Black Metal

OLD SPIRIT stream new BRIGHT AS NIGHT album – features members of JEX THOTH, VANISHING KIDS+++

Today, heavy metal outsiders Old Spirit stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, Burning in Heaven. Set for international release on February 24th via Bright as Night Records, hear Old Spirit’s Burning in Heaven in its entirety exclusively here:

Unveiled at the dawn of 2022 with a self-titled album, Old Spirit was a new creation of Jason Hartman, renown for Svart recording artists Vanishing Kids as well as being a frequent collaborator with Jex Thoth. By and large a solo effort, Old Spirit indeed lived up to its moniker with a wild ‘n’ weird amalgamation of elder heavy metal and hard rock tropes, all done with Hartman’s characteristically lysergic sensibilities.

Feverish in his creativity – and lest we forget the concurrently revealed Night Eyez, who made its recorded debut a month later with an also-self-titled debut for Bright as Night – Old Spirit returns with another new full-length, evocatively titled Burning in Heaven. With a title such as that, it’s no surprise that Hartman turns a darker page here – and then proceeds to singe the edges of that page with delirious, devilish delight. Immediately, the record sounds like Old Spirit – classic heavy metal torched with the fractal gaze of psychedelia, with RIFFS fully front and center – but dive deeper into Burning in Heaven and the landscape becomes weirder and heavier. Warped chunks of thrash and doom get thrown into Hartman’s cauldron, and then are stirred with electronic seasoning just as the edges of perception; early death metal even makes an appearance here, likewise warped to fuck. Lyrically, the concepts across the album range from pro-spirituality / anti-religion to climate issues and urgencies to take care of our planet as well as ourselves. Suitably, Hartman’s vocals take on a sometimes-sinister gravitas, while elsewhere, he’s his characteristically crooked self that somehow sounds like an ancient wizard and rock god simultaneously. 

Slow burn or scorched earth? Burning in Heaven offers many questions, and the riddle continues with a musical amalgam that includes Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, and Arthur Brown – Obituary, Trouble, and Hawkwind. How will you answer the Old Spirit?

Preorder info can be found HERE at Old Spirit‘s Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Old Spirit’s Burning in Heaven
1. Burning In Heaven
2. Dim Aura
3. Ash
4. Fallacy
5. When The Spirit Slips Away
6. Angel Blood
7. Bleak Chapel
8. In Dismay

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/brightasnightrecords

HERETIC CULT REDEEMER set release date for new III DAMNATION album, reveal first track

On April 21st internationally, III Damnation Productions is proud to present Heretic Cult Redeemer‘s highly anticipated third album, Flagellum Universalis, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Formed in 2009, Heretic Cult Redeemer was created in Athens by Funus (ex-Acrimonious), D, and T. A few months later, V (ex-Embrace of Thorns, ex-Acrimonious) joined the band with the aim to record their debut album, the self-titled Heretic Cult Redeemer, which was released in 2013. V left the band, and C. Docre (Acrimonious) and N3, completing the lineup Heretic Cult Redeemer‘s eventual second album, Kelevsma, released in 2018.

Never ones to rush nor adopt half-measures, Heretic Cult Redeemer have completed their third album, Flagellum Universalis, which features the lineup of vocalist/bassist Funus, guitarist/bassist Tempest, guitarist N3, and drummer C. Docre. Undoubtedly the band’s best lineup yet, suitably do they deliver their strongest recorded statement yet in Flagellum Univerisalis. Nearing a full hour in length, the album is literally MASSIVE as well as ceremonial, invoking a new era for Heretic Cult Redeemer as well as reinvigoration of orthodox/religious-style black metal. Never forgetting their more death metalled roots, the band’s gnawing & gnarly epics feature as much brawn as brain as they spiral outward from an ominous core.

With form meeting content, the lyrics to the nine-song Flagellum Universalis are indeed heady. The concept of record plunges into the paths of the primeval human urge of opposition to law and structure; it is a profound spiritual and philosophical journey towards Eosphoric self-knowledge. Heretic Cult Redeemer consider themselves as the means, harbingers, and vessels of Luciferian and Promethean teachings, as expressed through the frenzy, of the touch of Echidna.

