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Dante’s Inferno themed black metallers Kyterion’s new album “Inferno II” out now

Dante’s Inferno themed black metallers Kyterion’s much-anticipated new album “Inferno II” is out now via Subsound Records.

The full-length is available for order here : http://goo.gl/XCFuXj

Featuring vocals in XIIIth century’s Italian Vernacular language, the concept album is focused on the first canticle of the eternal poem ‘The Divine Comedy’ by Dante Alighieri.

This is the album tracklist :

1. Mal Nati
2. Onde La Rena s’Accendea
3. Dite
4. Pena Molesta
5. Cerbero Il Gran Vermo
6. Cocito
7. Dolenti ne la Ghiaccia
8. Rabbiosi Falsador
9. Vallon Tondo
10. Li ‘ndivini
11. Terribile Stipa

The awaited follower to “Inferno I” was recorded at Medoosa Studio in Bologna, while mixing and mastering were handled by Giuseppe Orlando at The Outer Sound Studio (Stormlord, Necrodeath, Novembre) in Rome.
Cover Artwork Design by Gustavo Sazes.

Watch “Cerbero Il Gran Vermo” official track stream video :

Watch “The Making Of Inferno II” :

Catch KYTERION on their headlining tour “Inferno Over Europe 2018” here :

28.04 Bologna, Italia, Alchemica Music Club
03.05 Maribor, Slovenia, Gustaf Pekarna
04.05 Vrbovec, Croatia, Akc Garaze
05.05 Bekescsba, Hungary, Narancs
06.05 Sibiu, Romania, Underground
07.05 Timisoara, Romania, Manufactura
08.05 Sofia, Bulgaria, Live&Loud
09.05 Svisthov, Bulgaria, Disorder
10.05 Bucarest, Romania, Simply
11.05 Cluji Napoca, Romania, La Tevi
12.05 Budapest, Hungary, S8 Underground
26.05 Acerra (NA) Evilution Club

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Festerday complete new album

Death metal outfit FESTERDAY have completed their forthcoming new record, which will be released later this year. The new album was recorded at Wolfthone Studios in Finland

Regarding the new record, FESTERDAY comment: “A year ago, we tried out this nice little studio located in the middle of pretty much nowhere and instantly fell for the sound and engineering techniques. A year later we are here again, finalizing our debut album. Keep an eye on this upcoming monster because we’ere talking about a versatile and fat album with death, punk and blackish nuances. If you put Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Deicide and Napalm Death in the same train, this is what you’ll get – one hell of a ride so to speak”.

On previous news, Season of Mist announced the signing of FESTERDAY. Not counting the compilation of earlier material, the Finnish death metal cult act will release its debut studio album on Season of Mist.

Regarding their signing, FESTERDAY comment: “It is now close to 25 years, following our decision to split up. It has taken as many years after writing any songs for this band that we got our shit together again and came up with new material to see where this might take us. Six new songs later, we sent them to various labels and magazines. Much to our surprise, the feedback was overwhelming. After negotiating with different labels and pondering over their offers, we decided to take action and double the excitement by joining a familiar and globally established label: Season of Mist. It feels like coming full circle to return to the label, where it all started with …AND OCEANS over 20 years ago. Like in this old proverb, it goes without saying: the frost will drive a pig back home.”

FESTERDAY were formed in Pietarsaari, Finland in the year 1989. In the following years, the band released three demos, in truly laconic Finnish style simply entitled ‘Demo I’ (1991). ‘Demo II’ (1992), and ‘Demo III’ (1992) that gained cult status. ‘Demo II’ was also released on a split with CARNIFEX. In 1993, the group split-up.

This could have been the end, but FESTERDAY got together again in 2013, remastered all their previous material with Sami “Jämy” Jämsen at Studio Perkele in November 2014, and released everything on ‘…the Four Stages of Decomposition…’ (2015).

Featuring members of …AND OCEANS, MAGENTA HARVEST, HAVOC UNIT, and KHAOS NIHIL, FESTERDAY are back together and will finally release their debut full-length on Season of Mist later this year.

Line-up
Antti Räisälä: bass
Kena Strömsholm: vocals
Timo Kontio: guitar
Teemu Saari: guitar
Jani Kuoppamaa: drums

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Ester Segarra unleashed photo-book ‘Ars Umbra’

ESTER SEGARRA is unleashing the first details of her forthcoming photo-book ‘Ars Umbra’, which will hit the stores on July 06th 2018. A first glimpse of the Barcelona-born photographer’s upcoming work can be viewed at the link below.

