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On November 11, 2022 Werewolf Records will release the second album of Finnish Black Metallers YMIR, “Aeons Of Sorrow”, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow next year. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Woods Of My Past (Aeons Of Sorrow Pt. 1)’, ‘Pagan Swords (Aeons Of Sorrow Pt. 2)’, ‘Storm Of Shadows’, ‘The Pale Ghost Of North’, ‘Witches’, ‘Nightwinds’ and ‘Outro’. You can check out ‘Nightwinds’ over here. The cover artwork was created by Kris Verwimp. More about YMIR at www.facebook.com/ymirblackmetal
“Sacrilege”, the third album from Richmond, Virginia based Black / Death Metallers APPALLING, will be released on December 02, 2022 via Personal Records on CD format. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘The Morningstar After’, ‘Life In Prism’, ‘Gilded Restraints’, ‘Unwavering Feeling Of Dread And Despair’, ‘Father Inferior’, ‘Collection Plate’, ‘Pavilion’, ‘Nunsploitation’ and ‘These People Need To Die’. The album’s first single ‘Father Inferior’ is already available for streaming at this location. For all additional band information please visit www.facebook.com/appallingmusic
French Death Metallers IRON FLESH will release their third full-length “Limb After Limb” via War Anthem Records on November 04, 2022. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by David Thiers at Secret Place Studio, Bordeaux and features a cover artwork by Skadvaldur (CRYPTIC BROOD, MISTHYRMING, SINMARA, RIPPED TO SHREDS). “Limb After Limb” will feature the following tracks: ‘Overthrow Ov The Sermon Ov God’, ‘Cursed Within’, ‘In Agony You Must Reborn’, ‘Limb After Limb’, ‘Blessed Be The Creators’, ‘Sacrorum Profanationem’, ‘Honor In Death’, ‘To Become One With The Dead’, ‘As Ghouls March On’ and ‘Procession Of Living Cadavers’. A lyric video for ‘To Become One With The Dead’ can be checked out here. More IRON FLESH info you will find at www.facebook.com/ironflesh
Israel based Black / Death Metal five-piece ARALLU will release their eighth studio album “Death Covenant” on November 11, 2022 via Hammerheart Records. A first single entitled ‘Empire Of Salt’ has just been released over here. You can follow ARALLU at www.facebook.com/arallu666
Norwegian / Italian Black Metal four piece FUNERAL HARVEST has just premiered the track ‘Principum Et Finis’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Redemptio”, which will be released on October 31, 2022 via Signal Rex. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Opus Cælestis’, ‘Fire Sermon’, ‘Antithesis’, ‘Principum Et Finis’, ‘Soli Ego Gloria’, ‘Womb Of Snakes’, ‘The Crimson Night Tide’, ‘Sorath’ and ‘Libera Per Ignem’. The previously revealed ‘Fire Sermon’ is still available over here. The cover artwork was created by Artem Grigoryev. All further FUNERAL HARVEST info you will find at www.facebook.com/funeralharvest
San José based Doom / Deathers VOIDOATH have released their debut full length “Ascension Beyond Kokytus” today. It is available digitally and on CD in the US via Cognitive Discordance Records (Costa Rica) and in the UK / Europe via Cursed Monk Records (Ireland). A full album stream is available at this location. The album was produced, mixed and mastered by A Cabin In The Woods Recordings (CRYPT MONARCH, ENGRAVED) and the artwork was created by Nataly Nikitina. For more VOIDOATH info please visit www.facebook.com/voidoath
On October 28, 2022 German Black Metallers NOCTURNIS will release their debut full-length “Unsegen” via Black Sunset / MDD. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Am Rande’, ‘Unsegen I’, ‘Unsegen II’, ‘Niedergang’, ‘Reue’ and ‘Zerrissenheit’. A lyric video for ‘Unsegen II’ can already be watched at this location. More about NOCTURNIS at www.facebook.com/nocturniskvlt
