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Nox Irae: Here The Dead Live

November 6, 2019
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Members of the esteemed bands Catacomb have joined forces with members of Affliction Gate to create something that is ultimately skin peeling heavy, and steeped in the sound of ancient death metal. Their debut EP titled Here The Dead Live features six total tracks that blend old-school death metal and elements of thrash metal together to create an unholy, ripping and entirely memorable effort. You will find no filler here as Nox Irae shoot straight out of the gate as soon as you press play to offer you something that will surely melt your face from your skull and boil the blood that courses through your veins.

Gnarled, nasty and bone gnawing, Here The Dead Live is a flesh tearing and skull rattling effort that gets you bashing your brain against your skull in no time. Each of the six tracks that are harbored within this title will worm their way under your skin and make their home among your brain for some time to come. As heavy and neck snapping as each track is, they are just as memorable and catchy all the same making you come back for more and more of your insatiable death metal fix.

With buzzing flesh picking riffs that are coupled with ever pummeling drum work and bass lines that will rattle the spinal fluid straight out of your spine, monstrous, grit filled vocals pierce their way through the wall of buzzing death to tie everything together. Here The Dead Live is a monstrous, impressive, gnarled, nasty, flesh peeling and brain bruising effort that you simply will not be able to get enough of. Each cut within this offering is pure death with elements of thrash thrown in the mix for good neck snapping measure.

Barreling forth from the drop of the first note, Nox Irae offer up a sound that is gritty, and dripping in ancient death, pummeling you within an inch of your life until all is said and done. Forever ceaseless and disregarding of human life, these death dealers march forth from cut one to cut six leaving you a bloodied and bruised mess once all is said and done. With that said, even though you will be left near lifeless, you still find yourself coming back for more flesh tearing, and lobotomizing, grisly death. This debut EP is a solid one and a stand out for sure, and it will be exciting to see what Nox Irae has to offer in the future based off of this excellent debut.

Here The Dead Live will be unleashed November 15 through Transcending Obscurity Records.

Check out the official video for the song All Is Over from the upcoming release below!

Links To Follow:

Nox Irae Facebook

Nox Irae Bandcamp

Transcending Obscurity Official Site

Deivos: Casus Belli

November 2, 2019
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Hailing from Poland and originating in 1997, Deivos has properly devastated, mutilated and maimed all of these years. Following their 2017 record Endemic Divine, these crypt defilers are set to unleash their next offering later this month titled Casus Belli. This release comes packed with eight total offerings of nothing but flesh shredding and skull piercing technical death metal. From beginning to end you become trapped in a mayhem fueled vortex of razor sharp death that tears you limb from limb leaving your head only hanging on by a thin thread. There isn’t a moment of reprieve or solace throughout this thirty-six minute onslaught as what you come face to face with is pure, unfiltered devastation.

In pure technicality, brutality and unrepentant savagery, Deivos unleash hell and then some. Each of the eight tracks that are present within this offering are just as butchering and mind splintering as the last making the entire record to be a destructive and devastating affair. Never once does Deivos let up as they press onward, ushering forth nothing but mangling and twisting death metal that leaves you as nothing more than a contorted heap of bones and flesh.

Deivos doesn’t wait around for you to get too comfortable as they fly straight out of the gate with a furious and ever slashing assault that snaps your head back before you know it. Casus Belli hits and hits hard and often leaving you an absolute wreck once all is said and done. One track after the next aims to take you to an early grave as each of the eight offerings here are just as punishing and caustic as the last. Casus Belli barrels forth with complete disregard to your life as it rips straight through you.

Heavy, tormenting, twisting, technical and skull sheering and more, Casus Belli is a release to behold. In thirty-six minutes you are treated to top notch technical death metal that does not hold back as it rips and shreds through you for each one of those minutes. Through and through,Casus Belli is a destroying and beheading effort, one that is a ceaseless onslaught of pure wreckage and devastation. Casus Belli is also a release that should not be slept on or looked over as it provides you with some seriously incredible death metal, period.

Casus Belli will be unleashed November 29 through Selfmadegod Records.

