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Chilean Death Metallers PUTRID EVOCATION will release their debut album this year through Xtreem Music. A couple of songs from their "Promo MMXIII" can be checked out on the band’s official bandcamp site www.putridevocation.bandcamp.com. All further information at www.facebook.com/putridevocation
"Worldshapers", the upcoming sixth album from Maryland’s AURORA BOREALIS, will be released on March 01, 2014 through Xtreem Music. It contains 10 tracks and was produced at Ron Vento’s very own Nightsky Studios. An exclusive advance track can already be checked out here. For more info on AURORA BOREALIS check out www.auroraborealis.org
Serbian Death / Thrashers INFEST will release their upcoming fourth album "Clod Blood War" through Xtreem Music in April. A European tour is planned for May. The band’s third album "Everlasting Genocide" is streaming in its entirety here. A live video from the band’s last year’s appearance at "November To Dismember Fest" in Bucharest (Romania) can be found at this location. For more info on INFEST go here: www.facebook.com/infest.serbia
German Death Metallers LAY DOWN ROTTEN have posted the title track of their upcoming new album "Deathspell Catharsis" at this location. The follow up to 2012’s "Mask Of Malice" was once again produced by Thilo Krieger in his Desert Inn Studio and features artwork by Toshihiro Egewa (CRYPTOPSY, DEFEATED SANITY, KRISIUN). It will be released via Apostasy Records on January 24, 2014 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, January 27, 2014 in the UK and the rest of Europe and on February 11, 2014 in North America. More information at www.laydownrotten.com or www.facebook.com/laydownrotten
Northern Germany’s melodic Death Metallers BURIAL VAULT have just released an official video for ‘Awareness’. The song is taken from their most recent album "Incendium" and can be checked out at this location. The follow up to 2012’s "Ekpyrosis (Periodic Destruction)" was recorded at Soundlodge Studios by Jörg Uken (GOD DETHRONED, DEW-SCENTED, DEFEATED SANITY) and features artwork from Ben Borucki (AGATHODAIMON, SUICIDE SILENCE). More BURIAL VAULT at www.facebook.com/burialvaultband.
The results of our BEST OF 2013 poll are online now! You can check them out here. Thanks to everyone who participated. Have a great 2014!
If you’d still like to participate in our BEST OF 2013 poll, please hurry up, because the deadline for it is tomorrow, December 30, 2013. Just go here and send us a list of your 10 favorite releases of 2013 (no matter if it’s a demo, EP, mini album or full-length). The results will be published in early 2014.
Infernö Records have just released "Speaking With The Devil", the second album by Chilean / Canadian Speed Metallers DEMONA. It features 9 songs (+ intro / outro) and comes with a 12 pages booklet. A limited edition cassette version (100 copies only) is also available. You can check out the album track ‘Traitors’ at this location.
Infernö Records have also just released the second album by Swedish Thrashers LEGIONS OF WAR. The album’s title track ‘Forced To The Ground’ is currently streaming here. For more info and ordering details go here www.inferno-records.net
Atomic Vision (in cooperation with Skaven Records, T.S.C. Records and Slave Of Beerfoam) have released a 7" by Slovakian Death / Thrashers RADIATION entitled "Plutonium Overdose". It features five tracks and is limited to 500 copies. More info at www.atomicvisionprods.blogspot.com
Mexican / Turkish Black / Death Metallers SACROCURSE are currently preparing their Hells Headbangers debut album "Unholier Master" which is scheduled for a May 2014 release on both CD and LP formats. More SACROCURE at www.facebook.com/sacrocurse
