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SIJJIN - New Album "Helljjin Combat" out now via Sepulchral Voice Records - Full Album Stream
 The highly acclaimed sophomore full-length of German/Basque Death Metallers SIJJIN, "Helljjin Combat", is officially released today via Sepulchral Voice Records!
You can listen to the entire album at these locations: https://youtu.be/beNUzl_wE0Y +++ https://sijjin.bandcamp.com/album/helljjin-combat
The German/Basque trio has delved into depths absolute, focusing their lens on the most antediluvian variety of Death Metal while bringing up a derivative of evil Thrash with utmost evil intent. "Helljjin Combat" conjures its own life of satanic imagery, diabolical debauchery and biblical fatalism. SIJJIN follow the firm path they once took but permanently turn to the south of heaven.
Recorded live at BlackStorm Studios in Karrantza, Basque Country, the new songs brim over with satanic energy, countless tempo changes, vile twists and turns, a demanding instrumental performance and riffs that drag you directly to the lowest point in hell. On top of that, blessed with abysmal strenght as it seems, Gericke's vocals never sounded as raspy and malevolent as on "Helljjin Combat", or to put it simple, dirty as fuck.
Adorned with an authentic and completely dry 80s analog sounding production, the record takes aim like fallen angels, storming the vaults in high heaven.
In stark contrast to the tracks on "Sumerian Promises", SIJJIN's newer direction focuses on more extensive song structures as practiced by the godfathers of mid 80s Metal insanity, bringing such infamous names as Infernäl Mäjesty, Nasty Savage, Possessed, very early Slayer or Megadeth to mind.
In conclusion while seeking combat in hell, the trio of SIJJIN has once more ultimately testified to be the trident in the left hand of the devil.
Ordering options: https://www.hrrecords.de/SEPULCHRAL-VOICE_1
Tracklist:
1. Fear Not The Tormentor
2. Dakhma Curse
3. Trance Of The Mummified
4. Death Opens The Grave
5. Religious Insanity Denies Slavery
6. Horrific Distortions
7. Five Blades
8. The Southern Temple
http://www.sepulchralvoice.de +++ https://www.instagram.com/sijjin_official
PHANTOM - Full Album Stream "Tyrants of Wrath" - Mexican Speed/Thrash via High Roller Records
High Roller Records have released a full stream of "Tyrants of Wrath", the second full-length of Mexican Speed/Thrashers PHANTOM which will be officially out on April 25th 2025.
You can listen to the entre album here: https://youtu.be/Jxb-QyOUMPg
"Tyrants of Wrath" was recorded and mixed at Nehtron Studios Mexico by the band and Héctor Northen and mastered by Patrick Engel / Temple of Disharmony. The artwork was created by Maegan LeMay.
Their new record marks a tour de force through the genre’s much cherished traditions – think Razor, Dark Angel, Merciless, Living Death and, of course, Slayer for reference – while adding a fresh spin on things, be it in the shape of "Nimbus" – a tribute to PHANTOM’s most old-school influences from cult acts such as Manilla Road, Gotham City and Heavy Load – or regarding the off-kilter structure of "Nazguhl", one of many ventures into the unconventional that surprisingly enough never compromise the Mexicans’ extreme metal outlook.
PHANTOM will tour Europe in September/October 2025 with Brazil’s Evilcult. Watch out!
Ordering options: https://www.hrrecords.de/PHANTOM
Tracklist:
01. Poltergeist
02. The Tower of Seth
03. Violent Invasion
04. Thunderbeast
05. Nimbus
06. Dance of the Spiders
07. Tyrants of Wrath
08. Lost in the Sands
09. Nocturnal Opus 666
10. Nazghul
11. Dark Wings of Death
https://www.hrrecords.de +++ https://linktr.ee/phantomthrash
NIGHTBEARER - New Single / Video available - Third Album "Defiance" coming in June 2025 via Testimony Records
 German Death Metallers NIGHTBEARER have unleashed the second single from their upcoming third full-length "Defiance", set for release on June 13th 2025 through Testimony Records on CD, LP and in digital versions.
A video clip for the title track is available here: https://youtu.be/KrCzFtt9UfA
Vocalist Michael Torka comments: "With the title track, we pay tribute to our musical ancestry from Gothenburg, and we have forged a weapon that is both a fiery call to arms as well as a defiant roar. From its driving verses to the massive, thundering, epic chorus, we venture into new sonic realms. This track is a deadly blade pressed to the tyrant's throat. This is pure death metal, forged by heart and will, and ready to kill!"
