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BUTCHER sign with OSMOSE PRODUCTIONS, prepare label debut

Osmose Productions is very proud to announce the signature of the infernal blackened speed metal act Bütcher from Belgium!

A statement from the band reads: “Pure, unpolished, fast, heavy, epic, blackened speed metal – Bütcher is stoked beyond belief to announce the signing of the band to Osmose Productions! A label we hold in the highest regard because of its vision and its integrity, two terms that we do not take lightly! We will work like maniacs to surpass our debut album, Bestial Fükkin’ Warmachine, and Osmose Productions will give us the chance to do just that. Join the Bütcher speed metal legion and hopefully see you guys on the road for a live metal meltdown!

official BÜTCHER biography
A burnt off’ring to the godz of speed metal – that is what Bütcher is all about. Well, we call it speed metal because it’s one of the few genres within the realm of metal might that hasn’t been contaminated by the need to sound polished as pop, the idea of fitting in on every bill, by being progressive or other overrated contemporary conceptions. As Bütcher, we present you a furious frenzy of speed, black & heavy metal – all brewed in a cauldron of analog & vintage recording material. An acquired taste in these modern times, but surely to be savored by metal maniacs that have an affection for Agent Steel, Celtic Frost, Nifelheim, Venom, Exciter, Darkthrone, Manowar, Deströyer 666, Slayer, and the likes.

Let us not bore you too much with past details. Suffice to say that the reincarnation of the band started in 2014 after a long hiatus. We existed between 2002-2007 with a dedicated local following and crazy live shows to boot, yet nothing but two forgettable demo recordings to show for it. We simply disbanded, but every time we kept meeting each other, the metal hammer of old kept striking the anvil.

Louder, harder, faster – and the backbone (R Hellshrieker, JA Pulsatör, PB Tormentor) gets back together with new shredmaster KK Ripper taking the lead, backed up by DB Deströyer. We really embraced our vision, stopped being content with just being local heroes, and we want to push through. Bring unadulterated metal pleasures to anyone that feels to crash, bang & wallop. The metal community is both united and fragmented, and while we have our convictions, we’ll let others be the judge of what’s what – but we know, feel, and see at live performances that Bütcher’s music and dedication to bringing the most energetic live show is sparking a fire in the audience. A fire that, more often than not, engulfs in a consuming blaze of metal mania.

Our first full-length album, Bestial Fükkin’ Warmachine, is aptly named when you consider the lack of edits, digital sound compression, or most modern recording techniques. Take a look at our stage wear, inspired on Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Sarcofago, Sodom, Nifelheim, Living Death, Slayer… But above all, simply absorb the metal assault that we edged into black wax, burned into silvered jeweled discs as well as coded into streamable format. Yet, Bütcher is only getting started. By now being in the stable of worldwide force Osmose, we are eagerly writing material for our next album, and we keep trampling like a black steed straight from in our live performances… Onwards into battle, like Sentinels of Death!

BÜTCHER lineup:
R Hellshrieker – screams, invocations & astral planes (vocals)
KK Ripper – morbid visions of 6-string elektrik kraft (lead guitar)
JA Pulsatör – bulldozing bass mayhem (bass)
PB Tormentor – apocalyptic drum raids (drums)
DB Deströyer – hellstorm of speed and vengeance (rhythm guitar)

All Pigs Must Die share the title track from Hostage Animal

All Pigs Must Die share the title track from their upcoming album Hostage Animal (Southern Lord) as the release date nears on the 27th October. Hostage Animal is a 10-song album that distills aggressive music to its purest tenets. The band, now a 5-piece with the addition of Brian Izzi (Trap Them) on guitar, is comprised of some of the most well-seasoned musicians on the eastern seaboard — Kevin Baker (The Hope Conspiracy), Ben Koller (Converge), Matt Woods, and Adam Wentworth (both of Bloodhorse). Hostage Animal is their most dynamic collection of work thus far; concise, intense, aggressive and carrying a bleak world view.

