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Germany’s DETHRONED set release date for new DOMINANCE OF DARKNESS album, reveal first track – 30th anniversary

On December 1st internationally, Dominance of Darkness Records is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Germany’s Dethroned, A Bridge to Eternal Darkness, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Dethroned are one of the most cult entities in the rich (yet often overlooked) history of German black metal. The band’s roots stretch back to 1991, with the band Mysticism, who released but one demo. From Mysticism’s ashes came Dethroned in 1993, founded by the trio of Barkayal, BSoD, and Morgoth. Over the course of the next three years, the band would release a half-dozen demos, faithfully exuding the spirit of the mid ’90s black metal scene. In 1998, Dethroned would release a live tape, Christentod, which would include a couple bonus tracks that were from an aborted 7″ EP. They would retreat to the shadows for a full decade before emerging with Promo 2008, soon followed by the Dominance of Darkness-released In the Sign of the Pentagram, a retrospective compilation covering their ’90s works. Another hiatus ensued until 2016, which saw Dethroned release a split album joined by fellow German hordes Sacrilegious Rite and Goatblood. At long last, in 2017 did they release their first full-length, Bluotrunst, thankfully sounding very much like the ’90s never ended.

And so it goes (and, as expected, after some years of silence) with Dethroned‘s second album, A Bridge to Eternal Darkness. Something of a 30th anniversary release for the Germans, A Bridge to Eternal Darkness is truly titled: 47 minutes of trend-free olde-worlde black metal, serving as a portal to mysteries and mysticism beyond the mien of mortals. Like the mythical era from which they sprang, Dethroned here maintain a curious contrast between stark monochromatism and borderless songwriting – a throwback to the days when you immediately knew you were experiencing BLACK METAL, but each band offered unique twists in its make-no-mistake presentation. As such, A Bridge to Eternal Darkness is a deceptively dynamic listen. Aggression is certainly accounted for, but so is melancholia, and often within the same song; songwriting largely sticks to mid-tempos at once triumphant and sashaying, martial and reposed. Guitars are sharp and cold, of course, but actual bass guitar pushes those dynamics forward; foggy synths linger where they may, intermittent but always with powerful purpose. The production is superlative in its balance between effervescent rawness and crystalline clarity, altogether highlighting the very real (and very impassioned) playing across the album. Concluding in a manner most fitting is a cover of the scene-legendary Grausamkeit, ​honoring both tradition as well as BSoD and Barkayal’s years in Dethroned.

Keeping matters DIY, guitarist John Never handled all artwork (exterior and interior) for A Bridge to Eternal Darkness. To celebrate this anniversary, Dominance of Darkness will concurrently reissue Bluotrunst as a six-panel digipack CD with alternate cover art. Hate, riot & blasphemy since 1993: Dethroned strike a blow against modernity!
 
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Come to Me” here:

Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Dethroned (Germany)’s A Bridge to Eternal Darkness

1. Come to Me
2. Vinum Creaturae
3. Disciple of the Elders
4. Colour Out of Space
5. Void
6. Ewig Fäulnis
7. Ruf der Tiefe
8. Descent
9. A Bridge To Eternal Darkness
10. Im Zeichen Des Bösen (Grausamkeit cover)

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/dethroned1993

www.dod-records.de 

Luciferian black metallers Nahasheol premiere new track

Today, Luciferian black metallers Nahasheol premiere the new track “Bringer of Divine Ecstasy”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, Serpens Abyssi, set for international release on November 3rd via Wolves of Hades and Argento Records. Hear Nahasheol‘s “Bringer of Divine Ecstasy” in its entirety here:

From the haunted shores of purgatory, a spectral entity cryptically summoned as Nahasheol rose from a cauldron of ominous shade carrying a will of draconian fire. With an inception dating back to last year, the enigma twisted waves under the sign of Kaaosoth, a three-song tome bursting with sinister ecstasy and sheer darkness. Now, a new vortex has been carved, a pathway into the realms of timeless chaos is unchained. Enter Serpens Abyssi! From the first moments of the belligerent opening “Arcanum Mortuus,” Nahasheol set the pathway to its journey, crafted from the nether regions with a blazing ardor of black metal devilry. Whether through fast impending rages of visceral wrath or alluring melodic strokes, a scorching ordeal of unholy riffing engraves a spiritual trail to the Luciferian mysteries with a poisonous drive, destructive electrical compulsions which permeate the whole record, ever hardening and potent, as varied as reeking with the essence of black metal tradition.
 
Organic and dynamic, the utterly brilliant sonic alchemy, courtesy of Daniel Souza and Tore Stjerna, focuses on atmosphere, energy, and metallic venom in equal measures. An overall compelling sound showcases a charismatic rhythmic section forged by pulsating impulses of percussive excellence, backing magnetic six-string gifts to the unlimited underworld while an enigmatic voice hails the chthonic revelations, narrating the aetheric void with fearless momentum. Such words of sacred meaning encounter a striking parallel on the magnanimous visual traits, meticulously crafted graphics, channeling the Promethean Fire, reflections of the magickal meaning and spiritual cadence behind Nahasheol’s expression.
 
Released by Wolves of Hades & Argento, Serpens Abyssi takes the listener on a treacherous and unforgiving journey into the sacred Luciferian trails, a ceremonial cast of abyssal emanations, pledged to be carved in black blood in the very heart of its enthralled disciple. 

Hear the previously revealed “Arcanum Mortuus” HERE at Wolves of Hades‘ Bandcamp. Cover artwork, courtesy of Cayo Farias, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Nahasheol’s Serpens Abyssi

1. Arcanum Mortuus
2. The Aetheric Void
3. The Awakening
4. Bring Of Divine Ecstasy
5. Mambah Maa
6. Devan Thanatha

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/NAHASHEOL-107778595139006

www.wolvesofhades.myshopify.com

APHELIUM AETERNUM set release date for long-awaited DOMINANCE OF DARKNESS debut album – features members of DRUDENSANG, PESTNEBEL, AURO+++

On December 1st internationally, Dominance of Darkness Records is proud to present Aphelium Aeternum‘s long-awaited debut album, Dark Interstellar Mysteries, on vinyl LP format.

Hailing from Bavaria, Aphelium Aeternum is a recreation of an old abandoned project called Aphelium Eternal, founded in 1995 by T. Voidgänger (back then called Azazel) before he joined the band Sorcerer. Other members were Bael and Nachtmahr, both members of Sorcerer. After only six months, the band was laid to rest. In 2019, T. Voidgänger finally went back to reanimate the band, as the name fit the songs that were composed in a more symphonic black metal style, changing the second part of the name from Eternal to Aeternum. New members were found in Dragg (Auro, Drudensang), Peryton (Pestnebel, Nigrum Tenebris), Krampn (Drudensang), and M. P.

With that lineup in place, it took Aphelium Aeternum over three years to finish the recordings of their first album. A demo was made with rough mixes, but was also delayed. Meanwhile, Krampn left the band to focus on other projects. But the journey of Aphelium Aeternum has just begun: at long last, their full-length debut arrives in Dark Interstellar Mysteries. Almost too perfectly titled, Dark Interstellar Mysteries creates a cosmic canvas like few others these days. Modernity is ditched for the cryogenic, vast void of outer space, where dramatic and densely layer symphonic black metal weaves a sumptuous, splendorous spell that’s immersive to the extreme. Aphelium Aeternum spare no extravagance nor detail here; kaleidoscopic and 3D, this album is far, FAR removed from shitty fake-raw “black metal” clogging up Bandcamp nowadays. Indeed, the band are old spirits, and display as much across Dark Interstellar Mysteries, invoking the likes of Emperor, Limbonic Art, Obtained Enslavement, and Norway’s Troll, Covenant, and Odium – times when black metal was exclusively veiled in mystery.

