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Tampere, Finland based Black / Thrash Metal five-piece BEATRIX has just released their new EP “Deathsent Ceremony” via Inverse Music. You can stream it in its entirety at this location. Here’s what the band’s vocalist Suffy had to say about it: “The release of this EP has been a rocky road. First we had a falling out with our original drummer right before we were about to head into the studio, after that we had to find a new drummer and teach him the new songs. Once the songs were recorded we had some delays with the artworks. Now after almost two years it’s finally being released. For these reasons we’ve already been playing these songs live. There are 3 new songs and ‘Torment Of The Soul’ from the demo which now has solos and the vocals have been recorded properly since I rushed them on the demo a little bit, but you know it’s raw and the new recordings haven’t forgotten this essence. I hope the process with our upcoming full-length album will be a lot smoother without too many delays. Anyway, the “Deathsent Ceremony” EP is anuldurated BEATRIX madness of pure fucking filth! See you at the gigs!” www.facebook.com/beatrixblackthrash
Swiss Thrashers ZIEG ABUSER have just released a video for ‘Caprakoprophagia’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming split 7″ EP with Norwegian blackened Thrashers BLACK SPUTUM, which will be released in early 2025 via Necronos. The EP will feature two tracks from each band and will be limited to 200 copies. https://ziegabuser.bandcamp.com
Polish Black Metallers HÅLLBAR have just released ‘Voodoo Doll’, a track from their upcoming debut full-length “Nemesis”, over here. The album will be released on January 31, 2025. A lyric video for the song ‘Nemesis’ can additionally be watched at this location. The album’s full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Ambiguous Loss’, ‘Mental Apraxia’, ‘Face To The Ground’, ‘Nemesis’, ‘LoveHate Language’, ‘Fears’, ‘Voodoo Doll’, ‘Aposiopesis’, ‘Tormentor’, ‘Puppet String’ and ‘Possibilities’. www.facebook.com/hallbar.band
British Death Metallers MUTAGENIC HOST are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “The Diseased Machine” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on January 03, 2025 via Gurgling Gore (vinyl LP, cassette tape), Dry Cough Records (vinyl LP, cassette tape) and Memento Mori (CD version, to be released on January 20, 2025). https://mutagenichost.bandcamp.com
Cleveland, Ohio based melodic Death Metallers DRUPARIA are streaming their debut full-length “The River Above” in its entirety over here now. It was produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Dan Paddy at Blackroom Studios in Copley Ohio and the cover artwork was created by Mark Erskine (Erskine Designs). www.facebook.com/druparia
The results of our BEST OF 2024 READERS POLL are finally here! You can check them out at this location. Thanks to every single one of you who contributed a list. Unfortunately the response wasn’t really the best this year, so we might skip this poll at the end of 2025, unless you really want us to continue on with it. What do you think?
London based blackened Death / Thrashers NECROMANIAC have just premiered the track ‘Calling Forth The Shade’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable”, which will be released via Invictus Productions (Europe), in co-operation with The Ajna Offensive (North America): the CD version will be available on January 13, 2025, while the vinyl LP version will be released at a later date. The previously revealed album track ‘Swedenborg’s Skull’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Caput Draconis’, ‘Daemonomantia’, ‘Grave Mound Oath’, ‘Calling Forth The Shade’, ‘Great Is The Thirst Of The Restless Dead’, ‘Teraphim (Skull Sorcery)’, ‘Conjuration Of St. Cyprian’, ‘Swedenborg’s Skull’ and ‘Necromancess / Cauda Draconis’. www.facebook.com/necromaniacuk
Swedish Death Metallers IMPURITY have just revealed a track from their upcoming debut full-length “The Eternal Sleep”. You can check out ‘Ancient Remains’ at this location. The album will be released via Hammerheart Records on March 07, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. It was recorded by Tomas Skogsberg at Sunlight Studio and mastered by Dan Swanö. www.facebook.com/impuritysweden
German melodic Death Metallers BOSPARANS FALL have recorded their show at this year’s Aaargh Festival for a live album “Live At Aaargh Festival 2024”, which is now available on all download and streaming platforms, as well as on CD from the band and MDD Records. It features the following tracks: ‘Intro’, ‘Rondra’, ‘Dunkle Zeiten’, ‘Bosparans Zinnen’, ‘Schwarzmagier Xardas’, ‘Firun’, ‘Praios’, ‘Ifirns Heim’, ‘Interlude’, ‘Kampf Um Norbeneck’, ‘Alrik Immerda’ and ‘Goldene Blüten Auf Blauem Grund’. A video for the song ‘Alrik Immerda’ is now available at this location. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/bosparans.fall
