Today, Czech nasty savages SexMag premiere the new track “Zapomniany Czarci Kult“. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated debut mini-album, Sex Metal, set for international release on October 22nd via Dying Victims Productions. Hear SexMag’s “Zapomniany Czarci Kult” in its entirety here:
From the abyss of the filthy Silesian Streets emerges the Nasty Beast, just like in St. John’s Apocalypse. Three sixes branded at the top of his head, and the prophecy predicts eternal tribulation and condemnation to those who betrayed and wear shackles. Seven chaplets and 11 horns encrust his neck, and his hand holds the key to the world unblemished by the lie. The sign of Hell worships the beast in black and his servant…SexMag!
Drawing their moniker from Poland’s legendary Kat, SexMag arrive from the darkest past with a seven-track expurse of sodomy bearing the call-to-arms title of Sex Metal. Across the five primary curses and bookending intro and outro, the mysterious entity create a caustic and careening sound drawing equal strength from ‘80s proto-black metal and the vilest thrash. Names invoked include earliest Destruction, Sepultura, Venom, Tormentor, Sarcófago, Master’s Hammer, and Violent Force, but with a fear-for-their-safety identity all their own. Or, put another way, think of the most garaged old New Renaissance release left rotting in the sun and covered in black-candle wax…that is Sex Metal!
No more and no less, no trends and no compromise, posers leave the hall when SexMag fuck you with their Sex Metal!
Get further fucked with the previously revealed title track “Sex Metal” exclusively HERE, courtesy of Deaf Forever magazine. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for SexMag’s Sex Metal 1. Intro 2. Zapomniany Czarci Kult 3. Sex Metal 4. Wysłannik Hadesu 5. Nagrobek Kurtyzany 6. Nałożnice Hrabiny 7. Outro
Today, Amor Fati Productions sets November 12th as the international release date for Dauþuz‘s highly anticipated fourth album, Vom schwarzen Schmied, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Since their bolt-from-the-blue debut In finstrer Teufe in 2016, Germany’s Dauþuz have created a rich and vibrant catalog. Their black metal is proud and purist but by no means blinkered; the ancient ways are revered, for sure, but new vistas of the imagination open up when Dauþuz commit their stories to tape. And those stories largely focus on mining, both across their native land and the whole of Europe, further enriching their olde-worlde appeal.
Now, more than a year after the expansive mini-album Grubenfall 1727, a new work echoes from the depths of the underworld: a new full-length saga from Dauþuz, bearing the title Vom schwarzen Schmied. Translated into English as “Of the Blacksmith,” Vom schwarzen Schmied is arguably the band’s most focused recording to date, evincing a totality that can only come from Dauþuz All-consuming darkness and lyrical despair, which ultimately leads to fatal realization, characterize this fourth full-length from the mining black metallers. And yet, its utterly epic landscape and absolutely invigorating melodicism make Vom schwarzen Schmied a paradoxically “uplifting” experience, fully bringing to life the saga of the blacksmith, an old acquaintance from the Dauþuz universe. And nearly topping an hour in length only serves to make that experience all the more engrossing: the band’s dazzling interplay, in turn, renders the album a swift ‘n’ masterful display of their songwriting prowess. Taste the German steel of MINING BLACK METAL!
Begin tasting that German steel with the brand-new track “Der Bergschmied II: Der Eid” here:
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Dauþuz’ Vom schwarzen Schmied
1. Der Bergschmied I: Mein Berg 2. Der Bergschmied II: Der Eid 3. Der Bergschmied III: Desperatio 4. Der Bergschmied IV: Zauberwerk 5. Der Bergschmied V: Sagenlieder 6. Der Bergschmied VI: Cognitio 7. Der Bergschmied VII: Der Frevel 8. Der Bergschmied VIII: Sargdeckel
Today, Shadow Records (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) announces December 3rd as the international release date for Ofermod’s highly anticipated fifth album, Mysterium Iniquitatis, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will be released on March 29th, 2022.
By now, Ofermod should require no introduction. Formed back in the dark days of 1996, the band released their debut EP, Mystérion Tés Anomias, in 1998. Although a mere two songs, Ofermod’s opening salvo sowed the seeds for the orthodox black metal movement that would begin to blossom in the new millennium, alongside fellow Shadow Records alumni Funeral Mist and Malign. Crime and chaos followed mainman Belfagor everywhere he went, and the band’s momentum remained halted. However, Ofermod eventually became a working entity again, starting with 2008’s Tiamtü full-length, and through magick and will did more recordings follow: Thaumiel (2012), the two-song Serpents’ Dance EP (2014), Sol Nox (2017), and the posthumous Pentagrammaton, originally intended to be the band’s debut album. Each one put forth a pivotal piece of the ever-evolving puzzle of Ofermod – ever the same, yet always different.
And the puzzle continues to be eternal, no matter when or how an Ofermod recording arises. Such can be said for Mysterium Iniquitatis, which sees the original lineup joined together once again – Belfagor on guitar and vocalist Nebiros (Malign, Mephorash) – with session bass by Magnus “Devo” Andersson (ex-Marduk) and session drums by Calle Larsson. Indeed, Mysterium Iniquitatis immediately reminds of that infinitely influential Mystérion Tés Anomias EP, but tempered by age, experience, and poise. At once martial and mesmerizing, fiery and furious, but executed with a crispness and finesse that’s the penultimate in professionalism, Mysterium Iniquitatis presents Ofermod at their tightest and tautest, their characteristically malefic melodicism taking on new contours when put through such a startlingly accomplished soundfield. Likewise, Nebiros’ vocals bring back the grimness of yore, straddling past, present, and future with equal aplomb; his clear enunciation truly raises the hackles. The production – courtesy of Andersson at Endarker Studios – cuts like a gleaming knife and rusty axe simultaneously, the perfect iron-fisted complement to the band’s ever-surging and ceaselessly unfolding songwriting here. Special mention must be made of the male choirs on the opening title track – courtesy of Thomas Ericksson (Year of the Goat) and Lars Broddesson (ex-Marduk) – conveying a grandiosity beyond compare.
With suitably grandiose cover artwork courtesy of John Albin Hampus Ekström, Mysterium Iniquitatis is the vital & virile entrance into Ofermod’s fourth decade of existence.
Herald that entrance with the brand-new title track “Myterium Iniquitatis” here:
Aforementioned cover art and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Ofermod’s Mysterium Iniquitatis 1. Mysterium Iniquitatis 2. Inax Ya Lil 3. When the Blacksmith Killed the Shepherd 4. Sacrosanctus 5. Poraios de Rejectis 6. Consecration 7. Loyal to Belial 8. Arteria Urterina
As a first taste of the coming album “Worship The Eternal Darkness“, Black Metal band ARCHGOAT and Debemur Morti Productions proudly unleash the first song ‘Heavens Ablaze‘. The new composition highlights the angelslaying trademarks of the Finnish horde while simultaneously avoiding stagnancy. Stomping drums, buzzing guitars and blasphemous screams/grunts are potently interwoven with Doom passages as well as subtle melodies and cutting lead guitars. ‘Heavens Ablaze‘ is a versatile hymn to the eternal darkness.
Listen to it now :
ARCHGOAT molded their patented synthesis of occult Finnish Black/Death Metal, harsh Punk, primal Thrash and Grindcore into ten captivating and blasphemous hymns:
01. Intro 02. Heavens Ablaze 03. Black Womb Gnosis 04. All Christianity Ends 05. In Extremis Nazarene 06. Rats Pray God 07. Empyrean Armageddon 08. Blessed In The Light Of Lucifer 09. Worship The Eternal Darkness 10. Burial Of Creation
“Worship The Eternal Darkness” was recorded and sound engineered by Teemu Velin and produced by Ritual Butcherer. Legendary Chris Moyen (BEHERIT, INCANTATION) is, once again, responsible for giving visual form to ARCHGOAT‘s musical blasphemy. The layout was done by Kontamination Design, band photos by Arto Soini Photography.
