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On September 30, 2022 Polish Black Metal project VOIDFIRE will release their second album “W Cienie” via Szataniec on CD. A video for the first single ‘Cienie Szaleństwa’ can be watched at this location. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Nadejście’, ‘Niepewność’, ‘Rozmycie’, ‘Wrota’, ‘Odchodząc W…’, ‘…Cienie Szaleństwa’ and ‘Oczyszczenie’. More about VOIDFIRE at www.facebook.com/voidfirebm
Serbian Black Metallers AURA MORTIS have just released their debut full-length “Aion Teleos” via Schattenkult Produktionen (Germany) on CD earlier this month. A tape release will be available through Zly Demiurg (Poland) and a vinyl edition through Urtod Void (Germany) in a few months as well. The following tracks appear on it: ‘The All-Shrine (Intro)’, ‘Silence, Blessed Be’, ‘Mirroring The Maladies’, ‘A Dove In Shackles’, ‘In Being Engraved’, ‘Towards True Providence’ and ‘Aion Teleos’. A full stream is available over here. The cover art has been created by Vhan Artworks and Printing. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/auramortisserbia
French Black Metallers CAÏNAN DAWN are streaming their upcoming fourth album “Lagu” at this location now. It will be released on September 30, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. More about CAÏNAN DAWN at www.facebook.com/cainandawn
Swiss Thrashers ALGEBRA have just premiered ‘Constricted’, a track from their forthcoming fourth full-length “Chiroptera”, over here. The album will be released on September 19, 2022 on CD and digital formats via Unspeakable Axe Records. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘The Fallen’, ‘Resuscitation’, ‘Kleptomaniac’, ‘Constricted’, ‘Accomplice’, ‘Chiroptera’, ‘Suspect’, ‘Eternal Sleep’, ‘Losing Touch’, ‘Burn The Bridge’ and ‘The Great Deception’. For all additional ALGEBRA info please visit www.facebook.com/algebrathrash
“Conduits To The Underworld”, the debut EP from Australian Death Metallers SARCOPHAGUM, can be streamed in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 12, 2022 via Nuclear Winter Records. For more information check out www.nuclearwinterrecords.com or www.facebook.com/martyrdoomproductions
On November 04, 2022 Blood Harvest Records (cassette and vinyl in Europe), Chaos Records (CD and vinyl) and Goat Throne Records (cassette and vinyl in North America) will co-release “Corporal Humiliation”, the debut full-length from Tampa, Florida based Death Metallers VACUOUS DEPTHS. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Gold Crosses’, ‘Deep Night’, ‘Exteriorization’, ‘Gaunt Reflections’, ‘Worshipper Of Death’, ‘Corporal Humiliation’, ‘Sodomized’, ‘Cycle Of Control’, ‘Carnival Of Venom’ and ‘Troops Of Doom’. You can already listen to ‘Exteriorization’ at this location. More VACUOUS DEPTHS info at www.facebook.com/vacuousdepths
On September 30, 2022 “Age Of Dysphoria”, the second album from Austrian melodic Death Metallers VERMOCRACY, will be released via Black Sunset / MDD. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Intro’, ‘Necrocracy’, ‘World Of Wounds’, ‘The Void’s Embrace’, ‘Opposed Evolution’, ‘Grace Of Hypnos’, ‘Perpetual Flood’, ‘The Pyre’ and ‘In Darkness Let Me Dwell’. A lyric video for the album opener ‘Necrocracy’ can already be watched over here. More VERMOCRACY info you will find at www.facebook.com/vermocracy
“Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm”, the second album from Finland’s Death Metal trio MORBIFIC, will be released via Memento Mori in co-operation with Me Saco Un Ojo Records on October 24, 2022. Memento Mori will handle the CD version while Me Saco Un Ojo will handle the vinyl version. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘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’. You can already check out ‘Bind, Torture, Snuff’ at this location. The cover art for “Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm” was created by Chase Slaker. For all additional band information please visit www.facebook.com/morbific
Maryland based Black / Death Metallers AURORA BOREALIS have just released a video for ‘The House Of Nimrod’ at this location. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming eighth album “Prophecy Is The Mold In Which History Is Poured”, which will be released on November 04, 2022 on CD, vinyl LP and digitally via Hammerheart Records. All Songs have been written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ron Vento at Nightsky Studios. For regular updates follow AURORA BOREALIS at www.facebook.com/auroraborealisband
Australian Black Metallers SKARE are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Skare” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 12, 2022 via Amor Fati Productions on vinyl LP format. The CD version will be released by Dark Adversary Productions. For more info please visit www.amor-fati-productions.de or www.facebook.com/amorfatiprod
Portuguese Black Metallers MONS VENERIS are streaming their upcoming fifth full-length “Inversados D’Um Abismo De Podridão” in its entirety at this location now. The album will be released on September 11, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. More info you will find at www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
