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METAL DIGITAL MAGAZINE
Sunday, July 11, 2021
MAZE OF TERROR is back with their long-awaited 2nd album "Offer to the Fucking Beasts"
GRIM FATE and THE SOMBRE to release split album thru CHAOS RECORDS, reveal first tracks
[Grim Fate]
Today, Chaos Records announces September 10th as the international release date for a special split album between Grim Fate and The Sombre, From Ancient Slumber / The Horrid Silence Thus Began, on CD format. Featuring two still-young titans of doomed-out death metal, this split album features three exclusive tracks from both bands, with Grim Fate's half titled From Ancient Slumber and The Sombre's The Horrid Silence Thus Began.
Hailing from the Netherlands, Grim Fate was formed in 2017 by Wim and Pier to create some dark, brutal, and doomy death metal. The both of them started spreading their ideas and composing full force. Influenced by the old Finnish scene and bands like Incantation, they tried to create their own brand of dark death metal. After the release of the Emerging From the Crypt EP, Philippus joined the band. The first result of this new lineup was a split 7" with Putrevore and, soon after that, the debut full-length Perished in Torment in 2020. With more momentum and growing compositional prowess, the power-trio here deliver three gutted & gargantuan tracks, their doom vibes less catatonic and more like slow-rolling dread. Then again, given their native land's proud lineage of doomy death, this growing supremacy should not be surprising...
[The Sombre]
The Sombre is the work of Maurice de Jong, insanely prolific mainman of Gnaw Their Tongues, De Magia Veterum, Cloak of Altering, Hagetisse, Golden Ashes, and countless others. With The Sombre, however, de Jong returns to his roots. Having spent his formative musical years in doom and doom-death metal bands (1989-1996: Atrocious, Cauteror, and Soulwound), de Jong now reimagines the sound of his youth: doom-death metal inspired by the "Peaceville Three" and other early '90s doom/death pioneers. As The Sombre, he released two super-limited albums - Into the Beckoning Wilderness in 2019 (which Chaos Records reissued in a much-wider edition in March 2021) and 2020's Shapeless Misery - and now delivers his first new tracks since then. Just as cathartic as ever, this trifecta of tracks is wide open, in every sense of the word: space, atmosphere, paradoxically crushing heaviness, and indeed most of all, heart-torn-open emotion. Truly, The Sombre's more traditional death-doom sound is a perfect complement to Grim Fate's slo-mo bulldozing.
Totaling 43 minutes, From Ancient Slumber / The Horrid Silence Thus Began is a crucial work for fans of both Grim Fate and The Sombre as well as any maniacs into death metal's most doomed landscapes.
In the meantime, hear two brand-new tracks from the split - Grim Fate's "Corpse Eater" and The Sombre's "The Horrid Silence Thus Began" - HERE at Chaos Records' Bandcamp. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Grim Fate and The Sombre's
From Ancient Slumber / The Horrid Silence Thus Began
1. GRIM FATE - Corpse Eater [6:38]
2. GRIM FATE - Smoarige Fine [10:46]
3. GRIM FATE - From Ancient Slumber [5:53]
4. THE SOMBRE - Above th' Aonian Mount [6:23]
5. THE SOMBRE - His Pride Had Cast Him Out From Heav'n [7:23]
5. THE SOMBRE -The Horrid Silence Thus Began [5:40]
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www.chaos-records.bandcamp.com
2. GRIM FATE - Smoarige Fine [10:46]
3. GRIM FATE - From Ancient Slumber [5:53]
4. THE SOMBRE - Above th' Aonian Mount [6:23]
5. THE SOMBRE - His Pride Had Cast Him Out From Heav'n [7:23]
5. THE SOMBRE -The Horrid Silence Thus Began [5:40]
MORE INFO:
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www.gnawtheirtongues.bandcamp.
www.chaos-records.com
www.facebook.com/chaosrecords
www.chaos-records.bandcamp.com
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Germany's NOCTURNAL premiere new video at "Rock Hard" magazine's website
Today, German thrash institution Nocturnal premiere the new video "Bleeding Heaven" at Rock Hard magazine's website. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's long-awaited fourth album, Serpent Death, set for international release on August 27th via Dying Victims Productions. See & hear Nocturnal's "Bleeding Heaven" video in its entirety exclusively HERE.
A veritable institution, Nocturnal have been flying the flag of hate and inciting a riot of violence since the year 2000. Helmed by founding guitarist Avenger (whose other credits are far too vast to list here), Nocturnal set about their prolific course with a flurry of demo tapes and splits with the likes of Nunslaughter, Vomitor, Bestial Mockery, and Toxic Holocaust among others, all culminating in their momentous Arrival of the Carnivore debut album in 2005. Back then, hailing the old Teutonic gods of thrash – namely the “Big Three” of Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction, but not withstanding Deathrow, Assassin, Exumer, Darkness, Violent Force, and Necronomicon as well as Razor and early Sepultura abroad – was rather unfashionable, but it was Nocturnal who had the last laugh, as the second worldwide thrash resurgence was about to begin, and there they stood, undaunted and defiant.
