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On March 24, 2022 Osmose Productions will release “Egrégore”, the second album from French Black Metallers BÂ’A. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘In Umbra Et Luce’, ‘Domitor’, ‘Bellum’, ‘Fames’, ‘Obitusque’ and ‘Urbi Et Orbi Clamant’. A first track premiere will be revealed on February 17, 2022. More about BÂ’A at www.baa-band.fr
German Black Metal one man band FURIS IGNIS is streaming its upcoming debut full-length “Decapitate The Aging World” at this location now. The album will be released on January 14, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Finnish Black Metallers AEGRUS will release their new EP “The Carnal Temples” on January 28, 2022 via Osmose Productions. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Carnal Temples’, ‘In Death Rapture’, ‘Moonlit Coffinspirit’ and ‘Flesh And Blood’. A full EP stream is available over here already. For all additional AEGRUS info check out www.facebook.com/aegrusofficial
Finnish symphonic Doom / Deathers DEPRESSED MODE have just released a lyric video for their new single ‘Death Walks Among Us’ at this location. The track will appear on their upcoming third album “Decade Of Silence”, which will be released on May 06, 2022 via Inverse Records. The band’s vocalist Otto Salonen commented on it as follows: “This song is the opening track of our upcoming album. I composed the song 12 years ago, right after our “…For Death” 2009 album. We recorded a demo of this song back in 2011, and after that the band went silent. I’m really happy that we recorded it for our new album, and hope you all like it as much as we do! It represents the more Death Metal side of our album.” All further DEPRESSED MODE information you will find at www.facebook.com/depressedmodedoom
Norwegian Black Metallers ABBATH have just revealed a video for the song ‘Dream Cull’ at this location. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming third full-length “Dread Reaver”, which will be released on March 25, 2022 via Season Of Mist on CD digipak, CD digibox, black and coloured vinyl and digitally. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Acid Haze’, ‘Scarred Core’, ‘Dream Cull’, ‘Myrmidon’, ‘The Deep Unbound’, ‘Septentrion’, ‘Trapped Under Ice’ (METALLICA cover), ‘The Book Of Breath’, ‘Dread Reaver’ and ‘Make My Day’. The cover artwork was created by Bjørn Stian Bjoarvik and the photos were made by Francisco Munoz. “Dread Reaver” was produced by Endre Kirkesola, ABBATH and Dag Erik Nygaard at Dub Studio in Kristiansand and Bergen Lydstudio, Kirkesola and Nygaard also engineered. The mixing was done by ABBATH and Kirkesola, while Maor Appelbaum (FAITH NO MORE, ROB HALFORD) took care of the mastering at Maor Appelbaum Mastering in Los Angeles. More about ABBATH at www.facebook.com/abbathband
Switzerland’s Death / Thrashers MESSIAH have added two new members to their line-up. Here’s the band’s official statement: “MESSIAH will start their 4th era in 2022. After the successful reunion in 2018 in the original 1990s Noise line-up, with various international live shows and the new album “Fracmont” in 2020, we have to reorient ourselves. Shouter Andy Kaina has decided not to continue musically and has left the band. We had to accept that, but we remain best friends privately. After a successful session we found a new singer at the end of 2021; Marcus Seebach from Chur, Switzerland (MASQUERADE, TASTE OF TEARS). The chemistry fit right away and we are looking forward to an exciting future together. Since 2021 V.O. Pulver (GURD, POLTERGEIST, PULVER) supports us live on stage on the second guitar. V.O. is the producer of our album “Fracmont” which was recorded in his Little Creek Studio, Switzerland. Already in 1987 he played some live gigs with MESSIAH. In addition to more live shows, a new MLP is planned, to be released via High Roller Records in 2022.” For regular updates you can follow MESSIAH at www.facebook.com/messiahthrashingmadness
