SILENCED MINSTREL RELEASE "VOLUME 5"

 

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Silenced Minstrel (age 44 years, born Saiful Nizam Shukor, 28 th March 1976) was a full time singer, songwriter musician from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Been playing music since 1991 he co-founded HALUN, a gothic black metal band back in 1996, produced several demos, one EP and one LP before the badly deformed monstrosity was laid to rest in 2015. Writing and producing mostly in his bedroom studio nicknamed “Sky Panacea Enterprise” he spent the entire 2016 gathering writing and recording materials for his debut album “Volume 1” choosing to name it as such as to not make it sounds too rockstar-ish.

“Volume 1” is a combination of melodic gothic stuff mixed with thrash, death and doom metal riffs and black metal atmosphere, utilizing the most basic of guitar effects, cheap keyboards/ synthesizers and MIDI orchestra throughout the entire album to produce something that he’d always wanted to do: anything that didn’t sound like his former band! The album is completed in September but it be long after the production of the second album was underway when that album graced the scene...

The second album “Volume 2” saw some maturity in his songwriting, the MIDI orchestra part ditched altogether and it also saw a fair amount of rough edges deliberately highlighted in the mix, and a lot more gothic atmosphere throughout than before especially in the lyrics department, where he wrote songs about the occult, immortality, vampirism and forbidden love between the mortal and the damned, also some cryptic poetic inclinations thrown to the mix just for the heck of it.

The third album “Volume 3” saw him moving ever closer towards a more melodic black metal sound than the old one, this time the long ditched MIDI orchestra element restored along with some double-layered bass guitar tracks and even gloomier atmosphere than before, reflecting the state of his mind, body, spirit and environment that he’s at during that period of time; with traces of anger, hatred, betrayal and vengeance gracing every song in the album (he fully recovered from his decade long clinical depression that same year).

The fourth album “Volume 4” saw him disposing of all the gothic melodic stuff and straight into just vocals guitars bass and drums, trying to go as dry and as harsh as he can, tackling on darker themes like deviant spirituality, Satanism, atheism, philosophy and dark fantasy. Fast tempo is the name of the game; the drums gained more prominence and absolutely no melodic stuff present on this album.

The fifth album “Volume 5” saw the further development of sound and direction from the previous album, adding also an orchestral style instrumental black metal song as the last track of the album, a song that hearkens back to his old days in HALUN.

The artist is currently occupied promoting his new album, gathering materials for the sixth album and also working on his other band “Shadowed Grace” playing New Age Scifi Fantasy Instrumental Synthesizer music. Silenced Minstrel is unsigned and is looking for exposure, a recording contract and developing fanbases all across the globe.

Band: Silenced Minstrel

Formed: 2016

Band member (s):

Silenced Minstrel – All instruments, vocals, sound engineer, programmer, producer

Genre: Death/Black/Gothic Metal

Country: Malaysia

Label: Unsigned

BAND AND ALBUM LINKS:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SilencedMinstrel

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SilencedMinstr1

Bandcamp: https://silencedminstrel.bandcamp.com/album/volume-5

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/saifulnizam_shukor

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3bzBoq26KOir3aZ9i2ObcE

ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/1442050547

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqCp_xPAXg-9bljJguBa3hQ?view_as=subscriber

BLACK VATICAN RELEASE "ARCANA LAMENT"

 

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Black Vatican - "Arcana Lament"

Self-Released

DIGITAL | CD

Gothic Metal from USA

Black Vatican formed in 2015 in the underground music scene of Kansas City, USA. After many tests and trials, the band solidified its current lineup, with Erick Ramos on bass and lead vocals and Cole Roberts on lead guitar. Black Vatican’s sound can be described as symphonic Gothic metal. Their music incorporates atmospheric elements while still maintaining brute blackened blast beats and rapid riffs. Their lyrics draw inspiration from a wide range of classic poetic sources, including Shakespeare and world mythology. Black Vatican is not currently signed with a record label. They are independently spreading their unique sound around the world and increasing their popularity with every new track they release. The goal of Black Vatican is to spread the influence of Goth music and aesthetic to all and keep the genre alive for future generations.

