WARCOE set release date for new HELTER SKELTER album, reveal first tracks

Today, Helter Skelter Productions (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) announces December 15th as the international release date for Warcoe’s highly anticipated second album, A Place for Demons, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Warcoe are a power-trio hailing from Italy, that land rich in doomed materials. Naturally, Warcoe honor their national identity with a ’70s-entrenched vision of pure DOOM METAL as first laid out by Ozzy-era Black Sabbath. In fact, in vocalist/guitarist Stefano Fiorelli, you will not find a more uncanny Ozzy doppelganger.

Warcoe began their journey in 2021, first with a couple digital singles and then an EP, all of which coalesced into their debut album, The Giant’s Dream. Likewise released digitally, The Giant’s Dream was also self-released on CDR and tape in true DIY fashion. So smitten with these authentically vintage vibes, Helter Skelter released The Giant’s Dream on CD and vinyl right before the summer, with hopes of spreading the Warcoe name far and wide.

Wasting no time – and, indeed, sure to spread that name further and wider – Warcoe return with their second full-length, A Place for Demons. Aptly titled, A Place for Demons is prime olde-world DOOM, steeped in Sabbathian tones and proto-metal vibes. However, Warcoe possess an enviable amount of charisma, and their songwriting soon becomes a thick ‘n’ heady potion of hard-rocking heaviness, warm in tone but definitely supernatural in aura. Much like they did on its full-length predecessor, the power-trio manage to massage new sensations from that eternal archetype whilst staying reverent; if anything, there’s a pronounced swagger to A Place for Demons that suggests star-power in the making. But beware: the closing nine-minute epic “Buio” is one of the most stultifying boulders of sound you’ll hear this year, sealing your grave with cold, cruel certainty.

So, take Warcoe’s hand and enter A Place for Demons: your “new” old-doom trip continues here!

Start that trip with the brand-new tracks “Pyramid of Despair,” “Boys Become Kings,” and the title track “A Place for Demons” here:

Cover artwork, courtesy of Shane Horror, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Warcoe’s A Place for Demons

1. A Place for Demons
2. Pyramid of Despair
3. Rune Dweller
4. Leaves
5. Ishkur
6. Boys Become Kings
7. Wounds Too Deep to Heal
8. Buio

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Italy’s VALGRIND stream new MEMENTO MORI album

Today, Italian death metallers Valgrind stream the entirety of their highly anticipated fifth album, Millennium of Night Bliss. Set for international release on April 24th via Memento Mori, hear Valgrind‘s Millennium of Night Bliss in its entirety here:

By now, those who follow the dark deeds of Memento Mori should be well familiar with Italy’s Valgrind. Despite forming all the way back in 1996 and releasing three demos and an EP before going on hiatus in 2002, it was the 2012 debut album Morning Will Come No More where Valgrind kicked off their activities – and there’s been no looking back. With steadfast dependability and ever-so-slight “progression” each time, these Italians have quietly become stalwarts of classics-minded death metal that isn’t completely blinkered by the past. Yes, their influences largely remain the same – foundational Morbid Angel, Pestilence, Death, Nocturnus, Possessed, Monstrosity, and Immolation – but Valgrind have increasingly sought their own muse, becoming more personal in lyrical approach whilst keeping their attack trend-free DEATH METAL. 

But if 2020’s Memento Mori-released Condemnation signaled a sea-change for Valgrind – an undeniably “something,” a never-belabored uniqueness, despite mostly still sounding like the same band – then they certainly continue this sterling development with Millennium of Night Bliss. Indeed, there’s a creepiness of aura and a more supernatural lyrical bent that fuel Valgrind‘s fifth album, and the power-trio duly whip forth a vortex of dark ‘n’ dazzling technicality and jaw-dropping chops. Everywhere you turn across the nine-song/38-minute work, there’s some slipstreaming portal opening up into another into another ad infinitum; one could say Millennium of Night Bliss isn’t so much a “complex” record (although it is) as it’s one of rippling darkness and dementia. Truly, Valgrind sound mental here, as the blazing angularity and “tunefully atonal” intensity hearken to such once-slept-on classics as Immolation’s Here In After and Morbid Angel’s Formulas Fatal to the Flesh. However, the Italians still continue to exert their own identity, adding just the right amount of melody (don’t worry: it’s VERY slight!) and making the remarkably crisp ‘n’ clean production work entirely for them. 