Hells Headbangers have signed Portland, Oregon’s CEMETERY LUST. The band’s second album "Orgies Of Abomination" is currently being recorded and will be released in early 2014. CEMETERY LUST’s debut album "Screams Of The Violated" will also be re-released through Hells Headbangers on CD and LP later in 2014. All further band info at www.facebook.com/cemeterylust
American Black Metallers DEMONIC CHRIST have also been signed by Hells Headbangers. The band is currently finalizing their second album "The Great Purge". The track ‘Archangel Revelation" can already be checked out here. For all additional information check out www.facebook.com/pages/demonic-christ-official/340362119328496
The new PERDITION TEMPLE album will be entitled "Tempter’s Victorious" and feature eight new tracks and coverart by Adam Burke. The album will be preceded by a 7" EP, with an exclusive original PERDITION TEMPLE track as well as a special B-side cover track. "Tempter’s Victorious" will be released in early 2014 through Hells Headbangers. More PERDITION TEMPLE at www.facebook.com/perditiontemple
On February 04, 2014 Dark Descent Records will release "Toward Divine Death", the new album from Finnish Death Metallers LIE IN RUINS, as well as "Abysmal Thresholds", the debut full-length from Finland’s CORPSESSED. More info at www.darkdescentrecords.com
In the first half of 2014 Brazil’s Mutilation Records will release a HEADHUNTER D.C. tribute album entitled “Born To Punish The Skies…: A Deathmetallic Brotherhood In Unholy Mourning For God – Tribute To Headhunter D.C.”. It’s going to be released in two volumes and the following bands are already confirmed for it so far: CAUTERIZATION (BRA), INNER DEMONS RISE (BRA), MALEFACTOR (BRA), DEAD CONSPIRACY (USA), DECOMPOSED GOD (BRA), PATHOLOGIC NOISE (BRA), GRAVE DESECRATOR (BRA), UNBORN (BRA), NERVOCHAOS (BRA), INSIDE HATRED (BRA), BASTARD (BRA), QUEIRON (BRA), NECROCCULTUS (MEX), HOLDER (BRA), POISONOUS (BRA), PURE NOISE (BRA), EMBRIONAL (POL), SANCTIFIER (BRA), PURGATORY (GER), HATESPAWN (GER), VULTURE (BRA), INCINERADOR (BRA), ESCARNIUM (BRA), EMINENT SHADOW (BRA), DISGRACE & TERROR (BRA), S.O.H. (BRA), SATHANAS (USA), SEXTRASH (BRA), FUNERAL WHORE (HOL), ETERNAL SACRIFICE (BRA), DEMONIC RAGE (CHI) and REVEL IN FLESH (GER). HEADHUNTER D.C. are currently in the process of writing new songs, which will be used for a future release (7", 10", split or new full-length). Their latest album "…In Unholy Mourning…" is now available on CD in Europe through Evil Spell Records (www.undercover-records.de) and includes the MORTEM cover ‘Summoned To Hell’ as an exclusive bonus track. A vinyl version will be out between January and February 2014. More info at www.facebook.com/headhunterdc
On March 03, 2014 Hammerheart Records will re-release EMPEROR‘s "As The Shadows Rise" 7" from 1994 as a limited edition (666 copies) 12" with an etching on the side B and the songs as CD in one package.
On the same day Hammerheart will also re-release a limited vinyl edition (500 copies) of "Alone Walkyng" from Norway’s HADES. It features the demo from 1993 on side A while side B is also etched. More info at www.hammerheart.com
French brutal Death Metallers’ BENIGHTED’s forthcoming seventh full-length is entitled "Carnivore Sublime" and will be released on February 14, 2014 through Season of Mist. Here’s the tracklist: ‘X2Y’, ‘Noise’, ‘Experience Your Flesh’, ‘Slaughter / Suicide’, ‘Spit’, ‘Defiled Purity’, ‘Jekyll’, ‘Collection Of Dead Portraits’, ‘Carnivore Sublime’, ‘Les Morsures De Cerbère’ and ‘June And The Laconic Solstice’. A deluxe limited edition digibox will include a bonus CD, a patch, a pin and a poster. The track listing of the bonus disc is as follows: ‘Meticulous Invagination’ (ABORTED cover), ‘Du Riechst So Gut’ (RAMMSTEIN cover), ‘Old’ (MACHINE HEAD cover), ‘The Twins’ (live), ‘Saw It All’ (live), ‘Forsaken’ (live), ‘Nemesis’ (live), ‘Spit’ (demo version) and ‘Collection Of Dead Portraits’ (demo version). In February and March, BENIGHTED will be touring in France with LOUDBLAST. More info at www.facebook.com/benighted.official
