Month: April 2020

MORKETIDA set release date for new WEREWOLF mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Werewolf Records sets April 24th as the international release date for a special mini-album from Morketida, Traveler of the Untouched Voids, on 12″ vinyl format.
  Hailing from the black metal hotbed of Finland, Morketida continue to drive deeply into their native land’s most mystical depths. During the summer of 2018, the band released their striking debut album, Panphage Mysticism, through Werewolf and its effect was instantaneous: Whereas so many nowadays Finnish black metal bands derive influence from the cryogenic fury of the Satanic Warmaster axis or the paradigmatic bestiality of early Beherit, Morketida here returned to the woodland wonder of such oft-overlooked hordes of Noenum, Vritra, and Blood Red Fog’s most desolate musings. By no means plagiarists, the young mavericks similarly invoked a ghostly grimness, wandering within the night to thick-yet-spacious swells of ripped-raw guitar and foggy organ. Now, they continue that effortless momentum with the four-song Traveler of the Untouched Voids.
  Totaling 22 minutes in length but by no means any less vast because of it – quite the opposite, in fact – Traveler of the Untouched Voids sees Morketida travel further down their own, ever-more-idiosyncratic path. Still largely downtempo but unafraid to kick into hypnotic blasting, here do they explore swampier and more eldritch terrain, heightening the beyond-the-shade atmosphere ever more through patient, plaintive melodies and more rugged expressions thereof. The organ of yore has been replaced by ocassional touches of mystical synth in a most early ’90s manner, while the vocals similarly plumb stouter depths. If anything, one could say that Morketida are nodding more toward an ancient Eastern European expression or one less-than-tangentially removed from the contemporaneous Hellenic scene. Either way, their exploration of the unknown continues with Traveler of the Untouched Voids…
Begin traveling those voids with the brand-new track “Descent of Purple Mist”
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Morketida’s Traveler of the Untouched Voids
1. Descent of Purple Mist
2. Upon the Aged Heavens
3. Traveler of the Untouched Voids
4. Unsilent Storms in the North Abyss [Immortal cover]
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Archgoat – “Black Mass XXX” full stream

As a document of ARCHGOAT’s 30-year anniversary series of gigs, the Finnish legends present “Black Mass XXX” recorded at Debemur Morti Productions’ Servants Of Chaos showcase on 28th September 2019.Captured with terrifying clarity, the magickal energy and raw power of ARCHGOAT finds its purest expression in the live arena, in-the-moment where all witnesses are bludgeoned into the guts of earthen evil. Ahead of its release on April 10th, you can stream “Black Mass XXX” in its entirety here:
Featuring an extended set including tracks from 1991 demo “Jesus Spawn” via the classic 2006 full-length “Whore of Bethlehem” all the way through to 2018’s “The Luciferian Crown”, this is a devastatingly brutal overview of one of the most singular bands in extreme music – an exhilarating grimoire of contemporary occultism from a band moving toward peak powers.

“Black Mass XXX” will be released this April 10th on Digipack CD, Double Vinyl, Limited Coloured Double Vinyl and Digital Download.
A bunch of new merchandising is available too.
Pre-order from the label’s EU shop, US shop or Bandcamp.

Germany’s SLAGMARK set release date for PURITY THROUGH FIRE debut, reveal first track – features members of SARKRISTA, TOTENWACHE+++

Today, Purity Through Fire sets April 30th as the international release date for the the striking debut album of Germany’s Slagmark, Purging Sacred Soils, on CD, A5 digipak, and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow at a later date.

Although a brand-new entity, Slagmark feature members of Sarkrista and Totenwache. As such, the brand play pure and proud BLACK METAL of the old ‘n’ cold variety. Trace elements of classic Finnish-style black metal run rampant across Purging Sacred Soils – a cryogenic fire, steeped in filth and fury as it is hateful – which is not surprising given the Sarkrista connection, they a band of transplanted Finns. Indeed, Slagmark add new fuel to the fire that stokes the classic Finnish/German alliance, tearing through six songs in a swift half-hour of raw ‘n’ righteous splendor. Familiar it may be, but “returning to misery and comfort,” as Sargeist once put it, is a quintessentially black metal activity…

Nasty melodicism, dangerous execution, a total disregard for modernity and “progression”…begin Purging Sacred Soils with Slagmark!

The first purging can be found with the brand-new track “As Cathedrals Drowned in Flames” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Slagmark (Germany)’s Purging Sacred Soils 1. Hexenhammer 2. Feeding the Urge to Destroy
3. Purging Sacred Soils
4. Built on Bone Hills
5. Eradication of all Terrestrial Ulcer
6. As Cathedrals Drowned in Flames
7. Unleash our Brutish Wrath
www.purity-through-fire.com