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Oregon’s brutal and technical Death Metallers OMNIHILITY are scheduled to enter the studio this summer to record their Unique Leader / Hammerheart Records debut release. For all further information check out www.facebook.com/pages/omnihility/226909030653774?fref=ts
On February 22, 2013 Cyclone Empire will re-release VOMITORY‘s "Revelation Nausea" and "Blood Rapture" albums as limited (500 copies), 180g vinyl editions with gatefold sleeves incl. poster. More info at www.vomitory.net or www.facebook.com/pages/vomitory/39211340933
"Queen Of The Midnight Fire", the upcoming album of the Slovenian occult Speed / Heavy Metal act VIGILANCE, is scheduled to be released through Metal Tank Records (exact date to be announced). It will feature the following tracks: ‘Queen Of The Midnight Fire’, ‘Behind The Cellar Door’, ‘Speed Wave’, ‘What Lies Beyond’, ‘Night Terrors’, ‘Four Crowns Of Hell’, ‘Poetry And The Gods’, ‘Under Sulphurous Skies’ and ‘Ritual Of Death’. More information at www.metaltankrecords.com
"Suffering Is The Seed", the sophomore album from Colombian Death / Black Metallers NEPENTE is out now via Sonic Blast Media on CD format (a vinyl edition will be out later this year through badGod Music). More information at www.facebook.com/nepente.manizales
French blackened Death Metallers ABSINTHEBOLIK are currently streaming their first 5 song EP, "Le Mirroir De L’omniscience", in its entirety on their official website www.absinthebolik.fr
Comatose Music has signed South Jersey Death Metallers MORTAL DECAY. The recordings of their new album will begin in April with a release date scheduled for this Summer. In addition to the new release, Comatose Music will also re-issue the highly sought after "A Gathering Of Human Artifacts" CD which will be available this Spring. Here’s a statement from the band about the new album: "In believing that this is our most solid material to date, and that we are individually at our best, it can be summed as a definitive collection of songs. Ranging through every era of the band, and including newer experiments, our collective energy and creativity was reborn and still exploding at a level beyond what we could have imagined. True MORTAL DECAY fans will get a taste of all levels of our musical direction at its finest." For more MORTAL DECAY info visit www.facebook.com/mortaldecayusa
A massive and unique collection of flyers / images will be published in the next book of Metal journalist Andres Padilla, long time editor of Chile’s Grinder Magazine and also responsible of publishing the "Retrospectiva al Metal Chileno" book. The new piece of work will be titled UNDERGROUND NEVER DIES and it will also feature tons of personal interviews with many key characters of the underground Metal scene such as Fenriz (DARKTHRONE), Chris Reifert (AUTOPSY), Erik (WATAIN) to name a few. The book will resurrect the most prominent and interesting collection of old school Metal flyers from all over the world. "It is a massive job which is taking form right now", Padilla confesses. "Hopefully I will be able to make some kind of deal with a dedicated record label or publishing company able to print it the way I want, hardcover and with tons of morbid images". All further information about the book you’ll find at www.corvusdiscos.cl/homeUND!.htm
For the second time THE METAL FEST will take place in Chile. On two days bands like MORBID ANGEL, NILE, CARCASS, BRUTAL TRUTH, VOIVOD, SODOM, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY or DOWN (30 bands in total) will perform in O’Higgins Park, in the heart of the city of Santiago. This year, a special festival "warm up" concert will already take place the night before, headlined by ACCEPT. More information at www.themetalfest.cl, www.ticketek.cl or www.facebook.com/themetalfest
US Death Metallers PYREXIA and Malta’s BEHEADED will start a European tour together on March 01, 2013 at the "013" club in Tilburg, Holland. From March 07 – March 16, 2013 UK’s UNFATHOMABLE RUINATION will join the tour as the opening act.
