On September 13th internationally, Werewolf Records will release the debut demo of Japan’s Immortal Death, self-titled Immortal Death, on CD and cassette tape formats. And today, they stream the demo in its entirety. Hear Immortal Death‘s Immortal Death in its entirety here:
Emitting the sick stench of the ancients, Immortal Death play savage, Satanic DEATH METAL as if the last couple decades of “death metal” didn’t exist. A mysterious entity, it is known that at least one member hails from the esteemed Sex Messiah, but that is where the parallels end: one listen to Immortal Death‘s eponymous debut demo is enough to convince the diehard – or offend those of delicate sensibilities. Howling and harrowing and hulking in its ragged, rabid physicality, Immortal Death mangles both mind and body with its sulfurous rehearsal-room intensity, skillfully moving between primitive blasting and ominous trudge, with UNGODLY riffs being bullet-belted out right and left. And after a mere 14 minutes, you’re left with absolute devastation.
So impressed by its sheer audacity and merciless battery, Werewolf steps forward to release Immortal Death on a worldwide scale, on all formats. Maniacs of Necrovore, the pre-Deicide Amon, America’s Infester, Pissgrave, or the late / great Deathchurch, prepare for reckoning with Immortal Death.
Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Immortal Death (Japan)’s Immortal Death 1. Intro 2. Impaled by Horn 3. Stigmatized 4. Romance Of Corpse 5. Death of the Immortality 6. Outro
Coming this October and November, Europe will fall under the hammer of the Perdition Temple / Omegavortex “Malign Extremists Offensive” Tour. In the 15 years of Perdition Temple‘s existence, this will be their very first visit to European shores to bring their deathly maelstrom of darkness and ruin. Confirmed dates and venues as well as poster art are as follows:
October 25 – Dresden, Germany @ Chemiefabrik October 26 – Warsaw, Poland @ Odessa October 27 – Poznan, Poland @ Pod Minogą October 28 – Katowice, Poland @ Piąty Dom October 3- Prague, Czech Repbulic @ Modrá Vopice October 31 – Siebnen, Switzerland @ District 28 November 1 – Erba, Italy @ Centrale Rock Pub November 2 – Paris, France @ Winter Rising Festival November 3 – Kortrijk, Belgium @ DVG Club
US death metal storm Perdition Temple will tour Europe for the first time. Emerging after the demise of Angelcorpse, Perdition Temple is total death metal annihilation and features all the trademark Gene Palubicki riffs and solos, though shifted up a few gears in terms of brutality and riffing onslaught. With Ron Parmer (Malevolent Creation) delivering precise bombardments of blasts and Alex Blume (Ares Kingdom) on vocals and demolishing death-bass, this is a legendary lineup of Florida death metal. Four albums have been released on Hells Headbangers / Osmose Productions, and new material will be presented on tour!
The paranormal Omegavortex whirlwind of uncontrolled chaos is summoned from a black hole for their first European tour. With shows confirmed worldwide, this will be a rare opportunity to witness the barbaric, all-destructive, ultra-aggressive brutality on their own continent. Expect traditional death metal riffs in the style of old Morbid Angel and Necrovore, performed with the intensity of Revenge and Angelcorpse, and produced with a devastating sound like Bestial Warlust and Sadistik Exekution – yet in their own unique style!
On October 25th internationally, Adirondack Black Mass is proud to present the highly anticipated fourth album of America’s Blasphemous, To Lay Siege and Conquer, on CD format.
Philadelphia’s Blasphemous formed in 2003 with one intention: to write and record blackened death metal. A lot has changed in the past 21 years, but one thing has remained: the band’s sense of passion and willingness to persevere despite lineup changes, a hiatus, and the shifting of the music industry. Returning later this year with To Lay Siege and Conquer, their first LP since 2018, Blasphemous are a reminder that death and darkness will always prevail.
Led by founding member Ron “RK” Kaiser and steeped in influence from Morbid Angel, Deicide, Watain, Angelcorpse, and Immortal, Blasphemous have always been uncompromising in their approach to writing and recording. The band’s first incarnation released their first demo, Storm of Chaos, in 2005. Quickly establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with live and in the studio, BLASPHEMOUS released their first album, Incineration of the Cult, in 2008. They quickly followed it up with a second album, Bearer of the Darkest Plagues, but lineup instability brought things to a close in 2013…for a time. Feeling that there was more to be said, RK reformed Blasphemous in 2016, assembling a new lineup that included Engulf guitarist Hal Microutsicos, lead guitarist Steve Shreve, bassist Josh Guinter, and drummer Mark Vizza. Signing to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, that lineup released the third Blasphemous album, Emerging Through Fire. It revealed a band more energized, more creative, and more ready for domination than ever before, leading to a number of short tours and one-off live performances.
