THEOKTONY RELEASES "LOSS"

British death metal band Theoktony will release their new album, entitled "Loss", on June 1st. The new album is the second full length release by the band and the follow up to their debut "I" released in 2008. The album was recorded at LJM Studios. Drums and Vocals were recorded at Darksound Studios. Mixing and mastering was done at LJM Studios. "Loss" will be released independently and will feature the following tracks:

1. вздыхать  

2. Apostate  

3. Eritrea  

4. Dachau  

5. Conscripted  

6. Anhedonia  

7. 1954  

8. Starvation  

9. Lost

VILLAINIZER UNLEASHES "ANNIHILATION OF SELF"

Canadian thrash metal band Villainizer will release their new album "Annihilation of Self" on June 1st. The new album is the band´s third full length release and the follow up to their "Reign in Terror" album released in 2013 and their split with Black Pestilence released in 2014. "Annihilation of Self" is a full concept album with four chapters and was recorded, mixed and mastered by Drew Copland in Edmonton, AB, Canada. "Annihilation of Self" will be released independently and will feature the following tracks:

1. Chalice

2. Death

3. Deliverance

4. Descent

5. Enslavement

6. Failure

7. Fever

8. Genocide

9. Grace

10. Mountain

11. Oblivion

12. Ocean

13. Pacifism

14. Perdition

15. Possession

16. Shaitan

WITCH BLADE RELEASES "OSKULDERNAS ELD"

Swedish heavy metal band Witch Blade will release their new album, entitled "Oskuldernas Eld" on June 1st. The new album is the band´s full length debut and the follow up to their Witch Blade demo released in 2013. "Oskuldernas Eld" will be released through Swords and Chains Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Ljusets apostel (Apostle of Light)
2. Djävulens svärd (Devil's Sword)
3. Oskuldernas eld (Virgin's Fire)
4. Ondskans mästare (Master of Evil)
5. Fjärrans krig (Distant War)
6. Nattens synder (Sins of the Night)
7. Mörkrets tempel (Temple of Darkness)
8. Witch Blade (Häxsvärd)

VEHEMENCE RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM

Phoenix death metal veterans Vehemence have returned and they will release a new album, entitled "Forward Without Motion" on July. Below you can check their press statement:

"Following an entire decade without a new album, Phoenix-based melodic death metal kingpins, VEHEMENCE, return to full-time duty in 2015, having reactivated the band and completed their fourth full-length studio full-length, "Forward Without Motion", which is now set for release this Autumn via Battleground Records.

Their first new album since 2004’s Metal Blade Records-released "Helping The World To See", VEHEMENCE returns to the death metal fold with a stunning new album that will surely see the band regaining their traction within the scene after their time off the grid. "Forward Without Motion" is the culmination of years of hard work and the collective desire to write the best songs and capture the best performances. Guitarist and founding member Bjorn Dannov perhaps says it most succinctly when describing the record, “I really believe this is our strongest album to date. With our previous albums, we were so inexperienced in the studio so I was never really happy with the final product, production-wise. This album I feel represents the songs well. We wanted to capture a tight performance, but not overly produced and sound replaced like a lot of modern metal albums. We still wanted to maintain an organic element to the sound, which I believe we achieved.” Working on the songs off and on for several years between 2007 and 2011, VEHEMENCE began a methodical, painstaking tracking process for Forward Without Motion between 2012 and 2014, the album’s guitars, bass, and vocals being recorded at the home studios of Dannov and guitarist Kyle Moeller, with the drums being recorded at Villain Studios in Phoenix. “Kyle did all the mixing, reamping, and mastering,” Says Dannov. “It was really great to have those tools at our disposal, without having to worry about a budget or studio expenses.”

When listening to Forward Without Motion, one will discover the refreshing sounds of a band creatively reborn and seasoned by experience. The album flows with a relentless, throat grabbing energy that never flags and begs for repeated spins. This cohesive power is nowhere more apparent than in the strength of the instrumental and vocal performances, which slash and hammer their way out of the speakers with a passion rarely found in the cold, mostly lifeless corpses that are most modern death metal recordings. When asked about the lyrical themes behind the songs and album title of the album, VEHEMENCE vocalist Nathan Gearhart remarks, “The lyrics of Forward Without Motion each tell a unique story dealing with pain, loss, sadness, and horror. Written over the course of twelve years, each piece stands alone in subject. The consistent theme of the lyrics as a whole denote humanity’s dark side, and summarize our lives and impact on our world during our limited time. Nothing changes. Nothing gets better or worse. It’s all the same. It’s time without a number. We are all going to die leaving this world just as fucked as those before us, and future generations will continue this cycle.” Gearhart also has much to say about the core ethos of the band when reflecting upon both the present and the years past, “Bjorn and I have been jamming together since 1996. Mark and Andy joined in ’97-‘98. VEHEMENCE is a band of brothers with no bigger intent other than getting together and creating together. Kyle is a great compliment to the core of the band, and his involvement along with the material and performance contributed by Jake Green are what helps to take us into our current chapter. "Forward Without Motion" is our life’s work. I am so proud of what we have created, and I hope others enjoy our art as much as I do.”

