LURK STREAMS SONGS FROM NEW ALBUM

Death doom sludge metal from Tampere, Finland, Lurk, are streaming two new song from their new album. The tunes are "Ritual" and "Rest Unitaries" and will be part of "Kaldera", the album that will be released on January 24th through Doomentia Records. "Kaldera" will feature the following tracks:

1. Below Flesh 

2. Lorn  

3. Ritual  

4. 6 Feet, 6 Years  

5. Sag Serene

6. Rest Unitaries  

7. Cutting  

8. Kaldera

BARBARIAN STREAMS NEW SONGS

Italian black thrash metal band Barbarian have made new tracks available for streaming. The tracks are "Inhale the Dead" and "We are the Profane" taken from their second full length album"Faith Extinguisher" that will be released on January 23rd. The new album is the follow up to the band´s debut album "Barbarian" released in 2011. You can check the tracks stream below: 

MOUNT SALEM RELEASES "ENDLESS" EP + STREAM

Chicago, Illinois psychedelic doom metal will release their debut EP, entitled "Endless"on March 4th. The EP will be released through Metal Blade Records. The EP was originally released in February 2013 in an independent way. The new version will feature two new tracks and the band has made the track "Lucid available for streaming (check below). The EP´s tracklist is as follows:

1. Good Times  

2. Lucid  

3. Full Moon  

4. Mescaline

5. Hysteria  

6. The End.

MEKONG DELTA RELEASES NEW ALBUM

Classic progressive thrash metal band will release their new album "In A Mirror Darkly" on April 29th. The album will be released through SPV/Steamhammer. The label has issued the following statement:

"For almost thirty years, Mekong Delta has enjoyed an excellent reputation as an independent and exceptionally creative band in the world of progressive metal sounds. Albums such as The Music Of Eric Zann (1988) and Pictures At An Exhibition (1997) are considered classics of their kind.

"With their blend of prog metal, classical elements and thrash, the musicians are considered pioneers of a stylistic mix, which has been emulated, by a considerable number of epigones. Now the German quartet is set to unleash its latest recording: In A Mirror Darkly will be released April 29th via SPV/Steamhammer.

"Martin LeMar (vocals), Ralf Hubert (bass), Erik Adam H. Grösch (guitar) and Alex Landenburg (drums) have recorded a total of eight songs for In A Mirror Darkly, among them three instrumental numbers like the ingenious 'Inside The Outside Of The Inside' with its diverse arrangements."

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM RERELEASE "NO PLACE FOR DISGRACE"

Phoenix, Arizona classic thrash metal legends Flotsam and Jetsam are releasing the album "no Place for Disgrace 2014". The album is the entire re-recording of the band´s classic 1988 album "No Place for Disgrace". The album will be released on February 14th through Metal Blade Records. "No Place for Disgrace - 2014" will feature the following tracks:

1. No Place for Disgrace
2. Dreams of Death
3. N.E. Terror
4. Escape from Within
5. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting (Elton John cover)
6. Hard on You
7. I Live You Die
8. Misguided Fortune
9. P.A.A.B.
10. The Jones

HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL RELEASES "LARVAS" EP

Portuguese death metal grindcore band Holocausto Canibal has signed with Bizarre Leprous Productions. The band will release a new EP entitled "Larvas" on May 20th. The EP is the follow up  to the band´s 2013 EP "Compêndio de Aversões". "Larvas" features the following tracks:

1. Corrosão Uretral  

2. Proxenetismo Necrófilo  

3. Nosolagnia Predatória  

4. Imundo Bizarro  

5. Trucidada Na Paragem [Live]

6. Empalada Via Espinal Dorsal – Empalamento II [Live]  

7. Euthanastic Inclination (Blood cover) [Live]

8. Death By The Master Key (Dead Infection cover) [Live]  

9. Fetofilia – Incestuosa Sodomia Fetal [Live]

10. Necro-Felação [Live]

11. Obsessiva Lactação Paranormal [Mad Magus remix]  

12. Dilacerante Pungência Subvertida [Ermo remix]  

13. Preeminência Carnaz [Epitome Criminal remix]

PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT RELEASES "FROM CROTCH TO CROWN"

Dutch brutal death metal band Prostitute Disfigurement will release their new album entitled "From Crotch to Crown" on February 4th. The new album is the fifth full length in the band´s career and the follow up to 2008´s "Descendants of Depravity". "From Crotch to Crown" will be released through Willowtip Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Only Taste for Decay  

2. Battered to the Grave  

3. Crowned in Entrails

4. Dismember the Transgender  

5. Under the Patio  

6. From Crotch to Crown  

7. Glorify Through Cyanide

8. Set Forth to Annihilate  

9. Compulsive Beheading Disorder

10. Reduced to Stumps

E-FORCE RELEASES "THE CURSE"

Canadian thrash metal band E-Force, featuring former Voivod vocalist and bassist Eric Forrest wil be releasigng their new album, entitled "The Curse..." on April 11th. The album is the third in the band´s career and the follow up to "Modified Poison" released in 2008. "The Curse..." will be released through Mausoleum Records and will feature the following tracks:

1. Invitation

2. Perverse Media  

3. Witch Wrk  

4. Serpent’s Kiss  

5. Awakened  

6. Psyclone  

7. Devoured  

8. Mass Deception  

9. Your Beloved Hate  

10. Infexxxous  

11. The Curse of the Cunt

DRAKWALD RELEASES "RESIST FATALITY"

Pagan death metal band from Tours, France, Drakwald will be releasing their debut album, entitled "Resist Fatality" on February 1st. The album will be released independently and is the follow up to the band's 2012 demo and their 2013 split with Pictured. " Resist Fatality" will feature the following tracks:

1. The Drowning (intro)  

2. Let the Slaughter Begin  

3. Diving in the Depth of Agony (Hopeless Survival part 1)  

4. Escape the Claws of Fate (Hopeless Survival part 2)  

5. When Beer's Flowing  

6. Enter in the Den of the Night

7. Giant with the Axe  

8. Raise Our Swords  

9. Inhale the Ashes of Honor

GATES OF MOURNING RELEASES "RITUALISTIC BLOODLETTING OF THE SOUL"

Black metal band from Orlando, Florida Gates of Mourning will be releasing their new album, entitled "Ritualistic Bloodletting of the Soul" on February 1st. The album is the band's second full length album and the follow up to the band's 2011 debut album "Nightfall blooms and Golden Horns" . "Ritualistic Bloodletting of the Soul" will feature the following tracks:

1. A Canvas of Flesh and Bone Lay Pale Upon the Deeping Night  

2. For the Wings of Angels to Hold Back the Wrath of the Sea  

3. Ritualistic Bloodletting of the Soul  

4. In Remembrance of the Hereafter and Admiring the Bestial Succumb