ESCHATOLOGY set release date for SHADOW debut mini-album, reveal first track – features members of CRAFT, MGLA, MORDBRAND, MEDICO PESTE, GOD MACABRE++

Today, Shadow Records (distributed & marketed by Regain Records) announces June 30th as the international release date for the highly anticipated self-titled debut mini-album from the pan-international Eschatology on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl version will follow later this year.

Featuring the members J.K. (Craft) and B.L. (Mordbrand, God Macabre [live]) both on guitar & bass and M.S. (Medico Peste, Over the Voids, Mgła [live]) on vocals & drums, Eschatology indeed carry high expectations for a brand-new entity. The prime directive is raw, no-frills black metal, and the band rise to the occasion across the four-song/27-minute Eschatology. It would be reasonable (and at least halfway accurate) to characterize this Eschatology as a sonic summation of the members’ other ongoing bands, but on evidence of their debut mini-album, this entity are striving toward a parallel realm of experience where shards of old & archaic black metal are re-arranged in darker and more dazzling shapes. Their songs are stout yet swirling, pounding with presence but fully enraptured within the moment, hooks mined and then malformed, and the overall attack retaining the requisite rawness and yet never hiding behind it. No, Eschatology absolutely CONFRONTS the listener with its world-eating ways, and then proceeds to devour that listener whole…as in, a black hole. 

No niches, no capes, no fun: This is Eschatology. The past and present are on fire, and those flames are coming for you.

Engulf thyself in those flames with the brand-new track “Cataclysm I” here:

Preorder info can be found HERE at Regain Records‘ Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Eschatology’s Eschatology
1. Cataclysm I
2. Cataclysm II
3. Cataclysm III
4. The Wound

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

PERDITION TEMPLE set release date for new special HELLS HEADBANGERS full-length

Today, Hells Headbangers announces June 24th as the international release date for a special new full-length from Perdition Temple, Merciless Upheaval, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl version will follow later this year. 

In 2020, Perdition Temple blasted back into the spotlight with Sacraments of Descension, the band’s second album for Hells Headbangers (and third overall). While it had been five years since the release of a Perdition Temple full-length, the reinvigorated lineup – vocalist/guitarist Gene Palubicki (Angelcorpse, Malefic Throne, Blasphemic Cruelty), bassist Alex Blume (Ares Kingdom, Blasphemic Cruelty), and drummer Ron Parmer (Malevolent Creation, Bloodmessiah, Brutality) – kept their trademark sound but made it unfathomably more feverish and finessed. Truly, power-trios didn’t come more deadly than this! But, above all, the band’s songwriting across Sacraments of Descension was stronger than ever, and the record rightfully reaped widespread acclaim.

Meanwhile, as the world plummeted further into chaos, Perdition Temple recorded a special full-length, Merciless Upheaval. Comprising four new songs and four covers for a total of 34 fiery minutes, Merciless Upheaval is indeed aptly titled and serves as a fitting, equally feverish counterpart to Sacraments of Descension. Much of that is down to the same lineup being in place, as iron-fisted as ever as they effortlessly unleash cyclones of classic death metal. Each member delivers a masterclass here, much as they did on the record’s predecessor; their crush is chaotic and controlled simultaneously, their precision betraying no small amount of power. Of the four covers, we’re treated to Perdition Temple‘d renditions of Infernal Majesty, Pestilence, Mexico’s Shub Niggurath, and of course Morbid Angel, making for an album-length experience which handily straddles past, present, and future.

Perdition Temple thankfully continue to keep their irons in the fire, so plunge into Merciless Upheaval post-haste!

Begin plunging with the previously revealed track “Redemption Abattoir” here:

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

Tracklisting for Perdition Temple’s Merciless Upheaval
1. Merciless Upheaval
2. Execution Swarm
3. Redemption Abattoir
4. In Thrall of Malevolence
5. Skeletons in the Closet [Infernal Majesty cover]
6. From The Stars, Nyarlathotep [Shub Niggurath cover
7. Blood on My Hands [Morbid Angel cover]
8. Parricide [Pestilence cover]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/perditiontemple

www.hellsheadbangers.com

HATS BARN set release date for new OSMOSE album

Today, Osmose Productions announces June 24th as the international release date for Hats Barn‘s highly anticipated sixth album, Y.a.HW.e.H, on CD format. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year.

