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: