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“The Weakest Among Us”, the forthcoming sophomore album from technical brutal Death Metallers WORMHOLE, is streaming in its entitety at this location now. It will be released on January 14, 2020 via Lacerated Enemy Records. More bout WORMHOLE at www.facebook.com/wormholemetal
Chilean Death Metal duo COFFIN CURSE has just premiered a new track entitled ‘Grave Offender’ over here. It will appear on the band’s upcoming debut album “Ceased To Be”, which will be released on January 27, 2020 via Memento Mori. The cover artwork was created by Daniel Hermosilla (Nox Fragor Art). For all further information please visit www.facebook.com/coffincurse
The special re-recording of WALDGEFLÜSTER’s first demo “Stimmen Im Wind 2020” is streaming in its entirety exclusively at this location now. It has just been released via Nordvis Produktion on vinyl LP format. More about these German Black Metallers at www.waldgefluester.com or www.facebook.com/blackmetalwaldgefluester
Swedish Death Metallers DEMONICAL will be touring Europe together with Brazil’s MYSTIFIER in July 2020. The band will hit the road with new frontman Christofer Säterdal, who made his DEMONICAL debut during a gig in Stockholm last November, as well as throughout the “Brazil Ablaze tour”, which took place last month. A new, as of yet untitled DEMONICAL album is tentatively slated for an early summer 2020 release via Agonia Records. For more info and regular updates follow the band at www.facebook.com/demonicalofficial
Hells Headbangers have signed Detroit, Michigan based Death / Thrashers PERVERSION for the band’s second album, which will be released through the label later this year on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. A statement from the band reads as follows: “PERVERSION has always had an orthodox and purist ideology in regards to how Black and Death Metal are meant to sound. Gathering inspiration from the degeneration of civilization, the decay in morality, and the Kali Yuga itself, we captured an archaic structure in our latest recordings. Our principles and convictions have remained unchanged through the years. We have forged an alliance with Hells Headbangers to release our second full-length, which is definitely not for people looking for sophisticated, politically correct music, but for fanatics of barbaric and punishing cacophony.” You can already check out a new track entitled ‘Bhagavad Genocide’ here. More band information at www.facebook.com/perversion.is.death
Finnish Black Metallers SAMMAS’ EQUINOX and EMANATING VOID will release a split 7″ entitled “Temples Of Ice” on January 31, 2020 via Signal Rex. The material was recorded during the past few months, while both bands gathered at the same studio. The final mastering work was done by MOONSORROW’s Henri Sorvali at Trollhouse Studio. A two-minute sample can already be checked out at this location. The tracklist reads as follows: SAMMAS’ EQUINOX – ‘Glaciers In The Somber Night’ and EMANATING VOID – ‘Crystallised In Superiority’. More info at www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just released a lyric video of the song ‘Trapped By The Crappy Trap’ over here. The song is taken from their upcoming new album “Fist To Face”, which will be released on February 14, 2020 through Xtreem Music on CD, 12″ LP and cassette formats, and also through MDD Records (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and Spiritual Beast Records in Japan (February 12, 2020). For all additional HOLYCIDE information please visit www.facebook.com/holycide
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions have signed Virginia’s Goregrinders REDUNDANT PROTOPLASM for the release of the band’s new album “Adipose Piquerism: A Collection Of Maniacal Bloodlettings”. It will be out on February 07, 2020 on CD and digital formats. You can already check out the album track ‘Intravenous Leptosporosis’ at this location. The complete tracklisting reads like this: ‘Truncated Ileostomy / Terratoma Dizygotician’, ‘Intravenous Leptosporosis’, ‘Abdominal Urethritis’, ‘Clit Ripper’, ‘Emaciatophobia’, ‘Forced Ingestion Of Endometrium Abscess Discharge’, ‘High Caloric Dysphagia’, ‘Planned Obsolescence’, ‘Runaway Systolic Arterial Rupture’, ‘Terroristic Fecalization’, ‘Drop Dead’ (SIEGE cover), ‘Rapid Cellulite Prolapse’ and ‘Bipolar Coagulation Of The Metastatic Tumor’. All further REDUNDANT PROTOPLASM info you will find at www.facebook.com/redundantprotoplasm