Philadelphia based Death Metallers TRENCHROT will release their debut "Necronomic Warfare" on February 18, 2014 via Unspeakable Axe Records. You can already check out the album track ‘Sickening Devotion’ at this location. More information at www.facebook.com/trenchrotdeathmetal or http://trenchrotdeathmetal.bandcamp.com
On February 21, 2014 F.D.A. Records will release "Inoculation", the debut full-length from California Death Metallers MORFIN on CD, vinyl and digital formats. The vinyl LP will be available on red / black marbled (100 copies only) or standard black vinyl. "Inoculation" was recorded at Executer Studio in Pico Rivera, California and the artwork was created by Badic Art (SKELETAL REMAINS, GOREGAST, DEMONICAL, DEHUMAN REIGN). The album track ‘Dark Creator’ is already streaming here. More MORFIN info at www.facebook.com/morfindeathmetal
After 7 years of silence NOCTURNAL BREED will release their fifth album "Napalm Nights" on March 11, 2014 in Europe and March 18, 2014 in North America via Agonia Records. It was recorded in Killer Studio (Norway) in 2012 and 2013 and the complete tracklist reads like this: ‘The Devil Swept The Ruins’, ‘Speedkrieg’, ‘Cursed Beyond Recognition’, ‘The Bitch Of Buchenwald’, ‘Napalm Nights’, ‘Thrashiac’, ‘Dawn Campaign… Flamethrower Ridge’, ‘Under The Whip’, ‘Dragging The Priests’ and ‘Krigshisser’. The album opening track ‘The Devil Swept The Ruins’ is available for streaming here. "Napalm Nights" features a guest appearance of DARKTHRONE’s Nocturno Culto on vocals, and former guitarist A.E. Rattlehead on guitars. It will be available as digipak CD, limited double black vinyl in gatefold sleeves (with insert with lyrics and A2 poster), limited double military green vinyl (with insert with lyrics, A2 poster and laser-cut full color patch) and digitally. More NOCTURNAL BREED at www.facebook.com/pages/nocturnal-breed-official/250907411181
MENACE, the brainchild of NAPALM DEATH axeman Mitch Harris, have announced the title of their debut album. It will be entitled "Impact Velocity", the release is scheduled for March 14, 2014 via Season Of Mist and features contributions from Derek Roddy (drums), Fred Leclercq (bass), Nicola Manzan (violin, cello, viola), Shane Embury (bass) and Russ Russell (producer and navigator of paradoxology). For all further information on MENACE check out www.facebook.com/seasonofmistofficial
Xtreem Music will release AURORA BOREALIS‘ 6th full-length "Worldshapers" on March 01, 2014. The album contains 10 tracks and was produced at Ron Vento’s very own Nightsky Studios. You can already listen to an exclusive advance track here. For more info about AURORA BOREALIS check out www.auroraborealis.org
US Death Metallers BLOODSOAKED will release their new full-length "Religious Apocalypse" in Spring 2014 on Comatose Music. The album features new material, along with live tracks and a couple of cover songs. The previous BLOODSOAKED releases "The Death Of Hope" as well as "Sadistic Greed… Grotesque Memories" are currently streaming at www.bloodsoaked.stereokiller.com. More band information at www.bloodsoaked.net or www.facebook.com/bloodsoaked666
DEROGATORY‘s F.D.A. Records debut album "Above All Else" is now streaming in its entirety at this location. For more info on DEROGATORY check out www.facebook.com/derogatory.deathmetal
