Month: August 2021

CONJURETH set release date for MEMENTO MORI / ROTTED LIFE debut, reveal first track – features members of ENCOFFINATION, VOIDCEREMONY, GHOULGOTHA+++

In their endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odor of vintage death metal, on October 25th, Memento Mori in conspiracy with Rotted Life are  proud to present Conjureth‘s highly anticipated debut album, Majestic Dissolve. Memento Mori will release the CD version while Rotted Life will handle the vinyl and cassette versions.

Hailing from San Diego, California, Conjureth formed in 2018 with the goal of continuing the traditions forged by the originators of death metal. Indeed, they did that with two demos in 2020, Foul Formations and The Levitation Manifest. That the members do or have done time in such bands as Encoffination, VoidCeremony, and Ghoulgotha, among many others, is a moot point; Conjureth are equally DEATH METAL, if not more so, but reside in their own ancient sphere altogether.

Evidence of such can be found with their debut album, Majestic Dissolve. Taking influence via everything from Florida to Finland, the power-trio steamroll their way through late ’80s-inspired filth. There was a short time when death metal wasn’t primarily full of blastbeats, caveman riffs, ultra-low-tuned guitars, and super-guttural vocals. Sadly, this era was fairly short-lived, but we all know how it spawned some of the most classic material the genre has ever seen. As brazenly displayed by the 10 songs comprising Majestic Dissolve, Conjureth slots in that bygone age of 1986-to-1989-style death metal with a heaping portion of thrash metal riffing and a dash of the technical side of things that would be unearthed a few years later. It’s both “by the books” and also bent, as the weird & eerie title of Majestic Dissolve suggests, not to mention its mesmerizing cover art courtesy of Erskine Designs.

Put simply, Conjureth is a band that celebrates the past giving birth to the future. Girded in a scything mix & mastering courtesy of Javier Felez at Moontower Studios, Majestic Dissolve is modern proof that death is just the beginning!

Find out for yourself with the brand-new track “Wet Flesh Vortex” here:

Cover and tracklisting as follows:

Tracklisting for Conjureth’s Majestic Dissolve
1. Wet Flesh Vortex
2. Possession Psychosis
3. Resintegrate
4. A Terror Sacrifice
5. Mutilated Spirits
6. Black Fire Confessions
7. The Silent Hangings
8. Sorcery Arts
9. An Occult Mosaic
10. The Unworshipped

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/conjureth 
www.conjureth.bandcamp.com 

www.memento-mori.es
www.facebook.com/memento.mori.label

www.rottedlife.com
www.facebook.com/rottedlife

GOAT TORMENT Signs to Season of Mist

Season of Mist is proud to announce the signing of GOAT TORMENT! The Belgian blackened death metal outfit will be releasing their new album via the label in the fall of 2021.

GOAT TORMENT comments on the signing: “6 years after the release of ‘Sermons To Death’ Goat Torment is back with a third studio album. We are proud to announce that we have teamed up with Season of Mist to unleash this beast! With fierce we extend the path of Death and Darkness.“

For a glimpse of what’s to come, check out GOAT TORMENT‘s Bandcamp HERE

GOAT TORMENT was formed in 2008 by Kwel and K.J. with the intention to create music as a weapon of mass destruction and to annihilate everything which the so-called society stands for. For a start Kwel was supposed to play bass and K.J. would handle the vocals. But they didn’t find a guitarist who fitted with the ideology on a serious level. Thus Kwel decided to handle all the guitar parts and K.J.. started to play bass. After some months of research, the band recruited drummer Perversor. Then the band released a 4-track demo tape, released in 2009 through Terrorghoul Productions from Austria. The reactions were tremendous and bigger labels contacted the band interested to release the future offerings of GOAT TORMENT.

At this point, the band shared stages all over Europe with bands such as Grave Miasma, Hell Militia, Enthroned, Black Crucifixion, Black Witchery, The Devil’s blood…to name but a few. At the beginning of 2010 GT had to part ways with drummer Perversor due to musical differences.
During the early days of April 2010 a new burning entity was found: S. claimed the throne behind the battery. The Death wielding Trinity of GOAT TORMENT was complete. New songs were written, gigs were played and blood was shed.

