MORGAL set release date for debut album, reveal first tracks... Refreshingly
"new" and old simultaneously, Nightmare Lord literally explodes with an
electrifying energy that's startling to behold while beholden equally
to the ancient ways of '90s black metal, particularly the more melodic
end of such. So, while names like Nifelheim, Dissection, Lord Belial,
Sacramentum, and even Bewitched and Raise Hell are invoked, they serve
as touchstones for Morgal's blistering, bewitching attack rather than
tired tropes to rape further. And where the power-trio previously
sounded quite literally off the rails, that attack here has tightened up
considerably whilst allowing those maniacal, hysterical energies to run
riot; the production, in kind, is clear and cutting and undeniably
analog. More than that, each of Nightmare Lord's seven central songs is
more anthemic than the last, black-leather bat-wings enclosed around
sulfurous heavy metal MAGICK. All told, a chain-breaking, sword-drawing,
spell-invoking experience that's velvety blue-purple in spirit but
unironically ringed in flames - not for nothing did the legendary Joe
Petagno grace Nightmare Lord with exclusive cover artwork.... read more>>
DRUID LORD reveal first track from new HELLS HEADBANGERS album... Doom-death
titans Druid Lord stream their entirety of their highly anticipated
second album, Grotesque Offerings, at heavily trafficked web-portal
IndyMetalVault.com. Set for international release on January 19th via
Hells Headbangers, hear Druid Lord's Grotesque Offerings in its entirety
exclusively here.... read more>>
EVIL DAMN LAUNCH DEBUT ALBUM PRE-ORDER & REVEAL FIRST TRACK - features members of GOAT SEMEN... 100%
uncut South American madness, rendered in robustly clear-yet-crushing
form: brutality, darkness, and chaos colliding head-on and drowning the
listener in an epic descent of diabolical evil. Not for nothing are they
monikered Evil Damn, and Necronomicon proves, without a doubt, that
whether this album was delivered in 1991 or 2021, evil metal will ALWAYS
be eternal!... read more>>
NUNSLAUGHTER stream long-awaited new album at "Deaf Forever" magazine's website... "Red
is the Color of Ripping Death," the band's first album in seven years
and their first without Jim Sadist. Some of the 14 songs contained
herein are unfinished / unrealized music that Jim and founding frontman
Don of the Dead wrote years ago. Just as importantly, this album
comprises material newly written with Nunslaughter's current lineup,
which is arguably the band's best to date. And hearing is believing:
over the course of the album's 35 minutes, it becomes immediately
apparent that Nunslaughter are a really good - and really ripping -
DEATH METAL band above all. Largely gone (or least sublimated) is the
hardcore punk influence, and in its place is an absolutely furious
onslaught of catchiness and causticness. Armed with the best-sounding
production on a Nunslaughter record ever as well as Don of the Dead
reaching new heights/depths of maniacal perversity, Red is the Color
Ripping Death truly brings the band to a different level of Devil
Metal.... read more>>
DEATHHAMMER reveal new video from upcoming album... Blackthrash
kings Deathhammer reveal the new video "Rapid Violence." The track is
the first to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated fifth album,
"Electric Warfare," which is slated for release later this year through
Hells Headbangers on CD and cassette tape formats; the vinyl LP version
will follow next year. See & hear Deathhammer's "Rapid Violence"
video in its entirety here.... read more>>
SACRIFIXION STREAM DEBUT EP AT NOCLEANSINGING.COM - FEATURES MEMBERS OF NOCTURNAL, CRUEL FORCE, FRONT BEAST... Although
brand-new in name, SACRIFIXION feature veterans of the German metal
underground - among them, ex-Cruel Force vocalist Carnivore and the
ever-prolific Avenger (Nocturnal, Front Beast, Szarlem et. al.). As
expected, the power-trio's first recording is a vicious, uncompromising
nuclear warhead of ancient deathrash energies. Bearing the
all-too-fitting title Shower Me in Death, SACRIFIXIONs' attack bristles
with the billowing violence of '80s South America and Germany alike and
even earliest Exodus, Death, and Dark Angel.... read more>>
BONEHUNTER stream new HELLS HEADBANGERS album at "Inferno" magazine's website... The
devout power-trio have sharpened their songwriting chops to an insanely
focused degree, moving at many speeds and across many dynamics -
relatively speaking, of course, for this is still BLACKENED SPEED METAL
after all - but always sounding like the same band. And perhaps most
remarkable is the production across Dark Blood Reincarnation System: the
perfect balance of grit and gleam, blood and thunder, power and poise.
