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UK Death Metallers CAUSTIC PHLEGM have just premiered the track ‘Blister Bliss’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Purulent Apocalypse”, which will be released on February 28, 2025 via Hells Headbangers. The previously revealed ‘Soft Bones’ can still be streamed over here. The “Purulent Apocalypse” cover artwork was created by Gorey Corey Tornlimbs and the complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Cadaveric Spasms & Purge Fluid Showers’, ‘The Teratophilist’, ‘Fouled, Infected & Infested’, ‘Flesh Melt Contagion’, ‘Impose To Decompose’, ‘Soft Bones’, ‘Blister Bliss’ and ‘Purulent Apocalypse’. For more CAUSTIC PHLEGM music please visit https://causticphlegm.bandcamp.com
Swedish Death Metallers WOMBBATH will release their seventh full length “Beyond The Abyss” on March 14, 2025 via Pulverised Records on CD, vinyl LP and in digital formats. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio Unbound by Jonny Pettersson and the cover artwork was supplied by Julian Felipe Mora Ibañez (CONSUMPTION, MOLDER, WITCHTRAP). You can already stream the album’s title track at this location. The full “Beyond The Abyss” tracklist reads like this: ‘Intro’, ‘Words Unspoken’, ‘A Symphony Of Dread’, ‘Discord Of Doom’, ‘Beyond The Abyss’, ‘Malevolent’, ‘Faces Of Tragedy’, ‘Deep Hunger’, ‘The Damned And The Slain’ and ‘Consumed By Fire’. www.facebook.com/wombbathofficial
Basque / German Death / Thrashers SIJJIN will release their sophomore full length “Helljjin Combat” on April 25, 2025 via Sepulchral Voice Records on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. It was recorded live at BlackStorm Studios by the band’s guitarist Ekaitz Garmendia and features the following eight new tracks: ‘Fear Not The Tormentor’, ‘Dakhma Curse’, ‘Trance Of The Mummified’, ‘Death Opens The Grave’, ‘Religious Insanity Denies Slavery’, ‘Horrific Distortions’, ‘Five Blades’ and ‘The Southern Temple’. More SIJJIN info you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063482105195
“Fantasmasis”, the 2009 debut full length from Portuguese Occult Black Metallers MEDO, will be re-released on limited edition CD format (200 hand-numbered copies) via Haloran Records on February 13, 2025. The first 30 copies ordered directly from the label will include a signed postcard from Medo I and Medo II. The album was recorded in 2008 at Axe Farm Studios by Medo I on guitar, drums and keyboards and Medo II on vocals. You can check out the album track ‘Criatura’ at this location. For more MEDO info please visit www.facebook.com/medoblackmetal
Belgian Death Metallers DODENGOD will release their sophomore full-length “Heralds Of A Dying Age” on February 28, 2025 via Pest Records. The album leaves behind the industrial elements, that could still be heard on their debut full-length “Salvation”, embracing a more traditional and raw Death / Black Metal sound with subtle Doom Metal influences. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘In Darkness’, ‘The Grinder Feeds On Hate’, ‘Breathe Deep The Dark’, ‘The Adversary’, ‘Devouring Fires’, ‘Heralds Of A Dying Age’, ‘Born’, ‘No Distant Flame Ahead’, ‘Flesh-Tech’ and ‘In Death’. You can already listen to ‘The Grinder Feeds On Hate’ over here. For all additional information on DODENGOD check out www.facebook.com/dodengod
“Crowned In Corpses”, the debut full length from Boston’s progressive Death Metallers PATHOGENIC is out now via Skepsis Recordings. You can stream the album at this location. Videos for the title track ‘Crowned In Corpses’ and ‘Mass Grave Memory’ can be watched here and here. In support of the album PATHOGENIC will be on the road in the US with technical Metal band LEYLINES. The tour will kick off on March 01, 2025 in Nashville and ends on March 08, 2025 in Boston. www.facebook.com/pathogenicmetal
Little Rock, Arkansas based Death Metallers OPEN KASKET have just released their new album “Trials Of Failure” on digital format. It will be released on cassette tape via Barbaric Brutality Records around March 07, 2025. A full album stream is available over here. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/openkaskethc
