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TEMPLE DESECRATION stream IRON BONEHEAD debut

Today, black/death mavericks Temple Desecration stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos. Set for international release on July 13th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Temple Desecration’s Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Since Temple Desecration’s beginnings in 2011, this mysterious Polish cult have been a study in refined ugliness. Prizing quality over quantity, each release has been exacting, yet executed with animalistic abandon. It began in 2012 with the very-aptly-titled Abhorrent Rites demo – which Iron Bonehead later released on 12″ vinyl, in 2015 – and carried forward to the dread expanses of the Communion Perished EP in 2014. There, at just two songs in a swift 13 minutes, Temple Desecration indeed desecrated by-now-passe “bestial metal” conventions into something angular and truly overwhelming, incensed by the form’s latent power but focusing it into an ever-roiling maelstrom that was worlds away – and suggested, even, other worlds.

With the stage thus set, a whole four years later, Temple Desecration return to maximize that enviable potential with their first full-length, Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos. Massive in every measure, Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos is indeed a whirlwind, but any chaos extant in the band’s sound has been excised for locked-in, monged-out hypnosis. It’s a tradeoff that works in spades, as Temple Desecration’s vile, virulent pulse becomes more patient and yet more mesmerizing, eventually devouring the listener whole – or at least sucking said listener into a black hole, many worlds away. The more expanded song structures first explored on Communion Perished are here finessed even further, building new pillars of pustulent terror and crushingly physical tension: at five songs in 38 minutes, the sheer density and solar weight of Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos feels far more expansive than its compact runtime suggests.

These advancements aside, Temple Desecration have also managed to make their mangling of the bestial idiom more ritualistic, more ceremonial. That pulse may still be tethered to black/death traditionalism – it is METAL, after all – but the way this cult warps their riffs into slithering sensations of sound elevates Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos above the mongrel hordes listlessly flying that “bestial metal” banner. In short, there is transcendentalism coursing through every minute of the album, and Temple Desecration have hereby unlocked its boundless enormity.

Gaze into its cover art – faintly, deeply, whichever – and begin to contemplate the enormity of Temple Desecration. For these Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos stretch beyond The Beyond…

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Temple Desecration’s Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos
1. Nameless Hordes
2. Entering the Void
3. Dominion of Darkness
4. Covenant
5. Blood Offering

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PALE DIVINE set release date for long-awaited new SHADOW KINGDOM album, reveal first track

Today, Shadow Kingdom Records sets November 23rd as the international release date for Pale Divine’s highly anticipated fifth album, Pale Divine, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

For nearly 25 years now, Pale Divine have been perfecting the proto-doom sound – rooted in the ’70s, particularly Pentagram and Ozzy-era Black Sabbath but also Sir Lord Baltimore, Leafhound, and even very early Judas Priest – but predating so many cloying pretenders ever since. Not for them is this just another trendy bandwagon to jump on; Pale Divine truly LIVE this music. The public’s tastes may be fickle, but diehards know and love the name Pale Divine. And for very good reason: albums like 2001’s Thunder Perfect Mind and 2004’s Eternity Revealed are considered classics of the genre, carrying the torch of ’80s forebears like Saint Vitus and Trouble, and keeping that flame burning whatever the cost.

And though it’s been six long years since Pale Divine’s last album, 2012’s Shadow Kingdom-released Painted Windows Black, the power-trio sound more energized than ever on Pale Divine. A veritable tour de force of everything that’s been brewing in the band’s cauldron lo these many years, Pale Divine explodes with thunder and swagger at every turn: from epic metal excursions to bluesy rockers, groove behemoths to graveyard laments, psychedelic swirl to straight-up crush, this album literally has it ALL! Naturally, actual honest-to-goodness songwriting takes center stage here, and Pale Divine possess the panache to pull it all of with style and grace, effortlessly and unselfconsciously so. At the forefront, as ever, are the always soulful vocals of guitarist Greg Diener, who brings pathos and poignancy to such heartrending topics as “Chemical Decline,” “Bleeding Soul,” “So Low,” and “Curse the Shadows.” Which is to say nothing of the production on Pale Divine, which has that rich warmth and as-true-as-it-gets analog sound that further underline the timelessness Pale Divine have made their stock-in-trade since the beginning.

