» News Archive August 2022
On October 31, 2022 Signal Rex will release the debut full length of Czech Republic’s Black Metal three-piece BRAN, “Odcházení”, on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Skrytá Místa’, ‘Tisíce Hvězd’, ‘Smuteční Průvod’ and ‘Odcházení’. You can already stream ‘Tisíce Hvězd’ over here. The cover artwork was created by Pavlína Kovaříková. For more information check out www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
On October 24, 2022 Memento Mori will release the debut album of French Death Metallers FALL OF SERAPHS, “From Dust To Creation”. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Eradication Dogma’, ‘Mirror Of Transcendence’, ‘Divine’s Lament’, ‘Fire Path Of Punishment’, ‘Psychotic Troubled Senses’, ‘From Dust To Creation’ and ‘Brood Of Decomposition’. You can already check out the album opener ‘The Eradication Dogma’ at this location. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/fallofseraphsofficial
“Trading Pieces”, the long out-of-print debut album from US brutal Death Metallers DEEDS OF FLESH, will be re-released via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on October 07, 2022 on CD format. It will feature an all-new layout design. The album was originally released in 1996 via Repulse Records. You can listen to the album’s title track ‘Trading Pieces’ over here. You can follow DEEDS OF FLESH at www.facebook.com/deedsoffleshofficial
German Black Metallers PESTLEGION have just premiered the track ‘The Portal’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full length “Sathanas Grand Victoria”, which will be released on September 30, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. It was mixed and mastered by SODOM drummer Toni Merkel and Tom Angelripper contributed backing vocals. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro’, ‘We Deny Thy Name’, ‘The Portal’, ‘Into The Golden Valley’, ‘Ketzer Reim’, ‘Sathanas Grand Victoria’, ‘Adjuration Of The Elder Gods’, ‘Entsage Gott’ and ‘The Warlock’s Curse’. For all additional band information please visit www.facebook.com/pestlegion
Spanish Death Metallers ORTHODOXY have just premiered the track ‘Banished From My Glance’ over here. It is taken from their second album “Ater Ignis”, which will be released on September 23, 2022 via The Sinister Flame. Here’s the album’s complete tracklist: ‘Enter The Netherworld’, ‘Into Primigenian Darkness I Dwell’, ‘Victory Beyond Death’, ‘Banished From My Glance’, ‘Masked Beast’, ‘Where Shadows Move Unseen’ and ‘Ater Ignis (Covenant Of Death)’. More ORTHODOXY at https://officialorthodoxy.bandcamp.com
EXHUMED will release their new album “To The Dead” on October 21, 2022 via Relapse Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Putrescine And Cadaverine’, ‘Drained Of Color’, ‘Carbonized’, ‘Rank And Defiled’, ‘Lurid, Shocking, And Vile’, ‘Undertaking The Overkilled’, ‘Nerotica’, ‘No Headstone Unturned’, ‘Defecated’ and ‘Disgusted’. You can already watch a video for the track ‘Drained Of Color’ (directed by Nikko DeLuna) at this location. Additionally, EXHUMED have announced a US headline tour in November and December with support acts HULDER, VITRIOL, MOLDER (November 11 – 22, 2022) and CASTRATOR (November 23 – December 17, 2022). For regular updates please visit www.facebook.com/exhumedofficial
‘The Garden’, the new single from Italian Death Thrashers MISCREANCE, can be streamed over here now. The song is taken from their forthcoming debut full-length “Convergence”, which will be released on September 19, 2022 via Unspeakable Axe Records (CD), Danex Records (vinyl) and Desert Wastelands (cassette tape), as well as on Bandcamp and other digital platforms. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Flame Of Consciousness’, ‘Fall Apart’, ‘Incubo’, ‘No Empathy’, ‘The Garden’, ‘Alchemy’, ‘My Internment’ and ‘Requiem For Sanity’. All further MISCREANCE info you will find at www.facebook.com/miscreance
Memphis, Tennessee based melodic blackened Death Metallers EPOCH OF UNLIGHT have just premiered a lyric video for their new single ‘Wrath Of The Cryomancer’ at this location. The song is taken from their forthcoming fourth full-length “At War With The Multiverse”, which will be released on September 16, 2022 via Dark Horizon Records. More EPOCH OF UNLIGHT information you will find at www.facebook.com/epochofunlight
On November 11, 2022 Nuclear Winter Records will release the debut full length from Stockholm, Sweden based blackened Death Metallers ENCRYPTMENT, “Dödens Födsel”, on CD and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Dödens Födsel’, ‘Liens Praktfulla Dans’, ‘Silver Tongue’, ‘Central Disharmoni’, ‘Existens I Ambivalens’, ‘Plågospiral’, ‘Poisonous Salvation’ and ‘Withered Hands’. More about ENCRYPTMENT at www.facebook.com/encryptment-714904648621738
Italy’s Doom / Deathers IN GRIEF are streaming their upcoming debut full length “An Eternity Of Misery” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on September 02, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/ingrief
Spanish Thrashers RETADOR have just released a lyric video for ‘Títeres’ at this location. The song is taken from their debut full length “Retador”, which will be released on September 13, 2022 via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. It was recorded at Moontower Studios and mastered at Unisound Studios by Dan Swanö. The cover art was created by the Venezuelan artist John Quevedo Janssens. The following tracks are featured on “Retador”: ‘Retador’, ‘La Venda’, ‘Furia’, ‘Títeres’, ‘Violencia’, ‘Ton 618’, ‘Deseo De Matar’, ‘Corrupción’, ‘Juicio Final’ and ‘B52’. The previously revealed album track ‘Furia’ can still be streamed over here. For more RETADOR info check out www.facebook.com/retador.thrashmetal
“Desert Of Shattered Hopes”, the 1993 debut full length from defunct Houston, Texas based Death Metallers CRUCIFIXION, has just been re-released on limited edition vinyl LP via Nuclear Winter Records (250 copies on black and 250 copies on blue vinyl). It was remastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio in 2021. The album was originally only released on CD. More about CRUCIFIXION at www.facebook.com/crucifixion-usa-1449473235327700
Nuclear Winter Records have also re-released “Darkness Unveiled”, the 1992 debut demo from US Death Metallers INFESTER on vinyl LP and CD. It comes with two additional rehearsal bonus tracks from 1993. All tracks have been remastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio in 2021 and new illustrations were contributed by Thomas Westphal. The vinyl edition is available on black (300 copies), transparent red (183 copies) and red / black splatter vinyl (183 copies), the CD is limited to 500 copies. More info at www.nuclearwinterrecords.com
Spanish Death Metallers CRUZ have just premiered the track ‘Eones De Sangre’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s second album “Confines De La Cordura”, which will be released on September 26, 2022 via Nuclear Winter Records. The previously revealed ‘Als Peus De La Creu’ can still be streamed over here. The album’s complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Ai Margini Della Follia’, ‘Als Peus De La Creu’, ‘Infamia Insular’, ‘Els Murs Errants’, ‘Confines De La Cordura’, ‘Eones De Sangre’ and ‘L’alè De La Cripta’. For all additional CRUZ information please visit www.facebook.com/cruzmetalpunk
German atmospheric Black Metallers FIRTAN have just revealed the track ‘Labsal’ at this location. It is taken from the band’s upcoming third album “Marter”, which will be released on September 30, 2022 via AOP Records. A previously revealed video for ‘Amor Fati’ can still be watched over here. “Marter” will feature the following tracks: ‘Faðir’, ‘Amor Fati’, ‘Labsal’, ‘Lethe’, ‘Parhelia’, ‘Odem’, ‘Menetekel’, ‘Peraht’ and ‘Medomai’ (bonus track, available on vinyl and CD boxset). FIRTAN will play shows in Germany and Switzerland at the end of October together with THE SPIRIT, PRAISE THE PLAGUE and WALDGEFLÜSTER. All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/firtanofficial
Finnish Black Metallers CELESTIAL GRAVE have just premiered the track ‘Eucharist’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s second album “Vitriolic Atonement”, which will be released on September 23, 2022 via The Sinister Flame. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Eucharist’, ‘Cadaverous Solace’, ‘Clemency’, ‘The Abyss Exhales’, ‘Exaltation’ and ‘Radiant Tides Below’. For more CELESTIAL GRAVE information check out www.facebook.com/celestialgrave