Released on CD in September, now Dark Interstellar Mysteries fittingly receives a vinyl treatment. The stargate opens and there stand Aphelium Aeternum, surveying their kingdom cold!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Aphelium Aeternum’s Dark Interstellar Mysteries
1. The Stargate Opens 2. Dark Interstellar Mysteries
3. Spiritual Journey to the Arcane Cosmos
4. Voidgänger
5. Event Horizon
6. Where Creation Ends
7. Into the Timeless Abyss
8. Nocturnal Dimensions Unfold
9. Dead Eyes Stare into the Nightsky
10. Outro

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HAGATIZ stream AMOR FATI debut – features members of DAUÞUZ, HÄXENZIJRKELL, ABYTHIC, HAIMAD+++

Today, Teutonic black metallers Hagatiz stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Cursed to the Night. Set for international release on October 11th via Amor Fati Productions, hear Hagatiz’s Cursed to the Night in its entirety here:

Hailing from Germany, Hagatiz are a new formation of old souls: Dauþuz‘s Semgoroth, Häxenzijrkell‘s MK, and the ever-profilic Odium Aeternum (Abythic, Haimad, Lunar Chalice, Mysteria Mystica Aeterna et. al.). Together, these scene veterans reveal Cursed to the Night, Hagatiz‘s first public recording. 

Fully formed, as to be expected from such a stellar lineup, Hagatiz‘s debut album comprises pure, uncompromising BLACK METAL steeped in the ancients: no more, but definitely no less. The point is not to “be” anything other than authentically old-school black metal in the best ’90s tradition, from Scandinavia and across to Germania and even on to the Eastern Bloc. Raw without being ineffectual, dark and haunting yet brimming with just enough melody, Cursed to the Night is a work of total passion and spirit; that Hagatiz make it seem so effortless is perhaps unsurprising, but it’s remarkable nevertheless. There is no “thinking” involved in this experience, only feeling – and such was the way it was as the ’90s drew to a close and pure hearts heeded the call to head deeper underground. It’s not inaccurate to say that Hagatiz could’ve been released ​on such era-embodying vanguards as Sombre, Drakkar, or Solistitium, so authentic is this essence and atmosphere…but again, ​only FEELING Cursed to the Night is real.

 Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hagatiz’s Cursed to the Night
1. The Gathering
2. Demimonde
3. Echoes from the Afterlife
4. Everlast in darkest Night
5. Scourge beneath the Skin
6. Drown in Darkness
7. Necrovoid

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

WARCOE set release date for new HELTER SKELTER album, reveal first tracks

Today, Helter Skelter Productions (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) announces December 15th as the international release date for Warcoe’s highly anticipated second album, A Place for Demons, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Warcoe are a power-trio hailing from Italy, that land rich in doomed materials. Naturally, Warcoe honor their national identity with a ’70s-entrenched vision of pure DOOM METAL as first laid out by Ozzy-era Black Sabbath. In fact, in vocalist/guitarist Stefano Fiorelli, you will not find a more uncanny Ozzy doppelganger.

Warcoe began their journey in 2021, first with a couple digital singles and then an EP, all of which coalesced into their debut album, The Giant’s Dream. Likewise released digitally, The Giant’s Dream was also self-released on CDR and tape in true DIY fashion. So smitten with these authentically vintage vibes, Helter Skelter released The Giant’s Dream on CD and vinyl right before the summer, with hopes of spreading the Warcoe name far and wide.