VEHEMENCE will release "Forward Without Motion" through Battleground Records on October 27th in various formats, including a 2xLP set on 180-gram black vinyl in gatefold packaging, a CD version, and across various digital platforms.

In conjunction with the release of "Forward Without Motion", VEHEMENCE will be performing several shows in support of the album shortly before the street date. Additional information on the album, audio samples, an official video and more will be released throughout the Summer and early Autumn months.

HOPE DRONE STREAMS TRACK FROM NEW ALBUM

Atmopheric blackened sludge band Hope Drone will release their debut Relapse Records album, entitled "Cloak of Ash" and have posted the following press statement:

"Australian atmospheric blackened sludge metal collective, HOPE DRONE, emerges from the depths with their Relapse Records debut, "Cloak Of Ash", set for release this July. A rich, captivating, seven-song stroke of sonic brilliance, "Cloak Of Ash" was captured by Christopher Brownbill (Idylls, Throes, Coffin Birth) at Wavelength Studios and Underground Audio in Brisbane, Australia, mixed by Brownbill and HOPE DRONE at Wavelength Studios, and mastered by Brad Boatright (Yob, High On Fire, Integrity) at Audiosiege in Portland,Oregon. Uniting chest-cavingly poignant atmospheres with the uncompromising heaviness of a thousand tidal waves, "Cloak Of Ash" is dynamic and textured; nihilistic, doomed and earth shattering cloaked in the hopeless dissonance of a world gone rotten. Fans of Altar Of Plagues, Vattnet Viskar, Wolves In The Throne Room, Woods Of Desolation and Cult Of Luna pay heed. "

Cloak Of Ash Track Listing: 

1. Unending Grey

2. Riverbeds Hewn In Marrow

3. The World Inherited

4. The Chords That Thrum Beneath The Earth

5. Every End Is Fated In Its Beginning

6. The Waves Forever Shatter Upon Our Shores

7. Carried Apart By The Ceaseless Tides

HOPE DRONE was forged in 2011 and have since released one demo, From Mimas To Phoebe, in 2012, and their self-titled, Sanford Parker-mixed LP in 2013 which was called, “fresh, invigorating and captivating,” by Cvlt Nation, “a bleak style of black metal strongly indebted to the Cascadian variety and played with surprising maturity and aplomb,” and “a band to watch,” by Teeth Of The Divine, and, “possibly the most devastatingly nihilistic recording I’ve ever heard, both instrumentally andlyrically,” by AngryMetalGuy.

Cloak Of Ash will be available on CD, double LP and digitally via Relapse Records on July 24th, 2015.

DIABOLICUM RELEASES "IA PAZUZU (THE ABYSS OF THE SHADOWS)"

Swedish black metal band Diabolicum will release their new album on July 7th. You can check the press release below:

""Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows)" is the impending new long player from Swedish industrial black metal misery makers, DIABOLICUM. Now boasting the ill-omened vocal tidings of Shining’s Niklas Kvarforth, the record breaks the band’s fourteen-year slumber and boasts nine harrowing psalms of disease and torment. The record will see release on July 7th, 2015 via Italy’s Code666. In celebration of its official ignition, today No Clean Singing delivers the first taste of plague with fifth cranium-crusher, “Salvation Through Vengeance.”

“DIABOLICUM are known for their skill in integrating the savagery of Swedish black metal and the driving pulse of industrial music,” issues the esteemed music portal, “and ‘Salvation Through Vengeance’ displays that union in striking fashion, significantly augmented by Kvarforth’s crazed howls and roars (which hold nothing back) and Likstrand’s boiling guitar solo. The song erupts like a black metal cyclone dropping without warning from storm clouds overhead. A vocal sample then provides a bridge to a more industrialized, keyboard-driven segment, which is then overtaken by that wild, transfixing guitar solo as the song ramps up again into a whirlwind of knives and blood. It’s a terrorizing adrenaline trigger that leaves us salivating for the rest of the album.”

