Death Metal

Australian death metal mavericks Horrisonous premiere new track

Today, Australian death metal mavericks Horrisonous premiere the new track “Flesh Presented for Orgasmic Torment” The track hails from the band’s striking debut album, A Culinary Cacophony, set for international release on January 21st, 2019 via Memento Mori. Hear Horrisonous‘ “Flesh Presented for Orgasmic Torment” in its entirety here:




Hailing from Sydney, Horrisonous formed in late 2015 and comprise a handful of hardened members of the local underground scene, including past or current members of such acts as Temple Nightside, Backyard Mortuary, The Slow Death, Illimitable Dolor, and Pestilential Shadows among others. Not surprisingly, Horrisonous deliver aural slime, decay, and misery by means of the ageless brand of death metal that’s equally ponderous, crushing, and fervent, enhanced with slithering tempos and influenced by the likes of Bolt Thrower, Asphyx, Autopsy, Death, Celtic Frost, Carcass, Dismember, and Incantation. The proved it on their debut EP, The Plague Doctors, in 2016 and they proved it with the Asphyx and Celtic Frost covers comprising the follow-up The Plague Doctors B-sides EP two years later, and they fully prove it with their debut full-length, A Culinary Cacophony.

A cursory glance at some of the album’s song titles (quickly: “Crispy Chunks of the Obese,” “Nourishment Through Excrement,” “Number of the Feast”) and one could potentially assume Horrisonous are a hokey gore band. While their noses are no doubt in tune with life’s foulest recesses, Horrisonous are deadly serious about their juggernauting death metal. Requisitely filthy as any Memento Mori release, A Culinary Cacophony digs deeply into the doom and serves up serious helpings of up-tempo gallop and blast. It’s a world-eating sound that evokes a creepiness quite at odds with such otherwise tongue-in-cheek titles, but only Horrisonous know the methods to their madness…

Brazenly adorned with garishly gruesome cover art courtesy of Rod Scott, Horrisonous offer a symphony of sickness with A Culinary Cacophony! Continue feasting with the new track “Flesh Presented for Orgasmic Torment” exclusively here:



Begin feasting on the previously revealed “Kuru Worship” here:




Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Horrisonous’ A Culinary Cacophony
1. Kuru Worship
2. The Gavage
3. Perpetual Mincing
4. A Tale of Matriphagy
5. Flesh Presented for Orgasmic Torment
6. Crispy Chunks of the Obese
7. Nourishment Through Excrement
8. The Number of the Feast

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Australian death metal mavericks Vile Apparition premiere new track

Today, Australian death metal mavericks Vile Apparition premiere the new track “Malevolent Aphantasia” . The track hails from the band’s striking debut album, Depravity Ordained, set for international release on January 21st, 2019 via Memento Mori for the CD version (the vinyl and cassette versions will follow later on Blood Harvest). Hear Vile Apparition‘s “Malevolent Aphantasia” in its entirety .


Oozing out of Melbourne, Vile Apparition is a new project of Oliver Ballantyne (drums) and Jamie Colic (guitar, bass, vocals), both ex-members of the mighty Sewercide that left shortly after the recording of that band’s debut album, Immortalized in Suffering, in order to pursue other endeavors. Vile Apparition‘s self-released debut four-song demo, Atrocious Captivity, was picked up for a cassette release in early 2018 on Transylvanian Tapes, just in time for the band to fill their live lineup for their first run of shows starting January 2018.

Alas, Atrocious Captivity was but a brief taste of the nastiness to come, now in the form of Vile Apparition‘s full-length debut, Depravity Ordained. No lies in that title: this is fetid ‘n’ filthy death metal that puts a premium on the BLUDGEON! Old-school as it comes, of course, Vile Apparition‘s no-frills approach hearkens to the likes of Morpheus Descends, Ripping Corpse, and Deteriorot as well as the early works of Suffocation, Deeds of Flesh, and Cryptopsy. An astounding exhibition of ridiculous, malignant heaviness that’ll drill a hole in your skull and blow your brain cells to smithereens, the album will also include the preceding demo as bonus tracks.

