motörheads Manager Todd Singerman erklärt:
"BLOODSTOCK war schon immer ein besonderer Ort für Motörhead und für Lemmy. Die Leute und die Energie passten perfekt zu Lemmys Werten. Alan und Vicky waren auch gute Freunde und im Grunde genommen Familie für Lemmy, da er der Grund war, warum sie ursprünglich zusammenkamen. Dies ist definitiv eine passende Ehrung in der fortlaufenden Serie von Beisetzungen von Lemmys Asche an den von ihm am meisten geliebten Orten." BLOODSTOCKs Vicky Hungerford fügt hinzu: "Wir fühlen uns geehrt, dass das Management von Motörhead an uns herangetreten ist, um Lemmys Asche auf dem BLOODSTOCK zu haben. Lemmy hat einen ganz besonderen Platz in den Herzen von uns allen, aber für mich und meinen Mann war er der Grund, warum wir uns kennen- und lieben gelernt haben. Nichts wird uns und der BLOODSTOCK-Familie mehr bedeuten, als sein Vermächtnis zu ehren und Lemmy für immer bei uns auf dem BLOODSTOCK zu haben."
Zur Vorbereitung am besten gleich reinhören in den PODCAST mit VICKY HUNGERFORD (BLOODSTOCK) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qlY8We3BQ7JNQ6KFU7eCe
… und schnell die letzten Tickets sichern, bevor es zu spät ist: https://www.bloodstock.uk.com/
Genre: Black MetalLabel: AOP Records
VÖ: 20.09.2024
German Black Metal band Servant has been celebrating their melodic yet furious Black Metal across the underground and beyond since 2021.
Their two well reviewed full length albums 'Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars' and 'Aetas Ascensus' shook ground within the metal scene.
Now the band is going to release their 3rd output 'Death Devil Magick' via AOP Records on 20th September 2024 .
Death Devil Magick was written record, mixed and mastered between October 23 and may 24.
Without lacking on their musical trademarks, Servant continues to evolve on their new record.
Melodic guitars combine with furious drums, powerful basslines go with keys and mighty grooves.
On Death Devil Magick the vocals are more clear than on the previous two albums, to give the words the required power in meaning.
All this is put in a powerful soundshape which is aggressive, yet very dynamic and tidied up.
The lyrical topics are inspired by poets and philosophers like Charles Baudelaire and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also paintings by Franz von Stuck from the era of symbolism for example, can be mentioned here.
The lyrics discuss conflicts of emotions, beliefs, addiction and depths of human nature.
Death Devil Magick invites the the listener to step into the gallery of nine microcosms and witness lust, despair, magick and ecstasy.
Moreover Servant is going to play Europe within Scherbentour 2024 together with Ellende & GROZA to spread Magick, Lust and ecstasy.
Servant is:
Farago: Guitars/Vocals
Samael: Guitars
Thanatos: Bass
Apophis: Drums
Coverartwork by Misanthropic Art
SCHERBEN TOUR
ELLENDE
GROZA
SERVANT
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/scherbentour2024
02/10/2024 Backstage München DE
03/10/2024 Turock Essen DE
04/10/2024 Kronensaal Hamburg DE
05/10/2024 Badehaus Berlin DE
06/10/2024 Stengade Copenhagen DK
07/10/2024 Willemeen Arnhem NL
08/10/2024 The Black Lab Wasquehal FR
09/10/2024 Glazart Paris FR
10/10/2024 Musigburg Aarburg CH
11/10/2024 Arcanum Fest Bologna IT
12/10/2024 Vienna Metal Meeting Vienna AT
13/10/2024 Orto Bar Ljubljana SI
14/10/2024 Mocvara Zagreb HR
15/10/2024 Zappa Baza Belgrade SR
16/10/2024 A38 Budapest HU
17/10/2024 Barrak Ostrava CZ
18/10/2024 Blauer Salon Dresden DE
19/10/2024 2Progi Poznan PL
20/10/2024 Kamienna12 Krakow PL
https://www.facebook.com/ServantMagick
WURM FLESH – “ TERATOGENIC MALFORMATION “ ( EP )
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: july 26th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Suffocation| Beheaded | Devangelic | Incinerate
There is something wrong…something terribly, terribly wrong. I can feel it as it claws against the walls of soft flesh that enclose it. I sense it in the sudden, frantic movements as it thrashes in mounting fury. I see it when my skin stretches as the malformed limbs press against its prison, my body. The fear that thunders through my veins is feeding it. No matter what they tell me, no matter how many lying images they hold before my disbelieving gaze, I know this thing is no longer my baby, my child…it is an enemy within, consuming me, drinking my spirit and my sanity, gathering the strength to tear me wide open…
After several years of silence, Wurm Flesh have violently resurfaced from the contaminated soils of Sacramento with a new line-up and an all-new three track EP - Teratogenic Malformation. The new line-up sees original members vocalist/guitarist Rob Calhoun and drummer Mitch Bauder, joined by Bo Rogers on bass and Joe Salazar on guitar and backing vocals. Together this quartet of formidable musicians has brought an inevitable and punishing evolution to the band. Building upon the warped foundations of decimating debut album, Excoriating Evisceration, Wurm Flesh are now pushing even further into the outer limits of madness and brutality.
Teratogenic Malformation begins with the formidable drums and wild riffs of its title track, the guitars skittering across the surface of sanity and plunging envenomed fangs through muscle and bone, vein and tendon. It’s a dizzying assault of bewildering ferocity, with Calhoun’s vocals plumbing utterly inhuman depths. ‘Defenestration’ follows with barely a pause for a ragged, panicked breath, exploding in a cascade of gore, a whirlwind of intensity. Technical dexterity is perfectly welded to absolute savagery and unfathomable heaviness as the coils of this beast unwind. Brilliant drumming and addictive riffs deliver an astonishing payload, battering the pleasure centres of the brain like machinegun fire. And the killer riffs just keep coming - every one a glorious, malevolent monster - as Teratogenic Malformation tears towards its bloody conclusion with ‘Viral Consumption’. If this triptych of screaming terror is an indication of what Wurm Flesh plan to unleash with their second full length album in 2025, then hell, horror and supreme death metal art await!
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Mayhemness Studios in Sacramento (Rings Of Saturn, Obliviated, Wastewalker etc), Teratogenic Malformation sounds fearsomely destructive – the sheer sonic power captured within the three tracks is astounding. With the package being completed by the disturbing artwork of Sean Walusko (Dire Peril, Zombie Death Stench etc) this EP is essential listening for not only Wurm Flesh fans, but all devotees of the most brutal forms of death metal. Wurm Flesh are back and Teratogenic Malformation is coming your way on July 26th via Comatose Music – don’t say you ain’t been warned!
Line-up:
Rob Calhoun - Vocals/Guitars
Bo Rogers - Bass
Joe Salazar – Guitars/Backing Vocals
Mitch Bauder - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/WurmFleshOfficial/
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
MAMMOTH
CARAVAN bassist/vocalist comments on the song, “'Tusks of Orion' is meant,
in the grand scheme of the album's story, to serve as a war anthem from a
bloodthirsty mammoth king hell-bent on conquering all life in the galaxy.
Musically the song was inspired by bands like Dillinger Escape Plan, Zao, and
Mastodon and we think that it perfectly encapsulates what we are going for with
the new album in terms of intensity, and its violent story.”Guitarist/vocalist Robert Warner shares insight on the video for "Tusks of Orion," “When writing 'Tusks of Orion,' we knew from the first time we practiced it together that this not only would be our first single but the ideal candidate for a music video showcasing our new lineup. Working with Andrew Bacon on this video was a no-brainer. Even though he has a lot of experience making music videos, he has never dabbled in the heavy metal world. To see our world through the lens of someone who is not a metal fan made this experience more original and organic.”
The exclusive world premiere for "Tusks of Orion" comes via Invisible Oranges. Stream it now at www.invisibleoranges.com/mammoth-caravan-tusks-of-orion
Frostbitten Galaxy will be out on October 4 on Blade Setter Records. Preorder now at https://bladesetterrecords.bigcartel.com/
With a revamped lineup, a retooled sound, and a violent tale of mammoths in space, the band’s next offering promises to be their heaviest and most diverse material yet.
Tracklist:
1. Absolute Zero
2. Cosmic Clairvoyance
3. Tusks Of Orion
4. Siege In The Stars
5. Prehistoric Spacefarer
6. Sky Burial
Frostbitten Galaxy was recorded and mixed at Wolfman Studios by Jason Tedford, and mastered by Justin Weis at Traxworx. Album art by Tony Koehl
MAMMOTH CARAVAN released their full-length debut Ice Cold Oblivion in February 2023, followed by the single "I, Megafauna" in August. Listen on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Line-Up:
Brandon Ringo - Vocals/Bass
Robert Warner - Vocals/Guitar/Synth
Khetner Howton - Drums
All scream singing by Brandon Ringo. All clean singing by Robert Warner
https://www.facebook.com/MammothCaravan
For fans of : Napalm Death, Terrorizer, early Fear Factory, Obituary, Slayer and Voivod.
CrusHuman returns to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions to unleash their debut full-length release CRUSHUMAN! Formed out of the ashes of Snipers Of Babel, Washington DC's CrusHuman performs an extreme concoction of Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore, and Punk, setting the stage for a near future post-apocalyptic world we are headed into. CrusHuman is a narrative of the human race and all of its atrocities. From the dark ages, till now, nothing has changed, and nothing ever will... it will just continue to spiral out of control until we are left in a world of complete chaos!
Tracklisting:1. The Prophet
2. Galvanized
3. Code Grey
4. Champions Of Ruin
5. Jill The Ripper
6. Syko
7. Slock
8. Assassins Special
9. Lose Face
10. Death Is Watching
11. There Was Blood Everywhere
12. Cradle Of Judas
13. Hatchet Team
14. A Schizophrenics Nightmare
15. Genesis Theory
16. Crossed Out
17. Deep End
www.facebook.com/horrorpaingoredeath
VENTED, the international
supergroup comprising the formidable talents of Sean Zatorsky
(Daath/Sinsaenum/ex-Chimaira), Austin D’Amond (Chimaira/Bleed The
Sky/ex-DevilDriver), and Gergo Hajer (Omega Diatribe), proudly presents
their full-length album, "CRUELTY AND CORRUPTION." Vented's
debut is a wild ride through the realms of groove metal, serving up sonic
aggression, soulful melodies, intense vocals, and killer drumming.The album's production, helmed by the acclaimed HK Krauss (Dagoba, Sinsaenum, Betraying the Martyrs) at Vamacara Studios in France, showcases a raw and sonically brutal mix that demands to be heard loud and aggressive. "Cruelty and Corruption" is not just music; it's an immersive experience that will make your head bang and resonate deep within your soul.
In a tragic turn of events, the original drummer, the mighty Joey Jordison (ex-Slipknot/Vimic/Sinsaenum), who commenced work on the album with the band in 2021, passed away. In a testament to legacy and dedication, Austin D’Amond took up the drumming mantle to honor Joey Jordison's memory and contribute to the completion of the album.
Tracklist:
01. I Am Death
02. Flawless
03. The End Game
04. My Desire
05. Vitriolic
06. Requiem For Myself
07. Withered
08. A New Trend
09. The Darkness
10. Vigil
11. In Question
12. Self Destruct
13. Zero
14. Final Hour (DIGIPAK bonus track)
“Cruelty and Corruption" is available for streaming on Spotify, while physical copies can be obtained on CD/Vinyl through Metal.hu Records, distributed by Season of Mist.
https://ventedmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ventedmusic
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: july 6th 2024
Genre: Extreme Metal
For fans of: Inter Arma | Dragged Into Sunlight | Convulse | Abstracter
The race is nearly over; our wild-eyed, frantic sprint towards oblivion. With barely a backward glance at the ravaged paradise that sheltered us, or compassionate thought for the innocent in their billions, trampled beneath our feet. Gripped by an innate madness which has fed upon our base desires, like a parasitical tape-worm of the soul, we sprint faster, out-running the desperate clutches of hope, until we burst through the finishing tape and plummet into the void. Finally, there is nothing left to kill and all that will burn is already on fire…
Forged with passion, grit and determination, All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire is the debut album from Sheffield’s Terminal Sun – an overpowering, all consuming vision of the end. ‘Catastrophic Error’ beckons us forward into the darkness with newsreel reports of the Chernobyl disaster and an underlying sense of foreboding and menace, a growing unease that then detonates, reforming itself into the thick, muscular riffs of ‘AZ5’ - a mechanistic march with a seething, scalding core of organic matter; man and machine in imperfect, broken dissonance. The passages of fierce and fiery energy, the staggering, lurching, unnatural riffs and the shocking solos that dance across their armour plated surfaces are immediately impressive, towering presences…but All That Will Burn… has many different elements, unsuspected angles and hidden hollows of dreaming quicksand. This darkness is deeper than you think. These surprising shadows are not only found in the obvious alternatives of the lonely melodies of ‘Macready’s Last Stand’ or the haunting atmospheres of ‘The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water Pt.1’; they also lurk within the morose mutations of ‘Metamorph’ and in the tribal hymn to an incinerated past and non-existent future that eats at the heart of ‘All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire’. Indeed, every passage in this tale of waste and error possesses more than you might first imagine – all concluding in the staggering, epic collision of death, doom and black metals that is ‘The Space Between Two Deaths’ – a magnificent summation of this final journey into the night.
Adorned in the dramatic photography of Jakob Vegerfors, All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire will be released on July 6th, bringing a new, enthralling shade of blackness to the extreme metal world – fusing sub-genres to construct a monstrous monolith to mankind’s folly. Building upon the fetid foundations laid down by preceding EPs, Threads and Metamorph, this powerful and prophetic album heralds the unremitting darkness that once fallen will never end. Prepare to stare into the dying light of the Terminal Sun.
Line-up:
Simon Lee - Vocals
Kevin Johnson - Bass
Gary Spooner - Guitar
Adam Walker - Guitar
Daryl Bishop - Drums
https://www.terminalsun.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/terminalsunindustries
The
Finnish death/thrash metal band GATES OPEN is set to release new EP
'BLACK CLOUDS OVER THE WORLD' on October 4th 2024 via Inverse Records. The first single 'NIghtmares Coming True is released today and lyric video is available here: https://youtu.be/SX2vkPowiZA
The band comments:
"In shadows deep, where darkness resides. Nightmares awaken, creeping in my mind.
Nightmares coming true. Drowning in this darkness, where dreams are allowed.
In this twilight realm, where the dreams distort. Forever haunted, as these nightmares come true. We all have our own nightmares and fears and it would be everyone's worst nightmare if they all came true."
Listen Nightmares Coming True single on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/gates-open-nightmares
Biography:
Gates Open is a Finnish blackened death/thrash metal band. Gates Open is a band founded in early 2023 by two men, the band includes Jere Neejärvi, in the role of guitarist/composer, and Tommi Manninen as singer.
The members' united history began already in 2007 during the previous band's time. Our band moved to the distribution of the Inverse Records label in June 2023. The first official single "The Awakening" under Inverse Records was released in June 2023. The second official single "Let The Night Become Your Guide" was released in October 2023. Our third single, by the band name "Gates Open" was released in December 2023. Our full-length debut album "Voice After Silence" was released on February 9th 2024 via Inverse Records.
New Black Clouds Over The World is set to be released on October 4th 2024 via Inverse Records.
Gates Open - Black Clouds Over The World (EP 2024)
Track list:
1. Nightmares Coming True
2. Black Clouds Over The World
3. Poison Nurse
4. Gates Of North
5. Preys And Predators
6. Gates Of Rock
Artwork by Gates Open
Line-up:
Tommi Manninen - Vocals
Jere Neejärvi - Guitars, Bass, Drums
https://www.facebook.com/gatesopenband
Listen now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88UzzXUlsu4
Dark Descent Records will release Atropos Doctrina on July 12.
Order the album at: www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
Stream previous VANHELGD releases on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:1. Saliga äro de dödfödda
2. Kom dödens tysta ängel
3. Ofredsår
4. I ovigd jord
5. Atropos Hymnarium
6. Galgdanstid
7. Kerernas törst
8. Gravjordsfrid
Atropos Doctrina was recorded under the watchful eye of Marduk’s Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Norrköping’s Endarker Studios, and the odds are you won’t hear a heavier production for a good wee while. Backed by ice-cold performances and precision from the band, Atropos Doctrina might just be the biggest sounding album of 2024 to date!
Despite its Latin title, all lyrics on the record are in the band’s mother tongue, marking an end to their Anglo-Swedish lyrical approach.
An indifference to trends and scene sentiments persists as Vanhelgd’s trump card. And after 17 years the band remains just as uncompromising as ever, honing their unique blend of atmospheric death and black metal to perfection.
Atropos Doctrina was recorded, mixed, and mastered in Endarker Studios by Magnus "Devo" Andersson. Cover art by Mattias Frisk.
VANHELGD is:
Jonas Albrektsson - Bass
Mattias Frisk - Guitar and vocals
Jimmy Johansson - Guitar and vocals
Mathias Westman - Drums
www.darkdescentrecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/vanhelgd
The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Monolith Studios in London, and has cover art created by Leoncio Harmr. The record’s mix of a variety of styles, including black, sludge, thrash, and death metal, draws inspiration from acts such as Gojira, Conjurer, Sylosis, and Regarde Les Hommes Tomber. The album’s concept is inspired by Greek mythology and depicts a tale of the titan Prometheus returning to humanity after his release from eternal torment. Stepping forth into the rising waves, he beholds the destruction Man has wrought onto the world; his gift squandered, his flame this time brings wrath and vengeance. His new mission: conquer and destroy.
The
album is available on all digital platforms: https://orcd.co/seatofthefireForming in 2017, Vulgaris has been blazing a trail through the London underground metal scene with their fierce fusion of black, sludge, thrash, and other extreme metal styles. With one EP and a debut album, 2021's Asundre, under their belt, they are poised to unleash sophomore record Seat Of The Fire unto the world, with a release date of 24 May 2024.
Since finalizing their current 4-person line-up in 2019, the band has been refining their sound while sharing stages with the likes of Conjurer, Beyond Grace, and London circuit heavyweights such as Allfather, Tableau Mort, and Imperium.
Their 2023, during which they recorded their upcoming second album, culminated in an appearance in the Metal 2 The Masses London Grand Final. After this achievement, Vulgaris is primed to ascend to the next level in 2024.
The band draws upon an array of musical influences, including but by no means restricted to the likes of Enslaved, Gojira, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Sylosis, Conjurer, and Dragged Into Sunlight.
Vulgaris is:
George Mitchell - drums
Jess O'Toole - guitars
Jon Michael - guitars, vocals
Matt Cooper - bass, vocals
www.facebook.com/VBANDUK
NEWS 5.7.2024
Supreme Chaos Records veröffentlichen fünf Alben von NAPALM
DEATH neu!
Es war ein langer Weg, aber wir sind unfassbar Stolz, Euch diese Releases präsentieren zu dürfen. Nicht weniger als fünf Napalm Death Releases haben wir gerade im Presswerk. Dabei handelt es sich nicht um eine einfache Neupressung, sondern um komplett überarbeitete Releases.
Alle Releases wurden von Patrick W. Engel mit einem neuen, dynamischen Remastering versehen. Das Ergebnis wurde durch die Band geprüft. Und allein dieser Part hat sich schon gelohnt, denn die Alben klangen nie so auf den Punkt wie auf diesen Releases.
Das Artwork wurde aufgefrischt, teilweise mit wertigen Beilagen wie 4-seitigem Booklet, Postern und vieles mehr. Es gibt Vinyl und Tapes und unsere erste Liquid Filled Vinyl Release!
Die Alben kommen also hochwertig daher, so wir sie uns
auch selbst ins Regal stellen würden (und werden).
Preorder now: https://supremechaos.com/link/napalmdeath/
Hier noch ein paar Infos zu den Alben:
LEADERS NOT FOLLOWERS PART 2 (VINYL)
“Napalm Death Scour the underground with this all-out max distortion covers treatment“
Napalm Deaths "Leaders Not Followers: Part 2" ist eine rotzige Hommage an ihre eigenen Wurzeln, erstmals veröffentlicht 2004. Das Album ist der Nachfolger der 1999er EP "Leaders Not Followers" und enthält 19 Tracks, eine Ehrerbietung an Punk-, Hardcore- und Metal-Bands, die nicht nur den Sound Napalm Deaths, sondern auch die extreme Musiklandschaft generell geprägt haben.
Das Album zeigt die Vielseitigkeit von Napalm Death und ihren tiefen Respekt für die Geschichte des Genres, mit Covern von Bands wie Anti-Cimex, Discharge, Hellhammer, Kreator und Sepultura. Jedem Track wohnt die für Napalm Death typische Intensität inne und verwandelt die Originale in unerbittliche Grindcore-Hymnen. Songs wie "Hellnation" und "Troops of Doom" unterstreichen das Talent der Band, ihren brutalen Stil mit der Essenz der gecoverten Klassiker zu verbinden.
"Leaders Not Followers: Part 2" ist mehr als ein Cover-Album; es ist ein Fest roher, ungefilterter Energie extreme Musik. Für Fans von Napalm Death und der breiteren Metal- und Punk-Gemeinde ist dieses Album sowohl eine Verbeugung vor der Vergangenheit als auch ein Zeugnis für den anhaltenden Einfluss und den unnachgiebigen Geist Napalm Deaths.
THE CODE IS RED… LONG LIVE THE CODE (VINYL)
"The grind luminaries unmasking of global fear and paranoia through fast, unremitting audio-terror"
"The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code" von Napalm Death ist ein akustischer Sturm, der die rohe Intensität und das unnachgiebige Engagement der Band für den Grindcore widerspiegelt. Mit dem 2005 veröffentlichten Album vertonen die Grind-Koryphäen globale Angst und Paranoia durch schnellen, unerbittlichen Audio-Terror. Mit rasantem Tempo, harten Riffs und brutalem Gesang konfrontieren Napalm Death den Hörer mit Themen wie politischer Korruption, gesellschaftlichem Verfall und existenziellem Grauen.
Das Album enthält einige Gastauftritte, darunter Jello Biafra von den Dead Kennedys und Jamey Jasta von Hatebreed, die das Album bereichern. Tracks wie "Silence Is Deafening" und "Morale" sind Beispiele für das Talent der Band, unerbittliche Aggression mit nachdenklich stimmenden Texten zu verbinden. "The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code" ist nicht nur eine Sammlung von Songs, es ist ein unerbittliches Manifest gegen die unterdrückenden Kräfte der modernen Welt.
Sowohl für Fans als auch für Neulinge ist dieses Album ein Beweis für Napalm Deaths in Stein gehauenes Vermächtnis in der extremen Musik, das die Grenzen des Grindcore verschiebt und dabei ungebrochen relevant bleibt.
SMEAR CAMPAIGN (VINYL/ MC)
"Free-thinking, free-form grindcore from the grind majors that dismantles religious burden myth-by-myth"
Napalm Deaths "Smear Campaign" aus dem Jahr 2006 ist ein knallhartes Statement gegen religiöse Dogmen und gesellschaftliche Unterdrückung. Dieses Album liefert frei denkenden, frei geformten Grindcore von den Grind-Veteranen, welcher den Mythos Religion Stück für Stück demontiert. Mit seiner unerbittlichen Energie und seinen prägnanten Texten setzt "Smear Campaign" die Tradition der Band fort, lärmende Klanglandschaften mit nachdenklich stimmenden Themen zu verbinden.
Das Album beginnt mit "Weltschmerz (Intro)", das einen düsteren, unheilvollen Ton anschlägt, der sich schnell zu einem Sperrfeuer aus Blastbeats, verzerrten Riffs und Barney Greenways unverkennbaren Growls steigert. Tracks wie "Sink Fast, Let Go" und "Fatalist" veranschaulichen die Fähigkeit der Band, Geschwindigkeit und Aggression mit komplexer Musikalität und lyrischer Tiefe zu kombinieren. Die Einbeziehung der Gastsängerin Anneke van Giersbergen (ex-The Gathering) auf "In Deference" fügt eine eindringliche melodische Note hinzu, die in scharfem Kontrast zur brutalen Intensität des Albums steht.
"Smear Campaign" ist nicht nur ein akustischer Angriff, sondern auch ein Aufruf, die unterdrückerischen Strukturen religiöser und politischer Institutionen zu hinterfragen und aufzubrechen. Für Fans extremer Musik ist dieses Album ein Beweis für die anhaltende Relevanz von Napalm Death und ihr unerschütterliches Engagement, den Status quo der Gesellschaft über ihre Musik in Frage zu stellen.
APEX PREDATOR (VINYL)
"An overwhelming spread of wildly diverse musical abrasion from the grind chiefs. A contemporary noise classic"
Napalm Deaths „Apex Predator - Easy Meat“, 2015 veröffentlicht, ist eine viszerale Erkundung gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Ungerechtigkeiten, die mit der für die Band typischen Intensität vertont wird. Dieses Album präsentiert eine überwältigende Bandbreite an wilder musikalischer Vielfältigkeit der Grind-Urväter. „Apex Predator" ist ein zeitgenössischer Noise-Klassiker, der die Fähigkeit der Band zu Innovation innerhalb des Genres unter Beweis stellt.
Das Album beginnt mit dem industriellen Titeltrack „Apex Predator - Easy Meat“, der die Bühne für einen unerbittlichen auditiven Angriff bereitet. Tracks wie „Smash a Single Digit“ und „How the Years Condemn“ strotzen nur so vor explosiver Grindcore-Wut, während Songs wie „Dear Slum Landlord...“ Elemente von Doom und Post-Punk enthalten und einmal mehr die Vielseitigkeit der Band unterstreichen.
Textlich befasst sich das Album mit Themen wie Ausbeutung und Entmenschlichung, wobei Barney Greenway mit seinem intensiven Gesang eine vernichtende Kritik an der Gier von Unternehmen und der sozialen Apathie übt. Die unnachgiebige Energie der Band und ihr Engagement für ihre Botschaft ziehen sich durch das gesamte Album und machen es sowohl für langjährige Fans als auch für Neueinsteiger zu einem fesselnden Hörerlebnis.
„Apex Predator - Easy Meat“ ist ein Beweis für Napalm Deaths Status als Pioniere des Grindcore, die wilde Geschwindigkeit, brutale Klanglandschaften und zum Nachdenken anregende Inhalte zu einem kohärenten, eindrucksvollen Werk vereinen.
TIME WAITS FOR NO SLAVE (MC)
Napalm Deaths „Time Waits for No Slave“ aus dem Jahr 2009 ist ein pure Grindcore-Wut und ein Manifest soziopolitischer Kommentare. Mit diesem Album verschiebt die Band weiter die Grenzen extremer Musik und liefert eine atemberaubende Mischung aus Geschwindigkeit, Aggression und nachdenklich stimmenden Texten.
Das Album beginnt mit dem explosiven „Strong-Arm“ und taucht sofort in eine Welt voller schneller Riffs, Blastbeats und Barney Greenways gutturalem Gesang ein. Tracks wie „Life and Limb“ und „Diktat“ zeigen, dass die Band in der Lage ist, brutale Intensität und komplexes musikalisches Können nahtlos miteinander zu verbinden. Der Titeltrack „Time Waits for No Slave“ ist eine ergreifende Erinnerung an die Vergänglichkeit der Zeit und die Dringlichkeit, sich mit gesellschaftlichen Problemen auseinanderzusetzen.
Textlich befasst sich das Album mit persönlicher Autonomie, gesellschaftlicher Kontrolle und dem Kampf gegen Unterdrückung. Das unerschütterliche Engagement der Band für diese Themen ist in jedem Stück spürbar und macht „Time Waits for No Slave“ nicht nur zu einem akustischen Angriff, sondern zu einem Aufruf zum Handeln.
Mit diesem Album bekräftigen Napalm Death ihren Status als Grindcore-Pioniere und liefern ein Werk ab, das sowohl musikalisch als auch textlich kompromisslos ist. „Time Waits for No Slave“ ist ein Beweis für die anhaltende Relevanz der Band und ihren unnachgiebigen Drang, den Status quo durch die Kraft extremer Musik in Frage zu stellen.
https://supremechaos.com
https://facebook.com/SupremeChaosRecords/
DEA VELATA lädt mit "OBITVS" zur musikalischen Heldenfahrt auf Odysseus' Spuren.
Von
der Mythologie der römischen und griechischen Antike bis zum Hollywood des 21.
Jahrhunderts dominiert eine wunderbare Idee das Geschichtenschreiben: Kein Held
ohne Heldenreise. Ob die Irrfahrt eines Odysseus, die dereinst das Prinzip der
Heldenfahrt definierte, oder, am anderen Ende des Spektrums, die Verluste,
Schrecken und Siege einer Ellen Ripley, die immer noch vielen als bestes
Beispiel in der Geschichte des phantastischen Films gilt: Wenn wir nicht
miterleben, wie der Charakter eines Helden oder einer Heldin geschaffen,
gebrochen und neu geformt wird, entsteht in uns nicht der Glaube an das
Heldentum.
Und heute, in einer Zeit der hektischen Klicks und der pfützenflachen Erzähltiefen, in denen einst epische Filmuniversen nunmehr vertrocknen, kommt sie bei Kritikern und Fans wieder auf, diese Sehnsucht nach der Erzählkraft der Antike und die Faszination, die sie in uns zu erwecken vermag.
Mit DEA VELATA kommt diese nun auch in der Musik an – und das gleich auf mehreren Ebenen. Zunächst mit der ganz eigenen und bereits mehr als 20 Jahre währenden instrumentalen Heldenreise des New Yorker Gitarristen Gabby Abularach, der als studierter klassischer und Jazzgitarrist mit Metalgenen die Studioaufnahmen und Welttourneen der NYHC-Legenden CRO MAGS veredelte und Gleiches später als Gründungsmitglied von VOODOOCULT wiederholte. Neben diesen energiegeladenen Abrissbirnen brachte Gabby jedoch seine sechssaitige Magie auch auf legendären Aufnahmen von Größen wie CARLOS SANTANA, EVERLAST, KORN oder JOHN SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION ein.
Seine geheime Liebe galt jedoch stets der Kunst der Antike: So stellte Gabby, der sich im Laufe der Jahre zunehmend im filigran-sportlichen Flamenco-Spiel spezialisierte, sich oft vor, wie sich die musikalische Untermalung vorgetragener Geschichten in der Antike wohl angefühlt haben mochte.
Der forschende Gitarrist war mitten in einer Phase des Ergründens antiker griechischer und römischer Musik, als er im Sommer 2017 auf den ebenfalls in New York ansässigen italienischen Poeten und Bildenden Künstler Stefano Losi traf, der seinerseits gerade ein poetisches Werk in klassischem Latein veröffentlicht hatte. Gemeinsam begannen sie, zu komponieren und die vielen Aha-Erlebnisse ihrer musikalischen und nun auch poetischen Reisen in Material für ein Album zu gießen, wie es so wohl noch nirgends entstanden sein dürfte.
Als nicht nur im übertragenen Sinne angelische Stimme des Werkes “DEA VELATA” schloss sich schließlich die ebenfalls von der altertümlichen Musik angezogene britische Sopranistin Angela Hicks dem Duo an. Angela blickt trotz ihres jungen Alters auf eine bewegende Karriere: Sie gab ihr Operndebüt am Teatro alla Scala di Milano unter der Regie von Thomas Guthrie und trat in der Folge u.a. in der Londoner Wigmore Hall, im Schloss Versailles, am Wiener Konzerthaus und der Berliner Philharmonie sowie der Staatsoper Berlin auf. Zudem hatte sie auf der großen Leinwand einen Gastauftritt neben Emma Stone, Rachael Weisz und der Oscar-Preisträgerin Olivia Coleman im 2018er-Historienfilm “The Favourite”.
