We are happy to welcome a new artist to the Brutal Records Roster HEVILAN has signed a deal with the label for worldwide release the title album "Symphony of Good and Evil"
Legendary heavy prog symphonic metal band Hevilan releases the first single from the new album. The track "Devil Within (Part 2) - Hammer of Gods" is now available on all digital platforms and in lyric video format on the band's YouTube channel.
The legendary symphonic heavy metal band is back with their new album, 'Symphony of Good and Evil' , which will be released worldwide by Brutal Records , on March 19, and in Brazil it will be distributed by Voice Music .
"The symphony of good and evil' is a conceptual album, based on the idea of the conflict between good and evil within the human being. The songs bring the band's signature weight and melody, starting with the surprising “Dark Paradise” , followed by the rhythmic “Rebellion of the Saints”, “Great Battle” and “Devil Within (Part2) - Hammer of Gods” . the ballads "Always in my Dreams" and "Waiting for the Right Time" that add balance and provide even more vitality, ending with the epic
"Symphony of good and evil" , which has more than 20 minutes of choirs, orchestras and distorted guitars. , which make up a surprising metallic epic. There are 7 songs in 12 themes in just over 50 minutes that will undoubtedly please and surprise fans of the style. The album also marks the debut of virtuoso drummer Rafael Dyszy commanding the drumsticks on recordings.
HEVILAN:
Johnny Moraes – Guitar
Alex Pasqualle – Vocals
Biek Yohaitus – Bass
Rafael Dyszy – Drums
Hevilan “Symphony of Good and Evil” is an album that contains more than its share of battering rhythms and finely honed, razor-edged riffing, the vocal acrobatics of Alex Pasqualle are solely in the spotlight on compelling symphonies of sludgy, operatic metal like the monstrous leadoff cut "Dark Paradise" and the chillingly thunderous "Great Battle".
The chunky riffing, heavy character and the grit in some of the vocals definitely place HEVILAN more towards the modern heavy prog symphonic metal, but at the same time the melodies, the very good use of a choir and the dynamics and energy clearly show that their roots are firmly planted into the traditional heavy/power metal soil of Brazil. And if Hevilan’s sound would have to be condensed into one word, then “powerful” would probably one of the first ones to come to mind, because the riffing is nothing short of punishing and stands closer to heavy metal than symphonic metal most of the time.
When HEVILAN get going, though, they really go at it, like powerful “Rebellion of the saints”, speed hammer “Devil within part I & II” or the excellent ballad “Always in my dreams”, where the Brazilians prove that they don’t have to hide behind anybody.
Jakarta (IDN) - Torture Banished, the new album from Indonesian Death Metal trio IMMENSE, is out now on Brutal Mind and streaming in its entirety! Visit the links below to stream and/or purchase!
Torture Banished was released on January 23. Fast and catchy brutality is what the aptly named IMMENSE bring to the table on this monstrous album, the band's third. Get ready for nothing short of a massive bombardment of Death!
Brutal Mind continues to bring to the international community's attention the depth and brutality of the fertile Indonesian death metal scene. You can now add IMMENSE's Torture Banished to an ever-growing roster of quality extreme metal!
Track Listing:
1. THE BLOODY VICTIMS
2. TORN OF VEINS
3. BRUTALLY MASSACRE PART II [FEATURING JAKE POSTMORTAL POSSESSION]
Bringing together breathtaking ability and shocking savagery, In Asymmetry take technical brutal death metal to the limits. Uniting current and ex-members of Deeds Of Flesh, The Faceless, Goratory and Inanimate Existence this band is a formidable unit. Following up their acclaimed 2019 demo, Edge Of Divergence, In Asymmetry are now ready to unleash their staggering debut album – Ashes Of Dead Worlds.
The initial impact of Ashes Of Dead Worlds is utterly overwhelming; a bewildering maelstrom of intricately interwoven notes delivered at terrifying velocity and with murderous intent. The gut ripping roar of Taylor Wientjes explodes from the vortex of riffs and blast beats, tearing at your flesh as your sanity collapses in ruins. Yet within this bestial cacophony a clinical intelligence is at work – each instrument working with incredible precision, weaving around each other, locking smoothly together, separating, rearranging, detonating...perfect order within perfect chaos. Songs like ‘Whom Prey On The Weak’, ‘Hatred Towards The Holy Creature’ and ‘In My Own Image And Likeness’ are works of relentless, infernal art. Ashes Of Dead Worlds is rampant and ruthless from start to finish.
