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CLOVEN HOOF - Heathen Cross - Full Album Premiere via High Roller Records
 High Roller Records have premiered the full new album of CLOVEN HOOF, one of the most legendary bands of the entire New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement.
You can listen to "Heathen Cross", featuring new vocalist Harry "The Tyrant" Conklin, in its entirety at this location: https://youtu.be/Dz-DpX_O848
Main man Lee Payne comments: "'Heathen Cross' is CLOVEN HOOF’s most dark and heavy album yet! It has the Satanic undertones of our debut album, but with the best vocalist the group has ever had. Personally speaking it is hands down my favourite CLOVEN HOOF album. We wanted to recapture the spirit and the supernatural majesty of the debut album. Talking to the fans we have given them what they wanted most, a return to the roots of the NWOBHM. They are going to love it!"
Officially out on May 31st 2024: https://www.hrrecords.de/CLOVEN-HOOF
Tracklist:
01. Benediction
02. Redeemer
03. Do What Thou Wilt
04. Last Man Standing
05. Darkest Before the Dawn
06. Vendetta
07. Curse of the Gypsy
08. Frost and Fire
09. Sabbat Stones
10. The Summoning
Line-up:
Lee Payne - Bass Guitar
Harry (The Tyrant) Conklin - Lead Vocals
Luke Hatton - Lead Guitar
Chris Coss - Lead Guitar
Ash Baker - Drums / Backing Vocals
Chris Dando - Keyboards / Backing Vocals
https://www.hrrecords.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/clovenhoof1979
VANHELGD - New Full-Length Album "Atropos Doctrina" via Dark Descent Records - Details and Trackstream revealed
 Dark Descent Records have announced the new album of Sweden’s VANHELGD: "Atropos Doctrina" is set for release on July 12th 2024 on CD, LP, cassette and digital formats.
After six long years, VANHELGD has finally installed a successor to 2018’s monumental "Deimos Sanktuarium" on the notorious Svensk Dödsmetall throne. But as the saying goes, good things are worth waiting for, and as the Fates would have it, the Swedes’ sixth opus "Atropos Doctrina" might just be the best of the bunch.
“Six years of pandemic, crisis and war have passed since we last announced the impending doom of mankind. Much and nothing has changed. Tragedy, ecstasy and doom are still our perpetual companions and the age of man is indefatigable crawling towards the end of its path. The moirai spun and measured your thread of life and now it’s in the hand of Atropos the Inflexible One…”
"Atropos Doctrina" was recorded under the watchful eye of Marduk’s Magnus “Devo” Andersson at Norrköping’s Endarker Studios, and the odds are you won’t hear a heavier production for a good wee while. Backed by ice-cold performances and precision from the band, "Atropos Doctrina" might just be the biggest sounding album of 2024 to date!
Despite its Latin title, all lyrics on the record are in the band’s mother tongue, marking an end to their Anglo-Swedish lyrical approach. An indifference to trends and scene sentiments persists as VANHELGD’s trump card. And after 17 years the band remains just as uncompromising as ever, honing their unique blend of atmospheric death and black metal to perfection.
A first track, "Kom dödens tysta ängel", can be checked out here: https://youtu.be/vbuig6Bu0lI
Cover artwork by Mattias Frisk.
Tracklist:
1. Saliga äro de dödfödda
2. Kom dödens tysta ängel
3. Ofredsår
4. I ovigd jord
5. Atropos Hymnarium
6. Galgdanstid
7. Kerernas törst
8. Gravjordsfrid
https://www.ddmsuo.eu +++ https://www.facebook.com/vanhelgd
HORNED ALMIGHTY - New Album "Contagion Zero" via Soulseller Records - Details and Trackstream
 Soulseller Records proudly announces "Contagion Zero" - the new full-length of Denmark’s renowned Black Metallers HORNED ALMIGHTY, ready to be unleashed on July 5th 2024 on LP, CD and digitally.
Rising from the ashes of the past, HORNED ALMIGHTY return with their seventh overall studio album and strongest yet to date!
Revisiting the fires of darkness, which initially gave birth to the creation of HORNED ALMIGHTY, "Contagion Zero" is Black Metal immaculate! From dissonant looming darkness, to frenzied aggression and everything in between, the album slithers, tramples, twists and turns through almost forty minutes of intense Black Metal, firmly rooted in tradition.
It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Hop House Studios in late 2023 with producer Andreas Linnemann. The artwork was crafted by Belial Necroarts.
A first track entitled "Ascension of Fever and Plague" has been premiered here: https://youtu.be/k1Gq9CINFoQ
Pre-order options: https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com (World) +++ https://soulsellerrecords.aisamerch.com (Americas)
Tracklist:
1. The Messiah Scourge
2. Gospels of Sickness
3. Vermin on the Mount
4. Ascension of Fever and Plague
5. Furnace of Sulphur and Fire
6. Darken the World
7. Epilogue ... of Hades and of Death
https://www.facebook.com/SOULSELLERRECORDS +++ https://www.facebook.com/hornedalmighty
STEINRAS - Debut Album via Soulseller Records - Details and First Single revealed
 Soulseller Records proudly announces the self-titled debut album by Norway's STEINRAS, set for release on July 5th 2024 on LP, CD and digitally.
