Month: January 2023

WARCOE set release date for HELTER SKELTER debut album – streaming in full now

Today, Helter Skelter Productions (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) announces May 12th as the international release date for Warcoe‘s striking debut album, The Giant’s Dream, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Warcoe are a power-trio hailing from Italy, that land rich in doomed materials. Naturally, Warcoe honor their national identity with a ’70s-entrenched vision of pure DOOM METAL as first laid out by Ozzy-era Black Sabbath. In fact, in vocalist/guitarist Stefano Fiorelli, you will not find a more uncanny Ozzy doppelganger. 

Warcoe began their journey in 2021, first with a couple digital singles and then an EP, all of which coalesced into their debut album, The Giant’s Dream. Likewise released digitally, The Giant’s Dream was also self-released on CDR and tape in true DIY fashion. So smitten with these authentically vintage vibes, Helter Skelter is now releasing The Giant’s Dream on CD and vinyl with hopes of spreading the Warcoe name far and wide.

Indeed, that should be simple enough given the strength of The Giant’s Dream‘s songwriting and charisma. No more but definitely no less, Warcoe here brew up a thick ‘n’ heady potion of hard-rocking proto-metal, warm in tone but definitely supernatural in aura. True, that spectre of classic Sabbath looms large across The Giant’s Dream, but the trio manage to massage new sensations from that eternal archetype whilst staying reverent. Thus, it’s not inaccurate to liken Warcoe to immediate Sabbathian progeny like Witchfinder General and Trouble – very esteemed company, to be sure. Your “new” old-doom trip begins here!

In the meantime, stream the album in its entirety here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Warcoe’s The Giant’s Dream
1. Giant’s Dream
2. Cats Will Follow
3. Omega Sunrise
4. Fire and Snow
5. Winternaut
6. Thieves, Heretics and Whores
7. Scars Will Remain
8. Church of Void


MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/warcoeband

www.helterskelterproductions.se
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DEATH VANISH set release date for new ETERNAL DEATH EP, reveal first track – features members of ONE MASTER+++

Today, Eternal Death announces March 17th as the international release date for a brand-new EP from Death Vanish, Hermitic Fire, on cassette tape format.

Formed in 2017, Death Vanish is a solo project of Valder from the band One Master. Playing select live shows with a full lineup, the songwriting and all instruments on the recorded material is performed by Valder. Since the project’s formation, two EPs and a split have been released – and now , four years after the last one, arrives a new EP titled Hermitic Fire.

Compared to his other ongoing musical endeavors, Death Vanish explores Valder’s interest in the more primitive side of black metal expressed by bands such as Beherit and Profanatica. And yet, there’s plenty of other nasty ingredients lurking within that cauldron, as evidenced by this latest Hermitic Fire. More diverse overall and yet also more focused, Hermitic Fire shows Death Vanish as true pervertors of black metal, here incorporating a deathrock side – subtle, but still pronounced – and a general air of unorthodoxy that drives deep into the heart of black metal’s earliest antagonists. As such, all sides of Death Vanish are displayed here: from the furious simplicity of the opening track “Conquer With Solar Might,” to the awkward riffs and remedial keyboards on the unabashed homage to Beherit “From Down There,” to the ritualistic channeling of Big Boss in “Old Magick and Tyrant,” to the final two more headbanging tributes to Profanatica. Altogether, it’s 24 trend-free minutes bound to amaze and confuse in equal measure – simultaneously archaic and fuck-you fresh – and Valder, naturally, wouldn’t have it any other way.

Following the release of Hermitic Fire, Death Vanish will return to the stage with limited live performances. Only true deviants need apply. 

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “From Down There”  here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Death Vanish’s Hermitic Fire
1. Conquer With Solar Might
2. From Down There
3. Old Magick and Tyrant
4. Hermitic Fire
5. Doctrine of a Beast

www.eternal-death.com
eternaldeath.bandcamp.com

ASTRIFEROUS set release date for ME SACO UN OJO / PULVERISED debut album, reveal first track

Today, Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Pulverised Records announce March 10th as the international release date for Astriferous‘ highly anticipated debut album, Pulsations From the Black Orb. Me Saco Un Ojo will handle the vinyl version while Pulverised will handle the CD version.