With the dedicated support of the world’s premiere extreme music label, Comatose Music, behind them, In Asymmetry are ready to take on all comers. This band are true heavyweights of the technical brutal death metal sub genre and few will even come close to matching their unholy marriage of dexterity and devastation. May 7th is the date decreed for this labyrinthine monstrosity to be uncaged - and for the pretenders to the throne to start running.
You can see the first video from Ashes Of Dead Worlds at Slam Worldwide NOW! See 'Hatred Towards The Holy Creature' here:
We’re proud to announce the release of emerging USBM entity Labored Breath’s towering debut album "Dyspnea", to be released in early April on LP, MC, and digital formats.
Thirty six minutes of soul-destroying evolved black metal, "Dyspnea" is the towering debut offering from this new Oakland CA-based one-man black metal entity, a project conceived as unapologetic devotion to the moment of reckoning of one's ultimate finality, and as a conceptual aural evisceration of mankind's minuscule and pathetic existence within the blink of an eye of an infinite, eternal void. The literal medical definition of gasping for air as the final breath appears at the horizon, and of finite stubborn existence attempting to subvert the infinity and inevitability of death, "Dyspnea" is a harrowing trip deep inside humanity's biggest fears and its all-encompassing insignificance. It is the moment of realization and the crippling instance within one’s existence in which the immensity and omnipotence of death pierces the final and most armored under layers of consciousness and denial and stares at the human being straight in the eye to make it kneel in the shadow of total unavoidability. Bridging the spellbinding atmospherics and evocative power of Icelandic black metal (Sinmara, Carpe Noctem, Misþyrming, Svartidauði) with the crushing violence and brute antagonism of French black metal (Aosoth, Drastus, Antaeus), Labored Breath has created an intimidating and majestic black metal crucible that shape-shifts and morphs in perpetual motion, stirring an immense sinister aural maelstrom of tenebrous surrealism and masterful sonic destruction as ultimate and supreme homage to the omnipotence and splendor of our endless Destroyer.
Leading up the album’s release, the track “Belie” has been unveiled exclusively by Invisible Oranges, with the notorious metal blog asserting that “Dyspnea forges out on a different axis to create a belligerent and intense trail to lesser-tread territory in black metal“ - you can read the full feature and check out the track HERE.
The brainchild of SF Bay Area-based solo musician JK, Labored Breath is the artist's sonic interpretation of the slow and inexorable claiming of death. The idea and concept for the project came to into JK’s mind during the time of self-seclusion imposed by the COVID pandemic, and the times of uncertainty, pessimism, fear, and death which ensued from it worldwide. As a skilled and highly proficient multi instrumentalist, the obligate isolation and lack of opportunities to make music with other people pushed JK to finally pursue a long planned and fully self-exectued solo project with no other instrumentalists involved. It is not purely coincidental that the album is titled “Dyspnea", like the condition which plagues people with difficulty breathing, as the COVID pandemic primarily resulted in widespread respiratory symptoms worldwide, as such the project is a true snapshot of the artist’s reality and of its most harrowing and demoralizing possible outcomes and developments. It is a reflection on death in a time in which death entered everyone’s consciousness and every day reality. It is the onset of reckoning, the moment in which the end comes into sight for the first time in a person's life. It is the total and unmistakeable first manifestation of death to the living, and Labored Breath explores this concept sonically via the implacable and merciless life-devourment of black metal. Aside from the aforementioned French black metal and Icelandic black metal, Labored Breath remains a purely USBM-bred entity with an almost encyclopedic yet defiant approach to the craft, and a strong penchant for unpredictability and unorthodoxy. Bands like Nightbringer, Ruins if Beverast, Blut Aus Nord, as well as certain strains of European funeral doom and death metal are also skillfully referenced or hinted at in the songwriting without ever becoming overly obvious structural identifiers, leaving the project perpetually shrouded in a profound sense of shapeshifting ambiguity.
"Dyspnea" is officially scheduled for an April 2 2021 release date on LP, MC, and digital, and can now be pre-ordered in all formats from our shop or Bandcamp.
Today AVERSED partnered with Decibel Magazine to premiere a full early album stream of Impermanent! Ahead of its official release this Friday, March 19th.
"Melodic death metal unit Aversed are taking the next step in their sonic journey with the release of new album Impermanent, which sees the band begin to move away from their melodic death metal roots to embrace elements of progressive and orchestral metal. Anchored by strong musicianship, Impermanent, streaming below, is an exciting direction for the band."
About The Release
Boston, Massachusetts-based progressive melodic death metallers Aversed are back after its members spent the last few years focusing primarily on their other projects and high-profile live opportunities. The breadth of which includes Seven Spires, a member playing live for Begat The Nephilim and another for Allegaeon/Continuum, and spending time as members of Solium Fatalis and Unflesh previously. The band's debut album, Impermanent, is due out on March 19, 2021.
With the release of Impermanent, Aversed presents a hard-to-categorize metal experience cultivated of unprecedented beauty and torment. The third release following 2011’s self-titled EP and 2016’s Renewal EP, Impermanent marks a turning point for the New England scene veterans as they pivot from melodic death metal towards a nuanced balance of blackened and orchestral melodic metal. Impermanent illustrates Aversed’s unique approach to songwriting with nine diverse compositions full of catchy hooks and vast melodies.
Aversed - Impermanent will appeal to fans of bands that have influenced the release which includes Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Nightwish, Allegaeon, Ne Obliviscaris, The Gathering, In Flames, and many more!
MURKOCET vocalist Richie Jano comments on the song, “We’re proud to release this new single for everyone for the first time in a while, through these tough and frustrating times even we needed some new music to be happy with and we felt like our fans were overdue for something special. We are proud to have Mark Hunter from CHIMAIRA on ‘Dominator’ with us as he has been a metal icon and idol of ours for years and years. With that we hope everyone enjoys the song and shares it with fellow metal lovers who need something new to bang around to.”
Mark Hunter also commented on his involvement on the track, “Its always an honor when bands ask to collab. Especially when those bands bring filthy riffs. Think y'all are gonna dig this one!”
“Dominator” is the band’s first new material since their 2018 EP Epidemic (available here). MURKOCET is currently working on new material for their next album.
MURKOCET: a substance directly attributed to the aggressive and often times violent actions of its user; metaphorically symbolizing their music.
MURKOCET is an American heavy metal band based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Formed in 2013, the band's debut album Digging Mercy's Grave was released on January 14, 2017. The album consists of eleven tracks, two of which have been aired on Phoenix's 98KUPD "Into The Pit" and another that was chosen by indie horror film director, Bob Clark of Reel Bloody Films to be the title track of his movie, 'Strip Club Massacre.' Since their debut, the band has ventured out on multiple North American tours rocking stages in New Mexico, Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, throughout Southern California and The Viper Room in LA. They have shared the stage with headlining acts such as Attila, Exodus, Crowbar, The Browning and more. With a rapidly growing fanbase, the metal quartet landed themselves a spot in Phoenix New Times' article for "13 Best Metal Bands In Metro Phoenix" on August 29, 2017.
Heavily influenced by Lamb of God, Slipknot, and Hatebreed, just to name a few, MURKOCET combines their own musical talents to deliver a highly aggressive and unrelenting sound with a catchy melodic groove. The band's main objective has always been to write material that would not only be exciting musically, but have a strong emphasis on crowd involvement. Their captivating live performance and high energy stage presence prescribes every audience a heavy dose.
MURKOCET is vocalist Richie Jano, guitarist Nate Garrett, drummer Mike Mays and bassist Jared Pettit.
In the midst of the blistering Texan summer of 2009, STEEL BEARING HAND arose from an insatiable thirst for vengeance against all interlopers, blasphemers, and desecrators of Metal. For several years, they waged war in the trenches of house venues, warehouse spaces, and dive bars across America, honing their craft. Finally, in 2015, they released their self-titled debut album, followed by a few tours. Parting ways with their co-founding drummer in 2016, 2017 was spent whetting the blade anew. With their noses to the grindstone, they produced a more refined sound, entering the studio in the summer of 2019 to capture this ultimate incarnation of the band’s character and personality with the fittingly titled Slay In Hell full-length.
Engineered and mixed by Irving Lopez (Morbosidad) at Anomalous Mind Engineering and mastered by Jack Control (Cianide, Darkthrone, World Burns To Death, Totalitär) at Enormous Door Mastering, Slay In Hell comes adorned in the diabolic cover illustration of VRUGARTHDOOM and vomits forth six hellish hymns that pay their respects to the masters – namely Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Autopsy – while maintaining a singular unholy vibe.
