Month: April 2022

TEUFELSBERG set release date for SIGNAL REX debut album, reveal first track

Today, Signal Rex announces April 30th as the international release date for Teufelsberg‘s highly anticipated debut album, Ordre du Diable, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Hailing from Poland and making their public debut with the demo Ancient Darkness Triumphant in 2020, Teufelsberg are a band out of time. The modern “black metal underground” is a vacant void to be shunned, spit upon; for the duo, the elder ways of black metal militancy reflected in the Polish underground during the glorious ’90s are to be proudly upheld. And upheld they did with a successive split with comrades Minnesjord last year, once again through the auspices of Signal Rex, in the process building their own dead Christ commune.

And now, Teufelsberg fortify it further with their full-length debut, Ordre du Diable. No great changes have been made, thankfully – cold and grim is their march, rendered in raw-yet-clear tones that remarkably retain an era-authentic vibe – but the now-trio’s songwriting has undoubtedly advanced, moving at many speeds and effortlessly evincing a focus that’s fiery and finessed in equal measure. Further, their integration of synths is subtle and tasteful, coloring Ordre du Diable in rich hues of velvety purple emanating from deepest black. More simply stated, Teufelsberg deliver a record that could’ve easily come out in 1995: that same mysticism is alive and well here, and DEAD.

Against the modern world, torches raised aloft, Teufelsberg are coming to a church near you with Ordre du Diable!

Take this torch with the brand-new track “Malign Incantation” here:

Cover artwork, courtesy of JRMR Artworks, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Teufelsberg’s Ordre du Diable
1. Devil’s Praetorians [6:25]
2. Malign Incantation [4:14]
3. Procession of Dying Cherubs [4:20]
4. In The Glare Of Funeral Moon [5:31]
5. Fiat Luceat Lux [6:31]
6. Teufelsberg [7:04]

MORE INFO:
www.teufelsbergbm.bandcamp.com

www.signalrex.com
www.facebook.com/signalrex

Black metal classicists Serpentshrine premiere the new track “Satanic Rituals of the Perverse”

Today, black metal classicists Serpentshrine premiere the new track “Satanic Rituals of the Perverse”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Allegiance to the Myth, set for international release on April 22nd via Signal Rex. Hear Serpentshrine‘s “Satanic Rituals of the Perverse” in its entirety here:

Formed in 2015 and hailing from the United States, Serpentshrine are a black metal power-trio literally out of time. Theirs is a sound that proudly and authentically heralds the ancient ways of the 1990s. Raw and rabid but not without a certain nightsky majesty to their blitzed attack, Serpentshrine are poised to elevate themselves out of self-imposed obscurity with the release of their second full-length, Allegiance to the Myth.

Indeed accurately titled, Allegiance to the Myth recalls trace elements of a grand host of noble influences: from prime Throne of Ahaz and Thy Primordial to equally debut-era Ancient and Enthroned, from Malicious-era Gorgoroth and earliest Immortal to old Primigenium and Isvind, Serpentshrine transport the listener to forgotten realms and glorious times. However, such foundational stones would be for naught if it weren’t for the trio’s skillful songwriting and impassioned execution – the former spanning speed and swirl with deftness and nuance, the latter emitting an otherworldly aspect whilst retaining tangible physicality – altogether making Allegiance to the Myth a record that could be respectably placed within such an archaic timeline.

The way forward is to reject modernity: Serpentshrine hereby swear Allegiance to the Myth.

Swearing Allegiance with the previously revealed “Fathomless Rapture” HERE at Signal Rex‘s Bandcamp, where the album can be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Serpentshrine’s Allegiance to the Myth
1. Ancient Ophidian Lords
2. Satanic Rituals of the Perverse
3. Blaze of the Narthex
4. Queen of the Crimson Moon
5. Fathomless Rapture
6. Witchduck
7. Desecrating the Crown
8. Impaling the Weathered Cross

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/HailTheSerpent

www.signalrex.com
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RUNESPELL set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces June 1st as the international release date for a brand-new mini-album from Runespell, Sentinels of Time, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

By now, Runespell should require little introduction. Since this Australian entity’s public unveiling in 2017 with the Aeons of Ancient Blood demo – released by Iron Bonehead, as well as all successive recordings – Runespell has sharpened its sword and quickly, with three albums arriving like clockwork every year: Unhallowed Blood Oath (2017), Order of Vengeance (2018), and Voice of Opprobrium (2019). Although 2020 didn’t see the release of a full-length, a split album with the reanimated Forest Mysticism tided over the bloodthirsty until the arrival of fourth LP Verses in Regicide in 2021, arguably Runespell‘s best-produced and -executed album to date.

This is all not to suggest that mainman Nightwolf is hasty or careless with his creations; rather, the Runespell aesthetic is so etched in iron, so forged in blood, that this mystical & mesmerizing soundworld takes on its own life. And so it goes with the brand-new mini-album Sentinels of Time. Serving as something of a companion to the monolithic ‘n’ majestic Verses in Regicide, Sentinels of Time is every inch as epic and engrossing as its predecessor. Two of the mini’s tracks easily top 10 minutes, with another just over eight minutes; and while those luxurious-yet-portentous waves of blood/fire/death undulate and crash with the same Runespell‘d intensity and immensity, one could argue that Verses in Regicide sees Nightwolf in a slightly more solemn mood. But, all the same, the steel is sharper than ever and wielded like that of a master, reaching a crescendo of battlefury with that aforementioned eight-minute title track, at last concluding with eerily beautiful instrumental lament “A Drakkar’s Last Journey.”

No other words needed: Runespell continue their campaign of grim grandeur with Sentinels of Time!

The first offensive of that campaign can be found with the brand-new track “Claws of Vanagandr” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Runespell’s Sentinels of Time
1. Claws of Vanagandr [10:57]
2. Memories of Steel [11:38]
3. Sentinels of Time [8:10]
4. A Drakkar’s Last Journey [3:03]

MORE INFO:
www.runespell.bandcamp.com