Promo wałek od MORGUILIATH

 

Today, French black metal cult Morguiliath premiere the new track "Venom and Vomit" at the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. The track is the first to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album, Occult Sins, New Unholy Dimension, set for international release on November 26th via Osmose Productions on CD format; the vinyl LP version shall follow later. Hear Morguiliath's "Venom and Vomit" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Morguiliath was born in the south of France by Rats in 2004, offering multiple concerts and performances. Two demos have been released and distributed independently. The first album, Age of Misanthropia Human Blood and Chaos, was released in 2020 by Vacuum Tehiru Productions as a very dark album dealing with occultism, demonology, Chaos, and the annihilation of monotheistic beliefs and all forms of religious cults.

Rats is the only one active member in this project, who is also involved in two other projects: Suicide Circle with the illustrious boss of French black metal, Meyhnach, produced and distributed by Osmose; and Dhärnürgh, which remains an independent alternative project.

The new album Occult Sins, New Unholy Dimension follows the path of Morguiliath and respects the ethics of '80s and '90s black metal, associating thrash / black metal riffs without forgetting an unhealthy and abysmal atmosphere. Many influences are present here, such as Bathory, Venom, Darkthrone, Nëhëmäh, Hell Militia, Mütiilation, and others...

In the meantime, hear the first track premiere "Venom and Vomit" exclusively HERE, courtesy of the Black Metal Promotion Youtube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Morguiliath's Occult Sins, New Unholy Dimension
1. Occult Sins, New Unholy Dimension [2:19]
2. Pass Away [4:59]
3. Black Pearl [5:58]
4. Ad Mortem Festinamus [4:40]
5. Aborted Inquisition [6:39]
6. Venom and Vomit [7:27]
7. Gloria [7:44]
8. Ghouls Sphere [7:54]

Drugi album MÜTTERLEIN w ostatnich dniach roku

 

Bringing the old year to a closure, French solo project MÜTTERLEIN heralds the coming of its second album, "Bring Down The Flags", via Debemur Morti Productions on December 30th (December 31st on streaming platforms). Not surprising to MÜTTERLEIN's fans and followers, "Bring Down The Flags" once again escapes all categorizations and oscillates between borderline-Black Metal, subterranean sound-design and electronics, ritualistic Doom, post-Punk savagery and brutally hypnotic Industrial rhythms. All these elements are fused into six unique compositions:

01. The Descent

02. A Mass For It

03. Mother Of Wrath

04. Violence And Misery

05. A Mess To Me

06. Requiem

All music on "Bring Down The Flags" was composed and recorded by MÜTTERLEIN. The mixing and mastering took place at Kerwax Analog Recording Studio (DEATHSPELL OMEGA) in 2021. Enigmatic visual artist Dehn Sora (BLUT AUS NORD, AMENRA) is responsible for the album artwork.

MÜTTERLEIN is the solo project of Marion Leclercq (ex-OVERMARS), composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.

Adopted in 2014, this pseudonym is a nod to the nightmarish yet fragile work of NICO, who in many ways deconstructed the unbearable myth of 'femininity' imposed on us. Musically, MÜTTERLEIN mixes Post-Punk savagery, Doom, Noise, Industrial and Black Metal to create a vast universe of Post-Metal experimentation.

First album, "Orphans Of The Black Sun" - released in 2016 on Sundust Records, a label co-run by Vindsval from BLUT AUS NORD – leaned towards the Post-Punk and Doom registers using minimalist, cold instrumentation to create a record organic and ritualistic as a witch-dance around a fire.

In 2020, MÜTTERLEIN responded to an invitation by the artist LIMBES (ex-BLURR THROWER) to create a mirror piece to his epic 25 minute track entitled "Vérité" (French for Truth) for a split release issued in 2021 by LADLO. The free format allowed MÜTTERLEIN to experiment even further, constructing a slow, desolate dreamscape of doom-laden Dark Ambient.