Exactly one year later, the band entered the infamous Blackout Studio in Brussels (BE) to record some tracks for two upcoming releases: A 7” split EP with The Beast which was released at the beginning of 2012 and later that year another 7” EP , called “Into The Mouth of the Serpent”. Directly after the split EP was released, Kwel an S. decided to part ways with K.J.. due to different views about their future. In that moment GT decided to go on as a duet recruiting session members for live-shows.

The band returned to Blackout Studio in the fall of 2012 to record their first full-length album ‘Dominande Tenebrae’ ,which was released in February 2013 by Amor Fati Productions from Germany. After a year of a few European shows, the band had their first live appearance on American soil (Maryland Deathfest XII). The band had plans to go on as a four piece, but that didn’t work out because of different views. A South American tour was planned for August 2014 with the Belgian maniacs of ENTHRONED, but the two bands were forced to cancel one month before due to the irresponsible promoter.

In September 2014, S. decided to leave the band, due to other personal priorities and having no time anymore for drumming. It didn’t take long for Kwel to find somebody to take over the hammers. A new era began and Torturer (Mor Dagor, Bethlehem, ex-Belphegor) joined GOAT TORMENT as a new full member, so the duo was complete again. The band returned to Blackout Multimedia Studio in the beginning of 2015 to record their second full-length album.

In the summer of 2015, ‘Sermons To Death’ was released by Amor Fati Productions. The band toured the US West Coast in October 2015, accompanied by Saroth and Vagus Nox as live members. Shortly after, Vagus Nox joined forces to write new material. At the end of 2020, the third studio album had been completed.

Lineup:
Kwel: Guitars, Bass & Vocals
Torturer: Drums

Links:
www.goattorment.com
www.facebook.com/Goattorment
www.instagram.com/goattorment
www.goattorment.bandcamp.com

INFESTICIDE and IN OBSCURITY REVEALED to release new split via BLOOD HARVEST, reveal first tracks

Today, Blood Harvest Records announces August 27th as the international release date for a special split EP between Infesticide and In Obscurity Revealed on CD and cassette tape formats. The 12″ vinyl version will follow later.

Hailing from Mexico, both Infesticide and In Obscurity Revealed are no strangers to the Blood Harvest stronghold: just last year, Infesticide released their critically acclaimed second album, Envenoming Wounds, and in late 2019 did In Obscurity Revealed have their cult debut album, Glorious Impurity, released on vinyl by the label. Featuring two exclusive tracks from each band and totaling 17 deadly minutes, this split EP offers the first new recordings from both bands since those two respective full-lengths.

Infesticide are up first and further prove that they are the true heirs to the altars of madness. Reaping the whirlwind and finding that ever-elusive balance between into-oblivion chaos and cauterized-tight precision, Infesticide are evil death metal incarnate, reeking of sulfur and insanity – and their ascent only continues. Not to be outdone, In Obscurity Revealed rocket further into an abyss of chaos all their own with two aptly titled tracks, “Bloodstorm” and “Under the Vomit Seal.” No doubt abominations of desolation, In Obscurity Revealed‘s Metal of Death is diabolical and absolutely unstoppable.

Mexican death metal continues its bloody reign of vengeance, and Infesticide and In Obscurity Revealed assert their kingship with no small amount of violence and force – pay fealty or DIE!

In the meantime, hear two brand-new tracks – Infesticide‘s “Putrefact Offerings” and In Obscurity Revealed‘s “Bloodstorm” here:

Also see a special video for In Obscurity Revealed‘s “Bloodstorm” here:

cover and tracklisting as follows:

Tracklisting for Infesticide / In Obscurity Revealed split
1. Infesticide – Putrefact Offerings
2. Infesticide – Blackfire Permeate
3. In Obscurity Revealed – Bloodstorm
4. In Obscurity Revealed – Under The Vomit Seal

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/infesticide.death
www.facebook.com/inobscurityrevealed

www.bloodharvest.se
www.bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com
www.twitter.com/BloodHarvestRec

FUSTILARIAN set release date for AMOR FATI debut, reveal first track

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces September 15th as the international release date for Fustilarian‘s striking debut album, All This Promiscuous Decadence, on CD format. The vinyl LP version shall follow early next year.

