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Polish Black / Death Metallers COFFINWOOD are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Acolytes of Eternal Flame” in its entirety at this location now. The material was recorded, mixed and mastered by Pawel “Janos” Grabowski at JNS Studio and the cover artwork was created by Mieszko Jankowski. It will be self-released on December 16, 2024 digitally and as limited CD. www.facebook.com/coffinwood.official
Italian Pagan Black Metallers HESPERIA will release their eighth full-length “Fra Li Monti Sibillini (Black Medieval Winter Over The Sibylline Mounts)” on January 17, 2025 on CD, 2 LP and digitally via Hammerheart Records. You can already check out a lyric video for the album track ‘Mons Daemoniacus: Nero Paese De La Scomunica’ over here. For more HESPERIA information please visit www.facebook.com/hesperiaofficial
Swedish Doom / Deathers MOONDARK have just released a song from their upcoming debut full-length “The Abysmal Womb”, which will be released on December 20, 2024 via Pulverised Records. You can check out ‘Infernal Genocide’ at this location. The album was mixed and mastered by Peter Bjärgö (TYRANT, CRYPT OF KERBEROS) at Erebus Odura Studio and the cover artwork was created by Johan Jansson and Allan Lundholm. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Where Once Was Life’, ‘Suffer The Dark’, ‘Palliative Dusk’, ‘Sterile Earth’, ‘Infernal Genocide’, ‘Beyond Darkness’, ‘The Abysmal Womb’ and ‘Immersed To Crypts’. www.facebook.com/moondark666
“Tavastland”, the fourth full-length from Finnish Pagan Black Metallers HAVUKRUUNU, will be released via Svart Records on February 28, 2025 on limited amber & black smoke vinyl, classic black vinyl, CD, cassette tape and digital formats. An exclusive ice & blood vinyl edition, limited to 666 copies, will be available exclusively from the label. All vinyl editions of the first pressing include a booklet and poster. A video for the title track can already be watched over here. For more HAVUKRUUNU information please visit www.facebook.com/havukruunu
On February 24, 2025 Antiq will release “Aube Noire”, the debut full-length from French Black Metallers ARKAIST. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Aube Noire’, ‘Ode À La Haine’, ‘Prophète Du Sang’, ‘Terre Ancestrale’, ‘Anachorète’, ‘Linceul D’Ether’ and ‘Puer Aeternus’. You can already check out a lyric video for ‘Anachorète’ at this location. More about ARKAIST at www.instagram.com/arkaist.bm
German Thrashers BATTLECREEK have just released a video for ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ over here. The track is taken from their latest album “Maze Of The Mind”, which was released early 2024 via MDD Records. www.facebook.com/battlecreekthrash
French Post Black Metallers DECLINE OF THE I will release their fifth full-length “Wilhelm” on February 14, 2025 via Agonia Records. The band has just released a video for the album’s first single, ‘L’ Alliance Des Rats’, featuring guest vocals from T.C. (REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER) and Vestal (MERRIMACK), at this location. More about DECLINE OF THE I at www.facebook.com/declineofthei
Danish Black Metallers PERDITION’S MIRE are streaming their second EP “Into A Dark Heartland” in its entirety over here now. It will be released via Headkick Music today. www.facebook.com/perditionsmire
Los Angeles based Thrash Metal three-piece MINDWARS will release their fifth full-length “V” on March 07, 2025 via High Roller Records on all formats. It was originally self-released by the band in early 2024. MINDWARS consists of Mike Alvord, guitarist and co-founder of HOLY TERROR, Italian drummer Roby Vitari and bassist Rick Zaccaro. A video for the first single ‘Live To Die’ is available over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Stand Guard At The Gates Of Your Mind’, ‘West Of Nowhere’, ‘The Road To Madagascar’, ‘Chasing The Wind’, ‘Beneath The Trees’, ‘Live To Die’, ‘Crusaders’, ‘Source Of Destruction’, ‘Into The Known’, ‘Vultures Of The Eighth Wonder’ and ‘The Logical Song’ (SUPERTRAMP cover). www.facebook.com/mindwarsband
“Promiscuous Fire”, the new EP from Portuguese Black Metallers IRAE, will be released via Signal Rex on January 24, 2025 on CD and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following four tracks: ‘The Curse Of Lael’, ‘Vinho De Gólgota’, ‘Porco De Satanás’ and ‘Endless Circle’. You can already check out ‘Porco De Satanás’ at this location. IRAE will be supporting MARDUK on their upcoming European tour in February / March 2025. https://irae666.bandcamp.com
