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On December 08, 2023 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “Lamentationen”, a Black Metal split album with Germany’s GRABUNHOLD and Austria’s CIRCLE OF SHADOWS, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It features three exclusive tracks from each band. GRABUNHOLD will be featured with ‘Caras Galadhorn’, ‘Der Zorn Der Zwei Türme’ and ‘Lebewohl’ and CIRCLE OF SHADOWS with ‘Draugluin’, ‘Tol-In-Graurhoth – Mein Fluch Ist Schwarzer Segen’ and ‘Nine Ghosts’. For all further information about both bands check out www.facebook.com/grabunhold or www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063801242534
Greek technical Thrashers VENUS will release their debut full length “Obscured Until Observed” on November 14, 2023 via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘Sons Of Grus’, ‘The Observatory’, ‘City Of Nektron’, ‘Circus Strange’, ‘Alive’, ‘Artificially Prolonged Existance’, ‘Venus Legacy’, ‘The Arrythmic Pulse Of Universe’ and ‘Subatomic Search For Human Consciousness’. You can already listen to the first advance single ‘Circus Strange’ here. The band’s 2022 EP “Project Lamda” can still be streamed at this location. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/venusscifi
Salt Lake City based Thrashers DEATHBLOW are streaming their upcoming EP “Rotten Trajectory” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 29, 2023 via Sewer Mouth Records. The EP was recorded and produced by Wes Johnson at Archive Recordings and the artwork was supplied by Nicky Rat. For all additional DEATHBLOW information please visit www.facebook.com/deathblowofficial
On October 27, 2023 Purity Through Fire will release “Lappish Shatanism”, the sophomore full length from Finnish Black Metallers NÔIDVA, on digipak CD format. The title track can already be streamed over here. The cover artwork was created by Mara Hiltunen and the complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Korpikutsu’, ‘Fall Of The Axis Mundi’, ‘Natural Oneness’, ‘Dryads Of The Virgin Forest’, ‘Supranormaali Transsendentaali’, ‘Hidden Hate Of The Northern Shamanism’, ‘Pohjolan Hymni’ and ‘Lappish Shatanism’. For more NÔIDVA check out https://noidva.bandcamp.com
A full album stream of “Sanity Desecration”, the sophomore full length from Polish Death Metallers ATROPINE, is available over here now. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Pawel Leniart at Dzwiekonarium Studio (DIABOL BORUTA, PANDRADOR) and the cover artwork was created Jakub “Skiborg” Skibinski. The album will be released on September 29, 2023 through Via Nocturna Records. You can follow ATROPINE at www.facebook.com/atropinerzeszow
Norwegian Industrial Black Metallers THE LAST EON have just released a first track from their upcoming debut full length “Infernal Fractality”, which will be released on November 17, 2023 via Soulseller Records. You can check out ‘The Black Legion’ at this location. The complete “Infernal Fractality” tracklist reads like this: ‘The Black Legion’, ‘Asthetamine’, ‘The Birth Of No-One’, ‘Kosmicalypse’, ‘DMT – Infernal Fractality’, ‘Cosmos’, ‘0’ and ‘Thus Light Spoke’. You can follow THE LAST EON at www.facebook.com/thelasteon.official
Bogota, Colombia based Speed Metallers RECKLESS have just premiered the track ‘Neutralized’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Sharp Magick Steel”, which will be released on October 29, 2023 via Dying Victims Productions. The previously revealed title track ‘Sharp Magick Steel’ and ‘Glittering Death’ can still be streamed here and here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Kneel Before The Gods’, ‘Crimson Obsession’, ‘Glittering Death’, ‘Sharp Magik Steel’, ‘Behind The Mist’, ‘Neutralized’, ‘Wake Up Screaming’ and ‘Unholy Odyssey’. For more RECKLESS information please visit www.facebook.com/recklessspeedmetal
“Philosopher”, the ninth album from Norway’s AETERNUS, will be released on November 17, 2023 via Agonia Records on vinyl LP (in various different colors), CD, cassette tape and digitally. A European and UK tour with GORGOROTH will follow the same month. The album was recorded, produced and mixed by the band and Herbrand Larsen at Conclave & Earshot Studios (IMMORTAL, ENSLAVED) and mastered by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studio (BLOODBATH, VOMITORY). The cover artwork was created by Mar.A. (CULTES DES GHOULES, DEUS MORTEM). The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Existentialist Hunter’, ‘World Bleak Nepotism’, ‘The Intentionality Of Unitigated Evil’, ‘Void Of Venom’, ‘Wresting Worm’, ‘The Luciferian Architect’ and ‘Carving The Pristine Anomie’. All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/aeternusofficial
German Black Metallers NEBELKRÄHE have just premiered a video for ‘Nielandsmann’ (featuring KANONENFIEBER singer Noise) at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming third album “ephemer”, which will be released on October 27, 2023 via Crawling Chaos Records on digipak CD and vinyl LP formats, as well as digitally. The previously revealed video for ‘Kranichträume’ can still be watched over here. More about NEBELKRÄHE at www.facebook.com/nebelkraeheofficial
Australian Heavy Black / Death Metallers KING have just revealed the first single from their upcoming third full-length “Fury And Death”. You can check out ‘Volcano’ over here. The album will be released on November 17, 2023 via Soulseller Records, the cover artwork was created by Mitchell Nolte. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Mist’, ‘Perception Ignited’, ‘Volcano’, ‘Mountains Of Ice’, ‘Black Dimension’, ‘Once And For All’, ‘Into The Fire’, ‘Death In The Cosmos’, ‘Crepuscular’ and ‘To The Stars’. For all additional KING information check out www.facebook.com/oneworldoneking
New York City based technical Death Metal trio NEURECTOMY will release their debut full length “Overwrought” (featuring ORIGIN’s John Longstreth on drums) on November 17, 2023. The band has already posted visualizer videos for two songs off the album, ‘Crimson Tsunami’ and ‘Dolphin’, which you can watch here, respectively here. The complete tracklist of “Overwrought” reads as follows: ‘Abducted For Research’, ‘Culinary Cadaveric Art’, ‘Anencephalic Birth’, ‘Dolphin’, ‘Zombified’, ‘Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progres’, ‘Overwrought’ and ‘Crimson Tsunami’. More about NEURECTOMY at www.facebook.com/neurectomy
Finnish Black Metallers VERILEHTO will release their debut full length “Kuoleman Siipien Havina” on November 10, 2023 via Inverse Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Janne Tuikkala at his j.sound home studio from October 2022 to May 2023. Janne Partanen recorded his vocals at Hautajaisyö headquarters during spring of 2023. The album cover was created by Awinita Alm. The band just released a video for the album track ‘Alla Tähtitaivaan’ at this location. The complete “Kuoleman Siipien Havina” tracklist reads like this: ‘Johdanto’, ‘Lohduton Kylmä Polku’, ‘Kuoleman Siipien Havina’, ‘Alla Tähtitaivaan’, ‘Kirottu Kiulu’, ‘Hirtetyn Hyvästit’ and ‘Kalman Seppä’. All additional VERILEHTO information you will find at www.facebook.com/verilehto
Minneapolis based melodic Black / Death Metallers SILVA have just released a lyric video for ‘Death (My Becoming)’, the newest single off their upcoming debut full length “Forgotten Sanctuary”, over here. The band commented on the song as follows: “‘Death (My Becoming)’ was the third song written for “Forgotten Sanctuary”. Bringing flares of classic Heavy Metal like MERCYFUL FATE to ’90s Black Metal; ‘Death (My Becoming)’ is filled with hooks, chants and guitar solos and harmonies. Lyrically the song is about an unfulfilled life in search of a dream never found that lasted a lifetime.” The album, that will be released via Black Lion Records on October 20, 2023, features the following tracks: ‘Foreboding Ruins’, ‘Desolate Hordes’, ‘Forgotten Sanctuary’, ‘Aurora’, ‘Death, My Becoming’, ‘Burrowed Light’, ‘Eye Of Fate’ and ‘Beyond Death’. For all further SILVA information please visit www.facebook.com/silvaofficialmn
On October 27, 2023 Purity Through Fire will release “Ikuinen Kirous”, a new mini album from Finnish Black Metallers IKU-TURSO, on CD and A5 digipak formats. The 12″ vinyl LP version will follow later in 2023. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Nkotimsefuopua’, ‘Ebenezer’, ‘Adinkra’, ‘Een Zucht Van Verdriet’, ‘Gauss’, ‘Noirthoren’ and ‘Thornspawn Chalice’. You can already check out ‘Adinkra’ at this location. For more IKU-TURSO info check out www.facebook.com/ikutursobm
“…Makes Us Survive! – 30 Years In Metal”, the 30th anniversary album from German Thrashers HEADSHOT, will be released on November 23, 2023 via MDD Records. It features re-recordings of songs from the band’s first two albums. A release party will take place on November 25, 2023 with WARPATH as special guest in Braunschweig, Germany. For more info and updates please visit www.facebook.com/headshot.metal
