BESATT RELEASES "NINE SINS"

Polish black metal band Besatt will be releasing their new album, entitled "Nine Sins" in August. The album is the follow up to their "Deep into the darkness" boxset that was released in 2013. "Nine Sins" will be released through Mutilation Records and will feature the following tracks:

1.Sorcery  

2.Homicide  

3.Aggression  

4.Apostasy  

5.Vengeance  

6.Wrath  

7.Hatred  

8.Blasphemy  

9.Idolatry

ANSTRATUS RELEASES "AFTER THE STRIKE"

Slovakian thrash metal band Anstratus will be releasing a new EP entitled "After the Strike" in August. The EP will feature five tracks and is the follow up to the band´s 2013 demo. "After the Strike" will feature the following tracks:

1.After the Strike  

2.Extermination of Unwanted  

3.Holocaust  

4.Rotting Carrions  

5.Warhead

ASTRAL DOORS RELEASES "NOTES FROM THE SHADOWS"

Swedish heavy power metal band Astral Doors will release their new album entitled "Notes from the Shadows" on August 29th. The album will be released through Metalville. The album was mixed and mastered at the Black Lounge Studio by Jonas Kellgren. "Notes from the Shadows" will feature the following tracks:

1.The Last Temptation of Christ
2.Disciples of the Dragon Lord
3.Wailing Wall
4.Shadowchaser
5.Die Alone
6.Hoodoo Ceremony
7.Southern Conjuration
8.Walker the Stalker
9.Desert Nights
10.In the Name of Rock
11.Confessions

YOB RELEASES NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM

Stoner/Doom metal Yob will be releasing their new album "Clearing The Path to Ascend" through Neurot Recordings. The album will be released on September 2nd and its the follow up to the band´s 2011 "Atma" album (there is also a live album entitled "The Unreal Never Lived: Live at Roadburn 2012"). "Clearing The Path to Ascend" wil feature four tracks, being the shortest one "Nothing to Win" which is over eleven minutes long. The album´s tracklist is as follows:

1.In Our Blood  

2.Nothing to Win  

3.Unmask the Spectre  

4.Marrow

BLOODY INVASION RELEASES EP

German death metal band Bloody Invasion will be releasing their debut EP in August. The EP will be entitled "Bloody Invasion" and will contain the following tracks:
1.A Matter of Time
2.Hangman
3.Bloody Invasion
4.Act of Justice
5.The Mischief

DIABOLICAL PRINCIPLES RELEASES "MANIFESTO OF DEATH"

Greek black metal band Diabolical Principles will be releasing their new full length album entitled "Manifesto of Death" in August. The album will be released through Kristallblut Productions and is the follow up to the band´s 2009 "Beyond the Horizon" album (there is also a compilation released in 2010 and a split with Mortuus Caelum released in 2013). Manifesto of Death release will be limited to 500 copies and will contain the following tracks:

1.A Masquerade for Death

2.Never to See the Light

3.Orphic, to Death

4.The Passage

5.Cosmic Void

6.The Lost Soul

7.Sowers of the Lie

8.My Time Is upon Me

FUNEREUS STREAMS NEW ALBUM TEASER

Mexican raw black metal band Funereus have made a teaser from their new album available in YouTube (check below). The album will be entitled "Return of the Old Goat" and will be released on September 8th through Forever Plagued Records. "Return of the Old Goat" will feature the following tracks:

“Unhallowed Tomb”

“Prelude”

“Funeral Ghoul”

“Return Of The Old Goat”

“Below The Horns Of Blasphemy”

“Ascending The Throne Of Satan”

“Umbra Atrox”

MORTUARY DRAPE STREAMS NEW ALBUM TEASER

Italian black death metal band Mortuary Drape are releasing a video teaser of their new album. The new album marks the return of classic drummer Wildness Perversion and is the first full length that the band releases in almost ten years. The album will be released through italian label Iron Tyrant Records.

You can check the new album teaser below:

CASTLE RELEASES "EVIL WAYS" VIDEO

US Heavy doom metal band Castle have released a video for their track "Evil Ways". The track is the last one of their latest album entitled "Under Siege". You can check the video below:

DICTATED RELEASES "THE DECEIVED"

Dutch death metal band Dictated will be releasing their new album "The Deceived" on August 19th. The album has been already release in an independent form and this time will be released through Metal Blade Records. This is Dictated´s second album, being their debut one 2010´s "Summary of Retribution". Dictated features also members of God Dethroned as live musicians.

