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Multi-National technical Death Metallers SEROCS have just premiered ‘And When The Sky Was Opened’, the title track from their forthcoming new album, at this location. The album was mixed by Neil Kernon (NILE) and mastered by Alan Douches. It will be released through Comatose Music on November 27, 2015. More info at www.facebook.com/serocsband
Rising Nemesis Records will release the second full-length from Dutch Death Metallers KORPSE. The album will be entitled "Unethical" and is scheduled to be released before the end of the year. For all additional information and updates check out www.facebook.com/korpsesbdm
Instead of a new album CRYPTOPSY will release a series of EPs entitled "The Book Of Suffering". The first in the series, "The Book Of Suffering Tome 1", was produced by Chris Donaldson at The Grid Studio in Montreal, mixed by Jason Suecoff at Audiohammer Studio and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. It will be released on October 30, 2015 and features the following tracks: ‘Detritus (The One They Kept)’, ‘The Knife, The Head And What Remains’, ‘Halothane Glow’ and ‘Framed By Blood’. "The Book Of Suffering Tome 1" is now available for pre-order via CRYPTOPSY’s Bandcamp page cryptopsyofficial.bandcamp.com as well as on iTunes. Upon pre-order, fans will receive the exclusive single "Detritus (The One They Kept)". A video for the track ‘Detritus’ can already be checked out here. More information at www.cryptopsy.ca, www.facebook.com/cryptopsymetal
Necroharmonic Productions have just released a 2 CD compilation from Rhode Island based defunct Death Metallers PHLEGM. It is entitled "Consumed By The Dead" and features more than 50 songs in total. Disc 1 includes the "Consumed By The Dead" demo 1991, "Clotheshanger Abortion" demo 1990, "Satan’s Rectum" demo 1988 and pre-release demo "Masterpiece Of Mutilation" from 1990. Disc 2 additionally has a full-length live soundboard recording from 1991 on offer (13 tracks in total). The booklet includes a complete history on the band, flyers, old photos and more. Go here http://necroharmonic.bigcartel.com for more info and ordering details.
ABBATH have released a live video for the song ‘Fenrir Hunts’ at this location. It’s a different version of the track that will appear on the band’s forthcoming debut album. More information, tourdates and updates at www.abbath.net or www.facebook.com/abbathband.
On October 20, 2015 Denmark’s blackened Death Metallers APPARATUS will release their self-titled debut via Lavadome Productions. You can already stream the entire album right here. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘Sermon I’, ‘The Unreverberate Blackness Of The Abyss’, ‘Spheres’, ‘R’lyeh’, ‘Sermon II’, ‘Dissecting Temporal Dimensions To Afflict The Abyssi Of Chronos’, ‘Miskatonic’, ‘King God’, ‘Sermon III’, ‘Prayer’ and ‘Arkham’. For all additional APPARATUS information check out www.facebook.com/apparatusdk
US Death Metallers GRAVE RITUAL have just premiered the first song of the band’s forthcoming second full-length "Morbid Throne". You can check out ‘Adversary Crown’ right here. The album will be released via Dark Descent Records on October 30, 2015. The coverart was created by Daniel Desecrator. The full "Morbid Throne" tracklist reads like this: ‘Baleful Aversion’, ‘Autonomous Death’, ‘Adversary Crown’, ‘Invoker Of Heathen Gnosis’, ‘Tyrant’s Hammer’, ‘Masters And Slaves’, ‘Lewd Perversities’, ‘Behind The Reigns Of Gods’ and ‘Throne Of Continuum’. More about GRAVE RITUAL at www.facebook.com/grave.ritual
For the band’s appearance at the Netherlands Deathfest in February 2016 Hammerheart Records will release another COFFINS compilation entitled "Perpetual Penance" on 180g double vinyl (including a poster). It will feature all the band’s split and other smaller releases collected. A limited edition (100 copies) on blue vinyl with exclusive artwork will be available at the festival as well. www.facebook.com/intothecoffin
