Month: June 2018

MALTHUSIAN set release date for INVICTUS / DARK DESCENT debut

Today, Invictus Productions, in conspiracy with Dark Descent Records, sets September 7th as the international release date for Malthusian’s highly anticipated debut album, Across Deaths. Dark Descent will handle the album’s North American release, while Invictus will handle the rest of the world.

Since their fateful first demo, MMXIII, in 2013, Ireland’s Malthusian have been a study in strident refinement and maverick poise. No move is ever out of place, nor any possibility unexplored; chaos may be waiting in the wings, but it is resisted and never fully/remotely sought. The hydra-headed quartet started on enviably firm footing from the very beginning – trace elements of bestial black metal, morbid death metal, and languorous doom, all mangled and minced with poetic ease – but what sprouted from that first demo and especially the subsequent Below the Hengiform EP two years later was something extraordinary indeed. This was black/death/doom ART taken to hallucinatory extremes…and Malthusian were only just beginning.

True, Across Deaths will be a “beginning” for many listeners otherwise new to Malthusian, but for those already well versed in the band’s vortextural musings, the album-length format opens their world even wider. Peer inside and the visions of bottomless doom are writ large; obscene forms writhe and resist, each psychological tendril twisting to ever-beckoning infinity. That Malthusian can harness these sensations should be no surprise – both short-length predecessors seemed massive at the time (and still are) – but the sheer fact (not to mention the sheer audacity) that a band can so effortlessly take angular, largely atonal DEATH METAL and make it a seemingly cinematic experience should compel naysayers to finally investigate this malodorous of artforms. Naturally, for however adventurous their visions continue to be, Malthusian above all believe in the alternately damning/redemptive powers of heavy metal: diversity of expression comes from within, not without.

Further verbiage is simply wasted – the experience is all. No time like the present, then, to travel Across Deaths with Malthusian. Begin the perilous journey with the new track “Remnant Fauna” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Malthusian’s Across Deaths
1. Remnant Fauna
2. Across the Expanse of Nothing
3. Sublunar Hex
4. Primal Attunement – The Gloom Epoch
5. Telluric Tongues (Roaring Into the Earth)

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/malthusianDM

DRAWN AND QUARTERED: Veteran Death Metal Trio Reveals Artwork & Track-list Of New Album “The One Who Lurks”


Seattle based death metal overlord DRAWN AND QUARTERED began life under the moniker of Plague Bearer (which is currently a side project of the guitarist Kelly) in 1992. A year after the creation, Plague Bearer started to breath fire under the formidable name Drawn and Quartered. It will be injudicious to play down their prolific career — consisting six acclaimed full lengths and numerous EPs and demos — by only considering the absence of wide-ranging recognition of their niche musical landscape. Unconventional and grotesque structured song-writings have earned them an invincible and invulnerable position in the death metal underground. Drawn and Quartered has always pushed the boundaries of traditional death metal by infusing technically complex riffs and at the same time retaining the dreadful and raw environs with dexterity, a hallmark that is highly unnoticeable among the torchbearers of modern death metal acts who only gives priority to metamorphose themselves in a sea of technical showboating.

Balefully titled upcoming opus “The One Who Lurks” sees no discernible turnaround in the already established signature sound. However, it surely sees the long serving death metal trio to vengefully and ravenously hone the level of ferocity and profanity in an unadulterated way. The eight tracks, containing maelstrom of bizarre riffs, repulsive vocals, and cavernous drumming, individually act as an entryway to unfurl the lurking terror that is maliciously aiming to flay its victim alive.

Upon re-issuing Drawn and Quartered’s “Feeding Hell’s Furnace” (on tape) and ”Hail Infernal Darkness” (on vinyl), French label Krucyator Productions will present the highly anticipated seventh full length “The One Who Lurks” on July 27, 2018.

Gabriel T Byrne has executed The hideous artwork of this album. The Tucson, Arizona based artist has limned the cover of every Drawn and Quartered full lengths.The label owner Loic F. (Autokrator, N.K.V.D.) has undertaken the duty of the layout, mixing, mastering and the production.

Drawn and Quartered is confirmed to perform in this year’s Asakusa Deathfest, Japan. They will also perform in other local and international gigs to support the forthcoming album.

