22 June 2018

SOUNDS FROM THE DARK PAST...





ABHORER
"Phlegethonic Sybaritical Demimonde"
Zygotical Sabbatory Unabapt
1996 Shivadarshana Records

19 June 2018

ABHORRENCE To release "Megalohydrothalassophobic" EP



Finnish death metallers ABHORRENCE are back and the band recorded a brand new EP entitled "Megalohydrothalassophobic" (megawhaaaaat?!!), to be released on September 15th by Svart Records.

The EP features 4 tracks + intro, the opening track "Anthem For The Anthropocene" was premiered by Decibel Mag. Check the brutal track and tracklist below...



Tracklist
Intro - The Mesh
Anthem For The Anthropocene
The Four Billion Year Dream
Hyperobject Beneath The Waves
The End has Already Happened





SOUNDS FROM THE DARK PAST...





DARKNESS (Chi)
"Struggle Till Death"
Demo I
1989 C.K.P.V. Productions

15 June 2018

APOKALYPTIC RAIDS To Release "The Pentagram"


APOKALYPTIC RAIDS revealed cover and tracklisting for the new album "The Pentagram"

The fifth full lenght of the Brazilian old school metallers will be released via Hell´s Headbangers on LP, CD and cassette.  Release date, first track and preorder info will be announced shortly.

Tracklisting:
Necromaniac (Is Back)
Satan laughs
Victory Beyond Imagination
The Ghost Of The Hammer
My Triumph
Occult & Real
Ltter From Lucifer
Keep My Grave Open
The Story Of Pope Joan





SOUNDS FROM THE DARK PAST...





ISENGARD
"Total Death"
Hostmorke
1995 Moonfog Productions

13 June 2018

ABIGAIL "Far East Black Metal Onlsaught" 7"EP


Japan´s ABIGAIL will release a new 7" EP, "Far East Black Metal Onslaught".

The...millionthousandhundredsomething EP of the Black-thrashers will be released on Aaugust 7th through Hellprod Records on 7" vinyl (limited to 200 copies, die hard version limited to 30 copies (ep+t-shirt+sticker+poster). It will feature the following tracks: 

Unholy Bestial Fire
Nuclear Hammer
We Need Beer And Whisky
Black Satan Of War






SOUNDS FROM THE DARK PAST...





LOUDBLAST
"Steering For Paradise"
Disincarnate
1991 Semetery Records

11 June 2018

INTERVIEW with NECRODEATH



NECRODEATH is undoubtedly an iconic band in the Italian scene and the whole underground. Without any sign of fatigue the band remains faithful to its old school spirit. Good proof of this is the recent album "The Age Of Dead Chist". To talk more about it Gl (bass) and Pier (guitars) answered the following questions.  Sustain the reign of the undead...