French Black Metallers CAÏNAN DAWN have just premiered the track ‘Apnea’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fourth full length “Lagu”, which will be released on September 30, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Nun’, ‘Myctophidae’, ‘Y’ha-Nthlei’, ‘Okeanos’, ‘Atlantis’, ‘Septima’, ‘Apnea’, ‘Lagu’ and ‘Profundum’. For all additional CAÏNAN DAWN info please visit www.facebook.com/cainandawn
“Origin”, the fourth album from Italian brutal Death Metallers ANTROPOFAGUS, will be released via Agonia Records on October 28, 2022. It was recorded, engineered and mixed at MK2 Recording Studio by the band’s drummer, Davide Billia (ex – HOUR OF PENANCE, BEHEADED) and mastered at Hertz Studio by Wojtek Wieslawski (VADER, BEHEMOTH, DECAPITATED). The cover artwork was created by Stefano Mattioni. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Origin’, ‘Downward The Spiral’, ‘While Nothingness Slithers’, ‘Oppressed Suffering’, ‘The Slaver Ascension’, ‘Of Prosperity And Punishment’, ‘Ia Anth Etbrae Gagh’, ‘Hymns Of Acrimony’, ‘Passage Of Annulment’ and ‘Chapter Of Not Letting The Body Perish (M.O.R.T.E. Pt 2). The album features guest appearances from Mick Montaguti (ELECTROCUTION), Matt Sotelo (DECREPIT BIRTH) and Dallas Toler-Wade (NARCOTIC WASTELAND, ex – NILE). A new single and music video will be out in September. More about ANTROPOFAGUS at www.facebook.com/antropofagus.official
German melodic Black Metallers TIMOR ET TREMOR will release their new album “Realm Of Ashes” on October 28, 2022 via Trollzorn. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Mirrors And Smoke’, ‘Voices From The Coffin’, ‘A Hundred Days Of Rain’, ‘King Of The Lost’, ‘Of Wolf And Sun’, ‘Catharsis’, ‘A Crown Of Bones’ and ‘Bearer Of The Accursed Sands’. You can already check out a lyric video for ‘Of Wolf And Sun’ at this location. More about TIMOR ET TREMOR at www.facebook.com/chatticblackmetal
On October 28, 2022 Blood Harvest Records will release “Dimension Of Deviant Clusters”, the sophomore full length from Houston, Texas based one-man Death Metal band UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. 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’. You can already check out ‘Corrupted Mind Palace’ over here. For more UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED please visit https://universallyestranged.bandcamp.com
A full album stream of the self-titled debut full length from Brisbane, Australia based Black Metal four-piece DAEDRIC ARMOUR is available at this location now. It will be released via Bitter Loss Records on CD and digitally on November 09, 2022. The vinyl edition will follow on February 01, 2023. More info at https://bitterlossrecords-au.bandcamp.com
U.S. technical Death Metallers PROCEED ON YOUR WAY TO OBLIVION will release their debut full length “Ceremorphosis” on September 23, 2022 via Blood Blast Distribution. The band has released two singles from the album so far, ‘Atrophic Radiance’ and ‘The Whispered One’, which can be checked out here and here. The complete “Ceremorphosis” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Meteor Swarm’, ‘Ceremorphosis’, ‘Beholder’, ‘Atrophic Radiance’, ‘Deal With The Devil’, ‘The Whispered One’, ‘Ravenloft’, ‘Reap What You Sew’ and ‘The Natural End’. The artwork was created by Pedro Sena aka Lordigan. For all additional band info please visit www.facebook.com/poywto
“Persecution”, the fourth full-length from French blackened Death Metallers AUTOKRATOR, has also been released via Krucyator Productions on cassette tape for the first time now. It was originally released on CD, vinyl and digital formats at the end of 2021. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Loïc Fontaine at Krucyator Studio, the vocals were recorded by David Bailey and the drums by Kevin Paradis. The artwork was contributed by Nestor Avalos. A full album stream is available over here. More about AUTOKRATOR at www.facebook.com/autokratormetal
The vinyl 7″ split EP between Japan’s ANATOMIA and Finland’s MORBIFIC is out now via Lycanthropic Chants. A full EP stream you will find over here. It is available on black, transparent blue, transparent red and white with black and blue marble vinyls. All copies come with a poly-lined black inner-sleeve and a tri-fold 300gsm cover plus download code. You can follow both bands at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100046909226442 or www.facebook.com/morbific
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 songs for the EP were recorded at s.v. Jugendhaus Ost in Wolfsburg and mixed and mastered by Marco Brinkmann at Hellforge Studio. The cover artwork was created by Mortuus Art. The EP is available on yellow with orange marble and on green vinyl (the latter only available at the band’s upcoming shows). You can order a copy from www.lycanthropic.de now. More about CRYPTIC BROOD at www.facebook.com/crypticbrood
“Unsegen”, the debut album of German Black Metallers NOCTURNIS, will be released on October 28, 2022 via MDD Records. It was recorded and produced by guitarist Vincent Padrutt and mastered by Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios. For all additional info please visit NOCTURNIS at www.facebook.com/nocturniskvlt
On September 23, 2022 Signal Rex, in co-operation with Bestial Burst, will release “Earth Penetration”, the sixth album from Finnish Black Metallers HAIL CONJURER. Signal Rex will handle the cassette tape version while Bestial Burst will handle the CD version. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘The Sin And The Sweat’, ‘Aghast’, ‘Rebellion Of The Flesh’, ‘Blood On The Stone’, ‘Come Alive’, ‘Winter Death’ and ‘Earth Penetration’. You can already check out ‘Come Alive’ over here. For all further band info go to www.facebook.com/hailconjurer
On October 21, 2022 Invictus Productions, in co-operation with Dark Descent Records, will release a special split album between German Black / War Metallers OMEGAVORTEX and San Antonio, Texas based Black / Deathers PIOUS LEVUS. The following tracks will be featured on it. OMEGAVORTEX: ‘Mutilation Paradise’, ‘Origin Of Evil’, ‘Babalon Working’, ‘Polarization – Hell On Earth’, ‘Demonic Phantasm’ and ‘Paranormal Death’. PIOUS LEVUS: ‘Condemners Cult’, ‘Cursed Altar’, ‘Lucipyrean Stronghold’, ‘Miscreant Diabolus’ and ‘The Never Betrayer’. You can already check out OMEGAVORTEX’s ‘Mutilation Paradise’ and PIOUS LEVUS’ ‘Miscreant Diabolus’ at Invictus Productions Bandcamp site. For more band information please visit www.facebook.com/omegavortexblackdeath or www.facebook.com/pious-levus-1892079377689296
Experimental melodic Black / Death Metal project ZETA has just released a video for ‘Traversing The Void’ at this location. The song will be featured on their upcoming debut full-length “Binary Enigma”, which will be self-released on September 02, 2022. The album’s previously released first single ‘Suspended Colossus’ is still available over here. All additional ZETA info you will find at www.facebook.com/zr1978
Bass player Dani Fernández of Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE had to leave the band and was replaced by Vicente J. Payá (UNBOUNDED TERROR, GOLGOTHA, DECRAPTED), who actually, along with Dave Rotten, formed HOLYCIDE back in 2004. On September 09 and 10, 2022 HOLYCIDE will play two shows in Madrid and Valencia, which will serve as a live presentation of their new bass player. HOLYCIDE have also just released a fifth video from their second album “Fist To Face”. You can watch a lyric video for ‘Trapped By The Crappy Trap’ at this location. More about HOLYCIDE at www.facebook.com/holycide
Ecuadorian Vampiric Black Metallers WAMPYRIC RITES are streaming their upcoming second album “The Wolves Howl To The Moon” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on August 26, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. More WAMPYRIC RITES you will find at https://wampyricrites1.bandcamp.com
Swiss Thrashers ALGEBRA have just premiered the title track from their forthcoming fourth album “Chiroptera” at this location. It will be released on September 19, 2022 on CD and digital formats via Unspeakable Axe Records. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Fallen’, ‘Resuscitation’, ‘Kleptomaniac’, ‘Constricted’, ‘Accomplice’, ‘Chiroptera’, ‘Suspect’, ‘Eternal Sleep’, ‘Losing Touch’, ‘Burn The Bridge’ and ‘The Great Deception’. For more info and regular updates follow ALGEBRA at www.facebook.com/algebrathrash
Norwegian Black Metallers KAMPFAR have just released a video for their new single ‘Flammen Fra Nord’ at this location. The upcoming new KAMPFAR full-length “Til Klovers Takt” will be released on November 11, 2022 via Indie Recordings. More about KAMPFAR at www.facebook.com/kampfarofficial
On October 14, 2022 Altare Productions will release “Nas Ruínas Do Ser”, the debut full length from Black Metallers ADAGA, on vinyl LP format. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Noite Soberana’, ‘No Limiar Da Morte’, ‘De Passagem’, ‘Nas Ruínas Do Ser – Pt I’, ‘Nas Ruínas Do Ser – Pt II’ and ‘Fragmentação Da Alma’. For all additional ADAGA info please visit www.altare.pt
On October 14, 2022 Personal Records will release “Sadistic Storm”, the debut EP from Mexican crusty Death Metallers CIMMERIAN POSSESSION, on CD and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Castles’, ‘Flames’, ‘The Wrathful’ and ‘Bringer Of Night (Noctifer)’. You can already check out ‘Flames’ over here. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/cimmerianpossession
Portuguese Black Metallers ARMNATT are streaming their upcoming fourth album “Immortal Nature” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on August 26, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. All additional information you should find at www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based blackened technical Death Metallers SUBLATION have just released a lyric video for ‘Eulogy’ right here. The song will appear on their upcoming debut full-length “The Path To Bedlam”, which will be self-released by the band on September 13, 2022. You can pre-order the album at https://sublationband.bandcamp.com. More about SUBLATION at www.facebook.com/sublationband
On September 19, 2022 Amor Fati Productions, in co-operation with Ván Records, will release the debut full length from German Black Metal duo HADOPELAGYAL, “Nereidean Seismic End”. Amor Fati will handle the cassette tape version, while Ván will handle the CD and vinyl versions. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Depravity Shall Triumph’, ‘Intertidal Terrorrealm’, ‘The Morning Carried A Feeble Sun, A Solitary Sphere Of Embers’, ‘Blades Drawn From The Iron Marrow Of The Sunken Dead’, ‘In Dragging Incandescence’, ‘Pitiless Stars In The Clasp Of Putrefaction’ and ‘Ἄπειρος Καὶ Ἐρῆμος Ἐστιν Ἡ Θάλασσα’. You can already stream ‘Blades Drawn From The Iron Marrow Of The Sunken Dead’ at this location. More HADOPELAGYAL at https://hadopelagyal.bandcamp.com
The 2001 “Hell Did Freeze Over” EP from Netherlands based Doom Deathers MYSTIC CHARM will be re-released via Personal Records on August 26, 2022 in an expanded CD edition, including the entire session from 1993’s “Lost Empire” EP. A full EP stream is available over here. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/personalrecords666
OBITUARY will release two new live albums, “Slowly We Rot – Live And Rotting” and “Cause Of Death – Live Infection”, on vinyl LP, CD (+ BluRay) and cassette tape via Relapse Records on August 26, 2022. Both albums were recorded and mixed by long time producer Joe Cincotta and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. The video material was filmed by Odd Life Studios and directed by Lief Thomason. For regular OBITUARY updates make sure to follow them at www.facebook.com/obituaryband
Canadian Death Metallers GUTVOID have just premiered ‘Delivered To The Altar Lich’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Durance Of Lightless Horizons”, which will be released on September 23, 2022 via Blood Harvest Records on CD and cassette tape formats. A double vinyl version will follow in November / December. The previously revealed ‘In Caverns It Lurks’ can still be checked out here. The album’s complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Coils Of Gas-Hewn Filament’, ‘In Caverns It Lurks’, ‘Delivered To The Altar Lich’, ‘The One Who Dwells Beyond Time’, ‘Skeletal Glyph’ and ‘Wandering Dungeon’. For all further GUTVOID info check out www.facebook.com/gutvoidofficial
Minneapolis based blackened Death Metal trio SILURIAN will release their debut EP “End Of Ordovicia” on September 02, 2022 on CD, digital and limited cassette tape formats via Ordovician Records. It will feature the following three tracks: ‘End Of Ordovicia’, ‘Gondwanian Sacrifice’ and ‘Eurypterid Emperors’. The artwork was created by Rotten Fantom. You can already stream the EP track ‘Gondwanian Sacrifice’ at the label’s Bandcamp site https://ordovicianrecords.bandcamp.com
Danish Death Metallers DEAD VOID have just premiered a new track entitled ‘Entrails Of Chaos’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Volatile Forms”, which will be released on September 15, 2022 via Me Saco Un Ojo Records (vinyl edition) and Dark Descent Records (CD). You can additionally stream the previously revealed ‘Perpetually Circling The Void’ over here. “Volatile Forms” will feature the following tracks: ‘Atrophy’, ‘Entrails Of Chaos’, ‘Sadistic Mind’, ‘The Reptilian Drive’ and ‘Perpetually Circling The Void’. More about DEAD VOID at www.facebook.com/thedeadvoid
German Thrashers HEADSHOT will release their sixth full length “Eyes Of The Guardians” (the follow-up to 2011’s “Synchronicity”) on October 14, 2022 via MDD Records. It was recorded and produced between July 2019 and February 2022 at PureSonic Studio in Langelsheim with Jost Schlüter. More HEADSHOT info is available at www.facebook.com/headshot.metal
Italian Black Metallers ABHOR have just premiered the track ‘Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming eighth full length “Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi)”, which will be released on September 23, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘The Curse Of The Twins’, ‘Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi’, ‘At The Edge Of The Circle’, ‘Ode To The Snake’, ‘Ritual Satanism’, ‘Evil Mentor’, ‘Beelzebuth’ (MYSTIFIER cover), ‘October 31st, 2010’, ‘The Call’ and ‘Violet Coven’. The previously revealed ‘Evil Mentor’ can still be streamed over here. All further ABHOR info is available at www.facebook.com/abhor666
Xtreem Music have just released an official live album from US Thrashers DÉTENTE on CD and vinyl LP. “Official Live ’86 Bootleg” was recorded on August 29, 1986 at the Country Club in Reseda, California. It was the band’s last show they played with the classic “Recognize No Authority” line-up. The following tracks appear on it: ‘Losers’, ‘Blood I Bleed’, ‘Holy War’, ‘Life Is Pain’, ‘Russian Roulette’, ‘Catalepsy’, ‘Vultures In The Sky’, ‘Murder Inc’, ‘Shattered Illusions’ and ‘It’s Your Fate’. A full album stream is available here. For all additional band info please visit www.facebook.com/officialdetente
On December 02, 2022 Svart Records will re-release “Slumber Of Sullen Eyes”, the 1992 debut full length from Finnish Death Metallers DEMIGOD, on gatefold vinyl LP (black and transparent green), CD and cassette tape. It features a new vinyl master from the original source by Noise For Fiction, plus a booklet with a lengthy feature by Hippo Taatila and some visual memorabilia. The vinyl edition will also include a large poster, which features a new vision of the album cover by original cover artist Rob Smits. For more info and pre-order details check out www.svartrecords.com
Swiss symphonic Death Metallers KERBEROS have just revealed another song from their upcoming debut full-length, “Of Mayhem And Dismay”. You can watch a lyric video for ‘Murder The Immortal’ at this location. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios, Germany. It will be self-released on CD and digitally on September 16, 2022. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Resurrection Of The Sun’, ‘Burning Flesh’, ‘Orchestra Of Death’, ‘Holy Downfall’, ‘One-Dimensional Sight’, ‘Icefall’, ‘Murder The Immortal’ and ‘Midsummernight’s Scream’. More KERBEROS info you will find at www.facebook.com/kerberosband or https://kerberosband.bandcamp.com.