Ein allererstes Stück von "DEA VELATA" gibt es nun mit “OBITVS” als Videosingle, die altertümliche und klassische Musik mit einem Hauch progressiven Metals vergoldet:
Link zum Video auf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4QJtN-4ng
Single "OBITVS": https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/deavelata/obitvs
Mit der schwelgerischen Gitarre, die mal ein erhebendes Flamenco fein in die Stufen einer Bühne von epischer Breite ziseliert, mal der warmen Eleganz einer Harfe entgegenstrebt und sich mal zur vollen Wucht symphonischen Metals entfaltet, vereinen sich ein stets respektvoll-dezent gehaltenes Metaldrumming (performt durch Mike Podber) und eine Stimme, die den Wolkenstrahlen eines toskanischen Gemäldes gleichkommt. Und alle gemeinsam erschaffen sie einen Soundtrack, der bei geschlossenem Auge Odysseus’ Schiff aus einer sanften Flaute in einen mystischen Sturm fahren lässt.
Das Album "DEA VELATA" erscheint am 16. Oktober 2024. Auf zehn Stücken zelebriert es zeitgenössische Dichtung in klassischem Latein – eingewoben in die Musik der griechischen und römischen Antike mit neoklassischer Note und starkem Faden aus Symphonic Metal.
https://www.youtube.com/@DEAVELATA
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CASTRATED – “SURGICAL VICISSITUDE” ( EP )
Label: Comatose Music
Release date: july 19th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Avulsed | Gorgasm | Skinless
In my dreams I wade through crimson horrors, a bloody paradise of retribution, a brutal, unforgiving realignment of reality. I hunt and then harvest their contrition and tears. I stitch and shape, bind and break - sculpting something beautiful from the ugliness of their transgressions. And when I wake I find my dreams all around me, the many stages of death and dying, the infinite degrees of decomposition and decay. I inhale the stench of rot and bask in the sound of rattling final breaths. I gaze upon the desperate eyes and the empty sockets - fragile life bound intimately to the collapsing husks beyond death – and I know I have gifted both righteous punishment and blessed redemption…
Delivering the most punishing of brutal death metal attacks, Castrated have arrived with their long-awaited debut EP – the five track merciless onslaught that is Surgical Vicissitude! Crawling into the light with a filthy, slithering riff, opening track ‘Deranged Manifestations’ then erupts with rage and proceeds to unleash a frenzied bludgeoning. What follows is an unrelenting orgy of slaughter – from the gargantuan force of title track ‘Surgical Vicissitude’ to the breathtaking, venomous velocity of the concluding assault, ‘Sterilized Contrition’. Throughout, inhuman vocals spew forth deranged tirades while wickedly intricate riffs lurch, spin and flay the skin. The propulsive power of the drums is overwhelming in its intensity and an aura of brutality beyond comprehension radiates from each putrid paean to inhumanity. Castrated may be a new name on the brutal death metal scene but amongst their ranks they can boast members and ex-members of Horrific Demise, Sarcophagy, Architectural Genocide, Desecrate The Faith, Asylum, Aethereus and more – and all that extreme experience can be heard in the bone-crushing performances on Surgical Vicissitude.
The wild violence of Surgical Vicissitude was harnessed at The Metal Foundry by Tony Tipton (Between The Killings, Kraanium, Reap etc), his mixing and mastering skills honing the Castrated weaponry to eviscerating sharpness and making sure their riffs cut to the bone. With the final gruesome touch being applied by infamous artist Rudi ‘Gorgingsuicide’ Yanto (Devangelic, Flesh Hoarder etc), whose warped visions adorn the cover of Surgical Vicissitude, this mass of pulped flesh will be fed into the ravenous mouths of brutality addicts the world over by the prime purveyors of the indecent and obscene – Comatose Music. Be ready to feed on July 19th!
Line-up:
Anthony Voight- Vocals
Carlos Gallegos- Bass
Jonathan Bayliss - Guitar
Matt Behner- Drums
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/officiallycastrated
Style: Doom/Death Metal
Release date: 25.7. 2024
Type: 12ˇ black vinyl
Label: Parat Productions
Hi everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY was a Czech doom metal band that existed between 1993 and 2013. In January 2013 they played last concert and unfortunately in September 2013 the founder and only original member of the band René Krystyn aka Fusaty died. At only 39 years old from a cardiac arrest.
Fusaty was one of my closest friends, so after his death I decided to spread the legacy of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY and reissue it on CD, LP and MC.
The digipak and audio cassette re-editions of “Loučení se světem pozemským” (album from 2002) were released on 23rd September 2023 – symbolically, on the day of the 10th anniversary of Fusaty’s involuntary departure from our earthly world.
The LP version of this album will be released in July 2024, when Fusaty would have celebrated his 50th birthday.
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/dissolving-of-prodigy-louceni-se-svetem-pozemskym-4/
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Label: Independent Release
Release date: august 2nd 2024
Genre: Horror Thrash
For fans of: Exodus| Slayer | Vio-lence | Cradle Of Filth
“I met him, 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong.”- Dr. Loomis - Halloween
They have walked our dreams for decades, prowled the corridors of our sleeping minds with their empty stares, razors and madness. They are our dark gods and our insane creations, the embodiment of our internal wickedness and secret lust for violence. Held prisoner within our imaginations, through their shocking depravity we can touch the void, embrace the darkness, taste the fear…without bleeding out on the cold concrete floor of a soundproofed cellar. They are the icons of horror, the lords of torment – and they are searching for the keys to their cells and a way into the light…
UK thrashers Blacklist are back with their second full length album, following on from their acclaimed 2021 release, Disciples Of Time. New album With Murderous Intent comes armed with all the snarling riffs and cascading solos that you could hope for, all the neck-breaking rhythms and thrashing rage that fans have come to expect, but there’s more…much more. With Murderous Intent walks a darker path than its predecessor and carries an array of wickedly sharp and cruelly curved concealed blades - as well as the obligatory sawn off shotgun. This album is a celebration of horror, of the murderers and monsters that have stared down at us from cinema screens, where they act out our dread desires, committing deeds of unspeakable savagery and feeding us addictive, voyeuristic thrills, drawing us close to the heart of darkness and the adrenaline rush of terror. So while With Murderous Intent begins with the furious classic thrash riffs of ‘Cannibal’, an exhilarating channelling of the spirit of early Exodus, the shadows soon gather in obsidian pools of dire portent. Vocals switch between thrashing roars and chilling black metal screams and foreboding atmosphere rises like funeral mist from grandiose song structures and spiralling melodic guitar leads. Stygian tracks like ‘Kill The Coroner’ draw from across the extreme music spectrum, seizing the perfect shades of black to bring these tales of terror to shocking, haunting life. As the band explains:
“Instead of turning down ideas because of genre definitions, we decided to embrace what felt right, leading to a sound that perfectly captures the band and line-up as it stands today.”
That new found creative freedom has resulted in incredible songs like ‘Naturom Demonto’ which blend the blood thirsty attack of Slayer with the dark drama of Cradle Of Filth, creating a fusion of metals perfect for this nefarious narrative. From the sheer intensity of ‘Blood Baptism’ with its spiralling riffs like a swarm of hornets to the sinister atmosphere and sprawling grandeur of ‘Never Sleep Again’, where raging thrash and enveloping darkness meet in perfect synergy, With Murderous Intent is an incredible display of ambitious, creative and defiantly independent extremity.
With a vicious production that captures an edge of danger and choking fear and cover artwork from Dedy Badic (Disincarnate, Heads For The Dead, Revel In Flesh etc), With Murderous Intent will be unleashed on August 2nd. Prepare for a screaming, riff propelled ride through the realms of horror and some of the darkest metal around.
Line-up:
Tyler Larkin - Vocals/Guitars
Curtis Goodyear - Bass
Matt Mcloughlin - Guitar
Matthew Longshaw - Drums
https://linktr.ee/BLACKLIST
https://ukthrashers.org/uk-thrashers-pr-management/blacklist-2/
https://www.facebook.com/BlacklistMetal/
FFO: Slayer, Bring Me The Horizon, Pantera, and Disturbed.
The official video for "2000 Miles" is targeted for a mid-July release. The album's fifth single, "Final Girl," drops on August 2, with an official video to follow late that same month.
Track
Listing:
1. Down The Rabbit Hole
2. Subterfuge
3. The Back of Hell
4. The Pentecostal
5. Parasite 6-4-2
6. 2000 Miles
7. Chaos for the Fly
8. Disorder (Interlude)
9. Dissonance
10. The Well
11. Slayer Of Gods
12/ Cut, Cut, Cut (Interlude)
13. Final Girl
Album Credits:
Cover art by Brian Amoroso.
All Songs Written and Produced by The D.O.O.D.
Recorded and Mixed at Morrisound Studios by Jim Morris,
Mastered by J.P. Braddock at Formation Audio.
Management: Chaos Music L.L.C.
Management Consultant: Erik Leviathan Self Made Records L.L.C.
Digital Distribution: Earache Records.
Line-Up
Indy (Indiana DOOD) Brumbaugh - Guitar
Rudy (Dogbite DOOD) Taylor - Drums
Brian (Monkeyboy DOOD) Amoroso - Lead Vocals
Jonzey DOOD - Bass
Raynus DOOD - Guitar
Bio:
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience (The D.O.O.D.) are a standout in the Florida metal Scene. Originally put together by Raynus and Jonzey, this Sarasota band has found its niche among the many great independent metal acts, not only in Southwest Florida, but nationally as well.
The Floridians have found inspiration over the years from music that is hard driving with good hooks, as well as unabashed and unafraid riffs reminiscent of the pioneers of metal and hard rock, all the while grinding forward into the music of today and tomorrow.
The diversity of their individual influences certainly informs the music, yet there is enough commonality to ensure a coherency that runs throughout the band's catalogue. From the horror rock "House of the Dead," to the tastefully savvy guitar work of "Murder," it is difficult not to find something to latch onto with the musicality of this crew.
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience prides itself on its stage show, a high energy feast of metal, that is different and surprising at every venue. As a band, they are dynamic and eye-catching as they take the stage and take over the room. The audience can never be certain what's coming next, except a great show! This can be attributed to the multitude of shows they've played over the years with an array of local and national acts. The D.O.O.D. is 100% fan-friendly and takes great pride in being part of a surging Florida metal scene.
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Label: Independent Release
Release date: july 19th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Hate Eternal | Deicide | Krisiun | Vital Remains
WEREWOLVES formed in 2019 with the express purpose of releasing ten albums in ten years. 2024 sees them hit the halfway mark with Die For Us, yet another barrage of completely moronic death-metal due out 19th July.
“We are goal-driven achievers known for our savvy business acumen”, says broke-ass bassist-vocalist Sam Bean (The Antichrist Imperium, The Berzerker, who has never been successful at anything in his life, ever). “It seems obvious at this point, now that we have amassed an international following and rabid demand for our live shows, that we should release an album imploring everyone to kill themselves and each other. Reverse psychology, Marketing 101. Getting your fanbase to cull themselves down to a pile of goo and corpses means more sales. Duh.”
“Oh, the music? Same shit…blastbeats and incoherent ranting, sick riffs, that sort of thing. We’ll slip in some big choruses, brilliant samples, a few hints of black metal, one slow track that actually resembles music, and an amazing guest appearance. But at the end of the day, it’s still going to sound like a school bus getting fed into a metal shredder.”
Drummer Dave Haley (Psycroptic, Abramelin, Ruins, King, Blood Duster) and Guitarist Matt Wilcock (The Antichrist Imperium, The Berzerker, Abramelin) who play in real bands, feel that they shouldn’t let the bass player try and describe music.
WEREWOLVES continued their triumphant run of shows that extended no further than their own country and glommed onto bands far more popular than theirs throughout 2023. After beginning the year supporting MAYHEM and ULCERATE nationally, WEREWOLVES went on to support EXHUMED at their Melbourne show, then closed the year out by roaming the country with ARCHSPIRE and INGESTED.
“If that doesn’t stop people calling us a technical metal band I don’t know what will”, says Matt. “Here were these bright young talented things, well-seasoned, with the best equipment and a bright future ahead of them. But first people had to put up with these drunken old cunts with their opening half-hour of horseshit, staggering blindly around stage looking for the single input they had to plug into, and often failing to do that.”
He adds “CAVEMAN DEATH METAL”.
Die For Us ticks every box for modern death metal, with excruciatingly violent blasting straight out the gates and very little let-up until the bitter end. The title track is an anthemic call to self-annihilation, ‘Beaten Back To Life’ castigates everyone with the temerity to have started listening to metal after 1992. ‘Fuck You Got Mine’ is a hymn to the joys of being a slumlord. ‘My Hate is Strong’ is pure visceral evil and features vocal contributions by Australian national treasure ROK from SADISTIK EXEKUTION. ‘Spittle-Flecked Rant’ flirts with d-beats and hardcore while imploring the world to be even worse, and ‘Under A Urinal Moon’ is a wave of blackened darkness piss.
Mixing and Mastering was done by none other than Joe Haley (PSYCROPTIC), who we’ll use until either he dies, we quit, or Erik Rutan becomes an affordable option. The artwork was done by Mitchell Nolte, not an AI because we’re not fuckwits, and is guaranteed to horrify as many people as all the previous albums. He basically took the album title and ran with it, focusing his artistic genius on cramming as much blood and gore onto an album cover as humanly possible.
Die For Us is set for release 19th July 2024, available worldwide streaming on everything.
Line-up:
Sam Bean - Vocals/Bass
Matt Wilcock - Guitar
David Haley – Drums
https://www.werewolvesdeathmetal.com/
https://www.facebook.com/werewolvesinhell/
Following the unveiling of another mind-boggling Diskord track from this split release, it's the turn of the UK progressive death metal band Atvm now to show their chops. And they deliver a jaw-dropping near 12-minute track packed with the kind of music only they are capable of producing. Check out the premiere done by Mystification Zine for yourselves at https://mystificationzine.com/2024/06/25/an-early-stream-of-morphine-from-diskord-atvm-bipolarities-split-lp-2024-premiere/
"their work remains freely-thinking and moving in broad strokes well outside of the realm of death metal"
DISKORD /ATVM – “BIPOLARITIES”
For
fans of
- Demilich, Defect Designer, Xenosis, Disharmonic Orchestra, Carcass, The
Chasm
Norwegian band Diskord show us why they're masters when it comes to this kind of twisted, convoluted, and quite frankly timeless death metal. They're inexorably pushing their sound forward in their own way and even after a couple of decades of existence, they manage to keep their music refreshing and unpredictable. The four new songs that are a part of this split are even more erratic and out-of-the-box. Indeed, there are about a hundred variations in them but how each of the songs progress will still leave you guessing. It's just ingenious songwriting that reaches out and grabs your attention despite the unnatural complexity and compels you to listen to the songs again and again to fully wrap your head around them. They're an absolute delight for any fan of progressive, technical or even dissonant death metal, regardless of his old school or contemporary stylistic inclination.
UK progressive death trailblazers Atvm left an indelible mark with their groundbreaking full length and they return with some of their longest and best songs for this special split release. The music may not be as technical as that of their label mates on this split but it's every bit as engrossing and they even throw some nasty curveballs of their own - the longish playing time only allows them to shape-shift multiple times with ease and they do that with conviction. There's an inherent sickness to their music and their progression feels visceral. They have their own way of doing things and it's definitely a thrill to follow the sinuous patterns and eccentricities that they throw along the way. These songs are yet another testament to the raw talent of this relative newcomer and their pairing with Diskord on this split only brings out the quirky appeal of their music some more
Diskord line up:
Hans Jørgen - Drums and vocals
Eyvind - Bass and vocals
Dmitry - Guitar and vocals
Atvm line up:
Tom - Guitars
Fran - Drums and percussion
Luke - Bass and percussion
H - Vocals
Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston
Artwork by Will Sweeney
Track listing:
1. Diskord - Onward! To Nowhere
2. Diskord - Pass The Baton
3. Diskord - Shivering, As We Shed Our Hides
4. Diskord - Cogged Pother
5. Atvm - Cancer
6. Atvm - Morphine
Official release date - July 12th, 2024
https://www.facebook.com/DiskordNorway
https://www.facebook.com/AtvmOfficial
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Stream it now at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSkI_z1hXc4
"Liminal Shroud’s willingness to both wallow in negativity and use it as fuel to power anthemic moments sets them above their monochromatic peers."- Toilet ov Hell
Visions of Collapse will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Pre-order at the following links:
BC: https://liminalshroud.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-collapse
Willowtip: https://willowtip.com/bands/details/liminal-shroud.aspx
Cleansing in collapse, solace in emergence from tunnels of psychic distortion, sanctuary in the dissolution of the spirit, and a salute once again to the worthlessness of it all, Visions of Collapse is Liminal Shroud's new offering of surging, evocative, and forward-thinking black metal.
"On this record we have elevated everything in our arsenal to new heights. Serpentine songwriting and cathartic conviction reflect again the elemental forces of destruction of the coast, and capturing moments of sorrow, solitude and grandeur, we seek to find ourselves in annihilation. Adherence to tradition and the will to push ever-onward find their fusion in the interplay of melody, rhythmic vigor, and subtle progressive voicing. Primordial oceans churn, searing winds howl, and a baleful void opens above – cast yourself in and submit to the scythe." - Liminal Shroud
Track
Listing:
1. Nocturnal Phosphoresence
2. Nucleonic Blight
3. Resolve
4. Malaspina
5. The Carving Scythe
Credits:
All music and lyrics written by Liminal Shroud.
Co-produced, recorded, and mixed by Matt Roach; Additional audio engineering by Emily Ryan - Rain City Recorders, Vancouver BC, Canada.
Mastered by Greg Chandler - Priory Recording Studios, UK.
Artwork by Misanthropic Art.
Line-up:
Aidan Crossley - Guitar/Vocals
Rich Taylor - Bass/Vocals
Drew Davidson - Drums
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Bassist/vocalist Meadow Wyand comments on the song. “‘Hill of Swords’ was written in response to Kentaro Miura’s passing. It references the location in his dark fantasy masterwork Berserk, where the graves of the sacrificed are marked by swords instead of tombstones. As the song developed, it became an anthem for those we lost during the pandemic, as well as the invisible millions who suffer from chronic disabilities. Musically, I think it’s a poignant distillation of the styles synthesized on the record. The main harmony owes a debt to Iron Maiden, which is followed by Bad Religion riffing in the verses, and a layered John McGeoch-esque chorus. Dave’s solo and psychedelic tone during the bridge contain some of the best guitar work on the album.”
"Hill of Swords" is now available on streaming platforms. Listen at https://www.facebook.com/fourthdominion/
Fiadh Productions will release Diana's Day on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats on August 1. The album confronts themes of queerness, feminine magick, and existentialism, and is already drawing critical acclaim months ahead of the album's release.
Stream previously released FOURTH DOMINION music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:
1) Bloodstains
2) Lilim
3) Burn the Prisons!
4) From Below
5) Goetia
6) Hill of Swords
7) Death in Fall
8) Tormenta Purgatoria
9) Her Wings
10) Casca Dreaming
“FOURTH DOMINION’s new album fulfills the promises hinted at on their debut, Wings of a Dying Crow (2017). The songs are epic but not indulgent; punkish instincts bring the heavy doses of gothic rock and metal into sharp focus. While the sound breaks from the cul-de-sac of tribalism dominating so much rock music, it retains an unmistakable identity and voice. Other bands have tried to chart this territory to varying degrees of success–The Cure’s Bloodflowers–whose damaged brilliance lacked the energy and immediacy we are greeted with here. At the heart of this material is Meadow Wyand’s gift for enveloping gothic melodies matched with lyrics that reflect the ennui and destructiveness of our post-pandemic stupor. From the parasitic liaison of “Bloodstains” to the spectral occult of “Lilim,”–these songs carry the weight of worlds lurking just beyond the next corner. Backed by the heavy gallop of drums and atmospheric guitar runs, these capture the strange dread of these days.” –Harlow Crandall, “Starts Like a Kiss and Ends Like a Curse: The Enigma of Jim Carroll”
"FOURTH DOMINION are back with a follow-up to 2017’s ‘Wings of a Dying Crow’. With their earlier work, I love the blend between heavy metal and punk, culminating in early AFI meets early Maiden sound. This new venture sees the band bring a more mature and experimental sound. Whilst the new release still has those heavy metal sections such as the solo of “Bloodstains”, the punk edge has altered slightly. The new sound falls more into the post-punk category, reminiscent of bands such as Fields of Nephilim as evident on “Death in Fall”. This new musical direction aligns FOURTH DOMINION with contemporary bands such as Unto Others. The highlight for me however has to be “Lillim” with its multilayered chorus which will worm its way into your ears for days with absolutely zero complaints!" - Olivia Matthews, Hornthrowers
Bio
“In filth, evil stands.” A line from FOURTH DOMINION’s upcoming sophomore album that proclaims songwriter Meadow Wyand’s singular and novel point-of-view. An out trans frontwoman, her songs reflect queer trauma and defiance, as well as speaking to existential despair and spiritual divination. The group’s emotionally dense and literate songs draw just as much from the contemplative gothic metal of Anathema and Sentenced, as they do the unapologetic alternative punk of Hole and PJ Harvey. With compositions that are simultaneously somber, catchy and intricate, FOURTH DOMINION radiate a hunger and commercial appeal beyond the confines of heavy metal to which they are rooted.
Their debut album, 2017’s Wings of a Dying Crow, marked an important stride in developing the type of post-In Solitude heavy metal deathrock that has taken off in the years since. Its follow-up shows a love for Angel Witch, as well as the guitar playing of The Smiths and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album reflects themes not often confronted in heavy metal: disability, gender, the divine feminine, anti-futurist queer politics, and sexual assault. Its exploration of trauma seeks to be a response and companion piece to Hole’s "Live Through This."
With their forthcoming mission statement, FOURTH DOMINION showcases their ability to rise to the top of the new wave of gothic metal, or “Deathwave” as Wyand refers to it. Featuring new drummer Brady Mentz and the production talents of Casey Ahrens-Cavallo and Tom Gerwitz, the band have Frankensteined an album of profound emotional depth and commercial readiness. “When we fight, we bash back!” is a promise to both the queer empowerment the album represents, as well as the band’s uncompromising attitude for growth.
FOURTH DOMINION is:
Meadow Wyand - Bass/vocals
Dave Milburn.- Guitars
Brady Mentz - Drums
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Captured live at the “Rockhouse Festival” on June 1st, 2024, this video showcases the raw energy and electrifying performance of Impact Approved. The live debut of "VENTUS ET IGNIS" in Hamburg on March 14th, 2024, was a game-changer, proving to be a perfect anthem for the crowd to go wild. The moment Impact Approved got the crowd moving, they saw an explosion of energy with fans being lifted and crowd surfing. The first three surfers even scored a free CD of “WAY OF THE WARRIOR”!
"Our
mission is always to give the crowd an unforgettable experience," says
the band. "The energy we share with our fans is what fuels us. Seeing
the smiling faces and feeling the connection is what keeps us going."
Impact Approved's live shows are legendary for a reason – walls of death, circle pits, and an endless wave of crowd surfers are guaranteed to make every concert an adrenaline-pumping experience.
Witness the madness for yourself and become part of the Impact Approved legacy!
Impact Approved: A Band Forged in Fire
Born in 2019, Impact Approved quickly carved their niche in the melodic death metal scene. Philipp (vocals) and Uwe (guitars, drums) laid the groundwork, joined by Maurice (bass) in 2020 and Armin (guitar) shortly after. After the critically acclaimed release of "Into the Fray" in 2021, the band toured alongside heavyweights like Heaven Shall Burn in 2022. With the departure of Armin, Matthias "Matze" Büsing steps in to complete the live lineup, ready to unleash the fury of Way of the Warrior on audiences worldwide.
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ORPHEUS OMEGA – “EMBERGLOW”
Death Metal
"Emberglow is a true representation of everything that is the best of Orpheus Omega married with a new sense of urgency, drive, self-awareness, and internal musings and melancholy that we felt while putting this album together. Prepare to hear Orpheus Omega going well past redline on these songs and ensure you're ready to join us on a ride we promise you won't want to get off of!"
Tracklist
1. We Were Kings
2. Emberglow
3. Atomizer
4. Destiny Machine
5. The Tangle
6. Start Maps
7. Marionette
8. The Collector
9. Paper Dreams And Concrete Walls
10. Bound To Apathy
With a career spanning 4 acclaimed albums 3 EPs and countless tour cycles both domestically and abroad, Orpheus Omega has cemented themselves as one of the hardest-working and entertaining mainstays of the Australian Metal scene.
Beginning with a sound forged along the lines of the great Gothenburg Melodeath era, the band has since grown further and further into a unique entity feeding off each member’s personality and lives bringing them to touring with the likes of Insomnium, Trivium, At The Gates, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Lacuna Coil and many many more.
The continued evolution of Orpheus Omega has kept the band relevant and ever-growing and in 2024 brings with it the release of their most ambitious album yet, ‘EMBERGLOW’ through WormholeDeath Records.
Orpheus Omega is:
Chris Themelco - Vocals/ Lead Guitar
Leon Monaco - Bass/ Backing Vocals
Matt Themelco - Drums
Luke Ashley - Guitar
Campbell Hill – Keyboard
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NEWS 30.6.2024Es war ein langer Weg, aber wir sind unfassbar Stolz, Euch diese Releases präsentieren zu dürfen. Nicht weniger als fünf Napalm Death Releases haben wir gerade im Presswerk. Dabei handelt es sich nicht um eine einfache Neupressung, sondern um komplett überarbeitete Releases.
Alle Releases wurden von Patrick W. Engel mit einem neuen, dynamischen Remastering versehen. Das Ergebnis wurde durch die Band geprüft. Und allein dieser Part hat sich schon gelohnt, denn die Alben klangen nie so auf den Punkt wie auf diesen Releases.
Das Artwork wurde aufgefrischt, teilweise mit wertigen Beilagen wie 4-seitigem Booklet, Postern und vieles mehr. Es gibt Vinyl und Tapes und unsere erste Liquid Filled Vinyl Release!
Die Alben kommen also hochwertig daher, so wir sie uns
auch selbst ins Regal stellen würden (und werden).Preorder now: https://supremechaos.com/link/napalmdeath/
Hier noch ein paar Infos zu den Alben:
LEADERS NOT FOLLOWERS PART 2 (VINYL)
“Napalm Death Scour the underground with this all-out max distortion covers treatment“
Napalm Deaths "Leaders Not Followers: Part 2" ist eine rotzige Hommage an ihre eigenen Wurzeln, erstmals veröffentlicht 2004. Das Album ist der Nachfolger der 1999er EP "Leaders Not Followers" und enthält 19 Tracks, eine Ehrerbietung an Punk-, Hardcore- und Metal-Bands, die nicht nur den Sound Napalm Deaths, sondern auch die extreme Musiklandschaft generell geprägt haben.
Das Album zeigt die Vielseitigkeit von Napalm Death und ihren tiefen Respekt für die Geschichte des Genres, mit Covern von Bands wie Anti-Cimex, Discharge, Hellhammer, Kreator und Sepultura. Jedem Track wohnt die für Napalm Death typische Intensität inne und verwandelt die Originale in unerbittliche Grindcore-Hymnen. Songs wie "Hellnation" und "Troops of Doom" unterstreichen das Talent der Band, ihren brutalen Stil mit der Essenz der gecoverten Klassiker zu verbinden.
"Leaders Not Followers: Part 2" ist mehr als ein Cover-Album; es ist ein Fest roher, ungefilterter Energie extreme Musik. Für Fans von Napalm Death und der breiteren Metal- und Punk-Gemeinde ist dieses Album sowohl eine Verbeugung vor der Vergangenheit als auch ein Zeugnis für den anhaltenden Einfluss und den unnachgiebigen Geist Napalm Deaths.
THE CODE IS RED… LONG LIVE THE CODE (VINYL)
"The grind luminaries unmasking of global fear and paranoia through fast, unremitting audio-terror"
"The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code" von Napalm Death ist ein akustischer Sturm, der die rohe Intensität und das unnachgiebige Engagement der Band für den Grindcore widerspiegelt. Mit dem 2005 veröffentlichten Album vertonen die Grind-Koryphäen globale Angst und Paranoia durch schnellen, unerbittlichen Audio-Terror. Mit rasantem Tempo, harten Riffs und brutalem Gesang konfrontieren Napalm Death den Hörer mit Themen wie politischer Korruption, gesellschaftlichem Verfall und existenziellem Grauen.
Das Album enthält einige Gastauftritte, darunter Jello Biafra von den Dead Kennedys und Jamey Jasta von Hatebreed, die das Album bereichern. Tracks wie "Silence Is Deafening" und "Morale" sind Beispiele für das Talent der Band, unerbittliche Aggression mit nachdenklich stimmenden Texten zu verbinden. "The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code" ist nicht nur eine Sammlung von Songs, es ist ein unerbittliches Manifest gegen die unterdrückenden Kräfte der modernen Welt.
Sowohl für Fans als auch für Neulinge ist dieses Album ein Beweis für Napalm Deaths in Stein gehauenes Vermächtnis in der extremen Musik, das die Grenzen des Grindcore verschiebt und dabei ungebrochen relevant bleibt.
SMEAR CAMPAIGN (VINYL/ MC)
"Free-thinking, free-form grindcore from the grind majors that dismantles religious burden myth-by-myth"
Napalm Deaths "Smear Campaign" aus dem Jahr 2006 ist ein knallhartes Statement gegen religiöse Dogmen und gesellschaftliche Unterdrückung. Dieses Album liefert frei denkenden, frei geformten Grindcore von den Grind-Veteranen, welcher den Mythos Religion Stück für Stück demontiert. Mit seiner unerbittlichen Energie und seinen prägnanten Texten setzt "Smear Campaign" die Tradition der Band fort, lärmende Klanglandschaften mit nachdenklich stimmenden Themen zu verbinden.
Das Album beginnt mit "Weltschmerz (Intro)", das einen düsteren, unheilvollen Ton anschlägt, der sich schnell zu einem Sperrfeuer aus Blastbeats, verzerrten Riffs und Barney Greenways unverkennbaren Growls steigert. Tracks wie "Sink Fast, Let Go" und "Fatalist" veranschaulichen die Fähigkeit der Band, Geschwindigkeit und Aggression mit komplexer Musikalität und lyrischer Tiefe zu kombinieren. Die Einbeziehung der Gastsängerin Anneke van Giersbergen (ex-The Gathering) auf "In Deference" fügt eine eindringliche melodische Note hinzu, die in scharfem Kontrast zur brutalen Intensität des Albums steht.
"Smear Campaign" ist nicht nur ein akustischer Angriff, sondern auch ein Aufruf, die unterdrückerischen Strukturen religiöser und politischer Institutionen zu hinterfragen und aufzubrechen. Für Fans extremer Musik ist dieses Album ein Beweis für die anhaltende Relevanz von Napalm Death und ihr unerschütterliches Engagement, den Status quo der Gesellschaft über ihre Musik in Frage zu stellen.
APEX PREDATOR (VINYL)
"An overwhelming spread of wildly diverse musical abrasion from the grind chiefs. A contemporary noise classic"
Napalm Deaths „Apex Predator - Easy Meat“, 2015 veröffentlicht, ist eine viszerale Erkundung gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Ungerechtigkeiten, die mit der für die Band typischen Intensität vertont wird. Dieses Album präsentiert eine überwältigende Bandbreite an wilder musikalischer Vielfältigkeit der Grind-Urväter. „Apex Predator" ist ein zeitgenössischer Noise-Klassiker, der die Fähigkeit der Band zu Innovation innerhalb des Genres unter Beweis stellt.
Das Album beginnt mit dem industriellen Titeltrack „Apex Predator - Easy Meat“, der die Bühne für einen unerbittlichen auditiven Angriff bereitet. Tracks wie „Smash a Single Digit“ und „How the Years Condemn“ strotzen nur so vor explosiver Grindcore-Wut, während Songs wie „Dear Slum Landlord...“ Elemente von Doom und Post-Punk enthalten und einmal mehr die Vielseitigkeit der Band unterstreichen.
Textlich befasst sich das Album mit Themen wie Ausbeutung und Entmenschlichung, wobei Barney Greenway mit seinem intensiven Gesang eine vernichtende Kritik an der Gier von Unternehmen und der sozialen Apathie übt. Die unnachgiebige Energie der Band und ihr Engagement für ihre Botschaft ziehen sich durch das gesamte Album und machen es sowohl für langjährige Fans als auch für Neueinsteiger zu einem fesselnden Hörerlebnis.
