SODOMIC BAPTISM RELEASE "CONTRA CHRISTUM"

 

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Sodomic Baptism Joins Brutal Records – New Album "Contra Christum" Drops June 20, 2025! 

Brutal Records proudly welcomes Sodomic Baptism, the unstoppable force of Belarusian Death Metal, to our roster! Their latest sonic assault, "Contra Christum," unleashes nine relentless tracks of crushing brutality, technical precision, and pure death metal devastation.

Release Date: June 20, 2025 Available Worldwide – Digital via The Orchard  

Physical Formats: https://mvdshop.com/products/sodomic-baptism-contra-christum-cd

Prepare for obliteration as Sodomic Baptism delivers their most ferocious and uncompromising release yet! Stay tuned for exclusive previews, merch drops, and brutal updates!

One of Belarus’ most relentless and uncompromising forces in death metal, SODOMIC BAPTISM, returns with their full-length offering, Contra Christum. Steeped in the essence of true Satanic brutal metal, this album is a furious assault of technical precision, unyielding brutality, and apocalyptic atmosphere.

With Contra Christum, the band refuses to abandon their old-school roots, yet they push their sound into darker, more unrelenting extremes. Balancing savage, high-speed offensives with calculated, crushing sections, the album delivers both pure aggression and sophisticated composition. Tracks like Posthumous Rebirth and Adepts of Chaos accelerate into blistering chaos, while doomy passages inject a brooding, sinister weight. This isn’t just extremity for extremity’s sake—it’s calculated devastation, executed with precision.

Fans of relentless, technical, and oppressive death metal will find Contra Christum to be an essential listen. This is a record that reveals its darkest nuances with every play—fearsome, powerful, and utterly consuming.

WATCH NOW: The official music video for "Adepts of Chaos", a crushing track from SODOMIC BAPTISM’s upcoming album Contra Christum, exclusively on Brutal Records' YouTube channel!

About SODOMIC BAPTISM

Formed in 2014 by Alexis and Alex Tetin, the band was built on themes of Metaphysical Evil, Hell, Darkness, and Chaos. For SODOMIC BAPTISM, Satan is not just a symbol of rebellion but the embodiment of freedom, justice, and infinite knowledge. Their music is an exploration of the abyss—a confrontation with the self beyond servitude and blind faith.

Discography:

Black Fire Pandemonium (2014) – EP

Womb Ov Sheol (2017) – Split

Black Fire Pandemonium (2017) – Full-length

Contra Christum (2025) – Full-length

1. Antipsalm: Purification Inthrough Antichrist

2. Posthumous Rebirth

3. Bloody Redemption

4. LCF

5. The Witches Laughter

6. Adepts of Chaos

7. Belial: The Path to Knowledge of the Abyss

8. Resurrection Outhrough Renunciation of Grace

9. The Transcendence of Existence

Follow SODOMIC BAPTISM:

YouTube: @sodomic_baptism

Facebook: Sodomic Baptism

VK: vk.com/sodomicbaptism

 Contact: alvertetcher@gmail.com

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MOONSKIN RELEASE NEW SINGLE: "BLOOD ENSLAVED"

 

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Release Date: August 16th, 2024

The modern music industry has made its choice: simpler, dumber, deader. In a cultural landscape where mumble rap drools across every playlist and pop hooks are chemically engineered for maximum catchiness, the industry no longer hides what it’s doing—it’s lowering the bar until it scrapes the dirt.

Across corporate boardrooms where profit is gospel and data scientists have replaced producers, music has been boiled down to a science—stripped of soul, creativity, and risk. Complex harmony has been abandoned for predictable major and minor scales, diminished chords and modal progressions replaced by the safest possible choices. Gone is the era that gave us songs like “The Number of the Beast” (Iron Maiden), “War Pigs” (Black Sabbath), “Subdivisions” (Rush), and “Rocketman” ( Elton John)—tracks that dared to be strange, political, dissonant, or defiantly uncommercial. Today’s hits are built for algorithms, not artistry. But metal hasn’t played along (Well most metal, coughs, m******re).

"What passes for lyrics today in say mumble rap barely even qualifies as language," says Moonskin’s vocalist. "It’s not songwriting—it’s stream-of-consciousness slurring over clickbait beats. Half-conscious, drug-numbed, barely coherent. Mass-produced lyrically lobotomized sludge spoon-fed to listeners trained not to question it. Even country—a genre once rich with storytelling and character has been flattened into a formula. It’s the same song, over and over."

By contrast, the world Moonskin inhabits—alongside bands like Cradle of Filth, Meshuggah, In Flames, Lamb Of God, and *special shoutout to Devin Townsend*—remains defiantly lyrical, layered, and unafraid to demand intelligence from its audience. These bands/artists still write with intent. With poetry. With fury that’s not just loud, but thoughtful.

"Metal doesn’t need to be ‘accessible,’" Moonskin continues. "It needs to be honest. And honesty is ugly. It’s complex. It doesn’t come in three words and a looped beat."

Their latest single, Blood Enslaved, in comparison isn’t just a song —it’s a piece of art, a warning. Not the longest, technical, or lyrically complex but deliberate and unflinching, and a far cry above “**** pass me the hookah”. It’s an allegory of vampirism that explores the seduction and surrender of those who follow blindly—those who offer up their lifeblood to power-hungry architects in robes of divinity, and the addiction that afflicts the latter.  

So, while mainstream execs toast another chart-topping track built on deliberate stupidity, metalheads still dig through lyrics, dissect riffs, and search for meaning. In this era of musical sedation, metal is the last genre that still trusts its audience to think.

For those who missed it—Moonskin’s Blood Enslaved waits in the dark

Listen to “Blood Enslaved” on available now via all major streaming platforms:

https://ffm.to/blood-enslaved

Follow the band at these links:

https://ffm.to/blood-enslaved

https://www.moonskin.ca/

https://www.facebook.com/moonskinofficial/

https://www.instagram.com/moonskinmetal/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk71hQq9v4191YJDIX9212g

https://moonskin-official.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KEZJfyBhLwDrmR2chCGhq

https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/moonskin/1329511665

https://listen.tidal.com/artist/9353704

https://www.moonskin.ca/moonskin-metal-band-official-merch-store

NEW VIDEOS: MAY 28TH TO JUNE 6TH, 2025

 

VYR MUK RELEASE "CRIMSON FIELDS OF SORROW"

 

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Out Now 

FFO: Behemoth, SepticFlesh, Dimmu Borgir

Genre: Symphonic Black/Death Metal

Listen Here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/vyrmuk/crimson-fields-of-sorrow

Ukraine’s rising force in the extreme metal underground, Vyr Muk , returns with the harrowing new album, Crimson Fields of Sorrow , released April 10, 2025. This symphonic black/death metal opus is a cold, cinematic plunge into the horrors of war, inner collapse, and spiritual desolation.

Crafted by Vladyslav Blizniuk , the sole mind behind Vyr Muk, the album stands as a defiant and mournful tribute to a world in decay. Originating from Kharkiv, Ukraine , Vyr Muk debuted in 2023 and has since carved a unique identity—melding bleak black/death metal with haunting ambient atmospheres and lyrics delivered in the Ukrainian language.

Crimson Fields of Sorrow is a ritual of grief and defiance , evoking the brutality of Behemoth, the orchestral grandeur of SepticFlesh, and the icy majesty of Dimmu Borgir. Tracks blend razor-sharp riffs, tormented screams, and sweeping orchestration to paint a battlefield scarred by loss and existential dread.

“This album is a hymn for the fallen,” says Blizniuk, “and a curse upon the void.”

Produced at : Anti Social Riddim Studios

Album Artwork by : Oleksandr Koval

Vyr Muk invites fans of emotionally charged extreme metal to experience an unforgettable journey through sorrow, survival, and shadow.

Follow Vyr Muk:

https://vyrmuk.bandcamp.com/music

https://www.instagram.com/vyr_muk.ua

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/vyrmuk/crimson-fields-of-sorrow

BRUTAL ASSAULT FEST 2025 REVEALS RUNNING ORDER

 

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The wait is over! We're bringing you the complete running order for this year's Brutal Assault! Now you can use our festival app and start planning your own schedule for the entire festival! Don't forget that full festival tickets are also valid for the Wednesday warm-up, and single-day tickets are still available as well. Who are you most excited to see?

Download the Brutal Assault festival app on Google Play and Apple App Store

More info here: https://brutalassault.cz/

NEW VIDEOS: MAY 20TH TO MAY 26TH, 2025

 

GRAVESLAVE RELEASE BASS PLAYTHROUGH FOR THEIR SINGLE "STRETCHED UNTIL WE BLEED"

 

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Minneapolis, Minnesota death metal band GRAVESLAVE have just released a bass playthrough video for their latest single "Stretched Until We Bleed". The single comes from the band´s latest EP "Relinquish, Life" released in 2024. You can check the bass playthrough here:

Founded in 2014, Graveslave has long been a mainstay and driving force in the Midwest metal scene. Known for their breakneck speed, technical songwriting, and outrageous music videos, Graveslave have been providing mosh pits and windmills to crowds since inception. A seasoned touring band, Graveslave have accomplished a major 2018 EU tour with Origin, Rings of Saturn, and Hideous Divinity, as well as several U.S. tours, sharing the stage with acts such as Abigail Williams, Micawber and Unearth to name a few.

In 2021 the band released their most recent LP, No Center, and was "highly memorable" according to No Clean Singing. The band then spent the majority of 2021 and 2022 promoting the LP, which was also featured in Decibel Magazine, New Noise Magazine, GhostCult Mag, and more. In 2024 the band released the first of two companion EPs, titled Relinquish, Life. Continuing to refine their unique blend of blackened progressive death, the band also released a new music video for the single Stretched Until We Bleed, described by No Clean Singing as "barbarically careening and crashing...it's also technically impressive - and somehow precisely executed."

GRAVESLAVE Line-up:

Fernando Landaverde (guitar), 

Josh Burke (bass), 

Ashton George (lead vox), 

Ben Plaguerness (drums) 

Roman Non (guitar, vox) 

Genre: Blackened Progressive Death Metal

For Fans Of: Cattle Decapitation, Aborted, Ov Sulfur, Vitriol, Nightbringer 

Active Since: 2014

Direct Contact: graveslaveband@gmail.com

Management: Viscera Disgust Media  visceradisgustmedia@gmail.com

GRAVESLAVE links:

https://www.facebook.com/graveslaveMN

https://www.instagram.com/graveslaveband

https://graveslavemn.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fMaWj1gFlWA2PgKfMpLiK

https://www.tiktok.com/@graveslavemn

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtcahDim2U0Zw8XyNVbFTUQ

BRUTAL ASSAULT FEST ANNOUNCE FIRST LINE-UP CHANGES FOR THE 2025 EDITION

 

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The Festival organization says: "As every year, unfortunately, we won’t avoid some band schedule changes across the festival days. We’re announcing the first three adjustments: LANDMVRKS will perform on Thursday, OVERKILL on Friday, and HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY on Saturday. If you purchased a one-day ticket specifically for any of these bands and wish to change the day of your ticket, please contact us at shop@brutalassault.com.

More info in: https://brutalassault.cz/