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CARDINALS FOLLY - New Single Premiere - Priesthood Of Darkness
 Finnish Doomers CARDINALS FOLLY have revealed the third and final sinlge from their upcoming new album "Live By The Sword", set for release on October 27th 2023 via Soulseller Records.
"Priesthood Of Darkness" can be checked out here: https://youtu.be/_gTyCNWksWU
On their sixth album, CARDINALS FOLLY take almost all that it finds good in metal and molds it into a tighter mass of unholy riffs, blasphemous pagan chants & choruses, luciferian & lovecraftian depravity and all in all a fearless ride to where the witching cauldrons boil hot and the brews are cool.
Ranging from slow epic doom to galloping heavy metal and apocalyptic rock ‘n’ roll, the band loves to murder the listener with all their might.
Pre-order options: https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com (World) +++ https://soulsellerrecords.aisamerch.com (Americas)
Cover art by Witchaser Art.
Tracklist:
1. Life Eternal
2. Ride Or Die 666
3. Luciferian
4. Priesthood of Darkness
5. Innsmouth Royalty
6. Live By The Sword
7. Ludovico
8. Last Bastions of Doom
http://www.soulsellerrecords.com +++ https://www.facebook.com/cardinalsfolly
MARCH TO DIE - Debut Album "Tears Of The Gorgon" via No Remorse Records - Lyric Video
 No Remorse Records proudly announces the debut full-length album of Cyprus & Greece based Metallers MARCH TO DIE.
"Tears Of The Gorgon" is scheduled for release on November 24th 2023. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by guitarist Nikolas Moutafis at Steel Fortress Studios. The cover art is a painting by Peter Rubens from 1618.
Featuring members from bands such as Mirror, Friends Of Hell and Solitary Sabred, MARCH TO DIE is a new entity smashing modern metal. Highly recommended for fans of old legends like Manowar and Bathory, even newer bands that are following this path such as Grand Magus and Eternal Champion, MARCH TO DIE are delivering uncompromised sword-wielding Epic Heavy Metal that bows to none.
A lyric video for the track "Stand And Be Counted" can be checked out here: https://youtu.be/ZCzhyfLp_AY
Live shows are planned for 2024 - watch out!
Tracklist:
1. The Eternal Oath
2. One Eyed King
3. Hail To Thee
4. Son Of The Old Gods
5. Helmetsmasher
6. March To Die
7. Stand And Be Counted
8. Decapitation
9. Tears Of The Gorgon
Line-up:
Alex Danazoglou - Vocals, Guitar
Nikolas Sprits Moutafis - Guitar
Anastasios Danazoglou - Bass
Hugo Enrique Olivos - Drums
https://www.noremorse.gr +++ https://www.facebook.com/marchtodie666
SHRAPNEL STORM - New Album 'Silo' out now via Great Dane Records - Full Stream available
 The third full-length of Finnish death horde SHRAPNEL STORM, entitled "Silo", is out now via Great Dane Records!
You can listen to the album in its entirety at this location: https://greatdanerecords.bandcamp.com/album/silo
On "Silo", SHRAPNEL STORM keep on delivering crushing mid-tempo death metal, mixed with ruthless thrash components, speed and groove. These attributes are on full display over the course of eleven new tracks, set in a lightning warzone.
The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Daniel Rantanen at Danko Tones / JR Audio Studios and was produced by Aadolf Virtanen. The cover and booklet design was created by Ville Yrjola.
Get ready for old-school death metal from Tampere / Finland, fitting alongside the likes of Bolt Thrower, Obituary and Six Feet Under!
Tracklist:
01. Silo
02. Wastelands
03. Justice And Glory
04. The Only Snake Here Is You
05. Alive Ammunition
06. Bring Me The War
07. Conquering The Gods
08. Icon Of Destruction
09. Obey And Perish
10. Kinslayer
11. This Is Where I Fell
https://www.facebook.com/shrapnelstormband +++ https://www.instagram.com/shrapnel_storm
SKILTRON - New Album "Bruadarach" via Trollzorn Records - Details, Trackstream and Tourdates
 Trollzorn Records proudly annouces the new masterpiece of Power Celtic Metallers SKILTRON, entitled "Bruadarach", set for release on December 1st 2023.
The quintet, originally born in Argentina and now based in Finland, delivers its 6th studio album in better shape than ever, with epic tunes performed with power and skill. Without a doubt, this work puts the band on a new level with their trademark sound merging the strength of Heavy Metal with the charm of Celtic melodies. Mighty heavy rhythms, with solid drums and bass, smashing guitars, powerful bagpipes and catchy and inspiring vocals and choruses.
