Misery Index release new track ‘The Choir Invisible’

Death Metal extremists MISERY INDEX are now premiering the third track taken from their upcoming album ‘Rituals of Power’. The new offering is slated for release on March 08th, 2019 via Season of Mist. ‘The Choir Invisible’ is now streaming in the form of a lyric video
On the track, MISERY INDEX comment: “‘The Choir Invisible’ is a euphemism for the dead, or those who have passed on. In the context of this song, it is an anthem of the dispossessed and the hopeless. Many across the world exist in an ‘in-between’ state that is often ignored and/or washed over because they lack the power and voice to plead their case as human beings. The song takes up this theme and tells it from the somber view of those who risk their lives, board ships and cross oceans in order to find a better life.”
Besides the brand new lyric video, drummer Adam Jarvis has also released a brand new drum play-through from the previous released track ‘Rituals of Power’
MISERY INDEX previously announced European and Japanese tour dates in the spring of 2019. A full list of confirmed shows can be found below.
MISERY INDEX Japan
+NAPALM DEATH +EYEHATEGOD
05 Mar 19 Osaka (JP) Umeda Club Quatro
06 Mar 19 Tokyo (JP) Shibuya Club Quatro (+Napalm Death +Eyehategod)

MISERY INDEX
+WORMROT + THE LION’S DAUGHTER + TRUTH CORRODED
23 Mar 19 Heidelberg (DE) Heidelberg Deathfest
24 Mar 19 Nürnberg (DE) Z-Bau
25 Mar 19 Wien (AT) Escape Metalcorner
26 Mar 19 Brno (CZ) Melodka
27 Mar 19 Dresden (DE) Chemiefabrik
28 Mar 19 Kassel (DE) Goldgrube
29 Mar 19 Berlin (DE) Cassiopeia
30 Mar 19 Eindhoven (NL) Grindhoven
31 Mar 19 München (DE) Backstage
01 Apr 19 Zürich (CH) Werk21
02 Apr 19 Segrate MI (IT) Circolo Magnolia
03 Apr 19 Genf (CH) Usine
04 Apr 19 Paris (FR) Glazart
05 Apr 19 Sint Niklaas (BE) De Casino
06 Apr 19 Essen (DE) Turock

The artwork, which is created by Raphael Gabrio, and track details of ‘Rituals of Power’ can be viewed below.
Track-list
1. Universal Untruths (2:35)
2. Decline and Fall (4:36)
3. The Choir Invisible (4:26)
4. New Salem (3:24)
5. Hammering the Nails (3:46)
6. Rituals of Power (5:20)
7. They Always Come Back (5:08)
8. I Disavow (4:21)
9. Naysayer (2:26)

  The band comment on the album: “‘Rituals of Power’ is a disavowal and warning against the consequences of our so-called ‘post-truth’ age. Each of the 9 songs revolves loosely around this theme, yet each track also stands very much on its own. As an album however, they are all brought to life as one ‘reanimated’ monster; it’s roughly 35 minutes of unhinged, yet cohesive, riff-driven aural ballistics. We were pissed off and on fire during both the writing and recording, and we think it shows in spades. We set out to write the best album we could, based on what we would want to hear first as fans of this music, and we could not be happier.”
MISERY INDEX return furiously with their brand new album, ‘Rituals of Power’! With their sixth full-length, the American icons of hard hitting brutality display the strength of maturity grown out of the experience gained as a relentless touring machine. The general trend of their continuous evolution to incorporate less core elements and move towards classic death metal finds a new high water mark.

When their debut EP ‘Overthrow’ was recorded in 2001 by vocalist and bassist Jason Netherton (ex-DYING FETUS) together with (then) guitarist and vocalist Mike Harrison and drummer Kevin Talley (ex-DYING FETUS), MISERY INDEX immediately charted a course to explore and push the limits of Death Metal and Grindcore, drawing influence from bands like MORBID ANGEL, NAPALM DEATH, TERRORIZER, BOLT THROWER and ENTOMBED. The erstwhile project shifted to a full time band when guitarist Sparky Voyles (ex-DYING FETUS) joined.

In 2003, MISERY INDEX unleashed their first full-length ‘Retaliate’, to exceptional reviews and followed by numerous support tours and festivals in Europe and North America. After several line-up changes, second album ‘Discordia’ was released in 2006 with even more touring in its wake. Their third full-length, ‘Traitors’ (2008) reaped raving reactions from both critics and fans and saw the band on the road again until 2009. Then MISERY INDEX dropped ‘Heirs to Thievery’ (2010) like a bomb on the Death Metal masses, shattering all expectations. The album was both a commercial and critical success, elevating the band to headlining slots. During that year, long time guitarist Sparky Voyles was replaced by Darin Morris.

