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On March 11, 2013 Chaos Records will re-release CENOTAPH‘s 1992 debut album "The Gloomy Reflections Of Our Hidden Sorrows" on CD with four bonus tracks. For this edition, the original art was used with permission of artist Ryszard Wojtynski, a new and improved layout done, and the sound has been re-mastered. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Requiem For A Soul Request’, ‘Ashes In The Rain’, ‘…A Red Sky’, ‘Evoked Doom’, ‘Tenebrous Apparitions’, ‘The Spiritless One’, ‘Infinite Meditation Of An Uncertain Existence’, ‘In The Cosmic Solitude’ and ‘Repulsive Odor Of Decomposition’. Bonus Tracks: ‘Repulsive Odor Of Decomposition’ and ‘Larvs Of Subconcious’ (taken from the "Tenebrous Apparitions" 7" EP), ‘Dissection’ and ‘Tenebrous Apparitions’ (taken from "The Eternal Disgrace" 7" EP). You can listen to the track ‘Ashes In The Rain’ at this location. For pre-orders go to http://store.chaos-records.com
Swedish Black Metallers PEST have been signed by Agonia Records. The band’s fourth full-length "The Crowning Horror" is scheduled for a June 2013 release. A vinyl 7" EP featuring the two new tracks ‘Black Oath’ and ‘Morbid Revelations’ will already be released this April.. The band commented: "After years of silence a new wave of black death will finally strike the world. The plague is upon us. Bring the darkness!" All further info at www.pest.se
Mexico’s Death Metallers INFINITUM OBSCURE have just released a new MCD entitled "The Luminous Black" via Deathgasm Records. It features one new track, a re-recorded version of ‘Path To Apocalypse’ (from the band’s 2006 debut "Internal Dark Force") and a cover of BATHORY’s ‘Through Blood By Thunder’. This will be limited to a one time only pressing. INFINITUM OBSCURE will be touring the US in April 2013 as direct support for Swedish Death Metallers SORCERY. Tour dates will become available soon via Hate War Productions. A recording date for the new album is still not set, but it will be recorded and produced once again by Bill Metoyer at Skull Seven Studios in Los Angeles, California and will be mastered by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio in Sweden. It will also feature artwork of Ketolahelvete once again. The full-length will be released during 2013 in the US via Deathgasm Records (CD format – digipak and jewelcase) and in Europe via Blood Harvest Records on 12" vinyl format. More at www.infinitumobscure.com or www.facebook.com/infinitumobscure
"The Formulas Of Death", the upcoming new album by Sweden’s Death Metallers TRIBULATION, will be released on March 01, 2013 through Invictus Productions in Europe and the UK, while The Ajna Offensive will be handling North American territories. All additional information on TRIBULATION you may find at www.tribulation.se or www.facebook.com/pages/tribulation-official/169889709720460
‘Like Worms Upon The Lands’, a track from Finnish DEATHCHAIN‘s upcoming album "Ritual Death Metal", can already be heard in its entirety here. The album will be released on April 05, 2013 through Svart Records. The cover art was created by Babalon Graphics, other layout work by Costin Chioreanu of Twilight13 Media. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Voice Of Sharur’, ‘Stele Of The Vultures’, ‘Seven Asakku Shadows’, ‘Our Lady Under The Earth’, ‘King Pazuzu’, ‘Like Worms Upon The Lands’ (featuring guest vocals by ENTOMBED’s LG Petrov), ‘Tiamat’s Eyes Of Death’ and ‘Abzu Doom’. More information at www.deathchain.com or www.facebook.com/deathchainband
