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Satanize Stream Death Mass Execution EP

Portuguese war-horde Satanize stream the entirety of their forthcoming Death Mass Execution EP set for international release on August 7th via Larval Productions on 7″ vinyl format, stream Satanize’s Death Mass Execution in its entirety here.

A special EP comprising three exclusive tracks, Death Mass Execution is a quick ‘n’ concise attack capping more than a decade of Satanize terrorizing the underground. Hailing from the fertile Portuguese black metal scene, Satanize forego their scene’s usual withering rawness for a righteously barbaric assault on the senses. Pounding and pulsing, overwhelming its gibbering intensity, Death Mass Execution ably approximates its title: sonic slaughter abounds at every chaotic, careening turn. And yet, for however jagged their bestial blackgrind may be, Satanize wield their physicality with an almost martial strictness – and escape is never an option, only submission. Completed by a noise intro by Erratix (Rick Smith of Caveman Cult/Torche and David Smith of Shitstorm/Mehkago NT) and cover artwork by Sickness666, Death Mass Execution is sure to satisfy maniacs of Black Witchery, Conqueror, Morbosidad, and especially old Spear of Longinus and Impiety.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows

Tracklisting for Satanize’s Death Mass Execution
1. Purge Sacred Blood
2. Doom Conjuration
3. Death Mass Execution

BARBARIC HORDE stream new WAR ARTS tape

Today, barbaric horde Barbaric Horde stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second strike, Tainted Impurity. Set for international release on August 4th via War Art Productions on cassette tape, hear Barbaric Horde’s Tainted Impurity in its entirety here.

Early last year, this Portuguese duo assaulted the underground with its debut demo, Gasmask Perpetrators. Released by War Arts and aptly fucking titled, Gasmask Perpetrators incited rapturous obeisance among diehards who worship at the altar of Black Witchery, Profanatica, and Archgoat. And now, yet another aptly-fucking-titled tape arrives in the form of Tainted Impurity. Taking the warring bestiality of its predecessor one step further, here Barbaric Horde are both more unhinged and more martial, unleashing wave upon wave of unfettered filth with total arrogance, exercising mastery over their maelstrom whilst clawing deep within the caverns of chaos. It’s the sound of bestial and (yes) barbaric black metal torn asunder and rebuilt upon a throne of purity – or indeed, Tainted Impurity. Submit to Barbaric Horde’s war-mongering violence or forever cower in fear…

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Barbaric Horde’s Tainted Impurity
1. Bestial Offensor
2. Death the First Option
3. Impulse to Attack
4. SDD (Sulfuric Death Demons)
5. Morbid Rape

BLOOD HARVEST to release new tapes from COSMIC VOID RITUAL, DRAGHKAR, and ENSEPULCHER

On October 6th, Blood Harvest Records will release three brand-new cassette tapes: Cosmic Void Ritual’s The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System, Draghkar’s World Unraveled, and Ensepulcher’s No Sanctity in Death. More info follows below.

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The work of one Unknown Entity, Cosmic Void Ritual is pure ’90s death metal insanity, seeking the outer reaches of the genre by combining labyrinthine songwriting with levitational atmosphere; imagine Demlich crossed with Timeghoul, if you will. So far, Cosmic Void Ritual has recorded two two-track demos – one which was an extremely limited cassette, the other exclusively on Bandcamp – and now Blood Harvest combines them onto one tape entitled The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System. If the title alone didn’t say enough, then surely titles like “Entrail Star Formation (Planetary Extinction Phase III)” and “Mists of Intoxicating Conquest (The Demise of Entire Universes – Moon IV)” should!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Cosmic Void Ritual’s The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System
1. Leaking Alien Sacrelige (Surgical Entropy Pt I)
2. The Fall…Relic Death Spells (Lifeless Post-Surgical Being Pt II)
3. Entrail Star Formation (Planetary Extinction Phase III)
4. Mists of Intoxicating Conquest (The Demise of Entire Universes – Moon IV)

