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Minneapolis based blackened Death Metal trio SILURIAN will release their debut EP “End Of Ordovicia” on September 02, 2022 on CD, digital and limited cassette formats via Ordovician Records. It was engineered, mixed and mastered by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Recording, Minneapolis and the artwork was created by Rotten Fantom. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘End Of Ordovicia’, ‘Gondwanian Sacrifice’ and ‘Eurypterid Emperors’. The EP’s title track is already streaming at this location. More info at https://instagram.com/ordovicianrecords
Buenos Aires, Argentina’s blackened Speed Metallers RAPTORE are streaming their upcoming second album “Blackfire” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on July 29, 2022 via Dying Victims Productions. For all additional info please visit www.facebook.com/raptoreofficial
On September 16, 2022 Hells Headbangers will release the fourth full-length album from Greek Black Metallers MEDIEVAL DEMON, “Black Coven”, on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Where Witches Dwell And Labyrinths Confuse’, ‘Black Coven’, ‘Nocturnal Sacrilege’, ‘Sylvestris Deus (Protector Of The Forests)’, ‘Baptismal Blood’, ‘Katavythisis’ and ‘The Grave Dwellers’. You can already listen to the title track right here. All further MEDIEVAL DEMON information you will find at www.facebook.com/medievaldemonofficial
Braunschweig, Germany based Thrashers HEADSHOT have signed with MDD Records and will be releasing the follow-up to their 2011 album “Synchronicity” this autumn. For regular updates make sure to follow the band at www.facebook.com/headshot.metal
Costa Rica based Black Metallers AHLSPIESS have just released a new digital single entitled ‘Karishtuor’, which is available for free download at this location. The band released their 3 track debut demo “Aufklärung” in November 2019 and a single entitled “Et Super Lanceam” in May 2020. AHLSPIESS have finished songs for a new EP and are currently looking for a label. Interested parties should contact the band through their official bandcamp site https://ahlspiess.bandcamp.com as they do not have or wish to have any other online presence.
Ecuadorian Vampiric Black Metallers WAMPYRIC RITES have just premiered the track ‘Captive In A Desolate Castle’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s second album “The Wolves Howl To The Moon”, which will be released on August 26, 2022 via Signal Rex on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The previously revealed ‘The Ancient Tyrant Returns From The Deep Forgotten Crypts’ can still be streamed at this location. The cover artwork was created by Ainul Iblis and the complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Ancient Tyrant Returns From The Deep Forgotten Crypts’, ‘Rites Under The Fullmoon’, ‘Amidst The Fog Of Eternity’, ‘The Wolves Howl To The Moon’ and ‘Captive In A Desolate Castle’. More WAMPYRIC RITES at https://wampyricrites1.bandcamp.com
“The Path To Bedlam”, the debut full-length from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based Death Metallers SUBLATION will be released on September 13, 2022. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘The Sectioning’, ‘Trepanning Of The Evangelics’, ‘Let The Fire Burn’, ‘Hypnotic Regression’, ‘Black Monday’, ‘The Alchemist’, ‘Haunted Shores’, ‘Evoked Through Obsidian’, ‘Eulogy’ and ‘I Will Show You Fear In A Handful Of Dust’. You can already check out the first single ‘Evoked Through Obsidian’ at this location. More about SUBLATION at www.facebook.com/sublationband
On September 09, 2022 Werewolf Records will release “The Blasphemous Psalms Of Cannibalism”, the second album of Finland’s Black / Deathers BLOOD CHALICE, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘The Black Mass’, ‘The Last Supper Of Insects’, ‘Antichristian War Declaration’, ‘Matanbuchus’, ‘Burned Faith’, ‘Celestial Destroyer’, ‘The Blasphemous Psalms Of Cannibalism’, ‘Blood Worship’, ‘Hate Meditation’, ‘Temet Nosce’, ‘From The Grave Of Livyatan’ and ‘The Rise Of Iconoclast’. You can already be stream ‘From The Grave Of Livyatan’ over here. For all further info please visit www.facebook.com/bloodchaliceofficial
