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JARL - Melodic Black Metal Album "Trümmerfestung" via Trollzorn Records - Details and Lyric Video revealed
 Open the gates to the world of JARL with their new album "Trümmerfestung", set for release on December 12th 2024 via Trollzorn Records.
The quintet from Northern Germany confronts you with the darker sides of life. Within the crumbling walls, classic black metal riffs and raw extreme metal join forces.
JARL arose from the ashes of various underground bands. Originally founded in 2004 by Blutaxt and Mightyraven as an acoustic side project of Black Unicorn, JARL lay dormant for a long time... Nearly forgotten, the ice was broken in 2016, and the band found new strength. Mightyraven, Natt Kongen and Blutaxt shaped JARL into a black metal act. The open positions were quickly filled by Hrimthur and Aestus. Now, risen from the ashes and forged into a unit, JARL represents melodic German black metal at its finest.
Check out the lyric video for the track "Levitation" at this location: https://youtu.be/SFpunYatPyU
Cover Artwork by Jan Yrlund / Darkgrove.net
Tracklist:
1. Levitation
2. Schattenwurf
3. Trümmerfestung
4. Schein
5. Wirkmacht
6. Dreck und Rost
7. Alchemie
https://www.trollzorn.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/JarlBlackMetal
APOSTASIE - Melodic Black Metal Debut Album "Non Est Deus" via Trollzorn Records - New Lyric Video
 German Melodic Black Metallers APOSTASIE have unleashed another song from their upcoming debut album "Non Est Deus", set for release on November 29th 2024 in cooperation with Trollzorn Records.
Check out the lyric video for "Pein, Pest" here: https://youtu.be/5goHg1-fC_c
APOSTASIE play Melodic Black Metal with historical and atheist themes. In their first album "Non Est Deus", they narrate the "Historia Ecclesiastica Perversa" - the madness of dogmas, and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. The album discusses events in the so-called Christian "history of salvation", the Latin-Roman church history, as well as the closely related European history. These events and processes are staged as moments of religious madness, dogmatic contradiction and, at the same time, rational criticism and resistance. The events described cover the period from the so-called "turning point of time", i.e. the birth of Christ, to the so-called Reformation of the Latin-Roman church by Martin Luther.
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Non est Deus
3. Theotókos
4. Isapóstolos
5. Eikon
6. Blut schreit Palästina
7. Pein, Pest
8. Ich, Novus Alexander
9. Es ist kein Gott
Live 2024 / 2025:
29.11.24 - Live Music Hall, Weiher / Album Release Gig
30.11.24 - M8 Club, Mainz
07.12.24 - Haus der Begegnung, Bruchsal
10.01.25 - Metbar, Lenzburg
08.03.25 - Live Music Hall, Weiher
06.06.25 - Devils Covenant Fest, Schwedt
https://www.trollzorn.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/apostasieband
ROTPIT - New Album "Long Live The Rot" via War Anthem Records - Lyric Video Premiere
 German/Swedish Deathers ROTPIT have premiered another song from their upcoming sophomore full-length "Long Live The Rot", which will be unleashed on November 29th 2024 through War Anthem Records on CD, LP and digitally. A tape version is coming via Selfmadegod Records.
Check out the lyric video for the album's title track here: https://youtu.be/86pPULalW3Q
With "Long Live The Rot", the trio delivers 10 new tracks which are sicker, more filthy, more ambitious, unique in sound and straight to the bone. So all rotfreaks who already appreciated last year’s highly acclaimed debut "Let There Be Rot" will get an even deadlier injection. Beware of this massive maggot swarm, dissecting everyone and everything!
Main songwriter Jonny Pettersson (Massacre, Wombbath, Berzerker Legion) once again produced the album at Studio Unbound, while the mastering was finished at Nevo Studios in Sundsvall, Sweden. Ralf Hauber (Revel In Flesh, Heads For The Dead, Fetid Zombie, Just Before Dawn) added his mark shocking vocals, filthy lyrics and the overall concept of rot. Vocalwise this is his most brutal sounding contribution to the scene so far. Furthermore the album introduces ROTPIT’s new drummer Erik Barthold, who is well known from Swedish Doomers Left Hand Solution and his participation in the glorious punk band Det Kristet Utseende.
Cover artwork by Finnish cult underground artist T. Kannibalet Hietomma Art in the old school hand drawn way.
