Recenzja Morgue „Herald the Dawn”

 Morgue

„Herald the Dawn”

Godz ov War 2026

Morgue po raz szósty. A piąty po reaktywacji w dwa tysiące dwunastym. Nie jest to może intensywność wydawnicza powalająca na podłogę, ale przyznać trzeba, że przynajmniej trzy ostatnie krążki wychodzą wyjątkowo regularnie. To pewnie było zapisane drobnym druczkiem w kontrakcie z Godz ov War, bo Grzesiek to podstępny, stary lis. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Lydiga „Bound to the Doomed Reign”

 Lydiga

„Bound to the Doomed Reign”

Iron Blood and Death Corporation 2025

Lydiga pochodzi z Meksyku i poza paroma singlami w wersji digital, na swoim koncie posiada tą epkę, wydaną w grudniu roku poprzedniego przez Iron Blood and Death Corporation. Materiał w końcu dotarł do Polski więc kilka słów o nim wypada napisać. To sześć kawałków atmosferycznego black metalu w ujęciu raw. (Czytaj dalej...)

Zapowiedź nowego INVULTATION

 

We are proud to announce “Inferno Descends”, the skull-crushing new album from Ohio's bestial death metal one-man army Invultation: dark, feral death metal to end humanity's days. Aural warfare transmuting forth into apocalyptic chaos, conquering its most lawless and antihuman triumph yet.

The imminent release has now been teased by legendary heavy metal publication Decibel Magazine, who in unveiling the song “Third Degree Warfare” have remarked how the track “packs all the power of Immolation and Formulas-era Morbid Angel but is delivered with the blasphemous, iconoclastic attitude of bands like Angelcorpse, Archgoat and Blaspherian.“ - you can read the feature and listen to the song HERE.

Reaching the milestone of the fourth full-length release, mastermind A. Lampe’s unrelinquishing sonic weapon of mass extermination does not relent, and instead, doubles down, overloading its yield of terror to perpetrate a violent reign of cruelty and destruction. Riffs cascade, sprawl and suffocate, ensnaring forty minutes of the listener’s life into an inescapable assault. The rhythm section enframes the chaos, sustaining the merciless advance with waves of carpet bombing blasts and smoldering bass lines to scorch the earth and cleanse the battlefield with fire. While Lampe’s vocals reproclaim the reign of terror through the project’s staple promulgation of warmongering edicts and bestial calls for human meat to be consumed like fodder and be disintegrated inside the shellshock. Fans of Angelcorpse, Archgoat, and Cruciamentum will instantly recognize and embrace the belligerent pedigree of one of America’s greatest underground death metal secrets, while those already familiar with the band will find it reinvigorated and resplending in its most feral and barbaric state yet.

“Inferno Descends” is set to be released October 30 2026 on LP/CD/MC/digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, along with a full new spread of album-exclusive merch, all pre-orderable now via all our channels.

Nowy DESTRUCTION OF ORION pod koniec listopada

 

On November 27, 2026, Bulgarian funeral doom project DESTRUCTION OF ORION will return with their third album, "Dimensions Of Chaos", to be released by Aesthetic Death in both digibook CD and gatefold 2LP formats. Following "Decreasing Brightness" and "States Of Horror", the new record continues the project's deeply personal exploration of grief, anguish and emotional collapse, further developing the distinctive language established across its first two chapters.

The first single "Retribution" is now streaming HERE.

Two albums in and it is easy to see that DESTRUCTION OF ORION are one of the most exciting and important new doom bands of recent years. Never straying from the pertinent characteristics of the genre, yet able to bring fresh vision and authentic interpretation of what funeral doom is.

The new album solidifies this. "Dimensions of Chaos" retains the abject misery that was saturated within "Decreasing Brightness" and the mental anguish permeating through "States Of Horror".

This is an era. Like the rings within a tree, each album forms a snapshot of that moment. "Dimensions Of Chaos" is no different. A monument of personal catharsis. Bringing tracks with a distinctive feel and identity. Yet, working seamlessly as a whole, forming an album that should be endured together as one.

Time only accentuates grief. The whole experience heralds a decimation of emotional will. As the music fades the silence holds a mortuary chill, with a haunting sense of feeling drained and emotionally crushed. You can physically feel the destructive energy and grief that have been poured into this.

