Recenzja Azatoth „Carnal Lust of Blasphemy”

 Azatoth

„Carnal Lust of Blasphemy”

Extremely Rotten Prod. 2026

Z fińskim Azatoth miałem okazję poznać się po raz pierwszy przy okazji drugiej edycji Death Is Not The End w Gdańsku. Chłopaki byli wówczas jeszcze na etapie demówkowym, zaznaczając jednak, podczas prywatnej rozmowy, iż materiał na pełnometrażowy debiut już się kręci. I się ukręcił, bo właśnie z głośników płynie u mnie „Carnal Lust of Blasphemy”. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Victims of Contagion „Egregore”

 Victims of Contagion

„Egregore”

Independent 2026

Victims of Contagion jest kapelą z USA i na scenie jest już długo, bo od 2005 roku, ale pierwsze ich wydawnictwo w postaci epki „Parasitic Unborn” pojawiło się na rynku dopiero dziewięć lat później. Podobno przed tym faktem dość szeroko udzielali się w podziemiu, koncertując i wydając własnym sumptem demówki. (Czytaj dalej...)

Nowy numer od SERVANT

 

Today, German black metallers Servant reveal the new track "Glorification." The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated fourth album, Lux Ex Inferis, set for international release on October 2nd via AOP Records. Hear Servant's "Glorification" in its entirety HERE at AOP Records' official YouTube channel.

Siódmy krążek TÅRFÖDD we wrześniu

 

Today, Purity Through Fire announces September 28th as the international release date for Tårfödd's highly anticipated seventh album, En Känsla Av Hopplöshet, on CD format.

Since their formation in 2022, Sweden's Tårfödd have become a prolific force in the DSBM scene. With six full-lengths to date as well as nine singles, three EPs, and a couple collaborative records, mainman Simon Lindgren is a man possessed: supreme melancholy, bittersweet majesty, Technicolor textures, and soul-draining emotion have all become his stock in trade. And while it's not often that Purity Through Fire steps into depressive black metal waters, the label made an exception in 2025 for the release of Lidande and followed it up earlier this year with the band's sixth album, Mörker täcker livets ljus, and the Skyfall mini-album at the dawn of summer.

Now, with Tårfödd's whole catalog available under the banner of Purity Through Fire, Lindgren returns yet again with his second album this year, En Känsla Av Hopplöshet. The band's seventh full-length overall, En Känsla Av Hopplöshet picks up more than a few cues from the grimmer & greyer Skyfall. That concise and yet somehow-vast mini-album showed TÅRFÖDD in a rawer state, with Lindgren returning to vocal duties as well as handling all instruments, as usual - but even with this rawer soundfield, his emotive visions penetrated just as deeply. While En Känsla Av Hopplöshet is slightly less raw by comparison, LP#7 largely moves at a more violent gait, with blastbeaten speed utilized often and to poignant effect. And yet, it's Lindgren's integration of acoustic guitar here - both in plaintive relief, like the album's opener, or layered across the scabrous black metal - which adds another unique dimension to an already kaleidoscopic Tårfödd. Even with all that speed, Lindgren's songwriting is as breathtaking as ever, reaching its cathartic conclusion on the closing title track. It's no coincidence, then, that En Känsla Av Hopplöshet is slated for release during the autumn: the album literally smells like dry leaves, bleeding bittersweet memories across its barren path.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Totalt Mörker" HERE at Purity Through Fire's official YouTube channel. Cover artwork, courtesy of Vindur (Drömskogen Art), and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Tårfödd's En Känsla Av Hopplöshet

1. I Sparen Av Pestens Art

2. Totalt Mörker

3. A Dark Cloudy Dream

4. I En Satans Misär

5. Hjärtesorg

6. It Never Goes Away

7. En Känsla Av Hopplöshet

Koncert SIGH już na początku września

 

Kultowy i jeden z najbardziej innowacyjnych zespołów w historii black metalu, japoński Sigh, wystąpi 4 września w krakowskim Zaścianku, gdzie towarzyszyć mu będzie amerykańska formacja Devil Master.