On March 20, 2020 Nordvis Produktion will release “Budet”, the third album from Sweden’s GRIFT. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Barn Av Ingenmansland’, ‘Skimmertid’, ‘Ödets Bortbytingar’, ‘Väckelsebygd’, ‘Vita Arkiv’ and ‘Oraklet I Kullabo’. More about GRIFT at www.facebook.com/griftofficial
“Vicious Inhumanity”, the new album from Seattle based experimental Death / Grind Trio RAT KING, is streaming in its entirety at this location now. It will be released via Within The Mind Records on January 17, 2020 on CD, cassette and digitally. It was recorded by Tad Doyle at Witch Ape Studio in Seattle, Washington and mixed and mastered by Ryan Butler (EXHUMED, LANDMINE MARATHON) at Arcane Digital Recording in Chandler, Arizona. The artwork was created by Daniel Racines. More RAT KING information you will find at www.facebook.com/ratkingseattle
Lycanthropic Chants have just released the “Defied Mummified” EP from Norwegian Death Metallers FILTHDIGGER as a limited tape edition (100 hand numbered copies). The covers are made of 300g recycling paper and a free digital download code is included. You can listen to one song from the EP right here. More info about FILTHDIGGER at www.facebook.com/filthdigger
On February 14, 2020 Werewolf Records will release “Outojen Tornien Varjoissa”, the debut full-length from Finnish Black Metallers FAUSTIAN PACT, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The album track ‘Myytti Am’khollenin Kuninkaasta’ is already available for streaming here. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Saastainen Valo Lintutornissa’, ‘Myytti Am’khollenin Kuninkaasta’, ‘Kuulas Musta Aika’, ‘Loitsupuut’, ‘Rauniopuhetta’, ‘Keihäsrinta’, ‘Valottomien Askelten Takana’, ‘Askeesikuun Luolissa’, ‘Yön Viittojen Saleissa’ and ‘Viimeisen Tyrannin Silmä’. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/truefaustianpact
Polish Death Metallers TRAUMA have completed work on their eighth full-length album “Ominous Black”. It will be released via Selfmadegod Records on March 06, 2020 as CD, limited edition CD box, 12″ LP and digital download. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Inside The Devils Heart’, ‘Insanity Of Holiness’, ‘Astral Misanthropy’, ‘Soul Devourer’, ‘Among The Lies’, ‘I Am Universe’, ‘The Black Maggots’, ‘The Godless Abyss’ and ‘Colossus’. Here’s what guitarist Jarosław “Mister” Misterkiewicz had to say about the new material: “All songs have been recorded in our very own TRAUMAtic Sound Studio in Elbląg, Poland where we used to make pre-productions of the previous albums. Whole thing has been mixed and mastered by Wiesławscy Bros at famous Hertz Studio (BEHEMOTH, VADER, HOUR OF PENANCE, BEHEADED). The new album includes nine brand-new songs and it’s entitled “Ominous Black”.” You can check out an official teaser of the album here. More about TRAUMA at www.facebook.com/traumaofficialpage
On January 31, 2020 Signal Rex will release a special compilation from Finnish Black Metallers PANTHEON OF BLOOD on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will be entitled “Voices Rooted In Blood” and compiles the following releases: “Pantheon Of Blood” (Demo 2010), “Consociatio Solis Et Lunae” (7″ EP, 2011), their track from the split 7″ EP with CREATURA (2015) and the “Purgatorial Awakening” cassette EP (2018). The track ‘The Dead End’ (from the cassette EP) is available for streaming at this location. More PANTHEON OF BLOOD at https://pantheonofblood.bandcamp.com
On March 27, 2020 Dying Victims Productions will release “From Below”, a new mini album (on 12” vinyl format) from German Speed Metallers CRYPT DAGGER. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The God Fukk You’, ‘Six Horned Pervertor’, ‘Death To All’, ‘Rape From The Grave’, ‘The Cruel Reign’, ‘Devastation’, ‘Blood For The Crypt Dagger’ and ’54/40 Or Fight’ (DEAD MOON cover). You can already stream the track ‘Devastation’ here. For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/cryptdagger
Polish Black Metallers KRYPTA NICESTWA will release a new single-sided 12″ vinyl mini album entitled “Sarkofagi Nocnych Zjaw” via Harvest Of Death (a division of Signal Rex) on January 31, 2020. The track ‘Spojrzenia Świątyni Nocy’ is already available for streaming at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Spojrzenia Świątyni Nocy’, ‘Czernie Bytów Chtonicznych’, ‘W Sferze Pzoagrobowego Trwania’ and ‘Ołtarze Diabelskich Pierwocin’. More info at www.signalrex.com.