"Bring Down The Flags", MÜTTERLEIN's second album, will be released in late 2021 by Debemur Morti Productions. Dark, haunting and immediate, the album incorporates more electronic sounds and blackened Industrial atmospheres to serve a more direct subject and voice.

Listen to 'The Descent' on the YouTube channel of the label:

Debiut GOLD SPIRE do odsłuchu

 

Today, blown-mind death metallers Gold Spire stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Gold Spire, at Decibel magazine's website. Set for international release on November 5th via Chaos Records, hear Gold Spire's Gold Spire in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Hear all of it for yourself exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. Also see & hear the previously revealed video for "Headless Snake" exclusively HERE, courtesy of France's New Noise magazine. Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Gold Spire's Gold Spire
1. Day Dawns Dark
2. Headless Snake
3. The Old Bridge
4. Gloria
5. Husk of God
6. Skull Choirs
7. Fetid Waters
8. The Wayfinder

Singiel i zapowiedź debiutu TENSION

 

On January 28th, 2022 internationally, Dying Victims Productions will release the highly anticipated debut album of Germany’s Tension, Decay, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. And today, Deaf Forever magazine's website premieres the new track "Hellflight." Hear Tension's "Hellflight" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Hailing from Leipzig, Germany’s Tension was founded in 2015 by vocalist Maik H. and guitarist Phil. M. during a night of dozens of heavy metal records and unlimited amounts of beer. The band was then rounded out by ex-members of Toxic Beast and Germany’s Prowler.

From the beginning, Tension’s influences were firm: the First Wave of Swedish Heavy Metal (or FWOSWHM), including the likes of Gotham City, Heavy Load, Jackwave, Parasite, Jonah Quizz, Depzon, and Stitch among others; the always-eternal NWOBHM, but particularly Satan, Traitors Gate, Wolf, Ritual, and Lime Light; heavy metal from the Eastern Bloc like Aria, Ossian, Formel I, Omen, and Pokolgép; and different kinds of punk music, but most prominently The Misfits and Discharge. In other words, the PERFECT type of band for Dying Victims – and not surprisingly, Tension released their self-titled debut EP through the label in 2017. Gigs followed with the esteemed likes of Manilla Road, Satan, Pagan Altar, Tokyo Blade, and Alien Force among others.

Now, nearly five years since the Tension short-length, Tension unleash their debut album, Decay. Right from its very first seconds, Decay sparkles with an excitement that’s absolutely addicting and endearingly timeless, running through a virtual jukebox of Old but brimming with the effervescence of Now. It’s pure heavy metal, through and through, with juiced-up hard rock and moody punk subtly integrated, and the power is always in abundance but never overbearing; Tension’s cool & cruising momentum harkens to a lost era of feel over sheer speed. At the fore are nightsky-ascending lead guitars, whose narrative melodies straddle a fine line between metal classicism and something closer to dark hard rock. And Maik’s clear ‘n’ emotive vocals bespeak bathos and pathos, bravado but tenderness, epic adventures as well as long nights at the bar.

The cassette and CD versions of Decay will include nine tracks, with the self-titled EP added to the latter as bonus tracks. The vinyl version of the album will include eight tracks due to length, with the extra track saved for a split EP to be released later in 2022. In the meantime, no better time to experience the “Higher Power” of Tension’s Decay!

Begin experiencing Tension with the brand-new track "Hellflight" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Deaf Forever, Germany's defenders of the true. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Tension (Germany)'s Decay
1. Open The Gates
2. Higher Power
3. Hellflight
4. Cosmic Gaze
5. Age Of The Stars
6. Black Knights
7. Mooncrusher
8. Mistress
9. Earth Crisis [CD/tape bonus track]

Debiutancka EP-ka ABHORRATION jeszcze w tym miesiącu

 

Today, Invictus Productions announces November 26th as the international release date for the striking debut EP of Norway's Abhorration, After Winter Comes War, on cassette tape format. The CD and 12" vinyl versions will follow next year.

