Today, Helldprod Records announces November 2nd as the international release date for Flageladör’s highly anticipated fourth album, Predileção Pelo Macabro, on CD and cassette tape formats.
Originally formed in 2000, Flageladör are one of the bands responsible for the speed/thrash metal rebirth in Brazil within the recent metal generation. After releasing three albums, extended touring through Brazil and also Portugal, Flageladör return with a new studio record entitled Predileção Pelo Macabro.
What can you expect from this new opus? Well, 10 new songs of plain raw and uncompromised metal will burst your head according to the old-school scriptures, when headbangers raised their fists, lifted their left-hand horns, drank beer, and shook up the classic pillars of heavy metal. Be sure to catch the flaming metallic lava from this tropical volcano, because it’s destined to unleash hell!
Predileção Pelo Macabro will be released by Vënënö Sönörö Rëcörds and Hell Music in Brazil and by Helldprod Records in all other territories. In the meantime, Flageladör is preparing a new touring season in order to promote this new album. Bang or die!
Begin banging (and dying) with the new track “Terror Pós-Atômico” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Flageladör’s Predileção Pelo Macabro
1. Entre o Martelo e a Bigorna
2. Nas Minhas Veias Corre Fogo
3. Máxima Voltagem
4. Terror Pós-Atômico
5. Queimando nas Chamas do Heavy Metal
6. Micromega
7. Eternamente Cinza
8. Predileção Pelo Macabro
9. O Infiel
10. M.A.F. (Morte Aos Fachos)*
* European edition exclusive song
Today, Mexican death metal upstarts Morbid Messiah premiere the new track “Graveyard Headhunter”. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, Demoniac Paroxysm, set for international release on October 22nd via Memento Mori for the CD release; Unholy Prophecies shall be handling the vinyl version (release date TBA). Hear Morbid Messiah’s “Graveyard Headhunter” in its entirety exclusively HERE.
Hailing from Mexico, Morbid Messiah was formed in 2015 after Anubis Sandoval (drums) moved from Cancun to Guadalajara, and teamed up with Roberto Trejo (guitar) and Jose Rivas (vocals). All three young musicians shared a burning passion for the authentic sound of underground death metal that blossomed during the late ’80s and early ’90s, and felt compelled to give shape to a brand-new, iniquitous entity that would follow in the gods of yore’s footsteps. Morbid Messiahplayed their first live show a few months later and then proceeded to record their debut EP, suitably titled In the Name of True Death Metal, which was self-released in October 2016 on CD format. Guillermo Lopez (bass) had already joined their ranks by then, solidifying the lineup for depraved endeavors yet to come. Fast forward to April 2017 and the Polish label Godz ov War Productions gave the EP the tape treatment, and all 100 copies sold out shortly after.
To depict Morbid Messiah’s approach to the Metal of Death is no laborious chore, for it is nothing more – but certainly nothing less – than a dank, impenetrable, lightless, decimating, and unadorned concoction of the finest, heaviest and vilest elements of bands such as Sadistic Intent, Possessed, Incantation, Grotesque, Mortem, Death and Imprecation, as well as those prevalent in the early works of their countrymates Cenotaph and Shub Niggurath. Thus girded with such proud ‘n’ powerful influences, Demoniac Paroxysm thus invokes its very title, whipping the listener into a fury of rotten, sewer-dwelling possession. Rubbed raw and blasted about like a boombox from the bowels of Hell, this is DEATH METAL in all caps, and forever be it so: Morbid Messiah are not recommended for trendy ears nor those with weak stomachs. But if the flame burns true within you, by all means, take this torch NOW!
Naturally, for a record so foul and filthy, it’s only fitting that Demoniac Paroxysm is gracelessly graced with classic cover artwork courtesy of the esteemed Mark Riddick. Bow down and pray to Morbid Messiah!
Continue praying with the new track “Graveyard Headhunter” exclusively HERE,
Begin praying with the previously revealed “Howling From the Grave” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Morbid Messiah’s Demoniac Paroxysm
1. Rise of the Rottenness
2. Charred Devastation
3. Graveyard Headhunter
4. Devoured by Darkness
5. Breath of the Ominous
6. Crawling in Guts
7. Fetid Bloodbath
8. Howling from the Grave
9. Morbid Messiah/Morbid Invocation
On September 21st internationally, Nuclear War Now! Productions will reissue Cemetery Lights’ debut demo, Lemuralia, on cassette tape format.