French Black Metallers GENOCIDE KOMMANDO are streaming their third full-length “Third World War” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 27, 2024 via Osmose Productions. www.facebook.com/osmoseproductions
Balkan Black Metallers CMPT are streaming their sophomore full-length “Na Utrini” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 27, 2024 via Osmose Productions. https://semeponoci.bandcamp.com
Stuttgart, Germany based blackened Speed Metallers AXETASY have just premiered the track ‘Axetasy (Of Murder)’ at this location now. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Withering Tides”, which will be released on January 24, 2025 via Dying Victims Productions. The previously revealed album tracks ‘Beyond All Order’ and ‘Voidcrawler’ can additionally still be checked out here and here. The complete “Withering Tides” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Int(r)o The Void’, ‘Withering Tides Of Space’, ‘Fatal Maze’, ‘Slicing Dreams’, ‘Beyond All Order’, ‘Voidcrawler’, ‘Deadly Witch’, ‘Axetasy (Of Murder)’ and ‘Nebulous Nightmares’. www.facebook.com/axetasyband
Swedish melodic Black Metallers ISTAPP will release their new full-length “Sól Tér Sortna” via Trollzorn on March 06, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP and in digital formats. You can already watch a lyric video for the album opener ‘Under Jökelisen’ at this location . The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Under Jökelisen’, ‘Nifelheim’, ‘Grýla’, ‘Storm Av Is’, ‘Frostdraken’, ‘Sól Tér Sortna’, ‘Ragnarök’, ‘Istronens Furste’, ‘Kallbrand’ and ‘Vinterkrig’. The cover artwork was created by Ivan Bragin Design. www.facebook.com/istappofficial
Finnish melodic Doom / Deathers THE HARBINGER have just released a video for ‘Sleepless’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming EP “Gates Of Hell”, which will be released sometime in 2025 via Inverse Records. A video of the first single ‘Hollow’ can additionally be watched at this location. The following tracks will be featured on the EP: ‘Sleepless’, ‘Fading Lines’, ‘Bleak Salvation’, ‘Hollow’ and ‘Glass Walls’. The cover artwork was created by Aku Rundberg. www.facebook.com/theharbingermetal
The self-titled debut two-song 12″ EP of German Doom / Deathers OBSIDIAN SCAPES will be released via Darkness Shall Rise Productions on February 27, 2025. This will precede the band’s debut album, “Death Chants Echo From Aphotic Void”, which will be out in March 2025. You can already check out the EP track ‘Endless Sea Of Mirrors’ over here. More about OBSIDIAN SCAPES at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562434551526
On February 27, 2025 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release “Slime Abyss”, the sophomore full-length from US Black Metal duo TUBAL CAIN, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Slime Abyss’, ‘Tomb Of The Ancient King’, ‘Screams Of Crimson’, ‘Filth Be Damned’, ‘Daemon Star’, ‘Night Of The Hawkwitch’, ‘Ghost Tower’, ‘The Winds Of Limbo’ and ‘Drifting To The Black Sun’. You can already check out the album’s title track at this location. The cover artwork was created by Thomas Toye (Illogical Comics). www.facebook.com/tubalcainmetal
Spanish Death Metallers AVULSED have just released a video for ‘Lacerate To Dominate’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming eighth full-length “Phoenix Cryptobiosis”, which will be released on March 04, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. It was recorded in September / October at different studios, mixed at the beginning of November at Acórdica Studios, which is owned by guitarist Alejandro Lobo, and then mastered at MK2 Studio in Ivrea, Italy by Davide Billia. The cover artwork has again been created by Ukrainian artist Daemorph Art. The complete “Phoenix Cryptobiosis” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Limbs Regeneration (inst.)’, ‘Lacerate To Dominate’, ‘Blood Monolith’, ‘Unrotted’, ‘Guts Of The Gore Gods’, ‘Phoenix Cryptobiosis’, ‘Devotion For Putrefaction’, ‘Neverborn Monstrosity’, ‘Dismembered’, ‘Bio-Cadaver’ and ‘Wandering Putrid Souls’. www.facebook.com/avulsed91
Catalonian Doom / Deathers ONIROPHAGUS have just premiered the track ‘Black Brew’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full-length “Revelations From The Void”, which will be released on January 17, 2025 via Personal Records. The previously revealed album track ‘Landsickness’ can still be streamed over here. The “Revelations From The Void” cover artwork was created by Paolo Girardi. Here’s the album’s full tracklist: ‘Hollow Valley’, ‘Landsickness’, ‘The Tome’, ‘Black Brew’ and ‘Stargazing Into The Void’. www.facebook.com/onirophagus
“By The Grace Of Death”, the fourth full-length from American atmospheric Black Metallers CANIS DIRUS, is now available for streaming at this location. It will be released on December 21, 2024 on vinyl LP via Bindrune Recordings. Alte Seelen will release the CD edition (which will contain a bonus track) at a later date. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563458381306
