Today, Dying Victims Productions sets December 23rd as the international release date for a special 12″ vinyl pressing of Hexecutor’s classic debut EP, Hangmen of Roazhon.
Originally released in 2014, Hangmen of Roazhon followed Hexecutor’S debut demo just two years previous, but largely introduced these young French maniacs to the worldwide underground. And what an introduction it was: like some relic from 1985 unfrozen in the present, here was absolutely RIPPING thrash metal of a most evil aspect, executed (literally!) with malicious intent and dead set on infernal overkill! No progression, no modernity – Hangmen of Roazhon is simply and 100% classic thrash madness bursting with passion and authenticity, as well as SONGS! Indeed, Hexecutor have a firm grasp of songwriting, and no matter how breathless and blustery the EP gets, above all, there’s a true method to that madness. And there’s just no denying all those utterly crazed solos…
Sick and tired of trying to track down the original Hangmen of Roazhon 7″, only to pay an arm and a leg? Get it finally (or again) on 12″ vinyl format, now with remastered sound, and await your fate at the hands of Hexecutor!
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Hexecutor’s Hangmen of Roazhon
1. Hangmen Of Roazhon
2. Soldiers Of Darkness
3. Consecrated Slaughter
4. Napalm Assault
Today, Dying Victims Productions sets December 23rd as the international release date for a special split mini-album between two uprising French cults, Mortal Scepter and Deathroned.
Featuring three new ‘n’ exclusive songs from each band, this split MLP is the perfect introduction to the new wave of French darkness. Mortal Scepter are up first, and have a pleasure to kill! Although undoubtedly inspired by early Kreator, Mortal Scepter also offer obeisance to other early German deathrash like Poison and Darkness – and of course, the almighty Death, whose “Left to Die” they cover here – altogether exhibiting a manic (and maniacal) personality that’s addicting to behold. Deathroned are second on the split, but not to be outdone. In fact, they very equally rival their split mates in sheer, mad-butchering intensity! But, you could also say Deathroned have a violent force all their own – and perhaps not surprisingly, they here cover Violent Force’s “Sign of Evil” – racing along with a bloodlust that’s brewed in the ancients.
Think all thrash metal’s about partying and zombies? Think again, and get with the times: the steamhammering past is alive with Mortal Scepter and Deathroned!
Hear for yourself with Mortal Scepter’s new track “Punitive Expedition” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows
Tracklisting for Mortal Scepter / Deathroned (France) split mini-album
1. Mortal Scepter – Punitive Expedition
2. Mortal Scepter – Perish with the Flesh
3. Mortal Scepter – Left to Die (Death cover)
4. Deathroned – Night Of The Sinner
5. Deathroened – Speed Takeover
6. Deathroned – Sign Of Evil (Violent Force cover)
Today, Australian megalith Temple Nightside stream the entirety of its special new recording, Recondemnation. It shall be released on November 1st via Iron Bonehead Productions in conjunction with the Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now!-curated Never Surrender Festival set to take place in Berlin on November 1-3. Temple Nightside will be giving an exclusive performance at this fest. Stream Temple Nightside’s Recondemnation in its entirety.
By now, Temple Nightside require little to no introduction. In short, they are death metal necromancy of the highest order. Spitting in the face of other such facile attempts by normcore “metal” bands, Recondemnation is less a re-recording of 2013’s Condemnation debut album as it is an actual reimagining.
Descent and re-initiation: a corpse reborn through the womb of its own extinction. The veins cut and re-tethered, bloodthirst paralleled only by the emptiness… The beast rears its face once again, to sup and gnaw, and this is how the limbless move… The crypt is reopened, the dead Recondemned. Here, within, lies Recondemnation.
The crypt has opened fully; step inside exclusively HERE.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Temple Nightside’s Recondemnation
1. Shrine of the Summon
2. Exhumation; Miseries upon Imprecation
3. Abhorrent They Fall
4. Dagger of Necromantic Decay (Eater of Hearts)
5. Ascension of Decaying Forms
6. Miasma
7. Life Eternal
After two represses of NOOSE ROT’s debut MLP went sold out in record time, the time has inevitably come for its unholy incarnation on 12” classic black vinyl, and today we’re honored to finally announce its release in collaboration with Me Saco Un Ojo Records in the UK handling the European release of this putrid piece of crypt-spawned death.
