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Norwegian Thrash / Death / Black Metallers INFLABITAN will release their debut full-length “Intrinsic” on February 26, 2021 via Soulseller Records on CD and in digital formats. The vinyl edition will follow later in the Spring (date tba). The first single and opening track of the album, ‘Mental Radiation Fix’, can already be checked out here. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Mental Radiation Fix’, ‘Avanti Cristo’, ‘Crown Of Horns’, ‘Egocide’, ‘Divine Prostitution’, ‘Introvert Vile Domain’, ‘Symbols’, ‘The Evil Mainframe’, ‘The Great Surrender’ and ‘Children Of The Damned’. More INFLABITAN info you will find at www.facebook.com/inflabitanintrinsic
“Ad Numen Satanae”, the fourth full-length from Italy’s Black Metallers XEPER, will be released on February 26, 2021 via Soulseller Records on CD and digitally, followed by a vinyl release during the Spring (date tba). It will feature the following tracks: ‘Fiat Interitus’, ‘The Hidden Genesis’, ‘Under The Will Of Satan’, ‘Riding The Spiral Of Lilith’, ‘Purity And Death’, ‘Snake That Brought The Flame’ and ‘Ad Numen Satanae’. ‘The Hidden Genesis’ is already streaming at this location. The “Ad Numen Satanae” artwork was created by Marcelo Vasco. XEPER was formed in 2007 in Treviso, Italy by guitarist Guh.Lu, best known as a former member of international bands such as SETHERIAL, IMPIETY and currently as GORGOROTH’s bass player. XEPER also features musicians from the worldwide Black Metal scene such as V. Einride (WHOREDOM RIFE) on drums, Maelstrom on vocals and guest appearances of Blasphemer (VLTIMAS, ex – MAYHEM), Mantus (PATRIA) and various others. For all further XEPER info check out www.facebook.com/xeperofficial
“Republik Rakyat Jelata”, the debut full-length from Indonesian brutal Death Metallers SUFISM, has just been released via Brutal Mind. A full album stream is available at this location. More SUFISM info you will find at www.facebook.com/sufism666
On February 28, 2021, Nuclear War Now! Productions will re-issue the “Ancients” compilation from Mexican Black Metallers XIBALBA ITZAES, as well as the band’s 1994 debut album “Ah Dzam Poop Ek”, on vinyl format (the latter will be released on double LP vinyl format with proper packaging). Included are all album tracks with the original mix and four extra tracks taken from their split demo with AVZHIA. The layout was completely redone for this vinyl version. Full streams for both re-releases are available here respectively here. More about XIBALBA ITZAES at www.xibalbaitzaes.com
Horror Pain Gore Death will release a double compilation CD from Japanese Doom / Death Metallers COFFINS. It will be entitled “Defilements” and features material from the following out of print EP releases: “Craving To Eternal Slumber”, “Noise Room Sessions 2014”, “March Of Despair”, “Sewage Sludgecore Treatment” and “Live At Asakusa Deathfest 2016”. You can listen to the album track ‘Hatred Storm’ at this location. For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/intothecoffin
Salt Lake City based Thrashers DEATHBLOW have just premiered ‘Accelerated Decrepitude’, a song from their forthcoming new album “Insect Politics”, over here. The album will be out on December 23, 2020 on the band’s own label Sewer Mouth Records. The artwork was created by Axel Hermann (SODOM, ASPHYX). More DEATHBLOW info is available at www.facebook.com/deathblowofficial
“The Atonality Of Flesh”, the second album of Swedish Black Metallers REAPER, will be released via Iron Bonehead Productions on March 05, 2021 on CD and vinyl LP formats. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Intro’, ‘Dogs Of The Crumbled Firmament’, ‘The Sweetness Of The Wound’, ‘Come Nature, Come Cruelty, Come Death’, ‘Nightgaunts’, ‘Raid The Heavens’, ‘Saturn Devours’, ‘Architecture Of The Flame’, ‘Me, You And The Juices Of Death’, ‘Thru With You’, ‘Rise Epimetheus’, ‘Piss, Bile And Violence’ and ‘Outro’. You can already stream ‘Raid The Heavens’ at this location. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
“To Hell”, the third full-length of Swedish Death’n’Rollers THE GENERALS, will be released on February 26, 2021 via Black Zombie Records. It was recorded at Sunlight Studio, produced by Tomas Skogsberg with additional recordings at Black Zombie Studio and Dead Dog Farm. The mix and mastering was handled by Lawrence Mackrory at Dugout Productions (FKÜ, LIK, BAEST). A video for the title track is already available at this location. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Faith In Fire’, ‘To Hell’, ‘Evolution Of The Flesh’, ‘Thrill Kill’, ‘Locate Decapitate Incinerate’, ‘No Atonement’, ‘Deadlock’, ‘Demonical Trait’, ‘Bombardment’ and ‘Undying Death’. More about THE GENERALS at www.facebook.com/thegeneralsswe
