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FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL ANNOUNCES FREE DIGITAL SAMPLER

April 10, 2020 was supposed to be an exciting release day for Frontiers Music Srl with new albums from One Desire, Dennis DeYoung, Pretty Maids, FM, and Her Chariot Awaits, but the universe had other plans, as we all know. But rather than simply let the day go by, the label decided to go ahead and release something anyway. Fans can now stream or download for FREE a 20 song digital sampler. Featuring songs from current and upcoming releases, the tracklisting is below. For fans who want the digital files, they can simply go to https://www.frontiers.shop/ and scroll to the […]

JARBOE DEBUTS NEW SONG ‘MAN OF HATE’, Announces New Album

Prolific and critically celebrated experimental musician JARBOE will release her new album, Illusory, on April 17th with Consouling Sounds. First revealed by RevolverMag.com, she has debuted a new song titled ‘Man Of Hate’ and a video produced and directed by Chariot of Black Moth that can be viewed below. Pre-order the album now at Consouling Sounds. WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘MAN OF HATE’ “‘Man Of Hate’ is an ode to an Elizabethan play set before Lord Misery and Lady Destiny and their court,” explains JARBOE. “The scenes are described by the narrator and the actors chime in, including cherubs who […]

CEMETERY FILTH Offer Album Stream of Dominion

Atlanta (GA) – Dead Rhetoric have premiered Dominion, the latest album from Georgia Death Metallers CEMETERY FILTH. Stream the beast in its entirety below! Dominion (Full Album Stream) Unspeakable Axe Records released Dominion April 13 on CD, cassette, and digital platforms, as well as on vinyl LP in cooperation with Boris Records. Order Below:UAR Store UAR Bandcamp Despite waiting until 2020 to unleash their debut album. CEMETERY FILTH are no newcomers to death metal. The band released the Screams From The Catacombs EP in 2014, contributed to the first 4 Doors To Death compilation in 2016, and followed that a […]

OCTOBER FALLS set release date for new PURITY THROUGH FIRE album, reveal first track

Purity Through Fire sets May 30th as the international release date for OCTOBER FALLS’ highly anticipated fifth album, A Fall Of An Epoch, on digipack CD and vinyl LP formats. A special diehard LP version with an engraved wooden slipcase will be available only through preorder. By now, OCTOBER FALLS should require little introduction. Formed in 2001 by Mikko Lehto and expanding to a full band lineup later on, OCTOBER FALLS have built up a considerable canon of unparalleled power and passion, their epic, folk-inflected black metal both reverential of tradition whilst blazing new trails into the beyond. Amidst their […]

HEGEMONY set release date for HELLS HEADBANGERS debut

Hells Headbangers sets April 24th as the international release date for the striking debut album of America’s HEGEMONY, Enthroned By Persecution, on CD and vinyl LP formats. Hailing from Alabama, the four members of HEGEMONY – drummer Ruination Wielder, bassist Primordial Dominator, guitarist Barbaric Progenitor, and vocalist Fanatical Deathtitan – formed in 2015 and released their first demo a year later. Although a then-brand-new entity, the members of HEGEMONY possess a wealth of experience in other Southern US bands, and that experience for sure showed on Demo MMXVI: a foul explosion of filth, bestial metal savagery executed with exacting cruelty. […]

EXHUMED & GRUESOME Announce Twisted Horror Split Coming June 5th

EXHUMED & GRUESOME Announce Twisted Horror Split Coming June 5th Gore Metal maniacs EXHUMED and Death Metal Defenders of the Old GRUESOME return for more kills and thrills with their new split, Twisted Horror, out June 5th. EXHUMED / GRUESOME mastermind Matt Harvey comments: “As everyone knows, it’s a weird, surreal time for us all. So many plans have been disrupted at this point, it’s academic to even get into, but one thing that we didn’t want to postpone was this new EXHUMED / GRUESOME split record. With so many of us stuck at home, we’re all depending on Death […]

MORKETIDA set release date for new WEREWOLF mini-album, reveal first track

Werewolf Records sets April 24th as the international release date for a special mini-album from MORKETIDA, Traveler Of The Untouched Voids, on 12″ vinyl format. Hailing from the black metal hotbed of Finland, MORKETIDA continue to drive deeply into their native land’s most mystical depths. During the summer of 2018, the band released their striking debut album, Panphage Mysticism, through Werewolf and its effect was instantaneous: Whereas so many nowadays Finnish black metal bands derive influence from the cryogenic fury of the Satanic Warmaster axis or the paradigmatic bestiality of early Beherit, MORKETIDA here returned to the woodland wonder of […]

Heavy Experimental Rockers VILLAGERS OF IOANNINA CITY Release New Lyric Video for ‘Age Of Aquarius’

Experimental rock standouts VILLAGERS OF IOANNINA CITY’s intense wall of sound manifests itself once again with their newest atmospheric audiovisual for ‘Age Of Aquarius’, fresh off their same-titled album, which was physically released last Friday, April 3rd, via Napalm Records. ‘Age Of Aquarius’’ pulsating and picturesque expressiveness envelops the listener and engulfs them in a furious cabinet of psychedelic soundscapes. Alex’ echoing voice, swelling riffs and thundering drums float through the sophistication of the underlying composition, creating a deeply hypnotizing magnetic field. VILLAGERS OF IOANNINA CITY play themselves into a veritable frenzy – long, intense instrumental passages unfold their entirety […]

VOODUS – ‘Pillars Of Fire’ track premiere

‘Pillars Of Fire’ is taken from the upcoming mini album Open The Otherness, out soon on Shadow Records (distributed & marketed by Regain Records). Release date: June 22, 2020 The Swedish black metal band VOODUS came to unholy life under the name Jormundgang more than a decade-and-a-half ago. Following the release of several demos and an album, the band adopted VOODUS as their new name, and since then have released a pair of EPs, one full length, Into The Wild, and now a new EP called Open The Otherness, out in June 2020. Watch the video HERE VOODUS Online:Bandcamp Facebook

EXPUNGED set release date for HELLS HEADBANGERS debut mini-album

Hells Headbangers sets April 24th as the international release date for EXPUNGED’s highly anticipated debut mini-album, Expunged, on 12″ vinyl format. EXPUNGED is the brainchild of death metal master W.D., who’s previously handled the axe in Dead Soul Alliance and Evolution Fail stretching as far back as the mid ’90s. W.D. is the songwriter and K.F. drums (from old-school death metallers Töteblut), while J.S. (AKA Jo “Steel” Capitalicide from Ice War) is on vocal and lyrical duties as well as handling the bass, with the latter showing how versatile his singing abilities can somehow be. Formed in the spring of […]