Combining elements of Thrash, with touches of Black and Classic Heavy Metal, this 3-piece outfit from Arizona has an unmistakable sound all their own.
Independently released in March of 2023, their sophomore release “Ashes of Our Past” is a big step forward for the band. The maturity in their songwriting is evident, from the opening clean guitar passage of “Storms End” to the closing thrash attack of “Requiem (World of Hurt). The official lyric video for the first single “Children of Fire” can be seen on YouTube and the full album can be found on all streaming platforms.
Sharing the stage with bands such as Soulfly, DRI, Master, Warbringer, Enforcer, Claustrophobia, Taipan, and Phobia, Never Reborn have refined their live performances and songwriting skills.
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Houston Texas' Industrial Death/Doom masters SaviorSkin. Invicta Mori is up now for pre-order and will be released on April 7th on CD and Digital formats along with merch and bundles.
Horror Pain Gore Death recording artists SaviorSkin return with more rotting misery to unleash upon mankind. 2023 has been rife with talk of the murder of human creativity by AI-generated music, and for good reason - most of the music on your favorite streaming service is about as compelling as a songless bird. SaviorSkin's forthcoming full-length, Invicta Mori, demonstrates what is possible when human agony and ingenuity manipulate machinery in the darkness.
Invicta Mori dials up the oppressive atmosphere and harshness of SaviorSkin's first two LPs (Remnants of Broken Idols and Omnipotence of the Absolute), but for the first time features live (undead) drums on several songs, such as the instant earworm "Lost in Prayer." SaviorSkin has always used machine elements to obscure the humanity of the musicians, but this time around it is easy to picture bloody phlegm on the pop filter while listening to the brooding opener "Iconoclast" and even easier to imagine beckoning razor blades and shattered wine bottles during the meditative "Martyrdom." The creation of the ordeal that is "Burning Eden" required a level of suffering that no machine intelligence will ever experience. Invicta Mori is pitiless and unrelenting but utterly human at the same time, perhaps more than ever before.
Invicta Mori's lead single and closing track, "Sycophant," is easily the most hateful song in SaviorSkin's catalog, and that's saying a lot. The venom in Somnus Mortem's vocal performance is augmented by the presence of none other than Marc Grewe of the seminal death metal band Morgoth. "Sycophant" also brings SaviorSkin's story full circle:
SaviorSkin was founded in 2018, but their history began in the Philippines, where Somnus Mortem founded the doom-death band Iconoclast in 1993. Morgoth released the criminally underrated Odium the same year. "A lot of people were confused by the industrial elements that Morgoth were experimenting with, but I loved them," says Somnus Mortem. "When Iconoclast became more of a solo project after I moved to the States, I injected some of those cold, machine-like Odium elements into the final incarnation of that band before laying it to rest, and that obviously became a huge part of SaviorSkin's sound. It still blows my mind that Marc Grewe sings on 'Sycophant,' the most vicious song on Invicta Mori. I devolve back into a death metal-obsessed teenager every time I hear it. I asked Grewe what made him want to work with me, and he just said that he liked what he heard! I can't possibly explain how much this collaboration means to me."
This spring Europe will be hit by one of the heaviest tours of recent years, as Unique Leader recording artists Omophagia join forces with death metal deities Nile for a continent crossing campaign under the banner of the Vile Nilotic Rites European Tour 2023. Beginning in Flensborg, Germany on April 4th, the mamoth tour will then descend upon Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, before returning to Poland for a final show on May 7th.This is not the first time that Omophagia and Nile have toured together, having combined with Hate Eternal for the Vile Desolate Sands Tour of 2019. Speaking about this latest renewing of live hostilities Omophagia have commented...
"It may have seemed a bit quiet in the Omophagia camp recently, but you all know that doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work behind the scenes - and things are about to get busy! We're proud to announce that we are going to be touring once again with the one and only Nile! Thank you to Nile and to our sisters and brothers at Massive Music for making this happen. We can't wait to see you all on the road!"
Omophagia are marking their tour announcement with the release of a new video for the track 'All For None', which is featured on their critically acclaimed latest album Rebirth In Black, which was released through Unique Leader on September 16th last year. The song itself is a call to action, urging people to wake up to the dire situation that our society now finds itself in, while the video, in the band's words, offers a chance to see Omophagia "in action, with full energy and power!" You can see the video now at the Unique Leader YouTube channel:
It’s all about understanding, the need to know…how everything connects, what lies behind beauty, where do we keep our souls. The skin is a mask, a sheet to hide our secrets; once it has been removed so much starts to become clear. I dig deep, through the muscle and sinew, down to the glistening white bone; carefully extracting the arteries, the delicate web of veins, wiping aside the endless tide of blood and striving to block out the shrieking background noise which threatens to distract me from my work. The soul is here, somewhere in this slippery crimson morass, somewhere behind this cage of bone…and its secrets will be mine.
In a glorious explosion of gore and horror the legendary Fatuous Rump have returned! Taiwan’s most notorious exponents of bloody, brutal death metal bring you I Am At Your Disposal, a feast of sickening riffs, twisted grooves, blistering blasts and the warped vocal exhortations of the one and only Larry Wang! Blending the blackest of sick humour with the heaviest sounds imaginable Fatuous Rump have crafted an irreverent classic of the genre. Behind the unnerving soundbites and the grotesque song titles lurk some irresistible examples of absolute extremity – the filthy, addictive riffing of ‘Whenever We’re Opened We’re Red’, the skull-shattering impact of ‘The Airtight Bag In The Freezer’ and the sheer colossal weight of ‘Sometimes Bad Babies Go In Timeout’; these songs are genre defining masterpieces! I Am At Your Disposal takes every element of Fatuous Rump’s insane signature sound and pushes it to even greater extremes…this album will crush you, pulverise you and utterly destroy you.
Brutal Mind and Fat Tub Of Lard have united to release I Am At Your Disposal – it’s simply too heavy for one label to manage alone! Housed in the macabre and morbid artwork of Bagoes Putra of Pradana Graphics (Arsebreed, Cerebral Incubation etc) I Am At Your Disposal will detonate on April 28th so get ready to bathe in the blood shower. Fatuous Rump are the last word in Taiwanese ultra-brutality, the uncrowned kings of death metal’s deepest, darkest realms.
Don't miss the crazy magnificence of the new Fatuous Rump video - 'No, Can You Lick Them For Me' which is streaming now at Slam Worldwide.
In almost ten years of existence, the band Suton (eng. "Twilight") can't boast of a large discography. However, two men behind this audio-terror entity worked hard to present the first full-length in 2023.
Initially conceived as a drone/doom metal project, this band broadened its horizons and enriched its music to the maximum on its debut album.
The gloomy atmosphere that has its roots in the black metal world is enriched with death metal riffs that are painted with doom metal tones. Sludge and southern parts create a certain feeling of heaviness throughout the album as if hundreds of waves of green smoke are hitting you in the head without the intention to ever stop... ever.
In over 50 minutes of dark-sound-scape music, you will be carried away by the creepiness that is omnipresent on the "Sacrilegious" album. Five original songs and one cover will be enough to show you all the depth of the Suton's sound, and the heavy Balkan gloom that surrounds the material.
Hylinn and Insanus took the time to slowly, precisely and without forcing fit all the components so that all fans of dirge metal sound could proudly enjoy it.
"Sacrilegious" will be presented with the help of InsArt Records and Satanath Records as a piece that will surely find its place in the annals of the sombre metal underground fauna.
Suton will evoke the dark corners of the Balkans, soul, carnality and blasphemy through its melodies.
releases April 18, 2023
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Dungeon Studios in the summer of 2011. Vocals recorded in studio Taar Reii.
Lyrics by Hylinn
Music by Insanus
except 'Old Man Willow' written and originally performed by Elephants Memory
