KATANA CARTEL RELEASE "THE SACRED OATH"

PRESS RELEASE:

Katana Cartel are a Heavy Metal band Hailing from Melbourne, Australia. They are a band who like to rock out, Have fun and aren’t afraid to show it. Their riff-driven, catchy, foot-tapping tunes will have you banging your head in no time!

Katana Cartel offers a nice blend of Traditional Metal, Thrash Metal, Power Metal, Modern Metal & Hard Rock!

Here’s some brief History on the band. They were Founded in 2012 by guitarists Rob Georgievski &(Former Members Aidan Le Gassick & Lyle Jenkins) they planted the seed to start Katana Cartel. Due to line-up Changes (Drummer John Price Joined around this Period) there was a delay in Playing Live/Music releases, but things changed & the band started to shape itself in 2014 & the band was finally formed/Ready in 2015. Since 2015 they have only released an EP ‘War Part 1’ which has been received well everywhere. In 2016/2017 After numerous Bass Player changes, the band enlisted Matt Ambrose to join. In 2018, the Band began work on the 1st Full Length Album, In 2018 long-time Guitarist/Founding Member Aidan & Katana Cartel Parted ways, which opened the door to a new Guitarist in Dylan Reever. The New Album is set to be released in 2020, with another Australian Tour & a Possible Overseas Tour as well.

Check them out on Apple music:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-sacred-oath/1550938359

Check them out on Spotify and add them to your playlists!

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MngbKovX3R5FrHMXbAqaL?si=HYXN0P08SnOZU8Zv6emN1g&dl_branch=1

Katana Cartel are: 

Steven Falkingham - Lead Vocals 

Robert Georgievski - Guitar 

Matt Ientile - Bass 

Dylan Reever - Guitar 

John Price - Drums 

Follow the band at these links: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI2Zd5M78RwTQA17ybaEUNQ

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MngbKovX3R5FrHMXbAqaL

https://katanacartel.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacred-oath-digital-edition

https://www.instagram.com/katanacartelofficial/

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Katana_Cartel/3540417050

https://twitter.com/katanacartel

https://www.facebook.com/katanacartel/

PRAYER LINE TO RELEASE "THRILL ME, LICK ME, FUCK ME, KILL ME"

 

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PRAYER LINE is ready to return in 2021 with a 6 song EP titled Thrill Me, Lick Me, Fuck Me, Kill Me . This would serve as the follow-up to their self-released debut album Drink The Blood which was released in April of 2019. The bands previous releases have more of a Horror Punk vibe. This collection moves into Crossover Thrash territory with songs influenced by bands like Motorhead and Municipal Waste . Lyrically, the band draws inspiration from pop culture relics such as The Thing, Night of the Creeps and The Exorcist . The music was produced and recorded by Dave Chale at Deadbird Studios . They plan to promote the EP in the new year with social media ad campaigns, music videos (one for each song), and regional tours (when it is safe to do so again).

Check them out on Spotify and add them to your playlists!

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1XMpqDEL6OT5eU8Ks5ymMH?si=9fTTwTe7SRC6oagH_grZxQ&dl_branch=1

They are also available on Apple Music!

https://music.apple.com/ng/artist/prayer-line/1438799465

Follow the band at these links:

https://prayerline.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/PrayerLine666

https://www.instagram.com/prayerline666/

SXUPERION RELEASE NEW SONG: "ASTRAL SILENCE"

 

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Mammoth Lakes (CA) - SXUPERION have released a new song from forthcoming album Auscultating Astral Monuments. "Astral Silence" is streaming at bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/track/astral-silence

The song is also available as a music video on Youtube.

SXUPERION will release new album Auscultating Astral Monuments June 25 on Bloody Mountain Records! The album's first single, "Ophanim Mechanical Drive," is available now on Bandcamp and YouTube. The album will be available on digital, CD, and vinyl formats.

Like stars that melt before your eyes, another album of sonic oblivion appears from the SXUPERION universe. Step inside this new chapter and strap into the cockpit of chaos as you witness the aural invasion of deep space cannons echoing throughout eternity. The Architects say that it's a long ride to the event horizon and back again. It may even take….forever.

Pre-order:

bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/auscultating-astral-monuments

Track Listing

1. Astral Silence

2. Eyes of Gangkhar

3. Ophanim Mechanical Drive

4. Irreverential Cisterns

5. The Mote in God's Eye

6. Licentious Arbitrator

7. Initiative Reactor

8. Philotic Astrogation

9. Forever and Ever

Album Credits

All instruments, compositions and imaginings: Matthew.

All final mastering: Psykho Combat at Omega Division.

Drums recorded at the Bloody Mountain Bunker (all acoustic, no triggers).

All guitars, vocals, mixing, f/x and layouts completed at Canyon Lodge Studio.

bloodymountainrecords.com

bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com

HUMATOR SIGNS WITH TIME TO KILL RECORDS

 

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More than a decade following the release of their promising debut, Italian/German death metallers HUMATOR are finally ready to unleash their second album.

The band have recently signed to Italian label Time To Kill Records and the album will see an official release in late 2021.

Originally formed in Sicily in 2003 by drummer Piero Geloso and guitarist Ray Caltagirone, HUMATOR made a name for themselves since their inception playing alongside a host of well-known local acts from various genres, as well as international metal giants such as Suffocation.

In March 2008, the band released the “Anger Castles” demo, which was followed a year later by the full-length album “Memories From The Abyss“, a concept record based on the holocaust of WW2.

Shortly after the release of the album, HUMATOR moved to Germany and began the songwriting process for a new album with new guitarist Antonino Durante while performing live as much as possible, sharing the stage with bands such as Antropofagus, Screwed Death, Moronic, Debauchery, Devangelic and many other local acts.

In May 2018 Michael Bach (vocals) and Simon Moch (bass) joined the band and with this revamped line-up HUMATOR finally managed to complete work on their upcoming new album.

Line-up 2021:

Ray Caltagirone: Rhythm Guitar

Piero Geloso: Drums

Antonino Durante: Lead / Rhythm Guitar

Michael Bach: Vocals

Simon Moch: Bass

HUMATOR

https://www.facebook.com/humator

https://www.youtube.com/humatorband

https://www.instagram.com/humator_official

Time To Kill Records

https://www.instagram.com/timetokillrecords/

https://www.facebook.com/timetokillrecords/

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

ACROSS ANTARCTICA TO RELEASE "BILLIONS OF MILES ALONG THE ENDLESS DARk ICE-PLANE"

 

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Across Antarctica

Billions of Miles Along The Endless Dark Ice-Plane

Cataclysmic Metal Records

30 April 2021 | Digital | CD

Genre: Death/heavy metal | Country: US

Tracklist:

1. Billions of Miles Along The Infinite Dark Ice-Plane (ft. Ripper Owens)

2. Back In The Holodeck (Centauri Realm Program)

3. Realm of the Nephilim

4. Centauri Program Vacation

5. Journey's End? (instrumental)

6. Reptilian Flickers

7. Spying On The Reptilians (ft. Ripper Owens)

8. Escape The Nephilim

9. I Guess I Am Just A Program Out Of Time

Across Antarctica is on fire, their new and 3rd album "Billions of Miles Along The Endless Dark Ice-Plane", only 6 months after the second and a little over a year since their first album was released, was released in April.

"Billions of Miles Along The Endless Dark Ice-Plane" has a little bit of that polished death metal vibe, but it still sounds very raw and old-school. 

Line-up:

Dan Castro - vocals & bass, rhythm guitars

Pat Reilly - lead guitar solos

The Predator - drums

Produced by Joe Cincotta @ Full Force Studio

Dan Castro's rhythm guitars, bass, and vocals were recorded at Full Force Studio

Pat Reilly recorded his guitar solo at his home studio Big Cat Tracking

The Predator recorded his drums in his home studio.

