Month: October 2019

Turkish black metal cult Horrocious stream the entirety of their new album

Today, Turkish black metal cult Horrocious stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Depleted Light and the Death of Uniqueness
Set for international release on October 25th via Osmose Productions, hear Horrocious‘ Depleted Light and the Death of Uniqueness in its entirety here:
Inexorable hatred occurred with the coming together of Godslaying Hellblast, Sarinvomit, and Persecutory members in early 2015. Horrocious started as a two-man black metal band to spread the infernal sounds that symbolize the destruction of the universe under the infinite chaos and eternal dominance of diabolic nothingness, and in this way, they recorded a four-track debut EP, Obscure Dominance Of Nothingness, which was released as limited-edition cassette in 2015 and CD edition in 2016. Later, three new members (C.G. on guitars, E.K. on bass, Alexey on drums) were added to the lineup to record an eight-track debut full-length in the first quarter of 2018.

On this debut full-length, Depleted Light and the Death of Uniqueness, Horrocious points the egoism and ambition of the divinity and his spatial prison in the thearchia light of his orders when he wanted to be respected, and prepares the ground for an endless struggle. True power of the Lucipherian energy above the spiritual light and embraces infinite sinfulness by rebelling against the incomprehensible secret uniqueness trapped in sanctity. Would it be forgotten that the war of freedom given by the falling angels and the wrath of sealed old evil spirits? From the creation to the scarcity of information, the salvation of humiliated existence will be realized by the destruction of all the things mentioned as goodness, so the control of the worlds was only an embarrassing force, and the irresistible principles and authorities destroyed endless dissatisfaction and the system was designed in stages and the system of interdependence was inevitable. Because this was rebellious son Lucifer’s eternal war against the integrity of all worlds…

Preorder info can be found HERE.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Horrocious’ Depleted Light and the Death of Uniqueness
1. Light Belongs to Our Heresy
2. Upon the Fallen Worlds
3. Corruption of Existential Structure
4. Inevitable Vortex.. Swallowed Divinity
5. Perceived Integrity of Lord
6. Hidden in Infinite Chaos
7. Everlasting Fractal Luminiscence
8. Reborn from Energy.. Sublime Demons

More info:

www.osmoseproductions.com
www.facebook.com/Osmose-Productions-192865300755575

Greek death metal cult Vultur premiere the new track “Postmortem Lividity”

Greece’s VULTUR premiere new track at NoCleanSinging.com

Today, Greek death metal cult Vultur premiere the new track “Postmortem Lividity”.
The track is the title track to the band’s highly anticipated second album, Drowned in Gangrenous Blood, set for international release on October 31st via Memento Mori.

Hear Vultur‘s “Postmortem Lividity” in its entirety here:
Spawned from the sick brain cells of several past and current members of other deadly Hellenic entities (Ectoplasma, Resurgency et. al.) back in 2013, Vultur have been exhibiting an unquenchable thirst for sanguine death metal fluids ever since, revealed in all its putrid and vicious glory both in their Vulture’s Beak demo (2016) and their Entangled in the Webs of Fear debut album (2018). Theirs is a timeless ilk of bludgeoning death metal that’s stuffed with assorted tempos that go from relentless eruptions of savagery to torturous and doomed-out passages replete with morbid harmonies and through mid-paced onslaughts of sheer heaviness, influenced by the likes of Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Monstrosity, Immolation, Brutality, Suffocation, Morpheus Descends, and Incantation.

Salaciously titled Drowned in Gangrenous Blood, Vultur‘s sophomore strike sees them sticking to that crushing course – and indeed drowning the hapless listener in gangrenous blood! No compromise, no quarter, no progression: Drowned in Gangrenous Blood is 100% undiluted DEATH METAL spawned from the most righteous of eras, the very beginning of the ’90s. Even down to its bassy, shit-thick production – courtesy of Haris Vougiantzis, of Embrace Of Thorns fame, who also handles the mixing & mastering here – Vultur‘s second album reeks of totally thorough authenticity. Its songwriting is creepy, lurking, and most definitely SICK, spewed by diseased minds who LIVE FOR THIS. And it’s also further proof that Greece’s death metal underground is criminally unsung, but soon shall devour unbelievers…

And what better way to garnish utter sickness than the literally viscous cover art courtesy of Gargoylekelly? Vultur have wasted no time in eclipsing their cult debut album – drink up!

Also sip the previously revealed title track “Drowned in Gangrenous Blood” HERE, courtesy of MetalBite.com, as well as the previously revealed “Groans of Excruciating Terror” HERE at Memento Mori‘s official YouTube channel.

Aforementioned cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Vultur (Greece)’s Drowned in Gangrenous Blood
1. Groans of Excruciating Torture
2. Drowned in Gangrenous Blood
3. High on Adrenochrome
4. Return to Soil
5. Rigorous Voices
6. Devirginized, Butchered and Eaten
7. Crushing the Ribcage
8. Postmortem Lividity
MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/vulturathens

TAN KOZH reveal trailer for ANTIQ debut album – includes members of HIMINBJORG, BELENOS, WAY TO END+++

Today, French pagan black metallers Tan Kozh reveal a new trailer video for their forthcoming debut album, Lignages Oubliés. Set for international release on November 15th via Antiq, see & hear this first glimpse of Tan Kozh‘s Lignages Oubliés below.

Tan Kozh was created by Sven (Himinbjorg, Belenos, Möhrkvlth, Ar Bard) in 2015. After composing an album, Yamnah (Belenos) helped him with the lyrics, and they were then joined by Decay (ex-Way to End) on drums, Barved (ex-Les Chants De Nihil) on guitar, and Introspect (Introspect, ex- Les Chants De Nihil) on bass. The recording is fully redone, with playing on a real drum set and with various additions by all members. The band starts concerts in 2018.

The first Tan Kozh album, Lignages Oubliés, is a pagan black metal album inspired by ancient Indo-European myths. The warlike rhythms switch to frenetic blastbeats and some more contemplative passages, including acoustic guitar and fretless bass. The first part of the album contains visions of the past and future wars and destruction, with in the background the awakening of ancient pagan gods and the eternal turn of the wheel of time; the second part of the album is made of prayers addressed directly to ancient gods.

Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures.

In the meantime, see & hear a special trailer for Lignages Oubliés here:
Cover artwork, courtesy of Above Chaos (Inquisition, Bethlehem, Melechesh, Nordjevel, Tsjuder), and tracklisting are as follows: 
Tracklisting for Tan Kozh’s Lignages Oubliés
1. Troisième Fonction
2. De Brest à Brest-Litovsk
3. Ecce Homo
4. … Et la Haine nous sauvera tous
5. Sacrifice
6. Équinoxe
7. Interlude
8. Viens à moi
9. Imprécation
10. A la Gloire d’Indra
MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/tankozhband
www.antiqrecords.com
www.facebook.com/antiq.label 
www.antiqofficial.bandcamp.com 

Sweden’s REVEAL reveal disturbing new video from forthcoming new SEPULCHRAL VOICE album

Today, defiant pan-genre iconoclasts Reveal reveal a disturbing new video for the track “Clevermouth.“ The track hails from the Swedish band’s highly anticipated third album of Sweden’s Reveal, Scissorgod, set for international release on November 29th via Sepulchral Voice Records. See & hear Reveal‘sbrand-new “Clevermouth” video in its entirety here:
Reveal draw  inspiration from a wide range of genres, artists, and styles and thus have they been convicted as the black chameleons in the worldwide heavy metal / rock scene. But, this is actually a very conservative scene, where innovation & progress is a cuss rather than a cachet.

After their phenomenal black metal debut in 2011, Nocturne Eyes and Teeth, Reveal rightly recruited a fanbase who was then left shocked and disturbed when they released their second album, Flystrips, in 2016. Challenging even the most adventurous listeners, the chameleons of Reveal here delivered an album that encompassed very different themes and sounds, yet one with an even darker underlying aura than the debut.