DESTRUCTION OF ORION is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Tehina Spasova, whose genius lies in her metaphysical melancholy and a skilled feel for melodies. The production and musicianship on this third album elevate it to new levels, evolving a unique and authentic sound. Like dark matter, "Dimensions Of Chaos" will pervade every fragment of self. Drenched in a beautiful pain, the emotion in these tracks is visceral.

The unique style of "Dimensions Of Chaos" will not appeal solely to fans of funeral and extreme doom. There is a universal portrayal of grief that will resonate with anyone wishing to explore their own pain and anguish.

Tracklist:

01. Intro

02.. Retribution

03. Tomorrow

04. Acceptance

05. Entwined

06. Better Days

07. Pulchra Mortis

08. Outro

Debiut SARCOSUCHUS za miesiąc

 

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the debut album Long Island New York's old school Death Metal/Slam savages Sarcosuchus. De-Extinction is up now for pre-order and will be released November 13th on CD and Digital formats along with merch.

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions welcome Sarcosuchus to the roster with the debut album De-Extinction! Hailing from Long Island New York, Sarcosuchus combine the essence of old school Death Metal with modern styles of Slam. De-Extinction unleashes nine tracks of sheer brutality and savage sickness that is not for the faint of heart.

Listen to the single "Dissection By Design" at youtu.be/BVyTBuBfw3M

TRACK LISTING:

1. De-Extinction

2. Backroom Abortion

3. Dissection By Design

4. Hatred Amongst Us

5. Ballpit Landmine

6. To Serve The Rich

7. Tyrannicide

8. Encouraged By The Opposition

9. B. T. K.

Trzeci krążek WITCHGÖAT w grudniu

 

On December 4th internationally, Personal Records is proud to present Witchgöat's highly anticipated third album, Serpent Hordes, on CD format. Morbid Skull Records will handle the cassette version.

In the first half of 2016, guitarist P. Scyther—after being involved in several musical projects in the Salvadoran scene since the early '90s—began composing music with the intention of forming a new band. His goal was to combine the violence and rawness of South American and European thrash metal bands from the '80s with the malevolent melodies of first- and second-wave Scandinavian blackened death metal and black metal. He soon secured the collaboration of M. Miasma, who became interested in the project and joined the effort, contributing the first occult-themed lyrics. Both musicians agreed on the artistic concept, each contributing one word to create the compound name Witch-goat, which was eventually stylized as Witchgöat.

In early 2017, M. Miasma recruited bassist C. Fog, while P. Scyther brought in drummer E. Driller. While continuing to compose new material, the band began rehearsing. In early 2018, they recorded the demo Umbra Regit, followed shortly afterward by their debut album, Egregors of the Black Faith. Both releases received positive reviews from specialized media and were unleashed by the black flag of Salvadorean label Morbid Skull Records.

In 2022, Witchgöat returned to the studio to record Altars of Necromancy, an album released in late 2023 that pushed their sound further toward pure black metal in both composition and production, also released by Morbid Skull Records. In 2024, the band reevaluated their musical direction and decided to create a new album that would combine the strongest and most acclaimed elements of their previous works. They focused on refining their compositional maturity, enhancing their guitar solos, and incorporating influences from traditional speed metal.

This approach led Witchgöat to record their third album, Serpent Hordes, in 2025. Not only does its release mark the 10th anniversary of the band, but more importantly, the album successfully captures the essence of Witchgöat and reflects the maturity and balance the members have achieved as musicians. With almost alchemical magick—or perhaps a particularly effective time-machine—the quartet incorporate trace elements of classic Swordmaster, Dissection, Lord Belial, Sweden's Crown Of Thorns, and the culter likes of fellow Swedes Cardinal Sin and Raise Hell while keeping a ripping-forth-from-Hell atmosphere of Pleasure to Kill-era Kreator. That this conspicuous synthesis results in an authentic, iron-clad identity for Witchgöat makes Serpent Hordes all the more amazing. Which is to say nothing of the freezing-fire melodicism and true-as-steel solos...in short, the past is alive and fierier than ever!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new title track "Serpent Hordes" HERE at Personal Records' Bandcamp. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Witchgöat's Serpent Hordes

1. Echoes from the Abyss (Intro)

2. Ophidian Will

3. Serpent Hordes

4. Lesser Shadows

5. Necrophiliac Fever

6. Requiem for Myself

7. Deceivers of the Crucifix

8. Storming the Walls of Eternity

9. Nyctophiliac

10. In the Fog (Outro)

Nowy HERZOG za trzy tygodnie

 

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces October 26th as the international release date for the second and final album of Belgium's Herzog, Mugwort, on ​CD and vinyl LP formats.