Thereafter, Nocturnal continued to honor the old underground ways with another flurry splits and vinyl EPs, before second LP Violent Revenge arrived in 2009. Thus far, Nocturnal’s albums were more finely honed and better-produced expressions of those prolific UG releases, and they kept apace with that schematic through the release of their third LP, Storming Evil, in 2014. By then, lineup troubles had begun to plague the band and slow their momentum, and thereafter was all quiet on the Western front. But at long last, the ultimate revenge arrives with Serpent Death!
As aptly titled as any Nocturnal full-length so far, Serpent Death slithers and strikes with a venomous menace. Arguably the band’s best-produced as well as best-played record to date, Serpent Death loses not an ounce of power and poignancy; if anything, Nocturnal sound more energetic than ever, revitalized and ripping and defying their seemingly advanced age. Whereas the preceding Storming Evil perhaps leaned too much on the cleaner side of things, Serpent Death is robustly analog, flexing both muscle and clarity, all while remaining steadfastly analog. Further, there’s more (but subtle) twists in the songwriting and dynamics, evincing an ageless metal wisdom whilst not sacrificing any urgency in the process. Avenger, as always, is an absolute riff-machine, firing off memorable lines right and left, but he’s more-than-ably backed up by a blood-red-vital rhythm section in bassist Incinerator and drummer John Berry. New vocalist Invoker has a rougher and more hollering voice, perfectly suited for these classic metal-inclined tunes. So, less “sharp” pure thrash and more “warmer” traditional metal: it’s a trade-off that pays in spades on Serpent Death.
Timeless, eternal, both behind the times and ahead of ‘em – there’s few bands with a body of work quite like Nocturnal. Even if it’s another five-plus years between albums, Serpent Death handily satisfies with a sound that’s so old, it’s new!
Hear (and see) for yourself with the brand-new video "Bleeding Heaven" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Rock Hard, Germany's premier rock & metal authority. Also hear the previously revealed "Damnator's Hand" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Deaf Forever magazine. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
A veritable institution, Nocturnal have been flying the flag of hate and inciting a riot of violence since the year 2000. Helmed by founding guitarist Avenger (whose other credits are far too vast to list here), Nocturnal set about their prolific course with a flurry of demo tapes and splits with the likes of Nunslaughter, Vomitor, Bestial Mockery, and Toxic Holocaust among others, all culminating in their momentous Arrival of the Carnivore debut album in 2005. Back then, hailing the old Teutonic gods of thrash – namely the “Big Three” of Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction, but not withstanding Deathrow, Assassin, Exumer, Darkness, Violent Force, and Necronomicon as well as Razor and early Sepultura abroad – was rather unfashionable, but it was Nocturnal who had the last laugh, as the second worldwide thrash resurgence was about to begin, and there they stood, undaunted and defiant.
Thereafter, Nocturnal continued to honor the old underground ways with another flurry splits and vinyl EPs, before second LP Violent Revenge arrived in 2009. Thus far, Nocturnal’s albums were more finely honed and better-produced expressions of those prolific UG releases, and they kept apace with that schematic through the release of their third LP, Storming Evil, in 2014. By then, lineup troubles had begun to plague the band and slow their momentum, and thereafter was all quiet on the Western front. But at long last, the ultimate revenge arrives with Serpent Death!
As aptly titled as any Nocturnal full-length so far, Serpent Death slithers and strikes with a venomous menace. Arguably the band’s best-produced as well as best-played record to date, Serpent Death loses not an ounce of power and poignancy; if anything, Nocturnal sound more energetic than ever, revitalized and ripping and defying their seemingly advanced age. Whereas the preceding Storming Evil perhaps leaned too much on the cleaner side of things, Serpent Death is robustly analog, flexing both muscle and clarity, all while remaining steadfastly analog. Further, there’s more (but subtle) twists in the songwriting and dynamics, evincing an ageless metal wisdom whilst not sacrificing any urgency in the process. Avenger, as always, is an absolute riff-machine, firing off memorable lines right and left, but he’s more-than-ably backed up by a blood-red-vital rhythm section in bassist Incinerator and drummer John Berry. New vocalist Invoker has a rougher and more hollering voice, perfectly suited for these classic metal-inclined tunes. So, less “sharp” pure thrash and more “warmer” traditional metal: it’s a trade-off that pays in spades on Serpent Death.
Timeless, eternal, both behind the times and ahead of ‘em – there’s few bands with a body of work quite like Nocturnal. Even if it’s another five-plus years between albums, Serpent Death handily satisfies with a sound that’s so old, it’s new!
Hear (and see) for yourself with the brand-new video "Bleeding Heaven" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Rock Hard, Germany's premier rock & metal authority. Also hear the previously revealed "Damnator's Hand" exclusively HERE, courtesy of Deaf Forever magazine. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Nocturnal (Germany)'s Serpent Death
1. Black Ritual Tower
2. ...From Terminal Death
3. Beneath A Steel Sky
4. Faceless Mercenaries
5. Bleeding Heaven
6. Damnator's Hand
7. Circle Of Thirteen
8. Void Dweller
9. Suppressive Fire
10. The Iron Throne
MORE INFO:
www.facebook.com/nocturnalunho
www.dying-victims.de
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