However, now the Devil’s most beloved tongue & tool is about to release their third album, ominously named Scissorgod, once again via Sepulchral Voice Records: an album where Reveal present themselves at their highest musical level, their most visionary yet also most grounded. From pure rockers like “Harder Harder,” “Clevermouth,” and the title track “Scissorgod” to emotional bleeders like “Decomposer” or “Coin Toss” to ultra-black metal killers like “Down Through the Hole,” Reveal present themselves in a more widescreen and Technicolor manner – their focus frightening, their vision more artistic than ever before. These nine songs reflect the halos, the thorn-crowns, and the maelstrom of fire wherein Reveal struggle and always swirl & whirl, but show that this band is radiant on a pale, grey metallic sky.
Repeating the Reveal pattern, Scissorgod turned out to be an album that will separate the wheat from the chaff again. But this time, it does not require a full basic understanding of the band’s attitude and the knowledge of the fucked-up world they live in to follow the album. In other words, this time, their nailbomb toys are more cuddly and their razorblade candy is more sweet. Although their ever-present schizo grin and the tangible lethal intention is still shining through the darkness all the time, a sardonic weltanschauung is built upon microcosmic insanity: Reveal present a world of filth erected in the midst of Elysium, black-minded and strong.

Or, more directly, with Scissorgod do Reveal prove again that they give no fucks for uniforms, blinders, and the opinions of others; they simply collect and inhale the madness of the world and channel it into a pure outburst of DEATH ROCK (think about those two words for a moment). Scissorgod is not that far away from absorption & understanding like maybe Flystrips was, but scene sheriffs will predictably feel themselves as targets…and fucking definitely will the Scissorgod cut & stab some small-stature sheriffs.

The production of Scissorgod deserves special attention. This time, Reveal did not lock themselves up in a punkish DIY process, but hired none other than Martin -Konie- Ehrenkrona (In Solitude, Henrik Palm, Pig Eyes, Nifelheim) to turn the knobs and entered the Cobra Studios in Stockholm. The result is a top-notch production that evokes the feeling that Reveal are playing live in your room.

So, don’t be afraid: be thankful – be faithful – for what Reveal has to say. It can be the soundtrack while we dance a spiral downwards, down through a hole.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Reveal (Sweden)’s Scissorgod
1. Scissorgod
2. Harder Harder
3. Decomposer
4. Down Through The Hole
5. Feeble Hearts
6. Clevermouth
7. The Plot Thickens
8. What Pigs Get
9. Coin Toss
MORE INFO:
www.sepulchralvoice.de 
www.facebook.com/Sepulchral-Voice-Records-709511785732039

VALOSTA VARJOON set release date for PURITY THROUGH FIRE debut, reveal first track

Today, Purity Through Fire sets October 31st as the international release date for Valosta Varjoon‘s striking debut album, Oberpfälzer Wald, on regular jewelcase CD and A5 digipack limited to 100 copies. Cassette tape version to be released by Worship Tapes.

Valosta Varjoon formed in 2016 as a solo endeavor of V. V. A first demo was released the following year, but in 2018 was V. V. joined by guitarist Sturmwulf, and thereafter did the Valosta Varjoon aesthetic truly begin to blossom. A split tape with Mexican comrades Viha Surma came in 2018, and then earlier this year, Purity Through Fire delivered the German & Slavonic Heathen Unity split CD, with Valosta Varjoon joined by Czarnobog and Necro Forest.

Alas, all these short-length attacks have coalesced into one mighty debut statement with Oberpfälzer Wald. With preternatural ease, Valosta Varjoon here create infinitely stirring & nostalgic sounds from black metal’s glorious 1990s era. Castles, cloaks, swords, snow – all these sensations are evoked, and plenty more, with a sound that’s the epitome of Bavarian Black Metal.

Proudly pagan, the eight immediately memorable anthems comprising Oberpfälzer Wald instill a constantly ascending sensation, but subtly so. Valosta Varjoon here prove themselves as masters of texture, their riffing rich with emotion but never overwrought; simply but by no means simple, a hook is introduced and then maximized with a hypnotic hummability, all before seamlessly flowing into the next. It’s a cold ‘n’ majestic magick, and all done with an austere understanding of everything that makes traditional black metal work. Which is to say nothing of the album’s production: a gleaming-yet-ghostly sort of rawness, reverberating with boundless depth and iron-fisted punch alike, each Bathorian lead sparkling and crackling with the night’s most mysterious energies.

