World Terror Committee is proud to present a brand new mini-album from black metal disciples FIDES INVERSA, appropriately titled Rite of Inverse Incarnation. But harken! This time, the duo has broken their boundaries and invited two more entities into their creative realm. Comprising two, nearly 10-minute songs, Rite of Inverse Incarnation is a natural followup to the critically acclaimed Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans, released during the autumn of 2014 by W.T.C. But this new record also marks something different and more furious, as they decided to invite Wraath on vocals and Unhold on bass.
Recorded during one intense day and night in Germany, this recording will surely leave a mark upon the devout as it did on its practitioners. Instead of further words, heed the statement from FIDES INVERSA about these Rites: "An act of dedication, respect, and birth of a brotherhood. A vision brought to life by some of the few in this scene who say what they mean and mean what they say. Become the living truth! Hail Satan!"
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Iron Bonehead Productions sets March 10th as the international release date for Black Cilice's highly anticipated fourth album, Banished From Time. Truly embodying the definition of "underground," Black Cilice lurked in the shadows its first five years - or perhaps even longer, as the one-man band's history is as mysterious as he is elusive - releasing a slew of demos and splits, all eventually culminating in two impossibly-rare albums. But then, in 2015, the mysterious mainman joined forces with Iron Bonehead to release the monolithic Mysteries. The album would go on to be hailed far and wide, and often from corners of the cultural landscape not usually acclimated to things of a resolutely raw nature: truly, Black Cilice was being celebrated for his content and vision alone rather than more socialistic aspects of the hype machine. But "being celebrated" and "hype" are forever far from the Black Cilice worldview, and with this armament comes Banished From Time. Like its three full-length predecessors, Banished From Time is characteristically Black Cilice to the bone: a wave of in-the-red rawness greets the wary listener, surging second-wave black metal to the bone, but underneath those layers of filth 'n' fatalism lies a melancholic majesty that's truly a splendor to behold. Just like its predecessors, some could even qualify Banished From Time as "beautiful" - if that beauty was bespoiled for centuries in a cold, cobwebbed castle. Intractably black metal, once again, we find here that "purism" need not be shorthand for a dearth of ideas: Black Cilice twists the anachronisms of classic black metal into ageless, endlessly spellbinding forms, each undulating wave lapping back against the other to utterly hypnotizing effect. Yet, Banished From Time breaks a bit from the established Black Cilice canon, if more so thematically. Whereas Mysteries ended a three-album trilogy, Banished From Time is meant as a disruptive album whilst keeping the intractable, idiosyncratic identity of the Black Cilice sound. We can point to the overall production, which is thicker and less strident, and the voice, in kind, has become more "present" and aggressive. But these are all simply signposts for the spiritual/metaphysical state presented in Banished From Time: Black Cilice living physically in the present but not belonging to the present, living in the past (amidst ruins, surrounded by spirits) but not belonging to the past. As usual, the lyrics focus on paranormal experiences, the borderline between the living and the dead and channeling spirits in long forgotten ruins, apart from the world. Fitting for such a momentous work, Banished From Time will be released on the usual vinyl LP and cassette tape formats but also CD. Be Banished From Time and die another death with Black Cilice!
The release date of Contact marks the ten-year anniversary of Margaret Chardiet’s project, Pharmakon. While working on her newest release, she began to evaluate the project as a whole. Though the content of each record has been very different and specific, the pervading question, which has underlined them all, is what is means to be human. Her last album, Bestial Burden, focused on the disconnect between mind and body, looking at the human as an isolated consciousness stuck inside of a rotting vessel. For Contact, she wanted to look at the other side of the spectrum – the moments when our mind can come outside of and transcend our bodies.