With suitably classic cover art courtesy of Chaostouched and mastering by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio, Vile Apparition bring you blunt-force trauma with Depravity Ordained! Get blunted again with the new track “Malevolent Aphantasia” exclusively HERE


First blunting can be found with the album’s title track HERE


Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Vile Apparition’s Depravity Ordained
1. Mauled and Nameless
2. Depravity Ordained
3. Dissect to Enucleate
4. Aeon of Impalement
5. The Cursed Path
6. Malevolent Aphantasia
7. Repulsive Desire
8. The Gate
9. Window of the Grotesque
10. The Abyssal Plain (demo 2017)
11. Anatomized Remnants (demo 2017)
12. Atrocious Captivity (demo 2017)
13. Featureless Deity (demo 2017)
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Mexican death metal cult Ravenous Death premiere the new track Evil Dementia

Today, Mexican death metal cult Ravenous Death premiere the new track “Evil Dementia (The Voices of the Nobodies) . The track hails from the band’s striking debut album, Chapters of an Evil Transition, set for international release on January 21st, 2019 via Memento Mori. Hear Ravenous Death‘s “Evil Dementia (The Voices of the Nobodies)” in its entirety here:


Hailing from the vast death metal hotbed of Mexico, Ravenous Death feature current members of such other bands as Remains, Demonic Manifestation, and Death’s Forsaken. The band’s embryo was brought forth in 2016 during the recording of Remains’ third album in Mexico City, when vocalist/guitar player Miguel Angel and drummer Esteban Salcedo toyed with the idea of creating a death metal band influenced by Vomitory, Torture Division, and the likes. Later on, both musicians shared their vision with lead guitarist Enrique Fray, and the three of them agreed to push the idea forward and carry it out as a side-project due to the commitments they all had with their main bands. Soon after, Enrique and Miguel Angel began writing songs for the newborn abomination, and the three members decided to name the band after a Vomitory song titled “The Ravenous Dead.”

Fast forward to October 2016: the recording of Ravenous Death‘s debut demo/EP, Ominous Deathcult, is finalized (although not released as a Bandcamp download until March 2017), including five songs chock full of rotting maliciousness that show great poise in combining blasting brutality, crushing heaviness, somber ambience, and fierce intensity, with the lyrical themes revolving about death, occultism, blasphemy, and other classic topics of the olden Metal of Death. On May 13th, 2017, the band make their first live performance in the city of Guadalajara. For this occasion two new members were recruited – namely, bass player Alejandro Mendez and guitarist Diego Gomez – leaving Miguel Angel on vocal duties alone. After the excellent crowd response, both Alejandro and Diego join the band as official members.

Emboldened by this patient momentum, at last arrives Ravenous Death‘s full-length debut, aptly titled Chapters of an Evil Transition. Indeed displaying the band’s transition into an evil death metal juggernaut, the album absolutely bleeds the molten-yet-mildewed essence of ’90s Metal of Death. Fucking fashion and trends and especially fickle tastes, Chapters of an Evil Transition is a gutsfucking time-warp to the days when death metal was supposedly “dead,” lost in favor of black metal or power metal or (worse) ill-fated sellout fantasies. In this landscape did many a raw ‘n’ righteous mini-classic get birthed, and suitably do Ravenous Death continue the proud legacy of Vomitory and Mexican forebears Shub Niggurath, but also especially Sadistic Intent, Seance, old Grave, ’90s Immolation, ’90s Vader, and Finland’s Demigod. No more but definitely no less, this is DEATH METAL by and for death metal MANIACS: no bullshit, and no sellout!

