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Lisbon, Portugal based Death Metallers UNDERSAVE are looking for a label to release their second full-length album "Sadistic Iterations… Tales Of Mental Rearrangement". It is already recorded and mastered and two of the songs can be checked out here and here. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘Grant Courage To This Man Who Is About To Die’, ‘Press With Both Hands Hold Your Breath And Collapse’, ‘Peacefully Floating In Prosperous Abyss’, ‘He Promised You He’d Be Brief…’, ‘Hereditary Condemnation Through Immunity’ and ‘Dead Up High, Persist And Be Smashed’. "Sadistic Iterations… Tales Of Mental Rearrangement" was recorded by Paulo Vieira (THE FIRSTBORN, MIDNIGHT PRIEST, PUSSYVIBES, NAMEK, FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM, IRONSWORD) and the artwork and layout was created by Stephen Wilson. More about UNDERSAVE at www.facebook.com/undersave
MORBID ANGEL will release their new album "Kingdoms Disdained" on December 01, 2017 via Silver Lining Music. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Piles Of Little Arms’, ‘D.E.A.D.’, ‘Garden Of Disain’, ‘The Righterous Voice’, ‘Architect And Iconoclast’, ‘Paradigms Warped’, ‘The Pillars Crumbling’, ‘For No Master’, ‘Declaring New Law (Secret Hell)’, ‘From The Hand Of Kings’ and ‘The Fall Of Idols’. ‘Piles Of Little Arms’ can already be checked out at this location. "Kingdoms Disdained" is MORBID ANGEL’s first studio release since the rather controversial "Illud Divinum Insanus" from 2011 and the direct follow-up to the limited vinyl only "Juvenilia" live album that was released exclusively for the Record Store Day in 2015. The current line-up of the band features Trey Azagthoth and Dan Vadim Von on guitars, Steve Tucker on bass / vocals and Scott Fuller on drums. For more MORBID ANGEL info and updates at www.morbidangel.com or www.facebook.com/officialmorbidangelpage
Raw Skull Recordz will release the three SOULBURN album "Feeding On Angels" (1989), "The Suffocating Darkness" (2014) and "Earthless Pagan Spirit" (2016) as limited cassette editions (250 copies each) in early 2018. For more info and pre-order details check out www.rawskullrecordz.org
On November 02, 2017 Krucyator Productions will release AUROCH‘s "From Forgotten World" and PAROXSIHZEM‘s self-titled album as cassettes. Both releases will be limited to 100 copies. You can check out full album streams here (AUROCH) and here (PAROXSIHZEM). More band information at www.facebook.com/pg/aurochmetal and www.facebook.com/paroxsihzem
Babylon Doom Cult Records (in co-operation with Dark Descent Records) will re-release "Nothing But The Whole" from Belgium’s EMPTINESS as a limited vinyl edition on October 20, 2017. 200 copies on clear vinyl will be exclusively available through Babylon Doom Cult Records, while Dark Descent Records will carry the regular black vinyl. You can check out the album here. More about EMPTINESS at www.facebook.com/emptiness.be
Ghent, Belgium based Black / Post Metallers WITCH TRAIL will release a new EP entitled "Thole" on October 27, 2017 via Babylon Doom Cult Records (the vinyl edition will follow early next year). An advance track can already be checked out here. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘Fever Pulse’, ‘New Worlds For Old’, ‘Splendour’, ‘Unnatural Caresses’, ‘Thin’ and ‘Transe’. The EP was recorded in September 2016 and features artwork courtesy of François Van Damme. For more WITCH TRAIL info check out www.facebook.com/witchtrail
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just released a comic lyric video of the song ‘Motörhead’ at this location. The track is taken from their album "Annihilate… Then Ask!", which was released in early 2017 via Xtreem Music. More about HOLYCIDE at www.facebook.com/holycide
German Black / Death Metallers THE SPIRIT have just released another song from their upcoming debut album “Sounds From The Vortex“. You can check out ‘The Great Mortality’ at this location. The other song (‘The Clouds Of Damnation’) can still be checked out here. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Iguana Studios and features an artwork from WÆIK. It will be released on October 13, 2017. More about THE SPIRIT at www.facebook.com/thespiritband
Reunited Hungarian Black Metallers TORMENTOR will play their first show at the Beyond The Gates festival in Bergen, Norway next year (August 23 – 25, 2018). The band was formed in Budapest back in 1986 and features Attila Csihar on vocals (who joined MAYHEM for the recordings of "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas"). TORMENTOR’s 1987 demo "Seventh Day Of Doom" and 1989 debut album "Anno Domini", that are both considered alltime classics these days, will officially be re-released on black vinyl and eventually on picture disc in late Autumn / Winter 2017. For all further information and regular updates check out www.facebook.com/tormentor-official-256414164442589
