On May 29, 2020 Saturnal Records will release “Rehearsal Tape ’19” from Turkey’s first and longest-running Black Metal bands PAGAN on CD format. It was recorded live during the band’s rehearsals for their first live appearance after 18 years. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Longing And The Ancient Ones’, ‘Marching Of The Hordes’, ‘The Quest Of The Chronomancer’, ‘Shamanic Flames’, ‘The Wyrmweaver’, ‘Elenyr’ and ‘The Ascending’. More info at www.facebook.com/pagan.tr
Liège, Belgium based technical Death Metallers PESTIFER have just released a video for ‘Swallower Of Worlds’ at this location. The song is taken from their new album “Expanding Oblivion”, which was just released via Xenokorp. For more PESTIFER info please visit www.facebook.com/pestifer.band
On June 15, 2020 Slovak Metal Army will release the debut of Slovakian old school blackened Death Metallers DOMINION OF SUFFERING, “The Birth Of Hateful Existence”, on CD format. Necroeucharist Productions will be handling the vinyl edition. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Intro’, ‘The Birth Of Hateful Existence’, ‘Silentium Mortis’, ‘A Starborn Overlord’ and ‘Trapped By The Event Horizon’. ‘A Starborn Overlord’ is already available for streaming at this location and the title track ‘The Birth Of Hateful Existence’ can be checked out here. More about DOMINION OF SUFFERING at www.facebook.com/dominion-of-suffering-band-577965729346417
“Verisaarna”, the debut full-length from Finnish Black Metallers KRYPTAMOK, will be released via Purity Through Fire on May 30, 2020 on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Loputon, Totaalinen Sota’, ‘Apokalypsin Epilooki’, ‘Saastan Rekviemi’, ‘Susien Äitee’, ‘Pimeyden Tyranni’, ‘Rottien Reformaatio’, ‘Tämä On Enne Ja Kuolema Sen Lupaus’ and ‘Verisaarna’. The album opener is already streaming here. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/kryptamok
Belgian Speed Metallers BÜTCHER have announced Max Mayhem as their second guitar player. Max is well known as a guitarist from fellow Belgian Thrashers EVIL INVADERS. Here’s the official statement from Max: “I’m glad to announce that I am now joining Belgian Speed Metal force BÜTCHER as second guitarist! It was an honor for me to play with the boys at the release show of the new record. And the chemistry is there, both on- and offstage. Why not keep this going? As a fan of raw-sounding Metal, fast vintage riffing, and occasional blastbeats, it’s a pure pleasure for me to share the stage – and beers! – with BÜTCHER. I can’t wait to crush some skulls again once everything is back to normal!” All additional BÜTCHER information you will find at www.facebook.com/butcherspeedmetal
On June 12, 2020 Eternal Death will release the second album from Polish Black Metal duo ORDO SANGUINIS NOCTIS, “Chthonic Blood Mysteries”, on cassette tape format. It was originally released on CD in October 2019, limited to 300 copies. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘Scarlet Blackness Esoterism’, ‘Widmowe Nekropolie Pomeranii’, ‘The Triple Of Three Arcana’, ‘Nokturn Wilczego Opetania’, ‘Podziemia Krwawych Blyskawic’, ‘Lunar Sanctuary Of Blood (Chthonic Mysteries Testimony)’ and ‘Revenge Of The Netherworld Entity’. More about ORDO SANGUINIS NOCTIS at www.facebook.com/ordosanguinisnoctis
Finnish Black Metallers BYTHOS will release their debut album “The Womb Of Zero” via Terratur Possessions today. A full album stream is available here. The cover art was created by Kristiina Lehto. More band info is available at www.facebook.com/bythosofficial
Polish Black Metallers URWERK have just released a four song mini album via Old Temple, entitled “Solium”. You can check it out at https://oldtemple.bandcamp.com/album/solium-urwerk
Phoenix, Arizona based Grinders HEINOUS and brutal Death Metallers FLUIDS will release a split CD entitled “Torture Euphoric / Snuffed” via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on May 29, 2020 on CD and digital formats. HEINOUS will be featured with the four tracks ‘Severed’, ‘Shrunken Head’, ‘Mortuary’ and ‘Killdozer’. FLUIDS complete the split with ‘Capped’ and ‘Chunked’. You can already stream ‘Shrunken Head’ by HEINOUS at this location. A track from FLUIDS (‘Capped’) is available here. More from both bands at https://heinous1312.bandcamp.com and https://fluids666.bandcamp.com
Greek Doom Metallers ZOS have released their self-titled debut full-length via Old Temple. A full stream is available at https://oldtemple.bandcamp.com/album/zos-zos
French Black Metallers BÂ’A are now streaming their debut album “Deus Qui Non Mentitur” in its entirety over here. It will be out via Osmose Productions today. More BÂ’A info at www.osmoseproductions.com
A full album stream of “Bastardizing The Purity”, the debut full-length from Brazil / Canada based bestial Black Metallers BLASPHAMAGOATACHRIST, is available at this location now. It will be released on April 27, 2020 via Nuclear War Now! Productions. All additional information about BLASPHAMAGOATACHRIST you will find at www.facebook.com/blasphamagoatachrist
US Black Metallers ETERNAL DEATH are streaming their debut EP “Ritual Clearing” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on cassette tape format via Eternal Death tomorrow. More band info you will find at www.eternal-death.com or www.facebook.com/eternaldeathusa
South Carolina based Death Metallers LECHEROUS NOCTURNE have released an official video for ‘Planet Of The Crossing’ over here. The song is taken from the band’s fourth album “Occultaclysmic”, which was released via Willowtip Records in 2018. For all additional LECHEROUS NOCTURNE information please visit www.lecherousnocturne.net or www.facebook.com/lecherous.nocturne
Belgian Death Metallers BONES are now streaming their entire new EP “Gate Of Night” at this location. It will be released tomorrow via Blood Harvest Records on 12″ vinyl format. You can follow BONES at www.facebook.com/bones-death-metal-148871445266066
Reanimated Canadian Thrashers WITCHES HAMMER are now streaming their entire comeback album “Damnation Is My Salvation” over here. It will be released on April 25, 2020 via Nuclear War Now! Productions. For more WITCHES HAMMER info check out www.facebook.com/witcheshammerndhc
Los Angeles, California based Death Metallers ABYSMAL DAWN have just released a 3D lyric video for ‘Coerced Evolution’ at this location. The track is taken from the band’s new album “Phylogenesis”, which was released via Season Of Mist earlier this month. The band commented on the video as follows: “The basic idea behind the lyrics is that some time in the near future, human life on Earth will have become unsustainable. In turn, a certain portion of the population will forcibly have their consciousnesses uploaded to a grid in order to alleviate resources. The same corporations that would have destroyed the Earth, would run these grids and would continue to make a profit on what’s left of humanity in some fashion. The ruling class would continue to live in the real world and make the planet sustainable once again.” All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/abysmaldawn
Alabama based Black / Death Metal four piece HEGEMONY is streaming their entire debut album “Enthroned By Persecution” right here. It will be released via Hells Headbangers tomorrow. More HEGEMONY info at www.facebook.com/hegemonicdeath
Brooklyn’s Black Metallers TOMBS have shared a video of a remote jam session, in which the band performs the instrumental song ‘The World Is Made Of Fire’, taken from 2016’s EP “All Empires Fall”. You can watch the video at this location. TOMBS most recent EP “MonarchyOf Shadows” was released in February this year via Season Of Mist. You can listen to it in its entirety here. Additional TOMBS information you will find at www.facebook.com/tombsbklyn
On May 31, 2020 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release the PENTACLE album “Spectre Of The Eight Ropes” (2019) and “The Fifth Moon” (1996) on tape. Headsplit Records already released a tape version of “Spectre Of The Eight Ropes” in the USA. For more info and ordering details please visit www.facebook.com/darknessshallriseproductions or www.facebook.com/headsplitrecords. All addtional PENTACLE information you will find at www.pentacle.nl
US Doom / Deathers PULCHRA MORTE will be releasing their sophomore album in 2020. The band just issued a call to arms for anyone and everyone interested in joining in on the gang vocals for the track ‘The Serpent’s Choir’, which will be featured on their new album. All details you will find here. Deadline for submissions is May 01, 2020. Everyone that participates will receive a free download of the band’s debut album. More PULCHRA MORTE information you will find at www.facebook.com/pulchramorte
German blackened Metalpunks KARLOFF are streaming their entire upcoming debut mini album “Raw Nights” at this location now. It will be released on April 24, 2020 via Dying Victims Productions on 12” vinyl format. For all additional KARLOFF information check out www.facebook.com/karloffpunk
