HISSING Announce New Album “Hypervirulence Architecture” / Record Release Shows

The new HISSING album “Hypervirulence Architecture” is set for release on July 15.  Pre-order the album on CD/LP/Digital HERE and listen to the new track “Meltdown” below.

HISSING is an extreme metal group based out of Washington, USA. Founded in 2014 out of a mutual interest in mutilating sounds and exploring the outer limits of black and death metal, the group aims to desecrate expectations with each subsequent release. Their new album “Hypervirulence Architecture”, their first album in four years following their “Permanent Destitution” debut LP, sees the trio take their sound into more nightmarish, trance inducing, mercurial and…

HAUNTER “Discarnate Ails” / COSMIC PUTREFACTION “Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones” Out Now

The new HAUNTER and COSMIC PUTREFACTION albums are now released and can be streamed everywhere.  Some of the most next-level, creative, and beyond death metal to surface this year.  Exclusive longsleeves for each available HERE.  Vinyl for each title not until late summer/early fall.

BLACKLIST “The Final Resistance”

The new BLACKLIST song from their upcoming album “Afterworld” out Fall 2022.  This will be the band’s second full-length LP and their first since 2009’s “Midnight Of The Century”.  Stream it on Youtube below and all other platforms HERE.

VANUM “Legend” Out Now

The new VANUM album “Legend” is finally unleashed and can be streamed and procured everywhere on all formats HERE.  The band’s most triumphant release yet, “Legend” sees VANUM expanding their scope to monolithic new measures delivering their most realized recording through towering melodies and epic songwriting.  While musically dynamic as ever, the overriding theme of the album is one of victory. Victory amidst bloodshed; triumph amidst loss. This is Black Metal as spiritual war, the aural embodiment of ancient combat and heroic struggle. This is Legend.

INCANDESCENCE “Le Coeur de l’Homme” Out Now

The new INCANDESCENCE album “Le Coeur de l’Homme” (their fourth full-length) is out now and can be streamed everywhere (vinyl edition late summer).  Procure the album on CD/Digital and limited longsleeve shirt HERE . Featuring multi-instrumentalist Philippe Boucher (Beyond Creation, Chthe’ilist) and vocalist Louis Paul-Gavreau, INCANDESCENCE play triumphant monolithic Quebecois black metal.

EXECUTIONER’S MASK Complete Work On New Album “Winterlong”, Upcoming Tour Dates

‘Winterlong’, the psychedelic new album from EXECUTIONER’S MASK is set for release on 2xCD/LP/Digital from Profound Lore Records on June 17th. An epic bouquet of swelling synths, hypnotic melodies, and noisy guitars marry post-punk and shoegaze in ten songs exploring themes of liberation and self-destruction in these end-times.  Pre-order “Winterlong” HERE.  Also note upcoming EXECUTIONER’S MASK tour dates at end of post.  These dates will signal EXECUTIONER’S MASK live debut.

In the studio, the core group of Gambit, Mickle and Wilson added Christian Molenaar into the fold on synths; adding an ethereal edge to the band’s…

ARTIFICIAL BRAIN Announce New Album ARTIFICIAL BRAIN

The new self-titled ARTIFICIAL BRAIN album is set for release on June 03.  Pre-orders for CD/LP/Digital/Tape are now live HERE.  Listen to the song “Celestial Cyst” featuring guest vocals from Mike Browning (NOCTURNUS AD) below.

Drawing frequent comparisons to mind-altering progressive death metal acts, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN have distinguished themselves from their peers through an emphasis on rich, melancholic melodic figures, contextualizing the harmonic and emotive qualities of black metal within a more aggressive death metal framework. Dissonance is threaded through elegiac, otherworldly chordal structures; saturnine tremolo melodies float along in the high registers of the instruments; guitars…

BLACK DEATH CULT “Diaspora” Out Now

The new BLACK DEATH CULT album “Diaspora” is out now on CD and can be streamed everywhere (vinyl late summer).  Limited longsleeve shirt also available.  Listen and obtain one of the strangest and most-singular death metal experiences of the year HERE.  Traverse further into the hidden crevices of the Archaeaeon through the six audial abnormalities that comprise DIASPORA.

LUMINOUS VAULT Announce New Album “Animate The Emptiness”

“Animate the Emptiness” is the debut full length by the NYC metal duo LUMINOUS VAULT and will be released on May 20th on CD/LP/Digital.  Pre-order “Animate The Emptiness” on said formats HERE.

On their long awaited follow-up to 2017’s “Charismata” EP, guitarist/vocalist Mario Diaz de Leon (Oneirogen, Bloodmist) and bassist/vocalist Samuel Smith (Artificial Brain, Aeviterne) present a bold and unique hybrid of black/death metal and electronic music.

From their inception in 2015, LUMINOUS VAULT have combined the “machine rhythm” approach of pioneering bands Godflesh and Blut Aus Nord with black metal and synthesizers. On “Animate the Emptiness”, this…

AEVITERNE “The Ailing Facade” Out Now

The new AEVITERNE album “The Ailing Facade” is out now on CD and available to stream everywhere (vinyl late summer).  All links to procure and listen to one of the most crushing and singular death metal albums of the year HERE.  An album that plunges listeners into hellish headspaces of dread, anxiety, disorientation and unease through dynamic songwriting and deliberate narrative sequencing.  The future of death metal.