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Finnish Black Metallers RIENAUS have just premiered the track ‘Uhrattavaksi Siunattu’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s third full-length “Luciferille”, which will be released on November 25, 2022 via Kvlt. The previously revealed ‘Äärellä Viimeisen Portin’ can still be streamed over here. The full tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Alkusoitto’, ‘Uhrattavaksi Siunattu’, ‘Luciferille’, ‘Saatanan Valtakunnassa’, ‘Äärellä Viimeisen Portin’, ‘Pedon Merkki’, ‘Kuilu’ and ‘Äänet Yössä’. For more RIENAUS please visit https://rienaus.bandcamp.com
Vienna, Austria based Black Metallers THEOTOXIN are streaming their upcoming fourth full-length “Fragment: Totenruhe” in its entirety at this location now. The successor to 2020’s “Fragment: Erhabenheit” will be released on October 28, 2022 via AOP Records. Videos for the band’s cover of MARDUK’s ‘Frontschwein’ and ‘World, Burn For Us’ can be watched here, respectively here. The cover art for “Fragment: Totenruhe” was created by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal. THEOTOXIN will be touring Europe together with ARCHGOAT and WHOREDOM RIFE from late November to mid December 2022. For regular updates and more information please visit www.facebook.com/theotoxinofficial
A full stream of “As Legends Fade And Gods Die”, the second full-length from New Zealand’s blackened Thrashers EXORDIUM MORS, can be found over here now. The album will be released on October 31, 2022 via Praetorian Sword Records on vinyl LP and digital formats. More about EXORDIUM MORS at www.facebook.com/exordiummors
Houston, Texas based SciFi Death Metallers UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED are streaming their sophomore full-length “Dimension Of Deviant Clusters” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on October 28, 2022 via Blood Harvest Records on CD, cassette tape, vinyl and digitally. More UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED you will find at https://universallyestranged.bandcamp.com
Norwegian / Italian Black Metallers FUNERAL HARVEST will release their debut full-length “Redemptio” on October 31, 2022 via Signal Rex. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Opus Cælestis’, ‘Fire Sermon’, ‘Antithesis’, ‘Principum Et Finis’, ‘Soli Ego Gloria’, ‘Womb Of Snakes’, ‘The Crimson Night Tide’, ‘Sorath’ and ‘Libera Per Ignem’. The cover artwork was created by Artem Grigoryev. A full album stream is available over here. More about FUNERAL HARVEST at www.facebook.com/funeralharvest
Fargo, North Dakota based Death Metallers GORGATRON have released a lyric video of the title track from their forthcoming EP “Agony Reborn” at this location. The EP will be released on November 04, 2022 on cassette tape (limited to 100 copies, including four exclusive live tracks on side B) and digitally via Blood Blast Distribution. More GORGATRON info you will find at www.facebook.com/gorgatronband
Scottish Death Metallers MYCELIUM have just premiered the track ‘Rosecomb Marauder’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming second album “Mycoticism (Disseminating The Propagules)”, which will be released on November 25, 2022 via Blood Harvest Records on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl version will follow next year. The previously revealed ‘(Intro: Mazegill Of Torment) – Emerging From Rotting Faeces’ can still be checked out at this location. The full tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘(Intro: Mazegill Of Torment) – Emerging From Rotting Faeces’, ‘Phalloides’, ‘Xanthodermic Colonic Decimation’, ‘Urban Leprosy’, ‘Cold Grasp Of The Dead’, ‘Rosecomb Marauder’, ‘Pulmonary Mycosis’, ‘Erubescent Assassin’, ‘Disgorging Sphaerocystic Matter’ and ‘Chimera’. For all additional MYCELIUM information please visit www.facebook.com/myceliumband
Czech Black Metal trio BRAN will release their debut full-length “Odcházení” on October 31, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Skrytá Místa’, ‘Tisíce Hvězd’, ‘Smuteční Průvod’ and ‘Odcházení’. A full album stream you will find at this location. The cover artwork was created by Pavlína Kovaříková. For all additional information please visit www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
Norwegian Doom / Deathers ABYSSIC are streaming their upcoming third full-length “Brought Forth In Iniquity” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on October 28, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. You can follow ABYSSIC at www.facebook.com/abyssicofficial
German Black Metal duo MYSTERIA MYSTICA AETERNA is streaming their second album “The Temple Of Eosphoros” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on October 28, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/spectralwhisper