Draghkar’s debut recording, World Unraveled, was originally released earlier this year, but only digitally. Murky and miasmic, this California duo expertly craft death metal with a most doomed-out splendor. The way each of the three songs comprising World Unraveled surge and slither, wend and wind, is warped and always unsettling – and always surprising; literally, this sounds like its title. Completed by a grungy ‘n’ gangrenous recording, Draghkar make quite an opening statement!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Draghkar’s World Unraveled
1. Wings Over Malkier
2. Cowering In The Town Of Blinded Eyes
3. World Unraveled

Ensepulcher’s debut recording, No Sanctity in Death, was originally released earlier this year on cassette, but in an extremely limited edition. Ensepulcher may be a relatively new entity, but this California duo collectively have deep roots in their state’s death metal scene, with both members concurrently doing time in Fiend. With such a grounding, it’s no surprise that No Sanctity in Death does exactly what it says: filthy and galloping DEATH METAL done the ancient Swedish way, and with ghastly ‘n’ guttural vocals to boot.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ensepulcher’s No Sanctity in Death
1. Intro/No Sanctity in Death
2. Perishing in Morbidity
3. Death and Decay
4. Funeral Cessation

SACROSCUM set release date for their debut album, reveal first track

Unholy Prophecies sets October 28th as the international release date for Sacroscum’s highly anticipated debut album, Drugs & Death. Ever aptly titled, Drugs & Death is a scourge upon one’s sanity and sanctity, a black-hole blight that swallows you whole. Sacroscum aren’t fucking around.

Sacroscum was formed in 2015 by J. and SS. After playing music together for a long time and trying to create something unique, the duo mixed influences of Darkthrone, early Celtic Frost, Discharge, Skitsystem, Inquisition, and everything they thought would be fitting. Combined with utterly hateful lyrics and a healthy disdain for most of you, Sacroscum was born.

Thus armed, Sacroscum soon transcended musical means and become a philosophy for the two, which can be broken down thusly:

SACROSCUM can be music.
SACROSCUM can be a mirror.
SACROSCUM can be a judge.
SACROSCUM can be a knife.
SACROSCUM can be whatever you want.

But, ultimately, SACROSCUM is whatever the fuck we want it to be.

After some recording sessions in their rehearsal room, they created eight pieces of musick which were then released under the title of Stillbirth, courtesy of Unholy Prophecies in 2016, on cassette tape. Everything “do it yourself” from beginning to end, Stillbirth came from raw, primal aggression, setting down Sacroscum’s foundation for death, dedication, disgust, and what lies beyond all these. But now, with the imminent release of their debut album, Drugs & Death, Sacroscum are primed for their most bountiful ejaculation of filth and hatred – the fullness of their cumming, as it were. Recorded at the band’s rehearsal studio and mixed and mastered by Fabi Krapp at Ruins Rust Studios in southern Germany, Drugs & Death is yet another staunchly DIY affair, but this time, the band have dialed in their most destructive material to date, simply taking what once was, adding some unexpected elements and making it what once will always be: truly, DRUGS & DEATH.

Nine anti-anthems, 41 minutes of foulness, Sacroscum never stop the madness, and heartily encourage you to finally drink yourself to death but with a smile on your face. “Do it…”

Check out “Waste, Horror & Degradation,” the first dosage of Drugs & Death

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Sacroscum’s Drugs & Death
1. Initium
2. Drugs & Death
3. Autoerotic Thanatophilia
4. Gutter.Moloch.God
5. Vermin
6. Waste, Horror & Degradation
7. Skin Canvas
8. Downwards Spiral
9. DCLXVI
MORE INFO:
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ANTIVERSUM set release date for their debut album, reveal first track

Invictus Productions sets September 29th as the international release date for Antiversum’s highly anticipated debut album, Cosmos Comendti. 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 Comendti 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 Comendti. 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 Comendti 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.

Hark! For the cosmos-devouring debut album of Antiversum is at hand, and this anti-world is hereby titled Cosmos Comendti! Hear its first emanation from the void

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

MORE INFO:
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VENOMOUS MAXIMUS stream new SHADOW KINGDOM album

Today, dark heavy metal band VENOMOUS MAXIMUS stream the entirety of their highly anticipated new album, No Warning. Recorded at Portland, Oregon’s Falcon Studios and produced by Toxic Holocaust’s Joel Grind (Sunn 0))), Midnight), the LP is the follow-up to the band’s celebrated sophomore album, Firewalker, praised by Invisible Oranges as a record that “strikes the John Carpenter creepy-cool balance.” Set for international release today via Shadow Kingdom Records, hear VENOMOUS MAXIMUS’ No Warning in its entirety.

“‘Our new LP, No Warning points a magnifying glass directly towards this band’s biggest strengths,” comments VENOMOUS MAXIMUS vocalist / guitarist Gregg Higgins. “The guts of these songs were formed during many weeks on the road with our friends in High on Fire and Pallbearer are a razor-sharp representation of what this band does best. Prepare for riff after riff on top of riffs.”

The 2015 release of Firewalker thrust VENOMOUS MAXIMUS into the higher reaches of the international hard-and-heavy music scene. Upon its issue, the record was hailed as “music of contrasts and conflict” by the Houston Press, while MetalSucks proclaimed that the group rocked “like a super-metal David Bowie.” NPR named the band as one of its artists to discover at SXSW, and the quartet followed the release of the LP with the aforementioned U.S. tour alongside High on Fire and Pallbearer.

Now, with No Warning, VENOMOUS MAXIMUS delivers an arsenal of the attributes that have earned the band three-peat title honors as Houston’s Best Metal Band: heaving heaviness, uncanny catchiness, haunting melodicism, and red-blooded swagger. While some have looked to tag the band’s high-powered sound as “occult rock,” the album hosts a clutch of anthems that prove powerful songwriting wins out over stylistic classification every time. Two years in the making, No Warning is a fiery collection of songs that solidifies VENOMOUS MAXIMUS’ place as pacesetters of today’s heavy music landscape and the embodiment of American style doom rock

Tracklisting:
1.) I
2.) Spellbound
3.) Pray for Me
4.) Return of the Witch
5.) All of My Dreams
6.) II
7.) No Warning
8.) Blood for Blood
9.) Endless
10.) Sea of Sleep

In addition to Gregg Higgins, VENOMOUS MAXIMUS features Christian Larson (guitar),Trevi Biles (bass) and Bongo (drums).

Chile’s Oraculum set release date for new mini-album

Invictus Productions sets September 15th as the international release date for the brand-new mini-album of Chile’s Oraculum, Always Higher. The Oraculum brethren incubate the raging pyre within the self, as a visionary element of utter omnipotence and unbreakable will. Designers of their own fiery path, never to be crossed, neither reached by traitors or prisoners of their ego. “Our blood is living fire feeding from your shame, scenting your trepidation with ease…”

Ever aptly titled, Always Higher is a true statement of intent, following Oraclum’s critically acclaimed Sorcery of the Damned EP, released by Invictus in 2014. Always Higher stands a fierce manifestation of the primeval evil in man, bringing the principle of the conqueror as the true holder of wisdom, power, and conviction. Serving as an essential pillar in a world where the lack of spirit fools the sheep with hollow intentions and nothing valuable transcends, Oraculum hereby transcend their humble beginnings and assert their own intractable identity, unshackling themselves from influence but never forgetting the deepest truths death metal has taught them all these years. It is the full bounty of the ancient Metal of Death, fully steeped in metal AND death, maximized through sheer spirit and will. Blood and fire, Always Higher…

“Let the death metal hierarchy overwhelm the weak. We bow to none!” Bow before Oraculum’s death metal hierarchy with the new track “Lex Talionis”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Oraculum’s Always Higher
1. Exeunt
2. Lex Talionis
3. Semper Excelsius
4. Sphinx

