December 30, 2023
The results of our BEST OF 2023 poll are online now. You can check them out in detail at this location. Thanks to everyone who participated.
The results of our BEST OF 2023 poll are online now. You can check them out in detail at this location. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Italian Horror Death Metal band TENEBRO has just released a new 2-song EP entitled “La Bestia Dell’Isola Maledetta”. You can stream it at this location. A free download of it is additionally available over here. The band’s second album “Ultime Grida Dalla Giungla” was released back in November 2023 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. www.instagram.com/tenebro.official
German Death / Thrashers BOUNDLESS CHAOS have just premiered the track ‘Rip Out The Roots’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Sinister Upheaval”, which will be released on January 19, 2024 via Dying Victims Productions. Malte Gericke (SIJJIN, ex – NECROS CHRISTOS) contributed guest vocals to the track ‘Guillotine’, which can be checked out here. A third album track, ‘Down’, is available at this location. The full “Sinister Upheaval” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Down’, ‘High Tension’, ‘Arson From Beyond’, ‘Kromer’s Whistle’, ‘Guillotine’, ‘Tyrant’s Call’, ‘Blasphemous Rupture’, ‘Rip Out The Roots’ and ‘Demons Unchained’. www.facebook.com/boundlesschaos
Romanian one-man Black Metal band INSEPULTUS has released its debut full-length “Deadly Gleams Of Blood, Steel And Fire” on December 15, 2023 as jewel case CD, plus a strictly limited slipcase CD edition (100 copies) via Loud Rage Music. You can check out the album track ‘The Wreckage Of The Earth’ at this location. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550529628463
Romanian Death Metallers VORUS will release their third full length “Desolate Eternities” in early Spring 2024 via Loud Rage Music. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Desolate In Eternity’, ‘The Phantom Fear’, ‘Moribund’s Hollow Gaze’, ‘Deathly Cycle Of Existence’, ‘Blood-Sucking Leech’, ‘Dormant Malignancy’, ‘Obscure Delusional Chasms’, ‘Escape From Beyond’, ‘Aether Of The Abyss’ and ‘Dragged Into Oblivion’. A demo version of ‘Aether Of The Abyss’ is now streaming over here. The “Desolate Eternities” cover artwork was created by Swedish artist Jan Pysander Whitney. www.facebook.com/vorusdeath
Serbian Black Metallers KOLAC will release their self-titled third full length album on February 03, 2024 via Pest Records. A visualizer video for the track ‘Eppur Si Muove’ can already be found at this location. www.facebook.com/kolachorde
Finnish Black Metallers WHITE DEATH have just revealed a video for ‘Deathstruction’ at this location. The song is a bonus track on the band’s sophomore full length “Iconoclast”, which will be released on December 29, 2023 via Werewolf Records on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow next year. A full album stream you will find over here. More about WHITE DEATH at www.facebook.com/unholywhitedeath
Polish female fronted melodic Death Metallers WARBELL have just released a video for ‘Melancholical’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming EP “Ruin”, which will be out on April 01, 2024. The lyrics for ‘Melancholical’ were inspired by Sotha Sil, a half-god from The Elder Scrolls series. The production, mixing, video shoot and editing was done by the band. www.facebook.com/warbellband
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just released a video for ‘Bazookiller’ at this location. The song is the titletrack of their latest EP, which was released in September via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. www.facebook.com/holycide
Romanian Death Metallers NECROTUM have just premiered the track ‘Shattered Flow Of Time’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full length “Defleshed Exhumation”, which will be released on January 22, 2024 via Memento Mori. The previously revealed album track ‘Warped In Entrails’ can still be checked out at this location. The complete “Defleshed Exhumation” tracklist reads like this: ‘Warped In Entrails’, ‘Noxious Breeze’, ‘Incomprehensible Forms’, ‘Dissolved In The Flesh Pits’, ‘Mouldered Orb’, ‘Shattered Flow Of Time’, ‘Psychotic Apparitions’, ‘Ghastly Metropolis’ and ‘As I Behold I Despise’ (DEMIGOD cover). www.facebook.com/necrotumdm
Switzerland’s Death / Thrashers MESSIAH will release a new album, entitled “Christus Hypercubus”, on March 01, 2024 via High Roller Records on all formats. It features the band’s new members Marcus Seebach (vocals) and V.O. Pulver (guitar). A video for the title track has been already premiered at this location. The album’s complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Sikhote Alin’, ‘Christus Hypercubus’, ‘Once Upon A Time… Nothing’, ‘Speed Sucker Romance’, ‘Centipede Bite’, ‘Please Do Not Disturb (While I’m Dying)’, ‘Soul Observatory’, ‘Acid Fish’, ‘The Venus Baroness I’ and ‘The Venus Baroness II’. www.facebook.com/messiahthrashingmadness
