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In the Mirror EP
by Vile Eyes
Tracklist:
1.The Zealot
2.Faith Hates
3.Phoenix Rise 03:46
4.Overture for the Damned
releases September 29, 2023
Vocals - Sorora
Guitars - Kerrik
Bass - Draven
Drums - Widowmaker
Recorded and Mixed by Wiard Audio
Mastered by Tide Studios London
https://vileeyes.bandcamp.com/
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Disciple Ov The Sinister Path
by Vrykolakas
Tracklist:
1.Call Ov The Devil 07:59
2.Disciple Ov Ama Lilith 08:06
3.Holy Murder, Sacred Rot 04:38
4.The Ghostly Presence 05:16
5.Ritual Ov The Grave 05:31
6.Outro - Fog Ov Unknown Spirits 01:59
Recorded in 2012, never released until now.
This demo is a dark manifestation ov the Sinister Path Ov the Devil.
The album art was done by Matt Priso (ov Sik and Spells Ov Torment)
released July 5, 2023
K.Haikara - All Music
Matt Priso - Album Art
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Tales of Grotesque Demise
by Flesher
Tracklist:
1.Enter the Realm
2.Wisconsin
3.Scroll of Thoth
4.Creature Beast
5.The Gates 02:58
6.Curse
7.No Escape
8.In Suffering
9.Flesher (Will Kill You)
"Hailing from the perilous plains of Indiana, the band's death metal leans heavily into annihilating groove; it's old-school death metal intentionally shaped and disfigured into a grisly vessel for horror-obsessed riffs. Speaking of riffs, Flesher's approach to riffs has more in common with the belligerent pounding of war drums, or, perhaps, a meat tenderizer, than anything melodic--catch a dose to the face with the new single we're premiering below."
- Invisible Oranges
Formed in Indianapolis, Indiana, Flesher are a gore-soaked power trio consisting of Paul Breece, Gus Matracia and Dustin Boltjes. You may recognize Dustin's skin bashing from some of his past bands - Skeletonwitch, Demiricous, Chrome Waves or current project Sacred Leather. Flesher was forged in the summer of 2022 and shortly thereafter released the Murder Sessions demo. Taking inspiration from the past, everything Flesher does pays homage to classic horror and 90’s death metal.
In less than a year as a band, Flesher have released a demo and toured the midwest already sharing the stage with the likes of Internal Bleeding, Sanguisugabogg, Vomit Forth, Enterprise Earth and more. The band were also featured on Metal Injection’s Metal Monday, in which they praised, “This thing is fucking grotesque and I love it!”
Earlier this year, Flesher signed with Redefining Darkness Records and recorded their first full length album under the guise, Tales of Grotesque Demise. The band pulled out no stops on their debut with Dan Swanö handling the master, legend Ed Repka providing the cover art and featuring guest vocals from Devin Swank of Sanguisugabogg. Suffice to say, this Fall of 2023 death metal belongs to Flesher!
releases September 15, 2023
Flesher is:
Paul Breece - vocals / guitar
Gus Matracia - bass
Dustin Boltjes - drums/ add’l vocals
Recorded at Postal Recording
Engineered and mixed by Wes Heaton
Mastered by Dan Swano
Album artwork by Ed Repka
Band photo by Scott Wilson
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True Northern Black Metal band ORELISK has officially unleashed its full-length debut, The Underworld Obscura.
The album is available on CD, digital, and cassette formats through Northern Spire Productions. Order The Underworld Obscura at northernspire.bandcamp.com
The Underworld Obscura track listing:
1. Winter In Salem
2. The War Of Despair
3. Only In Delirium I Can See
4. Derelict House Of Desires
5. Ruins As Subjective To The Ruined
6. The Underworld Obscura
Orelisk was formed in 2018 as a solo black metal force by the ubiquitous “II”, most notably of Michigan-based black metal band LanzerRath. His debut demo Mold was an ode to the second-wave black metal hordes of the early 1990s such as Darkthrone, Enslaved, and Judas Iscariot. Mold featured a raw, warm production, with darkness permeating each melodic arrangement. Stories of doomed nomads, ancient beasts, and unhinged minds served as vessels for Mold’s bleak soundscapes.