French Death Metallers MORTUAIRE have just premiered the title track of their upcoming debut full length “Monde Vide” at this location. The album will be released on March 07, 2025 via World Eater Records. The previously revealed ‘Tranchant’ can still be checked out over here. “Monde Vide” will feature the following tracks: ‘Mauvais Présage’, ‘Pyramide D’or’, ‘Monde Vide’, ‘Tranchant’ and ‘Octogone De Fer’. www.facebook.com/mortuairebdx
French blackened Dark Folk one-man project WŸNTËR ÄRVN has just revealed the track ‘L’Astre Et La Chute’ at this location. It will be featured on the upcoming third WŸNTËR ÄRVN full length “Sous L’Orage Noir – L’Astre Et La Chute”, which will be released on March 07, 2025 via Antiq. The previously revealed album track ‘Ad Versperam’ can still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Un Voile Sur L’azur’, ‘Ad Vesperam’, ‘Remembrances’, ‘Appelé À L’abîme’, ‘Vingt Ans De Brouillard’, ‘L’astre Et La Chute’, ‘Sous L’orage Noir’ and ‘Ad Umbras’. WŸNTËR ÄRVN was founded in 2017 by Wÿntër Ärvn (HARDIESSE, VINTERGEIST, ex – AORLHAC, ex – BELORE). www.facebook.com/wynterarvnneofolk
Norwegian Black Metallers NATTVERD have just released the first single from their upcoming fifth full-length “Tidloes Naadesloes”, which will be released on March 21, 2025 via Soulseller Records on CD, vinyl LP and in digital versions. You can listen to ‘De Sviande Ord Vaagar Ikje For Sitt Liv’ over here. The album was recorded at Caliban Studios and mixed and mastered by Ruben Willem. Guest vocals were contributed by Hoest (TAAKE) and Von Hellreich. www.facebook.com/nattverdofficial
Swedish progressive one man Death Metal project EIGENSTATE ZERO has just digitally self-released its fourth full-length “Shape Of God Thought Of Sun”. A lyric video for the album track ‘A Peculiar Void’ can be watched at this location. More about EIGENSTATE ZERO at www.facebook.com/eigenstatezero
Norwegian old school Thrashers THE BATALLION have just released the title track from their upcoming new 2-track EP “Lick The Blade” over here. The EP will be out on February 28, 2025 via Soulseller Records. www.facebook.com/thebatallion
On March 07, 2025 Signal Rex, in co-operation with Lyndanise Coven, will release “Keldrikojast”, the debut full length from Estonia’s Black Metallers SOERD, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. You can already stream the album track ‘Peied Ja Lumihall’ at this location. The complete “Keldrikojast” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Pt. 1: Eeslugu (Vaikinud)’, ‘Igavikke Jäädes’, ‘Kolumatsuri’, ‘Peied Ja Lumihall’, ‘Muldunute Mana’, ‘Interluudium’, ‘Pisaratäis Puskarit’ and ‘Keldrikojast’. https://soerd.bandcamp.com
Swedish Death Metallers DEMONICAL have just released a video for the band’s new single ‘Välkommen Undergång (Live)’ over here. It was recorded in the Czech Republic. The track is featured on the band’s new 2-track EP, which can be streamed in its entirety at this location. You can follow DEMONICAL at www.facebook.com/demonicalofficial
International Black Metallers ARAN ANGMAR have just released a visualizer video for the title track of their upcoming third full length “Ordo Diabolicum” over here. The album will be out on March 21, 2025 via Soulseller Records on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. It was mixed and mastered by Psychon (SEPTICFLESH) at Sound Abuse Production and the cover artwork was created by Stefan Todorovic of Khaos Diktator Designs. www.facebook.com/aranangmar
“Reveries Of The Arcane Eye”, the debut full length from Black / Death Metallers OSGRAEF, will be released via Amor Fati Productions on March 21, 2025 on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Sekhem Apep – Vampyre’s Enscription’, ‘Nox Luciferi, Liber Koth’, ‘Magick Wound (Slithering Omnipotence Of Thoth)’, ‘Morbid Wretch – Reveries Of The Arcane Eye’, ‘Flesh Insignia’ and ‘Mystik Lore – Ancient Summoner Of Osgraef’. You can already check out ‘Magick Wound (Slithering Omnipotence Of Thoth)’ at this location. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
On May 30, 2025 “Deadmeat Disciples” (2003) and “Deathrash Assault” (2005), the first and second album from Finnish Death / Thrash Metallers DEATHCHAIN, will be available on vinyl for the first time ever via Svart Records on Svart exclusive colorways (limited to 100 copies), limited coloured vinyl and classic black vinyl. The latter features the SLAYER cover ‘Black Magic’ as a bonus track. Both albums were originally released by Dynamic Arts Records on CD only. www.facebook.com/deathchainband
