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Cadabra Records Presents H. P. LOVECRAFT’s I Notturni Di Yuggoth LP Featuring Music By Fabio Frizzi And Reading By Andrew Leman

Spoken Arts label Cadabra Records is tremendously eager to announce their impending rendition of H. P. LOVECRAFT’s I Notturni Di Yuggoth, now slated for release in September. Decibel Magazine is hosting a stream of the LP’s ‘Night-Gaunts’ as preorders for the record are made available. LOVECRAFT’s I Notturni Di Yuggoth will be issued in a deluxe vinyl-only pressing featuring newly commissioned art by Jeremy Hush. The reading for the title is delivered with incredible poise by stage and screen icon and consistent Cadabra reader Andrew Leman (H. P. LOVECRAFT Historical Society). The haunting music performed by famed composer Fabio Frizzi […]

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Album Review: Conjuring Fate – Curse Of The Fallen

CONJURING FATE’s second starts at a deficit, which, after a 2014 EP, an album two years hence, and close to 15 years as a band does not a good impression make. After a lethargic, shiftless – and incredibly drawn-out, might I add – intro, though, ‘Burn The Witch’ springs from the gates, punchy riffs and driving rhythms carrying the vocals of Tommy Daly along, bloody, sweating and tearing its way into your earholes. ‘Voodoo Wrath’ is as energetic, ghosts of SAXON and DIAMOND HEAD, the Gibson/Horner guitar team pulling off tasty dual leads with a seeming effortlessness, but I keep […]

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Germany’s KRATER set release date for new EISENWALD album

Eisenwald sets November 15th as the North American release date for the highly anticipated fourth album of Germany’s KRATER, Venenare, on CD, vinyl LP, and limited-edition cassette tape formats. A study in patience and progress, KRATER formed in 2003. In the band’s earliest days – across two demos, two splits, and 2006’s debut album, Das Relikt des Triumphes – the KRATER sound tended more toward pagan black metal, but powerfully so. Come 2008, however, a period of silence and self-reflection followed… When at last those sounds arrived, KRATER had taken on a new form: one partly tied to their earlier […]

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NOVEMBERS DOOM premiere not one but two singles from forthcoming album, Nephilim Grove

With Nephilim Grove, NOVEMBERS DOOM celebrate their 30th anniversary in style, building upon the grandiose vision Paul Kuhr has developed throughout the years. As an entity existing in his singular musical universe of doom, death and progressive metal, the band by now dodges all endeavors of categorization. Watch/Share ‘Nephilim Grove’ HERE Watch/Share ‘Petrichor’ HERE Kuhr expands on 2017’s Hamartia in the most daring yet root-conscious way, offering “new colors, new sounds, the same bad-assery. We never set out with a vision other than to just write what makes sense and feels right. It always shows our mood at a given […]

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MALOKARPATAN reveal details of third album – to be released by INVICTUS / AJNA on March 20th, 2020

Today, Slovakian metal monks MALOKARPATAN announce details regarding their highly anticipated third album, to be titled Krupinské ohne (The Fires Of Krupina). MALOKARPATAN will be entering Dark Ceremonies Studio, Hostivar, Prague, Czech Republic in October to commence recordings for their third full-length album, Krupinské ohne (The Fires Of Krupina). The album will be released on March 20th, 2020 on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats via Invictus Productions once again in conjunction with their US allies at The Ajna Offensive. The band will be performing a release show with Cult of Fire on March 21st in Prague. In conjunction […]

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Edmonton Black Metallers ARCTOS Premiere New Song from Forthcoming Debut Album

Edmonton (AB) – Canadian Black Metal crew ARCTOS have partnered with Pure Grain Audio for the premiere of ‘Shattered Tomb’, a track from forthcoming full-length debut album Beyond The Grasp Of Mortal Hands. Stream it HERE ARCTOS is the voice of the mountains, the call of the rising wild. ARCTOS’ savage brand of Northern Black Metal is brilliantly captured on the band’s full-length debut album, Beyond The Grasp Of Mortal Hands, which will be released September 20 on Northern Silence Productions. Pre-order Beyond The Grasp Of Mortal Hands HERE Inspired by the Godless wastelands of Northern Alberta as well as […]

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Album Review: Vokonis – Grasping Time

Returning with its all-important third album, Sweden’s VOKONIS wastes not a second in getting down to business with ‘AntlerQueen’, roiling rhythms and riffs alternately ascending/descending letting the listener know they’re in for a bit of a jostle from the start. Shades of Leviathan-era MASTODON are lain over the rumble of TRANSPORT LEAGUE at its best, and both melding seamlessly, the plaintive leadwork of Simon Ohlsson at around the 4-minute mark crashing, then languid in a dreamlike haze over the rhythm section of Jonte Johansson and Peter Ottoson (bass, drums respectively), to the climax of an already memorable album. Replacing a […]

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ULTHAR: Bay Area Death Cult Announces Fall US Headlining Tour; Cosmovore Debut Out Now On 20 Buck Spin

Bay area death cult ULTHAR will take to the streets again this fall on a near-two-week US headlining tour. The journey will commence on November 7th in Los Osos, California and punish ten cities upon its conclusion November 16th in Portland, Oregon. See all confirmed dates below: ULTHAR: 11/07/2019 Sweet Springs – Los Osos, CA 11/08/2019 Lexington – Los Angeles, CA 11/09/2019 Yucca Tap Room – Phoenix, AZ 11/10/2019 Sister Bar – Albuquerque, NM w/ Oryx 11/11/2019 Hi-Dive – Denver, CO w/ Nightfell 11/12/2019 Diabolical Records – Salt Lake City, UT 11/13/2019 The Shredder – Boise, ID 11/14/2019 Old Nick’s […]

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LEE AARON reveals trailer from first-ever live album on METALVILLE

With Sean Kelly on guitar, Dave Reimer on bass, and John Cody on drums – a band whose resume includes work with Nelly Furtado, Bryan Adams, and BTO to name but a few – Lee and her band inspire the spirit of great “live” classic rock albums of the ’70s with performances that move and live and breathe, putting the listener in the center of the concert magic. Power, Soul, Rock N’ Roll – Live In Germany is a “no fixes and no tricks” off-the-floor recording of two incredible performances in front of Lee’s much-loved German fans, beautifully recorded and expertly mixed by legendary […]

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