Nevada’s TRIUMPH set release date for new INHUMAN ASSAULT album, reveal first track – features members of BLASPHEMOUS CREATION, RITUAL GENOCIDE+++

Today, Inhuman Assault Productions announces March 15th as the international release date for the highly anticipated second album of Nevada’s Triumph, Retaliation Warfare, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Hailing from Reno, Nevada, Triumph is a lone-wolf abomination evoked by Immolater (Ritual Genocide, Ancient Malignity, Blasphemous Creation) in 2019. The band’s debut album, Edict of Iron Ascendancy, was released by Inhuman Assault on CD and tape t the end of 2020.

Lyrically, Triumph represents the total annihilation of weakness and the conquering of one’s self, hence the band name. Other lyrical subjects are hate, war, disgust, death, honor, chaos, destruction, genocide, and supremacy. 

Triumph came into existence right before the global Covid pandemic hit. Immolater has been involved with many different projects over the past decade and has been performing live/ releasing music consistently throughout those years. After dealing with lots of hardships and obstacles with band members, he decided that doing a solo band was the right direction to go. It was time for something new & relentless. He felt a great impulse for total control of the music; thus, Triumph was born. 

Both war march and war machine – a war “marchine,” perhaps? – Triumph‘s second full-length assault is merciless and mesmerizing in its single-minded focus. Scything and slashing, pulsing and primitive, and uniquely locating the elusive balance between all-consuming chaos and martial order, not for nothing is this new record titled Retaliation Warfare. Immolater’s ultraviolence spreads in all directions, sparing no one and nothing, these waves of wild black/death barbarity cresting and then crushing the listener. Maniacs for Canada’s Revenge, Black Witchery, and Spain’s Proclamation will be pleased; all others will cower in fear. Prepare for Retaliation Warfare!

Begin preparations with the brand-new track “Oblivion Barrage” here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Triumph (Nevada)’s Retaliation Warfare
1. Holocaust Siege
2. Slave Parasite
3. Oblivion Barrage
4. Conquer or Succumb
5. Inexorable Force
6. Annihilate The Inferior
7. Sigil Conflagration
8. Affliction Storm

MORE INFO:
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AD FINEM OMNIA set release date for PURITY THROUGH FIRE debut, reveal first track – features members of SOL SISTERE, ANIMUS MORTIS, TOTTEN KORPS+++

Today, Purity ThroughFire announces March 21st as the international release date for Ad Finem Omnia‘s highly anticipated debut album, No Peace – No Dawn, on digipack CD format.

Formed at the dawn of 2020, Ad Finem Omnia are a duo hailing from Chile. Despite their seeming newness, both members concurrently play in Sol Sistere and have done time in such other bands as Animus Mortis and Totten Korps among others. However, as Ad Finem Omnia, both Ricardo Araya (guitars, bass, vocals) and Pablo Vera (drums) are devoted to melodic-yet-melancholic black metal steeped in timeless ’90s classicism. Two digital singles as well as a demo were issued over their first year of existence, and now Ad Finem Omnia strike with their first full-length, No Peace – No Dawn.

One spin through No Peace – No Dawn is enough to convince even the most cynical listeners that Ad Finem Omnia are indeed “old souls” who inherently understand the art of black metal. No rawness, no chaos, no depression: the duo’s debut album surges and sparkles to poignant, thoughtful songwriting that places equal emphasis on hook and atmosphere, passion and performance. It sounds strikingly familiar and foreign simultaneously; likewise does it sound authentically mid-’90s as well as modern. Perhaps more amazingly, Ad Finem Omnia evoke both northern and southern climes in their strident black metal, betraying a depth of character that further puts No Peace – No Dawn in rarefied territory. Equally amazing is the fact that Araya and Vera put masterful instrumental chops in service of the SONG, by proxy exuding a classiness that further underlines its unique nature.

From past to present and undeniably beyond, Ad Finem Omnia show there’s No Peace – No Dawn!