While it is often true that distinct musical styles are unique to a given location and era in history, occasionally, this axiom is broken by a band that somehow manages to fracture the paradigm and insert itself as a welcomed anachronism in the present day. In this vein, Cemetery Lights, though a native of North American soil, convincingly channels and combines the musical spirits of European metal forefathers such as Mortuary Drape, Samael, and Tiamat, and melds them with the literary traditions and culture of Ancient Rome to create something that is both reverent to the past and equally relevant to the present.
The band’s debut demo, Lemuralia, was first disseminated on cassette in very limited numbers on the ninth of May 2018, to commemorate the advent of the Lemuralia festival, an ancient Roman celebration featuring exorcism rites to banish malicious spirits from the home. A few short months later, Nuclear War Now! saw fit to release Cemetery Lights’ second demo, The Church on the Island. Now, in an effort to make the first recording more widely available, NWN! offers a reissue cassette of Lemuralia for the enjoyment of disciples of the aforementioned traditions.
From the outset of the first track, “Charite’s Revenge,” the most obvious musical influence of Mortuary Drape is palpable in the intro and verse riffs, as the lyrics reference a tale from within the ancient Roman novel Metamorphoses by Apuleius. The ensuing title track is more reminiscent of Samael as it explains an evening ritual for the Lemuralia festival. “Necrophilosoph” continues the story-weaving tendency by recounting a necromancer’s rites at Lake Avernus, an entrance to the underworld as depicted by writers such as Cicero, Virgil, and Hyginus. Lastly, “Accursed Funeral” is a supplication to Dīs Pater, Roman god of the underworld, to take Emperor Nero’s life. These final two tracks, with a slightly unconventional sense of melody, perhaps remind more of early Tiamat than other influences.
Throughout the demo, a malevolent aura is cast, not unlike those that pervade the works of classic Greek black metal. What is perhaps most impressive in this recording is not necessarily its adeptness in reproducing sounds first pioneered by early European ancestors, but more so that it fuses them organically in a way that maintains its cohesiveness as a whole, thus proving that history is indeed capable of mutating and recombining distinct elements from different snapshots in time and place to once again wreak havoc on the present.
In the meantime, Lemuralia is streaming in full HERE
“Masters of a deeply twisted strain of deathly black metal, their blasphemous cacophony reaches new peaks of vitriol and spite on brand new album, The Luciferian Crown” (Metal Hammer)
Indeed, with grim reliability, ARCHGOAT discharge yet more pustulant diabolic foulness into a world increasing moulded in their image !
“The Luciferian Crown”, featuring illustrations by legendary Chris Moyen and a layout crafted by Kontamination Design, is out now and streaming in its entirety.
NIGHTMARER are premiering a playthrough video of the song “Stahlwald”. The track has been taken from the debut full-length, ‘Cacophony of Terror’, which was released via Season of Mist on March 23rd, 2018
The album cover and the track list details ‘Cacophony of Terror’ can be viewed below.
Track-list
1. The Descent (1:36)
2. Stahlwald (3:31)
3. Skinner (4:38)
4. Bleach (3:59)
5. Cave Digger (3:25)
6. Fetisch (4:46)
7. Tidal Waves of Terror (3:23)
8. Ceremony of Control (4:48)
9. Death (4:52)
10. Swansong (1:27)
Total playing time: 35:23
Chaos comes crashing in waves. Patterns emerge out of swirling energy. Darkness coalesces out of fragments into bizarre forms and strange angled shapes. What reads like a list of entries into H.P. Lovecraft’s dictionary of horrors is the nightmarish musical vision offered by NIGHTMARER on their debut album, ‘Cacophony of Terror’.
Seemingly out of nowhere, NIGHTMARER hit the extreme metal underground with their first EP, ‘Chasm’ in early 2016. This furious whirlwind of low end dissonance, devastating heaviness and majestic walls of sound took the scene by storm and the first 10″ vinyl pressing almost sold out while still on pre-order.
Conceived in 2014 by former members of bands such as GIGAN, THE OCEAN and WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH, this international trio derives only the most extreme elements of their previous musical outlets and takes those into another hellish dimension.
Carving their distinctly personal and unique path into the dark matter that DEATHSPELL OMEGA, DODECAHEDRON, and ULSECT have ventured to explore, NIGHTMARER are now set to release one of the darkest and crushing albums of 2018. Enter this ‘Cacophony of Terror’ in search of extreme sonic pleasures at your own peril!