“Durance Of Lightless Horizons”, the debut full-length from Canadian Death Metallers GUTVOID, will be released via Blood Harvest Records on CD and cassette tape formats on September 23, 2022, while the double vinyl version will follow in November / December. The album’s full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Coils Of Gas-Hewn Filament’, ‘In Caverns It Lurks’, ‘Delivered To The Altar Lich’, ‘The One Who Dwells Beyond Time’, ‘Skeletal Glyph’ and ‘Wandering Dungeon’. A first song (‘In Caverns It Lurks’) is already available at this location. All additional GUTVOID info you will find at www.facebook.com/gutvoidofficial
Quebec, Canada based Death Metallers SEDIMENTUM are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Suppuration Morphogénésiaque” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on July 25, 2022 via Me Saco Un Ojo Records (vinyl and tape versions) and Memento Mori (CD version). You can follow the band at www.facebook.com/sedimentumdeath
On September 09, 2022 Hells Headbangers will release the sophomore full-length of Detroit, Michigan based Black / Death Metallers PERVERSION, “Dies Irae”, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Dies Irae’ (Intro), ‘Baghavad Genocide’, ‘Decapitator’, ‘Axioms Of Domination’, ‘Fathomless Cruelty’, ‘Unveiling The Primordial Revelation’, ‘Barbaric Execution’, ‘Migration Into Darkness’ and ‘Possessed’ (BATHORY cover). You can already check out ‘Axioms Of Domination’ over here. More about PERVERSION at www.facebook.com/perversion.is.death
Swedish Black / Deathers IN APHELION have just premiered a video for ‘Sorrow, Fire & Hate’ at this location. The track appears on the band’s debut album “Moribund”, which was released in March this year via Edged Circle Productions. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/inaphelion
“Perpetual Torture”, the second album from Finnish Death Metallers SADISTIC DRIVE, is out now via Selfmadegod Records. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘Murderous Megalomania’, ‘Hooker Street Strangler’, ‘Prurient Stabbing Fantasies’, ‘Black Market Mortician’, ‘Sacraments Of Sadism’, ‘Human Vivisection’, ‘Suicide Self-Portrait’, ‘Fucked To Shreds’ and ‘Formless Corpses’. All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/censoreddrive
“Feast Of Blood”, the 2021 debut EP from American Black Metallers BAT MAGIC, will be released as a limited vinyl edition by Labyrinth Tower on sanguine vinyl with a screen printed B-side. It was previously only available on cassette and digitally. A full EP stream is available at this location. More info you will find at www.ordovampyrorientis.com
Finnish Black Metallers WHITE RUNE have just premiered the track ‘Death At Sundown’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Dawn Of The White Rune”, which will be released on August 19, 2022 via Hammer Of Hate. The previously revealed ‘Crimson Lament’ is still available over here. The album’s full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Brought By The Touch Of Death’, ‘The Iron Claws Of Satan’, ‘White Rune Rising’, ‘Soulstorm’, ‘Death At Sundown’, ‘Echoes Of Torment’, ‘Crimson Lament’, ‘The Ravenous Part 1 – Altar Of Defeat’ and ‘The Ravenous Part 2 – Torn Kingdom Come’. All additional band information you will find at www.facebook.com/whiterunebm
San Francisco, California based Death Metallers ACEPHALIX will release their new full-length “Theothanatology” on September 30, 2022 via 20 Buck Spin on LP, CD, cassette tape and in digital versions. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios and the cover art “Girolamus Transfiguratio” is a painting by Ettore Aldo Del Vigo. The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Theothanatologist’, ‘Godheads’, ‘Abyssal’, ‘Portmortem Punishment’, ‘Innards Of Divinity’, ‘Pristine Scum’, ‘Defecated Spirit’ and ‘Atheonomist’. You can already listen to ‘Abyssal’ at this location. More about ACEPHALIX at www.facebook.com/acephalix79
