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Almost a year on from the release of their debut album, Altars, and following an acclaimed set at Bloodstock festival this past weekend, KROH have returned with a brand new release that showcases the Birmingham-based five-piece at their best. Pyres will be set free into the world on Friday, October 13, 2017 via Devizes Records.

Primary songwriter and KROH mastermind, Paul Kenney, has demonstrated his eclectic influences on this latest release as he aims to match Portishead with My Dying Bride, Adam and the Ants with Mayhem. The indelible blueprint laid down by his previous bands – Mistress and Fukpig – have been overlaid by a desire to create something with a much more pop-oriented vibe.

Paul comments “The track Rigor Mortis came from an At The Gates type riff that Paul (Harrington, guitar) originally wrote for Anaal Nathrakh. In its original form it was twice the speed and meant to be played over blast beats. I was trying out an idea that I wanted to be like a Bangles song – so we slowed it down to half time, and got the song I had envisioned. The whole release comes from a mindset of thinking about what Mayhem’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas would sound like minus blast beats, and put into a pop format with clean vocals.” Continue reading →

Seattle doom metal duo, BELL WITCH, have today confirmed details of their upcoming, third full length album. With Mirror Reaper BELL WITCH have created a truly enormous work – one continuous 83-minute piece unfolding as a single track. The album will be released on October 20, 2017 by Profound Lore Records

Engineered and mixed by veteran producer Billy Anderson (Swans, Sleep, Neurosis), the duo of Dylan Desmond (bass, vocals) and Jesse Shreibman (drums, vocals, organ) have pushed the band’s sound further than it’s ever gone before. While retaining the monolithic heaviness of their previous releases, Mirror Reaper sees the band explore the more meditative, melancholy, and introspective aspects to their sound through the introduction of long, lonely organ passages and the return of honorary BELL WITCH member, vocalist Erik Moggridge (Aerial Ruin), offering a prominent presence. The artwork for Mirror Reaper was painted by Mariusz Lewandowski. Continue reading →

DISTANT LANDSCAPE, the Marco Spiridigliozzi’s solo project, is born in June 2015 with the creation of Insights Album: a very intimate and rich of atmospheres work, that had to remain private in the author’s intentions. In July 2015 Marco decides to involve Andrea Biondi to record the drums parts. The enthusiasm and the energy that come out from this collaboration convinces the author to develop the project. The studio work begins in March 2016 and it finishes, after a long period of mixing, in December 2016.

In the meantime Fabio Crognale on the bass and Alessio Rossetti on the guitar became part of the band. The DISTANT LANDSCAPE come to life and begin to prepare themselves to play live. In February 2017 Francesca Giuditta joined the line up, the only female voice in the album and already member, as Marco Spiridigliozzi, of the dreaming doom gothic metal band RAVING SEASON. Francesca is not only the singer of the band, she’s also the keyboardist.

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Following the success of their epic debut full-length “Blessed He With Boils”, the masters of Cinematic Black Metal are back with their massive double album “Of Erthe and Axen”.

Released in two Acts (Act I August 22nd, 2017, Act II October 17th, 2017 – via Erthe and Axen Records), “Of Erthe and Axen” is a prequel to the tales woven throughout Xanthochroid’s earlier releases. In the world of Etymos, older brother Sindr (better known as Ereptor) returns to the island nation of Axen seven years after he left to join the ranks of the Erthen military. What follows is a tale of love, jealousy, magic, war, and deceit as younger brother Thanos learns of his brother’s true motivations. Continue reading →

In the dark months of 2007, the brothers articulated an idea to reformulate the traditional death metal by composing raw, sincere and uncompromising music. Aspiring to reach outside the tiny speck of dirt called Denmark, an old friend and metal brother joined and the odyssey with the zeal equivalent to the brothers.

Relentlessly the triad strive to excel and explore whats beyond the paradigms of metal.

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Assembled with the invaluable help of producer Tuomas Kokko (GHOST BRIGADE, SWALLOW THE SUN etc.), the album moves dynamically across different soundscapes, reaching from crushingly heavy guitar riffs to more etheric, atmospheric parts.

Unlike their debut album ‘Of Wings Unfolding’, which was a concept album with a strong narrative and a storyline (strengthened by a novel published alongside the physical copy) the songs on ‘Deadweight’ stand on their own. Delivered with both screaming and clean vocals, the songs explore issues from misuse of power and societal responsibility to basic human characteristics, with very personal experiences. Due the rawness and personal approach, the album is the strongest emotional outburst of SKEIN’s career. Continue reading →

GHOST OF MARY plays melodic death metal with symphonic and orchestral elements borrowed from classical music. The band, active from the early months of 2014, recorded its first concept album “Oblivaeon” , an original allegory about life and death. The compositions are structured with progressive architectures and immersed in a dark atmosphere. The songwriting is articulated and distinctly melodic, characterized by a heavy metal rhythm section and swedish death guitar riffs. The voice alternates different styles, from screaming and growling vocals to clean and scratched ones. The orchestral scores of piano, violin, viola and cello make the music of Ghost of Mary an evocative journey through time.
Let the journey begin. Continue reading →

FUNERALGLADE is a melodic death metal band from Turku, Finland, consisting of five young (from 16 to 18 year old) and passionate musicians. FUNERALGLADE mixes influences from many different genres, such as Melodic Death Metal, Deathcore, Groove Metal and Black Metal. This combination provides the listener with mesmerizing lead guitars before plunging into a gruesome swirling havok of riff-insanity backed by intense vocal work and bludgeoning drums. The songs revolve around death in all of it’s forms, ranging from despair to power, from longing to hatred. Continue reading →