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LEILA ABDUL-RAUF Announces Fourth Solo LP, Phantasiai, For July Release Through Cyclic Law; Cover Art, Music, Preorders, And More Issued

Oakland-based artist LEILA ABDUL-RAUF will release her fourth full-length solo album, Phantasiai, in July through Cyclic Law, with a vinyl release to follow in September as a co-release with Cloister Recordings. The cover art, track listing, preorders, two tracks from the album, and more have been issued. Between her duties as a primary member of Vastum, Ionophore, Cardinal Wyrm, Fyrhtu, and many other acts prior, LEILA ABDUL-RAUF is well-known for her immersive solo work which showcases her talents as a multi-instrumentalist. She offers of the new solo opus, “In Hellenistic philosophy, phantasiai are our impressions, the ways in which the […]

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Album Review: Starlight Ritual – Sealed In Starlight

If you’re in the mood for pure heavy metal that sounds a lot “truer” than most of what falls under that heading these days, I introduce you to Canada’s STARLIGHT RITUAL. These guys do things the right way and deliver hard-hitting melodic metal that reminds of HIGH SPIRITS, MAGIC CIRCLE and the like. It sounds authentic, delivered effortlessly, and not with the feeling that the band is trying too hard to fit a certain mold. They apparently started out as a doom band, but many of the tracks here have sizable thrust and forward velocity, starting with ‘Marauders’, where echoes […]

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Doom Collective THŪN Release Debut Album

International Doom Collective THŪN have released their self-titled debut album on Eat Lead And Die Music. The album is streaming in its entirety and available as a 24-bit full dynamic range download with PDF lyric book. The companion physical release is a limited edition 24-page hard bound 8-inch square artbook. STREAM AND BUY Featuring Jon Higgs (guitar/vocals) and Hugo Wilkinson (bass) of MONSTERWORKS alongside James Knoerl (drums, GARGOYL) with special guest lead guitar by Karl Sanders of NILE, THŪN’s style can be described as epic death metal, some discordant doom …and plenty of old school SABBATH and PRIEST influences. A […]

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Album Review: Voidgazer – Dance Of The Undesirables

Oh, you had me at “biker prog”, PR dude, if for no other reason than that the utter trainwreck of a STEPPENWOLF / NEKTAR hybrid would be fun to watch go down in flames. Could it possibly be worthwhile, though? Alright, VOIDGAZER, hit me… While the name/project itself has been around for about 5 years now, a complete overhaul in 2019-2020 of all but guitarist Austin Rakey could spell either doom or a reinvention, of sorts. ‘Jesus Take The Needle’, spends around a minute revving the engines, as if to make sure it’s truly good to go. The main riff […]

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SNOGARD sign to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions; Moral Presence, Corrupt Misdeeds set for release on July 16th

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions have signed mystical Black Metal force SNOGARD. The new EP Moral Presence, Corrupt Misdeeds is up now for pre-order and will be released July 16th on CD and Digital formats. Hailing from the darkest realms of reality, SNOGARD are a mystical metal force of fantasmic Black Metal. Each track executed on Moral Presence, Corrupt Misdeeds explores various lyrical concepts and utilizes multiple instruments to their full potential. SNOGARD showcase powerful riffs with precision and virtuosity, along with a thick, haunting atmosphere that exudes both evil and epicness. Dragon enthusiast Black Metal for fans of Abigor, […]

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Album Review: Fluids – Not Dark Yet

MORBID ANGEL in their classic period had a signature tune called ‘Where The Slime Live’. Well, now we know where the slime lives…covered in FLUIDS! This is one sick, disgusting display of uber-primitive death metal devolution, making overhyped stuff like SANGUISUGABOGG sound about as dangerous as ATREYU. This band is working the same general territory as MORTICIAN, which is not a type of death metal you encounter a lot these days. FLUIDS makes no secret of their love of Hacked Up For Barbecue vintage MORTICIAN. Not Dark Yet oozes with rotten slow and mid-paced riffs that are down-tuned and bass-heavy […]

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DENOUNCEMENT PYRE signs with Agonia Records

Agonia Records is pleased to announce the signing of Australian black/death metallers, DENOUNCEMENT PYRE. The band is currently working on its fourth album, follow-up to Black Sun Unbound from 2016. DENOUNCMENT PYRE was established in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia, as an underground black/death metal act. Prior to signing with Agonia Records, the band released a string of various EPs & 7″s, and conjured three full-length albums through Hells Headbangers Records; World Cremation (2010), Almighty Arcanum (2013) and Black Sun Unbound (2016). Amidst extensively touring throughout their native Australia, they brought their live show to New Zealand and USA, during Maryland […]

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Album Review: Hinsides – Under Betlehems Brinnande Stjärna

From the opening minute of ‘Afsägelserit’, I wasn’t sure what exactly I was supposed to be hearing. Remember that sound when your cassette player starts to eat the tape itself, so you quickly remove the tape, wind it back up, and it miraculously still plays when you reinsert it into the player, but the music never sounds quite “right” again? Yeah, that. I’ve heard…I’ve made better-sounding demos than this with the punk band I was in when I was 13, and we were legitimately recording into a boom box. Six minutes of hectic that somehow managed to have absolutely nothing […]

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BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS SIGN TO PROSTHETIC RECORDS

Prosthetic Records is pleased to announce the signing of progressive death metal five piece, BLINDFOLDED AND LED TO THE WOODS. The New Zealand band recently released self-released their third studio album, Nightmare Withdrawals, to widespread critical acclaim – and caught the eye of the Los Angeles based label. Writing is already underway for the follow up album which will likely see a release in 2022. Listen to Nightmare Withdrawals HERE Of their signing to Prosthetic, the band comments: “We’re proud to announce our signing to Prosthetic Records. One cannot go far within the realms of extreme metal without acknowledging the […]

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PESTILENCE Premieres New Song ‘Deificvs’, Along With A Music Video

Dutch death metal icons PESTILENCE have unveiled a new song ‘Deificvs’ with the accompanying music video, filmed by Grupa 13 (Kreator, Behemoth, Amon Amarth). The song is the second single off the band’s upcoming album Exitivm, following ‘Morbvs Propagationem’. The album is set to be released on June 25th via Agonia Records. Watch the video, here: A new album, on a new label armed with a whole new line-up and a new dynamic: no matter what, PESTILENCE – or more specifically their maestro Patrizio Mameli – is like the phoenix, rising from the ashes, over and over again. An official […]

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