Norwegian Black Metallers SVARTTJERN have released a third and final track from their upcoming fifth full-length “Shame Is Just A Word”. You can stream ‘Frost Embalmed Abyss’ at this location. The album (that will be released on January 17, 2020 through Soulseller Records) features the following tracks: ‘Prince Of Disgust’, ‘Ment Til Å Tjene’, ‘Melodies Of Lust’, ‘Ta Dets Drakt’, ‘Frost Embalmed Abyss’, ‘Ravish Me’, ‘Bonded By Blood’ and ‘Shame Is Just A Word’. More about SVARTTJERN at www.facebook.com/svarttjern
German Black Metallers PORTA NIGRA have just premiered a new track entitled ‘Die Augen Des Basilisken’ over here. It is taken from their forthcoming album “Schöpfungswut”, which will be released on January 17, 2020 via Soulseller Records. It was produced by Markus Stock and the complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Die Kosmiker’, ‘Das Rad Des Ixion’, ‘Die Augen Des Basilisken’, ‘Die Entweihung Von Freya’, ‘Unser Weg Nach Elysium’ und ‘Schöpfungswut’. For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/portanigraband
“Versus All Gods”, the ninth full-length from Asian Black / Death Metallers IMPIETY, will be released as digi CD and limited deluxe digibox on January, 20, 2020 via Evil Dead Productions / Shivadarshana. It was recorded, mixed and mastered in Bialystok, Poland at Hertz Studio with Wojtek and Slawek Wieslawski and features guest appearances by Wenceslas Carrieu (NECROWRETCH) and Henriette Bordvik (ABYSSIC). The artwork was supplied by Jenglot Hitam. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Intro: Kommand IX’, ‘Reigning Armageddon’, ‘Djinn Of All Djinns’, ‘Barbarian Black Horde’, ‘Azazel’, ‘Inviktus Satanikus’, ‘Terror Occult Dominion’, ‘Dajjal United’, ‘Interstellar Deathfuck’ and ‘Magickal Wrath’. An official lyric video for ‘Azazel’ is already available at this location. More IMPIETY information you will find at www.facebook.com/impietyofficial
Australian blackened Death Metallers EARTH ROT have released a first track of their upcoming new album “Black Tides Of Obscurity”, which will be released on March 06, 2020 via Season Of Mist. You can check out a music video for the single ‘Dread Rebirth’ right here. The band issued the following comment about it: “‘Dread Rebirth’, our first single from “Black Tides Of Obscurity” is the opening of the void. The simultaneous unlocked and unhinging of mind, both visually and musically. We’re excited to begin the year with our opening track that we will be playing live this month and on tour in March.” All further EARTH ROT info you will find at www.facebook.com/earthrotband
On January 31, 2020 Signal Rex will release “A Nocturnal Emanation”, the new mini album from German Black Metallers ZALMOXIS, on cassette and single-sided 12″ vinyl formats. It was mastered by Henri Sorvali (MOONSORROW) at Trollhouse Studios and the cover art was created by Nether Temple Design. An 11 minutes edit / sample of the mini-album can already be found here. More ZALMOXIS at https://zalmoxis.bandcamp.com
On February 14, 2020 Clavis Secretorvm will re-release “NâHásh”, the debut album from Swedish Black Metallers GRAFVITNIR on digipak CD and vinyl gatefold LP with metallic gold artwork. It was originally released in 2012, but only in extremely limited quantities, both as vinyl picture disc and CD-R. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘Summoning Of The Serpent’, ‘Shadowed Portal (To The Left Light)’, ‘Vilddjurets Återkomst’, ‘Luciferian Flame’, ‘Beyond The Black Veil Of Da’ath’, ‘Sphere Of The Acausal’ and ‘Vastness Of Death’. For all additional information please check out www.facebook.com/grafvitnir.official or https://grafvitnir.bandcamp.com
French blackened Death Metallers NECROWRETCH have just revealed a third track from their upcoming new album “The Ones From Hell” which will be released on February 14, 2020. You can listen to ‘Codex Obscuritas’ at this location. NECROWRETCH commented on the track as follows: “A few weeks left before the release of our fourth album “The Ones From Hell”, here lies ‘Codex Obscuritas’, a slow and dreadful hymn that will drown you into a certain death.” More NECROWRETCH info you will find at www.facebook.com/necrowretch