Line-up:

Erick Ramos - vocals, bass 

Cole Roberts - guitars

Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackvatican6

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3x8Ne2MTdsIGcKGzbP9bdi?si=MRakX5e3QR-FhSL-MO3wKA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vatican.black676

SHRINES OF DYING LIGHT RELEASE "SADNESS"

 

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Shrines of Dying Light

Sadness

Release date: Friday, November 13th 2020

Label: Self-Released

Format: CD | DIGITAL

Sadness is the second record from Swiss Melancholic Doom Metal band Shrines of Dying Light. It's a concept album about personal development and a very intimate piece of music.

Sadness was recorded and produced by Shrines of Dying Light's lead guitarist Roman Zemp (Zerom Music).

Mixing and Mastering by Michael Hahn at Rosenquarz Tonstudio, in Lubeck, Germany.

Tracklist:

Entering Infinity (Prelude)

Whispers (Sadness Part 1)

Tragedy in the Woods

Flowers

Into Singularity (Interlude)

Saddest Man (Sadness Part 2)

Void

Farblos

Solitude (Postlude)

Line-up:

Julian - Rhythm Guitar + Vocals

Roman - Lead Guitar

Roger - Bass

Michael - Drums

Credits:

Sadness was recorded and edited by Shrines of Dying Light Lead Guitarist Roman Zemp (Zerom Music).

Mixing and Mastering was made by Michael Hahn of Rosenquarz Tonstudio in Lubeck Germany. 

Links:

www.facebook.com/shrinesofdyinglight

www.instagram.com/shrinesofdyinglight

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBGpMfBxcFHlAuPnwFyDKQ

DODENKROCHT RELEASE "THE DYING ALL"

 

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Dutch black metal horde Dodenkrocht are back with their most ambitious work to date! Set to be released on November 27th via Auric Records, "The Dying All" is a manifestation of darkness and despair, that is both eerie and hypnotizing. Besides the CD edition, "The Dying All" will be available as a limited edition Box incl. the "Death Worship" bonus CD, Patch, Metal-Pin, Postcards and Sticker. The distribution will be handled by CODE7/Plastic Head & Edel Distribution. For fans of Shining, Secrets of the Moon, Urfaust, Forgotten Tomb, Nortt, Stabat Mater, Deathspell Omega.

  

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/DodenkrochtOfficial

https://www.instagram.com/dodenkrocht_blackmetal/

https://www.auricrecords.net

https://auricrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-dying-all

https://www.instagram.com/auric_records/

https://www.youtube.com/user/AuricRecords

VOREUS ANNOUNCE "THE PROCLAMATION" MCD

 

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Sentient Ruin is proud to join forces with German black/death metal legion Voreus top bring you their incinerating debut MLP "The Proclamation". dropping in early December on LP, cassette and digital formats. The devastating mini album is a twenty three-minute light-devouring hellscape of complete chaos and inhumanity that establishes the band as an implacable rising force in the elite of German extreme metal. With a massive cavernous sound, a delivery of pure and unbridled ferocity and atmospheres of complete lightlessness and abandon "The Proclamation" evokes complete hell on earth, conjuring the same otherworldly and hellish realms of aural obliteration we've seen in highly elitarian and evocative blackened death metal entities like Teitanblood, Temple Nightside, Vassafor, Impetuous Ritual, Pseudogod, and Proclamation.

A glimpse into the devastating release has been provided by Antichrist Magazine, who have premiered the crushing self-titled track from the release, you can check out their feature HERE.

Formed by members of Cult of Extinction, Imperceptum, and Funeral Procession among others, Voreus coalesced in 2018 as a new untamable force in the elite of the german extreme metal underground to harness a higher sphere of almost regal aural obliteration and birth the devastating debut short-player, which however remained unreleased for two years, and it wasn’t until late 2020 that the band and Sentient Ruin came together to finally birth the abomination in physical format. Influenced by the highest order of otherworldly extreme metal demigods like Teitanblood and Pseudogod, Voreus have likewise forged a sound of such intimidating magnitude and destructive yield, that their tyrannical dominion has been already been established among the elite ranks of European extreme metal and beyond, right there among the primeval forces of the genre which originally inspired to them take the thresholds of sonic annihilation to their limits and with such a refined and intimidating formal and substantial approach to the craft.

