Special Edition 2020

Edition for true metalfans

#Special edition-encyclopedia of 2020’s best albums†25.12.2020

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Svarttjern Black Metal band from Norway released the fifth Full-length album Shame Is Just a Word released January 17, 2020.

Svarttjern is Norwegian for «black tarn», but was taken from a piece of Norwegian art, more specifically a painting by the Norwegian artist August Cappelen. The painting describes the dark nature of the band.

SVARTTJERN return to the front with their fifth full-length of true Norwegian black metal entitled «Shame Is Just A Word»!

«The stars have aligned.

The planets are in place.

Forget your joy and embrace your fear. The

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new Svarttjern album is here.

Dive into Svarttjern’s basement of lust and rust! Ride the fleshtrain, bathe in the cesspool of fat, gurgle the lube or let it soak. Show your true self and shake off your invisibility cloak.

Embrace your shame. Shame is just a word.»

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Prince of Disgust 2. Ment til å tjene 3. Melodies of Lust 4. Ta dets drakt 5.

Frost Embalmed Abyss 6. Ravish Me 7. Bonded by Blood 8. Shame Is Just a Word

Lineup Grimmdun - Drums HaaN - Guitars (lead) Fjellnord - Guitars HansFyrste - Vocals Malphas - Bass

Ancient and forever, EMPIRE OF THE MOON have been lingering ominously within the pantheon of classic Greek black metal since 1996. While six years is still a considerable amount of time for most bands, EMPIRE OF THE MOON aren’t like most bands; they will their creations into being when inspiration strikes, when the stars are aligned.

Alas, a total solar eclipse occurs as the moon completely covers the sun’s disk, and thus does the time approach for a new chapter in the ongoing saga of EMPIRE OF THE MOON: their long-awaited second album, ΕΚΛΕΙΨΙΣ.

Tellingly translated to «Eclipse» in English, ΕΚΛΕΙΨΙΣ indeed eclipses anything the band has done to date - which is considerable, to say the least, with their axiom being quality over quantity. Utterly expansive despite its fairly compact runtime of 40 minutes, here do EMPIRE OF THE MOON unfurl a regal, stargazing statement of interstellar black metal.

Tracklist 1. Arrival 2. Imperium Tridentis 3. Per Aspera ad Lunae - I. The Resonance Within 4. Per Aspera ad Lunae - II. Two Queens Appear 5. Per Aspera ad Lunae - III. Descending 6.

Devi Maha Devi 7. Per Aspera ad Lunae - IV. Ο Υιός Της Φωτιάς

Lineup R.W.Draconium - Guitars, Bass, Vocals Ouroboros - Vocals S.V.Mantus - Keyboards Έκλειψις out January 10, 2020

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Dominia Death/Doom/Gothic Metal band from Russia released the fifth Fulllength album The Withering of the Rose released January 20, 2020.

Dominia was formed (as Tentamentum) in Russian city SaintPetersburg in February 1999 by vocalist and composer Anton Rosa and guitarist Denis Sukharev (Daniel).

Initially, the band professed typical for t h a t time, black-death

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metal, but in September 2001 as the composer, violinist and keyboard player Dmitriy Rishko (Casper) joined the band, Tentamentum changed its’ name and genre. Dominia are well known for their melodic and haunting music with their biggest track ‘Mountains of god’s depression’ from the album ‘Divine Revolution’.

The bands main influences derive from: My Dying Bride, Opeth, Pink Floyd, This Will Destroy You, Draconian, Type O Negative and many more.

Tracklist 1. I Want to Forget 2. My Flesh and the Sacred River 3. Suprema 4. The Light of the Black Sun 5. Entombed in Grief 6. The Elephant Man 7. Nomoreus 8. The Withering of the Roses 9. The Night and the Dark Room 10. The Song that You Don’t Like Lineup Daniel - Guitars Anton Rosa - Vocals, Bass Oleg «Papa» Filistovich - Drums Mikhail Morozkin - Violin Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) Guest Vocals

Konvent Death/Doom Metal band from Denmark released the first Full-length album Puritan Masochism released January 24, 2020.

Could Copenhagen become the new death doom capital? If so, it`s all because of Konvent!

Founded in 2015, the fourpiece stoically trudges through the blackest mires – following in the footsteps of Candlemass, Paradise Lost, Cult of Luna and Black Breath, who all unleashed the bleakest horror on mankind in the early 90s. Rikke Emilie List`s guttural vocals and tenacious riffing combined with menacingly heavy production make the debut by these four D a n i s h

women a massive extreme metal highlight of early 2020 – and it wouldn`t come as a surprise if Puritan Masochism conjures up a deserved revival for the whole death doom genre.

Slowly but insistently, resounding bass riffs and a brutal death vocal will pierce through your body, as KONVENT make you feel their love of heavy and simple old school doom.

Tracklist 1. Puritan Masochism 2. The Eye 3. Trust 4. World of Gone 5. Bridge 6. Waste 7. Idle Hands 8. Ropes Pt. I 9. Ropes Pt. II Lineup Heidi Withington Brink - Bass Sara Helena Nørregaard - Guitars Rikke Emilie List Vocals Julie Simonsen - Drums

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God Dethroned Blackened Death Metal band from Netherlands released the eleventh Fulllength album Illuminati released February 7, 2020.

God Dethroned never say die! The immutable power of the Netherlands greatest blackened death metal band rings true on new album, Illuminati. But this isn’t something new for the Dutch horde.

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Since forming in the village of Beilen in 1991, God Dethroned have amassed a sizable following through the release of 10 full-length albums.

Luckily, for headbangers and horn-throwers the world over, Illuminati continues God Dethroned’s immutable reign after a two-year gap.

Tracklist: 1. Illuminati 2. Broken Halo 3. Book of Lies 4. Spirit of Beelzebub 5. Satan Spawn 6. Gabriel 7. Eye of Horus 8. Dominus Muscarum 9. Blood Moon Eclipse Lineup Henri Sattler - Guitars, Vocals Michiel van der Plicht - Drums Jeroen Pomper - Bass Dave Meester - Guitars (lead)

Sepultura Groove/Thrash Metal band from Brazil released the fifteenth Fulllength album Quadra released February 7, 2020.

«Quadra» saw the band pushing their own mental and physical boundaries and has been one of their hardest albums to complete, as singer Derrick Green explains: «The experience was like no other time in the studio. I felt the preparation was key in making the recording process go as smooth as possible.

We were relentless each day giving everything that we had until complete exhaustion of the mind, body, and soul.

This album is a direct

result of the sign of times. The music is an evolution needed to push ourselves to go further than we ever have.»

Lineup Paulo Jr. - Bass Andreas Kisser - Guitars Derrick Green - Vocals Eloy Casagrande - Drums, Percussion

Tracklist 1. Isolation 2. Means to an End 3. Last Time 4. Capital Enslavement 5. Ali 6. Raging Void 7.

Guardians of Earth 8. The Pentagram 9. Autem 10. Quadra 11. Agony of Defeat 12. Fear, Pain, Chaos, Suffering

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Latest releases

On Thorns I Lay Death/Doom Metal band from Greece released the ninth Full-length album Threnos released February 21, 2020.

On Thorns I Lay started as a death metal band, under the name of Paralysis in the early 90’s in Greece.

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with other cult bands such as Rotting Christ, Septic Flesh, Necromantia, Nightfall started to spread their name in the local and global underground scene.

Their current music style is pure atmospheric doom death metal, back to the roots!

Tracklist 1. The Song of Sirens 2. Ouranio Deos 3. Cosmic Silence 4. Erynies 5. Misos 6. Threnos 7. Odysseia Line-up: Christos Dragamestianos Guitars Stefanos Kintzoglou - Vocals Antonis Venturis - Keyboards Jim Ramses - Bass Akis Pastras - Guitars Stelios Darakis - Drums

Blaze of Perdition Black Metal band from Poland released the fifth Full-length album The Harrowing of Hearts released February 14, 2020.

Blaze of Perdition was formed in 2007 by the guitarist XCIII. Existing at the forefront of the Polish black metal movement, Blaze Of Perdition return with their fifth fulllength, The Harrowing Of Hearts – their most urgent, refined, dynamic and accomplished work to date.

Richly layered, it is also their most textured release, and they dive ever deeper into the themes they have been

exploring since dropping their debut full-length in 2010, Towards The Blaze Of Perdition.

Lyrically, the record is at least in part a continuation of the topics explored on Conscious Darkness, taking the listener into dark and complex territory that is the equal of the musical accompaniment.

Tracklist 1. Suffering Made Bliss 2. With Madman’s Faith 3. Transmutation of Sins 4. Królestwo Niebieskie 5. What Christ Has Kept Apart 6. The Great Seducer 7. Moonchild (Fields of the Nephilim cover) Lineup XCIII - Guitars Sonneillon - Vocals DQ Drums M.R. Guitars

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My Dying Bride Doom Metal band from United Kingdom released the fourteenth Full-length album The Ghost of Orion released March 6, 2020.

Taking time away from My Dying Bride, Vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe retreated to be with his daughter stricken with cancer, who fortunately took a positive turn, thus resulting in his return.

Replete with an excellent Eliran Kantor (FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, EX DEO) cover art—commissioned by Stainthorpe—and sporting 11 tracks, The Ghost of Orion posits MY DYING BRIDE back on the proverbial doomdeath throne. In fact,

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they’ve never sounded better.

From the doleful lay in ‘Your Broken Shore’ and the deathly traditional ‘A Secret Kiss’ to the grim 10-minute epic ‘The Old Earth,’ »The Ghost of Orion« is the product of a vibrantly creative band unwilling to rest on their laurels or past glories.

“The Ghost of Orion” is a warmly welcomed addition to the band’s discography, since it considers every igredient that makes My Dying Bride such an epic band. Misery, sorrow, despair and some really memorable, heavy riffs are the stand-outs for “Ghost of Orion”.

Tracklist 1. Your Broken Shore 2. To Outlive the Gods 3. Tired of Tears 4. The Solace 5. The Long Black Land 6. The Ghost of Orion 7. The Old Earth 8. Your Woven Shore Lineup Andrew Craighan - Guitars Aaron Stainthorpe - Vocals Lena Abé - Bass Shaun Macgowan - Keyboards, Violin Jeff Singer - Drums Neil Blanchett - Guitars

Skyforest At m o s p h e r i c / Po s t - B l a c k Metal band from Russia released the third Fulllength album A New Dawn released February 20, 2020.

Lyrically, it is about the journey into a new chapter of one’s life. You never know what awaits you on a new day...but it’s worth checking out. Many questions are still left unanswered and yet it may lead to a positive change.

The artist’s continued growth into a powerful, life-affirming creator is also reflected metaphorically in all of Skyforest’s artworks after the debut, and culminates in the wonderful paintings which adorn the new album, again masterfully captured on canvas by Sergey Shenderovsky.

Tracklist 1. Along the Waves 2. The Night Is No More 3. Heart of the Forest 4. Rebirth 5. Wanderer 6. Scattered Ashes

Band’s links: h t t p s : / / w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / Skyforest.Official https://skyforest.bandcamp.com/ album/a-new-dawn https://vk.com/skyforest

Lineup B.M. - composing, guitar, bass, drums, lyrics, harsh vocals, other vocals (whisper, speech), various programming, mixing, mastering; Michael Rumple (Flood District, Súl ad Astral, Desiderium) - clean vocals Clare De Lune (Edenfall) additional clean vocals in ‘The Night is No More’ and ‘Scattered Ashes’.

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Burzum Black Metal, Ambient band from Norway released the thirteenth Fulllength album Thulêan Mysteries on March 13, 2020.

In 1991, when Satanel disbanded, Vikernes revived his solo project, changing the name to Burzum (which translates to «darkness» in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Black Speech, which is spoken by orcs and other creatures of Mordor).

Handling all instruments and vocals by himself, he recorded Burzum’s first four full-length albums in a span of just over one year. Although Vikernes officially ended Burzum in 2018, in October 2019 he announced that he will be releasing a new full-length album tentatively titled Thulean Mysteries at some point in the near future.

The release is intended to be used as background music while playing his MYFAROG tabletop role-playing game.

«Thulêan Mysteries was made passively, in the sense that I never intended to make a new album; I just made music

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every now and then and at one point realized that I actually had enough to release it all on an album. When asked to do so I figured: why not? It was a good idea. The music is a little bit of this and a little bit of that, transcending any genre, and perhaps belonging to many different genres. The intention with it was always to create a certain atmosphere, often related to an idea or a situation. Since my true passion has never been music, but actually tabletop roleplaying games, I figured I should make this an album intended for that use; as background music for my own MYFAROG (Mythic Fantasy Role-playing Game). Hopefully you will get a sense of Thulê when you listen to this, like always with Burzum, ideally when on your own. I hope you will enjoy this soundtrack to Thulê, to Mother Nature and life itself» – Varg Vikernes Lineup Varg Vikernes - Everything

Tracklist 1. The Sacred Well 2. The Loss of a Hero 3. ForeBears 4. A Thulêan

Perspective 5. Gathering of Herbs 6. Heill auk Sæll 7. Jötunnheimr 8. Spell-Lake Forest 9. The Ettin Stone Heart 10. The Great Sleep 11. The Land of Thulê 12. The Lord of the Dwarves 13. A Forgotten Realm 14. Heill Óðinn, Sire 15. The Ruins of Dwarfmount 16. The Road to Hel 17. Thulêan Sorcery Disc 2 1. Descent into Niflheimr 2. Skin Traveller 3. The Dream Land 4. Thulêan Mysteries 5. The Password 6. The Loss of Thulê

Scalpture Death Metal band from Germany released the second Full-length album Eisenzeit on February 21, 2020.

Emerging from the wider surrounding of death dealers Evoked in the industrial juggernaut of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, Scalpture turn out to be a surprisingly individual take on true-and-tested genre formulas.

While the members were doubtlessly raised on a diet of Bolt Thrower with two big spoons of Dutch and American fare respectively, it’s clear from the outset that Scalpture’s second full-length is its very own beast.

As a musical narrative unfolding during the ravages of World War I, “Eisenzeit” (“iron age”) does not once plumply glorify armed conflict and heroic violence but displays a peculiar depth.

Whereas compositionally, it focuses on atmosphere first and foremost with mini epics such as the two-partite ‘The Storm Ebbs into Stalemate’ or the chillingly

melodious ‘Yperite’, frontman Thorsten seems to tear his heart out as if during his history studies, he’d been forced to relive the soldiers’ pain.

At the very least, he makes his cautionary tales frightfully topical; just listen to the hymnic elegy that is ‘Hinterlandsymphonie’, the dramatic closer ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ and, in particular, the blasting inferno of ‘Und Ehre ist’s’ (“and it’s honour), which subtly questions the morals of yore – an era from which we apparently fail to lean to this very day.

Add to this highly emotional mix a monstrously powerful yet crystalline sound devoid of any shallow “vintage” references, and you can be sure that Scalpture are going to actively shape the future … however militant it might become.

Tracklist 1. The Storm...

2. ...Ebbs into Stalemate 3. Und Ehre ist’s 4. Fire Flies Through Empty Skies 5. Hinterlandsymphonie 6. Eisenzeit 7. Hell Is a Field in France 8. Yperite 9. Of Daredevils and Doughboys 10. All Quiet on the Western Front

Lineup Felix - Guitars Thorsten - Vocals Tobias - Guitars Moritz - Drums Niklas - Bass

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Dark Fortress Black Metal band from Germany released the eighth Full-length album Spectres from the Old World on February 28, 2020.

Venerated black metal specialists DARK FORTRESS return with a new album, “Spectres from the Old World”.

“Spectres from the Old World” is more direct, more aggressive than its predecessors. At no

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time in DARK FORTRESS’ history have they reached so far out into the darkness, only to find the domine of astronomy non-existent, the end merely an end.

Recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered by V. Santura at Woodshed Studios throughout 2019, “Spectres from the Old World” marks an important milestone in DARK FORTRESS’ journey along actual and spiritual left-hand paths.

Tracklist: 1. Nascence (Intro) 2. Coalescence 3. The Spider in the Web 4. Spectres from the World 5. Pali Aike 6. Pazuzu 7. Isa 8. Pulling at Threads 9. In Deepest Time 10. Penrose Procession (Interlude) 11. Swan Song 12. Nox Irae Lineup Asvargr - guitar Morean - vocals Seraph - drums V. Santura - guitar Phenex - keyboards AR - live-bass

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Decaying Purity Brutal Death Metal band from Turkey released the fourth Full-length album Mass Extinction of the Providential Ones on March 31, 2020.

Decaying Purity are part of the TRDM movement.

Decaying Purity formed in 2005 in Istanbul/Turkey by Mustafa Gürcalioğlu (guitar) and Onur Gazioğlu (drums).

Lineup Malik - Bass Onur - Drums Mustafa - Guitars Serkan - Vocals

Tracklist 1. Darkness Falling Down Through the Skies 2. Streams of Fire and Blood 3. Exhuming Ancient Species 4. Storms of Chaos 5. The Depths of Mass Graves 6. Summoning the Creatures of Doom 7. The Vicious Circle of Punishment 8. Eternal Wish of Death 9. Arrival of the Merciless Destryer

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Serpent Noir Black Metal band from Greece released the third Full-length album Death Clan OD released February 7, 2020.

One of modern black metal’s best-kept secrets, SERPENT NOIR have been a study in patience and perseverance.

Now, striding forth from the waking-dream ether, SERPENT NOIR emerge once again with a challenging new configuration bearing the ominous title Death C l a n OD. An iron-

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fisted expression of their past, present, and future, here with Death Clan OD does SERPENT NOIR create a poignant panorama of scintillating death energies, ranging the rich history of black metal in addition to the darkest expanses of traditional heavy metal. It’s a taut ‘n’ strident 37 minutes, feeling far vaster than that succinct runtime suggests, as each of the album’s seven component tracks wind and wend down shadowy paths and serpentine sensations.

Tracklist 1. The Black Knighthood of OD 2. Cutting the Umbilical Cord of Hel 3. Hexcraft 4. Asmodeus: The Sword of Golachab 5. Astaroth: The Jaws of Gha’Agsheblah 6. Necrobiological Chant of Talas 7. Goeh Ra Reah: Garm Unchained Lineup Yiannis K. - Guitars, Bass Kostas K. - Vocals J. K. - Bass G. C - Drums

Trauma Death Metal band from Poland released the eighth Full-length album Ominous Black on March 6, 2020.

TRAUMA is one of Poland’s oldest and most experienced death metal bands. Trauma is back with its eighth album «Ominous Black,» a shredding, textured CD of Polish death metal.

«Ominous Black» is the anxiously anticipated fulllength on SELFMADEGOD RECORDS from this long running death metal band from Poland. Recorded at the band’s very own Traumatic Sound Studio in Elblag, Poland. Mixed and mastered in the world

famous Hertz Studio.

Cover art by renowned Polish artist Mariusz Lewandowski.

Tracklist 1. Inside the Devil’s Heart 2. Insanity of Holiness 3. Astral Misanthropy 4. Soul Devourer 5. Among the Lies 6. I Am Universe 7.

The Black Maggots 8. The Godless Abyss 9. Colossus

Lineup Artur «Chudy» Chudewniak - Vocals Arkadiusz «Mały» Sinica - Drums Jarosław «Mister» Misterkiewicz - Guitars, Bass, Vocals (backing), Samples

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Wolfheart Melodic Death Metal band from Finland released the fifth Full-length album Wolves of Karelia on April 10, 2020.

Emerging from dusky woods, the untamed and forlorn nature of Finnish quartet WOLFHEART leads them to one of the most picturesque regions of their home country, Karelia.

Just as wildlife itself maintains harmony through a violent clash of the beautiful and unpredictable, Wolves of

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Karelia explores the previously coined genre of winter metal smoothly connecting a traditional approach towards extreme genres (‘Reaper’) with atmospheric or acoustic details (‘the Hammer’, ‘Horizon on Fire’), crowned by the instrumental interlude, ‘Eye of the Storm’.

Wolves of Karelia attack with complex arrangements and melodically-grasped melancholy, creating a release as bewitching and intense as it is atmospherically resonant.

Tracklist: 1. Hail of Steel 2. Horizon on Fire 3. Reaper 4. The Hammer 5. Eye of the Storm 6. Born From Fire 7. Arrows of Chaos 8. Ashes Lineup Tuomas Saukkonen - Guitars, Vocals Lauri Silvonen - Bass, Vocals (backing) Joonas Kauppinen - Drums Vagelis Karzis - Guitars (lead)

Archgoat Black Metal band from Finland released the Live album Black Mass XXX on April 10, 2020.

As a document of ARCHGOAT’s 30-year anniversary series of gigs, the Finnish legends present ‘Black Mass XXX’ recorded at Debemur Morti Productions’ Servants Of Chaos showcase on 28th September 2019.

Captured with terrifying clarity, the magical energy and raw power of ARCHGOAT finds its purest expression in the live arena, inthe-moment where all witnesses are bludgeoned into the guts of earthen evil.

Featuring an extended set including tracks from 1991 demo ‘Jesus Spawn’ via the classic 2006 full-length ‘Whore of Bethlehem’ all the way through to 2018’s ‘The Luciferian Crown’, this is a devastatingly br ut a l

overview of one of the most singular bands in extreme music – an exhilarating grimoire of contemporary occultism from a band moving toward peak powers.

Tracklist 1. Intro: Ripping the Wings 2. Black Messiah 3. Death and Necromancy 4. Rise of the Black Moon 5. Jesus Spawn 6. Satanic Oath 7. Penis Perversor 8. Intro: 1st Invocation 9. Angel of Sodomy 10. Lord of the Void 11. Dawn of the Black Light 12. Whore of Bethlehem 13. Hammer of Satan 14. Outro: The Prophecy 15. Intro: 3rd Invocation 16. Apotheosis of Lucifer 17. Goat and the Moon 18.

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19. Day of Clouds 20. Intro: Left Hand Path 21. Nuns, Cunts and Darkness 22. The Apocalyptic Triumphator 23. Grand Luciferian Theophany 24. Intrantation 25. Jesus Christ Father of Lies 26. Messiah of Pigs 27. Darkness Has Returned Lineup Lord Angelslayer - Bass, Vocals Ritual Butcherer - Guitars Goat Aggressor - Drums

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The Black Dahlia Murder Melodic Death Metal band from United States released the ninth Full-length album Verminous on April 17, 2020.

Verminous is The Black Dahlia Murder’s most dynamic, rousing and emotional release to date, and it achieves this without

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compromising one iota of heaviness. «I think this is the biggest evolutionary leap we’ve ever taken from one album to the next. We stoked the creative fires with 2017’s ‘Nightbringers’ and it’s gone much further now in ‘Verminous’,» states vocalist Trevor Strnad.

Tracklist 1. Verminous 2. Godlessly 3. Removal of the Oaken Stake 4. Child of Night 5. Sunless Empire 6. The Leather Apron’s Scorn 7. How Very Dead 8. The Wereworm’s Feast 9. A Womb in Dark Chrysalis (Interlude) 10. Dawn of Rats Lineup Brian Eschbach - Guitars Trevor Strnad - Vocals Max Lavelle - Bass Alan Cassidy - Drums Brandon Ellis - Guitars

Abysmal Dawn Death Metal band from United States released the fifth Full-length album Phylogenesis on April 17, 2020.

After 6 years of silence, American death metal collective Abysmal Dawn have returned with ‘Phylogenesis,’ their most technical and refined offering to date. The highly-anticipated album displays a clear evolution from the band as they put forth a complex cacophony of searing riffs, blood-curdling vocals, and pummeling drums.

Tracklist 1. Mundane Existence 2. The Path of the Totalitarian 3. Hedonistic 0 4. A Speck in the Fabric of Eternity 5. Coerced Evolution 6. True to the Blind 7. Soul-Sick Nation 8. The Lament Configuration

Lineup XCIII - Guitars Sonneillon - Vocals DQ - Drums M.R. - Guitars

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The Projectionist Black Metal band from Canada released the fifth Full-length album The Stench of Amalthia on April 17, 2020.

The first ever Black Metal OPERA! Canada’s sinister theatrical Black Metal consortium known as THE PROJECTIONIST return with their highly anticipated fifth full length operetta, “The Stench of Amalthia”.

In this second necrotic BM opera, the story falls upon an aging, dying former Film Noire starlet, Amalthia Grahame, isolated in her palatial

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home. Her physician, Dr. Bendix, sends a young nurse named Evelyn to tend to Amalthia’s final days, as a live-in nurse for palliative care. When left alone with the old withering actress, gruesome and macabre events unfold to wield death, torture and Satanic forces against the poor fragile Nurse... and all who’d call upon the Mansion looking for her.

Tracklist 1. Withering 2. Sepulchral Oak Door 3. Covetous 4. Summoning Transference 5. The Weakening

6. A Startling Housecall 7. Exuberance Contorts an Evil 8. Flayed 9. Perfumes 10. Forsaken O’Clock 11. Death and Honor (OWM cover) Lineup Parageist - Guitars Destroyer - Bass, Noise Lörd Matzigkeitus - Vocals Malphas - Drums Orpheus - Orchestrations

Malist Atmospheric/Melodic Black Metal band from Russia released the second Fulllength album To Mantle the Rising Sun on April 24, 2020.

On «To Mantle the Rising Sun» Malist continues the musical journey started on last year’s debut with even more genrecrossing ambition, drawing inspiration from bands like Lord Belial, Immortal, Sargeist, Fen & Woods of Desolation.

Powerful riffs, melodic layering, diverse vocals & atmospheric elements are woven into this musical venture of battles & mournful fates, sending the listener to the outer surface of the underground Karst Realm, where the lyrical hero is on his way to meet the tyrant King - an encounter to set his life’s purpose once and for all..

Tracklist 1. Land of the Bewitched 2. Shackled Minds 3. Tempest of Sorrow 4. The Ultimate Possession 5. To Stifle the Fire in the Eyes 6. Blood of the Untouchable 7. Karsted Hearts

Lineup Ovfrost - Everything

Band’s links: h t t p s : / / w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / malistband https://malist.bandcamp.com/ album/to-mantle-the-rising-sun https://vk.com/malistband

DESIGN Artem Demura - artwork Northern Silence - layout

All music composed & performed by Ovfrost unless stated below.

GUEST MUSICIANS M.D.B - drums co-composing & performance

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Impalement Black/Death Metal band from Switzerland released the first Full-length album The Impalement on April 30, 2020.

Walpurgis Night 2020 - the time for Swiss metal band Impalement has come to unleash its debut Blastwerk «The Impalement» to this world.

“Impalement is forged out of True Metal’s Passion combined with Death Metal’s brutality and Black Metal’s profound soul!”

Lineup Beliath - Vocals, Guitars, Bass Torturer - Drums (Studio) Spoken Words (Track 5) Sarah Jezebel Deva Guitar Solo (Track 6) Helmuth Lehner

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Tracklist 1. The Impalement 2. The Tombs Of The Saints 3. Within The Court Of Rats 4. Alma Pater 5. I Am All (ft. Sarah Jezebel Deva) 6. Satan’s Fire In My Eyes (ft.

Helmuth Lehner) 7.

Thus Spoke I Götzendämmerung Mixed and Mastered by Jens «Pestilence» Förster Cover Artwork - Carlos «Black Shadows» Aguilar Layout / Booklet - Yvonne «Iron Ivy», Jens Förster

VADER Death Metal band from Poland released the sixteenth Full-length album Solitude In Madness on May 1, 2020.

Piotr Wiwczarek commented about the album and its title: «Humanity never learns from its lessons. I feel tensions continuing to rise around the world.

People have forgotten about true pain, from a bigger picture standpoint.

Generationally, the new generation doesn’t respect the old, and I’d challenge they don’t even respect themselves. Our everyday lives are on TV, so there’s no soul left. Everything’s empty. I think technology is also sucking the human out of us. There are more lonely people now than ever before, and yet

we’re supposed to be connected together by technology. It’s madness!

That’s where the title, ‘Solitude In Madness’, came from, actually. Of course, I approach these topics in a very VADER way. I love telling stories and expressing myself through those stories. “

Tracklist 1. Shock And Awe 2. Into Oblivion 3. Despair 4. Incineration Of The Gods 5. Sanctification Denied 6. And Satan Wept 7. Emptiness 8. Final Declaration 9. Dancing In The Slaughterhouse 10. Stigma Of Divinity 11. Bones

Lineup Peter - Bass, Guitars, Vocals Spider - Guitars Hal - Bass James Stewart - Drums

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Hyems Melodic Black Metal band from Germany released the third Full-length album Anatomie des Scheiterns on May 1, 2020.

Since 1997, HYEMS have been celebrating Black Metal, which, oscillating between hymns and disharmony, is repeatedly thwarted by a snotty punk attitude. For what feels like an eternity on the road in the underground the band resists the commercially promising temptations of modern styles and reflects in their music on what once tipped the scales for their foundation: the fascination

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for Black Metal of the 90s. Free of any aspirations for success, vanity and any expectations of the future, Hyems has since then released albums and EPs at irregular intervals, on which they are mainly concerned with one thing: BLACK FUCKING METAL. With «Anatomie des Scheiterns» the band presents their ninth release, which «belongs by far to the best we have ever done» as frontman A.E.J. emphasizes.

The album, which was recorded and produced in the Tobe Studio in Siegen, Germany, not only impresses with its musical authenticity, but also with its sophisticated concept.

Tracklist: 1. Triumph des Scheiterns 2. Vom Bankrott einer Seele 3. Siechtum – Briefe vom Ende 4. In diesem Graben 5. Zerwürfnis im Tal Josaphat 6. Morgendämmerung 7. In Ketten Lineup A.E.J. - Vocals D.M. - Guitar + Vocals D.W. - Guitar + Vocals F.B. - Bass + Vocals C.A. - Drums

Old Forest Black Metal band from United Kingdom rereleased their album Back into the Old Forest (CD format) on May 3, 2020 (digital format released on April 19, 2020).

Old Forest are a Black Metal band playing music in the anticommercial style of the early 90s.

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, the Old Forest is a small forested area which lies east of the Shire in

Buckland. The Old Forest is one of the few survivors of the primordial forests which covered most of Eriador before the Second Age, and it once was but the northern edge of one immense forest which reached all the way to Fangorn forest.

Lineup Kobold Vocals, Keyboards Beleth - Guitars, Bass Kobro - Drums

Tracklist 1. Grond (Hammer of the Underworld) 2. Death in the Cemetary 3. To Haunt the Old Forest 4. Hymn of the Deep 5. Glistening 6. Where Trees Are Withered 7.

Shadow Whispers 8. Become the Gods of War

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Forgotten Tomb Black/Doom Metal band from Italy released the tenth Full-length album Nihilistic Estrangement on May 8, 2020.

In a comment that encompasses everything from working on the album, to musical expectations and lyrical themes, the band had this to say: «Nihilistic Estrangement is our tenth album and it opens a new chapter of the band and possibly a new trilogy, therefore it

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sounds different from our previous release, which closed the past trilogy. The whole idea and concept behind the album was to make something detached from all the current trends in terms of style and production so that it would feel timeless and not chained to a particular frame in time.

Musically speaking there are references to all of the band’s eras but it sounds very refreshing and extremely personal; it’s 100% Forgotten Tomb.

Tracklist 1. Active Shooter 2. Iris’ House Pt. I 3. Iris’ House Pt. II 4. District?

5. Nihilistic Estrangement 6. RBMK Lineup Herr Morbid - Guitars, Vocals Algol - Bass Asher - Drums

Naglfar Melodic Black Metal band from Sweden released the seventh Fulllength album Cerecloth on May 8, 2020.

Formed in 1992, Umeå, Sweden’s black metal nihilists NAGLFAR were quite prolific on the front end of their existence. Between their classic 1995 debut “Vittra,” and 2012’s “Téras”, NAGLFAR unfurled four other full lengths with no more than five years between each one. It has been a long eight year stretch between releases for NAGLFAR, but despite the eight year wait, the band hasn’t been resting on their laurels. Like any slumbering beast, NAGLFAR have returned from their respite ferocious and hungry with their seventh full length album “Cerecloth”. Recorded and mixed

by NAGLFAR guitarist Marcus Norman at Wolf’s Lair Studio, and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound, the underlying musical and lyrical themes of “Cerecloth” were succinctly and confidently described by guitarist Andreas Nilsson: “The usual death and destruction.”

Tracklist 1. Cerecloth 2. Horns 3. Like Poison for the Soul 4.

Vortex of Negativity 5. Cry of the Serafim 6. The Dagger

in Creation 7. A Sanguine Tide Unleashed 8. Necronaut 9. Last Breath of Yggdrasil Lineup Kristoffer W. Olivius Vocals Andreas Nilsson - Guitars Marcus E. Norman Guitars

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Asenblut Viking\Black\Thrash\ Death Metal band from Germany released the fourth Full-length album Die wilde Jagd on May 29, 2020.

More than ten years have passed since Asenblut came together.

Asenblut are now presenting their fourth epos called “Die Wilde Jagd� (The Wild Hunt), which is full of epic battle songs and tales

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of merciless heroes. This time the band put special effort in telling tales to give the fans an even more immersive and enduring opus, designed to even withstand the end of the world. Beware - for the wild hunt is flying tonight!

Lineup Sash - Bass Balrogh - Drums Stan Ro - Guitars Tetzel - Vocals Claus Cleinkrieg - Guitars (lead)

Tracklist: 1. Die wilde Jagd 2. Codex Gigas 3. Seite an Seite 4. Irminsul 5. Drachentoter 6. Penumbra 7. Weder Gott, noch Konige 8. Wolfshunger 9. 300 10. Seite an Seite (extended version)

Sinister Death Metal band from Netherlands released the fourteenth Full-length album Deformation of the Holy Realm on May 29, 2020.

Starting in 1989, Sinister was a band arising in the middle of the Death-Metal hype. Their debut CD ‘Cross the Styx’ saw the light in early 1992, and sold many copies worldwide. Many live shows all over Europe followed. Touring with bands like Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse and Deicide increased the number of people knowing Sinister.

Death Metal icons SINISTER are back with their 14th studio album „Deformation Of The Holy Realm“, and it offers everything a death metal enthusiast’s heart hopes for!

Balanced songs with old school and recognizable structures full of catchy riffs and hooks

as well as an extreme brutal sound take the band even another step forward! The deformation starts now… „This record cost us blood, sweat and tears – but we are proud as hell of this brutal piece of art!“ – Sinister.

Lineup Aad Kloosterwaard Vocals Toep Duin - Drums Ghislain van der Stel - Bass Michał «Grall» Gralak - Guitars

Tracklist 1. The Funeral March 2. Suffering from Immortal Death 3. Unique Death Experience 4. Apostles of the Weak 5. Deformation of the Holy Realm 6. Scourged by Demons 7. Unbounded Sacrilege 8. The Ominous Truth 9. Oasis of Peace - Blood from the Chalice 10. Entering the Underworld

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Behemoth Black/Death Metal band from Poland released the EP A Forest on May 29, 2020.

The album including the title track featuring Niklas Kvarforth of Shining!

Covering music outside of metal is a challenge – covering legendary music is an even greater challenge… that is what drove Behemoth throughout this process.

The EP contains two brand-new Behemoth songs, “Shadows Ov Ea Cast Upon Golgotha” and “Evoe”.

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Tracklist The tracks act as a 1. A Forest (The Cure cover) continuation on from 2. A Forest (The Cure cover) ILYAYD – no more, no less. (live) Artwork, photos and 3. Shadows ov Ea Cast upon drawings by Bartek Golgotha Rogalewicz. Portraits by 4. Evoe Tomasz Łączyński.

Lineup: Nergal - Guitars, Vocals Inferno - Drums, Percussion Orion - Bass Guest musicians: Niklas Kvarforth - Vocals (track 1)

October Falls A t m o s p h e r i c / Melancholic Black Metal band from Finland released the fifth Fulllength album A Fall of an Epoch on May 30, 2020.

Originally a solo project of M. Lehto.

The band’s early released music was mostly acoustic and ambient, with themes of nature. They changed their style to atmospheric black metal on The Streams of the End, and according to Lehto’s interviews, the very first promo in 2001 was mostly metal, heavily influenced

by Opeth and Katatonia.

The promo

was distributed in very limited numbers. And now the band release the new album but you can hear the sound of Mikko Lehtos Trademark.

Tracklist 1. A Fall of an Epoch 2. The Endtimes Rising 3. The Ruins of What Once Was 4. Hammering the Tide 5. The Flood of Drought Lineup M. Lehto - Guitars, Vocals Marko Tarvonen Drums Sami Hinkka - Bass

October Falls never were more violently and more gloomily as on A Fall of an Epoch.

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Valdrin Melodic Black Metal band from United States released the third Full-length album Effigy of Nightmares on June 12, 2020.

Effigy of Nightmares emits a far greater sense of space and spaciousness, inviting the listener to drown in its deep-purple depths and become possessed by the spectral sorrows lurking within. In fact, it’s the album’s balance of

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contrasts - searing aggression vs. Tracklist: atmospheric repose, bewitching 1. Gates of Hospice melodicism vs. brute force, 2. Exsanguination Tunnels epic overall construction vs. 3. Red Burning Candles of direct component parts - Hatred that puts VALDRIN in even 4. Serpentine Bloodhalls more masterful territory. 5. Basilisk of Light Along with the quartet’s more 6. Down the Oubliette of Maelstrom pronounced usage of acoustic embellishments, the sum effect Lineup is altogether not unlike the James Lewis - Bass pivotal works of such ‘90s giants Ryan Maurmeier - Drums as Vinterland, Sacramentum, Carter Hicks - Vocals, Guitars, and Sweden’s Dawn.

Keyboards Colton Deem - Guitars

The Bishop of Hexen Symphonic Black Metal band from Israel released the third Full-length album The Death Masquerade on June 19, 2020.

First album after 14 years !!

The Israeli Symphonic Black Metallers honour us again with a new album after such a long time.

The band makes use of their old strengths, namely to mix raging Black Metal with melodies and not to sound too overloaded.

The first single «Death Masks» gives the right direction very well.

Fans of old DIMMU BORGIR, LIMBONIC ART or generally melodic Black Metal will have their fun with the new power work of THE BISHOP OF HEXEN. Formed in late 1994 in Israel, the band has released one of the most appreciated atmospheric black metal album to d at e

«Archives Of An Enchanted Philosophy», now after 14 years since their latest album the band has released their return from the darkest depths to unleash: The death Masquerade.

This new set of songs is a deep and introspecting journey, from orchestral black metal vibes to theatrical and monumental atmospheres.

The Bishop of Hexen literally chases you through your nightmares. Sometimes you are driven through the undergrowth with nasty boards in panic of breathlessness…This new album is a true masterpiece of symphonic-black metal with many unexpected twists, a never-ending tension, and all of this is presented in a playful top form.

Tracklist 1. Catacumba Essentia 2. A Witch King Reborn 3. Of Shuttering Harps & Shadow Hounds 4. Death Masks 5. All Sins Lead to Glory 6. The Jester’s Demise 7. A Thousand Shades of Slaughter 8. Sine Nomine Lineup Ariel Eshcar - Guitars (lead) Avicious - Guitars (rhythm), Bass Dimrost - Keyboards Lord Koder - Vocals, Drums, Percussion

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AlNamrood Black/Folk Metal band from Saudi Arabia released the seventh Fulllength album Wala’at on June 22, 2020.

AlNamrood translates to «the non-believer» and comes from an ancient historical autocratic character. He ruled the world maliciously and stated «I am the God of all creation».

This work is didcated to those who can see utter loyality to ideology, concept or icons is the root cause for herd leading system.

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AlNamrood is a Saudi Arabian black metal band whose name refers to “Nimrod”, a Babylonian king. The name was chosen as a form of defiance against religion.

The members are anonymous since their identification could lead to punishment of death from Saudi Arabian authorities.

Tracklist 1. Al Hirah 2. Sahra Yaesa 3. Tabqia 4. Kali Be Mekialain 5. Al Shareef Al Muhan 6. Fasique 7. Aar Al Estibad 8. Alhallaj 9. Wahum Althaat 10. Alqaum Lineup Mephisto - Guitars, Bass Ostron - Arabian Instruments Humbaba - Vocals

Carach Angren Symphonic Black Metal band from Netherlands released the sixth Full-length album Franckensteina Strataemontanus on June 26, 2020.

The Dutch masters of horror are back with their most flamboyant album so far. On ‘Franckensteina Strataemontanus’, CARACH ANGREN resurrect the gruesome story of troubled soul Conrad Dippel the inspiration of Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’. CARACH ANGREN have extended all the sonic colours on their established palette to dazzling effect. Their trademark whipping guitars weave

harsh melodies and sinister soundscapes, which are beautifully contrasted by opulent keyboards and majestic orchestrations.

With ‘Franckensteina Strataemontanus’, the Dutch push their unashamedly theatrical style to a new intense height.

Tracklist 1. Here in German Woodland 2. Scourged Ghoul Undead 3. Franckensteina Strataemontanus 4. The Necromancer 5. Sewn for Solitude 6. Operation Compass 7. Monster 8. Der Vampir von Nurnberg 9. Skull with a Forked Tongue

10. Like a Conscious Parasite I Roam 11. Frederick’s Experiments Lineup Seregor - Guitars, Vocals Ardek - Keyboards, Piano, Orchestrations, Vocals (backing) Namtar - Drums, Percussion

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Acherontas Black Metal band from Greece released the eighth Full-length album Psychic Death - The Shattering of Perceptions on June 26, 2020.

Mysticism, magic, occult arts and rituals, all of which are driving factors behind ACHERONTAS, are also the most adequate words that can be used to describe the band’s image, sound and lyrics. The band is considered as one of the leading representatives of the New Wave of Greek Black Metal, heavily

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influenced by the original Hellenic metal scene, retro rock (especially the 70’s rock) and eastern philosophy.

Tracklist 1. Paradigms of Nyx 2. Kiss the Blood 3.

The Brazen Experimentalist 4. Psychic Death «The Shattering of Perceptions» 5. Coiled Splendor 6.

The Offering of Hemlock 7. Sermons of the Psyche 8. Μαγεια των καθρεφτων (Magick of Mirrors)

Lineup V.Priest - Vocals, Guitars Saevus H. - Guitars Hierophant - Bass Dothur - Drums Indra - Guitars

Enshadowed Black Metal band from Greece released the fourth Full-length album Stare into the Abyss on June 30, 2020.

Enshadowed was born back in 1998. The vision of the band was to create underground black metal art at a unique level. Enshadowed took a part in many live shows, supporting also great bands like Mayhem, Dodheimsgard, Impaled Nazarene, Dark Funeral, Nargaroth and more.

Old and very respected Greek band Enshadowed returns with their 4th album entitled ÂŤStare Into the AbyssÂť. You can expect a perfect mix of

Hellenic Black Metal Art with Scandinavian influences.

On Stare into the Abyss Enshadowed plays very fast, raw, melodic, aggressive and traditional Black Metal.

The lyrics cover death, chaos, nihilism, misanthropy and antireligion themes.

It is time to stare into the Abyss... into the Darkness... into the pure Death.

Tracklist 1. An Aspect of Chaos 2. The Great Animist 3. Beyond the Knowledge of Truth 4. Blackend Mouth of Despair 5. Divided You Fall 6. A Form of Agony 7. Entropy of Men Lineup N.e.c.r.o - Guitars Golgotha - Bass Serpent - Vocals

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The Funeral Orchestra Funeral Doom Metal band from Sweden released the third Full-length album Negative Evocation Rites on July 1, 2020.

This new album, “Negative Evocation Rites,” was recorded in early 2020 in Studio Trauma and Abysmal Noise Studio in Sweden, with additional recording at an undisclosed location in Colorado.

Those already acquainted with “Feeding the Abyss” will be certain to find that the band’s approach has not varied significantly from its original formula. That said, “Negative Evocation Rites” has somehow managed to

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present an even darker atmosphere than its predecessor, and one that appropriately reflects the bleak outlook for humanity in these uncertain times.

Tracklist Negative Evocations 2. Flesh Infiltrations 3. Negations I 4. Negations II Lineup: Priest II - Bass, Vocals (additional) Priest III - Drums Priest I - Guitars, Vocals, Vocals (additional

Black Funeral Black Metal band from United States released the tenth Full-length album Scourge of Lamashtu on July 3, 2020.

One of the very first American black metal bands, Black Funeral h```ave been long led by the magickal hand of Michael Ford AKA Akhtya Nachttoter, who has concurrently garnered international respect as a leading author on Luciferianism and occultism. Now arrives Scourge of Lamashtu, a Black Magickial sonic invocation of the Seven Udug-hul, Vampyric Deities and Lil-demons of ancient Babylonia.

May our kis (witchcraft) call forth acasual and abyss-dreaming powers and the pandemonium of Lamashtu, Pazuzu, Nergal, lilu, lilitu, kiskilili and vampyric demonic dead, the emmu.

Black Funeral aligns in a underworldly wave of cacophonic disharmony uniting cold black metal with dark ambient soundscapes composed from sounds of desert winds, sands, wilderness, mountains, storms, owls, wolves, and ravens to authentically represent the demons, deities, and ghostly dead within this album.

Lineup Akhtya Nachttoter - Vocals, Bass, Electronics Azgorh Drakenhof - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards

Tracklist 1. KassaptuLemuttu 2. The Vampyric Rabisu at the Threshold 3. Nergal (Lord who Prowls by Night) 4. Seven Udug-Hul 5. Scourge of Lamashtu (She who Strangles the Lamb) 6. Gidim Hul (Bloodthirst of the Demonic Dead) 7. Pazuzu King of the LiluDemons

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Soul Grinder Old-school Death Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Chronicles of Decay on July 3, 2020.

Founded in Bremen in January 2018, Soul Grinder have been committed to old-school death metal since they played their very first note together. After a successful run with the EP «Sadistic Parasite» released in the same year, the band is now back with their debut full-length «Chronicles of Decay» to prove

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that they can live up to the expectations created around their previous effort.

«Chronicles of Decay» features 11 new tracks of the finest death metal, from blast speed attacks to groovy steamrollers and mystical hymns. Keeping it as brutal as one can ask for, the band offers a strong range of influences with their debut.

Tracklist: 1. Infernal Suffering 2. Flesh Defiler 3. Ruins of Existence 4. My Unwilling Giver 5. Morbid Masquerade 6. The Sun And the Serpent 7. The Delusionist 8. Signs of Decline 9. March of the Dead 10. The Withering 11. Hymn of Death Lineup Mathias Junge - Bass, Vocals Balrogh - Drums Jan Resmer - Guitars, Vocals (backing)

Convocation Funeral Doom/Death Metal band from Finland released the second Fulllength album Ashes Coalesce on July 3, 2020.

Formed 4 years ago in Helsinki, Finland, Convocation started as a death metal project that later developed more close to darker doomish soundscapes, an outlet for really heavy and slow music with the will to experiment including synths, organs etc.

Lyrically focused on hatred towards homo sapiens and

apocalyptic scenarios, «Scars Across» was written in two different timespans and roughly a year between those sessions till everything clicked and finally spawning 4 apocalyptic anthem 2 years later Convocation are back with “Ashes Coalesce”, an aural study of concepts encircling death: Grief, rage and defiance, melancholy, acceptance and fear and anxiety of the unknown.

The grandeur of the almost spiritual experience of melancholy, the humbleness t o w a r d s o n e ’s

mortality or fragility and the all-engulfing blackness.

For fans of Skepticism, Thergothon, Esoteric and Disembowelment!

Lineup LL - All instruments, Songwriting MN - Vocals, Lyrics Tracklist 1. Martyrise 2. The Absence Grief 3. Misery Form 4. Portal Closed

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Myridian Melodic Doom/Death Metal band from Australia released the third Full-length album Light in the Abyss on July 3, 2020.

Combining the melodies of epic Scandinavian metal with haunting doom passages, the band recently released their sophomore album ‘We, the Forlorn’ in April 2015.

Carrying the dark energy of its predecessor

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to new heights, ‘Forlorn’ further refines the band’s signature mixture of atmosphere, sorrow and introspection.

Tracklist 1. Light Is Lost 2. Nidellavir 3. Babylon 4. The Poet 5. The Roots, the Rats and the Raven 6. Black WInd 7. One with the Abyss Lineup Felix Lane - Vocals, Bass Zebådee Scott - Drums Ian Mather - Guitars Dan Liston - Keyboards Jeremy Landry - Guitars

Decrepid Death Metal band from United Kingdom released third Fulllength album Endless Sea of Graves on July 7, 2020.

Formed in 2005 by Danny Price and Tommy Atkins, Decrepid initially started out as a thrash metal act. After a year or so of line-up changes, the band was put on hold until 2008, after which they started playing death metal.

Decrepid plays a traditional style of old school Death Metal with raw sound where brutality and morbid mid tempos are combined in a natural way with influences in the vein of MORBID ANGEL, ASPHYX, MASSACRE, PURTENANCE, DEICIDE...

Tracklist 1. Fields of Flesh 2. Phobos Descent 3. Armoured Apocalypse 4.

Plagued by Mortality 5. Per Maleficium 6. Endless Sea of Graves Lineup Steve Brennan - Guitars Danny Price - Guitars Cris Bassan Vocals Tom Foran Drums Alex H. Studholme - Bass

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Dethlehem Epic Melodic Death Metal band from United States released the fourth Full-length album Maelstrom of the Emerald Dragon on July 17, 2020.

The warriors of Dethlehem have travelled through time and space to do battle against dragons, wizards, warlocks, leviathans, shapeshifters, and a shit ton of other things that needed to die.

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There are two versions of the album, Story Mode and Music Only.

Lineup Overlord Brom - Drums Bovice - Guitars Brutalitus the BloodBeard Vocals Grimshaw Longfellow - Bass

Tracklist: 1. Prelude - As

Fate Would Have It 2. A Tale That Time Forgot 3. Interlude I - Cloud Megalopolis 4. Return to the Halls of Madness 5. Mind Flayer 6. Interlude II - Task for the Bog Witch 7. Escape from Wolf Mountain 8. Beware the Mimic 9. Interlude III - A Ravenous Storm 10. On the Backs of Giants 11. Gelatinous Cube Labyrinth 12. Interlude IV - Welcome to Your Doom 13. The Emerald Dragon

The Lightbringer Atmospheric Melodic Black Metal band from Canada released EP From the Void to Existence on July 17, 2020.

Following the majestic and complex Heptanity album released in 2017, where the greatness of the 7 primordial deities was honored, the band is about to present a new conceptual album. This time, a way darker, profound, and mysterious dimension is explored: the Void.