APMD unleashed their first full length in 2011 with God Is War, and the 30-minute rip was a nod to primeval disdain and anger. Exploring facets of human conflict one track at a time, God Is War introduced the world to a whole new spectrum of rage. In 2013, APMD upped the ante with Nothing Violates This Nature. Honing their craft with more speed and filth, APMD pushed their sound closer to the edge of the cliff. Now, in 2017, the band is gearing up for the release of Hostage Animal which, like its predecessors, was recorded at Kurt Ballou’s GodCity Studio. But that is where the similarities end; Hostage Animal ushers in 10 new songs that pulverise, gnash, and whirl with the band’s most punishing delivery yet.

Hostage Animal showcases that All Pigs Must Die are far more than the sum of their parts, and their fusion of crust punk, hardcore and metal is more ferocious than ever before.
Live dates:
October 19 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus
October 20 Boston, MA @ Great Scott
October 21 Providence, RI @ AS220

ALL PIGS MUST DIE IS:
Kevin Baker (vocals)
Brian Izzi (guitar)
Ben Koller (drums)
Adam Wentworth (guitar)
Matt Woods (bass)

Hostage Animal, Track Listing:
1. Hostage Animal
2. A Caustic Vision
3. Meditation of Violence
4. Slave Morality
5. End Without End
6. Blood Wet Teeth
7. Moral Purge
8. Cruelty Incarnate
9. The Whip
10. Heathen Reign

further info:
apmd.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/apmdcult
http://www.facebook.com/apmdband
http://www.twitter.com/allpigsmustdie

French Atmospheric Black Metal Band Cepheide release their new album Saudade

Oh man I just love these guys..last week French Atmospheric Black Metal band Cepheide released their new album Saudade. I don’t know about you guys but I am old and jaded and have “heard it all before” but someone these guys always continue to push the boundaries of Atmospheric Black metal, with their music.

Here is the link to the bands bandcamp – listen to it and at the very least go to their facebook and give them a like – at the best buy the damn album from them even if it is just the digital download. If anyone deserves your hard earned money its these guys.

album cover and tracklisting below:

1.I.Une Nuit qui te Mange 09:56
2.II.Madone 06:31
3.III.La Lutte et l’Harmonie 07:47
4.IV.Le Cinquième Soleil 07:18
5.V.Auréole 08:54

more info:
https://www.facebook.com/cepheide

Here is an interview I did with the band December last year : click here

BEASTIALITY set release date for INVICTUS debut, reveal first track

Invictus Productions sets December 15th as the international release date for Beastiality’s highly anticipated debut, Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions.

Although their moniker might suggest bestial metal in the mold of Beherit and other elder gods, Beastiality instead brim with the sulfurous sensation of classic blackthrashing METAL. Indeed, they rise from the sewers of Stockholm and become the very bastard sons of plutonium anthropology, whiplashing a filth and fury that can only be harnessed through sheer iron will. Not to mention copious amounts of alcohol, and else… For verily, Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions is aptly fucking titled: Beastiality explode with unremitting violence and force as well as pure Piledriving perversity, ancient servants of darkness to the very, vomitous end.

Beastiality was formed in Göteborg, Sweden in 2011 by Heinrich and E.von (guitar and bass, respectively) with the aim to shake the dead corpse of extreme metal and provide a dignified final chapter to the already dead scene in Sweden. In 2012, they recorded their debut demo, Ancient Bell Chimes, and relocated to Stockholm, where other members joined the band: Axxxelerator on drums, Funeral Führer on guitar, and M. Molester on vocals.

The Ancient Bell Chimes demo was released in the spring of 2013. Some new songs – “Shadowside Path,” “Sadistic Fornication,” and “Apocalyptic Storm” – were recorded later that summer. “Apocalyptic Storm” was included on the compilation Evil Spells vol. 1, released by Electric Assault Records and Stygian Black Hand in 2014. The same year, the band was unveiled for a couple of public manifestations onstage and also recorded their upcoming debut album, Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions.

Says the band, “After some curses and struggles which struck upon us during the recording of the album, we are now ready to reap the foundation of the earth!”

