Month: January 2019

INCULTER set release date for new EDGED CIRCLE album – reveal cover, tracklisting

Today, Edged Circle Productions sets April 12th as the international release date for Inculter‘s highly anticipated second album, Fatal Visions, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Hailing from the west coast of Norway, Inculter first burst onto the scene with the Stygian Deluge 7″ EP in 2013: It sold out within two weeks from Edged Circle, and the cassette version was gone within a day. From there, the still-very-young band were voted “Band of the Week” by Darkthrone’s tastemaking Fenriz.

Carrying forward that momentum, in early 2015, Inculter released their highly anticipated debut album, Persisting Devolution,again through Edged Circle. Still not even in their 20s yet, right from the very first second, the power-trio unleashed an iron-fisted attack and refused to relent, punishing the listener with cranky-yet-catchy thrash metal that draws influence from a wide swath of ancient thrash darkness. Whether it’s the nascent violence of the early Bay Area sound or the bestial blitz of mid ’80s Germany, from the ultra-OTT of Canada’s old speed/thrash scene to the weird ‘n’ unhinged musings of contemporaneous Eastern Europe, Inculter covered nearly every base with the magick ‘n’ mastery of true veterans.

Not surprisingly, Persisting Devolution reaped worldwide acclaim and led to the band being invited as direct support for such legendary acts as Mayhem and Kvelertak for sold-out events. Inculter continued to master their craft on the live front, prolifically playing before all and sundry, and thus setting the stage for their second full-length strike. Ominously titled Fatal Visions, that album is at last upon us!

Staying true to their sound whilst pushing their own limits, here on Fatal Visions do Inculter exhibit more finesse and flair, more magick and mastery. If Persisting Devolution leaned more on the raw side – understandably so, given the band’s youth at the time – then the self-produced Fatal Visions sees the now-quartet getting to the heart of their sound and, with mastering by Enslaved’s Herbrand Larsen, leaving a more powerful and timeless document for the ages. That expansion to a four-piece is immediately felt; the attack is tighter and more urgent, the dual-riff interplay dazzling with darkness and ever-twisting memorability. Indeed, these Fatal Visions cut quickly and sharply, their locked-in slash ‘n’ surge sounding almost criminally accomplished. No more red-eyed and bleeding-raw belligerence here: rather, a spiked landscape of classic heavy metal majesty rendered wild and wondrous. If anything, one could say Inculter are taking cues from cult-institution forebears Aura Noir but accelerating up the evolutionary chain far quicker…or simply that Fatal Visions is THE Now Sound of Inculter.

The future is so far in the past, Inculter have prophesied the present with Fatal Visions. Completed by stunning artwork from R.K. Valbo (Obliteration, Void Eater), this is another bold step toward total dominance.

First track premiere to be revealed shortly. Preorder info can be found HERE. A full video report, edited by Necro Lust Productions, can be seen in its entirety HERE. Aforementioned cover art as well as tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Inculter’s Fatal Visions
1. Open The Tombs
2. Impending Doom
3. Shepherd of Evil
4. Endtime Winds
5. Final Darkness
6. Towards the Unknown
7. Fatal Visions
8. Through Relic Gates
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Portuguese black metal cult Graves stream their Iron Bonehead debut

Today, Portuguese black metal cult Graves stream the entirety of their striking debut album, Liturgia da Blasfemia. Set for international release on February 1st via Iron Bonehead Productions, hear Graves‘ Liturgia da Blasfemia in its entirety here:
Hailing from the current black metal hotbed of Portugal, Graves are a relatively new entity featuring members of Flagellum Dei and Summon. The band made their public debut during the summer of 2018 with Unholy Desecration demo. Containing the same foul ‘n’ filthy rudiments as that demo, Liturgia da Blasfemia will be Graves‘ crude ‘n’ rude introduction to the world stage.

