Black Metal

French speed metal cult Sacrifizer stream the entirety of their debut mini-album

Today, French speed metal cult Sacrifizer stream the entirety of their debut mini-album, La Mort Triomphante – which is being released on December 13th via Dying Victims Productions on vinyl LP format . Enhanced with the band’s 2018 demo and one new track, the infernal majesty of La Mort Triomphante has now been expanded into full-length format.
Hear Sacrifizer‘s vinyl edition of La Mort Triomphante in its entirety here:
Originally released earlier this year on limited-edition CD and cassette, La Mort Triomphante was Sacrifizer‘s glorious burst from the underground. At five furious tracks and atmosphere-setting intro, La Mort Triomphante sounds much like its cover looks: icy yet fiery, galloping forward like evil invaders with a violent restitution. Indeed, Sacrifizer are 100% cult speed metal sewn from ancient Canadian cloth, but other fibers from ’80s France and Germany also comprise their patchwork of salacious speed and bestial devastation. Grounded in the more traditional end of speed metal, the quintet keep their songwriting focused and straightforward, maximizing hooks and never forgetting the eternal magick of a good guitar solo; even the production itself on La Mort Triomphante is era-authentic but never smacks of cheap retro-posturing. The same could be said for their debut demo, Night of the Razors, which is here amended to this special LP version. A bit more berzerker and dripping with diabolism, Sacrifizer early on indeed exuded some Morsüre vibes. “Morbid Envenomation,” the brand-new track exclusive to this vinyl LP, ends off the record with the band in full-on epic and EVIL mode, pointing the way toward Sacrifizer‘s inevitable debut album, which is bound to be a modern classic…soon!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Sacrifizer’s La Mort Triomphante
1. Winds of Transylvania (Intro)
2. The Grave of Nosferatu
3. By Fist, Leather and Steel
4. Blackfire Wytch
5. Massacrator (Midnight Ripping)
6. La mort triomphante
7. Night of the Razors
8. Grim Torment
9. Profane Forces
10. Morbid Envenomation


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Hard-rocking ultra-black speed metallers Bütcher premiere new video

Today, hard-rocking ultra-black speed metallers Bütcher premiere the new video “45 RPM Metal“ . The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, 666 Goats Carry My Chariot, set for international release on January 31st, 2020 via Osmose Productions. See & hear Bütcher‘s brand-new “45 RPM Metal” video in its entirety here:
Bütcher vocalist R Hellshrieker reports the following: “We are extremely proud to see the upcoming album taking its final twisted form. We have worked tremendously hard to make this a unique output in the overabundance of digitally altered releases. The sonic layers of analog mayhem that have shaped our identity on the first album were molded once again in the Voodoosound Studios, but this time with a clear focus. With the previous experience under our belt, there was far less need for experimenting with all the vintage equipment, and we took the opportunity to include every detail that accentuates the deeper layers of the songs. This brings it as close as possible to the vision that main songwriter KK Ripper and I intended for this LP.”
  Continuing, he says, “The album was recorded in just one week, a very short timespan for an analog recording – where the title song, for instance, uses all 24 tracks on the tape! – and with LV Speedhämmer laying down the drums after only joining the band 1-2 weeks prior to the recordings. It was a turbulent period for the band, dealing with last minute line-up changes and constantly playing live shows during most of the year. But it has paid off – the album lives, it thrives, it breathes with vicious abandon, and it assaults the mind of the listener. One can almost taste the anger, the tenacity, the strength and the perseverance on this. In the face of adversity, the album was constantly playing in our heads, and KK Ripper has just pumped out riff after riff, lead after lead, the way he composed it. I turned my lungs into leather for this and screamed out all my frustrations. And now it is a victory for us to be able to present this full-length effort in its splendid glory.”

R Hellshrieker concludes: “With a sublime mastering by Arthur Rizk, this album seems to be played straight from mount Olympus, and granted both grandeur and destructive power by the thunderbolts of Zeus himself. The album flows from pure speed ‘n’ heavy metal over extreme thrash, to a black/speed/heavy metal hybrid on side B. To accompany our mixture of metal, there was only ever going to be the epic artwork of none other than Kris Verwimp.  To Bütcher, there is simply no better way to use that as the finishing touch for an Osmose release. We couldn’t have been more proud of the result. And the time for absolute vengeance, and our Second Prayer in service to the Godz of Steele, is nigh.”

Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Bütcher’s 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
1. Inauguration of Steele
2. Iron Bitch
3. 45 RPM Metal
4. Metallström/Face the Bütcher
5. Sentinels of Dethe
6. 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
7. Viking Funeral
8. Brazen Serpent
9. Exaltation of Sulphur
MORE INFO:
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Canadian war metal cult Trajeto de Cabra stream Iron Bonehead Debut

Today, Canadian war metal cult Trajeto de Cabra stream the entirety of their striking debut album, Supreme Command of Satanic Will. Set for international release on December 13th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Trajeto de Cabra‘s Supreme Command of Satanic Will in its entirety here:
Hailing from the Canadian province of British Columbia, with psychic connections to the legendary Ross Bay Cult and featuring members of labelmates Necroholocaust, Trajeto de Cabra are verily a vortex of warring black/death energies, disgusting blackgrind given violently hypnotic flight through sheer Satanic will. Indeed, not for nothing is their long-brewing debut album titled as such: Supreme Command of Satanic Will says everything it needs to, no more but certainly no less.

Trajeto de Cabra‘s first cacophonous rumblings came in 2013, with the Antichrist Dominum demo and then a split album with now-labelmates Sacrocurse. Then, a five-year silence followed while the lineup was expanded to a quartet for a fuller and fouler sound. At last, that full foulness arrives with Supreme Command of Satanic Will, a seven-song/32-minute torrent of militant-yet-loose explosions of utterly unrelenting WAR METAL. But, let it be known that the nomenclature of “war metal” here is rooted in the far-less-populous and more nebulous days of the mid/late ’90s, when lone wolves seeking the secrets of chaos began clandestine explorations of the frayed ends of (in)sanity that linked black metal, death metal, and grindcore together – or torn apart, as Trajeto de Cabra vulgarly display here. Nearly everything across the rusted barbed-wire landscape of Supreme Command of Satanic Will spells a slipstream like no other: red-eyed and heaving violence ripped inside out, tension and terror bazooka-blown into the ether with cruel disregard for comfort or even comprehension, slashing seasickness shot out into the coldest reaches of the cosmos. The end here is infinite.

“In Fear of Saturn” begins the album, with “Heretic Terrorist” as its finale. Between these two iron-fisted poles resides the overwhelming totality of Trajeto de Cabra‘s Supreme Command of Satanic Will.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Trajeto de Cabra’s Supreme Command of Satanic Will
1. In Fear Of Saturn
2. The Final Gate
3. Cursed Graves Of The Unanointed
4. Scythe Of Pestilence
5. Supreme Command Of Satanic Will
6. Blackened Hands Of The Impure
7. Heretic Terrorist
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Tombs sign to Season of Mist and premiere new song

Tombs sign to Season of Mist and premiere new song

Season of Mist are proud to announce the signing of Brooklyn black metal formation TOMBS. The band will release their new EP ‘Monarchy of Shadows’ on February 28, 2020. The first self titled track is now streaming
TOMBS mastermind Mike Hill comments: “I’ve been a huge fan of Season of Mist for years, so I feel honored for TOMBS to be joining the label. The rest of the guys share the same sentiments. ‘Monarchy of Shadows’ is a full on display of the new era of the band. Ferocious, brutal, but with an intense introspection. This is the best work that we’ve done to date.”
The cover artwork for ‘Monarchy of Shadows’ was created by Valnoir and can be found below, together with the tracklist.
Tracklist
1. Monarchy of Shadows (07:32)
2. Once Falls the Guillotine (04:44)
3. Necro Alchemy (05:47)
4. Man Behind the Sun (06:02)
5. The Dark Rift (05:58)
6. Path of Totality (Midnight Sun) (04:44)
Total: 0:34:47
Brooklyn black metal formation TOMBS has emerged with the next chapter in the band’s impressive catalog and growing legacy, ‘Monarchy of Shadows’. The EP features six brand new songs on which the four piece is bristling with a combination of ages-old anger and newfound energy.

Formed in the gritty corners of pre-gentrified Brooklyn, NY, in 2007, TOMBS’ early mandate was steeped in the harshness and atonality of black metal but dosed with trace amounts of the varied influences and inspirations ingrained in founder Michael Hill’s musical muscle memory by previous bands (VERSOMA).

Those early years delivered splits and singles, the highly revered ‘Winter Hours’ debut in 2009 and Decibel’s 2011 Album of the Year, ‘Path of Totality’. Never one to sit still, ‘Path of Totality’ was followed by appreciable and impressive amounts of touring in accordance with the lauding afforded by critics and fans and the braying of foes, which only served as fuel for Hill’s perseverance.

‘Savage Gold’ came three years later after which a restless Hill began nudging TOMBS’ black metal base into territories populated by gothic and death rock artists like FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM and SISTERS OF MERCY as well as avant-garde purveyors Caspar Brotzmann and LIVE SKULL while never forgetting – or being able to – scrape the grime of NYC from under his fingernails. The addition of a second guitar and live keyboards/samples brought a fuller sound and allowed noise sequences and soundscapes to be brought to the live show.

It was around the time of 2016 ‘All Empires Fall’ EP that TOMBS punctuated its iconoclastic spirit and thought process. A one album stint in 2017 under the Metal Blade banner birthed ‘The Grand Annihilation’ into the world where TOMBS took broader and more daring steps into buffering black metal with morose melody, sullen death rock and classic Metallica chugging.

Signing a new record deal with Season of Mist, and working with a new line-up featuring drummer Justin Spaeth, guitarist Matt Medeiros and bassist Drew Murphy, the EP marks the start of a new chapter in the band’s history. ‘Monarchy of Shadows’ further twists black metal’s DNA around dank emotional corners, psychological turmoil and the urban underbelly.Links
https://www.facebook.com/TombsBklyn/ 
https://www.instagram.com/tombscult/ 
https://twitter.com/TOMBS666 
https://tombsbklyn.bandcamp.com/ 

Line-Up:
Mike Hill – guitar / vocals
Justin Spaeth – drums /electronics
Drew Murphy – bass / vocals
Matt Medieiros – guitar / vocals

Necronomicon release NSFW video for ”The Thousand Masks”

Necronomicon release NSFW video for ”The Thousand Masks”

Canadian blackened death metal masters NECRONOMICON  premiere their horror-fueled music video for the song, “The Thousand Masks.”
The track is taken from the band’s latest record, ‘UNUS,’ which was released this October via Season of Mist. The NSFW video, which serves as a cautionary tale of why you shouldn’t mess with the grimoire, can be seen below.
Speaking of the video, Rob ‘The Witch’ comments: “Over 30 years ago we started a project called Necronomicon writing about H.P. Lovecraft mythos and with time passing, we decided to pay homage to the origin of our name and fully embrace it. The stars are aligned the time is right to reveal the many forms under “The Thousand masks”.
The album cover and the tracklist of ‘UNUS’ can be found below. The cover art has been created by Simon Bossert.
Tracklist
1. From Ashes into Flesh  (04:23)
2. Infinitum Continuum (05:27)
3. Paradise Lost (04:55)
4. The Price of a Soul (01:56)
5. Singularis Dominus (04:50)
6. The Thousand Masks (03:20)
7. Ascending The throne of Baator (04:54)
8. Fhtagn (01:59)
9. Cursed MMXIX  (04:13)
10. Vox Draconis (04:13)
Total playing time: 0:40:10
Montreal’s premier blackened death metallers are back with ‘UNUS’, the crushing and cinematic follow up to 2016’s ‘Advent of the Human God’. With each record NECRONOMICON has created in the span of their 31-year career, the band has steadily evolved in both sound and power; ‘UNUS’ is no exception to this.
 
Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s legendary grimoire, NECRONOMICON formed in 1988 by founding guitarist and singer Rob “The Witch” in the deep, northern part of Canadian province Quebec, Fjord of Saguenay. Since then, the band have carefully released each full-length without haste, allowing them to perfect every nuance before unleashing their sonic assaults upon the masses. In 2019, NECRONOMICON was presented with a certificate of honor for over 30 years of service via H.S. production/Tommy Tremblay, and the people of Saguenay Lac St Jean, making them the second band after VOIVOD to ever receive this honor.
 