From the Void to Existence tells the tale of cosmogony, of a fantastic universe from an immemorial time, where the spirits have awakened from the eternal abyss. This dark epic work that is delivered through a harmonic and progressive atmosphere, is well-suited for fans of fantasy and melodic black metal.

Tracklist 1. From the Void 2. The First Flickers of Thought 3. Sparks of Will 4. The Awakening 5. Desecration of the Void 6. The Seal of Annihilation Lineup 7. Enchantment Auraeon Guitars, 8. Crystallization Drums, Songwriting, Lyrics 9. To Existence Sol-Orcus - Vocals 10. Caravansary (Kitaro cover) - Vocals (female) Celestheia Archan - Bass

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Hecate Symphonic Black Death Metal band from Egypt released the second Fulllength album In Nomine Artem Blackium on August 6th, 2020.

Hecate - unique, tight sounding form of Symphonic black metal elements heavily influenced by death metal music mixed with the horrific, dark instruments of modern symphony orchestra.

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‘In Nomine Artem Blackium’ is divided into 2 Disks for a total of 17 tracks; Disk 1 contains the original composition of the tracks while Disk 2 is, for Classical Music Lovers, the Orchestral version of the release containing 8 orchestral album tracks.

Tracklist: 1. Namaah 2. King Ov The Underworld 3. O Apollyon, O Azael 4. In Nomine Artem Blackium 5. Into The Ultimate Void 6. Sons Ov Hecate 7. Surrealistic Ressurction 8. Sorrow 9. Oceans Ov Hell Lineup Lord Mist - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards Adam - Vocals Mohamed Al-Assaal - Drums Sarie - Vocals (Soprano) on tracks (6, 7).

Incantation Death Metal band from United States released the twelfth Fulllength album Sect of Vile Divinities on August 21st, 2020.

For over 30 years INCANTATION has consistently remained one of the underground’s most influential and respected artists in the genre.

True to form, Sect of Vile Divinities sees the legendary band adhering to the ways of the old school, unleashing twisted, mangled, and utterly disgusting Death Metal once again.

A pitch-black mix of unrelenting Death Metal and imposing Funeral Doom, each track on Sect of Vile Divinities is a dirge dedicated to different ancient evils across various cultures. At a point where the world’s most vile converge, tracks such as «Propriation» see the band’s driving riffs and pummeling drums crush the ver y

foundations of religious zealotry, while standouts such as «Entrails of the Hag Queen» and «Fury’s Manifesto» champion no-frills Death Metal in its purest form.

Three decades of Death Metal still the funeral procession carries on. With Sect of Vile Divinities, INCANTATION hail a return to form for the genre, and release one of 2020’s most blasphemous and unforgiving titles.

Tracklist 1. Ritual Impurity (Seven of the Sky Is One) 2. Propitiation 3. Entrails of the Hag Queen 4.

Guardians from the Primeval 5. Black Fathom’s Fire 6. Ignis Fatuus 7. Chant of Formless Dread

8. Shadow-Blade Masters of Tempest and Maelstrom 9.

Scribes of the Stygian 10. Unborn Ambrosia 11. Fury’s Manifesto 12. Siege Hive Lineup Sonny Lombardozzi Guitars (lead) John McEntee - Guitars, Vocals Kyle Severn - Drums Chuck Sherwood - Bass

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Ages M e l o d i c Black Metal band from S w e d e n r e l e a s e d the second Full-length album Uncrown on August 21st, 2020.

AGES was formed during the harsh Swedish winter of 2011.

Ages resealed their first critically acclaimed album “THE MALEFIC MIASMA” in 2015.

AGES have since worked fervently to complete their second album;

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and after five long years, “UNCROWN” is finally complete.

Tracklist 1. Burn Them 2. Illicit State 3. Herolds of Enslavement 4. A Hollow Tomb 5. Dominionism 6. Undivine 7. Uncrown 8. The Death of Kings of Old 9. Pyres Lineup Brice Leclercq - Bass Eldhrimnir - Keyboards, Violin, Oud, Programming, Vocals (backing) Hvergelmer - Vocals (lead), Guitarss

Law of Contagion Black/Death Metal from Portugal released the first Full-length album Woeful Litanies from the Nether Realms on August 28th, 2020.

From the deeper nether realms of hate, conjuring demons and whispering dark litanies - Black/Death metal from Portugal - Debut album 28/08 Portuguese not-sonewcomer, Ishkur of the Black Death Metal act LAW OF CONTAGION, delivers a massively infectious debut album “Woeful Litanies from the Nether Realms”.

Having been involved in the underground for decades recording with multiple well known bands, Ishkur opted to evoke his own pure vision of

Luciferian litanies to sound as the sole member of LAW OF CONTAGION. The result is a superbly dingy and murky Occult Black / Death Metal with utterly rocking rhythm.

A mammoth, dark and cavernous production fortifies these essences of “Woeful Litanies from the Nether Realms”, evoking the glory days of Black / Death Metal, when bands and albums were still authentic works of art. Oozing with a grim Old School aura, “Woeful Litanies from the Nether Realms” breaks only to let in cold, shadowy Black Metal melodies or to breathe out ruthlessly vile Death Metal passages. A thick and dense album of Blackened Death Metal in

the classic vein of legendary acts such as Mysitfier, Beherit, Mortuary Drape, Necromantia and “De Mysteriis…” era Mayhem, as evidenced by soon-to-be-classic tracks such as the dynamic “Ov Evil” or the dark thrashing “Cult of the Damned”.

Tracklist 1. Heralding the Insane 2. Ov Evil 3. Litany 4. Blood Vindication 5. Ancient Obscenities 6. Cult of the Damned 7. Mors Ultima Ratio Lineup Ishkur - Vocals, All instruments

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Noumena Melodic Death Metal band from Finland released the sixth Full-length album Anima on September 4, 2020.

Noumena (est. 1998, Ähtäri, Finland) have offered their distinctive and unique view of Melodic Death Metal on five full-length albums so far. And now they release a new album Anima (on the 4th of September 2020). Rarely there is a better soundtrack at hand for the approaching autumn than this album, lingering amid heavy,

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dark and slow waters.

The new album presents the darkest and the most melancholic Noumena so far. Band’s unique style to weave wistful melodies is present once again. The songs offer glimpses of Finnish folk music and old schlager fortified with merciless and heavy base.

The distinctive feature of Anima is melancholy and serenity.

Anima is a joint creative endeavor of artists from Noumena’s hometown, Ähtäri.

Besides songs, cover artwork, promo pictures and music video of Saatto are crafted by Ähtäribred professionals.

Tracklist 1. Kaiku 2. Saatto 3. Murtuneet 4. Seula 5. Ajaton 6. Totuus 7. Anima 8. Joutsen Lineup Hannu Savolainen - Bass Ilkka Unnbom - Drums Ville Lamminaho - Guitars, Mandolin, Vocals Tuukka Tuomela - Guitars Antti Haapanen - Vocals Suvi Uura - Vocals Markus Hirvonen - Guitars, Vocals

Desolator Old School Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album Sermon of Apathy on September 4, 2020.

The then-unnamed Desolator was formed in early 2009 when Joakim, Jonas, and Mille started jamming in Sollentuna.

After a few rehearsals, Stefan joined in. The project was originally going in a doom/death direction, but changed into an old school death metal band after some full band rehearsals.

“Sermon of Apathy” is death metal the way it’s supposed to be played; fast, doomy, spooky, melodic, torturous.

Gorgeous.»

For fans of: Immolation, Morbid Angel, Bloodbath, Vader, Blood Red Throne, Nile.

Tracklist 1. Portal Tomb 2. Adversarial Doctrine 3. Creatures of Habit 4. Methods of Self-Deception 5. The Human Condition 6. Vaticide 7. The Great Law of the Dead Lineup Jonas Bergkvist - Bass, Vocals Stefan Nordström - Guitars, Vocals Joakim Rudemyr - Guitars, Vocals Victor Parri - Drums

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Void Rot Death/Doom Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album Descending Pillars on September 11, 2020.

American death-doom titans Void Rot return with their colossal debut full-length LP «Descending Pillars», an imposing sonic monolith of obsidian slow death metal and dismal atmospherics that encases the listener into a monstrous sarcophagus of sound. In its immense forty minutes «Descending Pillars» conjures visions of otherworldly finality and of absurd forms of death and demise taking shape at the edge of a formless and

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implacable dark cosmos. With influences ranging from Grave, to Disembowelment, Incantation and Bolt Thrower, on «Descending Pillars» the Minnesota quartet reestablishes itself as visionary new act with an unparalleled sound and aesthetic of dismally towering proportions, cementing their reputation as one of contemporary death-doom’s most promising and visionary prospects along the ranks of entities like Krypts, Spectral Voice, and Vastum.

Tracklist 1. Descending Pillars 2. Upheaval 3. Liminal Forms

4. Delusions of Flesh 5. Inversion 6. The Weight of a Thousand Suns 7. Monolith (Descending Pillars, Pt. II) Lineup: Craig Clemons - Bass Will Bell - Drums Kent Sklarow - Guitars John Hancock - Guitars, Vocals

S k e l e t a l Remains Death Metal band from United States released the fourth Fulllength album The Entombment of Chaos on September 11, 2020.

SKELETAL REMAINS formed as Anthropophagy back in 2011, released two acclaimed albums through German label FDA Rekotz and honed their skills on the road, playing an impressive amount of gigs and tours early on in the band’s career. In 2018, the band took the proverbial next step, releasing their third record, “Devouring Mortality”, on Dark Descent in North America and Century Media internationally.

Having toured with the likes of Obituary, Hatebreed, Municipal Waste, Power Trip, The Black Dahlia Murder, and many more, SKELETAL REMAINS have succeeded in building up a loyal following worldwide and will now excite their supporters once again with a strong sonic statement.

Lineup Mike De La O - Guitars Chris Monroy - Guitars, Vocals Noah Young - Bass Pierce Williams - Drums

Tracklist 1. Cosmic Chasm (Intro) 2. Illusive Divinity 3. Congregation of Flesh 4. Synthetic Impulse 5. Tombs of Chaos 6. Enshrined in Agony 7. Dissectasy 8. Torturous Ways to Obliteration 9. Eternal Hatred 10. Unfurling the Casket 11. Stench of Paradise Burning (Disincarnate cover)

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Mortis Mutilati Black Metal band from France released the fifth Full-length album The Fate of Flight 800 on September 11, 2020.

Mortis Mutilati is a French black metal band created by Macabre in 2011. After two albums released via Naturmacht Productions, the band started touring a bit everywhere in their home country then self released ‘’The Stench Of Death’’ in 2018,

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allowing the band to reach euopean countries and Mexico.

Mortis Mutilati is now about to release their new album ‘’The Fate Of Flight 800’’, recorded by Devo (exMarduk) at Endarker Studios, Sweden.

Tracklist: 1. Road to Nowhere 2. Flames Behind You 3. Deathcrown 4. The Fate of Flight 800 5. The Smoke of Your Corpse 6. Vultures of Steel 7. Rising Souls 8. Ashes Lineup Macabre - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Cello, Synths Asphodel - Vocals (female) Rokdhan - Guitars Aryth - Drums

Khors Black Metal band from Ukraine released the seventh Full-length album Where the Word Acquires Eternity on September 15, 2020.

Khors is a Slavic god of the sun and light.

KHORS is one of the most significant bands hailing from Ukraine. Experienced musicians of the Ukrainian underground metal scene created the band in August 2004 in Kharkiv.

“Where the Word Acquires Eternity” is a concept album dedicated to the events that took place in Kharkiv in the 30s of the XX century – the times called Renaissance of Ukrainian culture. By that time, in the

end of 1920s, a residential multi-storey house was built by cooperative of writers. Externally the house was built in the shape of the letter С and was named Будинок “Слово” (a House “Word”). In most Slavic languages the word “Слово” means “Word”. A whole galaxy of Ukrainian writers, playwrights, poets, publicists, actors and public figures lived here until mass repressions against Ukrainian cultural figures began in 1933.

This tragic page of history is known as the “Executed Renaissance”. Almost all the residents of the House “Slovo” were subjected to repression: some were shot, some were exiled, and some committed suicide.

Lineup Khorus - Bass Khaoth - Drums Jurgis - Guitars, Vocals Andres - Guitars Tracklist 1. Starvation 2. Blissforsaken 3. Crystals of the Fall 4. The Sea of My Soul 5. ...and Life Shall Harvest One’s Past 6. Up the Ladder to a Lance 7. The Mist (Let This Fog Devour a Snow) 8. Beneath the Keen Edge of Time

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Finntroll Blackened Folk Metal band from Finland released the seventh Full-length album Vredesvävd on September 18, 2020.

The trolls are back – angrier, hungrier and meaner than ever!

“Vredesvävd” (2020) is Finntroll’s seventh full-length, the first in long seven years.

The title translates to “Wrath-woven”, which aptly implies what the vigorous,

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unapologetic and illspirited record is all about.

Lineup Tundra - Bass, Vocals (backing) Skrymer - Guitars (rhythm), Vocals (backing) Trollhorn - Keyboards, Orchestrations, Guitars, Banjo, Mouth harp, Vocals (backing) Routa - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Vreth - Vocals (lead) Virta - Keyboards MörkÖ - Drums

Tracklist 1. Väktaren 2. Att döda med en sten 3. Ormfolk 4. Grenars väg 5. Forsen 6. Vid häxans härd 7. Myren 8. Stjärnors mjöd 9. Mask 10. Ylaren 11. Outro

Napalm Death Grindcore/Death Metal band from United Kingdom released the sixteenth Full-length album Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism on September 18, 2020.

Mark Barney about new album: The main thrust of this album is actually discrimination and dehumanisation that is not an uncommon topic for Napalm.

Whatever we write about we try to make it current and specific to the times we are living in, so the types of discrimination and dehumanisation that we are talking about is now being adopted by governments around the world. For example you only have to look across the Atlantic, and I’m always loathed to mention him as it’s a very obvious thing to do, but the way he has marginalised people to suit his own ends it’s typical of the current climate.

Tracklist 1. Fuck the Factoid 2.

Backlash Just Because 3. That Curse of Being in Thrall 4. Contagion 5. Joie de ne pas vivre 6. Invigorating Clutch 7.

Zero Gravitas Chamber 8.

Fluxing of the Muscle 9. Amoral 10. Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism 11. Acting in Gouged Faith 12. A Bellyful of Salt and Spleen

Lineup Shane Embury - Bass Mark «Barney» Greenway - Vocals Mitch Harris - Guitars, Vocals Danny Herrera - Drums

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Varg Melodic Death/Black Metal band from Germany released the seventh Full-length album Zeichen on September 18, 2020.

Varg means «wolf» in both Swedish and Old Norwegian.

On their authentic masterpiece Zeichen, the Wolves from VARG return to their roots and embark on a journey further down a new road.

Forget anything you have seen or heard about them in the past few years

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and embrace the new album as a reboot of a band that never ceased to evolve and has gotten rid of everything superfluous. This seventh full length release marks a new era for the Wolves, haunted by wild battles, death and bloodlust - a resurrection from the fields of pagan metal, pairing razor-sharp melodic death riffs with Freki’s furious vocals. Within the first seconds of the album opener breaking loose, VARG pulls the listener into the year “793” that heralded the ferocious era of the Vikings.

Tracklist: 1. 793 2. Schildwall 3. Auf die Götter 4. Rán 5. Fara til ránar 6. Wildes Heer 7. Feld der Ehre 8. Wanderer 9. Verräter 10. Zeichen Lineup Fenrier - Drums Freki - Guitars, Vocals Morkai - Guitars Garm - Guitars Fylgja - Vocals (female

Raven Throne Atmospheric Black Metal band from Belarus released the seventh Full-length album Viartannie (Chroniki źmiainaj ciemry) on September 18, 2020.

Raven Throne is the atmospheric black metal act formed in the northern part of Belarus in the faint year of 2004. Over time, through searches and discoveries, achievements and losses Raven Throne is looking for invisible trails to the mysteries of Non-being.

Inspired by the beauty of eternal Winter as before, he continues the endless falling into the Abyss.

Tracklist 1. Zaklaćcie 2. Viartańnie 3. Uładar ściužy 4. Niabačnyja nici zimy 5. Miortvaja spadčyna 6. Spyni serca vosieni 7. U dałoniach zimy

Lineup Chernotur - Guitars War Head - Bass, Vocals, Programming

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Uada Melodic Black Metal band from United States released the third Fulllength album Djinn on September 25, 2020.

The band`s third wish «Djinn» builds upon the increasingly ambitious songwriting of its noless-considerable predecessor, but pushes their dazzling artistry into nearly Technicolor landscapes of the Beyond.

“Djinn, first inhabitors of this world, the smokeless fire and those we call upon our enemies,

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has gifted us a 60-minute descent into the modern-day possessions of our existence and demise,” state the band, “A duality that can only be known as our third wish.”

Tracklist 1. Djinn 2. The Great Mirage 3. No Place Here 4. In the Absence of Matter 5. Forestless 6. Between Two Worlds

Lineup: James Sloan Guitars, Songwriting Jake Superchi - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Songwriting, Lyrics, Arrangements Nate Verschoor - Bass, Songwriting Josiah Babcock Drums, Songwriting

Kataklysm Melodic Death Metal band from Canada released the fourteenth Full-length album Unconquered on September 25, 2020.

Thundering with newly fueled power from the shadows and dust of humanity’s crumbling existence, KATAKLYSM return triumphant with their 14th full length studio album: UNCONQUERED. For almost 3 decades, the French-Canadian melodic death metal syndicate has delivered unapologetic waves of powerful sound across the entire globe. As of late, that globe has suffered tremendously, forcing the inspiration of many artists to extinguish, but for KATAKLYSM, the pressure caused a creative spring to burst forth with furious energy.

Themes of fighting back and overcoming the insurmountable seethe through the lyrics and melodies of UNCONQUERED; consistent, sonic reminders of the battles that lead to triumph.

Not many bands have achieved what KATAKLYSM has in the span of their long and rigorous career, but what truly makes them stand them apart from the masses is seeing the world through truthful eyes, and creating the perfect musical landscape to describe it. With this new album, KATAKLYSM comes swinging at life with hope, and renewed energy even amidst the world’s current, chaotic state.

Tracklist

1. The Killshot 2. Cut Me Down 3. Underneath the Scars 4. Focused to Destroy You 5. The Way Back Home 6. Stitches 7. Defiant 8. Icarus Falling 9. When It’s Over Lineup Maurizio Iacono - Vocals Jean-François Dagenais Guitars Stéphane Barbe - Bass Olivier Beaudoin - Drums

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Enslaved Progressive Black/Viking Metal band from Norway released the fifteenth Fulllength album Utgard on October 2nd, 2020.

It is not about avoiding fear of the pitch-black darkness, but to go into the darkness itself.

Enter “Utgard”. Enter a record brimful with northern magic. Let all those other bands sing about Thor’s mighty hammer and poor Odin hanging from

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that tree in miserable weather conditions. ENSLAVED are looking behind the mirror, tracing the origins of the well-known fables of the northern world back into each and every one of us.

The unusually rollicking rock’n’roll touch of ‘Urjotun’ or the archaic voice from the deep that is ‘Utgardr’, the raging force of ‘Flight Of Thought And Memory’ or the elegiac final curtain ‘Distant Seasons’ show ENSLAVED more open, more focused and simply more brilliant than ever.

Tracklist: 1. Fires in the Dark 2. Jettegryta 3. Sequence 4. Homebound 5. Utgardr 6. Urjotun 7. Flight of Thought and Memory 8. Storms of Utgard 9. Distant Seasons Lineup Grutle Kjellson - Vocals & Bass Ivar Bjornson - Guitars & FX Ice Dale - Guitars Hakon Vinje - Keyboards & Vocals

Cato Bekkevold - Drums

Infiltration Death Metal band from Russia released debut Full-length album Point Blank Termination on October 9, 2020.

Formed back in 2017, Infiltration is consisted of experienced local musicians, who were involved with such bands as Free at Last, Hellbomb, Chamber of Torture, Katalepsy, Abnormal, and who shared the stage with such household names on the heave scene as Cannibal corpse, Carcass, Suffocation, Broken hope, Destroyer 666, Necrophobic, Napalm Death, Decapitated, etc.

The band recorded its debut Ep. Entitled “Nuclear Strike Warning” later the same year, during summer of 2017, with the consecutive release in October of 2017. It was very well received by both critics and fans, and made quite a stir on the local music scene.

During 2018-2019 the band continued to give live performances, both local and abroad, all the while, writing and recording the material for the debut full length album.

For the release of the debut full length album, the band worked with highly acclaimed master of artworks Daemorph (who did artworks for such bands as The Black Dahlia Murder, Pyrexia, Lividity and many more...)

In 2019 Infiltration opened for legendary Napalm Death, in front of a fully packed venue.

Later they released its first single called “Missing in bodycount” extracted from the upcoming album.

In 2020, Infiltration officially signed to Time to Kill records for the release of its debut full length

album.

Tracklist 1. Plunged into decimation 2. Missing in bodycount 3. Sniper’s creed 4. Collateral damage 5. Rabid bloodshed 6. Missiles over the minefields 7. Radiation storm 8. Absolute brutality of terror Lineup Andrey Kozlov - Bass Alexey Semyonov - Drums Evgeny Hök - Guitars Pavel Vakhlakov - Vocals

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Necrophobic Death/Black Metal band from Sweden released the ninth Full-length album Dawn of the Damned on October 10th, 2020.

With thirty years of active, nefarious service under their bulletbelts, NECROPHOBIC are undisputed legends of the death and black metal underground.

The band’s ninth studio album is still a brutal whirlwind of aggression, of course, but something more grimly

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magical lurks within Tracklist its subtler textures and 1. Aphelion ingenious side-steps.

2. Darkness Be My Guide 3. Mirror Black Lineup 4. Tartarian Winds Joakim Sterner - Drums 5. The Infernal Depths of Anders Strokirk - Vocals Eternity Sebastian Ramstedt - 6. Dawn of the Damned Guitars 7. The Shadows Johan Bergeback - 8. As the Fire Burns Guitars 9. The Return of a Long Lost Allan Lundholm - Bass Soul 10. Devil’s Spawn Attack

Benediction Death Metal band from United Kingdom released the eighth Full-length album Scriptures on October 16, 2020.

Benediction are without a doubt one of the few remaining originals in the death metal scene and have achieved legendary status through various albums over the years.

Until today they love what they do and always do their job without compromise - on record and on stage. After more than 30 years in the business and 12 years after their last album «Killing Music», BENEDICTION are now back with one of their best releases and play once again in the Death Metal

Champions League.

The new album «Scriptures» sounds 100% like BENEDICTION: they blend death metal with a «fuck-off punk rock attitude», heavy metal riffing and a groove that hardly any other band can perform like this.

Dave Ingram’s «signaturegrowls» and powerful lyrics enhance the tonal framework so that you can hear after a few notes that you are listening to Benediction.

Tracklist 1. Iterations of I 2. Scriptures in Scarlet 3. The Crooked Man 4. Stormcrow 5. Progenitors of a New

Paradigm 6. Rabid Carnality 7. In Our Hands, the Scars 8. Tear Off These Wings 9. Embrace the Kill 10. Neverwhen 11. The Blight at the End 12. We Are Legion Lineup Peter Rew - Guitars Darren Brookes Guitars Dave Ingram - Vocals Dan Bate - Bass Giovanni Durst - Drums

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Mors Principium Est Melodic Death Metal band from Finland released the seventh Fulllength album Seven on October 23, 2020.

The Finnish Melodic Death Metal legends return with their highly anticipated seventh studio album full of heavy riffs, brutal vocals and hauntingly beautiful melodies!

For Fans Of: Children Of Bodom, Ensiferum, Wintersun, In Flames, Soilwork, Wolfheart.

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acclaimed albums and various line-up changes, MORS PRINCIPIUM EST are currently only singer Ville Viljanen, who wrote the somber lyrics and functioned as the main producer, and British guitarist and songwriter Andy Gillion. Guitars and orchestral parts were recorded in Gillion’s home studio, drums and vocals were recorded in the Ansa Studio (Finland) and finally mixed and mastered once again by the sound wizard and longtime friend of the band Thomas “Plec” Johannson in

The Panic Room in Sweden.

Tracklist 1. A Day for Redemption 2. Lost in a Starless Aeon 3. In Frozen Fields 4. March to War 5. Rebirth 6. Reverence 7. Master of the Dead 8. The Everlong Night 9. At the Shores of Silver Sand 10. My Home, My Grave 11. Uprising Lineup Ville Viljane - Vocals (lead) Andy Gillion - Guitars (lead), Programming

Red Moon Architect Melodic Death/Doom Lineup Metal band from Finland Saku Moilanen released the fifth Full-length Drums, Keyboards album Emptiness Weighs the Jukka Jauhiainen - Bass Most on October 23, 2020. Matias Moilanen - Guitars Finnish Doomsters RED Anni Viljanen - Vocals (female) MOON ARCHITECT are Ville Rutanen - Vocals known to create a unique Taneli Jämsä - Guitars sound of their own. Pure sweeping, yet crushing and highly atmospheric Melancholic Doom soundscapes consolidate with strong melodies, dark growls and haunting female vocals, crawling directly under your skin.