Florida based Death Metallers HIBERNUS MORTIS have just premiered the track ‘Enshrined In Spiritual Atrophy’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s comeback album “The Monoliths Of Cursed Slumber”, which will be released on November 25, 2022 via Blood Harvest Records on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl version will follow next year. The previously revealed ‘Endless Dawns Of Somnambulant Exorcisms’ can still be streamed at this location. The complete “The Monoliths Of Cursed Slumber” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Funebre: The Eternal Sleep’, ‘Endless Dawns Of Somnambulant Exorcisms’, ‘To Drink The Blood Of The Black Sleep’, ‘Ascending The Catacombs’, ‘Grotesque Perishment Into The Miasma Of Darkness Everlasting’, ‘Vomitus Imperium’, ‘Enshrined In Spiritual Atrophy’, ‘Invocations Of Never’, ‘Vestigial Currents That Transcend The Ether Of Tenebrous Unconsciousness’ and ‘Ebedded Deep Within The Smoldering Embers Of Sempiternal Dusk’. For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/hibernusmortis
Italian Black / Death Metallers NECROMUTILATOR are streaming their upcoming third full-length “Oath Of Abhorrence” at this location now. The cover artwork was created by Chris Moyen. The album will be released on October 28, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. All further info NECROMUTILATOR you will find at www.facebook.com/necromutilator666
Finnish Black Metallers BLACK BEAST have just premiered the track ‘Night Of The Arctic Darkness’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s second album “Arctic Darkness”, which will be released on November 25, 2022 via Primitive Reaction. The previously revealed ‘Black Magic And Witchcraft’ is still available for streaming over here. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro’, ‘Black Magic And Witchcraft’, ‘Fullmoon’, ‘Sadistic Act In Demonic Lust’, ‘Four Days In Paradise Of Fornication’, ‘Depths Of Damnation’, ‘Kuoleman Kylmästä Kosketuksesta’, ‘Night Of The Arctic Darkness’, ‘I Am He’, ‘Summon The Angels’ and ‘Hymn Of The Freezing Wind’. More BLACK BEAST music you can find at https://primitivereaction.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-bloodlust. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/primitivereaction666
Bucharest, Romania based Black Metallers WARHYMN have just revealed a video for the title track of their upcoming MCD “Cult Of Primordials” at this location. “Cult Of Primordials” will be released via Loud Rage Music on November 10, 2022. Here’s what the band had to say about it: “”Cult Of Primordials” is our next studio release and the first new sound that we managed to achieve together as a band. It is a conceptual material meant to complete “Gnosis” and bound it to our next full-length. It might be considered short length but it is complete in its unique concept, message and atmosphere, a true standalone. With all songs connected it delivers the very nature of the First Civilizations, defined by knowledge, fall, murder, ascension and in the end free will.” More WARHYMN info you will find at www.facebook.com/warhymn.official
Swedish Death Metallers DEMONICAL have just released a video for ‘Wrathspawn’ at this location. The song is featured on the band’s new album “Mass Destroyer”, which is out now on Agonia Records. The video features live footage, recorded by Daniel Rathke and Florian Rehn. The previously released video for ‘We Conquer The Throne’ can still be found over here. For all additional DEMONICAL information please visit www.facebook.com/demonicalofficial.
Portugal’s raw Black Metallers IRAE will release a special 20th anniversary recording entitled “Assim Na Terra Como No Inferno” via Signal Rex on December 23, 2022 on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘V Caminhv Primitiv’, ‘Pvr Tempvz De Decadênzia’, ‘Relíqvia De Espinhvz’, ‘Zangrandv V Rebanhv… Uma Melodia De Loboz’, ‘Majestade De Sangue’, ‘Símbolos Do Império’ and ‘Enforcamento’. You can already check out the album opener at this location. For more IRAE info please visit www.facebook.com/irae666
“Flesh For The Insatiable”, the third album from German Death Metallers TERRIBLE SICKNESS, will be released on November 18, 2022 via Black Sunset / MDD. Martin Matzak from German old school Death Metallers TORCHURE contributed some guest vocals to the album. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Carnage’, ‘Living Disembowelment’, ‘Winds Of Extinction’, ‘Crown Of Discreation’, ‘Slaves To Decay’, ‘Bloody Guts’, ‘Dethroned Immortality’, ‘Revenge’, ‘Voracious Persecutor’, ‘Putrid Infection’ and ‘Feeding Fatal Fairies’ (DEFLESHED cover). A lyric video for ‘Slaves To Decay’ is already available over here. You can follow TERRIBLE SICKNESS at www.facebook.com/terriblesickness.official
