LIFELOST RELEASE "PUNITIVE DAMNATION"

 

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LIFELOST – PUNITIVE DAMNATION

LABEL: ONISM PRODUCTIONS

RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 10th 2021

“It is a journey to another world, to a dark and chaotic cosmos, where time, words and human hierarchies lack meaning, where a supernatural pain underlies as punishment. Ancient cursed presences observe and manipulate the bravest paladins locked in an abysmal limbo turned into ghostly spectres, perpetuating their suffering after an inglorious death, in labyrinthine spaces, almost dreamlike, beyond human reality, controlling their reality from portals of fire and blood. A holocaust directed by perverse and supernatural entities, quasi gods, who seek to sink human morality with a mysterious end, where the worst hell is to exist...” - Phlegeton

With the second creation to emerge under the Lifelost banner, his solo endeavour, Phlegeton (Wormed, Banished From Inferno etc) has created something more than a simple album. He has fashioned from the darkness an alternative dimension that hangs between the ice-shard eyes of the constellations, cradled in the blackness beyond the reach of human understanding. With each haunting, harrowing hymn that unfurls from the nest of serpents that is Punitive Damnation, the damned geometry of this other world’s tortured architecture gains strength. The visions form around the listener, taking on substance, the cold shadows of the interstellar domain bleeding through the sunlight of our reality. For those of a questing spirit Punitive Damnation can be a portal to glorious nightmares and alien splendour, a Fall into the fire.

Freezing riffs tumble past like showers of stars, while each song displays an essence of primordial chaos – unrestrained, unbeholden to form and physical reality. Phlegeton has breached the wall behind which the dark seas of the void rage for eternity, siphoning a drop of that ineffable other, that force beyond god into Punitive Damnation. Sonic invocations like ‘Miserwolf’ and ‘Time Terror’ will consume you, enthral you and carve open your soul. This is black metal at its most powerful, most imaginative, most unnerving best.

Three years ago Dialogues From Beyond, Phlegeton’s first LifeLost offering stunned reviewers around the world with its depth and intensity, Ave Noctum branding it “the manifestation of something inhuman” in their 9/10 assessment. With Punitive Damnation Phlegeton has walked further into the realms of the unknown, unlocked more doors that were never meant to be opened, and called out in invitation to the dwellers in the dark. On December 10th Onism Productions will offer you a key, a chance to share in the dreams of Phlegeton. If you should heed their summons then hold tight onto your sanity. Listen for the darkness between the notes, the words behind the words and prepare to shed your skin and lift the scales from your eyes.

“We have such sights to show you...” 

– Clive Barker, Hellraiser

Line-up:

Phlegeton - Everything

Genre: Black Metal

For fans of: Leviathan | Svartidauði | Altarage | Abduction

Further Information: 

www.facebook.com/lifelostband 

https://onism.productions/

EARTHLESS ANNOUNCE "NIGHT PARADE OF ONE HUNDRED DEMONS"

 

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EARTHLESS returns with their new album Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons on January 28 via Nuclear Blast, along with a winter tour kicking off January 27th at Los Angeles’ The Echo. The latest from the San Diego-based psych rock power trio -- Isaiah Mitchell (guitar & vocals), Mike Eginton (bass) and Mario Rubalcaba (drums) -- was was recorded with Rubalcaba’s childhood friend Ben Moore, who’s worked with everyone from Diamanda Galas and Burt Bacharach to Ceremony and Hot Snakes. Their sixth album is comprised of two monster songs: the 41-minute title track and the 20-minute “Death To The Red Sun.”

Hear a 3-minute teaser of “Death To The Red Sun” here: https://youtu.be/X6riYs9RCj4

Pre-Order The Album Here: https://nblast.de/EarthlessNightParade 

Pre-Save The Album Here: https://earthless.bfan.link/night-parade

Tracklist:

01 - Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons

02 - Death To The Red Sun

Total Run Time: 61:39 minutes

AVAILABLE FORMATS:

CD Digipak

Digital Album

Gatefold 2LP (black)

Gatefold 2LP (black, 'super audiophile')

Gatefold 2LP (pearl)

Gatefold 2LP (gold)

2LPs will have an etching on the D side

The album and its title were inspired by an ancient Japanese legend in which a horde of demons, ghosts and other terrifying ghouls descend upon sleeping villages at night, once a year. Known as Hyakki Yagyō, or the “Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons,” one version of the tale states that anyone who witnesses this otherworldly procession will die instantly—or be carried off by the creatures of the night. As a result, the villagers hide in their homes, lest they become victims of these supernatural invaders. “My son and I came across the ‘Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’ in a book of traditional Japanese ghost stories,” bassist Mike Eginton explains. “I like the idea of people hiding and being able to hear the madness but not see it. It’s the fear of the unknown.”

