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)

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/tetragrammacide 

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

www.helterskelterproductions.se
www.facebook.com/helterskelterproductions

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

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/Belials-Throne-107104880966688

www.spreadevil.net 

EFRAAH ENHSIKAAH set release date for OSMOSE debut – features guest vocals from MEYHNA’CH (MÜTIILATION)

Today, Osmose Productions announces October 27th as the international release date for Efraah Enhsikaah‘s striking debut album, One Thousand Vultures Waiting to Be Fed, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Enigmatic musician Efraah Enhsikaah delivers a first opus made of freezing-cold primal energy and haunting atmospheres. Featuring guest vocals from Meyhna’ch (solo, Mütiilation), One Thousand Vultures Waiting to Be Fed takes you into an unforgiving musical journey to the deepest abyss.

First track premiere to be revealed on September 5th. Preorder info can be found HERE. Presave link can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Efraah Enhsikaah’s One Thousand Vultures Waiting to Be Fed

1. One Thousand Vultures Waiting to Be Fed [8:05]
2. Letharia Vulpina [7:36]
3. Budgeting For Betrayal [5:07]
4. Running Into The Abyss [4:44]
5. Dead Sun Shines Bright [5:00]
6. Cold Blood And Broken Teeth [7:15]
7. Fed [3:25]

www.osmoseproductions.com

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

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces November 3rd as the international release date for Goatkraft‘s highly anticipated second album, Prophet of Eternal Damnation, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

It’s been four years since Goatkraft‘s celebrated debut album for Iron Bonehead, Sulphurous Northern Bestiality, and nothing has changed for the Norwegian power-trio: their monochromatic muse is as locked-in and lascivious as ever. Just one look at the cover of their second album, Prophet of Eternal Damnation, and you should know EXACTLY what you’re getting into. If you are a false, do not entry.

Still, Goatkraft are superlative for the bestial metal style, and prove it across the 30 thundering minutes of Prophet of Eternal Damnation. While the Ross Bay Cult doubtlessly provided the foundation for the bestial arts, it was the likes of progeny Black Witchery and Proclamation who made those arts more murderous and uncompromising. Likewise uncompromising, Goatkraft carry that sulfurous torch with their second full-length, delivering detonating screeds of grinding, expulsive black filth. If anything, their attack is even more unhinged than ever – bringing out the grindcore roots of the form, as it were – and solos and FX explode from nearly every direction, whipping forth a fury both punishing and possessing. The full-figure production only makes the experience that much more overwhelming.

No progression, no compromise, no hope: Goatkraft herald the Prophet of Eternal Damnation.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Herald of Death” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Goatkraft’s Prophet of Eternal Damnation
1. Portal To Annihilation
2. Herald of Death
3. Bestial Black Metal Hordes
4. Filth Eradication
6. Prophet of Eternal Damnation
7. Death Psalm
8. Barbaric Hatred And Doom
9. Primal Instincts
10. Thermonuclear Genocide

MORE INFO:
www.goatkraft.bandcamp.com

BAXAXAXA stream new THE SINISTER FLAME album

Today, ancient black metallers Baxaxaxa stream the entirety of their second full-length album, De Vermis Mysteriis. Set for international release on September 1st via The Sinister Flame, hear Baxaxaxa‘s De Vermis Mysteriis in its entirety here:

De Vermis Mysteriis is a 42-minute journey that not only preserves that old flame Baxaxaxa lit with their esteemed 2021 debut album, Catacomb Cult, but delves much deeper inside their decades-old abyss. And so bearing zero connection to the modern world, the album throws you to a very dark, primordial place beyond time that is distinctively Baxaxaxa‘s own.

The seven tracks reek of death and obscurity with vicious vocals straight from beyond the grave, yet it feels genuinely fresh. From their trademark doomy and heavier passages to the more uptempo ones, Baxaxaxa‘s Ancient Black Metal is soaked in mysteries, magick, and utmost possession. The old evil is present in every note.