Wasting no time – and, indeed, sure to spread that name further and wider – Warcoe return with their second full-length, A Place for Demons. Aptly titled, A Place for Demons is prime olde-world DOOM, steeped in Sabbathian tones and proto-metal vibes. However, Warcoe possess an enviable amount of charisma, and their songwriting soon becomes a thick ‘n’ heady potion of hard-rocking heaviness, warm in tone but definitely supernatural in aura. Much like they did on its full-length predecessor, the power-trio manage to massage new sensations from that eternal archetype whilst staying reverent; if anything, there’s a pronounced swagger to A Place for Demons that suggests star-power in the making. But beware: the closing nine-minute epic “Buio” is one of the most stultifying boulders of sound you’ll hear this year, sealing your grave with cold, cruel certainty.

So, take Warcoe’s hand and enter A Place for Demons: your “new” old-doom trip continues here!

Start that trip with the brand-new tracks “Pyramid of Despair,” “Boys Become Kings,” and the title track “A Place for Demons” here:

Cover artwork, courtesy of Shane Horror, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Warcoe’s A Place for Demons

1. A Place for Demons
2. Pyramid of Despair
3. Rune Dweller
4. Leaves
5. Ishkur
6. Boys Become Kings
7. Wounds Too Deep to Heal
8. Buio

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/warcoeband 

www.helterskelterproductions.se
www.facebook.com/helterskelterproductions

STRIGOI release first single ‘Bathed in A Black Sun’

Strigoi were already plenty unsettling on their debut album. But the UK death-doom band’s follow-up pushed their grinding asphyxiations to such vile extremes, that it produced an abundance of putridity.

‘Bathed In A Black Sun’ includes four unreleased or exclusive songs from ‘Viscera’. Get re-acquainted with the pure, unadultered filth of the title track, which is slimed with sludge riffs and a crusty drum groove. 

Watch the horrifying new video for “Bathed In A Black Sun” here:

The ‘Bathed In A Black Sun’ EP comes out 3 November.

Pre-order: https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/strigoi-bathed-in-a-black-sun
Pre-save: https://orcd.co/strigoibiabspresave

“We are pleased to finally do this, as ultimately ‘Bathed In A Black Sun’ as a track is lamentably all the more relevant today than it was when it was written”, says bassist Chris Casket. “We also wanted to release this EP as a companion to the album ‘VISCERA’, so finally all the tracks recorded during that studio session are available for all to ‘enjoy’ the extra cuts of raging spite and cold despair.”

Greg Mackintosh already had one side project from his main gig as the guitarist for Paradise Lost. But when Vallenfyre ran its course, he started Strigoi with bassist Chris Casket in hopes of dragging death and doom metal even further afield. 

‘Bathed In A Black Sun’ proves that Strigoi can mold nasty blackened death doom from anything – even their own remains

Track-list
1. Bathed in A Black Sun (4:19) [WATCH VIDEO]
2. The Grotesque (2:56)
3. Beautiful Stigmata (00:41)
4. A Spear of Perfect Grief (04:14)
5. The Construct of Misery (01:33)
Total runtime: 12:63

When Paradise Lost guitarist Greg Mackintosh put to rest his Vallenfyre side project in 2018, he closed a difficult, but ultimately cathartic period in his life. Created as a tribute to his father John, who passed away in 2009, Vallenfyre originally served as a sounding board for Greg’s grief, but then delved into his nihilistic take on the world. Vallenfyre’s brief existence was intentional — the band always knew they could go no further than the three studio albums that bore their name.

A mere few days after Vallenfyre played its last live show in September 2018, Mackintosh announced the formation of a brand-new band with Vallenfyre bassist Chris Casket (Ex. Extreme Noise Terror), Strigoi. The English twosome released their debut album Abandon All Faith on 22nd November 2019 which was met by widespread critical acclaim and support. From this success, the band began preproduction to take the project live, recruiting to the line-up drummer Guido Zima (Ex Implore / The Secret) and live guitarist Sam Kelly-Wallace (Ex Vallenfyre) to begin spreading their foreboding gospel throughout the European festival circuit.

