SONIC POISON stream ME SACO UN OJO / PULVERISED debut

Today, Finnish deathgrinders Sonic Poison stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Eruption. Set for international release on January 27th as a joint release between Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Pulverised Records – Me Saco Un Ojo will handle the vinyl version while Pulverised will handle the CD version – hear Sonic Poison‘s Eruption in its entirety here:

Do you like grinding death metal mayhem? Do you like high speeds and higher brutality? Sonic Poison play mental music for the sick and disturbed: extreme tempos, scathingly evil riffs, blasting drums, and morbid vocals to torment even the most hopeless patients. Those who heard their EP/split/demo releases will know they are in for a ride while the album gives 20 minutes of sharp sonic artillery, far more than ever before. This might even be their most barbaric material to date, as hyper-driven death-noise erupts from every orifice with spasms of hatred.

Although many of the songs sit at around one minute, this is for your own safety. Each is so intensely malicious and sadistic, more would kill you. In fact, listening to the entire record is not suggested for the weak. Those who want to be crushed, devoured, and spewed into the poison pools of putridity, grab this record and crank it loud – guaranteed to get your neighbors unhappy and alienate any friends who aren’t total maniacs (time to cut the fat). The production is suitably old-sounding, with rumbling bass and crispy guitars to peel the skin as the drums bludgeon the bones. As lovely as this all sounds, we mustn’t forget the vocals, which will suck the marrow, soul, and gristle from your twitching carcass. All this in under 20 minutes? Fuck around and find out! [text by Jørgen Sven Kirby, Nattskog webzine]

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Sonic Poison’s Eruption
1. Reeking Earth
2. Impenetrable Force
3. Repulsive Reactions
4. Carbonized
5. Ouroboros
6. Taste of Inferiority
7. Grinding Fear
8. The Scavenger
9. Antihesis
10. No Time
11. War on Drugs
12. Library Slasher
13. Eruption
14. Radiate the Masses
15. Uprising
16. World we Knew

www.sonicpoison13.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/sonicgrind

www.mesacounojo.com
www.mesacounojo.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/mesacounojo

TRASTORNED stream DYING VICTIMS debut

Today, Chilean manic thrashers Trastorned stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Into the Void. Set for international release on January 27th via Dying Victims Productions, hear Trastorned‘s Into the Void in its entirety here:

Hailing from Santiago, Chile, Trastorned formed in 2008 with the simple goal of being a local thrash band. Led by guitarist Fabian Piña and vocalist Felipe Lonza, the band became more serious the next year and recorded their debut demo, Decapitacion. More lineup shuffles ensued, but second demo Killer Thrash arrived in 2010. Four years would pass before Trastorned recorded another demo, but this time, with Witching Demo!, they revamped their sound and sharpened their attack, going from more blackened thrash to a cleaner and more complex style of thrash not unlike Vio-lence, Forbidden, and Exodus around the turn of the ‘90s.

Trastorned began working on the initial recording of their debut album as early as 2019, but eventually moved proceedings to a different studio. And while Covid no doubt stalled those proceedings, at last is Trastorned’s debut album here: Into the Void. Bearing luridly Lovecraftian artwork by Marcelo Miranda AKA Made in Darkness, Into the Void suitably disorients and demolishes the senses with dizzying ease. Truly, Trastorned here sound transported from 1990, from songwriting to production, slicing and surging with stop-start precision and an acidic execution as aggravated as prime Demolition Hammer and Morbid Saint. However era-authentic their sound may be, the quintet nevertheless possess THE SONGS to put this handily within that hallowed pantheon, each track taking mind-mangling routes but ones not without hooks; the catalog of riffs here on Into the Void is staggering, and they’re all threaded together masterfully. More than that, Trastorned’s chops are superlative and always put in service of the song, and the razor-sharp production only amplifies this electrifying fact.

Eight songs in 30 minutes and your heart will race like it rarely does these days: Trastorned will take you Into the Void, and FAST!