Witness past, present, and beyond with the brand-new track “The Solipsist” here:

Cover artwork – with photography by Marisol Correa Corales – and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ad Finem Omnia’s No Peace – No Dawn
1. Vultures
2. The Abyss
3. Solve: Route To Extinction
4. Coagula: Promethean Fire
5. Doomed To Death
6. Pitch Black
7. In Defiance
8. Of Agony and Emptiness
9. The Solipsist

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DARKENED stream new EDGED CIRCLE EP – features members of GRAVE, MEMORIAM, A CANOROUS QUINTET, EXCRUCIATE+++

Today, pan-international death metal elite Darkened stream their brand-new EP, Mourn the Dying Light. Set for international release on January 7th via Edged Circle Productions on 7″ vinyl format, hear Darkened‘s Mourn the Dying Light in its entirety here:

While Darkened made a none-more-auspicious start with the Into the Blackness EP during the summer of 2019, it was the band’s debut album, Kingdom of Decay, where they literally EXPLODED onto the scene. Proud and pure death metal, no more but definitely no less, it was not at all surprising that Darkened made an immediate impact given their lineup on that debut full-length: drummer Andy Whale (Memoriam, ex-Bolt Thrower), vocalist Gord Olson (Ye Goat-Herd Gods / Demisery), guitarists Linus Nirbrant (A Canorous Quintet / This Ending) and Hempa Brynolfsson (Excruciate / Ordo Inferus), and new bassist Tobias Cristiansson (Grave / ex-Dismember). Patient and punishing, they proved that true songwriting stuns and crushes when practiced by masters of the death metal craft.

Now, as a precursor to a new full-length in 2022, Darkened arrive with the short & VERY sweet Mourn the Dying Light EP. More spacious but somehow heavier, the two songs comprising this record show that this lineup is truly finding their groove – and by “groove,” we most definitely mean those of a tank! Produced, mixed, and mastered by Linus Nibrant, Mourn the Dying Light maintains a most powerful aspect – clear and crushing, as expected, but with a surprising amount of atmosphere which will likely be expanded upon on that forthcoming second album. Says the band, “This EP continues on from where Kingdom Of Decay ended, and clearly sets the tone for the upcoming album. Pushing even further into lyrical darkness, foreboding heaviness, wistful melody, and murderous aggression, Darkened are forging old-school death metal in a melancholic landscape.”

Preorder info can be found HERE at Edged Circle‘s Bandcamp. Cover artwork, courtesy of Juanjo Castellano Rosado (Unleashed, The Black Dalhia Murder, Gates of Ishtar), and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Darkened (International)’s Mourn the Dying Light
1. Black Winter
2. The Slime Runs Down Your Throat

DARKENED lineup 2021
Hempa Brynolfsson – guitar (Excruciate)
Linus Nirbrant – guitar (A Canorous Quintet)
Tobias Cristiansson – bass (Grave, ex-Dismember)
Gord Olson – vocals (Ye Goat Herd Gods)
Andy Whale – drums (Memoriam, ex-Bolt Thrower)

MORE INFO:
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America’s CRYPTUM set release date for new CALIGARI EP, reveal first track

Today, Caligari Records announces February 24th as the international release date for a brand-new EP from the United States’ Cryptum, Vile Emergence, on CD and cassette tape formats.

Hailing from Illinois, Cryptum was formed in the spring of 2020 towards the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This group of long-time friends, armed with a strong adoration for thrash and death metal, envisioned a band that encapsulated their favorite aspects of these genres while balancing a perfect blend of both old-school and new-school death metal. Their influences span the mosh-laden riffs of Exodus and the pummeling brutality of Suffocation to bands that offer stranger riffs within vintage death metal, such as Pestilence, Immolation, and Morbid Angel, all contributing to Cryptum‘s sound.

Cryptum‘s debut demo, Enter the Cryptum, was a meat-and-potatoes death metal offering with hints at what they eventually hoped to achieve in future releases. Clocking in at under 10 minutes, it laid the foundation for the sound they continue to expand upon with every new song. The three tracks showcased everything from their fast-paced, mosh-worthy passages to Morbid Angel-inspired riffs, all with nasty and punishing riffs throughout.

Hot on that first demo’s heels is the new EP Vile Emergence, which is a more refined version of what Enter the Cryptum had to offer. Here, Cryptum have further consolidated their songwriting to help bring a more defined and individual sound to their music while still maintaining their overall style and old-school influence. Swift and satisfying, Vile Emergence comprises four songs in 16 minutes, laying waste and getting the fuck outta there. Enter the Cryptum again and behold its garish new grime!

The first grime can be felt with the brand-new title track “Vile Emergence”  here:

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Crytpum (USA)’s Vile Emergence
1. Torrent Of Infinite Time
2. Volitional Sacrilege
3. Dead Celestial Bodies
4. Vile Emergence


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MÜTTERLEIN – “Bring Down The Flags” out now

Five and a half years after the release of “Orphans Of The Black Sun“, MÜTTERLEIN return with a second work of Art. “Bring Down The Flags” consists of six experimental compositions whose strength lies in giving musical form to desperation, anguish, the surreal and the unsettling. Skillfully mixing Black Metal elements, doomy sounds as well as post-Punk savagery, Industrial rhythms and noisy sound collages, artist Marion Leclercq (ex-OVERMARS) crafted a sinister scream of pain, frustration and anger.