A string of shows and festivals around the globe followed and on the Munich date of ‘Full of Hate Tour’ alongside CANNIBAL CORPSE, BEHEMOTH and LEGION OF THE DAMNED, the band recorded their first live album. Released early 2013, ‘Live in Munich’ perfectly epitomized the rawness and ferocity that MISERY INDEX elevated onto a new level with their fifth full length “The Killing Gods” in 2014. 

Now with “Rituals of Power”, revolving around the concept of “truth”, MISERY INDEX are back with nine crushing tracks which tackle how ‘truth’ has been constructed and molded throughout history as a means to uphold power, regimes and ideologies. Brace, hold tight and run for cover, the wrath of MISERY INDEX is upon us and they are more furious than they’ve ever been. 
Album line-up:
Jason Netherton: bass, vocals
Adam Jarvis: drums
Mark Kloeppel: guitar, vocals
Darin Morris: lead guitar

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Recording:
Drum recordings: Mana Studios by Erik Rutan (HATE ETERNAL)
Guitar, bass and vocals: Apollo Audio Alternative by Ryan Mullins
Guitar and bass: Cellblock Studios by Darin Morris
Vocals: Soundwell Studio by Valtteri Kallio
Vocals: Casa Del Muerte by Leon Del Muerte

Mixing and mastering: Will Putney

Italy’s TOTALITARIAN set release date for new BARREN VOID album, reveal first track

Today, Barren Void Records – with official distribution by Lavadome Productions – sets April 12th as the international release date for the highly anticipated second album of Italy’s Totalitarian, Bloodlands.

Following their 2017 debut, Italy’s Totalitarian returns with a malicious new record entitled Bloodlands, which embarks on a soul-corrupting journey through unprecedented violence and the most hideous deeds the so-called humankind has ever been able to commit itself to.

Bloodlands will drag you through the ruins of Warsaw, across the fields of Treblinka, into the marshes of Belarus, or to the death pits of Babi Yar. Sense it: the terror, the darkness without glare, when despair and anguish served just as an overture to a deadly end. Grasp it: the paralyzing touch of immaculate fear, the danger which can’t be seen, yet its menacing presence would define eternity with the taste of ashes and blood left behind.

Musically, Bloodlands represents a relentless black metal tour de force, especially when compared to the debut album De Arte Tragoediae Divinae from 2017. As cliché as it may sound, the evil is one, but its faces are many – that’s the truth. Bear in mind the bleakness and the everpresent nihilism will always be maintained in anything Totalitarian will ever create.

Bloodlands follows the seething poison of humiliation and annihilation encrypted in the collective consciousness of man forever. The wounds of humanity are bleeding in the 6 Gospels of Extermination.

The first of those 6 Gospels can be heard with the new track “1933” here:
Graphics and design by Abomination Imagery – cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Totalitarian (Italy)’s Bloodlands
1. 1933
2. On The Wings Of The Great Terror
3. Defeated, Destroyed And Divided
4. Liberators
5. Of Bullets And Gas
6. Deathcult Eternal
MORE INFO:
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www.totalitarian666.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/barrenvoid
www.facebook.com/lavadome 

AORATOS announce their debut album, a masterpiece of haunting malefic Black Metal

The newest crepuscular offering from Naas Alcameth (AKHLYS, NIGHTBRINGER), “Gods Without Name” is the first descent into the twisted depths of a fresh creative entity, AORATOS, a “reflection of the eidola and egregore arisen from the liminal thresholds”.

Expanding far beyond the themes and sounds within AKHLYS, “Gods Without Name” probes ever further into the darkness found beyond the boundaries of the profane and waking world of man. A maelstrom of mesmerizing and nightmarish tremolo riffs, relentless drumming, and the ever-tortured howls of Naas Alcameth permeates this musical abyss, a piercing counterpoint to the undulating drone and dark ambient soundscapes found within.

Cold atmospheres and malevolent whispers of ecstatic dread bookend these horrific hymnals to “forbidden plots, barren fields, and haunted abodes”. Terrifying and occult, this is darkness given musical form in haunting, malefic Black Metal.
:: Line up ::
 
Naas Alcameth – Vocals, guitars, synths and lyrics
Nox Corvus – Guitars and backing vocals
Menthor – Drums
Chthonia – Backing vocals
:: Additionnal Infos ::
 
Recorded by AORATOS at Promethean Forge Studios
Mixed & Mastered by Dave Otero at Flatline Audio
Music by Naas Alcameth and AORATOS
Lyrics by Naas Alcameth
Cover art and layout by Bahrull Marta
Band pictures by MM
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TELEPORT to have EP reissued by EDGED CIRCLE, prepare debut album for the label

Today, Edged Circle Productions sets April 5th as the international release date for Teleport‘s The Expansion on CD format. Originally released on cassette tape during the autumn of 2018 but selling out extremely quickly, The Expansion so impressed Edged Circle that the label simply HAD to release the record on a wider scale – and later this year, will release Teleport‘s highly anticipated debut album!