"The Deceived" will feature the following tracks:

1.Forced into Dismay  

2.This Is to All  

3.No Absolution  

4.The Basher  

5.No Mercy for Cowards  

6.Dispossession  

7.The Deceived  

8.Stonebreakers Rising  

9.They Live, They Suffer, They Die  

10.Rail of Death

AVENGER RELEASES "THE SLAUGHTER NEVER STOPS"

Classic NWOBHM band will be releasing their reunion full length album "The Slaughter Never Stops". This is the first Avenger with new compositions since 1985´s "Killer Elite" and will feature a cover of Iron Maiden´s "Killers". The album was recorded at Blast Studio and Leather Bear Studio and will be released on September 1st. "The Slaughter Never Stops" will feature the following tunes:

1.Mace Imperial  

2.Race Against Time
3.Fate
4.Fields of the Burnt
5.Into the Nexus
6.Decimated
7.In Arcadia Go!
8.Killers (Iron Maiden cover)
9.Flayer Psychosis
10.Shot to Hell
11.Midnight Mass Destruction

DIMENSION ZERO REFORMS FOR 2015 GOTHENBURG SOUND FESTIVAL

Dimension Zero, the band featuring former Marduk vocalist Joakim Göthberg, former In Flames guitarist Jesper Strömblad on bass, former Soilwork guitarist Daniel Antonsson and Diabolique drummer Hans Nilsson, has reunited and will be playing next year´s Gothenburg Sound Festival. The band´s latest album is "He who shall not bleed" from 2007.

EX BRAND NEW SIN SINGER STARTS SOLO PROJECT + COVER STREAM

Joe Altier, former Brand New Sin vocalist has started a solo project that goes by the name "Just Joe". The first recordings show a piano cover of Metallica´s "Blackened". You can check the cover below:

JAGUAR RELEASES NEW ALBUM

NWOBHM pioneers Jaguar willm be releaseing a new album entitled "Metal X". This is the first Jaguar album since 2003´s "Run Ragged". This is the first Jaguar album to feature Nathan Cox on drums and Simon Patel on bass. Guitarist Garry Pepperd is the only original member left in the band.

"Metal X" will feature the folowing tracks:

1.Warts & All

2.New Tricks  

3.3 Minute Song  

4.X-Wing  

5.Out of Time  

6.Fair Wind of Fire  

7.Day of the Triffids  

8.Moral Decline  

9.Horse  

10.Painted in a Corner  

11.Stormchild 2014

MANTAK RELEASES "MORBID DEATHFUCK" ALBUM

Malaysian thrash black metal band Mantak will release their new album, "Morbid Deathfuck", in August. "Morbid Deathfuck" is the follow up to the band´s 2009 "Diabolical Psycholust" full length and also to the 2012 EP "Evilust Nekrolust". The album will be released through Hells Vomit Productions  and will feature the following tracks:

1.Morbid Deathfuck

2.Bloddlust of the Hatred

3.Witchfuck Torment  

4.Deathcrush to the Bones  

5.Wolflustruktionz Rogolized

6.Satan's Gonna Fuck You!  

7.Speedfuckalypse Holocaustor 8.Manifestation of the Plague

OMNIHILITY RELEASES NEW ALBUM

Brutal death metal band from Eugene, Oregon will release their new album, entitled "Deathscapes of the Subconscious" on July 22nd. The album will be released through Unique Leader Records and was recorded by Dan the Impaler on guitars and bass, John Kurzejeski on vocals and Steve Crum on drums. "Deathscapes of the Subconscious" will feature the following tracks:

1.Molecular Resurrection  

2.Contemplating the Ineffable  

3.Lost Sands of Antiquity  

4.Ancient Ruins Forlorn I  

5.Deathscapes of the Subconsciouness  

6.Disseminate  

7.The Unnamable  

8.Divine Evisceration  

9.Ancient Ruins Forlorn II

KEITZER RELEASES "THE LAST DEFENSE" + VIDEO

German death grind metal band Keitzer will be releasing their new album "The last defence" on July 18th. The album will be released through F.D.A. Rekotz Records. The album is the follow up to the band´s 2011 full length "Descend into Heresy". The band has made a video for the track "This is the only solution". "The last defence" will feature the following tracks:

