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Italian old school Death Metallers HORRID have just premiered a re-recording of ‘Immortal Passion’ over here. The track appears on a special collection of re-recordings entitled “As We Forget Our Past”, which will be released on December 31, 2019 via Dunkelheit Produktionen on CD (the vinyl LP version will follow on February 18, 2020). Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Reborn In Sin’, ‘Misunderstood God’, ‘Redemption And Lies’, ‘Demonic Sadocarnage’, ‘Immortal Passion’, ‘From Here To Eternity’, ‘Blasphemic Creatures’, ‘Vortex Of Primordial Chaos’, ‘Land Of No Return’ and ‘As We Forget Our Past’. More about HORRID at www.facebook.com/horrid1989
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE will release their second full-length “Fist To Face” on February 14, 2020 via Xtreem Music on CD, 12″ LP and cassette formats. MDD Records will release the album in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, while Spiritual Beast Records will take care of the Japanese territories (on February 12, 2020). The album was again recorded at Cadillac Blood Studios with producer Andy C. and will feature the following tracks: ‘Intrump’, ‘Fist To Face’, ‘Empty Cyber Life’, ‘Vultures’, ‘Nuclear Fallout’, ‘Trapped By The Crappy Trap’, ‘Mentality Packs’, ‘The Aftermath’ (RECIPIENTS OF DEATH cover), ‘Napalm Sweet Napalm’, ‘Innocent Hate’ and ‘Fake Libertarian’. The cover art was created by Akirant Illustration (one of the current artists of IRON MAIDEN). HOLYCIDE are planning to launch a new pre-order campaign through crowdfunding on December 13, 2020, the same day they will release the first advance single of “Fist To Face”. A full album stream of the band’s first album “Annihilate… Then Ask!” is still available here. More about HOLYCIDE at www.facebook.com/holycide
Indonesian Death Metallers EXHUMATION will release their third full-length “Eleventh Formulae” on February 28, 2020 via Pulverised Records. It was once again engineered by Devid Salasughi and features artwork by B. Mors. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Mors Gloria Est’, ‘Inferno Dwellers’, ‘Formulae I: Malediction Bells’, ‘Grandeur Dawn’, ‘Vicious Ecstasy’, ‘Arcane Dance’, ‘Formulae II: Ironheart Rapture’, ‘Ominous Chants’, ‘Blood Trails’, ‘Perdition Spells’ and ‘Formulae III: Eleventh Vessel’. The opening track is already available for streaming at this location. More EXHUMATION info you will find at www.facebook.com/exhumationdevotee
Norwegian Black Metallers TRAGEDIENS TRONE are streaming their self-titled debut full-length in its entirety at this location now. The album will be released on November 29, 2019 via Osmose Productions. More band info at www.facebook.com/tragedienstrone
On December 20, 2019 Edged Circle Productions will release “Rotting Paradise”, the debut vinyl 7″ EP from Swedish Death Metallers ANGELBLAST. The band features members from EXCRUCIATE and DARKENED. The artwork was created by Juanjo Castellano Rosado and the tracklist reads as follows: ‘Rotting Paradise’, ‘Descending Of The Immortals’ and ‘Incarnation Of The Fallen’. All additional information you will find at www.edgedcircleproductions.com
On February 28, 2020 Nuclear War Now! Productions will release a vinyl LP version of STARGAZER‘s “Gloat / Borne”, which compiles the Australian band’s “Gloat” demo from 1996 and “Borne” EP from 1997. A full album stream is available here. More about STARGAZER at www.facebook.com/stargazer-292821067421712
Brazilian deathly Doom Metallers POMBAJIRA are streaming their self-titled debut full-length at this location now. It will be released on November 29, 2019 via Helldprod Records. The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Gira’, ‘In Reverance’, ‘Vital Lucifer’, ‘The Lost Exit of Darkness’, ‘Queen Of The Night’ and ‘Malandro E Mulambo’. More band info at www.facebook.com/pombajira
Italian Death Metallers DAEMONIAC have just released a lyric video for ‘Dwellers Of Apocalypse’. You can check it out over here. The song will appear on their upcoming new album “Dwellers Of Apocalypse”, which will be released on December 19, 2019 via Xtreem Music. The cover art was created by Chris Moyen and the full tracklist reads as follows: ‘The March Of Apocalypse’, ‘Rebellion’, ‘Council Of Evil’, ‘Dwellers Of Apocalypse’, ‘Human Relic’ (GOREMENT cover), ‘The Beginning Of Chaos’, ‘Disciples Of The Black Arts’, ‘The Last Call’ and ‘Legions Of Death’. All additional DAEMONIAC information you will find at www.facebook.com/daemoniac666
