Thursday, December 31, 2020
Throwback Thursday: Adore (black metal, USA)
Throwback Thursday: DOHRN (extreme metal, USA)
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Leather Witch -- heavy metal from Colombia
Adamah (Brazil) -- melodic Christian heavy metal in Portuguese
Adaga -- black metal from Brazil
Mehul Kanani (Uganda) -- new instrumental single "The Ghosts of Khaosan"
Immurement -- brutal death from Trinidad and Tobago
Doomed Immortal -- U.S. death metal solo project
Solemn Vision -- prog melodeath from New York, USA
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Narcotic Wasteland (U.S. death metal featuring Dallas TW, formerly of Nile)
Voracious Scourge streaming 2020 album In Death (project featuring Sinister, Suffocation, Cynic [ex]members)
Epica (Holland) -- two songs from Omega (2021)
Shrieks of the Impaled (Washington state, USA)
Shizerdome (Washington state, USA)
Shadow of the Torturer (Washington state, USA)
Monday, December 28, 2020
Inferi -- melodic tech-death from USA
Defences -- melodic metalcore from the UK
Deepshow -- stoner groovy heaviness from Belgium
African mythology explorers Chovu (Kenya) streaming song "Mwikali" from 2020 EP What Sorcery Is This?
Hear the slow heaviness with growled vocals of "Mwikali" from what Metal Archives says is Chovu's debut EP What Sorcery Is This? With the way that various forms of doom continue to be popular with U.S. heavy rock audiences, this song might hit the spot with those listeners.
ABOUT: "Chovu is a band exploring African Mythology through the medium of Heavy Metal."
What Sorcery is This?
by Chovu
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Dead Sleep -- Swedish thrash
Begräbnis -- funeral doom from Japan
Shaded Enmity (2001-2015; Washington state, USA)
Serpent Lord (Washington state, USA)
Serpens Aeon (Washington state, USA)
Seeds of Corruption (2005-2012; Washington state, USA)
Serial Hawk (Washington state, USA)
Saturday, December 26, 2020
CADAVERIA - Return (OFFICIAL VIDEO) ("unconventional extreme horror metal")
Check out the 2020 music of Cadaveria, returning after cancer treatment.
Metal Archives shows these recordings:
The Shadows' Madame Full-length 2002;
Home Video Video 2002;
Far Away from Conformity Full-length 2004;
In Your Blood Full-length 2007;
The Days of the After and Behind Single 2012;
Horror Metal Full-length 2012;
Karma Video 2013;
Carnival of Doom Single 2014;
Silence Full-length 2014;
Mondoscuro Split 2016;
Christian Woman Single 2017;
Dominion of Pain Single 2017;
Mater Tenebrarum Single 2017;
Return Single 2020;
Matryoshcada Single 2020.
CADAVERIA - Return (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
https://www.facebook.com/cadaveria
https://cadaveria.bandcamp.com/releases
Shadows of Paragon - Your New Identity (lyric video)
cavernous claustrophobic death Aberration streaming track "III" from January 2021 self-tited debut recording
Aberration seeks the sound of something apropriate for the cult-minded fans of primal, minimalistic, low-growl indecipherable death that seems recorded in an abandoned garage where everything smells foul due to the dumpsters, oil refinery and chemical plant nearby. Sometimes it crawls, sometimes it blasts, and it is always barbaric. They aim for the sound of a jumbled big ball of foggy, grey ugliness. Your eyes cannot make anything out, you turn on the windshield wipers but that can't get rid of the fog. You strain your eyes to see anything ahead of you, but it's no use, and your headlights don't help at all, either. You keep driving, hoping that no one, no animal jumps ahead of your car because if they do you won't have any time or distance to stop. It's all just too foggy. That's Aberration. There is no way anybody knows what the vocalist is whispering-growling, and the strings and percussion seem conjoined for the speed, the doom, the woof-woof up-and-down of it all. Aberration seems to know what they are doing, and as the official information below says, it looks like they have been working for years at that abandoned garage making this type of cacophony.
-Metal Bulletin Zine
Aberration
Aberration
January 15 2021
Sentient Ruin Laboratories
ABOUT: With influences coming from extreme metal beasts like Antediluvian, Altarage, and Impetuous Ritual, the Minnesota-based dark death metal horde debuts via Sentient Ruin with their self-titled 2021 debut 10" EP, an aural pact with total darkness that establishes them as one of the most imaginative and intimidating new entities in American underground extreme metal.
No newcomers to game, Aberration was formed in late 2019 by members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour, Nothingness and Tvaer, throwing the sum of their talents and influences into an obfuscating aural glorification of total darkness and oblivion, combining death, doom, black metal and tenebrous ambient/drone to create an imposing aural hellscape of complete light-devouring terror.
JH - Aberrations / Proclamations.
DH - Emanations / Incantations.
AW - Lacerations.
EC - Abominations.
Music by JH, AW.
Lyrics by JH.
Engineered and mixed by DH at Black Dust Studios.
Mastered by Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower Studios.
Logo by Misanthropic Art.
Cover and inner art by Serpent Above.
Photography by Sam Nelson / Clay Olson.
Layout by Barclay Olson.
Aberration
by Aberration
Second Sting (Washington state, USA)
Serpent's Knight (Washington state, USA)
Friday, December 25, 2020
ultra brutal Indonesian death zealots Chronic Injury streaming Plague Hunger & Sorrow
Fans of unmelodic, unrelenting blasting death ultrabrutality might like to mosey on over to the Bandcamp to experience what Chronic Injury has to offer. The band, according to Metal Archives, began in 1997. This recording below seems to have some recent material together with some much older stuff, but this publication is unable to give more specifics. At any rate, what is clear is that this is brutal death. Let the blastin begin! -Metal Bulletin Zine
ABOUT: in the beginning of 2010, Chronic injury began recycling their old songs into new concepts that they bring. With a line up of Vishnu (guitar/bass), slammed (vocals), Kris (drums), chronic injury plays concept of Brutal Death Grind and ready to hit the stage of Indonesian underground, or even worldwide.
Plague hunger & sorrow
by CHRONIC INJURY
Sentient Divide (Washington state, USA)
Sedation Therapy (Washington state, USA)
Scourge Schematic (Washington state, USA)
chopchop Kansas City barbecue butchers Marasmus sample tasting cuts "Universal Deceit" and "Carrion Ascension" ahead of March 2021's Necrotic Overlord in effort to make Andy Reid gain 50 more pounds; call hospital, need help now
Metal Archives says that in 2009 Marasmus began training at the meat market with the EP Diseased. After the probationary period at work they became full-time butchers with Mountains of Dead in 2012. In 2015 they packaged some new slaughterhouse product with the MMXV EP and in the same year they served another truckload called Conjuring Enormity. After that they took a vacation, but in 2021 they will return to their craft with Necrotic Overlord to please the ever-hungry customers who were unhappy that their favorite butchers were never around anymore. What type of product will they be serving in 2021?! As usual, they serve unsalted, unspiced product that the super loyal customers enjoy preparing at home. Customers expecting something sweet will probably not enjoy this product but the fans with the stomach for the strong product will be licking their lips and unbuckling their belts for this odorous serving. Andy Reid has already called to reserve his portion of the new product. The Kansas City area hospitals have already been notified and the ambulances are waiting. Feel free to sample for yourself the product below.
-Metal Bulletin Zine
MARASMUS
Necrotic Overlord
Transcending Obscurity Records
26 March 2021
ABOUT: Featuring members of Unmerciful, US death metal band Maramus whip up a veritable death metal maelstrom with a relentless barrage of riffs, off-the-hook jackhammer drumming and absolutely savage throat-ripping vocals to top it off. This is a systematic barbaric onslaught that lays to waste everything in its wake. The music reaches dizzying speeds and it all starts to get hypnotic at some point, but that’s probably because the momentum is fueled by rhythmic, pulsating beats and corresponding vocal patterns that reach a devastating, mind-numbing crescendo. This is one of the most stripped-down versions of the brutal death metal style, leaving bare the raw aggression, unbridled anger and sheer fit of catharsis. It’s a rare thrill to delve into something so visceral and feral. Albums like these don’t come out too often and it’s best to brace yourself and prepare for a deadly, neck-snapping ride.
Line up -
Devon Ferrara - Vocals;
Trynt Kelly - Drums;
Brandon Culligan - Guitar;
Andrew Nagorski - Guitar;
Ben Axel Harvey - Bass;
Justin Bird - Programming.
Artwork by Rafael Tavares (Blood Red Throne).
Layout by TG Rantanen (Master, Paganizer).
Necrotic Overlord (Death Metal)
by MARASMUS (US)
Thursday, December 24, 2020
doomsters Witchtit streaming song "Crimson Tide" showcasing their blues-stoner wormhole to the past future with March 2021 album Intoxicating Lethargy
Witchtit takes their stoner-blues-doom to the early days of heavy rock when things were psychedelic and heavy. During the wait for the new recording, die-hard fans of the genre might enjoy the band's previous recording available on Bandcamp. Their unfortunate name aside (seriously, so nobody in the band thought, "You know, guys, now that I'm sober, maybe we could choose a slightly better name than the one our drunk drummer suggested at 2 in the morning last night ..."?), fans of retro doom that goes pretty full on the retro mode could enjoy the idea of vintage heavy rock that goes back to the sound of an earlier time when things were hazy, opaque and smokey.
-Metal Bulletin Zine
WitchTit
Intoxicating Lethargy
12 March 2021
ABOUT: “That is what I fear most, that I become so caught up in the pursuit of the pleasures of life that I am never truly alive.” That is the power of Intoxicating Lethargy, which is also the title of WitchTit’s début album. The crushing five-piece doom metal outfit from Raleigh, North Carolina are releasing the follow-up after testing the waters via a split with Etiolated, but it’s a very different band that walked into the studio this time. The most marked change in WitchTit is the addition of vocalist Reign, whose delivery hits the wailing tones of Messiah Marcolin crossed with a young Iggy Pop in his Stooges days. Her words cover a myriad of topics, from the alcohol-tinged “Silver Tongue” to the call away from inaction in the title track alluded to in the quote. Each line is delivered with relish, whether belting to the rafters or slinking on the floor, oozing with character.
The music is also a veritable conundrum in itself - how can one group blend together the horror-spun doom of Celtic Frost and Candlemass with the NWOBM elements of Witchfinder General and Manilla Road, and yet have it sound so fresh? The drumming is a major highlight of this, especially on the closer “Home Invasion”. There’s even some thrash in their influences, as the ripping guitar solo at the end of “Intoxicating Lethargy” can attest. The result is a début full-length which simultaneously fits right in with other releases of 2020/2021 and also has the sensation of having tumbled out of the 80s. In the end, WitchTit prove themselves a force to be reckoned with in North Carolina doom, and Intoxicating Lethargy is a major milestone in this burgeoning band’s career. If their memorable live shows are anything to go by, the troupe will be demanding our attention again very soon.
Intoxicating Lethargy
by Witchtit
Etiolated/Witchtit Split
by Witchtit
soothsaying doom & gloom prognosticators Sepulcros streaming song "Vazio" from March 2021 album
Fans of monstrous death doom can get a taste now of what the album Vazio will be all about: a slow-motion massive heaviness of the gloomiest order. In this case, listeners might like to know that the music takes the art of dragging out death doom to the slowest speeds, and then just when people might be feeling all warm and smiley, there it is, some black metal blasting speed segments that change the vision of the landscape, and subsequently return to the slow heaviness, leaving the listener wondering if those blasting segments are a strange coincidence or part and parcel of the experience. When the album arrives, expect some of those shots of speed to liven up the desperation and depression of the Portuguese band's sound as a repeating feature.
-Metal Bulletin Zine
Sepulcros
Vazio
Transcending Obscurity Records
12 March 2021
ABOUT: Emerging from the underground, Sepulcros spew forth a powerful, majestic form of death/doom metal that is awe-inspiring and captivating. The music wafts effortlessly through the air, like a shape-shifting, amorphous, strangely luminous creature, bearing characteristics of death, doom and even black metal, and leaving behind a trail of destruction in its wake. Everything about it is hypnotic, this dark subterranean creature having emerged from depths unfathomed, exuding raw power as well as iridescent radiance in the way it carries about wreaking destruction. Nothing seems forced or out of place, as the music assumes its natural form and alternates between pummelling blasts and sonic ambience depending on the circumstances. Shrouded in absolute mystery, Sepulcros deliver a masterpiece with Vazio, an album that will stay with you long after it's over, haunting you perpetually.
For fans of: Disembowelment, The Drowning, Hex, Atramentus, Coffins, Esoteric, Evoken, Mournful Congregation, Cruciamentum, Dead Congregation.
Line up -
SB - Vocals;
NZ (Summon, Viles Vitae, Abominamentum) - Guitars;
RT - Guitars;
AH (Candura, Summon) - Bass;
JS (Summon) - Drums.
Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski (Eremit, Rogga Johansson).
Logo by View From The Coffin (Vitriol).
Layout by TG Rantanen (Paganizer, Master).
Vazio (Atmospheric Death/Doom Metal)
by SEPULCROS (Portugal)
California muy el guapo tech-deathsters Ominous Ruin streaming opening song "Ritual" from February 2021 album Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone featuring members of Arcane Existence, Symbiotic, Black Passage
Ominous Ruin has been making recordings like single/demo/EP for years, but according to Metal Archives this will be their debut full-length. Fans of clinically-perfect, germ-free, computer-savvy tech-death will enjoy the super modern interpretation of brutal jazz metal. In addition, fans of virtuoso-style playing will get a kick out of trying to figure out the mind-mending instrumentation that includes an audible bass guitar. They say that they their guitars have eight strings, but those of us who are not musicians won't be able to hear much of a difference between the guitars with eight strings and those with nine or seven or six or whatever is the magic number of strings; nevertheless, we will hear the effort to give the brutal jazz metal audiences an album that is worth the time. Dizzying rhythms, funky wacked out bass lines and guitar work to cause you to mosh or to begin doing algebra equations, whichever one you prefer. While fans wait for the new album they can go listen to the band's previous exercises in grunting contortionist jazz metal.
-Metal Bulletin Zine
Ominous Ruin
Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone
Willowtip Records
26 February 2021
ABOUT: San Francisco (CA) - On Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone, Ominous Ruin brings a breath of fresh air to the Technical Death Metal world. With intense, fast and dissonant 8-string guitars, dynamic 6-string fretted and fretless basses, punishing drums and incredibly dynamic and unique vocals. Each song is unique, yet the cumulative effect is one guaranteed to keep the listener interested from beginning to end!
Track Listing:
1 Ritual
2 Attuned to the Chasm
3 Deception*
4 Chrysalis of Flesh**
5 A Feast for Shadows
6 Labyrinthine Torment***
7 Consumed
8 Simulacra
9 Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone
*Guest vocals: Jade Ordonez (Arcane Existence, Embrium, Deliria) and Crystal Rose
**Guest vocals: Kris Cana (Symbiotic)
***Guest vocals: Julian Zidarevich (Black Passage, Behold the Desecration)
Album Line-Up:
Adam Rosado: Vocals, Lyrics;
Alex Bacey: Guitars;
Mitch Yoesle: Bass;
Andrew Baird: Drums;
Petr Oplatka: Guitars.
Album Credits:
Written by Alex Bacey, Adam Rosado and Mitch Yoesle.
Drums by Andrew Baird (Fallujah).
Drums Recorded by Cody Fuentes at Rapture Recordings.
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Alex Bacey.
Special Guest vocals: Jade Ordonez (Arcane Existence, Embrium), Crystal Rose, Julian Zidarevich (Black Passage, Behold the Desecration) Kris Cana (Symbiotic).
Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone
by Ominous Ruin
EXILED
by Ominous Ruin
Universal Thought Experiment
by Ominous Ruin
Ominous Ruin Promo (All Recordings)
by Ominous Ruin
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
tech-deathsters The Scalar Process streaming songs "Azimuth" and "Beyond the Veil of Consciousness" from February 2021 album Coagulative Matter
For an idea of the sound of The Scalar Process check the two available songs on Bandcamp that represent the February 19th, 2021 album Coagulative Matter. The two songs are enough to show that the music is serious business for fans of tech and prog death. In this case, it is tech-death with a melodic component that is an important piece of the puzzle. Of course, the fast technicality gives the fans what they expect, and yet the melodic aspects are an attractive bonus. It is a serene side, even though the music may be going at a high speed, there is a calm or calming vibe that is sure to catch the attention of the listeners. Plus, if you like bass guitar, this album might catch your attention due to the prominence of the bass playing.
-Metal Bulletin Zine
ABOUT: French technical death metal band The Scalar Process have put together a sublime full length album imbibing everything great about the style and keeping a human element to not render it too mechanical. This is a highly flamboyant excursion into the realm, brought about with gusto and fervour, exploring various sinuous pathways and atmospheric passages, and leaving a lasting impression at the end of it all. Few albums can pull off this kind of poise and execution, straddling myriad moods and also not meandering long enough to lose momentum; the album remains suitably aggressive without losing the emotive value. This is for fans of bands such as Coexistence on the label, along with genre stalwarts such as The Zenith Passage, Beyond Creation, Archspire and more, upholding the standards and bringing their own to the table. The future is bright for this promising young band whose debut should go down as one of the finest in the genre in recent times. For fans of: Coexistence, The Zenith Passage, Beyond Creation, Necrophagist, The Faceless, Hateful, Archspire, Cynic, Inferi. Line up -
Eloi Nicod - Guitars, Composition.
Mathieu Lefevre - Vocals.
Clement Denys - Drums.
Guest appearances -
Clement Denys (Fractal Universe) - Session drums for the album.
Scott Carstairs (Fallujah) - Guest Solo on Ink Shadow.
Mark Garrett (Kardashev, Viraemia) - Guest vocals on Mirror Cognition.
Enlia - Female choirs on Azimuth.
Tommy Bonnevialle (Virulent Depravity, DeathAwaits) - Guest piano solo on Coagulative Matter.
Artwork by Bastien Jez (Exocrine).
Coagulative Matter (Technical Death Metal)
by THE SCALAR PROCESS (France)
symphonic horror shrieking Tragedy In Hope streaming "Fighting with the Rain" from 2021 album Sleep Paralysis
Tragedy In Hope is a horror or gothic type of extreme metal that may appeal to fans of creepy yet melodic black-metal-based music that seems disturbed. One thing to notice is that on the album there is a bit of variety with the vocals, but do note that there is plenty of that deranged-gremlin witch shrieking, as it is a central feature of the vocal style of Tragedy In Hope. There is only one song right now on Bandcamp, the one called "Fighting with the Rain." The album will be called Sleep Paralysis and it will be out on February 12th, 2021. Those curious to hear more music from Tragedy In Hope could also enjoy checking the previous recording called Smile at Death, an EP from 2019.
-Metal Bulletin Zine
ABOUT: Saint Petersburg (RU) - TRAGEDY IN HOPE are pleased to announce the band's forthcoming full-length debut album, Sleep Paralysis.
The story told in the album's lyrics is as gripping as it is chilling. Guitarist, vocalist, and composer Sasha Giller describes it as follows:
"The story you are going to hear isn’t only a trip across the dark dream world; it is also the story of fighting with yourself. It’s the story about how strong you can get once you accept yourself as you are.
The story of the album starts when the protagonist wakes up in a dream and goes to the mirror where he sees a twisted image of himself, the phantom monster of sleep paralysis. He escapes the place he found himself in, trying to run away from the bleak reality. He flies among white clouds trying to find a rainbow, but falls to the ground when thunderclouds and a storm come.
The world beneath the clouds is filled with rains and a piercing cold. To find a rainbow there seems to be impossible and the darkness slowly starts to swallow him as many others before. He doesn’t give up chasing it, but the truth is, it is him, who is the phantom monster behind the mirror. He is just the mind projection of the true protagonist, who sleeps paralysed seeing nightmares. He tries to explain to the true protagonist that they are two parts of the whole one and only if they accept each other, they both will be able to escape the dark world they are stuck in.
But when sleep paralysis finally ends, a lucid dream starts again."
BIO: Back in 2017 a musician enthusiast Sasha Giller from Saint Petersburg, Russia started a metal band under the name of Tragedy In Hope. With the help of a drummer Alexander Dovgan’, Sasha has put out a few singles, a demo, and an EP album since the inception of the band. Its music can be described as black metal based, but the members find this definition as rather limiting. In writing the music Sasha Giller tries to convey a certain emotion whether it is rational madness, airy heaviness or just, as strange as it may sound, happy sadness. One does not necessarily exclude another.
Sleep Paralysis
by Tragedy In Hope
Smile At Death
by Tragedy In Hope
"doom-infused post-metal" Crawl Below streaming track "Kingdom of the Ruined" ahead of February 2021 release
