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San Antonio, Texas based melodic thrashy Death Metallers MYTHOLOGIK have just released a video for ‘Lord Death’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Blood In The Sky”, which will be self-released on June 14, 2024. It was recorded, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Bryan Eckermann at Bonespill Studios. Here’s the complete “Blood In The Sky” tracklist: ‘Blood In The Sky’, ‘Lord Death’, ‘Scorched Earth’, ‘Fallen Empire’, ‘Satanael’, ‘Disease Of The Soul’, ‘Dark Waters’, ‘Purgatorium’ and ‘Epilogue’. www.facebook.com/mythologiktx
French Death Metallers AD PATRES have just released a new single entitled ‘Deserter’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming new album “Unbreathable”, which will be released on June 07, 2024 via Non Serviam Records on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Intro’, ‘The Dream Chaser’, ‘Versus’, ‘Deserter’, ‘Exodus’, ‘Interlude’, ‘Chapter X’, ‘The Medium’, ‘Rebellion Grief’ and ‘Deus Deceptor’. The cover artwork was created by Yohan “Haash” Hühner. www.facebook.com/adpatres
Canadian Death Metallers DUSKWALKER have just released a new song entitled ‘City On A Cemetery’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full-length “Underground Forever”, which will be released via Black Lion Records on July 26, 2024. It was recorded by John Robinson at Castle Tracula and mixed and mastered By Marko Tervonen. The album’s first single ‘Crippled At The Core’ can still be checked out at this location. The complete “Underground Forever” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Crippled At The Core’, ‘The Loss’, ‘Never Going Back’, ‘Underground Forever’, ‘City On A Cemetery’, ‘Posing Corpses’, ‘Artillery Communion’, ‘Vanquisher’, ‘Blasted Past Extinction’ and ‘Inhaling The Dust Of Bone’. www.facebook.com/duskwalkerofficial
“The Anus Of The World”, the debut full-length from Los Angeles based Death Metallers MORTAL WOUND, is out now via Dark Descent Records on CD, cassette tape and digital formats, with Me Saco Un Ojo Records handling the vinyl edition and additional cassette orders. A full album stream is available over here. More about MORTAL WOUND at www.instagram.com/mortalwound_death or https://mortalwound.bandcamp.com
Philadelphia based CATHARI have just released their four-track EP “It Will Hurt The Entire Time You Are Alive”, their first studio offering since transitioning into Noisecore from Doom Metal. The EP is available on cassette tapes and digitally. You can stream it in its entirety at this location. For all additional CATHARI information please visit www.facebook.com/catharipa
One-Man technical Death Metal band ASHES OF MOMENTS PERISHED has just released a stand-alone single entitled ‘Clairvoyant Evanesce’, which you can check out over here. For more ASHES OF MOMENTS PERISHED information go to www.facebook.com/@ashes.of.moments.perished
Ukrainian Black Metallers WINDSWEPT have just revealed the track ‘Verbrannte Brücken’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s new mini album “Der Eine, Wahre König”, which will be released on June 21, 2024 via Primitive Reaction. The previously revealed ‘Jedes Todes Lohn’ can still be streamed over here. The four-song EP features two vocalists: Winterherr of PAYSAGE D’ HIVER and Meilenwald of RUINS OF BEVERAST. Its complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Verbrannte Brücken’, ‘Die Bürde Der Erinnerungen’, ‘Drangsal’ und ‘Jedes Todes Lohn’. www.facebook.com/windsweptukraine
On May 31, 2024 Osmose Productions will release “We Are God”, the third full-length from Germany’s TSATTHOGGUA, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The material was recorded and mixed at Rambado recording studio, mastered by D. Koehne and the artwork was created by MorphArts. The following tracks will be featured on “We Are God”: ‘Master Morality’, ‘Vorwärts Vernichter’, ‘The Doom-Scrawl Of Taran-Ish’, ‘I Drive My Dogs (To Thule)’, ‘True Black Love’, ‘No Paradise For Human Sheep’, ‘Gloria Extasia’, ‘We Are God’ and ‘Pechmarie’. A video for the album opener ‘Master Morality’ you can already watch over here. TSATTHOGGUA have reunited after more than 20 years in the original line-up of the band. www.facebook.com/official.tsatthoggua
VENOM INC.‘s Jeff “Mantas” Dunn had suffered a heart attack on the morning of April 17, 2024. An angiogram revealed issues with two valves, leading to the immediate placement of two stents. The swift response from medical professionals at Abrantes UCIC and later in Lisbon ensured he received the necessary care promptly. Jeff is now recuperating at home, but his road to recovery will be long, and he will be unable to perform live for the foreseeable future. A campaign to support his medical expenses and recovery process was launched. So, if you can help him in any way, go to https://gofund.me/e50708cd. Every donation, no matter the size, will significantly aid Jeff’s journey back to health.
Swiss technical Death Metallers ADELON have just released a lyric video for the track ‘Crimson Luminescence’ at this location. The song is featured on the band’s debut EP “Resurgence”, which will be released on June 21, 2024. It was co-produced, mixed and mastered by Alex Sedin at Ghostalgy Prods. www.facebook.com/adelonband
“Maanelyst”, the debut EP from Norwegian Black Metallers YR, will be released on June 21, 2024, via Hellstain Productions on digipak CD and digitally. It was mixed and mastered by Hugo Alvarstein (GOD DETHRONED, NOCTURNAL BREED, CHROME DIVISION) and the cover artwork was created by Necrolust Productions (KAMPFAR, WHOREDOM RIFE, BLACK ALTAR). “Maanelyst” will feature the following tracks: ‘Doed Og Begravet’, ‘Kvessa Tunger’, ‘Nidhogg’, ‘Stormtatt’ and ‘Offernatt’. You can check out a live version of ‘Nidhogg’ over here. More about YR at www.facebook.com/yrband666
Chicago’s brutal Death Metallers CARRION THRONE have just released the latest single off their upcoming EP “The Feast Of Human Vices”. You can check out a visualizer video for ‘Mazoku Mao’ at this location. The EP will be out on May 31, 2024 via Lacerated Enemy Records. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Misanthropic’, ‘Dark Atavism’, ‘Mazoku Mao’, ‘The Feast Of Human Vices’, ‘Descending Firmament’ (Promo 2022 – bonus track) and ‘Sinning Tree’ (Promo 2022 – bonus track). www.facebook.com/carrionthronedeath
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just released an animated video for ‘Lie Is The New Truth’ over here. The song will be featured on the band’s third full-length “Towards Idiocracy”, which will be released on June 06, 2024 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. www.holycide.com
Greek melodic Black Metallers WINTER ETERNAL have just premiered the track ‘Echoes Of Primordial Gnosis’ at this location. It is the title track of the band’s upcoming fourth full-length, which will be released on June 28, 2024 via Hells Headbangers. The previously revealed album tracks ‘The Serpent’s Curse’ and ‘Two Heavens As One’ can still be streamed here and here. More about WINTER ETERNAL at www.facebook.com/wintereternalband
On July 05, 2024 Soulseller Records will release the self-titled debut full-length from Norway’s Black Metallers STEINRAS on vinyl LP, CD and digitally. The first single ‘En Kald Død’, featuring Skagg (DEATHCULT, GAAHLSKAGG, ex – TAAKE) on vocals, is already available at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘En Kald Død (feat. Skagg)’, ‘Djevelen I Minnet’ (feat. Doedsadmiral), ‘Timeglasset (feat. V’gandr)’, ‘Crawler Of The Crypt (feat. Stud Bronson)’, ‘Sands Of Time (feat. Thomas S. Øvstedal and Roger Olsen)’, ‘Sin Egen Ild (feat. Dolgar)’, ‘Livsdans Og Dødsønske (feat. Stig Ese)’, ‘Titus Satanicus (feat. Thomas Eriksen)’, ‘Dødt (feat. Nag)’ and ‘Satanic Fate (feat. Lars ‘Balfori’ Larsen)’. The cover artwork and logo was created by Jannicke Wiese-Hansen. www.facebook.com/p/steinras-100041676165742
Swedish Death Metallers OPEN SURGERY will release their new EP “Absolute Destruction” on July 19, 2024 via BVR Records. You can already stream the single ‘Ceremonial Collector Of Skulls’ over here. For all further info please visit OPEN SURGERY at www.facebook.com/opensurgery
“Contagion Zero”, the seventh full-length of Danish Black Metallers HORNED ALMIGHTY, will be released on July 05, 2024 on vinyl LP, CD and digitally via Soulseller Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Hop House Studios in late 2023 with producer Andreas Linnemann. The artwork was created by Belial Necroarts. A first track entitled ‘Ascension Of Fever and Plague’ can already be checked out at this location. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘The Messiah Scourge’, ‘Gospels Of Sickness’, ‘Vermin On The Mount’, ‘Ascension Of Fever And Plague’, ‘Furnace Of Sulphur And Fire’, ‘Darken The World’ and ‘Epilogue… Of Hades And Of Death’. You can follow HORNED ALMIGHTY at www.facebook.com/hornedalmighty
Vancouver, Canada based Death Metallers REVERSED are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Wildly Possessed” in its entirety at this location now. The album was recorded at Fiasco Bros. Studios and mixed and mastered by Marco S. Vermiglio at The Forge Music Productions. It will be released on May 24, 2024 via Invictus Productions. The previously revealed video for the album track ‘Final Death’ can still be watched over here. More about REVERSED at www.facebook.com/reversedmetalofdeath
On May 24, 2024 Amor Fati Productions will release “Metempsychosis”, the fifth full-length from Belgian Black Metallers CULT OF ERINYES, on CD and vinyl LP formats. A full album stream you will find over here. For all additional CULT OF ERINYES information please visit www.facebook.com/cult.erinyes
Finnish Death / Grinders I, CURSED have just released a lyric video for their new single ‘Blades’ at this location. The single is part of the band’s new “Death Holograms” EP, which will be released in July 2024. The EP was produced by I, CURSED and Jerkka Perälä of Soft Neon Audiovisual. It will be released via Inverse Records in co-operation with Meara Music. www.facebook.com/i.cursed.grind
Polish Death Metallers DISLOYAL have just released a new single off their upcoming fifth full-length “Divine Miasmata”. You can watch a lyric video for ‘Betrayed Faith’ over here. The album was recorded at Monroe Sound Studio and engineered, mixed and mastered by Arkadiusz “Aro” Jablonski. It was produced by Arkadiusz “Aro” Jablonski and DISLOYAL. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Divine Miasmata’, ‘Silent Revolution’, ‘The Black Pope’, ‘1347-1352’, ‘Stella Peccatorum’, ‘Betrayed Faith’, ‘Religion Of Warfare’, ‘Ravens Of Starvation’ and ‘The Ascension Of Abaddon’. “Divine Miasmata” will be out on July 12, 2024 via Black Lion Records. www.facebook.com/disloyalband
American Death Metallers MASSACRE have just finished recording the band’s fifth full-length (the first for Agonia Records). It will be released in the second half of 2024. The material will be mixed and mastered at Studio Unbound in Sweden, with former MASSACRE member Jonny Pettersson behind the console. The recording line-up comprises of Kam Lee on vocals, original MASSACRE bassist Mike Borders, returning guitarists Rogga Johansson (PAGANIZER, RIB SPREADER, MEGASCAVANGER) and Jonny Pettersson (WOMBBATH, HEADS FOR THE DEAD) and new drummer Jon Rudin (JUST BEFORE DAWN, HEADS FOR THE DEAD, DEHUMANAUT). www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550812858461
Indiana based old school thrashing Death Metallers ASSIMILATOR will release their debut EP “Expelled Into Suffering” via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on June 21, 2024 on CD and digital formats. You can already listen to the single ‘I Am’ at this location. The full “Expelled Into Suffering” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Expelled Into Suffering’, ‘Nocturnal Forge’, ‘Changeling’ and ‘I Am’. www.facebook.com/assimilatormetal
Germany’s blackened Speed Metal Punks LUCIFUGE are streaming their upcoming sixth full-length “Hexensabbat” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on May 24, 2024 via Dying Victims Productions. www.facebook.com/lucifugeblackmetal
On July 19, 2024 AOP Records will release “III”, the third full-length of German Black Metallers UPRISING, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Eternal Mantra’, ‘Uprise III’, ‘Raise A Glass’, ‘A Message To The Hypocrites’, ‘While The World Is Burning’ and ‘Brace Yourself’. You can already check out the album opener ‘Eternal Mantra’ at this location. The cover artwork was created by Misanthropic Art. UPRISING was founded in 2016 by W. – a founding member of WALDGEFLÜSTER. www.facebook.com/uprisingblackmetal
‘Nephilim’, the second single from the upcoming fourth GRAND DEMISE OF CIVILIZATION full-length “The Blaze Of Abaddon”, has just been revealed over here. The album will be released on June 04, 2024 via Ordovician Records on CD, cassette tape and digital formats. The cover art was created by Belial Necroarts. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Redeemer Of Wrath’, ‘Cathedral Reaper’, ‘Silencer’, ‘Nephilim’, ‘North To Hell’ and ‘The Consequence’. A lyric video for the first single ‘Silencer’ is available at this location. GRAND DEMISE OF CIVILIZATION is a blackened Death Metal from Minnesota. They released their debut full-length “Black Goat Apocalypse” in 2009, followed by “Repent Of The Sentient Being” in 2013 and “Below The Feet Of Kings” in 2019. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063570482754
