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WALDGEFLÜSTER reveal new video of PANOPTICON cover from upcoming AOP RECORDS mini-album

Today, autumnal black metallers Waldgeflüster reveal the new video “The Pit,” a cover song of comrades Panopticon. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated new mini-album, Unter bronzenen Kronen, set for international release on September 29th via AOP Records. See & hear Waldgeflüster’s “The Pit” video in its entirety here:

Founded fittingly in autumn 2005, Waldgeflüster have steadily perfected an individual mix of melancholic and nature-bound topics, rendering homage to black metal and its complexity with every note and every word of their lyrical songs. Began as a solo project of German multi-instrumentalist Winterherz, Waldgeflüster released its first demo, Stimmen im Wind, during the summer of the following year. In 2009 came the band’s debut album, Herbstklagen. The sound of Waldgeflüster was able to capture the recondite might of nature by harmonic but also overwhelming melodies, while the lyrics underlined the projected thoughts and feelings and therefore perfected the record. With his brother P., Winterherz created the concept record Femundsmarka – eine Reise in drei Kapitel in 2011. After the release of the follow-up Meine Fesseln, as of August 2014, Waldgeflüster transformed from a solo endeavor into a full band, with live musicians Arvagr, Domi, Markus, and Thomas finally joining the band as full members.

Thereafter, in 2016 did Waldgeflüster join with the Swedish label Nordvis and released their first split with their brothers Panopticon, shortly followed by the highly praised album Ruinen that same year. In 2019, the successor record, Mondscheinsonaten, was released to yet more acclaim, further exploring the trademarks of Waldgeflüster but always reaching for new territories.

Since 2007, in addition to their steady stream of studio recordings, Waldgeflüster have become a prolific live force, playing many shows throughout Europe and the world, including such highlights as the Summer Breeze and Ragnarök festivals, a festival organized by Hammerheart Brewing Company in the US, and a full European tour during spring 2018 with Angantyr and Ereb Altor.

In 2021, Waldgeflüster joined the highly acclaimed roster of AOP Records, who will take care of the future endeavors of the band. That same year, the first fruit of this union brought forth the release of their sixth full-length record, Dahoam, which reached #49 on the official German album charts. Dahoam is now followed now the new mini-album Unter bronzenen Kronen: a collection of four autumnal songs, including two covers, showing Waldgeflüster further perfecting their sound and drawing the listener ever deeper into their world of melancholy.

As the band state, “We are thrilled to unveil our latest endeavor, a heartfelt compilation of songs to accompany the embrace of autumn. This collection, although not a full-length album, tries to capture the essence of the season when the leaves turn into shimmering hues of bronze, gold, and red – a sonic reflection of the bittersweet melancholy that seeps into our bones and hearts during this time.

“We reimagine three existing songs—one of our own, and two masterpieces from extraordinary artists— and looked at them from a different angle, casting a new light upon their inherent beauty. Additionally, there is a new composition, delving into the realization that our own questions, flaws, and enigmatic uncertainties endlessly circle back to us, leaving an eternal imprint upon our hearts.

“We invite you to tread alongside us through the bleakness of our everlasting woods,” they conclude, “to find solace and respite, resting your weary heads beneath the majestic crowns of bronze that adorn these trees.”

Also hear the previously revealed title track “Unter bronzenen Kronen” HERE, also at AOP Records‘ official YouTube channel. Cover artwork, courtesy of Oliver König, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Waldgeflüster’s Unter bronzenen Kronen
1. Unter bronzenen Kronen [8:07]
2. The Pit [7:18]
3. Herbst befiel das Land 2023 [7:48]
4. Black Flies [4:57]

MORE INFO:
www.waldgefluester.com
www.facebook.com/BlackMetalWaldgefluester

www.aoprecords.de

Swedish black metal elite Mephorash release new video

Today, Swedish black metal elite Mephorash premiere the new video “I Am”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fifth album, Krystl-AH, set for international release on November 10th via Shadow Records (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) on CD and cassette tape formats; the double-LP vinyl version will be released on November 17th. See & hear Mephorash‘s “I Am” video in its entirety exclusively HERE:

