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Polish Black Metallers HORNS have just released their third full-length “Oswiecenie” digitally on Bandcamp and as a jewelcase CD via Putrid Cult. It was recorded in 2023 (the drums at Zastal Factory Studio, guitars and bass at Nehem Studio and the vocals at PZ studio). The mix and mastering was done by Filip Halucha at Heinrich House Studio (AZARATH, BEHEMOTH, ENTROPIA, OBSCURE SPHINX) and the cover artwork was created by M. A video for ‘Twoja Kara Wiecznosc Trwa’ can be watched at this location. A full album stream you will find over here. For all additional HORNS information please visit www.facebook.com/hornshorde
Sarpsborg, Norway based one-man Thrash Metal project TONIC BREED will reissue its 2014 album “Outsold” this coming fall. It was revisited with better production and an vastly improved remastering. You can check out the remastered opening track ‘Strife’ at this location. More about TONIC BREED at www.facebook.com/tonicbreed
German Doom / Deathers MOON INCARNATE have just premiered the track ‘Nemesis’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s debut full-length “Hymns To The Moon”, which will be released on March 22, 2024 via Iron Bonehead Productions. The previously revealed ‘The Tempest’ can still be streamed over here. The full tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Hymn To The Moon’, ‘The Tempest’, ‘A Knight’s Death’, ‘Nemesis’, ‘A Graveyard In My Soul’, ‘Minotaur’ and ‘The Kraken’. www.facebook.com/ironboneheadproductions
Massachusetts based Black Metallers COMPRESS have just premiered the track ‘Formosus’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut mini-album “The Final Level Of Consciousness”, which will be released on March 15, 2024 via Eternal Death on cassette tape format. The previously revealed ‘Fissured Cosmos’ can additionall be checked out over here. More about COMPRESS at https://compress.bandcamp.com
“Thanatopoeia”, the debut full-length from Russian Black Metallers MEISTER LEONHARDT, will be released via Purity Through Fire on March 21, 2024 on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Bliss Of Impermanence’, ‘Defossion Transcendence’, ‘Malevolence Supreme’, ‘Quiescence In Throes’, ‘Fulcurm’, ‘Tomb Ore’, ‘The Imago Paradigm’ and ‘Taphotaxis’. You can already stream ‘Defossion Transcendence’ over here. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/meisterleonhardt
Chilean Thrashers CRITICAL DEFIANCE will release their new album “The Search Won’t Fall…” on March 22, 2024 on CD via Unspeakable Axe Records and vinyl LP via Dying Victims Productions. It will also be available digitally on the usual platforms. The band has just released a lyric video for ’44 Minds’ at this location and an official video for the title track over here. The full tracklist of “The Search Won’t Fall…” reads as follows: ‘The Search Won’t Fall’, ‘Long Distance (The What’s To Come)’, ‘Helpless World’, ’44 Minds’, ‘The Blind Divine’, ‘Absolüt’, ‘All The Powers’, ‘Full Paranoia’, ‘Margarita’, ‘Bulldog’ and ‘Critical Defiance’. www.facebook.com/criticaldefiance
Dutch Death Metallers PESTILENCE have re-recorded twelve tracks from their 38 years career for an album, which will be entitled “Levels Of Perception”. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Horror Detox’, ‘Multi Dimensional’, ‘Mobus Propagationem’, ‘Sinister’, ‘Dehydrated’, ‘Dominatui Submissa’, ‘Land Of Tears’, ‘Necromorph’, ‘Deificus’, ‘Twisted Truth’, ‘Sempiternus’ and ‘Out Of The Body’. The cover artwork was created by Peter Suchy. “Levels Of Perception” will be released on April 26, 2024 via Agonia Records. In support of the album, PESTILENCE will embark on a three-week long headlining tour in Europe, which kicks off on April 03, 2024 in Munich, Germany and ends on April 21, 2024 in Antwerp, Belgium. The band’s vocalist / guitarist Patrick Mameli had this to say about “Levels Of Perception”: “I’ve always wanted to do a best-of album, because it would mean that I’ve achieved something in the past; something that still has its value today. To be able to choose from songs that I composed in the distant past, transporting them into the now, with the line-up of the recordings that consisted of Michiel van der Plicht (drums), Rutger van Noordenburg (guitar) and Joost van der Graaf (bass) – I found this to be of great value and sheer awesomeness.” www.facebook.com/pestilenceofficial
