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US Black Metal HÄXANU duo has just premiered the track ‘Ephòdion’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full-length “Totenpass”, which will released via via Amor Fati Productions on February 07, 2023. The previously revealed ‘Death Euphoria’ can still be streamed over here. The album’s full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Θάρσει’, ‘Death Euphoria’, ‘Thriambus’, ‘Threnoidia’, ‘Sparagmos’, ‘Ephòdion’, ‘Οὐδεὶς Ἀθάνατος’ and ‘Totenpass’. For more information and ordering details please visit www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
Slovenian technical Death Metallers CORDURA have just released a video for ‘0.1.3. Messiah’ over here. The song will appear on the band’s upcoming EP “Nibiru X”. You can follow CORDURA at www.facebook.com/corduraofficial
On March 31, 2023 Inhuman Assault Productions will release “Festering Embryos Of Logical Corruption”, the debut full-length from Bangkok, Thailand based Grinders SMALLPOX AROMA, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP edition will follow later this summer. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Harvesting The Aliens’ Nest’, ‘Into The Realm Of Nothingness’, ‘Oh My Sweet Gruesome Scarecrow’, ‘Quest For The Missing Head’, ‘Eternal Burrow’, ‘Inherited Ritual Of Savagery’, ‘Gory Sight, Shining Bright’, ‘Swallow The Defiled’, ‘Unfolding The Secret Alter Egos In You’, ‘Eleven Corpses Disentombed’, ‘Metamorphic Passage Of Time’, ‘Inescapable Viceral Erosion’ and ‘Country Of The Ghouls’. You can already listen to ‘Eleven Corpses Disentombed’ at this location. More about SMALLPOX AROMA at www.facebook.com/smallpoxaroma
“The Malign Covenant”, the debut full-length from Ireland’s Black Metal trio VERMINOUS SERPENT, will be released via Amor Fati Productions on March 17, 2023 on CD and vinyl LP formats. The band features SLIDHR’s Joseph Deegan on guitar, MALTHUSIAN’s Matt Bree on drums and PRIMORDIAL’s A.A. Nemtheanga on vocals and bass. The album’s complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Seraphim Falls’, ‘Transcendent Pyre’, ‘The Malign Covenant’, ‘Chasm Of Nameless Bone’ and ‘Deaths Head Mantra’. You can already stream ‘Transcendent Pyre’ at this location. All additional information you will find at www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
US Black Metallers VREDENSDAL will release their fourth album “Sonic Devotion To Darkness” on March 31, 2023 via Soulseller Records. The following tracks will be on it: ‘Between Worlds (Intro)’, ‘The Chaos Rite’, ‘The Eye In The Well’, ‘Nightgrasp’, ‘Sonic Devotion To Darkness’, ‘Cyclical Despondancy’, ‘Svøpt I Blod’, ‘My Right To The Throne’ and ‘Eyes Glowing Black’. The cover artwork was created by Marek Soszynski. All further VREDENSDAL info you will find at www.facebook.com/vredensdal666
British Black Metallers OLD FOREST will release their seventh full-length “Sutwyke” via Soulseller Records on March 31, 2023. It was written and recorded from 2020 to 2022 and will feature the following tracks: ‘Faust Recants (Satan Cometh)’, ‘Black Hearts Of Sutwyke’, ‘Zodiac Of War’, ‘Winter Years Begin’, ‘Master Of Arachnids’, ‘Witch Of Prague Pt. 1’, ‘Witch Of Prague Pt. 2’ and ‘Effigies To The Flames’. The cover artwork is a wood engraving by Robert Paterson. All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/oldforestofficial
“Beyond The Cenotaph Of Mankind”, the new album from Swedish Doom / Deathers RUNEMAGICK, will be released via Hammerheart Records on April 28, 2023 on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Archaic Magick (After The Red Sun)’, ‘Endless Night And Eternal End’, ‘Revocation Of Spectral Paths’ (not on the vinyl edition), ‘The Storm Rode Beyond The Firmament’, ‘Nocturnal Deities Of Winter’ and ‘Beyond The Cenotaph Of Mankind’. The album was mixed and mastered by Johan Bäckman at Raven Noise Studio and the cover artwork was created by Denny Surreal Art. For all additional RUNEMAGICK information please visit www.facebook.com/runemagick
