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Album Review: Municipal Waste – The Last Rager

I’m not about to sit here and tell you I’ve been a fan of, well, anything Tony Ferrera and his band of self-styled hard-partying miscreants has done under the banner of MONOLITHIC…erm, sorry…MUNICIPAL WASTE. To be honest, the whole idea kinda rubs me up the wrong way. Sure, EXODUS had its moments of fun for fun’s sake in the likes of ‘Toxic Waltz’, and don’t even get me started on the never-deserved-to-be-in-the-Big-Four-anyway ANTHRAX, but at least occasionally they’d kick out some decent jams to make up the difference. Not so with these guys, and I’m not really sure how, nearly […]

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New Doom from The Mighty ORODRUIN: ‘Man Of Peace’

Rochester (NY) – U.S. Doom Metal stalwarts ORODRUIN have released the second single from forthcoming album Ruins Of Eternity. Stream ‘Man Of Peace’ HERE The wait is finally over! American doom legends ORODRUIN return with their first studio album in 16 years, the masterful Ruins Of Eternity. The album’s first single, ‘Forsaken’, is streaming at this location. Ruins Of Eternity will be released October 25 on Cruz Del Sur Music. Pre-order Ruins Of Eternity:Bandcamp Vinyl LP CD One of the most highly-regarded names in American doom metal picks up where they left off from their classic Epicurean Mass debut with […]

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AVSLUT set release date for new OSMOSE album, reveal first track

Today, Osmose Productions sets November 29th as the international release date for AVSLUT’s highly anticipated second album, Tyranni, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The highly anticipated second album from the Swedish black metal legion AVSLUT is finally ready to be unleashed upon the world. With nine vicious new songs, the band takes it to a whole new level with Tyranni. AVSLUT depicts a deformed, decayed, and lost mankind. The group has its roots in the suburbs of Stockholm. With full force, following their well-received Deceptis debut album for Osmose last year, AVSLUT waste no time in continuing their reign […]

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OMEGAVORTEX to release debut album through INVICTUS and Deathworx next year

Invictus Productions announces that it shall release OMEGAVORTEX’s debut album, Black Abomination Spawn, with Deathworx in the coming year. Invictus shall handle the digipack CD version while Deathworx shall handle the vinyl version. Artwork for the album will be created by Henry Mann – an utmost evil abomination. “Both labels feature some of our favorite extreme metal artists, so no further need of namedropping is necessary,” a statement from the band reads. OMEGAVORTEX’s Black Abomination Spawn is expected for international release during the first quarter of 2020. The band have just returned from the studio having re-recorded drums and will […]

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SARTEGOS set release date for BLOOD HARVEST / I, VOIDHANGER debut album, reveal first track

Blood Harvest Records, in conspiracy with I Voidhanger, sets November 29th as the international release date for SARTEGOS’ highly anticipated debut album, O Sangue Da Noite. Blood Harvest shall handle the vinyl LP pressing and cassette edition while I Voidhanger will handle the CD release. For over a decade now, SARTEGOS have been a study in patience and perseverance. Helmed by mainman Rou, the SARTEGOS vision began humbly with a pair of demos in 2010 and 2011, with the staggering mini-album As Fontes do Negrume arriving in 2013 and truly putting the band’s name on the international black/death map. Wisely […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Gatecreeper – Deserted

Comprised of ¾ of doom lords SPIRIT ADRIFT and the rhythm section of blackened crusties HELLHORSE, I was not expecting Arizona’s GATECREEPER to sound like, well, GATECREEPER. Yeah, I know its been around for awhile now, but I just haven’t had the time nor, to be honest, inclination for death metal of late. What with all the buzz around the release of sophomore album, Deserted, though, I figured it was about time. All I know going in is this: When your press bio contains comparisons to BOLT THROWER, DEATH and CIANIDE, you best have your shit together in a big […]

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COFFIN CURSE sign with MEMENTO MORI, will release debut album early next year

In their endless quest to push and support current underground acts that perpetuate the odor of vintage death metal, Memento Mori are extremely thrilled to announce a new signing: COFFIN CURSE, from Chile. COFFIN CURSE was thrown into this worthless world in Santiago in mid-2012, as a side-project of the main band Inanna, to spawn and vomit forth death metal in its purest form. Max Neira (guitars, bass, vocals) conceived this beast as a two-piece squad to explore the caverns of everlasting pain and horror. Musically, this is malevolent, straightforward, headbang-inducing death metal, inspired by early ’90s U.S. icons such […]

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XUL OV KVLTEN – NEW ALBUM ON ATMF

XUL OV KVLTEN are ready to get further exposure via ATMF after the totally underground and strictly limited debut album, where they proved their dedication to the darkest and vilest form of black/death metal. The Chilean combo is now evoking morbidity and chaos, throwing in their cauldron of sound both INQUISITION’s macabre feeling and early EMPEROR’s obscure choruses, in order to glorify the dark lord beyond any sort of modern compromise. Not merely a black metal band with symphonic elements, XUL OV KVLTEN took possession of some elements from the European and US death metal schools, and the result sounds […]

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Album Review: White Ward – Love Exchange Failure

Long time music reviewers all have to deal with the possibility of burnout. You get so much thrown at you, it becomes increasingly difficult to be moved by a piece of music. In the metal realm, you hear a lot of “good” stuff that is pleasing but soon forgot. More rarely, you encounter a real headbanger that gets your blood flowing. But still it doesn’t enter the realm of something profound, of music that really opens your eyes and inspires. Those kind of records come along very, very rarely. Here is one that transcends the metal tag. I had no […]

Interviews

Interview: Formicarius

Only in active state for the past five years, one could easily be tempted to write off London’s FORMICARIUS as yet another in the seemingly evermore crowded UK black metal bandwagon. Let’s call such a dismissal a reason to avoid temptation, then, as vocalist/guitarist Lord Saunders & co. have recently released the aural plague of Rending The Veil Of Flesh and, while not everyone’s cup of blood, for sure, to say the band has set a high standard for its next output will be clear to those who sup willingly upon first listen. Lord Randall sat down with the band […]

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