Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces February 4th, 2022 as the international release date for Deathless Void‘s striking self-titled debut EP on 12″ vinyl and cassette tape formats.
A brand-new formation hailing from the Netherlands, Deathless Void create a vacuum of violent, post-modern death energy. Their foundation is undoubtedly black metal, but their vision is not blinkered upon the past; if anything, the jet-stream of crushing chaos across their debut EP is futuristic, albeit a ruined vision of such. Mutating physicality into cold, cutting, gleaming-yet-bloodstained steel, Deathless Void verily approximates its namesake, literally attacking the listener across three cocaine rushes of sound. One could point to later Katharsis or Antaeus or especially turn-of-the-millennium Thorns as touchstones, but the dread and delirium Deathless Void are creating here are entirely their own. This is but the start…of the END.
Begin contemplating that END with the brand-new track “Crossing the Threshold” here:
Tracklisting for Deathless Void’s Deathless Void 1. Ignis Fatuus [3:55] 2. The Shattered Realms of Man Become the Abyss [3:14] 3. Crossing the Threshold [7:04]
Today, Edged Circle Productions announces January 28th, 2022 as the international release date for a brand-new EP from AngelBlast, Throne of Ashes, on 7″ vinyl format.
It was but late 2019 when AngelBlast made their swift-yet-devastating entrance into the world with the Rotting Paradise EP. Although “merely” three songs, Rotting Paradise impressed with its just-blackened-enough Metal of Death attack, recalling ’90s Morbid Angel, Dissection, Necrophobic, Malevolent Creation, and Unanimated, but already with an identity of their own. But calling AngelBlast a “new” band was something of a misnomer, as the duo included members from old-school Swedeath cult Excruciate as well as fellow labelmates Darkened.
Now expanded to a quartet, AngelBlast deliver another blistering EP with the two-song Throne of Ashes. While those aforementioned references remain, here do AngelBlast blacken that attack even more decisively, sounding more expansive and world-eating in the process. In fact, alongside labelmates In Aphelion – who themselves will also be delivering a first full-length soon enough – one could argue that the new breed of old-school blackened death is equally secured by AngelBlast. Eleven minutes in total but totally breathless and epic, Throne of Ashes absolutely COMMANDS repeat plays!
Graced again by amazing artwork from Juanjo Castellano Rosado (Unleashed, Revel in Flesh, Gates of Ishtar), Throne of Ashes sounds the trumpets of doom for AngelBlast‘s imminent debut album!
In the meantime, hear the brand-new title track “Throne of Ashes” here:
Cover art and tracklisting as follows :
Tracklisting for AngelBlast’s Throne of Ashes 1. Throne of Ashes 2. Tartarus
On February 4th, 2022 internationally, Personal Records is proud to present a special split album between Carathis and Sulfure on CD format.
The first split release in the ever-growing Personal catalog, this split CD between Carathis and Sulfure features two up-and-coming black metal hordes and material from both that has not seen release on CD format yet.
Carathis are a pan-international duo hailing from Austria and Sweden. Drummer Skol is incredibly prolific, concurrently playing in the likes of Wan, SlaughterCoffin, Condemnatory, Amuleto de Calamidades, and Sweden’s HellGoat among others; nearly as prolific, vocalist/guitarist Erech currently plays in Ancient Mastery, Narzissus, Golden Blood, and fellow labelmates Grandeur, whose Aurea Aetas debut Personal released on CD to not-inconsiderable acclaim. Together, as Carathis, the duo rip forth with raw-yet-melodic black metal that has one foot in the darkest past and the other in a differently darker present. Their tracks here comprise the Hymns to the Tower EP, which tells the tale of the Queen of the Tower. Expect a deceptive catchiness equally informed by punk and classic heavy metal, snarling and relentless.
Canada’s Sulfure are almost as new of an entity, having released the EP Neurotisme in 2020. Hailing from the black metal hotbed of Québec, the band’s four members have been active in that influential movement for years, most especially in modern torchbearers Délétère and Monarque. Here, with their half of the split being the EP Exorde Du Vide, Sulfure continue to carry on that grand tradition. The intro title track ominously sets the stage for what follows: two succinct torrents of thick ‘n’ throbbing, martial-yet-melodic black metal in the immediately recognizable Québecoise style, bookended by an ominous outro. Familiar and distinct simultaneously, Sulfure sound massive here, evincing a power and poignancy that demands blood be shed onstage. Caveman riffs deeply rooted into misanthropy and mental illness, Exorde Du Vide is a shock & awe second strike.
Personal stuff, Personal tastes: yet again does the label display its flair for black metal – and its broad spectrum – with this split album between Carathis and Sulfure.
In the meantime, stream the split album in its entirety here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Carathis / Sulfure split album 1. Hymns To The Tower 2. Corrupt The Pristine 3. Infiltrate The Council 4. Execute The Ambush 5. Eviscerate The Lands 6. Illuminate The Night Sky 7. Exorde Du Vide 8. Stigmate 9. Obsolescence 10. Géhenne Sempiternelle
Tracks 1-6 = CARATHIS’ Hymns to the Tower Tracks 7-10 = SULFURE’s Exorde Du Vide
