Month: November 2019

Defiled reveal first track and details of forthcoming album

Death metal maniacs DEFILED are now unveiling the first brand new track taken from their forthcoming new masterpiece, ‘Infinite Regress’. The album is scheduled for release on January 24th, 2020 via Season of Mist
The Japanese  cult death metal act are now streaming “Tragedy”
DEFILED comment: “The day has finally come! We are so incredibly proud to announce our new record “Infinite Regress”. The album will be out on 24th Jan 2020 via our home Season of Mist. Please give a listen to our first official  premier song “Tragedy” and we hope you guys enjoy it. Cheers!“
DEFILED are furthermore releasing the artwork of ‘Infinite Regress’, which has been created by Wes Benscoter, and can be viewed together with the album details below.
Track-list
1. Intro (00:23)
2. Divide and Conquer (02:30)
3. Tragedy (05:21)
4. Systematic Decomposition (02:33)
5. So Blind (02:48)
6. Legacy (01:58)
7. Masses in Chaos (02:01)
8. Centuries (04:17)
9. Aftermath (03:02)
10. Invisible War (01:45)
11. Ignorant (02:28)
12. Slaverobot (02:57)
13. Infinite Regress (02:48)
14. Outro (00:33)
Total playing time: 35:24
DEFILED come yet again, barging in like some crusty Godzilla made out of the stuff polished tech death nightmares are made from. The revered Samurai of death metal crush through the spiral ganglion with a sound rawer than shark sushi that still bites. 

This time it took the Japanese three years to deliver a follow-up to the critically acclaimed ‘Towards Inevitable Ruin’ (2016) which was not pretty, nor pretending to be. Instead, they reduced death metal to the bare bones and with this, showing its naked brutality.

‘In Crisis’ (2011), which came out eight years after ‘Divination’ (2003) shook the world awake to the band from the Land of the Rising Sun. DEFILED climbed to the top of Asia’s death metal scene with the release of their self-financed EP ‘Defeat of Sanity’ (1994) two years after their inception. Founded in Tokyo, they quickly combined the brutal and technical aspects of this mad metropolis into their own unique sound. Their first album ‘Erupted Wrath’ (1999) was mixed by genre legend Jim Morris in Tampa, Florida, who returned to work on sophomore opus ‘Ugliness Revealed’ (2001) as well as third full-length ‘Divination’. The Japanese opened for extreme metal legends such as CANNIBAL CORPSE, MORBID ANGEL and toured with INCANTATION and MAYHEM to name but a few.

DEFILED are back with a bang. ‘Infinite Regress’ is not for the faint of heart or intended for easy listening, but when giving the new monster some spins, the apparent fragments start to drift together once more– starting from a catchy fill, riff or grating grunt that morph into a strange hook relentlessly driving its spike into the brain.

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Line-up
Shinichiro Hamada: vocals, guitar
Yusuke Sumita: guitar
Takachika Nakajima: bass
Keisuke Hamada: drums

LURKER OF CHALICE to release demos collection through NUCLEAR WAR NOW!, reveals first track

Today, Nuclear War Now! Productions sets March 1st, 2020 as the international release date for a special demos collection/reimagining from the enigmatic Lurker of Chalice. Titled Tellurian Slaked Furnace, it shall be released on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Active from 2001-2005, the highly revered side-project of Leviathan’s Jef Whitehead, Lurker of Chalice, is mostly known for the 2005 self-titled full-length. Prior to that album, however, Wrest recorded two CD-R demos under the Lurker of Chalice name, each of which was limited to approximately 50 copies or less and sold at a single record store in San Francisco, near where he was living at the time. Like the full-length, both demos were eponymous, though the first demo was identified only by the initials “L.O.C.” written in runes. While a few of the songs from the demo era bear indicia of black metal, the material from that period is generally far more experimental, defying any effort to be neatly categorized.

For Tellurian Slaked Furnace, Wrest has distilled the best material from the early period of the project and edited, collaged, and compiled it, weaving together something more coherent and album-like. In this way, there seems to be something of his current artistic sensibility projected onto these recordings from nearly two decades earlier.

In keeping with the confusing taxonomy of the project, the tracks on this LP are unnamed. The album opens with a song previously called “Lurker of Chalice” on the 2002 demo but is untitled on this release. The song showcases the haunting minimalism of Lurker of Chalice as slow acoustic guitars revolve around one another, arpeggiated chords ringing out above percussive accents. With the second track, a more sinister energy emerges, advanced by the first and only appearance of Wrest’s seething vocals.

Over the full, 70-minute duration of this album, the music, almost completely instrumental, expands and contracts, evolves and disintegrates. Delicate ambient passages and labyrinthine excursions give way to electronic dirges of lumbering percussion with guitar shimmering transcendent above a melancholic lake of atmospheric sound and cascading sheets of electronics dissolving into lush acoustic melodies. Only very rarely do heavy riffs emerge; compared with Wrest’s work in Leviathan, or even the Lurker of Chalice album, the metal elements are far less direct and overt. Instead, this album conjures a bleak, unsettling mood without resorting to the compositional trappings of black metal. The music, which strangely seems both intensely personal, yet also detached and cinematic, evokes a palpable sense of solitude—the disconsolate reckoning of the self in the absence of others.

