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On February 02, 2023 Caligari Records will release “Infernal Ordinance”, the sophomore full-length from Nashville based doomy Black / Death Metal trio ACT OF IMPALEMENT, on CD and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Summoning The Final Conflagration’, ‘Bogbody’, ‘In Wolflight’, ‘Specters Of Unlight’, ‘Creeping Barrage’, ‘Atomic Hecatomb’, ‘Blasphemous Rebirth’, ‘Death Hex’ and ‘Erased’. You can already stream the album opener at this location. All additional ACT OF IMPALEMENT information you will find at www.facebook.com/actofimpalement
Canadian Death / Thrashers SARKASM have just released a lyric video for the song ‘Voices’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “As Empires Decay”, which will be released on CD, 12″ LP (100 copies on splatter and 150 copies on black vinyl), cassette tape (limited to 50 copies) and digital formats on January 26, 2023 via Xtreem Music. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Voices’, ‘Pulseless’, ‘The Collapse’, ‘Burn The Scarecrow’, ‘Massacre The Impure’, ‘Alone And Bleeding’, ‘Beyond The Stigma’, ‘Fire At Will’, ‘One For The Woods’, ‘Man Made Monster’ and ‘An Ode To Suffering / When Immortals Die’. The album’s first single ‘The Collapse’ can still be streamed at this location. More SARKASM info you will find at www.facebook.com/sarkasmqc
“…And The Sky Turns To Black… (The Dark Age Has Come)”, the third album from Brazilian Death Metallers HEADHUNTER D.C. has been re-released on black vinyl now via Peruvian label Crypts Of Eternity Productions, limited to 300 copies, including 50 copies on translucid vinyl. It comes with a 20-page A4 zine-sized colored booklet, a big poster, sticker and a POSSESSED cover as bonus track. The album has been remastered for vinyl by Joseph Curwen of Chilean UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN. For ordering details please visit https://cryptsofeternity.bigcartel.com and www.facebook.com/headhunterdc.
Polish Black Metallers TERRESTRIAL HOSPICE have just revealed a trailer for their upcoming second album “Caviary To The General” at this location. It will be released on February 10, 2023 via Ancient Dead Productions on CD and cassette tape formats. The previously revealed track ‘In The Streams Of Phlegethon’ you can stream over here. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Rat In A Burning Cage’, ‘In The Streams Of Phlegethon’, ‘December Night’, ‘Extinction Delight’, ‘Vermin’, ‘The Last Dance’, ‘Memoir’, ‘Path To Mahasamadhi’ and ‘Ars Moriendi’. All additional TERRESTRIAL HOSPICE info you will find at www.facebook.com/terrestrialhospiceofficial
On February 03, 2022 III Damnation Productions will release a compilation from A DIADEM OF DEAD STARS, “Emerald Sunsets”, on digipak CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It includes the previously digital-only released “…Of Green Pastures…” single, the “The Light That Burns” demo (both from 2020) and the “The Furrow Of Woes” EP (from 2021). More about A DIADEM OF DEAD STARS at www.facebook.com/adiademofdeadstars
French Death Metallers CATACOMB will release their debut full-length “When The Stars Are Right” via Xtreem Music in the spring of 2023 on CD, 12″ LP, cassette tape and digital formats. You can still listen to their recent EP “Back To Unknown Kadath” at this location. For all further information and regular updates follow the band at www.facebook.com/catacombcult
Slovakian Black Metallers SPECTRAL CORRUPTION are streaming their sophomore full-length “Requiem” in its entirety over here now. It was just released via Signal Rex on CD format. The vinyl and tape versions will follow next year. More information you will find at www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
Chilean / Ecuadorian Black Metal duo GRYMMSTALT is streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Anthems Of Mournful Despondency” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on December 21, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD format. The vinyl and tape versions will follow in March 2023. For more information please visit www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
Canadian progressive blackened Heavy Metaller ALONE have just released the song ‘VI (The Gate)’ at their Bandcamp site https://alone14.bandcamp.com. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Alone at his home studio.