„Apex Predator - Easy Meat“ ist ein Beweis für Napalm Deaths Status als Pioniere des Grindcore, die wilde Geschwindigkeit, brutale Klanglandschaften und zum Nachdenken anregende Inhalte zu einem kohärenten, eindrucksvollen Werk vereinen.
TIME WAITS FOR NO SLAVE (MC)
Napalm Deaths „Time Waits for No Slave“ aus dem Jahr 2009 ist ein pure Grindcore-Wut und ein Manifest soziopolitischer Kommentare. Mit diesem Album verschiebt die Band weiter die Grenzen extremer Musik und liefert eine atemberaubende Mischung aus Geschwindigkeit, Aggression und nachdenklich stimmenden Texten.
Das Album beginnt mit dem explosiven „Strong-Arm“ und taucht sofort in eine Welt voller schneller Riffs, Blastbeats und Barney Greenways gutturalem Gesang ein. Tracks wie „Life and Limb“ und „Diktat“ zeigen, dass die Band in der Lage ist, brutale Intensität und komplexes musikalisches Können nahtlos miteinander zu verbinden. Der Titeltrack „Time Waits for No Slave“ ist eine ergreifende Erinnerung an die Vergänglichkeit der Zeit und die Dringlichkeit, sich mit gesellschaftlichen Problemen auseinanderzusetzen.
Textlich befasst sich das Album mit persönlicher Autonomie, gesellschaftlicher Kontrolle und dem Kampf gegen Unterdrückung. Das unerschütterliche Engagement der Band für diese Themen ist in jedem Stück spürbar und macht „Time Waits for No Slave“ nicht nur zu einem akustischen Angriff, sondern zu einem Aufruf zum Handeln.
Mit diesem Album bekräftigen Napalm Death ihren Status als Grindcore-Pioniere und liefern ein Werk ab, das sowohl musikalisch als auch textlich kompromisslos ist. „Time Waits for No Slave“ ist ein Beweis für die anhaltende Relevanz der Band und ihren unnachgiebigen Drang, den Status quo durch die Kraft extremer Musik in Frage zu stellen.
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DEA VELATA lädt mit "OBITVS" zur musikalischen Heldenfahrt auf Odysseus' Spuren.
Von
der Mythologie der römischen und griechischen Antike bis zum Hollywood des 21.
Jahrhunderts dominiert eine wunderbare Idee das Geschichtenschreiben: Kein Held
ohne Heldenreise. Ob die Irrfahrt eines Odysseus, die dereinst das Prinzip der
Heldenfahrt definierte, oder, am anderen Ende des Spektrums, die Verluste,
Schrecken und Siege einer Ellen Ripley, die immer noch vielen als bestes
Beispiel in der Geschichte des phantastischen Films gilt: Wenn wir nicht
miterleben, wie der Charakter eines Helden oder einer Heldin geschaffen,
gebrochen und neu geformt wird, entsteht in uns nicht der Glaube an das
Heldentum.Und heute, in einer Zeit der hektischen Klicks und der pfützenflachen Erzähltiefen, in denen einst epische Filmuniversen nunmehr vertrocknen, kommt sie bei Kritikern und Fans wieder auf, diese Sehnsucht nach der Erzählkraft der Antike und die Faszination, die sie in uns zu erwecken vermag.
Mit DEA VELATA kommt diese nun auch in der Musik an – und das gleich auf mehreren Ebenen. Zunächst mit der ganz eigenen und bereits mehr als 20 Jahre währenden instrumentalen Heldenreise des New Yorker Gitarristen Gabby Abularach, der als studierter klassischer und Jazzgitarrist mit Metalgenen die Studioaufnahmen und Welttourneen der NYHC-Legenden CRO MAGS veredelte und Gleiches später als Gründungsmitglied von VOODOOCULT wiederholte. Neben diesen energiegeladenen Abrissbirnen brachte Gabby jedoch seine sechssaitige Magie auch auf legendären Aufnahmen von Größen wie CARLOS SANTANA, EVERLAST, KORN oder JOHN SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION ein.
Seine geheime Liebe galt jedoch stets der Kunst der Antike: So stellte Gabby, der sich im Laufe der Jahre zunehmend im filigran-sportlichen Flamenco-Spiel spezialisierte, sich oft vor, wie sich die musikalische Untermalung vorgetragener Geschichten in der Antike wohl angefühlt haben mochte.
Der forschende Gitarrist war mitten in einer Phase des Ergründens antiker griechischer und römischer Musik, als er im Sommer 2017 auf den ebenfalls in New York ansässigen italienischen Poeten und Bildenden Künstler Stefano Losi traf, der seinerseits gerade ein poetisches Werk in klassischem Latein veröffentlicht hatte. Gemeinsam begannen sie, zu komponieren und die vielen Aha-Erlebnisse ihrer musikalischen und nun auch poetischen Reisen in Material für ein Album zu gießen, wie es so wohl noch nirgends entstanden sein dürfte.
Als nicht nur im übertragenen Sinne angelische Stimme des Werkes “DEA VELATA” schloss sich schließlich die ebenfalls von der altertümlichen Musik angezogene britische Sopranistin Angela Hicks dem Duo an. Angela blickt trotz ihres jungen Alters auf eine bewegende Karriere: Sie gab ihr Operndebüt am Teatro alla Scala di Milano unter der Regie von Thomas Guthrie und trat in der Folge u.a. in der Londoner Wigmore Hall, im Schloss Versailles, am Wiener Konzerthaus und der Berliner Philharmonie sowie der Staatsoper Berlin auf. Zudem hatte sie auf der großen Leinwand einen Gastauftritt neben Emma Stone, Rachael Weisz und der Oscar-Preisträgerin Olivia Coleman im 2018er-Historienfilm “The Favourite”.
Ein allererstes Stück von "DEA VELATA" gibt es nun mit “OBITVS” als Videosingle, die altertümliche und klassische Musik mit einem Hauch progressiven Metals vergoldet:
Link zum Video auf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s4QJtN-4ng
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Mit der schwelgerischen Gitarre, die mal ein erhebendes Flamenco fein in die Stufen einer Bühne von epischer Breite ziseliert, mal der warmen Eleganz einer Harfe entgegenstrebt und sich mal zur vollen Wucht symphonischen Metals entfaltet, vereinen sich ein stets respektvoll-dezent gehaltenes Metaldrumming (performt durch Mike Podber) und eine Stimme, die den Wolkenstrahlen eines toskanischen Gemäldes gleichkommt. Und alle gemeinsam erschaffen sie einen Soundtrack, der bei geschlossenem Auge Odysseus’ Schiff aus einer sanften Flaute in einen mystischen Sturm fahren lässt.
Das Album "DEA VELATA" erscheint am 16. Oktober 2024. Auf zehn Stücken zelebriert es zeitgenössische Dichtung in klassischem Latein – eingewoben in die Musik der griechischen und römischen Antike mit neoklassischer Note und starkem Faden aus Symphonic Metal.
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CASTRATED – “SURGICAL VICISSITUDE” ( EP )
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: july 19th 2024
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
For fans of: Cannibal Corpse | Avulsed | Gorgasm | Skinless
In my dreams I wade through crimson horrors, a bloody paradise of retribution, a brutal, unforgiving realignment of reality. I hunt and then harvest their contrition and tears. I stitch and shape, bind and break - sculpting something beautiful from the ugliness of their transgressions. And when I wake I find my dreams all around me, the many stages of death and dying, the infinite degrees of decomposition and decay. I inhale the stench of rot and bask in the sound of rattling final breaths. I gaze upon the desperate eyes and the empty sockets - fragile life bound intimately to the collapsing husks beyond death – and I know I have gifted both righteous punishment and blessed redemption…
Delivering the most punishing of brutal death metal attacks, Castrated have arrived with their long-awaited debut EP – the five track merciless onslaught that is Surgical Vicissitude! Crawling into the light with a filthy, slithering riff, opening track ‘Deranged Manifestations’ then erupts with rage and proceeds to unleash a frenzied bludgeoning. What follows is an unrelenting orgy of slaughter – from the gargantuan force of title track ‘Surgical Vicissitude’ to the breathtaking, venomous velocity of the concluding assault, ‘Sterilized Contrition’. Throughout, inhuman vocals spew forth deranged tirades while wickedly intricate riffs lurch, spin and flay the skin. The propulsive power of the drums is overwhelming in its intensity and an aura of brutality beyond comprehension radiates from each putrid paean to inhumanity. Castrated may be a new name on the brutal death metal scene but amongst their ranks they can boast members and ex-members of Horrific Demise, Sarcophagy, Architectural Genocide, Desecrate The Faith, Asylum, Aethereus and more – and all that extreme experience can be heard in the bone-crushing performances on Surgical Vicissitude.
The wild violence of Surgical Vicissitude was harnessed at The Metal Foundry by Tony Tipton (Between The Killings, Kraanium, Reap etc), his mixing and mastering skills honing the Castrated weaponry to eviscerating sharpness and making sure their riffs cut to the bone. With the final gruesome touch being applied by infamous artist Rudi ‘Gorgingsuicide’ Yanto (Devangelic, Flesh Hoarder etc), whose warped visions adorn the cover of Surgical Vicissitude, this mass of pulped flesh will be fed into the ravenous mouths of brutality addicts the world over by the prime purveyors of the indecent and obscene – Comatose Music. Be ready to feed on July 19th!
Line-up:
Anthony Voight- Vocals
Carlos Gallegos- Bass
Jonathan Bayliss - Guitar
Matt Behner- Drums
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Style: Doom/Death MetalRelease date: 25.7. 2024
Type: 12ˇ black vinyl
Label: Parat Productions
Hi everybody, Petr from Parat Productions, Czech Republic, here. DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY was a Czech doom metal band that existed between 1993 and 2013. In January 2013 they played last concert and unfortunately in September 2013 the founder and only original member of the band René Krystyn aka Fusaty died. At only 39 years old from a cardiac arrest.
Fusaty was one of my closest friends, so after his death I decided to spread the legacy of DISSOLVING OF PRODIGY and reissue it on CD, LP and MC.
The digipak and audio cassette re-editions of “Loučení se světem pozemským” (album from 2002) were released on 23rd September 2023 – symbolically, on the day of the 10th anniversary of Fusaty’s involuntary departure from our earthly world.
The LP version of this album will be released in July 2024, when Fusaty would have celebrated his 50th birthday.
You can order in the Paratshop https://paratshop.cz/produkt/dissolving-of-prodigy-louceni-se-svetem-pozemskym-4/
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: august 2nd 2024
Genre: Horror Thrash
For fans of: Exodus| Slayer | Vio-lence | Cradle Of Filth
“I met him, 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong.”- Dr. Loomis - Halloween
They have walked our dreams for decades, prowled the corridors of our sleeping minds with their empty stares, razors and madness. They are our dark gods and our insane creations, the embodiment of our internal wickedness and secret lust for violence. Held prisoner within our imaginations, through their shocking depravity we can touch the void, embrace the darkness, taste the fear…without bleeding out on the cold concrete floor of a soundproofed cellar. They are the icons of horror, the lords of torment – and they are searching for the keys to their cells and a way into the light…
UK thrashers Blacklist are back with their second full length album, following on from their acclaimed 2021 release, Disciples Of Time. New album With Murderous Intent comes armed with all the snarling riffs and cascading solos that you could hope for, all the neck-breaking rhythms and thrashing rage that fans have come to expect, but there’s more…much more. With Murderous Intent walks a darker path than its predecessor and carries an array of wickedly sharp and cruelly curved concealed blades - as well as the obligatory sawn off shotgun. This album is a celebration of horror, of the murderers and monsters that have stared down at us from cinema screens, where they act out our dread desires, committing deeds of unspeakable savagery and feeding us addictive, voyeuristic thrills, drawing us close to the heart of darkness and the adrenaline rush of terror. So while With Murderous Intent begins with the furious classic thrash riffs of ‘Cannibal’, an exhilarating channelling of the spirit of early Exodus, the shadows soon gather in obsidian pools of dire portent. Vocals switch between thrashing roars and chilling black metal screams and foreboding atmosphere rises like funeral mist from grandiose song structures and spiralling melodic guitar leads. Stygian tracks like ‘Kill The Coroner’ draw from across the extreme music spectrum, seizing the perfect shades of black to bring these tales of terror to shocking, haunting life. As the band explains:
“Instead of turning down ideas because of genre definitions, we decided to embrace what felt right, leading to a sound that perfectly captures the band and line-up as it stands today.”
That new found creative freedom has resulted in incredible songs like ‘Naturom Demonto’ which blend the blood thirsty attack of Slayer with the dark drama of Cradle Of Filth, creating a fusion of metals perfect for this nefarious narrative. From the sheer intensity of ‘Blood Baptism’ with its spiralling riffs like a swarm of hornets to the sinister atmosphere and sprawling grandeur of ‘Never Sleep Again’, where raging thrash and enveloping darkness meet in perfect synergy, With Murderous Intent is an incredible display of ambitious, creative and defiantly independent extremity.
With a vicious production that captures an edge of danger and choking fear and cover artwork from Dedy Badic (Disincarnate, Heads For The Dead, Revel In Flesh etc), With Murderous Intent will be unleashed on August 2nd. Prepare for a screaming, riff propelled ride through the realms of horror and some of the darkest metal around.
Line-up:
Tyler Larkin - Vocals/Guitars
Curtis Goodyear - Bass
Matt Mcloughlin - Guitar
Matthew Longshaw - Drums
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FFO: Slayer, Bring Me The Horizon, Pantera, and Disturbed.
The official video for "2000 Miles" is targeted for a mid-July release. The album's fifth single, "Final Girl," drops on August 2, with an official video to follow late that same month.
Track
Listing:1. Down The Rabbit Hole
2. Subterfuge
3. The Back of Hell
4. The Pentecostal
5. Parasite 6-4-2
6. 2000 Miles
7. Chaos for the Fly
8. Disorder (Interlude)
9. Dissonance
10. The Well
11. Slayer Of Gods
12/ Cut, Cut, Cut (Interlude)
13. Final Girl
Album Credits:
Cover art by Brian Amoroso.
All Songs Written and Produced by The D.O.O.D.
Recorded and Mixed at Morrisound Studios by Jim Morris,
Mastered by J.P. Braddock at Formation Audio.
Management: Chaos Music L.L.C.
Management Consultant: Erik Leviathan Self Made Records L.L.C.
Digital Distribution: Earache Records.
Line-Up
Indy (Indiana DOOD) Brumbaugh - Guitar
Rudy (Dogbite DOOD) Taylor - Drums
Brian (Monkeyboy DOOD) Amoroso - Lead Vocals
Jonzey DOOD - Bass
Raynus DOOD - Guitar
Bio:
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience (The D.O.O.D.) are a standout in the Florida metal Scene. Originally put together by Raynus and Jonzey, this Sarasota band has found its niche among the many great independent metal acts, not only in Southwest Florida, but nationally as well.
The Floridians have found inspiration over the years from music that is hard driving with good hooks, as well as unabashed and unafraid riffs reminiscent of the pioneers of metal and hard rock, all the while grinding forward into the music of today and tomorrow.
The diversity of their individual influences certainly informs the music, yet there is enough commonality to ensure a coherency that runs throughout the band's catalogue. From the horror rock "House of the Dead," to the tastefully savvy guitar work of "Murder," it is difficult not to find something to latch onto with the musicality of this crew.
The Distinguished Order Of Disobedience prides itself on its stage show, a high energy feast of metal, that is different and surprising at every venue. As a band, they are dynamic and eye-catching as they take the stage and take over the room. The audience can never be certain what's coming next, except a great show! This can be attributed to the multitude of shows they've played over the years with an array of local and national acts. The D.O.O.D. is 100% fan-friendly and takes great pride in being part of a surging Florida metal scene.
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Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: july 19th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Hate Eternal | Deicide | Krisiun | Vital Remains
WEREWOLVES formed in 2019 with the express purpose of releasing ten albums in ten years. 2024 sees them hit the halfway mark with Die For Us, yet another barrage of completely moronic death-metal due out 19th July.
“We are goal-driven achievers known for our savvy business acumen”, says broke-ass bassist-vocalist Sam Bean (The Antichrist Imperium, The Berzerker, who has never been successful at anything in his life, ever). “It seems obvious at this point, now that we have amassed an international following and rabid demand for our live shows, that we should release an album imploring everyone to kill themselves and each other. Reverse psychology, Marketing 101. Getting your fanbase to cull themselves down to a pile of goo and corpses means more sales. Duh.”
“Oh, the music? Same shit…blastbeats and incoherent ranting, sick riffs, that sort of thing. We’ll slip in some big choruses, brilliant samples, a few hints of black metal, one slow track that actually resembles music, and an amazing guest appearance. But at the end of the day, it’s still going to sound like a school bus getting fed into a metal shredder.”
Drummer Dave Haley (Psycroptic, Abramelin, Ruins, King, Blood Duster) and Guitarist Matt Wilcock (The Antichrist Imperium, The Berzerker, Abramelin) who play in real bands, feel that they shouldn’t let the bass player try and describe music.
WEREWOLVES continued their triumphant run of shows that extended no further than their own country and glommed onto bands far more popular than theirs throughout 2023. After beginning the year supporting MAYHEM and ULCERATE nationally, WEREWOLVES went on to support EXHUMED at their Melbourne show, then closed the year out by roaming the country with ARCHSPIRE and INGESTED.
“If that doesn’t stop people calling us a technical metal band I don’t know what will”, says Matt. “Here were these bright young talented things, well-seasoned, with the best equipment and a bright future ahead of them. But first people had to put up with these drunken old cunts with their opening half-hour of horseshit, staggering blindly around stage looking for the single input they had to plug into, and often failing to do that.”
He adds “CAVEMAN DEATH METAL”.
Die For Us ticks every box for modern death metal, with excruciatingly violent blasting straight out the gates and very little let-up until the bitter end. The title track is an anthemic call to self-annihilation, ‘Beaten Back To Life’ castigates everyone with the temerity to have started listening to metal after 1992. ‘Fuck You Got Mine’ is a hymn to the joys of being a slumlord. ‘My Hate is Strong’ is pure visceral evil and features vocal contributions by Australian national treasure ROK from SADISTIK EXEKUTION. ‘Spittle-Flecked Rant’ flirts with d-beats and hardcore while imploring the world to be even worse, and ‘Under A Urinal Moon’ is a wave of blackened darkness piss.
Mixing and Mastering was done by none other than Joe Haley (PSYCROPTIC), who we’ll use until either he dies, we quit, or Erik Rutan becomes an affordable option. The artwork was done by Mitchell Nolte, not an AI because we’re not fuckwits, and is guaranteed to horrify as many people as all the previous albums. He basically took the album title and ran with it, focusing his artistic genius on cramming as much blood and gore onto an album cover as humanly possible.
Die For Us is set for release 19th July 2024, available worldwide streaming on everything.
Line-up:
Sam Bean - Vocals/Bass
Matt Wilcock - Guitar
David Haley – Drums
https://www.werewolvesdeathmetal.com/
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Following the unveiling of another mind-boggling Diskord track from this split release, it's the turn of the UK progressive death metal band Atvm now to show their chops. And they deliver a jaw-dropping near 12-minute track packed with the kind of music only they are capable of producing. Check out the premiere done by Mystification Zine for yourselves at https://mystificationzine.com/2024/06/25/an-early-stream-of-morphine-from-diskord-atvm-bipolarities-split-lp-2024-premiere/
"their work remains freely-thinking and moving in broad strokes well outside of the realm of death metal"
DISKORD /ATVM – “BIPOLARITIES”
For
fans of
- Demilich, Defect Designer, Xenosis, Disharmonic Orchestra, Carcass, The
ChasmNorwegian band Diskord show us why they're masters when it comes to this kind of twisted, convoluted, and quite frankly timeless death metal. They're inexorably pushing their sound forward in their own way and even after a couple of decades of existence, they manage to keep their music refreshing and unpredictable. The four new songs that are a part of this split are even more erratic and out-of-the-box. Indeed, there are about a hundred variations in them but how each of the songs progress will still leave you guessing. It's just ingenious songwriting that reaches out and grabs your attention despite the unnatural complexity and compels you to listen to the songs again and again to fully wrap your head around them. They're an absolute delight for any fan of progressive, technical or even dissonant death metal, regardless of his old school or contemporary stylistic inclination.
UK progressive death trailblazers Atvm left an indelible mark with their groundbreaking full length and they return with some of their longest and best songs for this special split release. The music may not be as technical as that of their label mates on this split but it's every bit as engrossing and they even throw some nasty curveballs of their own - the longish playing time only allows them to shape-shift multiple times with ease and they do that with conviction. There's an inherent sickness to their music and their progression feels visceral. They have their own way of doing things and it's definitely a thrill to follow the sinuous patterns and eccentricities that they throw along the way. These songs are yet another testament to the raw talent of this relative newcomer and their pairing with Diskord on this split only brings out the quirky appeal of their music some more
Diskord line up:
Hans Jørgen - Drums and vocals
Eyvind - Bass and vocals
Dmitry - Guitar and vocals
Atvm line up:
Tom - Guitars
Fran - Drums and percussion
Luke - Bass and percussion
H - Vocals
Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston
Artwork by Will Sweeney
Track listing:
1. Diskord - Onward! To Nowhere
2. Diskord - Pass The Baton
3. Diskord - Shivering, As We Shed Our Hides
4. Diskord - Cogged Pother
5. Atvm - Cancer
6. Atvm - Morphine
Official release date - July 12th, 2024
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Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
Stream it now at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSkI_z1hXc4
"Liminal Shroud’s willingness to both wallow in negativity and use it as fuel to power anthemic moments sets them above their monochromatic peers."- Toilet ov Hell
Visions of Collapse will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Pre-order at the following links:
BC: https://liminalshroud.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-collapse
Willowtip: https://willowtip.com/bands/details/liminal-shroud.aspx
Cleansing in collapse, solace in emergence from tunnels of psychic distortion, sanctuary in the dissolution of the spirit, and a salute once again to the worthlessness of it all, Visions of Collapse is Liminal Shroud's new offering of surging, evocative, and forward-thinking black metal.
"On this record we have elevated everything in our arsenal to new heights. Serpentine songwriting and cathartic conviction reflect again the elemental forces of destruction of the coast, and capturing moments of sorrow, solitude and grandeur, we seek to find ourselves in annihilation. Adherence to tradition and the will to push ever-onward find their fusion in the interplay of melody, rhythmic vigor, and subtle progressive voicing. Primordial oceans churn, searing winds howl, and a baleful void opens above – cast yourself in and submit to the scythe." - Liminal Shroud
Track
Listing:1. Nocturnal Phosphoresence
2. Nucleonic Blight
3. Resolve
4. Malaspina
5. The Carving Scythe
Credits:
All music and lyrics written by Liminal Shroud.
Co-produced, recorded, and mixed by Matt Roach; Additional audio engineering by Emily Ryan - Rain City Recorders, Vancouver BC, Canada.
Mastered by Greg Chandler - Priory Recording Studios, UK.
Artwork by Misanthropic Art.
Line-up:
Aidan Crossley - Guitar/Vocals
Rich Taylor - Bass/Vocals
Drew Davidson - Drums
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Bassist/vocalist Meadow Wyand comments on the song. “‘Hill of Swords’ was written in response to Kentaro Miura’s passing. It references the location in his dark fantasy masterwork Berserk, where the graves of the sacrificed are marked by swords instead of tombstones. As the song developed, it became an anthem for those we lost during the pandemic, as well as the invisible millions who suffer from chronic disabilities. Musically, I think it’s a poignant distillation of the styles synthesized on the record. The main harmony owes a debt to Iron Maiden, which is followed by Bad Religion riffing in the verses, and a layered John McGeoch-esque chorus. Dave’s solo and psychedelic tone during the bridge contain some of the best guitar work on the album.”
"Hill of Swords" is now available on streaming platforms. Listen at https://www.facebook.com/fourthdominion/
Fiadh Productions will release Diana's Day on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats on August 1. The album confronts themes of queerness, feminine magick, and existentialism, and is already drawing critical acclaim months ahead of the album's release.
Stream previously released FOURTH DOMINION music on Spotify and Apple Music.
Tracklist:1) Bloodstains
2) Lilim
3) Burn the Prisons!
4) From Below
5) Goetia
6) Hill of Swords
7) Death in Fall
8) Tormenta Purgatoria
9) Her Wings
10) Casca Dreaming
“FOURTH DOMINION’s new album fulfills the promises hinted at on their debut, Wings of a Dying Crow (2017). The songs are epic but not indulgent; punkish instincts bring the heavy doses of gothic rock and metal into sharp focus. While the sound breaks from the cul-de-sac of tribalism dominating so much rock music, it retains an unmistakable identity and voice. Other bands have tried to chart this territory to varying degrees of success–The Cure’s Bloodflowers–whose damaged brilliance lacked the energy and immediacy we are greeted with here. At the heart of this material is Meadow Wyand’s gift for enveloping gothic melodies matched with lyrics that reflect the ennui and destructiveness of our post-pandemic stupor. From the parasitic liaison of “Bloodstains” to the spectral occult of “Lilim,”–these songs carry the weight of worlds lurking just beyond the next corner. Backed by the heavy gallop of drums and atmospheric guitar runs, these capture the strange dread of these days.” –Harlow Crandall, “Starts Like a Kiss and Ends Like a Curse: The Enigma of Jim Carroll”
"FOURTH DOMINION are back with a follow-up to 2017’s ‘Wings of a Dying Crow’. With their earlier work, I love the blend between heavy metal and punk, culminating in early AFI meets early Maiden sound. This new venture sees the band bring a more mature and experimental sound. Whilst the new release still has those heavy metal sections such as the solo of “Bloodstains”, the punk edge has altered slightly. The new sound falls more into the post-punk category, reminiscent of bands such as Fields of Nephilim as evident on “Death in Fall”. This new musical direction aligns FOURTH DOMINION with contemporary bands such as Unto Others. The highlight for me however has to be “Lillim” with its multilayered chorus which will worm its way into your ears for days with absolutely zero complaints!" - Olivia Matthews, Hornthrowers
Bio
“In filth, evil stands.” A line from FOURTH DOMINION’s upcoming sophomore album that proclaims songwriter Meadow Wyand’s singular and novel point-of-view. An out trans frontwoman, her songs reflect queer trauma and defiance, as well as speaking to existential despair and spiritual divination. The group’s emotionally dense and literate songs draw just as much from the contemplative gothic metal of Anathema and Sentenced, as they do the unapologetic alternative punk of Hole and PJ Harvey. With compositions that are simultaneously somber, catchy and intricate, FOURTH DOMINION radiate a hunger and commercial appeal beyond the confines of heavy metal to which they are rooted.
Their debut album, 2017’s Wings of a Dying Crow, marked an important stride in developing the type of post-In Solitude heavy metal deathrock that has taken off in the years since. Its follow-up shows a love for Angel Witch, as well as the guitar playing of The Smiths and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album reflects themes not often confronted in heavy metal: disability, gender, the divine feminine, anti-futurist queer politics, and sexual assault. Its exploration of trauma seeks to be a response and companion piece to Hole’s "Live Through This."
With their forthcoming mission statement, FOURTH DOMINION showcases their ability to rise to the top of the new wave of gothic metal, or “Deathwave” as Wyand refers to it. Featuring new drummer Brady Mentz and the production talents of Casey Ahrens-Cavallo and Tom Gerwitz, the band have Frankensteined an album of profound emotional depth and commercial readiness. “When we fight, we bash back!” is a promise to both the queer empowerment the album represents, as well as the band’s uncompromising attitude for growth.
FOURTH DOMINION is:
Meadow Wyand - Bass/vocals
Dave Milburn.- Guitars
Brady Mentz - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/fourthdominion/
Captured live at the “Rockhouse Festival” on June 1st, 2024, this video showcases the raw energy and electrifying performance of Impact Approved. The live debut of "VENTUS ET IGNIS" in Hamburg on March 14th, 2024, was a game-changer, proving to be a perfect anthem for the crowd to go wild. The moment Impact Approved got the crowd moving, they saw an explosion of energy with fans being lifted and crowd surfing. The first three surfers even scored a free CD of “WAY OF THE WARRIOR”!
"Our
mission is always to give the crowd an unforgettable experience," says
the band. "The energy we share with our fans is what fuels us. Seeing
the smiling faces and feeling the connection is what keeps us going."Impact Approved's live shows are legendary for a reason – walls of death, circle pits, and an endless wave of crowd surfers are guaranteed to make every concert an adrenaline-pumping experience.
Witness the madness for yourself and become part of the Impact Approved legacy!
Impact Approved: A Band Forged in Fire
Born in 2019, Impact Approved quickly carved their niche in the melodic death metal scene. Philipp (vocals) and Uwe (guitars, drums) laid the groundwork, joined by Maurice (bass) in 2020 and Armin (guitar) shortly after. After the critically acclaimed release of "Into the Fray" in 2021, the band toured alongside heavyweights like Heaven Shall Burn in 2022. With the departure of Armin, Matthias "Matze" Büsing steps in to complete the live lineup, ready to unleash the fury of Way of the Warrior on audiences worldwide.
www.youtube.com/@impactapproved6565
ORPHEUS OMEGA – “EMBERGLOW”
Death Metal "Emberglow is a true representation of everything that is the best of Orpheus Omega married with a new sense of urgency, drive, self-awareness, and internal musings and melancholy that we felt while putting this album together. Prepare to hear Orpheus Omega going well past redline on these songs and ensure you're ready to join us on a ride we promise you won't want to get off of!"
Tracklist
1. We Were Kings
2. Emberglow
3. Atomizer
4. Destiny Machine
5. The Tangle
6. Start Maps
7. Marionette
8. The Collector
9. Paper Dreams And Concrete Walls
10. Bound To Apathy
With a career spanning 4 acclaimed albums 3 EPs and countless tour cycles both domestically and abroad, Orpheus Omega has cemented themselves as one of the hardest-working and entertaining mainstays of the Australian Metal scene.
Beginning with a sound forged along the lines of the great Gothenburg Melodeath era, the band has since grown further and further into a unique entity feeding off each member’s personality and lives bringing them to touring with the likes of Insomnium, Trivium, At The Gates, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Lacuna Coil and many many more.
The continued evolution of Orpheus Omega has kept the band relevant and ever-growing and in 2024 brings with it the release of their most ambitious album yet, ‘EMBERGLOW’ through WormholeDeath Records.
Orpheus Omega is:
Chris Themelco - Vocals/ Lead Guitar
Leon Monaco - Bass/ Backing Vocals
Matt Themelco - Drums
Luke Ashley - Guitar
Campbell Hill – Keyboard
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www.facebook.com/orpheusofficial
Nachdem wir nun in den letzten Wochen erst mal wieder fleißig
damit beschäftigt waren, das eine oder andere Interview auszuarbeiten, konnten
wir uns diese Woche nun endlich mal wieder ranmachen, um auch mal wieder ein bissel
was an aktuellem Tonmaterial an unsere Ohren zu lassen. Wie ihr sehen werdet,
gab es diesmal durchaus mal wieder so eine ganz fette Überraschung, mit der
unsereins nun absolut nicht gerechnet hätte. Lest selbst und vor allem, lasst
Euch überraschen. Viel Spaß beim abhotten !
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GROZA – “NADIR”
Genre:
Black MetalLabel: AOP Records
VÖ: 20.09.2024
GROZA (“storm”, “terror”) is a black metal band from Bavaria, Germany. Their sound is driven by emotion, anger and sadness, combining searing melodies, raging blast beats and melancholy induced clean guitar passages into a melodic, dynamic blend.
Founded as a one-man project by singer / multi-instrumentalist P.G. in 2016, the band gradually grew towards a full band in the following two years, culminating in the self-release of their first effort - “Unified In Void” (2018) - which almost instantly gained attention and interest, leading to the signing to AOP Records shortly after. After 3 years of writing and intense live activity followed the release of the 2nd full length album “The Redemptive End” (2021), that was met with critical acclaim and overwhelming reception of fans alike, entering #78 of the German album charts consequently.
Between releases, the band has extensively presented their craft live on stages all across Europe during various club shows, festivals and full-fledged tours across Europe. To date, GROZA has played 120+ shows in over 20 countries. Continuing to do so in the fall of 2024, the band will again tour Europe in support of the new album.