Initially spawned in 1994 by Sasrof and Thorne under the Imperial moniker, DIABOLICUM stands among the prime instigators of the industrial black metal scene. The collective’s first demo appeared under the title Mori Voluntaria. The tape was recorded in just two days at a mental hospital and included the session vocals of Blackblood (Tommy Dahlström now of Aeon). Following various personnel shifts, Imperial unleashed The Imperial Darkness demo with vocals and lead guitar handled by Thyrfing (Stefan Dhalberg) with third demo, De FÆrdÆmdas Legion, unveiled by Arte De Occulta shortly thereafter. By 1997, members of Imperial formed black metal collective, Helvete, together with Mysteriis and Kraath of Setherial. The project was put on hold when guitarist Sasrof took over bass responsibilities for Setherial.

Two years later, Imperial changed their name to DIABOLICUM. Nathzion (AKA Zeb Nilsson now of Aeon) joined the ranks as lead guitarist and DIABOLICUM’s debut, the annihilating The Grandeur Of Hell, dropped in 1999 via Napalm Records. In the summer of 2000, DIABOLICUM fled Napalm to explore new opportunities and forged a union with Italian imprint, Code666. Wielding a flawless meld of Swedish black metal and industrial ambient noise, 2001’s resulting The Dark Blood Rising full-length is now considered a cult classic among the industrial black metal scene. In the years to follow, the band published a collection of early demos (The Killing Spree 1.5) and two split 7″ EP – one with Watain; the other with Angst – before penning their third diabolic opus with new vocalist Niklas Kvarforth (Shining) and lead guitarist Likstrand. After several setbacks and delays, the band is finally ready to undrape Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows). Spewing forth nine merciless tracks of sonic scorn, and featuring guest appearances by Malfeitor Fabban (Aborym) and Vargher (Naglfar, Bewitched, Ancient Wisdom), with cryptic artwork by Maxime Taccardi, Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows) is anguished, devouring and destined to become a new milestone within the industrial black metal community.

Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows) will be available in special digipack CD format as well as a limited edition, double gatefold LP and deluxe limited leather box on July 7th, 2015 via Code666. 

OMMADON RELEASES "EMPATHY FOR THE WICKED"

Here is the press release for Ommadon´s new album:

"Following the crushing doom of their critically-adored, 2014 double LP, V, which earned a spot on Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Metal Albums Of 2014, UK drone/doom duo, OMMADON, continues their perpetual quest to achieve sonic annihilation of the self through unadulterated heaviness with Empathy For The Wicked. Boasting just one earth-rupturing track broken into two parts, Empathy For The Wicked was recorded live, mixed by OMMADON and mastered by recording legend, Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Zoroaster, Eyehategod, Taurus, Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth etc.), who gave it the final crushing touches it deserves.

Where OMMADON’s previous scores were all recorded in the Highlands of Scotland surrounded by forest, Empathy For The Wicked marks their first release to be recorded on an industrial estate in urban Northumberland surrounded by the dregs of humanity. The first track from Empathy For The Wicked was originally recorded for the cassette split with Horse Latitudes and Coltsblood. During that session, OMMADON decided to continue recording through the night and drone out the riff which became the second side to Empathy For The Wicked.

Empathy For The Wicked will be released on 12″ vinyl via Golden Mantra on July 15th, 2015 with preorders available at: www.goldenmantra.co.uk . Teasers to be unveiled in the coming weeks.

DISTANT SUN RELEASES "DARK MATTER"

Russian power thrash metal band Distant Sun will release their new album, entitled "Dark Matter" on May30th. The album is the debut full length album in the band´s career and the follow up to their "Sunless Citadel" EP released in 2011. "Dark Matter" will be released through Metalism Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Prophet of the Mean  

2. Kill the Fremen  

3. Dark Matter  

4. Godsdoom  

5. Matrix Hacked  

6. Shattered Empire 

7. Gifts of Journey  

8. Healer of Souls  

9. Apocalypto  

10. Zero to Hero

XUL RELEASES "ORBIT OF NEMESIS" VIDEO

Canadian blackened death metal Xul have just released a video for the track "Orbit of Nemesis" (you can check the video below). The tune is part of the band´s latest release, the EP, entitled "Extinction Necromance" that was released on May 19th. "Extinction Necromance" was released independently and features the following tracks:

1. Frozen, We Drown   

2. Orbit of Nemesis 

3. Chaos Requiem  

4. Summon the Swarm

STORMLORD RE-RELEASES "MARE NOSTRUM"

Italian symphonic black metal band Stormlord will re-release their wlbum "Mare Nostrum" on May 29th. The album, originally released in 2008, was the fourth full length release in the band´s career. "MAre Nostrum" will be re-released through Trollzorn Records and will feature tracks from the band´s 2007 demo and also a live version of the title track. The "MAre Nostrum" re-release features the following tracks:

1. Mare Nostrum

2. Neon Karma

3. Legacy of the Snake

4. Emet

5. The Castaway

6. Scorn

7. And the Wind Shall Scream My Name

8. Dimension: Hate

9. Stormlord

10. Neon Karma (Demo 2007)

11. Mare Nostrum (Demo 2007)  

12. Legacy of the Snake (Demo 2007)  

13. Dimension: Hate (Demo 2007)  

14. Mare Nostrum (Live on Radio 2014) 

VOIDCEREMONY RE-RELEASES "DYSTHEISM" EP ON VINYL

Progressive death black metal band VoidCeremony will release their new album, entitled "Dystheism" on May 29th. The EP is the first release in the band´s career and waw originally released in 2014. The EP will be released in 7" vinyl through Blood Harvest Records and will feature the following tracks:

Side A

1. Ceremony of the Void  

2. Profane Accumulation of Execrable Reverence

 

Side B

3. Dystheism (Anti-Worship of the Demiurge)  

4. Lunar Qliphoth

CULT OF ENDTIME RELEASES "IN CHARNEL LIGHTS"

Finnish death metal band Cult of Endtime will release their new album, entitled "In Charnel Lights" on May 29th. the new album is the band´s first full length release and the follow up to their "Nuclear Witch" demo released in 2011. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Orgone Studios in London. "In Charnel Lights" will be released through Svart Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. A Vast Cosmic Horror  

2. Cairns on Mercury  

3. Prognatus De Sigillum  

4. The Colossus Fell  

5. Hidden Gods  

6. Gnostic Haeresis  

7. Funeral Voyagers

8. Discourse with the Dead

SUPURATION UNLEASHES "REVERIES..." ALBUM

French death doom metal band Supuration will release their new album, entitled "Reveries..." on May 29th. The album is the fourth full length release in the band´s career and the follow up to their "CU3E" album released in 2013. The album features new versions of 1990s tracks and three cover tracks. "Reveries..." will be released through Listenable Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Avoid the Contamination

2. Tales from the Crematory

3. Suffocate Through Asphyxia

4. Suppurated

5. Hypertrophy - Sordid and Outrageous Emanations

6. Sultry Obsession 

7. Reveries of a Bloated Cadaver 

8. Ephemeral Paradise  

9. Shattered (Paradise Lost cover)

10. The Beast (Twisted Sister cover)  

11. Among the Living (Anthrax cover)

AMOK RE-RELEASES "NECROSPIRITUAL DEATHCORE"

Norwegian death metal band Amok will see their album "Necrospiritual Deathcore" rereleased on May 29th. The album, originally released in 2006, will be rereleased on 12" vinyl. "Necrospiritual Deathcore" will be re-released through Edged Circle Productions and will feature the following tracks:

Side A

1. Necropsy Cunt

2. Geitehelvete

3. Channelling Black Horns

4. Effective Mass-Torture

5. Organ Ejaculator

Side B

6. Providentialism

7. Postapokalyptisk Korstog

8. Goatflesh Removal (Corpus Christi)

9. Goatflesh Removal (Memento Mori)

10. Goatflesh Removal (Gloria In Excelsis Deo)

AUTOKRATOR RELEASES "AUTOKRATOR" ALBUM

French death doom metal band Autokrator will release their debut album, entitled "Autokrator" on May 29th. The album is the first release in the band´s career and will be released independently on CD and through Iron Bonehead Productions on vinyl. "Autokrator" features the following tracks:

1. Act 1 : The Tenth Persecution

2. Act 2 : Exsuperator

3. Act 3 : The Filth Pig of Rome

4. Act 4 : Autokrator  

5. Act 5 : Qualis artifex pereo

6. Act 6 : Sit divus, modo non vivus

7. Act 7 : Imperial Whore

8. Act 8 : Optimus princeps 

DISARMONIA MUNDI RELEASES "COLD INFERNO"