Given the record’s inspiration, it should come as no surprise that Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons strikes a more sinister tone than the rest of the band’s catalogue. “It definitely has a darker, almost evil kind of vibe compared to stuff we’ve done in the past,” Rubalcaba says. “There’s more paranoia and noise, and some of Isaiah’s whammy-bar stuff kind of reminds me of these Jeff Hanneman moments in Reign In Blood, where it just seems like everything is going to hell. It’s pretty fun.”

When Eginton wasn’t tracking his bass parts, he worked on the album’s incredible sleeve art. “He really dedicated himself to the project,” Rubalcaba says. “He’d be drawing in the studio with, like, a coal-miner’s lamp on his head while we were doing overdubs. He really knocked it out of the park.” “I basically wanted to draw my interpretation of the folk story,” Eginton explains. “I started researching the different Yōkai—the demons—and really got into it. It was really cool reading about where they came from and what their interactions with humans were. Then I tried to create what I imagined the event might look like. I didn’t get a hundred in there, but I got quite a few.”

Their latest is a return to the epic instrumentals Earthless made their unmistakable name on, whereas 2018’s Black Heaven featured shorter songs and vocals from guitarist Isaiah Mitchell on much of the album—an unprecedented move for the trio. Black Heaven was recorded while Mitchell was living in the Bay Area, which made it difficult for the band to get together and work on the type of long instrumental pieces they’re known for. But, in March 2020 -- specifically, the night the pandemic lockdown kicked in -- Mitchell moved back to San Diego from the Bay Area. Bad timing, perhaps—or maybe perfect timing.

“With Isaiah here, we were able to get together once or twice a week to work on these jams,” Rubalcaba says. “We got back to our original songwriting process of just playing and building off each other little by little. And we actually had the time to do that, which was creatively inspiring.” Plus, they were all on the same page about not wanting to do another record with vocals. “Black Heaven was outside our comfort zone. I think it was a good record, but it was challenging to write songs in a more traditional verse-chorus-verse format. This one was more enjoyable.”

All told, Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons isn’t just a return to the band’s traditional format—it’s a return to their very beginnings. “This album actually has the very first Earthless riff in it,” Eginton reveals. “We just recorded it 20 years after we wrote it. But we’re really happy with how this record came out. We feel it might be our finest to date.”

LEPER ANGEL RELEASE "PEST" EP

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Pest

by Leper Angel

Genre: Black metal

Independent

Tracklist:

1.A Ritual To Channel The Darkest Magick 02:04

2.The Vow 04:13

3.Pest 04:48

4.Death Whispers Through Me 03:48

5.The Burning Of Broken Wings 01:36

6.Leper Angel 02:08

7.The Silence That Follows 03:22

credits

released November 6, 2021

Rakhurz - Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Synthesisers

Nekrosadist - Drums

https://leperangel.bandcamp.com/

https://twitter.com/rakhurz

https://twitter.com/leperangelband

https://instagram.com/leperangelband

VONGRATH RELEASE "OLD WRITINGS" EP

 

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Old writings

by Vongrath

Genre: Black Metal / ambient

Independent

Tracklist:

1.Forgotten kingdom 05:48

2.Ancient ruins 04:24

3.Old times 04:08

4.King's legions 05:26

5.The castle of lord Vongrath 04:48

6.Walking through the ice city 09:08

about

A journey through forgotten lands of ancient kingdom.

Recorded in the dark dungeon a long time ago.

Album cover by Jayran Fern.

credits

released November 10, 2021

https://vongrath.bandcamp.com/

IMMORTAL FOREST RELEASE "HOWLS FROM THE PRIMORDIAL ONES"

 

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Howls From the Primordial Ones

by Immortal Forest

Genre: Black metal

Tracklist

1.Thy Unpleasant Arrival 05:30

2.Howls From the Primordial Ones 04:34

3.Dawn of the Ancients 05:05

4.Woods that Whisper and Sigh 05:16

about

Pro-Cassette; Pre-Order at label webstore starting by Nov.12th.

rebrand.ly/ebps

Marking on the memorable 20th release from Elderblood Productions, we present you Immortal Forest, the dark spectral duo play mystical yet sharp raw black metal as the hidden eyes glistened in the deep forest.

credits

releases December 10, 2021

“Howls From the Primordial Ones” demo was written, composed, and recorded during mid-late 2021. Produced and released exclusively by Elderblood Productions

https://elderbloodproductions.bandcamp.com/album/howls-from-the-primordial-ones