Two demos, one split, one MLP: these are the releases Astriferous have already left an impression with. But now, this Costa Rican death metal juggernaut is back with their full-length studio debut, Pulsations From the Black Orb.

Decay, despair, and bubbling rot come to the surface with the abhorrent opening piece. Setting a gargantuan monolith to crumble before us, the intensity is high even before we truly begin. Roaring vocals and meaty riffs stain the air as pummeling drums bludgeon the skull to smithereens. The raw and ineffably dark production is one that will immediately leave non-diehards running with their tails between their legs. But those who can hack the savage attack of the senses will hear some truly phenomenal, atmospheric, and yet unforgiving death metal that spews rot and hacks limbs while some cleverly placed riffs give a very uncomfortable ambience to the whole thing. The gripping and unique approach is delivered at high-tempos to ensure maximum damage while some gloomier passages give a rich, textured, and hauntingly ghastly dynamic to the record. Blending the cacophonous Finnish death metal titans of old with some South American deathrashing violence, Astriferous conjure an atmosphere and sound entirely of their own while reading from the ancient tomes of morbidity.

Firing on all cylinders, this record is an amalgamation of the band’s best works. The doomy parts are more spectral than ever, the bestial aggression is unrivalled in savagery, and the progression as putrescent as one could dream of. Those who have followed the Astriferous journey can revel in the splendor that they have reached here with their best achievement to date. New maniacs can be won over by their first experience being a truly remarkable milestone in death metal from a far-off corner of the world, proudly planting the Costa Rican flag in the underground’s conscious with a truly marvelous, menacing, and engrossing cut of excellence. Much like the chasmic, void-like vortex of grotesqueries on the cover art, this album will pull you into a pool of macabre oddities and never let you go… [text by Jørgen Sven Kirby, Nattskog webzine

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Teleport Haze” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Astriferous’ Pulsations From the Black Orb
1. Intro (The Black Orb)
2. Blinding the Seven Eyes of God
3. Teleport Haze
4. Metasymbiosis
5. Forlorn and Immemorial
6. Ominous and Malevolent
7. Lunomancy
8. Symmetries that Should Not Be

www.astriferous.bandcamp.com

www.mesacounojo.com
www.mesacounojo.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/mesacounojo

Norway’s UNHOLY CRAFT set release date for new PURITY THROUGH FIRE album, reveal first track – features members of SOLUS GRIEF

Today, Purity Through Fire announces February 27th as the international release date for  the striking second album of Norway’s Unholy Craft, Naar All Tid er Omme, on CD format. The vinyl version will follow later this year, as will the band’s chronological debut album via different underground labels.

Unholy Craft is the work of one Peregrinus, whose concurrent Solus Grief is newly initiated into the Purity Through Fire cult. Indeed, Unholy Craft play traditional, CULT black metal from ancient Scandinavia, taking influence from the obvious – Darkthrone’s Peaceville trilogy, Hat-fronted Gorgoroth, the first Ancient album – to, more so, the very cult likes of Kvist, Sorhin, and Fimbulwinter. As such, the band’s Naar All Tid er Omme debut is a veritable blast from the past, but one thankfully exuding personality and a freshness of approach. 

For one, Peregrinus’ fully physical execution maintains a more blown-out rawness in line with the modern raw black metal scene. But, for another, that rawness doesn’t mask a lack of ability. Far from it, actually: the mainman exudes equal skill on all instruments and puts those enviable chops to use across songwriting that keeps it traditional and yet puts interesting, almost-deviant twists to it along the way. In that sense, Unholy Craft‘s craft honors second-wave black metal’s initial unorthodoxy, when most of its earliest bands each maintained their own approach – when the future lay wide open, as it were. That’s in the past now, but Naar All Tid er Omme resurrects those glorious times with magickal ease and elan. Unholy Craft are coming to a church near you!

