Finnish death metal outfit FESTERDAY are premiering the first track of their new album ‘iihtallan’. The band’s debut full length is slated for worldwide release on January 4, 2019 via Season of Mist Underground Activists
The cover artwork was created by Christophe Moyen and can be viewed below together with the track list.
Track-list
1. Intro – The Last Night Of The Earth
2. Edible Excrement
3. Tongues For Rotten Kisses
4. Kill Your Truth
5. Control Not Your Soul
6. Dreaming For The Dead
7. Vomiting Pestilence
8. Flowers Of Bones
10. Into The Void
11. Constructive Decomposition
12. Gravelove
13. The Human Race Disgrace
14. Your Saliva My Vagina
15. Let Me Entertain Your Entrails
16. Let Me Entertain Your Entrails
Following FESTERDAY’s first EP ‘Cadaveric Virginity’ on Season of Mist, comes the bludgeoning debut of these cult death metallers, titled ‘iihtallan’. The album, to be released on January 4th, will ensure that 2019 kicks off with a loud bang for (old school) death metal fans.
Starting out in 1989, Pietarsaari, Finland, FESTERDAY was inspired by early, classic death metal acts and named their band after a song on ‘Reek of Putrefaction’ by CARCASS.
Early on in their career, the death metal formation released three demos, in truly laconic Finnish style simply entitled ‘Demo I’ (1991). ‘Demo II’ (1992), and ‘Demo III’ (1992) that gained cult status. ‘Demo II’ was also released on a split with CARNIFEX. In 1993, the group disbanded.
This could have been the end, but FESTERDAY regrouped in 2013, remastered all their previous material with Sami “Jämy” Jämsen at Studio Perkele in November 2014, and released everything on ‘…the Four Stages of Decomposition…’ (2015). Since then, the Finns have continuously worked on their craft, by releasing various splits, compilations and EP’s.
It may have taken some time for FESTERDAY to realize their debut full length, but now that it’s here, the metal scene is in for something wicked. Merging their old school death metal roots with black metal and punk, the veteran musicians aren’t afraid to push the borders of extreme music and refuse to conform to what is standardized in death metal. Brace yourself for ‘iihtallan’!
Today, W.T.C. Productions sets December 11th as the international release date for Adaestuo’s highly anticipated debut album, Krew Za Krew.
Appearing like a bolt from the blue in 2016 via W.T.C., Adaestuo’s debut EP, Tacent Semitae, was a startling and profound introduction to this otherwise-unknown band. Adaestuo was formed as a covenant between three wandering souls at the unhallowed crossroads where the darkest elements of ambient, black metal, and spiritual praxis conjoin. Being a series of audial sigils cast by VJS and P.E.Packain and led in evocation by Hekte Zaren, with Tacent Semitae did Adaestuo transcend the modern homogeny found among the lower caste of musical initiates. Now, the pan-continental trio eclipse that feat with a towering full-length monument titled Krew Za Krew.
To begin to understand the spiritual immensity of Adaestuo’s Krew Za Krew, one need only look to some of the album’s English-language song titles for keys to their cosmic creations and times: among them, “Subterranean Fire,” “Shadow Pilgrimage,” “Death Transition,” and especially “Transcendental” and “Monument.” Indeed, Krew Za Krew is a transcendental monument, threaded together like a fever dream collapsing in on itself, expanding outward and downward simultaneously. Black metal is undoubtedly the foundational language here, but by no means is it the dialect. The black metal surges and swirls, grimly aware of its inherent power, heaving in its brute physicality, but often disintegrating into nightmarish ambience that’s equal parts modern classical, musique concrete, and nuclear fallout…only to be rebuilt again, back into blacker metal.
It’s this very duality that renders Krew Za Krew a work of actual artistry rather than pale lip-service paid to conservative traditions ripe for slaughter: true mavericks embark upon the path, while all others never even see the path to begin with. Which is all to say nothing of the seamless sound layering required to make flesh these disintegrations/implosions/nightmares; the sound itself is a frightening thing to behold, especially when the listener drowns within the headphone experience.