Too fucking right. Comprising newly recorded versions of “Apocalyptic Storm,” “Stanken av uråldrig död,” and “Shadowside Path,” five more brand-new tracks buttress the record to poison the mind with utterly RIPPING classic ’80s black/speed metal mutated in decaying city ruins. Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions will be the lethal forcefuck on mankind and stand out from other contributions of the hipster scene of today! DRA ÅT HELVETE!!

In the meantime, hear the new, album version of “Apocalyptic Storm”

Please note that the band’s logo shall be embossed on the cover art.
That cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Beastiality’s Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions
1. The Mist of Mayhem
2. Witchblood
3. Sadistic Fornication
4. Riders of Imminent Death
5. Apocalyptic Storm
6. Hill of Crucifixion
7. Stanken av Uråldrig Död
8. Shadowside Path

BEASTIALITY lineup 2017:
E.von – blitzkrieg bass
Heinrich – holocaust guitars
E.Jaculator – genocide guitar
Axxxelerator – extermination drums

MORE INFO:
www.beastiality.bandcamp.com

Loincloth shares “Bestial Infernal” video; Final LP Psalm Of The Morbid

LOINCLOTH SHARES “BESTIAL INFERNAL” VIDEO;
FINAL LP PSALM OF THE MORBID WHORE OUT NOW THROUGH SOUTHERN LORD

Virginia/North Carolina-based instrumental metal ministers Loincloth have shared an official video for “Bestial Infernal” the track hailing from their final LP Psalm Of The Morbid Whore, which was issued last week through Southern Lord.

PSALM OF THE MORBID WHORE IS STREAMING IN ITS ENTIRETY

Packing nine new instrumental passages of white-knuckled twists, and by-the-throat percussion, into a half-hour on Psalm Of The Morbid Whore. As with their 2012-released Southern Lord debut LP, Iron Balls Of Steel, Loincloth returned to Pershing Hill Sound in Raleigh, North Carolina to record with Greg Elkins. Mastering by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Corrosion Of Conformity, Sunn O))), Obituary) at Audiosiege.

Loincloth is a culmination of years of worshiping at the altar of the riff and Psalm Of The Morbid Whore arrives with the promise of absolute pummel! Guitarist Tannon Penland and drummer Steve Shelton (Confessor) return with their twisted brand of instrumental metal on the forthcoming LP, this time around also enlisting the infernal hands of Tomas Phillips on bass, who collaborated with Penland in experimental outfit Gauchiste for their self-titled 2012’s release through Little Black Cloud Records. Penland, Shelton, and Phillips were joined by guitarist Craig Hilton who contributed towards the composition and on tour with Sunn O))) and more.

Psalm Of The Morbid Whore is out now through Southern Lord; find the vinyl and merch bundles via the Southern Lord webshop and Bandcamp .

Join Loincloth in their final hour of worship…

“the Southern Lord-backed instrumental quartet who specializes in impenetrably dense acrobatics marked by sinew, economy, and hypercomplex time signatures that consistently avoid baroque frills and cartoonish machismo.” – NOISEY

“The track is unusual for Loincloth because not only is it of epic length (just short of eight minutes on an album where the bulk of tracks never get past three), but it also finds the band experimenting with atmospheric vistas along with their pneumatic tightness.” – ALTERNATIVE PRESS

“Loincloth possess a sound all their own…The band’s sound on this record is a lot less frantic and opts for a more suffocating, rhythmically-jarring approach that locks listeners into a corner and strategically batters them with each and every note. It’s not quite as spastic, but it’s a great deal heavier.” – SVBTERRANEAN

“Confessor was great because it sounded like doom metal falling down a flight of stairs, but performed in a calculated manner. Loincloth takes that and ups the speed.”
– INVISBLE ORANGES

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Loincloth/266521466700945

Ex-Mutiilation mainman MEYHNACH reveals first track off forthcoming OSMOSE solo debut

Today, former Mutiilation founder Meyhnach reveals the new track “In My Nightmares Circus.” The track hails from his highly anticipated solo debut, Non Omnis Moriar, set for international release on November 24th via Osmose Productions. Hear Meyhnach’s “In My Nightmares Circus” in its entirety below.

