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Canadian technical Death Metallers SENTIMENT DISSOLVE will release their debut full-length “The Orwellian Dream” on May 24, 2024 via CDN Records. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Forced Birther’, ‘Totalitarian Doctrine’, ‘Transcending The Hierarchy Of Knowledge’, ‘Omnipotent Panopticon’ and ‘The Orwellian Dream’. You can already watch a lyric video for the album opener ‘Forced Birther’ at this location. A video for ‘Omnipotent Panopticon’ is additionally available over here. More SENTIMENT DISSOLVE information you will find at www.facebook.com/sentimentdissolve
Reanimated Horror Metallers THE LURKING CORSPES have just premiered the track ‘Satan Is Real’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “Lurking After Midnight”, which will be released on May 24, 2024 via Hells Headbangers on CD format. The vinyl LP will follow later. The previously revealed ‘Murder Sweet Murder’ can still be checked out over here. The complete “Lurking After Midnight” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Lurking After Midnight’, ‘Boglin Lips’, ‘Burned Alive’, ‘When You’re Dead’, ‘Funeral Home’, ‘Black Dahlia’, ‘A Gruesome Find’, ‘Lost In Shadows’, ‘Murder Sweet Murder’, ‘Baby Hold On’, ‘Satan Is Real’, ‘This Night With You’, ‘The Begotten’, ‘Heartbreak’ and ‘My Sweet Lenore’. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027116481101
Darkness Shall Rise Productions will release the self-titled sophomore full-length from German Black Metallers AZKETEM on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The CD and tape versions will be released on June 06, 2024, while the vinyl version will be released on July 04, 2024. A full album stream is already available over here. For more AZKETEM information please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100030921802437
Finnish technical Death Metallers OMNIVORTEX have just released a video for ‘Harbingers Of Cosmic Death’ at this location. The track is featured on the band’s sophomore full-length “Circulate” which was released last autumn via Inverse Records. www.facebook.com/omnivortexofficial
Chicago based blackened Death Metallers OSSILEGIUM are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “The Gods Below” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on May 03, 2024 via Personal Records. www.facebook.com/ossilegium.666
Canada’s Black / Death Metal three-piece ADVERSARIAL has just released ‘Hatred Kiln Of Vengeance’, a track off their upcoming third full-length “Solitude With The Eternal”, at this location. The album will be out on May 31, 2024 on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats via Dark Descent Records. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Beware The Howling Darkness On Thine Left Shoulder’, ‘Hatred Kiln Of Vengeance’, ‘Witness To The Eternal Light’, ‘Death Is An Advisor In The Woods Of The Devil’, ‘Crushed Into The Kingdom Of Darkness’, ‘Merging Within The Destroyer’, ‘Fanes At The Engur’ and ‘Endless Maze Of Blackest Dominion’. It was recorded and mixed by Vadim Balanyuk and mastered by Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower Studios. The artwork was created by Nekronikon. www.facebook.com/adversarialofficial
Canadian Black Metal trio LIMINAL SHROUD will release their third full-length “Visions Of Collapse” on July 05, 2024 on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The album’s first single, ‘Nucleonic Blight’, can already be checked out over here. The complete “Visions Of Collapse” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Nocturnal Phosphoresence’, ‘Nucleonic Blight’, ‘Resolve’, ‘Malaspina’ and ‘The Carving Scythe’. The album was co-produced, recorded and mixed by Matt Roach, with additional audio engineering by Emily Ryan at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver BC, Canada. The material was mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios, UK and the artwork was created by Misanthropic Art. www.facebook.com/liminalshroudofficial
On May 03, 2024 Iron Bonehead Productions will release the debut EP from French Death Metallers PROFANATION, “Skull Crushing Violence”, on CD and vinyl LP formats. A full EP stream is available at this location now. For more PROFANATION please visit https://profanationband.bandcamp.com
US Death Metallers PATHOLOGY have just released a video for ‘Psychotronic Abominations’ at this location. The track will be featured on their upcoming twelfth full-length “Unholy Descent”, which will be released on May 17, 2024 via Agonia Records on CD, cassette tape, vinyl LP (different colors) and digitally. It was recorded and mixed at Sharkbite Studios by Zack Ohren (ABORTED, ALL SHALL PERISH, DECREPIT BIRTH) in June 2023 and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (ORIGIN, CANNIBAL CORPSE, CATTLE DECAPITATION). The cover artwork was created by Pär Olofsson (EXODUS, ABYSMAL DAWN, IMMOLATION). The complete “Unholy Descent” tracklist reads like this: ‘Intro’, ‘Cult Of The Black Triangle’, ‘Hermetic Gateways’, ‘Psychotronic Abominations’, ‘Summon The Shadows’, ‘Whispers Of The Djinn’, ‘Archon’, ‘Malevolent Parasite’, ‘Diabolical Treachery’, ‘Demons In The Aether’, ‘Punishment Beyond Comprehension’, ‘Apostles Of Fire’ and ‘A World Turned To Ashes’. www.facebook.com/pathologymusic
“Geminian Arcana”, the debut mini album from El Paso, Texas based Black Metallers TEMPLE OF THE BEAST, is streaming in its entirety over here now. It will be released via Iron Bonehead Productions on May 03, 2024 on CD and 12″ vinyl formats. TEMPLE OF THE BEAST features DarkWvlf, better known as Blackthorn, founding vocalist / drummer of the long-running THORNSPAWN. https://templeofthebeast.bandcamp.com
“Mentally Unengaged,” the debut EP from Slovenian / Brazilian project SLUGPIT (featuring ex – members of TELEPORT and NATT), will be released digitally on May 15, 2024 via the Grindwar channel and through the band’s Bandcamp site. A tape release info will soon follow. You can also check out the EP in its entirety at this location already. SLUGPIT draw influences from Death Metal, Black Metal, Grindcore and Punk. www.facebook.com/slugpitcarnage
Belgian Black Metallers BRAKEL are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Wranger Wanen” in its entirety over here now. It will be released on May 01, 2024 via Signal Rex. More info you will find at www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
Polish blackened Death Metallers LILLA VENEDA have just released a video for ‘Pytasz Co W Moim Życiu’ at this location. The track appears on the band’s latest full-length “Primordial Movements”, which was released via Szataniec. The album was produced by Przemysław Nowak at Impressive-Art Studio (ASGAARD, ODRAZA, OUTRE) and the cover artwork was created by Anna Sobczak. A full stream is available over here. A video for ‘Biomechanic Algorithm’ can additionally be watched here and a lyric video for ‘Colossi’ is available at this location. For more LILLA VENEDA information please visit www.facebook.com/lillavenedaband
On June 21, 2024 Purity Through Fire will release “Schicksalstotschlag”, the third full-length from Austrian Black Metallers AUSSICHTSLOS, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Am Hohen Ross’, ‘Verwoben’, ‘Im Schützengraben’, ‘Brachland’, ‘Schicksalstotschlag’, ‘Infektion’, ‘Ein Stück’, ‘Gotteswahn’ and ‘Hochverrat’. You can already stream ‘Verwoben’ over here. More AUSSICHTSLOS you will find at https://aussichtslos.bandcamp.com
Portuguese Black Metallers MONS VENERIS are streaming their sixth full-length “Ascent Into Draconian Abyss” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on May 01, 2024 via Signal Rex. All additional info you will find at www.signalrex.com or www.facebook.com/signalrec
“Uranium”, the fifth album from German Black Metallers DAUÞUZ, will be released on April 30, 2024 via Amor Fati Productions on CD and vinyl LP formats (the band will be self-releasing the cassette tape version on the same date). A full album stream is available at this location now. More DAUÞUZ info you will find at www.facebook.com/dauthuzbm
On June 28, 2024 Osmose Productions will release “Livskramper”, the fifth full-length from Trondheim, Norway based Black Metallers GJENDØD, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Å Ule Mot Feil Måne’, ‘Livskramper’, ‘Gendød’, ‘Skumringsliv’, ‘Byttingen’, ‘Under Dekke’, ‘Død Manns Skygge’ and ‘I Nattens Land’. The cover artwork was created by Theodor Kittelsen. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032359227090
Cyprus based Thrash / Death Metallers BLYND will release their fourth full-length “Unbeliever” on June 07, 2024 via Pitch Black Records on CD and digital formats. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Infernal’, ‘Between Two Worlds’, ‘Primordial Hunter’, ‘One Last Dance’, ‘Until We Die’, ‘1984’, ‘Fire In The Sky’, ‘Uncrowned’ and ‘Ground Zero’. A lyric video for the song ‘1984’ can already be viewed at this location. More about BLYND www.facebook.com/blyndmetal
Swedish Doom / Deathers OCTOBER TIDE have just premiered a video for ‘Unprecedented Aggression’ at this location. The song is featured on the band’s seventh full-length “The Cancer Pledge”, which is out now on Agonia Records. www.facebook.com/octobertideband
French brutal Death Metallers AD PATRES will release their third full-length “Unbreathable” on June 07, 2024 via Non Serviam Records on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. A lyric video for the album opener ‘The Dream Chaser’ can already be checked out over here. The full “Unbreathable” tracklist reads as follows: ‘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
