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On October 21, 2019 Seance Records will release the SELENITE debut album "Mahasamadhi". SELENITE was formed in 2015 by Stefan Traunmüller (GOLDEN DAWN, RAUHNÅCHT, THE NEGATIVE BIAS, WALLACHIA) with the intention to combine Funeral Doom with ’90s Doom / Death influences. The entire album was written and recorded by Traunmüller with additional guest vocals on two of the songs from professional opera singer Antonia Gust. Here’s the complete "Mahasamadhi" tracklist: ‘Third Eye Open’, ‘Requiem For A Soul’, ‘Final Reckoning’, ‘Hidden Presence’ and ‘Channelling Chants From Beyond’. You can already check out the track ‘Final Reckoning’ here. More info at www.facebook.com/selenitedoom
Brazilian Death Grinders STOMACHAL CORROSION will re-release their self-titled album via Greyhaze Records on October 11, 2019. It was originally released in Brazil through Cogumelo Records. All album tracks are available for streaming on the band’s Youtube channel. An official video for the album track ‘Mental Dispain’ is furthermore available at this location. More STOMACHAL CORROSION at www.facebook.com/stomachalcorrosion
On September 13, 2019 Aurora, Illinois based extreme Crossover Metal Punks SMASH POTATER will release their new album "Suburban Legends" through Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. The following 18 tracks will appear on: ‘Diners, Drive-Ins & Drive-Bys’, ‘Massive Chilling Capacity’, ‘The Scene Is Dead’, ‘Toxic Masculinity Holocaust (ft. Azalee Panama Cano)’, ‘2stepdad (ft. Eddie Leeway Sutton)’, ‘Flat Earth Crisis’, ‘GMO’, ‘Inglés Sin Barreras (ft. Ruben Garza)’, ‘Los Angeles Azules Del Infierno’, ‘Tragic School Bus’, ‘Nothing Else Splatters’, ‘Hook-up Culture Club’, ‘Too Old To Mosh, Too Young To Die (ft. Professor Pizza)’, ‘Mom, I Swear It’s Not A Phase’, ‘Confection Infection’, ‘Keeper Of The Seven Cheese: Chapter 1 – Pizza Eagle (ft. Brett Scott)’, ‘Your Last Fuckin’ Chance (ft. Chris Guajardo)’ and ‘Gravii’. You can already stream the track "GMO" over here. SMASH POTATER will also appear live at the Full Terror Assault Open Air 2019 this September. For more info visit www.facebook.com/smashpotater
DARKENED are streaming their entire debut EP "Into The Blackness" at this location now. It will be released on August 23, 2019 via Edged Circle Productions. The band features drummer Andy Whale (ex – BOLT THROWER / MEMORIAM), bassist Daryl Kahan (ex – DISMA / FUNEBRARUM), vocalist Gord Olson (YE GOAT-HERD GODS / DEMISERY) and guitarists Linus Nirbrant (A CANOROUS QUINTET / THIS ENDING) and Hempa Brynolfsson (EXCRUCIATE / ORDO INFERUS). More about DARKENED at www.facebook.com/darkeneddeathmetal
Melbourne, Australia’s Doom / Deathers CARCINOID will release their debut album "Metastatic Declination" on October 07, 2019 via Memento Mori. The CD will also include the band’s 2018 demo as bonus tracks. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Dread’, ‘Sorrow’, ‘Rotting Beneath’, ‘The Drowning’, ‘Ravenous Being’, ‘Metastatic Declination’, ‘Suffering Reborn’, ‘Sickness’, ‘Face Of Anguish’ (demo), ‘Hatred Lasts Forever’ (demo) and ‘Red Mist Descending’ (demo). The cover art comes courtesy of Necro Frost and the mastering was done by Jason Fuller at Goatsound. The album track ‘Suffering Reborn’ is already available for streaming here. More about CARCINOID at www.facebook.com/carcinoiddeathdoom
Sacramento, California based Death Metallers ABYSMALIST are streaming their debut demo "Reflections Of Horror" at this location now. It will be released on August 23, 2019 via Caligari Records on cassette tape format. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘Lascivious Rapture’, ‘Black Lacquer’, ‘The Engineer’ and ‘Chain Ripper’. More info at www.caligarirecords.com
On October 25, 2019 Osmose Productions will release "Depleted Light And The Death Of Uniqueness", the debut full-length from Turkish Black Metallers HORROCIOUS, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Light Belongs To Our Heresy’, ‘Upon The Fallen Worlds’, ‘Corruption Of Existential Structure’, ‘Inevitable Vortex… Swallowed Divinity’, ‘Perceived Integrity Of Lord’, ‘Hidden In Infinite Chaos’, ‘Everlasting Fractal Luminiscence’ and ‘Reborn From Energy… Sublime Demons’. For all additional band information please visit www.facebook.com/horrocious666
"They Ride Along", the debut full-length from Austrian Black Metallers HAGZISSA, is streaming in its entirety over here now. The album features the following tracks: ‘Die Pforte (A Speech Above The Moor)’, ‘Irrsinnsdimensionen (A Bath Amidst The Wells)’, ‘Moonshine Glance (An Iron Seed In Sour Soil)’, ‘Searing Effigy’, ‘They Ride Along On the Howling Winds!’, ‘The Nightshade Wilderness’, ‘Atavist Kama Aconite Trance’ and ‘There, Draw A Circle!’. It will be released on August 23, 2019 via Iron Bonehead Productions. More about HAGZISSA at www.facebook.com/hagzissa-1069308856541498
Canadian Black Metallers ARCTOS are streaming a track from their forthcoming full-length "Beyond The Grasp Of Mortal Hands". You can listen to ‘The Ancestor’s Path’ over here. The album will be released on September 20, 2019 via Northern Silence Productions. The tracklist reads like this: ‘The Ancestor’s Path’, ‘Shattered Tomb’, ‘Somnos Aeternus’, ‘The Spectre 5. Autumn’s Herald… Interitus’, ‘A Realm Beyond’ and ‘The Light Beyond The Sky (The Passage II)’. All further ARCTOS info at www.facebook.com/arctosofficial
On October 18, 2019 Blood Harvest Records (in co-operation with Rotted Life), will release the debut album of Portland, Oregon’s COFFIN ROT, "A Monument To The Dead", on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. The artwork was created by Skadvaldur and the track ‘Miasma Of Barbarity’ can already be checked out at this location. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro / Compremesis’, ‘Saw Blade Suicide’, ‘Miasma Of Barbarity’, ‘Forced Self-Consumption’, ‘Necrotized’, ‘Incubation Of Madness’, ‘Mechanical Separation’ and ‘Coffin Rot’. More COFFIN ROT information you will find at www.facebook.com/coffinrot
Philadelphia, Pennsilvania based progressive blackened Death Metallers IATT have released a video for ‘Osteogenesis Imperfecta’. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming album "Nomenclature", which will be released on September 27, 2019 via Black Lion Records on CD. The cover artwork was created by Alec Pezzano (Vital Sign Media). The video can be watched here. More band info at www.facebook.com/iamthetrireme
French blackened Death Metallers MITHRIDATIC will be playing a couple of European shows in December, some of them with special guests AD PATRES. It is the first time since the band’s 2016 European tour with NILE and MELECHESH. MITHRIDATIC’s new album "Tétanos Mystique" will be released on September 13, 2019 through Xenokorp. For all additional info follow the band at www.facebook.com/mithridatic
Oslo, Norway based Black Metallers DOLD VORDE ENS NAVN are now streaming a first track of their upcoming debut EP "Gjengangere I Hjertets Mørke". You can listen to ‘Vitnesbyrd’ at this location. The EP will be released on September 13, 2019 via Soulseller Records on CD, vinyl, tape and digitally. More DOLD VORDE ENS NAVN info at www.facebook.com/doldvorde
Chile based Death Metallers GODAGAINST will release their new album “Summoning Chaotic Annihilation” on August 30, 2019 by via Australis Records. The cover was created by Daniel Hermosilla of Nox Fragor Art. For all further information and updates follow the band at www.facebook.com/godagainst
U.S. blackened Thrashers WRAITH have released their new full-length "Absolute Power" today. A full album stream is available at this location. More about WRAITH at www.facebook.com/wraiththrash
On November 08, 2019 Primitive Reaction will release "Nocturnal Bloodlust", the debut album of Finland’s Black Metallers BLACK BEAST. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Prelude’, ‘Black Seremony’, ‘Riding On Wings Of Death’, ‘Your Cold Grave’, ‘Words Of Leviathan’, ‘Unholy One’, ‘Nocturnal Bloodlust’, ‘Fist Of The Devil’ and ‘Symbol For My Devotion’. The track ‘Your Cold Gave’ is already available for streaming at the label’s Bandcamp site. The album release gig will take place at the Steel Chaos Open Air Festival on November 08 / 09, 2019 in Helsinki, Finland.