Unfortunately, due to the global pandemic that hit Spring 2020 Strigoi were unable to perform live as planned, and realising this situation was going to be a long-term constraint Greg and Chris decided to begin writing for a second album. This 18-month process culminated in Strigoi signing to Season Of Mist records, then heading to Orgone Studios UK to track 14 brand new songs under the watchful eye of award winning producer Jamie Gomez Arellano.

The bands line up, now set with the addition of guitarist Ben Ash (Satyricon / Ex. Carcass) completed the recording of the album ‘Viscera’ in October 2021, subsequently mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studios and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Studios. ‘Viscera’ represents the further evolution of Strigoi as a band, a concept fully realised as a statement of terror, malaise, and ultimately a record representing what Greg and Chris wanted to achieve from the band’s inception.

Their new ‘Bathed in Black Sun’ EP includes five unreleased songs from the recording sessions for ‘Viscera’. The title track is pure, unadulterated filth, slimed with sludge riffs and a crusty drum groove.

Recording Studio: Oregon Studios
Producer/Sound engineer: Jamie Gomez and Strigoi
Additional recording and production: Gregor Mackintosh at Black Planet Studios
Mixing studio/engineer: Kurt Ballou – Godcity Studios
Mastering studio/engineer: Brad Boatright – Audiosiege

Recording line-up:
Greg Mackintosh: Vocals and Guitar
Chris Casket: Bass
Guido Zima: Drums
Ben Ash: Guitar

Ross White – Guitar (Live)

Cover artwork: Brian Sheehan – Legerdemain Art

Pre-order: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/BathedInABlackSun
Pre-save: https://orcd.co/strigoibiabspresave

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https://www.instagram.com/strigoi_official/?hl=en
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6BUcX21YlCyGOUKXrNutei
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Formats:
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HINSIDES set release date for new SHADOW album, reveal first tracks – features members of ULTRA SILVAM

Today, Shadow Records (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) announces December 15th as the international release date for the highly anticipated second album of Sweden’s Hinsides, Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Released during the summer of 2021, Hinsides‘ Under Betlehems brinnande stjärna debut LP was a firestorm of freezing filth. Undeniably necrotic as per the earliest birth-pangs of Scandinavian black metal, peer within that piercing sound and you will have found a wealth of fascinating and fearless twists to ancient black metal tropes. Here, Hinsides revealed themselves to be more melodic and magisterial than they hinted at on their earlier split with comrades Monstraat, but nevertheless kept the attack fucking FERAL and utterly unreal in sum effect. Perhaps all this was unsurprising given that the band is the sole work of M.A. from the esteemed Ultra Silvam…but either way, a new (and harrowing) horde worth reckoning had arrived with acidic aplomb.

Now Hinsides return with an even-stronger (and -stranger) work in Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang. The band’s second full-length titularly translates to “From beyond the ancient chime of the devil bell is heard,” and a more apt approximation of Hinsides‘ ever-expanding sound cannot be found. Joined by Ultra Silvam drummer L.A., M.A. brings back the church bells of the preceding album and goes gonzo with them; at nearly every (crooked) turn, there tolls a bell of doom, summoning dread powers from that Beyond. More concretely, those sinuous peals of eeriness provide complementary / contrapuntal color to Hinsides‘ most rippling ‘n’ roiling black metal yet. But heed the METAL aspect of “black metal” here: the duo devilishly construct dark headbangers that soon whip forth into a state of possession, with starkly melodic leads flying fast and free, altogether creating a (dark, devilish) narrative flow that’s exceptionally unique for something so necro. Underlining that Devil’s Heavy Metal aspect of Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang is the guest appearance of Jonas Hansson from olde-worlde hard rockers Silver Mountain, dropping a solo into “I nekromisantropisk harmoni.” Bringing that aspect to a boil is the cover of the Plasmastics’ “The Damned,” which Hinsides malevolently make their own (and which can only be found on physical copies of the album).