VLTIMAS have just released a video for ‘Miserere’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full length “Epic”, which will be released on March 15, 2024 via Season Of Mist. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (PARADISE LOST, GRAVE MIASMA) with engineer Jonathan Mazzeo (FIRST FRAGMENT, SICKENING) at Arda Recorders in Porto, Portugal throughout May 2023. The cover artwork was created by Italian artist Daniele Valeriani (MAYHEM, UNANIMATED). Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Volens Discordant’, ‘Epic’, ‘Miserere’, ‘Exercitus Irae’, ‘Mephisto Manifesto’, ‘Scorcher’, ‘Invictus’, ‘Nature’s Fangs’ and ‘Spoils Of War’. The current VLTIMAS line-up consists of David Vincent – vocals, Rune Blasphemer Eriksen – guitars, Flo Mounier – drums, Ype TVS – bass and João Duarte – guitars. Regular updates you will find at www.facebook.com/vltimas
Californian Death Metallers DIPYGUS have just premiered the track ‘The Dover Demon’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full length “Dipygus”, which will be released on January 22, 2024 via Memento Mori (CD), in co-operation with Crypt Of The Wizard (vinyl). The previously revealed album track ‘Perverse Termination’ can still be streamed at this location. The full “Dipygus” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Perverse Termination (Bulb Of Force)’, ‘Aquagenesis’, ‘Monrovia, LR 1990’, ‘Vipers At The Pony Keg’, ‘Огромный Кальмар (Ross Sea Trawler)’, ‘Bug Sounds II (Megascolides Australis)’, ‘The Dover Demon’, ‘Rat Lung-Worm’, ‘Sacral Brain’ and ‘The Ochopee Skunk Ape’. www.facebook.com/dipygus
Norwegian Death / Thrashers SOVEREIGN have just released a new single entitled ‘Counter Tech’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “Altered Realities”, which will be out on January 19, 2024 via Dark Decent Records on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. The album’s opening track ‘Altered Reality’ can still be checked out over here. The full “Altered Realities” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Altered Reality’, ‘Futile Dreams’, ‘Nebular Waves’, ‘Counter Tech’, ‘The Enigma Of Intelligence’, ‘Synthetic Life’ and ‘Absence Of Unity’. www.facebook.com/sovereignnorway
French Black Metallers GRAVENOIRE have been signed by Season Of Mist. The band features Maximilien Brigliadori on guitars, bass (BÂ’A, DIABLATION, former HYRGAL), Emmanuel Zuccaro on drums, keyboards (BÂ’A, VERFALLEN, former HYRGAL), Vicomte Vampyr Arkames on vocals (DIABLATION, former SETH / AD-INFERNA) and RMS Hreidmarr on vocals (GLACIATION, BÂ’A, former ANOREXIA NERVOSA / THE CNK). A teaser video can already be watched at this location. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553036631501
French Black Metallers SUICIDE CIRCLE are streaming their sophomore full length “Bukkake Of Souls” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 29, 2023 via Osmose Productions. www.facebook.com/meyhnachrats
Nürnberg, Germany based melodic Death / Black Metallers BEYREVRA will release their debut full length “Echoes: Vanished Lore Of Fire” via Trollzorn Records on February 29, 2024 on CD and digitally. It was recorded at Mordor Sounds Studio and mixed and mastered at Endarker Studio. The cover artwork was created by Markus Graupner of Northem Arts. A video for ‘Beheading The Truth’ can already be watched at this location. The full tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Sentenced’, ‘Path Of Baptism’, ‘Burning Fate’, ‘New Aeon Rising’, ‘Erased’, ‘Fallen Son’, ‘Beheading The Truth’, ‘Barren Tales’ and ‘The Hermit’s Torment’. www.facebook.com/beyrevraofficial
On March 01, 2024 Chaos Records will release “Self // Wound”, the debut full length from Portland, Oregon based D-Beat / Crust duo NEGATIVE PRAYER, on CD format. The vinyl edition will follow later in 2024. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Violence’, ‘Hell’, ‘Wound’, ‘Morbid’, ‘Caged’, ‘Noose’, ‘Negative Prayer’, ‘Bloodfeast’ (MISFITS cover) and ‘Amputate’. The album opener can already be streamed over here. The material was recorded by Charlie Koryn at Toadhouse Recording during Winter 2020 / 21 and re-amped, re-mixed and mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer. The cover artwork was supplied by Adam Medford. NEGATIVE PRAYER consists of Kyle House (vocals, guitar and bass) and Charlie Koryn (drums): current and ex-members of POISON IDEA, ACEPHALIX, DECREPISY, INCANTATION and FUNEBRARUM. https://negativeprayer.bandcamp.com