“Kydoimos (ΚΥΔΟΙΜΟΣ)”, the ninth full-length of Greek Black Metallers KAWIR, will be released on April 19, 2024 via Soulseller Records. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Teiresias (ΤΕΙΡΕΣΙΑΣ)’, ‘Fields Of Flegra (ΦΛΕΓΡΑΣ ΠΕΔΙΟΝ)’, ‘Centauromachy (ΚΕΝΤΑΥΡΟΜΑΧΙΑ)’, ‘Hecatonchires (ΕΚΑΤΟΓΧΕΙΡΕΣ)’, ‘Myrmidons (ΜΥΡΜΙΔΟΝΕΣ)’, ‘Achilles & Hector (ΑΧΙΛΛΕΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΤΟΡΑΣ)’, ‘Achilles Funeral (Η ΚΗΔΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΧΙΛΛΕΑ)’, ‘Echetlaeus (ΕΧΕΤΛΑΙΟΣ)’, ‘Kydoimos (ΚΥΔΟΙΜΟΣ)’ and ‘War Is The Father Of All (ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ ΠΑΝΤΩΝ)’. A video for the first single ‘Echetlaeus’ can already be checked out at this location. All further KAWIR information you will find at www.facebook.com/kawirofficial
On March 21, 2024 Purity Through Fire will release “The Absence Of Grace”, the fifth full-length from ORDER OF NOSFERAT, on CD, A5 digipak, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Behold The Rising Horrors’, ‘Floating With The Ravaged Ones’, ‘In This Solitude We Dwell’, ‘Devoured By Lurking Shadows’, ‘Scratch Out My Face On Every Portrait’, ‘Under The Sinister Shroud Of Isolation’, ‘The Absence Of Grace’, ‘Blood Stains The Fallen Snow’, ‘Cruelty Bestowed Revelation’ and ‘Remain In Everlasting Silence’. You can already check out ‘Devoured By Lurking Shadows’ over here. More ORDER OF NOSFERAT info you will find at www.facebook.com/order-of-nosferat-101630385169968
Memento Mori have signed German Death Metallers RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER. The band’s fourth full-length will released on October 21, 2024. Memento Mori will release the CD version, and Fucking Kill Records will the vinyl LP version. www.facebook.com/recklessmanslaughter
VLTIMAS have just revealed a third track from their upcoming sophomore full-length “Epic”. You can check out ‘Invictus’ at this location. The album will be released on March 15, 2024 via Season Of Mist. In support of “Epic”, VLTIMAS will be touring Europe this March. www.facebook.com/vltimas
Indonesian Death Metallers EXHUMATION will release their fourth full-length “Master’s Personae” on April 26, 2024 via Pulverised Records on CD, vinyl LP and in digital formats. It was mixed by Bable Sagala at Watchtower Studio and mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door Mastering (AURA NOIR, DARKTHRONE, BASTARD PRIEST, FROZEN SOUL). The cover artwork was created by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal. The album features guest appearances of Sindre Solem (OBLITERATION), S. Iblis (POSSESSION), Shyaithan (IMPIETY), Sabbac (ZOM) and Bable Sagala (Watchtower Studio). Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘In Death Vortex’, ‘Pierce The Abyssheart’, ‘Funereal Dreams’, ‘Chaos Feasting’, ‘The Martyr’s Lament’, ‘Thine Inmost Curse’, ‘Perilous Tongue’, ‘Thy Mighty Locution’, ‘Mahapralaya’ and ‘The Scenic Desolation’. The first single ‘Chaos Feasting’ can already be checked out at this location. More EXHUMATION information you will find at www.facebook.com/exhumationdevotee
On April 22, 2024 Memento Mori will release “The Continuous Nothing”, the sophomore full-length from Chile’s Death Metallers COFFIN CURSE, on CD format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Thin The Herd’, ‘Bacchanal Of The Mortal’, ‘Deceased Races’, ‘Reeking Filth Of Ages’, ‘Primitive Doctrines Crushed’, ‘Mauled By Unseen Atrocities’, ‘Among The Suffering Souls’ and ‘The Dead’s Deafening Silence’. The cover artwork was created by Daniel Hermosilla (Nox Fragor Art). The album track ‘Bacchanal Of The Mortal’ can already be checked out right here. You can follow COFFIN CURSE at www.facebook.com/coffincurse
On March 29, 2024 South Dakota based Death Metal trio SUFFER will release their new album “Grand Canvas Of The Aesthete” via Wise Blood Records on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats. It was recorded at Underground Sound by Eddie G, mixed and mastered by Andreas Linnemann at Hop House Studio and the artwork was created by Carrion Design. The two album tracks ‘Ashened Frolic; The Exquisite Promenade’ and ‘Human Primal Cuts’ are available for streaming at this location now. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/suffersd