Check out the first single, "As We Fight", here: https://youtu.be/yPDzXYUv7lM
Founded 19 years ago by Emilio Souto, SKILTRON has traveled a path full of highlights, playing in over 30 countries, including the biggest festivals in Europe, headlining tours and performances as far as Japan. Now it’s time to conquer the rest of the world with an amazing new album that has everything necessary to capture the attention of those already familar and a new audience to come.
Tracklist:
01. Triumph & Devotion (Intro)
02. As We Fight
03. This Battle Is My Own
04. Where The Heart Is
05. Proud To Defend
06. Turadh (Instrumental)
07. I Am What I Am
08. A Treasure Beyond Imagination
09. Rob Roy
10. Haste Ye Back
11. Saor Alba (Outro)
Line-up:
Emilio Souto: Guitars, Bouzouki, Backing Vocals and Synths Programming
Ignacio Lopez: Bass
Pierre Delaporte: Great Highland Bagpipes and Tin-Whistle
Joonas Nislin: Drums and Percussion
Paolo Ribaldini: Vocals
Livedates:
30.01-03.02.23 CARIBBEAN - 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise
25.03.23 FINLAND - Olympia, Tampere
23.06.23 GERMANY - Feuertanz Festival
21.07.23 CZECH REPUBLIC - Keltská Noc Festival
16.09.23 AUSTRIA - Lake Rock Festival
13.01.24 DENMARK - Epic Fest
06.04.24 FRANCE - Ar'Van Fest
05.07.24 GERMANY - Castle Fest
24.08.24 CZECH REPUBLIC - International Bagpipe Festival
https://www.trollzorn.de +++ https://www.instagram.com/skiltron
RECEIVER - Debut Album 'Whispers of Lore' via Gates Of Hell Records - Track Premiere
 Gates Of Hell Records proudly announces the debut offering from Cyprus based Heavy Metallers RECEIVER!
"Whispers of Lore" will be released on November 10th 2023 on CD, LP and digitally.
Formed in 2011 in Nicosia, RECEIVER has made it its mission to deliver pure heavy, epic metal with a dose of folk influences. The band honors legends such as Iron Maiden, Warlord, Manilla Road, Omen, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven’s Gate, Riot, Savatage and Saracen, but also the traditional music of the island of Cyprus and folk from around the world such as The Dubliners and Sandy Denny.
Recorded in Athens, Greece, at Entasis Studios with Nick Papakostas (who also mixed and mastered the record), "Whispers of Lore" features a striking, memorable array of songs, graced with the soaring clean vocals of Nikoletta Kyprianou and backed by sterling guitar melodies.
Epic metal collides with folk and NWOBHM in an album stocked with fantasy and allegory - "Whispers of Lore" is a climatic, melody-dominated adventure for the ages!
The album's opening track, "Unite", can be checked out here: https://youtu.be/zY4NM4QHVoc
Tracklist:
1. Unite
2. Starchaser
3. Trespasser
4. Falling to Dust
5. Wilderness (Cover from "Golden Axe" video game)
6. Raiders of the Night
7. Arrow
8. Whispers of Lore
9. Prowess and Decay (CD Bonustrack)
https://www.facebook.com/gatesofhellrecords +++ https://www.facebook.com/ReceiverCY
HIGH SPIRITS - New Album "Safe on the Other Side" via High Roller Records - Details revealed / Single Premiere
 Chicago-based high-energy rockers HIGH SPIRITS are pleased to announce their upcoming fifth full-length album, "Safe on the Other Side".
It will be released on November 24th 2023 on CD, LP and cassette by the band’s longtime label partner High Roller Records, as well as on all of the major digital music platforms for streaming and/or download.
You can listen to the first single, entitled "In the Moonlight", at this location: https://youtu.be/6O-xD4xtv5c
Like its predecessor, 2020’s "Hard to Stop", the latest from HIGH SPIRITS was recorded by multi-instrumentalist, singer and founder Chris Black at his home studio in Chicago, and then mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound.
"Things always sound different from the inside,” says Chris, “and it’s foolish to generalize. But I think whereas 'Hard to Stop' put my German and British influences in front, 'Safe on the Other Side' seems to favor my American and Scandinavian influences. More importantly though, this is a HIGH SPIRITS album all the way, and you’ll be able to feel that instantly when 'In the Moonlight' hits you!"
