Canada’s REVERSED set release date for INVICTUS debut album, reveal first video – features members of MITOCHONDRION, SPELL, EGREGORE, AUROCH+++

Today, Invictus Productions announces May 24th as the international release date for the highly anticipated debut album of Canada’s ReversedWildly Possessed.

Arising from Vancouver’s potent extreme metal mire, Reversed initially materialized in 2015 through a dedication to the spirit of real death metal and a rabid obsession with death. Guided more by passion than execution, this collection of well-honed ghouls quickly fell into a sepulchral trance to channel a singular form of necrotic, razor-lined heavy metal devilry.  

Dying to crack open the tomb, Reversed harnessed and released the Widow Recluse demo tape into the wild in 2018 via Muerto En La Cruz and the recently closed Temple of Mystery. Showcasing the band’s gestating lunacy, the demo revealed shades of black, death, and thrash violently assembled into a refined vision of chaotic mayhem – a runaway train barely remaining on the rails. Due to wild demand, this was immediately followed by vinyl and CD versions on Temple of Mystery in 2019.

Afterward, a string of live shows displayed the wretched results across Western Canada and the USA, playing alongside Aura Noir, Morbid Saint, Antediluvian, Witch Vomit, and more. What followed was a period of cloistered writing and conspiring while the world writhed in torment by the festering plague.

Two rough tracks destined for the eventual debut album were recorded in the Reversed ritual space and released on limited tape by Bent Window Productions. This was to be fully realized on the Reversed debut LP, Wildly Possesed, heralding the dawn of a more aggressive and voracious worship of the ultimate extreme metal essence – 1986 – where labels of death, black, speed, and thrash were interchangeable.

The album was recorded at the infamous Fiasco Bros. Studios where Blasphemy recorded their legendary albums, mixed and mastered by Marco S. Vermiglio at The Forge Music Productions, and set to unleashed by infamous Irish underground devotee Invictus Productions in Spring 2024.

In the meantime, see & hear a video for the brand-new track “Final Death” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Reversed (Canada)’s Wildly Possessed
1. Wildly Possessed
2. Maelstrom Juggernaut
3. Hungry Graves
4. Beneath Evil Eyes
5. Final Death
6. Rusted Breath
7. Black Seed

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/reversedmetalofdeath
www.reverseddeath.bandcamp.com

 www.invictusproductions.net

www.facebook.com/invictusproductions

SLAUGHTERSUN Release Macabre New Single “Ready Cell Awaits”

SLAUGHTERSUN have released the dark and macabre new track “Ready Cell Awaits”. Discordant and entwining dissonant leads make for a hauntingly heavy track. Watch your back, or you might not make it out alive. 

Vocalist Justin Hillman comments: 

“‘Ready Cell Awaits’ takes the listener on the journey of sitting in a cell, awaiting execution and searching desperately for anything spiritual to cling to in order to relieve the anguish.”

Listen to “Ready Cell Awaits” here:

About SLAUGHTERSUN:
Drawing musical, lyrical and creative influences from the likes of DEMILICH, GORGUTS, CANNIBAL CORPSE and AT THE GATES, to name a few, SLAUGHTERSUN create their own take on the death metal subgenre. Band founder Ben Karas (WINDFAERER) initially began writing for SLAUGHTERSUN back in 2017, but it wasn’t until 2022 that Karas was able to fully dedicate time and energy into the band. The band’s line-up soon came together comprised of Karas’ THANK YOU SCIENTIST band mate Cody McCorry, along with Jason Quinones (TOMBSTONER) and Justin Hillman (CRANIAL DAMAGE). In 2023, SLAUGHTERSUN began to rehearse and record in their full form and soon turned to preparing their debut “Fall of the Firmament”. 

SLAUGHTERSUN is:
Justin Hillman – Unearthly Wails
Ben Karas – Treble Strings
Cody McCorry – Bass Strings
Jason Quinones – Hammer Battalion

Links:
Website: https://slaughtersunnj.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553494261326
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slaughtersunnj/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYIRFOjJhzCUVL6FIRf2kgQ

COFFIN CURSE premiere new track – features members of Chile’s INANNA+++

Today, Chilean death metallers Coffin Curse premiere the new track “Reeking Filth of Ages” . The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, The Continuous Nothing, set for international release on April 22nd via Memento Mori. Hear Coffin Curse‘s “Reeking Filth of Ages” in its entirety here:

Although Chile’s Coffin Curse came into being in 2012 as a side-project of Inanna‘s Max Neira, it didn’t take long for the band to assert their own identity. A demo was released that same year, to be followed by a handful of EPs and splits, all before culminating in Coffin Curse‘s debut album for Memento MoriCeased to Be. A fresh breath of old air, Ceased to Be was as exemplary of 1990 death metal than it was 2020 “death metal.” In their “regressive” / elevated state of mind, DEATH METAL back then possessed charisma and songwriting, chops and more than a bit of madness. Maybe class, too? Compared to so much riff-salad wank that’s followed, Coffin Curse were indeed classy.

