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Dutch Death Metallers SEVERE TORTURE are streaming their new EP “Fisting The Sockets” in its entirety at 16:00 CEST at this location today. The EP will be released on June 10, 2022 via Season of Mist. SEVERE TORTURE commented on the stream as follows: “To put it bluntly, we are so fucking proud to share these songs with all of our Death Metal friends around the world! This EP is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg of signature SEVERE TORTURE Death Metal that lurks beneath the surface. So enjoy our new EP to get a taste of what’s to come in the very near future! Stay brutal!” More about SEVERE TORTURE at www.facebook.com/severetorture
Finnish Black Metallers YMIR have just revealed the track ‘Nightwinds’ over here. It is taken from the band’s upcoming second album “Aeons Of Sorrow”, which will be released via Werewolf Records this summer on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. For more YMIR info please visit www.facebook.com/ymirblackmetal
On August 12, 2022 Iron Bonehead Productions, in co-operation with Parasitic Records, will release a new mini album from Portland, Oregon based Black / Death Metal trio WEREGOAT, “The Devil’s Lust”, on CD, 12″ vinyl and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Tempter! Abuser! Satan Her Master!’, ‘Merciless Execution’, ‘Festering Womb Of Uncreation’, ‘The Devil’s Lust’, ‘Goat Perversion’ and ‘Burn Deep The Signs Of Hell’. You can already check out ‘Merciless Execution’ at this location. More WEREGOAT info you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057147502434
On August 05, 2022 Signal Rex will release “Magtens Evangelium”, the debut full-length from Danish Black Metallers GRIGORIEN, on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘De 9 Chor’, ‘Skammens Æt’, ‘Boedsgang Og Blodig Hoste’, ‘Østens Hviide Slange’, ‘Et Taarn Til De Høyeste Himle’, ‘Tiggere I Gyldne Pialter’, ‘Strafferens Psalmer’, ‘Af Kviksølv Og Galdes Chor’, ‘De Blindes Hyrde’, ‘Syndens Slegtsbog’ and ‘Den Kaossymmetriske Liturgie’. You can already stream ‘Et Taarn Til De Høyeste Himle’ over here. For more GRIGORIEN please visit https://grigorien.bandcamp.com
Polish symphonic Black Metallers SACRIMONIA will self-release their debut full-length “Anthems Of Eclipse” on June 10, 2022. The material was recorded, mixed and mastered by Przemysław Nowak at Impressive-Art Studio (ODRAZA, OUTRE, DEVILISH IMPRESSIONS). The orchestration was done by Wojciech “Flumen” Kostrzewa from ASGAARD and the cover arwork by Dorota Bujak. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Distorted Simulacrum’, ‘Mirror For The Faceless’, ‘Modern Prometheus’, ‘For The Universe To Shatter’, ‘Into Darkness My Soul Descends’, ‘A Storm I Seek’, ‘Katabasis’ and ‘Eclipse’. A video for ‘Mirror For The Faceless’ is already available at this location, a lyric video for ‘Eclipse’ you can watch over here. You can follow SACRIMONIA at www.facebook.com/sacrimoniaofficial
Swedish Death / Thrashers MEFISTO have just released a new single entitled ‘Blades Of Lucifer’ at this location. The song will be featured on the band’s upcoming new album “Phosphorus”, which will be released on digipak CD, cassette tape and digitally on July 13, 2022 via GMR Music Group. The material was produced and mastered by Mike Wead (KING DIAMOND / MERCYFUL FATE) and Simon Johansson (THE WOLF). All additional MEFISTO info you will find at www.facebook.com/mefistoband
Netherlands based Black Metallers AM HIMMEL have just premiered the track ‘The Patience And Silence Of A Saint’s Death’ right here. It will be featured on the band’s debut full-length “As Eternal As The Starless Kingdom Of Sorrow”, which will be released on June 30, 2022 via Burning World Records. The previously revealed ‘The Fumes Of Thy Preposterous Torment’ can still be streamed at this location. Here’s the complete tracklist of the album: ‘Bleared By The Infinite Wings’, ‘The Patience And Silence Of A Saint’s Death’, ‘The Virgin Wages Celestial War In The Seraphim Courts’, ‘The Fumes Of Thy Preposterous Torment’, ‘The Bewildered Firstling Thrusts The Knife Into Her Brother’ and ‘As Eternal As The Starless Kingdom Of Sorrow’. More AM HIMMEL you will find at https://amhimmel.bandcamp.com
Terrassa, Catalonia based VIDRES A LA SANG have just premiered the track ‘Salveu-Me Els Ulls’ over here. It will appear on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “Fragments De L’esdevenir”, which will be released on July 01, 2022 via Abstract Emotions. The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Mort De Paraula’, ‘Salveu-Me Els Ulls’, ‘Ventres De Llum’, ‘Fins Aquí’ and ‘Ara És Demà’. The previously revealed video for ‘Mort De Paraula’ can still be watched at this location. All further VIDRES A LA SANG info you will find at www.facebook.com/vidresalasang
“…And The Sky Turns To Black… (The Dark Age Has Come)”, the third full-length from Brazilian Death Metallers HEADHUNTER D.C. will finally also be released on vinyl 12″ LP in August via Peruvian Crypts Of Eternity Productions. It has previously only been available on CD and picture LP via Brazilian Mutilation Records. The vinyl edition comes with a big poster, a 20 page zine-shaped booklet that includes an exclusive interview for this release made by Huaira Herrera (Noise And Shit zine), zine reviews and other fanzine / magazine clippings, photos, liner notes by vocalist Sérgio Baloff and further memorabilia from that era. A strictly limited edition of 50 copies will also be available on translucid vinyl. For pre-order details and all further information please visit www.facebook.com/cryptsofeternity or www.facebook.com/headhunterdc
“Violence Beyond All Reason”, the upcoming album from Canadian Death Thrashers BESIEGED, can be streamed in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on CD, digital and cassette formats on June 06, 2022 via Unspeakable Axe Records. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/besiegedthrash
Portuguese Black Metallers BLACK CILICE have just premiered the track ‘Triumph Over Eternity’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming sixth full-length “Esoteric Atavism”, which will be released on July 01, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed ‘Channelling Old Power’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Esoteric Atavism” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Beyond The Veil’, ‘Channelling Old Power’, ‘Spiritual Poisoning’, ‘Atavistic Reconnection’, ‘Triumph Over Eternity’ and ‘Towards Transcendence’. For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Swedish Death Metallers ENTRAILS have just released a track from their upcoming new full-length “An Eternal Time Of Decay”. You can listen to ‘Possessed’ at this location. The album will be released on CD, gatefold LP and digitally via Hammerheart Records on June 24, 2022, together with a re-issue of “The Tomb Awaits”. “An Eternal Time Of Decay” was mixed by founder Jimmy Lundqvist and mastered by Dan Swanö. The artwork was created by sci-fi artist Henrik Ågren. For more ENTRAILS information please visit www.facebook.com/entrails666
On August 01, 2022 Me Saco Un Ojo Records, in co-operation with Desert Wasteland Productions, will release “Unburied Corpse”, the debut full-length of Texas based Death Metallers FLESHROT. Me Saco Un Ojo will handle the album’s release in Europe, while Desert Wastelands will take care of the USA. “Unburied Corpse” will feature the following tracks: ‘Wrapped In Entrails’, ‘Intricate Dissection’, ‘Draining The Liquified Remains’, ‘Unburied Corpse’, ‘Post Burial Extractions’, ‘In Filth And Pain’ and ‘Haunted Of Sick Depravities’. You can already check out ‘Intricate Dissection’ over here. All addtional FLESHROT info you will find at www.facebook.com/fleshrottx
“Whiteout”, the first album in seven years from Poland’s Grindcore quartet ANTIGAMA, will be released via Selfmadegod Records on CD, LP, cassette and digitally on July 15, 2022. It was recorded and mixed at JNS Studio and various locations between May and September 2021 by Pawel Grabowski and ANTIGAMA and mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks. The cover artwork was supplied by Wojciech Szymañski. The record’s closing track ‘2222’ features a guest saxophone performance from Marcin Kajper. You can already watch a video for ‘Unclear Conversions’ at this location. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Undeterminate’, ‘Debt Pool’, ‘Holy Hand’, ‘Dust Farm’, ‘Disasters’, ‘Unclear Conversions’, ‘Align’, ‘Muteness’, ‘Hindrance’, ‘The Howler’ and ‘2222’. More about ANTIGAMA at www.facebook.com/antigama
German Death Metallers CYPHONISM have just released a video for ‘Kalleth I Kaos’ over here. The song is taken from the band’s second album “Cosmic Voidance”, which was released via Black Sunset / MDD last month. For all further band info check out www.facebook.com/cyphonism
UK and Egypt based Black / Death Metal duo ATRAMENTUM has just premiered the track ‘VII’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s upcoming second full-length “Through Fire, Everything Is Renewed”, which will be released on June 17, 2022 via Invictus Productions. The previously revealed album track ‘VI’ can still be streamed over here. For more band information please visit www.facebook.com/atramentum11
Mexican Death Metal duo THE CHASM has finished recording a new album entitled “The Scars Of A Lost Reflective Shadow” which will be released on CD via Vic Records soon. The following tracks appear on it: ‘Return Of The End (The Ancient Spirit That Makes Me Aware) (Instrumental)’, ‘A Keen But Empty Sight’, ‘Spectre Of The Arcane Cognition’, ‘An Occult Gift Responds’, ‘The Constellations Stagger’, ‘A Chronicle From The Parallel World’, ‘The Paths That Led To The Abysm’, ‘The Nightfall Ills With Deathly Symbols’, ‘The Funeral Cortege: Sepulchre: / Final Flight Of The Hateful Raven / Portal To The Isolated Domain’. The entire material was produced, recorded and designed by Daniel Corchado (guitars, bass, vocals, FX) at Luxinframundis in 2021 – 2022. The mixing was done by Daniel Corchado and Geoff Montgomery, the latter also took care of the mastering at the Ensomberoom V3 in May 2022. For more information and regular updates follow THE CHASM at www.facebook.com/thechasm.acerus.
