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GÖDEN, the spiritual successor of US Doom / Deathers WINTER, have just released a video of ‘Urania’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming new album “Vale Of The Fallen”, which will be released on CD, vinyl LP and digitally via Svart Records on May 17, 2024. www.facebook.com/goden.official
Dutch atmospheric Black Metal solo project WURGILNÕ will release its new album “Krijtland” on June 11, 2024 via Fetzner Death Records on CD, cassette tape and digitally. It was recorded at Het Galgenveld in Sittard, The Netherlands from October 2023 to April 2024, mixed by Wurgilnõ and mastered by Jon Sjolin of Experitone in Sweden. You can already watch a video for the track ‘1928’ over here. For all additional WURGILNÕ info please visit www.facebook.com/wurgilno
“Dark Awakening”, the new album from German melodic Death Metallers IRA TENAX, will be released on June 13, 2024 via MDD Records. It was recorded and produced at Kohlekeller Studio. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Prologue’, ‘Beginning Of The End’, ‘Council Of The Old’, ‘Golden Son’, ‘Fatal Romance’, ‘Path Of Revenge’, ‘Final Betrayal’, ‘Endless Pain’, ‘When Bright Days Turn Black’, ‘Last Endeavor’ and ‘Aftermath’. A lyric video for ‘Path Of Revenge’ can already be watched at this location. More IRA TENAX info you will find at www.facebook.com/iratenaxhanau
On May 24, 2024 Eternal Death Records will release “Plummeting Into The Hour Of The Wolf”, the new EP from American Black Metal quartet BLACK SORCERY, on limited cassette tape format (100 copies) and digitally. It was recorded and mixed at Distorted Forest Studio in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, mastered at Enormous Door Mastering in Austin, Texas and the artwork was created by Derek Setzer & Maegan LeMay. www.facebook.com/blacksorcery93
New York, Bronx based, one-man melodic Death / Thrash band LEGIONARY has just released a lyric video for ‘Question Everything’, the second single from their forthcoming EP “Prison Realm”. You can check it out over here. The EP, that will be released on June 14, 2024, features the following tracks: ‘Question Everything’, ‘Prison Realm’, ‘Neuroweaponry’ and ‘Arcane Divisions (Remake)’. www.facebook.com/legionaryband
Chile based psychedelic Black Metallers KERASFÓRA have just premiered ‘Of Enlightenment And Fall’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Six Nights Beyond The Serpents Threshold”, which will be released on June 14, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed album track ‘Of Serpent And Return’ can still be streamed over here. The complete “Six Nights Beyond The Serpents Threshold” tracklist reads like this: ‘Of Night And Fire’, ‘Of Omniscience And Mystery’, ‘Of Consternation And Ecstasy’, ‘Of Enlightenment And Fall’, ‘Of Darkness And Confusion’ and ‘Of Serpent And Return’. https://kerasfora.bandcamp.com
Siberian brutal Death Metallers GNIDA are streaming their debut full-length “Sacrifice For Resurrection” in its entirety over here now. It was recorded in 2023 at Infernal Records Studio (VOMITOUS MASS, TSAVER, HELLCORD) and mixed and mastered at Infernal Records Studio in Siberia. The cover artwork was created by Ungodly Ruins Design. Guest vocals were contributed by Clayton Meade (CONDEMNED), Atur Ryabov (SEPTICOPYEMIA) and Decomposition (ENTRAILS). “Sacrifice For Resurrection” was released on January 10, 2024 on all popular streaming platforms and physically on tape and CD via Heretic Impalement Records. www.facebook.com/gnida.dm
“Succumb Into Madness”, the third full-length from Finnish Death / Grind trio NAPALM TED, was released on May 10, 2024 on cassette tape by Mögähead and later on CD by Surrogate Records. You can stream the album at https://napalmted.bandcamp.com
On May 10, 2024 Peruvian Black Metal solo project CULMEN has released a 6-track EP entitled “De Un Soplo La Creación” on CD via From Deepest Records. It was recorded between 2022 and 2023 and mixed and mastered at Unholy Light Studio. The cover artwork was created by Dany Cuentas. A full EP stream is available at this location. More CULMEN music you will find at https://culmen.bandcamp.com
Denver, Colorado based technical Death Metallers VALE OF PNATH have just released a video for ‘Silent Prayers’ over here. The track is featured on the band’s upcoming album “Between The Worlds Of Life And Death”, which will be released on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats on May 24, 2024 via Willowtip Records. VALE OF PNATH are on the road in the U.S. this month with co-headliners ABIGAIL WILLIAMS and special guests SUMMONING THE LICH. www.facebook.com/valeofpnathco
