BLOODY APOSTLES to release long-awaited debut EP, reveal first track - features members of PROFANATICA, MURDER JUNKIES, ANTISEEN... The story of Bloody Apostles goes back to 1989, when the band got together to make a record with the infamous GG Allin. Unfortunately, it was never finished, and the band soon faded into the mists of time. Indeed, the band's self-titled debut EP authentically sounds like it could've come from 1989 (or earlier), with a rotten 'n' rude style of hardcore punk that the GG Allin would've been proud of. ...read more>> GENOCIDAL RITES to release new EP, prepare debut album... No more but certainly no less, "Exsanguination of the Gods" is as concise of an introduction to Genocidal Rites as any. The feral frequencies across this three-song/nine-minute assault are indeed black, white, and red all over: the Ross Bay gods of war loom large here, as do paradigmatic Black Witchery and especially Proclamation. No progression and no compromise, Genocidal Rites proceed to lay waste with a blown-out, blackgrinding iteration of bestial metal that suggests plenty of perversion still to come. And "Exsanguination of the Gods" is but a foretaste of the band's forthcoming debut album for Hells Headbangers....read more>> Finland's GRIEVE LAUNCH NEW ALBUM PRE-ORDER... Grieve have arisen from their own self-imposed grave with the second full-length Wolves of the Northern Moon. "We said we’d end the project for good, but we lied," state the band about that grave. "We exhumed it." Indeed, the exhumation also includes a nastiness last found on such Nordic classics as Kronet til konge, Pentagram, Til evighet..., or even Black Thrash Attack. Essentially, then, Grieve's ethics have not changed (nor should they have to), but one can nonetheless find here a pronounced asskicking sensibility that adds further antagonization to trendy ears as well as a noble march to mystical victories....read more>> SPITER REVEAL NEW MUSIC VIDEO - features members of DEVIL MASTER and SHITFUCKER... Featuring members of labelmates SHITFUCKER and Devil Master, SPITER made their recorded debut during the spring of 2021 with the Draconian Death Curse EP. Although it’d be semi-accurate to see the EP as a sonic union between SHITFUCKER and Devil Master, already SPITER exerted their own identity, ripping forth with a raw-yet-anthemic blend of cult blackthrash, obscure hardcore punk, and even the wildest deathrock. Immediately, the short-length garnered the band a great deal of attention. Now armed with HELLS HEADBANGERS, SPITER’s first full-length fully displays the band’s considerable powers. More ripping, more anthemic, wilder and weirder and laded with a crisp-yet-crushing production, Bathe the Babe in Bats Blood will put the name SPITER on the tongues of all who worship the dark and depraved. The album features 10 songs in 36 minutes, and will be available next year across all formats....read more>> ABYSMAL LORD stream new album at Death Metal Promotion... On first glance, Abysmal Lord's third album retains all the red-eyed and rabid elements of yore - OTT explosion and forward propulsion in the grand tradition of Blasphemy, Black Witchery, and Proclamation and then malforming it into morbid, miasmic shapes - but peer deeper into this gurgling pit of despair & darkness and one will find surprising twists to their core sound....read more>> NOCTURNAL DEPARTURE stream new album at Black Metal Promotion... Almost literally a band out of time, Nocturnal Departure harken to the grim days of the '90s black metal underground, particularly its most devout sectors in the United States. While once the object of mockery from the ignorant despite featuring some of the most original and unorthodox outliers, it's USBM that has the last laugh, as the idiom has developed over the decades and still rings true in the darkest of hearts....read more>> NUNSLAUGHTER reveal fourth video from latest album, now available on vinyl... "Red is the Color of Ripping Death," the band's first album in seven years and their first without Jim Sadist. Some of the 14 songs contained herein are unfinished / unrealized music that Jim and founding frontman Don of the Dead wrote years ago. Just as importantly, this album comprises material newly written with Nunslaughter's current lineup, which is arguably the band's best to date. And hearing is believing: over the course of the album's 35 minutes, it becomes immediately apparent that Nunslaughter are a really good - and really ripping - DEATH METAL band above all. Largely gone (or least sublimated) is the hardcore punk influence, and in its place is an absolutely furious onslaught of catchiness and causticness. Armed with the best-sounding production on a Nunslaughter record ever as well as Don of the Dead reaching new heights/depths of maniacal perversity, Red is the Color Ripping Death truly brings the band to a different level of Devil Metal....read more>>
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CARDIAC ARREST - Cadaverous Presence (2LP) INCANTATION - Decimate Christendom (LP - repress) INCANTATION - Primordial Domination (LP - repress) NUNSLAUGHTER / UNHOLY GRAVE - Split (PicEP) BLOODY APOSTLES (Profanatica) - Bloody Apostles (EP) MEDIEVAL DEMON - Black Coven (LP) GRIEVE - Wolves of the Northern Moon (CD) SORGETID (Vargrav) - Natt av Tusen Dödsfall (LP) DECEASED - Luck of the Corpse (2LP, CD - black disc) DECEASED - The Blueprints for Madness (CD - blue disc) DECEASED - Fearless Undead Machines (CD - gold disc) WARMOON LORD - Burning Banners (CD) WARMOON LORD / VULTYRIUM - Split (CD)