Guinter departed the band and was replaced by bassist Dan Lee in 2020, during a time when live performances ceased. Forging ahead, Blasphemous wrote and recorded the Eternal Misanthropy EP, which saw release in 2022, supported by physical releases from Unchained Tapes and Born for Burning. With a solid foundation finally established, Blasphemous are once again prepared to make their mark on the underground when To Lay Siege and Conquer is released October 25th on Adirondack Black Mass.
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Son of the Forsaken” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Blasphemous (USA)’s To Lay Siege and Conquer 1. To Lay Siege and Conquer [5:16] 2. Son of the Forsaken [4:22] 3. Martyr Complex [3:50] 4. Spiritual Enslavement [3:20] 5. Dead and Still [4:20] 6. Curse of the Witchchrist [4:25] 7. Neverborn [4:11]
Today, Osmose Productions announces October 25th as the international release date for the highly anticipated eight album of France’s Mercyless, Those Who Reign Below, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Those Who Reign Below is the eighth studio album of Mercyless in the purest tradition of old-school death metal, a work of musical impiety, a death metal as hateful as much as aggressive, switching imposing mid-tempos and demonic accelerations, sulphureous melodies and vocals straight from the Devil’s forge. An aura of evil surrounds each track, in a veritable debauchery of hate that gives the impression of having witnessed the manifestation of the Devil.
This album represents the extreme and uncompromising side of Mercyless, which has grown steadily over the years, in a blasphemous symphony inherited from the ’90s death metal scene.
The cover was designed by Mexican artist Nestor Avalos, whose talent represents all the darkness emanating from this album. The production was entrusted to Raph Henry of Heldscalla Studio, who sculpted a sound highly representative of the violence and anger of this extreme and irreligious music.
It’s a tribute to the underground, to the man who blends in with the crowd and takes on a presence so frightening that he’s so clearly recognizable… the Devil… on his throne, majestic and merciless!
First track premiere to be revealed on September 24th. Preorder info can be found HERE. Aforementioned cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Mercyless (France)’s Those Who Reign Below 1. Extreme Unction [5:24] 2. I Am Hell [4:03] 3. Evil Shall Come Upon You [3:59] 4. Phantoms Of Caïn [3:47] 5. Thy Resplendent Inferno [4:12] 6. Crown Of Blasphemy [4:55] 7. Prelude To Eternal Darkness [4:38] 8. Chaos Requiem [4:14] 9. Absurd Theatre [2:09] 10. Sanctus Deus Mortis [4:29] 11. Zechariah 3:1 [1:02]
On October 21st internationally, Memento Mori in conspiracy with Fucking Kill Records will release Reckless Manslaughter‘s highly anticipated album, Sinking Into Filth, on CD and vinyl LP formats, respectively.
Summoned in North Rhine-Westphalia in November 2008, the walking corpse known as Reckless Manslaughter is living proof that death has many faces, covering all tempo variations and unaware of trends or conventions, all the while maintaining a core personality of their very own. To descend into the nether regions where these death metal acolytes dwell is to be left to fester in a desolate and fathomless realm whose landscape is filled to the brim with violent blasts, crushing mid-tempo sections, gloomy doom-ish parts, and atrocious growls, rounded off with a sprinkling of eerie Finnish melodies.
Reckless Manslaughter are nothing if not dependable, and across their three full-lengths to date – 2011’s Storm of Vengeance, 2013’s Blast Into Oblivion, and 2019’s Caverns of Perdition – the Germans have proudly upheld the banner of pure & total DEATH METAL. And thankfully, they show no signs of letting down that banner with their fourth full-length, Sinking Into Filth. Like its album predecessors, Sinking Into Filth is all too accurately titled, with wave after wave of world-eating riff & vocal swallowing the listener whole. Reckless Manslaughter here exude a uniquely “gloomy bounce” in their stridently surging songcraft; the energy is felt in full – usually, in the listener’s chest cavity – but a paradoxically sorrowful sensation is intertwined into these judiciously compact compositions. What results is something both hypnotizing and HEAVY, in all senses of the world…or, simply, this filth is fucking HUGE. The climax comes with the closing ten-minute epic “Risen From the Mass Grave,” which literally sounds like its title. Need more hints? Just check out the cover art, courtesy of Lucas Korte.