Tracklist:
01. Sewer Rot
02. Massive Maggot Swarm
03. Long Live The Rot
04. Eat Or Be Eaten
05. The Triumph Of Rot
06. Tunnel Rat
07. Dirt Dwellers
08. Funeral Mock
09. Rotfreak
10. OutRot
https://www.war-anthem.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/Rotpit666
THE GATES OF SLUMBER - New Self-Titled Album via Svart Records - New Track Premiere "Full Moon Fever"
 Indiana’s doom metal behemoths THE GATES OF SLUMBER return with a new album out on November 29th via Svart Records. The upcoming, self-titled album is the band’s first full length offering in thirteen years.
Full Moon Fever is the second single from the album, perfectly timed for the Halloween season. Listen to it here: https://orcd.co/fullmoonfever
"If my memory serves me right, Full Moon Fever was the first song for the new album. The music was written around about when Tom Petty died. And yes, the song is dedicated to him. Not inspired by his music per se, but I was always a big Petty fan and yeah. Figure it out on your own time… The first set of lyrics I did for the song had more of a comical feel to them. More of a Motörhead treatment. A werewolf chasing cars and shit like that. But that’s not the feel I wanted for the song in the end. The band was always meant to be a serious band. But I would be denying the truth if I said that it didn’t have a lot of tongue in cheek. And that wasn’t what we wanted to do with it at all. Part of the fun is playing it straight. So, I reworked the lyrics a few weeks before we actually recorded the album. I have to pat myself on the back. I think the break down is one of the best bits I ever came up with.", comments Karl Simon on the new single.
THE GATES OF SLUMBER was formed by Karl Simon in 1998. Various people were in and out of the group between 1998 and 2001, when the Blood Encrusted Deth Axe demo was recorded with Jamie Walters aka Dr. Phibes/Athenar (Boulder, Midnight) on drums and bass. In 2003 Jason McCash took over the bass duties and was a long-time member of the band until his untimely demise in 2014, after which Simon decided it was time to call it quits. That was until 2019 when the renowned metal festival Hell Over Hammaburg wanted to bring the band back on stage to perform at the festival’s 2020 edition. Simon reformed the band with its original member Chuck Brown on drums and Steve Janiak on bass and got back to work. “We’d been asked several times to play Hell Over Hammaburg. But there was no “we” to play. The germ of the idea started. We started re-learning songs from the first LP. It wasn’t too long into the rehearsals that we started coming up with new songs.”, states Simon.
After a reunion tour was finished, COVID kicked in to slow down the process. Half of the album was already written but the remaining half took its time, and the songs were left to stew in their juices. With bastard heavy songs honoring the Doom Metal greats Saint Vitus and Penance, straight forward bangers, lyrics inspired by the Black Death and John Carpenter’s The Fog, "The Gates of Slumber" is a truly crushing album and a must listen to any Doom Metal fanatic.
Having toured with Pentagram, Reverend Bizarre, Cathedral, Slough Feg, Earthride, and Weedeater in addition to getting a praise from Decibel Magazine “THE GATES OF SLUMBER have quietly gone about the business of becoming one of the best heavy metal bands in the world.”, it’s safe to say The Gates of Slumber play some of the heaviest metal on this planet.
Pre-order: https://www.svartrecords.com/en/product/the-gates-of-slumber-the-gates-of-slumber/12760
Tracklist:
1. Embrace The Lie
2. We Are Perdition
3. Full Moon Fever
4. At Dawn
5. The Fog
6. The Plague
https://svartrecords.com +++ https://www.facebook.com/thegatesofslumber
VIOLENT DEFINITION - New Thrash Metal Album "Progressive Obsoletion" via I Hate Records / Bestial Invasion Records - Lyric Video Premiere
 Athens/Greece based thrashers VIOLENT DEFINITION have revealed a lyric video for their upcoming sophomore full-length album "Progressive Obsoletion", set for release on November 15th 2024 via I Hate Records in conspiracy with Bestial Invasion Records.
Check out "Children Of God" here: https://youtu.be/VePwLd8UmBE
Six years after the promising debut, "Life Sentence", the band has taken it to another level in all aspects, delivering a monster of an album! Sound-wise we are on a journey to the late 80s FORBIDDEN, VIO-LENCE, RAZOR and SLAYER - keeping the old aura, letting it once again flourish in a new time and age. This is Thrash Metal full of aggression, attitude and technical skill, which honors the old days, but refuses stagnation!
