ALLEGAEON RELEASE VIDEO FOR "OF BEAST AND WORMS"

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DAMNUM, New Album Available February 25th

Tour with Omnium Gatherum Begins February 26th

Watch "Of Beasts and Worms": youtu.be/PFNGAcYibSI

Ahead of their anticipated album DAMNUM (out February 25th), ALLEGAEON have delivered the next video from the album, the visually haunting and captivating "Of Beasts And Worms." Accompanying the track, the band shares details behind the video, track listing and additional tour dates. Album and merch pre-orders are available now at: metalblade.com/allegaeon

"This is the place where I rest my bones and the river that cleanses me runs alone!" cries frontman Riley McShane on the track. "This song is about finding a place of inner quiet, a safe haven to explore your thoughts and escape from the anxieties of your life," the vocalist explains. "This lyrical intention is paired with a depiction of disparity and tiredness with the world around you and the stressors that contribute to the deafening silence of the mundane. In the music video, we showcase a more physical - and graphic - display of this thought process where the escape from the daily grind is manifested into a willing self-sacrifice. Though a dramatization, this concept of sacrifice to find your own personal peace can be applied to something less tangible and played an important role in my own process while writing the lyrics for DAMNUM. Thank you for watching and listening, we hope you enjoy it."

ALLEGAEON recently released the first video behind the album, "Into Embers," and have built themselves a unique place in the musical landscape, forcing both technicality and melody to the forefront as they create tumultuous and riveting death metal. With DAMNUM, their sixth full-length, they push everything further into the extreme, and in the process deliver the definitive ALLEGAEON record.

DAMNUM Track Listing:

01. Bastards of the Earth

02. Of Beasts and Worms

03. Into Embers

04. To Carry My Grief Through Torpor and Silence

05. Vermin

06. Called Home

07. Blight

08. The Dopamine Void Pt. 1

09. The Dopamine Void Pt. 2

10. Saturnine

11. In Mourning

12. Only Loss

Allegaeon online:

https://www.facebook.com/Allegaeon

https://twitter.com/allegaeon

https://www.instagram.com/allegaeonofficial

https://www.youtube.com/ALLEGAEON

HELLFOX RELEASE "THE CALL"

 

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Hellfox’s "The Call" debut album is out today in physical and digital formats via Music For The Masses!

With the new lyric video of the song "Your Name"

Order "The Call" here: https://bfan.link/the-call

Watch "Your Name" here: https://youtu.be/NyQg2hntK1c

Two words about "Your Name"

"Fear, rage, hate, pain... Four stages in a descent of the human soul, four ways of describing a person

who no longer knows what to do and doesn't want to be helped and wears his heart like a black cloak."

Hellfox trademark is represented by the dualism between Greta and Priscilla’s voices, which intertwine while telling the tales of the album. But let the band members’ words speak for their own:

“Hellfox is an alternative metal (alt-metal) leaning towards melodic Death Metal. In spite of four rather different musical backgrounds, we’re on the same page on the inspiration we draw from Amorphis, In Flames and  Dark Tranquillity in the process of songwriting, while we’ve chosen to detach from the Symphonic context, widely regarded as feminine, inserting acid, distorted synths in order to create a modern mood we felt our own and committed more adherently to the pop vibe of Greta’s melodic voice. The dualism existing within Hellfox is not to be meant as a conflicting one, it’s rather the result of different voices interacting inside the human soul, different faces if we want to put it down this way. Faces mingling and generating the person in itself, in its entirety, who create and live in harmony and balance although seemingly clashing one another. We do not use masks to conform to the mass, while we don’t even want to distinguish ourselves at any cost, in a society where normality is a mere surface. The abyss, on the other hand, is made of countless personality facets, both for the collective and the single human being. Our message is accessible to all, everyone can recognize it in her or himself: that small, tiny voice in your head which attracts or repulses you…’cause nothing is normal for us, nothing is different.”

Hellfox was born from the 4 members’ different musical tastes and influences. We're not trying to fit into a genre, our music expremes the need to convey what we have behind the mask everyone wears in every day life, independently of what we are. Instrumental parts are made of acid and distorted sounds with great atmospheres, where two voices fights with each other’s. The band formed during 2019 winter, thanks to the Greta and Priscilla rediscovered friendship. In February 2019 they find Gloria, and after a long and exhausting research, finally they find Federica to properly complete the band.

