Month: October 2024

BÜTCHER reveal new video from upcoming OSMOSE album

Today, Belgian speed metallers Bütcher reveal the new video “Keep the Steele (Flamin’ Hot).” The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated third album, On Fowl of Tyrant Wing, set for international release on October 25th via Osmose Productions. See & hear Bütcher‘s “Keep the Steele (Flamin’ Hot)” in its entirety here:

Bütcher have exploded onto the scene and have been making a name for themselves internationally. Their music caters to the blackened souls who love old-school speed, thrash, heavy, and black metals. Cuts such as “Iron Bitch,” “45 RPM Metal,” and “666 Goats Carry My Chariot” are now part of the canon of the old-school metal community.

After an avalanche of successful shows and festivals throughout Europe, Bütcher are proud to present their third album, On Fowl of Tyrant Wing. After the rabid debut Bestial Fükkin’ Warmachine (Babylon Doom Cult Records, 2017) and the heralded sophomore album 666 Goats Carry My Chariot (Osmose Productions, 2020), they delve deep into their specific mixture of the golden ’80s and extreme ’90s.

Bütcher have always mixed ancient speed and thrash metal with NWOBHM, classic hard rock and black metal. On side A of the new album, they continue their very own legacy. On side B, they double down on that premise. It’s a concept side with an overarching unique story (written by R Hellshrieker) and a fully composed tour de force (by KK Ripper) where tempo changes, interwoven melodies, sitars, organs, and various percussion instruments create an unexpected musical journey.

Heavy, death, and black metals counter the speed metal, and nobody will see it coming. Both progressive and very traditional, this album is sure to opiate fans and critics alike.

Also hear the previously revealed “Blessed by the Blade” HERE, also at Osmose Productions‘ official YouTube channel. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of the legendary Kris Verwimp, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Bütcher’s On Fowl of Tyrant Wing
1. A Divine Wind
2. Speed Metal Samurai
3. Blessed By The Blade
4. Koraktor’s Iron Rule
5. Keep The Steele (Flamin’ Hot)
6. A Sacrifice To Satan’s Spawn
7. A Gypsy’s Tale (Of Sex and Seance)
8. An Ending In Fyre

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/Butcherspeedmetal

www.osmoseproductions.com
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Sweden’s SEID stream new DE TENEBRARUM PRINCIPIO album – features members of CRAFT+++

Today, Swedish black metallers Seid stream the entirety of their highly anticipated fifth album, Hymns to the Norse. Set for an international release on October 18th via De Tenebrarum Principio – a division of ATMF – hear Seid‘s Hymns to the Norse in its entirety here:

Hymns to the Norse – the new album from Seid, active since 2009 and purveyors of proud pagan black metal in the ancient tradition – takes great inspiration from the old folk music of the Scandinavian region. In many ways, this album is more of a concept album than 2022’s preceding Svart Sól was. The sejd drum intro “Hymn To Ivar” opens it up in an even-more-traditional fashion, but then you get brass sections and the sound develops more and more throughout the album towards something more recognizably black metal. “Hymn to the North” closes the album, referring to the fact that all the songs you just heard were hymns: previously untold but, in our common ancestry, deeply buried.

With Seid‘s raw, lo-fi sound, eerie vocals, sejd drum, Hammond organs, and haunting atmospheres, this album pushes the boundaries of black metal while exploring the Norse roots. Hymns to the Norse takes you to the past…and brings the past into you.

North American preorder info can be found HERE; European preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Frank Dicksee (1873), and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Seid (Sweden)’s Hymns to the Norse
1. Hymn To Ivar
2. The End Of Days
3. My Kingdom Rise
4. White Beast From Hel
5. Nordmænnens Raseri
6. Light Up The Sky
7. Allfadir
8. Hymns To The North

Lineup
Seiðr – vocals, organ, guitars 
Osgilliath – bass 
Pär Johansson – drums (also in Craft) 
Herjann – guitars 
Reynir – guitars

MORE INFO:
www.norseblackmetal.com 


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NOGOTHULA set release date for BLOOD HARVEST debut – features VALDRIN member+++

Blood Harvest Records is proud to present Nogothula‘s striking debut album, Telluric Sepsis, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. The tape version will be released on October 25th, the CD on November 29th, and the vinyl on December 13th.

Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Nogothula formed in 2021 originally as a trio, including vocalist / guitarist Colton Deem of the mighty VALDRIN and vocalist / bassist Eric Payne of regional heroes Verment. Alex Hooper rounded out the band on drums, and together they released the Gore Vortex Ascension demo a year later. The title itself gave more than a small indication of the sci-leanings the band would soon explore across their surging & slamming style of death metal. Guitarist Nick Moeller would later join, and as a quartet, Nogothula would record their debut album, Telluric Sepsis. 

Released digitally in April 2024, Telluric Sepsis now sees a physical release courtesy of Blood Harvest. And for good reason: sharper, strangely concise, and yet also more mind-bending, Telluric Sepsis is prime progressive-leaning death metal that never loses sight of the original essence of DEATH METAL. References are many – early 2000s Decapitated, Pierced From Within-era Suffocation, pre-Obscura Gorguts, late ’90s Cryptopsy – but Nogothula possess an elusive nous that minces and mangles those sturdy signposts in a manner that’s familiar and foreign in equal measure. While the sci-fi element isn’t as pronounced as, say, Nocturnus’ first couple albums, there’s nevertheless an undercurrent of “supernatural spaciness” to the overall atmosphere of Telluric Sepsis – part production, perhaps, or part songwriting itself. For the latter, the songwriting found within the nine-song / 43-minute album slices & sluices with deadly precision, keeping momentum always moving forward but equally unsettling the listener; linear trajectories are to be found here, but the sum effect is swarming and cyclonic. And even amidst the brutal breakdowns, the razor-wire riffing runs riot across Telluric Sepsis, peppered with fleeting-yet-furious leads while Deem and Payne’s dual vocals make that swarming / cyclonic effect hit that much harder. Feel the lacerating vibrations of Nogothula and behold their labyrinthian sunken spires!

In the meantime, stream Telluric Sepsis in its entirety here:

Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Nogothula’s Telluric Sepsis
1. Pinnacle Of Death
2. Astonishing Devastation
3. Pyres Of The Altar
4. Incandescent Debris
5. Embers Of An Ancient Fire
6. Volcanic Winter
7. Fogo Nas Entranhas
8. Burial Swamps

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/nogothula

www.bloodharvest.se
www.facebook.com/bloodharvest
www.bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com

SPITER to tour the United States next month – UPDATED dates

Next month, True Vampyric Metal Punks Spiter will embark on a tour of the American East Coast. Joining them as support will be New Hampshire deathpunks Diabolus. UPDATED list of confirmed dates as well as poster art are as follows:

11/1 Worcester, MA @ Ralph’s Diner
11/2 New Brunswick, NJ @ Cinco De Mayo
11/3 Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana
11/5 Atlanta, GA @ Boggs Social
11/6 Jenson Beach, FL @ Dark Riff Records
11/7 Orlando, FL @ The Cobalt
11/8 Pensacola, FL @ Subculture
11/9 New Orleans, LA @Siberia
11/10 Memphis, TN @ The Hi Tone
11/12 Louisville, KY @ Portal
11/13 Asheville, NC @ Eulogy
11/14 Raleigh, NC @ The Pour House
11/15 Long Island City, NY at El Bunker Diablo 
11/16 Philadelphia, PA at Fotoclub

It was but the summer of 2022 when Spiter burst from the fucking grave with their debut album for Hells Headbangers, Bathe the Babe in Bats’ Blood. Featuring members of labelmates Shitfucker and Devil Master, the power-trio made plain – and vulgar – their infernal & infectious True Vampyric Metal Punk: a raw-yet-anthemic blend of cult blackthrash, obscure hardcore punk, and even the wildest deathrock. The album sowed its seeds of sanguine depravity and Spiter took their madness on the road, cementing their cult status immediately.

Now, the deviants of Spiter return with a ripping new mini-album, Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell. This six-song / 26-minute recording sees the lineup scaled back to vocalist / guitarist / songwriter Richard Spider (Daemon Bitch of Shitfucker) and drummer Snake (Disjawn) – they continue to be a trio for live purposes – and remarkably shows even more fire and focus than that not-inconsiderable debut album. Somehow, those six(-six-six) songs sound shorter and more epic simultaneously, with Spider showing his songwriting chops between wild & winding mania and ghoulish catchiness. The production, in kind, is colder and harsher but clearer and heavier, assaulting the listener with arguably more undead energy than said debut. And then, over before it began, you’re again possessed to press “play” and enter those fucking gates over and over…again, until it fucking hurts.