“Worship The Eternal Darkness” will be released on CD, tape, vinyl, and digitally on November 26th. High quality merchandise (t-shirt, long sleeves shirt, and hooded/zip sweatshirt) will accompany the album. Pre-Orders are possible via the label’s EU, US, and Bandcamp shops.
Coinciding with the album release, ARCHGOAT will embark on a headliner tour through Europe together with Norwegian act WHOREDOM RIFE and Austrian Black Metal band THEOTOXIN. The tour is organized by District 19 and will start on November 25th in Prague. All dates may be found here.
ARCHGOAT crawled from the deepest pits of hell to form in 1989, a demonic trio consisting of the brothers Ritual Butcherer and Lord Angelslayer on guitars and vocals/bass respectively, as well as Blood Desecrator on drums. After a pair of demo tapes, ARCHGOAT shook the Black Metal world in 1993 with the release of their debut EP “Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration)“, showcasing a relentless and bestial blend of Black and Death Metal. With a growing dissolution with the Black Metal scene at large, and a disagreement with their then record label Necropolis Records over the terms of their debut record, ARCHGOAT vanished from scene in late 1993.
In 2004 the gates reopened anew. ARCHGOAT returned to finally release their long-lost material the following year, and then their first official full-length, “Whore of Bethlehem“, in 2006. Since then they have released two more albums, “The Light-Devouring Darkness” in 2009 and “The Apocalyptic Triumphator” in 2015 under Debemur Morti Productions, as well as a series of splits, EPs, and compilations. Between releases they have carved out a reputation for their malevolent live rituals, storming the shores of Europe, the United States, and Mexico alongside bands such as BEHEXEN, BLACK WITCHERY, and HELL MILITIA.
2018 saw ARCHGOAT unleash their satanic opus “The Luciferian Crown“, their second full length under Debemur Morti. An ungodly black sacrament of a kind that only ARCHGOAT can craft, “The Luciferian Crown” is a testament to what Black Metal should be, bestial, unrelenting, and unholy. Black Metal changed, ARCHGOAT did not, and it is their capable hands that shall carry the black flame forward for years to come.
In 2020, the live album “Black Mass XXX” adequately captured the angelslaying chaos present during their gig in Paris in September 2019. The recorded concert was part of ARCHGOAT‘s 30-year anniversary gig series and a worthy addition to their discography. With “Worship The Eternal Darkness” (out November 2021), the Finnish Black Metal band will cement their well-earned reputation for being one of the most consistent bands the scene has ever seen. ARCHGOAT‘s fifth album is, once again, a unique synthesis of occult Finnish Black/Death Metal, harsh Punk, primal Thrash and Grindcore.
The Belgian blackened death metal stalwarts of GOAT TORMENT are now releasing the second crushing track of their upcoming full length ‘Forked Tongues’! The new offering will be released upon the masses on October 29, 2021 and ‘Disorder and Disruption’ can already be heard here:
GOAT TORMENT comments on the track: “Here is our second promo track from the new album. ‘Disorder and Disruption’ is the annihilation of everything while all worlds shake into one. The speaking tongues resonate through the bowels of the earth and through the dwelling eternal fires. The kingdom’s key has made its’ turn and barriers are torn apart!“
GOAT TORMENT have previously unveiled the cover and track list of ‘Forked Tongues’. The cover, which was created by Olivier Lomer (EMPTINESS), and further album details can be found below.
The black metal crusaders in GOAT TORMENT return with ‘Forked Tongues,’ their first new album/release in over 6 years. A blast furnace of primal satanic fury, delivering a savage onslaught!
GOAT TORMENT was formed in 2008 by Kwel and K.J. with the intention to create music as a weapon of mass destruction and to annihilate everything which the so-called society stands for. For a start Kwel was supposed to play bass and K.J. would handle the vocals. But they didn’t find a guitarist who fitted with the ideology on a serious level. Thus Kwel decided to handle all the guitar parts and K.J.. started to play bass. After some months of research, the band recruited drummer Perversor. Then the band released a 4-track demo tape, released in 2009 through Terrorghoul Productions from Austria. The reactions were tremendous and bigger labels contacted the band interested to release the future offerings of GOAT TORMENT.