"Hear our call"

The Call Tracklist:

1 Haunted

2 Our Lady Of Sorrows

3 Raising

4 Nothing Really Ends

5 Rebirth

6 Your Name

7 Bleeding Machine

8 Dead Star (Remastered Bonus Track)

Line Up:

Greta Antico – Vocals

Priscilla Foresti – Bass, Vocals

Gloria Capelli – Guitars

Federica Piscopo – Drums

"Dead Star" Video: https://youtu.be/1pRs4Jf58hE

Band Links:

https://instagram.com/hellfoxofficial

https://facebook.com/HellfoxOfficial/

https://youtube.com/channel/UCqpx9Z3Yam2RRvdPF_jQp9g

https://open.spotify.com/artist/74vdoR0KlT5MBw1z3vmhFV

https://www.musicforthemassesrecords.com/

https://www.musicforthemassesdistro.com/

CATHARSIS RELEASE VIDEO FOR "YOUR TRUTH"

 

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Polish deathmetallers from Catharsis have released the first music video from their latest album Human Failures released mid 2021 via Mad Lion Records. The aesthetics of the video reflects the band's fascinations with old black & white horror movies and was shot in the original ruins of the mausoleum nearby the palace in Sławików (Poland).

Watch "Your Truth" HERE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzpTbjFz1us

The video was directed by Marcin Pawłowski, who is also the author of the script. Movie editing and digital processing was done by Endorfina Artmedia.

 

Adam Mamok comments:

"We are very pleased with the end result. This time it took us a long time to get the whole thing completed. The plot is divided into two parts. A story, which is a metaphore for the lyrics of "Your Truth" and shots of the band. I admit, that it was great fun for us and we discovered each other in new roles. The convention of an old movie from the 1930s adds to the dark atmosphere of this video.”

https://www.facebook.com/catharsispl/

https://www.instagram.com/catharsis_official/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4AqykaCLr6B4KHdOFSBDBN

https://www.facebook.com/madlionrecords

CHASMDWELLER RELEASE "BACTERIAL LOTUS"

 

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Canadian old school death metal act CHASMDWELLER is pleased to announce the upcoming official reissue of the second album "Bacterial Lotus", due out February 11th 2022.

Originally released as a pro-CDR by Life After Death, limited to 100 copies, now this beast will have a proper CD reissue on Dawnbreed Records / Life After Death as a deluxe digipak CD.

Rising out of the viciously cold waters of Lake Ontario to make a home in the heinous bogs where the very air seems to be filled with undeniable hostility, CHASMDWELLER returns to us with their second full-length album that only furthers the intoxicating reign of terror that they've been waging on the underground ever since their inception.

Laden with apex heaviness alongside all-consuming riffs that make for a spectacularly compelling performance of truly corrosive death metal, it's the very whole of "Bacterial Lotus" that CHASMDWELLER further comes into their own as one of the best kept secrets in the very depths of the underground.

A caustic listen that offers no sanctuary anywhere in the midst of the acidic swamp where CHASMDWELLER has crafted what can only be considered an essential chapter in their growing discography of underground gems with all on display with "Bacterial Lotus" the very definition of primordial power in the most uncompromising form of death metal.

Album tracklist:

01. Septic Coma

02. Seven Lucid Mitochondria

03. Wing Of The Lotus

04. Oracle Of Innumerable Truths

05. Photosynthetic Attunement

Dawnbreed - https://www.dawnbreed.com/

Chasmdweller - https://chasmdweller.bandcamp.com/

Life After Death - https://lifeafterdeath616.com/

VAINA RELEASE "FUTUE TE IPSUM" EP

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Finnish black metal act VAINA is pleased to announce their upcoming new album "Futue Te Ipsum", due out March 4th 2022 via Aesthetic Death.

"Spiritual transcendental art, karma for the dark subconscious"

Impossible without just listening, but perhaps the best way to try to understand the "Futue Te Ipsum" album, is to travel back a few years...

After VAINA's debut album ("Viisikärki") was released in 2017, the band were invited to undertake a small tour. However, not being entertainers and without any real desire or need to perform they agreed only to doing one gig, which happened to be their first.

Being held the day before Hexennacht and at an unknown anonymous space. It transpired that the so-called venue was a rathole only fit for demolition. The general atmosphere was uncompromising and schizophrenic.... hectic but phlegmatic, communal but unwelcoming. It happened that the music was supposed to be summoned in a small desolate room, containing almost nothing. Hard to tell, at times, if the invitation was really for a fist fight or to play music? Perhaps both.

To mix things up further, instead of replicating the new album – "Viisikärki" – as was expected, we had prepared a set of unrehearsed noise. The strategy was a rough concept and a loose framework to build upon, everything else was totally improvised.

Being properly wasted before the start of the gig, then as things started the bass guitar plug and pedal broke. It was not going to plan. Subsequently, throughout most of the set the bass was being played lay on the "stage"... and once the set concluded the bass was continuously smashed into the floor and walls, in an attempt to get some fitting sound out of it. Even though the bass performance was fairly bittersweet, other parts met with more success. Crude, echoing and space-like guitars blended in with the furious shrieks of our vocalist – it was a triumph of accepting a challenge, overcoming adversity and with the end-result not being as totally fucked up as it might.

Reactions from the audience were diverse. Some really liked the performance (unsure about the music) whilst others totally hated it. The most rewarding feedback was from witnesses (not normally into this kind of music) who felt our show was transcendental, as though they had experienced being transported to some other place or form. Whilst playing the set we had experienced the same. It had become a spiritual experience.

On that night, the mindset and approach for a purposeful and challenging new direction was set for VAINA. There could be no return. It was imperative to continue to follow our intuition, to explore and go further down these unpolluted and unchartered paths.

"Futue Te Ipsum" - shares a similar dystopian vision and atmosphere to what was experienced at that gig. It's pioneering, nihilistic, dualistic, variable, spiritual, uncompromising, controversial...

...untrendy black metal,

like black metal was originally,

and like it should always be.

Album tracklist:

01. Oppenheimer Mωment

02. I1

03. Hcn

04. Yksikuisuus

05. About:Blank

06. Raping Yer Lilith

07. πυραμίς

08. --. .-. . . -.

09. Todestrieb

10. Minä + Se

VAINA

https://vaina.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/vainaband/

Aesthetic Death

https://www.aestheticdeath.com/

https://www.facebook.com/aestheticdeath.uk/

https://aestheticdeath.bandcamp.com/

FUMIGATION RELEASE "STRUCTURAL EXTERMINATION"

 

PRESS RELEASE:

Release Date: Feb 18th, 2022

FFO: Gutted Alive, Goreworm, Alchemy Of Flesh

Location: Canada

FUMIGATION "Your Death Metal Pest Control Specialists" from Ottawa, ON, Canada are set to release the new album "Structural Extermination" Feb 18th, 2022 via CDN Records.

Tighten up those respirator straps and hide your sister's pet rat for this wild brutal groove death metal ride! Like a can of Raid to the face, Fumigation's new "Structural Extermination" album will leave you gasping for air and searching a career in pest control.

Check out the video!

https://youtu.be/ETUQ3kZf7a8

FUMIGATION - FLY THAT YOU FEAR [OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO] (2022) SW EXCLUSIVE

Support the band on Bandcamp!

https://fumigationmetal.bandcamp.com/

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

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1BzrJbTjFEPXIn29AKnqL7

ORDER A CD via CDN Records:

https://cdnrecords.com/shop/fumigation-structural-extermination/

READ A COUPLE REVIEWS:

http://www.vm-underground.com/review/fumigation-structural-extermination/

https://www.brokentombmagazine.com/2022/01/06/critica-fumigation-structural-extermination-2022/

Follow the band at these links:

https://www.fumigationmetal.com/

https://fumigationmetal.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/fumigationmetal

https://fumigation.bigcartel.com/

https://www.reverbnation.com/fumigation

https://www.youtube.com/user/fumigationmetal

SHIELD OF WINGS RELEASE "UNFINISHED"

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Shield of Wings

Unfinished

Elderpath Records

11 February 2022

SHIELD OF WINGS will begin the year of 2022 with their Epic Symphonic Metal resurrection, and their debut full-length album, Unfinished.

"These songs' roots range from a decade old to only a year, yet they all carry the weight and concurrent theme of a soul obsessed with self-analysis and growth. Often, we travel these roads seemingly alone, and sometimes we get lost in the meaningless or mundane sloughs of despond. Hope can only remain if we keep the flame alive, and sometimes we are lucky enough to find others to carry the flame with us. We hope this music helps to carry your flame for a little while, and that we may all, in our Unfinished states, never give up on our reshaping."

The number 11 has many conflicting meanings in numerology; order, chaos, balance or extravagance, it depends which tradition you consult. But for SHIELD OF WINGS, 11 years adds weight to their return to life after their sweepingly vast EP, 2011's Solarium.

Sure to appeal to fans of symphonic metal giants NIGHTWISH and EPICA, as well as film score composers like HANS ZIMMER, JAMES HORNER, and HOWARD SHORE, their new album, Unfinished, will bring into view 10 bombastic compositions of poetic exploration.

Each song from Unfinished explores themes of growth through self-examination, regret, sacrificial death and rebirth. From the "Crushing Hail" of the suffering which is inherent in life, the listener is carried through this journey, until the final track expounds upon the realization that we are all, in ways, "The Scarred Clay Reshaping." With bold, vast orchestral compositions soaring over chugging guitars, SHIELD OF WINGS makes it abundantly clear that they are Unfinished, in more ways than one.

 

Line-Up:

Lara Mordian - Vocals

Aliyah Daye - Support & Harsh Vocals, Keys

James Gregor - Guitar & Orchestrations

Patrick Eulitz - Drums

Alex Luke - Bass Guitar

 

All Music & Lyrics by James Gregor

Mixed & Mastered by Matt Motto

Album artwork by Maximos Manolis

Band photos by John Karpinsky

All photos available in print resolution upon request

 

Social Links

https://www.facebook.com/shieldofwings

https://www.instagram.com/shieldofwings/

https://twitter.com/shieldofwings

https://www.youtube.com/user/shieldofwings

https://shieldofwings.bandcamp.com/releases

THOU SHALT NOT RELEASE "SANCTUARY OF THE VILE" EP

 

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Artist: Thou Shalt Not

Release title: Sanctuary of the Vile

Label: Self-Released

Release Date: 14-01-2022

Format: CD, Cassette

Genre: Satanic Death Metal

Country: United States

For fans of Morbid Angel, Angelcorpse, Incantation, Archgoat

Recorded by Marcus Shulte, Cleveland, OH winter of 2020

Tracklist:

The Hooded Ones

Witches Among Us

Sanctuary of the Vile

Will of Infinite Strength

Clensing the Decay with Blasphemy

Swine You Are

Line-up:

Van McGhee - Drums

Don Wolff - Guitar/Vocals

Jesse Greenfeather - Bass

Follow:

Website: www.cdnrecords.com

Bandcamp: thoushaltnot666.bandcamp.com

PREHISTORIA RELEASE "CURSED LANDS" EP

 

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Rising U.S. Power Metal force PREHISTORIA have released debut EP Cursed Lands on all major digital platforms. Purchase and stream the EP at:

prehistoriaband.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-lands

Concurrent with the EP release is a new lyric video for the song "Time," which is available at youtu.be/9BzLPW_NCz4

Combining influences from power metal giants - Blind Guardian, Symphony X, Helloween - with inspiration from the genres of black and thrash metal, PREHISTORIA has a sound that will appeal to followers of both US and European power metal.

PREHISTORIA was formed in 2020 by seasoned musicians in four different states - vocalist Alonso “Zo” Donoso, guitarists Shaun Cothron and Max Otworth, drummer Cody Johns, and bassist Ian Bender. Members have collective decades of experience in the metal scene, with their own groups (Zephaniah, Unity, Well of Night), as well as touring members of Viking, Acheron, and Abigail Williams.

Produced amidst an ongoing global pandemic, Cursed Lands, is a triumph of remote collaboration and dedication to heavy metal.

Track Listing:

1. Time

2. Castles

3. Purgatorio

4. Cursed Lands

EP Credits:

Recorded and produced by Dan Wagoner at Wagoner Bros Studios

Mixed by Mike Heller at Heaven and Heller Studios

Mastered by Lasse Lammert

Cover artwork by Adam Burke

Logo design by Chris Horst

prehistoriaband.bandcamp.com

facebook.com/prehistoriaband

instagram.com/prehistoriaband

twitter.com/prehistoriaband

Prehistoria on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/6OGTF7GtsF7dEngyngXQju

Prehistoria on YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWAfe6Pk7qXMcat5Jbyr7Uw

XIL (X.I.L.) TO RELEASE "RIP & TEAR"

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Texas thrashers XIL will release their upcoming album Rip & Tear via Confused Records on Feb 25th 2022.

Blasting out of the savage underground of south-central Texas, the trio unshackle a dynamic sound born out of speed and thrash, with a riotous rock ‘n’ roll edge. Attacking with a powerful brutality, XIL’s new album speeds through the light barrier with intense energy that refuses to let up. “Speedemons” races at redneck speed following the dark entities in their mission to pillage and plunder the human species. “Breakneck” begins with a slower tempo building up to a dramatic transition into hard-hitting percussion and kick-ass guitar riffs. Creating a wall of sound with the instrumentation, XIL’s vocals soar above the utter heavy chaos, bringing their own raw, aggressive impact into the mix. Concluding Rip & Tear with “Equinox” combines the pillars of their sound to an ultimate climax. It’s energetic and filled up on guitar riffs producing a blazing effect.

The future of the Earth may be looking rather bleak as the demonic warrior forces take control, but death by thrash and speed seems like a pretty good way to go. Dive head-first into this epic metal fantasy.

Listen to the first single "Breakneck" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_hkQ-5vgWA

Pre-save the album: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/xil2/rip--tear

XIL is:

Jordan L. Hoffart: Sync-keeper of ravenous MotörBeats / keys

Austin James: Four stringed black thunder / lead vocal destruction

'Big Joe' Aguilar: Hellish blues disturbance / secondary overkill throat

Socials:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xxexile 

Bandcamp: https://xilspeedemons.bandcamp.com/