Germany’s FUNERAL PILE have just released a video for ‘Hope Is A Lie’ over here. The song appears on the band’s debut full-length “Evoked In Flames”, which was released back in 2021. FUNERAL PILE combines elements of Melodic Death, Epic Doom and Post Black Metal. For all further band information check out www.facebook.com/funeralpile
On November 24, 2023 Eternal Death will release “The Names Of Power”, the fifth full length from US Black Metallers ONE MASTER, on CD, cassette tape and limited-to-100 double-vinyl boxset. The album was recorded at Sonic Environments with Jeff Weed, the mastering was done by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘The First Names’, ‘The Forbidden Names’, ‘The Secret Names’, ‘The Solitary Names’, ‘The Celestial Names’ and ‘The Final Names’. You can already listen to ‘The Forbidden Names’ at this location. “The Names Of Power” is the band’s first full-length with their “Mark IV” line-up, with band founder Valder on guitar and vocals, long-running member Black Wolf on guitar and bass (who writes and plays all of the leads and solos) and the first full length with Eponymous on drums. Although he joined after the album was recorded, new bass player Grave Dog (having been long affiliated with the band, providing artwork since “Reclusive Blasphemy”) is part of the band’s line-up as well now. For more ONE MASTER information please visit www.facebook.com/onemasterusa
Ukrainian / Polish Black Metallers THREE EYES OF THE VOID have just released a video for the title track of their upcoming debut full length “The Atheist” over here. The album will be released on October 27, 2023 on digipak CD and digitally via Folter Records. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Behind The Stars’, ‘Against The One’, ‘Descent’, ‘No More Light’, ‘Delirium’ and ‘The Atheist’. All additional THREE EYES OF THE VOID info you will find at www.facebook.com/teovband
Finnish blackened Death Metallers ANIMA HERETICAE have just released their debut full length “Descended From The Mountains” via Inverse Records. A video for the title track can be watched at this location and a full album stream is available over here. Guest vocalists on the album are Mikko Heikkilä (KAUNIS KUOLEMATON, DAWN OF SOLACE) and Gogo Melone (AEONIAN SORROW). More about ANIMA HERETICAE at www.facebook.com/animahereticaeofficial
Swedish Death Metallers FARSOTH have just released the title track of their upcoming album “Morbid Symphony” at this location. The song features guest vocals from Alexander Högbom of OCTOBER TIDE. The previously released ‘Nothingness’ can still be streamed here. Black Lion Records will release “Morbid Symphonies” on November 24, 2023. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Hate’, ‘Nothingness’, ‘Infernal Bondage’, ‘Morbid Symphony’, ‘Bound To Death’, ‘Afterlife’, ‘Provoke Me’, ‘Your Death’, ‘Rotten Flesh Stew’ and ‘World Beyond’. For all further information please visit www.facebook.com/farsothofficialsweden
Polish Death Metallers MARTYRDOOM have just premiered the track ‘Shedding Of The Soul’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full length “As Torment Prevails”, which will be released on October 23, 2023 via Memento Mori. The previously revealed album track ‘Katatonic Ascension Of Cirrhosis’ can still be streamed at this location. The complete “As Torment Prevails” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Voidcreeper’, ’93’, ‘Katatonic Ascension Of Cirrhosis’, ‘Purtenance’, ‘Shedding Of The Soul’, ‘Torment’, ‘Festering Existence’, ‘Garden Of Flesh’ and ‘In The Grip Of Winter’ (AUTOPSY cover). More about MARTYRDOOM at www.facebook.com/martyrdoomdeath
“Throne Of The Lunar Soul”, the fourth full length from Cincinnati, Ohio based blackened Deathers VALDRIN, will be released via Blood Harvest Records on November 24, 2023 on CD, double vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Neverafter’, ‘Golden Walls Of Ausadjur’, ‘Seven Swords (In The Arsenal Of Steel)’, ‘Paladins Of Ausadjur’, ‘Sojourner Wolf’, ‘The Hierophant’, ‘Vagrant In The Chamber Of Night’, ‘Holy Matricide’, ‘Throne Of The Lunar Soul’, ‘Two Carrion Talismans’ and ‘Hymn To The Convergence’. You can already stream ‘Seven Swords (In The Arsenal Of Steel)’ over here. All further VALDRIN information you will find at www.facebook.com/valdrinausadjur
Swedish Thrash / Speed Metallers TYRANEX have just released their fourth full length “Reasons For The Slaughter” on vinyl LP, CD and cassette tape via GMR Music Group today. An official video for the title-track is available at this location. The album was produced by Lawrence Mackrory (KATATONIA, BLOODBATH, DECAPITATED, VOMITORY). The drums were recorded at Grand Recordings Studio, Gothenburg, the vocals at Rorysound Studios, Uppsala and the guitars and bass in The Dungeons of Gothenburg. The mixing and mastering was done by by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios, Uppsala. For more TYRANEX information please visit www.facebook.com/tyranexofficial
On November 24, 2023 Nuclear Winter Records will release “I Skyggen Af Livet”, the debut full length from Denmark’s deathened Black Metallers SORT SIND, on CD format. The vinyl LP version will be co-released with Desiccated Productions. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Morke’, ‘Fortærer’, ‘Foragt’, ‘Hævntorst’, ‘Tomhed’, ‘Skygge’, ‘Sortsyn’ and ‘Dysterhed’. More SORT SIND at https://desiccatedproductions.bandcamp.com
“Infernal Fractality”, the debut full length from Norwegian Industrial Black Metallers THE LAST EON, will be released via Soulseller Records at the end of 2023. Mainman Ødemark issued the following statement about it: “I wanted to push the limits of what extreme Metal can be, and materialize a vision for the future of electronic Black Metal that required me to rebel against every single rule in my mind of what Black Metal is, to create what Black Metal can be. This included also the theme and lyrics, spreading awareness of the mind expanding psychedelic experiences and self exploration within the Black Metal culture.” The first single will be released on September 27, 2023. For regular updates and more information make sure to follow THE LAST EON at www.facebook.com/thelasteon.official
English / German Metal Punks DUNGEON are streaming their new mini album “Into The Ruins” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released via Dying Victims Productions today. More about DUNGEON at www.facebook.com/dungeonlondon
Boston, Massachusetts based Death Metal quartet BACTERIAL HUSK has just released a new single from their upcoming debut full length “Anthropogenic Ruin”. You can listen to ‘Chemically Evolved’ over here. The album will be released on October 27, 2023. Its full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Spores Of Hallucinosis’, ‘Flayed By Anomalies’, ‘Plague Pollination’, ‘Corrupted Hydrosphere’, ‘Enshrined Gravitational Aberration’, ‘Umbilical Sewage’, ‘Mystics Of Transmutation’, ‘Chemically Evolved’, ‘Cesarean-Born Constellations’ and ‘Starving The Immortal’. For all additional BACTERIAL HUSK information please visit www.facebook.com/bacterialhusk
Colombian Death Metallers FUNERAL VOMIT will release their debut full length “Monumental Putrescence” on December 19, 2023 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digitally. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Intro (The Entombment)’, ‘Immense Morbidity’, ‘The Mortuary Moon’, ‘Spectral Parasite’, ‘Cadaveric Apparition’, ‘Interlude (Towards The Abysmal Doom)’, ‘Monumental Putrescence’, ‘Necromantical Winds’, ‘Swarming Pestilence’ and ‘Outro (The Sinister Mist)’. A first advance single can already be streamed at this location. All further FUNERAL VOMIT info you will find at www.facebook.com/funeral.vomit
New Jersey’s blackened Death Metal quintet PUTRASCENSION has just revealed a song off their upcoming album “Forever Below”. You can check out ‘Efface’ over here. The album will be released via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on October 06, 2023. It was tracked, mixed and mastered between the summer and winter months of 2021 by Bobby Torres and Benjamin Karas at Frightbox Recording and features cover artwork created by Misanthropic-Art (ASPHYX, BEHEMOTH, DISMEMBER, HOODED MENACE, KATATONIA). Here’s the complete “Forever Below” tracklist: ‘Deeper Hell’, ‘Hydrohammer’, ‘Void Within’, ‘Stillness’, ‘Carved In Fog’, ‘Efface’ and ‘Meslamtaea’. You can follow PUTRASCENSION at www.facebook.com/putrascension
Brazilian Death Metallers REBAELLIUN are streaming their new album “Under The Sign Of Rebellion” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released via Agonia Records today. It was recorded during summer 2021 at RR44 Studio by Rafael Siqueira and mastered by Jander Antunes. The cover artwork was created by Sebastian Suarez. For more REBAELLIUN information please visit www.facebook.com/rebaelliun
