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ASHTAR - New Album "Kaikuja" via Eisenwald
"Kaikuja", the highly anticipated second album of Switzerland’s ASHTAR, will be released on May 15th 2020 via Eisenwald on CD, LP and cassette tape formats.
ASHTAR are a duo from Basel consisting of Nadine and Marko Lehtinen. Before they formed Ashtar in 2013, Nadine played in Shever while Marko played in Phased. In ASHTAR, Nadine writes all the lyrics and handles most of the vocals. In the studio, the duo play all the instruments themselves. In their live formation, ASHTAR are a quartet with two onstage guest guitarists.
Translated from Finnish as 'Echoes', "Kaikuja" is aptly titled, for its dense-yet-spacious soundwalls bear a rich ‘n’ reverberating strength. Trace elements of black metal and doom exist once again, but are further spliced with the DNA of drone, sludge, and even post-rock, making for a heady (and HEAVY) brew that’s seemingly served up with ease by ASHTAR. And even more so than the debut, for a band that’s “merely” a duo, these five epic-length songs emit an almost-impossible density, bewitchingly revealing new layers with each listen. And at nearly 40 minutes, the landscape ASHTAR paint here is far more vast than that compact runtime suggests.
The first track premiere to be found here: https://youtu.be/eR8DjLsMFqU
Cover art courtesy of Valkenstijn.
Tracklist:
1. Aeolus
2. Between Furious Clouds
3. Bloodstones
4. The Closing
5. (She is) Awakening
www.ashtar.ch / www.eisenton.de
REEK - Debut Album via Testimony Records - Details & Trackstream
Testimony Records proudly announces the debut album of Swedish Death’n’Rollers REEK!
"Death Is Something There Between" will be released on April 24th 2020.
This band is a creation by the scene's troublemakers Rogga Johansson (Paganizer) and Håkan Stuvemark (Wombbath). It all came together in the summer of 2019 after a few songs were written and Håkan tested to sing which led to make a dirty and heavy Death'n'Roll album in the vein and sound of Entombed's mid 90s records. The line-up was completed by Jon Skäre (Defiatory, Wachenfeldt) on drums and Mathias Back (Fimbultyr) on bass.
"Death Is Something There Between" was mixed by Håkan himself at Studio Nostalgica, mastered by Thomas Von Wachenfeldt (Wombbath, Wachenfeldt) at Bowstead Studios and features a cover artwork by SV Bell (Amorphis, Rotting Christ, Kataklysm, Impaled Nazarene).
The album’s opening track "Condemned by the Hands of Pain" is available here: Youtube +++ Bandcamp
Tracklist:
1. Condemned by the Hands of Pain
2. Flesh Golem
3. Gold in your Throat
4. The Eaters
5. Horror Waltz
6. Foaming at the Mouth
7. Tyranny of the Blood
8. A Matter of Time
9. Black Hole Star
10. Fuel for the Pyres
11. Rain Down Salvation
www.facebook.com/REEK-Sweden-104611050916938 +++ www.facebook.com/testimonyrecords
KHÔRA - Deal with Soulseller Records - Debut Album "Timaeus" Announcement
Soulseller Records proudly announces the signing and debut full-length release of KHÔRA!
"Timaeus" will be unleashed on April 17th 2020 on CD, LP and digitally.
Started as a one-man project by mainman Oleg in 2012-2013, KHÔRA strives to manifest the limits of Extreme Metal and produce both ethereal and ferocious tunes. After the first demo in 2016, Kranos joined on vocals and Lars joined on bass, both helping shape the core line-up.
Featuring an amazing artwork by Sergey Shenderovsky and guest contributions by Vicotnik (DØDHEIMSGARD), Henri Sorvali (FINNTROLL), A. Simonen (AND OCEANS) and many others, "Timaeus" is a carefully-crafted album which consists of black metal to death metal to symphonic and progressive elements. It was recorded between 2017 and 2019 and follows the theme of the creation of the universe by three omnipotent entities, loosely based on Plato’s dialogue of the same name.