Put simply, Graves‘ sound is grim and miserable black metal brewed in the darkest dungeons of the underground, reverent of the ancient ways but by no means tethered to the past. References to be made include the French Black Legions and of course the Portuguese Black Circle, but also raw Finnish black metal from the past couple decades, such is Graves‘ emphasis on hypnotic, lashing melody. And compared to the demo’s more antisocial sound, here on Liturgia da Blasfemia do the power-trio reveal a considerably more feral physicality, no less ribald in its trance-inducing recesses but perhaps more apt to rise up from those depths and lash the listener with utmost cruelty. Similarly, the band utilizing their native tongue almost exclusively here lends an eerier, more otherworldly aspect.

Kneel and prostrate thyself before Graves‘ Liturgia da Blasfemia. The full genuflection can be found here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Graves (Portugal)’s Liturgia da Blasfemia
1. Do demiurge..Ultraje de viver
2. I am Fire I am Death
3. Sangrando em Golgota 
4. Sangrando em Golgota… parte 2 
5. Impregnado p` la Foice 
6. Do teu Ventre a Maldade saiu 
7. Minha Alma imolei em Golgota
8. Graves Hold Your Name
9. Via Dolorosa até Golgota

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ABDUCTION set release date for new INFERNA PROFUNDUS album, reveal first track

Today, Inferna Profundus Records sets March 29th as the international release date for the highly anticipated third album of the UK’s Abduction, All Pain as Penance, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
 
The sole province of tireless mainman A|V, Abduction officially began foul life with the release of a debut demo in October 2016. An auspicious if not all-too-brief start, that demo was soon followed by the band’s debut album, To Further Dreams of Failure, released by Inferna Profundus in April 2017. Here unfurled the fullness of Abduction‘s foulness, a rank ‘n’ cantankerous full-length introduction to A|V’s aesthetic. Grim and spectral yet emitting an elusive air of bestiality, To Further Dreams of Failure truly put the name of Abduction UK on the international map.
 
Later in 2017, an extremely limited tape-only EP tellingly titled Respiratory Prison continued Abduction‘s onward-and-abyssward advance, to be followed by the band’s second album, A Crown of Curses, in August 2018. Consolidating the strengths of its long-form predecessor whilst opening previously-unexplored tombs, A Crown of Curses was a rawer and yet more magisterial version of Abduction‘s black metal vision. Simultaneously, this second album drank from the well of black metal’s second-wave classicism and spit back wholly modern fire, tearing asunder the ragged cloth of nostalgia. But alas, the best was still to come…
 
At last, it arrives with Abduction‘s highly anticipated third album, All Pain as Penance. Ever aptly titled, All Pain as Penance is a soul-flaying plunge into the psyche’s craggiest, most malodorous depths. One could say that album #3 is the best of both full-length worlds – the gnawing violence of the debut, the desolate atmospheres of the second – but that only tells half the story here. Recorded by Ian Boult of Stuck on a Name Studios, with EG on session drums and A|V handling all else, All Pain as Penance immediately conveys an Abduction at its most robust and punishingly physical. Unlike so much “one-man black metal,” this record truly sounds like a whole BAND – which isn’t entirely surprising, given that A|V has made Abduction an increasingly prolific force on the live front. From there, this firm foundation allows him to explore coruscating gnarliness and beyond-the-shade dread alike, coalescing into an astute balance between form and function, spirituality and physicality. Above all, All Pain as Penance proves that black metal need not sacrifice muscle nor ambience to convey its darkest secrets: both worlds can be destroyed equally, only to rebuilt in gleamingly obsidian austerity.
 
UK black metal is continually being renewed, continually cycling through new generations of devotees – and pretenders. Abduction cares not for contemporaries, neither domestically nor abroad; only the experience of black metal’s most sacred sensations matter. Ever restless, Abduction now reveals its darkest truth: All Pain as Penance.

The first truth has been revealed with the new track “Infinite Ancient Hexes”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Abduction (UK)’s All Pain As Penance
1. Infinite Ancient Hexes
2. Ultra Terrestrial
3. Convulsing at Baalbek
4. Embattled
5. Prayer of Electrocution
6. Seven Apparitions of Suffering
7. The Funeral of Cosmic Mastery
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DEATH WORSHIP set release date for new NUCLEAR WAR NOW! EP, reveal first track – features CONQUEROR and BLASPHEMY members

Today, Nuclear War Now! Productions sets February 15th as the international release date for Death Worship‘s highly anticipated second EP, End Times, on 12″ vinyl format.

With its highly anticipated debut recording, Extermination Mass, Death Worship emerged in 2016 to write the next chapter in the storied legacy of the Ross Bay Cult. Whereas many bands over the years have striven to claim a position atop the mantle of bestial black metal, the incomparable lineage of Death Worship’s members and the pitiless assault on the feebleness of human existence as evidenced in this first recording confirmed it as one truly worthy of such a distinction.  

Now, approximately two years later, Death Worship returns with its second siege, End Times, which ominously portends the finality to which all mankind will succumb. The perpetrators of this attack are the same as on Extermination Mass. Specifically, ‘Deathlord of Abomination and War Apocalypse’ (aka R. Förster) has once again enlisted the services of J. Read on session percussion, and ‘Nocturnal Grave Desecrater and Black Winds’ eagerly offered his own legendary war commands to back those of Förster and his bludgeoning guitar and bass offenses.  

Although these supporting members have been directly involved in Förster’s lifelong trajectory in black metal through their joint collaborations in Conqueror and Blasphemy, Death Worship is the creative progeny of Förster himself. As he stated in an interview following the initial release of Extermination Mass, this entity is best interpreted as his own brainchild moving forward in the aftermath of Conqueror’s split, at which time Read similarly forged his own unique path with Revenge.  

While it is clear that Förster’s involvement in Conqueror and Blasphemy contributed greatly in shaping this vision, this latter project represents a sound that Förster envisaged and a creation that he has incrementally cultivated since he first picked up a guitar decades ago. In Conqueror, the Superion was seen as a potential to rise above the weaknesses and scourge of humanity at large. In Death Worship, that glimmer of optimism is no longer present, which brings us to End Times. The tangible product itself is one that reflects no superfluous experimentation with sound or alien influences from other genres. Instead, it is simply the manifestation of the most purely extreme black metal, inspired by I.N.R.I.-era Sarcófago, Blasphemy, early Beherit (and The Lord Diabolus), early Slayer, Hellhammer, and early Bathory. In order to properly achieve this goal, and in keeping with the traditions of the Ross Bay Cult, Fiasco Brothers Studio in Vancouver, Canada was chosen as the site for its audial incarnation.

Given the increasingly nihilistic state of affairs into which humankind has descended, so it is written that End Times shall serve as the appropriate soundtrack to its demise.

In the meantime, hear the new track “The Poisoned Chalice”
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Death Worship’s End Times
1. Stand Witness to Atrocity
2. The Poisoned Chalice
3. Slaughtersiege
4. Masters and Monolith

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FUNEREAL PRESENCE announce new album, titled “Achatius”

Nearly five years after the release of the successful The Archer Takes Aim debut, the new FUNEREAL PRESENCE album, Achatius, finally will be unleashed on February 15th via THE AJNA OFFENSIVE for North America (Sepulchral Voice will handling European territories).

A grand intonation of a grotesque vision of faith and fey exhales the spirit and the feeling of a long-forgotten era. Inspired by the harsh and cold sound of the early black metal movement, mixed with wild with violent riffing, Achatius consists of four long songs that are able to turn back time and to spread magick again. Perfectly written, skillfully performed, intentionally rough & unpolished recording/production, Achatius again fits into the concept of unconventionality and somehow reawakens an undeniable FUCK OFF attitude. Call it a blessing or call it a curse, Achatius sounds 30 years old. It’s like an old forgotten jewel from the late ’80s / early ’90s.

