Hells Headbangers interrogated by Midnight & NunSlaughter
Clipped from part 1 of the Hells Headbangers interrogation by Midnight and NunSlaughter.
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VERDALACK "Final Assault" (taken from the "Force From the Grave" LP)
Verdalack in conspiracy with Hells Headbangers! The first fruit of this union shall be the band's debut album, "Force From the Grave," to be released early 2025.
Hailing from Tokyo, Verdalack's roots go back to the preceding band Assault Attack, which included guitarists Vortex and Vandal and vocalist Villain. As Assault Attack, the trio played thrash metal until disbanding in 2018. Under the direction of Vortex, the band restarted in 2022 and changed their moniker to Verdalack and stylistically converted to speed metal. A two-song demo tape was released in 2022, showing that Verdalack were good on their word: new / huge influences ranged from mid '80s speed metal, ancient US power metal, and classic Japanese hardcore-punk. With their expanded lineup consisting of members from Significant Point, Military Shadow, Bafomet, Disgunder, and Another Dimension, it can be said a newborn devil has arisen from incest within the modern Japanese underground metal scene.
Force From the Grave, Verdalack's imminent debut album, will consist of eight songs across a half-hour. The culmination and convergence of the aforementioned influences, the quintet's first full-length will throttle maniacs of Jag Panzer to Japan's Bastard, Exciter to GISM, and Piledriver to Deathside. Classics-minded but exuding an authentically fresh approach, Verdalack are set to take over the underground with violence and force!
#Verdalack #SpeedMetal #MilitaryShadow #Bafomet
DESTRUKTOR's long-awaited third album, "Indomitable," to be released in October on CD, tape & digital. Vinyl to follow soon after.
⚠️ Pre-orders & first track to be announced soon!
Since 1997, DESTRUKTOR have been proudly flying the flag for Australian extreme metal. While quite often do their recordings come within large gaps of time - their second album, Opprobrium, was released back in 2015 - these Aussie tyrants have been patiently honing a sound that seethes with the war-metalled fire their homeland's world renowned for, yet over the years finessed with an acute attention to propulsive, immediately memorable songcraft. Black metal, death metal, thrash, "war metal," whatever: DESTRUKTOR are their own paradigm by now, and it is eternal.
Such is the case with their long-awaited third album, Indomitable. All-too-perfectly titled, Indomitable sounds like it could've come at any point in DESTRUKTOR's quality-over-quantity career: eight stout tracks of scathing, surging, no-nonsense extreme metal. Lean and mean at 34 minutes just like its predecessor, Indomitable continues the band's proverbial sharpening of blades; their fury still walks that fine line between chaos and control - neither too blackened, nor too deathly, nor "thrashing" in any cliche way - but the clear-yet-crushing production amplifies tenfold their scabrous assault, making it somehow grittier and more gleaming in equal measure. It's impossible not to get inexorably swallowed by the album's slipstream: Indomitable is death in sonic format, bereft of belief, joy, and light.
Riff after riff, blast after blast, death after death, Indomitable is catchy-yet-unrelenting dark extreme metal for the dark and the darker. DESTRUKTOR are truly eternal.
#Destruktor #DeathMetal
DECEASED "Fed to mother earth" (taken "Children of the Morgue' LP, 2024)
Taken from their upcoming album "Children of the Morgue" out August 30, 2024 on CD, tape, digital & t-shirt. Vinyl out in the fall.
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HELLS HEADBANGERS is proud to present DECEASED's highly anticipated eighth album, Children of the Morgue, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
By now, DECEASED need no introduction. One of the longest-running American death metal bands, since 1985, DECEASED have been there for it all: death metal's genesis, its creative peak, its commercial peak and subsequent sink into trendiness, the eventual fallout and "un-trendiness," its rebirth at the hands of a new generation, and on and on. There they have stood, simply and 100% always DECEASED, not caring what year it is or what is hip - simply, always, DEATH METAL FROM THE GRAVE!
And across their sizable-yet-succinct discography, at their heart, DECEASED have always been a great HEAVY METAL band. They proved it with 1997's landmark Fearless Undead Machines and continued to prove it with every album thereafter, with 2018's Ghostly White showing that even this MANY years on, their pistons are pumping harder and more creatively than ever.