Could Millennium of Night Bliss be Valgrind‘s best record yet? Put in the work and lose thyself in its labyrinths, and surely will you see the night-blissful truth!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Valgrind (Italy)’s Millennium of Night Bliss
1. Teshub
2. Banished by Celestial Harmonies
3. Millennium of Night Bliss
4. Tenebra Corona Mundi
5. Dark Winds of Avalon
6. Lament of the Black Penitents (Glory Is the Sun of the Dead)
7. Oracle of Death
8. Fear from Beyond
9. The Path to the Temple of Black Ash

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MINENWERFER set release date for new OSMOSE album

Today, Osmose Productions announces March 10th as the international release date for Minenwerfer‘s highly anticipated fourth album, Feuerwalze, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

A campaign started on July 1st, 1916. A campaign of muddy, rat-infested trenches, endless artillery barrages, and cracks of rifles in the distance. A campaign of unsettling night raids, close-quarters combat, and suffocating fumes of chlorine gas.

The sound of the treads of the first tanks grinding the bones of those long dead on the battlefield to dust and of the screams from no man’s land of men bleeding out in the night from the previous day’s failed offensive.

This is the soundtrack for that campaign. Welcome to the Somme.

First track premiere to be revealed shortly. Preorder link can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Minenwerfer’s Feuerwalze

1. Cemetery Fields [6:07]
2. Feuerwalze [6:47]
3. Eternal Attrition [8:00]
4. Nachtschreck [7:50]
5. Sturmtruppen III (Sommekämpfer) [5:27]
6. Shrapnel Exsanguination [5:54]
7. Labyrinthine Trench Sectors [8:28]

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Swiss Black Metallers AARA release “Phthonos”

Shortly before the release of the third part of the Melmoth trilogy, AARA unexpectedly unveil two unorthodox and extraordinaire tracks of melodic Black Metal. The post-Black Metal vibe as well as the calmer, almost Shoegazing moments and the distinct production grant the songs a melancholic and ethereal mood. “Phthonos“, thus, evokes a spectacular play between light and darkness. The digital 2-track-EP is officially released via Debemur Morti Productions and can be listened to in full here:

The Swiss band worked together with an external sound engineer for the first time, namely well-known German producer Markus Stock (EMPYRIUM, ALCEST). Accordingly, “Phthonos” represents a musical experiment and a new approach to AARA‘s Art. Composer and guitarist Berg narrates:

It was an interesting experience to attempt at creating music outside of the Triade series. We were mainly interested in finding out how AARA‘s sound would work with a different production, and I think it would definitely be an option. If we will work further with that kind of sound remains to be seen. Compositionally, however, we are certainly going in a different direction than what you can hear on “Phthonos” after the completion of the Melmoth series. The whole next concept album is already written, and it is quite different to the Triade albums, the “Phthonos” EP as well as the two previous long players. But maybe we will stick to that ‘more organic’ sound. We will see!

Phthonos” is available digitally via the label’s Bandcamp shop.

Switzerland’s AARA was founded in 2018 by vocalist Fluss and multi-instrumentalist Berg to create art highly influenced by atmospheric Black Metal. Sporting an epic, classical feel, their sweeping compositions aim to take the listener through the darkest alleys of human existence.

Soon after releasing their debut record “So fallen alle Tempel” in early 2019, AARA joined forces with Debemur Morti Productions, releasing their mosaic EP “Anthropozän” that same year.

Barely a year after their debut, AARA unveiled a new full-length record in April of 2020. A conceptual look into Europe’s Age of Enlightenment, “En Ergô Einai” sees AARA take their accomplished sound to new heights of mature artistic expression. Opened with a haunting acoustic intro courtesy of Vindsval (BLUT AUS NORD), “En Ergô Einai” is a triumph of fluid melodic euphoria and classical elegance, setting an even higher watermark in a bright, young discography. The third album and beginning of a trilogy, namely “Triade I: Eos“, was released in March 2021. In this epic and dramatic new work of art, AARA are interpreting the Gothic novel “Melmoth The Wanderer” (1820) of Irish writer Charles Robert Maturin. Venturing forth into the next chapters of Maturin‘s work, AARA crafted the second part of their trilogy, “Triade II: Hemera“. The six tracks of brutally melodic, top-tier Black Metal will be released on May 13th, 2022. Recordings for the third and final album of the Melmoth trilogy have already begun.