Swedish Black / Thrashers SARCATOR have just revealed a video for ‘Grave Maggot Future’ at this location. The song will appear on their upcoming sophomore album “Alkahest”, which will be released on October 21, 2022 via Black Lion Records on CD, vinyl, cassette tape and digitally. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Marko Tervonen at Studio-MT in Trollhattan, Sweden. The drums were tracked at Studio N3 in Trollhattan, Sweden and the artwork was created by Dávid Glomba. The following tracks will be featured on “Alkahest”: ‘Ascend’, ‘Perdition’s Hand’, ‘Grave Maggot Future’, ‘Dreameater’, ‘The Long Lost’, ‘He Who Comes from the Dark’, ‘Devil Sun’, ‘Sorrow’s Verse’ and ‘Alkahest’. Check out www.facebook.com/sarcatorband for all further SARCATOR info.
Shadow Kingdom Records will release the third album of Germany’s blackened Thrashers CRUEL FORCE next year. Additionally the label will reissue the band’s two albums, “The Rise Of Satanic Might” (2010) and “Under The Sign Of The Moon” (2011) on all formats. A new CRUEL FORCE video for ‘Across The Styx’ can be watched over here. It is the title track of the band’s most recent EP, which will be re-recorded for the band’s new album. For regular updates follow CRUEL FORCE at www.facebook.com/cruelforce
Basel, Switzerland based melodic Death / Thrashers KATAPULT have just released a lyric video for ‘Comfortably Dumb’, the second single from their upcoming debut full length “Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes” at this location. A video for ‘Nihilism For The Gods’ is additionally available right here. The album will be released on November 25, 2022 via Discouraged Records digitally and on digipak CD. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘The End’, ‘Comfortably Dumb’, ‘The Hands Of The Devil’, ‘Sweetheart Come’, ‘The Arsonist’, ‘Nihilism For The Gods’, ‘Litany Of Spirals’, ‘Invite The Sin’, ‘Schädel’, ‘All This Because Of Greed’, ’21th Century Gladiator Boy’, ‘Bränn Bilder Och Minnen’ and ‘Oh God For One More Breath’. The cover art and design was created by Fredrik Aaro. More about KATAPULT at www.facebook.com/katapultthrash
Belgian Death Metallers BONES have just revealed the track ‘Great Altars Of Ascension’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s debut full length “Sombre Opulence”, which will be released on September 09, 2022 via Invictus Productions. You can still find the previously revealed album track ‘Twilight Divination’ at this location. The complete tracklist of “Sombre Opulence” reads as follows: ‘Execration Rites’, ‘Funerary Magic’, ‘Twilight Divination’, ‘Deserts Of Eternity’, ‘Withering’, ‘Primordial Idolatry’, ‘Composite Deities’, ‘Great Altars Of Ascension’ and ‘Formulas Of Condemnation’. For all additional BONES information and regular updates please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027587905043
Finnish technical Death Metallers RASTER DENSITY will release their third full length “Apothecary’s Tome Ov Depravity And Filth” this autumn. The latest single from the album, ‘Death Measured In Milligrams’, is available for streaming at this location now. More about RASTER DENSITY at www.facebook.com/rasterdensity
Greek Black Metallers MEDIEVAL DEMON have just premiered the track ‘Baptismal Blood’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fourth album “Black Coven”, which will be released on September 16, 2022 via Hells Headbangers on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The previously revealed title track ‘Black Coven’ is additional available at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Where Witches Dwell And Labyrinths Confuse’, ‘Black Coven’, ‘Nocturnal Sacrilege’, ‘Sylvestris Deus (Protector Of The Forests)’, ‘Baptismal Blood’, ‘Katavythisis’ and ‘The Grave Dwellers’. For all further MEDIEVAL DEMON information please visit www.facebook.com/medievaldemonofficial
Spanish Doom Metallers GOLGOTHA have just released a video for ‘Our Trust Betrayed’ at this location. The song will appear on the band’s upcoming fifth album “Mors Diligentis”, which will be released on October 25, 2022 via Xtreem Music on CD, 12″ LP, cassette tape and digital formats. It was produced at Psychosomatic Studios by Miguel A. Riutort “Mega” and the artwork was created by Amón López. The first single ‘My Burden’ is still streaming over here. The album’s full tracklist reads like this: ‘My Burden’, ‘Our Trust Betrayed’, ‘Farewell Humanity’, ‘Waiting For My Death’, ‘Unconditional Love’, ‘Alone In The Dark’, ‘Viper Tongue’ and ‘We The Demons’. You can visit the band’s offical website at www.golgothaofficial.com
German melodic Death Metallers BATTLESWORD will release their new album “Towards The Unknown” on September 16, 2022 via MDD Records on CD, vinyl and as a limited digipak in an exclusive box set. It was recorded and produced in April / May at Big Easy Studio in Hennef and mastered by Dan Swanö. You can check out the album track ‘Terra Combusta’ at this location now. More BATTLESWORD info you will find at www.facebook.com/battleswordofficial
Philadelphia based Black / Thrashers DAEVA (featuring members of CRYPT SERMON) will release their debut full-length “Through Sheer Will And Black Magic…” on October 14, 2022 via 20 Buck Spin on CD, LP, cassette tape and digitally. The following tracks will be on it: ‘Intro (Emanations)’, ‘The Architect And The Monument’, ‘Arena At Dis’, ‘Passion Under The Hammer’, ‘Loosen The Tongue Of The Dead’, ‘Fragmenting In Ritual Splendor’, ‘Polluting The Sanctuary (Revolutions Against Faith)’, ‘Itch Of The Bottle’ and ‘Luciferian Return’. The album was produced, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (GRAVESEND, DREAM UNENDING, ETERNAL CHAMPION, POWER TRIP, KREATOR) and the artwork was supplied by Karmazid. A first track, ‘Arena At Dis’, can already be checked out at this location. All further DAEVA info you will find at www.facebook.com/daevablackthrash
Netherlands based Doom / Deathers THE SOMBRE are streaming their upcoming third album “Monuments Of Grief” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on August 19, 2022 via Chaos Records. THE SOMBRE’s debut album “Into The Beckoning Wilderness” was released in June 2019 in a strictly limited edition of 50 CD-Rs, which sold out immediately. Chaos Records released a worldwide CD edition of it in March 2021. The band’s second album “The Shapeless Misery” was released via Brucia Records at the end of 2020. For more THE SOMBRE please visit https://gnawtheirtongues.bandcamp.com
Southern California’s progressive Thrashers MADROST will release the first in a planned series of live recordings on CD and digital formats on October 11, 2022 via Lost Wisdom Records. The songs selected for “Lost Lives Volume 1” were recorded during an October 2009 performance at Hogue Barmichael’s in Newport Beach, California. The material was remastered by Rob Colwell at Bombworks Sound and the artwork was supplied by Tony Koehl. You can already stream the album track ‘Good Ol’ Fashioned Violence’ at this location. MADROST guitarist / vocalist Tanner Poppit commented on the release as follows: “The Lost Lives Series is a retrospective of the band’s early career. Starting this series off, this long-forgotten era has officially been restored and is now ready to be shown to the public. This particular release showcases the band in October of 2009, just two years after they originally formed. Warts and all, the band was firing on all cylinders and were well on their way to becoming a much tighter machine. What you are hearing is just that and more. A band with nothing to lose and everything to gain in the years to follow. Stay tuned for more to come in this series as we document the energy of the very foundation that this band maintains even still to this day.” For regular updates make sure to follow MADROST at www.facebook.com/madrost