Texan black/death cult Nexul stream the entirety of their debut album, Paradigm of Chaos

Texan black/death cult Nexul stream a new song Hexecration from their massively anticipated debut album, Paradigm of Chaos. Set for international release on July 28th via Hells Headbangers check it here:

Nexul are a part of the Ordo Satanae Imperium collective – which includes fellow Hells Headbangers cults Nyogthaeblisz and Hellvetron, with whom Nexul share members – and one of the most exciting developments in American black/death metal in recent years. Together, this trio of bands explore death’s deepest mysteries and provide sonic/lyrical keys to the Beyond. Of them, Nexul are the newest, making their recorded debut with the Nexulzifer demo in 2013, which Hells Headbangers released on both 7″ vinyl and cassette tape. Across three songs and a dozen minutes, Nexulzifer portrayed a potent vision of Luciferian death metal magick – heaving, hideous, and molten to the touch – and formed the foundation on which Nexul built their next illuminating vision.

And now, that illumination arrives with Paradigm of Chaos. Compared to the more basic, bestial-intensive Nexulzifer, the Nexul of Paradigm of Chaos is one that walks the threshold between all-consuming chaos and sheer insanity, between ravaging death magick and the ethereal vibrations both above and especially below: both heeding the boundless powers which drive them while disregarding/disrespecting any notions of “tradition.” As the band explains, “This Paradigm of Chaos was conceived over three years, during which time we plunged into entropy and strife, either through our own making or tribulation from external forces. What has emerged is a corporeal/ethereal mirror, a destructive pattern woven of audial lunacy and spiritual fervour towards the Great Dragon that is called LEVIATHAN.”

In a relatively short amount of time, Nexul have become masters of wielding sound as a veritable weapon; here, on Paradigm of Chaos, it is literally overwhelming and tangibly MASSIVE to behold. But within that ghastly, gibbering maw of oblivion lays nuance and dynamics: this is more than just senseless noise, and certainly more than rote “brutality” for its own sake. It is verily the death rattle of the soul, and those reverberations ring infinitely – and forebodingly – across a canvas which is even more heaving, even more hideous, and untouchably molten. There are layers upon layers upon layers to this Paradigm of Chaos, and the corridors down which one can wander are seemingly infinite. Rarely has black/death metal been this unremittingly violent whilst keenly subtle.

Tracklisting for Nexul’s Paradigm of Chaos
1. Accursed Abyss
2. Hexecration
3. Wrathful Chaos
4. Dark God of Paradox and Eternal
5. Leviathan Unbound
6. Chaosipher Tower
7. Serpent of Acosmic Darkness
8. Paradigm of Chaos
9. Bringer of Pandimentional Disrupt
10. Lord of the Bottomless Seas
11. Drowning Sephiroth
12. Leviathan outro

“Here set we up a curse-pole, and this curse we turn onto יהוה and שְׁכִינָה. This curse we turn unto all slaves of the flesh that they will wither and dissipate as cancer eats the body until the Crown is dissolved and Naught is left save for vultures to rend.” – Ν.Brairava, under the influence of madness for NEXUL

DSBM Band MIST OF MISERY Premiered First Single From The New Mini Album

A year after the critically acclaimed full length “Absence”, Swedish Symphonic DSBM act MIST OF MISERY is going to disclose two new chapters, and the first chapter — a mini album entitled as “Shackles of Life” — is going to be released via Black Lion Records.

After their critically acclaimed sophomore full length “Absence”, released back in 2016, Mist of Misery is returning with their long anticipated mini album “Shackles Of Life” the first of the two chapters to be opened. The symphonic/DSBM band from Stockholm started their journey back in 2010, March, and so far have released two full lengths and two EP releases. Currently, the band is working as a quartet.
First chapter of their dual mini albums, “Shackles of Life” features some of the most gloomy and utter beautiful crafted work in a long time. its simply one of those releases that rarely comes out, If you’ve enjoyed Absence then this will be a step above.