Aforementioned cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Trastorned’s Into the Void
1. Witch Hunt
2. Metal Violence
3. Black Fire
4. Miasma Of Death
5. Into The Void
6. Dreadful Fate (Interlude)
7. Insanity
8. Reborn Through Hate

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/trastorned

www.dying-victims.de 

America’s MALLEUS stream ARMAGEDDON LABEL debut album

Today, American black/death juggernaut Malleus stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, The Fires of Heaven. Set for international release on January 27th via Armageddon Label, hear Malleus‘ The Fires of Heaven in its entirety here:

Malleus has returned to present us with The Fires of Heaven. Expanding on and refining their influences from the seminal first-wave era of death and black metal, they have delivered unto us eight savage bursts of classic blackened metal, combining brooding atmosphere, razor-sharp riffs, fiercely delivered drumming, and raw, throat-ripping vocals, all summoned and sent forth from the gloomiest crypts and corners of olde New England. Like a distant tolling bell emanating from the manic depths of humanity’s past, the lyrics contemplate and belie the failings of mankind, and evoke a sense of the darkness that may yet lay ahead…

In the past, the majority of Malleus‘ lyrics dealt with the psychological impact that the “fear of the unknown” has on the psyche of human beings throughout history. Typically, the lyrics address how this phenomenon leads to individual and societal fear–>paranoia–>hatred–>violence–>and codified bigotry. The individual song lyrics typically address these issues from various historical and sometimes occult perspectives, in an attempt to showcase this phenomenon as a major failing of the human race, particularly in our attempts to build any type of modern “civilized” society.

With the new album, they follow this theme closely, but do so in a much more conceptual and semi-chronological manner. Thematically, the songs are about the arrival of Europeans (primarily English Puritans) in New England during the early 17th Century, and the tragedy of their lives and often-bloody cultural interactions with other groups in colonial New England (Native Americans, French Catholics, enslaved Africans, etc.) over the remainder of that century.

Specifically, the lyrics on The Fires of Heaven deal heavily with the Puritan perception of salvation and grace (in other words, whether or not they were going to heaven or hell), and their steadfast belief that Satan and his children/minions (natives and French Catholics) actually lurked in the forests of New England, waiting to murder them and corrupt their godly pursuits and preordained mission to spread their peculiar version of Christianity to the rest of the world. Essentially, this paranoia manifested itself as fear and bigotry over time, and resulted in many extremely violent conflicts, as well as various outbreaks of religious paranoia and persecution toward the end of the century – the Salem witchcraft trials as an obvious example.

Beyond the lyrics, Malleus have worked to make sure all other aspects of the album sync with this concept, as well, including a classical album intro they had commissioned, which evokes the gothic Baroque style that might have been heard throughout Europe during this time period. Fans of Hellhammer, Bathory, Venom, Celtic Frost, Sodom, and Motorhead, take note!

Preorder info can be found HERE at Armageddon Label‘s Bandcamp. Cover artwork, courtesy of Adam Burke, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Malleus (U.S.)’s The Fires of Heaven
1. The Tempest
2. A Dark Sun Rises
3. Beyond the Pale
4. Prophetess
5. The Fires of Heaven
6. Into the Flesh
7. Awakening
8 Mourning War

MORE INFO:
malleusheavymetal.bandcamp.com

http://linktr.ee/dropdeadhc

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER release interview and announce tourdates

French black metal formation REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER have announced several shows for the first half of 2023, in France and in the Netherlands. The group is also releasing a video interview recorded during the Noktvrn tour in September 2022, with label mates DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT and BIZARREKULT. Watch the video here:

A full list of confirmed gigs can be found below.

REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER live 2023
09/02/2023 – La Vapeur, Dijon (FR)
10/02/2023 – Echo System, Scey Sur Saone (FR)
11/02/2023 – Contre Courant, Belleville sur Meuse (FR)
06/04/2023 – Le Chabada, Angers (FR)
07/04/2023 – Quai M, La Roche sur Yon (FR)
08/04/2023 – L’Echonova, Saint-Ave (FR)
11/05/2023 – Krakatoa, Bordeaux (FR)
12/05/2023 – Le Marché Gare, Lyon (FR)
13/05/2023 – La Coopérative De Mai, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
25/05/2023 – Le Tetris, Le Havre (FR)
26/05/2023 – Graveland Festival, Hollandscheveld (NL)

The band will be performing in support of their latest album ‘Ascension’, which was released on February 28, 2020. The cover artwork and tracklist can be found below. The artwork was created by Fortifem.

Track List:
I. L’Ascension (1:49)
II. A New Order (8:04)
III. The Renegade Son (8:01)
IV. The Crowning (9:26)
V. Stellar Cross (8 :10)
VI. La Tentation (2:28)
VII. Au Bord Du Gouffre (8:53)
Total playing time: 0:46:50

Find REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER on Facebook, Instagram and Bandcamp.

Genre: Black metal

Recording and Mixing: Francis Caste, Studio Sainte Marthe

Mastering: Francis Caste, Studio Sainte Marthe

Cover artwork: Fortifem Line-up:
Vocals : T.C
Guitar : J.J.S
Guitar : A.M
Bass : A.B
Drums : R.R

Shop: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/RLHTAscension

Available Formats:
CD digipak, cassette and coloured vinyl

MINENWERFER set release date for new OSMOSE album

Today, Osmose Productions announces March 10th as the international release date for Minenwerfer‘s highly anticipated fourth album, Feuerwalze, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

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.

First track premiere to be revealed shortly. 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

VERMINOUS SERPENT set release date for AMOR FATI debut, reveal first track – features members of PRIMORDIAL, MALTHUSIAN, SLIDHR+++

Today, Amor Fati Productions announces March 17th as the international release date for Verminous Serpent‘s striking debut album, The Malign Covenant, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Verminous Serpent are a brand-new entity, but one bearing old souls: Slidhr’s Joseph Deegan on guitar, Malthusian’s Matt Bree on drums, and Primordial’s A.A. Nemtheanga on vocals and bass, here exhibiting a frighteningly different side of his signature voice. While all three men hail from different yet equally considerable backgrounds, their sound as Verminous Serpent is completely its own creation – a headspace distant and mostly removed from their collective pasts & presents.

Aptly titled, The Malign Covenant is Verminous Serpent‘s first public work: a five-song/41-minute album that brims with ancient black metal energies. Rough and raw but never sloppy or taking half-measures, the trio’s debut album twists and coils and fatally STRIKES similarly as their namesake; one could liken these songs to “corridors,” but that would suggest a finite destination. Instead, the entirety of The Malign Covenant evokes a rippling soundworld of lurking dread and sulfurous tension, where intensity is measured not by speed or density but by the hideous sensations that shapeshift within the listener’s subconscious. The most complete crystallization of this can be found in the album’s closing 13-minute epic, “Deaths Head Mantra,” fittingly ending the album on a climactic (and chilling) note. Bestial in the olde definition but dispensing with the semantics shackling so much of nowadays “black metal,” Verminous Serpent have delivered a tome defiant of time itself.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Transcendent Pyre” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Verminous Serpent’s The Malign Covenant

1. Seraphim Falls [7:41]
2. Transcendent Pyre [5:47]
3. The Malign Covenant [7:00]
4. Chasm of Nameless Bone [6:32]
5. Deaths Head Mantra [13:17]

www.amor-fati-productions.de 
www.amorfatiproductions.bandcamp.com

SATANIKA set release date for new OSMOSE album

Today, Osmose Productions announces February 24th as the international release date for Satanika‘s highly anticipated fifth album, Horde of Disgust, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

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…

First track premiere to be revealed shortly. 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

HÄXANU premiere new track – features members of CHAOS MOON, KRIEG, SKAPHE+++

Today, mesmerizing black metallers Häxanu premiere the new track “Ephòdion”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Totenpass, set for international release on February 7th via Amor Fati Productions. Hear Häxanu‘s “Ephòdion” in its entirety here:

During the early spring of 2020, Häxanu made their bolt-from-the-blue debut, Snare of All Salvation, courtesy of  Amor Fati. Despite their newness, the duo included extremely prolific multi-instrumentalist Alex Poole – renown for his long-running Chaos Moon as well as Krieg, Skáphe, Ringarė, and Guðveiki among many others – and vocalist/lyricist L.C. of Lichmagick. Indeed, the record bore Poole’s distinctive touch, a stargazing surge that was equal parts violent hysteria and shimmering mysticism: undeniably black metal, but also subtly unique.