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Spain’s INTOLERANCE set release date for MEMENTO MORI debut, reveal first track

In their endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odor of vintage death metal, Memento Mori in conspiracy with Fucking Kill Records and Godz ov War Productions are proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Spain’s Intolerance, Dark Paths of Humanity: Memento Mori will release the CD version on April 25th, Godz ov War will release the tape version on May 13th, and the vinyl version will follow later from Fucking Kill.

The death metal mongrels collectively known as Intolerance hail from Zaragoza, the same city that Ataraxy are natives of. Spawned back in 2015, this quartet’s intent is to pay homage to timeless death metal and the fetid stench that exuded from the malicious tones of the bands that populated the scene and helped define the genre back in the late ’80s and the early ’90s. Nothing fancy or wimpy here: only demise and putrefaction to be found when you creep in Intolerance‘s mortuary.

After a demo in 2016 and an EP in 2020, now you can creep deepest into Intolerance‘s mortuary with their full-length debut, Dark Paths of Humanity. Just as they did on their preceding records, with Dark Paths of Humanity do Intolerance honor the old ways of death metal, and proceed to add their own gutted & grimy personality to it. No more but definitely no less, Dark Paths of Humanity is a DEATH METAL record for death metal maniacs, by death metal maniacs. But Intolerance‘s subtly nuanced and surprisingly dynamic blend of such synthesizes the best elements of classic Bolt Thrower, Grave, Asphyx, Morgoth, Entombed, Convulse, Obituary, and Unleashed. Think 1991 and you’re in their wheelhouse – but then you’ll be utterly CRUSHED by their tank-tread of a sound, world-eating and wondrously so. Again, nothing fancy or wimpy here!

Completed by cover art courtesy of CL Artworks and featuring devastatingly era-authentic production, with mastering by Javier Felez at Moontower Studios, Intolerance dredges up the oldest, richest dirt with their Dark Paths of Humanity!

Start rooting among that dirt with the brand-new track “Embodiment of Chaos here:

Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Intolerance (Spain)’s Dark Paths of Humanity
1. Embodiment of Chaos
2. Death Before Slavery
3. Beyond the Axis of Truth
4. Flagellation
5. Echoes from the Past
6. Tower of Silence
7. Cataleptic Despair
8. Dark Paths of Humanity

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MISTCAVERN set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces April 15th as the international release date for Mistcavern‘s highly anticipated debut mini-album, Into Twilight, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

Mistcavern are a quartet hailing from Hungary, formed in 2019. Not long after forming, the band recorded their debut demo, Winds of Misery, which was initially self-released in super-limited quantities but then made widely available by Iron Bonehead at the dawn of 2020. Now, two years later, Mistcavern strike with their most assured work yet, making good on the plentiful promise displayed on Winds of Misery.

As it was in the beginning and as it is now, Mistcavern unabashedly pick up the torch left behind by the second-wave Nordic acts with their works of pure and otherworldly atmospheres in the first half of the 1990s. In many ways, the resultant Into Twilight is 26 minutes of veritable time-warp: one can verily be transported to dark medieval times, at the dawn of a dying sun, feeling an ærie descent. And for those still dealing with the loss & curse of reverence, whether there at the start of those long-flickering fires or later generations who hear the call down time immemorial, Mistcavern will surely satisfy all dark desires. But taken another way, Into Twilight reveals its own ancient imagination. Far from mere “retro” replication or insincere genre exercise before jettisoning for some other fickle fancy, this four-piece deeply understand the richly mystical vibrations beneath those hallowed tomes of yore, building on the duality of both concealed and boundless imagery, showcasing scenes buried in thick fog, far from the ordure of man and deep in nature’s embrace while also glorifying of the infinite emptiness and the longing for the End of All.

And paradoxically, with Into Twilight will one find a new beginning. Roam the new hinterlands of old with Mistcavern, and raise the torches high!