On July 25, 2022 Me Saco Un Ojo Records, in co-operation with Memento Mori, will release “Suppuration Morphogénésiaque”, the debut full-length from Canadian old school Death Metallers SEDIMENTUM on vinyl and tape, respectively CD. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Krypto Chronique II’, ‘Excrétions Basaltiques’, ‘Suppuration Morphogénésiaque’, ‘Funestes Manifestations’, ‘Nécromasse’, ‘Supplice’ and ‘Un Grotesque Panorama’. You can already listen to ‘Funestes Manifestations’ over here. The cover artwork was created by Brad Moore. For all additional SEDIMENTUM info please visit www.facebook.com/sedimentumdeath
‘Violence Beyond All Reason’, the title track of the forthcoming sophomore full-length from Canadian Death Thrashers BESIEGED, can be streamed at this location now. The album will be released on CD, digital and cassette formats on June 06, 2022 via Unspeakable Axe Records. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Last Chance’, ‘Paragons Of Brutality’, ‘Violence Beyond All Reason’, ‘Path To Defy’, ‘One World Coma’, ‘Descent Into Despotism’ and ‘Testaments’. More about BESIEGED at www.facebook.com/besiegedthrash
Symphonic Black Metallers CAEDEOUS have just finished the recordings of their new album “Malum Supplicium”, which will be released on February 20, 2023. Rich Gray (ANNIHILATOR, AEON ZEN) will mix and master the material at Grey Matter Audio Studios. The first singles and videos will be released in November / December 2022 and January 2023. A studio report can be found at this location. For all further band information check out www.facebook.com/caedeous
French Black / Thrash trio SCUMSLAUGHT has just premiered the track ‘Emesis Bile’ over here. It will appear on the band’s upcoming debut mini album “Knives And Amphetamines”, which will be released on June 23, 2022 via Caligari Records on CD and cassette tape formats. The previously revealed title track can still be streamed at this location. The full “Knives And Amphetamines” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Knives And Amphetamines’, ‘Degenerate Fiends’, ‘Die You Subhuman Cunt’, ‘Baptized In Piss’, ‘Dirty Whore 666’, ‘Aching Jaw’, ‘Emesis Bile’, ‘Born In A Sewer’ and ‘Unholy Feast For Flies’. More SCUMSLAUGHT you will find at https://scumslaught.bandcamp.com
Canadian Death Metallers GRAVE INFESTATION are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Persecution Of The Living” at this location now. The album will be released on June 03, 2022 via Invictus Productions. A video for ‘Conquest Of Pestilence’ can also be watched over here. For all further GRAVE INFESTATION info please visit www.facebook.com/graveinfestation
German / Scandinavian Thrashers PROTECTOR will release their new full-length “Excessive Outburst Of Depravity” via High Roller Records on July 01, 2022 on CD and digitally. The tape and vinyl versions will follow later in 2022. The album was mixed and mastered by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Last Stand Hill’, ‘Pandemic Misery’, ‘Referat IV B 4’, ‘Open Skies And Endless Seas’, ‘Infinite Tyranny’, ‘Perpetual Blood Oath’, ‘Thirty Years Of Perdition’, ‘Cleithrophobia’, ‘Toiling In Sheol’, ‘Shackled By Total Control’ and ‘Morse Mania’. A lyric video for ‘Pandemic Misery’ can be found at this location. More about PROTECTOR at www.facebook.com/protector.666not777
Spanish Death Metallers ATARAXY have just premiered the track ‘Visions Of Absence’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s upcoming third album “The Last Mirror”, which will be released on June 17, 2022 via Dark Descent Records (CD) and Me Saco Un Ojo Records (vinyl version). The previously revealed ‘Decline’ can still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Presages’, ‘The Bell That Constantly Sounds’, ‘Decline’, ‘Visions Of Absence’, ‘Under The Cypress Shadow’, ‘Silence’ and ‘A Mirror Reflects Our Fate’. More about ATARAXY at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063578401421
Chilean Thrashers CRITICAL DEFIANCE will release their new full-length “No Life Forms” on CD and digital formats on July 18, 2022 via Unspeakable Axe Records. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘World Crumbling Apart’, ‘The Last Crusaders… Bringers Of Death!’, ‘Altering The Senses’, ‘Dying Breath’, ‘Elephant’, ‘Edge Of Consciousness’, ‘Kill Them With Kindness’, ‘Warhead (Emotional Fallout)’, ‘We Were Never Here To Stay’ and ‘No Life Forms’. The album’s first single ‘The Last Crusaders… Bringers Of Death!’ is already streaming at this location. For all additional band info check out www.facebook.com/criticaldefiance