Hungarian Death Metallers DAMNATION have just released their debut full-length “Fátum” via Pest Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Obsidian Sound Studio by Árpád Szenti. The cover artwork was created by Stan Ivan. www.facebook.com/damnationhun
Finnish melodic Doom / Deathers THE HARBINGER have just released a video for ‘Hollow’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming EP “Gates Of Hell”, which will be released later this year via Inverse Records. The EP was recorded and mixed by Arto Kujala and mastered by Saku Moilanen at Deep Noise Studios. The artwork was supplied by Aku Rundberg. www.facebook.com/theharbingermetal
Finnish technical blackened Death Metallers ULTERROR will release their debut full-length “Transcendent Origins” on March 29, 2024 via Inverse Records. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Iris’, ‘Greater Sublimations Of Cosmic Panic’, ‘Born Anew As One’, ‘Aether Expedition’, ‘Cryogenesis’, ‘Death Aegis Exhumation’, ‘Beyond The Blackened Veil Of Magellan’, ‘Vector Nebula’, ‘Hollow Vessel Parasitization’ and ‘Undying Storms Of Divine Immolation’. The third and final single before the album release, ‘Vector Nebula’ is now available at this location. For all further ULTERROR info please visit www.instagram.com/ulterrorband
On March 21, 2024 Purity Through Fire will release the debut full-length from German Black Metal quintet GRANITADER, “Der Wald Zwischen Den Welten”, on digipak CD. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Intro’, ‘Ødensjakt’, ‘Heimat’, ‘Miriquidi’, ‘Nathan’, ‘Geister Des Nordens’, ‘Varus’, ‘Netsche’ and ‘Der Wald Zwischen Den Welten’. A video for ‘Heimat’ can already be watched over here. For more GRANITADER music please visit https://granitader.bandcamp.com
“Blazoned Heraldry”, the debut demo from American / Norwegian medieval Black Metal duo HERALDIC BLAZE, will be released via Purity Through Fire on March 21, 2024, on CD and vinyl 12″ formats. You can already check out the demo opener ‘Torchbearers Of Our Time’ at this location. The complete tracklist of the demo reads as follows: ‘Torchbearers Of Our Time’, ‘The Accolade Of Truth’, ‘Far Shooting Apollo’, ‘A Sovereign Spire’, ‘The Knight’s Folly’ and ‘Scourge Of The Sycophant’. For more info please visit www.purity-through-fire.com
On April 22, 2024 Memento Mori will release the third full-length of Spanish Death Metallers DEVOTION, “Astral Catacombs”, on CD format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Passing’, ‘Horror Beyond The Stars’, ‘In Ungraven Tombs’, ‘Execration’, ‘The Wake’, ‘The Cosmic Pilgrims’, ‘To Dementia’, ‘The Seething Universe’, ‘Astral Catacombs’ and ‘The Evanescence’. You can already stream ‘To Dementia’ at this location. The cover artwork was created by Naroa Etxebarria. More about DEVOTION at www.facebook.com/deathmetaldevotion
Kraków, Poland based Death Metal duo DORMANT ORDEAL has inked a deal with Willowtip Records. The band will enter the studio soon to record their fourth full-length, the follow-up to 2021’s “The Grand Scheme Of Things”, which was released via Selfmadegod Records. www.facebook.com/dormant.ordeal
On March 21, 2024 Purity Through Fire will release “In Honorem Mortis”, the debut full-length from German Black Metallers AD MORTEM, on CD, A5 digipak, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Von Hohen Himmeln’, ‘Größer Als Das Leben’, ‘Labyrith’, ‘Der Letzte Feind’, ‘Urgewalt’, ‘Auf Kalten Gräbern’, ‘Todesstreben’ and ‘Death & Beyond’. You can already check out the album opener ‘Von Hohen Himmeln’ over here. More about AD MORTEM at www.facebook.com/admortem666
Argentina’s Black / Thrashers NEKRO CVLT DESECRATION are looking for places to play in Europe, so if you are a booking agent or if you can help the band in any other way, please get in touch with them at www.facebook.com/nekrocvltdesecration616. You can watch a video for ‘Antichristian Black Metal Reaper’ at this location. The track will be featured on an upcoming split release with BLASPHEMANIAC from Brazil.