Completed by stark artwork courtesy of Mörtuus and mastering by the esteemed Javier Felez at Moontower Studios, allow Ravenous Death to read you Chapters of an Evil Transition! Continue reading with the new track “Evil Dementia (The Voices of the Nobodies)”  HERE
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Begin reading with the previously revealed “Harvesting Hate” >HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ravenous Death’s Chapters of an Evil Transition
1. Prelude to Evilness
2. Doomed to Exist
3. Harvesting Hate
4. Evil Dementia (The Voices of the Nobodies)
5. Awakening of the Damned
6. Cursed Origin
7. Initiation Ritual
8. The Sinister Being
9. Massacre Cult
10. Soul Consumed by the Occult


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CRYPTIC FOG set release date for their debut album “Staring Through the Veil” and reveal first track

Blood Harvest Records sets October 27th as the international release date for Cryptic Fog’s highly anticipated debut album, Staring Through the Veil, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Hailing from the American Midwest, Cryptic Fog are one of the death metal underground’s true, as-yet-discovered gems. To date, the band have only a demo to their name, from their very beginnings in 2009, but they’ve been patient and plying away at their trade to craft to twisted majesty of Staring Through the Veil. Based around the songwriting duo of guitarist/bassist Dave Bennett and drummer Dan Klein, with Klein handling all vocals, together they have delivered a work that ably balances aggression and atmosphere, performance and production.

While grounded firmly in the long-running traditions of death metal on both sides of the Atlantic – thus, Tampa as much as Stockholm – Cryptic Fog aren’t afraid to blacken to a crisp their percolating compositions, which explode and retract and then twist further, only to explode into another angle, always offering the listener some new diabolical construct to warp the mind. And yet, for however serpentine the five songs comprising Staring Through the Veil may be (read: THEY’RE EPIC), the band manage to skillfully revisit and reiterate motifs, making the 46-minute album truly a journey but, above all, a highly memorable one. And that’s to say nothing of the gleaming-yet-grimy production – as clear and precise as the playing, but maintaining the same gnarliness that underpins the album’s lyrical themes.

While they seek to eventually have a working live lineup, Cryptic Fog have at least managed to deliver a work that’ll stand the test of time, as a monument to the boundless power and imagination as the death metal artform. Begin Staring Through the Veil and take your first steps toward an unforgettable journey!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Cryptic Fog’s Staring Through the Veil
1. The Grand Berator Walks Amongst the Hall of Misery
2. Cast Into the Ghastly Pits of Execration
3. Cursed Oil Upon the Abhorrent Idols of Man
4. Eternal Internment of the Prolific Paradigm; Staring Through the Veil of Aberration
5. Cleansed by the Black Flame of Absolution

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PILE OF EXCREMENTS set release date for their debut album, reveal first track

In their endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odor of vintage death metal, on October 23rd, Memento Mori is proud to present Pile of Excrements’ highly anticipated debut album, Escatology. Hailing from Athens, Greece, Pile of Excrements was crapped into existence when drummer Shit Eater (Necrovorous, Embrace of Thorns, Chainsaw) joined forces with guitar/bass-player and vocalist Necropervert (Nightbreed, Chainsaw) with the vile intention of delighting the listener with the aural equivalent of the nauseating stench of one hundred drains clogged with foul-smelling turds and urine. And as the title of their debut album promises, Escatology is exactly that!

Pile of Excrements began clogging sewers last year with the Demo 2016 tape. In no uncertain terms, the duo laid bare their divinely depraved musical influences – Autopsy/Abscess, Pungent Stench, Master, Impetigo, Blood, Necrophagia, Mantas/Death, Cianide, Massacre, and Hellhammer – and completed it with a compulsive obsession with slasher/gore B-movies, shit of all kinds, and high-cholesterol food. But, that demo was but a mere appetizer for the filthy feast to follow in Escatology!