Influenced not only by these musical classics ranging from Black Metal to Cold Wave, but especially by radical female (performance) artists like NICO or DIAMANDA GALAS, “Bring Down The Flags” became an uncompromising conceptual work of Art with different layers of meaning to discover. Thus, the album is already highly praised by fans and media alike:

“If you’re in the market for individualistic music that’s dark and surrounded by dangerous nightmares-made-manifest that circle it like predators, then “Bring Down the Flags” is for you.” (Wonderbox Metal)

“MÜTTERLEIN sounds a bit like “Lingua Ignota in metal” while she is having a musical flirt with BURIAL HEX and both are listening to some krauty psychedelia from the early 70s. Confusing? Not at all!” (Veil Of Sound)

“The sound on “Bring Down The Flags” may be described as a musical wailing or an inhospitable wall of noise which addresses your primordial fears. Thus, it is fitting that MÜTTERLEIN was founded with the idea to function as a creative katharsis. But be aware, the nightmarish and oppressive second album of the French artist is nothing for an unstable mind.” (Legacy Magazine) Listen to “Bring Down The Flags” via Debemur Morti Productions‘ here:

The album is now officially released on CD, vinyl and digitally. It will be available on streaming platforms on December 31st. Orders are possible via the label’s EU, US, and Bandcamp shops.

MÜTTERLEIN is the solo project of Marion Leclercq (ex-OVERMARS), composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist.

Adopted in 2014, this pseudonym is a nod to the nightmarish yet fragile work of NICO, who in many ways deconstructed the unbearable myth of ‘femininity’ imposed on us. Musically, MÜTTERLEIN mixes Post-Punk savagery, Doom, Noise, Industrial and Black Metal to create a vast universe of Post-Metal experimentation.

First album, “Orphans Of The Black Sun” – released in 2016 on Sundust Records, a label co-run by Vindsval from BLUT AUS NORD – leaned towards the Post-Punk and Doom registers using minimalist, cold instrumentation to create a record organic and ritualistic as a witch-dance around a fire.

In 2020, MÜTTERLEIN responded to an invitation by the artist LIMBES (ex-BLURR THROWER) to create a mirror piece to his epic 25 minute track entitled “Vérité” (French for Truth) for a split release issued in 2021 by LADLO. The free format allowed MÜTTERLEIN to experiment even further, constructing a slow, desolate dreamscape of doom-laden Dark Ambient.

“Bring Down The Flags“, MÜTTERLEIN‘s second album, will be released in late 2021 by Debemur Morti Productions. Dark, haunting and immediate, the album incorporates more electronic sounds and blackened Industrial atmospheres to serve a more direct subject and voice.

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Nature-inspired black metallers The Mist From the Mountains premiere new track

Today, nature-inspired black metallers The Mist From the Mountains premiere the new track “A Paean to Fire“. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, Monumental – The Temple of Twilight, set for international release on January 28th, 2022 via Primitive Reaction. Hear The Mist From the Mountains‘ “A Paean to Fire” in its entirety here:

Hailing from the ever-fertile Finnish scene, The Mist From the Mountains are a brand-new formation with a very old heart. Their chilling-yet-breathtaking ruminations harken to the golden days of melodic, nature-inspired black metal, back during the mid ’90s. Names invoked include old Borknagar, Kvist, Arckanum, Old Man’s Child, Norway’s Gehenna, and even earliest Dimmu Borgir – but on evidence of their first public recording, the full-length Monumental – The Temple of Twilight, The Mist From the Mountains are well on their way to forging an odyssey all their own.

Encompassing six songs across 38 minutes, Monumental – The Temple of Twilight is simultaneously swift and expansive. Right from the spine-tingling anticipation of the album’s portentous opening, The Mist From the Mountains soon whip forth a fury that’s paradoxically widescreen, cloaked in splendorous synths which spark the imagination and send the listener into a righteous reverie. Indeed, energy is always foremost for the five-piece, with two vocalists – Kim Strömsholm and Tuomas Karhumäki – handling duties with equal aplomb. However, as with the best nature-inspired black metal metal, tempos are downshifted (and often) into proud marches, making the dynamics hit that much harder. Throughout, battle rage and folkloric wonder weave in and out as needed, the quintet threading the seemingly disparate elements together like true masters. Thus, The Mist From the Mountains are accurately monikered: towering, mysterious, even magickal, yet also hazy and almost amorphous. And this is but the start for this still-young band…

The old gods live on. And they make a grand re-entrance with The Mist From the Mountains‘ Monumental – The Temple of Twilight!