Stern but ever-knowing, German black metal has lurked on the shadowy periphery for decades, mindfully mining quality over quantity and subtlety over ostentatiousness. Now does a profound new iteration of the Olde arrive with Valosta Varjoon‘s Oberpfälzer Wald! Raise the banners for that arrival with the new track “Die Turmwackler” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Valosta Varjoon’s Oberpfälzer Wald
1. Die Turmwackler
2. Kneipenterror
3. Oberpfälzer Wald
4. Glorreich…
5. Der Schwarze Tod
6. Dein Ableben
7. Drunk ‘n’ Roll
8. Der Geliebte Tote


MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/valostaV

K.F.R mainman reveals GRIIIM: sets release date for PURITY THROUGH FIRE debut, special video featuring MÜTIILATION’S Meyhna’ch

Today, Purity Through Fire sets October 31st as the international release date for Griiim‘s shocking debut album, Pope Art, on limited digipack CD + DVD set.

Although a seemingly new name, Griiim is another horrifying manifestation of multi-discipline artist Maxime Taccardi, musically known for his polarizing work in K.F.R. Here with Griiim, he presents a different but equally nightmarish face, one that stares back at you with eerily hateful tension, a reflection of the face staring at him.

A staggeringly dense and sprawling work, Pope Art is as much about sensation – diseased, decaying, but utterly “new” its oldness – as it is about music. As such, Griiim is born from the urban decay of society, a musical nightmare taking influences from the most depraved black metal to the darkest corners of industrial, electro, ambient, and rotten hip-hop. With Maxime Taccardi’s characteristically challenging touch, Griiim is meant to be the sonic equivalent of the filthy streets and asphalt areas of his native Paris, France. Composed and recorded by entirely by Taccardi, Pope Art is crucially completed by a visual BAD TRIP divided into 12 parts, which he likewise directed, filmed and edited entirely himself. Just like the album’s musical component, it’s meant to be watched in the dark at maximum volume…

It is very unlikely, if not impossible, you will hear nor especially see an album like Griiim‘s Pope Art this year, or next, or the year after or… Guest performances by Mütiilation’s Meyhna’ch and Obskuritatem’s O simply grind the filth deeper into the earth, waiting for its eventual (and HORRIFYING) excavation. Beware…

In the meantime, see & hear the eerie video for “The Church of Negation,” featuring the aforementioned Meyhna’ch of Mütiilation here:
Cover art, courtesy of Taccardi, and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Griiim’s Pope Art
1. Intro
2. Welcome to My Nightmare
3. My Name is Max
4. God is Love But I’m Hate
5. The Church of Negation (feat. Meyhna’ch)
6. Solitude in Heaven
7. Šizofrenija (feat. O)
8. As Long As You Hold the Knife
9. Guiding the Flesh
10. Speech
11. As Long As You Hold the Knife Part II
12. A New Kind of War
13. I Ain’t Going Down
14. I’m Upset (Epilogue, feat. Kristen)
MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/MaximeTaccardiArtworks
www.deviantart.com/priestofterror

Profanatica stream new album in full!

Blasphemous black metal legion PROFANATICA are now streaming their entire upcoming album ‘Rotting Incarnation of God’, which will be released Tomorrow, October 11th. Listen to the new offering in full here:
PROFANATICA have previously announced new European tour dates for this November. The rampage will kick off at the Mörtelwerk in Leipzig (DE), and travel throughout 12 more countries before a final curtain the Temple venue in Athens (GR). A full list of confirmed dates can be found below.
PROFANATICA
+Demonomancy
01 Nov 19 Leipzig (DE) Mörtelwerk
02 Nov 19 Berlin (DE) Nuke Club
03 Nov 19 Rostock (DE) Zwischenbau
04 Nov 19 Arhus (DK) HQ
05 Nov 19 Hamburg (DE) Markthalle
06 Nov 19 Kassel (DE) Goldgrube
07 Nov 19 Antwerp (BE) Het Bos
08 Nov 19 Dordrecht (NL) Bibelot
09 Nov 19 Paris (FR) Winter Rising Fest
10 Nov 19 Rennes (FR) Mondo Bizarro
11 Nov 19 Bilbao (ES) Edaska Pub
12 Nov 19 Barcelona (ES) Rocksound
13 Nov 19 Toulouse (FR) Les Pavillions Sauvages
14 Nov 19 Como (IT) Centrale Rock Pub
15 Nov 19 Pescara (IT) Scumm
16 Nov 19 Naples (IT) First Floor Club
17 Nov 19 Bologna (IT) Alchemica Club
18 Nov 19 Linz (AT) Kapu
19 Nov 19 Zurich (CH) Ebrietas
20 Nov 19 Nürnberg (DE) Golden Nugget
21 Nov 19 Prague (CZ) 007 Club
22 Nov 19 Gliwice Mrowisko (PL) Black Silesia Fest
23 Nov 19 London (UK) Amersham Arms
24 Nov 19 Athens (GR) Temple