“Nadir” was recorded during the spring of 2024
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Melodic Metal project ELEMENT OF FATE - featuring fantasy artist/vocalist Carol Phillips and guitarist/musician Scott Loose - have released new single, "BASILISK," on all digital platforms.
"Basilisk," as well as new track "Warhorse" (the "b-side"), were premiered exclusively on Bandcamp earlier this month.
Phillips discusses the concepts, inspiration, and music for both of these stellar new songs below.
Basilisk:
"AI is at the forefront of technology today, and like a demon released from Pandora's box, it is here to stay. Like it or not, there is no putting it back. Since its release, mankind will never be the same. Our increasing dependence on AI and technology is causing us to move further away from our humanity. These are new times in the era of man, and we are playing with fire once again. The basilisk is coming for all of us.
Inspired by Roko's Basilisk theory, which imagines a future where an AI tortures those who didn't help bring it into existence, I was fascinated by the concept of an evil AI overlord. Captivated by this chilling idea, I came up with a really catchy melody, and the idea for the song 'Basilisk' was born. Scott then worked his groovy heavy metal magic to fill out my melodies and musical ideas, bringing the track to life.
Musically, it’s a gritty, high-energy, groovy track that combines powerful riffs, haunting melodies, and intense vocals that conveys its urgent message. 'Basilisk' explores the rise of AI and the decline of human identity as we become increasingly dependent on this technology. It’s a commentary on the balance between technological progress and our humanity, hopefully leaving listeners both reflective and energized. Though, I feel we should heed the warning for the Basilisk, the singularity is fast approaching and AI, especially if not developed safely, it could easily become the very Basilisk that
Roko envisioned."
Warhorse:
"'Warhorse' is a unique creative venture for Element of Fate unlike any of our other songs. Scott was inspired to craft an instrumental piece from some leftover riffs from 'Night Winds.' The riff he initially created for 'Night Winds' and used for 'Warhorse' has an amazing, powerful galloping rhythm, which inspired the song's title. When I heard the cinematic instrumental he had made, I felt it needed some vocals.
Although there are lyrics, they are minimal. I approached the song mostly by using my voice as an instrument, expressing myself through sound textures, combining sung vocals and screams. The song reminds me of a speech given before battle.You could view it as a rallying cry, urging us to band together and stand strong in this new, unpredictable world. The lyrics I chose are in Latin, speaking of facing the fire fearlessly, no matter what comes out of it. I wanted the message to be strong, matching the feeling of the music. I think it's a cool track that really lets your imagination wander. - Carol Phillips
Credits:All music recorded at House Nine.
Mixed and mastered by John Mario at JBG Records.
Copyright 2024.
All artwork by Carol Phillips.
Line-Up:
Carol Phillips: Vocals, Lyrics
Scott Loose: Guitars, Bass, Keys, Drum Programming
Bio:
Element of Fate is a melodic metal project consisting of fantasy artist and vocalist, Carol Phillips, and guitarist/musician, Scott Loose. The duo primarily draw influence from traditional metal bands, but leverage modern recording techniques to craft their unique sound. The music varies from high-energy thrashing to melodic and groovy, and the lyrics explore a range of fantasy-laden, mystical, and sci-fi storylines. Carol’s dynamic voice, paired with Scott’s passion for writing guitar riffs, creates a textured fusion of metallic and dream-like soundscapes. All of the music and releases are accompanied by Carol's original artwork, which creates an even more immersive experience for the listener.
https://bravemusic.com/
https://elementoffate.bandcamp.com/
Released on tape 50 hand-numbered copies on pro tapes.
You can get it for US$5 + shipping.
Underground from Shangrilá, Canelones, Uruguay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnU6uqnkAPk
FFO: Skeletonwitch, Absu,
Vektor, Witchery, NocturnalCheck it out below! https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/06/28/an-ncs-premiere-torrefy-enslaved-new-world/
Coinciding with today's premiere, the band has also unveiled the artwork for Necronomisongs, as seen above (credit: Blackstory).
Torrefy released the following statement about the new single:
"Enslaved New World is the next track we've premiered from our upcoming album Necronomisongs! With every track on the album being based on a favorite book of vocalist John Ferguson, this next one is from the fantasy series The Death Gate Cycle. One of his favorite takes on the fantasy genre; it lulls you into a sense of familiarity with an almost paint-by-numbers fantasy setting and story, which quickly evolves into a vast conceptual tapestry of excellent lore, characters and subjects."
The band previously released the official video for "Of Wind and Worm," the first single from Necronomisongs.
Necronomisongs is targeted for a Fall 2024 release.
Necronomisongs Credits:
Recorded by Torrefy and Cody Baresich at Circle A Studios.
Mixed by Cody Baresich.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
About Torrefy:
Torrefy is a black thrash quintet based in Victoria, BC, Canada. They are determined to spread their unique brand of unorthodox black thrash metal to a wider audience. Torrefy weaves elements of black, death, and thrash metal to create songs and albums with a distinct and powerful energy.
Line-up:
Adam Henry - Lead Guitar
Ben Gerencser - Rhythm Guitar
Simon Smith - Bass
John Ferguson - Vocals
Daniel Laughy - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Torrefy
RAW MATERIALS OF DECAY delivers 15 oozing sores chock full of bloody blasts & necrotic riffage. In a mere 25 minutes, this album will churn your guts and melt your face. For fans of brutal music!
Quietly released in March of this year, Raw Materials of Decay has recieved proper worldwide treatment via a collaboration between Extremely Rotten Productions and Headsplit Records.
Order Raw Materials of Decay now at https://extremelyrottenprod.com/store/new/
Stream the extreme that is HEMORRHOID on Spotify.
Tracklist:1) Hemorrhoidal Removal Surgery
2) Exogenous Intestinal Blockage
3) Ultimate Commode of Chaos & Carnage
4) Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis
5) Rancid Rectal Rupture
6) A Dozen Suppurating Masses
7) Stool Borne Illness
8) Sliced and Tucked
9) Raw Materials of Decay
10) Dante’s Fecal Inferno
11) Liquefied In A Caustic Sludge
12) Esophageal Rupture
13) Ectopic Scrambling
14) Festering Blood Pit
15) Cacophony of Bloody Lactation
Cover artwork by Filtheffigy. Raw Materials of Decay was recorded and mixed by Charlie Koryn at Underworld Studios and mastered by Noah Buchanan.
HEMORRHOID was formed in the US Pacific Northwest in 2021 with the intention to play sick, grinding death metal. The band made their live debut during a mini-tour with Necropsy Odor and Human Effluence in 2022. A rehearsal promo was released to mark the trek. The official demo came out in January 2023, followed by a small Finland & Denmark run with Torture Rack in 2023.
HEMORRHOID is:
Obsessor of Necrotic Coitus - bass
Disgustor - drums/vocals
Crystal Seth - guitar/vocals
www.extremelyrottenprod.com
www.facebook.com/extremelyrottenproductions
https://www.facebook.com/headsplitrecords
https://hemorrhoid-us.bandcamp.com/album/raw-materials-of-decay
SIJJEEL – “AFFILIATION OF HORRID CONTAINMENT”
Label: Comatose MusicRelease date: july 5th 2024
Genre: Death Metal
For fans of: Incantation | Incinerate | Immolation | Drawn And Quartered
The moment that last guttural, tongue contorting syllable left my lips I was undone. Before the lingering taste of dust and bone had faded from my mouth those I had awakened, invited in from the darkness, were upon me, around me, within me; a riot of delirious devils, an onslaught of teeth and blood and pain beyond imagination. My pathetic expectations of control were shredded with my flesh and my eternal soul was dragged down, submerged in a screaming crimson madness of fire and grotesque visions of depravity that made my own countless sins seem naught but the petty games of a cruel and vindictive child…
There are many bands that play death metal, working within the accepted defining forms of the genre, sculpting the musical tropes into agreeable, even accomplished forms. Then there are the rare few, those who reach through the veil to worlds beyond and grasp the suppurating, corrosive essence of the horrors that lurk outside the walls of human understanding. Such is the tainted darkness of Sijjeel and the terror infused abomination that is their second full length album, Affiliation Of Horrid Containment. After the swarming, fractious insanity of the instrumental intro has gnawed at the nerve endings, the door back to the light is slammed violently shut – and the world explodes. A wild torrent of nightmares pours from the guitar of Hussain Akbar, punctured by the bone-shaking bass of Lukas Kaminski (Stillbirth, Placenta Powerfist etc), while the cavernous voice of Floor van Kuijk (Focal Dystonia, Korpse etc) bellows from the black. ‘Torment Upon Their Existence’ delivers punishing, discordant blows while ‘The Congregation Under Shade’ is a glorious, fear-filled slide into a seething, hungry night. The jarring ‘Infallible’ has wandered far from the path of reason and first single ‘Relinquished Unto Thee 14’ is part rabid attack, part lumbering monstrosity and all brain-scouring agony. At every turn Affiliation Of Horrid Containment unleashes new dread leviathans of impossible malignant magnitude. Since Hussain Akbar brought the ancient and unspeakable spirit of Sijjeel from its desert home to establish a new nest upon European shores it has flourished, its power growing greater with each passing day. With Affiliation Of Horrid Containment ready to be unleashed Sijjeel’s ultimate domination is inevitable.
Mixed and mastered, as always, by band vocalist Floor Van Kuijk at his renowned GLDCHN Studios (A Pretext To Human Suffering, Carnifloor etc) Affiliation Of Horrid Containment sounds utterly staggering in its twisted force and tortured atmosphere. The shocking brutality and ghastly, panic-inducing presence that permeates every second of this album makes for a listening experience like no other. Artist Rudi Gorgingsuicide (Perveration, Desecrate The Faith etc) has once more created a scenario of sickness to accompany Sijjeel’s music, his stunningly realised vision of torment putting the final seal on this work of warped wonders. Comatose Music will shatter the chains of binding on July 5th and release Affiliation Of Horrid Containment into the world…and nothing can prepare you for the hell that is Sijjeel!
Line-up:
Floor Van Kuijk - Vocals
Lukas Kaminski - Bass
Hussain Akbar – Guitar/Drum Programming
https://www.comatosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sijjeelband/
SULFURIS horrifies with sexually tinted single PARASITE AND EYE!
Before
taking the stage at Tuska Metal Festival 2024 on Saturday June 29th, SulfuriS
is offering a taste of their upcoming debut album. The song, Parasite and Eye,
out June 26th is an unabashed grindfest about a somewhat peculiar subject. It
deals with a parasite that turns snails into zombies. But dare we ask. What if
the snail really liked it? I mean, really liked it!? Listen Parasite And Eye on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/sulfuris-parasite
Lyricist and SulfuriS vocalist Vincent Lilium enlightens us:
"This is all absolutely horrendous but true! Leucochloridium paradoxum is a parasite that grows into a colourful shape that resembles a caterpillar. Mind you, it does this inside the poor snail. Reaching all the way up into its little eyes. It then mumics a grub by pulsating back and forth in order to attract the attention of a passing bird. The bird then spreads the ghastly thing's eggs with its leavings. Another unsuspecting snail will then eat that waste and the whole disgusting horror show begins again. Well, in our version, we explore the idea of a snail that derives a great deal of pleasure from the experience of having an intruder thrusting their innards. The climax of which is the simultaneous death of both organisms. 'All I want to see is you'... Sorry what? Yes, everything is quite alright at home. Thanks for asking."
Parasite and Eye is the final single to come out in anticipation of a full-length debut album, CORPUS//ANIMUS. The record is fully independently produced, recorded at Saarni Studio and released through Inverse Records, Finland on August 2nd 2024. It will be themed around exploring the material and spiritual worlds, through the framework of alchemy. It promises to be brutal, technical, filled with catchy hooks, grandiose as well as soothing moments.
CD Pre-Order available here https://inverse-records.myshopify.com/products/sulfuris-corpus-animus-cd-pre-order
Line-up:
Vincent Lilium - vocals and bass guitar
Daniel Collan - rhythm and lead guitars
Samu Laakso- rhythm and lead guitars
Lauri "Ässä" Suopajärvi - drums
https://www.facebook.com/sulfuris
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: august 14th 2024
Genre: Melodic Metal
For fans of: Epica | Nightwish | Delain | Leaves’ Eyes
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."- William Shakespeare
The fierce dramas of the human heart are acted out upon the stage of a lifetime. The storms of fervour and desire, the gloom of doubt instilled by repression, the brilliant, blinding light of realisation and new found self belief – blazing sunshine cutting through the clouds of deprecation and control. We fall like the Morningstar and rise again like the phoenix. Such brief, tempestuous lives we lead, brave flames in the darkness of eternity; tiny passion plays, triumphs and tragedies, flickering sparks in the cold and endless night.
With their stunning second EP, Tame & Conquer, Franco-Italian melodic metal band Attractive Chaos paint wonderful, intimate portraits of the emotions that define us. The grand scale of our hopes and ambitions, the quiet depths of our loves, the consuming heat of our obsessions are all elegantly captured in the deceptive simplicity of stylish and sophisticated songs. Opening with new single, ‘To The Moon’, the beautiful vocals of Emma Elvaston entwine the listener in sublime melody, enfold you in a dream. The rush of positivity is gloriously uplifting and the smoothly shifting rhythms and tempos and the dextrous guitar work of Clément Botz are simply breathtaking – it’s the perfect start to the second chapter in the Attractive Chaos fairytale. Tracks like ‘Magical Powers’ and ‘Right Now’ show the darker, heavier elements of Attractive Chaos’ music, utilising harsh vocal punctuations and exquisite musicianship to highlight the layered personality and complex depths which form the foundations that support the sweetly addictive melody lines. Tame & Conquer follows naturally in the footsteps of debut EP The Fire Between Us, but Attractive Chaos have not stood still, with the multi-faceted nature of the climactic ‘Obsession’ in particular showing the band pushing onwards into new territories, as flamenco guitar, searing intensity and bewitching melody coalesce in serene sonic alchemy. Completed by first single, the entrancing ‘Words On A Letter’ where every note is radiant with the soft light of sunset and the energy infused ‘Finally’, with its magnificent chorus, you could listen to Tame & Conquer for hours on end and its magic would never fade.
Mixed and mastered at Domination Studio (Nightmare, Karl Sanders, Twilight Force etc) Tame & Conquer sounds sumptuous – a banquet for the ears – and Attractive Chaos have once again entrusted the creation of cover art to Mickael Briot of Mythrid Art (Evenflow, In Defilade etc) with spectacular results. Tame & Conquer will be released on August 14th and your heart will start to sing again…
Line-up:
Emma Elvaston – Lead Vocals
Pietro Paolo Lunesu – Bass/Backing Vocals
Clément Botz – Guitar/Backing Vocals
*drums on The Fire Between Us performed by Thomas Calegari
*guest vocals from Gabriele Gozzi
http://www.attractive-chaos.com/
https://www.facebook.com/attractivechaosband
The
most overlooked forefathers of Swedish Death Metal! Recorded in the early 90’s
at the legendary Sunlight Studios!GOD MACABRE formed in the end of the 80’s under the name Macabre End. In 1991 they changed their name to God Macabre and released one song for the Pantalgia compilation and an album through the small German label Mangled Beyond Recognition Records before splitting up.
For fans of: Vomitory, Entombed, Carnage, Dismember, Morbid Angel
Originally released in 1993, “THE WINTERLONG” was recorded at Stockholm’s legendary Sunlight Studios in 1991 and engineered by Tomas Skogsberg (Amorphis, At The Gates, Entombed). Now fully remastered and available again, “The Winterlong” reissue also contains four bonus tracks, including the band’s original 7” demo from 1990 plus the previously unreleased track, “Life’s Verge”, the first new God Macabre recording in over 20 years.
• First vinyl pressing in ten years
• Recorded in the early 90’s by Tomas Skogsberg at the legendary Sunlight Studios
• God Macabre has performed live on festivals as Maryland Deathfest, Obscene Extreme, Close-Up Bäten, Asakura Deathfest and more!
https://godmacabre.lnk.to/thewinterlong
Style: Epic Doom Metal with elements of classic Heavy Metal and Progressive
Similar artists: Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble
First work to have Ricky Dal Pane (former singer and leader of the band Witchwood) behind the microphone, it will be one of the next big things within the Dark Doom Metal movement thanks to an overall epic and gloomy feeling, mixed with the natural dark atmospheres of their old school Doom Metal.
This is definitively an album for fans of Candlemass, Pentagram, Solstice, Solitude Aeturnus, Black Sabbath, Trouble. And are you ready to walk the dark path that leads to oblivion?
Formed in 1987 from the ashes of Black Hole and Sacrilege, disbanded in
early 1994, but reformed in 2012, EPITAPH are a point of reference for the
entire Italian underground musical movement together with a few other realities
on the national scene. Having reached the milestone of their third album,
7 years after the last "Claws" released in 2017, today EPITAPH
present themselves to their fans with this new line-up, a new album and all the
desire to bring their music to the best national and international stages.Anyone who has experienced the Italian scene in recent years knows well the aura of mystery that EPITAPH have created around their name and their music. With this new album they give life to a dark path between Doom Metal, Dark Music, Progressive and Esoteric music.
So let's let the journey to oblivion begin! DOOM ON!
Line-up:
Mauro Tollini: drums
Nicola Murari: bass
Lorenzo Loatelli: guitars
Ricky Dal Pane: vocals
https://linktr.ee/mykingdommusic
https://www.facebook.com/epitaph.doom
TYPHONIAN – “THE GATE OF THE VEILED BEYOND”
For
fans of: Edge
of Sanity, Unanimated, Necrophobic, Dismember, Dan Swano, Desultory, Unleashed, Evocation
Where most bands are content revelling in the sound of the glory days of early '90s death metal, German band Typhonian have not only beautifully reimagined it with blackened elements laced with the classic Swedish/Finnish melodies, they are also attempting to take that sound ahead in the most logical manner. Their approach being reminiscent of Edge of Sanity and their 40-minute masterwork 'Crimson', Typhonian are going a step further, adding more progressive and atmospheric elements, which become perceptible especially towards the end of the album, ultimately culminating in a near 20-minute epic closer. It's a phenomenal journey of the music that's evidently rooted in the old school death metal sound metamorphosing gradually and finally taking on a gleaming, breathtaking form and ascending. They have broken the shackles that have held back the style for a couple of decades by encompassing various influences organically and forging a cohesive sound that has dominance over them all. With the visionary 'The Gate of the Veiled Beyond' release, Typhonian have more than just outdone themselves; they have surpassed expectations for the style as a whole.
Line up:
M. W. Styrum - Vocals
Prometheus - Guitars
Typhon -Guitars, Orchestration
Charybdis - Bass
Thanatos – Drums
Artwork by Juanjo Castellano
Track listing:
1. Celestial Salvation
2. Cosmic Throne
3. Primal Deceptive Light
4. Crimson Rivers
5. The Gatekeeper
6. Towards the Chamber of the Omnipresent Mind
7. A Glimpse at the Starless Ocean
8. Cath'un - The Gate of the Veiled Beyond
Release date - September 20th, 2024
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/typhonianband/
One-man stoner/metal doom band NEBÜLITH is set to release FEEL GOOD MUSIC FOR THE END OF THE WORLD VOL. 1. Written and recorded solely by project mastermind and multi-instrumentalist John Shaughnessy, Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 delivers a heavy dose of doom-infused, psychedelic stoner metal.
For fans of : Black Sabbath, Monster Magnet, Sleep, Smashing Pumpkins, Ministry and Mötorhead.
Check out the album's newest single "Seven Suns" at https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nebulith/seven-suns
Stream additional selections from Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 on Spotify and Apple Music.
Nebülith will release Feel Good Music for the End of the World Vol. 1 on August 23.
Track list:
1) Beautiful
2) Startrippin
3) Mother Freedom
4) Leviathan
5) Clear Light
6) God Is Your Gun
7) Seven Suns
8) Digging A Hole
9) UVB76
Line-up:
Nebülith: vocals, fretless piccolo bass, piccolo bass,4 string basses, drums, keys, organ, bass guitar synthesizer, vocoder, drum programming, windchimes, megaphone
Pat Shaughnessy: Drums on “Beautiful” and “God Is Your Gun”
Bio:
Nebülith is the product of John Shaughnessy, a professional bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer from Charlotte, NC.
As as kid, his tastes gravitated towards the heavy, groove-influenced rock of Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, King Crimson, and a heavy dose of funk. Later on, he embraced alternative music and proto-punk like The MC5 as well as next-gen stoner/Doom like Sleep and Monster Magnet.
While paying the bills playing jazz and show band gigs, he started a project called Space Force Alpha, with vocalist Omari Wilkerson. The duo released a single “Change The World” in 2019. The song featured John’s unique fretless piccolo bass playing - a combination of guitar, bass and electric cello, all recorded in John’s home production studio.
More demos were written for Space Force Alpha, with an eye toward making a full record - and then the pandemic hit, and the music business came to a complete halt. Faced with time on his hands and no band, John decided to make a solo record and do all the instruments and vocals himself. He figured that would be a good use of the time off and an audition tape for future production sessions. Having become a huge fan of the Riding Easy Brown Acid series, Shaughnessy figured the most fun thing to do would be to make a pseudo garage band record with the riffs he had lying around. He considered marketing it as a “lost”
band from the 70s, and releasing it on reel-to-reel tape.
As “two weeks” turned into months, and the world started falling apart, the music and the message got progressively darker and angrier. He started pushing his studio gear to increasing extremes. Multiple versions of songs ensued, each heavier than the last.
Eventually, he was left with a huge pile of recordings to sift through. Sorting through this audio hoarder house and finding a direction took the better part of a year. In the course of the recording, the dystopian Nebülith character was developed as a clear departure from his normal gig life.
The great thing is, as Nebülith he was able to do and say things that he would not normally be able to in a professional Gig context. In Nebülith, the project found its voice.
Feel Good Music For The End Of The World Vol. 1 is the result of four years of work, experimentation, sweat, and pain.
https://www.facebook.com/people/neb%C3%BClith/61551352447160/
www.instagram.com/nebulith.band
Here's some information on the album's concept in the band member Tony Petrocelly's own words -
"This album is meant to be taken as a single track. There are 12 relatively clear sections that it can be broken into, but this album feels like more than the sum of its parts, if that makes sense.
I wrote the lyrics this time around. They're very personal and describe periods of depression and self-hatred I've gone through over the last 5 years. The lyrics are told from the point of view of a person's inner voice, but that inner voice hates the person it belongs to. Over the course of the album it lets its feelings be known in an attempt to make the person kill themself, which ultimately it does. The title A Kindness Dealt in Venom signifies that the inner voice thinks it's doing the world a favor by poisoning its person's mind and getting them to remove themself from the world."
CONSTRUCT OF LETHE – “A KINDNESS DEALT IN VENOM”
For
fans of
- Morbid Angel, Mithras, Near Death Condition, Hate Eternal, Nile, Pan
Thy Monium, The Bleeding LightConstruct of Lethe have created a deeply personal, autobiographical concept album dealing with suicidal depression which is meant to be listened to seamlessly as a single song. They've transcended the death metal confines on this album to achieve the kind of expression that encompasses a wide range of emotions and to that extent they've borrowed influences of other styles such as industrial, black metal, doom metal, ambient, etc. and even used synth and electronics to achieve that. The album traverses various dimensions while remaining coherent as well as cohesive, with the writing always coming off as intuitive, flowing naturally and never forced. As the battle rages on with the inner voice coming to terms with the persisting life, one can experience the undulating highs and lows via the music, and more often than not, following moments of bleakness, there's an epic, cathartic outcome as if by way of an epiphany. The upbeat sections replete with the Morbid Angel-esque riffing make an appearance too along with the flurry of leads which the band have perfected over the years. All in all, it's a rich, varied and unique album that needs to be treated differently. It's meant not just to be heard but to be experienced.
Line up:
Kishor Haulenbeek (Black Harvest) - Vocals
Tony Petrocelly (Near Death Condition) - Guitar, bass, synth
Patrick Bonvin (Near Death Condition) - Lead guitar
Kevin Paradis (Benighted) - Drums, percussion
Artwork by Kishor Haulenbeek
Track listing:
1. Artifice
2. Bete Noir
3. Contempt
4. Denial in Abstraction
5. Flickering
6. I am the Lionkiller
7. Labyrinthine Terror
8. Monument to Failure
9. Paroxysm as Pragmatism
10. Raw Nerve, Iron Will
11. Sacrosanct
12. Tension - There is Nothing for You Here
Official release date - June 21st, 2024
Thank you so much for your time! Kunal Choksi Label owner Transcending Obscurity Mumbai, India
https://www.facebook.com/transcendingobscurityrecords
https://www.facebook.com/constructoflethe
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: july 5th 2024
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
For fans of: Saor | Falls Of Rauros | Fen | Winterfylleth
There are pale ghosts drifting across the face of the moon tonight, as she hangs in imperious silence, surrounded by her court of stars. The cold light of this distant regal gathering dusts the hills with silver magic, as they march away over the horizon and into forever. And I will follow them, step by step through this world of mystery that man has forgotten, that still shines through the quiet hours while the children of empty avarice lie in dreamless slumber…
A Reckoning, the fourth full length album from Ben Sizer’s Arx Atrata begins with the instrumental track, ‘To Sunder The World’. Too substantial, too meaningful to be described as a mere introduction, ‘To Sunder The World’ builds in a purposeful, unhurried fashion. The increasing weight and brooding power within the sound is mirrored in the heart of the listener, a physical bond is formed as this journey begins, a tie that binds. There’s wonder, anticipation, a touch of fear…and then you are lifted, swept up into the starlit sky as ‘I Was A Witness To His Passing’ arrives on the stage in exhilarating, dramatic fashion. There is a sense of wisdom imparted as the rasping tones of the narrator of this tale cut through the riffs that race around you and notes like the chiming of ethereal bells seem to open doors to times not passed, but that we no longer have the eyes to see. This is atmospheric black metal at its most vital and formidable. This is music that matters. It might just save you from a slow death that you don’t even know you are dying. You could get lost in this album, as surely as if you wander from the path in the vast, shadowed forests of fairytale. The songs flow into each other like the blending of blood. Each one a new vision, but all part of one life-changing voyage through the landscape of myth to the roots of the earth. At the heart of the album lies ‘Mercy Unearned’, an epic song of fierce beauty where haunting melody, fierce intensity and a harsh, impassioned vocal meet and entwine. The word epic is used here, not just as a lazy synonym for ‘long’, but in its truest sense – grand in scale, breathtaking in its immensity and depth of emotion when you are submerged in its unfolding narrative. ‘The Witch’ is another song that demands individual mention; suitably beguiling and enchanting , it moves between moods, tempos and dynamics like the changing seasons. It has fire, mystery, deep sadness…a multitude of tales to tell. A Reckoning is everything that past Arx Atrata albums will have led you to expect, but also more than you could ever have hoped for…a milestone release for Ben Sizer that he will surely find hard to surpass.
Arx Atrata was summoned into life by Ben Sizer in 2013, more than ten years ago, beneath the boughs of ancient Sherwood Forest in the heart of England. With albums like 2019s critically acclaimed The Path Untravelled – about which Games, Braaains & A Headbanging Life stated “there is no faulting a single moment of this album” – and the remarkable, ambitious creativity of 2021s split release with Bleakwinter Shrine, The Warrior Cycle, Sizer has ensured Arx Atrata’s place in the annals of this island’s metal history. A Reckoning, his latest and without doubt greatest creation, will be released on CD and digital formats on July 5th, housed in stunning, evocative artwork that perfectly captures the spirit of the music that lies within. Be ready when the Reckoning time arrives…
Line-up:
Ben Sizer – All music and vocals
https://arxatrata.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ArxAtrata/
Hell-o Maniacs from the Underworld...
Murder Records & Hellstore Europe hereby informs the reactivation of the perverse activities of this infamous underworld, where you will find only nefarious rot... Our Cadaveric Noiseletter will also be updated weekly, with the aim of to keep you properly informed about the news that arrives at our stores as well as all the new releases that Murder Records is preparing to announce soon.
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In order for us to identify your order and grant the discount, use the code HELL-25 when placing your order via email: info@murder-records.eu
All orders must be confirmed due to stock of some items being limited.
Place your order with the minimum amount and the shipping costs with track trace are included:
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AYDRA: "HYPERLOGICAL SIN LIVE 2001/2013" coming soon .
Rude Awakening Records is excited to announce the upcoming release of Hyperlogical Sin Live 2001/2013, a special double live album from the legendary Italian Tech Death band, AYDRA. Following the reissue of AYDRA's complete official studio discography, this release delves into the vaults to bring fans unreleased and rare live recordings that showcase the band’s evolution and power on stage.
Hyperlogical Sin Live 2001/2013 features two complete live shows. The first set was recorded in 2013 to commemorate AYDRA’s reunion, capturing the current lineup’s dynamic performance. The second set takes us back to 2001, during the band's tour promoting their album Icon of Sin across Italy and Europe. Both shows have been professionally remastered to provide the highest quality listening experience.
Tracklist:2013 Reunion Show:
1. Vortex of Desire (2013)
2. Creator of Inner Cosmos (2013)
3. Inside the Insane Man (2013)
4. Psycho Pain Control (2013)
5. Crystal Mountain (Death cover, 2013)
6. Hyperlogical Non-Sense (2013)
7. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2013)
8. Master Enemy (2013)
9. Strobos (2013)
10. Mind Blast (2013)
11. Raining Blood (Slayer cover, 2013)
2001 "Icon of Sin" Tour:
12. Dream’s Door (2001)
13. Pleasure Dome (2001)
14. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2001)
15. Psycho Pain Control (2001)
16. Revenge (2001)
17. Icon of Sin (2001)
18. Inside the Insane Man (2001)
19. Lost Time Fury (2001)
This album serves as a powerful testament to AYDRA's enduring legacy and showcases the band’s evolution from their early days to their triumphant reunion. The 2013 lineup, which remains active today, offers a glimpse into the band’s present and future, while the 2001 lineup featuring former members provides a nostalgic look back at the band’s roots.
Hyperlogical Sin Live 2001/2013 will be available on all major streaming platforms as two separate releases, with the physical CD version out on July 8th, 2024 combining both live sets into one cohesive collection. Due to the limited run of only 150 hand-numbered copies, fans are encouraged to secure their copies quickly.
Live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Pgud843l8
2013 live: https://sptfy.com/QXFy
2001 live: https://sptfy.com/QXFC
Aydra 2013-current line-up:
Mauro Pacetti – Vocals
Giuseppe Cardamone – Guitar
Luca Calò – Guitar
Andrea Mastromarco – Bass
Marco Bianchella – Drums
Aydra 2001 line-up:
Mauro Pacetti – Vocals
Francesco Olivi – Guitar
Marcello Lammoglia – Guitar
Andrea Mastromarco – Bass
Nicola Raffaeli – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Aydra
https://www.facebook.com/rudeawakeningrecs/
JAPANISCHE
KAMPFHÖRSPIELE – “ZURÜCK IM DRECK (BACK TO ZE ROOTS 2)”Release date: 14.06.24 / Out Now
Label: Bastardized Rec.
JAPANISCHE KAMPFHÖRSPIELE have re-recorded a few classics from their murderous oeuvre for the second time and used the opportunity to find a new frontman in Anselm Joel Brümmer-Aschenbeck, who is just over 30 years old. Zurück im Dreck not only sounds extremely fresh thanks to this new singer and a variety of guest vocalists (including Tom from SODOM, Manni and Marlene from SCHWULE NUTTENBULLEN, Caio Kozlowski from Brazil), but at the same time also extremely punky because the old JAKA-Bunnys used almost exclusively scrappy equipment in the studio, some of which were used to record the original versions of some pieces. The artwork neatly rounds the whole thing off. Zurück im Dreck is available on CD, LP and tape
www.bastardized.net
www.facebook.com/Bastardizedrec
www.japanischekampfhoerspiele.de
Get a first taste of the album with the title track “Międzyczas” here: https://youtu.be/BGBZdu2w07w
“Międzyczas” is an evolution of Odium Humani Generis’ sound which started with 2020’s debut album “Przeddzień” (Cult of Parthenope) and 2022’s EP “Zarzewie” (Folter Records). The album is a journey that moves through the emotional stages of fear, disappointment, sadness and loneliness resounding in every song. Listeners may notice influences from bands such as Taake, Drudkh, Lifelover, Sacrilegium, Vemod or Furia; however, Odium Humani Generis goes a step further, adding subtle but clear references to sounds outside of the traditional spheres of black metal. Despite its melancholic character, the album is full of energetic moments that break the dark, introspective parts and give the music intensity.
