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"The Dawn Of Consummation And Emergence", the newest release from Mumbai, India based Death Metallers REPTILIAN DEATH, is available as a digital download now on iTunes, Amazon.com and other digital retailers. Physical copies of the CD will be released on October 10, 2013 through Old School Metal Records. The band has posted studio footage of the guitar recording sessions for the album, which took place at Demonic Studios, at this location. More info on REPTILIAN DEATH at www.facebook.com/reptiliandeath
Birmingham Grinders PURIFY THE HORROR have released an official music video for the song ‘Pig’ at this location. It was filmed and edited by Karl Murray of Gwynplaine Media. PURIFY THE HORROR’s untitled debut EP was released earlier this year and is availalble as free download at sociopathicsound.bandcamp.com. All additional band information can be found at www.facebook.com/pages/purify-the-horror/160598863968342
CONVULSE are currently streaming ‘Unholy War’, a song from the band’s forthcoming new album "Evil Prevails", at this location. "Evil Prevails" will be released on November 01, 2012 through Svart Records on CD, gatefold LP and digital formats. Here’s the tracklist: ‘We Kill Our Kind’, ‘Unholy War’, ‘World Downfall’, ‘God Is Delusion’, ‘Evil Prevails’, ‘Days Are Dark’, ‘Reborn In Chaos’ and ‘Oceans Of Dust’. More CONVULSE at www.facebook.com/convulse
UK’s SATANIC MALFUNCTIONS will return with their first full-length in 22 years. The album is entitled “Them”, features 20 brand new songs, was recorded by Bri (DOOM) and is scheduled for a October 01, 2013 release through Selfmadegod Records. You can check out the track ‘Gospel Truth’ at this location. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Nothing New’, ‘Technological Religion’, ‘Them’, ‘Daze Of The Weak’, ‘No Masters Or Slaves’, ‘On Your Knees’, ‘Lies’, ‘Gospel Truth’, ‘Pissed & Angry’, ‘Beatings’, ‘Disorder Rule’, ‘Trappings Of Faith’, ‘Rules & Regulations’, ‘Dealing Out Death’, ‘Anthem’, ‘Another Fiction’, ‘On The Cusp’, ‘Everything’s Digital’, ‘Do You Know Who You Are’ and ‘Many Go Round’. Back in 2012 Selfmadegod Records already released the double disc compilation “Disgrace To Music” which includes the complete SATANIC MALFUNCTIONS discography prior to “Them” (both LPs, EPs, split and compilation songs). More info at www.selfmadegod.com
Ohio Grinders DROGHEDA have just released a video for ‘Occupy Graves’ at this location. The song is taken from their forthcoming new album "Means To Obliteration" and was directed by Evan Thomas and the cinematography was done by Allyson Nonno. For more info on DROGHEDA check out at www.facebook.com/droghedagrindcore
Finnish Death Metallers MAGENTA HARVEST have released a medley from their upcoming debut album "Volatile Waters" at this location. The album was recorded at SoundSpiral Audio by Juho Räihä and the release is scheduled for January 10, 2014. Here’s the tracklist: ‘End And No Remembrance’, ‘One Walks Down’, ‘Spawn Of Heglect’, ‘Volatile Waters’, ‘Apparation Of Ending’, ‘Interrupted Fleshwork’, ‘Limbo In Rime’, ‘Spiteful Beings To Earth Were Bound’, ‘A Symposium Of Frost’ and ‘Carrion Of Men’. All further info at www.facebook.com/magentaharvest
On November 01, 2013 Iron Bonehead will release "Blakaz Asko Hertô", the new 12" MLP from Sweden’s Black / Death Metallers FOR. The tracklist reads like this: ‘Blakaz Asko Herto’, ‘The Ravenous Chasm’, ‘Descending Obfuscated Realms’, ‘Chthonian Initiation’ and ‘Lineage Of The Amorphous’. More about FOR at www.facebook.com/theravenouschasm
Spanish Black Metallers SVIPDAGR have been signed by Xtreem Music. The release of their debut album "Black Verses" is scheduled for October 15, 2013. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘Black Souls’ (Intro), ‘Black Verses For Black Souls’, ‘Sacrifice II – A Dead Sentence That Never Comes’, ‘View Through The Rusty Helm’, ‘Infighting, Evocation To Black Metal II’, ‘Ego Sum Lux Mundi (I’m The Light Of The World)’, ‘In The Darkness Of Faith’, ‘Slaves Of The Sword Without Edge’ and ‘Two Shades In The Way’ (Outro). You can visit the band’s official website at www.facebook.com/2000svipdagr. An advance song is currently streaming here.
