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ASCENDENCY set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets July 17th as the international release date for the striking debut mini-album of Denmark’s Ascendency, Birth of an Eternal Empire, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

Initially, Ascendency started out as solo project, formed by the strong desire to ignite the black flame of death. Here in the cover of darkness, concepts and ideas were slowly formed and refined over a number of years, until the enlistment of a competent drummer took place, elevating the band to newer heights and gaining them prowess musically. The band then recorded and made two promotional tapes, before the lineup was completed by the recruitment of a second guitarist, increasing the strength and power of the band once more.  
 
Birth of an Eternal Empire was recorded in May 2019 and has since gone through an extensive process, in the pursuit of a fitting and impactful sound which could showcase the raw energy of Ascendency and leave its burning mark upon a sullied world. Consisting of four tracks, the 26-minute record chronicles the rise to power of an despotic tyrant and will be the first of a trilogy of short releases, with a continuous conceptual narrative, about the thirst for power and hegemony and the ultimate betrayal of ego and arrogance.
 
Musically, Ascendency‘s attack comprises piercing guitars and thunderous bass, with monumental and melodic riffs tearing through an eternal battlefield, accompanied by visceral and commanding vocals that spew forth tales of fiery conquest and herald a new dark era. All this is meticulously completed by a relentless bombardment of drums, which underline the songs with pure rhythmic punishment and primitive force. Indeed, this is a Birth of an Eternal Empire!

Hear the first sounds of that birth with the brand-new track “A Birth in Fire”
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Ascendency’s Birth of an Eternal Empire 1. Altered Beast
2. Culling the Weak
3. Tread the Path to Supreme Veneration
4. A Birth in Fire
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www.prophesiedascendency.bandcamp.com
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RUNESPELL and FOREST MYTICISM to release split album thru IRON BONEHEAD

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets May 15th as the international release date for Wandering Forlorn, a special split album between Runespell and Forest Mysticism, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

A cross-generational meeting of two very old souls, Wandering Forlorn brings together two Australian hordes who’ve been following the voice of blood longer than most have been alive. Runespell mainman Nightwolf has been forging steel in the glare of burning churches since 2017. In feverish succession, his three albums for Iron Bonehead have poignantly presented pagan black metal in an authentically old yet refreshingly new hue, and with his three equally epic tracks here, Runespell shows that the fire is far from extinguished – in fact, its flames soar ever higher like spears hunting heaven. By comparison, Forest Mysticism put Down Under paganism on the map nearly 15 years ago and then retreated into the shadows in 2011, honor intact. Come 2018, the Hearken EP indeed hearkened the band’s rebirth, and the three stout-yet-sumptuous tracks here continue that noble trajectory. And aside from a single-track split last year, Wandering Forlorn marks the most extended Forest Mysticism recording since the no-less-considerable Hearken, a true fire of awakening.
Forest Mysticism
Past, present, and future…the ancients roam free across all. Wandering Forlorn are Runespell and Forest Mysticism, their creed of iron resilient and resounding.

In the meantime, hear a special teaser here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Wandering Forlorn Runespell:
1. Wolfwoods
2. Streams of Sorrow
3. Fated in Blood
  Forest Mysticism:
1. Summon
2. Rivers of Silver (II)
3. Ancient Tides of War
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Canadian war metal cult Trajeto de Cabra stream Iron Bonehead Debut

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

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

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

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Trajeto de Cabra’s Supreme Command of Satanic Will
1. In Fear Of Saturn
2. The Final Gate
3. Cursed Graves Of The Unanointed
4. Scythe Of Pestilence
5. Supreme Command Of Satanic Will
6. Blackened Hands Of The Impure
7. Heretic Terrorist
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Chile’s INVOCATION set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces February 21st, 2020 as the international release date for the highly anticipated mini-album of Chile’s Invocation, Attunement to Death, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

It was but the early autumn of 2018 when Invocation released The Mastery of the Unseen EP through Iron Bonehead. Although only two songs, The Mastery of the Unseen was presciently titled, for the power-trio made masterful strides since their debut CDR in 2016 and the extremely promising Seance Part. I demo released later that year. Exhibiting the same sulfurous energy as the first works but now displaying a uniquely feral poise, that two-song salvo set the stage for yet another presciently titled work: Attunement to Death.