Links To Follow:

Deivos Facebook

Deivos Bandcamp

Selfmadegod Records Official Site

Cleric: Serpent Psalms

October 23, 2019
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Originally starting their devastating conquest as a doom project, Cleric quickly shifted gears in just a year shaping in to a gnarled, buzz filled, crypt torching death metal outfit. In 2013 this juggernaut of death unleashed Gratum Inferno, and this year they are set to unleash yet another masterful monster titled Serpent Psalms. Packed with nine total tracks, this expansive, devastating and down right flesh devouring offering treats you to top notch death metal and nothing but. This effort is an ever flesh flaying and mind altering effort that leaves you soulless and lifeless once all has concluded. Serpent Psalms is a wicked and twisted offering, one that never relents and forever pulls you asunder to a never ending, venomous darkness.

Cleric does a great job of trapping you within the gnarled halls of their labyrinth of death from the drop of the first note. Forever twisting and contorting their wicked death riddled sound, Cleric offer up a truly expansive and shifting sound that takes your mind down corridor after corridor of horror and terror. In sickening combination of life expunging brutality, sinister melodies and an underlying deadly atmosphere, Cleric offer up a sound here that is something truly to behold. Each of the nine cuts of raw, buzzing death metal that are present here are just as sharp, gnashing and down right spine snapping as each other.

Unrepentant and ceaseless, Cleric march forth with malevolent and malicious intent marking you for an early exit to the after life. Serpent Psalms is a wicked and devilish record, one that steals your life leaving you as nothing more than a husk. Warping, destructive, brain skewering, menacing, terrorizing and so many more descriptors can be used to understand this release. The fact remains that Serpent Psalms is a truly anvil heavy, skull sheering effort that will worm its way into your brain and manifest itself there for quite some time.

Cleric remains impressive here with this record as they show off their truly great death metal chops as they offer up nothing but putrid, buzzing and blood letting death. Through and through, Serpent Psalms is a great record as it treats you to nine excellent tracks one right after the next. There isn’t a track here that lacks anything as each one is executed and written well making the entire release to be well rounded and cohesive. Serpent Psalms is simply just an outstanding death metal release, one that you would be foolish to look over.

Serpent Psalms will be unleashed October 25 through Redefining Darkness Records and Raw Skull Records.

Links To Follow:

Pre-Order for Redefining Darkness

Pre-Order for Raw Skull Records

Vastum: Orificial Purge

October 22, 2019
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Bay Area corpse hoarders Vastum crawl up from their rotting, fetid tomb after four long years to provide you with sickening death in disgusting heaps. Their upcoming offering titled Orificial Purge is packed to the bowel bursting point with six new offerings that are as twisted, gruesome and gut churning as you can imagine. From beginning to end you come face to face with nothing but putrid, flesh flaying death metal that does not cease until you are left faceless and lifeless in a damp and decaying grave. Potent and savage, Vastum march onward from track to track, trapping you within their cyclone of horror and grisly obscene death.

With their potent brand of brutality that is mixed with an ever soul destroying atmosphere and vivid gruesome lyrics, Vastum offer up a distinctive brand of death that cannot be mistaken. Ever skull piercing and brain skewering, Orificial Purge twists and turns through each of the six terrorizing offerings within this warped title to offer you up something that is truly vein bursting. This is true, pure grisly gnarled death and nothing but. With buzzing skin peeling riffs that are supplemented by bone shattering drum work and a savage dual vocal attack, Vastum provides you with a sickening and life expunging sound that leaves your face cleaved clean off.

Unsettling and horrifying, Orificial Purge bulldozes forth with great potency and sharpness leaving your head hanging on by just a thread. Vastum stomps forth with the intent to let your blood run free from your collapsed veins and add you to their ever growing collection of fetid corpses. Each track is just as ripping and crypt defiling as the last. This is a cohesive and very well rounded executing effort. Vastum roll out one track after another, lobotomizing you before you know it. Vastum’s death doom style of play is incredibly venomous and sharp as it slices you and drags you asunder to the rotting depths.