Cover artwork by Paolo Girardi.
Tracklist:
1. Into Trepidation
2. Justified Ferocity
3. The Last Grain In Your Hourglass
4. Experimental Failure
5. Deceiving The Psychopompos
6. Progressive Obsoletion
7. Children Of God
8. Reprobate Misfits
9. Trampled (By The Foot)
Line-up:
George "IronBeast" - Vocals
Nick Psarogiannis - Guitars
Chris Zoukas - Bass
John Votsis - Drums
https://ihate.se +++ https://www.facebook.com/ViolentDefinition
TOTAL HATE - New Black Metal Album "Forthcoming Age Of The Reaper" via War Anthem Records - Second Track Premiere
 German Black Metallers TOTAL HATE have revealed another song from their upcoming sixth full-length album "Forthcoming Age Of The Reaper", set for release on November 29th 2024 through War Anthem Records on CD, LP, MC and in digital formats.
Check out "Coldest Wrath" at this location: https://youtu.be/RUhz1ihfkmI
Even after more than two decades of existence TOTAL HATE are still manifesting their Old School Black Metal the Norwegian way: brutal, uncompromising and full of misanthropy.
With "Forthcoming Age Of The Reaper" the band proves that they are still a leading force of the German scene.
Death, Hate, Eradicate!
Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Eternal Lust For Blood
03. Hailing The Falling Angels
04. Looming Age Of The Vermin King
05. Burn With Your Prophet
06. Coldest Wrath
07. Djevelens Legioner
08. Death, Hate, Eradicate
09. Downfall Of Tolerance
10. Field Of Victory (The Final Return)
11. Dodsmarsj Til Helvete (Urgehal Cover)
https://www.war-anthem.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/totalhate666
SVARTTJERN - New Norwegian Black Metal Album "Draw Blood" via Soulseller Records - Track Premiere
 Prepare for the unholy union of darkness and destruction: Norwegian Black Metallers SVARTTJERN have just dropped the first single from with their upcoming new album "Draw Blood"!
You can listen to "Determination" here: https://youtu.be/L-cQ0ntkITQ
SVARTTJERN's sixth overall full-length will be released on December 6th 2024 via Soulseller Records on CD, LP and in digital versions.
Let darkness spread, "Draw Blood" will raise the dead. Ten tracks of terror, with a lyrical fist, each one a torment you won’t want to miss. Let the darkness unfold, with “Draw Blood,” a black metal tale so cold.
Pre-order options: https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com (World) +++ https://soulsellerrecords.aisamerch.com (Americas)
Tracklist:
01. Determination
02. Follow Through
03. Draw Blood
04. Don't Contain Your Lust
05. Erect Your Congregation
06. Lick My Flesh
07. Chop, Slit, Flay
08. Aluminium Bat Domina
09. Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones Cover)
10. Sin, Offer, Obey
https://www.facebook.com/SOULSELLERRECORDS +++ https://www.facebook.com/svarttjern
CAPILLA ARDIENTE - Full Album Stream via High Roller Records - Where Gods Live And Men Die
 "Where Gods Live And Men Die" , the new album of Chilean epic doom metallers CAPILLA ARDIENTE, is now streaming in its entirety.
You can listen to the full album here: https://youtu.be/YPFw_43BB5g
"Where Gods Live And Men Die" will be officially released on October 18th 2024 via High Roller Records. The band’s third full-length was recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by the band’s guitar player Igor Leiva at Atomic Noise Studios in Santiago de Chile. Drums were recorded at Equinox Studios (Rancagua) and the vocals at Audiocustom Studios (Santiago). The artwork was created by Maciej Kamuda.
Ordering options: https://www.hrrecords.de/CAPILLA-ARDIENTE
Just like its predecessor, 2019's "The Siege", the new album once again contains four very long song, which is not a coincidence, as bass player Claudio Botarro Neira points out: "It’s the way we have developed to tell the stories contained in our lyrics. If our songs are long, it’s because they have many different passages. We tend to see our songs in a sort of ‘cinematographical’ way, where the music has to provide the proper background to tell our tales."
Consequently, "Where Gods Live And Men Die" has a very specific lyrical concept as well: "In a way, it’s the closing story to our two previous albums and our first EP. Again, it’s a solitary journey, but this time it’s the final chapter, a tale of departure. It deals with personal loss, wounds from the youth, disease and the need to overcome and transcend by willpower."