The more things change, the more they stay the same sometimes, and there stands Pale Divine, tall and proud. In 2018, you’re not gonna find a better, more rockin’ and more pure DOOM album than Pale Divine! Hear for yourself with the new track “Spinning Wheel” HERE

. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Pale Divine’s Pale Divine
1. Spinning Wheel
2. Bleeding Soul
3. Chemical Decline
4. So Low
5. Curse the Shadows
6. Shades of Blue
7. Silver Tongues
8. Ship of Fools

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Turkey’s BURIAL INVOCATION now streaming “Abiogenesis” in its entirety

Abiogenesis, the newest release from Turkey’s BURIAL INVOCATION, is now available via Dark Descent Records. To mark the long-awaited return of BURIAL INVOCATION, Dark Descent Records is streaming Abiogenesis in full. Listen to one of 2018’s most critically-acclaimed releases

Abiogensis is available on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Order the album at the following locations:
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“Whatever your thoughts are on death metal as a genre, there’s no questioning the brutality, weight and rhythmic technicality of this massive sounding record.”
– Metal Forces Magazine [9/10]

“There are moments on Abiogenesis that are bar-raising career-defining brilliance. There are others that fall into the category of exemplary death metal. Does Abiogenesis reinvent death metal? No. Of course not. What it does do is pour all the elements that make the genre great into a giant crucible, smelt that shit down and tip that liquid fire straight into your gaping gullet.” – Toilet Ov Hell [4.77/5]

1.Revival 09:54
2.Abiogenesis 12:10
3.Visions of the Hereafter 08:11
4.Phantasmagoric Transcendence 08:27
5.Tenebrous Horizons 02:37

BURIAL INVOCATION exploded onto the underground scene when their debut EP Rituals of the Grotesque, released in early 2010. Coincidentally, this was the first release under the newly-formed Dark Descent Records banner. The initial pressing of this CD sold out quickly as the band’s brand of doomy, crypt-dwelling death metal was infectious as it was blistering.

Mixing elements of Finnish death metal among other influences, BURIAL INVOCATION followed up the debut EP the next year on the well-received split 7″ with Japan’s Anatomia. This split, also released on Dark Descent Records, quickly sold out. The band eventually followed these releases with some memorable live appearances including the initial version of Copenhagen’s legendary Kill Town Death Fest.

In the years since, the band was inactive as members pursued other projects and interests. There were rumblings from the band including small European tour runs and we were largely left to wonder what happened to BURIAL INVOCATION?

In 2017, the fires were lit once more as the band were said to be working on a new album. Once again under the Dark Descent Records banner (vinyl via long-time ally Me Saco Un Ojo), Abiogenesis sees this Turkish crew reign once more. No longer will we be left wondering…Burial Invocation has returned and the wait has been well worth it.

DAKHMA set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets September 28th as the international release date for the highly anticipated debut album of Switzerland’s Dakhma, Hamkar Atonement, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

A work of towering immensity, of unorthodox ritualism and subverted bestiality, Hamkar Atonement furthers the sonic defiance Dakhma last suggested on the preceding Astiwihad-Zohr mini-album, released to critical acclaim in early 2016 by Iron Bonehead. There, the duo detailed a spiritual descent/ascent across four staggering songs spanning 27 minutes. Here, on Hamkar Atonement, Dakhma descend/ascend even deeper/higher, with seven hymns within a staggering 61 minutes: total sensory overload, immersion that begets annihilation that begets rebirth. Within a somewhat-familiar template of bestial black metal, the duo proceed to mangle and malform every malodorous nook and cranny within the idiom, stretching it past its capacity and into high art – no less hysteric and feral, that is. In fact, the results are far more frightening, and demand far more of the listener; those of intrepid constitution shall be rewarded with sub-vibrational hypnosis and possession, the very essence (and near-subversion) of ritualism. Hamkar Atonement is truly a journey, the very definition of Album Experience, and once again, the very music of death.

As Dakhma explains of the title, the Avestan word “Hamkar,” which literally translates to “co-worker” or “helper,” is used in reference to the daeva of Angra Mainyu (in middle Persian: Ahriman), himself the omnimalevolent and most destructive spirit. In the collection of texts describing Zoroastrian cosmogony and creation, traditionally called Bundahishn, Angra Mainyu creates a horde of daeva to counter the creation of cosmos by Ahura Mazda (in middle Persian: Ohrmazd or Ormuzd), with each daeva mirroring an opposite Amesha Spenta (lit. “immortal (which is) holy”; a class of divine and immortal holy entities who serve Ohrmazd). In mirroring the tasks of the Amesha Spentas as servants of Ohrmazd, daeva are the instrument through which Ahriman creates all the horrors in the world. Following the interpretation laid out in texts such as the “Shayest ne shayest,” where the daeva are seen as being utterly real and not mere philosophical representations, the music contained on Hamkar Atonement describes creation through the ultimate destruction of Ohrmazd’s good deeds, good thoughts, and good work by the daeva. Hamkar Atonement begins with the demise of Ohrmazd and therefore the destruction of all that is holy on the earth, allowing the daeva to roam free and corrupt human existence, described in greater detail throughout the album. Each song serves a specific narrative purpose, be it the dedication to a specific daeva or describing the results of their exploits on earth. What follows is a musical journey through the horror and corruption brought forth by the daeva, until a black sea of dread washes over the earth and extinguishes the last holy flame, leaving only death triumphant, the great prophet.