“Międzyczas” was recorded with Mariusz Konieczny at Heavy Gear Studio, and the album was mixed and mastered by The Fall (Owls Woods Graves, Hauntologist, Mgła (live)) at Skrzypłocz Studio. The unique graphic design was created by Emilia Śpiewak, and the band photos were taken by Radosław Chojnacki.
Odium Humani Generis (OHG) was established in 2015 in Łódź, Poland. The band comprises Biały on vocals and guitars, Murukh (ex-Fadheit) on drums, Bartos (Imperator, Pandemonium) on bass, Ominous (Nightbound) on guitars. Over the years, the band has toured with bands such as Carpathian Forest, Mgła, Spectral Wound and In Twilight’s Embrace, and supported acts such as Uada, Mortiis, Panzerfaust, Negative Plane, Ellende, Pillorian, Hate, Malokarpatan. OHG also performed at various European festivals including Under the Black Sun (DE), Throne Fest (BE) and Cosmic Void Festival (UK).
Tracklisting: 1. Lustro
2. Idée Fixe
3. Międzyczas
4. Popłoch
5. Drogowskaz
6. Jarzmo
7. Granice
Odium Humani Generis are:
Biały – Guitars, Vocals
Ominous – Guitars
Bartos – Bass
Murukh – Drums
http://malignantvoices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MalignantVoicesProductions/
https://www.facebook.com/odiumbm
TERMINAL SUN – “ALL THAT WILL BURN IS ALREADY ON FIRE”
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: july 6th 2024
Genre: Extreme Metal
For fans of: Inter Arma | Dragged Into Sunlight | Convulse | Abstracter
The race is nearly over; our wild-eyed, frantic sprint towards oblivion. With barely a backward glance at the ravaged paradise that sheltered us, or compassionate thought for the innocent in their billions, trampled beneath our feet. Gripped by an innate madness which has fed upon our base desires, like a parasitical tape-worm of the soul, we sprint faster, out-running the desperate clutches of hope, until we burst through the finishing tape and plummet into the void. Finally, there is nothing left to kill and all that will burn is already on fire…
Forged with passion, grit and determination, All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire is the debut album from Sheffield’s Terminal Sun – an overpowering, all consuming vision of the end. ‘Catastrophic Error’ beckons us forward into the darkness with newsreel reports of the Chernobyl disaster and an underlying sense of foreboding and menace, a growing unease that then detonates, reforming itself into the thick, muscular riffs of ‘AZ5’ - a mechanistic march with a seething, scalding core of organic matter; man and machine in imperfect, broken dissonance. The passages of fierce and fiery energy, the staggering, lurching, unnatural riffs and the shocking solos that dance across their armour plated surfaces are immediately impressive, towering presences…but All That Will Burn… has many different elements, unsuspected angles and hidden hollows of dreaming quicksand. This darkness is deeper than you think. These surprising shadows are not only found in the obvious alternatives of the lonely melodies of ‘Macready’s Last Stand’ or the haunting atmospheres of ‘The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water Pt.1’; they also lurk within the morose mutations of ‘Metamorph’ and in the tribal hymn to an incinerated past and non-existent future that eats at the heart of ‘All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire’. Indeed, every passage in this tale of waste and error possesses more than you might first imagine – all concluding in the staggering, epic collision of death, doom and black metals that is ‘The Space Between Two Deaths’ – a magnificent summation of this final journey into the night.
Adorned in the dramatic photography of Jakob Vegerfors, All That Will Burn Is Already On Fire will be released on July 6th, bringing a new, enthralling shade of blackness to the extreme metal world – fusing sub-genres to construct a monstrous monolith to mankind’s folly. Building upon the fetid foundations laid down by preceding EPs, Threads and Metamorph, this powerful and prophetic album heralds the unremitting darkness that once fallen will never end. Prepare to stare into the dying light of the Terminal Sun.
Line-up:
Simon Lee - Vocals
Kevin Johnson - Bass
Gary Spooner - Guitar
Adam Walker - Guitar
Daryl Bishop - Drums
https://www.terminalsun.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/terminalsunindustries
NEWS 23.6 2024
ABO ALSLEBEN - „HELLA IM BLACK-METAL-LAND“
Erzählung
152 Seiten, Buch im Hardcover
Verlag: DYI 04277 BOOKS, Kochstraße 94, 04277 Leipzig
Preis: 12 €
Wie im Titel angedeutet, handelt dieses Buch von düsterer
Musik - Black Metal, dem Mittelalter und menschlichen Abgründen: Die 16jährige
Hella zieht gezwungenermaßen mit ihren Eltern in ein todlangweiliges Kaff auf
dem Land. Als sie einen Song der schwedischen Black-Metal-Band BATHORY
übersetzen will, geht ihr Handy kaputt. Eine Reihe bizarrer Ereignisse folgen,
die Hella an den Rand des Erträglichen treiben, denn sie gerät in die Fänge
einer Wahnsinnigen...
Alsleben versucht in „Hella im Black-Metal-Land“ mit einer ganz eigenen, bildhaften Sprache voller Symbolik zurück zu den Wurzeln des Black Metal zu führen, in dem Mystik, Dunkelheit, das okkulte Mittelalter, die Inquisition und der Tod im Mittelpunkt standen und nicht kriegsverherrlichender Militarismus, rechte Uniformen oder Nazi-Runen wie bei vielen Bands des National Sozialistischen Black Metals (kurz NSBM). Deswegen ist das Buch auch eine Hommage an die einstigen Ikonen und Begründer des ursprünglichen Black Metal aus den 90er Jahren, nämlich Quorthon (Bathory), Dead und Euronymous (beide verstorbene Mitglieder der Band Mayhem), die alles andere als Nazis waren. So spielt gerade der mystische Duktus, die alte Mantik und impressionistischer Naturmythos in „Hella im Black-Metal-Land“ eine tragende Rolle. So verfolgt der Autor eine naturbeschreibende Bildsprache, die geradezu altertümlich anmutet und stellt historische Bezüge her, indem er die Handlung teilweise in die Burg Schächtitz in der Slowakei des 16. Jahrhunderts verlegt, als dort die berüchtigte Blutgräfin Elisabeth Bathory lebte.
Über den Autor:
Abo Alsleben - Hedonistischer Lebenskünstler aus Leipzig-Connewitz. Er ist musikalisch aktiv in der Punkrock-Band S.U.F.F. – den zweifachen Guinness-Buch-Rekordlern. Von ihm erschienen u.a. die Bücher: „Tschüss Deutschland“, „Ahoi Connewitz“ und „Punkrock Hooliganz“ - die drei Romane sind eine Hommage an den Leipziger Stadtteil Connewitz und seine alternativen Bewohner. 2020 erschien sein Buch „Mayhem live in Leipzig – Wie ich den Black Metal nach Ostdeutschland brachte“ im Bookra-Verlag. Es folgte „Der letzte Punk“ über Otze und Schleimkeim.
Biografie :
1990 - 1995 Herausgeber und Autor des Underground - Fanzines CADAVER, CORPSE & BOWELS mit 4 Ausgaben
November 1990: Organisation einer Mini-Tour für die norwegische Black-Metal-Band MAYHEM mit Konzerten in Annaberg-Buchholz, Zeitz und dem damaligen Eiskeller zu Leipzig
von 1990 an aktiv in Bands wie Klassik in Qual, Cadaver Corpse, BBC und bis heute S.U.F.F. sowie dem Projekt Die Gediegenen (DGDGN)
1992 bis 1994 Organisation der HARD/GRIND/NOISE-CORE-FESTIVALS in Leipzig
1997 Veröffentlichung des Films SCHWEINSKOPF 1
1997 Guinnessbuchrekord mit der Band S.U.F.F.: Die meisten Konzerte in 24 Stunden (17 Konzerte an einem Tag in verschiedenen Lokalitäten in Leipzig)
1998 Guinnessbuchrekord der SUPER SONIC FREAK FOUNDATION in Paris: Die größte Band der Welt singt vor dem Eiffelturm ein Ständchen (73 Leipziger singen den „Chanson à Tour Eiffel“
1999 Veröffentlichung des Films S.U.F.F. – Eine Bande geht ihren Weg
2001 Veröffentlichung des Films DRECK, in dem Mitglieder der Bands THINK ABOUT MUTATION und S.U.F.F. mitspielen
ab 2004 Moderator der Sendung TRASH & Kult beim freien Sender Radio Blau
verschiedene Film-Projekte mit dem Internationalen Rotzlöffeltum: „Indianerüberfall auf die Parkeisenbahn“, „Bildersturz im Bildermuseum“ und „Zwei Scheichs in Leipzig“ etc. (alles zu sehen auf youtube)
Initiator und Moderator der Connewitzer Literaturgalas und Weihnachtsgalas im UT Connewitz u.a. mit Jan Off, Dirk Bernemann etc.
2008 – 2012: Veröffentlichung der Roman-Trilogie „Tschüss Deutschland“, „Ahoi Connewitz“ und „Punkrock Hooliganz“ sowie dem Buch „Des Teufels bizarre Kunst“ bei der Edition Paper One
2017 Veröffentlichung der Schallplatte mit S.U.F.F. namens „Kontrollbereich 04277“ bei SM Musik
März 2020: Veröffentlichung Buch „Mayhem live in Leipzig – Wie ich den Black Metal nach Ostdeutschland brachte“ im Bookra-Verlag
2021 erschien die S.U.F.F.-LP „Connewitz“ bei SM Musik
2022 erschien sein Roman „Der letzte Punk“ bei DYI 04277 Books über Otze und SK
2024 erschien sein neues Buch „Hella im Black-Metal-Land“ bei 04277 Books
abo.alsleben@gmx.net
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PESTKRAFT – „ANCESTRAL SOUNDS“
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 30.05.2024
Folter Records präsentieren stolz „ANCESTRAL SOUNDS“, den zweiten Longplayer von PESTKRAFT, die sich anschicken, vom spanischen Valencia aus den tödlichen Pesthauch ihres so unerbittlichen und gewalttätigen wie zugleich erhabenen und mystisch aufgeladenen Black Metals über Europa und die Welt zu verbreiten. Im Mittelpunkt von PESTKRAFTs traditionellen, aber auch kompositorisch Unerwartetes bergenden Klängen, steht der ausdrucksstarke, infernalische Gesang von Bandgründerin und Vokalistin Blodig, die Intention und Tun von PESTKRAFT folgendermaßen umreißt:
„Our music is for the darkest audience, those who are attracted to the other side, death, ancestors and roots. We talk about the importance of the cult of the dead, about the customs corrupted by the modern world. We like to think of death as a friendly figure, which picks us up in our last breath, and of the entities that await us on the other side. The rituals, drums and offerings of the afterlife. Of plagues, diseases and how dreary the world is and the dull emptiness of humans.“
PESTKRAFT wurden im Jahr 2014 gegründet. Nach einer ersten Ankündigung des kommenden Schwarzen Todes mit der 5-Track-EP „Pest“ im September 2016, folgte 2018 das Debüt „Litanies Of The Plague“. Nun erscheint mit „ANCESTRAL SOUNDS“ ihr verdammt intensives neues Werk – acht vernichtende Songs mit unüberhörbarem Rekurs auf die norwegische Tradition der frühen 90er.
https://www.facebook.com/FolterRecordsGermany
https://www.facebook.com/Pestkraft
Zum 30. Jubiläum erstmals auf Vinyl: Das legendäre SAVATAGE-Konzert in Voller Showlänge! Als Doppel-LP ab 9. August überall!
Seit drei Jahren zollt earMUSIC den Heavy-Metal-Legenden mit einer sorgfältig kuratierten Vinyl-Reissue-Reihe aller Studioalben Tribut: Von “Sirens” (1983) bis “Poets And Madmen” (2001) kehrten alle Alben nach und nach auf feinstem Vinyl in die Läden zurück, nachdem sie lange Zeit von Fans und Sammlern gesucht wurden.
In Gedenken an Criss Oliva und zu Ehren seines Vermächtnisses und seines unverwechselbaren künstlerischen Schaffens feierten SAVATAGE und earMUSIC am 27. Oktober 2023 die Veröffentlichung von “Ghost In The Ruins” erstmals auf Vinyl.
Jetzt, mit der erstmaligen Vinylausgabe von “Japan Live '94” am 9. August 2024, endet die aufregende LP-Reissue-Reise.
Live-Musik ist vergänglich. Man kann sie nicht anfassen, halten, riechen oder schmecken, und was man in der einen Sekunde sieht und hört, ist in der nächsten schon wieder weg. Live-Alben hingegen sind für die Ewigkeit. Für diejenigen, die dabei waren, bieten sie die Möglichkeit, einen akustischen Moment in der Zeit erneut zu erleben, und für den Rest von uns ist es das ultimative Souvenir, ein zeitgestempelter Meilenstein, der einen Künstler/eine Band so einfängt, wie er/sie war(en). Im Fall von SAVATAGE dokumentiert “Japan Live '94” eine äußerst wichtige und bedeutsame Tournee für eine Band, die nach einer erschütternden Tragödie und massiven personellen Veränderungen auf unbestreitbar wackligem Boden stand, aber dennoch aufrecht blieb. Es war die erste Station auf einer Reise, die schließlich bis nach Sarajewo und Sibirien führte – eine Reise, die auch 30 Jahre später noch kein Ende gefunden hat.
Zum 30. Jubiläum erscheint die 1994er SAVATAGE-Show aus Japan erstmals in voller Showlänge als Audio-Release mit allen 16 Songs.
Das Album erscheint auf schwarzem 180g Vinyl im hochwertigen Gatefold samt brandneuen Liner-Notes von Clay Marshall und seltenen Memorabilien. Weitere Informationen und Vorbestellung unter: https://www.ear-music.net/savatage-vinylreissues/
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Taunting Cobras
2. Edge Of Thorns
3. Chance
4. Conversation Piece
Side B
1. Nothin' Going On
2. He Carves His Stone
3. Jesus Saves
4. Watching You Fall
5. Castles Burning
Side C
1. All That I Bleed
2. Stare Into The Sun
3. Damien
4. Handful Of Rain
Side D
1. Sirens
2. Gutter Ballet
3. Hall Of The Mountain King
Line-Up:
Zak Stevens – Lead Vocals
Alex Skolnick – Lead Guitar
Johnny Lee Middleton – Bass Guitar
Jon Oliva – Keyboards, Guitars, Vocals
Jeff Plate – Drums
www.ear-music.net
https://savatage.com/
https://www.facebook.com/savatage/
The new album from Dutch black/death metal band CODEX MORTIS is now available for order and on streaming platforms.
Brace yourself for a chilling journey through an album that tells the harrowing story of demonic possession and mind control. TALES OF WOE tells about an evil spirit that tortures a man through demonic possession and mind control. With horrific visions of its previous victims, the evil spirit tries to turn the man into a murderer. The man escapes its hold by taking his own life, as a desperate attempt to end the circle of terror...
In Tales of Woe, a harrowing history filled with injustice, agony, violence, and death unfolds as a tortured soul, the antagonist of the story, finds itself in an undying state, compelled to inflict suffering and death upon others trying to undo its own misery. It describes the troubles of its latest victim, the protagonist, as he is possessed and haunted by horrid visions.
Tales
of Woe is out now on Black Lion Records. Order and stream the album
at https://orcd.co/tales-of-woe
Tracklist:
1. Forsaken
2. Capricious Disembodied Villain
3. Chosen
4. Trenched in Blood
5. Fire Screams and Death
6. It Dies with Me
The album was mixed and mastered by Björnström Ljud & Produktion. Artwork by Vladimir 'Smerdulak' Chebakov.
CODEX MORTIS is a Dutch Black Death Metal band with explosive and hypnotic skull-crushing music that will haunt you into the afterlife.
Incorporating the influences of the 90s, CODEX MORTIS crafts a sonic landscape characterized by ferocious speed and an abyssal depth, with each arrangement a relentless devouring sound.
Stream CODEX MORTIS on Spotify and Apple Music.
CODEX MORTIS is:
Vocals by Dirk Willems
Lyrics by Jos Schilder
Drums by Michiel van der Plicht
Guitars by Arjan van Dune
Bass by Mathieu Westerveld
www.facebook.com/blacklionrecordsswe
https://www.facebook.com/CodexMortis
Extreme
metal force MASS PUNISHMENT unleashes their powerful new
single, "BLOOD DIRT," today via Wormholedeath. The
track serves as a scathing indictment of the Iraq War, raising questions about
its true purpose and the devastating consequences.
Blood Dirt was recorded at Trax East and Bullet Proof Studios in NJ by Producer Eric Rachel. George Pond guided additional post-production work at The Bomb Shelter Studio.
The band stated:
"This song touches on the wars in the Middle East. More poignantly about Operation Iraqi Freedom and hidden agendas in the underlying reasons for committing the USA to that particular war in the region. A country in peril with the US invading with military might not seen since WWII. Death and destruction lay in the dust trails as the US and coalition forces pushed further into Iraq. “Blood turns the sand to soil”. Was it for Liberating a people from a tyrannical regime? Was it for a taste of revenge from political leaders? Or was it for oil? Listen to the song and make your own determination."
Stream "Blood Dirt" on your preferred platform here: https://orcd.co/blooddirt
'Blood Dirst' is a track taken from the band's upcoming album "PROVING GROUNDS, VOL.1.", due for release via Wormholedeath.
https://orcd.co/worldwidegenocide
https://orcd.co/breakingpointsingle
Slovakian Blackened Death Metal horde, CEREMONY OF SILENCE, in partnership with No Clean Singing, has premiered the visualizer video for "PRIMAEVAL SACRIFICE," the second single from forthcoming album, HÁLIOS! Check it out below!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/06/19/an-ncs-video-premiere-ceremony-of-silence-primaeval-sacrifice/
"Primaeval Sacrifice" will be available everywhere on June 21!
Willowtip Records will release Hálios July 19 on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats. Pre-orders available at the following locations.
https://bit.ly/halios-willowtip
https://bit.ly/halios-bandcamp
Building upon the foundation laid by their debut album, this new release delves even deeper into the band's unique blend of brutality and atmosphere. The album radiates with suffocating intensity, introducing a richer, more atmospheric dimension to the band's sound, while retaining some of the band's signature aspects of haunting melodies, or breathtaking gradations.
Unborn, all-pervading and radiant. The immutable light of the Universe, our fundamental inherent nature, and a bridge to the mythical time. Hálios represents a breakthrough of the sacred into the temporal world, and sets forth on an eerie journey reenacting old stories inspired by the essence of the ancient Indo-European mythology, entwined in obscure visions and dreams.
Track
Listing:
1. Primaeval Sacrifice
2. Serpent Slayer
3. Moon Vessel
4. Eternal Return
5. Light Runs Through Light
6. Perennial Incantation
7. King in the Mountain
Credits:
Lyrics & Artwork by Matúš S. Ďurčík.
Engineered & Mixed by Miroslav Spevák.
Produced by Miroslav Spevák & Viliam Pilarčík.
Mastered by Colin Marston.
Line-up:
N. - Vocals
Viliam Pilarčík - Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Matúš S. Ďurčík - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/willowtip
https://www.facebook.com/ceremonyofsilence
It is a release that has been much anticipated by Black Metal fans, who recognize in KOLDBRANN a band that has always sought to create a sound that is uniquely their own - fresh, raw, and completely indifferent to whatever trend happens to be prevalent in the genre at the time.
But, significantly, KOLDBRANN have remained deeply rooted in the traditions of True Norwegian Black Metal, and this respect for their roots can be clearly heard on the track 'I Unaturens Vold', which has been released as a single. Even the cold and uninviting cover image, shot at Haukelifjell, Norway, by the talented photographer Vildensky, serves to set the foreboding tone and atmosphere for the song.
Short and concise, with a fierce thread running through it 'I Unaturens Vold' stands out from many of today's trends in Black Metal, and can be downloaded or streamed from a number of services at:
The video for 'I Unaturens Vold' by Necrolust Productions (WHOREDOM RIFE, 1349, FURZE etc.), was filmed at this year's Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, where KOLDBRANN played in front of a capacity crowd at the John Dee venue.
It can be seen at: https://youtu.be/wBRA7h4PT3I
KOLDBRANN themselves had this to say about 'I Unaturens Vold':
After the punishing previous single, 'Den 6. Massedød (Manna fra en annen himmel)', with the primitive necro & roll B-side, 'Inhumanitær Inngripen', comes the energetic and melodic 'I Unaturens Vold' - the first single taken from our upcoming new album! Fierce and concise, with clear references to classic Norwegian Black Metal, the song has already become an established highlight of KOLDBRANN's live set
'I Unaturens Vold' (translated to 'In Unnature's Grasp') has clear references to classic Norwegian Black Metal, displaying melodious riffs and associations to nature. "Unnature" is used here as a contrast, to point the finger at the fakeness and insincerity in people. It is one of more new songs that deal with standing tall on the outside, turning one's back on society and the world.
Replete with Mannevond’s trademark blacker than black raw vocals, and Kvass’ clever Norwegian lyrics, the album itself is confirmation that KOLDBRANN is back with a vengeance - as fearsome, as defiant and as uncompromising as ever.
Even the title “Ingen Skånsel”, which means "No Mercy", lets everyone know that they are in for 12 tracks of pure aggression from a band that has never shown any mercy or taken any prisoners.
With
layout by Salowe Vision, track listing for “Ingen Skånsel” is as follows:
Ingen Skånsel
Et Uomtvistelig Falsum
I Unaturens Vold
Prosesjon Under Blyhimmel
Det Kryper Kaldt
Maskiner av Nihil
Forstanden Seiler Sin Egen Sjø
Fortærer av Minne og Form
Rykk Skaperverket Opp med Roten
Vorde Eders Farkost en Katafalk
Serenade til Dødens Elende
“Ingen Skånsel” will be available in CD, Digital, Cassette and Smoke Marble Vinyl formats and can to pre-ordered now at:
https://orcd.co/ingen-skaansel
https://darkessencerecords.no/shop
https://koldbrann.bandcamp.com/album/ingen-sk-nsel
KOLDBRANN's live appearances have earned the band a well-deserved notoriety and 2024/2025 will see the lineup of Mannevond on Vocals, Kvass and Voidar on Guitars, Leonid Melnikov on Drums, and John Grave on live Bass appearing in the Czech Republic, Poland, UK, Austria and Switzerland, as well as first-time performances in Canada and Romania, with more to come!
A video of KOLDBRANN live at Wacken in 2023 can be seen at https://youtu.be/2pVczr09ULU?si=bfzczi7igRcwd4wI
More information about KOLDBRANN can be found on the band's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/koldbrannofficial
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Danish / Turkish Death Metallers HYPERDONTIA have launched the full-album stream for HARVEST OF MALEVOLENCE ahead of the album's official release date.
The
band tapped Decibel Magazine for the exclusive world premiere of Harvest
of Malevolence. Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/06/19/full-album-stream-hyperdontia-harvest-of-malevolence/
Harvest of Malevolence is set for release on June 21 via Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records. The album will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital formats. Pre-orders are now live at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.mesacounojo.com
www.ddmsuo.eu
Desiccated Records will offer an alternative cassette version of Harvest of Malevolence. Pre-order at https://desiccatedrecords.bandcamp.com/
Stream previous HYPERDONTIA releases on Spotify and Apple Music.
Firing on all cylinders from the get-go, their relentless brand of pulverizing guitars and punishing drums with intricate bass lines cut only by monstrous vocals spew forth. Monolithically mixed to grant us the most viscerally lacerating blows of Death Metal might, those who salivate for true morbidity will revel in the ecstatic putridity that immediately grips you. From the gut-wrenching rhythmic torment to the phenomenal soloing, aside from sheer brutality, Hyperdontia have technical abilities that far surpass most of their contemporaries while never feeling obnoxious with their utilization. Some utterly mad bass guitar moments or ripping solos show a band who clearly know their way around a fretboard while the consistently savage drumming doesn’t let the rhythmic battery relent. As we heard on their prior works; Hyperdontia are a confident and unforgiving entity and that continues here.
Although they are inarguably merciless and intense, there is such dynamic strength on this new record from the maelstroms of grooves to the more otherworldly sections, all tied together to plunge headlong into abhorrent chaos. Barbaric and yet precise, each blow lands with ferocity and yet a cleverness to every moment is present too. If you value Death Metal being of the highest quality but without sacrificing the true macabre spirit of old, Hyperdontia is the perfect middle ground and their new album showcases that formidably. Promising a harvest of malevolence and ultimately delivering much more, Hyperdontia decimate all in their pathway with some of their most violently intense and cyclonic Death Metal to date.
HYPERDONTIA is:
Malik - Bass
Tuna - Drums
Mustafa - Guitars (lead)
Mathias - Guitars, Vocals
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.facebook.com/hyperdontia
Decibel
Magazine is offering fans the exclusive worldwide premiere for Expelled
into Suffering. Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/06/20/ep-premiere-assimilator-expelled-into-suffering/
ASSIMILATOR is celebrating the release of Expelled into Suffering by sharing the official music video for the album's title track. Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpIZXT0RLl8
ASSIMILATOR recently signed with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions for the release of Expelled into Suffering. The EP is available on digital and physical formats.
Hard-hitting and unrelenting, ASSIMILATOR comes storming out of Indiana with a powerful sound and a taste for touring the underground metal scene. The band is rapidly building a name for themselves as road warriors grinding across the country in the name of the next sick show.
ASSIMILATOR is comprised of veterans from the Midwest death metal scene and, are from a different sonic ancestry from many of their contemporaries. Calling back to a time when speed and brutality went hand in hand, offering blackened riffs to the metal gods.
ASSIMILATOR has completed three tours across 14 states, played Full Terror Assault, and opened for the likes of Deicide, Obituary, and Suicide Silence to name a few. This is a band who are striving to deliver the complete package with the drive to achieve what they desire.
ASSIMILATOR is:
Tim Kenefic: guitar and vocals
David Sueoka: bass and vocals
Tyler Witte: drums
Noah Werner: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/assimilatormetal
Colossus is the first single from the band’s third album TAL, set to be released on September 13th via Lifeforce Records.
With a world in ruins, there comes a new sun. This is the evolution which "TAL" is all about. Intense and relentless,
"TAL" is an immersive experience through sonic landscapes and contrasting atmospheres.
On its third full length, GLARE OF THE SUN combine orchestral layers with heavy guitars and vocals, creating an emotional listening experience with lots of dynamics and details to discover.
Guest vocals are provided by J.J. (Harakiri For The Sky, Karg) and Maffi (Collapse7, ex-Pungent Stench).
Founded in 2013, the band with members from Austria and Germany moves in the shallows and soundscapes between prog, post, shoegaze and doom metal. More important than the question of the styles used is the question of the effect - both in the obvious and the subtle. Like on their previous two albums, "Soil" (2017) and "Theia" (2019), the compositions of "TAL" demand attention from their listeners, running deep and revealing their secrets over time.
Tracklist
01. Colossus
02. Rain
03. Äon
04. Relikt (guest vocals by Mario Klausner, ex-Pungent Stench)
05. Stonefall
06. Leaving Towards Spring (guest vocals by J.J., Harakiri For The Sky)
07. Amnesty
08. Storm of Light (CD/ Digital only)
09. Horizon (CD/ Digital only)
https://www.facebook.com/glareofthesun
"Formed around the foundations that built the most powerful genres of extreme metal, Empty Throne is a whirlwind of Black Metal, Thrash and Death Metal fused into a unique and refreshing formula."
https://www.facebook.com/downfallrecords666
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Empty_Throne/3540487993
https://www.facebook.com/emptythroneband/
The
first Single "MAUSOLEUM"from the forthcoming second
full-length studio album, "THE NETHER EARTH", by
Israeli Doom Metal project DEFILED EMBRACE .
Release Date: June 21, 2024
Label: Another Side Records
The song describes the grieving process of a man who lost his significant other, going from the suffering of watching her dying to missing her love and warm touch, and all the way into the urge to commemorate her.
Like the changing in the man's phases of grief, the song moves between sounds of clean, soothing guitars and heavy distortion, and Symphonic elements that give the song a dramatic feel.
Biography
Defiled Embrace is a one-man-project formed in Israel in 2021 by local musician Matan Kedar. The project started as a collection of different Doom Metal songs, written by Matan over the course of 11 years. Some songs were originally written for another projects, but eventually they all came together under the name Defiled Embrace.
During 2021, Matan decided to record the songs using session musicians he works with in other bands, and the debut album “Whispers Of The Forest” was recorded during 2021-2022.
On July 2022, Defiled Embrace singed a deal with Metal Scrap Records Inc. Three videos were shot to support forthcoming release: “In Her Sullen Reflection”, “Autumn” and “Whispers Of The Forest”. September 9 became as an official release date of “Whispers Of The Forest” album through Another Side Records, a division of Metal Scrap Records Inc.
To the end of 2023, the new album, "The Nether Earth", was recorded.
During 2024, three Singles ("Mausoleum", "Pieces" and "Defiled Embrace") will be shouted before second album release, which planned on September 6 same year.
https://www.facebook.com/DefiledEmbrace
Label: Independent Release
Release date: june 28th 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal/Metalcore
For fans of: Machine Head | Lamb Of God | Face Down | Byzantine
Hailing from Quitman, Georgia American metal band Dire have been slowly but surely building a reputation as purveyors of the very finest in modern heavy metal. Since laying down rock solid foundations with their self-titled debut EP in 2013, the band have gone on to release two full length albums (Volume 1 in 2016 and Volume 2 in 2021) and two further EPs – including 2023s outstanding Crush The Head. Now it is time for the next chapter in the Dire story to begin, with a stunning new single that the band describe as “…one of the most aggressive Dire tracks to date.” Brace yourself for a head on confrontation with the ‘Enemy’!
“You want a war? Today I’ve got the time!”
With its snapping rhythms, crisp, crunching riffs and snarling vocals, simmering with rage, ‘Enemy’ is a song that takes no prisoners. Lyrically it mounts a scathing attack on those who abuse the tolerance and good nature of others, those who spend their days searching for every opportunity to be hurt or offended, determined to keep the spotlight permanently on themselves as they dominate the narrative of society. Dire have finally lost patience and ‘Enemy’ is the result! Yet for all its intense and unbridled anger, ‘Enemy’ is also a finely crafted song, with a richly textured sound. The tempos shift from measured menace to fury unleashed while gleaming, inescapable hooks lodge firmly in the brain with just a single listen. Spiralling guitar motifs and an excellent solo adorn and augment a song which, while as solid and compact as an iron fist, also displays abundant variation, with even the defiant vocals possessing an impressive expressive range. If ‘Enemy’ is a signpost towards the future of Dire, then true metal greatness awaits us.
“Watch me…become an enemy!”
Accompanied by a hard-hitting lyric video, ‘Enemy’ will explode on June 28th bringing its metallic fury to the masses. If the searing sounds of Dire have passed you by then this is the perfect opportunity to discover a rising force in metal. As for existing fans of the band…well they already know how good this is going to be. Get ready to face your ‘Enemy’!
Line-up:
Joran Messer - Guitar/Vocals
Caleb Barnes – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/DIREband/
TYRAELS ASCENSION – “HELL WALKER”
Label: Rottweiler Records
Release date: july 26th 2024
Genre: Metal
For fans of: In Flames | Soilwork | Trivium | Shadows Fall
He walks the plains of dust and pain, with measured and deliberate tread. Never hurrying, his steps eat up the endless miles of eternity; beneath the boughs of weeping trees, beside the grey waters of the river of forgetting, through the ever-burning, sulphurous flames. Timorous, diminutive devils dance and flitter about his feet while larger prey watch from dark ravines and from behind curtain falls of lava – ashamed and afraid. He passes through the halls of silence, the blackened palaces of the fallen and the damned. He is the Hell Walker and sword in hand, with unflinching purpose and unwavering belief, he draws ever nearer to the tarnished throne of blustering arrogance and whispered regret…
Hell Walker is the debut album from Tyraels Ascension, the incredible new band summoned into being by guitarists Sean Searls of Bury Your Burdens and Kevin McNeil of Deathbreaker. From the very first song, ‘The Prophecy’, Hell Walker seizes you in its iron grip and there’s no escape. The robust, relentless vocals drive the song forward, riding on the powerful, driving rhythms while the twin guitars weave intricate webs of gold around the steel juggernaut. Like the spinning knives of an elegant assassin the melodious guitars dart and dance with breathtaking precision, lifting the sound of Tyraels Ascension to another level. Just listen to the solos in second track ‘Descent’ – this is the stuff of metal dreams! Heading deeper into the album the sheer strength of the song writing becomes ever more apparent, with the uplifting and superbly structured ‘The Art Of War’, the dynamic, imaginative ‘When The Hero Dies’ – a track fizzing with effervescent energy – and first single ‘Holy Fire’ with its furious pace and intensity and effortlessly smooth shifting between tempos, forming a stunning heart to this enthralling collection. The quality of musicianship, the dramatic atmosphere, the towering stature of the songs is maintained right to the final note of Hell Walker, making it one of the most accomplished and impressive debut albums of recent years.