Hear the previously revealed “Master of Wilderness” HERE at Primitive Reaction‘s official YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for The Mist From the Mountains’ Monumental – The Temple of Twilight
1. Empyrean Fields [6:32]
2. A Paean to Fire [5:43]
3. Thus Spake the Tongueless Spirit [5:08]
4. With the Sun and the Skies and Birds Above [8:32]
5. Master of Wilderness [5:18]
6. After God [6:30]

CEREMONIAL CASTINGS to release 25th anniversary double-album via EISENWALD, reveal first track – features members of UADA

Eisenwald is pleased to announce a special 25th anniversary release celebrating the Bewitching Black Metal of Ceremonial Castings, Our Journey Through Forever, scheduled for release on February 25th, 2022.

In order to appreciate what led the band to this point, some history seems to be in order. In the later part of the year of 1996, brothers Jake and Nick Superchi formed a musical group that would come to be known as Ceremonial Castings. While the duo draw from a wide range of musical influences and have done so throughout their career, it is a particular family heritage connection that seems to permeate through the project’s existence and play a large role in their creative endeavors. From an early age, the brothers had learned of their lineage on one side that connected them to infamous writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, who’s great-great grandfather was none other than Salem Witch Trials judge and magistrate John Hathorne. Growing up an hour west of Salem in north-central Massachusetts, the brothers learned of the dark history and the shadows it had cast over the state. With such influences in their bloodlines, it was only natural these events would integrate into their writings.

The band’s connection to New England’s dark history has followed them throughout their career, thematically in the topics they explore but also by what some believe to be the curse cast upon John Hathorne’s bloodline, something the brothers have had to experience directly during the recording sessions of what they deemed to be their magnum opus concept album, Salem 1692, in 2008. Plagued with technical problems and physical afflictions to all involved parties that escaped rational explanation, the final result did not meet the band’s standards. As such, 2020 saw the band re-record the entirety of Salem 1692 to allow the album to finally meet their initial vision.

With a career spanning nine full-length albums, a slew of demos, EPs, and splits as well as notable live performances throughout the globe, it is high time for Ceremonial Castings to commemorate 25 years of their existence, a milestone reached in the year 2021. For this occasion, the band has hand-selected and carefully re-recorded 18 of their classic songs, as well as two completely new and previously unreleased instrumentals by Nick Superchi, to be released as a double album.

Entitled Our Journey Through Forever, these recordings take listeners on a look back at the history of the band and particularly their early works, allowing for a better appreciation of the significant progression seen in their writing throughout the years. A modern yet never-sterile production (with mixing duties handled by Jake Superchi at Obsidian Spells and mastering duties handled by James Sloan at Negative Force Audio Production) allows these songs to breathe in the way the band always intended and allows for a smoother listen as opposed to merely compiling the initial album recordings. Rather, Our Journey Through Forever better appreciates these classic songs from today’s perspective and thus is sure to make listeners eager to see where Ceremonial Castings‘ journey will lead them to in the future…

In the meantime, hear the brand-new re-recording of “Immortal Black Art” here:

Cover art, courtesy of Kris Verwimp, and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Ceremonial Castings’ Our Journey Through Forever
-CD 1-
1. Come Forth…Damnation [4:44]
2. Immortal Black Art [8:04]
3. Our Journey Through Forever [13:42]
4. My Kingdom of Cold Sorrows [7:34]
5. I; A Thousand Fires [7:49]
6. Bewitching Black Metal [6:00]
7. The Purifier of Battle Pt. I [3:18]
8. Desecration of Grace [6:43]
9. The Fall of Man [4:54]
10. Midnight Deathcult Phenomena [6:54]

-CD 2-
11. Darkness & War [4:03]
12. Into the Black Forest of Witchery [6:20]
13. Sweet Misery I Foresee [9:03]
14. Barbaric is the Beast [4:48]
15. Frostseasongoddess [6:46]
16. Human Slave Infantry [3:26]
17. The Purifier of Battle Pt. II [5:27]
18. A Serpent’s Kiss [4:22]
19. Universal Funeral March [4:48]
20. The Coming of Dawn We Fear [7:23]

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KROLOK stream new OSMOSE album – features members of MALOKARPATAN, REMMIRATH+++