A brand-new formation begun in early 2020, Norway's Abhorration nevertheless feature members hailing from such bands as Condor, Nekromantheon, Hecatomb, Resonaut, Purple Hill Witch, and Obliteration. While one could reasonably expect what sound might result from such a conglomeration, the power-trio's first public recording, After Winter Comes War, aims for an olde-world Metal of Death that abounds with a refreshing sense of the "new." Here, Abhorration invoke and re-arrange trace elements of classic Sadistic Intent, Morbid Angel, Possessed, and early Vader into something uniquely labyrinthine - epic, haunting, and most devotedly METAL above all - with the wicked angularity of prime Axis of Advance to make proceedings that much more twisted & pissed. The recording across After Winter Comes War is suitably raw, but the execution is deadly tight, and the four component compositions thus ripple with an intensity that's scabrous. And thankfully, not once is there a cloying sense of "retro" here. Truly, an auspicious first start for this formation!

What comes after After Winter Comes War? Only Abhorration know at this moment - the band has since expanded to a quartet, and a full-length is rumored to be in the works - but Invictus is ready for whatever arsenal is provided next!

The first arsenal can be found with the brand-new title track "After Winter Comes War" HERE at Invictus Productions' Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Abhorration (Norway)'s After Winter Comes War
1. After Winter Comes War [5:03]
2. Ten Trenches of Malebolge [6:22]
3. Desecrate the Exploits of God [5:39]
4. The Great Storm of Putrefaction [4:28]

Recenzja Dakhma „Blessings of Amurdad”

 Dakhma

„Blessings of Amurdad”

Eisenwald 2021

Zanim włożycie najnowszy, drugi długogrający materiał Dakhma do odtwarzacza, spójrzcie na okładkę i przyjrzyjcie się jej uważnie. Zastanówcie się jednocześnie, czy aby na pewno jest to miejsce do którego pragniecie się udać. Bo gwarantuję, że jeśli wkroczycie do, tradycyjnie już w przypadku zespołu, inspirowanego Zaratusztrianizmem świata, to tak, jakbyście znaleźli się w samym centrum burzy piaskowej. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja EDENIC PAST „Red Amarcord”

 EDENIC PAST

„Red Amarcord”

Sentient Ruin Laboratories 2021

Edenic Past to projekt stworzony przez trzech wirtuozów, a zarazem wizjonerów (a to nie zawsze idzie w parze) szeroko pojętej sceny metalowej. Tworzą go: Nicolas McMaster (Geryon, Krallice, Sallah, TurrisEburnea), Colin Marston (Gorguts, Encenathrakh, Krallice, Dysrhtthmia, CatatonicEffigy) i Paulo Henri Paguntalan (Miasmatic Necrosis, Encenathrakh, Copremesis, Artificial Brain), a zatem widzicie, że to nie byle jacy grajkowie, z pierwszej, lepszej łapanki, tylko muzycy, którzy doskonale wiedzą jak przyjebać w taki sposób, aby z mózgu nie było co zbierać, co udowadniają dobitnie na pierwszej, dużej płycie swego najnowszego (nowo)tworu zatytułowanej „Red Amarcord”. (Czytaj dalej...)

Debiutancki materiał IN APHELION do odsłuchu

 

Today, Swedish black/death upstarts In Aphelion stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut EP, Luciferian Age, at Legacy magazine's website. Set for international release on November 5th via Edged Circle Productions on CD format - the 12" vinyl version will follow in February 2022 - hear In Aphelion's Luciferian Age in its entirety exclusively HERE.

In the leadup to its international release this Friday, hear Luciferian Age in its entirety exclusively HERE, courtesy of Legacy, Germany's premier extreme metal authority. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for In Aphelion's Luciferian Age
1. Draugr [7:50]
2. Luciferian Age [4:40]
3. Wrath of a False God [6:28]
4. Pleasure to Kill (Kreator cover) [3:56]

Nowy klip od HEXENBRETT

 

Today, sonic iconoclasts Hexenbrett premiere the new video "Sadist" at Deaf Forever magazine's website. The track hails from the band's highly anticipated new EP, Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi, recently released by Dying Victims Productions. See & hear Hexenbrett's "Sadist" video in its entirety exclusively HERE.

