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On May 05, 2022 Caligari Records will release “Spasticating Exacution”, a split mini-album between the two Italian Death Metallers SPASTICUS and BOIA, on cassette tape format. The CD version will be co-released with Necrolatry Records. The following tracks will be featured on it. SPASTICUS – ‘Crypt Of Freaks’, ‘Inbred Earth’ and ‘Hideous Eternal’. BOIA – ‘Coffin Claustrophobia’, ‘Putrid Warhorses Of Death’ and ‘Sodomize The Nun’ (POSTRIBULUM cover). You can already check out two of the songs at this location. For all additional band information, please visit www.facebook.com/spasticusdeathrash or www.facebook.com/boia666
Finnish Black Metallers AETHYRICK are currently streaming their fourth full-length album “Pilgrimage” in its entirety right here. It will be released on March 31, 2022 via The Sinister Flame. More about AETHYRICK at www.aethyrick.com
German Black Metallers SERVANT have just released a full live show entitled “Black Mass Evocation”, exclusively at this location. It was recorded on February 18, 2022 at Hardeg Castle, near Göttingen in Germany. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro’, ‘Hymn To The Latest Days’, ‘Death Meditation’, ‘The Ultimate Occult Worship’, ‘Incantation Of The Old Ones’, ‘Ecclesia Obscuri’, ‘Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars’ and ‘Negate The I’. All additional band information you will find at www.facebook.com/servantmagick
On May 27, 2022 Iron Bonehead Productions will release a new mini album from German Death Metal three-piece ABYTHIC, “Eden Of The Doomed”, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Revelation From The Great Vastness Thereafter’, ‘Conquest Of The One True Creed’ and ‘Victory In Your Eden Of The Doomed’. You can already stream ‘Conquest Of The One True Creed’ over here. For more ABYTHIC information check out www.facebook.com/abythic
Berlin / Wroclaw based blackened Death Metallers CHTHONIC CULT are streaming their second album “Become Seekers For Death” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on March 28, 2022 via Putrid Cult. All further band info is available at www.facebook.com/chthonic.cult
Italy’s Doom / Deathers ASSUMPTION will release their new full-length album “Hadean Tides” via Everlasting Spew Records on May 20, 2022 on CD and digitally (the vinyl edition will follow later in 2022). In the American territory the tape and vinyl versions will be handled by Sentient Ruin. You can already stream the first single ‘Submerged By Hadean Tides’ over here. More about ASSUMPTION at www.facebook.com/assumptiondoom
On May 27, 2022 Edged Circle Productions will release the second album of international Death Metallers DARKENED, “The Black Winter”, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It was produced by Linus Nirbrant and mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound. The cover artwork was created by Juanjo Castellano Rosado (UNLEASHED, THE BLACK DALHIA MURDER, GATES OF ISHTAR). The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Premonitions’, ‘Blood’, ‘Flayed’, ‘Terminal Lucidity’, ‘Black Winter’, ‘Fearful Quandary’, ‘Swallowed By The World’, ‘Plague Of Despair’ and ‘Regret’. You can already listen to ‘Blood’ at this location. The current DARKENED line-up consists of Hempa Brynolfsson – guitar (EXCRUCIATE), Linus Nirbrant – guitar (A CANOROUS QUINTET), Tobias Cristiansson – bass (GRAVE, ex – DISMEMBER), Gord Olson – vocals (YE GOAT HERD GODS) and Andy Whale – drums (MEMORIAM, ex – BOLT THROWER). For all additional DARKENED information please visit www.facebook.com/darkeneddeathmetal
FOUR DAYS OF FUNERAL, the new band of former ARGENTUM vocalist Khabéé Lex Mortum, have just released their first single ‘Indomitaeque Morte’. You can check it out right here. For regular band updates make sure to follow FOUR DAYS OF FUNERAL at www.facebook.com/four-days-of-funeral-100748419241129
On April 25, 2022 German melodic Death Metallers DRAGONBREED will release their debut full-length “Necrohedron” via MDD Records. The band consists of SUIDAKRA / GRAVEWORM musicians. A video for ‘The Undying’, the album opener, can already be watched at this location. More DRAGONBREED info you will find at www.facebook.com/dragonbreedofficial
A full stream of “Under Satan’s Wrath”, the new split release between Greek LUCIFER’S CHILD and Brazil’s MYSTIFIER, is available over here now. It will be released via Agonia Records today. More about both bands at www.facebook.com/luciferschildmusic or www.facebook.com/mystifier666