Finnish Death Metallers MORBIFIC have just premiered the track ‘Suicide Sanctum’ over here. It is taken from the band’s second album “Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm”, which will be released on October 24, 2022. Memento Mori will handle the CD version, while Me Saco Un Ojo Records will handle the vinyl version. The previously revealed ‘Bind, Torture, Snuff’ can still be checked out at this location. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm’, ‘Bind, Torture, Snuff’, ‘Meal From An Open Skull’, ‘Suicide Sanctum’, ‘Initiation Into Oblivion’, ‘Meth Mansion Murders’, ‘Baptized In The Fluids Of Decay’, ‘Pathogenic Injection’, ‘The Head Harvest’ and ‘Malignant Germination’. All further MORBIFIC info you will find at www.facebook.com/morbific
Polish melodic Black Metallers VOIDFIRE are streaming their second album “W Cienie” in its entirety over here now. It will be released via Szataniec on CD today. For more VOIDFIRE information please visit www.facebook.com/voidfirebm
German Death Metallers CRYPTIC BROOD have just released a video for the title track of their new EP “Caustic Fetid Vomit” at this location. The EP will be released via Lycanthropic Chants today. More CRYPTIC BROOD at https://crypticbrood.bandcamp.com
German Black Metal duo MYSTERIA MYSTICA AETERNA has just premiered the track ‘Thou, Whose Mouth Is A Flame’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s second full length “The Temple Of Eosphoros”, which will be released on October 28, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Temple Entrance’, ‘The Holy Heaven Of Will’, ‘Thou, Whose Mouth Is A Flame’, ‘Thelema’, ‘The Mysteries Of Death’ and ‘The Temple Of Eosphoros’. The previously revealed title track can still be streamed over here. For more MYSTERIA MYSTICA AETERNA info, please visit www.facebook.com/spectralwhisper
On November 25, 2022 Invictus Productions will release “The Warlock Of Da’ath”, the second album from Netherlands based blackened Death Metallers LUCIFERICON, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Obscure And Forbidden’, ‘Qliphotic Trance’, ‘The Veils Of Negative Existence’, ‘Khidir’s Urn’, ‘Sigillum Azoetia: The Map Of Possibility’, ‘The Iconostatis Of Blasphemy’, ‘Ancient Lineage’ and ‘The Warlock Of Da’ath’. You can already check out ‘Qliphotic Trance’ over here. All additional LUCIFERICON information you will find at www.facebook.com/lucifericon
Finnish Doom / Deathers KUOLEMANLAAKSO will release a limited three song EP entitled “Kuolleiden Laulu” in December 2022 on limited vinyl and CD, both restricted to 500 copies only. The material was recorded in the same session as the band’s latest album “Kuusumu” and both also share lyrical themes and cover art based on art by Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919). Aleksi Munter (ex – SWALLOW THE SUN and INSOMNIUM) plays keyboards on the EP, and it was once again produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by V. Santura (TRIPTYKON). The title track of the EP is already available for streaming over here. More about KUOLEMANLAAKSO at www.facebook.com/kuolemanlaakso
“Planetary Disruption”, the debut full-length from German Death Metallers SUBORBITAL, will be released on November 04, 2022 via War Anthem Records. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Planetary Disruption’, ‘Gyroscope’, ‘Solar Portal’, ‘Sands Of Uranus’, ‘Astral Chasm’, ‘Sicknature Of Galactic Imperium’, ‘Stellar Explosion’, ‘Consumed On Power Altars’, ‘Fatal Alert’, ‘Sub-Orbital’ and ‘Stench Of Orbit’. The whole album was mastered analog at World Famous Studios by Pete De Boer (BLOOD INCANTATION, FACELESS BURIAL, SPECTRAL WOUND). A video for the title track is available at this location. For all additional information please visit www.war-anthem.de or www.facebook.com/waranthemrecords
“Devoted To God”, the 1992 demo from Dutch PHLEBOTOMIZED, will be re-released via Hammerheart Records on December 02, 2022 on CD (limited to 1.000 copies), LP (limited 500 copies on white vinyl) and as a replica on cassette tape (limited to 100 copies). The band will release a new full length album in 2023. For regular updates follow them at www.facebook.com/phlebotomized.official
Houston, Texas based Death Metallers UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED have just premiered the track ‘Devoured From Another Time’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming second album “Dimension Of Deviant Clusters”, which will be released on October 28, 2022 via Blood Harvest Records. The previously revealed ‘Corrupted Mind Palace’ is additionally still available for streaming over here. The album’s full tracklist reads as follows: ‘(Prelude)’, ‘Psychic Laceration’, ‘Devoured From Another Time’, ‘Between The Lacunae’, ‘Dimension Of Deviant Clusters’, ‘Memory Of Death’, ‘(Interlude)’, ‘Corrupted Mind Palace’ and ‘Universally Estranged’. For more UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED please visit https://universallyestranged.bandcamp.com
Singapore based blackened Death Metallers DEVOUROR are streaming their new album “Diabolos Brigade” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 30, 2022 via Listenable Records. The band consists of Shyaithan (guitars, IMPIETY), Hades (vocals, BATTLESTORM), Asura (guitars, DEUS EX MACHINA), Cryptor (bass, DEMISOR) and Dizazter (drums, IMPIETY, DEPRAVITY). All additional band info you will find at www.facebook.com/devouror666
A full stream of “Sold Under Sin”, the new EP from Irish Black / Death Metal trio SACRILEGIA, is available over here now. It will be released on September 30, 2022 via Invictus Productions. More about SACRILEGIA at www.facebook.com/sacrilegiametal
On October 21, 2022 Dying Victims Productions will release “Of Night And Lust”, a split mini album between Italy’s blackened Thrashers BUNKER 66 and Germany’s LUCIFUGE, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. You can check out BUNKER 66’s contribution ‘Mellhammer’ over here and LUCIFUGE’s previously revealed ‘Warriors Of The Night’ here. More information about both bands you will find at www.facebook.com/bunker66 or www.facebook.com/lucifugeblackmetal
Italy’s blackened Death / Thrashers NECROMUTILATOR have just premiered the track ‘Cremation Sorcery’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full length “Oath Of Abhorrence”, which will be released on October 28, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘Raise The Necroapocalypse’, ‘Cremation Sorcery’, ‘Great Lord Of Desecration’, ‘Altar Of The Final Sodomy’, ‘Temple Of Execrating Death’, ‘Baphomet’s War Fire’, ‘Enthroned Upon Megiddo’ and ‘Malevolent Blood’. The cover artwork was created by Chris Moyen. All further NECROMUTILATOR info you will find at www.facebook.com/necromutilator666
Southern California based progressive Thrashers MADROST have just released ‘Zombie Grinder’, a track off their upcoming live album “Lost Lives Volume 1” over here. The band’s guitarist / vocalist Tanner Poppit commented on the song as follows: “This particular version of ‘Zombie Grinder’ showcases it in its beginning stages. The song harkens back to the old days of Thrash and is extremely catchy and relentless in its delivery! Especially on this live album, it has stood the test of time as a brutal slab of severe Death Thrash Metal.” “Lost Lives Volume 1” will be out on CD and digital formats on October 11, 2022 via Lost Wisdom Records. More about MADROST at www.facebook.com/madrost
Polish Death / Thrashers FAUST are streaming their fourth full length album “Cisza Po Tobie” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 30, 2022 via Szataniec. For all additional band info please visit www.facebook.com/faustpl
Norway’s IN THE WOODS… will release their new full-length “Diversum” via Soulseller Records on November 25, 2022 on CD, various limited vinyls and digitally. It was recorded in Kristiansand, Norway and mixed and mastered by Frédéric Gervais (Studio Henosis). The artwork was created by Dr. Winter (Teratogen). The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘The Coward’s Way’, ‘Moments’, ‘We Sinful Converge’, ‘The Malevolent God’, ‘A Wonderful Crisis’, ‘Humanity’, ‘Master Of None’ and ‘Your Dark’. For more IN THE WOODS… info please visit www.facebook.com/inthewoodsomnio
Swedish blackened Thrashers SARCATOR will release their sophomore album “Alkahest” on October 21, 2022 via Black Lion Records on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Ascend’, ‘Perdition’s Hand’, ‘Grave Maggot Future’, ‘Dreameater’, ‘The Long Lost’, ‘He Who Comes From The Dark’, ‘Devil Sun’, ‘Sorrow’s Verse’ and ‘Alkahest’. A video for ‘Grave Maggot Future’ is available at this location. Lyric videos for ‘The Long Lost’ and ‘Dreameater’ you will find here and here. For all further SARCATOR info check out www.facebook.com/sarcatorband
Canadian Death Grinders VHS will release their sixth full length “Deep Gashes And Long Lashes” via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on October 31, 2022 on CD and digital formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘I Want Your Eyeball’ (featuring Riki of GOLEM OF GORE), ‘Deep Gashes And Long Lashes’, ‘Filthy, Slimy, Pervert’ (featuring Alessio of GUINEAPIG), ‘Fear, Murder, Obsession’, ‘Solange’, ‘Quack, Quack’ (featuring Fiore of FULCI), ‘Six Women For The Murderer’, ‘Deep Red’, ‘Witch…’ and ‘Murder Witnessed Through Hallucinogens’ (featuring Il Becchino of TENEBRO). You can already check out ‘Solange’ over here. More VHS info you will find at www.facebook.com/violenthomicidalslasher
Norwegian Doom / Deathers ABYSSIC have just premiered the track ‘Mirror Of Sorrow’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third album “Brought Forth In Iniquity”, which will be out on October 28, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The full “Brought Forth In Iniquity” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Cold As Winter Storm’, ‘Chronicle Of The Dead’, ‘Mirror Of Sorrow’, ‘Djevelens Lys’ and ‘Brought Forth In Iniquity’. For all additonal ABYSSIC info please visit www.facebook.com/abyssicofficial
Fargo, North Dakota based Death Metallers GORGATRON will release a new EP entitled “Agony Reborn” on November 04, 2022 on cassette tape and digital formats via Blood Blast Distribution. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Execrated Liturgy’, ‘Agony Reborn’, ‘The Unwilling’ and ‘Dead Embryonic Cells’ (SEPULTURA cover). The cassette tape version is limited to 100 copies and includes four additional exclusive live tracks on side B. GORGATRON is currently seeking a new label for the release of the band’s recently recorded full-length album. Interested companies should contact Cameron.Gorgatron@gmail.com. For all further information check out www.facebook.com/gorgatronband
Chicago based Death Metallers DISINTER will release their sixth album “Breaker Of Bones” via Pest Records on November 14, 2022. It is the band’s first full-length in 18 years. “Breaker Of Bones” was recorded at Mercenary Digital Studios during the Winter and Spring of 2021 and engineered by Scott Creekmore (BROKEN HOPE, LIVIDITY, MORTA SKULD, PUTRID PILE). Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Corrode Into Nothing’, ‘Breaker Of Bones’, ‘IDLH’, ‘Assertation Of Belief’, ‘Curse Of Eternal Night’, ‘Cold Cell Torture’, ‘Red Queen’, ‘Bring All Of Hell’, ‘Destroyed By Hate’ and ‘Silent Manipulation’. You can already watch a lyric video for ‘Cold Cell Torture’ over here. More about DISINTER at www.facebook.com/oblivioncemetery
‘Dehumanized In Darkness’, a track from the upcoming debut full length “Throne Of Heresy” by Israel based Black / Deathers DEATHSIEGE, can be streamed at this location now. The album will be released on October 28, 2022 via Everlasting Spew Records on CD, cassette tape and digitally. A vinyl edition will follow in early 2023. You can follow DEATHSIEGE at www.facebook.com/deathsiegeband
Australian Death Metallers WRITHING have just released their debut album “Of Earth & Flesh” via Everlasting Spew Records. A full album stream is available at this location. For more WRITHING information check out www.facebook.com/writhingaus
French Death Metallers FALL OF SERAPHS have just premiered the track ‘Psychotic Trouble Senses’ over here. It is taken from the band’s debut full length “From Dust To Creation”, which will be released on October 24, 2022 via Memento Mori. The previously revealed album track ‘The Eradication Dogma’ is still available for streaming at this location. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘The Eradication Dogma’, ‘Mirror Of Transcendence’, ‘Divine’s Lament’, ‘Fire Path Of Punishment’, ‘Psychotic Troubled Senses’, ‘From Dust To Creation’ and ‘Brood Of Decomposition’. More FALL OF SERAPHS info is available at www.facebook.com/fallofseraphsofficial