HERETIC CULT REDEEMER set release date for new III DAMNATION album, reveal first track

On April 21st internationally, III Damnation Productions is proud to present Heretic Cult Redeemer‘s highly anticipated third album, Flagellum Universalis, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Formed in 2009, Heretic Cult Redeemer was created in Athens by Funus (ex-Acrimonious), D, and T. A few months later, V (ex-Embrace of Thorns, ex-Acrimonious) joined the band with the aim to record their debut album, the self-titled Heretic Cult Redeemer, which was released in 2013. V left the band, and C. Docre (Acrimonious) and N3, completing the lineup Heretic Cult Redeemer‘s eventual second album, Kelevsma, released in 2018.

Never ones to rush nor adopt half-measures, Heretic Cult Redeemer have completed their third album, Flagellum Universalis, which features the lineup of vocalist/bassist Funus, guitarist/bassist Tempest, guitarist N3, and drummer C. Docre. Undoubtedly the band’s best lineup yet, suitably do they deliver their strongest recorded statement yet in Flagellum Univerisalis. Nearing a full hour in length, the album is literally MASSIVE as well as ceremonial, invoking a new era for Heretic Cult Redeemer as well as reinvigoration of orthodox/religious-style black metal. Never forgetting their more death metalled roots, the band’s gnawing & gnarly epics feature as much brawn as brain as they spiral outward from an ominous core.

With form meeting content, the lyrics to the nine-song Flagellum Universalis are indeed heady. The concept of record plunges into the paths of the primeval human urge of opposition to law and structure; it is a profound spiritual and philosophical journey towards Eosphoric self-knowledge. Heretic Cult Redeemer consider themselves as the means, harbingers, and vessels of Luciferian and Promethean teachings, as expressed through the frenzy, of the touch of Echidna.

To date, Heretic Cult Redeemer‘s catalog has been of sterling quality if not unheralded. However, the Greeks’ boldest steps – their first foray into the halls of greatness – now come with Flagellum Universalis. Behold, and redeem thyself!

Begin redemption with the brand-new track “Intoxication Divine”  here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Heretic Cult Redeemer’s Flagellum Universalis
1. Lunar Reign – Lunar Apogee    
2. Intoxication Divine    
3. Ascending Perfection    
4. Lapsit Exillis    
5. The Woven Chords of Ecstasy    
6. Grave Sophia – Breath of the Night    
7. Eye of the Saturnian Dawn    
8. Primeval Cognition I    
9. Primeval Cognition II

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/Heretic-Cult-Redeemer-108482089276374

www.facebook.com/iiidamnationproductions

NECROVESCENT RUINER “Untouchable Faith Decay”

Setting the stage for the end of days, Untouchable Faith Decay is a concept piece that takes place in a pre-post-apocalyptic setting, where implant tech went overboard hundreds of years prior and fused with our DNA causing ghastly “upgrades” to the human experience. If you have less than 8 eyes, you are considered unclean, untouchable. 

“Stop trying so hard, let reality wash over you like a fresh acid shower,” project architect Andrew Stromstad (BOX) muses as the analog for the decay of existence takes shape. This project is a single take, wherein Andrew is “letting the entirety of what I am capable of doing fall out in an instant without any retakes.” 

Untouchable Faith Decay is musically and thematically a journey through decay and depravity, one of perpetual solitude and aching hopelessness, driven straight into the heart of who we are. This is cheerless music for sunless days.

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/miserablepyre/ https://necrovescentruiner.bandcamp.com/album/untouchable-faith-decay

WITTE WIEVEN set release date for BABYLON DOOM CULT debut, reveal first track

Today, Babylon Doom Cult Records announces April 14th as the international release date for Witte Wieven‘s highly anticipated debut album, Dwaallicht, on vinyl LP format.

Dense atmospheres luring the ones that hear. Finding your way in intensity, sometimes threatening and lost. The path seems clear, but stick to it too long and the path is what makes you lost. Witte Wieven weave such sonic spells with alchemical ease.

