WITNESSES TO RELEASE "THE COLLAPSE"

 

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The ever-prolific WITNESSES are proud to announce the October 31 release of expansive Doom-rock gem The Collapse. The title track is available now at witnesses-nyc.bandcamp.com/track/the-collapse

The follow up to Doom II, The Collapse sees WITNESSES extending its doom rock styles into even darker territory on this outing. Drawing influence on the melancholy down-tuned guitar harmonies of 90s British doom, but adding more traditional rock elements, soaring vocals layer on dirges to tell a story of great distress and questions unanswered.

Pre-order: witnesses-nyc.bandcamp.com/album/the-collapse

Formed in 2016 by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Greg Schwan, the goal of WITNESSES has always been and continues to be the creation of evocative music in multiple genres. All principle writing and arrangement on The Collapse was handled by Schwan, with vital contributions provided by session musicians, accompanied by art and design that complements the lyrical concepts. As of 2021, WITNESSES has explored cinematic ambient, doom metal, pop, and dark folk via six albums, an EP and four singles.

“But, obviously, a narrator cannot take account of these differences of outlook. His business is only to say: ‘This is what happened,’ when he knows that it actually did happen…”

--Albert Camus, The Plague

They’re going missing. A search party went out in the night...but only some came back. What happened to the missing?

Track Listing

1. Entrance

2. The Collapse

3. Repose

4. Interlude

5. They Giveth and Taketh Away

6. It Will Come for You, It Comes for Everyone

Album Credits

Witnesses was:

Greg Schwan - Guitar, bass guitar, keys, drum programming, arrangements, lyrics, mixing and mastering

with:

Anlaik - Voice

Matt Kozar (Stellar Death) - EBow on “Entrance” and “It Will Come for You, it Comes for Everyone”

Scott Loose (Stellar Death) - Guitar solos on “The Collapse” and “They Giveth and Taketh Away”

Milana Zilnik - Piano on “Interlude”

Recorded, mixed, and mastered at The Oak Lodge and other places

Additional production on “Interlude” by Arty Sandler

Cover art, "La Serrure", by Pierre Barraud de Lagerie

All art on physical release by Pierre Barraud de Lagerie; design by Andreas Levers

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PUTREVORE RELEASE "MIASMAL MONSTROSITY"

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PUTREVORE started back in May 2004 as a project band from Dave Rotten (AVULSED/ HOLYCIDE/ CHRIST DENIED) and Rogga Johansson (PAGANIZER/ RIBSPREADER/ GRISLY) with the intention of creating a very heavy, dark, putrid and primitive Death Metal band totally inspired in some of the most brutal acts from the late '80s and early '90s. Nothing new, nothing original, just keeping the spirit alive!

The chosen name was DEADBREATH and it was going to be Riky, drummer in AVULSED, who was going to take care of the drumming duties. However, in late summer 2007, the band's name was changed into PUTREVORE after seeing that another Swedish band emerged later with a similar moniker, so to avoid possible mistakes, a more brutal name was chosen which suits much better the band's style.

From 2004 to 2007, Rogga was slowly writing a total of 8 songs that would embody the band's debut album, but due to the lack of time, Riky was not able to work on the drum parts and it was David Ekevarn (Davve), a friend from Rogga who accepted to record the drums as a session member. This was in November 2007 and in December, Dave Rotten added vocals in Madrid. The debut album "Morphed From Deadbreath" was finally mixed and mastered during April 2008 and released in September 2008 through Xtreem Music.

Four years passed until in early 2012 a second album was started to be recorded, this time with Brynjar Helgetun on session drums. The "Macabre Kingdom" album was initially released on 12"LP vinyl in July of the same year, followed by a CD version in late October, both on Xtreem Music. An extra song was recorded on the same sessions which would be used later on for a split 7" EP with Mexicans PUTREFACT, out in January 2014 through german label Unholy Prophecies Records.

In early 2015, a new album was started to be recorded, again with Brynjar Helgetun on drums and this time it was entirely mixed and mastered by Dave Rotten at his own Sanctuary Studios for a release in October of the same year, again by Xtreem Music. The title of this album was “Tentacles of Horror”, and again an extra song was recorded which was later used on another split 7” EP with dutch GRIM FATE out in March 2019 through Dawnbreed Records.

A new album was written and recorded during 2020, once again with Brynjar Helgetun on drums and this time the album was mixed at his own Brainjar Studios, being finished in April 2021. “Miasmal Monstrosity”, which is arguably the heaviest and most brutal album by PUTREVORE so far, will be released in October 2021 again through Xtreem Music on CD, 12” LP, Cassette & digital formats.