On February 24, 2022 Caligari Records will release “Vomitous Manifestations”, the debut demo of Finland’s old school Death Metallers EXTINGUISHED, on cassette tape format. The cover artwork was created by Droll Meadow and the complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Two Deadly Blows’, ‘Vomitous Manifestations’, ‘Unforeseen Consequences’ and ‘Devoted To Hades’. You can already stream the demo opener ‘Two Deadly Blows’ over here. EXTINGUISHED was formed in the summer of 2020 by members of SADOKIST and OBSCURE BURIAL. For more information please visit www.caligarirecords.com or www.facebook.com/caligarirecords
Canadian Black / Deathers BLACK DEATH CULT have just revealed a video for ‘The Unnamable’ at this location. The track is taken from the band’s debut album “Devil’s Paradise”, which was released on CD format via Hells Headbangers. It features the following tracks: ‘Infernal Triad’, ‘Double Monolith’, ‘Nightside Of The Pyramids’, ‘Epilogue’, ‘Captor Of Perception’, ‘.AM.’, ‘Funereality’, ‘Living Temple’ and ‘The Unnameable’. More BLACK DEATH CULT you will find at https://blackdeathcult.bandcamp.com
Germany’s melodic Death / Thrashers FINAL CRY will release their new album “The Ever-Rest” on March 18, 2022 via MDD as a jewel case CD and noble digipak (the latter will be part of a strictly limited box set). The album will also be released on vinyl. “The Ever-Rest” was recorded, mixed and mastered at Soundlodge Studio with Jörg Uken (GOD DETHRONED, DEW-SCENTED) and backing vocals and choirs have been supplied by Herbie Langhans (AVANTASIA a.o.) and Børd Wäsche (EYE SEE BLACK a.o.). An album teaser you will already find at this location. For all additional FINAL CRY info please visit www.facebook.com/finalcryofficial
“Belial”, the 2008 sophomore album from Las Vegas, Nevada based Black Metal band SATANIC CORPSE , will be re-released via Propaganda in February / March 2022 as a 3 panel digipak CD. The whole material was remastered at AudioAlchemiA studio. SATANIC CORPSE is the solo project of Belita Adair, who’s also the founder and high priestess of the “Satanic Church Of The Dead”. For more information, pre-order details or regular updates check out www.propaganda666.com
On April 22, 2022 Testimony Records will release “Rites Of Gore”, the third full-length from New Jersey based Death Metallers SENTIENT HORROR, on CD, LP and digitally. It was mixed by Jonny Pettersson at Studio Unbound, Sweden and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Osterby, Germany. The cover artwork was created by Juanjo Castellano Rosado. A video for ‘Till Death Do Us Rot’ can already be checked out at this location. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘A Faceless Corpse’, ‘Obliteration Of Souls’, ‘Swamp Burial’, ‘Rites Of Gore’, ‘Splitting Skulls’, ‘Descend To Chaos’, ‘The Grave Is My Home’, ‘Till Death Do Us Rot’ and ‘The Eyes Of Dread’. You can follow SENTIENT HORROR at www.facebook.com/sentienthorrorofficial
Filipino Death Metallers NULLIFICATION are streaming their upcoming debut album “Kingdoms To Hovel” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on January 14, 2022 via Personal Records. All additional NULLIFICATION information you will find at www.facebook.com/nullificationdeathmetal
On March 21, 2022 Purity Through Fire will release the debut full-length from Finnish Black Metallers AESTHUS, “Hänen Temppelinsä Varjoissa”, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Hänen Temppelinsä Varjoissa’, ‘Vihani Alttarilta’, ‘Kuolonpolku’, ‘Jälkeläinen’, ‘Verta Saatanalle’, ‘Ikiyössä’ and ‘Tyhjyys, Ikuinen Kuolema’. You can already check out ‘Vihani Alttarilta’ over here. More about AESTHUS at www.facebook.com/aesthusofficial