On October 14, 2022 Babylon Doom Cult Records will release “De Verminkte Stilte Van Het Zijn”, the sixth full length from Netherlands based experimental Black Metallers HAGETISSE, on vinyl LP format. You can already stream the album track ‘Verbrande Huizen Symboliseren Het Geluk’ over here. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Sleur Mij Maar Mee In De Vuurzee’, ‘Verbrande Huizen Symboliseren Het Geluk’, ‘De Verminkte Stilte Van Het Zijn’, ‘Daar Komt Het Licht’, ‘Als De Pijn Dicteert’, ‘Gekastijd Vlees’, ‘De Nacht Van Gezonken Gedachten’ and ‘Een Stille Schemering’. More at https://gnawtheirtongues.bandcamp.com
Norwegian Black Metallers NORDJEVEL have just revealed another song from their upcoming third full-length “Gnavhòl”. You can check out a video for ‘Of Rats And Men’ at this location. The album will be released on September 23, 2022 via Indie Recordings. It was produced by Fredrik Nordström and the artwork was created by Khaos Design. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘I Djevelens Skygge’, ‘Of Rats And Men’, ‘Satans Manifest’, ‘Within The Eyes’, ‘Gnavhòl’, ‘Antichrist Flesh’, ‘Spores Of Gnosis’, ‘Gnawing The Bones’, ‘Endritual’ and ‘Twisted Psychosis’ (bonus track for trifold vinyl / CD). All further NORDJEVEL info you will find at www.facebook.com/nordjevelofficial
On September 30, 2022 Invictus Productions will release the debut album of Italian Death Metal trio THULSA DOOM, “A Fate Worse Than Death”, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Where Death Dwells’, ‘Cursed Domains Beyond’, ‘Into The Vaults Of Angmar’, ‘Tomb Of The Serpent Cult’, ‘A Fate Worse Than Death’, ‘Order Of The Black’, ‘Hung, Drawn And Quartered’, ‘Last Portal Of Xhul’, ‘The Dawn Of The Fire Age’ and ‘The Orgy’. You can already check out ‘Cursed Domains Beyond’ at this location. More THULSA DOOM you will find at www.facebook.com/thulsadoomdeath
Finnish Black Metallers WHITE RUNE are streaming their upcoming debut album “Dawn Of The White Rune” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on August 19, 2022 via Hammer Of Hate. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/whiterunebm
“Sold Under Sin”, the new EP from Irish Black / Thrashers SACRILEGIA, will be released on September 30, 2022 via Invictus Productions on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. It will feature the following four tracks: ‘Cimmerian Dawn’, ‘Reactionary Angel’, ‘Sarx & Blood’ and ‘The Squirming Hyperions’. You can already check out ‘Reactionary Angel’ at this location. For all further SACRILEGIA info please visit www.facebook.com/sacrilegiametal
Memento Mori have just signed Houston, Texas based Death Metallers PAINGIVER. The CD version of their debut full-length will be released in the first half of 2023. For regular updates follow the band at www.facebook.com/paingivertx
Taiwanese-American Death Metallers RIPPED TO SHREDS will release their new full length “劇變 (Jubian)” via Relapse Records on October 14, 2022. It was recorded and mixed by the band’s guitarist / vocalist Andrew Lee at his home studio and mastered by Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Violent Compulsion For Conquest’, ‘Split Apart By Five Chariots’, ‘獨孤九劍 日月神教第三節 (In Solitude – Sun Moon Holy Cult Pt 3)’, ‘Harmonious Impiety’, ‘漢奸 (Race Traitor)’, ‘Reek Of Burning Freedom’, ‘Peregrination To The Unborn Eternal Mother’ and ‘Scripture Containing The Supreme Internal Energy Arts That Render The Practitioner Invincible Throughout The Martial Realm’. The cover artwork was created by Chinese artist Guang Yang, who already painted the cover of the last RIPPED TO SHREDS album. A video for ‘Reek Of Burning Freedom’ is already available over here. For more RIPPED TO SHREDS information please visit www.facebook.com/rippedtoshredsband
“Asunder / Erode”, the debut full length from Italy / Estonia based Doom / Deathers FERUM will be released on August 19, 2022 via Avantgarde Music / Unorthodox Emanations on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Halfhead’, ‘The Undead Truth’ (feat. Mike Perun from CIANIDE), ‘Desolate Vantaa’, ‘Sear Belong’, ‘Monolithic Acquiescence’, ‘Entrails Of Linnahall’, ‘Resurgence In Bereavement’ and ‘Outro: Spesso Il Male Di Vivere Ho Incontrato’. The cover artwork was created by Maestro Paolo Girardi. A full album stream is available at this location. All additional FERUM info you will find at www.facebook.com/ferumdeath
Italian old school Death Metallers MORBUS GRAVE have just premiered the track ‘Morbid Darkness’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Lurking Into Absurdity”, which will be released on September 16, 2022 via Chaos Records on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow in early 2023. The previously revealed ‘Traumatic Malignancy’ can additionally still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Intro (The Curse) / Cerebral Cremation’, ‘Morbid Darkness’, ‘Morbus Grave’, ‘Traumatic Malignancy’, ‘Mangled’, ‘Profaner’, ‘Lurking Into Absurdity’ and ‘Horrors From The Unknown’. For more MORBUS GRAVE info please visit www.facebook.com/morbusgrave
On September 16, 2022 Edged Circle Productions will release the debut mini album from Bergen, Norway based Black Metallers VATHR, “Dead & United”, on 12″ vinyl and cassette tape formats. It was mixed and mastered by C. Korsvold at Cloud City Studios, Bergen. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘March Of The Dead, ‘Messiah (Heaven Nor Hell)’ and ‘Crimson Cold Curse’. You can already check out ‘Crimson Cold Curse’ over here. For more information please visit www.edgedcircleproductions.com or www.facebook.com/edgedcircleproductions
Finnish Black Metallers NOCTURNAL SORCERY will release their debut full length “The Holy Law In Total Ruin” on August 19, 2022 via Kvlt. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Ro’Iheyav Ro’Ihey Mihole’ Rem’Oyav / Mephistophelean Wine’, ‘Blackhearted Angel’s Retribution’, ‘Fatum Nostrum (Damnatio Memoriae)’, ‘The Holy Law In Total Ruin’, ‘Thy Primordial Flame’, ‘Through Boundaries Of Time’, ‘Down The Valley Of Damnation’, ‘Miracle Of Empty Hand’ and ‘The Last Ray Of Ihvh’s Light’. A full album stream is available right here. For more info and pre-order details please visit www.kvlt.fi
Polish Death Metallers BAALZAGOTH have just released a video for ‘Suffering’ at this location. The song is taken from the band’s debut full length “Morbid Persecutions”, which was released earlier this year via Mara Productions on CD (jewelcase, digipak, with slipcase). For all further BAALZAGOTH info please visit www.facebook.com/baalzagoth
Amor Fati Productions will release “Met De Drietand Op Mijn Huid” and “Cagghenvinna”, the debut albums of Flemish solo projects AERDRYK and OERHEKS respectively, on vinyl LP format today. Full album streams are available here and here. All additional information you will find at www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
On October 14, 2022 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “Overduyvelsche Boosheit”, the debut mini album from Belgium’s Black Metallers HANGHEDIEF, on CD, 12″ vinyl and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘1611, V.C.’, ‘1634, K.M.’, ‘Meesters Van De Hooge Wercken’, ‘1638, D.V.J.’ and ‘Longing For The Ancient Kingdom II’ (ANCIENT RITES cover). You can already stream ‘1634, K.M.’ at this location. The cover artwork was created by CINIS (Seresian Cobra). HANGHEDIEF is the new band by Hanghedief (POX) and Pz. Kpfw (POSSESSION). For more info check out www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Slovenian Black / Death Metallers ENSANGUINATE have just released a video for ‘Vile Grace’ at this location. It was filmed at Castle Haasberg and directed, shot and edited by Žak Krebs. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Eldritch Anatomy”, which will be released on CD, LP (black vinyl, limited to 300 copies) and digitally via Emanzipation Productions on September 02, 2022. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Hunted’, ‘Cadaver Synod’, ‘Ghoul Presence’, ‘Perdition’s Crown’, ‘Gaping Maws O Cerberus’, ‘Lowermost Baptisms’, ‘Sublimation’, ‘Death Vernacular’ and ‘Vile Grace’. More ENSANGUINATE information you will find at www.facebook.com/ensanguinate
