Month: September 2020

Satanic speed metallers Occult Burial premiere new track

Today, Satanic speed metallers Occult Burial premiere the new track “Pyramide de Tête Coupées”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Burning Eerie Lore, set for international release on October 30th: Invictus Productions will release the album on CD and vinyl LP formats in Europe, Electric Assault Records and Stygian Black Hand will release the album on vinyl in the United States, and Temple of Mystery Records will be handling the CD and cassette tape versions for Canada. Hear Occult Burial‘s “Pyramide de Tête Coupées” in its entirety here:

It’s been four long years since Occult Burial released their widely celebrated debut album for Invictus, Hideous Obscure. Trickles of activity have teased the hordes, first with the two-song Skeletal Laughter 7″ and then a two-song digital promo bearing the title Burning Eerie Lore. Lo and behold, between these two releases, those hungry hordes would be able to sample and savor four salacious new songs that would form the foundation of their forthcoming second album, also bearing the title Burning Eerie Lore. Why the repeat of titles? Because it’s BURNING EERIE LORE – and it’s fucking mandatory early ’80s-style Satanic speed metal, just like it was before!

Lest anyone think Occult Burial are merely repeating themselves on LP#2, think again: Burning Eerie Lore is every inch an upratchet of their no-less-considerable debut album. More evil, more sleaze, more speed, more solos, more headbanging, more atmosphere, more of MORE – there’s simply no stopping this power-trio when alcohol gets in their engine and their cauldron starts bubbling. Whereas Hideous Obscure indeed invoked the more obscure corners of mid ’80s Germany, Brazil, and Canada, here on Burning Eerie Lore is the scuzzy, sepulchral focus squarely on earliest Bathory, Exciter, Venom, and even Iron Angel: black may be the attack still, but Occult Burial give poisonous nuance to tried-and-true HEAVY METAL above all, now more than ever. And the record just rips from beginning to end, the band banging it out with eight veritable anthems (plus obligatory mood-setting intro) that lodge themselves firmly within the cranium after the first spin…or sooner. Occult Burial don’t waste time!

The fight for Satanic speed metal supremacy continues, stronger each year, but Occult Burial have returned to assume their throne – and they bring you Burning Eerie Lore!

Begin burning some eerie lore with the previously revealed “Highway Through Borderland,” which can be heard HERE at Invictus‘ official YouTube channel, HERE at the label’s Soundcloud, and HERE at the Invictus Bandcamp.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Occult Burial’s Burning Eerie Lore
1. Warning to Lust (Intro)
2. Burning Eerie Lore
3. The Bastard Curse
4. Skeletal Laughter
5. Pyramide de Tête Coupées
6. Highway Through Borderland
7. The Bleeding Spectre
8. Griffes du Désespoir
9. Temple Of Mutants

MORE INFO:
www.occultburial.bandcamp.com

www.invictusproductions.net

www.facebook.com/invictusproductions

German black metal cult Häxenzijrkell stream their highly anticipated debut album

Today, German black metal cult Häxenzijrkell stream their highly anticipated debut album, Die Nachtseite. Set for international release on September 30th via Amor Fati Productions, hear Häxenzijrkell‘s Die Nachtseite in its entirety here:

Ever since the release of their first demo tape back in 2016, Häxenzijrkell marched on their very own path towards the bottomless pit of darkness. Raw and resolute black metal was the German duo’s foundation; the mysteries of the beyond was their goal. And thirsty and miserable was that march, stridently suffocating the listener (and perhaps themselves) with epic-length screeds of despair and dread, culminating in two more EPs as well as split EPs with LVTHN and Brånd in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Now, the bottom of that bottomless pit drops out completely, and the result is Häxenzijrkell‘s long-awaited debut album, Die Nachtseite. Sonically consistent with their prior works yet wielding new twists to their trademark horror & howl, Die Nachtseite marks a further step: a ritual divided in three parts – the Path, the Flame, and the Awakening. Musically, the duo continue where the recent split with Brånd left off, building alternately dense/spacious soundwalls nevertheless staggeringly tall and menacing. Like past Häxenzijrkell compositions, the three epics comprising the 37-minute album easily walk into double-digit length, and for good reason: their utterly sinister atmospheres envelop the listener like a slowly-moving, hauntingly-hovering fog. More immersive than ever, the duo’s black metal becomes transcendental, so removed from – and aiming far beyond – regular, rote humanity. These are the echoes from the deepest pits of the Abyss!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Häxenzijrkell’s Die Nachtseite

