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Cyclone Empire have signed Swedish DEMIURG. The band consista of PAGANIZER-mainman Rogga Johansson (vocals and guitars), Dan Swanö (lead-guitars, keyboards, vocals), Johan Berglund (bass), Pär Johansson (clean vocals) and Ed Warby (drums). The band already made themselves a really good name in the scene with their two already released albums "Breath Of The Demiurg" (2007) and "The Hate Chamber" (2008), both on Mascot Records. The band is currently working on the material for their third, yet untitled album, scheduled to be released in early 2010. Here’s an official statement from the band: "Hey there, this is Rogga of DEMIURG. We in DEMIURG are very excited to be signed to Cyclone Empire, as we think it’s one of the best labels releasing Metal these days. To be a part of their roster is something we surely will enjoy the coming years, and hopefully they’ll enjoy having us as well. After the summer I will begin to work on material for our third album, but already there are both smaller and bigger fragments written. From the sound of it this far the third albums will be the most diverse so far and really bring out the best performances of everyone in the band. As usual Dan Swanö will take care of the production and mixing of the album and this time we have some really massive names on the list of guests that will appear. More on that will follow as work progresses on the album. Cheers and be sure to check in at the Myspace for updates during the fall and winter of this year." For more info check out www.myspace.com/demiurgofficial.
FUNERUS have announced that work continues on its sophomore effort, the follow-up to "Festering Earth". The new album is projected to be released in 2010 on Ibex Moon Records. Bassist Jill McEntee has this message for anxious fans: "Hello to our friends out there. I know it seems like we’ve fallen off the face of the earth, but we haven’t. We’ve been extremely busy working on this new album. It finally will see the light of day in early 2010. Sam (Inzerra), John (McEntee) and I have kept this album in the same vein that FUNERUS has always been! Also in 2010 we will be doing a US tour in the earlier part of the year. Dates and other bands will be added later. Finally, we have made new shirts with a new design from the "Festering Earth" album. They are "In The Trees" shirts and the design is killer! Check the merchandise section at www.ibexmoonrecords.com for a picture of it."
Metal extremists HOD will perform at upcoming shows with ABSU (Sept. 5 in Fort Worth) and Destroyer 666 (Sept. 27 in Houston). Carl "Lord Necron" Snyder comments: "HOD will be part of two killer shows in Texas in the month of September. We will be playing with the mighty ABSU on September 5 in Fort Worth, Texas, and on September 27 the wolves return to Houston, Texas with Destroyer 666! These shows promise to be ferocious. The Fort Worth show with ABSU will be at the The Ridglea Theatre. Also on the bill will be Doom Metal masters Solitude Aeturnus, Black Metal assassins Averse Sefira, and others. Should be a killer show of Texas Metal! The Destroyer 666 show in Houston will be at the White Swan. Anyone who has seen Destroyer 666 can tell you they put on a monstrous live show. Don’t miss it!"
Ex-MORE and original IRON MAIDEN (before Paul Di’ Anno) vocalist Paul Mario Day just formed a new band in tradition of N.W.O.B.H.M. called CRIMSON LAKE. They have already scheduled some gigs in Australia and working on Euro gigs as well. You can check out sound samples at here.
AFFLICTION GATE will enter the studio for the recordings of their debut album "Aeon Of Nox (From Darkness Comes Liberation)" from August 13 – 19, 2009. The band will record all instrumental and vocal parts during this full week, then, additonal days are booked for mix and mastering. The master should be ready in early September and the album will be out in November through Metal Inquisition (www.metal-inquisition.de) which is the brand new division of No Colours Records for their Thrash and Death Metal releases. ACHERON’s Vincent Crowley will contribute guest vocals to the opening track ‘After The Red Moon’. More info at www.myspace.com/afflictiongate
Due to unfortunate circumstances, DREAMING DEAD has been forced to drop off the remaining few dates of the Master / Goreaphobia tour. Guitarist / vocalist Elizabeth Elliot had the following to say about the situation: "Our van broke down on our way to Salt Lake City, Utah. Thus we have decided to turn around and head back home cancelling the remaining dates on the Master / Goreaphobia tour. We’re very sorry for those of your looking forward to our performance and hope to see you this coming January-February on tour with Nile / Immolation / Krisiun."