Now, four years later, Coffin Curse are back to reassert that classiness with The Continuous Nothing. Thankfully, LP#2 is a logical continuation of that not-inconsiderable debut: timeless, taut, and terrorizing, actual songwriting is pushed to the fore with ceaselessly catchy riffing and an abundance of haunting-the-chapel leads. Also thankfully, Coffin Curse are unafraid of displaying their influences here – Morbid Angel, Deicide, and Immolation during their turn-of-the-’90s heydays, as well as the viciousness of founding fathers Possessed, Massacre, and Chile’s Pentagram – but once again, the duo’s charisma pushes The Continuous Nothing into the realm of inspired rather than “inspired by,” as each of the album’s nine songs surges & slices with maximum memorability and quite-literally-dangerous execution. But, through it all, The Continuous Nothing engages because of its classic / classy songwriting and none-more-powerful production, where each instrument is organic and almost-overwhelming in its true-to-life physicality. No popcorn or punch-ins here!

Once again, Daniel Hermosilla (Nox Fragor Art) provides the dark-psychedelic icing on the cake with his cover artwork. For those who worship such vital follow-ups as LegionRetribution, and Blessed are the SickCoffin Curse‘s The Continuous Nothing is for you!

Also hear the previously revealed “Bacchanal of the Mortal” HERE at Memento Mori‘s official YouTube channel. Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Coffin Curse’s The Continuous Nothing
1. Thin the Herd
2. Bacchanal of the Mortal
3. Deceased Races
4. Reeking Filth of Ages
5. Primitive Doctrines Crushed
6. Mauled by Unseen Atrocities
7. Among the Suffering Souls
8. The Dead’s Deafening Silence

MORE INFO:

www.facebook.com/coffincurse
coffincurse.bandcamp.com

www.memento-mori.es
www.facebook.com/memento.mori.label

TORTURERS’ LOBBY set release date for CALIGARI / IXIOL debut, reveal first track

Today, Caligari Records in conspiracy with Ixiol Productions announce May 17th as the international release date for Torturers’ Lobby‘s highly anticipated debut album, Deadened NervesCaligari will release the CD and cassette tape versions while Ixiol will release the vinyl version.

Hailing from Tampa, Torturers’ Lobby began as a three-piece band with Tim Anderson on drums, Ryan Conway on bass, and Evan Dawson, on guitar/vocals. After the Again debut demo in 2021, Adam Shaw joined as a dedicated vocalist. With this lineup, the band recorded the Crisis of Faith Rehearsal, which was released later in 2021. The following year, the 7″ EP Man in Zwugzang was released, and Anderson left the band after the subsequent Kinetic Disapproval rehearsal, which featured some early versions of songs that would be on Torturers’ Lobby‘s eventual debut album, Deadened Nerves. Dwane Nihiser replaced him, and that debut album is the first release with him playing drums.

Now at last here and their lineup firm, Deadened Nerves announces Torturers’ Lobby‘s arrival with devastating punctuation. A metal record for metal people, the band’s first full-length doesn’t kowtow to genre conventions – death metal, black metal, thrash, and even juiced-up traditional metal all get diced and sliced into their cranky cauldron – nor does it get overly “clever” and pay lazy lip service to a please-everybody middle ground. No, Torturers’ Lobby simply go for the throat quickly and without compunction, rushing forth with an urgency of approach and physicality that’s tangible – truly, this is a whole band playing together instead of punched-in parts – but soon twist the knife in myriad ways. And that’s perhaps the trump card of Deadened Nerves: violent and off the rails it might often be, but there’s a diabolic logic to the angular shapes Torturers’ Lobby throw, a strive to elevate songwriting to something at once palpitating and mind-bending, careening and in control. RIFFS are aplenty, and the production’s thick and scuzzy yet fully pro, and Shaw’s vocals keep apace with acerbic annunciation. 

“Truly, we just wanted to create unique music we haven’t heard, yet want to listen to,” state the band. “It’s very difficult to nail down what we play, and we like it that way. We worship no specific style, as the greats have already done it, so there is no sense in recreating some watered-down parody of it. We just wanted to be different and pursue something new, a different direction in violent ‘underground’ music. We have jokingly referred to our sound as ‘Florida shitkicker.'”

