USNEA RELEASES NEW ALBUM + TRACK STREAM

Black doom metal band from Portland, Oregon, Usnea, will be releasing their second full length album, entitled "Random Cosmic Violence" on November 7th. The album will be released through Relapse Records and is the follow up to the band´s debut album "Usnea" released in 2013 and the split with Ruins. The band has made the track "Random Cosimc Violence" available for streaming (check it below). "Random Cosmic Violence" will feature the following tracks:

1. Lying in Ruin  

2. Healing Through Death  

3. Random Cosmic Violence

4. Detritus

CARCASS RELEASES "LIVESTOCK MARKETPLACE" LYRIC VIDEO

Death metal / gore kings Carcass are streaming a new lyric video "Livestock Marketplace" (check the video below). The track comes from the band´s latest  EP entitled "Surgical Remission / Surplus Steel" that will be released on November 11th through Nuclear Blast Records. This release is the follow up of 2013´s "Surgical Steel" and contains unreleased tracks that were recorded during the "Surgical Steel " sessions. 

ESCAPETOR RELEASES "FEAR"

Heavy folk speed metal band from Norway, Escapetor, will release their second full length album entitled "Fear" on October 24th. the album is the follow up to the band´s debut album "Moments..." released in 2005 (the band has also released "Misanthropia" EP in 2009 and the "Decennium" EP in 2010). "Fear" will be released through Crime Records and was mastered at House of Audio in Germany. The album will feature the following tracks:

1. The Queen  

2. Dark Past  

3. Unknown Thoughts  

4. Dealing with Fate  

5. Mr. Hyde  

6. Fear  

7. Shadow  

8. Escapetor  

9. Suicide  

10. Time  

11. Creatures of the Night  

12. Folsom Prison Blues

VESANIA STREAMS "DISMAY"

Polish symphonic black death metal band Vesania featuring members of Decapitated, Vader, Sammath, Dimmu Borgir and Behemoth have made the track "Dismay" available for streaming (check below). The track comes from the band´s new album "Deus Ex Machina" that will be released on October 25th through Metal Blade Records. This is the first Vesania album to be released since 2007´s "Distractive Killusions". 

"Deus Ex Machina" tracklist is as follow:

"Halflight"

"Innocence"

"Disillusion"

"Vortex"

"Dismay"

"Glare"

"Notion"

"Disgrace"

"Fading"

"Scar"

PRMORDIAL STREAMS "COME THE FLOOD" TRACK

Celtic folk black metal band from Ireland, Primordial have made the track "Come the Flood" available for streaming (check below). The tune comes from the band´s new album entitled "Where Greater Men have Fallen" that will be released on November 25th through Metal Blade Records and is the follow up to the band´s 2011 "Redemption at the Puritan´s Hand". The band previously streamed the  track "Where Greater Men Have Fallen" in YouTube

THE CRINN RELEASES NEW ALBUM + TRACK STREAM

Extreme experimental progressive metal band The Crinn will be releasing their new album"Shadowbreather". As an advance, the band has released a new track entitled "Silent Betrayer" for streaming (check below). "Shadowbreather" is the follow up to the band´s debut album "Dreaming Saturn" released in 2010 through Nuclear Blast Records. The band has issued the following statement:

"In case you didn't see our post from earlier (facebook right?) we uploaded a new track from our upcoming album Shadowbreather. It's called Silent Betrayer and we hope you enjoy it! We will also be releasing a new song on Wednesday! Party on.

It's been 4 years and the time has come ya'll! We proudly present the first release off our new album titled SHADOWBREATHER! The song is called "Silent Betrayer" and we hope you will enjoy! We need your help with promoting this song and album more than ever, so please spread it around as much as possible! More updates to come".

ABSENTIA LUNAE RELEASES TEASER FOR "VORWARTS"

Trieste, Italy black metal band Absentia Lunae will be releasing their new album "Vorwarts" on November 3rd. The album will be released through Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae and the band has issued a video teaser including moments from every tune. The band has issued the following statement:

"Absentia Lunae have been always upfront in crushing the stagnant chaos of black metal to forge a new shape of music that capturing the essence of the most arrogant, elitist martial attitude of the darkest side can become a new manner to influence listener energy.

We need a new border to be crushed, we need the energy to raise the freedom of the inner self, disturbed by the frequencies of what we wrongfully call “modernity”.

“Vorwarts” means forward, never look back, react to the stagnant chaos of the thousand dead voices trying to confuse the inner self. 

Absentia Lunae new mission starts where the father of avantgarde black metal failed, without wasting an inch of determination to the artistic goal due to self-indulgence, but looking to the point and to the final target, far beyond the shadow of any minimalist substance. 

Some may recall echoes of the Mayhem second era provoking attitude, but there all is forged into the statue that Vorwarts represent, like a picture of fatalism, like a strong wind devouring the sand dunes of transience. A new kin will raise but will soon take the distance from the human being, transcending the mundane. The most revolutionary artistic movement of past century, the Futurism, raised from Italy becomes today a source of inspiration and reaction to the lack of arrogance and pretension of today’s scene."

Tracklist:

1. Dissolution Mechanism 6:36

2. Furor of the Monuments 6:58

3. Rapace Planare 6:23

4. Manipulated Statues of Flesh 4:18

5. Vorwarts 8:04

6. Tragedy Told By Golden Horns 7:17

7. L'arrivée 5:08

RESUMED RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM

Italian technical death metal band Resumed will release their debut album entitled "Alienations" on December 1st. The band has signed with Bakerteam Records for this release. Resumed has issued the following statement:

"Founded in 2007 with the name Holy Terror, Resumed produced their first demo under the new moniker in 2009, which eventually led them to the completion of the band’s debut album Alienations. The following year saw Resumed focusing on their live activity and, in the meantime, signed a deal with Bakerteam Records for the release of the album.  

Alienations is a massive piece of old-school technical death metal, enriched with many musical contaminations coming from jazz, fusion, funk and Latin music, progressive atmospheres and virtuoso playing. A set of eight tracks, each song deals with a particular distortion of the human psyche. Alienations was produced by the band’s drummer Filippo Tirabassi at FG Music Studio and in Resumed’s own studio in Sulmona, Italy. The album will be available starting from December 1st on Bakerteam Records."

SPLIT HEAVEN PART WAYS WITH VOCALIST AND BASSIST

Heavy speed metal band from Mexico, Split Heaven has announced that vocalist Giancarlo Farjat and bassist Pablo Ollervides . The band has issued the following statement:

"Through the following statement we want to thank Giancarlo Farjat (vocals) and Pablo Ollervides (bass) for their dedication and professionalism during the time they were part of Split Heaven. Without you, among other things, the release of the third album “The Devil's Bandit” and the third successful European Tour would not have been possible; certainly, you guys are part of our history. Carlo, Armand and Tomas, are composing the 4th Split Heaven album and we keep the door open for new members who want to be part of the tough but always gratifying, road of heavy metal. From this moment we are receiving demos for bassists and vocalists who might be interested on joining us, please send your email to: management@splitheaven.net

New challenges, new roads, forever heavy metal!

Sincerely, 

Split Heaven."