Spanish Thrashers NO AMNESTY will release their debut full-length "Psychopathology" on November 14, 2017 through Xtreem Music. It was recorded in early 2017 at Ax Studios. The tracklist reads like this: ‘NOTLD’, ‘Among The Blind’, ‘Evil Priest’, ‘The Prophecy’, ‘Fight Below The Fire’, ‘Snake Eyes’, ‘Eternal Night’, ‘Toxic World’ and ‘Time To Bleed’. You can already listen to the album closer ‘Time To Bleed’ right here. More about NO AMNESTY at www.facebook.com/noamnestyband
Bangladesh based Death Metallers NEKROHOWL have just released their debut EP "Epitome Of Morbid". It is available for streaming (along with an interview) at this location. All tracks were recorded, mixed and mastered at Music Theater and the cover art was created by Grasen Artstyle. For all additional NEKROHOWL information check out www.facebook.com/pg/nekrohowl
DESTRÖYER 666 will kick off their European tour together with BELPHEGOR and ENTHRONED tomorrow (October 03, 2017) at the Club From Hell in Erfurt, Germany. The tour endss at the Szene in Vienna, Austria on October 21, 2017. DESTRÖYER 666 will also appear at the Eindhoven Metal Meeting and De Mortem Et Diabolum on December 15 and 16, 2017. More DESTRÖYER 666 information at www.facebook.com/destroyer666page
Swedish Death Metallers DEMONICAL will start recording their fifth full-length album next month. It will be released via Agonia Records in early 2018. Here’s an official statement from the band: "We’re off on the path towards the untrodden might once again. On the 8th of November, we will start to nail down our fifth full-length album, the first one to feature our new vocalist Alexander Högbom and the first recording in years featuring a permanent 5-piece line-up. The sessions will take place at various locations around Sweden and the recording will be mixed and mastered by the award winning producer Karl Daniel Lidén, known from his work with acts such as TERRA TENEBROSA, KATATONIA and CULT OF LUNA. The album will continue the traditional DEMONICAL path with fierce HM-2 driven Swedish Death Metal, however, it will also feature some new elements and streaks we haven’t explored before as well as bringing forth traces from the past. Expect a spring 2018 release through Agonia Records followed by worldwide touring." For all further information and regular updates follow the band at www.demonical.net or www.facebook.com/demonicalofficial
‘Hell’s Wasteland’, a track from the upcoming BLOODSTRIKE full-length "Execution Of Violence", is already available for streaming here. The album will be released on October 13, 2017 on CD and digitally through Redefining Darkness Records, a limited cassette edition (100 copies) will be available via Raw Skull Recordz. "Execution Of Violence" was produced by BLOODSTRIKE and recorded by Jeff Alexis. The mixing was done by John Bart Van Der Wal and the mastering by Dan Swanö. All further BLOODSTRIKE information at www.bloodstrikemetal.com or www.facebook.com/bloodstrikemetal
Minnesota Death Grinders INVIDIOSUS will release a split album with Japanese Grinders RETORTION TERROR on October 20, 2017 via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. The tracklist reads as follows. RETORTION TERROR: ‘Arcane Dogs’, ‘Scorched’, ‘Trench’, ‘The Line’ and ‘River Of Ignorance’. INVIDIOSUS: ‘Cultural Indifference’, ‘Purpose Defeater’, ‘OD’d On Technology’, ‘From The 16th Floor’ and ‘Where Evolution Ends’. Promo videos from both bands (for ‘Cultural Indifference’ and ‘River Of Ignorance’) can be checked out here and here. For more information and ordering details check out www.horrorpaingoredeath.com
"A Blaze Of Unholy Fire", the debut demo from Bulgaria’s blackend Thrashers PLAGUE, will be re-released on CD via Chaos Records on October 16, 2017. You can listen to the title track here. More about PLAGUE at www.facebook.com/plague.bulgaria
Sweden’s SHINING have just released a first track from their forthcoming album "X – Varg Utan Flock". You can check out ‘Jag Är Din Fiende’ (which translates as ‘I Am Your Enemy’) at this location. The track will also be released on a 10" vinyl single that is entitled "Fiende" (the B-side contains an acoustic cover of ‘No Rest For The Wicked’, originally from Swedish rockabilly act THE COFFINSHAKERS). The single will be released on November 24, 2017 and the album will follow on January 05, 2018 via Season Of Mist. For all additional SHINING information go to www.facebook.com/shiningofficial
On October 13, 2017 Godz Ov War Productions will release "Hexing Graves", the debut EP of Poland’s RITES OF DAATH, as a standard jewel case CD and digital download. It was recorded in the Summer of 2017 at Roslyn Sudio and Michal Pijocha’s Studio and the mixing and mastering was done at Roslyn Studio. The artwork was created by Julia Siuda. You can already check out the track ‘Bitter Entrails Of The Earth’ right here. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Hexing Graves’, ‘Necromantic Rites Of The Underground’, ‘Sepulchral Phantom’, ‘Bitter Entrails Of The Earth’ and ‘Most Holy Death’. More about RITES OF DAATH at www.facebook.com/ritesofdaath