Brisbane, Australia based ORATORY will release their debut EP “Inner Pyre” on May 16, 2022. The band combines Death Metal, Sludge and Hardcore. A video for the EP’s first single ‘Capitulation Genuflect’ is already available at this location now. For all further information check out www.facebook.com/oratory666
Dutch melodic Death / Thrashers DISQUIET will release their third full-length “Instigate To Annihilate” on May 06, 2022 on CD, LP and digitally via Soulseller Records. A video for ‘Destroyance’ is already available over here. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/disquietofficial
Brazil’s female old school Thrashers THE DAMNNATION will release their debut full-length “Way Of Perdition” via Soulseller Records on May 06, 2022 on CD, LP and digitally. A video for the album track ‘Grief Of Death’ can already be watched at this location. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/thedamnnationofficial
“Drep Alle Guder”, the third full-length of Norwegian Black Metallers DJEVELKULT, will be out via Soulseller Records on May 06, 2022 on CD, LP and digitally. The album track ‘Voidwalker’ can already be streamed here. For more DJEVELKULT info please visit www.facebook.com/djevelkult
Swedish Doom / Deathers GRAND HARVEST are streaming their debut album “Consummatum Est” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on March 25, 2022 via Messor Grandis Productions. All additional GRAND HARVEST information you will find at www.facebook.com/grandharvest.band
On May 06, 2022 Personal Records will release “Deathbed Sessions”, a new EP from Finnish Death Metallers SEPULCHRAL CURSE, on CD. Lycanthropic Chants will release it on vinyl and digitally and Transylvanian Recordings will be handling the tape edition. The EP will feature the following tracks: ‘Circular Aeons’, ‘Harvesting The Bloodlines’, ‘Dystheist’ and ‘Towards The Shrouded Infinity’ (DEMIGOD cover). You can already stream ‘Dystheist’ over here. More about SEPULCHRAL CURSE at www.facebook.com/sepulchralcurse
German Black Metal duo MORTUUS INFRADAEMONI is streaming their upcoming third full-length “Inmortuos Sum” in its entirety at this location now. The album will be released on March 25, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. MORTUUS INFRADAEMONI features ex – LUNAR AURORA members Profanatitas (drums, bass, vocals) and Nathaniel (guitar, vocals). Full album streams of their previous releases you will find at https://mortuusinfradaemoni.bandcamp.com
“Mythological Cccult Metal” act PROSCRIPTOR MCGOVERN’S APSÛ have just premiered a lyric / visualizer video for ‘Every Watchtower Within Is The Axis Of A Watchtower Without’, the third single from their self-titled debut album, which is out now on Agonia Records. You can watch the video here. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/officialabsu
Stockholm, Sweden based blackened Thrashers BEASTIALITY have just premiered a video for ‘Sacrificial Chants’ at this location. The track is taken from the band’s comeback EP “Sacrificial Chants”, which was released late last month via Invictus Productions. The full tracklist of the EP reads like this: ‘Intro’, ‘Sacrificial Chants’, ‘Sinner’, ‘Thy Kingdom Dead’ and ‘The Black Sun Prophecy’. You can follow BEASTIALITY at www.facebook.com/beastiality-sweden-670820422970293
“Span Of Aeons”, the debut full-length from Austrian Death Metallers DAETH DAEMON, has just been released via Ván Records on black and marbled vinyl (limited to 150, respectively 250 copies), as well as a 3 panel digipak 2 CD (housed in a slipcase), limited to 500 handnumbered copies. The first edition comes with a 5 song bonus disc, featuring the band’s previously released “The Skeleton Spectre” EP. PUNGENT STENCH’s Martin Schirenc and BELPHEGOR’s former vocalist Mäxx Crusher both contributed guest vocals to the album. For additional band info check out www.facebook.com/daethdaemon
Graz, Austria based Death Metallers NEKRODEUS will release their new album “Asbest” on April 01, 2022 via Grazil Records (in co-operation with Teratogen) on marbled and black vinyl, CD, cassette tape and digitally. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Werther’, ‘Asbest’, ‘I Fought The Low And The Low Won’, ‘Lied Aus Blei’, ‘Lethe’, ‘Lifeloather’, ‘Eat Dirt Taste Life’, ‘Schwarzer Regen’ and ‘Urne’. For all further NEKRODEUS info please visit www.facebook.com/nekrodeus
Chilean Death Metallers MORTIFY are streaming their second album “Fragments At The Edge Of Sorrow” at this location. It will be released on March 25, 2022 via Chaos Records. The cover artwork was created by Colombian artist Julian Mora. More about MORTIFY at www.facebook.com/mortifydeathmetal