Chicago based Death Metallers CARDIAC ARREST have just premiered the track ‘This Is How You Die’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming eighth full-length “The Stench Of Eternity”, which 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. The previously released album track ‘Victims To The Blasphemy’ can still be streamed over here. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Maggot This One’, ‘Victims To The Blasphemy’, ‘Beg, Plead, Crawl’, ‘Means To An End’, ‘Bullets Are The Only Cure’, ‘In The Name Of Suffering’, ‘Born To Be Buried’, ‘No Human Will’, ‘This Is How You Die’ and ‘From Civilized To Sadistic’. www.facebook.com/cardiacarrestdeathmetal
On April 30, 2024 NoEvDia will release “Evangelii Härold”, the third full-length from Swedish Black Metallers LIFVSLEDA. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Det Perfekta Sinnet’, ‘Sönderfall’, ‘Evangelii Härold’, ‘Griftefärd’, ‘Trämälningen’, ‘Bland Likbodar Och Vintergrafvar’, ‘Absolut Död’ and ‘Helige Död’. You can already check out ‘Sönderfall’ over here. More about LIFVSLEDA at www.facebook.com/lifvsleda
German symphonic Black Metallers SUFFERING SOULS have just revealed the song ‘Soul Devourer’ at this location. It is taken from the upcoming album “An Iconic Taste Of Demise”, which will be out on May 31, 2024 via Satanath Records and Fetzner Death Records. The material was recorded at Hertz Studio in Poland. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Idolum’, ‘Soul Devourer’, ‘From Hubris To Demise’, ‘In The Order Of Doom’, ‘Dolor Matris’, ‘A Touch Of Evil Kindness’, ‘Under My Skin’, ‘My Whore’, ‘Of Clarity And Hysteria’ and ‘Cruelty In Love And Fear’. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063490099366
Finnish Black Metal trio KRATTI is streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Matka Kohti Kosmista” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on May 01, 2024 via Signal Rex. https://kratti.bandcamp.com
“Levels of Perception”, the re-recorded best-of album from Dutch Death Metallers PESTILENCE , can be streamed in its entirety over here now. It will be released via Agonia Records today. www.facebook.com/pestilenceofficial
Polish Death Metallers DISLOYAL will release their fifth full-length “Divine Miasmata” on July 12, 2024 via Black Lion Records. It was recorded at Monroe Sound Studio and produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Arkadiusz “Aro” Jablonski. The cover artwork was created by NaphulaArt. You can already watch a video for the album’s first single ‘The Black Pope’ at this location. The complete “Divine Miasmata” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Divine Mismata’, ‘Silent Revolution’, ‘The Black Pope’, ‘1347-1352’, ‘Stella Peccatorum’, ‘Betrayed Faith’, ‘Religion Of Warfare’, ‘Ravens Of Starvation’ and ‘The Ascension Of Abaddon’. www.facebook.com/disloyalband
Peruvian raw Black Metal solo project CULMEN will release its debut EP “De Un Soplo La Creación” on CD via From Deepest Records on May 12, 2024. It was recorded between 2022 and 2023 and mixed and mastered at Unholy Light Studio. The cover artwork was created by Dany Cuentas. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Relativamente Estático (Intro)’, ‘Viene De Eones’, ‘Cayendo’, ‘Infinitas Esferas’, ‘Ver’ and ‘¡Oh, Gran Maestro Nuclear! (Outro)’. You can already stream the EP tracks ‘Cayendo’ and ‘Infinitas Esferas’ here and here. For more CULMEN please visit https://culmen.bandcamp.com
“Culto Licántropo Eterno”, the sophomore release from Bogotá, Colombia based Black Metallers CULTO LICÁNTROPO, was just released via Sacrilegio Records. A stream of the EP is available at https://cultolicantropo.bandcamp.com
Southern California based Doom / Deathers TZOMPANTLI have just released a song from their upcoming sophomore full-length “Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force”. You can check out ‘Chichimecatl’ over here. The album will be released on May 17, 2024 via 20 Buck Spin. It was recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Erol Ulug at Bright Light Studios. The cover artwork was crafted by Adam Burke. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Tetzahuitl’, ‘Tlayohualli’, ‘Tlaloc Icuic’, ‘Chichimecatl’, ‘Tetzaviztli’, ‘Otlica Mictlan’ and ‘Icnocuicatl’. www.facebook.com/tzompantlidoom
Vancouver, Canada based Death Metallers REVERSED have just premiered the track ‘Hungry Graves’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Wildly Possessed”, which will be released on May 24, 2024 via Invictus Productions. The previously revealed video for ‘Final Death’ can still be watched at this location. The complete “Wildly Possessed” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Wildly Possessed’, ‘Maelstrom Juggernaut’, ‘Hungry Graves’, ‘Beneath Evil Eyes’, ‘Final Death’, ‘Rusted Breath’ and ‘Black Seed’. The album was recorded at Fiasco Bros. Studios and mixed and mastered by Marco S. Vermiglio at The Forge Music Productions. www.facebook.com/reversedmetalofdeath