‘UNUS’ is a searing cacophony of blistering riffs, machine-like drums, and a symphonic ambience, culminating in a sound that calls to various metal icons such as DIMMU BORGIR, SEPTICFLESH, BEHEMOTH, and DEICIDE. The record combines the furious elements of death metal with the orchestral prowess of black metal, creating the perfect synthesis of both genres. Standout tracks like “Paradise Lost” and “Singularis Dominus” only solidify NECRONOMICON’s ability to continuously produce high quality metal that’s just as dark and brutal as it is elegant.

Line-up
Rob the Witch: Guitar/vocals
Divider: drums

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IMPRECATION and BLACK BLOOD INVOCATION stream new HELTER SKELTER split album

IMPRECATION and BLACK BLOOD INVOCATION stream new HELTER SKELTER split album at “Decibel” magazine’s website

Today, Helter Skelter Productions (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) releases Diabolical Flames of the Ascended Plague, a special split album between America’s Imprecation and Greece’s Black Blood Invocation, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats..

Hear the brand-new Imprecation / Black Blood Invocation split album here:
Truly titled, Diabolical Flames of the Ascended Plague brings together two of the most bestial death metal cults of the modern era. Imprecation, of course, fought the good fight for most of the ‘90s, crafting a handful of now-classic EPs and demos that displayed their vision as being decades ahead of the game. Reinvigorated in 2009, Imprecation have only continued to get better and better, belying their veteran status as band: most their age wimp out, but not these Satanic Texas warlords! Here, they deliver two exclusive tracks (plus mystical outro) which hammer and slice, doom and dredge, whipping forth a maniacal warlust that’s as black and bewitching as it comes. Of especial note is a rerecording of the 1994 track “Emperor of Infernal Spirits,” which features guest vocals by Seth Decay of Ritual Decay and Morbus 666.
Not to be outdone, Black Blood Invocation likewise deliver three exclusive tracks (plus atmosphere-setting intro) that continue the malevolent momentum created by their preceding EP and demo. As such, their militantly pulsing blackgrind purports a uniquely Greek aspect, goatly and ominous and drawing down the moon. While influences of Archgoat and VON were indeed clear before, now are the duo setting upon more individualist ground, tantalizing the devout for their inevitable full-length debut.

With always classic artwork courtesy of the master Chris Moyen, Diabolical Flames of the Ascended Plague is a gutsfucking, middle-fingered statement of intent from the allied forces of Imprecation and Black Blood Invocation!

Aforementioned cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Diabolical Flames of the Ascended Plague 1. A World Consumed in Fire
2. Swine Full of Maggots
3. Emperor of Infernal Spirits
4. Sigil of Lucifer
5. Congregation of Profane Ascension
6. Evocation of the Alla Xul
7. The Burning Effigy of Moloch
8. Atazoth Nexion
  ***tracks 1-4 = Imprecation / tracks 5-8 = Black Blood Invocation***
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EARTH ROT unveil cover artwork and other album details

Australian blackened death metal outfit EARTH ROT are now unveiling the cover artwork and album details of their upcoming opus ‘Black Tides of Obscurity’ which will be released on March 06, 2020 via Season of Mist.

EARTH ROT comment: “A morbid hallucination of the inevitable end. Heralded by titanic black waves, monstrous tentacles spill forth from the abyss, accompanied by a total fracturing of the mind. Hanging black in the heavens, an all-seeing spectre of the adversary confirms our darkest fear: doom is coming for us all. It is with much excitement we reveal the title and artwork for our upcoming Season of Mist debut release, Black Tides of Obscurity with artwork by the exceptional Khaos Diktator Design. To celebrate the album release, we’ve handpicked lineups of the best that Australia’s underground metal scene has to offer. Direct support comes from South Australia’s most blasphemous sons: Christ Dismembered.”
Track-list
1. Dread Rebirth (5:57)
2. New Horns (4:14)
3. Towards A Godless Shrine (5:39)
4. Unparalleled Gateways To Higher Obliteration (5:16)
5. Ancestral Vengeance (4:21)
6. The Cape Of Storms (4:03)
7. Serpent’s Ocean (4:31)
8. Mind Killer (3:29)
9. Unravelling Vapour Of Sanity (5:14)
10. Out In The Cold (2:43)
Total    0:45:27

EARTH ROT are furthermore announcing a special run of Australian release shows for ‘Black Tides Of Obscurity’. A list of all confirmed dates can be found below.
EARTH ROT
Release shows
06 Mar 20 Perth (AU) The Boston
07 Mar 20 Brisbane (AU) Crowbar
08 Mar 20 Melbourne (AU) Bendigo Hotel
09 Mar 20 Adeleide (AU) Jive Bar
It’s not all prog that comes from the land down under! EARTH ROT; Australia’s blackened death metal machine, with an old-school undercurrent and a sense of grim relentless groove. It is hateful, harmful, sinister and melancholy noise shaped by the world around you. 

