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For nearly two decades American death metallers Acheron have been churning out their praises to the horned one. On their seventh album "The Final Conflict: The Last Days Of God" the band, fronted by former Church Of Satan reverend Vincent Crowley, do not drastically alter their approach or direction and "The Final Conflict" sounds very consistent because of it. Together with fo...
Vegan grinding death metal, featuring members from Purulent. All things considered this is a fairly typical Sevared Recs release, as far as design and production goes. As most underground US death metal goes Animal Killing People are insanely primitive, devoid of any melody or subtlety and heinous in their collective savagery. Killing is in fact what this album does, although it hardly a mandatory...
First of all people said to me: "You are playing doom!" I didn't even know that myself. People that normally doesn't listen to metal and "dark" music has told us that they love the music. I know a lot of girls that claim to hate metal but when they have listened to our EP they have been pleasantly surprised and now they love it.
German death metallers DEFEATED SANITY have tapped A.J. Magana from DISGORGE to lay down the vocals on the band's forthcoming third full-length album, "Chapters Of Repugnance", tentatively due late 2009/early 2010 via Willowtip Records. The CD wil be recorded later this summer at Soundforge Studios in Berlin.
DEFEATED SANITY's recording lineup:
A.J. Magana (DISGORGE): Vocals
Christian Kühn: Guitar
Jacob Schmidt: Bass
Lille Gruber: Drums
This lineup will also play the band's U.K. tour this August.
DEFEATED SANITY's sophomore album, "Psalms of the Moribund", was recorded at Soundlodge Studios in Rhauderfehn, Germany by Jörg Uken and was mastered by Robbe K of DISAVOWED. It was released in March 2007 via U.K. label Grindethic Records.
DEFEATED SANITY toured the U.S. in 2008 and appeared at the Maryland Deathfest.
Swedish technical death metal outfit SPAWN OF POSSESSION has issued the following update:
"Two very talented and competent musicians has recently joined SPAWN OF POSSESSION. Matthew Chalk (ex-PSYCROPTIC) is going to handle the vocal and lyric writing. Christian Münzner (OBSCURA, ex-NECROPHAGIST) is going to do the lead guitar part and unleash his madness into the multicolored and distorted universe of SPAWN OF POSSESSION.
"The songwriting process has been going quite well these last few months and five new songs are now complete. Seven other songs are in the works."
SPAWN OF POSSESSION's current lineup:
Matthew Chalk (PSYCROPTIC) - vocals
Erlend Caspersen (VILE, BLOOD RED THRONE, DECREPIT BIRTH) - bass
Richard Schill - drums
Christian Münzner (OBSCURA, NECROPHAGIST) - guitar
Jonas Bryssling - guitar
SPAWN OF POSSESSION's sophomore album, "Noctambulant", was released in 2006 via Neurotic Records. The CD was recorded at Pama Studios in Kristianopel, Sweden with producer Magnus Sedenberg.
DIVINE HERESY, the California-based band featuring FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares, will release its sophomore album, "Bringer of Plagues", in North America on July 28 via Century Media Records.
The track listing for the CD is as follows:
01. Facebreaker
02. The Battle of J. Casey
03. Undivine Prophecies (Intro)
04. Bringer of Plagues
05. Redefine
06. Anarchaos
07. Monolithic Doomsday Devices
08. Letter to Mother
09. Enemy Kill
10. Darkness Embedded
11. The End Begins
12. Forever the Failure
DIVINE HERESY teamed up once again with acclaimed producing team Dirty Icon (Logan Mader and Lucas Banker) who has recently produced CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, GOJIRA, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH.
SARCOLYTIC, the Austin, Texas-based band featuring Ricky Myers of DISGORGE along with Steven Watkins, Mark Denton and Jon Zig of IMAGES OF VIOLENCE, has posted a new song, 'The Seed Of All Beginnings', on the group's MySpace page. The track comes off SARCOLYTIC's debut album, "Thee Arcane Progeny", which will be released on August 25 via Unique Leader Records. According to the band, the CD features "nine blistering tracks, entailing the 14 tablets deciphered from the lost book of Enki, by Zecharia Sitchin."
SARCOLYTIC was forged in late 2003 as a side project of IMAGES OF VIOLENCE members and Ricky Myers of DISGORGE. They wrote and released a three-song EP on Lacerated Enemy Records in 2004, and contributed two songs to the Ossuary Industries Records four-way split entitled "Limb Splitter" alongside DEVOURMENT, GODLESS TRUTH, and Steven Watkins' project, SECT OF EXECRATION.