Vastum never ceases to disappoint as they have continuously rolled out one excellent offering after the next and this is certainly no exception. With six sickening tracks to its title, Orificial Purge is a down right skull shattering and limb ripping release that will surely lead you to an early meeting with the reaper. Ever savage, steeped in brutality and unrepentant death, Orificial Purge is one hell of a release, one that aims straight for your life from the drop of the first gnarled note. The four years were more than worth the wait as Vastum has created a release here that is pretty fucking perfect.

Orificial Purge will be unleashed from its crypt October 25 through 20 Buck Spin.

Links To Follow:

Vastum Bandamp

Vastum Facebook

20 Buck Spin Official Site

Third Chamber: Harvesting Our Decay

October 19, 2019
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**Third Chamber**: *Harvesting Our Decay*

With death metal as their wicked foundation, Third Chamber twists in other genres such as hardcore to create a ripping, punchy and all together skull bashing sound. Their upcoming five track EP titled Harvesting Our Decay is ferocious, explosive and down right neck bending heavy. If you aren’t head banging to this release you may as well not even have a pulse. Each track does a great job of getting right underneath your skin and right in your face, shredding you limb from limb until the final note rings through your speakers.

As explosive and accosting as each of the five tracks here are, the lyrical content is just as explosive and in your face as each track deals with the current state of affairs from around the world. From mental illness to corrupt religious organizations to the exploitation of our natural resources and more, each track is charged and ready to hit as hard as it can. Third Chamber is unapologetic as to who hears their socially and politically charged lyrics as they are as in your face as they can be and shoved down your throat whether you want them to be or not. The lyrical content and the themes that run through this EP are as heavy as the music itself is and that really will grab your attention.

Potency doesn’t just run through the lyrical content throughout this five track EP either as each track is just as heavy and pummeling as the last. Flaying you with ever skin ripping riffs and ever skull blasting drum work, Third Chamber incorporate hellish and gritty vocals that cut through the wall of sonic devastation to provide you with a venomous and ever spine bending sound. The five tracks that are attached to this title get your head banging and your brain bashing against its bone like prison in no time. Without wasting any time or filtering in any gimmicks or fluff, Third Chamber offer up a true, pummeling and blood letting sound that leaves you beaten and bruised once all is said and done.

Harvesting Our Decay is one hell of a debut from these death dealers from Alberta, Canada. These cuts are very solid and very well executed making this entire release well rounded and cohesive. This is an impressive debut, and the word to the wise would be to keep an eye out for these monsters in the future.

Harvesting Our Decay will be unleashed November 22.

Check out the official lyric video for the title track below!

You can pre-order this release here!

Links To Follow:

Third Chamber Facebook

Third Chamber Bandcamp

Nemesis: The Beginning Of The End

October 17, 2019
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Arising from the depths comes death metal outfit Nemesis, and bringing along with them their three track EP titled The Beginning Of The End. With what this release lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality. Through the three offerings that are present here, you are provided with unrelenting, ceaseless death metal that aims to take your head off and bury you in a shallow grave. You will find no gimmicks here as what you come face to face with are three true savage and ever flesh ripping death metal tracks that leave your face cleaved clean off of your skull. There are no intros, no outros, just pure gutting death.

The Beginning Of The End is a tight, technical and cohesive EP that rips you to shreds from the drop of the first note onward. Each of the three tracks that make an appearance here are all equally shredding and vein bursting as each one barrels forth with the intent to maim and mutilate leaving you nothing more than just a stain of red. Ever potent and destructive, Nemesis pushes forth providing you with a true life threatening death metal assault.

From the get go you become under siege by riffs that pick you apart, drum work that barrels straight through your chest, spine shaking bass lines and entirely monstrous vocals. Everything comes together in twisted concert to provide you with a lobotomizing and ever gutting effort. Even though there are only three tracks to The Beginning Of The End, each of the tracks pack more than a punch as each one leaves your head dangling by a thread until the final note of the final track finally lops it off.