Fear the return!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Baxaxaxa’s De Vermis Mysteriis
1. Seed of Golgotha
2. De Vermis Mysteriis
3. Kiss of Shame
4. Awaken, The Old Thing in the Ground
5. Above the Stellar Gateway
6. Decarnation Monument
7. Necrolatry Libation

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/UNGOD-Baxaxaxa-1037290856315377

www.thesinisterflame.com
www.facebook.com/thesinisterflame

SPITER to tour Europe in October – features members of DEVIL MASTER and SHITFUCKER

Today, True Vampyric Metal Punks Spiter announce a headlining European tour set for this October. Titled “Satanik Overdose of Bats’ Blood European Tour 2023,” the tour is in support of the band’s celebrated debut album, Bathe the Babe in Bats’ Blood, released last summer by Hells Headbangers. Joining Spiter on the tour will be Satan Worship.

Says frontman/guitarist Richard Spider, “Spiter is eager to embark on our journey through oceans of time to the old world to perform our mystical rites of the True Vampyric Metal Punk. Bloody black magic and nocturnal debauchery shall be set in motion as the Acid Vampire Lords lead our conquest through Europe, carving our names on the tombstone of historic onslaught, unleashing the relentless Satanic Sonic Assault upon the masses.” Full list of confirmed dates as well as poster art are as follows:

05.10 OrwoHaus / Berlin (GER)
06.10 Escape Metal Corner / Vienna (AU)
07.10 Officina Amaranta / Fano (IT)
11.10 Freak Out / Bolonha (IT)
12.10 MC Apache / Fontaine L’Eveque (BE)
13.10 Musicon / Haia (NL)
14.10 Walrus / Groningen (NL)
15.10 Ragnarok Live Club / Bree (BE)
16.10 Le Club / Paris (FR)
17.10 Cafe De La Musique / Tours (FR)
18.10 Elpee / Deinze (BE)
19.10 Göppingen, Gaststatte Zille (GER)
20.10 Hydrozagadca / Varsovia (PO)
21.10 Fararova Sluj / Mlada Boleslav (CZ)
22.10 Parlamento / Plzen (CZ)

Featuring members of labelmates Shitfucker and Devil Master, Spiter made their recorded debut during the spring of 2021 with the Draconian Death Curse EP. Although it’d be semi-accurate to see the EP as a sonic union between Shitfucker and Devil Master, already Spiter exerted their own identity, ripping forth with a raw-yet-anthemic blend of cult blackthrash, obscure hardcore punk, and even the wildest deathrock. Immediately, the short-length garnered the band a great deal of attention.

The band picks up the tale: “Much like Dracula leaving Transylvania hell-bent on conquest, Richard Spider (Daemon Bitch of Shitfucker) moved to Philadelphia with the sole intent of forming Spiter. Alongside fellow magician Bat (Darkest Prince of Devil Master), and Philly punk drummer Snake (Disjawn), who was magically uncovered in a destined meeting, the lineup was complete. Following the path forged by the infernal and immortal Dragon, creating the True Vampyric Metal Punk in the name of our God and Father, Satan!” 

Now armed with Hells Headbangers, Spiter’s first full-length fully displays the band’s considerable powers. More ripping, more anthemic, wilder and weirder and laded with a crisp-yet-crushing production, Bathe the Babe in Bats’ Blood will put the name Spiter on the tongues of all who worship the dark and depraved. The album features 10 songs in 36 minutes, swiftly and salaciously possessing the listener in a sanguine fury like few others. Each and every second literally explodes with electricity and excitement, Spiter frothing with blood – both others’ and their own – and seemingly drunk on their own undead energy. And each track is as immediately memorable as the last yet offering variety across that whirlwind landscape, commanding that listener to press “play” over and over…until it fucking hurts.

“Spiter has an unquenchable thirst for blood and glory,” sagely state the band – and on evidence of Bathe the Babe in Bats’ Blood, those black-leather wings will enwrap the world soon enough! Order info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Spiter’s Bathe the Babe in Bats’ Blood
1. Suicidal Blood Fucker
2. Phan
9. Spider Bitertoms
3. Tortured Soul
4. Transylvanian Night
5. Foreshadow
6. Living Nightmare
7. Full Satanic Power
8. Cursed Eternal
10. Debauchery

MORE INFO:
www.spiter.bandcamp.com

www.hellsheadbangers.com

PROFANATICA Desecrate the Crucifixion on “The Third Fall”

Profanatica have been wiping their ass with the Holy Scripture since the late ’80s.

Today, the Dark Lords of American Black Metal are releasing the third single off their upcoming new album. Listen to the official audio of “The Third Fall” here:

‘Crux Simplex’ is out on September 22 via Season of Mist. Pre-order the album HERE. Pre-save it HERE.