Maniacs of Bolt Thrower, Finland’s Demigod, Benediction, Asphyx, and Sinister should already be familiar with Reckless Manslaughter. Those who aren’t are encouraged to begin Sinking Into Filth: expect nothing but utter annihilation and uncompromising, underground-worshipping Metal of Death!
Begin worshipping with the brand-new track “Retreat Into Nothingness” here:
Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Reckless Manslaughter’s Sinking Into Filth 1. Caverns of Perdition 2. Befouled Commandments 3. Awaiting My Demise 4. Retreat into Nothingness 5. Aktion 1005 6. Ruf der Leere 7. The Sacred Lie [Diabolical Imperium cover] 8. Risen from the Mass Grave
Today, death metal cavemen Vomitrot premiere the new video “Envomitted”. The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated new mini-album, Emetic Imprecations, set for international release on August 24th via Personal Records on digipack CD format. See & hear Vomitrot‘s “Envomitted” video in its entirety here:
Vomitrot are a new one for Personal Records: extremely filthy, disgusting, and in-your-face CAVEMAN death metal, which only proves what the labels name means – a name that releases what it likes and does not pigeonhole to any genre or belief as long as the music is good and personal.
Forming in 2019, Vomitrot released their Rehearsal Demo MMXX in 2020 and, two years later, the debut album Rotten Vomit. Emerging from the primordial soup of boiling body fluids, the Swedish power-trio return nastier than ever with the release of Emetic Imprecations.
A stout recording at six songs in 26 minutes, Emetic Imprecations is almost so overwhelming that any second after that length would simply be too much to bear. Here, Vomitrot deliver a bizarre breed of vicious death metal, originating from an unholy mix of old-school death metal, war metal, and grindcore. The feverish riffs, the guitar tone that with cuts through your bones with the finesse of a rusty saw, the gut-wrenching vocals, the subsonic bass frequencies that stimulate the primal urge to dominate your enemies by making them gargle on their innards, and the schizophrenia-inducing hammering on the drums, purely driven by instinct and insanity – all components blend together disharmoniously into an explosive diarrhea of emetic madness and primal entropy.
Other bands may pose as “caveman,” but Vomitrot truly live it, and prove it with pustulent punctuation on Emetic Imprecations! Recommended for maniacs of early Incantation and Kataklysm, as well as Canada’s Cremation, Finland’s Abhorrence, and America’s Infester: YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!
Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Today, rabid black/death maniacs Concrete Winds reveal the new track “Subterranean Persuasion.” The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated third album, self-titled Concrete Winds, set for international release on August 30th via Sepulchral Voice Records. Hear Concrete Winds‘ “Subterranean Persuasion” in its entirety here:
To all death metal lunatics and black metal psychopaths left out there in this toothless and tamed scene, let us proclaim the word! Concrete Winds are back to push spikes, needles, and barbed wire into your flesh and ears.
Once again, the noise aggressors slit the veil from beyond and step into our world to pillage and hound to death all what was known, predictable, and comfortable in metal music. Their third album is self-titled for mandatory reasons and shows the band furthermore exploring the EXTREME in extreme metal. This truly is rabies set to music!
While their debut, 2019’s Primitive Force, was a beacon of strife in stretching and redefining the boundaries of unholy, grinding death metal, the successor, 2021’s Nerve Butcherer, pushed the limits even harder and set new standards in the world of audial bulldozing destruction and blitzin’ torment.
With Concrete Winds, the band now open wide again the portals to the abattoir and continue right where Nerve Butcherer had left the listener helplessly in a sonic wasteland of scorched earth, barren soil, and sheer darkness. They manifest their will to tear the listeners’ drumheads out and to creep deep into souls black. As expected, the album is rooted in outrageous speed, heaviest trembling rhythm passages, abysmal croaked curses, turbulent breaks, and repulsive shrieking leads which let you drown in a maelstrom of insanity. But this time, new layers are also added to the pandemonic universe, as weird staccato riffing sections bleed into witching industrial scenarios.