A statement from the band reads: “The video is a very proud monument of ours, as it is completely envisioned, directed, filmed, and edited by our own hands, except for a few visual effects made by Lokavision. It has always been our goal to be in total control of the creative process, and making this music video completely ourselves is a big stepping stone towards that. We truly hope all of our fans will enjoy this premiere as much as we did creating both the song and the video. Shem Ha Mephorash!” Single artwork, courtesy of José Gabriel Alegria Sabogal, is as follows:

“Out of the depths and from the makings of Shem Ha Mephorash, we are now proud to present to you all the birth of a new era of Mephorash in the form of our upcoming new album, Krystl-AH. This will be a wholly new chapter within the creative process of ours, involving a new way for us to look upon the way we write our lyrics and compose our music…”

Indeed, such is the way of Sweden’s Mephorash. With a wealth of underground experience and an ever-restless but always-tactical manner of making music, their ascent up the ranks of international black metal has been decisive and well-earned. Although their catalog since their formation in 2010 has always been of sterling quality, it was 2019’s aforementioned Shem Ha Mephorash – a literally MASSIVE album at 74 minutes, released to widespread acclaim by Shadow Records – where Mephorash dramatically claimed their throne. And upon evidence of the forthcoming Krystl-AH, they’re not likely to relinquish that throne any time soon.

“We have made the decision to try and step away from the commonalities of traditional ‘black metal,’ and have instead sought to find inspiration from the depths within ourselves, making this a work of deep and personal significance for us,” the band continue. “It will dive ferociously into a myriad of topics, ranging from the mysteries of the ‘Krystl-AH,’ the gnosis of light, and divine narcissism to tantric sexual magic, and also dive deep into the traumatic and yet blissful events that created the project now known as Mephorash.”

That feeling of both ceremony and celebration is immediately felt upon pressing “play” to Krystl-AH. Another literally massive album, the 68-minute Krystl-AH moves with an ominous beauty – breathtaking, brilliant, and yet suggesting vast, frightening mysteries beyond its wide-ranging scope. A suitably vast army of damned angels serve as the backing choir to these seven incredibly epic compositions; soul-stirring leads rise and fall with grace, while sonic spaces open up and deftly subtle layers of strings, synths, and acoustic guitars flesh out this almost sensual experience – nothing ever in a rush to find its destination, only ever the feeling of being IN THE MOMENT, patient and complete. This soundfield alone serves a distinct backdrop separating Mephorash from conventional “black metal,” far closer to a classical score but no doubt infused with the central energies of true religious black metal. It’s not incorrect to suggest that one could get lost in any one of these epics – in fact, two top 10 minutes each – but it’s a journey that infinitely rewards the intrepid and inquisitive, those who wish to surpass their personal Rubicon to receive illumination…and damnation. 


“We have been diligently carving out and perfected this project for the last four years,” they conclude, “through anger, love, hate, tears, sweat, pandemics, and pure chaos in all its shapes and forms to make this a reality. So now we are so incredibly proud to finally be able to present to all of you who have been waiting ever so patiently…Krystl-AH. Shem Ha Mephorash!”

Also hear the previously revealed title track “Krystl-Ah” HERE at Regain Records‘ Bandcamp, where the album can be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Mephorash’s Krystl-AH
1. Krystl-Ah [7:38]
2. Gnosis [10:19]
3. Catoptrophilia [6:45]
4. Soma Yoni [8:44]
5. Chysallís [7:43]
6. I Am [9:17]
7. Mephoriam [16:41]

MORE INFO:
www.mephorash.com 

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

ONE OF NINE set release date for WOLVES OF HADES debut, reveal first track

Today, Wolves of Hades announces October 27th as the international release date for One of Nine‘s striking debut album, Eternal Sorcery, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
  Listen.
Here is One of Nine 
An image Shrouded in Unlight. A sound Enchanted by the Mother of Strangling Doom. 
One of Nine
Unfaced, and unlit. They present here their efforts, a collection of tales. An offering to the perilous realm and the Great Tyrant of Utumno!    
Eternal Sorcery!
Eternal Sorcery!
Eternal Sorcery!    