“Magna Pestilencia”, the debut full-length from Swedish Death Metallers ABYSMAL WINDS, will be released on June 21, 2024 via I Hate Records on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. A first track, ‘Obliteration’, is already available for streaming over here. The complete “Magna Pestilencia” tracklist reads like this: ‘Incantation (Intro)’, ‘Sacrilegious’, ‘Obliteration’, ‘Blood Prison’, ‘World Cadaver’, ‘A Slumbering God’, ‘Ivory Tomb’, ‘Horrid Visions’ and ‘Magna Pestilencia’. www.facebook.com/abysmalwinds
On July 22, 2024 Memento Mori will release “The Non-Return”, the sophomore full-length from Málaga based old school Death Metallers KRYPTICY, on CD format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Infected Pharaoh’, ‘Hypatia’s Heresy’, ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, ‘The Void’, ‘The Water Street Butcher’, ‘UGH!’, ‘Krypticy’ and ‘Virgins Recently Fucked Sacrifice’. You can already check out ‘Hypatia’s Heresy’ at this location. The cover artwork for “The Non-Return” was created by Cardaver Art. www.facebook.com/krypticy
Norwegian Black Metallers MALUM will release their debut full-length “In Nauseam” on June 06, 2024 via Hellstain Productions on CD. The album was already released digitally on October 06, 2023. It was produced by Doedsprofet, mixed by Anders Gjelsvik and mastered by Hugo Alvarstein (NORDJEVEL, THUNDERBOLT). The cover artwork was created by Den Unge Herr Holm and Solfall. A full album stream is available over here. For more MALUM, please visit www.instagram.com/norwegian_malum
On July 22, 2024 Memento Mori, in co-operation with Godz Ov War Productions, will release “Waking Nightmares Of An Endless Void”, the sophomore full-length of Spanish Death Metallers INTOLERANCE. Memento Mori will release the CD version, while Godz Ov War will release the vinyl and cassette tape versions. You can already stream the album track ‘Fade Into Oblivion’ at this location. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Towards Perdition’, ‘Fade Into Oblivion’, ‘The Dark Forest’, ‘Rite Of Passage’, ‘Hand Of Glory’, ‘Devourer Of Worlds’, ‘Spontaneous Self-Awareness Of The Void’ and ‘Melting Skies’. The cover artwork was created by Juan Alberto Hernandez. www.facebook.com/intolerancedeathmetal
“Plummeting Into The Hour Of The Wolf”, the new EP from American Black Metal quartet BLACK SORCERY, will be released on cassette tape format via Eternal Death on May 24, 2024. A full stream of it you will already find over here. The cover artwork was supplied by Derek Setzer and Maegan Lemay. https://blacksorcery93.bandcamp.com
Danish / Turkish Death Metallers HYPERDONTIA will release their third full-length “Harvest Of Malevolence” on June 21, 2024 via Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records. The album will be available on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Desiccated Records will offer an alternative cassette version. A stream of the album opener ‘Death’s Embrace’ is already available at this location. More about HYPERDONTIA at www.facebook.com/hyperdontia
Yonkers, New York based brutal technical Death Metallers MALIGNANCY have just released ‘Biological Absurdity’, the second single from their upcoming fifth full-length “…Discontinued”. You can check it out over here. The album will be released on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats on June 14, 2024 via Willowtip Records. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Existential Dread’, ‘Binary Paradigm’, ‘Irradiated Miscreation’, ‘Purity Of Purpose’, ‘Ancillary Biorhythms’, ‘Haunted Symmetry’, ‘Decomposing Divinity’, ‘Oppositional Defiance’ and ‘Biological Absurdity’. www.facebook.com/malignancyofficial
German symphonic Black Metal one-man band SUFFERING SOULS (featuring multi-instrumentalist Tobias “Lord Esgaroth”) has just revealed a video for ‘A Touch Of Evil Kindness’ at this location. The song is taken from the upcoming fifth SUFFERING SOULS full-length “An Iconic Taste Of Demise”, which will be released on May 31, 2024 via Satanath Records and Fetzner Death Records. It contains ten songs, including an 8-minute symphonic bonus track, which will initially be released as a CD / digipak and later as an LP version. The material was recorded at Hertz Studio in Poland. The drums were played by Michiel van der Plicht (PESTILENCE). www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063490099366