Follow Putrevore:

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ASHES OF REDEMPTION RELEASE "WASHED IN BLOOD (W.I.B.)" EP

 

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ASHES OF REDEMPTION has released their new EP Washed in Blood (W.I.B)

Re-energizing the groove metal genre, ASHES OF REDEMPTION is a one-man band spearheaded by Justin Buell and based out of Detroit, MI. 

Recorded with multiple different session artists from all around the world, located in countries such as Italy, India, and Indonesia, W.I.B was written and produced by Justin Buell who also undertook guitar and bass tracking. The theme of the music is forcing yourself to persevere through some of life's darkest moments. Channelling his own experiences from his time in the Marine Corps Infantry which included two deployments to Iraq during the war, Buell pours this inspiration into his music. In particular, “By Design” was written from a war veterans’ perspective.

“Rotten” is about losing the ability to communicate with people. It deals with grief and wanting to confide in someone but being unable to, resulting in a body and mind that feel foreign. The song highlights the fact that we continue on without help despite the destruction is causes.

“By Design” deals with the physical and metal pain of war. It starts with a physical injury, which leads to questioning if it was worth it. When the physical pain heals the mental pain still remains. The song speaks of the struggles that brings and the ultimate demise in this particular case.

“W.I.B.” is about losing innocence. Once lost it refers to the grind of opening wounds and repairing them ultimately creating an offensive on others. A sort of defence mechanism. Destroy in blood or feel defeat.

“Unscathed” is a song about having to pull the plug on a loved one. It deals with the struggles a person in that position goes through and how everyone involved is touched in some way. No one leave unscathed.

Listen:

Bandcamp: https://ashesofredemption.bandcamp.com 

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ashesep-406284369

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sRo3t5CKBTsbnpE54yjtO?si=3W02uliHTRubxvxQcm3FsA

Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/album/w-i-b-ep/1578968226?uo=4&app=music&at=1001lry3&ct=dashboard

NUNSLAUGHTER RELEASE "RED IS THE COLOR OF RIPPING DEATH"

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NUNSLAUGHTER requires no introduction!

Since 1987, these Ohio natives have prolifically perfected their own brand of Devil Metal: an evil blend of classic death metal and hardcore punk. And by "prolifically," NUNSLAUGHTER are likewise serious; their catalog of records released rivals that of Japan's Sabbat and Agathocles, both of whom the band has done splits with. Through it all, HELLS HEADBANGERS have been diehard fans, and have released countless NUNSLAUGHTER records going all the way back to the label's earliest days in 2003.

And while NUNSLAUGHTER are largely renowned for being an EP band, any chance to welcome a new full-length from them is cause for (devil metallish) celebration: at long last, Red is the Color of Ripping Death, the band's first album in seven years. Many are still mourning the loss of legendary drummer Jim Sadist (RIP), and while Red is the Color of Ripping Death is their first full-length without him playing on it, some of the 14 songs contained herein are unfinished/unrealized music that Jim and founding frontman Don of the Dead wrote years ago. Just as importantly, this album comprises material newly written with NUNSLAUGHTER's current lineup, which is arguably the band's best to date. And hearing is believing: over the course of the album's 35 minutes, it becomes immediately apparent that NUNSLAUGHTER are a really good - and really ripping - DEATH METAL band above all. Largely gone (or least sublimated) is the hardcore punk influence, and in its place is an absolutely furious onslaught of catchiness and causticness. Armed with the best-sounding production on a NUNSLAUGHTER record ever, not to mention Don of the Dead reaching new heights/depths of maniacal perversity, Red is the Color Ripping Death truly brings the band to a different level of Devil Metal.

"As Sadist says, RED IS THE COLOR OF RIPPING DEATH!!" Long live Jim Sadist, and long live NUNSLAUGHTER!

Line-up:

Don of the Dead - We

Tormentor - Spit

Wrath - At

Detonate - Christ

FFO Venom, Hellhammer, slaughter and Sarcofago

Available from August 27th (CD/DIGITAL/TAPE/VINYL) | Hells Headbangers

Follow NUNSLAUGHTER:

Website: www.nunslaughter.com

Bandcamp: https://nunslaughter.bandcamp.com/

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

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcrr3iTXN55MPngr7pC-RpQ

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1RRRmpSvStg4uN6uAZRyGQ

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nunslaughter.official/?hl=en

THOMAS CARLSEN´S TRANSMISSION RELEASE "REDEMPTION" EP

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Artist: Thomas Carlsen's Transmission

Album (EP): Redemption

Country: Norway

Genre: Traditional Heavy Metal

Release: August 20th, 2021

 

Thomas Carlsen's Transmission is a heavy metal project by Norwegian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Thomas Carlsen.

The music is rooted in 80s-style rock and metal, inspired by bands such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Queensrÿche. It is a solo project, where Carlsen is the sole songwriter and instrumentalist.

On August 20, 2021, his debut EP "Redemption" was released on all streaming platforms, and in limited physical formats.

It contains four original tracks, and a cover version of Iron Maiden's 1983 classic, "Still Life". The music was recorded at Carlsen's home studio, and some of the compositions date back almost ten years.

For the EP, Carlsen recruited fellow Norwegian Marius Danielsen, from the power metal band Legend of Valley Doom, to record vocals, as well as mixing and mastering duties. The result is a collection of hard-hitting, head-banging heavy metal tunes which hearken back to the glory of the Mid-80s scene.

Track listing:

1. Cloudbursting

2. Redemption

3. Fallen from Grace

4. Still Life

5. Hard Line

Links

Spotify: www.spoti.fi/3ggeutq

Facebook: www.facebook.com/transmissionmetal

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/transmission.official/

Bandcamp: www.transmissionmetal.bandcamp.com

Merchandise: www.thomas-carlsens-transmission.myspreadshop.no/

Other platforms: www.distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thomascarlsenstransmission/redemption-ep

RELENTLESS AGGRESSION RELEASE "AMERICAN CARNAGE" SINGLE

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After releasing critically acclaimed debut album "A Shadow of All Things Broken" in February this year, the Bergen old school thrashers will release a new single and video today! The song is called "American Carnage" and is a fast thrasher with lyrics about the chaos in the US in the last years, leading up to the storming of the Capitol. Once again the band used the studio of Iver Sandøy (drummer for Enslaved), and he also plays drums on the new song.

Watch the video at this location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8XQ9KhylLA

Relentless Aggression is a band that first started up as Hell Awaits in 1986, with Erik "Grim" Brødreskift (Immortal, Gorgoroth, Borknagar) handling the drums. They played the Bergen Thrash Festival in 1990, and then the band went into hiatus. In 2018 two of the original band members, Yngve and Finn, restarted the band, recorded three of the old songs together with seven new ones and released their debut album in 2021.

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https://www.facebook.com/RelentlessAggressionBand

https://relentlessaggression.bandcamp.com

NEXUS IMPERIUM TO RELEASE "NEXUS IMPERIUM" EP

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We are Nexus Imperium, an experimental, atmospheric black metal act from Athens, Greece.

The band was formed in 2005. Inspired by deep space and the unknown universe, begun to work on music based on traditional and modern black metal mixed with sci-fi vibes through synthesizers and special effects. Music that travels from Mayhem and Blut Aus Nord to Vangelis and Klaus Schulze.

Nexus Imperium's mission is to study and present the past, present and future of this vast universe we live in from when time began to which future plans may be for all lifeforms. Starting with this E.P music and lyrics narrate how it all started.

This is Nexus Imperium's very first official work. There was a demo back in 2007 composed by the only member and founder back then "Synapse" that never saw the light. Through Nexus Imperium's music one will experience the evolution of universe, space - time and humanity.

Nexus Imperium:

Synapse - Bass, Guitars, Synths

The Apostate - Vocals

Currently unsigned/independent. Released digitally June 17, 2021.

Physical copies and merchandise to come in the future.

Follow the band at these links:

https://nexusimperium.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.instagram.com/nexusimperium/

https://www.facebook.com/Nexus-Imperium-109764188009330

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Nexus_Imperium/3540490239

PATHOLOGY RELEASE "THE EVERLASTING PLAGUE"

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Gore fueled death metallers PATHOLOGY return with their 11th studio album "The Everlasting Plague" which will be released on November 19th via Nuclear Blast. Recently signed to Nuclear Blast Records, the band is charged with a violent hunger to return to the road, and unleash their latest monstrous music to the masses. Today, they release a music video for the first single 'Engaging In Homicide'. Watch the video directed by Jeff Forrest here: https://youtu.be/-RaBrAy4UgY

PATHOLOGY's Dave Astor comments, "The band is very excited and honored to sign with one of the biggest metal labels on the planet. We are happy to call Nuclear Blast our new home! Thanks to Gerardo, Oscar, and the entire Nuclear Blast team for making this a reality. We’re taking things to the next level with the new PATHOLOGY album… Get ready!”

Pre-order your copy of "The Everlasting Plague", here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/pathology-theeverlastingplague

Pre-save the album, here: https://bfan.link/pathology-theeverlastingplague

"The Everlasting Plague" will be available in the following formats:

• CD Jewel Case

• Re-Agent Green Vinyl

• CD + T-Shirt Bundle

"The Everlasting Plague" was recorded earlier this year at Sharkbite Studios. The album was produced by Zack Ohren who also handled engineering and mixing. The demented priest sometimes seen gracing the cover of other PATHOLOGY albums makes a reappearance here as an apex zombie ripping the flesh from his fellow dead man as he ascends to the top of a demolished city. Long-time artist companion Par Olofsson returned to the PATHOLOGY fold to design the piece.

Below is "The Everlasting Plague", tracklist:

1. A Pound Of Flesh

2. Perpetual Torment

3. Engaging In Homicide

4. Procession Of Mangled Humans

5. Viciously Defiled

6. Diseased Morality

7. Submerged In Eviscerated Carnage

8. Corrosive Cranial Affliction

9. As The Entrails Wither

10. Dirge For The Infected

11. Death Ritual Deciphered

12. Decomposition Of Millions

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NHIALIC RELEASE SINGLE "PAINTING REVENGE"

 

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Armenia/Sudan based black metal duo NHIALIC released first single "Painting Revenge" taken from their debut EP "Medz Yeghern" (label: MedievHell Records). Song published on youtube via Symphonic Black Metal Promotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kAf3FUxwnU&t=1s

tracklist:

01. Waltz Into Darkness

02. Corrupted Souls

03. Painting Revenge

04. Der Herbst

05 - Medz Yeghern

Contacts

NHIALIC

twitter.com/nhialicband

reverbnation.com/nhialic

SYMPHONIC BLACK METAL PROMOTION

twitter.com/Symphonic_bmp

youtube.com/symphonicblackmetalpromotion

THE MALEDICT RELEASE "REMEMBRANCE"

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After one EP, one single and almost six years of agonizing quiet, The Maledict will unleash its second full-length studio album: REMEMBRANCE.

Across seven brand new cuts and one reworked classic, Remembrance is a heartfelt exploration into the experience of nostalgia, and the two elements that comprise the word: nóstos and álgos, the agony and longing to return home.

Through its twists and turns from the melodic and epic opener, to the chaotic two-part suite of THE MALEDICT and the reworked version of POROUS, giving an old live staple a well-deserved new home on a full-length, the album deals with the realizations that come with maturity – that the blissful innocence of childhood is brought only by the hecatomb suffered voluntarily by every parent, to shield their young from staring down the same abyss they face every day.

Where our debut LP, DREAD, held its pain inside and lashed out in flashes of anger and fear, REMEMBRANCE is about the acceptance of pain and letting it out in croons and wails. The music is more melodic and more nakedly emotional – but no less heavy for it.

Written across the five years, recorded and mixed in 2019 through 2020, REMEMBRANCE continues our tradition of the almost-total DIY approach to album production, with thanks to Chris Rogers for drum engineering and all other components of the album being 100% self-produced.

This effort also marks the first recorded contributions from our new member Cameron Tilley, who officially joins as a keyboardist but contributed lead guitar parts to the album in lieu of Stuart Henry, who still remains a member of the band.

REMEMBRANCE releases on 29 August 2021 in digital and streaming formats, as well as an extremely limited run of physical copies on CD (50 copies). Both physical and digital releases of the album, available only from our Bandcamp page, will contain original full-color illustrations and liner notes.

To finally be able to share this long-overdue opus after so many years of waiting, is an elating sensation, and we are beyond thrilled to see what you think of it.

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The Maledict is a death/doom band that formed in rural Victoria, Australia, in 2012. Originally conceived as a small-scale death metal project between guitarist/vocalist and principal songwriter Ian McLean and bassist Stuart McCarthy, over time the initial straight death metal approach continued to mutate, inheriting an increasing number of gothic, orchestral and doom metal influences.

The Maledict's musical identity was fully realized with the release of their self-produced debut studio album 'Dread' in 2015, which was met with critical acclaim in the independent metal blogosphere.

The band released the single 'Imperilled' in 2017 and followed in 2019 with 'Return to Gehenna', a re-recording of most of the songs from its inaugural demo 'Salvation in Yielding' from 2013 and a tribute to its death metal roots.

In 2020, Cameron Tilley joined the band as a keyboardist, but also temporarily filled in for lead guitarist Stuart Henry for some live shows.

With the release of its second full-length, 'Remembrance', the band continues its musical evolution, introducing more experimental, progressive and melodic elements to its morose blend of death and doom.

Tracklist:

1. Remembrance [08:50]

2. Dolor Nil Finis [09:58]

3. Forever Adrift [07:13]

4. The Maledict I [09:31]

5. The Maledict II [04:57]

6. Porous [09:11]

7. Skies of Static [06:37]

8. The River Ophidian [12:29]

29 August 2021

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