Grab a torch with the brand-new title track “Naar All Tid er Omme” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Unholy Craft (Norway)’s Naar All Tid er Omme
1. Naar All Tid er Omme
2. Vitriolic Winds of Hate
3. En Askedrøm
4. We Are Your Death
5. For Thee I Long
6. As I Gaze Upon the End
7. En Sjels Pinsle
8. I Taaken

SONIC POISON stream ME SACO UN OJO / PULVERISED debut

Today, Finnish deathgrinders Sonic Poison stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Eruption. Set for international release on January 27th as a joint release between Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Pulverised Records – Me Saco Un Ojo will handle the vinyl version while Pulverised will handle the CD version – hear Sonic Poison‘s Eruption in its entirety here:

Do you like grinding death metal mayhem? Do you like high speeds and higher brutality? Sonic Poison play mental music for the sick and disturbed: extreme tempos, scathingly evil riffs, blasting drums, and morbid vocals to torment even the most hopeless patients. Those who heard their EP/split/demo releases will know they are in for a ride while the album gives 20 minutes of sharp sonic artillery, far more than ever before. This might even be their most barbaric material to date, as hyper-driven death-noise erupts from every orifice with spasms of hatred.

Although many of the songs sit at around one minute, this is for your own safety. Each is so intensely malicious and sadistic, more would kill you. In fact, listening to the entire record is not suggested for the weak. Those who want to be crushed, devoured, and spewed into the poison pools of putridity, grab this record and crank it loud – guaranteed to get your neighbors unhappy and alienate any friends who aren’t total maniacs (time to cut the fat). The production is suitably old-sounding, with rumbling bass and crispy guitars to peel the skin as the drums bludgeon the bones. As lovely as this all sounds, we mustn’t forget the vocals, which will suck the marrow, soul, and gristle from your twitching carcass. All this in under 20 minutes? Fuck around and find out! [text by Jørgen Sven Kirby, Nattskog webzine]

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Sonic Poison’s Eruption
1. Reeking Earth
2. Impenetrable Force
3. Repulsive Reactions
4. Carbonized
5. Ouroboros
6. Taste of Inferiority
7. Grinding Fear
8. The Scavenger
9. Antihesis
10. No Time
11. War on Drugs
12. Library Slasher
13. Eruption
14. Radiate the Masses
15. Uprising
16. World we Knew

www.sonicpoison13.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/sonicgrind

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www.mesacounojo.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/mesacounojo

TRASTORNED stream DYING VICTIMS debut

Today, Chilean manic thrashers Trastorned stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Into the Void. Set for international release on January 27th via Dying Victims Productions, hear Trastorned‘s Into the Void in its entirety here:

Hailing from Santiago, Chile, Trastorned formed in 2008 with the simple goal of being a local thrash band. Led by guitarist Fabian Piña and vocalist Felipe Lonza, the band became more serious the next year and recorded their debut demo, Decapitacion. More lineup shuffles ensued, but second demo Killer Thrash arrived in 2010. Four years would pass before Trastorned recorded another demo, but this time, with Witching Demo!, they revamped their sound and sharpened their attack, going from more blackened thrash to a cleaner and more complex style of thrash not unlike Vio-lence, Forbidden, and Exodus around the turn of the ‘90s.

Trastorned began working on the initial recording of their debut album as early as 2019, but eventually moved proceedings to a different studio. And while Covid no doubt stalled those proceedings, at last is Trastorned’s debut album here: Into the Void. Bearing luridly Lovecraftian artwork by Marcelo Miranda AKA Made in Darkness, Into the Void suitably disorients and demolishes the senses with dizzying ease. Truly, Trastorned here sound transported from 1990, from songwriting to production, slicing and surging with stop-start precision and an acidic execution as aggravated as prime Demolition Hammer and Morbid Saint. However era-authentic their sound may be, the quintet nevertheless possess THE SONGS to put this handily within that hallowed pantheon, each track taking mind-mangling routes but ones not without hooks; the catalog of riffs here on Into the Void is staggering, and they’re all threaded together masterfully. More than that, Trastorned’s chops are superlative and always put in service of the song, and the razor-sharp production only amplifies this electrifying fact.