Hats Barn plays True Black Metal!!! Created by Psycho in the north of France in 2005, it became an entire entity dedicated to praising the greatness of the Devil!

Now composed of three official members – Psycho (vocals), Soggoth (guitar), and Kryos (drums), with Ruine (bass) for live session – the new album is about the origin of a superior nature that we call divine and the cradle of worship that we give him. The bloody hand of the Devil brings down 10 plagues to open the way to the abyss, inspired by such bands as Marduk and Watain, mainly, and the Black Legions, too!

First track premiere to be revealed on May 27th at Osmose Productions‘ official YouTube channel. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hats Barn’s Y.a.HW.e.H

1. Opening – Ten Psalms Of Death And Khaos [2:37]
2. BAAL-ZEBUB [4:53]
3. Y.H.W.H [2:10]
4. In Nomine Leprosy [4:06]
5. Under The Pillars Of Daath [4:09]
6. Total Death Kult [5:47]
7. L’Enfant Doit Mourir [3:13]
8. Walpurgis Of Seth [3:12]
9. Absence Of Faith [4:36]
10. Que Le Sang Coule Dans Les Fleuves [4:16]
11. The Man Returns To Dust [6:44]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/hatsbarnofficial

www.osmoseproductions.com

ALBURNUM set release date for BABYLON DOOM CULT debut, reveal first track – features members of FACELESS ENTITY+++

Today, Babylon Doom Cult Records announces July 8th as the international release date for Alburnum‘s striking debut album, Buitenlucht, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl version should follow by the end of the year.

Started as a solo project by multi-instrumentalist D.B., Alburnum evolved into a two-piece featuring R.v.R. (Faceless Entity et. al.) in the months leading up to the recording of Buitenlucht. Mixed and mastered by W. Damiaen (Laster et. al.) at Catacomben Studios, Tilburg, the four songs that make up their debut album establish Alburnum as a promising new act to keep track of in the Dutch underground.

On their first full-length offering, Alburnum showcase their own brand of folk-influenced black metal with sweeping melodic riffs, propulsive drums, and alternating harsh and clean vocals – a stylistic approach that emphasizes melancholy over aggression, and which may be reminiscent of folk/black titans like Drudkh and Windir as well as fellow Dutch acts like Fluisteraars and Iskandr.

Lyrically, Alburnum does not delve into themes of paganism and folklore that are common to the genre. Instead, Buitenlucht took form as a personal meditation on depression, grief, and tribulation, conceptualized during countless solitary walks in nature – a story of which this is but the first chapter. It should be noted that Alburnum does not glorify depression but simply acknowledges it: the underlying current being that there is light, no matter how far away, and that winter will, eventually, turn to spring.

Following their debut release, audiences can expect more material from Alburnum to emerge in the coming years. The seeds have been sown and are only just starting to sprout.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Euwig Licht” here:

Preorder info for the CD version can be found HERE, while preorder info for the tape version can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Alburnum’s Buitenlucht
1. Ik Kan Niet Zien [7:19]
2. Eeuwig Licht [7:13]
3. Buitenlucht [6:13]
4. Fluisterend Water [8:40]

www.babylondoomcultrecords.com

BEKMØRK To Release ‘The Path Nocturnal’ on May 27th

BEKMØRK reemerges from the frozen tundra to release their sophomore album, The Path Nocturnal on May 27th. The black metal duo unleashed their debut album Incantations of the Frigid North in 2019; a release that was met with critical acclaim and made Antichrist Magazine’s list of top 50 black metal albums of 2019.

Staying true to their name and nature, BEKMØRK (Norwegian for pitch-black) returns with a thicker sound and even heavier guitars than their debut release. With growls that claw their way from the abyss and the band’s trademark morbid riffs, the atmospheric and haunting opening track, “Hail to the Moths”, sets the tone for all that follows. “Black Waltz” shows the impressive range of the band, as visceral drums and frenzied guitars weave the tale of a demonic ceremony at the ruins of a castle in Switzerland, before giving way to a chilling refrain. The instrumentation builds to a cacophony, complete with a howling guitar solo in “Empress of Charn”, a tribute to the celebrated satanic Villainess.

Disturbing and intense, The Path Nocturnal marks a brutal continuation of BEKMØRK’s ode to second wave black metal.