Greek Death Metallers ECTOPLASMA have just premiered another track from their upcoming fourth album “Inferna Kabbalah”. You can check out ‘Appalling Abomination’ at this location. The album will be released on January 24, 2022 via Memento Mori (CD) and Rotted Life (vinyl and cassette versions). The previously revealed ‘Gruesome Sacred Orgasms’ and ‘God is Dead, Satan Lives (Rosemary’s Baby)’ can still be streamed here and here. The complete “Inferna Kabbalah” tracklist reads as follows: ‘God Is Dead, Satan Lives (Rosemary’s Baby)’, ‘Appalling Abomination’, ‘My Medieval Urges Materialized’, ‘Infestation Of Atrocious Hunger’, ‘Inferna Kabbalah’, ‘Gruesome Sacred Orgasms’, ‘Filth-Ridden Flesh’ and ‘Desecration Of The Christian Existence’. For more ECTOPLASMA info please visit www.facebook.com/ectoplasma-1579524392276613
Finnish Death Metallers HAUTAJAISYÖ will release their fourth album “Ei Hauta Kysy Lupaa” via Inverse Records later in 2022. A first single ‘Kuuleeko Kukaan’ has just been revealed at this location. The band commented on it as follows: “HAUTAJAISYÖ (Funeral Night) puts the cement shoes on and takes a dive deep into Death Metal. With this new song the band shows its heaviest side and tells a story about forgetting yourself for others. ‘Kuuleeko Kukaan’ (Does Anybody Hear) is the first single from the upcoming “Ei Hauta Kysy Lupaa” (Grave Wont Ask Permission) album that is coming in 2022.” For all further HAUTAJAISYÖ information check out www.facebook.com/hautajaisyo
Chilean Doom / Deathers VERBUM will release their upcoming debut full-length “Exhortation To The Impure” on January 14, 2022 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro’, ‘Abrahamic Sedition’, ‘Nihil Privativum’, ‘Interlude I’, ‘Silent Oratorium’, ‘Interlude II’, ‘Exhortation To The Impure’ and ‘Outro’. A full album stream you will find at this location. For all further info please visit www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
“The Seven Tongues”, the first album from Greek Black Metallers ΑΧΕΡΟΝΤΑΣ (formerly known as ACHERONTAS) will be released via Zazen Sounds on March 14, 2022. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Lucifer-Breath Of Fire’, ‘Leviathan-The Fervent Scales In Reverence’, ‘Belial-The Enn Of Beliya’al’, ‘Satan-Exaltation Of Unbeing’, ‘Choronzon-Webs Of Alienation’, ‘Hecate-Queen Of The Crossroads’ and ‘ΔΡΑΚΩΝ-ΑPOTHEOSIS’. You can already stream ‘Hecate-Queen Of The Crossroads’ over here. For more ΑΧΕΡΟΝΤΑΣ information please visit www.facebook.com/breathoffire61
On January 14, 2022 Personal Records will release the complete discography of Arizona based Death Metallers CADAVEROUS QUARTET. The 2 CD set will be entitled “The Complete Agenda”. A full stream of both CDs is available at this location now. All additional info you will find at www.personal-records.com or www.facebook.com/personalrecords666
Swiss Death Metallers DEATHCULT have just premiered the track ‘Doxology And Putrescence’ at this location. It is taken from the band’s upcoming second album “Of Soil Unearthed”, which will be released on January 28, 2022 via Invictus Productions. The previously revealed ‘Swine Of Oblivion’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Of Soil Unearthed” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Iron Beclawed Rules The Divine’, ‘On Primal Wings’, ‘Doxology And Putrescence’, ‘Trepanation Rites’, ‘Black Vapour Coagulation’, ‘Swine Of Oblivion’, ‘Funeral Trance’ and ‘Alastor’. For more DEATHCULT info please visit www.facebook.com/deathmetalcult
Portuguese brutal Death Metallers ANALEPSY will release their upcoming sophomore album later in 2022 via Miasma Records, Vomit Your Shirt and Agonia Records (vinyl only). The band commented on it as follows: “We can’t wait to present our most recent work. This has been a tight process, and despite all the changes the band went through, everything worked like clockwork. The essence of our music lives on!” For all additional ANALEPSY information check out www.facebook.com/analepsyofficial