After many line-up changes and a lot of bad luck DEATH BY DAWN finally have some new songs on their myspace site www.myspace.com/deathbydawnde. The band is also looking for a label and booking agents.
Reunited New Jersey Thrash legends WHIPLASH have released 5 brand new tracks entitled ‘Feeding Frenzy’, ‘Pitbulls In The Playground’, ‘Fight Or Flight’, ‘Float Face Down’ and ‘Firewater’ respectively, and are now available for preview listening for the first time on the WHIPLASH E-Card at the Pulverised Records Official Myspace page. The WHIPLASH E-Card will be available for 2 weeks from 29th July 2009 till 11th August 2009.
Swedish INTERMENT have issued the following statement: "INTERMENT is ready to hit Germany and the Thunders Over Miriquidi Festival. We have rehearsed a set which contain both old stuff from our first demo tapes and some more recent spells from our split disc. Will be massive for sure!! We have put the final touches on the long awaited "Where Death Will Increase" demo(n)graphy CD. All the material has been completed, now it’s up to Morbid Wrath & Necroharmonic to decide when this monster should be unleashed. Last but definitely not least, we are also working hard on new material for our first real full-length album. Most likely we will record it late this year for a release through Pulverised early next." For more info, go to www.interment.se
French BLUT AUS NORD decided to leave Candlelight Records and unite with Debemur Morti Productions. The band is currently recording on their upcoming, vinyl-only, album entitled "What Once Was…" to celebrate their return to the underground. www.blutausnord.com, www.debemur-morti.com
Stockholm’s Death / Black Metal band SPAZMOSITY have finished the recordings of their debut album titled "Welcomes Death" in Necromorbus Studios (WATAIN, UNANIMATED) with producer Tore Stjerna. SPAZMOSITY was founded in the fall of 1994 by the two guitarists B Thelberg and M Lamming. The band quickly evolved from playing covers to writing their own music in the Death and Black Metal genre. After a few concerts Peter Emanuelsson joined as a singer, and 1998 saw the addition of bass player Mikael Nordström. In 2003 their third and highly critically acclaimed demo "Storm Metal" was released. During all this time they gigged whenever possible and shared stage with, among others, Amon Amarth, Lobotomy, Vinterland, Watain, Throneaeon and Entombed. The "Welcomes Death" tracklist reads like this: ‘Regicide’, ‘Iron Coffin’, ‘Prelude’, ‘Forged by Steel’, ‘March of Death’, ’13 Miller’s Court’, ‘The Ancient Art’, ‘The Infernal Dynasty’ and ‘Panopticon’. You can listen to some tracks on www.myspace.com/spazmosity
DOWNTUNED & MORBID is the name of another old school Death Metal fanzine to be released within the next month. The editor says on his myspace page www.myspace.com/downtunedandmorbid "Rather than simply extolling the virtues of the early nineties, I aim to give deserved exposure to the many great bands which are out there today, in 2009, still addicted to the unholy stench of morbid Death Metal…". You can expect interviews with such names as AXIS POWERS, DENIAL, IMPOSER, GODLESS, CEREMONIAL EXECUTION, HATESPAWN, NECROCCULTUS, BOMBS OF HADES, AFFLICTION GATE, PUTERAEON, NECROVOROURS, MAIM, BLOODY SIGN, CRUCIAMENTUM, DARKTHRONE, BLASPHERIAN and many many more. The release date is scheduled for August 2009.