This EP also marks the sad departure of Erik Molnar’s history in Mist of misery, he took this decision because of being busy with recording and writing for the new Hyperion album. Erik will of course still linger around for this mini release to watch as everyone absorbs it.

“Broken Chains”, the third track from the mini album, is having a haunting beauty within its mournful atmosphere, filled with the serene arrangements of synths, endless melodic guitar harmonies and stirring melancholic vocals

The mini album was mixed by Mortuz Denatuz and mastered by Ronnie Björnström of Defitory and EAP Mix Room…known for working with bands like Bodyfarm, Aeon, Cut up,

Artwork was done by talented Russian artist Alex Tartsus.

Track – List:
01. Shackles Of Life
02. Placid Drowning
03. Broken Chains
04. A Dreamless Void (Euthanasia Part 2)
05. Dagon
06. Opening Chapter To A Solitary Confinement
07. Closing Chapter

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Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mist-of-misery-sweden
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MistOfMiserySwe

Cadaveric Incubator set release date for Sermons of the Devouring Dead album

Hells Headbangers sets October 13th as the international release date for Cadaveric Incubator’s highly anticipated debut album, Sermons of the Devouring Dead, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Comprising veterans of the Finnish underground, Cadaveric Incubator are a power-trio whose sole purpose is to bury the listener under miles of garbage and grime, sewage and sickness. Their long-gestating full-length debut, Sermons of the Devouring Dead comprises a dozen tracks of utterly ugly, morally bereft DEATH METAL of a most classic vintage – and authentically so. Forget about eras or scenes or geography; this is death metal for death metal maniacs, by death metal maniacs.

Cadaveric Incubator was formed in 2005 by Necroterror (bass/vocals) and Humiliator (guitar/vocals) with the help of various drummers who came and went during the band’s first incarnation, which lasted around two years. The aim was to create old-school disgusting sounds influenced by early Carcass, Repulsion, Autopsy, early Xysma, Mortician, Blood, the early Mexican Disgorge, and such. No fun and no political garbage usually associated with the more grinding side of things – just raw, filthy brutality and total death! But after two demos – only the first one, Resurgence of Morbidity, was released – and countless live shows, the band split up in early 2007 due to personal problems between members.

Seven years later, in 2014, Necroterror resurrected Cadaveric Incubator by teaming up with his old comrade Pentele, who he had known from the early ’90s scene – back in the deep Finnish backwoods when Necroterror played in his first-ever death metal band, Excrement, and Pentele was drumming for Carnifex and Festerday in the same area. Original founding member Humiliator was asked to join, as well, and the new demo Unburied Abominations was recorded. After several brutal live shows and a demos compilation on Terror from Hell Records, the band finally recorded 12 tracks in early 2016 for their debut album, Sermons of the Devouring Dead.

Now armed with the help of fetid fans Hells Headbangers, Cadaveric Incubator are set to smother the underground in all sorts of uncleanliness! Just a cursory read of the album’s song titles should spell in no uncertain terms exactly what kind of timeless filth there is to bathe in: “Swarming Decay,” “Horrific Festering Plagues,” “Gravestench Asphyxiation,” “Unburied Abominations,” and the telltale “Conceived in Filth,” among others. Heed these Sermons of the Devouring Dead and get swamped in gore!

The first fling of filth can be heard with the previously-revealed track “Gravestench Asphyxiation”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Cadaveric Incubator’s Sermons of the Devouring Dead
1. Gravestench Asphyxiation
2. Hideous Premonition
3. Cadaveric Incubator
4. The Covenant of Gore
5. Cold in Casket
6. Rite of Eibon
7. Massacred
8. Swarming Decay
9. Unburied Abominations
10. Conceived in Filth
11. The Undead Fiend
12. Horrific Festering Plagues