MORGOTH RELEASES LYRIC VIDEO FOR "SNAKESTATE"

German death metal masters Morgoth have just released a lyric video for the track "Snakestate". the tune comes from the band´s latest album, entitled "Ungod". The new album will contain 11 tracks of dark and dismal death metal, combining the untamed ferocity of Morgoth’s "The Eternal Fall" and "Resurrection Absurd" EPs with the atmospheric density of the band’s two legendary albums, "Cursed" and "Odium". You can check the video below:

VERMIS ANTECESSOR RELEASES "DISTURBED ESSENCE" VIDEO

Galician brutal death metal band Vermis Antecessor has released a video for the track "Disturbed Essence" (check it below). Here is a press statement by the band:

"Vermis Antecessor, Galician brutal death metal band, we present a new video today to advance our next album, which we are currently working and which will be our third album.

The chosen track is called "Disturbed Essence" and was recorded live at the second edition of United In Brutality Fest, held last December 6, 2014 at the Berlin Chamber of Ourense.

You can view it through our youtube channel (youtube.com/vermisantecessor) or on our facebook profile (facebook.com/vermisantecessor) "

INQUISITION + EKTOMORF + HACKNEYED + SUICIDE SILENCE CONFIRMED FOR SUMMER BREEZE 2015

Here are the latest bands added to the 2015 edition of the Summer Breeze Open Air Festival.

More info on Inquisition HERE

More info on Ektomorf HERE

More info on Hackneyed HERE

More info on Suicide Silence HERE

DEATH METAL SUPERGROUP GRUESOME RELEASES "SAVAGE LAND"

Here is the press release for the release of death metal supergroup Gruesome´s "Savage Land" (check the preview below):

"GRUESOME is a debilitating death metal faction featuring members of Exhumed, Possessed, Malevolent Creation and Derketa. A respectful celebration of the sound of the early Death records, the collective was borne out of guitarist/vocalist Matt Harvey (Exhumed) and drummer Gus Rios' (Malevolent Creation) mutual involvement with the Death To All tours -- Harvey serving as frontman for the original nine-member mini-tour and Rios performing "Baptized In Blood" and working with DTA drummer Sean Reinert on the following US tour where Exhumed filled in as support on a several dates. The pair stayed in touch and discussed their mutual love (obsession?) for the early half of Death's catalog. After deliberating and ultimately discarding the idea of putting together another incarnation of DTA to focus exclusively on the first two albums, Harvey half-jokingly suggested writing their own songs in that vein. It wasn't long before the idea gained traction, and the "band" had five songs written. With Harvey composing in California, Rios recruited Possessed guitarist Daniel Gonzalez and Derketa bassist Robin Mazen to record the material in Florida, while Harvey tracked his vocals on the West Coast. The result is eight-track debut, Savage Land, a truly gruesome slab of late-'80s/early-'90s Florida-styled death metal. Tragically, there will never be any truly new Death material, but GRUESOME is humbly determined to keeping the band's classic sound alive as faithfully as possible."

"Elaborates Harvey, "We had such a blast writing and recording this album, I just hope people enjoy it half as much as I enjoyed doing it. It was a great experience working with my friends in Florida and getting to write and record my take on the Death sound. I'm beyond happy with the way everything came out and I hope people take it as the loving, respectful piece of work that it is. I know that sounds counterintuitive for a death metal album, but the whole band is really a super nerdy fan letter to Chuck [Schuldiner], James [Murphy], Rick [Rozz], Terry [Butler], Chris [Reifert], Paul [Masvidal], Sean [Reinert], and Stevie D [DiGiorgio] for making records that have given me literally decades of enjoyment. Having had a chance to meet and hang out with all of those dudes from the early Death days, with the exception of Bill Andrews, has been nothing but humbling, rewarding, enlightening and has only deepened my love for the band and made it that much more personal. So I decided to write an album about '80s horror movies and deadly diseases, which is what anyone would do under the circumstances, right? Anyway, if you like late '80s Death, I sincerely hope you enjoy our take on it, which is really what this album is, with all the drippy blood and inverted crosses in the logo that that implies.""

""Savage Land" was recorded by Rios and Gonzalez at Riversound Studios in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, mixed by Jarrett Pritchard at Mana Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida and features a guest guitar solo on "Closed Casket" by James Murphy as well as cover art by legendary illustrator Ed Repka (Death, Megadeth, Massacre, Athiest et el)."

"Savage Land" Track Listing:

1. Savage Land

2. Trapped In Hell

3. Demonized

4. Hideous

5. Gangrene

6. Closed Casket

7. Psychic Twin

8. Gruesome

""Savage Land" will be released in North America via Relapse Records on April 21st, 2015, April 17th in Germany, Benelux and Finland and April 20th in the UK and the rest of the world on CD and digitally. "

GRUESOME:

Daniel Gonzalez - Guitar

Matt Harvey - Guitar, vocals

Robin Mazen - Bass

Gus Rios - Drums

EPHEMEROS RELEASES "ALL HAIL CORROSION" ON VINYL

"Portland death doom collective, EPHEMEROS, is pleased to announce the wax edition of their critically-fawned upon, frown-maker, "All Hail Corrosion".