Canadian Death Metallers EXPUNGED are streaming their self-titled debut mini album in its entirety over here now. It will be released on April 24, 2020 via Hells Headbangers. More about EXPUNGED at www.facebook.com/expungeddeathmetal
Topeka, Kansas based brutal Death Metallers UNMERCIFUL are now streaming their new album “Wrath Encompassed” in its entirety at this location. It will be released on April 24, 2020 via Willowtip Records. UNMERCIFUL recently also released a music video for the titletrack of the album. It was filmed and produced by Kansas City based Axel Harvey Productions. You can watch the video here. All further UNMERCIFUL info can be found at www.facebook.com/officialunmerciful
On May 29, 2020 Evil Dead Production, in co-operation with Hells Headbangers, will release “Versus All Gods”, the ninth full-length from IMPIETY, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The cover art was created by Jenglot Hitam and the complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro – Kommand IX’, ‘Reigning Armageddon’, ‘Djinn Of All Djinns’, ‘Barbarian Black Horde’, ‘Inviktus Satanikus’, ‘Azazel’, ‘Terror Occult Dominion’, ‘Dajjal United’, ‘Interstellar Deathfuck’ and ‘Magickal Wrath’. The album track ‘Reigning Armageddon’ can already be streamed here. More about IMPIETY at www.facebook.com/impietyofficial
Black Metallers GOLDEN LIGHT are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Sacred Colour Of The Source Of Light” at this location now. It will be released on April 24, 2020 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The duo from parts unknown consists of E. Henderson (who handles all instruments and sounds) and vocalist Meghan Wood. A video for the previously revealed album opener ‘Sceptre Of Solar Idolatry’ is still available here. For more info and ordering details please visit www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
German blackened Thrashers WARLUST are streaming their second album “Unearthing Shattered Philosophies” over here now. It will be released on April 24, 2020 via Dying Victims Productions. More WARLUST information you will find at www.facebook.com/warlust666
Auckland, New Zealand based Black Metallers WINTER DELUGE are streaming their upcoming new mini album “Degradation Renewal” in its entirety at this location now. It was recorded and mixed by Raj Singarajah and Cam Sinclair (known for his work with BÖLZER, DIOCLETIAN, HERESIARCH, WITCHRIST) and will be released on April 24, 2020 via Osmose Productions. More WINTER DELUGE info at www.facebook.com/winterdeluge
ABBATH have released a drum cam video for the song ‘Bridge Of Spasms’. It was recorded in February this year at Club Progresja in Warsaw, Poland, during the band’s European tour with label mates 1349 and VLTIMAS. The video can be watched here. Drummer Ukri commented on it as follows: “‘Bridge Of Spasms’ is an highly energetic track and one of my favorite songs to play live. It’s also the first song that we started working on together for our latest album “Outstrider”, during my debut rehearsals with ABBATH early 2018. During our recent Outstrider 2020 European tour, “Drummers From Hell” Youtube drum channel filmed our show in Warsaw. We picked ‘Bridge Of Spasms’ to make the video of, because it represents our newer sound and the unifying sonic power that the ABBATH band can perpetrate on stage”. All further ABBATH information you will find at www.facebook.com/abbathband
On May 29, 2020 Hells Headbangers will release “Riders Of The Wasteland”, the debut full-length from Finnish Black / Death Metallers VIOLENT HAMMER, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Death Squad’, ‘Annihilation (Victims Of Bomb Raid)’, ‘Wasted Through Life’, ‘Screams Of Agony’, ‘Riders Of The Wasteland’, ‘(Trapped) In Depths’, ‘House Of Beria’, ‘Bratva’ and ‘Prophet Of Darkness’. ‘(Trapped) In Depths’ is already available for streaming here. To find out more about VIOLENT HAMMER please visit www.facebook.com/violenthammer