Ukrainian brutal Death Metal quartet SCHIZOGEN has just released a lyric video for ‘Out Of The Light’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming, as yet untitled, third full length, which will be released via Willowtip Records sometime next year. The cover art was created by Maryna Shcherbakova. www.facebook.com/schizogen.ua
MASTER have just released a new single entitled ‘Minds Under Pressure’ over here. The song will appear on their upcoming album “Saints Dispelled”, which will be out on January 19, 2024 on CD, deluxe CD, gatefold vinyl LP, cassette tape and digitally via Hammerheart Records. www.facebook.com/therealmasterofficial
On February 09, 2024 Blood Harvest Records will release “Celebratory Beheading”, the sophomore full length of Australian Death Metallers CONTAMINATED, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Suffer Minutiae’, ‘Cosmic Shit Show’, ‘Feral Demise’, ‘Beneath Empty Sockets’, ‘An Unnatural End’, ‘Final Hours’, ‘…At The End Of A Shank’, ‘Apex C.H.U.D.’, ‘Desire For Agony’ and ‘Junkyard Warfare: Celebratory Beheading’. You can already listen to ‘An Unnatural End’ at this location. More about CONTAMINATED at www.facebook.com/pestilentialdecay
Washington, D.C. based Black Metallers HULDER will release their sophomore full-length “Verses In Oath” on February 09, 2024 via 20 Buck Spin. It was mixed and mastered by Ahti Kortelainen at Tico Tico Studios in Finland. A first track, entitled ‘Vessel Of Suffering’, is already streaming over here. The full tracklist of “Verses In Oath” reads as follows: ‘An Elegy’, ‘Boughs Ablaze’, ‘Hearken The End’, ‘Verses In Oath’, ‘Lamentation’, ‘An Offering’, ‘Cast Into The Well Of Remembrance’, ‘Vessel Of Suffering’, ‘Enchanted Steel’ and ‘Veil Of Penitence’. www.facebook.com/hulderus
German Death Metallers CORROSIVE have just released a live video for the song ‘The White Witch’ at this location. It was recorded at a show in Hannover, Germany in August. The band is also planning to release the complete concert recording soon. The track is featured on the band’s sixth full length “Wrath Of The Witch”, which was released in October via MDD Records on CD. A double vinyl LP edition will be out via Kernkraftritter Records next year. www.facebook.com/corrosiveband
Polish Black Metallers KALT VINDUR will release their third full length “Magna Mater” on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape on January 26, 2023 via The Circle Music. The material was recorded at Regnat Studio (DARGOR, KRUSHER) in Cieklin, Poland and mixed and mastered by Krzysztof Kokosinski. The cover artwork was created by Maciej Kamuda (BLUT AUS NORD, SPACESLUG, SUNNATA). You can already check out lyric videos for ‘Visions Of Purification’ and ‘Bless Us’ here, respectively here. Music videos for the tracks ‘Żywioły’ and ‘Agonizing Luminosity’ can additionally be watched here and here. For all additional KALT VINDUR information please visit www.facebook.com/kaltvindurband
Oslo, Norway based Death Metallers HORRIFIER are streaming their debut full length “Horrid Resurrection” in its entirety at https://horrifiermetal.bandcamp.com now. The album will be released via Personal Records today.
Finnish Black / Death Metallers WHERE’S MY BIBLE have just released a video for their new single ‘Creator Of Abyss’ over here. A video the previously released single ‘Fenrir’ can additionally be watched at this location. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/wheresmybible
Seattle, Washington based technical Death / Black Metallers XOTH have just released a bass music video for ‘Battlesphere’ over here. The track appears on the band’s third full length “Exogalactic”, which was released via Dawnbreed Records in November 2023. www.facebook.com/beholdxoth
French blackend Death Metallers NECROWRETCH have just revealed a second track from their upcoming fifth full length “Swords Of Dajjal”. You can watch a lyric video for ‘Ksar Al-Kufar’, which was filmed on location in Ethiopia and Morocco by Mounit Chraibi, at this location now. More NECROWRETCH information you will find at www.facebook.com/necrowretch
On January 26, 2024 Osmose Productions will release “333”, the eighth full length of Netherlands based Black Metallers FUNERAL WINDS, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Sovereign Of Shadows’, ‘Eternal Nightmare’, ‘Cast The Gauntlet Of Doom’, ‘Ancient Wrath Unleashed’, ‘The Damned Ones Shall Rise’, ‘Forever Cursed And Bound’, ‘Birthed By Pure Malevolence’ and ‘Conjuration Of The Blind One’. A first track premiere will be revealed on January 03, 2024. www.facebook.com/funeralwindsbm