As a precursor to the record’s release, STEEL BEARING HAND offers up opening track “Command Of The Infernal Exarch” for communal devouring. Issues the band, “‘Command Of The Infernal Exarch’ depicts a descent into Hell to become a knight in Lucifer’s force in order to kill God and usurp the throne of Heaven. The process of transformation from Mortal to Demon is described, along with the arsenal at hand and the tactics employed in the war on Heaven, God, all his Earthly servants, and the heavenly host.”
Stream STEEL BEARING HAND’s “Command Of The Infernal Exarch” at THIS LOCATION .
Slay In Hell will be released on CD and vinyl via Carbonized Records and cassette through Carbonized and Cimmerian Strength Productions. Preorders will be available this Friday, March 5th via Bandcamp HERE and Carbonized Records HERE .
Toronto's one-man act Malice Divine, created by ex-Astaroth Incarnate guitarist Ric Galvez (also seen as a contestant on Banger TV’s Shredders of Metal Seasons 1 & 2) recently unleashed this past February his debut self-titled album. The record is an excellent example of time spent during the Covid-19 pandemic being put to good use.
The full length showcases nine eclectic tracks of black, death, and thrash metal along with a tinge of classical guitar. For session drums Ric Galvez was joined by Dylan Gowan (Vesperia, Iomair) where they recorded at Monolithic Productions in Oshawa, Ontario with Tyler Williams beginning in January 2020. After the recording process had concluded, the album was re-amped and mixed by Tyler Williams and then mastered by Lasse Lammert (Demons & Wizards, Alestorm, Gloryhammer) of LSD-Studio in Germany.
The lyrics explored on the self-titled album are actually quite personal and deal with Ric Galvez’s thoughts and feelings regarding his life experiences. They are an outlet for self-expression, while also exploring topics such as spirituality and psychology with an underlying theme of personal empowerment.
Today, Malice Divine shares more insight into the album with the release of the new lyric video for the track "Quantum Manifestation" via its premiere on MetalInsider .
"Quantum Manifestation is one of the fastest songs on the album. It's packed full of different elements that are integral to the sound of Malice Divine, such as virtuosic guitar solos, savage blackened death metal riffing, blast beats, epic melodies, and a beautiful classical guitar section," adds Ric Galvez.
Melodic and captivating with a good blend of heavy styles, Malice Divine is recommended for fans of Skeletonwitch, Death, Dissection, and Immortal.
The full album “Malice Divine” is available on all digital platforms (Spotify, Apple Music) here and Bandcamp here .
German melodic Death Metal band Burn Down Eden release official music video for "Sadomasochists From Beyond the Grave", available for watching on band's official Youtube channel here - https://youtu.be/7660eyZDpn4
With "Sadomasochists From Beyond the Grave" the band is opening their third album with typical Burn Down Eden style. Fast melodic leads and brutal riffs combined with angry growls and rapid blast beats. This is what they love, this is what they do. The band gives credit to the Hellraiser movies, a beloved genre from lead guitarist William.
Pre-order the album 'Burn Down Eden', available March 26th:
It seems to be common for the guys of Burn Down Eden, to release a new album every two years. While lots of bands take a break for creativity after their second release, Burn Down Eden is just beginning.
With their third self-titled album the guys pick up where they left off with their second album „Liberticidal“ and even put a shovel on it again. The band continues to focus on the catchy choruses and melodies, brute, fiddly riffs and modulations, as well as rapid solos and classical elements typical for Burn Down Eden. Nevertheless, all in all the third album seems to be more mature. And yet they also like to leave the genre and play happily with all elements from Black to Prog Metal.
With „Burn Down Eden“ the guys make it crystal clear, that they are THE next big thing in the matter of Melo-Death from Germany. Kernkraftritter Records is convinced, that we will welcome Burn Down Eden to lots of festival stages in the „Post-Corona Times“.
Before of this the band have also unveiled official Video for their first single 'A Prepper's Prophecy'.
With "A Prepper´s Prophecy" the quintet put salt in the wounds to everybody who was convinced that such a nearly apocalyptic scene like in the year 2020 could possibly happen and who prepared themselves for it. They guys are backbiting conspiracy theorists, tinfoil hats and all the prepper out there. The guys kicking-off their album with literally a big bang!"