Since the inception in 2014, EARTH ROT have pulled no punches, recording, releasing and touring heavily across Australia, Asia and Europe with no intent of settling for anything less. Their debut album ‘Follow The Black Smoke’ was released in the same year, quickly followed by the ‘Chthonian Virtues’ EP (2016) and the second full length ‘Renascentia’ in 2017.

Cultivating their sound in direct support of legends in the realms of black metal and death metal, around the world. The band embarked on heavy tours together with acts like FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, PSYCROPTIC, VADER and MARDUK.

The past five years has seen EARTH ROT quickly develop into a complex beast, dwelling in the deepest of pits. And this beast is ready to be released upon the masses… 

Line-up:
Jared Bridgeman – vocals, bass
Tom Waterhouse – guitar, backing vocals
Colin Dickie – guitar
Daniel Maloney – drums

Links:
www.earthrot.com.au
www.earthrotaus.bandcamp.com
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DKBM stalwarts Blot & Bod stream new Iron Bonehead album

Today, DKBM stalwarts Blot & Bod stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, Ormekongens Argelist. Set for international release on December 6th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Blot & Bod‘s Ormekongens Argelist in its entirety here:
Blot & Bod is Jøran Elvestad and brothers Erik and Jesper Bagger Hviid – a Norwegian and two Danes. The trio serves in the new wave of DKBM under the Korpsånd banner, with members also taking part in such bands as Jordslået, Grifla da la Secta, War is Aer, BRODER and Ærekær. Just one year ago, the band released their debut album, Ligæder, on vinyl LP format through Iron Bonehead. Although it was initially released on cassette (as was their debut EP) through Fallow Field, this Iron Bonehead edition of Blot & Bod‘s debut album spread their name far and wide, proclaiming a new iron-fisted iteration of primitive black metal fury.

Wasting little time nor resting on any laurels, Blot & Bod intensify that iron-fisted iteration with a swift ‘n’ decisive second LP, Ormekongens Argelist. As every other release from the aforementioned Copenhagen scene, Ormekongens Argelist was recorded in a studio at the legendary venue Mayhem, ensuring clear-yet-cutting production that heightens Blot & Bod‘s bloodthirsty attack. From their mutual cultural heritage and through their respective native tongues, the power-trio have fully established a framework of Norse mythology, where they throw you deeper into head-first into their idiosyncratic battlefield. Just like on Ligæder, here the swords of both mind and body cross blades till they are worn down to grains and are ready to be forged back into shape.

No great changes take place across Ormekongens Argelist, nor should they: Blot & Bod have crafted a singular sound that’s reverent of black metal traditionalism but by no means is bound to it unnecessarily. Simply, their spiritual spectrum is more focused than ever, a joyously violent bounty of minimal-is-maximal songwriting executed (literally) with the fury and finesse of craftsmen quickly becoming cognizant of their boundless powers. And, just like that, within 30 minutes is Ormekongens Argelist concluded, and Blot & Bod emerge transcendent. Burn brightly, burn quickly, but never fade away…

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Blot & Bod’s Ormekongens Argelist
1. Skred
2. Hug
3. Åråd
4. Tæft
5. Hævd
6. Slid
7. Hob
8. Tet
9. Snok
10. Arg
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Monolithic black/death cult Witchbones stream new Iron Bonehead album

Today, monolithic black/death cult Witchbones stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, The Seas of Draugen. Set for international release on December 6th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Witchbones‘ The Seas of Draugen in its entirety here:
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, just last year did Witchbones form but soon began an onslaught of dark ‘n’ devastating short-lengths. At the beginning of 2019 alone, mainman Vardlokker released two EPs a month apart – Akasha and Entropy Rite, respectively, through Witchbones‘ Bandcamp – and right behind it, the aptly titled debut album We Haunt Ourselves. More momentum continued with the Akasha II The Lost Demos compilation and then another EP, The Mirror Effect, slated for Halloween.