On August 19, 2022 Horror Pain Gore Death Productions will release “Never-Ending Holocaust”, the debut album from New Jersey based crusty Grindcore duo MASS EXTINCTION, on CD and digital formats. Its complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Never-Ending Holocaust’, ‘Violent Acts Of Liberation’, ‘Mindless Human Consumption’, ‘(A)bstain // (A)bolish’, ‘Confined’, ‘Profit-Driven Misery’, ‘Victimized’, ‘Smashing Systems Of Oppression’, ‘Doomed Species’ and ‘Industrialized Murder’. Each of the album’s 10 tracks examines a specific issue related to animal agriculture, dairy, testing labs, fur farms, commercial fishing and other industries which allow humans to profit from animal abuse and exploitation. The album’s first single ‘Mindless Human Consumption’ is already available for streaming over here. You will find MASS EXTINCTION’s Bandcamp site here: https://massextinction.bandcamp.com
Greek Black Metallers CEREMONIAL WORSHIP are streaming their upcoming sophomore full-length “Seven Gateways To Eternal Misanthropy” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on July 22, 2022 via Eternal Death on vinyl LP format. More CEREMONIAL WORSHIP at: https://ceremonialworship.bandcamp.com
Finnish Black Metallers NOCTURNAL SORCERY have just premiered the track ‘Miracle Of Empty Hand’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “The Holy Law In Total Ruin”, which will be released on August 19, 2022 via Kvlt. The previously revealed ‘Blackhearted Angel’s Retribution’ can still be stream over here. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Ro’Iheyav Ro’Ihey Mihole’ Rem’Oyav / Mephistophelean Wine’, ‘Blachearted Angel’s Retribution’, ‘Fatum Nostrum (Damnatio Memoriae)’, ‘The Holy Law In Total Ruin’, ‘Thy Primordial Flame’, ‘Through Boundaries Of Time’, ‘Down The Valley Of Damnation’, ‘Miracle Of Empty Hand’ and ‘The Last Ray Of Ihvh’s Light’. More information you will find at www.facebook.com/kvlthelsinki
Netherlands based Doom / Death Metal one man band THE SOMBRE has just premiered the track ‘The Mourning Gloom’ at this location. It is taken from the upcoming third THE SOMBRE full-length “Monuments Of Grief”, which will be released on August 19, 2022 via Chaos Records. The previously revealed ‘From The Depths Of Misery’ can still be checked out here. “Monuments Of Grief” will feature the following tracks: ‘From The Depths Of Misery’, ‘Alone In My Desolation’, ‘The Mourning Gloom’, ‘Monuments Of Grief’, ‘When Death Comes I Will Be Beside You’ and ‘Paradise Regained’. For more THE SOMBRE info please visit https://gnawtheirtongues.bandcamp.com
On September 23, 2022 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “VIIII”, the new mini album from Chilean Black Metallers BLACK GRAIL, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Encarcelado Y Condenado’, ‘Reflexiones En Cicuta’, ‘La Separación, Vista Como Muerte’, ‘Transmigración Del Alma’ and ‘La Disolución, Consumación De La Ascesis’. You can already check out ‘Transmigración Del Alma’ at this location. More BLACK GRAIL at https://grialnegro.bandcamp.com
Finnish Black Metallers MIMORIUM have just premiered a video for ‘Mirror Dimension’ over here. The track will appear on the band’s upcoming third full-length “The Route Of Haeresis”, which will be released on August 12, 2022 via Spread Evil Productions. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Invocation Of The Nameless One’, ‘Mirror Dimension’, ‘Liberate The Transcendent Essence’, ‘Succumb To Nightmares’, ‘Hand Of The Heretic’, ‘Her Place In Shade’, ‘The Route Of Haeresis’ and ‘Circle Of Serpents’. More MIMORIUM information you will find at www.facebook.com/mimorium
Polish blackened Death Metallers UPON THE ALTAR have just released a live performance video of songs from their upcoming split with DEATHEPOCH at this location. It was recorded on June 18, 2022. The split will be released on September 16, 2022 via Putrid Cult. A video for DEATHEPOCH’s ‘§148 Art. ( Human Beasts)’ can be watched over here. For more information about both bands please visit www.facebook.com/uponthealtarofficial or www.facebook.com/deathepoch
Portuguese symphonic Black Metallers CAEDEOUS have just released a video for ‘Surge Tenebris’ at this location. The song is taken from the band’s latest album “Obscurus Perpetua”, which was released a couple of months ago. All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/caedeous