On December 10, 2015 REBAELLIUN will enter the studio in São Paulo / Brazil to record their third full-length "The Hell’s Decrees". The recordings will start at A Torre Studio. The album will be produced and mixed by guitarist Fabiano Penna. REBAELLIUN are currently writing and pre producing the new songs. "The Hell’s Decrees" is scheduled for a May 2016 release via Hammerheart Records. For more info and updates check out www.facebook.com/rebaelliun
Brazilian Death / Thrashers NERVOCHAOS together with Black / Death Metallers INSATANITY will be touring the US for three weeks, starting on October 16, 2015 at Fubar in St. Petersburg, Florida. The tour ends on November 09, 2015 in Shreveport, Los Angeles. More band info at www.nervochaos.com.br or www.facebook.com/insatanityofficial
French Black Metallers VI (featuring current and ex – members of AOSOTH, ANTAEUS and ABORTED), are streaming their new album "De Praestigiis Angelorum" in its entirety at this location now. The album will be released on September 25, 2015 via Agonia Records. All additional information at www.facebook.com/vithdevotion
Sunderland / UK based blackened Death Metallers VACIVUS will release the CD version of their debut EP "Rite Of Ascension" via Hellthrasher Productions on September 25, 2015. The EP was originally released through Goatprayer Records as a limited cassette edition in July. The artwork has been created by Grave IX Design and the tracklist reads like this: ‘Dark Apotheosis’, ‘Rite Of Ascension’, ‘Ageless, Nameless’, ‘Hostis Rei’ and ‘Vacivus Aeternum’. The entire EP is currently streaming here. For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/vacivus
‘Apologist (Of Theodicy And Denial)’, a track from the upcoming second REPULSIVE DISSECTION full-length "Church Of The Five Precious Wounds", is available for streaming here. Another new song, ‘Apostasy (Ideological Dysphagia)’, is streaming at this location. The album will be released on October 01, 2015 via Sevared Records. The following tracks will appear on it: ‘Baptism (Nurtured In The Void)’, ‘Confirmation (The Future Of An Illusion)’, ‘Apologist (Of Theodicy And Denial)’, ‘Ordination (Monuments Of The Deceived)’, ‘Missionary (Proselytic Strangulation)’, ‘Zealot (Power In The Blood)’, ‘Heretic (Schism And Perversion)’ and ‘Apostasy (Ideological Dysphagia)’. More info about REPULSIVE DISSECTION at www.facebook.com/repulsivedissectionband
Caverna Abismal Records have just released "Meditate To Kill", the debut album from French Black / Death Metallers STAV, as a limited edition (125 copies) tape. It was originally released in 2012 on CD / LP. More info at www.facebook.com/stavofficial, http://cavernaabismal.bandcamp.com
Portuguese Black Metallers TOD HUETET UEBEL will release their debut album "Malícia" in October 2015 via Caverna Abismal Records as a deluxe 6-panel digipak CD. The cover artwork has been created by Metastazis (PARADISE LOST, BEHEMOTH, MORBID ANGEL). All further info at: www.facebook.com/todhuetetuebelofficial or http://cavernaabismal.bandcamp.com
The first EP from Swiss old school Death / Thrashers UNDEAD VISION will be released in Autumn 2015. The band will furthermore be presented for the second time in the Imperative Music Compilation CD, Volume 11. More about UNDEAD VISION at www.facebook.com/undeadvisionband
Greek Black Metallers VARATHRON will release a new seven-track EP entitled "The Confessional Of The Black Penitents" on October 23, 2015 via Agonia Records. It features three brand new tracks and four songs recorded live, with a total playing time of 40 minutes. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘The Confessional Of The Black Penitents’, ‘Sinister Recollections’, ‘Utter Blackness’, ‘Unholy Funeral’ (Live), ‘Cassiopeia’s Ode’ (Live), ‘Descent Of A Prophetic Vision’ (Live) and ‘Kabalistic Invocation Of Solomon’ (Live). For all additional VARATHRON information check out www.facebook.com/varathronofficial
"Chronicles Of Perversion", the new album from Norwegian Death Metallers KRAANIUM, has just been released via Comatose Music. The album tracks ‘Acid Cumbustion’ and ‘Hung By Your Entrails’ are currently streaming here and here. More band information at www.facebook.com/kraaniumslam