A brutal war is raging between the forces of ancient superstition and scientific enlightenment: NIGHTBEARER are leading the charge with their crushing third full-length "Defiance". The German death dealers from the City of Paderborn in Eastern Westphalia have hammered out an album that retains their signature HM-2 chainsaw guitar sound and also maintains their unapologetic love for melodic death metal of the Swedish kind.
"Defiance" also marks another step in the careful but steady evolution of their sound by adding a black passage here and a doom-spiced moment there to their old school sound. The result is an overall much more atmospheric album, which perfectly suits its lyrical concept. The album is directly inspired by the renowned "His Dark Materials" trilogy of books by English author Sir Philip Pullman. The lyrics introduce key characters and events in the plot that revolves on a deeper level of meaning around humanity's emancipation from oppression by religion. NIGHTBEARER defiantly engage with the resistance to bring about Enlightenment 2.0.
Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.
Pre-order options: http://lnk.spkr.media/nightbearer-defiance
Tracklist:
1. Dust
2. His Dark Materials
3. Defiance
4. One Church over All
5. Dying Knows No Bounds
6. Reign Supreme
7. Under the Sun of War
8. Ascension
9. Until We Meet Again
10. Republic of Heaven
https://www.facebook.com/testimonyrecords +++ https://www.facebook.com/nightbearer
JOHAN LANGQUIST THE CASTLE - Debut Solo Album of CANDLEMASS vocalist via I Hate Records in June 2025
 Johan Langquist - Heavy Metal and Doom Metal pioneer with JONAH QUIZZ and CANDLEMASS - has created his own solo-entity in form of JOHAN LANGQUIST THE CASTLE.
Johan has worked together with a wide range of well-known Swedish musicians and the debut album evokes the magic feeling of classic 70s/80s Heavy Metal/Hard Rock/Doom. It comes in the vein of BLACK SABBATH (Tony Martin-era), DIO (solo and with Sabbath), RAINBOW, SAVATAGE with a touch of Doom added for good measure.
I Hate Records proudly announces the physical versions of the self-titled album for June 27th 2025, coming on CD and LP. It was initially released digitally without a label in 2024.
JOHAN LANGQUIST THE CASTLE is not to be seen as a "studio project" - on the contrary a full line-up will soon take shape, and both live-shows and a second album are being worked on. Enter the castle of dreams!
Tracklist:
1. Eye Of Death
2. Castle Of My Dreams
3. Where Are The Heroes
4. Raw Energy
5. Revolution
6. Freedom
7. Bird Of Sadness
Line-up:
Johan Langquist - Vocals
Erik Henriksson - Guitar / Keys (Session)
Fredrik Isaksson - Bass
Stafen Englin - Drums
Emelie Lindquist - Soprano / Backing Vocals
https://ihate.se +++ https://www.instagram.com/JohanLangquisttheCastle
TRIBUNAL - Sophomore Album "In Penitence and Ruin" via 20 Buck Spin - Full Stream available
 Shortly before its official release on April 18th 2025, 20 Buck Spin has revealed a full stream of "In Penitence and Ruin, the searing new album of Gothic/Doom Metal act TRIBUNAL.
You can listen to the entire album in advance here: https://youtu.be/wVOTl8olZCc
TRIBUNAL’s sophomore album is an elegy most grievous and forlorn, descending deeper into the solemn abyss of woe. 2023’s debut "The Weight of Remembrance" set a high bar for the Canadians becoming one of the year’s most notable and praised Doom releases, leading Decibel Mag to include the band’s new album in their annual list of most anticipated releases.
Conjured by the band’s new form as a fully fleshed out five-piece, ‘In Penitence and Ruin’ has a wider lens of cohesion and maturity weaving together the widow’s wail of doleful strings, chilling keys and percussion that tolls like the iron bell of fate. These elements ornament the monolithic foundation of crushing dirge and funereal melodies hewn from the marrow of sorrow itself. A conceptual piece, the songs form a cycle that ruminates on justice and punishment, centering on a guilty Penitent who cannot escape what they have done.
Like ivy upon the tombstone, "In Penitence And Ruin" winds slowly but inexorably towards spectral grandeur and eternal oblivion.
Cover artwork by Soren Mourne.