To date, Heretic Cult Redeemer‘s catalog has been of sterling quality if not unheralded. However, the Greeks’ boldest steps – their first foray into the halls of greatness – now come with Flagellum Universalis. Behold, and redeem thyself!

Begin redemption with the brand-new track “Intoxication Divine”  here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Heretic Cult Redeemer’s Flagellum Universalis
1. Lunar Reign – Lunar Apogee    
2. Intoxication Divine    
3. Ascending Perfection    
4. Lapsit Exillis    
5. The Woven Chords of Ecstasy    
6. Grave Sophia – Breath of the Night    
7. Eye of the Saturnian Dawn    
8. Primeval Cognition I    
9. Primeval Cognition II

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/Heretic-Cult-Redeemer-108482089276374

www.facebook.com/iiidamnationproductions

NECROVESCENT RUINER “Untouchable Faith Decay”

Setting the stage for the end of days, Untouchable Faith Decay is a concept piece that takes place in a pre-post-apocalyptic setting, where implant tech went overboard hundreds of years prior and fused with our DNA causing ghastly “upgrades” to the human experience. If you have less than 8 eyes, you are considered unclean, untouchable. 

“Stop trying so hard, let reality wash over you like a fresh acid shower,” project architect Andrew Stromstad (BOX) muses as the analog for the decay of existence takes shape. This project is a single take, wherein Andrew is “letting the entirety of what I am capable of doing fall out in an instant without any retakes.” 

Untouchable Faith Decay is musically and thematically a journey through decay and depravity, one of perpetual solitude and aching hopelessness, driven straight into the heart of who we are. This is cheerless music for sunless days.

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/miserablepyre/ https://necrovescentruiner.bandcamp.com/album/untouchable-faith-decay

WITTE WIEVEN set release date for BABYLON DOOM CULT debut, reveal first track

Today, Babylon Doom Cult Records announces April 14th as the international release date for Witte Wieven‘s highly anticipated debut album, Dwaallicht, on vinyl LP format.

Dense atmospheres luring the ones that hear. Finding your way in intensity, sometimes threatening and lost. The path seems clear, but stick to it too long and the path is what makes you lost. Witte Wieven weave such sonic spells with alchemical ease.

Since their formation in 2014, Witte Wieven have been patiently perfecting their sound, first with the Silhouettes of an Imprisoned Mind EP in 2016 and then their split with Reiziger, Vlucht, in 2018. A blend of dissonance, dreamy landscapes, and alternately grooving/gnarly riffs, the duo of C. (guitar, vocals) and S. (drums) try to find their way through the echoes of creating. But the recorded experience is not only side to Witte Wieven: the band made their live debut at Roadburn 2019, accompanied by W. Damiaen (Laster) on guitar and Dave (Gott, Ggu:ll) on bass guitar. By and large, that esteemed performance introduced this apparition to the wider world, but now it’s set to fly farther and freer…

At last: Witte Wieven‘s debut album, Dwaallicht. Both a summation and extension of their prior short-lengths, the six-song/42-minute Dwaallicht lays bare a stark-yet-sumptuous canvas of shimmering black metal and delirious doom, threaded together with the subtly unfolding dynamics of the best post-rock. It’s at once an incredibly physical experience and one that’s ghostly and atmospheric, its ripples of shadowy sound revealing everything and nothing simultaneously; one must possess the fortitude to peer deeply into their abyss to see the full fathom of emotions and sensations lurking down there. One minute compared to the other might suggest combative contrasts, but each minute is as crucial as the last as well as the next: with songs at their briefest being five minutes and stretching all the way to ten, the journey itself is arguably more important then the destination. Put another way, Witte Wieven are like the beings that lurk in the mist – a pretty sight, but with a tempting, dangerous darkness. And Dwaallicht‘s landscape seemingly stretches infinitely…

Begin viewing that landscape with the brand-new track “Drogbeeld” here:

Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Witte Wieven’s Dwaallicht
1. Ontsponnen uit de diepte [7:34]
2. Koorddanser [5:38]
3. Drogbeeld [8:42]
4. Het mistige zicht [5:08]
5. Kringen 5:09]
6. Met beide benen in het niets (Live) [9:10]

MORE INFO:
www.wittewieven.bandcamp.com 
www.facebook.com/wittewievenofficial

www.babylondoomcultrecords.com

GRAFVITNIR sign with SHADOW, prepare new album

Shadow Records and Grafvitnir are joining forces in spiritual warfare against the modern world…

Grafvitnir, the Nordic torchbearers of serpent fire, have joined forces with Shadow Records: a match made in the misty regions of Hell, and a conspiracy established and consecrated by the night spirits of the Netherworld. With dagger blades sharpened to rip apart the veils of modernity and conformity, this shadowy alliance is bound to vengeance and rebellion and gathered together to greet the storm of the end times. 

Grafvitnir‘s music has often been described as a freezing tempest with occult overtures or a maelstrom of icy tones with venomous incantations as if spewed out by the primordial serpent itself, and rightfully so. Distinctively Nordic in atmosphere and feeling, Grafvitnir are not only the Norse carriers of the Luciferian flame, but also standard bearers for the classic Swedish black metal sound in its entirety. 

This is the darkness of Death…


MORE INFO:
www.grafvitnir.bandcamp.com 

www.shadowrecords.se
www.regainrecords.se
www.facebook.com/shadowrecords.se

MINENWERFER reveal first track from new OSMOSE album

Today, WWI-themed black metallers Minenwerfer reveal the new track “Feuerwalze.” The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fourth album, Feuerwalze, set for international release on March 10th via Osmose Productions. Hear a special edit of Minenwerfer‘s title track “Feuerwalze” in its entirety here:

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.

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]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/minenwerfer

www.osmoseproductions.com

DIABLATION set release date for new OSMOSE album – features members of SETH, AD INFERNA, ANOREXIA NERVOSA, GLACIATION, BÂ’A+++

Today, Osmose Productions announces March 31st as the international release date Diablation‘s second album, Par Le Feu, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Veterans of French black metal Vicomte Vampyr Arkames and V. Orias. A, after having respectively created and burnt their soul in Seth and Ad Inferna, deliver Diablation‘s second album, named Par le Feu.

Without concession, this opus is a true ode to the death of humanity, the cataclysmic account of its last hours carried by a metallic wave honoring their black metal roots, those of the ’90s.

Joined by Maximilien B. (Bâ’a) and X, the quartet, deeply rooted in the underground and refusing any public appearance, mischievously alternates grandiloquent moments and passages of rare violence: the quiet times are short-lived, the continuous onslaught of tragic and addictive melodies leading relentlessly to the end of time.

“Par le Feu, Par le Sang, Par la Haine”: thus begins one of the major albums of the French extreme scene.

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

Tracklisting for Diablation’s Par Le Feu
1. Inferi Ostium [0:51]
2. Vox Diaboli [4:44]
3. L’Unique Merveille [5:34]
4. Au Bord du Gouffre [4:59]
5. Crépuscule Doré [4:23]
6. Testament de l’Humanité [5:48]
7. Mort, Marche avec Moi [13:31]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/diablation

www.osmoseproductions.com

SATANIKA reveal first track from new OSMOSE album

Today, Italian blackthrashers Satanika reveal the new track “Tentacles of Horror.” The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fifth album, Horde of Disgust, set for international release on February 24th via Osmose Productions. Hear Satanika‘s “Tentacles of Horror” in its entirety here:

Evil has returned… more aggression… more morbid…

More evil and darker than ever…

More heads will bang by this new thrash/black metal menace by the Italian incarnation of sleaze called SATANIKA!