If Tacent Semitae ripped asunder the thin veil between the flesh and The Otherside, then with Krew za Krew do Adaestuo rein as monarchs within that Otherside. In this fleshly existence, this Planet Earth, these sorcerers rule supreme – behold the sinister spell of Krew Za Krew!
The first spell can be found with the new track “Shadow Pilgrimage” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Adaestuo’s Krew Za Krew
1. Red Moon
2. Transcendental
3. Monument
4. Subterranean Fire
5. Death Transition
6. Escaine
7. Shadow Pilgrimage
8. Krew Za Krew
9. Hurmeen Tahrima
Today, Into Endless Chaos Records sets January 7th, 2019 as the international release date for the striking debut album of Germany’s Veiled, In Blinding Presence, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
Otherwise known as (The True) Veiled to avoid confusion with the myriad other bands with the “Veiled” moniker, this brazen quartet from Leipzig appear like a bolt from the blue after a teasingly short split 7″ with Abysmal Wounds earlier this year through Into Endless Chaos. Fully formed, shockingly confident, boundlessly inspired, In Blinding Presence indeed approximates its title with gleamingly obsidian brilliance.
Some steps lead to saintly aisles, others to the deep chasm of your inner self. The psychotic black metal of (The True) Veiled on their full-length debut does both and forms the last part of the triunity to ruin your perception. Clanging with unsettling clarity, heaving hypnotically down corridors strangely alluring yet eternally damning, In Blinding Presence brings black metal into harshly austere focus: simultaneously monochromatic and kaleidoscopic, its angularity throws rude-yet-refined shapes, all with the deft touch of masters. Yearning ‘n’ yawning riffs burrow deeply into the subconscious, warping the listener’s parameters of comprehension but emerging uniquely enlightening all the same; vocals are maniacal in their hysteria, their urgency, yet exude world-weary wisdom. Or, perhaps we could just simply say that (The True) Veiled here display how to push black metal toward adventurousness whilst retaining its core values.
Dispel your mind with the healing atter and get lost in the weave of the three norns. Drink and sup voraciously upon the bounty of the future’s ancients. Here, (The True) Veiled shall reveal to you truths In Blinding Presence.
Begin seeking truth with the new track “The Healing Atter” HERE
GAAHLS WYRD and VREID will kick off their Scandinavian tour dates with ENSLAVED on November 3rd, in Oslo. The ‘Army of the North Star’ continues to hit several stages throughout Sweden and Norway, until a final curtain at the Byscenen in Trondheim on December 1st.
VREID and GAAHLS WYRD
+ENSLAVED
03 Nov 18 Oslo (NO) Parkteateret
15 Nov 18 Hamar (NO) Gregers
16 Nov 18 Göteborg (SE) Musikens Hus *
17 Nov 18 Stockholm (SE) Slaktkyrkan *
23 Nov 18 Kristiansand (NO) Kick
24 Nov 18 Stavanger (NO) Folken
30 Nov 18 Bergen (NO) USF Verftet
01 Dec 18 Trondheim (NO) Byscenen
Only GAAHLS WYRD and ENSLAVED*.
VREID have previously released their new record ‘Lifehunger’. The coverartwork can be viewed below, with the album details below.
Track-list
1. Flowers & Blood (1:50)
2. One Hundred Years (5:39)
3. Lifehunger (5:36)
4. The Dead White (4:59)
5. Hello Darkness (4:39)
6. Black Rites in the Black Nights (6:26)
7. Sokrates Must Die (3:29)
8. Heimatt (6:01)
Total playing time: 38:39
Season of Mist has previously announced the signing Norwegian extreme metal band GAAHLS WYRD. Over the past months, the five piece, fronted by legendary vocalist Gaahl, have recorded their debut album in the Solslottet Studios with producer Iver Sandøy (ENSLAVED). The record is set for release in 2019.
Finland death metal band CORPSESSED have released the video for “Graveborne,” the latest single off the band’s upcoming album Impetus of Death.
Featuring animantion by Jussi Kandelin, the video for “Graveborne” is streaming here
CORPSESSED will break a four-year silence this fall with the release of Impetus of Death. Featuring eight crushing tracks of obscure death metal, the album is due out November 23 on Dark Descent Records.
