Bubbling up from the oozing sewers of Toronto like a bizarre insectoid of mutant genotype, Tomb Mold reanimates with their second album, and first for 20 Buck Spin, ‘Manor Of Infinite Forms’. Constructing monumental towers of obscure shape, jarring yet coherent, Tomb Mold compositions evoke a distorted world alongside our own where all manner of oddity and peculiarity are permitted.
Songs on ‘Manor Of Infinite Forms’ move in strange ways, recklessly contorting into cohesion until suddenly they’re proceeding with a force and purpose in perfect synchronicity to the universe that contains them. Disharmoniously melding the pulverizing heaviness of Finnish Death Metal with a never overbearing striking technicality, Tomb Mold careen through world after world of alien landscape with formidable singularity. Tracked in Toronto ‘Manor Of Infinite Forms’ then landed in the hands of Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Pissgrave, Code Orange) to achieve its organically huge mix. A remarkable puzzle of an album, ‘Manor Of Infinite Forms’ constitutes a creative high point for 2018’s many strong Death Metal releases.
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11 years after it’s original release date the magnificent album “Dödsvisioner” by Avantgarde Dark Metal mastermind BERGRAVEN returns in different shape!
LP details: - Reverse board jacket - New optimized artwork - Insert with liner notes and lyrics - Black vinyl It is hard to believe that eleven years have passed since Pär Stille’s Bergraven released Dödsvisioner into the black metal biome. Impishly experimental and yet highly honed and focused, it is an album that seeps its way into the subconscious as all the best Black Metal is wont to do. Perhaps the most striking sensation you get when listening to this album is that Doom-informed riffs, idiosyncratic grooves and shadowy interludes included, you are experiencing the work of a mind open to integrating sounds that are rarefied in the often stubbornly traditional Black Metal genre. It would be difficult to talk about Dödsvisioner without a nod in the direction of Xasthur and Burzum before them, but Bergraven’s Black Metal is not as repetitive and only sometimes as hypnotic as these forebears. The subtle shifts in tempo and dizzying experimental deviations rife on Dödsvisioner play tricks on the listener’s mind, much like mountains from which the first part of the band’s name come can disorientate and confuse weary walkers, rendering madness a distinct possibility. You can find an interview with Bergraven on our pages. Vilkacis / Turia split LP and tape.
LP will be handled by Altare Productions, a professionally dubbed tape will be available through Psychic Violence Records in North America and Haeresis Noviomagi in Europe. The first new material to appear since Vilkacis' esteemed 2014 debut “The Fever of War”, the two tracks to be unleashed push the boundries of the project's scope. Aggressive and fierce but majestically tragic, fans of M. Rekevics expansive musical output surely know what to expect. Turia return after this years acclaimed sophomore album “Dede Kondre”, with two striking tracks showcasing the hypnotically melodic riffing, assailing drums and tormented vocal delivery followers of the band will no doubt appreciate. Cover art by Yu Rim Chung. – Transcendental purification through strife and fire! – altare.pt haeresisnoviomagi.com www.facebook.com/PSYCHICVIOLENCERECORDS
Iron Bonehead Productions sets August 10th as the international release date for a special mini-album from Ill Omen, The Grande Usurper, on CD and 12" vinyl formats.
The new Hexeth / Icon of Curse split is now available through Bandcamp.
A pro-tape version will see the light through Les Fleurs du Mal Productions in August 2018, a month after the release of Hexeth's debut. Official word from the label: "Les Fleurs du Mal Productions proudly presents the Hexeth / Icon of Curse split featuring over half an hour of chaotic descent. Hexeth hits first with a nineteen minute track of orchestred dissonance wrapped in the ancient shrouds of both black and death metal. ''To The Gates of Zaarth'' narrates the second act of the wanderer; a story of outerspace exploration and pain. This raw and noisy production blended with the fast and murky riffs of Hexeth will please to fans of Portal, Impetuous Ritual or Vessel of Iniquity. Icon of Curse follows with a multi-movement 15 minute suite of ritualistic frenzy. Percussive and hallucinatory, the track portrays the ancient rites of the Icon. Worshippers lock themselves in their subterranean temple dancing in flames, filling their lungs with smoke and their mouths with ash. You too are invited to inhale the smoke and taste the ash!" Massachusetts-based death metal force Innumerable Forms have completed their much anticipated, devastating debut album "Punishment In Flesh". Formed in 2007 by mastermind Justin DeTore (Sumerlands, Magic Circle, Mind Eraser), a veteran of the Boston hardcore / power violence scene, as a solo project to bring forth his vision of death metal influenced by the Finnish style circa 1991, it quickly generated a cult following with their live shows supporting a small amount of releases, consisting of the "Dark Worship" 7-inch EP, a split with Blessed Offal, and the "Frozen To Death" compilation cassette.
Now with this debut, they will harness the true spirit of ancient darkness and fury, seething with sheer brutality and primal rawness with total disregard and contempt for modern-day death metal. While DeTore pretty much handled all the instruments mhimself on previous recordings, for this he assembled a full band (which has also been the live lineup as well) including guitarists Chris Ulsh (Mammoth Grinder, Power Trip) and Jensen Ward (Iron Lung), bassist Doug Cho (The Rival Mob), and drummer Connor Donnegan (Genocide Pact). |
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