SOLANUM RELEASE NEW ALBUM: "RULED BY THE CRUEL"

 

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Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Canadian crossover Thrash squad SOLANUM. Ruled By The Cruel is up now for pre-order and will be released May 14th on CD and Digital formats. 

Hailing from the frozen prairie wasteland that is Winnipeg, Manitoba, SOLANUM execute crippling Canadian crossover Thrash that is full of intrinsic power and relentless attitude. Ruled By The Cruel is the second full length album from SOLANUM and showcases nine tracks of vicious, thrashing madness that features lyrical themes focused on the never ending, worldwide suffering and savagery... prepare for total annihilation!

For fans of Aftermath, Broken Bones, D.R.I., Excel, Lethal Aggression, Ludichrist, Nuclear Assault, Razor, Sacred Reich, Sacrilege B.C., Vio-lence and Wehrmacht

Listen to the track "Standard Malpractice" at https://youtu.be/VEIuceHCzbI

Pre-order Ruled By The Cruel at hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/ruled-by-the-cruel

Pre-save this release on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. at ffm.to/solanum

TRACK LISTING:

1. Cold Career

2. In Contempt

3. Friendly Civil Servant

4. Standard Malpractice

5. Under The Boot

6. Manipulated

7. Reckless Obsession

8. Homemade Hell

9. They Live

Pre-order the "Manipulated" T-shirt HERE

Pre-order the "Manipulated" T-shirt + CD bundle HERE

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions:

www.horrorpaingoredeath.com

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DESASTER REVEAL NEW ALBUM´S DETAILS + VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE

 

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On June 4th, Desaster will release their new album, Churches Without Saints, via Metal Blade Records. For a first preview of Churches Without Saints, a video for the new single, "Learn to Love the Void", can be viewed at: metalblade.com/desaster - where the record can also be pre-ordered in the following formats:

- digipak-CD

- 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive)

- dark red marbled vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 400 copies)

- gold / black dust vinyl (EU exclusive - limited to 250 copies)

- picture disc (EU exclusive - limited to 250 copies)

- clear dark rose marbled vinyl (Van Records exclusive - limited to 200 copies)

- clear black smoke vinyl (High Roller Records exclusive - limited to 200 copies)

- yellow brown marbled vinyl (Nuclear Blast exclusive - limited to 200 copies)

- dark green / red melt vinyl (Kings Road exclusive - limited to 200 copies)

- amber marbled vinyl (US exclusive)

Since 1989, Germany's Desaster have been churning out their unique and unholy blend of extreme metal, and in 2021 they return with perhaps their most powerful album to-date, the towering Churches Without Saints. "It's a typical Desaster old school black-death-thrash metal album, with a lot of aggression, but also great atmosphere and epic tunes!" enthuses guitarist and founding member Infernal. With a simple remit of making an album full of "neck-breaking songs", the quartet have once again proven themselves leaders in their chosen genres, giving their faithful and newcomers alike plenty to salivate over.

With a five-year gap elapsing since they dropped last album The Oath Of An Iron Ritual, fans have had to be very patient, but will find the results more than worth the wait. This new effort also features Hont taking over behind the kit from previous drummer Tormentor, bringing a welcome change to the way they work. "He's a very skilled drummer and can play really anything. Whereas in the past the songwriting was a lot of 'trial and error' with testing many rhythms, we nowadays can work much more efficiently. Hont knows what rhythms fit to the riffs immediately. He has studied Desaster's music in detail and knows what works best, but he is not just copying Tormentor's style - he brings his own skilled style into the music, and also some new rhythms and figures. That of course brings some fresh wind into the songs."

