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On October 18, 2024 Into Endless Chaos Records will release “Flames Licking Fever”, the fifth full-length from German Death Metal Punks DEATHRITE on vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Crippled Ego’, ‘Restless Eyes’, ‘Flames Licking Fever’, ‘Misanthropic Rush’, ‘A Slave To A Poisoned Soul’, ‘Bottomless Graves’, ‘Deadbeat’, ‘The End Is Tonight’, ‘Gallows Trail’ and ‘All Consuming Fire’. A first track will be revealed on September 05, 2024. www.facebook.com/deathrite666
Finnish melodic Death Metallers RE-ARMED have just released a new single entitled ‘Pitfalls’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming, yet to be titled, fifth full-length, which will be released via Inverse Records. RE-ARMED will be supporting OMNIUM GATHERUM on their Japanese tour in September. www.facebook.com/rearmed
Portuguese Death Metallers PHENOCRYST are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Cremation Pyre” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on August 30, 2024 via Blood Harvest Records. www.facebook.com/phenocryst
German blackened Death / Thrashers WARLUST have just premiered the track ‘Legio! Aeterna! Victrix!’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full-length “Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae”, which will be released on September 27, 2024 via Dying Victims Productions. The previously revealed album tracks ‘Between Apeiron & Plague’ and ‘…Of Gallows & Absurdity’ can still be streamed here, respectively here. The complete “Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae” tracklist reads as follows: ‘In Concord & Euphoria’, ‘Serpent Crown’, ‘Between Apeiron & Plague’, ‘Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae’, ‘Forgotten Cult Of Chronos’, ‘The Followless’, ‘…Of Gallows & Absurdity’, ‘Legio! Aeterna! Victrix!’ and ‘Black Souls’. www.facebook.com/warlust666
Philadelphia based Death Metallers HORRENDOUS have just released their first-ever video for ‘Preterition Hymn’ at this location. The track is taken from their new album “Ontological Mysterium”, which is available now via Season Of Mist. www.facebook.com/horrendousdeathmetal
Finnish melodic Death / Folk Metal band WARFARER has just released a video for ‘Brotherslayer’, the second single from their upcoming concept album “A Tale Beyond The Pale”, over here. A video for the first single ‘Heir Uncrowned’ can additionally be watched at this location. Here’s the complete “A Tale Beyond The Pale” tracklist: ‘Heir Uncrowned’, ‘As The Portents Foretold’, ‘Brotherslayer’, ‘Bereaver’, ‘Betrayer’, ‘In The Gravelight’, ‘March Through The Endless Snow’ and ‘The Gates To Realms Beyond’. The cover artwork was created by Sofia Sinivuori. The album will be released on November 15, 2024 via Inverse Records. www.facebook.com/warfarerband
German Black Metallers FIRTAN have just revealed the final single from their new album “Ethos”, which will be out on September 13, 2024 via AOP Records. You can listen to ‘Contra Vermes’ over here. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/firtanofficial
“Religious Disease”, the debut full-length from Swedish Thrashers DISARRAY, will be released on October 25, 2024 via Jawbreaker Records on all formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Forbidden Of Speech’, ‘Nightmarish Gaze’, ‘Bound To Kill’, ‘Hell’s Fire’, ‘Psychosis’, ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’, ‘Realize You’re Already Dead’, ‘Apostate’, ‘Religious Disease’ and ‘Inhuman Reign’ (CD and cassette tape bonus track). You can already listen to the first single ‘Realize You’re Already Dead’ at this location. For more DISARRAY please visit www.instagram.com/disarraybandofficial
On November 27, 2024 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release a vinyl 12″ split compilation of Austrian Death Metallers FESSUS and German Death Metallers KILL THE LORD, which will feature their demos “Pilgrims Of Morbidity” and “Decrowned II: Trinity Ablaze” respectively. FESSUS will be featured with the tracks ‘Acidic Secretion’, ‘Pilgrims Of Morbidity’ and ‘Unmoored’, while KILL THE LORD’s part will feature ‘Kill The Lord’, ‘Food For Worms’, ‘Di(Stress)ed’ and ‘Sacrificial Blaze’. More about both bands at https://fessus.bandcamp.com or https://killthelord.bandcamp.com