Eight pummeling hymns of dark majesty, with every note echoing the burden of piety to the Black Foe of the World.

No remorse will be found in the wailing vocals, coupled with intricate guitar work – blazing with catchy-yet-somber melodic leads and acoustic lines. 

And no rest will be felt in the rhythmic, percussive assault – a symbiotic swirling of song and sorcery.    

Come and see! As they journey through sonorous blood and fire, as they carry the glorious spark of olden days into unknown eons, with an iron will and a fervor that shines beyond the pathetic perimeters of time and space, into a vortex of Black Medieval Sorrow!   

Eternal Sorcery will drag the pitiable listener from the windless Sundering Sea to the Forgotten South of the World, beyond the borders of the sun-lit lands, to that final realm, where the dark nets of enshrouding gloom drape eternal.


They are One of Nine!
This is Eternal Sorcery!
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Mother of Shadows’ HERE:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for One of Nine’s Eternal Sorcery

1. Lurkers of the Half-Light
2. The Silence of Heaven
3. Dark Magic River
4. Mother of Shadows
5. Moonlit Sacrifice
6. God Chain
7. Wrathful Rebirth
8. A Hunter Rides The Night

More info click here

NETHERDOM set release date for AMOR FATI debut

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces October 31st as the international release date for Netherdom‘s striking debut album, Forsaking, Forseeking, on vinyl LP format.

A bolt-from-the-blue debut from a veteran of the black metal underground, Netherdom is an entirely solo endeavor, but the sound across Forsaking, Forseeking is quite vast. Featuring a unique style of production – flat yet full, raw yet refined – Netherdom whip forth a spacious, spectral style of black metal that equally nods to the ancients and the palatable end of modernity. From touchstones like Ulver’s Bergtatt to Paysage d’Hiver’s Winterkälte to even Black Cilice’s Banished From Time and Voidsphere’s To Sense, To Perceive, the shadowy entity nevertheless explores his own visions, firmly within the pantheon of black metal but by no means exclusively tethered to it. The 41-minute album itself features three epic tracks, with the second side taken up by the monolithic, nearly-24-minute “To Forsake Remnants of an Existence Bereft of Meaning” – indeed, altogether the ideal length for maximum immersion in this alternately astral/wintry realm. To stand before each of these tracks is stultifying; to contemplate that each could reverberate infinitely within the darkest recesses of the soul – be it an “astral realm,” a “wintry realm,” or even some combination of the two – that riffs could be elongated and looped infinitely, mesmerizing into a vortex of splendorous impossibility, makes Forsaking, Forseeking all the more truly titled. Netherdom is the end, and ​the beginning. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Netherdom’s Forsaking, Forseeking
1. Lured By All That Is Forsaken [9:27]
2. In The Depths Of The Fog [7:54]
3. To Forsake Remnants Of An Existence Bereft of Meaning [23:33]

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

DEMONCY reveal first track from upcoming HELLS HEADBANGERS mini-album – features members of NIGHTBRINGER, SARGEIST, CEREBRAL ROT, ADAESTUO+++

Today, legendary black metallers Demoncy reveal the brand-new track “Diabolica Blasphemiae.” The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s forthcoming new mini-album, Diabolica Blasphemiae, which should see release later this year through Hells Headbangers. Hear Demoncy‘s title track “Diabolica Blasphemiae” in its entirety here:

For those who truly know black metal, Demoncy require no introduction: ever restless and always surprising, their name is legendary for stirring an infinitely deep cauldron of black magick that’s completely their own. One of the earliest black metal bands on American soil, Demoncy have gone through myriad lineups over the past 30-plus years, but they’ve always been guided by the vision of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Ixithra. In their wake, they’ve left landmark recordings like Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost and Joined in Darkness, which were both originally recorded in the mid ’90s despite their eventual release year of 1999. Even latter-day records like 2015’s Empire of the Fallen Angel (Eternal Black Dominion), which saw Ixithra entirely revamp the band’s 2003 album in a manner most miasmic, prove the potency of Demoncy no matter when or how recordings crop up.

And so it goes with Diabolica Blasphemiae, Demoncy‘s first new recording in nearly a decade. With Ixithra currently handling vocals and bass, joining him here are the incredibly prolific VJS (Nightbringer, Sargeist, Adaestuo) on guitar and Vorthrus (Cerebral Rot, Crurifragium) on drums. Serpentine in its flow and mesmerizing in its effect, Demoncy‘s latest mini-album is a vile, virile display of the band’s eternal aesthetic, sounding very much like it could’ve come out during the mid ’90s yet retaining a freshness of approach that defies deja vu. Gutted in its low-end throb whilst exhibiting an ethereal aspect, Diabolica Blasphemiae explores above as it is below, sending forth sine waves of obsidian energy both punishing and pleasurable: primeval black metal magick harnessed with a true auteur’s touch. Same as it ever was, then, but still so surprising after all these years – there is only one Demoncy.

Release date, cover, tracklisting, and preorder info to be announced shortly. For more info, consult the links below.

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/pages/Demoncy/154576947948989

www.hellsheadbangers.com

ABBATH announce headliner European tour January 2024

Norwegian metal titans ABBATH are announcing the Dread Reaver Europe 2024 tour! This massive journey will kick off strong with a festival Meh suff! in Swiss on the 6th of January 2024, and will continue its path down 14 different countries, hitting 31 different stages and will end at Nordic Metal Cruise in Finland on the 10th of February, 2024. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below.

Special guests on the grandiose tour will be TOXIC HOLOCAUST and HELLRIPPER for all the shows!

ABBATH headline:
01/06/2024 CH   Hüttikon        Meh Suff! Winter-Festival
01/07/2024 IT    Milan             Slaughter Club
01/09/2024 ES   Barcelona       Sala Salamandra       
01/10/2024 ES   Madrid           Mon Live
01/11/2024 ES   Murcia           Garaje Beat Club
01/12/2024 ES   Sevilla           Fanatic
1/13/2024   PT   Lisbon           RCA Club
1/14/2024   PT   Porto             Hard Club
1/16/2024   ES   Bilbao           Santana 27
1/17/2024   FR   Montpellier     Victoire 2
1/18/2024   FR   Lyon             La Rayonne
1/19/2024   FR   Paris             Trabendo
1/20/2024   DE   Heidelberg     Halle02
1/21/2024   NL   Uden             De Pul
1/23/2024   DE   Dortmund     Junkyard
1/24/2024   BE   Sint-Niklaas   De Casino
1/25/2024   NL   Utrecht         TivoliVredenburg
1/26/2024   NL   Drachten       Iduna
1/27/2024   DE   Hamburg       Kultur Palast
1/28/2024   DE   Berlin            Astra
1/30/2024   PL    Gdansk         Drizzly Grizzly
1/31/2024   PL    Warsaw        Proxima
02/01/2024  PL   Krakow         Kamienna 12
02/02/2024  DE  Leipzig          Hellraiser
02/03/2024  CZ  Prague          Palac Akropolis
02/04/2024  HU  Budapest      Barba Negra
02/05/2024  AT  Vienna           Szene
02/06/2024  DE  Munich          Backstage Halle
02/08/2024  DK  Copenhagen  Pumpehuset
02/09/2024  SE  Gothenburg   Trädgårn
02/10/2024  FI    Metal Cruise  Nordic Metal Cruise

ABBATH will be playing in support of their album ‘Dread Reaver’ which was released on March 25, 2022 and can be listened to in full HERE. The album is still available in the Season of Mist shop HERE. The cover artwork, which was created by Bjørn Stian Bjoarvik and Francisco Munoz, and further album details can be found below.