Tracklist:
01. In the Moonlight
02. Til the End of Time
03. Lonely Nights
04. One Day Closer
05. Anything You Need
06. (There Will Be) Magic Tonight
07. Loving You
08. Please Don’t Leave Me Behind
09. Memories
10. Good Night
https://www.hrrecords.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/highenergyrock
TOMB MOLD - New Album "The Enduring Spirit" via 20 Buck Spin - Full Stream available
 20 Buck Spin proudly announces the new full-length album of Canadian Death Metallers TOMB MOLD.
"The Enduring Spirit" will be released on October 13th 2023 on LP, Picture LP, CD, and MC, while the digital release is set already for September 15th. It was recorded at Boxcar Sound Recording by Sean Pearson (Tomb Mold, Dream Unending), and mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Tomb Mold, Dream Unending, Kommand, Gravesend, Power Trip). The album’s artwork was handled by Jesse Jacobi who was also responsible for the "Planetary Clairvoyance" artwork, with additional artwork by Karmazid, layout and design by Chimère Noire.
Full album stream: https://youtu.be/rLHtdAy-h6Q
After releasing three albums in three years and then spending the next four in the wilderness, TOMB MOLD has been reborn on fourth album "The Enduring Spirit", a thoroughly unabashed step into vast new territories. Yet for all its frenetic daring and audacious exploration, "The Enduring Spirit" is never anything other than unmistakably TOMB MOLD.
While the expanding TOMB MOLD architecture could be heard on last year’s self-released "Aperture of Body" tape, particularly on final track "Prestige of Rebirth", it comes into clear focus throughout "The Enduring Spirit". Certainly Derrick Vella’s time creating within and expanding the Doom genre in Dream Unending has seeped into the flesh of TOMB MOLD, not to mention Payson Power and Max Klebanoff’s explorations in their own Daydream Plus project.
With album opener "The Perfect Memory (Phantasm of Aura)" the band’s angular dimension shifting riffing appears right out of the gate as the track travels through varying degrees of progressive Death Metal and some of the band’s most extreme material yet. "Will Of Whispers" enters with a jazz-like fantasy sequence before careening into a blinding white light barrage, tasteful guitar leads and back to a dreamy serpentine pattern, encompassing whole universes in its nearly 7 minute run-time.
The back half of the record continues the voyage into what’s possible with the outward expansion of Death Metal norms, reaching the zenith of 11+ minute album closer "The Enduring Spirit Of Calamity", an otherworldly journey into a vortex where all things converge in space and time and generating the tree of life via luminous celestial composition.
With 4 years away, a band with boundless creative energy, as TOMB MOLD are, were certain to expand the scope of their vision, and on "The Enduring Spirit" they’ve shaped a record with a cinematic environment that offers unlimited avenues of exploration, both for themselves and the listener.
Tracklist:
1. The Perfect Memory (Phantasm of Aura)
2. Angelic Fabrications
3. Will Of Whispers
4. Fate’s Tangled Thread
5. Flesh As Armour
6. Servants Of Possibility
7. The Enduring Spirit Of Calamity
Line-up:
Max Klebanoff - Drums, Vocals
Derrick Vella - Guitar, Bass
Payson Power - Guitar
https://www.20buckspin.com +++ https://www.facebook.com/tombmold
VLK - New Album "Solastalgia I" - Video Clip Premiere
 Vlk (pronunciation: vilk) was founded in 2021 as a solo project by multi-instrumentalist and musicologist Wolf-Georg Zaddach in Berlin/Brandenburg and combines his love for black and progressive metal, jazz and contemporary music. In July 2021, Vlk released the debut “Transdescendence” exclusively digitally via Bandcamp and received first positive reviews. In 2022, Vlk made his live debut supplemented by live drums and was a support act for Imperial Triumphant (NYC, Century Media) in Germany. "Vlk", Czech for "wolf", is a symbol, an allegory for the conflictual encounter between man and nature, which makes us aware of our own alienation and hubris. Vlk is about this conflict and everything that can grow and flourish from it. Vlk stands for dark and transgressive music and art.
The upcoming new full-length "Solastalgia I", set for release on November 3rd 2023 via Grrrow! Records, is a concept album and the first part of a trilogy.
Solastalgia is a made-up word, formed from Latin (solacium – consolation) and ancient Greek (algos – pain), which was first used by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht in the 2000s. Solastalgia refers to the pain and grief of losing our environment: emotions driving to despair, which we bring upon ourselves through our greed and hubris. As a result, the climate and biodiversity crises are intensifying the destruction of the environment and nature.
