Releases – July 2023

Didactic Debt Collectors is the new EP by Other Houses, the musical project of singer/songwriter Morgan Enos — best known as a music journalist for the GRAMMYs and other platforms. The disc will arrive July 7 via Aagoo Records.The EP’s five songs — “Captive Audience,” “Jacket’s Creed,” “Drab Vocabulary,” “Arc of the Arrow,” and“Swine Among the Relics” — were completely self-recorded by Enos in his tiny home office in Hackensack, New Jersey. Together, they comprise a highly personal song cycle addressing the spiritual crisis ...

The death metal horror band is named after Lucio Fulci, an Italian director, screenwriter and actor, best known for his gore films.After the second reissue of their third album “Exhumed Information” released in 2021 via Time To Kill Records, the fourth reissue of their first album “Opening the hell gates”, the fourth reissue of their acclaimed album “Tropical Sun”.the death metal force fast growing company FULCI is proud to announce that the soundtrack of the film (DVD available on the label’s platforms) was conceived ...

ATEMPORAL is the solo project of Sebastian Montesi, restless and appreciated musician coming from the ranks of AUROCH, MITOCHONDRION and EGREGORE, some of the best bands of today’s underground metal scene. Wrapped in a beautiful cover by Nether Temple Design and mastered by Gabriele Gramaglia (Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis), “Thorn Genesis” marks the debut of ATEMPORAL and in it Montesi keeps what the album title promises, giving birth to an occult, bewitched and malicious black metal record.ATEMPORAL rekindles the burning ...

Artist, director and founding member of Ævangelist, Benighted In Sodom, Oblivion Gate, Obscuring Veil, Hex Arcana, Præternatura, Death Fetishist and countless other extreme and avant-garde metal projects, Matron Thorn returns to I, Voidhanger Records with his latest creation, SKRYING MIRROR. Accompanied by Kevin Yearout (Witchbones, Conduit Of Chaos) on vocals and Manuel Garcia (Blattaria, Ævangelist) on drums, Thorn formulates an industrial-tinged black/death metal that certainly takes its cue from Ævangelist’s original sound and style, enriched however by musicalexperiences accumulated during the last decade.SKRYING MIRROR’s ...

HASARD are born from a rib of LES CHANTS DU HASARD, one-man project by Hazard who admirably managed to blend the typical black metal singing with 19th century classical music, in particular the orchestral works and operas of Modest Mussorgsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Richard Strauss. In HASARD, on the other hand, the French musician overturns the assumption of his original project and gives birth to a chaotic and dissonant black metal album, in which he opens glimpses of classical music helped by John Steven ...

Led by guitarist extraordinaire Pat Hawkins (THAETAS, ABERRATED, NEEDLEPUSHER, KYRIOS) and bass virtuoso Kyle Linderman, New York’s ASYSTOLE debut with an album of furious death metal that doesn’t sacrifice atmosphere for technique. In the grooves of “Siren To Blight” there is an abundance of both, thanks to an articulated but fluid songwriting, brilliant and open to contamination.If the influences are those of GORGUTS, VIRUS, KRALLICE, CRYPTOPSY and ANATA, the way of stitching them together in a coherent and recognizable style is all due to ...

A trilogy of works grouped under a single title and offered for listening in one solution, ESOCTRILIHUM’s “Astraal Constellations Of The Majickal Zodiac” undoubtedly represents the pinnacle of Asthâghul’s mystical black/death metal and constitutes an unicum in the now vast repertoire of the French band.It is a monumental space opera with obscure contours, which tells of a war between bizarre zodiacal deities who contend for dominion over reality through psychic control of minds. Beyond a more or less explicit inspiration to Lovecraftian cosmogonies, here ...

In a perennial search for new talented artists, the path of I, Voidhanger Records could not but cross that of SARMAT, a formidable New York progressive metal band influenced as much by jazz fusion as by science fiction. And, no imagining the Mahavishnu Orchestra playing Gorguts’ repertoire doesn’t do SARMAT’s style justice… though it’s certainly a good place to start.SARMAT debuts with “Dubious Disk,” a special limited edition CD-EP recorded live at Colin Marston’s legendary studio, featuring bassist/pianist Steve Blanco of IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT and ...

New York City based SARMAT introduced themselves to metal audiences with the intoxicating “Dubious Disk” live EP, which showcased their extreme metal and jazz influence as well as their creative prowess. This blending of dissonant, progressive, and improvisational elements foreshadowed the group’s expressive possibilities as they push sonic boundaries with their progressive sci-fi metal. Their debut full length, “Determined to Strike” shows a fiercer and more extreme side.The progressive tech death metal soul of SARMAT is here combined with dizzying jazz fusion scores, ...

Already the only member of MYSTAGOS, Heolstor returns with his other band, AT THE ALTAR OF THE HORNED GOD, an atypical and original project in which the Spanish musician has successfully harnessed the ritual metal of URFAUST and the Pan-centric black metal of ARCKANUM in a unique and unmistakable style. Rich in psychedelic and dark ambient/folk echoes in the manner of DEAD CAN DANCE, the music of “Heart Of Silence” continues in the atmospheric groove traced by the previous work (“Through Doors Of Moonlight”, ...

After writing and recording ONKOS’ self-titled album in 2019, Robert Woods-LaDue put together a 13-piece band to perform the material live… but after a handful of shows, the world was hit by Covid-19. While the band was unable to play for the foreseeable future, these performances inspired new directions which vastly expanded the ONKOS sound.During the lockdown in 2020, Woods-LaDue built new drums specifically for this music and wrote material to explore the dynamic capabilities of the live band. Lyrically, “Vascular Labyrinth” branches ...

Two no-guitars death metal bands conspire to create a crushing split album of bass-only subversion of metal music’s sixstrings-centric conventions. The approach is considerably different, however.THECODONTION signals a sharp turn for their style, a renewed sound which now features a heavy usage of keyboards and Moog-like synthesizers (courtesy of Stefano Allegretti, guitarist/keyboardist of psychedelic death metal band BEDSORE), adding to their wailing reverberated lead sections, and the inclusion V.P. and L.S. now performing as stable lineup members. The result is an ethereal, atmospheric ...

Vittorio Sabelli is certainly to be counted among the most talented and leading musicians of the Italian underground metal, as demonstrated with DAWN OF A DARK AGE, INCANTVM and NOTTURNO, all projects in which he has poured not only the typical eclecticism of a technically gifted and inspired multi-instrumentalist, but also an extraordinary culture. With A.M.E.N. Sabelli makes his passion for Aleister Crowley manifest, setting to music some of the most enlightening writings from “The Book Of Lies.” The musical ...

Limited edition dark transparent green vinyl w/double sided inner sleeveIn a time of media overload where the bombardment of propaganda is ceaseless and the veil of Maya seems thicker and more impenetrable than ever, in a world of lost hope where religion is dead and we are left to believe in nothing but our sinful path to self-destruction and the transitory nature and inevitable end of all things, in these dark Orwellian times where war is peace and truth is treason, the only ...

Limited edition black vinyl w/double sided inner sleeveIn a time of media overload where the bombardment of propaganda is ceaseless and the veil of Maya seems thicker and more impenetrable than ever, in a world of lost hope where religion is dead and we are left to believe in nothing but our sinful path to self-destruction and the transitory nature and inevitable end of all things, in these dark Orwellian times where war is peace and truth is treason, the only glimmer of ...