“Agony’s Bespoke”, the new album from Seattle’s progressive blackened Death Metallers BLIGHTED EYE, is out now via Beyond The Top Records on digipak CD, limited edition vinyl LP and digital formats. It was produced, mixed and mastered by Alex Sedin and the cover artwork was created by Caelan Stokkermans. A full album stream is available at this location. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/blightedeye
Atlanta, Georgia based atmospheric Black Metal solo project ISLEPTONTHEMOON will release its new album “Only The Stars Know Of My Misfortune” on vinyl LP and digital formats via Bindrune Recordings on November 8, 2024. A video for the track ‘Safety is already available at this location. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Safety’, ‘Dimming Light’, ‘Maybe I Don’t Know It Yet, But Good Things Are Coming Soon’, ‘I Belong To The Void’, ‘Like Dying’ and ‘Keep Hidden’. The material was written, recorded and mixed by ISLEPTONTHEMOON and mastered by Spenser Morris at SM Audio. https://isleptonthemoon.bandcamp.com
German Death Metallers TEMPLE OF DREAD have just revealed the final single from their upcoming fifth full-length “God Of The Godless”. You can check out ‘Black Scream’ right here. The album will be released on October 04, 2024 via Testimony Records on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. It was produced by drummer Jörg Uken at his Soundlodge Tonstudio and the cover artwork was supplied by Paolo Girardi. www.facebook.com/templeofdread
Polish blackened Death Metallers EPHIALTES have just released the track ‘To The Victims Of Sirens’ at this location. It is the second single from their upcoming debut full-length “Melas Oneiros”, which will be released on November 01, 2024 via Black Lion Records. The previously released single ‘Homo Deus’ can still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Ad Patres’ (Intro), ‘To The Victims Of Sirens’, ‘In Her Embrace Again’, ‘The Void’, ‘Children Of Arachne’, ‘Homo Deus’, ‘The Blood Of The Gods’ and ‘Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus’. The whole material was recorded in 2021 at different locations in Poland and Sweden (Icaros Studio, Metallfabriken Studio, Studio Młyn) and completed in 2022 with Przemysław Nowak at Impressive-Art Studio. The cover artwork was created by Łukasz Kotula. www.facebook.com/ephialtesofficial
Texas Thrashers ANIALATOR have just released a lyric video for ‘Memories Of Terror’ over here. The track will be featured on their upcoming debut full-length “Death Is Calling”, which will be released on October 22, 2024 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP (limited to 100 splatter and 150 black copies), cassette tape (limited to 50 copies) and digital formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Kill Till Death’, ‘Memories Of Terror’, ‘Iron Grinder’, ‘Hear The Death Call’, ‘Battlefield Messiah’, ‘Relentless’ and ‘Terror Tactics’. www.facebook.com/snialatortx
Bay Area based old school Death Metallers RIPPED TO SHREDS have just revealed a guitar playthrough video for ‘殭屍復活 (Horrendous Corpse Resurrection)’ at this location. The track will be featured on their upcoming album “Sanshi”, which will be out on September 27, 2024 via Relapse Records on vinyl LP, CD, cassette tape and digital formats. The cover artwork was created by Guang Yang. www.facebook.com/rippedtoshredsband
Chile based Black / Deathers INVOCATION are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures)” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on September 20, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. www.facebook.com/invocationchile
To celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary Dutch Death Metallers THANATOS will release a compilation album entitled “Four Decades Of Death” on November 15, 2024. It will be available on CD, vinyl LP (both formats will include a bonus DVD) and digitally via Agonia Records. The cover artwork was created by Toni Hietomaa. “Four Decades Of Death” consists of previously unreleased songs and a bonus DVD, featuring a multi-cam recording of the band’s last live show, which was filmed at the Baroeg Open Air festival in their hometown Rotterdam on September 10, 2022. The compilation will feature the following tracks: ‘A-Thanasia’ (2021 remake, originally recorded in 1989), ‘Putrid Existence’ (2021 remake, originally written in 1988), ‘Thou Shalt Rot’ (2021 remake, originally recorded in 2000), ‘Tied Up, Sliced Up’ (2021 new vocals, original recording 1992), ‘Violent Death Rituals’ (2018 studio demo), ‘Corporate Indoctrination’ (2018 studio demo), ‘The Silent War’ (2018 studio demo), ‘They Feed On Fear’ (2006 studio demo), ‘Destruction. Chaos. Creation.’ (2006 studio demo), ‘Justified Genocide’ (2006 studio demo), ‘March Of The Infidels’ (2006 studio demo) and ‘Unholy Predators’ (2023 version feat. Michelle Nocon, CD bonus track). You can already watch a lyric video for ‘Putrid Existence’ at this location. More about THANATOS at www.facebook.com/thanatos333
Dutch Black Metallers DEATHLESS VOID are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on September 20, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. www.facebook.com/deathless-void-103576735546776