"The Proclamation" is officially out on December 4 2020 on LP, cassette and digital formats, and can now be pre-ordered on our store and Bandcamp.

https://voreus.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Voreus-768749019818399/

OXIDIZE RELEASE NEW SINGLE "FROZEN" (MADONNA COVER)

 

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Swedish melodic metal combo OXIDIZE proudly announce the worldwide release of their new single "FROZEN" Madonna Cover.

The single is available HERE!

Early this year, OXIDIZE have relelased their critically acclaimed debut album "DARK CONFESSIONS" via Wormholedeath, that gathered unanimous positive response from both critics and audience.

Get a copy of  "DARK CONFESSIONS" following the links below :

CD : https://www.auralwebstore.com/DarkConfessions

Digital: https://orcd.co/q9p95dm  / oxidize.bandcamp.com/album/dark-confessions

In the spring of 2017 Oxidize was started. The goal was to find the people that wanted to work together, had the same taste of music, were friends and not totally unfamiliar with the music industry. It’s not easy to find them when you start to search in your head (network). But after a good nights sleep, the day after I (Per) quitted Arctic Void, I contacted Anton Darusso, the lead singer in the band Wings of Destiny/Darusso. I found Anton through Power Prog’s webpage. He was on the same record company that Arctic Void was signed to. I mailed him two demo songs and Anton Agreed to do them. So the singer was on board and now it was time to get in touch with the rest of the people that I thought about;

I called Niclas Karlsson, (lead guitar)(Crystal Eyes, Zonata, Fierce Conviction) I needed a guy who could bend strings and had an awesome technique. He have also a stage presence that’s good for live performances. He jumped on board and we started to work on the material. Drummer, Mika Vainio, (Mrs. Hippie, Hardcore superstar, Brassmonkey, etc.) a guy I learned to know a few years back through a photo sessions with Brassmonkey. Skilled drummer with a lot of qualities. He visited me in the studio and he also agreed to join up with Oxidize, so now was the band complete. :)

OXIDIZE ONLINE

https://www.facebook.com/Oxidize.Sweden

https://www.instagram.com/oxidizeband

https://twitter.com/wormholedeath

https://www.instagram.com/wormholedeath_records

http://www.wormholedeath.com/

HOUKAGO GRIND TIME RELEASE "BAKYUNSIFIED (MOE TO THE GORE)" + LYRIC VIDEO FOR "A MANUAL OF WAYS TO OCCUPY ONESELF WHOLE WAITIN IN LINE FOR LIMITED"

 

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California one-man mincegore band HOUKAGO GRIND TIME - featuring Andrew Lee (Ripped to Shreds, Azath) - has released debut album Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore). Stream/purchase the album at: houkagogrindtime2.bandcamp.com/album/bakyunsified-moe-to-the-gore

The band has also released a lyric video for the song "A Manual of Ways to Occupy Oneself While Waiting in Line for Limited," courtesy of Slam Worldwide. Check it out at: youtu.be/M3xJ27wkph8

"Eschews goregrind’s lyrical gore, slaughtering only in sound. The one-man band from Ripped to Shreds‘ Andrew Lee may SOUND like Carcass, Regurgitate and Mortician, but the only thing he’s dissecting is anime."

- Decibel

"Twenty minutes of having your face pulled off and fed back to you."

- The Razor's Edge

"Andrew Lee is a grindcore savant, and it shows in the quality of Houkago Grind Time. Beyond the novelty of it all, BAKYUNSIFIED (MOE TO THE GORE) delivers a pretty sweet platter of grinding goodness that fans of the genre will appreciate."

- Metal-Rules

"This is likely one of the most brutally wholesome albums ever to crawl out of the sausage grinder."

- Metal Storm

"A 20-minute shock to system that delivers a satisfying slab of utter brutality. You know, the kind that makes your hair stand on end, eyeballs melt and eardrums explode."

- Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life

Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore) is available on 12" gatefold LP and digital format through Outrageous Weeb Power Productions (US), Grindfather Productions (UK), and Psychocontrol Recs (CZ). The album was recorded and mixed at Andrew's Weeb Dungeon studio, and mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves.