The artwork of ‘Rotting Incarnation of God’ has been created by Paolo Girardi and can be viewed together with the track-list below.
Track List:
1. Liturgy of Impurity (03:38)
2. Prayer in Eclipse (02:37)
3. Broken Jew (03:08)
4. Washed in the Blood of Lord (03:49)
5. Sacramental Cum (06:12)
6. Mocked, Scourged and Shit Upon (03:17)
7. Tithing Cunt (03:03)
8. Rotting Incarnation of God (04:21)
9. Eucharist In Ruin (02:51)
10. In My Kingdom (04:32)
Total: (37:37)
One of the first wave of American black metal bands, PROFANATICA have purveyed primeval blasphemy on nigh for three decades. ‘Rotting Incarnation of God,’ their latest album and first with Season of Mist, vomits forth a most vulgar strain of black metal ejaculate. Led by founder Paul Ledney, the trio desecrate everything sacred with a ferocious stream of chainsaw guitars and relentless battery. PROFANATICA walk as kings in the murky depths of the black metal scene, and ‘Rotting Incarnation of God’ cements their well-deserved reputation as one of the genre’s most wicked creations. Some music was meant to stay underground.

In 1990, Aragon Amori, Paul Ledney, and Brett Makowski departed INCANTATION due to artistic differences, leading to the birth of PROFANATICA. Influenced by such classic cults as VENOM, NECROVORE, SARCOFAGO, and BATHORY, the unholy trinity together had a passion to create raw and sacrilegious Black Metal. The band has since released four full-lengths and over a dozen demos, splits, and compilations. However, their story is not one without controversy as the masters for what was supposed to be their first full-length, initially titled ‘The Raping of the Virgin Mary,’ were unfortunately destroyed in the studio, although, there are conflicting stories about what really happened. The band parted ways until Ledney resurrected PROFANATICA with two new members in 2001. Despite dropping their first demo in 1990, their long overdue debut full-length, ‘Profanatitas de Domonatia,’ was released 17 years after the band’s conception.

Now, PROFANATICA’s latest chapter is nothing short of blasphemous perversions, sacrilegious incantations, and furious, unrelenting black metal. The kings of USBM are back to bless you with another assault of unholy hellfire.  
https://www.facebook.com/profanaticausa/ 
https://profanaticasom.bandcamp.com/ 

Line-up
Paul Ledney: drums & vocals
Adam Besserer: guitars
Richard Olsen: bass

HAVOHEJ set release date for long-awaited new HELLS HEADBANGERS album, reveal first track

Today, Hells Headbangers sets November 15th as the international release date for Havohej‘s long-awaited third album, Table of Uncreation, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

There has never been another artist quite like Havohej. Perhaps Beherit, but whereas that band’s Holocausto Vengeance reveled in primitivism and eventually flipped the script with little to no warning, sole Havohej visionary Paul Ledney has studiously pursued the outer limits of BEYOND-black metal, patiently utilizing primitivism as a foundation to explore esoteric vibrations ‘n’ undercurrents only the most tweaked of ears are in tune to. Of course, the name Paul Ledney should be well known in the underground from his preceding Profanatica, but Havohejis the man’s vision alone, and it is a vision that’s massive and miasmic to behold.

Each Havohej release has been a world unto itself, even when those worlds fall within the remit of an EP release. The band’s earliest releases – the Unholy Darkness and Impurity EP and Dethrone the Son of God full-length, both from 1993 – essentially took the characteristic Profanatica template and proceeded to make it even more primitive. But, it was 1994’s landmark Black Perversion EP where Havohej took black metal to the hinterlands of unorthodoxy, sublimating conventional “black metal” instrumentation into a suffocating slab of transcendental foulness. That same year, Ledney released the Black Mist EP, which further separated itself from black metal convention by being an eerily minimalist expression of electronic ritualism.

