Italian Death Metallers OVERACTIVE reveal cover artwork and tracklist of their upcoming debut full-length album ‘The Opponent’.
1. The Call Of The Grave
2. Soulless
3. Bloody Innocence
4. Lies In Your Faith
5. Prince Of Slaves
6. Crucefix
7. Clerical Euthanasia
8. Nocturnal Disgrace
9. Prelude
10. The Opponent
11. Overactive Imagination (Death Cover)
Feuturing a contemporary death metal sound resulting from the mix of technique, brutality and tight passages, their concept album is focused on a story of rebellion, evolution, magnification of disvalue in spirituality and moral authority.
“The Opponent” was recorded, mixed and mastered at 16th Cellar Studio (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance, Decrepit Birth) by Stefano “Saul” Morabito.
Cover artwork by Alessandro Alfonsi at Art Tattoo.
More details about the release will follow, stay tuned !!!
Swiss blackened death force STORTREGN is in league with German Legacy Magazine for streaming the opening track “Through The Dark Gates” from their upcoming album. Their fourth album “Emptiness Fills The Void” to be released on May 25 through Non Serviam Records. The band has recently finished their European tour with IMMOLATION & FULL OF HELL.
STORTREGN is a blackened death metal band, formed in Switzerland in 2005. Initially influenced by the Nordic black metal scene, they have expanded their vision and sound into a more contemporary era. They are greatly appreciated for their music and even more so for their live shows. With a relentless energy, they deliver a mix of charging riffs, blast beats and brutality that leaves the audience with a lasting impression and begging for more. After a deluge of gigs, including Wacken, Metal Days, and 4 international tours, Stortregn has become inevitable in the Blackened Death metal scene.
After many changes, the formation has stabilized and the current line-up consists of Romain Negro on vocals, Johan Smith and Duran Bathija on guitars, Manuel Barrios on bass guitar and Samuel Jakubec on drums.
After recording three albums, toured in three different continents and worked with various records labels, they are proud to present the fourth album, “Emptiness Fills the Void”. To give the album the aura it deserves, they hired the revered Daniel Seagrave to create the artwork, and recorded the album at the prestigious Conatus Studio with Vladimir Cochet (Mirrorthrone, Weeping Birth). The album will be released by Non Serviam Records on May 25th, 2018.
Moreover, with the recent signing with Alpha-Omega Management Agency, Stortregn are now planning to tour the world intensely. A European Tour is already scheduled with Immolation & Full Of Hell in March and April 2018, and there is far more to come. Expressing this album through live performances with violence, blast beats, and killer riffs is what the band is about. At each of their thunderous live appearances, Stortregn ravage the place until the smallest shred of human skin is marked. The five members, tight as a hungry wolf-pack, energetically release their inner storm to transform every show into a dark and metallic mass of death, with precision, quality and professionalism.
“Emptiness Fills the Void” will be released on May 25 on digipak format under the flag of NON SERVIAM RECORDS. The first 50 pre-orders will receive a free patch.
HEGEMONE, blackened post-metal from Poland, are streaming their astonishing second album, “We Disappear”, in its entirety :
No Clean Singing writes : “You can pick out elements of black metal, post-metal, post-punk, and sludge in the songs, and Hegemone harness them together in a way that seems natural, heavy, and hypnotic (…)the songs aren’t clones of each other, and that’s part of what makes the album one that’s well worth your attention.”
while musika.be and kvlt.pl give the album their maximum rates : 100/100 and 10/10 !!
“We Disappear” contains 6 monumental compositions “with beautiful, complex, rich, ringing soundscapes and throaty vocals, that will appeal to post and black metal fans alike” :
The sumptuous artwork was realized by famous French artist Dehn Sora (BLUT AUS NORD, ULVER…).
“We Disappear”, released by Debemur Morti Productions, is available right now on Digipack CD, 12″ LP and Digital.
HEGEMONE evoked around 2010 and began their road made of fury, heaviness, melancholy and psychedelic sounds. Some musicians came through this project but only around the beginning of 2015 did the current line-up become stable. So far the band released their debut full-length “Luminosity” and a split with CHALLENGER DEEP from Belarus. The new album is due to release in the beginning of 2018. There is no path or goal defined. Only thing is a moment of madness’ mastery. No more to be said…
Today, Hells Headbangers reveals the cover art and tracklisting for the highly anticipated third album of Germany’s Witching Hour, …And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon. The album shall be released later this year on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
Witching Hour came to life in 2006 and are currently based in the southwest of Germany. Although their discography is relatively sparse the past dozen years, it is of uniformly high quality. Their two albums for Evil Spell Records – 2009’s Rise of the Desecrated and especially 2011’s Past Midnight… – are prized artifacts of the deep underground, confidently portraying a unique and highly idiosyncratic form of blackened thrash. Now, with the long-awaited …And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon – the band’s first album for Hells Headbangers – Witching Hour shall prove that they’re some of the black metal scene’s most gifted songwriters.