Salt Lake City, Utah based Black / Doom Metallers KNELLWRAITH have been signed by Personal Records. The band’s debut album “Melancholium”, which is currently being recorded, will be released in the first half of 2021. For more info and regular updates follow the band at www.facebook.com/knellwraith
BENIGHTED have announced new European tourdates for September and October 2021. The band will be supporting ABORTED during the first run of the “Hell Over Europe 4” tour. Vocalist Julien Truchan commented on the tour as follows: “Huge news! With fingers crossed that this pandemic will be over soon, we are so proud and insanely happy to announce this amazing European Tour with our brothers ABORTED: Hell Over Europe 4! With this killer line-up, we will hit the road again to bring brutality back on stage and show you how the tracks of our new album “Obscene Repressed” sound live. Every night will be the occasion to party with friends and fans to celebrate the return of what we are all made for: fucking brutal live music! Can’t wait to see you all, guys!” All additional BENIGHTED info can be cound at www.facebook.com/brutalbenighted
On February 28, 2021 Purity Through Fire will release “Necuratul”, the debut full-length from German Black Metal duo ORDER OF NOSFERAT, on CD, vinyl LP and limited A5 digipak formats. It was recorded during October / November 2020 and the complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Awaiting His Arrival’, ‘Rats And Pestilence Shall Conquer’, ‘Empusas Deadly Freight’, ‘Servant Of Orlok’, ‘Behold The Pale Lord’, ‘The Bloodcitadel’, ‘Carrying Coffins In Endless Processions’, ‘Necuratul’, ‘At Dawn’ (АЛЬЯНС cover), ‘As Light Withered My Skin’ and ‘Ending’. The album track ‘Servant Of Orlok’ can already be streamed over here. For more information please visit www.purity-through-fire.com
Italian Speed Metal Punks CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY are streaming their third album “Written Destiny” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on December 18, 2020 via Hells Headbangers. The cover art was created by Velio Josto (RIOT, ENFORCER, CRUEL FORCE, VULTURE, OSTROGOTH). The vinyl version will come with a bonus 7″ featuring an ONSLAUGHT cover and a reboot of an old demo song. More about CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY at www.facebook.com/cotofficial
St. Petersburg, Russia based symphonic Black Metal one man band TRAGEDY IN HOPE will self-release their debut full-length “Sleep Paralysis” on February 12, 2021. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Lucid Dream’, ‘The Celebration Of Despair And Woe’, ‘Fighting With The Rain’, ‘Winter Wedding Ceremony’, ‘The Mistress Of Dark Art’, ‘Nightmare Lullaby’, ‘Insomnious Autumnal Night’ and ‘Sleep Paralysis’. The first single ‘Fighting With The Rain’ is already streaming over here. For all additional TRAGEDY IN HOPE information please visit www.facebook.com/tragedyinhope
Indonesian Death Metallers KALIGULA have just released a video for ‘Retorika Elite’ at this location. The track is taken from the band’s new album “Doctrination Of Atisamdha”, which was released via Brutal Mind on November 10, 2020. It can be streamed in its entirety over here. More about KALIGULA at www.facebook.com/kaligula-208713572482680
Canadian Death Metal duo ALTERED DEAD has just premiereed the track ‘Prosodemic Realms’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s upcoming second full-length “Returned To Life”, which will be released on January 25, 2021 via Memento Mori. The previously revealed title track ‘Returned To Life’ can still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Mental Suicide’, ‘Returned To Life’, ‘Final Pathogen’, ‘Prosodemic Realms’, ‘Empostomb’, ‘Thrawing In Agony’, ‘Ensanguine Path’, ‘Rotting Outwards’, ‘…Of The Oppressed’ and ‘Into The Crypts Of Rays’ (CELTIC FROST cover). For all additional ALTERED DEAD information please visit www.facebook.com/altereddead
German Death / Grind trio REPULSIVE FEAST has just released a 7″ EP entitled “Meat Hook Mutilation” via Lycanthropic Chants. It features four tracks, clocking under 10 minutes, and is available on black vinyl (150 copies), white vinyl with meat hook marble (100 copies) and fleshy vinyl with black marble (50 copies). The EP is housed in a black inner sleve and a fold out cover made of 300g thick paper and includes a free digital download code. You can listen to the entire EP at this location. The artwork was created by Syrtis Art. All further REPULSIVE FEAST info you will find at www.facebook.com/repulsive-feast-406514753170111
