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.

‘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…

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…

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.

“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…

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.

BOG BODY’s looming form has thawed from the dregs of sordid earth to reveal their debut full length album “Cryonic Crevasse Cult” on May 20th on CD/LP/Digital via Profound Lore Records. Pre-orders HERE. Check out the aural offering “Paralytic Pit of Swallowed Graves” below.

Following in the footsteps of their 2018 demo “Through the Burial Bog” and 2020’s MLP “The Gate of Grief,” BOG BODY (a duo consisting solely of bass, drums, and vocals) have transcended the cultic guts of black metal’s early forefathers with a subsonic war doom incursion for their debut album that’s as much a dirge…

Profound Lore Records is proud to announce the May 6th release of Milan based one-man death metal force COSMIC PUTREFACTION’s third album “Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones” on CD/Digital with vinyl edition following sometime in summer.

On “Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones”, sole mastermind Gabriele Gramaglia continues the COSMIC PUTREFACTION narrative begun on the previous album “The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers”, where the only survivor from an apocalyptic annihilation of a dying planet walks towards its withered horizons. On “Crepuscular Dirge…” this character ultimately finds an even more sorrowful truth at the end of his journey; one…

Texas based progressive death/black metal unit HAUNTER have completed work on their new album “Discarnate Ails” set for release on CD/Digital/Tape May 06 with vinyl to follow sometime late summer.  Album teaser and pre-orders for CD/Digital/Tape HERE.

The follow up to 2019’s “Sacramental Death Qualia” will unveil HAUNTER as one of the most enlightening and dynamic bands within the present-day progressive death/black metal movement and one of its pioneering prospects.

With “Discarnate Ails” HAUNTER have tapped into the next level unparalleled with their most complex, advanced, and their most furious and heaviest release to date. The three epic…

The new BUNUEL album “Killers Like Us”, featuring Eugene Robinson of OXBOW at the commanding helm, is out now and can be streamed everywhere and available on all formats HERE.  BUNUEL is the sound of a difficult situation made worse by an unwillingness and an inability to play nice.