Although a period of quiet mystery followed, in 2000 did Havohej release the volcanic Man and Jinn EP, which feature a brand-new track and intro alongside totally revolutionized covers of Venom and Impaled Nazarene, in essence reclaiming the source material and making it undeniably Ledney-esque. Following that EP, a revitalized Profanatica became Ledney’s focus for the next number of years, until 2007 and 2008 revealed a pair of EPs – Tungkat Blood Wand and Hornbrook Seytan, respectively, both released by Hells Headbangers – which showed Havohej stripping down the Black Perversion aesthetic to a crude ‘n’ crushing sort of black-doom drone. In 2009 did Kembatinan Premaster arrive courtesy of Hells Headbangers; across this stratifying full-length did Ledney largely recombine the previous Havohej records into an utterly devastating form of bestial black metal far, far removed from (and superior to) the “bestial metal” resurgence that was just taking shape.

Ever the iconoclast, Ledney brings back Havohej a whole ten years later with yet another defiant, shapeshifting form: Table of Uncreation, his third album under the banner. Exploring the seemingly wide divide between space and suffocation, here does Ledney draw the two together into a mesmerizing, monged-out subversion of black metal into simply BLACK. Traces of the entire Havohej aesthetic are well represented here on Table of Uncreation, and then spliced ‘n’ diced into juddering panoramas of primitive sonic filth. Truly, Ledney pierces the veil of forbidden forces only revealed to the blackest and most depraved of minds, as Table of Uncreation indeed lives up to its namesake and aborts “black metal” convention and instead vomits forth a crude, caustic, yet exceptionally nuanced type of undead birth. It’s as blasphemous as Ledney’s legendary work in Profanatica, but defiles tradition with an evil avant-garde touch that is Havohej‘s alone.

Quite simply, there’s very little, past and especially present, that can be compared to Havohej. While Ledney could’ve certainly left his legacy intact and left the name in permanent hiatus, with Table of Uncreation does he continue to challenge even the hardiest and hardened ears – and defiles them forevermore. Long live Havohej, and may it continue to die exquisite deaths.

In the meantime, in the leadup to this momentous event, hear the brand-new track “Seven Jinn here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Havohej’s Table of Uncreation
1. God of All Constellaion
2. Holy Blood, Holy Grail
3. The Black King
4. Seven Jinn
5. Impossible Force
6. Table of Uncreation
7. All Time Is Now
8. Before Them and Behind Them
9. Fatir
More info:
www.hellsheadbangers.com
www.facebook.com/hellsheadbangers 

Reanimated Finnish black metal cult Black Beast premiere the new track “Nocturnal Bloodlust”

Today, reanimated Finnish black metal cult Black Beast premiere the new track “Nocturnal Bloodlust”. The track hails from the band’s LONG-awaited debut album, Nocturnal Bloodlust, set for international release on November 8th via Primitive Reaction
Hear Black Beast‘s title track “Nocturnal Bloodlust” in its entirety exclusively HERE:
Formed in the dark days of 2002, Black Beast made their public debut in 2005 with a self-titled 7″ EP. Back then, the band’s native black metal underground was making an international name for itself, and has since established itself as one of black metal’s most immediately identifiable idioms, not to mention one of the most enduring. The Black Beast EP introduced the duo with violent, vulgar aplomb, slotting well alongside their erstwhile Finnish contemporaries and yet exhibiting a refreshingly Motorheaded aspect (or at least one Venomous). They quickly capitalized on that enviable momentum with an even stronger showing the next year on a split album with comrades Bloodhammer, which was the first release by a then-young Primitive Reaction. Then, nothing…the Black Beast name sadly receded into the shadows.

Alas, bad habits die hard and ugliness is forever, and at long last, Black Beast deliver a full-length recording. Aptly titled Nocturnal Bloodlust, the now-trio’s debut album picks up exactly where they left off with the Bloodhammer split LP – as if an unlucky 13 years hadn’t passed – and then pumps the shocking waste full of narcotics and, yes, nocturnal bloodlust. Charging hard, giving no quarter, Black Beast whip forth an infinitely headbanging fury here, a resolutely asskicking Motorcharge that’s nevertheless not short on atmosphere. It’s purely and proudly all-caps BLACK METAL – after all, are they not monikered Black Beast? – and poignantly proves that, sometimes, the most singleminded focus yields the most gripping results.