Polish Grinders ANTIGAMA have just released their eighth full-length “Whiteout” via Selfmadegod Records on CD, LP, cassette and digital formats. It was recorded and mixed at JNS Studio and various locations between May and September 2021 by Pawel Grabowski and ANTIGAMA, mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks and the cover artwork was supplied by Wojciech Szymañski. A video for the album track ‘Disasters’ can be watched at this location. You can also check out videos for ‘Unclear Conversions’ here, ‘Holy Hand’ here and ‘Hindrance’ here. More ANTIGAMA info you will find at www.facebook.com/antigama
Greek Black / Death Metallers EMBRACE OF THORNS have just premiered the track ‘The Breath Of The Beast’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s sixth album “Entropy Dynamics”, which will be released on October 10, 2022 via Nuclear Winter Records. The previously revealed title track can still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads like this: ‘Blackest Orthodoxy Perpetuated’, ‘Entropy Dynamics / Nucleus Dissolved’, ‘The Arrow Of Time’, ‘The Breath Of The Beast’, ‘I Wish You Burn In An Endless Funeral Pyre’, ‘Scythes Reaping Conscience’, ‘The Lament Of The Destroyed’, ‘Wormfeast’, ‘Transformation Into A Celestial Ghoul’, ‘Vultures’ Ritual Dance’ and ‘Ululation’. To coincide the release of “Entropy Dynamics”, reissues of the sold-out EMBRACE OF THORNS albums “Atonement Ritual” and “Praying For Absolution” will also be available again via Nuclear Winter, as well as a CD version of the preceding EP “The Pantheon I”, which will feature an exclusive bonus track. For more EMBRACE OF THORNS info please visit www.facebook.com/embraceofthorns
Polish Death Metallers SYMBOLICAL are streaming their new EP “Natura” in its entirety at this location now. “Natura” is the second part of a trilogy, which started with the EP “Igne” at the end of 2021. The material was recorded, mixed and mastered at JNS Studio by Paweł Janos and the cover of the album is inspired by the works of William Blake. A video for the song ‘The Dread World’ can be watched over here. All additional SYMBOLICAL information you will find at www.facebook.com/symbolicalofficial
Detroit, Michigan based Black / Death Metallers PERVERSION are streaming their second album “Dies Irae” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 09, 2022 via Hells Headbangers on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. You can follow PERVERSION at www.facebook.com/perversion.is.death
Madison, Wisconsin based Death Metallers CASKET ROBBERY will release their second full-length “Rituals Of Death” on November 11, 2022 via Blood Blast Distribution. The band will be touring in the US with SUMMONER’S CIRCLE in October 2022 (WOR will join them on a few selected dates). More CASKET ROBBERY at https://casketrobbery.bandcamp.com
Stockholm, Sweden based old school Thrashers ETERNAL EVIL will release their second full-length via Listenable Records in 2023. An official ETERNAL EVIL video can be watched right here. For regular updates make sure to follow the band at www.facebook.com/eternalevil666
Swedish progressive atmospheric Death / Black Metal trio AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION is streaming their sophomore full-length “Woe” in its entirety at this location now. The album will be released on September 09, 2022 via Willowtip Records. It was mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon (EQUILIBRIUM, ATENA, IN DYING ARMS) and the artwork was created by Adam Burke (SÓLSTAFIR, VEKTOR, BARREN EARTH, FIRST FRAGMENT, GATECREEPER). For all further band info check out www.facebook.com/anabstractillusion
Polish Death / Thrashers FAUST will release their fourth album “Cisza Po Tobie” on September 30, 2022 via Szataniec on jewelcase CD. The material was recorded, mixed and mastered in co-operation with Filip Hałucha at Heinrich House Studio (HATE, VESANIA). The drums were recorded with Paweł Granowski at JNS Studio (ANTIGAMA, RIVERSIDE). The artwork was created by Anna Malesińska. The album track ‘Pogarda’ can already be streamed over here. More about FAUST at www.facebook.com/faust-band-poland-336344530572420
Belgian Death Metallers BONES are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Sombre Opulence” in its entirety over here now. The album will be released on September 09, 2022 via Invictus Productions. More BONES info you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027587905043
“Tehom”, the second full-length from Hungarian Death Metallers OS, will be released on November 04, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Opening – Intro’, ‘Gaze’, ‘Submerge’, ‘Inhale’, ‘Dissolve’ and ‘Abyss – Outro’. ‘Inhale’ is already available for streaming over here. For even more OS check out https://osdeathworship.bandcamp.com
On November 25, 2022 Primitive Reaction will release the second album of Finnish Black Metallers BLACK BEAST, “Arctic Darkness”. 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’. You can already check out ‘Black Magic And Witchcraft’ over here. All further information you will find at www.facebook.com/primitivereaction666