The bells of doom toll even louder with the splendor of archaic witchcraft and devil worship: Hinsides‘ Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang concludes the year with frightening finality!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new tracks “Djävulshymn” and “I nekromisantropisk harmoni” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hinsides (Sweden)’s Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang
1. Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang
2. För dödens storhet
3. Djävulshymn
4. I nekromisantropisk harmoni
5. 666 stötar mot himmelens port
6. En stympad människa
7. The Damned (Plasmatics cover) !!ONLY ON PHYSICAL COPIES!!

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www.regainrecords.se
www.facebook.com/shadowrecords.se

Bestial black metal hordes Goatkraft premiere the new track “Bestial Black Metal Hordes”

Today, bestial black metal hordes Goatkraft premiere the new track “Bestial Black Metal Hordes”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Prophet of Eternal Damnation, set for international release on November 3rd via Iron Bonehead Productions. Hear Goatkraft‘s “Bestial Black Metal Hordes” in its entirety here:

It’s been four years since Goatkraft‘s celebrated debut album for Iron Bonehead, Sulphurous Northern Bestiality, and nothing has changed for the Norwegian power-trio: their monochromatic muse is as locked-in and lascivious as ever. Just one look at the cover of their second album, Prophet of Eternal Damnation, and you should know EXACTLY what you’re getting into. If you are a false, do not entry.

Still, Goatkraft are superlative for the bestial metal style, and prove it across the 30 thundering minutes of Prophet of Eternal Damnation. While the Ross Bay Cult doubtlessly provided the foundation for the bestial arts, it was the likes of progeny Black Witchery and Proclamation who made those arts more murderous and uncompromising. Likewise uncompromising, Goatkraft carry that sulfurous torch with their second full-length, delivering detonating screeds of grinding, expulsive black filth. If anything, their attack is even more unhinged than ever – bringing out the grindcore roots of the form, as it were – and solos and FX explode from nearly every direction, whipping forth a fury both punishing and possessing. The full-figure production only makes the experience that much more overwhelming.

No progression, no compromise, no hope: Goatkraft herald the Prophet of Eternal Damnation.

Also hear the previously revealed “Herald of Death” HERE at Iron Bonehead‘s Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Goatkraft’s Prophet of Eternal Damnation
1. Portal To Annihilation
2. Herald of Death
3. Bestial Black Metal Hordes
4. Filth Eradication
6. Prophet of Eternal Damnation
7. Death Psalm
8. Barbaric Hatred And Doom
9. Primal Instincts
10. Thermonuclear Genocide

MORE INFO:
www.goatkraft.bandcamp.com

THIRD STORM stream new CHAOS RECORDS album – features members of GOLD SPIRE, ANGUISH, SARCASM, SENTINEL SIRENS+++

Today, Swedish black/death metallers Third Storm stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, The Locust Mantra. Set for international release on October 6th via Chaos Records, hear Third Storm‘s The Locust Mantra in its entirety here:

Third Storm was formed in 1986 in Uppsala, Sweden by four people who shared the same passion for the underground extreme music and at that time was very much influenced by acts like Bathory, Venom, Hellhammer etc. The music scene in Sweden back then was very glam oriented – more so than most European countries – and extreme metal bands were seen as talentless bums. The band didn’t care and tried their best to be the most extreme; the members were just kids in the 14-16 age range when they started, and how well you played didn’t matter as long you could make noise with your instrument. 

Third Storm performed about a dozen shows at that time. The overall crazy performance and the Satanic image were very over the top and therefore not taken seriously, so the band was laughed at for two years until they finally split up in 1988. But the past decade or so, people have seriously taken interest in the past and found about this obscure, strange band who is more known for their name than their music. 