German Death Metallers RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER have just premiered the track ‘Befouled Commandments’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fourth full-length “Sinking Into Filth”, which will be released on October 21, 2024 via Memento Mori (CD version), in co-operation with Fucking Kill Records (vinyl LP version). The previously revealed ‘Retreat Into Nothingness’ can still be streamed over here. The cover art was created by Lucas Korte. www.facebook.com/recklessmanslaughter
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just released their fourth video in a series of ten lyric videos that they plan to release from their latest album “Towards Idiocracy”. You can check out ‘Power Corrupts’ at this location. For more HOLYCIDE information check out www.facebook.com/holycide
Chicago, Illinois based progressive technical Death Metallers GIGAN have just premiered ‘Trans-Dimensional Crossing Of The Alta-Tenuis’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming album “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus”, which will be released on October 25, 2024 on CD, limited edition CD long box, vinyl LP, cassette tape, limited edition four-album cassette tape boxset and digital formats via Willowtip Records. Its full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Trans-Dimensional Crossing Of The Alta-Tenuis’, ‘Ultra-Violet Shimmer And Permeating Infra-Sound’, ‘Square Wave Subversion’, ‘Emerging Sects Of Dagonic Acolytes’, ‘Katabatic Windswept Landscapes’, ‘Erratic Pulsitivity And Horror’, ‘The Strange Harvest Of The Baganoids’ and ‘Ominous Silhouettes Cast Across Gulfs Of Time’. “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus” was recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, Illinois and mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room. The cover artwork was supplied by Max Winter (Teratogen). www.facebook.com/giganmusic
French Black Metallers HYVER are streaming their new EP “Fonds De Terroir” in its entirety over here now. It will be released via Antiq today. The cover artwork was created by Joanna Maeyens (PAYSAGE D’HIVER, RUYNN). www.facebook.com/antiq.label
“Egrotants, Souffreteux, Cacochymes, Covidards”, the sophomore full-length from French trio GRYLLE, will be released on November 10, 2024 via Antiq. The band plays medieval music (flutes, lute, medieval drums) with Black Metal vocals. Synthesizers, samples, guitars and all other modern instruments are banned. You can already check out the tracks ‘Grande Marche Des Covidards’ and ‘Mauvais Sang’ at this location. The album’s complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Grande Marche Des Covidards’, ‘Mauvais Sang’, ‘Moribon Flétri D’Orgueil’, ‘Réservement De Confortale Présence’, ‘Le Tropique Du Cancer’, ‘Queresle Des Diables Sur La Savance Du Mort’ and ‘Le Triomphe De La Mort’. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/antiq.label
US Thrashers NASTY SAVAGE have just revealed another song from their upcoming new album “Jeopardy Room”. You can check out ‘Schizoid Platform’ at this location. The previously released ‘Brain Washer’ can still be streamed over here. The album will be released on October 10, 2024 via FHM Records. It was recorded at Morrisound Recording Studio in Tampa, Florida with producer Jim Morris. OBITUARY’s Donald Tardy (drums) and John Tardy (vocals) are featured on the re-recorded demo classic ‘Witches Sabbath’. www.facebook.com/nastysavageofficial
Greek Death / Thrashers KRUSHYA have just released a new single entitled ‘Unholy Trinity’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming new album “Doominion”. www.facebook.com/krushya.band
American Death Metal project OPHIDIAN MEMORY has just released ‘Fleshbinding Ritual’, the first single from their upcoming album “Carrion Lord”, over here. The material was recorded and mixed by Blake Lamoureux and mastered by Rick Stallkamp. The cover artwork was created by Caelan Stokkermans. The album will be released on September 27, 2024. “Carrion Lord” will feature the following tracks: ‘The Mausoleum’, ‘Hunger Of Your Deceased Deity’, ‘A Jewel In Gocinia’, ‘Fleshbinding Ritual’, ‘Carrion Lord’, ‘A Murder On Warforged Soil’, ‘Hollowed’, ‘Sculptors Of Seraphic Tributes’, ‘Kept From Dust’ and ‘Bloodborne’. For more OPHIDIAN MEMORY music please visit https://ophidianmemory.bandcamp.com
Greek Black Metallers ISOLERT have just released their new album “Wounds Of Desolation” via Non Serviam Records on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. It was mixed and mastered by Achilleas K. (VARATHRON) at Suncord Audiolab and the artwork was created by Vamon VII. A full stream of it is available at this location. For more ISOLERT information please visit www.facebook.com/isolert
London based Post Depressive Black Metallers BETWEEN SUNSET AND SUNRISE will release their debut EP “In The Middle Of Chaos” digitally on September 27, 2024 via Der Abt Records. The EP will also be available as vinyl LP and cassette tape at the end of the year. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘Half Empty Nightmares’, ‘Echoes Of Sorrow’, ‘The Mirror’, ‘Reconstruction From Within’ and ‘Dreams’. You can already watch a lyric video for ‘The Mirror’ right here. More BETWEEN SUNSET AND SUNRISE music you will find at this location.