Greek Black Metallers EMPIRE OF THE MOON are streaming their forthcoming second album, “ΕΚΛΕΙΨΙΣ” (“Eclipse” in English) in its entirety over here now. It will be released on January 10, 2020 via Iron Bonehead Productions. All further info you will find at www.facebook.com/empireofthemoonofficial
Italian Doom / Deathers PROSCRITO have just released a new track entitled ‘Marcado Por La Pezuña’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s debut full-length “Llagas Y Estigmas”, which will be released on January 27, 2020 via Memento Mori. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Persistiendo’, ‘Tronos De Oprobio’, ‘Exequias’, ‘Marcado Por La Pezuña’ and ‘Pantalgia’. More PROSCRITO information can be found at www.facebook.com/proscritoyolvidado
French Death Metallers BENIGHTED will be touring France in April and two shows in Japan (Osaka and Tokyo) in May. Support on the French shows will come from SHAARGHOT and (on some selected dates) RISE OF THE NORTH STAR. Vocalist Julien Truchan issued the following comments about the tour: “No other occasion would be better to promote our new album “Obscene Repressed” than the amazing Hellfest Warmup Tour 2020 and hitting the French and Swiss roads with SHAARGHOT and the Hellfest crew!!! We are so impatient to show you what BENIGHTED is capable of on stage, make you discover the new tracks and roar the old ones together! We want to see the moshpit on fire!!! Stay sick!!!” BENIGHTED’s upcoming new full-length “Obscene Repressed” will be out on April 10, 2020 via Season Of Mist. More band information and regular updates can be found at www.facebook.com/brutalbenighted
Greek Black Metallers KAWIR are streaming their upcoming eighth album “Adrasteia” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on January 10, 2020 via Iron Bonehead Productions. More about KAWIR at www.facebook.com/kawirblackmetal
On January 31, 2020 Purity Through Fire will release “Evighetens Cirkel”, the debut full-length from Swedish Black Metallers MUVITIUM. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Evig Vandring Till Gamla Riken’, ‘De Viskande Vindarna’, ‘Vid Mörkrets Fäste’, ‘Under En Iskall Natt’, ‘I Nattsvart Dunkel’ and ‘Nordisk Frostnatt’. A full album stream is already available here. For more information please visit www.purity-through-fire.com
Italian old school Death Metallers VALGRIND have signed a deal with Memento Mori. The band entered the studio in mid 2019 to record their fourth full-length, which will be released on CD in late 2020 / early 2021. Lyrical inspiration this time comes from the myths of legendary creatures and beasts in various ancient cultures. More VALGRIND info at www.facebook.com/valgrindband
Finnish Black Metallers AETHYRICK have just premiered the new track ‘Stellar Flesh’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s second album “Gnosis”, which will be released on January 24, 2020 via The Sinister Flame. The full tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Will Embodied’, ‘Oneiric Portals’, ‘Stellar Flesh’, ‘Your Mysteries’, ‘Blood Acre’, ‘Anointed Bones’ and ‘Golden Suffering’. More about AETHYRICK at www.aethyrick.com
Detroit, Michigan based Doom / Deathers TEMPLE OF VOID will release their third full-length album “The World That Was” on March 27, 2020 via Shadow Kingdom Records on CD and vinyl LP formats. The cover artwork was created by Adam Burke and the following tracks will appear on it: ‘A Beast Among Us’, ‘Self-Schism’, ‘A Single Obolus’, ‘Leave The Light Behind’, ‘Casket Of Shame’ and ‘The World That Was’. More about TEMPLE OF VOID at www.facebook.com/templeofvoid
German technical Death Metallers PAVOR have made their two albums “A Pale Debilitating Autumn” (1994) and “Furioso” (2003) available again in digital versions via https://pavor.bandcamp.com. Both downloads also include re-worked PDF versions of the CD booklets. For all additional band info, please visit www.pavor.com