DISCREATION have just released a video trailer that features snippets of all of the songs from their upcoming third full-length "The Silence Of The Gods". The trailer can be found at this location. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jörg Uken at Soundlodge Studio and the cover artwork was created by Juanjo Castellano. More info at www.facebook.com/discreation or www.discreation.de
This year’s GOTHENBURG DEATHFEST will take place on October 5, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The two final bands to complete this year’s line-up are DEUS OTIOSUS from Denmark and ONICECTOMY from Italy. Other bands to apear at this year’s edition are (among others) GODHATE, GORETRADE and MORTAL TORMENT. DEUS OTIOSUS, who released their second album "Godless" on Deepsend Records, have also just been confirmed as headliner for Germany’s Ear Terror Festival in November. More info on the GOTHENBURG DEATHFEST at www.facebook.com/pages/gothenburg-deathfest/113603635320933
"The End Of Humanity", the second full-length album from the Netherlands’ WARMASTER, will be released on October 30, 2013. Here’s the tracklist: ‘Massive Kill Capacity’, ‘Nuclear Warfare’, ‘Deadly Artillery’, ‘Death Factory’, ‘The Target’, ‘Lies To Deny’, ‘Barbarians’, ‘Poison Dwarf’, ‘Ancient Anthem’, ‘Medestrijders Voor Volk En Vaderland’ and ‘Destroyer Of Worlds’. Earlier this year the band already released a split 7" EP with Malaysia’s HUMILIATION. A promo video for the split can be checked out at this location. More about WARMASTER at www.warmaster.nl or www.facebook.com/warmasterofficial
URUK-HAI‘s new album “..And All The Magic & Might He Brought” comes as a limited (300 copies) first edition digipak CD including 4 bonus tracks and features the following guest musicians: Joe Matera (ex – GEISHA), Janos Krusenbaum (SEEKING RAVEN), Pr. Sergiy (MOLOCH), Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan (M:PIRE OF EVIL, ex – VENOM), Teresa Chillcut-Gutierrez (VOS INTEREO), Bart Piette (DEAD MAN’S HILL), Rich Davenport (GREYHOUND BRIDGE) and Trevor Sewell (TREVOR SEWELL BAND). An album medley has already been posted here. For all additional info check out www.facebook.com/urukhaiofficial
Czech Black Metallers INFERNO have just released their 6th full-length "Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness" through Agonia Records. One of the songs is currently streaming at this location. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Necromorbus Studio by Tore Stjerna (WATAIN, ONDSKAPT, VALKYRJA) and the layout was created by Fenomeno Design. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Pervasion’, ‘The Firstborn From Murk’, ‘The Funeral Of Existence’, ‘Revelations Through The Void’, ‘The Vertical Fissure Of The Most Distant End’ and ‘Metastasis Of Realistic Visions’. More INFERNO at www.facebook.com/pages/inferno/322975231147644
ANATOMIA returns to Europe for a line of shows this October. Support comes from Danish UNDERGANG. On the last two Danish dates of the tour Finland’s GOREPHILIA will perform as well. More info at ww.facebook.com/pages/anatomia/166448756742258 or www.facebook.com/pages/undergang/147478011999818
The new MASTER album, "The Witchhunt", which will be released through F.D.A. Records on September 27, 2013, can already be checked out in its entirety at this location. For additional info and updates on MASTER, visit www.master-speckmetal.net, www.reverbnation.com/master or www.facebook.com/pages/master/18521536017
MORTAL DECAY will release their fourth studio full-length, "The Blueprint For Blood Spatter" on November 26, 2013. An exclusive world premier of the album track ‘Jugular Gurgle’ can be checked out at this location. Here is what MORTAL DECAY says 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." A promo video for "The Blueprint For Blood Spatter" is now playing here. For more info visit www.facebook.com/mortaldecayusa
DR. SHRINKER will play a reunion show on the September 28, 2013 at the Club Garibaldi’s in Milwaukee with special guests BURNING SONS, FACE OF OBLIVION, MORTA SKULD and THE COLD BEYOND. More info at www.facebook.com/doctorshrinker
Vic Records will be re-releasing the 2nd POLLUTED INHERITANCE album "Betrayed" on October 28, 2013 with liner notes and 3 additional demo tracks from the band’s 1994 demo. For additional information check out www.facebook.com/pollutedinheritance
At the end of September 2013 Godreah Records will release BAL SAGOTH‘s 1993 demo with bonus tracks on CD and vinyl as a limited edition. The demo was never officially released before, because the band directly went on to record their debut album for Cacophonous Records shortly after. The release features all of the tracks as they were originally recorded plus some exclusive bonus material, as well as full lyrics and new sleeve-notes by BAL-SAGOTH vocalist / lyricist Byron Roberts. For more info and pre-order information check out www.godreah.com.