The record was tracked in the band's rehearsal room and was recorded, mixed and mastered by their live mixer Jan "Janosch" Gensheimer. This led to a very relaxed atmosphere throughout the whole process, having rehearsed a lot prior to recording and also doing a full pre-production demo with their own equipment, meaning they could record very fast and without many mistakes. They did however change things up a little, sonically speaking. "It was a big goal for me to change the sound a bit," says Infernal. "Whereas the last albums had a very harsh sound, where the mid and high frequencies were dominating, I wanted a warmer and smoother sound this time. I always liked the sound of our 'Tyrants of the Netherworld' album from 2000 very much, and the new album is an effort to develop this sound with more details and different instruments. On 'Tyrants', we had the rough mud of deepest hellish caves, now we present you the black lava which is flowing around the throne of Satan himself!" And having achieved everything they set out to, Churches Without Saints definitively starts a new and exciting chapter in one of extreme metal's most consistently thrilling bands.

Churches Without Saints track-listing

1. The Grace of Sin

2. Learn to Love the Void

3. Failing Trinity

4. Exile Is Imminent

5. Churches Without Saints

6. Hellputa

7. Sadistic Salvation

8. Armed Architects of Annihilation

9. Primordial Obscurity

10. Endless Awakening

11. Aus Asche

Desaster line-up:

Infernal - guitar

Sataniac - vocals

Odin - bass

Hont - drums

Desaster online:

http://www.total-desaster.com

https://www.facebook.com/666Desaster666

https://www.instagram.com/desaster_official

FEED THEM DEATH STREAMS TRACK FROM NEW ALBUM "NEGATIVE"

 

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Acclaimed avantgarde extreme metal project FEED THEM DEATH conspires with Brucia Records to release “Negative”, the project's third full-length album, on May 7th 2021.

Today, Cvlt Nation is premiering a new single off the record. Listen to "The Idiotic Yearning for More (Barbarism of Perfection)" HERE!

In case you missed it, Grizzly Butts hosted an exclusive premiere of the single "The Underworld Unveiled". Check it out at THIS LOCATION!

This highly anticipated new release from FEED THEM DEATH represents the apex of a fierce and tenacious research into the realm of non-conformity, and the culmination of a 3 year long cycle of intense experimentation, deconstruction and remodeling of many extreme metal subgenres into a completely unique and dissonant outlet.

“Negative” is a monumentally ambitious example of unorthodoxy and noncompliance in extreme music, eccentrically fusing the aggressiveness and speed of grindcore with the bleak and menacing heaviness of sludge and doom metal, all set against a backdrop of industrial metal and the tearing frequencies of drone / noise music.

Denouncing the moral decline of our society's descent into darkness with paradoxical simplicity and clarity, “Negative” borrows from the opus of Theodor Adorno to dismantle the chimera of individuality and critical thinking within the cogwheels of consumerism.

An anathema spelt against the culture industry for standardizing all arts and forms of expression, and acknowledging with lancinating lucidity the disingenuousness of all so-called creative achievements - in arts as in underground music - as the mere part of a wider design set to tame individuality.

In perfect symbiosis with the music, the artwork is also raw and yet sophisticated, whimsical but austere, and lavishly minimalist: created by renowned Australian photographer Sophie Gabrielle, the image was photographed a manifold of times, with its negatives sunk in polluted water and then dried allowing microbes to eat away at the negative itself.

Similarly, “Negative” unfolds as a process of negative dialectics, a backdrop of negation set against the stage of the apparent world with the intent to finally make the invisible visible

FFO: Cephalic Carnage, Anaal Nathrakh, Discordance Axis

Album tracklist:

1) Superficialibi

2) Minima Moralia

3) Displeasure in Pleasure

4) Eulogic (Negative Dialektik)

5) Our Cruelty to Reality (Evokism IV)

6) An Objective Tragedy

7) For Our Culpable Dead *

8) The Unattainable Joy *

9) The Underworld Unveiled

10) The Idiotic Yearning for More (Barbarism of Perfection)

*Bonus tracks for the vinyl edition only.