Lithuanian blackened Speed Metallers NIGHT SLASHER have released their self-titled debut full-length in January of 2024. A full album stream of it you will find at this location now. A video for the track ‘Pit Of Hate’ is available over here and a pro-shot full live video, “Live In Vilnius 2024”, you can additionally watch here. More about NIGHT SLASHER at www.facebook.com/nightslasherofficial
Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release of compilation of Swedish Black / Thrashers NIFELHEIM entitled “Unholy Death” on CD, cassette tape and vinyl LP formats. The tape version will be released on June 06, 2024, while the CD and vinyl versions will be available on July 04, 2024. Apart of the four songs from the “Unholy Death” demo tape, this compilation features four other original songs, two intros and two covers (MOTÖRHEAD and BATHORY) from the same recording session. The tracks were remixed from the original master tapes by Hellbutcher in 2024 and mastered by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony in February 2024. A very in-depth interview with Tyrant and Hellbutcher about the early days of the band is also featured in the booklet. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro’, ‘Black Curse’, ‘Unholy Death’, ‘Satanic Sacrifice’, ‘Dawn Of The Dark Millennium’, ‘Witchfuck’, ‘Sodomizer’, ‘Possessed By Evil’, ‘The Devastation’, ‘Fuck Off’, ‘Mean Machine’ and ‘Reaper’. You can already check out the title track at this location. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/darknessshallriseproductions
Swiss technical Death Metallers ADELON will release their debut EP “Resurgence” on June 21, 2024 on all main digital streaming platforms. It was co-produced, mixed and mastered by Alex Sedin at Ghostalgy Prods. The artwork was created by Quentin Landolt & Midjourney. “Resurgence” will feature the following four tracks: ‘Fleshless Vertebrae’, ‘Monisme’, ‘Crimson Luminescence’ and ‘Cycles’. www.facebook.com/adelonband
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE have just released another single from their upcoming 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. You can watch a lyric video for ‘Remote Control’ at this location. The previously revealed single ‘A.I. Supremacy’ can still be streamed over here. More about HOLYCIDE at www.holycide.com
The full 20-minute version of ‘Nebular Collapse: The Dissolution Of Order And Meaning’, the new song from Michigan based Black Metallers LANZERRATH, is now streaming at this location. It is featured on the band’s split release with SHROUD OF DESPONDENCY, which will be released via Northern Spire Productions today. https://lanzerrath.bandcamp.com
Romanian Black Metallers WARHYMN have just released a video for the track ‘Originea’ at this location. It was originally featured on the band’s debut album “Gnosis” from 2020, but has now been re-recorded with a full line-up, produced by Andrei Alexandru Bogdan at Grand Way Studios. This new version will be featured on the upcoming WARHYMN EP “Occult Fire”, which will be released in late 2024 via Loud Rage Music. www.facebook.com/warhymn.official
Costa Rican Industrial Black Metal project DUSK has just released a video for ‘Industrie IV’ over here. The track will appear on their upcoming new album “Industrie”, which will be released on May 31, 2024. You can check out additional selections from “Industrie” at this location. Previous DUSK releases can be streamed at duskvt.bandcamp.com. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/duskvt
On July 26, 2024 Dying Victims Productions will release “From Gravel To Grave”, the debut full-length from Austria’s blackened Speed Metallers DEATH RACER, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The track ‘Nordschleife’ can already be checked out at this location. The complete “From Gravel To Grave” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Motormentor’, ‘Nordschleife’, ‘Inverted Crossroads’, ‘C.F.S.O.D.C’, ‘Imola ’94 (From Gravel To Grave)’, ‘Racers Of Death’, ‘Traumatized In Traffic Jam Ejection’ and ‘S.M. Death Worship’. You can follow DEATH RACER at www.facebook.com/deathracerspeedmetal
Washington, D.C. based Thrashers DESOLUS are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “System Shock” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on May 10, 2024 via Hells Headbangers. The band will be touring the US and Canada with SPITER from late May to late June. For more information and regular updates please visit www.facebook.com/desolusdmv