Portland black metal deviants touring in support of Cult of a Dying Sun
Portland melodic black metal spellcasters UADA return to the road Saturday for a North American trek dubbed “The Blood Sand Ash Tour” in support of their latest LP, Cult of a Dying Sun.
Witness the lyric video for “Snakes & Vultures” here:
Support on the two-month long excursion will come from Canadian black metal warriors Panzerfaust and NYC’s extreme metal trio Imperial Triumphant on all dates, plus Serbian blackened death metal unit Bane in select markets.
Blazing across 28 cities in both the U.S. and Canada, the international tour will see UADA hit several fall festivals, including Shadow Woods, Red River Family Fest and Quebec Deathfest.
Released on May 25, Cult of a Dying Sun is UADA’s second foray into darkness. Balancing sharp riffs with spectral melodies in a manifold of haunting—yet—distinctive blackened dirges, the sophomore Eisenwald effort is a sharp spear in the heart of the brightest star.
UADA is:
Jake Superchi – vocals, guitars
James Sloan – guitars
Edward Halpin – bass
Josiah Babcock – drums
Tour Dates:
9/19 – Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
9/20 – St. Louis, MO @ Fubar
9/22 – Baltimore, MD @ The Windup Space (Shadow Woods After-Party)
9/23 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
9/24 – Miami, FL @ Gramps
9/25 -Tampa, FL @ Brass Mug
9/26 – Orlando, FL @ Will’s Pub
9/27 – Atlanta, GA @ 529
9/28 – Houston, TX @ Concert Pub North
9/29 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda (Red River Family Fest)
9/30 – Dallas, TX @ Double Wide
10/1 – Memphis, TN @ Growlers
10/2 – Nashville, TN @ The End
10/3 – Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie’s
10/4 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Smiling Moose
10/5 – Brooklyn. NY – The Kingsland
10/6 – Philadelphia. PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
10/9 – Pittsfield, ME @ House of Doom
10/10 – Manchester. NH @ The Jewel
10/11 – Boston. MA @ Middle East Upstairs
10/12 – Silver Spring, MD @ H Restaurant & Nightclub
10/13 – Columbus, OH @ The Shrunken Head
10/14 – Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle Brewing
10/15 – Chicago, IL @ Reggies
10/16 – Detroit, MI @ Lager House
10/17 – Lakewood, OH @ The Foundry
10/18 – Rochester, NY @ Bugjar
10/19 – Montreal, QC @ Quebec Deathfest
Today, Saturnal Records sets November 16th as the international release date for Sacrificium Carmen’s highly anticipated second album, Hermetica. If the band’s critically acclaimed Ikuisen Tulen Kammiossa debut displayed the band as a serious contender to be reckoned with in years to come, then the follow-up Hermetica shall prove that Sacrificium Carmen are ready to be spoken of amongst esteemed countrymen like Horna, Baptism, Sargeist, Kadotus, and Behexen.
Hailing from the ever-fertile Finnish black metal scene, Sacrificium Carmen both embody their home country’s prevailing underground idiom and offer a unique, diabolical twist to it. Founded in 2009 by vocalist Hoath Cambion and guitarist Advorsvs, the band draws their inspiration from the areas of occultism and Satanism exclusively. Sacrificium Carmen became active in 2012 with a full lineup, and soon released their debut demo, Sanansaattaja, in 2013 via Finnish underground label Spread Evil Productions. After the demo’s release, the band excelled in the areas of live shows and split releases, which all spread well around the underground scene. In 2014, Sacrificium Carmen started working on a debut full-length album, and the demo recordings led into a signing of a record deal with Saturnal Records for the debut album Ikuisen Tulen Kammiossa.