1. Part 1: Auf der Schwelle [10:44]
2. Part 2: Unter sieben Sternen [10:12]
3. Part 3: Im Labyrinth der Dunkelheit [15:27]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/haexenzijrkell 

https://shop.amor-fati-productions.de/en/

HORDE OF HEL stream new BLOODDAWN album features members of NORDJEVEL, IN BATTLE, THE WRETCHED END

Today, Swedish black metal commando Horde of Hel stream the entirety of their long-awaited third album, Döden Nalkas. Set for international release on September 30th via Blooddawn Productions (distributed & marketed by Regain Records), hear Horde of Hel’s Döden Nalkas in its entirety here:

Horde of Hel’s history dates back to the dawn of the new, cursed millennium, when John Odhinn Sandin – previously in Odhinn, and concurrently of the late/great In Battle – wanted to strike out on his own with a project that significantly differed sonically from those bands. It would take years before a first recording arrived, but at last it did in 2009 with the debut album Blodskam. In one sense, Horde of Hel here exhibited a refreshing take on industrialized black metal – martial, malevolent, mesmerizing – but in another, more accurate sense, with Odhinn’s emphasis on dark ambient atmospheres, Blodskam transcended the “industrial black metal” demi-tag altogether. 

In 2011, the second Horde of Hel album arrived in the form of Likdagg, courtesy of Regain Records. Immediately, a change was felt: the more lumbering ‘n’ loping mid-tempos of Blodskam have been replaced by thoroughly berserker drum-programming, which increased the ultraviolence a hundredfold. A reflection of the increasingly darker times, Likdagg’s utterly remorseless, unrelentingly unhinged speed slaughtered listeners with apparent ease…that is, if that listener possessed the sturdy constitution to step forward to that onslaught to begin with. 

Many years passed, and many presumed Horde of Hel dead. Far from it: the most ULTRA ultraviolence was simply lying in wait! And now it has arrived with Döden Nalkas, doubtlessly the most extreme (or at least extremely unforgiving) record you’ll hear all year – or perhaps all decade. All the rudiments of its no-less-considerable predecessor have been pushed into the red: drums reaching 500 BPM, the guitars slicing like barbed wire at warp speed, vocals approaching blackout levels of seething vitriol, the ambient elements wrapping all around the wreckage in dizzying, disorienting darkness. But, this new guise of Horde of Hel is a unified trio – a connection between and within three individuals – and thus are its effects felt across Döden Nalkas. Of them, perhaps the most pronounced are the integration of real drums from the ever-prolific Nils “Dominator” Fjellström, who played with Odhinn in In Battle and more recently in The Wretched End and Nordjevel, among others; this symbiosis straddles the line between over-the-top gabber and black metal’s outermost reaches of intensity. Likewise, the arrival of vocalist Sanctvs (also of Nordjevel) has injected an even greater intensity into Horde of Hel’s already-incomprehensibly-intense attack. Simply put, put on headphones and your ears will be absolutely PUNISHED by Döden Nalkas!  

The more things stay the same – or stay bleak, the Apocalypse at hand with the current worldwide pandemic – the more things change, and so too do Horde of Hel. With mastering by Devo (Marduk) at Endarker Studio, Döden Nalkas is the soundtrack to the literal END. 

Preorder info can be found HERE.

Further preorder info can be found HERE. 

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Horde of Hel’s Döden Nalkas
1. Blodets Morgon
2. Death Division Status
3. Visdomen Kallas døden
4. Standard Nordland
5. Totalitarian Regime
6. Total Death
7. Holy Ash
8. No Remorse
9. Livets Narkos
10. Of Eternity And Ruins 

HORDE OF HEL lineup 2020
Vocal: Sanctvs
All strings: J.O Sandin
Drums: Nils Fjellström 


MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/hordeofhelofficial

GRIIIM sets release date for new PURITY THROUGH FIRE album, reveals first video – features K.F.R mainman

Today, Purity ThroughFire sets September 30th as the international release date for Griiim‘s highly anticipated second album, Bête immonde, on digipack CD limited to 200 copies.