The release of Tellurian Slaked Furnace marks the first time any of the Lurker of Chalice demo recordings have been reissued and also offers a substantial amount of previously unheard material.

Hear “IV,” one of those previously unheard tracks, here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Lurker of Chalice’s Tellurian Slaked Furnace
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
7. VII
8. VIII
9. IX
10. X
11. XI
12. XII
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Reanimated Finnish black metal cult Black Beast stream the entirety of their LONG-awaited debut album, Nocturnal Bloodlust

Today, reanimated Finnish black metal cult Black Beast stream the entirety of their LONG-awaited debut album, Nocturnal Bloodlust . Set for international release on November 8th via Primitive Reaction, hear Black Beast‘s Nocturnal Bloodlust in its entirety 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! Step fully forward to that throne exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com.

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

IN OBSCURITY REVEALED set release date for BLOOD HARVEST debut album, reveal first tracks

Today, Blood Harvest Records sets December 13th as the international release date for In Obscurity Revealed‘s highly anticipated debut album, Glorious Impurity, on CD and cassette tape formats. The 12″ vinyl version shall follow on January 31st, 2020.

It was but 2016 when we last heard from In Obscurity Revealed, and reveal did the Mexican quartet a throttling two-song 7″ for Blood Harvest aptly titled Grim Fumes of Revelation. Now, at long last, arrives an equally aptly titled debut album: Glorious Impurity. Retaining the same rudiments as that preceding quick strike, In Obscurity Revealed‘s first full-length is a nine-song/37-minute plunge into ancient sulfur. Rabid and roiling, their blackened death metal (or is that deathened black metal?) breathes the madness of their southern climes whilst honoring a host of international influences. It’s warfare noise that bears sadistic intent as it crosses the chasm into the cenotaph, as these four maniacs explode forth with scabrous, raw, yet clearly articulated darkness ‘n’ distress. Fierce and feral and imbued with an occult aura, Glorious Impurity is everything its title portends, and ominously more. Perhaps a cursory reading of the album’s component song titles – “Our Crimson Madness,” “Beast and Serpent,” and “Congress Cum Rampage” are but a few – more colorfully elucidates its content…

Step into the ritual chamber or engage in sexual carnage, it matters not – only the Glorious Impurity brazenly engaged in and vulgarly revealed by In Obscurity Revealed!

Take the first steps into that ritual chamber with the new tracks “Our Crimson Madness” and “Pestilent Breath” here:
Preorder info can be found HERE. 
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for In Obscurity Revealed’s Glorious Impurity
1. Our Crimson Madness
2. Coven Maleficia
3. Dismay
4. Beast And Serpent
5. Thy Temple Fire
6. Congress Cum Rampage
7. Pestilent Breath
8. Abhorrent Coffins
9. Closing Victory

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German black metal mavericks Krater premiere new track

Today, German black metal mavericks Krater premiere the new track “Zwischen den Worten“ The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated fourth album, Venenare, set for North American release on November 15th via Eisenwald. Hear Krater‘s”Zwischen den Worten” in its entirety HERE:

Germany’s KRATER premiere new track at NoCleanSinging.com

A study in patience and progress, Krater formed in 2003. In the band’s earliest days – across two demos, two splits, and 2006’s debut album, Das Relikt des Triumphes – the Krater sound tended more toward pagan black metal, but powerfully so. Come 2008, however, a period of silence and self-reflection followed…

When at last those sounds arrived, Krater had taken on a new form: one partly tied to their earlier traditionalism, another more so modernized. This burst-chrysalis came in the shape of 2011’s Nocebo, and following yet another lineup shake-up, 2016’s masterful Urere, courtesy of current label home Eisenwald. However, with these still-poignant albums as the foundation, Krater have now delivered their magnum opus with Venenare.

A 50-minute work broken into nine songs but unified as one winding, widescreen composition, Venenare shows Krater at the height of their all-too-considerable powers, a blinding and windswept vortex of sumptuous songcraft and passionate execution. Motifs slice and dice, blast and race with a grace that’s simply stunning, as melodic counterplay runs riot with a proud ‘n’ powerful assertion of classic metal sensibility. Krater‘s contours here undeniably exude a sleek and urban quality, but with abstracted hints of their pagan past subtly woven in to the soundfield, the result is staunchly second-wave black metal bravely recast for the 21st century. Venenare is thus timeless, yet forward-thinking all the same.

With cover artwork courtesy of Misanthropic-Art and mixing & mastering handled by Esoteric’s Greg Chandler, Krater have gone full-force to deliver a great work for the ages with Venenare. The only hurdle is resisting its spellbinding pull…

Also try resisting the previously revealed “Stellar Sparks” exclusively HERE, courtesy of Decibel magazine.

Preorder info can be found HERE.

Aforementioned cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Krater (Germany)’s Venenare
1. Eruption
2. Prayer for Demise
3. Zwischen den Worten
4. Stellar Sparks
5. When Thousand Hearts
6. Atmet Asche
7. No Place for You
8. Darvaza Breeds
9. Wasted Carbon

More Info:

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www.youtube.com/eisenwaldofficial
www.twitter.com/EisenwaldHammer
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