Canadian melodic Black Metal three-piece KINGS ROT will release its sophomore full-length “At The Gates Of Adversarial Darkness” via Hypnotic Dirge today on CD and digitally. A limited vinyl LP edition will follow in January 2024. The album was mastered by Rolando Rodas / Cavern Of Echoes and features artwork from Misanthropic-Art. More about KINGS ROT at www.facebook.com/kingsrotband
Tampere, Finland based HEXVESSEL will release their Black Metal influenced sixth full length “Polar Veil” via Svart Records today. It features Nameless Void from NEGATIVE PLANE, performing the guitar solo on the songs ‘Ring’ and ‘Older Than The Gods’ and Okoi from BØLZER, who provides guest vocals. All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/hexvessel
German Pagan Metallers HELGRINDUR have just released a lyric video for ‘Fernweh’ at this location. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming self-titled sophomore full-length, which will be released on October 20, 2023 via MDD Records with a 24-page booklet as a jewel case CD and limited edition digipak, which will also be part of a box set. The complete tracklist of the album reads like this: ‘An Der Mühle’, ‘Fernweh’, ‘Erinnerung’, ‘Das Mädchen Am Teich’, ‘Golem’, ‘Herr Des Waldes’, ‘Helgrindur’, ‘Bergisches Land’, ‘Lebenslicht’ and ‘Zur Ewigkeit’. All additional HELGRINDUR information you will find at www.facebook.com/helgrindur
Salt Lake City based Thrashers DEATHBLOW will release a new EP entitled “Rotten Trajectory” on September 29, 2023 via Sewer Mouth Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Rotten Trajectory’, ‘Pounder’ and ‘In Plain Sight’. The single ‘Pounder’ is already streaming at this location. The EP was recorded and produced by Wes Johnson at Archive Recordings and the artwork was created by Nicky Rat. DEATHBLOW will embark on the “Rotten Tour-Jectory” tour in October, which will take them to Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/deathblowofficial
The debut full length from Baltimore, Maryland based brutal, technical Death Metallers WORMHOLE, “Almost Human”, will be released on September 22, 2023 via Season Of Mist. A full album stream is available over here. The album was produced and engineered by WORMHOLE and AJ Viana. The bass parts were produced and engineered by Alex Weber. “Almost Human” was mixed by AJ Viana at AJ Viana Productions and mastered by Alan Douches. The artwork was supplied by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration). All additional band information you will find at www.facebook.com/wormholemetal
“Furnace”, the debut full length from Belgian Black Metallers HERZOG, will be released on CD and vinyl LP formats via Amor Fati Productions on November 24, 2023. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Loss Of Utopia’, ‘Acheminement’, ‘Melted Tesseract’, ‘Oath Of Weakness’, ‘The Craftsmen’, ‘All Rites’, ‘Oath Of I’ and ‘Oath Of Us’. You can already listen to ‘Haunted Tesseract’ at this location. More information at www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
Melbourne Australia based Heavy Black / Death Metallers KING will release their upcoming third full-length “Fury And Death” via Soulseller Records in late 2023. The band issued the following comments: “We’re excited to have signed a deal with the mighty Soulseller Records to release a musical work that we’re extremely proud of. The time has come to descend from the frozen peaks and let our new music see the light of day “Fury And Death” is a tumultuous battle through epic blasting melodies, uplifting soaring choruses and intense and driving hooks. Prepare for the pilgrimage.” Regular updates you will find at www.facebook.com/oneworldoneking
On October 12, 2023 Polish Thrashers POPIÓR will release their debut full length “Pomarlisko” on gatefold vinyl LP (regular black and limited galaxy green transparent), CD and digitally via Szataniec. The band consists of two former members of KAT & ROMAN KOSTRZEWSKI, Jacek Hiro and Jacek Nowak. The songs were originally prepared for the next KAT & ROMAN KOSTRZEWSKI album, but unfortunately Roman Kostrzewski died on February 10, 2022. “Pomarlisko” was recorded by Grzegorz Środa at Lateral Sound and mixed and mastered by Piotr Mańkowski at Coverius Studio (TURBO, WOLF SPIDER). The cover artwork was created by Piotr Szafraniec (SCEPTIC, LOST SOUL, TRAUMA, VADER). You can already watch videos for ‘Requiem’ and ‘Międzyświat’ here, respectively here. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Międzyświat’, ‘Zabierz Mnie Do Piekła’, ‘Marne Wycie Hien’, ‘Cień Starych, Cmentarnych Drzew’, ‘Astralne Wrota Gwiazd’, ‘Czarny Bal’, ‘Pomarlisko’ and ‘Requiem’. The band will be on tour in Poland from mid October to the end of November. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/popiorband
Italian Crossover / old school Thrashers URAL have just released a video for ‘Heritage’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full length “Psychoverse”, which will be released on October 10, 2023 via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. It was recorded at Mk2 Recording Studio in Ivrea with Davide “BrutalDave” Billia (ANTROPOFAGUS, BEHEADED, HOUR OF PENANCE) and the cover artwork was created by Luca SoloMacello. The following tracks will be featured on “Psychoverse”: ‘Drag Me To The Wolves’, ‘Heritage’, ‘Nightmare’, ‘Blood Red Sand’, ‘Fall Of The One World’, ‘Uncanny Valley’, ‘Carousel Of Hell’ and ‘66.6 F.M.’. The first two advance singles, ‘Drag Me To The Wolves’ and ‘Nightmare’, can still be checked out here and here. More about URAL at www.facebook.com/uralwolfteam
On November 24, 2023 Shadow Kingdom Records will release the fifth full length of America’s DESTRUCTOR, “Blood, Bone, And Fire”, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. A video for the track ‘Heroic Age’ is already available at this location. The complete “Blood, Bone, And Fire” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Blood, Bone, And Fire’, ‘Iron Clad’, ‘Storm Upon The World’, ‘Never Surrender’, ‘Depths Of Insanity’, ‘The Calling’, ‘Heroic Age’, ‘Hammering The Steel’ and ‘Dominate’. You can follow DESTRUCTOR at www.facebook.com/destructormetal
Finnish blackened Death Metallers PROGENY OF SUN have just released a lyric video for ‘False Radiance’, the second single from their upcoming debut full length “Throne Of Desolation”. You can watch the video at this location. The album will be released on December 08, 2023 via Inverse Records. A video for the previously revealed album track ‘Damsel’ can additionally be watched over here. The complete “Throne Of Desolation” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Forged By The Devil’, ‘Damsel’, ‘Heartless Dome’, ‘Caldera’, ‘False Radiance’, ‘Dweller’, ‘Coward’, ‘Invasion’, ‘Courier’, ‘Restoration’, ‘Human Disposal Site’ and ‘War Of The Ages’. The cover artwork was created by Niko Aromaa. More PROGENY OF SUN information you will find at www.facebook.com/progenyofsun
Brazilian Thrashers FARSCAPE are streaming their upcoming fourth full length “Purged And Forgotten” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on September 22, 2023 via Dying Victims Productions. For more FARSCAPE information please visit www.facebook.com/farscape666
Brazilian Death Metallers REBAELLIUN and ESCARNIUM will join forces on the “Brazilian Death And Terror Tour” in the Summer of 2024. The tour will run from July 04 to July 20, 2024. Dates will be announced as soon as they are confirmed. If you would like to book a show on that tour, please contact speedfreakbookings@gmail.com. For all additional band information please visit www.facebook.com/rebaelliun or www.facebook.com/escarnium
American Black Metallers PROFANATICA are streaming their upcoming new album “Crux Simplex” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 22, 2023 via Season Of Mist. This summer, PROFANATICA celebrated the coming of “Crux Simplex” with their first-ever full-length tour of the U.S. You can watch their headlining set at Indianapolis’ Heavy Hell IV Festival over here. More about PROFANATICA at www.facebook.com/profanaticausa
UK based progressive Doom / Deathers BULL ELEPHANT will release their third full length “The Long War” on November 17, 2023 via Eat Lead And Die Music. It was recorded by Jamie Masters at Echo Studios in Buckingham and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound, Sweden. The cover artwork was created by Kishor Haulenbeek. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Expansion From Perceived Reality’, ‘Blackened Chaos Horizon’, ‘Berlin Falling’, ‘Zentrum Der Neuen Welt’, ‘Severing The Last Strands Of Self’ and ‘The Long War’. The album opener ‘Expansion From Perceived Reality’ can already be streamed at this location. For all further band information check out www.facebook.com/bullelephant