On October 24, 2022 Finnish Death Metal trio MORBIFIC will release their sophomore full-length “Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm” via Memento Mori (CD edition), in co-operation with Me Saco Un Ojo Records (vinyl edition). The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm’, ‘Bind, Torture, Snuff’, ‘Meal From An Open Skull’, ‘Suicide Sanctum’, ‘Initiation Into Oblivion’, ‘Meth Mansion Murders’, ‘Baptized In The Fluids Of Decay’, ‘Pathogenic Injection’, ‘The Head Harvest’ and ‘Malignant Germination’. The cover art was created by Chase Slaker. A full album stream is available at this location. For all further MORBIFIC info please visit www.facebook.com/morbific
DESTRÖYER 666 have just revealed another track from their upcoming new album “Never Surrender”. You can listen to ‘Andraste’ right here. The album will be released via Season Of Mist on December 02, 2022. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Never Surrender’, ‘Andraste’, ‘Guillotine’, ‘Pitch Black Night’, ‘Mirror’s Edge’, ‘Grave Raiders’, ‘Savage Rights’, ‘Rather Death’ and ‘Batavia’s Graveyard’. The cover artwork was created by Alex Kemp. A video for the previously released ‘Guillotine’ is still available at this location. More DESTRÖYER 666 information you will find at www.facebook.com/destroyer666page
On October 21, 2022 Invictus Productions, in co-operation with Dark Descent Records, will release a split album between German Black / Death Metallers OMEGAVORTEX and San Antonio, Texas based PIOUS LEVUS. You will find a full stream of it at this location. More about both bands at www.facebook.com/omegavortexblackdeath or www.facebook.com/pious-levus-1892079377689296
Ukrainian brutal Death Metallers FLESHGORE will release their sixth full-length “Carnival Of Flesh” on CD and digital formats via Xtreem Music on December 20, 2022. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Distorted Lights’, ‘Carnival Of Flesh’, ‘Inhuman Existence’, ‘Buried Truth’, ‘Modern Arts Of Slavery’, ‘Hive Of Insanity’, ‘Invisible Reality’, ‘Frail Utopia’, ‘War Is An Amusement’ and ‘Ad Astra’. The album’s first single ‘Distorted Lights’ can be checked out over here. All additional FLESHGORE info you will find at www.facebook.com/fleshgoreofficial
Milwaukee, Wisconsin based progressive Death Metallers ANOMALY will self-release their second full-length “Somewhere Within The Pines” on November 25, 2022. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Ryan Kutz at Cherry Pit Studios. A lyric video for the album’s title track is already available at this location. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Cursed To Meet Another Sunrise’, ‘Somewhere Within The Pines’, ‘These Cold Weeping Winds’, ‘My Old Bleached Bones’, ‘Don’t Go Out Into The Woods Alone’, ‘Sentenced To The Trees’ and ‘One Last Glimpse At The Cursed Sun’. For all further ANOMALY info check out www.facebook.com/anomalymke
On December 09, 2022 Salt Lake City, Utah based Death Metallers SACRILEGION will release their debut full-length “From Which Nightmares Crawl” via Chaos Records. It was mixed and mastered by Damian Hearring (HORRENDOUS, CRYPTIC SHIFT, VOID ROT) and the cover artwork was created by John Quevedo Janssens (PAGANIZER, SUMMONING DEATH). The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘A Terrible Pilgrimage To Seek Ne Nighted Throne’, ‘Puritanical Dementia’, ‘Tainting The Sky With Red’, ‘From Which Nightmares Crawl’, ‘So Envenomed, Enshrined’, ‘Legacy Of The Impaler’, ‘Transfixed In Spiral Ambiguity’, ‘The Hollow Blue Eyes Of Yomi At Twilight’, ‘Creaking Shadows (That Which Dwell In Silence)’ and ‘Ever-Consuming Arc (The Dirgelike Crawl Through Trembling Aeons)’. More about SACRILEGION at www.facebook.com/sacrilegion
Finnish symphonic Doom / Deathers DEPRESSED MODE will release a new EP entitled “Words Of Death” later in 2023 via Inverse Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Ansa Studio Ulvila, Finland. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Suffer In Darkness’, ‘Dead & Living’, ‘Tunnel Of Pain’, ‘Words Of Silence’ and ‘She’s Frozen’. The EP’s first single ‘Suffer In Darkness’ is a re-recorded version from their “Ghost Of Devotion” album from 2007. A lyric video of the song is available over here. You can follow DEPRESSED MODE at www.facebook.com/depressedmodedoom
Krakow, Poland based Death / Doom Metal trio WINGLESS has just premiered a video for ‘Nyctophilia’ at this location. The song is taken from their fourth album “Nonconform”, which was released via Selfmadegod Records last year. WINGLESS are currently working on the follow-up to “Nonconform”. For regular updates please follow them at www.facebook.com/winglessofficial