Swedish melodic Black Metallers DEAD EARTH will release their debut full length “Et Disperdam Illud” via Chaos Records on February 16, 2024 on CD format. It was originally released on vinyl in November 2022 via De:Nihil Records. DEAD EARTH features Mathias Kamijo, most known for long-running Black Metallers ALGAION, but he also used to be a live member of HYPOCRISY in the late ’90s and played on NEPHENZY CHAOS ORDER’s second album “Pure Black Disease”. On “Et Disperdam Illud” he was joined by the following guest vocalists: Henke Forss (DAWN), Björn Larsson (MORDBRAND / GOD MACABRE), Thomas Clifford (ABSCESSION / THRONE OF HERESY), Angus Norder (WITCHERY) and Kristin Starkey (TEMPERANCE). The drums were performed by Kim Arnell (MORIFADE, PRIME CREATION) and some guest leads come from Toby Knapp and Chaq Mol (DARK FUNERAL). A full album stream is available at https://deadearthsweden.bandcamp.com
Swedish / US Death Metallers RIBSPREADER will release their tenth full length “Reap Humanity” on January 16, 2024 via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. The first advance single, ‘A Fleshless Gathering’, can already be streamed at this location. The full tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘The Skeletal Towers’, ‘A Fleshless Gathering’, ‘Reap Humanity’, ‘Count Damnation’, ‘As The Ghouls Are Summoned’, ‘Like Breeding Vermin’, ‘Further Into Decay’, ‘Human Fodder’ and ‘Shrouded In Despair’. RIBSPREADER’s current line-up consists of Rogga Johansson (PAGANIZER, PUTREVORE, THE GROTESQUERY, REVOLTING…) on guitar, bass and vocals, Taylor Nordberg (DEICIDE, INHUMAN CONDITION, ex – MASSACRE) on guitar and Jeramie Kling (VENOM INC., INHUMAN CONDITION, ex – MASSACRE) on drums. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100044948155884
UK based Death Metallers CRYPTWORM are streaming their upcoming sophomore full length “Oozing Radioactive Vomition” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 15, 2023 via Me Saco Un Ojo Records (vinyl), in co-operation with Pulverised Records (CD) and Extremely Rotten (cassette tape). www.facebook.com/cryptworm
Toronto, Canada based technical / progressive Death Metal five-piece APOGEAN has just released a second single off their debut full length “Cyberstrictive”. You can watch a lyric video for ‘With Which Ear You’ll Listen’ at this location. The album will be released on March 08, 2024 via The Artisan Era on vinyl LP, CD and digitally. A video for ‘Thousand-Yard Glare’, the album’s first single, can still be found over here. The complete tracklist of “Cyberstrictive” reads like this: ‘Bluelight Sonata’, ‘Thousand-Yard Glare’, ‘Distance (Of Walls And Wails)’, ‘With Which Ear You’ll Listen’, ‘Imposter Reborn’, ‘Within The Bounds Of A Simile’, ‘Hueman (The Pleasure Of Burn)’, ‘Polybius’, ‘Spinthariscope’ and ‘An(t)imus’. www.facebook.com/apogeanofficial
Leeds, UK based Death Metal quintet COGNIZANCE has just premiered a video for ‘Shadowgraph’, the second single from their forthcoming third full length “Phantazein”, at this location. The album will be released on January 26, 2024 via Willowtip Records on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Ceremonial Vigour’, ‘A Brain Dead Memoir’, ‘Chiselled In Stone’, ‘Introspection’, ‘Futureless Horizon’, ‘The Towering Monument’, ‘Alferov’, ‘Shock Heuristics’, ‘Broadcast Of The Gods’, ‘In Verses Unspoken’ and ‘Shadowgraph’. www.facebook.com/cognizanceband
Finnish Thrashers MIEHALA will release a new EP entitled “Sons Of Alaheim” on March 14, 2024 via Inverse Records. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Torch The Children’, ‘War’, ‘Into The Void’, ‘Altar’ and ‘Vision Of Violent Death’. The EP’s first single ‘War’ was just released over here. More about MIEHALA at www.facebook.com/miehala
French atmospheric Black Metallers TERREUR NOCTURNE have released their debut full-length “Solitude Post-Mortem” in October 2023 via Music-Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Terreur Nocturne and the artwork was created by Matthias of Macchabée Artworks. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Hommage Post-Mortem’, ‘Précipices’, ‘Terreur Nocturne I’, ‘Fardeau De Mes Peines’, ‘Παρθένος Θάνατος’, ‘Le Bal Des Condamnés’, ‘Malédiction Fantasmagorique’, ‘Tribulations’ and ‘L’echo Muet De Mes Plaintes’. You can watch videos for ‘Le Bal Des Condamnés’ and ‘Fardeau De Mes Peines’ here and here. www.facebook.com/terreurnocturnebm
Swedish progressive Death Metallers CARNOSUS have just been signed by Willowtip Records. The band will soon start working on their third album with producer Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden. www.facebook.com/carnosus