The stuff Third Storm recorded in the ’80s is rare as hell: a couple of recordings were made just for the band themselves, and very few copies were spread back in the old days of tape-trading. The music back then was very primitive and raw, like other black metal bands at that time; the music was also thrash-influenced, but with a very noisy touch. The band used blastbeats in ’86, and not many could grasp that kind of noise back then. The vocals were insane screams, and lyrics were written in a way the South American bands did back in the ’80s. They didn’t even take any band photos and didn’t think or care in the terms of promotion, photos, flyers, studios, etc – they just wanted to bang their heads and make noise. In 2015, Dark Descent Records released Third Storm‘s “comeback” record, the two-song Tarîtîya Me EP. 

The spirit of Third Storm today is the same as in 1986, but the musical direction is breaking new ground and new sinister elements are added. The band released their first full-length, The Grand Manifestation, in 2018. That album is also their first of a trilogy the band is working on.
 
In 2022, Third Storm finally entered the studio to record their second full-length, The Locust Mantra, now aligned with Chaos Records. Continuing the momentum set forth on The Grand Manifestation, Third Storm‘s second album is a tour de force of quintessentially Swedish blackened death metal: classic yet current, “retro” 1990s but plausibly modern. Totaling 41 minutes, the nine songs comprising The Locust Mantra are more dynamic and epic than before, but there’s still an intensity and heaviness that harkens to those primordial days of ’80s proto-black, particularly from South America. Slashing and searing but gleaming with a classiness and clarity, the production across the album highlights the outstanding technical skills of Third Storm‘s bolstered new lineup. The new rhythm section of bassist Daniel Håkansson and drummer Jesper Ojala make their presence felt with power and passion, while the core members of vocalist Heval Bozarslan and guitarists Hasse Hansson and David Eriksson sound fired up and feed off that new black blood in the band.

Timeless and untrendy, Third Storm prove with The Locust Mantra that Swedish blackened death metal is far from fading away. 

Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Raul Gonzales, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Third Storm’s The Locust Mantra
1. The Clandestine Gospel
2. Mater Pest
3. Demigod Doctrine
4. World Infernal
5. When Noble Hearts Failed
6. Inescapable Echoes of War
7. Alter Omega
8. In the Garden of Crystallized Souls
9. Dawn of the Fearmongers

MORE INFO:
www.thirdstorm.nu 
www.facebook.com/thirdstorm 

www.chaos-records.com
www.facebook.com/chaosrecords

Indian death metal tyrants Tetragrammacide premiere new track

Today, Indian death metal tyrants Tetragrammacide premiere the new track “Spectral Hyenas of Amenta Howl, the Vulture of Ma’at Descends, and Tahuti Watches Without his Ape”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an, set for international release on November 3rd via Iron Bonehead Productions. Hear Tetragrammacide‘s “Spectral Hyenas of Amenta Howl, the Vulture of Ma’at Descends, and Tahuti Watches Without his Ape” in its entirety here:

Hailing from the ever-thriving and always-interesting Indian metal underground, Tetragrammacide have proven to transcend even such already-superlative boundaries. For over a decade now, the hydra-headed entity has created one of the most genuinely threatening and overwhelmingly violent sounds of modern times, and then they flip the script by becoming clearer and more focused and somehow even more feral. Allied with Iron Bonehead since 2015, Tetragrammacide‘s Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti-Structural Formulæ mini-album was a modern classic of blown-out barbarism and in-the-red frequencies, betraying the fact that an accomplished black/death band were simply waiting for an opportune time to reveal a clearer portrait of their sonic holocaust. That then arrived with 2017’s Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix debut album: an impossibly accomplished display of black/death intensity and density, sharpened to a such a degree that their sensory overload became all the more expansive.

Back to a power-duo – or “cosmic power-zones,” in the band’s own words, “entwined discreetly by unregistered topographical phenomena and invisible distortion of the subtle ontological matrices by a warping of occult space-time!” – Tetragrammacide unveil their sophomore revelation, inarguably their most devastating work from top to bottom: Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an. Here, the Indian sonic temple expand the extremes latent to their aesthetic, and draw them closer and most distant simultaneously, playing into the head-spinning and ouroboros-eating vortex of the album’s themes itself. While the preceding full-length had its heart fixated on “Srishti Drishti Vada” – doctrine of perception through the creation – this new opus has sprouted itself under the Upanishadic tenets of “Drishti Srishti Vada”: doctrine of the creation through perception and “Ajata Vada” – the radical doctrine of non-creation. State the band, “This way, the phenomena is completely negated, eliminated and rightfully renunciated under all possible situations of any given philosophical, esoteric and religious narratives!”

Between sacred and profane! 
Between words and silence! 
Between purna and shunya! 
Between life and death!
Beyond real and illusory! 
Beyond the being and the non-being!


Totaling 11 songs across 45 minutes and containing perhaps the longest (or at least densest) song titles in metal history, Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an reaps a whirlwind of pistons-pumping martial death metal made flesh through geysers of kaleidoscopic blood. Riffs bend, bruise, and batter, but not necessarily in that order; they’re always moving, however, and that movement is mesmerizing in its linear-yet-divergent flow. Vocals storm from above and below, world-eating to the extreme. Drums are literally insane, playing with psychotic precision and also fuck-everything barbarity. The production is as powerful and “pro” as any big-league death metal record past or present, hereby underling the fact that Tetragrammacide could challenge (and summarily decimate) any throne-holder or -pretender. This is not strictly an “underground” band nor record, although the roots and authenticity are no doubt there. Casting a wider, more-accurate net, Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an should be viewed alongside such cyclonic classics as Krisiun’s Conquerors of Armageddon, Angelcorpse’s Exterminate, and Centvrian’s Liber ZarZax. “War metal” ghettoization simply does not apply to Tetragrammacide, and hasn’t for years now.

These transmissions are true. 
These transmissions are false. 
These transmissions are both true and false. 
These transmissions are both not true and not false. 


The Kalikshetra-Kairo Consciousness Revival is at hand with Tetragrammacide‘s Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an!

Also hear the previously revealed “Nuit Arches Over The Neither-Neither City Of Cubes; Hadit Meditates While Hanging Upside Down Inside A Tesseract-Ka’aba” HERE at Iron Bonehead‘s official YouTube channel. Cover artwork, courtesy of Orryelle Defenestrate, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Tetragrammacide’s Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an
1. Trans-linguistic Utterance Of A Sacred Orgasmal Cry Fills The Lemurian Sky (By The Same Mouth, One True God Crieth Hriliu)
2. Spectral Hyaenas Of Amenta Howl, The Vulture Of Ma’at Descends, And Tahuti Watches Without His Ape
3. Mandelbrot Scarab Of Fractal Manifestation Trapped In The Arachnid Webs, Spun Above The Hidden Pathways Into Non-Euclidean Interbetweenness
4. Fundamental Reconciliation Between Maya And Yama Through Perpetual Okbish-Ouroboric Cunnilingus
5. Nuit Arches Over The Neither-Neither City Of Cubes; Hadit Meditates While Hanging Upside Down Inside A Tesseract-Ka’aba
6. Kalikshetra-Kairo Consciousness Revival (Alogical Exegesis Of The Sandhipada-Sarisreepa Continuum Vigyaan)
7. Thanatos And Eros Wrestle Forever, Folding And Unfolding From The Substratum Of Supreme Voidness Of S’lba
8. Intoxicated Bees Of Sekhet-Aarhu Circumambulate The Abode Of Self Beheaded One Who Forever Danceth In Her Shaktisexual Ecstasy
9. One Who Weaves The Chthonic Garland Of 52 Skullphabets Severed By The Sword Of Neti-Neti
10. Golden Ontological Embroideries Of Pythagorean Meta-Geometries Sewn On The Blue Veil Surface Of Nought
11. Fifteen Streams of Lunar Kalas Secrete From The Quaking Yoni Of The Goddess Sixteen (Tantric Alchemy Of The Cascading Nectars Of Sodashi)

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