And so it goes with Totenpass, the duo’s second full-length together. With somber acoustics clearing the palate and preparing the listener for the spectral immersion to follow, Häxanu here command a more classic style of black metal that has equal footing in Nordic snow and Hellenic melody. One could qualify Totenpass as a more triumphant counterpart to its not-inconsiderable predecessor, and you’d not be wrong. However, press on into that snow (and melody) and one will find a wider canvas of emotions and sensations here, an almost-unquenchable thirst that courses through the album’s seven-song/46-minute runtime. And while Snare of Salvation introduced a literally massive 17-minute title track, Totenpass finds Häxanu embracing the epic to an even greater degree, obviously with this album’s closing title track but more so the 10-minute “Sparagmos” and the nearly 15-minute couplet of “Thriambus” and “Threnoidia.” Thankfully, the urgency found on that first album is still clear and present here, no matter the length of track nor texture being explored.

An invitation to the dear listener to “receive thine inheritance and renew thy covenant with the flesh and the blood of the now,” as L.C. succinctly puts it, Häxanu continue their enviable ascent with Totenpass.

Also hear the previously revealed “Death Euphoria” HERE at Amor Fati‘s official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Häxanu’s Totenpass 1. Θάρσει
2. Death Euphoria
3. Thriambus
4. Threnoidia
5. Sparagmos
6. Ephòdion
7. οὐδεὶς ἀθάνατος
8. Totenpass

www.amor-fati-productions.de 
www.amorfatiproductions.bandcamp.com

TERRESTRIAL HOSPICE premiere new track – features members of BEHEMOTH, AZARATH, WITCHMASTER+++

Today, Polish black metallers Terrestrial Hospice premiere the new track “Memoir” . The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Caviary to the General, set for international release on February 10th via Ancient Dead Productions on CD and cassette tape formats. Hear Terrestrial Hospice‘s “Memoir” in its entirety here:

Forming in 2018, Terrestrial Hospice quickly set to work on their first EP, Universal Hate Speech, released later than year by the esteemed Shadow Records. It’s not surprising that the feverish winds of creativity blew across the duo, as Terrestrial Hospice is the work of two veteran members of the black metal scene, most prominently drummer and driving force Inferno, who’s the erstwhile drummer for Behemoth and Azarath as well as lately playing guitar in Witchmaster. In any case, Universal Hate Speech was a terrorizing tease at a mere 20 minutes, and the duo followed it with the deathblow of their debut full-length, Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds, during that cursed year of 2020. The album was truly titled, and then some: there was no submitting to it, only the act of being flayed alive.

Now, Terrestrial Hospice return with an album arguably even more extreme: Caviary to the General. Compared to its quick ‘n’ concise predecessor, Caviary to the General is undeniably a more expansive spin at 46 minutes; with nine songs instead of the seven on Indian Summer Brought Mushroom Clouds, Terrestrial Hospice are more able to display the full fathom of their flaying strength. Indeed, Caviary to the General caustically keeps the duo’s sound unyielding – a dark, dirty, devastating blast of classic Nordic-style hate steeped in the ancients – but somehow intensifies that berserker flourish so endemic to their native Poland, even with a wider variety of tempos employed. The recording, in kind, is confrontational but never faked: there’s no punching in of parts or copy/paste “production” techniques; the ultraviolence here is very real, and very overwhelming. Despite that unapologetically OTT approach, Terrestrial Hospice never forget actual songwriting – they shift speeds with deftness and dynamics, utilizing their full arsenal – nor the power of RIFFS, which flow and explode in equal measure across Caviary to the General. And perhaps the most surprising aspect of the album is the occasional and ever-so-subtle incorporation of eerie synths into their barbed-wire attack: at once remarkably vintage 1996 and palatably modern.