OBSIDIAN HOOVES "Morbidity" wkrótce nakładem Morbid Chapel

 

OBSIDIAN HOOVES "Morbidity" available soon on CD!

 

Murky, cavernous and obscure Death Metal debut from USA. Decayed coffins will be your new home for the duration of your encounter with this monstrosity. You will feel the crawling vermin under your skin and blackness will flow through your veins. Endless suffering will fill your mind... This is exactly what "Morbidity" is. CD limited to 500 copies will be out in the first week on November 2021!

Cooperation with Rotten Tomb Records.

OBSIDIAN HOOVES "Morbidity" wkrótce dostępny na CD!

Mroczny, przepastny i obskurny Death Metalowy debiut z USA. Zbutwiałe trumny będą Twoim nowym domem na czas spotkania z tym potworem. Poczujesz pełzające pod skórą robactwo, a czerń popłynie w Twoich żyłach. Niekończące się cierpienie zawładnie nad Twoim umysłem... To jest dokładnie, to czym jest "Morbidity". Płyta limitowana do 500 kopii ukaże się w pierwszym tygodniu listopada 2021!

Współpraca z Rotten Tomb Records.

Kilka nowości w Northern Heritage

 

1.11. comes out NH-111. Long awaited third album of WARLOGHE! In same batch follows new BLOODHAMMER mCD, new STABAT MATER full lenght and first time on compact disc, repress of EXORDIUM “Nihil Inri” ep + live tape as bonus. Vinyl editions of some of these will come sometime 2022. It will take unusually long time. No digital downloads or streams at this point. Only compact disc.

NH-111 WARLOGHE ”Three Angled Void” CD

2021, third album of Warloghe! Long awaited return of unholy Black Metal!

NH-112 BLOODHAMMER ”Henki Tähtien Takaa” mCD
new miniCD totalling 20+ mins duration of excellent Bloodhammer epic Black Metal close to previous album!

NH-113 STABAT MATER ”Treason By Son Of Man” CD
2021 album of crushing Black-Doom, ripping, dark and cruel album pushed Stabat Mater leap forward
Also available limited run of album t-shirt

NH-046 EXORDIUM ”Nihil Inri” mCD
Fast and fierce Finnish Black Metal! First time on CD, the 7” + live tape total duration c. 50 mins!

Nowy album FLAGG jeszcze w tym roku

 

Purity Through Fire is proud to present Flagg's highly anticipated second album, Cosmic Chaos Manifest, on CD, A5 digipack, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. The CD and tape versions shall be released on December 12th while the vinyl will follow in summer 2022.

When Flagg burst from the void in June 2020 with their debut album, Nothing But Death, the veil of secrecy had yet to be lifted. Which mattered not, when presented with black metal of such sterling quality: both ancient and ageless, old yet new. Their attack was immediately intense, exhibiting a restlessness that's roiling and raging, always moving but always with a target in sight. Eventually, it was revealed that Flagg hailed from Finland and was the work of selfsame multi-instrumentalist Flagg, who was a part of reanimated old Finnish cult Annihilatus, and vocalist Tyrant, whose hordes include the esteemed likes of Malum, Infernarium, and Kalmankantaja.

With that lineup thus set, Flagg return little more than a year later with their second full-length, Cosmic Chaos Manifest. An immediately harsher spin than its not-inconsiderable predecessor, Cosmic Chaos Manifest duly lives up to its title through a shapeshifting style of ultraviolence that retains a unique gleam, one that's paradoxically grittier for all its seemingly on-the-surface clarity. As ever, Flagg's songwriting strikes true through a skillful balance between burning fire and nightsky melodicism, here actually sounding more richly 1990s - specifically, the oft-overlooked late '90s - than the comparatively modernist grime of Nothing But Death. But, just like that bolt-from-the-blue debut, Flagg understand archaic expressions, the Old Language of Black Metal, where medieval atmosphere and ghostly portent informed even the most straightforward forms, rendering an air of aristocracy to that of belligerent bravado; now, they're just rendered in more restless, dizzying form.