Baltimore, Maryland’s Tech / Slam Death Metallers WORMHOLE will release their sophomore album “The Weakest Among Us” on January 14, 2020 via Lacerated Enemy Records. The band has already premiered two tracks from the album at these locations: ‘The Weakest Among Us‘ and ‘D-S3‘ (official video). The full “The Weakest Among Us” tracklist reads like this: ‘The Weakest Among Us’, ‘RA9/Myth’, ‘D-S3’, ‘Wave Quake Generator Plasma Artillery Cannon’, ‘The Gas System’, ‘Ultrafrigid’, ‘Quad MB’ and ‘Ingswarm’. For more WORMHOLE info please visit www.facebook.com/wormholemetal
Pontevedra, Galicia based Black / Death Metallers SARTEGOS are streaming their debut full-length “O Sangue Da Noite” in its entirety over here now. The album will be released on November 29, 2019 via Blood Harvest Records (vinyl LP and cassette) in co-operation with I Voidhanger (CD). More SARTEGOS at www.sartegos.bandcamp.com
Chicago, Illinois based Death / Thrashers CRUSADIST are streaming their forthcoming album “The Unholy Grail” at this location now. It will be released independently on November 29, 2019. For all further info check out www.facebook.com/theunholygrail
Finnish Death Metallers BLOOMING CARRIONS are currently streaming their new EP “Sisters In Blooming Flesh” right here. It will be released on November 28, 2019 via Iron Bonehead Productions. More about BLOOMING CARRIONS at www.bloomingcarrions.bandcamp.com
California based Doom / Death duo SEVENTH CIRCLE is streaming their debut demo “Cycle Of Violence” at this location. It will be released on November 29, 2019 via Caligari Records on CD and cassette tape formats. For all additional info and ordering details check out www.caligarirecords.com or www.facebook.com/caligarirecords
Finnish Death Metallers NECROPSY have just finished the recordings of a new 4 song EP entitled “Exitus”. It will be released on January 21, 2020 via Xtreem Music. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Meat Ceremony’, ‘Fucking Dead’, ‘206 Motives’ and ‘Butcherado’. A first advance single is already streaming here. More about NECROPSY at www.facebook.com/necropsy-204404386244264
“Diseased”, the third full-length from Chicago’s Death / Crust trio BONES, is streaming in its entirety at this location now. The album was released on September 20, 2019 via Transcending Obscurity. For all additional band information check out www.facebook.com/bones-chicago-113666132032091
Swedish Black Metallers AVSLUT are streaming their upcoming second album “Tyranni” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on November 29, 2019 via Osmose Productions. More AVSLUT info you will find at www.facebook.com/1008avslut1008
Québéc, Canada based Black Metallers BLOSSE are now streaming their debut full-length “Nocturne” in its entirety at this location. De Tenebrarum Principio (a division of Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation / ATMF) will release the album on CD format on November 29, 2019. The cover artwork was drawn by Erskine Designs and finalized by Francesco Gemelli (DARKSPACE, ABIGOR). The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Sous La Lune Moribonde’, ‘La Vallée Maudite’, ‘Eternité’ and ‘Destruction’. More band info at www.facebook.com/blosse-2149890738556425
Brazilian Death Metallers DEPRESSED have just released their sophomore album “Beyond The Putrid Fiction” via Black Lion Records. A full album stream is available here. For all additional DEPRESSED information please visit www.facebook.com/depressed.official
French Black / Death Metal duo HEXEKRATION RITES has just released a new EP entitled “Desekration Manifesto” via Atavism Records on limited digipak CD (500 copies), cassette (100 copies) and digital formats. It can be streamed right here. More about HEXEKRATION RITES at www.facebook.com/hexekrationrites
German Death Metallers REVEL IN FLESH have released a video for the titletrack of their upcoming fifth full-length “The Hour Of The Avenger” at this location. The album will be released on December 06, 2019 via War Anthem Records. It was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studios and features cover artwork by Juanjo Castellano. A lyric video for ‘Blood Oath’ is also available here. For all further band information check out www.facebook.com/revel-in-flesh-304228902958414
