Month: July 2018

Pre-NAZXUL band ICHOR set release date for long-awaited SEANCE debut album, reveal first track

Today, Seance Records sets October 5th as the international release date for the long-awaited debut album of Australia’s Ichor, God of Thunder God of War.

If the name Ichor isn’t immediately familiar, it’s for good reason: this extremely cult black metal band formed in 1993 and disbanded later that year. During that time, the band recorded and released a self-titled four-track demo tape. But, its disbanding was also for good reason: Ichor’s two members, Wraith and Diablore, wanted to focus on their other band, the now-legendary Nazxul. Thus, in the grand context of Australian black metal, Ichor served as an oft-unknown yet crucial puzzle piece.

Late in 2017, the decision was made by Wraith and Diablore to re-form Ichor, and the duo promptly recorded the band’s first full-length. Aptly titled God of Thunder God of War, Ichor’s debut album thematically focuses on Slavic paganism. In fact, the moniker Ichor itself the ancient Greek word for the fluid that runs in the gods’ veins; the concept behind using that word was that the only difference between humanity and the gods is a physical substance or principal, thusly meaning that humanity can rise to the ranks of gods.

With that foundation at hand, Ichor’s God of Thunder God of War indeed soars to the heights – and likewise depths – through a sinuous surge of stout, atmospherically inclined black metal. In many ways, the album’s a culmination and consolidation of the paradigmatic Australian black metal sound pioneered by Nazxul – and, by proxy, Ichor – as it wends and wends through the sturm und drang, the tragedy and triumph, for which OZBM has become so renown for nearly two decades. Suitably, here is a sound both timeless and current, breathing the essence of ancient days and charging forward across the present simultaneously: grim majesty and bittersweet melodicism commingle, their tendrils locking together as the almost-levitational thrust of Ichor’s palpable physicality takes flight. It all makes for high drama, suggestive of a narrative arc, and its remarkably compact six-song/37-minute runtime feels far more epic than it has any right to be. Understandably, the album contains a rerecording of one of the original demo tracks, titled “Daughters Of Wrath” – a song about the cunning folk and practitioners of the Slavonic native faith, witches.

Let it be known, however, that God of Thunder God of War is no mere “retro” gesture: Ichor are currently working on new material, and will be an ongoing band. In the meantime, hail the old gods – God of Thunder God of War! Begin hailing with the new track “Spectres of the Woods”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ichor’s God of Thunder God of War
1. Spectres Of The Woods
2. Noble Ichor
3. Vucica
4. Call Of The Bloodthirst
5. Yaga’s Tomb
6. Daughters Of Wrath

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ARCHGOAT unveil a second track from their upcoming new album, ‘The Luciferian Crown’ !

ARCHGOAT unveil a second track from their upcoming new album, ‘The Luciferian Crown’ !

‘The Obsidian Flame (From My Depths)’ is built on a colossally grim, thuggishly heavy, lethally toxic riff. The momentum of the music isn’t a rush, nor animated by technical acrobatics. The pace is like that of a heaving, stalking behemoth, driven by a slow, punishing drum cadence — which erupts in bursts of thundering mania without warning.

The vocals, of course, are a heartless croaking sound which seems only barely human. And the song is further marked by paranormal lead-guitar vibrations that truly seem like emanations from a sulphurous realm. Those brief perilous melodies warble, swirl, and ring out in devilish clarion calls. The combination of all these ingredients is like a primal invocation, a summoning of demonic lust, or perhaps like a tumor that grows in the listener’s brain and continues to fester there after the track ends. (No Clean Singing)

Chris Moyen created the vision of hellish worship and orgy on the cover and the layout was crafted by Kontamination Design.

‘The Luciferian Crown’ features 9 (+intro) new angelslaying Black Metal hymns :

01. Intrantation
02. Jesus Christ Father of Lies
03. Jezebels Black Mass Orgy
04. Messiah of Pigs
05. Darkness has Returned
06. Sorcery and Doom
07. Star of Darkness and Abyss
08. The Obsidian Flame (From My Depths)
09. The Luciferian Crown (Venom Of God)
10. I Am Lucifer’s Temple

“The Luciferian Crown” will be out on September 14th and is available for pre-order right now Gatefold Picture 12″ LP, Gatefold 12″ LP, Digipack CD, Digital Download. New merch is also available !

BLACK METAL NOISE EXPERIMENTALIST CROWHURST SIGNS WITH PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS

July 27, 2018 – Los Angeles, CA – Prophecy Productions has signed prolific experimental harsh noise/black metal crossover superstar, Crowhurst. A project headed by Jay Gambit, Crowhurst stands as a testament to his ability to weave ethereal, engaging soundscapes without falling into the trap which befalls so many prolific artists – predictability. Over 75 releases, and each album remains a dynamic, disorienting exploration unlike the last.
Beginning as a strictly experimental project, Crowhurst grew to encompass various collaborations with artists and producers such as Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Oathbreaker), who engineered & produced 2015’s I. The 2016 follow up, II was recorded in Manchester, England and produced at Machines With Magnets (The Body, Daughters). Crowhurst finalizes their trilogy with III, to be recorded with legendary producer & engineer Kurt Ballou (Converge, Full Of Hell) at God City Studios later this year, and will be Crowhurst’s Prophecy Productions debut. The effort features guest appearances from Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus, Death In June), Ethan Lee McCarthy (Primitive Man), and Tara Vanflower (Lycia, Type O Negative) amongst a handful of other notables.

Crowhurst’s music has been featured everywhere from Vice, Decibel, and Terrorizer to The Tom Green Show. Meanwhile, Gambit has collaborated with Gary Mundy (Skullflower, Ramleh), Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C.) and Eugene Robinson (Oxbow) amongst hundreds of others. Gambit is a person that you could talk music with for 6 hours and never repeat a single name. His taste changes across the board, and his music is reflective of this. His music varies, scares you, and leaves you hungry. Tiny Mix Tapes says, “Gambit is more along the lines of a 70’s Miles Davis”. Experimental, harsh, unrelenting and thoroughly unique.

Innovation is an important aspect of Crowhurst. On his signing with Prophecy, Gambit says, “With a roster who’s artists have a reputation for consistently breaking musical barriers and pushing genres in new directions, it is an insane honor to join the Prophecy family of artists.” With notable appearances at SXSW, Northwest Terror Fest and Days of Darkness II, Crowhurst is pleased to announce an appearance at the upcoming inaugural edition of Prophecy Fest USA in Brooklyn, NY this November.

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Atmospheric blackmetal act Taur-Im-Duinath “Così Parlò il Tuono” track streaming

Atmospheric blackmetal act, Taur-Im-Duinath, has launched a video streaming for the first single “Così Parlò il Tuono” off the upcoming album “Del Flusso Eterno”, which will be released in fall 2018!

“Così Parlò il Tuono” (Thus Spake the Thunder) represents the broken circle, the stasis, a void of life as well as a journey through a desertic land no more kissed by rain.

The voice of Thunder is the promise of the water’s return, and the life it generates. It is the voice of the creator God, warning the wanderer: “Give, compassion, control”.

Further news will follow during the following weeks….

More information about TAUR-IM-DUINATH can be found on the band’s social pages at:

Facebook url: https://www.facebook.com/taurimduinath/
Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/taur_im_duinath//

Dusktone :

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Australian black metal act, ILL OMEN announce Iron Bonehead 12″

IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a special mini-album from ILL OMEN, The Grande Usurper, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

Listen to it here

A prolific force within the Australian black metal underground, ILL OMEN has built a canon of enviably massive proportions – and not just “massive” in size, but rather in the heights/depths to which mainman IV aims. Much like he has in his death metal-oriented vehicle TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE, IV scours the murk with single-minded intent, but with ILL OMEN, he pursues a vision of black metal that’s ceremonial and sinuous, often slowly drifting like fog lingering across an empty grave. Such was the case with 2016’s massive Æ.Thy.Rift – arguably, IV’s perfection of slo-mo blackdoom – and here, he returns with his first recording since that critically acclaimed third album.

And yet, The Grande Usurper is a grand break from the gooey, stretched-out expanses of Æ.Thy.Rift. No less murky, instead, IV sends the listener on a wild ride through the most bestial recesses of the characteristic ILL OMEN sound. Across its four-song/25-minute runtime, The Grande Usurper roils and revels among the filth, pulsing with barely contained rage, as mind-melting solos yawn slowly up from the crypt, invoking that same sense of delirium as Æ.Thy.Rift but faster. Altogether, it’s a record that consolidates all the gnarled ‘n’ gnarling weapons within the ILL OMEN arsenal, but wields them in obscene and horrifyingly new ways. Hideous energy, slipstreaming songwriting, coffin-bound atmosphere crushed: here is revealed The Grande Usurper.

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RODENT EPOCH set release date for SATURNAL debut, reveal first track

Today, Saturnal Records sets October 12th as the international release date for Rodent Epoch’s striking debut album, Rodentlord. An exquisitely nasty work, Rodentlord proves that the filth & fury for which Finnish black metal has become renown in this millennium is far from dead. In fact, it’s UNDEAD, and Rodent Epoch are here to exhume the sound and bring forth their own epoch.