Still, there’s no joking around on Deadened Nerves. The lyrics match the severity of its music, focusing on actual events and societal ails. “We do not write silly songs about juvenile notions of ‘evil,’ the ‘occult,’ or fictitious gore,” the band continue. “We strive to turn humanity to face its grotesque reflection and reconcile with its own evil and misguided obsession with cruelty, morbidity, and lack of independent thought. This is a real reflection of the decaying world around us, though we are not seeking to advocate for it.”

Nasty, authentically underground, but not bogged down by too-cool borders, Torturers’ Lobby shitkick past, present, and future with Deadened Nerves.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Reaper’s Impunity” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Torturers’ Lobby’s Deadened Nerves
1. Dawning
2. Barbaric Alchemy
3. Chromosomal Devastation
4. Captured Pieces
5. Reaper’s Impunity
6. Hypnotic Seeds Sown
7. Humanity’s Husk
8. Re-education
9. Enduring Spirit
10. Reptilian Hide

MORE INFO:
www.torturerslobby.bandcamp.com

www.caligarirecords.com
www.facebook.com/caligarirecords
www.caligarirecords.bandcamp.com 

www.ixiol.com 

American black/death institution Crucifier premiere the new track “Biers of Catholic Bones”

Today, American black/death institution Crucifier premiere the new track “Biers of Catholic Bones”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated third album, Led Astray, set for international release on April 12th via Iron Bonehead Productions. Hear Crucifier‘s “Biers of Catholic Bones” in its entirety here:

One of the longest-running entities in the American underground, Crucifier was formed in 1990 by vocalist/drummer Cazz Grant. While myriad lineups would come and go – and the band’s eventual debut album, Stronger Than Passing Time, wouldn’t be released until 2003 – Crucifier have kept consistent to their blasphemous, blackened death metal style steeped in the truly ancient and most underground ways.

Now, two years after their weird & wild Say Your Prayers mini-album, Crucifier align with Iron Bonehead once again for the release of their third full-length, Led Astray. Taking the wandering yet fully locked-in songwriting of that mini to its ultimate conclusion, Led Astray is a masterclass in memorable, METAL riffing and twisted rhythmic thrust. As is their signature, Crucifier sound positively primal here but never primitive; while these nine screeds of blasphemy might confuse or insult normcore listeners, there’s an extremely considered & calculated delirium behind their blackened devilry. As such, the “tight looseness” that’s characterized Crucifier‘s work to date gets sharpened to an enviable degree as these nine labyrinths surge and storm with a paradoxical / perverse sense of class. Credit the latter largely to the jaw-dropping dual lead-work across Led Astray: an element that’s been bubbling in the Crucifier cauldron for years, but which really reaches a superlative level here. Of course, Grant’s vocals are as diabolic as ever, seemingly coming from every direction and hackle-raising in their articulation.

Crucifier hereby have delivered a modern classic of blackened death metal in Led Astray

Also hear the previously revealed “Smite…” HERE at Iron Bonehead‘s Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Crucifier (USA)’s Led Astray
1. Smite…
2. Feed the Furnace
3. In Hircine Splendor
4. Biers of Catholic Bones
5. With Cornu and Peccant Breath
6. Trafficking with the Devil
7. Serenaded by the Angels’ Shrills
8. Harbingers of Apollyon
9. An Endeavour of Rats

MORE INFO:
www.thetruecrucifier.bandcamp.com 

www.facebook.com/IronBoneheadProductions

DECEASED reveal cover & tracklisting for new HELLS HEADBANGERS album, to tour with VIO-LENCE next month

The new record from underground legends Deceased is coming! It’s titled Children of the Morgue, and is slated for release in August on Hells Headbangers Records. It will be recorded this Spring 2024 at Oblivion Studios, where the band has recorded quite a few past records including Fearless Undead Machines and Supernatural Addiction. It will be a concept record of life and death, with a running time of around one hour. Full cover artwork and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Deceased’s Children of the Morgue
1. Destination: Morgue 
2. Children of the Morgue
3. Turn to Wither
4. Terrornaut 
5. The Reaper is Nesting 
6. Uninvited Dirge 
7. The Grave Digger 
8. Eerie Wavelengths 
9. Fed to Mother Earth 
10. Skull with the Vacant Stare 
11. Brooding Lament 
12. Farewell (Taken to Forever) 

