Polish black metal miscreant EVILFEAST is to reissue his grimly decayed debut album, Mysteries of the Nocturnal Forest, on Nov. 30 via Eisenwald.
Originally released in 2004, Mysteries of the Nocturnal Forest is a sarcophagi of despair as the album’s nine tracks account for a hour’s worth of raw misanthropic misery. Hauntingly primal, the album’s evocative nature is matched by its flawless lo-fi production of ghostly guitars and ethereal synths.
EVILFEAST’s lone multi-instrumentalist, GrimSpirit, begins his prolific body of work with a wintry dissonance. With over two decades of depraved black metal under his belt, it is easy to see why the charred project belongs alongside Burzum, Paysage d’Hiver and Midnight Odyssey.
All archaic tunes and poetry by EVILFEAST during the years of the dark lord 1999-2003. Recorded at Funeral Sound Studio during October and November 2003, and produced by GrimSpirit. Layout and pictures also by GrimSpirit.
Mysteries Of The Nocturnal Forest Track Listing:
1. Ode to a Rising Fullmoon (Intro)
2. Immerse into Cold Mist
3. Thy Woods Are Sacred
4. Towards the Funeral Winternight Landscape
5. Solitude Apotheosis
6. Descending Winds of Holocaust
7. The Black Heavens Open
8. Morbid Rejoice
9. Desolate Fields Left (Outro)
BLOOD OF SERPENTS’s anticipated second full length “Sulphur Sovereign” is now available worldwide on CD and in digital format via Non Serviam Records. The black metal horde from Småland, Sweden have shifted their sonic journey to the pure devilish black metal skyline from their previous hatred fueled death/thrashing leanings.
“Every aspect of the songwriting contributes to a listening experience akin to facing down an oncoming hail of bullets.” – Ivan Belcic, Invisible Oranges
Forged in 2012 by the guitarists Fredrik Nilsson and Kristian Roupe, black metal force BLOOD OF SERPENTS hail from the deep forests of Småland, Sweden. Spawning two mini releases and one critically acclaimed full length within the six years of existence, BLOOD OF SERPENTS are proud to present their second album, “Sulphur Sovereign”, after years of writing, line-up changes and adversity.
“Sulphur Sovereign” is the first offering to feature the drummer Christoffer Andersson and the vocalist Thomas Clifford (Throne of Heresy, Abscession). With the newly recruited assets, the band has taken a decided step into a supreme black metal direction, going at full speed with forceful vocals that rip and roar with equal measure. Mixed with dark melodic guitar works and crushing riffs, Sulphur Sovereign is a full on black metal attack interspersed with atmospheric pieces and haunting melodic parts.
Containing ten tracks of genuine Swedish black metal, Blood of Serpents have set free the beast — known as Sulphur Sovereign — upon the world. This is a defining moment for the band who has found their true sound in the sphere of accursed black metal.
The album is produced by Lars Broddesson (ex-Marduk) and mixed and mastered by Magnus Devo Andersson (Marduk). Amazing Gustave Doré inspired artwork was executed by Khaos Diktator.
“Sulphur Sovereign” is out now worldwide from September 25, 2018 through NON SERVIAM RECORDS on digipak CD and in digital format.
Manitoba atmospheric black metal quintet WILT is proud to announce that pre-orders are live for the LP edition of Ruin, the band’s critically-acclaimed concept album inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, available via Vendetta Records.
Pre-order the gut-wrenching journey of despair at this location.
Released May 18, Ruin delivers six harrowing and depressing anthems, exploring the fatality of man while measuring feelings of death, forgiveness, shame and guilt. Angry Metal Guy says of the album, “The music of Ruin alternates between blackened bleakness and fiery fury, a tremolo laden leap into the lands of legends like Wiegedood or Drudkh. Even still, WILT manages to combine its blackened doom dirges with beautiful and melancholic post-metal exquisitry.
WILT was formed in 2010 by Brett Goodchild and Jordan Dorge with the simple intention of creating a black metal studio project. The release of their self-titled debut album in 2012 received a rave reception and surpassed expectations by landing serious international media attention. Soon after, the duo expanded the project into a full-time endeavor and assembled a full lineup. Touring throughout Canada and playing prestigious festivals such as Noctis Metalfest, sharing the stage with Blasphemy, Carcass, Bolzer, Candlemass, et al, WILT’s sophomore effort, Moving Monoliths, was equally well-received during its Bindrune Records release in 2015.