Concrete Winds have always gone further than any recent extreme metal outfit and leave out everything that’s established in music, cut off what became comfortable in metal, and blow away what still feels “appropriate” in extreme metal. It seems that this once-urgent attitude to explore limits finally has a new helmsman. Nevertheless, they stay ever loyal to the elder originators of bloody metal mayhem, but evolve those inspirations taken from masters like Morbid Angel, Necrovore, and Repulsion to a very unique and nearly “reference-less” hellwitchin’ sound.
No less than Lawrence Mackrory – with the help of Matti Mäkelä – recorded, mixed, and mastered this cacophonic eruption mostly at Rorysounds Studios in Uppsala, Sweden. All of it is bound together in nine signature two-word-titled songs that altogether does not exceed the 27-minute mark. Calculators may wrongly estimate it as “short,” but measured in CW units, it has the perfect length to die a thousand deaths.
Concrete Winds have never been for the faint-hearted. They always killed any scent of entertaining characters straight from the seed. It’s easy not to understand them; it’s easy not to comprehend them; it’s easy not to love them. But it should not be easy to confuse entertainment with art: true art must hurt.
However, this is Concrete fucking Winds‘ third album! And it will definitely not leave anyone untouched, no matter in which way – PERIOD.
Also hear the previously revealed “Infernal Repeater” HERE, also at Sepulchral Voice‘s official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Today, doom-death titans Mourners Lament stream the entirety of their band’s highly anticipated second album, A Grey Farewell. Set for international release on August 2nd via Personal Records, hear Mourners Lament‘s A Grey Farewell in its entirety here:
Formed in 2004, Mourners Lament are a doom-death metal band hailing from Viña del Mar, Chile. During their first years, they released a demo in 2004 and then an EP, Unbroken Solemnity, in 2008. Those two recordings launched the quintet onto numerous gigs within the Chilean doom scene, some of them with classic bands like Poema Arcanus and Mar de Grises.
Lineup changes followed during the next handful of years, as Mourners Lament underwent a minor period of silence while preparing what would be their debut album. Titled We All Be Given, the band’s first full-length would first be released in 2016 by esteemed national label Canometal Records, and then later the next year internationally through Hammerheart Records. Between the two editions, Mourners Lament established themselves as a considerable new(er) name in the wider doom-death scene.
After the debut album’s initial release, Mourners Lament continued playing live shows in their native Chile, climbing to a higher position in the national doom scene. Later on, two new members took over drums and vocal duties, and a new lineup was established in 2019, which continues to this day. This new-look Mourners Lament brought fresh sounds and spirit to the band, resulting in the new EP Grieving at a Distance in 2022 and their first adventure in European territory that same year.
After the Euro tour, which included an appearance at the renowned Dutch Doom Days festival, the band started the process of a new album. At last here, A Grey Farewell easily eclipses its not-inconsiderable full-length predecessor. Here, Mourners Lament erect a towering monument to misery: six songs in nearly 65 minutes, the album is an emotional and DARK journey across a majestic & melancholic landscape. Undoubtedly, it’s pure DOOM-DEATH by definition – riffs crush and then reverberate, rhythms lumber before nearly disappearing into darkness, guttural vocals either meld with both or play counterpart, and icy, almost-sensual synths flow with subtlety and a quiet power – but Mourners Lament prove to be masterful songwriters, patiently building arcs that unfold dark drama and bittersweet emotion, and then seamlessly threading the whole experience together as one unified work that’s equally spacious and suffocating. That there’s a bit more polish here only makes A Grey Farewell that much better, particularly given the band’s penchant for dynamic quietude.
The raw-yet-rich emotion of the earliest days of the Peaceville Three – Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, and Anathema, altogether THE eternal template for doom-death metal – can still be a fertile field for inspiration. It would not be hyperbole to suggest that A Grey Farewell is perhaps one of the best modern examples of pure doom-death that imparts its own personality. Some 20 years after their formation, Mourners Lament have truly arrived!
Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Mourners Lament’s A Grey Farewell
1. Towards Abandonment [10:58] 2. Changes [13:27] 3. Ocaso [7:26] 4. The Clear Distance [12:29] 5. In A White Room [9:18] 6. Mass Eulogy [10:22]
Today, Chilean thrash cult Mayhemic stream the entirety of highly anticipated debut album, Toba. Set for international release today via Sepulchral Voice Records, hear Mayhemic‘s Toba in its entirety here:
Over 70,000 years ago, an event of horrific proportions brought earth’s life to the edge of existing. Known as the Toba eruption, a monstruous super-volcano spat forth brimstone and fire and put the world under the fangs of a massive volcanic winter. Here and now, writing the year 2024, we finally get the audiomantic equivalence to this catastrophe absolute.