“The True Harmful Black”, the upcoming sophomore full length from German blackened Death Metallers THE INFERNAL DECEIT, will be released on April 11, 2025 via Personal Records on CD format. It was mixed and mastered at Soundlodge Studio and the cover artwork was created by Roberto Toderico. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘In The Wilderness Of Pernicious Black’, ‘The Great Seducer, The Greatest Deceiver (Dethroned)’, ‘In Death I Am Eternal’, ‘The Divinity Of Forsaken Idols’, ‘For All Things Must Die’, ‘The Primordial Maze And The Crawling Chaos’, ‘Schwarz’, ‘Until The Flesh Is Gone’, ‘The Fathomless Dominion’ and ‘And The Tide Will Turn’. You can already stream ‘The Primordial Maze And The Crawling Chaos’ at this location. More THE INFERNAL DECEIT info you will find at www.facebook.com/theinfernaldeceitband
On April 30, 2025 Purity Through Fire will release “INRI”, the seventh full length from Finnish Black Metallers GOATS OF DOOM, on CD, vinyl LP and A5 digipak formats. You can already watch a lyric video for the track ‘Kuoleman Lapset’ over here. The full tracklist of “INRI” reads like this: ‘Vihani Saatanan Mahdilla Roihuaa’, ‘Kuoleman Lapset’, ‘Kivet Helvetin Tiellä’, ‘Teeskentelijä’, ‘Kunniattomat’, ‘Rauhanrikkoja’ and ‘INRI’. www.facebook.com/scaregod
Spanish Death Metallers AVULSED have just released a lyric video for the song ‘Devotion For Putrefaction’ at this location. The track will appear on the upcoming eighth AVULSED full length “Phoenix Cryptobiosis”, which will be released on March 04, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. www.facebook.com/avulsed91
Raleigh, North Carolina based melodic Black Metallers FULAING have just released their two-song debut “An End Held Dear” on cassette tape and digitally. A video for the title track is available at this location. A full stream you will find over here. For more FULAING info please visit https://instagram.com/fulaingband
French atmospheric Black Metallers CERCLE DU CHÊNE have just revealed the track ‘Aux Jours De Chasse’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Récits D’Automne Et De Chasse”, which will be released on March 21, 2025 via Antiq. A lyric video for the previously revealed ‘Sur Les Toits D’une Tour’ can still be checked out over here. The album’s complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Dans Le Crystal Du Givre’, ‘Le Trésor Dans L’Onde Noire’, ‘Sur Les Toits D’une Tour’, ‘Aux Jours De Chasse’, ‘La Croix Entre Les Bois’, ‘Un Duel De Rois’ and ‘Retour Vers L’Aube’. https://cercleduchene.bandcamp.com
Greek ROTTING CHRIST have just released a video for ‘Κατά τον Δαίμονα Εαυτού’, the first single from their upcoming live album “35 Years Of Evil Existence – Live In Lycabettus”, which was recorded live at the Lycabettus Hill Theater in Athens, Greece. You can check out the track at this location. The album will be released on April 04, 2025 via Season Of Mist. www.facebook.com/rottingchristofficial
“Ashen Womb”, the third full length from Copenhagen, Denmark based Death Metallers PHRENELITH is now streaming in its entirety at this location. It will be released via Dark Descent Records, in co-operation with Me Saco Un Ojo Records, on February 07, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. www.facebook.com/phrenelith
Swedish technical brutal Death Metallers SPAWN OF POSSESSION have returned to the scene as RETROMORPHOSIS. Their new album “Psalmus Mortis” will be released on February 21, 2025 via Season Of Mist. You can already stream the album track ‘Retromorphosis’ over here. An official visualizer video for ‘Vanished’ can be watched at this location and a bass playthrough video for ‘The Tree’ is available here. “Psalmus Mortis” was recorded at Pama Records AB in Kristianopel, Sweden and Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California. It was produced, mixed and mastered by Magnus Sedenberg at Pama Records AB in Kristianopel, Sweden. The cover artwork was created by Arif Septian (Poisondust). www.facebook.com/retromorphosis.swe
Mexican Black Metallers FUMES are streaming their upcoming debut full length “Skeletal Wings Unleashed” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on February 07, 2025 via Personal Records. www.facebook.com/fumes06