Today, Slovakian black metal enigmas Krolok stream the entirety of their band’s highly anticipated second album, Funeral Winds & Crimson Skyl. Set for international release on December 21st via Osmose Productions, hear Krolok‘s Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky in its entirety here:

Says vocalist/guitarist HV: “This album is a retrospective look into the past, where old forlorn ruins and obscurity reign over desolate landscapes. Gazing back also into my own past, I have re-recorded a song originally included on the demo tape of my old band Helcaraxe, composed back in 2003. Delve deep in and listen… listen to the atmospheres of an arcane night and return within your thoughts into bygone times…”

Cover and tracklisting as follows

Tracklisting for Krolok’s Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky

1. Black Lore Of The Fens [7:03]
2. Towards The Duskportals [5:28]
3. The Reptile Abyss Beneath Dowina [5:24]
4. Path To The Haunted Ruins [3:17]
5. Unveiled Subterranean Treasures [6:18]
6. Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky [8:41]


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SILHOUETTE premiere new track – features ex-members of HORROR WITHIN, ETERNAL HUNT, GLUMURPHONEL

Today, French atmospheric black metallers Silhouette premiere the new track “Au Seuil de l’Oubli”. The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, Les Retranchement, set for international release on January 28th, 2022 via Antiq. Hear Silhouette‘s “Au Seuil de l’Oubli” in its entirety here:

Silhouette is a French black metal band based in Montpellier and created by Achlys in 2019. Initially conceived as a one-man band, the project then involved more musicians in order to develop a synergy between clean female vocals and traditional black and DSBM vocals.

Silhouette’s view reflects dreams and visions about distant people whose shapes and intentions will stay obscure forever. Through soul’s dooms and mist, Silhouette deals with topics such as lost ones, fantomatic shapes from which only fragments and souvenirs remain. The band proposes a journey between intense melodies, storms, and velvet lulls to depict the travel of the one who dares to explore the places and ghosts of their past.

Antiq is a label dedicated to the fully coherent concept of making music through sound, image, video, and attitude. They have been putting their entire existence into it since 2009. Over the years, Antiq have been identified as producers of not only perfectly coherent lyrics and themes through music, but also conceptual art and, of course, the manufacturing of beautiful objects. The label tries as much as it can to work with French creators, and if possible, with the smallest and most serious structures.

Hear the previously revealed “L’Entreinte de la Chute” HERE at Antiq‘s official YouTube channel. Cover artwork, courtesy of Lilas Dupont (Ondine), and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Silhouette’s Les Retranchement
1. Ascension
2. La Première Neige
3. Au Seuil de l’Oubli
4. Interlude
5. Les Retranchements
6. L’Etreinte de la Chute
7. Outro

MORE INFO:
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www.antiqrecords.com
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Finnish black metallers Hollow Woods stream the entirety of their debut album

Today, Finnish black metallers Hollow Woods stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Cold Winds Cleave the Earth. Set for international release on December 21st via Signal Rex, hear Hollow Woods‘ Cold Winds Cleave the Earth in its entirety here:

After 2019’s well-received Endless Trails demo via Signal Rex, Hollow Woods strike with a full-length debut fittingly titled Cold Winds Cleave the Earth. While hailing from Finland, this mysterious entity largely eschew their homeland’s reigning black metal idiom, instead taking influence from Ukraine (Roman Saenko’s projects), Norway (early Ulver, equally early Gorgoroth), and especially Russia (the Blazebirth Hall collective). In other words, pure & proud BLACK METAL, nevertheless done with personality and charisma.

Cold Winds Cleave the Earth boldly and brazenly displays Hollow Woods‘ full potential across its six-song/39-minute duration. Epic but never belabored, physical but finessed, straightforward but never simplistic: no gimmicks, just hateful black metal. Hollow Woods are always working within the framework of devotion to the primal world and nature mysticism; both can be felt, subtly but assured, across the entirety of Cold Winds Cleave the Earth. The artwork and inspiration for the album’s theme stems from Finnish linguist and ethnographer Kai Donner (1888-1935), taken during his expeditions to Siberia.

So pure, so cold, so boundless within its boundaries: Hollow Woods present a new grim majesty with Cold Winds Cleave the Earth.

Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Hollow Woods’ Cold Winds Cleave the Earth
1. Cold Winds Cleave the Earth
2. A Frozen Glance
3. Evergreen Vigil
4. Transcendent Echoes
5. Glacial Hell
6. To the Shrouded Shores

MORE INFO:
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