Virginia’s Death / Doom trio NIGHT HAG and Germany’s CRYPTIC BROOD have joined forces for a split LP, which will be entitled “Swollen With Rancid Phlegm”. The release is scheduled for January 08, 2021. You can already pre-order it here. The cover art was supplied by Caleb Dickenson. More about both bands at www.facebook.com/nighthagva and www.facebook.com/crypticbrood
CRYPTIC BROOD‘s last album “Outcome Of Obnoxious Science“ will be re-released on tape format via South American Burning Coffin Records this month. You can watch a video for the title track at this location. You can follow CRYPTIC BROOD at www.facebook.com/crypticbrood
On February 05, 2021, Personal Records will release the debut full-length from Norwegian solo Doom / Death Metal project FELGRAVE, “A Waning Light”. Personal Records is the new label of MAJESTIC DOWNFALL mainman Jacobo Córdova, which will be distributed by Chaos Records. The “A Waning Light” cover artwork was created by Mariusz Lewandowski and the full tracklist of the album reads like this: ‘Millennium Shroud’, ‘The Borrower’, ‘Summer’s Widow’, ‘Withered Years’ and ‘Oracular’. The album opener ‘Millennium Shroud’ can already be streamed here. More FELGRAVE at https://felgrave.bandcamp.com
Spanish Death Metallers UNBOUNDED TERROR have just released a video for ‘Infernal Judgment’ at this location. The song will appear on their upcoming new full-length “Infernal Judgment”, which will be released on January 19, 2021 via Xtreem Music on CD format. Apart from ‘Infernal Judgment’ the album will feature 4 re-recordings of songs from their 1992 debut full-length “Nest Of Affliction” and three live tracks from their latest album “Faith In Chaos”, that were recorded on August 20, 2020 in the middle of the pandemic. More about UNBOUNDED TERROR you will find here: www.unboundedterror.com.
Swedish Black Metallers MALAKHIM have just premiered the track ‘There Is A Beacon’ at this location. It is taken from the band’s upcoming debut album “Theion”, which will be released on January 08, 2020 via Iron Bonehead Productions. A video for ‘The Splendour Of Stillborn Stars’ is additionally available here. The complete “Theion” tracklist reads as follows: ‘There Is A Beacon’, ‘Merciless Angel Of Pestilence’, ‘Slither O Serpent’, ‘Chalice Of Ruin’, ‘His Voiceless Whisper’, ‘Hammer Of Satan’, ‘The Splendour Of Stillborn Stars’ and ‘Theion’. For all further MALAKHIM information visit www.facebook.com/malakhimofficial
Spanish Death Metallers DEVOTION have just premiered the track ‘Megiddo’s’ over here. It is taken from DEVOTION’s upcoming second album “The Harrowing”, which will be released on January 25, 2021 via Memento Mori. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘The Harrowing’, ‘God Forlorn’, ‘Megiddo’s’, ‘Brethren In Gloom’, ‘Valley Of Death’, ‘Birth Of Horror’, ‘Mangled Angels’, ‘Feast Of Esdras’, ‘The Mournful Beam’, ‘Depravity’, ‘Demon Sleep’, ‘Virtue Besmirched’ and ‘Penumbra’. The previously revealed ‘God Forlorn’ can still be streamed at this location. More DEVOTION info at www.facebook.com/deathmetaldevotion
Bass player Zulbert Buery is no longer part of HEADHUNTER D.C. The band just issued the following comments about it: “There were 17 years of services rendered to the band, for which we are forever grateful. Unfortunately, as in everything in life, sometimes we are forced to make difficult decisions, but the main goal is and will always be to evolve in the most different aspects, and this decision was made and agreed by both parties and in the most friendly way possible, what couldn’t be different, considering the long years of brotherhood between us, a brotherhood that transcends Death Metal and will continue for the ages to come. We wish Zulbert luck in his projects and further activities, current and future, either as a musician, as a deathbanger, as a father, as a human being. Always count on us, as you will forever be a true ‘Headhunter Death Cultist’! All hail!!! We hope to be able to announce a new bass player very soon and thus continue to spread the Death Cult across the land through hymns of brutality, sin and heresy. We will keep everyone informed about it. Stay tuned for our new album coming out in 2021! A new era of rise of the damned is on its way! Our Cult is eternal! We ride on the wings of resistance!!! I.D.M.W.T.!!!!!!!!! 666” All further band info you will find at www.facebook.com/headhunterdc
On February 15, 2021 Heidens Hart Records will release “Ôfstân”, the new album from Friesland, Netherlands based Black Metallers KJELD, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Betsjoend’, ‘De Iensume Widner’, ‘Wylde Rixt’, ‘Ôfstân’, ‘Asbran’, ‘Wite Fokel’, ‘Falske Doop’, ‘Skaad’ and ‘Konfrontaasje’. More about KJELD at www.facebook.com/kjeldblackmetal