Indian Death Metal quartet MORAL PUTREFACTION has just released a video for their latest single ‘Divided’ at this location. The track will be featured on their upcoming self-titled debut full-length, which will be digitally self-released by the band on May, 24, 2024. A lyric video for the previously released single ‘Serpent’s Gaze’ can still be watched over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads like this: ‘Divided’, ‘Serpent’s Gaze’, ‘Colonial Genocide’, ‘Scum Of The Earth’, ‘Divine Retribution’, ‘Sins Of Our Fathers’ and ‘Beneath Saffron Skies’. www.facebook.com/moralputrefaction
Greek Black Metallers FUNERAL STORM are streaming their upcoming sophomore full-length “Chthonic Invocations” in its entirety right here now. It will be released on May 10, 2024 via Hells Headbangers. The cover artwork was created by Markus Vesper (DENIAL OF GOD, MANILLA ROAD, ATTIC). www.facebook.com/funeralstorm666
Portuguese blackened Death / Thrash / Punk band SPITGOD has just released a video for ‘You Know It’s Coming’ at this location. The track is featured on the band’s upcoming new EP “Through Life ‘Till Death”, which will be released on May 24, 2024 via Gruesome Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Hugo Ferrão at Studio Lote 71. www.facebook.com/spitgod
Dutch brutal Death Metallers SEVERE TORTURE have just released ‘The Pinnacle Of Suffering’, a track from their upcoming new full-length “Torn From The Jaws Of Death”, over here. The album will be released on June 07, 2024 via Season Of Mist. www.facebook.com/severetorture
Italy’s depressive Black / Doom Metallers FORGOTTEN TOMB will release their eleventh full-length “Nightfloating” on July 12, 2024 via Agonia Records on jewelcase CD, box CD, cassette tape and vinyl LP (different colors). A video for the album’s title track can already be watched at this location. “Nightfloating” was recorded at Elfo Studio in Italy between August 2023 and January 2024, and produced by Daniele Mandelli and FORGOTTEN TOMB. Daniele Mandelli, Ferdinando Marchisio and Alessandro Comerio mixed the album. Davide Tavecchia mastered it at Twilight Studio in February 2024. The cover artwork has been hand-drawn by Greek artist Satta La Main Verte. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Nightfloating’, ‘A Chill That You Can’t Taint’, ‘This Sickness Withered My Heart’, ‘Unsafe Spaces’, ‘Drifting’ and ‘A Despicable Gift’. www.facebook.com/official.forgotten.tomb
German Black Metal Duo ALASTETH has just released a video for ‘Faded Glory’ at this location. The track is featured on their debut full-length “The Nihilism Of Alasteth”, which was released in October 2023 via Schwarzdorn Production. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘The Return (Of The Ancient Gods)’, ‘The Nihilism Of Alasteth’, ‘V.O.I.D. (Visions Of Impenetrable Darkness)’, ‘Forever Forlorn’, ‘Henchmen Of Perverted Devotion’ and ‘Faded Glory’. The CD edition additionally features the two bonus tracks ‘Durch Den Tiefen Wald (Alasteth’s Zarathustra Remake)’ and ‘…Still Wandering’. www.facebook.com/alastethblackmetal
Polish progressive Death Metal project INRAE (featuring Krzysztof Klingbein of BELPHEGOR on drums) has just revealed a full stream of their debut full-length “Will Made Flesh” over here. The album consists of four extended, original songs and a cover of DEPECHE MODE, arranged according to the atmosphere and style of the album. The music was mixed and mastered by Piotr Polak at Dobra 12 Studio (DARZAMAT, VADER, UKĆ) and the cover artwork was created by Natalia Nowacka from Extinct Sacrif (VALKENRAG, ANTIFLESH). www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556590915651
On June 06, 2024 Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release “Darkness Falls (The Early Years)”, a compilation of Swedish melodic Death Metallers DESULTORY, on CD and three-tape box. The vinyl edition will be released on July 04, 2024. It will feature the band’s three demos “From Beyond” (1990), “Death Unfolds” (1991) and “Visions” (1992). A long interview with Klas Morberg was specially conducted for this demo compilation. A full compilation stream is available at this location. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/darknessshallriseproductions