Arrayed in stunning artwork that captures the amazing atmosphere and majestic power of the music within, Hell Walker will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world by Rottweiler Records on August 2nd. Also landing on August 2nd, from Kisimul Studio in association with Rottweiler Records, will be Tyraels Ascension: Hell Walker the video game! Complete with the music of Tyraels Ascension fans can venture even deeper into the world of the Hell Walker.
See the trailer and info for the game here : https://store.steampowered.com/app/3046290/Tyraels_Ascension_Hell_Walker__The_Video_Game/
Follow the Hell Walker into the fire and discover a world of magnificent metal and immersive fantasy.
Line-up:
Kevin McNeil - Lead/Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Sean Searls - Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Alex theesen – Vocals
Drums on Hell Walker performed by Morgan Hoehne (Your Hands Write History)
Guest Vocals on ‘The Art Of War’ by Dustin Cichosz (Surpasses)
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TyraelsAscension
ORDINUL NEGRU present their new single / video, "ZAHIR": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntw6Ssx3ug
The new single is an extract from the band's upcoming ninth studio album titled "DODEKATEMORIA" and scheduled for an Autumn release in collaboration with Loud Rage Music. The new material has been in works for the past five years, and it was previously introduced by two EPs: "Nebuisa" in 2020, and "A Sojourner Wandering Through the Barren Openness" in 2021.
Here's what the band had to say about it: ""Dodekatemoria" is the ninth album and represents our bond with the cosmic nature and what we experience as individuals when we are on this path searching for our truths.
We choose to present "Zahir" firstly, a song that represent the gateway to our world, inspired by the writings of Aleister Crowley, magnificently interpreted by the Mihai Surdea, with whom we collaborate for the third time, and with the actor Ovidiu Mihăță, that interprets perfectly our bond with the elements and our aspirations.
The video is the first of a series that illustrates the cosmogony of our new album."
Line-up:
Fulmineos – guitars, vocals
Urmuz – guitars, vocals
Putrid – drums, bass
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/ordinulnegru
Finnish black metal band CURSE UPON A PRAYER is set to release their fourth studio album THE WORSHIP: ORTHOPRAX SATANISM later in July 26th 2024. CD version is released by The Cursed Order, Vinyl version comes via Folter Records and MC via Korpituli Productions.
Album pre-order is also now open via Bigcartel: https://thecursedorder.bigcartel.com
The band comments:
"'A Heav'n Of Hell' offers a glimpse of the very core of CURSE UPON A PRAYER;
The unconquerable will & the beauty of the perfect Hell. True strength & might through true torment & suffering - In Spirit & in Flesh! Hail the True Darkness!"
Listen previous single 'Black Venus Erotica' on Youtube and Bandcamp.
Biography:
The Cursed Order, mostly known in the musical realm as 'CURSE UPON A PRAYER', was born in 2010 in Tornio, Northern Finland. Since then the band has gained a stable position in the Finnish Black Metal scene and has gained the reputation as one of the more notorious acts, which has been evident through their flagrant live appearances that have striked fear, hate and love into the hearts of those who have dared to witness.
With the religiously anticipated fourth full-length album - C.U.A.P. now presents the absolute crown jewel of this black crown of Infidelity. For it dives into the heart of the Holy Hell and boldly presents the very foundation and the secrets behind the themes that have inflicted chaos and controversy throughout the 14-year long history: the unconquerable will, immortal hate and love, and the courage never to submit or yield!
The Spirit is null & void without the Act & the Will - Flesh & Spirit must be one! Ya Shaitan!
Vocalist Megan Orvold-Scheider comments on the song, "I had so much fun writing for ‘The Lacryphagist’. When we decided it was finally time to sit down and begin writing for the next release, we came up with a really awesome concept and this is a really cool piece of the puzzle. Initially, I got inspired by the stories of Victorian tear vials and I loved the idea of this creature that feeds off of human tears and collects them in various states of emotion. We were able to put in some really grotesque imagery into both the lyrics and the video we shot. I think this single shows our natural next progression as a band and our writing; lyrically getting darker while staying true to our tongue-in-cheek horror vibes that we have so much fun with. We cannot wait to hear what you all think of ‘The Lacryphagist.’"
Watch the video for "The Lacryphagist" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTRzqbyBCc
Pre-save the single at https://bfan.link/the-lacryphagist
CASKET ROBBERY is celebrating the release of "The Lacryphagist" with an exclusive giveaway for their legions of fans. To enter the "Take Their Eyes" giveaway, fans need to submit a photo of their eyeballs, which will be used in the next CASKET ROBBERY video. The winner will receive a Lacryphagist T-shirt, a signed flag, and the prop eyeballs used in "The Lacryphagist" music video, along with two tickets and meet & greet passes to an upcoming CASKET ROBBERY show.
Get rules and sign up for the "Take Their Eyes" contest at https://ffm.to/lacryphagist-contest
The video for "The Lacryphagist" comes on the eve of CASKET ROBBERY's Mechanical Necrosis Tour with GORGATRON and VORAATH.
CASKET ROBBERY's most recent album, Rituals of Death was released on November 11, 2022 on Blood Blast Distribution.
https://casketrobbery.com/store (CD and merch bundles)
https://casketrobbery.bandcamp.com/album/the-lacryphagist-single (digital)
Emerging from the darkest and most desolate areas of the Midwest, CASKET ROBBERY creates its own signature style of death metal by infusing horror and occult themes. Their trademark huge riffs and unstoppable grooves create the unrelenting, brutally catchy, and eerie sound that only CASKET ROBBERY is known for. Death metal with a wink.
CASKET
ROBBERY’s intense, high-energy shows have quickly surfaced a die-hard
following. They continue to show a relentless work ethic and dedication to
their fanbase. After the release of their debut album CASKET ROBBERY has toured
the United States continually, hitting large festivals like Full Terror Assault
and Milwaukee Summerfest. CASKET ROBBERY has shared the stage with Cannibal
Corpse, Jungle Rot, Psycroptic, Immolation, and more.
Your unrelenting nightmare has just begun.
Casket Robbery is:
Megan Orvold-Scheider - Vocals
Cory Scheider - Guitars
Troy Powell - Guitars
Bryan Bykowski - Bass
Austin Vicars - Drums
Sponsors:
Dean Markley Strings, Vader Cabinets, Pig Hog Cables, Dirtbag Clothing, Gravewitch Goods, Grindcore Coffee, Blackcraft Clothing, My Merch Guy, Intune
www.bloodblast.com
www.bleedingartcollective.com
https://casketrobbery.com/linktree
The band is currently working with the label on the release of a forthcoming LP that was recorded at Wolfman Studios in Little Rock and mastered by Justin Weis of Trackworx.
The partnership formed in the summer of 2023 in a record store of all places when the band met with label head Kelley Struble at Iron Horse Records in Van Buren, Arkansas before a show in Ft. Smith.
“After
the record was finished with mastering, we knew we wanted to work with a label,
but we knew that it needed to be the right one. After meeting Kelley and seeing
how passionate he is about the process and about our music, it just seemed like
a natural partnership. After a few conversations about details of the release,
we decided to sign with Blade Setter and we couldn’t be happier about the
future for both the band and label.” bassist/vocalist Brandon Ringo said.
"MAMMOTH CARAVAN came to my attention through Robert, the guitarist for the band. We met as collectors online and later met at a fest. The band formed through various key meetings and has since poured consistent effort into their time together. I felt the urge to step in because of their drive. Having worked with other bands in different circumstances, this is the only one to willingly take on the same amount of risk for what they want to do. They would never ask for a handout and that's a big reason why they fit here. Not to mention they do what they truly want to do and that can't be said for most bands.” - Blade Setter Records founder Kelley Struble said.
“This album was all about taking risks. In the previous lineup, everyone saw me as a drummer even though on the off-stage side, I had so much to writing the guitar parts to the first LP and EP, so this was a chance to take a risk and show a new side of MC that we aren’t just a beat down doom band and that we have the ability to grow and showcase new styles and flares. In this new journey, we are able to amp the energy up and also highlight the newest member of our band, Khetner Howton. Signing with BSR was a very easy decision. I have known Kelley for years and with his drive and passion for underground music and the presentation of it, I knew there was no one better to work with the vision of this album. LP#2 is a labor of love and we made sure to have some of the best people on board.” - Guitarist Robert Warner said.
With a revamped lineup, a retooled sound, and a violent tale of mammoths in space, the band’s next offering promises to be their heaviest and most diverse material yet.
MAMMOTH CARAVAN released their full-length debut ICE COLD OBLIVION in February 2023, followed by the single "I, Megafauna" in August. Listen on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Line-Up:
Brandon Ringo - Vocals/Bass
Robert Warner - Vocals/Guitar/Synth
Khetner Howton - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/MammothCaravan
You can find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LdPGcYnyTg
Alkhemia will captivate fans of Mgla, Groza, or Naglfar, merging heavy blast beats with infuriated, melodic, and harrowing guitar riffs.
ABRAXAS echoes with the oppressive modernity. It intertwines the theory of the two wolves and George Orwell's '1984'. It addresses the contemporary vision of man and the most sinister industrialization.
Video Production by Laetitia Goreczny
Lineup:
James Spar - Vocals
Le Prince (En Finir) - Guitars
A.S.A (Azziard Redsphere ex The negation...) - Bass
Marbas (Malcuidant Nirnaeth Lord Ketil...) - Guitars
Alex Josien - Drums
Production: Recording: Nebiros Studio
Mix & Master: Studio La Crypte by Clément Flandrois
https://www.facebook.com/Alkhemia.bm
Blending the brutal layers of modern death metal with the raw ferocity of old-school sounds, "Echoes of Annihilation" promises to be a landmark release. Ancient Entities' unique approach to the genre is designed to captivate seasoned metalheads and new fans. "We think fans first hearing the album will find a refreshing mix of death metal styles," the band states. "Modern, old school, and some sounds in between. Over the last two years of playing and testing out markets, we can say the massive sound of Ancient Entities will be well received by all fans of metal old and new on record as well."
Ancient Entities, comprising Alex Rausa, Jake Falk, Luke Veranth, and Brian Gulliford, delve deep into the annals of ancient civilizations, weaving tales of war tactics, brutality, folklore, and mythology into their powerful soundscapes. The band’s mission is clear: to transport listeners back to ancient times, capturing the essence of historical narratives through their relentless music, immersive ambiance, and crushing riffs.
Tracklist
1.Cenote Sagrado
2. Empire In Ashes
3. Creatures From The Sand
4. Blood Upon Stone
5. Ritual Autopsy
6. Hidden
7. Pierced by Obsidian
8. Wall of War
9. Damnatio Ad Flammas
Don't miss out on what promises to be one of the standout metal releases of the year. Stay connected with Ancient Entities and immerse yourself in their sonic world through the following links:
www.youtube.com/@anciententities
www.facebook.com/AEbandofficial
MOTIVIK – “RENOUNCEMENT”
Label: Roxx Records
Release date: july 1st 2024
Genre: Thrash/Heavy Metal
For fans of: Annihilator | Tourniquet | Forbidden | Believer
Having spent their teenage years in the early ‘90s immersed in the hard thrashing sounds of Tourniquet, Believer, Sacrament, Mortification and many more, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Roebuck and vocalist Courtney Simmons were inspired to follow in the footsteps of the bands that had given them so much support and encouragement through their music – and from that dream, that aspiration, Motivik would be born. In 2020 the duo from Atlanta, Georgia unleashed their first album, Death Of The Gunman, establishing their own blend of powerful thrash and melodic heavy metal. Motivik were finally standing alongside their erstwhile heroes, creating music to support others in their journey through life. Now in 2024 they are ready to take the next step forward with their incredible second album, the breathtaking explosion of precision, adrenaline-infused riffing, adventurous song writing, technically dextrous playing, stunning melodies and huge choruses that is Renouncement!
From the dramatic, uplifting instrumental opening of ‘Palace Of Ashes’, that heralds the beginning of Renouncement’s incredible, emotional ride, to the final heart-wrenching words of the epic ‘Once Again’ that conclude it, Motivik’s latest release is a staggering summation of everything that is great about metal music. It’s redundant to talk about album highlights, because Renouncement consists of nothing but highlights. Motivik take the essence of classic thrash metal and mould it into fresh, exciting forms with their progressive, imaginative approach. ‘Dethroned’ takes jagged, angular riffing and fuses it with great hooks and the sort of fantastic, melodic chorus that emblazons itself across your memory with one listen. ‘Break The Walls’ lands blow after blow of aggressive thrash power before exploding into a searing solo and uplifting chorus. ‘This Man I Am’ is the distillation of absolute headbanging metal magnificence, while ‘Septicemia’ features some truly beautiful guitar work, some genre-defining thrash riffing and utterly uncompromising lyrics…and the list just goes on. The individual performances from all involved are of the highest magnitude; Courtney Simmons’ vocals are some of the most powerful and emotive you’ll hear anywhere in metal today, displaying fantastic range and masterful delivery, while Ryan Roebuck fires out riff after killer riff with flawless, machinegun firepower and scatters solos and melodies like gold dust over every track. Session drummer Alex Emidio is pure thunder behind the kit and a range of guest appearances all add their own touch of magic to this remarkable album – look out for contributions from vocalists Jason Weaver, Chris Ackerman (Betrayal), Jason Wisdom (Becoming The Archetype) and Andre Chiang (Shamash) along with sparkling guitar leads from Greg Minier (Applehead, The Crucified) and Derek Corzine (Burial Extraction, Crowned In Sorrow etc). Derek Corzine also mixed Renouncement, applying the skills that have brought such fine results to recent albums by Shamash and Symphony Of Heaven, while the final touch of sheer quality was applied by the mastering of Rob Colwell, who has previously worked with thrash legends like Coroner, Accuser and Flotsam And Jetsam.
Renouncement will be released through Roxx Records on July 1st, adorned in the powerful and evocative artwork of Seth Metoyer (Mangled Carpenter) and all fans of the very finest in melodic thrash and heavy metal should be waiting to embrace this sonic offering. With Renouncement, Motivik have really shown the metal world just what anthemic, affecting, outstanding music they are capable of creating. And Ryan Roebuck and Courtney Simmons can stand proudly alongside all those bands that once helped them to dream.
Line-up:
Courtney Simmons – Vocals
Ryan Roebuck – Vocals/Guitar/Bass/Keyboards
Drums on Renouncement performed by Alex Emidio
https://www.facebook.com/RoxxRecords777
https://linktr.ee/motivikband
https://www.facebook.com/MotivikBand
Listen
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platforms, radio stations, and beyond. Brutal Records is calling you out! We’ve
got massive news to drop, and we need you to blast it everywhere. Your support
isn’t just appreciated; it’s essential. Together, we will keep the global Metal
community fierce and united.
BRUTAL RECORDS is on the prowl for the sonic revolutionaries set to detonate the music scene and propel our label roster to unparalleled heights.
Only the raw, unapologetic, and unreleased material should hit our radar. Send us a bio that screams your essence and links to your current Social and Streaming battlegrounds. Hold tight, because not every artist will face the same battle spoils.
All Metal Music Genres, from the ferocious to the untamed, are welcome. What we hunger for is a sound so savage it grips the listener, leaving them hungry for more.
Prepare for a musical uprising as we eagerly await your submissions, ready to forge an alliance with the most relentless!
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ADELON – “RESURGENCE”
Label: Independent Release
Release date: june 21st 2024
Genre: Technical Death Metal
For fans of: Decapitated | Gojira | Obscura | Beyond Creation
Shedding this decaying flesh, these tired and fracturing bones – once a protective shell, now a dull and dusty prison, I close my clouded eyes forever; I have no further use for their faded vision and imperfect perception. In the aeons to come I will not see, I will not hear, I will simply know. The blazing energy within incinerates the torpid husk without. All I have ever been, could ever be, the shadow and the light is made one and set free. This is my rebirth, this is my resurgence…
With their debut EP, Resurgence, Swiss technical death metal band Adelon have attained a new stage in their musical evolution. Their vision has expanded exponentially, opening up new creative possibilities. When the guitars erupt from the haunting keys that slowly draw back the veil surrounding opening track ‘Fleshless Vertebrae’, they attack with an otherworldly, alien power. And every musical movement that follows; every tightly wound, claustrophobic, high velocity riff that diffuses into light and space, every vocal exhortation, every guitar solo, every furious rhythmic attack possesses real impact. Each carefully crafted element of the four pieces that comprise Resurgence strikes home with fine effect. Every single note, word, beat and deft flourish matters. The technical ability of this young band from Lausanne is undoubtedly of a high standard, but it’s the way in which they have applied those abilities that makes Resurgence so successful. The drama and imagination of their song writing and passionate attention to musical detail makes each of Resurgence’s four songs an excellent example of progressive, technical, vivid and visionary death metal.
The clear, powerful sound on Resurgence, which brings out all the vibrant colours and dynamics within the music, was captured with the help of the hugely experienced Alex Sedin, owner of Ghostalgy Prods. The respected sound engineer, who has worked with the likes of Anachronism, Essence Of Datum, White Ward and many, many more, co-produced, mixed and mastered Resurgence and has since offered his thoughts on what Adelon have achieved with this EP:
“Adelon is a prime example of a young band that emerges unexpectedly and pushes the envelope for the entire genre. What these guys achieve on Resurgence is stunning. Musicianship, variety, surprise factor - it's all there."
Resurgence will be released on June 21st – so be there at the beginning of this story and watch as it unfolds…
Line-up:
Pierrick Tromme - Vocals
Titouan Tromme – Bass/Synth
Quentin Landolt – Guitar/Keys/Synth/Drum Programming
Robin Demarta – Drum Programming
Lead guitar on ‘Moniseme’ by Etienne Scherer
Saxophone on ‘Fleshless Vertebrae’ by Bastian Köhli
https://beacons.ai/adelon
https://www.facebook.com/AdelonBand/
“It is a song about dying,” says Aðalbjörn Tryggvason (guitar, vocals) about HIN HELGA KVÖL. “It is about the realization that you will die sooner than later and consciously witnessing the end of your own world. It is one’s own personal idea of Ragnarök - or Armageddon. What happens afterwards? Are we reborn or are we simply food for the worms…”
With a full catalog of truly exceptional timeless hits to perform, as well as some much-anticipated new music, the atmospheric Icelandic rock n’roll sound that is uniquely SÓLSTAFIR always delivers to those who bear witness to their epic sets that take you on a journey through the ice and snow, fire and lava and breathtaking soundscapes of their homeland.
Stream the new single here: https://Solstafir-Band.lnk.to/HinHelgaKvolNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6qKV8s9-BA
In order to support the start of the re-issue campaign as well as to showcase
the new treatment given to some of the material, you can check out the digital
single and video clip for Black Tears (Remaster 2024), taken from the
upcoming Purgatory Afterglow re-issue.
Dan Swanö checked in with the following comment about Black Tears: “ What kind of album 'Purgatory Afterglow' should be took many turns and at one point it was gonna be an "all growls and back to the roots pure metal album". So it's quite strange that this track ended up on it in the end, and that it then even became the biggest "hit single" Edge Of Sanity ever had. There's zero Death Metal going on here, but I still love it and always had a blast playing it live with both Edge Of Sanity and Nightingale.”
Long out of print, never previously available in certain formats or in any properly re-worked re-issue version, as well as enhanced by tons of exciting extra-material, these definitive re-issues come efficiently all re-mastered by Swanö himself and partly even shine in a new light via additional remix efforts as bonus.
The following re-issues will kick off the “First Chapter” of the re-issue campaign on June 21st, 2024:
EDGE OF SANITY – “Purgatory Afterglow (Re-issue)”
EDGE OF SANITY – “Until Eternity Ends - EP (Re-issue)”
NIGHTINGALE – “Nightfall Overture (Re-issue)”
Pre-order the “First Chapter” here: https://edgeofsanity-nightingale.lnk.to/ReIssuesNe
Watch the latest music video here: https://youtu.be/EK4gRHpi1Ug
“At some point, our drummer at the time brought someone with him: That's Torsten, he plays guitar with us now,” says Daniel about the completion of the first line-up of the Cologne based band.The first gigs followed, including a tour lasting several days all the way to Bavaria.
After just one year, however, the group seemed to have come to an end. Singer Hans (Reactory) moved to Berlin. “As a result, the band was more or less inactive until 2010,” says Daniel, summarizing the unsatisfactory situation for Tankobot at the time. Jo also played bass for the Cologne-based genre colleagues Damage Source during that time. It then took until 2011 before a permanent line-up was found. The band performed sporadically, such as at the popular underground format “Rhein In Blood” in Cologne's Jugendpark in 2014.
The following year, the band's first release, simply called “Demo 2015”, met with a positive response.
Jan Jaedike wrote in Rockhard Magazine: “These guys from Cologne play well thought-out, but always wonderfully old-school and pleasantly bad-tempered thrash. The riffing is great, but what makes the whole thing really stand out is frontman Jo Fingergrinder's rough vocal style and the guitarist duo's awesome leads. The five-tracker doesn't constantly remind you of the usual scene suspects ...”
This was followed by more live appearances including gigs with Insanity Alert and Night Demon, among others.
Finally, the band parted ways with their drummer at the beginning of 2019. “It wasn't an easy decision, as we're all friends,” says guitarist Torsten, describing the situation. “Unfortunately, further development was not possible with him, but we sorted it out and parted on good terms,” adds Jo. The three remaining metalheads came across Julian via an online ad. As the drummer is twenty years younger than his colleagues, he also brought new influences into the group, such as his favorite band Meshuggah.
After the live activities could be intensified again, Corona struck.
Instead of letting themselves be put off, the band decided to go to Gernhart Studio (Destruction, Tankard) and finally put the new vigor on record professionally.
The result is called Nightshift.
Lyric video “Call To Arms”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2IrRtLX7A
https://www.tankobot.de/
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LïVEWïRE is:
Anthony Ierardo - Guitar
Christopher Puglia - Guitar
George Delinicolis - Drums
Nick Wilks - Vocals/Bass
Fast forward to 2024…
Coming back, rebranded, re-energised, and reloaded. LIVEWIRE are set to shock their fans and your ears with a heavy hitting single that sets the tone and standard to their next LP due in 2025.
“Turbo Shark” encapsulates the Livewire sound, with neck splitting riffs, adrenaline fueling double bass, scorching fast twin guitar harmonies, and a forceful, whaling falsetto vocalist, all together bringing the listener back to the exciting sweet roaring sound of 80s speed metal….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuPUTqQ2Bx4
https://www.facebook.com/livewiresydney
Available
only at the UNITEDFORCES III next August: The
exclusive special issue #4 of the Speed Metal Enforcer!!!
(12-page Mini Fanzine incl. double poster! *for free!*)
Content:
Band biographies of all participating bands, event and background information, underground propaganda!!!
Also an exclusive support tape-release for this special event is in production now, so better be there or be wimp!! Hail the true cult of the Underground!! Forever defiant and proud!!
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Exciting news! It has been announced that DARK FUNERAL (30th Anniversary Edition) will be released August 9th! The first new re-recorded single OPEN THE GATES has been released and album pre-orders are available now.
Lord Ahriman & DARK FUNERAL comment: “In January 1994, Blackmoon (RIP) and I put our entire income and savings into a recording session and pressing 1,000 copies of our 4-track debut Mini-CD. A Mini-CD we released ourselves too.
To now reach the significant milestone with an epic 30th anniversary is of course very honorable for me & the band. Three decades of Swedish Black Metal filled with precious memories.
It is now time for us to reflect on what started it all, a 30-year epic journey, filled with experiences and an unbreakable bond. And in this honor, we have breathed new life into these legendary songs & given them an honest but modern update. Enjoy!“
Find rare material from the band's ominous beginnings in 1994 — an ultimate rendition and must-have for devoted disciples of darkness!
The album will be available in the following versions:
CD Jewelcase
Limited hand-numbered Transparent Blue-Black Marbled 180g Vinyl
Limited hand-numbered Clear Smoke Marbled 180g Vinyl (US EDITION)
Strictly Limited hand-numbered transparent Blue-Black Marbled 180g Vinyl including signed Art Print - Only 300 copies worldwide (Century Media Exclusive)
Digital Album
Stream the re-recorded single here: https://DarkFuneral.lnk.to/DarkFuneral-30thAnniversaryEditionNe
Watch the visualizer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWN8bsdurA
Massachusetts' VOIDKEEPER'S Debut Album "OF ROTTEN FLESH AND WITHERED BONE" Takes Listeners on a Brutal Emotional Odyssey!
Hailing from Massachusetts, Voidkeeper offers its first full length album. Recorded at The Bridge Sound and Stage ( Cambridge Massachusetts) by master engineer Alex Allinson, this sonic representation of decline rips through you with 8 brutal, gut wrenching tracks. Listeners are transported through a vast labyrinth of emotion. Reaching far into the desolate depths of ancient cult worship, disenchanted faith and remorseless failures. Torn by razor sharp claws, wounds are ripped open, exposing the feelings of burning alive, the feelings of a soul, left wandering an ancient world. Baren of hope, direction, and faith. Paying homage to HP Lovecraft, and even the legendary author, Stephen king, “Of Rotten Flesh and Withered Bone” enriches listeners with stories of Mythical Beasts, trials and tribulations of man kind, and derelict worlds. Melodic guitar riffs lead the listeners into their own minds. Letting every note pull their natural emotions forth. Moments of anger, moments of despair, all brought to the surface. Kept in place by bass grooves set to leave the body to fall into the rhythm. Punching blast beats, double kick runs and extensive cymbal work instill the feeling of shock across nearly every track. From brutal chug based riffs, to intricate bridges, Guitarist Alexander Gunn sets a tone unmatched by others. Rooted in Death metal, doom metal and black metal. In a mere moment listeners are taken from the rush of tremolo picking of black metal, to the grooves of Doom. This tale of withered bones is brought to the forefront by Garreth Byrne. Ear shattering screams, lyrics of brutal tales and drawn out wails drag any listener deep below the prospect of everyday life. Bassist Bowen Staines hems a deep fiery groove, laid carefully into each track. Giving each and every track, a doomy undertone. Lastly the nails holding this chaotic symphony together, are pounded in by drummer Mark Cerundolo. Incorporating clean blast beats, double bass runs, and fills aimed at furthering the ambience of each song. “Of Withered Bone and Rotten Flesh” brings light our own emotions, displays our hearts on our chests, then proceeds to tear down both. Leaving all listeners in a vast see of calculated, chaos.
Biography
From the depths of New England's heart, VOIDKEEPER emerges as a formidable force within the realm of Blackened Doom Metal. Hailing from Massachusetts, this metallic entity is primed to unleash a tempest that sculpts faces, wreaks havoc, and ignites a furious storm amidst the void we navigate as life.
Rooted in the rich tapestry of traditional heavy metal and doom metal, VOIDKEEPER interlaces these foundations with the distinct gravitas of black metal vocals and the ferocious riffage reminiscent of death metal. A symphony of brutality melds the classic essences of death, black, and doom metal, fusing together into an explosive amalgamation.
Their sonic arsenal encompasses captivating grooves that seize the listener, entwined with blackened melodies that cast an entrancing spell. Amidst this maelstrom, punishing death riffs serve as the arsenal's edge, cutting through the very fabric of sound. On June 15th, 2022, they unfurled their inaugural EP titled "Eternal Decay," gifting the world a glimpse into their cataclysmic artistry.
VOIDKEEPER is:
Alexander Gunn - Guitarist
Mark Cerundolo - Drums
Bowen Staines - Bassist
Garreth Colm Byrne - Vocalist
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“One of the more beautiful songs on the album,” says Sebastian Ramstedt (guitar / vocals) about A Winter Moon’s Gleam. “The music is mainly sprung from rhythm guitarist Johan Bergebäck’s riffs, but the arrangement and lyrics bring it down to the pitch-black depths of loss and sorrow. It opens up the door in time where we sense the shadows of those long lost.”
IN APHELION could be the ultimate extreme metal adrenaline rush. It is the
euphoric, black metal brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Sebastian Ramstedt (best
known as guitarist and songwriter with Necrophobic). Darker, stranger, more
epic and progressive than admirers of his work were expecting, this new outlet
for dark, artistic expression emerged firmly tethered to the white-knuckle
viciousness of benchmark, Northern European black metal, while also exhibiting
a profound affiliation with both classic, traditional heavy metal and the black
magic of psychedelic repetition. Based around a core line-up of Ramstedt
(guitar/vocals), drummer Marco Prij (also Cryptosis), rhythm guitarist Johan
Bergebäck (Necrophobic) and bassist Tobias Cristiansson (Necrophobic, ex-Grave…),
IN APHELION have taken the uncompromising DIY route to their current status as
new Century Media signees.
The album will be available in the following versions:
Standard CD Jewelcase
Gatefold black LP
Ltd. Gatefold bloodred LP (red Vinyl), 300x via cmdistro.de and other retailers
Stream the new single here: https://inaphelion.lnk.to/ReaperdawnNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlhSrPgH1w
WOUND COLLECTOR – “BEGGING FOR CHICXULUB”
Format: Digital
EP-CD / Physical EP-CD
Label: Independent Release
For fans of : Nile, Imperial Triumphant, Sarpanitum, Immolation and so on
This new album (an EP with four songs) is their fourth work (previously two full-length albums and a single were released). This EP will be released today, Saturday June 15th 2024, as an Independent Release.
Tracklist:
01. River Of Scalded Corpses
02. Progress Through Dishonor
03. Dehumanized By The Auburn System
04. Chicxulub
Wound Collector 2024 is:
Peter Verdonck – saxophone, vocals, compositions and arrangements (also 6Exhance, Den Ambrassband)
Guy Van Campenhout – guitar (also Hangman’s Hymn, Splendidula)
Poncho Gavall – lead guitar (also Pestifer)
Stijn Deldaele – bass guitar (also Beat Love Oracle, Vesper)
Nico Veroeven – drums (also Serial Butcher, Carrion)
Wound Collector is the brainchild of Peter Verdonck, a renowned professional saxophonist and composer who has earned his stripes in performances across the globe with Thelema Trio, Manngold de Cobre, The Rhythm Junks, De Pandoering, Ambrassband and many more. Yet his heart truly beats for death metal.
On a quest to combine his passion for death metal with his favoured instrument he teamed up with Kurt Hermans (Off the Cross, ex-Herfst, ex-Angeli di Piëtra) on 5-string bass and Guy Van Campenhout (Notti Del terrore, Angeli di Piëtra) on 7-string guitar. Each of whom bring considerable experience in various metal bands. A bit later on a drummer was found in Ben Van Pethegem (Myotis). In 2018 the first full length album “Eternal Bloodcult” was released through the brand new Dutch label Profane records. However that same year Ben decided to leave the band to pursue his travelling ambitions.
Replacement was found in Nico Veroeven (Serial Butcher, Emeth, Carrion). After playing shows with a.o. Brujeria, Hideous Divinity, Cattle Decapitation, Serial Butcher, The Monolith Deathcult, the second full length album “Depravity” was released through the Belgian label Rotten To The Core Records and features guest vocals by Tommy Dahlströhm from the legendary Swedish death metal band Aeon in 2020. That year Kurt decided to leave the band to pursue other musical goals with his other band Off The Cross.