Tracklist 1. Hidden 2. Chained 3. Rise 4. Dethrone the Darkness 5. One Shines Brighter 6. Muse 7. Into the Light 8. Reform 9. My Beloved

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Mörk Gryning Black Metal band from Sweden released the sixth Full-length album Hinsides vrede on October 23, 2020.

After fifteen years of slumber, the sleepers are asleep no more, the dead are resting peacefully no more.

One of Sweden’s legendary black metal bands MÖRK GRYNING are about to unleash their wrath upon the masses with ‘Hinsides Vrede’, Translating into ‘otherworldly wrath’ or ‘wrath of the world beyond’, ‘Hinsides Vrede’ represents the doom of pre-historic cultures as well as our impending doom while the world is

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cracking at its seams. It is a furious assault upon the civilized world and a descent into the nether regions of the world beyond.

MÖRK GRYNING again found the synergy they had while writing their legendary debut record and return to their foundations by balancing melody with straightforward brutality. Yet, by striving to reinvent themselves with every record, the longawaited comeback of the band is by no means a reiteration of a glorious musical past.

Tracklist 1. The Depths of Chinnereth 2. Fältherren 3. Existence in a Dream 4. Infernal 5. A Glimpse of the Sky 6. Hinsides 7. The Night 8. Sleeping in the Embers 9. For Those Departed 10. Without Crown 11. Black Spirit 12. On the Elysian Fields Lineup C-G - Drums Goth Gorgon - Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals (backing) Draakh Kimera - Drums, Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals Avatar - Guitars, Vocals Aeon - Keyboards, Guitars, Vocals

Demonical Death Metal band from Sweden released the sixth Full-length album World Domination on October 23, 2020.

«World Domination» is a gateway to old and new Demonical. The band’s sixth album marks the debut for vocalist Christofer Sätderdal and the return for original drummer Ronnie Bergerstål (2006-2011, 2019-present). There are no major changes to the band’s proven formula of brutal, melodic and insolently Swedish death metal. «World Domination» picks up where 2018’s «Chaos Manifesto» left off, with a touch of extra dynamics and vibrancy that enrich the band’s sound.

Lineup Martin Schulman - Bass Ronnie Bergerstål - Drums Johan Haglund - Guitars (rhythm) Eki Kumpulainen - Guitars (lead) Christofer Säterdal - Vocals

Tracklist My Kingdom Done 2. Hellfire Rain 3. Aeons of Death 4. The Thin Darkness 5. We Stand as One 6. Victorious 7. Slipping Apart 8. Calescent Punishment

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Darzamat Symphonic Black/ Gothic Metal band from Poland released the sixth Full-length album A Philosopher at the End of the Universe on October 27, 2020.

Refreshed, world-class sound of the band, using classic rock and metal instruments and moving away from the use of keyboards.

Stylistic variety of metal music and more. Darzamat clearly distances itself from labeling its music and would rather go for a concept of ‘travelers in

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music’.

The concept of the album captured in an extraordinary philosophical and lyrical idea. The album also includes a fragment of a story straight from a classic Gothic novel, written by the singer and band leader, Rafał ‘Flauros’ Góral, together with his poet friend, prose writer and linguist - Jesion Kowal.

Tracklist: 1. Reminiscence 2. A Philosopher at the End of the Universe 3. Running in the Dark 4. Thoughts to Weigh on Farewell Day 5. The Tearful Game 6. The Sleeping Prophet 7. Clouds, Clouds, Darkening All 8. The Great Blaze 9. The Kaleidoscope of Retreat Lineup Flauros - Vocals Chris - Guitars Nera - Vocals (female) Markus - Bass Jacek Gut - Drums

Begrafven B l a c k Metal band f r o m Sweden released the first Full-length album Dödsriket on October 30, 2020.

Begrafven consists of Maturz, known from Elimi and Snötårar and Ursus. 7 years has past since their ”Begrafven” demo, containing the tracks ”Universums Grav” and ”Frälsaren” was released.

Now, finally the debut album ”Dödsriket” is ready to be unleashed upon

the world. It contains 11 tracks with a total running time of 69 minutes of pure Swedish Black Metal magic.

Lineup Maturz - Guitars, Drums, Bass Ursus - Guitars, Vocals

Tracklist 1. Nyckeln till dödsriket 2. Frostfödd 3. Slav 4. Universums grav 5. Döden är helig 6. Då jorden fylls av klagorop 7. Giftet 8. I mitt mörker 9. Frälsaren 10. Korpens tystnad 11. Livets fort

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Draconian Gothic/Doom/Death Metal band from Sweden released the seventh Full-length album Under a Godless Veil on October 30, 2020.

Once again, the hidden masters of gothic death/doom metal release an absolute triumph of the genre. Draconian’s music, especially on Under A Godless Veil is a balancing act, finding a home

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between the softer, overtly gothic elements and the heavy death/doom which (immediately) follows.

Draconian’s wistfulbut-monolithic music is egalitarian between its two halves, but their main focus is the emotion which both carry.

For those who haven’t really heard Draconian before and are gothcurious, Under a Godless Veil is a wonderful first album.

Tracklist 1. Sorrow of Sophia 2. The Sacrificial Flame 3. Lustrous Heart 4. Sleepwalkers 5. Moon over Sabaoth 6. Burial Fields 7. The Sethian 8. Claw Marks on the Throne 9. Night Visitor 10. Ascend into Darkness

Carcass Death Metal band from United Kingdom released the EP Despicable on October 30, 2020.

True metal originators, Carcass influenced extreme metal all over the globe with early records like “Symphonies of Sickness” (1989) and “Heartwork” (1993).

After a seventeen yearalbum sabbatical, critics and fans alike lauded 2013’s “Surgical Steel”, the band’s first record since “Swansong”

(1996), and the band’s return to form. Bigger than ever Carcass toured the world for years supporting the album. In the lead up to a new 2021 full length Carcass released the EP “Despicable”. The 4-track collection is made up of songs not featured on the band’s upcoming 2021 full length.

Tracklist 1. The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue 2.

The Long and Winding Bier Road

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Under the Scalpel Blade 4. Slaughtered in Soho Lineup Jeff Walker - Bass, Vocals Bill Steer - Guitars, Vocals Daniel Wilding Drums Tom Draper - Guitars

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DĂŠcembre Noir Melodic Doom/Death Metal band from Germany released the fourth Full-length album The Renaissance of Hope on November 13, 2020.

Since 2008, DĂŠcembre Noir have introduced and developed their melancholic-melodic mix of Death and Doom metal. The band proves a grown feeling for the musical realisation of darkly coloured emotions and respective moods.

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For fans of: SWALLOW THE SUN, old-MY DYING BRIDE, INSOMNIUM Lineup Kevin - Drums Martin - Guitars Lars - Vocals Sebastian - Guitars Stephan - Bass

Tracklist: 1. A Swan Lake Full of Tears 2. Hope / Renaissance 3. Ritual and Failure 4. Streets of Transience 5. Wings of Eschaton 6. Behind the Scenes

Strydegor Melodic Death Metal Metal band from Germany released the fourth Full-length album Isolacracy on November 13, 2020.

In Nordic Mythology Strydegor is a warrior who was chosen by Odin to guard the mead.

Over the last 10 years, Strydegor have been delivering their unique sound of melodic death metal with acoustic hymn-like swirls, not forgetting the windy black metal to complete the atmosphere.

Three albums later and several gigs in the European stages, these northerners return in full fury with a brand new sound-storm that goes by the name of ÂŤIsolacracyÂť.

Tracklist 1. Beware the Beast Man 2. Innocence Corroded 3. Lucid 4. Stars and Strife 5. World in Your Hands 6. Into the Unknown 7. Escape 8. Enemy Inside 9. As April Slowly Fades 10. Oceans

Lineup Immanuel Promnitz - Drums Florian Kunde - Guitars, Vocals Daniel Hausschild - Guitars Martin Schmidt - Bass

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Belphegor Black Death Metal band from Austria re-released their third Fulllength album Necrodaemon Terrorsathan on November 6, 2020.

Twenty years after it’s first appearance the third studio album of the European Black Death Metal force comes to new life as remastered version available as CD and LP. Helmuth states: «It’s great to re-release this offering after twenty years. The demons get what they deserve, and many have asked throughout the years. The album holds

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the flag high in the form of a raw atmosphere for blasphemous Black Death Metal.»

Tracklist 1. Necrodaemon Terrorsathan 2. Vomit upon the Cross 3. Diabolical Possession 4. Lust Perishes in a Thirst for Blood 5. S.B.S.R. 6. Sadism Unbound / Lechery on the Altar 7. Tanzwut Totengesänge 8. Cremation of Holiness

9. Necrodaemon Terrorsathan (Part II) / Outro: Analjesus Lineup Helmuth - Vocals, Guitars, Lyrics Sigurd - Guitars, Lyrics Marius - Bass, Vocals (backing)

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Sorrow Melodic Death Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album PRÆY on November 20, 2020.

The band takes the DeathMetal-wheel, demolishes it completely and puts it back together again in their very own way, creating an individual sound with a lot of interesting facets. Their musical construct is born out of aggression paired with ear-catching melody and a sometimes Black Metallike atmosphere; the music is punchy, dynamic and drills directly into your head. Raw energy flows through every single song: boosting the urge to bang your head until total escalation. Definitely a band you should consider listening to.

Death Metal tradition of bands like Edge Of Sanity, At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity or In Flames, the band also impersonates a touch of a Black Metal feeling within its melodies, vocals and riffing. The foundation is Death Metal, but there is no rule to what it takes for an EMPYREAL SORROW song to be unique.

This simple strategy also led to the implementation of two vocalists - with Martin Szeike providing the guttural, deep grunts, and Sebastian Moser slamming out his more Black Metal-like screams.

Inspired by the great Swedish Tracklist 1. Praey To Sorrow 2. Thrown Into The Fire 3. Source Of (In)Humanity 4. The Error Code 5. Come Down With Me 6. Quiet Depression 7. Scars Of Old 8. Voice Of Violence 9. Killing Silence 10. A Night Without Armo Lineup Sebastian Moser - Bass & Vocals Markus Winter - Guitars Martin Szeike - Vocals Julian Osterried - Drums Martin Hofbauer - Guitars

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My Dying Bride Death/Doom Metal band from United Kingdom released the EP Macabre Cabaret on November 20, 2020.

The new EP of the band offers three new songs – dark luscious Death Doom ear candies that will dive their victim into a sensual world of darkness and temptation and conceal the borders between sweet pain and destructive illusion.

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merchants of misery features new music composed in the style the band have made their own over three decades which continues their relevance within the scene today. Macabre Cabaret is as menacing and brooding as it is beautiful and melancholic with crushing guitar riffs sailing side by side with emotive piano pieces and vocals to suit all flavours.

The stunning artwork captures the image of the band perfectly offering a visual interpretation of the aural devastation that is My Dying Bride.”

Tracklist 1. Macabre Cabaret 2. A Secret Kiss 3. A Purse of Gold and Stars Lineup Andrew Craighan - Guitars Aaron Stainthorpe - Vocals Lena Abé - Bass Shaun Macgowan - Keyboards, Violin Jeff Singer - Drums Neil Blanchett - Guitars

Dark Tranquillity Melodic Death Metal band from Sweden released the twelfth Fulllength album Moment on November 20, 2020.

Swedish melodic death metal kings DARK TRANQUILLITY are back with new album, «Moment».

It’s been four years since the (Swedish) Grammy-nominated album, «Atoma», but the time between was creative, innovative, and adventurous. The stalwarts welcomed two top-tier guitarists -Christopher Amott (exArch Enemy) and Johan Reinholdz (Nonexist)while writing a stunning

cluster of songs that not only push DARK TRANQUILLITY’s boundaries outward but also strongly typify the Swedes’ sonic fingerprint.

Amazing songs like «Phantom Days», «Identical to None», and «Empires Lost to Time» are bright and aggressive, while «The Dark Unbroken», «A Drawn Out Exit», and «In Truth Divided» cast long, cold shadows.

Tracklist 1. Phantom Days 2. Transient 3. Identical to None 4. The Dark Unbroken 5.

Remain in the Unknown

6. Standstill 7. Ego Deception 8. A Drawn Out Exit 9.

Eyes of the World 10. Failstate Lineup Anders Jivarp - Drums Mikael Stanne - Vocals Martin Brändström Keyboards, Programming, Electronics Anders Iwers - Bass Johan Reinholdz Guitars Christopher Amott Guitars

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Cadaver Death Metal band from Norway released the fourth Full-length album Edder & Bile on November 27, 2020.

Back with a vengeance and hellbent on destruction, CADAVER are back in business and ready to reign. Edder & Bile – the first full length from this band’s new incarnation of Anders Odden’s original, extreme metal vision.

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the same primal, primitive spirit that drove the band’s early works, the likes of Morgue Ritual and Let Me Burn are also full of fresh perversity and evidence of the same contrary instincts that always set Cadaver apart from their supposed peers. Vocal cameos from death metal icons Kam Lee (MASSACRE) and Jeff Becerra (POSSESSED) ensure that this crushing rebirth has underground credentials to spare.

Tracklist 1. Morgue Ritual 2. Circle of Morbidity 3. Feed the Pigs 4. Final Fight 5. Deathmachine 6. Reborn 7. The Pestilence 8. Edder & Bile 9. Years of Nothing 10. Let Me Burn

Azarath Death/Black Metal band from Poland released the seventh Full-length album Saint Desecration on November 27, 2020.

AZARATH crept from the shadows over two decades ago and is often described as a demonic mutation of Krisiun, Behemoth and Immolation. Co-founded by sole original member Inferno (of Behemoth fame), the group c o m p r i s e s long-running

guitarist Bart (Damnation, Armagedon), long-time bassist Peter (ex-Lost Soul) and new vocalist Skullripper (Embrional).

Tracklist 1. Death-at-Will 2.

Sancta Dei Meretrix 3. Let them Burn‌ 4. Fall of the Blessed 5. No Salvation 6. Profanation 7. Reigning over the Death 8. Life Is Death, Death Is

Life 9.

Inflicting Blasphemy upon the Heavens 10.

Beyond the Gates of Burning Ghats Lineup Inferno - Drums Bart - Guitars Peter - Bass Skullripper - Vocals, Guitars

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Varde Black Metal band from Norway released the first Fulllength album Fedraminne on November 27, 2020.

Varde was forged in 2017 by Koll, Nord and drummer Dar’n.

With traditional poetry in combination with their folkish and atmospheric brand of music, Varde shines a light on the northern heritage of story telling, historical events and folklore.

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length album «Fedraminne». Raw yet sophisticated, VARDE’s channeling of ancestral memories is fuelled by their deep connection to the national romantic era, and is centered around traditional Norwegian poems from the 19th century.

VARDE´s blackened metal is steeped in lingering folk melodies and ferocious metal riffing, and the passionate vocals echo the call of the wild Nordic nature. There’s also a place for somber acoustics, ethereal saxophone leads and industrial beats on «Fedraminne», boldly telling its story with all means necessary.

Tracklist 1. Kystbillede del I 2. Halvdan Svarte 3. Forbundet 4. Et Gammelnorskt Herresæde 5. Fedraminne 6. Skuld 7. Koll med Bilen del I 8. Kystbillede del II

Mork Black Metal band from Norway released EP Pesta on November 27, 2020.

Despite the resemblance, Mork is not derived from Mørk, which is the Norwegian word for «Dark». Mork only stands for Mork.

Mork was created by Thomas Eriksen in the town of Halden in Norway during 2004.

Both then and now the band functions as a oneman-band, much like many others within the Black Metal-genre.

Thomas Eriksen explains the origins of Pesta: «The Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen (1857-1914) has been an important part of

Norwegian Black Metal since the early 90’s.

Kittelsen’s artwork has a haunting, eerie and mysterious effect.

Most noteworthy is his work in the book «Svartedauden» (‘The Black Plague’) which was originally published in 1900. During a summer trip I passed through the valley where Kittelsen resided, and visited the farm, Lauvlia. While there I found out that a couple of the drawings in «Svartedauden» are based on actual places.

The Kittelsen drawings ‘Pesta i trappa’ and ‘Musstad’ are based on a particular house on a different farm, where the artist

lived for a while.

A good friend of mine said that I should create a song to go along with the pictures, so it all fit nicely with the current Covid-19 situation, so I wrote a song about the Black Plague called «Pesta».

Tracklist 1. Pesta

2. Valen 3.

En sti inn i Remmendalen (live) 4. I Hornenes Bilde (live) Lineup Thomas Eriksen Everything

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Scour Black Metal band from United States released EP Black on November 27, 2020.

Scour is a Black Metal band featuring Phil Anselmo (Down, Superjoint Ritual, ex-Pantera, etc) and members of Pig Destroyer, Cattle Decapitation. Animosity and Strong Intention.

The sound of SCOUR can best be described as a modern reimagining of what primarily became known a s black metal,

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but mixed with elements of grindcore and bits of punk and thrash. Notgetting too caught up in genre classification, the result is an ominously-hued punishing minimalism that pays homage, without the trappings of ‘throw-back,’ while reimagining the lineage from primitive punk darkness into modernity.

Tracklist 1. Doom 2. Nail 3. Propaganda 4. Flames 5. Microbes 6. Subprime Lineup John Jarvis - Bass, Vocals (backing) Derek Engemann - Guitars, Vocals (backing), Songwriting Philip H. Anselmo - Vocals, Lyrics Adam Jarvis - Drums Mark Kloeppel - Guitars, Vocals (backing)

Sodom Thrash Metal band from Germany released the sixteenth Full-length album Genesis XIX on November 27, 2020.

Angelripper: “As a result, we were largely autonomous during the production of Genesis XIX and were free not only to concentrate on working on new songs but also to come up with the right sounds.

That was important because we use neither digital amps nor plug-ins but played all the guitar parts using proper Marshall tube amps.”

Following the preproduction, Sodom

completed the work at the renowned Woodhouse Studio in Hagen, where sound engineer Siggi Bemm recorded Tom’s vocals and mixed the album on an analogue studio console.

Tracklist 1. Blind Superstition 2. Sodom & Gomorrah 3. Euthanasia 4. Genesis XIX 5. Nicht mehr mein Land 6. Glock ‘n’ Roll 7. The Harpooneer 8. Dehumanized 9.

Occult Perpetrator 10. Waldo & Pigpen

11. Indoctrination 12. Friendly Fire Lineup Tom Angelripper Bass, Vocals Frank Blackfire Guitars Yorck Segatz Guitars Toni Merkel - Drums

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Butterfly Temple Pagan/Doom Metal band from Russia released the eleventh Fulllength album Волчье солнце on December 1, 2020.

The eleventh studio work of the group incorporated all the best that has been over the years. The album is dedicated to the Wolf in human guise and the Man in wolf. Who is the son of man, and who is the

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beast, decide the listener. But the sun shines for all, and the moon illuminates the path of the chosen!

Lineup Mikhail Shmatko - Guitars Aven - Keyboards Alexey Sporyshev - Drums Valery Ostrikov - Guitars Viktor Pryazhnov - Bass Andrey Matyushenko - Vocals

Tracklist: 1. Интро 2. Мести бремя 3. Помнишь рассвет 4. Веков седая пыль 5. Волчье солнце 6. Маятник дней 7. Горькой полыни вино 8. Солнце за холмами 9. Открытая дверь 10. Гром

11. Купалинка

12. Своя земля

Profanity Brutal Technical Death Metal band from Germany released the fourth Full-length album Fragments of Solace on December 4, 2020.

Profanity are returning with a new full-length:“Fragments of Solace”.

Profanity is an underground band that enjoys sharing the spirit of the underground with other bands and friends around the world.

Over the years, the band has played a lot of shows with great bands like Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Sinister, Vader, Cryptopsy, Misery Index, Necrophagist, Broken Hope, Defeated Sanity and many more and festivals like FTC, PartySan, MOD, Obscene Extreme, M a r y l a n d

Deathfest, Netherlands Deathfest, Stonehenge, In Flammen open air, Deathfeast open air etc.

Tracklist 1. Disputed Territory 2. Progenitor of the Blaze 3. Reckless Souls 4. Where Forever Starts 5. Towards the Sun

6. Ceremony of the Rotten 7. The Autopsy

Lineup Thomas Sartor - Guitars, Vocals Armin Hassmann - Drums Lukas Haidinger - Bass, Vocals Additional guest appearances by: Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation) - guitar solo in “Ceremony of the Rotten Flesh” Matt Sotelo (Decrepit Birth) - guitar solo in “Towards the Sun” Dave Suzuki (Churchburn) - guitar solo in “Disputed Territory” Dimitry Orlov (Fetal Decay) - vocals in “Towards The Sun” Martl Bauer (Profanity) - bass in “Where Forever Starts”

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Depravity Death Metal band from Australia released the second Full-length album Grand Malevolence on December 4, 2020.

Grand Malevolence is 11 quick, to the point, hard hitting death metal songs.

If you need a full idea of what this band has to offer, jump into «Trophies of Inhumanity».

Between the riffs and solos, Louis Rando’s consistent blasts throughout, and Ainsley Watkins

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rumbling baselines in the back, this is the perfect formula for a Depravity song. On top of all of this, Kay’s commanding vocal prowess and a catchy, almost sing along style chorus lays overtop.

Lineup Ainsley Watkins - Bass Louis Rando - Drums Lynton Cessford Guitars Jarrod Curley - Guitars Jamie Kay - Vocals

Tracklist 1. Indulging Psychotic Thoughts 2. Grand Malevolence 3. Invalid Majesty 4. Cantankerous Butcher 5. Trophies of Inhumanity 6. Castrate the Perpetrators 7. The Coming of the Hammering 8. Barbaric Eternity 9. Hallucination Aflame 10. Epitome of Extinction 11. Ghosts in the Void

Valravn Black Metal band from Finland released the first Full-length album Prey on December 4, 2020.

Valravn truly sound like a band, as in four individuals playing together in the same room rather than the usual copy/paste practices used by so many studio-only «bands.» This very tangible physicality bleeds over into the overall emotion of Prey, whereby the listener can literally FEEL every note...and every note is vital, virile, vivid.

Of course, Valravn are a black metal band, and black metal by definition is monochromatic, but that vividness is writ large across

the album’s eight central tracks, each one as cutting ‘n’ concise as the next. As such, Prey feels a lot larger than it should, for the band pack in an almost-cresting sense of the epic into these tight ‘n’ taut tracks.

the Fire 6. Illustratum 7. Enchained 8. Treachery 9. The Raven 10. Outro Lineup H. Partinen - Bass A. Olkkola - Drums B. Carey - Guitars Alarik - Guitars, Vocals

Tracklist 1.

Awaken 2. Throne of Blood 3. Void 4. Conjuration 5. Evoke

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Abigor Black Metal band from Austria released the twelfth Full-length album Totschläger (A Saintslayer’s Songbook) on December 8, 2020.

The atmosphere captured on this new release has also opened up from the strictly apocalyptic darkness which contemporary Black Metal more and more embodies almost exclusively, to let those 1980s Metal influences in which have almost been buried in the 90s - be it the the melodic

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guitarwork or the uplifting, „into the battle“ kind of parts, which were always present in the old days. Therefore, the whole broad spectrum which 90s BM once offered, has been resurrected for „Totschläger“.

Riff-based heaviness like the opener Gomhorra Rising (the verses composed as a bow to Euronymous´ eternal regency for such style), slow melancholic hymns like Guiding The Namelss, or ultra-fast devastation like Terrorkommando Eligos - a song which puts every self-

declared Panzerführer right into primary school.

Tracklist 1. Gomorrha Rising - Nightside Rebellion 2. Silent Towers, Screaming Tombs 3. Orkblut (Sieg oder Tod) 4. The Saint of Murder 5. Scarlet Suite for the Devil 6. La Plus Longue Nuit Du Diable Guiding the Nameless 7. Tartaros Tides 8. Flood of Wrath 9. Terrorkommando Eligos Lineup P.K. - Guitars, Bass T.T. - Guitars, Drums, Bass Silenius - Vocals

Horna Black Metal band from Finland released the tenth Full-length album Kuoleman kirjo on December 11, 2020.

Horna’s vision of unapologetic BLACK METAL is proud and pure, and played with an intensity and finesse that’s familiar yet unique. The past is alive because the present is dead; there is no future. Horna thus continue to stand immortal, and Kuoleman Kirjo is the only firmament on the foreseeable horizon.

Lineup Shatraug Guitars, Songwriting, Lyrics Infection Guitars, Songwriting Spellgoth - Vocals LRH - Drums VnoM - Bass

Tracklist 1. Saatanan viha 2. Elegia 3. Uneton 4. Sydänkuoro 5. Elävänä, kuolleena 6. Kärsimysten katedraali 7. Haudattujen tähtien yönä 8. Rakas kuu 9. Unohtumaton 10. Mustat vuodet 11. Pyhä kuolema 12. Veriuhri 13. Ota minut vastaan

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Heads for the Dead International Death Metal band (Sweden/Germany/ Netherlands) released the second Full-length album Into the Red on December 11, 2020.

Death metal supergroup Heads For The Dead dropped a stunner of an album in ‘Serpent’s Curse’ which sent shockwaves through the underground.