Begin roaming with the brand-new track “Dissolving in Infinite Despair” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Mistcavern’s Into Twilight
1. Towards the Eclipse [6:54]
2. The Shielding Twilight [5:50]
3. To the Starless Domain [6:13]
4. Dissolving in Infinite Despair [6:44]

MORE INFO:
www.mistcavern.bandcamp.com


GAEREA release new music video for’Urge’

Cathartic black metal outfit GAEREA are now releasing a brand new music video for the track ‘Urge’, which is taken from the band’s freshly released album ‘Limbo’. The album was officially released upon the massess on July 24. Watch the video  here:

GAEREA comment on the video: “The Only theme is Human Suffering as Life is hollow and useless. In a very practical way, some would claim there wouldn’t be such worse ending than death. Yet, the Nightmare of Existamce itself is as unbearable as pure extinction. Urge is savagery. Urge is Humanity.

GAEREA recently announced they will hit the road throughout Europe with HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY and SCHAMMASCH in January/February 2021. A full list of confirmed dates can be found below. The band will be playing in support of their recently release album ‘Limbo’, which can be heard in full HERE.

GAEREA 
+Harakiri For The Sky +Schammasch
28 Jan 21 Warsaw (PL) Hydrozagadka
29 Jan 21 Prague (CZ) Nova Chmelnice
30 Jan 21 Erfurt (DE) From Hell
31 Jan 21 Dresden (DE) Chemiefabrik
01 Feb 21 Kassel (DE) Goldgrube
02 Feb 21 Mörlenbach (DE) Live Music Hall
03 Feb 21 Dortmund (DE) Junkyard
04 Feb 21 Kortrijk (BE) De Kreun
05 Feb 21 Arnhem  (NL) Willemeen
06 Feb 21 Leiden (NL) Gebr de Nobel
07 Feb 21 Trier (DE) Mergener Hof
08 Feb 21 Paris (FR) Backstage
09 Feb 21 Toulouse (FR) Le Rex
10 Feb 21 Barcelona (ES) Sala Boveda
11 Feb 21 Martigny (CH) Les Caves Du Manoir
12 Feb 21 Wetzikon (CH) Hall of Fame
13 Feb 21 Regensburg (DE) Airport Eventhalle Obertraubling
14 Feb 21 Salzburg (AT) Rockhouse

GAEREA
24 Jul 20 Famalicao (PT) Laurus Nobilis Music
31 Oct 20 London (UK) Subterranean Manifestation II
11 Dec 20 Berlin (DE) De Mortem et Diabolum
03 Mar 21 Helsinki (FI) On the Rocks
04 Mar 21 Tallinn (EE) Sveta Baar
05 Mar 21 St. Petersburg (RU) Zoccolo 2.0
06 Mar 21 Moscow (RU) Rock House
29 Apr 21 Barroselas (PT) SWR Barroselas Metalfest (Exact date TBA)
23 Jul 21 Zarnovica (SK) Gothoom open air fest (Exact date TBA)
31 Jul 21 Steenwijk (NL) Stonehenge Festival
18 Aug 21 Borre (NO) Midgardsblot (Exact date TBA)
The cover arwtork for ‘Limbo’, which is created by the talented Eliran Kantor, can be viewed with the album details below.

Cover artwork: painted by Eliran Kantor (Testament, Iced Earth, Sodom)

Track-list
1. To Ain (11:15) (HERE)
2. Null (6:01) (HERE)
3. Glare (7:16)
4. Conspiranoia (9:15) (HERE)
5. Urge (4:50)
6. Mare (13:11)
Total playing time: 51:48

Something rises in the bleak and blackened skies of society as we know it. Vortex community GAEREA are about to bestow their Undying Sigil to the masses, with their brand-new full length ‘Limbo’!

GAEREA is a black metal quintet from Portugal. Emerging in the beginning of 2016, the band released their first (self-titled) EP on November 11, 2016 through Everlasting Spew Records. The EP received many praises from the worldwide press, and it was not long before the first full length “Unsettling Whispers” (2018) was presented.

With that, GAEREA had the pleasure to perform and tour festivals in Europe and China, including performances with Jupiterian in April 2019 and a headlining Chinese tour in May 2019. The band already performed at festivals like SWR Barroselas Metalfest (PT), De Mortem et Diabolum (DE), Throne Fest (BE), Frantic Fest (IT), Eresia Metal Fest (IT), Amplifest (PT) and many more. During the fall of 2019, the band did an extensive tour with label mates NUMENOREAN under the Doomstar Bookings wing throughout Europe. 