Gritty, relentless, technical, savage, blood letting, cranium splitting and more, Nemesis has it all here within these three offerings. Once you finish your first listen, you keep coming back for more and more death metal mayhem as you can’t seem to get enough of this damn near perfect EP. Each track is a pretty perfectly executed death metal machine that aims straight for your throat from the very beginning never to relent until you are left cold and lifeless. The Beginning Of The End is a great EP, one that you should not look over.

The Beginning Of The End will be unleashed October 28 through Necromance Records.

Links To Follow:

Nemesis Bandcamp

Nemesis Facebook

Deform/Mortuous: Lamenting Reflections

October 11, 2019
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**Deform/Mortuous**: *Lamenting Reflections*

Hailing from New Jersey comes Deform and hailing from California come death dealers Mortuous and together they summon a three track EP titled Lamenting Reflections dedicated to former Deform vocalist/guitarist Tim Ninerell. Deform takes the first two tracks and Mortuous brings up the third and final track. Both bands play a brand of sickening and grisly old-school death metal that leaves you as nothing more than a bloodied pulp once all is said and done. Each of the offerings here from each band are just as vile and twisted as each other making this to be a true terrorizing and grave digging effort all within three short offerings.

Deform begins the split with the first two tracks, one of those being a near one minute intro that comes complete with near serene guitar work and a long clip of that of a crying child. Once the intro fades in to the ever quickening darkness, their second track takes over. Titled Behind The Mirrors, this cut is a true, gritty, bleeding raw and pummeling offering. Through near four and a half minutes you come face to face with flesh tearing riffs that are only to be aided by ever bone cracking drumming, spine rattling bass work and gritty, inhuman vocals. Behind The Mirrors is straight forward, twisting, flesh peeling brutality and nothing but. There is nothing here to cut the brutality as Deform storms through this track leaving you in pure twisted mayhem.

The third and final track to appear within this split is the track by Mortuous titled Funerealm. This five minute offering wastes no time as it explodes through your speakers immediately providing you with a true sonic assault. From beginning to end you become shredded by razor sharp, tearing riffs that are supplemented by tumultuous drum work and vocals that are as savage and bleeding raw as they can be. Funerealm is a quick, ever slicing and deadly track that offers up near five whole minutes of nothing but stellar death metal that is sure to leave your ear drums shredded and your scalp flayed. Funerealm is a pure onslaught of death metal that does not quit until the final gnarled note has pierced through your ear drums. This is a great track to end the split as it leaves you coming back for more and more death metal mayhem as you reach for the play button until it is worn out.

RIP Tim Ninerell

Lamenting Reflections will be unleashed October 31st. You can pre-order here and here.

Links To Follow:

Deform Facebook

Mortuous Facebook

Mortuous Bandcamp

Aeons Abyss: Impenitent

October 8, 2019
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No photo description available. — **Aeons Abyss**: *Impenitent*

Arising from crypts of old comes Aeons Abyss and their upcoming offering titled Impenitent. This release features eight total tracks that are executed in the vein of old-school death metal as each track gives off a rotting and raw sound. Complete with melodic yet flesh tearing riffs, chest cracking blasting drum work and vocals that have an inhuman range, Aeons Abyss offer up a true grisly death metal treat here. With the run time topping off at just under forty minutes, you are treated to well performed and executed death metal for every single second of the run time. Each track is just as good as the last as there is not a track that disappoints or comes up lacking in any way.

Impenitent begins with the title track that starts off with a near melancholic, atmospheric sound that lulls you in to a false sense of security before the track takes off and buries you deep among the droves of riffs and blasting drum work. Aeons Abyss weaves intricate labyrinths of death right before you having you wander through each twist and turn as you have your face cleaved straight off of your skull. Each of the eight tracks that are harbored within the walls of this offering as just as intricate and technical as the last making this to be a ripping and mind warping death metal release.

With elaborate and intricate song writing, great technical ability and plenty of atmosphere, Aeons Abyss brings everything together nicely to create a well rounded and entirely cohesive and comprehensive effort. There isn’t a cut on this record that is lacking in any area as each one is just as solid and well executed as the last. Impenitent is solid through and through as it provides you with eight ripping, technical, atmospheric and down right intricate tracks one right after the next. Impenitent is an entertaining and engaging effort, one that will surely get your head banging until you snap your neck.