This new Griiim opus has been recorded in MMXX, the year of chaos, by Maxime Taccardi (all instruments, artwork, and vocals) and mixed & mastered by Déhà at the Opus Magnum Studio, who took care of Taccardi’s other project K.F.R with their newest album, Nihilist.

Bête Immonde is a direct follow-up to Pope Art, Griiim‘s challenging debut album for Purity ThroughFire last year, but more coherent and with a better production. Still as dark as it can be, Griiim is the sum of Maxime Taccardi’s influences, going from all the music genres he came across: black metal, rap, electro, noise, world music, avant-garde, experimental, etc. No boundaries, and first and foremost, NO FUCKS GIVEN!

In the meantime, see the haunting new video for “Nymphe décharnée” here:

Cover art, courtesy of Taccardi, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Griiim’s Bête immonde
1. Intro
2. Nymphe décharnée
3. MMXIX You Remember
4. Bête immonde
5. So long fuckers!
6. Stabat Mater
7. Serotonin

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/MaximeTaccardiArtworks
www.deviantart.com/priestofterror

American black metal upstarts Svabhavat premiere the new track “Mysteries of the Odious Path”

Today, American black metal upstarts Svabhavat premiere the new track “Mysteries of the Odious Path”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, Black Mirror Reflection, set for North American release on October 30th via Eisenwald. Hear Svabhavat‘s “Mysteries of the Odious Path” in its entirety exclusively here

Svabhavat are a brand-new entity hailing from the  Pacific Northwest. A duo, they describe their music as “Ritualistic Necromancy Black Metal,” and indeed is that demi-tag apt: across the band’s Black Mirror Reflection debut, one will find the refreshingly old stench of archetypal Darkthrone, Mayhem, and especially Kartharsis. No elegiac odes to the Cascadians or sun-drenched bliss masquerading as “black metal” here; Svabhavat offer nothing but cold ‘n’ cruel intensity, violently at odds with their region’s reigning paradigm.

Yet, for a sound so stridently traditional, Svabhavat offer unique twists of the knife across Black Mirror Reflection, its self-imposed boundaries paradoxically offering freedom. Undoubtedly, those noble influences form their foundation – as they do for countless black metal bands, past and present – but there’s a devilish delirium the duo delve into across their debut album which suggests aesthetic aims beyond the tried & true (or “tired & tr00”). Almost deceptively so, Black Mirror Reflection in fact reflects a hovering, haunting melodicism that poignantly penetrates one’s subconscious but never without smacking of the saccharine; simply put, Svabhavat‘s ceaseless(ly sinister) intensity bleeds through at any speed, which is all the more surprising given their Spartan composition as a two-piece. And speaking of compositions, the six comprising this 37-minute Black Mirror Reflection are mini-epics in their own right, offering exceptionally linear narratives exceedingly daubed in the grim and ghoulish, the total package taut and swiftly satisfying.

Intoxication through damnation, salvation through incineration…Svabhavat offer a dread path ahead. Step forward and stare into their Black Mirror Reflection.

. Take the first step with the previously revealed “Aghori, Flame of Knowledge” HERE at Eisenwald‘s official YouTube channel.

Preorder/pre-save link can be found HERE. Further ordering info can be found at Eisenwald‘s North American webstore HERE. 

Cover artwork, courtesy of Misanthropic-Art, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Svabhavat’s Black Mirror Reflection
1. Mysteries of the Odious Path [7:09]
2. Great Tiamat, Filled with Corpses [5:05]
3. Abhicaara [5:11]
4. Chalice of Poisoned Souls [5:35]
5. Aghori, Flame of Knowledge [5:16]
6. Black Mirror Reflection [8:16]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/MalumInSe
www.svabhavat.bandcamp.com

www.eisenton.de
www.facebook.com/eisenwaldofficial
www.youtube.com/eisenwaldofficial
www.twitter.com/EisenwaldHammer
www.instagram.com/eisenwald.official
www.open.spotify.com/user/eisenwald_official

AKHLYS – Albums details, first song and tour announcement unleashed

Five years after the critically acclaimed “The Dreaming I” whose nightmarish dreamscapes showed a perfect fusion of Dark Ambient moments and Black Metal feriocity, Debemur Morti Productions is delighted to announce that AKHLYS return with their third album entitled “Melinoë“. Named after the Orphic Goddess (which can also be seen on the cover artwork), mastermind Alchameth (NIGHTBRINGER, AORATOS)once again dives deep into madness, nightmares as well as esoteric insights and perfectly shows how such themes may be given musical essence and form.

