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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
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