A first song entitled "De Vetus Ad Novum" is streaming now at these locations: Youtube +++ Spotify +++Deezer
Tracklist:
1. Aether
2. Noceo
3. l'Annihilateur
4. Harvesting Stars
5. De Vetus Ad Novum
6. Roe Too Noo (Flow Of The Mind)
7. Sempiternal
8. Existence
9. The Purge
10. The Occultation Of Time
11. Void
www.facebook.com/KHORA.Official +++ www.soulsellerrecords.com
TEMPLE OF DREAD - New Music Video "Sentenced to Life"
Testimony Records proudly presents TEMPLE OF DREAD's first official music video for the song "Sentenced to Life", taken from the album "Blood Craving Mantras" which was released in August 2019.
https://youtu.be/X_7KJBWeS1c
The video was shot by Polish director Łukasz Jaszak Design & Photography, who has already made a name for himself in the scene with cooperations with bands like Decapitated, The Vision Bleak and Vomitory. The video perfectly captures the hopeless mood of the song as well as the protagonist's longing for death, but deviates from the pattern of common music videos. The band itself only appears in form of images and other allusions in the video sequences.
TEMPLE OF DREAD are currently working hard and intensively on songs for their second album "World Sacrifice", which is expected to be released in summer 2020 and will again be produced by drummer Jörg Uken in his Soundlodge Studios.
Full Album Stream & Order: Bandcamp +++ Youtube +++ Spotify
Tracklist:
1. 8.16 AM
2. Suffocate The Fire
3. Sentenced To Life
4. Question Of Honour
5. Now You Will Die
6. Straying The Battlefields
7. Gone But Still Here
8. Cottage In The Backyard
Line-up:
Markus Bünnemeyer - Guitar & Bass
Jens Finger - Vocals
Jörg Uken - Drums
www.facebook.com/TempleofDread / www.facebook.com/testimonyrecords
TURIA - Full Album Stream "Degen van Licht"
Dutch black metallers TURIA proudly present their highly anticipated third album, "Degen van Licht", in its entirety at Metal Injection. It will be released via Eisenwald (CD&LP) and Haeresis Noviomagi (MC) on February 28th 2020.
Cavernous reverbs evoke great depths and heights, while analog delays reminisce the phantasmal rays of the sun. The years of playing live across Europe since TURIA’s last album "Dede Kondre" are revealed in an increased complexity of songwriting. Taking cues from mid-era Bathory to early Hawkwind, moving between ferocious sonic avalanches and churning dirges, "Degen van Licht" is sure to expand Turia’s idiosyncratic style of black metal into new territories.
The album is once again produced, recorded, and mixed by TURIA themselves with assistance of longtime collaborator M. Koops. A greater clarity in the production is enhanced by the tasteful mastering courtesy of Greg Chandler at Priory Recording Studios.
Tracklist:
1. I
2. Merode
3. Met Sterven Beboet
4. Degen Van Licht
5. Storm
6. II
7. Ossifrage
www.eisenton.de +++ www.facebook.com/haeresisnoviomagi
WOMBBATH - New Single revealed - "From The Beggars Hand"
Swedish Deathers WOMBBATH have unleashed a second song from their upcoming fourth full-length "Choirs Of The Fallen".
"From The Beggars Hand" is available for streaming here: Youtube +++ Bandcamp +++ Spotify
"Choirs Of The Fallen" is the first album featuring the band's revamped line-up and was mixed by Tomas Skogsberg at the legendary Studio Sunlight. It will be released on March 6th 2020 via Soulseller Records on CD, limited vinyl versions and digitally. The cover artwork was created by Benny Moberg (Sufficiently Studios).
Refuel your chainsaws!
Tracklist:
1. Fallen
2. Crawling From The Pits
3. We Shall Remain
4. A Sweet Taste Of Death
5. From The Beggars Hand
6. Void
7. A Vulgar Declaration
8. Wings Of Horror
9. Choirs Of The Damned
10. In A Cloak Of Anger
www.facebook.com/Wombbath +++ www.soulsellerrecords.com
TULUS - New Trackstream "Hel"
Norwegian Black Metallers TULUS, consisting of members of Sarke and Khold, have published a second track from their upcoming new album "Old Old Death"!
"Hel" is streaming now at these locations: Youtube +++ Bandcamp +++ Spotify
The band's sixth full-length will be released on March 6th 2020 on CD, limited vinyl versions and digitally via Soulseller Records. It was recorded and mixed at H-10 Productions by Lars Erik Westby with the assistance of Per Kristian Schjønsby and mastered in Sonic Train Studios by Andy La Rocque.
Expect 10 dark, cold, groovy Black Metal tracks that will hit your nerves like the black plague. Eerie & unique!