UK based Black Metallers KILDONAN are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Embers” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 13, 2024 via Caligari Records on cassette tape format. The material was recorded by BARSHASKETH’s Guillame Martin at Sonorous Studio, the guitars were recorded by Andy Campbell, also of BARSHASKETH. For more KILDONAN information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554712498334
Finnish Death Metallers AUGUST MOON are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Something Eldritch And Macabre” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on December 13, 2024 via Personal Records. www.youtube.com/@augustmoonbase
Belgian brutal Death Metallers FACTURED INSANITY have just released a lyric video for ‘Age Of Manipulation’ over here. It is the title track of the band’s sophomore full-length, which will be released on February 18, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. You can still listen to the album’s first advance single ‘Exaltation Of A Fallen Glory’ at this location. More FRACTURED INSANITY information you will find at www.facebook.com/fracturedinsanityofficial
Finnish progressive Death Metallers CONVULSE will release a new digital single entitled ‘King Of A Kind’ on December 13, 2024. You can already check out a lyric video for the song over here. In May 2025 CONVULSE will embark on their “35 Years Of The Decay” anniversary tour in Europe for three weeks. Frontman Rami Jämsä promises a collection of songs from all five albums plus some brand new tracks. The backbone of this tour will be the CONVULSE album “World Without God”. In July 2025 “World Without God” will be performed in its entirety, when CONVULSE will play five shows in Mexico for the first time. www.facebook.com/convulse
Finnish Death / Grinders CANNIBAL ACCIDENT will release their fifth full-length “Disgust” on February 28, 2025 via Inverse Records. The second double single ‘Itseinhon Kusisella Alttarilla / Darken The Attic’ has just been released. A video for the first track, featuring Nikki666 on guest vocals, can be watched at this location. The album’s first double-single ‘Scorched Meat Tactics – Explicit Everything’ can still be checked out over here. The”Disgust” cover artwork was created by Maxime Taccardi. www.facebook.com/cannibalaccident
American Black Metallers WULDORGAST are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Cold Light” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 13, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
German Pagan Black Metallers ASENHEIM are streaming their ninth full-length “Wolkenbrecher” in its entirety at this location now. It has just been released on December 10, 2024 via Dominance Of Darkness Records. www.facebook.com/asenheimblackmetal
“Landkrieg”, the new full-length from German Death Metallers SCALPTURE, will be released on March 07, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats via Testimony Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Fall…’, ‘Into Catastrophe’, ‘Til Jeret Undergang’, ‘Landsknecht’, ‘Wallenstein’, ‘Den Mörka Nattens Lejon’, ‘Of Siege And Besieged’, ‘Schwedentrunk’, ‘Hell’s Choirs Chant’ and ‘Bellum Se Ipsum Alet’. A video for the first single ‘Den Mörka Nattens Lejon’ can already be watched over here. Each song on the album revolves around the 30 Year War that devastated the German lands from 1618 until 1648. www.facebook.com/scalpture
Finnish melodic Death Metallers RE-ARMED have just released the track ‘Sky Falls Down’ at this location. It features a guest appearance from vocalist Mirva Saviniemi. www.facebook.com/rearmed
Spanish Thrashers RETADOR have just released a lyric video for ‘Lux Ferre’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full-length “Earëndel”, which will be released on January 21, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. It was recorded at Moontower Studios in September 2024 and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studio in Germany. The complete “Earëndel” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Earëndel’, ‘Somos Eternos’, ‘La Sombra De Tu Existir’, ‘Redes’, ‘Lux Ferre’, ‘Asesino’, ‘Profanado’, ‘Terror En La Noche’ and ‘Abismo 52 (outro)’. www.facebook.com/retador.thrashmetal