On October 14, 2022 Eternal Death will release the debut album of American bestial Black Metallers V.E.I.N., “Blood Oaths”, on vinyl LP format. Even though V.E.I.N. is actually just a one-man project by Death Fiend (BLESSED OFFAL, PANZERBASTARD, DEATHAMPHETAMINE, ex – DEATHGOD MESSIAH, ex – PESTIFEROUS, ex – SEWER GODDESS), the album was recorded by Death Fiend on vocals and lead guitars, Hellvomit on lead guitars, Cathach on bass and vocals and Ratt on drums. The following tracks will be featured on “Blood Oaths”: ‘Total Vascular Collapse’, ‘Malign Blood Oath’, ‘The Black Eye Of Eibon’, ‘Banishment Of Blood’, ‘L.S.D.’, ‘Sangre Libertad’, ‘Warlocks Witches And Demons’ and ‘Bloodstained Symmetry’. You can already listen to ‘Malign Blood Oath’ over here. For all additional info please visit www.eternal-death.com or www.facebook.com/eternaldeathusa
Detroit, Michigan based Black / Deathers PERVERSION have just premiered the track ‘Barbaric Execution’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s second album “Dies Irae”, which will be released on September 09, 2022 via Hells Headbangers on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The previously revealed ‘Axioms of Domination’ can still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Dies Irae’, ‘Baghavad Genocide’, ‘Decapitator’, ‘Axioms Of Domination’, ‘Fathomless Cruelty’, ‘Unveiling The Primordial Revelation’, ‘Barbaric Execution’, ‘Migration Into Darkness’ and ‘Possessed’ (BATHORY cover). For more PERVERSION info please visit www.facebook.com/perversion.is.death
On September 23, 2022 The Sinister Flame will release “Ater Ignis”, the second album from Spanish Death Metallers ORTHODOXY, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Enter The Netherworld’, ‘Into Primigenian Darkness I Dwell’, ‘Victory Beyond Death’, ‘Banished From My Glance’, ‘Masked Beast’, ‘Where Shadows Move Unseen’ and ‘Ater Ignis (Covenant Of Death)’. More ORTHODOXY you will find at https://officialorthodoxy.bandcamp.com
Swedish progressive / atmospheric Death / Black Metal trio AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION has just released the track ‘In The Heavens Above, You Will Become A Monster’ over here. It is the second single from their forthcoming sophomore full-length “Woe”, which will be released on September 09, 2022 via Willowtip Records. It was mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon (EQUILIBRIUM, ATENA, IN DYING ARMS) and the artwork was created by Adam Burke. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘The Behemoth That Lies Asleep’, ‘Slaves’, ‘Tear Down This Holy Mountain’, ‘Prosperity’, ‘Blomsterkrans’, ‘In The Heavens Above, You Will Become A Monster’ and ‘This Torment Has No End, Only New Beginnings’. For all further band information please visit www.facebook.com/anabstractillusion
“As Legends Fade And Gods Die”, the second album of New Zealand based blackened Thrashers EXORDIUM MORS, will be released via Praetorian Sword Records on October 31, 2022 on vinyl LP and digital formats. The cover artwork was created by Khaos Diktator Design and the full tracklist reads as follows: ‘I Saw Oblivion’, ‘A Pyrrhic Sacrament’, ‘Flesh Of The Heathen’, ‘Surrounded By Serpents’, ‘Crown Of Dust’, ‘Torn Usunder’ and ‘Triumphator’. A visualizer for ‘A Pyrrhic Sacrament’ can already be watched over here. More about EXORDIUM MORS at www.facebook.com/exordiummors
Portuguese Black Metallers MONS VENERIS have just premiered the track ‘As Garras Do Velho Escrito’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full length “Inversados D’Um Abismo De Podridão’, which will be released on September 11, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The following tracks will be on the album: ‘Crueza Lúgubre’, ‘As Garras Do Velho Escrito’, ‘Urna Da Virgem Desalmada’, ‘Sê A Minha Morte’, ‘O Do Fosso Da Vida’, ‘Satanás Impera’, ‘No Trono Do Desconhecido’ and ‘Discípulo Do Mal’. The previously revealed ‘Satanás Impera’ can still be checked out right here. All additional information you will find at www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
On September 21, 2022 Purity Through Fire will release “Fehde”, the debut full length from German Black Metallers ATRONOS, on CD, A5 digipak and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Mit Speeren Und Harpunen’, ‘Ohne Gestern, Ohne Morgen’, ‘Dein Zauber’, ‘Feuer Und Stahl’, ‘Der Pakt’, ‘Ich Bin Der Sieg’, ‘Nicht Auf Dieser Welt’ and ‘Ein Gebet Aus Panzerketten’. You can already check out ‘Ohne Gestern, Ohne Morgen’ over here. For more ATRONOS please visit https://atronos.bandcamp.com
New York City / Lisbon based blackened Darkwave duo HOURS OF WORSHIP has just premiered the track ‘There By The Window’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “The Cold That You Left”, which will be released on August 19, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed album track ‘Your Lonely Death My Crown’ can still be streamed at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Your Lonely Death My Crown’, ‘Fear In Bloom’, ‘Watching You Beg For Your Life’, ‘Ancient Pain’, ‘Deep Depression’, ‘A Wretch And A Liar’, ‘I Know It Hurts You’, ‘There By The Window’ and ‘Wasting Away Forever’. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Finnish Black Metallers MIMORIUM will release their third album “The Route Of Haeresis” on August 12, 2022 via Spread Evil Productions. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Invocation Of The Nameless One’, ‘Mirror Dimension’, ‘Liberate The Transcendent Essence’, ‘Succumb To Nightmares’, ‘Hand Of The Heretic’, ‘Her Place In Shade’, ‘The Route Of Haeresis’ and ‘Circle Of Serpents’. A full album stream you will find over here. A video for ‘Mirror Dimension’ is additionally available at this location. More about MIMORIUM at www.facebook.com/mimorium
Madison, Wisconsin based Death Metallers CASKET ROBBERY will release their second, as-of-yet untitled full-length via Blood Blast Distribution in the fall of 2022. In November 2021 CASKET ROBBERY already released a single entitled ‘Bone Mother’. A video for the song is available right here. All additional CASKET ROBBERY information you will find at www.facebook.com/casketrobbery
Portland, Oregon based Black / Death Metal trio WEREGOAT is streaming the entirety of their new mini album “The Devil’s Lust” at this location now. It will be released on August 12, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions in co-operation with Parasitic Records. All further WEREGOAT information you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057147502434
Sweden’s WOLFBRIGADE will release a new EP entitled “Anti-Tank Dogs” on August 12, 2022 via Armageddon Label (North America) and Agipunk Records (Europe) on 7″ vinyl format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Anti-Tank Dogs’, ‘Brainruler’ and ‘Necronomion’. You can check out the EP at this location. You can follow WOLFBRIGADE at www.facebook.com/lycanthropunks
Finnish Black Metallers SERPENTFYRE released their sophomore full length “Baptism Of Shadows” earlier this year via Altare Productions on CD and 12″ vinyl. It features the following tracks: ‘Black Funeral Coffins’, ‘Faceless Horns Ascend’, ‘Flame Of Shadows’, ‘Luciferian Light Of The North’, ‘Kaaos Kaiken Nielköön’, ‘Father Of Wolves’ and ‘Of Rebirth And Illumination’. For more band information check out www.facebook.com/serpentfyreofficial
Canadian Thrashers RAZOR will release a new full-length entitled “Cycle Of Contempt” on September 23, 2022 on LP, CD, cassette tape and digitally via Relapse Records. The band’s first album in 25 years will feature the following tracks: ‘Flames Of Hatred’, ‘Jabroni’, ‘Off My Meds’, ‘A Bitter Pill’, ‘Crossed’, ‘First Rate Hate’, ‘Cycle Of Contempt’, ‘Punch Your Face In’, ‘All Fist Fighting’, ‘Darkness Falls’ and ‘King Shit’. A lyric video for ‘Flames Of Hatred’ is already available over here. You can follow RAZOR at www.facebook.com/razorofficialthrash
French Death Metallers RITUALIZATION are streaming their new mini album “Hema Ignis Necros” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on August 12, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The cover artwork was created by Chris Moyen. More about RITUALIZATION at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063598541922