Denmark’s old school Death Metallers MORBID GRAVE will release their debut full-length “The Slime Crawlers” on May 17, 2024 on CD and digital formats via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. It will also contain the band’s previously released EP “Pandemic Mutations” as bonus tracks. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Slime Crawlers’, ‘Recycled Body Fluids’, ‘NecroVomit Convulsions’, ‘Crypts Of Death’, ‘Tormented By The Undead’, ‘Gruesome Disfigured Existence’, ‘Silent Screams From The Deep’, ‘Corroded Bodies Dissolved In Slime’, ‘The Reanimating Process’, ‘Infected Impending Doom’, ‘…Slow Crawling Death…’, ‘Corrosive Stench Of Disgust’, ‘Into The Caves Of The Cursed’, ‘Morbid Corpses’, ‘Moldy Dungeon Of Skulls’, ‘Pandemic Mutations’ and ‘Forever Rotting’. You can already check out the single ‘Recycled Body Fluids’ at this location. More MORBID GRAVE info you will find at www.facebook.com/morbidgravedk
Spanish Thrashers HOLYCIDE will release their third full-length “Towards Idiocracy” on June 06, 2024 via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. It was mixed and mastered by Javier Fernández Milla (AVULSED, GOLGOTHA, THE HERETIC) and Davide Billia (HOUR OF PENANCE, BEHEADED) and the artwork was created by Daemorph Art (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, SORROW, BODYFARM). The following tracks will be featured on the album: ‘A.I. Supremacy’, ‘Towards Idiocracy’, ‘Remote Control’, ‘Lie Is The New Truth’, ‘Power Corrupts’, ‘Technophobia’, ‘Angry For Nothing’, ‘Chemical Dependency’ (ATROPHY cover), ‘Pleased To Be Deceived’ and ‘Flamethrower ‘Em All’. You can already check out the opener ‘A.I. Supremacy’ over here. All additional HOLYCIDE information you will find at www.holycide.com
“Underground Forever”, the third full-length from Canadian Death Metal four-piece DUSKWALKER, 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. You can already stream the album’s first single ‘Crippled At The Core’ at this location. Here’s the complete “Underground Forever” tracklist: ‘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
“Endo Feight”, the eighth full-length of Norwegian SARKE, featuring DARKTHRONE’s Nocturno Culto on vocals, will be released on June 21, 2024 via Soulseller Records on vinyl LP, CD and digital formats. It was recorded and mixed at H10 Productions by Lars-Erik Westby and mastered by Sofia von Hage and Thomas Eberger at Stockholm Mastering. The cover artwork was created by Kjetil Nystuen. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Phantom Recluse’, ‘Death Construction’, ‘Lost’, ‘Abyssal Echoes’, ‘Old Town Sinner’, ‘I Destroyed The Cosmos’, ‘In Total Allegiance’ and ‘Macabre Embrace’. www.facebook.com/sarkeofficial
Portuguese blackened Thrash / Death / Punk duo SPITGOD will release an EP entitled “Through Life ‘Till Death” on May 24, 2024 via Gruesome Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Hugo Ferrão at Studio Lote 71. More about SPITGOD at www.facebook.com/spitgod
On May 24, 2024 Hells Headbangers will release a new six-song mini album from “True Vampyric Metal Punk” trio SPITER, “Enter The Gates Of Fucking Hell”, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will be released on July 26, 2024. You can already check out the title track at this location. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Enter The Gates Of Fucking Hell’, ‘Drowning In Darkness’, ‘Tears Of Blood’, ‘The Creeping Serpent Psychosis’, ‘666 On The Crucifix’ and ‘Reflection Of The Vampire’. https://spiter.bandcamp.com
On June 21, 2024 Purity Through Fire will release the third full-length of Norwegian Black Metallers UNHOLY CRAFT, “Saa Mørkt, Saa Mektig”, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Into The Cold Winter Night’, ‘Saa Mørkt, Saa Mektig’, ‘Jærtegn’, ‘Evig Er Nattehimmelen’, ‘Betrayal, Wrath, Judgement’, ‘Den Siste Lange Sorg’, ‘La Asken Regne’ and ‘The Nighttime Spear Piercing’. You can already stream the album opener at this location. For more UNHOLY CRAFT please visit https://1unholycraft.bandcamp.com
“Five Stages Of Grief”, the debut full-length of Greek Black Metallers DARK AFFLICTION, will be released via Theogonia Records on May 24, 2024. It was recorded and mixed at NoiseBox studio in Patras and mastered by John Milionis (DEATH COURIER, FUEL EATER). The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Intro’, ‘Denial’, ‘Hate’, ‘Bargaining’, ‘Depression’ and ‘Acceptance’. A visualiser video for the single ‘Hate’ is already available at this location. More about DARK AFFLICTION at www.facebook.com/darkafflictionbm