German Black Metallers URFEIND have just premiered the track ‘Weaving The Abyss’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full-length “Dauþalaikaz”, which will be released on January 10, 2025 via Nine To Zero Productions. The previously revealed album track ‘Thorns Of Madness’ can still be streamed at this location. The complete “Dauþalaikaz” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Thorns Of Madness’, ‘The Fallen’, ‘Serpent’s Flight’, ‘Weaving The Abyss’, ‘Hymn Of Corruption’, ‘Nine To Zero’, ‘Void’, ‘Anthem Of Decay’ and ‘Inner Rampage’. www.facebook.com/urfeind
Polish avantgarde Black Metallers RUNOPATIA are streaming their upcoming EP “Archaista” in its entirety at this location now. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Przemyslaw Nowak at Impressive-Art Studio (ODRAZA, ASGAARD, OUTRE, TOTENMESSE). The EP will be released digitally and as limited CD on December 13, 2024 via TDM Archivist. www.facebook.com/runopatia
German Thrashers ACCUSER have just released a video for ‘Violent Vanity’ over here. The track is the opener of the band’s 13th full-length “Rebirthless”, which was released on CD last month via MDD Records. The vinyl edition is scheduled for January 16, 2025. www.facebook.com/accuser2008
SWALLOW THE SUN drummer Juuso Raatikainen’s new project SOUNDS OF DELUSION has just released their first single ‘Blood Washes Away Blood’ at this location. SOUNDS OF DELUSION features Okko Solanterä (HORIZON IGNITED, I AM THE NIGHT) on vocals. www.facebook.com/soundsofdelusion
Brazil’s Doom / Black Metallers A DEAD POEM are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Abstract Existence” in its entirety over here now. The album will be released on December 13, 2024 via Personal Records. www.facebook.com/adeadpoem.doom
The self-titled 2012 album from Canadian Death Metallers CRYPTOPSY will be re-released via Season Of Mist on January 31, 2025 on CD, gatefold vinyl LP (black and orange / black marbled) and as a digital download. A full stream of it you will find at this location. Next summer CRYPTOPSY will be touring Europe with DECAPITATED, WARBRINGER and CARNATION. www.facebook.com/cryptopsyofficial
American Black Metallers LURING are streaming their upcoming third full-length “Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on December 13, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. https://luring.bandcamp.com
Belgian / German label Haunted By Ill Angels will have four new releases available on December 21, 2024: “With Roman Precision“, the debut full-length from Belgian Black Metallers ISH KERIOTH (on cassette tape, a vinyl LP edition will be availble via Urtod Void on December 24, 2024); “Klaagrituelen“, the debut demo from Belgian Black / Industrial two-piece BACHT’N DE VULLE MOANE; “A Flight Of Night Birds Prepare For Plunder“, the debut demo from Belgian (Post) Punk / Oi / Black Metal band BURIAL HEIST and “The Second Coming” from NO SUNRISE OVER WRECKAGE WORLDS, an Industrial / Dark Ambient project of Snvn (ISH KERIOTH, LUGUBRUM, DOODSDREK), on cassette tape. The music for “The Second Coming” was already recorded about 20 years ago, but it has been partly re-recorded this year. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/illangelsonly
“Eschaton Magicks”, the sophomore full-length from Norway’s Black Metal three-piece NACHASH, will be released on January 31, 2025 via Signal Rex on CD and vinyl LP formats. You can already check out ‘Sojourner Of The Dark Passage’ at this location. The album’s full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Stygian Nightmare’, ‘Sojourner Of The Dark Passage’, ‘The Scythewielder’, ‘Eschaton Magicks’, ‘Death’s Mordant Blaze’, ‘Empyrean Graves’ and ‘Wherein The Devil Dwell’. www.facebook.com/nachashnorway
On January 24, 2025 Copenhagen, Denmark based one-man Death Metal project ROHAN will release its debut full-length “Suffering With A Smile”. A full album stream you will already find at this location. For more ROHAN information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554030246477
“Austere Dawning”, the third full-length from Portuguese Doom / Black Metallers MONTE PENUMBRA, will be released on December 13, 2024 via NoEvDia. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Ab.gott’, ‘Void Of Quietude’, ‘Lux Electa’, ‘Sub Forma De Animal’, ‘Murrain Unveiled’, ‘To Sleye No Beginning But An End’ and ‘Stamen Of Barrenness’. You can already stream the album closer ‘Stamen Of Barrenness’ at this location https://montepenumbra.bandcamp.com.