1.Bellum Indicere

2.Exist To Destroy

3.This Is The Only Solution  

4.Forever War  

5.Marching Forward To Victory 6.The Last Defence  

7.Next Offensive  

8.We Are the Serpents of Doom  

9.Fleshcrawl  

10.Todgeweiht  

11.Glorious Dead  

12.Ausgelöscht  

13.Crusade  

14....Before Annihilation

SERVANTS OF THE MIST RELEASE NEW EP

Sludge / doom metal band Servants of the Mist have just released a new EP entitled "Gross knowledge of genital mutilation". The band had already released an EP on 2013 entitled "Suicide Sex Pact". The EP features the following tracks:

1.Sadism & Suffering

2.Undeserving  

3.Commit Suicide  

4.Gross Knowledge of Genital Mutilation

CARDINALS FOLLY RELEASES "OUR CULT CONTINUES!"

Finnish doom metal band Cardinals Folly will be releasing their new full length album "Our Cult Continues!" on August 19th. The album will be released through Shadow Kingdom Records. This is the band second full length album, being the first one 2011´s "Such power is dangerous!". The band has also released two EPs in 2008 and 2009 and a compilation in 2013. "Our Cult Continues!" features the following tracks:

1.Chant of Shadows  

2.Morbid Glory  

3.The Black Baroness  

4.Our Cult Continues!  

5.Sighisoaran  

6.Walvater Unveiled  

7.The Lover's Crypt  

8.Fallout Ritualist

HUMUT TABAL RELEASES "THE DARK EMPEROR OV THE SHADOW REALM"

Texan black metal beasts Humut Tabal have juste released their new album "The dark emperor ov the shadow realm". The album was released on June 21st and is the second full length album that the band releases (the first one is "Gods ov Darkness, Hate and Flame"). The band has released in the past two splits, one with Plutonian Shore in 2011 and other with Weoran in March 2014.

Humut Tabal´s new album will feature the following tracks: 

1.Across the Boundless Land ov Death

2.Through the Forest and Twisting Shadow  

3.Furious Winged Helldaemons Soar

4.Alone, in Purest Silence  

5.The Misanthrope ov the Barren Waste Becomes  

6.Wielder ov the Daemon Blade

7.In the Shade ov Lord Satan's Wings  

8. Dark Emperor ov the Shadow Realm

ENDING QUEST RELEASES "THE SUMMONING"

Swedish death metal band Ending Quest has just released their new album, entitled "The Summoning". The album was released on June 20th through F.D.A. Rekotz. "The Summoning" is the band´s debut full length album and the band has also two demos: "Led to the Slaughter" on 2010 and "Vlad Tepes" from 2011. "The Summoning" features the following tracks:

1.Black Death

2.Sumerian Invocation

3.Eradicate

4.Evocation of Carnal Flesh

5.Voices

6. A Host of Flesh

7.Grotesque Abolishment

8.Destruction of the Firmament

9.Exalted and Fireborn

10.The Summoning

11.The Lament Configuration

RAGE NUCLEAIRE RELEASES "BLACK STORM OF VIOLENCE"

Canadian black metal band Rage Nucleaire has finished recording their new album, entitled "Black Storm of Violence". The album will be released through Season of Mist Records on July 18th. "Black Storm of Violence" is the band´s second album. The band´s full length debut was 2012´s "Unrelenting Fucking Hatred". "Black Storm of Violence" will feature the following tracks:

1.Annihilation Frenzy

2.A Sino-American Chainsaw War

3.The Deadfall Triptych

4.Goddess of Filth

5.Ritual Murder (And Its Attendant Blessings)

6.Le grand mal de vivre

7.Revel in Bones

8.Black Storm of Violence

MUTILATION RITES RELEASES "HARBINGER" + TRACK STREAM

Black metal band from Brooklyn, Mutilation Rites have set the name "Harbinger" for their new album. The album will be released on July 22nd through Prosthetic Records. The band has made a couple of tunes available for streaming. You can check the streams below.

"Harbinger will feature the following tracks:

1.Black Pyramid

2.Exhaling or Breathing In  

3.Tactical Means of Ouroboros  

4.Gravitational Collapse  

5.Contaminate  

6.Suffer the Children  

7.Ignus Fatuus  

8.Conspiracy of Silence

INTER ARMA TO RELEASE "THE CAVERN" EP

Blackened sludge metal band from Richmond, Virginia, Inter Arma will be releasing their new EP, entitled "The Cavern" on October 14th. The EP will be released through Relapse Records. and will feature only the track "The Cavern". Relapse REcords will also release the EP on vinyl version. The latest release by Inter Arma was their full length album "Sky Burial".