Danish Death Metallers DEUS OTIOSUS have gathered a full line-up and just returned from Earplug Studio, from the recording of a new musical crime, entitled "Murderer". The band is also ready to bring death to the stages in the near future. For all further info check out www.myspace.com/deusotiosus
INCANTATION is preparing for a series of upcoming dates in the fall of 2009 and the spring 2010, which will include longtime drummer Kyle Severn (from such records as "Diabolical Conquest", "Blasphemy", "Decimate Christendom" and "Primordial Domination"). The initial dates will take place over Labor Day weekend in the Midwest and then see the band traveling to Central America in late October / early November 2009. Kyle comments: "Yes I’m excited to play some blasphemous Death Metal again with my INCANTATION family. Do you want some fuckin’ Metal? Well you had better be ready!! We have been practicing material from all of our records, expanding the band’s almost 20-year career. I’ve been in this band for many years and have traveled to a lot of places, but this will be the first time we travel to Honduras and Costa Rica. What an honor it’s going to be to play for the sick Metal heads there." INCANTATION is also confirmed to play the main stage at Maryland Death Fest in 2010.
GOREAPHOBIA have just revealed the tracklist for their upcoming album "Mortal Repulsion". It reads like this: ‘Ordeal Of The Abyss’, ‘Amulet Of Damnation’, ‘Negative Screams (Passage Intro)’, ‘Grave Plagued Planet’, ‘Primal Nothingness’, ‘Faded Into Ends (Part I)’, ‘Despised And Ruined’, ‘Black Ash Eyes’, ‘A Grievous Curse’, ‘Ascending Into Vices’, ‘The Inevitable Punishment/Faded Into Ends (Part II)’ and ‘Mortal Repulsion’.
Italy’s NECRODEATH are currently organizing a small European club tour with a Nightliner for March 2010. If you have some good addresses of clubs or promoters please contact them through their website www.necrodeath.net.
After a hellbent start in Kansas City, Texas extremists, HOD continue their rampage across America with MONSTROSITY and TORN THE FUCK APART. Guitarist Lord Necron has this to say about the outing thus far, "The tour is going well. It’s great plaing to new crowds and spreading the Metal. West coast be warned, you’re next!"
"Mortal Repulsion", the long-awaited full-length debut from Death Metal’s pioneers GOREAPHOBIA, will finally be released on August 18 via Ibex Moon Records. To coincide with the release the band has struck out on a North American tour with MASTER and labelmates DREAMING DEAD. Guitarist Alex Bouks offers these words in regards to what promises to be the summer of brutality: "We are excited to unleash our Dark Metal magick across the U.S. after all these years.The tour will coincide with the release our new record "Mortal Repulsion". We will be showcasing our brand of dark, blackened Heavy Metal . Jim, Chris and myself are looking forward to see all you Metal tyrants on the road."
American Morbid Kult Records will soon release a 7"EP by Mexican old school Death Metal outfit OMINOUS CRUCIFIX. The recording will most likely include the 4 songs ‘Relics Of A Dead Faith’, ‘Nefarious Prophet’, ‘Catacombs Martyrdom’ and ‘Infatuated Bigots In Sadistic Communion’ with a playing time of approx. 16 minutes. More info at www.myspace.com/ominouscrucifix
Brazil’s IMPETUOUS RAGE have changed their name into POISONOUS. Drummer Alex Rocha commented this as follows: "It’s another band, the sound is different. Now we are more obscure… We continue to play Metal of Death, but more impure, profane and evil!" According to their official press release the band is musically now a lot more influenced by classic albums such as "Hell Awaits", "Seven Churches", "Mental Funeral" and "Dawn Of Possession". Next to Alex the POISONOUS line-up consists of Michael Hellriff (guitar & vocals), E.Evil (bass) and Fabio Ramos (guitar). A new demo, featuring three songs, will be released shortly. For more info check out www.myspace.com/poisonousdeathmetal
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Finnish Black Crusaders ARCHGOAT, a special release is in the works. Debemur Morti Productions is therefore looking for old and recent pictures and interviews. Everyone who contributes will be properly credited. You can send your material (in high resolution only) to dmp666@gmail.com. Deadline for submission: August 31th. Release date is set for October 24th to coincide with the Black Flames Of Blasphemy festival in Helsinki, Finland where ARCHGOAT will perform with PROCLAMATION, BLACK WITCHERY, REVENGE and BLASPHEMY. For more info, go to www.debemur-morti.com