Dare to submerge thyself within the daeva’s very depths? Then let Dakhma offer you Hamkar Atonement. Take the first submersive step with the new track “Nanghait (Born Of Fire)” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Dakhma’s Hamkar Atonement
1. The Glorious Fall of Ohrmazd (Hail Death, Triumphant)
2. Akhoman (Spill The Blood)
3. Varun (Of Unnatural Lust)
4. Nanghait (Born Of Fire)
5. Spendarmad (Holy Devotion)
6. Gannag Menog (Foul Death, Triumphant)
7. …Of Great Prophets

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ALL MY SINS set release date for SATURNAL debut, reveal first track

Today, Saturnal Records sets September 23rd as the international release date for All My Sins’ highly anticipated debut album, Pra Sila – Vukov Totem. A work of windswept mysticism and pure pagan fury, Pra Sila – Vukov Totem is one which has been brewing since the ancient days, and is now being released into the modern era with a timelessness that’s exciting to behold.

Originating from the southern regions of Europe, Serbia’s All My Sins was officially formed by Nav Cosmos and V in the year of 2000. The duo gathered a lineup around the idea of claiming its own place among the already-established second-wave black metal scene. Inspired by the spiritual heritage of the land they come from, the band started making records, each of them conceptually placed around the certain mythological symbols.

The first demo, Night Scupltures, was recorded in 2002. It was dedicated to the nocturnal creatures and the driving force behind The Night as a mythological being. The next demo, From the Land of the Shining Past in 2004, focused on the primordial origins of Slavic spirituality and thus was dedicated to The Forest as a mythological entity.

After the several lineup changes that followed, All My Sins was, with few exceptions, barely active for the next 12 years. During this time, V continued his activities among the ranks of such international acts as Kawir, Terrörhammer, Ulvdalir, and Triumfall.

It was finally in 2016 that Nav Cosmos and V were ready to re-form the band and begin work on a new studio record. The result was the Lunar / Solar EP, which was dedicated to The Sky as a mythic being, centering its basis around the ideas of vanishing, going beyond, and dying as seen through the perspective of southern Slavic mysticism. Black Death Production from Poland released Lunar / Solar on CD in 2017, and the EP quickly got appropriate feedback both from the press and the public.

Already in the second half of 2017, All My Sins were once again in the studio, this time working on a full-length conceptually dedicated to The Wolf as a mythological being. Titled Pra Sila – Vukov Totem (rough English translation: “The Primordial Force of the Wolf’s Totem”), the album is thematically focused upon the most important and powerful totem in the culture of southern Slavs.

Reflecting the world of impenetrable places, the symbol of The Wolf carries different, often opposed meanings. In mythology regarded as the ancient ancestor of Serbian people, a creature with unusual attributes is believed to possess obscure divine powers. The meeting of man and wolf is mystically dangerous, yet magnificent at the same time. It is the encounter with demonic being and concurrently the moment when a man meets his native forefather. In the world of wilderness abandoned by man, contradictory and strong, The Wolf represents everything we are not, unknown and terrifying – it is the perfection of a stranger.

With eight individual tracks exploring the metaphysical link between the ancestral prehistoric Wolf and the context of the contemporary age, in order to fully comply with the album’s symbolic content, Saturnal Records officially releases All My Sins’ Pra Sila – Vukov Totem on the 23rd of September, exactly on the day of the last equinox of 2018.

In the meantime, hear the new track “Vetrovo Kolo” HERE .

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for All My Sins’ Pra Sila – Vukov Totem
1. Vukov Totem
2. Zov iz Magle
3. Vetrovo Kolo
4. U Mlazevima Krvi
5. Opsena
6. Mesecu u Oko
7. Konačna Ravnodnevica (Čin Prvi)
8. Konačna Ravnodnevica (Čin Drugi)

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French death metallers ATAVISMA premiere new track

Today, French death metal upstarts Atavisma premiere the new track “Ashen Ascetic” The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, The Chthonic Rituals, set for international release on July 23rd via Memento Mori. Hear Atavisma’s “Ashen Ascetic” in its entirety HERE.