Austrian Death Metallers MASTIC SCUM will release their sixth full-length “Icon” via MDD Records on October 07, 2022 as jewel case CD, limited digipak in box set and as strictly limited transparent-red vinyl edition. The following tracks will be featured on the album: ‘Digital Dementia’, ‘Room 23’, ‘Slavebreed’, ‘Front Toward Enemy’, ‘Doomsayer’, ‘Virtual Irreality 3.0’, ‘Twice The Pain’, ‘Negation’, ‘Create And Destroy’ and ‘Retribution’. The opener, ‘Digital Dementia’, is already available for streaming at this location. For more band info please visit www.facebook.com/masticscum
“The Temple Of Eosphoros”, the sophomore full-length from German Black Metal duo MYSTERIA MYSTICA AETERNA, will be released via Iron Bonehead Productions on October 28, 2022 on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Temple Entrance’, ‘The Holy Heaven Of Will’, ‘Thou, Whose Mouth Is A Flame’, ‘Thelema’, ‘The Mysteries Of Death’ and ‘The Temple Of Eosphoros’. You can already check out the title track at this location. More about MYSTERIA MYSTICA AETERNA at www.facebook.com/spectralwhisper
Bangladesh based Death Metallers WARHOUND have just released a new digital single at this location. It features the two tracks ‘Rampage Of Ashoka’ and ‘Tyrants Of The Trident’, which both will be available on the band’s debut full-length, which will be released in the beginning of 2023. A lyric video of ‘Tyrants Of The Trident’ can also be viewed over here. The material was recorded at Funkadelic Studio and mixed and mastered by Dewan Anamul Hasan. The cover art was created by Dhomth and the animation artist was Muhammad Raihan (Tantrik Creations). For all further WARHOUND information, please visit www.facebook.com/warhoundbd
Canadian Black Metallers NOCTURNAL DEPARTURE have just revealed the track ‘Ceremonial Storm’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third album “Clandestine Theurgy”, which will be released later this year via Hells Headbangers. For more NOCTURNAL DEPARTURE music please visit https://nocturnaldeparture.bandcamp.com
In support of their current US and Canada tour, Baltimore, Maryland based Death Metallers DYING FETUS have just released a video for ‘Compulsion For Cruelty’ over here. More details and all additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/dyingfetus
Progressive Death Metallers LAMENTATIONS will release their sophomore full-length “Passion Of Depression” on CD, double vinyl LP and digital formats on November 11, 2022 via Willowtip Records. The album’s first single ‘Prodigal’ is already streaming at this location. The music on the album is supported by various guest musicians, including guitarists Jason Gobel (ex – CYNIC), Santiago Dobles (ex – CYNIC), Ole Borud (EXTOL), Ethan Mckenna (BLACK CROWN INITIATE) and Max Phelps (ex – CYNIC, EXIST). Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Prodigal’, ‘Anew’, ‘Shiver’, ‘Sombre’, ‘Ire’, ‘Obeisance’ and ‘Nurture’. The album cover art was supplied by Anastasiya Kliantsevich. You can follow LAMENTATIONS at www.facebook.com/lamentationsmusic
Minneapolis, Minnesota based blackened Death Metal trio SILURIAN has just released their debut EP “End Of Ordovicia” via Ordovician Records on CD, limited cassette tape and digital formats. It was engineered, mixed and mastered by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Recording, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The EP features the following three tracks: ‘End Of Ordovicia’, ‘Gondwanian Sacrifice’ and ‘Eurypterid Emperors’. The artwork was created by Rotten Fantom. A full stream is available at https://ordovicianrecords.bandcamp.com
California based Death Metallers VRENTH are streaming their second album “Succumb To Chaos” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 05, 2022 via Rotted Life Records on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl version will follow later this year. The cover artwork was created by Gruesome Graphx. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/vrenthband
“Oath Of Abhorrence”, the upcoming third full-length from Italian blackened Death / Thrashers NECROMUTILATOR, will be released via Osmose Productions on October 28, 2022 on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Raise The Necroapocalypse’, ‘Cremation Sorcery’, ‘Great Lord Of Desecration’, ‘Altar Of The Final Sodomy’, ‘Temple Of Execrating Death’, ‘Baphomet’s War Fire’, ‘Enthroned Upon Megiddo’ and ‘Malevolent Blood’. The cover artwork was created by Chris Moyen. More NECROMUTILATOR you will find at www.facebook.com/necromutilator666
On October 14, 2022 Chaos Records will release an expanded edition of the “Granular Transformation” vinyl EP from Reseda, California based progressive Doom / Deathers APPARITION on CD format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Soul Secretion’, ‘Fluid Memories’, ‘Ritual Of Larval Rebirth’, ‘Torrid Meteor Fog’ and ‘Doorway To The Astral’. A full stream is available at https://chaos-records.bandcamp.com.