Reunited Swedish Black Metal trio RIMFROST has just released a new two-track EP that depicts the story of a killer. ‘Killer Instinct’, the first of the two tracks (but the final one from the tale), was already released in October 2021. Now, the band has released both tracks as “The Rise Of Evil: Killer Instinct”. Here’s what RIMFROST had to say about it: “When we started to write music for the comeback, we really didn’t know what we wanted to write about, but we quickly felt that we wanted and that we should continue on the horror path from “Expedition: Darkness” since we all are huge horror fans, especially, we all share some extra love for 70s-80s slasher / zombie horror. After some discussions back and forth, we decided to create our own storyline that runs over 2 singles with our own made-up killer with inspiration from Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, Leatherface, and all those classic killers. The story starts with ‘The Rise Of Evil’ (to be released later) and ends with ‘Killer Instinct.’ It all ended up as “The Rise Of Evil: Killer Instinct”, and we are very happy and proud of how it all turned out!” A full stream of the EP is available at this location. For all further band info check out www.facebook.com/rimfrostofficial
On February 11, 2022 Hells Headbangers will release “Eternal Possession”, the second full-length from “proto Black Metal, Hardcore Punk and Evil Speed Metal” solo project HAMMR, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Forces Of Sin’, ‘Ritual Desecration’, ‘Seeping Chalice’, ‘Cascading Lustful Void’, ‘Suspicion’, ‘Negative Shift’, ‘Eternal Possession’, ‘Ceremonial Spite’ and ‘Torment Prevails Again’. You can already stream the album opener ‘Forces Of Sin’ over here. More about HAMMR at www.facebook.com/hammr666
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just released video # 2 (out of the series of 10) from their second album “Fist To Face”, which was released back in February 2020. You can watch ‘Empty Cyber Life’ at this location. The first video for the album’s title track can still be watched over here. A complete album stream is available at this location. You can follow HOLYCIDE at www.facebook.com/holycide
Los Angeles, California based Death Metallers INSINERATEHYMN will release their second album “Disembodied” on February 25, 2022 via Blood Harvest Records (in co-operation with Rotted Life) on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP edition will follow later this year. The “Disembodied” cover artwork was created by Edgar Roldan and the full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Perpetual Anguish’, ‘Visceral Ignominy’, ‘Corporeal Inception’, ‘Proliferation Of The Deceased’, ‘Intransitive Sanction’, ‘Immolated Ascension’, ‘Cerebral Malevolence’ and ‘Bitter Loss’ (ENTOMBED cover). INSINERATEHYMN features three ex – members of TRANSCENDENCE. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/insineratehymnofficial
“Basom Gryphos”, the second album from Basque Death Metal duo PESTILENGTH, will be released on March 11, 2022 via Nuclear Winter Records, in co-operation with Sentient Ruin and Goat Throne, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The album track ‘Thelegm’ is already streaming over here. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Tamm’, ‘Engtlant Suhb’, ‘Phorme’, ‘Thelegm’, ‘Tephra Codex’, ‘Exertion’, ‘Chrome’ and ‘Vexed’. More PESTILENGTH at https://pestilength.bandcamp.com
On February 25, 2022 Everlasting Spew Records will release a split between RITUAL NECROMANCY and FOSSILIZATION on MCD, tape and digitally. The vinyl edition will follow in late 2022. You can already listen to ‘Exalted In The Altar Of Insignificance’ from FOSSILIZATION at this location. All additional information about both bands you will find at www.facebook.com/ritualnecromancy and www.facebook.com/fossilization
On March 15, 2022 Inhuman Assault Productions will release “Retaliation Warfare”, the second album of Nevada’s TRIUMPH, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Holocaust Siege’, ‘Slave Parasite’, ‘Oblivion Barrage’, ‘Conquer Or Succumb’, ‘Inexorable Force’, ‘Annihilate The Inferior’, ‘Sigil Conflagration’ and ‘Affliction Storm’. You can already stream ‘Oblivion Barrage’ over here. For more TRIUMPH please visit https://triumph2.bandcamp.com