TRACT-LIST:
1. Nefarious Rites
2. Ravage The Cadaver
3. Horned Shadows Rise
4. Deliverance to the Worms
5. Temples of Arcane Devotion
6. Carnal Transmigration
7. The One Who Lurks
8. Portals of Communion

PRE-ORDER :
BANDCAMP: https://goo.gl/W22DwM
SHOP: https://goo.gl/LMHe4s
DIGITAL: smarturl.it/lurks

DRAWN AND QUARTERED:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drawnandquartered
Bandcamp: https://drawnandquartered1.bandcamp.com
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4jlcNzFcMcpogfpyoaXFyt
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2p6lv19FRrVoKEL52qm99e

DEIPHAGO complete new HELLS HEADBANGERS album – reveal cover art, tracklisting

Legendary black metal band Deiphago – arguably the most violent band on the planet, as well as one of the most envelope-pushing – have completed recording for their highly anticipated fifth album, to be titled I, The Devil. Set for international release later this year via Hells Headbangers, I, The Devil was recorded May 13-18 at Godcity Studios with esteemed producer Kurt Ballou (Converge). Mastering will be done by Brad Boatright (Audiosiege), and the legendary Joe Petago returns to do the album’s cover art.

Featuring eight songs in approximately 38 minutes, I, The Devil sees Deiphago taking their ever-singular “Experimental Hyper-speed Satanic Bestial Metal” down avenues both more violent and more angular. No other nowadays metal band sounds this extreme – extreme violence, extreme progressiveness, extreme EXTREMITY – and I, The Devil shall prove, once again, that Deiphago are truly in a league all their own. If the Colin Marston-produced predecessor Into the Eye of Satan displayed a band aiming for the most atonal and challenging ends of the black/death spectrum, then I, The Devil will prove that Deiphago have crossed their Rubicon – and they’ve left everyone behind, cowering in their conservatism.

Says founding vocalist/bassist V.666, “This album is a celebration of our 30 years of existence, a cultivation of all our experiences since the band started in 1989. We have worked hard on this album and is the best music we have ever released, filled with dark moods and reeking of destruction. We present to you the essence of pure black metal as it was meant to be like in the early ’90s, when bands didn’t sound the same. This is our magnum opus that will be revered right next to the groundbreaking black metal albums of the early ’90s.”

Continuing, V.666 promises, “This will surpass everything not just in the bestial black/death genre, but the whole black metal scene as a whole. This album stands on its own as diverse and unconventional, filled with monstrous dissonances and intolerable cacophony. It is perfecting the uncontrolled chaos. Kurt Ballou has done a great job as producer, engineer, and mixer, capturing our evil intensity. Normal people will not understand the music, as we have put such a high standard over all the typical trends of today. Beware the release of I, The Devil.”

Release date, first track sample, and preorder info to be announced shortly.

Cover art – by Joe Petagno – and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Deiphago’s I, The Devil
1. Intro: Decimation
2. Quantum Death
3. Neuro-Satanic Circuit
4. 11:4:6
5. Deus Alienus
6. Chaos Protocols
7. Anti-Cosmic Trigger
8. I, The Devil

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/deiphago

ILL OMEN set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets August 10th as the international release date for a special mini-album from Ill Omen, The Grande Usurper, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

A prolific force within the Australian black metal underground, Ill Omen has built a canon of enviably massive proportions – and not just “massive” in size, but rather in the heights/depths to which mainman IV aims. Much like he has in his death metal-oriented vehicle Temple Nightside, IV scours the murk with single-minded intent, but with Ill Omen, he pursues a vision of black metal that’s ceremonial and sinuous, often slowly drifting like fog lingering across an empty grave. Such was the case with 2016’s massive Æ.Thy.Rift – arguably, IV’s perfection of slo-mo blackdoom – and here, he returns with his first recording since that critically acclaimed third album.

And yet, The Grande Usurper is a grand break from the gooey, stretched-out expanses of Æ.Thy.Rift. No less murky, instead, IV sends the listener on a wild ride through the most bestial recesses of the characteristic Ill Omen sound. Across its four-song/25-minute runtime, The Grande Usurper roils and revels among the filth, pulsing with barely contained rage, as mind-melting solos yawn slowly up from the crypt, invoking that same sense of delirium as Æ.Thy.Rift but faster. Altogether, it’s a record that consolidates all the gnarled ‘n’ gnarling weapons within the Ill Omen arsenal, but wields them in obscene and horrifyingly new ways. Hideous energy, slipstreaming songwriting, coffin-bound atmosphere crushed: here is revealed The Grande Usurper.

The first track to be revealed from The Grande Usurper is “The Ruinous Drear,” and it can be heard HERE.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ill Omen’s The Grande Usurper
1. The Ruinous Drear
2. Sentenced Suffering
3. An Eld Living Darkness
4. A Thousand Yawning Graves

MORE INFO:
www.illomenvoid.bandcamp.com