Due to the corona crisis that Spring it took a couple of months before replacement was found. However in July Stijn Deldaele (Blunt, Beat Love Orcale, Mucho Gusto) joined the ranks. In 2021 a second guitarist, Poncho Gaval who had his experience with local Mexican metal bands, joined Wound Collector to complete the musical layers of the band thus becoming a quintet. In this line-up a new EP was recorded during 2023 entitled ‘Begging For Chicxulub’.
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Ohio's
notorious, boundary-pushing, and bloodsucking death metal outfit SANGUISUGABOGG — Cody
Davidson, drums; Drew Arnold, guitars/bass; Devin Swank, vocals;
and Ced Davis, guitars/bass — have shared the video for the brand new and
gloriously irreverent single, PERMANENTLY F*CKED . The video
finds the band in performance mode... with some bloody imagery woven
throughout.
"The meaning of the song is a drastically blown out of proportion way of showing how much you love someone," the band states. "We got inspiration of the song from the 2018 horror film Pet where Dominic Monaghan's character volunteers himself as a vice for Ksenia Solo's character so she can torture and humiliate them and they're bound to their cage so she doesn't free the urge to murder someone instinctively and doesn’t get arrested or imprisoned for killing people."
This is the first taste of new music since last year's 2023's Homicidal Ecstasy. That album followed 2021's Tortured Whole. The band continues to slice up uncompromising, in-your-face, and not-for-the-weak death metal that siphons inspiration from early to mid- '90s and early '00s death metal and brutal death metal/grindcore presented in their own style with a unique twist that pleases every style of metal maniac.
Stream the new single here: https://Sanguisugabogg.lnk.to/PermanentlyFcked-SingleNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inkyj9BJC8c
With
the July 5th release of SIJJEEL'S second
album, AFFILIATION OF HORRID CONTAINMENT, fast approaching,
the band have unveiled a new lyric video for the album track 'Infallible',
exclusively at Slam Worldwide! A track of earthshaking heaviness and soul
shredding terror, you can experience this taste of Affiliation Of Horrid
Containment's dark pleasures here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkKRkB2jzZU
Affiliation Of Horrid Containment was mixed and mastered by the band’s own Floor Van Kuijk at his infamous GLDCHN Studios (A Pretext To Human Suffering, Carnifloor etc) for maximum, spirit burning impact and comes wrapped in the eye-gouging artwork of Rudi Gorgingsuicide (Perveration, Desecrate The Faith etc). Be prepared for a new age of darkness in the death metal underground!
Pre-order at Comatose Music https://www.comatosemusic.com/
Find out more about Sijjeel https://imperativepr.co.uk/artist-sijjeel-2.html
Visit Sijjeel on https://www.facebook.com/sijjeelband
Erzählung
152 Seiten, Buch im Hardcover
Verlag: DYI 04277 BOOKS, Kochstraße 94, 04277 Leipzig
Preis: 12 €
Wie im Titel angedeutet, handelt dieses Buch von düsterer
Musik - Black Metal, dem Mittelalter und menschlichen Abgründen: Die 16jährige
Hella zieht gezwungenermaßen mit ihren Eltern in ein todlangweiliges Kaff auf
dem Land. Als sie einen Song der schwedischen Black-Metal-Band BATHORY
übersetzen will, geht ihr Handy kaputt. Eine Reihe bizarrer Ereignisse folgen,
die Hella an den Rand des Erträglichen treiben, denn sie gerät in die Fänge
einer Wahnsinnigen...Alsleben versucht in „Hella im Black-Metal-Land“ mit einer ganz eigenen, bildhaften Sprache voller Symbolik zurück zu den Wurzeln des Black Metal zu führen, in dem Mystik, Dunkelheit, das okkulte Mittelalter, die Inquisition und der Tod im Mittelpunkt standen und nicht kriegsverherrlichender Militarismus, rechte Uniformen oder Nazi-Runen wie bei vielen Bands des National Sozialistischen Black Metals (kurz NSBM). Deswegen ist das Buch auch eine Hommage an die einstigen Ikonen und Begründer des ursprünglichen Black Metal aus den 90er Jahren, nämlich Quorthon (Bathory), Dead und Euronymous (beide verstorbene Mitglieder der Band Mayhem), die alles andere als Nazis waren. So spielt gerade der mystische Duktus, die alte Mantik und impressionistischer Naturmythos in „Hella im Black-Metal-Land“ eine tragende Rolle. So verfolgt der Autor eine naturbeschreibende Bildsprache, die geradezu altertümlich anmutet und stellt historische Bezüge her, indem er die Handlung teilweise in die Burg Schächtitz in der Slowakei des 16. Jahrhunderts verlegt, als dort die berüchtigte Blutgräfin Elisabeth Bathory lebte.
Über den Autor:
Abo Alsleben - Hedonistischer Lebenskünstler aus Leipzig-Connewitz. Er ist musikalisch aktiv in der Punkrock-Band S.U.F.F. – den zweifachen Guinness-Buch-Rekordlern. Von ihm erschienen u.a. die Bücher: „Tschüss Deutschland“, „Ahoi Connewitz“ und „Punkrock Hooliganz“ - die drei Romane sind eine Hommage an den Leipziger Stadtteil Connewitz und seine alternativen Bewohner. 2020 erschien sein Buch „Mayhem live in Leipzig – Wie ich den Black Metal nach Ostdeutschland brachte“ im Bookra-Verlag. Es folgte „Der letzte Punk“ über Otze und Schleimkeim.
Biografie :
1990 - 1995 Herausgeber und Autor des Underground - Fanzines CADAVER, CORPSE & BOWELS mit 4 Ausgaben
November 1990: Organisation einer Mini-Tour für die norwegische Black-Metal-Band MAYHEM mit Konzerten in Annaberg-Buchholz, Zeitz und dem damaligen Eiskeller zu Leipzig
von 1990 an aktiv in Bands wie Klassik in Qual, Cadaver Corpse, BBC und bis heute S.U.F.F. sowie dem Projekt Die Gediegenen (DGDGN)
1992 bis 1994 Organisation der HARD/GRIND/NOISE-CORE-FESTIVALS in Leipzig
1997 Veröffentlichung des Films SCHWEINSKOPF 1
1997 Guinnessbuchrekord mit der Band S.U.F.F.: Die meisten Konzerte in 24 Stunden (17 Konzerte an einem Tag in verschiedenen Lokalitäten in Leipzig)
1998 Guinnessbuchrekord der SUPER SONIC FREAK FOUNDATION in Paris: Die größte Band der Welt singt vor dem Eiffelturm ein Ständchen (73 Leipziger singen den „Chanson à Tour Eiffel“
1999 Veröffentlichung des Films S.U.F.F. – Eine Bande geht ihren Weg
2001 Veröffentlichung des Films DRECK, in dem Mitglieder der Bands THINK ABOUT MUTATION und S.U.F.F. mitspielen
ab 2004 Moderator der Sendung TRASH & Kult beim freien Sender Radio Blau
verschiedene Film-Projekte mit dem Internationalen Rotzlöffeltum: „Indianerüberfall auf die Parkeisenbahn“, „Bildersturz im Bildermuseum“ und „Zwei Scheichs in Leipzig“ etc. (alles zu sehen auf youtube)
Initiator und Moderator der Connewitzer Literaturgalas und Weihnachtsgalas im UT Connewitz u.a. mit Jan Off, Dirk Bernemann etc.
2008 – 2012: Veröffentlichung der Roman-Trilogie „Tschüss Deutschland“, „Ahoi Connewitz“ und „Punkrock Hooliganz“ sowie dem Buch „Des Teufels bizarre Kunst“ bei der Edition Paper One
2017 Veröffentlichung der Schallplatte mit S.U.F.F. namens „Kontrollbereich 04277“ bei SM Musik
März 2020: Veröffentlichung Buch „Mayhem live in Leipzig – Wie ich den Black Metal nach Ostdeutschland brachte“ im Bookra-Verlag
2021 erschien die S.U.F.F.-LP „Connewitz“ bei SM Musik
2022 erschien sein Roman „Der letzte Punk“ bei DYI 04277 Books über Otze und SK
2024 erschien sein neues Buch „Hella im Black-Metal-Land“ bei 04277 Books
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PESTKRAFT – „ANCESTRAL SOUNDS“
Genre: Black MetalLabel: Folter Records
Vertrieb: Alive
VÖ: 30.05.2024
Folter Records präsentieren stolz „ANCESTRAL SOUNDS“, den zweiten Longplayer von PESTKRAFT, die sich anschicken, vom spanischen Valencia aus den tödlichen Pesthauch ihres so unerbittlichen und gewalttätigen wie zugleich erhabenen und mystisch aufgeladenen Black Metals über Europa und die Welt zu verbreiten. Im Mittelpunkt von PESTKRAFTs traditionellen, aber auch kompositorisch Unerwartetes bergenden Klängen, steht der ausdrucksstarke, infernalische Gesang von Bandgründerin und Vokalistin Blodig, die Intention und Tun von PESTKRAFT folgendermaßen umreißt:
„Our music is for the darkest audience, those who are attracted to the other side, death, ancestors and roots. We talk about the importance of the cult of the dead, about the customs corrupted by the modern world. We like to think of death as a friendly figure, which picks us up in our last breath, and of the entities that await us on the other side. The rituals, drums and offerings of the afterlife. Of plagues, diseases and how dreary the world is and the dull emptiness of humans.“
PESTKRAFT wurden im Jahr 2014 gegründet. Nach einer ersten Ankündigung des kommenden Schwarzen Todes mit der 5-Track-EP „Pest“ im September 2016, folgte 2018 das Debüt „Litanies Of The Plague“. Nun erscheint mit „ANCESTRAL SOUNDS“ ihr verdammt intensives neues Werk – acht vernichtende Songs mit unüberhörbarem Rekurs auf die norwegische Tradition der frühen 90er.
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Zum 30. Jubiläum erstmals auf Vinyl: Das legendäre SAVATAGE-Konzert in Voller Showlänge! Als Doppel-LP ab 9. August überall!
Seit drei Jahren zollt earMUSIC den Heavy-Metal-Legenden mit einer sorgfältig kuratierten Vinyl-Reissue-Reihe aller Studioalben Tribut: Von “Sirens” (1983) bis “Poets And Madmen” (2001) kehrten alle Alben nach und nach auf feinstem Vinyl in die Läden zurück, nachdem sie lange Zeit von Fans und Sammlern gesucht wurden.
In Gedenken an Criss Oliva und zu Ehren seines Vermächtnisses und seines unverwechselbaren künstlerischen Schaffens feierten SAVATAGE und earMUSIC am 27. Oktober 2023 die Veröffentlichung von “Ghost In The Ruins” erstmals auf Vinyl.
Jetzt, mit der erstmaligen Vinylausgabe von “Japan Live '94” am 9. August 2024, endet die aufregende LP-Reissue-Reise.
Live-Musik ist vergänglich. Man kann sie nicht anfassen, halten, riechen oder schmecken, und was man in der einen Sekunde sieht und hört, ist in der nächsten schon wieder weg. Live-Alben hingegen sind für die Ewigkeit. Für diejenigen, die dabei waren, bieten sie die Möglichkeit, einen akustischen Moment in der Zeit erneut zu erleben, und für den Rest von uns ist es das ultimative Souvenir, ein zeitgestempelter Meilenstein, der einen Künstler/eine Band so einfängt, wie er/sie war(en). Im Fall von SAVATAGE dokumentiert “Japan Live '94” eine äußerst wichtige und bedeutsame Tournee für eine Band, die nach einer erschütternden Tragödie und massiven personellen Veränderungen auf unbestreitbar wackligem Boden stand, aber dennoch aufrecht blieb. Es war die erste Station auf einer Reise, die schließlich bis nach Sarajewo und Sibirien führte – eine Reise, die auch 30 Jahre später noch kein Ende gefunden hat.
Zum 30. Jubiläum erscheint die 1994er SAVATAGE-Show aus Japan erstmals in voller Showlänge als Audio-Release mit allen 16 Songs.
Das Album erscheint auf schwarzem 180g Vinyl im hochwertigen Gatefold samt brandneuen Liner-Notes von Clay Marshall und seltenen Memorabilien. Weitere Informationen und Vorbestellung unter: https://www.ear-music.net/savatage-vinylreissues/
Tracklisting:Side A
1. Taunting Cobras
2. Edge Of Thorns
3. Chance
4. Conversation Piece
Side B
1. Nothin' Going On
2. He Carves His Stone
3. Jesus Saves
4. Watching You Fall
5. Castles Burning
Side C
1. All That I Bleed
2. Stare Into The Sun
3. Damien
4. Handful Of Rain
Side D
1. Sirens
2. Gutter Ballet
3. Hall Of The Mountain King
Line-Up:
Zak Stevens – Lead Vocals
Alex Skolnick – Lead Guitar
Johnny Lee Middleton – Bass Guitar
Jon Oliva – Keyboards, Guitars, Vocals
Jeff Plate – Drums
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The new album from Dutch black/death metal band CODEX MORTIS is now available for order and on streaming platforms.
Brace yourself for a chilling journey through an album that tells the harrowing story of demonic possession and mind control. TALES OF WOE tells about an evil spirit that tortures a man through demonic possession and mind control. With horrific visions of its previous victims, the evil spirit tries to turn the man into a murderer. The man escapes its hold by taking his own life, as a desperate attempt to end the circle of terror...
In Tales of Woe, a harrowing history filled with injustice, agony, violence, and death unfolds as a tortured soul, the antagonist of the story, finds itself in an undying state, compelled to inflict suffering and death upon others trying to undo its own misery. It describes the troubles of its latest victim, the protagonist, as he is possessed and haunted by horrid visions.
Tales
of Woe is out now on Black Lion Records. Order and stream the album
at https://orcd.co/tales-of-woeTracklist:
1. Forsaken
2. Capricious Disembodied Villain
3. Chosen
4. Trenched in Blood
5. Fire Screams and Death
6. It Dies with Me
The album was mixed and mastered by Björnström Ljud & Produktion. Artwork by Vladimir 'Smerdulak' Chebakov.
CODEX MORTIS is a Dutch Black Death Metal band with explosive and hypnotic skull-crushing music that will haunt you into the afterlife.
Incorporating the influences of the 90s, CODEX MORTIS crafts a sonic landscape characterized by ferocious speed and an abyssal depth, with each arrangement a relentless devouring sound.
Stream CODEX MORTIS on Spotify and Apple Music.
CODEX MORTIS is:
Vocals by Dirk Willems
Lyrics by Jos Schilder
Drums by Michiel van der Plicht
Guitars by Arjan van Dune
Bass by Mathieu Westerveld
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Extreme
metal force MASS PUNISHMENT unleashes their powerful new
single, "BLOOD DIRT," today via Wormholedeath. The
track serves as a scathing indictment of the Iraq War, raising questions about
its true purpose and the devastating consequences.Blood Dirt was recorded at Trax East and Bullet Proof Studios in NJ by Producer Eric Rachel. George Pond guided additional post-production work at The Bomb Shelter Studio.
The band stated:
"This song touches on the wars in the Middle East. More poignantly about Operation Iraqi Freedom and hidden agendas in the underlying reasons for committing the USA to that particular war in the region. A country in peril with the US invading with military might not seen since WWII. Death and destruction lay in the dust trails as the US and coalition forces pushed further into Iraq. “Blood turns the sand to soil”. Was it for Liberating a people from a tyrannical regime? Was it for a taste of revenge from political leaders? Or was it for oil? Listen to the song and make your own determination."
Stream "Blood Dirt" on your preferred platform here: https://orcd.co/blooddirt
'Blood Dirst' is a track taken from the band's upcoming album "PROVING GROUNDS, VOL.1.", due for release via Wormholedeath.
https://orcd.co/worldwidegenocide
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Slovakian Blackened Death Metal horde, CEREMONY OF SILENCE, in partnership with No Clean Singing, has premiered the visualizer video for "PRIMAEVAL SACRIFICE," the second single from forthcoming album, HÁLIOS! Check it out below!
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2024/06/19/an-ncs-video-premiere-ceremony-of-silence-primaeval-sacrifice/
"Primaeval Sacrifice" will be available everywhere on June 21!
Willowtip Records will release Hálios July 19 on CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital formats. Pre-orders available at the following locations.
https://bit.ly/halios-willowtip
https://bit.ly/halios-bandcamp
Building upon the foundation laid by their debut album, this new release delves even deeper into the band's unique blend of brutality and atmosphere. The album radiates with suffocating intensity, introducing a richer, more atmospheric dimension to the band's sound, while retaining some of the band's signature aspects of haunting melodies, or breathtaking gradations.
Unborn, all-pervading and radiant. The immutable light of the Universe, our fundamental inherent nature, and a bridge to the mythical time. Hálios represents a breakthrough of the sacred into the temporal world, and sets forth on an eerie journey reenacting old stories inspired by the essence of the ancient Indo-European mythology, entwined in obscure visions and dreams.
Track
Listing:1. Primaeval Sacrifice
2. Serpent Slayer
3. Moon Vessel
4. Eternal Return
5. Light Runs Through Light
6. Perennial Incantation
7. King in the Mountain
Credits:
Lyrics & Artwork by Matúš S. Ďurčík.
Engineered & Mixed by Miroslav Spevák.
Produced by Miroslav Spevák & Viliam Pilarčík.
Mastered by Colin Marston.
Line-up:
N. - Vocals
Viliam Pilarčík - Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Matúš S. Ďurčík - Drums
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It is a release that has been much anticipated by Black Metal fans, who recognize in KOLDBRANN a band that has always sought to create a sound that is uniquely their own - fresh, raw, and completely indifferent to whatever trend happens to be prevalent in the genre at the time.
But, significantly, KOLDBRANN have remained deeply rooted in the traditions of True Norwegian Black Metal, and this respect for their roots can be clearly heard on the track 'I Unaturens Vold', which has been released as a single. Even the cold and uninviting cover image, shot at Haukelifjell, Norway, by the talented photographer Vildensky, serves to set the foreboding tone and atmosphere for the song.
Short and concise, with a fierce thread running through it 'I Unaturens Vold' stands out from many of today's trends in Black Metal, and can be downloaded or streamed from a number of services at:
The video for 'I Unaturens Vold' by Necrolust Productions (WHOREDOM RIFE, 1349, FURZE etc.), was filmed at this year's Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, where KOLDBRANN played in front of a capacity crowd at the John Dee venue.
It can be seen at: https://youtu.be/wBRA7h4PT3I
KOLDBRANN themselves had this to say about 'I Unaturens Vold':
After the punishing previous single, 'Den 6. Massedød (Manna fra en annen himmel)', with the primitive necro & roll B-side, 'Inhumanitær Inngripen', comes the energetic and melodic 'I Unaturens Vold' - the first single taken from our upcoming new album! Fierce and concise, with clear references to classic Norwegian Black Metal, the song has already become an established highlight of KOLDBRANN's live set
'I Unaturens Vold' (translated to 'In Unnature's Grasp') has clear references to classic Norwegian Black Metal, displaying melodious riffs and associations to nature. "Unnature" is used here as a contrast, to point the finger at the fakeness and insincerity in people. It is one of more new songs that deal with standing tall on the outside, turning one's back on society and the world.
Replete with Mannevond’s trademark blacker than black raw vocals, and Kvass’ clever Norwegian lyrics, the album itself is confirmation that KOLDBRANN is back with a vengeance - as fearsome, as defiant and as uncompromising as ever.
Even the title “Ingen Skånsel”, which means "No Mercy", lets everyone know that they are in for 12 tracks of pure aggression from a band that has never shown any mercy or taken any prisoners.
With
layout by Salowe Vision, track listing for “Ingen Skånsel” is as follows:Ingen Skånsel
Et Uomtvistelig Falsum
I Unaturens Vold
Prosesjon Under Blyhimmel
Det Kryper Kaldt
Maskiner av Nihil
Forstanden Seiler Sin Egen Sjø
Fortærer av Minne og Form
Rykk Skaperverket Opp med Roten
Vorde Eders Farkost en Katafalk
Serenade til Dødens Elende
“Ingen Skånsel” will be available in CD, Digital, Cassette and Smoke Marble Vinyl formats and can to pre-ordered now at:
https://orcd.co/ingen-skaansel
https://darkessencerecords.no/shop
https://koldbrann.bandcamp.com/album/ingen-sk-nsel
KOLDBRANN's live appearances have earned the band a well-deserved notoriety and 2024/2025 will see the lineup of Mannevond on Vocals, Kvass and Voidar on Guitars, Leonid Melnikov on Drums, and John Grave on live Bass appearing in the Czech Republic, Poland, UK, Austria and Switzerland, as well as first-time performances in Canada and Romania, with more to come!
A video of KOLDBRANN live at Wacken in 2023 can be seen at https://youtu.be/2pVczr09ULU?si=bfzczi7igRcwd4wI
More information about KOLDBRANN can be found on the band's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/koldbrannofficial
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Danish / Turkish Death Metallers HYPERDONTIA have launched the full-album stream for HARVEST OF MALEVOLENCE ahead of the album's official release date.
The
band tapped Decibel Magazine for the exclusive world premiere of Harvest
of Malevolence. Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/06/19/full-album-stream-hyperdontia-harvest-of-malevolence/Harvest of Malevolence is set for release on June 21 via Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records. The album will be available on vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital formats. Pre-orders are now live at:
www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
www.mesacounojo.com
www.ddmsuo.eu
Desiccated Records will offer an alternative cassette version of Harvest of Malevolence. Pre-order at https://desiccatedrecords.bandcamp.com/
Stream previous HYPERDONTIA releases on Spotify and Apple Music.
Firing on all cylinders from the get-go, their relentless brand of pulverizing guitars and punishing drums with intricate bass lines cut only by monstrous vocals spew forth. Monolithically mixed to grant us the most viscerally lacerating blows of Death Metal might, those who salivate for true morbidity will revel in the ecstatic putridity that immediately grips you. From the gut-wrenching rhythmic torment to the phenomenal soloing, aside from sheer brutality, Hyperdontia have technical abilities that far surpass most of their contemporaries while never feeling obnoxious with their utilization. Some utterly mad bass guitar moments or ripping solos show a band who clearly know their way around a fretboard while the consistently savage drumming doesn’t let the rhythmic battery relent. As we heard on their prior works; Hyperdontia are a confident and unforgiving entity and that continues here.
Although they are inarguably merciless and intense, there is such dynamic strength on this new record from the maelstroms of grooves to the more otherworldly sections, all tied together to plunge headlong into abhorrent chaos. Barbaric and yet precise, each blow lands with ferocity and yet a cleverness to every moment is present too. If you value Death Metal being of the highest quality but without sacrificing the true macabre spirit of old, Hyperdontia is the perfect middle ground and their new album showcases that formidably. Promising a harvest of malevolence and ultimately delivering much more, Hyperdontia decimate all in their pathway with some of their most violently intense and cyclonic Death Metal to date.
HYPERDONTIA is:
Malik - Bass
Tuna - Drums
Mustafa - Guitars (lead)
Mathias - Guitars, Vocals
www.darkdescentrecords.com
www.facebook.com/hyperdontia
Decibel
Magazine is offering fans the exclusive worldwide premiere for Expelled
into Suffering. Listen now at https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/06/20/ep-premiere-assimilator-expelled-into-suffering/ASSIMILATOR is celebrating the release of Expelled into Suffering by sharing the official music video for the album's title track. Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpIZXT0RLl8
ASSIMILATOR recently signed with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions for the release of Expelled into Suffering. The EP is available on digital and physical formats.
Hard-hitting and unrelenting, ASSIMILATOR comes storming out of Indiana with a powerful sound and a taste for touring the underground metal scene. The band is rapidly building a name for themselves as road warriors grinding across the country in the name of the next sick show.
ASSIMILATOR is comprised of veterans from the Midwest death metal scene and, are from a different sonic ancestry from many of their contemporaries. Calling back to a time when speed and brutality went hand in hand, offering blackened riffs to the metal gods.
ASSIMILATOR has completed three tours across 14 states, played Full Terror Assault, and opened for the likes of Deicide, Obituary, and Suicide Silence to name a few. This is a band who are striving to deliver the complete package with the drive to achieve what they desire.
ASSIMILATOR is:
Tim Kenefic: guitar and vocals
David Sueoka: bass and vocals
Tyler Witte: drums
Noah Werner: guitar
https://www.facebook.com/assimilatormetal
Colossus is the first single from the band’s third album TAL, set to be released on September 13th via Lifeforce Records.
With a world in ruins, there comes a new sun. This is the evolution which "TAL" is all about. Intense and relentless,
"TAL" is an immersive experience through sonic landscapes and contrasting atmospheres.
On its third full length, GLARE OF THE SUN combine orchestral layers with heavy guitars and vocals, creating an emotional listening experience with lots of dynamics and details to discover.
Guest vocals are provided by J.J. (Harakiri For The Sky, Karg) and Maffi (Collapse7, ex-Pungent Stench).
Founded in 2013, the band with members from Austria and Germany moves in the shallows and soundscapes between prog, post, shoegaze and doom metal. More important than the question of the styles used is the question of the effect - both in the obvious and the subtle. Like on their previous two albums, "Soil" (2017) and "Theia" (2019), the compositions of "TAL" demand attention from their listeners, running deep and revealing their secrets over time.
Tracklist01. Colossus
02. Rain
03. Äon
04. Relikt (guest vocals by Mario Klausner, ex-Pungent Stench)
05. Stonefall
06. Leaving Towards Spring (guest vocals by J.J., Harakiri For The Sky)
07. Amnesty
08. Storm of Light (CD/ Digital only)
09. Horizon (CD/ Digital only)
https://www.facebook.com/glareofthesun
"Formed around the foundations that built the most powerful genres of extreme metal, Empty Throne is a whirlwind of Black Metal, Thrash and Death Metal fused into a unique and refreshing formula."
https://www.facebook.com/downfallrecords666
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Empty_Throne/3540487993
https://www.facebook.com/emptythroneband/
The
first Single "MAUSOLEUM"from the forthcoming second
full-length studio album, "THE NETHER EARTH", by
Israeli Doom Metal project DEFILED EMBRACE . Release Date: June 21, 2024
Label: Another Side Records
The song describes the grieving process of a man who lost his significant other, going from the suffering of watching her dying to missing her love and warm touch, and all the way into the urge to commemorate her.
Like the changing in the man's phases of grief, the song moves between sounds of clean, soothing guitars and heavy distortion, and Symphonic elements that give the song a dramatic feel.
Biography
Defiled Embrace is a one-man-project formed in Israel in 2021 by local musician Matan Kedar. The project started as a collection of different Doom Metal songs, written by Matan over the course of 11 years. Some songs were originally written for another projects, but eventually they all came together under the name Defiled Embrace.
During 2021, Matan decided to record the songs using session musicians he works with in other bands, and the debut album “Whispers Of The Forest” was recorded during 2021-2022.
On July 2022, Defiled Embrace singed a deal with Metal Scrap Records Inc. Three videos were shot to support forthcoming release: “In Her Sullen Reflection”, “Autumn” and “Whispers Of The Forest”. September 9 became as an official release date of “Whispers Of The Forest” album through Another Side Records, a division of Metal Scrap Records Inc.
To the end of 2023, the new album, "The Nether Earth", was recorded.
During 2024, three Singles ("Mausoleum", "Pieces" and "Defiled Embrace") will be shouted before second album release, which planned on September 6 same year.
https://www.facebook.com/DefiledEmbrace
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: june 28th 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal/Metalcore
For fans of: Machine Head | Lamb Of God | Face Down | Byzantine
Hailing from Quitman, Georgia American metal band Dire have been slowly but surely building a reputation as purveyors of the very finest in modern heavy metal. Since laying down rock solid foundations with their self-titled debut EP in 2013, the band have gone on to release two full length albums (Volume 1 in 2016 and Volume 2 in 2021) and two further EPs – including 2023s outstanding Crush The Head. Now it is time for the next chapter in the Dire story to begin, with a stunning new single that the band describe as “…one of the most aggressive Dire tracks to date.” Brace yourself for a head on confrontation with the ‘Enemy’!
“You want a war? Today I’ve got the time!”
With its snapping rhythms, crisp, crunching riffs and snarling vocals, simmering with rage, ‘Enemy’ is a song that takes no prisoners. Lyrically it mounts a scathing attack on those who abuse the tolerance and good nature of others, those who spend their days searching for every opportunity to be hurt or offended, determined to keep the spotlight permanently on themselves as they dominate the narrative of society. Dire have finally lost patience and ‘Enemy’ is the result! Yet for all its intense and unbridled anger, ‘Enemy’ is also a finely crafted song, with a richly textured sound. The tempos shift from measured menace to fury unleashed while gleaming, inescapable hooks lodge firmly in the brain with just a single listen. Spiralling guitar motifs and an excellent solo adorn and augment a song which, while as solid and compact as an iron fist, also displays abundant variation, with even the defiant vocals possessing an impressive expressive range. If ‘Enemy’ is a signpost towards the future of Dire, then true metal greatness awaits us.
“Watch me…become an enemy!”
Accompanied by a hard-hitting lyric video, ‘Enemy’ will explode on June 28th bringing its metallic fury to the masses. If the searing sounds of Dire have passed you by then this is the perfect opportunity to discover a rising force in metal. As for existing fans of the band…well they already know how good this is going to be. Get ready to face your ‘Enemy’!
Line-up:
Joran Messer - Guitar/Vocals
Caleb Barnes – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/DIREband/
TYRAELS ASCENSION – “HELL WALKER”
Label: Rottweiler RecordsRelease date: july 26th 2024
Genre: Metal
For fans of: In Flames | Soilwork | Trivium | Shadows Fall
He walks the plains of dust and pain, with measured and deliberate tread. Never hurrying, his steps eat up the endless miles of eternity; beneath the boughs of weeping trees, beside the grey waters of the river of forgetting, through the ever-burning, sulphurous flames. Timorous, diminutive devils dance and flitter about his feet while larger prey watch from dark ravines and from behind curtain falls of lava – ashamed and afraid. He passes through the halls of silence, the blackened palaces of the fallen and the damned. He is the Hell Walker and sword in hand, with unflinching purpose and unwavering belief, he draws ever nearer to the tarnished throne of blustering arrogance and whispered regret…
Hell Walker is the debut album from Tyraels Ascension, the incredible new band summoned into being by guitarists Sean Searls of Bury Your Burdens and Kevin McNeil of Deathbreaker. From the very first song, ‘The Prophecy’, Hell Walker seizes you in its iron grip and there’s no escape. The robust, relentless vocals drive the song forward, riding on the powerful, driving rhythms while the twin guitars weave intricate webs of gold around the steel juggernaut. Like the spinning knives of an elegant assassin the melodious guitars dart and dance with breathtaking precision, lifting the sound of Tyraels Ascension to another level. Just listen to the solos in second track ‘Descent’ – this is the stuff of metal dreams! Heading deeper into the album the sheer strength of the song writing becomes ever more apparent, with the uplifting and superbly structured ‘The Art Of War’, the dynamic, imaginative ‘When The Hero Dies’ – a track fizzing with effervescent energy – and first single ‘Holy Fire’ with its furious pace and intensity and effortlessly smooth shifting between tempos, forming a stunning heart to this enthralling collection. The quality of musicianship, the dramatic atmosphere, the towering stature of the songs is maintained right to the final note of Hell Walker, making it one of the most accomplished and impressive debut albums of recent years.
Arrayed in stunning artwork that captures the amazing atmosphere and majestic power of the music within, Hell Walker will be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world by Rottweiler Records on August 2nd. Also landing on August 2nd, from Kisimul Studio in association with Rottweiler Records, will be Tyraels Ascension: Hell Walker the video game! Complete with the music of Tyraels Ascension fans can venture even deeper into the world of the Hell Walker.
See the trailer and info for the game here : https://store.steampowered.com/app/3046290/Tyraels_Ascension_Hell_Walker__The_Video_Game/
Follow the Hell Walker into the fire and discover a world of magnificent metal and immersive fantasy.