Turkish Thrashers THRASHFIRE have just released a first advance single of their second album "Into The Armageddon". You can check out ‘Wisdom Of Sacrilegious’ at this location. The album will be released through Xtreem Music on October 10, 2019. The artwork was created by Ozan Yildirim (Deadhouse Studio) and the tracklist reads as follows: ‘Pure Devastating Necromancy’, ‘Katacomb (The Kingdom Of Ressurrection)’, ‘Dybbukim’, ‘Wisdom Of Sacrilegious’, ‘Supreme Command’, ‘Through The Crimson Darkness’, ‘Slaughtered By Hellgoats’, ‘Post Apocalyptic Holy Terror’, ‘High Heel In The Hell’ and ‘Into The Armageddon’. For all additional THRASHFIRE information please visit www.facebook.com/thrashbeerandviolence
On October 31, 2019 Memento Mori will release "Drowned In Gangrenous Blood", the second full-length of Greek Death Metallers VULTUR. It was produced, mixed and mastered by Haris Vougiantzis (EMBRACE OF THORNS) and the cover art was created by Gargoylekelly. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Groans Of Excruciating Torture’, ‘Drowned In Gangrenous Blood’, ‘High On Adrenochrome’, ‘Return To Soil’, ‘Rigorous Voices’, ‘Devirginized, Butchered And Eaten’, ‘Crushing The Ribcage’ and ‘Postmortem Lividity’. One of the tracks (‘Groans Of Excruciating Terror’) is already streaming right here. More about VULTUR at www.facebook.com/vulturathens
Greek’s Heavy / Black Metallers DISHARMONY will release a special mini album entitled "Messe De Minuit" on CD and vinyl LP format via Iron Bonehead Productions on November 28, 2019. It was originally released last year on cassette tape and has been expanded in length now, making the release something of a double EP. Tracklist: ‘Hail The Witch’, ‘By The Moonlight’, ‘Into The Tomb’, ‘Corpus Christi’ and ‘Midnight Mass’ (Bonus). You can stream ‘Corpus Christi’ right here. More about DISHARMONY at www.facebook.com/tagmamagiadisharmony
On September 02, 2019 Amor Fati Productions will release "Raukn", the third album from Denmark’s Black Metallers MÚSPELLZHEIMR on CD and vinyl LP formats. A full album stream is already available at this location. More MÚSPELLZHEIMR info you will find at https://afgrundsvisioner.bandcamp.com
Five years after the release of their last full-length Swiss Thrashers ALGEBRA will finally release their follow-up "Pulse?" through Unspeakable Axe Records on September 30, 2019 on CD and digital platforms. It features 11 new tracks, along with a cover of SEPULTURA’s ‘Dead Embryonic Cells’. You can check out the title track right here. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘Ego Destroyed’, ‘Inner Constraints’, ‘Addicted To Authority’, ‘Digital Masters’, ‘Quantum God’, ‘Simulated Mind’, ‘Manipulated Soul’, ‘Prelude To Hate’, ‘Hateful Source’, ‘Concrete Jungle’, ‘Pulse’ and ‘Dead Embryonic Cells’ (SEPULTURA cover). For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/algebrathrash
Spanish Death Metallers NECROPHILIAC have been signed by Xtreem Music. The release of their second album is scheduled for February 2020. The band’s debut was released way back in 1992 by the pre – Xtreem Music label, Drowned Productions. The album is currently being recorded by Jesús "Punti" Montilla at Sonic Banana Studios and will be mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studios. The cover art will be a conceptual work created by Artem Grigoryev. For more info and regular updates follow the band at www.facebook.com/necrophiliacdeathmetal