US Death Metallers BLOODSOAKED will be touring Europe this April together with Bay Area Melodic Deathers SHORT FUSE, Dallas-based blackened Deathers PSYCHIATRIC REGURGITATION, Boston Thrashers BLACK MASS and Chicago Death Metallers HATE STORM ANNIHILATION. The tour will kick off on April 05, 2013 in Görlitz, Germany. For more details visit the "Rotting In Europe 2013 Tour" event page. BLOODSOAKED’s last record, "The Death Of Hope", was released in 2011 via Comatose Music. That album, along with 2009’s "Sadistic Greed…Grotesque Memories" are streaming in full at www.bloodsoaked.stereokiller.com. All further info at www.bloodsoaked.net or www.facebook.com/bloodsoaked666
INSISION has signed to Extreme Management Group, Inc. The company already works with bands like SUFFOCATION, ORIGIN, DECREPIT BIRTH, ABORTED and more. "After 16 years we’re looking forward to co-operate with one of the biggest Metal managements today. Hopefully we’ll reach out to more fans that haven’t had the chance to catch us live in Europe region as well as the US / South America, Asia region. Hope to see all of you friends & fans of brutal Death Metal out there" – Roger / Guitar. INSISION is kicking off an Ireland / UK Tour in May followed by Ukraine’s Metal Heads Mission Festival in the Ukraine in August. More information at www.facebook.com/insision
Blood Harvest Records in co-operation with To The Death Records will be re-releasing SORCERY‘s 1991 album "Bloodchilling Tales", including the "Rivers Of The Dead" 7"EP as bonustracks. Due to the fact that the original label holds the rights to the old cover and title, it will be re-released with the new title "Legacy Of Blood", which was actually the original working title back in the days, and new cover by Daniel Devilish. It was restored from original sources at Studio XXVII and will include an inlay with lyrics and info. The album will be limited to 400 copies in purple vinyl and 100 copies in black vinyl. More info at www.bloodharvest.se
DEEDS OF FLESH‘s ninth studio release "Portals To Canaan" will be released on June 25, 2013 digitally, on CD, LP gatefold (LP includes entirely different cover art as the CD) and limited edition garments and bundle packages via Unique Leader / Hammerheart Records. The album was produced by Zach Ohren at Castle Ultimate studios and the artwork includes two highly detailed conceptual pieces from famed artist Raymond Swanland. Here’s the tracklist: ‘Amidst The Ruins’, ‘Entranced In Decades Of Psychedelic Sleep’, ‘Rise Of The Virvum Juggernaut’, ‘Celestial Serpents’, ‘Caelum Hirundines Terra’ / ‘The Sky Swallows The Earth’, ‘Xeno-Virus’, ‘Hollow Human Husks’, ‘Portals To Canaan’ and ‘Orphans Of Sickness’ (GORGUTS cover). The track ‘Rise Of The Virvum Juggernaut’ can already be checked out at this location.
French Black Metallers AOSOTH have premiered a track from their new full-length album "IV:Arrow In Heart", which will be released on April 16, 2013 worldwide on Agonia Records. The track ‘An Arrow In Heart’ can be streamed at this location. More info at www.facebook.com/aosoth
Blood Harvest have signed Dutch Death Metallers LUCIFERICON for one vinyl full-length album and the vinyl edition of the previously self-released MCD, “The Occult Waters”. Daniel / Self Desecrator is currently working on new artwork for the re-release of “The Occult Waters”. The band also has a new logo courtesy of artist Manuel Tinnemans. More info at www.facebook.com/lucifericon
On May 14, 2013 Hells Headbangers will release GRAVEWÜRM‘s ninth full-length album, "Infernal Minions". The cover art was created by MASSACRE’s Kam Lee and the tracklist reads like this: ‘Nocturnal Inquisition’, ‘The Evil Within’, ‘Master Of The Dark’, ‘Dominion Of Lost Souls’, ‘The Beast Of The Abyss’, ‘I Die For Hell’, ‘Crown Of The Fallen’ and ‘Mistress Of Blood And Fire’. All further information at www.hellsheadbangers.com/gravewurm or www.myspace.com/gravewurm
The VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE Issue 1-10 book edition is finally out through www.ironbonehead.de now. It’s a full size (A4) hardcover book with gloss lamination, has 872 pages and was printed on 115g paper. The weight is 3,00 kg / 6,7 lb per book and the whole edition is limited to 1000 copies. The book contains all long out of print 10 issues of VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE, as well as all columns out of Germany’s Horror Infernal Magazine # 30-43 plus in-depth background info and liner-notes from Paul Speckmann (MASTER), Kam Lee (ex-MANTAS / DEATH, MASSACRE), Mike Browning (ex-MORBID ANGEL / INCUBUS / NOCTURNUS / ACHERON, AFTER DEATH), Rick Cortez (SADISTIC INTENT), Ross Dolan (IMMOLATION), Lee Harrison (MONSTROSITY), Joakim Sterner (NECROPHOBIC) and Wannes Gubbels (PENTACLE). Apart from Iron Bonehead it is also being distributed by the following companies: Nuclear Blast (Germany), High Roller (Germany), Dunkelheit (Germany), Cyclone Empire (Germany), Nuclear War Now! (US), Hells Headbangers (US), Dark Descent (US), Forever Plagued (US), Coffin Slave (Australia), Me Saco Un Ojo (UK), Aphelion (UK), Forgotten Wisdom (F), Horror (Denmark), Hammerheart (Holland), Blasphemous Art (Italy), Into The Void (Ireland), Invictus (Ireland), Nuclear Winter (Greece), Obliteration (Japan), Hammer Of Hate (Finland). More info and a couple of pics you’ll find at this location
The vinyl version of the latest FUNERUS album "Reduced To Sludge" will be released on March 05, 2013 via Poland’s Hellthrasher Productions. It will be available in 400 black and 100 brown copies, packed in a jacket sleeve with an additional insert and a big poster. It can already be pre-ordered at www.hellthrasher.com/shop
On February 27, 2013 NADER SADEK will self-release a live CD / DVD entitled "Living Flesh". The full tracklisting reads like this: ‘Re:awakening’, ‘Nigredo In Necromance’, ‘Sulffer’, ‘Mechanic Idolatry’, ‘Soulless’, ‘Rusted Skin’ / Drum solo, ‘Of This Flesh’, ‘Re: exhaust’ and ‘Petrophilia’. It was filmed during a 2011 performance at Santos Party House in Manhattan. Two of the featured songs can already be checked out here (‘Sulffer’) and here (‘Nigredo In Necromance’). "Living Flesh" will also be released in a single, unique vinyl edition. Consisting of a very special packaging and extra content, limited to one exclusive copy worldwide. Details to be announced. For pre-orders and more information check out www.nadersadek.com or www.facebook.com/naderflesh
HUMANITY DELETE have released a second video from their debut album, "Never Ending Nightmares". The video for ‘Frozen Apparition’ was shot on location in Canada by 62nd Chamber Productions, who also directed the band’s first video for ‘Necromantic Sorcery’ and it features guest guitar solos from Lasse Pyykko of HOODED MENACE. You can check out the video at this location. Future HUMANITY DELETE albums will continue to deal with paranormal experiences while also adding post-apocalyptic themes into the mix. More information at www.facebook.com/humanitydelete
Finnish Death Metallers LANTERN have completed work on their debut album, "Below", which will be released this spring through Dark Descent Records on CD and vinyl formats. A promo video of the song ‘Revenant’ has already been posted at this location. For more info check out www.facebook.com/lantern666
"Gorgos Goetia", the new album from A TRANSYLVANIAN FUNERAL, will be released on March 20, 2013 through Forbidden Records, as well as iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Rhapsody, etc. and other online retailers worldwide. The tracklist reads like this: ‘Cold Blood And Darkness’, ‘Burning Astral Hunger’, ‘Light Cast Out’, ‘The Supreme Rite Of Transmutation’, ‘Fear’, ‘Mars Exalted In Capricorn’, ‘Moonchild’, ‘Percival In Black Armor’, ‘Ten Of Swords’, ‘Hymn To A Gorgon’ and ‘Goliath Resurrected’. Additional info at www.facebook.com/atransylvanianfuneral