Brooklyn, New York based Black Metal trio HORNS & HOOVES has just premiered the track ‘Baphomet In Steel’ over here. It is taken from the band’s upcoming debut full-length “I Am The Skel Messiah”, which will be released on June 17, 2022 via Invictus Productions. The previously revealed ‘Endless Rosary’ can additionally still be checked out at this location. The following tracks will be featured on “I Am The Skel Messiah”: ‘Gape My Blackened Hearts’, ‘Baphomet In Steel’, ‘Amphetamines And Red Molochian Dreams (Prelude To Gooning)’, ‘Blasphemic Gooning’, ‘Endless Rosary’, ‘A Wailing, And A Weeping, And A Busting Ov Cheeks’, ‘Narcanaanite (The Infernal Dose)’ and ‘I Am The Skel Messiah’. The cover artwork was created by Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, ICED EARTH, SODOM). You can follow HORNS & HOOVES at www.facebook.com/hhworship
On August 19, 2022 “The Cold That You Left”, the debut full-length from New York City / Lisbon based duo HOURS OF WORSHIP, will be released via Iron Bonehead on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Your Lonely Death My Crown’, ‘Fear In Bloom’, ‘Watching You Beg For Your Life’, ‘Ancient Pain’, ‘Deep Depression’, ‘A Wretch And A Liar’, ‘I Know It Hurts You’, ‘There By The Window’ and ‘Wasting Away Forever’. The album opener ‘Your Lonely Death My Crown’ can already be streamed over here. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
“Falling Into Damnation”, the new 5-song EP from Italian Death Metallers CONTINUUM OF XUL, can be streamed in its entirety over here now. It was released on May 27, 2022 via Lavadome Productions on CD and digitally. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/continuumofxul
On June 01, 2022 Iron Bonehead Productions will release a new mini album from America’s blackened Death Metallers CRUCIFIER, “Say Your Prayers”, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. A full stream is now available at this location. All additional information you will find at www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Tokyo, Japan based melodic Death Metallers IN NOTHINGNESS have just premiered the track ‘A Nameless Grave’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Black Sun Funeral”, which will be released on July 01, 2022 via Personal Records. The previously revealed ‘The Garden Of Pain’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Black Sun Funeral” tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Garden Of Pain’, ‘Sadness Is My Cross’, ‘Shadow Of Grief’, ‘The Moon That Never Rises Again’, ‘A Nameless Grave’, ‘Into Obscurity’, ‘The Last Autumn’ and ‘Black Sun Funeral’. For all further IN NOTHINGNESS information please visit www.facebook.com/innothingness
Greek Death Metallers CADAVER COILS are streaming their debut full-length “Offerings Of Rapture And Decay” in its entirety at this location now. It has just been released via Iron Bonehead Productions. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/cadaver-coils-100197082659366
South Carolina based blackened Death Metal one man band VØLUS has just released a track off their upcoming sophomore full-length “Thrown To The Abyss”. You can stream ‘The Breathing Reflection’ at this location. The full tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Traverse The Arkhanspire’, ‘Immortal Ninth Tribunal’, ‘Antediluvian Watchers’, ‘Chronoblast Paradox’, ‘The Breathing Reflection’, ‘Black Flame Of Purification’, ‘Temporal Pathways’ and ‘Ascendance Incinerated’. The material was written, performed, recorded and mixed by Justin Vølus and mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studio. The cover art was created by Dede Suhita. “Thrown To The Abyss” will be released via Vargheist Records on June 11, 2022. For more VØLUS info check out www.facebook.com/volusdeath