Italian one-man, avantgarde Black Metal project HIEMS has been signed by Agonia Records. The band has already finished work on their third album, the first since 2009. The album title and release date will be announced soon. For regular updates follow HIEMS at www.facebook.com/hiemsofficial
Copenhagen, Denmark based Death / Grinders SEQUESTRUM (featuring members of CHAOTIAN and UNDERGANG) have just released a first single off their forthcoming debut EP, “Pickled Preservation”. You can stream ‘Preserved To Last’ at this location. The band commented on the song as follows: “‘Preserved To Last’ feels like a good presentation of what the band is about, having both grimy grinding parts, gory groovy chunks and a more rocking section. We feel it shows the slight diversity of what we try to mix within our Death Metal and also soaks it in the sludgy vocals expulsions of our three vocalists, in an attempt to make the music stand out a bit more too with the disgusting vocal diversity of our members in charge of those parts.” The EP was recorded at Mayhem Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark and mixed and mastered by J. B. Hviid. It will be released on January 27, 2023 via Extremely Rotten Productions on CD, digital and cassette tape formats. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Giblet Excreter’, ‘Preserved To Last’, ‘Necromucouphagia’, ‘Guts’, ‘Consigned To Humus’, ‘Human Broth’ and ‘Dis-Organ-Ized’ (IMPETIGO cover). More SEQUESTRUM information you will find at www.facebook.com/sequestrumdk
Vancouver, Canada based dissonant Death Metal duo CROWN OF MADNESS will release their sophomore EP “Elemental Binding” on February 23, 2023. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Immortal Eyes’, ‘A Wrenching Nostalgia’, ‘Roots, Limbs And Sky’ and ‘Vile Sun’. The EP’s first single and opening track, ‘Immortal Eyes’ (featuring a guest guitar solo from Matthew Pancoust of TRUENT) is already available over here. For all additional CROWN OF MADNESS information please visit www.facebook.com/crownofmadnessmetal
Finnish ABSOLUTE KEY are streaming their upcoming fifth full-length “The Third Level Of Decay” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on December 21, 2022 via Signal Rex. For all further ABSOLUTE KEY info check out www.facebook.com/absolutekey111
Krosno, Poland based melodic Black Metallers DARGOR will release the CD edition of their debut full-length “Ascend To Infinity” on February 01, 2023 via Meuse Music Records. The album was recorded at Regnat Audio Studio and Kancho Records Studio. The mix and mastering was done by Adrian Jarosz. The cover artwork was created by Michal ‘Xaay’ Loranc (GOD DETHRONED, KARL SANDERS, NILE, KAMELOT). A full album stream you will find at this location. More about DARGOR at www.facebook.com/dargormetaltv
20 Buck Spin will release two new full-length albums of US Deathers ULTHAR, “Anthronomicon” and “Helionomicon”, on February 17, 2023. Each album cover is half of a larger original piece created by Ian Miller (STORMKEEP, BOLT THROWER, Games Workshop). A first track entitled ‘Astranumeral Octave Chants’, from the “Anthronomicon” album, can already be checked out at this location. Here are the complete tracklists of both albums. “Anthronomicon”: ‘Cephalophore’, ‘Fractional Fortresses’, ‘Saccades’, ‘Flesh Propulsion’, ‘Astranumeral Octave Chants’, ‘Coagulation Of Forms’, ‘Larynx Plateau’ and ‘Cultus Quadrivium’. “Helionomicon” will feature the two tracks ‘Helionomicon’ and ‘Anthronomicon’. For all additional ULTHAR information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063748920083
Grinding Death / Thrashers DECAYING MARTYR have just released ‘Rotten Disposition’, a new single and 7″ picture disc, via The Charon Collective. A video for the song can be watch at this location. For more DECAYING MARTYR info please visit www.facebook.com/decayingmartyr