AKHLYS channel the structural arcs of dream experience as they weave martial drumming, swarming counterpoint guitars, spellbinding Dark Ambient textures and vocal paroxysms of euphoric terror in five long compositions, namely:

01. Somniloquy
02. Pnigalion
03. Succubare
04. Ephialtes
05. Incubatio

“Melinoë” was crafted as a trio – Alchameth (vocals, guitars, bass, keys, lyrics), Eoghan (drums) and Chthonia (backing vocals) – while Alchameth being solely responsible for the compositions of the songs and the lyrics. Recorded at the Promethean Forge Studios in early 2020, the album was later produced, mixed and mastered by Dave Otero (CATTLE DECAPITATION, WAYFARER) at Flatine Audio with the help of Charlie Abend. While Denis Forkas Kostromitin (BEHEMOTH, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM) is responsible for the cover-artwork and Abraxas Nox took care of the band photos (with edits by Chthonia), the layout of “Melinoë” was handled by Kontamination Design (ARCHGOAT).

“Melinoë” will be released on CD, vinyl and digitally on December 18th. Pre-orders are possible now via the label’s EU shop, Bandcamp and US shop

To illustrate the spellbinding strength of the newest records and its ability to weave a dense nightmarish atmosphere, we present the song “Pnigalion” in all its splendour to the public. As Jonathan Selzer of Metal Hammer UK points out, this piece grants a glimpse into infinity:

At nigh-on 13 minutes’ long, the preview track “Pnigalion” is more than a glimpse into infinity, but it’s going to annihilate any sense of linear time, it’s opening whorl of guttural chants leading into a luminous, knife-edge journey through realms where rampaging elements and cosmic matter collide, and all sense of reality is stretched to an exhilarating breaking point.

“Pnigalion”, therefore, demonstrates the magical facets and aspects “Melinoë” has to offer, as Alchameth himself states:

It is indeed quite a lengthy track and covers much ground throughout its structure. I feel there are passages that shine with the old atmosphere of “The Dreaming I“, all the while offering many evolutions stylistically and manifesting a spirit that is equally as potent as what came before yet further developed.

“Pnigalion” is a term that originally stems from the Ancient Greek and can be translated as something like “throttler” or “strangler”, while also being the name of the nightmare demon of the Greeks, as Alchameth explains:

“Pnigalion” draws upon some of my personal experiences with the sleep paralysis phenomenon as well as the dreams and waking visions that have occurred around this phenomenon. There is no intent to lay bare any sort of hidden truth to the listener here, as the lyrics are relaying the experiential side of highly personal and inexplicable phenomenon, experiences which do not tend to lend themselves to any sort of universal discursive analysis (although some will no doubt find some of what is relayed here personally familiar). This track in particular begins with a poem I had previously written about my sleep paralysis related visions, certain lucid dreams that have led up to the paralysis events in some cases, while in other cases occurring directly after, and the “waking vision” and visitation that often occurs in the hypnogogic state during the paralysis. The lyrics that follow expand upon the poem in the songs intro with an emphasis on the manic and often dreadful visitation occurrence and poetically interpreted as the pnigalion, the nightmare demon of the Greeks. The significance of these experiences have become personally sacred to me over the years. This song is one piece of a larger narrative that covers a wider territory within the field of sleep, dream, and trance phenomenon, all from the experiential and esoteric viewpoint. 
To illustrate the spellbinding strength of the newest records and its ability to weave a dense nightmarish atmosphere, we present the song “Pnigalion” in all its splendour to the public. As Jonathan Selzer of Metal Hammer UK points out, this piece grants a glimpse into infinity:

At nigh-on 13 minutes’ long, the preview track “Pnigalion” is more than a glimpse into infinity, but it’s going to annihilate any sense of linear time, it’s opening whorl of guttural chants leading into a luminous, knife-edge journey through realms where rampaging elements and cosmic matter collide, and all sense of reality is stretched to an exhilarating breaking point.

“Pnigalion”, therefore, demonstrates the magical facets and aspects “Melinoë” has to offer, as Alchameth himself states:

It is indeed quite a lengthy track and covers much ground throughout its structure. I feel there are passages that shine with the old atmosphere of “The Dreaming I“, all the while offering many evolutions stylistically and manifesting a spirit that is equally as potent as what came before yet further developed.