Many years in the making, this Black Metal project by Steinar Aven and Arne Gandrud is now materialized in stone. Not just a project, but an amazing and unique journey through the sound and landscapes of Norway. With vocal support of nothing but legends of the scene this has turned into a diamond for the black-hearted.
The first single "En Kald Død", featuring Skagg (Deathcult, Gaahlskagg, ex-Taake) on vocals, is streaming now at this location: https://youtu.be/yTYn_gA5JkA
Pre-order options: https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com (World) +++ https://soulsellerrecords.aisamerch.com (Americas)
Cover artwork & logo by Jannicke Wiese-Hansen.
Tracklist:
01. En Kald Død (feat. Skagg)
02. Djevelen I Minnet (feat. Doedsadmiral)
03. Timeglasset (feat. V`gandr)
04. Crawler Of The Crypt (feat. Stud Bronson)
05. Sands Of Time (feat. Thomas S. Øvstedal and Roger Olsen)
06. Sin Egen Ild (feat. Dolgar)
07. Livsdans Og Dødsønske (feat. Stig Ese)
08. Titus Satanicus (feat. Thomas Eriksen)
09. Dødt (feat. Nag)
10. Satanic Fate (feat. Lars 'Balfori' Larsen)
https://www.facebook.com/SOULSELLERRECORDS +++ https://www.facebook.com/p/Steinras-100041676165742
ABYSMAL WINDS - Debut Album "Magna Pestilencia" via I Hate Records - Trackstream and Details revealed
 I Hate Records proudly announces the debut album of Swedish Death Metallers ABYSMAL WINDS. "Magna Pestilencia" will be unleashed on June 21st 2024 on CD, LP and digitally.
Darkness returns in all aspects! Real Death Metal, where DEATH is always in the foreground, inspired by American and British sounds.
For fans of Incantation, Sadistic Intent and Grave Miasma!
A first track, "Obliteration", is streaming now at this location: https://ihate.bandcamp.com/track/obliteration
Tracklist:
1. Incantation (Intro)
2. Sacrilegious
3. Obliteration
4. Blood Prison
5. World Cadaver
6. A Slumbering God
7. Ivory Tomb
8. Horrid Visions
9. Magna Pestilencia
https://www.facebook.com/ihaterecords +++ https://www.facebook.com/abysmalwinds
COLDCELL - New Album "Age Of Unreason" via AOP Records - First Single
 Swiss Black Metallers COLDCELL have revealed the first singe from their upcoming new album "Age Of Unreason", set for release on July 26th 2024 via AOP Records.
You can listen to "Dead to the World" here: https://youtu.be/2h-kTVOR2Wk
ColdCell was founded in 2012 in Basel / Switzerland and released its first album “Generation Abomination” in the following year. ColdCell is rooted in the Swiss underground black metal scene and has always been eager to put up dark and atmospheric live shows.The impressions of the dark, eerie and extreme are expressed within ColdCell’s works like: “Lowlife” (2015), “Those” (2017) and “The Greater Evil” (2021).With the latest album “Age Of Unreason” which will be released in 2024 ColdCell furthermore ventures deeper into social abysses and explores the (un)reasonofbeing.
Tracklist:
1. Hope and Failure
2. Dead to the World
3. Left
4. Solidarity or Solitude
5. Meaningless
6. Discord
7. Sink Our Souls
https://shop.aoprecords.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/coldcellofficial
OCTOHAWK - Sophomore Album "Determinist" via Crime Records - New Lyric Video
 Norway's progressive sludge masters OCTOHAWK have revealed a second track from their upcoming new album "Determinist", set for release on June 7th 2024 via Crime Records on Digipak CD, limited Gatefold LP and digitally.
Check out the lyric video for "Decode" here: https://youtu.be/beDEAyvCyvc
OCTOHAWK's sophomore album takes the listener out of the prehistoric world from the debut "Animist" and into the current and future era of determinism: humanity has left the world of mysteries, wonders, and chance. In a reality where all is calculated, analyzed, and predetermined, humans thrive on scientific progress, but at what cost? If everything is certain, humans have deprived themselves of the illusion of free will and the wonders of life.
"Determinist" is a synopsis of the deterministic era, from the humble experimental beginnings to the complete coalescence with ever-flowing information. Each of the seven tracks represents the significant stages in this endeavor, from man on the ground to being a part of the eternal stream.
This will hit fans of The Ocean, Mastodon, and Igorr right in the face - with expanded diversity, heavier, and more of the good stuff!