Line-up:

Void: Everything

Credits:

Extra layers of noise in tracks number 4 and 5 by Davide Destro (LaColpa, MacabroDio)

Guest vocals and songwriting in track number 4: Derhead

Recorded, mixed and made sense of by Davide Tavecchia and Void at Twilight Studio

Original artwork by Sophie Gabrielle

Additional artwork (inlays) by Giuseppe Fancellu (Sscvlt)

Band’s pictures by Sarah Beck

Concept, design, artistic producers and supervision by: Feed Them Death and Brucia Records

Biography:

FEED THEM DEATH is a solo project created by Void in 2017, with already 2 EPs and 3 full lengths under its belt, which were all released in under 4 years of activity.

The first EP was self-released in October 2017, containing 5 tracks that would have then been re-recorded and added to seven new songs to be part of the first full length “No Solution / Dissolution” out in November 2018 via GrimmDistribution and Exalted Woe Records.

In April 2020, the second full length “Panopticism: Belong / Be Lost” was released to critical acclaim via I, Voidhanger records.

In November 2020 on the Day of the Dead, Feed Them Death released their second EP “For Our Culpable Dead” on digital, CDs and tapes via Brucia Records.

On the 7th of May 2021, FEED THEM DEATH will release their 3rd full length album “Negative” on CD and vinyl via Brucia Records.

Discography:

“Negative” (LP) - Brucia Records (2021)

“For Our Culpable Dead” (EP) - Brucia Records (2020)

“Panopticism: Belong / Be Lost” (LP) - I,Voidhanger Records (2020)

“No Solution / Dissolution” (LP) - GrimmDistribution / Exalted Woe (2018)

“No Solution / Dissolution” (EP) - Self released (2017)

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INTONATE STREAM NEW ALBUM "SEVERED WITHIN"

 

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Montreal (QC) - Canadian bruisers INTONATE have partnered with Invisible Oranges for the premiere of forthcoming album Severed Within. Stream it at:

invisibleoranges.com/intonate-severed-within-premiere/

Doing the storied Montreal death metal scene proud, INTONATE will release sophomore album Severed Within on April 16 via Willowtip Records. The album will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Pre-orders are open now at the following locations:

Bandcamp:

intonate.bandcamp.com/album/severed-within 

Willowtip: 

http://bit.ly/sw-willowtip

"Simultaneously crushing and elevating death metal."

- Invisible Oranges

"This is everything technical death metal is supposed to be: nuanced, unpredictable, creative, discordant, brutal, and so much more."

- Last Rites

"Dropping five brutish technical death metal tracks from a great height, the resulting smash that accompanies the landing is deafening. Such is Intonate’s wild flurry of noise, dragged kicking and screaming to a ballsy 40-minute length." (9/10)

- Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life

"INTONATE deliver not only an upgrade on their previous album, they set the bar very high with Severed Within. The album should be part of the collection of a wide range of Death Metal fans." (9/10)

- Metal Temple

"Severed Within is an impressive and immersive piece of death metal." (8.5/10)

- Dead Rhetoric

"A triumph of malevolent and atmospheric death."

- Wonderbox Metal

"This is raw, chaotic, corrosive and dark sounding death metal, for fans of the gritty and the filthy."

- The Metal Observer

"It’s one hell of a workout. The entire experience is what it might be like after you were trapped under a slag pile, finding breathing nearly impossible as you slowly black out forever."

- Meat Mead Metal

"The crushing impact of this second highly awaited album reminds us the band’s roots while spreading strength and dissonance in a technical way."

- Acta Infernalis

The album follows the 2016 independent debut The Swerve, itself a penetrating technical death metal experience, complete with progressive flourishes. Severed Within builds upon that foundation, but adds new dimensions and tendencies. The album contains five compositionally magnificent tracks that produce a 40-minute death metal firestorm sure to land on many 2021 year-end lists.

Following the 2016 debut, The Swerve, the new album presents the band’s personal catharsis and reflections on life’s dual offerings constantly struggled with. Musically, the band delivers a more uncompromisingly aggressive and honest sound, while keeping true to its roots.

Track Listing

1. Sever

2. Within

3. Yearn

4. Wander

5. Prolong

Album Credits:

Drums recorded by Samuel Robert at Studio 25

Guitars and Bass recorded by Jean-Philippe Matte

Guitar Solo recorded by Claude Leduc

Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, and Reamping by Xavier Berthiaume at Studio Tehom

Mixing and Mastering by Hugues Deslauriers at Roarrrr Studio

Artwork and Layout by Gabriel Lepage

Art Direction by Gabriel Lepage and Dominic Nucciarone

Guest Vocals on “Within” by Étienne Bayard

Line-Up:

Nicola Nucciarone – Electric Guitar & Vocals

Ulysses Fiorito – Electric & Acoustic Guitars

Jean-Philippe Matte - Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals

Dominic Nucciarone – Drums and Extra Sounds

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HIDEOUS DIVINITY RELEASE "CHESTBURST" SINGLE FROM NEW EP

 

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Italy´s technical Death Metal heavyweight HIDEOUS DIVINITY put out the second brutal single “Chestburst” from their forthcoming EP “LV-426”, which is going to be released via Century Media Records on April 23rd   together with a visualizer video based on the astonishing album art.

Watch the video HERE

The band comments on “Chestburst”:

"That persistent beat in James Horner's 'Face Huggers' theme from the movie score... it all starts there. If 'Acheron Stream of Woe' is the epic theme, then 'Chestburst' is the crazy fast escape tune; it’s the soundtrack of alien drones hunting the Colonial Marine squad. And no, there's no happy ending".

Pre-Order already started – get your copy or stream it below!

 

PRE-ORDER NOW: https://hideousdivinity.lnk.to/LV-426NE

REN MARABOU RELEASE "VALHALLA WAITS"

 

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Ren Marabou is a multi-instrumentalists rock/metal solo artist who hails from the Emerald Isle of Ireland. he has released 4 albums to date. Most recent album ‘ Way Finder ’ was released on the 1st of March and is available on all major platforms. He has gigged extensively around Ireland, UK and Europe. When playing live, he has a four piece band of seasoned musicians behind him with whom he performs a high energy, intense live show. Riffs, melodies and grooves. Currently he is endorsed by Cassidy Guitars, Skull Strings, and Dirtbag USA. Album number 5 is in the works and there are loads of music videos and behind the scenes studio videos on the way.

Ren Marabou is Currently in the studio working on the new album Valhalla waits. Valhalla waits is an album that encompasses Norse mythology and Norse pagan folk lore, the album takes you into the time of Vikings with its heavy riffs and intense melodies and the chants of the ancient warriors. This album is due for release on May 1st 2021.

Check him out on Spotify and add him to your playlists!

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4SO7ijOmWLl1eIOXgGMOGB?si=_vyNyI3yTAyyp51JXMp1zQ

Follow the band at these links:

https://www.instagram.com/renmarabou/

https://misanthropikrecords.com/ren-marabou

https://www.facebook.com/renmarabou/

https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZYj9c6JlTKoBLOwIbJx0E?si=TrCRP-ViRyqIDOe6UBsj0A

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4SO7ijOmWLl1eIOXgGMOGB?si=LCLsE7AXS86xlNcyExK-jg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0RzRnLskzx0barj6BsL87w

LAST AGONY RELEASE "THE IMMINENT SLAUGHTER"

 

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Sentient Ruin Laboratories have teamed up with Canadian nuclear wasteland raw hardcore noise-punk incursors Last Agony to issue their pulverizing debut album "The Imminent Slaughter" on May 7 2021 on vinyl, cassette tape and digital formats, all now pre-ordeable on our Bandcamp and webshop. 

An introductory taste of the savage album has been provided by notorious underground blog No Echo, who premiered the song “Diabolism” remarking that “the Toronto-based outfit specializes in a particular strain of raw-as-fuck hardcore punk they've mastered by studying the greats, namely bands like Anti Cimex, Extreme Noise Terror, and Lärm.“ - you can read the full feature and checkout the track HERE.

On  "The Imminent Slaughter" debut album Last Agony let loose all their most negative and harrowing visions of a polluted, dark and violent world, birthing one of the most unnerving and lawless strains of primitive aural chaos to have been vomited from the North American punk scene this year. In the war-torn twenty minutes of weaponized aural mayhem, Last Agony put on display an unrivaled sonic assault of primitive cruelty and raw hostility, thrusting influences ranging from European early heavy punk bastions like Doom, Anti-Cimex and Electro Hippies, to Japanese d-beat noise deviants in the vein of Gauze and Deathside, all the way to primitive grindcore vanguards like Repulsion, Extreme Noise Terror, early Napalm Death and Terrorizer into a blown out and noise-corroded terrorscape of total anarchy and chaos. If you like it fast, loud, raw, visceral and lawless, search no further, because Last Agony have brought us one of the most nerve-shattering and apocalyptic storms of unhinged and primordial punk-metal wrath that you will hear all year.

Disgusted by visions of a dark, doomed and fucked up world, the Canadian raw hardcore legion Last Agony formed in a freezing hell of 2017 in Toronto, with the aim of creating devastatingly fast, raw, and unhinged metallic hardcore punk to resound the sirens of the apocalypse and reduce humanity's senses to ash. With a pulverizing and blown out sound inspired by 80s and 90s defining acts of early grindcore and crust, the band's members are bastions of their local scene, also militating in other well established bands like Absolut, Dragged In, Make No Gains, Murder Squad, IDNS, and Endprogram. An experienced and established unit of sonic pillagers with a unique pedigree which has made of Last Agony an unstoppable and fucked up aural assault weapon. Since forming, Last Agony have slaughtered venues and crowds on the East Coast and West Coast of Canada as well unleashing two demos and a self titled 7” released on Phobia Records. Yet, the nightmare continues... and their most savage and weaponized work to date - the incinerating debut full-length LP "The Imminent Slaughter" is a punk-metal firestorm of wounds and shrapnel that will resound humanity's last breath.

https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/the-imminent-slaughter

http://sentientruin.com/releases/last-agony-the-imminent-slaughter

I, PARIAH RELEASE "DYSTOPIAN VISIONS"

 

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I, Pariah

"Dystopian Visions"

(Deathcore)

FFO: Carnifex, Whitechapel, Thy Art Is Murder

Released: April 6th, 2021

I, Pariah is a melodic deathcore band out of Phoenix, Arizona celebrating the release of their third new single "Vulture Mine" from the new album Dystopian Visions due to be released Friday, May 21st. I, Pariah is for fans of Whitechapel, Fit For An Autopsy, and Thy Art Is Murder. New album "Dystopian Visions" by I, Pariah is the third release from the band and debut full-length featuring guest vocalists Andy Thomas (Black Crown Initiate) and Chaney Crabb (Entheos). Dystopian Visions is officially available for Pre-Order from the bands website ipariahofficial.com/shop with additional merch bundle options as well. New Single "Vulture Mine" is a dichotomy between blast beats at 270 BPM's and hard hitting breakdowns, as well as an anthemic chorus. The song explores the perspective of growing up in a small town that seems determined to let no one leave, and consume the spirit of anyone who would dare try. "Vulture Mine" is available on all platforms for streaming now! 

Check out Vulture Mine on Spotify and add it to your playlists- https://open.spotify.com/track/7iNPg7bhz0ydDth1Dzcre9?si=f7a5daef81614dbf

Website - Ipariahofficial.com/shop 

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pariahbandaz/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ipariahbandaz/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/pariahbandaz1

GHOSTBOUND RELEASE "EXTENDED PLAY FOR MY SWEET MARY THYME"

 

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Ghostbound

Extended Play For My Sweet Mary Thyme

Red Nebula Records

26 March 2021

Ghostbound was founded as the long-gestating vehicle for the songwriting of Brooklyn-based musician/actor Alec A. Head (ex-Kosmodemonic). Founded when he was still in his teens under the name of Timshel, Ghostbound did not truly take form until 2013, at which point he began to seek like-minded musicians in an effort to complete what he had started over a decade prior, with the goal of creating expansive, cinematic music that drew holistically from all genres.  In its formative years, the band was a duo consisting solely of Head and bassist Noah Shaul with the help of session musicians. Ghostbound would expand its ranks in early 2018 to include guitarist Talha Alvie (Skeletonflowers_, The D/A Method), and drummer David E. Richman (End of Hope, St. Bastard, Witch Taint) in an effort to play live and solidify its line-up.

Their debut record, All is Phantom, was released to worldwide critical acclaim in June of 2018.  At once lush, verdant, haunting, and ethereal, that album represented Ghostbound’s arrival to the greater underground music scene; replete with Head’s soaring, Scott Walker-derived vocals and a cinematic instrumental under-pinning that drew from the wells of both black metal and post-punk, among many other genres.  The command of expansive atmospherics and dynamic songwriting continues with the upcoming release of Extended Play For My Sweet Mary Thyme, a mini-LP consisting of a “suite” of songs that are all tied together via an oceanic, maritime theme. Whereas All is Phantom took place firmly on land, “Mary Thyme” is decidedly at sea, by design.  Additionally, the EP sees a “loosening of the reins”, as it were; while Head wrote the bedrock of the material, every member had a hand in the arrangement thereof, resulting in a concise, moving, and altogether other-worldly experience.  

Extended Play For My Sweet Mary Thyme will be released digitally on March 26, with a vinyl release being put out by Red Nebula on the same date.  

Ghostbound is:

Alec A. Head: Voices, Guitars, Orchestrations and Atmospherics

Talha Alvie: Guitars, Synthesizers, Orchestrations and Atmospherics

Noah Shaul: Bass, Orchestrations and Atmospherics

David E. Richman: Drums

Produced by Ghostbound and Nolan Voss

Drums recorded at ACME Studios by Rich Bennett

Guitars, Bass, Voices, and Atmospherics recorded by Nolan Voss at Spectral Sounds in Brooklyn, New York

Additional Orchestrations and Sounds captured by Talha Alvie via Ghostbound’s Roving Interdimensional HQ

Mixed and Mastered by Nolan Voss

Artwork by Agam Neiman

Layout by David E. Richman

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DRIFT INTO BLACK RELEASE "PATTERNS OF LIGHT"

 

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Drift Into Black

Patterns of Light

28 May 2021

One-man bands allow for so much freedom, and for those who are blessed with creativity it can lead to prolific output in a shorter space of time than groups. One such solo project is Drift into Black, led by ex-Grey Skies Fallen keyboardist Craig Rossi. With his fourth release Patterns of Light, the New Yorker continues a trend of four releases in four years in synth-driven gloom, inspired by the European vein of melodic doom-death metal.

Patterns of Light is proof that, just because you have a formula to work with, does not mean you are confined to it. While many of the songs here draw from the same quarters as Saturnus, My Dying Bride and Ghost Brigade, they also shy away from copycatting the above-mentioned bands. There are many interesting discoveries to be found, whether the guitar melodies on “The Burial Gown”, the prog-metal synthesizers that recall Amorphis’ finest on “Among the Beast”, the post-punk beats on “Thread of Hope”, or the dual vocal effects alternating between soft cleans and underwater-recorded growls.

It’s not just the music that demands a look-in, though - Rossi has designed another concept album with a dark, dark storyline to follow. The plot tells of loss and grief, religion and revenge; there’s even a twist to a surprisingly happy ending for such melancholic music. No spoilers, though - you have to listen to find out what happens next

If the darker side of metal appeals, and you enjoy being wrapped up in a shroud of gloom, then Patterns of Light will absolutely be of interest. Drift into Black have matured well over the last several years, and 2021 will certainly be Rossi’s year with this quality of output.

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