Tracklist: 
1. Acid Haze (04:51)
2. Scarred Core (03:29)
3. Dream Cull (04:15) WATCH HERE
4. Myrmidon (04:33)
5. The Deep Unbound (04:05)
6. Septentrion (04:30)
7. Trapped Under Ice (03:59)
8. The Book of Breath (04:35) WATCH HERE
9. Dread Reaver (04:43) WATCH HERE
10. Make my day (04:16) 

The ravens gaze ominously from above. The seas roar in anticipation. The mountains creak yet again. ABBATH’s remarkable new album, Dread Reaver, is upon us all. Two years in the making, ABBATH’s third full-length is the culmination of everything before it. A fusion of debut Abbath (2016) and follow-up Outstrider (2019), the aptly titled Dread Reaver extends its fantastical fangs outward and drives its cloven hooves onward. Indeed, there’s nothing like an ABBATH record. This is the darkest metal for epic journeys and ancient battles. Comprised of eight riveting tracks and a red-hot cover of METALLICA’s “Trapped Under Ice,” Dread Reaver shows ABBATH triumphing over all trials and tribulations, riding hard into merciless glory as the one and only “Lemmy of black metal.”

ABBATH was formed by Olve Eikemo (aka Abbath) in Bergen, Norway, in 2015. After splitting with vaunted extreme metallers IMMORTAL, the beguiling frontman and storied songwriter only had one path: ABBATH. Years before, he had proven that venturing out of the IMMORTAL constellation was not only plausible but doable with the I project, a short-lived, one-album (Between Two Worlds) band featuring notable musicians from IMMORTAL, ENSLAVED, and GORGOROTH. Indeed, once Eikemo was free of IMMORTAL’s ’s shackles, he was able to assemble a cadre of like-minded conspirators for his solo debut album, Abbath. So crucial was Abbath that the Norwegian Embassy in the UK ran a music/culture piece, while in Norway, the album was nominated for a Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy). Metal Hammer Germany even gonged Abbath with its Best Debut award. Follow-up album, Outstrider, was equally lauded. Billboard’s coverage sent shockwaves through the rock/metal scenes, while Kerrang! labelled it “dominating and creative,” awarding it 4Ks. Decibel also heaped praise on Outstrider, giving it the Best New Noise trophy. The new album Dread Reaver will yet again lionize ABBATH as leader of the frost-bitten pack.

Powered by Abbath’s creative musical imagination, Dread Reaver runs riotously out of the gate. The album’s edifice affords tracks like “Acid Haze,” “Scarred Core,” “The Deep Unbound,” and the album’s closing title track ample room to champion the extremes of black metal, heavy metal, and hard rock. While there are nods to NWOBHM greats, thrash metal’s luminaries, and black metal icons, Dread Reaver is unmistakably ABBATH. There is no other fingerprint. Paired with thought-provoking lyrics based on the historical figure of Othryades, ABBATH’s third album not only shouts exultant but reads like an ancient pyrrhic tale steeped in violence, sorrow, and grit. The idea of a Dread Reaver—a fearless duelist—can also be read as a metaphor for life’s actions and subsequent struggles. Be warned: Dread Reaver is ABBATH at his most menacing and accomplished.