One of the most singular bands orbiting the death metal underground in the past decade, Teleport formed in 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and promptly set course for a prodigious schedule of self-released demos, each one perfecting their slithering, shapeshifting sound. Undoubtedly inspired by Gorguts, Voivod, and Australia’s Stargazer and yet finding contemporaries in Blood Incantation and Sacriphyx, Teleport truly hit their stride with last year’s The Expansion. As aptly titled as the band’s moniker, The Expansion weaves a winding, oft-bewildering path across its three-track/21-minute runtime. Sulfurous to the very end, one could pin tags like “prog” or “tech” or simply “that’s crazy, man!” onto Teleport‘s style of death metal, but within their attacking angularity exist actual hooks – malformed and mesmerizing, of course, but HOOKS to hold onto as you sink deeper into their maelstrom…

And now, under the aegis of Edged Circle, that maelstrom will open wider and devour more listeners whole with Teleport‘s imminent debut album for the label. In the meantime, prepare for The Expansion and get your mind blown!

A full HD stream of The Expansion can be heard here:
Preorder info for the new Edged Circle edition can be found HERE.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Teleport’s The Expansion
1. Beholder of the Silent Sea
2. The Expansion
3. Aphotic Flames of Dissolution

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VLTIMAS release lyric video for “Diabolus Est Sanguis”

Three-piece extreme metal formation VLTIMAS are now premiering a new lyric video for the song “Diabolus Est Sanguis”. The track is taken from the  forthcoming debut album ‘Something Wicked Marches In’. The band, consisting of David Vincent (ex-MORBID ANGEL), Rune Blasphemer Eriksen (ex-MAYHEM, AURA NOIR) and Flo Mounier (CRYPTOPSY), will release their brand new offering on March 29, 2019 via Season of Mist.
VLTIMAS have previously revealed the cover of ‘Something Wicked Marches In’ which has been created by renowned Polish artist Zbigniew M. Bielak (GHOST, PARADISE LOST, BÖLZER, ZHRINE) and can be viewed together with the track-list below.
Track-list
1. Something Wicked Marches In (4:28)
2. Praevalidus (3:39)
3. Total Destroy! (2:57)
4. Monolilith (5:25)
5. Truth And Consequence (3:42)
6. Last Ones Alive Win Nothing (5:29)
7. Everlasting (3:40)
8. Diabolus Est Sanguis (3:27)
9. Marching On (5:34)
Total: 0:38:21
VLTIMAS live
23 Jun 19 Clisson (FR) Hellfest 2019
28 Jun 19 Oslo (NO) Tons of Rock 2019 (Exact date TBA)
02 Aug 19 Wacken (DE) Wacken Open Air 2019 (Exact date TBA)
After some years of absence from the black metal scene, guitarist Rune Eriksen (AURA NOIR, EARTH ELECTRIC, ex-MAYHEM), decides to venture back into the aural landscapes he’s widely known for. Having played with one of Norway’s leading extreme metal bands for years, Eriksen seeks to coalesce classic, cold Scandinavian riffing with an air of darkness and the signature force of death metal.
 
Combining strengths, Eriksen brings in veterans of the extreme, David Vincent of legendary death metal formation MORBID ANGEL, as well as acclaimed drummer Flo Mounier from CRYPTOPSY. The three-piece have completed the work on their debut album, which is slated for release early 2019 via Season of Mist. The new death metal powerhouse will be known under the moniker of VLTIMAS.
 
The foundation for VLTIMAS was laid when Rune, after collecting a handful of riffs, presented drummer Flo Mounier with the idea of forming a band together. For the two musicians, having composed and recorded numerous songs together in the past, the musical chemistry was already tried and tested. However, one thing was still missing. This extraordinary musical project needed an extraordinary voice and Eriksen got in touch with David Vincent, with whom he had been in contact for years, to finalize the line-up.
 
Vincent had just exited Morbid Angel and was ready for a new chapter in his long spanning career. Everything fell into place, and VLTIMAS came into being.
 
During the Noize Factory sessions (Georgetown, USA), the musicians started writing a substantial amount of music. The sessions proved to be a fruitful endeavor and the first ideas and song skeletons were later fleshed out by Rune at his home studio in Portugal, then finalized when Flo Mounier and Eriksen returned to Texas, in order to put the final touches to the material at David’s home studio. In a more controlled surrounding the songs started to unveil themselves and the studio was booked.
 
The band entered Orgone Studios in Woburn, England in May 2018 with producer Jaime Gomez Arellano. Here, the three-piece recorded nine crushing tracks that will appear on the full-length debut album.
 
The new record offers a vast array of influences, but most notably the distinguished symbioses of these three respected and talented musicians. A dark and sinister ambiance meets a majestic and a commanding death metal energy.

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Line-up:
David Vincent – Vocals
Rune Blasphemer Eriksen – Guitars
Flo Mounier – Drums – guitars

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

more info here:

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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:
www.funerealpresence.bandcamp.com
www.theajnaoffensive.com
www.facebook.com/theajnaoffensive 

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