Norwegian melodic Death Metallers PARADOGMATA will self-release their debut full length “Endetid” on November 23, 2023. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Endetidsbundet’, ‘The Seeds Of Greed’, ‘Seven Curses For The Deathly Pale’, ‘The Cleansing Flood’, ‘Corrupt To Interrupt’, ‘Harrowing Of Heaven’, ‘The Princes In The Tower’, ‘Certain Future’, ‘The Cleansing Flood’ (rough mix) and ‘The Princes In The Tower’ (alt. version). A video for ‘The Seeds Of Greed’ can already be watched over here. “Endetid” was recorded at NordStern Studio with Kenneth “Ahzari” Jorgensen (BEYOND MAN, SALIGIA) und C. Broholt (KATECHON, HELLSTORM, INFANT DEATH) in Winter 2021 and Summer 2022. It was mixed and mastered at Granraude Studio by P.V. Leth-Olsen. Robert Lowe (CANDLEMASS, SOLITUDE AETURNUS, TYRANT, GRIEF COLLECTOR) und Chris Hathcock (THE RETICENT, XAEL) contributed guest vocals and Magnus Helmersen (THE FEDERATION) helped out with backing vocals. The artwork was created by Remedy Art Design (EVERGREY, OCEANS OF SLUMBER, KAMELOT, BLOOD RED THRONE, THE CROWN). All further PARADOGMATA info you will find at www.facebook.com/paradogmata
Norwegian Black Metallers DEN SAAKALDTE have just revealed the track ‘Å Skjende En Engel’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s new album “Pesten Som Tar Over”, which will be out on September 29, 2023 via Agonia Records. You can follow DEN SAAKALDTE at www.facebook.com/densaakaldte
Dutch Death Metallers BLOODPHEMY will release their fifth album “Dawn Of Malevolence” later this year via Non Serviam Records. For regular updates check out www.facebook.com/bloodphemy
“Penitence”, the debut full length from US Black Metallers RITUAL CLEARING, will be released on vinyl LP format on November 17, 2023 via Eternal Death. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Burn’, ‘Penitence’, ‘Cold, Forever’, ‘Deathfog’, ‘Void’ and ‘Mensis’. More RITUAL CLEARING info you will find at www.facebook.com/ritualclearing
Polish Black Metal project HEGEROTH will self-release its fifth album “Disintegration” on jewel case CD and digitally on October 09, 2023. It was recorded at the band’s own HH Soundlab Studios and the cover artwork was created by Maciej Kamuda (BLUT AUS NORD, NUNSLAUGHTER, MASTER, KINGDOM, ZMARŁYM). It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Snake’, ‘Debased’, ‘The Dirt’, ‘The Ritual’, ‘Uplifted’, ‘The Shepherd’, ‘The Ring’, ‘The Queen Of Spiders’ and ‘An Accident’. You can already watch lyric videos for ‘Debased’ and ‘The Snake’ here and here. More HEGEROTH info you will find at www.facebook.com/hegeroth
On November 17, 2023 Personal Records will release “Destin Cruel”, the sophomore full length from Canadian Death Metallers CRUEL FATE, on CD format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Triomphe De La Mort’, ‘Vampire Boréal’, ‘Destin Cruel’, ‘Transit Sidéral’, ‘Descente Aux Enfers’, ‘Feu Christique’ and ‘L’usurpateur’. You can already listen to the title track at this location. More band info is available at www.facebook.com/cruelfateottawa
“Misticismo Regresivo”, the debut full length from Santiago, Chile based Black Metallers BLACK GRAIL, has been released on cassette tape for the first time via විරෑපී (VIRŪPI). Each cassette comes with an additional insert containing artwork and translations. The CD edition was released back in March 2015 via Uncreation Records, a vinyl edition was later issued via Final Agony Records (USA) and Tyrannus Records (Chile). The band is currently working on their third full-length. A full album stream is available over here. For all further information please visit www.facebook.com/virvpi
“Pochwała Cienia”, the 2023 debut demo from Swedish Black Metallers WÉKERAS, will be re-released on MCD format via Nigredo Records on September 29, 2023. It features the following tracks: ‘Transitions’, ‘Ohyda’, ‘Brzask’, ‘Collapse’ and ‘Ohyda’ (live, CD bonus track). More WÉKERAS information you will find at www.facebook.com/wekeras.band
Swedish Doom / Deathers OCTOBER TIDE have just released the song ‘Blodfattig’ at this location. It is the second single to be released off the band’s upcoming new album “The Cancer Pledge”, which will be released on October 06, 2023 via Agonia Records. An animated lyric video for the previously released ‘Tapestry Of Our End’ can still be watched over here. “This is perhaps the most extreme song on the album”, comments guitarist Fredrik Norrman (ex – KATATONIA, ex – TREES OF ETERNITY, THENIGHTTIMEPROJECT) on ‘Blodfattig’. “If ‘Tapestry Of Our End’ is a more traditional OCTOBER TIDE song, then ‘Blodfattig’ is the opposite, with some Thrash inspired riffs and an intricate song structure.” For all additional OCTOBER TIDE information check out www.facebook.com/octobertideband
Helsinki, Finland based Death Metallers MALFORMED have just released a first song off their upcoming EP “The Gathering Of Souls”. You can listen to ‘Enchantments Of Nihilism’ over here. The EP will be released via Extremely Rotten Productions on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats on October 13, 2023. It features the following tracks: ‘Drowning In Emptiness’, ‘The Gathering Of Souls’, ‘Defiled’, ‘Enchantments Of Nihilism’ and ‘Mind Refinery’. More about MALFORMED at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088862900983
Dutch Death Metallers ECOCIDE have just premiered a video for ‘Metamorphosis’ at this location. It is the title track of the band’s upcoming sophomore full length, which will be released on October 23, 2023 via Memento Mori. A lyric video for the previously revealed ‘On The Shores Of Madness’ can still be found at this location. The complete “Metamorphosis” tracklist reads like this: ‘Prologue’, ‘Metamorphosis’, ‘Terminus’, ‘Corrupted Reality’, ‘On The Shores Of Madness’, ‘Vortex Singularity’, ‘Transcendence Of The Mind’, ‘The Flayed’ and ‘Amongst The Tombs’. All further ECOCIDE info you will find at www.facebook.com/ecocidemetal
Italian Horror Death Metal band TENEBRO will release their sophomore full length “Ultime Grida Dalla Giungla” on November 21, 2023 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. You can already listen to the first advance song ‘Lo Squartamento Della Tartaruga’ over here. Here’s the complete tracklist of the album: ‘Ferox’, ‘Lo Squartamento Della Tartaruga’, ‘Feto Strappato E Gettato Nel Fango’, ‘Khakhua’, ‘Ultime Grida Dalla Giungla’, ‘Pellicola Maledetta’, ‘Il Ritrovamento Della Donna Impalata’, ‘A Caccia… Di Umani’, ‘Il Paese Del Sesso Selvaggio’, ‘Massacro Della Trouppe’ and ‘Oscuro Rito Sessuale’. More TENEBRO music you will find at https://tenebro666.bandcamp.com
On November 03, 2023 MOTÖRHEAD‘s “Another Perfect Day” album will be re-released as a “Deluxe 40th Anniversary” edition. It will be available as double CD and triple vinyl LP book editions. Apart from the remastered album, the package also features four demo bonus tracks, the b-sides of the ‘I Got Mine’ and ‘Shine’ singles and a previously unreleased live show, which was recorded on June 22, 1983 at the Hull City Hall. The booklet will feature the history of the album and lots of unpublished pictures. You can already watch a video for the previously unreleased demo version of ‘Climber’ (which was retitled ‘Shine’ later on) at this location. More information and regular updates you will find at www.imotorhead.com
OWDWYR, an extreme Metal convergence of Tech Death, Prog and Grind, have released a video for ‘Ein’ at this location. The song will be featured on their upcoming debut full length “Receptor”, which will be self-released on October 20, 2023. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Praefatio’, ‘The Liminal Carapace’, ‘Ripped From The Bog’, ‘Stench Of Indemnity’, ‘Lagos’, ‘Ein’, ‘Writhe’, ‘Supplicant’, ‘Reverie’, ‘Cower’, ‘A Vessel Emerges’, ‘Not Afraid’, ‘Pitchtongue Vesper’, ‘Catalyst Sequence’ and ‘The Sputtering Torch’. OWDWYR features appearances by Navene Koperweis (ENTHEOS, ex – ANIMALS AS LEADERS), Kenny Grohowski (IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, JOHN ZORN), Kevin Paradis (NE OBLIVISCARIS, BENIGHTED), Alex Cohen (CONTRARIAN, ex – PYRRHON) and many more. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/owdwyr
Brazilian Death Metallers REBAELLIUN have just released a guitar playthrough video for ‘All Hail The Regicide’ over here. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming album “Under The Sign Of Rebellion”, which will be released on September 22, 2023 via Agonia Records. It was recorded during summer 2021 at RR44 Studio by Rafael Siqueira and mastered by Jander Antunes. The cover artwork was created by Sebastian Suarez. More about REBAELLIUN at www.facebook.com/rebaelliun