Indeed, Nocturnal Bloodlust possesses a grip of near-anthems (eight total, as well as a show-opening “Prelude” banger); by “near,” we make clear that the band do NOT write “hits” for “the fans” or crowd approval or other dumb bullshit. Rather, Black Beast offer unyielding obeisance to Satan, as all true black metal should, and declare as much on the album’s final two tracks, “Fist of the Devil” and “Symbol for My Devotion.” Through it all, the album exudes a raw-yet-robust production, thick and viscous but just as equally emitting space and shade, ably highlighting that this recording does, in fact, feature actual humans playing actual music – not cut ‘n’ paste computer crap, like so much nowadays “extreme metal.”

Older, uglier, but just as hungry as the far-more-unforgiving days of the black metal underground from which they spawned, Black Beast have returned to claim their rightful dark throne with Nocturnal Bloodlust!

Also step forward with the previous revealed “Your Cold Grave” HERE at Primitive Reaction‘s Bandcamp.

The album-release gig shall take place at the SteelChaos festival November 8-9th in Helsinki, Finland. Also on the same release date shall Unholy Finnish Black Horror Union, the aforementioned split album with Bloodhammer, shall be reissued by Primitive Reaction on CD and, for the first time ever, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats.

Cover and tracklisting for Nocturnal Bloodlust are as follows: 
Tracklisting for Black Beast (Finland)’s Nocturnal Bloodlust
1. Prelude
2. Black Seremony
3. Riding on Wings of Death
4. Your Cold Grave
5. Words of Leviathan
6. Unholy One
7. Nocturnal Bloodlust
8. Fist of the Devil
9. Symbol for My Devotion
BLACK BEAST lineup 2019
Infernal Tormentor Necrocorpse von Demonblood – vocals
Ruumisruhtinas – guitars & bass
Lord Sipilä – drums

FRONT BEAST to release new mini-album on HELLDPROD, reveal first track

Today, Helldprod Records sets November 15th as the international release date for a special mini-album from underground legends Front Beast titled Shadows on cassette tape format.

Since the late ’90s, this German entity has been lurking in the darkest corners of the black metal underground and accrued a cult status to kill for. Helmed by mainman Avenger – whose resume includes a dozen other bands/projects, most notably Nocturnal but also including the likes of Szarlem, Angel of Damnation, Black Priest of Satan, The Fog, and Exorcism among many others – Front Beast have stayed committed to a pure ‘n’ proud vision, honoring the ancient ways with a supremely prolific stream of demos and split releases.

Ever restless, it’s surprisingly been a quiet couple of years for Front Beast since their last fuller-length recording, the album Third Scourge From Darkness. A split 7″ with Mournful Winter came in 2018 courtesy of Avenger’s long-running Deathstrike label, but otherwise, the faithful have had to wait for a longer Front Beast recording. At last, it arrives with the simply titled Shadows, and no finer a distillation of the man’s aesthetic you will find. Recorded nice ‘n’ raw like a classic rehearsal but no less rich ‘n’ robust, Shadows perfectly encapsulates the Front Beast experience in a tidy 21 minutes: damp dungeon atmosphere, crude-yet-commanding execution, thirsty ‘n’ miserable vocals, an aura of hideousness and unhealth, and an unselfconscious obeisance of time-honored heavy metal values. More so, there’s definitely an old-school sinister thrash aura in Front Beast‘s musical approach that surpasses today’s black metal aesthetics due to the influences of such bands as Celtic Frost, Iron Angel, and Destruction – along with, naturally, early Bathory. So, Shadows is a true metal attack from the past!

Some 20 years later, Front Beast is still proudly producing trend-free black metal of an ancient, mystical hue. Feel the flames of Hell – again, or for the very first time – and beware of Shadows! Beware of the brand-new track “Morbid Visions,” which can be heard here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Front Beast’s Shadows
1. Satan
2. TakenToThe Abyss
3. Circle Of Dancing Shadows
4. Morbid Visions
5. Wolfs Howl
6. A Life Beyond
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