Graced with another absolutely stunning cover courtesy of Vhan Artworks & Printing, Flagg's iron fist punches through past, present, and future with Cosmic Chaos Manifest!

Get punched by the brand-new track "Devil's Blood" HERE at Purity Through Fire's official YouTube channel. Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Flagg's Cosmic Chaos Manifest
1. Invoking the Outer Dark (Intro)
2. Cosmic Chaos Manifest
3. Devil's Blood
4. Circle of Stones
5. Serpent's Chamber
6. Cross-Ravished Bastard
7. Flame of Hate
8. Plague Eternal
9. The Fall of Men
10. To the Coldness Beyond

Recenzja Zmarłym „Druga Fala”

 Zmarłym

„Druga Fala”

Godz Ov War 2021

Widzę, że jest coraz lepiej. Pomału chyba kończą się niewykorzystane dotąd szyldy, więc idziemy w dopełniacze. Mogę się jedynie domyślać, że niektórzy nie sięgną po tą płytę właśnie choćby z powodu nazwy zespołu. Drugim będzie, słuszny zresztą, domysł, iż zespół para się nowoczesnym, kombinowanym (post?) black metalem. Bo faktycznie, tego typu zespołami ostatnio dość mocno sypnęło i mi też pomału coraz ciężej oddzielać ziarna od plew. (Czytaj dalej...)

Recenzja SPELL OF UNSEEING „Weaving Light & Shadow”

 SPELL OF UNSEEING

„Weaving Light & Shadow” (Mcd)

Northern Silence Productions 2021

„Tkanie Światła i Cienia” to materiał przeznaczony dla wszystkich, którzy, choć odrobinkę tęsknią do pierwszych produkcji Mortiis, Fata Morgana, Vond, Neptune Towers, Wongraven, Cintecele Diavolui, czy austriackiego Pazuzu. Taką bowiem twórczość, kultywującą Old School Dungeon Synth znajdziemy na tym wydawnictwie, które swą premierę miało 24 września 2021r. pod sztandarami Northern Silence Productions. (Czytaj dalej...)

Iron Bonehead rozpocznie nowy rok debiutem FURIS IGNIS

 

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces January 14th, 2022 as the international release date for Furis Ignis' striking debut album, Decapitate the Aging World, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Furis Ignis is brand-new one-man entity hailing from Germany. Despite its relative newness, Furis Ignis indeed wields German steel forged during the days of the ancients. No more but definitely no less, the band's Decapitate the Aging World debut is pure 'n' proud black metal from the days when black metal was strictly BLACK METAL. As forecasted by its starkly alluring cover art, Decapitate the Aging World recalls misty and mystical spirits from glorious, desolate times - be they Moonblood or early Desaster or equally early Katharsis - planting the banner of olde Germania deep into the frost-covered soil. And yet, for all this requisite coldness, more potently does a FIRE burn within Furis Ignis that makes its debut statement one that commands attention for its undeniably physical intensity: ghoulish and grim, yes, but stout and muscular and legitimately live. Underpinning this fiery intensity is a tasteful dusting of shimmering synth - "a touch of medieval darkness," as it were - just lingering enough like fog across a haunted moor.

Undeniably epic in its six-song/40-minute construction, Decapitate the Aging World breathes new life into death. Furis Ignis is on the march!

Begin marching with the brand-new track "Witness the Nightsky Palpitating to the Beat of Premonition" HERE at Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Furis Ignis' Decapitate the Aging World
1. Witness The Nightsky Palpitating To The Beat Of Premonition [8:16]
2. Hostis Mundi [5:55]
3. Guarding The Gate [13:27]
4. Zinnen Von Eis [2:59]
5. C.B.M.G.3 [3:04]
6. Donner In Den Bergen [5:23]