Makers of Menace and Purveyors of Putridity Forbidden Records have set March 20, 2013 as the release date for GOATCRAFT‘s "All For Naught". The digital version will also be available from iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Rhapsody, etc. and other online retailers worldwide. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Call Me Judas’, ‘Infinite Death’, ‘Goat Will Riot’, ‘Gate I’, ‘Isolation Ripens’, ‘Vestibule To The Abyss’, ‘Laconism Of The Cosmos’, ‘Gate II’, ‘Everything Will Die’, ‘The Rape Of Europa’ and ‘Consciousness Is A Disease’. More at www.goatcraft.net or www.facebook.com/goatcraft.texas
FUNEBRARUM‘s "The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams" is available again through Cyclone Empire Records as a limited edition re-press (500 copies), 180g black vinyl edition. The original version was released in 2009 and already sold out shortly after. More information at www.facebook.com/pages/funebrarum/136845236410744 or www.cyclone-empire.com
Sweden’s VOMITORY have just issued the following official statement: "After 24 years, eight albums and hundreds of live shows across 30 countries, we have finally come to the end of the road. We in the band – Tobias, Urban, Erik and Peter – have made the collective decision to end VOMITORY by the end of 2013. It has been a blast on all accounts, but all good things come to to an end, and for VOMITORY it is now. We will still play as many shows as possible during 2013, and we hope to see as many of you fans as possible there, so we can thank you for your true support during all these years!"
South American Black Metallers PATRIA have released a new album teaser for "Nihil Est Monastica". It was created by Swedish producer Håkan Sjodin, who previously worked for MARDUK on their latest official video for ‘Souls For Belial’. You can check it out here. The album is set to be released on March 13, 2013 via French label Drakkar Productions in digipak, vinyl and cassette formats. The artwork was created by Costin Chioreanu who has worked with bands such as DARKTHRONE, ULVER, AURA NOIR, etc. The "Nihil Est Monastica" tracklist reads like this: ‘Nihil Est Monastica’, ‘Conquering Death’s Palace’, ‘Dark Cosmic Legend’, ‘Nyctophilia’, ‘Ravens Almighty’, ‘Altar’, ‘Sacro Vale Dos Encantos’, ‘Ascendant Of Darkness’, ‘Evoking The Ancient Spirits’, ‘Storm Before Eternity’, ‘The Silence Of The Thrones’, ‘Till Death’ and ‘Black Vomit’ (SARCÓFAGO cover). For more info go to www.patriablackmetal.tk or www.facebook.com/blackmetalpatria
Finnish Death Metallers KRYPTS have just released their debut full-length "Unending Degradation" via Dark Descent Records (the vinyl edition will be handled by Me Saco Un Ojo). You can check out album track ‘Open The Crypt’ at krypts.bandcamp.com and the promo video for ‘Beneath The Archaic’ at this location. More KRYPTS at www.kryptomb.org
"Frostbitepanzerfuck", the debut full-length from Pennsylvania’s THE BEYOND, has just been released through Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. An exclusive full album stream can be checked out at this location. The band has furthermore made the tracks from their 2010 and 2012 split releases available at thebeyond666.bandcamp.com. "Frostbitepanzerfuck" was recorded at Welfare Line Studio in West Chester, PA and features the following tracks: ‘Roto-Cunt’, ‘Goat Sodomizer’, ‘Cunt Sucking Cannibal’ (GG ALLIN cover), ‘Frostbitepanzerfuck’, ‘Attack Of The Zombie Brigade’, ‘The Splatterhouse Maniacs’, ‘Necro Overload’ and ‘Exterminate Humanity’. For more information on THE BEYOND visit www.facebook.com/thebeyond999