Follow Across Antarctica:

Website: www.acrossantarctica.com

Bandcamp: acrossantarctica.bandcamp.com

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

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvJSOVozPlPMeDJitCjvB1Q

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/29AJoIZL6zQaSocuNY8uNB

ELDERBLOOD ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM "ACHRONY"

 

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Ukrainian supreme Satanic Black Metal artists Elderblood have announced the third studio album ‘Achrony’, which is scheduled for release on July, 9th. Following its way to the depth of the darkest human sides, the 10-song release is intended to become an out-of-time hymn of society's degradation.

The album is coming on CDs via Drakkar Productions and will be also released independently in digital format.

Digital pre-order on Bandcamp: https://elderblood.bandcamp.com

According to the band’s leader Astargh, the theme line of the ‘Achrony’ is «the quintessence of degeneration that is presented at any time of human history». Religious obscurantism, ideologies and sects of different times and other references have found their place in the new album of Elderblood.

«This album is a walk through the ashes. You can’t exactly say whether it is left from the burnt church or from the self-immolation – all these themes are intertwined in a single tangle and from song to song create the whole atmosphere of the ‘Achrony’ and everything we wanted to tell with this album», – the band says.

The symphonic black metal course, which was set by the previous two full-length albums (‘Son of the Morning’ 2013, ‘Messiah’ 2016), has been slightly changed to the more classical black metal approach on the new release. In the coming days, Elderblood is going to present the first single from the upcoming album, which will open the gloomy door to the ‘Achrony’ and nasty stories behind its lyrics.

Tracklist:

1. Sparks

2. The Great Fire of Sacrifice

3. Fallen Seraphs

4. Holy Plague

5. Life Eternal

6. Virgin Land Plowed Over by Death

7. Soot

8. The One Who Has Not Yet Come

9. Sainthood’s Stench

10. The New Testament

Elderblood is a supreme satanic black metal act from Kharkiv, created in 2011 by Astargh. The first studio album ‘Son of the Morning’ was released in 2013 via Paragon Records. The band has released the second studio album ‘Messiah’ in 2016 via Osmose Productions.

Links:

Official website | https://elderblood.church/

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ElderbloodOfficial

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/elderbloodofficial/

Bandcamp  https://elderblood.bandcamp.com/

CONCILIUM TO RELEASE "DESECRATION"

 

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Sentient Ruin joins Portuguese atmospheric raw black/death metal necromancers Concilium in the release of their first proper debut album “Desecration”, a churning spectral emanation of total and agonizing death exhaling at the edge of a decaying void. If you ever thought the concept of "depressive", "sad", or "atmospheric" war metal was just an abstract thought, please read on….

Like the bastard child of Portal, Beherit, and Black Cilice, "Desecration" levitates from pure darkness with a miasma of tortured lamentations, serpentine whispers and suffocated screams radiating from the innermost depths of torment, while an incessant outflow of sepulchral lo-fi raw black/death metal murk reverberates through the abandoned pits of buried temples and lost sepulchers materializing a truly unsettling and ominous aural nightmare. The band's masterful texturing of decaying and sulphureous black/death metal with subterranean aphotic atmospheres and a diseased sense of occult ritualism creates a lightless aural twilight that embraces the listener like a disembodied disease, giving away way to a blood-freezing (and at times even moving) out of body experience.

Leading up the release iconic underground metal blog Last Rites has revealed part of the album’s sound via an exclusive premiere of the opening track “From the Chalice”, remarking that the track “is but a gateway to the world of punishing barbaric madness that Concilium have sculpted from the ruins of crumbling nightmares” and that “the record oozes with spiritual, mental, and aural toxicity that will draw plenty of cross-appeal for fans of the suffocating horrorscapes of Portal, the eerie orthodoxy of Deathspell Omega, the twisted brutality of Cryptae, the primitive doom ritualism of Beherit and Void Meditation Cult, and the raw catatonia of Black Cilice and Pa Vesh En - the crude wine that results on Desecration is one that is bitter, intoxicating, and, above all, heavier than sin.” - you can read their full feature and check out the track HERE.

"Desecration" is scheduled to arrive on July 2 2021 on vinyl, cassette tape and digital formats via Sentient Ruin Worldwide, and all formats are now preordeabale from the label´s Bandcamp and webshop.

http://www.facebook.com/sentientruin

https://www.instagram.com/sentientruin/

UNENDLICH TO RELEASE "PARADOX OF A BROKEN WORLD"

 

PRESS RELEASE:

Unendlich

Paradox Of A Broken World

Self-Released

9 July 2021

After two years of brooding, Maryland-based black metal outfit Unendlich have unleashed their fury upon the masses with their ferocious new LP - Paradox of a Broken World. Paradox of a Broken World juxtaposes the impending doom of a world coming undone at its seams with the consistent need for humans to deny their own reality.  

Inspired by one-man Black Metal bands, Unendlich is the sole creation of multi-instrumentalist Michael Connors. Unendlich’s style retains the chaotic aggression and brutality of black metal tempered with Connors’ signature melodic edge, recalling the halcyon days of extreme metal. 

Beginning in 2010,  the haunting and melodic offerings of Unendlich quickly gained attention among the cult of the underground, solidifying their place among the black metal underground. The theme of the first album, “Monarch of the Damned,” focused on the blindness of power that leads to short-term destruction but paradoxical long-term evolution of humanity. 

Never shy to explore within the genre, the aptly titled, "Scales of Existence," continued the band's legacy. This sophomore effort is a journey through a nihilistic existence, the vices used to cope, and the resulting aftermath. 

In true black metal tradition, the third album, “Thanatophobia,” reveals religion as a mechanism to satisfy the human ego’s desire to attribute meaning to one’s existence and pacify the feelings of discomfort in the unknowns of life and death. 

The upcoming fourth album, “Paradox of a Broken World,” is an observation of human hypocrisy and absurdity, where denying the realities within society and within oneself accelerates the inevitable destruction of civilization. Recorded during the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns the truth of this album became ever apparent. A true materialization of the not-so-imaginary world being created, the album either by coincidence or not, is in tune with our dissonant times.

Written and Performed by Mike Connors 

Additional Lead Guitar on  

“Inner Kill” and “No Hope” by Tyler McCarthy 

Mixed and Mastered by Lawrence Mackrory 

https://unendlichband.bandcamp.com/

GRISLY TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM "SALTING THE EARTH" + NEW TRACK PREVIEW

 

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Swedish band GRISLY, led by the tireless Rogga Johansson, has just revealed details of what will be their second album entitled "Salting the Earth" and which will be released again through Xtreem Music in August 3rd on CD & Digital formats.

GRISLY emerged in 2014 following the departure of bassist Dennis Blomberg from PAGANIZER, who continued to rehearse with Rogga and a local drummer named Henke Lundgren, with the sole intention of keeping the rotting flame of Death Metal alive. In 2018 their 1st album "The Spectral Wars" was released through Xtreem Music. Three years later, now with two new members in the band: Håkan Stuvermark (WOMBBATH) and Nicke Ohlsson (LEPROSY), GRISLY has incorporated more catchy melodies and melodies, already focusing entirely on Swedish sounds in the vein of DISMEMBER, EDGE OF SANITY, CARNAGE... making "Salting the Earth" a work that will outstand from the rest!! This time with cover art by José Vives.

Tracklist for "Salting the Earth:

01. By Inferno's Light

02. Dying Like Dogs in Winter

03. Mutilator

04. Wickedness that Lurks Within

05. Skymningssonaten

06. Mexico (Reign of Bullets)

07. Last Days in Fear

08. Salting the Earth

09. Driver

10. Souls Last Caress

You can get more info about GRISLY on the following site: http://b.link/grisly and listen to the 1st advance single on the following link: https://youtu.be/GULqnRSUpIo

ETERNAL SILENCE RELEASE "ANCIENT SPIRIT" SINGLE

 

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Italian symphonic metallers Eternal Silence will be releasing their new album "Timegate Anathema" on October 8, 2021 via Rockhots Records. Recorded at The Groove Factory (Udine, Italy) and Line/Out Studio (Milano, Italy) with mixing and mastering by Michele Guaitoli (Visions of Atlantis, Temperance, Kaledon), the full length will feature ten tracks of symphonic and power prog metal plus will see the band introduce new elements and experimentation into their sound. The album goes from power metal songs like "The Way Of Time" and "My Soul Sad Until Death" to heavy and dark ones like "Rain and Red Death Masquerade", passing through the catchy melodies of tracks like "Glide In The Air" and acoustic moments on "Lonely and Firefly". The main theme that inspired the record is the concept of time.

“It has been a long time since our last full length was released, we took our time to make the best songs possible and then the pandemic broke in and forced us to stop and wait for the right time to publish it. But now everything is ready and we can't wait to finally share this with you all.” adds the band.

Today, Eternal Silence reveals the first single "Ancient Spirit", a heavy track that puts together new influences and sounds.

The band explains the song's concept in further detail:

"Born out of the mind of guitarist Enzo Criscuolo, this song is heavy in contents and atmosphere along with feeling spiritual with lyrics written by our bassist Alessio Sessa. The lake in the pantheistic form that assumes in the song, reveals its mystery and charm as if it was a sleeping God. Beneath the layer of forgetfulness where it lays, hidden like a gem and silent, is an ideal companion, present in every day of our lives and keeps secrets and deep thrusts in its depths, where few dare to look."

Lyric Video - https://youtu.be/xDR8PfxFafo

Digital single "Ancient Spirit" - https://backl.ink/146941991

Pre-order CD - http://bit.ly/TimegateAnathema_CD 

Formed in Varese, Italy in 2008, Eternal Silence combines powerful guitar riffs, a thunderous rhythmic section, catchy melodies, and bombastic orchestral tracks with the support of two vocalists, Marika Vanni and guitarist Alberto Cassina sharing the front stage. The band's current line-up is completed by Alessio Sessa (bass), Andrea Zannin (drums) and Enzo Criscuolo (guitarist).

Since their formation, the band has unleashed three albums and two EPs. 2020's "Renegades" (EP), 2018's "Metamorphosis" (EP), and 2017's "Mastermind Tyranny" were released on Sliptrick Records, and their earlier full-lengths “Raw Poetry” (2013) and “Chasing Chimera” (2015) were released on Underground Symphony Records.

Over the years, the band has been a consistent touring presence in Europe, performing in Germany, Switzerland, France, Czech Republic, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, and Hungary along with being support for bands such as Temperance, Therion, Haggard, Sound Storm, Blackoustic (Timo Kotipelto (Stratovarius) and Jani Liimatainen (Insomnium)).

Track Listing:

1. The Way Of Time (6:59)

2. Edge Of The Dream (6:00)

3. Ancient Spirit (5:31)

4. Heart Of Lead (5:41)

5. Lonely (4:51)

6. Glide In The Air (4:06)

7. Rain (4:36)

8. My Soul Sad Until Death (5:36)

9. Firefly (2:15)

10. Red Death Masquerade (4:51)

Album Length: 50:28

Eternal Silence is:

Marika Vanni - Vocals

Alberto Cassina - Guitar/Vocals

Alessio Sessa - Bass

Andrea Zannin - Drums

Enzo Criscuolo - Guitar

More info:

Rockshots.eu 

Facebook.com/eternalsilencemusic 

Instagram.com/eternalsilenceband