Skoro twoja debiutancka płyta ukazała się nakładem należącej do Euronymousa wytwórni Deathlike Silence, to z marszu zyskujesz status zespołu kultowego. Tak też jest z japońskim Sigh, którego “Scorn Defeat” wydany został krótko po śmierci gitarzysty Mayhem. Jednak na swoją renomę formacja z Kraju Kwitnącej Wiśni zapracowała przede wszystkim podejściem do komponowania, bodaj najbardziej eksperymentalnym w tamtych czasach, co konsekwentnie rozwijała na kolejnych krążkach. Dowodzona przez Miraia Kawashimę grupa swój black metal od samego początku rozwijała w mało oczywistych kierunkach - najpierw dodając do niego choćby dźwięki fortepianu, a następnie sięgając po wpływy progresywne, psychodeliczne oraz jazzowe. Blisko czterdziestoletnia, niezwykle bogata kariera Sigh czyni go zespołem absolutnie wyjątkowym, którego koncerty przybierają teatralny wymiar.

Amerykański Devil Master dał się poznać jako jeden z najbardziej dzikich i nieokiełznanych zespołów fali łączącej black metal z punkiem, która wylała się na scenę w ostatnich latach. Dorzucając do tego wpływy gotyckiego rocka, kwartet z Filadelfii wyróżnia się na tle reszty dużą przebojowością, co zaprezentowali póki co na dwóch albumach: “Satan Spits on Children of Light” z 2019 oraz wydanym trzy lata później “Ecstasies of Never Ending Night”. Devil Master brzmią, jakby mieszkali w lochach jakiegoś opuszczonego zamku. We wrześniu wypełzną z jego ruin i powrócą do Polski pełni diabelskiego wigoru.

SIGH

Special guest: Devil Master

04.09.2026 / Kraków, Zaścianek

BILETY: https://bit.ly/SIGH_KRK

Dostępne jest wznowienie MITHOTYN - "Gathered Around the Oaken Table"

 

Mithotyn’s Viking Metal classic “Gathered Around the Oaken Table” re-issue is out today! Remastered and with new artwork by Kris Verwimp, for the first time on vinyl and digi-CD.

https://mithotyn.lnk.to/gatheredaroundtheoakentable

Tracklist:

1. Lord of Ironhand

2. Watchmen of the Wild

3. In the Clash of Arms

4. Hearts of Stone

5. The Well of Mimir

6. Chariot of Power

7. Nocturnal Riders

8. The Guardian

9. Imprisoned

10. Guided by History

11. The Old Rover

12. Bland Vargars YI

AVULSED z coverem ADRAMELECH

 

ADRAMELECH could not be missing from this ceremony dedicated to cult Nordic Death Metal. The ninth piece of "Nordic Embryogenesis" brings back "Heroes in Godly Blaze", a track from their 1995 demo, later included on the essential "Psychostasia". For AVULSED, this is no ordinary cover: it is a tribute born from almost 35 years of friendship and admiration.

You can listen to the song here:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/MEtdDvrejdw

Digitals: https://music.imusician.pro/a/6I84FB64

Dave Rotten himself comments the following about this song:

"Everyone knows about my particular fondness for early '90s Finnish Death Metal, and ADRAMELECH is without a doubt in my personal top 5. They came from the same town (Loimaa) as DEMIGOD, and the two bands shared not only one of their members, but also the artist responsible for their covers, rehearsal space, and a great friendship between them. I always had a great friendship with DEMIGOD, but it was especially with ADRAMELECH that I developed stronger ties. Ever since their second demo, "Grip of Darkness" from 1992, we've been inseparable for almost 35 years now!