On February 07, 2023 Polish one-man Black Metal band MOONTHOTH will release a new album entitled “Uroczysko” on CD via Polish label EastSide as well as digitally. The vocals were contributed by Mateusz Sibila (IMPERIAL SIN, ex – VISHURDDHA). The album was recorded between 2021 and 2022 at AstralGate Studio and mixed and mastered in 2022 by Witek Nowak at Devil’s Tail Production. The cover artwork was created by Paulina Przybylska. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Uroczysko’, ‘Pomrok’, ‘Brzask Odmętem Zgaszony’, ‘Żercy Pieśń Krucza’, ‘Żalnik’, ‘Wołchwowe Widziadła’, ‘Martwe Twe Żywota’, ‘Popielnik’ and ‘Chram Chorsa’. You can already stream ‘Wołchwowe Widziadła’ at this location and watch a lyric video for ‘Pomrok’ over here. More about MOONTHOTH at www.facebook.com/moonthothband
Swiss melodic Death / Thrashers KATAPULT have just released a video for ‘Sweetheart Come’ at this location. The song is featured on the band’s debut full-length “Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes”, which was released last November via Discouraged Records. For more information on KATAPULT please visit www.facebook.com/katapultthrash
Polish Black Metallers TERRESTRIAL HOSPICE have just premiered the track ‘Memoir’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming second full-length “Caviary To The General”, which will be released on February 10, 2023 via Ancient Dead Productions on CD and cassette tape formats. The previously revealed album track ‘In The Streams Of Phlegethon’ can still be streamed at this location. The full “Caviary To The General” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Rat In A Burning Cage’, ‘In The Streams Of Phlegethon’, ‘December Night’, ‘Extinction Delight’, ‘Verminous Spawn’, ‘The Last Dance’, ‘Memoir’, ‘Path To Mahasamadhi’ and ‘Ars Moriendi’. All additional TERRESTRIAL HOSPICE info you will find at www.facebook.com/terrestrialhospiceofficial
American technical Death Metallers ORIGIN have just released a lyric video for ‘Nostalgia For Oblivion’ over here. The song is featured on the band’s latest album “Chaosmos”, which was released via Agonia Records last year. For regular updates follow ORIGIN at www.facebook.com/origin
UK’s technical brutal Death Metallers UNFATHOMABLE RUINATION have just released a video for their new single ‘The Defying Symphony Of Universal Dissonance’ at this location. It’s the first track with the band’s new vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy (ex – ABNORMALITY). The song was recorded, mixed and mastered by Sam Turbitt at Ritual Studios, with vocals recorded by Tonda Smrcka at Seabeast Production. All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/unfathomable.ruination.official
On March 26, 2023 Argento Records (Europe) in co-operation with Not Kvlt Records (USA) will release “Saturnian Bloodstorm”, the third album from Los Angeles, California based Black Metallers LAMP OF MURMUUR. You can already stream the album opener ‘Conqueror Beyond The Frenzied Fog’ at this location. The complete tracklist of “Saturnian Bloodstorm” reads as follows: ‘Conqueror Beyond The Frenzied Fog’, ‘Hymns Of Death, Rays Of Might’, ‘Seal Of The Dominator’, ‘Descending From The Aurora’, ‘In Communion With The Wintermoon’ and ‘Saturnian Bloodstorm’. More LAMP OF MURMUUR music is available at https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com
Italian brutal Death Metallers DEVANGELIC will release their fourth album “Xul” on April 07, 2023 on CD, vinyl and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Scribes Of Xul’, ‘Which Shall Be The Darkness Of The Heretic’, ‘Udug-Hul Incantation’, ‘Famine Of Nineveh’, ‘Sirius, Draconis, Capricornus’, ‘Worship Of The Black Flames’, ‘Ignominious Flesh Degradation’, ‘Hymn Of Savage Cannibalism’, ‘Shadows Of The Iniquitous’ and ‘Sa Belet Ersetim Ki’am Parsusa’. A lyric video for the album’s first single ‘Sirius, Draconis, Capricornus’ can already be watched over here. All additional DEVANGELIC information you will find at www.facebook.com/devangelic.official
Dutch Death Metallers BODYFARM have just premiered a video for ‘The Swamp’ at this location. The song is featured on the fifth BODYFARM album “Ultimate Abomination”, which will be released on February 24, 2023 via Edged Circle Productions. The previously revealed videos for ‘Blasting Tyranny’ and ‘Torment’ can still be watched here and here. For all further BODYFARM info check out www.facebook.com/bodyfarmdeathmetal