Meyhnach is the selfsame new project of the former leader and frontman of France’s legendary Mutiilation, and his first creation under his own name is entitled Non Omnis Moriar. After years of practicing raw black metal with his one-man project Mutiilation, later with the gang of Hell Militia, and after a long absence from the scene, Meyhnach decided to explore some new musical horizons.

One can recognize Meyhnach’s specific identity and primal musical influences but freed from the chains of black metal clichés. His new album is more experimental and will send you on a trip into his own suffocating world, so keep in mind that it’s not Mutiilation’s seventh album – far from that…

Hear for yourself with the first track to be revealed, “In My Nightmares Circus,”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Meyhnach’s Non Omnis Moriar
1. Alcohonaut Diary
2. Tarred Orchid
3. Psy Low
4. In My Nightmares Circus
5. The Gutters Underneath
6. Cenobites
7. On the Eternal Sea
8. Nocturnal Caravan
9. Moonshine Beam
10. Non Omnis Moriar

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/meyhnach

MIDNIGHT set release date for new HELLS HEADBANGERS album

Hells Headbangers sets December 15th as the international release date for Midnight’s highly anticipated third album, Sweet Death and Ecstasy. The album will be released on 2CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

By now, Midnight need no introduction. Guided by the twisted muse of mainman Athenar since 2003, this Cleveland cult have been slaying the metal/punk underground with their own, highly addictive brand of lust, filth, and sleaze, subsequently building up a sizable catalog and garnering a rabid fanbase. While there’s certainly fanatics for the band’s early EP work, it was Midnight’s debut album, Satanic Royalty – released to international fanfare in 2011 by Hells Headbangers – that entered the band’s name into the annals of “classic.” Never one to rush things (nor drop an EP along the way), Midnight continued their underground dominance with No Mercy for Mayhem in 2014, further perfecting their signature sound. Now, with their massively anticipated third album, Sweet Death and Ecstasy, Athenar and co. return with their darkest and most daring effort yet.

Granted, upon the first detonating chords of opener “Crushed by Demons,” it would be fair to assume that Sweet Death and Ecstasy is simply classic Midnight…until the tracktime nearly doubles what a characteristic track of theirs would be. This is no mere bloat, though: bookended by two of the band’s longest songs to date, Sweet Death and Ecstasy lays bare a more anguished ‘n’ aggravated Midnight, forever in thrall to the usual subjects (LUST, FILTH, SLEAZE) but speaking a slightly different, altogether-more-poisonous tongue. It both charges harder than ever – even harder than the band’s early EP work, arguably – and also puts on the brakes to bang ‘n’ clang in a manner most foul. Indeed, Midnight truly deliver Sweet Death and Ecstasy in a swift 32 minutes, and it’s absolutely addicting. What’s more, the CD version will feature a bonus disc that’s a 12-song live rehearsal recorded in 2015 by Commandor Vanik. There’s no dawn for Midnight…ever!

In the meantime, hear the new track “Penetratal Ecstasy”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Midnight’s Sweet Death and Ecstasy
1. Crushed by Demons
2. Penetratal Ecstasy
3. Here Comes Sweet Death
4. Melting Brain
5. Rabid!
6. Bitch Mongrel
7. Poison Trash
8. Before My Time in Hell

Additionally, Midnight will be playing a FREE pre-release show in Cleveland, Ohio at the Agora. Joining them will be labelmates Shitfucker and Embalmer. Event info can be found HERE, and poster for the event is thus:

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/Midnight-87909491643

Dreadnought deathcult Antiversum premiere the new track “Cosmos Comedenti”

Today, dreadnought deathcult Antiversum premiere the new track “Cosmos Comedenti”. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated debut album of the same name, Cosmos Comedenti, now set for international release on October 20th via Invictus Productions.

Formed in 2010 by dedicated and experienced musicians in the Swiss metal scene, Antiversum is a nihilistic entity which creates a disturbing and storming amalgamation of black, doom, and death metal, manifesting the end of the universe and the dawn of nothingness in audial waves. They began that journey into the void in the spring of 2015, when Invictus released the band’s debut demo, Total Vacuum, to international acclaim. As a title, Total Vacuum indeed served as the foundation on which Antiversum would create their idiosyncratic vortex of violence.