At this point, the band shared stages all over Europe with bands such as Grave Miasma, Hell Militia, Enthroned, Black Crucifixion, Black Witchery, The Devil’s blood…to name but a few. At the beginning of 2010 GOAT TORMENT had to part ways with drummer Perversor due to musical differences. During the early days of April 2010 a new burning entity was found: S. claimed the throne behind the battery. The Death wielding Trinity of GOAT TORMENT was complete. New songs were written, gigs were played and blood was shed.
Exactly one year later, the band entered the infamous Blackout Studio in Brussels (BE) to record some tracks for two upcoming releases: A 7” split EP with The Beast which was released at the beginning of 2012 and later that year another 7” EP , called “Into The Mouth of the Serpent”. Directly after the split EP was released, Kwel an S. decided to part ways with K.J.. due to different views about their future. In that moment GT decided to go on as a duet recruiting session members for live-shows.
The band returned to Blackout Studio in the fall of 2012 to record their first full-length album ‘Dominande Tenebrae’ ,which was released in February 2013 by Amor Fati Productions from Germany. After a year of a few European shows, the band had their first live appearance on American soil (Maryland Deathfest XII). The band had plans to go on as a four piece, but that didn’t work out because of different views. A South American tour was planned for August 2014 with the Belgian maniacs of ENTHRONED, but the two bands were forced to cancel one month before due to the irresponsible promoter.
In September 2014, S. decided to leave the band, due to other personal priorities and having no time anymore for drumming. It didn’t take long for Kwel to find somebody to take over the hammers. A new era began and Torturer (Mor Dagor, Bethlehem, ex-Belphegor) joined GOAT TORMENT as a new full member, so the duo was complete again. The band returned to Blackout Multimedia Studio in the beginning of 2015 to record their second full-length album.
In the summer of 2015, ‘Sermons To Death’ was released by Amor Fati Productions. The band toured the US West Coast in October 2015, accompanied by Saroth and Vagus Nox as live members. Shortly after, Vagus Nox joined forces to write new material. At the end of 2020, the third studio album ‘Forked Tongues’ had been completed.
The new offering delivers ultraheavy darkening passages that only serve to temper the relentless blasting speed. ‘Forked Tongues’ is musical punishment writ large, and sounds as if forged in the crucible of hell!
On November 11th internationally, Putrid Cult in conspiracy with Dark Horizon are proud to present Demonic Temple‘s highly anticipated third album, Through the Stars into the Abyss.
One of the mightiest yet most-overlooked entities of the always-thriving Polish black metal scene, Demonic Temple made their public debut in 2014 with a self-titled demo. From there, the duo of vocalist/drummer N.D. and guitarist M. have created a vast soundworld that’s reverential of black metal’s ancient past but also imbues it with a boundless, ever-fiery imagination. Two full-lengths thus followed, 2017’s Chalice of Nectar Darkness and 2018’s Incrementum, both planting the name Demonic Temple firmly within the minds of the devout while also establishing the band as one of Putrid Cult‘s flagship cults. Meanwhile, as the wider world fell to plague and hysteria, a mightiest monument was being erected…
At last, three years later does it arrive bearing the title Through the Stars into the Abyss. Immediately recognizably Demonic Temple, the band’s third album bursts into being with grandiosity and ceremony, steeped in both the underworld and the cosmos above and beyond. Truly, this dichotomy – the elemental vs. the spectral, density vs. weightlessness, the tangible vs. immaterial – is worked fully and masterfully by the duo, planting forth a second-wave black metal classicism that sparkles with dazzling colors, each one more blinding and brilliant than the last but portending truth and dread at every turn. In fact, the very structure of Through the Stars into the Abyss conveys this magnitude and guides the listener effortlessly across this fearfully illuminating landscape: one scene-setting intro followed by four tracks each within the seven-to-eight-minute range, altogether making for a swift-yet-expansive 34 minutes. Not for nothing would this finessed ‘n’ focused songwriting hit so hard had Demonic Temple not wrapped the record in a production that ably conveys the duo’s live-in-the-studio physicality whilst emitting a unique sense of spaciousness. The catacombs are seemingly endless; the stars loom ominously above.