Colorado Springs based blackened Death Metallers OB NIXILIS will release their new full-length “Abhorred” on January 27, 2023 via Reaping Scythe Records on CD and digitally. It was recorded, mixed, produced and mastered by Jacob St. Amand at The Shadow Temple in Denver, Colorado. The cover art was created by Dennis Lee Hughes of Cythraul Art. You can already listen to the first single ‘Discordian Epitaph’ at this location. The complete “Abhorred” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Prolific Destitution’, ‘Discordian Epitaph’, ‘Bloodletting’, ‘Interludium II’, ‘War Of The Burning Sands’, ‘Deathrite Shaman’ and ‘Fated Ascendance’. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068839699502
“Pyrogenesis”, the new album from Austrian Black Metallers ASPHAGOR, will be released on March 10, 2022 via MDD Records on CD and vinyl, the latter as a double LP due to the total playing time of over 60 minutes. The artwork was hand drawn by singer Morgoth himself. For all further ASPHAGOR info check out www.facebook.com/asphagor
On February 24, 2023 Osmose Productions will release the seventh full-length of Netherlands based Black Metallers FUNERAL WINDS, “Stigmata Mali”, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Open The Wounds’, ‘Stigmata Mali’, ‘By These Hands, By Your Command’, ‘Odious Emanations’, ‘The Angles Of Darkness’, ‘Ferocious Revelations’, ‘Purified By Acausal Flames’ and ‘The Bornless Forever’. For more FUNERAL WINDS information please visit www.facebook.com/funeralwindsbm
Pennsylvania based Death Grinders THE HUMAN RACE IS FILTH will digitally release their new album “Cognitive Dissonance” on March 10, 2023. The album’s first single ‘Propagating Technology’ can already be streamed at this location. It was recorded at The Kaleidoscope in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in November / December 2022, engineered and mixed by Ben Roth and mastered by Joel Grind from TOXIC HOLOCAUST. For all additional band info check out www.facebook.com/thehumanraceisfilth
“Usurp The Throne”, the new full-length from Norway based Black / Viking Metallers UBUREN, will be released on January 20, 2023 via Dusktone on vinyl LP, digipak CD and digitally. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘En Død Manns Drøm’, ‘Harken Now’, ‘When The River Breaks’, ‘Usurp The Throne’, ‘Defiance Towards Futility’, ‘Bring Forth Ragnarok’, ‘None Is Forgotten’ and ‘As Sorrow Turns To Hate’. All further UBUREN info you will find at www.facebook.com/uburen
Italian technical Death Metallers HOUR OF PENANCE have begun recording their ninth full-length album, which will be the follow-up to “Misotheism” from 2019 (“Misotheism” will be re-issued via Agonia Records on January 27, 2023 on CD, LP and cassette tape format). The band started off with drums, which are being recorded by Giacomo Torti, who officially joined the band as new full-time drummer in December, and who can be seen in a new video from Bloom Studios in Rome, where tracking is taking place. More about HOUR OF PENANCE at www.facebook.com/hourofpenance
Finnish female fronted melodic Death Metallers ADMIRE THE GRIM have just digitally released their debut EP “Rogue Five” via Inverse Records (a strictly limited CD version will be released on February 03, 2023). You can listen to the EP in its entirety at this location. A video for the title track is furthermore available over here. You can follow the band at www.facebook.com/admirethegrim
Spanish Death Metallers SÖNAMBULA will release their third full-length “Estasis Interrumpida” on CD and digital formats on March 09, 2023 via Xtreem Music. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Última Superviviente’, ‘Respirando Muerte’, ‘Caos Y Gloria’, ‘Oasis Lisérgico’, ‘Agua De Ruina’, ‘Cruz De La Desesperanza’, ‘Cuarentena’, ‘Fury 161’, ‘Pausa Solemne’, ‘Desolación’ and ‘Estasis Interrumpida’. You can already stream ‘Respirando Muerte’ at this location. More about SÖNAMBULA at www.facebook.com/sonambulaofficial