“Skeletal Wings Unleashed”, the debut full-length from Mexican Black Metallers FUMES, will be released on February 07, 2025 via Personal Records on CD format. You can already listen to the album opener ‘Stellar Ascension Infernal’ at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Stellar Ascension Infernal’, ‘Kamazotz’, ‘Suppuration Tunnels’, ‘Dead Morning Star’, ‘Carrier Of Venenifyer’, ‘Passage I’, ‘Hollow Teeth Of Darkness’, ‘Passage II’, ‘Plaguestorms’ and ‘Passage III’. www.facebook.com/fumes06
On January 31, 2025 Blood Harvest Records will release “Sidereal Malignancy”, the debut mini album from Brazilian Death Metallers COSMOPHAGE, on CD format. Me Saco Un Ojo Records will be releasing the cassette tape version. It was originally released digitally in October 2024. A full stream of it is available over here. For more COSMOPHAGE, please visit https://cosmophage.bandcamp.com
Canadian Death / Thrash Metallers SARKASM have just released a lyric video for ‘Dead Weight’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full-length “Carnival Of Atrocities”, which will be released on February 04, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and in digital formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘I Am Chaos’, ‘Murmurs From The Void’, ‘Echoes Of Hyperion’, ‘Disintegrate’, ‘Cold Empty Rooms’, ‘Hateful, Spiteful, Vengeful’, ‘Ex Umbris’ and ‘Dead Weight’. www.facebook.com/sarkasmqc
Cleveland, Ohio based melodic Death Metallers DRUPARIA have just released a video for ‘Sever The Roots’ over here. The track will be featured on their upcoming album “The River Above”, which will be released on December 27, 2024. The album’s title track can additionally be streamed at this location. “The River Above” was produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Dan Paddy at Blackroom Studios in Copley Ohio. The cover art was created by Mark Erskine. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Voiceless Regret’, ‘Under The Shade Of Sand’, ‘Bereavement’, ‘Kintsugi’, ‘In Repose, Descend’, ‘Sever The Roots’, ‘The River Above’, ‘Of Firmament… And The Renewal’, ‘Bled For Comfort’, ‘When Cranes Return’ and ‘The Violet Hour (The Civil Wars)’. www.facebook.com/druparia
On January 31, 2025 Blood Harvest Records will release “Odious Imprecation”, the debut mini album from Finland’s Death Metal five-piece AEDES, on CD, 12″ vinyl and cassette tape formats. You can stream it in its entirety over here. For more AEDES please visit https://aedesmetal.bandcamp.com
Spanish Death Metallers AVULSED will release their eighth full-length “Phoenix Cryptobiosis” on March 04, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. A video for the first advance single will be released on December 18, 2024. The album was recorded in September and October at different studios and mixed at the beginning of November at Acórdica Studios, which is owned by guitarist Alejandro Lobo. It was mastered at MK2 Studio in Ivrea, Italy by Davide Billia. The cover artwork has once again been created by Ukrainian artist Daemorph Art. The complete tracklist of “Phoenix Cryptobiosis” 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
On February 21, 2025 Dying Victims Productions will release “For A Few Fixes More”, the sophomore full-length from Finland’s death thrashing Punkrock three piece SCUMRIPPER, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Headsplit Records will release the CD and cassette tape editions in North America. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘I Am The Trash Of Evil Men’, ‘Early Embittered Twilight’, ‘The Slime’, ‘For A Few Fixes More’, ‘Exhume The Body And Disturb The Peace’, ‘Crippling Void’, ‘I Cum Pain’, ‘Weather The Swarm’ and ‘Knights Of Summer’. A promo medley for the album can already be streamed at this location. More about SCUMRIPPER at www.facebook.com/scumripper
Finnish melodic Death Metallers DIMMAN have just released a video for ‘The Acrimony’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming sophomore full-length “Consciousness”, which will be released on February 28, 2025 via Inverse Records. A video for the album track ‘Infinitum’ can additionally be checked out here, a lyric video for ‘The First Daylight’ you can watch here. “Consciousness” will feature the following tracks: ‘Remission’, ‘The First Daylight’, ‘Cease The Vengeance’, ‘The Acrimony’, ‘Infinitum’, ‘Life Bereaved Him’, ‘Regretful’, ‘Amass Them’ and ‘Consciousness’. The cover artwork for the album was supplied by Elias Halkola. www.facebook.com/dimman