There really is not much to overthink or over-elaborare about NOOSE ROT. Theirs is simply just totally fucked and putrid death metal from the most rotten crevices of the underworld. NOOSE ROT hail from Minnesota and have coalesced around a shared love of members of Gatecreeper and Wolvhammer for primitive and involved death metal in the vein of Autopsy, Pungent Stench, Coffins, Nihilist, Grave, and Repugnant – deciding to join forces to birth their own unholy death metal abomination that would worship at the altar of the Finnish and Scandinavian gods of ancestral death and decay.
Gruesomely regressed and appallingly involved, In their wretched and bludgeoning debut EP NOOSE ROT spew forth a vomited cascade of complete aural filth that engulfs the listener in a blinding deluge of chainsawing guitars, steamrolling drums, and putridly tortured vocals. At its most delicate and refined The Creeping Unknown is nothing more than a coffin-born aural stampede of complete aural rot where caveman-death metal is taken to a sickening new extreme, conjuring similar diseased atmospheres as seen in bands like Cruciamentum, Vastum, Acephalix, Disma, and Grave Miasma.
NOOSE ROT
The Creeping Unknown
1. Mass Grave Interment
2. Worship the Crypt
3. The Creeping Unknown
4. Bound in a Dark House
Automb are a new Black metal band coming out of the Pittsburgh area that are already getting attention of all the major metal media outlets. Formed by Serge (ex Necrophagia), Danielle and Scott Fuller (Morbid Angel) today we sat down with them to find out all we can on this new band.
How did you guys meet?
We met through going to the same metal shows.
When did you decide to form Automb?
We formed Automb in the fall of 2017. It was a way for us to collaborate musically as well as a way for Serge to create black metal on the side while doing Necro.
I think it was from watching crazy church burning/murder, suicide documentaries about bands like Mayhem and Burzum
How did you get into Black metal? What was the one band that “did it” for
you?
Danielle: I was big into death metal for a while when I first started listening to metal and then I just started to venture off more and more. Immortal was one of the first black metal bands I listened to, then I got into the subgenres within black metal so DSBM, atmospheric black metal, etc. I would say bands like Watain, Rotting Christ, Deathspell Omega and Belphegor are the bands that “did it” the most for me.
Serge: I think it was from watching crazy church burning/murder, suicide documentaries about bands like Mayhem and Burzum. It was the next extreme thing for me in the evolution of metal. After that I discovered the whole Scandinavian scene and so on. I can’t pick a single band. But it was definitely bands like Emperor, Dissection, Gorgoroth, Satyricon and Immortal that made me want to write Black Metal.
What bands would you rate as influences on Automb?
Danielle: For me personally Watain and Dissection were huge influences on my lyrical content for sure.
Serge how long have you been playing guitar for?
13 years
What was your set up like for this album (guitar and amp)
I used an ESP LTD Eclipse and a peavey 6505+ head with a Mesa cab.
Eventually I ended joining Haxxan
How did you get into playing guitar for Necrophagia?
I used to play drums for a local black metal band around Pittsburgh and we got to open up for Taake and Killjoy happened to be at the show. He came up to my merch table to say that he really enjoyed my drumming and We ended up talking about all the Black Metal legends and burning churches for a good while and then he told me that he had a new black metal side project and he needed a drummer so he gave me his number and eventually I ended joining Haxxan. We spent about 2 or 3 months on rehearsals. One night I got the call to join the band as the guitarist and we had a show to do in 2 weeks and that was that.
What was it like to work with Killjoy?
It was easy and hard. It depended on what we were doing. We got along pretty well for the most part but we had our fights after stressful days. We had our disagreements but we eventually worked things out. He ended up agreeing to use most of my ideas for the new album.
We met Scott at the Morbid Angel gig in Pittsburgh
How did you guys get Scott from Morbid Angel to work with you?