‘Judgements And Curses’, a track off "Behold Almighty Doctrine", the forthcoming third full-length from South Carolina’s Death Metallers LECHEROUS NOCTURNE, has just been posted at this location. The album, that will be released through Unique Leader Records on March 19, 2013, features the following tracks: ‘Intro’, ‘Ouroboros Chains’, ‘Bring The Void’, ‘Archeopteryx’, ‘Those Having Been Hidden Away’, ‘Prelude # 2’, ‘Judgments And Curses’, ‘Lesions From Vicious Plague’, ‘Caustic Vertigo’ and ‘Creation Continuum’. All further information you may find at www.lecherousnocturne.net or www.facebook.com/lecherousnocturne
SATANIC THREAT (featuring current members of NUNSLAUGHTER and an ex – member of MIDNIGHT) are currently streaming their entire "In To Hell" collection here. The album features the 8-song "In To Hell" 7" and an 8-song live set and was already released on CD through Hells Headbangers, with the vinyl edition to follow in March. More info at http://hellsheadbangers.bandcamp.com/album/in-to-hell
Sweden’s DEMONICAL are currently recording their fourth full-length “Darkness Unbound” at Necromorbus Studios. The drums for all 11 tracks have already been put down to tape, with the guitars coming up next. For more info and updates check out www.demonical.net, www.facebook.com/demonicalofficial
"IV: Arrow In Heart", the forthcoming new full-length album by French Black Metallers AOSOTH, will make its online and store debut on April 16, 2013 worldwide. The tracklist reads like this: ‘An Arrow in Heart’, ‘One With The Prince With A Thousand Enemies’, ‘Temple Of Knowledge’, ‘Under The Nails And Fingertips’, ‘Broken Dialogue 1’, ‘Broken Dialogue 2’ and ‘Ritual Marks Of Penitence’. At the time the new album will hit the shops, a re-release of AOSOTH’s "II" and "III" albums will be available for the first time on vinyl. More AOSOTH info at www.facebook.com/aosoth
Comatose Music has just released new albums from Italian Death Metallers LOGIC OF DENIAL ("Atonement") and Colorado’s EXPURGATE ("Dementia Tremens"). The tracks ‘Oracles Of Iniquity’ (from LOGIC OF DENIAL) and ‘Viscera Insufflation’ (from EXPURGATE) can be checked out at this location.
Germany’s REVEL IN FLESH will release their second album "Manifested Darkness" on CD and as a digital download on April 12, 2013 via F.D.A. Records. The LP version will be out on April 26, 2013 and will include an additional bonus track. The album was mixed and mastered at Unisound Studio by Dan Swanö and the artwork was created by Spanish artist Juanjo Castellano. For more on REVEL IN FLESH visit www.revelinflesh.jimdo.com or www.facebook.com/pages/revel-in-flesh/304228902958414
Finnish DEATHCHAIN will release their new album "Ritual Death Metal" on April 05, 2013 through Svart Records. It was recorded last summer in Stockholm at Necromorbus Studio. Guest starring on the album is LG Petrov from ENTOMBED, who contributed vocals to the track ‘Like Worms Upon The Lands’. The tracklist reads like this: ‘Voice Of Sharur’, ‘Stele Of The Vultures’, ‘Seven Asakku Shadows’, ‘Our Lady Under The Earth’, ‘King Pazuzu’, ‘Like Worms Upon The Lands’, ‘Tiamat’s Eyes Of Death’ and ‘Abzu Doom’. For more information check out www.deathchain.com or www.facebook.com/deathchainband
A track off SPEKTR‘s new full-length "Cypher" is currently streaming at this location. The album will be released as CD, vinyl (150 on white & 150 on black vinyl) and digital download on February 19, 2013 in North America on Agonia Records (it is already available in Europe). "Cypher" includes the following 9 tracks: ‘Hermetism’, ‘Teratology’, ‘The Singularity’, ‘Solitude’, ‘Antimatter’, ‘Solve Et Coagula’, ‘Cypher’, ‘Decorporation’ and ‘Le Vitriol Du Philosophe’.