Eight songs in 30 minutes and your heart will race like it rarely does these days: Trastorned will take you Into the Void, and FAST!

Aforementioned cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Trastorned’s Into the Void
1. Witch Hunt
2. Metal Violence
3. Black Fire
4. Miasma Of Death
5. Into The Void
6. Dreadful Fate (Interlude)
7. Insanity
8. Reborn Through Hate

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/trastorned

www.dying-victims.de 

America’s MALLEUS stream ARMAGEDDON LABEL debut album

Today, American black/death juggernaut Malleus stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, The Fires of Heaven. Set for international release on January 27th via Armageddon Label, hear Malleus‘ The Fires of Heaven in its entirety here:

Malleus has returned to present us with The Fires of Heaven. Expanding on and refining their influences from the seminal first-wave era of death and black metal, they have delivered unto us eight savage bursts of classic blackened metal, combining brooding atmosphere, razor-sharp riffs, fiercely delivered drumming, and raw, throat-ripping vocals, all summoned and sent forth from the gloomiest crypts and corners of olde New England. Like a distant tolling bell emanating from the manic depths of humanity’s past, the lyrics contemplate and belie the failings of mankind, and evoke a sense of the darkness that may yet lay ahead…

In the past, the majority of Malleus‘ lyrics dealt with the psychological impact that the “fear of the unknown” has on the psyche of human beings throughout history. Typically, the lyrics address how this phenomenon leads to individual and societal fear–>paranoia–>hatred–>violence–>and codified bigotry. The individual song lyrics typically address these issues from various historical and sometimes occult perspectives, in an attempt to showcase this phenomenon as a major failing of the human race, particularly in our attempts to build any type of modern “civilized” society.

With the new album, they follow this theme closely, but do so in a much more conceptual and semi-chronological manner. Thematically, the songs are about the arrival of Europeans (primarily English Puritans) in New England during the early 17th Century, and the tragedy of their lives and often-bloody cultural interactions with other groups in colonial New England (Native Americans, French Catholics, enslaved Africans, etc.) over the remainder of that century.

Specifically, the lyrics on The Fires of Heaven deal heavily with the Puritan perception of salvation and grace (in other words, whether or not they were going to heaven or hell), and their steadfast belief that Satan and his children/minions (natives and French Catholics) actually lurked in the forests of New England, waiting to murder them and corrupt their godly pursuits and preordained mission to spread their peculiar version of Christianity to the rest of the world. Essentially, this paranoia manifested itself as fear and bigotry over time, and resulted in many extremely violent conflicts, as well as various outbreaks of religious paranoia and persecution toward the end of the century – the Salem witchcraft trials as an obvious example.

Beyond the lyrics, Malleus have worked to make sure all other aspects of the album sync with this concept, as well, including a classical album intro they had commissioned, which evokes the gothic Baroque style that might have been heard throughout Europe during this time period. Fans of Hellhammer, Bathory, Venom, Celtic Frost, Sodom, and Motorhead, take note!

Preorder info can be found HERE at Armageddon Label‘s Bandcamp. Cover artwork, courtesy of Adam Burke, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Malleus (U.S.)’s The Fires of Heaven
1. The Tempest
2. A Dark Sun Rises
3. Beyond the Pale
4. Prophetess
5. The Fires of Heaven
6. Into the Flesh
7. Awakening
8 Mourning War

MORE INFO:
malleusheavymetal.bandcamp.com

http://linktr.ee/dropdeadhc

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER release interview and announce tourdates

French black metal formation REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER have announced several shows for the first half of 2023, in France and in the Netherlands. The group is also releasing a video interview recorded during the Noktvrn tour in September 2022, with label mates DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT and BIZARREKULT. Watch the video here:

A full list of confirmed gigs can be found below.