But, like a man possessed, Vardlokker aligns himself with Iron Bonehead to unleash Witchbones‘ densest and most penetrating recording yet, The Seas of Draugen. Like its aquatic, mythological namesake, here does Vardlokker drown the listener in wave after wave of shuddering, shivering horror that looks and sounds and feels very much like familiar bestial black/death, but is instead uniquely imbued with a wandering, amorphous atmosphere that creates a truly unsettling tension. Crushing but cast away, doomed to solitude and one’s own internal destruction, the literally massive, ever-so-slowly-roiling maelstrom Witchbones conjures forth is echoed within the thematic arc of The Seas of Draugen itself: setting sail with “The Nun Collector,” taking in a “Nebulous Ghost Ship” later on, and sending that listener to the torrid depths, that veritable Davy Jones’ Locker of the soul & spirit, with the concluding trifecta of “The Ritual Continues (We Haunt Ourselves),” “At the Shores (Draugen’s Revenge),” and “The Candle Burns Alone (Dead Sailors).”

Smothered by the sea, ravaged by bestial frequency, DOOM assuredly and austerely spelled out either way, Witchbones commits you to the gravest depths of The Seas of Draugen.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Witchbones’ The Seas of Draugen
1. The Nun Collector
2. Whispering Martyr
3. The Seas of Draugen
4. Nebulous Ghost Ship
5. The Ritual Continues (We Haunt Ourselves)
6. At the Shores (Draugen’s Revenge)
7. The Candle Burns Alone (Dead Sailors)
MORE INFO:
www.witchbvnes.bandcamp.com

Bestial black/death commando Human Agony stream Invictus debut album

Today, bestial black/death commando Human Agony stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album. Set for international release today via Invictus Productions, hear Human Agony‘s Putrescence of Calvary in its entirety here.
Since forming in 2016, Human Agony have cast an outsized shadow. Having released just a handful of demos and splits, Human Agony‘s catalog is sparse but strong, corroborated by the band’s devastating live performances on recent tours. With this debut full-length, Putrescence of Calvary, Human Agony display the full might of their weaponry.

Comparisons to Conqueror, Revenge, and Black Witchery are inevitable, and indeed, Human Agony are among the few elite bands deserving of such comparisons. That the band hails from Victoria, B.C.—known for the infamous Ross Bay Cemetery and a longstanding history of Satanic and occult activity—naturally also draws attention to the profound influence of Blasphemy. But Human Agony offer more than rote regurgitation of the bestial black/death and war metal tropes.

Whereas many, if not most, bands that attempt to play this subgenre tend to be style over substance, Human Agony demonstrate an intense dedication to writing songs that are complex and captivating. While the musicianship on these tracks is undeniably impressive, it is the strength of the songwriting that truly set Human Agony apart. Each track contains a procession of riffs, precisely pieced together, with the collection of songs strategically sequenced to highlight the compositional arc of the album as a whole.

Significantly, the production showcases the instrumentation while maintaining the natural cacophony the band cultivates. The guitars stand out just enough to give voice to the riffs, as the frenzied, violent pulse of the drums bludgeons the listener. The unhinged solos and precise cutaways add a degree of unpredictability to the songs, while the wretched vocals lend a feral element to the recording. Interspersed among the tracks are occasional unsettling interludes and extraneous noise to disorient the listener before being propelled back into the fray. Bookending the album are an intro and outro performed by harsh noise musician Striations, who has toured with and collaborated with Human Agony in the past.

In every way, Putrescence of Calvary is the fulfillment of the promise of Human Agony‘s earlier work—the blood-drenched blossom of war’s carnage. Finally, the cover illustration by the skilled and highly regarded Finnish artist Heidi Kettunen, known for contributing cover art for Ride For Revenge, superbly complements Human Agony‘s music and provides a fitting aesthetic for this debut album.

Order info can be found HERE at Invictus‘ Bandcamp.
Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Human Agony’s Putrescence of Calvary
1. Introduction
2. Corpse Womb of Antichrist
3. Unwilling Blood
4. Covering Cherubim
5. Doctrine of Cruelty
6. Mouth of Spears
7. …
8. Purity Withdrawn / Angelic Castration
9. Mastered on Crucifix
10. Eviscerated for Ritual
11. Putrescence of Calvary
12. Outro
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