On September 16, 2022 Chaos Records will release the debut full-length from Italian Death Metallers MORBUS GRAVE, “Lurking Into Absurdity”, on CD format. The vinyl LP version will be released in early 2023. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro (The Curse) / Cerebral Cremation’, ‘Morbid Darkness’, ‘Morbus Grave’, ‘Traumatic Malignancy’, ‘Mangled’, ‘Profaner’, ‘Lurking Into Absurdity’ and ‘Horrors From The Unknown’. You can already stream ‘Traumatic Malignancy’ at this location. All additional MORBUS GRAVE information you will find at www.facebook.com/morbusgrave
“Hexerei”, the new album of Brazilian Black Metallers PATRIA, is out now via Dawnrazor Records, with distribution via Drakkar Brazil. In Europe it will be available through Ketzer Records and in Mexico through Helvete Records, with sales in the United States by Rebellion Republic and in Canada via Devil’s Eyes Distribution. The digital distribution is handled by Blood Blast, a digital subsidiary of Nuclear Blast. The following tracks are featured on the album: ‘Hexerei’ (Intro), ‘Worms Of Light’, ‘Archetypes’, ‘A Last Breath Of Sulfur’, ‘Under The Devil’s Void’, ‘Consecration’, ‘Unborn Spellcraft’, ‘Storm Of Wilderness’, ‘Transmutation’, ‘All Vices’ and ‘Viimne Väävlisõõm’ (bonus track). A full album stream you will find at this location. A lyric video for ‘A Last Breath Of Sulfur’ you will find over here. More about PATRIA at www.facebook.com/patriaofficial
On September 23, 2022 Iron Bonehead Productions will release the eighth album of Italian Black Metallers ABHOR, “Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi)”, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Curse Of The Twins’, ‘Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi’, ‘At The Edge Of The Circle’, ‘Ode To The Snake’, ‘Ritual Satanism’, ‘Evil Mentor’, ‘Beelzebuth’ (MYSTIFIER cover), ‘October 31st, 2010’, ‘The Call’ and ‘Violet Coven’. You can already check out ‘Evil Mentor’ over here. For all further ABHOR info please visit www.facebook.com/abhor666
Polish blackened Death Metallers UPON THE ALTAR have just released a video at this location. It was recorded live at PiekloNiebo studio and consists of songs from “The Dead Chant”, the band’s upcoming split with Polish Black / Deathers DEATHEPOCH, which will be released via Putrid Cult in mid August. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Dead Chant’, ‘Interludium I – Ablutio In Igne’, ‘…After Us Only Silence’, ‘Interludium II – Ablutio In Sanguine’, ‘Hiems Nuclei Pro Humanitatis’, ‘Interludium III – Ablutio In Fecas’ and ‘Theotokos Wept’. For more UPON THE ALTAR information please visit www.facebook.com/uponthealtarofficial
Finnish Black Metallers SORGTEID have just revealed the track ‘Avet Djupare Än Sorg’ over here. It is taken from the band’s upcoming debut album “Natt Av Tusen Dödsfall”, which will be released via Werewolf Records later this summer on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The release date, cover and tracklisting will be announced shortly. For regular updates follow Werewolf Records at www.facebook.com/werewolf.rex
On September 30, 2022 Osmose Productions will release the sophomore full-length from German Black Metallers PESTLEGION, “Sathanas Grand Victoria”, on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Intro’, ‘We Deny Thy Name’, ‘The Portal’, ‘Into The Golden Valley’, ‘Ketzer Reim’, ‘Sathanas Grand Victoria’, ‘Adjuration Of The Elder Gods’, ‘Entsage Gott’ and ‘The Warlock’s Curse’. The album was mixed and mastered by SODOM drummer Toni Merkel and Tom Angelripper contributed backing vocals. For all additional info, please visit www.facebook.com/pestlegion
Chilean Thrashers CRITICAL DEFIANCE have just released a full album stream of their forthcoming new full-length “No Life Forms” at this location. It will be released via Unspeakable Axe Records on July 18, 2022 on CD and digital formats. More about CRITICAL DEFIANCE at www.facebook.com/criticaldefiance
Ohio based Black / Deathers MANTICORE are streaming their fourth album “Endless Scourge Of Torment” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on July 15, 2022 via Hells Headbangers on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. Markus Kolar (ex – KOMMANDANT, FOREST OF IMPALED, SARCOPHAGUS) has provided the album’s intro and subtle orchestration on various songs, the cover art was created by NetherTemple Design and interior art for each song comes from by Dahmer Art. Check out www.facebook.com/manticore666 for more MANTICORE info.