Line-up:
Kevin McNeil - Lead/Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
Sean Searls - Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Alex theesen – Vocals
Drums on Hell Walker performed by Morgan Hoehne (Your Hands Write History)
Guest Vocals on ‘The Art Of War’ by Dustin Cichosz (Surpasses)
https://www.rottweilerrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TyraelsAscension
ORDINUL NEGRU present their new single / video, "ZAHIR": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntw6Ssx3ug
The new single is an extract from the band's upcoming ninth studio album titled "DODEKATEMORIA" and scheduled for an Autumn release in collaboration with Loud Rage Music. The new material has been in works for the past five years, and it was previously introduced by two EPs: "Nebuisa" in 2020, and "A Sojourner Wandering Through the Barren Openness" in 2021.
Here's what the band had to say about it: ""Dodekatemoria" is the ninth album and represents our bond with the cosmic nature and what we experience as individuals when we are on this path searching for our truths.
We choose to present "Zahir" firstly, a song that represent the gateway to our world, inspired by the writings of Aleister Crowley, magnificently interpreted by the Mihai Surdea, with whom we collaborate for the third time, and with the actor Ovidiu Mihăță, that interprets perfectly our bond with the elements and our aspirations.
The video is the first of a series that illustrates the cosmogony of our new album."
Line-up:
Fulmineos – guitars, vocals
Urmuz – guitars, vocals
Putrid – drums, bass
https://linktr.ee/loudragemusic
https://www.facebook.com/ordinulnegru
Finnish black metal band CURSE UPON A PRAYER is set to release their fourth studio album THE WORSHIP: ORTHOPRAX SATANISM later in July 26th 2024. CD version is released by The Cursed Order, Vinyl version comes via Folter Records and MC via Korpituli Productions.
Album pre-order is also now open via Bigcartel: https://thecursedorder.bigcartel.comThe band comments:
"'A Heav'n Of Hell' offers a glimpse of the very core of CURSE UPON A PRAYER;
The unconquerable will & the beauty of the perfect Hell. True strength & might through true torment & suffering - In Spirit & in Flesh! Hail the True Darkness!"
Listen previous single 'Black Venus Erotica' on Youtube and Bandcamp.
Biography:
The Cursed Order, mostly known in the musical realm as 'CURSE UPON A PRAYER', was born in 2010 in Tornio, Northern Finland. Since then the band has gained a stable position in the Finnish Black Metal scene and has gained the reputation as one of the more notorious acts, which has been evident through their flagrant live appearances that have striked fear, hate and love into the hearts of those who have dared to witness.
With the religiously anticipated fourth full-length album - C.U.A.P. now presents the absolute crown jewel of this black crown of Infidelity. For it dives into the heart of the Holy Hell and boldly presents the very foundation and the secrets behind the themes that have inflicted chaos and controversy throughout the 14-year long history: the unconquerable will, immortal hate and love, and the courage never to submit or yield!
The Spirit is null & void without the Act & the Will - Flesh & Spirit must be one! Ya Shaitan!
Vocalist Megan Orvold-Scheider comments on the song, "I had so much fun writing for ‘The Lacryphagist’. When we decided it was finally time to sit down and begin writing for the next release, we came up with a really awesome concept and this is a really cool piece of the puzzle. Initially, I got inspired by the stories of Victorian tear vials and I loved the idea of this creature that feeds off of human tears and collects them in various states of emotion. We were able to put in some really grotesque imagery into both the lyrics and the video we shot. I think this single shows our natural next progression as a band and our writing; lyrically getting darker while staying true to our tongue-in-cheek horror vibes that we have so much fun with. We cannot wait to hear what you all think of ‘The Lacryphagist.’"
Watch the video for "The Lacryphagist" now at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYTRzqbyBCc
Pre-save the single at https://bfan.link/the-lacryphagist
CASKET ROBBERY is celebrating the release of "The Lacryphagist" with an exclusive giveaway for their legions of fans. To enter the "Take Their Eyes" giveaway, fans need to submit a photo of their eyeballs, which will be used in the next CASKET ROBBERY video. The winner will receive a Lacryphagist T-shirt, a signed flag, and the prop eyeballs used in "The Lacryphagist" music video, along with two tickets and meet & greet passes to an upcoming CASKET ROBBERY show.
Get rules and sign up for the "Take Their Eyes" contest at https://ffm.to/lacryphagist-contest
The video for "The Lacryphagist" comes on the eve of CASKET ROBBERY's Mechanical Necrosis Tour with GORGATRON and VORAATH.
CASKET ROBBERY's most recent album, Rituals of Death was released on November 11, 2022 on Blood Blast Distribution.
https://casketrobbery.com/store (CD and merch bundles)
https://casketrobbery.bandcamp.com/album/the-lacryphagist-single (digital)
Emerging from the darkest and most desolate areas of the Midwest, CASKET ROBBERY creates its own signature style of death metal by infusing horror and occult themes. Their trademark huge riffs and unstoppable grooves create the unrelenting, brutally catchy, and eerie sound that only CASKET ROBBERY is known for. Death metal with a wink.
CASKET
ROBBERY’s intense, high-energy shows have quickly surfaced a die-hard
following. They continue to show a relentless work ethic and dedication to
their fanbase. After the release of their debut album CASKET ROBBERY has toured
the United States continually, hitting large festivals like Full Terror Assault
and Milwaukee Summerfest. CASKET ROBBERY has shared the stage with Cannibal
Corpse, Jungle Rot, Psycroptic, Immolation, and more.Your unrelenting nightmare has just begun.
Casket Robbery is:
Megan Orvold-Scheider - Vocals
Cory Scheider - Guitars
Troy Powell - Guitars
Bryan Bykowski - Bass
Austin Vicars - Drums
Sponsors:
Dean Markley Strings, Vader Cabinets, Pig Hog Cables, Dirtbag Clothing, Gravewitch Goods, Grindcore Coffee, Blackcraft Clothing, My Merch Guy, Intune
www.bloodblast.com
www.bleedingartcollective.com
https://casketrobbery.com/linktree
The band is currently working with the label on the release of a forthcoming LP that was recorded at Wolfman Studios in Little Rock and mastered by Justin Weis of Trackworx.
The partnership formed in the summer of 2023 in a record store of all places when the band met with label head Kelley Struble at Iron Horse Records in Van Buren, Arkansas before a show in Ft. Smith.
“After
the record was finished with mastering, we knew we wanted to work with a label,
but we knew that it needed to be the right one. After meeting Kelley and seeing
how passionate he is about the process and about our music, it just seemed like
a natural partnership. After a few conversations about details of the release,
we decided to sign with Blade Setter and we couldn’t be happier about the
future for both the band and label.” bassist/vocalist Brandon Ringo said. "MAMMOTH CARAVAN came to my attention through Robert, the guitarist for the band. We met as collectors online and later met at a fest. The band formed through various key meetings and has since poured consistent effort into their time together. I felt the urge to step in because of their drive. Having worked with other bands in different circumstances, this is the only one to willingly take on the same amount of risk for what they want to do. They would never ask for a handout and that's a big reason why they fit here. Not to mention they do what they truly want to do and that can't be said for most bands.” - Blade Setter Records founder Kelley Struble said.
“This album was all about taking risks. In the previous lineup, everyone saw me as a drummer even though on the off-stage side, I had so much to writing the guitar parts to the first LP and EP, so this was a chance to take a risk and show a new side of MC that we aren’t just a beat down doom band and that we have the ability to grow and showcase new styles and flares. In this new journey, we are able to amp the energy up and also highlight the newest member of our band, Khetner Howton. Signing with BSR was a very easy decision. I have known Kelley for years and with his drive and passion for underground music and the presentation of it, I knew there was no one better to work with the vision of this album. LP#2 is a labor of love and we made sure to have some of the best people on board.” - Guitarist Robert Warner said.
With a revamped lineup, a retooled sound, and a violent tale of mammoths in space, the band’s next offering promises to be their heaviest and most diverse material yet.
MAMMOTH CARAVAN released their full-length debut ICE COLD OBLIVION in February 2023, followed by the single "I, Megafauna" in August. Listen on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
Line-Up:
Brandon Ringo - Vocals/Bass
Robert Warner - Vocals/Guitar/Synth
Khetner Howton - Drums
https://www.facebook.com/MammothCaravan
You can find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LdPGcYnyTgAlkhemia will captivate fans of Mgla, Groza, or Naglfar, merging heavy blast beats with infuriated, melodic, and harrowing guitar riffs.
ABRAXAS echoes with the oppressive modernity. It intertwines the theory of the two wolves and George Orwell's '1984'. It addresses the contemporary vision of man and the most sinister industrialization.
Video Production by Laetitia Goreczny
Lineup:
James Spar - Vocals
Le Prince (En Finir) - Guitars
A.S.A (Azziard Redsphere ex The negation...) - Bass
Marbas (Malcuidant Nirnaeth Lord Ketil...) - Guitars
Alex Josien - Drums
Production: Recording: Nebiros Studio
Mix & Master: Studio La Crypte by Clément Flandrois
https://www.facebook.com/Alkhemia.bm
Blending the brutal layers of modern death metal with the raw ferocity of old-school sounds, "Echoes of Annihilation" promises to be a landmark release. Ancient Entities' unique approach to the genre is designed to captivate seasoned metalheads and new fans. "We think fans first hearing the album will find a refreshing mix of death metal styles," the band states. "Modern, old school, and some sounds in between. Over the last two years of playing and testing out markets, we can say the massive sound of Ancient Entities will be well received by all fans of metal old and new on record as well."
Ancient Entities, comprising Alex Rausa, Jake Falk, Luke Veranth, and Brian Gulliford, delve deep into the annals of ancient civilizations, weaving tales of war tactics, brutality, folklore, and mythology into their powerful soundscapes. The band’s mission is clear: to transport listeners back to ancient times, capturing the essence of historical narratives through their relentless music, immersive ambiance, and crushing riffs.
Tracklist1.Cenote Sagrado
2. Empire In Ashes
3. Creatures From The Sand
4. Blood Upon Stone
5. Ritual Autopsy
6. Hidden
7. Pierced by Obsidian
8. Wall of War
9. Damnatio Ad Flammas
Don't miss out on what promises to be one of the standout metal releases of the year. Stay connected with Ancient Entities and immerse yourself in their sonic world through the following links:
www.youtube.com/@anciententities
www.facebook.com/AEbandofficial
MOTIVIK – “RENOUNCEMENT”
Label: Roxx RecordsRelease date: july 1st 2024
Genre: Thrash/Heavy Metal
For fans of: Annihilator | Tourniquet | Forbidden | Believer
Having spent their teenage years in the early ‘90s immersed in the hard thrashing sounds of Tourniquet, Believer, Sacrament, Mortification and many more, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Roebuck and vocalist Courtney Simmons were inspired to follow in the footsteps of the bands that had given them so much support and encouragement through their music – and from that dream, that aspiration, Motivik would be born. In 2020 the duo from Atlanta, Georgia unleashed their first album, Death Of The Gunman, establishing their own blend of powerful thrash and melodic heavy metal. Motivik were finally standing alongside their erstwhile heroes, creating music to support others in their journey through life. Now in 2024 they are ready to take the next step forward with their incredible second album, the breathtaking explosion of precision, adrenaline-infused riffing, adventurous song writing, technically dextrous playing, stunning melodies and huge choruses that is Renouncement!
From the dramatic, uplifting instrumental opening of ‘Palace Of Ashes’, that heralds the beginning of Renouncement’s incredible, emotional ride, to the final heart-wrenching words of the epic ‘Once Again’ that conclude it, Motivik’s latest release is a staggering summation of everything that is great about metal music. It’s redundant to talk about album highlights, because Renouncement consists of nothing but highlights. Motivik take the essence of classic thrash metal and mould it into fresh, exciting forms with their progressive, imaginative approach. ‘Dethroned’ takes jagged, angular riffing and fuses it with great hooks and the sort of fantastic, melodic chorus that emblazons itself across your memory with one listen. ‘Break The Walls’ lands blow after blow of aggressive thrash power before exploding into a searing solo and uplifting chorus. ‘This Man I Am’ is the distillation of absolute headbanging metal magnificence, while ‘Septicemia’ features some truly beautiful guitar work, some genre-defining thrash riffing and utterly uncompromising lyrics…and the list just goes on. The individual performances from all involved are of the highest magnitude; Courtney Simmons’ vocals are some of the most powerful and emotive you’ll hear anywhere in metal today, displaying fantastic range and masterful delivery, while Ryan Roebuck fires out riff after killer riff with flawless, machinegun firepower and scatters solos and melodies like gold dust over every track. Session drummer Alex Emidio is pure thunder behind the kit and a range of guest appearances all add their own touch of magic to this remarkable album – look out for contributions from vocalists Jason Weaver, Chris Ackerman (Betrayal), Jason Wisdom (Becoming The Archetype) and Andre Chiang (Shamash) along with sparkling guitar leads from Greg Minier (Applehead, The Crucified) and Derek Corzine (Burial Extraction, Crowned In Sorrow etc). Derek Corzine also mixed Renouncement, applying the skills that have brought such fine results to recent albums by Shamash and Symphony Of Heaven, while the final touch of sheer quality was applied by the mastering of Rob Colwell, who has previously worked with thrash legends like Coroner, Accuser and Flotsam And Jetsam.
Renouncement will be released through Roxx Records on July 1st, adorned in the powerful and evocative artwork of Seth Metoyer (Mangled Carpenter) and all fans of the very finest in melodic thrash and heavy metal should be waiting to embrace this sonic offering. With Renouncement, Motivik have really shown the metal world just what anthemic, affecting, outstanding music they are capable of creating. And Ryan Roebuck and Courtney Simmons can stand proudly alongside all those bands that once helped them to dream.
Line-up:
Courtney Simmons – Vocals
Ryan Roebuck – Vocals/Guitar/Bass/Keyboards
Drums on Renouncement performed by Alex Emidio
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https://linktr.ee/motivikband
https://www.facebook.com/MotivikBand
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ADELON – “RESURGENCE”
Label: Independent ReleaseRelease date: june 21st 2024
Genre: Technical Death Metal
For fans of: Decapitated | Gojira | Obscura | Beyond Creation
Shedding this decaying flesh, these tired and fracturing bones – once a protective shell, now a dull and dusty prison, I close my clouded eyes forever; I have no further use for their faded vision and imperfect perception. In the aeons to come I will not see, I will not hear, I will simply know. The blazing energy within incinerates the torpid husk without. All I have ever been, could ever be, the shadow and the light is made one and set free. This is my rebirth, this is my resurgence…
With their debut EP, Resurgence, Swiss technical death metal band Adelon have attained a new stage in their musical evolution. Their vision has expanded exponentially, opening up new creative possibilities. When the guitars erupt from the haunting keys that slowly draw back the veil surrounding opening track ‘Fleshless Vertebrae’, they attack with an otherworldly, alien power. And every musical movement that follows; every tightly wound, claustrophobic, high velocity riff that diffuses into light and space, every vocal exhortation, every guitar solo, every furious rhythmic attack possesses real impact. Each carefully crafted element of the four pieces that comprise Resurgence strikes home with fine effect. Every single note, word, beat and deft flourish matters. The technical ability of this young band from Lausanne is undoubtedly of a high standard, but it’s the way in which they have applied those abilities that makes Resurgence so successful. The drama and imagination of their song writing and passionate attention to musical detail makes each of Resurgence’s four songs an excellent example of progressive, technical, vivid and visionary death metal.
The clear, powerful sound on Resurgence, which brings out all the vibrant colours and dynamics within the music, was captured with the help of the hugely experienced Alex Sedin, owner of Ghostalgy Prods. The respected sound engineer, who has worked with the likes of Anachronism, Essence Of Datum, White Ward and many, many more, co-produced, mixed and mastered Resurgence and has since offered his thoughts on what Adelon have achieved with this EP:
“Adelon is a prime example of a young band that emerges unexpectedly and pushes the envelope for the entire genre. What these guys achieve on Resurgence is stunning. Musicianship, variety, surprise factor - it's all there."
Resurgence will be released on June 21st – so be there at the beginning of this story and watch as it unfolds…
Line-up:
Pierrick Tromme - Vocals
Titouan Tromme – Bass/Synth
Quentin Landolt – Guitar/Keys/Synth/Drum Programming
Robin Demarta – Drum Programming
Lead guitar on ‘Moniseme’ by Etienne Scherer
Saxophone on ‘Fleshless Vertebrae’ by Bastian Köhli
https://beacons.ai/adelon
https://www.facebook.com/AdelonBand/
“It is a song about dying,” says Aðalbjörn Tryggvason (guitar, vocals) about HIN HELGA KVÖL. “It is about the realization that you will die sooner than later and consciously witnessing the end of your own world. It is one’s own personal idea of Ragnarök - or Armageddon. What happens afterwards? Are we reborn or are we simply food for the worms…”
With a full catalog of truly exceptional timeless hits to perform, as well as some much-anticipated new music, the atmospheric Icelandic rock n’roll sound that is uniquely SÓLSTAFIR always delivers to those who bear witness to their epic sets that take you on a journey through the ice and snow, fire and lava and breathtaking soundscapes of their homeland.
Stream the new single here: https://Solstafir-Band.lnk.to/HinHelgaKvolNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6qKV8s9-BA
In order to support the start of the re-issue campaign as well as to showcase
the new treatment given to some of the material, you can check out the digital
single and video clip for Black Tears (Remaster 2024), taken from the
upcoming Purgatory Afterglow re-issue.Dan Swanö checked in with the following comment about Black Tears: “ What kind of album 'Purgatory Afterglow' should be took many turns and at one point it was gonna be an "all growls and back to the roots pure metal album". So it's quite strange that this track ended up on it in the end, and that it then even became the biggest "hit single" Edge Of Sanity ever had. There's zero Death Metal going on here, but I still love it and always had a blast playing it live with both Edge Of Sanity and Nightingale.”
Long out of print, never previously available in certain formats or in any properly re-worked re-issue version, as well as enhanced by tons of exciting extra-material, these definitive re-issues come efficiently all re-mastered by Swanö himself and partly even shine in a new light via additional remix efforts as bonus.
The following re-issues will kick off the “First Chapter” of the re-issue campaign on June 21st, 2024:
EDGE OF SANITY – “Purgatory Afterglow (Re-issue)”
EDGE OF SANITY – “Until Eternity Ends - EP (Re-issue)”
NIGHTINGALE – “Nightfall Overture (Re-issue)”
Pre-order the “First Chapter” here: https://edgeofsanity-nightingale.lnk.to/ReIssuesNe
Watch the latest music video here: https://youtu.be/EK4gRHpi1Ug
“At some point, our drummer at the time brought someone with him: That's Torsten, he plays guitar with us now,” says Daniel about the completion of the first line-up of the Cologne based band.The first gigs followed, including a tour lasting several days all the way to Bavaria.
After just one year, however, the group seemed to have come to an end. Singer Hans (Reactory) moved to Berlin. “As a result, the band was more or less inactive until 2010,” says Daniel, summarizing the unsatisfactory situation for Tankobot at the time. Jo also played bass for the Cologne-based genre colleagues Damage Source during that time. It then took until 2011 before a permanent line-up was found. The band performed sporadically, such as at the popular underground format “Rhein In Blood” in Cologne's Jugendpark in 2014.
The following year, the band's first release, simply called “Demo 2015”, met with a positive response.
Jan Jaedike wrote in Rockhard Magazine: “These guys from Cologne play well thought-out, but always wonderfully old-school and pleasantly bad-tempered thrash. The riffing is great, but what makes the whole thing really stand out is frontman Jo Fingergrinder's rough vocal style and the guitarist duo's awesome leads. The five-tracker doesn't constantly remind you of the usual scene suspects ...”
This was followed by more live appearances including gigs with Insanity Alert and Night Demon, among others.
Finally, the band parted ways with their drummer at the beginning of 2019. “It wasn't an easy decision, as we're all friends,” says guitarist Torsten, describing the situation. “Unfortunately, further development was not possible with him, but we sorted it out and parted on good terms,” adds Jo. The three remaining metalheads came across Julian via an online ad. As the drummer is twenty years younger than his colleagues, he also brought new influences into the group, such as his favorite band Meshuggah.
After the live activities could be intensified again, Corona struck.
Instead of letting themselves be put off, the band decided to go to Gernhart Studio (Destruction, Tankard) and finally put the new vigor on record professionally.
The result is called Nightshift.
Lyric video “Call To Arms”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2IrRtLX7A
https://www.tankobot.de/
https://www.facebook.com/tankobot/
LïVEWïRE is:
Anthony Ierardo - Guitar
Christopher Puglia - Guitar
George Delinicolis - Drums
Nick Wilks - Vocals/Bass
Fast forward to 2024…
Coming back, rebranded, re-energised, and reloaded. LIVEWIRE are set to shock their fans and your ears with a heavy hitting single that sets the tone and standard to their next LP due in 2025.
“Turbo Shark” encapsulates the Livewire sound, with neck splitting riffs, adrenaline fueling double bass, scorching fast twin guitar harmonies, and a forceful, whaling falsetto vocalist, all together bringing the listener back to the exciting sweet roaring sound of 80s speed metal….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuPUTqQ2Bx4
https://www.facebook.com/livewiresydney
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only at the UNITEDFORCES III next August: The
exclusive special issue #4 of the Speed Metal Enforcer!!! (12-page Mini Fanzine incl. double poster! *for free!*)
Content:
Band biographies of all participating bands, event and background information, underground propaganda!!!
Also an exclusive support tape-release for this special event is in production now, so better be there or be wimp!! Hail the true cult of the Underground!! Forever defiant and proud!!
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Exciting news! It has been announced that DARK FUNERAL (30th Anniversary Edition) will be released August 9th! The first new re-recorded single OPEN THE GATES has been released and album pre-orders are available now.
Lord Ahriman & DARK FUNERAL comment: “In January 1994, Blackmoon (RIP) and I put our entire income and savings into a recording session and pressing 1,000 copies of our 4-track debut Mini-CD. A Mini-CD we released ourselves too.
To now reach the significant milestone with an epic 30th anniversary is of course very honorable for me & the band. Three decades of Swedish Black Metal filled with precious memories.
It is now time for us to reflect on what started it all, a 30-year epic journey, filled with experiences and an unbreakable bond. And in this honor, we have breathed new life into these legendary songs & given them an honest but modern update. Enjoy!“
Find rare material from the band's ominous beginnings in 1994 — an ultimate rendition and must-have for devoted disciples of darkness!
The album will be available in the following versions:
CD Jewelcase
Limited hand-numbered Transparent Blue-Black Marbled 180g Vinyl
Limited hand-numbered Clear Smoke Marbled 180g Vinyl (US EDITION)
Strictly Limited hand-numbered transparent Blue-Black Marbled 180g Vinyl including signed Art Print - Only 300 copies worldwide (Century Media Exclusive)
Digital Album
Stream the re-recorded single here: https://DarkFuneral.lnk.to/DarkFuneral-30thAnniversaryEditionNe
Watch the visualizer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWN8bsdurA
Massachusetts' VOIDKEEPER'S Debut Album "OF ROTTEN FLESH AND WITHERED BONE" Takes Listeners on a Brutal Emotional Odyssey!
Hailing from Massachusetts, Voidkeeper offers its first full length album. Recorded at The Bridge Sound and Stage ( Cambridge Massachusetts) by master engineer Alex Allinson, this sonic representation of decline rips through you with 8 brutal, gut wrenching tracks. Listeners are transported through a vast labyrinth of emotion. Reaching far into the desolate depths of ancient cult worship, disenchanted faith and remorseless failures. Torn by razor sharp claws, wounds are ripped open, exposing the feelings of burning alive, the feelings of a soul, left wandering an ancient world. Baren of hope, direction, and faith. Paying homage to HP Lovecraft, and even the legendary author, Stephen king, “Of Rotten Flesh and Withered Bone” enriches listeners with stories of Mythical Beasts, trials and tribulations of man kind, and derelict worlds. Melodic guitar riffs lead the listeners into their own minds. Letting every note pull their natural emotions forth. Moments of anger, moments of despair, all brought to the surface. Kept in place by bass grooves set to leave the body to fall into the rhythm. Punching blast beats, double kick runs and extensive cymbal work instill the feeling of shock across nearly every track. From brutal chug based riffs, to intricate bridges, Guitarist Alexander Gunn sets a tone unmatched by others. Rooted in Death metal, doom metal and black metal. In a mere moment listeners are taken from the rush of tremolo picking of black metal, to the grooves of Doom. This tale of withered bones is brought to the forefront by Garreth Byrne. Ear shattering screams, lyrics of brutal tales and drawn out wails drag any listener deep below the prospect of everyday life. Bassist Bowen Staines hems a deep fiery groove, laid carefully into each track. Giving each and every track, a doomy undertone. Lastly the nails holding this chaotic symphony together, are pounded in by drummer Mark Cerundolo. Incorporating clean blast beats, double bass runs, and fills aimed at furthering the ambience of each song. “Of Withered Bone and Rotten Flesh” brings light our own emotions, displays our hearts on our chests, then proceeds to tear down both. Leaving all listeners in a vast see of calculated, chaos.
BiographyFrom the depths of New England's heart, VOIDKEEPER emerges as a formidable force within the realm of Blackened Doom Metal. Hailing from Massachusetts, this metallic entity is primed to unleash a tempest that sculpts faces, wreaks havoc, and ignites a furious storm amidst the void we navigate as life.
Rooted in the rich tapestry of traditional heavy metal and doom metal, VOIDKEEPER interlaces these foundations with the distinct gravitas of black metal vocals and the ferocious riffage reminiscent of death metal. A symphony of brutality melds the classic essences of death, black, and doom metal, fusing together into an explosive amalgamation.
Their sonic arsenal encompasses captivating grooves that seize the listener, entwined with blackened melodies that cast an entrancing spell. Amidst this maelstrom, punishing death riffs serve as the arsenal's edge, cutting through the very fabric of sound. On June 15th, 2022, they unfurled their inaugural EP titled "Eternal Decay," gifting the world a glimpse into their cataclysmic artistry.
VOIDKEEPER is:
Alexander Gunn - Guitarist
Mark Cerundolo - Drums
Bowen Staines - Bassist
Garreth Colm Byrne - Vocalist
https://www.facebook.com/VOIDKEEPER666/
https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords
“One of the more beautiful songs on the album,” says Sebastian Ramstedt (guitar / vocals) about A Winter Moon’s Gleam. “The music is mainly sprung from rhythm guitarist Johan Bergebäck’s riffs, but the arrangement and lyrics bring it down to the pitch-black depths of loss and sorrow. It opens up the door in time where we sense the shadows of those long lost.”
IN APHELION could be the ultimate extreme metal adrenaline rush. It is the
euphoric, black metal brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Sebastian Ramstedt (best
known as guitarist and songwriter with Necrophobic). Darker, stranger, more
epic and progressive than admirers of his work were expecting, this new outlet
for dark, artistic expression emerged firmly tethered to the white-knuckle
viciousness of benchmark, Northern European black metal, while also exhibiting
a profound affiliation with both classic, traditional heavy metal and the black
magic of psychedelic repetition. Based around a core line-up of Ramstedt
(guitar/vocals), drummer Marco Prij (also Cryptosis), rhythm guitarist Johan
Bergebäck (Necrophobic) and bassist Tobias Cristiansson (Necrophobic, ex-Grave…),
IN APHELION have taken the uncompromising DIY route to their current status as
new Century Media signees.The album will be available in the following versions:
Standard CD Jewelcase
Gatefold black LP
Ltd. Gatefold bloodred LP (red Vinyl), 300x via cmdistro.de and other retailers
Stream the new single here: https://inaphelion.lnk.to/ReaperdawnNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlhSrPgH1w
WOUND COLLECTOR – “BEGGING FOR CHICXULUB”
Format: Digital
EP-CD / Physical EP-CDLabel: Independent Release
For fans of : Nile, Imperial Triumphant, Sarpanitum, Immolation and so on
This new album (an EP with four songs) is their fourth work (previously two full-length albums and a single were released). This EP will be released today, Saturday June 15th 2024, as an Independent Release.
Tracklist:
01. River Of Scalded Corpses
02. Progress Through Dishonor
03. Dehumanized By The Auburn System
04. Chicxulub
Wound Collector 2024 is:
Peter Verdonck – saxophone, vocals, compositions and arrangements (also 6Exhance, Den Ambrassband)
Guy Van Campenhout – guitar (also Hangman’s Hymn, Splendidula)
Poncho Gavall – lead guitar (also Pestifer)
Stijn Deldaele – bass guitar (also Beat Love Oracle, Vesper)
Nico Veroeven – drums (also Serial Butcher, Carrion)
Wound Collector is the brainchild of Peter Verdonck, a renowned professional saxophonist and composer who has earned his stripes in performances across the globe with Thelema Trio, Manngold de Cobre, The Rhythm Junks, De Pandoering, Ambrassband and many more. Yet his heart truly beats for death metal.
On a quest to combine his passion for death metal with his favoured instrument he teamed up with Kurt Hermans (Off the Cross, ex-Herfst, ex-Angeli di Piëtra) on 5-string bass and Guy Van Campenhout (Notti Del terrore, Angeli di Piëtra) on 7-string guitar. Each of whom bring considerable experience in various metal bands. A bit later on a drummer was found in Ben Van Pethegem (Myotis). In 2018 the first full length album “Eternal Bloodcult” was released through the brand new Dutch label Profane records. However that same year Ben decided to leave the band to pursue his travelling ambitions.
Replacement was found in Nico Veroeven (Serial Butcher, Emeth, Carrion). After playing shows with a.o. Brujeria, Hideous Divinity, Cattle Decapitation, Serial Butcher, The Monolith Deathcult, the second full length album “Depravity” was released through the Belgian label Rotten To The Core Records and features guest vocals by Tommy Dahlströhm from the legendary Swedish death metal band Aeon in 2020. That year Kurt decided to leave the band to pursue other musical goals with his other band Off The Cross.
Due to the corona crisis that Spring it took a couple of months before replacement was found. However in July Stijn Deldaele (Blunt, Beat Love Orcale, Mucho Gusto) joined the ranks. In 2021 a second guitarist, Poncho Gaval who had his experience with local Mexican metal bands, joined Wound Collector to complete the musical layers of the band thus becoming a quintet. In this line-up a new EP was recorded during 2023 entitled ‘Begging For Chicxulub’.
https://www.facebook.com/woundcollector
Ohio's
notorious, boundary-pushing, and bloodsucking death metal outfit SANGUISUGABOGG — Cody
Davidson, drums; Drew Arnold, guitars/bass; Devin Swank, vocals;
and Ced Davis, guitars/bass — have shared the video for the brand new and
gloriously irreverent single, PERMANENTLY F*CKED . The video
finds the band in performance mode... with some bloody imagery woven
throughout."The meaning of the song is a drastically blown out of proportion way of showing how much you love someone," the band states. "We got inspiration of the song from the 2018 horror film Pet where Dominic Monaghan's character volunteers himself as a vice for Ksenia Solo's character so she can torture and humiliate them and they're bound to their cage so she doesn't free the urge to murder someone instinctively and doesn’t get arrested or imprisoned for killing people."
This is the first taste of new music since last year's 2023's Homicidal Ecstasy. That album followed 2021's Tortured Whole. The band continues to slice up uncompromising, in-your-face, and not-for-the-weak death metal that siphons inspiration from early to mid- '90s and early '00s death metal and brutal death metal/grindcore presented in their own style with a unique twist that pleases every style of metal maniac.
Stream the new single here: https://Sanguisugabogg.lnk.to/PermanentlyFcked-SingleNe
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inkyj9BJC8c
With
the July 5th release of SIJJEEL'S second
album, AFFILIATION OF HORRID CONTAINMENT, fast approaching,
the band have unveiled a new lyric video for the album track 'Infallible',
exclusively at Slam Worldwide! A track of earthshaking heaviness and soul
shredding terror, you can experience this taste of Affiliation Of Horrid
Containment's dark pleasures here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkKRkB2jzZU Affiliation Of Horrid Containment was mixed and mastered by the band’s own Floor Van Kuijk at his infamous GLDCHN Studios (A Pretext To Human Suffering, Carnifloor etc) for maximum, spirit burning impact and comes wrapped in the eye-gouging artwork of Rudi Gorgingsuicide (Perveration, Desecrate The Faith etc). Be prepared for a new age of darkness in the death metal underground!
Pre-order at Comatose Music https://www.comatosemusic.com/
Find out more about Sijjeel https://imperativepr.co.uk/artist-sijjeel-2.html
Visit Sijjeel on https://www.facebook.com/sijjeelband