ESTER SEGARRA comments: “After 15 years, my music photography comes full cycle with this book. Ars Umbra marks the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one, a point in the never-ending circle of life and death, the serpent that eats its own tail. Designed by Münster Studio and Branca Studio from Barcelona, it is thought to fit in within your vinyl collection. To be experienced together with the soundtrack. To go slow and deep. Much love, effort and dedication has been put into the making of this project and no words can fully express what it feels like to have it released, having been through hell and back. I can only say I am incredibly grateful to everything and everyone that has made this moment possible. May the beast be unleashed!

You may not be aware, but you already know the art of ESTER SEGARRA. For over a decade, the Barcelona-born photographer has re-imagined the visual aspect of heavy metal for GHOST, WATAIN, ELECTRIC WIZARD, CATHEDRAL, MAYHEM, KATATONIA, PARADISE LOST, AT THE GATES, CARCASS, DARKTHRONE, ROTTING CHRIST, VENOM, ABBATH, and others.

Through her lens, ESTER SEGARRA has lifted the veil on some of extreme music’s most notorious players and in turn become one of the most prolific and significant contemporary music photographers.

ESTER SEGARRA started to work for the influential UK underground print outlet for extreme music, Terrorizer Magazine in the year 2001 and following from there, she had her pictures published in Metal Hammer, Decibel, Rock Hard, Iron Fist, Deaforever, This Is Metal, Close-Up among many other magazines. Ester has also accepted commissions from metal labels such as Season of Mist, Century Media, Nuclear Blast, Candlelight, Rise Above, Spinefarm , and Peaceville.

The works of ESTER SEGARRA have been exhibited for example at taste-making festivals such as Roadburn, the Netherlands and Beyond the Gates, Norway. The next opportunity to see her photography exhibited will be at the Rome Tattoo Expo in Italy’s capital from the 4th to the 6th of May.

The anthology, ‘Ars Umbra’ celebrates 15 years of ESTER SEGARRA‘s music photography. Pictures and music are presented in the form of a photo-book with an added original soundtrack, which is specially commissioned from percussionist extraordinaire, Uno Bruniusson (ex-IN SOLITUDE, DEATH ALLEY, PROCESSION). The music provides a rhythm, a mind-space that alters the experience of the book.

The time has come to unleash and fuel the flames of ‘Ars Umbra’!

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DEATH. VOID. TERROR. stream IRON BONEHEAD debut

Today, sonic sorcerers Death. Void. Terror. stream the entirety of their striking debut album, To the Great Monolith I. Set for international release on May 4th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Death. Void. Terror’s To the Great Monolith I in its entirety HERE.

NO ORIGIN. Received from the ominous, great monolith and expressed in pure sound. NO ORDER. The recordings presented by the entity Death. Void. Terror. transcend the conventions of “composition” and “performance” in modern music culture and instead reduce the creation to its essence, stripped of convolution and excess, until all that remains is a singularity of blackness, harvested from those who have engaged in its creation.

The recordings contained on To The Great Monolith I are not songs. This is not music that has been rehearsed, honed, and tailored to fit a preconceived notion of what is acceptable in humanist genre confines. Instead, the aim is to achieve the most pure expression of the “unconscious” and to confront the listener with authentic ritual experiences, captured directly as they were conducted by the practitioners involved. These are sounds completely hostile to man, an exploration of the surreal.

Like resonating cries of the void piercing through the air, as incandescent stone upon human skin. No origin. No order. Death. Void. Terror.

Stand at the precipice of the void and dive fully in exclusively HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Death. Void. Terror.’s To the Great Monolith I
1. (——-) [24:16]
2. (—-) [16:46]

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BROOD OF HATRED Streaming New Song: “Ritual of Sacrifice”

One-man Tunisian Progressive Death Metal band BROOD OF HATRED is streaming a new song from forthcoming album Identity Disorder. Check out “Ritual of Sacrifice”

Crime Records will release Identity Disorder on May 4. Another new song, “Feeding the Hunger,” is also streaming

After a four-year hiatus subsequent to release of debut album Skinless Agony, BROOD OF HATRED returns with a sophomore album in Identity Disorder that deftly balances progressive structure with downright catchy songwriting. Featuring sole member Muhammed Mêlki, the album is “a gift of chaos and disorder, songs of life and death.” It is “the heart and soul of my identity, given to those who believe.”

