Ash Borer will release their third full length album, 'The Irrepassable Gate' on December 2nd, 2016 through Profound Lore Records on CD/DLP/Digital formats. Psychic Violence will handle a cassette edition as well as a deluxe art edition of the DLP to be released at a later date than the standard run.
Recorded and produced by Randall Dunn. Cover art by Glyn Smyth for Stag and Serpent.
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As Norwegian punk cult OKKULTOKRATI takes off on their extensive European tour supporting Trap Them this week, the band unloads another new video from their new Southern Lord-issued Raspberry Dawn LP.
Created for the album track "Magic People," OKKULTOKRATI states about the video, "Our friend Øystein Wyller Odden compiled and edited this video, which is a montage of various kinds of telekinesis practice. The found footage shows aerokinesis, hydrokinesis, electrokinesis, atmokinesis and pyrokinesis. This is practice level telekinesis, not master." Furthermore, you can listen to their new album, Raspberry Dawn, on streaming below:
Legendary Czech dark metallers ROOT premiere new song "Life Of Demon" in anticipation of their upcoming album "Kärgeräs - Return From Oblivion", set to be released on November 25th via Agonia. Listen to the album's opening track.
ROOT is one of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands formed in 1987 by iconic vocalist Jiri 'Big Boss' Valter. In contrast to Bathory and Venom, ROOT took the black metal genre in a more refined direction, featuring Big Boss' chartacteristic clean vocals, dark sound and an epic approach altogether. Nowadays, ROOT is often recognized as an epic heavy/black metal act, or as the band simply puts it - a dark metal band. The new album, "Kärgeräs - Return From Oblivion", will be different from their 2011's offering, "Heritage Of Satan", says the band: "As always in our history as a band, we aim to deliver a unique album, something that will stand out and shine its own light in our discography. Expect dark metal at its best, along with some surprising elements. We've recorded one fully acoustic song and one entirely instrumental. Overall, the album will include ten new tracks that will differ from our previous records". "Kärgeräs - Return From Oblivion" will be ROOT's tenth full-length album. Lyrically, it will be a concept album, and looked at from that perspective, it'll continue the story begun by their 1996 release under a similar yet shorter title, "Kärgeräs", that presents a tale of a pround nation. The album artwork (available above) was hand-painted by Thomas Bruno. The painting started off as a portrait at first, but after the band's decision to use it as cover, the mystical tree, ravens and other elemnts where added. Recroding, mixing and mastering took place at Shaark Studio in South Moravia. Big Boss produced the album.
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1. Life Of Demons 2. Osculum Infame 3. Moment Of Fright 4. The Book Of Death 5. Black Iris 6. Moment Of Hope 7. The Key To The Empty Room 8. New Empire 9. Up To The Down 10. Do You Think Is It The End? Available formats: - Digipack CD with 28 pages booklet - Black LP - Red LP with A2 poster* - Transparent red/black splatter LP with A2 poster and patch** - T-shirt (2 versions) *handnumbered & limited to 222 copies **handnumbered & limited to 100 copies http://www.rootan.net http://agoniarecords.com PRESENCE // ABSENCE Third recording by Arkhtinn. Set to be released on cassette to 150 copies by Fallen Empire Records. During its nearly twenty-year history, Black Witchery has appropriately earned recognition as one of the most important cults of bestial black metal, and black metal in general, ever to have emerged from North America. Under its original moniker, Witchery, the band released two demos before changing its name and then went on to produce an EP and two split recordings before unleashing its masterpiece full-length debut, “Desecration of the Holy Kingdom,” in 2001. These early recordings capture an evolution in Black Witchery’s sound that has led them to their current position as one of the most violent purveyors of black metal of the last decade and a half. Nuclear War Now! is proud to resurrect the unholy document of Black Witchery’s evil ascension into the dark of night with its release of “Evil Shall Prevail,” a collection of all tracks from the band’s “Demo 97,” “Evil Shall Prevail” demo, “Summoning of Infernal