“With ‘Impetus Of Death’ Corpsessed has continued its destructive path with another fleshy, feisty and at times frightening composition best suited to nights when the windows are battered by howling winds and the demons of the mind are unleashed.”
Today, W.T.C. Productions sets November 26th as the international release date for Valkyrja’s highly anticipated fourth album, Throne Ablaze. A work forged in the fires of the ancients with deadly intent to raze the present, Throne Ablaze precludes a full European tour of Valkyrja supporting the equally legendary Marduk and Archgoat (dates below).
Valkyrja was founded in 2004 with the earnest intention of channeling violence, deprivation, and loathing through means of extraordinarily potent audio emissions. Their ideals were permeated by passionate and boundless perversion – a sickly urge festering ever so vibrantly in the essence of its members, a will to cast off the manacles of societal enslavement and leave a dying world behind. While the brotherhood took shape, opposition and defiance surfaced from the deepest recesses of the mind: a fierce hostility towards the laws and morals of their surroundings, notions which felt entirely alien to the band’s core.
As part of Valkyrja’s philosophy of ridding themselves from limitations, no specific genre was ever chosen since it would only serve to establish a framework of useless expectation. The artistic output created under the flag of Valkyrja defies all earthly shackles, including those of commercial categorization. With ideology as lodestar, venturing into darkness without a backwards glance, they took their first fledgling steps on a road staked out by the night itself.
Valkyrjaz’s debut album, The Invocation of Demise, was recorded in Necromorbus Studio during March 2007 and then released in physical form by Northern Silence Productions six months later. Valkyrja quickly gained their reputation as a ferocious live act: a display of carnal lust leaving each stage with the foul scent of death. Drawn to the stench of putrid bereavement, Metal Blade Records contracted the band in 2009. The Invocation of Demise was treated to a re-release by their new ally, thus spreading the curse even further. The same year also saw a return to Necromorbus Studio for the recording of their second album, the most aptly named Contamination. The new tracks would prove to be a crucial part of the band’s live setlist as they, the following autumn, embarked on their first European campaign.
Forged and conceived to reflect blood and fire, the third Valkyrja album, The Antagonist’s Fire, set the world aflame on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the year 2013. The opus also marked the beginning of Valkyrja’s long-running collaboration with elite underground label WORLD TERROR COMMITTEE. During the past decade, facilitated by Massive Music and accompanied by titans of extreme metal, over 100 different European cities has been forced to swallow the bitter wine of sonic violence. Furthermore, 2016 and 2017 saw two extensive North American tours with Valkyrja as co-headliner, during which 22 different states were soaked in rotten blood.
Five years removed from the third opus, Valkyrja return under a new guise. The past few years have seen the band subjected to several crucial lineup changes, igniting a period of utter despair that would sow the seeds for what has now come to pass: Throne Ablaze is set for worldwide release on November 26, 2018. The album reflects the passion and dedication of everyone involved, those who face every storm – past and future – with weapon in hand. It will forever stand as a monument of continuous struggles – so right there, in the core of this strife to conquer every obstacle, kneel and obey the fires of the blazing throne!