German Black Metallers HAGATIZ have just premiered ‘Drown In Darkness’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Cursed To The Night”, which will be released on October 11, 2023 via Amor Fati Productions. The previously revealed ‘Demimonde’ can still be streamed over here. The following tracks will be featured on “Cursed To The Night”: ‘The Gathering’, ‘Demimonde’, ‘Echoes From The Afterlife’, ‘Everlast In Darkest Night’, ‘Scourge Beneath The Skin’, ‘Drown In Darkness’ and ‘Necrovoid’. For all further information check out www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
Berlin, Germany based Thrashers DEIMOS’ DAWN have just released a video for ‘Too Much Pain Is Not Enough’ over here. The song is featured on the band’s new album “Anthem Of The Lost”, which was released via MDD on CD and vinyl LP. More DEIMOS’ DAWN info you will find at www.facebook.com/deimosdawn
On October 28, 2023 Amor Fati Productions, in co-operation with Babylon Doom Cult, will release “Valkengebed”, the third demo from Belgium’s Black Metallers OERHEKS. Amor Fati will handle the 12″ vinyl version, while Babylon Doom Cult will handle the cassette tape version. The demo features the two lengthy tracks ‘Valkengebed’ and ‘Blauwe Vleugels’. All three OERHEKS demos will also be released as a double CD set entitled “Grondslagen”. For more OERHEKS please visit https://oerheks.bandcamp.com
SOLIPNOSIS, a Chilean Avantgarde Black / Speed Metal solo project from multi-instrumentalist El Centauro, has just released ‘Separación Del Qué Y El Quién’, a preview track off an upcoming second EP entitled “Síntesis Silenciosa”. You can listen to it at this location. The EP will be released on September 23, 2023 on cassette tape and digital formats via විරෑපී (VIRŪPI). It will feature the following tracks: ‘Cola De Serpiente, Torso De Hombre’, ‘Descender En Alas De Quimera’, ‘Capaz De Una Obra Mayor’, ‘Separación Del Qué Y El Quién’, ‘Divagaciones En Disminuida’, ‘Permanencia De Memoria Inmediata’, ‘Poder Absoluto Individual’ and ‘Reflexiones En Frigio’. The sophomore SOLIPNOSIS full-length album is planned to follow soon as well. For more information check out www.facebook.com/virvpi
Spanish Speed / Thrash Metallers OMISSION will release their seventh album “Disciples Of Ravens Vengeance” on October 24, 2023 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digitally. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Rabid Aggression’, ‘Hatred Circles’, ‘Shrouded Alive’, ‘Roulette’, ‘Slow And Crooked’, ‘Burn The Cross’, ‘Conspiracy From Murks’, ‘It’s Better To Burn Out’ and ‘…Than To Fade Away’. The first advance single ‘Burn The Cross’ is already available over here. You can follow OMISSION at www.facebook.com/omission.es
Chile based technical Death Metallers BLOOD OATH are streaming their upcoming debut full length “Lost In Eternal Silence” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 15, 2023 via Caligari Records (CD and cassette tape) and Raise The Dead Records (vinyl LP). For all further BLOOD OATH information check out www.facebook.com/bloodoathchile
Swedish blackened Thrashers ETERNAL EVIL have just released a video for the title track of their upcoming sophomore full length “The Gates Beyond Mortality” at this location. The album will be released on October 27, 2023 via Listenable Records as a limited edition digipak CD, vinyl LP (500 copies worldwide) and cassette tape (with full color print on the shell). You can follow the band at www.facebook.com/eternalevil666
Austin, Texas based blackened Speed / Thrash Metallers SADISTIC FORCE will release their new album “Midnight Assassin” via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on October 13, 2023 on CD and digital formats. You can already listen to the single ‘Speeding Black Leather Hell’ at this location. The album’s full tracklist reads like this: ‘The Unseen Force’, ‘Corpsewood Curse’, ‘Speeding Black Leather Hell’, ‘Midnight Assassin’, ‘Nuremburg Nights’, ‘The Butchers Apron’, ‘Marked For Death’, ‘Campaign Of Sin’ and ‘Howl Of The Horde’. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064130731403
Season Of Mist will re-release the CYNIC demo compilation “Uroboric Forms” on November 17, 2023 on vinyl. It comes with an additional 7″ that features alternate versions of the title track and ‘The Eagle Nature’. “Uroboric Forms” was originally released on CD via Century Media Records in 2017. More CYNIC info you will find at www.facebook.com/cynicofficialpage
German Death Metallers CARNAL TOMB have just released a second song from their upcoming third full-length “Embalmed in Decay”. You can check out ‘Defiled Flesh’ at this location. A lyric video for the previously released album track ‘The Putridarium’ can still be watched over here. “Embalmed in Decay” will be released on November 03, 2023 via Testimony Records on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. It was recorded and mixed by Tobias Engl at Englsound in Berlin, Germany and mastered by Sverker Widgren at Wing Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. The artwork was created by Skaðvaldur. Guest performances on on the album come from Serkan Niron (ENGULFED) on the track ‘Draped In Disgust’ and some additional intros from former MORBID PANZER as well as PUTRESCINE and SPEEDWHORE guitarist Leonhard Link. For all further CARNAL TOMB info please visit www.facebook.com/carnaltombdeathmetal
Italy’s Death Metallers MORBUS GRAVE have been signed by Memento Mori for the release of the CD version of their sophomore full-length in the first half of 2024. Further details will follow in the coming months. For more info check out www.facebook.com/morbusgrave or morbusgrave1.bandcamp.com
American Black Metallers WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM have just released a visualizer video for ‘Initiates Of The White Hart’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming new EP “Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge”, which will be released on September 29, 2023 via Relapse Records on vinyl LP, CD, cassette tape and digitally. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Beholden To Clan’, ‘Twin Mouthed Spring’, ‘Initiates Of The White Hart’ and ‘Crown Of Stone’. A previously released video for ‘Twin Mouthed Spring’ can be watched over here. A full collection of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM music videos you will find at this location. For more band information please visit www.facebook.com/wolvesinthethroneroom
“Coronet Juniper”, the upcoming fourth album from Hoboken, New Jersey based Grinders GRIDLINK, can be streamed in its entirety over here now. It was recorded and mixed by Kevin Antreassian at Backroom and will be released on CD, gatefold vinyl LP and digital formats on September 15, 2023 via Willowtip Records. You can follow GRIDLINK at www.facebook.com/gridlink512
“Unholy Vampyric Supremacy”, the new MCD from Finnish Black Metal three-piece NACHTGNAWER (featuring WOLFSEER), will be released on September 22, 2023 via Purity Through Fire. NACHTGNAWER will contribute the three Black Metal songs ‘Ouroboros – Diaboli’, ‘Sword & Chalice’ and ‘Black Spears Of Misanthropy’, while WOLFSEER complete the release with the following Ambient music tracks: ‘Catching The Inner Self Through Demonized Veil’, ‘Pariah, Your Soul’, ‘No Role To Perform’ and ‘Banshee Scream!’. You can already stream NACHTGNAWER’s ‘Sword & Chalice’ at this location. For more NACHTGNAWER music please visit https://nachtgnawer.bandcamp.com
On September 16, 2023, the “VooDoo Live” album from Polish Death / Thrashers FAUST will be released in digital format. It features material that was recorded during a concert at the VooDoo club in Warsaw, when the band was promoting the album “Wspólnota Dirty Consciences”. A physical release is planned for the second half of 2024, which is the 25th anniversary of the release of FAUST’s debut album. The material was mixed by Paweł “Janos” Grabowski from JNS Studio and the cover artwork is a joint work of Anna Malesińska, Piotr Czajkowski and Martyna “Seth” Pawłowska. “VooDoo Live” is currently available as a video over here. All additional FAUST information you will find at www.facebook.com/faustpl
Sibiu, Romania based atmospheric Black Metal one man band ANTUMBRA has just released their compilation CD “Oblivion” via Loud Rage Music. It features 9 songs from previous releases, remixed and remastered, plus an exclusive bonus track. A full album stream is available at this location. A video for the track ‘Alone’ can additionally be watched over here. More ANTUMBRA is available at https://antumbra-official.bandcamp.com
