“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.

After a period of smoldering dormancy VANUM reappears, blazing and alive, with their triumphant third full-length album “Legend” to be released on CD/Digita/Tape on April 22nd with vinyl following shortly after mid-May via Profound Lore (USA/RoW) and Eisenwald (EU/UK). Stream the track “Adversary” below and through all other various outlets HERE.

Continuing the triumphant march of previous works, but raising the stakes even higher, “Legend” finds VANUM both expanding and refining their approach, and in turn delivering their most fully realized recording to date.

The core of the band’s sound remains unchanged: unyielding and grandiose Black Metal that traces…

INCANDESCENCE is an epic black metal duo from Quebec, Canada comprised of multi-instrumentalist Philippe Boucher (Beyond Creation, Chthe’ilist) and vocalist Louis-Paul Gauvreau have completed their fourth full-length LP “Le Coeur de l’Homme” set for release on CD/Digital April 15th with vinyl to come later in the summer.

Ever since this project’s inception in 2011, INCANDESCENCE has been a vessel for Boucher, known mostly as a formidable top-tier drummer within the tech-death metal scene due to his involvement in Beyond Creation and Chthe’ilist, to explore and expand his musical horizons in the realm of black metal (which he has also done…

Enigmatic Canadian prog-death metal unit BLACK DEATH CULT have completed work on their new album “Diaspora”, the follow-up to 2019’s “Devil’s Paradise”. With “Diaspora” BLACK DEATH CULT traverse even further into the hidden crevices of the Archaeaeon through six bizarre audial abnormalities of death metal strangeness and perplexity.

“Diaspora” track listing:

1. Neon Cross
2. Knights Of The Headless Order
3. Bloodworms
4. River Of Death
5. Inverse Moon
6. The Fractal Conspiracy

Profound Lore Records is proud to announce the March 18th release of New York-based experimental death metal quartet AEVITERNE’s debut album The Ailing Facade on CD/Digital with vinyl edition following later in the summer.

On The Ailing Facade, AEVITERNE look beyond the destruction of flesh or the punishment of the spirit, instead turning inward to focus on the abyss of consciousness itself: the curse of sentience; the futility of productivity; the breakdown of consensus reality; humanity’s twin drives to propagate and destroy itself, locked in permanent perverse competition.

AEVITERNE formed in 2015 as a vehicle for guitarist and vocalist…