January 13, 2023
Colorado Springs based blackened Death Metallers OB NIXILIS will release their new full-length “Abhorred” on January 27, 2023 via Reaping Scythe Records on CD and digitally. It was recorded, mixed, produced and mastered by Jacob St. Amand at The Shadow Temple in Denver, Colorado. The cover art was created by Dennis Lee Hughes of Cythraul Art. You can already listen to the first single ‘Discordian Epitaph’ at this location. The complete “Abhorred” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Prolific Destitution’, ‘Discordian Epitaph’, ‘Bloodletting’, ‘Interludium II’, ‘War Of The Burning Sands’, ‘Deathrite Shaman’ and ‘Fated Ascendance’. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068839699502
“Pyrogenesis”, the new album from Austrian Black Metallers ASPHAGOR, will be released on March 10, 2022 via MDD Records on CD and vinyl, the latter as a double LP due to the total playing time of over 60 minutes. The artwork was hand drawn by singer Morgoth himself. For all further ASPHAGOR info check out www.facebook.com/asphagor
On February 24, 2023 Osmose Productions will release the seventh full length of Netherlands based Black Metallers FUNERAL WINDS, “Stigmata Mali”, on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. The following tracks will be featured on it: ‘Open The Wounds’, ‘Stigmata Mali’, ‘By These Hands, By Your Command’, ‘Odious Emanations’, ‘The Angles Of Darkness’, ‘Ferocious Revelations’, ‘Purified By Acausal Flames’ and ‘The Bornless Forever’. For more FUNERAL WINDS information please visit www.facebook.com/funeralwindsbm
Pennsylvania based Death Grinders THE HUMAN RACE IS FILTH will digitally release their new album “Cognitive Dissonance” on March 10, 2023. The album’s first single ‘Propagating Technology’ can already be streamed at this location. It was recorded at The Kaleidoscope in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in November / December 2022, engineered and mixed by Ben Roth and mastered by Joel Grind from TOXIC HOLOCAUST. For all additional band info check out www.facebook.com/thehumanraceisfilth
“Usurp The Throne”, the new full-length from Norway based Black / Viking Metallers UBUREN, will be released on January 20, 2023 via Dusktone on vinyl LP, digipak CD and digitally. The tracklist reads as follows: ‘En Død Manns Drøm’, ‘Harken Now’, ‘When The River Breaks’, ‘Usurp The Throne’, ‘Defiance Towards Futility’, ‘Bring Forth Ragnarok’, ‘None Is Forgotten’ and ‘As Sorrow Turns To Hate’. All further UBUREN info you will find at www.facebook.com/uburen
Italian technical Death Metallers HOUR OF PENANCE have begun recording their ninth full length album, which will be the follow-up to “Misotheism” from 2019 (“Misotheism” will be re-issued via Agonia Records on January 27, 2023 on CD, LP and cassette tape format). The band started off with drums, which are being recorded by Giacomo Torti, who officially joined the band as new full-time drummer in December, and who can be seen in a new video from Bloom Studios in Rome, where tracking is taking place. More about HOUR OF PENANCE at www.facebook.com/hourofpenance
Finnish female fronted melodic Death Metallers ADMIRE THE GRIM have just digitally released their debut EP “Rogue Five” via Inverse Records (a strictly limited CD version will be released on February 03, 2023). You can listen to the EP in its entirety at this location. A video for the title track is furthermore available over here. You can follow the band at www.facebook.com/admirethegrim