Identity Disorder Album Credits
Musician : Muhammed Mêlki on all tracks.
All Songs written by : Muhammed Mêlki.
Recorded by : Muhammed Mêlki in Tunisia/North Africa at Tagma studios.
Mixed & Mastered by : Maciej Dawidek in Gdansk (Poland) at Nova Studios.
Art & Layout by : Mounir Soussi.
Photography by : Omar Sfayhi.
Artist management by : zougari Management.

Track Listing
1. Mist 3:30
2. Controlling 6:11
3. Feeding The Hunger 7:01
4. Shooting Torpedoes 5:58
5. Bipolar 13:15
6. Traces 7:39
7. Ritual Of Sacrifice 4:19

Brood Of Hatred is a Tunisian one-man concept, Death Metal Act founded in 2010 by Muhammed Mêlki. It is music with no specific genre boundaries or philosophies, but some haunting atmospheres guiding you through progressive journeys, as well as some unconventional writing inspired by the strange state of mind that characterises the concept.

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GRÁ: Swedish Black Metal Group’s Anticipated Third Album “Väsen” Streaming In Its Entirely

Today, Swedish black metal horde GRÁ unchains their highly anticipated third album “Väsen” through Carnal Records on CD and digitally. LP will be out this fall.

GRÁ was founded in 2010 by Heljarmadr (Dark Funeral, Cursed 13, Domgård) and Dimman in Stockholm. In a time where many bands want to be compared with their idols, GRÁ walks a different path where exploration and breaking new grounds are the keystones. That is the greatest tribute to the past, to walk your own path and be a leader, not a follower of trends.

Upon two albums and numerous short releases, it is now time for the third album, “Väsen”. It is also time to follow up on the previously successful tours around Europe, starting with the Eradication Festival in Cardiff, Wales in May 2018.

“Väsen” marks a new era for GRÁ. Free from the concept of the previous releases, GRÁ returns with an album more varied than ever and with the will to explore outside the borders of the narrow-minded so called black metal scene where most seem to have forgotten to include the part that makes it BLACK. Shepherded by the inhumane, raspy voice, the opus “Väsen” offers the co-existence of momentous harmonies and horrisonant riffs, spasmodic appearances of ghastly keyboard textures, penetrating mid-paced drumming and vein vibrating basslines. Sustaining the ethos of the classic black metal forces, the Swedish entity plumps for unworldly songwriting structures, full of vim and vigor, at the same time unadulteratedly malignant.

“Väsen” is out through Swedish label Carnal Records on CD & digital formats from April 27, LP will be out this Fall 2018.

Upcoming Event:
JUNE 01, 2018, Belsepub, Gothenburg, Sweden

Album Credits:

Heljarmadr: Vocals, main guitars, keyboards
Dimman: Drums, keyboards
Maugrim: Backing guitars
Vediger: Bass

Väsen was recorded during 2017 and 2018 at “The Grey Studios”, Stockholm.
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Heljarmadr Productions.
Cover artwork by Axel Torvenius (Art director of Machine Games, recently most known for the award winning video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus).
Band photos by Soile Siirtola.
Logo by Luciana Nedelea.
Rune symbol by AirikR.
Sleeve photo by Heljarmadr.

For CD Order:
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For Digital Order: http://smarturl.it/vasen

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Hate Eternal announce European tour dates

HATE ETERNAL are announcing new European tour dates this summer. The US death metal giants will kick off their rampage at the Backstage in München, Germany on July 23 and continue to devastate three more European countries until a final onslaught at the French Sylak Open Air in Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans on the 4th of August.

A list of all currently confirmed dates, presented by Deaf Forever, can be viewed below.

HATE ETERNAL
23 July 18 München (DE) Backstage (Free & Easy)
25 July 18 Tolmin (SI) Metal Days 2018
26 July 18 Wien (AT) Viper Room
27 July 18 Würzburg (DE) Posthalle
28 July 18 Steenwijk (NL) Stonehenge Festival 2018
29 July 18 Utrecht (NL) De Helling
04 Aug 18 Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans (FR) Sylak Open Air 2018

HATE ETERNAL are touring in support if their latest album ‘Infernus’ (2015). The album is still available from the Season of Mist shop and streaming in here.

The spectacular artwork for ‘Infernus’ has been created by renowned artist Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, ICED EARTH, SODOM). His cover painting can be viewed below.