Lets start talking about the new album, which from the beg you said that it was a return to the old style, when does the idea of going back to the roots come?
GL: the idea of this album was born last year from our desire to return to compose and record new material as we did at the beginning, finding ourselves in the rehearsal room and playing together. we also wanted to return to compose instinctive and direct songs, which represented our live sound
What were exactly your musical inspirations towards the songriting and sound?
GL: after many years we have developed our own sound and our way of composing, so we do not inspire to anyone, but it is inevitable that many bands of our musical background can be discovered by listening to our records. for example in the last album we understand that we have in our blood, band like Slayer, Sepultura, Voivod
Tell us about the re recording of "The Return of The Undead" , how was to work with  C. Wild from Bulldozer?
GL: AC Wild is a close friend of ours and we often involve him during our live shows. We wanted him for "the return of the undead" because that song taken from "Into the macabre" refers to the years when in Italy we were just a few to play extreme music, in fact in the 80s we, Bulldozer and Schizo were the progenitors of Italian extreme metal and re-propose this song in 2018 to the new generations, makes understand how we played in those times!
How is your relationship with scarlet records
GL: from the reunion of 1999 onwards, we have collaborated with Scarlet Records, which is one of the few Italian labels that produces extreme music. Scarlet Records has always left us free to decide what we wanted to do with our music and has never imposed any restrictions on us. This for us is very important because it does not limit us to follow the fashions or to submit to the rules of the market, in fact this freedom can be found in an album like Idiosyncrasy, which is perhaps the most extreme and progressive album we have, because it consists of a single 40 minute song!
What are you missing from the old days?
PIER: Maybe nothing is missing, but of course everything has changed.  Old days there was not internet but is there was a gig everything know about the gig, location etc.  We bought newspaper the days of pubblication because they were the only chance to know news about bands. Today we live with smartphones, we know every news just few second after the pubblication but we have not time to read it and so on...
What do you value the most about necrodeath's discography? Would you say there are moments of what you would define as low or unpleasant moments in your career and others with more personal satisfaction? Could you describe some of those moments?
PIER: We have not sad moments because we have happy about any of our album. The people reaction was different during years. For example when we released the album "Draculea" that we fell perfect in Necrodeath trademark, many people and newspapers described it as "experimental". We also recorded albums as "The 7 deadly sins" or the last "The Age Of Death Christ" that sounds really great for us, and also for people world wide
What´s your view about the current italian scene? I´d like to know your opinion about new/young bands and the old bands. What do you see as positive in the current scene compared to the old times?
GL: There are many good underground bands here in Italy but always less local where you can play this kind of music. We are invaded by tribute bands and it is increasingly difficult and rare to find promoters and locals who appreciate original music. The extreme Italian scene has fallen in the last 10 years, even if we have a close circle of fans that always follows us. The current Italian metal scene is very different from that of 20 years ago, today everything is faster and often the new bands follow the fashions of the moment and then disappear when the fashion ends, while in the past maybe there was more determination, even because it was much more difficult to offer their music to the public. Today the globalization of computer technology helps a lot in the dissemination of the new bands, but not everything is good then we are saturated with so much junk music
In 2016 you released a cool split EP with Cadaveria, which I enjoyed a lot with both bands payint tribute to each other, and when you did a cool “Helter Skelter" cover, tell me some words about the split, Cadaveria and the songs.
GL: In 2016, we released a split album together with the Cadaveria and we celebrated the release of this album with an only one night special show in Italy. the association with the Cadaveria stems from the fact that both I and Flegias are part of both bands and it was therefore natural to give birth to this album. Also it was fun to play the songs of the other band according to their own style. A similar experience had already happened with the 1990 split album Mondocane with friends Schizo. With Mondooscuro we recorded 2 unreleased tracks, 2 covers, 2 songs from the other band, so it's a split album that varies a lot, even for the style of each band.
What can you tell about the previous album and headhunter ep, what are the significant differences of that material compared with the new album?
PIER: We recorded the song Headhunter togeter with Tony Dolan and Mantas (Venom Inc & MPire of Evil) that are guests in the Ep. It was an amazing experience. We played many times in the same stage with them (many italian festivals) and We shared the stage together for great and funny jams.
Regarding all your gigs live, what would you tell about best memories, the best yoy played, which band or bands impressed you most live, funny anecdotes...
GL: for me it was the 2006 tour together with Marduk, because it was my first tour together with Necrodeath with the current lineup. During which tour we got to know each other and we tied a lot, so I have good memories of everything that happened in a month around Europe, awesome!
Which albums released during this year so far impressed you? 
PIER: I recently listened to "Hadeon" (2018 Pestilence album) and I really liked it, great songs and riffs remembering first album of them.
What´s the strangest place and the most shocking place you have been?
GL: We've seen a lot of strange places, but one that I remember now was around Vienna many years ago when we were on tour. We played in a castle full of people very excited and clearly Nazi .... there were many strange substances around .... I can not tell more ....
What can we expect from Necrodeath the current year? What are the band´s future plans?
GL: Throughout 2018 we have many concerts to do and we are often around. For the new year we have new proposals in mind that I can not reveal. Surely we will continue to carry around our music and meet friends who follow us.
Thanks for your time , last words are yours…
GL: thanks to you for the interview, we invite you to follow us on our websites www.necrodeath.net and to buy our album, which you can also download online on Amazone ITunes. Follow us in our next live where we will play the new album.







FUNERAL MIST To Release "Hekatomb"

FUNERAL MIST will release the third full-lenght "Hecatomb", via Norma Evangelium Diaboli and The Ajna Offensive on LP/CD on June 15th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The full tracklist reads like this:

In Nomine Domini
Naught But Death
Shedding Skin
Cockatrice
Metamorphosis
Within The Without
Hosanna
Pallor Mortis

Pre Order the album through FUNERAL MIST bandcamp page here.  More info at:




8 June 2018

NECROWRETCH To Release Live Album



Triumph Ov Death Records (under license of Season Of Mist) will release next September a live album of NECROWRETCH.

The MLP "Welcome To Your Funeral" will be available only on vinyl (limited to 500 units), and it was recorded during the band´s Satanic Slavery tour. 
More info at: 





MALTHUSIAN To Release Debut Album "Across Death"



September 7th is the international release date for MALTHUSIAN´s debut album "Across Death"

It will be released by Invictus Productions, Dark Descent Records will handle the album´s North American release. 

"Remmant Fauna" is the first track unveiled...


 


SOUNDS FROM THE DARK PAST...





MORTUARY DRAPE
"Into The Catacomba"
Necromancy
1987 Demo



MARDUK "Viktoria" Video Trailer



MARDUK and Century Media released a cool video trailer for "Viktoria" with some personal words of Morgan Hakansson.  Worth checking out!






7 June 2018

ANGKOR VAT / PHERETRUM Split 7" EP



Death comes from...Uruguay.  Demons of the uruguayan scene keep the old spirit alive and continue the atack with dirty and underground sound.
Death-thrash metal veterans ANGKOR VAT joined forces with the new blood -yet- old school blood of PHERETRUM to release a killer 7".

"A New Beginning...The Blackshit of Uruguayan Depths" features a live track from each band, (recorded at ANGKOR VAT comeback show in Montevideo, 08/12/2017), ANGKOR VAT ´s classic "Pray (for your place in hell)" and PHERETRUM´s "Alienated Demons".

The release is strictly  limited to 100 copies so be quick (or be...quick) and order your copy. You can try contacting the following email address southernhellish@hotmail.com, or through the following different sources...












SOUNDS FROM THE DARK PAST...





EXHORDER
"Desecrator"
Slaughter In The Vatican
1990 R/C Records

5 June 2018

SOUNDS FROM THE DARK PAST...





CARCASS
"Incarnated Solvent Abuse"
Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious
1991 Earache Records