Stream Spiter‘s Enter the Gates of Fucking HellHERE at Hells Headbangers‘ Bandcamp. Order info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Spiter’s Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell
1. Enter The Gates Of Fucking Hell
2. Drowning In Darkness
3. Tears Of Blood
4. The Creeping Serpent Psychosis
5. 666 On The Crucifix
6. Reflection Of The Vampire

MORE INFO:
www.spiter.bandcamp.com

“When you need metal, go to hell!”

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LURING set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces December 13th as the international release date for Luring‘s highly anticipated third album, Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Belonging to the Order of the Broken Sword circle which includes labelmates Azathoth’s Dream and Wuldorgast, Luring made their public debut in 2018 with the Interitu Caret Devotione ad Coronam Satanas demo. From there, with the successive full-lengths Victory Fires Ablaze Under the Banner of Lucifer and the Iron Bonehead-released Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ last year, Luring have slowly-yet-assuredly become one of the most exciting developments in American black metal of recent years, effortlessly finessing a stridently classicist form that doesn’t point toward preceding idioms too obviously nor overly.

Perhaps reaching their apotheosis of such, Luring now deliver Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy. The trio’s third album features much of the same foundation as its two LP predecessors – rippling physicality fused with otherworldly texture, inspired by contemporaneously early Abigor and Gorgoroth as equally as turn-of-the-millennium Nocternity and Lunar Aurora – but here do Luring intensify the extremes of their sound. On one hand, that physicality goes a more gutted direction, digging deep into sepulchral catacombs almost deathly. On another hand (and especially as the album plays on), their once-subtle melodicism goes to bolder lengths: some more melancholic, others more triumphant, but always with a fully developed narrative arc. Interestingly, half the album is given to instrumental tracks that aren’t strictly “ambient” in the usual black metal sense(s), imparting haunting / alluring atmospheres that thread seamlessly into Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy‘s overall sensory experience; however, there are touches of true ambient within the other four, otherwise-black-metal songs. Altogether, and armed with a cleaner and yet still-analog production, Luring render their third full-length a never-belabored masterclass in black metal both authentically ancient and refreshingly modern.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Dying Wolf Beneath the Stars” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Luring’s Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy
1. Ravaged By the Teeth of a Feral God
2. Chalice of Splintered Dreams
3. Born With the Devil’s Marking
4. Black Death Elixir
5. The Odious Gaze of Chronos
6. We Come From the Shadows at His Command
7. Dying Wolf Beneath the Stars
8. Burial Opus

MORE INFO:
www.luring.bandcamp.com 



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WULDORGAST set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces December 13th as the international release date for Wuldorgast‘s striking debut album, Cold Light, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Wuldorgast are a new formation belonging to the Order of the Broken Sword circle, which includes labelmates Luring and Azathoth’s Dream among others. Like those two bands, Wuldorgast likewise underline this exciting new development in American black metal of recent years: a stridently classicist form that doesn’t point toward preceding idioms too obviously nor too overly, but not completely without precedent.

Witness Wuldorgast‘s first public work, the full-length Cold Light. Vaguely eldritch Scandinavian in approach but not the usual suspects, the duo’s black metal is one that’s asskicking yet atmospheric, equally martial and rowdy as fuck. Superficial first-glances might suggest late ’90s Darkthrone or early 2000s Carpathian Forest, but cast your gaze to the darkest not-so-distant past and one could liken Wuldorgast here such cults as Tangorodrim, Thesyre, Torka, and especially Germany’s unsung Graupel: not the most worn-out references, thankfully, and finessed in such a manner that locates the essence rather than the result. Thus is everything stripped down to bare-bones, brass-knuckled rudiments and then built back up with a triumphant delirium fueled by blood and alcohol – and an abundance of heraldic leads, adding a crucial distinction of character. No more but definitely no less, Cold Light is real BLACK METAL for real black metal people!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Dawn of the Black Sun”  here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Wuldorgast’s Cold Light
A1. Obscured in Shadows [7:06]
A2. Natural Life is Eternal Battle [3:47]
A3. Cold Light of Reason [4:47]
B1. Labyrinth of Control [6:02]
B2. Cipher to Eternity [4:48]
B3. Dawn of the Black Sun [5:33]



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UNHOLDUN set release date for PURITY THROUGH FIRE debut album, reveal first track

Today, Purity ThroughFire announces November 17th as the international release date for Unholdun‘s highly anticipated debut album, Fœhn, on CD format.