Two years later, Orelisk has returned with the debut full-length The Underworld Obscura. As the title would suggest, the album follows down the same dark pathways of the Mold demo, offering six new sonic tales of the damned. A blizzard of tremolos and blast beats are narrated by the piercing screams of death itself as the undercurrents of hidden forces are brought forth into reality. Old school production harkening back to the days of Greig Hall funnels this black metal maelstrom of dark nostalgia, ensuring The Underworld Obscura lives up to Orelisk’s moniker of “True Northern Black Metal”.
Northern Spire Productions
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Canadian Melodic Death Metal quintet Inhumed will release new EP Feasted Upon Like Carrion on July 14! The EP will available on CD, cassette, and digital formats.
The EP's first single, "A Defiance of Faith," is available now at:
inhumedcanada.bandcamp.com/track/a-defiance-of-faith-2
The single is also available on Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music.
Inhumed draw influence from 90’s death metal, while incorporating a modern twist. Lyrical themes include (but are not confined to) horror, death, gore, and (anti) religion. The band pride themselves on their engaging and energetic live performance, which has earned them opening slots for bands such as Cryptopsy, Kataklysm and Ingested.
FFO: Obituary, Bloodbath, Carcass.
Pre-order:
inhumedcanada.bandcamp.com/album/feasted-upon-like-carrion
Track Listing:
1. The Ascent
2. Fed To The Skies
3. A Defiance of Faith
4. Vengeance on a Godking
5. Exhibitions of Beauty
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Matt Cooper.
Artwork by Dallas Zacharias.
Band photo by Kieran Whitford (Mountain Ash Media)
Line-up:
Mike Mason- Vocals
Ian Garraway- Guitar / Vocals
Liam Nicholson- Guitar
Nick Campbell- Bass
Blair Garraway- Drums
PRESS RELEASE:
ANOMALY returns to space to bring you three songs of Melodic Technical Death Metal! A dynamic new EP, On The Cursed Wings of Stolas, is out now!
Purchase and streaming options are below!
anomalymke.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-cursed-wings-of-stolass
distrokid.com/hyperfollow/anomaly/on-the-cursed-wings-of-stolas
On The Cursed Wings of Stolas follows 2022's Somewhere Within the Pines and 2021 debut album Planet Storm.
FFO: In Flames, Dying Fetus, Necrophagist, Dark Tranquility, Obscura.
Track Listing:
1. On the Cursed Wings of Stolas
2. Beyond the Kardashev Scale
3. Architect
Recording, Mixing, and Mastering by Ryan Kutz at Cherry Pit Studios
EP Line-Up:
Neil Tidquist: Guitar/Vocals
Mary Beers: Keys/Electronics
John Ibarra: Guitar
Dan Stachowiak: Bass
Duane Timlin: Drums
Anomaly YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwL2T0dw4pDTM7MXrtQhkng/featured
Anomaly Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/2S0vA9rdkogVmOMb5LHjLI
PRESS RELEASE:
Metallic Hardcore heavyweights VIOLENT LIFE VIOLENT DEATH have reached a new level of intensity on their most assaultive release yet with Break.Burn.End, which will be released on September 15 via Innerstrength Records.
The official video for first single, "Saying Your Name is to Choke on Ash," is available at youtu.be/UCZ3WLiQILc.
The song is also available on Spotify and Apple Music.
The band issued the following statement concerning the new single:
"Saying Your Name is to Choke on Ash is about losing your shit and becoming primal. We tried to depict this sonically by using impactful dynamics throughout the song."
Sometimes violence is the answer. Break.Burn.End drives that point home with unparalled lethality. Don't say we didn't warn you.
FFO: Hatebreed, Every Time I Die, Zao, A Life Once Lost, Ringworm
Pre-order:
innerstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/violent-life-violent-death-break-burn-end
music.apple.com/us/album/break-burn-end/1691376347
Track Listing:
1. Weapon of Pain
2. The Snapping of Teeth
3. Deceit Welcomed by Blind Grace
4. Devastation on the Tip of the Tongue
5. The Light Behind
6. Break. Burn. End.
7. Saying Your Name is to Choke on Ash
8. Maintain the Quiet
9. Heaven so Far Away
10. Come Armageddon
Album Credits:
Music by Joseph Benham
Lyrics by Scott Cowan
Mixed and Mastered by Kyle Dameron at Rareform Recordings
Album Art by Mark De Gruchy
Photography by Justin Driscoll
Line-up:
Vocals - Scott Cowan
Guitar - Joseph Benham
Guitar - Daniel Knight
Bass - Justin Campbell
Drums - David Holquin
BIO:
Violent Life Violent Death from Charlotte, NC broke out on the scene in mid-2016 from the ashes of Deception of A Ghost and A Stained Glass Romance, offering a blend of hardcore and metal, viciously summoning influences reminiscent of Zao, with an in-your-face, chaotic, Every Time I Die-like edge. The band released V-EP (2016) that Lambgoat dubbed “a formidable debut,” and Come, Heavy Breath (2018) that MetalSucks describes as “a Molotov cocktail of metallic hardcore.”
Two EPs followed: Sadness Rains (2019) and The Color of Bone (2020).
The title track from Sadness Rains has racked up just under 1,000,000 plays on Spotify. The Color Of Bone demonstrated a continued evolution of the band as they further hone their craft, while still maintaining their unique sound. The Color Of Bone offered up heavy, vicious, metallic hardcore for lovers of Zao, Ringworm, and that h8000 sound.
facebook.com/violentlifeviolentdeath
instagram.com/violentlifeviolentdeath
violentlifeviolentdeath.bandcamp.com
youtube.com/@ViolentLifeViolentDeath
innerstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/innerstrengthrecords
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WARNING: NO REFUGE
Nine years after the true death of Longhena…
GridLink bitterly resume a campaign of incomprehensible anger with their fourth album – Coronet Juniper. Eleven relentless tracks, consumed with unending conflict, turn the ground to ash beneath them as they advance, meter by meter.
The primary architects return: Matsubara Takafumi - guitar, Bryan Fajardo - drums, and Jon Chang - vocals. Joined now by Mauro Cordoba - bass, GridLink’s poisoned arteries draw from Discordance Axis, Mortalized, Cognizant, Maruta, and Sex Virgin Killer, among others.
The title track is streaming now at youtu.be/GEL0yTfgCS8, as well as on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Pandora.
Deploying on optical disc, gatefold long play vinyl, and digital formats on 15 September 2023 via Willowtip, GridLink continues their promise of unflinching grind core with the compassion of a JDAM.
Pre-order:
gridlink.bandcamp.com/album/coronet-juniper
willowtip.com/bands/details/gridlink.aspx
Track Listing:
1 Silk Ash Cascade
2 Anhalter Bahnhof
3 Pitch Black Resolve
4 Nickel Grass Mosaic
5 Ocean Vertigo
6 Octave Serpent
7 Coronet Juniper
8 Zygomatic
9 Refrain
10 The Forgers Secade
11 Revenant Orchard
Recording and mix by Kevin Antreassian at Backroom.
Line-up:
Takafumi Matsubara - Guitar
Jon Chang - Vocals
Bryan Fajardo - Drums
Mauro Cordoba - Bass
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UK Progressive Death Metal band Rannoch, in collaboration with No Clean Singing, has premiered "Threads," the second single from forthcoming album Conflagrations. The single will be out everywhere on June 30.
Click the link below to stream the song now!
nocleansinging.com/2023/06/28/an-ncs-video-premiere-rannoch-threads/
Willowtip Records will release the Conflagrations, a 52-minute cut of untamed evolution, on CD, vinyl, and digital formats on July 21.
Accompanied by Australian drumming legend, Dan Presland (Ne Obliviscaris, Black Lava) the seven tracks contained within Conflagrations open up new levels of musicality, punishing aggression, melancholic refrains and winding aural avenues of dark depths and complexity. Produced by Ian Gillings and mixed by James Stephenson (Cradle of Filth, Onslaught, Ghosts of Atlantis), Conflagrations represents a new hybrid of progressive death metal.
Originating from the UK’s West Midlands, Rannoch offer a refreshing take on the progressive death metal subgenre with focused extremity, fastidious technical precision, and rich song writing skills. Swathes of ethereal clean vocals, dark ambience and dynamic shifts accompany sledgehammer brutality and savagely intense screams.
Pre-orders:
rannoch-uk.bandcamp.com/album/conflagrations
https://willowtip.com/releases/details/rannoch-conflagrations.aspx
Track Listing:
1. Degenerate Era
2. Prism Black
3. Threads
4. Conflagrations
5. Daguerreotype
6. Earth-Recycle
7. Threnody to a Dying Star
Credits:
Recorded and produced by Ian Gillings at the Rannoch studios, Warwickshire, England, between January and October 2022.
Drums engineered and recorded by Troy Mccosker at Bushido Studios, Melton, Australia during January 2022.
Mix and master by James Stephenson for Stymphalian Productions, York, England.
Artwork by Kishor Haulenbeek - Lowell, Massachusetts.
Album Line-up:
Ian Gillings - Guitars, vocals, synths and electronics
Richard Page - Guitars
Paul Lloyd - Bass
Dan Presland - Drums
BIO:
Rannoch's debut album was released on Eulogy Media (Damim, talanas) at the end of 2013 and received exemplary reviews far and wide, including a massive 4.5/5 from Zero Tolerance and 7.5/10 from Terrorizer.
A follow-up EP entitled Age of the Locust was released in 2015, featuring cuts left over from the BTW sessions.
During the tumultuous years of 2020, the sophomore album, Reflections Upon Darkness, was finally unleashed upon the world. With a more evident polar shift between intensity and chilled movements, Rannoch pushed the extremity between these two planes further than ever before, leading Metal Hammer UK to proclaim potential to be included amongst the UK death metal elite and an 8/10 review.
PRESS RELEASE:
Doom-tinged trad metal band Oxblood Forge has released new EP Cult of Oblivion on digital, CD, and cassette formats. Stream and/or purchase the EP at the following locations:
oxbloodforge.bandcamp.com/album/cult-of-oblivion
open.spotify.com/album/4d1WQnXofy6CGrv4ZzziKw
music.apple.com/us/album/cult-of-oblivion-ep/1687814012
Cult of Oblivion builds on the metal path forged by the band's previous release Decimator, and brings forth a darker and heavier sound than their previous releases.
Tracklist:
1) Cult of Oblivion
2) Upon the Altar
3) Cleanse With Fire
4) Mask Of Satan [Video]
Cult of Oblivion was engineered and mixed by James Gazerro at The Red Room in Attleboro, MA. Mastering by Brad Boatright of AudioSiege.
Hailing from the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts, Oxblood Forge brings a penchant for roundhouse kicking the listener in the face with their own special sauce of heavy metal with a generous helping of classic rock, doom, and blues. The band aims for big hooks, destructive vocals, and heavy guitars.
Oxblood Forge recently completed a successful east coast tour with Spiral Grave and Mourn the Light, playing shows recently with Anvil, Manilla Road, and Magic Circle, and keeping the flame alive for heavy metal.
Oxblood Forge is:
Kenneth MacKay: Vocals
Robb Lioy: Lead Guitar
Greg Delleria: Bass
Erik Fraunfelter: Drums
Steve Nelson: Rhythm Guitar