A full stream of “Of Night And Lust”, the new split mini album between Italy’s blackened Thrashers BUNKER 66 and Germany’s LUCIFUGE, is available over here now. It will be released on October 21, 2022 on CD and 12″ vinyl formats via Dying Victims Productions. More about both bands you will find at www.facebook.com/bunker66 or www.facebook.com/lucifugeblackmetal
French Death Metallers FALL OF SERAPHS are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “From Dust To Creation” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on October 24, 2022 via Memento Mori. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/fallofseraphsofficial
London, England based Death Metallers QRIXKUOR will release a new EP entitled “Zoetrope” on CD and cassette tape formats on November 18, 2022 via Invictus Productions (Europe), in co-operation with Dark Descent Records (US). The vinyl edition will follow in mid 2023. It features one lengthy song (of approximately 25 minutes playing time), which was recorded, mixed and mastered at Priory Recording Studios in Birmingham, England, with Greg Chandler. The cover art was contributed by Santiago Caruso. You can hear an excerpt of ‘Zoetrope (Spiritual Sparagmos)’ at this location. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/qrixkuor
On December 21, 2022 Purity Through Fire will release the fourth full-length from Germany / Finland based Black Metal duo ORDER OF NOSFERAT, “Vampiric Wrath Unleashed”, on CD, vinyl LP, A5 digipak and cassette tape formats. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Shadows Over Wisborg’, ‘A Howl From The Forbidden Tower’, ‘Vampiric Wrath Unleashed’, ‘Fog Hides The Secrets Of The Forlorn Kingdom’, ‘…Of Treachery And Bloodshed’, ‘The Lone Lord’, ‘The Abyss Of Thousand Nights’, ‘Whispers From The Master’s Tomb’, ‘Hunting Eyes Of Fury’ and ‘As The Sunrise Ends My Everlasting Sorrow’. You can already check out the album’s title track over here. For more ORDER OF NOSFERAT information please visit www.facebook.com/order-of-nosferat-101630385169968
Chicago, Illinois based blackened Death Metallers BLOOD OF THE WOLF will release their third full-length “IV: The Declaration Of War Eternal” on November 18, 2022 via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on CD and digital formats. You can already listen to the first single ‘Father War Enthroned’ at this location. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘With Lightning For Vengeance’, ‘Father War Enthroned’, ‘Domination Decree’, ‘The Sword Everlasting’, ‘Their Blood Is Our Warpaint’, ‘From Kingdom To Collapse’, ‘Ritual Overkill’, ‘I Am The Blade Of Eradication’ and ‘The Declaration Of War Eternal’. You can follow BLOOD OF THE WOLF at www.facebook.com/bloodofthewolfmusic
Middle Eastern / English Occult Black Metallers TRIVAX will release a new EP entitled “The Serpent’s Gaze” on October 31, 2022 via Cult Never Dies on digipak CD. It features guest appearances from Wraath (BEHEXEN, ONE TAIL ONE HEAD, BEYOND MAN), Naut (WINTERFYLLETH, NECRONAUTICAL) and J.Wilcox (FUNERAL THRONE, MASTER’S CALL). More about TRIVAX at www.facebook.com/trivaxband
On October 31, 2022 Cult Never Dies will release “The Old, Old Forest: The Complete Demo Collection 1998 – 2001”, a demo compilation of English Black Metallers OLD FOREST. It will feature the band’s three demos “Of Mists And Graves” (1998), “The Kingdom Of Darkness” (1998) and “Sussex Hell Hound” (2001). All further OLD FOREST information you will find at www.facebook.com/oldforestofficial
On November 18, 2022 Hells Headbangers will release “Horracle”, a new mini album from Melbourne, Australia based Death Metal four piece ESKHATON, on CD format. The 12″ vinyl version will follow next year. “Horracle” will feature the following five tracks: Omnicidol’, ‘Khaossuary’, ‘Vortexecution’, ‘Aftermathemagician’ and ‘Nethereal’. You can already check out ‘Vortexecution’ at this location. All additional ESKHATON information is available at www.facebook.com/eskhaton666
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just revealed the sixth video (in a series of ten) from their second album “Fist To Face”. You can now watch a lyric video for the song ‘Mentality Packs’ over here. A full “Fist To Face” album stream is available at this location. More about HOLYCIDE at www.facebook.com/holycide
Fargo, North Dakota based Death Metallers GORGATRON have just released a video for ‘The Unwilling’, the first single from their forthcoming EP “Agony Reborn”. You can check it out at this location. The EP will be released on November 04, 2022 on cassette tape and digital formats via Blood Blast Distribution. The cassette version is limited to 100 copies and also includes four exclusive live tracks on side B. For all further GORGATRON info please visit www.facebook.com/gorgatronband