THE GALLERY...

 

 Le Transi de René De Chalon [sculpture]

Ligier Richier

1547

Église Saint-Etienne ancienne collégiale Saint-Pierre. Lorraine, France

SEXTRASH "Sexual Carnage"

GRAYHAZE RECORDS will reissue SEXTRASH classic and cult album "Sexual Carnage". The vinyl version comes  as 180-gram vinyl housed in gatefold jacket with gatefold insert, 700 units in black vinyl and 300 in flesh-coloured vinyl. The 6-panel digipack with 16 page booklet features 1989 EP "XXX" as bonus tracks ,as well as early demo material. More info and preorder at  this location.  Cult!

GRAVEYARD "The Coffin Years"

Spanish band GRAVEYARD are about to release "The Coffin Years" compilation CD via Black Seed Prod. Here goes the tracklist  and a great track to be featured on "The Coffin Years", originally featured on the split 7" with swedish ENTRAILS relesed by War-Anthem Records:

"Into the Mausoleum" [2009 Version]
"One of Them" [2012 Version]
"Wormfeast"
"Cenotaph" [Originally Recorded by BOLT THROWER]
"What Dwells Beneath"
"Deaf Forever" [Originally Recorded by MOTORHEAD]
"The Usurper" [Originally Recorded by CELTIC FROST]
"Ye Incantation"
"Silent Whispers of the Graveless"
"Corporal Jigsore Quandary" [Originally recorded by CARCASS]
"In the Shadow of the Horns" [Originally Recorded by DARKTHRONE]
"Remember the Fallen" [Originally Recorded by SODOM]
"Walking Horrors of the Undead" [Live at Obscene Extreme Festival 2013]
"Blood of Vengeance" [Live at Party San Festival 2013]
"Riding a Pale Horse" [Live at Dark Factory Club 2010]

GOAT SEMEN - "Ego Sum Satana"

After several demos, splits and a couple of live albums, Peruvian GOAT SEMEN will release their debut full-lengh. "Ego Sum Satama" is set for North American and South American release on February 24th via Hells Headbangers [Kvlt will handle the release for Europe and the UK] Here  is the full tracklisting:
Letanias de Satan - Intro
Holocausto
Genocidio
Warfare Noise
Revelaciones
Altares De Pandemonium
Madre Muerte
Hambre
Ego Svm Satana

NECROWRETCH - "With Serpents Scourge"

NECROWRETCH second album "With Serpents Scourge" will be released on February 16th, 2015 via Century Media Records.   www.facebook.com/NecroWretch 

BEST OF 2014!

Another year has passed [away] and here is my classic [?!!!] Top 13 - Best of 2014!

MASTER´S HAMMER "Vagus Vetus"   Last year I was totally sure about the best album of the year, ZEMIAL´s "Nykta" was by far the best album of 2013, this year though, It was not clear for me.  By the mid of this year I had  two strong candidates in mind, and  both proved to be the best releases untill the end of the year. TRIPTYKON´s "Melana Chasmata" is great record, huge,  a dark monument, but in my opinion not as good perhaps as "Eparistera Daimones" was. Thus I chose "Vagus Vetus" by MASTERS HAMMER as the best album of 2014.  I know the album is not as good as "Vracejte Kove Na Misto", and the "plastic" sound of the drums has annoyed some listeners, but the album still has all the talent, creativity , variety and all the "weird" elements that this band always have had, and that special "magic" that allows to distinguish them far above the average... BRAVO!!!    The last place on the podium is for the amazingly obscure, chaotic, bestial and monumental "Death" by TEITANBLOOD. 

TRIPTYKON "Melana Chasmata"

TEITANBLOOD "Death"

SADISTIC INTENT "Reawekening Horrid Thoughts"

BÖLZER "Soma"

DEATHRONATION "Hallow The Dead"

AT THE GATES "At War With Reality"

ATOMIC AGGRESSOR "Sights Of Suffering"

MORTUARY DRAPE "Spiritual Independence"

SOULBURN "The Suffocating Darkness"

VARATHRON "Untrodden Corridors of Hades"

VAMPIRE "Vampire"

NECROS CHRISTOS "Nine Graves"

There were good releases this year that I enjoy and are really worth to mention here: NECROHOLOCAUST "Holocaustic Goat Metal" ORACULUM "Sorcery of The Damned" NUCLEARHAMMER "Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer" DRACENA "Ravenous Bloodlust" PROVOCATOR "Antikristus" DEAD CONGREGATION "Promulgation of The Fall" PRINCIPALITY OF HELL "Fire & Brimstone" OBSCURE BURIAL "Epiphany" MASSACRE "Back Fom Beyond" VANHELD "Relics Of Sulphur Salvation" RIGOR MORTIS "Slaves To The Grave"

I´m not sure talking about the following albums as disappointments [except for OBITUARY "Inked in Blood" which was really a big disappointment] but enven being good albums perhaps I expected more that what they actually offered me: AUTOPSY "Tourniquets Hacksaws and Graves" INCANTATION "Dirges of Elysium" VADER "Tibi Et Igni" EXODUS "Blood In Blood Out" JUDAS PRIEST "Redeemer of Souls" MAYHEM "Esoteric Warfare" HOLY MOSES "Redefined Mayhem"  1349 "Massive Cauldron of Chaos" UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN "Baphometh Pan Shub-Niggurath"

THE GALLERY...

Satan Sitting Upon Throne

Bernard Zuber

1926

 From "La Vie Execrable de Guillemette Babin", Maurice Garçon

MARDUK - "Frontschwein"

MARDUK will release their 13th studio album "Frontschwein" in January  via Century Media. A war-themed album since 1999's  "Panzer Division Marduk". The band revealed the cover art and track listing and began streaming a new song named “Rope of Regret”. See  track listing and listen to the brand new song below:

Frontschwein
The Blond Beast
Afrika
Wartheland
Rope of Regret
Between the Wolf-Packs
Nebelwerfer
Falaise: Cauldron of Blood
Doomsday Elite
503
Thousand-Fold Death

TOTTEN KORPS!

Chilean Death Metal veterans TOTTEN KORPS are about to release their second full-lenght album "Supreme Comanders of  Darkness" and they recently unveiled the first single "The Black Flame Of The Underworld", listen at this location!

DESERTED FEAR "Kingdom of Worms" Vinyl!

The vinyl version of DESERTED FEAR´s second full-lenght "Kingdom Of Worms" is already out, the red-marbeled version is sold out, a few blue-marbeled and black vinyls are left. You can catch your copy through the band´s webshop www.desertedfear.de or on their upcoming concerts with Morbid Angel.