From the very first second “Bowel Rampage” shits itself into existence, it’s crystal-clear these refined and suave Greek gentlemen are all about the FILTH in capital – and gushing – letters. From there, the foulness just starts flowing, one rough ‘n’ rancorous rush after another. Indeed, Pile of Excrements pile high the punk rockin’ hooks so crucial to early death metal – that is, the original template laid out by the aforementioned masters – and keep the crush coming. It’s 15 almost-anthems in a tight ‘n’ taut 40 minutes, but it’s not all short/sharp/shocked: on the six-minute “Cult of the Unibrow,” the duo go relatively epic whilst keeping the emphasis on the filth…where it should be! Featuring fittingly filthy cover art by Raul Fuentes and mastering by Cruciamentum’s Dan Lowndes, Pile of Excrements make Escatology a masterclass in musical depravity!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Pile of Excrements’ Escatology
1. Bowel Rampage
2. Miasma Cuming Embalming Fluids
3. Made in Chernobyl
4. Hooker with a Hook
5. Graveyard Delicatessen
6. Leper Orgy
7. Escatology
8. Silent but Deadly
9. Yellow Front, Brown Back
10. Minestrone
11. Cult of the Unibrow
12. Skourkos the Polluter
13. Buttfucked by Giant Cockroach
14. Human Compost
15. Tourette Aggressor

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Finnish death metal masters Purtenance premiere the new track “Vicious Seeds of Mortality”

Today, legendary Finnish death metal masters Purtenance premiere the new track “Vicious Seeds of Mortality”

The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated EP, Paradox of Existence, set for international release on September 12th through Xtreem Music.

After returning to a five-piece lineup, Purtenance began to work on new tunes, which were recorded during the first half of 2017, and are now released as an EP that follows their trademarked heavy old-school Finnish death metal for which they’re known since their inception in 1989. Cover artwork was once again made by Chris Moyen, who’s done every Purtenance cover artwork since their debut album, Member of Immortal Damnation, in 1992.

The first track from the EP, “In the End Only Death Will Remain,”HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Purtenance’s Paradox of Existence
1. In the End Only Death Will Remain
2. Vicious Seeds of Mortality
3. Paradox of Existence
4. Nekro Orgy

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SACROCURSE set release date for new album Gnostic Holocaust, reveal first track

Iron Bonehead Productions sets October 27th as the international release date for Sacrocurse’s highly anticipated second album, Gnostic Holocaust, on vinyl LP format.

Following hot on the heels of their Destroying Chapels 7″ for Iron Bonehead last year, Gnostic Holocaust sees Sacrocurse going from strength to strength and reaping their most ravenous whirlwind yet. Whereas the Destroying Angels EP introduced the live lineup that’s been in place for a couple years now, Gnostic Holocaust is the first full-length display of the band’s true power and potency. Here, Sacrocurse take all their original rudiments – bestial propulsion, immediately memorable songwriting, and mind-melted solos – and adds even more insanity and ritualism, more red-eyed and rabid than ever. It’s quintessential South American-style black/death witchery, but given a dosage of Ross Bay-steeped sturm und drang. What’s more, while the power-trio are just as apt to blast away at dangerous speeds, there’s expert pacing in their down-tempo death-marches, giving further iron-fisted thrust to what is truly a Gnostic Holocaust. Fan the flames of zealotry and prepare for Sacrocurse’s Gnostic Holocaust!

Check the new track “Maze of Serpents.”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Sacrocurse’s Gnostic Holocaust
1. Just Fucking Die
2. Jaws of Hell
3. Spirit versus Flesh
4. Endless Khaoz
5. Kirie Eleison
6. Maze of Serpents
7. Empire of Sekmet
8. Triumphant Tribulation
9. Gnostic Holocaust
10. Vengeance Consumed

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GORGUTS kick off their European summer dates

GORGUTS will kick off their European summer dates at Brutal Assault Festival in Jaromer, Czech Republic tomorrow, August 9th. Right after, the Canadian death metal pioneers will perform at Belgiums Ieper Festival, Vagos Metal Fest in Portugal, and Germany’s Summerbreeze before embarking on four special package shows, which are featuring GORGUTS alongside FALLUJAH, HAVOK, REVOCATION, and opener VENOM PRISON. After these special dates, the rampage continues with a regular tour in support of CONVERGE together with HAVOC and REVOCATION.