During those past three decades, DECEASED have not been without ambition. Even when stretching the limits of complexity like on 1995's The Blueprints for Madness, true-to-death storytelling has always been at the fore of their work, vividly illustrated by the characteristic throat of founder / former drummer King Fowley. And although Fearless Undead Machines was perhaps the apex of that storytelling, never before have DECEASED attempted such an emotional, topically rooted-in-death album...until now!
Enter Children of the Morgue, DECEASED's darkest record to date. The album's concept is on dying and all that it entails, and suitably do the band integrate nearly every element of their past and present arsenal into its 55-minute runtime. "There will be fast parts, slo
▶️ New DECEASED track, “Fed to mother earth,” from the upcoming album, “Children of the Morgue,” now streaming on the HHR YouTube and Bandcamp.
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By now, DECEASED need no introduction. One of the longest-running American death metal bands, since 1985, DECEASED have been there for it all: death metal’s genesis, its creative peak, its commercial peak and subsequent sink into trendiness, the eventual fallout and “un-trendiness,” its rebirth at the hands of a new generation, and on and on. There they have stood, simply and 100% always DECEASED, not caring what year it is or what is hip - simply, always, DEATH METAL FROM THE GRAVE!
Enter Children of the Morgue, DECEASED’s darkest record to date. The album’s concept is on dying and all that it entails, and suitably do the band integrate nearly every element of their past and present arsenal into its 55-minute runtime. “There will be fast parts, slow parts, melodic parts, noisy parts, and everything in between,” Fowley claimed pre-release, and he’s not wrong! But how DECEASED manage to thread everything together so seamlessly speaks to the strength of their songwriting - always recognizable, but never resting on past laurels. Here on Children of the Morgue, moody-yet-melodic riffing and lead-work take center stage as Fowley narrates this epic-length tale of life and death. The album’s exceptional pacing and engaging, always-going-forward song constructions heighten the sensation that the record is a lot shorter than it actually is; however, if one was to do some quick math, he’d surmise at least half these tracks are indeed EPIC - at or above the eight-minute mark. Nevertheless, the sum effect is mesmerizing and even majestic, unremittingly DARK as the subject matter may be. The final icing on the cake (or slamming of the morgue’s doors?) is the warm & rustic recording courtesy of Ob
DECEASED "Children of the Morgue"
Taken from their upcoming album "Children of the Morgue" out August 30, 2024 on CD, tape, digital & t-shirt. Vinyl out in the fall.
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HELLS HEADBANGERS is proud to present DECEASED's highly anticipated eighth album, Children of the Morgue, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
By now, DECEASED need no introduction. One of the longest-running American death metal bands, since 1985, DECEASED have been there for it all: death metal's genesis, its creative peak, its commercial peak and subsequent sink into trendiness, the eventual fallout and "un-trendiness," its rebirth at the hands of a new generation, and on and on. There they have stood, simply and 100% always DECEASED, not caring what year it is or what is hip - simply, always, DEATH METAL FROM THE GRAVE!
And across their sizable-yet-succinct discography, at their heart, DECEASED have always been a great HEAVY METAL band. They proved it with 1997's landmark Fearless Undead Machines and continued to prove it with every album thereafter, with 2018's Ghostly White showing that even this MANY years on, their pistons are pumping harder and more creatively than ever.
During those past three decades, DECEASED have not been without ambition. Even when stretching the limits of complexity like on 1995's The Blueprints for Madness, true-to-death storytelling has always been at the fore of their work, vividly illustrated by the characteristic throat of founder / former drummer King Fowley. And although Fearless Undead Machines was perhaps the apex of that storytelling, never before have DECEASED attempted such an emotional, topically rooted-in-death album...until now!
Enter Children of the Morgue, DECEASED's darkest record to date. The album's concept is on dying and all that it entails, and suitably do the band integrate nearly every element of their past and present arsenal into its 55-minute runtime. "There will be fast parts, slo
BLOOD FEAST "Never Will I Die" (taken from 'Infinite Evolution' LP, 2024)
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BLOOD FEAST has been transformed yet again. Nearly five years in the making, with many twists and turns along the way, the band’s fourth album, Infinite Evolution, will see international release via HELLS HEADBANGERS on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats
Continuing on from 2017’s The Future State Of Wicked, the band keeps the thrash vicious, as one would expect. Yet, this time out, the boundaries are expanded. There have been changes in the ranks, as original guitarist Adam Tranquilli has now added lead vocal duties, and co-guitarist/producer CJ Scioscia has taken on more of the songwriting. Drummer Adam Kieffer remains (he came onboard for the band’s 2019 EP Chopped, Sliced & Diced), while bassist extraordinaire Mike LePond of Symphony X lent his impressive talents on the low end.