TODAY IS THE DAY SIGNS WITH SOUTHERN LORD RECORDINGS

Avantgarde metal band Today is the Day has joined Southern Lord Recordings. The band will release their new album "Animal Mother" through the label. THis will be the first album to feature the new Today is the Day lineup that features Steve Austin on guitars and vocals, Sean Conkling (Regression, Sprawl) on bass and Jeff Lohrber returning on drums, 

HALCYON WAY RELEASES "CONQUER" + VIDEO

Atlanta, Georgia progressive metallers Halcyon Way will release their new album, entitled "Conquer" on August 19th. The album is the follow up to the band´s 2010 "Building the Towers" album and the 2011 "IndoctriNation" EP. THe album will be released through Massacre Records and the band has delivered a video for the track "Web of Lies" that will be part of the album. The full tracklist for "Conquer" is:

1.Conquer  

2.Web of Lies  

3.Conceived in Torment

4.Home  

5.World Comes Undone  

6.Militant

7.Hatred Is My Cause  

8.The Poisoned Apple  

9.Save Your Tears  

10.Every Second Counts  

11.King of Ruin  

12.Eviscerate the Morning Sun

KING OF ASGARD RELEASES "KARG" + TRACK STREAM

Swedish viking metal band King of ASgard will release their new album "Karg" on July 22nd. The album will be released through Metal Blade Records and the tune "The Runes of Hel" is available for streaming (check below). the album is the follow up to the band´s 2012 full length "...To North". "Karg"´s full tracklist is as follows:

1.The Runes of Hel  

2.The Trickster  

3.Highland Rebellion  

4.Remnant of the Past  

5.Omma  

6.The Heritage Throne  

7.Huldran  

8.Rising  

9.Total Destruction (Bonus Track)

CONQUERING DYSTOPIA ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM VINYL VERSION

Conquering Dystopia, the progressive death metal band that features Jeff Loomis (ex Nevermore) on guitars, Keith Merrow (demisery) on guitars, Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse) on bass and Alex Rüdinger (The Faceless, ex Burning Shadows) on drums, have announced that the vinyl version of their debut album (originally released on March 2014) will be released through Century Media Records on July 7th-8th. The album features 12 tracks of pure progressive death metal and features guest solos by Ola Englund (The Haunted, ex Six Feet Under) and Wes Hauch (ex The Faceless).

CORONER ANNOUNCES NEW DRUMMER

Historical Coroner drummer Marquis Marky has left the band. The replacement has been announced as Paganini and 69 Chambers drummer Diego Rapacchietti.

THE WOLVES OF AVALON RELEASE "BOUDICCA´S LAST STAND"

British pagan metallers The Wolves of Avalon will be releasing their new album "Boudicca´s Last Stand" on July 26th. the album will be released thbrough Godreah Records and is the follow up to the band´s 2011 full length "Carrion Crows Over Camlan". The album will feature a cover of ENslaved´s "Essence".

"Boudicca´s Last Stand track list is as follows:

1.Famished Wolves Befogged with Blood 

2.The Sky Goddess

3.The Dreadful Thirst of Death  

4.Bonded by Blood and Sword  

5.The Icknield Way Is Dripping with the Juice of Our Marrow-Bones  

6.Behold the Feast of the Slaughter Gods 7.The Gorging Glut of Sodden Clay  

8.Iceni Queen Unfurl'd in a Tempest of Crows 9.I Walk the Moonless Fens of a Darkling Day 

10.Cold as Mouldering Clay  

11.Essence (Enslaved Cover) 

VOODOO GODS: METAL SUPERGROUP

"Anticipation for Blood Leveled in Darkness" is the name of the debut album by metal supergroup Voodoo Gods. The band features Alex Voodoo on drums, Centurian vocalist Seth Van De Loo, Sceptic /Dies Irae guitarist Jacek Hiro, Nuclear Rabbit bass player Jean Baudin, former Manowar guitarist David Shankle on lead guitars and Cannibal Corpse vocalist George Corpsegrinder Fisher. The band´s debut album will be released on July 28th. The band has already recorded a demo entitled "Shrunken Head" on 2008. The new album will be released through Saturnal Records.