Rodent Epoch was founded in 2009 in Oulu, Finland. Upon the band’s formation, the primary influences fueling their filth & fury became darkness, sickness, cosmos, war, death, intoxication, psychedelia, horror, metal of all kinds – be it black, death, thrash, or doom – punk and rock ‘n’ roll. Suitably armed, Rodent Epoch proceeded to release their debut demo, EOR, in 2011, with the Hellbastard EP arriving a year later, both laying bare the band’s crude ‘n’ rude aesthetic.

Now arrives Rodentlord, which is a journey cathartic sweat: Rodent Epoch murder your ego and reveal your filthy animal host. Cosmic (un-) learning, noise worship, blood, fire, demons, trance and psychosis…all this and plenty more filth goes into the paradigmatic Finnish black metal lustily unleashed across Rodentlord’s 45-minute runtime. Yet, compared to many of their contemporaries both past and especially present, there’s a distinctly punkish and daresay-rockin’ thrust to Rodent Epoch. Their eight animalistic hymns sing thus:

RODENTLORD IS ALIVE
WE HAVE ALL RAISED HIM
WE ARE ALL GUILTY

Piss on purple candles, burn the robe… Come to me and my companions, come to the obscure dominions. We drugged the planet. Welcome to the mayhem, Me and You…
Molten black metal is already pouring down the tower walls. The monster awakens. WAKE UP! Necroseer, wake up! Necroseer, pure guts, pure man…

FUNERAL NEMESIS
MASTER NECRO
FUCK THE WORLD

The gutters explode, and your funeral has arrived. Its name is Rodentlord, and its vessels are the arrogant bastards of Rodent Epoch. Herald the Epoch’s arrival with the new track “High on Hades”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Rodent Epoch’s Rodentlord
1. High On Hades
2. Rodent Lord
3. Cult Of Mission
4. Mayhem In the Courtyard Of God
5. Red Heavens
6. Twisted Covenant
7. Nemesis Necro
8. Funeral Master

MORE INFO:
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Ukraine’s DIS ORCUS stream FOREVER PLAGUED debut album

The most (unbeknown) anticipated album of 2018 for True Black Metal…today, is the Dis Orcus’ debut album, Somnambulistic Visions. Set for international release on July 27th via Forever Plagued Records, hear Dis Orcus’ Somnambulistic Visions in its entirety exclusively HERE.

In these days, where black metal has lost its essence, replaced by dialogue from those who have no intrinsic affinity, Forever Plagued presents to you the debut album of Ukraine’s Dis Orcus. Bringing the very core of what has been lost, against the trends that have turned this genre into subjugated ruins, once again feel the reverberation of chaos and darkness with soulless certainty. Known in the underground for his work in Primogenorum, Haruspex has muted the defiance and created sounds that we call worthy to be defined as “true,” and Lucifug with his haunting vocals were conceived through servitude and pain to the chaos within!

Hear all of it for yourself exclusively HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Dis Orcus’ Somnambulistic Visions
1. Alone in the Empty Space
2. Somnambulistic Visions
3. The Circles of Fire and Dead
4. Frozen in the Embrace of Kokyto
5. Descending into Tartarus
6. Scorched Holy Earth

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Altarage on tour with Horna, Blaze of Perdition and more!

Enigmatic Spanish metal extremists ALTARAGE have announced a European tour this October/November with HORNA, BLAZE OF PERDITION, CREST OF DARKNESS, OBSOLETE THEORY and BLACK FAITH. See the full list of tour dates below.

The band comments: “The Endinghent will breathe again and Europe will succumb”.

ALTARAGE
With HORNA, BLAZE OF PERDITION, CREST OF DARKNESS, OBSOLETE THEORY and BLACK FAITH
31 Oct 18 Budapest (HU) Blue Hell
01 Nov 18 Kranj (SL) Trainstation Subart
02 Nov 18 San Dona Di Piave (IT) Revolver
03 Nov 18 Milan (IT) Slaughter Club
04 Nov 18 Lyon (FR) TBA
05 Nov 18 Paris (FR) Le Klub
06 Nov 18 Rouen (FR) Bifrost Club
07 Nov 18 Oberhausen (DE) Helvete
08 Nov 18 Erfurt (DE) Club From Hell
09 Nov 18 TBA (CH) TBA
10 Nov 18 Vienna (AT) Escape

ALTARAGE will be touring in support of their latest infernal album, ‘Endinghent’. View the artwork and album details below.

1. Incessant Magma (5:58)
2. Spearheaderon (3:56)
3. Cataclysmic Triada (3:33)
4. Fold Eksis (3:03)
5. Rift (4:56)
6. Orb Terrax (4:06)
7. Weighteer (6:31)
8. Barrier (4:38)

ALTARAGE deliver exactly what the underground buzz around them promised. Their second full-length, ‘Endinghent’ is bristling with black and dissonant death metal fury that immediately evokes a plethora of sinister images in the brain. Their relentless soul-crushing sound is sending the scared mind on overdrive.

Little is known about this secretive death metal collective, except their origin from Bilbao, the largest city in the Basque country of Spain. In 2015, ALTARAGE unleashed a demo simply entitled after its year of release, ‘MMXV’ generated massive interest in the extreme metal scene around the globe. This was followed by the debut album ‘NIHL’ (2016), which received high praise from critics and fans alike.

ALTARAGE return to mercilessly drag you into an abyss of nightmares and twisted meanings. ‘Endinghent’, in their own words, calls the doom inhabitants to reach a whole nothing. Welcome to this new dimension of sonic darkness.

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WITCHGÖAT: Black/Thrash Quartet Streaming The Opening Track From The Debut Demo “Umbra Regit”

Salvadoran black/thrash metal force WITCHGÖAT is only a week away from unleashing their debut demo “Umbra Regit” through Morbid Skull Records. The tapes were sold out within a few days after enabling the pre-order option.

Proclaims the band: “The lyric of this song reflects our indisputable conviction to keep creating metal efforts exhumed from any egocentric bullshit that is present in our local scene, unleashing these efforts from the shadows and always praising the dark evocations as the driving force for our personal development.”

In the mid-2016, veteran Salvadorian guitarist P. Scyther started composing music with the idea of erecting a black/thrash metal project that would carry off the effervescence of old school European and Latin American thrash metal, the brutality and the precariousness of the 80s extreme metal, and the melodic ideas of the 90s blackened death metal. Thus, the expedition of conjuring a raw and bona fide old-school sound that is out of any technological refinements had begun. In the beginning of 2017, the drummer E. Driller had become a part of this deadly project and the recording process started immediately under the moniker of WITCHGÖAT. The missing limbs of the ensemble appeared in the middle of 2017 when M. Miasma brought his vomitory vocalizations and creativity and recruited the devoted bass player C. Fog. Since then, this unholy alliance has kept framing mephitic tunes for the debut offering, which they are hoping to produce in the second half of 2018. First demo tape “Umbra Regit” — a ten-plus-minute exhibition of profound malignancy and unstoppable demolition — will be released under the flag of MORBID SKULL RECORDS on July 31, 2018 as a prelude to the debut full length album.

“Umbra Regit” demo tapes, limited to 20 Black Shells + 13 White Shells Stained with Putrid Blood, were sold out immediately upon issuing the pre-order.

LINEUP:
M. Miasma: Vocals
P. Scyther: Guitars
C. Fog: Bass
E. Driller: Drums

PRE-ORDER (Digital): https://morbidskull.bandcamp.com/album/umbra-regit-demo

WITCHGÖAT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/witchgoatsv

MORBID SKULL RECORDS:
Website & Store: www.morbidskullrecords.com

Rotting Christ release new lyric video for ” Pir Threontai”

In celebration of the re-release of the album ‘AEALO’, Greek metallers ROTTING CHRIST have unveiled a brand new lyric video for the track “Pir Threontai”. Watch the video below.

The band is currently in the studio recording their new album which will be released on Season of Mist in 2019.

On further news, the band has announced new European tour dates in support of the mighty WATAIN this November. The band will kick off “The Trident’s Curse” tour at the Byhaven Pumpehusetn, Copenhagen (DK) on November 2, 2018 and sees the band rampaging through 10 more countries until a final curtain at the Doornroosje, Nijmegen (NL). At all shows, PROFANATICA will open the ceremony. See below for an updated list of all confirmed shows

ROTTING CHRIST festivals
17 Aug 18 Borre (NO) Midgardsblot Festival

ROTTING CHRIST
+WATAIN +PROFANATICA
02 Nov 18 Copenhagen (DK) Byhaven Pumpehuset
03 Nov 18 Leipzig (DE) Hellraiser
04 Nov 18 Warsaw (PL) Progresja
06 Nov 18 Prague (CZ) MeetFactory
07 Nov 18 Budapest (HU) Barba Negra Music Club
09 Nov 18 Munich (DE) Backstage
10 Nov 18 Zug (CH) Chollerhalle
11 Nov 18 Trezzo sull ‘Adda (IT) Live Club
12 Nov 18 Colmar (DE) Le Grillen
14 Nov 18 Barcelona (ES) Razzmatazz 2
15 Nov 18 Madrid (ES) Chango
16 Nov 18 Limoges (FR) Centre Culturel John Lennon
17 Nov 18 Paris (FR) La Trabendo
18 Nov 18 Bucharest (RO) Metal Gates
20 Nov 18 Saarbrücken (DE) Garage
21 Nov 18 Mannheim (DE) MS Connexion Complex
22 Nov 18 Berlin (DE) Astra Kulturhaus
23 Nov 18 Antwerpen (BE) TRIX
24 Nov 18 Bochum (DE) Matrix
25 Nov 18 Nijmegen (NL) Doornroosje

ROTTING CHRIST will be playing in support of their latest full length ‘Their Greatest Spells’. The artwork, tracklist and album info can be viewed below.

Track-list

CD 1
1. The Sign of Prime Creation (3:21)
2. Athanati Este (5:39)
3. Non Serviam (5:11)
4. King of a Stellar War (6:14)
5. Nemecic (4:15)
6. Grandis Spiritus Diavolos (5:51)
7. Art of Sin (5:17)
8. Dying (4:49)
9. Archon (4:09)
10. Serve In Heaven (3:52)
11. Astral Embodiment (5:29)
12. After Dark I Feel (4:32)
13. Sorrowfull Farewell (4:51)
14. In Yumen-Xibalba (6:24)
15. Elthe Kyrie (4:49)
16. Cold Colours (3:36)
Total: 1:18:19

CD 2
1. The Sign of Evil Existence (1:59)
2. Fgmenth Thy Gift (4:28)
3. Ze Nigmar (4:42)
4. Phobo’s Synagogue (4:30)
5. Demonon Vrosis (4:54)
6. …Pir Threontai (4:47)
7. Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (4:53)
8. Among Two Storms (4:09)
9. Semigod (4:39)
10. Welcome to Hel (4:26)
11. A Dynasty from the Ice (4:28)
12. Shadows Follow (4:33)
13. Forest of N’gai (5:49)
14. Feast of the Grand Whore (3:16)
15. Exiled Archangels (5:06)
16. Saturn Unlock Avey’s Son (6:21)
17. I Will Not Serve (3:55)

Total: 1:16:55
ROTTING CHRIST have reached another peak in their long career that now spans over more than three decades. The Greeks have literally stood the test of time. With a steady core line-up and their well-honed live delivery, ROTTING CHRIST are filling concert halls and reap enthusiastic crowd reactions wherever they go. This demonstration of love from their followers is not just driven by nostalgia as the band has managed to evolve and grow, while staying relevant beyond the classics with their highly acclaimed latest albums such as ‘Aealo’ (2010), ‘Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού’ (2013), and ‘Rituals’ (2016).

With more than 30 years, 12 studio albums, a dozen EPs, singles and split releases, as well as more than 1.250 shows under their belt, it is about high time to take a retrospective look at this band’s fascinating musical development by picking a select choice of key tracks covering the many facets of ROTTING CHRIST that have sparkled over the years. With such a massive catalogue such an undertaking will always lead to controversy about certain additions as well as omissions from the final list, but the involvement of frontman Sakis Tolis in this extremely difficult task ensures that the result is at least relevant.

ROTTING CHRIST were founded by Sakis Tolis and his brother Themis in the year 1987. Starting out on a basis of death and grind, the Greeks had already embarked on a darker musical journey by the time their debut full-length ‘Thy Mighty Contract’ (1993) was revealed. On the following seven albums covering a ten-year period from ‘Non Serviam’ (1994) to ‘Sanctus Diavolos’ (2004), ROTTING CHRIST steadily defined their own distinct style by experimenting with elements from death, heavy, and gothic metal without betraying their black roots. At the same time, the band went from underground heroes to headliner status. With the highly acclaimed ninth album, ‘Theogonia’ (2007), the Greek stalwarts added an unmistakable native element to their sound, which has remained with them as a signature trademark ever since. Exploring the mythical legacy of cultures around the globe let to ROTTING CHRIST’s massively successful latest release, ‘Rituals’. With ‘Their Greatest Spells’, the Greek metal icons musically revisit their exciting legacy and even contribute a brand new track entitled “I Will Not Serve” to connect their past with the present.

Line-up
Sakis: vocals, guitars
Themis: drums
Van Ace: bass
George: guitars

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