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Finnish Death Metallers PURTENANCE will release their third album "…To Spread The Flame Of Ancients" on September 01, 2015. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Invocatio’, ‘Perventio’, ‘Waiting To Be Free’, ‘I, The Sacrificed’, ‘On The Far Side Of Knowledge’, ‘Destroyed Human Mind’, ‘Blood Oath’, ‘Cornerstone Of Insanity’, ‘Disseminated Death’, ‘The Unseen’ and ‘Kaaos On Kanssamme (Chaos Is With Us)’. An advance track from the album can be checked out here. More info at www.facebook.com/purtenance
American Death Metallers WARFATHER have issued a studio update on the progress of the band’s as of yet untitled new album. The rhythm guitars, drums and bass tracks are completed. The vocals should be finished soon. The artwork is currently under consideration. WARFATHER’s Steve Tucker (who recently replaced David Vincent in MORBID ANGEL again) just issued the following statement: "Working with Erik Rutan on this record is both an honor and an amazing experience. Erik knows Death Metal better than any producer or engineer on this planet! He knows how to get the best performance out of everyone who steps through Mana Recording studios’ doors. A true professional and a legend!" Producer Erik Rutan added: "Recording with Steve and the guys on the new WARFATHER album has been fantastic! It has been a blast to be working on this monster album in the studio once again with my great friend and former band mate. The songs are heavy as hell and just outright awesome. We have some great tones and performances and I’m really excited about the whole process. We have just finished all the drums, bass and rhythm guitars. The massive foundation has been formulated. Now it is time to start vocals and solos and onward to the mix!" "Orchestrating The Apocalypse", the band’s debut full-length from 2014, is still available as a digipak CD and digitally from Greyhaze Records. More about WARFATHER at www.facebook.com/pages/warfather/240931366011521
Dutch Death Metallers LUCIFERICON will start recording their new 3 track EP "Brimstone Altar" on August 15, 2015. The CD version will be released by Invictus Records and the 12" vinyl version via Blood Harvest Records. The artwork comes courtesy of Manuel Tinnemans (PENTACLE, DEATHSPELL OMEGA, etc). More info at www.facebook.com/lucifericon
Asvamedha Productions, in co-operation with Black Vomit Records, have made 1992’s NECROMANTIA / VARATHRON split LP "The Black Arts" / "The Everlasting Sins" available again on vinyl. It is limited to 500 copies (400 on black and 100 on white vinyl, the latter comes with an exclusive t-shirt) and features the original cover and identical artwork of the first pressing. It was remastered by the Magus himself. More info and ordering details via asvamedhaprods@gmail.com, www.blackvomitrecords.com/catalog or www.facebook.com/blackvomit666
Finnish Death Metallers AMPUTORY have released a video for the song ‘Cleansing By The Blade’ at this location. The song is taken from their debut album "Ode To Gore", which was released via Xtreem Music on May 10, 2015. More AMPUTORY at: www.facebook.com/amputory
Norwegian Black Metallers TSJUDER are streaming the first track from their upcoming new full-length "Antiliv" at this location now. The album will be released on September 18, 2015 via Season Of Mist. The artwork has been designed by French artist Vincent Fouquet (MELECHESH, HIMINBJORG, BETHLEHEM) and the full tracklist reads like this: ‘Kaos’, ‘Krater’, ‘Norge’, ‘Djevelens Mesterverk’, ‘Demonic Supremacy’, ‘Slumber With The Worm’, ‘Ved Ferdens Ende’ and ‘Antiliv’. The digibox will additionally have the following bonus tracks: ‘Kaos’ (rehearsal version), ‘Slumber With The Worm’ (rehearsal version), ‘Antiliv’ (rehearsal version), ‘Deathcrush’ (MAYHEM cover) and ‘Unholy Pagan Fire’ (BEHERIT cover). More about TSJUDER at www.tsjuder.com or www.facebook.com/tsjuderofficial
