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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets August 7th as the international release date for Temple Nightside's highly anticipated fourth album, Pillars of Damnation, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets August 7th as the international release date for Temple Nightside's highly anticipated fourth album, Pillars of Damnation, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

By now, Temple Nightside require little to no introduction. Begun in 2010 by mainman IV - whose experience in the fertile Australian black metal underground is vast in itself - to explore a more blackened version of ancient death metal, the band's initially self-described "Ritualistic Death Metal Necromancy" eventually morphed into more atmospheric and more deeply cavernous shapes, culminating in 2016's critically acclaimed The Hecatomb. But such acclaim matters not to Temple Nightside, and the now-quartet next explored their past with the foul 'n' fascinating Recondemnation in 2018, which was a reimagining of their 2013 Condemnation debut album.

Their vision still boundless (and boundlessly BLACK), Temple Nightside return with the all-new Pillars of Damnation. Not for nothing is it titled as such: dense foundations of eldritch dread are both built around the listener and crushed by their hulking onslaught of sepulchral decibels. It's immediately and irrevocably Temple Nightside in their purest, most punishing form - bestial pulses evaporating into a smokestack-sized fog of frightening, palpable evil - but here rendered in a dexterously taut manner, and one even deceptively "anthemic" if you will. For where so much nowadays "cavernous death metal" slathers on lazy glazes of half-formed riff masquerading as "atmosphere," this Oz cult instead write RIFFS and their intensity has subsequently sharpened to a stultifying degree, lending a certain clarity to that evil that's even more intimidating. We'd be loathe to qualify this attack on Pillars of Damnation as "tighter" lest one think of popcorn-triggered "death metal," but it does give pause for reflection on this subtle-yet-radical development. Which is to say nothing of the closing 10-minute monolith "Damnation," which will BURY you...

In short, Temple Nightside are death metal necromancy of the highest order, more so now than ever - and forever shall they reign. Behold their Pillars of Damnation and pay fealty before your inevitable burial.

Begin burial preparations with the brand-new track "Death Eucharist" HERE at Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
 
Tracklisting for Temple Nightside's Pillars of Damnation
1. Contagion of Heresy
2. Death Eucharist
3. Morose Triumphalis
4. The Carrion Veil
5. Wreathed in Agony
6. Blood Cathedral
7. In Absentia
8. Damnation



 

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Monday, May 18, 2020

Today, beyond-the-black deathrockers The Path of Memory premiere the new track "A Thousand Days and Nights" at heavily trafficked web-portal InvisibleOranges.com.



Today, beyond-the-black deathrockers The Path of Memory premiere the new track "A Thousand Days and Nights" at heavily trafficked web-portal InvisibleOranges.com. The track hails from the band's striking debut album, Hell is Other People, set for international release on June 19th via Iron Bonehead Productions. Hear The Path of Memory's "A Thousand Days and Nights" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Although an otherwise brand-new entity, the creator behind The Path of Memory is a veteran of the black metal scene - but this newest creation is most definitely NOT black metal. Dark, yes, and undoubtedly blackened, The Path of Memory paint bleak vistas of ghostly, shadow-enshrouded deathrock. Seemingly different for Iron Bonehead that may be, but bear in mind the label's continuing fostering of such elite deathrock bands as Light of the Morning Star and Rope Sect and this should come as no surprise. Darkness takes many forms, after all...

Aptly titled, Hell is Other People is The Path of Memory's debut recording. A tight and compact 35 minutes spread across 11 shimmering songs, Hell is Other People evokes the sort of desolation and despair so endemic to modern urban experience - the choked and claustrophobic expanse of concrete and steel that are cities, the grime and slime living beneath, the ennui of experiencing all this daily. As such, each of those 11 songs evokes a similar-yet-different sensation, each one a divergent-yet-related portrait of inner spiritual struggle and yawning emptiness. Some take on a more atmospheric aspect, while others hit upon a more driving pulse; altogether, The Path of Memory indeed lays forth a path that triggers memories lost and languishing. Or, perhaps let some of the song titles themselves paint the (desolate, despairing) picture: "I Tried and I Failed," "Alone, Alive," "It Hurts Me," and the gallows-humor closer "I Skulled the World."

To restate the should-be-obvious, darkness takes many forms, and Iron Bonehead seeks to shine a light on that darkness. The Path of Memory point the way so that you, too, may know that Hell is Other People...

Face the fresh hell of "A Thousand Days and Nights" exclusively HERE, courtesy of InvisibleOranges.com. Also fresh is the hell of the previously revealed "Rancid Song" HERE at Iron Bonehead's Soundcloud. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
 
Tracklisting for The Path of Memory's Hell is Other People
1. Don't Worry About Me
2. Rancid Song
3. Let Me Write a Song
4. Truth
5. I Tried and I Failed
6. It Hurts Me
7. A Thousand Days and Nights
8. Alone, Alive
9. Oppressé de rentrer
10. Locked Away
11. I Skulled the World


 


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