Italian melodic death metal band Disarmonia Mundi will unleash their new album, entitled "Cold Inferno" on May 27th. The new album is the fifth full length release by the band and the follow up to their "The Isolation Games" album released in 2009 and teir split with Blood Stain Child, Destrage, Living Corpse, Rise To Fall and The Stranded released in 2012. "Cold Inferno" will be released through King Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Creation Dirge  

2. Stormghost
3. Behind Closed Doors
4. Coffin
5. Oddities from the Ravishing Chasm
6. Slaves to the Illusion of Life
7. Blessing from Below
8. Magma Diver
9. Clay of Hate
10. Toys of Acceleration
11. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Iron Maiden cover)

SADISTIC MURDER RELEASES "BUTCHER OF ROSTOV"

Chilean death metal band Sadistic Murder has released their new album "Butcher of Rostov" today, May 25th. The new album is the debut full length release in the band´s career and the follow up to their Demo 2010. The album was released through Rotten Cemetery Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Your Agony, My Joy  

2. Cooked Woman Body  

3. Crude Birth  

4. Shedding Filthy Blood  

5. A Brutal Way to Die  

6. Senseless  

7. Angry Beast  

8. The Sound of Broken Bones

BANTORIAK RELEASES VIDEO FOR "CHANT OF THE STONES"

Italian doom metal band Bantoriak has just released a video for their track "Chant of Stones". The tune comes from the band´s latest album entitled "Weedoism" that was released through Argonauta Records. You can check the video below.

FEARED STREAMS ENTIRE "SNYDER" ALBUM

Swedish death thrash metal band Feared, featuring guitarist Ola Englund from The Haunted are streaming their new album entitled "Synder" in its entirety (check the stream below). The album was released today independently and features the following tracks:

1. Synder  

2. Your Demise 

3. Of Iron and Ashes

4. Caligula  

5. My Grief, My Sorrow  

6. Dygder  

7. By Silent Screaming  

8. Wolf at the End of the World

9. My Own Redemption  

10. Dying Day

11. War Feeding War  

12. The Narcissist  

13. Godless Devotion

NOCTURNAL DEPRESSION UNLEASHES "SPLEEN BLACK METAL"

French black metal masters Nocturnal Depression will release their new album, entitled "Spleen Black Metal" on May 25th. The album is the seventh full length release by the band and the follow up to their "Near to the Stars" album released in 2014. The album will be released through Avantgarde Music and will feature the following tracks:

1. Elégie

2. L'isolement

3. Acédie 

4. Méditation grisâtre

5. Un immense désespoir

6. Remords posthume

7. Spleen Black Metal

CHABTAN RELEASES "THE KISS OF COATLICUE"

French mesoamerican death metal band Chabtan will release their new album "The Kiss of Coatlicue" on May 25th. The new release is the band´s debut full length album and the follow up to their "Eleven" EP released in 2013. "The Kiss of Coatlicue" will be released through Mighty Music and will feature the following tracks:

1. The Nahual's Omen

2. Ixtab

3. Born from Vucub Caquix

4. Astral Monsters

5. Anthropomorphic Beast  

6. The Kiss of Coatlicue

7. Follow the Darkest Way 

8. Ah Puch Reign  

9. Reptile  

10. Obsidian Butterfly  

11. Visions of the Snake

DARKENED WINTER RELEASES "AWAITING RAGNARÖK"

Australian ambient black metal band Darkened Winter will release their new album "Awaiting Ragnarök" on May 25th. The new album is the fifth full length album in the band´s career and the follow up to their split with Scolopendra Cingulata and their "Blood Oath" album released in 2014. "Awaiting Ragnarök" will be released through Winterrealm Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Eternal Winter

2. Fenrir: The Destroyer

3. The Serpent of Midgaard  

4. Sons of Muspell

5. Preparing for War

6. As the Worlds Burn (Surturs Wrath)  

7. Embers

CRO-MAGS RELEASES TEASER OF "NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE" REISSUE

Crossover hardcore thrash band Cro-Mags will re-release their classic fourth full length album "Near Death Experience" on May 25th through Punishment 18 Records. The album was originally released through Century Media Records in 1993. The label has made a teaser for the re-release available for streaming (check it below). "Near Death Experience" features the following tracks:

“Say Goodbye To Mother Earth”

“Kali-Yuga”

“War On The Streets”

“Death In The Womb”

“Time I Am”

“Reflections”

“Near Death Experience”

“The Other Side Of Madness”

ENTHRAL RE-RELEASES "THE MIRROR´S OPPOSITE END"