Through and through Impenitent is as great offering. Aeons Abyss style is very firmly rooted within the old-school death metal style of the 90’s, never to bite that style however, only to make it their own twisting labyrinth of death and mayhem. Be sure you are prepared for this unfolding, twisting death metal mayhem.

Impenitent will be unleashed November 1.

You can pre-order this record right here.

Links To Follow:

Aeons Abyss Facebook

Dismemberment: Arc Of Ancients

October 4, 2019
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Five years after their debut full length Embrace the Dark, Ohio destroyers Dismemberment are back with their follow up full length titled Arc Of Ancients. Coming complete with nine total tracks, Dismemberment offer up a true, dynamic and heavy assault that has you twisting your neck before you realize. While there is a lot of 90’s death metal influence at work all throughout this release, Dismemberment adds modern twists to those influences to create a sound all their own. Each of the nine tracks that are present here are well written and well executed offerings of death that are overall very strong and very potent.

Dismemberment does’t beat around the bush here as they offer up a straight forward death metal assault from beginning to end. There are no gimmicks here or filler of any kind as what you are presented are nine straight offerings of pure, neck bending death metal. Arc Of Ancients is heavy yet captivating all the same as Dismemberment ladle upon you one track after the next of glorious, technical, highly entertaining and memorable death metal.

With technical riffage combined with scorching solos as well as acrobatic drum work and a vocal deliver that is gritty and powerful, Dismemberment create a sound here that is undeniable. Each track is a memorable, highly addictive and entertaining offering that embeds themselves deep in your brain for some time to come. As a whole, Arc Of Ancients is a very solid record, one that you will be able to easily put on repeat and never get tired of.

Through and through, Arc Of Ancients is a very good record. With this release you are treated to nine great tracks one after the next that get your head banging and you bashing your brain against its skeletal prison in no time. If you are a fan of death metal or old-school death metal, Arc Of Ancients is a no brainer.

Arc Of Ancients will be unleashed October 18 through Creator-Destructor Records.

Links To Follow:

Dismemberment Facebook

Dismemberment Bandcamp

Creator-Destructor Records Bandcamp

Nex Carnis: Black Eternity

October 3, 2019
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Hailing from Iran comes death metal bulldozers Nex Carnis and towing along with them they bring devastation by the title of Black Eternity. This EP is filled with two offerings that top just over ten minutes total, and even as short as this release is it cuts deep, leaving your neck severed hanging on by just a thread of tendon. Destructive and grave desecrating, Nex Carnis set in immediately never giving you a moment to brace yourself for the potent flesh masticating death metal onslaught that you are about to witness. The two tracks that make this EP up are savage and down right skull sanding, leaving you as nothing more than pulverized matter in a shallow grave.

Nex Carnis truly delivers quality over quantity here within this EP as what you get are two damn near perfect death metal onslaughts. From beginning to end, Nex Carnis tears through you, maiming and mutilating you with the passing of each second. Powerful, potent, grisly, twisted and dark, Nex Carnis offer up a true bloodied death metal assault here. From the drop of the first note of Black Eternity you get dragged asunder to depths of death not yet explored. Through each of the two offerings here, these corpse hoarders unfold a labyrinth of death before you as they take you down corridor after corridor of horror that will surely lead to your demise.

Black Eternity drowns you in vile death and does a great job of it all within two tracks. As mentioned, as short as this offering is as it tops just over ten minutes, it more than makes up for in quality. Nex Carnis leaves you wanting more miasmal death at the end of this release which ultimately makes you reach for the play button over and over again. Both tracks are executed well, well written and performed to perfection ultimately creating an overall sound that is addictive and deadly.

It will be exciting to see what Nex Carnis has up their sleeve for when a new full length is to appear, but for now we are left with this grisly majesty of a release that will surely lead you to an early grave.

Links To Follow:

Nex Carnis Facebook

Blood Harvest Records Bandcamp