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Album Review: Gematria – Gematria II: The Spindle Of Necessity

“Gematria” is not just another made up word used as the name of a metal band, but an ancient system of Jewish numerology that reduces words to numbers which reveal inner meaning. OK, that’s out of the way, how about the band of the same name? It’s a two-man combo that actually uses the process of gematria to put together their music, which can best be described as progressive instrumentals with elements of metal, jazz and electronica. Whatever magic or method they use, it works! Gematria II: The Spindle Of Necessity is a delightfully energetic romp of coherent instrumental music […]

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CASKET ROBBERY Announce US Tour & Release Date for New Album Rituals Of Death

Madison (WI) – Midwest Death Machine CASKET ROBBERY will unleash their highly-anticipated second full-length album, Rituals Of Death, on November 11 via Blood Blast Distribution. The album’s first single, ‘Worm Food’, will hit streaming platforms on September 22. Pre-save the song on Spotify NOW CASKET ROBBERY will hit the road next month with theatrical metal band SUMMONER’S CIRCLE for the Blood & Blasphemy US Tour. The tour kicks off October 8 at the Tennessee Metal Devastation Music Fest. North Carolina’s WoR will appear on select tour dates. Emerging from the darkest and most desolate areas of the Midwest, CASKET ROBBERY […]

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Album Review: ABHOR – Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi)

Now eight albums deep into a 25+ year history, Italy’s ABHOR renew their commitment to the dark arts with the evocatively titled Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi). With the core membership of Domine Saevum Graven and Ulfhedhnir (on guitar and vocals respectively) intact since 1995, one would be forgiven for assuming you know what you’re walking into with ABHOR. With the cover continuing the red/crimson theme of 2015’s Ritualia Stramonium and Occulta Religio of three years later, thoughts (among other things) arise of COVEN’s oft’ imitated Jinx Dawson, but this being ABHOR, there’s a snide swipe at the liturgies […]

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DISILLUSION reveal new video single ‘Tormento’

In celebration of kicking off their tour with Obscura and Persefone in the German city of Cologne, DISILLISION unveil a stylish video clip for the track ‘Tormento’ as the second single taken from the forthcoming new album Ayam, which has been slated for release on November 4. Album details and all currently confirmed live dates can be viewed below. The video ‘Tormento’ is now available for viewing at THIS LOCATION Pre-Order Ayam HERE DISILLUSION comment: “We are thrilled about ‘Tormento’ being released…”, singer and guitarist Andy Schmidt declares. “This video clip features the second song taken from our upcoming album […]

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Album Review: Manic Abraxas – Foreign Winds

Okay, so you’re a three-piece band from Stephen King Country, and you’ve already shot your shot by naming your outfit MANIC ABRAXAS. Add the weight that your last album was called Speed Golem and where the fuck do you go from there?! Well, it’d help if you started Foreign Winds out with something equally snazzily titled, ‘Red Camo Rock’, let’s say. Bonus points if you throw a few COFFINS grooves and Thomas G. Warrior-patented “Unnnh!”s in also. There’s a tad of the early ’00s DARKTHRONE here, thinking The Cult Is Alive, when Fenriz got to stroke his punk hard-on to […]

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MERCYFUL FATE Announces First North American Headlining Tour In Over Two Decades; Tickets On Sale Friday, September 9th

Heavy metal icons MERCYFUL FATE today announce their first North American headlining tour in over two decades! The journey will commence on October 25th in Dallas, Texas and weave its way through fourteen cities, closing on November 16th in Atlanta, Georgia. The tour follows the band’s stunning headlining performance at this year’s edition of Psycho Las Vegas. Vocalist King Diamond comments, “These will be the first MERCYFUL FATE concerts in North American theaters in over twenty years. Memories of a lifetime. Your special chance to see MERCYFUL FATE with the full European festival production, but up close and personal. You […]

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ISENORDAL: Rendition Of His Hero Is Gone’s ‘Headless/Heartless’ Now Playing At Metal Injection; Monuments To Arson… Tribute Compilation Nears Release Via Satanik Royalty Records

Seattle-based blackened funeral doom/neofolk ensemble ISENORDAL today uncloaks their rendition of ‘Headless/Heartless’. Now playing exclusively at Metal Injection, the track comes off the Monuments To Arson – A Tribute To His Hero Is Gone compilation, set for release via Satanik Royalty Records. A compilation honoring Memphis, Tennessee quintessential cult neo-crust act His Hero Is Gone, the collection features ISENORDAL alongside Many Blessings, Open Veins, deathCave, Heiress, Nightmare Fuel, Old Iron, Githyanki, HEEL, Blast Cells, Impulse Noise, Nuclear Dudes, Wretched Fuck, and Plaguestate. All digital and vinyl proceeds (minus shipping costs) from the Monuments To Arson… collection will be donated to […]

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Album Review: Even Flow – Mediterraneo [EP]

EVEN FLOW has been active for a bit over two decades now, and yet Mediterraneo is only its fifth release (including two other EPs and as many full-lengths), so one would hope for quality over quantity, right? Opening with ‘Ocean Lies’ we’re immediately swept under the waves of crashing keys that seem to dominate the mix, the band clearly feeling the energy that this sort of prog-lite metal needs to carry it over. Don’t let the “lite” confuse you, though, as there’s plenty of heft to the vocals of Marco Pastorino, who has possibly the most pristine pipes I’ve heard […]

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EPOCH OF UNLIGHT Premiere New Single: ‘Wrath Of The Cryomancer’

Memphis (TN) – Melodic/Blackened Death Metal band EPOCH OF UNLIGHT, in collaboration with Invisible Oranges, has premiered a lyric video for new single ‘Wrath Of The Cryomancer’. The song is taken from forthcoming album At War With The Multiverse and can be streamed HERE EPOCH OF UNLIGHT are set to release their first album in 17 years! The band’s fourth full-length album, At War With The Multiverse, will be released on September 16 through Dark Horizon Records. Pre-Orders:Bandcamp Dark Horizon Records EPOCH OF UNLIGHT last released an album in 2005, The Continuum Hypothesis, on The End Records. With that album, […]

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Album Review: Belphegor – The Devils

I have a great admiration for BELPHEGOR. Helmuth and his cohorts have very much created their own world and a distinct, evil sound to go with it. Naturally, we’ll have the usual cultists who insist only on their earliest material, back when they sounded like a thousand other bands instead of themselves. It takes vision and a certain amount of guts to break with the usual death and black metal cliques and come up with something fairly original. With The Devils, we get a distillation of the modern BELPHEGOR sound. There’s low tuned and blasting death metal touches mixed with […]

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