On November 15, 2019 Nuclear War Now! Productions will release the third IGNIVOMOUS album "Hieroglossia" on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Hieroglossia’, ‘Circle Of Scythes’, ‘Cloaked In Resplendent Perdition’, ‘Thalassophobia’, ‘Shackles Of The Demiurge’, ‘Blood And Mercury’, ‘Gaunt Redemption Parasite’ and ‘Vitriolic Swarm’. The band will be touring Europe in September 2019, playing multiple shows in Germany in addition to Poland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium and France. A strictly limited tour edition digipak version of the new album will be available during the tour. You can already listen to the new track ‘Thalassophobia’ here. More about IGNIVOMOUS at www.facebook.com/ignivomous
Dutch all female Black Metallers ASAGRAUM‘s second album "Dawn Of Infinite Fire" will be released in Europe on September 13, 2019 via Edged Circle Productions and on September 27, 2019 in North America. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘They Crawl From The Broken Circle’, ‘The Lightless Inferno’, ‘Abomination’s Altar’, ‘Guahaihoque’, ‘Dawn Of Infinite Fire’, ‘Dochters Van De Zwarte Vlam’, ‘Beyond The Black Vortex’, ‘Hate Of Satan’s Hammer’ and ‘Waar Ik Ben Komt De Dood’. The mixing and mastering of the album was once again done by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio and the cover artwork has been created by Bahrull Marta. You can already check out the new track ‘They Crawl From The Broken Circle’ here. A previously released video for ‘Abomination’s Altar’ can still be watched at this location. More info at www.facebook.com/asagraum
TEMPLE OV PERVERSION‘s self-titled debut EP will be released on 12" vinyl format on October 18, 2018 via Clavis Secretorvm. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Intro’, ‘Arrival Ov The Horns’, ‘Forever Night’ and ‘Temple Ov Perversion’. You can already stream the track ‘Arrival Ov The Horns’ here. TEMPLE OV PERVERSION is an old school Black Metal band from Switzerland in the vein of HADEZ, IMPERATOR, MORTEM and Hungary’s TORMENTOR. Their first demo "Rehearsal MMXVII" was released in 2019. More info you will find at www.facebook.com/temple-ov-perversion-153157598752317
New Jersey blackened Thrashers ANTICOSM have just released a video for the titletrack of their upcoming album "The Call Of The Void". It was directed by Gabriel Francis at Backroom Studios and can be viewed at this location. The album was recorded and mixed by Brendan Smith at Brady Street Recordings in Waldwick, New Jersey and produced by ANTICOSM and Brendan Smith. It was mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio and the artwork and design was created by Metastazis from Paris, France (MORBID ANGEL, WATAIN, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER). "The Call Of The Void" will be released through the band’s own label Hell Kill Destroy Records on August 16, 2019. The band previously already released a lyric video for the album track ‘Somewhere Between Life And Death’ over here. All further ANTICOSM info you will find at www.facebook.com/anticosmnj
German Death Metallers ABYTHIC have just released a lyric video for the song ‘Drifting Among Shadows’. You can watch the video right here. The track appears on the band’s upcoming second album "Conjuring The Obscure" which will be released on September 11, 2019 through Xtreem Music. The album tracklist reads as follows: ‘Eternal Chaos Will Rise’, ‘Order Of The Gash’, ‘Shrouded In Perpetual Darkness’, ‘Ruins In A Wasteland Of Visions’, ‘Drifting Among Shadows’, ‘Coronation By The Burning Winds’, ‘Shadows Of Becoming Might’ and ‘Let The Purge Begin’. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/abythic
German Black Metallers REIGN IN BLOOD are streaming their new album "Missa Pro Defunctis" in its entirety at this location now. The album was recorded at Old Spirit Studio and the mixing and mastering was done by Patrick Engel at Temple Of Disharmony. "Missa Pro Defunctis" will be released on August 16, 2019 via Iron Bonehead Productions. More info at www.facebook.com/reigninbloodofficial