Mugwort is the swansong of our beloved husband, brother, son, and friend, Asgeir Amort.

The composition of this album began in 2024, in a state of pure potential, of futures dreamt and hopes risen high. It emerged from a soul with an endless thirst for life, a contagious gift for joy, and a ravenous desire to create. Yet, nested in his core, death was on its way.

Unbeknownst to him, to his wife, to his family and friends, a silent and vicious disease had taken hold. Moving into 2025, a persistent and unfamiliar pain. Frightening images. And then the culprit: a vertebra, devoured and collapsed, as though struck by a curse. The brutal revelation of an aggressive kidney cancer. Surgery followed surgery in a desperate effort to preserve his mobility. Asgeir fought—with hope, with fury, with dignity—determined to reclaim his future. But the odds were cruel and interventions inevitably failed. Paralysed from the chest down, the numbness creeping upward, time suddenly measured not in years but in months.

Months left to live. Months to write. Months to complete what he had begun. Finishing this album became his obsession.

Mugwort tells the story of Asgeir Amort’s final year among us. It speaks of shock, of pain, of the violence of losing everything you held true. It speaks of struggle—and of survival in its deepest sense. But above all, it speaks of love. Of how Asgeir, amid the immeasurable pain of being robbed of his future, his youth, his body, found the courage and strength to rise into a place of unconditional love, his wheelchair bounding his body, yet his soul standing upright, in acceptance and defiance.

This album is also a testament to the wild unpredictability of life—its absurdity, its cruelty, its fragile beauty. It tells of the strength found in presence. Of living fiercely in the moment when tomorrow is no longer promised. Of resilience. Of perseverance. Of dignity in the face of the inevitable.

Asgeir was joyful, witty, luminous. A radiant force to all who knew him. He left this world as he lived in it—wrapped in love, courage, and grace.

In the first part of this story, you will hear Asgeir’s own voice. In the second, written after cancer had stolen his diaphragm, his wife Isa Myling carries his words forward—a lament, a continuation, a final act of love.

This is Mugwort.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Trauma" HERE at Amor Fati's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Herzog (Belgium)'s Mugwort

1. Region of the Nest [4:50]

2. Dawn of the Prosper [7:10]

3. Trauma [7:32]

4. Chaosphonia [4:47]

5. Saudade [5:21]

6. Post-Truth [6:05]

Singiel VELNIAS

 

VELNIAS are proud to present their fourth studio album – Substrate Haruspex. Recorded in 2024 between Denver (World Famous Studios) and Nederland (Tvirtove) Colorado, this latest offering presents a dense and atmospheric sonic journey into the unraveling and reconstruction of the self beneath the vastness of the infinitely unfolding Macrocosm.

The eight monumental songs contained within serve as invocations to herald the expulsion of delusion, dissolution of the confines, splintering of the construct, and kindling of the forsaken fire amidst the shadow of Nihil ascendant.

Mixed by Stephen Parker (MAESTUS/PILLORIAN/PARAPHILIA) and mastered by Greg Chandler (ESOTERIC), Substrate Haruspex showcases VELNIAS at peak form as we are borne to witness the continued evolution of their unique amalgam of iconoclastic folk doom.

Tracklist:

Impetus Arcanum

Divination of Simulacra

Resonance of the Concentric

Mantra for the Seeker

Corporeal Anathema

Nihil Equilibrium

Rending of Dyadiac Convolution

Forsaken Equipoise

Recenzja The Lovecraft Sextet „Penance”

 The Lovecraft Sextet

„Penance”

Debemur Morti 2026

The Lovecraft Sextet to twór teoretycznie leżący poza moim zasięgiem zainteresowań. Teoretycznie, bowiem jeśli ktoś uważny, spostrzeże, że ów projekt Jasona Köhnena pojawiał się uprzednio na Apocalyptic Rites już dwukrotnie, i zawsze oceniany był przeze mnie w samych superlatywach. No ale jakże mogłoby być inaczej, skoro facet, nawet stosując niekonwencjonalne środki, trafia mnie w czuły punkt. (Czytaj dalej...)