Canadian technical Death Metallers PROTOSEQUENCE have just revealed a second single off their forthcoming new album “Bestiary”. You can stream ‘Sam’ at this location now. The album will be released on April 05, 2024 via Lacerated Enemy Records. The previously revealed first single ‘Neither Fair Nor Foul’ can still be checked out over here. The complete tracklist of “Bestiary” reads as follows: ‘Sam’, ‘Baroness, Pt.1: A Falling Knife’, ‘Baroness, Pt.2: The Handles We Reach For’, ‘Imlerith’, ‘The Caveat’, ‘Neither Fair Nor Equal’ and ‘Twelve Ropes’. www.facebook.com/protosequence
The Ukrainian / Polish Black Metal project MORBONOCT is streaming their new album “The Highest Purpose” in its entirety at this location now. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Alexander Medvedev and the cover artwork was created by Svitlana Medvedieva. “The Highest Purpose” will be released digitally on February 19, 2024. https://morbonoct.bandcamp.com
Seattle, Washington based melodic Death Metal quartet VERITERAS will release their sophomore full-length “The Dark Horizon” on April 11, 2024. It was recorded by Don Gunn at The Office Studio in Seattle in July 2023 and mixed and Mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound Studio in Germany between August and November 2023. The artwork was supplied by Sean Osterberg. The following tracks will be featured on “The Dark Horizon”: ‘Certainty’, ‘Celestial Darkness’, ‘Abyss’, ‘Last Rites’, ‘Sanctuary’, ‘Manufactured Dreams’, ‘Blinding’, ‘Retrograde’ and ‘Light In The Darkness’. A lyric video for the album’s first single, ‘Abyss’, will be released on March 14, 2024. In support of the album VERITERAS will be hitting the road with Finland’s EVENT RELENTLESS for a nine-city U.S. tour in April. www.facebook.com/veriterasmetal
Indonesia based Death Metallers EXHUMATION have just revealed a first single from their upcoming fourth full-length “Master’s Personae”. You can stream ‘Chaos Feasting’ at this location now. The album will be released on April 26, 2024 via Pulverised Records on vinyl LP, CD and digitally. It was mixed by Bable Sagala at Watchtower Studio and mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door. The cover artwork was supplied by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘In Death Vortex’, ‘Pierce The Abyssheart’, ‘Funereal Dreams’, ‘Chaos Feasting’, ‘The Martyr’s Lament’, ‘Thine Inmost Curse’, ‘Perilous Tongue’, ‘Thy Mighty Locution’, ‘Mahapralaya’ and ‘The Scenic Desolation’. You can follow the band at www.facebook.com/exhumationdevotee
US Black Metallers HULDER will be touring Europe in June / July 2024 in support of their sophomore full-length album “Verses In Oath”, which is out now via 20 Buck Spin. The tour kicks off on June 19, 2024 in Oberhausen, Germany and ends on July 06, 2024 in Warsaw, Poland. A full album stream of “Verses In Oath” you will find over here. More info and regular updates you will find at www.facebook.com/hulderus
Norwegian Black Metallers KHOLD have just released a second track from their upcoming eighth full-length “Du Dømmes Til Død”, which will be released on March 22, 2024 via Soulseller Records. You can listen to ‘Misgrep’ at this location. “Du Dømmes Til Død” was recorded, mixed and mastered by Andy La Rocque at Sonic Train Studios in Sweden. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Myrdynk’, ‘Vanviddfaren’, ‘Heks (Du Dømmes Til Død)’, ‘Skoggangsmann’, ‘Misgrep’, ‘Trolldomsdømt’, ‘Lædel’, ‘Galgeberg Og Retterbakke’ and ‘Dølgsmål’. www.facebook.com/khold.official
On April 05, 2024 Personal Records will release “Seeds Of Death”, the debut EP from Swedish Death Metallers THE ROTTENING, on CD format. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Ode To Rot’, ‘Starless Void’, ‘Silence Of Your God’, ‘Maleficarum’ and ‘Seeds Of Death’. You can already check out ‘Starless Void’ at this location. More THE ROTTENING music you will find at https://therottening.bandcamp.com