On November 01, 2024 Floga Records will release the sophomore full-length from Greek Black Metallers THYRATHEN, “Lakonic”, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. A lyric video for ‘Η Πόλις (The Philosophical Poem)’ is already available over here. The complete “Lakonic” tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Throne Of Micro-Cosmos (Foolishness)’, ‘Religious Agonies’, ‘Matter, Void, Sperm’, ‘De Rerum Natura’, ‘Η Πόλις (The Philosophical Poem)’, ‘Void, Matter, Sperm’ and ‘Scales & Sword (The Fall Of Justice)’. www.facebook.com/thyrathen.band
“SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra)”, the new EP from Italian / Norwegian Black Metal duo HAMMERFILOSOFI, is now streaming in its entirety at this location. It was recorded at WS Studios during the Autumn of 2023 and Winter 2024. The mastering was done by Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Endarker Studios during the Spring of 2024. www.facebook.com/hammerfilosofi
German melodic / celtic Death Metallers SUIDAKRA will release their 15th full-length “DarkanakraD” on November 07, 2024 via MDD Records on CD and vinyl LP. The cover artwork was created by Kris Verwimp. www.facebook.com/official.suidakra
German Pagan Metallers KROMLEK will release a new album entitled “III – III” on November 14, 2024 via Trollzorn Records on double CD and double vinyl LP. The first part, entitled “III-III,” is a collection of their latest compositions created over the past decade. These tracks were produced at Antric Light Records studio and mastered in 2024. The second part, “Upphaf,” offers a comprehensive retrospective of the band’s history. Here, selected pieces have been reworked, recorded and produced anew to document the band’s musical evolution. The tracklist of “III – III” reads like this: ‘Þursöld I – Gigantenwelle’, ‘Þursöld II – Seismonade’, ‘Þursöld III – Nunatak’, ‘Ek, Gangleri’, ‘Totem Tales I – I Tidevarvet Av U’, ‘Totem Tales II – aRktur’, ‘Totem Tales III – AlgyR’ and ‘Strandhögg pt. IV – Ráns Schattenpass’. “Upphaf” features the following tracks: ‘KromleK’, ‘Träskens Näve’, ‘Strandhögg pt. I – Drachen Im Nebel’, ‘Strandhögg Pt. II – Gefolgschaft Der Gezeiten’, ‘Herjan’, ‘Grim Omens’, ‘Mantikor’ and ‘Moritvrvs Immortalis’. A lyric video for the album opener ‘Þursöld I – Gigantenwelle’ can already be watched at this location. More KROMLEK info you will find at www.facebook.com/kromlekofficial
“Before Whom Evil Trembles”, the sophomore full-length from German Death Metallers APEP, can be streamed in its entirety over here now. It was mixed and mastered by Christoph Brandes at Iguana Studios and the cover artwork was created by Paolo Girardi. The album will be released on September 13, 2024 via War Anthem Records. A record release show will take place at the Club Seilerstrasse in Zwickau, Germany on September 14, 2024 together with SINISTER, EPIDEMIC SCORN and MESSTICATOR. www.facebook.com/apepband
On November 08, 2024 AOP Records will release “Wherever We Roam…”, the fifth full-length from German Black Metallers CHAOS INVOCATION. You can already listen to the album track ‘Ideal Sodom’ at this location. The complete “Wherever We Roam…” tracklist reads like this: ‘Wherever We Roam’, ‘Ideal Sodom’, ‘Golden Gates And Terrene Light’, ‘Bridges Aflame’, ‘No Throne Withstands’, ‘This World Wants Us Dead’, ‘Only In Darkness’ and ‘Engravings Of The Quivering Pedestal’. www.facebook.com/chaosinvocation
Sweden’s Black Metallers MÖRK GRYNING have just revealed a new track entitled ‘Tornet’ over here. It will appear on their new album “Fasornas Tid”, which will be released via Season Of Mist on December 13, 2024. It was recorded at Wing Studios with Sverker Widgren and the artwork was created by C-G. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Intro’, ‘The Seer’, ‘Tornet’, ‘Fasornas Tid’, ‘Before The Crows Have Their Feast’, ‘Savage Messiah’, ‘An Ancient Ancestor Of The Autumn Moon’, ‘Black Angel’, ‘Barren Paths’, ‘The Serpent’s Kiss’, ‘Det Svarta’ and ‘Age Of Fire’. www.facebook.com/morkgryningband