Canadian Black Metal trio LIMINAL SHROUD will release their sophomore album “All Virtues Ablaze” on August 05, 2022 via Willowtip Records on digipak CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Hypoxic’, ‘Mists Along Florencia’, ‘Transmigration I: Pelagic Voids’ and ‘Transmigration II: The Cleansing Ash’. You can already check out the first single ‘Hypoxic’ at this location. “All Virtues Ablaze” was recorded and mixed by Matt Roach at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver, BC, Canada and mastered by Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, Colorado, USA. The artwork was created by Justyna Koziczak in London, UK. For more band information check out www.facebook.com/liminalshroudofficial
German Black Metallers LUNAR CHALICE are streaming their debut full-length “Transcendentia: The Shadow Pilgrimage” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on June 01, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. All additional LUNAR CHALICE info you will find at www.facebook.com/lunar-chalice-103072924374033
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based blackened melodic Death Metallers IATT have just released their new full-length “Magnum Opus” via Black Lion Records. A full album stream can be found at this location. A visualizer of the album track ‘Ouroboros’ can furthermore be watched over here. “Magnum Opus” was produced by Joe Cantamessa and mixed and mastered by Marcos Cerutti. The cover artwork was supplied by Adam Burke (Nightjar Illustration). More about IATT at www.facebook.com/iamthetrireme
Maine based one man Doom / Death project SEEP will release its debut full-length “Hymns To The Gore” on vinyl, CD and digital formats via Extremely Rotten Productions on July 08, 2022. Gurgling Gore Records will release the album on cassette. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Morbidly Obese’, ‘Jigsaw Facefuck’, ‘Addicted To Rancidity’, ‘Horrific Fetal Mutation’, ‘Gorging On The Gutpile’, ‘Pedophile Genitalia Removal’, ‘Encased In Shit’ and ‘Swimming In Sewage’. You can already check out the album track ‘Jigsaw Facefuck’ (featuring guest vocals by Brennen Westermeyer of FLUIDS) at this location. The entire SEEP debut EP “Souvenirs Of A Necrosadist” you can still stream at https://seepdeathdoom.bandcamp.com
German melodic Death Metallers BATTLESWORD are currently finishing work on the follow-up to 2019’s “And Death Cometh Upon Us” full-length. The new album will be released in late Summer of 2022 via MDD Records. It was recorded at Big Easy Studio in Hennef with Michael “Freio” Haas. The mastering will be done by Dan Swanö. For regular updates make sure to follow the band at www.facebook.com/battleswordofficial
Australia’s Black / Death Metallers DENOUNCEMENT PYRE have just released a lyric video for their new single ‘The Liberating Fires Of Moloch’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s new full-length “Forever Burning”, which will be released on June 17, 2022 via Agonia Records. The album was recorded at the band’s own studio, apart from drums, which were recorded at The Black Lodge Studio by Joel Taylor. The mixing took place at I-HQ (NOCTURNAL GRAVES, ORDER OF ORIAS) with Jarro Raphael and the mastering at High Voltage Audio with James Frazzetto. The cover artwork was created by Mitchell Nolte (ABORTED, MYSTIFIER, LUCIFERS CHILD). The complete “Forever Burning” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Forever Burning’, ‘The Liberating Fires Of Moloch’, ‘Tongues Stretched For Salvation’, ‘Darkness In The Eyes Of Apophis’, ‘Hung Like Swine’, ‘Burn This World And Start Again’, ‘The Opposer Of Light’ and ‘Sunder The Living Temple’. The video for ‘Hung Like Swine’ can still be watched at this location. For more band info please visit www.facebook.com/denouncementpyre
Greek blackened Death Metallers NIGHTFALL have just premiered an official live video for the track ‘Meteor Gods’, which was recorded in November 2021, during their live show ‘At Night We Play’ in Athens. You can watch the video right here. The band has furthermore announced the release of a live EP, “In The Temple Of Ishtar”, featuring two tracks of this show, which will be out on July 22, 2022 on all digital streaming platforms. All additional NIGHTFALL info you will find at www.facebook.com/nightfallbandofficial
French Black Metallers HATS BARN have just revealed a new track entitled ‘L’Enfant Doit Mourir’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s upcoming sixth album “Y.a.HW.e.H”, which will be released on June 24, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. More about HATS BARN at www.facebook.com/hatsbarnofficial