Finnish technical blackened Death Metallers ULTERROR have just revealed a first track from their upcoming debut full length “Transcendent Origins”, which will be released on March 29, 2024 via Inverse Records. You can check out ‘The Greater Sublimations Of Cosmic Panic’ at this location. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076379805963
US Black Metallers DEMONCY are streaming their new mini album “Diabolica Blasphemiae” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 15, 2023 via Hells Headbangers on CD and cassette tape formats. The 12″ vinyl version will follow next year. www.facebook.com/demoncy1
Finnish blackened Death / Thrashers GATES OPEN will release their debut full length “Voice After Silence” on February 09, 2024 via Inverse Records. A lyric video for the third and final single, ‘Gates Open’, can be watched at this location now. Lyric videos for the album’s first two singles ‘The Awakening’ and ‘Let The Night Become Your Guide’ can still be checked out here and here. The full “Voice After Silence” tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Awakening’, ‘Let The Night Become Your Guide’, ‘Till Death Unite Us’, ‘A Place Called Home’, ‘ Gates Open’, ‘I, The Intellectual’, ‘We Are No More’, ‘Death’ and ‘Northern Dark’. www.facebook.com/gatesopenband
German old school Thrashers EXTINCT have been signed by MDD Records for the release of their sophomore full length in spring 2024. The band formed back in 2003 and released their debut album “Pain Palace” in 2013 and the EP “Downward Spiral” in 2021. www.facebook.com/extinctmetal
On December 22, 2023 Greek Repulsive Echo Records, in co-operation with Frost & Fire Records, will re-release “I’a Aem’nh S’ha-T’n”, the 1995 cassette demo LP of French Black Metallers OSCULUM INFAME, on jewel case CD for the very first time. Cacophonous Records (Mordgrimm) released the band’s debut full length “Dor-Nu-Fauglith” back in 1997. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063451581106
“Sparagmos”, the sophomore full length of Denver, Colorado based Doom / Death Metallers SPECTRAL VOICE, will be released on February 09, 2024 via Dark Descent Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk at Redwood Studio and the artwork was created by Manifester. The album track ‘Red Feasts Condensed Into One’ is already available for streaming at this location. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘Be Cadaver’, ‘Red Feasts Condensed Into One’, ‘Sinew Censer’ and ‘Death’s Knell Rings In Eternity’. www.facebook.com/necroticdoom
“Advancement Of Decay”, the new EP from Philadelphia based technical Death Metallers SUBLATION, is out now. It features the following tracks: ‘Congenital Putrescence’, ‘Like A Fire That Consumes All Before It’, ‘Eclipse Awe’, ‘Idiopathic’, ‘Born Out Of A Whim’, ‘This Little Death’ and ‘We Were Never Meant To Live This Long’. You can watch a video for the opening track ‘Congenital Putrescence’ at this location. For more SUBLATION information please visit www.facebook.com/sublationband
Colorado’s Doom / Deathers SPECTRAL VOICE will release their second full-length “Sparagmos” via Dark Descent Records on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats on February 09, 2024. The band has just posted a video for the song ‘Red Feasts Condensed Into One’ over here. “Sparagmos” will feature the following tracks: ‘Be Cadaver’, ‘Red Feasts Condensed Into One’, ‘Sinew Censer’ and ‘Death’s Knell Rings In Eternity’. The material was recorded, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk at Redwood Studio and the artwork was supplied by Manifester. www.facebook.com/necroticdoom
On February 09, 2024 Primitive Reaction will release “Blood Exaltation”, a new EP from Poland’s Black Metal three-piece THROAT, on CD format. It will feature two new tracks and two songs from the band’s 2020 demo “New Flesh Nectar”, which was released via Fallen Temple. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Chuc’, ‘Klatwa’, ‘New Flesh Nectar I’ and ‘New Flesh Nectar II’. You can check out both demo tracks at this location https://throatoftheantichrist.bandcamp.com
“Anothology Of Horror”, the sophomore full length from ACHERON’s Vincent Crowley, will be released via Hammerheart Records on February 23, 2024 on digipak CD, gatefold vinyl LP and digitally. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Intro VI VI VI’, ‘Amityville’s Horror’, ‘That Which Lurks Below The Sea’, ‘Under The Hanging Tree’, ‘Nowhere To Hyde’, ‘Blood Moon Lycanthropy’, ‘Gods Of Crimson Cullings’, ‘Coupe De Poudre’, ‘Madame Laveau (Voodoo Queen)’ and ‘Killer’ (KING DIAMOND cover). You can already check out a lyric video for the album track ‘That Which Lurks Below The Sea’ at this location. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/vincentcrowley666