Incorporating quite a few Bathory "Hammerheart" era and early Manowar influences, "Where Gods Live And Men Die" shows that CAPILLA ARDIENTE are way more than an orthodox epic doom metal band. Claudio comments: “I think that since the first EP, and due to the limitations brought by being just two musicians on a quest, we have been moving from a more traditional and in your face doom riffing style to a more epic/broad sound, which can be noted in the progression from the 'Solve Et Coagula' EP to the first album 'Bravery, Truth And The Endless Darkness'. We have become better musicians, I guess. With 'The Siege', and as a five-piece band, I think CAPILLA ARDIENTE has finally found its own, unique style, which is quite evident on 'Where Gods Live And Men Die'. And I don’t think our future songs will differ much more in terms of heavyness or complexity.”
Tracklist:
1. Envenomed
2. The Hands of Fate Around My Neck
3. Now Here. Nowhere.
4. As I Lie on the Summit
https://www.hrrecords.de +++ https://www.facebook.com/CapillaArdienteDoom
VALDAUDR - Sophomore Album "Du Skal Frykte" via Soulseller Records - Norwegian Black Metal Track Premiere
 Norway's VALDAUDR have unleashed a first track from their sophomore album "Du Skal Frykte", coming on December 6th 2024 via Soulseller Records on CD, LP and in digital versions.
"Den Moerke Tronen" is streaming now at this location: https://youtu.be/HlMmptCa4YE
Almost 4 years after their highly acclaimed debut album “Drapsdalen”, VALDAUDR returns with the mighty follow up which brings even more nostalgia and atmosphere from the past to the table. There's a bit more melodic touch to “Du Skal Frykte”, but in the right way. Often reminding of the great early Satyricon, Ulver and other scene pillars the album still brings you back to the early 90's and the whole reason why we started enjoying this epic and majestic genre.
Hail Norwegian Black Metal!
Pre-order options: https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com (World) +++ https://soulsellerrecords.aisamerch.com (Americas)
Tracklist:
1. ...Og Jages Bort Fra Verden
2. Den Moerke Tronen
3. Herren Hoester Liv
4. Straffen For Dem Som Lokker Til Frafall
5. De Som Fortaeres Av Lengsel
6. Tilgi Dem Ikke
7. Hans Klamme Haand Glipper Taket
https://www.facebook.com/SOULSELLERRECORDS +++ https://www.facebook.com/valdaudr
OLD FOREST - New UK Black Metal Album "Graveside" via Soulseller Records - Lyric Video Premiere
 UK Black Metallers OLD FOREST have revealed a first song from their upcoming new full-length "Graveside", set for release on December 6th 2024 via Soulseller Records on CD, LP and in digital versions.
Check out the lyric video for the opening track, "Curse of Wampyr", here: https://youtu.be/bZX-xraneR0
OLD FOREST's 8th album since 1998 is a re-affirmation of the band's purpose and aims, and differs from its predecessor in many ways. "Graveside" embraces a definite primitive and regressive approach to both its writing and recording ; it is a work of deliberate imperfection. From the first notes, it is obviously replete with references both musically and lyrically to those tried & tested themes of Black Metal and horror classics - but always with reverence, and never platitudinous.
"Graveside" is an indulgence in (and of) the most celebrated and earliest "naive" works of such luminaries of the early 90's scene as Emperor, Satyricon, Dimmu Borgir, Gehenna and others. As such, it shows OLD FOREST's willingness to regress back to their roots and once more adopt instinctive and spontaneous composition and recording, whilst casting aside such trivial matters as "innovation" or "perfection".
Some will say that "Graveside" is an intellectualisation of the moronic in Black Metal, but those who embrace its deliberate imperfections will hear a ferociously honest return to the youthful blasphemy of Black Metal and a rejection of the overtly commercial.
Pre-order options: https://soulsellerrecords.bandcamp.com (World) +++ https://soulsellerrecords.aisamerch.com (Americas)
Cover artwork: "The Moonlit Churchyard Of Stoke Poges" by Unknown artist, 1870
Tracklist:
1. Curse of Wampyr
2. Witch Spawn
3. Solstice Sacrifice
4. Interment of Ashes
5. Decrepit Melancholy
6. Halfway Human
7 .Soil of the Martyrs
8. Forgotten Graves
https://www.facebook.com/SOULSELLERRECORDS +++ https://www.facebook.com/oldforestofficial
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