A mysterious new entity, Fustilarian is the work of one man inspired by the dark vision over human decay, his unnatural world, and the decadence of urban dysphoria. The entity’s first public work, All This Promiscuous Decadence comprises eight songs in 43 minutes, bearing an aspect both timeless and palpably modern. Its black metal is undeniably rooted in more traditional Satanic tropes of the ’90s, but a subtle or at least underlying layer of the next millennium’s introspective BM plays a no-less-vital role.

What results across All This Promiscuous Decadence is a firestorm of molten, muscular surge and almost coolly cruising violence. This dichotomy pays dividends, as Fustilarian drags the listener through catacombs of the self and subconscious, each haunting & hysteric turn as treacherous as the last. The ever-present violence is thusly directed inward as it is outward, furthering that totality which again seems almost effortless for this entity, its confidence bespeaking bottomless depths of darkness in a perverse twist of fate. But, with a stand-to-attention title like All This Promiscuous Decadence, perhaps such perversity shouldn’t be surprising at all…

Girded in a powerfully professional production that renders these virulent visions in shocking 3D, All This Promiscuous Decadence firmly puts Fustilarian in esteemed company, from the classic mid/late ’90s melodic black metal vanguard to the orthodox/spiritual black metal movement it would engender during the first decade of the 2000s.

Hear for yourself with the brand-new track “Deceived in Ravenous Perversion”  here:

Artwork and tracklisting as follows:

Tracklisting for Fustilarian’s All This Promiscuous Decadence

1. Reversed Ascension
2. Born In Neglect Embrace
3. Irreversible Cessation
4. Deceived In Ravenous Perversion
5. Interlúdio (A Alienação dos Inquietos)
6. Swallowed By The Nether Regions of Chaotic Isolation
7. Carving Crystal Adornments Upon The Flesh
8. The Vacant Dispirit

www.amor-fati-productions.de 
www.amorfatiproductions.bandcamp.com

SORGUINAZIA set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces October 15th as the international release date for Sorguinazia‘s highly anticipated debut album, Negation of Delirium, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

In 2016, out of the void inconspicuously tumbled a vortex of dread decibels. Bearing the moniker Sorguinazia, the power-duo’s first recorded work was a limited-edition tape EP that soon bore successive editions across a number of formats. Of them, Iron Bonehead released Sorguinazia on CD later on in 2017 and then on 12″ vinyl in early 2018. And for good reason: Sorguinazia are shamanistic butchers of pseudo-occult intellectualism, purveying pure cannibalistic black metal with preternatural fire. They may’ve hailed from Canada, but by all measures, their sound was otherworldly to the extreme, both primitively primordial and exceedingly nuanced. Sorguinazia was the sound of all colors being absorbed and spit back out, mangled and malign.

While a full-length work was promised not long after the release of that first EP, years of tension and unease followed, which perfectly suited Sorguinazia‘s sense of the unpredictable and unorthodox. At long last, their debut album arrives: Negation of Delirium. Almost too perfectly titled, Sorguinazia‘s first full-length work warps deliriums of all sorts – mental, physical, cosmic, even sexual – and negates them all the same. It’s very much in line with what the duo of Xolaryxis and Axczor presented before, but arguably in more brittle form here. Indeed, this almost-deliberate desiccation takes their ghoulish ‘n’ ghastly black metal to uncomfortable realms of sensory experience, that previously wobbly balance between beyond-the-shade mysticism and soul-flaying insanity now upended, and we are but below to witness its unsettling fallout. Put another way, this soundpool of gibbering, horrendous “notes” that somehow coalesce into rude yet strangely alluring shapes is faintly recognizable as being performed by humans, but the sonic-unto-spiritual dislocation is so strong that it thusly transports the listener far beyond the realm of man. Is there a return?