Musically, band leader King Fowley says, “It’s as always 100% Deceased! There will be fast parts, slow parts, melodic parts, noisy parts, and everything in between.” He also calls it their “darkest record to date lyrically.” Before the album is recorded, the band will go out for a short tour with Vio-lence and Exhorder in early April. Full list of tour dates as well as poster art are as follows:

April 5 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East
April 6 – Brooklyn, NY @ Monarch
April 7 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
April 8 – Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar
April 10 – Cleveland, OH @ The Winchester
April 11 – Cincinatti, OH @ Legends
April 12 – Detroit, MI @ Sanctuary 
April 13 – Chicago, IL @ Reggies

During the tour, Deceased will have for sale the new Hells Headbangers CD editions of 2000’s Supernatural Addiction (yellow disc) and 2018’s Ghostly White (blue disc). Additionally, Hells Headbangers‘ vinyl reissue of 1995’s The Blueprints of Madness is slated for September. For more info, consult the links below.

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/deceasedofficial

www.hellsheadbangers.com
www.facebook.com/hellsheadbangers 

SLAUGHTERSUN Release Lyric Video For “Relentless Thelemic”

SLAUGHTERSUN has released a lyric video for their new single “Relentless Thelemic”.

About SLAUGHTERSUN:
Drawing musical, lyrical and creative influences from the likes of DEMILICH, GORGUTS, CANNIBAL CORPSE and AT THE GATES, to name a few, SLAUGHTERSUN create their own take on the death metal subgenre. Band founder Ben Karas (WINDFAERER) initially began writing for SLAUGHTERSUN back in 2017, but it wasn’t until 2022 that Karas was able to fully dedicate time and energy into the band. The band’s line-up soon came together comprised of Karas’ THANK YOU SCIENTIST band mate Cody McCorry, along with Jason Quinones (TOMBSTONER) and Justin Hillman (CRANIAL DAMAGE). In 2023, SLAUGHTERSUN began to rehearse and record in their full form and soon turned to preparing their debut “Fall of the Firmament”. 

SLAUGHTERSUN is:
Justin Hillman – Unearthly Wails
Ben Karas – Treble Strings
Cody McCorry – Bass Strings
Jason Quinones – Hammer Battalion

Links:
Website: https://slaughtersunnj.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553494261326
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slaughtersunnj/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYIRFOjJhzCUVL6FIRf2kgQ

Doomed death metallers Wrektomb premiere new track

Today, doomed death metallers Wrektomb premiere the new track “Unexpected Encounters With Nature”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, Bovine Mockeries of Human Posturing, set for international release on April 5th via Personal Records. Hear Wrektomb‘s “Unexpected Encounters With Nature” in its entirety  here:

The sarcophagus has cracked, releasing the sulfuric putrefaction of Wrektomb‘s first full-length recording after one EP, Bovine Mockeries of Human Posturing. Nick Krostoff and his faithful companion Vera Kätzin bring warnings from the next realm that oblivious and prideful humans must not overestimate their place in the cosmic hierarchy while Dieter Itis sets the cadence as this dire procession marches back into the earth from which it came.  

With Krostoff as crypt-keeper, each song tells a gory and depraved tale: human deviants engaged in self-mutilation to feel something other than apathy and disdain. With crushing force, the Red Heifer, the Divine bovine, tramples temples and pulverizes the pride of arrogant, unsuspecting victims for their misplaced worship. Time travel through the multiverse is exploited by an impulse to sire linage across time and space. Modernity’s zeitgeist ruled by indoctrination with vapid values of the psychopath’s all-consuming black hole of derangement – unable to satiate the hunger for carnage and the carnal – culminating in a reflection on defeat, finding the meaning of life in the decomposition of the flesh: the height of human achievement in transforming into feed for the corvids and carrion-eaters of the sky. 

At times an ornate marble mausoleum, at times a spartan gravel grave mound, meditate on the melodies of doom before they are once again lost to the underworld.

Hear the previously revealed “Gored Into Reality” HERE at Personal Records‘ Bandcamp. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Misanthropic-Art, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Wrektomb’s Bovine Mockeries of Human Posturing

1. Gored Into Reality [7:29]
2. Unexpected Encounters with Nature [9:10]
3. Quantumcreep [9:01]
4. Society Supported Psychopaths [6:15]
5. This Decay of Me [10:35]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/wrektomb 
wrektomb.bandcamp.com

www.personal-records.com
personal-records.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/personalrecords666
Instagram.com/personalrecords666

France’s PROFANATION set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut EP, reveal first track – features members of DESTROYER 666, VENEFIXION, SEPULCRE+++

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces May 3rd as the international release date for the striking debut EP from France’s ProfanationSkull Crushing Violence, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

Hailing from France’s ever-thriving death metal scene, Profanation are a new band of old souls. Many will recognize lead guitarist Kev Desecrator from Deströyer 666, but he also maintains labelmates Venefixion – with whom vocalist Profane Alex has recently been added as a live member – as well as Sépulcre and Scumslaught, and fellow guitarist A.M. also plays in Regarde les Hommes Tomber. Along with drummer Sinistre, the quartet create vile, ultraviolent DEATH METAL in a most ancient manner.