American Death Metallers MASSACRE have signed a deal with Agonia Records for the release of the band’s fifth album, which is currently being worked on by frontman / vocalist Kam Lee (ex – MANTAS, ex – DEATH, BONE GNAWER, THE GROTESQUERY), original bassist Mike Borders, returning guitarists Rogga Johansson (PAGANIZER, RIB SPREADER, MEGASCAVANGER) and Jonny Pettersson (WOMBBATH, HEADS FOR THE DEAD) and new drummer Jon Rudin (JUST BEFORE DAWN, HEADS FOR THE DEAD, DEHUMANAUT). The band also features a separate session line-up (for live performances only), which consists of Carlos Gonzalez (GRIM REALITY) on guitars, Elden Santos (DRUID LORD) on drums and, until recently, Tony Blakk (DRUID LORD) on bass. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550812858461&mibextid=LQQJ4d
On February 09, 2024 Chaos Records will release “Gedankentempeln”, the debut full length from Marburg, Germany based Black Metallers SELTSAME ERDEN, on CD format. It was recorded at their remote bunker, deep in the Hessian woods and the cover artwork was supplied by Belial NecroArts. A full album stream you will already find at this location. More about SELTSAME ERDEN at www.seltsame-erden.de
Northern Germany based Thrashers AORYST will release their debut full length via MDD Records next year. It was recorded and produced in the summer of 2023 at Soundlodge Studio by Jörg Uken, who also plays the drums on the recordings. In the meantime, the band has completed its line-up in this position with ex – MOURNING CARESS drummer Dominik Schlüter. https://aoryst.bandcamp.com
“Burial Moon”, the self-titled mini album of international Black Metallers BURIAL MOON, is streaming in its entirety at this location now. It will be released via Signal Rex on CD, 12″ vinyl and cassette tape formats today. www.signalrex.com, www.facebook.com/signalrec
Finnish blackened Death Metallers PROGENY OF SUN have just released a video for ‘Dweller’, which can be seen over here. The track is featured on the band’s debut full length “Throne Of Desolation”, which was released via Inverse Records. It was mixed and mastered by Saku Moilanen at Deep Noise Studios and the cover artwork was created by Niko Aromaa. A full album stream is available at this location. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/progenyofsun
American Black Metal one man band AZATHOTH’S DREAM is streaming their debut full length “Nocturnal Vampyric Bewitchment” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 08, 2023 via Iron Bonehead Productions on vinyl LP format. www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Danish Black Metallers GEISTAZ’IKA are streaming their upcoming sophomore full length “Midnatsbøn Ved Djævelens Port” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on December 08, 2023 via Signal Rex. www.signalrex.com, www.facebook.com/signalrec
“Foreordained”, the new album from Montréal’s Death Metallers PHOBOCOSM, is now streaming in its entirety over here. It was mixed and mastered (as well as partly recorded) by Xavier Berthiaume from Tehom Productions at Studio Tehom. The artwork was created by Lauri Laaksonen (DESOLATE SHRINE, CONVOCATION, PESTILENT HEX). Dark Descent Records will release the album on December 08, 2023 on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. www.facebook.com/phobocosm
Portland, Oregon based Death Metallers PETRIFICATION will release their sophomore full length “Sever Sacred Light” via Svart Records on February 09, 2024 on CD and vinyl LP. A video for the opening track ‘Twisted Visions Of Creation’ can already be watched at this location. www.facebook.com/petrificationdm
Necroeucharist Productions have re-released ANAAL NATHRAKH‘s “Total Fucking Necro” compilation as a tape box, limited to 200 copies. The hand-numbered box contains a four-sided sleeve and two cassettes with the first demo recordings of “Anaal Nathrakh” and “Total Fucking Necro”. The “Total Fucking Necro” cassette also includes the bonus track ‘Necrogeddon’ (from the unreleased 2001 demo “We Will Fucking Kill You”). A full album stream is available over here. More info at: www.facebook.com/necroeucharistproductions
On December 08, 2023 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “Lamentationen”, a Black Metal split album between Germany’s GRABUNHOLD and Austria’s CIRCLE OF SHADOWS, on CD and vinyl LP formats. You will find a full stream of it at this location already. For all band information please visit www.facebook.com/grabunhold or www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063801242534
Finnish blackened Death Metallers SAASTA have just released their new EP “Black | Death | Doom” via Inverse Records. It was recorded in its entirety at the band’s rehearsal space in Kotka, Finland and mixed and mastered by Ben Jones in England. The visual art for the EP was created by Pla.g.u.e. You can listen to the entire EP at this location. A video for the title track is available over here. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/saastaofficial