Or, more pithily, imagine a pile of old tapes from the crude-yet-aristocratic Concilium collective left to rot in a sewer… Or, just simply, this is truly the Negation of Delirium. Sorguinazia offer no return.

Do not return with the brand-new track “Black Spell of Supremacy” here:

Cover art and tracklisting as follows:

Tracklisting for Sorguinazia’s Negation of Delirium
1. Black Spell of Supremacy
2. Conquering Skies
3. Ecstatic Karmic Impunity
4. Negation of Delirium
5. Death Entrancing
6. Saraswati
7. Neuromancy

MORE INFO:
www.sorguinazia.bandcamp.com

www.facebook.com/IronBoneheadProductions

ZETAR set release date for SPIRIT COFFIN debut, reveal first track

Today, Spirit Coffin Publishing announces October 15tth as the international release date for Zetar‘s striking debut album, Devouring Darkness, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Named for a planet of telepaths who’d transcended into a roaming mass of pure psychic energy to curtail their own meteoric extinction, sci-fi themed black/death metal trio Zetar initially formed in 2019 as a solo act via Austin, Texas-area musician R.G., who’d forgo the public demo process in favor of developing recording and compositional skills in private alongside a host of talented international conspirators. The circle was complete with the addition of French vocalist T.P. and relentless Ecuadoran drummer David Lamas, both of whom add their own extra-dimensional touch of madness and malevolence to the album’s living and breathing psychic mass.

Seeking to graft their collective disembodied consciousness onto new hosts, the trio present Devouring Darkness as a trance of transitive black and death metal properties, exposing fresh mythos and mystery within our undiscovered infinitum. Computer gods! Universal evils! Mind-rending telepathic control! Serpentine melodies and jagged riffs intertwine to power all warp coils through these eight steadily bounding expeditions: All horrors (and wonders) beyond are revealed via this oddity of unclear influences, which range from classics of ’90s death metal, synth-laden and thrashing black metal, and classic science fiction scores.

Invoking the names of artists as vastly different as Michael Schenker Group, Blood Incantation, Immortal, and Acheron as just a few shades of vast influence, R.G.’s work isn’t focused on emulating current or past greats: “My drive was to challenge myself to do something I’ve never done before. In the process of discovery, my guitar playing improved; I began playing bass, and started working with analog synth. This ultimately tapped into creativity that I hadn’t found in years – I went to college to be an artist, then a writer. It was never about being more brutal or heavy than anyone else, but to capture the music that was in my head, something that I wasn’t really hearing from other bands.”

The artist’s ethos also seeks to capture the true, tangible essence of heavy metal recordings to some degree, choosing to forego muddy down-tuning, direct-input recording, and any artificial pace-keeping: “Overall, I wanted the album to have a bit of a nasty, gritty, filthy, underground vibe to it. I didn’t want it to be too clean, sanitized, and sterile like a lot of ‘perfect’-sounding modern extreme metal albums. I believe metal should have some of that element, though it shouldn’t be a distraction.” The result is an out of-this-world yet entirely carbon-based species of black/death metal.

Hear for yourself with the brand-new track “Lights of Zetar” here:

Cover artwork, courtesy of Bruce Pennington, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Zetar’s Devouring Darkness

1. Devouring Darkness
2. Return to Talos IV (The Cage)
3. Demons of Darkness and Air
4. Portal Six-Three
5. Lights of Zetar
6. Landru
7. Orbital Decay
8. Ardra (Great Deceiver)

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/lightofzetar

www.spiritcoffinpublishing.bigcartel.com
www.spiritcoffinpublishing.bandcamp.com

AVERSIO HUMANITATIS set release date for special live album thru LUNAR APPARITIONS – fully streaming now

On September 15th internationally, Lunar Apparitions – a division of Nebular Carcoma – is proud to present Aversio Humanitatis‘ Silent Dwellers – Live MMXX on digipack CD format.