Tracklist
01. Locust Swarm
02. The Stygian Deep
03. Pathogenic Apathy
04. La Tempestad
05. Infernus
06. The Chosen One
07. Zealot, Crusader of War
08. Order of the Arcane Scripture
09. Chaos Theory
10. O’ Majestic Being, Hear My Call

HATE ETERNAL is the brainchild of extreme metal luminary Erik Rutan, who created a charging death metal juggernaut. In the United States this style has been virtually synonymous with Florida and especially the Tampa Bay Area for a long time. More aggressive and technically complex than its Swedish counterpart, Floridian death metal grew out of thrash during the mid-1980’s and was founded by such as the legendary DEATH, OBITUARY, and MORBID ANGEL. While many of its early protagonists went on experimental paths, HATE ETERNAL remains true to the original formula, while continuously pushing the boundaries of this extreme style.

Founded in St. Petersburg, Florida in the year 1997, the band faithfully keeps the death metal spirit alive as their long-awaited sixth studio album ‘Infernus’ now uncompromisingly demonstrates. HATE ETERNAL’s first new full-length in four years doubles down on their patented, high-velocity assault of dizzying ferocity combined with wide-range dynamics, outstanding songwriting and skull-crushing brutality. HATE ETERNAL delivers extreme music at the highest level. There can be no doubt that ‘Infernus’ ranks among the very best death metal records of 2015!

Line-up
Erik Rutan: vocals, guitars
J.J. Hrubovcak: bass, backing vocals
Chason Westmoreland: drums (album recording)
Hannes Grossmann: drums (live, session)

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RAVEN THRONE: Debuts New Track Of Belarusian Atmospheric Black Metal

RAVEN THRONE’s sixth album “I Miortvym Snicca Zolak” is only a week away from its release date. Dutch Label Non Serviam Records will be releasing the CDs in digipak format (first 50 orders come with a patch). The album is based on poems from the beginning of the 20th century.

PopMatters premieres the final track “Žyvoj kryvi žyvyja cielcy” (English: Living blood of living bodies) of the opus.

Remarked by the band : “Musically track “Žyvoj kryvi žyvyja cielcy” turned out to be quite uncharacteristic for the band. It contains progressive elements in combination with more traditional metal forms. The mood of music and full of tragedy images of Uladzimir Dudzitski’s poem create a complete and harmonious union.”

Emerged from the ancient city Polotsk in 2004, Belarusian band RAVEN THRONE is having a couple of LPs and an EP in its amassment. The short lived first line-up collapsed after a few shows, the guitarist Chernotur (aka Dzianis Lukianovich, Thy Wings) kept the flame alive with War Head, who joined the band as a bass player in 2005. Encountering several lineup changes, the main core of the band had been formed in the person of Chernotur and War Head since then. During 2005 and 2006 RAVEN THRONE was a studio project, until Ingwar Winterheart (aka Galdor) joined the band. The first records were made at that time.

RAVEN THRONE had no drummer until 2011 and played under drum machine, but they released 03 magnificent albums till then. The band has become more active since 2014, started playing small and big festivals/gigs on regular basis. The current drummer Green Skin joined the band in 2015. The band shared stages with some prestigious local and international bands, including legendary Polish death metal troop VADER.

05th album “By the Path of the Forgotten” was released in 2016 via Possession Productions. The record was made by Chernotur and War Head as usual. In April 2016, the new line-up was renewed. Zergved Hellersatan (ex-KAIRA) became new vocalist. RAVEN THRONE supported ROTTING CHRIST on their Minsk gig during the world tour in December 2017.

Upcoming album “I Miortvym Snicca Zolak” will be out May 02nd via Non Serviam Records on digipak format. RAVEN THRONE invites you to an odyssey in the splendor of the Slavic nature, which is based on poems from the beginning of the 20th century. The bands from the east Slavic countries can invent the supreme atmosphere that darkens the music with deep melancholy and Raven Throne is the perfect example to illustrate this tendency. The 06 splendid tracks of the album are occupied with deep melodies, but powerful rhythms, exploring the darkest side of human emotions. Without sacrificing melodic and dynamic proficiency, their musical technicality comes out on top through the composition.

Magnificent visual artistry in the form of cover art was executed by the band’s vocalist War Head. RAVEN THRONE will be embarking on an European tour this year to promote this album.