Legions” EP, and its contribution to the “Hellstorm of Evil Vengeance” split with Conqueror. Additionally, previously-unreleased outtakes from the “Hellstorm…” recording session are also included, as is Black Witchery’s cover of Sarcófag’s “Black Vomit” from the “Tribute to Sarcófag0” compilation CD from 2001. As one would expect, the earliest Black Witchery tracks from “Demo 97” are those least similar to the band’s more recent output. Most notably, both of these tracks include keyboard intros, an element which was completely abandoned on subsequent recordings. This demo also demonstrates a more palpable influence from the archetypal second-wave black metal bands from Northern Europe, such as Darkthrone. The raspier, more necrotic vocal delivery from Impurath on this recording, and to varying degrees the others on this collection, contrasts with the more abruptly violent style that he has since adopted. Also, whereas more recent Black Witchery material achieves much of its potency from the monolithic nature of all its components acting as a singular bludgeoning machine, the guitar riffs in this earlier material stand out a bit more at times from the other instruments in their tone and technique. One clear example of this is the tremolo-picked arpeggio that opens “Destruction of the Holy Kingdom.” This particular song also is noteworthy due to its appearance on two separate recordings in the collection, as is also the case with a few others. These differing versions are indicative of the experimentation that Black Witchery undertook with these compositions, as one readily notes with the difference between the distorted, tremolo-picked, closing guitar line in “Destruction…” on the “Evil Shall Prevail” demo, versus the clean, single-note picking of the same line on the “Summoning…” EP. Beginning with the band’s tracks on the “Hellstorm of Evil Vengeance” split, the eventual end result of Black Witchery’s evil metamorphism becomes foreseeable. The unadulterated violence of these five songs serve as a perfect precursor to the band’s defining full-length debut, “Desecration of the Holy Kingdom.” In fact, two of the songs included on the “Hellstorm…” split were later re-recorded for inclusion on the album. These tracks are characterized by ceaselessly pulsating, percussive blasts punctuated by cymbal crashes that evoke an image of hell fissures opening in sequence around the listener’s feet, leading to the ultimate moment in which he finds himself completely surrounded by the molten sea of the apocalypse. It is in this final hour when one inevitably realizes that, in fact, evil shall prevail. Regular Version: Black vinyl double LP, gatefold jacket, and A2 poster. Wholesale Version: Clear vinyl double LP, gatefold jacket, and A2 poster. Sold in increments of 5 white and 5 black. Die Hard Version: White vinyl double LP, gatefold jacket, A2 poster, 28 page booklet, die cast metal pin, and sticker. www.nwnprod.com
Imagine yourself standing of a cliff that like a pillar rises from the sea, imagine the wild storms that roars the ocean shores, imagine yourself swallowed by the great nordic waves of old. Here lies the solitary nest of ”Drengskapr” - the second craft by the wayward and self-willed Swedish artist PANPHAGE and the tale of Grette Asmundsson. PANPHAGE who with his past releases has shown a rare way of interpreting Swedish folk music with a significantly wild and furious blackened metal. A unique force that will tell us to affirm the wilderness within us and release our inner walls in order to embrace the ways of the primitive past.
On November 18th the Swedish force that is PANPHAGE returns with his second full-lenght album. "Drengskapr" is an intense musical adventure that dives eep into the Icelandic saga of Grettir Àsmundarsonar. The album will be released on both CD & LP.
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1. Grettir Àsmundarsonar 2. Landrensningen 3. Glam rider husen 4. Glamsyn 5. Utlagr 6. Drangey 7. Blodshämnd nordvis.com
Arcane razors bleed the sky as the weeping chords that summon theta trances shimmer over raucous galloping nightmares. The pulse of black blood within the earth is exploited with disharmonious treachery, breaching the path of wholesome replenishment with humiliation and rape. As the aboriginal body subverts the civilized rationale, so we are pushed by our unknown desire toward the dank crevices of Lilith's womb.
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