Dread Reaver was produced by Endre Kirkesola, ABBATH, and Dag Erik Nygaard at Dub Studio in Kristiansand and Bergen Lydstudio, respectively. Kirkesola and Nygaard also engineered. Mixing was performed by ABBATH and Kirkesola, while the mastering was done by maestro Maor Appelbaum (FAITH NO MORE, ROB HALFORD) at Maor Appelbaum Mastering in Los Angeles. The goal was to field a storming production that sat firmly at the crossroads of Abbath’s heroes KISS, MOTÖRHEAD, MANOWAR and BATHORY. From the anthemic thrust of opener “Acid Haze” and the epic pound of “Dream Cull” to the rampaging “The Book of Breath” and the wicked cover of METALLICA’s “Trapped Under Ice,” Dread Reaver sounds as massive as Norwegian mountain and as fiery as the depths of Hell. Truly, the recording line-up of Abbath (guitar, bass, vocals), Ukri Suvilehto (drums), Ole André Farstad (guitars), and Mia Wallace (bass) found their sonic muse.

If “Ace of Spades” catapulted MOTÖRHEAD to fame and notoriety, then Dread Reaver will find ABBATH atop the metal’s gigantic heap, the spoils of icy blood, scorching sweat, and steely tears at his feet. As “Myrmidon” states, “Die with a smile, stare glassy-eyed up / At boiling skies! / Valkyries descend to gore-caked fen / Fallen warriors arise!” Lightning strikes thrice with ABBATH’s incredible Dread Reaver!

Recording line-up: 
Abbath – Guitar, bass & vocals
Ukri Suvilehto – Drums
Ole André Farstad – Lead & acoustic guitars
Mia Wallace – Bass on Acid Haze, Scarred Core, The Deep Unbound & Dread Reaver

Recording studio: Recorded in Dub Studio / Additional recordings: Bergen Lydstudio

Producer / sound engineer: Endre Kirkesola / Dag Erik Nygaard
Mixing studio and engineer: Abbath and Endre Kirkesola

Mastering studio / engineer: Maor Appelbaum at Maor Appelbaum Mastering – California – U.S.A

Lyrics: Simon Dancaster

Biography: Chris Dick 
Cover art: Bjørn Stian Bjoarvik / Photos by Francisco Munoz

Links:
www.facebook.com/abbathband
www.abbath.net
www.instagram.com/abbath_official

Shop: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/AbbathDreadReaver

Available formats: Digital, CD digipak, CD digibox, vinyl black and coloured

AEGRUS reveal first track from new OSMOSE album

Today, Finnish black metal elite Aegrus reveal the new track “Invoking the Abysmal Night.” The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fourth album, Invoking the Abysmal Night, set for international release on October 27th via Osmose Productions. Hear Aegrus’ title track “Invoking the Abysmal Night” in its entirety here:

Invoking the Abysmal Night, the fourth full-length of Aegrus, is finally here – and it’s going to be one of the highlights of 2023. The album contains seven infernal tracks of black metal supremacy in the name of Satan, Lucifer, and Death.

Says guitarist/bassist Lux Tenebris: “There is more variation than ever before on the album, and at the same time, it sounds 110% Aegrus, so I can guarantee that you will not be disappointed. I’m highly satisfied with the outcome, starting from the cover art and ending with the very last note of the album.”

The beautiful cover artwork is again made by the highly talented Helgorth from Babalon Graphics.

Preorder info can be found HERE. Presave link can be found HERE. Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Aegrus’ Invoking the Abysmal Night

1. Invoking the Abysmal Night [5:12]
2. Followers of the False Prophets [5:28]
3. Through Devil’s Breath [3:45]
4. Temple of Ardent Worship [5:39]
5. Nocturnal Rites of Faust [7:07]
6. Those Who Hide from Light [5:50]
7. Where the Forest Emanates Death [7:57]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/aegrusofficial

www.osmoseproductions.com

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

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces November 3rd as the international release date for Tetragrammacide‘s highly anticipated second album, Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

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!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Nuit Arches Over The Neither-Neither City Of Cubes; Hadit Meditates While Hanging Upside Down Inside A Tesseract-Ka’aba”  here:

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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MAUVET MAUVE set release date for HELTER SKELTER debut album – features mainman of WULKANAZ, TOMHET, DUGHPHA+++