Here’s what Mayhemic Slaughterer of the Heavens Paul Ledney has to say about Profanatica’s new single: “The 9th station of the cross, Jesus falls for the third time because he was fucking weak. He tried to hasten his steps and now he hardly moves”.

Tracklist:
01. Condemned to Unholy Death (4:38)
02. Take Up the Cross (3:01) [LISTEN]
03. The First Fall (3:24) [LISTEN]
04. Meeting of a Whore (3:02)
05. Compelled by Romans (4:47)
06. Wipe the Fucking Face of Jesus (2:20)
07. The Second Fall (2:40)
08. Cunts of Jerusalem (3:35)
09. The Third Fall (4:18) [LISTEN]
10. Division of Robes (6:51)
Total run-time: 00:36:76

PROFANATICA are at the vanguard of the first wave of American black metal. Founded and led by infamous master of black perversion Paul Ledney (drums/vocals), they have purveyed primeval blasphemy for nigh on thirty-three years.

Ledney formed the band from the ashes of the first INCANTATION lineup when he split and took with him all of the members sans John McEntee. That early trio of ex-INCANTATION members reeled off three ground-breaking demos of some of the most extreme and blasphemic metal of its time in rapid succession. The band flyers that permeated the tape-trading circuit were no less shocking and featured the trio bloody and naked and in the throes of what was most certainly a primeval summoning of some kind. In short order, they had inked a deal with the fledgling Osmose Productions for what became one of that labels first releases (Osmose release #5); a legendary split with Colombia’s MASACRE

Something so volatile could only last briefly, and after another brief recording session the band collapsed under the weight of its own extremity. but the recordings made in this two year window went on to see dozens of reissues in the coming decades, in a testament to how formidable and formative they are to the black metal scene worldwide.

After almost fifteen years spent with his equally polarizing solo project HAVOHEJ, Ledney reignited the flames of Profanatica in 2006. Reemerging with a new deal from Hells Headbangers, Ledney and his new band released ‘The Enemy of Virtue’, a collection of that vaunted early material, and a new full-length, ‘Profanatitas de Domonatia’. A triumphant return, ‘Profanatitas de Domonatia’ picked up right where these Kings of US Black Metal left off, delivering a savage stream of chainsaw guitars and relentless battery upon which they desecrated everything sacred.

This set-in motion another frenetic burst of work for Profanatica. The next decade saw them unleash four new full-length albums of blasphemous perversions, sacrilegious incantations, and furious black metal. In addition, the band issued six mini-albums and EP’s, a full DVD of early footage, and began touring internationally in Europe and in Central and South America. For the first time Profanatica were appearing near or at the top of the bill at festivals like MDF, Messe Des Mortes, Hells Headbash, Prague Death Mass (Czech Republic), Chaos Descends (Germany), Black Sun (Spain), Tyrant Fest (France), SWR Fest (Portugal) and many more.

In fall 2018, Profanatica joined forces with Season of Mist and undertook their biggest tour to date supporting WATAIN and ROTTING CHRIST across Europe. And a year later, the trio vomited forth a most vulgar strain of black metal ejaculate with their SoM debut album ‘Rotting Incarnation of God’.

The band embarked on an extensive twelve-country European headline tour in the album’s wake. Shortly after returning home that winter, the world ground to a halt in 2020. Save a live-streaming concert production for the legendary Rock al Parque in conjunction with BATUSHKA, little was heard from Profanatica.

That is until spring 2023, when Profanatica emerged from their den of iniquity on a European headline tour to promote a new album. ‘Crux Simplex’ is a ten-track offensive of sin and sacrilege, a nasty affront that bastardizes the first 10 stations of the cross. As per their legacy, Profanatica deals in bestial, first-wave black metal barbarity, and their eighth album unveils ungodly levels of bile and blasphemy.

Recorded at: Dead Lamb Studios

Mastered by: Arthur Rizk

Recording lineup
– Mayhemic Slaughter of the Heavens (drums/vocals)
– Destroyer of Holy Hymen (guitar/bass)

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/profanaticausa/
https://profanatica.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OGNyv8Z63eYqmkN17mpwW

Available formats
Vinyl (Black)
Vinyl (Blue)
CD Digipack
Digital download

Links
http://profanatica.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profanaticausa/
https://profanatica.bandcamp.com/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/profanatica/303892822
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OGNyv8Z63eYqmkN17mpwW

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