Peru’s MORBID SLAUGHTER have just released a song from their upcoming album "A Filthy Orgy Of Horror And Death" right here. The album will be released on September 04, 2015 on vinyl through Boris Records in North America, deluxe digipak CD through Inti Records in South America and die hard tape edition by the band. The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Cannibal Butcher’, ‘Zombie Splatter Axe’, ‘Chainsaw Blade’, ‘Fuck Off, We Murder’, ‘Death’s Cold Blood’, ‘Torture Without Anesthesia’ and ‘Slay With Steel’. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/morbidslaughterofficial
"Chronicles Of Perversion", the fourth full-length from Norwegian brutal Death Metallers KRAANIUM, will be released on September 18, 2015 via Comatose Music. The track ‘Hung By Your Entrails’ can already be checked out here. And a promo video for ‘Evisceration Of Pre-Teen Cadavers’ can additionally be found at this location. More information at www.facebook.com/kraaniumslam
German old school Death Metallers DEMONBREED have been signed by Testimony Records. The band rose from the ashes of the disbanded LAY DOWN ROTTEN and gets completed by Fernando Thielmann (MILKING THE GOATMACHINE, CARNAL GHOUL) on guitar. The debut album will be released by the end of this year on CD and vinyl (including a limited edition). The track ‘Red Countess’ (from the album’s pre-production) can already be checked out here. More info at www.facebook.com/demonbreedofficial
Brazil Death Metallers REBAELLIUN will re-release their 1999 "At War" CD single as a vinyl 7” EP via Hammerheart Records in October. A new album (working title "The Hell’s Decrees") will be recorded this Winter, with a release scheduled for May 2016. The band’s two albums “Burn The Promised Land” and “Annihilation” will also be re-released in deluxe CD versions, digitally and on vinyl. For all additional REBAELLIUN information check out www.facebook.com/rebaelliun
1992’s split release between Finland’s CARTILAGE and Sweden’s ALTAR will be re-released on August 20, 2015 via Xtreem Music as a double CD with 7 bonus tracks by each band (taken from their early demos). All songs have been remastered and the re-release comes with a remake of the cover artwork (the original cover is included as well) while the booklet will features photos, flyers and demo covers. A vinyl edition with the original split album tracks will follow in the future. Sound samples can be found here (ALTAR) and here (CARTILAGE).
HELTER SKELTER is a Black, Death and Grind zine, originally created between 1990 – 1993, but never officially released. On October 30, 2015 it will finally be out as a luxurious hardcover book (around 150 pages), limited to 1000 hand numbered copies. The layout was done the old school way with the help of a typewriter, glue and scissors. The following interviews will be featured: MAYHEM, SAMAEL, EXULCERATION, ROTTING CHRIST, IMPETIGO, FILTHY CHRISTIANS, EUCHARIST, CADAVER, SOLITUDE AETERNUS, RIPPIKOULO, UNCANNY, FURBOWL, FUNERAL FEAST, REGURGITATE, PARADISE LOST, XYSMA and one of the very first IN FLAMES interviews. Tons of demo reviews and big size posters of old MAYHEM and SAMAEL and a Nekromantik movie poster complete the picture. The first 500 copies will also include an extremely rare item. Pre-order and all additional information at www.facebook.com/helterskelterzine/posts/809903609105851 or via the following email: helterskelterfanzine@gmail.com
"Fragments", the new full-length from Boston’s DYSENTERY, is now streaming in its entirety at this location. The album was engineered, mixed and mastered by Adam Rourke at the RedRoom in Waltham, MA and Marco Hasmann (FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, SEPTYCAL GORGE) created the cover art. It was released earlier this month via Comatose Music. More about DYSENTERY at www.facebook.com/dysenterygrind
US old school Thrashers SONICK PLAGUE are currently streaming material from their re-recorded, self-titled 1988 debut (originally entitled "What’s The Purpose"). The album will be released digitally via Pavement Music and on CD directly through the band on July 24 2015. You can listen to the tracks ‘Street Wars’ here and ‘One Swift Kick’ here. For all additional band information check out www.sonickplague.com or www.facebook.com/sonickplague