Blackened Speed Metallers BÜTCHER have just premiered the new track ‘666 Goats Carry My Chariot’ at this location. It will appear on the band’s upcoming second album “666 Goats Carry My Chariot”, which will be released on January 31, 2020 via Osmose Productions. The previously revealed video for ’45 RPM Metal’ can still be watched here. For more BÜTCHER information check out www.facebook.com/butcherspeedmetal
URUK-HAI have just revealed the new track ‘The Birth Of An Uruk-Hai’ right here. The track is taken from a special split album with BANNWALD and DRUADAN FOREST, entitled “Kingdoms Long Gone”, which will be out on February 02, 2020 via Antiq on digipak CD and cassette tape formats. The front cover was created by Marine Février (ARSULE). More info you will find at www.antiqrecords.com or www.facebook.com/antiq.label
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Osmose Productions, in co-operation with Hells Headbangers, will release the second ABHOMINE album “Proselyte Parasite Plague” on February 28, 2020 on CD and vinyl LP formats. ABHOMINE features Pete Helmkamp (ORDER FROM CHAOS, ANGELCORPSE, REVENGE, KERASPHORUS, TERROR ORGAN, FELDGRAU) and Cazz Grant (CRUCIFIER, GRAND BELIAL’S KEY). The following tracks will appear on “Proselyte Parasite Plague”: ‘Heresy Pulpit’, ‘Infidel And Unclean’, ‘Gogamgoz’, ‘Blacklist’, ‘Saracen’ and ‘Progeny Devoid’. You can already stream the album track ‘Progeny Devoid’ at this location. More ABHOMINE info you will find at www.facebook.com/abhomine-487162971453007
On February 28, 2020 Blood Harvest Records will release “Undimensioned Identities”, the second demo from North Dakota based old school Death Metal four-piece PHOBOPHILIC, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. The cassette tape version was already co-released on September 13, 2019 with Rotted Life. It will feature the following tracks: ‘That Which Swallowed The Sun’, ‘Subterranean Miscreation’, ‘Diminished To Unbeing’ and ‘Synaptic Vessel’. A full stream of the demo is available at this location. More PHOBOPHILIC at https://phobophilic.bandcamp.com
On January 31, 2020 Purity Through Fire will release the debut “Demo I” from Finland’s Black Metallers MALIGNAMENT on 12″ vinyl format. The following three tracks appear on it: ‘Call To Arms’, ‘Wolf And The Moon’ and ‘Bloodlust’. You can listen to the entire demo over here. More about MALIGNAMENT here: https://malignament.bandcamp.com
Norwegian Black Metallers NATTVERD have just premiered the new track ‘Slakt Dem, Der De Loeper Hoedeloese Rundt Baalet’ at this location. It is taken from the band’s upcoming second album “Styggdom”, which will be released on January 31, 2020 via Osmose Productions. NATTVERD consists of Serpentr on vocals, Ormr on vocals and guitars, Atyr on guitars, Sveinr on bass and Antichristian (TSJUDER et. al.) on session drums. More NATTVERD info at www.facebook.com/nattverdofficial
On February 28, 2020 Blood Harvest Records will release “Fungal Warfare Upon All Life”, the debut EP from Philadelphia based Death / Doom Metal four-piece BLOOD SPORE, on CD, 12″ vinyl and cassette tape formats. The following three tracks will appear on it: ‘Hostile Fruiting Bodies’, ‘Cede To The Saprophyte’ and ‘Apex Colony’. You can already stream the opening track here. BLOOD SPORE will also release their debut album through Blood Harvest Records in the coming year. For all further information and regular updates, please follow them at www.facebook.com/bloodsporefungaldeath
Swedish blackend Speed Metallers REAPER are streaming a new track entitled ‘The Birth Of War’ at this location now. It will appear on the band’s debut album “Unholy Nordic Noise”, which will be out on January 31, 2020 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed ‘Horn Of Hades’ can still be checked out here. The full tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Intro’, ‘Hero Of The Graveyard Flies’, ‘Severing Tentacles Of Faith’, ‘Arctic Wrath – Blood And Bone’, ‘Order Of The Beelzebub’, ‘Horn Of Hades’, ‘The Birth Of War’, ‘Surrender To The Void’, ‘This Crystal Hell’, ‘Ravenous Storm Of Piss’, ‘De Krälande Maskarnas Kör’ and ‘Outro’. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions