Month: September 2018

VANIK premiere new track – features MIDNIGHT live guitarist

Today, Halloween-obsessed heavy metallers Vanik premiere the new track “Heresy Undertow”. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated second album, II Dark Season, set for international release on October 26th – just in time for Halloween! – via Shadow Kingdom Records on CD format; vinyl LP and cassette tape versions shall follow later.

Hear Vanik’s “Heresy Undertow” in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Formed in 2016 by the selfsame live guitarist of Midnight, Vanik spent one cold Cleveland weekend in January compiling old demos and recording new ones with the quest to make a full album as a frontman/guitar-player. This led to the recording of a debut album, Vanik. With the help of Al Biddle (ex-Toxic Holocaust, Cauldron, Rammer, Chainbreaker) on drums and Ed Stephens (Gluttons, Ringworm, Shok Paris) on bass, Vanik was recorded live at Mercenary Studios on the 27th of February, 2016. The album’s massive amounts of energy, spontaneity, and horror themes are a true testament to what Vanik is all about, and laid the foundation for the project to grow into a real band.
During the autumn of 2017, Vanik began playing shows and added Vic Stown (Vindicator, Volcana, Violent Night) to the roster and now continue as a four-piece. On July 21st, 2017 and February 3rd, 2018, the band met in the studio to track a second album. Similar to the self-titled debut album, this second album – appropriately dubbed II Dark Season – was all tracked at once, with only vocals being overdubbed. Altogether, Vanik-the-band is everything guitar/vocalist Vanik envisioned as the perfect group: Halloween themes, horror imagery, and a rough ‘n’ rowdy collision of heavy metal and rock ‘n’ roll played the way it should be – together, lively, and full of fuckin’ ENERGY.

If this is what you seek as a listener, you have come to the right place, at the right time…Vanik’s II Dark Season! Continue seeking with the new track “Heresy Undertow” exclusively HERE

Begin seeking with the previously revealed “Jack’s Lantern” HERE at Shadow Kingdom’s Bandcamp, where the album can be preordered.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Vanik’s II Dark Season
1. Dark Season
2. Jack’s Lantern
3. Thorazine
4. We Like to be Frightened
5. Beyond the Closet Door
6. Werewolf
7. One of Us
8. Heresy Undertow
9. Tear You to Pieces
10. Witch Rites
11. End of Season

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/vanik666
www.shadowkingdomrecords.com
www.facebook.com/shadowkingdomrecords

NIGHT CROWNED: Swedish blackened death unit to release EP “Humanity Will Echo Out” via Black Lion Records

NIGHT CROWNED is the degenerated infant of the current and the past members of The Crown, Dark Funeral, Nightrage and Cipher System. Their debut mini CD is slated for the worldwide release on November 30, 2018 via Black Lion Records.

““Nocturnal Pulse” is a dynamic affair, in which elements of black metal and death metal play a role, in which raw, howling yells, cold roars, and skin-splitting shrieks share the vocals, and in which the changing patterns of the music conjure feelings of both grievous melancholy and blood-rushing glory”,

In the frozen part of Europe’s northernmost realm, a new slithering seed is festering at the heart of the Swedish scene — known as NIGHT CROWNED. A spawn formed from an unholy communion between the current and the previous members of the underground elite such as The Crown, Dark Funeral, Nightrage and Cipher System, this infestation is set to grow from a rumored disease into a full-scale pandemic.

NIGHT CROWNED’s musical vision is as clear as it is haunting and putrid; a reawakening of the sounds dormant from the most influential acts and masterpieces of the Scandinavian ‘90s, despite having advantages of a cutting edge, surgically precise production.

Despite hatching a combined catalogue of over twenty full-length albums, the seasoned and battle-hardened veterans of Night Crowned are still hungry like a gluttonous monster to procreate the dire melody charged blackened death music.

“Humanity Will Echo Out” is the first taste of NIGHT CROWNED’s sonic benefaction. This three-track-filled EP will be out on CD and in digital format through Black Lion Records on November 30, 2018.

ORDER:
https://nightcrownedblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/humanity-will-echo-out

MORE INFO:
http://www.facebook.com/nightcrowned
https://www.facebook.com/blacklionrecordsswe
https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackLionprod666
https://twitter.com/Blacklionrecswe
https://www.instagram.com/blacklionrecordsswe

GROZA set release date for AOP RECORDS debut – reveal album stream, tour dates

Today, AOP Records sets November 30th as the international release date for the striking debut album of Germany’s Groza, Unified in Void. Originally self-released by the band on digital format, now this bold ‘n’ confident debut will be available worldwide on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Groza is a black metal band based in Bavaria, Germany. The band was started in early 2016 by the singer/guitarist and only functioned as a one-man studio project. In early 2018, it was completed by three other musicians from the local German metal underground scene for playing live and songwriting purposes. Soon after, the project evolved into a full band situation, with everyone contributing to the writing process.

At last, in July 2018, Groza recorded their debut album. Aptly titled Unified in Void, the recording represents all the foundational elements of which Groza are all about: namely, blazingly fast yet poignantly melodic compositions full of haunting atmosphere and genuine emotion. Comparisons to Mgła can certainly be made, but Unified in Void equally presents Groza’s own personality, which is just beginning to blossom with a blazing fury. Also lyrically, the band makes no compromises in expressing their most personal convictions and views about humankind, this world, and everything within it. In total, Unified in Void is a bolt-from-the-blue debut guaranteed to cause waves within the metal underground.

Now armed with the support of AOP Records, Groza will focus on live activity to promote and support the album (dates after the jump). In the meantime, hear Unified in Void in its entirety HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Groza’s Unified in Void
1. Unified In Void
2. Ouroboros
3. Amongst The Worms
4. Unworthy
5. Thanatos

Upcoming shows
20.10.18, Erding, Sonic
27.10.18, München, Cafe Dada [event info]
03.11.18, Rosenheim, Lokschuppen [event info]
16.12.18, Salzburg, Rockhouse
05.01.19, Triftern, Kegelbahn [event info]
22.02.19, Burgkirchen, Blackbox [event info]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/grozaband
www.facebook.com/aoprecords

EVILFEAST: Polish Black Metal Warlock To Reissue Arcane and Eternal Debut Album, “Mysteries of the Nocturnal Forest” 

Polish black metal miscreant EVILFEAST is to reissue his grimly decayed debut album, Mysteries of the Nocturnal Forest, on Nov. 30 via Eisenwald.

Originally released in 2004, Mysteries of the Nocturnal Forest is a sarcophagi of despair as the album’s nine tracks account for a hour’s worth of raw misanthropic misery. Hauntingly primal, the album’s evocative nature is matched by its flawless lo-fi production of ghostly guitars and ethereal synths.

EVILFEAST’s lone multi-instrumentalist, GrimSpirit, begins his prolific body of work with a wintry dissonance. With over two decades of depraved black metal under his belt, it is easy to see why the charred project belongs alongside Burzum, Paysage d’Hiver and Midnight Odyssey.

All archaic tunes and poetry by EVILFEAST during the years of the dark lord 1999-2003. Recorded at Funeral Sound Studio during October and November 2003, and produced by GrimSpirit. Layout and pictures also by GrimSpirit.

Mysteries Of The Nocturnal Forest Track Listing:

1. Ode to a Rising Fullmoon (Intro)
2. Immerse into Cold Mist
3. Thy Woods Are Sacred
4. Towards the Funeral Winternight Landscape
5. Solitude Apotheosis
6. Descending Winds of Holocaust
7. The Black Heavens Open
8. Morbid Rejoice
9. Desolate Fields Left (Outro)

EVILFEAST is:

GrimSpirit – all instruments

https://evilfeast.bandcamp.com
https://store.eisenton.de/evilfeast-a-578

BLOOD OF SERPENTS: “Sulphur Sovereign” Out Now Via Non Serviam Records

BLOOD OF SERPENTS’s anticipated second full length “Sulphur Sovereign” is now available worldwide on CD and in digital format via Non Serviam Records. The black metal horde from Småland, Sweden have shifted their sonic journey to the pure devilish black metal skyline from their previous hatred fueled death/thrashing leanings.

“Every aspect of the songwriting contributes to a listening experience akin to facing down an oncoming hail of bullets.” – Ivan Belcic, Invisible Oranges

Forged in 2012 by the guitarists Fredrik Nilsson and Kristian Roupe, black metal force BLOOD OF SERPENTS hail from the deep forests of Småland, Sweden. Spawning two mini releases and one critically acclaimed full length within the six years of existence, BLOOD OF SERPENTS are proud to present their second album, “Sulphur Sovereign”, after years of writing, line-up changes and adversity.

“Sulphur Sovereign” is the first offering to feature the drummer Christoffer Andersson and the vocalist Thomas Clifford (Throne of Heresy, Abscession). With the newly recruited assets, the band has taken a decided step into a supreme black metal direction, going at full speed with forceful vocals that rip and roar with equal measure. Mixed with dark melodic guitar works and crushing riffs, Sulphur Sovereign is a full on black metal attack interspersed with atmospheric pieces and haunting melodic parts.

Containing ten tracks of genuine Swedish black metal, Blood of Serpents have set free the beast — known as Sulphur Sovereign — upon the world. This is a defining moment for the band who has found their true sound in the sphere of accursed black metal.

The album is produced by Lars Broddesson (ex-Marduk) and mixed and mastered by Magnus Devo Andersson (Marduk). Amazing Gustave Doré inspired artwork was executed by Khaos Diktator.

“Sulphur Sovereign” is out now worldwide from September 25, 2018 through NON SERVIAM RECORDS on digipak CD and in digital format.

ORDER:
Webshop: https://bit.ly/2uMaYiN
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2OedQx8
Digital: http://smarturl.it/rqzr81

MORE INFO:
http://www.non-serviam-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/nonserviamrecords
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9mK64qlsSwxcgCdnv6-5Tw
https://www.facebook.com/bloodofserpents
https://www.youtube.com/user/bloodofserpents
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3ENxs4wWUXm4NdPYkBu8hF

WILT: Canadian Black Metal Quintet Announce Pre-Order For Gut-Wrenching “Ruin” LP

Manitoba atmospheric black metal quintet WILT is proud to announce that pre-orders are live for the LP edition of Ruin, the band’s critically-acclaimed concept album inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, available via Vendetta Records.

Pre-order the gut-wrenching journey of despair at this location.

Released May 18, Ruin delivers six harrowing and depressing anthems, exploring the fatality of man while measuring feelings of death, forgiveness, shame and guilt. Angry Metal Guy says of the album, “The music of Ruin alternates between blackened bleakness and fiery fury, a tremolo laden leap into the lands of legends like Wiegedood or Drudkh. Even still, WILT manages to combine its blackened doom dirges with beautiful and melancholic post-metal exquisitry.

WILT was formed in 2010 by Brett Goodchild and Jordan Dorge with the simple intention of creating a black metal studio project. The release of their self-titled debut album in 2012 received a rave reception and surpassed expectations by landing serious international media attention. Soon after, the duo expanded the project into a full-time endeavor and assembled a full lineup. Touring throughout Canada and playing prestigious festivals such as Noctis Metalfest, sharing the stage with Blasphemy, Carcass, Bolzer, Candlemass, et al, WILT’s sophomore effort, Moving Monoliths, was equally well-received during its Bindrune Records release in 2015.

Three years later, WILT delivers their latest masterpiece with soaring vocals, massive guitars, depressing, heart-pounding drums, and emotion-invoking shrieks that help weave layers of daunting and agonizing depressive black metal that showcase the Mantioba quintet’s greatest work to date.

Ruin Track Listing:

1. Into the Unknown
2. We Read the World Wrong
3. Strings of a Lingering Heart
4. A Summons has Come
5. Veil of Gold
6. Requiem

WILT is:

Jordan Dorge – vocals
Brett Goodchild – guitar
Jay Edwards – guitar
Craig Peeples – bass
Myke Lewis – drums

Links:

http://www.facebook.com/wiltmb
http://wiltmanitoba.bandcamp.com
http://www.twitter.com/wiltmetal
http://www.instagram.com/wiltblackmetal
http://vendetta-records.bandcamp.com
http://vendettarecords.bigcartel.com

GOATHAMMER set release date for HELLS HEADBANGERS debut, reveal first track

Today, Hells Headbangers sets December 7th as the international release date for highly anticipated debut album of Canada’s Goathammer, Ceremony of Morbid Destruction, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Formed in 2013 and promptly getting to work on a split tape and two successive demos, Goathammer have been a study of staunch underground ethics from the very beginning. Theirs is a sound that’s steeped in decades of arcane black/death wisdom, canvassing an array of eras and international flavors whilst being finessed into foul, filthy form by true fanatics. As such, Ceremony of Morbid Destruction is the grand, garish culmination of Goathammer’s noble work thus far. Here, the quartet prove they’re more than just an identikit “goat”/bestial band; there’s a sulfurous aura and true dungeon-bound darkness that bespeak the ancient ways of the 1990s, but completely unselfconsciously so. Sure, the swarming violence of Blasphemy is certainly detectable, but more so is the hammering disgust of legendary labelmates Profanatica; likewise, the crude magick of classic Ungod coexists alongside the frantic misery of old Mütiilation. Which is all to say that, despite the signposts being clear, Goathammer possess the unique elan to conjure a sensation that evokes both nostalgia and newness, and above all, put forth an identity that’s theirs alone and offering boundless exploration of those depths for the future.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, so engage in a true Ceremony of Morbid Destruction with Goathhammer! Begin engaging with the new track “Invoking the Sadistic Spirits” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Goathammer (Canada)’s Ceremony of Morbid Destruction
1. Arcane Destruction Spell
2. Invoking The Sadistic Spirits
3. Into The Endless Night
4. Perverted Blasphemy
5. Astral Crucifixion
6. Right Of Conquest
7. Sempiternal Holocaust

MORE INFO:
www.goathammer.bandcamp.com
www.hellsheadbangers.com
www.facebook.com/hellsheadbangers

TEMPLE OF VOID to support The Black Dahlia Murder on select dates this November – currently writing third album for SHADOW KINGDOM

Detroit death-doom titans Temple of Void will be supporting Metal Blade recording artists The Black Dahlia Murder on tour this November across select dates in the United States. These latest tour dates are the next in support of Temple of Void’s massively acclaimed second album, Lords of Death, released last summer via Shadow Kingdom Records.

Says founding guitarist Alex Awn, “We’re bringing our death-doom to three new towns, and we’re ready to fucking crush. The Black Dahlia Murder have been big supporters of Temple of Void, and we can’t wait to share the stage with them again. All four bands will be trying to outdo one another, and that’s going to make for quite the spectacle of death! You will get your money’s worth at these gigs!”

Temple of Void are currently writing their third album, to be released later next year by Shadow Kingdom. Full list of dates & venues that Temple of Void will be supporting Black Dahlia Murder are as follows:

November 14 – London, ON @ RumRunners [TICKET INFO]
November 15 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig [TICKET INFO]
November 16 – Saginaw, MI @ Counter Culture [TICKET INFO]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/templeofvoid
www.shadowkingdomrecords.com
www.facebook.com/shadowkingdomrecords

OMNIPOTENCE set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets December 7th as the international release date for the striking debut album of Canada’s Omnipotence, Praecipitium, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Omnipotence formed in 2015 as a living monument to the absence of light and the transformative properties that relate Microcosm and Macrocosm, and have thus far remained veiled until the completion of its first recorded work. Bound under the title Praecpitium, the energies that resonate the past into oblivion are here harnessed into a moody and malevolent work of deathened black metal.

As befitting their moniker, Omnipotence strike at the fabric of time to circumvent and channel innate, inconceivable forces: indeed, the quartet encompass visceral omnipotence within the vast internal realms. Theirs is a sound rooted in the darkest days of the 1990s, particularly the searingly melodic ends of black metal during that decade’s latter half. Perpetually pursuing the path beyond external restraint, across Praecipitium do Omnipotence wield the mercurial strings, skins, and flesh that assail the sonic canvas of abstraction, manifesting composite forms of sound and thought through the dissolution of four carbon vessels.

Or, simply, Praecipitium is a startlingly realized and fully focused monument of majestic black/death. Behold Omnipotence and bow down before its unimaginable might!

Begin bowing with the new track “Beyond the Boundaries of Being” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Omnipotence (Canada)’s Praecipitium
1. Paths To Oblivion
2. Composite Forms of Sound and Thought
3. The Emptiness That Breathes
4. Lethiferous
5. Beyond the Boundaries of Being

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/omnipotenceofdeath

DEGREDO set release date for HARVEST OF DEATH debut double-album, reveal first track

Today, Harvest of Death, a division of Signal Rex, sets November 30th as the international release date for Degredo’s striking debut album, A Noite dos Tempos.

A mysterious entity hailing from Portugal’s elite Aldebaran Circle – which includes Ordem Satânica, Trono Além Morte, Occelenbriig, and Voëmmr – Degredo have been lurking in the most distant shadows since 2010. Their first demo cam in 2012, but the period of 2016-2017 produced the most activity, resulting in extremely limited tapes for Harvest of Death and the esteemed Black Gangrene. As delirious and dread-inducing as those recordings are, nothing can quite prepare the listener for Degredo’s A Noite dos Tempos.

A truly staggering work, A Noite dos Tempos is an actual double-album, comprising two two-track albums for a combined hour and 15 minutes of supernatural audial terror. Black metal no doubt forms the basis of Degredo’s creation, but the band dislocate and desiccate it to such an extent that only a ghostly aspect remains. Truly, the alternately shuddering/shimmering textures Degredo employ owe more to ritualistic drone and its satellite subgenres, and yet the unhinged hysteria that results from their stretched-beyond-comprehension tension drive deeply into black metal’s most subterranean and latent mysteries.

Suitably, for all this sonic unorthodoxy do Degredo utilize unorthodox means, mostly using acoustic and rural artifacts for precision and sound ambience. Likewise, their lyrics are based on rural and ancestral essays, tales from the Serra Da Estrela Mountain and its surrounding areas, extracted from old sayings of their grandfathers and grand grandfathers… In a word, then: utterly ancient.

When black metal has largely become a caricature of itself or at least rote play-acting that’s lost any sense of dangerousness or mysticism, here plants Degredo’s A Noite dos Tempos deep into the earth. Long may its rotten roots extend…

The first root can be dug with the nearly 18-minute track “Parte Três” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Degredo’s A Noite dos Tempos
1. Parte Um [18:46]
2. Parte Dois [18:20]
3. Parte Três [17:26]
4. Parte Quatro [19:50]

TRACK BREAKDOWN
Part 1 and 2 = VOLUME 1
Part 3 and 4 = VOLUME 2

for more info
www.signalrex.com
www.facebook.com/signalrex
www.signalrex.bandcamp.com