Are you finally ready for the tale of the Fallen Society and the journey to the vast Void, the only good in Life? Let us begin then. In the first hopeless circle, on too great and Undeniable Nothingness. WE ARE GAEREA.

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Line-up: unknown

Studio/recording: Demigod Recordings (PT)
Mix/Master: Miguel Tereso

Dark Buddha Rising – new video and single “Sunyaga”

Dark Buddha Rising unveil their seventh album, Mathreyata on Friday the 13th of November 2020 via Svart Records. 

Video for first single “Sunyaga” revealed. Video by Dehn Sora:

Finnish “dark underlords of psychedelic drone” Dark Buddha Rising return with their heaviest and darkest record yet.

V. Ajomo from Dark Buddha Rising states:

“Mathreyata follows the visions that were received from Inversum’s implosion and is the accession of what we invoked with the II EP. Before completing the great circle, all cycles must be dissolved. In the end we are standing at the edge of the abyss with all our previous work as weights, impatient to dive in. We recorded the basis of the album just before the Waste of Space Orchestra project began and mostly because of that, it took a few years to get it finished. Finally the material that we have performed live for several years can be experienced as a recorded album.”

Dark Buddha Rising’s abyssic and meditative sonic-void has been opening up over the last 10 years to swallow more and more devotees in their wake. Since their inception in 2007, with their first four albums being highly-coveted, sold-out private pressings, to subsequent Svart Records reissues, to their burgeoning fifth album Dakhmandal, Dark Buddha Rising have been shining like a black diamond for those that go mining for the real thing. Embraced into Neurosis’ Neurot Records fraternity, with 2015’s critically acclaimed sixth album Inversum, Tampere-based psychonauts, Dark Buddha Rising have captivated the collective consciousness of the heavy underground and achieved cult-legend status.

2019’s climactic and highly praised Waste Of Space Orchestra collaboration with local kindred spirits Oranssi Pazuzu at Roadburn Festival, put Dark Buddha Rising’s Wastement home studio: “the asylum of eternal feedback,” firmly on the International music world map and into the hearts of the pitch-black psych-rock underworld. Gathering a throng of newly devoted adherents who worship at the altar of their churning vortex, Dark Buddha Rising’s live shows are a transformative experience that are religiously revered by audiences across Europe, with Invisible Oranges calling their performance “brain melting.”

Metal Hammer describe Dark Buddha Rising’s music as “a shamanic voice chanting before a tumultuous void, soon all encompassed by a yawning riff chasm, contorted by keys, chants, rants and abyssal atmospherics,” and to put words into what Dark Buddha Rising does to the listening audience is to describe the band surrendering fully to the intuition and primal instincts as altered states of mind.

Prepare your mind and body for an initiation into the dark arts of Mathreyata on Friday the 13th of November 2020. Dark Buddha Rising have channeled a work for dark spirits and those who seek to travel beyond the unknown. 

Mathreyata features inlay artwork by Adam Burke.

First single “Sunyaga” drops on the 9th of October 2020. Mathreyata album on Friday the 13th of November 2020.

Pre-order here: https://svartrecords.com/product/darkbuddharising-mathreyata-album

CENOTAFIO to release second album on vinyl via BLOOD HARVEST – streaming now

Today, Blood Harvest Records sets September 11th as the international release date for Cenotafio‘s striking second album, Larvae Tedeum Teratos, on vinyl LP format.

Originally released in 2019 on CD and cassette, Larvae Tedeum Teratos saw Cenotafio cement their position as one of Chile’s best new-breed black/death bands – no mean feet, given the rich history of Chilean underground metal and its ever-thriving scene that’s arguably even stronger today. Then again, the duo comprising Cenotafio are no mere newcomers, as both members have been playing in a number of hordes for over a decade, but both together in the esteemed Invehertex…

Nevertheless, as Cenotafio, the duo of drummer/vocalist Patricio Kusnir and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Daniel Hermosilla have created a considerable canon in just five years together. A demo and a couple singles introduced the band initially, but it was 2017’s La fatídica excrecencia de la subtierra debut album which put Cenotafio‘s supremely sepulchral ways on the international metal map. Amazingly, the duo topped that feat with the follow-up Larvae Tedeum Teratos. A more concise but somehow simultaneously more sprawling work, Cenotafio‘s second album spread tendrils of terror and tension across the helpless listener and refused to relent its dread hold. Effortlessly shifting between ripped ‘n’ roiling speed and drowning-in-the-deep doom, Larvae Tedeum Teratos created a horrific world, its ceaselessly humid and punishingly physical soundfield wielded as almost an instrument onto itself. Blackened death metal, deathened black metal, blackdeathdoom, whatever you want to call it: Cenotafio truly arrived with this album.