As savage and acidic as ever but proving they’re not a one-trick pony, Terrestrial Hospice obliterate past and present with Caviary to the General.

Also hear the previously revealed track “In the Streams of Phlegethon” HERE at the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Also see & hear the recently revealed trailer for Caviary to the General HERE at Ancient Dead Productions’ official YouTube channel. Cover artwork, courtesy of Mentalporn, and UPDATED tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Terrestrial Hospice’s Caviary to the General

1. Rat In A Burning Cage [3:21]
2. In The Streams Of Phlegethon [5:11]
3. December Night [4:11]
4. Extinction Delight [6:05]
5. Verminous Spawn [4:09]
6. The Last Dance [6:40]
7. Memoir [5:10]
8. Path To Mahasamadhi [5:47]
9. Ars Moriendi [4:58]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/terrestrialhospiceofficial

www.ancientdead.com

LAMP OF MURMUUR set release date for new ARGENTO / NOT KVLT album, reveal first track

Today, Argento Records and Not Kvlt Records announce March 26th as the international release date for Lamp of Murmuur‘s highly anticipated third album, Saturnian Bloodstorm. In lieu of this announcement, we premiere the new track “Conqueror Beyond the Frenzied Fog.” Hear Lamp of Murmuur‘s “Conqueror Beyond the Frenzied Fog” in its entirety here:

Since 2019, a spectral entity earthly summoned as Lamp of Murmuur gradually ascended as one of the furthermost esteemed and sought-after luminaries within the rawest, crudest innards of black metal. Such following and public awareness do not stand as a certitude merely grounded on good music.

In a niche that presently perceives clear signs of overabundance and counterfeit expression, Lamp of Murmuur prospered, particularly owing its opulence to a vision that didn’t establish itself after an easy pathway – one of exploring a microclimate towards exhaustion – instead displaying there were no guidelines for the artistic manifestation behind the distressing specter behind it.

From the raw lo-fi approach of the band’s beginnings to the gothic and melodic overtones trailed on recent times, Lamp of Murmuur redefines itself yet again with a fervorous new declaration of strength and vigor, a ghastly beast under the title Saturnian Bloodstorm. 

From its very early storming chords, one faces a frantic swaying of rabid riffs and intricate rhythm segments, a visceral trail of electrical magnetism. An ardent, restless voice narrates this offering with poisonous might and nocturnal fever conjoined with the six-string sharpness, expanded through a razor-sharp sound production, blazing with a dynamic edge, organically mixing cleanness and aggression in a mantra of potency and (un)pure fanaticism.

Inspired by the core edge and raging solemnity of black metal’s history, Saturnian Bloodstorm is as varied as it is organic, offering tumultuous instrumental proficiency under fast, raging bursts of sonic aggression intertwined with brilliant mid-tempo sections, ever epic and ice-cold in its riffing extravaganza.

Set to be released through Argento (Europe) and Not Kvlt (USA), Saturnian Bloodstorm stands as an opus of black metal might, hailing The Seven Spears of Fever with raging chaos, an eternal spark of flaming delight. [text by Mário Souto]

Preorder info to be announced shortly. Cover artwork, courtesy of Karmazid, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Lamp of Murmuur’s Saturnian Bloodstorm

1. Conqueror Beyond the Frenzied Fog [6:59]
2. Hymns of Death, Rays of Might [7:46]
3. Seal of the Dominator [6:46]
4. Descending From the Aurora [1:03]
5. In Communion With the Wintermoon [8:19]
6. Saturnian Bloodstorm [9:08]

MORE INFO:
www.lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com

www.facebook.com/argentorecords
www.wolvesofhades.myshopify.com