Singiel od NIGHT GAUNT

 

Today, Italian doom iconoclasts Night Gaunt premiere the new track "The Deer and the Hunter" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated third album, Rupture, set for international release on November 6th via Aural Music. Hear Night Gaunt's "The Deer and the Hunter" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Some records are written. Others emerge slowly, shaped by time, silence and necessity.

Born in Rome in 2013, Night Gaunt have always pursued the hidden emotional landscapes that lie beyond the confines of conventional doom metal. Their music exists where overwhelming weight dissolves into fragile stillness, where darkness is not an aesthetic choice but an honest language through which loss, transformation, and resilience find their voice. Drawing from the solemn gravity of doom, the spectral melancholy of post-punk, the intimacy of dark folk, and the abrasive pulse of industrial music, the band has cultivated a sound that refuses permanence, embracing constant evolution instead.

Following years of performances throughout Italy and Europe, personal upheaval and artistic reinvention, Night Gaunt return with Rupture—not merely a new chapter, but the inevitable consequence of everything that came before.

Conceived over several years of relentless reworking, Rupture is an album born from erosion rather than accumulation. Songs were stripped back, dismantled, and rebuilt until only what truly mattered remained. Every note, every silence, and every shift in texture serves a single emotional current flowing beneath the record's surface.

Doom metal remains its beating heart, yet the album moves with quiet confidence through desolate acoustic passages, haunted folk melodies, post-punk shadows, and industrial unease. These seemingly distant worlds converge into a work that feels less like a collection of songs than a solitary passage through fractured inner landscapes, where beauty reveals itself in decay and light exists only because darkness gives it shape. Designed to be experienced as a complete and uninterrupted journey, Rupture unfolds with deliberate pacing and cinematic cohesion. Each composition becomes part of a larger narrative, inviting the listener into an immersive space where memory, absence, and emotional catharsis slowly intertwine.

Rupture is Night Gaunt's most complete artistic statement—a meditation on what survives after everything familiar has fallen apart.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "The Deer and the Hunter" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also see & hear the previously revealed video "Of Clouds and Gleam" HERE at Night Gaunt's official YouTube channel. Also hear the track HERE at Aural Music's Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Night Gaunt's Rupture

1. Of Clouds and Gleam

2. Strangers

3. Struck by the Fever

4. Ordeal

5. The Revenant

6. The Deer and the Hunter

7. September Song

8. The Antagonist

9. Blooming

10. The End

Klip ARCKANUM

 

Today, Swedish black metal legends Arckanum reveal the new video "Mz Fianda Raþi - (Mz Fianda Rathi)." The track is the first to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated 10th album, Beswærilsin, set for international release on October 31st via Darkness Shall Rise Productions.

EYES OF AGONY zapowiadają debiutancki album

 

Today, Awakening Records announces November 20th as the international release date for Eyes of Agony’s highly anticipated debut album, When They Return, on CD format.

Eyes of Agony is a death metal band created by Danny Cinicolo, founder of such old-school Italian death metal bands as Excidium and Maleficarum, whose histories stretch back to the ‘90s and even into the mid ‘80s. He started compositions for this project many years ago, and some tracks were also published on Danny’s YouTube channel (Danny Cynic), which – with 20,000 subscribers – received a lot of views and interest by death metal fans. That gave Cinicolo the conviction to continue composing more tracks for a full-length, and soon after, he contacted Andrea Zanetti, his old friend and bandmate in Maleficarum, and asked him if he would be part of this project.

Zanetti is a well-known veteran vocalist in Italy whose wealth of experience in death metal spans such bands as Iconoclast, Schizo, Monumentum (on the classic In Absentia Christi), Sinoath, and the aforementioned Maleficarum. After hearing some of Cinicolo’s new tracks, Zanetti was very impressed by their quality – so much so that he soon joined the project and, together with Cinicolo, started searching for other members to complete the lineup.

After contacting many drummers in the wider Italian scene, the duo finally got in contact with Davide Billia, one of the most professional and technical drummers in the Italian death metal scene, whose credits include Beheaded, Hour of Penance, Antropofagus, Putridity, and Septycal Gorge among many others. Billia accepts to be part of the band and records all the drum parts in his personal studio, MK2 Recording Studios.