On November 28, 2019 Iron Bonehead Productions will release a new EP from Finnish Death Metallers BLOOMING CARRIONS entitled "Sisters In Blooming Flesh". It will be available on CD and 12" vinyl format. The titletrack is already available for streaming at Iron Bonehead’s Soundcloud page. The full tracklist of the EP reads like this: ‘Sisters In Blooming Flesh’, ‘Enchantment Of Slaughtering’ and ‘Lehto’. More BLOOMING CARRIONS at https://bloomingcarrions.bandcamp.com
On October 04, 2019 EXHUMED will release their new album "Horror". You can already listen to the first single ‘Ravenous Cadavers’ at this location. EXHUMED frontman Matt Harvey commented on the track as follows: "’Ravenous Cadavers’ is a great taste of the album – and this is one of the more mid-paced tracks on the record, so… "Horror" is all about stripping away everything and getting down to the core elements of our sound: raw and nasty aggression. The album’s like mainlining Grinding Death Metal at a lethal dose. If you liked the more intricate, melodic stuff that we’ve done, this may not be the one for you. If you’re a fuckin’ maniac that wants to pound some beers and smash up some tombstones, this is the record you’ve been waiting for.” The album was recorded at the band’s home-built studio Darker Corners and produced by EXHUMED and Alejandro Corredor (BRUJERIA, NAUSEA). The mixing and mastering was done by Joel Grind (TOXIC HOLOCAUST). The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Unsound’, ‘Ravenous Cadavers’, ‘Scream Out In Fright’, ‘The Red Death’, ‘Utter Mutilation Of Your Corpse’, ‘Slaughter Maniac’, ‘Ripping Death’, ‘Clawing’, ‘Naking, Screaming, And Covered In Blood’, ‘Playing With Fear’, ‘Dead Meat’, ‘Rabid’, ‘In The Mouth Of Hell’, ‘Shattered Saity’ and ‘Re-Animated’. Bonus tracks: ‘Crypt Of Terror’ (GENOCIDE cover), ‘Re-Entry And Destruction’ (DEATH STRIKE cover) and ‘The Day Man Lost’ (CARNAGE cover). A strictly limited (100 copies) Relapse.com exclusive package will include the "Horror" LP pressed on blood red and white merge with aqua blue, blood red and oxblood splatter, a playable VHS in custom slipcase with audio and visuals of the entire album, a retro VHS inspired sticker sheet, plus an authorized Slaughter Video membership laminated card as well as an official Slaughter Video employee t-shirt. All items are exclusive to this package and are housed in a meticulously designed VCR inspired boxset. All additional EXHUMED info you will find at www.facebook.com/exhumedofficial
Texas based Black Metal duo VENEREAL BAPTISM will release their second album "Repugnant Coronation Of The Beast" through Osmose Productions on CD and vinyl LP formats on September 27, 2019. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘To Castrate Angelic Grace’, ‘Venereal Fucking Whore’, ‘Uncleansed In Celestial Mortification’, ‘Repugnant Coronation Of The Beast’, ‘Blasphemous Sarin Execrations’, ‘Unfuckable Pacifist Gutterslut’, ‘Abhorrent Cesspool Of Lesser Human Vessels’, ‘Pestiferous Pious Deflorations’, ‘Born Of Lascivious Degradation’ and ‘Aborted At The Foulest Pit Of Hell’. The cover art was created by Rolf Brühwiller. All further VENEREAL BAPTISM information you will find at www.facebook.com/venerealbaptism
On September 27, 2019 Osmose Productions will release "Ushered Forth By Cloven Tongue", the third album from Swedish Black Metallers PATRONYMICON, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The cover art was created by Chadwick St. John and the tracklist reads as follows: ‘Haissem’, ‘The Funeral Of A Passive God’, ‘XI Kings XI Curses’, ‘Lightless Flames’, ‘Womb Of Rejection’, ‘From The Depths Of Damnation’, ‘A Star That Shineth Not’ and ‘Death Itself’. More about PATRONYMICON at www.facebook.com/patronymicon-158661034186769
Chile’s Thrashers RIPPER will release a five song EP entitled "Sensory Stagnation" on September 30, 2019 on CD, cassette and digitally via Unspeakable Axe Records, with a vinyl release to follow from Dark Descent Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Dissociation’, ‘The Unreal’, ‘Sensory Stagnation’, ‘Like A Sacrilege’ and ‘Terror Streets’. The track ‘The Unreal’ is already streaming at this location. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/ripperchileoficial
"In Manus Satanas", the third album from Kouvola, Finland based Black Metallers AEGRUS will be released on October 11, 2019 via Saturnal Records. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Hymn To The Firewinged One’, ‘Nightspirit Theosis’, ‘Gestalt Of Perdition’, ‘At The Altar Of Twilight’ ‘Ascending Shadows’, ‘Nemesis’, ‘The Black Wings Upon Me’ and ‘In Manus Satanas’. You can already stream ‘Nemesis’ over here. More AEGRUS info you will find at www.facebook.com/aegrusofficial
Norwegian Black Metallers MAYHEM will release their sixth album "Daemon" on October 25, 2019 via Century Media Records. It was composed and recorded by the same line-up that was already responsible for "Esoteric Warfare" (2014) and performed "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" in its entirety over the last few years: Necrobutcher (bass), Hellhammer (drums), Attila (vocals), Teloch (guitars) and Ghul (guitars). The following tracks will appear on it: ‘The Dying False King’, ‘Agenda Ignis’, ‘Bad Blood’, ‘Malum’, ‘Falsified And Hated’, ‘Aeon Daemonium’, ‘Worthless Abomination Destroyed’, ‘Daemon Spawn’, ‘Of Worms And Ruins’ and ‘Invoke The Oath’. For more information and regular updates follow the band at www.facebook.com/mayhemofficial
On October 11, 2019 AnnapurnA and Clavis Secretorvm will release "Stigma", the debut album from Swedish Black Metallers DÖDFÖDD, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the title track, separated in two parts, ‘Stigma I’ and ‘Stigma II’ with a playing time of 22:32 and 21:57 minutes respectively. A full album stream is available here. More DÖDFÖDD at https://ddfdd.bandcamp.com
ECTOPLASMA‘s third album "White-Eyed Trance" will be released via Memento Mori on CD on October 31, 2019. Repulsive Echo Records will be handling the vinyl version, which will follow later this year. "White-Eyed Trance" was mixed and mastered by Robbert Kok (DISAVOWED) and the cover art was created by Mörtuus. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Eviscerated In The Howling Winds’, ‘Psychomanteum Immolation’, ‘White-Eyed Trance: Choronzonic Covenant’, ‘The Oak Spewed Foul Whispers’, ‘Ghostly Emanations In The Mortuary’, ‘Alucarda, The Daughter Of Darkness’, ‘White-Eyed Trance: Ensnared In Devilry’, ‘Skeletal Lifeforms’ and ‘Souls Of Sacrifice’ (DEVASTATION cover). You can already stream the track ‘Psychomanteum Immolation’ at this location. For all additional ECTOPLASMA info please visit www.facebook.com/ectoplasma-1579524392276613
On September 13, 2019 Norwegian Death Metallers BLOOD RED THRONE will release their nineth full-length album "Fit To Kill" via Mighty Music. Guitarist Daniel "Død" Olaisen had this to say about the album: “We keep climbing the throne. "Fit To Kill" is by far our most old school release since 2003’s "Affiliated With The Suffering". Back to the roots. Death Metal never dies”. The band has just released a promotional video for one of the album tracks. You can check out ‘Requiem Mass’ at this location. All further BLOOD RED THRONE information you will find at www.facebook.com/bloodredthroneofficial