Tracklist:
1. Hel
2. Jord
3. I havet hos Rån
4. Flukt
5. Folkefall
6. I hinmannens hånd
7. Grunn grav
8. Ild til mørkning
9. Villkjeft
10. In memoriam
https://www.facebook.com/TULUSband +++ www.soulsellerrecords.com
NERVE SAW - Debut Album via Testimony Records - Details & Trackstream
Testimony Records proudly announces the signing of Finnish Death Metallers NERVE SAW!
The band’s debut album, entitled "Peril", will be released on March 27th 2020 on CD, vinyl (with a differently colored cover) and in digital formats.
"Peril" combines the no-nonsense approach of early punk albums to gnarly, brain melting death metal. It is an unstoppable bulldozer of a record, with obvious crossover potential. Imagine At the Gates playing GBH, or Carnivore and you start getting there. It was recorded, produced and mixed by Javier Félez (Graveyard, Teitanblood) at Moontower Studios, mastered by Mikko Saastamoinen / Transistor Media (Hooded Menace, Solothus) and features an outstanding artwork by Raúl Fuentes / Mörtuus-Art.
For a first impression check out the song "Last Verse for the Buried" at these locations: Youtube +++ Bandcamp
Pre-orders: https://testimonyrecords.bigcartel.com/products
Tracklist:
1. A Fool
2. Life Goes On... Not
3. No Lead
4. The Red Line
5. Ghosts in Dialogue
6. Empty Heart
7. Nails
8. Last Verse for the Buried
9. P.I.A.T.
10. The Eye of the Golem
11. Wolves of the 80's
www.facebook.com/Nerve-Saw-101834354696011 +++ www.facebook.com/testimonyrecords
IMPIETY - New Album Announcement - "Versus All Gods"
Finally unleashed via Evil Dead Productions / Shivadarshana: "Versus All Gods" - the anticipated 9th full armageddon manifesto from Asia's most notorious Godz of War IMPIETY!
Ten tracks of uncompromising, lightning fast Black Death Metal savagery that mocks and scorns mankind, spits fire and fury unto the face of useless deities, and bludgeons pathetic civilisation to dust. Nothing is spared! The Grand Kovenant of Kaos of 30 long and brutal years, exalts IMPIETY second to none when it comes to their metal to the bone attitude, diehard dedication to the unholy art of desecration, long and hard touring destroying continents across the planet.
Recorded, mixed and mastered in Bialystok, Poland at Hertz Studio with both Wojtek & Slawek Wieslawski. Hellustration by the infamous Jenglot Hitam. Guest appearances by Wenceslas Carrieu (Necrowretch) and Henriette Bordvik (Abyssic).
Digi-CD & Limited Deluxe DigiBox available on 20th January 2020: https://www.edp-store.com
"Azazel" - Official Lyric Video: https://youtu.be/Vic1IfIvrL8
Tracklist:
1. Intro: Kommand IX
2. Reigning Armageddon
3. Djinn Of All Djinns
4. Barbarian Black Horde
5. Azazel
6. Inviktus Satanikus
7. Terror Occult Dominion
8. Dajjal United
9. Interstellar Deathfuck
10. Magickal Wrath
https://www.facebook.com/impietyofficial
PORTA NIGRA - New Lyric Video "Die Augen des Basilisken"
German Black Metallers PORTA NIGRA have premiered their third and final single, "Die Augen des Basilisken", taken from the forthcoming album "Schöpfungswut".
A lyric video is available at this location: https://youtu.be/cjBv2KeUog0
The track is also streaming on these platforms: Bandcamp +++ Spotify
"Schöpfungswut", the band's third full-length, will be released on January 17th 2020 via Soulseller Records.
It leads PORTA NIGRA back to the roots of more straight-forward, furious and monumental Black Metal art of the glorious 90s era. While musically not comparable to its eclectic predecessors, "Schöpfungswut" still contains lyrical traces of their decadent and fin de siècle-inspired atmosphere, which the outfit became known for. The production was handled by Markus Stock.
Tracklist:
1. Die Kosmiker
2. Das Rad des Ixion
3. Die Augen des Basilisken
4. Die Entweihung von Freya
5. Unser Weg nach Elysium
6. Schöpfungswut
www.facebook.com/PortaNigraBand +++ www.soulsellerrecords.com
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