Unspeakable Axe Records will release the second, as of yet untitled, full-length from MORGENGRAU next year. Vocalist / guitarist Erika Morgengrau has this to say about the signing: "We are very pleased and honored to be working with such a professional and respected label. This will allow us to move to the next level with our music and shall certainly inspire us to produce a second album that buries the first!" The recordings for the new album will start next summer with a release scheduled for mid to late 2014. All further info at www.facebook.com/pages/morgengrau/112541632142818
American / Colombian duo INQUISITION have debuted the first track from their forthcoming sixth full-length "Obscure Verses For The Multiverse". A lyric video for the track, titled ‘Darkness Flows Towards Unseen Horizons’ is streaming now via Terrorizer (UK) and Metal.de (Germany). The album will be released on October 25, 2013 through Season Of Mist as a digipak CD (with a patch and goat leather key ring, limited to the first pressing) and various limited LP editions (with some versions already sold out). Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Force Of The Floating Tomb’, ‘Darkness Flows Towards Unseen Horizons’, ‘Obscure Verses For The Multiverse’, ‘Spiritual Plasma Evocation’, ‘Master Of The Cosmological Black Cauldron’, ‘Joined By Dark Matter Repelled By Dark Energy’, ‘Arrival Of Eons After’, ‘Inversion Of Ethereal White Stars’, ‘Infinite Interstellar Genocide’ and ‘Where Darkness Is Lord And Death The Beginning’ (bonus track).
Danish Death Metallers DEUS OTIOSUS have made their one and only demo "Death Lives Again" from 2007 available for free download at this location. The demo was created in 2005 – 2007 when DEUS OTIOSUS was still a studio project for Anders Bo Rasmussen and Henrik Engkjær. The latter also played in VICTIMIZER and CHURCH BIZARRE during those days. The drums were played by Lars Groth who was then active in CRUCIFIX – a Death Metal band that played a lot faster than DEUS OTIOSUS. Lars’ drumming style certainly put its mark on the songs, so they have their own distinct character compared to the bands later material. For more band info check out www.deus-otiosus.com
French Death / Black Metallers TEMPLE OF BAAL have released the first track off their upcoming album "Verses Of Fire" at this location. The album will be out on October 22, 2013 in Europe and November 12, 2013 in North America via Agonia Records. For all further information check out www.facebook.com/pages/temple-of-baal/20135072962
‘Vapours Of Cadaveric Mucilage’, a brand new track off the forthcoming album "Degraded By Sepsis" by Italian Grinders EXHUMER, has been posted here. The album’s cover artwork was created by Jon Zig and its release is set for an October 15, 2013 release on Comatose Music. More EXHUMER info at www.facebook.com/exhumer.official
Czech Black Metallers INFERNO will release their sixth album "Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness" on September 24, 2013 through Agonia Records. A video trailer for the release is already available at this location. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Necromorbus Studio by Tore Stjerna (WATAIN, ONDSKAPT, VALKYRJA) and the layout was created by Fenomeno Design (BLUT AUS NORD, GLORIOR BELLI, PERDITION). Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Pervasion’, ‘The Firstborn From Murk’, ‘The Funeral Of Existence’, ‘Revelations Through The Void’, ‘The Vertical Fissure Of The Most Distant End’ and ‘Metastasis Of Realistic Visions’. More band information at www.facebook.com/pages/inferno/322975231147644
Hells Headbangers have signed DEMONIC CHRIST for the release of their second album, which will be entitled "The Great Purge". The band is led by ex – MYTHIC frontwoman Dana Duffey and released their debut "Punishment For Ignorance" way back in 1995. A first teaser of the new album can already be heard here. To celebrate the band’s return, DEMONIC CHRIST will embark upon a North American tour in November with PTAHIL as direct support at all shows. More band info at www.facebook.com/pages/demonic-christ-official/340362119328496