The album is an artistic reflection and processing of the loss of home, the wealth and diversity of nature, and the livelihoods of all life, which ultimately lead to destruction, agonizing death, and extinction. A dystopian outlook and a warning for the present at the same time.
The trilogy is accompanied by short stories by Wolf-Georg Zaddach as well as photos and images by the artist Sara Zaddach.
"Indigenuity" - Official Video Clip: https://youtu.be/IhcgQ9Aw9pY
Tracklist:
1. Collapsology
2. Indigenuity
3. Interlude | Reflect
4. Ballad of the Sorrowful
5. Extinction
6. Loca Inferna
https://www.facebook.com/vlkmetal +++ https://vlkmetal.bandcamp.com
WALDGEFLÜSTER - New Video Clip "The Pit"
 German Black Metallers WALDGEFLÜSTER have revealed a second song from their upcoming new mini album "Unter bronzenen Kronen", coming on September 29th 2023 via AOP Records.
A video clip for the track "The Pit", which is a cover version of Panopticon, can be checked out here: https://youtu.be/nevIUHcTo2Q
In 2021 WALDGEFÜSTER joined the highly acclaimed roster of AOP Records, who will take care of the future endeavors of the band. The year showed the release of their 6th full-length record called "Dahoam", which reached #49 in the official German album charts. "Dahoam" is now followed by a new mini-album, entitled “Unter bronzenen Kronen”. The collection of 4 autumnal songs, including 2 covers, shows WALDGEFÜSTER further perfecting their sound and drawing the listener ever deeper into their world of melancholy.
The band states: "We are thrilled to unveil our latest endeavor, a heartfelt compilation of songs to accompany the embrace of Autumn. This collection, although not a full-length album, tries to capture the essence of the season when the leaves turn into shimmering hues of bronze, gold, and red. A sonic reflection of the bittersweet melancholy that seeps into our bones and hearts during this time. We reimagining three existing songs - one of our own and two masterpieces from extraordinary artists - and looked at them from a different angle, casting a new light upon their inherent beauty. Additionally there is a new composition, delving into the realization that our own questions, flaws, and enigmatic uncertainties endlessly circle back to us, leaving an eternal imprint upon our hearts. We invite you to tread alongside us through the bleakness of our everlasting woods. To find solace and respite, resting your weary heads beneath the majestic crowns of bronze that adorn these trees."
Tracklist:
1. Unter bronzenen Kronen
2. The Pit (Panopticon Cover)
3. Herbst befiel das Land MMXXIII
4. Black Flies (Ben Howard Cover)
https://shop.aoprecords.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/BlackMetalWaldgefluester
GRAVESEND - Sophomore Album 'Gowanus Death Stomp' coming on October 27th via 20 Buck Spin - Track Premiere
 20 Buck Spin announces the sophomore full-length of New York City’s Extreme Metallers GRAVESEND, entitled "Gowanus Death Stomp", set for release on October 27th 2023.
The new album compounds the cruelty displayed on 2021 debut "Methods of Human Disposal" into an ever more gritty and primal barrage of violence. At the crossroads of criminal depravity and urban malaise GRAVESEND utilize many tools of the trade. Black / Death / Grind / War Metal all meld seamlessly into a tar pit of scathing back-alley sadism and acid-tongued vocals.
Like a newly found corpse down by the docks, the smell of decomp is wafting out of every track on "Gowanus Death Stomp". And as with NYC’s underground legends from Cro-Mags to Swans to Type O Negative, GRAVESEND embodies the pulse of the city, even as that pulse bleeds out on the concrete.
"Gowanus Death Stomp" was recorded, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Tomb Mold, Kommand, Dream Unending).
A first track, "Even a Worm Will Turn", can be checked out at this location: https://youtu.be/6qs0lNWUO7k
Tracklist:
01. Deranged
02. 11414
03. Even a Worm Will Turn
04. Festering in Squalor
05. Code of Silence
06. Gowanus Death Stomp
07. Streets of Destitution
08. Make (One’s) Bones
09. Crown of Tar
10. Thirty Caliber Pesticide
11. The Third Rail
12. Mortsafe (Resurrection Men)
13. Lupara Bianca
14. Carried by Six
15. Vermin Victory
16. Enraged
https://www.20buckspin.com +++ https://www.facebook.com/warforgravesend
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