MISERY INDEX have just premiered a new video for the track ‘Decline and Fall’ over here. The song is taken from the band’s latest album “Rituals Of Power”. MISERY INDEX comment on the video as follows: “All civilizations fall (and) decline and, in the present, its members grapple dually with the lamentation of its demise and the hopefulness of new beginnings. This is us expressing precisely that.” More MISERY INDEX at www.facebook.com/miseryindex
Saint Petersburg, Russia based Black Metallers TRAGEDY IN HOPE have just released new EP entitled “Smile At Death”. You can stream it in its entirety right here. For all additional TRAGEDY IN HOPE information please visit www.facebook.com/tragedyinhope
San Francisco, Californa based brutal technical Death Metallers ODIOUS MORTEM are streaming ‘Condemnation Foretold’, a new track from their upcoming album “Synesthesia”, at this location now. The album will be released on January 17, 2020 via Willowtip Records. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Dormant Retribution’, ‘Condemnation Foretold’, ‘Ruins Of The Timeworn’, ‘Replenish The Earth’, ‘In Abominable Form’, ‘Eagle’s Tower’, ‘Cave Dweller’, ‘Spirit Hole’, ‘Synchronicity’ and ‘Dissonant Theology’. “Synesthesia” was recorded at Electric Orange Studios in San Diego, California, engineered by Jon Green and mixed and mastered by Richard Houghten. The artwork was created by Adam Friedman. All further ODIOUS MORTEM information you will find at www.facebook.com/odiousmortemofficial
Finland’s Black / Death Metallers ÆVANGELIST have just revealed a nearly 18 minutes long new track entited ‘The Origin And End Of All: Pain Of The Fallen’ over here. It appears on the band’s forthcoming rebirth album “Nightmarecatcher”, which will be released through Hells Headbangers during the first quarter of 2020 on CD format. The album is ÆVANGELIST’s first proper live studio recording, created entirely in the recording space of ORANSSI PAZUZU while the drums have been recorded in the recording space of BARATHRUM and SIELUNVIHOLLINEN. The artwork was supplied by Jef Whitehead. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Origin And End Of All: Pain Of The Fallen’, ‘Ceremony Of Decomposition Of Bodies’ and ‘In The Womb Of Chaos, Source Of Life Energy’. More info at www.facebook.com/thetrueaevangelist
French Depressive Black Metallers NOCTURNAL DEPRESSION are streaming their upcoming ninth album “Tides Of Despair” in its entirety at this location. It will be released on November 25, 2019 via Sun & Moon Records. All additional band info you will find at www.facebook.com/nocturnal-depression-official-2087653717983396
Belgian Sci-Fi Tech Death Metallers PESTIFER have been signed by Xenokorp. Their new album “Expanding Oblivion” will be released in the first half of 2020. Their first two albums (“Age Of Disgrace” and “Reaching The Void”) are available for streaming again at the label’s Bandcamp site https://xenokorp.bandcamp.com. More band info at www.facebook.com/pestifer.band
Istanbul, Turkey based Black Metal trio ZİFİR have just released a new song entitled ‘Chants For Execution’ at this location. The track will appear on the band’s fourth album “Demoniac Ethics”, which will be released on January 24, 2020 via Duplicate Records. A special album trailer video can furthermore be checked out here. The cover art for “Demoniac Ethics” was created by Vergvoktre and the full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Sûr’, ‘Chants For Execution’, ‘Still Reigning’, ‘Empire Of Worms’, ‘Gökyüzü Karanlık’, ‘An Eerie Moment’, ‘Chaos Clouds’, ‘Spirit Of Goats’, ‘A Bleak Portrait’, ‘Ephemeral Idols’ and ‘Insects As Messengers’. More about ZİFİR at www.zifirofficial.com
Hammerheart Records have just released DEFLESHED‘s “Under The Blade” for the first time as a regular vinyl edition (on black, purple and ultra clear vinyl). Also available now are RAZOR’s “Executioner’s Song”, “Evil Invaders” and “Malicious Intent” (all on clear, transparant and black vinyl). For ordering details visit www.hammerheartstore.com. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/hammerheartrecords
German Black / Death Metallers GOATBLOOD have just premiered the new track ‘Miss Dead Body’ at this location. The song will appear on the band’s third album “Apparition Of Doomsday”, which will be released on December 27, 2019 via Dunkelheit Produktionen (the vinyl LP version will follow on January 18, 2020). All further band information you will find at www.facebook.com/goatblood-492948934177125