Norwegian black metal band Enthral will re-release their second album "The Mirror´s Opposite End" on May 22nd. The album will be re-released through Necrostable Records. "The Mirror´s Opposite End" will feature the following tracks:

1. When the Sky Touched the Earth

2. In Passion Swept

3. Weltschmerz

4. The Sins of Man

5. Salvation Mother

6. Monochrome

7. The 9th Sphere

8. Call of the Horned Piper - the Sabbat Song

9. The Leaper Play

FROSTHELM RELEASES "SILENT AND DARK, THE EVERLASTING SKY" VIDEO

Thrash black metal band Frosthelm have just released a video for the track "Silent and Dark, The Everlasting Sky". The tune comes from the band´s new album entitled "The Endles Winter". The album was recorded at Clear Lake Recording Studios in Los Angeles and was produced by Eric Milos and Alec Schneider. You can check the video below:

NECRO FOREST RE-RELEASES "ZOV PREDAKA" COMPILATION

Croatian raw black metal band Necro Forest are re-releasing their compilation "Zov Predaka" in a very limited edition of 25 cassettes on May 23rd. The compilation was originally released on March 25th on digital version. The new edition will be done through Schwarz Klang Produktionen. Necro Forest also will release a full length album in June entitled "Slavic Invasion". "Zov Predaka" will feature the following tracks:

1. Intro

2. Winter Realm

3. Call of Blood

4. Lunar Madness

5. Battle Horns of Slavs

6. A Call from the Woods...

7. Hate Division

8. Full Moon Mayhem

9. Summoning of the Elder Winds

10. Dreadful Incantation

11. Krv i čast

12. Outro

REX AVERNUS RELEASE "FIRE AND CRUELTY" EP

Chilean black thrash metal band Rex Avernus will release their new EP, entitled "Fire and Cruelty" on May 23rd. The new EP is the second release by the band and the follow up to their 2012 demo. The EP was recorded in Mazazor Studios and was mastered and mixed by Deathpreacher on Satan Cross. the EP will be released on cassette in a limited edition of 200 copies. "Fire and Cruelty" will feature the following tracks:

1. WE MOST RETURN TO THE FIRE AND CRUELTY 

2. CREMEACION DEMONIACA  

3. ASMODEUS (SEX SEX SEX)  

4. REX AVERNUS  

5. INFERNAL BLACK METAL  

6. POSSESSED BY WRATH (THE WAY OF THE BERSERK)

 

E-FORCE STREAMS NEW ALBUM TEASER

E-Force, the band featuring former Voivod frontman Eric Forrest, will release their new album entitled "Demonikhol", on June 9th in North America and June 19th in Europe via Mausoleum Records. The new album is a concept album, with alcohol as the subject matter illustrating the ravages and destruction of all kinds it is capable of causing. E-Force has made an audio teaser  available. The lead guitar parts on the record were delivered by guitarists: Vincent Agar (Yotangor/ Lust), Tomáš Skořepa, (Exorcizphobia), neo-classical Antonello Gilliberto, Dan Baune (Monument), and Rob Urbinati (Sacrifice).
You can check the teaser below:

DECREPID STREAMS NEW TRACK "DEATH WALKS ABOVE"

British death metal band Decrepid is streaming the tune "Death Walks Above". The band will release their new album, entitled "Osseous Empire" in June 2015 through Xtreem Music label. The album, the sucessor of their debut album "Devoted to Death" released in 2011, was originally intended for a 2014 release, but lineup changes forced the band to delay their plans until 2015. You can check "Death Walks Above" below:

STARKILL RELEASES LYRIC VIDEO FOR "WINTER DESOLATION"

Melodic death power metal band Starkill has just released a video for the track "Winter Desolation". the tune is part of the band latest album "Virus of the Mind" released in late 2014. "Virus of the Mind" is the band´s second full length release.  The band will start a North American tour with Sepultura with a few headline shows to warm up. You can check the "Winter Desolation" lyric video below:

WRVTH STREAMS "INTO BLOOM" LYRIC VIDEO

California technical death metal band Wrvth, (formerly known as Wrath Of Vesuvius), have just released a video for the tenth track of their new album, “Into Bloom". The new album, entitled "Wrvth" was Recorded, mixed and mastered by Zack Ohren (Suffocation, Fallujah, All Shall Perish) at SharkBite/Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland, California. You can check the video for "Into Bloom" below:

UNDERGANG STREAMS NEW TRACK "KOGT I BLOD"

Danish death metal band  Undergang are streaming a new track entitled “Kogt I Blod” (check it below). The tune is part of the band´s new album "Døden Læger Alle Sår" that will be released through Dark Descent Records on July 10th. There will ne also a vinyl version that will be released on Me Saco Un Ojo Records. "Døden Læger Alle Sår" was recorded at Earhammer Studio, California.

