Finnish Death Metallers FESTERDAY are currently streaming their entire new album "Iihtallan" right here. The band’s debut full-length will be released on January 04, 2019 via Season Of Mist Underground Activists. More FESTERDAY information at www.facebook.com/festerday
Swedish Doom / Deathers VANHA have just released their second album "Melancholia" via Black Lion Records. A full album stream is available at this location. More about VANHA at www.facebook.com/officialvanha
Our BEST OF 2018 readers poll is over. If you’re curious who made this year’s top ten, check out the surprising results! Thanks to everyone who sent us their list again this year. The winners of TOUGH RIFF MAGAZINE # 6 have already been informed via email. Congratulations!
Swedish old school Black Metallers WAN have just released a new five track mini album entitled "Gammal Är Äldst" via Carnal Records. It is the follow up to the band’s third full-length "Wan Way to Hell" which was released last year. A full EP stream is available at this location. To celebrate their 10th anniversary as a band, WAN will be embarking on a European tour in May 2019 together with NEKROKRAFT and THE GENERATIONS ARMY. More about WAN at www.facebook.com/theunholywan
Belgian Death Metallers CARNATION will kick off their European tour as support to SCHIRENC PLAYS PUNGENT STENCH in Salzburg (Austria) tomorrow. The tour will end on January 05, 2019 in Graz, Austria. Other acts on the bill are Austrian Black / Death Metallers THEOTOXIN and Austrian Black Metallers IRDORATH. A full stream of CARNATION’s debut full-length "Chapel Of Abhorrence" is available right here. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/carnationbe
Rochester, New York based progressive Death Metallers CONTRARIAN have just premiered a song from their forthcoming album "Their Worm Never Dies". You can stream ‘Exorcism’ at this location. The album was recorded at Watchmen Studios, Lockport, New York and Burnt Orange Studios in Brandenton, Florida. It was produced, mixed and mastered by George Bokos at Grindhouse Studios Athens, Greece. Willowtip Records will release "Their Worm Never Dies" on March 15, 2019. More CONTRARIAN info at www.facebook.com/contrarianmetal
NOCTURNAL GRAVES will be touring in Australia and New Zealand as support of WATAIN in February 2019. The tour kicks off in Melbourne, Australia on February 22, 2019 and ends in Auckland, New Zealand on February 27, 2019. The band issued the following comments about the tour: "It has been some time since we desecrated the stages of Australia, so we are proud to make our return alongside our Brothers in WATAIN and to finally present "Titan" to the audiences of Australia…. furthermore, we will finally make our way to New Zealand for the first time, something we have anticipated for many years. Join us to make these shows rage with Blood! Fire! Death! We are ready to crush!" All additional NOCTURNAL GRAVES information at www.facebook.com/nocturnalgraves
French Death / Thrashers MORTAL SCEPTER have released a lyric video for the title track of their upcoming sophomore full-length "Where Light Suffocates" right here. The full tracklist of the album reads like this: ‘A Ray Of Despair’, ‘Where Light Suffocates…’, ‘Murder The Dawn’, ‘Lust Spells’, ‘Perish With The Flesh’, ‘The Carpathian Castle’, ‘Spear And Fang’, ‘Swallow Your Tongue’ and ‘…The Scepter Reigns’. It will be released on January 22, 2019 via Xtreem Music. More about MORTAL SCEPTER at www.facebook.com/mortalscepter
Brazilian Black Metallers MYSTIFIER have just released a first track of their new full-length "Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia". You can check out ‘Weighing Heart Ceremony’ at this location. The band commented on the track as follows: "After 17 years of hiatus, MYSTIFIER return with a new album demonstrating all devotion to the underground Black Metal that runs in our distorted veins, over a 30 year career. It’s our way of thanking all of our followers for all these years of extreme music support. There are no words to describe the role of everyone who was part of our story. There is much to come in the near future… Let’s open wide the gates for the Black Magick Dynasty." The full tracklist of the album reads like this: ‘Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia’, ‘Weighing Heart Ceremony’, ‘Witching Lycanthropic Moon’, ‘Akhenaton (Son Mighty Sun)’, ‘Six Towers Of Belial’s Path’, ‘Demoler Las Torres Del Cielo (En Nombre Del Diablo)’, ‘Soultrap Sorcery Of Vengeance’, ‘(Introcucione D’la Melodia Mortuoria) Thanatopraxy’, ‘Al Nakba (666 Days Of War)’ and ‘Chiesa Dei Bambini Molestati’. "Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia" will be released on March 08, 2019 via Season Of Mist. More about MYSTIFIER at www.facebook.com/mystifier666
ROTTING CHRIST have just released another track of their upcoming new album "The Heretics". The song ‘Heaven And Hell And Fire’ is now streaming as a lyric video right here. The band’s frontman Sakis Tolis commented on the track as follows: "Dear friends, we are in the pleasant position to present you another creation from our upcoming album "The Heretics". The song ‘Heaven And Hell And Fire’ is influenced by John Milton’s saying: "The mind is universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven" and it is another part of the heretic creation we’ve made with our last album. Enjoy!" The album will be released on February 15, 2019 via Season of Mist. More about ROTTING CHRIST at www.facebook.com/rotting-christ-290468585669
Italian Thrashers VIOLENTOR have been signed by Inferno Records for the release of their fourth full-length album, which is scheduled to be released in early 2019 on LP, CD and cassette. For all additional VIOLENTOR information visit www.facebook.com/violentor666
Bay Area based old school Death / Thrashers LACERATION will release a compilation entitled "Remnants" via Unspeakable Axe Records on February 08, 2019. It compiles the "Realms Of The Unconscious" demo from 2010, the tracks from the 2013 split with TINNITUS and the "Consuming Reality" EP from 2009. You can check out the track ‘Exhausted In Form’ (from the split release) at this location. More LACERATION info at www.facebook.com/laceration-bay-area-106524719409624
Russian Funeral Doom trio COMATOSE VIGIL A.K. has just released their first album in seven years via Non Serviam Records. It is entitled "Evangelium Nihil" and was recorded in Winter / Spring of 2018 and the cover artwork was created by W. Smerdulak. A full album stream is available right here. For all additional COMATOSE VIGIL A.K. information visit www.facebook.com/comatosevigilak