Since their formation in 2014, Witte Wieven have been patiently perfecting their sound, first with the Silhouettes of an Imprisoned Mind EP in 2016 and then their split with Reiziger, Vlucht, in 2018. A blend of dissonance, dreamy landscapes, and alternately grooving/gnarly riffs, the duo of C. (guitar, vocals) and S. (drums) try to find their way through the echoes of creating. But the recorded experience is not only side to Witte Wieven: the band made their live debut at Roadburn 2019, accompanied by W. Damiaen (Laster) on guitar and Dave (Gott, Ggu:ll) on bass guitar. By and large, that esteemed performance introduced this apparition to the wider world, but now it’s set to fly farther and freer…

At last: Witte Wieven‘s debut album, Dwaallicht. Both a summation and extension of their prior short-lengths, the six-song/42-minute Dwaallicht lays bare a stark-yet-sumptuous canvas of shimmering black metal and delirious doom, threaded together with the subtly unfolding dynamics of the best post-rock. It’s at once an incredibly physical experience and one that’s ghostly and atmospheric, its ripples of shadowy sound revealing everything and nothing simultaneously; one must possess the fortitude to peer deeply into their abyss to see the full fathom of emotions and sensations lurking down there. One minute compared to the other might suggest combative contrasts, but each minute is as crucial as the last as well as the next: with songs at their briefest being five minutes and stretching all the way to ten, the journey itself is arguably more important then the destination. Put another way, Witte Wieven are like the beings that lurk in the mist – a pretty sight, but with a tempting, dangerous darkness. And Dwaallicht‘s landscape seemingly stretches infinitely…

Begin viewing that landscape with the brand-new track “Drogbeeld” here:

Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Witte Wieven’s Dwaallicht
1. Ontsponnen uit de diepte [7:34]
2. Koorddanser [5:38]
3. Drogbeeld [8:42]
4. Het mistige zicht [5:08]
5. Kringen 5:09]
6. Met beide benen in het niets (Live) [9:10]

MORE INFO:
www.wittewieven.bandcamp.com 
www.facebook.com/wittewievenofficial

www.babylondoomcultrecords.com

Defiled release new track and kick off pre-sales!

Death metal crushers DEFILED are now announcing the release of their new full length “The Highest Level”! The album will drop worldwide on the 28th of April, 2023 via Season of Mist. The band proudly share the cover artwork, title track and track list down below.

In celebration of this news, DEFILED is treating us with the release of their track ‘Off-Limits’, together with a fitting music video, which can be viewed here:

The band comments: “Hello everyone, what’s up! This is Yusuke from Defiled. We’re very happy to unveil an announcement of our upcoming album “The Highest Level”. First of all, please take a look at our PV “”Off-Limits”” It’s the first track of the album and it’s a very straightforward tune for headbanging. If you like it, stay tuned for our new album. We think it won’t disappoint you. Thank you very much.”

Pre-order here: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/Defiled_THL
Pre-save here: https://orcd.co/defiled-thl

Track-list:
1. Off-limits (02:35) WATCH HERE
2. Stealth (03:11)
3. The Highest Level (03:17)
4. Entrapped (03:16)
5. The Status Quo (02:32)
6. Warmonger (02:37)
7. Demonization (03:29)
8. Inquisition (03:39)
9. Madness Accelerated (02:11)
10. Delusion (02:54)
11. Only the Strongest Survive (02:54)
12. Red World (04:06)
13. The Last Straw (03:25)
14. Requiem (02:43)
15. The Speech (00:36)
Total (43:17)

When it comes to straight-forward, bone-crushing death metal, Tokyo’s DEFILED delivers! ‘The Highest Level’ stays true to the traditional death metal formula, while the band’s gritty songwriting approach lends to its authenticity. DEFILED attempts to make no frills with this new full-length, instead speaking directly to the sensibility of old school death metal fanatics who are simply looking for some face-melting violence!

The early 90s was a crucial and formative time for death metal, a genre that started to predominantly emerge in the west with bands like Decide, Cannibal Corpse, Autopsy, Obituary, and Morbid Angel having a stronghold on America while Entombed, Cadaver, Carcass, and many others started to make waves in Europe and the U.K. But across the vast Pacific Ocean, DEFILED was taking a cue from its peers and became one of Asia’s leading purveyors during the genre’s early inception.

Upon releasing a series of demos and EPs during the mid-90s, the Japanese powerhouse finally released its first full-length, ‘Erupted Wrath,’ via Nightfall Records. Upon its release, the band broke out of Asia and started to make its debut in America across the extreme metal fest circuit – performing twice at Milwaukee Metal Fest as well as appearing at November to Dismember in Texas.

The band kept busy during the turn of the century while continuing to build their profile and dominate metal audiences around the globe and by 2003, they formed a union with Season of Mist, where the band has become one of the label’s most consistent death metal mainstays. Since then, the band has released six full-length albums, the majority of which are under the Season of Mist banner.