Sequenced like a story and flowing with almost dream-like ease, …And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon is the album whereby Witching Hour move from sepulchral blackthrash magick towards ancient metal mysticism. The transition is an enviously fluid one, as the characteristically high songwriting standards the band have held from the beginning are now transposed onto more nuanced, dynamic, and timelessly HEAVY METAL creations. It all sounds as old as time itself, yet breathes and heaves with a positively invigorating freshness. Glorious and gloomy melodies gallop forward into the fog-choked night, instilling an atmosphere that’s simply impossible to shake, but also latching their claws into the deepest, most emotional corners of the soul.
For Witching Hour create an experience here, one that honorably straddles the divide between traditional metal’s rigorous foundation and black metal’s orthodox/unorthodox duality. Put another way, …And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon is a 43-minute, absolutely addicting journey from which you’ll never want to return.
Release date and preorder info to be announced shortly. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Witching Hour (Germany)’s
…And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon
1. …And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon /
Once Lost Souls Return
2. From Beyond They Came
3. Sorrow Blinds His Ghastly Eyes
4. Behold Those Distant Skies
5. The Fading Chime Of A Graveyard Bell
6. As I Walk Among Sepulchral Ruins
Today, Spanish deathgrinders Nasty Surgeons reveal the cover artwork (again by Juanjo Castellano), tracklisting, and first single from their sophomore release, Infectious Stench, which will be released July 5th through Xtreem Music.
Having released their debut album, Exhumation Requiem, in January 2017 with a very good acceptance in the gore, grind, and death metal scene, Nasty Surgeons are back with a new album including 11 songs that will for sure appeal to any fan of bands like old Carcass, Necrony, Exhumed, The County Medical Examiners, and General Surgery.
This what Nasty Surgeons says about this first single: “This is our own tribute to the gods Carcass. The main riff reminded us from the beginning, and that’s why the title of the song was ‘The Carcass.’ We adapted the title and the text. This is perhaps the ‘softest’ song on the album and it has a catchy riff, but we love it and it is an essential element for our live performances. Enjoy!”
Release date for Infectious Stench will be July 5th through Xtreem Music on CD format.
Hear that first single, “The Carcass,” both HERE
The aforementioned cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Nasty Surgeons’ Infectious Stench
1. Ex Putrefactione Generati
2. Smell the Carcass
3. Infectious Stench
4. Subdural Haematoma
5. Impaled Crucified and Beheaded
6. Forensic Necrophilia
7. The Lobotomist
8. In Peaces
9. (a) Mouth to Anus
9. (b) Infernal Bacterial Infection
9. (b) Dr Death
May 7, 2018 – Los Angeles, CA – Sweden’s revered experimental black metal band Bergraven will release their seminal, critically heralded album, Dödsvisioner, on vinyl LP on June 1st with Swedish label Nordvis. Originally released by U.S. based Hydra Head Records 11 years ago, the record will get its first ever pressing on wax next month. Fans can pre-order it now at https://nordvis.com/en/bergraven-a-3.
It is hard to believe that eleven years have passed since Pär Stille’s Bergraven released Dödsvisioner into the black metal biome. Impishly experimental and yet highly honed and focused, it is an album that seeps its way into the subconscious as all the best black metal is wont to do. Perhaps the most striking sensation you get when listening to this album is that doom-informed riffs, idiosyncratic grooves and shadowy interludes included, you are experiencing the work of a mind open to integrating sounds that are rarefied in the often stubbornly traditional black metal genre. It would be difficult to talk about Dödsvisioner without a nod in the direction of Xasthur and Burzum before them, but Bergraven’s black metal is not as repetitive and only sometimes as hypnotic as these forebears. The subtle shifts in tempo and dizzying experimental deviations rife on Dodsvisione play tricks on the listener’s mind, much like mountains from which the first part of the band’s name come can disorientate and confuse weary walkers, rendering madness a distinct possibility.