Dutch Death Metallers BODYFARM have just premiered a video for ‘Blasting Tyranny’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “Ultimate Abomination”, which will be released on February 24, 2023 via Edged Circle Productions. The previously revealed video for ‘Torment’ can still be watched over here. The complete “Ultimate Abomination” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Torment’, ‘Symbolical Warfare’, ‘The Wicked Red’, ‘Blasting Tyranny’, ‘The Swamp’, ‘Carving Repentance’, ‘Empire Of Iniquity’, ‘Soul Damnation’, ‘Sacrilege Of The Fallen’ and ‘Charlatan Messiah’. All additional BODYFARM information you will find at www.facebook.com/bodyfarmdeathmetal
Netherlands based crusty Death Metallers DEFY THE CURSE will release their debut full-length “Horrors Of Human Sacrifice” on January 13, 2023 via Hammerheart Records on 2 CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digitally. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Toneshed Studio (DEAD HEAD, INHUME, TROUBLE) and the artwork was created by Rafal Wechterowicz from Too Many Skulls (SLAYER, GHOST, KREATOR). You can already stream the track ‘Eidolon Of The Blind’ over here. For more band information please visit www.facebook.com/defythecurse
On February 17, 2023, Cryptorium9 will release “Spiralling To Lunacy”, the sophomore full-length from Canadian brutal old school Death Metallers DEAD SOUL ALLIANCE. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Within The Darkness’, ‘The Demons That Be’, ‘Spiralling To Lunacy’, ‘Condemnation Through Fear’, ‘Silencing The Masses’, ‘Products Of Pain’, ‘New Normal Nihilist’, ‘Freedom Of Death’ and ‘False Reconciliation’. You can already listen to the album track ‘Products Of Pain’ over here. All additional DEAD SOUL ALLIANCE information can be found at www.facebook.com/deadsoulalliance
Norwegian Death Metallers BLOOD RED THRONE have signed a worldwide deal with Soulseller Records. The band is currently working on their eleventh full-length, the successor to 2021’s “Imperial Congregation”, which will be released in the second half of 2023 for the 25th anniversary of the band. For regular updates, check out www.facebook.com/bloodredthroneofficial
Finnish Death / Grinders ROTTEN SOUND will release their new album “Apocalypse” on March 31, 2023 via Season Of Mist. The following eighteen tracks will be featured on it: ‘Pacify’, ‘Equality’, ‘Sharing’, ‘Apocalypse’, ‘Suburban Bliss’, ‘Renewables’, ‘Newsflash’, ‘Digital Bliss’, ‘True And False’, ‘Denialist’, ‘Nothingness’, ‘Fight Back’, ‘Patriots’, ‘Ownership’, ‘Science’, ‘Empowered’, ‘Breach’ and ‘Inflation’. The artwork was created by Error Design. You can already stream ‘Sharing’ at this location. More about ROTTEN SOUND at www.facebook.com/rottensoundofficial
Brazilian Black Metallers CURSED EXCRUCIATION have just premiered the track ‘Beast Of Fire’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Arcane Diabolism”, which will be released on January 13, 2023 via Iron Bonehead Productions on vinyl LP format. The previously revealed album track ‘The Sorcerer Of Antioch’ can still be checked out over here. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Call… (Intro)’, ‘Initiation (The Oath Of Darkness)’, ‘Goetic Glorification’, ‘The Sorcerer Of Antioch’, ‘Daughters Of Nyx’, ‘Beast Of Fire’, ‘Black Altar Sacrifice’ and ‘The Rapture (Outro)’. More CURSED EXCRUCIATION music is available at https://tranceoftheundead.bandcamp.com
Portuguese symphonic Black Metallers CAEDEOUS have just completed work on their third album. The follow-up to “Obscurus Perpetua”, which was released in early 2022, will be out in the spring 2023 via Black Sunset / MDD. All further CAEDEOUS info you will find at www.facebook.com/caedeous
Mexican Black Metallers NIGRUM are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Elevenfold Tail” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on December 16, 2022 via Into Endless Chaos Records. All further NIGRUM info you will find at www.facebook.com/nigrumofficial
Greek ROTTING CHRIST have just released a digital compilation featuring previously unreleased tracks. “The Apocryphal Spells” Vol. I and Vol. II is out now on all digital streaming platforms. You can listen to Vol. I here and Vol. II here. The compilation will be released as a physical edition via Season Of Mist in 2023. For regular updates make sure to follow ROTTING CHRIST at www.facebook.com/rotting-christ-290468585669
