CTODP TOP 13 -I- BEST OF 2017

I - AUTOPSY

“Puncturing The Grotesque”
Peaceville Records

II - AKATHARTA

“Spiritus Immundus”
Pulverised Records

III - DEGIAL

“Predator Reign”
Sepulchral Voice Records

IV - MEFISTO

“Mefisto”
GMR Music Group

V - NECROWRETCH

“Satanic Slavery”
Season Of Mist

VI - HOLOCAUSTO

“War Metal Massacre”
Nuclear War Now!

VII - INFERNÄL MÄJESTY
"No God”
High Roller Records

VIII - VENENUM

“Trance Of Death”
Sepulchral Voice Records

IX - SPECTRAL VOICE

“Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing”
Dark Descent Records

X - POSSESSION

“Exorkizein”
Invictus/Iron Bonehead

XI - NECROT

“Blood Offerings”
Tankcrimes Records

XII - MEMORIAM

“For The Fallen”
Nuclear Blast

XIII - MORBID ANGEL
"Kingdoms Disdained”

Silver Linig Music

My Hails To...

ATTIC "Saanctimonius" / BARATHRUM "Fanatiko" / BEASTIALITY "Worshippers Of Unearthly Perversions" / BELL WITCH Mirror Reaper"  / BLACK BLOOD INVOCATION Aatavistic Offerings To The Sabbatic Goat" / BONEHUNTER "Sexual Panic Human Machine" / CHEVALIER "A Call To Arms" / COME BACK FROM THE DEAD Caro Data Vermibus" / CULT OF EIBON "Lycan Twillight Sorcery" / DEATH YELL "Descent Into Hell" / DIOIVO "O Espertar" / DRACENA "Cursed To The Night" / DREADFUL FATE "The Sin Of Sodom" / EKPYROSIS "Asphyxiating Devotion" / ENSEPULCHER "No Sanctity In Death" / EVIL "Rites Of Evil" / FUNERAL LEECH "The Funereality" / FUOCO FATUO "Backwater" / HATE MANIFESTO "To Those Who Glorified Death" / HELLWITCH "At Rest" / IMMOLATION "Atonement" / INCANTATION "Profane Nexus" / INCONCESSUS LUX LUCIS "The Crowning Quietus" / INSULTERS "Metal Still Means Danger" /  INTO COFFIN "The Majestic Supremacy Of Comsic Caos" / IRON MAIDEN "The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter" / LUCIFER´S CHALICE "The Pact" / MORK "Eremittens Dal" / NECROMANTE "The Magickal Presence of Occult Forces" / OBITUARY "Obituary" / OBSCURE BURIAL "Obscure Burial" / ORACULUM "Always Higher" / PARADISE LOST "Medusa" / PHERETRUM "Alienated Demons" / SAMAEL "Hegemony" / SATYRICON "Deep Calleth Upon Deep" / SCÁTH NA DÉITE "Pledge Nothing But Flesh" / SCHIZOPHRENIC DEATH "Schizophrenic Death" / SKELETHAL "Of The Depths..." / SOULROT "Nameless Hideous Manifestations" / SUMMON "Aesthetics of Demise" / TOL SIRION "The Ashes Of A Dark Heart" / UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN "Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X) / UNDER THE CHURCH "Supernatural Punishment" / URN "The Burning" / VALLENFYRE " Fear Those Who Fear Him" / VAMPIRE "With Primeval Force" / VENOM INC. "Avé" / WEREGOAT "Pestilential Rites of infernal Fornication" 

MEMORIAM "Reduced To Zero" Preview Track

MEMORIAM revealed the first single and details about the upcoming debut full-length “For The Fallen” to be released on March 24th through Nuclear Blast.

The impressive preview song “Reduced To Zero” was unveiled, to which the vocalist Karl Willetts refers with the following comments: “Reduced To Zero’ is a comment on the times that we live in. In a world that is dominated by fear, hatred and intolerance, the song is a direct result of Brexit and Trump and the general rise of right wing nationalistic xenophobia.”

Besides Karl words, there are also interesting details launched and commented through Nuclear Blast official press release, such as Dan Seagrave´s killer artwork. The artist stated on the cover artwork:

“Starting from the bands thoughts on visualising a kind of funeral procession with a theme of combat, war and in conjunction with the title For The Fallen. As with all my works, I then attempt to make the information evolve in my minds eye, and allow imagination to take over those elements. But retaining the core concept. The painting thus depicts.

“A funeral procession moving through a long war torn cityscape. Twisted shards of towers & buildings. A cathedral facade stands defiantly, yet riddled with destruction and decay. At closer inspection the structures all seem to be infected with an element of natural decomposition, as if organically inclined to fade with the demise of the season.The season itself lost in a timeless void.

“The figures appear as remnants of once soldiers, now strange in their gathered mass. Drawn forwards by the drifting momentum of the procession. Unaware of their emaciated state they follow the commander. The Commander’s elongated appearance is tattered and almost creature like, with the combat style elements and gas mask falsely presenting as a costume.

“The procession appears almost ghost like, ancient and serene, slowly moving through this eerie place as if forever.

“Far in the background there might still be a war happening, but perhaps in another time. As we view a sub level of reality. Lost in the present. Captured in light, where the war had passed through and we are left in a ghost biology. Where chemicals and history meet to create an inescapable surrealism.”

For what I´ve heard through "Reduce To Zero" I'm sure the album will be among my favorites of 2017. Listen to the song and check tracklist below. For The Fallen is also available for pre-order in various formats here.

LP
Side A
Memoriam
War Rages On
Reduced To Zero
Corrupted System
Side B
Flatline
Surrounded (By Death)
Resistance
Last Words

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MEMORIAM "The Hellfire Demos"

MEMORIAM will release a new EP, “The Hellfire Demos” through Nuclear Blast.  The EP will be released on January 20th, 2017, available as 7” (green, clear, and white vinyl). The band announced that they had sign a record deal with Nuclear Blast for the release of the debut full-length “For The Fallen”, however, the release of this EP will shorten the wait.  

"The Hellfire Demos" features the tracks “Drone Strike” and “Surrpounded (By Death)” (already released as flexy disc with the November issue of Decibel Magazine).

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