Barcelona, Spain based symphonic Black Metallers ERZSÉBET have released their latest full-length “Six Hundred And Fifty” via Whispering Voice Records. It features the following tracks: ‘Redemption Of Evil’, ‘The Chest With The Thousand Spikes’, ‘The Cage The Torch And Corpses’, ‘Crystalline Sparkles On Bluish Skin’, ‘Spectral Cortège’, ‘Daughters Of Zemans’, ‘Lunar Liturgy’, ‘Somewhere In Csejthe’, ‘Wherefore’, ‘Domina Vestra’ and ‘Sírfelirat’. You can check out a video for ‘Domina Vestra’ here and a lyric video for ‘Wherefore’ here . The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at AxStudios in Barcelona. The artwork was created by Irene Serrano. www.facebook.com/erzsebetofficial
On August 30, 2024 Blood Harvest Records will release “Breathing Obelisk”, a new mini album from Canadian Death Metallers GUTVOID, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. A full stream of it is already available at this location. More GUTVOID information you will find at www.facebook.com/gutvoidofficial
Finnish one-man Black Metal band MALASORTE will release its debut full-length “Apex Sovereignty” on October 11, 2024 via Inverse Records. The second single ‘Constellation Of The Wolf’ can be checked out over here now. The album’s previously released first single ‘Slaying The Messengers’ can still be found at this location. The complete “Apex Sovereignty” tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Rift Is Now Open’, ‘Cerebral Pandemonium’, ‘Across The Frozen Tundra’, ‘Into The Killing Fields’, ‘Behind Closed Doors’, ‘Constellation Of The Wolf’, ‘Inscribed In Blood, Bound By Will’, ‘Slaying The Messengers’, ‘The Devil’s Pact At Roanoke’, ‘Apex Sovereignty’ and ‘Crowned In Astral Majesty’. www.facebook.com/malasorteblackmetal
Finnish brutal Deathgrind one-man project K.Y.M.I. will release its debut full-length on September 27, 2024 via Inverse Records. The album’s second single ‘Hemicrania’ can be checked out over here now. For all additional K.Y.M.I. info please visit www.facebook.com/kymipaja
Nevada based Death Metallers ANCIENT MALIGNITY have just premiered the track ‘Dystopian Subjection’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s sophomore full-length “Dehumanization Dawn”, which will be released on October 01, 2024 via Inhuman Assault Productions. The previously revealed album track ‘Abomination Experiment’ you can still stream over here. Here’s the full “Dehumanization Dawn” tracklist: ‘Dehumanization Dawn’, ‘Indoctrination Terror Offense’, ‘Abomination Experiment’, ‘Pedoswine Obsolescence’, ‘Dystopian Subjection’, ‘Pernicious Fixation’, ‘The Extortion Epoch’, ‘Algorithmic Brainwash Entity’, ‘Intrusive Surveillance Mechanism’ and ‘Viral Hysteria Infliction’. www.facebook.com/ancientmalignity
South Carolina based blackened Death Metal one-man band VØLUS has just released ‘Hissing Dissent’, the newest single off the upcoming fourth full-length “Merciful The Dying Light”, at this location. The whole material was written and recorded by the band’s only member Justin Vølus. You can stream additional tracks from the album at volusdeath.bandcamp.com. “Merciful The Dying Light” will be released via Vargheist Records on streaming platforms and as a limited edition CD on September 07, 2024. www.facebook.com/volusdeath
Milwaukee based Death Metallers OUTER GRAVES will release their debut full-length “Terminal Limit” on all streaming platforms, as well as on cassette tape, on September 20, 2024. The cassette tapes will be available via Transylvanian Recordings. The album was recorded and mixed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Shane Hochstetler at Howl Street Recordings and mastered by Carl Saff. Two singles, ‘Malevolent Entity’ and ‘Termination Quadrant’, can be streamed at the band’s YouTube channel. For more band information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088500273167
“Those Who Reign Below”, the eighth full-length of French Death Metallers MERCYLESS, will be released on October 25, 2024 via Osmose Productions on CD and vinyl LP formats. It was produced by Raph Henry at Heldscalla Studio and the cover artwork was created by Mexican artist Nestor Avalos. A first track will have its premiere on September 24, 2024. Here’s the complete tracklist already: ‘Extreme Unction’, ‘I Am Hell’, ‘Evil Shall Come Upon You’, ‘Phantoms Of Caïn’, ‘Thy Resplendent Inferno’, ‘Crown Of Blasphemy’, ‘Prelude To Eternal Darkness’, ‘Chaos Requiem’, ‘Absurd Theatre’, ‘Sanctus Deus Mortis’ and ‘Zechariah 3:1’. www.facebook.com/mercylesscult