The band’s masterful blending of classic death metal with horror-inspired elements set them apart from the standard revivalist bands. The combination of Jonny Pettersson (Wombbath, Gods Forsaken, Henry Kane) behind the music and Ralf Hauber (Revel In Flesh)

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on vocals proved to be extremely effective and both of them put in their experience of decades to create something marvellous. ‘Into the Red’ sees them take things to a different level and also recruiting the services of the legendary drummer Ed Warbie, known for his work in bands like Gorefest and Hail of Bullets, renders their sound flawless. They’ve honed it to make it more cohesive, the horror influence now being an intrinsic part of the music, and there’s undeniable growth in the songwriting that

makes them step out of the shadow of the old school death metal peers to carve an identity of their own.

Tracklist 1. Into the Red 2. The Coffin Scratcher 3. At the Dead of Night 4. Horror Injection 5. The Seance 6. Night Ripping Terror 7. The Midnight Resistance 8. Multi Morbid Maniac 9. The Revenant 10. The Prophecy Fulfilled 11. Transilvanian Hunger 12. Creatures of the Monolith Lineup Jonny Pettersson - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, FX Ralf Hauber - Vocals Ed Warbie - Drums

Fortíð Viking/Black Metal band from Iceland released the sixth Full-length album World Serpent on December 11, 2020.

With this dark and deadly duology, mastermind Einar Eldur Thorberg delivers an album of two parts: The first five tracks were recorded with the former Norwegian line-up. The other songs are a creation of the multiinstrumentalist after changing his residence back to Iceland and enlisting the support of drummer Kristján Einar Guðmundsson (KONTINUUM) with whom he had previously collaborated in the native cult act POTENTIAM. «World Serpent» is loosely based on a unifying apocalyptic theme, but also a beast of two faces. The first half witnesses FORTIÐ

subtly experimenting with influences of Bay Area Thrash, while the second half returns to a more Black Metal approach with screams and clean vocals.

Although both parts have diverging musical visions and even different line-ups, they complement each other rather than constitute two separate entities.

Tracklist 1. AI 2020 2. The True Awakening 3. Controlled Patterned Mental Process 4. Insignificant Is the Wormking’s Throne 5. Suppressed Opposition 6. Son of a Barren Land 7. Pandemic 8. Beyond the Grips of Odium 9. Perfect Annihilation 10. Last Line of Defence

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Heiinghund Atmospheric Black Metal band from Norway released the third Full-length album Urðrs brønn on December 12, 2020.

Heiinghund played together with Ildjarn, Nidhogg and Tvigygre in the now famous Folkloric necro metal.

After many years he resurfaced and has now released his 3rd full length album Urðrs brønn.

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and future. Both as ethereal entities and physical dimensions.

Heiinghund uses the Norse legends as a mythological language in his expression. Pair this with raw oldschool blackmetal and the scene is set for a musical journeythrough the cold barren landscape of Heiinghund demented universe.

Lineup Heiinghund - All instruments

Tracklist: 1. Nornene 2. Fafnir 3. Jarngygri 4. Urðr 5. Balder og Odin 6. Dvergfylgje 7. Verdande 8. Hatets kalde klinge 9. Kraakevisa 10. Fjellets klagesang 11. Hatets borg 12. Eg ska drepa deg 13. Blod ild sverd

14. Skuld saga 15. Vinterland 16. Født av alder 17. Runuheita 18. Fryktens skapning 19. Innerst i sinnet/Outro

Wombbath Death Metal band from Sweden released the fifth Full-length album Tales of Madness on December 18, 2020.

Wombbath become a force to be reckoned with especially in recent years, after carving a reputation for themselves in the underground especially with their ‘Internal Caustic Torments’ full length in the early ‘90s. Since then they’ve released three more full lengths, each one better received than the last. This here is a release that includes completely rerecorded songs from their early

years as well as brand new material representing the band’s current sound. The songs have been mastered in a way that there’s no difference in sound quality all through and plays almost as a whole new album. It’s fascinating to mark the progress of the band over the course of three decades and this release is a testament to the timeless quality of their brand of hard-hitting and memorable Swedish death metal.

Lineup Håkan Stuvemark Guitars, Vocals Jonny Pettersson Vocals, Guitars Jon Rudin - Drums Thomas von Wachenfeldt - Guitars Matt Davidson - Bass Tracklist 1. Tales from the Dark Side 2. Brutal Mights 3. Unholy Madness 4. The Grave 5.

Lavatory Suicide Remains 6. Save Your Last Breath to Scream 7.

Tales of Madness 8. The Fleshly Existence of Man

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Batushka Black Metal band from Poland released the live album Черная Литургия/ Black Liturgy on December 24, 2020.

Batushka / Батюшка returns with their very first live record!

On the October night of Samhain, the band presented an atmospheric live stream prepared for the Colombian Festival Rock al Parque - one of the largest music festivals in South America. The broadcast itself took place in the form of a freely available

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stream. After its success, the band decided to release the recorded performance entitled: «Черная Литургия/Black Liturgy - A Monastic Live».

With additional four songs (11 total+intro) and over 70 minutes of runtime, this live record is your only chance to experience the atmosphere of Batushka’s performance in the comfort of your own home. And as live shows are being postponed every day due to the global pandemic, you can now enjoy Batushka’s music in a new and exciting way.

Tracklist 1. Знаменный Распев / Znamiennyj Raspiew 2. Ирмос I / Irmos I 3. Ирмос II / Irmos II 4. Ирмос III / Irmos III 5. Ирмос IV / Irmos IV 6. Ирмос V / Irmos V 7. Утреня / Utrenia 8. Первый Час / Pierwyj Czas 9. Третий Час / Tretij Czas 10. Вечерня / Wieczernia 11. Повечерье / Powieczerje 12. Литургия / Liturgiya

Empyrean Fire Symphonic Black Metal band from United States released the Full-length album Deliverance on December 26, 2020.

From the alluring forests of the Pacific Northwest comes Portland’s only active symphonic black metal band, Empyrean Fire. Drawing influence from both modern black metal as well as classic Scandinavian bands, Empyrean Fire has manifested a lush symphonic opus with the shadow of the cascadian sound not far behind...

The concept behind «Deliverance»

was ruminated upon for years by front woman, Tricia Myers, after reading Milton’s «Paradise Lost» and «Paradise Regained.»

Deliverance is a sinister take on Milton’s work, reshaping it with harrowing twists and malevolent revelations, each chapter a battle in the dragon’s ascent to gain command over Hell on Earth. Will you bow down in battle, sunken before the spear?

For fans of Immortal, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor.

Tracklist 1. Proclamation 2. Gathering Storm 3. Descent 4. Perdition 5. Corruption 6. The Siege 7. Final Battle Lineup Tricia Myers - Vocals, Lyrics Jason Yorke - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Programming Brian Rush - Vocals, Synths

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Arawn Melodic Death Metal band from Czechia released the second Fulllength album Odkazy doby on December 24, 2020.

According to mythology, the name of the band is given by the strict, but at the same time uncompromising and at the same time fair Welsh god of the underworld ARAWN. Zakk - guitar / scream (ex-Audiens, ex-Imperium, ex-Sixth Dimension ex-Final

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Pain), Viking - drums (exPsychotherapy, ex-Self Sacrifice), Jirka - growl / scream (ex-Furt2n, ex- Fetus in fetu) and Hroch - bass (exFinal Pain) met and formed only a momentary project at the beginning, but later they became a regular band.

Lineup Tomáš Vančura - Bass Vikingpj - Drums Zakk - Guitars, Vocals Jirka Suk - Vocals

Tracklist: 1. Z/N/P 2. Mozkomor 3. Jáchymov 4. Nemyslí, zaplatí 5. Pohan 6. Hlasy z Tartaru 7. Ragnarok 8. Dívej, venku už svítá 9. Křížů

Fiur Melodic Black Metal band from Germany released the second Full-length album Verse on December 31, 2020.

FIUR is a musical journey that leads you away from civilisation into thick woods, gloomy valleys and barren mountains.

The powers of nature and its beauty are ever-present in the atmosphere and melodies of FIUR’s interpretation of melodic black metal.

The date was deliberately chosen as a symbolic mark to leave this year with a fine dose of escapist, melodic blackened metal.

Embark on a journey to wild lands, far from man, civilization and its diseases.

Lyrically, this album is a tribute to German-Austrian nature romantic poetry of the 19th / early 20th century. «Verse» (=verses) includes poems by Emmi Lewald, Leo Greiner, Emanuel von Bodman, Anastasius Grün and Adelbert von Chamisso.

Tracklist 1. Bergesklang 2. Von Fels, Wald und Sturm 3. Der Friedhof im Gebirge 4. In kaltem Stein 5. Untergang 6. Seelenflug

Lineup Tobias Jäpel - Everything

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Blackguard Folk/Melodic Death Metal band from Canada released the third Full-length album Storm released January 3, 2020.

Tracklist 1. By My Hand 2.

To Ashes Return 3. Northern Storm 4. The Hunted 5. In Dreams 6. Mourning Star 7. Clouds 8. A Dying Season 9. Visions (Of Blood and Gold) 10. ...of Threads and Fate Lineup Justine Ethier - Drums Terry Roadcase - Guitars Paul Ablaze - Vocals Louis Jacques - Guitars

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Сивый Яр Atmospheric/Pagan/PostBlack Metal band from Russia released the sixth Full-length album Горе / Grief on January 24, 2020.

Sivyj Yar (an ancient deity of Slavs), is a black metal band from Vyritsa, Russia formed in 2006. The author and the only member of the project is Vladimir.

The lyrical part of Sivyj Yar is based on Slavonic mythology and poetry.

These are the songs about those who have gone into oblivion, the memories of whom has been lost.

Tracklist 1. Великая Древняя Мать / The Great Ancient Mother 2. Пустошь / Wasteland 3. Горе / Grief 4. Чёрная осень / The Black Fall 5. Глубина / Depth

Orgg Black Metal band from Italy released the first Full-length album The Great White War released January 18, 2020.

Tracklist Intro (1916-1917) 2. D.Q.N.S.P. (Di qui non si passa) 3. Dolomia 4. Conturina 5. Beneath the Shadows of the Three Mighty Peaks 6.

The Great White War 7. Winter Coffin 8. Awaken 9. Ignoto Militi 10. The Ascent 1. Lineup Iblis A.G. - Bass Vulak - Guitars, Lyrics, Songwriting L. - Vocals, Lyrics

Midnight Black Metal band from United States released the fourth Full-length album Rebirth by Blasphemy on January 24, 2020.

Dating back to the band’s inception in 2002, vocalist/ guitarist/bassist/drummer Athenar has always known exactly what he wanted Midnight to be, and over the course of countless demos, EPs, compilations, splits and three full-lengths he has stayed true to his roots.

There is no denying that, like its predecessors, Rebirth

By Blasphemy is a ruthlessly catchy collection, every song, vicious as they are, wielding the kind of hooks that sink deep and don’t let go.

Tracklist 1. Fucking Speed and Darkness 2.

Rebirth by Blasphemy 3. Escape the Grave 4. Devil’s Excrement 5. Rising Scum 6. Warning from the Reaper 7. Cursed Possessions 8. Raw Attack 9. The Sounds of Hell 10. You Can Drag Me Through Fire Lineup Athenar - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums

Nephylim Melodic Death Metal band from Netherlands released the first Full-length album Severance of Serenity released January 18, 2020.

In the winter of 2015 longtime friends Kevin van Geffen (ex-Breaking the Monolith) and Rens van de Ven started a new project mainly focused on Scandinavian Melodic Death metal: Nephylim.

Tracklist 1. Reminiscence 2. Forsaken 3. vanquish the Sepsis 4. Aftermath 5. Fractured Existence 6. Reassurance 7. The Bitter Inheritance 8. Dust Veiled Sky 9. Eye of the Storm 10. Remembrance Lineup Martijn Paauwe - Drums Kevin van Geffen - Guitars (lead), Vocals (backing) Rens van de Ven - Bass Ralph Lentink - Guitars Tijn Bosters - Vocals (lead) Guest solo by Andy Gillion (Mors Principium Est) Violin by Sabrina van Geffen Virtual Orchestration by Jon Phipps Backing vocals by Cézary van der Veen (RIP)

Naamah Depressive Black Metal band from Romania released the fourth Fulllength album Death, My Saviour... released January 20, 2020.

Naamah is the Hebrew female devil of seduction.

Tracklist 1. My Last Breath...

2. Death, My Saviour...

3. Rotting in Darkness 4. Chained in Solitude 5. Kill Me... Before I Kill Myself 6. Suicide Salvation 7. Subliminal Suicide Vision 8. Drown in My Own Blood... (Re-recorded) Lineup Filip Garlonta Guitars, Drums, Bass, Vocals

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Ygg Black Metal band from Ukraine released the second Full-length album The Last Scald released February 5, 2020.

New album from cult ukrainian black metal horde!

Line-up Odalv - Drums Vrolok - Vocals, Bass, Vargan, Shakuhachi Helg - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards Tracklist 1. Мёртвые топи 2. Последний cкальд 3. В надежде о Вечном 4. Віса пробудження

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Svart Crown Black/Death Metal band from France released the fifth Full-length album Wolves Among the Ashes released February 7, 2020.

Spawned in France by guitarist/vocalist J.B Le bail, SVART CROWN was born in 2005 with the idea to push the boundaries of extreme music, and create a new dimension of brutality and blackness.

Tracklist 1. They Will Not Take Our Death in Vain 2. Thermageddon 3. Art of Obedience 4. Blessed Be the Fools 5. At the Altar of Beauty 6. Down to Nowhere 7. Exoria 8. Living with the Enemy

The Spirit Black/Death Metal band from Germany released the second Full-length album Cosmic Terror released February 7, 2020.

Formed 2015 in Saarbrücken, THE SPIRIT have emerged from the depth of the German extreme metal void to breathe new life into the black/death metal genre. “Cosmic Terror” it’s a misanthropic work with seven raging anthems, consisting of a unique blend of black and death metal, extensive instrumental passages and genuine guitar craft.

Tracklist 1. Serpent as Time Reveals 2. Strive For Salvation 3. Repugnant Human Scum 4. The Path of Solitude 5. Pillars of Doom 6. The Wide Emptiness 7. Cosmic Terror Lineup MS - Drums MT - Guitars, Vocals AT - Bass

Karg Post-Black Metal band from Austria released the seventh Full-length album Traktat released February 7, 2020.

The band name means «barren» in German.

Karg was founded by J.J. (Harakiri for the Sky) as a one-man Black Metal project in august 2006, what was common at this time. Since the beginning KARG always worked with clean delay guitars like early Post Rock bands do.

Tracklist 1.Irgendjemand wartet immer 2. Jahr ohne Sommer 3. Stolperkenotaphe 4. Alaska 5. Abgrunddialektik 6. Alles was wir geben mussten 7. Grabcholerik 8. Tod, wo bleibt dein Frieden?

Lineup V. Wahntraum - Vocals, Guitars, All instruments

Horresque Blackened Death Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Chasms Pt. I – Avarice and Retribution released February 7, 2020.

Horresque is a portmanteau word blending «horrific» and «grotesque».

Tracklist 1. Intro (Präludium) 2. Guts of the Fallun Gong 3. Gary Heidnik 4. Intro (Interludium I) 5. Murder Castle 6. Collateral Murder 7. MQ1 Predator 8. Of Pride and Kazim 9. Intro (Interludium II) 10. Deepwater Horizon 11. My Lai Lineup S.D. - Guitars R.P. - Guitars M.R. - Vocals T.S. - Bass

Haemic Symphonic Blackened Death Metal band from Hungary / Germany released the third Fulllength album Forum Galactica released February 12, 2020.

The third full-length album from the 2-man symphonic death/ black metal project, Haemic, taking you through an apocalyptic story across 43 minutes of pure, monumental and majestic METAL. They have never actually met.

Tracklist 1. All Rise 2. Swallowed by the Ocean 3. Laid to Rest 4. Forum Galactica 5. Behold, Sycroburion 6. Intermission 7.

Planetary Annihilation 8. Alpha & Omega 9. In My Way 10. Consensus Lineup Adam Farkas (Hungary) Programming, Songwriting, Guitars Marco Arndt (Germany) - Vocals, Lyrics, mixing

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Necrowretch Death/Black Metal band from France released the fourth Full-length album The Ones from Hell released February 14, 2020.

France based sadistic sinners Necrowretch was formed in 2008 and quickly emerged as one of the leading black / death underground formation in France and beyond.

Tracklist 1. Pure Hellfire 2. Luciferian Sovranty 3. The Ones from Hell 4. Absolute Evil 5. Codex Obscuritas 6. Darkness Supreme 7. Through the Black Abyss 8. Necrowretch Lineup Vlad - Vocals, Guitars Ilmar - Drums Wence - Bass, Guitars

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Immorgon Melodic Death/Viking Metal band from Spain released the second Fulllength album As Shadows Fall released February 14, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Pale Beams of Light 2. The Last Heights 3. Ocells de foc 4. The Raven 5. The Bloodthirster 6. The Fall 7.

Walk Among the Forest 8. Chants of War 9. Per mon escut no hi ha flors 10. Written in Snow Lineup Steavy Gamester Drums Axel Jordana - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Charlie Trinkhorn Vocals (lead), Guitars Joan de Ros - Bass

Nawaharjan Black Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Lokabrenna released February 20, 2020.

Lokabrenna is a conceptual work based around the Thursian Brandawegiz system, which is built upon the nine locks of Sinmara’s chest within the dark, liberating side of Germanic mythology.

Each of the songs on the album symbolizes one of these locks and acts as a devotional hymn to Loki and a way to unlock his potential within oneself.

Tracklist 1. Warassuz 2. Maino 3. Skuwwe 4. Ūtfurskō 5. Sunjo 6. Thwerhanassuz 7. Umbibrautiniz 8. Thrawo 9. Hradjungo Lineup Wodanaridan - Bass Nawabrandaz - Drums Skadulikam - Guitars Skandaz - Vocals, Guitars

Nemesis Melodic Death Metal band from Serbia released the first Full-length album The War Is On released February 13, 2020.

Nemesis is an all-female melodic death metal band from Serbia.

The band was formed in late 2013 in Belgrade, influenced by non-other than Arch Enemy.

During the first meet-up the band though it would be great to be an all-girl band. Band was originally creating their style by playing covers of their favorite bands but shortly started working on their own material. Band played a lot of concerts and bigger happenings in Serbia. Their lyrics are inspired by problems of the 21st century, such as capitalism and globalization, but also the philosophical themes.

Tracklist 1. Wake Up 2. Uprising 3. Oppression 4. Divine Retribution 5. Living Dead People 6. Savages 7. Dead End 8. Pandemonium 9. Born Wothless 10. The War Is On Lineup Biljana Sovilj - Bass Selena Simić - Drums Aleksandra Petrović - Guitars (lead) Tijana Milivojević - Guitars (rhythm) Sanja Drča - Vocals

Heathen Foray Melodic Death Metal band from Austria released the fifth Full-length album Weltenwandel on 21, 2020.

Melodic Death Metal straight from the verdant green heart of Austria! Their heavy melodies and enthralling performance on stage will drag you into the world of myth! They sing of freedom, loyalty, friendship - of the golden spark carried within all those people who keep on fighting against vagaries of fate and the world’s injustices, which won’t ever let them falter! Their music unites the mysterious grace of the realm of gods, the impulsiveness of the human race and the immortality of nature by way of enthralling riffs and virtuosic guitar solos!

Tracklist 1. Schicksalsknecht 2. Essenz 3. Tanz 4. Verfall 5. Weg 6. Monolith 7. Soldat 8. Schlangengrube Lineup Jürgen Brüder - Guitars Robert Schroll - Vocals Markus Wildinger - Bass Alex Wildinger - Guitars Markus Kügerl - Drums

Slaughter Messiah Black/Death/Thrash Metal band from Belgium released the first Fulllength album Cursed to the Pyre on February 21, 2020.

The band was initially founded in October 2008 by Rod «Iron Bitch Desecrator» and Elliot «Sodomaniak» Spencer.

Slaughter Messiah sounds peculiarly sophisticated on their first album while maintaining every bit of their trademark aggression and Belgian blackness.

Tracklist 1. From the Tomb into the Void 2. Mutilated by Depths 3. Pouring Chaos 4. Hideous Afflicition 5. Descending to Black Fire 6. Pyre

7. The Hammer of Ghouls 8. Fog of the Malevolent Sore Lineup Rod «Iron Bitch Desecrator» - Guitars Lord Sabathan - Vocals, Bass Thomas «Exhumator» - Guitars John Berry - Drums

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Exhumation Death Metal band from Indonesia released the third Fulllength album Eleventh Formulae on 28, 2020 Tracklist 1. Mors Gloria Est 2. Inferno Dwellers 3.

Formulae I: Malediction Bells 4. Grandeur Dawn 5. Vicious Ecstasy 6. Arcane Dance 7. Formulae II: Ironheart Rapture 8. Ominous Chants 9. Blood Trails 10. Perdition Spells 11.

Formulae III: Eleventh Ves Lineup Ghoul - Guitars Bones - Vocals

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XIV Dark Centuries Pagan Metal band from Germany released the fourth Full-length album Waldvolk on February 28, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Heimwärts (Intro) 2. Skogafulka 3. Svava 4. Firratan 5. Atme den Wald 6. Ich bin das Feuer 7. Sunna 8. Julenzeit 9. Runibergun 10. Bragarful 11. Nott (Outro) Lineup Tobalt - Guitars Marley - Bass Tobi - Keyboards Michel - Vocals Uwe - Guitars Manu - Drums

Your Last Wish Melodic Death Metal band from Canada released the third Full-length album Eradicate on February 23, 2020.

Founded in 2003, Your Last Wish is a progressive death metal band based in Montréal, Canada, with their roots in classical death & thrash metal.

Tracklist 1. Eradicate 2. Exile 3. Monarque 4. Décimé 5. Lost 6. Pursuit 7. Pandore 8. Prestige 9. Le cri du Monde Lineup Roxana Bouchard - Vocals David Gagné - Guitars (lead) Blake Lemieux - Drums Michael Cope - Guitars Peter Hamm - Bass

Earth Rot Death/Black Metal band from Australia released the third Full-length album Black Tides of Obscurity released March 6, 2020.

Australia’s EARTH ROT smash and stomp through ‘Black Tides of Obscurity,’ their latest album of dark and ominous extremity.

Demented vocals and haunting breaks give breadth to the destructive rhythmic onslaught, as they let loose a brutal display of world-class death metal.

Tracklist 1. Dread Rebirth 2. New Horns 3.

Towards a Godless Shrine 4. Unparalleled Gateways to Higher Obliteration 5. Ancestral Vengeance 6. The Cape of Storms 7. Serpent’s Ocean

8. Mind Killer

9. Unravelling Vapour of Sanity

10. Out in the Cold Lineup Tom Slaughterhouse Guitars, Vocals (backing) Jared Bridgeman - Vocals (lead), Bass Colin Dickie - Guitars Daniel Maloney - Drums

Tulus Black Metal band from Norway released the sixth Full-length album Old Old Death on March 6, 2020.

Members of Tulus later went and formed the band Khold. After Khold went on hold in 2006, Blodstrup and Sarke resurrected Tulus.

The new studio album of the early Norwegian black metal band Tulus!

The 3-piece, consisting of members of Sarke and Khold, has created a masterpiece in their own inimitable style.

Eerie & unique, come old old death.

Tracklist 1. Hel 2. Jord 3. I havet hos Rån 4. Flukt 5. Folkefall 6. I hinmannens hånd 7. Grunn grav 8. Ild til mørkning 9. Villkjeft 10. In Memoriam Lineup Sarke - Drums Blodstrup - Vocals, Guitars Crowbel - Bass

Infernal Angels Melodic Black Metal band from Italy released the fifth Full-length album Devourer of God from the Void on February 28, 2020.

INFERNAL ANGELS is without any doubt one of most intransigent Black Metal bands.

Tracklist 1. The Light of Lucifer 2. The Eternal Fire of Golachab 3. From the Throne of Thaumiel 4. Those Who Go Forth into the Empty Place of God 5. Ancient Serpent of Chaos 6. Thagirion - Sol Niger 7. Devourer of God from the Void 8. The Corrosive One 9. Far from the Light of God 10. Empress of Sitra Achra 11. The Foremost Among the Eleven Lineup Xes - Vocals Nekroshadow Guitars, Vocals Apsychos - Guitars, Bass, Vocals

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Infirmum Doom/Death Metal band from Finland released the first Fulllength album Walls of Sorrow on February 28, 2020.

Tracklist 1. To Darkness 2.

Cause of Sorrow 3. Shadows of the Past

4. Silence 5. Doomed

6. Wake Me 7. Autumn Breeze 8. Sail Away 9. Fearless 10. Trust Lineup Timo Solonen - Guitars, Vocals

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Clouds Atmospheric Doom/ Death Metal band from United Kingdom/Romania released the fifth Full-length album Durere on March 2, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Cold Guiding Light 2. Empty Hearts 3. Images and Memories 4. Above the Sea 5.

The Sailor Waves Goodbye 6. A Father’s Death 7. The End of Hope

Vredehammer Black/Death Metal band from Norway released the third Fulllength album Viperous on March 6, 2020.

Vredehammer’s combination of aggressive guitars and Norse melodies has already rewarded the band with a loyal fanbase around the world, which grows bigger and stronger every day.