“It was more than ten years ago, I had written the darkest music I possibly could. I made so many demos, of the songs, trying to find that perfect balance between listenable music and just pitch black death and sorrow. I was haunted by thoughts of death day and night, in sleep and awake. In many ways I had to make this album to leave parts of all these thoughts if I was to go on living a somewhat normal life. The album became like the last breath, the last waken hour, the last thought. Musically it was the direction I wanted with the band and the addition of Perra behind the drums was absolutely amazing. The doomy slow groove and the surreal fill ins was perfect and if nothing else Perra came up with the title to the album one night when in the studio. He had the perfect guts for this. I also was in contact with Mannevond from KOLDBRANN and really liked his vocal style so I invited him to come to the studio and try to mix his amazing skills with my material. It was totally amazing, I sometimes wonder why he didn’t do all of the vocals. I guess I still think the album is great, it holds so many private memories but today it has also grown out of my person, like someone else did it. This makes me enjoy it even more today and finally get in released on vinyl. Thank you so much Nordvis for making this album available in the best format and with new artwork!” – Pär Stille
Dödsvisioner Tracklisting:
1. Döende
2. Av saknad släcker jag ljuset
3. Ondkall
4. Känsla av livets nästa skede
5. Den svarta angstens essens
6. Det man med själen…
7. Ekot av bikt
8. Döende (en avslutning)
In their endless quest to push and support current underground acts that that deliver the goods unaware of trends and hypes, on July 23rd, Memento Mori is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of France’s Atavisma, The Chthonic Rituals.
Hailing from the new breed of exquisite French death metal darkness, Atavisma formed in late 2013 and promptly set to work perfecting their assiduously doomed-out craft. Founders G. (guitar) and L. (vocals) wanted to create a band devoted to old-school death metal, and with the addition of C. (drums) and W. (bass) shortly thereafter, the quartet’s compositions progressively shifted towards a death-doom approach with a penchant for lyrics that mainly deal with the relationship between man and nature, ancient cultures and spirituality. Wisely prizing quality over quantity, Atavisma’s sparse discography comprises a debut single in 2014 and a four-song demo that same year, a split 7″ with Maur in 2015, and a two-song 7″ last year on the esteemed Blood Harvest. During all this, the band took their craft to the stage alongside such bands as Archgoat, Merrimack, Inferno, Ritualization, Ataraxie, Mercyless, and Mourning Dawn, and as recently as February/March 2017, they embarked on their first French tour and supported Blood Incantation and Cruciamentum during their European tour.
With their chops finely honed in the studio and on the live front, at last comes the time for Atavisma’s momentous debut album: The Chthonic Rituals. The album’s title not-so-subtly serves as a clarion call for the quartet’s aesthetic to date, and where that aesthetic can fully go when given a long-form format. Ridiculously filthy and yet exuding a startling sense of clarity, Atavisma here conjure a forever-roiling, fatally-swirling whirlpool of murk and total ‘n’ utter DARKNESS. Riffs are doled out like sick ‘n’ slithering creatures that soon overtake their master, devouring both body and soul with salacious delight. Thus armed, compositions take on obscene forms, utilizing both über-heavy hooks and labyrinthine detours, hackle-raising tension and hypnotic quasi-melodicism, winding the listener down caverns most foul, warping any sense of sanity. And although the band’s attack has gotten progressively doomier, there’s never a moment of inertia; all is forward momentum, and it all leads toward an abyss with literally no end. The 11-minute closer says everything in its title: “A Subterranean Life.”
As with all Memento Mori releases, totality is reached in both cover art (courtesy of E. Muskie), mixing by Johan Bijaoui at Mannaz Records, and mastering, by the elite Javier Felez at Moontower Studios. Maniacs of Incantation, Cianide, Grave, Disma, Winter, Funebre, Encoffination, and classic Convulse, hereby meet your new masters: Atavisma! Let The Chthonic Rituals begin…
The first ritual can be found HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Atavisma’s The Chthonic Rituals
1. Chthonic
2. Extraneous Abysmal Knowledge
3. Sacrifice unto Babalon
4. Invocation of Archaic Deities
5. Monoliths
6. Ashen Ascetic
7. Amid the Ruins
8. A Subterranean Life
Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets July 13th as the international release date for Malsanctum’s highly anticipated debut album, simply titled Malsanctum, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Malsanctum hail from Canada and made its first public recording with the aptly titled demo Metamorbid Fetishization. Inconspicuously released in 2015 by Iron Bonehead, Metamorbid Fetishization presented Malsanctum in a cruelly stark and most frightening manner: a single 24-minute track of noisy ritualism, alternately spacious and suffocating, but most certainly uncomfortable. However, all that is trumped by the full-length Malsanctum.