Kneel before “Crowned Serpent,” the first track to be revealed from Throne Ablaze, HERE
Cover art, courtesy of Nestor Avalos, and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Valkyrja’s Throne Ablaze
1. In Ruins I Set My Throne
2. Crowned Serpent
3. Opposer of Light
4. Tombs Into Flesh
5. Halo of Lies
6. Transcendental Death
7. Paradise Lost
8. Throne Ablaze
VIKTORIA EUROPA Part 2
Marduk + Archgoat + Valkyrja + support
Nov 30, 2018 (SVN) Ljubljana @ Winter Days Of Metal
Dec 01, 2018 (ITA) Brescia @ Black Winter Festival
Dec 02, 2018 (SUI) Aarburg @ Musigburg
Dec 04, 2018 (FRA) Paris @ Le Machine
Dec 05, 2018 (BEL) Bruges @ Het Entrepot
Dec 06, 2018 (NED) Hengelo @ Metropool
Dec 07, 2018 (GER) Leipzig @ Felsenkeller
Dec 08, 2018 (CZE) Plzen @ Bozkov
Dec 09, 2018 (GER) Ludwigsburg @ Rockfabrik
Dec 11, 2018 (GBR) London @ The Underworld
Dec 12, 2018 (GER) Trier @ Mergener Hof
Dec 13, 2018 (GER) Essen @ Turock
Dec 14, 2018 (BEL) Arlon @ L’Entrepot
Dec 15, 2018 (NED) Eindhoven @ Eindhoven Metal Meeting
Dec 16, 2018 (GER) Bad Oeynhausen @ Druckerei
Today, horror metal cultists Vaultwraith reveal the new track “Reborn in Charnel Infamy.” The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Light the Candle In Honour of Devils, which will be released by Hells Headbangers during the first quarter of 2019 on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. Hear Vaultwraith’s “Reborn in Charnel Infamy” in its entirety HERE
Light the Candle In Honour of Devils is a 12-song epic of pure Devilcraft Metal: Vaultwraith’s own morbid mix of heavy ’80s-inspired speed/thrash metal, combined with demonic death/black metal riffs/vocals, atmospheric horror-inspired keyboards, and a King Diamond/Candlemass-influenced vibe of evil and doom.
Vaultwraith’s debut album for Hells Headbangers, 2017’s Death is Proof of Satan’s Power, was a surprising and original success with lethal critical praise from the horror and metal underground, including England’s Metal Hammer, who spread the word like deadly metallic fire with a scribe of sheer enthusiasm for the band and album: “From its dazzling artwork to the bewitched insanity of the lyrics, Death Is Proof Of Satan’s Power strides proudly through extreme metal’s schlockiest outreaches and feels almost guaranteed to delight anyone who owns Suspiria on Blu-ray and listens to King Diamond on a regular basis. This is a gruffer, less-polished affair than the great Dane would favor, however, and while there are endless, ghoulish hooks to enjoy, Vaultwraith’s sound is driven along by a filth-ridden blackened thrash undertow, redolent of Usurper at their thuggish best. Songs like ‘Ravaged In The Crimson Mist’ and ‘High Priestess Of The Wolf Coven’ play out like hi-def snapshots of movie-inspired nightmares. More importantly, it’s heavy as hell, metal to the bone, and one of the finest underground releases of late. Satan demands you check it out”
With their second album due out in 2019, again through Hells Headbangers, Vaultwraith’s Light the Candle In Honour of Devils continues the sound and feeling of the debut but going in a much darker direction, cranking up the death metal, black metal, and doom while keeping the lightning thrash metal sound, altogether taking their love of atmospheric European horror literature, film, and art to further heights and gloomy dimensions.
A loose storyline connects the first album with the second album in a clever and yet darkly passionate way, with each song telling a different tale of various characters from the past trapped in their own hellish nightmares, with murder, warlocks, witch-burnings, cursed nuns, and occult burials ready to explode in an inferno of utter vengeance and damnation. The Vaultwraith has RETURNED!
After a very cult underground split 7″ EP with their mentors-in-evil Nunslaughter, and an upcoming split 7″ EP with their blood-brothers in horror Acid Witch (also due out on Hells Headbangers), the undead witch and warlocks of Vaultwraith are prepared for the underground to revel once again in their brand of original and highly infectious Devilcraft Metal with the thundering hooves and macabre-shreddings of Light the Candle In Honour of Devils!
Release date and preorder info to be announced shortly. In the meantime, hear the new track “Reborn in Charnel Infamy” in its entirety HERE.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Vaultwraith’s Light the Candle In Honour of Devils
1. The Welcoming Flames of Oblivion (Intro)
2. Accused Sorceress
3. Reborn in Charnel Infamy
4. Four Beasts Before the Throne
5. Castle of the Accursed
6. The Divine Butcheress
7. Abess Antichrist
8. All the Black Arts At Her Command
9. Betrothed to the Wicked
10. Execution of the Plague Spreader
11. Nächtober Necromancy
12. The Morta-Possessed
Today, Dying Victims Productions sets December 23rd as the international release date for a special 12″ vinyl pressing of Hexecutor’s classic debut EP, Hangmen of Roazhon.