On January 24, 2025 German Doom / Deathers ATRAMENTUM will self-release their sophomore full-length “The Wrath Within” digitally and on digipak CD. It was produced by Sebastian Schlenker and Tobias Norff, mixed by Dennis Israel (ClintWorks) and mastered by Eike Freese at Chameleon Recording Studios in Hamburg, Germany. The cover artwork was created by James Hutton. The follow-up to the band’s 2022 debut full-length “Doomed In Time” will feature the following tracks: ‘Lighthouse’, ‘Living In Dystopia’, ‘Higgs Field’, ‘Back To Soil’, ‘Emptiness Inside’, ‘Window’, ‘No One Escapes’, ‘The Noose’, ‘Another Life To Die’, ‘Farewell’, ‘Path To Salvation’, ‘Lake Of My Own Essence’ and ‘The Wrath Within’. www.facebook.com/atramentumhamburg
Polish Death Metallers ICON OF EVIL have just released a lyric video for the title track of their upcoming sophomore full-length “Locust Cathedral” at this location. The album will be released on December 06, 2024 via Selfmadegod Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Soundscope Studio by Jarek Wysocki. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Locust Cathedral’, ‘Verge Of Collapse’, ‘Cursed With Oblivion’, ‘Colossus’, ‘Creeping Corruption’, ‘Depths Oof Scorn’, ‘We’re The Plague’ and ‘Chain Reaction’. www.facebook.com/icon.of.evil.stenchmetal
“Invitation From Host Of Wrath”, the debut full-length from defunct Polish Death / Thrashers SPARAGMOS, has been re-released for the first time on vinyl via Selfmadegod Records. It was originally released on cassette tape in 1992 and reissued on CD in 2020 via Selfmadegod Records. A full album stream is available over here. More about SPARAGMOS at www.facebook.com/officialsparagmos
Finnish melodic Death Metal five-piece PESTILENT SCARS will release their debut full-length “Meadows Of Misfortune” on January 17, 2025 via Inverse Records. You can already watch a video for the track ‘Golden Maiden’ at this location. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Into The Meadows’, ‘Internal Torment’, ‘Golden Maiden’, ‘Deceitful Phoenix’, ‘Unreality’, ‘A Reaching Hand’, ‘Democide’, ‘All On My Own’, ‘In Search Of Reason’ and ‘False Messiah’. The cover artwork was created by Topi Ilmola. More about PESTILENT SCARS at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564947165481
French Black Metallers GENOCIDE KOMMANDO have just revealed the track ‘Battle For Eradication’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full-length “Third World War”, which will be released on December 27, 2024 via Osmose Productions. Here’s the album’s full tracklist: ‘666 – Mark Of The Black Beast’, ‘Obliteration’, ‘Raped Destiny’, ‘Battle For Eradication’, ‘Impious Venom’, ‘Mankind-Self-Destruction’, ‘Burn The Cenotaph’, ‘Drowning In Acid Poison’, ‘Abyssic Warfare’ and ‘Fallen Angel Rape’. www.facebook.com/osmoseproductions
Balkan based Black Metallers CMPT have just revealed the track ‘U Raljama Košave’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s sophomore full-length “Na Utrini”, which will be released on December 27, 2024 via Osmose Productions. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Na Utrini’, ‘Oppidum Panuka’, ‘Mesečina’, ‘Campus De Maxond’, ‘Crna Voda’, ‘U Raljama Košave’, ‘Kao Srp U Noći’ and ‘Δ ΙΣΤΡΟΥ’. https://semeponoci.bandcamp.com
Norwegian Black Metallers TSJUDER have announced Swedish native Emil Wiksten (BLOOD RED THRONE, AEON, ABBATH) as their new permanent drummer. He replaced Jon Rice, who played on the “Helvegr” album and the “Tsjuder Tribute To Bathory – Scandinavian Black Metal Attack” EP, as well as at a bunch of gigs. You can check out a ‘Gods Of Black Blood’ drum playthrough video of Emil Wiksten over here. More about TSJUDER at www.facebook.com/thetruetsjuder
London, UK based Death Metal five-piece MUTAGENIC HOST has just premiered the track ‘Artificial Harvest Of The Obscene’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “The Diseased Machine”, which will be co-released on January 03, 2025 via Gurgling Gore (vinyl LP, cassette tape) and Dry Cough Records (vinyl LP, cassette tape). The CD edition will follow via Memento Mori on January 20th, 2025. The previously revealed album track ‘Incomprehensible Methods Of Slaughter’ can still be checked out over here. “The Diseased Machine” will feature the following tracks: ‘Neurological Necrosis’, ‘Genestealer’, ‘The Twisted Helix’, ‘Artificial Harvest Of The Obscene’, ‘Organometallic Assimilation’, ‘DIRECTIVE:: [kill_on_sight]’, ‘Incomprehensible Methods Of Slaughter’, ‘S.W.A.R.M. (Systematic War Against Restless Machines)’, ‘Promethean Dusk’ and ‘Rivers Of Grief’. https://mutagenichost.bandcamp.com