The past is alive without an intentional reanimation of that sound and style. Not by using dull stereotypes, blatant copied riffs, and beat-up arrangements, nor by a categorical intention and exaggerated forcing – it’s not just a short-term effect of old-style performance. It’s damn living proof of the fact that if you intentionally lock yourself away from all fashion and trends, having a burning artistic vision and the talent to let notes speak, you can create something timeless. FUNEREAL PRESENCE inhaled so much of that aura that their interpretation of a feeling and atmosphere reawakes the old ingenuity: an elder vision of sound, performance, thematics, and presentation the titan bands once had before the “market” started to explode and the ingenuity, idiosyncrasy, and danger in the movement started to implode. FUNEREAL PRESENCE is synonymous for pure fucking obsession for the core of black metal and beyond, the result of setting a determined/indetractable focus on translating the pulsating darkness into tones and rhythm.

As mainman Bestial Devotion once said, “I do the music that no one does for me anymore.” No further questions.

MORE INFO:
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Listen to the previous album “The Archer Takes Aim” here

PUTREFIED CORPSE sign to XTREEM MUSIC – first single, cover art, and tracklist revealed

Dutch death metallers Putrefied Corpse have just inked a deal with Xtreem Music for the release of their debut album, to be titled Left to Rot, scheduled for March 19th internationally.
 
Putrefied Corpse was born in 2013, but after going through different stages and changes in its lineup, the band has finally achieved a steady one that includes ex-members of bands like Phlebotomized, Adetar and Death Squad. Throughout the year 2018, the band has been recording their debut album, Left to Rot, which they showed to Xtreem Music, who immediately offered them a deal. The style of Putrefied Corpse is pure death metal the old-school way whose main influences could come from bands like Gorefest, Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy, Obituary, and Massacre.

Release date for Left to Rot will be March 19th through Xtreem Music on CD format. Hear the first single “Procreation of the Rotten Flesh”

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Putrified Corpse’s Left to Rot
1. Intro I
2. Smashed to Pieces
3. Cordon Bleu of her Curvaceous Body
4. Embrace Death in Solitude
5. Bloodbath
6. Sociopathic Monstrosity
7. Intro II
8. Obliteration of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation
9. Procreation of the Rotten Flesh (feat. Per Boder)
10. Necrotopia – Zombie Apocalypse
11. Joyful Repeating Movement
12. Godly Beings (Obituary cover) 

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Melodic Death/Doom Group COLD COLOURS Release New Single “Nightmare”

Long running Minnesota Death/Doom band COLD COLOURS have released a new single from forthcoming album Northernmost. Stream “Nightmare” below.
COLD COLOURS celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2019 with the February 22 release of fifth full-length album Northernmost. In recognition of the winter solstice, the album’s first blast of freezing wind came in the form of lyric video for new track “Terminal Winter.” Check it out
Pre-order Northernmost coldcoloursmetal.bandcamp.com/album/northernmost
Vocalist/guitarist Brian J. Huebner had this to say about the band’s milestone:
“If 20 years has taught me anything, it’s that you have to believe in what you are doing. No matter how many roadblocks you hit over two decades. I am thrilled that we have ‘Northernmost’ to celebrate 20 years. Our best album so far? Without question, but more importantly, the best representation of who we are and should be. This album is a testament to the chemistry of the band in 2019.”

Long overdue, Northernmost finds COLD COLOURS in top form as they mine the depths of despair on 12 dynamic compositions guaranteed to satisfy devotees, as well as newcomers with a taste for the likes of AMORPHIS, SWALLOW THE SUN, and INSOMNIUM. Recorded and mixed by drummer Mike Andrie, and mastered to perfection by the legendary Dan Swanö at Sweden’s Unisound, Northernmost is nothing short of exquisite. Welcome to 2019; welcome to your Doom! 
“If you like that icy kind of melodic death/doom that hails from Finland, set your GPS to Minneapolis to experience Cold Colours.”  – Dr. Mality’s Dungeon
“This is a really good album and the fact they are ambitious enough to have such a huge sound only adds to it.” [9/10]
 – Abysmal Hymns
“The band is dark, melodic, powerful and moving. The sound is rich and crushing.”
 – Permafrost Today
Track Listing
1. Northernmost I
2. Nightmare
3. A Life Forlorn
4. Northernmost II
5. From This Pain
6. Spirit
7. Northernmost III
8. Terminal Winter
9. Heathen
10. Northernmost IV
11. The Parting
12. The Pale Heart
COLD COLOURS is:
Brian J Huebner – vocals, guitar
Matt Hamilton – lead guitar
Mike Andrie – drums
Jaden Adair – vocals, bass
Jon Rayl – keyboards