Finnish melodic Death Metallers BEYOND THE HATE have just released a video for ‘Alone I Die’ at this location. The song will be featured on their upcoming debut full length “Darkest Times”, which will be released on March 08, 2024 via Inverse Records. The album’s first single ‘The Lighthouse’ can still be checked out here. “Darkest Times” will feature the following tracks: ‘Sign Of Weakness’, ‘Alone I Die’, ‘The Lighthouse’, ‘Black Within’ (feat. Katri Hiovain-Asikainen), ‘The Plague Upon Us’, ‘Left Behind’, ‘Dark Is The Sky’, ‘Dead Ones’, ‘Stranger In Me’, ‘Times Of Misery’, ‘The Last Moments’ and ‘In Memoriam’ (feat. Jaakko Mäntymaa). The artwork was created by Petri Lampela. www.facebook.com/beyondthehate
This Christmas Austria based Death Metallers SLAVESON will self-release their second album “The Fabled Beast” on CD (limited digipak) and digitally. It was recorded and mixed at Hometown Studios in Newtown by Tom Haugeneder and mastered at Deep Deep Pressure Studios by Lukas Haidinger. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘The Fabled Beast’, ‘Inner Scream’, ‘Atrocity’, ‘Harvesting Dead Soil’, ‘Earth’s Grill’, ‘Human’, ‘A War Written Story’, ‘Minds Of The Old’, ‘Karma’, ‘Stille’ and ‘Anger’ (remastered). An album teaser you will find at this location and the first single ‘Earth’s Grill’ can be checked out over here. For more SLAVESON music please visit https://slaveson.bandcamp.com
Italian Death Metal quartet SPIRITUAL DECEPTION has just released a video for ‘Beyond Perception And Matter’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming new album “Semitae Mentis”, which will be out on February 09, 2024 via Amputated Vein Records. A lyric video for the album’s first single ‘Thousand Lives Within’, featuring Karl Sanders of NILE, can still be watched over here. www.facebook.com/spiritualdeception
Portuguese Black Metallers GINNUNGAGAP are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Heliacal Arising” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 08, 2023 via Signal Rex. www.signalrex.com, www.facebook.com/signalrec
Toronto, Canada based technical / progressive Death Metal five-piece APOGEAN will release their debut full-length “Cyberstrictive” on March 08, 2024 via The Artisan Era physically (vinyl, CD) and digitally. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Bluelight Sonata’, ‘Thousand-Yard Glare’, ‘Distance (Of Walls And Wails)’, ‘With Which Ear You’ll Listen’, ‘Imposter Reborn’, ‘Within The Bounds Of A Simile’, ‘Hueman (The Pleasure Of Burn)’, ‘Polybius’, ‘Spinthariscope’ and ‘An(t)imus’. You can already watch a video for ‘Thousand-Yard Glare’ at this location. The album will feature new vocalist Mac Smith (who recently helped out DECREPIT BIRTH as their live vocalist). www.facebook.com/apogeanofficial
Ecuadorian Black Metal trio AVRÆ LVNÆ is streaming their upcoming debut full length “Ntdd Strl” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 08, 2023 via Signal Rex. https://auraelunae.bandcamp.com
Australian Black Metallers KRVNA have just premiered the track ‘What Great Lengths’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s new mini album “The Rythmus Of Death Eternal”, which will be released on January 10, 2024. Zazen Sounds will release the digipak CD, Third Eye Temple the cassette tape version and Brilliant Emperor the vinyl edition. The previously revealed ‘A God’s Work’ can still be streamed over here. Here’s the complete “The Rythmus Of Death Eternal” tracklist: ‘Endless Monument’, ‘A God’s Work’, ‘What Great Lengths’, ‘As Astral Images Darken Reality’ (ABIGOR cover) and ‘Man Of Iron’ (BATHORY cover). More KRVNA music you will find at https://krvna.bandcamp.com
“Black Star Gnosis”, the new album from US Black Metallers DEMONCY, is out now via Dark Descent Records on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digitally. It was recorded and mixed by VJS at Dirge Forge and mastered by Jeremie Bezier at Blackout Bruxhell. The artwork was created by Ixithra. A full album stream is available at this location. www.facebook.com/demoncy1
Spanish melodic Death Metallers AEOLIAN have just released a video for the title track off their third album “Echoes Of The Future” at this location. The album is out now via Black Lion Records. It was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound studio. www.facebook.com/aeolianmetalband