"Initially unleashed on CD via Seventh Rule Recordings in 2013, "All Hail Corrosion" was tracked and mixed by Fester (Atriarch, Stoneburner) at Haywire Studios, mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, From Ashes Rise, Nails) at Audiosiege Engineering and bestows its listeners with forty traumatic minutes of measured depressive harmonies, soul-crushing growls and haunting chants centered around the imminent decay of humanity. Nodding its heavy, sullen head to the likes of Mournful Congregation, Loss and Asunder whilst delving into deeper, darker, more acerbic death/sludge territory "All Hail Corrosion" is a gutting onslaught of slow, suffocating riffs, scorned vocals and a profound sense of misery, one that Pitchfork dubbed, "the sonic equivalent of oxidizing razors and toppling gravestones," Echoes And Dust likened to, "the soundtrack to one of those nights you're reaching for a bottle or hallucinating a life you never lived and/or never fucking wanted," and Cvlt Nation commended for being, "so simple yet so overwhelming in its emotional structure and ritualistic vibrations."

"All Hail Corrosion" is now available to bring you down on limited edition vinyl, courtesy of Parasitic Records. Contained to 500 copies, the record comes on standard black wax with chipboard jacket a double sided insert and is sure to rumble the infrastructure of your home upon first listen.

BLOODJOB + SHREDS OF FLESH - LIVE IN GIESSEN, GERMANY 20/03/2015

SUICIDE MACHINE + HORRIZON + MOMENT OF DETONATION + IMMORTAL SCORN - Oer-Erkenschwick, GERMANY 06/03/2015

OCCULTATION RELEASES "SILENCE IN THE ANCESTRAL HOUSE" ON VINYL

New York doom metal band Occultation will release their album "Silence in the Ancestral House" on vinyl. Here is the press statement:

"The apparition known in physical form as OCCULTATION materializes with its second full-length LP, "Silence In The Ancestral House", expanding on the twisting, malformed post-punk and cast-iron dark doom first revealed through its "Three & Seven" debut."

"Under the light of the moon, OCCULTATION creeps, crawls and crushes like a many-tentacled abomination using seductive power and hypnotic conjuring on the nine curses contained within. Captured from air in a far more powerful and convincing manner than ever before by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios, the band strikes a mood both sombre and grim, reflecting a contorted, wrecked expression in a cracked mirror through eminently listenable heavy metal sorcery."

"Following its release through Profound Lore Records, 20 Buck Spin through the mist unveils the waxen edition of OCCULTATION’s "Silence In The Ancestral House" for the North American market, which includes the fantastic visual interpretation by Adam Burke on both the cover and the included poster. When ordered direct from 20 Buck Spin the LP comes on gold/black with red splatter, translucent red, and black variants, all includeing a poster and immediate download."

OCCULTATION can be witnessed live at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar on March 22nd with Dispirit, and at this year’s Treefort Music Festival in Boise, Idaho March 25th through 29th with Wolvserpent, Kowloon Walled City and many others, with additional performances to be confirmed.

ENSIFERUM ANNOUNCES US/CANADA TOUR WITH KORPIKLAANI AND TROLLFEST

WARHORSE RE-RELEASES "AS HEAVEN TURNS TO ASH" + TRACK STREAM

Here is the press statement: "With its official reissue now just days away, today Vice Magazine levies the heavy with a stream of "I Am Dying" from legendary Massachusetts doom weavers, WARHORSE (check below).  

The gargantuan psalm comes by way of the band's final EP of the same name, initially unleashed in 2002 and now available as a companion to the band's "As Heaven Turns To Ash..." full-length, both given the reissue treatment by Southern Lord Recordings.Long out-of-print, fervently sought after, and unconditionally vital in foreshadowing the glut of current bands that indulge in slow, self-possessed, infernal low-end sound excursions, WARHORSE's "As Heaven Turns To Ash" and their subsequent "I Am Dying EP" still reeks of brimstone, bong smoke, and burning tube amp nearly fifteen years since their respective releases! Both slabs of doom domination will be combined and reanimated on double LP and digital formats courtesy of the Lord.  

In commemoration of its release, Vice Magazine kicks off your weekend with the sonic enormity of "I Am Dying" noting, "Doom is a careful and meticulous art, and WARHORSE did it right. They blended Sabbath-era blues riffs with obliterating vocals and enough dark walls of sound to transcend all of the usual run-of-the-mill stoner metal. It's a heavy dose of sludge... While bands like Sleep and Electric Wizard encouraged us to 'drop out of life with bong in hand' or mount the dopethrone, WARHORSE conjures a genuine sense of exuberant doom and despair."

Forged in 1996 and lasting the best part of a decade, the output of WARHORSE wallows deep down, grooving at the kind of frequency usually associated with imminent natural disaster. But in addition to their intricate delivery, WARHORSE exuded an experimental, subtle psychedelic swagger which gave rise to gritty and memorable riffs, and saw them sharing stages with the likes of such amplification legends as Electric Wizard, Khanate, Acid King, High On Fire and Unearthly Trance.