The official video for album track "Ruptured in Akkariin," courtesy of Goniloc YouTube Channel, is available now at: youtu.be/xGFLaSKdOOI

Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore) is a love letter and a statement of devotion to Kyoto Animation's classic moe anime boom of the mid 2000s. Taking cues from K-On, a show full of friendship, growth, and positivity, Bakyunsified rejects the violence and hatred pervading the current state of the world, eschewing the genre conventions of blood, guts, and porn. In a short twenty minutes, HOUKAGO GRIND TIME celebrates the minutiae of otaku culture while simultaneously questioning the validity of substituting true interpersonal relationships for passive consumption of the simulacra of such. Punky Carcass riffs float over a bed of ultra fast blastbeats and dbeats, punctuated by bowel churning pitchshifted gurgles. Pillars of grindcore like Dave (PLF) and Leon (Impaled) contribute guest solos, and Colin Marston's dense mastering ensures that every second of every microsong suffocates the listener beneath a thousand heartwarming fluffs. In short: fuck you, it's anime goregrind.

Track List

A1 Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore)

A2 Houkago Grind Time

A3 Effortless Regurgitation of Kyoani Moeblobs

A4 Endless Eight Part 2

A5 Ruptured in Akkariin

A6 Hey Toshino Kyoko

A7 A Manual of Ways to Occupy Oneself While Waiting in Line for Limited Edition Merch

A8 Endless Eight Part 6

A9 Walk Her Home Gently

A10 War Bad

B1 Moe: Nani?

B2 Makoto Shinkai Has a Goatee

B3 M is for Moe

B4 Is the Order a Blastbeat?

B5 P is for Keikaku

B6 Fuwa Fuwa Grind

Album Credits

Recorded and mixed at the Weeb Dungeon by Andrew

Mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, the Thousand Caves

Layout by Kiryu Zhang

Inner illustration by Emmy Toyonaga

BIO

Andrew met goremaster Harlan at a Fake Meat/RTS show in Taiwan of 2019, who invited him to play with Extremely Brutal at Antimusic Fest the same year. Inspired by learning EB's gore riffs and his love of anime, Andrew started his own one man mincecore/goregrind band, and released 4 demos/splits in the space of 5 months under his own banner of Outrageous Weeb Power Productions.

facebook.com/houkagogrindtime

houkagogrindtime2.bandcamp.com

instagram.com/rippedtoshredsdeathmetal/

Line-up

Andrew - drums, guitar, vokills, bass

Harlan - lead guitar (Moe:Nani?, P is for Keikaku)

Dave Callier - lead guitar (War Bad)

Leon - lead guitar (Makoto Shinkai has a Goatee)

Brandon - vocals (Is the Order a Blastbeat?)

Sleazy Derek - vocals (Ruptured in Akkariin)

Tom G - vocals (Endless Eight Part 2)

VICIOUS RUMORS RELEASE VIDEO FOR "ASYLUM OF BLOOD"

 

Californian heavy power metal masters VICIOUS RUMORS have just released a video for the tune "Asylum of Blood". The track is taken from the new album "Celebration Decay" that has be released and can be ordered here: https://viciousrumors.lnk.to/CelebrationDecay

The video was produced by Jimmie Evans at Electric Punishment Studios in Santa Rosa Ca.

More infos and tourdates at: http://www.viciousrumors.com

https://www.facebook.com/ViciousRumorsThisIsMetal

https://www.instagram.com/viciousrumorsband/

https://twitter.com/viciousrumors

SHATTER BRAIN RELEASE LYRIC VIDEO FOR "CHOOSING BEGGARS"

 

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Adelaide based metal outfit Shatter Brain release a brand new music video for the song 'Choosing Beggars', fourth single and fourth song on their debut album 'Pitchfork Justice' out via Wormholedeath/Aural Music Group.

"Although the meat of the track is relatively short, the outro takes the listener on an epic, almost hypnotic journey as it fades out to end Side A of the record. The lyric video is part animated and part performance, and was assembled by Chalky Hill of Moshriff Creative. Chalky has done an excellent job of highlighting the album's incredible artwork, which was created by Adelaide-based artist Steve Lehmann. The performance footage was recorded by the band themselves during the brief COVID lockdown period in Adelaide earlier in 2020."