Since their formation in 2010, Spain’s Aversio Humanitatis have patiently perfected their craft over the course of their Abandonment Ritual debut LP in 2011, successive splits in 2015 and 2017, and an EP in 2017, all before the breakout release of their second album, Behold the Silent Dwellers, in 2020. By then, their shadowy, shapeshifting black metal had reached a fever pitch of sound and vision, all unified for one massive & malevolent purpose.

As the cursed year of 2020 rolled on, Aversio Humanitatis never had an opportunity to make flesh these creations from Behold the Silent Dwellers. Taking to a virtual stage of sorts, the now-quartet recorded an extensive live set and released it via their own Bandcamp. Suitably titled Silent Dwellers – Live MMXX, this nine-song/54-minute performance is a titanic work in itself,  vividly recasting that then-new studio album in an illuminating new light. Each of these engrossing tracks is threaded together like their live set would be, but almost creating another totality altogether – density, atmosphere, and soul-shredding physicality all in perfect (dis)harmony. Thus, Silent Dwellers – Live MMXX is equally recommended for adepts of Aversio Humanitatis and neophytes alike; this work stands alone and as complement.

As shadow realities are refracted back to a no-less-horrifying present as 2021 trudges toward a conclusion, Lunar Apparitions hereby delivers Aversio Humanitatis‘ Silent Dwellers – Live MMXX in a physical edition…before the next plague rears its head.

In the meantime, stream Silent Dwellers – Live MMXX in its entirety here:

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. Also see the whole performance HERE at the band’s official YouTube channel. CD cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Aversio Humanitatis’ Silent Dwellers – Live MMXX

1. Longing for the Untold
2. Prison of Shattered Glass
3. The Presence in the Mist
4. The Watcher in the Walls
5. The Sculptor of Thoughts
6. Spears of Unlight
7. Advent of the Inescapable
8. The Weaver of Tendons
9. The Wanderer of Abstract Path

MORE INFO:
www.aversiohumanitatis.com

www.nebularcarcoma.com
www.lunarapparitions.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/nebularcarcoma 

CTENIZIDAE set release date for new NEBULAR CARCOMA EP – streaming in full now

On September 15th internationally, Nebular Carcoma is proud to present a brand-new EP from Ctenizidae, …Of Rotting Soil & Spine, on 10” vinyl format.

Since its ghastly public birth with the Xulgrem tape in 2018, the nameless entity behind Ctenizidae has remained single-mindedly focused on creating the harshest, most horrific noise-leaning black metal around. Indeed, to hear Ctenizidae’s works is to witness the systematic dismembering of black metal tropes, only to be reshaped (more like MISHAPED) into something far more disturbing.

Aptly titled, Ctenizidae’s latest …Of Rotting Soil & Spine comprises six “songs” of vulgar dissection and red-eyed antagonism. With vocals utterly mangled into sheets of white-noise whisper and atonal riffs detuned into an eerily hummable buzz, the almost-laissez faire minimalism across this 19-minute EP almost faintly resembles “black metal,” but only after being left rotting in some outer-cosmos dungeon for many millennia. Wisely, Ctenizidae doesn’t overstay his welcome; his creations here are short, sharp, and shocked, and the listener is left stunned and bewildered, wondering how this could come from supposedly “human” hands.

Those who prize the outsider sounds of Bašmu, Flešš, and Lampir or especially progenitors WOLD and the myriad works of Black Legions founder Vordb are wholeheartedly encouraged to check out Ctenizidae and lose their mind to …Of Rotting Soil & Spine.

Fully lose your mind to it here:

Vinyl cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ctenizidae’s …Of Rotting Soil & Spine

1. Collapsing Inward, a Repugnant Existence…
2. That Which Feeds Upon the Weakened Host
3. Shrine of Necrophagia
4. Liquefaction Seeps from Hidden Reaches of Decrepit Void
5.Evil Crawls From the Sinew of a Decapitated Limbs
6. Thickening of the Abyss

MORE INFO:
www.ctenizidae.bandcamp.com

www.nebularcarcoma.com
www.lunarapparitions.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/nebularcarcoma