As if the most glorious days of thrash metal never had ceased to exist, Chilean aggressors Mayhemic come up with a debut combining utmost power and speed, intertwined with incredible musicianship and songwriting of sheer brilliance.
The young quartet has pushed it hard since the beginning with numerous live shows – sharing stages with names like Marduk and Krisiun, among others – countless rehearsals, and an evolution which can be only labeled as stunning. From the well-produced and -structured No-Life demo up until the total speed mayhem and maniacal fury of the Mortuary Feast of Skeletons EP and the “Volcanic Blast” single, the time is now for Mayhemic‘s first full-length madness.
Comparisons do mostly suck, but for those unfamiliar with their earlier output, imagine the ravage of old Sodom, the speed kill of Merciless and old Sepultura, all combined with Kreator’s best moments of high-class thrash as on Pleasure to Kill till Extreme Aggression. Big words without doubt, but listen to Toba and the rest is self-explanatory.
If you need your dirty white high-tops, skinny jeans, and leather jackets as sharp as in the ’80s, this is the perfect soundtrack to bang your heads to Hell.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Mayhemic’s Toba 1. Kollarbone Crushed Neanderthal 2. Extinction & Mystery 3. Valley Of The Thundra 4. Triumph Portrait 5. Eschatological Symphony 6. Hazardous Prowler 7. Olduvai’s Lullaby 8. Toba
On July 26th, Hells Headbangers will release Goat Semen‘s highly anticipated new EP, Fuck Christ, on CD, 12″ vinyl, and cassette tape formats. And today, they stream their EP in its entirety. Hear Goat Semen‘s Fuck Christ in its entirety here:
At ground zero of the rebirth and resurgence of South American black/death at the dawn of the new millennium, Goat Semen delivered one of the most classic demos ever with their self-titled 2002 demo, which has seen countless re-editions in the past two decades. As their legendry grew to enviable levels, so, too, did the anticipation for these Peruvian devils’ debut album. But alas, time passed and the fervor ‘n’ anticipation for that first full-length reached critical mass in the metal underground, taking on almost mythical status (not unlike Sadistic Intent’s long-promised debut LP). Finally, it saw the unlight of day in 2015 as Ego Svm Satana: the ultimate Goat Semen statement, in the making for literally a decade, the album became something of a veritable travelogue across the history of South American metal barbarity the prior three decades. The very end, and also the beginning, Ego Svm Satana was suitably CLASSIC, as expected.
But, Goat Semen are never one for half measures, and much like that full-length took at least a decade before it emerged from hellfire fully formed, they’ve only released live albums and a couple splits since then – nothing as substantial as a fully-new recording. Now, nearly a decade after that momentous debut album, Goat Semen return with a comparatively quick-hitting EP in Fuck Christ. Much like its unapologetic & unadorned title, the Peruvian devils waste no time, kicking in immediately with a swirlingly sulfurous maelstrom of classic Goat Semen proportions. For a record that comprises five stout songs in 19 electric minutes, Fuck Christ feels simultaneously longer and quicker than that runtime suggests, so respectively satisfying and urgent is that hammering barbarity. Naturally, it wouldn’t be Goat Semen if everything wasn’t attacking from every angle all at once, the feeling of imminent implosion lurking around every dark ‘n’ diseased corner; compared to Ego Svm Satana, Fuck Christ exacerbates that mania to an almost overwhelming degree even when the intensity dips down to a doomed trudge. But perhaps the most unique element on this new record is how relatively clean and clear its recording is, with each and every instrument sounding sharp and powerful – nothing “muddy” about Goat Semen fucking Christ here – which in turn makes the band’s inherent grit & grime sound stranger and more depraved. Put another way, there’s nothing to hide behind here; there’s simply no escape from Fuck Christ.
For those who still hail the old gods of equally early Sarcofago, Krisiun, Hadez, Sextrash, and Mystifier, no matter when their records arrive, you can always count on Goat Semen to Fuck Christ!
Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Goat Semen’s Fuck Christ 1. Midnight Worship 2. Los Ojos de Judas 3. Fuck Christ 4. Heed the Call 5. Prophets of Hell