Polish blackened Death Metallers LILLA VENEDA will release their third full-length “Primordial Movements” on February 29, 2024 via Szataniec. It was recorded by Przemysław Nowak at Impressive-Art Studio (ASGAARD, ODRAZA, OUTRE) and the cover artwork was created by Anna Sobczak. Here’s the complete tracklist: ‘Fury Dimension’, ‘Sleeping Knight’s Sky’, ‘Biomechanic Algorithm’, ‘Iron-Black Pestilence’, ‘Scratched Crown’, ‘Colossi’, ‘Immortal Vision Of Chaos’, ‘Primordial Movements’ and ‘Pytasz Co W Moim Życiu’. You can already stream the song ‘Sleeping Knight’s Sky’ at this location. A video for ‘Biomechanic Algorithm’ can additionally be watched over here and a lyric video for ‘Colossi’ you will find here. For all additional band information please visit www.facebook.com/lillavenedaband
On April 12, 2024 Iron Bonehead Productions will release “Edifice”, the sophomore full-length from New Zealand’s Black / Death Metallers HERESIARCH, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Forged Doctrine’, ‘Manifest Odium’, ‘Noose Above The Abyss’, ‘Gloryless Execution’, ‘Tides Of Regression’, ‘A World Lit Only By Fire’, ‘Swarming Blight’, ‘Mystic And Chaos’, ‘Hubris And Decline’ and ‘Militate Pyrrhic Collapse’. You can already check out ‘Gloryless Execution’ at this location. More HERESIARCH info you will find at www.facebook.com/heresiarchband
“Incitement Of Violence”, the new album of northern German old school Thrashers EXTINCT, will be released on April 18, 2024 via MDD Records. It will feature 12 tracks and the cover artwork was designed by Nicolas Oliveros. www.facebook.com/extinctmetal
Toronto, Canada based blackened technical Death Metal five-piece APOGEAN has just released a video for ‘Bluelight Sonata’, the fourth and final single off their debut full-length “Cyberstrictive”, at this location. The album will be released on March 08, 2024 via The Artisan Era physically (vinyl, CD) and digitally. A video for ‘Hueman (The Pleasure Of Burn)’ can still be watched over here. The full tracklist of “Cyberstrictive” reads as follows: ‘Bluelight Sonata’, ‘Thousand-Yard Glare’, ‘Distance (Of Walls And Wails)’, ‘With Which Ear You’ll Listen’, ‘Imposter Reborn’, ‘Within The Bounds Of A Simile’, ‘Hueman (The Pleasure Of Burn)’, ‘Polybius’, ‘Spinthariscope’ and ‘An(t)imus’. www.facebook.com/apogeanofficial
International Black Metallers LVME will release their sophomore full-length “Of Sinful Nature” via NoEvDia on February 16, 2024. It will feature the following tracks: ‘The Venomous Fire’, ‘Strix Rêverie’, ‘Without Light Nor Guide’, ‘Into Ashen Stone’ and ‘Obenaus Und Nirgends An!’. A full stream will be revealed on the day of the release. https://lvme.bandcamp.com
Knoxville, Tennessee based brutal Death Metal three-piece BRODEQUIN has just released a second single off their upcoming new album “Harbinger Of Woe”. You can stream ‘Suffocation In Ash’ at this location. A video for ‘Of Pillars And Trees’, which was created by Matti Way of From The North Films, can still be watched over here. “Harbinger Of Woe” will be out on March 22, 2024 via Season Of Mist. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Diabolical Edict’, ‘Fall Of The Leaf’, ‘Theresiana’, ‘Of Pillars And Trees’, ‘Tenaillement’, ‘Maleficium’, ‘Vii Nails’, ‘Vredens Dag’, ‘Suffocation In Ash’ and ‘Harbinger Of Woe’. www.facebook.com/brodequintn
Colorado’s SPECTRAL VOICE will embark on a 16 dates North American tour in support of their new album “Sparagmos”. The tour kicks off on May 08, 2024 in Lincoln, Nebraska and concludes on May 25, 2024 with an appearance at the Maryland Deathfest. UK Doom Metallers ESOTERIC will join SPECTRAL VOICE on selected dates. On this tour SPECTRAL VOICE will perform “Sparagmos” in its entirety. The album is now available on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats via Dark Descent Records. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk at Redwood Studio, with artwork by Manifester. You can check out a video for ‘Red Feasts Condensed Into One’ at this location. More SPECTRAL VOICE information you will find at www.facebook.com/necroticdoom