That same year they released a 7"EP, but it wasn't until their next demo, "The Fall" from 1995, that they took a major qualitative leap forward. I liked it so much that I reissued that demo-cassette on 3" Mini CD that same year, and also released their legendary debut "Psychostasia" in 1996. The song we've covered appears on both recordings. They later released a great Mini CD entitled "Seven" in 1998, one year after the famous Repulsive Tour '97 across Europe, which featured INCANTATION, AVULSED, DEEDS OF FLESH and ADRAMELECH. They then recorded a second album in 1999 which didn't live up to expectations at the time (I see it differently now, haha!!), and eventually decided to re-record and release it themselves. In 2005, however, I released their final album, which had actually been recorded in 2002 but had remained hidden away.

ADRAMELECH's style has quite a few similarities to DEMIGOD's first album, with that particular way of combining dark melodies with elaborate and varied Death Metal, although ADRAMELECH were perhaps somewhat faster. "Psychostasia" is an album I will never get tired of listening to, and doing a cover of one of their songs is undoubtedly the most heartfelt tribute of all those featured on this album".

A new piece of this dark puzzle will be revealed every friday until September 4th.

Debiut PROFANATION za miesiąc

 

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces September 25th as the international release date for the highly anticipated debut album of France's Profanation, Ultra-Noise Warfare, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

If Profanation's opening Skull Crushing Violence mini-album was aptly titled, then their Ultra-Noise Warfare debut album is even more so. Lead guitarist Kev Desecrator (of Venefixion et. al.) may've left following its recording, but this nine-song / 27-minute album absolutely DECIMATES and absolutely establishes Profanation as their own entity. Thankfully, their sound has hardly changed - think the unholy offspring of Hadez and Necrovore with more than a hint of the eldritch grind of Terrorizer and England's Doom - but across the entirety of Ultra-Noise Warfare do the Frenchmen exhibit a more world-eating aspect with utterly crushing aplomb. Just the sheer physicality alone, like classic Archgoat and Revenge run through an equally classic Swedeath filter, buries the listener under miles of nuclear vomit and human ashes. And while Profanation play with a palpitating urgency (read: ACTUAL HUMANS recorded properly without punch-ins etc), it's perhaps the album's slower moments that send the strongest shivers down the spine; every nerve alive will feel the megaton weight of the equally gargantuan (and perfectly titled) "Total Stomp" and "Realm of the Absolute."

If Angelcorpse said Exterminate, then Profanation finish the job with Ultra-Noise Warfare.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new title track "Ultra-Noise Warfare" HERE at Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Profanation (France)'s Ultra-Noise Warfare

1. Servile Rot

2. Army of Dogs

3. Nosebleed Razor

4. Realm of the Absolute

5. Ultra-Noise Warfare

6. Vermin

7. Total Stomp

8. World of Pain

9. Anti

Recenzja Penetrator Hammer “War is from Shadows”

 Penetrator Hammer

“War is from Shadows”

Iron, Blood and Death Corporation 2025

Cofamy się dziś nieco w czasie. Konkretnie do końcówki ubiegłego roku, kiedy to premierę miał debiutancki album zespołu, którego już sama nazwa zachęca do sprawdzenia. Że o okładce zdobiącej „War is from Shadows” nie wspomnę. A jak dodam, że chłopaki pochodzą z Kolumbii, to już chyba każdy powinien stać na baczność. Wspomniałem, że to debiut, choć tak naprawdę bardziej uznałbym go za mini, bo zawiera niecałe dwadzieścia pięć minut muzyki, sześć kawałków plus outro. (Czytaj dalej...)

