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ULVER ANNOUNCE REISSUE OF 1993 DEMO, VARGNATT, OUT ON PEACEVILLE ON DECEMBER 8

ULVER announce that their classic 1993 promo-tape will be reissued on Peaceville Records. 2023 marks thirty years since its recording and the record shows ULVER’s Black Metal rooted background before the band began to evolve outside of the genres confines. Widely known for high-calibre soundscapes and exquisite experimental and electronic art as part of their continual and ever-shifting evolution, ULVER’s beginnings amalgamated ethereal black metal with delicate folk-inspired passages. Despite the rough edges, the band’s material stands out with its highly unconventional compositions when compared to the more primitive and raw offerings from other fast rising acts in the Norwegian […]

BRODER’s Skarpretterfossilet Out Now

The barbarians have smashed through the gates… Denmark’s BRODER has officially unleashed Skarpretterfossilet. The band’s third and most violent outing to date favors chaos over composition with five scathing tracks of war metal, culminating in the primal 15-minute assault on your senses, ‘Byldemor’. Skarpretterfossilet is out now on Extremely Rotten Productions. Stream and download the digital edition at broder-dk.bandcamp.com. Get the album on vinyl, CD, and cassette at extremelyrottenprod.com/store Skarpretterfossilet Tracklisting: En sten på et alter Kraniekløversken Bondejagt Marvdram Byldemor BRODER started out slow in 2014, with droning doom, but metamorphized into a blackened sludge wasteland with the 2018 album, […]

SUPER PINK MOON: new video ‘GodEater’ streaming

Ukrainian multi-instrumentalist and Somali Yacht Club frontman Ihor Pryshliak aka SUPER PINK MOON shares the lyric video for his new track ‘GodEater’ taken from the upcoming new album Inertia, due out November 17th on all streaming services. Stream SUPER PINK MOON’s new track ‘GodEater’ Discover latest single ‘FearKnight’ “A rich waterfall of sound.” – Everything Is Noise “Triumphant and bordering on uplifting.” – Metal Hammer UK SUPER PINK MOON was created in 2019 as a solo project of Somali Yacht Club guitarist and vocalist Ihor Pryshliak in Lviv, Ukraine. Gracefully interweaving post-rock, shoegaze and indie rock, his sophomore album Iron […]

Actor/Horror Icon COURTNEY GAINS Releases Live Video of ‘Good Times’

Musician, actor, and celebrated horror icon COURTNEY GAINS, most known for his role as Malachi in the 1984 horror classic Children Of The Corn, has shared a live-shot video of the song ‘Good Times’ off his newest album, Safe Haven. The video was filmed live on October 14 during Gains’ performance at the Devil’s Fork Metal Fest at the Haunted Pyramids in Lawndale, North Carolina. Gains comments on the live footage, which saw his band perform their distinctive brand of rock in front of a decidedly metal-centric crowd, “I have been playing ‘Good Times’ for years, it always gets people […]

Unreleased Gram Parsons Live LP Out 11/24 for Record Store Day

Fifty years after GRAM PARSONS ’ passing, Amoeba Music and Polly Parsons have announced the release of a special two-LP live recording from GRAM PARSONS And The Fallen Angels titled The Last Roundup: Live From The Bijou Cafe In Philadelphia March 16th, 1973, the first available live performance of GRAM PARSONS And The Fallen Angels and his first new solo material to be released in four decades. Recently unearthed from Amoeba Music’s vault and featuring Emmylou Harris on vocals, The Last Roundup: Live From The Bijou Cafe Pn Philadelphia March 16th, 1973 will be released on November 24 as part […]

CIRITH UNGOL: Cult Heavy Metal Icons Unveil ‘Looking Glass’ Single; Dark Parade Full-Length Nears Release On Metal Blade Records

Cult heavy metal icons CIRITH UNGOL today unveil their latest single, ‘Looking Glass’, with an accompanying lyric video. The monolithic new track comes by way of the band’s impending sixth full-length, Dark Parade, set for release on October 20th via Metal Blade Records. Few bands in the history of the heavy metal underground have a story as remarkable, improbable, or uplifting as that of CIRITH UNGOL. Formed in Ventura, California in the early 1970s, rather than passively channeling their influences, the band was driven to forge an altogether heavier, darker, more apocalyptic sound the world had never experienced before. It […]

Serpents Oath unleash the first single from their upcoming album Revelation, ‘Blood Covenant’

As black metal fans the world over wait hungrily for Revelation, the third album from Belgium’s SERPENTS OATH, the band have opened fire with a vicious new single taken from the album – ‘Blood Covenant’! The unbridled fury and ritualistic darkness of ‘Blood Covenant’ can be experienced in a new video, available to view now at the Odium Records YouTube channel Speaking about ‘Blood Covenant’ the band said:“When picking singles, we always try to give a diverse selection, so the listener gets a good taste of what to expect from the album. With this first single, that is even more […]

LEFT CROSS: ‘Unbinding The Covenant’ From Richmond Death/War Metal Band Now Playing; Second LP, Upon Desecrated Altars, Nears November Release On Profound Lore Records

Richmond, Virginia-based LEFT CROSS presents ‘Unbinding The Covenant’, the latest single from the band’s impending second album, Upon Desecrated Altars, nearing release November 10th on Profound Lore Records. Emerging in 2015 with a uniquely hostile brand of war-charged death metal, LEFT CROSS quickly established themselves as a merciless live act seemingly incapable of restraint. Forging and refining their sound over several releases, LEFT CROSS continued their relentless assault while losing none of their murderous intent. Now veterans of countless campaigns, LEFT CROSS returns to unleash their second full-length release, Upon Desecrated Altars. A cacophonous offering, Upon Desecrated Altars joins grotesque […]

Ofermod release ‘Agios Ischyros Belial’, the second single from the Drakonian Elitism split with Black Altar and Acherontas

The storm clouds continue to gather and the fury of the Drakonian Elitism alliance grows ever closer to being unleashed! The second track from this unhallowed collection of orthodox black metal is now upon us in the form ‘Agios Ischyros Belial’ from the dark forces of OFERMOD! Heed its unforgiving edicts of inversion and desecration now at the Odium Records YouTube channel Pre-orders for the Drakonian Elitism album, featuring the combined might of unholy trinity OFERMOD, Black Altar and Acherontas are now open! Black metal fans the world over have been desperate for further news of Drakonian Elitism since it […]

SADISTIC FORCE sign to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions – Midnight Assassin set for release on October 13th, pre-orders + single live now

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions are set to release the new album from Austin Texas’ Blackened Speed/Thrash Metal Maniacs SADISTIC FORCE. Midnight Assassin is up now for pre-order and will be released October 13th on CD and Digital formats along with merch. Hailing from Austin Texas, blackened Speed/Thrash Metal maniacs SADISTIC FORCE unleash a record steeped in blood and terror, cultivated from countless hours of true crime research and copious ’80s slasher movie viewings. Midnight Assassin is a nine-track sinister Speed Metal assault inspired by serial killers, stalkers, and necrophiliacs, transporting listeners into a dark and twisted sonic arena that […]