Colombia’s BELLS OF ACHERON ZINE has just released its third issue. Apart from the usual reviews it features a special about German Thrash Metal / Gama Records bands (interviews with DARKNESS, NECRONOMICON, STRANGER), a KING FOWLEY adventures article and interviews with DEATH COURIER, DENOUNCEMENT PYRE, XENOTAPH, AGONY LORDS, JOSE LUIS CANO (writter of the book “BLACK METAL AND ITS SINISTER ANTECEDENTS IN ROCK AND HEAVY METAL”) HYPNOSIA, VANHELGD, SORCERER, BLOOD FARMERS, FORCED KILL, NOCTURNAL GRAVES, FUNERAL NATION, INFERNAL SLAUGHTER, CHANCRO DURO, UNDER THE CHURCH, BLACK JESUS, MACHETAZO and INFERNUS SERPEST. 76 pages in total. For ordering information please contact: traumarkhan@hotmail.com
On June 28, 2015 guitarist Don Gates announced that he is no longer part of Florida Death Metallers BRUTALITY. The reason for his departure he called "socio-psychological incompatibility with the rest of the band." Gates kept all material that he had already written for the self-titled BRUTALITY album and will release it on his own. One of the tracks (‘Karma’s Manifesto’) can be checked out here. It was recorded in his own studio and he performed all instruments on his own. Only with the lyrics and vocals he got help from two old friends, Randy Dewitt and Keith Suchland.
US Death Metallers ECTOVOID are currently streaming their new full-length "Dark Abstraction" in its entirety at this location. The album has just been released on CD via Hellthrasher Productions. More info at www.facebook.com/ectovoid
‘Cursed Blades Cast Upon the Slavescum Of Christ’, a track from the upcoming new ADVERSARIAL album "Death, Endless Nothing And The Black Knife Of Nihilism", is now streaming at this location. The album will be released on August 21, 2015 via Dark Descent Records. For all additional ADVERSARIAL information check out www.adversarial.ca or www.facebook.com/adversarialofficial
Technical Death Metallers ATHEIST are currently streaming previously unreleased live footage of the band’s classic line-up over here. The video is taken from the upcoming Season Of Mist CD / DVD re-issues of the band’s early albums. It was shot on February 09, 1991 at the Waters Club, San Pedro, California at the last show of ATHEIST bassist Roger Patterson before his tragic death. More info at www.facebook.com/atheistofficial
"Chronicles Of Perversion", the fourth full-length from Norway’s brutal Death Metallers KRAANIUM, will be released via Comatose Music on on September 18, 2015. The artwork was created by Marco Hasmann and the complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Rock Filled Orifice’, ‘Human Skin Fuck Doll’, ‘Hung By Your Entrails’, ‘Destined For Surgical Defilement’, ‘Evisceration Of Pre-Teen Cadavers’, ‘Chronicles Of Perversion’, ‘Acid Cumbustion’, ‘Rusty Knife Defloration’, ‘Fermented Uteral Mastication’, ‘Sodomize Her Headless Corpse’ and ‘Revisitate To Mutilate’. A promo video for the album track ‘Evisceration Of Pre-Teen Cadavers’ can be found at this location. For all additional info check out www.facebook.com/kraaniumslam
On September 04, 2015 Peru’s MORBID SLAUGHTER will release their debut album "A Filthy Orgy Of Horror And Death" on vinyl (Boris Records, North America), deluxe digipak CD (Inti Records, South America) and diehard tape edition (directly through the band). The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Cannibal Butcher’, ‘Zombie Splatter Axe’, ‘Chainsaw Blade’, ‘Fuck Off, We Murder’, ‘Death’s Cold Blood’, ‘Torture Without Anesthesia’ and ‘Slay With Steel’. More band information at www.facebook.com/morbidslaughterofficial
"Aggregat 4", the debut full-length from Dutch Doom / Deathers CONFRONTATION, will be released through Chaos Records later this year. More details will follow soon. More info about CONFRONTATION can be found at www.facebook.com/confrontationhm2
‘Zealot, Crusader Of War’, another track from HATE ETERNAL‘s upcoming new album "Infernus", is currently streaming at this location. The album will be released on August 21, 2015. More HATE ETERNAL at www.facebook.com/hate.eternal