On October 20, 2023 Hells Headbangers will release “Fuck In Hell’s Evil Bitches”, a split album between Japan’s ABIGAIL and America’s NEKROFILTH, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later. It will feature the following (exclusive) ABIGAIL tracks: ‘Fuck In Hell’s Evil Bitches’, ‘Endless Holocaust’, ‘Black Funeral War’ and ‘Bestial Metal Attack’. NEKROFILTH will contribute these exclusive tracks: ‘I Crave Disease’, ‘Fuck In Hell’, ‘Squirming Corpse’, ‘Forming’ (GERMS cover) and ‘I Feel Nothing’. You can already listen to ABIGAIL’s ‘Black Funeral War’ over here and NEKROFILTH’s ‘Fuck In Hell’ here. For more band information check out www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100045182750927 or www.facebook.com/nekrofilth
Kyiv, Ukraine based War Metal duo INFERNATION has completed work on their debut full-length “Dark Path Of Renunciation”. The album will be released on October 01, 2023 via Nekrolust Records in digital and physical formats. It was mixed and mastered by Vadym Tsymbaliuk at Intermodulation Studio in 2023 and the cover artwork was created by guitarist / bass player / vocalist Purgatory №7, based on an original engraving created by Lucas Vorsterman I (1595-1675). You can already check out the album track ‘Manifesto Of Hatred’ at https://infernation.bandcamp.com
“The Enduring Spirit”, the fourth full-length from Canadian Death Metallers TOMB MOLD, will be released on October 13, 2023 via 20 Buck Spin on vinyl LP, picture disc LP, CD and cassette tape, while the digital release is set for September 15, 2023 already. It was recorded at Boxcar Sound Recording by Sean Pearson (TOMB MOLD, DREAM UNENDING) and mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (TOMB MOLD, DREAM UNENDING, KOMMAND, GRAVESEND, POWER TRIP). The artwork was created by Jesse Jacobi, with additional artwork by Karmazid, layout and design by Chimère Noire. The album’s complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Perfect Memory (Phantasm Of Aura)’, ‘Angelic Fabrications’, ‘Will Of Whispers’, ‘Fate’s Tangled Thread’, ‘Flesh As Armour’, ‘Servants Of Possibility’ and ‘The Enduring Spirit Of Calamity’. For regular updates make sure to follow TOMB MOLD at www.facebook.com/tombmold
On November 03, 2023 Wolves Of Hades, in co-operation with Argento Records, will release “Serpens Abyssi”, the debut full length from Netherlands based Black Metallers NAHASHEOL, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Arcanum Mortuus’, ‘The Aetheric Void’, ‘The Awakening’, ‘Bring Of Divine Ecstasy’, ‘Mambah Maa’ and ‘Devan Thanatha’. You can already listen to the album over here. More NAHASHEOL info you will find at www.facebook.com/nahasheol-107778595139006
On September 22, 2023 Purity Through Fire will release the self-titled debut full length from Finnish Black Metal one-man band UHRITULET, on CD format. Worship Tapes will release the cassette tape version later this year. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Alkusoitto’, ‘Katoan’, ‘Ilta-Auringon Kultaiset Korpit’, ‘Tuomittu’, ‘Yhtenä Heistä’ and ‘Yön Soihduissa’. You can already stream ‘Katoan’ at this location. For more information please visit www.purity-through-fire.com
“Never Be After”, the new album from Ukrainian / Polish Death Metallers KARPATHIAN RELICT, has just been released on CD as well as digitally. The cover artwork was created by Michał “Xaay” Loranc (GOD DETHRONED, KAMELOT, NILE). A full album stream is available over here. For all additional KARPATHIAN RELICT information check out www.facebook.com/karpathianrelict
Polish Death Metallers ATROPINE have just released the song ‘Fallen’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full length “Sanity Desecration”, which will be released on September 29, 2023 through Via Nocturna Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Paweł Leniart at Dźwiękonarium Studio (DIABOŁ BORUTA, PANDRADOR) and the cover artwork was created by Jakub “Skiborg” Skibiński. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Fallen’, ‘Dead World’, ‘Psyhopath’, ‘Executioner’, ‘Battlefront’, ‘Meat Dealer’, ‘Wasted Soul’, ‘Enter My Nightmare’ and ‘Braindead (Remastered)’. All further ATROPINE info you will find at www.facebook.com/atropinerzeszow
Spanish Black Metallers DANTALION have just released their ninth full length “Fatum” via Non Serviam Records on digipak CD, green vinyl as well as digitally. It features the following tracks: ‘Great Funeral Of Dawn’, ‘Abyss Eating Serpent’, ‘Qayin Dominor Tumulus’, ‘Novena Wake Begins’, ‘Hades Visions’, ‘Exu King Of Souls Omulu’, ‘Mortuary Song’ and ‘Sounds Of Bells And Open Scissors’. Lyric videos for ‘Sounds Of Bells And Open Scissors’ and ‘Novena Wake Begins’ can be watched here and here. More DANTALION information you will find at www.facebook.com/dantalion.metalband
“Echoes Of The Future”, the upcoming third album from Spanish melodic Death Metallers ÆOLIAN, will be released via Black Lion Records on November 10, 2023. It was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studio. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Hominis Obscura’, ‘Dreams Or Reality’, ‘The Miracle’, ‘Her Grief’, ‘Like A Blackened Sun’, ‘Into The Flames’, ‘Lords Of Greed’, ‘Echoes Of The Future’ and ‘Chronicles Of The Fall’. A lyric video for ‘The Miracle’ is available at this location and the album’s first single ‘Hominis Obscura’ can still be streamed over here. For all further ÆOLIAN info please visit www.facebook.com/aeolianmetalband
Swiss Black / Death Metallers IMPALEMENT will self-release their sophomore full-length “The Dawn Of Blackened Death” on October 27, 2023 on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. It was recorded by Jens “Pestilence“ Förster at AMP Studios in Duisburg, Germany and mixed and mastered by Andy Classen (Stage One Studios). The cover artwork was created by Carlos “Black Shadows“ Aguilar. The following tracks will be featured on “The Dawn Of Blackened Death”: ‘The Herd Marches On’, ‘Dawn Of Blackened Death’, ‘Legio Nihil’, ‘The Old Ones’, ‘Will To Power’, ‘Death To The Gods’ and ‘Chosen By Tragedy’. IMPALEMENT will promote the album on the “Fear The Eternal Return” tour in November / December 2023 with GORGOROTH. You can follow the band at www.facebook.com/impalementoffical
Greek depressive suicidal Black Metallers SORRY… have just released a video for ‘Broken Promises’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming album “Self Inflicted Razor Cutting”, which will be released via Tragedy Productions on October 20, 2023. For all additional SORRY… information check out www.facebook.com/sorry.dsbm.official
German Black Metallers WALDGEFLÜSTER have just revealed a video for ‘The Pit’ (a cover song of PANOPTICON) at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming new mini album “Unter Bronzenen Kronen”, which will be released on September 29, 2023 via AOP Records. The previously revealed title track ‘Unter Bronzenen Kronen’ can still be streamed over here. The full tracklist of the mini album reads as follows: ‘Unter Bronzenen Kronen’, ‘The Pit’, ‘Herbst Befiel Das Land 2023’ and ‘Black Flies’. For more WALDGEFLÜSTER information please visit www.facebook.com/blackmetalwaldgefluester
Bilbao, Spain based melodic Death Metallers EMPIRE OF DISEASE have just released a video for ‘From The Depths’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full length “Shadows In The Abyss”, which will be released on November 07, 2023 via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘The Valley’, ‘Time For A New Era’, ‘Ghost Of The Pasta’, ‘Digging Our Graves’, ‘The Game’, ‘Dark Side Of The Soul’, ‘From The Depths’, ‘Scum’ and ‘Shadows In The Abyss’. The previously released album track ‘Scum’ can still be checked out over here. All additional EMPIRE OF DISEASE information you will find at www.facebook.com/empireofdisease
A full album stream of “Stranger In A Wasteland”, the third full length from Italy’s one-man Black Metal band HIEMS, is available over here now. It will be released via Agonia Records today. More HIEMS info you will find at www.facebook.com/hiemsofficial
“Sadistic Missionaries”, the third full length from Israeli brutal Death Metallers SPAWN OF EVIL is out now via Pest Records. A video for the track ‘Rhea Of The Gods’ can be watched over here and a lyric video for ‘Storm Of All Sins’ is available at this location. Guest guitar solos have been contributed by James Reed (VILE INIQUITY), Liran Aloni (PRIMATERRA) and Kutna Hora (ex – SPAWN OF EVIL). All further SPAWN OF EVIL info you will find at www.facebook.com/spawnofevil.il
Finnish Black Metallers VALRAVN are streaming their sophomore full length “The Awakening” in its entirety over here now. The album will be released on September 08, 2023 via Primitive Reaction. For more band information check out www.facebook.com/valravnfin
On October 27, 2023 Argento Records will release “Eternal Sorcery”, the debut full length from Black Metallers ONE OF NINE, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Lurkers Of The Half-Light’, ‘The Silence Of Heaven’, ‘Dark Magic River’, ‘Mother Of Shadows’, ‘Moonlit Sacrifice’, ‘God Chain’, ‘Wrathful Rebirth’ and ‘A Hunter Rides The Night’. You can already check out ‘Mother Of Shadows’ at this location. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/argentorecords