DISCREATION RELEASES "PROCREATION OF THE WRETCHED"

German death metal band Discreation will release their new album "Procreation of the Wretched" on May 22nd. The new album is the fourth full length release in the band´s career and the follow up to their "The Silence of the Gods" album released in 2013. "Procreation of the Wretched" will be released through F.D.A. Rekotz and will feature the following tracks:

1. Planetary Punishment  

2. Descending to Abysmal Darkness  

3. Megacorpse  

4. Procreation of the Wretched

5. The Hunter  

6. To Cosmic Shores  

7. Corporate Hatred  

8. Decapitation Marathon  

9. Your Good Shelter  

10. Dead Certainties

ORCHID RELEASES "SIGN OF THE WICKED" EP

San Francisco, California doom metal band Orchid will release their new EP entitled "Sign of the Wicked" on May 22nd. The new EP is the follow up to the band´s compilation "The Zodiac Sessions" released in 2013 and their full length album "The Mouths of Madness"released the same year. The EP will be released on CD and 10" vinyl through Nuclear Blast Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Sign of the Witch  

2. John the Tiger  

3. On Strange Winds  

4. Burning Eastern Skies

MONTES INSANIA RELEASES "ABSURDUM"

Ukrainian post black metal band Montes Insania will release their new album entitled "Absurdum" on May 21st. The new album is the band´s second full length release and the follow up to their debut album "Song from Behind a Gray Veil" released in 2013. The album will be released in a limited edition of 500 copies through Symbol of Domination Prods and will feature the following tracks:

1. Naught  

2. Absurdum  

3. God of Dust  

4. At Final Was Nothing  

5. Etude in Color of Past  

6. Hospice for All  

7. Farther and Farther  

8. Of Memory  

9. Fadding World  

10. Escape  

11. Nihilist  

12. Porcelain Swan  

13. Black Road 

SKINLESS STREAMS "BARBARIC PROCLIVITY"

Death metal masters Skinless are streaming the track "Barbaric Proclivity". The tune comes from the band´s new album "Only The Ruthless Remain" that will be released in two weeks. The album was recorded by Tom Case at Edie Road Studio and Doomsday Bunker Studio, with vocals tracked by Dave Otero (Cephalic Carnage, Primitive Man) at Flatline Audio in Denver, Colorado, and mastered by Brad Boatright (Obituary, Nails, Integrity) at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon. The album is the first band´s full length album in almost a decade.

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ANATOMY OF I RE-RELEASES "SUBSTRATUM" + ALBUM TEASER

Death metal band Anatomy Of I featuring vocalist/guitarist Michael Dorrian, bassist Steve DiGiorgio (Sadus, Death, Testament) and drummer Dirk Verbeuren (Scarve, Soilwork), will release a Special Edition of their debut album "Substratum", originally released in 2011. the band has made a teaser video available (check it below). The album will be available on May 25th through Punishment 18 Records. It will contain bonus tracks consisting of two remixed and remastered songs and one exclusive new song.

KANSEIL RELEASES "DOIN EARDE"

Italian folk metal band Kanseil will release their new album, entitled "Doin Earde" on May 20th. The new album is the debut full length release by the band and the follow up to their "Tzimbar Bint" demo released in 2012. "Doin Earde" will be released through Nemeton records in a limited edition of 100 copies. "Doin Earde" will feature the following tracks:

1. Lo Spirito della Notte

2. Ciada Delàmis

3. Dòin Earde

4. Panevìn

5. Ais un Snea

6. Mažaròl

7. Bus de la Lùm

8. Bosc da Rème

9. Tzimbar Bint

10. La Sera

11. Vajont

VELOCITER UNLEASHES "HEIR OF SOLITUDE" EP

Danish heavy thrash metal band Velociter will release a new EP entitled "Heir of Solitude" on May 20th. The new EP is the third release in the band´s career, being the EP "Hangar of Doom" released in 2013 and the single "Heir of Solitude" released in 2014, the other two releases. "Heir of Solitude" will be released independently and will feature the following tracklist:

1. Shadowbreed  

2. Room 309

3. Mental Suicide 

4. The Long Parade to the Graveyard 

5. Heir of Solitude

PERENNIAL ISOLATION RELEASES "ASTRAL DREAM"