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Norwegian avant-garde metallers RAM-ZET have inked a deal with Ascendance Records. The band's fourth album, "Neutralized", is scheduled for release this fall.
"Neutralized" was recorded during 2008 and early 2009, and it "sees the band at the peak of its creativity," according to a press release. "RAM-ZET employed a lengthy, busy writing schedule with the album being mixed by Brett Caldas-Lima at Tower Studio.
Demo versions of two new RAM-ZET songs — "Requiem" and "Nr. 222" — are available for streaming on the band's official MySpace page.
RAM-ZET's third album, "Intra", was released in July 2005 via Tabu Records. The follow-up to 2002's "Escape" (Spikefarm Records) was mixed in Sweden with producer Daniel Bergstrand (IN FLAMES, SOILWORK, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, DARKANE, MESHUGGAH).
Ashmedi and Moloch of the Sumerian thrashing black metal act MELECHESH are holed up at the Sulphonic Studio in Rotterdam working on demos for the follow-up to the "Emissaries" album. This will be MELECHESH's fifth full-length effort and first for Nuclear Blast Records. No date is set for the recording but it will not be before the fall.
According to a press release, "The band are aiming to keep the album multi-dimensional when it comes to the atmosphere of the songs. One of the new elements will be a couple of songs written and recorded entirely with 12 strings electric guitars. Ashmedi will then head to Istanbul where he will meet prominent musicians there so as to explore the eastern musical traditions of the city."
Commented Ashmedi: "Istanbul is a place where Eastern and Western Music have been perfectly interwoven for decades, and it is a great place to absorb musically and spiritually as Istanbul also has a very fascinating occult side to it as well."
MELECHESH's latest album, "Emissaries" — the follow-up to 2003's "Sphynx" — was released January 23, 2007 on Osmose Productions/The End Records.
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EPICA and KRYPTERIA have been confirmed for the Metal Female Voices Fest VII, set to take place October 17, 2009 at Oktoberhallen in Wieze, Belgium.
The festival billing is shaping up as follows:
Saturday, October 17:
EPICA (special DVD show)
DELAIN
KRYPTERIA
MIDNATTSOL
AUTUMN
AMBERIAN DAWN
FLOWING TEARS
MANIC MOVEMENT
PINKY DOODLE POODLE
UNSUN
WHYZDOM
KIVIMETSAN DRUIDI
Sunday, October 18:
DORO (special WARLOCK 25th anniversary show)
TARJA
TRAIL OF TEARS
VAN CANTO
STREAM OF PASSION
DARZAMAT
DEADLOCK
CORONATUS
TO-MERA
LAHANNYA
For more information, visit www.metalfemalevoicesfest.be .
Italian death metallers HOUR OF PENANCE have issued the following update:
"After an almost three-year-long hiatus, HOUR OF PENANCE welcomes back the former guitarist and founder Enrico, who apparently got tired of the cold and dark Norwegian life... The band is now back as a quintet and will perform for the first time with the renowned lineup at the Armageddon In The Park festival on August 1. Join us there!"
HOUR OF PENANCE's current lineup:
Giulio Moschini - Guitar
Enrico Schettino - Guitar
Mauro Mercurio - Drums
Silvano Leone - Bass
Francesco Paoli - Vocals
HOUR OF PENANCE's latest album, "The Vile Conception", was released on February 23, 2008 via Unique Leader Records. The CD was recorded at 16th Cellar Studio in Rome with producer Stefano Saul Morabito and contains 10 songs of "insanely fast and twisted death metal," according to a press release. Artwork was handled by Pär Olofsson.
New York death metal veterans IMMOLATION have signed a worldwide, multi-album contract with Nuclear Blast Records, who will release the band's upcoming eighth studio album in early 2010.
Commented the band: "We are looking forward to working with Nuclear Blast, a classic label that has become one of the largest driving forces in metal today. We intend to have a new album out for early next year. Expect the new one to have some of the most dark and intense music we've ever put together!"
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New MARDUK album will be entitled "Wormwood". No release date has been set yet as the band is currently in the studio working on the album. More news and song titles will be presented later. Check some photos from the recording at the Endarker Studio here: www.marduk.nu/gallery.html
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