Three years later, WILT delivers their latest masterpiece with soaring vocals, massive guitars, depressing, heart-pounding drums, and emotion-invoking shrieks that help weave layers of daunting and agonizing depressive black metal that showcase the Mantioba quintet’s greatest work to date.
Ruin Track Listing:
1. Into the Unknown
2. We Read the World Wrong
3. Strings of a Lingering Heart
4. A Summons has Come
5. Veil of Gold
6. Requiem
WILT is:
Jordan Dorge – vocals
Brett Goodchild – guitar
Jay Edwards – guitar
Craig Peeples – bass
Myke Lewis – drums
Today, Hells Headbangers sets December 7th as the international release date for highly anticipated debut album of Canada’s Goathammer, Ceremony of Morbid Destruction, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
Formed in 2013 and promptly getting to work on a split tape and two successive demos, Goathammer have been a study of staunch underground ethics from the very beginning. Theirs is a sound that’s steeped in decades of arcane black/death wisdom, canvassing an array of eras and international flavors whilst being finessed into foul, filthy form by true fanatics. As such, Ceremony of Morbid Destruction is the grand, garish culmination of Goathammer’s noble work thus far. Here, the quartet prove they’re more than just an identikit “goat”/bestial band; there’s a sulfurous aura and true dungeon-bound darkness that bespeak the ancient ways of the 1990s, but completely unselfconsciously so. Sure, the swarming violence of Blasphemy is certainly detectable, but more so is the hammering disgust of legendary labelmates Profanatica; likewise, the crude magick of classic Ungod coexists alongside the frantic misery of old Mütiilation. Which is all to say that, despite the signposts being clear, Goathammer possess the unique elan to conjure a sensation that evokes both nostalgia and newness, and above all, put forth an identity that’s theirs alone and offering boundless exploration of those depths for the future.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, so engage in a true Ceremony of Morbid Destruction with Goathhammer! Begin engaging with the new track “Invoking the Sadistic Spirits” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Goathammer (Canada)’s Ceremony of Morbid Destruction
1. Arcane Destruction Spell
2. Invoking The Sadistic Spirits
3. Into The Endless Night
4. Perverted Blasphemy
5. Astral Crucifixion
6. Right Of Conquest
7. Sempiternal Holocaust
Detroit death-doom titans Temple of Void will be supporting Metal Blade recording artists The Black Dahlia Murder on tour this November across select dates in the United States. These latest tour dates are the next in support of Temple of Void’s massively acclaimed second album, Lords of Death, released last summer via Shadow Kingdom Records.
Says founding guitarist Alex Awn, “We’re bringing our death-doom to three new towns, and we’re ready to fucking crush. The Black Dahlia Murder have been big supporters of Temple of Void, and we can’t wait to share the stage with them again. All four bands will be trying to outdo one another, and that’s going to make for quite the spectacle of death! You will get your money’s worth at these gigs!”
Temple of Void are currently writing their third album, to be released later next year by Shadow Kingdom. Full list of dates & venues that Temple of Void will be supporting Black Dahlia Murder are as follows:
November 14 – London, ON @ RumRunners [TICKET INFO]
November 15 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig [TICKET INFO]
November 16 – Saginaw, MI @ Counter Culture [TICKET INFO]
Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets December 7th as the international release date for the striking debut album of Canada’s Omnipotence, Praecipitium, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Omnipotence formed in 2015 as a living monument to the absence of light and the transformative properties that relate Microcosm and Macrocosm, and have thus far remained veiled until the completion of its first recorded work. Bound under the title Praecpitium, the energies that resonate the past into oblivion are here harnessed into a moody and malevolent work of deathened black metal.
As befitting their moniker, Omnipotence strike at the fabric of time to circumvent and channel innate, inconceivable forces: indeed, the quartet encompass visceral omnipotence within the vast internal realms. Theirs is a sound rooted in the darkest days of the 1990s, particularly the searingly melodic ends of black metal during that decade’s latter half. Perpetually pursuing the path beyond external restraint, across Praecipitium do Omnipotence wield the mercurial strings, skins, and flesh that assail the sonic canvas of abstraction, manifesting composite forms of sound and thought through the dissolution of four carbon vessels.
