August 21, 2024
Hells Headbangers Records have signed Japan’s Speed Metallers VERDALACK. The band’s debut full length “Force From The Grave” will be released in early 2025. You can already check out a brand-new track entitled ‘Final Assault’ over here. For more VERDALACK please visit https://verdalack.bandcamp.com
Swedish Hardcore Thrashers HATCHEND will release their debut full length “Summer Of ‘69” on August 23, 2024 via Selfmadegod Records on CD and digitally. The album was recorded in two days at HoboRec and the vocals at Wheelmust Studios by Elis Edin Markskog. It was mixed and mastered by Ulf Blomberg. The cover artwork was created by Rikard Wermén and Elis Edin Markskog. A video for the album track ‘Shackled Humanity’ can be watched at this location. More about HATCHEND at www.facebook.com/hatchendofficial
On November 27, 2024 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release “Saga Of The North”, the debut full length from THYRMR, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Trym Torson, who was the drummer on EMPEROR’s “Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk” and ENSLAVED’s “Vikingligr Veldi” and “Frost”, composed music for THYRMR, that is inspired by his longstanding passion for movie soundtracks and ambient music. “Saga Of The North” will feature the following tracks: ‘Landsbyen’, ‘Trusselen’, ‘Slaget’, ‘Gravferd’, ‘Sorgen’, ‘Minner’, ‘Vandringen’ and ‘Håpet’. www.facebook.com/darknessshallriseproductions
Maldives based Black Metal three-piece ABYSMAL OCEANS has just released a lyric video for ‘War March’ at this location. The track is featured on the band’s debut EP “Ravenous Abyss”, which was digitally released in June this year. It was mixed and mastered by George Nerantzis (ABBATH / DARK FUNERAL). www.facebook.com/abysmaloceansmaldives
On September 13, 2024 EAL Productions will release “Death Is Absent”, the fifth full length from Finnish Black Metal duo AETHYRICK. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Fire That Sires The Sun’, ‘Empyrean Silver’, ‘Beyond All Death’, ‘Midwinter Masks’, ‘The Hands Of Fate’ and ‘Only Junipers Grow On My Grave’. You can already stream ‘Beyond All Death’ right here. More about AETHYRICK at www.aethyrick.com
Chile based Black / Deathers INVOCATION have just premiered the track ‘Opium Thebiacum (Somniferum)’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full length “The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures)”, which will be released on September 20, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed album track ‘Ecstatic Trance’ can still be checked out over here. The complete tracklist of “The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures)” reads like this: ‘Ecstatic Trance’, ‘The Serpent Of Faardal’, ‘Opium Thebiacum (Somniferum)’, ‘Metamorphosis’, ‘Horn Of Colima’, ‘The Psicopompos’, ‘Venus Of Laussel’ and ‘Hypnosis’. www.facebook.com/invocationchile
Finnish Death / Thrashers GATES OPEN will release their new EP “Black Clouds Over The World” on October 04, 2024 via Inverse Records. A lyric video for the second single ‘Preys And Predators’ can already be watched over here. A lyric video for the first single ‘Nightmares Coming True’ is still available at this location. The full “Black Clouds Over The World” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Nightmares Coming True’, ‘Black Clouds Over The World’, ‘Poison Nurse’, ‘Gates Of North’, ‘Preys And Predators’ and ‘Gates Of Rock’. www.facebook.com/gatesopenband
Chicago, Illinois based progressive technical Death Metallers GIGAN will release their new album “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus” on October 25, 2024 via Willowtip Records on CD, limited edition CD long box, vinyl LP, cassette tape, limited edition four-album cassette boxset and digital formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Trans-Dimensional Crossing Of The Alta-Tenuis’, ‘Ultra-Violet Shimmer And Permeating Infra-Sound’, ‘Square Wave Subversion’, ‘Emerging Sects Of Dagonic Acolytes’, ‘Katabatic Windswept Landscapes’, ‘Erratic Pulsitivity And Horror’, ‘The Strange Harvest Of The Baganoids’ and ‘Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs Of Time’. The first single and opening track ‘Erratic Pulsitivity And Horror’ can already be streamed at this location. The material was recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, Illinois. It was mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room. The cover artwork was created by Max Winter (Teratogen). www.facebook.com/giganmusic