Because an album is itself an object, she struggled with how to convey the transcendence of the physical, through a physical medium. She started to study trance states and equate her live performances to them. In trance states, music and the body are used to transcend the physical form and make contact with some outside force. In the live setting, she used sound and her body to create an exchange of energy and make contact with outside forces - humanity, empathy, the audience. This energy/empathy exchange has always been at the heart of a Pharmakon performance, but she felt that on records, it wasn’t translating. They were one-sided and flat – declarations rather than conversations. She decided to structure the compositions of each side of Contact after the four stages of trance: preparation, onset, climax, and resolution. By using these stages as a biorhythm for the album, she animates it, and instills the intention of communion into the music. "Man is a rabid dog, straining at its leash of mortality with bared teeth. Snarling and clawing over each other, we aim to reach a higher ground to claim as our own. There are those who will attempt to exert power over others to attain it. They will sniff you out; lay claim over your body, your actions, your thoughts, your time. (How starkly human, so desperate for the sense of vantage over all versions of its own reflection!) Their aims are empty, because their power is a construct they created and gave back to themselves. They too are small and inconsequential. All people are only human and humans are only animals. The nature of existence and our sentience is chance, owing nothing to anything. Humankind is of no special significance to the universe. (Despite all our scrambling rejections, we cannot transcend all of our instincts — just animals, lost in a confused dream, where mankind is real and at the center of everything). We are each nothing but a single, short-lived cell in a vast organism which itself will one day die. If we accept that the only true claim sentience gives us is our tiny sliver of time, it opens us to revel in it, to make CONTACT. When we pick up on transmissions between the private rooms inside our heads and the flesh of our vessels, when thought escapes its isolation and is seen, heard and understood. When our mind uses the body in order to transcend and escape it! The moments of connection/communion/CONTACT, when the veil is for a brief but glorious moment lifted, and we are free. Empathy! EMPATHY, NOW!" - Margaret Chardiet INVICTUS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present CRURIFRAGIUM's highly anticipated debut album, Beasts of the Temple of Satan. Although only springing to foul life in 2015, CRURIFRAGIUM's history stretches back to their previous existence as Warpvomit. And although only existing for a couple years before the name-change, with their lone Carnal Sacrifice demo, Warpvomit verily approximated their moniker: disgusting, gestatingly cyclonic bestial metal that brimmed with a weird 'n' unsettling chaos and a tar-thick density. Alas, with that name change came a relatively more finessed approach to the bestial arts; CRURIFRAGIUM's eponymous debut demo suggested a slight change was afoot, but it's with Beasts of the Temple of Satan where the power-trio truly come into their own. Resolutely crude and barbaric and forsaking any niceties like "progression" or good taste, CRURIFRAGIUM explode forth with a filthiness beyond compare. Granted, its grind 'n' churn owes reverential debut to the dual gods of Blasphemy and Beherit, but these particular Beasts of the Temple of Satan exhibit a ghastly, gibbering intensity that sounds like those last frayed ends of sanity forever severing their grip upon (ir)reality and (ir)rationality. Within that palpable possession, the maelstrom whipped forth ably benefits from a stout and sawn-off production that's simply crushing to behold. The rise of the black moon is at hand, so empty the chalice with CRURIFRAGIUM's Beasts of the Temple of Satan! Out in January 30th! Nightbringer are streaming "Serpent Sun", the first track taken from their forthcoming album 'Terra Damnata'. 'Terra Damnata' has been scheduled for release worldwide via Season of Mist on April 14th. Regarding the album, the band comments: "May this stand as a simulacrum of the eternal light of divinity, reflected and refracted through the smaragdine gem fallen from heaven and buried in the burning depths of the earth where it smolders with the darkest light,” the band says. “From the Low House of Black Apollo logoi resounds from the heart of the world, is answered in the heavens by the trumpeting angels of apocalypse, the clarion of an aeon's end. The eight tracks presented here are eight aspects of a sorcerous path that shines like dreadful starlight in the long night of the close of the Kali Yuga." Finally out on Vinyl! Brand new studio album from the South American Death Metal patriarchs MORTEM! High quality evil n’ daemonic hymns with possessed vocals and total tremolo solo attack. One of the last pure Death Metal bands in the old style à la POSSESSED, early MORBID ANGEL, SLAYER, old DEATH, etc ... Comes in a noble Gatefold Sleeve with 5 coloured print.
New York City sludge/doom/drone trio UNEARTHLY TRANCE today premieres the earth-shattering sounds of "Famine," the second single from the forthcoming full-length Stalking The Ghost.
Rehearsal track teaser off the forthcoming 2017 full length album, "Thy Sulfur Throne On High",
Track is only a rough rehearsal to get the buzz started! CD/LP to be released by the end of January 2017. The label states: "While we wait for the vinyl to be pressed within the coming weeks, the CD version has already been delivered to us. This is an all independent self-released project by the involved bands, we urge all online shops and mailorders to inquire only at our exclusive distributors: AVANTGARDE and W.T.C. in Europe. AJNA and DARK DESCENT in America. Like in the old days, we made a simultaneous LP and CD release possible. Due to the self-release nature of this album, there is a first pressing run, and a second run will follow, but obviously it won't be available forever and won't circulate in major-label number of copies. Black Metal from and for the underground, in the true sense of the word, since this journey leads to the uttermost regions BELOW." |
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