“Promenada Ciszy”, the second full-length from depressive Black Metallers SIGNS OF THE DYING SUMMER, will be released on CD on August 19, 2023 via the Polish label Putrid Cult. It was recorded between March and October 2022 and mixed and mastering by Marcin Rybicki (IN TWILIGHT’S EMBRACE, MANBRYNE, WARFIST). The cover artwork was created by Edward Kreft. A full album stream is available over here. For all further band information check out www.facebook.com/sotds666
Brazilian Death Metallers REBAELLIUN have just released a video for ‘All Hail The Regicide’ at this location. The track is featured on the band’s upcoming new album “Under The Sign Of Rebellion”, which will be released on September 22, 2023 via Agonia Records. More about REBAELLIUN at www.facebook.com/rebaelliun
Brazilian Thrashers FARSCAPE have just premiered the track ‘Captivity Of Souls’ over here. It is taken from the fourth FARSCAPE full length “Purged And Forgotten”, which will be released on September 22, 2023 via Dying Victims Productions. The previously revealed title track ‘Purged And Forgotten’ can still be streamed at this location. For all additional information please visit FARSCAPE at www.facebook.com/farscape666
Denmark’s War Metallers BRODER will release their third full length “Skarpretterfossilet” via Extremely Rotten Productions on vinyl LP, CD, cassette tape and digitally on October 27, 2023. You can already check out the album track ‘Bondejagt’ at the band’s Bandcamp site https://broder-dk.bandcamp.com. The full “Skarpretterfossilet” tracklist reads as follows: ‘En Sten På Et Alter’, ‘Kraniekløversken’, ‘Bondejagt’, ‘Marvdram’ and ‘Byldemor’. You can follow BRODER at www.facebook.com/heavyfousing
Finnish melodic Death Metallers WHERE’S MY BIBLE have just released a video for ‘Fenrir’ at this location. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming sophomore full length. WHERE’S MY BIBLE will start their South America tour at the end of September with shows in Brazil, Chile, Peru and Argentina. On October 20, 2023 the band will play their last show in Lahti, Finland supporting BLOODRED HOURGLASS before entering the studio and finalizing the new album which will be released in 2024. More info and regular updates you will find at www.facebook.com/wheresmybible
New Jersey’s blackened Death Metal quintet PUTRASCENSION will release their debut full length “Forever Below” via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on October 06, 2023 on CD and digital formats. It was tracked, mixed and mastered between the summer and winter months of 2021 by Bobby Torres and Benjamin Karas at Frightbox Recording and features cover artwork created by Misanthropic-Art (ASPHYX, BEHEMOTH, DISMEMBER, HOODED MENACE, KATATONIA). The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Deeper Hell’, ‘Hydrohammer’, ‘Void Within’, ‘Stillness’, ‘Carved In Fog’, ‘Efface’ and ‘Meslamtaea’. You can already listen to the single ‘Stillness’ at this location. All additional band information you will find at www.facebook.com/putrascension
Swedish Viking Metallers HEAVY LOAD will celebrate their 40th anniversary with a new album. “Riders Of The Ancient Storm”, the band’s first album since 1983’s “Stronger Than Evil”, will be released on October 06, 2023 via No Remorse Records. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Ride The Night’, ‘We Rock The World’, ‘Walhalla Warriors’, ‘Angel Dark’, ‘Slave No More’, ‘Raven Is Calling’, ‘Sail Away’ and ‘Butterfly Whisperings’ (Bonustrack). Vocalist, guitarist, keyboard player, producer and book author Ragne Wahlquist will soon also be releasing a special edition of his novel “Wahlgaard Saga”, which is a Viking family saga. This book will also be part of a limited edition, signed, deluxe boxset (300 copies) of the new HEAVY LOAD album, which also features a blue colored vinyl LP (180gr) that comes in a gatefold sleeve with an 8-page booklet, a digipak CD with one acoustic bonus track and a 20-page booklet, a t-shirt and a poster. More about HEAVY LOAD at www.heavyload-sweden.com or www.facebook.com/heavyloadofficial
On October 31, 2023 Amor Fati Productions will release the debut full length from Black Metallers NETHERDOM, “Forsaking, Forseeking”, on vinyl LP format. It features the following tracks: ‘Lured By All That Is Forsaken’ (9:27), ‘In The Depths Of The Fog’ (7:54) and ‘To Forsake Remnants Of An Existence Bereft Of Meaning’ (23:33). For more info please visit www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
Portland, Oregon based Death Metallers EXCARNATED ENTITY are streaming their debut full length “Mass Grave Horizon” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 08, 2023 via Nuclear Winter Records. More EXCARNATED ENTITY at https://excarnatedentity.bandcamp.com
Spanish Black Metallers MORTA are streaming their debut full length “La España Negra” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 08, 2023 via Signal Rex. All further MORTA info you will find at www.facebook.com/morta-black-metal-110470397260377
Finnish Doom Metallers CARDINALS FOLLY have just premiered the first single from their upcoming new album “Live By The Sword”. You can check out ‘Luciferian’ over here now. The album will be released on October 27, 2023 via Soulseller Records on vinyl LP, CD and digitally. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Life Eternal’, ‘Ride Or Die 666’, ‘Luciferian’, ‘Priesthood Of Darkness’, ‘Innsmouth Royalty’, ‘Live By The Sword’, ‘Ludovico’ and ‘Last Bastions of Doom’. The cover art was created by Witchaser Art. More about CARDINALS FOLLY at www.facebook.com/cardinalsfolly
On October 06, 2023 Tampere, Finland based old school Death Metallers SHARPNEL STORM will release their third full length “Silo” on CD via Great Dane Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Daniel Rantanen at Danko Tones / JR Audio Studios in the first half of 2023 and produced by Aadolf Virtanen. The cover artwork was created by Ville Yrjola. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Silo’, ‘Wastelands’, ‘Justice And Glory’, ‘Only Snake Here Is You’, ‘Alive Ammunition’, ‘Bring Me The War’, ‘Conquering The Gods’, ‘Icon Of Destruction’, ‘Obey And Perish’, ‘Kinslayer’ and ‘This Is Where I Fell’. A lyric video for ‘The Only Snake Here Is You’ can already be watched at this location. More information you will find at www.facebook.com/shrapnelstormband
Bogota, Colombia based Speed Metallers RECKLESS have just premiered the title-track of their upcoming debut full length “Sharp Magick Steel” at this location. The album will be released on September 22, 2023 via Dying Victims Productions. The previously revealed ‘Glittering Death’ can still be checked out over here. The full “Sharp Magick Steel” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Kneel Before The Gods’, ‘Crimson Obsession’, ‘Glittering Death’, ‘Sharp Magik Steel’, ‘Behind The Mist’, ‘Neutralized’, ‘Wake Up Screaming’ and ‘Unholy Odyssey’. The cover art was created by Velio Josto. More about RECKLESS at www.facebook.com/recklessspeedmetal
Los Angeles, California based Black Metallers DEMONCY have just revealed the title-track of their upcoming new mini album “Diabolica Blasphemiae” at this location. It will be released later this year via Hells Headbangers. The exact release date and tracklisting will be announced shortly. DEMONCY’s current line-up features Ixithra on bass and vocals, VJS (NIGHTBRINGER, SARGEIST, ADAESTUO) on guitar and Vorthrus (CEREBRAL ROT, CRURIFRAGIUM) on drums. For more info check out www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063533584328
Black Metallers EFRAAH ENHSIKAAH have just revealed the track ‘Letharia Vulpina’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s debut full length “One Thousand Vultures Waiting To Be Fed”, which will be released on October 27, 2023 via Osmose Productions. More information you will find at www.facebook.com/osmoseproductions
Swedish Death Metallers DEMONICAL will headline a Latin American tour this month, with Greek Black Metallers LUCIFER’S CHILD as direct support. The bill further includes Portugal’s HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL and Brazil’s NERVO CHAOS. Martin Schulman of DEMONICAL commented on it as follows: “We are thrilled to announce our first full headlining tour through the southern part of the Western Hemisphere. Right before the past plague, we did a tour across Brazil which gave us a taste for more… and now it’s time, big time! 10 shows in 10 different countries with our comrades in LUCIFER’S CHILD and NERVO CHAOS. This is going to be a wild ride, come join!” Check out www.facebook.com/demonicalofficial for more information and regular updates.