Tracklist 1. Winds of Dysphoria 2. Aggressor

3. Suffocate All Light 4. Viperous

5. Skinwalker

Lineup 6. In Shadow Daniel Neagoe - Vocals 7. Wounds Alex Costin - Bass 8. Any Place but Home Luca Breaza - Drums 9. From a Spark to a Withering Mihai Dinuta - Guitars Flame Indee Rehal-Sagoo - Guitars Lineup Irina Movileanu - Violin, Per Valla - Vocals, Guitars Vocals (female) (lead), Keyboards, Bass Kristoffer Hansen - Guitars Kai Speidel - Drums

Necrophiliac Death Metal band from Spain released the second Full-length album No Living Man Is Innocent on March 12, 2020.

2nd album, 28 years after their debut, by the most legendary Spanish Death Metal band. Only for lovers of old school sounding Death Metal!

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Piper Leading Innocents 2. Hunting Humans 3. Magma of Flesh (Beasts of the Earth)

4. When Mother Ate Son 5. Horseaters 6. Inhabitants of the Red Forest 7. Kill All, Burn All, Loot All 8. GodBundy

9. No Living Man Is Innocent Lineup Sweick - Drums Ery - Guitars Miguel - Guitars Bongo - Vocals Ramón - Bass

Soliloquium Doom/Death Metal band from Sweden released the third Full-length album Things We Leave Behind on March 16, 2020.

Swedish progressive death/doom metal influenced by Katatonia, Anathema, Paradise Lost, Slumber and many more.

Things We Leave Behind is an account of personal hardships, alienation and dark Stockholm nights.

The album has some of the most extreme moments in the band’s history, as well as some of the most lush and beautiful. The point is to tell a story that’s both introspective and relatable at the same time. It’s both an account of personal issues and a commentary on the growing mental health epidemic.

Tracklist 1. Dead Ends 2. The Discarded 3. Reminiscence 4. Existential Misshape 5. Nocturne 6. It Was All Taken Away 7. A Fleeting Moment 8. The Recluse Lineup Jonas Bergkvist - Bass Stefan Nordström Vocals, Guitars

Invoker Melodic Black/Death Metal band from Germany released the third Fulllength album Towards the Pantheon of the Nameless on March 27, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Crumbling Sky 2. Towards the Pantheon of the Nameless 3. Journey to Darkness 4. Dark 5. Devils Door 6. Fall into the Void 7. Breathless 8. The Veils of Golden Light 9. Above the Stars Lineup Tino Schumann - Drums Tino Büttner - Vocals, Guitars

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WarHymn Black Metal band from Romania released the first Full-length album Gnosis on April 2, 2020 (CD format).

Warhymn starts as a solo black-death metal project launched in August 2019. It’s main purpose is to complete and launch a concept album which was started back in 2010 by a small band called Athanatos.

Line-up Shavy - Everything Tracklist 1. Ancestral World 2. Sadistic Crowning 3. Gnosis 4. The First Sin 5. Descendants of Cain 6.

Traditions of the Ancients 7. Originea (Argedava cover)

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Eternal Delyria Melodic Death Metal band from Switzerland released the second Fulllength album Paradox of the Mechanical Angel on April 2, 2020.

Eternal Delyria founded in the summer of 2011.

Tracklist 1. Chrysalis 2. From Skin to Rust 3. Burning Bridges 4. Beyond the Veil 5. Dying to Live 6. Damaged System 7. Amaurosis 8. Freely Enchained 9. The Awakening 10. Until Death Lineup Tim - Guitars Alex - Drums Nyx - Guitars Clod - Keyboards, Vocals (backing) Lutz - Vocals

Svartkonst Black/Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album Black Waves on April 3, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Death Magic 2. I Am the Void 3. World Ablaze 4. Stray in the Dark 5. Mountains of Flesh 6. Ruins of Splendour 7. Black Waves Lineup Rickard TĂśrnqvist Everything Guest performances by: Marcus Wiklund (Additional guitar leads on track 4 & 7), Daniel Brundin (Additional vocals on track 1, 4, 6 & 7) Henrik Almgren (Partial drumming and input)

Drudensang Black Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Rauhnachtszeremonie on April 4, 2020.

Tracklist 1.Prolog 2. Fäulnis 3. Metamorphose 4. Sterbelicht 5. Todesstoß 6. Parasit 7. Todgeweiht 8. Geistes Fluch 9. Watzmannsage 10. Epilog Lineup Henker - Keyboards Krámpn - Vocals Goatruler - Drums Grâin - Guitars (lead), Vocals (additional)

Inferit Black Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Diverge in the Absence of Light on April 3, 2020.

Inferit founded In December 2013 in Frankenberg, Germany.

Tracklist 1. Darkness Comes 2. The Shattered Night 3.

Nocturnal Death Syndrome 4. Prolonging Life Drugs 5. Ritual Death 6. Wahn-Krank-Tod 7. Satanic Inner Birth 8. Demons Never Sleep (Mysticum cover) Lineup Garneth - Bass Thornheim - Guitars Orpheus as O. - Vocals Grond - Drums

Hereticae Blackened Death Metal band from Brazil released the first Full-length album Ecos do Atlântico on April 7, 2020.

Debut album contains 9 tracks and one proposal: the anticolonialist fight for the union and emancipation of all people of LAtin America, and for the memory of ancestors and for the preservation of their Mother Earth. The lyrics goes from the most direct and hatred scream of war to the most subjective and introspective reflection of the «I» and the universe.

All lyrics are written in brazilian portuguese.

Tracklist 1. 1492 2. Ondas Negras 3. Antipatria 4. A Ferro e Fogo 5. A Cruz e a Águia 6. Não Servirá!

7. Estrelas e Constelações 8. Tupamara 9. Ecos do Atlântico Lineup Cristiano Obuti - Bass Dalton Santana Guitars (rhythm), Vocals Cleverson W. França Guitars (lead) Francisco Vitor - Drums

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Nordicwinter Black Metal band from Canada released the second Full-length album Requiem on April 8, 2020.

Upon Canada’s frozen winds; Nordicwinter was spawned in August 2006.

Tracklist 1. The Raven’s Lament 2. As Twilight Nears 3. Path of the Fallen 4. Winds of Desolation 5. Into Despair 6. Beyond the Dusk Lineup Evillair Lyrics, Vocals, All instruments, Drum programming

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Eternal Armageddon Black/Thrash Metal band from Bangladesh released the first Full-length album In Light in Dark in Hate on April 10, 2020.

Earning the loyalty of the maniacs across the country (and even beyond the border), black/ thrash trio Eternal Armageddon, by now, have become one of the key forces in the Bangladeshi metal underground.

Tracklist 1. Black Thrash Bastards 2. Hate Reincarnated 3. Hazam the Black Reaper 4. In Light in Dark in Hate 5. No Lord Above 6. Obey to None 7. Satanic Whispers Lineup Asmodeus Vocals, Bass Blasphemouranter Drums Sarcophagous - Guitars, Vocals (backing)

Váthos Post-Black Metal band from Romania released the first Full-length album Underwater on April 11, 2020 (CD format).

The evolution period of their style with elements from atmospheric post black, melodic death metal with a diverse influence of sub-genres from the extreme side of music, resulting in a mixture of melody and aggression as they start to define their own sound in such a short time span.

Tracklist 1. Ruins of Corrosion 2. The Suicide 3. Curse of Apathy 4. Corrupted Mind 5. Shape of...

6. Hold My Breath 7. Sanctimonius Beliefs 8. Flower of Death Lineup Dany - Bass Gigi - Drums Alex - Guitars Ducu - Guitars Radu - Vocals

Navalm Death Metal band from Russia released the seventh Full-length album Beyond the Reality on April 13, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Together We Fall 2. Beyond the Reality 3. Elephant’s Foot 4. Desert Fight 5.

Humans Are Tapeworms 6. Palace of Memories 7. Stuck in a Swamp 8. Astral Trip 9. Dawn of War Lineup Alex Timofeev - Drum programming Ilya Pechenyuk - Bass Andrey Gonchar - Guitars

Cemetery Filth Death Metal band from United States released the first Fulllength album Dominion on April 13, 2020.

Incorporating a slew of Euro and American influences, but leaning especially hard into the early Floridian mode of the genre, CEMETERY FILTH has arrived at their own unique hybrid–a sound that should be comfortingly familiar to longtime fans of the genre, yet not a mere slavish imitation or passionless rehash.

Tracklist 1. Subduction 2. Exhumed Visions 3. Paralytic Scourge 4. Aeons in Dis 5. Festering Vacuity 6. Churning of the Shallows 7. Devoured by Dread 8. From Euphonic Crypts 9. Dominion Lineup Ryan Guinn - Guitars (lead) Matt Kilpatrick - Guitars (lead), Vocals (lead) Devin Kelley - Vocals (backing), Bass Chris McDonald - Drums

Khôra Atmospheric Black Metal band from Ireland/ Norway/Greece released the first Fulllength album Timaeus on April 17, 2020.

Started as a oneman project by Oleg in 2012-2013, after which Kranos joined on vocals and Lars joined on bass, both helping shape the final line-up.

Khôra strives to manifest the limits of Extreme Metal and produce both ethereal and ferocious tunes.

Tracklist 1. Aether 2. Noceo 3. l’Annihilateur 4. Harvesting Stars 5. De Vetus Ad Novum 6. Roe Too Noo (Flow Of The Mind) 7. Sempiternal 8. Existence 9. The Purge 10. The Occultation of Time 11. Void Lineup Oleg I. - Guitars, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals (backing), Songwriting, Lyrics Kranos Vocals, Keyboards, Samples, Lyrics L.E. Måløy - Bass

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Fovitron Symphonic Melodic Black/Death Metal band from Greece released the first Full-length album Altar of Whispers on April 15, 2020.

Tracklist 1. The Grieving King 2. Inner Demons 3. Dreading the Night 4. Wasteland of My Dreams 5. Endless Whispers 6. Remembrance 7. When Darkness Falls 8. The Deathbringer 9. The Minstrel of the Icy Keep Lineup Sovereign - Bass Fovitrus - Guitars Nuntius Mortis - Vocals Magni - Keyboards Damien - Drums

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Helioss Symphonic Black/Death Metal band from France released the fourth Fulllength album Devenir le soleil on April 23, 2020.

Devenir le Soleil is a synthesis of what Helioss did in its past, and adding a lot of new elements as well as many guests.

Tracklist 1. ...Et dieu se tut 2. A Wall of Certainty 3.

The End of the Empire 4. Let the World Forget Me 5. Singularity 6. An Endless Stream 7. La lèpre des hommes 8. Devenir le soleil 9. Now... Shine!

Lineup Nicolas Muller - Guitars, Bass DM - Vocals

Lustre Atmospheric Black Metal band from Sweden released the seventh Full-length album The Ashes of Light on April 24, 2020.

With icy melodies, haunted screams and an atmosphere as thick as the winter snows, LUSTRE returns. «The Ashes of Light» continues Nachtzeit’s legacy with majestic splendor; its enthralling atmospheric black metal searching for lost secrets in the woods, among the stars.

Tracklist 1. Part 1 (Eyes Like Stars) 2. Part 2 (A Silent Tale) 3. Part 3 (Like Music in the Night) 4. Part 4 (The Empty Black) 5. Part 5 (The Ashes of Light) 6. Part 6 (Lamentation at Dawn) Lineup Nachtzeit - Everything

Nyrst Black Metal band from Iceland released the first Full-length album Orsök on April 24, 2020.

From the depth of Reykjavik in Iceland emerges NYRST with its blackened creation “ORSÖK”, an album that pays homage to the band’s grim and icy Icelandic heritage.

With “ORSÖK”, NYRST, which means “northernmost” in Icelandic, holds true to its name by delivering a debut album filled with a soundscape that is incredibly cold, stark and barren, whilst the lyrics come straight from old horror literature and are laced with cosmic undertones.

Tracklist 1. Æðri verur 2. Orsök 3. Nástirni 4. Athöfn 5. Hvísl hinna holdlausu 6. Turnar í fjarska Lineup Egill - Bass Sveinbjörn - Drums Kristmundur - Guitars Eysteinn - Guitars Snæbjörn - Vocals

Black Pestilence Black/Thrash Metal band from Canada released the sixth Full-length album Hail the Flesh on May 1, 2020.

In the winter of 2008, Black Pestilence was formed in Calgary, Canada by bassist/vocalist Valax.

Initially, Black Pestilence started as a one-man studio project, but years afterwards, evolved into a three-piece band. Over the years, Black Pestilence has been known for their unique sound by combining black metal, punk rock, thrash, and noise.

Tracklist 1. Hail the Flesh 2. Spurn All Gods 3. Hellfire 4. True to the Dark 5. Cloven Division 6. Godless 7.

Frauds to the Throne 8. My Will to Power 9. Ephemeral Lineup Valax - Bass & Vocals Daniel Toews - Guitar Davey Hellfire - Drums

Czort Black Metal band from Poland released the second Full-length album Apostoł on April 30, 2020.

Czort (or chort) is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hooves, a skinny tail, and a pig-face in Slavic demonology.

Created by a few for many, a blasphemy sower spitting on false ideas created by liars for fools. They play classic black metal and their debut album Black Gospel has been well received.

Tracklist 1. Manicheistyczny dualizm wszechświata 2. Schody podświadomości 3. Narodziny końca 4. Manifest niepodległej woli 5. Grając w szachy z Diabłem 6. Tchnienia egzystencji 7. Dysonans duszy 8. W sercu chaosu

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Theosophy Black Metal band from Russia released the fifth Full-length album Towers of Dark Pantheon on May 5, 2020. Towers Of Dark Pantheon is a new chapter in the Theosophy process.

Tracklist 1. Towers of Dark Pantheon 2. Curse of Ak-Kadyn 3. Where Thunder Reigns 4. Full Moon Triumph 5. Old Stone in the Woods 6. The Sword of Erlik 7. Even the Dead Cast Shadows 8. From Eternity to Past Lineup Phantom - Bass, Vocals Egiborg - Guitars Skinner - Drums XI - Keyboards

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...And Oceans Symphonic Black Metal band from Finland released the fifth Full-length album Cosmic World Mother on May 8, 2020.

Tracklist 1. The Dissolution of Mind and Matter 2. Vigilance and Atrophy 3. Five of Swords 4. As the After Becomes the Before 5. Cosmic World Mother 6. Helminthiasis 7. Oscillator Epitaph 8. In Abhorrence upon Meadows 9. Apokatastasis 10. One of Light, One of Soil 11. The Flickering Lights Lineup Teemu Saari - Guitars Timo Kontio - Guitars Syphon - Bass Kauko Kuusisalo - Drums Antti Simonen - Keyboards Mathias LillmĂĽns - Vocals

Iku-Turso Black Metal band from Finland/ The Netherlands released the second Full-length album Pakana on May 15, 2020.

Pakana is a concept album of a Pagan protagonist’s journey at the unforgiving wilderness of ancient Kainuu in the days of the old Gods.

Tracklist 1. Kuolematon 2. Belum 3. Ashes 4. Ultionis 5. Funus 6. Suru 7. Wanderer 8. Itse 9. Solace Lineup Sovereign - Guitars, Bass, Vocals (Finnish, backing) F. - Keyboards, Vocals (clean) Lafawijn - Vocals Myrrys - Drumsd Ruto - Bass

Gorr Black Metal band from Norway/United States released the first Full-length album Likstadberget on May 17, 2020.

The title and the title track is based on a story from a place on Gossen where they used to bring the corpses onto the island from surrounding islands to carry them to the graveyard. The place itself is next to one of the nicest beaches in Møre og Romsdal (hjertvika).

Tracklist 1. Likstadberget 2. Brente grantre 3. Endelaus dødsbris 4. Isfugl i nordavind 5. Gå ikkje bort til mørket Lineup Skuggimaðr - Vocals, Drums, Bass, Guitars Hateful Wind - Guitars

Bloodred Blackened Death Metal band from Germany released the second Full-length album The Raven’s Shadow on May 18, 2020.

The successor to the album «Nemesis», released in 2016, shines with 9 songs full of gripping rhythmic thunderstorms and captivating, majestic melodies. BLOODRED have refined the songwriting on this album and show the band at the peak of their work so far. Produced by Alex Krull in his Mastersound Studios, the music shoots out of the speakers clearly and powerfully. Joris Nijenhuis was in top form again on the drums. «THE RAVEN’S SHADOW» is rounded off by the timeless and impressive artwork by Stefan Heilemann.

Tracklist 1. The Raven’s Shadow 2. Immense Hall of Agony 3. Hör den Tod 4. Blood on Thy Hands 5. Raise the Mound 6. We Who Ruled the North 7. Shadow Warrior 8. Under the Sun 9. The Northstar Whispers Lineup Ron Merz - Guitars, Bass, Vocals Joris Nijenhuis - Drums

Frust Post-Black Metal band from Austria released the second Full-length album The Advent of Adhara on May 20, 2020.

Frusts goal is to create a more unique experimental form of Post Metal with some blackend, trashy, folky influences including Syrian and Bulgarian female vocals.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Frozen Sun 3. My Final Day May Never Come 4. Alone 5. The Advent of Adhara

6. The Feast 7. Disbelief 8. On the Last Day 9. Forever in My Mind

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Monotonic Negativel Depressive Black Metal band from Russia released the second Fulllength album Scarface on June 2, 2020.

The dead sometimes come back!

It has been just over 10 years of silence for Monotonic Negativel.

Part of this demo album was recorded in 2010 (except for ambient tracks 2 and 5 recorded in 2019) And remastered the album in 2020.

Lineup Aarsland All instruments, Vocals Tracklist 1. Ideology of SelfDestruction 2. Buried Alive 3. Scarface 4. The Aesthetic Aura of Suicide 5. Shadow of the Mentally Ill

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Sadism Death Metal band from Chile released the ninth Full-length album The Sadistic Key Elements on June 5, 2020.

SADISM was born during 1988 founded by the current members Juan Pablo Donoso and Ricardo Roberts.

Tracklist 1. Darkness Descends 2. Light of the End 3. Ravenous Medicine 4. Flag of Hate 5. Pain Killer 6. From the Past Comes the Storm 7. Eternal Ban 8. Skeletons in the Closet 9. Abstract War 10. Desecration of Souls Lineup Juan Pablo Donoso - Drums Ricardo Roberts - Vocals Juan Edo Moore - Bass Gabriel Hidalgo - Guitars

KULT MOGIŁ Death Metal band from Poland released the second Full-length album Torn Away the Remains of Dasein on June 6, 2020.

Kult mogił is Polish for cult of graves.

The band comment: «This album is 100% devoid of the desire to be avant-garde or experimental. We are destroying the previously developed formula so that we can on its ruins pay homage to the classics of the genre.»

Tracklist 1. Hunger of Pride 2. White Death Implosion 3. Torment of Dasein 4. Idols in Blood 5. A Wax Reverie 6. Fountain of Affliction Lineup The Rays - Drums Deimos - Vocals, Bass Rzulty - Guitars Thisworld Outof - Guitars

Throneum Black/Death Metal band from Poland released the tenth Full-length album Oh Death... Oh Death...

Determinate, Preach and Lead Us Astray... on June 8, 2020.

THRONEUM was formed in the deepest dungeons of Hell back in 1996.

Influenced by thousands of ‘80s and early ‘90s death and black metal, THRONEUM is pure underground band to hail from Poland. Morbid and Nightmarish Death Metal is the band’s signature of rabid and righteous filth.

Tracklist 1.Alpha: Soulside-SpaceStream 2.

Beta: AGLA-onTetragrammaton 3.

Gamma: Agla-ONTetragrammaton 4. Delta: Self-AppointedGrandeur 5.

Epsilon: Agla-onTETRAGRAMMATON 6.

Zeta: ArchangelLucifer-God Lineup Armagog - Bass The Great Executor Guitars, Vocals Diabolizer - Drums

Casket Grinder Death Metal band from Colombia released the first Full-length album Fall into Dementia on June 6, 2020.

Formed in 2010, Casket Grinder creates Death Metal from the depths of South America for maniacs from maniacs. Their first fulllength, “Fall into Dementia,” is an unforgettable plunge into South America’s Old School Death Metal scene.

Get ready for one hell of a psychological joy drive.

Tracklist 1. Re-Sonator 2. The Portal 3. What Lies Across 4.

Behold the Abominations 5. Partially Digested 6. Impending Lust 7. Buzzing Frenzy 8. Hunger in the Morgue 9. The Final Summoning 10. Fall into Dementia Lineup Jeisson Gallego - Drums Christian Quintero - Guitars Daniel Pineda - Vocals, Guitars Juan Diego Acevedo - Bass

Obscene Death Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album The Inhabitable Dark on June 12, 2020.

After impressing with their 2018 demo, ‘Sermon to the Snake’, Obscene make their LP debut with a renewed sense of ruthless aggression in ‘The Inhabitable Dark’.

Tracklist 1. Without Honor and Humanity 2. Bless the Giver of Oblivion 3. All Innocence Burns Here 4.

They Delight in Extinction 5.

Black Hole of Calcutta 6. Isolated Dumping Grounds 7. This Is He Who Kills 8. The Inhabitable Dark Lineup Roy Hayes - Bass Brandon Howe - Drums Michael Morgan Guitars Kyle Shaw - Vocals

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Fornicus Black/Death Metal band from United States released the third Full-length album Sulphuric Omnipotence on June 15, 2020.

Tracklist 1.Perdition’s Guiding Wings 2.

Sulphuric Omnipotence 3. The Abhorrent Path 4.

Vitriolic Proclamation 5. One Mass Grave 6. Stormwolves 7. Inexorable Pantheon of Death 8. Tempetuous Flames 9.

Usurping the Throne Lineup Chris Carver - Bass, Guitars Scott Briggs - Guitars, Drums, Vocals

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Desecrate Melodic Death Metal band from Turkey released the second Full-length album Kingdom on June 17, 2020.

Desecrate founded in Istanbul,2005, by Oguz Bulgurlular and Akcan Ergin.

Tracklist 1. Narcissus 2. Chaos 3. FTS 4.

Loneliness Is the Kingdom 5. Warchant 6. Cold of Death 7. Shadows Witch 8. My Darkness Lineup Akcan Ergin - Drums OÄ&#x;uz Bulgurlular Guitars Oktay Demirci - Vocals Vahit Tanik - Bass Batuhan Bulgurlular Guitars

Dearth Black/Death Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album To Crown All Befoulment on June 19, 2020.

Nihilistic beyond comprehension and sonically devastating, on the crushing debut LP Dearth explore incomprehensible thresholds of disgust and abjection through a sonic arsenal forged deep into in the most tormented circles of hell, unleashing a cataclysm of dark death metal horror that will leave the listener scarred and ravaged.

Tracklist 1. Writhing in Cellophane Cages 2. Autoasphyxia 3. The Reverence of Swine 4. Death Sown in Polluted Soil 5.

Anthropocene through Burial Mounds 6. Blight Lineup Justin Divver - Drums Zack Gilliam - Vocals, Bass Connor Allen - Vocals, Guitars, Drums

3xperimental Symphonic Black/Death Metal band from Germany released the second Fulllength album Symphony of Elements on June 20, 2020.

«Symphony of Elements», is an ode to the forces of Nature, against human arrogance. Each song/ element represents the ending of a world, and perhaps the beginning of something new.

The album combines metal music from different styles: from black to doom to progressive, mixed with symphonic and atmospheric elements.

Tracklist 1. Essentia Existentiae 2. Earth 3. Water 4. Wind 5. Fire 6. At the End of the World 7. Visions

Lineup JB Vincent - Everything

Nordicwinter Atmospheric Black Metal band from Canada released the third Full-length album Desolation on June 20, 2020.

Laden with haunting melodies and cryptic vocals, Nordicwinter sets out to drive back into the wombs from whence they came from, those false souls who today haunt the black metals scene like paint by numbers specters. There, within their bloody sepulchers, they will die; screaming silent screams that none will deign to hear.

Heathen Beast Atheistic Black Metal band from India released the first Full-length album The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Heard on June 21, 2020.

Heathen Beast is the formation of three.

Carvaka who believes religion was invented and made up by men, having no divine authority.

Samkhya who denies the existence of God. Mimamsa who rejects the notion of God and says that human action itself Tracklist is enough to create the 1. Forest of Despair necessary circumstances 2. A Shadow’s Veil for the enjoyment of its fruits.

3. In Solitude Tracklist 4. Fall to Ruin 1. Fuck C.A.A 5. All That Remains 2. Fuck N.P.R & N.R.C 6. Tomb of Silence 3. Fuck Modi-Shah 7. Last Rites 4. Fuck the B.J.P 5. Fuck Your Self Lineup Proclaimed Godmen Evillair Vocals, All 6. Fuck Your Police Brutality instruments, Drum 7. Fuck the R.S.S programming 8. Fuck You Godi Media 9. Fuck Your Whatsapp University 10. Fuck Your Hindu Rashtra 11. Fuck the Economy 12. Fuck the Congress Lineup Carvaka - Vocals, Guitars Samkhya - Bass Mimamsa - Drums

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Purtenance Death Metal band from Finland released the fourth Full-length album Buried Incarnation on June 23, 2020.

4th album by one of the oldest and most respected finnish Death Metal bands.