Tracklist:
1. Arcane Dawn
2. Quantum Age
3. Decode
4. Momentum
5. Earthrise
6. Beyond Tomorrow
7. Gateways
https://crimerecords.no +++ https://www.facebook.com/octohawkband
SARKE - New Album "Endo Feight" via Soulseller Records - Track Premiere
 Soulseller Records proudly announces "Endo Feight", the 8th full-length of pioneering Norwegian metal act SARKE, set for release on June 21st 2024 on LP, CD and digital formats.
This new album covers everything from SARKE's lightest parts to the hardest. Prepare for a unique musical journey that breaks barriers within the metal scene, featuring Nocturno Culto from the legendary DARKTHRONE on vocals.
It was recorded and mixed at H10 Productions by Lars-Erik Westby and mastered by Sofia von Hage and Thomas Eberger at Stockholm Mastering. The cover illustration was created by Kjetil Nystuen.
The opening track, "Phantom Recluse", has been premiered here: https://youtu.be/P25y6rmbdao
Pre-order options: https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com (World) +++ https://soulsellerrecords.aisamerch.com (Americas
Tracklist:
1. Phantom Recluse
2. Death Construction
3. Lost
4. Abyssal Echoes
5. Old Town Sinner
6. I Destroyed The Cosmos
7. In Total Allegiance
8. Macabre Embrace
Line-up:
Nocturno Culto -Vocals
Sarke - Bass, Drums
Steinar Gundersen - Guitars
Anders Hunstad - Keyboard
https://www.facebook.com/SOULSELLERRECORDS +++ https://www.facebook.com/sarkeofficial
TZOMPANTLI - New Album "Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force " via 20 Buck Spin - New Track released
 Southern California-based Death/Doom Metal act TZOMPANTLI has released another song from the upcoming sophomore abum "Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force" , set for release on May 17th 2024 via 20 Buck Spin.
You can listen to "Chichimecatl" here: https://youtu.be/GGltwsyQJC4
With their debut "Tlazcaltiliztli", TZOMPANTLI - the brainchild of Brian "Itztlakamayeh" Ortiz of metallic hardcore outfit Xibalba - called forth a penetrating strike of Death and Doom Metal like a poisoned arrow through the heart. The band’s foundation in Indigenous / Native rituals, history and lore, and merging of traditional instruments into their sound made for one of 2022’s most uniquely voiced metal records.
Now TZOMPANTLI have again been summoned from the smoke of the ancient fires with a new offering at the altar of human sacrifice, "Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force". Fearsomely brutal marches of war-like, percussive Death Metal are contrasted with melancholy passages of longing spirit and entrancing ceremonial invocations to the ancestors. The TZOMPANTLI tribe has greatly expanded on this second album with 10+ musicians enlisted in the conjuring of wrathful deities and collection of invader skulls.
There has been no shortage of fantastic Death/Doom records in recent years and TZOMPANTLI’s latest entry in the genre’s pantheon demonstrates its continued expansion into wider musical and thematic arenas. The anguished fortitude at the heart of "Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force" exalts in the blood and ash of empire and would be conquerors, a fiery lamentation to centuries of erasure.
"Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force" was recorded, produced, mixed & master by Erol Ulug at Bright Light Studios. The cover artwork was crafted by Adam Burke.
Tracklist:
1. Tetzahuitl
2. Tlayohualli
3. Tlaloc Icuic
4. Chichimecatl
5. Tetzaviztli
6. Otlica Mictlan
7. Icnocuicatl
https://www.20buckspin.com +++ https://www.facebook.com/tzompantlidoom
WORMWOOD - New Album "The Star" via Black Lodge Records - Video Clip Premiere
 It's all over, you are cosmic driftwood, finally at peace.
https://youtu.be/NkJEBDCteZo
Watching from afar as everything is being turned to dust.
In typical Wormwood fashion, "Ro" is a strongly emotional, provocative, and beautiful song that blends genres and emotional expressions. This is also very apparent in the accompanying video which is released today two days before the actual release date on the 26th of April. Smart link: https://orcd.co/wormwood-ro
“Ro” is taken from the upcoming album “The Star”, which is set to be released on the 31st of May 2024 via Black Lodge Records:
The release of “The Star”, concludes the magnificent trilogy about death (NATTRAVET, ARKIVET, THE STAR). "NATTARVET" was about the grim famine that plagued the people in the 19th-century Nordic region. "THE ARCHIVE" focused on the inevitable downfall of mankind and "THE STAR" tells the story of the end of the universe. There is no doubt that WORMWOOD musically has taken another big step forward, both in terms of songwriting and performance. Nothing is left to chance, and everything is refined down to the smallest detail, and this without sacrificing the bands unmistakable raw sound.
Pre-order options: https://orcd.co/the-star
Tracklist:
1. Stjärnfall
2. A Distant Glow
3. Liminal
4. Galactic Blood
5. Thousand Doorless Rooms
6. Suffer Existence
7. Ro
https://blacklodge.se +++ https://www.facebook.com/WormwoodSWE
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