Norma Evangelium Diaboli have just released “The Long Defeat”, the new full-length from French Black Metal trio DEATHSPELL OMEGA. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Enantiodromia’, ‘Eadem, Sed Aliter’, ‘The Long Defeat’, ‘Sie Sind Gerichtet!’ and ‘Our Life Is Your Death’. For DEATHSPELL OMEGA music samples go to https://deathspellomega.bandcamp.com
Italian blackened Speed Metallers HELLCRASH have just premiered the track ‘Hell Breaks Loose’ at this location. It will appear on their upcoming vinyl split 7″ with BUNKER 66, “Hell & Sulphur”, which will be released on March 25, 2022 via Dying Victims Productions. BUNKER 66’s previously revealed EP contribution ‘Pandemonial Storms’ can still be streamed over here. More information about both bands you will find at www.facebook.com/bunker66 and www.facebook.com/hellcrashmetal
Norwegian Black Metallers ABBATH are now streaming their new album “Dread Reaver” in its entirety over here. It will be released on March 25, 2022 via Season Of Mist. You can follow ABBATH for regular updates at www.facebook.com/abbathband
A full stream of “All Paths Are Left Here…”, the upcoming debut full-length from Ukranian Death Metallers NECROM, is available at this location now. It will be released on March 25, 2022 via Osmose Productions on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will be released later this year. For all additional band information check out www.facebook.com/necromofficial
Brazilian Black Metallers NECROMANTE are streaming their upcoming second album “XI” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on March 25, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. All additional information you will find at www.instagram.com/necromante_official
A full album stream of “Soulgazer”, the debut full-length from Denver, Colorado based Death Metallers ASTRAL TOMB, you will find at this location now. It will be released on March 25, 2022 via Blood Harvest Records on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP edition will follow on July 29, 2022. More ASTRAL TOMB at www.linktr.ee/astraltomb
Netherlands based atmospheric Black Metal duo FREJA has just premiered the track ‘Of Those Stricken By Fate’ right here. It will appear on the band’s debut full-length “Tides”, which will be released on April 22, 2022 via Babylon Doom Cult Records. The cover painting was done by Johan Prenger of Reflections Records. The previously revealed ‘Our Chosen Path’ can still be checked out at this location. The complete “Tides” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Our Chosen Path’, ‘Scattered Shields’, ‘Dusk’, ‘Cataclysm’, ‘Of Those Stricken By Fate’ and ‘Cloaks Of Valor’. For all further FREJA info please visit www.facebook.com/frejaband
Dutch Thrashers DEAD HEAD have just premiered another song from their upcoming seventh full-length “Slave Driver”. You can check out a video for ‘Polar Vortex’ at this location. The album will be released on April 29, 2022 2022 via Hammerheart Records on CD, LP and digitally. It was recorded by Erwin Hermsen at Toneshed Studio (TROUBLE, PESTILENCE, MALEVOLENT CREATION) and features artwork by Vladimir Chebakov (KATALEPSY, HIDIOUS DIVINITY). The previously revealed tracks ‘Acolyte’ and ‘Frequency Illusion’ can still be checked out here and here. More DEAD HEAD info is available at www.facebook.com/deadheadthrash
On April 22, 2022 Signal Rex will release a split album between UK based Black Metal quartet CAPEL BELUAH and US Black Metallers OLKOTH on digipak CD format. It will feature the following tracks. CAPEL BELUAH: ‘The Sunrise Has Swollen Black’, ‘Invert All Harmony’, ‘Ink Well’ and ‘The Mount’. OLKOTH: ‘Of Evil Purity…’ (new version), ‘The Infernal Ceremony’ and ‘Cold Dark Horizons’ (new version). OLKOTH’s ‘The Infernal Ceremony’ can already be streamed over here. For all additional information please visit www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
A full album stream of “Integument Of Golden Luster”, the eleventh full-length from Belgian blackened progressive Death / Thrashers DECLARED DEAD, is available at this location now. It was produced, engineered, recorded, mixed and masterd by the band itself. More DECLARED DEAD at https://declareddead.bandcamp.com
Greek Black Metallers FUNERAL STORM have just revealed a track from their upcoming second full-length “Chthonic Invocations”, which will be released via Hells Headbangers later this year. You can check out ‘The Void’ at this location. The song is to commemorate the passing of H.P. Lovecraft, with the lyrics inspired by “The Viridian Verses” from The Bible Of Cthulhu. The band issued the following comments about the album: “Inspired by these hard times the world is going through, this album came out a lot darker and aggressive than its predecessor, “Arcane Mysteries”. This song is dedicated to a very special someone who, under the gaze of the Gods, entered the Void. May They Rise.” For all additional FUNERAL STORM information please visit www.facebook.com/funeralstorm666
On May 20, 2022 Edged Circle Productions will release the debut full-length of Chile’s Black / Speed Metal one-man project SIGN OF EVIL, “Psychodelic Death”, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘Bad Trip’, ‘The Consequence Of Your Actions’, ‘Psychodelic Death’, ‘Serpent Poison’, ‘When The Day Arrives’, ‘Anonymous’, ‘The War Is Now’, ‘August 8th MMIX’, ‘The Underground’, ‘Die’, ‘Rusted Nailed’, ‘Slow Death’ and ‘Into The Unknown’. A video for the album opener, ‘Bad Trip’, is already available at this location. You can follow SIGN OF EVIL at www.facebook.com/signofevilchile
Denver, Colorado based melodic Death Metallers NIGHTWRAITH have just released a video for ‘Genesthai’. The song is taken from the band’s new full-length “Offering”, which will be released on March 25, 2022 via Reaping Scythe Records. You can watch the video over here. The album will feature the following eight songs: ‘Offering’, ‘Hedonic Adaptation’, ‘Beguiler’, ‘Genesthai’, ‘The Great Acceleration’, ‘Shavano’, ‘Maranasati’ and ‘The Snake And The Rope’. All further NIGHTWRAITH info you will find at www.facebook.com/nightwraith-1864743917133967
Xtreem Music have just re-released “Festering Flesh”, the 1991 demo from German Death Metallers FLESHCRAWL (which back then still were named SUFFOCATION), on digipak CD, limited to 300 copies. It includes liner notes, the cover of the demo, as well as photos and flyers from that era. It was previously already released as a 10″ vinyl edition. More about FLESHCRAWL at www.facebook.com/fleshcrawl
On April 01, 2022 Norma Evangelium Diaboli will release “Sepulkral Dedikation”, the second full-length from Swedish Black Metallers LIFVSLEDA. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Sändebudet’, ‘Lifvspänn’, ‘Djefvulen’, ‘Hädankallad’, ‘Likbälet’, ‘Dödspredikanten’, ‘Evigheten’ and ‘Kallet’. For more LIFVSLEDA information check out www.facebook.com/lifvsleda
Finnish Death Metallers DESECRESY have just released a visualizer video for ‘Cult Of Troglodytes’ at this location. The song will appear on the band’s upcoming seventh album “Unveil In The Abyss”, which will be released on April 19, 2022 via Xtreem Music on CD, 12″ LP, cassette and digital formats. For all further info please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063840274770
On April 29, 2022 Osmose Productions will release “Miseria De Profundis”, the second full-length from French Black Metal one-man band MEYHNACH, on CD format. The vinyl version will be released later this year. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Virus’, ‘To Exterminate The World’, ‘Into The Weird’, ‘Grim Omen’, ‘Relapse’, ‘In Search Of Wasted Time’ and ‘Tentacles Of Anguish’. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/meyhnach
“Nocturnal Trance”, the third album from Portuguese Black Metallers CANDELABRUM, will be released via Hells Headbangers on April 29, 2022 on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Crystalline Telasthesia’, ‘Through The Mirror Of Divination’, ‘Poisonous Dark Apparitions’, ‘Beyond (Back To The Origin)’ and ‘Into Death’s Trance’. You can already stream ‘Beyond (Back To The Origin)’ at this location. For more info check out www.hellsheadbangers.com or www.facebook.com/hellsheadbangers
Brazilian Death Metallers POISONOUS have just premiered a song of their brand new four-track EP “Doomed Pillars”. You can check out ‘Acausal Dissolution’s Might’ at this location. More about POISONOUS at www.facebook.com/poisonousdeathmetal or https://poisonousdeathmetal.bandcamp.com
Swedish Death Metallers ENTRAILS will release their new full-length “An Eternal Time Of Decay” together with a re-issue of “The Tomb Awaits” via Hammerheart in June 2022 on CD and LP. It was mixed by founder Jimmy Lundqvist and mastered by Dan Swanö. The artwork was created by sci-fi artist Henrik Ågren. For regular updates make sure to follow ENTRAILS at www.facebook.com/entrails666
On April 29, 2022 Osmose Productions will release the third and final album from ABHOMINE, “Demonize Destroy Delete”, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. Hells Headbangers will be releasing the record on both formats in North America. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Liquid Cyber Cipher’, ‘Foul The Wound’, ‘Subjection’, ‘Predation Axiom’ and ‘Slave Syndicate’. For all additional ABHOMINE information please visit www.facebook.com/abhomine-487162971453007