FILTH prezentują nowy numer

 

Today, Swedish death metallers Filth premiere the new track "Sadistic Ways" at the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album, Death Exhibition, set for international release on September 11th via Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Rotted Life: Me Saco Un Ojo will release the album in Europe on CD and vinyl LP formats, while Rotted Life will release it in the United States on CD and cassette tape formats. Hear Filth's "Sadistic Ways" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Sweden's Filth have a knack for fitting album covers. The one to last year's celebrated Time to Rot debut album captured its psychedically putrid contents perfectly, and so does the cover to their sophomore full-length, Death Exhibition. Whereas that no-less-weighty debut LP proved Filth were true contenders to old-school death metal barbarity thawed in the present, Death Exhibition sees the power-trio sounding both more finessed and more barbaric. The formula has hardly changed, thankfully, but the foundations of their sound are expanded further here; whether it's the crude, tank-rolling crush of Grave's first two albums (including the dips into doomier territory on You'll Never See...) or the sooty angularity of Immolation's first two (the birth of the "backwards riff" sequence in DM), Filth go the distance in punishing the body and tormenting the mind on Death Exhibition.

Most poignant case in point: the dank crypt of instrumental "...Inhumed...," where flanged-out bass begins the plummet to unfathomable depths, establishing both atmosphere and physical presence of a most intimidating nature, and then carried to its conclusion in companion instrumental "...Exhumed...," where the chasm to (and from) that crypt becomes a hypnotically haunting trudge. Who else is doing such exemplary work with death metal instrumentals?

Naturally, other similarly old-school influences can be spotted - Demilich, Autopsy, Incantation, Finland's Abhorrence - but rest assured that Filth inject their own personality (and just a slight bit of weirdness) into the bubbling cauldron to remain authentic rather than ripping off someone else's past. Add in humid, wholly analog production and you truly have a Death Exhibition worth reckoning.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Sadistic Ways" exclusively HERE, courtesy of the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Also hear the previously revealed "Mental Butchery" HERE at Me Saco Un Ojo's Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Filth (Sweden)'s Death Exhibition

1. Intro

2. Split Casket

3. Buried Alive

4. Born A Corpse

5. Mental Butchery

6. ...Inhumed...

7. Sadistic Ways

8. Death Exhibition

9. ...Exhumed...

10. Rotted Life

Box THRONEUM już dostępny

 

THRONEUM - Three Decades in The Voids of The Underworld now available !

ORDERS: www.putridcult.pl

The band's 30-year history, recorded on three CDs. Nearly four hours of Death Metal. A collection of EPs and splits that have never been released on CD. Featuring stunning artworks by Lord K of Nekkrofukk, and a powerful sound by Black Team Media's remastering.

Mini TSIRHIC do odsłuchu

 

On August 21st, Iron Bonehead Productions will release Tsirhic's highly anticipated debut mini-album, To Satan I Reply..., on CD and 12" vinyl formats. And today, the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel streams the mini-album in its entirety. Hear Tsirhic's To Satan I Reply... in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Singiel od TAUFPATIN

 

Today, French black metallers Taufpatin reveal the new track "L'Affront." The track is the second to be revealed from the band's mischievous debut album, Les Malfaisances de la Taufpatin, set for international release on October 7th via Antiq. Hear Taufpatin's "L'Affront" in its entirety HERE at Antiq's official YouTube channel.

Kolejny klip od FIRTAN

 

Today, German extreme-metal adventurists Firtan reveal the new video "Ascension." The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated fifth album, Helios, set for international release on October 2nd via AOP Records. See & hear Firtan's "Ascension" video in its entirety HERE at AOP Records' official YouTube channel.

Recenzja Morbid Stench „Doom Metastasis”

 Morbid Stench

„Doom Metastasis”

Putrid Cult / Nuclear Winter Rec. 2026

Morbid Stench przedstawiać nikomu raczej nie trzeba. Zespół niemal od samego początku gości pod skrzydłami rodzimej Putrid Cult, a jeszcze wcześniej wydany został, na kasecie, przez Till You Fukkin Bleed, też przecież naszą. Szybko pod swoje skrzydła przyjęła go także, również uznana, Nuclear Winter Records. Nic w tym dziwnego, bo trio z Ameryki Środkowej jest gwarantem określonego poziomu, poniżej którego nie schodzi także przy okazji nowej, trzeciej już płyty. (Czytaj dalej...)