Fans of the band since the beginning, Blood Harvest is honored to be finally unleashing Cenotafio‘s Larvae Tedeum Teratos on the format it so deserves – vinyl!

In the meantime, stream the album in its entirety here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows
Tracklisting for Cenotafio’s Larvae Tedeum Teratos 1. La Apoptosis [10:50]
2. El Martirio [8:25]
3. La Sentencia Y La Plaga [7:20]
4. Maleficae [10:35]

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DARKENED set release date for EDGED CIRCLE debut album, reveal first track – features members of GRAVE, MEMORIAM, A CANOROUS QUINTET, EXCRUCIATE+++

Today, Edged Circle Productions announces September 11th as the international release date for the highly anticipated debut album of pan-international quintet DarkenedKingdom of Decay.

It was but the summer of 2019 when Darkened burst onto the international stage with their debut EP for Edged CircleInto the Blackness. Although an otherwise-brand-new entity at the time, Darkened boasted a wealth of experience in the death metal underground, comprising drummer Andy Whale (ex-Bolt Thrower / Memoriam), bassist Daryl Kahan (ex-Disma / Funebrarum), vocalist Gord Olson (Ye Goat-Herd Gods / Demisery), and guitarists Linus Nirbrant (A Canorous Quintet / This Ending) and Hempa Brynolfsson (Excruciate / Ordo Inferus). As such, the band’s opening salvo was truly a sum of all its not-inconsiderable parts: all-caps DEATH METAL of a cool and cruising and above all CRUSHING aspect. Unsurprisingly, Into the Blackness garnered widespread acclaim, and heightened anticipation for the band’s inevitable first full-length.

At last, it arrives under the ominous title Kingdom of Decay. Darkened here have undergone a slight lineup shift, with Kahan departing as bassist and Tobias Cristiansson (Grave / ex-Dismember) taking his place – another underground veteran whose presence is perfect for the band’s increasingly confident crush. Everything on Kingdom of Decay is an intensification of that short-but-sweet debut EP: the riffs more patient but punishing, the doom darker and doled out more effectively, the songs more world-eating whilst effectively exploring a greater wealth of dynamics and, it must be said, atmosphere. Elsewhere, the winning formula of Into the Blackness remains largely unchanged – the stately, steely pulse of later Bolt Thrower or the subsequent Memoriam dusted with the classy melodicism of A Canorous Quintet and successors This Ending, but all done with a touch that’s somewhere between comfortably familiar and subtly unique – and you can now also add a touch of the tank-like onslaught of prime Grave, with everything given a gleaming CRUSH courtesy of the mixing by Tobbe Sillman (General Surgery) and mastered by the one and only Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity) in the famous Unisound Studio in Sweden. This is what debut-album dreams are made of…or nightmares!

Graced with unforgettably austere cover artwork courtesy of Juanjo Castellano Rosado (Unleashed, The Black Dalhia Murder, Gates of Ishtar), Darkened‘s Kingdom of Decay is guaranteed to be one of THE death metal albums of the year. DEATH METAL for death metal maniacs, by death metal maniacs!

Begin hearing for yourself with the brand-new track “The Burning” here:
Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Darkened (International)’s Kingdom of Decay
1. Nekros Manteia
2. Dead Body Divination
3. 1000 Years
4. Pandemonium
5. Cage of Flesh
6. The Burning
7. The Old Ones
8. Kingdom of Decay
9. Of Unsound Mind
10. The White Horse of Pestilence
11. Winds of Immortality
DARKENED lineup 2020
Hempa Brynolfsson – guitar (Excruciate)
Linus Nirbrant – guitar (A Canorous Quintet)
Tobias Cristiansson – bass (Grave, ex-Dismember)
Gord Olson – vocals (Ye Goat Herd Gods)
Andy Whale – drums (Memoriam, ex-Bolt Thrower)

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