Uppsala, Sweden based Black / Death Metallers THIRD STORM have just premiered ‘Clandestine Gospel’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full length “The Locust Mantra”, which will be released on October 06, 2023 via Chaos Records. The previously revealed ‘World Infernal’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “The Locust Mantra” tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Clandestine Gospel’, ‘Mater Pest’, ‘Demigod Doctrine’, ‘World Infernal’, ‘When Noble Hearts Failed’, ‘Inescapable Echoes Of War’, ‘Alter Omega’, ‘In The Garden Of Crystallized Souls’ and ‘Dawn Of The Fearmongers’. All further THIRD STORM information you will find at www.facebook.com/thirdstorm
Helsinki, Finland based technical brutal Death Metal four-piece MALFORMED will release their debut EP “The Gathering Of Souls” via Extremely Rotten Productions on vinyl LP, CD, cassette tape and digital formats on October 13, 2023. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Drowning In Emptiness’, ‘The Gathering Of Souls’, ‘Defiled’, ‘Enchantments Of Nihilism’ and ‘Mind Refinery’. The band started out in 2022 and digitally self-released their debut demo “Uncontrollable Malformity” the same year. It was re-released via Rotted Life Records on vinyl 7″ EP (two colors, 250 copies), cassette tape (200 copies) and CD (300 copies) earlier this year. More about MALFORMED at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088862900983
On October 31, 2023 Amor Fati Productions will release “Les Litanies Des Chaînes”, the debut full length from Black Metallers CHAÎNES, on vinyl LP format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘La Fange Existe Dans Nos Coeurs’, ‘Que Ta Lumière Me Serve De Fin’, ‘De Vermine Et De Fer’, ‘Macabre Romantique’, ‘Que Vos Morts Soient Souillés Jusqu’à L’os’ and ‘Vois La Lumière Aveugler Par Centaines Les Yeux Écarlates Des Hommes Rampants’. You can already check out ‘Que Ta Lumière Me Serve De Fin’ at this location. For all additional information please visit www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
Polish Black Metallers DOMINANCE have just released their debut full length “Slaughter Of Human Offerings In The New Age Of Pan” via Putrid Cult on CD and digitally. It was recorded in late May / early June 2023 in Santa Studio (Warsaw, Poland) by Haldor Grunberg (BEHEMOTH, DOPELORD, WITCHMASTER), who also mixed and mastered it at Satanic Audio. The cover artwork was created by Witchfucker. A full album stream you will find over here. More about DOMINANCE at www.facebook.com/dominanceblackmetal
“De Vermis Mysteriis”, the sophomore full length from German Black Metallers BAXAXAXA, is out now via The Sinister Flame on vinyl LP, CD and cassette tape. A full album stream you will find at this location. For more BAXAXAXA information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063506619437
“Brægn Hæft”, the debut full length of German melodic Doom / Post Black Metallers SARLIC BLISS, will be released on November 02, 2023 via MDD Records. For regular updates make sure to follow the band at www.facebook.com/sarlicblissband
Danish Death Metallers UNDERGANG have just released their new mini album “De Syv Stadier Af Fordærv” via Me Saco Un Ojo Records (vinyl) and Dark Descent Records (CD, digital, and cassette tape formats. A full stream of it is available at this location. For more UNDERGANG information please visit www.facebook.com/undergangktdm
Australia / Denmark based Death Metallers UNHOLY REDEEMER have just released their debut three song demo “A Fever To Dethrone All Kings” on Spotify, Bandcamp and YouTube. Physical formats will be released via Extremely Rotten Productions (cassette tape) and Sphere Of Apparition Records (CD) before the end of 2023. The band’s line-up features Steven Hull on guitars (ENCABULOS, CRUCIFIRE), Jarro Raphael on drums and bass (NOCTURNAL GRAVES , COFFIN LUST, DESTRÖYER 666) and Jens Bendtsen Pedersen on vocals (CEREKLOTH, PERDITION’S MIRE, THE PALE HAND). They will now focus on a new mini LP, which will be the first recording with new bass player Tommi Grönqvist (SLUGATHOR, DESECRESY). For all additional information visit UNHOLY REDEEMER at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087342811911
Finnish Black Metallers AEGRUS have just revealed the title track of their upcoming fourth full length “Invoking The Abysmal Night” at this location. The album will be released on October 27, 2023 via Osmose Productions. The cover artwork was again created by Helgorth from Babalon Graphics. Here’s the complete “Invoking The Abysmal Night” tracklist: ‘Invoking The Abysmal Night’, ‘Followers Of The False Prophets’, ‘Through Devil’s Breath’, ‘Temple Of Ardent Worship’, ‘Nocturnal Rites Of Faust’, ‘Those Who Hide From Light’ and ‘Where The Forest Emanates Death’. For more AEGRUS information check out www.facebook.com/aegrusofficial
New York City’s Black / Death / Grind / War Metal three-piece GRAVESEND will release its sophomore full-length “Gowanus Death Stomp” on October 27, 2023 via 20 Buck Spin. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (TOMB MOLD, KOMMAND, DREAM UNENDING). A first track, ‘Even A Worm Will Turn’, can already be streamed at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Deranged’, ‘11414’, ‘Even A Worm Will Turn’, ‘Festering In Squalor’, ‘Code Of Silence’, ‘Gowanus Death Stomp’, ‘Streets Of Destitution’, ‘Make (One’s) Bones’, ‘Crown Of Tar’, ‘Thirty Caliber Pesticide’, ‘The Third Rail’, ‘Mortsafe (Resurrection Men)’, ‘Lupara Bianca’, ‘Carried By Six’, ‘Vermin Victory’ and ‘Enraged’. More GRAVESEND information you will find at www.facebook.com/warforgravesend
Canarian blackened Death Metallers YASS-WADDAH have just released a video for ‘In The Name Of Progress’ over here. The song is featured on their third album “Lust For Domination”, which was released in July of this year via They Live We Sleep Recordings. More YASS-WADDAH you will find at https://yass-waddah.bandcamp.com
Boston, Massachusetts based Death Metal quartet BACTERIAL HUSK will release their debut full length “Anthropogenic Ruin” on October 27, 2023. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Spores Of Hallucinosis’, ‘Flayed By Anomalies’, ‘Plague Pollination’, ‘Corrupted Hydrosphere’, ‘Enshrined Gravitational Aberration’, ‘Umbilical Sewage’, ‘Mystics Of Transmutation’, ‘Chemically Evolved’, ‘Cesarean-Born Constellations’ and ‘Starving The Immortal’. You can already listen to ‘Plague Pollination’ at this location. For all further band information please visit www.facebook.com/bacterialhusk
Norwegian Black Metallers DEN SAAKALDTE will release their fourth full length “Pesten Som Tar Over” on September 29, 2023 via Agonia Records. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Av Satans Ild’, ‘Dødstrett Av Alt’, ‘En Ode Til Spinnersken’, ‘Pesten Som Tar Over’, ‘Å Skjende En Engel’, ‘Hat’ and ‘Den Stormen I Oktober’. A video for the opening track ‘Av Satans Ild’ can already be watched over here. “Pesten Som Tar Over” was recorded during March 2022 at Strand Studio (BORKNAGAR, IN VEIN) in Oslo, Norway, co-produced and mixed by DEN SAAKALDTE and Marius Strand and engineered and mastered by Marius Strand. The cover artwork was created by Chadwick St. John of Inkshadows (ARCKANUM, DARKTHRONE). The band’s current line-up consists of guitarists Sykelig and Fineidet, bassist Skoll (ARCTURUS, VED BUENS ENDE), drummer Tybalt (ex – PANTHEON I) and vocalist Svik. More DEN SAAKALDTE info you will find at www.facebook.com/densaakaldte
On September 29, 2023 Via Nocturna Records will release “The Monolith”, the fourth album from Polish Black Metal project ZØRORMR, on cassette tape. The record has previously already been released on CD and digitally. A full album stream is available at this location. More about ZØRORMR at www.facebook.com/zorormrofficial
On September 22, 2023 German melodic Black Metallers VERDERBNIS will release their debut full length “Paria” via MDD. It was produced by Torsten Sauerbrey (ATOMWINTER, KAMBRIUM, DARK AT DAWN, BURDEN OF GRIEF) and features the following tracks: ‘I Am The Wolf’, ‘Venomous Embrace’, ‘Walking Through Forgotten Forests’, ‘Paria’, ‘Lebenswinters Wanderschaft’, ‘Des Kranichs Flug’, ‘Dusk Maiden’, ‘Ein Wind Flüstert Den Tod’ and ‘Satanizer Terrorizer’. ‘Walking Through Forgotten Forests’ can already be checked out over here. You can follow VERDERBNIS at www.facebook.com/verderbnis
“Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an”, the sophomore full length from Indian Black / Deathers TETRAGRAMMACIDE, will be released via Iron Bonehead Productions on November 03, 2023 on CD and vinyl LP formats. It features a total of 11 songs, with probably the longest (or at least densest) song titles in Metal history. You can already check out one of them (‘Nuit Arches Over The Neither-Neither City Of Cubes; Hadit Meditates While Hanging Upside Down Inside A Tesseract-Ka’aba’) at this location. All additional information about TETRAGRAMMACIDE you will find at www.facebook.com/tetragrammacide