Hessian Firm has just released “Scathed Gaping Misery”, a compilation from defunct Canadian Black Metal duo TRAILS OF ANGUISH. It consists of all tracks from the band’s EPs “Relentless Abhorrence Of Misery’s Grievance” (2001) and “Scarred Memento” (2003). Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Beyond Charismatic Sickness’, ‘The Scythe Of Engrieved Melancholia’, ‘Laments Of Martyrised Innocence’, ‘Reaping Life’s Frailty’, ‘…And Desolated Trails Of Anguish’, ‘Useless (The Final Soliloquy)’, ‘Haunting’, ‘Spectral Life Scars’, ‘Scathed, Gaping Misery’ and ‘Rebirth’. www.facebook.com/trailsofanguish.official
Indiana based Progressive Thrashers IDOL THRONE have just released a lyric video for their new single ‘Petrified’ over here. The track is taken from their upcoming album “A Clarion Call”, which will be released on May 31, 2024 via Stormspell Records. www.facebook.com/idolthrone
Nashville based Black Metallers LENAX have just released a symphonic version of their song ‘Beneath The Chapel’ at this location. The track originally appeared on the band’s 2023 EP “Purity”. It was recorded at Blood Mage Studio, mixed and mastered by Ilarion Ivanenko and the artwork was created by Katana Jae. www.facebook.com/lenaxmetal
On July 26, 2024 AOP Records will release “Age Of Unreason”, the fifth full-length from Basel, Switzerland based Black Metallers COLDCELL, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Hope And Failure’, ‘Dead To The World’, ‘Left’, ‘Solidarity Or Solitude’, ‘Meaningless feat. INEZONA’, ‘Sink Our Souls’ and ‘Discord’. You can already check out ‘Dead To The World’ over here. The cover artwork was created by Gian Andrea Signorell. www.facebook.com/coldcellofficial
Female fronted US Black Metallers HULDER have just revealed a live video for the title track of their sophomore full-length “Verses In Oath” at this location. The album has been released earlier this year via 20 Buck Spin. A full stream of it is available over here. HULDER will be on tour in Europe from June 19, 2024 to July 06, 2024. For more info and regular updates please make sure to follow the band at www.facebook.com/hulderus
Berlin, Germany based Thrashers DEIMOS’ DAWN went to the studio with frontman Marc Grewe earlier this year to record a few new songs. As a foretaste of these recordings, the track ‘God Of Pain’ has now been released as a digital single, as well as a video, which you can watch over here. The band is currently working on the possibility to release the songs on vinyl later this year. www.facebook.com/deimosdawn
American brutal Death Metallers PATHOLOGY are streaming their upcoming twelfth full-length “Unholy Descent” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released via Agonia Records today. www.facebook.com/pathologymusic
Finnish Black Metallers CURSE UPON A PRAYER will release their fourth full-length “The Worship: Orthoprax Satanism” on July 26, 2024. The CD version will be released via The Cursed Order, the vinyl version via Folter Records and the cassette tape via Korpituli Productions. The first single ‘Black Venus Erotica’ can already be checked out over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Ortopraxia’, ‘Cunt God’, ‘Sulfurserpent’, ‘Blood Poetry’, ‘A Heav’n Of Hell’, ‘I Enthrone You’, ‘Black Venus Erotica’, ‘He That Eateth My Flesh’, ‘The Worship I: Patior’ and ‘The Worship II: Ignis’. www.facebook.com/curseuponaprayer
Soulseller Records have signed Danish Black Metallers HORNED ALMIGHTY and Norwegian Black Metal project STEINRAS. More info, album details (both will be released on July 05, 2024), and first singles will follow on May 23, 2024. HORNED ALMIGHTY will release their seventh full-length “Contagion Zero” and STEINRAS their self-titled debut through the label. For more info and updates please visit www.facebook.com/soulsellerrecords or www.facebook.com/hornedalmighty
Finnish melodic Death Metallers HAGALAS have just released ‘Hope Is A Lie’, the third single from their upcoming debut full-length “Mentes Reae”, which will be released on May 31, 2024 via Inverse Records. You can check out a video for the song at this location. More band information you will find at www.facebook.com/hagalasofficial
Chicago based Death Metallers CARDIAC ARREST are streaming their upcoming eighth full-length “The Stench Of Eternity” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on May 17, 2024 via Hells Headbangers on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow on June 14, 2024. www.facebook.com/cardiacarrestdeathmetal