'Pitchfork Justice' is available worldwide :

Digital : https://orcd.co/pxddm5a

CD: https://www.auralwebstore.com

Vinyl and merchandise available at the Shatter Brain Online Store: https://shatterbrainmetal.square.site

About 'Pitchfork Justice':

"For lovers of chequered brachial music there will be hardly a way around this one."- Mangorave

"Shatter Brain are a rising force in Australian metal."-Loudmag

"it’s easy to imagine Shatter Brain growing into a significant player in the realms of Black Breath and Power Trip"-Metal-Observer

"“Pitchfork Justice” is a welcome reminder that in 2020 you can still have thrash metal that sounds fresh with just enough more modern elements" -Blessedaltarzine

Shatter Brain are an Adelaide based metal band comprised of members of some of South Australia’s most successful heavy bands.  The band draws on an eclectic but coherent range of influences and seamlessly blends fast, razor-tight rhythms with laid back grooves. Their sound is reminiscent of its contemporaries, such as High on Fire, Merauder, Black Breath, and Power Trip, with the occasional nod to classic metal and crossover.

Shatter Brain launched in January 2018, releasing a four-song demo that was mastered by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust, Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy). In 2020 they released their debut album 'Pitchfork Justice' via Wormholedeath/Aural Music Group.

https://www.facebook.com/shatterbrainmetal

https://twitter.com/shatterbrainaus

https://www.instagram.com/shatterbrainmetal

https://www.shatterbrainmetal.com/

https://www.facebook.com/WormHoleDeath

https://twitter.com/wormholedeath

https://www.instagram.com/wormholedeath_records

http://www.wormholedeath.com/

CRAWLING CHAOS STREAM NEW SINGLE "ISHNIGARRAB, OR THE AWFUL OFFSPRING OF THE GOAT"

 

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Italian death metallers CRAWLING CHAOS will release their new album "XLIX" on November 20th 2020 via Time To Kill Records.

Today, the band has released an exclusive stream of the new single "Ishnigarrab, Or The Awful Offspring Of The Goat" in some media (you can check it below).

The record's opening track, "My Golden Age", is still streaming AT THIS LOCATION.

"XLIX", a concept album loosely based on "The Prince", the renown book written by Niccolò Machiavelli in the XVI century, was mixed and produced by renown Italian producer Simone Mularoni.

Devotees of influential modern death metal merchants like Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance and Decapitated have a new band to champion.

"XLIX" tracklist:

01. My Golden Age

02. The Prince Is Here

03. Block And A Bloody Knife

04. 49th, Or The Law Of Desperation

05. Ishnigarrab, Or The Awful Offspring Of The Goat

06. Covered In Debris

07. Doom Of Babylonia

CRAWLING CHAOS was founded in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. In January 2009, the band released its first home-recorded EP, "Goatsuckers". Even if the EP got many positive reviews by the metal media, it was just an appetizer mainly distributed for promotional purposes.

In the following years, the band plunged deep in the writing process of new music. In December 2012, the band recorded its first full-length, "Repellent Gastronomy", at Domination Studios. Produced and mixed by Simone Mularoni, the album was released on November 2013 via Memorial Records.

In the wake of "Repellent Gastronomy"’s great reception, a work praised by many international metal webzines, the band’s live activity took off: between 2013 and 2016, CRAWLING CHAOS played dozens of gigs all around Italy supporting international acts such as Suffocation, The Monolith Deatchult, Havok, Skeletonwitch, Hideous Divinity, Necrosy, Dark Lunacy and more.

In December 2019, the band re-entered the studio in order to record its second full-length, "XLIX", a concept album inspired by Machiavelli’s notorious book "The Prince". Once again, the record was mixed and produced by Simone Mularoni.

Watch for new details, singles and more news on other upcoming activities to be posted shortly.

Line up:

Manuel Guerrieri – “MG” – Guitars, Vocals

Andrea Velli – “Shub” – Guitars, Backing Vocals

William Leardini – “Will” – Fretless Bass

Edoardo Velli – “Yog” – Drums

CRAWLING CHAOS

facebook.com/crawlingchaosit

crawlingchaos.bandcamp.com

Time To Kill Records

facebook.com/timetokillrecords/

https://www.timetokill-records.com/