Hailing from the new breed of exquisite French death metal darkness, Atavisma formed in late 2013 and promptly set to work perfecting their assiduously doomed-out craft. Founders G. (guitar) and L. (vocals) wanted to create a band devoted to old-school death metal, and with the addition of C. (drums) and W. (bass) shortly thereafter, the quartet’s compositions progressively shifted towards a death-doom approach with a penchant for lyrics that mainly deal with the relationship between man and nature, ancient cultures and spirituality. Wisely prizing quality over quantity, Atavisma’s sparse discography comprises a debut single in 2014 and a four-song demo that same year, a split 7″ with Maur in 2015, and a two-song 7″ last year on the esteemed Blood Harvest. During all this, the band took their craft to the stage alongside such bands as Archgoat, Merrimack, Inferno, Ritualization, Ataraxie, Mercyless, and Mourning Dawn, and as recently as February/March 2017, they embarked on their first French tour and supported Blood Incantation and Cruciamentum during their European tour.

With their chops finely honed in the studio and on the live front, at last comes the time for Atavisma’s momentous debut album: The Chthonic Rituals. The album’s title not-so-subtly serves as a clarion call for the quartet’s aesthetic to date, and where that aesthetic can fully go when given a long-form format. Ridiculously filthy and yet exuding a startling sense of clarity, Atavisma here conjure a forever-roiling, fatally-swirling whirlpool of murk and total ‘n’ utter DARKNESS. Riffs are doled out like sick ‘n’ slithering creatures that soon overtake their master, devouring both body and soul with salacious delight. Thus armed, compositions take on obscene forms, utilizing both über-heavy hooks and labyrinthine detours, hackle-raising tension and hypnotic quasi-melodicism, winding the listener down caverns most foul, warping any sense of sanity. And although the band’s attack has gotten progressively doomier, there’s never a moment of inertia; all is forward momentum, and it all leads toward an abyss with literally no end. The 11-minute closer says everything in its title: “A Subterranean Life.”

As with all Memento Mori releases, totality is reached in both cover art (courtesy of E. Muskie), mixing by Johan Bijaoui at Mannaz Records, and mastering, by the elite Javier Felez at Moontower Studios. Maniacs of Incantation, Cianide, Grave, Disma, Winter, Funebre, Encoffination, and classic Convulse, hereby meet your new masters: Atavisma! Let The Chthonic Rituals begin…

Another ritual, the previously revealed “Invocation of Archaic Deities,” can be found HERE

And the first ritual can be found HERE at Memento Mori’s official YouTube channel, with the previously revealed “Sacrifice Unto Babalon.”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Atavisma’s The Chthonic Rituals
1. Chthonic
2. Extraneous Abysmal Knowledge
3. Sacrifice unto Babalon
4. Invocation of Archaic Deities
5. Monoliths
6. Ashen Ascetic
7. Amid the Ruins
8. A Subterranean Life

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Cypriot Death Metallers Vomitile – Pure Eternal Hate Album review

Vomitile hail from island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean. You don’t normally associate brutal death metal with Cyprus but I guess before Death, Obituary, Massacre, Deicide and Morbid Angel – most people did not think of Tampa being the capital of death metal either – so there ya go.

I gotta be honest with you – I have listened to so much death metal over the years and so much good death metal Carcass, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower etc that a lot of newish death metal does very little for me (I gotta say for the record that Blood Incantation is one of the best new Death metal bands in the last 10 years) anyways I digress.

So yeah where was I ? Oh I know – on the whole I would rather review black metal records – especially ones that push the boundaries of black metal, for example if you sound like a 10th rate Dark throne copy then please don’t ask me to listen to your album. However I try to keep an open mind PLUS I base all my reviews on knee jerk reaction. Meaning I am going to turn your record off after about 10 seconds or I am going to dig it.

These guys I did – sure its savage fucking death metal – but to me what is appealing about Vomitile is the fact that they write songs. There is a structure here and you can make out the lyrics without referring to a lyric sheet. This is a DM band I can get behind

Not sure if we will ever see them play live in America but fuck, this album is great

Track-list:

01. Mass Extermination
02. Pestilation
03. Labeled Dead
04. HateField
05. Glorify The Insane
06. Executioner Of Strength
07. To Deflesh
08. Nothing But Pain
09. Soulskinner
10. Carnal Surgery

Length – 36:46

Pick up a copy today and show some support for the scene

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Line-up:

Khatch Yildizian – bass & vocals
George Yildizian – guitars
Panos Larkou – guitars
Hugo Olivos – drums

Vomitile was formed during the summer of 2007 with the sole intention of playing an aggressive form of metal and since thrash and death metal were the main influences of the band, it slowly evolved to what it is today, a pure Death Metal band. Since then, the band has released an ep followed by two full length albums in 2013 and 2014 and a newly recorded full length album entitled Pure Eternal Hate which is scheduled to be released sometime in mid-2018. Considered the leaders of the local death metal scene, the band is also known for their powerful and brutal live performances. Some of their prominent live shows include supporting the German thrash legends Sodom and Kreator, Florida’s death metal kings Obituary, Poland’s very own Vader, a mini tour with British thrash legends Onslaught and a co headlining tour with death metal godfathers Master.

Crippled Black Phoenix release first track and details of new album ‘Great Escape’

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX are now premiering the first track of their forthcoming new album ‘Great Escape’, which is slated for release on September 14th, 2018.

The eclectic UK rockers are now streaming their stunning new track “To You I Give”

Mastermind Justin Greaves comments on the track: “This songs is about giving your heart to someone or something special, and being able to cope with the trouble and anxiety it can incite as well as the joy and hope it brings. Giving is strength. We can endure.”

On the album, Justin Greaves comments: “Sometimes we want to escape from the dark and make a positive change in our life… and yet…Sometimes we simply want to escape this world. Because we’re tired and we’ve had enough… This is what ‘Great Escape’ is. Some parts it’s pure escapism from real life, longing to just shoot straight up and off this planet…. Other parts are born out of frustration at the unjust world we live in. It is.. Escaping from your own broken mind, or from society, or animals escaping from abuse. It’s the escape from the mainstream thought patterns and engrained social conditioning that perpetuates mans destruction of nature. We can be our own ‘Great Escape’ if we want, and it can be however you want to it to be. If you’re not happy then you don’t have to conform, you don’t have to carry on ‘playing the game’.”

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX have furthermore revealed the artwork for ‘Great Escape’, which can be viewed together with the album details below.

Track-list
1. You Brought It Upon Yourselves (3:43)
2. To You I Give (9:22)
3. Uncivil War (pt I) (2:50)
4. Madman (4:51)
5. Times, They Are A’Raging (11:58)
6. Rain Black, Reign Heavy (5:58)
7. Slow Motion Breakdown (4:34)
8. Nebulas (5:35)
9. Las Diabolicas (3:49)
10. Great Escape (pt I) (7:36)
11. Great Escape (pt II) (13:03)

‘Great Escape’, this beautiful touch of darkness comes hardly as a surprise, when taking into account that CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX mastermind Justin Greaves has previously gone public about his personal fight against severe depression. Similar dark themes and traits have already been a hallmark of the UK rockers’ latest full-length, ‘Bronze’ (2016).

CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX have always confounded critics trying to pin their style down ever since founder Justin Greaves recorded his first ideas in 2004 – which earned them tagging attempts ranging from “stoner prog” through “freak folk” to “psychedelic doom”. Despite the wide range of musical leanings within their albums, there are a unifying dark streak and somber melancholy running through the songs. Greaves had already made himself a name as drummer for IRON MONKEY and ELECTRIC WIZARD among others. When the multi-instrumentalist finally decided to stand on his own musical feet, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX was born. This involves a changing cast of musicians and live set-ups which mirrored the ever-ongoing evolution of the band, and the fact that the songs were mostly not composed with a live performance on mind.

Between 2007 and 2014, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX released a string of five critically highly acclaimed studio albums – namely ‘A Love of Shared Disasters’ (2007), ‘The Resurrectionists’ (2009), ‘Night Raider’ (2009), ‘(Mankind) The Crafty Ape’ (2012), and ‘White Light Generator’ (2014). This was complemented by EPs ‘I, Vigilante’ (2010), ‘No Sadness or Farewell’ (2012), and ‘Oh’ Ech-oes’ (2015), the live recording ‘Live Poznan’ (2013), and the ‘200 Tons of Bad Luck’ compilation (2009). Their ‘New Dark Age Tour EP 2015 A.D.’ was the band’s first release on Season of Mist and came with an extensive homage to PINK FLOYD. The strong influence of the UK rock giants could also be felt on ‘Bronze’ (2016), yet while CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX never denied their roots, this outstanding act has long created their own sonic cosmos.