Tracklist:
1. Incarnadine
2. A Wound Unhealing
3. Angel of Mercy
4. The Sword of the Slain
5. Ruin
6. The Penitent
7. Armoured in Shadow
8. …And the Thorn-Choked Flowers Grow
9. Between the Sea and Stars
https://www.20buckspin.com/tribunal +++ https://www.facebook.com/TribunalDoom
BALMOG - Lyric Video Premiere - New Album "Laio" via War Anthem Records - May 2025
 Galician Black Metallers BALMOG have unleashed the first single from their new album "Laio", coming on May 23rd 2025 via War Anthem Records on CD, LP and in digital versions.
Check out the lyric video for "Mud to Gold" here: https://youtu.be/YXr08eZVo9g
BALMOG's fifth full-length is by far their most ambitious and elaborate record to date. In "Laio" you can feel the beating of a heart spitting blood and a scream from the depths of BALMOG''s soul, the virginity and violence of the first albums with the personality and eclecticism of their later creative period.
Join this muscial path that wanders between Pink Floyd, Ved Buens Ende, Bathory and Mayhem!
"Laio" was recorded and mixed at Moontower Studios (Destroyer 666, Teitanblood, Graveyard) by Javier Félez and mastered at Orgone Studios (Hexvessel, Ulver, Paradise Lost) by Jaime Gómez Arellano. The artwork, cover and layout was created by frontman Balc.
Pre-order options: https://war-anthem-records.bandcamp.com/album/laio +++ https://www.cudgel.de
Tracklist:
1. Falling
2. Mud to Gold
3. Tongue in Pieces
4. Like God Who Knows
5. Ortus Umbra
6. Mashalam
7. The Silence of the Trumpets
8. Getsemaní
https://www.war-anthem.de +++ https://www.instagram.com/balmogrevelation
LEPER COLONY - New Visualizer Video - Sophomore Album "Those Of The Morbid" out soon via Testimony Records
 German/Swedish deathers LEPER COLONY have unleashed the final advance single from their second album "Those Of The Morbid", coming on May 2nd 2025 (**new date / re-scheduled due to production issues**) through Testimony Records on CD, LP and in digital versions.
Check out the visualizer video for "Those Of The Morbid Inclination" at this location: https://youtu.be/7sKLmU3Y7NY
Axe-master Rogga Johansson comments: "The first line of this song is 'Born in a casket garden'. I mean, come on, does it get more death metal than that? Mid-paced riff-happy heaviness with a massive groove, that's what it's all about here. And it's all topped off with some of the best vocals in the scene and finished with a heavy-ass, simple chorus that drives the point home like a mallet to the skull!"
To introduce the current members of LEPER COLONY to any self-respecting death metal connoisseur would be like carrying coals to Newcastle. Just in case, German vocalist Marc Crewe has long-established his name as the former frontman of MORGOTH, and later with INSIDIOUS DISEASE as well as with the band ASINHELL. Guitarist and bass player Rogga Johansson has left a massive mark on Swedish death metal in a host of bands including PAGANIZER, RIBSPREADER, and REVOLTING. WOMBBATH guitarist Håkan Stuvemark has taken over lead guitar and he was joined as a new member by British drummer Jon Rudin, who is well-known from MONSTROUS and DEAD SUN among several other death metal acts.
With "Those of the Morbid", LEPER COLONY give old school death metal fanatics exactly the brutal and uncompromising album that they have been waiting for.
Pre-orders / Linkfire: http://lnk.spkr.media/leper-colony-morbid
Artwork by Felipe Mora.
Tracklist:
1. Facing The Faceless
2. Master’s Voice
3. The Age Of Insanity
4. Flesh To Rot To Ashes
5. Realm Of Madness
6. Those Of The Morbid Inclination
7. Apocalypse Whore
8. Creature From The Deep
9. A Story In Red
http://lnk.spkr.media/leper-colony-morbid +++ https://www.facebook.com/lepercolonyband
INHUMAN CONDITION - New Album "Mind Trap" - European Release via High Roller Records - Details & Music Video revealed
 High Roller Records proudly announces the European release of the third full-length album of Florida based Deathers INHUMAN CONDITION, entitled "Mind Trap", set for release on June 27th 2025 on CD, LP and MC.
Choosing the title of Massacre’s 1992 EP "Inhuman Condition" as the name of their new band after having left the death metal flagship in 2020, it is fair to say that Taylor Nordberg and Jeramie Kling have stuck to that well-established old-school sound for the last five years. However, INHUMAN CONDITION’s third full-length "Mind Trap" turns out to be more than Massacre 2.0, upping the ante on all fronts.