“Pnigalion” is a term that originally stems from the Ancient Greek and can be translated as something like “throttler” or “strangler”, while also being the name of the nightmare demon of the Greeks, as Alchameth explains:

“Pnigalion” draws upon some of my personal experiences with the sleep paralysis phenomenon as well as the dreams and waking visions that have occurred around this phenomenon. There is no intent to lay bare any sort of hidden truth to the listener here, as the lyrics are relaying the experiential side of highly personal and inexplicable phenomenon, experiences which do not tend to lend themselves to any sort of universal discursive analysis (although some will no doubt find some of what is relayed here personally familiar). This track in particular begins with a poem I had previously written about my sleep paralysis related visions, certain lucid dreams that have led up to the paralysis events in some cases, while in other cases occurring directly after, and the “waking vision” and visitation that often occurs in the hypnogogic state during the paralysis. The lyrics that follow expand upon the poem in the songs intro with an emphasis on the manic and often dreadful visitation occurrence and poetically interpreted as the pnigalion, the nightmare demon of the Greeks. The significance of these experiences have become personally sacred to me over the years. This song is one piece of a larger narrative that covers a wider territory within the field of sleep, dream, and trance phenomenon, all from the experiential and esoteric viewpoint. 
Despite Covid-19 still spreading like the great plague through Europe and the world, AKHLYS are announcing the “Oneiric Emanations Tour” through Europe for October 2021 and have every intention to bringing their magic to the old continent. Together with not yet revealed guests, AKHLYS will invade Spain, France, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. More info about the tour will be unveiled in due time.

AKHLYS was formed in 2009 by Naas Alcameth (NIGHTBRINGER, AORATOS) as a musical expression for the personal and inexplicable phenomenon, visions and journeys that occur in the liminal lands between slumber and awakening. Exploring these concepts through Dark Ambient with the 2009 debut “Supplication” and Black Metal music with 2015’s “The Dreaming I”, Naas has once more reified and rarified this vision, giving rise to the third and crowning work, “Melinoë”. 

Bestial Chilean cult Indoctrinate stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album

Today, bestial Chilean cult Indoctrinate stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Antilogos: Arcane Transmutation in the Temple of Flesh. Set for international release on September 25th via Unholy Prophecies, hear Indoctrinate’s Antilogos: Arcane Transmutation in the Temple of Flesh in its entirety here:

While it would seem that Chile’s Indoctrinate is a brand-new entity, having no prior public recordings, this power-trio actually rose from the ashes of Sadistik Goathammer, who were founded in 2006 by vocalist/bassist H.O.E.V, the sole original member now active in Indoctrinate. The intention with Sadistik Goathammer was not to innovate, but rather to go back to the primitive, bestial sounds of such bands as Sarcofago, Mystifier, Abhorer, Parabellum, Blasphemy, and Conqueror among others. After years of war and lineup changes, Sadistik Goathammer released some demos and splits – among them, 2008’s Goatical Nuclear Order is still considered a very relevant work in the so-called war metal scene, giving the band a renowned reputation in the underground. They opened for legendary bands like Impurity in 2014 and Profanatica in 2017, while the members were also active with other projects in the shadows, like Henosis and Interitvm.

Finally, in 2019, and after recording the same material three times over, resulting in years of delay for the band, Indoctrinate’s debut recording session was completed. Bearing the title Antilogos: Arcane Transmutation in the Temple of Flesh, this first work resulted in an eight-song/29-minute album that’s utterly gnarly ‘n’ gnashing in its intensity – indeed, bearing some bestial primitivism of the preceding Sadistik Goathammer – but imbued with a more ominous ‘n’ occultic aspect. That name change was significant, as the three members of Indoctrinate have grown and deepened in the intervening years, and now endeavor to unleash an equally savage yet more sophisticated style of ravenous black/death metal. And likewise, a title like Antilogos: Arcane Transmutation in the Temple of Flesh portends a lyricism rife with otherworldly horror and supernatural questing: a transcendence from a primitive state to an elevated one, all coursing through unremitting ugliness that’s quintessential Chilean.

Sadistik Goathammer is dead. Long live Indoctrinate, and herald their arrival with Antilogos: Arcane Transmutation in the Temple of Flesh!