Greek Death / Thrashers VICIOUS KNIGHTS have just premiered the track ‘Swing From The Grave’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Alteration Through Possession”, which will be released on January 28, 2022 via Dying Victims Productions. The previously revealed album tracks ‘They Cast No Shadow’ and ‘The Boneghoul King (The Miserly)’ can still be checked out here and here. The complete “Alteration Through Possession” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Infestation’, ‘From Nothingness (To A Slave Of Darkness)’, ‘The Boneghoul King (The Miserly)’, ‘They Cast No Shadow’, ‘Sleep With The Ghouls’, ‘Vicious Knights’, ‘Swing From The Grave’, ‘It Was In My House’ and ‘Disenchanting The Matter (The Statue Is Alive)’. More about VICIOUS KNIGHTS at www.facebook.com/viciousknights.band
On March 21, 2021 Purity Through Fire will release “No Peace – No Dawn”, the debut full-length from Chile based Black Metal duo AD FINEM OMNIA, on digipak CD format. You can already stream the album closer ‘The Solipsist’ at this location. The full “No Peace – No Dawn” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Vultures’, ‘The Abyss’, ‘Solve: Route To Extinction’, ‘Coagula: Promethean Fire’, ‘Doomed To Death’, ‘Pitch Black’, ‘In Defiance’, ‘Of Agony And Emptiness’ and ‘The Solipsist’. For all further AD FINEM OMNIA information please visit www.facebook.com/adfinemomnia
Australian blackened Thrash Metal duo HELL MACHINE has just released an official video for ‘Devil Spawn’ over here. The track is taken from their sophomore album “Relentless Aggression”, which was released on November 27, 2021. A full stream you will find at this location. More HELL MACHINE information is available at www.facebook.com/hellmachineaus
International Death Metallers DARKENED are streaming their new EP “Mourn The Dying Light” at this location now. It will be released on January 07, 2021 via Edged Circle Productions on 7″ vinyl format. The cover artwork was supplied by Juanjo Castellano Rosado (UNLEASHED, THE BLACK DALHIA MURDER, GATES OF ISHTAR). More about DARKENED at www.facebook.com/darkeneddeathmetal
On January 06, 2022 Polish blackened Death Metallers SOTHORIS will release their second full-length “Wpiekłowstąpienie” (eng. “Harrowing Of Hell”) on CD via More Hate Productions (Russia), Old Metal Rites (Brazil), Misantropia Records (Finland) and in the third quarter of 2022 via Entropy Records (Columbia). It was produced by Krzysztof Kostencki (Tetra Wave Studio) and the cover artwork was created by Polish artist Bartosz Muszyński. A full album stream will be available today at 3PM CET at this location. For all further SOTHORIS information please visit www.facebook.com/sothorisband
Arizona based Death Metal one man project THORN has just premiered the track ‘Hellmouth’ at this location. It will appear on THORN’s upcoming second album “Yawning Depths”, which will be released on February 04, 2022 via Chaos Records on CD format. The vinyl LP version will be released later in 2022, while the cassette tape version will be released by Gurgling Gore. The previously revealed album track ‘Cavernous Shrines’ can still be streamed over here. The full “Yawning Depths” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Hellmouth’, ‘Yawning Depths’, ‘Cavernous Shrines’, ‘Noxious Existence’, ‘Judgement’s Throne’, ‘Lapis Lazuli’, ‘Unknown Body Of Light’ and ‘Graven Moonglow’. More THORN at https://thornx.bandcamp.com
“Vile Emergence”, the new EP from Chicago, Illinois based Death Metallers CRYPTUM, will be released via Caligari Records on February 24, 2022 on CD and cassette tape formats. You can already check out the title track over here. The full tracklist of the EP reads as follows: ‘Torrent Of Infinite Time’, ‘Volitional Sacrilege’, ‘Dead Celestial Bodies’ and ‘Vile Emergence’. For more CRYPTUM info please visit www.facebook.com/cryptumcrew