Tracklist 1. Into the Arctic Gloom 2. Shrouded Vision of Afterlife 3. Under the Pyre of Enlightenment 4. The Malicious Moon 5. Lifeless Profoundity 6. Deathbed Confession 7. Wrapped in Lamentation 8. Dark Womb of Nothingness 9. Burial Secrecy Lineup Harri Salo - Drums Juha Rannikko - Guitars Tero Aalto - Guitars Aabeg Gautam - Vocals, Bass

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Cryfemal Black Metal band from Spain released the eighth Full-length album Eterna oscuridad on June 26, 2020.

CRYFEMAL was created

by Ebola in 1996, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Cryfemal means “Scream of Sickness” and stands for the concept of playing Necro Black Metal, worshipping the dead and their cemetaries.

Tracklist 1. Capilla Ardiente 2. Necra Exequia 3. Insepulto 4. El Retorn 5. Reencarnacion 6. Lapida Condenada 7. Culto A La Muerte 8. Crematorio 9. Eternidad Lineup Ebola - All instruments, Vocals Bornyhake Ormenos - Drums

Velkhanos Melodic Death Metal band from Spain released the first Full-length album The Wrath on June 26, 2020.

Tracklist 1. In Absentia Dei 2. Bring Me the Fire 3. Black Omen 4. Dagon 5. The Wrath 6. Vulcano 7. The Last Day 8. Moloch 9. The Eye of God 10. Capricho Árabe Lineup Ángel Lucas - Bass José Antonio Montiel - Drums Pablo Ato - Guitars Miriam Ortiz - Vocals Fernando Salmerón - Guitars

Sinira Melodic Black Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album The Everlorn on June 26, 2020.

Sinira is a melodic black metal entity that is inspired by acts such as Dissection, Vinterland and Sacramentum.

Having only one member, Sinira does take some time releasing music.

After two years of releasing the Dawnless Twilight demo, Sinira returns with its first full length album: The Everlorn. Characterized by soaring melodies, sunken and sorrowful vocals, and whirlwind invoking tempos; The Everlorn is a homage and tribute to the Swedish titans who reigned proud and whose flames still burn bright.

Tracklist 1. Where Starlight Does Not Shine 2.

Gardens of Pestilence 3. The Everlorn 4. Souls of the Flame 5. Tear Ladened Skies 6. Our Final Nightfall 7. Dawnless Twilight 8. Omega XI Lineup Knell - All instruments, Vocals

Sickening Horror Technical Death Metal band from Greece released the fourth Full-length album Chaos Revamped on June 29, 2020.

Sickening Horror was created on January 2002 in Athens, Greece.

The band’s style is primarily technical Death Metal but combined with many progressive elements and melodic textures. With each album, the purpose is always to push limits and explore new territories and sounds.

The lyrical themes deal with personal issues, introspection, self-transcendence usually presented in a metaphorical or surreal way.

Tracklist 1. Outburst 2. Fragments of Time 3. Transmutation 4. Cubical Void 5. Monarch 6. Chaos Revamped 7. Dawn of the Sick 8. Glacial Warfare 9. Loophole 10. Fire Imploded Lineup Ilias Daras - Bass George Antipatis - Guitars, Vocals Andreas Karayiannis Guitars Vasilis Antipatis - Drums

Apricitas Depressive Suicidal Black Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album Dirge for My Former Life on July 3, 2020.

Cover Art: And Bound Him a Thousand Years (1899) by Odilon Redon Tracklist 1. Intro 2. The Morning After 3. Born with a Void 4. Haunt Me Forever 5. She Looked to Me and Said, «I Don’t Want You to Do That» 6. Dirge for My Former Life 7. They Laugh like God 8. Exulansis 9. Tu Me Manques 10. Little Space Cat 11. Until the Winds Disperse My Bones 12. Fragments of My Mind Pour Out into the Limitless Universe Where I Become Whole 13. Outro Lineup Espi Kvlt - Vocals and Lyrics Mike Snow - Music and Production

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Ayr Black Metal band from United States released the first Fulllength album The Dark on July 24, 2020.

Unexpected and long awaited, North Carolina’s elusive black metal duo returns after 8 years of silence.

Tracklist 1. Origins in Descent 2. Where All Light Dies 3.

Worship the Dark 4. Swallowed 5. Return to the Void 6. Sever the Golden Chain

Lineup Rick Contes - Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards Randall Flagg - Drums

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Gaerea Black Metal band from Portugal released the second Full-length album Limbo on July 24, 2020.

Portugal’s Gaerea challenges the archetype of black metal, coloring outside of the genre’s lines with melancholy texture and deep emotion.

‘Limbo’ devours the listener with misanthropic catharsis and cinematic agony, delivering palpable emotion for 52 uninterrupted minutes.

Prepare to lose yourself in the nihilistic abyss with this devastating offering.

Tracklist 1. To Ain 2. Null 3. Glare

4. Conspiranoia 5. Urge 6. Mare

Buried Realm Melodic Death Metal band from United States released the fourth Full-length album Embodiment of the Divine on July 24, 2020.

Tracklist 1. The Burning Remnants 2. Overlord 3. Master Psychosis 4. Scales of Queen Dragon 5. Silver Tongue 6. In the Shallow Light 7. Embodiment of the Divine 8. Infinite Mutation 9. The Wonder and Terror of Fortune Lineup Josh Dummer - Everything Guest performances Andy Gillion Benjamin Ellis Bob Katsionis Dean Arnold Lee McKinney Peter Wichers Rafael Trujillo Ryan Strain

Fides Inversa Black Metal band from Italy released the third Full-length album Historia Nocturna on July 21, 2020.

Venturing further down their dark path of inspiration and chaos, Fides Inversa give life to a new album, hereby titled Historia Nocturna, through the vessels of the very same personalities that sealed the pact on their previous EP effort.

Working on the material for years, they are now delivering an aggressive yet dynamic record that might be their finest to this day.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. A Wanderer’s Call and Orison 3.

Transcendental Lawlessness 4. The Visit 5. I Glance You with a Touch, I Touch You with a Gaze 6. Syzygy 7. I Am the Iconoclasm Lineup Omega A.D. - Drums, Vocals Void A.D. - Guitars, Bass Wraath - Vocals

Martyrium Black/Death Metal band from Netherlands released the second Full-length album Abandon Hope on July 24, 2020.

The long awaited new album!

Tracklist 1. Hail to the Slaughter 2. Rites for False Gods 3. Abandon Hope 4. Painless Death 5. Hate Is Mine 6. Age of Wolves 7. Untamed Devastation 8. Heretic Hell Hordes 9. Ashes of Mankind 10. Forgotten Shadows 11. Falling into Despair Lineup Job van de Graaf - Drums Geert Rijs - Guitars Sander Stappers - Bass Ron Classen - Vocals

Draghkar Death Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album At the Crossroads of Infinity on July 27, 2020.

At the Crossroads of Infinity is an album that falls somewhere between “a death metal album written purely with traditional heavy metal influences” and “a death metal album with a big focus on melody.

Tracklist 1. The First Death 2. Beyond Despair, the Dawn of Rebirth 3. An Erosion of the Eternal Soul 4. Seeking Oblivion 5. Pursued by Black Forms 6. At the Crossroads of Infinity Lineup Brandon Corsair Guitars (rhythm), vocals (clean) Cameron Fisher - Bass Phil Segitho - Drums K.S. Kuciemba Guitars (lead) Daniel Butler - Vocals

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Mortum Black Metal band from United States released the third Fulllength album Atlantean Ouroboros on August 1, 2020.

Lineup Ominous - Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Lyrics Mystic Yautja Drums, Lyrics Tracklist 1.

Atlantean Ouroboros 2.

A Spirit Amongst Ruins 3. The Crowned Serpent Rises from the Boiling Sea 4.

Macabre Incenses 5. Catacombs of Archaic Doctrines 6. Lost Forever 7. Tidal Waves Dwarf Skyscrapers 8. Mount Shasta

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Megascavenger Death Metal band from Sweden released the fifth Full-length album Songs in the Key of Madness on August 6, 2020.

Megascavenger is the brainchild of Swedish Death Metal icon Rogga Johanson, where he blends a heavy and catchy Death Metal in the vein of GRAVE/ ILLDISPOSED with a hint of Gore bands like EXHUMED, IMPETIGO, GHOUL, FRIGHTMARE, BLOOD FREAK...

Featuring guest vocals and guitar solos from members of MACHETAZO, CROPSY MANIAC, WOMBBATH, FONDLECORPSE and PAGANIZER. Tracklist 1. They Went Mad 2. The Beckoning of the Rats 3. Laboratory Serenades 4. First We Slay (Then We Gorge) 5. Five Severed Fingers 6. Nothing but the Feet Remains 7. Human Sinkhole 8. A Terrible Tale of Reeking Remains

Nyktophobia Melodic Death Metal band from Germany released the third Full-length album What Lasts Forever on August 7, 2020.

Nyctophobia is the fear of the dark/night.

Tracklist 1. Once 2. Echoes of the Past 3. Nightwanderer 4. The Appearance of the Seven Suns 5. Yearning from an Uncharted Grave 6. Beyond the Horizon 7. What Lasts Forever 8. The Invocation of Erra 9. Moribund Lineup Michael Tybussek - Guitars Christian Timmer - Drums Tomasz Wisniewski Vocals Ben Bays - Bass Phillip Reuter - Guitars

Vassafor Black/Death Metal band from New Zealand released the third Full-length album To the Death on August 7, 2020.

VASSAFOR should need no introduction. For the past decade and a half, since the band’s reactivation with their Demo II in 2005, this New Zealand cult have patiently plied their idiosyncratic craft, pushing the boundaries of black and death metal ever further whilst driving deep into each’s collective core.

Any band would kill to write songs as mesmerizing ‘n’ monolithic as the opening 12-minute title track, or the ten-minute self-explanatory «Eyrie,» or especially the 17-minute, likewise self-explanatory closer «Singularity»...and that’s barely half the album.

Tracklist 1.To the Death 2. Egregore Rising 3. Eyrie 4. Black Talon 5. The Burning Æthyr 6. Emanation from the Abyss 7. Singularity

Incarnate Deity Symphonic Black/Death Metal band from South Africa released the first Fulllength album Theodicy on August 14, 2020.

Incarnate Deity present their new album «Theodicy», a blend of death and black metal with symphonic orchestration aimed for fans of SepticFlesh, Dimmu Borgir, Carach Angren, Fleshgod Apocalypse. This Christian metal project creates epic blackened death metal sounds for both Christian and secular fans alike. Enjoy it!

(Mixing and mastering by Allen Purkiss of Dreamlab Studio).

Blasphemous Putrefaction Death Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Prelude to Perversion on August 15th, 2020.

You just can’t fake it, you know? That special kind of filth and feeling of utter abomination. You can’t.

It has to come straight from your guts, like a sudden urge to vomit. Some say call it instinct, others will probably choose blind devotion instead but whatever it is, Blasphemous Putrefaction is death metal incarnated. But deathmetal at its most primal and gnarly, where the riffs are more dragged in the mud screaming than actually performed and where there’s no room for melody nor any other sign of Tracklist normal human feeling.

1. Darkest Night Tracklist 2. Plaguebearer 1. Prelude to Perversion 3. Valley of Dry Bones 2. Necromantic 4.

Legionnaire of 3. Blasphemous Ritual Degradation 4. Epidemic 5. Akeldama 5. Sacrifice for the Dead 6. No Quarter 6. Blooddrunk Skeleton 7. Stygian Oppression 7. Leprous and Cancerous 8. Finis Noctis 8. Splattered 9. Return to Chaos Lineup Lineup Zerachiel - guitar, bass, Tar Morion-Drums, Lineup vocals, drums and Noise VK - Guitars, Vocals, Bass orchestration Satanic Death Vulva- BP - Drums Guitars, Vocals

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Lost in the Shadows Black Metal band from Mexico released the third Full-length album Post Mortem on August 15, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Angel of Death 2. Revelations from Underworld 3. Obscurity in My Eyes 4. Screams of Pain 5. Coffin Birth 6. Under Moonlight 7. Lost Voices 8. In My Dreams 9. The Last Breath Lineup Dev - Drums, Vocals Lord B. Kephas Vocals, Guitars Helder - Bass Blasphemous Morbid Guitars

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Fjord Melodic Black Metal band from Sweden released the third Full-length album Fara I Viking on August 28, 2020.

This is a record that tells the tales from the age of Vikings.

Tracklist 1. Fara I Viking 2. Vi hugger med våra svärd 3. Stavbärerska 4. Blot Till Oden 5. Havamål 6. När Valkyrior Rider 7. Jomsvikingar 8. Lindisfarne Anno 9. Ragnarrök II Lineup Archon von Fjord Everything

Skaldr Melodic Black Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album Scythe of Our Errors on August 28, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Gathering Night 2. The Arrow of Hate is Drawn 3. Collapsar 4. Dying Blood 5. The Remnants of Our Black Creation 6. To Pierce This Fading Realm 7. The Neverwake 8. Scythe of Our Errors Lineup T.E. - Drums H.H. - Guitars B.D. - Guitars C.V. - Vocals, Bass

Drama Noir Atmospheric Death/ Black Metal band from Greece released the second Full-length album A Necromancy Lore on August 31, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Desert Draconids 2. Chaos Melathron 3. Luminous Seduction 4. Devolution in the Curve of Time 5. The Last Incantation 6. Relics of My Enemies 7. Witched Curse (Η κατάρα της ηρούς) 8. Cyber Necromancer of Doom

Lineup Mephisto - Guitars rhythm), Keyboards Yngve - Drums Peisithanatos - Bass Nyctelios - Vocals

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Arcanum Sanctum Melodic Death Metal band from Russia released the third Full-length album Ad Astra on August 28, 2020.

Mixed and mastered by legendary Dan Swanö, this is a journey into the world of Soviet science fiction, a voyage through Space and Time!

Eshtadur Melodic Death Metal band from Colombia released the fourth Fulllength album From the Abyss on September 4, 2020.

ESHTADUR – meaning the rebellion of angels, can be most closely likened to bands such as Septic Flesh, Tracklist Behemoth, Fleshgod 1. Wanderers in Space Apocalypse, Carach 2. The Quest Angren, and the like.

3. Pack Rat Like their scene 4. Down to Earth counterparts, the band 5. Ad Astra embodies a deathly 6. A Perfect Place (to melodic atmosphere Hide) that reaches into 7. Solaris realms of darkness and 8. Under the Alien Sky despair through the decay of humanity. It seeks to Lineup rebel, in its darkened Kirill Kulinichev - Bass way, embracing the Roman Rysyev - Guitars abject reality.

Vadim Nalivaiko - Guitars, Tracklist Keyboards, Vocal (backing) 1. Lowborn Bastard Ivan Beschastny - Vocals 2. The Adverse Side Nikolay Kondratyev - 3. The Red Door Drums 4. The Fall 5. She the Void 6. All She Wrote 7. Transient Stranger 8. The Oathbreaker 9. The Fear Difusser 10. Disphased Dimension

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Incinerated Death Metal band from Indonesia released the first Full-length album Stellar Abomination on September 1, 2020.

INCINERATED brings us to the total Chaos, Death and Destruction, or with other words ‘if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever’.

Tracklist 1. Chaos Infinite 2. Fleshtemple Sanctify 3. Bringer of Phalanx 4. The Acusser 5. Doom Legion 6. Desecration 7. Tongues of Sheol 8. Choshekh 9. Stellar Abomination 10. Cleaveth Eden

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Katavasia Melodic Black Metal band from Greece released the second Full-length album Magnus Venator on September 4, 2020.

The word «katavasia» is connected to the Greek word «katavasi», which means descent. The word «katavasia» usually refers to the journey of the human soul, a descent to the underworld.

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Daughters of Darkness 2. The Tyrant 3. Blood Be My Crown 4. Chthonic Oracle 5.

Saturnalia Magnus Cult 6. Triumphant Fate 7. Sinistral Covenant 8. Hordes of Oblivion 9. Babylon (Sammu-Rawat)

Cult of Lilith Technical/Melodic Death Metal band from Iceland released the first Full-length album Mara on September 4, 2020.

«Necromechanical baroque», that is the province of Cult Of Lilith. A frantic collision of death metal, prog, complex classical structures and any other style they wish to incorporate, their debut album, Mara, is a restless, constantly shifting collection that is as imaginative as it is compulsive.

Tracklist 1. Cosmic Maelstrom 2. Purple Tide 3. Enter the Mancubus 4. Atlas 5. Comatose 6. Profeta Paloma 7. Zángano 8. Le soupir du fantome

Maahes Black Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Reincarnation on September 18, 2020.

The band’s name is derived from the lion-headed god of war in ancient Egyptian mythology.

A stone chamber. Smell of mould, sand and age.

Darkness, torches, fading artwork on the walls. Steps lead deeper into the stone.

3000km away from the Valley of the Kings, in 2015 a band have set themselves the tasks to merge the atmosphere of ancient Egypt musically into a classic Black Metal fundament.

Under the banner of the lionheaded god MAAHES (the lord of darkness, winds and slaughter) they stepped out of the catacombs and with a unique stage show they have already been guests at festivals like the Wolfszeit or the Ragnarök Festival.

Tracklist 1. Sacrifice 2. Reincarnation 3. Irreversible 4. Perfection 5. Invincible 6. Master of Black Arts 7. Decisive Strike 8. Idolization 9. Final Chapter of Apocalypse

Marche Funèbre Doom/Death Metal band from Belgium released the fourth Full-length album Einderlicht on September 25, 2020.

The new album brings all the elements known from Marche Funèbre: death, black, and doom metal in a unique mix, with strong melodies and a wide vocal approach. Thematically, “Einderlicht” focuses on the strange ability of mankind to deliberately decide to end one’s life.

Tracklist 1. Scarred 2. The Eye of the End 3. When All Is Said 4. The Maelstrom Mute 5. Deformed 6. Einderlicht Lineup Dennis Lefebvre - Drums Peter Egberghs - Guitars (lead), Vocals (backing) Kurt Blommé - Guitars (rhythm) Arne Vandenhoeck Vocals (lead) Boris Iolis - Bass, Vocals (backing)

Lik Death Metal band from Sweden released the third Full-length album Misanthropic Breed on September 25, 2020.

Featuring current and former members of Witchery, Katatonia, Bloodbath, Repugnant, and Carnal Forge. Band’s music still revels in all things carnal and disgusting.

Tracklist 1. The Weird 2. Decay 3. Funeral Anthem 4. Corrosive Survival 5. Female Fatal to the Flesh 6. Misanthropic Breed 7. Flesh Frenzy 8. Morbid Fascination 9. Wolves 10. Faces of Death 11. Becoming Lineup Chris Barkensjö Drums, Vocals Niklas «Nille» Sandin Guitars Tomas Åkvik Vocals, Guitars Joakim «Myre» Antman - Bass

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Thy Ethos T e c h n i c a l / Progressive Death Metal band from Bangladesh released the first EP Resurgence of Devastation on September 20, 2020.

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Antediluvian Anecdote 2. Erudite Grifter 3. Flaxen Ichor Lineup Ayman Shimul - Bass Idehem Nassah Drums Shahariar Shahed Guitars Eftesam Fahim Vocals

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Dynfari Atmospheric Black Metal band from Iceland released the fifth Full-length album Myrkurs er þörf on September 18, 2020.

Having explored more progressive soundscapes in the blend of post-rock and black metal in band’s most recent works, this album marks a return to more DIY, punch and attitude.

Tracklist 1. Dauðans dimmu dagar 2.

Langar nætur (í botnlausum spíralstiga) 3. Myrkurs er þörf 4. Ég fálma gegnum tómið 5. Svefnlag 6. Ég tortímdi sjálfum mér 7. Peripheral Dreams 8.

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Mysthicon Black/Death Metal band from Poland released the first Fulllength album Silva - Oculis Corvi on September 23, 2020.

Formed in 2015 AD by Vader, Lux Occulta, Hate and Batushka members.

Tracklist 1. Arise 2. Blind to My Faith 3. Into the Dark 4. Star Prophet 5. Absorbing the Light of Fools 6. Wolves of Morning Dawn 7. Passing Away (Lux Occulta cover) Lineup Halne Ventis Silvam - Bass, Vocals Antiqui Autem Tonitrum Silvam Drums Nigrum Amnis Silvam - Guitars Cadit Nebula Silvam - Keyboards Oblivioni Tradita Fide Silvam Vocals Aeterna Silvam Incendit - Vocals, Guitars

Abatuar Black/Death Metal band from Panama released the second Full-length album Mortandad on September 25, 2020.

Active since 2013 and following the previous album “Perversiones de Muerte Putrefacta”, the side project of the sick mind from Cadaver is now ready to unleash upon feeble-minded bastards a new destructive instalment entitled “Mortandad”, continuing to the legacy of the ultraconservative declaration of Death Metal / Grindcore with clear influences of old school bands such as Napalm Death, Repulsion, Blood and mixing these with the regimental militancy of Proclamation and Black Witchery.

The result of this interesting musical symbiosis is “Mortandad”, an album filled not only with the purity of the genres perhaps due to the isolation of the Panamanian scene where they are from, but also soaked with the Central American brutality which they draw their lyrical influences from.

Lineup Cadaver - Vocals, Drums

Lethian Dreams Atmospheric Doom Metal band from France released the fourth Full-length album A Shadow of Memories on September 25, 2020.

Lethian Dreams came to existence in 2002, from the hands of Carline Van Roos (Remembrance, Aythis) and Matthieu Sachs (Remembrance).

The duo writes soaring, emotional songs, inviting the listener to an introspective journey through misty landscapes and melancholic feelings.

Over the years, the band released 3 albums and developed a unique style, adding influences from various genres, shoegaze, post-rock, black-metal...

Akral Necrosis Black/Death Metal band from Romania released the third Full-length album The Greater Absence on September 25, 2020.

“The Greater Absence” is the outcome of over 3 years’ work and its total length is over an hour, which makes it the longest album produced by the band from Bucharest.

The concept develops a narrative thread that follows the actions of a character obsessed with the occult and who discovers that a superficial approach towards the unknown can have unexpected consequences.

Tracklist 1. Silent Altar 2. Oldd Mirror Tracklist 3. Intonation 1. Never Be Found 4. In Nightmare Shades 2. Tidal 5. Man in the Cauldron 3. Mist of Memories (album version) 4. You Say 6. Third Curse 5. Only a Past 7. Revamping the Inside 6. Your Silence 8. Plaguebound 7. And Hollow 9. I See the Bright Lights Lineup 10. Damnatio Memoriae Matthieu Sachs - Guitars, Lineup Keyboards, Songwriting Mishu - Bass Carline Van Roos - Vocals, Gabriel - Guitars Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Victor - Guitars Lyrics, Songwriting Octav Necrosis - Vocals Pierre Bourguignon - Drums Philip Philipov - Drums

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Toadeater Post-Black Metal Metal band from Germany released the second Full-length album Bit to ewigen daogen on October 2, 2020.

This opus contains five monuments about mankind’s creation, their alienation with an ecosystem they were orginally born into and the happening decay of our civilization. Musically «Bit To ewigen Daogen» is Toadeater’s most elaborated work and the atmosphere is more oppressive and melancholic than ever before.

Staying true to their trademarks, all songs are built on elegiac melodies alternating with manic riffing, rage filled drumming, ulver-ish synthparts and majestic clean vocals (for the first time).

Tracklist 1. ...Before the Desecrated Sanctuary 2. Conquering the Throne 3. Crows and Sparrows 4. Returning the Crown 5. Too Close to the Sun

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MyGrain Melodic Death Metal band from Finland released the fifth Full-length album V on October 2, 2020.

The Nightmare 2. Out of This Life 3. Summoned Duality 4. The Way of the Flesh 5. Haunted Hearts 6. The Calling 7. Game of Gods 8. Stars Fading Black 9. Fathomless Freefall 10. Waves of Doom Lineup Jonas - Bass DJ Locomotive - Drums To(mm)yboy - Vocals Mr. Downhill - Guitars (lead) Joni Lahdenkauppi - Guitars (rhythm)

Namtaru / Legio Inferi Black Metal bands from United States (Namtaru) and from Colombia (Legio Inferi) released the Split That Is Not Dead Which May Eternal Lie on October 14, 2020.

Legio Inferi - The Adept 2. Legio Inferi - The Black Host 3. Legio Inferi - The Field of Satan 4. Legio Inferi - The Cross of Bones 5. Namtaru - Intro 6. Namtaru - Plagues of Namtar 7.

Namtaru Reptilian Conquerors 8. Namtaru - Eternal Torment Namtaru’s Lineup Namtar - Vocals, Guitars Legio Inferi’s Lineup Antichristian Goat - Bass, Choirs Beleth - Guitars Belzeth - Guitars, Choirs Leyroth - Vocals Sander Bermúdez - Drums

Kira Black/Death Metal band from Poland released the second Full-length album Peccatum et Blasphemia on October 9, 2020.

The band Kira was founded in 2015 in Opoczno. The originator was Nameless guitar, music (Nomad, exEthelyn) who asked Groshek drums (Nomad, Peacemaker) and Mysth - vocals, bass, lyrics (Ethelyn, Deathstorm) for collaboration.

Tracklist 1.Opening the Gates of Hell 2. Lucifer’s Herald 3. One Gram of Your Soul 4. Necroscience 5. Temple of Suffering 6. Lord of Hallucinations 7.

In the Devil’s Embrace 8. The Fearful One 9.