Of course, their debut recording says it all on the tin: Skull Crushing Violence, which is exactly what you get for 20 terrorizing minutes. Like the unholy offspring of Hadez and Necrovore with more than a hint of the eldritch grind of Terrorizer and England’s Doom, Profanation whip forth a fury like few others. Everything here on Skull Crushing Violence goes into the red – as it SHOULD, to honor the promise of its title – and the intensity suitably takes on an otherworldly aspect as it flits between abyss-ward blast and grave-shoveling D-beat. Meanwhile, utterly OTT solos shoot across the record like missiles flying across a war-torn landscape. 

Want 666% ARRRGGGHHH?!? ​Profanation give it to you with Skull Crushing Violence!

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

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Profanation (France)’s Skull Crushing Violence
1. Profanation
2. Global Terror
3. Modern Sickness
4. Graveyard Stomp
5. No Surrender
6. Skull Crushing Violence

MORE INFO:
profanationband.bandcamp.com 

www.facebook.com/IronBoneheadProductions

ANTAGONYZE set release date for CHAOS RECORDS debut, reveal first track

Today, Chaos Records announces April 19th as the international release date for Antagonyze‘s highly anticipated debut album, Interpretations of the Unknown Wilderness, on CD and cassette tape formats.

Formed in 2019 and hailing from the always-thriving Chilean underground, Antagonyze are a death metal band founded by guitarists Ignacio Riveros and Francisco Álvarez and bassist Mateo Gutiérrez. Soon enough, they began their first compositions and later recruited drummer Moisés Aguayo and the ex-vocalist to complete the formation. By the end of that first year, Antagonyze achieved some support in the local underground metal scene with some live shows. Not long after, the band recording their first work, Echoes From Soul, a demo cassette that was originally released in May 2020. This was an independent release and was thus limited to 33 copies. After that, the label Infernal South Productions offered to release the demo in a pro cassette version, which came July 2020, limited to 140 copies. 

Due to the pandemic, Antagonyze were forced to stop their activities, but during this period, the band continued working on new compositions from home. By late 2020, the ex-vocalist left the band, and in 2021, the drummer Moisés Aguayo had time-commitment troubles due to his job. In this moment, the band recruited Alvaro Mora as new vocalist and Nicolás Cavada as drummer, both from the city Los Ángeles, which is near to their home of Nacimiento. This lineup boost proved to be a boon, as Antagonyze began changing lyrics and adding new drum rhythms and nuances to preexisting songs. With this new formation, the band began to play more shows and gain more followers, sharing the stage with the likes of fellow Chilean bands Serpent Throne, Apostasy, Repugnatory, Soul Rot, Strigoi, Radamanthys, and Peru’s Morbo Satan among others.

By the end of 2022, Antagonyze decided to re-record the best songs of Echoes From Soul and add new songs to create a new full-length work titled Interpretations of the Unknown Wilderness. Thick and throttling, Interpretations of the Unknown Wilderness more than lives up to its title, unleashing a torrent of twisted & twisting death metal of a most ’90s vintage. Frequently dipping into doomier corridors, Antagonyze always whip forth forward momentum, varying their attack with violence and class, particularly in their lead work, which remains richly melodic in its bottomless darkness. The production, too – recorded by Felipe Cadenas at Estudio Chains, with mixing & mastering by Ignacio Riveros – makes these ten Interpretations hit that much harder and with devastating dynamics.

For those who wisely prize the ’90s works of Immolation, The Chasm, Shub Niggurath, and Mexico’s Cenotaph, go further south of Heaven with Antagonyze‘s Interpretations of the Unknown Wilderness!

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Paradoxical Panic Essence” here:

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

Tracklisting for Antagonyze’s Interpretations of the Unknown Wilderness

1. Forest Whisper
2. Interior Entity
3. Inside Journey
4. Deadly Sorrow
5. Unknown Wilderness
6. Paradoxical Panic Essence
7. Echoes From Soul
8. Hidden Wisdom
9. Shiny Dark Star
10. Segregado

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/antagonyzedeathmetal 

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