UK based progressive Black Metallers AKLASH have just released a video for ‘Babylon’ over here. The song will be featured on their upcoming fourth full-length “Reincarnation”, which will be digitally self-released in June. www.facebook.com/aklashmusic
Norwegian Death Metallers OKULAR will release their third full-length “Regenerate” on June 07, 2024 via Regenerative Productions. It is the band’s first release since 2013’s “Sexforce”. All additional info you will find at www.facebook.com/okularmetal
Nürnberg based Death Metal duo ANDABATA has just released their new EP “Hirnfresser” on CD. The band is around since 1997 and has already released 4 CDs. They don’t use any guitars, just bass, drums and vocals. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/andabata
“The Blaze Of Abaddon”, the fourth full-length of Minneapolis based blackened Death Metallers GRAND DEMISE OF CIVILIZATION, will be released on June 04, 2024 via Ordovician Records on CD, cassette tape and digital formats. It was recorded from September 2021 – March 2024 at Silent Water Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota and engineered, mixed and mastered by Dan Lerach. The cover art was created by Belial Necroarts. “The Blaze Of Abaddon” will feature the following tracks: ‘Redeemer Of Wrath’, ‘Cathedral Reaper’, ‘Silencer’, ‘Nephilm’, ‘North To Hell’ and ‘The Consequence’. A lyric video for the album’s first single ‘Silencer’, is available at this location now. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063570482754
Norwegian Black Metallers 1349 have just released a new track entitled ‘Ash Of Ages’ over here. The band will be touring across Eastern Canada and the U.S. this May with SPECTRAL WOUND, SIEGE MACHINE and SPIRIT POSSESSION. The track will be available on a vinyl 12″, which will be sold at the 11 shows on that tour. www.facebook.com/1349official
Indian Death / Thrashers GODLESS have just released a video for ‘Amorphous Mass’ over here. The track was recorded by Abbas Razvi and mixed and mastered by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios. www.facebook.com/godlessindia
Michigan based progressive Thrash Metal Project KAPTAIN KOLLNOT has just released the track ‘Mankinds’, featuring Stu Block (INTO ETERNITY, ICED EARTH) on vocals, at this location. It will be featured on the project’s upcoming debut full-length “The Aquarius Shift”, which will be released in late 2024 / early 2025. KAPTAIN KOLLNOT is the solo project of West Michigan musician Jeff Kollnot. He started the project in 2019. In that time he has released a full-length and an EP. The “Future Human” EP was the first to feature former ICED EARTH and current INTO ETERNITY vocalist, Stu Block. www.facebook.com/people/kaptain-kollnot/100034850624433
Ankara, Turkey based technical old school Death Metallers SUICIDE have just released a new EP entitled “Deliberate Delusion”. You can check it out over here. More about SUICIDE at www.facebook.com/suicide.ankara
On May 07, 2024 Haloran Records will release “Antologia 1997-2024”, a compilation from Portuguese Black Metal one man band GRIEVANCE. It features the two demos “Por Entre A Escuridão Outonal” (1997) and “The New Millenium Sessions” (2007) plus five unreleased tracks. The compilation will be available on digipak CD, limited to 200 copies. You can check out the track ‘Os Rostos De Belmez’ at this location. More about GRIEVANCE at www.facebook.com/grievanceblackmetal
On July 05, 2024 Abstract Emotions will release “Hybris”, the new mini album from Madrid, Spain based INERTH, on 12″ vinyl format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Midlife Wasteland’, ‘Oblivion’, ‘Fentanyl’ and ‘A.I.’. You can already check out the opener at the band’s Bandcamp site. INERTH’s style has been described as an “amalgam of harsh-but-pondering music designed to reflect a lifelong passion for sounds ranging from Death Metal to Sludge as well as incorporating doomed and industrial soundscapes”, with influences from GODFLESH, NAPALM DEATH, NEUROSIS, CELTIC FROST, AMEBIX and KILLING JOKE.
Slovakian blackened Death Metallers CEREMONY OF SILENCE will release their sophomore full-length “Hálios” on July 19, 2024 via Willowtip Records. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Primaeval Sacrifice’, ‘Serpent Slayer’, ‘Moon Vessel’, ‘Eternal Return’, ‘Light Runs Through Light’, ‘Perennial Incantation’ and ‘King In The Mountain’. A video for the album’s first single ‘Serpent Slayer’ can already be watched at this location. The “Hálios” cover artwork was created by Matúš S. Durcík. www.facebook.com/ceremonyofsilence