Cyprus based Death / Thrashers BLYND have just released a video for ‘Infernal’ over here. The track is taken from their fourth full-length “Unbeliever”, which is out now via Pitch Black Records on CD and digital formats. www.facebook.com/blyndmetal
French atmospheric Black Metallers TOUR D’IVOIRE have just premiered the track ‘Forteresse De Marbre’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s self-titled debut full-length “Tour D’Ivoire”, which will be released on September 06, 2024 via Antiq. The previously revealed excerpt of the almost nine minutes long album opener ‘La Tour’ can additionally still be streamed over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘La Tour’, ‘Brouillard’, ‘Forteresse De Marbre’ and ‘Givre’. The cover artwork was created by Sperber Illustrationen. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/antiq.label
Greek mythology inspired, German Death Metallers RISE OF KRONOS will release their new full-length “Imperium” on October 10, 2024 via MDD Records. It was recorded at Skull Tones Studio in Hamburg, Germany by Nino Helfrich. You can already watch a video for ‘Seperate The Sheep From The Goats’ at this location. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/riseofkronosofficial
On November 27, 2024 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release “Stormheart”, the sixth full-length from Russian Black Metallers OLD WAINDS, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It was mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door Mastering. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Watch The Midnight Unveil’, ‘Northern Starfall’, ‘Of Night And Ice’, ‘In The Heart Of The Storm’, ‘The Eternal, The Dead, The Arcane’, ‘To The Moonlight’ and ‘Snow Swarm’. More OLD WAINDS at https://oldwainds.bandcamp.com. Label contact: www.facebook.com/darknessshallriseproductions
Dutch Black Metallers DEATHLESS VOID have just premiered the track ‘Purple Triad’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin”, which will be released on September 20, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed ‘Vortex Climax’ can additionally still be streamed over here. The complete “The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Psychedelic Warfare’, ‘Vortex Climax’, ‘The Shattered Realms Of Man Become The Abyss’, ‘The Ecstasy Of Sin’, ‘Iside’, ‘Burning Shapes Without Form’, ‘Crossing The Threshold’, ‘Purple Triad’ and ‘Curse Upon You’. www.facebook.com/deathless-void-103576735546776
The debut full-length of Berlin, Germany based Israeli Black / Deathers HAR is now streaming in its entirety at this location. It has just been released via Dark Descent Records on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. www.facebook.com/harblackmetal
Reformed Texas Thrashers ANIALATOR will release their debut full-length “Death Is Calling” on October 22, 2024 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Kill Till Death’, ‘Memories Of Terror’, ‘Iron Grinder’, ‘Hear The Death Call’, ‘Battlefield Messiah’, ‘Relentless’ and ‘Terror Tactics’. You can already check out the first advance single ‘Hear The Death Call’ at this location. For more ANIALATOR info please visit www.facebook.com/anialatortx
Swedish Death Metal three-piece VOMITROT is streaming their new mini album “Emetic Imprecations” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on August 24, 2024 via Personal Records on digipak CD format. www.facebook.com/vomitrot
On November 15, 2024 “Tomb Of The Forgotten (The Complete Demo Recordings 1989-1993)”, the demo compilation from Finnish Death Metallers NECROPSY, will be re-released via Svart Records as a 4 LP slipcase edition with multicolor vinyls and booklet, limited to 100 copies worldwide. It was originally released on CD via Century Media in 2013. The entire material has been remastered from the original master tapes at DMS Mastering (GRAVE, MORBID, ASPHYX). The release also includes an extensive interview with the band, tons of pictures, scans of concert flyers, demo artwork, fanzine reviews and more. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063489725608