Indeed, with Attunement to Death, Invocation are reaching a hellish harmony with their classic South American diabolism, but imbuing it with an ever-deeper – and ever-more-unique – aspect that bountifully displays their authentic grounding in the occult. In fact, one could argue that Attunement to Death is a clear ‘n’ cutting iteration of the Invocation aesthetic, robust and roiling and brimming with a confidence that betrays their still-young years as a band. And yet, for however well-recorded Attunement to Death might be (and executed with deadly precision by the band), there’s nevertheless a gritty, time-honored analog feel to Invocation‘s fiery ruminations. Hysteria begat possession previously, but now is offered transcendence for the willing listener/acolyte…

Open thine hearts and ears, then, and join with Invocation in their Attunement to Death! Begin opening thine hearts and ears with the brand-new track “Flying Ointments” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Invocation (Chile)’s Attunement to Death
1. Oppression
2. Flying Ointments
3. Divine Transition
4. The First Mirror
5. The Officiants
6. Secret Tongues
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DKBM stalwarts Blot & Bod stream new Iron Bonehead album

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finnish death metal magickians Blooming Carrions stream new Iron Bonehead EP

Today, Finnish death metal magickians Blooming Carrions stream the entirety of their highly anticipated new EP, Sisters in Blooming Flesh. Set for international release on November 28th via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Blooming Carrions‘ Sisters in Blooming Flesh in its entirety here:
Blooming Carrions was founded during the deadly summer of 2014 by EvM, who possessed a desire to create dark and primitive death metal, and to channel visions about decomposing hallucinations, cryptic dreams, and love for beauty of death and decay. The first offering, Sparkling Rotten Dreams, was released in summer 2017 by Iron Bonehead, and it introduced the band in it rawest form, with all essential Blooming Carrions weapons: twisted, cavernous riffs, eerie guitar melodies, pounding drums, and brutal and cryptic vocals. New material headed into darker and more distant territories, and the second demo came out soon after, titled Necrosis Twilight – again released by Iron Bonehead – offering two songs that were more atmospheric, crushing, and majestic.

But that was just a small glimpse of what was on the horizon for Blooming Carrions. During melancholic nights of autumn 2017 and winter 2018, new material was crafted, and during summer and autumn 2018, Sisters in Blooming Flesh was recorded by EvM and new member PkE, who joined Blooming Carrions to handle bass obscurities. What we have here is three songs of eerie, majestic, and brutal blackened death metal, blooming in rotting bliss and vulturous hallucinations. Truly titled, Sisters in Blooming Flesh is indeed the rotten, blossoming bouquet of Blooming Carrions.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Blooming Carrions’ Sisters in Blooming Flesh
1. Sisters in Blooming Flesh
2. Enchantment of Slaughtering
3. Lehto
MORE INFO:
www.bloomingcarrions.bandcamp.com
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Sweden’s REAPER set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces January 31st, 2020 as the international release date for the striking debut album of Sweden’s Reaper, Unholy Nordic Noise, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Like a blast from Bathorian dungeons, Reaper burst forth from muck of time eternal with their debut demo, Ravenous Storm of Piss, in early 2019 via Iron Bonehead. Ever aptly titled, this three-song firestorm whipped forth a fury of ancient witching metal, attacking with spell. Now, the return of darkness and evil comes with their fucking-PERFECTLY-titled debut album, Unholy Nordic Noise.

Reprising those same three demo tracks but in re-recorded form, Unholy Nordic Noise is ten-song assault of sulfurous, punkish First-Wave Black Metal Exclusively bookended by seamless intro and outro. In just a mere 29 minutes, the unholy duo of Reaper rip asunder the present and recast the past in crude ‘n’ rude form. Thick and viscous is their thrust, the latent D-beat discharging possibilities of life’s destruction, while the orkish vokills spill gism all over one’s sanity and safety. It’s a simple attack, but far from simplistic: this kind of delirious devilry requires the nuance and nous of a true aesthete. Thus, Unholy Nordic Noise is everything it promises…and far more!

But find out for yourself as you peer into those dungeons, pondering whether to cross the threshold into Reaper‘s domain. Unholy Nordic Noise will drive you mad!

Take the first step over that threshold with the brand-new track “Horn of Hades” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Reaper (Sweden)’s Unholy Nordic Noise
1. Intro
2. Hero of the Graveyard Flies
3. Severing Tentacles of Faith
4. Arctic Wrath – Blood and Bone
5. Order of the Beelzebub
6. Horn of Hades
7. The Birth of War
8. Surrender to the Void
9. This Crystal Hell
10. Ravenous Storm of Piss
11. De Krälande Maskarnas Kör
12. Outro
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JORDABLOD set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces January 24th, 2020 as the international release date for Jordablod‘s highly anticipated second album, The Cabinet of Numinous Song, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

It was but 2017 when Jordablod burst from the void, fully formed, with their bold ‘n’ visionary debut album, Upon My Creation Pyre, courtesy of Iron Bonehead. A seemingly simple goal, the Swedish trio aimed to assemble the finest fragments of music and noise from all corners of the world, resulting in a grand diversity, but always maintaining the deepest awe for the core elements of black metal and death metal in its thematic and lyrical aspects. And indeed did Upon My Creation Pyre accomplish that, and then some: a work written in fire and ash, delivered with innermost devotion and passion. It was the documentation of a journey through mystical experience, from the initial touch by the divine, through ritual and meditations, to the ultimate initiation that is the cremation pyre.