Northern Irish Pagan Metallers WAYLANDER have announced a couple of European dates in support of their latest record "Kindred Spirits". The album was released on July 16, 2012 (August 14, 2012 in North America) via Listenable Records. You can listen to the track ‘Twin Fires Of Beltíne’ here. More information at www.clanwaylander.com or www.facebook.com/clanwaylander
Germany’s old school Death Metallers SLAUGHTERDAY have been signed by F.D.A. Records for two releases. The first will be their 4 song demo "Cosmic Horror" on March 01, 2013. It will be issued as a limited-edition cassette, with only 166 hand-numbered copies being made. It features the following tracks: ‘Abyss Of Nameless Fear’, ‘Cult Of The Dreaming Dead’, ‘Crawling In Secrecy’ and ‘Cosmic Horror’. The release will also be available as a digital download at Itunes, Amazon, and other digital music retailers. You can already check out the track ‘Cult Of The Dreaming Dead’ at this location. More info at www.facebook.com/slaughterdayofficial
CRYPTOPSY will be joined by CATTLE DECAPITATION and DECREPIT BIRTH on their upcoming European tour in April / May. The tour will kick off on April 12, 2013 at Helvete in Oberhausen, Germany and conclude with an appearance at the Neurotic Deathfest in Tilburg, Holland on May 05, 2013. For more information visit www.cryptopsy.ca or www.facebook.com/cryptopsymetal
INCANTATION have shot a video for the track ‘Invoked Infinity’ off their new album “Vanquish In Vengeance". It is the band’s first video in over 10 years and will premiere on February 14, 2013 at www.incantation.com
In September 2013 a Paul Speckmann book will be published, entitled "Speckmann – Underground Survivor, The Pictorial". On 196 pages the 20,8 x 29,6 cm sized hardcover book will feature pictures (mostly full-coloured), as well as comments and anecdotes in English and German. The book illustrates the journey of Paul Speckmann, starting in his youth and with his first musical attempts up to his status nowadays. It portrays him for the first time as an adorable person and musician, on-stage and behind the stages of this world, in his private life and within the centre of public attention.
French ECLECTIKA have just released their third album "Lure Of Ephemeral Beauty" through Asylum Ruins Records. The tracklist reads like this: ‘Through The Supernova Remnant’, ‘Lure Of Ephemeral Beauty’, ‘Cyclic Anagnorisis’, ‘Room Nineteen’, ‘Sophist’s Death: Legacy And Bitter Tears’, ‘Trauma 835’, ‘Sweet Melancholia’, ‘Les Sept Vertus Capitales’, ‘Handicapped Sex In A Mental Orgy’ and ‘Aokigahara’. The album is available for purchase as well as streaming via Deezer at www.eclectika.fr
"Beyond Salvation", the debut album by Swedish Black Metallers FLAGELLATED SERAPH, is now available on cassette (333 handnumbered copies, with thick high quality paper) from Bylec-Tum Productions. "Beyond Salvation" was mixed and mastered by Devo at the Endarker Studio (MARDUK, OFERMOD, FUNERAL MIST, IXXI…) and originally released in 2012 as a digipak CD by Hellthrasher Productions. The cassette can be bought directly from the band at: frozenblood.store@gmail.com
Spanish Death Metallers KARONTE have self-released their new CD "Paraíso Sin Fe". The album features 8 songs and was recorded, mixed and mastered at k-215 Studios. The CD comes as a digipak with a 16 pages booklet. More info and ordering details at www.karonte.info
After a year-long hiatus following the tragic death of singer Jason "Plunger" Sica, New Jersey Death Metallers ABACINATE have finally returned the scene. After securing the services of new vocalist Ruben Ratliff (ex – NJDOTS), the band already played a couple of shows at the end of 2012 with bands like DEHUMANIZED, DYING FETUS, DYSENTERY, MALIGNANCY, WITHOUT REMORSE and COGNITIVE. This year ABACINATE has already been confirmed for the Philthadelphia Infest Festival on March 17 in Philadelphia, PA. Appearing alongside ABACINATE will be MASTER, DEVOURMENT, CANNIBIS CORPSE, BRUTAL TRUTH, PHOBIA and many more. For details, visit the PHILTHADELPHIA INFEST event page. For all further band information and updates make sure to check out www.facebook.com/abacinate.
To promote their latest album "And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil" FORGOTTEN TOMB will kick off a headlining European tour on the April 24, 2013 at the United Club in Torino, Italy. The tour will include shows in Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, UK, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria. Support comes from Swedish Doomsters ISOLE and Epic Metallers EREB ALTOR. More at www.facebook.com/official.forgotten.tomb
On February 23, 2013, New York City Thrashers COLDSTEEL will be hosting the "America Idle" release party at Duff’s Brooklyn (168 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY). The first 100 people through the door will receive a free t-shirt, CD or poster. The entire band will be at the venue and mingling with the crowd. For details visit www.coldsteelny.com or www.duffsbrooklyn.com.
GODLESS RISING vocalist Jeff Gruslin is looking for a label that might be interested in releasing the GODLESS RISING records as limited vinyl editions. He also has tons of rare rehearsal- and live tapes from his former band VITAL REMAINS that could be used for an official "live bootleg" release. Seriously interested companies can contact Jeff either through his Facebook site (www.facebook.com/theoldgoat) or directly via email (jeffgruslin@gmail.com).