Finnish Death Metallers KORPSESOTURI have been signed by Xtreem Music for the release of their next album. The recordings will start in the first months of 2020, with a planned release in Spring / Summer. The mastering will be done by Zack Ohren (USA), who already was in charge of the mastering duties of the first album. The KORPSESOTURI debut full-length “Malus Corpus” is still available for streaming here. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/korpsesoturi
Finnish female Black Metal solo act VESPERITH has released a video for the song ‘Quintessence’ at this location. The track appears on VESPERITH’s upcoming self-titled debut full-length, which will be released via Svart Records today. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘The Magi’, ‘Fractal Flesh’, ‘Refractions’, ‘Valohämärä’, ‘Quintessence’ and ‘Solar Flood’. More about VESPERITH at www.facebook.com/vesperith
Memento Mori have signed Russian Death Metallers PYRE for the release of their sophomore full-length in 2020. More details will follow in the coming months. Additional PYRE information you will find at www.facebook.com/pyredeathmetal
The self-titled debut full-length from French Death / Thrashers HATRED DUSK will be released via Mystyk Productions tomorrow. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Raging Dogs’, ‘NWO’, ‘Blinded By Hate’, ‘Unleash The Dogs Of War’, ‘Welcome To…’, ‘Darkness’, ‘The Wasteland’ and ‘RATP’. For all further HATRED DUSK information please visit www.facebook.com/hatreddusk
English three-piece AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR are streaming their debut album “Havoc At The Midnight Hour” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released tomorrow via Dying Victims Productions. More info at www.facebook.com/aggressiveperfectorband
Dutch Black Metallers ISRATHOUM have just premiered the new track ‘Laetetur Cor’ over here. It is taken from the band’s upcoming fourth album “Arrows From Below”, which will be released on December 13, 2019 via New Era Productions. Here’s the full tracklist already: ‘Litany Of Spite’, ‘Bracu Magistrïs’, ‘Ascetic Temples’, ‘Laetetur Cor’, ‘ Adlivun’ and ‘Tuam Vocavit’. All additional ISRATHOUM information you will find at www.facebook.com/israthoum-official-108606202562464
Swedish Death Metallers DERANGED have just entered Berno Studio (AMON AMARTH, THE CROWN, WITCHERY) in Malmö, Sweden to record their tenth album. The follow-up to “Struck By A Murderous Siege” (2016) is supposed to be released early next year via Agonia Records. Some songtitles are ‘Quarantine Required For The Rotten Masses’, ‘Engulfed By Hate I Stab To Kill’ and ‘Carnal Provision For The Rotten Masses’. It is the first DERANGED album to feature new vocalist Johan Bergström (VISCERAL BLEEDING). More band info at www.facebook.com/derangedband
French blackened Death Metallers NECROWRETCH have revealed a first track from their upcoming new album ‘The Ones From Hell’. You can stream ‘Luciferian Sovranty’ at this location. The album will be released on February 14, 2020 via Season Of Mist. The band issued the following comments about the album: “Today, it’s with pleasure that we spew our new creature onto the face of the earth. “The Ones From Hell” is a brand new chapter in the history of NECROWRETCH. Beyond rules and boundaries, we have reached a new level of musical expression dedicated to the Devil and His many names. This unholy spawn will consist 8 new songs which perfectly serve our impious fascination for Hell. Yet again this monster will be unleashed by the mighty Season Of Mist. Down below the gates are opening for the “Luciferian Sovranty”… Hail Satan!” The cover artwork has been created by Stefan Thanneur and the tracklist reads like this: ‘Pure Hellfire’, ‘Luciferian Sovranty’, ‘The Ones From Hell’, ‘Absolute Evil’, ‘Codex Obscuritas’, ‘Darkness Supreme’, ‘Through The Black Abyss’ and ‘Necrowretch’. For all additional information check out www.necrowretch.net, www.facebook.com/necrowretch
On February 07, 2020 Nordvis Produktion will re-release “I Denna Skog” (2009), the debut album from Swedish melodic Black Metallers DRÅPSNATT. It is the first in a series of out of print re-releases of the band’s back catalogue. Each re-release will feature new cover art. Release dates for the reissues of “Hymner Till Undergången” (2010) and “Skelepht” (2012) will be announced shortly. All additional information you will find at www.facebook.com/drapsnatt