Southern California based Death Metallers CURSED BLOODLINES will digitally self-release their sophomore full length “Virulent” on February 04, 2025. A full album stream you will find at this location. For more band info please visit www.facebook.com/cursedbloodlines
On February 04, 2025 Signal Rex will release “Ubique Diaboli Voluntas”, the debut full length from Portuguese Black Metallers VENTR, on CD and vinyl LP formats. You can already check out the album opener ‘The Martyr’s Gaze’ over here. The complete “Ubique Diaboli Voluntas” tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Martyr’s Gaze’, ‘The Rope Around The Neck Of Ataraxia’, ‘Poisonous Blade Of Kindness’, ‘Violence, Divine’, ‘… Of Sinister Essence’ and ‘Piercing The Eye With Devilish Poison’. https://ventr.bandcamp.com
“Moshocalypse”, the debut full length from Spanish old school Thrashers TERMINAL VIOLENCE, can be streamed in its entirety at this location now. The vinyl edition was released on January 24, 2025, the digital and CD editions have already been out since November 25, 2024. You can additionally watch a lyric video for ‘Smart Is The New Dumb’ over here and a video for the album’s first single ‘Sound The Alarm’ at this location. For more TERMINAL VIOLENCE info please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087446136140
Finnish ’90s rooted melodic Death Metallers NORTHVOID will release a new EP entitled “Ember Remains” on April 25, 2025 via Inverse Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Northern Breeze’, ‘Wilderness’, ‘Sun & Moon’, ‘Entrusted’ and ‘The Ember’. A lyric video for the first single ‘Wilderness’ can already be watched at this location. You can follow NORTHVOID at www.facebook.com/northvoid
Finnish old school Death Metal project MINUUTTI HULLUUTEEN will release its self-titled debut mini album on March 13, 2025 via Inverse Records. It features Mathias Lillmåns (FINNTROLL, …AND OCEANS) on guest vocals. The material was recorded, mixed and mastered by Vesa Viitanen (Napalm To Thy Face Prod.) and the cover artwork was supplied by Bjp PhotoGraphy. The first and only single ‘Palava Portti’ can already be streamed over here. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Uni Vai Painajainen’, ‘Vajoan’, ‘Painajainen’, ‘Synkkä Illuusio’, ‘Minä Olen Pimeys’, ‘Palava Portti’, ‘Tyhjyys’ and ‘Loppu’. MINUUTTI HULLUUTTEEN is the solo project of Lasse Laihola’s (ex – MINDMIRROR, HAURAS). www.facebook.com/minuuttihulluuteen
Los Angeles based Thrash Metal three-piece MINDWARS has just revealed another song from their upcoming fifth full length “V”, which will be released on March 07, 2025 via High Roller Records on all formats. You can watch a video for the track ‘Beneath The Trees’ over here now. The following tracks appear on the album: ‘Stand Guard At The Gates Of Your Mind’, ‘West Of Nowhere’, ‘The Road To Madagascar’, ‘Chasing The Wind’, ‘Beneath The Trees’, ‘Live To Die’, ‘Crusaders’, ‘Source Of Destruction’, ‘Into The Known’, ‘Vultures Of The Eighth Wonder’ and ‘The Logical Song’ (SUPERTRAMP cover). MINDWARS features Mike Alvord, guitarist and co-founder of HOLY TERROR, along with Italian drummer Roby Vitari and bassist Rick Zaccaro. “V” was originally self-released by the band in early 2024. www.facebook.com/mindwarsband
On April 30, 2025 Purity Through Fire will release “Die Hölle Ist Hier”, the fourth full length from German Black Metallers EISENKULT, on CD, A5 digipak, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. You can already check out the album track ‘Von Gott Gehasst’ at this location. The complete “Die Hölle Ist Hier” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Vigil’, ‘Ich Wünsch’ Mir Alles Weg’, ‘Der Teufel Selbst’, ‘Die Asche Eines Engels’, ‘Hassgesang’, ‘Die Hölle Ist Hier’, ‘Von Gott Gehasst’, ‘Kreuzböser Dämon’, ‘Töte Mich’, ‘Eine Handvoll Nägel’ and ‘Flügel Tragen Mich Hinfort’. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063648343729
“Carnage Gathers”, the sophomore full length from US Death Metallers GRAVE INFESTATION, will be released via Invictus Productions, in co-operation with Dark Descent Records, on February 28, 2025. Invictus will handle the album’s release in Europe and the UK, while Dark Descent will handle North America. “Carnage Gathers” was recorded and mixed with engineer Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios and the artwork was created by Misanthropic Art. You can already check out the title track over here. More about GRAVE INFESTATION at www.facebook.com/graveinfestation
Ukrainian Depressive Post Black Metallers MORTUI VULTUS have just released their debut full length “Distant Echoes”. A full album stream is available at this location. The album cover features a film photograph by Alina Pleska, depicting the sea as a symbol of infinity and the unknown. https://mortuivultus.bandcamp.com
Seattle, Washington based blackened Death / Thrashers XOTH will be touring the West Coast of the USA, beginning on Friday, April 04, 2025 in Tacoma, Washingtom, where the band will share the stage with 3 INCHES OF BLOOD. Along the way, XOTH will join forces with STARCOURT, STREET CLEANER and UPON STONE. XOTH recently released a full-band playthrough video for ‘Saga Of The Blade’, a track from their 2023 album “Exogalactic”, at this location. More about XOTH at www.facebook.com/beholdxoth
Chicago based blackened Death Metal project MARROWOMB has just released the track ‘Phantasia Kataleptike’ over here. It is the opener of the upcoming MARROWOMB debut full length “Phisenomie”, which will be released on February 21, 2025. The artwork was created by Penny Slinger and the full tracklist reads like this: ‘Phantasia Kataleptike’, ‘Sickness Unto Life’, ‘Vicarious Visage’, ‘Inner Ring’, ‘Black Gossamer’, ‘Veil Of Cold’, ‘The Mirror’ and ‘Despairloom’. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558761150437
Polish Witching Metal three-piece GALLOWER has just premiered the title track of their upcoming sophomore full length “Vengeance & Wrath” at this location. The previously revealed album track ‘The Dead Despise The Living’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Vengeance & Wrath” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Aftermath / Protector’s Militia’, ‘The Revelation’, ‘Relentless Retaliation’, ‘Bubonic Breath’, ‘March Of The Carmine Cloaks’, ‘Prophecy Of The Seven’, ‘The Dead Despise The Living’, ‘Vengeance & Wrath’ and ‘Demonic Ascent’. The album will be released on March 28, 2025 via Dying Victims Productions. www.facebook.com/gallowerofficial
On March 07, 2025 Caligari Records will release the debut demo from Swedish Death Metallers DEATH PULSATION on cassette tape format. The band consists of members from MALAKHIM and ENCRYPTMENT. “Demo” will feature the following three tracks: ‘Thunderous Pulse’, ‘Eater Of Stars’ and ‘Death Salvation’. You can already stream ‘Eater Of Stars’ over here https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com
On March 21, 2025 Me Saco Un Ojo Records, in co-operation with Pulverised Records, will release “Töviskert… A Kísértés Örök Érzete… Lidércharang”, the sophomore full length from Hungarian Doom / Deathers ROTHADÁS. Me Saco Un Ojo Records will handle the vinyl LP version, while Pulverised will handle the CD version. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Urnaszellem… Szentek Csontpora’, ‘Vértükör’, ‘Sóhajok Kapuja’, ‘Tetemek Tava… Lidércek Tánca’, ‘Sikoltó Füst’ and ‘Az Örök Isten Lucifer’. You can already check out ‘Vértükör’ at this location. More ROTHADÁS music you will find at https://rothadasdeathdoom.bandcamp.com
“Demon Steel”, the seventh full length from Finland’s blackend Thrashers URN, will be released on March 28, 2025 via Osmose Productions on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Here’s the full tracklist already: ‘Retribution Of The Dead’, ‘Heir Of Tyrants’, ‘Are You Friends With Your Demons’, ‘Burning Blood’s Curse’, ‘Turbulence Of Misanthropy’, ‘Iron Star’, ‘Wings Of Inferno’, ‘Cold Void Skin’, ‘Ruthless Paranoia’ and ‘Predator Of Spiritforms’. www.facebook.com/urnofficial
Max Blok (ALKALOID, DARK FORTRESS) has joined dutch Death Metallers PESTILENCE as their second, full-time lead guitarist after the departure of Rutger van Noordenburg. The band is currently working on their tenth full length “Portals”, which will be released in June via Agonia Records. www.facebook.com/pestilenceofficial
American Death Metallers ACT OF IMPALEMENT have just premiered the track ‘Piercing The Heavens’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full length “Profane Altar”, which will be released on February 28, 2025 via Caligari Records on CD and cassette tape formats. www.facebook.com/actofimpalement