To complete the lineup, Cinicolo next asked his friend Massimo Boffa – an exceptional guitarist whose credits include Mind Control and Halley – and Fabrizio Biondi (Jesus), a talented bass-player that was part of Mechanical God Creation, to join the project.

With Eyes of Agony’s lineup now completed, the members started recording their own parts for the band’s imminent debut album, When They Return. Featuring nine tracks across 36 minutes, When They Return is complete and total OLD-SCHOOL DEATH METAL – as expected from such an esteemed membership. And yet, Eyes of Agony are full of surprises, even with influences as firm as Incantation, Nile, Cannibal Corpse, At the Gates, and Death. For one, the quintet sound every inch a “real” band – that is, five guys playing together as one unit – despite the geographical distance. For another, credit for that must go to the band’s songwriting, which surges and slithers with malevolent intent – thoughtful, nuanced, hovering both above and below the linear, and dotted with tasteful & well-timed solos – all without losing an exceptionally evil, suffocating atmosphere. Completing the totality of Eyes of Agony’s first statement is the crisp-yet-punishing mix & master by Luca Nicolucci at Comet Broadcasting Studio.

How dark is Eyes of Agony’s future? Only they know...When They Return!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Resuscitation Failed" HERE at Awakening Records' official YouTube channel. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Julian Mortuus, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Eyes of Agony's When They Return

1. The Blackening of the Skies

2. Infected Lands

3. Altars of Hate

4. As Angels Fall

5. And Life Slips Away

6. Resuscitation Failed

7. Underworlds of Atrocity

8. Eyes of Agony

9. When They Return

Recenzja The Bleeding „Godless Communion”

 The Bleeding

„Godless Communion”

Redefining Darkness 2026

„The Bleeding” to czwarty album Cannibal Corpse. Tak się akurat składa, że londyński The Bleeding wydaje swoją czwartą płytę (a pierwszą, z którą się stykam). Ot taka koincydencja, zupełnie nie mająca nic wspólnego z zawartością albumu, który właśnie się u mnie kręci. Choć, stop! Coś ma, ale o tym za chwilę. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja Arckanum „Beswærilsin”

 Arckanum

„Beswærilsin”

Darkness Shall Rise Productions 2026

W czerwcu była epka, która swoją jakością zapowiadała, kolejny, dziesiąty już album tego szwedzkiego projektu. Teraz jest właśnie i płyta, która nie zawiodła moich oczekiwań, choć ostateczny jej wydźwięk do najgłębiej w podziemiu osadzonych nie należy. To materiał odznaczający się dobrą produkcją oraz teatralnością, które odwodzą go od skrajnie szatańskich wykwitów. (Czytaj dalej...)

Debiut SENTRIES za miesiąc

 

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces November 4th as the international release date for Sentries' striking debut album, Disciples of Void & Fire, on CD and viny LP formats.

A gathering of musicians from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway, Sentries awaken to release their sonic aura upon an overpopulated world. Forging their own way into darkness, obscured and shapeshifting, they unleash their first public statement.

The debut album Disciples of Void & Fire is packed with a heavy arsenal of fierce hatred and mysterious soundscapes, draped in blood and crawling with infectious melodies. Sentries are both harsh and immersive, always with a nerve, sharp like a needle, ready to pierce both mind and soul. Firmly rooted in black metal, fast-paced and melodic at the same time, Sentries are never easy on the ear: pummeling and striking, an aural attack with passion and anxiety, rage and hate.

Six hymns forged in darkness, six standalone chapters linked together to form a captivating album with one goal: to draw the listener away from reality and seek shelter within its realm of sonic abuse and filth. Sentries' incantations serve as a gateway to external as well as inner dimensions. No matter the dynamic, it still is sharp as a razor, cutting its way to the very core of your soul.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Dying Stars and Skies Ablaze" HERE at Amor Fati's official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Sentries' Disciples of Void & Fire

1. Arise, Thou who Dwelleth in Shadows [6:39]

2. Dying Stars and Skies Ablaze [6:55]

3. Lacerations of Ages [5:26]

4. Into the Dawn Beyond Mortality [7:56]

5. Towards the Monolith of Grief [6:51]

6. Sentries of Stone and Hatred [7:35]