“Rotten Bowel Of Pestigore”, the complete works of Finnish Death Metallers PESTIGORE, will be released via Svart Records on vinyl for the first time ever. It was originally released only on CD via Headsplit Records in 2023 and features the band’s five demos from 1991-1992. It will be available on transparent yellow / black marble vinyl with an insert, limited to 100 copies worldwide and also features rare photos and liner notes from vocalist Kari Kräkin. Release date: November 15, 2024. www.facebook.com/pestigore
Berlin, Germany based avantgarde Death Metal duo INGURGITATING OBLIVION has just premiered Part II of the 18-minute track ‘The Barren Earth Oozes Blood, And Shakes And Moans, To Drink Her Children’s Gore’ at this location. Part I can still be found over here. The song is taken from their forthcoming album “Ontology Of Nought”, which will be released on September 27, 2024 on CD, double gatefold vinyl, cassette tape and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The third and final part of the song will premiere on September 11, 2024. www.facebook.com/ingurgitatingoblivionofficial
Hells Headbangers Records have signed Japan’s Speed Metallers VERDALACK. The band’s debut full-length “Force From The Grave” will be released in early 2025. You can already check out a brand-new track entitled ‘Final Assault’ over here. For more VERDALACK please visit https://verdalack.bandcamp.com
Swedish Hardcore Thrashers HATCHEND will release their debut full-length “Summer Of ‘69” on August 23, 2024 via Selfmadegod Records on CD and digitally. The album was recorded in two days at HoboRec and the vocals at Wheelmust Studios by Elis Edin Markskog. It was mixed and mastered by Ulf Blomberg. The cover artwork was created by Rikard Wermén and Elis Edin Markskog. A video for the album track ‘Shackled Humanity’ can be watched at this location. More about HATCHEND at www.facebook.com/hatchendofficial
On November 27, 2024 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release “Saga Of The North”, the debut full-length from THYRMR, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Trym Torson, who was the drummer on EMPEROR’s “Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk” and ENSLAVED’s “Vikingligr Veldi” and “Frost”, composed music for THYRMR, that is inspired by his longstanding passion for movie soundtracks and ambient music. “Saga Of The North” will feature the following tracks: ‘Landsbyen’, ‘Trusselen’, ‘Slaget’, ‘Gravferd’, ‘Sorgen’, ‘Minner’, ‘Vandringen’ and ‘Håpet’. www.facebook.com/darknessshallriseproductions
Maldives based Black Metal three-piece ABYSMAL OCEANS has just released a lyric video for ‘War March’ at this location. The track is featured on the band’s debut EP “Ravenous Abyss”, which was digitally released in June this year. It was mixed and mastered by George Nerantzis (ABBATH / DARK FUNERAL). www.facebook.com/abysmaloceansmaldives
On September 13, 2024 EAL Productions will release “Death Is Absent”, the fifth full-length from Finnish Black Metal duo AETHYRICK. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Fire That Sires The Sun’, ‘Empyrean Silver’, ‘Beyond All Death’, ‘Midwinter Masks’, ‘The Hands Of Fate’ and ‘Only Junipers Grow On My Grave’. You can already stream ‘Beyond All Death’ right here. More about AETHYRICK at www.aethyrick.com
Chile based Black / Deathers INVOCATION have just premiered the track ‘Opium Thebiacum (Somniferum)’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures)”, which will be released on September 20, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed album track ‘Ecstatic Trance’ can still be checked out over here. The complete tracklist of “The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures)” reads like this: ‘Ecstatic Trance’, ‘The Serpent Of Faardal’, ‘Opium Thebiacum (Somniferum)’, ‘Metamorphosis’, ‘Horn Of Colima’, ‘The Psicopompos’, ‘Venus Of Laussel’ and ‘Hypnosis’. www.facebook.com/invocationchile