I just got the really sad news that our good friend Doug Grandon of New Jersey based technical Death Metallers MASS PSYCHOSIS has passed away yesterday. He was diagnosed with MSA-C a while ago, which is an incurable neurological disease, with symptoms similar to Parkinson, that is causing painful muscle spasms and tremors. He was already in a wheelchair for a while and has been in a nursing home since the summer of 2022. Longtime readers of our zine will certainly remember that we had a really strong connection with the band during our print era, which resulted in various bigger features. I spoke to Doug countless times on the phone back then and even helped out MASS PSYCHOSIS with the promotion of their “Face” compilation CD, which was released overhere via No Bull / Koch Records in 1995. We joked around a lot, talked about way more than just music and Doug even created and printed the first bunch of Voices From The Darkside shirts, which he sent over for free. Unfortunately we never got the chance to meet in person, but I will always remember him as a very kind and friendly guy, who really wanted to get to the next level with MASS PSYCHOSIS. Farewell bro, you will be missed! – Frank
Nashville, Tennessee based Death Metallers ACT OF IMPALEMENT have just premiered the track ‘Atomic Hecatomb’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s sophomore full-length “Infernal Ordinance”, which will be released on February 02, 2023 via Caligari Records on CD and cassette tape formats. It was mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios and the cover artwork was supplied by Diablo Macabre. The previously revealed album track ‘Summoning The Final Conflagration’ can still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist reads as follows ‘Summoning The Final Conflagration’, ‘Bogbody’, ‘In Wolflight’, ‘Specters Of Unlight’, ‘Creeping Barrage’, ‘Atomic Hecatomb’, ‘Blasphemous Rebirth’, ‘Death Hex’ and ‘Erased’. All additional ACT OF IMPALEMENT info you will find at www.facebook.com/actofimpalement
Brazilian Black Metallers CURSED EXCRUCIATION are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Arcane Diabolism” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on January 13, 2023 via Iron Bonehead Productions on vinyl LP format. More CURSED EXCRUCIATION at https://tranceoftheundead.bandcamp.com
“The Vision”, the third full-length of German melodic old school Death Metallers DISMINDED, will be released on March 03, 2023 via Black Sunset / MDD. It was recorded in the summer of 2022 at Tim Schlichting’s Flashback Recording Studios and mixed and mastered by Harris Johns. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/dismindedofficial
Netherlands based old school Doom / Death Metal one man band CADAVER SHRINE has just premiered the track ‘The Black Door’ at this location. It will be featured on the upcoming debut full-length “Benighted Desecration”, which will be released on February 10, 2023 via Chaos Records. The previously revealed ‘And Death Crawls’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Benighted Desecration” tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Reverberation’, ‘And Death Crawls’, ‘Dragged Away’, ‘The Black Door’, ‘Tongues Spread’, ‘Benighted Desecration’, ‘Faceless Abomination’ and ‘The Shattered Corpse’. The CADAVER SHRINE three song demo from 2022 can be streamed at https://gnawtheirtongues.bandcamp.com
“Vast Reaches Unclaimed”, the debut full-length from US melodic Death Metallers MAJESTIES, will be released on March 03, 2023 via 20 Buck Spin. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘In Yearning, Alive’, ‘The World Unseen’, ‘Our Gracious Captors’, ‘Verdant Paths To Radiance’, ‘Across The Neverwhen’, ‘Seekers Of The Ineffable’, ‘Sidereal Spire’, ‘Temporal Anchor’, ‘City Of Nine Gates’ and ‘Journey’s End’. The artwork was created by Juanjo Castellano Rosado. A first track, ‘The World Unseen’, can already be checked out over here. MAJESTIES constists of members from OBSEQUIAE and INEXORUM. For pre-order info, please visit www.20buckspin.com/majesties
On February 22, 2023 Amor Fati Productions will release “Av Vålnader Bortom Allt”, the sophomore full-length from Black Metallers BRÆ, on vinyl LP format. It will feature the two tracks ‘I Nattskrud Viska’ and ‘Efter Ålderdomens Tid’ with a total playing time of approximately 43 minutes. For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
Netherlands’ based crusty Death Metallers DEFY THE CURSE have just revealed a song from their upcoming debut full-length “Horrors Of Human Sacrifice”, which will be released via Hammerheart Records on 2 CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digitally. You can check out ‘Eidolon Of The Blind’ at this location. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Toneshed Studio (DEAD HEAD, INHUME, TROUBLE) and the artwork was created by Rafal Wechterowicz from Too Many Skulls (SLAYER, GHOST, KREATOR). More about DEFY THE CURSE at www.facebook.com/defythecurse