This time, it’s diabolical… this time is ripping evil metal…

A merciless plunge into the depths of Hell, surrounded by obscure and blasphemic beings…

Preorder link can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Satanika’s Horde of Disgust

1. Not Of This Earth [2:26]
2. The Void [3:55]
3. Cosmic Funeral [4:43]
4. Horde of Disgust [4:09]
5. The Fog [3:50]
6. Their Hands Upon Our Throat [3:50]
7. Tentacles of Horror [3:45]
8. Cursed Be Thy Name [3:49]
9. The Absolute Torment [3:02]
10. Bleed for Darkness [3:47]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/satanikattack

www.osmoseproductions.com

THYSIA set release date for CHAOS RECORDS debut, reveal first track – features members of HAEMOPHAGUS, MESSA, UNDEAD CREEP, ASSUMPTION+++

Today, Chaos Records announces April 7th as the international release date for Thysia‘s striking debut album, Islands in Cosmic Darkness, on CD format.

Translated from ancient Greek as “ritual sacrifice,” Thysia was spawned in 2019 in Cavaso del Tomba (Treviso, Italy) by Nefasto on guitar and vocals, Mistyr on drums, and Nihil on bass; Fenrir joins in 2021 and takes over vocals. The band’s collective experience includes the likes of Haemophagus, Messa, Undead Creep, Assumption, and Nox Interitus. After a couple of interruptions due to the outbreak of the pandemic, Thysia completed their first public work, the full-length Islands in Cosmic Darkness. 

Just as Thysia are aptly monikered, so, too, is Islands in Cosmic Darkness truly titled. Its black metal is deeply rooted in the ancients, but not just one corridor of this rich tradition; lurking within Thysia‘s cauldron, one will find Craft, Varathron, Mayhem, Celtic Frost, Tangorodrim, and early Rotting Christ among others. With a suitably cavernous but fully physical sound, Islands in Cosmic Darkness sends out undulating sinewaves of spiritual negativity, its lyrical references rooted in Greek mythology and its inner cosmic landscapes expanding outward from an austere core. Put another way, Thysia in general and their debut album in particular sound astoundingly OLD – not simply “old” like ’90s black metal, but rather old as the earth itself. Dusty and dusky like so much Mediterranean black metal from the darkest past, these sonic bones and scrolls emit a blanching aspect that’s simply impossible to find these days. Modernity is left to rot in Thysia‘s world.

For those who thrill to the equally eldritch likes of Negative Plane, Malokarpatan, Cultes des Ghoules, and Funereal Presence, prepare to have your coordinates rearranged by Thysia‘s Islands in Cosmic Darkness.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Psallo” here:

Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Nihil, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Thysia’s Islands in Cosmic Darkness

1. Nexus of Cataclysmic Forces
2. Scorched Bronze Earth
3. Phrenes
4. Psallo
5. Communicating Halls of the Netherworld
6. Moira Krataià
7. Spiritual Desert
8. Islands in Cosmic Darkness

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/thysia666

www.chaos-records.com
www.facebook.com/chaosrecords

Omega Infinity release 3rd track ‘Death Rays’ into the solar system

The universe is ready for the new offering. Void Metal outfit OMEGA INFINITY, the project of Xenoyr (NE OBLIVISCARIS) and Tentakel P. (TODTGELICHTER), are now releasing their third new single ‘Death Rays‘. The track is taken from their upcoming album “The Anticurrent” which will drop down on this planet via Season of Mist on the 24th of February, 2023. 

‘Death Rays’ is now streaming here:

The album translates the assumption of the whole universe being originated from the Big Bang, where the currents eventually draws everything back into the Void. OMEGA INFINITY leaves their personal note on ‘Death Rays‘ here:

“The life cycle of the universe comes to a close. Stars are dying. Cosmos devouring itself. Piercing rays of light incinerating all that is left. Everything that ever was implodes into one supermassive Black Hole. The next Big Bang is imminent and the cycle will start again. We will see you on the other side of The Void soon!”

“The Anticurrent” can be pre-saved HERE and pre-ordered HERE.

The cover art was created by Adrien Bousson and can be viewed below, together with the tracklist. 