‘The Night Will Come’, the third single from “Funeral Manifesto”, the upcoming fourth full-length from Finnish Death / Thrashers MY FUNERAL, can be streamed at this location. The album will be released via Inverse Records on October 07, 2022. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/funeralterror
Thai Death Metallers REINCARNATED are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Of Boötes Void Death Spell” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on September 03, 2022 via Inhuman Assault Productions. More REINCARNATED info you will find at www.facebook.com/reincarnated696
Austrian Black Metallers ELLENDE have just revealed ‘Ruhelos’, a track from their upcoming fourth full-length “Ellenbogengesellschaft” over here. You can also watch a video for ELLENDE’s previous single ‘Abschied’ at this location. The album will be released on September 30, 2022 via AOP Records. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Ich Bin’, ‘Unsterblich’, ‘Ruhelos’, ‘Hand Aufs Herz’, ‘Someday’, ‘Freier Fall’, ‘Abschied’ and ‘Verletzlich’. All further band info you will find at www.facebook.com/ellende.official
U.S. technical Death Metallers PROCEED ON YOUR WAY TO OBLIVION have just premiered their new single ‘Ravenloft’ (featuring guest vocalist Craig Peters of DEEDS OF FLESH) at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s debut full-length “Ceremorphosis”, which will be released on September 23, 2022 via Blood Blast Distribution. The following tracks will be on it: ‘Meteor Swarm’, ‘Ceremorphosis’, ‘Beholder’, ‘Atrophic Radiance’, ‘Deal With The Devil’, ‘The Whispered One’, ‘Ravenloft’, ‘Reap What You Sew’ and ‘The Natural End’. The artwork was created by Pedro Sena aka Lordigan. For all additional info please visit www.facebook.com/poywto
On October 31, 2022 Signal Rex will release the debut full-length from Norway / Italy based Black Metallers FUNERAL HARVEST, “Redemptio”, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Opus Cælestis’, ‘Fire Sermon’, ‘Antithesis’, ‘Principum Et Finis’, ‘Soli Ego Gloria’, ‘Womb Of Snakes’, ‘The Crimson Night Tide’, ‘Sorath’ and ‘Libera Per Ignem’. You can already check out ‘Fire Sermon’ over here. More about FUNERAL HARVEST at www.facebook.com/funeralharvest
Greek progressive Black Metallers AENAON have just released a video for their new single ‘Hysteria’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming album “Mnemosyne”, which will be out on October 07, 2022 via Agonia Records. The following tracks will be on it: ‘Psyche’, ‘Cartesian Eye’, ‘Synastry Of Heartbeats’, ‘Pleiades’, ‘Trauma Cultura’, ‘Clark Nova’, ‘Hysteria’, ‘Mantledeath’, ‘Doppelgänger’ and ‘Grand Narcotic Reharvest’. For all additional AENAON info check out www.facebook.com/aenaonofficial
On October 18, 2022 Me Saco Un Ojo Records, in co-operation with Dark Descent Records, will release “Dreams Of Dysphoria”, the debut full-length from UK based Death Metallers VACUOUS, on vinyl LP and CD formats respectively. The album’s complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Devotion’, ‘Body Of Punishment’, ‘Matriarchal Blood’, ‘Paranioa Rites’, ‘Stigmata Scourge’, ‘Lucid (Interlude)’ and ‘Dreams Of Dysphoria’. The first single ‘Body Of Punishment’ can already be streamed over here. You can follow VACUOUS at www.facebook.com/vacuousdeath
Netherlands based Death Metallers BODYFARM will release their fifth album “Ultimate Abomination” via Edged Circle Productions on February 24, 2023 on all formats. The drums were recorded by J.B. van der Wal at Soundlodge Studios, and the other instruments and vocals by the band at Studio Hilhorst. The mixing and mastering was done by Project Zero studios in Belgium. For more BODYFARM info and regular updates follow the band at www.facebook.com/bodyfarmdeathmetal
On October 28, 2022 AOP Records will release the fourth full-length from Vienna, Austria based Black Metallers THEOTOXIN, “Fragment: Totenruhe”, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘World, Burn For Us’, ‘Catastrophe In Flesh’, ‘Towards The Chasm’, ‘Demise Of The Gilded Age’, ‘After Thousands Of Years’, ‘Perennial Lunacy’, ‘…Of Rapture And Dissolution’, ‘Totenruhe’ and ‘Frontschwein’ (MARDUK cover). A video for the first single ‘World, Burn For Us’ has already been revealed over here. The “Fragment: Totenruhe” cover art was created by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal. In late November THEOTOXIN will embark on a European tour together with ARCHGOAT and WHOREDOM RIFE. The tour will kick off on November 23, 2022 in Vienna, Austria and ends on December 11, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland. For more band information please visit www.facebook.com/theotoxinofficial