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Indoctrinate’s Antilogos: Arcane Transmutation in the Temple of Flesh
1. N.A.G.I.T.H.A.
2. Arcane Ectasis
3. Barbaric Asencion
4. Sacred Brew of Perdition
5. Forbidden Rites of Fertility
6. Savagery
7. Antediluvian experiencia (Celebrate in Profane Exaltation)
8. Phalocentric Goatidolatry

INDOCTRINATE lineup
H.O.E.V.: vocals/bass (Interitvm, ex-Henosis, ex-Hellbutcher)
Grunenwald: guitars (Henosis)
C.R.: drums (Cannon Fodder, Qebeth)

www.unholyprophecies.com
www.facebook.com/unholyprophecies666

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER announce new shows

French black metal formation REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER have announced a run of new shows this autumn in France, Belgium and Germany. The first show is set to take place on October 2nd, 2020 in Strasbourg.

The band has previously announced an extensive European tour in March / April 2021, with UADA, VELNIAS and SOLBRUD. A full list of confirmed live dates can be found below.

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER
02 Oct 20 Strasbourg (FR) La Laiterie
03 Oct 20 Metz (FR) Les Trinitaires
04 Oct 20 Montbéliard (FR) Théâtre de Montbéliard
09 Oct 20 Ivry-Sur-Seine (FR) La JIMI Festival
16 Oct 20 Bruxelles (BE) Le Botanique
30 Oct 20 Clermont-Ferrand (FR) La Coopérative de Mai
31 Oct 20 Annecy (FR) Le Brise Glace
14 Nov 20 Nantes (FR) Stereolux
26 Nov 20 Orléans (FR) L’Astrolabe
27 Nov 20 Dijon (FR) La Vapeur
28 Nov 20 Mâcon (FR) La Cave à Musique
03 Dec 20 Lyon (FR) L’Epicerie Moderne
04 Dec 20 Saint-Germain-En-Laye (FR) La Clef
08 Dec 20 Lille (FR) Le Grand Mix
10 Dec 20 Berlin (DE) De Mortum Et Diabolum
12 Dec 20 Paris (FR) Storm The Arena
18 Dec 20 Limoges (FR) CCM John Lennon
18 Feb 21 Paris (FR) Petit Bain

With UADA, VELNIAS and SOLBRUD
19 Mar 21 Berlin (DE) Walpurgisnacht
20 Mar 21 Salzburg (AT) Light of Darkness Festival
21 Mar 21 Munich (DE) Backstage
22 Mar 21 Winterthur (CH) Gaswerk
23 Mar 21 Colmar (FR) Le Grillen
25 Mar 21 Savigny de Temple (FR) L’empreinte
26 Mar 21 Hamburg (DE) Kulturpalast
27 Mar 21 Drachten (NL) Northern Darkness Fest
28 Mar 21 Rotterdam (NL) Baroeg
29 Mar 21 Cologne (DE) Club Volta
30 Mar 21 Leipzig (DE) Naumanns
31 Mar 21 Copenhagen (DK) Pumpehuset
01 Apr 21 Stockholm (SE) Slaktkyrkan
02 Apr 21 Oslo (NO) Inferno Metal Festival *
03 Apr 21 Aalborg (DK) Studenterhuset
04 Apr 21 Münster (DE) Culthe Festival
05 Apr 21 Poznan (PL) U Bazyla
06 Apr 21 Prague (CZ) Nova Chmelnice
07 Apr 21 Budapest (HU) Dürer Kert
08 Apr 21 Vienna (AT) Viper Room
09 Apr 21 Lichtenfels (DE) Ragnarök Festival
10 Apr 21 Karlsruhe (DE) Dude Fest

* Only REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER will be touring in support of their latest release ‘Ascension’. The cover artwork and tracklist can be found below. The artwork was created by Fortifem. Listen to the full album HERE

Track List:
I. L’Ascension (1:49)
II. A New Order (8:04)
III. The Renegade Son (8:01)
IV. The Crowning (9:26)
V. Stellar Cross (8 :10)
VI. La Tentation (2:28)
VII. Au Bord Du Gouffre (8:53)
Total playing time: 0:46:50

Find REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER on Facebook, Instagram and Bandcamp.

