Merihem – Incendiary Darkness – CDD
MERIHEM is a new invoked black metal entity, an international endeavor created by five individuals: Nero (OCULUS, MANETHEREN), YhA (SUFFERING HOUR), Beast (FROSTMOON ECLIPSE, MANETHEREN), Tiúval (ISRATHOUM, HALF VISIBLE PRESENCE) and P.R. The quintessence of their debut album is one of pure malediction. “Incendiary Darkness” is a toxic personalized voyage through the malevolent Qliphotic realms, bursting out as directed curses. A cryptic plea for disease, death and damnation. For true magnificence is only to be found in the foulest of sediments…Yeser ha-ra prevail!TRACKLIST1. Crimson ...
Serpent Ascending – Hyperborean Folklore – CD
Active since 2008, SERPENT ASCENDING is the solo project of Jarno Nurmi, a musician with a past in DESECRESY, SLUGATHOR, NERLICH and other Finnish death metal bands. SERPENT ASCENDING has always been Nurmi’s personal probe to sink into the esoteric and the occult, and on the new album “Hyperborean Folklore” it is used to plumb Fennoscandian mythologies, drawing on fascinating poems from Kalevala and other ancient texts for the lyrics.After the seminal demo collection of “The Enigma Unsettled” (2011) and the blackened death ...
Feral Light – Psychic Contortions – CDD
A mysterious two-piece black metal/crust enigma hailing from Minnesota, USA, FERAL LIGHT feature ex-members of WOLVHAMMER, EMPIRES, MANETHEREN, and CENSOR. The band plays grim and sorrowful black metal entwined with savage and unyielding crust punk, with layers of post metal leanings. “Psychic Contortions” is FERAL LIGHT’s fourth full-length album, the most mature and the one that best harmonizes the various souls of the band in dense and electrifying compositions. The record lives up to its title, it is a work full of pathos that arises ...
Midnight Odyssey – Echoes Of A Celestial Ruin – CDD
Waiting for the last chapter of the ambitious “Biolume” trilogy, Australia’s MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY also bring to fruition their space ambient trilogy, started in 2020 and inspired by the sci-fi narrative of the 70s. Entirely instrumental and imbued with wonderful cosmic melodies, a MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY’s trademark also in their most famous atmospheric metal incarnation, “Echoes from a Celestial Ruin” collects the two monumental albums (“Ruins of a Celestial Fire” and “Ashes from a Terrestrial Fall”) already available through Bandcamp, and the last, unpublished chapter of the ...
Thos Aella – Sempiternal Mobocracies – CDD
The solo project of guitarist Derrik “Ghoul” Goulding of FATHER BEFOULED fame, THOS ÆLLA is the aural manifestation of meditated abnegation and introspection, which can bring oneself to a higher place within our perceived reality. After a promising debut album (“Abnegation Psalms,” 2021), the band returns with “Sempiternal Mobocracies”, an indomitable electric beast that sinks its fangs into heavy metal, black metal and death metal.Thanks to an ambitious and intricate songwriting, a fresh and energetic approach, and lyrics ranging from H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror ...
Wakedead Gathering, The – Parallaxiom – CD
Since 2012 in the roster of I, Voidhanger Records, Ohio’s THE WAKEDEAD GATHERING are back with their fourth fulllength work, “Parallaxiom”, a concept album that confirms their qualities, their stylistic code and their skill of great horror storytellers. Andrew Lampe’s solo project has always been a harbinger of classic cavernous death metal sounds applied to a brilliant songwriting, rich in black metal and doom metal nuances.With “Parallaxiom” The Wakeded Gathering tell a dark sci-fi story, set in a gray and dystopian future in ...
Ornaemental Shine – Deima Panikon – CD
ORNÆMENTAL SHINE’s debut album, “Deima Panikon” is an obsessive elaboration on madness and the connection it establishes with the categories of mysticism and esotericism, the album title referencing terror towards the Divine when a subject connects with it.Featuring members of UADA and BLACK HATE, ORNÆMENTAL SHINE plays an erratic and atypical black metal which expresses the “Other,” the non-reason/madness, while the lyrics focus on the link between the Madman and the Mystical, the I and All, conjoined to reach the goal of divine knowledge.Through ...
Prometheus – Aornos – CDD
If the soul of the previous album, “Resonant Echoes From Cosmos Of Old”, was equally divided between cavernous death metal and symphonic black metal, the new and third work by the Greeks PROMETHEUS sports a more homogeneous and coherent character. In “Arnos”, black and death metal meet in a sulphurous spiritual dimension of terror and darkness, traveling on the wings of majestic and enveloping music. To give body and depth to the songs, PROMETHEUS also add synths and ancient instruments of the Greek musical tradition ...
Bekor Qilish – Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism – CDD
Talented Italian singer and multi-instrumentalist, Andrea Bruzzone debuts with the avant-garde metal project BEKOR QILISH and an album, “Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism,” already particularly mature, complex and layered. It is no coincidence that some special guests – recognized masters of the most technical, progressive and experimental extreme metal – have accepted to participate in the recordings: from Colin Marston (KRALLICE, GORGUTS) and Gabriele Gramaglia (COSMIC PUTREFACTION, VERTEBRA ATLANTIS), who contribute with their typical mind-bending guitar solos, to Romain Goulon (SADIST, NECROPHAGIST) and ...
Esoctrilihum – Consecration Of The Spiritus Flesh – CDD
The seventh album from ESOCTRILIHUM, “Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh” contains seven of the most violent and nihilistic songs ever produced by the French one-man band. Asthâghul’s self-destructive tendencies, already evident in the band’s previous works, are here sublimated into suffocating apocalyptic riffs and tight and pounding rhythms, to tell a concept about the wounds of the flesh and of the human spirit, consecrated to torture by monstrous divinities that inhabit the ravines of unknown otherworldly dimensions.There is no lack of melodic, semi-psychedelic and ...
Neorite – Banner Of Defeat – CD
On their sophomore album “Banner of Defeat” Neorite offer their heaviest and bleakest side so far andjust hereby find their very own and distinctive style of metal.Equipped with the punch of classic Sepultura and a sense for sinister melodies of the deadly kind aswith Dissection and Death, the clean vocals are towering above it all, sometimes emotional as NickHolmes (Paradise Lost), sometimes vigorous as Tom G. Warrior (Celtic Frost).Though being marginalized here in favor of a crushing heaviness, the alt ...
Neorite – Banner Of Defeat – Vinyl
On their sophomore album “Banner of Defeat” Neorite offer their heaviest and bleakest side so far andjust hereby find their very own and distinctive style of metal.Equipped with the punch of classic Sepultura and a sense for sinister melodies of the deadly kind aswith Dissection and Death, the clean vocals are towering above it all, sometimes emotional as NickHolmes (Paradise Lost), sometimes vigorous as Tom G. Warrior (Celtic Frost).Though being marginalized here in favor of a crushing heaviness, the alt ...
Strangle Wire – Shaped By Human Frailty – CD
Track listing1. Heavily Medicated2. Learned Wretchedness3. Judas Switch4. The Human Tensile Experiment5. Abhorrent Intervention6. Shaped by Human Frailty7. Dead Before the Still8. Psychology of the Sick9. Horrors BeneathGENRE: Death MetalBARCODE: 0658556112755 ...
Heads For The Dead – The Great Conjuration – 8 Panel Glow In The Dark Effect CDD
Horror-fixated death metal supergroup Heads For The Dead are back with their third full length to transport you once again to the realm of classic horror movies and they do it most convincingly this time around, with a sound that has been suffused with all the necessary elements, including spine-chilling atmospheric parts and truly terrifying vocals. They have mastered the art of giving the listener a complete experience, elevating their songwriting skills and making the music far more expressive and multi-faceted without disowning their ...
Cobra Cane – Bad Bad Good – Vinyl
“Cobra Cane: sex, drug and angry dogs. No, they can’t tell what it is, they never heard it before. Someone said they saw it running away when the sirens coming, someone said that it comes out from the cracks of the concrete at night and slips into the darkest dungeons with the outcasts, but you… you know you can see it when you look at yourself drunk in the mirror and reality melts away through your dilated pupils. It rises ...