Today, Helter Skelter Productions (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) announces November 17th as the international release date for Mauvet Mauve‘s highly anticipated debut album, self-titled Mauvet Mauve, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Mauvet Mauve is yet another creative guise of prolific madman Wagner Ödegård, renown among freaks and underground dwellers for Wulkanaz and his selfsame solo work as well as Tomhet, Dughpa, and Felon Wind among others. Always restless and always challenging perceptions, Wagner turns his dark vision toward 8-bit music with Mauvet Mauve – and shockingly, reinterprets his Wulkanaz and solo works within this nostalgic style. Authentic as it comes, Mauvet Mauve bleeps, bloops, and shuffles with invigorating forward momentum, providing the perfect soundtrack for a gaming session circa 1989. Amazing on paper and even more amazing in execution, Wagner-as-Mauvet Mauve manages to expose the perversely sprightly underbelly of his otherwise-pitch-black aesthetic, making Mauvet Mauve-the-album a mandatory listen for both maniacs of his myriad works as well as those faithful to the chiptune renaissance.

In the meantime, stream Mauvet Mauve in its entirety here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Mauvet Mauve’s Mauvet Mauve

1. Rex Nebulae
2. Aught to Reigne
3. Amber Mastery
4. Owlwind
5. Hevedeche
6. To Extinguish and Warp
7. Lightning Swords
8. Rod in Obscurity
9. Departed
10. Motherwort
11. Werewolf
12. Daring Throes

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BELIAL’S THRONE stream SPREAD EVIL debut

Today, second-wave black metallers Belial’s Throne stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls. Set for international release on September 1st via Spread Evil Productions, hear Belial’s Throne‘s Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls in its entirety here:

Belial’s Throne is an international project based primarily in Ireland. It was formed in May 2016 by Bartosz Dziukiewicz AKA King of Shadows. Quickly the project was powered by Rafał Garbaciak, AKA Ragaart, who played bass, handled recordings, fully composed the outro and designed cover art. Chris Grestas Ulverhead, AKA “C,” takes over on vocals, and with this lineup, Belial’s Throne released their debut four-track EP, Pavor Nocturnus, which was release in August 2020.

After about half a year, permanent drummer Boban, AKA “B,” joins the lineup, and the remixed and remastered version of Pavor Nocturnus with live drums is released. The EP appears as the One Year Anniversary Edition on CD through Diabolic Art and is also released on cassette tape through Rotten Records. Between 2021 and 2023, with changes in the lineup, Belial’s Throne began working on their first full-length recording. Due to health issues and personal disturbances, vocalist Chris is replaced by Szymon Skiba, AKA Golghotha.

At long last, that debut album is here, bearing the title Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls. Soundly eclipsing its no-less-considerable predecessor, this first Belial’s Throne album absolutely burns with the spirit of the ’90s – particularly the latter half of that decade, where the melodic BM idiom truly took flight and delivered many a classic. Spirited yet never belabored, Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls features sympatico songwriting that surges and swooshes and even stomps with an authentically vintage feel. Atmosphere, aggression, and of course melodic (RIPPING) riffing work in evil harmony here, chilling the soul with their ever-insistent and -uncoiling attack but rendered in rich, analog tones courtesy of an astute mix & master by Shauny Cads at Last Light Records Studio.

Those who still heed the noble call of ’90s Necrophobic, Sacramentum, Naglfar, or even the super-cult likes of Midvinter, Prophanity, and Cardinal Sin are hereby commanded to take hold of the dragon wings of Belial’s Throne‘s Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls!

Also hear the previously revealed “Void” HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Belial’s Throne’s Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls
1. Forgotten Land Of The Lost Souls
2. Void
3. Ascension Ritual
4. Pit Of Dead Realm
5. Halls Of Silent Kingdom
6. Rejoin At Dusk
7. Last Time We Meet
8. Outro

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