As the band celebrates thirty years since its legacy was formed, they are ready to unleash another pummelling offering onto the masses. ‘The Highest Level’ still carries the same time-tested formula that Defiled established three decades ago, remaining true to their identity, and still carrying the torch as one of the genre’s founding fathers.


Links:
https://www.facebook.com/defiled
https://www.instagram.com/defiledjapan    
https://defiledjapan.bandcamp.com    
https://soundcloud.com/defiled
https://www.defiled.info

Line-up
Shinichiro Hamada: vocals, guitar
Yusuke Sumita: guitar
Takachika Nakajima: bass
Keisuke Hamada: drums

Recording studio: Blackroom Studio Naha, Okinawa (JP)
Mixing & Master: Studio Nest @ China, Japan / Kenji Kikuchi

Cover art: Wes Benscoter

DEFILED live
28 Apr 23 Yokohama (JP) El Puente
29 Apr 23 Tokyo (JP) Earthdom
30 Apr 23 Sendai (JP) Solfa
01 May 23 Koriyama (JP) Peak Action
02 May 23 Niigata (JP) Flower Pop
03 May 23 Nagano (JP) The Venue
04 May 23 Nagoya (JP) Daytrive
05 May 23 Kyoto (JP) Trust
06 May 23 Osaka (JP) Hokage
07 May 23 Takamatsu (JP) Toonice
08 May 23 Syunan (JP) Rise 
09 May 23 Fukuoka (JP) Reflex
10 May 23 Okayama (JP) Ark
09 Jun 23 Tokyo (JP) WWW (Vader + Hate)
10 Jun 23 Nagoya (JP) Holiday Next (Vader + Hate)
11 Jun 23 Osaka (JP) Zeela (Vader + Hate)

Pre-order: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/Defiled_THL
Pre-save: https://orcd.co/defiled-thl

KAAL NAGINI set release date for IRON BONEHEAD debut EP, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces April 14th as the international release date for Kaal Nagini‘s striking debut EP, Refracted Lights of a Blind God, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

Hailing from Kolkata, Kaal Nagini are a vital new entity among India’s ever-rising extreme metal underground, for which Iron Bonehead has helped foster through the likes of Tetragrammacide, Aparthiva Raktadhara, Brahmastrika, and Necrodeity. As such, Kaal Nagini are among the Kolkata Inner Order in a percussive alliance with MVOQH, an esteemed figure from the Siamese Underground.


Cruel and martial and overwhelming, Kaal Nagini‘s death metal aims for oblivion and promptly delivers the listener there – if they can even withstand the immediate barrage of nuclear-warped decibels the power-trio so effortlessly unload. Refracted Lights of a Blind God, the band’s first public recording, comprises four massive tracks across 17 minutes of unchained & unrestrained ultraviolence. With universal adversarial syncretism as their lyrical muse, Kaal Nagini distort and disorient perceptions of what “death metal” is and can be. Never devolving into pure noise nor afraid to overload frequencies to their maximalist limit, these undulating vortexes reveal rude shapes and impossible angles, but ones not without purpose: the glorification of Kali, and the emergence and idiosyncratic sound of Kalikshetra

And this is but the opening arsenal of Kaal Nagini. Offer obeisance or prepare to be mowed down by these Refracted Lights of a Blind God.

Get mowed down by the brand-new title track “Refracted Lights of a Blind God” here:

Cover artwork, courtesy of Qayin Mandala Graphex, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Kaal Nagini’s Refracted Lights of a Blind God
1. Nameless Archetype of Pantheonless Antiquity
2. Refracted Lights of a Blind God 
3. Lord of the Two Doors and the Seven Portals
4. Double Tongued Serpent of Kú

KAAL NAGINI is:
ChVZAR:  Allocution
OTzADAGOWAH: Strings of Tragedy 
MVOQH: Ensnared sanity 

GRAFVITNIR sign with SHADOW, prepare new album

Shadow Records and Grafvitnir are joining forces in spiritual warfare against the modern world…

Grafvitnir, the Nordic torchbearers of serpent fire, have joined forces with Shadow Records: a match made in the misty regions of Hell, and a conspiracy established and consecrated by the night spirits of the Netherworld. With dagger blades sharpened to rip apart the veils of modernity and conformity, this shadowy alliance is bound to vengeance and rebellion and gathered together to greet the storm of the end times. 

Grafvitnir‘s music has often been described as a freezing tempest with occult overtures or a maelstrom of icy tones with venomous incantations as if spewed out by the primordial serpent itself, and rightfully so. Distinctively Nordic in atmosphere and feeling, Grafvitnir are not only the Norse carriers of the Luciferian flame, but also standard bearers for the classic Swedish black metal sound in its entirety. 