Recording and Mixing: Francis Caste, Studio Sainte Marthe
Mastering: Francis Caste, Studio Sainte Marthe
Cover artwork: Fortifem

Line-up:
Vocals : T.C
Guitar : J.J.S
Guitar : A.M
Bass : A.B
Drums : R.R


Shop: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/RLHTAscension

Available Formats:
CD digipak, cassette and coloured vinyl

Ukraine’s RITUAL SUICIDE reveal new track from third & final album on tape via ESFINGE DE LA CALAVERA

Today, Ukrainian black metallers Ritual Suicide reveal the new track “Tenets of the Final Nights.” The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s long-awaited third (and final) album, Nocturnal Haematolagnia, set for international release on October 12th via Esfinge de la Calavera on cassette tape format. Hear Ritual Suicide‘s “Tenets of the Final Nights” here:

Ritual Suicide is an Ukrainian black metal band, active since 2006. A cult to be sure, the members of Ritual Suicide don’t usually share more information about themselves; in fact, the actual membership is a mystery. They only want that Ritual Suicide‘s music speak for itself, and have done so across two intimidating albums – 2011’s Temple of Blood and 2013’s Consecration Bound in Cruor, the latter released on cassette by the esteemed Black Gangrene – as well as five demos, the most recent being 2015’s Dirges at Carrion Dawn, also released on cassette by Black Gangrene. Worshiping the old days of black metal prior to the internet ruining any last mysticism, Ritual Suicide is very influenced by vampyric and lycanthropic themes, bloody rituals and abandoned and haunted places.

Even amongst that impressive canon does Nocturnal Haematolagnia loom large: this is the crystallization of Ritual Suicide‘s characteristic magick & mysticism, and also its zenith – understandably so, given it’s the band’s epitaph. Taking advantage of the album’s hour-long length, the mysterious duo spelunk amongst myriad corridors of the soul and spirit, spreading ruin and rumination in equal measure – violence directed both inward and outward, reflection & repose a necessary step for transcendence or eventual oblivion – and unfurl foul textures of ancient, cobwebbed majesty. To walk among Nocturnal Haematolagnia‘s desolate halls is to experience the medieval malodorousness of the old French Black Legions and ’90s Eastern European black metal in equal measure…but what stares back at you at the end of those halls is an image distorted by still-keening vampyric bloodlust, very much in the now and very much more riff-centric than so much “raw black metal” parading aimlessness as “atmosphere.” Ritual Suicide are extremely adept guides along this path, but they only proclaim human suffering and torturous infliction upon the masses; how one imbibes these 58 minutes matters not to them. Verily, this is raw vampyric black metal for those that dwell in the night exclusively.

And now, their time on this earthly realm completed, Ritual Suicide return to a rotten coffin, leaving behind Nocturnal Haematolagnia as their final recorded remains…

Esfinge de la Calavera will release Nocturnal Haematolagnia on red pro-printed tapes and limited to 90 copies. Nocturnal Haematolagnia was previously released by Forever Plagued on CD limited to 60 copies. 

Hear the previously revealed “Ordination of Masochistic Souls” HERE.

Cover art, courtesy of Umbra Pestis, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ritual Suicide’s Nocturnal Haematolagnia
Side A:
I. Let The Blood Flow
II. Torture Chambers
III. Ordination Of Masochistic Souls
IV. Tenets Of The Final Nights
V. Sacrifice To Those Of The Night
Side B:
I. Satiating The Bloodcrazed Nymph
II. Unto Starving Shadows They Bled
III.Pact With The Unliving
IV. The Moon Is A Cruel Mistress
V. Nocturnal Haematolagnia
VI. All The Blood Is Drained

final RITUAL SUICIDE lineup
Majest – voice, guitar, programming
Zaaph – bass guitar

MORE INFO:
www.esfingerecords.com
www.facebook.com/EsfingeCalavera 

HORNCROWNED set release date for new KETZER album, reveal first track

Today, Ketzer Records sets November 20th as the international release date Horncrowned‘s highly anticipated fifth album, Rex Exterminii (The Hand of the Opposer). A veritable institution in the South American extreme metal scene, for nearly 20 years have Horncrowned been crushing the competition with their remorselessly violent brand of bazooka-blasted black metal. Always eclipsing each prior recording whilst retaining their iron-fisted identity, the quartet continue their reign with Rex Exterminii (The Hand of the Opposer), balancing their berzerk violence with an eerie melodicism that simply sharpens that attack to a masterful degree.