Greek Black Metallers DEVISER have just released a video for ‘Death Is Life Eternal’ at this location. The song will appear on the band’s upcoming new album “Evil Summons Evil”, which will be released on February 10, 2023 via Hammerheart Records. Additional DEVISER information you will find at www.facebook.com/deviserbandofficial
On February 22, 2023 Amor Fati Productions will release the second demo from Belgian Black Metallers OERHEKS, “Landschapsanachronismen”, on 12″ vinyl format. It will feature the two tracks ‘Een Eenzaat In Het Landschap’ and ‘Een Oude Wijsheid Werd Hier Geveld’ with a total running time of approximately 25 minutes. More OERHEKS at https://oerheks.bandcamp.com
On March 10, 2023 Pulverised Records will release “Vortex Of Disgust”, the third full-length from Swedish Death Metallers BASTARD GRAVE. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Sunder The Earth’, ‘Icon Bearer’, ‘Necrotic Ecstasy’, ‘Consumed And Forgotten’, ‘Nameless Horror’, ‘Hunger To Devour’, ‘Eternal Decomposition’ and ‘Vortex Of Disgust’. You can already stream ‘Necrotic Ecstasy’ at this location. The album was recorded by the band, with the exception of the drums, which were recorded by Ulf Blomberg at The End Studios. The mixing and mastering was done by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studio and the cover artwork was supplied by Thomas ”Necromaniac” Westphal (CRYPTIC BROOD, MORBIFIC, DESERTED FEAR). More BASTARD GRAVE info you will find at www.facebook.com/bastardgrave
“Guerra Eterna”, the fourth album from Peruvian Death Metallers DISINTER, will be released on CD via Pest Records on January 31, 2023. It features 12 tracks (9 songs + 3 intros) divided in 3 chapters: “Chapter I: Caos, Guerra Y Muerte” (tracks 1-4), “Chapter II: Ancestrales Cultos Heréticos” (tracks 5-8) and “Chapter III: Gloria Inmortal” (tracks 9-12). You can watch a video for ‘Orgia Negra’ over here. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered in 2022 at Giovanni Lama Studio in Lima, Peru. For all further DISINTER info please visit www.facebook.com/disinterperu
Norwegian Black Metallers TULUS have just revealed a first song from their upcoming seventh full-length “Fandens Kall”. The track ‘Isråk’ is streaming at this location now. The album will be released via Soulseller Records on February 17, 2023 on CD, vinyl and digitally. It was recorded and mixed at H-10 Productions by Lars Erik Westby, mastered by Thomas Eberger at Stockholm Mastering and features guest appearances of Anders Hunstad (keyboards), Lars Erik Westby (piano) and Lena Fløitmoen (female vocals). The cover artwork was created by Kjell Åge Meland. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Fandens Kall’, ‘Lek’, ‘Slagmark’, ‘Allstøtt’, ‘Isråk’, ‘Samuelsbrenna’, ‘Sjelesmerte’, ‘Bloddråpesvermer’, ‘Snømyrkre’ and ‘Barfrost’. TULUS have also just published a documentary which traces the band’s history and the work on “Fandens Kall” over here. All additional TULUS info you will find at www.facebook.com/tulusband
Finnish Deather Metallers TRAMALIZER have just revealed a first song from their upcoming debut album “Fumes Of Funeral Pyres”. You can check out ‘Hating God’ at this location. The album will be released via Soulseller Records on February 17, 2023 on CD, vinyl and digitally. The cover art was created by Niko Partanen. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Tramalized’, ‘Point Of No Turning Back’, ‘Hating God’, ‘As They Are Put To Sleep’, ‘Curse Of The Lake Drag’, ‘Gift’, ‘Fumes Of Funeral Pyres’, ‘Looking For Reality’, ‘Plain Evil’, ‘The Rostov Ripper’ and ‘At The Night Of Feast’. More about TRAMALIZER at www.facebook.com/tramalizer
Indonesia based Black / Death Metallers SEREIGNOS will release their debut EP “Decisivicious Annihilation” on January 27, 2023 on cassette tape and CD via Anti-Human Productions (Canada). More info you will find at www.facebook.com/antihumanproductions
German Death Metallers MAGEFA have just released a lyric video for their new single ‘Pathology Calls’ at this location. The song was recorded, mixed and mastered by Michael Heiliger at Presskopp Studio. Produced by Kevin Grams, Kai Or and Michael Heiliger. The artwork was supplied by Kai Or. You can follow MAGEFA at www.facebook.com/magefametal