A full list of currently confirmed tour dates can be viewed below

GORGUTS
Festivals
09 Aug 17 Jaromer (CZ) Brutal Assault
11 Aug 17 Ieper (BE) Ieper Festival
13 Aug 17 Vagos (PT) Vagos Metal Fest
18 Aug 17 Dinkelsbühl (DE) Summer Breeze

GORGUTS
+Fallujah +Revocation +Havok +Venom Prison
14 Aug 17 Wiesbaden (DE) Schlachthof
15 Aug 17 Leipzig (DE) Naumanns (Fallujah, Revocation, Havok, Venom Prison)
16 Aug 17 Rotterdam (NL) Baroeg (Fallujah, Revocation, Havok, Venom Prison)
17 Aug 17 Oberhausen (DE) Kulttempel (Fallujah, Revocation, Havok, Venom Prison)

GORGUTS
+Converge +Havok +Revocation
20 Aug 17 Wrocław (PL) Zaklęte Rewiry
21 Aug 17 Bratislava (SK) Majestic Music Club
22 Aug 17 Wien (AT) Arena
23 Aug 17 München (DE) Backstage Halle
24 Aug 17 Aarau (CH) Kiff
25 Aug 17 Paris (FR) Trabendo

GORGUTS will be performing in support of their previous albums as well as their critically highly acclaimed latest EP ‘Pleiades’ Dust’

The artwork of the EP that contains only its epic title track was created by renowned Polish artist Zbigniew M. Bielak and can be viewed below.

Canada’s long-running and much loved craftsmen of technical death metal are returning with a 33-minute song. Entitled ‘Pleiades’ Dust’ this complex, image evoking, and masterly arranged eponymous track fills an entire EP. Expect the unexpected, when it comes to GORGUTS.

In an age of a postulated clash of cultures, mastermind Luc Lemay delivers a piece of music that is conceptually and lyrically based on the “House of Wisdom”, a medieval library based in Baghdad and at the heart of the Golden Age of Islam with its many scientific breakthroughs in various fields of learning. As Luc comments: “It is a story about curiosity, beautiful minds and sadly, about how man destroys great discoveries and achievements.” Musically there is more narrative feeling as each section is introduced in such a way that every riff has the space to evolve like a character in a story.

The stunning cover art created to reflect this concept has been specially created by renowned Polish artist Zbigniew M. Bielak (MAYHEM, GHOST, ZHRINE et. al.).

Few extreme bands can boast the pedigree of GORGUTS. During their early days as part of death metal’s first wave, they created a legacy of legendary releases including their debut album ‘Considered Dead’ (1991) and its more experimental and technical follow-up ‘Erosion of Sanity’ (1993). After a hiatus of five years, Luc Lemay returned with a new line-up, which released the highly acclaimed and seminal third full-length ‘Obscura’ (1998). By then GORGUTS had been busy at expanding and redefining the language of death metal. With a new line-up that left Lemay as the sole original member, the next milestone album was released under the title ‘From Wisdom to Hate’ (2001).

Yet again the band went into hibernation, while their musical legacy continued to inspire and thrive as their native Quebec became a focus for technical death metal with acts such as CRYPTOPSY, NEURAXIS, and BEYOND CREATION to name but a few following in their footsteps. After more than a decade of silence, mastermind Luc Lemay unleashed ‘Colored Sands’ (2013) with an all-star line-up including Colin Marston (BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS), Kevin Hufnagel (DYSRHYTHMIA), and John Longstreath (ORIGIN, SKINLESS), who has in the meantime been replaced by Patrice Hamelin (QUO VADIS, BENEATH THE MASSACRE).

Now GORGUTS return with their most experimental song so far that combines all their virtues into one massive masterpiece. Lean back and listen carefully!