“Enraged And Unbound”, the new album from UK based Death Metallers UNFATHOMABLE RUINATION is now streaming in its entirety over here. It will be released on November 22, 2019 through Willowtip Records. More about UNFATHOMABLE RUINATION at wwwfacebook.com/unfathomable.ruination.official
On January 24, 2020 Iron Bonehead Productions will release the second full-length of Florida based WORM on vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The album is entitled “Gloomlord” and will feature the following tracks: ‘Putrefying Swamp Mists At Dusk’ (Intro), ‘Rotting Spheres Of Sentient Black’, ‘Apparitions Of Gloom’, ‘Melting In The Necrosphere’ and ‘Abysmal Dimensions’. The track ‘Abysmal Dimensions’ is already available for streaming at this location. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Japanese Death Metallers DEFILED will be touring Europe as the support act of VADER in March 2020. The tour will kick off at the Bastard club in Osnabrück (DE) on March 07, 2020, continues throughout 8 more countries and ends at the Colloseum in Košice (SK) on March 22, 2020. For all further info and regular updates follow DEFILED at www.facebook.com/defiled
“Ceased To Be”, the debut full-length from Santiago, Chile based Death Metallers COFFIN CURSE, will be released on January 27, 2020 via Memento Mori. The cover artwork was created by Daniel Hermosilla (Nox Fragor Art) and the tracklist reads as follows: ‘Gathered Unto Death’, ‘Where Sickness Thrives’, ‘Chopped Clean Off’, ‘Descend Into Abhorrence’, ‘Feeding On Perpetual Disgrace’, ‘Extinct’, ‘Grave Offender’ and ‘Deep In Streams Of Purifying Dirt’. You can already listen to ‘Where Sickness Thrives’ here. More band info at www.facebook.com/coffincurse
On January 31, 2020 Iron Bonehead Productions will release the debut full-length of Sweden’s REAPER, “Unholy Nordic Noise”, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘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’. The album track ‘Horn Of Hades’ is already available for streaming here. All further info at www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Spanish Death Metallers UNCONSECRATED have just reformed as a 5 five piece. The band is currently working on their debut full-length, which will be entitled “Horrendous Apparitions” and shall feature 8 tracks of pure Death Metal. The cover art will be done by Rob Smiths (DEMIGOD, BROKEN HOPE). More about UNCONSECRATED at www.facebook.com/unconsecratedeathmetal
Italian Black Metallers COMANDO PRAETORIO have premiered a new track entitled ‘Pire Di Ere Incenerite’ at this location now. It will appear on the band’s debut full-length “Ignee Sacertà Ctonie”, which will be released on December 13, 2019 via Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation (ATMF). The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Anelito All’arcano’, ‘Barbarie Della Pietà’, ‘Pire Di Ere Incenerite’ and ‘Ignee Sacertà Ctonie’. More COMANDO PRAETORIO info at www.facebook.com/comandopraetorio
Medieval Black Metallers GRYLLE are now streaming the expanded vinyl version of their debut album “Les Grandes Compagnies” over here. It will be released on November 20, 2019 via Antiq. The band plays Black Metal without the use of a single distorted guitar and only with medieval instruments. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/grylleofficiel
Chicago, Illinois based Death / Thrashers CRUSADIST have released a lyric video for ‘For Blood And Conquest’, a track from their forthcoming debut album “The Unholy Grail”. You can watch the video at this location. A previously released lyric video for the title track can still be viewed here. The album was recorded at Belle City Sound in Racine, Wisconsin with producer / engineer Chris Djuricic (ORIGIN, JUNGLE ROT, NOVEMBER’S DOOM, GORGASM, AGAINST THE PLAGUES) and the mixing and mastering was handled by Jeramie Kling (THE ABSENCE, VENOM INC.) and Taylor Nordberg (THE ABSENCE, SOILWORK) of Smoke And Mirrors Productions in Spring Hills, Florida. The cover art was created by Swedish Artist Par Olofsson (IMMOLATION, EXODUS, UNLEASHED, ABORTED, BRAINDRILL, AGAINST THE PLAGUES). “The Unholy Grail” will be released on November 29, 2019. For all further band info please check out www.facebook.com/theunholygrail
Québec, Canada based Black Metallers TRÉPAS have just released the new track ‘Rivages Sombres’ right here. It will appear on the band’s debut album “L’Héritage Du Monde”, which is set for release on December 05, 2019 via Sepulchral Productions. More about TRÉPAS at www.facebook.com/trepasblackmetal