Memphis, Tennessee based melodic blackened Death Metallers EPOCH OF UNLIGHT have just released a lyric video for ‘Night Hunt’ at this location. The song will appear on the band’s upcoming album “At War With The Multiverse”, which will be released on September 16, 2022 via Dark Horizon Records. The album’s first single ‘An Amarathine Line’ is still streaming over here. The full “At War With The Multiverse” tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Anthropocene’, ‘The Numbing Stillness’, ‘Wrath Of The Cryomancer’, ‘An Amaranthine Line’, ‘Beneath A Dying Sun’, ‘Elysian Immortals’, ‘The Möbius Path’, ‘Night Hunt’, ‘All Light Dies’ and ‘The Lie Of Tomorrow’s Dawn’. All additional band info you will find at www.facebook.com/epochofunlight
Finnish neoclassical symphonic melodic Death Metallers CLAMORIS will release their debut full length “Opus Limbonica” on October 28, 2022 via Inverse Records. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Regurgitated’, ‘The Bite Of The Cosmic Snake’, ‘Schemer’s Paradox’, ‘A Window To My Dreams’, ‘Rage, Rain Down On Them’, ‘Forma Inversa’, ‘Opus Limbonica’ and ‘Walking In The Graveyard’. The album’s second single ‘A Window To My Dreams’ has just be released over here. A lyric video for the first single ‘Rage, Rain Down On Them’ is additionally still available at this location. The “Opus Limbonica” cover artwork was supplied by Roberto Toderico. For all further CLAMORIS info please visit www.facebook.com/clamoris
Vienna, Austria based melodic Death Metallers VERMOCRACY will release their second album “Age Of Dysphoria” on September 30, 2022 via Black Sunset / MDD. It was recorded, produced and mastered at Norbert Leitner’s studio in Vienna and the cover artwork was created by Armin Stocker. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/vermocracy
“Crypt Lurker”, the debut full length from Georgetown, Washington based Death Metallers DECONSECRATION, will be released on September 11, 2022 via Chaos Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Crypt Lurker’, ‘Cephalic Fermentation’, ‘Putrescent Birth’, ‘Imploding Ascent’, ‘Buried Under The House’, ‘Galvanized’, ‘Plague Cadaver’ and ‘Bells Upon The Graves’. You can already watch a video for ‘Buried Under The House’ over here. More DECONSECRATION info is available at www.deconsecration.com
On October 10, 2022 Nuclear Winter Records will release “Entropy Dynamics”, the sixth album from Greek Black / Deathers EMBRACE OF THORNS, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Blackest Orthodoxy Perpetuated’, ‘Entropy Dynamics / Nucleus Dissolved’, ‘The Arrow Of Time’, ‘The Breath Of The Beast’, ‘I Wish You Burn In An Endless Funeral Pyre’, ‘Scythes Reaping Conscience’, ‘The Lament Of The Destroyed’, ‘Wormfeast’, ‘Transformation Into A Celestial Ghoul’, ‘Vultures’ Ritual Dance’ and ‘Ululation’. You can already check out ‘Entropy Dynamics / Nucleus Dissolved’ at this location. To coincide with the release of “Entropy Dynamics”, reissues of the band’s sold-out albums “Atonement Ritual” and “Praying For Absolution” will also be available again via Nuclear Winter, as well as a CD version of the preceding EP “The Pantheon I”, which will come with an exclusive bonus track. You can follow EMBRACE OF THORNS at www.facebook.com/embraceofthorns
Polish Death Metallers SYMBOLICAL will release a new EP entitled “Natura” on September 08, 2022. It’s the second part of a trilogy, started with the EP “Igne”, which was released at the end of 2021. The material for the album was recorded, mixed and mastered at JNS Studio by Paweł Janos. You can watch a video for the song ‘The Dread World’ over here. More about SYMBOLICAL at www.facebook.com/symbolicalofficial
Experimental melodic Black / Death Metal project ZETA will release its debut full-length “Binary Enigma” on September 02, 2022. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Hopinksville Goblins’, ‘Suspended Colossus’, ‘Binary Enigma’, ‘Organic Corridor’, ‘Cosmic Embrace’, ‘Traversing The Void’, ‘M-Triangle’, ‘Weight Of Disclosure’ and ‘Dimensional Nexus Part II ‘. The first single ‘Suspended Colossus’ is already available at this location. The album features the work of band members residing in three different states (Cleveland, Ohio / Chicago, Illinois and Phoenix, Arizona). All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/zr1978
American Death Metallers VRENTH have just premiered the title track of their upcoming second full length “Succumb To Chaos” over here. The previously revealed ‘Omnipresence (Mors Certa / Hora Incerta)’ can still be streamed at this location. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Omnipresence (Mors Certa / Hora Incerta)’, ‘Demise In Hollow Suffering’, ‘Curse Of The Living And Of The Dead’, ‘Integrum Tenebrae’, ‘Succumb To Chaos’, ‘An Eternal Impious War’, ‘Contemptus Mundi’ and ‘The End As A Shadow’. The cover artwork was created by Gruesome Graphx. “Succumb To Chaos” will be released on September 05, 2022 via Rotted Life Records on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl version will follow later this year. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/vrenthband
Czech Black / Death Metallers ALTARS ABLAZE will release their debut album “Life Desecration” on September 16, 2022 via Lavadome Productions. It was recorded at Davos Studio and mixed and mastered by Christian Erkens at Cyphx-Audio. The artwork was created by Nuno Zuki of Belial NecroArts. You can check out the album’s second single ‘Drenched In Wrath And Blood’ at this location. The first single ‘Glorification Of Rats’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Life Desecration” tracklist reads as follows: ‘For The Lifeless Love Of A Crucified Corpse’, ‘Life Desecration’, ‘Shrine Destroyer’, ‘Across The Empires Of Death’, ‘Drenched In Wrath And Blood’, ‘With Bone Crowns And Iron Scepters’, ‘Beneath The Smouldering Ruins’ and ‘Glorification Of Rats’. ALTARS ABLAZE features members from HEAVING EARTH, SUPREME CONCEPTION and ELYSIUM. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/altars.ablaze
“Haunted Mausoleum”, the debut EP from Boston, Massachusetts based Death Metallers GROTESQUERIES, is streaming in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on August 11, 2022 via Caligari Records on cassette tape format. The material was recorded at New Alliance Studios with engineer Alec Rodriguez. The cover art was created by Tombtower. More GROTESQUERIES at https://grotesqueries.bandcamp.com
On September 23, 2022 The Sinister Flame will release “Vitriolic Atonement”, the sophomore full length from Finnish Black Metallers CELESTIAL GRAVE, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Here’s the full tracklist already: ‘Eucharist’, ‘Cadaverous Solace’, ‘Clemency’, ‘The Abyss Exhales’, ‘Exaltation’ and ‘Radiant Tides Below’. For more band information check out www.facebook.com/celestialgrave
On September 12, 2022 Amor Fati Productions will release the self-titled debut full length from Australian Black Metallers SKARE on vinyl LP format. The CD version will be released by Dark Adversary Productions. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Lonesome Ibex’, #A Sordid Ceremony’, ‘Beyond The Church Spires’, ‘The Threshold Into Death’ and ‘Into Icy Pewter Sky’. You can already check out ‘Threshold Into Death’ at this location. For all additional information please visit www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
On September 15, 2022 Me Saco Un Ojo Records, in co-operation with Dark Descent Records, will release “Volatile Forms”, the debut album from Danish Doom Deathers DEAD VOID, on vinyl LP and CD formats, respectively. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Atrophy’, ‘The Entrails Of Chaos’, ‘Sadistic Mind’, ‘The Reptilian Drive’ and ‘Perpetually Circling The Void’. The album closer ‘Perpetually Circling The Void’ is already available for streaming at this location. More about DEAD VOID at www.facebook.com/thedeadvoid