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Chile’s Oraculum set release date for new mini-album

Invictus Productions sets September 15th as the international release date for the brand-new mini-album of Chile’s Oraculum, Always Higher. The Oraculum brethren incubate the raging pyre within the self, as a visionary element of utter omnipotence and unbreakable will. Designers of their own fiery path, never to be crossed, neither reached by traitors or prisoners of their ego. “Our blood is living fire feeding from your shame, scenting your trepidation with ease…”

Ever aptly titled, Always Higher is a true statement of intent, following Oraclum’s critically acclaimed Sorcery of the Damned EP, released by Invictus in 2014. Always Higher stands a fierce manifestation of the primeval evil in man, bringing the principle of the conqueror as the true holder of wisdom, power, and conviction. Serving as an essential pillar in a world where the lack of spirit fools the sheep with hollow intentions and nothing valuable transcends, Oraculum hereby transcend their humble beginnings and assert their own intractable identity, unshackling themselves from influence but never forgetting the deepest truths death metal has taught them all these years. It is the full bounty of the ancient Metal of Death, fully steeped in metal AND death, maximized through sheer spirit and will. Blood and fire, Always Higher…

“Let the death metal hierarchy overwhelm the weak. We bow to none!” Bow before Oraculum’s death metal hierarchy with the new track “Lex Talionis”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Oraculum’s Always Higher
1. Exeunt
2. Lex Talionis
3. Semper Excelsius
4. Sphinx

Cadaveric Incubator set release date for Sermons of the Devouring Dead album

Hells Headbangers sets October 13th as the international release date for Cadaveric Incubator’s highly anticipated debut album, Sermons of the Devouring Dead, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Comprising veterans of the Finnish underground, Cadaveric Incubator are a power-trio whose sole purpose is to bury the listener under miles of garbage and grime, sewage and sickness. Their long-gestating full-length debut, Sermons of the Devouring Dead comprises a dozen tracks of utterly ugly, morally bereft DEATH METAL of a most classic vintage – and authentically so. Forget about eras or scenes or geography; this is death metal for death metal maniacs, by death metal maniacs.

Cadaveric Incubator was formed in 2005 by Necroterror (bass/vocals) and Humiliator (guitar/vocals) with the help of various drummers who came and went during the band’s first incarnation, which lasted around two years. The aim was to create old-school disgusting sounds influenced by early Carcass, Repulsion, Autopsy, early Xysma, Mortician, Blood, the early Mexican Disgorge, and such. No fun and no political garbage usually associated with the more grinding side of things – just raw, filthy brutality and total death! But after two demos – only the first one, Resurgence of Morbidity, was released – and countless live shows, the band split up in early 2007 due to personal problems between members.

Seven years later, in 2014, Necroterror resurrected Cadaveric Incubator by teaming up with his old comrade Pentele, who he had known from the early ’90s scene – back in the deep Finnish backwoods when Necroterror played in his first-ever death metal band, Excrement, and Pentele was drumming for Carnifex and Festerday in the same area. Original founding member Humiliator was asked to join, as well, and the new demo Unburied Abominations was recorded. After several brutal live shows and a demos compilation on Terror from Hell Records, the band finally recorded 12 tracks in early 2016 for their debut album, Sermons of the Devouring Dead.

Now armed with the help of fetid fans Hells Headbangers, Cadaveric Incubator are set to smother the underground in all sorts of uncleanliness! Just a cursory read of the album’s song titles should spell in no uncertain terms exactly what kind of timeless filth there is to bathe in: “Swarming Decay,” “Horrific Festering Plagues,” “Gravestench Asphyxiation,” “Unburied Abominations,” and the telltale “Conceived in Filth,” among others. Heed these Sermons of the Devouring Dead and get swamped in gore!

The first fling of filth can be heard with the previously-revealed track “Gravestench Asphyxiation”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Cadaveric Incubator’s Sermons of the Devouring Dead
1. Gravestench Asphyxiation
2. Hideous Premonition
3. Cadaveric Incubator
4. The Covenant of Gore
5. Cold in Casket
6. Rite of Eibon
7. Massacred
8. Swarming Decay
9. Unburied Abominations
10. Conceived in Filth
11. The Undead Fiend
12. Horrific Festering Plagues