Weakness Isn’t Breathless 10. Silence Is Consent (Sodom cover)

Therrorder Thrash/Death Metal band from Colombia released the first Full-length album Sangre y muerte on October 15, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Gates of Evil 3. Therrorder 4. Revolución 5. Esclavo del tiempo 6. Abismo 7. Almas condenadas 8. Sombras 9. Tiempos de guerra Lineup Felipe Gonzalez - Drums Cristian Espinel - Guitars (lead) Carlos Romero - Vocals (lead) Ana Briñez - Bass Alejandro Espinel - Guitars (rhythm)

Death Comes in Waves Melodic Black/Death Metal band from Germany released the first Fulllength album Circle of Certainty on October 23, 2020.

Straight, melodic and uprising black-metal meets melancholic and atmospheric parts.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Circle of Certainty 3. Kneeling or Solitude 4. Of the Host and the Virus 5. Eternity in Chaos 6. Death. Equal.

7. Was Bleibt...

8. I Am Enthropy 9. Uprooted Lineup J.S. - Guitars Kenaz - Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Keyboards Öskur - Vocals (lead) Erik - Drums

Lineup Groshek - Drums Nameless - Guitars Peter - Bass Cannibal - Guitars Hellishdust - Vocals

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Prometheus Black Metal band from Greece released the second Full-length album Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old on October 23, 2020.

Carrying the heritage of both Hellenic and Scandinavian black metal (from early SEPTIC FLESH and ROTTING CHRIST to EMPEROR and SETHERIAL), PROMETHEUS do not disdain to combine it with the esoteric death metal of MORBID ANGEL and early ABSU, among the others.

Tracklist 1. Gravitons Passing through Yog-Sothoth 2. Azathoth 3. Astrophobos 4. Resonant Echoes from Cosmos of Old 5. Ανεμοι των Αστρων 6. The Crimson Tower of the Headless God

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Depressive Mode Funeral Doom Metal band from Turkey released the third Full-length album Equilibrium on October 27, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Equilibrium 2. Stay Strong! World Is Yours 3. Moon of Artemis 4. Sea of Solace 5. Internal Confrontations 6. The Voyage 7. Lesbia 8. The Mountains of Thrace 9. Frames 10. Great Desolation

Omramøryth Blackened Death Metal band from Croatia released EP The Grimoire Chronicles Vol 1 The Ritual on October 28, 2020.

«The Grimoire Chronicles Vol. 1 - The Ritual» is a collection of songs inspired by the works of none other but H.P. Lovecraft.

Tracklist 1. The Key and the Gate 2. March of the Thousand Young 3. The Faceless God 4. Ghordhaeth Lineup Kristijan Fištrek - Guitars, Bass, Drum programming

Antzaat Black Metal band from Belgium released the first Full-length album For You Men Who Gaze Into The Sun on October 30, 2020.

Antzaat is an old Dutch word that means to be hostile and hateful, to be “against”.

Tracklist 1.Intro 2. Between The Beginning And The End 3. For You Men Who Gaze Into The Sun 4. Crown Of Concrete 5. Through The Eyes Of A Rotten Mind 6. Radiant Fire 7. Veil Of Darkness 8. Man Made Flesh Made God Machine 9. And This Day Shall Come Again Lineup Isaroth - Bass Eenzaat - Drums Ronarg - Vocals, Guitars (lead), Composition Nihil - Guitars (rhythm)

Disgusting Perversion Death Metal band from Germany released the first Full-length album Eternity of Death on October 30, 2020.

The band uses the elements of early death metal and can be described as guitarheavy old school Death Metal influenced by bands like Death, Grave and Bolt Thrower.

Tracklist 1. Cosmic Circle 2. The Forgotten Grave 3. Eternity of Death 4. Impressions of Life 5. Depression 6. Encrypted Brutality of Life 7. Dead Man’s Face 8. Rotting Bride 9. Apud Vultum Tuum Lineup Stefan Bauer - Vocals Tobias Ruf - Guitars, Drum programming Simon Hörmann - Guitars Marcus Nagel - Drums Klaus Bergmann - Bass

Insidious Disease Death Metal band from Norway released the second Full-length album After Death on October 30, 2020.

The title »After Death« carries with it philosophical concepts that can be found weaved throughout the lyrical content of the entire album; conspiracy theories, perception of reality and existence, the dread of disease, and the inescapable nature of death are just some of the ideas touched upon. These intriguing bits of subject matter are intelligent fuel for the band and their writing. Although topics of morbidity are fairly common in the realm of death metal, the members of INSIDIOUS DISEASE take a deeper step into their interpretations of these concepts through their violent, electrically-charged melodies.

Tracklist 1. Soul Excavation 2. Betrayer 3. Divine Fire 4. Unguided Immortality 5. Invisible War 6. Born into Bondage 7. Enforcers of the Plague 8. An End Date With the World 9. Nefarious Atonement 10. Secret Sorcery

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Abstract the Light Avant-Garde Black Metal band from Australia released the first Full-length album Magna Sapientia Quaerere: To the Depths of Thy Soul... on October 31, 2020.

Sonically Abstract The Light seamlessly merge the sounds of black metal, progressive, folk, doom and the avant-garde to create their own unique blend of dark metal…

Tracklist 1. H.U.N.T.E.R. 2.

Spinning Plates in the Tapestry of Existence 3. Waters of Fire 4. Broken Shards, of Inner Self 5. Primeval Essence of Nothingness 6. Smouldering Black, Thy Heart 7. Carousels of Eternity

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Orcrypt Black Metal band from United Kingdom released the second Full-length album Balrog & Roll on October 31, 2020.

Orcrypt formed in 2010.

Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the early demos of the Norwegian Black Metal masters.

Wintarnaht Pagan Black Metal band from Germany released the fourth Full-length album Hriuwa on October 31, 2020.

Wintarnaht - the first metal band who sing all their songs in a preform of the Old High German (ca. 650-700 A.D.) language.

Hriuwa means Grief in old high german.

Tracklist 1. Hriuwa Tracklist 2. Urlagfrôwa 1. Oubliette (intro) 3. þe Hreôgot 2. Beholder 4. þaz tuncel Grabahûfo 3. Vermintide 5. þez Hraban Swarzi Trahanûn 4. Hexblade 6. Sîn þiu Erþa 5.

Flight of the 7. Firhazzêt Truhtîn Dracolich 8. Îr in Flamma 6. I, Mindflayer 9. Runagaltar 7. Welcome to Barovia Lineup 8. Dice and Damnation Grimwald - Vocals, Guitars, 9. Tomb of Horrors Bass, Keyboards, Lyre, 10. Greenskins of Greyhawk Shaman drum, Mouth harp, Drum programming

Shattered Hope Funeral Doom/Death Metal band from Greece released the third Full-length album Vespers on November 6, 2020.

Shattered Hope’s music can be described mainly as atmospheric doom/death - funeral doom metal.

The Greek masters of atmospheric doom death metal are now back with a new, third full-length album aiming to surprise and conquer listeners once again.

As usual, the musicians add new colors to their palette to demonstrate feelings opening up from a new angle. The shrouding with coldness Shattered Hope’s novel work is a deep philosophical dialogue with eternity, expressed through deep texts hiding references to the classics, as well as through powerful crushing music performed with impeccable skill and sincerity.

Tracklist 1. In Cold Blood 2. Verge 3. Συριγμός 4. Towards the land of Deception 5. The Judas Tree Lineup Thanasis - Bass George - Drums, Percussion Thanos - Guitars Sakis - Guitars Nick - Vocals

Grimcult Black Metal Metal band from Poland released the EP Revelations of Sinister Flame on November 6, 2020.

Grimcult is the band with members of already known Odour of Death.

Atmospheric black metal in the vein of old finnish and polish scene!

Warkvlt Black Metal band from Indonesia released the third Full-length album Deathymn on November 10, 2020.

Warkvlt is Black Metal band which was forged on June 21, 2013. Warkvlt name is taken from the Latin language «war occulti» meaning the Secret War.

Tracklist 1. Welcome to Void 2. Revelations of Sinister Flame 3. Przymierze 4. Maze of Madness 5. Rotten Chains of Life 6. Death Dream 7. Conclusion

Tracklist 1. Inquisition 2. Morbid Ritual 3. Hitam Kelam 4. Panzer VI 5. Ancient Hellfire 6. Holokavst 7. Khaoz 8. Plague 9. Deathymn

Lineup Nobody - Everything

Lineup D - Guitars E - Guitars A - Drums D - Vocals

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Heretic Ritual Black/Death Metal band from Mexico released the first Fulllength album War Desecration - Genocide / Passages of Infinite Hatred on November 10, 2020 .

Tracklist 1.Infinite Hatred 2. Disciples of Fire 3.

Black Perverted Abomination 4. Lord of Sekhet Aaru 5. Macabre Magic Adoration 6.

Summoning Genocide 7. Into the Nightside of the Dead 8.

Rat Krusher Kommando

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In Malice’s Wake Thrash/Death Metal band from Australia released the fourth Full-length album The Blindness of Faith on November 13, 2020.

In Malice’s Wake have established themselves as the dominant thrash/ death metal force for well over a decade in Australia.

Tracklist 1. The Blindness of Faith 2. Graven Image 3. See the Light 4. Religious Holocaust 5. Unbound Sinful Light 6. Houses of God 7. To Die As One 8.

Into the Outer Darkness 9. Ritual Slaughter 10. Gehenna

Soulburn Death/Black/Doom Metal band from Netherlands released the fourth Full-length album Noa’s D’ark on November 13, 2020.

Soulburn - band breathing a Nietzschean storm upon the narrow minded plague this world is infested by. A serpent’s tongue attached to the strings of hell, spreading fear to some, yet a glorified temptation to others.

Tracklist 1. The Morgue of Hope 2. Noah’s Dark 3. Tempter ov the White Light 4. Anarchrist 5. Shrines of Apathy 6. Assailed by Cosmic Lightning 7. Triumphant One 8. Anointed - Blessed - and Born for Burning 9. The Godless I 10. From Archaeon into Oblivion 11. Abyssica 12. On the Crimson Wings of My Ruin

Thrudvangar Viking Black Metal band from Germany released the sixth Full-length album Vegvisir on November 13, 2020.

Thrudvangar have been an important part of German Viking Metal for almost 20 years and have managed to be a constant in the scene.

Thrudvangar return to their melodic roots with their new album and reflect on the trademarks of Viking Metal: powerful riffs, catchy melodies and grand choirs take the listener on a journey to the ancient myths and legends of the Vikings.

Tracklist 1. Vegvisir 2. Wächter der Brücke 3. Jörmungandr 4. Ran 5. Hravnagud 6. Fenrirs Brut 7. Siegvaters Maid 8. Sturm aus Eisen 9. Für die Ewigkeit 10. Fardrengir 11. Alles was bleibt Lineup Torsten Schildhauer Drums Daniel - Guitars Mathias Träbert - Vocals Sebastian Rasch - Guitars

Demogorgon Black Metal Metal band from Australia released the third Full-length album Futile on November 17, 2020.

Demogorgon is a solo black metal project from Melbourne, Australia.

Inspired by Gorgoroth, Emperor, Arch-Goat and Carpathian Forest.

With lyrical themes covering War, Satan, Death and Anti-Christian sentiments, Demogorgon’s sole member writes black metal in the style that inspires him.

Written to reflect a low point in the artists life, Futile is a record of darkness, hopelessness and depressed rage, heavily inspired by bands such as Shining and Mgła.

Fusing together Black Metal, Doom Metal and elements of Drone, Futile is a dark album to reflect the darkness of the artist at the time of writing.

Tracklist 1. Futile 2. Waste 3. Fruitless 4. Hopeless 5. Empty 6. Acceptance Lineup Demogorgon - Vocals, Guitars, Bass

Hegeroth Melodic Black Metal band from Poland released the third Full-length album Perfidia on November 19, 2020.

Perfidia - comprises a second wave of black metal, diversity and some unconventional solutions.

Full of energy and expression that let you flow to the most deep and hidden emotions.

For open minded listeners who are not afraid of some dissonant vibes and catchy moments.

Inspired by bands like Dark Funeral, Emperor, Naglfar, Old Man’s Child.

Tracklist 1. Hand By Hand 2. Distorted Visions of the Saints 3. The Wind Embraces Me 4. Raise Your Voice 5. Sacrificed 6. Last Salvation 7. How Sore Can Be the Fall 8. An Angel Won’t Come Lineup Edward - vocals Bene - guitars, bass Bila- drums, guitars

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Inquisition Black Metal band from Colombia released Full-length album Black Mass for a Mass Grave on November 20, 2020.

Tracklist 1. Spirit of the Black Star 2. Luciferian Rays 3. Necromancy Through a Buried Cosmos 4. Triumphant Cosmic Death 5. My Spirit Shall Join a Constellation of Swords 6.

Ceremony for the Gathering of Death 7.

Majesty of the Expanding Tomb 8. A Glorious Shadow from Fire and Ashes 9.

Extinction of Darkness and Light 10. Hymn to the Absolute Majesty of Darkness and Fire 11. Beast of Creation and Master of Time 12. Black Mass for a Mass Grave

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Crawling Chaos Death Metal band from Italy released the second Full-length album XLIX on November 20, 2020.

XLIX is the story of an epic rise followed by a painful, totalizing fall.

Each of the seven songs relates to one of the main aspects that constitute the narration. The tale abounds with quotes and cross-references, with the writing process requiring a thorough work of research and contextualization.

Tracklist 1. My Golden Age 2. The Prince Is Here 3. Block and a Bloody Knife 4. 49th, or the Law of Desperation 5. Ishnigarrab, or the Awful Offspring of the Goat 6. Covered in Debris 7. Doom of Babylonia

Stormkeep Melodic Black Metal band from United States released the EP Galdrum on November 20, 2020.

Features members from Blood Incantation and Wayfarer.

Stormkeep’s debut MLP is a perfect soundtrack for journeys through snow capped mountains, medieval dungeons and regal castles.

The four hymns which make up ‘Galdrum’ create a world of ancient legends and magick, a place of long ago, somewhere deep in time.

Tracklist 1. Glass Caverns of Dragon Kings 2. Lightning Frost 3. Of Lore...

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Lord Belial Black/Death Metal band from Sweden released the Compilation Wrath of Belial on November 27, 2020.

Lord Belial are back with a great Compilation of Demo’s 1993 & 1994.

Tracklist 1. Bleed on the Cross 2. Hellspawn 3. Grace of God 4. The Art of Dying 5. Jesus Fails 6.

Malevolently Reversed 7. Maniac Madness 8. Lilith - Demonic Queen of the Black Light 9.

Into the Frozen Shadows 10. Mad Redeemer 11. Satan Divine 12. The Ancient Slumber Lineup Micke Backelin - Drums Niclas Pepa Green - Guitars Thomas Backelin - Guitars, Vocals Anders Backelin - Bass

Nar Melodic Black Metal band from Malta released the second Full-length album Blood Moon Omen on November 28, 2020.

«Nar» means «fire» in Maltese.

NAR is a Maltese Black Metal solo project founded

by Dagor in 2013. Music is composed and played

by Dagor, together with the lyrics and vocals. The main concept behind this project revolved around creating some classic melodic Black Metal vibes.

Tracklist 1. Red Skies Looming (Intro) 2. Winds of Decimation 3. Path of No Return 4. Prova Tan-Nar 5. Rabid Earth 6. Under The Great Eye 7. Il-Ħakem ta’ Bufies 8.

Into The End (instrumental) Lineup Dagor - Everything

A Congregation of Horns Black Metal band from United Kingdom released the first Full-length album Blasphemic Hellsorcery of the Necrogoat Deathlegion on November 30, 2020.

Tracklist 1. A Congregation of Horns 2. Blasphemic Hellsorcery of the Necrogoat Deathlegion 3. Shattering the Swastika 4. Hellrazor 5. Rabid Dogma 6. Mass Grave 7. Molotov Inferno Napalm Ocean 8. Crucified on the War Cross 9. Surgery of Horrors 10. Hanged High on the Goatangel / Fascism’s Funeral 11. Torment Awaits the Coward 12. A Destiny of Pain (Forever Burn in Hell) 13. Baphomet Supreme

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Saħħar Black Metal band from Malta released the sixth Full-length album Tiġrif talĠnus (Civilisation Collapse) on December 4, 2020.

Born in 2006, Saħħar is the brainchild of Marton Saliba, in a mission to create the harshest sounds in Malta. The band’s themes lie in death, the occult and the impending doom of mankind.

The darkness that enfolds human civilization, causing it’s collapsed, is distilled into several anecdotes of which this album exhibits. From the Nanjing Massacre to the Armenian Genocide, mankind certainly does not leave listeners short of brutal stories to recount.

Tracklist 1.Nilqgħu...

2. Nirien ta’ Smirna 3. Elf Qurriegħa għal-Elf Mejjet f’Mitt Qamar 4. It-Tweġiba 5. Għadam bla għadd fl-Ilvant tal-Adrijatiku 6. Belt Stuprata 7. Agent Orange (Sodom Cover)

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Serpents Oath Black Metal band from Belgium released the first Full-length album Nihil on December 4, 2020.

Serpents Oath is a new creature comprised of three Belgian scene’s adepts. Their rebellious debut album ‘Nihil’ is set to take the world by storm with its relentless and unforgiving version of nihilistic black metal.

Tracklist 1. Vox Mortis 2. Speaking in Tongues 3. Leviathan Speaks 4. Thrice Cursed 5. Malediction 6. Serpents of Eight 7. Bestia Resurrectus 8. Into the Abyss 9. Mephisto 10. The Beast Reborn 11. The Swords of Night and Day 12. Beyond the Gates Lineup Daenum - Guitars Tes Re Oth - Vocals Draghul - Drums

Goat Fetus Symphonic Black Metal band from Canada released the first Full-length album Origins of Evil on December 4, 2020.

Goat Fetus is a one-man Black Metal band from Regina, Canada formed in September 2020. Goat Fetus is about exploring and embracing the dark aspects that dwell within us all.

Atmospheric black metal guided by chaos and darkness.

Tracklist 1. Taste of the Forbidden 2. Tales from the Shadows 3. Aura of Evil 4. Horror from the Deep 5. Until Death 6. The Light Within 7. On the Shoulders of Giants 8. Midnight Rituals Lineup Sean Batty - Guitars, Vocals

Rex Demonus Melodic Black Metal band from Sweden released the first Full-length album Damnatio on December 4, 2020.

Melodic black metal by Håkan Stuvemark (Wombbath) featuring Lerta Palmqvist (Scar Symmetry), Jon Skäre (Defiatory), Thomas Clifford (Abscession) and guest vocals by Rick Altzi (MasterPlan).

Tracklist 1. Damnatio 2. De Prod.itione 3. Ecstinctio 4. Ego Autem 5. Ex Tormentum Natus 6. Har Megiddo 7. Peccatum Aeterna 8. Rex Autem Infirma 9. Tenetur Et Relicta Lineup Lars Palmqvist - Guitars Thomas Clifford - Vocals Jon Skäre - Drums Håkan Stuvemark - Guitars

Feminazgûl Atmospheric Black Metal band from United States released the first Full-length album No Dawn for Men on December 11, 2020 (vinyl and Cassette).

The name Feminazgûl is an ironic mix between the word «feminazi», a derogatory term used for feminists considered too strict generally used by conservatives (the band is openly feminist), and the word «nazgul», which is an imaginary creature from the Lord of Rings Saga, known to be very influential on epic/atmospheric black metal.

Tracklist 1. Illa, Mother of Death 2. I Pity the Immortal 3. The Rot in the Field Is Holy 4. Bury the Antlers With the Stag 5. Forgiver, I Am Not Yours 6. Look Not to Erebor Lineup Margaret Killjoy - Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Piano, Accordion, Dane axe, Vocals (backing) Laura Beach - Vocals (lead)

Deeds of Flesh Technical/Brutal Death Metal band from United States released the ninth Full-length album Nucleus on December 11, 2020.

NUCLEUS is the culmination of years of collaboration and is the final instalment of the Trilogy that began with the ferocity in ‘Of What’s To Come’, followed by the stellar ‘Portals To Cannan’ and is concluded with the definitive ‘Nucleus’.

Recorded with the stellar line up of Jacoby Kingston, Erik Lindmark, Craig Peters, Ivan Munguia, Darren Cesca & Mikey Hamilton, NUCLEUS also features a myriad of guest vocalists.

This album an instant classic in the genre and has delivered a result beyond all expectations.

Tracklist 1. Odyssey 2. Alyen Scourge 3. Ascension Vortex 4.

Catacombs of the Monolith 5. Ethereal Ancestors 6. Nucleus 7. Races Conjoined 8. Terror 9. Onward Lineup Darren Cesca - Drums Jacoby Kingston - Vocals, Lyrics Craig Peters - Guitars, Programming (orchestra), Songwriting Ivan Munguia Bass, Songwriting

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Skinning Death Metal band from Portugal released the third Full-length album Homicidal Experimentations on December 15, 2020.

Homicidal Experimentations is the third full-length from Portuguese death metallers Skinning, an album that sees the bloodthirsty trio keeping pace with their fast and aggressive roots while exploring new elements as they evolve as musicians.

Homicidal Experimentations is filled with the bloodstained brutality of the 90s, delivering a coordinated portfolio of razor-sharp riffs, pounding drums, and a diverse, powerful and well-produced sound.

Tracklist 1.Homicidal Experimentations 2. Wrong Path 3. The Gravedigger 4. In Her Memory 5. Sadistic Butcher 6. The Demon 7. In the Hands of God 8. Destroyer of Existence 9. Blood Will Be Dropped

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Svor Depressive Black Metal band from Slovakia released the first Fulllength album Suicide Is Contagious on December 11, 2020.

Svor started in early 2016 but the first record was finished in November 2017. Svor is an obsolete term for scar.

First full lenght concept album about the spiritual suicide which spreads like a contagion in an ill society and leaves no one immune.

Tracklist 1. Úzkostné stavy 2. Neodvratný pád 3. Prebdená noc 4. Chladný ako sám život 5. Pohreb snov 6. Cesta seba-deštrukcie 7. Samovražda je nákazlivá 8. A ostala len temnota Lineup EF - vocals, all instruments, mix and design Graf Von Baphomet - guest vocals on track 5 EM - guitar smash on track 7 Fixo - voice sample on track 7

Dormanth Melodic Doom/Death Metal band from Spain released the fourth Fulllength album Complete Downfall on December 15, 2020.

Complete Downfall - the new album from by one of Spain’s pioneer Melodic Death Metal bands with influences from bands like PARADISE LOST, DARK TRANQUILLITY, AMORPHIS, INSOMNIUM...

Tracklst 1. Dreamcatcher 2. Fire 3. Tragicomic Day 4. Beyond the Gates 5. Odyssey in Time 6. The Origin 7. Dark Times for the God’s Creation 8. -273° K 9. Brainstorm 10. Crystal Bone 11. Bloody Scars Lineup Javi Martínez - Drums Óscar Del Val - Guitars, Bass, Vocals Isma Fernández - Bass Miguel Angel Richart Jiménez - Guitar

Funeralis Black Metal band from Chile released the second Full-length album Gateways to Esoteric Light on December 15, 2020.

The album is conceptually a continuation after «Lvminis Serpens Caeremonia». Here we can appreciate the revelation of the individual before the unknown, the sacrifice that must fall, rise and face and then be reborn with a new force. It is the courage of a spirit that separates what it is established from its values, an unwavering will for an inevitable awakening. A challenging vision accompanied by secrets. A second birth, the funeral of a life without life. A path never travelled before, going through the unknown pain of blindness.

Tracklist 1. The Key of Salvation 2. From the Ashes the Phoenix Flames Rises 3. Esoteric 4. Campanis ov Liberatio 5. I Am 6.

Through the Silence Mystery 7. Nigredo 8. Portal of Life & Death

Бѣсъ Black Metal band from Russia released the first Full-length album Кощунства (Blasphemies) on December 22, 2020.

Word «бѣсъ» means «demon» in Slavic culture.

May the Devil be great in the world and everywhere in this black day!

May the Demons overwhelm your tongues and bodies!!

May the Enemy rules, goy-kosch!!!

Dira Mortis Death Metal band from Poland released the third Full-length album Ancient Breath of Forgotten Misanthropy on December 25, 2020.

Ancient Breath of Forgotten Misanthropy brings forth seven intense, massive and crushing Death Metal songs influenced by bands like Incantation, Immolation and Autopsy.

Dira Mortis came into existence in 1998 in Gorlice, Poland, and continues to serve Tracklist a powerful dose of ominous cemetery 1. Исходъ (Exodus) stench Death Metal.

2. Коще Омракъ (The Murk of Tracklist Diablerie) 1. Legions Heading for 3. Пекло, Взыди! (Peklo, Ascent!)

Eternity 4. Чърнобогъ (Black God) 2. Worshipping the Terror of 5. Лиху Слѧхъ (Song to Evil) Madness 6. Мара-Ма (Mara-Ma) 3. Sepulchlar Maniac 7. Шиликунъ (Shilikun) 4.

Twilight of Divine 8. Христа Изъедоша (Gnawing the Purgatory? christ) 5. The Falling Majesty of 9. Царскаѧ Печать (Greater Seal) Abomination 10. Страхъ, Петлѧ и Ѧма (Fear, Rope 6. Forward to the Abyss of and Pot) Misanthropy 7. The Altars Fall Lineup Demetr - Everything Lineup Leszek Makowiecki - Guitars Mścisław - Bass, Guitars Vizun - Drums Kuba Brewczyński - Vocals

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