Thus, if their debut was the death of the flesh but the liberation of the spirit, Jordablod find further resolution and wisdom within the spectral expanses of The Cabinet of Numinous Song. Duly titled, The Cabinet of Numinous Song weaves together fanciful-yet-frazzled threads of seemingly disparate frequencies, from hypnotically hovering black metal to sensually shimmering post-punk, from gnarled ‘n’ gnashing death metal to plaintive ‘n’ pastoral loner-folk. Far from a schizophrenic mess, Jordablod wield an elusive and profuse sort of magick – a sonic alchemy, if you will – that allows them to firmly/gently guide the listener across alien terrain, the album’s seven songs each a landscape unto itself but comingling and coalescing into a grand tapestry that’s truly Numinous Song. In fact, the album’s 42-minute runtime reaches so deeply into the soul that you’d mistake this Cabinet for being both far shorter and far longer than that…

From the opening “A Grand Unveiling” to the closing “To Bleed Gold,” from “The Two Wings of Becoming” to “The Beauty of Every Wound,” Jordablod successively expand the consciousness and celebrate the renewing powers of transformation. More impossibly dazzling than ever, eclipsing the definition of “bold” and going beyond it, here resides The Cabinet of Numinous Song.

Enter the Cabinet with the brand-new track “The Beauty of Every Wound” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Jordablod’s The Cabinet of Numinous Song
1. A Grand Unveiling
2. The Two Wings Of Becoming
3. Hin Ondes Mystär
4. The Beauty Of Every Wound
5. Blood And Rapture
6. The Cabinet Of Numinous Song
7. To Bleed Gold
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Final order for IRON BONEHEAD / NUCLEAR WAR NOW!-curated NEVER SURRENDER fest announced – tickets on sale

NEVER SURRENDER FEST VOL. II
October 19-20, 2019
Oakland Metro Operahouse
Oakland CA, USA
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In 2009, Iron Bonehead  and Nuclear War Now! worked together to present the first NWN! Fest. The collaboration proved fruitful and the event was a success, so we continued the partnership, presenting four additional installments over the years. As Iron Bonehead ascended to become one of the preeminent underground labels, it began to make more sense to present bands from both Nuclear War Now! and Iron Bonehead, resulting in the Never Surrender Fest, the first edition of which took place this past November. We held all of the previous fests in Berlin because it was a centralized location, allowing us to bring more bands from Australia and Asia, while also presenting many North and South American bands to a European audience for the first time. Ten years later, it seems like the right moment to put together a fest in the United States, particularly, Oakland, California—the home of NWN! To that end, Iron Bonehead and NWN! are presenting the first-ever U.S. edition of the Never Surrender Fest, scheduled to take place on October 19th and 20th, 2019, in Oakland, CA, with a pre-show scheduled for October 18th, 2019. There will be 16 bands performing, with 8 bands chosen from each label. Full fest order follows, as well as poster art.
***SATURDAY OCT 19TH***
Doors: 3:00 PM

EOSPHOROS (USA): 04:00 PM – 04:40 PM
BYYRTH (USA): 05:10 PM – 05:50 PM
MORBOSIDAD (USA): 06:20 PM – 07:00 PM
BLUE HUMMINGBIRD ON THE LEFT (USA): 07:30 PM – 08:15 PM
BONE AWL (USA): 08:45 PM – 09:30 PM
TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE (AUSTRALIA): 10:00 PM – 10:45 PM
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN (CHILE): 11:15 PM – 12:00 AM
BLACK WITCHERY (USA): 12:30 AM – 01:30 AM

***SUNDAY OCT 20TH***
Doors: 3:00 PM

ORDER OF THE NAMELESS ONES (USA): 04:00 PM – 04:40 PM
CEMETERY LIGHTS (USA): 05:10 PM – 05:50 PM
HOUSE OF ATREUS (USA): 06:20 PM – 07:00 PM
SIEGE COLUMN (USA): 07:30 PM – 08:15 PM
VOLAHN (USA): 08:45 PM – 09:30 PM
GRAVE UPHEAVAL (AUSTRALIA): 10:00 PM – 10-45 PM
ANTEDILUVIAN (CANADA): 11:15 PM – 12:00 AM
BLACK CILICE (PORTUGAL): 12:30 AM – 01:30 AM
Never Surrender Pre-Fest Gig
Engendro Malévolo (CA) 8:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Zulxaxeku (CA) 9:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Ptahil (IN) 9:45 PM – 10:30 PM
Cemetery Lights (RI) 10:45 PM – 11:30 PM
Eggs of Gomorrh (Swiss) 11:45 PM – 12:30 AM

Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 8:00 PM

Elbo Room Jack London
311 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607

$15 adv $20 door / 21+

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