“Hymns To The Norse”, the fifth album of Swedish Pagan Black Metallers SEID, will be released on October 18, 2024 via De Tenebrarum Principio – a division of ATMF. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Hymn To Ivar’, ‘The End Of Days’, ‘My Kingdom Rise’, ‘White Beast From Hel’, ‘Nordmænnens Raseri’, ‘Light Up The Sky’, ‘Allfadir’ and ‘Hymns To The North’. You can already check out ‘My Kingdom Rise’ at this location. For more SEID information please visit www.norseblackmetal.com
On November 22, 2024 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “Tyrannic Desolation”, the third full-length from Australia’s blackened Doom Metallers TYRANNIC, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Prophetic Eyes Of Glass’, ‘Tyrannic Desolation’, ‘Only Death Can Speak My Name’, ‘Impaled Before Your Mirror Of Fate’, ‘Stillbirth In Still Life’, ‘Dance On Graves Chained To The Labyrinth’, ‘Incubus Incarnate’ and ‘Morbid Sanctum’. The album opener ‘Prophetic Eyes Of Glass’ is already available for streaming over here. More TYRANNIC music you will find at https://tyrannic.bandcamp.com
Berlin, Germany based avantgarde Death Metal duo INGURGITATING OBLIVION has just premiered part III of their 18-minute track ‘The Barren Earth Oozes Blood, And Shakes And Moans, To Drink Her Children’s Gore’ at this location. It will be featured on their upcoming new album “Ontology Of Nought”, which will be released on September 27, 2024 on CD, gatefold double vinyl, cassette tape and digital formats via Willowtip Records. www.facebook.com/ingurgitatingoblivionofficial
On September 13, 2024 Werewolf Records will release the self-titled debut demo of Japan’s Death Metallers IMMORTAL DEATH on CD and cassette tape formats. A full stream of it is available over here now. More IMMORTAL DEATH at https://immortaldeathog.bandcamp.com
Örebro, Sweden based progressive Death Metallers CARNOSUS have just premiered a video for ‘Worm Chaser’, the second single from their upcoming third full-length “Wormtales”, at this location. The album will be released on October 18, 2024 on digipak CD, gatefold vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats via Willowtip Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Birthless’, ‘Within Throat, Within Heart’, ‘Neglectikon’, ‘Yearnings Of A Rotten Spine’, ‘Worm Charmer’, ‘Harbinger Of Woundism’, ‘Paradoxical Impulse’, ‘Wound Of Wisdom’, ‘Cosmoclaustrum’ and ‘Solace In Soil’. The cover artwork was created by Timon Kokott. www.facebook.com/carnosus
Turku, Finland based female fronted melodic Death Metallers PHOBOIAN have just released a lyric video for ‘The Plague’, the first single from their upcoming debut full-length, over here. The album will be released via Inverse Records. For regular updates please follow the band at www.facebook.com/phoboian
Polish Death / Black Metallers DAMMNATORUM have just released a video for ‘Per Mortem Vado’ at this location. The track appears on the band’s 2023 debut album “In Umbra Mortis”. www.facebook.com/dammnatorum
Swedish melodic Folk / Death Metallers EVILON will release their new album “A Warrior’s Way” on digipak CD on November 01, 2024 via Fetzner Death Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Yggdrasil’, ‘Jotunheim’, ‘Walk Of The Damned’, ‘A Warrior’s Way’, ‘Into The Battlefield’, ‘Foreign Land’, ‘Galdr’, ‘My Runestone’, ‘Skald’, ‘Blot To The Skies’ and ‘Valkyria’. The artwork was created by Gogo Melone. A lyric video for the song ‘Yggdrasil’ is now available over here. More about EVILON at www.facebook.com/evilon
On November 01, 2024 AOP Records will release “Riverchild”, the fifth full-length from Austrian Post Black Metallers ANOMALIE. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Mother Of Stars’, ‘An Unvorgiving Tide’, ‘Perpetual Twilight’, ‘Heart To Beat’, ‘Awakening’, ‘Riverchild’, ‘Among Shadows’, ‘A Cosmic Truth’ and ‘Thoughts’. You can already stream ‘Perpetual Twilight’ at this location. The cover artwork was created by Misanthropic Art Illustrations. www.facebook.com/the.anomalie.experience
“Extinction”, the only full-length from New York based Crust Punks NAUSEA, will be re-released on vinyl via Svart Records on white / black marble vinyl, limited pink vinyl, limited transparent green vinyl, classic black vinyl, CD and digitally on December 06, 2024. It was originally released in 1990 by Profane Existence in the US and Meantime Records in the UK. The re-release was remastered, comes with a gatefold cover, booklet and new album artwork taken from the poster included with the original vinyl pressing. www.facebook.com/nauseapunk
“Apophenia” the new album from Polish Death Metallers DEIVOS, will be released on October 18, 2024 via Selfmadegod Records. A first single, ‘Sermon Of Hypocrisy’, is already available at this location. For all further DEIVOS info please visit www.facebook.com/deivos
On October 25, 2024 Me Saco Un Ojo Records, in co-operation with Dark Descent Records, will release a new mini album from Quebecois Death Metallers SEDIMENTUM, “Derrière Les Portes D’une Arcane Transcendante”. Me Saco Un Ojo will handle the 12″ vinyl release, while Dark Descent will handle the CD version. It will feature the following three tracks: ‘Vilénie’, ‘Le Labyrinthe Sempiternel’ and ‘Inhumation Céleste (Au Carillon Mordoré)’. ‘Le Labyrinthe Sempiternel’ can already be streamed over here. All further SEDIMENTUM info you will find at www.facebook.com/sedimentumdeath
Finnish Black Metallers BARATHRUM have just revealed the track ‘Dark Sorceress 3 (Spring Siege)’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming tenth full-length “Überkill”, which will be released on October 11, 2024 via Hammer Of Hate. The previously revealed title track can still be streamed over here. The complete “Überkill” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Death By Steel’, ‘Mountain Of Bones’, ‘Spark Plugs Of Purgatory’, ‘Black Magick Rites’, ‘Ritual Murder’, ‘White Red Black And Pale’, ‘Denial Of God’, ‘Dark Sorceress 3 (Spring Siege)’ and ‘Überkill’. www.facebook.com/barathrumofficial
On October 31, 2024 Alte Seelen will release “Scripture Of The Woods”, the debut full-length of American old school Black Metal duo KVELDSTIMER, on CD. The album was originally released on limited edition cassette tape earlier this year. It features the following tracks: ‘Emerging Glare’, ‘Folk Of The Blossoming Sky’, ‘Sommar’, ‘The Field’s Arrival’, ‘Washed Away Among The Stones’, ‘Fiendish Lore’ and ‘Moon’s Melody Of Death’. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564639922269
Finnish Black / Death Metal one-man project LUUSÄKKI has just released a second single from its upcoming self-titled debut full-length. You can check out ‘Statue In Uniform’ over here. The first single ‘Fifth Of The Fifth Columns’ is still available at this location. The album will be released via Inverse Records on October 17, 2024. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Penned In Water’, ‘Gangrene’, ‘Spit Shined Pig Skin’, ‘Mai-Dun’, ‘Fifth Of The Fifth Columns’, ‘Statue In Uniform’, ‘Suzerain’, ‘Hyena’, ‘Death Cult’, ‘All Hallows’ and ‘City Of God’. www.facebook.com/luusakki
Finnish blackened Death Metallers WHERE’S MY BIBLE have just released their sophomore full-length “Kave” via Inverse Records. A full album stream is available right here. You can also watch a video for the title track at this location. The “Kave” cover art was created by Niko Hiltunen. www.facebook.com/wheresmybible