Songs such as "Outbreak," "Never Will I Die," and "Of Hell" retain the BLOOD FEAST tradition of fast and furious. However, the limits are pushed out a bit further into a tech/prog direction on "Eye Of Glass" and album closer "The Chosen." With a production straddling the line between modern and old school, Infinite Evolution shows diversity, yet without sacrificing the speed or heaviness.
With the lineup now solidified by the addition of Dave Kramer on bass, BLOOD FEAST is itching to get these songs aired in public. New adventures await, and new frontiers are ready to be conquered. Infinite Evolution is the key to the journey.
SKELETHAL "Spectrum of Morbidity" (taken from 'Within Corrosive Continuums' LP, 2024)
Taken from their upcoming album "Within Corrosive Continuums," out July 12, 2024 on CD, LP, tape, digital, t-shirt & long sleeve.
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Tellingly titled Within Corrosive Continuums, SKELETHAL's third album equally encapsulates their past and builds upon it in noble ways. While it's predecessor saw a slight uptick in clarity, here do SKELETHAL carry forward that clarity with a conspicuous dirtying-up of tone. The production's as powerful as ever, so it could be argued that that rediscovered grit & grime come more in the band's execution - or, more accurately, the songwriting itself. Within Corrosive Continuums immediately sounds like the same band who unleashed those prior two (celebrated) LPs, but SKELETHAL flex a bit differently here, opening up a number of (still-death metal) influences and transforming them into riffs and rhythms that ever so slightly more adventurous, all without (crucially) losing their characteristic directness. As such, the bulk of these largely-five-minute-long songs feel twice as fast, so feverish is the band's intensity, but dread-draped hooks and CRUSHING heaviness still rule the day. Put another way, SKELETHAL take on textures that are more personal and somber, but keep the expression resolutely death metal. Simply witness the 13-minute closing juggernaut, appropriately enough the title track: hearing is believing, and SKELETHAL will make believers out of even the crankiest "old school" diehards.
Third albums are always a gamble when it comes to death metal; you either sell out, or get stuck in inertia for the rest of your days. SKELETHAL defy this convention and continue to push their limits, culminating in a deep trip Within Corrosive Continuums.
BLOOD FEAST "Outbreak" (taken from 'Infinite Evolution' LP, 2024)
Taken from their upcoming album "Infinite Evolution" out July 12, 2024 on CD, LP, tape, digital & t-shirt.
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BLOOD FEAST has been transformed yet again. Nearly five years in the making, with many twists and turns along the way, the band’s fourth album, Infinite Evolution, will see international release via HELLS HEADBANGERS on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats
Continuing on from 2017’s The Future State Of Wicked, the band keeps the thrash vicious, as one would expect. Yet, this time out, the boundaries are expanded. There have been changes in the ranks, as original guitarist Adam Tranquilli has now added lead vocal duties, and co-guitarist/producer CJ Scioscia has taken on more of the songwriting. Drummer Adam Kieffer remains (he came onboard for the band’s 2019 EP Chopped, Sliced & Diced), while bassist extraordinaire Mike LePond of Symphony X lent his impressive talents on the low end.
Songs such as "Outbreak," "Never Will I Die," and "Of Hell" retain the BLOOD FEAST tradition of fast and furious. However, the limits are pushed out a bit further into a tech/prog direction on "Eye Of Glass" and album closer "The Chosen." With a production straddling the line between modern and old school, Infinite Evolution shows diversity, yet without sacrificing the speed or heaviness.
With the lineup now solidified by the addition of Dave Kramer on bass, BLOOD FEAST is itching to get these songs aired in public. New adventures await, and new frontiers are ready to be conquered. Infinite Evolution is the key to the journey.
SKELETHAL "Fatal Abstraction"
SKELETHAL "Within Corrosive Continuums," now available for pre-order on CD, LP, tape, digital, t-shirt & long sleeve.
Tellingly titled Within Corrosive Continuums, SKELETHAL's third album equally encapsulates their past and builds upon it in noble ways. While it's predecessor saw a slight uptick in clarity, here do SKELETHAL carry forward that clarity with a conspicuous dirtying-up of tone. The production's as powerful as ever, so it could be argued that that rediscovered grit & grime come more in the band's execution - or, more accurately, the songwriting itself. Within Corrosive Continuums immediately sounds like the same band who unleashed those prior two (celebrated) LPs, but SKELETHAL flex a bit differently here, opening up a number of (still-death metal) influences and transforming them into riffs and rhythms that ever so slightly more adventurous, all without (crucially) losing their characteristic directness. As such, the bulk of these largely-five-minute-long songs feel twice as fast, so feverish is the band's intensity, but dread-draped hooks and CRUSHING heaviness still rule the day. Put another way, SKELETHAL take on textures that are more personal and somber, but keep the expression resolutely death metal. Simply witness the 13-minute closing juggernaut, appropriately enough the title track: hearing is believing, and SKELETHAL will make believers out of even the crankiest "old school" diehards.
Third albums are always a gamble when it comes to death metal; you either sell out, or get stuck in inertia for the rest of your days. SKELETHAL defy this convention and continue to push their limits, culminating in a deep trip Within Corrosive Continuums.
THE LURKING CORPSES "Murder Sweet Murder"
THE LURKING CORPSES "Lurking After Midnight" CD & digital now available for pre-order. LP & merch coming later.
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For nearly 25 years now, THE LURKING CORPSES have been perfecting their patented "Horror Metal" - a singular and potent blend of dark, Misfits/Samhain-style punk rock, blistering thrash, and classic, hook-laden heavy metal - and deliver it with theatrics and panache, masked and becloaked in the best Halloween tradition. However, these Indiana ghouls' albums hit hard no matter the season, and they've risen from the grave after a whole decade with Lurking After Midnight.
Featuring a mostly new lineup, led as ever by demon-crooning frontman Lord Vladimir Von Ghoul and bassist The Nameless Horror returning, THE LURKING CORPSES sound absolutely reinvigorated on Lurking After Midnight, their first album since the HELLS HEADBANGERS-released Workin' For the Devil. Sure to fulfill every horror geek's wet dream, the quintet unload a wide variety of styles across the album's 15 songs, ranging from doo-wop to surf to punk to death metal, but always with addicting energy and straightforward heaviness to spare. Of course, it wouldn't be THE LURKING CORPSES without their tongue-in-cheek mix of sex, violence, and good, old-fashioned horror-flick gore, and you get a maximum overdrive of all across the 49 minutes of Lurking After Midnight.
Sure to leave you singing along and banging your head like there's no tomorrow, THE LURKING CORPSES put the "fun" back in funeral with Lurking After Midnight!
ROTTEN UK "Annihilation Desecration"
ROTTEN UK “Age of Chaos” now available for pre-order on LP, CD, tape, digital, t-shirt and long sleeve. Ships May 24th!
Although some eight years since their debut album, "Age of Chaos" carries forward the sound of its predecessor with renewed vigor and a wider 'n' wilder palette. Not for nothing does the 46-minute album comprise a full 15 songs: exhibiting both staggering variety and finely honed focus, ROTTEN UK's second full-length sweeps across throttling metalpunk, hammering anarcho-punk, and even early goth, as it evolved from punk and into deathrock, with effortless aplomb. Thus, one will find influences from Broken Bones but also Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, and even Hellhammer, all rendered in ROTTEN UK's engaging 'n' enigmatic style. The Exploited play a prominent influence, too, both their paradigmatic thrashing style as well as their goth-tinged classic Horror Epics; other early goth touchstones here include UK Decay, Screaming Dead, and the early works of Christian Death and T.S.O.L. But even with this spidery dynamics integrated, ROTTEN UK's second album surges with a heaviness only hinted at earlier, with the crush coming from a firm UKHC foundation of early Sacrilege, English Dogs, Onslaught, Warfare, and especially later Anti-Cimex. And while the songwriting is superlative, the production of Age of Chaos is both authentically vintage and remarkably clear & cutting, courtesy of recording at Vanik's Mercinary Studios. The Midnight link continues with guest vocals by mainman Athenar on a track and guest vocals by Ho99o9's Eaddy on both a track and a bonus track.
Completing the totality of this momentous record, Age of Chaos features stunning cover artwork courtesy of THE legendary Frank Frazetta, officially licensed from his family. Songs of revenge, revolution, and the Apocalypse, with magic and the occult swirling all about - ROTTEN UK return into an Age of Chaos!
ROTTEN UK "Annihilation Desecration"
ROTTEN UK “Age of Chaos” now available for pre-order on LP, CD, tape, digital, t-shirt and long sleeve. Ships May 24th!
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Although some eight years since their debut album, "Age of Chaos" carries forward the sound of its predecessor with renewed vigor and a wider 'n' wilder palette. Not for nothing does the 46-minute album comprise a full 15 songs: exhibiting both staggering variety and finely honed focus, ROTTEN UK's second full-length sweeps across throttling metalpunk, hammering anarcho-punk, and even early goth, as it evolved from punk and into deathrock, with effortless aplomb. Thus, one will find influences from Broken Bones but also Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, and even Hellhammer, all rendered in ROTTEN UK's engaging 'n' enigmatic style. The Exploited play a prominent influence, too, both their paradigmatic thrashing style as well as their goth-tinged classic Horror Epics; other early goth touchstones here include UK Decay, Screaming Dead, and the early works of Christian Death and T.S.O.L. But even with this spidery dynamics integrated, ROTTEN UK's second album surges with a heaviness only hinted at earlier, with the crush coming from a firm UKHC foundation of early Sacrilege, English Dogs, Onslaught, Warfare, and especially later Anti-Cimex. And while the songwriting is superlative, the production of Age of Chaos is both authentically vintage and remarkably clear & cutting, courtesy of recording at Vanik's Mercinary Studios. The Midnight link continues with guest vocals by mainman Athenar on a track and guest vocals by Ho99o9's Eaddy on both a track and a bonus track.
Completing the totality of this momentous record, Age of Chaos features stunning cover artwork courtesy of THE legendary Frank Frazetta, officially licensed from his family. Songs of revenge, revolution, and the Apocalypse, with magic and the occult swirling all about - ROTTEN UK return into an Age of
ROTTEN UK "Annihilation Desecration"
ROTTEN UK “Age of Chaos” now available for pre-order on LP, CD, tape, digital, t-shirt and long sleeve. Ships May 24th!
🔥 Get it here:
https://shop-hellsheadbangers.com/searchAdvanced.asp?searchfor=ROTTEN+UK
Although some eight years since their debut album, "Age of Chaos" carries forward the sound of its predecessor with renewed vigor and a wider 'n' wilder palette. Not for nothing does the 46-minute album comprise a full 15 songs: exhibiting both staggering variety and finely honed focus, ROTTEN UK's second full-length sweeps across throttling metalpunk, hammering anarcho-punk, and even early goth, as it evolved from punk and into deathrock, with effortless aplomb. Thus, one will find influences from Broken Bones but also Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, and even Hellhammer, all rendered in ROTTEN UK's engaging 'n' enigmatic style. The Exploited play a prominent influence, too, both their paradigmatic thrashing style as well as their goth-tinged classic Horror Epics; other early goth touchstones here include UK Decay, Screaming Dead, and the early works of Christian Death and T.S.O.L. But even with this spidery dynamics integrated, ROTTEN UK's second album surges with a heaviness only hinted at earlier, with the crush coming from a firm UKHC foundation of early Sacrilege, English Dogs, Onslaught, Warfare, and especially later Anti-Cimex. And while the songwriting is superlative, the production of Age of Chaos is both authentically vintage and remarkably clear & cutting, courtesy of recording at Vanik's Mercinary Studios. The Midnight link continues with guest vocals by mainman Athenar on a track and guest vocals by Ho99o9's Eaddy on both a track and a bonus track.
Completing the totality of this momentous record, Age of Chaos features stunning cover artwork courtesy of THE legendary Frank Frazetta, officially licensed from his family. Songs of revenge, revolution, and the Apocalypse, with magic and the occult swirling all about - ROTTEN UK return into an Age of
ROTTEN UK "Annihilation Desecration"
ROTTEN UK “Age of Chaos” now available for pre-order on LP, CD, tape, digital, t-shirt and long sleeve. Ships May 24th!
🔥 Get it here:
https://shop-hellsheadbangers.com/searchAdvanced.asp?searchfor=ROTTEN+UK
Although some eight years since their debut album, "Age of Chaos" carries forward the sound of its predecessor with renewed vigor and a wider 'n' wilder palette. Not for nothing does the 46-minute album comprise a full 15 songs: exhibiting both staggering variety and finely honed focus, ROTTEN UK's second full-length sweeps across throttling metalpunk, hammering anarcho-punk, and even early goth, as it evolved from punk and into deathrock, with effortless aplomb. Thus, one will find influences from Broken Bones but also Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, and even Hellhammer, all rendered in ROTTEN UK's engaging 'n' enigmatic style. The Exploited play a prominent influence, too, both their paradigmatic thrashing style as well as their goth-tinged classic Horror Epics; other early goth touchstones here include UK Decay, Screaming Dead, and the early works of Christian Death and T.S.O.L. But even with this spidery dynamics integrated, ROTTEN UK's second album surges with a heaviness only hinted at earlier, with the crush coming from a firm UKHC foundation of early Sacrilege, English Dogs, Onslaught, Warfare, and especially later Anti-Cimex. And while the songwriting is superlative, the production of Age of Chaos is both authentically vintage and remarkably clear & cutting, courtesy of recording at Vanik's Mercinary Studios. The Midnight link continues with guest vocals by mainman Athenar on a track and guest vocals by Ho99o9's Eaddy on both a track and a bonus track.
Completing the totality of this momentous record, Age of Chaos features stunning cover artwork courtesy of THE legendary Frank Frazetta, officially licensed from his family. Songs of revenge, revolution, and the Apocalypse, with magic and the occult swirling all about - ROTTEN UK return into an Age of
GOAT SEMEN "Midnight Worship"
Taken from their upcoming mini album, "F**k Christ," to be released summer 2024 by Hells Headbangers on CD, 12" vinyl, and cassette tape formats.
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Nearly a decade after their momentous debut album, GOAT SEMEN return with a comparatively quick-hitting EP in F**k Christ. Much like its unapologetic & unadorned title, the Peruvian devils waste no time, kicking in immediately with a swirlingly sulfurous maelstrom of classic GOAT SEMEN proportions. For a record that comprises five stout songs in 19 electric minutes, F**k Christ feels simultaneously longer and quicker than that runtime suggests, so respectively satisfying and urgent is that hammering barbarity. Naturally, it wouldn't be GOAT SEMEN if everything wasn't attacking from every angle all at once, the feeling of imminent implosion lurking around every dark 'n' diseased corner; compared to Ego Svm Satana, F**k Christ exacerbates that mania to an almost overwhelming degree even when the intensity dips down to a doomed trudge. But perhaps the most unique element on this new record is how relatively clean and clear its recording is, with each and every instrument sounding sharp and powerful - nothing "muddy" about GOAT SEMEN f**king Christ here - which in turn makes the band's inherent grit & grime sound stranger and more depraved. Put another way, there's nothing to hide behind here; there's simply no escape from F**k Christ.
For those who still hail the old gods of equally early Sarcofago, Krisiun, Hadez, Sextrash, and Mystifier, no matter when their records arrive, you can always count on GOAT SEMEN to F**k Christ!
LAMENT IN WINTER'S NIGHT "The Night Beckons in Yellow and Blue"
Taken from their upcoming second album, "Whereunto the Twilight Leads," to be released on CD and vinyl LP summer 2024. Atrocity Altar shall handle the cassette tape release.
Hailing from the ever-fertile Australian black metal underground, LAMENT IN WINTER'S NIGHT is the work of one The Seer, who has a vast array of other projects lurking in his cobwebbed soul. Of them, LAMENT IN WINTER'S NIGHT is the most prominent and prolific and, since the beginning of 2019, has seen feverish activity from The Seer, culminating in the debut album At the Gates of the Eternal Storm in 2020. so impressed by its hideous grimness, HELLS HEADBANGERS reissued the album in 2022 and promptly sought an alliance with The Seer, which now culminates in the release of LAMENT IN WINTER'S NIGHT's second album.
Evocatively titled "Whereunto the Twilight Leads," LAMENT IN WINTER'S NIGHT's second full-length immediately sounds like them - spectral in its rawness, wounded in its melodicism, largely bass-less recording, and altogether ghoulish and ethereal in equal measure - but changes are certainly afoot here. For one, The Seer is joined by Blood Fury on drums, and while the former still handles all songwriting as well as guitar, bass, synth, and vocals, their chemistry comes careening with no small amount of aplomb: "Whereunto the Twilight Leads" is both more feverish and nuanced than the band's prior recordings, bouncing from buoyant blasts to an almost-regal midtempo that absolutely amplifies the unapologetically bright riffing & lead-work (often, one and the same). Mind you, by "bright," there's an underlying sentiment of melancholy or at least nostalgia across the whole of the album, but rather than get bogged down by the should-be-inherent misery, The Seer's scurrying & scrying strings build citadels of invigorating sound - "medieval" by proxy, and perversely more AND less black metal than ever. It's a unique disconnect that LAMENT IN WINTER'S NIGHT work further in their favor here, and an
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CARDIAC ARREST "Victims to the Blasphemy"
Taken from Cardiac Arrest's eighth album, "The Stench of Eternity," to be released on CD, LP, cassette and digital formats spring 2024.
Formed in 1997, Chicago's CARDIAC ARREST have become something of an underground institution with their unapologetically horror-inspired death metal. Never catering to the trends, CARDIAC ARREST have remained a force to be reckoned with and show no signs of compromise. With numerous releases, festival appearances, tours in the US, Canada, and Europe, and respect of peers and fans alike, CARDIAC ARREST proudly carries the flag of true DEATH METAL.
Newly allied with HELLS HEADBANGERS, CARDIAC ARREST saw the reissue of their second album (and favorite), 2008's Cadaverous Presence, on vinyl for the first time ever during the summer of 2023. Continuing this blood pact is the long-awaited release of The Stench of Eternity, their eighth album overall. CARDIAC ARREST's preceding album, The Day That Death Prevailed, was released during the cursed year of 2020, and the following years were even more difficult for the band. Nevertheless, all that darkness and bitterness positively spill over on the ever-aptly-titled The Stench of Eternity. Sticking to their guns but firing 'em uglier and nastier than ever, CARDIAC ARREST kick into their characteristic sound with sickly aplomb: gallop, blast, mix 'em up, and repeat as necessary until the listener is either possessed or decimated! A no-nonsense approach to be sure, but to do it this convincingly - and, after all these years, without rehashing the same ideas - is a skill elusive to most. Couple that with CARDIAC ARREST's catchiest and most varied songwriting to date, as well as a production that manages to be both crystal-clear and exceptionally dirty simultaneously, and The Stench of Eternity becomes essential huffing for the sickest f**ks. Timeless and trend-free, for over 25 years now: ONLY DEATH METAL IS REAL!
DEMONCY "Diabolica Blasphemiae"
Taken from the upcoming "Diabolica Blasphemiae" mini-album to be released on CD, tape and digital in winter 2023 and 12" vinyl in 2024.
For those who truly know black metal, DEMONCY require no introduction: ever restless and always surprising, their name is legendary for stirring an infinitely deep cauldron of black magick that's completely their own. One of the earliest black metal bands on American soil, DEMONCY have gone through myriad lineups over the past 30-plus years, but they've always been guided by the vision of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Ixithra. In their wake, they've left landmark recordings like Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost and Joined in Darkness, which were both originally recorded in the mid '90s despite their eventual release year of 1999. Even latter-day records like 2015's Empire of the Fallen Angel (Eternal Black Dominion), which saw Ixithra entirely revamp the band's 2003 album in a manner most miasmic, prove the potency of DEMONCY no matter when or how recordings crop up.
And so it goes with Diabolica Blasphemiae, DEMONCY's first new recording in nearly a decade. With Ixithra currently handling vocals and bass, joining him here are the incredibly prolific VJS (Nightbringer, Sargeist, Adaestuo) on guitar and Vorthrus (Cerebral Rot, Crurifragium) on drums. Serpentine in its flow and mesmerizing in its effect, DEMONCY's latest mini-album is a vile, virile display of the band's eternal aesthetic, sounding very much like it could've come out during the mid '90s yet retaining a freshness of approach that defies deja vu. Gutted in its low-end throb whilst exhibiting an ethereal aspect, Diabolica Blasphemiae explores above as it is below, sending forth sine waves of obsidian energy both punishing and pleasurable: primeval black metal magick harnessed with a true auteur's touch. Same as it ever was, then, but still so surprising after all these years - there is only one DEMONCY.
DEMONCY lineup on this recording
Ixithra - Voice of Serpents &