Finnish Death / Thrashers GATES OPEN will release their new EP “Black Clouds Over The World” on October 04, 2024 via Inverse Records. A lyric video for the second single ‘Preys And Predators’ can already be watched over here. A lyric video for the first single ‘Nightmares Coming True’ is still available at this location. The full “Black Clouds Over The World” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Nightmares Coming True’, ‘Black Clouds Over The World’, ‘Poison Nurse’, ‘Gates Of North’, ‘Preys And Predators’ and ‘Gates Of Rock’. www.facebook.com/gatesopenband
Chicago, Illinois based progressive technical Death Metallers GIGAN will release their new album “Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus” on October 25, 2024 via Willowtip Records on CD, limited edition CD long box, vinyl LP, cassette tape, limited edition four-album cassette boxset and digital formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘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’. The first single and opening track ‘Erratic Pulsitivity And Horror’ can already be streamed at this location. The material was recorded and mixed by Sanford Parker at Palisades Studio and the Hypercube in Chicago, Illinois. It was mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room. The cover artwork was created by Max Winter (Teratogen). www.facebook.com/giganmusic
Romanian Doom / Death Metal quintet UMBERSUN has just released their debut full-length “Endless Winter Nights”. It was self-produced and self-released, mixed by Alexander Backlund and mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/umbersunofficial
On October 21, 2024 Memento Mori, in co-operation with Fucking Kill Records, will release “Sinking Into Filth”, the fourth full-length from German Death Metallers RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The following tracks will be featured: ‘Caverns Of Perdition’, ‘Befouled Commandments’, ‘Awaiting My Demise’, ‘Retreat Into Nothingness’, ‘Aktion 1005’, ‘Ruf Der Leere’, ‘The Sacred Lie’ (DIABOLICAL IMPERIUM cover) and ‘Risen From The Mass Grave’. The cover artwork was created by Lucas Korte. You can already stream ‘Retreat Into Nothingness’ at this location. For more RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER info please visit www.facebook.com/recklessmanslaughter
Polish old school Death Metallers OBSIDIAN MANTRA will release their new album “As We All Will” digitally and as jewelcase CD on September 27, 2024 through Via Nocturna. It was recorded between March and May 2024 and mixed and mastered by Filip Hałucha at Heinrich House Studio (HATE, BEHEMOTH, ENTROPIA, MASACHIST) with additional editing by Mateusz Łukasiewicz. The cover artwork was supplied by Pilar Martínez. A video for the song ‘Cult Of Depression’ can already be watched over here. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘What Is Not, Is Not’, ‘Cult Of Depression’, ‘Slave Without A Master’, ‘Who Will Become A Murderer’, ‘Condemned To Oppression’, ‘Chaos Will Consume Us All’, ‘Sowers Of Discord’ and ‘Weavers Of Misery’. www.facebook.com/obsidianmantra
Tokyo, Japan based Death Metallers DEFILED have just released a video for the title track of their upcoming eighth full-length “Horror Beyond Horror” at this location. It was filmed in March 2024 and edited by Seaside 99 Works. The album will be released on September 20, 2024 via Season Of Mist as digital download, on digipak CD and colored vinyl (crystal clear and transparent green). www.facebook.com/defiled
On September 27, 2024 (Europe) / October 04, 2024 (North America / rest of the world), code666 will release the sophomore full-length from Italy’s Gothic Doom / Death Metallers INVERNOIR, “Aimin’ For Oblivion”. A first track will be revealed on August 30, 2024. Here’s the full tracklist already: ‘Shadow Slave’, ‘Doomed’, ‘Desperate Days’, ‘Forgotten In Time’, ‘Broken’, ‘Few Minutes’, ‘Unworthy’ and ‘Useless’. More INVERNOIR information you will find at www.facebook.com/invernoir
“Sin Querencia”, the third full-length from Chicago’s blackened Death Crust three piece IMMORTAL BIRD, will be released on October 18, 2024 though 20 Buck Spin. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Bioluminescent Toxins’, ‘Plastered Sainthood’, ‘Consanguinity’, ‘Propagandized’, ‘Ocean Endless’, ‘Synthetic Alliances’, ‘Contrarian Companions’ and ‘Sin Querencia’. You can already listen to the first single from the album, ‘Plastered Sainthood’, at this location. The “Sin Querencia” cover artwork was created by Kikyz1313. www.facebook.com/immortalbirdband