Here split into three tracks – two at 10 minutes, and the closer at a staggering 24 minutes – Malsanctum’s debut album is 45 minutes of obscene body worship. Defiantly challenging and sickeningly fascinating in equal measures, Malsanctum once again mangles trace elements of funeral doom and black metal into a malodorous miasma that defies both genres. It is as hypnotizing as it is hellish, fully utilizing those epic lengths with time-evaporating/halting inertia cum overload. The listener becomes lost because there was no path to begin with; obfuscation is thus replaced by pure punishment. But to simply listen to Malsanctum in general and Malsanctum in particular is not to just “listen,” but to endure…and the light at the end of the tunnel was already snuffed out long ago.
The end will come…but not when you want it. Time, then, to enter Malsanctum’s Malsanctum. Step forward into the 10-minute “The Father” HERE
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Malsanctum’s Malsanctum
1. The Father (10:17)
2. The Son (9:47)
3. The Shattered Spirit (23:49)
Featuring vocals in XIIIth century’s Italian Vernacular language, the concept album is focused on the first canticle of the eternal poem ‘The Divine Comedy’ by Dante Alighieri.
This is the album tracklist :
1. Mal Nati
2. Onde La Rena s’Accendea
3. Dite
4. Pena Molesta
5. Cerbero Il Gran Vermo
6. Cocito
7. Dolenti ne la Ghiaccia
8. Rabbiosi Falsador
9. Vallon Tondo
10. Li ‘ndivini
11. Terribile Stipa
The awaited follower to “Inferno I” was recorded at Medoosa Studio in Bologna, while mixing and mastering were handled by Giuseppe Orlando at The Outer Sound Studio (Stormlord, Necrodeath, Novembre) in Rome.
Cover Artwork Design by Gustavo Sazes.
Watch “Cerbero Il Gran Vermo” official track stream video :
Watch “The Making Of Inferno II” :
Catch KYTERION on their headlining tour “Inferno Over Europe 2018” here :
28.04 Bologna, Italia, Alchemica Music Club
03.05 Maribor, Slovenia, Gustaf Pekarna
04.05 Vrbovec, Croatia, Akc Garaze
05.05 Bekescsba, Hungary, Narancs
06.05 Sibiu, Romania, Underground
07.05 Timisoara, Romania, Manufactura
08.05 Sofia, Bulgaria, Live&Loud
09.05 Svisthov, Bulgaria, Disorder
10.05 Bucarest, Romania, Simply
11.05 Cluji Napoca, Romania, La Tevi
12.05 Budapest, Hungary, S8 Underground
26.05 Acerra (NA) Evilution Club
Death metal outfit FESTERDAY have completed their forthcoming new record, which will be released later this year. The new album was recorded at Wolfthone Studios in Finland
Regarding the new record, FESTERDAY comment: “A year ago, we tried out this nice little studio located in the middle of pretty much nowhere and instantly fell for the sound and engineering techniques. A year later we are here again, finalizing our debut album. Keep an eye on this upcoming monster because we’ere talking about a versatile and fat album with death, punk and blackish nuances. If you put Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Deicide and Napalm Death in the same train, this is what you’ll get – one hell of a ride so to speak”.
On previous news, Season of Mist announced the signing of FESTERDAY. Not counting the compilation of earlier material, the Finnish death metal cult act will release its debut studio album on Season of Mist.
Regarding their signing, FESTERDAY comment: “It is now close to 25 years, following our decision to split up. It has taken as many years after writing any songs for this band that we got our shit together again and came up with new material to see where this might take us. Six new songs later, we sent them to various labels and magazines. Much to our surprise, the feedback was overwhelming. After negotiating with different labels and pondering over their offers, we decided to take action and double the excitement by joining a familiar and globally established label: Season of Mist. It feels like coming full circle to return to the label, where it all started with …AND OCEANS over 20 years ago. Like in this old proverb, it goes without saying: the frost will drive a pig back home.”
FESTERDAY were formed in Pietarsaari, Finland in the year 1989. In the following years, the band 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 split-up.
This could have been the end, but FESTERDAY got together again 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).
Featuring members of …AND OCEANS, MAGENTA HARVEST, HAVOC UNIT, and KHAOS NIHIL, FESTERDAY are back together and will finally release their debut full-length on Season of Mist later this year.
Line-up
Antti Räisälä: bass
Kena Strömsholm: vocals
Timo Kontio: guitar
Teemu Saari: guitar
Jani Kuoppamaa: drums
