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 CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY LAUNCH ALBUM PRE-ORDER... Wasteland speed metalpunks Children of Technology reveal the new track "The New Barbarians." The track is the first to be revealed from the band's long-awaited third album, "Written Destiny," which will be released this November by Hells Headbangers on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. "Written Destiny" dashingly and dangerously powers headlong into the '80s underground, more resolutely upping the METAL in the crusty equation and spitting out eight new anthems that are equal parts gleam and grime. It's almost as if the power-trio took their well-worn tank, scrubbed some of the rust off, and gave it an engine pumped full of nitrous; this album simply CHARGES! Not surprisingly, the band's influences this time around are squarely focused on early Onslaught, Warfare, Venom, Anti-Cimex, Nuclear Assault, and Sacrilege UK - but what results is 666% Children of Technology, with a charisma that's undeniable, and undeniably their own.... read more>>  BLACK DEATH CULT LAUNCH CD PRE-ORDER FOR DEBUT ALBUM - features members of ANTEDILUVIAN and REVENGE... Coated in a glistening-yet-grimy sheen of fullmoon synths, Devil's Paradise most definitely is BLACK METAL of a very old and very unorthodox constitution. Its rhythms are hammering and strident and yet evoking a wildness that borders on delirium. Black Death Cult wield their instruments as weapons and wands alike, so gutted is their physicality and ghastly their atmosphere. Songs likewise take devilish detours, downshifting and accelerating at will, always keeping the listener in thrall but walking a terror-inducing line of tension. Vocals are ritualistic, perpetually unbalanced and unhinged, everything coalescing into one of the strangest and yet also most dangerous sounds the label's laid witness to in recent years. Which is all to say nothing of the band's masterful grasp of dynamics, often allowing clean 'n' chorused textures to take center stage and instill a creepiness beyond compare.... read more>>  MONGREL'S CROSS premiere new track at NoCleanSinging.com - ABSU's Proscriptor features as new vocalist... Not for them the over-generalization of "Australia = war metal" nor the simplistic connotations associated with such; still peaking at the height of their compositional powers, Mongrel's Cross remain a great extreme METAL entity. All the drama and danger, legendry and lawlessness, power and poison, and essential OTT abandon of this artform otherwise known as heavy metal - everything that Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court so effortlessly played out with a palpably physical poetry - here on Arcana do they render in more manic and narrative form, no doubt informed by Proscriptor's pioneering work with the singular Absu. In fact, it's a match so perfect (and poignant), it's a small wonder it never happened sooner... Regardless, each of these seven screeds artfully canvasses a wide territory of heavy metal magick - the playing deft and nuanced, the songwriting itself direct yet richly detailed - and once again does the clean 'n' gleaming production fit like a gauntlet lined with velvet. In a word, Arcana is EPIC, in every sense.... read more>>  SKELETHAL LAUNCH PRE-ORDER & REVEAL FIRST TRACK... A statement from the band reads: "We are very thrilled to present our second full-length, Unveiling the Threshold, which holds the most brutal and in-your-face material composed by Skelethal to this day. On this second album, we were able to develop our death metal in a more efficient way, incorporating a second soloist, faster relentless drums, and allowing the songs to reach the ferocious grounds of early grindcore while still in the realm of Swedish death metal. Overall, the songwriting process has been more personal and included a greater number of influences."... read more>>  Finland's YMIR LAUNCH PRE-ORDER & REVEAL FIRST TRACK for long-awaited WEREWOLF debut album - features members of BAPTISM+++... As can be expected, YMIR's long-brewing debut album is both a summation of their sparse but no-less-considerable past and a strident extension into both present and future. Never before have the band sounded so invigorated, so robust and roiling in their sweepingly sumptuous ruminations; the aim may be for mystical black metal of a most mid-'90s vintage, but the palpable physicality present here puts Ymir in rarefied company, whether it's past or especially present. Suitably, YMIR create epic screeds which open portals of the imagination and ancient consciousness alike, reverent to the old ways of noble black metal faith but by no means tethered to reductive expression: simply put, YMIR are a black metal band and Ymir is a black metal record, but their collective scope is boundless, brave, and breathing deeply of an essence few are able to grasp in the nowadays scene.... read more>>  MEDIEVAL DEMON reveal first track from new album - features founding ROTTING CHRIST member... Ancient Greek black metal cult Medieval Demon reveal the new track "Meet Her Majesty." The track is the first to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated third album, Arcadian Witchcraft, which will be released this November by Hells Headbangers on CD and vinyl LP formats.... read more>>
FORGJORD - Ilmestykset (LP) BLACK DEATH CULT (Revenge, Antediluvian) - Devil's Paradise (CD) COFFINS / DEPRESSION - Split (LP, CD) CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY - Written Destiny (LP w/ 7", CD, TAPE) MORKETIDA - Panphage Mysticism (LP repress) MOONCITADEL - Night's Scarlet Symphonies (LP, CD) MEDIEVAL DEMON - Arcadian Witchcraft (LP, CD) FLUIDS - Fluids of Death (LP) ARMOURED ANGEL - MCMXCV Demo (MLP) SYNTELEIA - Ending Of The Unknown Path (LP) FUNERAL STORM / SYNTELEIA - The Ancient Calling (EP) ACID WITCH - Midnight Mass (EP repress, PicEP) SHITFUCKER - Suck Cocks in Hell (LP repress) REGURGITATION - Tales Of Necrophilia (LP repress) TYPHON - Unholy Trinity (LP)
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