Track List:
1. The Alpha (07:40)
2. Creation (05:11)
3. Iron Age (07:11) feat. Adrienne Cowan [WATCH HERE]
4. Banish Us From Eden (04:42)
5. To The Stars (05:16) [WATCH HERE]
6. Death Rays (06:18) feat. Lindsay Schoolcraft [WATCH HERE]
7. Voices From The End Of Time (12:19) feat. András Nagy
Bonus
8. Night Journey (Sear Bliss cover) (Bonus) feat. András Nagy
9. Ye Entrancemperium (Emperor cover) (Bonus) feat. MJ Braun

OMEGA INFINITY: The story of the endless cycle of birth and death told on a cosmic scale, being viewed from The Void that permeates the whole existence.
The debut album “Solar Spectre” (released in 2020 by Season Of Mist) created a dark and disturbing soundtrack for a journey through our own solar system, combining furious Black Metal of the 90‘s, harsh electronic and menacing ambient sounds with ancient growls and screams and gathered overwhelmingly positive press and fan response when it was first unleashed upon earth.

Not content with only one small statement and following their greater vision for The Void, Tentakel P. (TODTGELICHTER) and Xen (NE OBLIVISCARIS/ ANTIQVA) had already finished their sophomore album at that time, with only the pandemic preventing the vocal recordings and thus an earlier release. 

“The Anticurrent” unleashed a very different view of The Void unto the listener. Rather than the blackness of space, the second album explores Time: From the Big Bang and the chaotic birth of the universe, the album’s focus moves through the rise and fall of human civilisation, while zooming back out to a cosmic scale to witness the inevitable end of the universe in the menacing finale. 

No OMEGA INFINITY album would be complete without cover versions (SEAR BLISS and EMPEROR) and the addition of friends as guests to the ensemble: Heralding The End together with the band are (in order of appearance) Adrienne Cowan (SEVEN SPIRES/ AVANTASIA), Lindsay Schoolcraft (ANTIQVA/ ex-CRADLE OF FILTH), Andras Nagy (SEAR BLISS) and Marta J. Braun (TODTGELICHTER/ VYRE).

If you ever wanted to know how a myriad of Black Holes devouring themselves in a time distortion sound – look no further than OMEGA INFINITY’s sophomore album “The Anticurrent”!

Cover art: Adrien Bousson

Line-up:
Xenoyr
Tentakel P.

Recording line-up:
Xenoyr (NE OBLIVISCARIS, ANTIQVA, SPIINE): Vocals
Tentakel P (TODTGELICHTER, ENMERKAR a.m.m.) :  Everything else

Guest musicians:

Adrienne Cowan (SEVEN SPIRES) – Clean vocals and screams on „Iron Age“
Lindsay Schoolcraft (ANTIQVA, ex-CRADLE OF FILTH a.m.m.)– speech and screams on „Death Rays“
András Nagy (SEAR BLISS) – screams on „Voices From The End Of Time“ and „Night Journey“
Marta J. Braun (TODTGELICHTER, VYRE) – clean vocals and screams on „Ye Entranceemperium“

Recording studio: Deep Void Studio

Producer / Mixing engineer: Tentakel P. (Deep Void Studio)
Vocal Engineering For Xen By Xenoyr And Tentakel P. (Deep Void Studio)
Vocal Recordings By Adrienne Cowan herself
Adrienne Cowan Appears Courtesy Of Frontiers Music
Vocal Recordings For Lindsay Schoolcraft By Tyler Williams (Monolithic Prod.)
Vocal Recordings For András Nagy By Viktor Scheer (Intercellar Studio)
Vocal Recordings For Marta J. Braun By Tentakel P. (Deep Void Studio)
All Other Recordings, Engineering And Mix By Tentakel P. (Deep Void Studio)
 

Mastering studio and engineer: Markus Stock At Klangschmiede Studio E. Mellrichstadt

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/thedeepdarkvoid
https://www.instagram.com/omegainfinity666/
https://omegainfinity.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0oVA5bRVj84oyh3iT3111Z?si=KAXOjCfjR6qaKTs0CLR2rg&nd=1

Pre-sales: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/Omega-Infinity-TA
Pre-save:https://orcd.co/oi-anticurrent

Available Formats:
CD digipak
Digital
12” vinyl in various colours
Merchandise