Putrid Cult and Dark Horizon are honored to co-release this modern classic from Demonic Temple. Dare to go Through the Stars into the Abyss!
Begin daring with the brand-new track “Night of Everlasting Fire” here:
Cover artwork, courtesy of M.M., and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Demonic Temple’s Through the Stars into the Abyss 1. Nox / Intro [1:57] 2. Through the Stars into the Abyss [7:40] 3. Night of Everlasting Fire [7:29] 4. Secret Temple of Invisible Light [8:42] 5. Proclaiming the Truth of the Other Side [7:57]
Today, uprising black metal classicists Velo Misere stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Monomanía del Inexorable Vacío. Set for international release on September 15th – Altare Productions will release the vinyl LP version while Lunar Apparitions, a division of Nebular Carcoma, will release the digipack CD version – hear Velo Misere’s Monomanía del Inexorable Vacío in its entirety here:
Featuring current and former members of such elite Spanish hordes as Aversio Humanitatis and Primigenium, Velo Misere is a conglomeration of ancient energies and uncompromising arrogance. The band released their first demo in 2017 and then an EP the following year, but Monomanía del Inexorable Vacío marks Velo Misere’s first full-length strike.
Totaling seven songs across 39 minutes, Monomanía del Inexorable Vacío sparkles into being with shimmering hysteria and ethereal dread. Velo Misere undeniably sound like an actual band here, playing with a passion and possession that’s palpably physical, and yet they equally sound like conduits for sine-waves of grim splendor and medieval misery; more often than not, sensations of levitation are invoked. Likewise, black metal is undeniably the medium for such, with much of its construction laid upon a foundation of late ‘90s-onward archetypes, but so sinuous and seamless is Velo Misere’s craft that no specific era nor geography can be gleaned with ease; it could be 1998 or 2018 for all we know, only that utter immersion is guaranteed.
Ghouls, ghosts, and garish perversions of the night all crawl from these dungeons… Velo Misere carry the torch and lead you onward into Monomanía del Inexorable Vacío.
CD cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Velo Misere’s Monomanía del Inexorable Vacío
1. Visión de la Sombra 2. Ente de Muerte 3. Velo Misere 4. Nostalgia 5. Quietud 6. Estéril 7. El Devenir
Today, Hells Headbangers announces October 29th as the international release date for Evil Damn‘s long-awaited debut album, Necronomicon, on CD format. The vinyl version will follow next year.
During the year when the pestilent winds of chaos begin to creep through the corners of the world and spread the harbinger of an age of hopelessness and doom over the earth heralded by choirs chanting arcane curses…an old malediction is evoked through some possessed souls of down under among high mountains and the sands of deserts…all taking form since the early years of this millenium, in the shape of some abusive and viciously grotesque and obscure form of death metal: Evil Damn.
Inspired by the old Metal of Death of a golden era when men ruled with powerful riffs, crushing drums, and assassin guitar solos alongside agonizing and obscure vocalizations, Evil Damn bring back the old pestilence of true DEATH METAL from the depths of the underground, giving form to cruel and chaotic chants of desolation and misfortune that frame lyrics inspired by the old death cult and the Lovecraftian pantheon of atrocity!
Hailing from Lima, Peru, Evil Damn was formed in the year 2004 when veteran musicians like Mario Romanet (Psicorragia), Ordep and Zemog (Disinter), and Neyra and Satyricon (Goat Semen) decided to give shape to this abomination. A few months later, they released their hailed Through Black Abysses demo, which made a big impact in their national scene. As years passed, in 2008, Evil Damn released a split CD with Japan’s Abigail and, more years later, in 2014, a well-received 7″ EP, Black Effigy, through Hells Headbangers.
Some years in sepulchral silence passed as Evil Damn started to compose the damnations which now comprise their LONG-awaited debut album, Necronomicon. Conceived during the last years previous to the worldwide pest and finally committed to studio tape during 2019 and 2020, Necronomicon introduces promising drum-crusher D. Porturas, and the band around him duly deliver a riot of violence that can only come from Peru. This is 100% uncut South American madness, rendered in robustly clear-yet-crushing form: brutality, darkness, and chaos colliding head-on and drowning the listener in an epic descent of diabolical evil. Not for nothing are they monikered Evil Damn, and Necronomicon proves, without a doubt, that whether this album was delivered in 1991 or 2021, evil metal will ALWAYS be eternal!
The soundtrack to the process of extinction of the human species has arrived – Evil Damn‘s Necronomicon!
Hear the first sounds of that soundtrack with the brand-new track “The Curse” here:
cover and tracklisting as follows
Tracklisting for Evil Damn’s Necronomicon 1. The Curse 2. Beast of Rlyeh 3. Ceremonial Decimation 4. Graveless Cadaver 5. Darkness Will Remain 6. Altares de Innsmouth 7. Shaitan 8. Necronomicon 9. Christ Death [Sarcofago cover]
In their endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odor of vintage death metal, Memento Mori are extremely thrilled to announce a new signing: Morbific, from Finland.
Morbific is a rotten-to-the-core death metal trio deformed in the filthy and profaned boneyard of Kitee in early 2020, featuring Olli (guitar), Jusa (vocals / bass), and Onni (drums). The band’s Pestilent Hordes demo was unleashed in the summer of 2020, and it rapidly gained them some following amongst the finest gourmets of the variety of festering, moldering and disgusting death metal that’s malignantly influenced by Autopsy, Rottrevore, Deteriorot, Mortician, Grave, Maimed, Undergang, Impetigo, Convulse, and ancient Finnish masters of death and decay, such as Funebre and Disgrace. Shortly after, in the spring of 2021, the debut full-length, titled Ominous Seep of Putridity, saw the odious light of day to unanimous praise by both the fans and the media. Now it’s time to ooze some more pus again, and make the second abscess an even more sickening ordeal to experience than any other before…
Morbific‘s sophomore full-length is due out in late 2022. Memento Mori will release the CD version, Me Saco Un Ojo Records will take care of the LP and digital versions, and Headsplit Records will put out the tape version. Further details to follow in the coming months. For more info, consult the links below.
On November 5th internationally, Personal Records is proud to present Deber‘s striking debut album, Aspire to Affliction. A new, up-and-coming funeral doom band, with the signing of Deber does Personal Records state with this release that it is more than a genre-oriented label: it is a 100% music-oriented one and releases what it likes – Personal stuff, Personal tastes.
Hailing from Sweden, Deber are a funeral doom metal band consisting of two members from high-profile bands: DIE (Anguish, Ondskapt) and HCF (Avksy, Acolytes of Moros). They formed in 2020 when the pandemic broke out, and their main reason for forming Deber was to create something even darker and denser than their previous bands – achieving this by going slow, and going full-on funeral doom.
Indeed, they accomplish that – and MORE, going slower and deeper – with their monolithic debut album, Aspire to Affliction. Aptly titled, Aspire to Affliction doesn’t aspire to recreate the wheel; rather, Deber aspire to create traditional funeral doom in the mold of masters Evoken, Worship, Skepticism, and Colosseum among others. Indeed, with DIE in charge of strings and organ while HCF handles drums and vocals, Deber‘s focused onslaught of sound retains a single-minded focus, but equally shows no shortage of imagination, as the organ work, in particular, evinces an especially inspired creepiness and centuries-old aura.
Recorded between May 2020 and July of 2021, Deber brought to life/death Aspire to Affliction wholly inspired by the glimmering city lights full of miserable conditions as seen from the woods of Uppsala, where the album was recorded. Those sensations are writ large here, for your imminent imbibement and ruination: this is music for your funeral.
March to that funeral with the brand-new track “Souldbind” here:
Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Deber’s Aspire to Affliction 1. Aspire to Affliction [2:17] 2. Pestilence [12:38] 3. Decay [12:02] 4. Soulbind [10:58] 5. Deber [0:44]