But again, perhaps this is just form meeting content...and THOSE
LEADS!... read more>>
HAMMR reveal first track from new album... Metalpunk
maniacs Hammr reveal the new track "Forces of Sin." The track is the
first to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated second album,
"Eternal Possession," which will see release late fall through Hells
Headbangers on CD and cassette tape formats; the vinyl LP version will
follow next year. Built on a proud foundation of proto-black metal,
hardcore punk, and evil speed metal, here Hammr let loose a wild 'n'
loose blast of what mainman JH at the time dubbed "Satanic speed." With
solos flying fast and free, instilling that very lawlessness so often
missing from heavy metal these days, Unholy Destruction was ever aptly
titled - and put Hammr on the international map with no small amount of
punctuation.... read more>>
EXPUNGED stream HELLS HEADBANGERS debut album at MetalBite.com - includes members of ICE WAR... Canadian
death metal juggernaut Expunged stream the entirety of their highly
anticipated debut album, Into Never Shall, at heavily trafficked
web-portal MetalBite.com. The track hails from the band's highly
anticipated debut album of downtuned HM-2-style death metal. Exquisitely
filthy, utterly crushing, and immediately memorable, EXPUNGED's opening
strike is death metal classicism of a rich yet never regressionist
vintage.... read more>>
Chicago's CARDIAC ARREST sign with HELLS HEADBANGERS, prepare new album... Formed
in 1997, Chicago's Cardiac Arrest continues to assault the death metal
underground with their horror-inspired death metal. Never catering to
the trends, Cardiac Arrest have remained a force to be reckoned with and
show no signs of compromise. With numerous releases, festival
appearances, tours in the US, Canada, and Europe, and respect of peers
and fans alike, Cardiac Arrest proudly carries the flag of true DEATH
METAL. The first fruit of this union shall be a reissue of the band's
second album (and fan favorite), 2008's Cadaverous Presence, on vinyl
for the first time, to be followed by Cardiac Arrest's highly
anticipated eighth album on both CD and vinyl formats.... read more>>
KROSSFYRE stream long-awaited HELLS HEADBANGERS debut album at NoCleanSinging.com... Lawless
black heavy metal cult Krossfyre stream the entirety of their
long-awaited debut album, Rites of Extermination, at heavily trafficked
web-portal NoCleanSinging.com.... read more>>
FLUIDS - Not Dark Yet (LP)
EVIL DAMN - Necronomicon (CD, 2LP, Digital)
DECEASED - Thrash Times At Ridgemont High (CD, Digital)
ACID WITCH / VAULTWRAITH - Spooky Vol. II (EP, Digital)
MORGAL - Nightmare Lord (CD, TAPE, Digital)
YMIR - Ymir (LP)
REGURGITATION - Tales Of Necrophilia (LP - repress)
RUTTOKOSMOS - Karsimys (2LP)
KROSSFYRE - Rites of Extermination (LP)
NUNSLAUGHTER - Red is the Color of Ripping Death (LP)
BONEHUNTER - Dark Blood Reincarnation System (LP, TS/HSW)
CHAMBER OF UNLIGHT - Realm of the Unlight (LP)
FLUIDS "Fluids of Death" (LP / LS / TS) |
DRUADAN FOREST / OLD SORCERY "Split" (LP / CD) |
EMBRYONIC SLUMBER "In Worship our Blood Is Buried" (LP / CD) |
NUNSLAUGHTER "Red is the Color of Ripping Death" (CD / TAPE / TS) |
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