New Orleans based Death Metallers CONGEALED PUTRESCENCE will release their second EP “Within The Ceaseless Murk” on December 17, 2022 via Caligari Records on cassette tape format. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Advection’, ‘Gelid Fathomless Suffering’, ‘Suffocating Brain’ and ‘Burning Off’. A full EP stream is available at this location now. More CONGEALED PUTRESCENCE music you will find at https://congealedputrescence.bandcamp.com
Berlin, Germany based Black Metal one man band AZKETEM will release its debut full-length album “Azetik” on December 16, 2022 via Urtod Productions on vinyl LP. The CD version will be self-released by AZKETEM. You can stream the album in its entirety over here. For all additional AZKETEM information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100030921802437
On December 16, 2022 NoEvDia will release “Með Hamri”, the third album from Reykjavík, Iceland based Black Metallers MISÞYRMING. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Með Hamri’, ‘Með Harmi’, ‘Engin Miskunn’, ‘Engin Vorkunn’, ‘Blóðhefnd’ And ‘Aftaka’. Following the album’s release, the band will embark on a European tour in January 2023. The tour kicks off on January 05, 2023 in Leiden (Netherlands) and ends on January 14, 2023 in Brussel, Belgium. For all further details please visit at www.facebook.com/misthyrming
Norwegian Black Metal pillars TULUS will release their new full-length “Fandens Kall” via Soulseller Records on February 17, 2023 on CD, vinyl and digitally. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Fandens Kall’, ‘Lek’, ‘Slagmark’, ‘Allstøtt’, ‘Isråk’, ‘Samuelsbrenna’, ‘Sjelesmerte’, ‘Bloddråpesvermer’, ‘Snømyrkre’ and ‘Barfrost’. The album 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. More TULUS info you will find at www.facebook.com/tulusband
American Black / Death Metal trio MALEFIC THRONE has signed a deal with Agonia Records. The band is currently working on their debut album (the follow-up to this year’s self-titled EP), which will be recorded in 2023. MALEFIC THRONE consists of Gene Palubicki (ex – ANGELCORPSE, PERDITION TEMPLE) on guitar, Steve Tucker (MORBID ANGEL) on bass and vocals and John Longstreth (ex – ANGELCORPSE, ORIGIN, HATE ETERNAL) on drums. For regular updates make sure to follow them at www.facebook.com/maleficthrone
On December 16, 2022 Me Saco Un Ojo Records, in co-operation with Rotted Life Records, will release a Death Metal split album between Russia’s GOSUDAR and American MALIGNANT ALTAR. Me Saco Un Ojo will release the split on vinyl in Europe, as well as handle its digital release, while Rotted Life will release the split on CD, vinyl and cassette tape in the USA. A full stream of it is already available over here. More from both bands you will find at https://gosudardeath.bandcamp.com and https://malignantaltar.bandcamp.com
Finnish Death Metallers TRAMALIZER will release their debut full-length “Fumes Of Funeral Pyres” on February 17, 2023 via Soulseller Records on CD, vinyl and digitally. A first single and album pre-orders will be available in early January. More about TRAMALIZER at www.facebook.com/tramalizer
Memento Mori have signed Spanish old school Death Metallers KRYPTICY. The band is currently working on their sophomore full-length, the follow-up to “Hideous Being” from 2020, which will be released in late 2023. For more info and regular updates please follow KRYPTICY at www.facebook.com/krypticy
On March 03, 2023 Personal Records will release the sophomore full-length from Greek melodic Doom / Deathers OCEAN OF GRIEF, “Pale Existence”, on CD format. The following tracks will be on it: ‘Poetry For The Dead’, ‘Dale Of Haunted Shades’, ‘Unspoken Actions’, ‘Imprisoned Between Worlds’, ‘Cryptic Constellations’, ‘Pale Wisdom’ and ‘Undeserving’. A video for ‘Dale Of Haunted Shades’ can already be watched at this location. More OCEAN OF GRIEF information is available at www.facebook.com/oceanofgriefgr
Chilean blackened Thrashers HELLISH are streaming their third full-length “The Dance Of The Four Elemental Serpents” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on December 16, 2022 via Dying Victims Productions (vinyl LP) in co-operation with Unspeakable Axe Records (CD). More about HELLISH at www.facebook.com/hellishchile