We met Scott at the Morbid Angel gig in Pittsburgh earlier this year. Serge ended up getting his number and all that. We originally had another drummer do half of the tracks. We won’t mention who it is but we ended up going our separate ways. We had a deadline with the label and were looking for a drummer and Scott offered to help.
I mainly identify with the practice of witchcraft in all forms
Did either of you practice any religions if so what ones?
Danielle: I have considered myself to be “pagan” for quite a few years now. Throughout that time thought I have engaged more closely with varying subsectors of the occult or pagan belief systems. I mainly identify with the practice of witchcraft in all forms. I believe nature is the most holy and powerful place and it is through nature that we can directly communicate with the divine.
Serge: I wouldn’t call it religion but I do follow some paths that include paganism, hinduism, witchcraft, left hand path and other esoteric practices. I don’t like to conform to one single path because to me that’s only a small step away from Christianity
Have you ever had any strange psychic or occult experiences?
Danielle: Yes, plenty. I’ve been in tune with the spiritual realm for as long as I can remember.
Serge: Yes a few.
Have you played any live shows as Automb yet?
Not yet.
If not when can we expect to see you guys play live?
We have a show on November 2nd in Turtle Creek, PA.
And let the black flame inside be your guide!
Any final words?
We have a new lyric video coming out today!
Australian prog metal master NE OBLIVISCARIS are about to embark on their European trek with IHSAHN and ASTROSAUR. The tour kicks off next Monday, October 29 in Sweden and will end on November 11, in Hungary. A full list of tour dates can be found below.
NE OBLIVISCARIS comment: “IHSAHN, from arguably the most well known black metal band in history, EMPEROR, has given us the opportunity to share his European tour in support his latest solo release, the brilliant, “Ámr”. We’ve all been fans of IHSAHN’s work for many years now and to support such an iconic artist we’ve looked up to is an honor and will certainly be a defining moment in not only our careers, but also our lives. Opening will be instrumental Norwegians, ASTROSAUR. If you want prog, melody, metal, and history, be there.”
NE OBLIVISCARIS
With IHSAHN and ASTROSAUR
29 Oct 18 Göteborg (SE) Sticky Fingers
30 Oct 18 Copenhagen (DK) Lille Vega
31 Oct 18 Hamburg (DE) Logo
01 Nov 18 Köln (DE) Luxor
03 Nov 18 Leeds (UK) Damnation
04 Nov 18 Eindhoven (NL) Effenaar
05 Nov 18 Paris (FR) La Machine
06 Nov 18 Esch (LU) Kulturfabrik
07 Nov 18 Milan (IT) Santeria Social Club
09 Nov 18 Vienna (AT) Szene
10 Nov 18 Prague (CZ) Palac Akropolis
11 Nov 18 Budapest (HU) A38
NE OBLIVISCARIS will be touring in support of their latest release ‘Urn’.
The coverartwork and tracklist can be viewed below.
Track-list
1. Libera (Part I) – Saturnine Spheres (9:52)
2. Libera (Part II) – Ascent of Burning Moths (2:36)
3. Intra Venus (7:29)
4. Eyrie (11:51)
5. Urn (Part I) – And Within The Void We Are Breathless (7:30)
6. Urn (Part II) – As Embers Dance In Our Eyes (6:38)
Total playing time: 45:56
NE OBLIVISCARIS’ third album, ‘Urn’ is bound to be a career defining moment. The Australian extreme prog shooting stars have honed and re-balanced the key elements of their unique sound to a razor sharp musical edge. The dynamic entwining of fierce growls and emotive clean vocals, the contrast between devastating et intricate guitar riffs and thundering drums against an unleashed violin and gorgeous string parts as well as the perfect blending of epic progressive and intense extreme metal forms of expression are all marking a new peak in the steep rise of the band.
Founded in the beautiful Australian coastal city of Melbourne, Victoria in the year 2003, NE OBLIVISCARIS took the inspiration for their name from the proud motto of Clan Campbell based in Argyll, Scotland, which means “forget not”. From the start, this collective of exceptional musicians made it clear that they did not intend to follow any trends or walk on well-trodden paths. Their first demo, ‘The Aurora Veil’ (2007) had a massive impact in the metal underground far beyond the fifth continent and already their debut full-length ‘Portal of I’ (2012) reached mainstream music press, which praised a unique array of influences and the characteristic virtuoso violin.
NE OBLIVISCARIS immediately climbed remarkably higher on the ladder with sophomore opus ‘Citadel’ (2014) by adding avant-garde approaches including jazz, flamenco, progressive rock, and many other wide-ranged influences to their solid metal base.
Parallel to their success on a critical level and with an ever-growing host of die-hard fans, the Australians increased their reputation as an excellent live act with extensive touring literally around the globe. The financial base for this was laid by NE OBLIVISCARIS’ ground-breaking use of modern day crowd-funding campaigns. This includes an ongoing Patreon membership scheme under the moniker The Ne Obluminati, which is revolutionising the relationship between band and fans by using the ancient concept of patronage in today’s democratic setting.
‘Urn’ will lift NE OBLIVISCARIS to the next level. Outstanding musicianship meets excellent songwriting and a firework of brilliant ideas. Evening out the scales between extreme and progressive metal, the Aussies carve their own path. Spin ‘Urn’ on heavy rotation and NE OBLIVISCARIS will take you to a whole new dimension of musical delights.
Current line-up
Xenoyr: harsh vocals
Tim Charles: violin and clean vocals
Benjamin Baret: lead and acoustic guitars
Matt Klavins: guitars
Martino Garattoni: bass
Dan Presland: drums
Recording line-up
Xenoyr: harsh vocals
Tim Charles: violin and clean vocals
Benjamin Baret: lead and acoustic guitars
Matt Klavins: guitars
Dan Presland: drums
Today, German death metal mavericks Abyssous stream the entirety of their long-awaited new recording, Mesa. This new mini-album shall be released on November 1st via Iron Bonehead Productions, in conjunction with the Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now!-curated Never Surrender Festival set to take place in Berlin on November 1-3. Abyssous will be giving an exclusive performance at this fest. Hear Abyssous’ Mesa in its entirety HERE.
It’s been six long years since the original release of Abyssous’ debut recording, …Smouldering. What was first a demo soon became something of a debut album, aided by two newly recorded tracks and a cavernously 3D mastering job by P. Engel at Temple of Disharmony: Iron Bonehead was so impressed by this fresh take on a rotten sound that it released …Smouldering on vinyl LP in 2013. Anchored in the ancient ways of the Metal of Death yet exuding a bold, flowing flair for songcraft, here Abyssous compositionally ran the gamut from teeth-gnashing, tempting-the-corners-of-chaos violence to slowly simmering, doomed-out dementia, taking the listener on a journey to eldritch depths…and beyond, and back. Not for nothing was it titled …Smouldering.
Then came silence, but during that interim, Abyssous have been patiently perfecting their craft. It finds full bloom on the aptly titled Mesa, which presents ten tracks across a surprisingly expansive 35 minutes. With such a setup, one would think a record of quick-hitting constructions; instead, Mesa is more like five proper songs buttressed by just as many no-less-crucial interludes. As such, Abyssous weave a more mind-melting tapestry than before, painting a fever dream in more gangrenous hues of ancient death metal and dizzying tension. It all very much sounds like the band who left us …Smouldering, but whipped into a delirium of fractured angularity and even-more-fractured sanity. Mesa is no less rotten, but paradoxically more regal. Even the language the power-trio is using here – “Fissurge,” “Aerosoils,” “Perlurkural,” “Vesspense,” and especially the climactic “Congealed Lores” among them – suggest that they’re indeed operating on a mesa all their own.
Or, one could simply gaze deeply into the cover art of Mesa and see where Abyssous are going now, and where they’re arriving. Will you step beyond The Beyond?
Today, Harvest of Death, a division of Signal Rex, sets December 25th as the international release date for Vetala’s highly anticipated third album, Retarded Necro Demential Hole.