This is the darkness of Death…


MORE INFO:
www.grafvitnir.bandcamp.com 

www.shadowrecords.se
www.regainrecords.se
www.facebook.com/shadowrecords.se

MINENWERFER reveal first track from new OSMOSE album

Today, WWI-themed black metallers Minenwerfer reveal the new track “Feuerwalze.” The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fourth album, Feuerwalze, set for international release on March 10th via Osmose Productions. Hear a special edit of Minenwerfer‘s title track “Feuerwalze” in its entirety here:

A campaign started on July 1st, 1916. A campaign of muddy, rat-infested trenches, endless artillery barrages, and cracks of rifles in the distance. A campaign of unsettling night raids, close-quarters combat, and suffocating fumes of chlorine gas.

The sound of the treads of the first tanks grinding the bones of those long dead on the battlefield to dust and of the screams from no man’s land of men bleeding out in the night from the previous day’s failed offensive.

This is the soundtrack for that campaign. Welcome to the Somme.

Preorder link can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Minenwerfer’s Feuerwalze

1. Cemetery Fields [6:07]
2. Feuerwalze [6:47]
3. Eternal Attrition [8:00]
4. Nachtschreck [7:50]
5. Sturmtruppen III (Sommekämpfer) [5:27]
6. Shrapnel Exsanguination [5:54]
7. Labyrinthine Trench Sectors [8:28]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/minenwerfer

www.osmoseproductions.com

BODYFARM reveal new video from upcoming EDGED CIRCLE album, announce tour dates with DESTROYER 666

Today, Dutch death metal institution Bodyfarm reveal the new video “The Wicked Red.” With the video created by HD Art, the track is the fourth to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fifth album, Ultimate Abomination, set for international release on February 24th via Edged Circle Productions. See & hear Bodyfarm‘s “The Wicked Red” video in its entirety here:

In lieu of this video, Bodyfarm also announce upcoming tour dates alongside Destroyer 666 next month. The list of confirmed dates & venues are as follows:


03.03.2023 – Helvete – Oberhausen – DE
05.03.2023 – Ferrailleur – Nantes – FR
06.03.2023 – Backstage – Paris – FR
07.03.2023 – Grillen – Colmar – FR
08.03.2023 – Rock ‘n Eat – Lyon – FR10.03.2023 – Traffic Club – Rome – IT
11.03.2023 – Stige Fest – Parma – IT
12.03.2023 – Orto Bar – Ljubljana – SI
13.03.2023 – Viper Room – Vienna – AT
14.03.2023 – Kamienna 12 – Krakow – PL

15.03.2023 – Hydrozagadka – Warsaw – PL
16.03.2023 – U Badzyla – Poznan – PL
17.03.2023 – Club Seilerstrasse – Zwickau – DE
18.03.2023 – Willemeen – Arnhem – NL
19.03.2023 – Baroeg – Rotterdam – NL

Formed in 2009, Bodyfarm began life as an old-school, classics-oriented death metal band. Today, they are performing with a new, solid four-member formation with a bit more black metal influence than in the beginning. Although their lineup changed a lot over the years – mainly, because of the tragical loss of founder Thomas Wouters in 2019 as well as the amicable parting of longtime drummer Quint Meerbeek – Bodyfarm are as committed as ever to their core ethics.  

Some of the band’s highlights to date have been playing on the 70000 Tons Of Metal festival cruise, touring Europe with Death To All, and performing at such big German summer festivals as Party.San and Summer Breeze. With their current lineup in place, Bodyfarm have the ambition to be a much more active part of these kinds of events in the future. 

Now, with the imminent arrival of Ultimate Abomination, Bodyfarm are poised to assert, once and for all, their domination over the death metal scene. The arrangements for the upcoming album were mostly written by founding guitarist Bram Hilhorst and bassist-turned-fellow-guitarist Alex Seegers, with the lyrics written by vocalist/bassist Ralph de Boer and drums by new arrival David Schermann. Naturally, every member contributed his own part to Ultimate Abomination, keeping the album fresh yet firmly within the core Bodyfarm sound. The result sees a surprising infusion of catchiness and The Groove: be it galloping like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, stomping slowly across the skulls of enemies, or rolling forward across the battlefield called life, Ultimate Abomination is a death metal maniac’s wet dream. 