BEKMØRK is:

Dread Count Naberius: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards

Malevolent Berserker: Drums, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards

With Guest Musician:

Killmoore Bludpainter: Guest solo on “Empress of Charn”

Links:https://www.facebook.com/BekmorkMetal/

France’s SACRIFIZER set release date for OSMOSE debut album, reveal first track

Today, Osmose Productions announces May 27th as the international release date for the highly anticipated debut album of France’s Sacrifizer, Le Diamant De Lucifer, on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl LP version will follow later this year.

After having sharpened their blades for five years and being devoted to the cult of Nosferatu, French hard rockers Sacrifizer are now ready to get out of their coffin with their debut album.

Titled in French as another tribute to their rock elders, Le Diamant de Lucifer is an intense and burning gospel of death.

No mercy! No surrender! Make war or be ripped under the grave! Hail Satan.

Begin hailing with the brand-new track “Leather Agents” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Sacrifizer (France)’s Le Diamant De Lucifer

1. Ascent To The Black Throne [3:12]
2. Ripped Under The Grave [3:32]
3. A Funeral Majesty [4:28]
4. The Portal [1:25]
5. Leather Agents [4:25]
6. Le Diamant De Lucifer [6:47]
7. Possessor [4:07]
8. Steel Assassins [5:06]
9. L’Entité [1:33]
10. La Cathédrale [5:37]


MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/Sacrifizer-194593791286396

www.osmoseproductions.com

ORGREL set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces July 1st as the international release date for a brand-new mini-album from Orgrel, The Oath of the Black Wolf, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

During the autumn of 2021, Orgrel proved that the past was still alive with their debut album, Red Dragon’s Invocation, for Iron Bonehead. A band literally out of time, the Italian power-trio hailed the ancient days of black metal – the days too often forgotten, in the late ’90s, when labels like Solistitium, Sombre, and Drakkar began releasing obsidian gems during the genre’s post-sensationalism fallout. Rich with righteous fury and triumph alike, Red Dragon’s Invocation synthesized mystical splendor and dizzying delirium into a full-length treatise on those too-often-forgotten days, engrossing the listener to the very last: indeed, the album was summarily titled.

Building upon that grand fortress is a four-song/22-minute mini-album likewise truly titled: The Oath of the Black Wolf. Here, Orgrel have gone a-hunting, their ’90s black metal classicism stalking and striking with a hunger only hinted at previously. Still, fueled by this fire they may be, the Italians across this mini manage to maximize their epic side, with the predecessor’s flat-yet-full soundfield now becoming slightly more chromatic in the process. Lead lines portend dark truths, ever building in tension and then grandeur, but the record’s swift-yet-satisfying runtime reveals the darkest, most intrinsic truth: black metal doesn’t need to “become” anything when it already IS. Hail The Oath of the Black Wolf!

Begin hailing (and killing) with the brand-new track “Curse” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Orgrel’s The Oath of the Black Wolf
1. Hunt
2. Curse
3. Fury
4. Judgment

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/orgrelofficial

NUBIVIGANT set release date for new AMOR FATI album, reveal first track – features members of DARVAZA, FIDES INVERSVA, FROSTMOON ECLIPSE, ENEPSIGOS+++

On June 21st, the summer solstice, Amor Fati Productions is proud to present Nubivigant‘s highly anticipated second album, The Wheel and the Universe, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

During the autumn of 2020, Nubivigant released their bolt-from-the-blue debut, Roaring Eye, via the auspices of Amor Fati. Although brand-new in name at the time, the man behind Nubivigant possessed the collective experience of over decades in the black metal scene: multi-instrumentalist Omega, who concurrently helms the well-respected Darvaza and plays drums in a multitude of hordes, including (but certainly not limited to) Fides Inversa, Frostmoon Eclipse, Enepsigos, Chaos Invocation, Kult, and Ukraine’s Moloch among many others. Nevertheless, on evidence of the shimmering & skyscraping Roaring Eye, Nubivigant was undoubtedly Omega’s most personal work to date, handling as does all the instruments as well as vocals. Its clean-toned timbre in both strings and especially vocals was stark and stratifying, but portrayed a breathtaking iteration of black metal both traditional and progressive.