The fact that the original trio, which is completed by bass veteran Terry Butler (also a member of Massacre at various points in time), never sets any goals for themselves when working on new material has become a blessing: "We feel we have found our identity and finally moved past the link with Massacre," says Nordberg. "We didn’t rush any part of the writing, recording, mixing and so on. There’s an element of comfortability on this album, while still retaining that super hard edge."
The songs on "Mind Trap" are a "social commentary on the world we live in" according to the guitarist. "Some of my lyrics deal with the crushing grip of technology on our species. The album has it all – blood, guts, serial killers, sci-fi horror, shitty humans." Having produced the album entirely by themselves in their own studio, the result is nothing but outstanding. "Mind Trap" is graced with another striking cover art by Dan Goldsworthy (Accept, Alestorm) and attests to the special chemistry of the prolific duo behind INHUMAN CONDITION.
A video clip for the album’s opening track and first single "Severely Lifeless" is available here: https://youtu.be/Gd8xPardcVg
Pre-Order Link ( EU / UK ): https://www.hrrecords.de/INHUMAN-CONDITION
Tracklist:
1. Severely Lifeless
2. Face For Later
3. GodShip
4. The Betterment Plan
5. Mind - Tool - Weapon
6. Chaos Engine
7. Recollections Of The Future
8. Obscurer
9. Science Of Discontent
Line-up:
Jeramie Kling - Vocals, Drums
Taylor Nordberg - Guitars
Terry Butler - Bass
https://www.facebook.com/hrrecords +++ https://www.facebook.com/Inhumanconditionband
TEASER SWEET - New Music Video - New Album "Night Stalker" via High Roller Records
 Sweden's hardrockin' heavy metallers TEASER SWEET have revealed a new video clip for their fourth full-length album "Night Stalker", coming on April 25th 2025 via High Roller Records.
Check out "Turn Me on" here: https://youtu.be/S1DQqclnaQw
Consisting of vocalist Therese Damberg, her brother Marcus Damberg on guitar, Hampus Steenberg on bass and Kent Svensson behind the drums, TEASER SWEET have already made some waves in the Swedish metal scene. They originally started out in 2013 and after recording a demo, they took to the stage and eventually released three albums and an EP: "Hit And Run" (2015), "In The Night" (EP, 2017), "Hypnotized" (2018) and "Monster" (2020). For the new album "Night Stalker" the band has inked a deal with High Roller Records.
Apart from being influenced by the music of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Dio and even latter-day Europe, a song like “Deep in the Woods”, with its galloping bass work, owes a lot to Iron Maiden. Elsewhere, numbers such as "Cold is the Fire" and "Turn Me on" are also full of great hooks, making "Night Stalker" the band’s best album so far.
Pre-order options: https://www.hrrecords.de/TEASER-SWEET
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Night Stalker
3. Deep in the Woods
4. Living in Sin
5. Blue Sky
6. Eat You Alive
7. Turn Me on
8. Killer Machine
9. Cold is the Fire
https://www.hrrecords.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/teasersweetband
MALPHAS - New Track Premiere - Fourth Album "Extinct" out soon via Soulseller Records
 Switzerland's MALPHAS have revealed another track from their upcoming new album "Extinct", set for release on April 11th 2025 via Soulseller Records.
"Majestic Moon" is streaming here: https://youtu.be/9-dmQ9wKK54
MALPHAS have been working their way through the underground for several years now and with "Extinct" they are raising the stakes even further. The album enters a new journey into more chaotic and wild fields and unleashes the band's full hate against the world. With more thrashy influences and riffs, the album neither looses the band's classic style, nor does the melancholic and softer parts get lost. It is a fury hammer of Swedish inspired Black Metal, of ups and downs, of melancholy and chaos, ready to smash every listeners ears. This is the most versatile album of the band so far and expresses a general death-wish to all.
"Extinct" was recorded at Chäuer Studios Bärn and mixed and mastered by Markus Stock at Klangschmiede Studio E. The artwork was created by Misanthropic Arts.
Get ready for 9 tracks of astral Black Metal dissonance fired upon humanity as a cosmic storm!
Pre-orders: https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com (World) +++ https://soulsellerrecords.aisamerch.com (Americas)
Tracklist:
1. Psychomachia
2. Eradicate.Manifest.Define
3. Trenches
4. Majestic Moon
5. Consumed
6. Gamygyn
7. Butcher's Broom
8. Armada Christi
9. Astral Dissonance
https://www.facebook.com/SOULSELLERRECORDS +++ https://www.facebook.com/Malphasoccult
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