Following its release during the autumn of 2015, Ikuisen Tulen Kammiossa reaped widespread acclaim, and opinion was nearly unanimous: Sacrificium Carmen was a definite contender. Now, the band has further intensified and refined their sound with LP#2, Hermetica. Here you will find the same approach black metal with a melodic and atmospheric touch where all tendencies have been directed into very aggressive and sinister output, where Finnish black metal sound meets murky death metal sound as witnessed with orthodox black metal acts – but more vibrantly expressed, suggestive of the band’s onstage confidence. Like its full-length predecessor, Hermetica presents eight equally dynamic tracks, dragging the listener to the sulfurous depths, with characteristic vapor trails of hypnotizing melody lingering above the tar-thick sewage. One could even say Sacrificium Carmen are more “rocking” here, and even more melodic simultaneously – but let it be known that the band are still exquisitely filthy and exceptionally well-recorded.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, or so the saying goes. Sacrificium Carmen keep the fires of Finnish black metal burning and hold high the torch with Hermetica! Feel the first burn with the new track “Kaitselmuksen Tähti”
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Sacrificium Carmen’s Hermetica
1. Alttaritaulut
2. Kaitselmuksen tähti
3. Mysteerion nietoksilla
4. Hermetica
5. Valheennäkijä, kuoleva mestari
6. Noidanpolku
7. Valonkantajan adventti
8. Arvet & Henki
Today, French death metal upstarts Skelethal reveal a video for the new track “Torrents of Putrid Viscosity.” The track hails from the band’s forthcoming split 7″ with comrades Cadaveric Fumes, which will see international release on November 23rd via Hells Headbangers.
See & hear Skelethal’s video for “Torrents of Putrid Viscosity” HERE.
Aptly titled Heirs of Hideous Secrecies, this split 7″ brings together two of France’s most uprising death metal hordes. Cadaveric Fumes are up first, and offer two utterly twisted tracks of death metal dread. Soundly grounded in archetypal late ’80s / early ’90s death, these feverish mavericks take the form down routes both cosmic and swampy, adventurous and classicist. And with a debut album still on the horizon, Cadaveric Fumes continue to tease with these short-length attacks – and all are uniformly godly. Skelethal are not to be outdone, of course, and offer their first new recordings since Of the Depths…, their massively critically acclaimed debut album for Hells Headbangers last year. Both tracks are 100% Skelethal, and prove that no matter how familiar the early ’90s Swedeath sound is, it takes a certain, extremely elusive X-factor to elevate oneself beyond the thousands of pretenders – and once again, they accomplish that here, and quickly. Curious to who the Heirs of Hideous Secrecies are? Look no further than Skelethal and Cadaveric Fumes!
A video for Skelethal’s “Torrents of Putrid Viscosity” can be seen & heard HERE
Preorder info to be announced shortly.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Heirs of Hideous Secrecies
1. Cadaveric Fumes – The Spectral Parade
2. Cadaveric Fumes – Necromancy Sublime
3. Skelethal – Emerging From the Ethereal Threshold
4. Skelethal – Torrents Of Putrefying Viscosity
The son of God is hammered and raised on the cross. The lash has spoken. The spear has pierced the veil of hope. The foundations of being are about to crumble, for Retribution has come.
Sektarism is proud to reveal its third opus magnus, Fils de Dieu, to be released on September 10th through End All Life Productions, with distribution by NoEvDia. Recorded in the tradition of live rituals the congregation is known for and graced by vivid visuals signed Den Sorah, Fils de Dieu is a work crafted in anger and tension.
Not an accomplishment of joy or pride, but a bitter testimony of our own weakness: the Apostles of Ignominy set here a new statement of intolerance in a world of meekness and materialism. None are worthy, except the ones who will harm themselves in humiliation.
Fils de Dieu is a slow and inexorable march to death, a dissonant lamentation over the failure of humanity. The weight of shame and decay in your heart. The taste of tears and vinegar in your mouth. A chant of despise, disillusion, and scorn.
The call of the Seventh Trumpet approaches. Who shall be able to bear it? Who will be deafened? Will you endure the same pain as he did, or thrive back in your pitiful comfort?
A.M.S.G.
In subsequent support of Fils de Dieu, Sektarism will embark upon the Lux in Tenebris tour across Europe and the UK later this month, alongside comrades Hetroertzen and LvxCaelis; dates after the jump. Full album stream to be launched the day of release.
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Sektarism’s Fils de Dieu
1. Oderint Dum Metuant [10:27]
2. Sacrifice [33:54]
Lux in Tenebris European Tour 2018
September 27 – Paris, France @ Le Gibus Live
September 28 – London, UK @ The Black Heart
September 29 – Leiden, Netherlands @ Gebr. de Nobel
September 30 – Lille, France @ Midland
October 2 – Lyon, France @ Le Blogg
October 3 – Aarburg, Switzerland @ Musigburg
October 4 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Underdog’s
October 5 – Zwickau, Germany @ Club Seilerstrasse
October 6 – Innsbruck, Austria @ Livestage
For those of you in the Black metal scene who have been living in a cave since 1995 Xasthur was one of the most ground breaking Black metal acts on the American scene. In recent years Scott has re-invented Xasthur as a doom grass trio. This week we spoke to him about the old days and the future.