Scottish Death Metallers INIQUITOUS SAVAGERY have just released the song ‘Prey To The Agonies Of Morbid Apprehension’ at this location. It is taken off their upcoming debut full-length "Subversions Of The Psyche" which was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jörg Uken at Soundlodge Studios in Germany. The release is scheduled for September 22, 2015 via Grindethic Records. All further info at www.facebook.com/iniquitoussavagery
Technical brutal Death Metallers REPULSIVE DISSECTION will release their second full-length "Church Of The Five Precious Wounds" on October 01, 2015 via Sevared Records. The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Baptism (Nurtured In The Void)’, ‘Confirmation (The Future Of An Illusion)’, ‘Apologist (Of Theodicy And Denial)’, ‘Ordination (Monuments Of The Deceived)’, ‘Missionary (Proselytic Strangulation)’, ‘Zealot (Power In The Blood)’, ‘Heretic (Schism And Perversion)’ and ‘Apostasy (Ideological Dysphagia)’. The last song is already streaming at this location. More about REPULSIVE DISSECTION at www.facebook.com/repulsivedissectionband
"Tentacles Of Horror", the third album from PUTREVORE, will be released on October 10, 2015 via Xtreem Music. It was mixed and mastered by Dave Rotten at his own Sanctuary Studios and the cover artwork was once again supplied by the Juanjo Castellano. An advance track from the album can already be checked out here. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘These Caverns Breed Filth’, ‘Unspeakable Madness Beckons’, ‘Gable Window Portal Pt. I’, ‘Gable Window Portal Pt. II’, ‘Through The Vortex To Aeons Past’, ‘The Rotten Crawls On’, ‘Hyperborean Dreams’ and ‘A Maw Surrounded By Tentacles’. More band information at www.putrevore.com
Danish Death Metallers DEUS OTIOSUS have released a video for the song ‘Greater Horror’. It was made in cooperation with the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society and features clips from their "Call Of Cthulhu" movie. It can be checked out here. ‘Greater Horror’ is taken from the band’s "Sis Mortuus Mondo" EP, which was released earlier this year via Godeater Records. The song will also be re-recorded for the upcoming fourth, as of yet untitled, DEUS OTIOSUS album in 2016. All further band info at www.deus-otiosus.com or www.facebook.com/deusotiosus.dk
GRAVE RITUAL‘s second full-length "Morbid Throne" will be released on October 30, 2015 via Dark Descent Records. The cover art was created by Daniel Desecrator. The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Baleful Aversion’, ‘Autonomous Death’, ‘Adversary Crown’, ‘Invoker Of Heathen Gnosis’, ‘Tyrant’s Hammer’, ‘Masters And Slaves’, ‘Lewd Perversities’, ‘Behind The Reigns Of Gods’ and ‘Throne Of Continuum’. More band information at www.facebook.com/grave.ritual
Dutch old school Death Metallers BODYFARM have released a lyric video for ‘The Dark Age’, the opening track of their upcoming new full-length “Battle Breed”. You can check it out at this location. The album will be released on November 06, 2015 via Cyclone Empire Records. It was produced and mixed by Ronnie Björnström from Enhanced Audio Productions and the album’s intro ‘Hell March’ was orchestrated by Clemens Wijers. The cover artwork was designed by Juanjo Castellano. The complete “Battle Breed”tracklist reads like this: ‘Hell March’ (Intro), ‘The Dark Age’ (featuring Martin Van Drunen), ‘Saxon Victory’, ‘Dawn Of Defeat’, ‘The Last Crusade’, ‘Prince Of Wallachia’, ‘Storming Revolution’, ‘Firing Squad’, ‘Wolfpack’, ‘Death By Fire’ and ‘Slaves Of War’ (bonus track). www.facebook.com/bodyfarmdeathmetal
French Death Metallers ANTROPOFAGO have just released a digital single for the song ‘Helter Skelter’, taken from the band’s latest full-length "Æra Dementiæ". The single also includes a cover of SEPULTURA’s ‘Arise’, a song that has been in the band’s live set for quite some time now. You can download the single for free right here. More about ANTROPOFAGO at www.facebook.com/antropofago.deathmetal