GARDSGHASTR a new black metal entity created by the forces comprised of prolific members culled from black metal artists Bekëth Nexëhmü and Chaos Moon unleash their debut album “Slit Throat Requiem” (out on April 26 on CD/2LP/Digital), an epic bewitching symphonic black metal maelstrom that harks back to the majesty of the Norwegian black metal scene of the ‘90s.

Manifesting in a grandiloquent yet strident and powerful sound with a production that mirrors and ensnares the textures that were once produced from the confines of Grieghallen Studios back in the ancient times, “Slit Throat Requiem” is a relentless black metal…

NY-based experimental prog/post-metal band VAURA (consisting of members from Gorguts, Azar Swan, Dysrhythmia, Kay Dot, and Tombs) have completed work on their new album “Sables” set for release on April 26th on CD/LP/Digital.  This mark’s the collective’s first album since 2013’s “The Missing”.

The ever-evolving quartet VAURA follows up their 2013 album “The Missing” almost six years later with “Sables,” their most refined and contemplative release yet. Introspective and somber, “Sables” finds the band shedding most of its post-metal heaviness in favor of experiments with brooding kosmische musik and the more avant-garde elements of new wave. Consisting of Josh…

Texas based elemental dark metal ensemble DEAD TO A DYING WORLD have completed work on their poignant new epoch “Elegy” set for release on CD/2LP/Digital on April 19th.  Following up 2015’s ambitious “Litany” endeavor, “Elegy” sees the septet take their creative spirit to a new apotheosis resulting in the collective’s most focused and moving opus yet.

With “Elegy”, DEAD TO A DYING WORLD craft their vast aural landscape in such flourish, one consisting of seamless of sonic textures guided by the likes of apocalyptic dark metal, doom metal, and epic cinematic post rock.  With a musical structure that…

The new blackened hardcore entity TOTALED have completed work on their debut album “Lament” set for release on March 29th on CD/LP/Digital.

Exhaling the ashes from acrimony, TOTALED materialized in 2017 and recorded it’s ferociously blackened-hardcore debut album “Lament”.  While lyrically ruminating in the abstract emptiness of an impervious void and grappling with paradoxical duality, the audial gloom of “Lament” conjures sorrowing burial strings that furiously discharge into an onslaught of punishing resonance wrought with crushing despair, depression, and scavenging hopelessness.  Pummeling blasts and d-beats pound into peripherally orbiting shadows of the pixelated black, beneath the pulverizing density…

Philadelphia’s PISSGRAVE have completed work on their new album “Posthumous Humiliation” to be released on March 1st and is now available for pre-order on CD/LP/Digital HERE.

PISSGRAVE are one of the rawest, most depraved, sadistic, and violent bands in present-day death metal and their follow up to 2015’s “Suicide Euphoria” debut, is an album even more dark, surreal, violent, and perverted than its infamous predecessor.

“Posthumous Humiliation” track listing:

1. Euthanasia
2. Canticle Of Ripping Flesh
3. Funeral Inversion
4. Catacombs Of Putrid Chambers
5. Into The Deceased
6. Posthumous Humiliation
7. Emaciated
8. Celebratory Defilement
9. Rusted Wind

Once again produced by Arthur Rizk, “Posthumous Humiliation” is…

US black metal entity VANUM have completed work on their new full-length album “Ageless Fire” set for release on Feb 15 on CD/LP/Digital.  It follows their 2017 “Burning Arrow” EP and their “Realm Of Sacrifice” 2015 debut.

Formed in 2014 as the collaborative project of K. Morgan (Ash Borer, Predatory Light, Superstition) and M. Rekevics (Vorde, Vilkacis, Yellow Eyes, Fell Voices). Drawing from the old traditions of the genre, VANUM play elemental and majestic black metal with an unyielding force and passion, showcasing a sharply focused and dynamic sense of composition marked as much by somber patience as arrogant…