I am going to split this into two parts first dealing with the modern incarnation of Xasthur and then the old days
* You’ve talked in the past on how you moved into Doom grass as what you were doing with the original Xasthur just wasn’t working for you anymore. What made you wait so long to make the change?
I think running out of ideas with black metal was happening and a big part of what made the change, it was becoming a struggle no matter what I did or threw in to it. With acoustic playing, I never run out of songs, riffs, lyrics and ideas, so I’m naturally going to go with what works best and what I’m feeling. I wanted to talk about reality in the music.
The old Xasthur was a blur
* Do you think many of your old fans understand what you are trying to achieve with Xasthur 2.0?
Some do and some don’t. I don’t think there’s anything lacking in the 2.0. The foundation is there, the music is technical and strange enough without all the effects getting in the way of that. The old xasthur was a blur, the new is not.
* How did you find Chris and Rachel? And what was the process of them joining the band? ( e.g. straight up auditions or organically happened? or? )
it was more organic or fell into place really. Chris found a way of learning maybe a dozen of the songs on his own time then he let me know about it, that he could handle doing this. After that, Chris and I went to a festival in Washington, met Rachel, we got along with her pretty well and found out she could play bass, after that she started playing with us.
I’m usually very surprised by the support and turn out in LA.
* You have done a couple of tours with the Doom grass Xasthur so far – what’s been the most fun place to play and why?
I enjoy playing most places, really. I enjoy Texas a lot, I like playing most of the big cities because people actually do show up in bigger numbers and listen more than they used to. I’m usually very surprised by the support and turn out in LA.
* My friend caught you guys recently in NYC and said you seemed really happy being out on the road, basically that it agrees with you. Do you think that’s true? If so what advice can you give our readers for staying sane on the road?
This is true. I don’t have much of a home life, there’s nothing here for me so I enjoy traveling on the road much more. It’s more of a direct way of conveying the music, either during, before or after the shows with people. My advice would be to be grateful for the chance to do it, to go to places you normally wouldn’t have the chance to go to, look at the positives in it, do it for the music, to say something and be heard with the chance. Look forward to playing better each night and play every show as if it were your last because not much music has any staying power these days.
Prophecy isn’t afraid to take chances on music that’s different
* How did you hook up with your new record company Prophecy Productions ? They seem to be a progressive minded company and are looking to make big in roads here in the USA
The old fashion way, they just contacted me one day on the phone, started talking about it, they showed interest for real. Prophecy isn’t afraid to take chances on music that’s different. So far, I get along with the staff pretty well.
* After Prophecy fest in NYC what can we expect next from you?
A lot. Later this year Xasthur will be recording a new proper album at a real studio, before and after that, there’s a few festivals coming up (shadow woods, prophecy and power of the riff) and then touring will be mandatory again.
Ok here are some questions about the old days
* I think you once said you made the switch from playing Death Metal to One man Black metal as you couldn’t find many like minded musicians in your area. Do you think that if you had stumbled on other musicians you liked your musical output would have been drastically different or much the same?
I think it would’ve been compromised, back then, if I had met other musicians. I think the productivity would’ve been slowed down. It used to be hard to find musicians that are for real in LA and it still is. I was getting nowhere trying to be in bands with people and vice versa, no one believes in anyone.
* Do you remember how you got into Black Metal? What was your “gateway” band? What appealed to you about Black metal more than Death Metal?
That is a good question. It might not have been a black metal band that made that transition for me, it might have been Thergothon.
It was taxing and it was difficult
* For me personally those first few Xasthur albums really pushed the boundaries of Black Metal – did you find creating that style of BM mentally and physically taxing on you or could you separate art from yourself?
It was taxing and it was difficult after a while to do things with my own style and approach but ALSO trying to keep it something new!
* Are there any Black metal bands that you find these days that are interesting?
Not really.
* Any final words?
Thanks for the interest and questions. Sorry I couldn’t make this more of a black metal interview but I’m burnt out on it, but I’m probably not the only one.
Xasthur play Prophecy fest in NYC November 3rd – see here for more info