Canadian old school Death Metallers DEADSOULALLIANCE have released a single from their upcoming album at this location. The album will be entitled “Behind The Scenes” and is scheduled for a release in early spring 2021 via Vrykoblast Productions in co-operation with Regain Records. You can follow the band www.facebook.com/deadsoulalliance
Greek blackend Death Metallers EMBRACE OF THORNS will release a live CD / DVD entitled “Revelation Of All Sins” via Saturnal Records on January 15, 2021. It combines audio and video performances from two professionally captured shows. The audio CD, entitled “The Fall Of Athens”, was recorded live in Athens at the Kyttaro club in 2015, while the DVD was professionally recorded and filmed by Necrokatarsis, when the band visited Vilnius, Lithuania for the Armageddon Descends festival. Both shows were mixed and mastered by Herald of Demonic Pestilence. You can already check out one of the tracks over here. The cover artwork was created by Gilbert Miranda. More EMBRACE OF THORNS info is available at www.facebook.com/embraceofthorns
“Poizon Of God”, the second album from Guatemala based Black Metallers ABYSSUM, which originally was released in 2009 in extremely limited quantities (and mostly in Central / South America), will be re-released via The Sinister Flame. It features the following tracks: ‘A Cold Whisper Behind The Cosmos’, ‘The Sacred Abyss… (…Of Thelemic Mysteries)’, ‘Laugh Close To Me, At Your Creation’, ‘Illusion Of Pan (The Spirit Of The Woods)’, ‘Laments Of Mystic Lands’, ‘Be Thou Damned Forever’ and ‘In Darkness We Will Forever Be…’. More info you will find at www.thesinisterflame.com or www.facebook.com/thesinisterflame
Sunnyvale, California based Death Metallers REPAID IN BLOOD have just released a video for ‘Molotov Circumcision’. The track is taken from their forthcoming second album “Reflective Duality” and features guest vocalist Michael Alvarez (FLUB, ex – ALTERBEAST) and guest guitarist Cameron Losch (BORN OF OSIRIS). You can watch the video at this location. The previously released video for ‘Rebel Scum’, featuring Greg Brugess (ALLEGAEON), can still be found over here. “Reflective Duality” will be released on January 21, 2021. You can pre-order it here. For all further REPAID IN BLOOD information check out www.facebook.com/repaidinblood
On December 01, 2020 German old school Death / Thrashers HERETIC WARFARE self-released their debut full-length “Hell On Earth”. A full album stream is available at this location. The band’s guitarist Ingo “Fusel” Fussangel previously released one album (“One Hand One Foot And A Lot Of Teeth”) with DEATH BY DAWN. The line-up on that album also featured Martin van Drunen (ASPHYX, ex – PESTILENCE), who later got replaced by Jan Wiltschut, who’s the current HERETIC WARFARE vocalist now. More about HERETIC WARFARE at www.facebook.com/hereticwarfare37
On February 12, 2021 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “Dominion Of The Wicked”, the third album from German Death Metallers ABYTHIC, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The track ‘Augury Of The Doomed’ can already be checked out over here. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘At The Treshold Of Obscurity’, ‘The Call’, ‘Endless Tides’ and ‘Augury Of The Doomed’. More about ABYTHIC at www.facebook.com/abythic
Florida based Death / Doom Metal band DRUID LORD will be entering the studio this December to start recording their 2021 full-length album for Hells Hellbangers, which will be entitled “Relics Of The Dead”. For more information and regular updates follow DRUID LORD at www.facebook.com/druiddeathcult
Defunct Florida based Black / Death Metallers EQUINOX will be re-releasing their first two full-length albums, “Return To Mystery” and “Journey Into Oblivion”, via Vic Records in early 2021. Both albums will feature bonus tracks, unreleased photos and extras. More about EQUINOX at www.facebook.com/equinoxfl
“Anthropophagy”, the debut full-length from Finnish Death Metallers SADISTIC DRIVE, will be released on February 26, 2021 via Blood Harvest Records on vinyl LP format (300 copies on black vinyl and 100 copies on gross green vinyl). A full album stream is already available at this location. More SADISTIC DRIVE info can be found at www.facebook.com/censoreddrive
Northern California based technical Death Metallers OMINOUS RUIN will release their new album “Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone” on February 26, 2021 on CD, vinyl and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Ritual’, ‘Attuned To The Chasm’, ‘Deception’, ‘Chrysalis Of Flesh’, ‘A Feast For Shadows’, ‘Labyrinthine Torment’, ‘Consumed’, ‘Simulacra’ and ‘Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone’. The album’s first single ‘Ritual’ is already streaming over here. For all further info check out www.facebook.com/ominousruin