Originally released in 2014, Hangmen of Roazhon followed Hexecutor’S debut demo just two years previous, but largely introduced these young French maniacs to the worldwide underground. And what an introduction it was: like some relic from 1985 unfrozen in the present, here was absolutely RIPPING thrash metal of a most evil aspect, executed (literally!) with malicious intent and dead set on infernal overkill! No progression, no modernity – Hangmen of Roazhon is simply and 100% classic thrash madness bursting with passion and authenticity, as well as SONGS! Indeed, Hexecutor have a firm grasp of songwriting, and no matter how breathless and blustery the EP gets, above all, there’s a true method to that madness. And there’s just no denying all those utterly crazed solos…
Sick and tired of trying to track down the original Hangmen of Roazhon 7″, only to pay an arm and a leg? Get it finally (or again) on 12″ vinyl format, now with remastered sound, and await your fate at the hands of Hexecutor!
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Hexecutor’s Hangmen of Roazhon
1. Hangmen Of Roazhon
2. Soldiers Of Darkness
3. Consecrated Slaughter
4. Napalm Assault
Today, Dying Victims Productions sets December 23rd as the international release date for a special split mini-album between two uprising French cults, Mortal Scepter and Deathroned.
Featuring three new ‘n’ exclusive songs from each band, this split MLP is the perfect introduction to the new wave of French darkness. Mortal Scepter are up first, and have a pleasure to kill! Although undoubtedly inspired by early Kreator, Mortal Scepter also offer obeisance to other early German deathrash like Poison and Darkness – and of course, the almighty Death, whose “Left to Die” they cover here – altogether exhibiting a manic (and maniacal) personality that’s addicting to behold. Deathroned are second on the split, but not to be outdone. In fact, they very equally rival their split mates in sheer, mad-butchering intensity! But, you could also say Deathroned have a violent force all their own – and perhaps not surprisingly, they here cover Violent Force’s “Sign of Evil” – racing along with a bloodlust that’s brewed in the ancients.
Think all thrash metal’s about partying and zombies? Think again, and get with the times: the steamhammering past is alive with Mortal Scepter and Deathroned!
Hear for yourself with Mortal Scepter’s new track “Punitive Expedition” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows
Tracklisting for Mortal Scepter / Deathroned (France) split mini-album
1. Mortal Scepter – Punitive Expedition
2. Mortal Scepter – Perish with the Flesh
3. Mortal Scepter – Left to Die (Death cover)
4. Deathroned – Night Of The Sinner
5. Deathroened – Speed Takeover
6. Deathroned – Sign Of Evil (Violent Force cover)
Today, Australian megalith Temple Nightside stream the entirety of its special new recording, Recondemnation. It shall be released on November 1st via Iron Bonehead Productions in conjunction with the Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now!-curated Never Surrender Festival set to take place in Berlin on November 1-3. Temple Nightside will be giving an exclusive performance at this fest. Stream Temple Nightside’s Recondemnation in its entirety.
By now, Temple Nightside require little to no introduction. In short, they are death metal necromancy of the highest order. Spitting in the face of other such facile attempts by normcore “metal” bands, Recondemnation is less a re-recording of 2013’s Condemnation debut album as it is an actual reimagining.
Descent and re-initiation: a corpse reborn through the womb of its own extinction. The veins cut and re-tethered, bloodthirst paralleled only by the emptiness… The beast rears its face once again, to sup and gnaw, and this is how the limbless move… The crypt is reopened, the dead Recondemned. Here, within, lies Recondemnation.
The crypt has opened fully; step inside exclusively HERE.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Temple Nightside’s Recondemnation
1. Shrine of the Summon
2. Exhumation; Miseries upon Imprecation
3. Abhorrent They Fall
4. Dagger of Necromantic Decay (Eater of Hearts)
5. Ascension of Decaying Forms
6. Miasma
7. Life Eternal