Lyrically, Ultimate Abomination focuses on psychological warfare. “Views from a violent and devastating psychological sight from the dark depths of our minds and human behavior,” expounds Hilhorst. “You can parallel it to ‘wars in the battlefield of life itself.’ The songs are all stories in themselves, but all relate to this subject.” Thus, the title Ultimate Abomination is an apt summary of all the lyrics written by de Boer for the album.  

Part and parcel with Bodyfarm’s stellar songwriting across Ultimate Abomination is the album’s absolutely CRUSHING production: very “live” and full-blooded, but polished just enough to exude maximum professionalism. Recording-wise, the drums for Ultimate Abomination were recorded by J.B. van der Wal at Soundlodge Studios, and the other instruments and vocals by the band at Studio Hilhorst. Mixing and mastering was done by Project Zero studios Belgium.  

“We listen to different kinds of music in our genre, and this is also recognizable in the new songs,” Hilhorst continues. “The diversity of tempos and atmosphere is quite big. Old-school death ‘n’ roll to blackened death riffing, it’s all there, and we think the combination of it makes a unique sound.” 

See & hear the previously revealed video for “The Swamp” exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com, as well as see & hear the previously revealed videos for “Blasting Tyranny” exclusively HERE and “Torment” exclusively HERE, both courtesy of the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Preorder info for the album can be found HERE. Cover artwork, courtesy of Daemorph Art, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Bodyfarm’s Ultimate Abomination
1. Torment [3:30]
2. Symbolical Warfare [4:45]
3. The Wicked Red [5:19]
4. Blasting Tyranny [3:47]
5. The Swamp [6:35]
6. Carving Repentance [4:58]
7. Empire of Iniquity [3:50]
8. Soul Damnation [3:50]
9. Sacrilege of the Fallen [3:31]
10. Charlatan Messiah [3:33]

 Bodyfarm lineup:
Ralph de Boer – bass/vocals
Alex Seegers – guitars
Bram Hilhorst – guitars
David Schermann – drums  

MORE INFO:
www.bodyfarmdeathmetal.com
www.facebook.com/bodyfarmdeathmetal

www.edgedcircleproductions.com

DIABLATION set release date for new OSMOSE album – features members of SETH, AD INFERNA, ANOREXIA NERVOSA, GLACIATION, BÂ’A+++

Today, Osmose Productions announces March 31st as the international release date Diablation‘s second album, Par Le Feu, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Veterans of French black metal Vicomte Vampyr Arkames and V. Orias. A, after having respectively created and burnt their soul in Seth and Ad Inferna, deliver Diablation‘s second album, named Par le Feu.

Without concession, this opus is a true ode to the death of humanity, the cataclysmic account of its last hours carried by a metallic wave honoring their black metal roots, those of the ’90s.

Joined by Maximilien B. (Bâ’a) and X, the quartet, deeply rooted in the underground and refusing any public appearance, mischievously alternates grandiloquent moments and passages of rare violence: the quiet times are short-lived, the continuous onslaught of tragic and addictive melodies leading relentlessly to the end of time.

“Par le Feu, Par le Sang, Par la Haine”: thus begins one of the major albums of the French extreme scene.

First track premiere to be revealed shortly. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Diablation’s Par Le Feu
1. Inferi Ostium [0:51]
2. Vox Diaboli [4:44]
3. L’Unique Merveille [5:34]
4. Au Bord du Gouffre [4:59]
5. Crépuscule Doré [4:23]
6. Testament de l’Humanité [5:48]
7. Mort, Marche avec Moi [13:31]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/diablation

www.osmoseproductions.com

SATANIKA reveal first track from new OSMOSE album

Today, Italian blackthrashers Satanika reveal the new track “Tentacles of Horror.” The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated fifth album, Horde of Disgust, set for international release on February 24th via Osmose Productions. Hear Satanika‘s “Tentacles of Horror” in its entirety here:

Evil has returned… more aggression… more morbid…

More evil and darker than ever…

More heads will bang by this new thrash/black metal menace by the Italian incarnation of sleaze called SATANIKA!

This time, it’s diabolical… this time is ripping evil metal…

A merciless plunge into the depths of Hell, surrounded by obscure and blasphemic beings…

Preorder link can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Satanika’s Horde of Disgust

1. Not Of This Earth [2:26]
2. The Void [3:55]
3. Cosmic Funeral [4:43]
4. Horde of Disgust [4:09]
5. The Fog [3:50]
6. Their Hands Upon Our Throat [3:50]
7. Tentacles of Horror [3:45]
8. Cursed Be Thy Name [3:49]
9. The Absolute Torment [3:02]
10. Bleed for Darkness [3:47]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/satanikattack

www.osmoseproductions.com