Horncrowned was born in the year of 2001 from the joining of Demongoat (guitar) and Blast-phemer (vocals) in Bogotá, Colombia, with the firm purpose of creating the fastest and most pitiless black metal from Colombia, full of war against Christianity. Soon, they join forces with Bombardier (drums) in 2002, months later Diabolium (guitar), and at last, InfernAK-47 (bass). With the force complete, Horncrowned begin to create their style and gain their own identity. After some local gigs, placing the band in a outstanding position as the most aggressive within the scene, Horncrowned enter Hellcult Studio in 2003 to record their first attack, The Rise of Satan’s Artillery, released through Demonic Attack Records and reissued by Goathorned Productions in 2004.

In 2006, Horncrowned sign with Ketzer Records and release their second album, Satanic Armageddon, which was recorded by the same lineup of the debut album and was mastered at Necromorbus Studios. This album saw great distribution and positioned the band on the worldwide extreme metal scene.

In 2009, Demongoat takes the vocals & guitars and a new guitarist is recruited: Dev Spectrum. With this new lineup the third album is recorded, Casus Belli Antichristianus, mastered by Andy Classen at Stage One Studio and released through Ketzer Records. Later, a split 7” EP is realized with brutal Swedish black metal act Obscuratum through Goathorned Productions, with cover artwork by Marcelo HVC.

In 2011, the Italian drummer Atum (Setherial, Impiety, Divine Codex, etc) recorded the drums for the 7” EP Monumental Rebirth Of Satan, released by Goathorned Productions. After this EP, the drummer Bifrons enters Horncrowned in late 2011 to film the first professional video clip for the song “Anticlericalism” and recorded the first live album, Regni Diaboli -10 Years of Hellfire, to commemorate a decade of Hyper-Fast Church-Burning Black Metal. This live album was released by Goathorned Productions in 2012. In 2013, Horncrowned recorded two new tracks for the 7” EP called Tetrahedron, also released by Goathorned Productions.

In 2014, Ketzer Records released the fourth album, Defanatus (Diabolus Adventus). This album was mixed by Phorgath (Enthroned) at Blackout Studio and mastered by Laszlo Zsolt. Cover artwork was created by Kontamination Design. This album contains 10 brutal tracks with intro and outro done by Edgar Kerval. This album was re-released in 2015 on vinyl format by label Cenizas Records and Goathorned Productions.

In 2016, Horncrowned recorded four new tracks for the EP called Proelium. It was released by Seven Gates of Hell on digiCD format and includes two cover songs as bonus tracks. The drums for this EP was done by the French drummer Thyr (ex-Otargos/Agressor). Later in 2018, this EP was released on gatefold vinyl format by Goathorned Productions.

In 2019 and the beginning of 2020, Horncrowned begins to work on their fifth album: Rex Exterminii (The Hand of the Opposer). This album was mixed and mastered by Demongoat at the Demonic Attack Studio, and the cover artwork was done by Mitchell Nolte. Containing 10 tracks with a mature and extreme sound, this album will position Horncrowned as one of the most important and extreme in the South American black metal scene.

Over almost 20 years of work, Horncrowned have shared the stage with many of metal’s elite, such as Dark Funeral, Marduk, Belphegor, Impiety, Monstrosity, Malevolent Creation, and Vital Remains among many others, and have performed several local concerts, standing out in the worldwide scene of extreme black metal. Now, with the imminent release of Rex Exterminii (The Hand of the Opposer) through longtime comrades Ketzer Records, Horncrowned stand righteous and unopposed, both in their native Colombia and the wider South American metal scene. Long may they reign!

Begin reigning with the brand-new title track “Rex Exterminiii (The Hand of the Opposer)” here:
Cover artwork, courtesy of Mitchell Nolte, and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Horncrowned’s Rex Exterminii (The Hand of the Opposer)
1. Rex Exterminii (The Hand of the Opposer)
2. The Second Death
3. Ultima Combustione
4. Unrepentant
5. Incendium
6. Burnt Offering
7. Die Judicii
8. Confrontation
9. Armamentarium
10. Crushing The Anointed One
MORE INFO:
www.horncrowned.com
www.facebook.com/horncrowned
www.horncrowned.bandcamp.com
www.ketzer-records.de
www.facebook.com/KetzerRecords