American blackened Death Metallers VALDRIN have revealed a lyric video for ‘Red Burning Candles Of Hatred’ at this location. The track will appear on the band’s third album “Effigy Of Nightmares”, which will be released on June 12, 2020 via Blood Harvest Records. Vocalist / guitarist Carter Hicks commented on the album as follows: “Effigy Of Nightmares”, like our previous album “Two Carrion Talismans”, centers around the antagonist of our Mythos: Nex Animus. The story chronicles the tour of a nameless narrator through the halls of Hosptium Mortis, the nightmare hospital below the Orcus underworld itself, where Nex tortures and lobotomizes the dissident gods of his domain. We as the vessels of the Ausadjur Mythos have chosen this short and concise musical observation of Nex’s supreme power to be the final tale in the Orcus realm. In the future, we will return to the story of Valdrin Ausadjur, and continue after the events of Beyond The Forest.” The cover art of the album was created by Lucas Ruggieri, with layout by Anton Escobar and the full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Gates Of Hospice’, ‘Exsanguination Tunnels’, ‘Red Burning Candles Of Hatred’, ‘Serpentine Bloodhalls’, ‘Basilisk Of Light’ and ‘Down The Oubliette Of Maelstrom’. For more VALDRIN info please visit www.facebook.com/valdrinausadjur
Chicago based Black Metallers DISMALIMERENCE will release their debut full-length “Tome: 1” on June 26, 2020 via Transcending Records. It will be available on vinyl (black and gold marble editions), CD and digitally . The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Crimson Glow’, ‘Sequestered Hearts’, ‘My Only Love’, ‘Orchid’s Reverie’, ‘Pragma’, ‘Negligence Of The Forgotten’, ‘Vale Amor’ and ‘Destined For Solitude’. You can already check out ‘Negligence Of The Forgotten’ here. More about DISMALIMERENCE at www.facebook.com/dismalimerence
South American Death Metallers REPTILIUM have just released their sophomore EP “Adrenochromacy” via Slam Worldwide. It was recorded, engineered and produced by REPTILIUM’s Nirah (guitar and vocals) and Cecrops (drums) at Valley Of The Death in Quito, Ecuador. The mixing and mastering duties were handled by Cody Fuentes at Rapture Recordings, Los Angeles, California. A full EP stream is available at this location. All additional band information can be found at www.facebook.com/reptiliumsect
Munich, Germany based Black / Death Metallers WOLVES DEN will release their second full-length “Miserere” on May 15, 2020 through Trollzorn Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Tides Of Hate’, ‘Pfad Ins Dunkel’, ‘Der Frost In Mir’, ‘Nachtmahr’, ‘Häresie’, ‘Antaios’, ‘Melancholera’ and ‘Nameless Grave’. You can already check out ‘Häresie’ at this location. The artwork was created by Lisa Vinstervan. More WOLVES DEN information you will find at www.facebook.com/wolvesdenband
Finnish Death Metallers PURTENANCE will release their fourth album “Buried Incarnation” on June 23, 2020 via Xtreem Music on CD and 12″ LP formats. The cover art was once again created by Chris Moyen who has been in charge of every PURTENANCE cover artwork since their 1992 debut album “Member Of Immortal Damnation”. The following tracks will appear on “Buried Incarnation”: ‘Into The Arctic Gloom’, ‘Shrouded Vision Of Afterlife’, ‘Inside The Pyre Of Enlightenment’, ‘Under The Malicious Moon’, ‘Lifeless Profoundity’, ‘Deathbed Confession’, ‘Wrapped In Lamentation’, ‘Dark Womb Of Nothingness’ and ‘Burial Secrecy’. You can already listen to the first single of the album (‘Deathbed Confession’) at this location. For all further band information check out www.facebook.com/purtenance
Canadian Black Metallers REVENGE have released a new song entitled ‘Self Segregation (System Torched)’ over here . It is taken from their upcoming new full-length “Strike.Smother.Dehumanize”, which will be released on May 22, 2020 via Season Of Mist Underground Activists. More about REVENGE you will find at www.facebook.com/revengeofficialsompage
Finnish Black / Doom Metallers OBLIVION GATE are now streaming their debut album “Wisdom Of The Grave” in its entirety at this location. It will be released on April 16, 2020 via Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation (ATMF). “Wisdom Of The Grave” originally was the second of two OBLIVION GATE EP releases, and contained four tracks. Now, with two additional brand-new songs, it became a full album, that features the following tracks: ‘Morphine’, ‘Wisdom Of The Grave’, ‘Give Me The Gun’, ‘A Strange Thing To Say’, ‘Lesser Key Of Solomon’ and ‘In The Fields Where I Lay’. For more OBLIVION GATE information visit the label at www.atmf.net or www.facebook.com/aeternitas.tenebrarum
Detroit, Michigan based Metalpunks SHITFUCKER are now streaming their entire upcoming second album “Sex With Dead Body” over here. It will be released on April 20, 2020 via Hells Headbangers. Among the album tracks you’ll also find four re-recorded versions of the songs from their 2019 demo “Ricky’s Dead”. More SHITFUCKER at https://shitfucker.bandcamp.com