However, as mighty as Total Vacuum was (and still is), now arrives Cosmos Comedenti to give a more vast ‘n’ virulent vision of that vortex. While the four tracks comprising Total Vacuum were towering in their own right, they are dwarfed by the four tracks that comprise the 38-minute Cosmos Comedenti. Here, Antiversum stretch the spaces in between the void further, lurking within with a menace that’s truly unsettling. As such, compositions seemingly surge and then disintegrate at will – and yet, the quintet wield an iron will toward every nuance, every texture, every single detail. It’s a swarming swell of sound, one that could be deemed “cavernous” or “sepulchral” and other buzzwords in popular underground parlance, but the differentiating factor to Antiversum in general and Cosmos Comedenti in particular is that there’s a clearly articulated, deathly focused finesse to everything that happens; nothing is left to chance nor masked in absurd levels of reverb. Further, this swell cannot be conveniently slotted as strictly “death metal” or “black metal” or “doom”: it simply IS.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Antiversum’s Cosmos Comedenti
1. Antinova
2. Creatio e Chao orta est
3. Cosmos Comedenti
4. Nihil ad Probandum

GOATPENIS set release date for new NUCLEAR WAR NOW! album

Nuclear War Now! Productions sets October 15th as the international release date for Goatpenis’ highly anticipated sixth album, Anesthetic Vapor, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Through its output over the past 25 years, Goatpenis has rightfully earned its reputation as one of the most venerable black metal bands in existence. Hailing from the Santa Catalina region of southern Brazil, and following a relatively brief stint as the death metal act Suppurated Fetus, this cult resumed its homeland’s legacy of bestiality first established by Sarcófago, the band’s ancestral compatriots from the Minas Gerais region to the north, with its earliest demos, htaeD no tabbaS, Blessed by War, and Jesus Coward, in the early 1990s. After a period of several years of lineup changes and intermittent hiatuses, Goatpenis redefined its sound and aesthetic with the release of its debut full-length, Inhumanization, in 2004, and the band subsequently released four more albums over the next decade and a half.

Beginning most obviously with the 1993 demo, Blessed by War, and continuing on through to its newest, sixth album, Anesthetic Vapor, hereby fittingly offered under the auspices of Nuclear War Now!, Goatpenis has championed the inevitable reality of human self-annihilation, thus earning its place among the few atop the mantle of black war metal. Whereas the term “war metal” is often used as a misnomer in reference to any generic bestial black metal band, Goatpenis is one among a scarce number of acts who actually embody the spirit of the label in all aspects of the music’s thematic content, songwriting, and execution. Anesthetic Vapor, the current culmination of the band’s violent trajectory, reaffirms the application of the war metal badge throughout. Rife with the militaristic cadences of tracks like “Carnivorous Ability” and the anthemic-yet-destructive progressions written into songs such as “Humanatomy Grinder Chatter Studies” and “Machiavelli Reputation – Chapter XVII,” the album both perfectly foretells and welcomes our own orchestrated demise. Of course, present throughout are the characteristically sadistic vocals of Sabbaoth, who is joined on guest vocals by Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds of the Blasphemy cult, one of the original Gods of War.

In this day and age, as global political tensions rise daily and exponentially, and threaten to result in the self-induced extinction of humankind, Anesthetic Vapor heeds the call for war and celebrates it. Heed the first call with the new track “Machiavelli Reputation – Chapter XVII”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Goatpenis’ Anesthetic Vapor
1. Intro – Tambours Géants
2. Anesthetic Vapors
3. Humanatomy Grinder Chatter Studies
4. Machiavelli Reputation – Chapter XVII
5. Excrementory Genocide
6. Carnivorous Ability
7. Krieg Und Frieden
8. Front Toward Enemy
9. Hallucinatory Sirens
10. Oppressive Ferric Noise
11. Pleasant Atrocities March

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/Goatpenis-official-753670368042478