Or, simply, Praecipitium is a startlingly realized and fully focused monument of majestic black/death. Behold Omnipotence and bow down before its unimaginable might!
Begin bowing with the new track “Beyond the Boundaries of Being” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Omnipotence (Canada)’s Praecipitium
1. Paths To Oblivion
2. Composite Forms of Sound and Thought
3. The Emptiness That Breathes
4. Lethiferous
5. Beyond the Boundaries of Being
Today, Harvest of Death, a division of Signal Rex, sets November 30th as the international release date for Degredo’s striking debut album, A Noite dos Tempos.
A mysterious entity hailing from Portugal’s elite Aldebaran Circle – which includes Ordem Satânica, Trono Além Morte, Occelenbriig, and Voëmmr – Degredo have been lurking in the most distant shadows since 2010. Their first demo cam in 2012, but the period of 2016-2017 produced the most activity, resulting in extremely limited tapes for Harvest of Death and the esteemed Black Gangrene. As delirious and dread-inducing as those recordings are, nothing can quite prepare the listener for Degredo’s A Noite dos Tempos.
A truly staggering work, A Noite dos Tempos is an actual double-album, comprising two two-track albums for a combined hour and 15 minutes of supernatural audial terror. Black metal no doubt forms the basis of Degredo’s creation, but the band dislocate and desiccate it to such an extent that only a ghostly aspect remains. Truly, the alternately shuddering/shimmering textures Degredo employ owe more to ritualistic drone and its satellite subgenres, and yet the unhinged hysteria that results from their stretched-beyond-comprehension tension drive deeply into black metal’s most subterranean and latent mysteries.
Suitably, for all this sonic unorthodoxy do Degredo utilize unorthodox means, mostly using acoustic and rural artifacts for precision and sound ambience. Likewise, their lyrics are based on rural and ancestral essays, tales from the Serra Da Estrela Mountain and its surrounding areas, extracted from old sayings of their grandfathers and grand grandfathers… In a word, then: utterly ancient.
When black metal has largely become a caricature of itself or at least rote play-acting that’s lost any sense of dangerousness or mysticism, here plants Degredo’s A Noite dos Tempos deep into the earth. Long may its rotten roots extend…
The first root can be dug with the nearly 18-minute track “Parte Três” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Degredo’s A Noite dos Tempos
1. Parte Um [18:46]
2. Parte Dois [18:20]
3. Parte Três [17:26]
4. Parte Quatro [19:50]
TRACK BREAKDOWN
Part 1 and 2 = VOLUME 1
Part 3 and 4 = VOLUME 2
Chicago, Illinois based black/death metal militants KOMMANDANT have always been ahead of their peers when it comes to spawning astounding crafts by delving into the disruptive region of extreme metal. With one mini album, four full lengths and numerous demos and splits, the US legion have become a strong force to be reckoned with in the underground metal scenario. Blood Eel, the latest offering of the band came out a few weeks ago on CD via Italian label Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum.
French label Krucyator Productions will release this extramundane oeuvre on tape format on October 30, 2018.
KOMMANDANT, an extreme metal band hailing from Chicago, are the harbingers of a new sonic innovation. Their sound draws notice in and of itself: many of their reviewers have written that they are one of the most notable up-and-coming bands to come out of the U.S. black metal scene. KOMMANDANT have thus far staunchly refused to publish any lyrics, preferring the listener take away what they put into it. Not surprisingly, this leaves fans and reviewers snapping up any information or insight that the band puts out, hoping to gain some sort of knowledge about what is really going on. Every article that has been written, every review that has been proffered wonders what is going to come from them next, the sense that this is the cusp of something big. What truly sets them apart is their aesthetic.
Throughout their thirteen years of notorious actions, KOMMANDANT have showed how consistency can match in a constructive way with progression, forging a solid extreme metal aggression. The misappropriate ear can easily point out how a crossover of black metal and vicious death metal can be a label for KOMMANDANT, but the story is more complex. “Blood Eel”, the latest and the fourth album of the band, is the most obvious symptom of this artistic path. The production transfers the coldness of the ’90s black metal fetish to a professional and powerful soundscape where all instruments take part to the murderous party. By adding monolithic strength to the subconscious shading of their conceptual stream, KOMMANDANT have shifted to the darker and more oppressive side of the black metal realm.
Originally released on CD format (limited to 300 copies) on September 01, 2018 via Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum, “Blood Eel” will see its tape release on October 30, 2018 through the flag of Krucyator Productions.