The work of one Alexis Chiambretto, Unholdun made their public debut in 2022 with a self-titled EP through Purity ThroughFire. At the time, the mainman modestly said, “I didn’t try to revolutionize black metal with this EP; it’s more like ‘a tribute’ to the good, old black metal. So, I would like to feel a little bit the ’90s vibe, even in the artwork.” Nevertheless, Unholdun‘s pleasures were simple but sublime, exhibiting a sweepingly melodic surge that favorably recalled the Québec scene that’s made waves in the underground for the past couple decades.

While Chiambretto still calls France his home (and he’s here joined by session drummer Rémi Serafino), Unholdun‘s sound has become bigger and bolder with Fœhn, the band’s full-length debut. The unadorned and awe-inspiring cover artwork spells out the magick of Fœhn in no uncertain terms: epic, expansive, elemental, but frighteningly focused. Unholdun‘s template hasn’t changed so much as the execution of such has. Electric, exciting, restlessly roiling but ripping with a joie de vivre that’s impossible not to get windswept up by, paradoxically, the band’s influences are more upfront and yet relatively more varied – classic Arckanum, late ’90s Darkthrone, similarly late ’90s Kampfar, 2000s Khold, first-era Deathspell Omega, all templars of BLACK METAL all unbounded in approach – but Chiambretto manages to mix & mince those various DNA in such a manner that what emerges is idiosyncratic and infectious. Pushed to greatness by powerful production that’s clear, gritty, and wholly human, Fœhn has all the hallmarks of a quiet triumph. Face towering solitude and explore the peaks with Unholdun!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Forêts” here:

Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Unholdun’s Fœhn
1. Combes [7:31]
2. Forêts [5:43]
3. Cavernes [6:15]
4. Glaciers [9:54]
5. Neiges eternelles [5:54]
6. Cimes [7:33]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/unholdun

www.purity-through-fire.com

France’s GORGON set release date for new OSMOSE album

Today, Osmose Productions announces November 29th as the international release date for the highly anticipated seventh album of France’s Gorgon, For Those Who Stay, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

With For Those Who Stay, the cursed phalanx of Gorgon is back with its wildest work to date!

Eleven new uncompromising titles to continue the trilogy, started on Osmose with The Veil Of Darkness (2019) and Traditio Satanae (2021). Sharp guitars, thumping drums, sense of melody: Gorgon continues to impose its vision of black metal which started in 1991. 

The Scriptures talk about the seven deadly sins, the seven-headed beast of the Apocalypse – they will soon talk about the band’s seventh album!

First track premiere to be revealed on November 4th. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Gorgon (France)’s For Those Who Stay
1. For Those Who Stay [5:05]
2. Tod. Mort. Death. [2:39]
3. Next To The Mill [3:11]
4. Hypnotic Fire [3:49]
5. Vatican’s Fall [3:11]
6. The Art Of Dying [2:58]
7. Despicable Beggars [4:56]
8. Shelter [3:33]
9. When It Rains In Hell [3:47]
10. Troops Of The Fallen [4:13]
11. Deserters As Prey [3:17]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/Gorgon.blackmetal.official

www.osmoseproductions.com
www.facebook.com/osmoseproductions

PERDITION’S MIRE set release date new for HEADKICK MUSIC EP, reveal first track

Today, Headkick Music announces December 13th as the international release date for Perdition’s Mire‘s highly anticipated second EP, Into a Dark Heartland, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

Perdition’s Mire was born from the restless souls of three individuals in Fredericia, Denmark, during the cursed year of 2020. The band’s goal was, and remains, simple: to channel personal darkness through the medium of black metal.

In early 2022, the EP The Doctrine of Losing Life was unleashed in digital and self-released MCD formats, containing six ice-cold hymns of darkness and death. The release was recorded at The Dark Room Studios and engineered, mixed, and mastered by Ralf Rendigs.