Spanish Death Metallers UNBOUNDED TERROR have just released a lyric video for ‘Liars’ Punisher’, the new single from their upcoming third album “Echoes Of Despair”. You can watch the video over here. The album will be released on September 06, 2022 via Xtreem Music on CD, 12″ LP, cassette tape and digital formats. It was recorded and mixed by Vicente J. Paya at his own Black Night Studios and mastered by Javi Fernández at Montseny Studios. The artwork was created by Daemorph Art (AVULSED, DECRAPTED, PUTREVORE). The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Organic Waste’, ‘Rotting Myself’, ‘Echoes Of Despair’, ‘Liars’ Punisher’, ‘Hypocrite Ignored’, ‘They Are Not (What They Claim To Be)’, ‘Desolation Inside Of Me’, ‘Falling Into The Void’, ‘Devil’s Church’, ‘Hungry For Your Hate’ and ‘Something’s Rotten In Humanity’. The previously released single ‘Hypocrite Ignored’ can still be checked out at this location and a video for ‘Organic Waste’ right here. All further UNBOUNDED TERROR info you will find at www.unboundedterror.com
On September 09, 2022 Invictus Productions will release the debut album of Belgian Death Metallers BONES, “Sombre Opulence”. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Execration Rites’, ‘Funerary Magic’, ‘Twilight Divination’, ‘Deserts Of Eternity’, ‘Withering’, ‘Primordial Idolatry’, ‘Composite Deities’, ‘Great Altars Of Ascension’ and ‘Formulas Of Condemnation’. The album’s first single ‘Twilight Divination’ can already be streamed at this location. For all further BONES info please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027587905043
“Tales Of Demolyn”, the upcoming debut album from Gothenburg, Sweden based one man Black Metal band DEMOLYN, will be released digitally everywhere on August 12, 2022. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Shattered Soul’, ‘Withering Away’, ‘Döden Jag Är’, ‘Hear My Battle Cry’, ‘På Toppen Av Berget’, ‘Per Sanguinem Effuderit’, ‘Höj Era Svärd’ and ‘The Seven Riders Of Demolyn’. More DEMOLYN info you will find at www.instagram.com/demolyn.band
Swiss Thrashers ALGEBRA will release their fourth full-length “Chiroptera” on September 19, 2022 via Unspeakable Axe Records on CD and digital formats. The album’s first single ‘Kleptomaniac’ is already streaming at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Fallen’, ‘Resuscitation’, ‘Kleptomaniac’, ‘Constricted’, ‘Accomplice’, ‘Chiroptera’, ‘Suspect’, ‘Eternal Sleep’, ‘Losing Touch’, ‘Burn The Bridge’ and ‘The Great Deception’. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/algebrathrash
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 German Thrashers LUCIFUGE, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. BUNKER 66 will be featured with the following tracks: ‘Mellhammer’, ‘Sulphurous Lust’ and ‘Doctor Rock’ (MOTÖRHEAD cover). LUCIFUGE’s part consists of ‘The Great Unseen’, ‘In Blood And Dust’ and ‘Warriors Of The Night’. You can already check out the LUCIFUGE track ‘Warriors Of The Night’ over here. More about both bands at www.facebook.com/bunker66 or www.facebook.com/lucifugeblackmetal
Italian Death Thrashers MISCREANCE will release their debut full-length “Convergence” on September 19, 2022 via Unspeakable Axe Records (CD), Danex Records (vinyl) and Desert Wastelands (cassette tape), as well as on Bandcamp and other digital platforms. The following tracks will be on it: ‘Flame Of Consciousness’, ‘Fall Apart’, ‘Incubo’, ‘No Empathy’, ‘The Garden’, ‘Alchemy’, ‘My Internment’ and ‘Requiem For Sanity’. The album’s first single ‘Incubo’ is already streaming over here. For all additional MISCREANCE info check out www.facebook.com/miscreance
Irish Black / Death Metallers COSCRADH are streaming their upcoming debut album “Nahanagan Stadial” at this location now. It will be released on August 05, 2022 via Invictus Productions. All further band information you will find at www.facebook.com/coscradh
“Seven Words”, the seventh studio album from UK Thrashers XENTRIX will be released on November 04, 2022 via Listenable Records in a variety of formats and bundles. It was recorded at Backstage studios in Derbyshire and Viscon studios in Lancashire in the UK and mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap (JUDAS PRIEST, EXODUS, MEGADETH). The cover artwork was created by Dan Goldsworthy (ACCEPT, CORPSEGRINDER, ALESTORM). The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Behind The Walls Of Treachery’, ‘Seven Words’, ‘Spit Coin’, ‘The Alter Of Nothing’, ‘Everybody Loves You When You’re Dead’, ‘Reckless With A Smile’, ‘Ghost Tape Number 10’, ‘My War’, ‘Kill And Protect’, ‘Anything But The Truth’ and ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ (CD exclusive bonus track). The band will embark on a European tour with VIO-LENCE, WHIPLASH and ARTILLERY at the end of November. The tour kicks off on November 23, 2022 in Amersfoot, the Netherlands and ends on December 05, 2022 in Gothenburg, Sweden. You can follow XENTRIX at www.facebook.com/xentrixmetal
Danish Black Metallers GRIGORIEN will release their debut full length “Magtens Evangelium” on August 05, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘De 9 Chor’, ‘Skammens Æt’, ‘Boedsgang Og Blodig Hoste’, ‘Østens Hviide Slange’, ‘Et Taarn Til De Høyeste Himle’, ‘Tiggere I Gyldne Pialter’, ‘Strafferens Psalmer’, ‘Af Kviksølv Og Galdes Chor’, ‘De Blindes Hyrde’, ‘Syndens Slegtsbog’ and ‘Den Kaossymmetriske Liturgie’. A full stream you will find at this location now. For more GRIGORIEN please visit https://grigorien.bandcamp.com
Danish Black Metallers GRIGORIEN will release their debut full length “Magtens Evangelium” on August 05, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘De 9 Chor’, ‘Skammens Æt’, ‘Boedsgang Og Blodig Hoste’, ‘Østens Hviide Slange’, ‘Et Taarn Til De Høyeste Himle’, ‘Tiggere I Gyldne Pialter’, ‘Strafferens Psalmer’, ‘Af Kviksølv Og Galdes Chor’, ‘De Blindes Hyrde’, ‘Syndens Slegtsbog’ and ‘Den Kaossymmetriske Liturgie’. A full album stream you will find at this location. For more GRIGORIEN please visit https://grigorien.bandcamp.com
“All Virtues Ablaze”, the upcoming sophomore full length from Canadian Black Metal trio LIMINAL SHROUD, is available for streaming over here now. It was recorded and mixed by Matt Roach at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver, Canada and mastered by Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, Colorado, USA. The artwork was created by Justyna Koziczak. “All Virtues Ablaze” will be released on August 05, 2022 via Willowtip Records on digipak CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. All additional LIMINAL SHROUD information you will find at www.facebook.com/liminalshroudofficial
Thai Death Metallers REINCARNATED have just premiered the track ‘Quasar God Oration’ at this location. The song will appear on the band’s debut album “Of Boötes Void Death Spell”, which will be released on September 03, 2022 via Inhuman Assault Productions. The previously revealed ‘Ophiucus Crypt’ is still streaming over here. The complete “Of Boötes Void Death Spell” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Ophiuchus Crypt’, ‘Quasar God Oration’, ‘Proxima Hibernation’, ‘Triumphant Dead Comet’ and ‘Tomb Of Boötes Void’. For all further REINCARNATED info check out www.facebook.com/reincarnated696
Hamburg, Germany based Death Metallers RISE OF KRONOS have just released a video for ‘Allegory Of The Cave’ at this location. The song is taken from their debut album “Council Of Prediction”, which was released via MDD earlier this year. In September the band will be supporting DEBAUCHERY vs. BLOOD GOD on their German tour. For all additional RISE OF KRONOS info please visit www.facebook.com/riseofkronosofficial
The Sinister Flame, in co-operation with Dark Descent Records, will reissue “Relinquishment”, the 2014 debut full length from Finnish Black Metallers ORDINANCE, on double vinyl. It will be pressed onto three sides and housed in a gatefold jacket, which features a 20-page booklet with lyrics. A full album stream is available at https://ordinance.bandcamp.com. More info you will find www.thesinisterflame.com.