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER live 2023
09/02/2023 – La Vapeur, Dijon (FR)
10/02/2023 – Echo System, Scey Sur Saone (FR)
11/02/2023 – Contre Courant, Belleville sur Meuse (FR)
06/04/2023 – Le Chabada, Angers (FR)
07/04/2023 – Quai M, La Roche sur Yon (FR)
08/04/2023 – L’Echonova, Saint-Ave (FR)
11/05/2023 – Krakatoa, Bordeaux (FR)
12/05/2023 – Le Marché Gare, Lyon (FR)
13/05/2023 – La Coopérative De Mai, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
25/05/2023 – Le Tetris, Le Havre (FR)
26/05/2023 – Graveland Festival, Hollandscheveld (NL)

The band will be performing in support of their latest album ‘Ascension’, which was released on February 28, 2020. The cover artwork and tracklist can be found below. The artwork was created by Fortifem.

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.

Genre: Black metal

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

MINENWERFER set release date for new OSMOSE album

Today, Osmose Productions announces March 10th as the international release date for Minenwerfer‘s highly anticipated fourth album, Feuerwalze, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

A campaign started on July 1st, 1916. A campaign of muddy, rat-infested trenches, endless artillery barrages, and cracks of rifles in the distance. A campaign of unsettling night raids, close-quarters combat, and suffocating fumes of chlorine gas.

The sound of the treads of the first tanks grinding the bones of those long dead on the battlefield to dust and of the screams from no man’s land of men bleeding out in the night from the previous day’s failed offensive.

This is the soundtrack for that campaign. Welcome to the Somme.

First track premiere to be revealed shortly. Preorder link can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Minenwerfer’s Feuerwalze

1. Cemetery Fields [6:07]
2. Feuerwalze [6:47]
3. Eternal Attrition [8:00]
4. Nachtschreck [7:50]
5. Sturmtruppen III (Sommekämpfer) [5:27]
6. Shrapnel Exsanguination [5:54]
7. Labyrinthine Trench Sectors [8:28]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/minenwerfer

www.osmoseproductions.com

VERMINOUS SERPENT set release date for AMOR FATI debut, reveal first track – features members of PRIMORDIAL, MALTHUSIAN, SLIDHR+++

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces March 17th as the international release date for Verminous Serpent‘s striking debut album, The Malign Covenant, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Verminous Serpent are a brand-new entity, but one bearing old souls: Slidhr’s Joseph Deegan on guitar, Malthusian’s Matt Bree on drums, and Primordial’s A.A. Nemtheanga on vocals and bass, here exhibiting a frighteningly different side of his signature voice. While all three men hail from different yet equally considerable backgrounds, their sound as Verminous Serpent is completely its own creation – a headspace distant and mostly removed from their collective pasts & presents.

Aptly titled, The Malign Covenant is Verminous Serpent‘s first public work: a five-song/41-minute album that brims with ancient black metal energies. Rough and raw but never sloppy or taking half-measures, the trio’s debut album twists and coils and fatally STRIKES similarly as their namesake; one could liken these songs to “corridors,” but that would suggest a finite destination. Instead, the entirety of The Malign Covenant evokes a rippling soundworld of lurking dread and sulfurous tension, where intensity is measured not by speed or density but by the hideous sensations that shapeshift within the listener’s subconscious. The most complete crystallization of this can be found in the album’s closing 13-minute epic, “Deaths Head Mantra,” fittingly ending the album on a climactic (and chilling) note. Bestial in the olde definition but dispensing with the semantics shackling so much of nowadays “black metal,” Verminous Serpent have delivered a tome defiant of time itself.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Transcendent Pyre” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Verminous Serpent’s The Malign Covenant

1. Seraphim Falls [7:41]
2. Transcendent Pyre [5:47]
3. The Malign Covenant [7:00]
4. Chasm of Nameless Bone [6:32]
5. Deaths Head Mantra [13:17]

www.amor-fati-productions.de 
www.amorfatiproductions.bandcamp.com