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VANHELGA reveal lyric video from forthcoming OSMOSE album

Today, the enigmatic & nightmarish Vanhelga reveal a new lyric video for the track “Relationship in Pieces.” The song is the first track to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fifth album, Fredagsmys, which is set for international release on June 29th via Osmose Productions.

See & hear the lyric video for Vanhelga’s “Relationship in Pieces” HERE.

Vanhelga are constantly expanding their creativity without losing the classic melancholic sound from Sweden that makes them unique. The last few years, they’ve written and recorded 11 tracks that fully live up to their artistic vision. Fredagsmys is the most elaborate album from Vanhelga so far.

True to their own words, their fifth full-length – and first for Osmose – is the continuing exploration of the darker sides of reality and another experiment in how to find its purest expression: using sarcasm combined with overall schizophrenic mood changes between pitch-black hopelessness and cheerful euphoria, but still keeping a level of seriousness Vanhelga has come to be a force to be reckoned with.

Vanhelga was formed in Linköping, Sweden, in 2001 by 145188, who got together with likeminded musicians in order to finally breathe life into his vision, something he had not been able to do with any previous bands and musicians he had worked with. Since then, they are known for their atmospheric and captivating live performances, sharing the stage with, Psychonaut 4, Forgotten Tomb, Harakiri for the Sky, and Kall, among others.

Through music and lyrics, Vanhelga – which, translated from Swedish, means “Profane” – explores the darker side of humanity: the one that few will admit exists, but which nevertheless is a huge part of every individual’s existence.

Vanhelga’s music can doubtlessly be classed as black metal, but that would be too restrictive a definition. Their music is cold and sinister, but with melodies and melancholic moments that can draw you in and lull you into a false sense of security before you realize, too late, that you have been caught in an ominous web of sound that sends shivers down your spine.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Vanhelga’s Fredagsmys
1. Sömnparalys
2. Psykotisk självinsikt
3. Varde mörker
4. Ensam mot alla
5. Förpassad till misär
6. Två blir ett
7. Keep the window closed
8. RIP (Relationship in pieces)
9. Feels like breathing in sulfur
10. You are temporary
11. Fredagsmys

VANHELGA lineup 2018
145188 – vocals and guitars
J. Ejnarsson – lead guitars and backing vocals
R. Jönsson – bass
D. Franzén – drums

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Boris Records Streaming Forthcoming Vinyl Reissue of HAUNTING’s ‘Sealed Shut’

Atlanta (GA) – Boris Records has made its forthcoming vinyl reissue of Sealed Shut from influential Atlanta Death Dealers HAUNTING available for streaming on Bandcamp. The album is now available for pre-order as well. It is recommended that you dive right in at the following link: borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sealed-shut-pre-order

Sealed Shut will be released on May 8. Originally self-released by the band in a small run of cassettes in 2014, the vinyl version includes an added “Intro” track that never made it onto the original tape release. While HAUNTING is now disbanded, Scott Taysom has moved on to front CLOAK and Charlie Southern is kicking ass in SADISTIC RITUAL, VIMUR and ECTOVOID, while Blake and David are active in new projects.

HAUNTING appeared during an exciting period of maturation in the Atlanta metal scene. The band’s brief existence afforded only the sole offering of Sealed Shut. Though only four songs, it stands in the forefront among a small group of other highly-esteemed records that have been released within the last 35 years or so of Atlanta’s metal timeline.

HAUNTING’s very existence owes much to the once monstrously thriving warehouse and DIY scene in the city. HAUNTING is undeniably tied to its members’ earliest musical endeavors in other local favorites such as the now legendary death-dealers Living Decay, hardcore punks Paradox, and the still-active thrashers Sadistic Ritual. Sealed Shut is easily recognizable as an amalgamation, intentional or not, of that fevered adolescent energy and relentless drive with which those earlier bands had enthralled, what was at the time, a fatigued local scene. They helped cultivate new young devotees in droves and reenergized a previous generation of weary metalheads.

“A highly esteemed recording of true USDM.”
– Riff Relevant

“Short, sweet and especially savage, Sealed Shut remains an energised slab of prime death metal from a band whose members are still plying their particularly nasty trade via the thrash of Sadistic Ritual and via death-dealers, Living Decay.”
– Worship Metal

“Carving out four unique and relentless tracks, Haunting really had something going for it while trying to make their own style in death metal.”
– Metal Machine

Haunting is:
David Prae – Drums
Scott Taysom – Vocals, Guitar
Charlie Southern – Guitar
Blake Packard – Bass

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