Karlsruhe, Germany based blackened Death Metallers GREH will release their new album “Dysphoric Devotion” on January 15, 2025 via Fetzner Death Records on digipak CD, cassette tape and digitally. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Chained Thoughts’, ‘Dysphoric Devotion’, ‘Illusional Cenotaph’, ‘Thy Breath Not Mine’, ‘All Flesh Decays’, ‘Growth In Pain’, ‘Through The Eye’ and ‘Enter My Oblivion’. “Dysphoric Devotion” was recorded and produced by GREH Recordings in November 2023, mixed and mastered by Hard Drive Sounds in Stuttgart, Germany and the cover artwork was created by Aaron Bonogofsky. You can already watch lyric videos for ‘Thy Breath Not Mine’, ‘Chained Thoughts’ and ‘Illusional Cenotaph’ here, here and here. For more GREH info please visit www.facebook.com/bandgreh
Wisconsin based Thrashers BRAY ROAD have just released a video for ‘Burn’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming (and currently untitled) fourth full-length. You can stream more BRAY ROAD music over here. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/brayroadband
Polish Speed / Thrash Metallers PANDEMIC are streaming their sophomore full-length “Phantoms” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 20, 2024 via Dying Victims Productions. www.facebook.com/pandemic.vol2
On February 21, 2025 Eternal Death will release the fifth full-length from New Hampshire based Black Metallers MALACATH, “Eternal Roar Of The Thunder And Rain”, on CD format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Eternal Roar Of The Thunder And Rain’, ‘Call Of The Specter’, ‘A Hymn For The Harvest’, ‘Blood Of Our Fathers’ and ‘Eleusis’. https://malacath.bandcamp.com
German Thrashers FABULOUS DESASTER have just re-released their 2016 debut full-length “Hang ‘Em High” via MDD Records. It includes four bonus tracks. Three of them are re-recorded demo tracks, which were tracked last year at Armin Rave’s Soundsight Studio. The fourth bonus track is a different version of ‘Toxic Nuclear War’ with alternative vocals by bassist Jan, who also performs the track live. A video for the album track ‘Faster Than Light’ can be checked out at this location. For more information please visit FABULOUS DESASTER at www.facebook.com/fabulousdesaster
“Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel Eine Tochter”, the sophomore full-length from HEXENBRETT, can be streamed in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 20, 2024 via Dying Victims Productions. https://hexenbrett.bandcamp.com
Romanian Death Metallers PUTRED have just premiered the track ‘Era Morbiditații’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full-length “Megalit Al Putrefacției”, which will be released on January 20, 2025 via Memento Mori. The previously revealed album track ‘Necromanție’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Megalit Al Putrefacției” tracklist reads like this: ‘Obidă (intro)’, ‘Dominare Malefică’, ‘Aură Macabră’, ‘Spectre Torturate’, ‘Necromanție’, ‘Megalit Al Putrefacției’, ‘Părăsit În Purgatoriu’, ‘Inscripții Antice’, ‘Era Morbidității’ and ‘Critical Madness’. (AUTOPSY cover). www.facebook.com/metalputredalmortii
International technical brutal Death Metallers DEFEATED SANITY have just released a playthrough video from guitarist Vaughn Stoffey and bassist Jacob Schmidt for the song ‘Extrinsically Enraged’ at this location. The track appears on the band’s latest album “Chronicles Of Lunacy”, which was released at the end of last month via Season Of Mist. www.facebook.com/defeatedsanity
Canadian Thrashers SACRIFICE have just released a lyric video for ‘Antidote Of Poison’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming new album “Volume Six”, which will be released in Europe via High Roller Records on January 24, 2025. It was recorded and mixed at Phase One Studios in Toronto between September 2023 and May 2024 with engineer Darius Szepaniak. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Comatose’, ‘Antidote Of Poison’, ‘Missile’, ‘Underneath Millenia’, ‘Your Hunger For War’, ‘Incoming Mass Extinction’, ‘Lunar Eclipse’, ‘Explode’, ‘Black Hashish’, ‘We Will Not Survive’ and ‘Trapped In A World’ (DIRECT ACTION cover feat. Brian Taylor). www.facebook.com/sacrificecanada
Michigan’s progressive Thrash Metal Project KAPTAIN KOLLNOT has just released a new single entitled ‘The Nature Of Evil’ at this location. It features Stu Block (INTO ETERNITY, ICED EARTH) on vocals. The track will be featured on the upcoming album “The Aquarius Shift”, which will be released in Spring 2025. www.facebook.com/people/Kaptain-Kollnot/100034850624433
Swedish progressive one man Death Metal project EIGENSTATE ZERO will self-release its fourth full-length “Shape Of God Thought Of Sun” on February 07, 2025. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘A Peculiar Void’, ‘Pandemagogue’, ‘The Tellurian Yoke’, ‘Fearestrial’, ‘Trope Controller’, ‘Dark Entity Seal’ and ‘Psychocrazy’. You can check out previous EIGENSTATE ZERO releases at https://eigenstatezero.bandcamp.com. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/eigenstatezero