Spanish atmospheric black metal band Perennial Isolation will release their new album entitled "Astral Dream" today May 19th. The new album will be released in a limited edition of 500 copies through Darkwoods Records and was recorded, mixed and mastered at AXtudio (Barcelona) in the winter of 2014. The album will feature also clean vocals on the track "The Fool" by Norax (Lvx Divina). The album´s artwork & layout was done by el dios perezoso for PuertaOskura (www.puertaoskura.com), Winter 2015. "Astral Dream" features the following tracks:

1. Alone against all

2. Memory

3. Astral dream

4. Cold inside

5. Transcendence

6. Towards the unknown senses

7. The fool

8. A path between space and time I

9. A path between space and time II

10. A path between space and time III

GUTTER INSTINCT RELEASES "THE INSURRECTION" EP

Swedish death metal band Gutter Instinct will release their new EP entitled "The Insurrection" today May 19th. The new EP is the second release in the band´s career and the follow up to their "Obedience" demo released in 2013. The EP will be released in 12" vinyl through Prosthetic Records. "The Insurrection" will feature the following tracks:

Side A

1. War Command  

2. Under the Scythe 

Side B

3. The Invisble Hand

4. We Hate You

XUL UNLEASHES "EXTINCTION NECROMANCE" EP

Canadian blackened death metal Xul will release their new EP, entitled "Extinction Necromance" on May 19th. The EP is the third release in the band´s career. The previous releases are the "Malignance" full length album released in 2012 and the "Summon the Swarm" single released in early 2015. "Extinction Necromance" will be released independently and will feature the following tracks:

1. Frozen, We Drown  

2. Orbit of Nemesis 

3. Chaos Requiem  

4. Summon the Swarm

SECRETS OF THE SKY RELEASES "PATHWAY"

Oakland, California blackened doom metal band Secrets of the Sky will be releasing their new album "Pathway" on May 19th. The new album is the band´s second full length release and the follow up to their debut album "To Sail Black Waters" released in 2013. "Pathway" will be released through Metal Blade Records and will feature the following tracklist:

1. I  

2. Three Swords

3. II  

4. Angel in Vines 

5. Another Light

6. III  

7. IV  

8. Garden of Prayers  

9. V  

10. Fosforos  

11. VI  

12. Eternal Wolves  

13. VII

VENOMOUS MAXIMUS RELEASES "FIREWALKER"

Heavy doom metal band from Houston, Texas will release their new album "Firewalker" on May 19th. The new album is the band´s second full length release and the follow up to their debut album "Beg upon the Light" released in 2012. "Firewalker" will be released through Shadow Kingdom Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Intro

2. White Rose

3. Through the Black  

4. Dark Waves  

5. Oct 14th  

6. Firewalker Theme  

7. Angel Heart  

8. My Machine  

9. Fire in the Night  

10. Take on the Grave

DOOMED RELEASES "WRATH MONOLITH"

German death doom metal band Doomed will release their new album, entitled "Wrath Monolith" on May 18th. The new album is the fourth full length release by the band and the follow up to their "Our Ruin Silhouettes" album released in 2014. The first 100 copies of the album willbe released in a limited edition digipack. "Wrath Monolith" will be released through Solitude Productions and will feature the following tracklist:

1. Paradoxon

2. Our Ruin Silhouettes

3. Euphoria’s End  

4. The Triumph - Spit

5. Looking Back

6. I’m Climbing

VORUM UNLEASHES "CURRENT MOUTH" EP

Finnish death metal outfit Vorum will release their new EP entitled  "Current Mouth" on May 18th. The EP is the second one in the band´s career (the first one was "Grim Death Awaits" released in 2009) and the follow up to the band´s debut full length "Poison Void" released in 2013. "Current Mouth" will be released through Sepulchral Voice Records and will feature the following tracklist:

1. Angels Death

2. Tri Ennial

3. In Grime in Lust  

4. Current Mouth  

5. Hungry Wounds

PROFANATOR RELEASES "MVTTER VICIVM"

Mexican tharsh metal band Profanator will release their new album, entitled "Mvtter Vicivm" on May 18th. The new album is the third full length release in the band´s career and the follow up to their "Deathplagued" album released in 2009 (the band also released a compilation in 2010). "Mvtter Vicivm" will be released through Chaos Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Mvtter Vicivm  

2. Plague Is Rising  

3. Wormed  

4. Narcocracy  

5. Point of No Return  

6. She Wolves Kalashnikov

7. From Womb to Tomb  

8. Life Is Not