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1349 discuss Munch inspired single “Dødskamp”

Norwegian black metallers 1349 recently unleashed  their new single “Dødskamp”. The song has been written for a project by the organizations Innovation Norway, Visit Norway and the Munch Museum, called ‘Munch + Music’. Four Norwegian artists within four different genres of music were asked to interpret their angle on a freely selected work by the famous painter Edvard Munch.

Find out what inspired 1349 by watching the video streaming on the website of Visit Norway.

Link:
https://www.visitnorway.com/things-to-do/art-culture/edvard-munch/munch-plus-music/1349/
The artwork of ‘Dødskamp’ can be viewed here, together with the track-list.
Tracklist:
1. Dødskamp (05:05)
2. Atomic Chapel (live) (06:54)
When 1349 rose from the ashes of ALVHEIM in 1997, the band was driven by a deep desire to keep the black metal flame burning in all its rebellious glory. The Norwegians set out with the declared aim to remain true to the original spirit of their scene, which they saw heading into all the wrong directions. Conceived around the founding members, which consisted of vocalist and first drummer Ravn, guitarist Tjalve, and Seidemann on bass, 1349 completed their line-up with the addition of guitarist Archaon in 1999 and SATYRICON drum-legend Frost, after the latter recorded a demo and the debut album with the band in 2001. When their debut ‘Liberation’ was finally unleashed in 2003, 1349 took the world by storm with their intense blend of old school black metal soundscapes and ultra-fast aggression. Further assaults followed in rapid succession. ‘Beyond the Apocalypse’ (2004) and ‘Hellfire’ (2005) cemented the Norwegians’ reputation as one of the strongest acts in the already peaked scene, where they managed to carve out a claim for their own. Founding member Tjalve decided to focus on his band PANTHEON I and 1349 have since continued as a four-piece – occasionally adding renowned guest guitarists. Extensive touring aided the growth of a massive following, which started to seriously reach across the Atlantic, when 1349 opened for reunited metal legends Celtic Frost in North America in 2006. In an impressive demonstration that dedication to the origins and early principles of black metal does not have to mean nostalgia and stagnation, 1349 considerably widened their sonic palette with the next full-length ‘Revelations of the Black Flame’ (2009), which was co-mixed by iconic CELTIC FROST mastermind Tom Gabriel “Warrior” Fischer. Their newly found darker and more ambient side, was further explored and interwoven with the earlier sonic approach, which 1349 dub “aural hellfire” on the following ‘Demonoir’ (2010). Extensive touring and performances at prestigious festivals around the globe filled the period from 2010 to 2012. ‘Massive Cauldron of Chaos’ (2013) was the next milestone in the Norwegian’s merciless advance, scoring excellent reviews and sparking more festival shows as well as extended touring, which also brought 1349 for the first time to Australia and New Zealand. Now the band is preparing to unleash more “aural hellfire” onto the expecting world via Season of Mist.
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Line-up
Seidemann: bass
Ravn: vocals
Archaon: guitars
Frost: drums

Pre-orders: http://smarturl.it/1349Dodskamp

GOATKRAFT set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets March 22nd as the international release date for Goatkraft‘s highly anticipated debut album, Sulphurous Northern Bestiality, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Following a full year from the band’s rapturously received Angel Slaughter EP via Iron Bonehead, Goatkraft‘s
Sulphurous Northern Bestiality says everything it needs to in its title: chokingly sulphurous, beyond bestial in both form and content, and hailing from the northern climes of Norway, a country usually underrepresented in the bestial arts. The power-trio’s full-length debut hardly differs from its shorter predecessor, underlining the band’s commitment to their monochromatic muse, but offers a fuller and fouler expression of the Goatkraft vision.

