ABSTRACTER RELEASE "CINEREOUS INCARNATE"

 

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Cinereous Incarnate

by ABSTRACTER

Tracklist:

1.Nether 09:46

2.Cinereous 00:55

3.Ashen Reign 10:46

4.Wings Of Annihilation 10:49

5.Incarnate 01:28

6.Devouring Night 09:35

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Eight years into their existence, Oakland CA’s dark doom destroyers ABSTRACTER return with their third full-length album, “Cinereous Incarnate”, essentially their own soundtrack to the end of all that is. Unraveling a blood-curdling sonic ordeal about a nightmarish dimension cursed to eternal twilight, where reality is torn to pieces and existence is reduced to the final stages of survival, ABSTRACTER describe a world in which the lines between life and hell have been vaporized as existence sinks into a tormented shadowzone obscured by falling ash and nuclear fallout.

Through a suffocating deluge of colossal riffs and dismal atmospheres that defy any clear categorization, ABSTRACTER’s hallucinated and apocalyptic music oozes with an immanent and oppressive sense of defeat and of unravelling hope, fusing together crust, black, doom, death metal, and cancerous strains of noise, drone, and dark ambient. “Cinereous Incarnate” is a catastrophic album, an oppressively apocalyptic and hallucinatory listen. At the core of the earth-shaking sonic annihilation of the music lies a vast and intelligible plethora of influences ranging from Blut Aus Nord, Dystopia, Swans, Disembowelment, to Sutekh Hexen, and Celtic Frost. ABSTRACTER have coerced them together and collapsed on top of each other to erect an obsidian black wall of monstrous sound that levitates out of solid darkness. It crushes and devours everything in its path, and conjures the same nightmarish and antihuman atmospheres of bands like Dragged Into Sunlight, Indian, Primitive Man, Krypts, Coffinworm, and Triptykon.

Recorded and mixed by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios (Vastum, Undergang, Acephalix, Autopsy) in Oakland CA, and mastered at Audiosiege in Portland OR by Brad Boatright (Nails, Wolfbrigade, Full of Hell, Vallenfyre), “Cinereous Incarnate” comes with an appallingly dense, layered, and oppressive production, and features haunting dark ambient soundscapes and noise contributions by Sutekh Hexen’s own visual/noise luminary Kevin Gan Yuen (who also curated the album’s apocalyptic art) and by San Francisco-based dark industrial musician Only Now - an unholy alliance which has yielded a sonic behemoth unlike anything else with an absolutely annihilating and otherworldly sound.

A monumental achievement in extreme doom, ABSTRACTER’s “Cinereus Incarnate” is a work which unifies every concept of sonic oppression imaginable and which is set to be one of the most helplessly darkening and soul-crushing albums released this year in the realm of fringe strains of doom, death, black, drone metal, crust, and beyond. 

released June 8, 2018

https://www.facebook.com/ABSTRACTER

https://www.instagram.com/abstracterdoom/

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cinereous-incarnate

VALGRIND RELEASE "BLACKEST HORIZON"

 

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Blackest Horizon

by Valgrind

Tracklist:

1.Victorious 03:06

2.Sunken Temple Of Initiated 04:03

3.Third And Last 04:20

4.The Blackest Horizon 05:41

5.Sacrificial Journey 03:37

6.The Empire Burns 04:24

7.The Fist 03:45

8.Last Angel (Into The Unknown) 04:23

9.Last Angel (The Psychonaut) 05:09

10.Last Angel (Hades Horseman) 05:53

One year after the release of the "Seal Of Phobos" EP, the Italian combo Valgrind return with their Old School Death Metal formula full of ripping riffs, harsh vocals and tons of memorable solos for their third full length "Blackest Horizon."

Valgrind was born from the ashes of the ultra-underground act Necrospell in 1993 as a Death-Black project with both extreme and melodic influences. During the following years the band released four demos and developed its own style, combining the main influences (early florida Death Metal) with a strong sense of melody and a passion for the dark atmospheres of bands like Candlemass and early Paradise lost. Valgrind disbanded in 2003, but the strong will to return on stage of both founding member and main songwriter Massimiliano Elia and vocalist Daniele Lupidi (also frontman of Hateful) made the return possible in 2008. 2012 was the year of their debut album "Morning Will Come No More", almost one hour of classic Death Metal, filled with killer solos, memorable riffs and obscure vocals.

With a renewed line-up (featuring Gianmarco Agosti from the italian hardcore legend Raw Power) Valgrind performed at many important shows in Italy, Germany, Holland and Sweden. In 2013 the band started working on the new album, entitled "Speech of the Flame", a very aggressive, yet diverse and dynamic collection of songs. The music strays away from the early influences to become more personal, while the lyrical concept deals with the darkest sides of the ancient mediterranean civilities.

in 2016, Umberto Poncina (ex-member of Unbirth/Demiurgon/Saturno) replaced Massimo Vezzani and contributed to the realization of the EP "Seal Of Phobos" that was released in 2018 for Everlasting Spew Records as a sort of appetizer for "Blackest Horizon."

For fans of Pestilence, Monstrosity, Nocturnus, Morbid Angel. 

released May 25, 2018

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Produced by Valgrind

Drums and Bass recorded at Art Distillery Studio by Claudio Mulas

Vocals recorded at Dysfunction Studio by Eddy Cavazza

Guitars and Keyboards recorded by Umberto Poncina and Massimo Vezzani

Mixed by Umberto Poncina (umbertomaveth@gmail.com)

Mastered by Andrea Piola

Cover Artwork by Daniele Lupidi (paintingtheabyss@gmail.com)

Layout by Leila Farsi Nezhad

Daniele Lupidi - Vocals/bass

Massimiliano Elia - Lead and rhythm guitars/keyboards

Umberto Poncina - Rhythm and lead guitars/keyboards

Gianmarco Agosti - Drums

www.facebook.com/valgrindband

https://www.instagram.com/valgrind_deathmetal_band/

https://everlastingspewrecords.bandcamp.com/

PANEGYRIST RELEASE "HIERURGY"

 

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Hierurgy

by PANEGYRIST

Tracklist:

1.Hymn Of Inversion 01:44

2.Idylls Of The Cave 06:24

3.To Quicken Stone 09:44

4.The Void Is The Heart Of The Flame 04:08

5.Ophidian Crucifix 09:47

6.Hierurgy 12:03

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I, Voidhanger Records proudly attends the birth of PANEGYRIST, a mysterious entity sure to take the avant-garde black metal scene by storm. Hailing from USA, PANEGYRIST's debut full-length “Hierurgy” – meaning "ritual" or, literally, "holy work" – is an expression of burning religious impulse. This collection of meditations explores the theme of theosis, the process whereby the individual is transformed and united with God through the operations of the divine energies. “This unification is not a dissolution of self into a generic 'divinity',” asserts PANEGYRIST's singer/lyricist Elijah Tamu, “but is instead a higher individuation that occurs in relation to the Divine Other, across the ontological abyss. The abyss is transcended in a manner parallel to its very existence: the living relation between the individual and God is precisely the higher unity that is made possible by the distinction. Existence itself is prayer.”

Offering a unique, vertiginous combination of avant-garde/progressive black and epic heavy metal, sacred vocal chants and powerful screams, and with the furious drumming of Marcel Szumowski – who played on INFERNO's “Gnosis Kardias” – each track on “Hierurgy” is a spiritual working focusing on a particular aspect of theosis. Journey through alchemical riddles and contemplations on the inner and outer temple, the void and the eye, the serpent and the savior. Come at last to the shores of primordial mercury, and take flight on wings of theion, the philosophical sulfur and everliving fire.

Though conceptually dense, the music and words contained in “Hierurgy” are not merely theoretical musings; rather, they are drawn from prayers and meditations grounded in personal agonies and triumphs. “The Morning Star lights a narrow and all-consuming path,” concludes Tamu, “and these are the songs of those who dare to tread it.” 

released May 18, 2018

Cover painting and booklet art by Ikonostasis: Artwork of Elijah Tamu.

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hierurgy

https://www.facebook.com/Panegyrist/

BODY VOID RELEASE "I LIVE INSIDE A BURNING HOUSE"

 

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I Live Inside A Burning House

by Body Void

Tracklist:

1.Intro / A Burning House 01:50

2.Haunted 18:18

3.Trauma Creature 16:36

4.Phantom Limb 08:54

5.Given 21:30

released May 11, 2018

Following their well received debut release "Ruins" in 2016, Body Void returned to Earhammer Studios, once again under the watchful ear of Greg Wilkinson and submitted to tape an hour of painful sludge and wretched doom to welcome the year of 2018.

Continuing in the same style as fellow doom peers and labelmates Primitive Man and Keeper, as well as genre-defining bands like Khanate, Body Void built upon what they started with previous demos and "Ruins" but expanding upon what they have already manufactured to create, biased of course, what we consider one of the great doom metal records of 2018.

Mastered by Brad Boatright at AUDIOSIEGE.

Artwork by Ibay Arifin Suradi.

Will Ryan: Guitar/Vocals/Keys

Parker Ryan: Bass

Edward Holgerson: Drums

https://bodyvoid.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/bodyvoid

https://www.instagram.com/bodyvoiddoom/

OMMADON RELEASE "END TIMES"

 

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End Times

by Ommadon

Tracklist:

1.Side A 20:00

2.Side B 22:52

Ommadon return with a new album, End Times, via Dry Cough Records (UK), At War With False Noise (UK), DGRecords (US), and Medusa Crush Recordings (CAN).

As one piece played over two sections, End Times charts a journey that marks new musical territory in Ommadon’s quest to annihilate the self through primitive heaviness..

500 copies.

Ommadon are a Scottish two-piece who play heavy drone-doom. Fiercely independent, Ommadon have recorded all of their music themselves and made their releases available for PWYW download. They have been crushing audiences and pummeling minds in the UK since 2012 on tours with Bismuth, Legion of Andromeda, Coltsblood, Horse Latitudes, and Primitive Man.

released May 1, 2018

End Times was recorded by Ommadon and mastered by Billy Anderson (Sleep, Eyehategod, High on Fire etc).

Artwork by Timo Ketola.

https://drycough.bandcamp.com/album/end-times

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ommadon/122816124443493

MARAX RELEASE "THE ABYSS OF ILLUSIONS"

 

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The Abyss Of Illusions

by Marax

Tracklist:

1.Intro 01:19

2.The Relinquishment of Existence 04:50

3.The Daemon's Promise 04:17

4.Suicide 05:25

5.Resurrection 04:03

released April 28, 2018

Marax is a Slovenian symphonic black metal band formed in the winter of 2017. The EP The Abyss Of Illusions was released on the 28th of April, 2018, and on that day there was a release show at the Fuck off Commercial Festival in Šešče.

Members:

Anin Astaroth (vocals),

Nord Slayer (guitars, keyboards), Morgoth (drums), Mors Violinis (violin)

https://maraxofficial.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MaraxofficialSlo/

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ASSUMPTION RELEASE "ABSCONDITUS"

 

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Absconditus

by Assumption

Tracklist

1.Liberation 15:30

2.Resurgence 06:13

3.Beholder Of The Asteroid Oceans Part I & II 15:07

Death Doom explorers Assumption are ready to sink into outer cosmos again! Following their critically acclaimed EP "The Three Appearances" these three new tracks (clocking around 37 minutes) continue developing the psychedelic aura of the italian band to reach a new level of sonic deviation where visionary Floyd-esque sections are combined with extremely heavy, downtempo riffs.

Initially started in 2011 as a studio-project with David on drums and Giorgio on vocals and all the other instruments, Assumption have managed to set up a live line-up throughout the years, sharing stages with bands such as Esoteric, Demilich, Sub Rosa and so on.

For fans of diSEMBOWELMENT, Disma, Oranssi Pazuzu

released April 20, 2018

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Guitars, bass, flutes and synths recorded at G.'s home studio.

Drums and vocals recorded at Tone Deaf studios by Silvio "Spadino" Punzo.

Subsequently mixed by G. in the early months of 2016.

Mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studios.

Cover artwork by Lauri Laaksonen.

Inner backdrop texture by Sandro Di Girolamo.

Graphics and layout by Giorgio Spevo.

G. - Guitar, bass, vocals, keyboard, flute

D. - Drums

www.facebook.com/assumptiondoom

https://www.instagram.com/assumption_band/

https://everlastingspewrecords.bandcamp.com/

CRYPTIC ENSLAVEMENT RELEASE "PERVERSE HALLUCINATORY DESCENT

 

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Perverse Hallucinatory Descent

by CRYPTIC ENSLAVEMENT

Tracklist:

1.Visions of Disembowelment 03:11  

2.Demented Deception 04:56  

3.Walking Despoilment 03:57  

4.Knuckle Ground 05:10  

5.Fist of Fury 04:06  

6.None Shall Escape 03:26  

7.Orgy of Atrocity 04:17  

8.Intravenous Fate 04:45

Cryptic Enslavement --- Brutal Death Metal from Vancouver Island, Canada

Debut Full Length Album --- Perverse Hallucinatory Descent

Released by Gore House Productions

released March 30, 2018

MUSICK WRITTEN BY YUE HE (贺岳)

LYRICS BY JACKSON HARGROVE & SCOTT PATTERSON

ALL ARRANGEMENTS BY CRYPTIC ENSLAVEMENT

ALBUM RECORDED NOV 2016~JAN 2017 AT RAIN CITY RECORDERS IN VANCOUVER, B.C. CANADA.

ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MARK MCKITRICK

MASTERED BY STU MCKILLOP SUMMER 2017, AT RAIN CITY RECORDERS

https://www.facebook.com/crypticenslavement

https://www.crypticenslavement.bandcamp.com/

https://www.twitter.com/CEnslavement

INHUMANKIND RELEASE "SELF-EXTINCTION"

 

Self​-​Extinction

by INHUMANKIND

Tracklist:

1.Double-Headed King 02:28

2.Annihilation Of All Inferior Thought-Forms 02:27

3.Against All Odds 02:46

4.Citizen Qayin 03:37

5.Land Of The Shells 03:52

6.Blue Skin 03:04

7.Antinomic Self-Cosmogony 02:22

8.Self-Extinction 02:41

9.Eternal Sleep 03:13

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"Existing at the nexus of modern classical music and extreme metal, INHUMANKIND have a completely unique sound. Aggressively played flute, acoustic bass, and occasional vocals are excellently employed to create compositions that are simultaneously sparse and complicated, awkward and confident. This is one of the most original albums to come across my desk in quite some time!"

– Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice, Behold...The Arctopus)

A duo from Barcelona, Spain, INHUMANKIND is the audacious project of two young musicians, Pablo Selnik (flute) and Àlex Reviriego (double bass), both active in many underground avant-garde acts and both in love with a wide spectrum of music, including black metal, contemporary, free jazz and noise. “The INHUMANKIND project emerged a couple of years ago,” Selnik explains; “after working together on several projects, we decided to start playing some black metal covers re-arranged for a flute/double bass duo, but soon we realized there was some kind of potential on it, and we started writing original music, prioritizing a personal style and music language.”

The result is “Self-Extinction”, a short but very intense and satisfactory album produced by Colin Marston. It reflects the band's audacity and marked individualism, as well as its spiritual approach to darkness and its manifestations through many left-hand-path archetypes: qliphotic tree, hermetic kabbalah, grimoric magic and multi-pantheon deific masks like Lilith, Kali, Qayin, and Samael, all in a subtle, non-explicit way.

Graced with the intense vocal performances from Celeste Alías and Marta Valero, and the occasional death growls of Eric Baule (MOONLOOP), “Self-Extinction” is an inventive work of de-construction and transfiguration of the metal genre. Acoustic heaviness and depths are granted by the low frequencies of Reviriego's double bass, while the frantic, orgiastic melodies played by Selnik's diabolical flute blend in perfectly with the ritualistic vocals adding an enigmatic, esoteric aura to the whole. 

released March 30, 2018

Pablo Selnik: Flute, Vocals

Àlex Reviriego: Double Bass

Production, Mix, Mastering and Percussion on #9: Colin Marston

Female Vocals: Celeste Alías & Marta Valero

Growls: Eric Baule

Recorded in September 2017 at Saudades Studios (Barcelona) by Dènys Sanz. Produced in December 2017 at The Thousand Caves (New York) by Colin Marston

Music and Lyrics by P. Selnik, except #6 by A. Reviriego

Cover painting by Ettore Aldo del Vigo, “S. Girolamo 3”

(acrylic and airbrush on canvas, 2017)

Photography by Aaron Barreiro

Band logo, art direction and layout by Francesco Gemelli

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/self-extinction

TURBIDITY RE-RELEASE "VOMITING THE ROTTEN MAGGOT"

 

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Vomiting The Rotten Maggot

by TURBIDITY

Tracklist:

1.We Come From Slam 00:46

2.Dendam Maksimal 04:39

3.Vomiting the Rotten Maggot 04:03

4.Horror of Carcass and Gutted 04:48

5.Path of Mutilated - Live New Version 04:20

6.Marah Termuntah - Live New Version 03:23

Re-issue of cd "Vomiting The Rotten Maggot" from insane Asian rippers. Slamming Brutal Death from Bandung in the spirit of Pus Vomit, Gorevent, Maggot Colony. New artwork - Seeming Watcher.

released April 1, 2018

https://lordofthesickrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/vomiting-the-rotten-maggot

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