Cleveland metalpunks Midnight will be supporting Metal Blade recording artists The Black Dahlia Murder on tour this November and December across select dates in the United States. These latest tour dates are the next in support of Midnight’s massively acclaimed third album, Sweet Death and Ecstasy, released last October via longtime label home Hells Headbangers.
Says hooded mainman Athenar, “We were invited by our gracious hosts The Black Dahlia Murder to do some fuckin’ gigs. So hopefully, that will give us the opportunity to defile and degrade as many fresh earholes as inhumanly possible.” Full list of dates & venues that Midnight will be supporting Black Dahlia Murder are as follows:
November 14 – London, ON @ RumRunners [TICKET INFO]
November 15 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig [TICKET INFO]
November 16 – Saginaw, MI @ Counter Culture [TICKET INFO]
December 11 – Joliet, IL @ The Forge w/ Havok, Ghoul, Gost, Skeletal Remains
December 12 – Ft Wayne, IN @ Piere’s w/ Havok, Ghoul, Gost, Skeletal Remains
I saw Michael the owner of Season of Mist talking today on his personal Facebook page today how the new Wyrd material is mind blowing – I can’t wait to hear this! S.O.M. are destroying right now they are rapidly becoming THE best black metal label out there. Exciting times!
Season of Mist are proud to sign 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 early 2019.
The band comments: “It’s always been of outmost importance for us to work with people that we can relate to, trust, and will understand our creative and professional vision. Season of Mist feels like home to us and we can’t wait to start what hopefully will be a long and rewarding relationship for both parties.”
Furthermore, GAAHLS WYRD have announced a European co-headliner tour with enigmatic metal band TRIBULATION and UADA in 2019. The Norwegians add: “We have a lot of respect for our travel partners, TRIBULATION and UADA, and can’t wait to join forces for what we believe will be a thoroughly enjoyably and diverse package, that we are confident will hit home in the metal community. We’re also massively eager to present songs from our brand new album that will be released next year. 2019 can’t come soon enough.”
GAAHLS WYRD
With TRIBULATION and UADA
21/02/2019 Hamburg (DE) Kronensaal
22/02/2019 Essen (DE) Turock
24/02/2019 Utrecht (DE) Helling
25/02/2019 London (UK) o2 Islington Academy
26/02/2019 Paris (FR) Petit Bain
28/02/2019 Munchen (DE) Backstage
01/03/2019 Winterthur (CH) Gaswerk
02/03/2019 Vienna (AT) Viper Room
03/03/2019 Prague (CZ) Nova Chmelnice
05/03/2019 Poznan (PL) U Bazyla
06/03/2019 Warschau (PL) Proxima
07/03/2019 Berlin (DE) BiNuu
08/03/2019 Leipzig (DE) UT Connewitz
09/03/2019 Weinheim (DE) Cafe Central
10/03/2019 Leeuwarden (NL) Neushoorn
Since rising to prominence with his first band TRELLDOM, legendary singer, frontman, artist and composer, Gaahl, has been one of Norway’s most talked about and respected extreme metal musicians. His work with TRELLDOM, GORGOROTH, WARDRUNA and GOD SEED has been widely regarded as some of the best the black metal scene has had to offer.
Gaahls passion and dedication to his art has earned him followers far and beyond the realms of the metal community, becoming a household name in the art scene and a he has become a well-respected alternative thinker.
Recently the charismatic singer has assembled some of Norway’s finest metal musicians under the new moniker GAAHLS WYRD. The band consist of Ole Walaunet (THE BATALLION, GOD SEED, GRIMFIST), Frode Kilvik (KRAKOW, AETERNUS) and Kevin Kvåle (HORIZON ABLAZE). This highly qualified bunch has recently toured a finely selected, career spanning repertoire from Gaahl’s time in TRELLDOM, GORGOROTH and GOD SEED to great acclaim.
Over the past months the band has found them selves holed up in Solslottet Studios with producer Iver Sandøy (ENSLAVED) to record their debut album which is already shaping up to be something out of the extraordinary.
First class riffing in combination with excellent musicianship and Gaahl’s haunting presence is bound to take you places you’ve never been before. The already well-known energy a mysterious aura is omnipresent, but there is no exaggeration in pointing out that Gaahl’s vocal delivery on this album will be something out of the ordinary.