Bay Area Hardcore / Thrashers ALMOST DEAD have just released a lyric video for their new single ‘Selfish Suicide’ over here. The song is featured on their upcoming sixth album “Destruction Is All We Know”, which will be released on January 26, 2024 via Innerstrength Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Zac Orhen at Sharkbite Studios Oakland, California. The cover art was created by Gragoth (Luciferium War Graphics). www.facebook.com/bayareahardcoremetal
“Captive In The Breath Of Life”, the second album from Finnish Black Metallers NOCTURNAL SORCERY, will be released on February 09, 2024 via Kvlt. You can already stream the album track ‘Redemption At Daybreak’ at this location. The complate tracklist “Captive In The Breath Of Life” reads as follows: ‘The Dark Secret’, ‘Oath At Mt. Hermon’, ‘Cry Of The Wounded Heaven’, ‘Captive In The Breath Of Life’, ‘Spectral Force’, ‘Beyon Salvation’, ‘Joyless Dance In The Shadow’, ‘Redemption At Daybreak’, ‘Damned By The Law Of The Stars’, ‘Lucifer’s Shade’ and ‘Along The Path Of Fire’. www.kvlt.fi
On February 02, 2024 Invictus Productions will release “Unveiling The Brac’thal”, the debut full length from Irish Black Metal two-piece HASTURIAN VIGIL, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Ikaath The Seven Horned’, ‘Apparitions Of Torment’, ‘Nine Bellowing Hounds’ and ‘Velvet Paintings Gaze’. You can already listen to ‘Nine Bellowing Hounds’ over here. The cover artwork was supplied by Canopic Ire. www.facebook.com/hasturianvigil
Montreal based technical Death / Thrash Metal trio DISSIMULATOR will release their debut full length “Lower Form Resistance” on January 26, 2024 via 20 Buck Spin. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Neural Hack’, ‘Warped’, ‘Outer Phase’, ‘Automoil & Robotoil’, ‘Cybermorphism / Mainframe’, ‘Hyperline Underflow’ and ‘Lower Form Resistance’. You can already check out ‘Hyperline Underflow’ at this location. The “Lower Form Resistance” cover artwork was created by Jesse Draxler. www.facebook.com/dissimulatorofficial
German Black Metallers DETHRONED are streaming their sophomore full length “A Bridge To Eternal Darkness” in its entirety over here now. The album will be released via Dominance Of Darkness Records today. The label will also reissue DETHONED’s debut full length “Bluotrunst” as a six-panel digipak CD with alternate cover art. www.facebook.com/dethroned1993
Greek Black Metallers VARATHRON are streaming their new album “The Crimson Temple” in its entirety over here now. It will be released via Agonia Records today. www.facebook.com/varathron
Topeka, Kansas based brutal Death Metallers UNMERCIFUL have just released live video footage of two yet-to-be-released new songs (‘The Reaping’ and ‘Malice Unbound’) here, respectively here. The footage was shot during the band’s recent performance at the Lawrence, Kansas show of the “Ancient Unholy Uprising Tour”, headlined by SUFFOCATION and INCANTATION. UNMERCIFUL is currently working on material for the follow-up to 2020’s “Wrath Encompassed”. The band is expected to enter the studio soon and is targeting a 2024 release for the new album. A video for the title track of their 2020 album “Wrath Encompassed” can be watched at this location. www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
UK based Death Metallers CRYPTWORM have just premiered the track ‘Necrophagous’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full length “Oozing Radioactive Vomition”, which will be released on December 15, 2023. Me Saco Un Ojo Records will handle the vinyl release, Pulverised Records the CD version and Extremely Rotten the cassette tape version. The previously revealed album track ‘Organ Snatcher’ can still be streamed at this location. The full “Oozing Radioactive Vomition” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Oozing Radioactive Vomition’, ‘Organ Snatcher’, ‘Miasmatic Foetid Odour’, ‘Necrophagous’, ‘Engulfed By Gurgling’ and ‘Submerged Into Vile Repugnance’. www.facebook.com/cryptworm
German technical brutal Death Metallers DEFEATED SANITY have been signed by Season Of Mist. The band is currently working with new guitarist Vaughn Stoffey on their seventh album, which will be released sometime in 2024. DEFEATED SANITY will also be playing next year’s Maryland Deathfest with new labelmates SEVERE TORTURE and BRODEQUIN. www.facebook.com/defeatedsanity
“Orations”, the new mini album from Minneapolis, Minnesota based Death Metallers HOUSE OF ATREUS, will be released via Iron Bonehead Productions on February 02, 2024 on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Orations / Reascension Of Mastery’, ‘Thy Wounded Sovereignty’, ‘Under An Accursed Dynasty’, ‘Morphos Of Degeneration’, ‘Cathedral Of Ancestry’ and ‘Riding The Storm’ (RUNNING WILD cover). You can already check out the album track ‘Thy Wounded Sovereignty’ at this location. www.facebook.com/acclimatedbyforce