A considerable amount of time was then spent crafting new material with greater attention to detail. The culmination of these efforts was another six-track EP, titled Into a Dark Heartland, once again recorded at The Dark Room with Ralf Rendigs. Into a Dark Heartland spits forth the malicious venom of six varied black metal psalms in the old spirit, clocking in at 26 minutes. During this studio session, an exclusive song for a forthcoming Danish compilation LP was also recorded.

The new material presents Perdition’s Mire with sharpened talons and teeth, showcasing more aggressive, personal, and focused songwriting while maintaining a somber and pitch-black atmosphere. A deal was made with Danish label Headkick Music (run by old friend Ustumallagam of Denial of God fame) to unleash this beast on vinyl and CD format on Friday the 13th of December 2024.

No time is wasted, as the band is already hard at work on a full-length album, building on the style presented on Into a Dark Heartland. Silence is golden, and bleak is the future!

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Headkick Music is an independent label founded in 2020 by Ustumallagam, best known as the vocalist for Denial of God, The Rite, and Mindflesh. Originally established as a platform for the self-release of Mindflesh’s debut album, Vermin, on CD and LP, the label has gradually evolved, with a steady stream of releases reflecting its growing presence in the dark music scene.

Headkick Music is dedicated to releasing music that embodies a unique darkness. The label is not confined to any specific genre; instead, it seeks out authenticity and raw, unfiltered emotion with qualities that transcend fleeting trends.

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In the meantime, hear Perdition’s Mire‘s brand-new track “Pale Light and Settling Dust” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Perdition’s Mire’s Into a Dark Heartland
1. Pale Light And Settling Dust [4:10]
2. Embers [3:59]
3. Light Torn Asunder [5:36]
4. Abomination’s Boundless Rage [1:59]
5. Nothing Is, Nothing Becomes [5:27]
6. Into A Dark Heartland [4:45]

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


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SILHOUETTE reveal new video from upcoming ANTIQ debut album

Today, French post-black metallers Silhouette reveal the new video “Silhouette.” The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, Les Dires de l’Ame, set for international release on October 20th via Antiq. See & hear Silhouette‘s “Silhouette” video in its entirety here:

Born in 2019 in Montpellier, the French sextet of Silhouette were able to make a name for themselves with the debut EP Les Retranchements, released in 2022 by Antiq, and build up a strong live experience at several events in France. With their incisive, post-metal-tinged black metal and the strength of their two singers, Ondine and Yharnam, the band invites introspection and tackles the theme of dreams, nightmares, and lost ones. 

Now, two years after that celebrated EP, Silhouette will release their debut album, Les Dires de l’Ame. Taking listeners on a long, dreamlike journey, the band’s first full-length spans extremes of sound – beauty to darkness, violence to repose – and shows Silhouette masterfully combining a black metal base with the skyscraping melodicism of shoegaze and the deft textural shifts of post-rock. Although comprising ten songs across 46 minutes, the album feels far more epic than that conventional construction may suggest;  Silhouette‘s songwriting simply stuns with its acute balance of drama and flow, hypnotizing and dazzling at every turn. The same can be said for the layered dual vocals of Ondine and Yharnam, working a stronger spell that’s at times almost crushingly beautiful. But to call Les Dires de l’Ame a “black metal” record or especially a “post-metal” one misses the point: while the destination is no less important, that journey the band take you on is, in essence, the “destination.” Either way, Silhouette now come strongly recommended to fans of Alcest, Sylvaine, Cult of Luna, Amenra, and Darkher.

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.

Also see & hear a short film for the previously revealed track “L’Éveil” HERE at the Atmospheric Black Metal Albums YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Silhouette’s Les Dires de l’Ame
1. L’Appel
2. Catalepsie
3. Dialecte Onirique
4. Silhouette
5. Adoubée des Étoiles
6. Les Dires de l’Âme
7. Une Lame Éprise
8. Litanie contre la Peur
9. Dysthymie
10. L’Éveil

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/SilhouetteBM 
www.silhouettebm.bandcamp.com 

www.antiqrecords.com
www.facebook.com/antiq.label 
www.antiqofficial.bandcamp.com