Crude and rude and completely stripped bare of any remotely excessive adornment, Goatkraft are a study in stark, stultifying minimalism. Their punishing, primitivist surge hearkens back to the almighty Blasphemy, but truly finds its voice within the seething spite of Black Witchery; not for nothing did they conclude Angel Slaughter with a cover of that band’s eternal “Unholy Vengeance of War.” Barbaric black metal is again the order of the day on Sulphurous Northern Bestiality, dutifully redone with nuclear-powered panache, red-eyed and regimented, and a true devotee’s lust for pure form. Indeed, the purity of violence – rabid, roiling, righteous – doesn’t come more distilled and undiluted than
Sulphurous Northern Bestiality. Here continues the whirlwind of Goatkraft.

Reap the first whirlwind with the new track “Spell of Black Pestilence” here :
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Goatkraft’s Sulphurous Northern Bestiality
1. Yawns from the Abyss
2. Hordes of Damnation
3. Goatkrafts Command
4. The Oath
5. Bestial Desecration
6. Imperial Hate
7. Spell of Black Pestilence
8. Invocation to the Lord of Huracanes
9. Blasphemous Sulphur Oppression
10. Deathblade of Plague and Torment
11. Volcanic Orthodox Necromancy

MORE INFO:
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Russian black metal mavericks Ulvdalir premiere new track

Today, Russian black metal mavericks Ulvdalir premiere the new track “Music of Cold Spheres” The track hails from the band’s long-awaited fourth album, …of Death Eternal, set for international release on January 25th, 2019 via Iron Bonehead Productions.

Hear Ulvdalir’s “Music of Cold Spheres” in its entirety HERE.

One of black metal’s best-kept secrets, Ulvdalir belong to the inner circle of Russia’s True Ingrian Black Metal Death, alongside Iron Bonehead labelmates Khashm, with whom they share two members. As such, the sound they’ve patiently crafted since 2001 – and which made its full-length debut in 2008 with TWO albums, Flame Once Lost and Soul Void, both equally aptly titled – likewise bears a tangibly gnarly physicality contrasted by an almost-levitational aspect: truly, an alchemical melding of aggression and atmosphere. And although they’ve kept their profile reasonably visible in the intervening years with myriad split recordings and a compilation unearthing a couple lost EPs, …Of Death Eternal is the first Ulvdalir full-length recording in nearly eight years.

Truly worth the wait, …Of Death Eternal displays the full bloom of Ulvdalir’s rotten, bountiful harvest. Swarming with dire intent and unnervingly precise malice, the quartet’s attack here pushes and pulls, coils and crushes, but always carries an ever-forward momentum. Equally slipstreaming and trance-inducing, their gnarled ‘n’ gnarling style of black metal emits space and shade at every crooked turn, finally enveloping the listener whole within their black hole. And each of the album’s six central songs patiently unfolds their respective black holes across lengthier track times, yet ones never too exhaustingly long; again, malicious precision is the order of the day on …Of Death Eternal. In that regard, and alongside the finessed physicality here, one could slot Ulvdalir alongside the more orthodox black metal movements still coursing through Sweden and Greece, but with a sterner sensibility that’s distinctly Russian.

True Ingrian Black Metal Death reveals its next death-card, and it bears the aspect of Ulvdalir’s …Of Death Eternal. Be dealt the next card here:

The first card has been dealt with the previously revealed “Swords of Belial” HERE

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ulvdalir’s …Of Death Eternal
1. Intro
2. Awakening
3. Black Flame of Will
4. Swords of Belial
5. Birth of the Beast
6. Music of Cold Spheres
7. Eternal Angel of Death Eternal
8. Outro

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