With last year’s ‘Horrific Honorifics’ offering, the band elegantly payed tribute to great artists and classic songs while making those tracks their own in sound and spirit without compromising the integrity of the original masterpieces.

Now with ‘Great Escape’, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX take you on their new adventure and let you explore their sonic cosmos even further, and where all its emotions are reflected on to this earth. From the angry “Rain Black”, to the unnerving “Madman” and forgiving “Nebulas”, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX arise once more.

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Line-up
Justin Greaves – drums and percussion, guitars, bass, samples, saw, backing vocals
Ben Wilsker – drums
Daniel Änghede – guitar, backing vocals.
Jonas Stålhammar – guitar
Tom Greenway – bass
Mark Furnevall – synthesizers, Hammond, backing vocals
Helen Stanley – grand piano, synthesizer, backing vocals, trumpet
Belinda Kordic – vocals, percussion

Recording: Chapel Studio, Lincolnshire
Producer: Justin Greaves
Mixed/Mastered: Tri-Lamb Studio, Karl Daniel Lidén

DECEASED reveal cover art for long-awaited new HELLS HEADBANGERS album

Today, underground legends Deceased reveal the cover art for their LONG-awaited eighth album, Ghostly White, which will see release later this autumn via Hells Headbangers.

Deceased are currently recording Ghostly White this September at Oblivion Studios; founding vocalist King Fowley will be producing the album. It will feature eight new tracks of the band’s unique style of death metal from the grave. Song titles are “Mrs. Allardyce,” “A Palpitation’s Warning,” “Germ Of Distorted Lore,” “To Serve The Insane,” “Endless Well,” “Thoughts From A Leaking Brain,” “The Shivers,” and “Pale Surroundings”.

The cover art for Ghostly White was painted by Raul Gonzalez, who’s worked with Deceased in the past; it can be viewed above. The album is tentatively set for a November release. More info to be revealed shortly.

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RUNESPELL stream new IRON BONEHEAD album

Today, black metal mystics Runespell stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, Order of Vengeance. Set for international release on July 6th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Runespell’s Order of Vengeance in its entirety HERE.

Striking while the iron’s hot, Order of Vengeance follows less than a year after Runespell’s critically acclaimed debut album, Unhallowed Blood Oath, also released by Iron Bonehead. Let it be known, however, that there’s not one sacrifice in quality to be found here. If anything, the Runespell aesthetic has become even more iron-girded and iron-willed. There’s a greater sense of urgency on Order of Vengeance – an unquenchable desperation, even – that drives these no-less-grand epics. Whereas Unhallowed Blood Oath situated itself on an axis of melancholy vs. bloodlust, suitably, Order of Vengeance ups the bloodlust considerably…although, of course, the melancholy is no short supply here, particularly on the sparse ‘n’ haunting instrumental “Night’s Gate.” The album length, too, has been padded out to a spacious and all-enveloping 47 minutes, allowing the full mesmerizing grandeur of the Runespell aesthetic to take root and consume. More massive, yet more urgent: Order of Vengeance is indeed a new order.

Elsewhere, underpinning everything is an authentic and austere steeping in early ’90s black metal classicism. Be it from Scandinavia or France or particularly Poland, such source material has been so widely replicated year after year, and yet Runespell is yet again able to both handily challenge those classics AND resound like an era-relevant relic. It’s not surprising, considering mainman Nightwolf is one of the busiest men in the shit-hot Australian black metal scene, maintaining as he does the equally prolific Eternum and Blood Stronghold. While still bearing aesthetic similarities to those two bands – this is the purest, most mystical black metal after all – with Order of Vengeance, Runespell continues its majestic rumination on the mysteries of war and bloodshed, vengeance and valor, memory and destiny. Dedication and sacrifice – spiritually, above all, as well as physically – are once again the watchwords, and they’ve resulted in black metal wielded as weapon, totem, and portal simultaneously.

To coincide with Runespell’s upward-and-onward trajectory with Order of Vengeance, the band’s sold-out debut demo, Aeons of Ancient Blood, will see a vinyl LP release via Iron Bonehead. Partake in these profound truths…all of which can be experienced HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Runespell’s Order of Vengeance
1. Retribution in Iron
2. Destiny Over Discord
3. Claws of Fate
4. Night’s Gate
5. Wolf.Axis
6. Blood Martyr
7. Pray for Redemption – Redemption for Prey

further info:
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