And so Omega keeps apace with Nubivigant‘s second album, The Wheel and the Universe. Much of the album’s atmospheric foundation can be found in the title: indeed do the hypnotizing riffs cycle like a wheel, mesmerizing in their rippling routine, and the enormity of the minimal-is-maximal songwriting feels like a universe unto itself. Once again, Omega’s soul-stirring vocals are front and center, and more expressive than ever; whether they strike closer to classic deathrock than the usual metalized iterations of  “clean vocals” matters not when presented with such poignant, heartstrings-pulling lines. And those more plaintive lines indeed spread outward to the songwriting itself this time around, with The Wheel and the Universe painting Nubivigant in a more pensive light, the throb still steady no matter the tempo; one could safely say this album is a wanderer’s record, whether he seeks the mysteries of the occult or the potential within the self or simply some geographical locale on a distant horizon. At last, that wanderer will arrive with the awe-inspiring closer, “The Great White Throne.” There stands Nubivigant, waiting and all-knowing: where will this quest take you?

Begin that quest with the brand-new track “Clothed With the Sun” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Nubivigant’s The Wheel and the Universe

1. Into Eternal Night [5:51]
2. The Mask And The Devil [5:43]
3. The Book Of The Earth [7:05]
4. Clothed With The Sun [8:55]
5. Between The Moon And The Stars [4:03]
6. The Great White Throne [10:36]

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/nubivigant.blackmetal

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

FURIS IGNIS set release date for new IRON BONEHEAD mini-album, reveal first track

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces July 1st as the international release date for a brand-new mini-album from Furis Ignis, Turm, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.

It was but the beginning of 2022 when Furis Ignis emerged from the inky depths with their debut album, Decapitate the Aging World, for Iron Bonehead. Its title something of a call to arms or at least strong signifier of the contents therein, Decapitate the Aging World presented an iron-willed newcomer well versed in the old arts – black metal back before the internet, social media, and other modern trappings. And yet, Furis Ignis weren’t simply playing by-the-numbers “classic” black metal; within their debut full-length lurked a muscular physicality quite at odds with nowadays’ fake(d) rawness. 

Striking while the iron’s red-hot, Furis Ignis return with a five-song/33-minute mini-album titled Turm. The foundation thankfully remains much the same – old Germania in the mold of Moonblood and equally early Desaster and Katharsis, deftly dissected and reassembled, this time spiced with old Abigor and Marduk – and the attack continues to be ghoulish and grim. Compared to the robust swelter of its full-length predecessor, Turm unapologetically maintains a much rawer aspect that nevertheless still clangs, throbs, and thrusts with legitimately live execution. Therefore, even with the blizzard beasts banging on its door, Turm remains an exquisitely gutted and grimy spin, with the spectral fog eventually clearing to reveal something akin to late ’90s (and too-overlooked) Darkthrone residing in a lonely castle.

Enter that lonely castle with the brand-new track “Vanguard of Black Years”  here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Furis Ignis’ Turm
1. Vanguard of Black Years
2. To Trespass the Commandments of Tangible Being
3. From Unremembered Dark Pagan Dreams
4. Turm
5. Die Enthauptung Der Alternden Welten

MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/furisignis

NEGATIVE PLANE release long-awaited new INVICTUS / AJNA album on Walpurgisnacht

Negative Plane‘s third album, The Pact, is finally upon us after more than a decade of a wait!

Containing seven songs expanding on the “Faustian Pact” theme, The Pact explores the relationship between the divine and the demonic as a way to obtaining a greater glory.

The Pact was sealed at New Jersey’s Moonlight Mile Recording between November 2020 and February 2021 and then mixed by producer Mike Moebius in May of the same year.

The album is available digitally worldwide now – fittingly, on Walpurgisnacht – and will be available on CD and vinyl  from Invictus Productions and The Ajna Offensive once the pressing plant finally ships out copies to both labels and their distributors. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Negative Plane’s The Pact
1. A Work To Stand A Thousand Years
2. Poison And The Crucifix
3. Three Turns To The West
4. The Wailing of the Immured
5. Even The Devil Goes Into The Church
6. The Other Door
7. And So It Came To Pass

MORE INFO:
www.negativeplane.bandcamp.com 

www.invictusproductions.net

www.facebook.com/invictusproductions

www.theajnaoffensive.com