Swedish Death / Crust Metallers BOMBS OF HADES will release a compilation album entitled “Through The Dark Past” on January 27, 2014 through Pulverised Records. It will feature all EP-, single-, split-, bonus- and cover-songs the band ever recorded, from the "Carnivores" 7" EP up till the "No Life" split 10" with Sweden’s MORDBRAND. The entire material will be completely remastered and the album also features four brand new tracks that were exclusively recorded for this release. The full tracklist reads like this: ‘Necronomicus Kanth (The Hounds Of Hell)’, ‘Twisted Decay’, ‘Slaughter The Dead’, ‘Disrespect Their Bones’, ‘Coffin’, ‘Carnivores’, ‘Prolog (The Ecstacy Of Blood)’, ‘Into The Eternal Pit Of Fire’, ‘The Day Man Lost’, ‘Confessor’, ‘Ice Cold Grave’, ‘Clean Your Head’, ‘Until Death (Hanged By The Neck)’, ‘Inside Teradome’, ‘Burn’, ‘I’ll Be Your Sister’, ‘Mangled Dehumanization’, ‘Crossturner’, ‘Evil Dead’, ‘Kill! Kill! Kill!’ and ‘Epilog’. More info at www.bombsofhades.com or www.facebook.com/bombsofhades
On January 30, 2014 Swedish female fronted Black / Thrash Metallers DRACENA will release a new MCD entitled "Ravenous Bloodlust". It will include 4 new songs, recorded at Andy La Rocque’s Sonic Train Studios. More info at www.dracena.se
Selfmadegod Records has started to re-issue the complete AGATHOCLES back catalogue. The first re-issue is “Black Clouds Determinate”, the band’s second album from 1994, which has been remastered and features totally revamped artwork and layout. The 17-song CD additionally includes the song ‘Until It Bleeds’ (from the same April 1994 session at famous Soundshape Studios). You can listen to ‘Sentimental Hypocrisy’ at Selfmadegod Records’ Soundcloud profile or official YouTube channel. More on AGATHOCLES at www.agathocles.com.
F.D.A. Records will release the vinyl edition of AMON‘s "Liar In Wait" album on January 31, 2014. The European edition will feature new exclusive artwork (created by Misanthropic Artwork) and new layout (by ArtWars Mediadesign). It is limited to 200 gold / black marbled copies and 400 Satanic black copies. Package deals that include an AMON t-shirt are being offered as well. More info at www.fda-records.com. All AMON related information can be found at www.amon.mobi or www.facebook.com/amoneric
On February 18, 2014 Unspeakable Axe Records will release the self-titled debut from Italian Death / Thrashers OMNIVORE. You can already check out the track ‘Omnivore’ at this location. For all further information check out www.facebook.com/pages/omnivore/265473320143668
On March 04, 2014 Moribund Records will release a BLEEDING FIST compilation entitled "Death’s Old Stench – The Deathcult Sessions", which will feature unreleased songs from 2011 – 2013 by these Slovenian Black Metallers. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Angel Negro’ (Intro), ‘Holy Saint Of Death’, ‘Brotherhood Of Chaos And Death’, ‘Revelation Of Degenesis’, ‘The Veiled Crowned Queen’, ‘De La Muerte’ (Intermezzo), ‘Azazel’, ‘Death Almighty Death’, ‘Blackened Illumination’, ‘Tweens Of Darkness And Evil’, ‘Cursed Blood’ and ‘Prelude To The Total Death 266’ (Outro). In other BLEEDING FIST news, the band has added new guitarist Jex to their line-up, who replaces Angelus and Occultus, and who has already contributed to seven songs slated for the band’s next Moribund full-length. More info at: www.bleeding-fist.com or www.facebook.com/chaosblackmetal
On February 24, 2014 (Europe) / March 18, 2014 (U.S.) Greyhaze Records will release a deluxe CD / DVD digipak of MYSTIFIER‘s long out of print debut album "Wicca". The CD will feature bonus tracks not available before on any previous version, while the DVD will contain two concerts by the band (the Nuclear War Now Festival in Germany and a show in their hometown of Salvador, Brazil). The digipak will feature a new layout and old photos from the band. A vinyl version of the album will follow soon as well. MYSTIFYER is also planning an extended tour of Europe which will include shows at Norway’s Inferno Festival and Germany’s Legacy Open Air. More information at www.mystifier.com.br or www.greyhazerecords.com