If the raw Portuguese black metal scene has (rightfully) reaped renown or at least reverential infamy, then Vetala’s third full-length strike shall be the sonic vomit to ruin everyone’s day. For over a decade now, exploring the most depraved and transgressive corners of what BLACK METAL can be has marked this duo as nigh-on untouchable. Unrepentantly noisy, accidentally avant-garde, furiously FUCK OFF: although continuing the dark, disgusting work laid down by Black Circle forerunners Irae and Mons Veneris, Vetala have become an idiom unto themselves. And now, with the aptly titled Retarded Necro Demential Hole do the duo abase themselves and bow down before the all-consuming powers of ritual retardation; these four, nameless songs have no reason to exist, if only to rain feces on good taste and any and all conceptions of “black metal.” In fact, it’s so beyond primitive and artlessly improvisational, so nightmarishly unhinged, one could qualify it as PRE-black metal.
Exquisitely twisted as always, clanging and crazed and amorphously wandering into landscapes far too perverse to grasp, Retarded Necro Demential Hole is the final punctuation, the last severed shred of sanity, for Portuguese black metal. This album REALLY isn’t for you!
Find out for yourself the stratifying powers of Vetala’s Retarded Necro Demential Hole with the untitled second track HERE .
Today, extreme metal mavericks Firtan premiere a new video for the track “Nacht Verweil.” The track hails from the band’s critically acclaimed second album, Okeanos, released this past July via AOP Records.
Firtan are one of Germany’s most uprising extreme metal acts, delivering their very own mixture of styles to fans all over Europe since 2010. Having supported Rotting Christ, Imperium Dekadenz, and Der Weg einer Freiheit and played festivals like Summer Breeze and Metaldays, their sound originates from black metal involving atmospheric and progressive elements alongside intense vocal performances and accentuating ambient sounds. Firtan known for their intensive live shows, which, to date, they have delivered to ten European countries.
Now, after two EPs and one full-length, Firtan hereby present their strongest work, Okeanos. Inspired by avant-garde intellectuals like Nietzsche and Lovecraft, Okeanos is a dazzling display of epic black metal grandeur, suffused with autumnal atmosphere and winding-yet-captivating compositions. But, although deeply rooted in black metal, the overt muscle Firtan display here – not to mention the panoramic approach to songwriting, daring and boundless – helps Okeanos elude easy categorization. It’s an immediately captivating experience, expanding the listener’s consciousness whilst whisking the listener away to worlds yet unexplored. And its soundfield is as robust as it is majestic, which is no surprise considering it was recorded at the esteemed studio Klangschmiede E with Markus Stock of The Vision Bleak/Empyrium. At six songs in 40 breathtaking minutes, Okeanos is the album by which Firtan enter into the elite.
In the meantime, see & hear the new video for “Nacht Verweil”
Cover art, by Denis Forkas (Behemoth, etc.) and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Firtan’s Okeanos
1. Seegang
2. Tag Verweil
3. Nacht Verweil
4. Purpur
5. Uferlos
6. Siebente, Letzte Einsamkeit
FIRTAN lineup 2018:
Phillip Thienger – guitars & vocals
Oliver König – bass
David Kempf – drums
C.S. – guitar
Today, Sun & Moon Records sets December 17th as the international release date for a special new EP from sonic iconoclasts Svoid fittingly titled Spiral Dance.
For nearly a decade now, this Hungarian duo have defied conventions and followed their singular muse, no matter the stylistic definition nor easy categorization. The band’s base began in black metal, but a open-ended and spiritual sort; from there, Svoid decided to integrate whatever felt necessary to express that muse, each step strategic yet unselfconscious. It all culminated with dark ‘n’ dazzling second album, Storming Voices of Inner Devotion, in 2016. Ever aptly titled, that album looked ahead of the curve and pushed a poignant synthesis of post-punk and black metal. Now, the post-punk influence steps forward even more on the four-song Spiral Dance. In an alternate universe, each of these four understated anthems would be a radio hit…if the radio station existed in a post-apocalyptic cityscape.
Both mystically bewitching like Budapest and monochromatically bewildering like Berlin, Spiral Dance is the new, Now sound of Svoid, stark and austere in its nightlife sheen but exposing a more vulnerable underbelly to urban grim. Will you dance/dance/dance to this radio?
Begin the Spiral Dance with the new track “The Very Hours” HERE .
